The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 200

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 200" on Spreaker. In the end who will win? The question keeps coming up. Over the past eight to nine weeks so much information has run through each of us. Some of the info was valuable enough to hold onto while a lot of the other is just sitting there. It's taking up mental space. It seems like a waste to suddenly throw it away. I mean what happens if this virus thing comes back with a bigger bite? If this were Hollywood, Corona would return with Zombies and Super Heroes turned bad. On this podcast the vision is to be transparent enough to try and answer the real question. In the end who will win? We've been introduced to some amazing people working jobs that so many of us have walked past without recognizing their hard work, dedication and loyalty. Maybe its just me but the winning won't stop in twenty twenty, It'll be the decisions people make long after this virus has become a faded memory. You know that thing we did. The mental and physical impact this social distancing has had on school students will reach their children. To drop the new life we were forced to adopt by doing work at home will be extremely hard to shake because the home has provided unheard amounts of less stress and face to face on demand pressure. My dentist is reopening their doors tomorrow. Twelve hour days. Now open on Fridays. Correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't employees also get a lengthy time out? What did they do to recondition themselves not only on how to deal with customers but with coworkers and bosses fighting to keep the door open? In the end who will win? This is still fed and based on choice. The decisions we make with the raw uncut information that needs to be dropped behind us. Put it in a journal. Record your voice on the smart phone. There's no need to do anything but wash your hands over and over again. The valuable lessons you learned along the way will always have a street to walk on. Clean out our mental gutters and lets move forward by mentally and physically getting the mind body and soul prepared for an eight hour workday that's gonna feel longer than an eight week Coronavirus work stoppage. In the end you will win. Winning is a choice.

