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But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me. (Acts 27:21-26) 20 Faith is just as positive as your eyesight or my feelings to know this desk is here. You don't have to be educated. Frankly, it'd be good if you're just a little more simple about it than what you really are. That's right. Just you… You… It's just something that you know it's going to be. That's all. It just the positive… Why, there couldn't nothing move it out of your way. You know it's going to happen. You just… Nothing can take it out. If the doctors stand, say you're going to die the next hour, and you knew that you was going to get well… He might tell you had for—covered all over with cancer and leprosy eaten through you. That wouldn't scare you one bit. No, sir. Now, that's faith. 21 Look at when Paul was shipwrecked out there. Why, he'd lost hopes too. All hopes they could be saved, Paul said, was gone. The little old ship was water-logged, and fourteen days and nights no moon, stars, or nothing, the little boat tossed about in the waters and everything, and Paul said, “Well, I guess all hopes gone.” So he didn't know. But standing down in the gallery that night, praying, a vision come before him. And he saw the Angel of the Lord come, said, “Don't fear, Paul, for you're going to be brought before Caesar.” That's right. “And lo, God give… All these that sail with you, is given to you. So therefore, you be of a good courage. And you go on out and have a good courage.” 22 And little old Paul, right in the middle of the storm, run on the outside, shaking his hands and screaming top of his voice, saying, “Be of a good courage, brother, for there stood the Angel of God before me last night, saying not to be scared. We was going to come right on in before Caesar.” Said, “Now, I tell you there's not one of you going to die. Not one hair of your head is going to perish, but we're going… The ship's going to be wrecked somewhere. In the vision I seen it setting on the shore wrecked somewhere, but there's nothing going to harm us.” Said, “Let's take something and eat.” And they… Oh, they was afraid to do it. And Paul went and got the sandwich, and made it, and started eating. Why, he wasn't scared. Why? God done said so. Anchored in Paul's heart… I don't care; the ship was a pitching just as hard as it could. No stars, no moon, days passed on by, didn't worry Paul a bit. I imagine one sandwich after the other one, walking up and down the deck saying, “Glory to God, we're not far from land, brothers.” 23 There you are, no matter how dark it got. The whale might've come up to turn the ship over, the sharks following them by the hundreds, that wouldn't faze Paul. No, sir. He knew what God had said. He believed what God had said. Said, “Wherefore, brethren, be of a good courage, for I believe God, that it'll be just as He showed it to me.” There's faith. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Order your own copy of the Family Altar at http://store.bibleway.org Appreciate what we do? Consider supporting us: https://anchor.fm/ten-thousand-worlds/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ten-thousand-worlds/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ten-thousand-worlds/support
ZH spelling is not commonly found in English, but we do say it a lot! We make the same position as an Sh, but add a little voice. Tune in to work this one out with me here!Practice your ZH with these idiomatic expressions!Bon Voyage Have a good tripI wished them a bon voyage and sent them off. Snap Decision A decision made in a quick momentI made a snap decision and bought Oreos.Beyond measure To a great ExtentTheir results were beyond measure, they did great!It's been a pleasure It has been nice to see youIt's been a pleasure, bon voyage!
Struggling with trying to not be a perfectionist when it comes to lifestyle changes? Finding it hard to stick to changes because those around you aren't living as healthily? Not seeing results and it's demotivating you?Change is damn hard. Whether you've been working on your PCOS for a couple of months or a few decades, switching up your lifestyle and trying to find out what works for your symptoms can be a mission. It's hard to find the balance between living a life that's healthy for you and your PCOS root cause and not being too restrictive.If you've been a part of my community for a while, you'll know I preach the 80/20 approach when it comes to working on and managing your PCOS symptoms. The reason being is because being 100% all the time doesn't work (I can tell you from my personal and clinical experience) and because I want you to be able to get away with as much as possible! Because life is for living and we don't get anywhere when we're extremely restrictive on ourselves - it does more harm than good.But how do you allow yourself to only be 80% rather than letting your perfectionist tendencies take over? How do you not feel guilty for that 20% of the time? What about when you feel like a burden when out with family and friends? Or will people judge you or think you're weird for not changing an aspect of your lifestyle? How do you stay consistent when you're not seeing any changes physically? What if those around you aren't living a healthy lifestyle?I put out a Q&A box on my Instagram a few weeks ago asking you all what you found hardest about lifestyle changes and living that 80/20 approach that I always talk about - and WOW, I had the most responses I think I've ever had! There were so many that we've decided to split this into two separate episodes. I also think this part of improving your PCOS - the actual habit change part - isn't talked about enough. So in today's episode of The PCOS Nutritionist Podcast, my wonderful colleague, Sophia and I, talk all about 80/20 and give you advice on your questions around habit changes (because we've both been through our fair share over the years!).This episode is for you if:You're a ‘type A' person and struggle with a perfectionist mindsetIt's hard for you to define the line between being 80/20 and slipping into old habitsYou struggle with guilt when you let yourself enjoy that 20% of not eating for your root causeMaintaining the lifestyle changes while with friends and family is hard for youIt feels like a science to figure out what foods to eat and not eatYour doctor hasn't been helpful in determining your root causeYou find it hard to stay consistent with your changes when you aren't seeing resultsPicking up after ‘breaking' or taking time off changes is really hard for youYou feel like an inconvenience to those around you with having a different way of eating and livingFinding time to prepare food and incorporate practices to help your PCOS amongst a stressful job, family and friends feels like too much to manageThose around you don't have PCOS or a chronic condition they have to manage so it's hard for you to stay ‘on track'Some things we cover in this episode:Food guiltHow to manage the feelings of food FOMODifferentiating between slipping into old habits and actually allowing yourself to enjoy that 20% of the 80/20 approachManaging your lifestyle changes when you have lots of stressWhat to do if you find managing the changes hard when out socialisingUnderstanding what foods to eat and what to avoid for your PCOSHow to manage those around you not having to make the same changesWho to turn to if you're unsure of your root causeConsistency with kee
Selecting the RIGHT property for YOU – It's the trickiest thing to get right in real estate Many people think there's a right answer to basic property questions. Where's the best place to buy? Is it better to buy new or established? Are houses better than apartments? Are capital cities better than regional areas? The reality is: the right answer to those and other queries depends on the individual. There's not one right answer to real estate questions. It's about YOU the individual: your age, your current circumstances, your income, what you currently own, your personality, your life goals – and a whole lot more. That's why it's so important for prospective investors to seek help from qualified professionals in finding the right property for the individual. On Wednesday 9 June, Hotspotting founder Terry Ryder spoke with property investment expert Tim Graham of Reventon to discuss these issues.
Hello my loves! In today's episode I discuss how we may contribute to our own chaos in our lives. How we do have choice power and how me must choose the pain of stagnation or the pain of growth! I hope this enriches you and allows to to reflect on what you can improve on! Remember YOU are way stronger and powerful than you think! The name of the book I recommend is called " The Mountain is You" (It's not free, Like i mentioned on this episode, my apologies) I Have Merch now! Click Here to check it out and support the A team! If you would like a personal phone call consult or video from me, check out Wisio! If you would like professional affordable therapy from the same place that I get therapy from click here! If you have enjoyed this episode, please be sure to rate and review this podcast. If it's your first time listening to this podcast, you can hear more episodes here. I'm also on YouTube and Instagram! And remember to always stay Kind! xo A --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/qqcpodcast/support
Kenny Cox - Beyond The Dream - DJ Amir Presents 'Strata Records -The Sound Of Detroit' Vol. 1 (180 Proof)Heavy Traffic - Esabella - Eternal Gardens (A-Tone)Ronin Arkestra - Tempestuous Temperaments (Pie Eye Collective Remix) (Albert's Favourites)Tapes - Sauna Research (Research)The Hics - The Man Who Sold The World - Modern Love (BBE)Skyline Sun - Broken Bones - Flesh & Bones (Skyline Sun)Sons Of Kemet - Envision Yourself Levitating - Black To The Future (Impulse!)Yoràn Vroom - Brother Mouzone - Across A Spectrum (FreemanGround)Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Scramblin' - Funk Is My Religion (ACT)Ojoyo - Little Song - Ojoyo Plays Safrojazz (Sunnyside)The Consecutives - Montana Slim - The Consecutives, Vol. 2 (The Consecutives)Dave Holland - Mashup - Another Land (Edition)PS5 - Amigdala - Unconscious Collective (Hyperjazz)Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble - Don't Go Too Far - Mamari (Rebel Up)Jayl Funk - Funky Disco Queen - Rendez Vous (Sound-Exhibitions)Moby - Go (Reprise Version) - Reprise (Deutsche Grammophon)Christian Nowak - Candlelight - Nachklang (Timezone)The Houdini's - Die Erste Kugel Hat Mich Doch Schon Fertig Gemacht - Stripped To The Bone (Challenge Jazz)Mike LeDonne - Rock with You - It's All Your Fault (Savant)Mato - Use Me (Stix)Joy Guerrilla - Million Dollar Neighborhood - The Park Is Closed (Infinite Lens)Ian Roller - Textures - Textures (Ian Roller)
We know what it's like to be focused on losing weight, training for a sport, etc. So what's it like on the other side? You've hit your goal; now what? This week's episode is all about how we know when we're "there," what adjustments we need to make, what changes and what stays the same. From the mindset and food to fitness, barometers and new goals, it's all here. Interestingly, this is a topic NO ONE discusses at length in books, "diets/programs," training guides, etc.; this is the part of the journey everyone overlooks. Not anymore! Listen in, you'll be glad you did. Outline:Welcome back & welcome EmilyIntro today's topicNo one talks about this: maintenanceThe identityWhy the scale can creep up when you only have a couple pounds left to removeWhat motivates us & shifting from being motivated by the negative to the positiveFalse finish lineHow do we know when we're "there"Your default - balance, flexibility, adapting to new situationsThe food of maintenanceShifting supplementationThe exercise/activity of maintenanceKeep what works for youIt's a commitmentThe check-ins & barometersAccountabilityDaily self check-in: energy, stress, sleep, self-esteemThe mindset & new goalsLiving in pursuit of somethingPaying it forwardAll in, what IS the other side?Body acceptance, consistency, learning to live in the grey areaLinks:Become a MemberConnect with us! FB Page & Private FB Group & Jenn's InstagramTake the free Weight Loss Profile, Jenn will send you a Menu Plan Jenn's Omega 3 for US Listeners, for International Listeners Quotes:"The objective is to get "there" in a way we can maintain." - Jenn Trepeck"Your history does not dictate your future." - Jenn Trepeck"Being unconsciously competent as our default allows us to adapt to new situations." - Jenn Trepeck"We're not going the rest of our lives without french fries or cookie dough." - Jenn Trepeck"Workout and move your body because you love your body rather than to punish it." - Jenn Trepeck"What can you dedicate yourself to when thre isn't a constant, running food conversation taking up your brain power?" - Jenn Trepeck
I can act divinewith youIt is healing - a way of lovingcarrying, comfortingwith you.Forgiveness is easywith you. I know how sadyou feelwhen you offend,inconvenience,hurt, forget. Do not dwell on itor replay, repeator rewind.I am here for you.All is forgiven.Go on. When it was my turnyou lifted mefrom the valleyof un-forgivenessby your kindness. © Elin Babcock. All rights reserved. Elin Babcock On My Camino 2020
You've likely seen commercials for the Medicare give back program, which is also known as the buyback benefit – some commercials even refer to it as a Medicare reimbursement plan. Yet, this benefit actually isn't a reimbursement at all, but a reduction. In this video, we'll explain what you need to know about the Part B premium reduction benefit that's available with some Medicare Advantage plans.The Part B reduction plan is, well, just as it sounds. You enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan, and the carrier pays either part or your entire Part B premium. In the summary of benefits or evidence of coverage, you'll see a section that mentions the Part B premium buy-down. This is where you can see how much of a reduction you're going to get. This benefit is also referred to as the giveback benefit.The giveback benefit has become very common across all states and is now available in the majority of areas. However, there are some ZIP Codes that do not offer this benefit in their Medicare Advantage plans.Many carriers, both large and small, offer a Part B premium reduction plan. These include Humana, Cigna, Aetna, and many more. Carrier coverage depends on your county and ZIP Code. You should always consider the plan ratings before you enroll.The Part B premium reduction plan only participates with Social Security. You won't receive any checks directly from the carrier. Anyone enrolled in Medicaid or another form of assistance helping to pay for their Part B premium will not be eligible to enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan with this benefit.Most pay their Part B premium through their Social Security check. If your Part B premium currently comes out of your Social Security check, you'll see the reduced amount reimbursed in your check. If you're not paying your Part B premium through your Social Security, then you'll have to pay Medicare directly the reduced amount. If you pay Medicare directly anything over the benefit amount, your carrier will not send you a check to reimburse you; it is a reduction, not a reimbursement.The amount you get back can range from 10¢ up to the entire Part B premium amount so you pay nothing. This amount depends on your area.Part B Reduction Plan Eligibility• You must be enrolled in both Part A and Part B of Original Medicare• You must not be accepting any government assistance that currently helps you pay your Part B premium• If you don't qualify for a Part B premium reduction plan, there are many other options available to youIt's important to know that a Medicare Advantage plan is not the best option for everyone. As great as it is to have your Part B premium reduced to save you money in your Social Security check, you might find that if you visit the doctor's office often, you could pay more out-of-pocket than you initially expected. Before you enroll in a plan, be sure to weigh out the pros and cons of Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplements.Thank you so much for taking the time to watch this video. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments section below or give us a call.Resources:- https://www.medicarefaq.com/faqs/medicare-part-b-give-back-plan/- https://www.medicarefaq.com/faqs/pre-enrollment-medicare-advantage-checklist/- https://www.medicarefaq.com/faqs/medicare-advantage-open-enrollment-period/- https://www.medicarefaq.com/faqs/medicare-annual-enrollment-period/Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/medicarefaqFacebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MedicareFAQ/
You're afraid. But, you're not alone. Most of us are scared, too. The biggest fear we have is the fear of being ourselves. Living a lie, only showing the sides of us people that people are willing to accept, suppressing our true authentic selves because of our fear of rejection. To truly be YOU It takes courage, its takes strength, it takes love. Listen to today's episode with writer, television host, director, producer, and transgender rights activist, Janet Mock as she reveals her transformational story of self-acceptance. You can watch her talk here. Connect with Janet Mock: Website: https://janetmock.com Instagram: janetmock Twitter: Janet Mock Book: Redefining Realness: My Path To Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More Hosted by Malikee Josephs (Pronounced Muh leek Jo seffs) Follow The Show On Instagram @DepressionDetoxShow
The Oakland/Berkley Baker Street House Mix From 2003 **TRACKLIST** 0:00 Groove Junkies Feat. Indeya - Gonna Get By [Morehouse] 6:33 Michelle Weeks - The Light(Jamie Lewis Dub) [Soulfuric ] 12:28 Jay-J Feat. Alexander East - Higher Ground [Loveslap!] 18:01 Members Only - More For The Living [JTM] 24:10 The Beard Feat. Amma - Keep Hoping (Andy Coldwell Remix) [Inspirit Music] 29:20 Kaskade - It's You It's Me [OM] 34:59 Late Night Alumni - Empty Streets [Hedkandi] 40:45 Gene Farris Feat. Lady Sarah - Black Satin' (Miguel Migs Petalpusher Dub) [ Soma Quality Recordings] 46:50 Sandy Rivera Feat. Haze - Changes [Defected] 52:52 Jay J Feat. Latrice Barnett - Keep On Rising [Defected]
