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Mondovino the Series: The Human Drama (And Comedy) of Wine-Making
Epic in scope, this multi-generation, globe-trotting saga covers not only the entire gamut of wine making, but wine's place in a treacherously globalized and hyper-marketed world. From the billionaire power brokers of Napa Valley, to the aristocratic rivalries of competing Florentine dynasties, to the efforts of three generations of a Burgundian family fighting to preserve their few acres of land, MONDOVINO: THE SERIES brings to life the human drama (and comedy) of wine making. Shot over several years and in five different languages, the series features numerous intimate encounters with the wine world's most iconic and controversial figures, including the critic Robert Parker, wine mogul Robert Mondavi, zany art collector Jan Schrem, and the noble proprietor of the mythical Romanee Conti vineyard.
From Florence to Burgundy, New York to Argentina, each hour-long episode stands alone as a passionate and hilarious piece of documentary filmmaking.
Mondovino: Where's Astérix?
Directed by Jonathan Nossiter • Documentary • 2004 • 53 minutes
The cast of characters in southern France: a Socialist mayor defending the American multinational company Mondavi; a Communist Mayor defending conservative French (wine) values; Aime Guibert, father of the Languedoc wine revolution;...
Mondovino: Magic Potion
Moving north to the hallowed region of Burgundy to explore the sacred French notion of terroir (sense of place), we meet the loving but profoundly fractured Montille family.
Mondovino: Rome Was Not Built in a Day
Napa rules the American wine industry, but who's behind the scenes? This black comedy shows that the Mexican workers have a greater voice than the chiefs in their Beverly Hills style mansions think.
Mondovino: Pax Panoramix
The battle to defend nature and local artisanal winemaking extends from the Pyrennes mountains (Yvonne Hegoburu fights to create organic wine in her late husband's memory) to the asphalt of Brooklyn (quintessential New Yorker Neal R...
Mondovino: The Appian Way
An intimate, revealing portrait of Robert Parker, whose reviews dictate the fate of much of the wine world, from California to London to Chile.
Mondovino: Quo Vademus
If wine is unique as a mirror of human complexity, and the only product capable of improving over seventy to eighty years, then how is enduring youth achieved? California and Paris compete over the fountain of youth.
Mondovino: All Roads Lead to Rome
How would a grape respond under psychoanalysis? Jean-Louis Laplanche, world-renowned psychiatrist and Freud translator, is the owner of the Chateau de Pommard in Burgundy. Yet his peculiarity does not compare with that of the husban...
Mondovino: Crossing the Rubicon
The Antinori and Frescobaldi families have dominated the political and economic life of Tuscany for a thousand years. For the past thirty, they've concentrated all their resources in wine. The tensions and conflicts underlying the t...
Mondovino: Et tu Brute…
The Tuscan saga continues: betrayal, redemption, and globalization: Italian-style. The two families fight it out for the hand of America's Mondavi family. But who's the real winner and who's the real loser? And what does it mean for...
Mondovino: Veni, Vidi, Vendidi
Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina: the New Wine World, but with age-old conflicts. What's at stake for indigenous people and foreign investors? How do the European-American conflicts play out in South America?


