Good Day Google+ - Love, Sports and Social Media

In this live Google+ Hangout hosted by chef Dennis Littley, a diverse panel of four guests—sports‑social‑media journalist Sunny Cadwalader, Italian‑food community founder Nazim Beltran, web‑video creator Jeff See (Manly Pinterest Tips), and relationship coach Andi Lines (Bring Back Desire)—discusses how sports fandom intersects with personal relationships, how to leverage emerging social‑media tools (Google+ Hangouts, Twitter, Facebook, GoPro, Google Glass) for authentic fan engagement, and practical Super Bowl preparations such as recipes, commercial tracking, and betting tips. The conversation also highlights each panelist’s personal branding projects: Sunny promotes his sports‑social‑media blog catchicasports.com, his weekly show “Tuesday 10,” and his social handles (@CadChica on Twitter/Instagram); Nazim mentions his Italian‑food community and his wife’s cookbook “Eating Heart”; Jeff references his Manly Pinterest Tips show and design site hisdesignonline.com; Andi shares her relationship‑coaching platform. Light‑hearted banter—jokes about coffee, ampersands, and mis‑timed show titles—fills the gaps between substantive advice. Audience questions about favorite sports, team predictions, and Super Bowl details are fielded throughout, ending with a round‑up of take‑aways and encouragement to stay passionate in both personal and professional life.
Chapters
Woo-hoo! Hey there, I got one question for you Google Plussers. Are you ready for some football?
Woo-hoo!
Let's go!
Omaha!
Omaha!
Omaha!
I don't know what the hell it means but take Google Plus.
That's like the 2500.
Yeah, maybe Omaha Steaks will send me some steaks now, I don't know. Should I say I don't eat beef? No, I shouldn't probably say that on live TV as a chef.
Well, thank you.
It's Good Day Google Plus, and like I like to say, it's always a good day when you're on Google Plus. And we are going to have a great time today. I have a stellar lineup, or as my sister, mi amor, says, I got a spicy lineup. And it's not just because some of us are Latinos here, and I am a Latino too.
Amen.
Amen.
For those of you that don't know.
Yo también.
Yes, sí, me too. I don't know enough Spanish anymore. Anyway, we're going to get started and I'm going to go through my panel real quick and introduce everyone and then we're going to come back and let them talk a little bit about what they do and what they love on Google+. I'm just going to start right next to me and today I have Sunny Cadwalader.
No, no, last name is pronounced Cadwalader. My name is— I also go by Cadchica on Twitter, on Facebook, on Snapchat, on Instagram. I am a sports social media journalist, writer, reporter. I dabble everywhere in social media, specifically Twitter. I joined Twitter in 2009 and quickly saw that it was a source for sports reporting through sharing of links, through retweets. 2011, I started my own blog, CatChicaSports.com, and I wrote about sports social media before most people were using tweets in their stories. That's what I was doing. But now, as sports social media reporting, writing has grown, I find that it's just kind of all getting cluttered, that space. And so now that's why I'm here on Google+. So for the last few months, I've been digging in and meeting people like Sheff and everyone over at the Those 4 Girls community. Hi, Lanie! And just trying to take it to the next level, starting with HOAs.
Sounds good, we're glad to have you here today and we're going to get back to you in just a minute. And then we have Nazim Beltran and he's coming to us from Milan. Thank you so much, Nazim, for being here today.
It's a pleasure, thanks for the invitation and this is fantastic. As you know, I love Hangouts and Google+ is really an incredible tool of engagement even from far away in Italy. I moved here in 1992, I used to live in Miami. Brought up in New York, born in Caracas, Venezuela. Married an Italian who dragged me all the way across the continent.
Dragged you?
Well—
and also a community moderator and owner of Italian Foods, which is on Google+, and we're having a lot of fun over there. And I have a web agency. We do a lot of interactive web projects, and we're starting to also get involved in apps.
Sounds good, we'll come back to you on that. And then we have my friend from the Manly Pinterest Show, Jeff Say, and it's good to have you here today.
Well, thanks, Chef. It's Jeff See, I know.
See, I'm sorry.
That's right, I get it, sick, sigh, whatever. It was a good way to figure out when bill collectors were calling me in college. You know, they would say, "Oh, there you go." Is Jeff Sigh there? I'm like, "No, this is his friend Bob." So, but yeah, I'm a web guy. His Design Online, do web video, multimedia, social media, and I'm the host of the Manly Pinterest Tips here on Google+, which you were kind enough to join us a couple episodes ago. Thanks, Jeff.
And we need to talk to you about those intros, how you do them. Maybe we can talk about those a little while later.
Sure, sure.
Okay, and of course we have Andi Lines, my favorite personal go-to love goddess.
Woohoo!
And you know, I gotta tell you, Annie, since we've been following each other and talking on Twitter, I have had a lot of interesting people following me. It's changed my whole perspective.
Stalkers, stalkers, Chef Dennis Littley.
No, not that kind of stalkers, just a lot of self-help, love people. It's a whole new venue for me.
It's a whole new world sharing the love. But I am so thrilled to be here with you today, Chef Dennis Littley, and all the wonderful folks in the room. And big mwahs to everybody watching. Thank you so much for tuning in today for a great conversation with the chef and Thank you so much.
Why don't you tell us a little bit about what you're doing on your show, Bring Back Desire?
Oh, well, I have— I am the Chief Passion Curator for Bring Back Desire, where I share the best tips, tools, and resources to help you deepen the love, deepen the intimacy, and deepen the erotic connection with your beloved self and your beloved partner. But I also have a lot of fun as the host of the Loving and Lasting radio show on BlogTalkRadio, as well as the Loving and Lasting TV show here on Google Plus. It's all about sharing the love physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
It's getting hot in here.
Well, I was going to ask, is that— is the lasting like in terms of duration or is it in terms of a lasting relationship?
I really work to help couples stay together and do the work and do the communicating and keep the glue going too.
You know, we were talking about it a little earlier in the green room, but advice for couples that are going through like the sports trauma of women that don't really enjoy the sports as much as men do, and you were talking about some remedies for how to handle that.
