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In this week’s podcast, Clint and Lauren dive into this week’s Attitude: Being Friendly. Definition: being kind and pleasant.

In this week’s podcast, Clint and Lauren dive into this week’s Attitude: Acceptance. Definition: the action of consenting to receive or undertake something offered.

In this week’s podcast, Clint and Lauren dive into this week’s Attitude: Responsive. Definition: reacting quickly and positively.

In this week’s podcast, Clint and Lauren dive into the first week of Attitudes and Actions for the year. This week’s Attitude is Freedom. Definition: the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.

Guest Co-Host Jason and Host Brendan Dix cover why you can still infringe on someone else's patent even if you get your own. They discuss a practical example to demonstrate the differences between getting a patent and infringing a patent and why you would still want to get a patent even if you know it could infringe another patent.

Host Brendan Dix quizzes Guest Co-Host Jason Wormstadt about some patented iconic games, note how some simple things have been patented in the past, and discuss why it is now difficult to get a patent for a game.

Host Brendan Dix introduces Guest Co-Host is Jason Wormstadt, Office Manager of Kaufhold & Dix Patent Law in Sioux Falls, SD. Jason has an AS degree in electronic technology from North Dakota State College of Science, a BS Electronics Engineering Technology degree from South Dakota State University, and worked at Lodgenet Entertainment as an electronic engineer in hardware development before working many years in law firms that handle intellectual property. They discuss, how do you make Intellectual Property law interesting to a broader audience? Rock n Roll is interesting and Jason's son, Simon, is in a local band that released their first single last week. We discuss some of the threshold copyright issues for new music and generally meander aimlessly through some other general intellectual property topics.

Aileen was born to a teenage mother and a father serving time for sexual assault. She was raised by her grandparents, who were abusive alcoholics. A deeper look into her childhood might even leave you feeling sorry for this violent serial killer.

Teddy spent his childhood cooped up indoors soaking up books about education and nature and his teenage years becoming healthy and strong.  A solid childhood with encouraging parents and a lot of determination built Theodore Roosevelt into the conservationist and president we know him as.

An abusive alcoholic for a father and a strict religious mother who hates men, Gein was raised in a family full of anger and turmoil.  As an adult, Ed Gein’s crimes and mental illness would go on to inspire writers and intrigue psychiatrists.

How did Oprah Winfrey go from poverty, sex abuse, and teen pregnancy to being a multi-billionaire media mogul?  Let's talk about it in the first episode ever of The Formative Years.