Podcasts about Yoda

As Big Bird sang "It's Not Easy Being Green" at Jim Henson's funeral, fundies managed to somehow twist this wholesome moment as evidence of a Satanic conspiracy. So how did the internet turn the nicest man in Hollywood into the Devil? Join us in Part 2 as we venture into The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth and The Storyteller, where children's entertainment gets tangled up with occult symbolism, Kabbalah, alchemy, demons and David Bowie's impressive yet inappropriate codpiece. Plus a very confused demonic Yoda from the 14th century, some Fraggle Rock satanic panic and a scary cathedral — and somehow Jim Henson's memorial is more Satanic than this actual Satan podcast. Skepticism, religious satire and atheist comedy collide once again in a glorious pile of puppets, demons and deeply questionable interpretations of children's entertainment. Fully scripted. Heavily produced. Featuring our intrepid hero Satan, some deeply uncomfortable questions about puppet anatomy, and an unwelcome QAnon cameo.PATREON — We already proved supporting the show helps fund deep-state puppet conspiracies, and frankly, if that's not a five-star incentive, we don't know what is. Patrons get 2 bonus episodes a month, early ad-free listening, and exclusive extras.

Matt Wolfe reveals why most B2B marketing fails by making the company the hero instead of the guide—and how "strategic subtraction" creates messaging that actually builds trust.When relationship-driven B2B companies try to grow, they're often handed transactional marketing playbooks or over-optimized messaging that feels robotic and cold. In this episode, Matt Wolfe, Partner at Brand3 and seasoned StoryBrand Certified Guide, joins Cam and Otis to explain how lessons from 25 years in professional theater translate directly into high-trust B2B marketing.Matt breaks down why asking questions beats pushing credentials, how to position your company as the guide rather than the hero, and why great messaging often comes from what you remove rather than what you add.In this episode, you'll learn:• The Yoda vs. Luke Principle: Why your customer should be the hero and your business the guide  • The "Shootout at the Chamber Corral": How asking the first question creates genuine connection  • Strategic Subtraction: Why removing excess copy and buzzwords makes your message stronger  • The Missing Bookends of StoryBrand: What needs to happen before and after the framework  • The Broadway "I Want" Song: How theater reveals what customers truly want  • Why discovery beats treating messaging like a fill-in-the-blank exercise  • How empathy and curiosity create more trust than credentials and technical jargon  • Why "ask questions first, nerd out later" is a powerful approach to B2B sales and marketing  About Matt WolfeMatt Wolfe spent 25 years on professional stages, including Broadway, before transitioning into brand strategy. Today, he is a Partner at Brand3 and an experienced StoryBrand Certified Guide who has advised more than 250 organizations across 30+ industries.Through Brand3's Scale Beyond Referrals program, Matt helps high-trust B2B companies turn word-of-mouth success into scalable, human-centered marketing.Chapters00:00 Toddlers, Playgrounds, and Regaining Wonder  • How curiosity helps leaders better understand what customers actually need.07:41 Brand Strategy vs. Marketing Funnels  • Why generic SEO and digital funnels often fall short for relationship-driven B2B companies.13:40 StoryBrand and Lessons From Theater  • How Matt's theater background led him to StoryBrand and more focused messaging.16:28 The Guide Mindset  • Why your company should play Yoda or Obi-Wan instead of Luke Skywalker.22:01 The Chamber Shootout  • Why asking prospects about themselves beats delivering a rehearsed elevator pitch.28:32 Broadway Structure in Business  • Using story, desire, obstacles, and narrative tension to create memorable messaging.35:44 Strategic Subtraction  • Why great copywriting is often about what you remove, not what you add.41:52 Empathy Over Ego  • Listening before solving and using strategically simple language instead of buzzwords.48:03 Curiosity and Closing  • Why messaging shouldn't become a fill-in-the-blank exercise and where to connect with Matt.Connect with Matt Wolfe:Brand3:https://brand3.net/Scale Beyond Referrals:https://scalebeyondreferrals.com/LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattwolfemarketing/Brand3 LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/brand3/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/brand3marketing/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/therightwaytomarketYouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@therightwaytomarketPodcast:The CEO's Heart for Service

Anne-Marie and Peter continue Babylon 5 S2, covering GROPOS. The Babylon 5 theme was written by Christopher Franke. All music included is for illustrative purposes only, and no copyright infringement is intended. The artwork for BablyOrg 5 was by Quinn Organ. On the 8th October the Orgs record their thoughts on All Alone In The Night. Feel free to send your thoughts in (just keep the feedback to less than 5 minutes please). Borgcast@gmail.com

The Empire Strikes Back is often called the best film in the Star Wars saga, and it started with a decision that seems almost unthinkable in retrospect.George Lucas, creatively burnt out after directing the first film, chose not to direct the sequel at all. Instead he handed the reins to his old USC film professor Irvin Kershner, hired veteran pulp sci-fi writer Leigh Brackett to draft the screenplay, and set about building Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic into more than one-hit studio products.Brackett's now-legendary first draft featured a very different Yoda, a very different Lando, and a twin sister for Luke that never made it to screen, but Lucas and a young Lawrence Kasdan reshaped the story into the darker, more ambiguous film we know, including the introduction of one of cinema's most famous twists.The Empire Strikes Back's production is as dramatic a story as anything in the film itself. Lucas bet his own solvency on financing the sequel independently, taking out a loan to keep Fox's creative hands off the project, only to watch the budget balloon during the shoot and the bank pull its financing mid-production.That gamble very nearly sank the film, but it ultimately paid off in ways that reshaped Lucasfilm's entire business model, particularly around merchandising rights, and ultimately a film that ends in defeat, with its heroes scattered, became the template for how blockbuster sequels are allowed to work.Support Verbal DioramaLoved this episode? Here's how you can help:⭐ Leave a 5-star review on your podcast app

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Cap's time during WW2 ended with him frozen in ice, out of commission for decades. In the 616, he was revived and joined with fellow heroes the Avengers. But what if he missed the Heroic Age altogether? What evils would rise without the Sentinel of Liberty? Plus... Rick & Bob share more gym stories (including Yoda!), and Rick shares a funny Stan Lee autograph story...Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mgt16w19h5ALove the show? Help support with a one-time donation or become a member and get cool perks! https://buymeacoffee.com/capcomicfansConnect with Rick & Bob and fellow Cap fans at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/captainamericacomicbookfans⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Please subscribe, rate and review! Here are FREE and FAST ways you can support the show: https://tinyurl.com/y6kyu9nhEmail questions to CapComicFans@gmail.comOur home page is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://captainamericacomicbookfans.com⁠

Welcome aboard Kyber Squadron! We are in Phase 3 of the High Republic Manga, which means that things are heating up and multiple plot lines are coming together for the climactic conclusion of the era! Lily's grown, Azlin's old, and Yoda makes an appearance! Follow us: Twitch: @Sithty_Minutes BlueSky: @sithtyminutes.blacksky.app Discord: Sithty Minutes Show Notes: Shadow of Starlight (Comics) Travyx Prime Stormwall Nameless

Sober October, No Drama: Daily Tips for a Take It or Leave It Relationship With Alcohol EPISODE 9: How to Finally Commit to a Break from Alcohol - No Willpower Required - Sober October, No Drama There is an Afrikaans word - soutpiel - which literally translates to salt willy. It describes someone with a foot in two places, not fully committed to either. One foot in South Africa, one foot in Britain - leaving their willy in the ocean. Trying not to get banned on IG. It is a long-winded but perfectly apt description of trying to cut back on drinking without making a firm decision. A maybe is always a yes. As Yoda says - there is no try, just do. Trying, by its very nature, holds failure in its raison d'etre. Try and stand up right now. You can't - you either stand up or you don't. A decision does something completely different: It gets you out of willpower and into choice It frees your brain up for more interesting things to hyper-focus on It stops the exhausting daily negotiation with yourself about whether you are going to drink tonight If you are struggling to make the decision to take a sober curious break, sit with this question: What is not making that decision keeping me safe from experiencing? I would love to hear your answer. If you would like to you can email me at emma@hoperisingcoaching.com This episode is part of Dry July, No Drama - a daily MidlifeAF podcast mini series with tips for cutting back on alcohol without willpower, labels or forever. My free resources below will help you prepare for and get the most out of your break. See links below: Episode links & Resources•⁠ ⁠Learn more about Emma Gilmour at: www.hoperisingcoaching.com•⁠ ⁠Follow Emma Gilmour on insta @hoperisingcoachingFREE TOOLS - four beautiful resources to help you drink less and feel fabulous:1.⁠ ⁠7 Steps to Take Back Control of Alcohol - the exact steps I took when I started out on this journey nearly five years ago.https://www.hoperisingcoaching.com/7-steps2.⁠ ⁠Awareness Worksheets - if you do nothing else, working through the answers to these questions will change your relationship with alcohol for the better.https://www.hoperisingcoaching.com/awareness-worksheets-opt-in3.⁠ ⁠Your North Star Visualisation - stops your brain freaking out about doing something unfamiliar.https://www.hoperisingcoaching.com/northstarvisualisation4.⁠ ⁠Grounding Meditation - you know that feeling when you have a drink and the body goes "aaaaaaaahhhhhhh" and everything seems to relax? What the body really needs is to ground - to come back home to self, and for self to feel lovely. That is what we work on in my live programs. We start every session with a grounding and connect with ourselves to find out what our body really needs when it thinks it wants to drink.https://www.hoperisingcoaching.com/groundingREADY TO GO DEEPER? Are you tired of the mental back-and-forth about drinking?I am running a FREE 3-Day Alcohol Reset on 22, 23 and 24 Sept, 7:30pm Melb/Syd (replays available). No willpower talk. No abstinence pressure. You can even drink while you do it. A judgement-free space to learn the tools to step into a take it or leave it relationship with alcohol. REGISTER FREE: https://www.hoperisingcoaching.com/3-day-reset Want a take it or leave it relationship with alcohol? Want to stop all the "will I, won't I" internal conflict around wine? I am running the Great Aussie Alcohol Experiment LIVE from Thursday 1 October 30 days. Small group coaching. Only 25 spots. Small, intimate and private. Rewire your brain and nervous system so you no longer have to reach for a glass to quieten your busy brain, calm your overwhelmed soul or socialise when your social battery is spent. Early bird pricing open now (ends 15th Spetember) - $500 off the full price, plus two 1:1 counselling sessions with me and 3 webinars included (worth +$1,000). We won't run this live again until January.YOUR NEXT RIGHT MOVE STARTS HERE: https://www.hoperisingcoaching.com/the_great_aussie_alcohol_experiment Change happens in a moment, my friends - the preparation for change takes a little bit of time. Take the time. You will be amazed at the difference it makes.

Professor Eli Knight returns to The Jiu Jitsu Mindset, and this time we build the conversation around the hero's journey — the call, the crisis, the near-quit, the mentor, and the message he'd leave behind.   Eli is a Royce Gracie black belt and one of the clearest thinkers working in self-defense jiu-jitsu. He talks here about the loss that pushed him into a taekwondo class as a teenager, the cousin who went to jail while he went to martial arts, the year his daughter was born and he nearly walked away from all of it, and why he still isn't sure who he would be without jiu-jitsu.   He also gives one of the best answers we have had on what the art is actually for: "Jiu-jitsu to me is the serenity prayer. It teaches you how to accept things you can't change, how to change things you can, and how to know the difference." And then, at the very end, he takes the whole thing apart again with a bar of soap.   CONNECT WITH PROFESSOR ELI KNIGHT YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KnightJiuJitsu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knight_jiu_jitsu_ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@knightjiujitsu Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/KnightJiuJitsu Instructionals: https://bjjfanatics.com/collections/eli-knight   THE JIU JITSU MINDSET Website: https://thejiujitsumindset.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheJiuJitsuMindset X: https://x.com/jiujitsumindset Find a school near you: https://thejiujitsumindset.com/pages/jiu-jitsu-schools-near-you   SUPPORTING THE SHOW Submission Coffee — https://submissioncoffee.com  (still not a performance-enhancing drug) My Jiu Jitsu Journey — free to try on the App Store and Google Play    CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome back — year five of the podcast 00:29 Submission Coffee and the My Jiu Jitsu Journey app 01:25 Professor Eli Knight returns: the hero's journey 03:35 Crisis, loss, and the class that caught him 05:28 The soft kid who learned to face chaos 08:45 Zen, Daoism, and what religion didn't give him 10:03 "He went to jail, I went to martial arts" 11:17 It doesn't make you a good person — it reveals you 12:21 Pete's story: six years old outside Macy's 14:48 The year he almost walked away 18:42 The leap of faith into a martial arts career 20:10 "I'm not 100% sure who I am without jiu-jitsu" 22:19 The mentor: "you're off in the woods looking for Yoda" 25:35 Coaching with real care — Fit to Fight and Ryan Hoover 27:05 Instructor vs. coach: knowing what you are 30:36 When the fighter is already redlining 33:21 Technique vs. principle is a false choice 34:57 What he'd want people to take away 36:56 Jiu-jitsu is the serenity prayer 38:57 The bar of soap   #jiujitsu #bjj #brazilianjiujitsu #selfdefense #eliknight #martialarts #thejiujitsumindset

David and Hannah discuss the next major chapter in Star Wars publishing with the release of the second novel in the Reign of the Empire trilogy. We share our thoughts on the story and how this era continues to explore the galaxy during the dark days of Imperial rule. Then, we continue our look back at the original Star Wars films with a discussion on the best performance in The Empire Strikes Back. From Mark Hamill's emotional growth as Luke Skywalker and Harrison Ford's iconic portrayal of Han Solo to Frank Oz's debut as Yoda and Billy Dee Williams' introduction as Lando Calrissian, we debate which performance stands above the rest in what many consider the greatest Star Wars film ever made. Come join them as they go Inside The Force. MTFBWY Join our Facebook Group, follow us on X, and subscribe to our YouTube Channel. If you like the show, please leave us a review and share us with your friends and family. May the Force be with You!

Like, over a dozen people saw one of my social media posts! 0:00 - Social media fame via Sony's dishonest legal arguments 23:48 - Microsoft is changing Game Pass prices to limit the number of hours you can play 48:24 - The Baby Yoda movie was not good If you missed Saturday's live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube.  (A technical issue forced me to split the stream in two.  Second part here.)  Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night! Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner.  It is in the public domain and free to use.  Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting. Chat Transcript: 6:58 PM@eathdemon​​11 days til sky 2nd chapter remake lol 6:59 PM@eathdemon​​also zelda direct on tuesday 7:00 PM@eathdemon​​zelda 40th anaversory tuesday and genaral direct wensday 7:01 PM@eathdemon​​im looking foword to oot remake, yes im going to buy one game I consider one of the best of all time lol 7:01 PM@addictedtochaos2​​I have to admit, gaming has pretty much lost all its appeal for me. 7:04 PM@addictedtochaos2​​I think that was a preorder bonus. I do not recall which game. 7:05 PM@eathdemon​​its being made by monilith aparently 7:09 PM@eathdemon​​we know that, the avrage person does not 7:10 PM@eathdemon​​skeets lol which is a awful name lol 7:12 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Skeets only works if it is in relation to Booster Gold. 7:13 PM@eathdemon​​if this makes it to trial sony loses, b/c while we know we are not buying the game, most dont 7:13 PM@jaredknisely6213​​they wont be in the right when they will be the only publisher that views it that way 7:19 PM@jaredknisely6213​​as in of the big 3, they view digital differently 7:21 PM@jaredknisely6213​​Microsoft recently stated that the game licenses were basically owned by the account 7:21 PM@jaredknisely6213​​through the disc to digital statement 7:21 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Nearly the entire industry is in a race to the bottom. 7:27 PM@addictedtochaos2​​This is why I buy physical games. 7:32 PM@jaredknisely6213​​yes if you ignore nintendo 7:32 PM@jaredknisely6213​​their sales are 70-30 7:32 PM@jaredknisely6213​​or higher 7:33 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Take into consideration the massive amount of indie games that don't get a physical release, they count the “free” games claimed on PS+ as a digital sale. And their own first party games tend… 7:33 PM@addictedtochaos2​​To sell more physical than digital, with MLB the Show being the outlier. 7:34 PM@jaredknisely6213​​you also have to remove the pc market since 99.9%of the sales are digital 7:37 PM@jaredknisely6213​​what i meant was Nintendo sales are heavily physical tilted 7:40 PM@addictedtochaos2​​My backlog will last me the rest of my life, but at this point I have no motivation to actually play any of them. 7:43 PM@addictedtochaos2​​The problem with Game-Key Cards is that it is largely the big publishers that are using them, the smaller ones (so far at least) are using actual game cards. 7:50 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Every UBISOFT, EA, Square, Bandai Namco, game on Switch 2 has been a key card, Atari, Marvellous, and a few others have been complete on cart games. 7:51 PM@addictedtochaos2​​I saw Coyote Vs. Acme. It was fun. 7:55 PM@artoflynndylee​​I hope to see Cayote vs. Acme released here in the theaters. 7:57 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Rise of Skywalker was bad due to The Last Jedi writing them into a corner. 8:12 PM@addictedtochaos2​​The mistake they made was not planning out the entire trilogy in advance. 8:15 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Not planning it out, is why The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker turned out the way they did. 8:17 PM@addictedtochaos2​​It was because they were trying to undo the damage caused by The Last Jedi but their hands were tied. 8:19 PM@jaredknisely6213​​chaos you cant convince him when he like last jedi 8:20 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Yes it did, I will die on that hill. 8:20 PM@jaredknisely6213​​well, it did it killed luks 8:21 PM@jaredknisely6213​​luke's character 8:23 PM@addictedtochaos2​​The Last Jedi was a complete character assassination of Luke. 8:23 PM@addictedtochaos2​​One of the greatest movie heroes of all time, reduced to that. 8:23 PM@artoflynndylee​​Luke died? Sorry don't really watch Star Wars. Only here and there 8:31 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Obi Wan and Yoda were in hiding because they were being hunted. 8:31 PM@artoflynndylee​​Forced too hard?!?! LMAO! 8:34 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Agreed 8:34 PM@jaredknisely6213​​he is referring to a hero that wanted to save his fallen father 8:34 PM@jaredknisely6213​​but as soon as he sees another family member go down the wrong path.... time to ice him 8:35 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Correct Jared

Even though the franchise is called "Star Wars", perhaps the greatest lesson we can learn from that galaxy far, far away is the importance of avoiding violence. When I was a kid, I was interested in the action and the battles in the films, rather than the pacifism George Lucas was teaching. Join me as I share my understanding of the philosophy.

