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Discover how one electrician turned a single service call into $52K of booked work using Service Loop's 3D service method. This episode dives deep into advanced client experience, trust-based selling, and building lifetime relationships in residential electrical.What if a $16K install wasn't the ceiling... but the first step? Clay and Joe unpack the hidden framework behind one of the most stacked, trust-filled sales in residential electrical: a $52K multi-layered client relationship built from service, not sales.You'll learn how to:Stop being a commodity and become an experiencePrevent tiny inspection fails from derailing trustUse “relational touchpoints” to turn CSRs and installers into sales alliesUnlock a homeowner's full potential with expert-level discoveryThis is more than good customer service. It's a three-dimensional trust loop that multiplies opportunity without multiplying pressure.00:00 - Intro & Experience vs Price02:00 - The Ripple Effect of Referrals04:30 - Focused Service, Not Multitasking07:00 - Advanced Rapport & Sensory Memory14:00 - The $52K Case Study Breakdown18:00 - How Installers Become Closers22:00 - Final Truths on Lifetime Clients --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Join our community and get access to strategies that'll help bring your electrical business to the top!Connect with fellow electricians and tap into a network of support and expertise! https://www.facebook.com/share/g/wvcMRNiyvyWoiSx3/ Subscribe to our newsletter to receive FREE weekly value pieces packed with strategies, and guides to improve your sales, service, and pricing
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Jason Barbee is a plumbing technician who didn't just sell — he installed nearly $1M in residential plumbing last year. Even more impressive, Jason is a 5-time Plumbing Sales Crown Champion; he's 26 years old and already sold & installed over $4M in residential plumbing in his short career. From humble beginnings helping his future father-in-law lift water heaters, to dominating full-service residential calls today, Jason shares the real story behind his rise — and the mindset shifts that changed everything. In this episode, you'll hear: How Jason builds trust on every call — and turns “quick fixes” into whole-home inspections Why he never solves the problem before he arrives — and how that helps him keep his mind open His secrets to handling drain cleaning calls like a superhero (and turning panic into profit) The role of empathy, education, and options in what some call “upselling” — but Jason calls “doing the job right” How following the CertainPath 6-step process helped skyrocket his KPIs from $16K to $404K in less than a year Jason's favorite lines for introducing water heater replacements — even when that's not why he was called His unique strategy for earning customer permission to inspect and price the entire home's plumbing system Why training, role-playing, and DISC profiling are non-negotiables in his shop's daily culture How financing and well-structured options helped close $10K–$15K+ jobs with less resistance What younger techs can do TODAY to start writing their own ticket to success — no shortcuts, just clarity If you're a service tech, manager, or business owner, this is a masterclass in modern residential plumbing service — packed with actionable takeaways and honest insights from someone who's doing it at the highest level. Don't miss this inspiring, practical conversation with one of the industry's top performers. Show Notes The Successful Contractor Podcast is a part of the CertainPath family. CertainPath builds successful home service businesses—and has for 25 years. We do it by providing contractors with a proven path to success, professional coaching, software solutions, and a member community of 1,200+ strong. Doubling your sales, with a 20% net profit, and an inspiring company culture is ALL possible. Let us show you the way. With CertainPath, Success is Made Certain. Visit www.mycertainpath.com for more information. FOLLOW CERTAINPATH: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CertainPath Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/certainpath Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/certainpath/
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Send us a textTax planning strategies work at every income level, creating legitimate savings that can accelerate your journey to financial freedom. Implementing these approaches strategically can significantly reduce your tax burden while staying within legal boundaries.• Turn side hustles into legitimate businesses with clear profit intentions to create tax deductions• Real estate investing offers tax advantages through depreciation, even at small scales• Those earning under $100K can write off up to $25K in rental losses against ordinary income• Proactive tax planning includes optimizing write-offs for meals, travel, and supplies• Strategic stock portfolio management minimizes capital gains taxes• Traditional IRA contributions can be converted to Roth IRAs for tax-free growth regardless of income• High earners can utilize $14-16K annually in "backdoor Roth" contributions for tax-free growth• Education credits like the American Opportunity Tax Credit provide up to $2,500 in direct tax savingsReady to slash your tax bill? Schedule your free consultation and let's strategize your tax savings together! Book now at: https://www.prosperlcpa.com/apply Or, if you still need more time, here are some other ways to begin winning the tax game... Learn more about applying these strategies to your situation by taking our mini-course at taxplanningchecklist.com, which includes personalized feedback based on your circumstances.
This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo, but we've got some really interesting pieces for everyone including on federal transportation funding, EPA trying to kill climate protections, and a group of Seattle friends build a home together. Main News Highway trust fund dead since 2008 - T4America EPA wants to kill GHG regs for power plants - New York Times Washington State woonerfs - The Urbanist US government built social housing - The Conversation The 50% AV problem - Changing Lanes Group of friends live together - Fast Company Front range rail line - Colorado Newsline Maui neighborhood built fast - Fast Company Valencia's ceramic paving - Euronews Seattle's new subway - City Observatory Regional Block Grants - Brookings Bonus Items Transit expansion in Montana - Daily Montanan Benefits of congestion pricing - New York Times EPA rolls back limits for forever chemicals in drinking water - AP Amsterdam smart charging - CleanTechnica Colorado housing order - Colorado Public Radio Urban childen prone to allergies - University of Rochester Trump will regret cutting energy star - Heatmap Economics of street fairs - Sherwood News Spain orders AirBnB - New York Times Lessons from LA mobility wallet - KTLA China's airlines raise alarm on HSR market share - South China Morning Post Dieselgate killed 16K people - The Guardian +++ Get the show ad free on Patreon! Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com
Annyeonghaseyo! Today, travel medicine specialists Drs. Paul Pottinger ("Germ") & Chris Sanford ("Worm") answer your travel health questions:What do I have to do to get through airport security with the new Real ID system?I'm climbing mountains in South America. I'm going up to 16K or even 18K feet. Should I take a pulse oximeter?When traveling between cities in Europe, which do you think is better—renting a car, or hiring a driver, or taking a bus?Does the shingles vaccine have a bad side effect profile?What's the deal with the U.S. Dept. of State's Travel Advisory system?What if I want a vaccine that's not available in the USA?How can I find a good doctor when I'm traveling overseas?How do I read labels on medications—and everything else—in languages I don't speak?We hope you enjoy this podcast! If so, please follow us on the socials @germ.and.worm, subscribe to our RSS feed and share with your friends! We would so appreciate your rating and review to help us grow our audience. And, please send us your questions and travel health anecdotes: germandworm@gmail.com.And we hope you will join us for the upcoming UW Travel Medicine CME, June 26-27, 2025, In Seattle and online. Our Disclaimer: The Germ and Worm Podcast is designed to inform, inspire, and entertain. However, this podcast does NOT establish a doctor-patient relationship, and it should NOT replace your conversation with a qualified healthcare professional. Please see one before your next adventure. The opinions in this podcast are Dr. Sanford's & Dr. Pottinger's alone, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the University of Washington or UW Medicine.
What if you could buy real estate with no job, no credit, and almost no money?Let's dive into the details behind seller financing—the most underrated wealth-building strategy out there.Today on The Lady Landlords Podcast, I'm joined by Mel Dorman, a former social worker who used creative financing to retire in just five years.From cold calling with $16K in her bank account to turning a $500 deal into a 20-unit portfolio, Mel proves that scrappy beats traditional every time. In this episode, you'll learn:The one-liner that dropped her down payment by $60KHow a random text on the ski slopes led to an $88K paydayWhy your next deal might be hiding in your phone contactsStay tuned until the end to learn how Mel turned one creative deal into a financial freedom domino effect—and how you can do it too!===To connect with Mel Dorman, visit https://www.meldorman.com/ or connect with her on Instagram @mel_dorman.===
In this episode of The Six Figure Author Experiment, we sit down with Oriana Leckert, Head of Publishing at Kickstarter, to dive deep into how authors are leveraging Kickstarter to hit six-figure goals, build powerful communities, and take full control of their careers. Oriana shares insider stats, success strategies, and powerful examples of how direct-to-reader models are reshaping the publishing world. We explore why crowdfunding is more than just funding—it's about creating unforgettable experiences, amplifying your brand, and future-proofing your author career in an uncertain world. Whether you're a new author, seasoned indie, or thinking about launching your first campaign, this episode is packed with actionable insights you won't want to miss.Topics Covered:* Oriana Leckert's journey through publishing and Kickstarter leadership* Why direct-to-reader models are outperforming traditional and self-publishing* Year-over-year growth statistics for publishing projects on Kickstarter* Key success metrics: 84% success rate with 25+ backers, $16K average raise* How Kickstarter backers behave differently from typical book buyers* The secret to Kickstarter's algorithm: attention and early momentum* Why backer community and engagement trump pure audience size* The growing power of subscriptions and how Patreon and Kickstarter work together* Using Kickstarter to test ideas, validate demand, and build sustainable income* Examples of creative rewards: from scene kits to special editions and experiences* How Kickstarter campaigns drive amplification even beyond funding* Curating emotional experiences for readers through physical and digital rewards* The future of publishing: quality over quantity, 100 true fans, and direct community building* Oriana's advice for building a resilient, connected author career in uncertain times This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sixfigureauthorexperiment.com
This episode is a very long awaited episode!!! The legend himself XZIBIT came through with some wild stories and lots of laughs!! Get ready.... this one is EPIC!! UNRESTRICTED : https://www.dopeasusualpodcast.com/unrestricted DISCOUNT CODES : https://www.dopeasusualpodcast.com/sponsors NEW MERCH : https://www.dopeasusualpodcast.com/shop YOUTUBE : https://yolalinks.com/subscribe INSTAGRAM : https://instagram.com/dope_as_usual_podcast TWITTER : https://twitter.com/dope_as_usual THOMAS : https://instagram.com/dope.as.yola MARTY : https://instagram.com/marty_made_it XZIBIT : https://www.instagram.com/xzibit APPLE PODCASTS : https://yolalinks.com/apple Chapters:00:00 Ed*bles Intro 00:47 Canna Industry 01:41 If Vikings Had Cell Phones 02:26 Wild Stories: Xzibit's 2 Times Doing Shr*oms 03:01 That Wasn't God, That Was Psilocybin 04:55 Trip Sets In 07:02 Girls Gets Jawed 08:24 Getting Jumped by Football Team 11:30 2nd Time Tripping in Amsterdam 15:15 Anger Management Tour 15:26 Signed My Name on the Window 17:18 Waking Up the Next Day Horrified 18:47 16K to Fix the Room 20:08 Volunteering for Psychic Horror Show 22:12 I Don't Even Smoke Outta Bongs 22:42 No Mfker, I'm from the Crack Era 22:56 That's Dr*gs! 23:03 Accidentally D*bbing Coke 23:36 X Has Never Done Coc*ine 24:09 Dr*gs Impact on Music and Culture 24:22 Move to LA at 17 25:45 Didn't Happen Overnight 26:39 Music Before the Internet 27:42 Monetizing Music 29:16 Play the Game or Put the Work In 29:22 Story: Life-Changing Session w/ Snoop & Dr. Dre 30:35 Can't Have an Off Day 32:30 You're Here to Complete a Mission 34:17 Who Is Gangstalicious 36:34 Being in Fight for NY Video Game 39:10 Deal w/ Conor McGregor 39:30 Bare Knuckle Fighters 40:02 Gladiator Sport 41:15 In Case of Death Can This Be Replayed 41:52 First Album Since 2012: Kingmaker 42:37 Recording This Album vs. Last One 42:54 1st Record That Is Exactly How I Want It 43:15 I Found My Voice 45:39 Can You Take a Punch 46:32 Failing Upwards 47:14 Detroit Music Scene 48:01 Play This at My Funeral 51:46 New Tour 54:15 420 BizThank you for watching The Xzibit Episode on DOPE AS USUAL Podcast!#dopeasusual #podcast #xzibit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We transport listeners into the futuristic world of the Sphere in Las Vegas as Jim shares his whirlwind 24-hour trip to see Dead & Company in this revolutionary venue. Through vivid descriptions and personal anecdotes, we explore the cutting-edge technology that creates an unprecedented concert experience.• Jim scores a last-minute ticket to Dead & Company at the Sphere• The Sphere features 16K resolution LED screens surrounding the audience• Dead & Company's setlist and the mind-blowing visual experiences that accompanied each song• Tribute to legendary producer Roy Thomas Baker who died April 12, 2025, at age 78. Baker's production genius helped create some of rock's most iconic albums—Queen's first five records, The Cars' debut, Journey's breakthrough hits, and many more. • 35th Anniversary of Social Distortion's self-titled album• "Minute with Jimmy" segment featuring The Jam's accidental hit "Going Underground"• Exploration of Pete Townshend's 1980 solo album "Empty Glass""Music in My Shoes" where music and memories intertwine.Learn Something New orRemember Something OldPlease like and follow the Music in my Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages and share the podcast with your friends on social media. Contact us at musicinmyshoes@gmail.com.Send us a one-way message. We can't answer you back directly, but it could be part of a future Music In My Shoes Mailbag!!!
On this week's show we look at a technology that could end HDMI. We also read your emails and take a look at the week's news. News: Sony steps away from 8K TVs – for now Survey: Share of Homes With TV Antennas Falls to 19% DIRECTV unites streaming options under one name and price structure Peacock highlights cool features for mobile users Other: AUBESS Tuya WiFi 16A Mini Smart Switch Is GPMI the beginning of the end of HDMI? Over 50 Chinese companies including Hisense and TCL have joined forces to back an HDMI alternative called GPMI (General Purpose Media Interface). This new wired communication standard is designed to integrate multiple functionalities into a single cable, aiming to rival HDMI, DisplayPort, and Thunderbolt. The following are some key features: High Bandwidth for Data Transmission - GPMI Type-B: Supports up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, significantly surpassing HDMI 2.1 (48 Gbps), HDMI 2.2 (96 Gbps), DisplayPort 2.1 (80 Gbps), and Thunderbolt 4 (40 Gbps). GPMI Type-C: Offers up to 96 Gbps, compatible with USB-C ports, doubling the 40 Gbps limit of USB4 with Extended Power Range (EPR) under USB PD 3.1. Enables ultra-high-definition video - including 8K at 120Hz or higher, suitable for next-generation displays, gaming, and professional applications. Power Delivery GPMI Type-B: Delivers up to 480W of power, far exceeding Thunderbolt 4 (100W) and USB4 (240W with EPR). GPMI Type-C: Provides up to 240W, matching USB4 EPR capabilities. This eliminates the need for separate power cables - simplifying setups for devices like TVs, monitors, and gaming laptops. All-in-One Cable Solution - Combines video, audio, data transfer, network connectivity, and power delivery into a single cable, reducing cable clutter. Supports bidirectional data transfer - allowing devices to send and receive data simultaneously. Compatibility and Connectivity - GPMI Type-C: Licensed by the USB Implementers Forum ensuring compatibility with existing USB-C ecosystems for smartphones, PCs, and TVs. GPMI Type-B: Uses a proprietary connector, which may face adoption challenges unless widely licensed. Backward-compatible with USB-C and DisplayPort standards - easing transitions without requiring immediate hardware replacements. Universal Control and Device Management - Supports a universal control standard similar to HDMI-CEC, allowing a single remote to control multiple GPMI-connected devices Security Features - Integrates the ADCP (Advanced Digital Content Protection) protocol for secure content transmission. Supports daisy-chaining - similar to DisplayPort, for connecting multiple devices in series. Limitations and Notes While GPMI supports 8K video, HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.1 can handle higher resolutions (10K and 16K, respectively), though without power delivery. Adoption is currently limited to Chinese companies (e.g., Huawei, Hisense, TCL), and global traction depends on integration into mainstream devices and compatibility with non-Chinese brands like Sony, Intel, or NVIDIA. The proprietary Type-B connector may face adoption hurdles compared to the USB-C-based Type-C variant. Commercialization is planned for Q1 2025, with consumer products expected by early 2026. GPMI's combination of high bandwidth, power delivery, and multifunctionality positions it as a potential game-changer, particularly for 8K content and simplified connectivity, though its success hinges on widespread adoption and global market acceptance.
