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Good Life Project

9Things: Genius, Hashtags, Foodies and Long-Tongued Bats

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2015

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is our second experiment, with a new show format, we're calling 9Things™. What is it? A three-person roundtable, where each person shows up with three topics to jam on. And, the thing is, nobody knows what the other person's topics will be until they hit the conversation.


My guests for today's episode of the 9Things format are two good friends, Gabra Zackman and Dan Lerner.


Covered in this episode:

  • Hashtags: funny new weird thing or business tool?
  • Hamilton on Broadway: the birth of creative genius
  • Innate Goodness: are we wired to be helpful?
  • Yazidi Women and the brutality of ISIS
  • Foodie Culture: more than what's on the plate
  • Bizarre Bat Discovered: fascinating that we can still discover new species
  • Four Year Long Collaborative Online Story: oops...I didn't mean to end it that way
  • Garbage: how can one person collect so much?
  • Workplace Culture: people are the new green
  • From Lawyer to Children's Entertainer: helping others pursue their interests


It's fast-paced, fun, utterly unscripted and at times a bit raw, but always good-natured and very real. Enjoy!


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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome everybody. We're hanging out today. I am Jonathan Fields of

0:10.2

lesser pain than my two guests today. As you know, we've tried this format once before

0:15.4

to varying degrees of success. I thought it was fabulous. This is a format called Nine

0:21.8

Things, which in theory we rotate around and I have two guests I'll introduce in a second

0:27.2

and we each toss out a topic and idea story from the news and we jam on it. We set it

0:32.0

up and we jam on it for about three minutes and we move on to the next one. So in theory,

0:36.0

we have nine topics that we cover in 27 minutes. In reality, I think last time we did this,

0:42.2

it took like an hour to cover and then the last one we just kind of flew. So we're going

0:47.2

to just see where this goes. The name of the segment is Nine Things, but the reality is

0:53.3

I have no idea where our house is going to end. Joining me today are two very dear friends.

0:59.4

On my left, Gabra Zachman, so Gabra has been hanging out in my world and I've been hanging

1:07.3

out in her world for more than a decade now. Yeah, more than a decade because it started

1:13.0

with, but maybe it was the first or second year of San Akeoka. Yeah, that's over. That's

1:18.3

1212. Yeah, because that opened 2001. So maybe two then. Yeah. She is a phenomenal actor,

1:25.3

actor, actress now. What's PC? You know, I think really either is PC. I tend to think

1:30.2

actress feels sexier to me, but that's, you know, that's just me. It might be a little

1:34.5

old fact for today, then you're an actress. Excellent. Extraordinary actress, performer, writer,

1:42.5

one of the also top audiobook narrators on the planet right now. Wow. And recently,

1:50.5

like really, really, really recently, do you want to share this? What am I sharing? Oh, my

1:56.5

books. Yeah. A very, very recent new author. I had really gotten my start doing audiobooks initially

2:04.5

in the romance and chicklit genres and I wound up through a dear friend of mine getting

2:10.5

an agent who was looking for romance submissions. And that was about three years ago now. And

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