Because I'm a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot? In a world where one man has only seen 30 or so movies comes a desire to learn from a master. A master of film. A master of cinema. A master who has led such a sad life.  Logan seeks the knowledge and he turns to his own personal “Yoda”; Keithie. Join Logan & Keithie on a wild adventure to discover as we watch along with a new movie each episode in THE MOVIE EDUCATION OF LOGAN CROSLAND. This episode, Logan, Keithie & Tim pay their respects and then some to a true angel that was on this earth, the great Dolly Parton. The boys thoroughly enjoy the comedic stylings of Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and of course Dolly and laugh at the slapstick efforts of the great Dabney Coleman, while also waxing poetic on the continued troubles for not only women in the workplace, but hell, anyone who has to work 9 to 5. Well, I say we hire a couple'a wranglers to go upstairs and beat the shit out of him.

Sober October, No Drama: Daily Tips for a Take It or Leave It Relationship With Alcohol Episode 5: Why One Day at a Time Keeps You Stuck - And What to Do Instead - Sober October, No Drama I know this one is controversial. I am speaking from my own experience. For me, one day at a time meant I had to keep making decisions - which kept me in decision fatigue, which kept me in willpower. And willpower is a finite strategy for cutting back on alcohol. It also reinforces struggle, battling and hard. It ties into good and bad - binary thinking - all of which keeps us in resistance and out of choice. The alternative? Make one firm decision: I am not going to drink for 30 days. A maybe is always a yes A data point is not a failure - it is something to learn from Go into your sober curious break with the decision made and your brain freed up for more interesting things There is no try. There is only do - or do not. Thanks, Yoda. This episode is part of Dry July, No Drama - a daily MidlifeAF podcast mini series with tips for cutting back on alcohol without willpower, labels or forever. My free resources below will help you prepare for and get the most out of your break. See links below: Episode links & Resources•⁠ ⁠Learn more about Emma Gilmour at: www.hoperisingcoaching.com•⁠ ⁠Follow Emma Gilmour on insta @hoperisingcoachingFREE TOOLS - four beautiful resources to help you drink less and feel fabulous:1.⁠ ⁠7 Steps to Take Back Control of Alcohol - the exact steps I took when I started out on this journey nearly five years ago.https://www.hoperisingcoaching.com/7-steps2.⁠ ⁠Awareness Worksheets - if you do nothing else, working through the answers to these questions will change your relationship with alcohol for the better.https://www.hoperisingcoaching.com/awareness-worksheets-opt-in3.⁠ ⁠Your North Star Visualisation - stops your brain freaking out about doing something unfamiliar.https://www.hoperisingcoaching.com/northstarvisualisation4.⁠ ⁠Grounding Meditation - you know that feeling when you have a drink and the body goes "aaaaaaaahhhhhhh" and everything seems to relax? What the body really needs is to ground - to come back home to self, and for self to feel lovely. That is what we work on in my live programs. We start every session with a grounding and connect with ourselves to find out what our body really needs when it thinks it wants to drink.https://www.hoperisingcoaching.com/groundingREADY TO GO DEEPER? Are you tired of the mental back-and-forth about drinking?I am running a FREE 3-Day Alcohol Reset on 22, 23 and 24 Sept, 7:30pm Melb/Syd (replays available). No willpower talk. No abstinence pressure. You can even drink while you do it. A judgement-free space to learn the tools to step into a take it or leave it relationship with alcohol. REGISTER FREE: https://www.hoperisingcoaching.com/3-day-reset Want a take it or leave it relationship with alcohol? Want to stop all the "will I, won't I" internal conflict around wine? I am running the Great Aussie Alcohol Experiment LIVE from Thursday 1 October 30 days. Small group coaching. Only 25 spots. Small, intimate and private. Rewire your brain and nervous system so you no longer have to reach for a glass to quieten your busy brain, calm your overwhelmed soul or socialise when your social battery is spent. Early bird pricing open now (ends 15th Spetember) - $500 off the full price, plus two 1:1 counselling sessions with me and 3 webinars included (worth +$1,000). We won't run this live again until January.YOUR NEXT RIGHT MOVE STARTS HERE: https://www.hoperisingcoaching.com/the_great_aussie_alcohol_experiment Change happens in a moment, my friends - the preparation for change takes a little bit of time. Take the time. You will be amazed at the difference it makes.

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The Empire is coming...This week on The Insanely Dangerous Retropodshow, Dangerous Dave travels back to 1980 and a galaxy far, far away for one of the most celebrated sequels in cinema history...STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACKAfter the extraordinary success of the original Star Wars, George Lucas faced an almost impossible challenge: how do you follow a movie that completely changed popular culture?The answer?Go darker.Go bigger.Separate the heroes.Introduce Yoda.Make Darth Vader even more terrifying.Freeze Han Solo in carbonite.And deliver one of the greatest revelations in movie history.Officially released in 1980 and directed by Irvin Kershner, The Empire Strikes Back took Luke, Han and Leia into a much darker second chapter as the Empire relentlessly hunted the Rebel Alliance.⏰ WHAT HAPPENED WAY BACK WHEN? – 1980Before heading to Hoth, Dave fires up the retro time machine and revisits 1980.There's music from Pink Floyd, Blondie, The Police, Barbra Streisand and Motörhead, while the movie section remembers The Shining, Airplane!, Friday the 13th and The Blues Brothers.On television, we're remembering Magnum, P.I., Hi-de-Hi!, Hammer House of Horror, The Adventure Game and a young Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies.Then Retro Headlines revisits some of the major events making news in Britain and America as the new decade got underway.⭐ DANGEROUS DEEP DIVE – MAKING EMPIREThen it's time for the main event.Dave explores the enormous challenge of following Star Wars and how George Lucas took a huge financial gamble to maintain creative control over the sequel. Lucasfilm itself describes Lucas as effectively gambling the company's future by investing his own money in the production.We look at Irvin Kershner taking over the director's chair, the development of the screenplay and why Empire feels so different from its predecessor.Then we head into the movie itself...❄️ THE BATTLE OF HOTHThe Rebels have been discovered.The Empire attacks.And suddenly enormous AT-AT walkers are marching towards Echo Base.Dave revisits the Wampa attack, Han rescuing Luke from the freezing wilderness, Snowspeeders wrapping tow cables around AT-AT legs and one of the greatest opening battles in science-fiction history.But there's something important about Hoth...The Rebels don't win.They escape.And that sets the tone for everything that follows.

94 WIP celebrates Merrill Reese's 84th birthday while revisiting Jake Elliott's legendary 61-yard field goal from the 2017 season. They also discuss Jalen Hurts' enigmatic personality and whether his philosophical interview style makes him a football version of Yoda. 01:11 - Merrill Reese Birthday 01:25 - Jake Elliott's 2017 Kick 04:36 - Hugh Douglas Return Talk 07:32 - Jalen Hurts Football Yoda

Rafael Musa and Kate Chin Park have put together an awesome Saturday crossword, tough, fair, with some absolutely magnificent cluing. Both cohosts had to follow the advice of 42A, Put your backs into it, TRY — while reconciling that with the Yoda's famous quote and meme, "Do or do not. There is no try".We've covered some of our favorite clues in the podcast, but others stood out as well. We were enthralled with 35A, Ones giving a toast at an outdoor party?, PATIOHEATERS.

Dinosaurs. Lasers. Futuristic armour. Evil aliens. What more could you possibly want?This week on The Insanely Dangerous Retropodshow, Dangerous Dave heads back to 1988 to celebrate one of the most gloriously bonkers toy lines of the decade — Dino-Riders!We begin with What Happened Way Back When?, revisiting the music, movies and television of 1988, including Guns N' Roses, Belinda Carlisle, Die Hard, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beetlejuice, Red Dwarf and The Wonder Years. Then Retro Headlines remembers some of the major stories making news in Britain and America.