Take 10 with Tim – April 11, 2025 – 9:30/8:30 am1.Pitchers off the great starts. Are you a believer?a.Hunter Greene (Cin, 3, ADP=26 starting pitcher) – 17.1 IP, 2 wins, 23K, 1.31 ERA, 0.629 WHIPb.Kris Bubic (KC, 108, 4) – 12.2 IP, 2 wins, 16K, 0.71 ERA, 0.868 WHIPc.Spencer Schwellenbach (ATL, 25, 20) – 20 IP, 1 win, 19K, 0.45 ERA, 0.286 WHIPd.Jack Leiter (Tex, 160, 25) – 10 IP, 2 wins, 10K/1BB, 0.90 ERA, 0.700 WHIP e.Casey Mize (Det, 145, 30) – 11.2 IP, 2 wins, 12K, 0.77 ERA, 0.943 WHIPf.Chris Bassett (Tor, 100, 48) – 12.2 IP, 1 win, 16K, 0.71 ERA, 1.105 WHIP2.Pitchers off the poor starts. Are you worried?a.Chris Sale (ATL, 8, 146) – 14.2 IP, 3 GS, 0 wins, 17K, 6.75 ERA, 1.364 WHIPb.Dylan Cease (SD, 12, 114) – 14.2 IP, 3 GS, 1 win, 18K, 7.98 ERA, 1.568 WHIPc.Bailey Ober (Min, 21, 349) – 12.2 IP, 3 GS, 0 win, 12K, 7.11 ERA, 2.400 WHIP d.Aaron Nola (PHI, 22, 210) – 11.1 IP, 2 GS, 0 win, 10K, 6.35 ERA, 1.235 WHIPe.Tanner Bibee (CLE, 27, 220) – 9.2 IP, 2 GS, 1 win, 6K, 6.52 ERA, 1.345 WHIP3.I thought Justin Verlander had fallen too much in drafts, but maybe there's nothing left. He's getting beat up pretty well so far.a.Time to move on?4.Kyren Paris continues to make baseball look easy. He hit two home runs on Wednesday and has five for the season, to go along with four stolen bases. He's also hitting .440. WOW! a.He's played a little 2B and CF this season, but Rengifo is back. Can they sit this guy? If no, where does he play?b.As I asked last week, is this for real or just a hot streak?5.Vlad Jr. signs a megadeal with the Blue Jays for 14 years and $500 million. a.Is this the latest Mike Trout type of deal – meaning, he'll make a lot of money but never win much?6.Wyatt Langford hits the IL with an oblique injury. They say it won't be long, but that's usually not the case. Dustin Harris gets the call.a.Will he get enough at-bats to warrant looking at in a fantasy league?b.The data doesn't look good on this guy, so I've soured. But perhaps I'm wrong.7.Justin Steele has been placed on the IL after a great outing against the Rangers. However, the velo was down, and he was diagnosed with elbow tendinitis.a.He was drafted as a top 40 starter, maybe more, so this one hurts. Any thoughts on who a fantasy manager should pick up?b.What will the Cubs do?8.Pablo Lopez hits the IL with a hamstring injury. The Twins are deep in starting pitching in the minor leagues with Zebby Matthews, David Festa, and Marco Raya available.a.Who are speculating on?b.Hamstring injuries can be bad, but unless you're Mike Trout, a return in two or three weeks is reasonable. Would you spend a ton of FAAB here?9.What hitter are you going to target for this weekend's FAAB?10.What pitcher are you going to target for this weekend's FAAB?
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The Get Paid Podcast: The Stark Reality of Entrepreneurship and Being Your Own Boss
Today, learn how Layne Booth built a $1M+ business teaching consultants to sell $5K+ dashboards. In this episode, Layne breaks down how she went from a corporate engineering job to running a 7-figure business. Layne gets specific about the marketing, sales, and pricing strategies for selling a higher ticket offer with Facebook ads. This Week on the Get Paid Podcast: How Layne's clients routinely land $5K+ deals by offering dashboards as a premium service The simple video funnel that turns cold leads into high-ticket clients Why broad targeting + case study-driven copy is outperforming niche targeting The four-day challenge format that consistently drives 5–10 new enrollments per month How Layne raised her prices from $4K to $20K+ The 4-part framework she uses to close 40% of calls (and what happened when she outsourced sales) Paying herself $16K/month – plus, the legal tax hack she's using to pay her kids while building generational wealth Mentioned in this podcast: https://www.laynebooth.com/ Now it's time to GET PAID Thanks for tuning into the Get Paid Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate, and leave your honest review. Connect with me on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, visit my website for even more detailed strategies, and be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media. Now, it's time to go get yourself paid
The Get Paid Podcast: The Stark Reality of Entrepreneurship and Being Your Own Boss
Today, learn how Layne Booth built a $1M+ business teaching consultants to sell $5K+ dashboards. In this episode, Layne breaks down how she went from a corporate engineering job to running a 7-figure business. Layne gets specific about the marketing, sales, and pricing strategies for selling a higher ticket offer with Facebook ads. This Week on the Get Paid Podcast: How Layne's clients routinely land $5K+ deals by offering dashboards as a premium service The simple video funnel that turns cold leads into high-ticket clients Why broad targeting + case study-driven copy is outperforming niche targeting The four-day challenge format that consistently drives 5–10 new enrollments per month How Layne raised her prices from $4K to $20K+ The 4-part framework she uses to close 40% of calls (and what happened when she outsourced sales) Paying herself $16K/month – plus, the legal tax hack she's using to pay her kids while building generational wealth Mentioned in this podcast: https://www.laynebooth.com/ Now it's time to GET PAID Thanks for tuning into the Get Paid Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, rate, and leave your honest review. Connect with me on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, visit my website for even more detailed strategies, and be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media. Now, it's time to go get yourself paid
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Watch The X22 Report On Video No videos found Click On Picture To See Larger Picture CA raised the minimum wage and now 16k fast food jobs have been lost. Cramer predicts that a Fed rate cut will ward off recession, the opposite is going to happen. Schumer folded and Trump confirms we are headed in a whole new direction. Economy is about to take off. Everything the [DS] projected onto we the people is now boomeranging on them. They called MAGA domestic terrorist but now we can see who the real domestic terrorists are. Sometime you have to show the people. Why did Trump start with fraud? This will build the narrative that everything that these people have done has to do with fraud. This will lead directly to the 2020 elections and that Biden was not the President of the US. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:13499335648425062,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-7164-1323"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="//cdn2.customads.co/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs"); Economy CA down 16K fast food jobs amid $20 wage, debunking Newsom-cited study Federal data now shows California fast food employment is down 16,000 jobs since the passage of the state's $20-per-hour fast food minimum wage last year. A fast food study from the Berkeley Research Group found California fast food prices increased 14.5% from September 2023 to October 2024, or double the national average. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' quarterly employment survey covers 95% of American jobs, and is considered the gold standard for jobs and wage data. Now its latest report shows California fast food jobs declined from 570,909 in September 2023 to 554,748 in September 2024. Source: gopusa.com Fed rate cuts could ward off a serious recession, Jim Cramer says CNBC's Jim Cramer analyzed market action, saying new economic data could pave the way for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. “We're most likely not going to go into a serious recession, because the Fed can take action to prevent that,” he said. “And even if the Fed does nothing, the market can recover once all of this tariff stuff is behind us — and it will be behind us at some point.”Trump has a point with tariffs, but his rhetoric is too aggressive, says Jim Cramer Source: nbcnews.com China hits back at Canada with fresh agriculture tariffs China has announced plans to impose tariffs on certain Canadian goods. This decision was made in retaliation to Canada's earlier imposition of tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, steel, and aluminum products in October of the previous year. According to statements from China's Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, effective March 20, 2025, China will apply a 100% tariff on Canadian rapeseed oil, oil cakes, and peas, as well as a 25% tariff on Canadian aquatic products and pork. This move is part of an escalating trade dispute, influenced in part by broader tensions involving U.S. trade policies under President Donald Trump, who has also imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. China's commerce ministry has described Canada's actions as violating World Trade Organization rules and constituting protectionism, prompting this retaliatory response Trump Effect: Gas Prices PLUMMET Below $3 in 31 States — A Stark Contrast to Biden's $5/Gallon Disaster Source: AAA https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1900529607129944543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1900529607129944543%7Ctwgr%5Eb15a05fb480f65d2195faf46cde22bf1b8b17ed6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F03%2Ftrump-effect-gas-prices-plummet-below-3-31%2F Source: thegatewaypundit.com
If you've ever felt stuck when it comes to money—whether it's paying off debt, trying to save, or building financial stability—this episode is for you. I sat down with financial educator and author Kara Perez to talk about how she paid off over $25k in student loans while making less than $16K a year, and how she went from financial struggle to financial freedom. We dive into sustainability, value-based budgeting, and how to put your money where your heart is without sacrificing your quality of life. Kara shares her real, no-BS approach to building wealth, the hustle that got her out of debt, and how she turned her passion for financial literacy into a thriving business. We also get into the emotional side of money—how to avoid falling into a scarcity mindset while still being intentional with your spending. Whether you're working your way out of debt or just trying to be smarter with your money, this episode is packed with relatable insights and practical tips! Follow Kara on IG and TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/webravelygo/ https://www.tiktok.com/@webravelygo Kara's website: https://bravelygo.co/ Money for Change book: https://bravelygo.co/green-money-book/ We're diving into manifestation, meditation and self empowerment practices for energetic and logistical upgrades within your business! Email hello@edenstrader.com for more information on our newest coaching container. Come join our annual Flash Photography Workshop in NYC on April 8th, 2025! You'll learn how to shoot on camera and off camera flash, with a plethora of techniques to absolutely stun your ideal clients and explode your portfolio. After class is over, you'll have multiple hours in studio to practice your new skills while Eden helps you troubleshoot! https://edenstrader.com/in-person-flash-photography-workshop If you enjoyed today's episode, please: - Leave a positive review or rating! - Come join our free Manifestation Challenge, a fan favorite freebie! https://edenstrader.com/manifesting-challenge - Post a screenshot & key takeaway on your IG story and tag us @edenstrader so we can repost you. - Follow (+) our show for new episodes every Monday!
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这个探测器的总重量大概是2.2吨。轨道器采用了自旋稳定。也就是说探测器本身每分钟转3.5圈，用陀螺效应来保证自己的姿态稳定。但是，这个探测器很特殊，上半身旋转，下半身不转，因为下半身装着相机等等探测器一起，要是跟着一起打转转，那就没办法拍照了。这个探测器装了个CCD摄像机，清晰度比“旅行者”探测器的高20～1000倍，可分辨出木星卫星表面30～50米范围的细节。还装了红外线和紫外线的光谱仪。整个探测器的CPU是个8位的芯片，计算能力跟任天堂的红白机性能差不多。内存也只有16K。但是性能已经够用了。当然，既然是自旋稳定，也就无法安装大面积的太阳能电池板，多新鲜啊，装了那不成电扇啦。只能用同位素电池，所以这个探测器也得用一根细长的杆子把核电池伸得远远的，就是怕微量核辐射干扰到了本机的其他仪器。核电池可以提供480瓦的电力。探测器上有个非常大的伞形天线，就是一张倒开的伞，形成一个反射无线电信号的反射面。折叠起来可以减小尺寸。另外还有一个低增益天线，通信速度很慢，但是方向性不强，不需要特别对准地球。大气探测器是艾姆斯研究中心研发的，这东西是个锥体。里边装的是大气传感器，可以探测木星大气层基本参数，比如气压、温度，成份等等一系列数据。探测器的外壳很厚，主要是为了隔热抗压。整个探测器重量达到339公斤，壳子就有220公斤重。这个东西最终会被扔进木星大气，最后被高温高压给破坏。所有数据会从两个频段，以128bit的速度通过轨道器中转，发送回地球。
In this episode of The Millennial Millionaire Podcast, host Steven Cohen sits down with Oren, a back-to-back Double Golden Door Award Winner and EcoShield owner, who has built a $20M+ revenue-generating sales organization.
