The Ryan Merkle Podcast

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I have a conversation with my really really good friend Julian Andrews. I started playing basketball with Julian about four years ago. My friend invited me to play with a club basketball team in Culver City and Julian was on the team and we became teammates and have been playing together since. I played with Julian for a few seasons on that club team but I sprained my ankle while playing one on one with Julian. We decided to meet up and play one one one at a park a couple years ago and I sprained my ankle while we were playing. I also jammed my finger bad while playing with that club team and had to take a break. This was compounded with all of the injuries that I already had. I took a break until I started playing with ULA and Compton College last summer. Julian was the best basketball player on our team. He played college basketball. I talk to Julian about last Summer when I played with the University of Los Angeles in Compton as well as Compton College and how my game improved drastically over the Summer to the point where when I was playing with Compton College I was playing very well. Sadly third week of practice I sprained my ankle bad. But Julian and I chopped it up about basketball. Julian works in broadcasting and he is responsible for making the highlight videos of NBA and College basketball on television. Julian is also friends with my best friend from high school Renaldo Woolridge. Renaldo Woolridge was the number one ranked basketball player in California in high school and played in the NBA. Renaldo told me that soon he plans to have me on his podcast that he just started

I had the good fortune today to talk to Blu Yogi. It's always a pleasure to learn from him and I am looking forward to hopefully posting soon further podcasts where we can engage in further exploration and deepen our understanding

Blu is definitely a seeker and explorer. We met each other at the Los Angeles Hare Krishna Temple a few years ago. We both have studied many spiritual paths and have come to similar ideas about the unity and oneness and beauty of reality

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My friend Atom Nuke and I freestyle and then we talk about his rap career. At the very end Isaiah, Ajani, and I freestyle

https://thriveglobal.com/authors/jose-angel-manaiza-jr/?fbclid=IwAR37GYHfFhMFU3plb8lZEjUn1Wa7lKYH7VLh2GXI0Xubbag_Myz3VorZg5g

I had an amazing time interviewing Jose today. I talk to Jose about how he was the tutor to Russel Westbrook and Kevin Love and other NBA players who went to UCLA. We talk about other topics and look forward to hopefully further podcasts together in the future where I can ask him more about the incredible and inspiring life he has lived. Jose is known as the "tutor to the stars" and he tutors a lot of celebrities children, especially in mathematics. I met Jose at a toastmasters meeting in Malibu. I am not a member of toastmasters, but I asked a friend how I could get the quadrant model promoted and she recommended I go to toastmasters and meet people there, because she said there should be people there who could help me. That was when I was playing at Compton College. My teammate at Compton College Rommel and I after one of our practices went over to Malibu and had the pleasure of meeting Jose and Jose was very interested in the quadrant model and we have been friends since. At some point I will try to get a podcast with my friend Rommel and we will see how he is doing.

https://thriveglobal.com/authors/jose-angel-manaiza-jr/?fbclid=IwAR146l3Io5kqEnx1-la8cIsgYq8GbHOYLtHV49Fu2JJbsegRT-RSrnYyCRM

Here is a bio of Jose

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