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Florida Basketball HourSEC Power Rankings; Will Warren Talks SEC HoopsFlorida Basketball Hour's Neil Blackmon (Saturday Down South) is joined by Will Warren of Basket Under Review to talk about the SEC landscape early in conference play. Why Vanderbilt is for real, why the SEC Player of the Year race is intriguing, and what to make of reigning national champion Florida's start to the campaign. Plus, is it time to panic at Kentucky?Then, at minute 26, FBH offers up a fresh batch of SEC Power Rankings. Vandy leads, but who follows?
2026-01-1355 min
For Your Own GoodHow Risk, Relationships, and Revenue Shape Investment Success with Neil Shah | Ep 023This is your chance to get a behind to curtain look into the world of hotel investing. In this episode of For Your Own Good, I'm in Tucson, AZ with Neil Shah, a hotel investing expert who moved from India to the U.S. in 1997. Starting as a hotel GM, Neil fell in love with the business and leveraged his operational expertise to land his first hotel investment. Today, he’s the go-to resource for navigating the world of hotel ownership and operation.Neil shares invaluable insights on deal analysis, forced appreciation, and adding value to properties. We...
2025-03-1955 min
Happy Hour Harmonica PodcastMikael Backman interviewMikael Backman joins me on episode 130.Mikael is from Sweden where he started playing blues harmonica, recording six albums with the band Ramblin’ Minds. He then joined the band John Henry. Initially a bluegrass band, they went on to play country, honky tonk and western swing. Mikael is truly a doctor of the harmonica, having conducted various academic studies with the harmonica at center stage, as part of his work at the Piteå School of Music. One of these resulted in a music thesis on how practicing the chromatic and diatonic harmonicas can improve the play...
2025-02-2259 min
Talking Scared190 – Kaaron Warren & The Un-Cosy HouseSend us a textWe all love a good spooky house. And most of us enjoy a terrifying home-invasion ordeal (or at least, I know I do). What happens when you put them together? Kaaron Warren’s The Underhistory is the answer, but it’s nothing at all like what you’d expect. This new novel by the award-winning Australian writer is a story of memory, of rooms and architecture, of violence and misogyny, and of a very unusual old lady. We talk about all of that and more. It’s a g...
2024-04-231h 15
Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing TipsWhy deplatforming trump didn't work, How to invest like Warren Buffett, and What Assets Make Up Wealth Based on Your Net WorthIn episode #2670, we delve into a thought-provoking discussion on why deplatforming Donald Trump didn't work. We explore the surprising data and analyze the impact of attempts to silence him. The conversation evolves into a fascinating exploration of investment strategies, drawing parallels to the approach of Warren Buffett.
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2024-02-0521 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastNeil Warren interviewTom Ellis interviews Neil Warren on episode 101.Neil started out playing blues harmonica in his hometown of Blackburn (with it’s 4000 holes). He progressed into learning jazz, taking jazz chromatic lessons for several years, and then folk music. Neil currently plays in two bands around his local area, an acoustic act playing blues and folk, and an electric band playing different genres, such as ska and funk and blues, including use of the DM48 midi chromatic.He has won three categories of competitions at the UK National Harmonica League festival and helped organise the Chromatic We...
2024-01-0559 min
Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing TipsThe Warren Buffett Way of Thinking About Your ContentIn episode #2561, you’ll learn how Warren Buffett’s approach to investing within his circle of confidence can be applied to content creation. Learn how to yield results by taking a simple but effective mindset to marketing by staying in your zone of genius and what that has meant for Neil and Eric when you tune in today.TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:
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2023-09-1806 min
Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing TipsWhat Warren Buffett’s $130B Cash Hoard Is Telling Us as MarketersIn episode #2404, Neil and Eric talk about what marketers can learn from Warren Buffett’s $130B cash hoard. One of Warren Buffett’s key investor strategies is buying good businesses at a reasonable price. And right now, he’s struggling to find those, which has left him with a lot of extra cash on his balance sheets. Tune in as we discuss the current state of the economy, what Warren Buffett’s behavior tells us about what is to come, and why now could be an ideal moment to invest in your own company!TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:
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2023-03-2010 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastJuzzie Smith interviewJuzzie Smith joins me on episode 71.Juzzie is an Australian who has a one-man band act with the harmonica pivotal to the sound. He has had over 200 million views of his online videos, starting out when a passer-by recorded him busking at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. Juzzie started his one-man band after playing as the harp player in a blues band, and then teaching guitar and harmonica. This gave him a great foundation to lay down the rhythms for his self-penned laid-back bluesy folk. He plays up to six instruments at a time, including percussion j...