Benjamin and Chance review the 2025 Apple Unity watch band, watch face and wallpaper. They talk about some compelling leaked iOS features currently in internal testing, and Apple reportedly redoubles its AI efforts. Also, T-Mobile and Starlink launch a seemingly better satellite connectivity offering, than Apple's in-built SOS feature. And in Happy Hour Plus, the pair debate if it is time for the Apple Watch hardware lineup to expand. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join. Sponsored by Shopify: Grow your business no matter what stage you're in. Sign up for a $1 per month trial at shopify.com/happyhour. Hosts Chance Miller @ChanceHMiller on Twitter @chancehmiller@mastodon.social @ChanceHMiller on Instagram @ChanceHMiller on Threads Benjamin Mayo @bzamayo on Twitter @bzamayo@mastodon.social @bzamayo on Threads Subscribe, Rate, and Review Apple Podcasts Overcast Spotify 9to5Mac Happy Hour Plus Subscribe to 9to5Mac Happy Hour Plus! Support Benjamin and Chance directly with Happy Hour Plus! 9to5Mac Happy Hour Plus includes: Ad-free versions of every episode Pre- and post-show content Bonus episodes Join for $5 per month or $50 a year at 9to5mac.com/join. Feedback Submit #Ask9to5Mac questions on Twitter, Mastodon, or Threads Email us feedback and questions to happyhour@9to5mac.com Links Apple unveils beautiful 2025 Black Unity Collection Sport Loop, watch face, and iPhone/iPad wallpapers iOS 18.3 includes Starlink satellite connectivity for select iPhone users iOS Decoded: Visual Intelligence Control Center shortcut, and more Gurman: Apple taps new boss to help Siri and Apple Intelligence catch up with AI competition Apple Sports now includes broadcast info for where to watch national games Pebble reviving e-ink smartwatch with iPhone support, touting 16K custom watch faces to Apple's zero
“They said the race is going to start at 16K – I have to stay patient for that to finish the race strong. That was true. I felt at 16K, ‘Okay, now I am racing.' This year, just knowing how it feels, was very helpful. I trusted my training and how well I've been doing in workouts. It was like, ‘Let's go out there and finish this race.'” My guest for today's episode is Weini Kelati, who's becoming synonymous with record breaking performances on the roads. Just last weekend at the 2025 Houston Half Marathon, Weini shattered her own American record, running 1:06:09 to take 16 seconds off the mark she set at the same race last year, battling cold temperatures, gusting winds, and a loaded international field. She delivered a gutsy performance, finishing second overall behind Ethiopia's Senayet Getachew. In this episode, we dive into Weini's journey over the past few months from setting personal bests on the track to her debut at the Paris Olympics. We hear about her mindset going into Houston, the tough moments she overcame during the race, and why she's curious about pushing herself to even faster times. Plus, we discuss how this record fits into her broader goals for 2025 and beyond. Yes, we also talk about her potential in the marathon. Weini continues to cement herself as one of the best distance runners in the country. Host: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram Guest: Weini Kelati | @weini_kelati on Instagram SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS SPOKANE SPORTS COMMISSION: In Spokane, Washington, there's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and now, Fast.. Fifth Season is hosting elite indoor track and field events all throughout January and February. All events take place at the Podium Powered by STCU, SPOCAN's state-of-the-art indoor track facility. Learn more at SpokaneSports.com/FifthSeason OLIPOP: I've got a question for you: how's your Dry January going? Whether you're crushing it or just dipping your toes in, our friends at Olipop are here to make it a lot more fun—and way more delicious. It's not just another soda—it's soda reimagined. Think of all the nostalgic flavors you love, but with way less sugar and a third of your daily fiber in every can. Get 25% off all your orders at DrinkOlipop.com using code CITIUS25 at checkout.
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Sigmund and Devon share one Apple TV wish each for 2025 and recap season two of Shrinking. Devon also reviews Sigmund's Christmas gift to him, A Real Pain. Here To Help | Apple Pre-Roll PrismXR Carina D1 Charging Dock for Apple Vision Pro Belkin Travel Bag for Apple Vision Pro Apple Vision Pro All-Metal Stand Apple TV News HDMI 2.2 announced with 96Gbps bandwidth for 4K480, 8K, 16K, more | FlatPanelsHD Theater 2.0 Apple Fitness+ Announces Strava Integration, New Workout Programs, and More Nikki Glaser Opening Monologue | 82nd Annual Golden Globes Releases Adventure: Ice Dive Skate City: New York Gears & Goo Three Kingdoms HEROES Final Fantasy+ Trials of Mana+ Rodeo Stampede+ It's Literally Just Mowing+ Extras Critics Choice Awards Malala Yousafzai on Apple News In Conversation Bad Sisters — Extending Worlds: The Forty Foot and Ireland Coast Slow Horses — Jackson Lamb Arrives Unannounced | Scene Read Blitz — Reconstructing the Blitz | Production Design Fly Me to the Moon – Lance Vespertine Explains It All Fly Me to the Moon — Jim Rash Reacts to Out of this World Pick Up Lines Another Take with Channing Tatum & Scarlett Johansson | Colin Jost Cameo Scene Hugh Howey and Graham Yost Reddit AMA The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott Wicked Director Jon M. Chu Makes Movie Magic with Apple Vision Pro Recap Shrinking TV App Highlights Flow The Traitors Up Next Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat A Real Pain Squid Game What If...? Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Subscribe to Magic Rays of Light on YouTube and follow us on Mastodon and Bluesky. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky
Vlad Matsiiako is CEO & Co-Founder of Infisical, the open source secrets management platform. Their open source project, also called infisical, has 16K stars on GitHub and helps users sync secrets across their teams and infrastructure. Infisical has raised $3M from investors including Gradient and YC. In this episode, we dig into their path from closed to open source, their big user wins (including government users), the importance of reliability for products in and around this category, the organic growth that came from their community, their AI strategy & more!
I share the exact mindset shifts that changed my life and business, starting with how I overcame $16K in credit card debt. These principles helped me grow through every stage—from struggling to make my first dollar to earning millions. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or already in business, these insights will inspire and guide you to take action. I'll cover concepts like committing to a "12-month contract," flipping your risk profile, building community, focusing on unique abilities, and much more. If you're ready to transform your mindset and your results, dive into this episode. Let me know your biggest takeaway in the comments! ➨ Get my Business Growth Levels and EFF Graphics at TrevorMauch.com/freedom *** Want to generate motivated leads consistently, online? Check out my other podcast, Evergreen Marketing: https://link.chtbl.com/gkGhAnYN*** My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trevor.mauch/*** My YouTube videos on how to grow as a leader: http://youtube.com/@TheTrevorMauch*** Learn more at https://Carrot.com/shows - Carrot.com, millions of motivated leads generated over the last 10+ Years.
When was the last time you truly felt at peace? Like, stress-free, heart-full, and genuinely content? In today's grind culture, we've been conditioned to believe that success equals more money, more hustle, and more stuff. But here's the truth bomb: peace is the new profit—and it's worth way more than any dollar amount in your bank account. In this episode of the Happy Hustle Podcast, I'm diving deep into why reducing stress and prioritizing peace is the ultimate life upgrade. I'll break down six key reasons why choosing joy, fulfillment, and balance will always trump chasing wealth. Debt-Free = FreedomHere's the thing about debt: it's a peace killer. You're constantly thinking about repayments, interest rates, and whether you can even afford that extra guac at Chipotle. I've been there—racked up $16K in credit card debt in my early 20s. It was suffocating. But guess what? Within a year, I flipped the script, went debt-free, and saved $20K in liquid cash. Freedom feels lighter. It gives you options. It's not about avoiding all debt forever (strategic debt can work), but having control over your finances is a game-changer for peace.Invest in YourselfYou are the best investment you'll ever make, period. Skills pay the bills—write that one down. When you invest in personal growth—whether it's taking a course, learning a new skill, or just reading a good book—you're not just building your career; you're building confidence. And confidence brings clarity, which leads to better decisions, less stress, and, you guessed it, more peace.Build Financial StabilityChasing trends won't bring you peace. Sure, crypto or AI might be the hot thing, but slow and steady wins the race. Focus on creating a stable business or revenue stream that covers your monthly expenses. That's your Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) number. Knowing your basics are covered gives you the freedom to dream bigger—without the stress.Boring Investments Are SexyThe “boring” stuff—like index funds or real estate—can bring peace because they're predictable and steady. No late-night stress checking stock prices or wondering if you'll lose it all in a market dip. Peace comes from stability, my friends.Say No to Hustle CultureRunning on empty just to chase some external validation? Instead, focus on harmonizing your ambition with your well-being. That means saying no to things that don't serve you—even if they're lucrative—and saying yes to what lights you up inside.Focus on Your ImpactChasing money for the sake of money will leave you feeling empty. But chasing impact? That's fulfilling. When you know your work makes a difference—whether it's helping others, building a legacy, or creating something meaningful—that's the kind of profit that money can't buy.Peace doesn't happen by accident, my friends. It's intentional. You have to actively choose it—sometimes over money, sometimes over convenience. But let me tell you, it's worth it. Imagine walking into 2025 with a clear mind, a full heart, and the freedom to do what you love without stress weighing you down.Start small. Look at your finances, invest in yourself, and build a life that prioritizes peace. Because at the end of the day, peace truly is the new profit.Connect with Cary!https://www.instagram.com/caryjack/https://www.facebook.com/SirCaryJackhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/cary-jack-kendzior/https://twitter.com/thehappyhustlehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFDNsD59tLxv2JfEuSsNMOQ/featuredGet a free copy of his new book, The Happy Hustle, 10 Alignments to Avoid Burnout & Achieve Blissful Balance https://www.thehappyhustle.com/bookSign up for The Journey: 10 Days To Become a Happy Hustler Online Course https://thehappyhustle.com/thejourney/Apply to the Montana Mastermind Epic Camping Adventure https://thehappyhustle.com/mastermind/“It's time to Happy Hustle, a blissfully balanced life you love, full of passion, purpose, and positive impact!”Episode Sponsor: Magnesium Breakthrough from BiOptimizers https://bioptimizers.com/happyIf you've been on a restricted diet lately or maybe even taken some meds to shed those pounds for the summer, I gotta warn ya—be careful! 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Garth Heckman The David Alliance TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com Website: www.aegisdefensesolutions.com Insta: For anyone in IL. Luke is a linseed professional counselor who specializes with kids, teens, and families in Christian Counseling. If you or someone you know is struggling with anxiety, mood challenges, ADHD, and other mental health concerns, reach out to Luke https://www.whitestoneresources.com/counselors-list/lmerrill My media channels all go to Garth Heckman starting today… Today I uploaded a clip of me unloading a 30 round mag in my new Glock 19X and then add some flavor to it with another weapon thrown in… Text me 30 second interviews of you asking people “whats it take to be a man” (and send me yours as well) Please let people know this is not a gender question… just simply in each persons mind we have a simple theory of what it takes to be a man… I will post them on all my social meads channels… hey I would love to hear from women as well. There are no right or wrong answers… and I don't just want christian men, so if a guy cusses we will edit it out if its really bad. How to be a rock star… do these in any order Learn guitar Do drugs Write a song How to be a true disciple Hear the word - You hear between 12-16K words a day. Read the word - 4k images a day Study the word - How many hours a day do you study a day outside of school? Less than 2 minutes Memorize the word - almost zero things we memorize in todays world. Meditate on the word - We meditate more on social media than on any other thing Live according to the word - How can you live according to something you don't know anything about? Only after all these can you truly be a disciple.
