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Wake Up with MiyaEpisode 127. How to Get Out of Debt and Build an Emergency Fund | Brad NelsonAre you feeling overwhelmed by debt and struggling to save money? In this episode, I sit down with Brad Nelson, founder of Debt Free Dad and host of the Debt Free Dad Podcast, to break down the best strategies for paying off debt and building an emergency fund—even in today’s tough economy.💰 Topics Covered in This Episode:✔️ Should you pay off debt first or build an emergency fund?✔️ The biggest mistakes people make with debt and how to fix them✔️ How to stop living paycheck to paycheck✔️ The best strategies to save money even on a tight budget✔️ How to stay fi...2025-03-2548 min
Film FestFilm Festatouille Awards SpectacularWith another film festival in the books, we look back on a season of cooks, dishes, and legendary screen performances. Plus: Hot Topic, 4DX, crowning Top Chef, and announcing the next thrilling season of Film Fest!Film Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays on movies.2025-02-111h 22Film FestJulie & Julia with Madeline WellsIn the pantheon of bad movie haircuts (wigs??), one film rises above. We reach the end of another great festival with a new comfort classic, the double biopic Julie & Julia. Is the Julie half really all that bad? Is Chris Messina so hot it excuses his rude behavior? Does this movie hit different in a Substack's America? We get into all of it, plus a lot of Adam and Streep talk, with food reporter Madeline Wells!Read Madeline's reporting at SF Gate here.Film Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays on film.2025-02-041h 34Film FestChocolat with Marie SicolaBonjour madames et monsieurs et bienvenue a le cinema du Sexy Chocolatiers hon hon hon! It's time to get down and dirty with Swede king Lasse Hallstrom's ode to all things cocoa: the great (?) 2000s time capsule Chocolat. Marie Sicola joins us to help break down the careers of Binoche, Dench, Molina, and oui, le sigh, un petit Johnny Depp, as well as the wacky ins and outs of post-war provincial France. This one's a little darker than you might remember!Film Fest if brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays on film.2025-01-272h 00Film FestLittle Italy with Tara GiancasproAyyyy I'm making pizza heah! Journey with us to the world's most famous Italian neighborhood: Little Italy, Toronto, with one of the world's famous famous Italo-Americans: Tara Giancaspro. We try our hardest to get into a truly wild movie, from the great Danny Aiello to frappuccinos and figs, and try not to have a total breakdown in the process.Visit and subscribe to xoxo Gossip Giancaspro here.Film Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays on film.2025-01-202h 09Film FestThe Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover with SadieIf you've ever wondered what it would feel like to live inside a Renaissance painting, today's episode is for you. We all fall head over heels in love with Peter Greenaway's lush and disgusting 1989 confusingly titled classic The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, thanks to pastry chef and internet icon Sadie. The very long and British careers of James Gambon and Helen Mirren...Michael Nyman's perfect score...the myriad uses for a merkin...we leave no bustier laced and no plate unclean!Follow Sadie on Twitter hereFilm Fest is brought to you...2025-01-142h 21Film FestWhen Harry Met Sally... with Hooman YazdanianThe Loeb Boathouse...Katz's Deli...Cafe Luxembourg...grapes and paprikash and dressing on the side... Who says When Harry Met Sally's not a food movie??Certainly not the great Hooman Yazdanian, who brought the iconic Reiner/Ephron collab to Film Festatouille so that we could go on and on about a perfect movie. More importantly, if pesto is the quiche of the eighties, then what's the pesto of right now? Don't worry: we get into it!Film Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays on film.2025-01-072h 10Film FestBurnt with Kyra KauferRemember when Bradley Cooper trained to be a professional chef so he could play Anthony Bourdain on TV, and then when his TV show bombed he was like wait...what am I supposed to do with all of these chef skills now? We certainly do! The great Kyra Kaufer returns to Film Fest to chat all things Bradley, plus Sienna Miller's iconic Architectural Digest house tour and Matthew Rhys with a nasty goatee: it's