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R&F Labour News Update – August 3 2015
OFL to launch "Dump Harper" campaign | Stephen Harper has worst economic record of any Prime Minister | Unifor and the NDP at odds over NAFTA | Miniature gardens sprout up where community mail boxes are planned in London | Ottawa cleaners reach tentative deal | Staff cuts affecting food safety | Claims of BC LNG job numbers overstated | Dearness Home support workers talk about being disrespected | Wynne ignores own pledge to cap executive compensation | Jamaican farm workers in Canada won't have portion of wages withheld | TransAlta deliberately timed outages at Alberta power plants | Freezing hospital budgets is like cutting services | Lessons from laundry privatizations | Ontario school support workers consider strike action | Halifax Water spent $2 million on strike security | Greater vigilance needed to protect NFLD road workers | Fort St. John municipal employee strike enters week two
Ont. union ready to launch 'Dump Harper' campaign as soon as election called
Diana Mehta, The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Canada's largest provincial labour federation says it is ready to launch its "Dump Harper" campaign as soon as the prime minister calls an election, which is widely expected to happen on Sunday.
The president of the Ontario Federation of Labour said Friday that the move will mirror the "Stop Hudak" campaign against former Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak in the provincial election last year.
Sid Ryan said the union will engage members in what he called "vulnerable" ridings across the province where the races are expected to be close.
6 charts show Stephen Harper has the worst economic record of any Prime Minister since World War II
PressProgress
It turns out the emperor has no clothes after all.
Although Conservatives like to drone on like robots about how Stephen Harper is a "steady hand on the wheel" of the economy, that myth is increasingly hard to square with reality.
Not only does a recent poll suggest Harper's reputation as a competent manager of the economy has plummeted, a new analysis shows Harper with the worst economic record of any Canadian Prime Minister since the end of the Second World War.
Unifor, New Democrats at odds over North America Free Trade Agreement
Grace Macaluso, The Windsor Star
Unifor president Jerry Dias said Thursday "there was no doubt" an NDP government would implement a national auto strategy.
"I know (NDP Leader) Thomas Mulcair understands the importance of the auto sector in Ontario and Canada," Dias said. "There is no question in my mind that if they form the government there would be a comprehensive national auto strategy."
Dias was responding to comments Mulcair made Wednesday when asked by The Windsor Star editorial board whether he would implement a national auto strategy if he were to win the next federal election.
London residents stage flowery protest of Canada Post community mailboxes
Miniature gardens are sprouting at certain locations in London, Ont., where Canada Post plans to install controversial community mailboxes.
The fenced-in flower beds, which sit atop the concrete pads where mailboxes will stand, are being installed by a group of residents opposed to the Crown corporation's plan to end door-to-door residential mail delivery.
The group, called Londoners for Door to Door, says the garden boxes are being set up in areas where local residents are unhappy with making the switch to community mailboxes.
Ottawa cleaners reach tentative agreement to avoid strike
The majority of Ottawa's private-sector cleaners have reached a tentative agreement with their employers avoiding potential rotating walkouts, it was announced Friday.
A strike could have a major impact on the city's federally owned buildings — close to one-third of cleaners in Ottawa work in government buildings, said Diego Mendez, communications coordinator of SEIU Local 2.
The federal government contracts the cleaning work out to private companies.
Food inspectors' union concerned staff and budget cuts may impact food safety
TORONTO (CP) — The union representing federal food inspectors says they're worried budget and staffing cuts may impact food safety in Canada.
Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) spokesman Bob Kingston says there are not enough inspectors working in meat and poultry slaughter facilities in Ontario to make sure companies are adhering to all safety requirements.
Kingston — who heads PSAC's Agriculture Union — says the problem is particularly worrisome in the Toronto area where a union survey indicates inspector staffing is as much as 39 per cent below what is required by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Premier Clark's claims of thousands of LNG jobs 'grossly overstated' — CCPA report
Premier Christy Clark may be touting massive job opportunities with the B.C.-based LNG industry, but the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released a "reality check" report that disputes the numbers.
Clark has stated that the LNG industry as a whole would create 100,000 jobs, with 4,500 jobs in the Petronas-backed Pacific NorthWest LNG project alone.
But using LNG proponents' own job estimates, the LNG and Employment in BC report reveals that they are substantially lower than government claims, according to CCPA senior economist and author Marc Lee.
Dearness Home Support Staff Sound Off On "Pattern Of Disrespect"
Jacquelyn LeBel, AM980
Support staff at London's Dearness Home is fed up with what's being described as a "pattern of disrespect" by administration.
Unifor Local 302 Vice-president Lisa Tucker says roughly 50 Dearness members came out to support an information picket Monday morning. Another picket is set to go from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday afternoon to bring awareness to what the union believes to be a lack of support and respect.
"There's been issues with break times, if our members are busy providing care for the residents on the floor and have been late coming down to their breaks, they've been told to go back upstairs that they're not getting their break and they've missed their break time. We have filed grievances on this which are still outstanding," Tucker tells AM980.
Kathleen Wynne discards pledge to cap compensation of public executives: Goar
Carol Goar, The Toronto Star
Premier Kathleen Wynne had a perfect opportunity to keep a long-standing commitment, set an important precedent and demonstrate her government's principles. She passed it up.
Last week Ontario Power Generation, wholly owned by the government of Ontario, named its new president and CEO. Jeffrey Lyash was recruited from CB&I Power (Chicago Bridge and Iron), a private energy company with projects throughout the United States and around the world. He will be entitled to $1.55 million in salary and bonuses — the same compensation as departing CEO Tom Mitchell who perennially topped the province's list of highly paid public employees.
Last week's announcement flies in the face of Wynne's 2013 pledge to cap the pay of senior executives in the public sector. It ignores a warning from Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk that "very generous" salaries, perks and pensions at Ontario Power Generation (OPG) are pushing up electricity rates. And it reinforces a culture of entitlement in provincial Crown corporations, hospitals and universities.
Jamaican workers take control of wages
Monte Sonnenberg, Simcoe Reformer
WALSH – Jamaican farm workers in Norfolk and beyond are celebrating now that their government has abandoned the "draconian practice" of withholding 25 percent of their earnings.
Jamaica recently dropped the long-standing policy in response to labour code changes in Ontario forbidding the practice.
The change is also good news for the local economy. With Jamaica giving its men more control of their wages, more of these dollars will be spent in area stores.
TransAlta timed power outages to hike prices, commission says
Ian Bickis, The Globe and Mail
TransAlta Corp. deliberately timed outages at power plants in Alberta at peak times in order to drive up electricity prices, the province's utilities commission said in a ruling Monday.
The Alberta Utilities Commission conducted hearings after the province's market surveillance administrator alleged that the Calgary-based company manipulated the electricity market by shutting down coal-fired power plants in late 2010 and early 2011 to drive up power costs during periods when demand was high.
"The commission concludes, based upon clear, cogent and convincing evidence that TransAlta could have deferred each of the above described outages to off peak hours but chose instead to take them during peak or super-peak hours so as to maximize the benefit to its own portfolio," the commission said in its decision.
Freezing hospital budgets is like cutting services: Ontario Coalition of Hospital Unions
A spokesperson for the hospital in Sudbury says it is working on the challenges raised in a report from the Ontario Coalition of Hospital Unions.
The Coalition is releasing stories from patients — many of them elderly — who called their anonymous healthcare hotline last year.
There are stories of people lying in the hall in the emergency department for almost a week. Others deal with people who were sent home with hospital-acquired superbugs, or who were misdiagnosed.
Lessons from laundry privatization: Why freedom of information matters in the era of privatization
Tria Donaldson and Cheryl Stadnichuk, rabble.ca
Brad Wall is the latest premier to push a privatization agenda that is seeing public accountability and transparency take a back seat to corporate profits.
Everywhere privatization has occurred, public access to the facts and figures around privatization has been a challenge. Here in Saskatchewan, that challenge can been illustrated by the difficulty of getting information about the privatization of hospital laundry.
The cloak of secrecy was dealt a major blow last week when the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner recommended the disclosure of a 10-year contract for laundry services between K-Bro Linen Systems and 3sHealth. The Commissioner also recommended that the publicly-funded 3sHealth be brought under legislation as a health care organization and subsequently freedom of information laws.
Ontario school support workers consider strike action
Selena Ross, The Globe and Mail
The union representing Ontario school support staff signalled on Monday that contract talks are going badly and said it will not rule out strike action in September – a move that could keep many schools closed for health and safety reasons, even if teachers stay on the job.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), whose 55,000 education workers include custodians and tradespeople, requested a conciliator on Monday.
The union would need to ask the conciliator for a "no board report" in order to be in strike position by September. Terri Preston, chair of the bargaining committee for CUPE's central talks with the Ministry of Education, said the union is not planning to request the report right away, but it hopes to force the province to set more bargaining dates than the two it has scheduled in August.
Halifax Water poured $2 million into strike security
Evan Webster, The Chronicle Herald
Halifax Water spent about $2 million on security during a recent labour disruption, a freedom of information request has revealed.
The CBC originally filed the request, and The Chronicle Herald received a copy Monday. The document breaks down all the costs associated with the utility's hiring of AFIMAC Canada, an Ontario firm specializing in strike security.
For the first month of the two-month work stoppage, which began May 19, security workers were paid $724,092 in wages. Security vehicles, lodging and meals cost $81,2409, $65,667 and $32,515, respectively.
Greater vigilance needed to protect road workers, says NAPE president
The head of NAPE says more needs to be done to avoid tragic accidents like the one that claimed a worker's life two years ago.
Line painter Wayne Wall was struck and killed by a truck on the highway near Flat Bay, on Newfoundland's west coast, in July 2013 while he was placing road-painting signs.
NAPE president Jerry Earle said the accident points to other safety issues he's heard about from union members.
City strike rolls into week two
William Stodalka, Alaska Highway News
The Fort St. John city strike looks less likely to be resolved quickly after the B.C. Government Employees Union refused to return to the negotiating table with the city last week.
But, the union's lead negotiator, Brent Camilleri, said the union turned down the city's offer because the city said it could not change its financial mandate and address any wage changes.
Fort St. John city employees went on strike July 20 and have said the strike is over wages. Workers—who have been without a contract since the end of 2014—wanted to compare a potential new contract and its future wages to different cities than what Fort St. John city managers wanted to use.
Categories // British Columbia, Canada Post, CUPE, democracy, health and safety, healthcare, HEU, international solidarity, Jamaica, labour news update, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, nurses, Ontario, Uncategorized, workers' rights

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The movie on Narendra Modi, titled PM Narendra Modi that's already going through backlash from opposition events, can also be embroiled in an argument relating to utilizing the identify of veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar. Now within the wake of those occasions, the Narendra Modi biopic has encountered yet one more controversy. A member of the Republican Get together of India, Satish Gaikwad has filed a PIL [Public Interest Litigation] asking for the keep of the discharge of the movie.
Satish Gaikwad approached Bombay Excessive Courtroom to hunt the keep of Narendra Modi biopic, primarily as a result of the movie is predicted to launch a number of days earlier than the elections are anticipated to be held. Nonetheless, the listening to for a similar has been scheduled on Monday. In accordance with the PIL, the movie violates the code of conduct that has been imposed by ECI [Election Commission of India]. The bench of Chief Justice Naresh Patil and Justice N M Jamdar has requested the respondents which incorporates ECI, I&B Ministry, the administrators and producers of PM Narendra Modi to answer to the PIL by Monday.
Readers would remember that PM Narendra Modi is already going through points with makers utilizing the identify of Javed Akhtar on the posters of the movie with out his permission. When the lyricist expressed shock over the identical, producer Sandip Ssingh had clarified on the matter stating that that they had used the identify as a result of that they had used a number of the previous songs of lyricist. Additionally they asserted that they did so beneath the steering of the music firm.
Coming to the movie PM Narendra Modi, the movie is directed by Omung Kumar who has directed biopics on Mary Kom and Sarabjit. It's anticipated to launch on April 5 and options Vivek Oberoi within the function of the protagonist.


The spirit of do-gooding is alive and well in the design industry, and DT reports on individuals and companies making a difference.
Age-related needs, treating the master suite as a whole, the desire to personalize a recently purchased home, and technology are a few factors driving bathroom renovation especially among Baby Boomers.
Have your journey featured in Designers Today print publication or in our blog. Read on to find out how to submit your journey.
My heart always warms to mothers and daughters who work together. This week, with Mother's Day in sight, we celebrate the mother/daughter teams at: Paper Chase Interiors, Kelli Ellis, Loren Taylor Interior Design, and The Interior Design Studio.