This episode is filled with so much heart and wisdom. Amanda Ball discovered they were a system later in life and that discovery turned everything upside down. Amanda shares her story of how she discovered she was a system We dive into an authentic conversation that covers topics from loss, deep grief, and real stigma to aphantasia, preventing switching, relationships and much more. We recognize that not everyone can access therapy and even those who can are often on long waitlists. We discussed many accessible resources for healing that can be found free online. You can find Amanda on Instagram. See below for their full bio!Resources:The Dissociative Disorders AllianceAn Infinite MindBeauty After BruisesTheresa https://www.dis-sos.com/about-us/Carolyn SpringThe CTAD Clinic WebsiteDr Mike LloydCTAD Clinic YouTube ChannelAdrienne & Co (Formerly Known as Dr. Adrian Fletcher)Dr Arielle SchwartzBIO: Amanda Ball (She/He/They) lives with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and collectively she and other selves are known as the ETERNITY System. Amanda had a long career and held senior posts in the Food, Drink and Agricultural industry, mainly in Strategy, Planning, Training, Marketing and Communication roles and continue to champion British Food. Whilst no longer able to pursue a career, they continue to use their skills through mentoring and volunteering work and are a future trustee of a soon to be registered charity, ‘The Dissociative Disorders Alliance'. Their professional values are ‘Focus, Clarity, Direction'.They strive to make the complexities of living with DID accessible to others, by sharing everyday experiences through advocacy work. Notable highlights to date include planning and executing the launch of ‘The Girls Within' a book written by debut author and retired therapist Gill Frost. The book launch provided a springboard for a live Webinar, ‘Dissociative Identity Disorder, The Hidden Condition' and a follow up Webcast ‘Demystifying Dissociative Identity Disorder'. The recordings, hosted on Karnac Books YouTube channel, have had over 16K views to date.They also undertake public speaking and media work and have appeared as guests on BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show as well as other BBC regional stations, sharing their lived experience of DID.With their symptoms and subsequent diagnosis being relatively recently (2016), life and their identity until then was focused almost entirely on work. As a result, they are still finding their way when it comes to rest and play, however their determination and curiosity gained through work and life experience, are proving helpful characteristics in their journey through therapy.Running has become an essential part of everyday life in the Cotswolds, not just through the exercise itself but by providing social connections being a member of a local club. They have also started to keep a growing collection of house plants alive! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healingmyparts.substack.com
**RECORDED 10/5/2020** Hey, everyone! Today we sat with Rio Maniak aka Cholo Juan from Oxnard. Maniak is a gang member trying to change his life around from. He is an Oxnard native who spent most of his life locked up behind bars or on the streets of Oxnard gang banging. After getting out of prison, Maniak decided to try something different and took an interest in creating content. His Youtube channel "@Cholo Juan " has 7K+ subs and 16K on his Instagram @Sin.For.Sin. I have always found the gang life very fascinating and I wanted to pick Maniak's brain on the lifestyle. He brought up some very great points about how hard it is for ex-cons to get their life back together and how the cards are stacked agains them. Maniak has 6 months until he is off of a 15+ year probation and I am so excited for him and his new chapter in life. Please show Maniak some love and if you enjoy this podcast, please tell a friend! *Supported by* Guest: @Alhuitzotl17 Downstarinc.com HyperURL.co/Downstar @DowntimeWithDownstar @Downstar @Frank_Downstar
Today, I'm joined by Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer, co-founder & CEO of EGYM. Based in Munich, EGYM supplies smart strength solutions to 18K global fitness partners while connecting employees of 16K corporate clients to local workouts. Scaling up, the fitness tech company just raised $200M in a Series G round, reaching a $1B valuation. In this episode, we discuss how EGYM plans to deploy fresh capital and expand stateside. We also cover: • EGYM's vertically integrated strategy • Growing its corporate wellness program Wellpass • Using AI to personalize workouts and improve outcomes Subscribe to the podcast → insider.fitt.co/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter → insider.fitt.co/subscribe Follow us on LinkedIn → linkedin.com/company/fittinsider EGYM's Website: https://egym.com/us EGYM's IG: https://www.instagram.com/egym_global/ - Fitt Talent: https://talent.fitt.co/ Consulting: https://consulting.fitt.co/ Investments: https://capital.fitt.co/ Chapters: (00:00) Introduction (01:41) Recent Developments and Funding (03:41) Strategic Investor Partnerships (09:17) Expansion into Corporate Wellness (22:32) How EGYM Has Found Success (28:09) AI and Personalized Workouts (33:39) Industry Trends and Future Roadmap (39:50) Holistic Health (42:04) Conclusion
In this episode of the HyperFast Agent podcast, the hosts dive into the question of whether eXp Realty is a good platform for real estate teams. Drawing from their own experiences with running a highly successful team at Keller Williams and eventually transitioning to eXp Realty, they share insightful comparisons and explore the advantages of eXp for team leaders. They outline four major benefits that make eXp Realty a top choice for team-oriented real estate businesses. First and foremost is the **cost structure**, which is especially beneficial for large teams. At eXp, team leaders can benefit from lower caps compared to other brokerages. For example, team leaders with 10 or more agents qualify as a "mega team" with a $16K cap, while each team member has a $4K cap. Additionally, team leaders who reach the icon level, which many large teams do, receive their $16K cap back in stock, making the cost structure even more attractive. This makes eXp not only cheaper than most traditional brokerage options but even more affordable than running an independent brokerage. The hosts explain that if team leaders want to focus solely on recruiting, training, and supporting their agents, eXp's structure saves them from the financial and time burden of legal and transactional responsibilities typically handled by a brokerage. Secondly, they highlight **training and collaboration**, which are often overlooked benefits. At eXp Realty, agents and teams are immersed in a collaborative environment where top producers share insights and strategies, facilitated by the platform's stock ownership model that aligns everyone's goals. The hosts compare this to their experience at an independent brokerage, where they felt isolated and missed out on the wealth of knowledge that comes from being connected to top-performing agents. At eXp, training programs, conferences, and local meetups with high-level agents are readily available, fostering a culture of learning and growth without the need to join costly coaching programs. The third benefit is eXp's **stock award program**, which rewards team leaders with significant stock bonuses. Team leaders can accumulate stock through their own production, capping, and team recruitment. For example, a team leader could earn up to $16,600 in stock annually just for hitting their production goals and recruiting agents who complete their first deal. Over time, these stock awards compound into significant wealth creation, offering team leaders a way to build long-term financial stability while growing their teams. The final benefit is the **revenue share program**, which enables team leaders to earn passive income by recruiting agents to their team and to eXp. As team members grow and develop their own teams, the original team leader continues to earn revenue share, creating a long-term, scalable income stream. This program allows team leaders to maintain business relationships with agents who may eventually outgrow their team, providing a way to stay connected while benefiting from their success. Over time, revenue share has the potential to surpass the team leader's income from their own sales, with lower risk and liability. This added business layer enhances the eXp platform's appeal to team leaders looking for financial freedom and security. The hosts also note that eXp Realty's **financial strength** and **sustainability** set it apart from other brokerages. Unlike newer digital brokerages, eXp has been profitable since 2019 and has not needed to rely on private equity funding. This financial stability gives team leaders confidence that eXp will continue to thrive, making it a reliable platform for long-term business growth. By joining eXp, team leaders gain access to lower fees, high-level training, stock awards, and revenue share opportunities, making it an ideal platform for real estate teams. The hosts conclude by inviting interested agents to reach out for a confidential conversation to learn more about how they can benefit from joining eXp and partnering with them in growing their businesses. If you are ready to join eXp realty and would like Dan Lesniak and Keri Shull to personally sponsor you so you have access to two nationally recognized coaching programs text 703-638-4393. Join Dan as he discusses: Here are three key discussion points from the podcast: - **Cost Structure for Teams**: How does eXp Realty's cost structure, with reduced caps and stock awards, compare to other brokerages or running an independent brokerage? Discuss the financial implications for team leaders in terms of savings and long-term benefits. - **Training and Collaboration**: Explore the impact of eXp's collaborative environment and training programs on team growth and agent development. How does the support offered by eXp compare to traditional brokerages or independent coaching programs? - **Revenue Share vs. Traditional Income**: Analyze the advantages of eXp's revenue share model as an additional income stream for team leaders. How does this model create long-term passive income, and what are the potential financial benefits compared to relying solely on commission-based earnings? Notable Quote "At eXp, the cost structure, training, stock awards, and revenue share create a platform where team leaders can focus on scaling their business without the overhead, isolation, or risks of running an independent brokerage—it's a model designed for long-term success." 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A pretty underwhelming Noche UFC card didn't deliver the action where the two title fights were concerned, but up to that point, we had a great run of fights, even if there was a dearth of finishes. There were only two finishes on the entire card. We did get a contender for round of the year (the decade even) with the third stanza of Zellhuber vs. Ribovics, which was an outstanding contest. The production pizzazz didn't really kick in much until the main card, aside from some color changing displays and the unique ring girl costumes, but once the main card got underway, we were treated to the dazzling AI displays in full 16K that didn't quite translate on our subpar monitors and TV screens. But Norma Dumont won, and for that, Stephie and Zane can rejoice.Let's take a look at the results and bonuses. We even have an announced gate and attendance.MMA Vivisection & 6th Round is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.UFC 306 Results* Merab Dvalishvili def. Sean O'Malley via UD (49-46, 48-47, 48-47)* Valentina Shevchenko def. Alexa Grasso via UD (50-45 x3)* Diego Lopes def. Brian Ortega via UD (30-26, 30-27 x2) * Esteban Ribovics def. Daniel Zellhuber via split decision (28-29, 29-28 x2)* Ronaldo Rodriguez def. Ode Osbourne via UD (29-28, 29-27 x2)* Norma Dumont def. Irene Aldana via unanimous decision (30-27 x3)* Ignacio Bahamondes def. Manuel Torres via first-round TKO (4:02)* Ketlen Souza def. Yazmin Jauregui via sub (RNC) (R2, 3:02)* Joshua Van def. Edgar Chairez via unanimous decision (29-28 x3)* Raul Rosas Jr. def. Aoriqileng via unanimous decision (29-28 x3) UFC 306 Bonuses & Supplemental Info* FOTN: Zellhuber vs. Ribovics* POTN: Bahamondes, Souza* Announced Gate: $22M* Announced Attendance: 16,024Don't forget to check out the bonus section where the boys give their patented, five-star review of all the fights. You can't get this anywhere…or can you? We like to think you can't, so we'll stick with that. Just be sure to listen! *Zane was solo so this episode doesn't have a bonus segment. FREE FUN FOR ALL!Thank you for reading this article and listening to the podcast. Please consider subscribing to The MMA Vivisection & 6th Round Post-fight Show podcast Substack to enjoy our premium content. Your paid subscriptions are keeping hope alive that we can continue on with our shows. If you haven't already, please pledge with a paid subscription today. If you have, please share this post far and wide.Thanks for reading MMA Vivisection & 6th Round! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themmadrawpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
In this week's episode, we're joined by FMA clients Jordan Hipperson and Abi Cossey, the dynamic duo behind Perfit Fitness in Norwich, UK. Jordan's dream of owning a gym was sparked after winning a lucky £16K bet, but it is their relentless hard work that's truly built the business. From finding the right location to dealing with rejections early on, their determination has driven them forward. As business partners and a couple, Jordan and Abi have navigated the challenges of running a gym together, balancing both their professional and personal lives. Today, Perfit Fitness is thriving with FMA, giving them a strong focus on marketing, content, sales, and exceptional customer service, powered by a dedicated team that shares their vision. Tune in to hear their inspiring journey and discover how they turned their passion into a thriving fitness community! Key Highlights How they got to 160 members at a price point of £185 - £295 + what they are doing now to grow How they added 10k of monthly recurring revenue and doubled their floor space The dynamics of how to run a successful business as business partners + life partners Their top sales strategies and the best way you can onboard a new client How they have implemented HYROX into their gym To find out how Fitness Marketing Agency can help your Fitness Business, book a demo call using the link below: https://fitnessmarketing.agency/high-growth Connect with Fitness Marketing Agency on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fitnessmarketingagency/. Connect with Perfit Fitness https://www.instagram.com/perfitfitness/. Connect with Jordan https://www.instagram.com/jordanhipperson/. Connect with Abi https://www.instagram.com/abicossey/
Interview with Steve Leininger, Designer of the TRS-80- Model I Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FloppyDays Sponsors: 8-Bit Classics Arcade Shopper 0 Floppy Days Tune 1 min 13 sec Vintage Computer Ads 1 min 42 sec Intro 9 min 03 sec bumper - Peter Bartlett 9 min 11 sec New Acquisitions 17 min 11 sec bumper - Ian Mavric 17 min 19 sec Upcoming Computer Shows 21 min 53 sec bumper - Myles Wakeham 21 min 58 sec Meet the Listeners 28 min 37 sec Interview with Steve Leininger 1 hr 20 min 29 sec Closing This particular episode has a special meaning for me, personally. You see, as I've mentioned on earlier episodes, the TRS-80 Model I from Tandy/Radio Shack was my first home computer (even though my first programmable device was a TI58C calculator). I recall the joy and wonder of playing with the machine (it wasn't called the Model I at that time; just the TRS-80; as it was the first of the line) in the local Radio Shack store in 1977 and 1978 and the incredible rush of owning one in 1979; after my wife purchased a Level I BASIC machine for me as a gift for college graduation. That machine only had 4K of RAM and 4K of ROM (Tiny BASIC), as it was the entry-level machine, but it was a thing of beauty. I felt like I could do anything with that machine, even though my justification to the wife was that we could track our checkbook and recipes on it. I think she knew better, but went along with it anyway. The computer came with everything you needed, including a tape drive and black-and-white monitor, which was good for a poor recent college graduate. I quickly, as finances allowed with my new engineering job, upgraded the computer to 16K of RAM and Level II BASIC (a powerful Microsoft 12K ROM BASIC) and enjoyed the machine immensely, even using it in my job supporting the build-out of a new nuclear power plant back in those days. I eventually sold off the Model I, in favor of a computer that had color graphics and sound (the Atari 800), but have always continued to have a huge soft spot for that first computer. When I started the Floppy Days Podcast, one of the people that has always been on my bucket list to interview has been Steve Leininger, who, along with Don French while at Radio Shack designed the TRS-80 Model I, among other things. A few years back, I had the opportunity to participate in an interview with Steve for the Trash Talk Podcast, when I was co-hosting that show, but an ill-timed trip to the hospital for my son meant that I was not able to participate. While my son's health is of paramount importance, of course, I always wanted to get another chance to talk with Steve. Not only was Steve the designer of one of my favorite home computers of all time, but he also was a fellow Purdue University Boilermaker, who graduated just a year before I started there. The thought that I could have met Steve on campus if I'd been there just a year earlier was very intriguing to me, and fueled my desire to talk with Steve even more. In the last episode (#141 with Paul Terrell) I talked about VCF Southeast in Atlanta in July of 2024. After I had made plans to attend that show, I was flabbergasted to find out that Earl Baugh, one of the show organizers, had somehow managed to contact Steve and get him to come to the show! I have to thank Earl for the work he did to make that happen. Here was my opportunity to certainly meet Steve, and perhaps even talk with him! I prepped some questions, just in case I was able to get an interview. While at the show, I met Steve and asked him if he would be willing to do a short interview for Floppy Days while at the show. Amazingly, he was very kind and agreed to do that. We found a quiet room and I was able to talk with Steve for almost an hour. This show contains that interview. Another note on this: as you'll hear in the interview, the connection to Steve is even stronger than I realized! He not only went to my alma mater, but also grew up in some of the same towns that myself and my wife did. We personally peripherally know some of his relatives. Things like this really do make you think the world is small! One other, final, note: This interview even ties into the recent and continuing interviews I've been publishing with Paul Terrell. As you'll hear in upcoming episodes with Paul, and in this interview with Steve, Steve actually worked at the Byte Shop before getting the first job with Tandy, and in fact his work at the Byte Shop directly led to him getting hired by Tandy to design the Model I. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I enjoyed getting it. I am overjoyed I finally got the chance to talk to one of my vintage computer heroes, Steve Leininger! New Acquisitions C64 Sketch and Design by Tony Lavioe - sponsored link https://amzn.to/4dZGtt2 Compute's Mapping the IBM PC and PC Junior by Russ Davies - sponsored link https://amzn.to/3yQmrlP The Best of SoftSide - Atari Edition - https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-best-of-softside-atari-edition ZX81+38 - https://github.com/mahjongg2/ZX81plus38 magnifying glasses - sponsored link https://amzn.to/4cBQYla Japanese power adapter - sponsored link https://amzn.to/3XjeUW5 Upcoming Shows VCF Midwest - September 7-8 - Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ VCF Europe - September 7-8 - Munich, Germany - https://vcfe.org/E/ World of Retrocomputing 2024 Expo - September 14-15 - Kitchener, ON, Canada - https://www.facebook.com/events/s/world-of-retro-computing-2024-/1493036588265072/ Teletext 50 - Sep 21-22 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, UK - https://www.teletext50.com/ Portland Retro Gaming Expo - September 27-29 - Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR - https://retrogamingexpo.com/ Tandy Assembly - September 27-29 - Courtyard by Marriott Springfield - Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/ AmiWest - October 25-27 - Sacramento, CA - https://amiwest.net/ Chicago TI International World Faire - October 26 - Evanston Public Library (Falcon Room, 303), Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/faire/ Retro Computer Festival 2024 - November 9-10 - Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/ Silly Venture WE (Winter Edition) - Dec. 5-8 - Gdansk, Poland - https://www.demoparty.net/silly-venture/silly-venture-2024-we Schedule Published on Floppy Days Website - https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeLsg4hf5KZKtpxwUQgacCIsqeIdQeZniq3yE881wOCCYskpLVs5OO1PZLqRRF2t5fUUiaKByqQrgA/pub Interview Steve's Workbench at radioshack.com (archived) - https://web.archive.org/web/19980528232503/http://www.radioshack.com/sw/swb/ Transcript of Interview-Only Randy Kindig: All right. I really appreciate your time today, Steve. Steve Leininger: Thank you for having me, Randy. Randy Kindig: So let's start out maybe just by talking about where You live today, and what you do? Steve Leininger: I live in Woodland Park, Colorado, which is 8, 500 feet, right out in front of we got Pike's Peak out our front window. Randy Kindig: Oh. Oh, that's nice. Steve Leininger: Yeah we get snow up through about June, and then it starts again about September. But it's not as much snow as you would imagine. Randy Kindig: I've got property in Montana, and I lived out there for a couple of years, Steve Leininger: so there you go. Randy Kindig: We probably got more snow up there. Steve Leininger: Hey, you asked what I did. I'm involved with Boy Scouts, a maker space with a church based ministry firewood ministry, actually. Some people call it a fire bank. So we provide firewood to people who can't afford that. Randy Kindig: Oh. Steve Leininger: So it's like a food bank, but with fire, firewood. Randy Kindig: I've never heard of that. Steve Leininger: We source the firewood. We cut it down and we split it. Lots of volunteers involved; pretty big project. Randy Kindig: Yeah. Okay, cool. I also wanted to mention, I'm a fellow Boilermaker. Steve Leininger: There you go. Randy Kindig: I know you went to Purdue, right? Steve Leininger: I did go to Purdue. Randy Kindig: Did you ever get back there? Steve Leininger: Yeah, and in fact they've got a couple learning spaces named after us. Randy Kindig: Oh, okay. Steve Leininger: We've been donating to our respective alma maters. My wife went to IU. Randy Kindig: Oh, is that right? Oh my. Steve Leininger: Yeah, oh my and me. Yeah, the fact that the family who's all IU, their family tolerated me was, quite a remarkable thing. Randy Kindig: Okay. I find it interesting because I think you graduated in 76, is that right? Steve Leininger: 74. Randy Kindig: Oh, 74. Steve Leininger: Yeah. Yeah. I was there from … Randy Kindig: Oh yeah, you actually were gone before I started. Steve Leininger: Yeah. So I was there from 70 to 73. 70 to 70 four. When I graduated in four years, I got both my bachelor's and master's degree by going through the summer. I managed to pass out of the first year classes because of some of the high school stuff yeah. Randy Kindig: Okay. I started in 75, so I guess we just missed each other. Steve Leininger: Yeah. Yeah. You're the new kids coming in. Randy Kindig: Yeah. . So I, I found that interesting and I wanted to say that. Do you keep up with their sports program or anything like that? Steve Leininger: Yeah, they play a pretty good game of basketball in fact, I ribbed my wife about it because she was from the earlier days, the Bobby Knight days at IU that were phenomenal. Randy Kindig: Yeah, exactly. For those of you listening, I'm talking with Steve Leininger, who was the primary developer, if not the developer, of the TRS 80 Model I.. Steve Leininger: I did all the hardware and software for it. I'll give Don French credit for sticking to it and getting a project started. And for refining, refining our product definition a little bit to where it was better than it would have been if I would have stopped early. Randy Kindig: Okay. And I have talked with Don before. I've interviewed him on the podcast, and I met him at Tandy Assembly. But I'm just curious, when you were hired into Tandy and you were told what you were going to do; exactly what were you told? Steve Leininger: They had a 16 bit microprocessor board that another consultant had developed. And they were trying to make a personal computer out of this. It was the Pace microprocessor, which was not a spectacular success for National, but it was one of the first 16 bit processors. But they had basically an initial prototype, might have been even the second level of the thing. No real documentation, no software, ran on three different voltages and didn't have input or output. Other than that, it was fine. I was brought in because I was one of the product one of the engineers for the development boards, the development board series for the SCAMP, the S C M P, the National Semiconductor had a very low cost microprocessor that at one point in time, I benchmarked against the 8080 with positive benchmarks and ours was faster on the benchmarks I put together, but as I was later told there's lies, damn lies, and benchmarks. But so they said take a look at using that, their low cost microprocessor that you were working with. And it really wasn't the right answer for the job. Let's see, the Altair was already out. Okay. That was the first real personal computer. The Apple, the Apple 1 was out. Okay. But it was not a consumer computer. Okay. They, it was just, it was like a cookie sheet of parts, which was very similar to what was used in the Atari games at the commercial games. Okay. pong and that kind of stuff at that time. And I had been working, after Purdue, I went to National Semiconductor. There's a long story behind all that. But in the process, some of us engineers would go up to the Homebrew Computer Club that met monthly up at the Stanford Linear Accelerator. We're talking Wilbur and Orville Wright kinds of things going on. Yeah. Everyone who was in the pioneering version of computing had at one time been to that meeting. Randy Kindig: It's very famous. Yeah. Steve Leininger: Yeah. And Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were basically a couple guys working out of their garage at the time. I was still working at National Semiconductor, but I also had a Moonlight job at Byte Shop number 2. The second computer store in all of California. Randy Kindig: And So you worked with Paul Terrell. Steve Leininger: I actually worked with one of, yeah, Paul, I actually worked for Paul's I don't know if it was a partner, Todd, I don't even remember the guy's name. But I just, it was. Randy Kindig: I was curious because I'm talking to Paul right now and getting interviews. Steve Leininger: Yeah. I, I'm sure we met, but it wasn't anything horribly formal. Since it was the number two shop, it still wasn't the number one shop, which Paul worked out of. And so we had an Apple 1 there. I actually got the job because I when I When I went in there, they were trying to troubleshoot something with what looked like an oscilloscope that they pulled out of a tank, and so it had, audio level kind of bandwidth, but could not do a digital circuit. And I said what you really need is a, I told him, a good tectonic scope or something like that. He said do you want a job here? I ended up moonlighting there, which was, as fortune would have it, was a good deal when the folks from Radio Shack came down to visit. Because when they came down to visit the sales guy wasn't there. We'll let the engineer talk to them, they almost never let the engineers talk to them. Randy Kindig: So you had to talk with them. Steve Leininger: Yeah. It was John Roach, Don French, and it was probably Jack Sellers, okay and Don was probably the; he was the most on top of stuff electronically because he was a hobbyist of sorts. The other two guys: Mr. Sellers ran the engineering group. John Roach was the VP of manufacturing. And they were basically on a parts visit. They do it once a year, once, twice a year. And they also did it with Motorola and a couple other places. But I told him about this microprocessor and that I was writing a tiny BASIC for it. Okay. Tiny BASIC was a interpreted basic that a guy named Li-Chen Wang actually had the first thing in Dr. Dobbs, Dr. Dobbs magazine. We're talking about, we're talking about things that you don't realize are the shoulders of giants that turned out to be the shoulders of giants. And in fact, we reached out to Mr. Wang as we were working on it. We thought we had the software already taken care of because I'm jumping ahead in the story, but we were going to have Bob Uterich, and you'd have to chase that back. We had him signed up to write a BASIC interpreter for us, but because he'd already done one for the 6800, and it was included in Interface Age magazine. on a plastic record. You remember the old plastic records you could put in a magazine? Randy Kindig: Yeah, I did see that. Steve Leininger: Yeah, so this was called a floppy ROM when they did it. Yeah. So if you had the right software and everything you could download the software off of the floppy ROM and run it on 6800. I think he used the Southwest Technical Products thing. And so we'd signed him up to do the BASIC. This was independent of the hardware design I was doing. And he went into radio silence on us; couldn't find him. And so we get to, in parallel, I was using the Li-Chen Wang plan to do at least a demo version of BASIC that would run on the original computer. And when the demo went successfully on Groundhog Day in 1977. This is the time frame we're talking about. I I started work on July 5th, the year before it. With Tandy? Yeah. Okay. We rolled into town on the 3rd, and of course they're closed for the 4th. And on the 5th I started, and there was the wandering around in the desert at the beginning of that, and Don's probably talked about how I was moved from there to their audio factory and then to the old saddle factory. Tandy used to be primarily a leather company before they bought Radio Shack in 1966 or something like that. And anyway, when the software didn't come out, I ended up writing the software, too. So I designed all the hardware and all the software. I didn't do the power supply. Chris Klein did the power supply. And, a little bit of the analog video circuitry, but it was very little part of that. Because we were just making a video signal. I did all the digital stuff on that. Yeah. Randy Kindig: So the software ended up being what was the level one ROM, right? Steve Leininger: Yeah, the level one ROM started out as the Li-Chen Wang BASIC. But he had no I. O. in his software, so I was doing the keyboard scanning. I had to do the cassette record and playback. Had to implement data read and data write Peek and poke, which is pretty simple. Put in the graphic statements. Yeah, oh, and floating point. Now, floating point, luckily, Zilog had a library for that, but I had to basically, this was before APIs were a big deal, so I basically had to use their interface, To what I had written and had to allocate storage, correct? We're talking about 4K bytes of ROM. I know, yeah. Very tiny, and to put all the I. O. in there, and to make it so that you could be updating the screen, when you're doing the cassette I put two asterisks up there and blinked the second one on and off, you remember that? Randy Kindig: Oh yeah. Steve Leininger: Sort of as a level set. Randy Kindig: Yeah. Steve Leininger: And someone said, oh, you should have patented that thing. And actually I have seven or eight patents, U. S. patents, on different parts of the computer architecture. Randy Kindig: Oh, do you? Steve Leininger: But not the blinking asterisk, which is probably a patentable feature. Randy Kindig: Yeah, I wish I'd had that on other machines, that I ended up having. So that would have been nice, yeah. I liken what you've done with what Steve Wozniak did, for the Apple II. You're somebody I've always wanted to talk to because I felt like you were one of the important pioneers in their early years. What do you have to say about that? Do you feel like what you did was ... Steve Leininger: in retrospect, yes. And I have a greater appreciation for people like the Wright Brothers. If you think about the Wright Brothers they took all their stuff from their Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop down to Kill Devil Hills. We now know it as Kitty Hawk. But they would take the stuff down there by train, and then they would have to put it in horse driven wagons. Think about that. And people would ask them, what are you going to use the airplane for? It's what are you going to use a home computer for? Yeah, to maintain recipes and to play games. Randy Kindig: Do your checkbook. Steve Leininger: Do your check, home security. There's a whole lot of stuff that we talked about. And other giants entered the field: Multiplan, which became Lotus 1 2 3, which became Excel. Not the same company, but the idea, could you live without a spreadsheet today? Very difficult for some things, right? Randy Kindig: Yeah. Yeah, it's ubiquitous. People use it for everything. Yeah. Yeah. So you've been, I talked with David and Teresa Walsh. Or Welsh, I'm sorry, Welsh. Where they did the book Priming the Pump. Steve Leininger: That's very that's pretty close to the real thing. Randy Kindig: Is it? Okay. They named their book after what you did and said; that you primed the pump for home computers. Can you expand on that and tell us exactly what you meant by that? Steve Leininger: It again goes back to that shoulders of giants thing, and I forget who said that; it's actually a very old quote, I can see further because I'm standing on the shoulders of giants. And I think the thing that we brought to the table and Independently, Commodore and Apple did the same thing in 1977. There were three computers that came out inexpensive enough that you could use them in the home. They all came with ROM loaded BASIC. You didn't have to load anything else in. They all came with a video output. Some had displays. Some Commodore's was built in. One of ours was a Clip on and you had to go find one for the apple. For the Apple, yeah. Apple had a superior case. Apple and Radio Shack both had great keyboards. Randy Kindig: apple was expandable, with its... Steve Leininger: yeah, Apple Apple was internally expandable, yeah. And, but it cost $1,000. Without the cassette. Without the monitor. It wasn't the same type of device. Randy Kindig: I was a college student. And, I looked at all three options. It was like the TRS-80; there are Radio Shacks everywhere. You could go in and play with one; which was nice. And they were inexpensive enough that I could actually afford one. Steve Leininger: And, Radio Shack can't duck the, if you did something wrong, you had to fix it. Randy Kindig: That's right. Let's see here. So initially the idea was to have a kit computer by Tandy? Steve Leininger: Yeah. I'm not sure whose idea that was. It made some kind of sense. Because that's the way the Altair was, and Radio Shack did sell a number of kits, but in the process of still kicking that around, saying it could be a possibility. I was one of the ones that said it could be a possibility. Within the same group that I did the design work from, they also would take kits in that people had built and troubleshoot the things if they didn't work. We had a couple engineers that would see if you connected something wrong or something. If you didn't, sometimes it was a matter that the instructions weren't clear. If you tell someone to put an LED in, yeah. You specifically have to tell them which way to put it in. And might be an opportunity to tweak your timing. Yeah. Anyway, we get this clock in, and it was a digital clock. Seven segment LEDs probably cost 50 bucks or more. Which is crazy. But It says, put all the components in the board, turn the board over, and solder everything to the board. And, pretty simple instructions. This had a sheet of solder over the entire bottom of the board. Someone figured out how to put two pounds of solder on the back of this thing. And, as we all got a great chuckle out of that, You realize, oh, you don't want to have to deal with a computer like this. You really don't. And Lou Kornfeld, who was the president at the time, didn't really want the computer. But he said, it's not going to be a kit. All right. That, that, that took care of that. great idea. Great idea. Randy Kindig: Were there any other times when you thought the computer might, or were there any times, when you thought the computer might not come to fruition? Any snags that you had that made you think that maybe this isn't going to work? Steve Leininger: Not really. I was young and pretty well undaunted. Randy Kindig: Pretty sure you could, Steve Leininger: yeah I, it wasn't any, it wasn't any different than building one at home. I'd been building kits since, night kits, heath kits, that kind of stuff, since I was a kid. And home brewed a couple things, including a hot dog cooker made from two nails and a couple wires that plugged into the wall. Don't try that at home. Randy Kindig: No kidding. Steve Leininger: But, it's funny if you If you look it up on, if you look that kind of project up on the internet, you can still find a project like that. It's like what's it called? Anvil tossing, where you put gunpowder under an anvil, shoot it up in the air. What could possibly go wrong? Don't, Randy Kindig: It's very well documented in books like Priming the Pump, Stan Veit's book, which I assume you're familiar with, and Fire in the Valley, what your involvement was with the Model 1. But there was some mention of your involvement with the Expansion Interface and other TRS 80 projects. What else did you work on while you were there? Steve Leininger: The Color Computer, the Expansion Interface. The model three to a little. Randy Kindig: Okay. Steve Leininger: Little bit. The model two was the big one. And point I just got tired of the management there. Randy Kindig: Did you? Okay. Steve Leininger: Yeah. I my mind was going faster than theirs, and they made the conscious decision to do whatever IBM has done, but do it cheaper. That, to me, that's not a. Didn't say less expensively either, so the whole thing just troubled me that, we're not going to be able to do anything new unless IBM has done it. And at about the same time the Macintosh came out and a superb piece of work. Yeah. Randy Kindig: Okay. So what education training and previous work experience did you have at the time you got hired by Tandy that made you uniquely qualified for that project that they were looking for? Steve Leininger: I'd been playing around with electronics since I was in the third grade. Actually, electricity. Randy Kindig: The third grade, wow. Steve Leininger: Yeah. My, my mom got me a kit that had light bulbs and bells and buzzers and wire from, I think it might have been the Metropolitan Museum. They had a kit. They, they've got a, they still today have an online presence. It, of course the materials have changed, but the kit had all these parts and it had no instructions. And I don't know if that was by design or it didn't have instructions, so I had to learn how to hook up wires and light bulbs and bells and switches to make it do things. And, in the process, I found out that if you put a wire right across the battery terminals, it gets hot. And, interesting stuff to know. Pretty soon, I was taking this stuff in to show and tell in the third grade. Look, and I was very early in electronics. It's electricity. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then my mom would take me to the library. She was quite a voracious reader, and I'd go to the library. technical section specifically the Dewey Decimal 621, which was electronics and things like that. Randy Kindig: you still remember that. Steve Leininger: Yeah. And in the 590 series, there's some good stuff too. And I would usually take out a stack of books, even though I was a horrible reader because I'm dyslexic and ADD. So I have an attention span and reading problem. But the technical stuff I was reading about pipeline architecture processors while I was still in junior high. And not that was important to where I ended up, but it was important because I understood the words and data flow, and stuff like that. And between that and building the kits and things like that, I When we moved to Indianapolis, my dad moved jobs down to Indianapolis. Randy Kindig: Oh, you lived in Indianapolis? Steve Leininger: Yeah. So I moved from South Bend down to Indianapolis. So I probably passed your house as . Actually we came down through Kokomo, but but yeah. Randy Kindig: I actually grew up in that part of the state. Just south of South Bend. Steve Leininger: Okay. So yeah La Paz, Plymouth, Randy Kindig: yeah, Warsaw, Rochester. Steve Leininger: Yeah, I was born in Rochester. Randy Kindig: Oh, okay. So that's where I grew up in that area. Steve Leininger: Okay, there you go. My dad's from Akron. Randy Kindig: Are you serious? Steve Leininger: I am serious. Randy Kindig: Akron's where my wife grew up. And I was just 10 miles from there. Steve Leininger: The general store there, Dan Leininger and Sons, that's my great grandfather. Randy Kindig: Really? Steve Leininger: Yeah. Randy Kindig: I'll be darned. Okay. Okay. Steve Leininger: So now it all makes sense. Randy Kindig: That's amazing. Steve Leininger: Anyway, we started a garage band. This is before Apple's garage band. And I made my own amplifier. It basically had the sun sun amplifiers back end on the thing and a Fender Showman front end on it. Completely home brewed really loud amplifier. And I had a friend who had a guitar amplifier that was broken, and he had taken it down to the music store there. And after six weeks of not getting it back, they said we've had trouble with our technician and all that. I asked if I could go down and look at it, and in 15 minutes I had his amplifier fixed. And they said, do you want tom so you want a job? All right. Yeah, because I'd been doing, I'd had a paper route before and I don't think I was doing anything since we'd moved and ao I started working in a music store and they ended up with two music stores and then an organ store next door and I started repairing that kind of stuff. And this was the end of my first year in college. Went to the extension in Indianapolis. Randy Kindig: Oh, okay. And Was that I U P U I? Steve Leininger: IUPUI, yeah. Yeah. I, yeah, I U P U I. Randy Kindig: Huh. I went there as well. Steve Leininger: Yeah and learned Fortran there, got all my first year classes out, and then moved on up to the campus. And because we'd always go to the library, and because my mom would often take me to the library, the newsstand not too far from the library, and she'd get a couple magazines, but she let me get an electronic magazine. And, I didn't understand these things, pretty soon you start understanding the pic, you start understanding it. This is a resistor, I built a little shocker box based on a design in probably elementary electronics. And It's like a handheld electric fence. Randy Kindig: Oh, wow. Steve Leininger: Yeah. Think hot dog cooker. Anyway, so I learned some electronics that way. A lot of that was self taught. I learned quite a bit more by working in the music store, again, this was before I was taught any formal electronics. And actually when I moved up to campus on Purdue, I thought I was going to be a world class guitar amplifier designer. That's where I thought. And it turns out my analog gut feelings aren't, weren't as good as other people's. Paul Schreiber does a much better job with electronics, with analog electronics than I do. But digital electronics, I understood this stuff. I would hang out in the library and I'd read the trade magazines. So I was up to date on, I was way more up to date than a typical professor would be on current electronics. And in 1973, which was the end of my junior year, Electronics Magazine had an article on the Intel 8008. And I said, Oh, I understand this. See, I'd already been taking assembly language. Now they didn't teach assembly language programming in the electronics school. They had Fortran, but there was no way to get from Fortran to ..they weren't teaching programming languages. I had to go to the business school where I learned assembly language on the school's CDC 6600 mainframe. Randy Kindig: Really? Steve Leininger: Yeah. Randy Kindig: Through the business school? Steve Leininger: Yeah. And for those of you who have never tried assembly language programming, it looks like a foreign language until you just internalize it in your brain: there's ADD, A D and A D C for ADD with carry, and there's a whole bunch of different things. There's different ways to move data around, but you're only doing a few really basic things, and if you do it fast enough, it looks like it's instantaneous. That's the way even your phone works today. It's because you're doing it fast enough. It fools you. Randy Kindig: Yep. Wow. Do you ever look back at these days, at those days, with amazement? As far as how far the industry has come? Steve Leininger: Oh yeah. And, it's funny because you wouldn't, you couldn't probably, but you wouldn't start over again. I had to learn, I had to learn digital video. Actually the giant that I, whose shoulders I stood on there was the late Don Lancaster. He had a book called TV Typewriter Cookbook. And actually that came out a little bit later, but he had a TV typewriter series in Radio Electronics Magazine. And basically alphanumeric display. If you think about it, just the glass teletype, the keyboard display and a serial interface at the time that the RadioShack computer came out was selling for 999. Another 400 on top of what we were selling the whole computer for. Because we had a microprocessor in there. We didn't have a whole lot of options. We didn't have a whole lot of fluff. In fact Motorola said, send this to your schematics and your parts list and let's see if we can minimize your circuit. And after two weeks they sent it back. He said, you did a pretty good job here. . . Randy Kindig: Okay. Huh. You still stay in touch with people at Tandy? Steve Leininger: A few of them. It's actually been more lately. Because it's almost more interesting now. It's like the, I don't know whatever happened to Atwater and Kent, of the Atwater Kent radio. But, that's an old school radio that now you've got people that rebuild them and got them all polished up and all this kind of stuff. But for a while they ended up in the dump. I'm sure, there are some trash 80s that ended up in the trash. Randy Kindig: I'm sure. Steve Leininger: Yeah but I've gotten rid of lots of PCs that don't meet my needs anymore, right? Randy Kindig: Sure. Yeah, we all have, somewhere along the way. It seemed like you were really quiet there for a long time and that you were difficult to get in contact with. Steve Leininger: I wasn't really that difficult. I didn't maintain a social media presence on the thing, but things that I had my own consulting company for quite a while. I actually came back to Radio Shack two more times after I left. One was to come back as a technologist there. The politics still didn't work out well. Then I came back as a contractor to help them with some of their online things. I actually had a website called Steve's Workbench. Steve Leininger: And you can find it on the Internet Archive. The Wayback Machine. And it had some basic stamp projects. And we were going to do all sorts of other things. But I managed to upset the people at RadioShack. com. They didn't have a big sense of humor about someone being critical about the products that they'd selected. And I, I did a... I was going to start doing product reviews on the kits, how easy it was to solder, whether it was a good value for the money and all that kind of stuff. And I gave a pretty honest review on it. And Radio Shack didn't appreciate the power of an honest review. It's what makes Amazon what it is, right? You go in there and if there's something that's got just two stars on the reviews, Yeah, you really got to know what you're doing if you're going to buy the thing, right? And if you see something that's got a bunch of one star and a bunch of five star reviews Yeah, someone's probably aalting the reference at the top end. And so I mean they had such a fit that when they changed platforms For RadioShack. com, they didn't take Steve's Workbench with it And I basically lost that position. Radio Shack should own the makerspace business right now. They at one time, one time I suggested, you ought to take a look at buying Digikey or maybe Mouser. Mouser was right down the street from us. They already had their hands into Allied, but these other two were doing stuff, more consumer oriented, but they didn't. They were making, they were flush with money from selling cell phone contracts. And they thought that was the way of the future until the cell phone companies started reeling that back in. At a certain point, you don't want to be paying your 5 percent or 10 percent royalty to Radio Shack for just signing someone up. Randy Kindig: Yeah. Okay. I didn't realize you had ever gone back and worked for them again. Steve Leininger: Yeah, twice, Randy Kindig: and so I'm curious, did you meet any other famous figures in the microcomputer revolution while you were working at Tandy? Steve Leininger: At Tandy, let's see. Randy Kindig: I'm just curious. Steve Leininger: Yeah, Bill Gates, of course. I went out when we were working on level two BASIC. And Bill Gates I think was probably a hundred- thousand- aire at that time. And, working in a, thhey had a floor in a bank building in Seattle. He took me to the basement of his dad's law firm, and we had drinks there, and I went out to his house on the lake. This was not the big house. I've never been there. It was a big house on the lake, but it wasn't the one That he built later on. So I knew him early on run across Forest Mims a couple times. And of course, he's the shoulders upon which a lot of electronic talent was built and some of the stuff is lost. Jameco is actually bringing him back as a… Jameco is a kinda like a Radio Shack store online. It's yeah it is, it's not as robust as DigiKey or Bower, but they've held their roots. Someone I've not met Lady Ada from Adafruit would be fun. Randy Kindig: Yeah. Would, yeah. Steve Leininger: I, that, that's another thing that, if we had something along those lines, that would have been cool, but the buyers weren't up, up to the task and they when you don't want criticism at a certain point you've got to quit doing things if you don't want to be criticized. Randy Kindig: Sure. When you finally got the Model 1 rolled out and you saw the tremendous interest, were you surprised in the interest that it garnered? Steve Leininger: I wasn't. I wasn't. In fact, there's a quote of me. Me and John Roach had a discussion on how many of these do you think we could sell? And, this is actually quoted in his obituary on the, in the Wall Street Journal. I, Mr. Tandy said you could build 3, 500 of these because we've got 3, 500 stores and we can use them in the inventory. And to take inventory. And John Roach thought maybe we could sell, up to 5, 000 of these things in the first year. And I said, oh no, I think we could sell 50, 000. To which he said, horseshit. Just like that. And that, now I quoted that to the Wall Street Journal, and they put that in his obituary. Yeah I don't know how many times that word shows up in the Wall Street Journal, but if you search their files you'll find that it was me quoting John Roach. So … Randy Kindig: I'll have to, I'll have to look for that, yeah, that's funny. So you were not surprised by the interest, Steve Leininger: no, it, part of it was I knew the leverage of the stores I'd been working, when we introduced the thing I'd been working for the company for just over a year. Think about that. And it wasn't until just before probably, it was probably September or October when Don and I agreed on the specs. I'd keep writing it up, and he'd look at it. Don actually suggested that, demanded, he doesn't, in a, but in a good natured way, he made a good case for it, that I have, in addition to the cassette interface on there, that I have a way to read and write data. Because if you're going to do an accounting program, you got to be able to read and write data. I actually figured out a way to do that. There were a couple other things. John Roach really wanted blinking lights on the thing. And my mechanical, the mechanical designer, there said that's going to cost more money to put the LEDs in there. What are you going to do with them? And, Mr. Roach was, you know, familiar with the IBM probably the 360 by then? Anyway. The mainframes. Yeah, mainframes always had blinking lights on them. Randy Kindig: Exactly. Steve Leininger: And since it's a computer, it should have blinking lights. And Larry said, Larry the mechanical guy said what are you going to do with them? I said, I can't, I said I could put stuff up there, It's… Randy Kindig: What are they going to indicate? Steve Leininger: Yeah. And then, he said, I'll tell you what, I'm going to make the case without holes for the lights and just don't worry about it. That was the end of the discussion. Mr. Roach was probably a little disappointed, but yeah, no one else had them, Randy Kindig: it's funny to think that you'd have blinking lights on a microcomputer like that. Yeah. Yeah. Is there any aspect of the Model one development you would do differently if you were doing it today? Steve Leininger: Yeah, I would, I would've put the eighth memory chip in with the, with the video display so you get upper and lower case. Randy Kindig: Yeah, there you go. Okay. Steve Leininger: Might've put buffers to the outside world. We had the, the microprocessor was buffered, but it was, it was very short distance off the connector there. Otherwise, there's not a whole lot I would have changed. Software could have been written a little better, but when one person's writing all the software the development system that I had was a Zilog development system. And 30 character percent a second. Decorator, line printer. The fact that I got it done is actually miracle stuff. Randy Kindig: Yeah, and you got it done in a year, right? Steve Leininger: And it was all written in assembly language. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Got it all done in a year. Randy Kindig: That's a good year's work. Steve Leininger: It is. Randy Kindig: Building a computer from scratch, basically, and then getting it... Steve Leininger: and back then we had to program EEPROMs. We didn't have flash memory. Okay. Didn't hardly have operating systems back then. Not that I was using one. There was something in the Zilog thing, but yeah we were so far ahead of things, we were developing a product rather than a computer. And maybe that's the whole difference is that we had a product that you pull it up, plug it in, and it says these are TRS 80 and it wasn't the Model 1 until the Model 2 came out. Randy Kindig: Yeah, exactly. It was just the TRS 80. Yeah. So I have to know, do you have any of the old hardware? Steve Leininger: I've got a Model 1. I don't use it except for demonstrations now. I actually have two. I've got one that works and one that's probably got a broken keyboard connector from taking it out of the case and holding it up too many times. Randy Kindig: Were these prototypes or anything? Steve Leininger: They are non serial production units. I've got the, I've got a prototype ROM board that's got the original integer basic that I wrote. I don't have the video boards and all that kind of stuff that went with it when we did the original demonstration. Let's see we had four wire wrapped, completely wire wrapped industrial wire wrapped versions that we used for prototyping the software. One went to David Lein, who wrote the book that came with the thing, the basic book. One I had at my desk and there were two others. Yeah. And they got rid of all of those. So a cautionary tale is if you do something in the future where you've got that prototype that was put together in Tupperware containers or held together with duct tape, you need to at least take pictures of it. And you might want to keep one aside. If it turns out to be something like the Apple III, you can probably get rid of all that stuff. If it turns out to be something like the Apple II, The RadioShack computer, the Commodore PET, you really ought to, enshrine that. The original iPhone. Apple did stuff that was, what was it, can't remember what it was. They had a they had a thing not unlike the... 3Com ended up getting them. Anyway the hand of the PDAs, no one knows what a Personal Oh, digital assistant. Yeah. Yeah. We call that a, we call that a phone ... Randy Kindig: Palm Pilot. Yeah. Steve Leininger: Yeah. Palm Pilot. That's the one. Yeah. I've got a couple of those. I've got three model 100's. I've got one of the early… Randy Kindig: Did you work on the 100s? Steve Leininger: I used it, but I didn't work on it. The design. No. Okay. That was an NEC product with Radio Shack skins on it. Randy Kindig: Oh, that's right. That's right. Steve Leininger: Kay Nishi was the big mover on that. Yeah. Let's see I've got an Altair and an ASR 33 Teletype. Yeah, we're talking about maybe the computer's grandfather, right? I've had a whole bunch of other stuff. I've probably had 40 other computers that I don't have anymore. I am gravitating towards mechanical music devices, big music boxes, that kind of stuff. Randy Kindig: Oh, okay. Cool. Interesting. Steve, that's all the questions I had prepared. Steve Leininger: Okay. Randy Kindig: Is there anything I should have asked about that? Steve Leininger: Oh my, Randy Kindig: anything you'd want to say? Steve Leininger: Yeah, I, I've given talks before on how do you innovate? How do you become, this is pioneering kinds of stuff. So you really have to have that vision, man. The vision, I can't exactly say where the vision comes from, but being dyslexic for me has been a gift. Okay and this is something I tell grade school and middle school students that, some people are out there saying I, I can't do that because, it's just too much stuff or my brain is cluttered. Cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what's an empty desk the sign of? Embrace the clutter. Learn a lot of different things. Do what you're passionate about. Be willing to. support your arguments, don't just get angry if someone doesn't think the way you do, explain why you're doing it that way. And sometimes it's a matter of they just don't like it or they don't have the vision. The ones that don't have the vision, they never, they may never have the vision. I've quit companies because of people like that. But When you've got the vision and can take it off in your direction, it could just end up as being art. And I shouldn't say just art, art can be an amazing thing. And that behind these walls here, we've got a pinball machine and gaming conference going on. And it is nutcase. But is there stuff out there you look at and say, Oh, wow. Yeah. And I do too. Keep it a while going. Randy Kindig: Very cool. All right. That's a great stopping point, I think. All right. I really appreciate it, Steve taking the time to talk with us today. Steve Leininger: Thanks, Randy.
