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Excited a visit with Ryan Rodgers, very funny stand up comic. He will
be at Snowjam Comedy Festival here in just a couple of weeks. Ryan,
How are you man? I've never been better? How are you doing?
So? Nice to you here? Yeah, fantastic. I'm excited to chat
with you. And you live in San Francisco? Is that right? I
don't. I live in New Orleans now, I lived I lived in San
Francisco for years, but I'm born and raised in New Orleans. I did
my time in the tech industry at Google, Pandora, chag All in San
Francisco in the Bay Area, and then when pandemic hit, I moved back
to New Orleans and that's where I got sober and started my career in stand
up comedy. I love that. Well, I was going to just say
SF San Francisco and SF Sue Falls. So that's the other SF. All
the time, you know, you'll see something that's SF whatever, and it's
usually San Francisco because they beat us to it. So and Santa Fe.
Sometimes there you go, well, we're excited to have you in this.
SF Sue Falls coming up here real soon for the Snowjam Comedy Festival. Now,
how long have you been doing stand up comedy? I'm it would shock
a lot of my friends and other comics to learn that I've only been doing
this for two and a half years. That's awesome. Fairly, I'm fairly
new to stand up comedy, but I've been a professional writer, like I
said, for global brands like Google and Pandora. I worked for the in
the advertising industry for quite a long time. I'm thirty five, but I've
got seventeen years working in advertising an agency, so a lot of those writing
skills transferred over to stand up comedy, and so even though I hadn't been
doing it super super long, I've been able to hit the ground running.
I produced a couple of albums already on my own. I've started the LGBT
LOL Queer Comedy Festival. I've been able to tour three or four times in
the last two and a half years around the country. So I'm very lucky.
I'm very lucky. I'm very happy to be doing this. That's completely
changed my life. I love doing That's awesome. Have you been to Sue
Falls before or will this be your first time here? It's going to be
my first time. I couldn't be more thrilled. I met Dan, who
runs Snowjam, at a festival in Albuquerque a couple of years ago, and
I just loved his energy. I loved I learned so much from him in
a workshop that he put on, and I was just so excited about the
idea of Snowjam and the prospect of learning to Sue Falls that I spoke to
Dan earlier this year about our festivals, partnering up LGBTLO Well and Snowjam to
bring a show to Seatballs that Spotlight's queer comics, and so this is the
big catalyst for me going. I cannot wait to get there. It's very
mild in New Orleans. I'm ready to be somewhere colder and really feel the
winter energy. Finally, that's awesome. And there's different shows that are available
through the whole festival January eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty first,
And the show that you're talking about, I'm looking to see if I can
find it here. It is, It's on Friday, January nineteenth. I'm
on the website. By the way, folks, you can find this too,
Snowjamcomedyfest dot com. But this will be the Snowjam Comedy Fest Presents LGBT
LOL Showcase with Ryan Rogers. That's who we're talking to right now at Remedy
six one one, and let's talk a little bit about this show and what
folks can expect from the show. Yeah, this is just a little taste
of what we do in New Orleans once a year at LGBTL. We started
this festival last year our festival, and in the first year of the festival,
it was a major success. We had dozens and dozens of comics from
all around the country come to New Orleans, all queer identifying performers, and
we had a blowout four day festival. The festival was profitable, it was
fully sponsored by the generosity of brand partners, and it was such a huge
hit that we're doing it again in June. We're going to do this annually.
So the show at Snowjam is a little paste of that. It's a
little pace of spotlighting queer identifying performers to identify on the LGBTQ I A plus
spectrum plus allies, so we want to make sure that everyone's included who wants
to be include it. We selected nine performers out of the ones who wanted
to be a part of the show, and so it's just going to be
an absolute blowout. It's going to be so much fun. I cannot wait.
And I'm biased as a queer performer myself that I think a lot of
these shows are the funniest most broadly, the topics are really broad for these
shows, and the comedy is just top notch. It's so oh funny and
it's a guaranteed good time. It's Friday, January nineteenth, and that is
like right in the middle. It's part of and right in the middle of
the Snowjam Comedy Festival January eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty first,
And you could get a weekend pass to do the whole weekend, or you
can buy tickets per show. And some of these tickets are going to be
selling out soon, so if you haven't gotten tickets yet already, you might
want to hurry up and get those because some of these showcases don't have a
ton of space. They're in spaces in the smaller spaces. So again,
if you want to get tickets, you don't want to wait on that.
Thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me today, Ryan,
and I'm excited to meet you when you get Sue Falls. Oh the
pleasures, Amine. I can't wait to meet you too. And just to
let you know, I've taken a look at the entire performer selection across the
board, not just for our show, but for all the shows. It
is an insane lineup. Oh yeah, I'm familiar with some of these comics
from me working and grinding across the country. This is a really, really
top tier selection of comics for the festival across the board. So any show
you go to, it's going to be a bang. Blasts that come to
ours. Oh yeah, and exactly, they're all gonna be good. But
come to mind, No, I get that. And here's the thing that's
cool. It's the final year of Snowjamcomedy Festival and they're going out with a
bang. They're making sure they don't leave anything on the table. It's gonna
be a really good time. So get out, has some fun, help
us raise money for Dakota Academy of Performing Arts. This is performers raising money
for the next generation of performers. So come out be a part of it.
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Heidi show excited to visit right now with doctor Dan from Sioux Falls Hypnosis.
And here we are a little over a week into the new year. There's
probably a bunch of people listening that set up a new Year's resolution early last
week. Are they at the gym right now? They're either at the gym
right now or maybe they already quit going, because sadly, that's what happens
the first week, maybe first two weeks of every year every gym in not
just in town, in the country, all over the place. They're packed,
and then over the course of time it's a little less and a little
less. And everybody's had this experience because they've made those resolutions before and they
and it went well for a while and then it stopped. And the gyms
know you're going to do it too. That's why they sell an annual membership.
Sure, sure, you know. And the thing about that is is,
I mean, and resolutions are great. Changing your life is great.
Go to the gym, change the way you eat, do those things.
The problem with it is is we're still when we make those resolutions and we
make those changes and we okay, I'm going to change my life. We
take into this new commitment the same way we thought about ourselves others in the
world. We take into it the same habitual responses that we have to negative
experiences and difficulties and challenges and stress, and that hasn't changed. And so
we go into this new commitment with the same habits of thinking and responding and
feeling that we had before. And that's where the struggle comes is people have
made these changes, they've committed, they're into it, but then they're experiencing
difficulties in life and they're habitually responding to it in the same way, and
then they're having negative experiences and their stress increases. In an effort to get
out of that, In an effort to kind of square that circle and make
it okay, we do the same things we did before. So what I
always tell people, if you're going to do, if you're going to lose
weight, if you're going to get in shape, whatever is you're going to
do, keep in mind that there's generally something additional that you need to learn
in there. You need to not only make changes in how you exercise,
on what you're doing and what you're eating and whatever the case is, but
you have to have someone who can help you change how you think and how
you respond to it, to stress and challenge and different difficult emotions, because
that's what makes the difference, and that's what sustains it over time, and
that's what allows you to keep the change you've committed yourself to. And it's
almost like reprogramming because we've done things, my wife and I have done programs
or will do this, you know, set program for a certain amount of
time, and then when it's done, we're like, oh, look,
we did really good, and then we go right back to what we used
to do, right, because we didn't really change anything other than we changed
temporarily. You didn't learn to change the way you were thinking. You didn't
learn to change the way you responded to boredom, to frustration, to anger,
to stress, and those are the things that need to change. And
really, for anybody who's listening, you know, if you're going to make
a resolution to change, you go, you go, you do it,
but keep in mind that there's generally some other things that need to be learned
in there that will allow you to really keep that change and make it generative
over time. One of the things that I absolutely have noticed my wife and
I I don't know if we've talked about this yet during the program, but
we've been utilizing Sioux Falls hypnosis. We've been working with you for several weeks
now, and one of the things that I've noticed is like my cravings for
things are completely different than they used to be. It's and it's not because
you know, it's like we're on a diet, but it's like my mind
is not saying, hey, wouldn't that be good? And the one I
remember it was talking about how you you crave water, your your constant you
know, whatever it is. I don't think you said your constant thirsty.
But I got to think and while we were listening to that, I had
been drinking I don't know how many ounces one of these things is. It's
a big, it's a big, oh thirty three ounces. I'd been drinking
like seven of those or eight of those a day, and I was like,
oh, hey, that's I have been craving water a lot. And
again kind of reprogramming and helping us fix the things that really need to be
fixed, because you can you can go to the gym, you can,
you know, do a crash diet, you can do anything short term and
get a short term response, but if you want a long term response,
you got to change more than just that. A long term response has to
be a commitment followed by learning and change. And again I think the commitments
of the resolutions the actions are wonderful. That's it has to start there.
But for everybody listening, keep in mind that when it seems like a struggle,
when it seems like it's not working, when your feelings don't, when
your motivation's gone, when your feelings don't match what your initial resolution or commitment
was, all that means is that there's something in there that you need to
learn. You need some learning and change now in how you're thinking, how
you're responding to feelings. So those are the things that, again, that's
what makes it work long term. And it's not just weight loss. That's
suit fall, hypnosis and other big categories people who are trying to quit smoking,
or people that are struggling with stress, and any I suppose it's kind
of anything where they're trying to change a big habit are what are are those
the three biggies that we just talked about. Yes, largely, what I
do is is issues that are sort of medically oriented weight loss issues around that,
stress reduction issues around that, and smoking cessation. But I also do
habit control, confidence, mood issues, motivation. Anytime someone is trying to
change some aspect of their life. If somebody listening is going, hey,
that sounds like me, I did that resolution, I already forgot about it?
How do they get a hold of what's the best way to connect with
sufaals? So you can certainly look us up on the internet at suit Falls
Hypnosis dot com or you can call me directly at six oh five seven zero
two sixty six y nine one. Very nice, doctor Dan. Thank you,
sir, Thank you again, Sue Falls Hypnosis. I'll throw a link
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seventy three, Bishop William H. Hare is consecrated as the Bishop of the
Niabrera District of the Episcopal Church. This region occupied all of the land west
of Minnesota and north of the Niabrera River. His diocese would eventually be restructured
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continued operation of two massive projects in his time in Sioux Falls. After first
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