Right, and you want me to get started on that right now? Yeah, could you please? Sure! Well, what happens is there are sports widows, and this is of course not the gals who just are totally glued to the sports scene with their darlings. That's a wonderful thing to have a shared common interest with, but a lot of times, and it's very healthy that couples have their different interests, and it makes for a wonderful relationship. But what I hear a lot of women complaining about is that their darling man is too glued to the sports. And as we know, men are focused, focused, focused. Hunt the deer, hunt the deer, hunt the deer. And so when they get into watching the sports, it's not that they're ignoring you because that would mean they'd have to do two things. They're watching the TV and it becomes a feeling where the woman feels, the spouse feels, the partner feels left out. And you really— it's something that has to be negotiated, it has to be talked about and compromised on because no one is more important than your spouse or your partner. You both are the central key to the family. Even as just a family of two, you two are so important. Sports is a wonderful entertainment, a passion, something we can all get behind, but when it comes to keeping a marriage happy, a relationship happy year after year after year. And I've been with my darling man 28 years, and as I always say, we lost babies, we lost businesses, we lost all our money and our hormones, but we never lost each other. And it's so important to always be communicating. And so I always recommend that the couples have an understanding. Honey, Sundays I need time to go and watch my sports. It's going to be 3-5 hours. I'm going to be there, great. How can we connect another time in another way? Because it's good to honor that, it's good to honor each other's needs. But rather than building up resentment, talk about it, gals, with your darling and work it out.
Yeah, it's not like on those commercials where you see the woman taking him antiquing on Sunday or out picking apples on Sunday. You know, you got to give him that space, do that on Saturday.
Absolutely, absolutely. And not to hold any resentment. We're all entitled to do what we love to do, but not at the harm of the relationship. So again, it's the communication.
Sounds good to me.
Basically, it's— oh, go ahead, Jeff. Go ahead.
Well, I was just going to say, the thing about compromise is, I think, is awesome because I've been married for 18 years and my wife and I, you know, she's my best friend and we have a great time. But she, you know, I like to watch sports. I'm not a die-hard sports fan, but She'll watch that with me, but I have to watch figure skating with her. I would rather gouge my eyes out with an ice pick. But I do it because she really likes it. I mean, really. And I've even taken her, gone and sat through them before, live, and paid money for it.
You are a great man. You are a wonderful man.
High five, Jeff.
High five for that.
But it was compromise. I mean, because, you know, she'll watch some guy show, you know, Die Hard or something, you know. For me, and so I'll do that for her. So it's all about compromise.
Excellent. Good, good, great advice.
Yeah, yeah, we really have two TVs when it comes to movies like that, and, you know, she'll try to watch some of them, or if we go to a theater every now and then, she will watch them. And I love chick flicks personally. I'll cry along with everybody else at the end of it. And Lisa usually sleeps through them, and she'll wake up and it'll be the end of the movie, like, oh God, what was it, Million Dollar Baby? I am sobbing at the end of that one, and she wants to know what's wrong.
So Shoot, I can cry at the drop of a hat. I watched that Budweiser commercial, I don't know if you guys have seen that, the puppy and the horse commercial that it's going to air on Sunday. I was bawling like nobody's business. I mean, it doesn't take much to make me cry with those sentimental things. I mean, there's that Derek Coleman, Seattle Seahawks Derek Coleman, the Duracell commercial. He's a hearing impaired player for the Seahawks. I was crying at that. There's a commercial, not a commercial, but there's a YouTube video that's gone viral about this son who filmed his mom getting Super Bowl tickets and he's like, "Mom, we're going to the Super Bowl." I'm just pulling out the Kleenex left and right. It doesn't matter what you're talking about, whether it's chick flicks or certain sports stories, I cry. I just cried.
I know, when Spock died I cried too.
I think it's when you're getting older. I mean, my wife took me to a movie, it was a while back, but it was My Life with Michael Keaton, and he's dying of cancer and they film it for his— and that was the only time I've ever been in a theater where people were sobbing, like, "Ooh, ooh, ooh," behind me, and I left there with my throat hurting because I had a lump in it for so long.
It was horrible.
Don't ever watch that movie.
I got an interesting story talking about sports and stuff, because usually, you know, with your couple, you don't realize it. And I'm into a lot of sports, and she's never watched sports. And so, you know, one day about 2 years ago, I'm switching the channels and there's a boxing fight on. She says, "Hold on." And I go, "What?" Yeah, can you just— Oh, wow. And I go, you like boxing? And she goes, I love boxing. And she never told me that after all those years. And I'm like, wow. And she goes, you really like boxing? And wow, I just, just, just leave it there. Let's look, you know. And I'm like, really? So you learn something new every day, you know.
So who's— who does she—
who—
what fighters are her favorite?
Oh, she likes, she likes, she likes the classics, the news. But she even watches the new stuff and she's like 'OK, this is great.' And I'm like, 'Really?' You know, it's the sweaty muscular men in those little shorts, isn't it? I've got to go into the details about that later.
If she likes boxing, does she like UFC at all? Because those are even skimpier outfits.
Well, we don't get that over here. I mean, basically it's more contained in Italy. They show certain things, but she came across that, and then we started talking about, you know, George Foreman. And she goes, oh, when I was a kid, I used to watch the fights. And I'm like, really?
That's cool, though.
That is cool. And that's going back to what Andy says about the relationship, and also what Jeff's saying. I've been married for 22 years. So everything gets— you do your stuff. And I love to go to concerts. And I used to drag her to concerts. And last year, she said— I said, "Honey, I'm 54, you're 54, let's stop it with the concerts, the 3-hour concerts, because I can't, you know, enough." But those are the sort of things that, you know.
Well, you weren't taking her to see KISS, were you?
Well, it was pretty close.
Metallica, Nine Inch Nails.
That's alright. My first really concert experience with Lisa was we went to see Andrea Bocelli. Perform. They were the most expensive tickets I ever bought. I was like, oh my God, are they really this much? What do they have, a whole symphony? And yeah, they were.
We love jazz, so we love to go to the jazz shows because they're kind of sultry and sexy and the music and you go and maybe have a little dinner. It's very intimate. The jazz clubs are very small, everybody's packed in, the music is wonderful and it's Delicious.
Yeah, it's an easier venue to deal with, the small jazz venues, as opposed to the stadiums and stuff like that.
Oh yeah, the smaller are always better. Yeah, that's true.
Since we're talking about going places, going to events or music concerts or whatever, what's the last sporting event that each of you went to?
Live?
Yes, well, that you attended, yes.
Well, my son plays for YMCA Y-Ball when he was 13, and they got to play on the parquet floor, Boston Celtics. And so before the game and during halftime, and so that was the last game I went to. I love my Celtics, and certainly back in the days when I was a private banker and had to do all those skybox deals, whether it was Patriots or Red Sox or Celtics or Bruins— oh, what a tough job.. But in Boston, we're really into our sports. As you know, we're very proud of all our teams here. And you talk about diehard fans, the Red Sox Nation, Bruins fans.
Yes, very much so. Yes, I've seen quite a bit of their activity online. Nazim, how about you?
Over here in Italy, it's soccer. So the last game I saw was Milan against Inter, which is the classic. It's kind of like the Jets against the Giants, you know, it's the same thing. And people go nuts. So this friend of mine took me in, it was quite a lot of fun. It was quite a lot of fun.
