When you find yourself with too many pears from Costco and need to find a recipe to use them...suddenly you've been taken over by an image that you can't get out of your mind..until you get it into your belly.

That's food porn at work.  Here's the recipe! 

Italian Turkey Sausage and Pear Rigatoni - YUM! 

How does one sell a product using sound effects?  Well, when the world is watching on live TV and a live demonstration isn't working, I figured out a way to use the power of sound effects to get the unique selling proposition across to the audience on national TV - it worked, selling out over 4,000 units in just 4 minutes on HSN.  What product was it?  And why am I talking about it 20 years later?

I am happy to bring you an ad-free podcast through my affiliation with amazon.  When you buy through The Daily Shop 5 amazon will pay a small percentage to me.

After 68 episodes of Speaking of Age Daily, now The Daily 5, I am taking 5 days off to work on the structure of my podcast so I can stay motivated in these trying times, bring you to value, and monetize my podcast, as well.  I will be back on August 24th with a new format featuring products, health, career, fashion, and meditation.  Each day's episode will focus on a dedicated topic.  

See you soon - Thanks for Listening

Per the APA Dictionary of Psychology it is - the view that human beings are governed by the desire for gratification, or pleasure, and for the discharge of tension that builds up as pain or “unpleasure” when gratification is lacking. In the classical psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud, the pleasure principle is the psychic force that motivates people to seek immediate gratification of instinctual, or libidinal, impulses, such as sex, hunger, thirst, and elimination. 

This great resource is available to anyone - the dictionary that is - but there is much more to the 'principal' than meets the eye.

Wait Wait Don't Tell with Peter Segal, had Bryan Cranston on as a guest last week and he was asked about his Charlie Manson story.   After listening, and I too have a Charlie Manson story, I thought about how our lives are made up of a million little stories.  I also realized that some don't need to be told, even by Bryan Cranston.

Audio Clips from NPR, Wait Wait Don't Tell me WBEZ Chicago

August 8, 2020

Big pharma will come to bite you in the ass when you need them to kiss it.  They get you when you are down and the most vulnerable. My brief takes on how I have been affected by big pharma, and the reality really is life or death.  

Despacito by Luis Fonsi has 6,897,822,589 views on Youtube and ranks as the number one video of all time.  A very raw, real, and sexy video performed by hot steamy and colorful dancers in Puerto Rico.  It makes everyone feel good...even if a reminder that COVID is stifling more than our bank accounts, it's attacking our mental health and ability to have a carefree - let's see what the night brings, attitude. 

After a big spike in listenership, I wanted to thank you personally.

Gaana is a platform in India - I am corrected what I said in the episode as I said, Africa.  Ooops - everyone knows Americans do not know their world geography...or podcast platforms.  

Bill Maher was ranting today about how important nutrition is in fighting COVID 19.  Yes, unexpectedly the man who doesn't look like the epitome of health, was all over the fact that none of the Task Force doctors have ever recommended a nutritional plan with exercise.    It's true.  The way to beat the virus is to be healthy, dumb ass. 

I was just sitting there watching TV after a long day of editing, and a commercial for Plexi-Derm comes on selling an eye cream to reduce wrinkles, dark circles, and under-eye puffiness for $14.95 and FREE S&H. Now, I am no stranger to this type of product as it's been on the As Seen On TV circuit for years.  But, what I couldn't understand was the before and after photos and the characters, they chose to convince you to buy the product.   Perhaps they weren't real people because the VO did say..."this photo is of a real person'"...

Good Grief People!