LoftyPursuits

May the 4th be with you candy, how a promotion became owned by the customer, candy updates and ideas, and your letters where I talk about how anyone can start a business at any time.

Greg rambles a lot this week. He talk about a promotion getting owned by the customer and how that is good and bad. He talks about new projects and asks for help and he answers a letter with way to much information about starting a business.

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#80 New Scissors - Secret Garden explanation - New Candy - Your letters

Greg talks about a new acquisition, some hand forged scissors from Ernest Wright, makers of scissors since 1902 in Sheffield UK. He also talks about his garden, stress, some new candy project updates and your letters.

Candy: http://www.pd.net

YT: http://www.YouTube.com/LoftyPursuits

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#79 Greg interviews game designer James Ernest on creativity business and life

Greg has a conversation with his friend James Ernest who he has a lot in common with. He knew him when he was a juggler, and now as a game designer Greg sells his games in his shop.

Jame Ernest: https://www.crabfragmentlabs.com/

YT: http://Youtube.com/LoftyPursuits

Candy: http:...

#78 Secret Garden - Star Wars Candy - Fruit Sours - We need letters

Greg's garden and yard design is expanding to include building a secret garden next to his house. He also talks about upcoming star wars candy for May 4th, and a discontinued candy he hopes to recreate.

#77 Designing a front yard, an upcoming interview and your letters

Greg talks about renovations and how he plans renovations. This time it's his front yard. He talks about his friend Lucky, who he will be interviewed by on the evening of April 1st 2021. You can find this on Doc Lucky's Yo-Yo talk on Facebook.

Photo: Darwin the PodCat looking and concrete being installed.

#76 My front yard fire pit and your letters

Greg just sits in his front yard around his newly assembled fire pit area and talks about making it last week. We also read your letters.

Send letters to podcast@pd.net

YT: http://Yoube.com/LoftyPursuits

Candy: http://www.pd.net

#75 Greg's on vacation - Marketing and maintenance of an ice cream school bus - Your Letters - Easter candy

Greg goes to Orlando, visits his folks, deals with the usual visiting issues. He talks about how he got a short school bus to use as an ice cream truck, reads your letters and gives some candy updates.

And wow! I've got an episode up a day early for your guys.

#74 Yo-Yos for sale - Differentiating yourself in a market with Disc Golf - How Linux saves me thousands per year

Greg talks quite a bit of business this week. He invites you to an on-line Yo-Yo sale that is geared to yo-yo enthusiasts on March 10th. He talks about differentiating yourself in a market and how he did it recently with Disc Golf, and he answers a question and talks about how much he saves by using Linux and open source software rather than the brands you know.

Links:

See his Hackintosh in Wired: h...

#73 The history of FSU's Monarchy Party and what I learned and how Lofty Pursuits is transitioning into Disc Golf.

This week Greg talks about his time with the Monarchy Party at FSU and what he learned, and he starts a conversation about the growth of Disc Golf.

YT: Youtube.com/LoftyPursuits

Candy: www.pd.net

Video of a Monarch Party Corrination:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monarchy+party+fsu

Monarchy Part on Wikipedia

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#72 Greg is sick, Irish Cream Drops, Monarchy Party, Your letters

Greg is sick, and is recording this while he is sick (Not COVID, I was tested, just a cold) and it may be a bit disjointed because of this. Please forgive us.

YT: Youtube.com/LoftyPursuits

Candy: www.pd.net

Cata's Cakes: instagram.com/catathielemann

#71 Cleaning the warehouse and how I learned to market to the press thanks to the world yo-yo contest

Greg is still puttering around his warehouse trying to clean it, pack it and get out of it. He talks about his love of woodworking, and the tools he is moving, and he talks about how he learned to market to the press thanks to the World Yo-Yo Competition.

#70 More on the warehouse - St. Patrick's day - letters

More rambles by Greg on cleaning the warehouse. He's been doing this about 50-60 hours per week and we're on the final days. He needs to be out in 5 days so this is all he can think about it seems.

#69 YoYos from warehouse - a meme candy that won't be and your letters

Greg needs to move out of his warehouse and is finding cool stuff along the way.

#68 An interview with Jake our candy maker.

Greg interviews Jake. You've seen him on videos making candy, and we realized you have not heard him talk. He has worked on and off with us for many years with a large break in the middle.