The Oakland/Berkley Baker Street House Mix From 2003 **TRACKLIST** 0:00 Groove Junkies Feat. Indeya - Gonna Get By [Morehouse] 6:33 Michelle Weeks - The Light(Jamie Lewis Dub) [Soulfuric ] 12:28 Jay-J Feat. Alexander East - Higher Ground [Loveslap!] 18:01 Members Only - More For The Living [JTM] 24:10 The Beard Feat. Amma - Keep Hoping (Andy Coldwell Remix) [Inspirit Music] 29:20 Kaskade - It's You It's Me [OM] 34:59 Late Night Alumni - Empty Streets [Hedkandi] 40:45 Gene Farris Feat. Lady Sarah - Black Satin' (Miguel Migs Petalpusher Dub) [ Soma Quality Recordings] 46:50 Sandy Rivera Feat. Haze - Changes [Defected] 52:52 Jay J Feat. Latrice Barnett - Keep On Rising [Defected]
The Oakland/Berkley Baker Street House Mix From 2003 **TRACKLIST** 0:00 Groove Junkies Feat. Indeya - Gonna Get By [Morehouse] 6:33 Michelle Weeks - The Light(Jamie Lewis Dub) [Soulfuric ] 12:28 Jay-J Feat. Alexander East - Higher Ground [Loveslap!] 18:01 Members Only - More For The Living [JTM] 24:10 The Beard Feat. Amma - Keep Hoping (Andy Coldwell Remix) [Inspirit Music] 29:20 Kaskade - It's You It's Me [OM] 34:59 Late Night Alumni - Empty Streets [Hedkandi] 40:45 Gene Farris Feat. Lady Sarah - Black Satin' (Miguel Migs Petalpusher Dub) [ Soma Quality Recordings] 46:50 Sandy Rivera Feat. Haze - Changes [Defected] 52:52 Jay J Feat. Latrice Barnett - Keep On Rising [Defected]
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Happy New Year’s Pocha Peeps! Cheers to many more years of Pocha Playlist episodes. This week we have a short episode where we catch up on Mr. Queen (Ep: 5) @ 2:04, Uncanny Counter (Ep: 9-10) @ 7:42 & Lovestruck in the City (Ep: 3-4) @ 11:29. We also finalize our 2020 playlist @ 18:58 and we make a few controversial moves to some big titles. Let us know what you think of our final 2020 list and how you would have ranked each drama! Next week we are back on schedule and will be reviewing more episodes of Mr. Queen, Uncanny Counter (11-12), and True Beauty (7-8). Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistStart UpCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkaySweet HomeItaewon ClassTrainFlower of EvilBackstreet RookieRecord of YouthExtra-CurricularMystic Popup BarSF8Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/pochaplaylist)
Questions for each guest:*What is your takeaway from 2020? *How do you see 2021? The Unabashed You website has photos, quotes and a blog for each episode. Each episode has its own page: unabashedyou.com Look under episodes.Social media Facebook: Unabashed YouInstagram: Unabashed YouTwitter: unabashedyou @RechelleRenaeFollow us on any and all of the above. There are frequent posts with great photos and inspirational quotes. And I do love interaction!If you have questions or comments email is:unabashedyou@gmail.comWe’re on Apple podcasts. They have a new feature under episode notes that will take you directly to that episode’s page on our website. We invite you to subscribe, rate and review to support us in being more discoverable. Also we were recently added to Amazon Music under podcasts. It’s great to get these conversations out into the world. We want to listen, read and be inspired.Blessing for this week’s episode:See the light I know this road is gettin' hardI heard you say it's overwhelmingI said I'd never be too farAnd I meant that from the heartI see the mountain gettin' higherI see it stackin' up against youI always said you were a fighterBut you've got your doubts tonightBut I'm here to remind youIt don't matter where you come fromI know we can get through thisIt might feel it's been so longBut we keep on keepin' on It might feel like an uphill climbAlways some kind of battle But you got more than you on your sideAnd we gon' see the light Some things will never be the sameSome things are only for a seasonAnd just the thought of letting goWell, it's brought you to your knees Oh, but if you can make it, you can make it through the ni-ightI can promise that the sun is gonna ri-iseYou wake up just a little bit strongerSo hold on just a little bit longer'Cause it don't matter where you come fromI know we can get through this (ooh)It might feel like it's been so longBut we keep on keepin' on It might feel like an uphill climbAlways some kind of battle (battle)But you got more than you on your sideAnd we gon' see the light You and me, yeah, you and meWe gon' see the lightIn Jesus name, Amen.This blessing courtesy of lyrics from the song See the Light by TobyMacYour charge:Go shine your light.Go be unabashed.Be you.
Seems like we are out of our KDrama drought because we have so many things to watch! Starting @ 5:37 we discuss Run On, Mr. Queen and the first 5 episodes of Sweet Home! We continue our noodle family adventures with Uncanny Counter (Ep: 5-6) @ 24:22. Early prediction from Brandon is that Rich Noodle will turn out to be a bad guy! Speaking of Brandon, he issued a formal apology for his hate on True Beauty because he did a complete 180 and is now in LOVE with the show starting (Ep: 3-4) @ 35:49. You heard it here, the Pocha Crew is TEAM BIKER LETS GO!We have a packed agenda for next week, the Pocha Crew will continue reviewing True Beauty (5-6), Uncanny Counter (7-8), Sweet Home (6-10), and we will start the new drama Lovestruck in the City (1-2). We will also be finalizing our official 2020 Playlist. Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistStart UpItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieRecord of YouthExtra-CurricularMystic Popup BarSF8
It’s almost Christmas so we start this episode off with another rom com for everyone. Great new recommendation from Jenny for a drama called Mr. Queen @ 3:48 and we continue reviewing Uncanny COUNTER (not encounter) (Ep: 3-4) @ 9:15. We are loving the Grim Reaper x Mafia story line and we came up with great noodle shop nicknames to everyone on the show. Stay tuned for our yearbook for this drama coming soon. The long awaited webtoons drama True Beauty is finally here (Ep: 1-2) @ 25:53. The Pocha Crew has some mixed reactions to this drama, but we can all agree that it is very cheesy. Let us know your first impressions on the drama! Next week the Pocha Crew will continue reviewing True Beauty (3-4) and continue watching Uncanny Counter (5-6). Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistStart UpItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieRecord of YouthExtra-CurricularMystic Popup BarSF8
Only a few more Pocha episodes left in 2020 so let's end it with a bang. We start off this episode with some relationship advice from our King Paju, then we get into tons of reviews: Uncanny Counter, The Guest, and Jenny reviews the finale of Tale of the Nine Tailed (props to her for finishing it). Well, we have finally made it to the Start Up finale (Ep: 15-16) @ 24:14. We are going to miss watching and reviewing these episodes every weekend. We hope everyone played our drinking game we released for this episode. Without giving away too many spoilers... the Pocha Crew is very split on the final two episodes which ultimately affects its ranking. Let us know what you thought of the Start Up finale! Next week the Pocha Crew will start reviewing True Beauty (1-2) and continue watching Uncanny Counter (3-4). Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistStart UpItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieRecord of YouthExtra-CurricularMystic Popup BarSF8
Hope everyone had an amazing thanksgiving filled with love and KDramas! Not many KDramas to review but the movie we watched this week was The Call on Netflix with Park Shin Hye @ 8:52. It was amazing, action packed, and make sure everyone keeps watching until the end credit scene! It changes everything... Our main event for this week is Start Up (Ep: 13-14) @ 16:18. We are getting close to the finale and historically the dramas we have reviewed always drop the ball on episodes 13 and 14 and unfortunately, it might be that Start Up has as well... Both Jenny and Andy do not like how 13 and 14 is tying up the loose ends. Tons to discuss as one of the best dramas of 2020 ends. We can't wait for the finale to see who will win in the Math Boy vs. Good Boy battle for BAE. Who do you guys think should win? We will be releasing a KDrama Drinking Game for the Start Up finale! Make sure you watch and drink along with us. Next week the Pocha Crew will review the Start Up finale (15-16). Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieRecord of YouthExtra-CurricularMystic Popup BarSF8
Happy Thanksgiving everybody, we from the Pocha Crew hope you watch a lot of KDramas with your friends and family. Bit of a sad episode as our very own Captain Terry is moving back home so won't be able to record with us for a few weeks... BUT expect him back (virtually) and ready to review in early 2021. Great recommendations and new K-Pop discussions starting @ 1:51. We review The King: Eternal Monarch (Ep: 3-6) @ 15:29. We gave it a strong shot but it has unfortunately failed to deliver and the confusing plotline + the lack of chemistry between the characters has forced us to drop this show as well leaving only one show for us to review for a while before True Beauty starts. Start Up on the other hand has delivered every week (Ep: 11-12) @ 32:00. Tons to discuss here but the big thing is the "breakup" and the impending time jump... WHO will get BAE in the end?? Good Boy? or Math Boy? The Pocha Crew is split. Only 4 more episodes to go... Next week the Pocha Crew will continue reviewing Start Up (13-14). Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieRecord of YouthExtra-CurricularMystic Popup BarSF8
We've made it to 20 episodes so of course we need to celebrate with booze. We "try" to play a drinking game where we all have to drink if we:-Swear -Say anything perverted-Don't know what's happening in the dramaSadly we fail terribly... The Pocha Crew did our homework and we watched the feature film Let's Go to the Rose Motel and we discuss that @ 12:47. Since we dropped Tale of the Nine Tailed we have picked up The King: Eternal Monarch and review (Ep: 1-2) @ 17:05.We also continue reviewing Start Up (Ep: 9-10) @ 34:07 and the drama just keeps getting better. Good Boy FINALLY confesses his feelings to BAE and things are heating up between this love triangle. King Don has arrived and he is killing the predictions for this show. Let's see what the next few episodes have in store for us. Next week the Pocha Crew will continue reviewing Start Up (11-12) and continue watching The King: Eternal Monarch (3-6).Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieRecord of YouthExtra-CurricularMystic Popup BarSF8
Happy Birthday to Captain Eugene Choi for turning 21 this week. The Pocha Peeps review the sequal to Train to Busan, Peninsula @ 3:04. We start Tale of the Nine Tailed (Ep: 9-10) @ 8:09 but unfortunately this show has failed to deliver for us so for the very first time the Pocha Crew will be DROPPING this show from the review list :(. BUT we continue reviewing the best show of 2020 Start Up (Ep: 7-8) @ 19:40 which is still delivering every week. Jenny's cry count is up to like 10+ now... hands down the Grandma of the year award goes to this show (PS... she is also in Hospital Playlist too, our current #1 drama on our list!). Please sponsor us DESKER so we can stop recording on fold up tables hehe. Next week is our 20th episode so we will have a fun section in the beginning (TBD) and also review the Feature Film "Let's Go to the Rose Motel". The Pocha Crew will also continue reviewing Start Up (9-10) and start The King Eternal Monarch (1-2). Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieRecord of YouthExtra-CurricularMystic Popup BarSF8
Sadly, October is over but thankfully King Paju is back from his 2-week hiatus to tell us what he's been up to. We start with the Record of Youth finale (Ep: 15-16) @ 6:25 which might be the biggest let down of 2020. So much potential and yet they decided to do nothing with it. Our official Pocha ranking for this drama is number 8 on our 2020 list sandwiched between Backstreet Rookie and Extra-Curricular. Then we get into Tale of the Nine Tailed (Ep: 5-6) @ 15:34 which TBH hasn't been that much better either. We are giving it one more week to wow us or else it's getting dropped from our lineup. However, we have the best drama (cough cough not Backstreet Rookie) of 2020 Start Up to shake things up again. Tons to discuss in (Ep: 3-4) @ 24:38. Not only is Jenny's cry count up at like 5 for this drama, but her cry count on the show has also now turned to 1 when she explains an emotional scene. You gotta get your Gatorade handy when watching this drama. Next week the Pocha Crew will continue reviewing Start Up (7-8) and Tale of the Nine Tailed (9-10). Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieRecord of YouthExtra-CurricularMystic Popup BarSF8
SUNDAY WORSHIP LYRICS:BEAUTIFULI see Your face in every sunriseThe colors of the morning are inside Your eyesThe world awakens in the light of the dayI look up to the sky and sayYou're beautifulI see Your power in the moonlit nightWhere planets are in motion and galaxies are brightWe are amazed in the light of the starsIt's all proclaiming who You areYou're beautiful, You're beautifulI see you there hanging on a treeYou bled and then you died and then you rose again for meNow you are sitting on Your heavenly throneSoon we will be coming homeYou're beautiful, you're beautifulWhen we arrive at eternity's shoreWhere death is just a memory and tears are no moreWe'll enter in as the wedding bells ringYour bride will come together and we'll singYou're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautifulI see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautifulO FOR A THOUSAND TONGUES TO SINGO for a thousand tongues to singmy great Redeemer's praise,The glories of my God and King,the triumphs of his grace!If eloquence I could display and every language singA thousand words could never say the praise I have for TheeHallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, all praise to our GodBefore the throne we’ll singthe song with saints from every ageWith thousands times ten thousand strongwe’ll praise His holy nameHallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, all praise to our GodHallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, all praise to our KingA thousand years will be as onewhen face to face I seeThe splendid beauty of the Sonthe One who died for meHallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, all praise to our GodHallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, all praise to our GodHallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, all praise to our KingTHE WAYThrough every battleThrough every heartbreakThrough every circumstanceI believeThat You are my fortressOh, You are my portionAnd You are my hiding place, ohI believe You areThe way, the truth, the lifeI believe You areThe way, the truth, the lifeI believeThrough every blessingThrough every promiseThrough every breath I takeI believeThat You are ProviderOh, You are ProtectorAnd You are the One I love, ohAnd I believe You areThe way, the truth, the lifeI believe You areThe way, the truth, the lifeI believe You areOh, You areOh, You areAnd it's a new horizon and I'm set on YouAnd You meet me here today with mercies that are newAll my fears and doubts, they can all come tooBecause they can't stay long when I'm here with YouIt's a new horizon and I'm set on YouAnd You meet me here today with mercies that are newAll my fears and doubts, they can all come tooBecause they can't stay long when...I believe You areThe way, the truth, the lifeI believe You areThe way, the truth, the lifeI believe You are...It's a new horizon and I'm set on YouAnd You meet me here today with mercies that are newAnd all my fears and doubts, they can all come tooBecause they can't stay long when...I believe You areThe way, the truth, the lifeAnd I believe You areThe way, the truth, the lifeAnd I believe You areGLORIOUSLook inside the mysterySee the empty crossSee the risen SaviorVictorious and strongNo one else above HimNone as strong to saveHe alone has conqueredThe power of the graveGloriousMy eyes have seen the glory of the LordGloriousHe stands above the rulers of the earthGlorious, gloriousLord, You are gloriousLook beyond the tombstoneSee the living GodSee the resurrectedRuler of my heartNo one else above HimNone to match His worthThe hope of His returningFills the universeALL CREATURES OF OUR GOD AND KINGAll creatures of our God and KingLift up your voice and with us singO praise Him, AlleluiaThou burning sun with golden beamThou silver moon with softer gleamO praise Him, O praise HimAlleluia, Alleluia, AlleluiaThou rushing wind that art so strongYe clouds that sail in Heaven alongO praise Him, AlleluiaThou rising moon in praise rejoiceYe lights of evening find a voiceO praise Him, O praise HimAlleluia, Alleluia, AlleluiaLet all things their Creator blessAnd worship Him in humblenessO praise Him, AlleluiaAll the redeemed washed by His bloodCome and rejoice in His great lovePraise Him! AlleluiaChrist has defeated every sinCast all your burdens now on HimO praise Him, O praise HimAlleluia, Alleluia, AlleluiaHe shall return in power to reignHeaven and earth will join to sayO praise Him, O praise HimAlleluia, Alleluia, AlleluiaThen who shall fall on bended kneeAll creatures of our God and KingO praise Him, O praise HimAlleluia, Alleluia, AlleluiaDiscussion Questions:1. Have your doubts felt threatening to faith, Jesus and the church? How can we operate in such a way that shows others (and ourselves) that Jesus’ authority can handle our real selves?2. Where are you susceptible to selling out to lesser powers/lesser authorities?3. Where does Jesus’ authority need to be applied to your life and emotional state?4. Where does Jesus’ supreme authority need to be applied to the mission of making disciples? 5. What might you need to confess to Jesus in regards to His supreme authority?