Losing Confidence After Stroke: Why It Happens and How to Get It Back Jaemin Frazer has spent nearly two decades and around 16,000 coaching hours on a single question: what is actually going on when a capable person stops trusting themselves? He founded The Insecurity Project to work on it directly. He is not a stroke survivor – and that turns out to be the reason this conversation is useful, because he arrives without any assumptions about what stroke recovery is supposed to look like. What he does have is a precise account of what happens to a person when their ordered world collapses, which is, more or less, the definition of a stroke. “I Just Want to Be Who I Was” Almost every survivor says some version of this. Six weeks out, six years out – the sentence barely changes. Jaemin’s response is to ask what is actually being requested. His answer: not the past. Certainty. They’re looking for certainty. They’re looking for comfort. They’re looking for safety. They’re looking through rose coloured glasses in many ways, because no one’s life was perfect before anything. That last part is the uncomfortable bit. The life you want back had its own problems. What memory offers is not a better life but a known one – and the nervous system will take known over good almost every time. Certainty Is the Real Request Humans need certainty the way they need food and shelter. We don’t function in chaos. But we also can’t get certainty from the outside world, because the outside world doesn’t have any to give. It never did. The stroke didn’t remove your certainty; it removed your ability to keep believing in it. Which leaves one option. As Jaemin puts it: The most resourceful form of certainty is to embrace uncertainty and back yourself. That distinction – external certainty versus internal certainty – is the whole conversation. When your sense of safety lives outside you, you have to control your circumstances to feel all right, and after a stroke your circumstances are largely uncontrollable. When it lives inside you, circumstances can do what they like. This is the same territory covered in stroke recovery mindset (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/stroke-recovery-mindset/), approached from a completely different angle. Self-Doubt Is Useful. Insecurity Is Not. Jaemin draws a hard line between the two, and it’s worth holding onto. Self-doubt is accurate information about a skill gap. If you can’t yet climb the stairs unaided, self-doubt is what stops you attempting it alone. It says nothing about your worth. It’s wisdom. Insecurity is different. Insecurity is the belief that a failure would expose something defective about you. Jaemin argues that most people misdefine it – it isn’t fear of judgement, failure, or rejection. It’s one level deeper: No one’s actually afraid of being rejected. They’re afraid of: if I put my best foot forward and it’s not enough, and then people don’t accept me – what does that confirm about my own inadequacy? The threat isn’t out there. It’s a verdict you’ve already passed on yourself, waiting for the world to co-sign it. What Insecurity Costs Your Recovery This is where it stops being philosophy. Jaemin frames insecurity as a resource problem. Proving yourself, defending yourself, covering and compensating – all of it consumes energy. When life is going well there’s enough spare capacity that you never notice the drain. After a stroke, there is no spare capacity. A stroke puts you into survival mode, and now you’ve got no resources to survive, because all your best resources are directed elsewhere to make sure no one sees your inadequacy. Survivors already know that fatigue after stroke is not ordinary tiredness. An injured brain rewiring itself is metabolically expensive. Every unit of energy spent managing how you appear to other people is a unit unavailable for healing. Attending to the emotional side of recovery isn’t separate from the physical work – it’s what frees up the capacity to do it. That connection runs through emotional recovery after stroke (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/emotional-recovery-after-stroke-dr-bradley-nelson/) as well. Why Your Friends Push Back Many survivors have to change how they live – what they eat, what they drink, where they go, who they spend time with. And many report losing friends over it. Jaemin’s framing here is bracing. Resistance from the people around you isn’t a malfunction. In any story worth telling, the character who transforms does so by overcoming obstacles, and those obstacles almost always arrive in the form of other people. Remove the resistance and nothing in the hero is enlarged. So when someone says you’ve changed and doesn’t mean it kindly, they are – without intending to – handing you the exact thing you need to become someone who no longer requires their approval. Grief and Insecurity Are Not the Same Thing This distinction matters, and conflating them causes real harm. Losing the use of a limb is a genuine loss. Grief is the appropriate response, and it deserves acknowledgement rather than management. The damage begins when the loss becomes a statement about your worth. I can’t run, therefore I’m not a runner, therefore who am I? That is no longer grief – that’s insecurity wearing grief’s clothes, and it needs a different response entirely. Survivors working through that identity question will recognise it in craniotomy stroke recovery and identity reset (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/craniotomy-stroke-recovery-identity-reset/), and it sits close to the ground covered in anxiety after stroke (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/anxiety-after-stroke/). That’s Not the Tragedy. That’s the Setup. The line Jaemin returns to twice in the episode is this: being lost and confused doesn’t disqualify you from a meaningful life. It’s what qualifies you to begin one. Nobody reaches adulthood with an accurate picture of who they are. Everyone arrives confused. The confusion isn’t damage to be repaired before you can start – it’s the starting position. This reframes the disorientation of early recovery as the opening move rather than evidence that something has gone permanently wrong. The same reframe underpins post-traumatic growth in stroke recovery (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/post-traumatic-growth-stroke-recovery/). And Jaemin is firm that this is solvable – not managed, not coped with. Solvable. Because the inadequacy you’ve been protecting everyone from isn’t real. It’s a conclusion you drew as a child and have been gathering evidence for ever since. There is no monster under the bed. Only the idea of one. Where to Start Start by being precise. When you catch yourself saying I lost my confidence, ask what you actually mean. Confidence at what? In front of whom? What exactly are you afraid would be revealed? Abstract language hides the levers. Precise language shows you where they are. Closing Links If this episode is useful to you, Bill’s book The Unexpected Way That A Stroke Became The Best Thing That Happened covers ten tools for recovery and personal transformation – you can find it at https://recoveryafterstroke.com/book. If you would like one-on-one support with your own recovery, you can apply at https://recoveryafterstroke.com/momentum. If this show has helped you, you can support it at https://patreon.com/recoveryafterstroke. Footer Disclaimer This blog is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your doctor before making any changes to your health or recovery plan. Losing Confidence After Stroke – Jaemin Frazer (Interview) You don’t need your old life back. You need to trust yourself again – and Jaemin Frazer explains exactly why that feels impossible after stroke. Highlights: 00:00 Introduction – Losing Confidence After Stroke 08:54 Embracing Uncertainty and Personal Resourcefulness 20:43 The Role of Self-Doubt and Insecurity 38:26 Transformational Journeys: Overcoming Obstacles 46:14 The Hero’s Journey and Storytelling 52:07 Understanding Bullies and Personal Growth 59:21 The Role of Parents in Identity Formation 01:11:17 The Cost of Insecurity in Recovery 01:20:55 Finding Purpose Beyond Insecurity Transcript: Introduction – Losing Confidence After Stroke Jaemin (00:00) A stroke puts you into survival mode, and now you’ve got no resources to survive because all your best resources are directed elsewhere So then it costs you everything. It costs you your future. It costs you your ability to heal, to make sense of this, to come out the other side and reinvent or do whatever you need to be present for yourself. It’s a slow descent into madness really, if all your best resources are proving and defending, covering and compensating, then you stop being human, you stop being alive, you stop being present, you become hypervigilant around what others are thinking, and your world keeps getting smaller. Bill Gasiamis (00:35) Welcome back to Recovery After Stroke. I’m Bill Gasciamas. Before anything else, thank you to everyone supporting the show on Patreon, becoming a YouTube member, and to everyone supporting it in all other ways. Sharing episodes, leaving reviews, sending them to someone who needs them, buying the book. This show has reached over a million and a half downloads because of people doing exactly that. And I don’t take it for granted. If you’ve ever caught yourself saying, I just want to be who I was, this episode is going to sit with you for a while. My guest today is Jaemin Fraser. Jaemin is a coach, the founder of the Insecurity Project, a TEDx speaker, and as of this year, a novelist. He spent nearly two decades, around 16,000 coaching hours, on one problem. What happens to a person when they stop trusting themselves and what it costs them? Jaemin has not had a stroke. I want to be upfront about that because it’s the reason this conversation goes where it does. He came to it without any assumptions about what recovery is meant to look like. And what he brought instead is a very precise account of what happens to anyone whose ordered world falls apart overnight. We get into why wanting your odd life back is really a request for certainty. The difference between self-doubt, which is useful, and insecurity, which isn’t, why insecurity draws down the exact energy your brain needs to heal. What’s really going on when friends push back on your habits and why being lost and confused isn’t the tragedy, it’s the setup. Three quick things before we start, my book, The Unexpected Way That a Stroke Became the Best Thing That Happened, covers ten tools for recovery and personal transformation. It’s available at recoveryafterstroke.com/book. If you’d like one-on-one support with your own recovery, I walk I work with a small number of stroke survivors at a time. Structure, accountability, and genuine guidance from someone who’s been through it, you can apply at recoveryafterstroke.com/momentum. And if this show has helped you and you want to help me get to a thousand episodes, you can support it either as a YouTube member or by going to patreon.com/recoveryafterstroke. I want to make sure that No strike survivor. has to ever go through what I went through when I first started my recovery, and that was not having any information about how to proceed after I got sent home from hospital. Now it’s time for the interview. Bill Gasiamis (03:14) Jaemin Fraser, welcome to the podcast. Jaemin (03:15) Thanks for having me, Bill. Bill Gasiamis (03:17) Absolute pleasure, mate. I wanted to ask, actually I want to start with the person listening. They’re anywhere from six weeks to twenty years post stroke, right? and what they say is they want to be back to their old life. In your experience, when someone says, I just want to be who I was, what are they actually asking for? Jaemin (03:39) Hmm, well, I think they’re looking for certainty. They’re looking for comfort. They’re looking for safety. Yeah, they’re looking through rose colored glasses in many ways because no one’s life was perfect before anything. So the fantasy of if I could go back to where I was, it deletes a whole bunch of stuff around the reality of where you were in the first place. But I think that the desire is it’s certainty, safety, peace, comfort. That’s what a person is driven to find some way or other. Bill Gasiamis (04:16) W what do you think it is about certainty? A and what does that even mean? Like I There was, you know, before my experience with stroke, there wasn’t anything that was certain. Is it an illusion? Is certainty an illusion? Because I definitely don’t feel certain about anything going forward either. but kind of not in a bad way. Like I don’t have a bad relationship with the lack of certainty. It’s just. It i it’s just not real. Like I feel like it might be an illusion. Jaemin (04:53) Well, I love Anthony Robbins take on this. I think his six core needs model is his finest contribution to the personal development space and his earliest versions of this, because I think if you were to do a search, Tony Robbins six core needs, what you’re going to get today is an idea that there’s a hierarchy of needs. So you could do a test to work out which needs are most important for you based on your personality type. That’s not how we first introduced them. And I am convinced it’s not actually how it works. So just a quick summary. He says, doesn’t matter what age, what sex, what culture, what stage of life, because you’re human, just as important as food, shelter, clothing is the need for certainty. Firstly, we are creatures who do not survive in chaos. We need some sense of control, order. We thrive in the familiar. We need a sense of what’s happening next. So we organize ourselves and we find certainty. We cannot survive without it. Interestingly though, we also need uncertainty. these six needs operate in paradox. Piers, are you familiar with the six core needs? Bill Gasiamis (06:07) I’m not actually. Jaemin (06:08) and variety is the first two and they operate in paradox pairs. So certainty pulls you one way, but we also need variety. If you have 100 % certainty, you’re completely bored and Bill Gasiamis (06:18) Uh-huh. Jaemin (06:19) you would ruin things. You’d mess it up so that there would be something to do. So we need uncertainty, surprise, spontaneity, adventure. But if you have 100 Bill Gasiamis (06:30) You’d mess it up i is is is messing it up because you need uncertainty, is that that sounds like like self sabotage. Jaemin (06:41) Well, it is if it’s unresourceful. is if you haven’t, I mean, the aim of the game is to find high quality internal resource, ways to meet these needs. If you don’t find that, then unconsciously, you’ll still find a way to meet these needs and it will be through sabotage, dysfunction, know. So certainty and variety are the first two. The second two are significance and love. So all humans need a sense of significance, need to know, I matter? Am I more than just a name and number? Do I have value? Is there any point to me? Now that’s a journey away from the tribe because we’re also relational beings. So we don’t survive in isolation. We need love, belonging, connection, warmth, touch. So if you have 100 % love and connection, you lose your separateness. And if you have 100 % significance, then you’re completely lonely and isolated. But we do need both. Embracing Uncertainty and Personal Resourcefulness So certainty, variety, significance, love, and then the final two are contribution and growth. So humans do feel the need to make a difference, add value, give back, leave a legacy, solve problems. So contribution is about adding value to others. And then growth is adding value to yourselves, to ourselves. Every living thing grows, you either grow or die. So this is the need that drives us to do more, to have more, to see more, to expand our experience. one way shape or another. it’s a strange thing to need certainty back to certainty. It’s a strange thing to need certainty for survival in an uncertain world because you then can’t help but cling to things that aren’t really certain and try and control them. Cling to a job you don’t like, cling to a memory that feels familiar, cling to a relationship that’s dysfunctional. cling to stuff that you know, because it makes you feel certain and makes you feel safe. There’s a predictability around it. What you’re describing is not that you’ve done away with the need for certainty. It’s that you have a certainty in your ability to handle the real world. So you don’t need to cling to things being a certain way. You don’t need to force things to be back the way they were. You’re like, that’s ridiculous. Here I am now and I’m certain. that I am a resourceful person, a creative person, a good person, a clever person, I’ll work it out. The real world will happen to me. I’ll wake up, I’ll open my eyes and I’ll handle it. That’s what I’m certain about. So the most resourceful form of certainty is to embrace uncertainty and back yourself. Bill Gasiamis (09:26) To be certain about uncertainty. Jaemin (09:28) There be certain uncertainty. That is the only certainty. It’s, you there’s you think, what is certain? well, the sun’s going to come up tomorrow. For some people, it’s not. Some people, this will be the last sunrise they ever see. No one’s expecting that, but it happens. So we’re not entitled to any more time, any more opportunity. That’s not certain. It’s not guaranteed. So yeah, the only certainty is it’s all uncertain. So then you must find certainty within, and that will require you to examine your own. your your capability, your own resourcefulness and to grow up and mature in your own sense of who you really are. Bill Gasiamis (10:06) Yeah. I have this saying that I picked up from somewhere. Some dude in the Middle East, like I think in the 40s or 50s, said this thing. I forget his name. I I always wanted to remember his name so I can give him credit, but it goes like exp expect the best, prepare for the worst. And it kind of feels like that’s how I handled my uncertainty when, you know, the doctor turns up day one. Of a bleed in the brain diagnosis and says, gives you the most vague version of the diagnosis and said to me, there’s a shadow on your brain. It could be a cancer, it could be a sea it could be a tumor that’s benign, it could be a bleed in the brain. Like, any questions? And I was like, Well. Jaemin (10:57) There’s a few. Bill Gasiamis (11:01) I don’t know, at eleven PM on a Friday night. Maybe not. Let’s talk in the morning. but it’s like And then after that came a lot of uncertainty. We didn’t know what a family life was gonna be like. We didn’t like know what my work life was gonna be like. We didn’t know whether I’d be around. We didn’t know any of the things that I kind of knew the day before, which I took for granted that I knew, which was only that w without knowing that there’s something wrong in my head and that potentially I’m unwell, I knew that. Tomorrow was going to be pretty much the same as yesterday. And there’s going to be some movement in a couple of similar directions, maybe a few odd ones and different ones. And I suppose that expect the best prepare for the worst was me embracing uncertainty, the certainty of uncertainty. Does that saying kind of capture that spirit? Jaemin (12:03) It certainly does. However, the challenge is no surprise. I’m going to talk about insecurity being a challenge because then it comes back to them. But then what do you believe about yourself? You know, do you feel like you’re actually up for the challenge? Do you have the resourcefulness? What is the story you tell around your own capacity, your capability, your intelligence, your value? Because to fear inadequacy then undermines your confidence in your own ability to handle the real world. And therefore you must then cling to external certainty and long for things to go back the way they were so that you can be safe. Because you don’t trust yourself to be up for the challenge. Bill Gasiamis (12:50) Yeah. It’s a real interesting conundrum because before I was unwell I didn’t contemplate life, me and how I interact with life or the possibility of nail life. I didn’t I didn’t contemplate that whole relationship and then you’re thrust in it and it seems like people that I’ve interviewed at least the four hundred odd stroke survivors that I’ve interviewed have not got the resources backfilled in preparation for when that day comes, and then you feel inadequate, insecure, perhaps, whatever the word is, that you can even handle this. I’ve never met anyone who said, I know, I was 100% certain that I was going to handle this diagnosis from my doctors. Can you prepare for the worst? Like that whole going back to that statement again, that saying, is there a way that we can even prepare for the worst when we don’t even know what the worst is? Is it even is it sounds like it might be might be a futile pursuit? Jaemin (14:07) Whoa. I I think you and I here today are doing that exact thing, you know, with internal resourcefulness. We don’t know what tomorrow is bringing. So in some ways we are certain in our capacity to, you know, hope for the best, prepare for the worst. So that’s not futile. I don’t consider that futile at all. And I think that is the only job is to resource yourself for the real world, is to grow up, is to become mature. The way that I think about that is self-sufficiency. You when you’re young, you’re growing through stages of development and really learning self-sufficiency. Can you feed yourself? Can you dress yourself? Can you learn yourself? Can you drive a car? Can you earn money? And they’re all the things, physical, financial, self-sufficiency, but people are… seem, you know, it’s see when it comes to emotional, intellectual, psychological self sufficiencies, like what is that? How does that even work? And so they come into their adult world, being able to earn money, being able to drive a car, out, address themselves, you know, wipe their own ass. Great. But when it comes to validating their own existence, when it comes to sourcing their own certainty, when it comes to deeply loving and accepting themselves, when it comes to being the one that approves of themselves, that sees themselves. you know, adults are typically ill prepared for that, you know, stroke Bill Gasiamis (15:38) Mm-hmm. Jaemin (15:38) or no stroke. And so, you know, you know, we’re talking about when a stroke happens, but people have all kinds of catastrophes they’re not prepared for, you know, and things are fine because their ordered world is safe and predictable. And then next day it’s not. And they look inside and they’ve never developed the resources, the internal resources of adulthood that helps them stand solid when the world is falling around apart. about them. you know, primarily that is the work of the insecurity project. It’s these conversations around existential angst, which people don’t prepare for because their world’s ordered. But when your world falls apart, then you really see how unprepared you are to handle difficulty and the worst case scenario if you have not examined your own sense of who you are. Bill Gasiamis (16:29) Mm-hmm. The world being ordered, it can be ordered in a dysfunctional way as well, right? Jaemin (16:39) Well, that’s, yes, that’s exactly what happens because we need certainty. I love thinking about these six core needs as a vacuum. In our atmosphere, a vacuum is always filled. So someone says to me, I don’t need that much certainty. You know, I’m more of a risk taker, I’m adventurous, or they might, someone else might be the opposite. I need so much certainty, I’m very risk averse. you know, someone looks at one of my clients recently looked at me and says, you’re a free spirit. You’re adventurous. It’s different. It’s different from me. You know, I’m very analytical. I’m risk averse. I’m safety conscious. But if you zoom out and have a look at both of us, I need just as much certainty as that person. Exactly. I can’t survive without certainty. I can’t survive without order. It’s just that I’ve found a high quality, internal adult way to order my world so that I have internal safety. which then frees me to go into the world and experience uncertainty and play. Whereas this other person has not found an internal way to create order. So they’re clinging to all the dysfunctional external forms of order. Hate their Bill Gasiamis (17:47) Wow. Jaemin (17:47) job, relationships falling apart, don’t like their relationship with money, know, problems here, difficulties there, but it’s familiar. So I better cling to it because I know it. There you go, there’s some certainty for you. Bill Gasiamis (18:03) I love what you said, like that internal sense of certainty Jaemin (18:06) Hmm Bill Gasiamis (18:07) seems to be the biggest l skill lacking in many, many people. If you have internal sense of certainty, then you don’t have to control the outside world. You put the dishwasher plate in the wrong direction. You know, when we loaded the dishwasher, y this might be revealing. you park the car in the wrong bay, or you know, all these little things that people kind of cling to to make their world feel right if they see it like that. If everyone just did the task the way that they needed to do it, then I wouldn’t have a problem, right? But if you have internal certainty and you can be more flexible, I think Tony Robbins talks about being having multiple ways to be to be. being more flexible, then you realize that there are infinite number of ways that things can be loaded into a dishwasher, for example, even though there are certainly some ways that won’t be able to wash the dishes effectively, perhaps, but there are many ways, and the other person’s ways not necessarily the wrong way or the odd way or or the incorrect way, right? Jaemin (19:30) Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (19:31) I think I resonate with that immediately, that internal sense of certainty. And then the external world becomes easier to navigate. Is that is that Jaemin (19:44) Well, does because then play becomes possible and you don’t need things to be anything other than they are, know, good, bad or indifferent. You have an experience that looks terrible. Well, are you sure it’s terrible? Or could there be learning? Could there be a gift? Could there be an opportunity? Might you meet someone? Might your life change in an unexpected way? Like who’s to say a bad experience is actually a bad experience if you’re free to encounter it as it is. The Role of Self-Doubt and Insecurity That’s what becomes possible if you have internal safety and that you do back yourself to handle that. And I think it’s an abstract concept for most people because they’ve never faced their fear of their deep inadequacy. And so it’s always undermined. They would love to take internal certainty, but their conviction, if they’re really honest, and it’s hard to be honest, because this stuff gets pretty well suppressed. Their honest fear is that there is a problem with them. There is an inadequacy. They are not up to the challenge. So if they rely on themselves, they will be found lacking and wanting. So therefore they must look outside themselves. That’s their only option. Bill Gasiamis (20:53) Got it. You’ve worked with high performers for hundreds and maybe thousands of hours, right? if one of them walked into you into a meeting with you and said, I had a stroke and I lost my confidence, what what’s the first thing you ask them? Jaemin (21:15) What do you mean? That would be the first thing that I asked them. I understand a little about a stroke. think I would understand enough about that part of the sentence, but I’m more curious around the second part of the sentence. I love Jordan Peterson’s thinking in so many ways. And he says, listen, be precise in your speech because things that go unnamed become monsters that consume you. So that would be where I would start. What do you mean I lost this happened and that made me do this? Are you sure? That’s how it actually worked. What do you mean? Let’s have a look. Let’s have a look. So that’s my whole world is someone comes to me with a level of abstraction. They use language that’s abstract. And when you use abstract language, you cannot see any of the levers that can be pulled. And so you end up feeling hopeless and overwhelmed. When you be precise, when you have a look, you actually begin to see the mechanics, the structures that are actually influencing your experience. And when you see them precisely, the levers become apparent, like, I could actually adjust that. I could turn this, I could change this. Therefore now I’m back in control of my own experience of my reality. So yeah, that’s where I say, what do you mean? What are you talking about exactly? Bill Gasiamis (22:37) I love that. It’s it reminds me of when I hear the word the one of the most common words I hear in my interview, stroke recovery, stroke conversations. And I I’m specifically talking about stroke because that’s my niche, right? That’s my audience, that’s the podcast. But I know this is a situation kind of that I experience also broadly outside of my stroke podcast world. my children, others that I come across is I hear the word depression and anxiety. And it’s an umbrella word that people place on so many experiences and nobody ever even really knows if if I challenge if I have the permission and and I’m in a room with the right person to challenge them and ask them, well, do you do you know what the definition of depression is? And do you know what the definition of anxiety is? Nobody can really give you that. And they’ve taken a word and they apply it to an experience that may have been completely separate from the intended definition of a word like depression and anxiety. And I I kind of feel like that’s what you’re saying. Like somebody says, I’m I’m depressed, like, okay, like, why? How? How do you know that? Jaemin (24:00) It’s exactly anxiety is a great story because I go, well, hang on. How did you, how are you anxious? And anxiety requires a backstory to survive. So I’m curious, you know, are you anxious tying your shoes? No. how do you do not anxiety? Well, I don’t know. No one cares. I can’t fail. I’ve done it a million times. there you go. That’s interesting. So the, the areas that you are not anxious about, there’s no possibility of being found inadequate. Curious. So the areas you are anxious, you’re only anxious because there’s something about the activity you’re involved in, which you feel threatened, personally threatened that someone might see your flaw. So let’s not worry about the anxiety, it’s downstream. Tell me about this perceived flaw. Tell me about this thing that you think is wrong with you. Are you sure that’s even there? The great humor of my work in the same as what you’re saying, know, insecurity. Talking about fear, my first