time to get BURNT.Subscribe to The Clove here.Film Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays on film.2024-12-301h 47Film FestPig with Taylor HunsbergerNicolas Cage goes to Portland in search of his pignapped best friend: a logline that kind of sells itself. Underground sous chef fight clubs, Alex Wolff's little mustache, a beautiful swine named Brandy...we get into it all with librarian and recipe writer Taylor Hunsberger, plus the deep dive into the Naked Brothers Band you've all been waiting for(?). It's time to talk Michael Sarnoski's PIG.Subscribe to Taylor's food and culture substack, Go Crisp Girl, here.Film Fest is brought to you by wig-wag, a home for personal essays about movies.2024-12-232h 02Film FestSimply Irresistible with Abi BalingitWelcome to FILM FESTATOUILLE: a celebration of movies about food!! 🍽The long-awaited fourth season of Film Fest is officially here, and what better way to kick things off than with iconic baker and James Beard Award winning (!) cookbook author Abi Balingit, who brings the lost but not forgotten 1999 Sarah Michelle Gellar gem Simply Irresistible to the table.In Simply Irresistible, a young chef struggles to keep her Tribeca restaurant afloat in the wake of her mother's death, until a mysterious stranger and his magical crabs give her the power to cook her emotions int...2024-12-172h 03
Your Child's BrainThe Impact of a Physician Shortage on ChildrenIn the United States alone, there are nearly 20 million children with developmental, cognitive, behavioral, and/or learning disorders. It is widely recognized that the needs of children with these issues are growing in number and complexity while, at the same time, a critical shortage of access to physician specialists is resulting in delayed diagnoses, longer wait times for treatment and, consequently, poorer outcomes. On this month’s episode, Kennedy Krieger president and CEO, Dr. Brad Schlaggar is joined by colleagues Dr. Miya Asato, a pediatric neurologist and Dr. Mary Leppert, a developmental pediatrician to discuss the critical shortage and what...2024-07-0425 minFilm FestScaredy Cat Film Fest Awards SpectacularAnother awards cycle comes around as we draw this season of nightmares to a close - goodnight, Scaredy Cats of the world! Find out who's taking home the gold and which of this season's spoooooky movies is crowned Scariest. Plus: what Miya, Brad, and Adam are most afraid of, and an update on season 4 (...maybe...kind of)!Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-12-051h 30Film FestE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial with Kimi SingerGrab your Reese's Pieces and your red hoodie because it's E.T. time, baby -- and who better to talk about Spielberg's paean to California families with than Miya's own California family, Kimi Singer! Is E.T. scary? Is E.T. real? Is this the only time someone's called their brother "penis breath" on film? We're covering all our bases!Follow Kimi @japajewFollow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-11-292h 00Film FestThe Net with Brian OliuFire up pizza dot net and order your favorite pie: it's time to talk The Net with early internet enthusiast Brian Oliu! Could anyone touch Sandra Bullock on her '90s hot streak? What happened to online culture? Will we ever learn to touch grass again? Be careful who you give your info too - it's Net time!Follow Brian @BrianOliuFollow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-11-221h 53Film FestJack Frost with Meggie GatesSometimes it seems like you can't walk down the street without coming across a kid whose dad died and was reincarnated as a snowman thanks to a magic harmonica and the snowman didn't look like George Clooney when he was a man but definitely does as a snowman. Today the great Meggie Gates joins us to talk about the most common, everyday movie in the world that's definitely not weird or upsetting at all: Jack Frost!Check out more of Meggie's work hereFollow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you...2023-11-142h 01Film FestPee-Wee's Big Adventure with Sarah Jae LeiberHop on our comically beautiful bicycle and take a ride with us back to a time when Tim Burton was just a weirdo animation school grad with something to prove and an SNL reject named Paul Reubens suddenly had the keys to the Hollywood kingdom. We're talking Large Marge, studio backlots, and Pee-Wee's Big Adventure with critic and playwright