#67 Fun with Chocolate and Valentines day. Your letters.

Today Greg talks about the Valentines day assortment, shipping issues with Christmas, and goes over some of the chocolate plans he has in the near future. He's going to get some chocolate equipment in the near future and will start experimenting with it.

#66 Cleaning out stuff from the History of Lofty Pursuits, my eyebrows and a flame thrower, and your letters

Greg goes down memory lane cleaning a warehouse he's had for over 25 years, and he talks about the flaming trombone that he and his daughter build for her 12th birthday, and how he will be re-building it for her 17th.

#65 Christmas Eve and the original lyrics of "Have yourself a merry little Christmas" + your letters.

Greg talks about the past month, and talks about the original lyrics of Have Yourself a merry little Christmas.

Not that version, but the Kristen Bell version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3GawMaHVIc

#64 Thanksgiving - The Jingle Bells Organ and other stuff

Today Greg talks about his search for the Jingle Bells organ, a parlor organ that is in Tallahassee that Jingle Bells was composed on as well as talking candy.

#63 Why Tallahassee is North Americans Christmas Town, Candy canes, project interruptions, and letters

Today Greg talks about his next video about Tallahassee being a Christmas Town, and he outlines a few new projects like building a new wood shop as well as reading your letters.

#61 Greg talks about wine he's drinking, projects he's working, flavors and videos he's having fun with and reads your letters

Greg rambles about a lot of things including the wine he's drinking while recording this podcast. He goes into projects he's working on, and of course talks about candy and reads your letters.

Socially Distanced Candy Chute

https://photos.app.goo.gl/iNRcvunh5DUMfkT28

You can Beet us.

I'd love feedback on the title for this. "You can

"We've got the beet (Candy)"

Also listen to the music, it was hard to get and hard to find, but puns can be worth it.

This video will work when it's processed at YouTube, which should be soon if it does not work already.

I went down another rabbit hole.

I found a basso-nova cover of the Ramones punk classic. 

If that's not enough I found the Ikebana band from Slovenia performing a cover on an american combo of Banjo, Accordion and Washtub Bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2860-EvutEs

And I found a brass cover of it here

https://www.y...

#60 Halloween, Candy Feast and Flag Candy batch 3 - Toy Pivots at Lofty Pursuits and a Camper.

This week Greg talks about why he has skipped a few weeks of podcasts and apologizes, and he talks about upcoming candies some past candies. He also reads your letters, begs for you to send more to podcast@pd.net and talks about the camper he bought.

A Candy east 2020.

I don't know if you saw the thanksgiving feast candy corn that Brachs put out this year, but I can't help to think they were inspired by what I did last year, and to be flattered that I might have influenced them. 

I put the 2020 candy feast up for pre-order at 2020-10-20 17:24:19 +0000 UTC View Post

#60 Just hanging out on a porch on vacation.

Yup, Greg is on vacation, just talking about being relaxed on the porch. Spoiler, no painting. 

YT:  www.youtube.com/loftypursuits

Candy: www.pd.net

A video early ... and a candy fail. Saskatoon berry.

Love to hear feedback. This won't be up for the public until thursday. I'm going on vacation this week (You might know that from my podcast) so I'm doing this early.

#59 Thoughts on painting, relaxing and vacations and a story of oreos

Greg talks today about why he paints and how he got into it. What he gets out of it, and that he thinks he may have forgotten how to relax. He also talks about an interaction he had with some young entrepreneurs that started an oreo booth. 

YT:  youtube.com/LoftyPursuits

Buy Candy: www.pd.net

#58 the 27th anniversary of Lofty Pursuits, some history and your letters

Greg rambles about a lot this week, including what happened 27 years ago this week when Lofty Pursuits started.

#57 A Flood, O-Canada, Stolen Videos and a trip to find a machine.

I had a weird week, traveling to get some candy equipment spotted by a fan. I talk about Jake and how he started with me, more on that in a future episode. I remember the 1999 Vans Warped Tour where I ran a yo-yo marketing booth, and we talk about a video that got stolen from me and what happened with that.

YT: Youtube.com/LoftyPursuits

Candy: www.pd.net

Hopefully working video link

It was fascinating. YouTube has been changing it's upload screens while i've been doing all of this, and I seem to have been caught during an upgrade and had to upload again. In a few minutes this link will work, just like it should have last time.