2022-10-1459 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastRicky Cool interviewRicky Cool joins me on episode 70.Ricky hails from the Birmingham area of the UK, and drew great inspiration asa teenager from the American folk festivals which brought some harmonica greats to the city. Under his alter ego Ricky Cool, he went on to lead several successful rhythm and blues band, with Jamaican music also brought into the set. He also played harmonica in a band with Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant! Ricky played harmonica and saxophone in most of these bands and this combination of instruments has led to his recent series of excellent You...
2022-09-2800 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastHerbert Quelle interviewHerbert Quelle joins me on episode 69.Herbert is a German who worked as a diplomat for 40 years. This included 10 years as the German Consul in the US, where he met several distinguished harmonica names. With a deep interest in the harmonica, Herbert has researched the instrument to great depth, using this information to litter facts into his two fictional works centred on our beloved instrument. He tells us of the huge export of harmonicas from Germany to the US, and how the early marketing often described harmonicas as toys.Herbert regularly makes readings from his...
2022-09-1659 min
Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips7 Actionable Lessons Every Marketer Can Learn from Warren Buffett #2210In episode #2210, Neil and Eric talk about 7 actionable lessons every marketer can learn from Warren Buffett. If there’s one thing anyone can take away from Warren Buffet’s teachings, it’s that you should focus your energies on long-term success, not short-term profit. We break down some of his most prescient pieces of advice, why they are so accurate, and how marketing can implement these lessons in their overall strategies for long-term success. Tune in to learn about the power of long-term thinking, why you need to nail it before you scale it, and how Warren Buffet’s lessons...
2022-09-0610 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastCheryl Arena interviewCheryl Arena joins me on episode 68.Cheryl is a blues player and singer from the Boston area. She integrated herself into the local music scene there by setting up a jam session near Berklee college, drawing in the great musicians from there. And then set-up another residency with guest musicians joining the house band. Her deep love for the music has taken Cheryl far and wide, and gave her the opportunity to meet and play with some of her harmonica idols, including Junior Wells. This led to her appearing in two blues documentaries: one about Maxwell Street...
2022-09-0158 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastDM48 interview with Erik Lekholm and Jason KeeneErik Lekholm and Jason Keene join me on episode 67.Where we talk about the innovative DM48 midi chromatic harmonica, designed by Erik initially as a means to practise silently. He posted his creation on a harmonica forum and it soon gained interest, with people eager to purchase it. So Erik and his father started building and sold the first ones in 2017, with the updated version, the DM48X, coming out in 2022 .Jason Keene joins me in the second half of the podcast, to provide the perspective of one of the leading players of the DM48...
2022-08-1959 min
Hustle and GrindStorytime with Neil WarrenNeil Warren from Maximus Knives joins us and shares stories of redneck alligator wrasslin, stinky chicken chop shops, and Forged in Fire bloopers! Just for fun, everyone go tell ol Neil Happy birthday!
2022-08-091h 25Happy Hour Harmonica PodcastJoel Andersson interviewJoel Andersson joins me on episode 66.Joel is an Irish harmonica player from Sweden, while also building one of the best reputations in the business for his harmonica customisation skills. Joel first fell in love with Irish music on the harmonica when he heard Rick Epping’s playing. He spent time in Ireland with Rick, learning both the music and the art of fine tuning harmonicas.Joel went on to release a solo harmonica album: The Irish Harmonica, where he simulates the sound of a fiddle and accordion through the use of techniques suc...
2022-08-0559 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastJoe Powers interviewJoe Powers joins me on episode 65. Joe started out playing diatonic harmonica along with blues records as a teenager, before deciding to study music composition at college, taking up the chromatic there.Joe’s passion for dancing led him to Argentina and tango music, where he has become the current leading exponent on harmonica. He believes the chromatic harmonica is the perfect instrument for tango music, and talks us through how to play this captivating genre.Although known as the ‘tango harmonica guy’, Joe also loves to play many other styles of music on the...