That's like a Barcelona-Real Madrid kind of level.
Same, same set. Yeah, same thing. Same thing.
Jeff.
My kids are in junior high. So I am doing a— I have a boy and a girl and my girl is— she's the youngest and she started playing basketball this year. And my son, I mean, he's incredible. He's— I haven't You could put all my sports ability in my pinky, and that's about as much as I have. But he is incredible, and so we love watching him play. And junior high basketball for girls is interesting. It's, it's like watching— it's like, it's like, it's like watching somebody fall down stairs slowly, you know. It's just— and she's learning, she's learning all this stuff, but there's jump balls every 5 seconds. And they're learning the basics. It's a lot of fun, and The last professional one we went to was, um, we saw the Dallas Cowboys in the new stadium. My son and I went. Oh wow, nice, nice. It is crazy. I mean, it's a crazy stadium.
Is that video board as big as it looks on TV?
Oh, it's huge. I mean, it's just gargantuan. I mean, the whole place is just a spectacle, you know. I like college games a lot better. I mean, we go to some Baylor games and stuff. I mean, It was fun to go see. I wouldn't like to go all the time, just, it's just my style, but I'm more of a college kind of person. But it was, it was wild. It was really wild.
But mostly college games, it's always like they have the most thrilling endings. Everything ends in the last minute, you know.
Yeah, yeah, I like the band stuff at halftime. I mean, the cool stuff. I mean, it's just fun. We enjoy those.
Cool. Chef?
The last thing I was at was a professional game, and it was the Eagles and the Cowboys in Philadelphia. And the game meant nothing. The Cowboys won because Eagles pulled most of their players out of it. But I was in the new stadium, had never been in it, and the one thing that struck me the most was how small the seats were, because I was with a bunch of guys my size or bigger and we're just crammed in there and you really couldn't enjoy it as much. I remember the old Vet was a lot more comfortable. The other fascinating thing I learned about Philadelphia going to an Eagles game is that I was down On the first level, my girls that I taught culinary to had bought me two tickets on the 50-yard line on the Dallas side. I don't know how they got them, but they got them for me. And I found out that when you're in the lower level, they don't throw things at you when you cheer for the other team in Philadelphia. When you're in the other levels, you know, you get hit in the back with drinks, with popcorn, God knows what, hot dogs. But in the lower level, they just go, "Sir, could you please— we don't understand why you're cheering for them, but could you please stop it?" And don't dress up like Santa Claus either. Oh no.
They'll take him out. They will take Santa out.
I've seen them go after people going to the bathroom. Don't wear your collars, I mean, because it's just nuts in Philadelphia.
I got a very interesting story about that. When I first arrived in Italy in 1992, these friends of mine took me to see one of my first soccer games, and it was at the stadium here, and it was Inter against some other team. And in the middle of the game, the people on the right-hand side at the top Some guy brought in a Vespa motorbike and threw it down the stadium into the field. And I looked and turned around and said, "Are we serious here?" Oh my goodness. And it was in the news that night because it's not typical. Everybody was like, "How did he get in with a motorbike?" He didn't hit anybody, but it was just a gesture of like, you know, they really get fanatical over here about soccer.
I wanted to bring up a couple comments here. Kim Boltman, the rodeo is kind of a sporting event. What do you think there, Sunny?
I love that comment.
In Texas, it's a certain kind of sport. It's a certain kind of sport. You can't do it if you're just— if you've had a— if you're coming in, rolling in from the bar after you have a couple beers and you have this big old beer belly, you can't just go in and ride those bulls. You can't go bareback riding. You can't do that. You have to be an athlete to compete at that level.
Absolutely. That's when you can say you enjoy both kinds of music, country and western.
Here's another one.
Elena: My favorite sports are running, dancing, tennis, volleyball, Zumba, and swimming in the sea.
Hey, I want to say hello to Elena. She's a friend and also she's on the Italian food community. She's one of the—
great.
Yeah, shout out to Elena.
Let's, uh, Craig Fifield's in the house from the Craig Fifield Army.
Hey there.
He's been married for 20 years.
Woohoo!
Congratulations! Alright, Baby Bubba is in the house!
Here's one from Charlotte Pierce, my son plays Quidditch at Vassar, does that count? What is it?
That's Harry Potter, that's Harry Potter's fictional game. Is it?
Yes, it's popular on college campuses.
Isn't Vassar a women's school?
It's popular on college campuses, Quidditch is, yes.
I know nothing about it, but is it an official Olympic sport by any chance?
Not yet. You never know.
You never know with these things.
With the politics involved in the Olympics, oh my goodness, you never can tell what's going to happen.
It's coming up next week.
Yeah. Yes, everything is coming up this month. It's crazy. Go ahead, Jeff.
Sorry. That's okay. Here's another one from Kirsten Mattis. She's been doing sporting event in Philadelphia, saw an Army-Navy game one fall. Ball in a stadium without a business name attached to it. And I remember going to those games too, Kirsten, in Philadelphia. I'm trying to think, it wasn't, I'm trying to think of the name of the field. Franklin Field?
I don't know, it's before my time. Before your time. Chef, I don't remember how, you taught me in the green room how to pin things or bring things up, I don't remember how to do it.
Well, the little eyeball, if you see any.
Anyways, Lynn Abate Johnson, will I be working the Super Bowl online? Kind of, sort of, yes. Funny story, I told Chef this when I talked to him a couple weeks ago. I try to be innovative when I'm writing when it comes to sports and social media. Last year I did the unusual thing of watching the Super Bowl solely through Twitter. I did not have the TV on whatsoever, but the thing about Twitter and what makes it popular in sports is because that's where all the sports journalists are. That's where the beat writers, the beat reporters, that's where your ESPNs and all of their employees, that's where the Fox Sports, that's where everybody is at. And during a live event, there's so much activity, whether it's play-by-play, whether it's highlights, whether it's GIFs or GIFs, whichever way you want to call it, that's where all of the commentary is going on, and so I watched it only through Twitter. I knew when the blackout happened, I knew what everybody was saying about Beyoncé's halftime show. It was just the perfect storm of a live event last year because you had Beyoncé, blackout, and a barn burner of a game. So I was able to do that.
I love that though, because in 140 characters You're getting the quick synopsis immediately when it's happening without all the fluff. I love that.
This year Facebook is really trying to make a play for that. They've teamed up with Fox Sports. Late last year they bought the sports app SportsStream. They're really trying to make a play into sports. Lynn, long story or long answer now summarized by yes, I will be working it online but not like I did last year. Sorry about that.
I see more teams bringing Google+ into the locker rooms and stuff and they're doing live things. Do you see that becoming viable for sports?