Pod Crashing Episode 54

Pod-Crashing Episode 54: Unknown Universe Is the new movement becoming more vibrant? The project being podcasting. According to Edison Research’s Senior VP Tom Webster, “Podcast listeners have spent the past two months checking into episodes for 6.5 hours a week.” Wait wait hold on. Before we pull out the party bus and champagne, we need to look at the larger picture. The past two months have been February and March 2020. We were just getting into the Coronavirus experience. According to Tom, a lot of decision makers and podcast performers were expecting larger listening habits but the shutdown is proving to put performers on a different path. Compared to January 2020 there’ve been no changes. Listeners were still checking in at 6.5 hours per week. The biggest change is when listeners were getting locked into the episodes. On a normal business day it was during the commute or while at work or school. Being shut in at home totally took away that one on one alone time between the hosts and passenger. So what’s changed with podcasting? The biggest audience grabbers. Leading the pack right now are news driven podcasts crammed with endless content about the virus and how to survive in an ever changing community. According to Edison Research News features are up 25% to 39% over the past two months. Also checking in with a bigger following are podcasts that lean on religion, self-help and philosophy. Sport shows not so much. Those that are getting the hits have redesigned their layout in the way of bringing forward more stories about the athletes and less about building a better game. Even NPR has seen a 4% drop in listeners but maintain their strict policy of staying true to the format of each episode being no longer than ten to fifteen minutes. According to Ana Grundman her audience knows how much time they’ve got available and having such programming fits into stay at home cluttered day. If you’re just getting into podcasting this is something to keep close to your heart. Adopting that shorter format and staying true to who and what your listeners are doing during the shutdown is speaking their street. It’s something they can not only relate with but grow with. Knowing that there are no long drawn out commutes means listeners puts you ahead of the curve in the way of showing respect to your followers by way of recognizing the house the full of kids, the spouse is doing business in the kitchen while the others in a guest bedroom are trying to keep their head above the company expectations. On a personal experience level. I saw a slight rise in listenership in April 2020. Mainly because of the huge drop I was experiencing a month earlier. I didn’t drop podcast episodes but I reconditioned them in the way of making them more about what the globe was experiencing. Like Edison Research mentioned, shows that were religious based, self-help or philosophy were gaining in strength. The way I moved around that on the other podcasts was to make small shifts in my conversation format with artists, authors and actors. Don’t be afraid to talk about reality. I also began an entirely new series called Play It Forward which puts a ton of attention on everyone in the entertainment industry affected but not infected by the Coronavirus. Plus, on my podcast Creativity The Addiction I began to reword how I described what creativity is. It’s not just artist thing but a huge part of our business world. Nothing gets done without creativity. Being shut down with no work doesn’t mean you can’t still feed that beast. If you don’t you’re setting yourself up for a hard hit of anxiety, depression, guilt and shame. My biggest worry is Coronavirus burnout. How far do we as podcasters go before listeners start seeking a more up tempo escape? Let’s look into this. The deeper we get into this shut down while experiencing several attempts at rebuilding the business world, in the end the employee is still gonna be the one taking the financial hit. Meaning… How long can the average person hold onto their internet connection? Those endless date plans on the smart phone are awesome when you can afford to pay the bill. How hard will the impact be on podcasting if internet use takes a dump? I can hear the experts now. Not going to happen. We live by being digitally connected. If people are having a tough time paying the rent two months in a row, how much longer before they drop what they love most. That content connection? This is where NPR and iHeart Radio win big. They know they’ve got an empire of podcast followers that are amazingly faithful. Both companies also have terrestrial radio. It’s free. Will always be free. I’m not saying they’ll do it but they’ve got the stage to bring those podcasts forward to that hardcore fan base. So what’s the moral of the story? Embrace for the change. Listening habits are on the move. Stay closely tuned to how your listeners are living life without having to jump the shark, or drop the podcast. Being aware is your biggest tool. Maybe it’s time we learn from the people of fame and begin a new process of doing live shows on Instagram and Facebook. The goal should always be to re-engage. Pod-Crashing Episode 54: Unknown Universe Is the new movement becoming more vibrant? The project being podcasting. According to Edison Research’s Senior VP Tom Webster, “Podcast listeners have spent the past two months checking into episodes for 6.5 hours a week.” Wait wait hold on. Before we pull out the party bus and champagne, we need to look at the larger picture. The past two months have been February and March 2020. We were just getting into the Coronavirus experience. According to Tom, a lot of decision makers and podcast performers were expecting larger listening habits but the shutdown is proving to put performers on a different path. Compared to January 2020 there’ve been no changes. Listeners were still checking in at 6.5 hours per week. The biggest change is when listeners were getting locked into the episodes. On a normal business day it was during the commute or while at work or school. Being shut in at home totally took away that one on one alone time between the hosts and passenger. So what’s changed with podcasting? The biggest audience grabbers. Leading the pack right now are news driven podcasts crammed with endless content about the virus and how to survive in an ever changing community. According to Edison Research News features are up 25% to 39% over the past two months. Also checking in with a bigger following are podcasts that lean on religion, self-help and philosophy. Sport shows not so much. Those that are getting the hits have redesigned their layout in the way of bringing forward more stories about the athletes and less about building a better game. Even NPR has seen a 4% drop in listeners but maintain their strict policy of staying true to the format of each episode being no longer than ten to fifteen minutes. According to Ana Grundman her audience knows how much time they’ve got available and having such programming fits into stay at home cluttered day. If you’re just getting into podcasting this is something to keep close to your heart. Adopting that shorter format and staying true to who and what your listeners are doing during the shutdown is speaking their street. It’s something they can not only relate with but grow with. Knowing that there are no long drawn out commutes means listeners puts you ahead of the curve in the way of showing respect to your followers by way of recognizing the house the full of kids, the spouse is doing business in the kitchen while the others in a guest bedroom are trying to keep their head above the company expectations. On a personal experience level. I saw a slight rise in listenership in April 2020. Mainly because of the huge drop I was experiencing a month earlier. I didn’t drop podcast episodes but I reconditioned them in the way of making them more about what the globe was experiencing. Like Edison Research mentioned, shows that were religious based, self-help or philosophy were gaining in strength. The way I moved around that on the other podcasts was to make small shifts in my conversation format with artists, authors and actors. Don’t be afraid to talk about reality. I also began an entirely new series called Play It Forward which puts a ton of attention on everyone in the entertainment industry affected but not infected by the Coronavirus. Plus, on my podcast Creativity The Addiction I began to reword how I described what creativity is. It’s not just artist thing but a huge part of our business world. Nothing gets done without creativity. Being shut down with no work doesn’t mean you can’t still feed that beast. If you don’t you’re setting yourself up for a hard hit of anxiety, depression, guilt and shame. My biggest worry is Coronavirus burnout. How far do we as podcasters go before listeners start seeking a more up tempo escape? Let’s look into this. The deeper we get into this shut down while experiencing several attempts at rebuilding the business world, in the end the employee is still gonna be the one taking the financial hit. Meaning… How long can the average person hold onto their internet connection? Those endless date plans on the smart phone are awesome when you can afford to pay the bill. How hard will the impact be on podcasting if internet use takes a dump? I can hear the experts now. Not going to happen. We live by being digitally connected. If people are having a tough time paying the rent two months in a row, how much longer before they drop what they love most. That content connection? This is where NPR and iHeart Radio win big. They know they’ve got an empire of podcast followers that are amazingly faithful. Both companies also have terrestrial radio. It’s free. Will always be free. I’m not saying they’ll do it but they’ve got the stage to bring those podcasts forward to that hardcore fan base. So what’s the moral of the story? Embrace for the change. Listening habits are on the move. Stay closely tuned to how your listeners are living life without having to jump the shark, or drop the podcast. Being aware is your biggest tool. Maybe it’s time we learn from the people of fame and begin a new process of doing live shows on Instagram and Facebook. The goal should always be to re-engage.

Peter Gatien

Listen to "Peter Gatien Releases The Book The Club King" on Spreaker. The Limelight, the Tunnel, Club USA, and the Palladium were among the most successful and popular clubs in New York City and around the world. Across four decades, the clubs’ mysterious and ambitious owner, PETER GATIEN, was the man behind the curtain. Here, for the first time, the mogul and impresario of global nightlife tells his own story of those heady and fascinating times. THE CLUB KING: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife (Little A; April 1, 2020) - offers an inside account of the meteoric rise and stunning takedown of Gatien’s nightclub empire. From the blue-collar Canadian mill town of Gatien’s childhood to the freedom of the ’70s, through the excesses of the ’80s to the conservative crackdown in the ’90s, THE CLUB KING looks at nightlife’s golden era. In his early 20s, Gatien opened his first club: the Aardvark, in his hometown of Cornwall, Ontario, with an as yet unknown band named Rush as his opening-night act. Always looking for the next big thing, Gatien moved south to the United States, opening clubs in Miami, Atlanta, and Chicago before taking on the city that never sleeps. When the Limelight opened in an old church in 1983, it was like nothing that had come before it, and its owner let the space speak for itself. Soon after, he and his team of innovators further created the backdrop for New York nightlife, expanding his empire to include the Tunnel, Club USA, and the Palladium, each with its own vibe and scene every night of the week, and catering to people from all walks of life: from disenfranchised club kids to the newly rising grunge and hip-hop scene, gay or straight, punks, rock ’n’ roll and techno—all were welcomed into Gatien’s alluring world. The Limelight rose to worldwide fame by booking major acts such as Prince, Whitney Houston, Pearl Jam, Guns N’ Roses, Lenny Kravitz, the Ramones, Mötley Crüe, and Billy Idol, while hosting a pantheon of A-list celebrities that included Mick Jagger, Madonna, Cher, David Bowie, Jack Nicholson, Angelica Houston, and Duran Duran, to name a few. Andy Warhol co-hosted the openings of many of Gatien’s venues and was a frequent patron. At the Tunnel, Gatien created legendary Sunday night hip-hop parties, with performers like Jay-Z; 50 Cent; Sean Combs, a.k.a. Puff Daddy; the Notorious B.I.G.; Mary J. Blige; and Missy Elliott. But as fabulous as the hedonistic high was, it was inevitable that the fall would be just as cataclysmic. At the height of Gatien’s success in the mid-1990s, New York became strict under mayor, Rudy Giuliani. Targeted by Giuliani and the U.S. government, Gatien was accused of encouraging the use of illegal drugs at his clubs, and his high-profile federal trial captivated New York headlines for months. A murder, a sting, and aggressive bullying from both the feds and local police ultimately brought down Gatien’s empire, landing him in the hands of ICE. He was eventually deported to his native Canada.’

Roderick Chambers

Listen to "Roderick Chambers Makes It To NBC's The Voice" on Spreaker. Roderick’s two greatest loves growing up were music and his brother. When he was 4, Roderick’s brother saved him from drowning in a pool, which reinforced their inseparable bond. They went on to sing together in school chorus and would perform together at family events. They later formed a trio and spent the next 14 years touring and playing corporate events and weddings. Roderick made a difficult decision to go solo in 2015, but has found some success on his own. Roderick is currently a full-time musician and comes to “The Voice” trying to build a comfortable life for his 2-year-old son.

Is It Too Early To Brag

Listen to "Is It Too Early To Brag" on Spreaker. The internet trolls got me over the weekend. I posted a thought about laying low on showcasing the whereabouts of where you presently stand. As states and cities begin to slowly open the human need is always going to be to get out and run. While there lets flash our good times all over social media. Are we there yet? Is it really time to start setting ourselves up in the way that we are the Jones' and the world has to keep up with us? Very politely I asked that we stop bragging. Here's my source of energy. Those receiving the posts aren't going to brag about what it's like to not have rent money again this month. They're not going to brag about deciding which car will get the gasoline or if there's enough money to pay for the smart phone. Business owners still not cleared to open their doors aren't bragging about how close they are to having no doors ever open again. Take note of the confidence that's quickly coming back into play. There are new leaders in the pyramid building. Sadly its those who were lucky enough to keep their jobs. While my neighborhood is still waiting for its first unemployment checks the world is being held together by new ladder climbers. Not a complaint. Awareness is everything. I was bothered by a printed article this past weekend that was fed by the news of some companies maybe not getting their full staff back because rightfully the old workers are making better money some place else. I've read the stories about entertainers that won't get the chance to perform again this year because that side of the pandemic won't be cleared for large crowds until maybe next year. My Aunt Louise used to bop me upside the head when she felt I was bragging. She always warned me about telling people who I really was at home and not the fake little boy at a family reunion or other gathering. Which I think is the reason why the beach photos and expensive car shots and life is better than its ever been can wait a little longer. Just a couple of weeks ago we were all equal. Facing the same uncertainty. Now that we're seeing a beam of light shouldn't be permission enough to call anyone king.

Darren G Davis

Listen to "Darren Davis Get Ready For The Tiger King Comic Book" on Spreaker. He takes real life events and turns them into very colorful comic books. From Rock Stars to Movie giants including politics and other moments generated by a fad. Like Tiger King! The comic book is on the way! Plus Darren and I dive into those moments when those he's put into comic book character aren't exactly happy with the move. How do you peacefully wade through those waters without the world caving in? He talks about such a moment and how it actually paid off. Expect a lot of laughs and inside secrets about the world of storytelling meeting comics. You'll instantly see why I love spending so much time with this artistic genius.

Jim Sturgess And Brooklyn Prince

Listen to "Jim Sturgess and Brooklyn Prince From Home Before Dark On Apple TV+" on Spreaker.“Home Before Dark” is a dramatic mystery series inspired by the reporting of a young investigative journalist, Hilde Lysiak. Directed and executive produced by Jon M. Chu, the series follows a young girl named Hilde (played by Brooklynn Prince) who moves from the city of Brooklyn to the small lakeside town her father left behind. While there, her dogged pursuit of the truth leads her to unearth a cold case that everyone in town, including her own father, tried hard to bury. The series is created and executive produced by showrunners Dana Fox and Dara Resnik; written and executive produced by Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner; and executive produced by Joy Gorman Wettels for Anonymous Content, Rosemary Rodriguez and Sharlene Martin. The cast includes: Brooklynn Prince, Jim Sturgess, Abby Miller, Kylie Rogers, Michael Weston, Joelle Carter, Aziza Scott, Louis Herthum, Adrian Hough, Jibrail Nantambu and Deric McCabe. English actor and singer-songwriter Jim Sturgess got his big break in 2007 when he was cast in Julie Taymor's musical Across the Universe. Since then, he’s starred in numerous films including 21 with Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne; The Other Boleyn Girl with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson; Cloud Atlas with Tom Hanks and Halle Berry; and Berlin, I Love You with Helen Mirren and Keira Knightley, to name just a few. Nine-year-old Brooklynn Prince burst onto the scene with her starring role in 2017’s The Florida Project with Willem Dafoe, a role that earned her fourteen acting awards from groups such as the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Hollywood Critics Association. She also recently starred in the 2020 horror film The Turning with Finn Wolfhard and Joely Richardson, and will next star in Disney’s The One and Only Ivan with Angelina Jolie and Sam Rockwell. When she’s not acting, Brooklynn has a heart for helping others, and volunteers with Florida’s Community Hope Center to help end homelessness. She’s also an ambassador for Kidbox, and is working to help clothe a million children in need.