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A few of the new iOS 16 updates for the iPhone

Imagine. You’re successfully on top of the world with a great product. But suddenly, the sheets of paper with your creation is pulled out from your desk, with those final words that your career is done. You’re broke as it is, and now you’re lost. You feel like a complete failure.

Anyone who knows me knows I am a Disney freak. More specifically, a Disneyland fanatic. I grew up in SoCal, and for as long as I can remember, I’ve had some form of an Annual Pass (now called a Magic Key). Disneyland has always been my playground. So I’m often asked for advice from friends who are trying to plan a trip to the Disney Parks in Anaheim.

Tis the season everyone is serving up the pumpkin spice latte. Heck, even in your grocery store, they’ve stocked the shelves with coffee bags and K-Cups with pumpkin flavored coffee. But it's still Summer!

Watching or listening to a Dodgers game just hasn’t been the same. Don’t get me wrong. I love watching my LA Dodgers on TV or even listening to a game on the radio. But way too often in the past few years since his retirement, I’ve found myself shouting at the TV, “SHUT UP!” Sometimes I have to turn the volume of the TV off, and just watch the game in silence. There’s something annoyingly missing.

The other morning I was walking into the radio station (and we know how painful that can be), when I notice hangin’ outside, upside down, in the corner above the front doors of our Townsquare Media building, a couple of small bats.

I’m sure you’ve seen the series of celebrity photos that have gone viral. Photos of famous people like Harrison Ford, where there’s a current photo of him posing with his younger self. The photos remind me of the age old question, “if you could go back in time, what would you tell your younger self?”

I remembered a recent visit to Disneyland where they had this exhibit in Tomorrowland called, Innoventions. It was a house of the future. A Cast Member would take you to each of the rooms, where they would ask the house to do certain tasks like, “Turn on the TV”, “Dim the lights”, “Set the oven to 375 degrees”, “Call Grandma”. I said to myself, “That would be so cool to ask my house to listen to any radio station in the world I wanted to hear…even if I didn’t live anywhere near the city it broadcasted from.

While I was at Watershed at the Gorge with thousands of others checking out great shows from Morgan Wallen, Miranda Lambert, and Kane Brown, I felt major heat coming from the pocket of my shorts. It was my iPhone