Ronnie's Reflections

Episode 19

3/13/2022

Listener Feedback

5 Things Most People Like 👍 That I Don't Like 👎

Carter Allen

Dr. Greene

Emile Nightshade

Kelly Daniels

Slippery Bricks

Canadian

Richard Mincey

Question of the Week

Stuff I Watched This Week

1883 - exchanging souls - 5

The Fallout

Games I Played

Pokemon - what’s next?

Yoshi’s Crafted World

Bought Mario Tennis

Other Stuff and Things

Episode 18

03/06/2022

Listener Feedback

Question of the Week

5 things most people like but you don't?

Stuff I Watched This Week

Games I Played

Other Stuff and Things

Episode 17

02/27/2022

Listener Feedback

C&D Builds: I definitely think I've found myself being more authentic recently due to rekindling of old hobbies (Lego) and being in a job that I don't like (arborist) has pushed me to work my hardest on the things I do like.

Kelly Daniels: I’m not sure I embrace my true self in the way you do. I give almost all of me to everyone else. It makes me happy to make others happy, but it’s also incredibly draining when you are the one that shoulders the care taking roll. I need to do better about doing for me more.

Dr. Greene: I feel like I've always been quite good at accepting my authentic self. Always had a firm idea about my interests and who I want to be. Only time I would say that wobbled a little bit was at school, but then it was more a matter of hiding some of my geekiness rather than giving up on it.

Question of the Week:

• 5 weird things that I like

Stuff I Watched This Week

Murderville - 5

Raising Dion (1 ½ episodes deep)

More What We Do In the Shadows

Games I Played

Pokemon

Dying Light 2

Other Stuff and Things

What a typical day of working from home looks like for me

Resale expansion

Beckett has been giving me random hugs and snuggles

Episode 16

02/19/2022

Listener Feedback

Emile: Get onto Youtube and start making videos NOW.

Richard Mincey: be strong for your mom while she was going through cancer, and for your son while he was in the NICU.

Martyn - His channel: M&M’s World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qagfBZmhw2c

Invest and have savings

Slippery Bricks: Stop thinking what others think of you. Enjoy being yourself.

Questions to Ponder

How do you embrace your authentic self, even if it looks different from what others expect?

Stuff I Watched This Week

What We Do in the Shadows

The House of Gucci - 4 Great

Games I Played

Other Stuff and Things

Episode 15

02/12/2022

Listener Feedback - One thing you hope everyone remembers about you

Brickitect: I suppose the thing I would like to be remembered for is being the guy that pursued his passion and found success in just being himself and doing what brings him happiness. I hope to be remembered by the people that I convinced to do the same.

Kelly Daniels: When I’m gone, I hope people always remember me for showing up, picking up the pieces when your world falls apart, being an anchor and a protector. I also hope they continue my day of good deeds every year on my birthday. I don’t think there would be a better way to celebrate me.

Slippery Bricks: I guess one thing I want people to remember me for is my willingness to help people. I came to realize a good portion of my life is dedicated to volunteering myself out there in the community whether in past organizations I did volunteer work in or on the personal level. Somehow using my own ability to help others around me brings a great deal of satisfaction.

Emile Nightshade: I don't care whether people remember me for the content I make, but I like to be remembered as someone who was kind to everyone. My folks taught me to always be friendly towards every  person I meet in life, and I've done that every day. I see so many people walking around with sour demeanors while some people are just nasty towards everyone around them. I might be naïve for thinking this, but there is so much pain and suffering in the world, and if we project that onto those around us, where’s the hope for us?

Dr. Greene: For the thing I want people to remember about me the most, I'd say my positive attitude. Whenever there's a bad situation, I'm always looking for that silver lining and I very rarely allow myself a bad day (a couple of times a year, mainly when I'm ill). I don't want people to remember that just for vanity's sake, though, but because I want it to rub off on the people I'm around. I want to use my positive attitude to cheer other people up when they're feeling down.

