Bran Van 3000 - Discosis


WANTED: Greatest Public Speaking Promo Reel Ever OF ALL TIME


  


Hi, my name's Kyle.  When I'm not eating cheeseburgers at the beach with my shirt off or surfing wolves I'm trading red paperclips for houses.  My two least favorite things when I was a kid were writing and public speaking but I've somehow wound up as a published author and professional public speaker.  Life's weird.But here we are.

The internet is full of treacherously boring speaker promo videos.  It's time to create the future and change the game forever via a next level video throwdown.  Its time to unleash the Greatest Public Speaking Promo Reel Ever.  OF ALL TIME. 

Yet.

But I need your help.

Think Epic Meal Time crossed with that Lithuanian bottled water commercial crossed with Taxi Dave doing an impression of Napoleon Dynamite doing an impression of Anthony Robbins....holding a cat...but not just any cat, Keyboard Cat.   Google that stuff if you don't know about it yet.  


I've got lots of speaking and interview footage, but I'm willing to create a completely new production.  Contact me if you make videos that melt peoples faces off.

I'LL GO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD TO WORK WITH THE RIGHT PERSON.

Kyle
514-833-3980

THE OFFICIAL RULES OF BURGHINDER


The name of the game is Burghinder
It's just like Punch Buggy, but involves Burgundy Dodge Caravans.
Which are called a "Burghinder" ....or a "Ghind" for short 

(The ‘h’ is silent)(The 'ind' is pronounced like INDia)

When you see a Ghind you yell out "Burghinder!" or  "Ghind!" and get to punch somebody in the shoulder.

1 Punch - Burgundy Dodge Caravan (Any model from 1984 - present)
2 Punches - Burgundy Dodge Caravan pre-1991 model with original body shape and all-ghind interior
3 Punches - Turbo Ghind
5 Punches - Any custom designed Ghind (ex motorhome Ghind)
6 Punches - Woodghinder (wood panelled Ghind)
20 Punches - Convertible Ghind (extremely rare)

BUT, if you mistake the following for a Ghind, another person gets to punch YOU the following number of times:

2 Punches - Ghind sighter fails to yell out "Burghinder!" or  "Ghind!"
3 Punches - any color not burgundy (Purple, Black Cherry, Red, etc.)
4 Punches - Other make/model of burgundy minivan (ex Toyota Sienna, Ford Aerostar)
5 Punches - Plymouth Voyager

6 Punches - Volkswagen Routan
8 Punches - Chrysler Town and Country

Happy Ghinding!

Caine's Arcade



A 9 year old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade in his dad's used auto parts store is about to have the best day of his life. Help Caine's Scholarship Fund: http://CainesArcade.com

The World's Longest Receipt™ is for sale for $18,871.93 on Etsy




What happens when you walk into a store and buy every single item? On May 20th, 2011, a group of artists walked into Hercules Fancy Grocery in New York City with a briefcase filled with $20,000 in cash and bought every single item for sale in the store. The total purchase price of everything in the store was $18,871.93

The sale price of the receipt is the exact total cost of all items in the store: $18,871.93

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One Red Paperclip Inc. Etsy Store

What colors do you mix to make the color burgundy?

Either:
1.   two parts red to 1 part green
2.   two parts red to 1 part navy blue
3.   red with a tinge of purple
4.   red and brown
5.   orange and brown

Follow Fewer People

It costs nothing to follow 1 million people on twitter.  But what's the cost of distraction?  Following even 1000 people on twitter is ridiculous.  There's no possible way you can keep track of who's doing what.  Trim the people who no longer inspire you.  Trim the dude who tweets whenever he buys a sandwich.  Trim the COMPLAINERS.  It's tough, because it feels like you're going to lose something, but you'll gain so much more.  Ditch people for the sake of your own clarity.  Drop the 'under performing' folks for new beginnings.  And please, if you don't dig my tweets, please drop me!

What if Google is just some insane religion?

This is the Google Doodle today:


It looks startlingly similar to one of those amazing Jehovah's Witness drawings:

It's Good Friday AND Earth Day today.  A coincidence.  Or is it?  Google's motto is 'Don't be evil' and their mission statement is to organize all the world's information.  Those fit in line with pretty much all the major religions.  Be good to others, question nothing.  God knows everything.  So does Google.  Or at least Google is trying to know everything. 

Most people I know scoff at the idea of organized religion.  They see it as a throwback to primitive times.  A time when the uneducated masses believed everything that was told to them.  To them, organized religion has no place in our world.  We're better than that, they say.  But to all you folks that will never pray at the altar of some organized religion, how many of you will ask the almighty Google a question today?  And how many of you will blindly click on the first link that's served to you? 

Will we one day look back on Google as some sort of insane cult?  Will we shake our heads in disbelief that the masses were so unilaterally led?  Will Sergey Brin and Larry Page be seen by our offspring as extremely influential nutjobs like Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard.  Google's underlying technology is called Pagerank, after all.  I talked to Sergey at a conference last week and he was wearing a backpack...that's always a sign somebody's up to something, right?   

Anywho....

To all you sinners out there, go forth in your quest for knowledge, but be wary of the single voice who promises paradise and absolute truth.   

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