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Pat Daly mic'd up at 2am- coming at you late night style, late night theme, late night people. The reckoning of high school bullies everywhere, Daly cracks open his machinery to show us how he ticks- talking friendships, cyber security, and the future.

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2:00 There are some people you can be so close with that even when you don't want to see anybody, they're the people you kick it with.

9:10 The biggest misconception from consumers about security is that because you are not a high profile person, you are not a target for a cyber attack. That's not how these work in a lot of cases these are not targeted attacks. It's an email that gets sent out to thousands of email addresses. It's an automated program that's pinging the internet for a specific software version or a specific type of device that has a known vulnerability. People think of it like someone's going fishing with a fishing rod they're not going after them, they're going after the big tuna, but it's more like your tossing a net in the water and whatever comes up comes up.

45:05 Learning is easy, anyone can learn, you just have to do it. It's hard work, it's a lot of time, but if you strip that away, it is the easiest thing. Time and focus. That's how you learn.

Justin Dunn, the kind of guy who sits back, observes, learns, watches people make the mistakes- then plays his hand. He talks sustaining himself on poker full time, his foray into the cannabis industry, and why he does his own thing.

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26:10 Straight up experience. I've been through the trenches of not knowing when to leave. Going broke. Asking people for loans that I know at Blue Lake, trying to get it back. Sometimes it works and that's why you do it again. You just gotta cut that out completely and be comfortable enough with yourself, "I'm not playing at my best, I could play tomorrow." Poker never ends so there's always tomorrow.

59:30 It's like going through a maze. You could experience all the paths and know where they lead. As opposed to just picking the right path all the way to the middle, where you haven't experienced the maze fully.

1:12:50 If you start going off the beaten path you're going to get beaten. You're going to get beaten until you get your shit together. If someone's always telling you what to do, they you're always going down their path. You're going down the clear cut way that's already been experienced.

Mac Attack let's it all hang out. Along with live mixing on the show, he talks to me about his new music label Fuzzy Puddles, a rising event in LA he helps put on every month called Bass Waffles promising FREE WAFFLES and FAT BASS, and the art of not selling out.

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9:15 I haven't finished as of now. It's on the back burner, but it's not a huge priority at the moment. I started off doing Critical Theory and Social Justice. It was a mouthful and a nightmare for me personally. Great, great subject matter, but the forum and the people that were participating in it, especially at Occi, some of them were just a little too much. Arguing things for the sake of arguing them and making everyone walk through a laser grid. "Bro, I'm not PC, I'm Mac, bro." It was a circle jerk of people jerking themselves off with their own thoughts. It was not a loving environment for promoting forward thinking. It was reprimanding you in an oppressive way, which is exactly what you're learning about, oppression, and being in that environment was like that. No one's voice was actually being listened to. Everyone was just speaking to hear themselves talk. I just couldn't take it. 38:10 If you're not doing it, if you're not actually spending the time to move towards those goals, then you don't really want them. What you want to do is what you're spending your time doing. 43:45 We have enough of a little mini wave going and artists associated with us that have their own little waves going that people want to be a part of it. It's dope because at first we were working so hard and even our own friends didn't really have that much faith in us in the beginning. We had to fucking convince and convince people to come to shows and drag our friends out five minutes to a free show that's down the block. "Come listen to your homies suck." You could hear the noobness and the lack of skill and the lack of sound. We weren't confident up there at all, and you could see that. It wasn't really fun to be around. It's hard to support that if you don't really want to get behind it. Now two years later, we're doing pretty well. We're throwing a dope monthly event with two other event companies, the Table Productions and Synaptic events.

A storyteller and advertiser, Robbie talks working for Playgirl magazine, working with Apple and Steve Jobs to bring tech to the people, rampant sexual assault in the ad business, and getting a vial of cocaine as a bonus. Strap in, welcome to the 80s.

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by no gradient 8:15 We took the jobs that nobody else wanted. We ended up hitting a home run because nobody paid attention to us. Nobody was really looking at what we were doing. 11:45 I could go on, and on, and on, and on. I'm what? Around 50 now. Still happened to me three years ago. It's still happening. I was just talking to someone last night about it. It happened at a different ad agency where I worked. Really, really bad. I was with the president of the agency in his office. It was so bad, and his reaction was to send me a dozen white roses the next day, which who the heck does that because I'm an employee at your place, and everybody is going to wonder why the president is sending me a dozen white roses. We were so conditioned to look the other way that people were like,"Oh, so and so is sending you roses. He must have ... another mistake, another mistake." 15:15 I remember going on the plane one time and this man condescendingly, but he was trying to be nice I'm sure, looked at me and goes,"What is that? Your sewing machine?". Because I had this big computer I'm carrying around. I'm like, "No. It's a personal computer." He had no idea what that was.