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using System;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.Azure.Management.Compute.Models;

namespace Microsoft.Azure.Management.Compute.Models
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Describes an Operating System disk.
    /// </summary>
    public partial class OSDisk : Disk
    {
        private DiskEncryptionSettings _encryptionSettings;

        /// <summary>
        /// Optional. Gets or sets the disk encryption settings.
        /// </summary>
        public DiskEncryptionSettings EncryptionSettings
        {
            get { return this._encryptionSettings; }
            set { this._encryptionSettings = value; }
        }

        private string _operatingSystemType;

        /// <summary>
        /// Optional. Gets or sets the Operating System type.
        /// </summary>
        public string OperatingSystemType
        {
            get { return this._operatingSystemType; }
            set { this._operatingSystemType = value; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the OSDisk class.
        /// </summary>
        public OSDisk()
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the OSDisk class with required
        /// arguments.
        /// </summary>
        public OSDisk(string name, VirtualHardDisk virtualHardDisk, string createOption)
            : this()
        {
            if (name == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("name");
            }
            if (virtualHardDisk == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("virtualHardDisk");
            }
            if (createOption == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("createOption");
            }
            this.Name = name;
            this.VirtualHardDisk = virtualHardDisk;
            this.CreateOption = createOption;
        }
    }
}

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Hey Y'all! I've got a superbly huge and wonderfully busy week currently taking place, therefore my hence of posting. Thankfully I was able to prepare a vlog last week, so yay! Happy Thursday! I hope y'all have a really blessed day!
Getting new books is always SUCH fun! Yay for you!


oom after the verdict. "It's going to take me a really long time to get over this . . . for somebody I didn't even know who did this to me," she said, sobbing. "I really wanted, from the bottom of my heart, that he would get what he deserved, which is second degree murder," said Gill, who still walks with a cane or the assistance of friends. "But it's not gonna bring back my friend, it's not gonna ever give me back what I worked for. It's just really unfair. "Gill, now 24, said such a life altering event was not something she expected for a New Year's Eve party. "It's just really hard, because I made a really big deal about going to that one party and I'm never gonna be the girl I used to be before," she Nike Free Run 5.0 Flyknit added. Maharar spent 48 days in hospital and another 34 days in a rehabilitation facility with multiple fractures and other injuries. "The Crown says it was a reasonable outcome.
it's all right," she said. "But it is murder. Everybody knows it's a murder. The Reno hit and run case this summer that hospitalized a man for months and left him a paraplegic could be nearing a plea deal with the woman involved paying a monthly restitution fee for the rest of her life. Myree Townsend, 41, was arrested in June for allegedly leaving the scene after hitting Gabe Kennedy, 26, in a crosswalk on May 8 on Wilbur May Parkway in south Reno. only person you hurt when you hold back on forgiveness is yourself. A plea deal is in the works that could potentially put Townsend on probation and ordered to pay monthly restitution for the rest of her life, Deputy District Attorney Roy Stralla on Tuesday. Solea Kennedy, Kennedy's mother, said she and her son are backing the potential deal. "Talking to Gabe, it just makes more sense; if she goes to jail, it costs the state money and it's not helping Gabe at all," she said. "The only person you hurt when you hold back on forgiveness is yourself," she said. "It's not going to change anything.
Enter Libby new boyfriend Whit (Azaria) who rich, successful and.
said her son's medical expenses have exceeded $1 million and he will need long term care, especially since she works as a flight attendant and is often away from home. They moved to Seattle after the accident to be closer to family. "Obviously, it's a very difficult case for all parties," Townsend's attorney, Tom Viloria, said Tuesday. "Miss Townsend has done the right thing and stepped forward and taken responsibility. "From the first minute, you know exactly how it will end. The main character Dennis (Pegg) leaves his pregnant girlfriend Libby (Newton) at the altar, literally running away. Cut to five years later and Dennis is out of shape, smokes a lot and has unexplained visitation rights to see his son.


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The Biblioburro (The donkey library) is a traveling library that distributes books to patrons from the backs of two donkeys, Alfa and Beto. The program was created in La Gloria, Colombia, by Luis Soriano. The biblioburro operates within the central municipalities of the Department of Magdalena, on Colombia's Caribbean shore.

Soriano became fascinated with reading as a child and obtained a college degree in Spanish literature after studying with a professor who visited his village twice a month. A primary school teacher by profession, Soriano developed the idea after witnessing first-hand the power reading had on his students, most of whom had lived through intense life conflicts at a young age. Starting in the late 1990s, Soriano traveled to communities in Colombia's Caribbean Sea hinterlands with a portable library, which began with 70 books.

Soriano wrote to Juan Gossaín, a Colombian journalist and writer, after having heard him read excerpts from his novel The Ballad of Maria Abdala on a radio program. Soriano asked Gossaín for a copy of his book to be distributed on the Biblioburro, details that Gossaín broadcast on his radio program. The response created a flood of book donations and Soriano's collection soon expanded to 4,800 volumes. As of November 2009, a library building next to Soriano's house has been completed funded in part by donations from the public, and it opened as the first library in La Gloria. Additional funding is also provided by the director of a community library, located nearly  from the Caribbean shore in Santa Maria, who hired Soriano as a satellite employee in order to share a portion of its US$7,000 annual budget.

Children's adventure stories have remained one of the most popular items distributed by the Biblioburros. In addition to encyclopedia volumes, novels, and medical texts, other items distributed by the Biblioburro include Horacio Quiroga's animal fable Anaconda, the Dictionary of the Spanish Language of the Royal Spanish Academy (Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española) and a number of Time–Life travel pictorial books. Books lost from the collection include a sex education manual and a copy of Laura Esquivel's 1989 novel Like Water for Chocolate, both of which were not returned by borrowers. A copy of Paulo Coelho's 1990 novel Brida was stolen by bandits, who tied up Soriano after attempting to rob him and discovered he had no money.

Colombian documentary filmmaker Carlos Rendón Zipagauta has made a film that tells the story of Soriano and the Biblioburros.

In June 2012, Soriano had a leg amputated after an accident involving one of his burros, but as of January 2013 he continued committed to his work.

See also
 Pack Horse Library Project
 Warrington Perambulating Library
 Bookmobile

References

External links
Ayoka short film
Biblioburro blog
Biblioburro Rocketboom Video

PBS POV: Biblioburro Documentary and lesson plans

Colombian culture
Libraries in Colombia
Mobile libraries
Donkeys

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Among the many accolades tossed about about George H.W. Bush was that he was a good and noble man. However, let no one forget that while Bush 41 was the noble and decent darling of the party, Lee Atwater was his pit bull and was given carte blanche to ruin people's reputations and destroy their lives with his vile hateful nastiness.
Robert: I make it a point not to argue with people when they are correct. In fact, this news outlet wrote just last month on Atwater and his legacy. Also, for an excellent "counterpunch" on the hero worship for the late president check out this article.


The collections framework consists of various interfaces, concrete implementations of collections, and utility classes. Familiarity with the methods defined by the interfaces is required. Some collection interfaces are better suited for certain types of information. Knowledge of which collection implementation is best suited for a particular situation is important.