Yes, I do. I think it was just last week the Atlanta Falcons, their GM did a Google Hangout and they had been promoting it the last couple of weeks using the hashtag, I forget what the hashtag was, but you'll see a lot more teams trying to incorporate a different tactic Last year I wrote about Twitter takeovers where they would have somebody from the organization, be it a GM or a player, they would take over the team account Twitter handle. I see that ante being upped this year with Google Hangouts. You're going to also see more GoPro, Google Glass, even Team USA. They had a Hangout last week or the week before, and it's just taking relationship of 140 characters or Facebook post or Instagram, and you're taking it to another level of genuine relationship. And that's what I love about Google Plus Hangouts or the video calls. It's more genuine to me because you're getting that face-to-face connection even though you can be in different countries, different states. It's a whole other level of genuine to me, and that's That's important, being genuine, being authentic. It doesn't matter whether you're a team or an athlete or a league, you still need to be authentic because fans are smart enough. Fans are getting smarter in social media. They'll be able to read through the people who are just trying to market relationship instead of relationship marketing.
You know who's doing a great job with that is Chris Yates. He introduced me to Hangouts 14-15 months ago.. And he combines the Twitter with the Hangouts and he's on the field, he's with the players, he's doing a remarkable job. So, mwah, shout out.
Yes, I've picked his brain a little bit on Hangouts too and I watch what he does and he's one of the ones that I've seen using his Hangouts for sports more than anything because although you see a bit here and there, there's not a consistent one which is why I'm over here and I'm trying to bring my own spin, my own take into the Hangouts through sports, but I'm still trying, still kind of feeling my way.
You know what's kind of interesting though, now that you bring up all these things, the funny thing is I've realized television has not picked up on this because you could make it such a tool that you could have direct feeds on the side of the game while it's going on and stuff like that, and that still hasn't happened.. And the only way that it's happening is through the ways that we're doing it through feeds and building it into websites or into apps or into other stuff. But television is still okay, there's a link, this and that, Facebook, but there's nothing going on top of the screen in parallel to the game maybe.
A lot of that might have to do with rights, rights fees. Like the NFL, I was just talking about this in a chat last night on Twitter, the NFL has a deal with Twitter, okay, but Fox Sports does not. Fox Sports recently signed a deal with Facebook, so what you're gonna see on Fox Sports here in America is you're going to see Facebook posts, you're gonna see Facebook activity. You're not gonna see Twitter activity during the pregame or the halftime show. A lot of that might have to do with rights fees.
Okay, great.
Here's a— Jeff just posted up, you want to read that, Jeff?
Yeah, Shannon Hernandez said, you know, yes, face-to-face connections, it's no longer about face behind the account. Now you can really build trust by seeing expressions and body language. Great point, Sunny. I think that's going to be huge for this next year. I mean, we're all seeing the power of Hangouts, and we've talked about Hangouts in 2014, it's going to be the year of the Hangout. I just think it's a matter of time before they really start hitting more and more sports and integrating that to everything coming up in Google+.
Yeah, Jeff, I was watching a Hangout that you were on recently and you said sometimes creativity happens when you color outside the lines, and that's really what teams are having to do. Not that Twitter and Facebook are stagnant but there's such power in visual, whether it's through images or videos. And there's ways to take it, not just with Hangouts, but the GoPro and the Google Glass. There are stories that you can tell through those as well. And I think the ones that— I mean, they have to understand what their audience wants, they have to be able to work within their resources, and then they have to develop the strategy around that. If they can do that and if they can see they have those resources to use Google+ in that way, then I say go for it. I think those who are willing to take a chance, willing to color outside the lines, they're the ones that you'll see on Google+ more and more.
That's a very good point. Also, the great thing about Google+ is that the engagement, the spokesperson, that's I don't know how many companies are able to have inside their marketing division that sort of mentality of thinking outside of the box that Jeff is saying about, really taking it to levels that we've never seen before where you can have a spokesperson that represents a company but at the same time has an understanding of how to really communicate with people that are in this media.
Yeah, I think also we have the— and Sonny touched about this too— is being authentic, you know, because people sniff out stuff.. And I really don't like the term relationship marketing because it's like, mm-hmm, relationship to sell you stuff.
Exactly.
Good face there, Josh.
I like that. I mean, it sounds like that, but it's not real. I mean, it's— and I tell everybody, it's not— social media is not an easy button. You're not trying to go harvest and get these influencers to like you. It takes time and effort, and it's just like, you know, Andy building a relationship, it takes time. You're sharing people's stuff. I didn't go right away and say, Chef Dennis, put me on your show now. And when I first saw him on Google+, I invited him to my show, he saw me, I forwarded his post, I commented on his post. I mean, so I think people— there's no really quick way to do it, but I think people are going to smell the inauthentic people who are just trying to use them in social media. And businesses and people who learn how to just be nice are going to succeed on Google+.
Excellent, excellent. That's great.
It's also— you talk about a very good point in my industry, which it took me a good 18 months to build up just the trust factor because I'm talking about something that you don't talk about in polite company. It is a taboo topic, yet it's very important for a loving and lasting relationship to last throughout the years. It's not a conversation you're really having with your doctor. With even your best friends. You might laugh about it, you see sex everywhere, talked about everywhere, but not in a very meaningful, important way for couples to stay together. And so for me, when I launched Bring Back Desire in June of 2011, it was as Jeff just said, getting out, talking to people, enhancing their work, spotlighting their work, sharing what they were doing. And then they would say, "Well, who is this Andy Lyons and what does it mean to be a Chief Passion Curator? What the heck is she doing over there on that Facebook page anyway?" But it allowed me the opportunity to build up the trust and then starting my radio show podcast helped me build my awareness, my credibility, my visibility with all the experts in the industry because I'd be interviewing them. That can really help any business owner or solopreneur who's starting their platform and building their business is to have a podcast where they have the opportunity to interview others. And share the love of their work and what they're doing. And it comes back, it's reciprocated in a wonderful way.
Absolutely. Here's a comment I want to throw up on that note from Lynn. And Lynn says, "Your storytelling, understanding what audience wants, work within resources, develop strategy to tie those together, brilliant point, Sunny." Thank you, Lynn.
Yeah, before, before, I know we're not even close to running out of time yet, but I'm gonna say I'm segueing back to Super Bowl. Sorry, Chef, I'm just taking over.
That's okay.
I want to know what everybody's go-to recipe for Super Bowl is. What is your go-to recipe? Anybody?
I'll go. I have a thing my kids call man candy, and that sounds like something you'd be talking about. And I tease my wife and say, "You can't have any because you're not a man." But it's— no, it's really— all it is is those— and you've seen it on Pinterest or other places. It's those little smokies wrapped in bacon, and you put, you know, brown sugar on it, and you put it in the oven, and it makes pretty much caramel out of pig fat, which is just— you can't get any better than that.