2022-07-1559 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastWilliam Clarke retrospective, with Paul BarryPaul Barry joins me on episode 64. Paul is our resident expert on William Clarke, and is currently writing a biography about him.Bill (as he was known to his friends) was born in a suburb of Los Angeles, and starting going to the blues clubs in the south of the city, age 17. Bill met his great inspiration, George ‘Harmonica’ Smith, in 1977, with George showing Bill how to play that big old chromatic harmonica . Bill released his first album in 1978, with other albums following where he always featured original material. He then signed for Alligator records in 19...
2022-06-2300 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastJens Bunge interviewJens Bunge joins me on episode 63.Jens is a German chromatic player who started out playing the tremolo, before discovering Stevie Wonder. He then found Toots Thielemans and he started teaching himself jazz by ear and joined the local big band. He released his first album in 1991 with members of this band, and has since released a number of other albums of mostly original material, as well as guesting on albums by other artists. Jens has travelled extensively, particular in Asia, where he has tapped into the burgeoning chromatic harmonic scene there, and has been i...
2022-06-1059 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastPaul Butterfield retrospective, with Tom EllisTom Ellis joins me on episode 62 for something a little bit different as we do a retrospective of the legendary Paul Butterfield, with Tom our resident expert. Born in 1942 in Chicago, Butterfield frequented many of the South Side blues clubs located there and even had the audacity to hire Howling Wolf’s rhythm section before going on to record his seminal album ‘The Paul Butterfield Blues Band’. His high energy form of blues launched him on the scene and he quickly followed this with the genre busting East West album, with the band evolving further in the followi...
2022-05-2759 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastWill Wilde interviewWill Wilde joins me on episode 61.A sixteen year old Will stole his first harmonica while at a party and proceeded to put the rock into the instrument. He first started performing with his sister, Dani, as the harmonica player in her band. But Will has always had ideas of his own and soon formed his own band, with elements of rock and a heavy, driving blues style.Will has a very active YouTube channel, with lots of tuition videos and great performances, such as playing the Free Bird guitar solo on harmonica, as well...
2022-05-1059 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastWade Schuman interviewWade Schuman joins me on episode 60.Wade is the singer / songwriter and leader, and of course harmonica player, of the New York based 8-piece band, Hazmat Modine, with the harmonica playing a pivotal role in the sound of such a big band. In fact, there is often a second harmonica player in the band.Wade absorbed many musical genres from a young age, which helped shape the eclectic styles of music played by Hazmat Modine, from African, Asian, Klezmer, Caribbean, all with an American roots core. The band has released five albums, with another in...
2022-05-0459 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastGerhard Mueller interviewGerhard Mueller joins me on episode 59.Gerhard is the Product Manager for Hohner harmonicas, a role he has held for 28 years. His father worked as a gardener at the Hohner factory in Trossingen, and as well as getting his son harmonica lessons, he even had a hand in helping Gerhard land his dream job at Hohner.Gerhard talks us through the fascinating history of Hohner and how it was established as the leading harmonica brand in the world having sold over 1 billion harmonicas since the company began. Gerhard tells us all about Hohner’s harmonica of...
2022-04-1459 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastBertram Becher interviewBertram Becher joins me on episode 58. Bertram is the Product Manager at Seydel harmonicas. He first landed this dream job when he made a name for himself by creating a software tutorial called The Interactive Blues Harp Workshop. Bertram tells us about the history of Seydel and how their use of stainless steel reeds led to the creation of the ‘new’ Seydel around 2007. As Product Manager for harmonicas he has a very varied role, including creating web pages, selecting pitches for tunings and helping customers directly with their harmonica needs. And being the harp player in the...
2022-03-2958 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastMathias Heise interviewMathias Heise joins me on episode 57.Mathias is a chromatic player from Copenhagen in Denmark. He started out playing diatonic, aged eight, before moving across to the chromatic, with which he was the first player to attend the Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. Mathias won the World Harmonica Championship in Trossingen at the age of 20 with his own composition, Sudden Ascent. The album containing this track won Mathias the composers competition ‘New Jazz Star of the Year’ in Denmark in 2015. In his band, the Mathias Heise Quadrillion, Mathias is leading the way as a chromatic player in a jaz...