Writing numbers is a tricky discipline that confuses the best of writers at time. Style guides vary on their recommendations, and many of the rules aren't set in stone. However, there are five rules that are generally agreed on and have set a small standard guide for writers to follow.
When writing numbers smaller than ten, you should write the number out. The reason for this is simply because it looks more professional. The last thing you want is for your sentence to look like something pasted from a text message. In your opinion what do you think looks better? "The two blind cats played together". Or, "The 2 blind cats played together".
Writing two numbers next to each other looks confusing. For example, "24 25 year olds". Instead, write, "Twenty four 25-year olds". This eliminates confusion for the reader.
When writing numbers, make sure you use a comma to separate numbers over 1,000. This rule helps to make numbers easier to read. For example, "The road is 458, 987 miles long," rather than, "The road is 458987 miles long". The same applies to tens of thousands, millions and billions, etc.
In formal writing you should always spell "percent" out for the reader. For example, "16 percent of the people," not, "16% of the people." With less formal writing you can get away with writing the percentage sign (%); for example in blogs and online articles.
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ESPRIT STAFF
Esprit Travel's cultural tours started with a simple vision: To give participants an authentic experience of the culture of Japan in all its richness and beauty. Our motivation was equally simple. We were completely enchanted with the artistry, culture, people and life of Japan and wanted to share it with travelers seeking a genuine experience of another culture.
It had been the good fortune of many of us at Esprit to live, work, study and explore throughout Japan. We had each, in our own way, entered into the life and the heart of Japan and felt sure we could share that with fellow adventurers. From the start, we saw that simply riding around Japan on a tour bus and getting off to see famous government buildings and major sites would not reveal the Japan we had come to know and love. It would not allow our travelers to experience the way one is intoxicated, even seduced, by a wonderful new world. So, we set out to plan and lead cultural tours that transcend mere travel.
Today, it is our pleasure to lead travel experiences that unfold like a beautiful story you never want to end. Because our tours are carefully crafted to open many windows into a culture, each participant has a uniquely meaningful experience. Perhaps you will always remember the way the maples glowed at sunrise as gongs rang and monks chanted, or the Kabuki actors explaining their art to you, or the artisan showing you the stoneware tea bowls, dripping with glaze, that he hand crafts in his workshop. Someone else many treasure the time spent soaking in a mountain hot spring, contemplating the wonders of the day. Whatever the moments are that resonate and enlighten, our goal is to make sure you have the chance to experience them.
STAFF BIO'S
Meet the team whose' knowledge, insight, charm and thoughtfulness drive their mission to make sure that you have the opportunity to cherish memories of the Japan you've dreamed about.
Steve Beimel: Founder
Steve is the founder of our Japan tours and currently living and working in Kyoto. "The most fulfilling part of my Japan-related life is working with so many amazing and talented men and women. It has been a great privilege for me to introduce our tour participants to these people, in a true spirit of cultural exchange."
Elaine Baran: President
Elaine Baran has been involved with Esprit Travel for more than 20 years. She manages the business and marketing operations as well as provides custom travel services for individuals and private groups. She has an MBA from the University of Chicago, lives in Las Vegas, NV and travels to Japan with her own samurai, David (seen here).
Nancy Craft: Tour Planning Director
Nancy lived in Kyoto for six years where she studied Japanese textiles and related arts. Every year since 2003 Nancy has been named by Condé Nast Traveler Magazine as a Top Travel Specialist for Japan. She now lives in Colorado.
Rosalind Sassoon: Tour Planner
As a young adult Rosalind immigrated to North America from England. She has worked in the travel industry for over 20 years. Having traveled extensively her favorite aspect of travel is cultural immersion. "It is crucial to understand different cultures in order to move towards world peace". The Japanese ethos holds a very special place for her. She is passionate about delivering the best possible experiential Japanese vacation based on her clients' interests.
Danielle Jardine: Travel Planner, Japan Dream Weddings, Social Media
Danielle has always been fascinated with Japan and its beautiful culture. She has been involved with Esprit since January 2017. Working for Esprit and learning the travel business has opened up incredible opportunities; along with allowing her to learn more about Japan. After a short time specializing in Japan for a traditional travel agency, Danielle has returned to Esprit to focus on custom travel services for our wedding division, assisting families and couples to experience their dream Japan wedding.
Andy Bender: Tour Leader
Santa Monica-based Andy Bender is a food and travel writer who also serves as a tour leader for Esprit. He lived and studied in Japan for three years and he is fluent in Japanese. "I'm a guide with Esprit because I love helping visitors discover the same fascination I have for the country."
Matt Schultz: Senior Tour Guide – Kyoto
Matt Schultz was born in Kyoto and moved to the United States at the age of 13. Matt began cultivating an interest in pottery while still in high school. Though he later went on to study Spanish and Business at the University of Oregon, he continued to explore pottery. After graduating from university in 2009, Matt returned to Japan. In 2011, Matt enrolled in Kyoto Prefectural Ceramics Technical Institute for continued study in pottery.
Chizuko Waller: Senior Tour Guide – Tokyo
Chizuko's interest in travel goes back to high school, when she attended the Traveling High School in Odawara, a specialized school. After living in both Southern and Northern California she returned to Japan with her family and now works as one of our senior guides in Tokyo, showing travelers the special places she knows and loves.
Keiko Kamei: Senior Tour Guide – Tokyo
Keiko Kamei, MA, has a background in gallery management and art museum education and has worked with a number of galleries in the Tokyo area. She has a MA with a concentration in art museum education from New York University. Keiko works as a freelance art consultant and guide.
Miyuki Aihara: Tour Guide – Tokyo
Miyuki was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She attended Waseda University in her hometown of Tokyo, where she majored in English. After graduating, she lived near Kyoto and had many opportunities to show some of Kyoto's famous places to overseas neighbors. She enjoyed the experience so much that she decided to become a professional guide. In addition to helping people to know Japan and its culture, she loves learning about other countries through her interactions with our guests.
Tomoko Kisaka: Tour Guide – Kyoto
Tomoko was born and grew up in Kyoto. She has a B.A.degree in Child Psychology from the Kyoto University of Education. Tomoko travels throughout Japan as a tour guide but says she likes Kyoto the most. "That's because Kyoto always makes its visitors want to return time and time again."
Kenzo Sato: Tour Guide – Kyoto
Kenzo Sato was born and raised in a rural area of Kyoto. He now lives and guides in Kyoto after studying economics at university. He has guided cycling tours and rafting and river hiking tours in the area.
Fujio Nakagawa: Tour Guide – Kanazawa
Fujio has lived and worked in Kanazawa most of his life, working in the export business for a major loom maker for 38 years. Upon retirement in 2000 he started sharing his love of his hometown using the language abilities he had honed during his many years of working with westerners.
Hideaki Takamatsu: Tokyo Staff & Support
Takamatsu san provides staff and technical support in our Tokyo office. Train tickets, special events, hotels, cars and even sumo tickets are artfully handled from his office. If you are traveling independently, you will usually find a hand-signed letter from him upon your arrival in Japan.
Yuko Nishakawa: Kyoto Staff & Emergency Contact
Yuko runs a small restaurant in eastern Kyoto and is Esprit's emergency contact in addition to teaching personalized cooking lessons for our guests. While spring, summer and fall are in Kyoto – winter finds her in Nagano, exercising her her passion for skiing.
Carol Dix: Travel Planning Assistant to Nancy Craft
Carol has been working with Nancy since 2010, and her knowledge of Japan's culture, visual beauty, arts, and delights has expanded exponentially. She helps out in the office with details, paperwork, and correspondence for tours and custom trips.
When Carol is not in the office she enjoys the great outdoors in her hometown, Telluride, Colorado, and beyond.
Carrie Podhirny: Travel Planning Assistant to Elaine Baran
Carrie provides administrative support from the Las Vegas office. She grew up in Virginia and South Carolina and has spent the last 20 years laying down roots in Nevada. Carrie is captivated by the colorful and beautifully rich culture of Japan.