Sarah Jae Leiber!Explore Sarah's work at sarahjaeleiber.com Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-11-071h 47Film FestBride of Chucky with Sarah ScannellBarbie, eat your heart out. Nothing says the spirit of Halloween quite like camp queen Jennifer Tilly, except maybe Brad Dourif being a little prick - and guess what? This movie's got both! We're talking all things Chucky with the great Sarah Scannell, sole reason for your copy of Cain's Jawbone still being on back order. What would Martha Stewart say about this podcast??Follow Sarah on TikTok @saruuuuuuughFollow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-10-311h 55Film FestThe Ring with Erin O'BrienIn 2002, nothing was scarier than an unmarked VHS, a sickly green filter, and Brian Cox wrapped in extension cords. We're talking all things THE RING with the great Erin O'Brien—from Halloween Horror Nights to flop queen Naomi Watts to the creepiness of dead-eyed children and so much more!Follow Erin "@er0b" O'BrienFollow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-10-242h 16Film FestThe Lion King with Joshua BoteFrom the day we arrive on the planet and, blinking, step into the sun, we dream of a podcast brave enough to discuss the movie that defined one billion Millennial childhoods. Well, dream no more: we're talking The Lion King with writer and reporter Joshua Bote! Come for the discovery of why this movie scared Joshua so much (it's not what you think) and be prepared for more Disney deep-dive talk than you ever thought you'd need.Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-10-172h 13Film FestLabyrinth with Elena PassarelloGet lost with us and our new best friend Hoggle in an impossible maze of imagination and puberty - we're taking on Labyrinth! Polite bescarfed worms, giant gentle beasts, gloved hands with minds of their own...we leave no stone unturned on the way to rescue our baby brother from David Bowie's leotard bulge. Elena Passarello - author, teacher, actor, Live Wire announcer, and first guest with a Wikipedia page - joins us on our journey through the sweet and terrifying mind of Jim Henson!Learn more about Elena at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...2023-10-102h 09Film FestThe Terminal with Summer FarahWhat's that? On the wind? An unfamiliar scent...a nip in the air...the birds are flying in an odd formation...it must be a new FILM FEST!Our third (!) season, Scaredy Cat Film Fest - movies that kept you up at night - kicks off with a bang and a funny accent as we tackle the scariest movie of all: Steven Spielberg's The Terminal. Is this Stevie's worst movie? Is anyone good in it? Is it even ethical? We're joined by our pal, poet and editor Summer Farah, to ask the big questions and se...2023-10-031h 52Film FestPower Couples Film Fest Awards SpectacularFrom Robsten to Paunifer (still workshopping), today we're looking back on all of the power couples we were gifted throughout this season of Film Fest. We can't honor them all, but we do our best to award our favorite performances, romantic duos, and much more as this festival comes to an end. Plus, an update on Film Fest season 3!Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-06-271h 30Film FestA Beautiful Mind with Michelle LeeRussell Crowe was nominated for Best Actor three times in a row in 2000, 2001, and 2002, then never again. We catch up with him at the tail end of his hot streak as Michelle Lee returns to Film Fest to talk all things A Beautiful Mind: the extremely hot Connelly and Bettany, Miya's love of Ron Howard (?), this insane year for Best Original Score, and so much more. It's the final entry in Power Couples Film Fest!Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-06-202h 01Film FestKabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... with Ikya KandulaOn this week's episode of Power Couples Film Fest, say shava with us as we dive into Bollywood, K3G, and the tangled love lives of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan with the one and only Ikya Kandula. Great music, great dancing, GREAT sweaters, and more Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan talk than you can handle (plus a little more): it's Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham!Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-06-142h 05Film FestMr. and Mrs. Smith with Nti AningToday Film Fest takes you back to the halcyon days of 2005: shimmery tank tops, cheap bangles, emo bangs, Crash vs. Brokeback Mountain...and, of course, Brangie. Go on a trip through time with us and the great Nti Aning as we dissect the whole Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie/Jennifer Aniston...thing and talk all things Mr. and Mrs. Smith!Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-06-061h 58Film FestFree Solo with Lena Moses-SchmittWhat drives someone to climb a mountain by themselves with no rope? More importantly, what drives someone to love that someone? We go on a quadruple date with author-poet-illustrator (and Brad's wife) Lena Moses-Schmitt to tackle the Oscar-winning nailbiter Free Solo and see if we can find the answer. Who exactly is the power couple in question: the Honnolds or Jimmy Chin & E. Chai Vasarhelyi? You can't make us choose!2023-05-301h 56Film FestDays of Thunder with Obie HamrickStart your engines, folks, because it's race day in America. We're rounding the first turn of this season with Tony Scott's fuel-injected NASCAR romance Days of Thunder. How did one of Hollywood's most notorious nineties couples get its start? Whatever happened to Nicole Kidman's curls? When was Tom Cruise at his hottest? When was John C. Reilly? Obie Hamrick joins us as we put our foot on the gas and get...revved up? (Ran out of car words I know.)Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about m...2023-05-231h 58Film FestCharlie's Angels with Andrew OrtizGood morning, Angels! Today your assignment is deceptively simple: unlock the mysteries of McG, the brief but seismic impact of Tom Green, the odd appeal of the Drew Barrymore Show, and the career that Lucy Liu should have had. To assist you, we're bringing in Andrew Ortiz, founder of Super Yaki, whose knowledge and experience with 2000s ephemera you will surely find invaluable. Good luck -- oh, and Angels? Watch out for the Thin Man.If your closet isn't already bursting with Super Yaki, start shopping here!Follow Film Fest @filmfestpod...2023-05-162h 19Film FestSleepless in Seattle with Abi BalingitSome say you're not truly married until you've played brother and sister on screen. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson show us how it's done as we talk Nora Ephron's insta-classic Sleepless in Seattle with the wise and wonderful Abi Balingit!Abi's amazing cookbook Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed is out now!Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-05-091h 57
Film FestTwilight with Rosie AlejandrinoYou might be wondering, Film Fest! Where the hell have you been, loca? Well, wonder no more because Film Fest is back with a second season! Welcome to POWER COUPLES FILM FEST, where we're covering films made by or with famous couples. First up - you better hold on tight, spider monkeys, because we're diving into the tangled web of vampires, werewolves, and Robsten. It's Twilight, with the great Rosie Alejandrino!Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-05-022h 34Film FestClosing Ceremony*toot toot te-toooot* Welcome to the Bad Kids Film Fest closing ceremony! Please take your seats, silence your cell phones, and note your nearest exit in case of emergency. It's time to hand out awards, reflect on a season of nasty kiddies, and crack the gates to next season's film fest!Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2023-01-101h 02Film FestThe 400 Blows with Emily CostaHon hon hon, bonjour nos amis! Our final Bad Kids screening is here, and we've saved a doozy for last: Francois Truffaut's masterpiece directorial debut, The 400 Blows. Together with writer Emily Costa (Until It Feels Right) we marvel, stan, gush, and lavish praise on a movie that certainly doesn't need more of it. But you know what? Good movie!Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2022-12-201h 59Film FestSt. Trinian's with Kimi SingerWell, well, well, wot's all this then? Bobs your uncle on this week's Film Fest: no mucking about. No rubbish. Just some geezers 'aving a right proper chat innit. Miya's sister, Kimi Singer, well she's brough' us a brilliant film: the 2007 royal teen caper comedy St. Trinian's. And bloody hell, we loved it. Proper chuffed about this one, we are. Cheers!*This episode was recorded using Zoom—sound quality may vary.Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2022-12-141h 58Film FestMean Girls with Michelle LeeAs if you needed further evidence that we're not like a regular podcast, we're a cool podcast, we sit down with Michelle Lee (inventor of the Toaster Strudel) to talk all things Mean Girls in our most fetch episode yet!Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2022-12-062h 09Film FestLilo & Stitch with Moira McAvoyOhana means family, and Moira McAvoy bringing Lilo & Stitch to Film Fest means we get to go deep on one of Disney's quietly undersung masterpieces. Pudge controls the weather; you control the play button.*This episode was recorded using Zoom—sound quality may vary!Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2022-11-291h 50Film FestClifford with Danielle GutierrezClifford: bad kid or unshakeable demonic presence? Danielle Gutierrez joins the Film Fest crew to talk Grodin, Steffen, Steenburgen, and Martin Short's freaky little face.Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2022-11-221h 49Film FestKids with Mike ScaliseFilm Fest welcomes memoirist Mike Scalise (The Brand New Catastrophe) to help us work through all the most pressing questions about Larry Clark's seminal '90s indie sensation Kids. Questions such as "Why?" "How come?" "What for?" and "Hmm, I don't know about this."Follow Film Fest @filmfestpodFilm Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about movies2022-11-152h 08Film FestThe Bling Ring with Kyra KauferThe Film Fest crew goes shopping and learns to love Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring. Let the record show that we're firm believers in karma and think this situation was attracted into our lives as a huge learning lesson for us to grow and expand as spiritual human beings.Film Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays about moviesFollow Film Fest @filmfestpod2022-11-081h 44Film FestMoonrise Kingdom with Adam BrownBad Kids Film Fest kicks off with a perfectly symmetrical bang followed by a whimsical Kinks B-side: we're talking Wes Anderson's 2012 runaway romance Moonrise Kingdom, and Adam makes the case for Suzy Bishop as worst movie kid!Film Fest is brought to by wig-wag: personal essays about moviesFollow Film Fest @filmfestpod2022-11-011h 48Film FestWelcome to Film FestIntroducing Film Fest, the Film Fest committee, and Film Fest season one! Welcome to Film Fest!!2022-10-2923 min
Mission: DeFiDeFi Lunch (Ep 138) - May 23, 2022 - #Bitcoin bear candles / @twobitidiot Gensler / $ETH = commodity / $FTM up / Forget Andre / @VitalikButerin Soulbound tokens / #Pulsechain / #Milady slime & more!
DeFi Lunch (Ep 138) - May 23, 2022 - Bitcoin 8W bear candles / @twobitidiot Gensler bankers / CFTC $ETH is commodity / $FTM up 20% / Forget Andre / @VitalikButerin Soulbound tokens / Pulsechain disaster / @AlchemixFi new tokenomics / Milady slime / & more
Bitcoin Closes Eighth Bearish Weekly Candle First Time in History
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The Pen AddictLike Using a CrayonDo you ever match your ink so perfectly to the pen you never want to change it? Do you ever wonder what it would look like if Platinum made a Star Wars pen? Do you know Brad bought a fancy pen? You will if you listen to this episode.
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Trail Talk SALucky Miya, New Balance Multisport Club and Pippa Mullins on NutritionWe had a great response to episode 1 of Trail Talk SA and we really hope you will enjoy the second episode just as much. This week Brad:Caught up with Lucky Miya won the Nedbank Save the Rhino run in Limpopo this last weekend. If you want to know more about Lucky’s running club in Leondale on the East Rand you can contact him on 082 887 9596 or pop past the Leondale Laerskool every Saturday and Sunday morning at 6am. You can also follow Lucky on Twitter.Found out about the New Balance Multi Sport Club and in particular the trail ru...2013-07-2424 min
Trail Talk SALucky Miya, New Balance Multisport Club and Pippa Mullins on NutritionWe had a great response to episode 1 of Trail Talk SA and we really hope you will enjoy the second episode just as much. This week Brad:Caught up with Lucky Miya won the Nedbank Save the Rhino run in Limpopo this last weekend. If you want to know more about Lucky’s running club in Leondale on the East Rand you can contact him on 082 887 9596 or pop past the Leondale Laerskool every Saturday and Sunday morning at 6am. You can also follow Lucky on Twitter.Found out about the New Balance Multi Sport Club and in particular the trail ru...2013-07-2424 min