You had me at bacon. You had me at bacon, Jeff.
It's wonderful. They're awesome. That's my recipe.
Excellent. Over here in Italy, it's a little bit difficult. We just— about a block away, they just opened Corey's Fried Chicken. He's from Kentucky. Yeah. So we're going to watch the game downstairs because in the complex here, we have 3 architectural firms that are mostly combined with American coworkers. So we decided we're going to watch the game downstairs, and we're going to go get the chicken and hopefully bring some buffalo wings that somebody is going to bring over from their place.
Oh my!
No pesto on Super Bowl night.
Good for you, getting outside of your circle, getting outside of the— coloring outside of the lines even with your food, that's good.
Exactly.
Andy?
Okay, so if I were going to be watching the Super Bowl, if I were with a bunch of wonderful spectators Sports people?
Okay, well, it could just be a party. What's your go-to recipe for a party?
Oh, I would bring out my famous chili. I have a chili that nobody can duplicate that is addictive beyond phenomenal, and it makes everybody very happy. And I always have to make sure I have plenty because seconds and thirds happen.
That sounds good. Now let me ask you a question, being a Texan. Beans or no beans in your chili?
Absolutely, I use black beans though.
Okay, good. Yeah, I don't like beans.
Little Cuban, eh?
Yeah.
Well, for me, buffalo wings, definitely. They're a must. One of my favorites that I used to serve when I would have guests coming over too was I used to like to do garlic oysters, and they were just wonderful.
That's so interesting.
Oh yeah, and the smell coming out of the kitchen when you've got those cooking. Basically all it is is you take garlic garlic, you cook it down a little bit in some butter, you let it get solid again, and then you just top the oyster with it. You put it in the oven and just let it cook, and it's like, "Oh, wonderful." Sounds good.
I'm hungry.
So am I. I only had a banana and a Powerade or— no, see, I have no sleep. I can't even remember what I had to drink this morning.
It was the coffee that you needed then.
No, I don't drink coffee.
No.
That's the problem. There you go.
No.
You're kidding me.
No, I gave up coffee years ago, so it's like if I drink anything, it's like an amp, a sugar-free amp. That's about it. I know, I'm banned. Block me, mute me. I don't drink coffee. I'm sorry.
There's other ways to get energy.
There you go.
There you go. And there goes the punchline.
We took a turn there. And all the men are blushing.
I'm telling you, I watched a show the other day and I was pinging Shannon Hernandez privately because I felt like I was a 13-year-old boy giggling at all the terms they were using.
I'm like, uh, what show were you watching?
I was watching Wendy Hernandez's show. I'm for— I forget who was on with her, but it was, uh, it was, it was a pretty heavy-duty bringing sex back into the relationship. That's where I got the term prime the pump from. But I said, I gotta stop putting these up because the next thing you'll see all over Google is Chef Dennis says—
He's priming them up.
Says we won't go there. Oh, and I forgot what I was talking about.
Do you have that kind of effect on people, Andi?
Oh, well, it's the topic. I mean, eating in captivity. This is what I'm trying to do, but again, in a tasteful, playful way that people can take in. I have so many— I mean, I'm a lurking business, what can I tell you. The engagement is not always that high because if you comment in social media everybody who's following you knows, as Chef Dennis was saying, that you commented. But based on my high traffic at my website where they stay 5 minutes per visit at BringBackDesire.com and based on a lot of feedback I get, it's helpful, it's working. I'm providing value. But yes, the puns, the double entendres, they go on forever. So I'm always thrilled to be brought into a business show because as I say, every day is just sex, sex, sex. Let's talk business. That's my background. I'm a CEO, MBA-trained business builder, entrepreneur.
So you're saying you're multi-talented.
Well, yeah, I guess so. But as an entrepreneur, you have to fill a need in the marketplace. And so there's a need for this with the divorce rate on first marriages at over 40% and second marriages 65%. We need to do a lot of work for our relationships.
I have a question and I'll probably regret it.
Prime the pump! Prime the pump!
Yeah, go for it, buddy. Get on the plank.
That's right. The question I have, you know, I think that culture a lot kind of pooh-poohs marriage. You know, most of us all here, it sounds like, and even in the comments, there's a lot of us who've been married a long time. And it almost— I mean, a lot of times I think in marriage they think, you know, the passion is gone and you're just kind of stuck in this dead-end relationship and, oh well, make the best of it, you know. But I really like your message, like, no, it doesn't have to be that way. There is so much more. I mean, I just think culture—
You're just singing my song when you say that. Again, 28 years with my darling man, we have been through everything. We've had horrific things happen, and if you don't continue to stay tuned in, turned on to each other, watch the evolving character, know that you're changing and shifting, and that you're two individuals who together are making a wonderful life together. And it's also the whole trying to get through these times without constantly looking at each other and turning into the Bickersons. And it takes work, just like a great weight loss program, anything else that you're doing in the world, it takes work and it takes communication. And if I can curate and bring things to folks as a mother and a wife who has been through this and knows what it's like, I tell people, I know you're great roommates and I know you're great great strategic partners, but a relationship is more than that. And let me give you some ideas. You know, gals, how can you get out of your head and back into bed? Guys, how can you do more for your wife and allow her to give to you? But one of the biggest things I work on every day is emasculation, and that is how women communicate about men to men, how our advertising and society treats men, making them look like buffoons. Idiots and rolling the eyes all the time. Also working on masculine energy versus feminine energy. We have a situation where a lot of us gals, we go into the workplace, we need our masculine energy. We need to be drivers and, and pushing things forward, and we need that. But what happens is we come home and we still have that going on, and we become competitive with our male partner instead of really owning our divine feminine energy. I talk a lot about that as well. Communicating, understanding the gender communication is key. Men really do want to make their darlings happy. Bottom line, it's up to us as women to understand how do we make that work and to stop putting our guys down. Just saying.
I think if you're old enough, you've learned that if mom ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
That's right because I mean, I love my wife and she— I mean, she is my best friend but she can make me madder than any woman!
Uh-oh!
Attention shoppers! That's right!
But I think some people fail to see that that's kind of normal. That's going to happen in that kind of close relationship. You're gonna get mad at hell but it's the ability I think to let go of that.
And how to fight clean I think is important.
Absolutely! And make love dirty. So the other thing too is also learning to use your impeccable word and don't say it's okay when it isn't. Don't say that. It doesn't get anybody anywhere. It doesn't work at work either. You know, wherever you are, you really need to be able to have those difficult conversations coming from a place of compassion and understanding and using your impeccable words. Cool.
Let's bring this up from Tina.
We've just been through therapy, y'all. Yeah.