question to people, what are you afraid of? And no one knows. People are experiencing fear. They can tell you that much. So what you’re running and hiding, but what are you running and hiding from? yeah, it’s just this, you know, I just feel so, like, okay, interesting. So you’re running and hiding. What about if we go and have a look at what it is you’re running and hiding from? You might be surprised. In fact, You will be surprised. promise you it’s not what you think it is. And you’ve just been running and hiding for so long. You’ve just become convinced that there’s a thing here that you ought to keep running and hiding from. I’m not so sure. Bill Gasiamis (25:41) Yeah. That what are you afraid of? That’s a very interesting question. Again, you know, I find myself in the hot seat here. And every time I ventured down something new, it was interesting now ’cause I’m reflecting like how often insecurity came up. You know, the first few episodes of the podcast were, my God, people are going to judge it, they’re gonna say it’s no good, you don’t know how to interview, all that kind of stuff. And the the best thing to do was just put it out there. And if somebody did say that was handle it. And if somebody didn’t say that, well then there was nothing to handle. So just do it anyway. And I remember then also with my book, I’m not an author. I did I’m not a scholar. I’ve never done any of that stuff. But I wrote my first book, The Unexpected Way That a Stroke Became the Best Thing That Happened. It’s a pretty loaded title. And I knew it was gonna ruffle some feathers. But I put it out there and the very first comment that I got from the very first post that I made was a negative one. And what I realized was that pattern was similar in that when I started the podcast, I had the exact same concern that it might happen and it did. People did give me negative feedback. But then it seems to me now now that I’ve learnt a few times, you know, what happens when you put yourself out there for the first time when you tell the world this is what I’ve created, you know, I’m sharing my creation is part of the journey has to be something that’s gonna test your insecurity. It might not be a negative comment or so but it but it might be like bad sales or it might be nobody listens or whatever. So it sounds like insecurity is necessary in some cases to kind of overcome, to tackle it, to overcome it, so that you can be better at tackling it and overcoming it and achieve more things. Do you know what I’m saying? Did I explain that correctly? Jaemin (27:54) Yeah, I think I understand. I don’t think I agree with you though. Bill Gasiamis (27:58) Okay. Jaemin (27:59) So here’s how I’d think about it. I’d separate self-doubt and insecurity into slightly different categories. Bill Gasiamis (28:07) Okay, so you picked up self doubt there. Jaemin (28:10) So, so self doubts are really important quality of wisdom. So for instance, I’ve got a mate who races super bikes, you know, say he got injured this weekend and he says, Jaemin, you know, there’s still four rounds left. Can you sub in for me and race my super bike next week? And I’m like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now I’ve never raced a super bike before. I do have a motorbike license, but you know, if I didn’t have severe self doubt, I’d be delusional. I’d be a crazy person and I would be, you know, dangerous to myself and the world. So self doubt doesn’t, doesn’t tell me I’m a bad person. It just highlights the limit of the things I’m good at. So, so the real function of self doubt to me is more what you’re describing. It’s, it’s the limit says, you’re not actually very good at this. Now that doesn’t say anything about your essence, your value and your worth. Would you like to be good at this? And I go. Actually, no, great. Well, then don’t do it. Don’t do it because it’ll go bad. I’m like, Yeah, I’d actually like to be good at it. excellent. Well, you have a massive skill gap. So go take however long to learn the skills and fill the skills so that you can come back with genuine confidence with earn confidence so that you could compete in this arena and do well. That’s that’s a wisdom conversation. Now insecurity is this personal piece. It’s like, I’m gonna put myself out there. people are gonna judge, laugh, critique, and then they’ll see who I really am. They will see my flaws, my flaws, my inadequacies will now be exposed to the world. Now it’s personal. And so to me, the definition of insecurity is really important here because people think insecurity is somehow related to the fear of what others think about them, the fear of being judged, the fear of failing, the fear of being rejected. Bill Gasiamis (30:04) Hmm. Right. Jaemin (30:05) Really imprecise. That’s not that’s not insecure at all. It’s just one or two levels deeper than that. You know, say for instance, the fear of failure, which is a typical one. And no one’s actually afraid of failing. They’re afraid of the personal implications of failure. I if I try my best at something, and then it doesn’t work. Huh? What have I just revealed to the world about me the problem with me? Same as rejection. No one’s actually afraid of being rejected. They’re afraid of, if I put my best foot forward and it’s not enough, and then people don’t accept me, huh, what does that reveal? What does that prove? What does that confirm about my own inadequacy? So then insecure. Bill Gasiamis (30:47) about what I about what I think are my inadequacies. Because it’s not about the other Jaemin (30:50) Exactly, that’s insecurity. Insecurity is… Bill Gasiamis (30:53) person’s thinking, it’s me, what I think, and then they’re confirming my inadequacy that I’ve Jaemin (30:56) confirming it. That’s it. That’s it. Bill Gasiamis (30:58) generated and created, which is not even real. Jaemin (31:01) That’s exactly right. That’s the thing, which is hilarious. But when you see that now the levers become apparent, because if the fear is out there, then you got to control the world constantly and obsess about it. But if the fear is here and you created it, then the levers are very apparent. You could then go examine this perceived inadequacy, trace it back to when you first described it and examine it at its roots. Like you could go on a structural engineering quest back into the the substance of your own sense of you, the language you’ve used to describe yourself and check it, check it for integrity, check it for gaps, check it for misunderstandings. Like that’s the fun of what I get to do. It’s take what appears to be abstract, mysterious, messy, unknowable and treat it like a structural engineer just by examining the structure of language. Bill Gasiamis (31:57) People don’t do that much, do they? Jaemin (31:59) No, no, no. And people are insecure about being insecure. So like when I launched the insecurity project, my business coach said, that’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard. Like you’ve picked the most difficult, scary topic and put it at the front. No one’s going to be putting their hands up saying, Jay, when I’m insecure, can you help me? Like it’s existential angst. It’s the human condition. We want to be good. We’re just afraid that we’re not. So we run and we hide and we cover and compensate. So yeah, it’s a hard topic to face and yet the great joke is there’s no actual reason for it to be hard other than the confirmation bias we’ve given ourselves buying into our own bullshit, confirming our own fiction, exasperating our own misunderstanding. So there is no monster under the bed. It’s just the idea of a monster that terrifies us. Bill Gasiamis (32:55) we influenced in that way by external sources or is that a a human a human thing like that that we are kind of pre-programmed to do just because of that whole safety issue because you know safety comes in in a variety of different things. You know, you have to be safe from people entering your home, you know, back in the day and harming you and your family and taking your belongings. If you’re in a war torn area, you have to be safe from, you know, the invaders and that kind of stuff. But also this discussion that we’re having seems to me, as you keep going into those little beautiful deep places, it seems to me that Again, it’s about us creating like many barriers of safety around us and thinking that that’s the perhaps not even thinking like in just instinctively creating this kind of like multi layered safe structure that we can’t be harmed in. Jaemin (34:06) brilliant way of describing it. And that is the instinct. We are hardwired for safety. You cannot like this idea, more courage, less fear, feel the fear and do it anyway. It’s such a nonsense as though you could turn off your need for safety. Bill Gasiamis (34:20) Mm-hmm. Jaemin (34:21) It’s chemical, it’s biological, it’s psychological, it’s unconscious. And that as the child, the child starts in a very carefree, non-transactional experience of being themselves. I’m just here, not. doing the dishes and not mowing the lawn and not contributing to my ecosystem in any way, shape or form. And yet I’m being rewarded, loved, nurtured, cared for, praised, fed. Hmm, turns out it’s fine to be me. I can be relaxed and at ease being me, me as I am without performing, without achieving, without contributing is enough. Great. And then, then you, you know, you get somewhere past two, you know, somewhere around that the game breaks down. And all of a sudden you’re expected to participate, to perform, to conform, to behave. And no child’s prepared for that. No one’s ready for that. Such a surprise. And so the first time the child gets surprised, embarrassed, disappointed, upset, scolded, it’s such a confusing experience, but all the alarm, those safety warning lights are going off through their whole being. There’s a danger you didn’t know about. You. must pay attention and here’s the thing the danger is in you the danger is you’re not who you need to be to survive in this world so don’t be you ever again like be other than you be better than you be different than you do not ever show up present and unguarded ever again or it will turn to shit so yes it’s safe so then you build this safe world this safe persona these safe structures these familiar places where people think you’re good, think you’re smart, think you’re strong. Also, they never see the thing that you don’t want them to see, which would be the ultimate danger and then you die. Yeah, it’s entirely about a biological, chemical, psychological need for safety that is unavoidable. Bill Gasiamis (36:21) Hmm. It what came up in my mind while you were chatting about that is often stroke survivors need to make some radical changes in their life, the way they go about their nutrition, who they hang out with, the stuff they listen to and read, the whole the whole thing. Like, know, it’s sometimes it’s a line in the sand moment and everything changes, and you’ve got to change everything I did. And One of the challenges that stroke survivors have, well, I’ll talk about me. I had the challenge of, well, I needed to stop smoking and I needed to stop drinking. But all my extended family and friends were smokers and drinkers. And stroke survivors often comment about how they lose friends after a stroke. And we’re I and I’ve kind of tried to unravel that a few times and understand what it is that makes it difficult for people to evolve and and adapt and grow and stop the behaviors that perhaps led to a stroke, you know, so that they don’t have another one. And family and friends often do that. They kind of intervene in a way which says, Well, what do you mean we can’t have a drink when we go out? Like that’s we always go and have a drink. And then that person has has to explain themselves, perhaps, or conform again, just to be part of the group. The question is, are we also dealing with the insecurities of our family and friends when we find a way to overcome our own insecurities, perhaps, about something, and then we start to change and evolve and move forward? Are they are those people feeling like Transformational Journeys: Overcoming Obstacles They’re left behind. Th sometimes the sometimes the sentences that people hear when they try and stop smoking or drinking in a particular situation are you’ve changed. You know, like it’s a bad thing. But it’s not said in a positive way. People experience it on both sides of the coin in a negative way. The person who’s saying to their friend who’s had a stroke, who’s trying to not have another one, is saying, You’ve changed and I don’t like the way you’ve changed. And the person changing is hearing I’m changing and now people are having a bad experience because I’m changing. Like What’s all that about with that other person in our life? Jaemin (38:59) Such a great question. Can I, genuine question, can I take five minutes to answer that question? Bill Gasiamis (39:07) You can, absolutely. Jaemin (39:09) because I think this opens up a possibility for a window into a whole different experience of life if you’re willing to go down this thought experiment. Bill Gasiamis (39:23) I am. Let me switch my header off. It’s getting too hot in here. Jaemin (39:31) So I’ve just finished writing my first novel. It’s a five year project. I thought it was impossible. And then it out it wasn’t. It turns out I learned a lot about myself and the process of writing. And it’s been a thoroughly delightful experience. But great storytelling, great fiction writing typically follows some kind of hero’s journey trajectory. You’ve got a small, weak, lost, strange hero who for whatever reason says yes to a cold wood venture and embarks on a journey of self-discovery and eventually has to go do the thing that only they can do along the way they meet a wisdom character. You know, there’s a Gandalf, there’s a Yoda, there’s a Dumbledore, Mr. Miyagi, but eventually the hero’s got to go face the biggest fear and do the thing that’s impossible. And when they do, they come out the other side transformed and then they return home with that transformation and their whole world benefits. So, so it is the process of transformation. It’s the process of potential. It’s the process of destiny. It’s the process of seeing a person fulfilled in their experience of themselves. So a writer is bringing you in, in along for that journey. Now, if the writer transforms the hero magically or supernaturally, it’s a horrible story. You know, if the writer goes, you know, here’s the weak person. They went to sleep and they woke up the next day transformed. Who knows what happened. It was just, you’re like, really? What’s the point of that story? Like, that’s a horrible story. If the transformation happens in a way that’s supernatural or magic, it’s false. The transformation happens through overcoming of obstacles. The weakling becomes strong by overcoming resistance. And the resistance is almost always through the form of characters. So the writer says, stage, write the bully and to stage, write the villain, the parent, the trickster, the joker, the judge, the king, like, and so the hero doesn’t know the story is being written about them. And so experiences all these characters very personally and wishes the characters would go away. But the audience kind of sees the gift in the character, sees the opportunity. You know, when the audience sees a bully harassing a victim, what the audience is rooting for is that the victim would rise up and punch the bully in the nose. And something transformational happens if that victim ever does, you know, they actually then receive the bully’s gift. All along the bully had this gift of personal power delivered in the form of oppression. And because the victim had to find such deep strength that they didn’t even know existed to rise up and finally say this ends here, they’ll never be the victim again. And so in that way they’re transformed. So you could make a case to go, thanks, bully for being a good bully because you made my life so hard. I didn’t think it was possible to overcome you. Thank you. It’s not personal. So a writer then is not going to write an empathetic bully, you know, a very emotionally intelligent, compassionate, they’re going to write a thug. They’re going to write a dullard. They’re going to write someone who’s big and does not change. And even though the, the hero wants to bully the change. If the bully changes, if the bully goes to a spiritual retreat and comes home and change man and then apologizes and makes it up to the victim, it’s kind of nice, but the audience is going, but the victim didn’t have to become stronger in any way. So they’re still just as strong and the next bully is coming and they’re no better prepared. So all that to say, love, I love treating our own lives like this hero’s journey story. I love gamifying the experience. I love going. You know, this insecurity, a lot of people think if only I had a different experience at childhood, then I wouldn’t be so insecure now. If only there weren’t so many difficult people blocking my path, then it would be easier for me. Like, what, do you mean? Like that’s, that’s not the tragedy. That’s the setup. That’s how the game begins. Like that’s how the tensions created so that you have a gift of being able to overcome. So these people exist for you. And yes, they’re in your way. Great. Yes, they’re making it hard. Perfect. But we only play hard games. Like if you’re, you’re playing footy and it’s, you know, last year’s premieres versus the under 10s girls side and you win, you, that’s a very embarrassing experience. Like you don’t eat. That’s a horrible thing. You, know, this year’s premieres, you know, sorry, last year’s premieres versus the team that’s got undefeated this year and you win that game. You know, that’s, that’s a meaningful experience. and yeah, I love this idea that everyone comes into their twenties and thirties lost and confused. And most people are really upset about that. Wishing that their experience up till then had been different and feeling disqualified from a meaningful life because of what’s happened, because of who said this and who’s done that. But if you just zoom out and say it like a hero’s journey or a beautiful game, then then you realize, no, no, no, being lost and confused, oppressed, you know, that doesn’t disqualify you. That’s what qualifies you to go play. Now you can begin, now you can begin this journey of self-discovery to go all the way back to the beginning and see who you’ve always been all along. So it’s a very different way of thinking about life, but I’m constantly confronted with people who treat the stuff that’s happened to them as wounds. And the best you could ever hope for is that eventually you could bring healing to yourself and it become a visible scar that doesn’t really afflict you. Whereas this says, yeah, what if those things, what if life doesn’t happen to you? It happens for you. And the real gift is your own opportunity to rediscover who you’ve always been by overcoming obstacles and especially in the form of people and especially in the form of insecure people. who of course are going to make your journey difficult. Of course, you know, not everyone’s cheering you on. Eventually the heroes got to go alone. Eventually they’ve got to. If they don’t go alone, then they can’t do the thing that only they can do. The Hero’s Journey and Storytelling Bill Gasiamis (46:01) Yeah. Man, that was well well worth the f the the time that you allocated to answer it because it’s such an important part of recovery after anything. and In fact, I learnt about the Heroes Journey after my brain surgery. So we’re talking about I don’t know. I think I got out of hospital for after brain surgery in late 2014. And I think it was around 2017 I did a particular course that I was in. It was a behavioral modeling course and it was about modeling a behavior that we thought was one worth other people learning and repeating. And the The person who was running the course, awesome friend of mine and mentor and teacher, a gentleman called Marvin Oka, he spoke about the hero’s journey as part of this course to teach us about like how to tell a story. And I hadn’t grasped the concept very well. but because of that course, my first book was able to become a reality. It took four years for me to. make that happen. And I released it in twenty twenty twenty three, somewhere there. And since then I’ve done a bit of a deep dive into the hero’s journey and understanding how to take people through a story. And my next book is structured that way. There’s a moment where life is quote unquote normal and then there’s an event and then there’s everything, you know, there’s been a spanner thrown in the works and everything is not like it used to be. And now there is this post-traumatic growth experience that you can go on. And if you know you’re going on it, it’s easier to go on it. But some people are not aware that they might be going on this journey. They’re just programmed from a previous way of doing life that these things are all terrible and bad and they’re not good. And there’s no growth and there’s no learning and there’s no opportunity. But there but there is, but we just framed it. in our past way of thinking and that’s not applicable now, even though we’re still trying to apply it, apply it, apply it. And what you said about the the bully, I remember at school, if if I was a victim, bullies used to seek me out like like a mosquito knows who to go and sting, right? Jaemin (48:40) Yeah Bill Gasiamis (48:42) But then the first bully I punched in the nose was was it. That was the key to unlocking the whole how other people perceived me in those types of situations. And then none of the bullies turned up to have a go because they weren’t gonna get or or perhaps they saw that my response was going to affect their insecurities about themselves. Right. and realistically when I was going through stroke, stopping smoking, stopping drinking, stopping attending the particular venues where smoking and drinking happened so that I can avoid smoking and drinking. It meant that certain people couldn’t associate with me anymore. And It’s not that they were bullies, but when I learnt how to manage that situation once, the others that now I that I now interact with don’t require us to interact in a way that includes smoking and drinking in a particular venue. We can have just as meaningful interactions without the smoking and drinking, without being in that venue, just being in a different location. Doing a different thing. And and there’s no n and and no one feels bad about that interaction. I don’t feel about bad about it because I’m not partaking in something that the other person wants me to partake in. And the other person’s not feeling bad because they’re partaking in something that I’m not partaking in. And we’re there for the same reason. We’re there for the catch up. We’re not there for the smoking and the drinking. Jaemin (50:26) Yeah, and that’s often the way when you break through an archetypal character, a bully is a great example. It’s not uncommon that there becomes a level of respect, a mutual respect post that violence or post the standing up for yourself. And it’s not unheard of that bullies and victims become friends and respect each other. And so there Bill Gasiamis (50:50) Mm. Jaemin (50:50) must become a line in the sandwich like, whatever it costs me, If I, you know, the smoking drinking example, if you never talked to me ever again, if you cannot, then that will be okay. But I cannot go here ever again. And I won’t and you cannot make me and I won’t be made. And so there it is. Great. That your audience is watching that cheering. Yes, transformed. Never be victim again. And then on the other side of that, it’s often surprising what happens in those relationships. And it’s not uncommon for mutual respect, even though It’s not guaranteed and you have to be willing to let go of it completely. Because yeah, the hero’s got to go alone. Bill Gasiamis (51:33) we we’re talking about it like, you know, you know, we’re kinda having a a t a philosophical conversation, an intellectual conversation. We’re doing all of this stuff. And I remember being literally on the football pitch fighting with a kid, and then once we’d thrown the punches and everyone had done what they had to do in that moment, it was are we are we done? All good? And and it was. We were done. And we were all good. And it was instinctive. Like I wasn’t even ten years old or eleven years old or something. And yeah, then we got along forever. Understanding Bullies and Personal Growth Jaemin (52:08) A quicker side, but on the very same thread, if you keep thinking about characters like archetypes, do you know the hardest, but the most exciting, the most wonderful and the most, the biggest opportunity that the person in your life or the people in your life to treat as characters, not the bullies, any idea what makes the top of my list in terms of the characters with the biggest opportunity for growth. Bill Gasiamis (52:39) Just I’m kinda drawn to say family, my family, but Jaemin (52:42) family and parents make the top of the list. And I think Bill Gasiamis (52:46) Yeah, right. Jaemin (52:47) Sigmund Freud’s greatest contribution was that the nest is the hardest challenge for the human to break free from the nest is number one. And all this function ultimately comes from the nest, the familial relationships, exerting unconscious pressures from the parent of the child and the child with the parent outliving their usefulness. And so But in the same way, like no victim when they’re being bullied wants to see it like an archer, like wants to say it like a gift. They want to be rescued or they want the bully to change. It’s impossible to face a bully. Same with the parents. It’s like, don’t understand. This is my dad. You don’t understand. Like it’s just, you know, blood is thicker than water. You got to be there for family. Like it’s just how it’s Bill Gasiamis (53:30) Mm. Jaemin (53:30) always been. The way my parents make me feel like no one wants that tension. and would hope that the tension just goes away. But if you see it like a great story, it provides the greatest opportunity for your own sovereignty. You know, the bully’s gift is personal power. The parent’s gift is sovereignty. Because when you were born into their world, it’s like you’re born into a kingdom, king and queen on the throne, and it’s their arbitrary rules. In this world, this is how we do it. You don’t like it, bugger off down the street. But here, you know, do this, don’t do that. Why, dad? Don’t ask why, just do what I say. So the parental relationship, parents are right even when they’re wrong. And that’s a really important distinction for the nature of those relationships. And so you are a subject inside a kingdom, their rules, their map of the world, their right, even when they’re wrong. And it’s incredibly hard to break free from that to create your own map of the world and Bill Gasiamis (54:29) Mm. Jaemin (54:29) for you to be the king. But if you see it like a setup and a game, well then, Freud says, you must live as though your father is dead. You must depose the king. So Bill Gasiamis (54:42) Mm. Jaemin (54:42) if the king gets off the throne, if the king bows down to you, if the king goes, you your map of the world now is better than my map of the world, your way of thinking is better than my way of thinking, then there’s no challenge, there’s no resistance to overcome. So my favorite way of describing the role of the parents then is actually, It’s not to love and support and empower. They might do all that, but their central function in the hero’s journey is to confuse you about who you really are. Bill Gasiamis (55:12) Wow. Jaemin (55:13) so that the game can begin. Like everyone comes into their 20s lost and confused and the primary confuses our parents because they impose their map of the world. They have their own sense of who you are and what you ought to do. And it doesn’t suit a single person to be born into the family they’re born into. And yet here you are having to adapt and fit in to a pre-existing ecosystem with rules, values, culture, and then you’re given that name. So it’s like, You are this, this is who you are. It’s like, no, it’s just a bit of Bill Gasiamis (55:46) Wow. Jaemin (55:47) language like Jaemin Fra- I’m not Jaemin Fraser. What do you mean? Like, I was born into a family and those words were put on me. That’s not who I am. And so the confusion of growing up thinking that’s exactly who I am, this is the limit of my experience of life. And I cling to this as my whole certainty. is so wonderful because it’s the ultimate resistance to break out of, to examine the structure of that, to examine the confusion and really go back and reparent yourself and really be the one who actually knows who you’ve always been and to nurture that into the real world and then to become sovereign. And you know you’re sovereign when you become the one who’s right, even when they’re wrong. So you’ve got friends and family saying, what do you mean? It’s not. You need to be able to have a smoke. got to be able to drink. That’s what everyone does. Not in my kingdom, we don’t. In my kingdom, Bill Gasiamis (56:39) Mm. Jaemin (56:39) we don’t smoke and we don’t drink. You’re an idiot. That’s stupid. Well, I’m the king and this is my sovereignty. And if you want to come play in my world, this is how it works. And so, so many people are faced with those challenges. Then they keep pulling back from the edge because of their relational cost, hoping, wishing the world would go easier on them. But if you see it like a story in a game, it’s like, it’s a setup. It’s all a setup. So you could be the one who unconfuses yourself by having to overcome the relational resistance in your world and discover who you’ve always been. Bill Gasiamis (57:15) And we know it innately because we’ve all had that dad, mom, whomever, like I did what I had to do when I was in your house. Now this is my house. Now they this is how it applies. If you don’t Jaemin (57:26) Yeah. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (57:27) like it, you don’t like it. Like I’ve actually thrown my dad out of my house in my twenties, when we moved out because my wife and I got married and we had kids and whatever, and they’d come over and visit to see the grandkid. You know, my dad would do the whole over helicopter grandparenting, you know. You know, the kids cold or the kids this and the kids that, you know, we lived this with this kid twenty four hours a day, seven days a week for five, six years, you know, like we knew its needs, you know, my my son’s needs. And my dad just wouldn’t have it that we what we were saying wasn’t that we were saying was correct or was okay or was fine or whatever, you know, we were it was everythi