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The Glitch Mob Releases Heavy, Gritty "System Bleed" With LICK
The Glitch Mob enters a new chapter with their latest collaborative effort.
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Photography by Daniel Johnson
A longtime supporter of The Glitch Mob, I was excited to discover their latest innovation of sound, a new collaboration with talented producer LICK titled "System Bleed." Riding the momentum of a big 2018, the single, out now on their longtime emblem Glass Air Records marks the trio's first release in 2019. The Glitch Mob enjoyed a highly fruitful 2018 with the release of their third studio album See Without Eyes, a global headline tour, and the release of "RISE" with Mako and metal group The Word Alive, featured on the soundtrack to video game League of Legends. Since its release "RISE" has amassed nearly 200,000,000 streams across all major DSP platforms, making the gaming anthem the trio's most popular single to date.
"System Bleed" marks the first of many new joint efforts that the trio will release before the close of 2019 and a new era for The Glitch Mob. In 2010 The Glitch Mob was one of the first bass music acts to implode the mainstream music market with the release of their EP Drink The Sea. The trio has constantly fought to keep their sound fresh by pushing the boundaries of modern music and incorporating the latest music technology trends. With the evolution of bass music, their sound has also progressively gotten grittier and edgier.
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For "System Bleed" The Glitch Mob strategically teamed up with enigmatic mid-tempo bass producer LICK, who just released his debut album DARK VIBE ORDER on Denver-based label ALT:Vision Records. Their most recent tour also found them touring alongside mainstay bass music acts NGHTMRE, Slander and Seven Lions. With highly anticipated upcoming performances at Warehouse of Horrors in New York City and Voodoo Festival in New Orleans, "System Bleed" and its accompanying visual video vigorously reflect the progression of The Glitch Mob sound.
The Glitch Mob had this to say in reference to the release of their latest single, "We are so fired up to finally release this track with LICK. He's an incredible young artist and we've been playing versions of this in our sets all year. This will be first in a series of collaborations with producers that we admire and creatively vibe with."
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#665 – Flight Simulators & TikTok Nominate/
We chat about our energy levels, Dubai 2020 alternatives, Mr. 97's old posts, topless shower content, playing Sims 4 and plans for our TikTok account.
– Our energy
– Dubai 2020
– Mr. 97's old Minecraft forum posts
– Topless shower content
– Playing Sims
– Our TikTok
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It's the daily Talk Show Episode 665. What's happening guys? What is going on? For this Monday? I'm feeling very happy. I don't want to project too much of the energy because I know it can be annoying. But happies a good energy to project it's the negativity we don't want around here. Well, they I wanted to shout out the healthcare workers who were doing actual important shit and risking their lives. While you were just being gronk behind the microphone. Thank you, everyone. What you're doing? Yeah, yeah, I mean, is that a your perspective shifted for you? Are you needing the perspective of you feeling like, you can almost feel bad for feeling good, right. It's like, I'm feeling good. But then I don't have much to do today other than just talk to the gronk. Watch. I'm very that there's like, even though things are good. I'm very lucky to be
The position I am and the also the fact that we have amazing people who are, you know, going in on the front line. Yeah, helping the sick people and then getting sick themselves.
It's it's absolute effort and absolute
amazing thing they're doing in terms of being, you know, it's like sometimes you can I think we've had it in the office. It's like some days you're not on and a day where I'm on or vice versa. And you can be kind of like when you're overly not overly positive, but you're riding high. And then you can be sort of cut down at the knees from someone who's just feeling that negativity, which is no good. So I want to lift it up. Lift up my butt, sir Mason, let him get on your shoulders, please. Yeah, no, Mason is you get on mine. Yeah, cuz before you weren't getting on the microphone. I think services
Taking a percentage. I'm happy. What's your percentage? I'm at 100. You're at 100. I'm an I it five or I can be five. What are you, TJ? Yeah, I'm at this coffee's just got me back up to 95 Oh, that's great. It says, Wait, we're stroll Bodie. The only
case sensitive moment, an 85. What have you got going on? That's wrong. What isn't? Where's that? 15 Where does that land?
I don't know. I had I had a good morning because I started using this app called endl. And it's meant to be like a an app that helps you focus in a place a bunch of like, noises. I heard it from Kevin Rose on Twitter. He pushed out a link to it. So I've been I've been pumped because I had a great morning just smashing a bunch of stuff out. But why is that? Why aren't you at 100 what do you need to get 100?
I don't know. I feel like 100 percents pretty full on like you're over the moon at 100. Yeah.
Stop taking down Joshua.
I do my hundred because I get criticised.
It's true though. I tell you how. Oh, he says, I tell you how you can maybe get it above what were you at? 8585 Yeah, it's it's like when the when the military they sort of beat you down and build you back up. I got emotionally absolutely beaten down last night. Have you watched lion on Netflix? Do you mean Lion King? No, line. Li o n lion. Have you do you know about it? You know this film? It's it's one a heap of a Why is this the Ozzie one. The Aussie ones. It's got the lucky thing. Yeah. What's what's the famous Australian actress? What's her name? Nicole Kidman? Yes, yeah, she's in it. And she was great and the guy who was in Slumdog Millionaire, but it's just about it's
We've talked about this before, it's like I spent the first like 10 minutes, sort of being fidgety and going to my phone because I don't want to enter the emotional roller coaster that it's about to take me on and say you're about to drop. And it's just Oh, man. And so anyway, I always just an absolute mess. Last night, I've never cried so much in a film before. And it's because the boy who's in it who gets lost and loses his brother and then gets adopted to a state like, oh, man, it's close to both these days. Like it's only a couple couple years and that is Bodie, that, that was massive thinking about him. It was a massive film that was like it was probably what like a year ago. It was. Yeah, yeah. And so what did he just it just got released on Netflix. A week or two ago. What I took from it is if you just want to I was just saying for sales, maybe watch that tonight, cry and become worthless, nothing and then
overnight with you know
rejuvenation while you're sleeping and you come out feeling 95% reckon you got nothing to worry about since you're good son.
You're all good. Great. You know, we're gonna go to Dubai
chestnut. Yeah, it's not going to happen. I was going there for World Expo. Got any ideas on what we could do instead?
Well, you can't go. You can we can't travel. I mean, one thing on line at the moment is everyone posting a photo from where they'll go. Once this is all over. And so, you know, a few people put up Bali, America.
I mean, there is that thought of what do we do once he can start travelling? And when it is, because it could be really cheap when it is. I mean, I don't know I cannot see the time line of this. Going back to normality within you know, like I can't see in 12 months. I don't know what that looks like. Because you just be a bit scared of maybe travelling too.
is going to be through the roof. You know if he? I don't know, but on a lot of night. Yeah, I mean, there was it was something we wanted to do. So where could we go? What could we do instead of it is a question. And I he's one he's been a themed show, once a month is high but we could we could work out how you we could
with that being culturally insensitive. Somehow sort of do some theme dress up? Could it be a little Friday night drinks, you're just making drinks depending on the location or you're wearing
kind of this dangerous list list? Yeah, list out your 10 drinking bars or what it like but it's very it's very limited. I think it's gonna be very hard. It would have to be mocktails I reckon.
I mean, you could run for you know, Havana rum for Havana Mexican and it's a cocktail. So, yeah, so we could do the whole
I guess because there was the Dubai part but then there was the World Expo bit which was going to all the countries in there. Yeah. So you're trying to incorporate sort of that world feel to the one around the Dubai Bish sibs, I mentioned last night you want to buy target for the shot.
You want to buy Tiger I get why is there a lot of tigers in Dubai? Yeah,
surely Yeah, yeah. I follow this guy. Jaguar, Jaguar black, black Jaguar or something. He's, um, I think he lives over there, but I've seen heaps settle, you know, the dude's dress the sheiks holding like lions and shit. There's heaps of Instagram accounts that are posting that crap.
