This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview long-time friend of the show and RECing Crew member Dara O’Kearny and his fantastic perennial co-writer Barry Carter! This dynamic duo shares some exiting news about their new video platform for training materials, what makes creating videos different from writing books, things they don’t love about their jobs, the strategic difference between bounty tournaments and progressive knockouts, and a lot more! We also play Stake/Study Stack with Barney Boatman, David Lappin adn Andy Black and we Close The Action with our speed round! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help support a local food bank. Join us LIVE on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too! Follow Barry https://x.com/Barry_Carter and Dara https://x.com/daraokearney on Twitter and find out more about their awesome new material for poker players here: https://simplifypoker.com/free/ We also go over this week's home game results and discuss these topics: How to help us out - https://rec.poker/support/ Home Games - https://rec.poker/homegame/ Go Premium! - https://rec.poker/premium/ Timestamps: 06:02 Barry in his own realm in the poker world 09:53 The transition into new platform from written book 17:21 Dara’s philosophy: try and teach students be self coaching 21:10 Approach to different types of game 26:59 How students absorb different contents 32:06 Barry on his writing process 37:59 Dara on pushing everybody to optimally performing 44:50 Dara talks about his wonderful wardrobe in poker 51:07 Things to consider when hiring a poker coach 53:45 One thing makes the job feel like a grind 01:08:37 Home Game Result updates Find our free videos at: http://youtube.com/c/RecPokerCommunity Join the Discord group here: https://discord.gg/9aYSMCCfpv Find more info on our sponsors at: https://RunAces.com Explore our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/therecpokercommunity RecPoker is a vibrant and encouraging poker learning community. We are committed to learning the game, but our priority is building healthy relationships where we can not only grow in the game, but grow in our enjoyment of life. The free membership website at rec.poker is awesome, but it's just a tool to help us build that community. You can join for FREE, giving you access to the groups, forums, and other member benefits. If you want to enjoy the premium content, or become part of the RECing Crew, those options are available and you can get your first month for only $5 using the code RECPOKER. Music by Peter Troolin, [email protected]