Most of the time, Thursday themes do something unexpected with the answers, but occasionally the twist involves the clues. Hoang-Kim Vu has provided a sparkling example today, and apart from our Yoda reference in the title, we'll provide no spoilers here, but fear not — we will take a deep dive into that theme, and of course take a gander at the rest of the grid, in today's podcast.Show note imagery: Some MIT Mystery Hunt contestants, ready to start SherlockingWe love feedback! Send us a text...Contact Info:We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com.Also, we're on FaceBook, so feel free to drop by there and strike up a conversation!

Winston A. Marshall and Kris Carr are taking over The Kristian Harloff Show today to break down the biggest movie and TV news from Star Wars, Marvel, X-Men, The Odyssey, and more! Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey continues its historic box office run and has now become the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time. Winston and Kris discuss the incredible success of Nolan's epic, why audiences have turned out in such massive numbers, and what The Odyssey's performance could mean for the future of big-budget theatrical filmmaking. Plus, could Obi-Wan Kenobi Season 2 actually happen? Ewan McGregor reveals that he pitched a story involving Obi-Wan and Yoda to Dave Filoni. What could bring these two iconic Jedi together, and is another Obi-Wan adventure something Star Wars fans actually want to see? Marvel is also making headlines as new details emerge about the future of Marvel Television and the MCU's movie strategy. With the enormous success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, could Marvel's theatrical future become increasingly centered around Spider-Man and his corner of the MCU? Today's show has plenty to discuss as The Odyssey makes box office history, Ewan McGregor continues pushing for more Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Marvel's post-Doomsday future begins to take shape. Winston and Kris also dive into Marvel Studios' new X-Men, including Inde Navarrette's commitment to playing Rogue, and the highly anticipated Ghost Rider reboot starring Ryan Gosling. If you're a fan of The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan, Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Marvel Studios, Spider-Man, X-Men, Rogue, Ghost Rider, Ryan Gosling, or the latest movie news, join Winston A. Marshall and Kris Carr for today's episode! #TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #ObiWanKenobi #StarWars #Yoda #EwanMcGregor #Marvel #MarvelStudios #MCU #SpiderMan #XMen #Rogue #GhostRider #RyanGosling #KrisCarr #WinstonMarshall #KristianHarloffShow #MovieNews SPONSOR: CASHAPP: Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/76rlxe00 #CashAppPod   • Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement, for the Sutton debit flex card at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/debit-flex-card-agreement-sutton and for the Bancorp debit flex card at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/debit-flex-card-agreement-bancorp. Savings and Offers provided by Cash App, a Block Inc. brand. Offers may not be affiliated with third party merchants.  • Parents and legal guardians can open a managed account for kids 6-12.  • Cash App will pass through a portion of the interest paid on your savings balance held in an account for the benefit of Cash App customers at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Member FDIC. To earn interest on your Cash App savings balance, you need to have sponsor approval. Exceptions may apply. Savings yield rate is subject to change. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures.

It is possible that the two yutes... In a world where one man has only seen 30 or so movies comes a desire to learn from a master. A master of film. A master of cinema. A master who has led such a sad life.  Logan seeks the knowledge and he turns to his own personal “Yoda”; Keithie. Join Logan & Keithie on a wild adventure to discover as we watch along with a new movie each episode in THE MOVIE EDUCATION OF LOGAN CROSLAND. This episode, Logan, Keithie & Tim watch one of the favorites in the Langston Household, My Cousin Vinny The guys talk Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Fred Gwynne and Temu Jay O Sanders. Logan also enjoys Judge Chamberlain Haller's facial expressions the whole time and also, the career change that Coach Reilly has and we find out if a 1964 Buick Skylark has positraction. Hey, Stan, you're in Ala-fuckin'-bama. You come from New York. You killed a good ol' boy. There is no way this is not going to trial!

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On this episode, Dominic, Ben, and Joel break down the new animated series Star Wars Visions Presents: The Ninth Jedi in both spoiler-free and spoiler-full terms. They share their thoughts on Kara's journey, Nawaam as a villain, and this unique vision of the Star Wars galaxy. But first, they react to Anakin's new costume in Ahsoka season two (as seen at D23 Expo) and speculate about his role in the upcoming episodes. And later Ben regales us with stories from Rebel Scum Con, including the "Rolling of the Rottas." Plus, what does redemption really mean, what elements from The Ninth Jedi should be incorporated into "main" Star Wars stories, and what did Yoda really mean when he said the dark side will forever dominate your destiny? All this and much more! THE NINTH JEDI SPOILER DISCUSSION FROM: 42:13 to 1:53:34 New episodes streaming LIVE every Thursday night at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT! Find All Our Links Here! Producers: Ben Hart & Dominic Jones Thumbnail Art: Martin Ingleston Production Services Provided By CultureSlate

On this episode, Dominic, Ben, and Joel break down the new animated series Star Wars Visions Presents: The Ninth Jedi in both spoiler-free and spoiler-full terms. They share their thoughts on Kara's journey, Nawaam as a villain, and this unique vision of the Star Wars galaxy. But first, they react to Anakin's new costume in Ahsoka season two (as seen at D23 Expo) and speculate about his role in the upcoming episodes. And later Ben regales us with stories from Rebel Scum Con, including the “Rolling of the Rottas.” Plus, what does redemption really mean, what elements from The Ninth Jedi should be incorporated into “main” Star Wars stories, and what did Yoda really mean when he said the dark side will forever dominate your destiny? All this and much more!THE NINTH JEDI SPOILER DISCUSSION FROM: 41:45 to 1:53:45

In this episode, you will learn more about Dutch word order and discover some simple patterns that you can use immediately when speaking Dutch. We will look at why Dutch sentences can sometimes sound a little bit like Yoda from Star Wars and how you can build more natural Dutch sentences. At the end of the episode, you will also learn more about my new e-learning course about Dutch word order. You can join the waiting list now and receive 20% discount when the course launches.Join the waitinglist here!You can find the transcript here: ⁠https://easydutchonline.com/episodes/podcast-Afl-71Support me: ⁠buy me a coffee⁠Email me: info@easydutchonline.comSubscribe to my monthly newsletter with free materials here.

Take a ride with Hard Choices to a galaxy far, far away as we revisit the Star Wars films from the 70's through the most recent installments in the Skywalker Saga. Join Annie Craton, Dan Mulkerin, James D'Amato, and MeganBob as they discover just how Force sensitive they are when it comes to fucking their way through the likes of Yoda, Luke, Leia, Darth Vader, and more! Is Sheev Palpatine going to fuck you himself or does he have a guy for that? Is Jar Jar Binks a secret dark horse? Is Obi-Wan Kenobi the saddest peepums there is? All these questions and more will be addressed in an episode that will definitely leave you feeling differently about the media franchise that has shaped pop culture maybe more than any other. So, pour yourself a tall glass of blue milk, hit download, and enjoy something that Disney and George Lucas would definitely be upset about if they ever found out! Hard Choices on Patreon Instagram: hardchoicespod Twitter: @hardchoicespod Bluesky: @hardchoicespodcast.bsky.social Producer: Nue @nuegameplus.bsky.social Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/funk-me License code: PY3X4XBA59ZDUAVZ https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/funky-junk License code: KIXMIV9S2VDVUHLW https://uppbeat.io/t/hey-pluto/the-gentleman License code: UWXG3BXPCASTYIHY https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/lets-get-it License code: MGTNINNDEXYJBAZQ https://uppbeat.io/t/hey-pluto/high-life License code: GE9B1XIV9R1VKMML https://uppbeat.io/t/doug-organ/boogie-time License code: QOVELAYOE1SDZQ4Y https://uppbeat.io/t/hey-pluto/the-brighton-bop License code: VWDJ4C60GOAIPACW https://uppbeat.io/t/jonny-boyle/jazzed License code: AVN7XPXUBHDBHFAM https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/wake-me-up License code: SPHCZLRSPZNRUK7R https://uppbeat.io/t/walz/redcar-jazz License code: A0MVEEBKYDDJ0EQY https://uppbeat.io/t/sonda/rock-it License code: QFNICKIQJYO3DCZO

https://teachhoops.com/ If you look at the landscape of modern coaching development, you will see a massive sea of isolation. Head coaches spend late nights sitting in empty gym offices, staring at raw tape, trying to solve complex spatial spacing leaks, assistant staff alignment issues, and parent boundary friction entirely on their own. They download random drills off social media, try to force-feed them into a 120-minute practice script on Tuesday afternoon, and then wonder why their team's execution feels clunky, robotic, and disconnected when Friday night arrives. In a level 4 transformational program, you do not coach in a vacuum. True program builders don't rely on guesswork—they rely on a structured laboratory, direct mentorship, and a collaborative ecosystem designed to audit every square inch of their operational blueprint. In this episode of Coach Unplugged, recorded live at 5th Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin, Coach Collins pulls back the curtain on two of the highest-leverage assets available inside TeachHoops.com: our weekly live Office Hours and the interactive TeachHoops Discussion Forums. Discover how jumping into a direct socratic round-table with masterclass coaches will help you clean up your practice Activity Density, optimize your team's game-night Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$), and transition your culture out of coach-fed compliance and into an unshakeable, player-led powerhouse. When you plug your program into a live collaborative network, you replace trial-and-error with high-signal, diagnostic clarity: The Blueprint: Office Hours isn't a passive webinar where you sit back and listen to a two-hour lecture. It is a live, high-signal consulting session. You bring your actual tape, your specific practice scripts, and your exact roster bottlenecks directly to the table. The Diagnostic: Whether you are wrestling with how to corrupt a static shooting drill into a live closeout reader, or trying to deploy your staff lenses—balancing The Organizer, The Yoda, and The Antagonist—we break down the problem on the spot. We deliver rapid, 60-second "drive-by" solutions that you can implement in your gym tomorrow afternoon. The Blueprint: The TeachHoops community forum serves as your program's 24/7 research and development wing. When you encounter a toxic parent boundary breach, a shifting upperclassman who has lost their Next Play Speed, or a complex defensive trapping shell like a 1-3-1 or Match-Up Zone that isn't rotating cleanly, you post the scenario. The Return: Within hours, veteran program builders step up to share tested frameworks, socratic constraint layouts, and exact communication scripts. You leave with an immediate blueprint designed to protect your program's Standard of Tolerance. We don't audit practice scripts during Office Hours just to make your dry-erase board look pretty. We put every single offensive entry, small-sided game ($SSG$), and spatial spacing track through a strict mathematical filter to maximize your team's Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$): When you bring your game data into the TeachHoops discussion, we analyze your shot selection geometry, identify high-volume Multi-Ball rep density fixes, and ensure your daily practice architecture is directly driving high-efficiency scoring through the exhaust. Coach's Note: "The loneliest place in sports is trying to figure out every single piece of the coaching puzzle by yourself. If you are serious about winning more, stressing less, and building a program you are genuinely proud of, you need to get out of your own head and step into the room with coaches who have walked the path. Join us for Office Hours, jump into the TeachHoops discussions, bring your actual problems, and let's build a masterclass standard together. Stop guessing—start building." Title Ideas: Stop Coaching in Isolation! (How TeachHoops Office Hours Fixes Your Program) How to Audit Your Basketball Practice Plan with Live Coaching Mentorship Inside the TeachHoops Laboratory: Solving Culture & Tactical Leaks Fast Why the Best Basketball Coaches Use Mastermind Groups to Win More Games Primary Keywords: Teachhoops.com discussion, Coach Collins office hours, basketball coaching mentorship, TeachHoops, basketball program consulting, high school basketball practice design audit, standard of tolerance. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, next play speed resilience, own the room coaching language, rep density basketball drills, coaching staff lenses, socratic coaching constraints, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, player-led team autonomy. Description Snippet: "Are you tired of sitting in an empty gym office late at night trying to solve all your team's spacing, culture, and practice bottlenecks by yourself? In this podcast episode, Coach Collins breaks down the massive, game-changing value of TeachHoops.com live Office Hours and community discussions. Discover how direct mentorship, socratic drill audits, and collaborative problem-solving can help you clean up your practice activity density and build an elite, player-led powerhouse." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #CoachingMentorship #ProgramBuilding #PracticeDesign #TeamCulture #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball Are you looking to jump into our next live Office Hours session this July to help refine your off-season summer tournament film filters, or are you preparing a topic for the TeachHoops discussion forums to help restructure your assistant coaching workflows before official fall onboarding begins? Show NotesThe Developmental Pipeline: Isolated Guessing vs. The TeachHoops Lab [ISOLATED GUESSING] ──► Random Internet Drills ──► Low Rep Density ──► Robotic Compliance [TEACHHOOPS LAB] ──► Office Hours Audit ──► Socratic SSGs ──► Player-Led Autonomy 1. Live Office Hours: The Weekly "Truth Room"2. The Discussion Community: Real-Time Socratic FeedbackThe Analytical Target: Optimizing $eFG%$ Through Collaborative Strategy$$eFG% = frac{text{FGM} + (0.5 times text{3PM})}{text{FGA}}$$The Program Audit: The Isolated Coach vs. The Connected ArchitectProgram WorkflowThe Isolated Coach (Level 2 Leak)The Connected Architect (Level 4 Standard)Problem SolvingGuessing in an empty office; copying viral drillsLive diagnostic audits during weekly Office HoursPractice DesignLine bottlenecks; low Activity Density; long lecturesMulti-Ball architectures; socratic SSG constraintsStaff AlignmentAssistant coaches acting like quiet baseline spectatorsStaff deployed through distinct organizational lensesCulture ExecutionCoach-Fed micro-management; joystick callsPlayer-Led autonomy; athletes owning the roomYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Can lightsabers work like mood rings for your soul? Matthew Fox and Erin McGowan get listeners ready for "Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi," the new eight episode series expanding two existing Visions shorts about a girl named Kara, her captured father, and lightsabers that change color depending on who's holding them. They break down both shorts scene by scene, plus read written thoughts from absent co-host Alex Kormann.Erin makes the case that these lightsabers track a person's pull toward the dark side almost in real time, while Matthew connects the droid Teto's advice about admitting failure to Yoda's line from "The Last Jedi." They also debate how much a story needs to fit official canon to still feel like real Star Wars, and end with a theory about who else from the galaxy's past might turn up a thousand years later.Full show notes and resources**************************************************************************This episode is a production of Star Wars Generations, an Ethical Panda podcast and part of the TruStory FM Entertainment Podcast Network. Check out our website to find out more about this show and our sister podcast Superhero Ethics.We want to hear from you! Keep up with our latest news and send us feedback, questions, or comments via social media or email.TikTok · Twitter/X · Instagram · Facebook · EmailTo learn more about co-host Erin and her incredible cosplay: Instagram · TikTokJoin the conversation in the Star Wars Generations and Superhero Ethics channels on the TruStory FM Discord.Want even more content while supporting the podcast? Become a member! For $5 a month or $55 a year you get access to bonus episodes and bonus content at the end of most episodes — and you can even give membership as a gift. Sign up here.You can also support us through our sponsors:Purchase a lightsaber from Level Up Sabers, run by friend of the podcast Neighborhood Master Alan.Use Audible for audiobooks. Sign up for a one-year membership or gift one through this link.Purchase any media discussed this week through our sponsored links.