So yeah, but what do you what do you think about the idea of
I was thinking of getting into flight simulator. I can get it on the PC. What do we feel about me flying in a 382 Dubai.
Do that. At the very least I can take off in Melbourne and then I thought episode thousand. We could start the show with me landing us all in the three it in Dubai.
Can the computer run out streaming while playing again? Yeah, I reckon it definitely could.
I mean, you could do it for your kids, you could put it on cruise control for the show. And then the kick ons is you let me get a bit pissed. That would be fun.
We got funny, used to be drunk on drunk on the lead and somehow work out how you can feed that feed into zoom or whatever we're streaming it on. So you can just roll it. You can control it with a keyboard, or you're gonna look if this depending on where we are financially, it'd be great if I could have a cockpit. Okay.
Save that job paper money you might
want to get the wrong tree.
We get one Gumtree. I would love a throttle, that would be great.
I met a guy at bonsai icebergs, which is that great establishment that was at once was where you could drink and look over Bondi Beach and got really drunk and met this dude who was just there by himself in the corner. And he hit Done sort of looking and smiling. I was like, ah, and we like, started chatting to him. Turns out he was a cargo pilot. So he flies planes around the world, big ones that just carry cargo. And Don His name is and we became mates on Facebook and Instagram. And he's still flying. And he was in maybe Dubai, or somewhere in the Arab Emirates, and he just took a photo. He was taking video out the window, not he I think he may have been either a passenger or he's just in the cockpit with his phone out, like a loose unit. But the amount of planes parked on the ground at the moment. I've rented
The Arab Emirates is ridiculous, like hundreds going to find this boy for the Marty who fixed my drone when I crash that he was a pilot. Okay, there he did that exact same thing. He went to military zones and would take cargo and things like that. But yeah, I feel like we should get a pilot on the show to talk through sort of what I need to know specifically with Dubai, what I need to consider. It could be a few out of work pilots at the moment with Oh, yeah, maybe we could get maybe I could have a whole cockpit of actual pilots who
who are co piloting? Yeah, could you have your little tests like that running you through what to do on the landing? Yeah, I would love that. I would love to just but also the,
the the intro, you know, doing the doing all this sort of stuff over the mic. I could get around as well. Yeah, yeah.
The after the show. I found some of the throttles and flight sticks to where we talk is on the can that you can buy. Yeah, it's cheaper than the station.
Maybe I get that. Yeah. And I think it plays into your pay, say just via USB or whatever.
Well, maybe I could cash in my points with velocity for applying. Not using them
be able to get some flight simulator. I mean, we said we had kids on the show the other week who's got his pilot licence? doesn't he? Like plane light aircraft? Yeah, I mean, can you When can you see the reality of flying when it's about you know, back to normal when what time would you put to it? I've no idea but probably like, you know, like, I've got no idea. However, I do like to speculate. And I'll guess January
January 2021 20. is a time that
it's about the time that
school kids who were in year 12 this year are going back to school to finish off their studies. Have you heard about this? Is this what's happening for kids? That land landed the 12 this year are potentially needing to study next year to get their entry into university.
Oh, man Oh, did you just assumed that all universe like all this?
Surely this stuff is all going to be disrupted as well, like arts degrees. Surely that's going to change. I mean, Hickstead surely has to be frozen. All these things. It's, it's ridiculous. saves you still is still paying off your hex debt, or do you pay it? We know we paid up front because I only had one semester or whatever. And I had the scholarship. So we ended up just paying up front. What was the scholarship? Yeah, just high school to get into the course. Because I didn't need an ATAR to get in. So you just got a little discount.
It's nice life hack.
Yeah. How's that cool skaffa
Well, good discount. Good just get nothing like getting a discount for something you don't even finish.
Stupid. You still lost 100% of the money.
TJ you know you're talking about the the Wayback Machine stuff. Yes. Which is where you can look at any website and online even if it's not there anymore. I was finding it hard to find stuff on you to be honest. Really? Yeah. You know what, it's, it's actually probably nothing to do with me being tricky and hiding stuff. It's probably it was just on some link that was dumb. And someone probably paid I'm the amount of money I've paid for websites over the years, I reckon it would be close to 20 grand. Like since being your whole website.
I'll get a whole flash website that was 10 in itself.
Which you can't even see you can only see the homepage on that. And then Tommy jacket website just you know, it was trying to had nothing to put on there. What the fuck was thinking it was before the days of Squarespace and any of that stuff so it was hot and you had to pay. Yeah, so anyway but I did decide to say what what I could find on saves. And so Stefan said, Yeah, years ago yeah, I usually get a hang on how old are you now? How old was how old we would have been 12 years ago. This is Minecraft dice. Okay.
Minecraft forums dotnet. Now what is in Deland server are great. This is a this was a minecraft server. Okay, this is what we talked about yesterday. We made up you made nearly 15 grand over here. Yeah, this is I'm sorry. We got so bogged down on that net vs gross and just because you told me off or interrupting which was fair
And then I just decided to argue semantics.
I just wanted to know Yeah. What was what she's been able to pull in? This would have been one of the pieces that I was playing on our I can mean, try and the rest of the code can I think he must have worked as part you were one of the staff because you, you, you were an apprentice architect, level five, and you said,
Hey, guys, welcome to in Deland. This is an amazing server with lots of friendly staff. We have many great plugins and enjoyable times. This server is a great community and people comment on how well run it is You sound like Donald Trump. So great. People keep telling me how great it is. We would like some more people and also some donations to boost the server Ram. Check out our temporary website. So there was that mean, you want What is it? What did you write? Yeah, perfect.
What you searched again? In May of 2001 Hp Oh was your name? What is your name? Yeah, Mac 23 I don't know why 23 But, yeah, what's that? h? h white pixel, high pixel? That's, that's a. That's like the biggest Microsoft they have something like 20,000 people playing simultaneously at once. It's crazy. Can you can you explain this to me? Because you sent it you wrote this forum post and I don't actually understand it. I might mispronounce things or whatever.
Hello, this is from Miami. 23 Hello. You're old a 12 year old so this was in 2014 so this isn't actually that. Out. Would you attend Europe? 2026 day 20 so sorry. 2014 2014 Yeah, okay, yeah, go 14. Hello, I've got 15 k at the point in time, and I'm wondering if I should buy Max herro Brian or purchase the hero
Place kit. As later on, you get a bow and diamond sword. I go. I do like the rat and I am more the PvP not bow type, but a bow would come in handy. So I'm finding it a tough pick thanks. Well the fact is that many
don't even remember reading this
what it must have been, it would have been one of the mini games that they have on their servers. So they've got like the player versus player PvP fighting. And so you can choose if you want to be like an archer kit, or you can choose if you want to be like a swordsman. And so you can either fight with a sword or a bar and so that's why I'm just like, Ah, I'm not very good at shooting the bow but I can click really fast so I guess I can play with the sword. The man who saves has become is much more appealing than the guy that was the 14 year old.
The young boy like even hearing you regurgitate that information.
I somehow really just upset. Well, you're much better suited as like, you know, like a fitness guy or do you think he's now he's not a junk
jock but he's the thing he called him the
thespian, please. No, this is absolutely not a thespian? Absolutely not. He's the reserved one on the lacrosse team, but still get amongst it. Yeah, you know, I mean, you you wanted me to take a photo in the shower yesterday, Josh with me and my son what's well?
Yes, what now what I said was I thought it was great content
is what drove me to read the text.
This is a directive from the boss to a young youngster. Well, he said, should I take a photo of the soap? And I said, No, because what
does so you upload that soap thing and so I I joke