All right. Tina says, great marriages are possible but require constant care and maintenance. Andy Lyons, I have added you to my circle and looking forward to hearing more of what you have to say. All right. And Tina is a wonderful person. I've got to meet her in Orlando. Her and her husband. So we actually went out. Yes, it's funny because I tell my wife the roles are kind of reversed here. When she was— when we were living up north, I would go to work at 4:00 in the morning, I would come home at 4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon, 6:00. I'd do my work, I'd go to bed, I'd get up and go to work at 4:00 in the morning. I didn't have any friends. Those were gone. It was people I worked with. But she could still have friends because of her hours as a teacher, and she'd be friends, they'd have time to talk at work and go out. So when we went out It was with her friends. Now that we're in Orlando, I'm meeting all these people, and I have time since I'm not working. I'm meeting all my friends that are online, and we're going out with them. And she hasn't met anybody down here yet, but I have all my online friends that we're now meeting in real life. So it's, it's been kind of fun.
Going to Denny's, right, Chuck?
No, not Denny's. Monday night we're going to Tony Roma's for like the all-you-can-eat meat.
There you go.
Gotta hit the buffet at your age, right?
Listen, not buffet. They're inviting, we're some social media groups that really treat us very well. In fact, Wednesday night she didn't feel like going, she wasn't feeling well. I went to a coffee shop in Winter Park and I tweeted later, I said that 2 cups of coffee, an espresso, a Turkish latte, and an alcoholic drink with infused coffee beans after 7 PM was not a good idea if I wanted to go to bed that night. Because I was up at midnight going, okay, what else is there, what else is there?
What do you like best about social media? Because a lot of people— Tammy Black just wrote a great article about teaching an old dog new tricks and how a lot of kids or younger folks can think that folks over the age of 50 really don't know about social media. Those of us who have really been able to catapult our businesses forward using social media Share with us, Chef, how it is and how it's worked for you.
Well, you know, I just find it— my thing has always been about community. And back when I was a blogger, I became a blogger kind of just accidentally. I was teaching culinary. I didn't always have time to print up the recipes, so what I did was I said, let me start a blog. You guys can go there, get the recipes, you can leave me comments. Never worked out that way. None of them ever went. Then I started getting involved with people all over the world and meeting people and talking to them and trying to help them and finding this great sense of community. So when I came on Google+ and I was able to do this and take it to another level with this type of video connection and meeting people, to me social media became a wonderful place because up to that point Twitter, I was on it, I never really got it real well. Facebook, I don't know, I just was never cut out for Facebook. I just didn't see a lot going on there. Plus I was always late. All these bloggers had so many more connections than I did. LinkedIn, I have 1,500 connections that I don't think ever talk to me. Social media, but Google+, you actually make the connection. We can sit here and we can talk to each other. We can do it in private if someone doesn't want to go online, and I think I've had discussions with a couple of you in private, you know, and we talk and it's great. You know, we're friends. So when we do finally meet in person, it's just cementing the connection. So social media this way— and we always say putting the social back into social media— and that's what we're doing. We're cementing these connections, we're making new friends around the world. And businesses that aren't taking advantage of this are really losing out because whether you're, you know, your kind of business, Andy, where you're doing it and you're doing a podcast and you're more online or whether you're a brick and mortar, if you're a chef and you have a restaurant, drag a camera back there. Tell your customers what you're doing today. If you've got a server, they're natural hams to begin with if they're good. So let them talk about what the desserts are. Let your sommelier or whoever's got wines talk about wines. You are missing such a big chunk of business. And then Greg Trulio and Carol Caperna, I think, actually went into a Mazda dealership and they did a show in the car dealership. Everywhere you got a business, you can use this tool.
The potentials are huge. I mean, what you're mentioning, and it's— going back to what Jeff was saying before about coloring outside of the box, people really have to start thinking, we've got this tool, it's incredible, and it can really be taken to— we can have our own production You can have your own studio, you can go out and do your own live interviews with iPhones with 4G LTE connections. It's going to be incredible.
And you can't worry about it being perfect either.
No, no, no, that's the thing.
And just do it, you'll get better, trust me. My first one compared to what I have, 37,000 views now in 2.5 years, you get better and better. But even if you don't, it's okay, you're connecting. It's wonderful.
You're bringing up an interesting point because here in Italy I have a lot of— we deal with a lot of fashion houses, Versace is one of our clients, and we're looking, we're showing them this media and they're like, yeah, but you know, the quality of the video, and everybody's still looking, it's not perfect, and I'm like, think outside of the box, think outside of all the stuff that you can be doing with with this. And slowly, slowly, they are starting to look at it, but I think what's going to be the big push here is when Google Glass comes out. And the second big push is, and this is kind of funny, you know when you started looking at commercials and you started looking at the icons, Facebook, and it was always Facebook, Facebook, and then maybe Twitter. As soon as you start seeing Google+ in more commercials and people on TV are going like, wow, Google+, they are going to start Because right here in Italy, everybody's like, Google+, you're always on Google+. What's with Google+? And I explain it to them, I show it to them, and they're like, interesting, but it's a lot of work. I can't get it. And I do have to say that you have to dedicate some time to be able to manage the G+ interface and the UX. In the same line of work that I'm in, you know, your users, they tend to— sometimes in here you can get lost. And that's a negative that they're working out the kinks and they'll get it going better. But as what Chef was saying, as meeting people, I mean, it's fantastic. And I keep inviting people over to Italy. If you guys want to come over and visit, I can't wait.
What is Marcha?
Here's a critique, Kitty. Here you go. Secret to a happy marriage: don't ever drink your wife's coffee. Does that mean the coffee she's made or the coffee she's drinking, Kitty?
Yeah. Kitty, you're so great.
In my case, you don't drink my tea. I am a tea drinker. Do not touch my tea.
What kind of tea do you like?
I like a lot of them. I like pumpkin spice. Spice holiday tea. I drink green chai.
I don't drink girly teas.
I don't drink fruity teas. Fruity teas are girly. I hate fruity teas.
Pumpkin chai there sounds a little—
No, it's not fruity.
I don't think we'd see people—
It's not froo froo. There is nothing about me that is girly girly except maybe I get my nails done. That's about all that is girly girly with me, Chef.
Okay, okay. I used to drink gunpowder tea when I would drink it, red tea, Chinese teas. They call it gunpowder tea because it takes the place of coffee pretty much. I always loved the red teas. They were very soothing to the stomach.
In the case of my wife, though, it's early in the morning, do not talk to her before she has her coffee. I wake up in the morning, I'm like, "Hey, honey, you got to do—" She's like, "No." Let me have my coffee. Don't show me the YouTube video or the Hangout. Just let me have first my coffee.
My husband and my youngest son, they wake up so cheerful in the morning. I have to have my coffee before I can be at their level.
I'm an evil mutant in the morning until I— I am a night person, and if I get up, I'm just like, I mean, my kids know not to— I mean, look, can I tell a story real quick? Yeah, go for it. Okay, this is how I woke up this morning, and it wasn't— I woke up to the sound of my cat throwing up.
Mm-hmm. Not the way to wake up. We understand that sound.
And it's horrible.
It's like, ugh, ugh, ugh!
I mean, it's a horrible sound.
It's a furball. Yeah, but I can—
I mean, I can— the smoke alarm can go off and we can lay there and go, You know, maybe we should get up, there might be a fire. But when the cat starts throwing up, it's like, quick, get her off the carpet! Everybody get out! You know, it's a madhouse. That's how I woke up this morning, and so I wasn't happy.
And they never vomit where they should, like on the hardwood.
No, it's always like— And it's like under the couch, you know, where you have to move all this furniture. Oh. And my cat vomits in a circle, so she spreads the nasty. Sprinkler style. Good visual there. Oh, it's horrible. Anyway, that's my morning and I didn't have coffee and I wasn't happy.
I'd like to ask a question to Sunny regarding the Miami Dolphins, my favorite team. What is going on? When are they going to get their act together? When can I go back to Miami and maybe see them in the playoffs?
I think you have time to save your money and plan a trip back there. That's my best answer for you. If they can get their front office together, which supposedly they have now that they just hired a GM. I work for a sports app called SportsManias and they have a partnership with the Miami Herald, so I do pay particular attention to the Dolphins.— and everything that I read from the beat writers is that the nucleus is there for a playoff run team. Um, but it's, it's been on the coaching staff the last couple years. Um, they need to push Ryan Tannehill to go to that next level. They're not gonna go that next level unless they can get Tannehill there. Obviously the Jonathan Martin, Richie Incognito fiasco— that was terrible— that will come to an end when the report comes out this next week. That'll be a black cloud that's lifted off of the organization. So let's see how it goes in the offseason for them, what kind of free agency moves they make. And it's definitely gonna have to be— the coaching staff is gonna have to challenge Tannehill to take it to that next level.
Well, if you can find any helpful hints and they figure that out, I hope they tell Dallas.
Hey, no, no, it has to go to my Oakland Raiders first.
Oh, mamma mia.
Nowhere else, go to the most dysfunctional team in the league with the Oakland Raiders, so yes. Mamma mia. I know, see, mamma mia.
Hey Sonny, is golf considered a sport? Sports because I come from a big golfing family.
Yes, golf is considered a sport, although you will see, I think it's Miguel Ángel Jiménez will be smoking his cigar, I think it's him that smokes a cigar on the fairways, and he's got a big, not a big huge beer belly, but he's got a beer belly, so I mean you don't necessarily have to be a top-flight athlete like Tiger Woods I haven't followed it closely recently, but there has been talk of making golf an Olympic sport, so there you go.
Sonny, I can't remember, who was the Mexican that used to play golf that was really good and he would hit the ball— Chi-Chi Rodriguez. Chi-Chi Rodriguez.
And Les Nessie, I remember, I remember.
He would say, "Chai, chai, Rodriguez." Yes, and there was also Lee Trevino too. Lee Trevino was the other one.
That is definitely dating us.
No, before my time, before my time.
Well, you know, my wife keeps wanting to play miniature golf and I keep telling her we're not miniature golf people.
Is that a trade-off like you watch a chick flick and you then go miniature golfing or something like that?
No, I've never been, I don't have the patience to putt so miniature golfing is really out for me. If I could play golf like Happy Gilmore, I would be out there all the time. That, or I would say if you're allowed to hit the other players with the golf clubs when they're not looking, then that would make it more interesting too. But I thought for baseball, if they let you take the bat around the bases with you, that would change the game up a lot.
And tennis is great because it's over so fast.
There's a lot of love in tennis, Andy. Yeah, there is a lot of love. My wife likes tennis and the only thing that really gets me to watch it are the women in tennis now with the grunts they make, so, because otherwise it's just back and forth.
There's been a lot of questions about what's a sport and what's not a sport. I'm kind of at the point, if you think it's a sport, fine, call it a sport. I think it's Kirsten Maddaus, and I still can't pin these posts, comments, Jeff. I'm just not going to do it. What about bowling? If you want to call it a sport, call it a sport. I don't care. Just enjoy it.
What about competitive eating? They call that a sport.
Yeah. With the Wing Bowl.
If you want to call it a sport, call it a sport. I know a lot of men who call figure skating not a sport because of the sequin factor and the judging factor. If you want to call it a sport, call it a sport. I don't care.
What about synchronized swimming? Come on, really?
My wife loves synchronized swimming. She loves it.
I always think of the Saturday Night Live skit.
That's what I was thinking. Let me ask another question because Tina, I got Tina and she's asking when the Super Bowl is and it's Sunday night. Question, I would like to know What are the picks on the panel? Who are you guys rooting for?
Well, I'm thinking that you can't beat Peyton Manning. I think Seattle—
He's been beaten before.
Oh, I know that, and we came close to beating him too, but he's been to the big dance. Won one, lost one. Yeah, but I think he's got that experience, and as good as I think Seattle is, and I think they're the team of the the future. I really think they're gonna be good and the coach has done remarkable with them. Just like, as much as it pains me to say it, the Eagles are really gonna be contenders with their new style and their new coach. So I think those are the young teams coming up, but I think Peyton's got one good last hurrah in him and I think America's gonna be pulling for him a lot too because he's so funny. So we got one Broncos next.
Well, I can't go with the Broncos because I'm really not talking to them after a few weeks ago. But I happen to agree with Chef because they beat the Patriots. But I happen to agree with Chef about Peyton Manning. I mean, that team is on purpose. They are very clear about their agenda and their intention. But I'll still be rooting for the Seattle Seahawks. Wow! If I get near a TV. You can watch it on your phone too, Andy, you know that.
Yep, just see what's going on. Fox Sports is streaming it on mobile. Jeff?
Yeah, I'm with Chef. I do not like the Broncos, but I just think they're the ones that are going to take it away. I just do.
Don't mistake that, I'm not a big Broncos fan. I like Peyton Manning. Yeah, I like him too.
That's kind of the way I am.
And I have a suspicion that Sunny is rooting for the Seahawks.