https://teachhoops.com/ If you look at the landscape of modern coaching development, you will see a massive sea of isolation. Head coaches spend late nights sitting in empty gym offices, staring at raw tape, trying to solve complex spatial spacing leaks, assistant staff alignment issues, and parent boundary friction entirely on their own. They download random drills off social media, try to force-feed them into a 120-minute practice script on Tuesday afternoon, and then wonder why their team's execution feels clunky, robotic, and disconnected when Friday night arrives. In a level 4 transformational program, you do not coach in a vacuum. True program builders don't rely on guesswork—they rely on a structured laboratory, direct mentorship, and a collaborative ecosystem designed to audit every square inch of their operational blueprint. In this episode of Coach Unplugged, recorded live at 5th Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin, Coach Collins pulls back the curtain on two of the highest-leverage assets available inside TeachHoops.com: our weekly live Office Hours and the interactive TeachHoops Discussion Forums. Discover how jumping into a direct socratic round-table with masterclass coaches will help you clean up your practice Activity Density, optimize your team's game-night Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$), and transition your culture out of coach-fed compliance and into an unshakeable, player-led powerhouse. When you plug your program into a live collaborative network, you replace trial-and-error with high-signal, diagnostic clarity: The Blueprint: Office Hours isn't a passive webinar where you sit back and listen to a two-hour lecture. It is a live, high-signal consulting session. You bring your actual tape, your specific practice scripts, and your exact roster bottlenecks directly to the table. The Diagnostic: Whether you are wrestling with how to corrupt a static shooting drill into a live closeout reader, or trying to deploy your staff lenses—balancing The Organizer, The Yoda, and The Antagonist—we break down the problem on the spot. We deliver rapid, 60-second "drive-by" solutions that you can implement in your gym tomorrow afternoon. The Blueprint: The TeachHoops community forum serves as your program's 24/7 research and development wing. When you encounter a toxic parent boundary breach, a shifting upperclassman who has lost their Next Play Speed, or a complex defensive trapping shell like a 1-3-1 or Match-Up Zone that isn't rotating cleanly, you post the scenario. The Return: Within hours, veteran program builders step up to share tested frameworks, socratic constraint layouts, and exact communication scripts. You leave with an immediate blueprint designed to protect your program's Standard of Tolerance. We don't audit practice scripts during Office Hours just to make your dry-erase board look pretty. We put every single offensive entry, small-sided game ($SSG$), and spatial spacing track through a strict mathematical filter to maximize your team's Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$): When you bring your game data into the TeachHoops discussion, we analyze your shot selection geometry, identify high-volume Multi-Ball rep density fixes, and ensure your daily practice architecture is directly driving high-efficiency scoring through the exhaust. Coach's Note: "The loneliest place in sports is trying to figure out every single piece of the coaching puzzle by yourself. If you are serious about winning more, stressing less, and building a program you are genuinely proud of, you need to get out of your own head and step into the room with coaches who have walked the path. Join us for Office Hours, jump into the TeachHoops discussions, bring your actual problems, and let's build a masterclass standard together. Stop guessing—start building." Title Ideas: Stop Coaching in Isolation! (How TeachHoops Office Hours Fixes Your Program) How to Audit Your Basketball Practice Plan with Live Coaching Mentorship Inside the TeachHoops Laboratory: Solving Culture & Tactical Leaks Fast Why the Best Basketball Coaches Use Mastermind Groups to Win More Games Primary Keywords: Teachhoops.com discussion, Coach Collins office hours, basketball coaching mentorship, TeachHoops, basketball program consulting, high school basketball practice design audit, standard of tolerance. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, next play speed resilience, own the room coaching language, rep density basketball drills, coaching staff lenses, socratic coaching constraints, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, player-led team autonomy. Description Snippet: "Are you tired of sitting in an empty gym office late at night trying to solve all your team's spacing, culture, and practice bottlenecks by yourself? In this podcast episode, Coach Collins breaks down the massive, game-changing value of TeachHoops.com live Office Hours and community discussions. Discover how direct mentorship, socratic drill audits, and collaborative problem-solving can help you clean up your practice activity density and build an elite, player-led powerhouse." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #CoachingMentorship #ProgramBuilding #PracticeDesign #TeamCulture #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball Are you looking to jump into our next live Office Hours session this July to help refine your off-season summer tournament film filters, or are you preparing a topic for the TeachHoops discussion forums to help restructure your assistant coaching workflows before official fall onboarding begins? Show NotesThe Developmental Pipeline: Isolated Guessing vs. The TeachHoops Lab [ISOLATED GUESSING] ──► Random Internet Drills ──► Low Rep Density ──► Robotic Compliance [TEACHHOOPS LAB] ──► Office Hours Audit ──► Socratic SSGs ──► Player-Led Autonomy 1. Live Office Hours: The Weekly "Truth Room"2. The Discussion Community: Real-Time Socratic FeedbackThe Analytical Target: Optimizing $eFG%$ Through Collaborative Strategy$$eFG% = frac{text{FGM} + (0.5 times text{3PM})}{text{FGA}}$$The Program Audit: The Isolated Coach vs. The Connected ArchitectProgram WorkflowThe Isolated Coach (Level 2 Leak)The Connected Architect (Level 4 Standard)Problem SolvingGuessing in an empty office; copying viral drillsLive diagnostic audits during weekly Office HoursPractice DesignLine bottlenecks; low Activity Density; long lecturesMulti-Ball architectures; socratic SSG constraintsStaff AlignmentAssistant coaches acting like quiet baseline spectatorsStaff deployed through distinct organizational lensesCulture ExecutionCoach-Fed micro-management; joystick callsPlayer-Led autonomy; athletes owning the roomYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Space travel along in order to explore the iconic moments that have defined the Star Wars saga, from legendary battles to character, revelations, and understand why the scenes resonate deeply with fans worldwide. Ranking iconic Star Wars moments: A deep dive! Star Wars has captivated audiences for decades, creating iconic moments that resonate with fans worldwide. In this episode, Kennedy, Rizzo & Cooper Lee ranked some of the most memorable Top 10 scenes from the franchise, exploring their impact on pop culture and storytelling. Whether you are a long time fan, or new to the galaxy far, far away, these moments shaped the saga and left a lasting impression.Key Topics: Iconic Star Wars scenes and their significance; character growth, and legendary moments; behind the scenes insights into famous scenes. Takeaways: Certain scenes like the Mas Easley cantina and Yoda lifting the XWing defined the franchise legacy; character development, exemplified by Han Solo's “I know”, and Obi Wan's duel from within again, is central to Star Wars' storytelling; iconic moments often carry deeper symbolism, such as the red lava duel, representing Anakin's fall; the important of Hope and resilience is a reoccurring theme that resonates all throughout the saga; understanding the context of scenes like Order 66 in Rogue One, enhances appreciation of the stories depth.Conclusion: These moments are more than just scenes. They are the heart of what makes a Star Wars resonate with fans around the world! Each scene not only drives the narrative, but also imparts valuable lessons about friendship, sacrifice, and hope. The impact of these iconic moments continues to save the Star Wars universe, ensuring its legacy for generations to come!If you like what we do in the way of caramelicious nostalgia, drop by and show us some support at Buy Me a Coffee dot com… (go to link below), we so appreciate you! Thanks a latte!!

In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss the flaws behind AI detection tools and how creators can protect their reputation while using generative writing assistants. You’ll discover why these detection tools misread human writing and how to stop false accusations from damaging your reputation. You’ll learn simple steps to preserve original drafts and voice recordings as undeniable proof of your authorship. You’ll explore ethical disclosure practices that build trust with your audience while keeping your creative process transparent. You’ll gain confidence in navigating AI ethics so you can create content without fear of unfair judgment. 00:00 – Introduction 02:15 – The AI detector dilemma 06:40 – Katie shares her newsletter workflow 11:20 – Why detection tools consistently fail 16:50 – Protecting your authorship with proof 21:30 – Navigating ethical AI disclosure 26:45 – Call to action Watch the video here: Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-the-problems-with-ai-detectors.mp3 Download the MP3 audio here. Need help with your company’s data and analytics? Let us know! Join our free Slack group for marketers interested in analytics! [podcastsponsor] Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode. Christopher S. Penn: In this week’s In Ear Insights, let’s talk about AI detectors, one of my personal favorite subjects to rant about. But Katie, before I foam at the mouth for 30 minutes, let’s have you foam at the mouth about it. Katie Robbert: It’s such an interesting topic and obviously very polarizing right now. AI detectors in a nutshell are meant to help someone determine whether or not AI was used in any kind of writing. Now our good friend Anne Hanley pointed out, oh sure. So these AI detectors that were trained on human authors’ writings without their consent are now meant to tell these people that they didn’t write the things that the model was trained on. I’m paraphrasing, but it was basically that was the gist. And last week when we published the weekly Inbox Insights newsletter, we had a reader provide some very unpleasant feedback. This reader felt, in their opinion, that they had determined that the post I had written about “if you don’t know what AI can do, just ask it” was completely written by AI and that I should be fired. That I was lying about the use of AI in terms of it wrote it for me, that it was AI slop, that this person was going to write their own blog post about how I, the CEO of a company called Trust Insights, can’t be trusted. So that was the feedback this person had for my contribution to the newsletter last week. This week, if you subscribe to Inbox Insights, I fully disclose my use of AI in writing the newsletter and writing in general. I’m going to give you a spoiler because there’s no secret. I write the newsletter myself. I then use various AI tools to hopefully clean it up. Because the feedback I got when I was in college in my creative writing class is that I write the way that I talk. And it’s kind of a stream of consciousness. Now, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten a little bit more concise and articulate, but that doesn’t mean my writing has. And so it still kind of comes out as a stream of consciousness, which I think for any writer that’s doing draft one is you just get it out. It’s why it’s called the ugly first draft, and then some people… I used to have John, our head of business development and our partner, read through and edit my posts for me. This was prior to having tools like Hemingway or AI editors. I had a human editing it. Now John’s busy making sales. He’s still happy to edit my posts, but it’s not the best use of his time. And so now I use a tool called Hemingway, which a lot of people use. Hemingway has a lot of really great features for grammar and sentence structure. I’m not trained, and I don’t have a degree in writing or English. My grammar is really bad sometimes. Sometimes I overuse passive voice. Sometimes my sentences aren’t structured well. It’s helpful to have a tool that can clean up the thing without losing the intent and sentiment of the writing. I also use our Ask the ICP skills in our cloud environment to make sure that the post that I’m writing resonates with our audience. Because if it doesn’t, why am I writing it? So I use those various tools. So the point of the newsletter this week that I dive into is, yes, I use AI to supplement and clean up my writing. No, AI does not write for me. I’ve got 10 fingers, one with a bandage, so it goes a little slower. And I type with my thumbs, typing very slowly. So sometimes I use an audio recording of me speaking something. Chris, this is something you do. But, yes, I painfully type all of my newsletters very slowly. And then AI helps me clean them up to be more concise. I don’t think that’s an uncommon practice, especially among people. This is true of, I think, Ann even posted in her newsletter this past week. Christopher S. Penn: Week. Katie Robbert: Total anarchy if you’re not subscribed. How she uses AI with her writing as well. And she said she gives it explicit instructions: read through it, review it, don’t edit anything, tell me what the edits are supposed to be. So she’s also someone who we know and love, who is a very fantastic writer, finding ways to use these tools to help enhance the writing. It can be cost prohibitive to have a human editor on your team. You may not have access to a copywriter, or you may not have a team of people who are really great at editing. There’s a lot of… So AI can fill that role for you. I’ll say it like this: I wrote the newsletter. AI helped me edit it, so it was coherent. So unfortunately for this reader, I will not be firing myself. I would appreciate you not trying to destroy my credibility, but should you choose to do so, we will deal with it at that time. Christopher S. Penn: I’m surprised you didn’t bring this up because this is the heart of the matter to me. If we think about these AI detectors, why are you using them? Why do you care? What is the purpose of an AI detector by the 5P Framework by Trust Insights? Of course. Katie Robbert: Well, the five P’s are in this week’s newsletter, so you can certainly get your healthy dose of the 5P Framework by Trust Insights. But you’re absolutely right, Chris, and that’s a miss on my part because I am human and not a sentient machine. I missed the mark on calling out that the 5P Framework by Trust Insights is a great place to start. Why are you using these AI tools? So, for me, my purpose is to edit the grammar and spelling of my content so that it’s coherent. I’m also checking with our ICP to make sure it resonates with the people I’m writing it for. But our ICP is the people part of it that really matters, because I’m not writing it for myself. I’m writing from my experience and my expertise, but I’m writing it for… For our ICP so that they get something educational out of it. I outlined my process in this week’s newsletter of how and when I use the tools and platforms. It depends. I might write it in a document, I might create an audio file, and then I’ll bring it into the large language model. I might use Hemingway. I definitely use the skills that we’ve created. And then the performance is, do I have a piece of content that I wrote and AI helped me edit that gets people to respond to the newsletter? Christopher S. Penn: It is the 5P Framework. From the perspective of the people who are using or advocating for AI detectors, what is their purpose? Because this is where I have the biggest problem I see. Yeah, no, no. From the AI detector perspective, what is your purpose in the case of this particular reader? Is your purpose just that you have a burr up your ass and you need to yell at somebody? Like, okay, you don’t need an AI detector for that. You can be a jackass. Regardless, in the case of its use in academia, the purpose is very often for academic integrity, which makes these tools very dangerous because of their false positive rate. Pangram, which is the tool that Substack most famously just implemented, has a false positive rate of 0.02 percent. If you fed every college student’s papers in America to it and said, run disciplinary proceedings, you would flag 200,000 students a year with false accusations. In the corporate world, if you’re using these tools to enforce contracts, again, that false positive rate—particularly for business-related content, which is what a lot of these tools have been trained on—is going to have a fairly high false positive rate. So the first thing people need to be very clear about is why are you using an AI detector? And is your purpose a good use of the technology? Spoiler, there really isn’t a great use of the technology for AI detection. And we’ll talk about why the technology itself is so flawed on this week’s live stream, which you can tune into Thursdays at 1 PM Eastern Time at TrustInsights.ai YouTube. But going back to the 5P Framework by Trust Insights, my biggest issue with these tools is that very often the purpose people are using them for is deeply flawed. Katie Robbert: And that, you can sort of generalize and say that, well, people don’t want AI-written content. They want content written by a human. So you could say that’s the purpose. So if this particular reader decided, I don’t want AI-written content, but this content is written by AI, this particular reader could have just moved along. But they decided to try and pick a fight. By the way, screenshots last forever. And it was a very unprofessional feedback session from this person, just as an FYI. And you know, if this person decided, okay, I feel like this is written by AI, let me put it through the detector and determine if this is written by AI. They could have just said, you know what? I don’t care for this. I don’t want this. Christopher S. Penn: Yeah, that’s what I always come back to is like, if you don’t want this, great, here’s the door. It’s like if people complain, oh, well, you didn’t write this fiction novel the way I wanted, well, then write your own damn novel. Right? No one’s stopping you from writing the novel you want to read. If you didn’t like the way I did it, go write your own and you’ll probably use AI to do it. This was the rather harsh commentary I had about Substack. Things like, we don’t really care if it’s human-written or AI-written. We care if it’s worth reading, right? If you’re publishing something that’s worth reading, there’s one Substack I subscribe to that is 100 percent AI-written. No editing passes. It is 100 percent Claude. You know it’s Claude because of Claude’s particular mechanisms. And I don’t care because the information is genuinely useful. I read it and go, I learned something. I don’t care who wrote it. I learned something. Katie Robbert: But that’s you and I, and I don’t disagree. People should be looking at it from that lens. But a lot of the general population is still stuck in the, AI is bad. It’s very black and white. Humans are good, AI is bad, don’t give me AI-written content. And so that’s still the challenge that we’re trying to overcome in the conversation that we’re trying to change. And so if their purpose is, was it written by AI, yes or no, then that’s what we have to work with, because that’s their purpose, not ours. Our opinion of their purpose is very similar to this reader’s opinion of my use of AI. As the old saying goes, opinions are like… well, you can fill in the blanks if, I won’t say it on the podcast. It’s very rude. But the point being is that you do need to figure out why you care if it was written by AI or not. And then you can go ahead and determine, was it high quality? Did I learn something? Was it useful? And then go back to the purpose, like, does it matter if it was written by AI? Now it brings up the bigger conversation, which Chris and I have talked about: AI disclosures and why those are important. And so in your newsletter, you do a very good job every week of disclosing. Here’s how much of this is AI. Here’s how I used AI. And I want to say thank you to the person who called me out because it reminded me this is a good opportunity to start doing my own AI disclosures so that hopefully we don’t continue to find ourselves in the situation of being called names. Christopher S. Penn: And so you cannot rely on them. I will give you a very solid example this week in my personal newsletter. I said, It’s 90 percent written by human. There’s 10 percent written by Claude. And I mark the section: This is what Claude said. And then just for giggles, I put it through the detector. And it said, Congratulations, it’s 100 percent human. I’m like, well, you clearly missed the part where I labeled it this is AI. So anyway, just more ranting about the tooling. The disclosures are important. And I do understand from some perspectives. There are some folks who correctly say they have problems with the ethics of AI companies or the environmental impact of AI. Totally get that, totally fair, completely reasonable. But again, it goes back to what you were saying, which is if we label it—which we all, everyone should be doing—and you are still mad, go read something that isn’t. There is an infinite amount of content out there that’s video or audio. Where I do have a problem and I think is very relevant to the conversation on the topic of AI detection is when it is not labeled or when it is intended to deceive. There is no shortage, for example right now on Instagram and TikTok, of various politicians making faked videos and photos. And thankfully they’re not doing it very well. But, okay, clearly that’s not a… that doesn’t work. But they are. The intent is to deceive. So if we go back to the 5P Framework by Trust Insights, their purpose is deception, right? And therein lies one of the valid reasons to want to use AI detectors to say, is this entity or person attempting to deceive me? Katie Robbert: I’m going to be, I’m going to challenge you on that for a second. Okay, so let’s say I’m a politician and I’m going to use AI. I can almost guarantee I’m not going to state that my purpose is deception. I’m going to state that my purpose is engagement, my purpose is attention. My purpose is oh gosh, anything probably except deception. So it’s interesting because like we can say as an outside observer, well, they’re trying to deceive us. They’re going to say with that lack of self-awareness, this is the way that I saw this thing happen. So, you know, I’m using the tools to reenact it or recreate the way that I see this. So it’s really an educational tool or whatever. So I do feel like it’s interesting that we’re saying their purpose is deception. They’re saying, no, that was never my purpose. Why would I ever want to deceive you? I’m totally honest. I’m showing you what’s possible. I’m showing you the way that I see things. Christopher S. Penn: And this gets us into the extremely deep and sticky morass known as AI ethics, which is again going back to the 5P Framework by Trust Insights. What is the purpose and is the purpose that you think you have aligned with the audience and the goals you’re trying to achieve? Because yes, attention can be a goal, but what’s the purpose behind that attention? Is it to garner more votes? Is it to beat the social media algorithms that are gatekeeping various viewpoints? What is the purpose of creating something that you know is not real? Katie Robbert: You are giving these fictional politicians a lot of credit for that deep thinking and self-awareness, but it does. You brought up AI ethics and Inbox Insights in the same issue this week coming up, where I talk about my process for using AI tools in my writing. You conclude a four-part series on responsible AI using our RAFT framework, and part four being transparency, which is really timely for what we’re talking about. One of the things that you bring up in that four-part series, and it’s brought up in a few of the different issues, is so companies whose mission statement is, and I’m paraphrasing—I apologize, Chris—something along the lines of companies who state out that they’re going to do bad things and they also are doing them, are technically following their own code of ethics. And so it’s the “do as I say, not as I do” or no, it’s the “here’s what: you do what you say and you say what you do, right?” So they do that. So therefore they are following a code of ethics. And that’s where, again, it gets really tricky. But I want to bring that up. Because responsible AI is not black and white. Ethics is not black and white. Christopher S. Penn: So no, and the reason for that is because ethics and morals are often conflated. They are different; they are completely different philosophical disciplines. But in the utilitarian ethics that a lot of the business world works on, “I do what I say and I say what I do” are essentially sort of the heart of that. So going back to the purpose of things like AI detectors, if you say this is real and it’s fake, that is unethical. If you say this is fake and it’s fake, that is ethical, right? It may or may not be moral. That is a different question because morals are based on the culture of the person and the culture that it occurs in. But from an ethics perspective, if I say this is fake and this is fake, I am behaving in an ethical manner. And so where this loops back around is to say, on the part of publishers and creators, we have an ethical obligation to be transparent and disclose. And on the part of AI detectors and the people using them, you have an obligation to be clear about what your purpose is. If your purpose is you just want to feel morally superior to someone else and you say that’s fine, you’re, I think you’re a jerk, but at least it’s clear. If you say that you’re trying to preserve the environment or what have you, but you really just want to feel morally superior, that is itself unethical because you’re not doing as you say and you’re not saying what you do. And so it is incumbent upon everybody using these tools in whatever capacity to disclose why you’re doing it and disclose how the results are going to be used. This is especially true for academia, for law, and for contracts. You have to be clear and say, we are using these tools for this purpose. And here is how we will measure the success of these tools. The performance, the fifth P in the 5P Framework by Trust Insights. You have to declare that, and if you don’t, yourself may have an ethics problem. Katie Robbert: I recently submitted an academic paper, and it was very clear in the instructions that I had to do a very large AI disclosure section on how AI was used to assemble the paper. And in that paper, if I recall correctly, I used AI to do the deep research. I then culled through the deep research to find the relevant parts for writing the paper for which I had a hypothesis. I drafted the paper. I used AI to help me clean up the paper and make it a more coherent story. And then I had to create two images, a graph and another supplemental image, and disclose what parts I used AI on. Here’s the question, though. So back to where we started, what do you do in the situation where you, the human, created the thing the detectors say, no, you didn’t? It’s AI and everybody believes the machines and not you. Like that’s not a matter of ethics anymore. That’s your reputation. Christopher S. Penn: And therein lies the problem with a lot of these detectors. The detectors are pattern matching. And again, we’ll talk about the mathematics of it this week on the live stream. But fundamentally, they’re looking at probabilities. And so if what you are creating, which academic papers in particular have a very specific kind of language to them that is highly formulaic, a pattern matching system—even if it’s 100 percent human-written—is still likely to pick it up. The example I often give is there’s a quote from Star Wars, from The Empire Strikes Back, where Yoda says, “For 800 years have I trained Jedi. My own council will I keep on who is to be trained.” Right? That’s Yoda. If you… if Yoda was to dictate that and then AI was to clean up the grammar, it would say, “I have trained Jedi for 800 years. I will keep my own council on who is to be trained.” Exact same words. AI’s just rearranging the word sequence, which dramatically changes the probabilities. And that second quote, which is still substantially the same as the first one, but with a different word order, will be flagged as AI or more likely be flagged as AI. Because in the process of editing, AI assembles things to the highest level of probability. And so for anybody, if you were doing that—as we often recommend—taking your phone out, doing a voice memo, and then having AI transcribe it and rearrange it, unless you know how to prompt it to preserve your word order, it’s going to change the language and it’s going to get flagged by AI. Even though you have proof from the voice memo itself that what you created was original. So a big part of what creators may want to think about, and this is the prescriptive part, is that I’ve actually talked about this with our friend Carrie Gorgon, who’s a lawyer. You may want to have a system where you preserve or even publish the work product that led to the final work product. I have done this with several of my books now where I publish the absolutely awful-to-listen-to voice recordings, like as I’m driving down the road. And you know, that’s usually in the deluxe edition, if you want to hear me yelling at people in traffic like, get out of the way, jackass. As part of the recordings, you can. But it also provides that provenance and lineage to say, here’s what the final product was manipulated by AI. Yes, here’s the original work product that proves that it’s a human original. Katie Robbert: But I think that also goes back to again, where we started. And you know, the commentary we referenced from Ann is that these tools are word prediction machines that have been trained on human words. We are the ones who taught it. Here are the predictable patterns that we use when we write and when we speak. Therefore, these machines, well or not well, are mimicking the way that we talk and the way that we write. Therefore, those AI detectors are detecting patterns that we taught as humans on our writing. Like it’s very… I feel like you go round and round forever. But the point being is that these tools are dangerous and can be very damaging if used incorrectly, which most people… Are using them incorrectly because they have the wrong purpose. Right? So if their purpose is to, I am angry and want to lash out at the world and I want to tear someone down today, congratulations. You are accomplishing your purpose with your performance. If your purpose, yeah, if your purpose is to like really just understand, then you know it’s going to be a while before these tools get more sophisticated. They’re not very good. Christopher S. Penn: No. And they never will because they’re always going to be reactive to whatever the latest models are capable of doing. It’s interesting. This actually inspires me as part of our upcoming AI for Writers course that we’re assembling for the Trust Insights Academy. But also maybe something that we should include is a skill that can assist people in creating stuff that sounds more like their human version. There are deterministic measures to do that, and maybe we’ll talk about that a little bit on the live stream as well. But if you’ve got some thoughts about AI detectors and their use or misuse, and you want to share them or your own experiences of dealing with them, post in our Free Slack Group. Go to TrustInsights.ai analytics for marketers where you and over 4,700 other marketers are asking and answering each other’s questions every single day. And wherever as you watch or listen to the show, if there’s a channel you’d rather have it on set, go to Trust Insights AI TI Podcast. You can find us at all the places fine podcasts are served. Thanks for tuning in. Talk to you on the next one. Speaker 3: Want to know more about Trust Insights? 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In 2014, Collin Henderson was young, in shape, and had blood pressure in the 150s. Anxiety. Depression. Completely stuck. And no idea why. What broke it open wasn't a book or a seminar. Someone handed him a framework for his mind, the same way athletes get a framework for their body.  Proactive. Repeatable. Trained. That framework became the foundation of everything he teaches today. Collin Henderson is the founder of Master Your Mindset, a mental conditioning coach to Nike, Microsoft, Amazon, and Salesforce, and one of the most practical mindset teachers George has ever had on the show. This conversation is a masterclass in what it actually looks like to train your mind, not just hope it cooperates. What You'll Learn In This Episode: Why mindset is conditioning, not motivation and the difference between the training room and the weight room The 6,000 vs. 70,000 thought problem and why the untrained mind always loses The "What x3" coaching framework to get unstuck fast Why identity is the bullseye and how your words are either coding you to win or fail Collin's 4-minute HA Method daily mental workout The bison vs. cattle framework for navigating hard seasons with people by your side The Oz Method for influence, sales, and human connection What "victory goes to the vulnerable" actually looks like in practice Key Takeaways: ✔️If the mind is untrained, the thought will win. If the mind is trained, the thinker will win. ✔️80% of human thoughts are negative. 95% are recurring. You're not stuck because of circumstances, you're stuck because of cycles. ✔️You never outperform your self-image. Identity is the bullseye. Words are your wand. ✔️Prehab, not rehab. The mind gym is proactive work, not something you do after you're broken. ✔️Gratitude lowers cortisol by nearly 30%. It's not soft. It's science. ✔️The 4-minute HA Method: breathe (1 min), I Have, gratitude, I Am, self-talk, I See, visualization. Borrow the future to build the present. ✔️Fear loves isolation. Nobody should worry or win alone. Do you have bison people? ✔️Asking for help is not weakness. Hiding and trying to do it yourself is. ✔️Victory goes to the vulnerable, because the coward and the warrior both feel fear. The difference is what they do with it. Timestamps & Highlights: [00:03] — 2014: high blood pressure, anxiety, depression, and the framework that broke it open [01:27] — Welcome: George's Yoda for mindset has entered the building [04:20] — Why knowing mindset matters and doing something about it are two completely different things [07:00] — The training room vs. weight room: what mental conditioning actually is [09:16] — 6,000 conscious vs. 70,000 subconscious thoughts — and why the untrained mind loses [13:07] — The "What x3" framework to get clarity when you're stuck [15:55] — Identity is the bullseye: how your words are literally coding your brain to fail or win [18:21] — Living by design vs. default — and your right to be average [28:00] — Designing places for your brain to go before pressure arrives [32:38] — It begins before it begins: the high-performance pre-game [35:01] — Victory goes to the vulnerable — and what the coward and warrior have in common [38:42] — The 4-minute HA Method: breathe, I have, I am, I see [44:00] — Gratitude: the research, the results, and why it's not optional [47:00] — Michael Phelps, decisive self-talk, and the number one driver of confident action [56:23] — The Oz Method book: connect with curiosity, clarify with story, collaborate on solutions [1:03:48] — The three Oz characters and the Scott story: from PIP to president's club in 11 months Connect with Collin Henderson He is the founder of Master Your Mindset, LLC, a two-sport Division I athlete, former top-ranked medical sales professional, and mental conditioning coach whose clients include Nike, Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon, Novartis, #1 NBA draft picks, and Heisman finalists.  He's authored seven books and hosts the Master Your Mindset podcast. His new book, The Oz Method, releases June 20th. Website: thecollinhenderson.com   Instagram: instagram.com/collinhenderson   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@collinhenderson6749 Quiet Mind Course: thecollinhenderson.com/quietmindcourse   The Oz Method: Available for pre-order on Amazon Your Challenge This Week: Pick one thing from this episode. One. Give it 90 days. Then connect with Collin, follow him on Instagram, try the Quiet Mind Course, or grab The Oz Method on Amazon. Follow George: @itsgeorgebryant Work with George:The Alliance — Community for entrepreneurs training their minds alongside their business.  1:1 Coaching — Limited spots. Apply at mindofgeorge.com/coaching-consulting/   Live Retreats — In-person experiences where mindset and strategy meet. Follow for dates.