They sent a message to you say it's probably too full on to take a photo of the shed soap right? It's like Haha, I recommend I reckon you should 100% to insert a video from the shower top off talking about the soap it'll get such a good response Hey guys subsea do it. It will give us enough content for all with tomorrow and you get to show off your best asset your chest, do it. Get it on now I'm pumped. These are all different messages. It's not just the block instead of the conversation.
And I said Show me your goat's milk first. Oh, what does that mean?
Yeah, I know it's going to spoil but
I don't think it's got the point but this is where this is. This is where I'm not interested because I don't it's not that I'm I'm not up for it. It's just I don't think that it's it's appealing.
Saves has the the appeal factor at the moment.
Do it smartly. Yes. Does it looks like it's getting a rewatch you know? Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, I reckon but if you and I both did it Josh would be like, Yeah, what's going on? Okay, you too burned
in the shower.
And then what did I say this? Okay, I don't want to even go into went into you calling me daddy thing and just putting that I didn't even know you were that you were the one who mentioned people will think I'm smarty daddy not good. But it's good for my bread apparently.
Good for your if you had your shirt off in the shower. That is not smarty me doing it smarty. You were the one who brought up daddy though. Because that was that was in response to being like Hank, I don't need like it. You're already being banned from my brand.
Who's your for? What's it for? I mean, if we do it, who's it for exactly. That
thought just for just just for the the gronk
I think that is can we get on YouTube Live anyone? Can we just get do just write something say yes if you're keen on kind of this kind of content coming from me I don't think it would have had to be that pervy or it's just like a very subtle
whoops there's a spider over again. Yeah, it would have been it would have been very subtle.
And so you said you were going to do it, didn't you and you haven't done it. So you just thought you'd bring it up on the show instead? No, I mean, I was I wasn't gonna do it anyway, but I just
I never said I'd actually do it. You were the one pushing for it. I just went along. So saved on our Instagram account. We did the Paul and the people have spoken. Now on once you're using a cake stone, what 68% of people 78 votes versus
37% votes and that's for a communal bar of soap for the family. Yeah, so absolutely not. Is that is that your soap or is this? Give me my image? That's just
thought it was a that was sibs hand, but it's not. Anyway. Actually, absolutely not. What I want you to do over the weekend, TJ
what was he yesterday, Sunday? Oh, it's an annoying question.
Mike, what do you say to do? I mean, I think it's pretty safe to say that everyone's doing the same thing. I think I actually broke the law though. I don't think you meant to drive around aimlessly. So Bodie, and I were driving around, like, you know how I told you about how one of the moms from Brody's daycare mentioned that the hospital have built this sort of makeshift Hospital in the carpark next to the hospital. I wouldn't check that out with Bodhi less
Not bad like it's it almost doesn't even look like it's awesome. It looks like it's storage area. So it wasn't as full on as what it was portrayed to be. But then we're just driving around with through the city drove back home but then I thought that these people in Brisbane
got charged thousands of dollars each because they were just going on a cruise. Really? I think I feel like Queensland and wy mo philon have we actually have we blocked out borders in Victoria. Now? No, we haven't. So just be I think Wi Fi wouldn't hurt to read a lied to I know why because um, and the Goldie is that, you know, there's the bit you need to have your either driver or you know, have to have papers to get through to the other side. It's it's the content that you watch on the Today Show Josh if you want to get across that, you know, they're doing live crosses from the border, and that's gonna show
I mean when you cross the border in, I mean, Harry crosses the border. I mean if Harry's locked out, happy, Harry, if we can't if we if we close Victoria's borders, they can't get in. Emma says they were hooning. The people in Britain that were hurting. Yeah. Yeah, classic, but I'm not. I'm actually I'm actually pretty sure that you can't just drive around think Daniel Andrew said that. Just, you know, don't be driving around. So my point is, when you were just you're either at home or you're in the car, or you're exercising. Well, do you think that my walking would count my photo walks? Do you think that's problematic? That's right. No, I think I think it's exercise and creativity. I was thinking because I've got my drone at home now.
Which I thought I could sort of start getting some, some footage for the show. Good. Maybe in the morning, you know, alternate between your view, and maybe a City View from out the back here. Yeah. But I was thinking about
Just going down to parks and stuff trying to fly drones would probably be a no no go but your photography because you're walking and snapping. I think that'd be fine. Great photos by the way. Thanks love to be able to look good. Go go to our go to Josh's page at Josh Janssen ws I do you know I've still got you in my phone as Josh Janssen with one is I mean it's ridiculous. I've got two ends to ends on your name. Jesus.
Service Do you think Chairman Rick's gonna be okay with the fact we're not going to be able to get tickets to Melbourne Cup this year?
Yeah, I just don't think it's gonna be on for one. Yeah. I mean, I'll be honest with it without without titles. Without the raw right? It'll just be the the trots the horses. Sorry.
Yeah, I mean, I don't
I think it'll be a little bit
I mean, he'll get over it, I guess.
We played Sims yesterday.
All night. Did you not like my joke that I ride through on Instagram? He didn't get back to on that was funny. No, I'm very I want to get better at my day. It is an area but the thing is do I just I'm
just like I don't want to.
I don't like when someone writes back are they up for a chat?
I this is you just get a punch it punch response back. It's Instagrams quick. It's as good as it's as good as walking past someone and going Hey,
look great. Thanks, man. That's it. Yeah, I love the shoes. Yep. Thanks. And so you just it was very funny. It looked like Bray was designing the goo goo dome. Sorry, not good. Oh, what's what's going on? The Pussycat doll
To an episode, which was really, it was annoying though, because Bray spent probably 40 minutes designing her perfect Sim. And then we realised that we were in a tutorial mode. And so we couldn't save it.
It wasn't clear that it was a tutorial mode. Hang on, just recapping, you wanted to start playing games on the computer that we bought.
And you got Sims is that the game you've gone for? Well, I wanted to go Grand Theft Auto, but I wanted it to be a thing that bringing it together. And so I'm trying to be you could be killing people with every Exactly.
Some, some would say that's true love. But I think that that's one of the things in isolation is that I'm discovering how much Bree and I are both very strong headed with what you want to do what you want to eat when we're going to do what's the end. So, we're trying to like dial it in where it's like okay,
Like, who? Josh, do you really care about GTA Do you have to pay to play GTA? Could you play Sims? So we both can play Sims? That type of thing? Yeah. The Sims Josh Sims for Lara. Okay? Yeah, how much was it? $14 very cheap. Oh, last name. That's Serge it wasn't on right now. Yeah. Okay, sorry great name yesterday it was I playing this game with my partner it's called why do you do it like that? And there's no winners which is funny because it's like you're more and your partner watching them do things like what do you do like that? Yeah, what do you cut the onion like that? Well, we brain I was debating on what what? temperature you should have the pan when you cooking bacon and eggs. What do you think just hopping on howdy? How do you know the temperature? How are you getting that? Yeah, I would err on the middle of fucking Yes. Is that what you're doing? How do you how do you know what's hot? Hang on.
More flame less flame? Is that what you're saying? Like little
low, medium or high whatever that little dial is like I would go hate the pen gets get a little bit of oil. What do we miss? Not even. You've got the high you've got the big flying and got the lake. But
the problem is you said temperature
is it not to say if it changes like that you've got like, you've got a thermometer they're checking if it's like seven degrees life. It's a big flying night. It's hot. Oh, Joe Rogan. What's the Joe Rogan with? Joe Rogan's always cooking mate and got some sort of thermostat inside of the mate? Okay, this is interesting because I always love having it really hot I think as hot as possible. I did who is a professional says medium to low heat, so breeze actually correct.
or medium to low heat. The thing is with that is you gotta be patient because you gotta let the pan heat up. And if you got it to that medium and low heat, at you know, after a few minutes on there, whereas I could imagine Josh
You're like me, walk around. Hi. Hey, get going. You get there quicker. You can slap the piece of bacon down, Stan. Like, you'd like it down quick or what? Well, yeah, you just like what's the