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We present DeepSeek-Coder-V2, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code language model that achieves performance comparable to GPT4-Turbo in code-specific tasks. Specifically, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 is further pre-trained from an intermediate checkpoint of DeepSeek-V2 with additional 6 trillion tokens. Through this continued pre-training, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 substantially enhances the coding and mathematical reasoning capabilities of DeepSeek-V2, while maintaining comparable performance in general language tasks. Compared to DeepSeek-Coder-33B, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 demonstrates significant advancements in various aspects of code-related tasks, as well as reasoning and general capabilities. Additionally, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 expands its support for programming languages from 86 to 338, while extending the context length from 16K to 128K. In standard benchmark evaluations, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 achieves superior performance compared to closed-source models such as GPT4-Turbo, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini 1.5 Pro in coding and math benchmarks. 2024: DeepSeek-AI, Qihao Zhu, Daya Guo, Zhihong Shao, Dejian Yang, Peiyi Wang, Runxin Xu, Y. Wu, Yukun Li, Huazuo Gao, Shirong Ma, Wangding Zeng, Xiao Bi, Zihui Gu, Hanwei Xu, Damai Dai, Kai Dong, Liyue Zhang, Yishi Piao, Zhibin Gou, Zhenda Xie, Zhewen Hao, Bing-Li Wang, Jun-Mei Song, Deli Chen, Xin Xie, Kang Guan, Yu-mei You, A. Liu, Qiushi Du, W. Gao, Xuan Lu, Qinyu Chen, Yaohui Wang, Chengqi Deng, Jiashi Li, Chenggang Zhao, Chong Ruan, Fuli Luo, W. Liang https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11931v1
The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT When I first spoke with Jonathan Labbee about the grand-scale media facades and displays being produced by SACO Technologies, the Sphere in Las Vegas was just yet another over-the-top thing rising up from the desert sands. Two years on, and a few months after the giant LED ball was first switched on, the Sphere is probably the most discussed and photographed digital display on the planet. So I was very happy that Labbee was willing to carve out some time to talk about some of the technical details behind the display side of that project, and more broadly what it has meant for the Montreal company, and for the concept of buildings as media facades and visual attractions. In this podcast, we get into some of the technical challenges and innovations associated with putting together both the attention-getting outside exosphere of the building, but also the mind-wobbling 9mm pitch curved display inside. We also talk about the larger business, and the opportunities and challenges of turning big structures into experiential digital displays. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Jon, thanks for joining me. It's been a couple of years, but a lot has gone on with your company, and obviously, the big thing is its involvement in the Las Vegas Sphere. I know we can't spend all of our time talking about that, nor do I want to, but I would imagine your company's work on that has kind of rocked the industry Jonathan Labbee: It has, and thanks for having me back, Dave. The sphere has been an incredible journey for us. I think two years ago when we last spoke, we were just about to start on our part of the construction, and we successfully delivered that project, which is, I think there were a lot of people and projects that were in the waiting to see if something of this magnitude could be pulled off successfully and now that it has, it has awoken a new level of giant projects around the world. I'm gonna say mostly in the Middle East at this moment in time. Why is that? Is it just about money, or is it also about things like zoning controls and available space? Jonathan Labbee: Well, I mean, obviously, money and budget are always a concern, but I think when you get past the level of installing a giant television on the side of a building and where the building itself is a media medium, but the infrastructure to support that is so significant in your construction budget, I think this is one of the key aspects for these developers and these architects to understand if it could successfully be done. Now from a zoning perspective, I think that a project like the Sphere is quite revealing in the sense of how much control you have over brightness and the type of and quality of the content and secures the knowledge that a responsible owner can display tasteful content in the environment that it's designed to be in. I know that there was a proposal to do a similar project in the east end of London and that doesn't seem to be going ahead, at least at the moment, and it struck me as one of the barriers to it was simply that you're putting up a very bright object within reasonably close proximity to residential and that's a challenge. Jonathan Labbee: Yeah, it is. I'm not a politician by any means, but I do think there's some politics there and also maybe some fear of new technology that could potentially be disruptive if used irresponsibly. Normally, people who spend this amount of money on a venue tend to have a very secure plan to fit within their environment. So what was done for the Sphere was custom. Could you relate what was done on the outside and then on the inside? The inside is particularly interesting to me because your company's pedigree is not so much on fine-pitch large displays other than for touring acts, which are not as fine a pitch. Jonathan Labbee: Well, yeah, so it's actually pretty interesting that this seems to be our persona; the reality is that most of our development is done on fine-pitch products. We just happen to have been doing quite a bit of low-res or wide-pitch products because we've been doing so many iconic buildings, it seems to be what we're known for. But if you take, for example, a lot of the touring acts or some of the video screens that we did for Orlando airport, for example, those are 2 millimeters pixel pitch and all these types of things. So if we go back to the Sphere, the exterior of the sphere, referred to as the exosphere, is made up of these pucks, I would say, that have 48 LEDs, and each one of these pucks is a pixel that is controllable for the client, and that's what gives you that beautiful imagery on the building, and it also has an aesthetic that the architects wanted and the client wanted, where it allows you to see through and see the base building through the exosphere. So, the performance criteria for the exterior was one thing, whereas the performance criteria for the interior were completely different. It needed to be audio transparent because if you go to the Sphere, there are absolutely no speakers or any kind of disruption, and on the media plane, everything is behind the screen. So it gives you a very pure environment. The screen itself is nominal nine millimeters, but it is 16K x 16 K resolution, and because of the distance, everything just works when you're inside of that environment, you feel like you're wherever the artist or content creator decides that you're going to be. So, if you're on Mars or another part of the planet, you feel like you're there. For the exosphere, because this had not really ever been done or certainly not done very often, was there an engineering thought process about how we make this work? Will it work? What are the sight lines, all that sort of stuff? Jonathan Labbee: Oh, yes. And as much as I want to take a lot of credit for this, it was definitely a collective effort. First of all, we're dealing with a very sophisticated client that has a lot of knowledge and capabilities, the same goes for the architects and all the other trades that were involved. So we had the opportunity to work with an expanded group of people that had a lot of knowledge and capability to visualize these types of things, and we have done mock up over mock up. So it's not just, oh, let's think about it and build it. It was: Let's think about it. Let's prototype it. Let's prove it. Let's adapt to it. Let's modify it, and eventually through the process of iteration, you end up with something that is functional for that particular mission. So, what was the big moment like? I think it was July of last year, or maybe a bit earlier when you first turned it on. Were their fingers crossed, or was it a big aha? Jonathan Labbee: Well, I can tell you when the client first turned on that exosphere, I think it was like a huge wow moment for everybody, including ourselves, it was spectacular, and then when we had the chance of going to the opening for you to for the interior, which was, the end of September, that, I gotta tell you, was pretty emotional. I don't think that any one of us could have imagined what it would look like in its finished format. Yeah, because you've done some grand scale indoor stuff for touring acts stadiums, and so on, which are pretty big ass screens, but nothing along these lines, right? Jonathan Labbee: Nope, there is, actually, nothing on earth and in our industry that exists at this level of magnitude. And again, we've been working on this for 5 years, and we see it in sections, and we see the whole master plan. We see all this stuff on computer screens or in real life as mock-ups. But when you see the finished scale on the interior, it is mind-boggling. How do you service something like that? Is this just like man lifts or lord knows what? Jonathan Labbee: Well, the venue is obviously designed with service capability. I mean, at the end of the day, how do you eat an elephant? It is basically one bite at a time, and it's pretty much what this is. I mean, it's a lot of the same type of stuff. So everything is broken down into sections and if you have a problem, you need to go to service. If you want to go look at something, you have access to that section in a particular fashion, and then you have access to the screen, and you can do whatever you need to do. I'm curious as well about some of the meat potato stuff, like video servers. How do you develop something that can control that many LED modules and make it all addressable? When you went to your technical partners on that, was it a big, “Oh, boy, how do we do that?” Or was it, " Okay, we know how we could do that?” Jonathan Labbee: Yeah, I think, I think it was more of a “yeah, we know how we can do that because our video processors are scalable in nature.” They technically don't have a limit, but then again, it's not just our stuff that needs to function. It's everything up and down the chain. So, we control everything from the video processor to the video screen. But everything upstream from us also has to function, and Here Against Here Studios, or MSG, design and create their very own control room with all of the workflow to function. So, from beginning to end, they have full control over the quality of the signal. What about the creative? I assume that producing this stuff requires a certain set of skills and experience, which is very helpful. Is it hard to do, or do you kind of get instructions on what to do, and then you make it happen? Jonathan Labbee: Yeah, my understanding is that the Sphere studios put together some templating and also offers its own production services to clients to make producing content much easier. So people are not just thrown into the project. They're helped all along the way. One of the things that impressed me about the project is the type of content that's showing up on there that I think I, like millions of other people never would have even thought of. Have you been surprised by it? Jonathan Labbee: Yeah. I have to say those guys have done an incredible job of coming up with some very interesting and creative ways of making that sphere look amazing, and you really never get tired of looking at it. I mean it's populating my Instagram feed and probably everybody else's. It's just incredible what they're able to put on there, and I think that they've been very clever in getting collaborations from different types of artists and collaborators. When I was through Las Vegas late last year, I made a point of walking all the way over to the Sphere. I wanted to see what it looked like up close, and I have an industry friend who did the same, and it's this weird sensation of, now I see how this works and what the technology looks like up close, but it was almost like, that's something you shouldn't do. You really need to see this from a distance. Jonathan Labbee: Yeah, and it was designed to be seen from a distance, but I think that it's very interesting. I can't say that this was planned in this way, but I mean, obviously, we're looking for performance criteria. So we designed around that, and a certain aesthetic, and probably the architects have thought about this, but as you approach the building and you start seeing how things are put together, there's a sense of revelation that you get when you approach the building, and it becomes even more personable to you. I thought that was pretty interesting because I had a similar experience when I went there for the first time. So what has this spawned? Do you have commercial property developers coming to you, resort operators? Who seems most inspired by this? Jonathan Labbee: Well, yeah, I would say that the Sphere certainly awoke a new level of clients and types of projects. We normally work with the architects, so the architects who represent the owners and the property developers are coming to us with more and more intricate and large projects, which is super fun because not only do we develop technology, but we've designed an entire workflow, and toolset in order to design and efficiently manufacture and install and run these types of projects. Yes, I mean, we're getting large resorts in the Middle East right now, which is in a big flux of change, especially in Saudi Arabia. So there are a lot of these giga projects or mega projects spawning all over the place, and we're getting a lot of inquiries on that side, which is great. Are they serious? Sometimes, you see these magic mega projects in other jurisdictions, and there's a lot of PR noise around it, but nothing ever happens. But I suspect because some of these are funded directly by the Saudi government through PIF or whatever, they're going to happen. Jonathan Labbee: Yeah, I think in the past, it was maybe a bit more true that there were kind of these big dreams, and then they would just never materialize, but I think things have changed a lot in the region, where projects are actually getting built. There seems to be a big sense of change in the entire region. Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and that part of the world, continue to be very strong for us as well. So we're lucky that we're already out there and have delivered successful anchor projects. What is involved in doing these? Is this like a three or five-year project? Jonathan Labbee: I would say that normally this would have been a three year project. Obviously the pandemic happened, which no one had anticipated, which drove all sorts of additional complexities in time. But I would say that a project like this, I believe originally had like a three year type of timeframe, and any mega project would have roughly the same type of timeframe. One of the things that's interesting to me is, as we were discussing before, that maybe people don't know the full scope of what your company does. I didn't realize you had off-the-shelf products that you manufacture and can order. I kind of assumed it was all custom, but there, there is stuff that you can just buy, right? Jonathan Labbee: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we have a whole suite of products that you can either utilize the way that they are or customize with brackets and carriers and these types of things. It is actually the bulk of our business, although we publicize more of the iconic type of projects simply because people like to hear about those. Still, we do several hundred projects a year that are obviously much smaller and sometimes not as much talked about. Are those fixed projects or do they, or are they more about shipping out material that's going to be used by touring acts? Jonathan Labbee: These are fixed projects. Although we do a lot of touring, we just launched Morgan Wallen last week with our new A5 series, which is an amazing product and show, but touring for us is, it's really great, obviously for recognition, but it's ALSO a fantastic place for us to try out new ideas. So it is really like an R&D lab, and that's why we continue to put so much effort into rental and touring. We get to try out new ideas with clients who are willing to take chances and want to be the first, and then once you have something great, you refine it, and you make it more robust for permanent installation because, in a permanent installation, the criteria are quite different. You don't want to go up 1000 feet to change the light bulb, for example, right? That becomes very expensive. When I was on a tour, it lasted for a few hours. You can take it down. You could address things if you need to so there's a method to our madness, I would say. Is there linkage at all between, because you're a Montreal company, there's at least a couple of Montreal creative shops that have also done a lot of work with touring acts as well. Do those come together or are they kind of separate tracks and once in a while you bump into each other? Jonathan Labbee: They are separate tracks, and oftentimes, we bump into each other. So, for example, when we did Orlando airport, the content designer for that was Gentilhomme who we know very well. We obviously have Moment Factory and a bunch of other creatives out here. So there's a really nice hub here, and we're all friends, by the way, so we all have lunch together and these types of things, because it's fun to talk about whatever we're working on. Going back to Sphere, the product that you developed particularly for the exosphere, is that something that you can turn around and productize, like turn into its own product that