Questions to Ponder

• 10 things you wish you could tell your teenage self

Stuff I Watched This Week

The Last Duel - 5

Pam and Tommy (Hulu)

Started Pig (Hulu)

South Park Season 25 episodes 1 (pajama day) and 2 (Tolkien)

Games I Played

Dying Light 2

Other Stuff and Things

Recognized in public

Reselling - adding in more retail and tax exempt stuff

Beckett is a drawing machine. My 3 day weeks kinda suck

Episode 14

02/06/2022

Listener Feedback

What is your favorite core memory from your childhood?

Dr. Greene

I think my core childhood memories would be the time I spent with my grandfather while growing up. That time more or less shaped me into who I am today. He's always pushed me to be the best I possibly can and he introduced me to some of my biggest passions. We still have endless conversations discussing the latest LEGO sets or Lord of the Rings lore or theories about the Fantastic Beasts movies. I'm fortunate that he was quite young when I was born so I still have many more years with him in my life but I fear I will lose part of myself when he finally does depart. He is certainly one of the people I cherish most in my life and one of the biggest influencers into shaping the man I have become.

Richard Mincey

My favorite childhood memory was riding the bus home from school on Friday, and telling my best friend Dane. If he asks my mom if I can spend the night, there’s no way she can say no to him. Then staying up late Friday night eating pizza, and playing lord of the rings return of the king on GameCube. Waking up Saturday morning going out into the woods. Pretending to be Legolas and Aragorn, and recreating all the sword fights in lord of the rings.

Slippery Bricks

A core memory of my childhood is having a good friend to play with since he lives across the street from me and we went to the same school together. Whenever there's a reason his brother and himself couldn't go home right away after school (either they forgot their house key or the parents aren't home), they come over to my place to hang out. We quickly finish our homework so we have more time to play. As we got a little bit older, more fun comes. During one summer, they used to come over to my house and swim in my pool. Afterwards, I go to their house and play games on the PlayStation 2 and Gamecube. A very memorable game was Stuntman. We enjoy taking turns beating the levels. Such great times.

Question of the Week

One thing you hope everyone remembers about you

That I lived with purpose

Stuff I Watched This Week

Archive 81

Ink Master Season 3 - 3

Mandalorian Episode 6

Games I Played

Dying Light 2

Other Stuff and Things

What I love about working from home

Reselling

Snow day fun with Beckett and more drawing

Episode 13

1/30/2022

Listener Feedback

Slippery Bricks

Excellent video Ronnie! Really enjoyed every minute of it. I too loved the days of scholastic books when I was in school. Having to place your order and then the teacher comes into the classroom with the package of books the students bought, waiting for your name to be called to get your books was a great memory.

Dr Greene

Another great episode Ronnie.

Love the new segment at the start, gets me thinking about what my answer might be. It wasn't as perspective-altering as yours but I would have to go with The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved by Mario Livio. It's a non-fiction book which introduced me to Group Theory at age 17, something I later went on to specialise my Math degree in. I have no practical use for any of that gained knowledge but it really focused the direction I wanted to take my studies. Looking forward to next week's big question to ponder.

favorite core childhood memory

-Lake of the Ozarks

Stuff I Watched This Week

Book of Boba Fett

Stay Close (Netflix)

Ink Master

Ozark Season 4 pt. 1 - 5

NFL Playoffs

Games I Played

Fortnite

Far Cry 6

Other Stuff and Things

Sickness

Reselling = fun … Youtube … need a direction

Sweet times with B (changing things up?)

Episode 12

1/23/2022

A book that has influenced your life

Stuff I Watched This Week

Book of Boba Fett

Finished The Silent Sea on Netflix 3.5

Eternals

NFL Playoffs

Games I Played

Fortnite

Far Cry 6

Other Stuff and Things

Happy 61st birthday to my dad

Headaches

Reselling

Trip to Joplin with Beckett

Accidents happen on Sunday morning

Episode 11

1/15/2022

Thank you to Martyn and Dr. Greene

Stuff I Watched This Week

Book of Boba Fett

Started The Silent Sea on Netflix

Finished Witcher season 2 - 5

Games I Played

Beat Mario vs. Rabbids Donkey Kong DLC - 3

GTA 5 Online - 2

Assassin’s Creed 3 - 2

Fortnite

Yoshi’s Crafted World

Far Cry 6

Other Stuff and Things

LEGO rant

Busier at work

Thrifting…OMG

Beckett’s drawing and general smartness

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