World traveler teaching Shamanic healing, energy healing, and meditation. Dr. Raven Lee shares how the suicide of her husband unlocked a new world for her. A world she shares with us, revealing how we can use it to live in the moment, have compassion, and never let a crisis go to waste. Open your heart, open your mind, and jack into Raven's world.

Interested in learning from Raven? Reach out.

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4:00 30 some years ago my husband at the time had a psychotic breakdown and as a young mother, being Chinese-Catholic, I was told to just try to do the right thing. To endure it, but something in me said, "No. This was dangerous." I saw he was being a threat to my children, and I dared to speak up to initiate a separation and a month following that, he committed suicide. I went into the abyss of darkness because I thought it was my fault and for two months, I was swirling in this darkness, despair, taking medication to help me because I was going into panic attacks, and holding down two jobs trying to be a single mother.

5:00 In the moment of crisis, our way of adaptation no longer works. In that moment, it's as if the rock has been pulled from under us, but our human condition, human spirit is so amazing, as if we are hardwired to grow. That within us, there is a resilient spirit that when we no longer keep adapting like a pattern, like an automatic robotic reaction, there is actually a gateway, a doorway that we can begin to see beyond and that was what happened to me.

30:00 There is a wisdom seed in us waiting for us to come home and the only way to do that is to be in the moment. In the moment, we are no longer pushing away something we don't like. We're not grasping. That is why being in the now is the beginning of discovering who we are. It's just a doorway, the moment is a doorway. Once you enter that moment, what do you do? How do you go about it? That's the path and that's how I like to help people, to discover that.

Two time world record holder in the marathon, Boston Marathon 1973 winner, and instrumental in bringing women's distance events to the Olympics- Jaqi Hansen talks it all. That thing about the world you've been wanting to change, do what Jaqi did, throw years and will at it.

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12:54 You should never take anything for granted, because a whole lot of people were responsible for giving you an opportunity, so you should also not waste your God-given talent. Yes, never take it for granted. Leave the world in a better place. 1:02:50 I'm just going through as many of the top ranked five and 10,000 meter runners from as many countries as I can get, and we ended up with I think it was 70 women from almost 30 different countries. I have actual right to sue letters along with the IRC introductory cover letter and our newsletter all translated in 10 different languages through the Nike International department mailed off and mailed back. I still got them in a binder. 10 different languages all around the world. Some of those women are really putting a lot on the line. It took a lot of courage. They don't live in as friendly environment as I am here in the U.S. Maybe they don't enjoy the same rights. Maybe it was pretty challenging for some of them to sign on the dotted line like that, but they did. We had a case. They took us on, and they paid for everything that Nike didn't pay for. Nike paid for our press conference. Mind you, now, the Olympics are coming to Los Angeles in 1984. We announced the lawsuit in the summer of '83, and we maximized the audience by going to the first track and field world championships in Helsinki in August of '83. We just kept getting re-moved to court until we're up to appellate court, and we're running out of time or we probably would have gone to the Supreme Court, but we did not win in court, but you can lose a battle and still win the war. I believe that is exactly what happened for us. We now have the world's attention. They don't look good for not adding these events. Within 30 days, they added the 10,000 before 1988. Not for '84, they're not going to let us control that. They're going to show us who is in charge, so they postponed it. They add the 5,000 two Olympics later. 1:13:30 I think what the women and men who are not doing performance enhancing drugs, all they ask is a clean fair race. Is that too much to ask for? I just don't know how they're going to stay on top of it. I don't know how they're going to control it, how they're going to legislate it. It just feels like athletes who do cheat are always one step ahead of the drug testers, and the drug testers are always being reactive, and instead of proactive, and they don't know what's coming and what's down the line. What do we test for next? How do we test for? How do we catch them? It just seems like a constant battle.

You can't make this up, a Marxist who attempted to join the United States Marine Corps. Clark is a friend from high school and one of the most interesting people I know. He has thoughts on everything. Sit down, strap in, and get blasted by the Clark experience as he talks movies and tv, the Marines, Marxism, politics, and religion. Like I said, he goes there.

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31:30 Southern California, not a lot of hicks or rednecks to burn Qurans with so you gotta hide yourself. But you can be proud of how Republican you are amidst all the Democrats. Because you see you're special. You're Republican. You're important. Everybody else, they're just stupid. Those academics, those poets, virtually every person, every artist, everything that doesn't have to do with the CMAs, they're all stupid.

