Angie Hyche is a clutter expert. Whether it is a storage room, garage, basement, self-storage unit, or your email inbox, Angie knows how to help you sort your possessions and your calendar. Angie is a professional organizer, helping a wide array of organizations and individuals clean up the chaos in their lives. She is also the author of […]
Calvin and Roy Laughlin
Babys First Laugh
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Baby’s first laugh
While at LSU long ago, my friend Roy Laughlin went to an Indian reservation with his roommate who was 100% American Indian. Roy thought they were celebrating a baby’s first birthday — came to find out they were celebrating his first laugh — this is when they believe a child becomes fully human. […]
Desert Drifter Pueblo
Gold Mining
Artist: Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian, born 1944) Title: Serra Pelada, Brazil, 1986 Medium: Silver gelatin print Edition: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm.)9,500 USD 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)11,000 USD 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)13,000 USD 24 x 35 in. (61 x 88.9 cm.)22,000 USD
Fredrick Backman
[Video at the bottom of this page.]Good evening. My name is Fredrik Backman. I’m here tonight because my agent said that this would be good for my career. She said I need to learn how to speak in front of people. ‘It’ll be fun,’ she said. So I told her that I write books. I […]
Indy Beagle in a Pueblo
Flying Chair
Joe Davis and Wizard Academy
2 minutes of improvised music
Saturday in the park
Bali and Hai in the Park with Aloha
The Park
Jeffrey and Joe_2005 and 2024
Keith Richards and Richard Simmons
Found Item
Manley Miller and Richard Simmons
Todd Liles and the Tiny Tribe
Daniel Whittington and Keith Richards
Keith Richards and Richard Simmons
MMRadio Richard Behar and the Real Bernie Madoff
Bernie Madoff perpetrated the biggest Ponzi scheme in human history, and before he died in prison in 2021, he met Richard Behar face-to-face 3 times, had more than 50 phone conversations with him, and exchanged more than 300 emails. How did Bernie Madoff pull it off? Who were his accomplices? Why were his investors so […]
Desert Drifter
Get-Eco Marching Song
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Johnny Molson on Digital Ads
Johnny Molson has been one of the Wizard of Ads Partners for many years, and he will help you grow your business if you meet the following three conditions: 1. You and Johnny have to like each other and feel a connection.2. Johnny needs to be confident that your business has the potential to grow […]
Aloha and Impostor Syndrome
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Billy Joel My Life
Mark Twain on Tobacco
Concerning Tobaccoby Mark Twain (1893) As concerns tobacco, there are many superstitions. And the chiefest is this–that there is a STANDARD governing the matter, whereas there is nothing of the kind. Each man’s own preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him. […]
Push and Pull Marketing
Greatest Female Vocalist of all Time
Paul and Julio
Bee Gees
Wichita lineman
God didnt make little green apples
The Wake of the Boat
Twenty-nine years ago, Carl Sagan wrote a book called The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995). One of the observations Carl shared in that book is particularly troubling: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. […]
MMRadio Dean Guida
If you are a client of Schwab, Fidelity, or Bank of America; if you fill your tank at Exxon; if you manage your finances with Intuit; or if you find yourself riding a bullet train in Japan, you can thank Dean Guida for making it possible. Dean launched his enterprise software business when he was […]
Dobie Gray and the Beat
Pennie and her sisters
Gotcha
Want Ads
walking gets boring
Exploring
Things I Should Tell You
Lots of people have been asking me the same 3 questions. QUESTION ONE: “Who were your mentors?” Mentor is a word I never use. In my nose it smells of apprenticeship, that wafting, submissive aroma that arises from a servant who adores his master. By this definition, I have never had a mentor, but […]
Lyle Lovett Hunter S Thompson
Lyle Lovett Remembers Hunter S. Thompson Published by Entertainment Weekly on December 23, 2005 “I was a journalism major at Texas A&M, so Hunter was one of my heroes. When I found out he included me on his ”Honor Roll” list in his book Songs of the Doomed, I was stunned and honored. We became […]
MMRadio Nick-Anthony
Nick-Anthony Zamucen has launched four successful franchises: a pizza chain, a home care business, a crime scene cleaner, and a water and fire damage repair company. According to Nick-Anthony, there is a proven formula for running a successful franchise, whether you buy into someone else’s concept or decide to start a franchise of your own. […]
MLK and 1968 Riots
The 1968 Chicago riots were sparked in part by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rioting and looting followed, with people flooding out onto the streets of major cities, primarily in black urban areas. In Chicago itself, more than 48 hours of rioting left 11 Chicago citizens dead, 48 wounded by police gunfire, 90 policemen injured, and […]
Hunter S Thomson Young Radio Energy
Recorded Live in a single, unedited take while the band was waiting for the producer to arrive. No one knew the sound man was doing a sound check. But he accidentally recorded this unexpected, unrehearsed “Jam Session” improvisational masterpiece.