Fun recommendations this week, we talk about Mr. Zoo, Search, Kingdom Season 2, Ashfall and the best movie Let's Go To The Rose Motel. Our reviews this week are Record of Youth (Ep: 13-14) @ 18:15, Tale of the Nine Tailed (Ep: 5-6) @ 28:04, and new drama Start Up (Ep: 3-4) @ 42:43.Record of Youth is starting to get very dull but hopefully the finale brings us some surprises, Tale of the Nine Tails has added Harry Potter into the list of things they copy, but the most important thing we learned this week is that Math Boy's got them big hands which has earned him the nick name Nam San Mountain... Next week the Pocha Crew will continue reviewing Start Up (5-6), Tale of the Nine Tailed (7-8), and Record of Youth (15-16). Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieExtra-CurricularMystic Popup BarSF8
No Andy this week but we have a KDrama packed episode for you guys. We talk about the new Black Pink documentary & Kingdom season 1 starting 2:23. Our reviews this week are Record of Youth (Ep: 11-12) @ 20:15, Tale of the Nine Tailed (Ep: 3-4) @ 34:15, and new drama Start Up (Ep: 1-2) @ 50:58.Next week the Pocha Crew will continue reviewing Start Up (3-4), Tale of the Nine Tailed (5-6), and Record of Youth (13-14). Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieExtra-CurricularMystic Popup BarSF8
The Pocha Crew starts off this spooky episode by reviewing the horror movie Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum which we all watched together @ 3:15. Terry gives us some free Amazon Prime movies to NOT watch and Jenny finishes reviewing School Nurse Files (Ep: 4-6) @ 19:46. We FINALLY finish the last episode of SF8 (Ep: 8) @ 27:00, review the crazy drama stirring in Record of Youth (Ep: 9-10) @ 31:38, and we start the new drama Tale of the Nine Tailed (Ep: 1-2) @ 58:21. SF8 unfortunately did not go out with a bang like we all hoped, and Terry’s bro code radar is raising all the alarms. Also… we figure out that Tale of the Nine Tailed is basically Inuyasha?? Next week the Pocha Crew will continue reviewing Record of Youth episodes 11-12, and Tale of the Nine Tailed 3-4. We will also be starting the new Bae Suzy drama Start Up! Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieExtra-CurricularMystic Popup BarSF8
Happy October everyone, get ready for lots of spooky stuff this month. Great recommendations (both American and Korean) @ 5:34 then we get into our drama reviews. Unfortunately, due to Chuseok there was no episode 8 of SF8, so that got pushed to next week. We start by giving a School Nurse Files (Ep: 1-3) explanation @ 23:11 and then Record of Youth (Ep: 7-8) @ 35:47. School Nurse Files must be the trippiest KDrama of 2020 hands down. Lots of bro code breaking in Record of Youth has got Terry heated but our boy Shark Boy is finally on the come up. Next week the Pocha Crew will finally be reviewing the finale of SF8 episode 8, Record of Youth episodes 9-10, and we will be starting the long awaited new drama Tale of the Nine Tailed 1-2! Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieExtra-CurricularMystic Popup Bar
Pocha Crew is back with another HOT episode that will make you whistle like a missile. Eugene Choi recommendations @ 1:25 plus Jenny and Brandon did their homework and cover Fight My Way and Arthdal Chronicles. This week we review the long awaited Siwon episode of SF8 (Ep: 7) @ 15:23, Flower of Evil Finale (Ep: 16) @ 25:36, and we continue Record of Youth (Ep: 5-6) @ 35:57. Episode 7 of SF8 did NOT live up to its hype but still a pretty cute episode. On that topic we still think episode 15 of FoE should have been the finale. Nevertheless, FoE has officially secured spot number 5 in our 2020 Playlist! 3/4ths of the Pocha Crew is LOVING Record of Youth though so stay tuned for that ranking to come... it may break the top 5 as well which means one show must go down. Next week the Pocha Crew will be reviewing the finale of SF8 episode 8, Record of Youth episodes 7-8, and we will be starting the new drama School Nurse Files 1-3! Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieExtra-CurricularMystic Popup Bar
This week there are two episiodes of the podcast going up, both of them longer than normal. This one, episode one hundred, is the hundredth-episode special and is an hour and a half long. It looks at the early career of the Beatles, and at the three recordings of "Love Me Do". Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "Misirlou" by Dick Dale and the Deltones. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ ----more---- Resources No Mixclouds this week, as both episodes have far too many songs by one artist. The mixclouds will be back with episode 101. While there are many books on the Beatles, and I have read dozens of them, only one needs to be mentioned as a reference for this episode (others will be used for others). All These Years Vol 1: Tune In by Mark Lewisohn is simply the *only* book worth reading on the Beatles' career up to the end of 1962. It is the most detailed, most accurate, biography imaginable, and the gold standard by which all other biographies of musicians should be measured. I only wish volumes two and three were available already so I could not expect my future episodes on the Beatles to be obsolete when they do come out. There are two versions of the book -- a nine-hundred page mass-market version and a 1700-page expanded edition. I recommend the latter. The information in this podcast is almost all from Lewisohn's book, but I must emphasise that the opinions are mine, and so are any errors -- Lewisohn's book only has one error that I'm aware of (a joke attributed to the comedian Jasper Carrott in a footnote that has since been traced to an earlier radio show). I am only mortal, and so have doubtless misunderstood or oversimplified things and introduced errors where he had none. The single version of "Love Me Do" can be found on Past Masters, a 2-CD compilation of the Beatles' non-album tracks that includes the majority of their singles and B-sides. The version with Andy White playing on can be found on Please Please Me. The version with Pete Best, and many of the other early tracks used here, is on Anthology 1. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Errata I pronounce the name of Lewisohn's book as "All Those Years" instead of "All These Years". I say " The Jets hadn't liked playing at Williams' club" at one point. I meant "at Koschmider's club" Transcript The Beatles came closer than most people realise to never making a record. Until the publication of Mark Lewisohn's seminal biography All These Years vol 1: Tune In, in 2013 everyone thought they knew the true story -- John met Paul at Woolton Village Fete in 1957, and Paul joined the Quarrymen, who later became the Beatles. They played Hamburg and made a demo, and after the Beatles' demo was turned down by Decca, their manager Brian Epstein shopped it around every record label without success, until finally George Martin heard the potential in it and signed them to Parlophone, a label which was otherwise known for comedy records. Martin was, luckily, the one producer in the whole of the UK who could appreciate the Beatles' music, and he signed them up, and the rest was history. The problem is, as Lewisohn showed, that's not what happened. Today I'm going to tell, as best I can the story of how the Beatles actually became the band that they became, and how they got signed to EMI records. I'm going to tell you the story of "Love Me Do": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Love Me Do (single version)"] As I mentioned at the beginning, this episode owes a *huge* debt to Mark Lewisohn's book. I like to acknowledge my sources, anyway, but I've actually had difficulty with this episode because Lewisohn's book is *so* detailed, *so* full, and written *so* well that much of the effort in writing this episode came from paring down the information, rather than finding more, and from reworking things so I was not just paraphrasing bits of his writing. Normally I rely on many sources, and integrate the material myself, but Lewisohn has done all that work far better than any other biographer of any other musician. Were the Beatles not such an important part of music history, I would just skip this episode because there is nothing for me to add. As it is, I *obviously* have to cover this, but I almost feel like I'm cheating in doing so. If you find this episode interesting at all, please do yourself a favour and buy that book. This episode is going to be a long one -- much longer than normal. I won't know the precise length until after I've recorded and edited it, of course, but I'm guessing it's going to be about ninety minutes. This is the hundredth episode, the end of the second year of the podcast, the end of the second book based on the podcast, and the introduction of the single most important band in the whole story, so I'm going to stretch out a bit. I should also mention that there are a couple of discussions of sudden, traumatic, deaths in this episode. With all that said, settle in, this is going to take a while. Every British act we've looked at so far -- and many of those we're going to look at in the next year or two -- was based in London. Either they grew up there, or they moved there before their musical career really took off. The Beatles, during the time we're covering in this episode, were based in Liverpool. While they did eventually move to London, it wasn't until after they'd started having hits. And what listeners from outside the UK might not realise is what that means in terms of attitudes and perceptions. Liverpool is a large city -- it currently has a population of around half a million, and the wider Liverpool metropolitan area is closer to two million -- but like all British cities other than London, it was regarded largely as a joke in the British media, and so in return the people of Liverpool had a healthy contempt for London. To give Americans some idea of how London dominates in Britain, and thus how it's thought of outside London, imagine that New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles were all the same city -- that the financial, media, and political centres of the country were all the same place. Now further imagine that Silicon Valley and all the Ivy League universities were half an hour's drive from that city. Now, imagine how much worse the attitudes that that city would have about so-called "flyover states" would be, and imagine in return how people in large Midwestern cities like Detroit or Chicago would think about that big city. In this analogy, Liverpool is Detroit, and like Detroit, it was very poor and had produced a few famous musicians, most notably Billy Fury, who was from an impoverished area of Liverpool called the Dingle: [Excerpt: Billy Fury, "Halfway to Paradise"] But Fury had, of course, moved to London to have his career. That's what you did. But in general, Liverpool, if people in London thought of it at all, was thought of as a provincial backwater full of poor people, many of them Irish, and all of them talking with a ridiculous accent. Liverpool was ignored by London, and that meant that things could develop there out of sight. The story of the Beatles starts in the 1950s, with two young men in their mid-teens. John Winston Lennon was born in 1940, and had had a rather troubled childhood. His father had been a merchant seaman who had been away in the war, and his parents' relationship had deteriorated for that and other reasons. As a result, Lennon had barely known his father, and when his mother met another man, Lennon's aunt, Mary Smith, who he always called Mimi, had taken him in, believing that his mother "living in sin" would be a bad influence on the young boy. The Smith family were the kind of lower middle class family that seemed extremely rich to the impoverished families in Liverpool, but were not well off by any absolute standard. Mimi, in particular, was torn between two very different urges. On one hand, she had strongly bohemian, artistic, urges -- as did all of her sisters. She was a voracious reader, and a lover of art history, and encouraged these tendencies in John. But at the same time, she was of that class which has a little status, but not much security, and so she was extremely wary of the need to appear respectable. This tension between respectability and rebellion was something that would appear in many of the people who Lennon later worked with, such as Brian Epstein and George Martin, and it was something that Lennon would always respond to -- those people would be the only ones who Lennon would ever view as authority figures he could respect, though he would also resent them at times. And it might be that combination of rebellion and respectability that Lennon saw in Paul McCartney. McCartney was from a family who, in the Byzantine world of the British class system of the time, were a notch or so lower than the Smith family who raised Lennon, but he was academically bright, and his family had big plans for him -- they thought that it might even be possible that he might become a teacher if he worked very hard at school. McCartney was a far less openly rebellious person than Lennon was, but he was still just as caught up in the music and fashions of the mid-fifties that his father associated with street gangs and hooliganism. Lennon, like many teenagers in Britain at the time, had had his life changed when he first heard Elvis Presley, and he had soon become a rock and roll obsessive -- Elvis was always his absolute favourite, but he also loved Little Richard, who he thought was almost as good, and he admired Buddy Holly, who had a special place in Lennon's heart as Holly wore glasses on stage, something that Lennon, who was extremely short-sighted, could never bring himself to do, but which at least showed him that it was a possibility. Lennon was, by his mid-teens, recreating a relationship with his mother, and one of the things they bonded over was music -- she taught him how to play the banjo, and together they worked out the chords to "That'll Be the Day", and Lennon later switched to the guitar, playing banjo chords on five of the six strings. Like many, many, teenagers of the time, Lennon also formed a skiffle group, which he called the Quarrymen, after a line in his school song. The group tended to have a rotating lineup, but Lennon was the unquestioned leader. The group had a repertoire consisting of the same Lonnie Donegan songs that every other skiffle group was playing, plus any Elvis and Buddy Holly songs that could sound reasonable with a lineup of guitars, teachest bass, and washboard. The moment that changed the history of the music, though, came on July the sixth, 1957, when Ivan Vaughan, a friend of Lennon's, invited his friend Paul McCartney to go and see the Quarry Men perform at Woolton Village Fete. That day has gone down in history as "the day John met Paul", although Mark Lewisohn has since discovered that Lennon and McCartney had briefly met once before. It is, though, the day on which Lennon and McCartney first impressed each other musically. McCartney talks about being particularly impressed that the Quarry Men's lead singer was changing the lyrics to the songs he was performing, making up new words when he forgot the originals -- he says in particular that he remembers Lennon singing "Come Go With Me" by the Del-Vikings: [Excerpt: The Del-Vikings, "Come Go With Me"] McCartney remembers Lennon as changing the lyrics to "come go with me, right down to the penitentiary", and thinking that was clever. Astonishingly, some audio recording actually exists of the Quarry Men's second performance that day -- they did two sets, and this second one comes just after Lennon met McCartney rather than just before. The recording only seems to exist in a very fragmentary form, which has snatches of Lennon singing "Baby Let's Play House" and Lonnie Donegan's hit "Puttin' on the Style", which was number one on the charts at the time, but that even those fragments have survived, given how historic a day this was, is almost miraculous: [Excerpt: The Quarrymen, "Puttin' on the Style"] After the first set, Lennon met McCartney, who was nearly two years younger, but a more accomplished musician -- for a start, he knew how to tune the guitar with all six strings, and to proper guitar tuning, rather than tuning five strings like a banjo. Lennon and his friends were a little nonplussed by McCartney holding his guitar upside-down at first -- McCartney is left-handed -- but despite having an upside-down guitar with the wrong tuning, McCartney managed to bash out a version of Eddie Cochran's "Twenty-Flight Rock", a song he would often perform in later decades when reminding people of this story: [Excerpt: Paul McCartney, "Twenty-Flight Rock"] This was impressive to Lennon for three reasons. The first was that