https://teachhoops.com/ If you look at the modern grassroots basketball landscape, you will see a massive, high-pressure push toward year-round, single-sport specialization. Club directors, private trainers, and over-eager parents will tell you that if your athletes aren't holding a basketball twelve months a year, playing in seventy summer showcase games, and skipping the fall football schedule or spring baseball tracks, they are falling behind the developmental curve. But when you step into the "Truth Room," you realize that this intense, hyper-specialized model is introducing an enormous operational leak into youth sports. Year-round specialization doesn't build better basketball players; it builds physically burnt-out, mentally exhausted, and highly fragile athletes who are prone to overuse injuries and emotional fatigue long before they reach their varsity peak. In this episode, we tackle one of the most critical cultural debates in high school sports: The Multi-Sport Athlete. We look at why the absolute best program builders don't just tolerate multi-sport athletes—they actively actively recruit them out of their school's hallways. Discover how playing multiple sports accelerates an athlete's physical coordination, protects their mental health, and sharpens a high-volume Decision IQ that transfers perfectly to the hardwood when the winter schedule tips off. To evaluate whether your program's culture actively fosters versatile athletic development or is quietly contributing to the single-sport specialization trap, ask yourself this question: "Are your off-season training expectations and summer scheduling demands designed to accommodate and value the kid who is currently competing on the gridiron, soccer pitch, or track, or are you quietly penalizing them on your winter depth chart because they chose to own another room during the basketball off-season?" If your gym standard treats a multi-sport athlete like an outsider who has "missed too much time," your culture is stuck in a transactional leak. But if you embrace the overlapping traits of multi-sport competition, you unlock a diverse roster of resilient, battle-tested winners. An elite multi-sport athlete brings unique physical and psychological traits to your winter roster that cannot be replicated by spending twelve straight months playing standard 5-on-5 basketball: The Hardwood Transfer: A kid who spent their fall absorbing contact on a football field or navigating tight spatial vision constraints on a soccer pitch does not shrink when physical friction arrives on a Friday night basketball court. They understand how to establish a low center of gravity, anchor their stance in the low post, and play through heavy contact to secure an interior rebound. They naturally protect your defensive Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$) because they possess an inherent standard of physical toughness. The Hardwood Transfer: Track athletes understand baseline stride efficiency, linear deceleration, and explosive leaping mechanics. Baseball and softball players possess elite hand-eye coordination and kinetic rotational timing. When you jam these diverse movement profiles into a 120-minute basketball practice script, their physical Rep Density scales rapidly because their bodies are structurally balanced and resilient against overuse strains. The Hardwood Transfer: When a multi-sport athlete walks into your locker room in November, they are starving for basketball. They aren't carrying the psychological exhaust of playing one hundred meaningless summer showcase games. They bring a fresh, competitive energy to the floor. They are experts at adjusting to different coaching lenses—knowing exactly how to submit to The Antagonist's defensive demands or follow The Yoda's tactical schemes because they've operated under different leadership models all year. Coach's Note: "Stop listening to the multi-million dollar club circuits telling you your kids need to specialize at fourteen years old. Look at the data: the absolute best competitors, the ones who know how to close out games under extreme pressure, are the kids who have spent their entire lives competing in every arena possible. When an athlete is a quarterback in the fall, a point guard in the winter, and a shortstop in the spring, they spend all year learning how to lead, how to handle adversity, and how to win. Share the kids, cooperate with your fellow coaches, and let's build complete athletes." Title Ideas: Should Basketball Players Specialize or Play Multiple Sports? Why the Best Basketball Coaches Active Hire Multi-Sport Athletes The Hidden Danger of Year-Round Basketball Specialization How Other Varsity Sports Can Maximize Your Team's Game-Night eFG% Primary Keywords: The multi-sport athlete basketball coaching, sports specialization vs multi-sport, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, basketball team culture development, high school basketball athletic cross-training, standard of tolerance. Secondary Keywords: Next play speed resilience, own the room coaching language, active density practice scripts, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, effective field goal percentage focus, decision IQ constraints, player-led team autonomy, preventing athlete burnout. Description Snippet: "Are you forcing your basketball players into a year-round specialization trap, or are you leveraging the massive competitive benefits of the multi-sport athlete? In this podcast episode, Coach Collins breaks down why the absolute best coaches actively welcome multi-sport players into their programs. Discover the physical and psychological data behind athletic cross-training, and learn how to structure your off-season to build durable, high-IQ winners." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #MultiSportAthlete #CoachingPhilosophy #TeamCulture #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball #AthleteDevelopment Are you navigating this multi-sport dynamic to design a unified off-season workout schedule alongside your school's football and soccer coaching staffs to protect your athletes from physical overload, or are you looking for specific communication strategies to present to parents who are feeling heavy external club-circuit pressure to specialize their children early? Show NotesThe Diagnostic Question Every Varsity Leader Must AskThe Cross-Training Symmetry: How Other Sports Drive Basketball Efficiency [FOOTBALL / SOCCER] ───► Physical Friction & Spatial Vision ───► High-Hands Posture [TRACK / BASEBALL] ───► Explosive Footwork & Kinetic Timing ───► Next Play Speed 1. The Physicality & Contact Shield (Football/Soccer)2. The Multi-Angle Acceleration (Track/Baseball)3. The Psychological Clean SlateThe Program Audit: The Specialization Leak vs. The Versatile StandardProgram AttributeThe Year-Round Specialization Trap (Leak)The Multi-Sport Championship StandardOff-Season FilterMandatory summer demands; forcing kids to chooseCoordinated scheduling with other varsity head coachesPhysical ProfileOveruse patterns; chronic fatigue; soft-tissue issuesBalanced kinetic development; elite structural durabilityCompetitive MindsetBurnt-out; robotic compliance; low emotional varianceHigh-volume winner; thrives under pressure and frictionLocker Room VibeQuiet, single-track focus; individual stat huntingA dynamic, Player-Led shield focused on winningYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Goooooooood morning Vietnam! It's 0600 hours. What does the "O" stand for? O my God, it's early!  In a world where one man has only seen 30 or so movies comes a desire to learn from a master. A master of film. A master of cinema. A master who has led such a sad life.  Logan seeks the knowledge and he turns to his own personal “Yoda”; Keithie. Join Logan & Keithie on a wild adventure to discover as we watch along with a new movie each episode in THE MOVIE EDUCATION OF LOGAN CROSLAND. This episode, Logan & Keithie go to war, sort of with the 1987? 1988? classic Good Morning, Vietnam. We talk Robin Williams, Forrest Whitaker, Noble Willingham (Well, I'll be damned) & the Stanton twins. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put on K.P.

This week! Phil returns while Greg's off catching an F1 race in Belgium, and the guys dig into Once Upon a Katamari rolling onto Switch 2, Teeto's launch trailer getting buried under anti-Sony pro-physical comments, and the new LEGO Donkey Kong Arcade set. Plus: Picross S Konami Antiques, Ys Memoire, a Japan-only Ganbare Goemon collection, PowerWash Simulator 2's Star Wars pack, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, and the birth of All Digital Future Yoda. Join us, won't you? https://youtube.com/live/oKntWkhav-A News Once Upon a Katamari — Switch 2 & Rolling Live Highlights DLC Teeto (official site) — and the anti-Sony disc-comment story Sony ending physical disc production in January 2028 (PlayStation Blog) LEGO Donkey Kong Arcade (72051)  What'cha Been Playing Splatoon Raiders (CJ)  Orbitals (Phil) Mina the Hollower (Phil)  Picross S: Konami Antiques Edition (Phil) Ys Memoire: Revelations in Celceta (Phil) Ganbare Goemon Daishuugo (Japan import) (Phil)  PowerWash Simulator 2 — Star Wars Pack (Phil) Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced (CJ) Socials Player One Podcast Blue Sky Discord Player One Twitch Greg's Twitch Player One Patreon Greg Sewart's Patreon (Generation 16) Generation 16 on YouTube Other Blue Dragon (listener shout-out) Robot Alchemic Drive Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered  Onimusha: Way of the Sword  Stranger Than Heaven  Beast of Reincarnation Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Dave the Diver — In the Jungle live-action short (Mint Rocket × The Asylum) Check out Greg's web series Generation 16 - click here. Follow us on Blue Sky at p1podcast.com. Thanks for listening! Don't forget to visit our new web site at www.playeronepodcast.com. Running time: 02:03:46

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https://teachhoops.com/⁠ If you spend enough time around the grassroots basketball ecosystem, you will inevitably hear coaches, parents, and directors argue over a seemingly endless debate: Winning vs. Player Development. The traditional crowd tells you that if you aren't cutting down nets and chasing trophies, you are failing your program's legacy. The developmental crowd argues that rings don't matter if your bench players aren't getting equal minutes and your stars aren't showcasing individual isolation packages for scouts. In this episode, we step directly into the "Truth Room" to expose this debate for what it truly is: a false dichotomy. In a level 4 championship program, winning and player development are not competing interests—they are two sides of the exact same coin. We break down how to escape the trap of transactional, short-sighted tournament chasing without sacrificing your program's competitive edge. Discover how to build an elite ecosystem where individual skill growth directly drives your team's collective winning percentage. When a program sacrifices development in the short-sighted pursuit of a weekend trophy, they fall into the "Joystick Coaching" trap. They run rigid, over-scripted sets that hide their weaker players' limitations rather than forcing them to grow. True, transformational program building focuses on a different math. Our ultimate goal is to optimize our team's Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$): If your player development workflow is weak, only your top one or two options can generate an efficient shot. When postseason defenses take those options away, your offensive efficiency plummets. By utilizing your entire coaching staff—leveraging The Yoda to design high-transfer, small-sided game constraints and The Antagonist to demand defensive edge through the exhaust—you turn your 8th, 9th, and 10th players into high-IQ decision-makers. True player development expands your depth, elevates your collective Decision IQ, and acts as the ultimate engine behind sustainable, long-term winning. Coach's Note: "If you only focus on winning the next game, you will find yourself micromanaging every single possession, treating your players like chess pieces, and destroying their confidence. But if you focus relentlessly on daily player development—holding an unyielding standard of tolerance for laziness while building up their skills and decision-making—winning becomes a natural, inevitable byproduct of your daily habits. Stop chasing trophies and start building an unshakeable system." Title Ideas: Winning vs. Player Development: The Ultimate Basketball Coaching Trap Why Short-Term Winning is Silently Destroying Your Basketball Program How to Build a Championship Team Culture Through Player Development The False Choice: Balancing Individual Skill and Team Success Primary Keywords: Basketball winning vs player development, building a basketball program, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, high school basketball team culture, small-sided games basketball, player development workflows. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, rep density practice design, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, next play speed resilience, standard of tolerance, joystick coaching method, level 4 championship culture carriers. Description Snippet: "Are you catching yourself sacrificing your players' long-term development just to chase a short-term win on a Tuesday night? In this episode, Coach Collins tackles the ultimate coaching paradox: Winning vs. Player Development. Discover why tracking transactional trophies leads to an empty culture, and learn how to implement an elite development framework where individual skill progression and high-IQ decision-making naturally translate into a championship standard on the scoreboard." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #PlayerDevelopment #TeamCulture #ChampionshipMindset #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball Are you navigating this winning-versus-development balance for a varsity program where you are facing heavy external booster and community pressure to produce immediate postseason results, or are you looking to establish a developmental template for your program's feeder system to ensure youth coaches are prioritizing foundational habits over winning games with zone presses? Show NotesThe Analytical Symmetry: Individual Growth Drives $eFG%$$$eFG% = frac{text{FGM} + (0.5 times text{3PM})}{text{FGA}}$$The Program Audit: Transactional Winning vs. Transformational DevelopmentProgram MetricTransactional "Winning-Only" (Leak)Transformational Development (Standard)Offensive DesignRigid, over-scripted sets; players are robotsDynamic spacing geometry; players read defender's hipsPractice StructureLow Rep Density; starters get all the live repsHigh activity density; multi-ball drills maximize touchesAdversity ResponseBlaming players; high emotional hang-timeImmediate player-led huddle; elite Next Play SpeedRoster CultureCoach-Fed compliance; bench feels isolatedPlayer-Led autonomy; entire roster owns the standardYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The same man who directed such cherished films as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (his feature debut), October Sky, Hidalgo, andThe Rocketeer started out as an artist and designer. His creations include the Millennium Falcon and…wait for it… Yoda!  Joe Johnston has had a remarkable career in many phases of movie production and has stories to go with all of them. Leonard and Jessie listened in rapt attention, and we suspect you will, too.