No, I'm not. I don't like either team because— Ayyah! I mean, I just said I was an Oakland Raiders fan. Because the Raiders are not there. Denver's arch— that's the Raiders' arch rival is Denver. And Seattle, that's my son's team, that's all of my friends' team because I'm up here in the Pacific Northwest. Pacific Northwest, so I am inundated with Seahawks, Seahawks, Go Hawks. Gosh, please give me a break, 12th Man. But I have friends and family, they're all Seahawks fans. I know a lot of the Seattle media through Twitter. They're gonna hate me. I said this in the green room. Whoa, whoa. But everything will be decided in the trenches. If Manning gets the time If the Seahawks front 4 does not put pressure on Peyton Manning, disrupt the timing, disrupt the rhythm of the receivers as well, play the bump right off the line of scrimmage, they gotta throw off the rhythm. If they don't do that, Manning will feast. I said this on a hangout I hosted the other day, I see Broncos by 10.
Whoa!
I'm calling my bookie.
No, you don't want to do that.
You heard it here, folks, the line from Sunday.
No, no, no, don't go with— do not— this is not for betting purposes, folks. This is for fun only. Dennis Littley, professional sports bettor. Sportsbook tweeted out earlier that like 70% of the betting money was on the Broncos at -2.5, so take that for whatever it's worth.
For the record, I do tape the Super Bowl because the businesswoman in me loves the commercials. Tape it?
You don't tape the Super Bowl.
I will, I will. You don't have to. I get 86'd. Andy, you don't have to. USA Today has what It's called the ad panel and you can sign up for this ad panel and you can see all the commercials on one page. You can do your voting as well. I think I also have a link somewhere of this one page that is curating all of the Super Bowl commercials as well. So you don't have to tape it, you can just go to USA Today.
Did anyone see the commercial with the two sisters? One's competing in the Olympics and the other— my wife showed me that this morning. They said it was a band, and I forget the alcohol that it was, that was sponsoring a commercial, but it had the two of them. They went to the last Olympics, they both didn't win, they both came back, and then this year one of them was really sick, the other one qualified, and she gave up her spot so her sister could go.
Wow. I I tell everybody that even if you don't like sports, to tape them or watch them online because there's so many good ideas and there's so much creativity. I mean, we talked earlier about thinking outside the box. I mean, they always do, the good ones at least. And so use those as almost a case study and say, "What could I do?" You know, I mean, there's some good ideas that happen during that time.
Yeah, and then another thing about the Super Bowl, what about the band that place is doing halftime. Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Oh, that's right. Oh my gosh, Tom, thank you for that reminder. That's a highlight.
That should be interesting.
It won't top Beyoncé, I'm sorry. Oh, Beyoncé was blowing up Twitter and blowing up everywhere.
She was huge. She was huge.
I don't like her, but At least there's no wardrobe malfunctions, although that would spice things up.
That was the first Super Bowl I watched with my son.
Great teaching moment.
Daddy, what happened? Oh, son, it's a long story.
But the Cialis commercials are not a problem?
Let me tell you, I'm so tired of them. So tired of them. So tired of them.
Yeah, when your kids start singing Via Viagra, you're in trouble. They sing that song and they think it's a popular song.
Yeah, he goes to school singing it. Yeah, you got a problem.
How does that go, Jeff? I don't think I've heard it. Let's hear it.
I don't want to get— I'd sing it. Come on, Jeff. I don't want Jeff to get a copyright strike against him.
Yeah, that's right.
That's true. Hey, Chef, I have to say, I am loving this comment tracker. Everybody who's watching and commenting You all rock. Amazing conversations, amazing comments. Of course, I'm with Sunny here. This is just a first-time virgin voyage for me on the commenter tracker. I'm afraid to click on anything, but I'll practice on the side because I love everything you're saying.
I'll be happy to work on it with you if you want to practice a little bit more. Just let me know.
You are so generous, seriously. Chef's helping me with one of my guests He is amazing, so generous, thank you.
My pleasure, my pleasure. Well guys, we're a little past the 2-minute mark, we're going to wind it up, so let's go around one more time and let anyone close with any thoughts they might have.
Sunny, we'll start with you. No, go to Andy.
We'll start with Andy. Andy, go ahead.
Oh, I'm just wishing everybody a wonderful, glorious weekend and to remember to stay tuned in to yourself and turned on to yourself as well as if you're in a relationship. Stay passionate about your life and pursue your dreams. Keep your desires going and share the love. Thank you too for this wonderful opportunity to be with all of you guys, especially in the room with Jeff, Sunny and Naseem. It was so wonderful. Wonderful. Love you, Andy.
We're happy to have you. Jeff.
Yes, Jeff, you can find me— we're going to come up with another episode of the Manly Pinterest Tips Show coming shortly with my great panel. And so you can always find me on Google+ and also at hisdesignonline.com. And Chef, thank you so much. It's been a lot of fun being here just talking with all this incredible diverse panel. You have an awesome show, an awesome idea. Amen. Thank you very much.
Nazim.
Hey, thanks very much for the invitation. Fantastic panel, a lot of fun. A little plug for the Italian food community, if anybody wants to go in there and check out the recipes and the stuff that we do in there, it's a lot of— it's really exciting.
Your wife's got a book too, doesn't she?
Yeah, she's got a book out which is called Eating Heart. You can find it on the iTunes store. There's an Italian and English version, but you know, that's a nice little plug.
I'd love to get her on the show. We have to keep working on that.
We will work on that. She'll probably go on the show, come on the show and talk about boxing. That's okay.
Well, I have to get Sonny, you gotta find me some boxers then. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
Just give her her coffee first. Give her her coffee.
Exactly. And now we'll come back to Sunny.
I just— so everybody knows how my mind works, I mean, I, I'm not gonna take the time to tell the story I told in the green room, but as people are talking and reading the comments— and thank you everyone for the comments, I'm sorry I'm not proficient enough to pin them and bring them into the show, I'm not there yet, I'm sorry— but I've had about 100 different songs going through my head as I'm listening to everybody talking. When you mentioned the Viagra commercial, Jeff, all I could think was Elvis Presley singing Viva Viagra. That's me. I just go from A to B to C to Z back to F, and that's just me. If you want to find me, check out catchicasports.com where I'm writing about everything sports social media. I'm always on Twitter at @CadChica. Facebook, I'm on there but not very often. Instagram, CadChica, definitely here. I've got one show going on every Tuesday, it's called Tuesday 10, and I'm hoping to— I did one test run on Monday, I'm hoping to start a monthly show centered around Hispanics and Latinos in sports.
One question, it's called Tuesday 10 and you did it on Monday? Tuesday.
What did I say? Don't worry, I need another amp.
I might know why it didn't catch on the first time.
See, I'm out. I'm out.
Stick a fork in her, folks, she's done.
Thanks everyone.
Thank you all for being here today. We had such a good time and it was fun having you on and you all connected and like I said, the favorite part of my show is introducing you all to each other. So if you haven't met each other before, now you're friends. So make sure you keep following each other and talk to each other. Guys, have a wonderful weekend. Have a wonderful week, and I'll see you all later. Thanks, Chef. Thanks, Chef.