McCartney was already a strong, confident performer -- he perhaps seemed a little more confident than he really was, showing off in front of the bigger boys like this. The second was that "Twenty-Flight Rock" was a moderately obscure song -- it hadn't charted, but it *had* appeared in The Girl Can't Help It, a film which every rock and roll lover in Britain had watched at the cinema over and over. Choosing that song rather than, say, "Be-Bop-A-Lula", was a way of announcing a kind of group affiliation -- "I am one of you, I am a real rock and roll fan, not just a casual listener to what's in the charts". I stress that second point because it's something that's very important in the history of the Beatles generally -- they were *music fans*, and often fans of relatively obscure records. That's something that bound Lennon and McCartney, and later the other members, together from the start, and something they always noted about other musicians. They weren't the kind of systematic scholars who track down rare pressings and memorise every session musician's name, but they were constantly drawn to find the best new music, and to seek it out wherever they could. But the most impressive thing for Lennon -- and one that seems a little calculated on McCartney's part, though he's never said that he thought about this that I'm aware of -- was that this was an extremely wordy song, and McCartney *knew all the words*. Remember that McCartney had noticed Lennon forgetting the words to a song with lyrics as simple as "come, come, come, come, come into my heart/Tell me darling we will never part", and here's McCartney singing this fast-paced, almost patter song, and getting the words right. From the beginning, McCartney was showing how he could complement Lennon -- if Lennon could impress McCartney by improvising new lyrics when he forgot the old ones, then McCartney could impress Lennon by remembering the lyrics that Lennon couldn't -- and by writing them down for Lennon, sharing his knowledge freely. McCartney went on to show off more, and in particular impressed Lennon by going to a piano and showing off his Little Richard imitation. Little Richard was the only serious rival to Elvis in Lennon's affections, and McCartney could do a very decent imitation of him. This was someone special, clearly. But this put Lennon in a quandary. McCartney was clearly far, far, better than any of the Quarry Men -- at least Lennon's equal, and light years ahead of the rest of them. Lennon had a choice -- invite this young freak of nature into his band, and improve the band dramatically, but no longer be the unquestioned centre of the group, or remain in absolute control but not have someone in the group who *knew the words* and *knew how to tune a guitar*, and other such magical abilities that no mere mortals had. Those who only know of Lennon from his later reputation as a massive egoist would be surprised, but he decided fairly quickly that he had to make the group better at his own expense. He invited McCartney to join the group, and McCartney said yes. Over the next few months the membership of the Quarry Men changed. They'd been formed while they were all at Quarry Bank Grammar School, but that summer Lennon moved on to art school. I'm going to have to talk about the art school system, and the British education system of the fifties and early sixties a lot over the next few months, but here's an extremely abbreviated and inaccurate version that's good enough for now. Between the ages of eleven and sixteen, people in Britain -- at least those without extremely rich parents, who had a different system -- went to two kinds of school depending on the result of an exam they took aged eleven, which was based on some since-discredited eugenic research about children's potential. If you passed the exam, you were considered academically apt, and went to a grammar school, which was designed to filter you through to university and the professions. If you failed the exam, you went to a secondary modern, which was designed to give you the skills to get a trade and make a living working with your hands. And for the most part, people followed the pipeline that was set up for them. You go to grammar school, go to university, become a lawyer or a doctor or a teacher. You go to secondary modern, leave school at fourteen, become a plumber or a builder or a factory worker. But there are always those people who don't properly fit into the neat categories that the world tries to put them in. And for people in their late teens and early twenties, people who'd been through the school system but not been shaped properly by it, there was another option at this time. If you were bright and creative, but weren't suited for university because you'd failed your exams, you could go to art school. The supposed purpose of the art schools was to teach people to do commercial art, and they would learn skills like lettering and basic draughtsmanship. But what the art schools really did was give creative people space to explore ideas, to find out about areas of art and culture that would otherwise have been closed to them. Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Ian Dury, Ray Davies, Bryan Ferry, Syd Barrett, and many more people we'll be seeing over the course of this story went to art school, and as David Bowie would put it later, the joke at the time was that you went to art school to learn to play blues guitar. With Lennon and his friends all moving on from the school that had drawn them together, the group stabilised for a time on a lineup of Lennon, McCartney, Colin Hanton, Len Garry, and Eric Griffiths. But the first time this version of the group played live, while McCartney sang well, he totally fluffed his lead guitar lines on stage. While there were three guitarists in the band at this point, they needed someone who could play lead fluently and confidently on stage. Enter George Harrison, who had suddenly become a close friend of McCartney. Harrison went to the same school as McCartney -- a grammar school called the Liverpool Institute, but was in the year below McCartney, and so the two had always been a bit distant. However, at the same time as Lennon was moving on to art school after failing his exams, McCartney was being kept back a year for failing Latin -- which his father always thought was deliberate, so he wouldn't have to go to university. Now he was in the same year at school as Harrison, and they started hanging out together. The two bonded strongly over music, and would do things like take a bus journey to another part of town, where someone lived who they heard owned a copy of "Searchin'" by the Coasters: [Excerpt: The Coasters, "Searchin'"] The two knocked on this stranger's door, asked if he'd play them this prized record, and he agreed -- and then they stole it from him as they left his house. Another time they took the bus to another part of town again, because they'd heard that someone in that part of town knew how to play a B7 chord on his guitar, and sat there as he showed them. So now the Quarrymen needed a lead guitarist, McCartney volunteered his young mate. There are a couple of stories about how Harrison came to join the band -- apparently he auditioned for Lennon at least twice, because Lennon was very unsure about having such a young kid in his band -- but the story I like best is that Harrison took his guitar to a Quarry Men gig at Wilson Hall -- he'd apparently often take his guitar to gigs and just see if he could sit in with the bands. On the bill with the Quarry Men was another group, the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group, who were generally regarded as the best skiffle band in Liverpool. Lennon told Harrison that he could join the band if he could play as well as Clayton, and Harrison took out his guitar and played "Raunchy": [Excerpt: Bill Justis, "Raunchy"] I like this story rather than the other story that the members would tell later -- that Harrison played "Raunchy" on a bus for Lennon -- for one reason. The drummer in the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group was one Richy Starkey, and if it happened that way, the day that George joined the Quarry Men was also the day that John, Paul, George, and Ringo were all in the same place for the first time. George looked up to John and essentially idolised him, though Lennon thought of him as a little annoying at times -- he'd follow John everywhere, and not take a hint when he wasn't wanted sometimes, just eager to be with his big cool new mate. But despite this tiny bit of tension, John, Paul, and George quickly became a solid unit -- helped by the fact that the school that Paul and George went to was part of the same complex of buildings as Lennon's art college, so they'd all get the bus there and back together. George was not only younger, he was a notch or two further down the social class ladder than John or Paul, and he spoke more slowly, which made him seem less intelligent. He came from Speke, which was a rougher area, and he would dress even more like a juvenile delinquent than the others. Meanwhile, Len Garry and Eric Griffiths left the group -- Len Garry because he became ill and had to spend time in hospital, and anyway they didn't really need a teachest bass. What they did need was an electric bass, and since they had four guitars now they tried to persuade Eric to get one, but he didn't want to pay that much money, and he was always a little on the outside of the main three members, as he didn't share their sense of humour. So the group got Nigel Walley, who was acting as the group's manager, to fire him. The group was now John, Paul, and George all on guitars, and Colin Hanton on drums. Sometimes, if they played a venue that had a piano, they'd also bring along a schoolfriend of Paul's, John "Duff" Lowe, to play piano. Meanwhile, the group were growing in other ways. Both John and Paul had started writing songs, together and apart. McCartney seems to have been the first, writing a song called "I Lost My Little Girl" which he would eventually record more than thirty years later: [Excerpt: Paul McCartney, "I Lost My Little Girl"] Lennon's first song likewise sang about a little girl, this time being "Hello, Little Girl". By the middle of 1958, this five-piece group was ready to cut their first record -- at a local studio that would cut a single copy of a disc for you. They went into this studio at some time around July 1958, and recorded two songs. The first was their version of "That'll Be the Day": [Excerpt: The Quarry Men, "That'll be the Day"] The B-side was a song that McCartney had written, with a guitar solo that George had come up with, so the label credit read "McCartney/Harrison". "In Spite of All the Danger" seems to have been inspired by Elvis' "Trying to Get to You": [Excerpt: Elvis Presley, "Trying to Get to You"] It's a rough song, but a good attempt for a teenager who had only just started writing songs: [Excerpt: The Quarry Men, "In Spite of All the Danger"] Apparently Lowe and Hanton hadn't heard the song before they started playing, but they make a decent enough fist of it in the circumstances. Lennon took the lead even though it was McCartney's song -- he said later "I was such a bully in those days I didn’t even let Paul sing his own song." That was about the last time that this lineup of Quarry Men played together. In July, the month that seems likely for the recording, Lowe finished at the Liverpool Institute, and so he drifted away from McCartney and Harrison. Meanwhile Hanton had a huge row with the others after a show, and they fell out and never spoke again. The Quarry Men were reduced to a trio of Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison. But -- possibly the very day after that recording if an unreliable plaque at the studio where they recorded it is to be believed -- something happened which was to have far more impact on the group than the drummer leaving. John Lennon's mother, with whom he'd slowly been repairing his relationship, had called round to visit Mimi. She left the house, and bumped into Nigel Walley, who was calling round to see John. She told him he wasn't there, and that he could walk with her to the bus stop. They walked a little while, then went off in different directions. Walley heard a thump and turned round -- Julia Lennon had been hit by a car and killed instantly. As you can imagine, John's mother dying caused him a huge amount of distress, but it also gave him a bond with McCartney, whose own mother had died of cancer shortly before they met. Neither really spoke about it to each other, and to the extent they did it was with ultra-cynical humour -- but the two now shared something deeper than just the music, even though the music itself was deep enough. Lennon became a much harder, nastier, person after this, at least for a time, his natural wit taking on a dark edge, and he would often drink too much and get aggressive. But life still went on, and John, Paul, and George kept trying to perform -- though the gigs dried up, and they didn't have a drummer any more. They'd just say "the rhythm's in the guitars" when asked why they didn't have one. They were also no longer the Quarry Men -- they didn't have a name. At one point late in the year, they also only had two guitars between the three of them -- Lennon seems to have smashed his in a fit of fury after his mother's death. But he stole one backstage at a talent contest, and soon they were back to having three. That talent show was one run by Carroll Levis, who we talked about before in the episode on "Shakin' All Over". The three boys went on Levis' show, this time performing as Johnny & The Moondogs -- in Manchester, at the Hippodrome in Ancoats, singing Buddy Holly's "Think it Over": [Excerpt: The Crickets, "Think it Over"] Lennon sang lead with his arms draped over the shoulders of Paul and George, who sang backing vocals and played guitar. They apparently did quite well, but had to leave before the show finished to get the last train back to Liverpool, and so never found out whether the audience would have made them the winner, with the possibility of a TV appearance. They did well enough, though, to impress a couple of other young lads on the bill, two Manchester singers named Allan Clarke and Graham Nash. But in general, the Japage Three, a portmanteau of their names that they settled on as their most usual group name at this point, played very little in 1959 -- indeed, George spent much of the early part of the year moonlighting in the Les Stewart Quartet, another group, though he still thought of Lennon and McCartney as his musical soulmates; the Les Stewart Quartet were just a gig. The three of them would spend much of their time at the Jacaranda, a coffee bar opened by a Liverpool entrepreneur, Allan Williams, in imitation of the 2is, which was owned by a friend of his. Lennon was also spending a lot of time with an older student at his art school, Stuart Sutcliffe, one of the few people in the world that Lennon himself looked up to. The Les Stewart Quartet would end up indirectly being key to the Beatles' development, because after one of their shows at a local youth club they were approached by a woman named Mona Best. Mona's son Pete liked to go to the youth club, but she was fairly protective of him, and also wanted him to have more friends -- he was a quiet boy who didn't make friends easily. So she'd hit upon a plan -- she'd open her own club in her cellar, since the Best family were rich enough to have a big house. If there was a club *in Pete's house* he'd definitely make lots of friends. They needed a band, and she asked the Les Stewart Quartet if they'd like to be the resident band at this new club, the Casbah, and also if they'd like to help decorate it. They said yes, but then Paul and George went on a hitch-hiking holiday around Wales for a few days, and George didn't get back in time to play a gig the quartet had booked. Ken Brown, the other guitarist, didn't turn up either, and Les Stewart got into a rage and split the group. Suddenly, the Casbah had no group -- George and Ken were willing to play, but neither was a lead singer -- and no decorators either. So George roped in John and Paul, who helped decorate the place, and with the addition of Ken Brown, the group returned to the Quarry Men name for their regular Saturday night gig at the Casbah. The group had no bass player or drummer, and they all kept pestering everyone they knew to get a bass or a drum kit, but nobody would bite. But then Stuart Sutcliffe got half a painting in an exhibition put on by John Moores, the millionaire owner of Littlewoods, who was a big patron of the arts in Liverpool. I say he got half a painting in the exhibition, because the painting was done on two large boards -- Stuart and his friends took the first half of the painting down to the gallery, went back to get the other half, and got distracted by the pub and never brought it. But Moores was impressed enough with the abstract painting that he bought it at the end of the exhibition's run, for ninety pounds -- about two thousand pounds in today's money. And so Stuart's friends gave him a choice -- he could either buy a bass or a drum kit, either would be fine. He chose the bass. But the same week that Stuart joined, Ken Brown was out, and they lost their gig at the Casbah. John, Paul, George and Ken had turned up one Saturday, and Ken hadn't felt well, so instead of performing he just worked on the door. At the end of the show, Mona Best insisted on giving Ken an equal share of the money, as agreed. John, Paul, and George wouldn't stand for that, and so Ken was out of the group, and they were no longer playing for Mona Best. Stuart joining the group caused tensions -- George was fine with him, thinking that a bass player who didn't yet know how to play was better than no bass player at all, but Paul was much less keen. Partly this was because he thought the group needed to get better, which would be hard with someone who couldn't play, but also he was getting jealous of Sutcliffe's closeness to Lennon, especially when the two became flatmates. But John wanted him in the group, and what John wanted, he got. There are recordings of the group around this time that circulate -- only one has been released officially, a McCartney instrumental called "Cayenne", but the others are out there if you look: [Excerpt: The Quarry Men, "Cayenne"] The gigs had dried up again, but they did have one new advantage -- they now had a name they actually liked. John and Stuart had come up with it, inspired by Buddy Holly's Crickets. They were going to be Beatles, with an a. Shortly after the Beatles' first appearance under that name, at the art school student union, came the Liverpool gig which was to have had Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent headlining, before Cochran died. A lot of Liverpool groups were booked to play on the bill there, but not the Beatles -- though Richy Starkey was going to play the gig, with his latest group Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Allan Williams, the local promoter, added extra groups to fill out the bill, including Gerry and the Pacemakers, and suddenly everyone who loved rock and roll in Liverpool realised that there were others out there like them. Overnight, a scene had been born. And where there's a scene, there's money to be made. Larry Parnes, who had been the national promoter of the tour, was at the show and realised that there were a lot of quite proficient musicians in Liverpool. And it so happened that he needed backing bands for three of his artists who were going on tour, separately -- two minor stars, Duffy Power and Johnny Gentle, and one big star, Billy Fury. And both Gentle and Fury were from Liverpool themselves. So Parnes asked Allan Williams to set up auditions with some of the local groups. Williams invited several groups, and one he asked along was the Beatles, largely because Lennon and Sutcliffe begged him. He also found them a drummer, Tommy Moore, who was a decade older than the rest of them -- though Moore didn't turn up to the audition because he had to work, and so Johnny "Hutch" Hutchinson of Cass and the Cassanovas sat in with them, much to Hutch's disgust -- he hated the Beatles, and especially Lennon. Cass of the Cassanovas also insisted that "the Beatles" was a stupid name, and that the group needed to be Something and the Somethings, and he suggested Long John and the Silver Beatles, and that stuck for a couple of shows before they reverted to their proper name. The Beatles weren't chosen for any of the main tours that were being booked, but then Parnes phoned Williams up -- there were some extra dates on the Johnny Gentle tour that he hadn't yet booked a group for. Could Williams find him a band who could be in Scotland that Friday night for a nine-day tour? Williams tried Cass and the Cassanovas, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, and Gerry and the Pacemakers, but none of them could go on tour at such short notice. They all had gigs booked, or day jobs they had to book time off with. The Beatles had no gigs booked, and only George had a day job, and he didn't mind just quitting that. They were off to Scotland. They were so inspired by being on tour with a Larry Parnes artist that most of them took on new names just like those big stars -- George became Carl Harrison, after Carl Perkins, Stuart became Stuart de Staël, after his favourite painter, and Paul became Paul Ramon, which he thought sounded mysterious and French. There's some question about whether John took on a new name -- some sources have him becoming "Long John", while others say he was "Johnny" Lennon rather than John. Tommy Moore, meanwhile, was just Thomas Moore. It was on this tour, of course, that Lennon helped Johnny Gentle write "I've Just Fallen For Someone", which we talked about last week: [Excerpt: Darren Young, "I've Just Fallen For Someone"] The tour was apparently fairly miserable, with horrible accommodation, poor musicianship from the group, and everyone getting on everyone's nerves -- George and Stuart got into fistfights, John bullied Stuart a bit because of his poor playing, and John particularly didn't get on well with Moore -- a man who was a decade older, didn't share their taste in music, and worked in a factory rather than having the intellectual aspirations of the group. The two hated each other by the end of the tour. But the tour did also give the group the experience of signing autographs, and of feeling like stars in at least a minor way. When they got back to Liverpool, George moved in with John and Stuart, to get away from his mum telling him to get a proper job, and they got a few more bookings thanks to Williams, but they soon became drummerless -- they turned up to a gig one time to find that Tommy Moore wasn't there. They went round to his house, and his wife shouted from an upstairs window, "Yez can piss off, he's had enough of yez and gone back to work at the bottle factory". The now four-piece group carried on, however, and recordings exist of them in this period, sounding much more professional than only a few months before, including performances of some of their own songs. The most entertaining of these is probably "You'll Be Mine", an Ink Spots parody with some absurd wordplay from Lennon: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "You'll Be Mine"] Soon enough the group found another drummer, Norm Chapman, and carried on as before, getting regular bookings thanks to Williams. There was soon a temporary guest at the flat John, Stuart, and George shared with several other people -- Royston Ellis, the Beat poet and friend of the Shadows, had turned up in Liverpool and latched on to the group, partly because he fancied George. He performed with them a couple of times, crashed at the flat, and provided them with two formative experiences -- he gave them their first national press, talking in Record and Show Mirror about how he wanted them to be his full-time group, and he gave them their first drug experience, showing them how to get amphetamines out of inhalers. While the group's first national press was positive, there was soon some very negative press indeed associated with them. A tabloid newspaper wanted to do a smear story about the dangerous Beatnik menace. The article talked about how "they revel in filth", and how beatniks were "a dangerous menace to our young people… a corrupting influence of drug addicts and peddlers, degenerates who specialise in obscene orgies". And for some reason -- it's never been made clear exactly how -- the beatnik "pad" they chose to photograph for this story was the one that John, Stuart, and George lived in, though they weren't there at the time -- several of their friends and associates are in the pictures though. They were all kicked out of their flat, and moved back in with their families, and around this time they lost Chapman from the group too -- he was called up to do his National Service, one of the last people to be conscripted before conscription ended for good. They were back to a four-piece again, and for a while Paul was drumming. But then, as seems to have happened so often with this group, a bizarre coincidence happened. A while earlier, Allan Williams had travelled to Hamburg, with the idea of trying to get Liverpool groups booked there. He'd met up with Bruno Koschmider, the owner of a club called the Kaiserkeller. Koschmider had liked the idea, but nothing had come of it, partly because neither could speak the other's language well. A little while later, Koschmider had remembered the idea and come over to the UK to find musicians. He didn't remember where Williams was from, so of course he went to London, to the 2is, and there he found a group of musicians including Tony Sheridan, who we talked about back in the episode on "Brand New Cadillac", the man who'd been Vince Taylor's lead guitarist and had a minor solo career: [Excerpt: Tony Sheridan, "Why?"] Sheridan was one of the most impressive musicians in Britain, but he also wanted to skip the country -- he'd just bought a guitar on credit in someone else's name, and he also had a wife and six-month-old baby he wanted rid of. He eagerly went off with Koschmider, and a scratch group called the Jets soon took up residence at the Kaiserkeller. Meanwhile, in Liverpool, Derry and the Seniors were annoyed. Larry Parnes had booked them for a tour, but then he'd got annoyed at the unprofessionalism of the Liverpool bands he was booking and cancelled the booking, severing his relationship with Williams. The Seniors wanted to know what Williams was going to do about it. There was no way to get them enough gigs in Liverpool, so Williams, being a thoroughly decent man who had a sense of obligation, offered to drive the group down to London to see if they could get work there. He took them to the 2is, and they were allowed to get up and play there, since Williams was a friend of the owner. And Bruno Koschmider was there. The Jets hadn't liked playing at Williams' club, and they'd scarpered to another one with better working conditions, which they helped get off the ground and renamed the Top Ten, after Vince Taylor's club in London. So Bruno had come back to find another group, and there in the same club at the same time was the man who'd given him the idea in the first place, with a group. Koschmider immediately signed up Derry and the Seniors to play at the Kaiserkeller. Meanwhile, the best gig the Beatles could get, also through Williams, was backing a stripper, where they played whatever instrumentals they knew, no matter how inappropriate, things like the theme from The Third Man: [Excerpt: Anton Karas, "Theme from The Third Man"] A tune guaranteed to get the audience into a sexy mood, I'm sure you'll agree. But then Allan Williams got a call from Koschmider. Derry and the Seniors were doing great business, and he'd decided to convert another of his clubs to be a rock and roll club. Could Williams have a group for him by next Friday? Oh, and it needed to be five people. Williams tried Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. They were busy. He tried Cass and the Cassanovas. They were busy. He tried Gerry and the Pacemakers. They were busy. Finally, he tried the Beatles. They weren't busy, and said yes they could go to Hamburg that week. There were a few minor issues, like there not being five of them, none of them having passports, and them not having a drummer. The passports could be sorted quickly -- there's a passport office in Liverpool -- but the lack of a fifth Beatle was more of a problem. In desperation, they turned eventually to Pete Best, Mrs. Best's son, because they knew he had a drum kit. He agreed. Allan Williams drove the group to Hamburg, and they started playing six-hour sets every night at the Indra, not finishing til three in the morning, at which point they'd make their way to their lodgings -- the back of a filthy cinema. By this time, the Beatles had already got good -- Howie Casey, of Derry and the Seniors, who'd remembered the Beatles as being awful at the Johnny Gentle audition, came over to see them and make fun of them, but found that they were far better than they had been. But playing six hours a night got them *very* good *very* quickly -- especially as they decided that they weren't going to play the same song twice in a night, meaning they soon built up a vast repertoire. But right from the start, there was a disconnect between Pete Best and the other four -- they socialised together, and he went off on his own. He was also a weak player -- he was only just starting to learn -- and so the rest of the group would stamp their feet to keep him in time. That, though, also gave them a bit more of a stage act than they might otherwise have had. There are lots of legendary stories about the group's time in Hamburg, and it's impossible to sort fact from fiction, and the bits we can sort out would get this podcast categorised as adult content, but they were teenagers, away from home for a long period for the first time, living in a squalid back room in the red light district of a city with a reputation for vice. I'm sure whatever you imagine is probably about right. After a relatively short time, they were moved from the Indra, which had to stop putting on rock and roll shows, to the Kaiserkeller, where they shared the bill with Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, up to that point considered Liverpool's best band. There's a live recording of the Hurricanes from 1960, which shows that they were certainly powerful: [Excerpt: Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, "Brand New Cadillac"] That recording doesn't have the Hurricanes' normal drummer on, who was sick for that show. But compared to what the Beatles had become -- a stomping powerhouse with John Lennon, whose sense of humour was both cruel and pointed, doing everything he could to get a rise out of the audience -- they were left in the dust. A letter home that George Harrison wrote sums it up -- "Rory Storm & the Hurricanes came out here the other week, and they are crumby. He does a bit of dancing around but it still doesn’t make up for his phoney group. The only person who is any good in the group is the drummer." That drummer was Richy Starkey from the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group, now performing as Ringo Starr. They struck up a friendship, and even performed together at least once -- John, Paul, George, and Ringo acting as the backing group for Lu Walters of the Hurricanes on a demo, which is frustratingly missing and hasn't been heard since. They were making other friends, too. There was Tony Sheridan, who they'd seen on TV, but who would now sometimes jam with them as equals. And there was a trio of arty bohemian types who had stumbled across the club, where they were very out of place -- Astrid Kirscherr, Klaus Voormann, and Jurgen Vollmer. They all latched on to the Beatles, and especially to Stuart, who soon started dating Astrid, despite her speaking no English and him speaking no German. But relations between Koschmider and the Beatles had worsened, and he reported to the police that George, at only seventeen, was under-age. George got deported. The rest of the group decided to move over to the Top Ten Club, and as a parting gift, Paul and Pete nailed some condoms to their bedroom wall and set fire to them. Koschmider decided to report this to the police as attempted arson, and those two were deported as well. John followed a week later, while Stuart stayed in Hamburg for a while, to spend more time with Astrid, who he planned to marry. The other four regrouped, getting in a friend, Chas Newby, as a temporary bass player while Stuart was away. And on the twenty-seventh of December, 1960, when they played Litherland Town Hall, they changed the Liverpool music scene. They were like nothing anyone had ever seen, and the audience didn't dance -- they just rushed to the stage, to be as close to the performance as possible. The Beatles had become the best band in Liverpool. Mark Lewisohn goes further, and suggests that the three months of long nights playing different songs in Hamburg had turned them into the single most experienced rock band *in the world* -- which seems vanishingly unlikely to me, but Lewisohn is not a man given to exaggeration. By this time, Mona Best had largely taken over the group's bookings, and there were a lot of them, as well as a regular spot at the Casbah. Neil Aspinall, a friend of Pete's, started driving them to gigs, while they also had a regular MC, Bob Wooler, who ran many local gigs, and who gave the Beatles their own theme music -- he'd introduce them with the fanfare from Rossini's William Tell Overture: [Excerpt: Rossini, "William Tell Overture"] Stuart came over from Hamburg in early January, and once again the Beatles were a five-piece -- and by now, he could play quite well, well enough, at any rate, that it didn't destroy the momentum the group had gathered. The group were getting more and more bookings, including the venue that would become synonymous with them, the Cavern, a tiny little warehouse cellar that had started as a jazz club, and that the Quarry Men had played once a couple of years earlier, but had been banned from for playing too much rock and roll. Now, the Beatles were getting bookings at the Cavern's lunchtime sessions, and that meant more than it seemed. Most of the gigs they played otherwise were on the outskirts of the city, but the Cavern was in the city centre. And that meant that for the lunchtime sessions, commuters from outside the city were coming to see them -- which meant that the group got fans from anywhere within commuting distance, fans who wanted them to play in their towns. Meanwhile, the group were branching out musically -- they were particularly becoming fascinated by the new R&B, soul, and girl-group records that were coming out in the US. After already having loved "Money" by Barrett Strong, John was also obsessed with the Miracles, and would soon become a fervent fan of anything Motown, and the group were all big fans of the Shirelles. As they weren't playing original material live, and as every group would soon learn every other group's best songs, there was an arms race on to find the most exciting songs to cover. As well as Elvis and Buddy and Eddie, they were now covering the Shirelles and Ray Charles and Gary US Bonds. The group returned to Hamburg in April, Paul and Pete's immigration status having been resolved and George now having turned eighteen, and started playing at the Top Ten club, where they played even longer sets, and more of them, than they had at the Kaiserkeller and the Indra. Tony Sheridan started regularly joining them on stage at this time, and Paul switched to piano while Sheridan added the third guitar. This was also when they started using Preludin, a stimulant related to amphetamines which was prescribed as a diet drug -- Paul would take one pill a night, George a couple, and John would gobble them down. But Pete didn't take them -- one more way in which he was different from the others -- and he started having occasional micro-sleeps in the middle of songs as the long nights got to him, much to the annoyance of the rest of the group. But despite Pete's less than stellar playing they were good enough that Sheridan -- the single most experienced musician in the British rock and roll scene -- described them as the best R&B band he'd ever heard. Once they were there, they severed their relationship with Allan Williams, refusing to pay him his share of the money, and just cutting him out of their careers. Meanwhile, Stuart was starting to get ill. He was having headaches all the time, and had to miss shows on occasion. He was also the only Beatle with a passion for anything else, and he managed to get a scholarship to study art with the famous sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi, who was now working in Hamburg. Paul subbed for Stuart on bass, and eventually Stuart left the group, though on good terms with everyone other than Paul. So it was John, Paul, George and Pete who ended up making the Beatles' first records. Bert Kaempfert, the most important man in the German music industry, had been to see them all at the Top Ten and liked what he saw. Outside Germany, Kaempfert was probably best known for co-writing Elvis' "Wooden Heart", which the Beatles had in their sets at this time: [Excerpt: Elvis Presley, "Wooden Heart"] Kaempfert had signed Tony Sheridan to a contract, and he wanted the Beatles to back him in the studio -- and he was also interested in recording a couple of tracks with them on their own. The group eagerly agreed, and their first session started at eight in the morning on the twenty-second of June 1961, after they had finished playing all night at the club, and all of them but Pete were on Preludin for the session. Stuart came along for moral support, but didn't play. Pete was a problem, though. He wasn't keeping time properly, and Kaempfert eventually insisted on removing his bass drum and toms, leaving only a snare, hi-hat, and ride cymbal for Pete to play. They recorded seven songs at that session in total. Two of them were just by the Beatles. One was a version of "Ain't She Sweet", an old standard which Gene Vincent had recorded fairly recently, but the other was the only track ever credited to Lennon and Harrison as cowriters. On their first trip to Hamburg, they'd wanted to learn "Man of Mystery" by the Shadows: [Excerpt: The Shadows, "Man of Mystery"] But there was a slight problem in that they didn't have a copy of the record, and had never heard it -- it came out in the UK while they were in Germany. So they asked Rory Storm to hum it for them. He hummed a few notes, and Lennon and Harrison wrote a parody of what Storm had sung, which they named "Beatle Bop" but by this point they'd renamed "Cry For a Shadow": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Cry For a Shadow"] The other five songs at the session were given over to Tony Sheridan, with the Beatles backing him, and the song that Kaempfert was most interested in recording was one the group had been performing on stage -- a rocked-up version of the old folk song "My Bonnie": [Excerpt: Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers, "My Bonnie"] That was the record chosen as the single, but it was released not as by Tony Sheridan and the Beatles, but by Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers -- "Beatles", to German ears, sounded a little like "piedels", a childish slang term for penises. The Beatles had made their first record, but it wasn't one they thought much of. They knew they could do better. The next week, the now four-piece Beatles returned to Liverpool, with much crying at Stuart staying behind -- even Paul, now Stuart was no longer a threat for John's attention, was contrite and tried to make amends to him. On their return to Liverpool, they picked up where they had left off, playing almost every night, and spending the days trying to find new records -- often listening to the latest releases at NEMS, a department store with an extensive record selection. Brian Epstein, the shop's manager, prided himself on being able to get any record a customer wanted, and whenever anyone requested anything he'd buy a second copy for the shelves. As a result, you could find records there that you wouldn't get anywhere else in Liverpool, and the Beatles were soon adding more songs by the Shirelles and Gary US Bonds to their sets, as well as more songs by the Coasters and Ben E. King's "Stand By Me". They were playing gigs further afield, and Neil Aspinall was now driving them everywhere. Aspinall was Pete Best's closest friend -- and was having an affair with Pete's mother -- but unlike Pete himself he also became close to the other Beatles, and would remain so for the rest of his life. By this point, the group were so obviously the best band on the Liverpool scene that they were starting to get bored -- there was no competition. And by this point it really was a proper scene -- John's old art school friend Bill Harry had started up a magazine, Mersey Beat, which may be the first magazine anywhere in the world to focus on one area's local music scene. Brian Epstein from NEMS had a column, as did Bob Wooler, and often John's humorous writing would appear as well. The Beatles were featured in most issues -- although Paul McCartney's name was misspelled almost every time it appeared -- and not just because Lennon and Harry were friends. By this point there were the Beatles, and there were all the other groups in the area. For several months this continued -- they learned new songs, they played almost every day, and they continued to be the best. They started to find it boring. The one big change that came at this point was when John and Paul went on holiday to Paris, saw Vince Taylor, bumped into their friend Jurgen from Hamburg, and got Jurgen to do their hair like his -- the story we told in the episode on "Brand New Cadillac". They now had the Beatles haircut, though they were still wearing leather. When they got back, George copied their new style straight away, but Pete decided to leave his hair in a quiff. There was nowhere else to go without a manager to look after them. They needed management -- and they found it because of "My Bonnie": [Excerpt: Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers, "My Bonnie"] "My Bonnie" was far from a great record, but it was what led to everything that followed. The Beatles had mentioned from the stage at the Cavern that they had a record out, and a young man named Raymond Jones walked into NEMS and asked for a copy of it. Brian Epstein couldn't find it in the record company catalogues, and asked Jones for more information -- Jones explained that they were a Liverpool group, but the record had come out in Germany. A couple of days later, two young girls came into the shop asking for the same record, and now Epstein was properly intrigued -- in his view, if *two* people asked for a record, that probably meant a lot more than just two people wanted it. He decided to check these Beatles out for himself. Epstein was instantly struck by the group, and this has led to a lot of speculation over the years, because his tastes ran more to Sibelius than to Little Richard. As Epstein was also gay, many people have assumed that the attraction was purely physical. And it might well have been, at least in part, but the suggestion that everything that followed was just because of that seems unlikely -- Epstein was also someone who had a long interest in the arts, and had trained as an actor at RADA, the most prestigious actors' college in the UK, before taking up his job at the family store. Given that the Beatles were soon to become the most popular musicians in the history of the world, and were already the most popular musicians in the Liverpool area, the most reasonable assumption must be that Epstein was impressed by the same things that impressed roughly a billion other people over the next sixty years. Epstein started going to the Cavern regularly, to watch the Beatles and to make plans -- the immaculately dressed, public-school-educated, older rich man stood out among the crowd, and the Beatles already knew his face from his record shop, and so they knew something was going on. By late November, Brian had managed to obtain a box of twenty-five copies of "My Bonnie", and they'd sold out within hours. He set up a meeting with the Beatles, and even before he got them signed to a management contract he was using his contacts with the record industry in London to push the Beatles at record companies. Those companies listened to Brian, because NEMS was one of their biggest customers. December 1961, the month they signed with Brian Epstein, was also the month that they finally started including Lennon/McCartney songs in their sets. And within a couple of weeks of becoming their manager, even before he'd signed them to a contract, Brian had managed to persuade Mike Smith, an A&R man from Decca, to come to the Cavern to see the group in person. He was impressed, and booked them in for a studio session. December 61 was also the first time that John, Paul, George, and Ringo played together in that lineup, without any other musicians, when on the twenty-seventh of December Pete called in sick for a show, and the others got in their friend to cover for him. It wouldn't be the last time they would play together. On New Year's Day 1962, the Beatles made the trek down to London to record fifteen songs at the Decca studios. The session was intended for two purposes -- to see if they sounded as good on tape as they did in the Cavern, and if they did to produce their first single. Those recordings included the core of their Cavern repertoire, songs like "Money": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Money (Decca version)"] They also recorded three Lennon/McCartney songs, two by Paul -- "Love of the Loved" and "Like Dreamers Do": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Like Dreamers Do"] And one by Lennon -- "Hello Little Girl": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hello Little Girl"] And they were Lennon/McCartney songs, even though they were written separately -- the two agreed that they were going to split the credit on anything either of them wrote. The session didn't go well -- the group's equipment wasn't up to standard and they had to use studio amps, and they're all audibly nervous -- but Mike Smith was still fairly confident that they'd be releasing something through Decca -- he just had to work out the details with his boss, Dick Rowe. Meanwhile, the group were making other changes. Brian suggested that they could get more money if they wore suits, and so they agreed -- though they didn't want just any suits, they wanted stylish mohair suits, like the black American groups they loved so much. The Beatles were now a proper professional group -- but unfortunately, Decca turned them down. Dick Rowe, Mike Smith's boss, didn't think that electric guitars were going to become a big thing -- he was very tuned in to the American trends, and nothing with guitars was charting at the time. Smith was considering two groups -- the Beatles, and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, and wanted to sign both. Rowe told him that he could sign one, but only one, of them. The Tremeloes had been better in the studio, and they lived round the corner from Smith and were friendly with him. There was no contest -- much as Smith wanted to sign both groups, the Tremeloes were the better prospect. Rowe did make an offer to Epstein: if Epstein would pay a hundred pounds (a *lot* of money in those days), Tony Meehan, formerly of the Shadows, would produce the group in another session, and Decca would release that. Brian wasn't interested -- if the Beatles were going to make a record, they were going to make it with people who they weren't having to pay for the privilege. John, Paul, and George were devastated, but for their own reasons they didn't bother to tell Pete they'd been turned down. But they did have a tape of themselves, at least -- a professional-quality recording that they could use to attract other labels. And their career was going forward in other ways. The same day Brian had his second meeting with Decca, they had an audition with the BBC in Manchester, where they were accepted to perform on Teenager's Turn, a radio programme hosted by the Northern Dance Orchestra. A few weeks later, on the seventh of March, they went to Manchester to record four songs in front of an audience, of which three would be broadcast: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Please Mr. Postman (Teenager's Turn)"] That recording of John singing "Please Mr. Postman" is historic for another reason, which shows just how on the cutting edge of musical taste the Beatles actually were -- it was the first time ever that a Motown song was played on the BBC. Now we get to the part of the story that, before Mark Lewisohn's work in his book a few years back, had always been shrouded in mystery. What Lewisohn shows is that George Martin was in fact forced to sign the Beatles, against his will, and that this may have been as a punishment. The Beatles had already been turned down by Parlophone once, based on "My Bonnie", when Brian Epstein walked into the HMV store on Oxford Street in London in mid-February. HMV is now mostly known as a retail chain, Britain's biggest chain of physical media stores, but at the time it was owned by EMI, and was associated with their label of the same name -- HMV stood for "His Master's Voice", and its logo was the same one as America's RCA, with whom it had a mutual distribution deal for many years. As a record retailer, Epstein naturally had a professional interest in other record shops, and he had a friend at HMV, who suggested to him that they could use a disc-cutting machine that the shop had to turn his copy of the Decca tapes into acetate discs, which would be much more convenient for taking round and playing to record labels. That disc-cutter was actually in a studio that musicians used for making records for themselves, much as the Quarry Men had years earlier -- it was in fact the studio where Cliff Richard had cut *his* first private demo, the one he'd used to get signed to EMI. Jim Foy, the man who worked the lathe cutter, liked what he heard, and he talked with Brian about the group. Brian mentioned that some of the songs were originals, and Foy told him that EMI also owned a publishing company, Ardmore & Beechwood, and the office was upstairs -- would Brian like to meet with them to discuss publishing? Brian said he would like that. Ardmore & Beechwood wanted the original songs on the demo. They were convinced that Lennon and McCartney had potential as songwriters, and that songs like "Like Dreamers Do" could become hits in the right hands. And Brian Epstein agreed with them -- but he also knew that the Beatles had no interest in becoming professional songwriters. They wanted to make records, not write songs for other people to record. Brian took his new discs round to George Martin at EMI -- who wasn't very impressed, and basically said "Don't call us, we'll call you". Brian went back to Liverpool, and got on with the rest of the group's career, including setting up another Hamburg residency for them, this time at a new club called the Star Club. That Star Club residency, in April, would be devastating for the group -- on Tuesday the tenth of April, the same day John, Paul, and Pete got to Hamburg (George was ill and flew over the next day), Stuart Sutcliffe, who'd been having headaches and feeling ill for months, collapsed and died, aged only twenty-one. The group found out the next day -- they got to the airport to meet George, and bumped into Klaus and Astrid, who were there to meet Stuart's mother from the same flight. They asked where Stuart was, and heard the news from Astrid. John basically went
Captain Eugene Choi is back with us this week and he and King Paju give us their great recommendations as usual @ 2:07. Jenny and Brandon discuss the finale of I-Land and the new group ENHYPEN @ 7:31. This week we review SF8 (Ep: 6) @ 12:14, Flower of Evil (Ep: 14-15) @ 21:29, and Terry gives his take on the new drama Record of Youth (Ep: 3-4) @ 34:53. SF8 episodes just keep getting better and next week is finally the episode with SiWon we have been waiting for, let's hope it delivers. Sadly the best show Flower of Evil comes to an end next week but lets see if they throw us any last minute curve balls... it's not too late for Reporters Dad to be a big surprise! Record of Youth's pacing has been super fast, lets see what else the rest of the season has in store for us... make sure you make your love triangle predictions with us... that x-factor Homie Jang is always lurking in the background. Next week the Pocha Crew will be reviewing SF8 episode 7, Flower of Evil finale episode 16 & Record of Youth episodes 5-6! Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & now TikTok @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieExtra-CurricularMystic Popup Bar
The Pocha Crew is all recovered from last weeks drinking shenanigans and ready to review some dramas. Unfortunately we don't have Terry, but do not fret we have our Pocha Pup Tibby filling in for him. Andy has some great recommendations for us starting @ 3:29 and then we get into our packed schedule. SF8 (Ep: 4-5) @ 21:18, Flower of Evil (Ep: 11-13) @ 31:12, and the new drama Record of Youth (Ep: 1-2) @ 51:52. We are almost finished with all 8 episodes of SF8, let's hope they end it with a blast. We have our King Paju dethroned as Jenny's prediction in Flower of Evil earned her the Queen title. Plus It's only been 2 episodes of Record of Youth but it's already getting pretty spicy... Next week the Pocha Crew will be reviewing SF8 episode 6, Flower of Evil episodes 14-15 & Record of Youth episodes 3-4! Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieExtra-CurricularMystic Popup Bar
On this episode with Stan Dutton we talk about...----How to be a better coacH-How to pick the right coach for YOU-It's ok to f*ck it up sometimes. Everything is a learning experience-Treat your clients like individuals-How to be more more flexible as a coachI appreciate you taking your time out to listen to the podcast. I know you’re gonna love this one.---Where to find Stan:Instagram: @Stan.Dutton, @BetterCoaching.coPodcast: Better CoachingWebsite: StanDutton.co---Where to find me:Instagram: @JordanLipsFitnessYoutube: Jordan Lips FitnessEmail: JordanLips@Jordanlipsfitness.comPodcast: Where Optimal Meets PracticalWebsite: JordanLipsFitness.com---Helping you find the balance between OPTIMAL and PRACTICAL---Love You-JL
Welcome back to our booziest episode yet! This is our very special 10th episode so we decided to do things a bit different this week. That means no going over what the Pocha Crew watched, no episode reviews, and no rankings either. Instead, we decided to use this episode to have some fun… After we go through what’s on our full 2020 Playlist and explain why each show is ranked where it is, we get to our double header main event. First, Soju Power Hour where we take a shot every 10 minutes. Then we start the 30-Day KDrama Twitter challenge where we each present a drama for each of the 10 categories below. Clearly, some people did way more preparation than others… Get ready for lots of shots and lots of drunken stories, and actually a lot of singing as well for some reason. D1: First K-DramaD4: Favorite K-Drama OSTD9: Favorite First and Second Lead CoupleD12: Most Heartbreaking Second Lead StoryD13: Favorite FriendshipD19: Favorite KissD24: Funniest K-DramaD25: K-Drama That Made You CryD29: K-Drama with The Best EndingD30: K-Drama You Never Get Tired OfNext week the Pocha Crew is back on schedule and will be reviewing SF8 episodes 4-5, Flower of Evil episodes 11-13, and the very new drama… Record of Youth episodes 1-2! Make sure you subscribe and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @pochaplaylist. Cheers! 2020 Playlist:Hospital PlaylistItaewon ClassCrash Landing on YouIt’s Okay Not to Be OkayFlower of EvilTrainBackstreet RookieExtra-CurricularMystic Popup Bar
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There will be times in your leadership career when you have to deal with frustrating people. That isn't a character trait, but it does happen from time to time. People can be frustrating in certain situations. Here are four tips on how to deal with frustrating people. Tip 1 - Realize they're struggling just like youIt's easy when you are busy as a leader or urging your team to meet a tight deadline to forget that your employees might be struggling just like you. Only for different reasons. You're struggling to get tasks accomplished. They might be struggling because they have to home school while trying to keep up with their job. Their spouse might have lost their job in these crazy pandemic times. You forget that people have things going on. As stressed as you are, people have other stresses in their life as well. Stop and ask if there are things you can do as their leader to remove roadblocks or make their job easier. Tip 2 - Consider their competence and confidenceYou might be frustrated with an employee because you gave them the assignment. Why didn't they get it done? Did you consider their competence for the task? Have they completed the task before and have the confidence to do it again? There is a competence confidence loop. The more times someone completes a task, the more confidence they have around that task. To reduce your frustration, consider their competence and confidence around a given task, and apply the correct leadership style. You can delegate, coach, directly show them, or support them as they work on the task. Make sure you understand their ability to complete the task. Tip 3 - Have I been 100% clear on my expectations?Does this employee know without a doubt the expectations of the task or job? Did you clearly articulate what you need, when you need it, and in what format the deliverable is to be? If you have, and they still don't deliver, then you have a right to be frustrated. My guess is you didn't communicate 100% clear expectations. Did they take notes when you had a conversation? Did you give an explicit deadline or did you say you wanted it next week? Did you say you wanted excel and not google sheets? Your employees aren't mind-readers, make sure you are giving clear expectations. Tip 4 - You can't control everythingThe world is a big place and things happen in life. It's impossible for you to be everywhere and to control every situation. If you are constantly frustrated with everybody, maybe consider it isn't your lot in life to control everything. You get frustrated because you aren't in control of every situation. As a leader realize there's a lot of random stuff that might happen. Especially in today's pandemic driven world. Your role is to be present, patient, and provide an even keel when things go awry. Do your best in those situations and your frustrations will disappear. I hope you benefit from these four tips on how to deal with frustrating people! As always, it is an honor to serve you and I hope that you and your company are getting better every day! http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1499224100 (Rate and Review Here) More show notes are https://americanlean.com/blog/do-you-have-a-culture-of-innovation-part-four/ (here) https://americanlean.com/contact/ (Schedule a free 1/2 call) with Tom Reed.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1645162818 (Buy) the Lean Game Plan Follow me on https://twitter.com/dailyleancoach (Twitter@dailyleancoach)Join me on https://my.captivate.fm/www.linkedin.com/in/tomreedamericanlean (Linked In)
Have you ever gotten to the place of doubting or asking God, "Where are You?" It may be that you are measuring life against a temporal value system instead of eternity. In Psalm 73, Asaph wrestles with faith "till I entered the sanctuary of God." The post Why Do the Wicked Prosper? appeared first on Reston Bible Church.
Hey Gorgeous! In this episode, you’ll learn about Human Design, what it is, and all the AHA moments I’ve had with it. This has been the best personal development tool I’ve EVER used! Human Design will change your life! It’s helped me accept myself for who I am, learn more about myself, find my life purpose, and more! FreebieWant to know if you’re an Emotional Being or not? Download my “Is Your Solar Plexus Defined?” freebie now! >>> www.waisociety.com/solarplexusfreebieWhat is it?Human Design is an energetic blueprintIt’s a combination of astrology, kabbalah, iChing, the Chakra system, and quantum mechanics. Human Design helps you remember and embrace who you are, a unique being with a special purpose on earth!My Aha MomentsManifesting Generator = Jack of all TradesUndefined Solar PlexusProfile AHA - Started embracing the “weird” parts of meRecognizing my Partners strengthsSharing with my family and friends and seeing their aha momentsType, Authority, and StrategyTypeManifestorManifesting GeneratorGeneratorProjectorReflectorAuthority = Decision makingWe can NOT use our brains to make decisions7 Types of AuthoritiesEmotional Wait for Emotional ConfidenceSacralListening to your gutSplenic Subtle yes followed by a rush of fearEgo & Self Ego = Follow your heartSelf = Talking to themselves or using people as a sounding boardMental / Environment Being called to a person, place or thing in question and using people as a sounding boardNone/ Lunar Use other people as a sounding board and wait at least 28 days Strategy = The Green LightManifestor Inform Peace / FrustrationGeneratorWait to Respond / UhHuh or UhUnh Satisfaction / FrustrationManifesting GeneratorWait to Respond (Inform) / UhHuh or UhUnh Satisfaction / Frustration or angerProjector Wait to be Recognized or InvitedSuccess / BitternessReflectorWait a Lunar CycleSurprise/Delight / DisappointmentVariablesDigestion (Food & Information), Environment (How you fit into the world) Awareness (How you store information)Perspective (How you manifest)RECAPHuman Design is an energetic blueprint, it gives you permission to be YOUIt’s a tool for growth, showing you areas of success and opportunities for growthA tool for alignment so you can start living life as you were designed to liveHuman Design ReadingsAudio RecordingIncludes Type, Authority, Strategy, Variables, Centers and moreClick here to order now, only $77! Remember to have an attitude of wonder, curiosity, and compassion for yourself during this journey. Follow me@waisociety on FB, IG, and YoutubeSubscribeNext week I’ll be doing a 2019 rewind because I’m turning 35! I want to share where I was a year ago and how different it is from where I am now, plus my AHA moments of the year!
Hey You! Yes, I’m talking to YOU :) It’s not a coincidence that you’ve stumbled upon this podcast episode today… in fact, there’s a whole universe at work here, behind the scenes, that brought you here today for a message that YOU need to receive! We have an out of this world guest today, Kathi Hillenberg. She is an expert in Astrology, Human Design, and Manifestation. She is the creator of Abracadabra Astrology School and the host of the Magic Kathi Show Podcast. On today’s show, Kathi shares her personal story of how Astrology became her healing grace that helped her overcome anorexia, helped her discover her purpose, and lead her to become the successful healer she is today. If you’re here right now, it means you need to hear Kathi’s message. It’s for YOU. You have a unique cosmic blueprint and a gift that only YOU can share with the world. Listen now to learn what the Universe has in store for YOU! In this Podcast you’ll learn: How to Find Your Purpose with Your Cosmic BlueprintHow to Manifest and CO-Create with the Help of AstrologyWhat Mercury in Retrograde Means and Why it’s NOT Scary!What Human Design is and How it Works with AstrologyThe Meaning Behind Each Planet and How it Impacts You Follow Kathi: Online https://abracadabrababy.de/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/magic_kathi_official/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/magickathiofficial/ Join our free Facebook group where we learn from new Soulpreneurs each week! https://www.facebook.com/groups/Discoveringthepowerofyou/
Have you ever been asked to wear “nude” heels for recruitment and not thought twice about it? This episode is for YOU ➡️ It’s been a heavy week to say the least. To gain perspective on how the sorority experience fits into the Black Live Matter movement, Bridgette Wynn shares her journey as a Black woman in a Panhellenic organization from experiencing the need to justify her affiliation to exploring the racial bias in our community. We had a super honest conversation about our collective Panhellenic community’s racist past, steps that have been taken/action plans shared, and how our organizations can participate better in being part of the solution. I hope you leave this episode feeling challenged to dig deeper into your organization’s history and become part of the growth toward our actions aligning closer with our values
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Don’t Panic About the Google Page Experience UpdateGoogle is talking about an algorithm update that will take place at some point in 2021, but it appears to be a combination of things they already consider. And you have time to fix them. By: Barry SchwartzFrom: Search Engine Roundtable Watch Out TikTok, Zynn is Coming for YouIt’s hard to imagine any app overtaking TikTok’s momentum, unless maybe it would pay users to watch videos. And that’s exactly what newcomer Zynn is doing. Will it succeed?By: Jacob KastrenakesFrom: The Verge SMBs Looking Forward to Google’s Ad CreditsGoogle is testing adding selected web page links in the results user get when searching on YouTube, with the option of clicking on the page link to visit it or conducting a Google search.By: Matt SouthernFrom: Search Engine Land
One of the biggest music podcast shows in South Africa Hosted by Terence Rhoda Produced by Terence Rhodaand DJ Naid PRODUCERS CORNER Thapelo Pila - (No track name provided) Unfortunately no download link provided either. MIX BY Terence Rhoda (Taken from a Facebook Live Mix 18 April 2020) 1. Mood 2 Swing - Can't Get Away 2. DJ Rasoul - Faith In Love 3. DJ Rasoul - Let Me Love You 4. Tyrone Ellis - Music In The Air 5. The Return - New Day 6. Kaskade - It's You It's Me 7. Jon Cutler - It's Yours 8. Moloko - Sing It Back 9. Raw Artistic Soul - Zaab 10. Rocco - Musica Feliz Find Terence Rhoda On Facebook Find Terence Rhoda the artist On Spotify For Mzansi Deep show enquiries or comments, please email info@mzansideep.com See the official Mzansi Deep Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/souldeepmix Certain Mzansi Deep recordings also available on Youtube You can help Mzansi Deep to continue bringing you quality Deep House content by becoming a MZANSI DEEP VIP member on www.patreon.com/mzansideep. As a MZANSI DEEP VIP you would have access to every show as soon as it gets produced (usually a few days or up to a week before release date to the public). You'll also be entitled to clean mixes ( no talking or jingles ) for certain shows.
”Hello past me, future you again.” In March and April of 2020, someone is receiving voicemails from… themselves in the future? This episode is not explicit. This story in eight parts was written and produced by Karin Heimdahl. FUTURE YOU – Karin Heimdahl COMPUTER – Charlotte Norup To hear more from us, check out audio dramas Y2K and Calling Darkness. https://y2kpod.com/ https://callingdarknesspodcast.libsyn.com/ TRANSCRIPT COMPUTER Voice message, received March 30, 2020. (beep) FUTURE YOU (excited) Hi, it’s you again. Me. You in the future. Yeah. So I think you did something. Right? Things are… a little better. (breathes) You found the list, didn’t you? You and Agavepeach need to mobilize. You… It’s sort of like a heist, right? Or a series of heists. Only online. Always liked a heist movie. (smiles) So go be like- COMPUTER (beep) Message ends. (beat) Message deleted. (beep) CREDITS This Listen, Rinse, Repeat story was written and produced by Karin Heimdahl, who also voiced future you. The computer voice was Charlotte Norup. To hear more from us, check out Y2K and Calling Darkness. Sound effects either created by Karin, or from freesound.org under the Creative Commons 0 license. Credits music also from Freesound https://freesound.org/people/Andrewkn/sounds/447511/
Another week Staying Home Staying Safe! This week we are joined by our very special returning guest Jono Reid! Most of the news is revolving around the Covid-19 crisis around the world, but some interesting things are happening because of it. We chat toilet paper, bidet, privacy concerns, and so much more in this episode. Also... Shower Thoughts. If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and join us live for our weekly recording!Follow us on InstagramFollow us on Facebook for the easiest way find us live (YouTube Links will be posted there)Links discussed in episode:https://www.foxnews.com/world/australia-astrophysicist-hospital-invent-coronavirus-device-magnets-nosehttps://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-police-public-stop-calling-911-toilet-paperhttps://www.foxnews.com/world/australian-man-guilty-cellphone-horseWyze is doing some really cool stuff to help out in Seattle and around the UShttps://mailchi.mp/wyze.com/here-it-is-in-all-its-glory-wyze-lock-223640?e=42a318f7c9Olympics postponed until July 23rd-August 8th 2021Canada pulls out of 2020 Tokyo OlympicChicago Doctor’s Blunt Speech About COVID-19: "A successful shelter in place means that you will feel like it was all for nothing. And you would be right. Because 'nothing' means that nothing happened to your family."Oregon to allow self-serve gas for 2 weeks due to COVID-19 outbreakEmployees at home are being photographed every 5 minutes by an always-on video service to ensure they're actually working — and the service is seeing a rapid expansion since the coronavirus outbreakA British company behind a 10-minute coronavirus antibody test, which will cost about a $1, has begun sending prototypes to laboratories for validationArrest warrant issued for Tampa megachurch pastor for 'violating public health' orders with packed Sunday servicePopularity of Netflix's 'Tiger King' prompts sheriff to ask for leads in 1997 cold caseMIT researcher says droplets carrying coronavirus can travel up to 27 feet.New York City EMS received more than 6,400 medical 911 calls on Wednesday, surpassing the record set on September 11, 2001 - WaPoElon Musk: We have extra FDA-approved ventilators. Will ship to hospitals worldwide within Tesla delivery regions. Device & shipping cost are free. Only requirement is that the vents are needed immediately for patients, not stored in a warehouse. Please me or @Tesla know.Steam breaks all-time user peak with 23.3 million concurrent players with 7.1 million players in gameTIL Garden Veggie Straws, which shows fresh vegetables on the bag, and are promoted as a healthy alternative to chips, are actually made of salt, starch, and tomato paste. They have less nutrition than actual potato chips and the manufacturer, which has a history of false claims, is now being sued.Shower Thoughts:Fame is based on how many people who you don’t know, know youIt must be really hard to be an IRS agent with an Indian accentInsanity is doing the same thing expecting different results, and history repeats itself because people don't care to learn about it and keep making the same mistakes. Therefore, mankind is inherently insane.When someone asks you “what’s up,” responding with “all of the above” is technically a correct answer.A Chicken nugget is a meatball. And nothing can change that factOut of all the rooms in the house we keep our toothbrushes in the same room we shit inAccording to Led Zeppelin, heaven is not handicap accessible. According to AC/DC, hell is.For supposedly being an emotionless killing machine, James Bond sure seems to fall in love with random women extremely quicklyRoses are red , roses are blue , depending on their velocity relative to you.When you don’t understand science, EVERYTHING looks like a conspiracy.Limousines have gone completely out of fashion and no one has really noticed.Bad propaganda is something you can identify. Good propaganda is something you think of as the full truth.Being part of a major historical event sucks.It's kind of strange that our only response to humor is to convulse and make noise. Our response to sadness is to leak water and wail.
Where are you NOT being YOU in your life? Today’s SACRED S.O.L. STORY comes from my sweet little rescue dog, Stela. Recently she did something she had never before…while being a dog! And being a dog is what she does best, because she was designed to be a DOG, right? She was doing what dog’s do. We can’t blame, shame, or be upset at her for being a dog. It’s not you. It’s me. So what’s not YOU? Where in your life are you trying to be something you’re not? You are who you are. Period. A dog is a dog. A fish is a fish. A human is a human. And a human like you is a human like YOU. I’m not saying this gives you license to proclaim, “Hey, that’s just me.” And to use it as an excuse to not grow, expand, learn, or discover. I’m talking about the core essence of who you are. Are you so busy trying to be somebody, be something…or do something, that you’re NOT being YOU? You’re already something and someone. You’re YOU. If you’re a fish, swim. Are you being YOU? It’s time to become masterful at the art of being you. Please grab your SACRED S.O.L. D.A.T.E. JOURNAL (Daily Action To Engage with yourself.) TODAY’S SACRED S.O.L. STEP: 1. Where in your life are you trying to FORCE yourself, and be something or someone you’re NOT? Please stop fighting yourself so much, my dear. 2. Declare it for yourself today by giving yourself permission to be YOU. I’m giving you permission to be you. Acknowledge, accept, embrace, and celebrate you. Allow YOU to grow and expand. I’m giving you permission to love your life + life’s work well! Will you do this for yourself today? Thank you for being here, and allowing me to Sip On Life with you. I’m going to be inviting listeners onto the program. If you have a story you'd like to share — a song to sing (but not a Poor Me Story) — send me an email at: drshannon@doctorshannon.com and put SHARE MY STORY in the subject line. If you've received value from the podcast, please let me know. I'd LOVE to hear from you — please email me at: drshannon@doctorshannon.com AND PLEASE TELL YOUR BESTIES AND INVITE THEM TO SIP ON LIFE WITH US. FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM @doctorshannon! See you there... Go to YOU BE THE WOMAN NOW to learn more about our next 4-Week YOU BE THE WOMAN Program. Apply today. And learn about an incredible opportunity for a select sacred group of 25 women who are ready and willing to RISE UP AND BE THE WOMAN. If you’ve been feeling like you’re stuck, overwhelmed, or perhaps you still feel like you’re drowning, please don’t hesitate to reach out. I’d be more than happy to schedule a Discovery Call with you to see if Healing Life Coaching is a good fit for you. Email me at drshannon@doctorshannon.com Come over to the WOMEN SIPPING ON LIFE S.O.L. MOVEMENT Closed FB Group and Join the MOVEMENT: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WSOLMovement/ By the way, if you haven't already listened/downloaded my new song (EPISODE 291), you can also listen to it here: letsnottalkaboutex.com, and cast your vote for your favorite version. Visit WomenSippingOnLife.com for more free resources, including my CHECKLIST FOR CHANGE, Engagement Checklist + Evaluation Rating, Six Sacred S.O.L. DATE Secrets…and a FREE copy of my best-selling book, Date Yourself Well. You can also check out my Dr. Shannon Facebook Page for more daily S.O.L. TRAINING. I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow. Please invite your best girlfriends to come and join our S.O.L. PARTY. xo Dr. Shannon. Inspiring minds that want to grow and hearts that want to know, so you can love you, your life, and your life’s work well. ONE SIP AT A TIME. A special thanks to the following souls for helping me launch our WOMEN SIPPING ON LIFE podcast… Intro/Outro done by UNI V. SOL Outro music by Jay Man: Mind Over Matter (www.ourmusicbox.com) Podcast cover design and web site done by: Pablo Aguilar (www.webdesigncreator.com) Podcast cover photo by Kate Montague of KM Captured (www.kmcaptured.com)
On this episode...we discuss the coronavirus, mid life crisis' (24:10), thirst and persistence knowing the difference (37:00), a brief political conversation (43:30), smoking with celebs (1:05:20), sex appeal (1:07:25), sports being gone (1:13:03)and more! Stream Grandace "Satellites" https://song.link/us/i/1501097499 Stream Jus Clay "You It" https://song.link/us/i/1501893700 Keep up with us via social media! Tyler Twitter: @topropetyler Tyler IG: @topropetyler De'Anna Twitter: @dntinsley De'Anna IG: @dntinsley J'Lynn Twitter: @_jay1x J'Lynn IG: @insidethejai Turner's IG: @itsturnerallen
Is social media affecting your wellbeing? How can you use social media to make it have a positive effect on your life? What does the research say about time spent on social media? In This Podcast Summary In this podcast episode, Kathryn Ely speaks about the science of how social media can affect our wellbeing […] The post Comparing Up: Social Media, How’s it Working for You? | IT 011 appeared first on Imperfect Thriving - Kathryn Ely.
This episode explores how to go from a blogging failure to massive success, but before we launch in... Have you been dreaming of starting a WordPress blog but you're overwhelmed by the tech aspects of it all? I get it. Getting a blog up and running can be the one thing that hinders you from starting your online business. Maybe you want 2020 to be your year, but you know that setting up a blog is going to be the one thing that keeps you from reaching your goals. Now imagine if you could do it effortlessly. We, at MiloTree, are now offering blog set-up packages where we set up your blog for you right, and you can focus on creating content and developing your own products to sell. We have been in this business for a long time, and we know what it takes to get a blog up and running the right way. We hear from so many of you that getting your blog set up is an obstacle you just can't get past. Well, now you have help. Just go to MiloTree to see what we can do for you. We have several packages to choose from based on your specific needs. There is a package that's perfect for you! If you have any questions, please reach out. We'd love to help you! In today's episode, I am interviewing Lauren McManus. I find Lauren's story interesting, especially the party where she and her business partner started a blog that didn't go anywhere. Not everybody hits it big with that first iteration. After the failure, they started another blog, Avocadu, that was a huge success by all standards. They followed that success with a business teaching others how to grow online businesses called Create and Go. Lauren now lives the life I dream of a digital nomad. She travels the world while running her businesses. In fact, she joined me for this conversation from Chile. From Failure to Massive Success The difference between the first blog (failure) and the second blog (massive success) was the audience focus. Lauren tried to cater to people exactly like herself with her first website. Her demographic was young people who wanted to be social, but maintain their health at the same time. That website failed. The diet program they were trying to sell failed. The second time they started a website, they hid their own faces and wrote articles addressing all health questions. The audience they ended up attracting the most was 45-year old women, mostly mothers. They took the time to learn how to market to the correct demographic and their product sold immediately. They took the time to drive traffic, build an audience, and learn their audience before selling products, and that made all the difference. They still sell their original e-book with video updates, and it still performs very well. Building an Avatar Through an Email List As the blog was growing, Lauren was using Pinterest to drive traffic to it. Once someone came to the blog, there were multiple opportunities to sign up for emails. Lauren and her partner also wrote articles on every single subject related to health they could think of in the beginning test phase. They needed to find out exactly who their audience was so that they could create content and products specifically for that person. Once they learned that yoga and weight loss content was what the majority of their audience wanted, they focused on creating products for those two topics. At the bottom of their first email to new subscribers, Lauren would ask what the person's number one problem was in achieving their goals. The responses were typically very in-depth, and gave them the insight they needed to create a customer avatar. How Many “At Bats” Does It Take? Just like Lauren discovered, we don't always blow it out of the water on our first go ‘round. Sometimes, we have to try multiple times before we find the thing that's going to work for us. I call these “at-bats,” because they aren't failures; they're simply figuring out what works. Do not be scared to change what you create when you see what resonates the most with your audience. The more you tweak and test, the more you will know about your audience, and what works best. Content Creation For the first blog that was hugely successful, Lauren and her partner split the writing duties and only occasionally hired it out. These days, it is all hired out. On the blog about leaving your 9-5, they really only create blog content when they create new courses. Projects demand most of their work time, so they tend to leave everything else behind for a bit while big projects take the focus. They also focus on other types of content now, such as YouTube, podcast interviews, and updated courses. Don't be afraid that by starting a blog, you will be creating written content for 60 hours a week forever. Opportunities For You Do you ever feel like there are so many blogs that there's no point in you even trying to start something? I think a lot of people feel that way. But the fact is that even in a very saturated market (weight loss), Lauren was able to make money in the first few months of her blog. And she made 6 figures in her first 12 months! There is always room at the top. But you need to know what your unique selling point is. For Lauren, Pinterest and Youtube are the best platforms for her business. The most important thing is to not overthink what you want your topics to be. Share where you have experience. When you sell what you know, your audience will believe you and engage with you. Lauren's Advice for You It is so important to connect with your audience. No matter what stage you are in with your business, find out who your target audience is and be relatable to them. Be transparent, be yourself. People want to relate to you. They want to believe what you say and who you are. Learn as much as you can from your audience and continue connecting. 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