https://teachhoops.com/ If you spend enough time around the grassroots basketball ecosystem, you will inevitably hear coaches, parents, and directors argue over a seemingly endless debate: Winning vs. Player Development. The traditional crowd tells you that if you aren't cutting down nets and chasing trophies, you are failing your program's legacy. The developmental crowd argues that rings don't matter if your bench players aren't getting equal minutes and your stars aren't showcasing individual isolation packages for scouts. In this episode, we step directly into the "Truth Room" to expose this debate for what it truly is: a false dichotomy. In a level 4 championship program, winning and player development are not competing interests—they are two sides of the exact same coin. We break down how to escape the trap of transactional, short-sighted tournament chasing without sacrificing your program's competitive edge. Discover how to build an elite ecosystem where individual skill growth directly drives your team's collective winning percentage. When a program sacrifices development in the short-sighted pursuit of a weekend trophy, they fall into the "Joystick Coaching" trap. They run rigid, over-scripted sets that hide their weaker players' limitations rather than forcing them to grow. True, transformational program building focuses on a different math. Our ultimate goal is to optimize our team's Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$): If your player development workflow is weak, only your top one or two options can generate an efficient shot. When postseason defenses take those options away, your offensive efficiency plummets. By utilizing your entire coaching staff—leveraging The Yoda to design high-transfer, small-sided game constraints and The Antagonist to demand defensive edge through the exhaust—you turn your 8th, 9th, and 10th players into high-IQ decision-makers. True player development expands your depth, elevates your collective Decision IQ, and acts as the ultimate engine behind sustainable, long-term winning. Coach's Note: "If you only focus on winning the next game, you will find yourself micromanaging every single possession, treating your players like chess pieces, and destroying their confidence. But if you focus relentlessly on daily player development—holding an unyielding standard of tolerance for laziness while building up their skills and decision-making—winning becomes a natural, inevitable byproduct of your daily habits. Stop chasing trophies and start building an unshakeable system." Title Ideas: Winning vs. Player Development: The Ultimate Basketball Coaching Trap Why Short-Term Winning is Silently Destroying Your Basketball Program How to Build a Championship Team Culture Through Player Development The False Choice: Balancing Individual Skill and Team Success Primary Keywords: Basketball winning vs player development, building a basketball program, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, high school basketball team culture, small-sided games basketball, player development workflows. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, rep density practice design, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, next play speed resilience, standard of tolerance, joystick coaching method, level 4 championship culture carriers. Description Snippet: "Are you catching yourself sacrificing your players' long-term development just to chase a short-term win on a Tuesday night? In this episode, Coach Collins tackles the ultimate coaching paradox: Winning vs. Player Development. Discover why tracking transactional trophies leads to an empty culture, and learn how to implement an elite development framework where individual skill progression and high-IQ decision-making naturally translate into a championship standard on the scoreboard." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #PlayerDevelopment #TeamCulture #ChampionshipMindset #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball Are you navigating this winning-versus-development balance for a varsity program where you are facing heavy external booster and community pressure to produce immediate postseason results, or are you looking to establish a developmental template for your program's feeder system to ensure youth coaches are prioritizing foundational habits over winning games with zone presses? Show NotesThe Analytical Symmetry: Individual Growth Drives $eFG%$$$eFG% = frac{text{FGM} + (0.5 times text{3PM})}{text{FGA}}$$The Program Audit: Transactional Winning vs. Transformational DevelopmentProgram MetricTransactional "Winning-Only" (Leak)Transformational Development (Standard)Offensive DesignRigid, over-scripted sets; players are robotsDynamic spacing geometry; players read defender's hipsPractice StructureLow Rep Density; starters get all the live repsHigh activity density; multi-ball drills maximize touchesAdversity ResponseBlaming players; high emotional hang-timeImmediate player-led huddle; elite Next Play SpeedRoster CultureCoach-Fed compliance; bench feels isolatedPlayer-Led autonomy; entire roster owns the standardYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

https://teachhoops.com/ If you build a coaching staff based entirely on comfort, friendship, or a collection of yes-men who look at the floor the exact same way you do, you are introducing a massive structural leak into your organization. Most head coaches hire assistants to act as glorified drill-monitors—quiet observers who stand along the sideline, wave a hand during transition breaks, and hold a clipboard while the head coach exhausts their vocal cords micro-managing fifty different details. In a level 4 championship program, your staff is an integrated, high-signal engine. You do not need assistant coaches who mimic your personality; you need a diverse group of distinct alchemical lenses designed to divide and conquer every square inch of the gym ecosystem. This episode steps directly into the "Truth Room" to pull back the curtain on staff architecture. We break down the three non-negotiable coaching archetypes—The Organizer, The Yoda, and The Antagonist—and detail exactly how to delegate absolute autonomy to your staff so your program transitions from a coach-fed dictatorship into a self-policing powerhouse. An elite coaching staff must operate like a singular, high-functioning Voltron. Instead of every coach watching the ball, each assistant is assigned a specific, uncompromised structural lens to police the gym's Activity Density and cultural standard. The DNA: Methodical, unyielding, hyper-disciplined, and hyper-organized. The Practice Lens: This coach is the absolute master of the practice clock. They do not watch the mechanics of a drill; they watch the timeline. They enforce sprinted water breaks, police smooth drill transitions, and ensure that your 120-minute practice script never stalls out for a long coaching lecture. They are the engine behind your high Rep Density and Activity Density. The DNA: Stoic, observant, deeply tactical, and data-driven. The Practice Lens: While the rest of the gym is moving at a hundred miles an hour, The Yoda sits quietly in the macro-view. They are tracking spatial cutting geometry, screening angles, and entry schemas. The Analytical Return: During a game or scrimmage, they aren't riding the emotional wave of a tough whistle. They are tracking the math behind your Effective Field Goal Percentage ($eFG%$), spotting structural gaps in the opponent's defensive shell, and formulating the zero-second counter to tip the tactical scale. The DNA: Intense, vocal, uncompromising, and deeply gritty. The Practice Lens: This coach is your ultimate line enforcer. They do not allow a single loose standard to seep into the gym. If a perimeter defender soft-recovers on a closeout, fails to play with High Hands, or displays poor body language after a turnover, The Antagonist blows the whistle and stops the clock instantly. They take the burden of daily confrontation off the head coach's plate, protecting your program's unyielding Standard of Tolerance through the exhaust. Coach's Note: "If you are the only person screaming, correcting, and driving the energy in your gym every afternoon, you haven't built a staff—you've just hired a group of spectators with front-row seats. Elite program building demands that you check your ego at the door. Trust your people. Give your Organizer the clock, give your Yoda the clipboard, give your Antagonist the license to protect the culture line, and step back so you can actually lead. Build a shield, not a one-man show." Title Ideas: How to Build a Championship Basketball Coaching Staff (The 3 Lenses) Stop Hiring Yes-Men! How to Structure Your Assistant Coaches The Ultimate Coaching Staff Blueprint: Organizer, Yoda, & Antagonist How Elite Basketball Programs Aligned Their Bench for Postseason Runs Primary Keywords: Building a basketball coaching staff, delegating to assistant basketball coaches, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, basketball staff organization, high school basketball team culture, practice activity density. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, standard of tolerance, next play speed resilience, own the room vocabulary, coaching staff roles, high-hands closeouts. Description Snippet: "Are your assistant coaches standing around like quiet spectators during your practices, or are they actively driving your program's championship standards? In this podcast episode, Coach Collins breaks down the definitive organizational blueprint for building an elite coaching staff. Discover how to align the three essential coaching lenses—The Organizer, The Yoda, and The Antagonist—to eliminate time leaks, boost your team's decision IQ, and enforce an unyielding standard of tolerance." Suggested Tags: #BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #CoachingStaff #AssistantCoaching #TeamCulture #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball #PracticeOrganization Are you evaluating your staff architecture to onboard a set of brand-new assistant coaches before your upcoming pre-season training workflows begin, or are you trying to realign an existing staff that has grown a bit quiet or passive during intense, high-stakes tournament environments? Show NotesThe Championship Staff Architecture [THE HEAD COACH] (Macro Conduct; Game-Night Pivot) │ ┌─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┐ ▼ ▼ ▼ [THE ORGANIZER] [THE YODA] [THE ANTAGONIST] (The Practice Clock) (The Tactical Reads) (The Culture Enforcer) 1. The Organizer (The Chief of Staff)2. The Yoda (The Analytical Architect)3. The Antagonist (The Bad-Cop Culture Carrier)The Staff Audit: The Fragmented Bench vs. The Championship VoltronBench Operational VariableThe Fragmented Bench (Level 2 Leak)The Aligned Voltron (Level 4 Standard)Drill SupervisionAll coaches watch the ball; zero secondary trackingDivided eyes; one tracks clock, one tracks mechanics, one tracks effortWhiteboard LecturesHead coach speaks for 10 minutes while staff stands quietly60-second "drive-by" adjustments delivered concurrently by roleIn-Game HuddlesMultiple assistants shouting separate directives at once15-second staff huddle first; head coach delivers unified clarityAdversity ManagementCoaching staff panics, shifts blame, or shows frustrationStaff remains anchored; The Antagonist demands immediate Next Play SpeedYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

https://teachhoops.com/ If your player development strategy consists entirely of players cones-drilling down an empty floor, executing predefined double-crossover pull-ups without a single defender in sight, you are missing a massive piece of the basketball puzzle. Isolated skill workouts look beautiful on camera. They are comfortable, structured, and predictable. But block-practice skill isolation does not teach a single kid how to actually survive a dynamic game when the defensive shell scrambles. In this episode, we step into the "Truth Room" to break down the critical division—and necessary marriage—between raw mechanical skill development and Teaching Players How to Play. We unpack why "robotic skills" drop off a cliff on Friday night and how to leverage your staff's diverse coaching lenses to fix it. Discover how to use small-sided game constraints to elevate your team's collective Decision IQ, turning mechanical repetitions into functional, game-ready weapons. A player can have a flawless, high-probability jump shot. But if they lack the environmental scanning habits to recognize when a closing-out defender has High Hands or when a weak-side gap is collapsing, they will settle for a contested, low-efficiency look in the mid-range desert. Our program's goal is to maximize our Effective Field Goal Percentage (eFG%): To protect this metric under postseason pressure, your staff must shift from a "Joystick Coaching" model to a Socratic model. The Yoda archetype on your staff tracks tactical geometry and advanced reads, while The Antagonist demands that every single read is met with absolute physical edge and defensive friction. If you only train block skills without visual triggers, your players will possess great mechanics but a sluggish Next Play Speed when things break down. Coach's Note: "Skills give a player the tools to step onto the floor, but understanding how to play is what allows them to cut down nets. Don't let your trainers turn your players into robotic actors who look great in an empty gym but panic the second a defender flies into their airspace. Introduce constraints, build multi-ball architectures to drive your Rep Density, force them to read the game, and watch your program's ceiling rise." Title Ideas: Are Your Drills Destined to Fail? Skill Development vs. Teaching How to Play Why Your Players Look Great in Workouts But Struggle in Games How to Teach Independent Basketball Decision IQ (Small-Sided Games Blueprint) The Missing Piece in Your Basketball Player Development Strategy Primary Keywords: Teaching players how to play basketball, basketball skill development vs IQ, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, small-sided games basketball, basketball decision IQ drills, player development workflows. Secondary Keywords: Effective Field Goal Percentage analytics, rep density practice design, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, next play speed resilience, standard of tolerance, high-hands closeouts, socratic coaching method. Description Snippet: "Why do players who hit 50 shots in a row during individual workouts freeze up during live 5-on-5 game scenarios? In this masterclass episode, Coach Collins breaks down the vital difference between isolated skill development and teaching players how to actually read the game. Learn how to transform block-style cone drills into high-transfer, contextual small-sided games that sharpen your roster's decision IQ and maximize your team's game-night eFG%." Suggested Tags:#BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #PlayerDevelopment #BasketballIQ #PracticeDesign #SmallSidedGames #HighSchoolBasketball Are you looking to use this conceptual framework to retool your upcoming pre-season workouts for a group of experienced varsity players who need to transition from set-play reliance to dynamic read-and-react execution, or are you trying to adapt your youth camp structure to ensure your youngest players are learning foundational spacing rules through play rather than long, static lectures? Show NotesThe Analytical Gap: Skill Execution vs. Decision IQPDFeFG%=FGAFGM+(0.5×3PM)​PDF+ 1The Program Balance: Block Skills vs. Spatial ConstraintsTraining VariableIsolated Skill Development (Block)Teaching How to Play (Contextual)The TargetFoundational mechanics, footwork, and muscle memory.Spatial awareness, reading defensive hips, and timing.The EnvironmentClosed ecosystem (cones, chairs, empty gym).Open ecosystem (Small-Sided Games, live triggers, visual cues).Decision LoadZero choices; the pattern is scripted ahead of time.High Decision IQ; constant read-and-react load.Gym VibeCoach-Fed compliance; quiet focus.Player-Led communication; high vocal activity through exhaust.YouTube SEO StrategyPDF+ 1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's time for some Star Wars Questions! We have Ahsoka. We've always loved Yoda. And the Prequels gave us a wide variety of non-human Jedi. But today's listener questions ask directly: Should there be more lead Jedi aliens? Ken Napzok and Joseph Scrimshaw discuss all this more on the 884th episode of ForceCenterFrom the minds of Ken Napzok (comedian, host of The Blathering), Joseph Scrimshaw (comedian, writer, director of Dead Media), and Jennifer Landa (actress, YouTuber, crafter, contributor on StarWars.com) comes the ForceCenter Podcast Feed. Here you will find a series of shows exploring, discussing, and celebrating everything about Star Wars. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Listen on TuneIn, Amazon Music, Spotify, and more!Follow ForceCenter!Watch on YouTube!Support us on PatreonForceCenter merch!All from ForceCenter: https://linktr.ee/ForceCenter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thirteen years after The Empire Strikes Back, the long-delayed finale arrived in 1996 — six episodes that brought the original trilogy to a close. Funding cuts had stalled production for more than a decade, but the conclusion was completed at last, with Anthony Daniels returning one final time as C-3PO, joined by Brock Peters as Darth Vader, John Lithgow's Yoda, and Ed Asner as Jabba the Hutt. Still carried by John Williams' score and the original sound effects, it's Return of the Jedi as you've never heard it. | #RRStarWarsLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:02:37.835 = Episode 01: Tatooine Haunts00:34:52.858 = Episode 02: Fast Friends01:04:58.749 = Episode 03: Prophecies And Destinies 01:38:38.890 = Episode 04: Pattern And Web02:06:06.595 = Episode 05: So Turns a Galaxy, So Turns a Wheel02:40:27.908 = Episode 06: Blood of a Jedi03:14:07.134 = Show Close(ADU) = Air Date Unknown(LQ) = Low Quality***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRRSW03

Thirteen years after The Empire Strikes Back, the long-delayed finale arrived in 1996 — six episodes that brought the original trilogy to a close. Funding cuts had stalled production for more than a decade, but the conclusion was completed at last, with Anthony Daniels returning one final time as C-3PO, joined by Brock Peters as Darth Vader, John Lithgow's Yoda, and Ed Asner as Jabba the Hutt. Still carried by John Williams' score and the original sound effects, it's Return of the Jedi as you've never heard it. | #RRStarWarsLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:02:37.835 = Episode 01: Tatooine Haunts00:34:52.858 = Episode 02: Fast Friends01:04:58.749 = Episode 03: Prophecies And Destinies 01:38:38.890 = Episode 04: Pattern And Web02:06:06.595 = Episode 05: So Turns a Galaxy, So Turns a Wheel02:40:27.908 = Episode 06: Blood of a Jedi03:14:07.134 = Show Close(ADU) = Air Date Unknown(LQ) = Low Quality***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRRSW03

In 1983, the team behind NPR's record-breaking Star Wars returned for the darker, colder middle chapter — The Empire Strikes Back, told across ten episodes. Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels were back as Luke and C-3PO, Billy Dee Williams reprised Lando Calrissian from the film, and a young John Lithgow voiced Yoda, all set to the original sound effects and John Williams' score. From the frozen wastes of Hoth to the clouds of Bespin, it's the Star Wars sequel as you've never heard it. | #RRStarWarsLook for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:02:18.293 = Episode 01: Freedom's Winter00:27:42.852 = Episode 02: The Coming Storm00:53:25.863 = Episode 03: A Question of Survival01:17:59.498 = Episode 04: Fire And Ice01:44:01.903 = Episode 05: The Millennium Falcon Pursuit02:09:29.038 = Episode 06: Way of the Jedi02:36:34.560 = Episode 07: New Allies, New Enemies03:03:42.954 = Episode 08: Dark Lord's Fury03:28:52.899 = Episode 09: Gambler's Choice03:52:56.581 = Episode 10: The Clash of Lightsabers04:20:16.969 = Show Close(ADU) = Air Date Unknown(LQ) = Low Quality***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRRSW02