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Hi all - Beatles fan for 28 years. I've read at least 12 books, two trips to Liverpool, and I recently posted about getting busted by Olivia for stalking the back road to Friar Park.

I have a question or thought that I would love to have answered by the community.

The thing I can't wrap my head around is the creative explosion once they signed with Parlophone. At that point they were a group of excellent musicians (except for Best), had played thousands of hours together, and John and Paul had written a ton of songs that had never seen the light of day. They had played and covered hundreds of songs and probably understood how songs work, melody, chorus, chords, etc.

So they show up, they play a couple of covers, and a few originals (Love Me Do, PS I Love You). Martin wants them to record "How Do You Do It", but they say no, release "Love Me Do", it does good but not great. So the best they had that point was that, which was ok but it's not some amazing song I listen to on repeat.

And then....

Over the next few months they write "Please Please Me", "From Me to You", "She Loves You", and "I Want To Hold Your Hand"

Fucking how?

Where did this genius explosion come from? How did they pull this off?

When did Martin realize that they were more than just a group that would write 1 or 2 "good" songs?

This is the part of the Beatles that I can never comprehend. It isn't as if they had all these songs written and no one would hear them and they were waiting to be discovered. They were needed and they just manifested them.

And then it just got better and better. Like way fucking better.

Any one of these songs would be a crowning achievement for a songwriter, but they wrote hundreds of them.

I also struggle with how it was that Lennon and McCartney were so perfectly different yet complementary for each other. And the humility they frequently showed. Like watch the All You Need Is Love broadcast. They are the biggest thing in the world, and they are singing a John song for the entire planet Earth. Paul just sits there and sings backup and plays his bass. He never tries to be in the spotlight, take lead, etc. And similarly, for Sgt Pepper, fucking John Lennon puts on the goofy Pepper costume and stands there and plays the role, or dances down the stairs in Your Mother Should Know.

It's just unbelievable.

Just looking for other's insights into this.

Good morning,

I am seeking advice from my entrepreneurial minded colleagues. I am PGY-10 FM trained, ER career doc. A few years ago I started an urgent care that has done very well. We now have 2 locations and our third opens in a couple of months. We have also started a primary care clinic and have two providers that are nearly full, and are hiring our third.

My goal here is to create a truly great medical group. PCP and UC go hand in hand and it's working well, and we all work hard to give the best possible care for our patients.

I'm always thinking about what we can do next. We moved PCP from a space built out attached to our urgent care to a larger clinic space, so now that space is empty. The space is actually perfect size to add a CT and US machine. This would cost me about $80,000 in electrical upgrades and remodeling. I already have a radiologist to read all imaging. CT, auto-injector, and US would be about $210,000 (refurb) - and all would be financed via lease. This is attached to an urgent care so there is always a provider there in case of IV contrast reaction.

Our break even for imaging would be about (on average) 3.5 CTs and 3.5 USs per day.

My thoughts are that between 3 UCs and 3 PCPs we generate more than enough imaging to break even, and locally there are imaging centers but no one actually advertises, etc, and we can get enough other business to actually do well.

But this also is a lot of risk, its $80,000 in upgrade/remodeling that I could lose, expensive equipment that I could turn around and sell if needed, and then the whole pain of finding a RIS, billing, etc, and a whole new RCM to worry about.

The alternative is that we can simply not do imaging, and I can focus on building urgent cares.

My ultimate goal is to sell and quit working. But sometimes I feel in my heart I want to grow this into a truly excellent medical group and really make a difference in our area. Meaning I would love to still be in charge of this in 40 years. But I also don't know how sustainable medicine is in the long run, with our never improving reimbursements from insurance but everyone wanting a pay raise/cost of everything going up.

Hey all,

Private practice PCP clinic, 2 docs, 2 MAs, 1 receptionist who answers phones, 1 remote worker whose job is to answer phones.

We are still having over 70 missed calls per day. Yes 70. People call back 5 times in a row if no answer. Receptionist answers when she can but is checking in 2 docs worth of patients. We also have a remote worker who is supposed to be answering the phones.

What are we doing wrong? We got so many complaints of the phones not being answered.

Help! :)

Thank you

Just wanted to share our Beatles trip 2026:

Liverpool:

- Stayed at Hard Days Night hotel - wonderful establishment, great bar, restaurant, breakfast, and location
- Cavern Club - very cool, but not original
- Ye Cracke - very nice old pub, supposedly Lennon asked Cynthia out there. Great meat pies. We also went to Grapes. I didn't get any emotional connection at these places so we skipped Jacaranda.
- Both of the Beatles museums - the one that Pete Best's brother did was kinda low end, the other is great.
- Fab 4 Taxi Tour - wonderful experience. Took us to all their childhood houses, Eleanor Rigby grave stone, and we even got to go into the church hall and be in the exact spot that Lennon and McCartney were in when they first met - that was pretty damn cool. We also saw Penny Lane, and saw the barber shop, the bank and where the banker who would never wear a mac in the pouring rain parked and why they laughed at him, what used to be the shelter in the middle of the roundabout, and where the nurse once stood selling poppys from a tray. And of course Strawberry fields.

Liverpool itself? Pretty cool place. Lots of great restaurants, nothing was *too* crowded, and it was very nice. A bit difficult to get to for us, but this is our first time in the UK.

London:

- Abbey Road - obviously have to go here. Its neat to see the studios, and the tons of fans all waiting to do the walk across the road. The studio store is very nice too and has a lot of really good things in it that I haven't seen elsewhere.
- Paul's house - short walk from Abbey road, this was neat but it's just a house and thats it.
- Friar Park - made the trip to Henley, amazing little town. Followed the map on Apple Maps to Friar Park. It led us right past what looked like the front, which was heavily planted, huge gates, and can't see anything, and it led us up and around, to what looks like the rear entrance for deliveries. We realized where we were, turned around. Swear on my life, there is a vehicle (I won't say color or type) sitting there about 50 feet away just watching us basically at their back door. We walk back towards the main road. Vehicle passes by. It's Olivia Harrison. I'm sure she was watching us to see wtf we were doing at their back gate. So Olivia if you read this, sorry. We did not see the small partially obscured private road sign until we left. Yup, this makes us look like complete loser fans and I write this for anyone else, just stop after the front gates, and do not follow what your GPS is telling you. We felt icky, but honestly, was neat to have Olivia drive by.
- Tittenhurst Park - in the middle of nowhere, just a gate, and you can see part of one building. I got nothing out of it.

London itself? I have to imagine this is one the great cities in the world to live. It's pretty amazing. We really loved it. I hate crowds though.

Henley on Thames? I could spend a month here. Not a lot to it, but man it's a cute town, plenty of beauty, etc.

There is a house I am interested in making a cash purchase on. It is not for sale. I know the owners name. How can i find out ho to contact the owner to make an offer? Is there a website to lookup land owners? Or should i try a real estate agent?

Flew IAH - LHR. I do not fly internationally often and it's been a year since I last did.

I noticed two things different than domestic.

1. For boarding they said specifically "we have 4 global services customers, please pre board", "we have 66 1K (lol) please pre board".

Is that new? An attempt to limit gate lice?

2. We did not scan boarding passes. They had a phone and scanned our face and if it matched we were boarded. But did not scan ticket.

Just curious for any behind the scenes info.

BTW sat in PP. Two hot meals, both excellent. Great flight.

Hello!

We are going to London in a few days. We land in London @ LHR but our trip starts in Liverpool, so we will travel to there then back to London.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to get from LHR to Liverpool. Mind you this will be at 8am after a 9 hour flight, haha.

The way I'm seeing to get there is:

Land LHR, take Heathrow Express to Paddington Station, take a taxi to London Euston Station, then take a train from Euston to Liverpool Lime Street Station.

That sounds a bit of a pain, and I was thinking if we can just land in LHR, then take a taxi to London Euston Station, and then just do the 1 train.

My questions:

1. Is the above the best way (taxi from LHR to Euston)?

2. How do I buy tickets for the train? I've found the Avanti West Coast train website, and it looks like I just get my ticket there for Euston -> London. Do I need to buy it for a certain time? Because I'm pretty sure that I cannot accurately guess how long it will take to clear customs, taxi to the station, etc. Or is the ticket good for any time of the day?

3. Is there an app or anything that makes buying train tickets out of Euston easier?

4. Is first class on the train "worth it"? (Ie, comfortable after this journey)

5. Anything else I should be aware of for this trip?

Good morning,

We run a primary care clinic with several providers. We use Athena, and currently have 20/40 established/new blocks.

We allow self scheduling via Athena's web portal. We are having issues where new patients self schedule themselves into a 20 minute block. This may be a configuration issue on our side. We also have providers upset that they don't have enough time in the 20 minute blocks.

Currently our days are 8-5, and first patient is at 8:20, and last is at 3:40 to give an hour of admin time at the end of the day, the point being if they finish and are caught up they can take off early.

Despite this, they are regularly seeing patients until 4:40-5, and rarely get out on time, let alone have admin time.

We are trying to help everyone succeed, what are some strategies to help with this?

We are:

1. Going to be more vigilant about preventing new patients from self scheduling in 20 minute blocks, and work w/ Athena to configure this properly.

2. Figure out how to limit new patients to 2 in AM and 2 in PM.

3. Look at Athena's AI scribe thing to see if that helps the document flow.

Outside of these, what other strategies do you use? Any way to move that admin block to lunch time? What tricks have yall discovered?

Hey all I have a question about bitcoin cold storage, specifically the stamped metal method.

My question is, with bitcoin dropping as fast as it is, how long until the metal my seed phrase is stamped on is worth more than my bitcoin?

Thank you

Hey there

We run a larger clinic that does FM and immediate care. We get a ton of record requests that just kill us. Is there any third party company that you've used to do take over this for you?

Thank you

Hey all,

I am a family doc with training as a pcp, and a lot of my career working in the emergency room and primary care. So I'm really good at chronic care and acute issues that arise. I'm licensed in the state, board certified family medicine MD, live Kona side off of Ali'i Dr., but don't work here currently.

I know how in-demand primary care here is. What I'm looking at setting up is a basic telemedicine primary care practice. Honestly what I'd like to do is take care of medically simple people. I can order labs/imaging at the different facilities on the island. I can manage your issues like blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, asthma, lung disease, mental health, etc, and also take care of acute issues like flu, viral illnesses, skin infections, etc. I can also really help triage you to another facility if needed (ie, no you do not need to run to the emergency room with this issue, we can handle it outpatient.)

What I'm thinking is a "direct primary care" style practice, where you pay a monthly fee ($75-$100), and you have access to me. So you need something you just send me a message and I can handle it, or if it's medically complex we setup a quick video telehealth call. You wouldn't wait weeks or months, you would wait hours, or at most a day.

I would probably not want to take on extremely medically complex/fragile patients with this model.

What do you think of this? Would you pay for the convenience of having access to your primary care doc and the "wait to be seen" aspect essentially going away?

Thank you

Hey all,

We live over in Lake Charles but come to Houston very frequently. We usually come over, stay somewhere near the Galleria area, and then uber around Houston for the weekend. My point is that kind of leads me to not really know the neighborhoods very well, or to know if I'm in Montrose at some point versus Downtown.

We really want to get an apartment here and have a home base and place to stay, have it be ours, and just come more frequentyl.

Our list of wants:

1. We like morning runs. I was initially thinking somewhere along Buffalo Bayou with all those running pathways. But any park would be fine. I just dont know which ones are fantastic for getting in some miles.

2. A good gym

3. We would like to be within walking distance of a pretty good selection of restaurants and cocktail places

4. I like the idea of a high rise because we enjoy sunsets and the views.

I was thinking Windsor Memorial.

What would be other good options?

Thank you kindly

Howzit!

What is a good solution for long term parking kona side? I want to have my car there but now I have to go back and forth from home to mainland sometimes months at a time. Parking at home isn't an option.

I need somewhere with monthly rates, and possibly with a battery charger? And easy to and from airport.

Mahalo

I saw the Michael biopic. It was actually "good", but it was all glam and sugar, and basically he barely had a struggle and was "perfect", which we know is very far from the truth. Just one antagonist which I'm sure they underplayed what a dick the dad was.

That being said, are you worried the beatles biopics will be like this?

Hi all,

We are a healthcare business that owns 2 clinics, and are actively building our third (standalone building, build to suit with our contractor). Our gross is around $2.75, and EBIDTA about $470,000. We have about $1.1 in debt through various loans for buildouts, we just haven't focused on paying this down but instead are stacking cash to make sure we are good for when our 3rd location opens.

I am 50% owner with my business partner owning the other 50%. We have a strong leadership team, and have hand picked the best employees. We admittedly probably overpay a lot of staff, but we want the best and it clearly has paid off.

We are extremely highly rated in our area, basically perfect Google reviews and social proof. To be blunt our competition is literally littered with people that we have fired and didn't make the cut for us.

We have been contacted for a possible acquisition. We talked to a company a couple of years ago but we didn't pursue any further or have any deep talks. These days, I am worn out and would consider selling.

My understanding is that this company is looking for likely a 51% acquisition.

Has anyone encountered this type of acquisition? I'm open to anything, but I don't know if I want to sell ownership to someone else and then work for them.

I'm guessing if they come in for 51%, they would pay $X million and that money would probably be used to drive growth - pay cash to build out more locations, and I'm guessing they would try to optimize some processes, centralize HR, etc.

Our fear with this type of acquisition is that they would come in and want to drop everyone's pay, leading to good people quitting, and then we lose what makes us great. And I don't want to be responsible for running a business that's going down in quality.

My partner and I both feel that we would probably want to just sell completely, but I'm unsure if this is what the company is going for. I personally would like them to come in and give us each $1.5 and pay off our debt and we walk away. That would be fine with me.

We open our third location in September, and fully expect it to be a runaway success, which would bump our gross to around $4.3 and EBIDTA to probably $750,000.

Honestly my goal here is money. I'd love to take that payout and payoff my 2 houses and then save the rest, and I wouldn't owe $1 to anyone on the planet. But if we keep growing the company, it will produce more than enough money for us to live off of and only get better as we grow further.

Just looking for your advice on these types of acquisitions, and any questions I should ask, what to look out for, and guidance. Thank you.

Hey all,

Daddy daughter (12) trip to London/Liverpool this summer. We are planning on landing at LHR and immediately getting down to Liverpool, and spend 2 days in liverpool then 4 days in London.

I was trying to come up with a pretty good trip. She's in to beatles and obviously I am too.

I'm thinking something like day of arrival, we will be tired, arrive in Liverpool around 2-3, maybe Cavern Club that day, or just walk around and dinner and crash. Next day hire a private beatles tour to see the childhood homes, the strawberry fields fence, and penny lane.

I really want to stop by and have a snack and a beer at the jacaranda, ye crack, and the grapes. any issues in day time with my daughter?

That would probably be a full day, and on the 3rd day we hit the beatles museum, then work our way back to london.

In london we will do non beatles things, but definitely the abbey road studios/cross walk.

Is there anything I am missing big?

Thank you

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