Hunter S Thompson End of the 60s
Hunter S Thompson Newspaper
The Southwestern Desert
Chuck Jones wrote the rules for a crazy new world in 1948. These rules have successfully guided the Road Runner & the Coyote for the past 76 years: RULE 1: The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “BEEP-BEEP!” RULE 2: No outside force can harm the coyote – only his own ineptitude […]
Bassist from Weezer
“ I grew up in the projects and my suburban white friends were always nervous about what color to wear in my hood.” ‘Is it ok to wear red?’ “Yeah, dude. You look like the bassist for Weezer. You’ll be fine. The crips aren’t gonna see you in a red sweater and go […]
laughter sorrow anger wonder
Laughter. Sorrow. Anger. Wonder. Aim their laughter like a cannon that booms out over the water.Aim their sorrow like a rainbow that follows a storm.Aim their anger like a lightning bolt that kills a man standing under a tree. Be careful not to stand under trees. People would rather be angry that bored.This is why […]
What Jeffrey sent me
Jeffery Eisenberg sent this to me the other day, “You can warn your friend that he is being conned, and he will get angry at you. And when the whole thing comes crashing down and he loses his money, and he can no longer deny that you were right, he will never forgive you. He […]
Winnie the Pooh doesn’t know what to do
Winnie the Pooh doesn’t know what to do. Got a Honey jar stuck on his nose. He came to me asking help and advice. From here no one knows where he goes. So I sent him to ask the owl, if he’s there, how to loosen a jar from the nose of a bear. So […]
What Abe Lincoln said
According the the Lincoln Museum, Abraham Lincoln was a harsh critic of the anti-immigrant ‘Know Nothing’ movement of the 1850s. He seemed to particularly resent their claims of patriotism while trying to take freedoms away from targeted groups. On August 24, 1855, Abe said in a private letter to Joshua Speed, “I am not a […]
Werewolves of London
Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” started out as a homework assignment from Phil Everly of the Everly brothers. Warren Zevon and his good friend, Robert “Waddy” Wachtel were working together as part of the backing band for The Everly Brothers at the time. Warren tells of the song’s origins on WarrenZevon.com: “Phil Everly said, […]
MMRadio_Rusty Komori
Rusty Komori was the tennis coach at the Punahou School in Honolulu from 1994 until 2015. The school won the state championship each and every year. That’s a record not held by any other coach in any other sport. As he tells Deputy Roving Reporter Maxwell Rotbart, the core of success — in sports or business — is a […]
Sarria Cemetary in Barcelona
“The Sarrià cemetery is one of Barcelona’s best-hidden corners. If you look for it on the maps, you won’t find it. If you ask locals or taxi drivers how to get there, they probably won’t know, although they’ve all heard about it. And if, by chance, you try to look for it on your own, […]
Burial Markers
“But what remains to these stones is their eloquent ability to deliver the message common to all funerary architecture, from marble tomb to rough wooden roadside shrine — namely, ‘Remember.’ …The fear of forgetting anything precious can trigger in us the wish to raise a structure, like a paperweight to hold down our memories.” […]
Tom Grimes and the islands of Archie Pelago
We’re playing a couple of CCR songs today in memory of Dickie Grimes, who loved his bright red welding gloves and the music ofCreedence Clearwater Revival. Rest in Peace, Dickie. – Indy Beagle & The Tiny Tribe
books and covers
Quotes from The Maze Runner “Everything’s going to change. One day you’ll understand that.” “We’re all stories in the end.” “The maze isn’t something we’ll ever understand. It’s not meant for us to understand.” “If I can look at my problem from another angle, my mountain might become a hill.” “Sometimes the past is meant […]
Growing up poor
a story is a kind of drug