2022-03-1159 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastRJ Mischo interviewRJ Mischo joins me on episode 56.RJ hails from the twin cities of Minneapolis-St Paul, where he developed his craft with a little help from local player Slim Lynwood. He then teamed up with Mojo Buford to perform around the cities, including recording an album with Mojo. With numerous albums out under his own name, RJ has also made a career out of performing gigs with ‘pick-up’ bands when he goes on tour, giving his live shows the freshness and spontaneity that he likes to bring out.One thing that really stands out is the plentiful fine...
2022-02-1959 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastJim Conway interviewJim Conway joins me on episode 55.Jim is an Australian harmonica player who rose to fame at the age of 19 in the jug band: The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, with the first two albums from the band receiving gold record status. Jim also played kazoo with Captain Matchbox to great effect. The band evolved into the Conway Brothers act, before Jim decided he couldn’t continue after being diagnosed with MS. But it wasn’t long before he felt the music calling him again and he joined The Backsliders, a blues band which he was a member of f...
2022-02-0659 min
Reputation TownEP21: The Spotify/Neil Young situation, truckers vs. Terry Fox and the All-In pod kerfuffleThis week, John and Warren chat about the controversy around one of the All-In podcast's hosts, the Terry Fox Foundation's response to protestors messing with the Terry Fox statue in Ottawa and, of course, the ongoing saga involving Spotify, Joe Rogan, Neil Young, etc.
2022-02-0253 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastTom Ball interviewTom Ball joins me on episode 54.From Los Angeles, but long time resident of Santa Barbara, he started playing guitar in the popular local folk scene before Sonny Terry turned him on to the sound of acoustic harmonica.He then met Kenny Sultan, to form possibly the longest surviving acoustic blues duo. They have now been performing together for over 42 years and have recorded eight albums together. As well as session work for commercials, television and film, and toured the world together.On top of this Tom has over 300 album credits as a sideman...
2022-01-2259 min
Warren Telling Tales - A Hub For CreatorsEducation and teaching tips from drama teacher, Writer and Director Neil Harris!This week we sit down with Neil Harris out in HK to discuss, everything, from theatre projects, teaching, writing for BBC Radio 4, and more. The Plumtree by Neil Harris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXKXe...Neil on IG: https://instagram.com/nelhartworks?ut... Neil on FB: https://www.facebook.com/neil.harris.... Neil on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harris-ne...Warren Telling Tales: Youtube and podcast website: https://warrentellingtales.buzzsprout...SHOW LESSSupport the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted...
2022-01-1833 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastBilly Boy Arnold interviewBilly Boy Arnold joins me on episode 53.Today we have a little part of blues harmonica history, as Billy lived through the heyday of the blues in Chicago and was a peer of the many great players at the time, being born just five years after Little Walter himself. He took a couple of lessons with John Lee Williamson, aka SBWI, at just 12 years of age. Billy released his first record at the age of 17 and then went on to release two songs with Bo Diddley, including coming up with possibly the most well known h...
2022-01-0955 min
One To OneNeil Warren (Land and Water)Patrick chats to Neil Warren from Land and Water about Shakespeare Marina.
2022-01-0509 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastRick Estrin interviewRick Estrin joins me on episode 52.Rick grew up in San Francisco and starting sitting in with bands in the city. He was friends with Jerry Portnoy, who persuaded him to spend some time in Chicago. Here he met many of the harmonica greats, and missed the golden opportunity for the harmonica chair in the Muddy Waters band. It turned out this wasn’t a bad thing though, as Rick forged his own path with Little Charlie & The Nightcats (later Rick Estrin & The Nightcats). A band in which he has played harmonica, sung and wrote most of the...
2021-12-2258 minHappy Hour Harmonica PodcastRichard Gjems interviewRichard Gjems joins me on episode 51.Richard hails from Norway, with its many blues clubs demonstrating how popular the music is there. Richard is a real student of the blues, and the place of the harmonica within it, and he is involved in archiving music at the National Library in Norway.Richard has incorporated pre-war styles into his contemporary approach to playing the harmonica, where he covers multiple genres, including Nordic folk music.A big exponent of different tunings, Richard likes to pick the tuning that works best for a particular recording.He has r...
2021-12-1159 min