34:00 Fantasy was part of my religion. I remember going to church down at St. Francis and Jesus Christ just dying on that cross, that's not a hero I wanna read about. I wanna read about the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden, fighting vampires and demons and all sorts of stuff.

59:30 The last Marxist that went through the Marine Corps was Lee Harvey Oswald. So I definitely tried to keep that silent.

In a 50 dollar a month rental studio, Chris Hoogewerff talks quitting his day job to pour himself into music. This guy has a calmness and a realness we can all learn from. In the bay area and need a musician? Book him.

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5:50 I decided I wanted to switch, and I picked up the sax over Christmas break, and I just brought that to my band class when we came back. I didn't ever really talk to the instructor. I just carried that one instead of the clarinet, switched seats, and that was my first memory really enjoying the music.

51:30 If you're sitting at a desk, cashing a good paycheck every month doing something you don't wanna do, and you do have flexibility, financially then it just seems crazy to keep doing that, because there's so little certainty with everything else. At least you can have certainty in the fact that you're trying something that you wanna be doing.

52:55 I really do believe that if more people did what they wanted to be doing in their lives, that we'd have a whole lot less to worry about as a society. I think it's not people who are doing what they love to do every day who are burning the world down.

Linsday Rico, professional actress and genuine human being, talks Shakespeare, being queer, and the LA vs NYC acting scenes. She's out here chasing a dream and making it happen.

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47:40 Because I think that we are all on a spectrum. Day to day I lie somewhere on the spectrum. I think that it like changes sometimes. I'm in a very committed relationship with a woman right now, but I can't deny that I still find men attractive and I can understand why people would find men attractive.

48:52 I think that every minority enriches their role with their life experience. As a person who lies outside of the norm, we can't deny that it's human nature to be curious about a person's path that's not like ours and that we should honor that and not get so defensive about it.

1:09:55 It might not happen but I completely accept that. I might not get to do the things that I want to do, but for right now, I totally am. I truly believe that I am in the right place and though this experience has just been tremendous and so challenging, it was my first length Shakespeare. It's like doing a play in a different language. There were a lot of things that really took me to task, for sure, during this process, but I know it made me a better performer and it certainly gave me more of life experience and challenged me to step outside my boundaries. I was afraid to do it but I think that that's all the more reason why you should definitely, definitely do something.

Chris Derr, host of the no gimmes podcast and one of the best conversationalists I know, talks the mods at Boston College, podcasting, and professional golf. His positivity, soak it in.

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36:00 John Daly is a golfer known for hitting the long ball, 2 time major champion. He's happy gilmore of the real world. But he's a big booze hound, likes to smoke cigarettes, he's got a bunch of interviews where he said he would drink 30 beers in a day and 20 diet cokes and 2 packs of cigarettes…John Daly is a free wheeling reckless kinda guy. He doesn't spend time on the fuckin range. Spending time on the range will drive him crazy. He'll get too mechanical, it won't work. He wouldn't have gotten to the level that he got to by being a range rat. So he would just play games. One thing about John Daly he's the nastiest one handed left handed golfer you've ever seen. He's a right handed golfer and if you look it up on Youtube right now John Daly one handed shots, he's got videos of him hitting 30 yard sand shots with only his left hand. He's all loose and fuckin flopping around doing his thing and hitting these one arm one handed bunker shots to 2 feet from 30 yards. It's one of the hardest shots in golf. This fuckin dude is a natural. This guy can do whatever he wants.

49:35 My goal with no gimmes is to have the winner of every single PGA tour event every week come on the show the Monday after they win. I want one winner to come on the show every Monday the day after they win. Tournaments end on Sunday. For the LPGA tour, the European tour, the Champions tour, the Web.com tour, the latin America tour, the Canada tour, the fuckin Hooters Tour, the fuckin PGA tour, every single tour that you could ever fuckin imagine. The tournament ends on Sunday barring a weather delay. I want to get every Monday a winner from the week before on the show. Even if it's for only 15 minutes while they are in an airport terminal getting ready to fly to fuckin St. Louis. Talk to me. Give me 15 minutes. I think the minute after you win people 1.) are on an incredible high, 2.) have really good perspective and 3.) could impart some knowledge on anyone and get people a better understanding on who they are. So that is my goal and when I would consider no gimmes a success.

54:15 Positivity is a choice. I make a conscious effort to be positive every single day, take care of myself and care about other people.