“A story is a kind of drug… It’s not just a state of high attention, it’s a state of high suggestibility.” “You are wielding massive power. You wave your pen like a wand, cast a spell, the spell allows you to enter into other people’s brains. Change how they think, change how they feel, […]
the wall behind the wizard
Heroes are a beautiful lie
“Heroes are dangerous things. Bigger than life, highly exaggerated and always positioned in the most favorable light, a hero is a beautiful lie. We have historic heroes, folk heroes and comic book heroes. We have heroes in books and songs and movies and sport. We have heroes of morality, leadership, kindness and excellence. And nothing […]
Conan OBrien at Dartmouth
“Graduates, faculty, parents, relatives, undergraduates, and old people that just come to these things: Good morning, and Congratulations to the Dartmouth class of 2011. Today you have achieved something special, something only 92% of Americans your age will ever know… a college diploma. That’s right. With your college diploma, you now have a crushing […]
Conan Obrien speech
Bali and Wizard Academy
August 13-14: Only 15 people will be allowed to attend an extremely special business class taught by Jeffrey Eisenberg. The wizard is hoping his young adult grandson can attend.
Kurt Vonnegut on winning
When I was 15 I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask voung people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no […]
Explanation of Mount Moriah
Shlomo Yitzchaki, commonly known by the acronym Rashi, was a French rabbi who authored comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud and Hebrew Bible. Wikipedia Born: February 22, 1040, Troyes, France In 1096, Rashi witnessed the massacre of friends and family members at the hands of Crusaders en route to the Holy Land. Died: July 13, 1105 (age 65 years), Troyes, […]
Donald Trump Explains Himself
“Now they’ll say all these stories are terrible. Well, these stories have, you know, you heard my story in the boat with the shark, right? I got killed on that. They thought I was rambling. I’m not rambling. We can’t get the boat to float. The battery is so heavy. So then I start talking […]
Intermediaries
Messengers Make Me Melancholy Any person who relays messages to you from the boss, is now your new boss. An excellent messenger might relay exactly what the big boss asked them to tell you, but only after they have reframed it, recharacterized it, and added their own slant. Every messenger does this. Whether they do […]
Repost of_Radio Effectiveness_not an idiot
A Young Man Who is Not an Idiot “I’m all for proper research > strategy> objectives > positioning > campaign idea > tailored executions per platform. Until it comes to audio advertising… I’ve been lucky enough to research global audio and radio ad effectiveness, and I’ve become convinced that it’s such a damn powerful channel […]
Elon Musk talks about advertising
“Regarding advertising paying off based on how effectively it is targeted to the wants and needs of the individual… it varies from total SPAM to relevant content. I’m actually a fan of advertising that is artistically interesting, that is entertaining. Really, the acid test being that after you see the ad, do you regret […]
Leah Bumphrey and the insurance agent
My partner Leah Bumphrey is currently helping an insurance agent – for free – because he is a friend of a friend. She wrote me about some difficulties she is facing. This was my response. I hope you find it helpful – RHW: Leah, I have one observation and one question: Observation: Insurance agents […]
Just start dancing
If you stumble, just start dancing.
A Good Ad and a Generic Video
Specificity is always more believable than generality.1. This is a great magazine ad.It’s full of specific people with actual names.(Thank you, Jeff Sexton, for sending it to us.)2. Below it is a generic, corporate video. Bah! Piffle and Poo on Clichésand Predictability!– Indy Beagle .
Reggie Jackson_Baseball Hall of Fame_The Black Experience
“When folks want to romanticize Jim Crow… the living legend Reggie Jackson reminds us of what it looked like and how it felt to be Black during that period (1973). If this amazing man was treated in this manner, just think about how poor Black folks with no money, no fame, and no notoriety […]
Politics in England
When I talk about “the Pendulum of society” – the forces that have been meticulously moving western society back and forth between two extremes for the past 3,000 years – people in the U.S. always want to continue the discussion as though this is happening only in the United States. So I asked Google to […]
MMRadio_Vi Wickam
Does the personality of your website reflect the personality of your brand? Websites have existed for almost three decades. Yet precious few websites are aligned with that company’s advertising, social media, and point-of-sale experience. And even fewer websites incorporate language that appeals to each of the four major personality types. Vi Wickam, a digital ad […]
Stop Me Now
Fools rush in, so here I am, very glad to be unhappy. I can’t win, but here I am, more than glad to be unhappy. Unrequited love’s a bore and I’ve got it pretty bad. But for someone you adore, it’s a pleasure to be sad. – Lorenz Hart (1936) Glad to Be Unhappy.Music was composed by […]
Freddie Mercury
“I’m a shooting star leaping through the sky like a tiger, defying the laws of gravity. I’m a racing car, passing by like Lady Godiva. I’m gonna go, go, go, there’s no stopping me. I’m burning through the sky – two hundred degrees – that’s why they call me Mister Fahrenheit. I’m traveling at […]
Tiny Tribe Totem and Dorothy is Not in Kansas
Man on Motorcycle_Roy Laughlin
A friend sent this meme to me and I sent it to 7 or 8 other friends, one of which I’ve known since 1992. Roy Laughlin and I have been calling one another “Other Roy” for 32 years. “Other Roy” lives in Hollywood Hills with his famous wife, Ellen K., the first and only […]
Bali and Don Giovanni
Bali and the dance of time
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Bali and Billy Joel
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An Old Woman at the Bank
The old woman in this bank security photo handed her bank card to the teller and said “I would like to withdraw 10 dollars.” The teller said, “for withdrawals less than $100, please use the ATM. The old lady wanted to know why… The teller returned her bank card and irritably told her “these are […]
Two Neighbors in the 1700s
Max Jukes Jonathan Edwards Atheist/Agnostic Preacher 540 descendants 1394 descendants 310 died as paupers 100 pastors 10 criminals 195 college graduates 7 murderers 65 college professors 100 alcoholics 60 authors Half of daughters prostitutes 60 military officers […]
To Do List of 10 Things
To Do List Make vanilla pudding. Put in mayo jar. Eat in public. Hire two private investigators. Get them to follow each other. Wear shirt that says “Life.” Hand out lemons on street corner. Get into a crowded elevator and say “I bet you’re all wondering why I gathered you here today.’ Major in […]
4-year-old boy in a batman t-shirt
This is a true story told to me by my sister-in-law and her husband. They went to dinner with some good friends. Those friends had a child named Hank. Hank had a thick head of very curly orange hair. Hank was 3 to 4 years old at the time. Hank was very well-behaved and a […]
MMMemo_Wendy Bounds
Gwendolyn “Wendy” Bounds, an award-winning broadcast reporter, was an eyewitness of 9/11. In his book, September Twelfth: An American Comeback Story, roving reporter Rotbart describes Wendy Bounds as telegenically attractive, “with big chocolate-brown eyes, a sparkly broad smile, and shoulder-length buttery blond hair blended with honey highlights.” Today, the long-time desk jockey is ripped, with […]
MMMemo Avalanche Nov 21_2011
Most people see life as a linear progression, a canoe ride on the river of time. The scenery passes. The sun rises and sets. Occasionally there is a storm. It’s a tempting metaphor because we often think of time flowing like a river, and to see ourselves as passengers on that river is a natural […]
Southpark writers explain storytelling
Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question: “What makes a good story?” They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard: “If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats… you got something pretty boring. What should happen […]
Morris-Jenkins_Ice Cream Truck
Morris-Jenkins is an unusual company in a very delightful way. When Casey Welch had the brilliant idea, “Let’s build an ice-cream truck and hand out free ice cream all over town every day,” CEO Jonathan Bancroft said, “Great idea!” And so it came to be. Does it surprise you that the 600 people who work […]
Michele and her trip to Boulder Part 2
PART TWO Plane ride was smooth. We landed and when the bell rang I went to jump up and had forgotten to unhook my seatbelt. I fell over the guy seated next to me, causing him to spill his bottle of water down the front of his pants. By now I’ve said “I’m so sorry” […]