what's the benefit? I mean, that's I guess that's how I feel about microwaves too. What's the
Why are we so concerned about putting it in for too long?
Because it will just completely depends on what you're having. Baby putting oats in, if you're putting beans in will probably blow them up. Like they'll start. They'll actually pop. If you're doing oats, it will overflow, if you
will.
It depends are they in source or not? Because if they're in a liquidy source, that is tomato bass has a bit of sugar. Yeah. sugar in it. It will cook Yeah, two minutes, two and a half minutes would would make them really hot. Really hot. Because the sugar hyden says the scrambled eggs are high heat and real quick.
Well, I don't know.
Now he says at too low what type of egg like are you doing? scrambled like fried like what are you doing? So Ryan says cast iron pans for the when Hayden says yes love cast iron. This was something I was thinking of getting with my points because yes do it I want to have a pan that I can then put into the oven for my bag deck so I'm not transferring I mean to a rat like a ramekins regret it Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't meal prep yesterday. got about seven I did a slow cooked
chilli con con that will be for one night I might have nachos and then on rest of pre made i've you know done like chilli con con with them. Broccoli and frozen them. But yeah, it's a good one. It's a good one. I've been using the delicious bacon seasoning. Oh, yeah, the cheese man. It's like having cheese
But don't chase chase chase somebody in Vegas Vegas. Shannon says I agree cast iron heavy though double as a whites during self eyes.
I love that I love that I actually was concerned I was like my milks gone my almond milk that you're only allowed to buy two of at a time couldn't find it I sure that we had it and Amy sister who lives with us. I just found this really heavy bags over the face in this and I'd seen her using it to do exercise squats and calf raises and different exercises around the house and out the back. Open it up. Can vegetables rice milk
it should have been using and she's like oh shit i forgot. Sorry about that. I guess Wait, that's it. We got another almond milk. If you're not having coffee in the morning.
Yeah, this is i bowties onto my routine. It's so annoying.
Cuz I thought I'd, I thought I'd worked out a way to be able to do work in the morning. And so it was
like,
I get up at 530 come downstairs, do a meditation, and then have a coffee and get onto my computer and do some work. And this morning, six o'clock on the dot, I hear this little pitter patter coming down, coming down the stairs. And then it's Bodie, he's on to me. He's done this sort of multiple times now, over the last week, where he he knows dad's downstairs and he comes down. First thing you said, it's like, Daddy, I need a ball. And there's these balls in the fridge that are like healthy, sweet, sweet, like date, protein, or did you make them? No, no, I mean, they keep it clean. So what are they? Now they're, they're just her homemade recipe, whatever it is dates and walnuts. Wait, who's who's recitations, coconut sugar.
I think she just found one. She's been testing it out.
My sister in law who lives with us, we missed a sister. I said, I know I said, You missed that. Sorry. I'm sorry. I said I missed it right now.
You've got extra aggressively worse. Like I was
nice. I'm up.
I'm naughty. I think what we've
got the energy of your
I felt it you've been serving me. I can feel it.
Everyone can we do a check in and see people smiling.
So we're gonna do a check in on
on YouTube Live, which is a Bernie brown technique of just, you know, do it with your partner, someone that you're close with? What's your levels? How can you support each other? So now saves you have to start supporting Josh because you're
And so you'd like to be honest. I'm Joshua sucking Maine and you've actually, you've ganked 5% of mine and 10% of Joshua's. You're at 95. You're at 95 now, yeah, I'm doing a little animal. I'm pumped. Yeah. Yeah.
Anyway, alright guys.
We're back at 4pm for another live live stream. Matt D Avella. Ricky. Yes. Tomorrow. 11am. Yep. In 24 hours. You'll be on the show. I'm looking forward to. We've spoken to someone in New York. Now mats, bunkered down in LA. Oh graces with 60 What is his line, man, right man 60s. Chat with grace yesterday. Only on text. Okay.
Glenn's at 80% That's nice. That's nice. didn't make it out for a run today.
I mean what time is it?
Yep. Evening every match surely
must be like
yeah, I mean it might be just it is a Monday. You're either fired up or you're not feeling it. I think I might do my Is it
is it is it outright just to do my live stream our dance during the heck hours?
No, because you live streaming it and it's class work. Yeah. And and you've had the young men blow the wind out of you take the wind out of your sails, and rob you of 10%
20% Now what that means tell me to some of yours. Because I'm really annoying, because my personality is to correct people. When I correct someone and I'm wrong, or that hurts, which, which one with this is that when I was
so adamant that you didn't and I'm listening so then I look like a fucking idiot because I'm the guy who evangelises listening and I didn't listen. So now I look dumb
it's all good. Don't let it get to you. But I'm pretty under thing so don't miss my
guy says the live dancing will bring her up to a 90. I got we should get we should share, share the stream get Grice on as well actually, I shouldn't do that. Get different people jumping in. And actually I'm gonna get up my tic Tock game again. I haven't done a tic tocs and Shannon. Oh, yeah, I actually thought Josh a good one for the TIC Tock. So there's because you'd like you'd probably consuming a lot of content too. And you're seeing the TIC tocs. Should we do screen time test as well whilst you're talking keep going? Just quickly yet but I was thinking we could do because I would love to see safe dose and ticked
I'd love to like it.
Yeah, but this is the guy that left on. Can he pushes back? And if he had just tell I think Dre and Jason, he's on
I'd be down at a 10
Now, I know
this so apparently Tick Tock has like these challenges that they send out. So someone on Tick Tock send sending out every week or whatever challenges.
Yeah, or like a topic that they have to create a challenge around. And so they do some of those. Yeah. And so what we could do our own, because it is like the pushback is hard on Tick Tock people, you know, people have been pushing back on it for months and months. And if anything, now is the time that everybody's doing it, so there's probably gonna be more pushback from the likes of sibs, who you know, feels a bit sort of self conscious about it all. And I want to say told, on Tick tock, I
play the shepherd
He would push back hard on it. But if we found tic tocs that we could sort of I nominate you, Josh to do this tic Tock and you go and tell me this is your tic Tock. So he's the dance. And so it's like, I'm not having to make the decision. I'm just having to do it, do it and then we can't. We can't. We can't push back on what Josh has chosen for me or I've tried. So if I choose the new challenge
this is a great
Tick Tock nominate. You've got options got up. Yeah. Nick, Tom and Nick. Nick. Tick Tock. Maybe just a family dinner.
I will say you can put it in a sock though. You can put it right.
But you have to have it. Yeah.
Do you like that idea? Yeah, that's great. Because then we can then because we've got that you just send me the details for the daily talk show. Log in
They just send them to me and I'll upload. I'm joking. Yeah. But so download the tic toc you like, and then you drop it in a text over to me. And then I have to do it and work out how to do it. Vice versa. Perfect.
I like it. And then we can sort of do a montage of little carousel events dropped on in store as well.
Do you Wait, what was? What was the screen time?
screen time?
Are we just doing? Yes. What are we?
Yeah, let's do yesterday. Okay, great.
Yeah, yeah. Okay. I'll go first. It was in 44 minutes. Are Jason
so my Monday, Sunday funday. For saves. How do you how do you go back? So how am I five hours. You just swipe swipe across the percentages? Five hours and 42 minutes for Sunday at 16% down from last week. And that is last week's average. Sorry.
Sunday when I got 10 hours. Well, that's fair. Oh, what it was all on? It was all on. Fine, wasn't it? Like? Yeah, seven hours.
10 hours 18 on Saturday, which is that was a big one. Big damage, guys. Awesome. All right. It's a daily talk show. You can live stream, the daily talk show.com forward slash live if you want to watch us there. Otherwise, you can also download the podcast at any of your favourite podcast apps. Thank you for all the podcasts reviews, no email service today. No emails, no. Okay. We'll send emails to us here at the title. He talks about calm. Why is that so funny since
we asked we asked yesterday I said
it's a bit
Well, I think I said it mentioning and then not yesterday.
Really, you can notice that 10%
Okay, so tell us a little
In smiling you started the episode like saves save started the episode not talking
yeah think think about what you've done said.
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