could, could be used, or is it really unique to that building? Jonathan Labbee: It is unique to the building and has certain features specifically designed around its geometry. So, I think that those additional features would probably be lost if we were attempting to use it somewhere else, but in any case, it's not something that we would want to do with it. It has not only technological criteria but also aesthetic criteria that are unique to the Sphere. But the concept, though, of these pucks or discs of some kind that have LEDs embedded in them, I believe what you did at Burj Khalifa was kind of like sticks or something more. Jonathan Labbee: Yeah, exactly. Burj Khalifa, because it was a linear approach, used a product that we call V-Stick that we customized for that particular building. But if you take L.A. Stadium, for example, or SoFi Stadium, that has a puck format on the roof. There are, I think, about 35,000 of them, and you get a video image on the roof when you're flying above from LAX. So anytime you've got curvature, a puck is probably going to be a lot easier to manage than a stick because you'd have to custom bend each of them, right? Jonathan Labbee: Yes, but it also depends on what the client is trying to achieve. So, if you take SoFi Stadium, they wanted to have an even spacing of the pixels, whereas Burj Khalifa had very different criteria. They were 30,000 pixels tall but only 72 pixels wide because we had to install them in between the windows. So, on the architectural things, each project kind of reveals itself in its architecture in terms of what product or what you should be designing to achieve their media. When you work with architectural firms, do you have to invest some time at the front end with the architects, particularly on the engineering side of things, as opposed to the big vision side of things for them to understand what's possible and what's physics-defying? Jonathan Labbee: I would say yes in the beginning, but we work with all of the major architect firms like Foster and Populous and those types, and the more and more projects that we do together, the more and more that we understand each other's criteria. Now, on our side, what we did to make sure that we could have ease in speaking with the architects, we have an entire architectural division within SACO. So we have a Spanish office that has seven architects, BIM integrators, computational programmers, and so on, which mimics the architects' workflow. So, not only do we work with them to show them what's possible, but we also work with them to design the technology within the architecture. Then, we are able to produce the drawings at their level, which they then incorporate into their drawing sets. I'm guessing, I don't know the architecture business at all, but I'm guessing maybe a decade ago, there were one or two projects where people were thinking about architectural lighting of some kind, and it was this novel concept, and I'm wondering now if it's almost like a default concept for all flashy new buildings. Jonathan Labbee: Well, it is. If you want your building to stand out, you have to have some level of technology on it or some level of color or something because if not, you just fade into the background. I guess I have come back to the whole idea of zoning that, I see skylines in China; it's just like the whole skyline; every building is lit up, and they're all animated, and they're all doing things, and I'm thinking, well, you can do that in China. I'm not sure you could do that in Long Island City in New York to face the Manhattan skyline with buildings doing that. Do you have to kind of factor that in? Jonathan Labbee: Oh, absolutely. I mean, actually, obviously anything governmental kind of tends to move at a slower pace. So we have built it into our workflow, and in the architect's workflow, let's say, the sensibility of making some tools and visualizations for the city zoning people and a perfect example of that would be F.C. Cincinnati, which we did with Populous. So F.C. Cincinnati is a soccer club, an MLS team, and the entire architecture of the building is like these fins that are kind of slanted and it gives like some level of static movement to the building, and our job was to animate those fins at night to give the nighttime identity. So we did an entire lighting study, and we have special filters built into the content so that, or into the content player, so that anywhere where it's facing residences, the light levels never exceed a certain amount. We produced all of that, all of those studies with the architects, to present to the city on behalf of the client. What's the thinking around what level of, for lack of a more exotic description, razzle-dazzle is appropriate? I'm thinking in Las Vegas, the Sphere makes perfect sense. That's on-brand for Las Vegas. I'm not sure that would make as much sense in, I don't know, San Francisco or Minneapolis or whatever and I have a lot of affection for much more subtle architectural lighting. Jonathan Labbee: Yeah. But you have to think of the fact that Sphere is the extreme, right? It has a completely adaptive skin. So the skin, when there's no media on it, obviously, it's this dark surface, but the media at that point is designed for the environment. So, in Las Vegas, it's appropriate to have this very kind of flashy razzle-dazzle stuff. But if you were doing something in San Francisco, the UK, or something like this, where you need it to be more subtle, the content would move maybe at a different speed and be produced in a different manner. Maybe it'll be more focused on lighting effects rather than full crazy commercials and that kind of thing. So, having adaptive skin is actually a really good thing in any environment because you can tailor it and adapt it as you move along. I'm assuming that it would be pretty difficult for more conventional LED display companies like the I don't need to rattle off the names, but the major manufacturers who put billboards up in Times Square and on the sides of stadiums, but it's not part of the architecture. It attaches to the architecture. It would be difficult for them to get into this because you've got a massive head start. Jonathan Labbee: Yeah, I think it would be very difficult. I mean, also, there's a mindset that goes along with it. We don't choose the path of least resistance. I think the people that work here would get bored. But at the same time, you have to evolve over years, tool sets in order to accomplish these very difficult geometries because everything needs to support it from the back as well. You have to be able to do proper wiring diagrams and power layouts, and all this because it affects the entire architecture of that building, so we're doing it by choice, let's put it this way! I saw a post last week on LinkedIn about a company that's made a sphere, I don't know, 25 feet tall or something like that as a product. how do you react to those things? Jonathan Labbee: Yeah, I guess I'll go with the analogy of trying to copy something is flattery. Again, it's not the first time that these types of things happened. Obviously, it's not on the same scale as the Sphere, but I mean, year after year, we see people trying to copy what we've done. Yeah, that can't be easy. I'm also curious about media facades and the use of LED within glass or applied to glass at some point. Are you being asked about doing that? Jonathan Labbee: Yeah, so actually, many years ago, we actually designed some technology and actually have a patent for LEDs within glass, and we actually tried it out, and in concept, it sounds like a great idea, but in practice, it's not that great of an idea, as we found out, and what I mean by that is that there's a couple things: First of all, if you need to replace something, you now need to pull the glass off of the building, which could affect the tenants inside. If it's a hotel, it's a hotel, you know what I mean? If it's an office building, it's an office building. You're not replacing the glass. But the other thing that it did is that it could have potentially put us in competition with some of our clients, which are the curtain wall manufacturers, and we work with all of them. So if we were to come up with our own glass product, and we were to try to go sell it, we're essentially either aligning ourselves with only one of them, or we're competing against all of them. So we had decided against that, but the serviceability of it was the bigger problem. Where are you at now in terms of headcount, where you're located, and everything else? Jonathan Labbee: Yeah. So we're in Montreal still. We're just across the street from our old facility, which we were there for 35 years, and we're now in this beautiful 218,000-square-foot facility that we got into obviously with Sphere and other projects in mind, and we're 120 people strong, and when we're full project involved like with Sphere, we grew to about 380. So we scale up, and we scale down depending on the projects, and we have arrangements with different companies for that and that's where we are now. Is it hard to be that elastic in terms of your workforce, given the challenges of hiring? Jonathan Labbee: Well, the pandemic certainly tested us. I mean, we've never had issues with it before, but the pandemic made it a bit more difficult. The way that we design our manufacturing and all of our testing—I mean, we have a lot of electronic aids and stuff like that—we, the core people that we have here, can be split up to become team leads. So, when we hire people, it's for the lower-skill positions. So it's easier. You have a bigger pool to choose from, and then after that, we scale back down when we don't need to do that anymore, and then our core workforce takes on all the responsibility. So these could be logistics people who are just packing things up and so on? Jonathan Labbee: Correct. Exactly. I assume you're NDA'd up the wazoo on a lot of projects, but are there ones that you can talk about that will be released in the next year or so? Jonathan Labbee: So I can't really talk about them, but I can tell you that we're building a beautiful project in Spain after having an office there for, I don't know how many years, finally, we get to do a project in Spain and that's very exciting. What part of Spain? Jonathan Labbee: In Valencia. Oh, nice. Jonathan Labbee: So right near the sea and stuff like that. So I can't say what it is yet, but it's going to be beautiful, and as I mentioned, we literally just delivered Morgan Wallen last week and that's pretty exciting as well. What has the past couple of years meant for the company in terms of business? Has it just rocketed or is it just seen like a nice, healthy bump? Jonathan Labbee: Well, I'm going to say it's going to be a controlled rocket because we, again, dealing with the pandemic is one thing and then supply chain and all that kind of stuff, but the other thing that we needed to be very disciplined about is to not take on too much work as to not affect the delivery of the Sphere, and that was on purpose, and we had spoken with our customers and our architects and stuff like that, and we were very selective in the projects that we took on during the big delivery of the Sphere. Thankfully, though, the pandemic did push a bunch of the projects into the future. So now those products are coming back to us, and we have a lot of bandwidth, and we're filling that up pretty fast. I suspect as well that the simple fact that you've delivered this and it's got the global attention that it has certainly made your architecture partners and other potential customers very comfy that, yeah, you can do this! Jonathan Labbee: Oh, yes, absolutely. You know, and at the same time, we're not just a one-trick pony. We did deliver a very large project at Orlando airport at the same time and Delta the airfield at JFK and a bunch of other projects, the Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga and all those. So we continued doing everything kind of caused an undertow, but Sphere was a really big focus, and now that we've finished delivering Sphere, we're working on many other very exciting projects. I'm sure there are lots of day-to-day headaches in terms of being the CEO of a technology company, but it sounds like you get some pretty fun road trips with all these touring acts and big venues. Jonathan Labbee: Yes, and you get to meet very interesting people and like-minded people, and you get to see behind the scenes, but look, it's a lot of work. There's no doubt about it. I mean, every day we're trying to do something different and do something new. So you're always kind of in that development mode, but when you see the results, and then you see the teams that you're building and the culture that you're building within the company, it makes you proud and makes it fun to be here. Absolutely. Congratulations on the product or the project and on everything else that's going on with you! Jonathan Labbee: Well, thank you. Appreciate it.
The S&P notched another record close, this time finishing the session over 5,000 for the first time ever. Even the Nasdaq briefly traded above 16K, its best level since November 2021. What's next for these indexes, and will next week's big econ reports bolster the gains? Plus Japan's Nikkei at a new 34-year high. We dive into the charts to find out what's next. Fast Money Disclaimer
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Writers, if you're paying attention at all, you've heard from Zibby Owens in the past 2 years. She's the host of the Moms Don't Have Time to Read Podcast and the creator of Zibby Media, which at this point includes a magazine, a publishing house that's having a great month with, among other books, The Last Love Note, which KJ highly recommends and an LA-based bookstore. In 2022, Jess talked with Zibby about how she launched her literary life--and as that life gets bigger and bigger, we thought it was time to share her story again. Ever want to know “how she did it”? This episode is our little version of How I Built This, in which we ask Zibby Owens—whose name you surely know by now—about how she turned a desire to be part of the world of books into a one-woman mini book empire.Zibby Owens is the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Read, a daily podcast featuring interviews with authors that has over 900 episodes. She's also a Bookstagrammer with 16K followers, the host of a second podcast—Moms Don't Have Time to Have Sex—the editor of two anthologies, Moms Don't Have Time To and Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids—KJ contributed to that last one—and now the CEO of Zibby Books, a new publishing home for fiction and memoir. She's a regular contributor to Good Morning America, she's been called “America's Top Bookfluencer” and she has two books coming soon: Princess Charming, a picture book, and Booked, a memoir. She's also got four kids, and they're kids—elementary and middle school age, not a bunch of independent high schoolers wandering aroundBut.Five years ago Zibby was none of those things (except a mother of four). And that's what I want to talk about. She's built a massive literary life, a community, a reputation in just a few years, and—after totally owning the fact that she has help with her kids (heck, not just help, they're completely gone every other weekend because, divorce sometimes works like that) and also that this isn't how Zibby earns a living— we go back to the beginning and talk about what it took to get there.Because no matter who you are, you can't wake up and say, I think I'd like to be America's Biggest Bookfluencer, and whip out your Amex card and make it happen. You can't even take your Kardashian self and decide this is what you want and ask your assistant to set it up. This takes work and desire and passion, and we dig into how Zibby started, and how she made things take off.Links from the pod:Lee Carpenter: Red, White, Blue and ElevenAndre Agassi: OpenZibby BooksZibby Books Ambassadors (at bottom of Zibby Books page)#AmReadingZibby: Going There by Katie CouricHungry Hill by Eileen Patricia CurranThe Husbands by Chandler BakerThe Last Season by Jenny Judson & Danielle MahfoodKJ: A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. HarrowJess: Speaking of Race by Celeste HeadleeIt's that time again! Every year Jennie Nash and the Author Accelerator team put together a holiday bundle worth hundreds of dollars for folks who enroll in the Book Coach Certification Program ahead of the new year. Enroll this month to receive a $150 gift card to Better World Books, access to their $99 course the One-Page Book Coaching Business Plan Challenge, a copy of Jennie's Blueprint book in your genre, and MORE.And did we mention you can now pre-enroll in Author Accelerator's Memoir Certification Program? The course opens in March 2024, but if you enroll this month, you'll get $600 off the cost of enrollment – which is certainly something to be jolly for!When you enroll in the Book Coach Certification program, you'll gain access to a thriving community of friends and colleagues, more than 100 hours of training, videos, case studies, and worksheets to teach you the key editorial skills, client-management strategies, and the tools needed to help writers reach their goals and to help you start a thriving book coaching business. So, whether you're looking to expand your writing skills or start your new year with a new career, there is no better time to start your journey. Visit bookcoaches.com/podcast to get your special offer. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amwriting.substack.com
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Multi-Generational Uncle Ibbott. No Wizard Sword Games. Brian's got a Ticket to Ride but his aunt don't care. $16K for Gay Dot Gay. President's Death Day. This Is Still Stunningly Stupid. Collecting Domains like they're Pokemon! Hey, is it uhh too early to get a ration of rum, please? Dust in Old People's Brownies. Tricentennial - We'll Be Dead. Discouraging Seatbelts. The Point is to Win Some Shit. Jefferson's Junk. John Adams' Parasite. Corduroy and Denim with Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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