{"id":20083,"date":"2020-01-18T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T23:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=20083"},"modified":"2020-01-18T15:49:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T23:49:31","slug":"master-class-terry-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/master-class-terry-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"MasterClass Review by Terry Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/masterclass-gordon-ramsay-cooking.png\" alt=\"Masterclass gordon ramsay cooking\" title=\"#title#\" width=\"500 \" height=\"\"><figcaption style=\"text-align:center\">Gordon Ramsay on Cooking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hello fellow castaways.  Terry Austin here.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve GOT to tell you all about the best Christmas present ever that I sort of gave myself.<\/p>\n<p>My sweetheart got me $100 in iTunes gift cards from Costco at about 80% of value.  Her mother got me another $50 in iTunes cards.   So I\u2019m looking at a balance of $150 in my app store account, right?<\/p>\n<p>Like many of you I have seen advertisements for quite a while for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterclass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MasterClass<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>I installed <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/masterclass-learn-new-skills\/id1273867416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their app on my iPhone<\/a> with intentions to just buy access to ONE class from one instructor &#8211; Gordon Ramsay.  You can buy just one class for $90 and (I believe) own access to that pretty much forever.  So my iTunes balance would more than cover the cost.  No brainer\u2026<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhen I went to make that purchase however, I noticed that an all-access pass to the whole library 70+ instructors, some with multiple classes) was only $180 per year.<\/p>\n<p>I did a little mental calculation at that point.   Since it would be $30 out-of-pocket for me (considering the $150 balance due to the gifts mentioned above), I figured what the heck, and just jumped in the deep end and bought a year of access to their whole library.<\/p>\n<p>This thing has completely blown me away.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got culinary instructions from Gordon Ramsay (multiple classes), Thomas Keller, owner of the French Laundry voted best chef in America (also multiple classes), Wolfgang Puck, Alice Waters (Chez Panisse), Dominique Ansel (blow you away pastry stuff), Massimo Bottura (3 Micheline star Italian), Aaron Franklin (Texas BBQ)\u2026  LOTS of stuff in here that you could safely eat, btw.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from some phenomenal culinary training here\u2019s a short list of classes  I\u2019m taking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In-depth magic training from Penn &amp; Teller<\/li>\n<li>Game Theory &amp; Design from Will Wright (SIMS &amp; SIM City)<\/li>\n<li>Chess lessons from Garry Kasparov<\/li>\n<li>Scientific thinking from Neil deGrasse Tyson<\/li>\n<li>Space exploration from Chris Hadfield\u2026<\/li>\n<li>Photography lessons from Annie Leibovitz &amp; Jimmy Chin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SERIOUSLY go look at the site, look IN DETAIL.  You may decide it\u2019s not for you.  But, I\u2019m telling you\u2026. Especially if you can get some iTunes cards at a discount.  This is WAY beyond \u201cworth it\u201d.  Chances are better than 95% that I\u2019ll renew for another year.<\/p>\n<p>If you compare it to something like HULU or Netflix\u2026 the cost is just $15 per month and this stuff is stratospheric level production quality content that actually matters to you.<\/p>\n<p>Oh\u2026 didn\u2019t mention, that they really put some thought into their deployment.  You can watch on the website, AppleTV app, iOS devices. If you choose open on the iPhone app you can even go into audio-only mode which runs audio in the background, even cautions you when some lessons are BETTER if you watch video, but will still let you go audio-only if you choose to after seeing that warning.<\/p>\n<p>So, I\u2019m telling you folks:  Do yourselves a favor , go at least LOOK at what\u2019s on offer over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterclass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MasterClass.com<\/a>.  You won\u2019t want to watch it all.  Heck I won\u2019t watch it all.  But there is a glorious flood of phenomenal material there to pick from.  So, go check it out.  And, along the way, remember to STAY SUBSCRIBED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Ramsay on Cooking Hello fellow castaways. Terry Austin here. I\u2019ve GOT to tell you all about the best Christmas present ever that I sort of gave myself. My sweetheart got me $100 in iTunes gift cards from Costco at about 80% of value. Her mother got me another $50 in iTunes cards. So I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[3768,461,3769,346,3770],"class_list":["post-20083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-gift-cards","tag-itunes","tag-itunes-gift-cards","tag-learning","tag-masterclass"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20083"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20091,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20083\/revisions\/20091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}