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The Eagles and three-time Pro Bowl guard Landon Dickerson have agreed to a revised two-year contract at around $36M, per ESPN's Jeremy Fowler. Previously due $39M in 2026-27 but can hit that with 2027 incentives. John McMullen & Zander Krause reacts.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/birds-365/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Anthony and Alex react to the re-signing of Jermaine Eluemunor (3 years, $39M) and recap a whirlwind of signings including Isaiah Likely, Tremaine Edmunds, and the record-breaking deal for punter Jordan Stout. We also dive into the "LSU Reunion" rumors: could the Giants trade for Brian Thomas Jr. to pair him back up with Malik Nabers? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The New England Patriots are signing DL/LB Dre'Mont Jones to a 3-year, $39M contract, per Jordan Schultz. Jones spent last season with the Titans and Ravens, posting career highs with 7 sacks and 55 pressures. On a new episode of Patriots Daily, CLNS Media's Taylor Kyles and SI's Mike Kadlick discuss what Jones brings to the Patriots defense. Patriots Daily on CLNS Media is Powered by:

What if your brand stood out so clearly that prospects instantly knew you were the only solution—and showed up ready to buy? In this energizing episode, digital marketing strategist, keynote speaker, and former NYC performer Molly Mahoney reveals how to harness “The Spotlight Effect” to build a human-first brand that scales with AI—without sounding like everyone else.

I met Brooke several years ago when we were performing on stage at an event. She was outgoing, all smiles and very engaging. We happened to see her daughter Ava perform as well with her band. What began as a fun night continued into a working relationship of playing music, training in the summer for overall health and wellness and supporting each other in business endeavors.Brooke Boles is a Boca Raton luxury real estate advisor, marketing strategist, TV host, and keynote speaker recognized for guiding clients through some of life's most significant financial and personal transitions with clarity, care and precision. A Real Trends Verified Top 1.5% agent, President's Elite Winner with over $39M in closings to date and $18M+ in 2025, her work is rooted in integrity, empathy and concierge-level guidance supporting clients step into their next chapter. Whether navigating divorce, loss, downsizing, or an exciting new beginning, keeping clients calm, supported and stress free remains her priority.Working with Brooke feels like watching your home step onto the red carpet, beautifully prepared, expertly staged, showcased through global media and a strategic marketing plan designed to achieve momentum and maximum value.It's been awesome to watch Brooke overcome some serious challenges personally and professionally. We had a special guest jump on in the middle of the podcast to share her goals and aspirations professionally and musically as well. I hope you enjoy the show!

Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/Analytic⁠Join The Normandy For Additional Bonus Audio And Visual Content For All Things Nme+! Join Here: ⁠https://ow.ly/msoH50WCu0K⁠In the Notorious Mass Effect segment, Analytic Dreamz delivers a comprehensive breakdown of the Esports World Cup 2026 (EWC), the world's largest esports event returning to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from July 6 to August 23—a massive 7-week festival with a record-breaking $75 million prize pool. Over 2,000 players from 200+ clubs across 100+ countries compete in 25 tournaments spanning 24 games, including Dota 2 ($5M), Fortnite Reload ($10M), PUBG Mobile ($3M), Apex Legends ($2M), Counter-Strike 2 ($2M), and newcomers like Trackmania ($500K) and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 ($1M). Champions crowned every weekend. The flagship Club Championship awards $30M to top 24 clubs (up from $27M in 2025), with $7M to the ultimate cross-game winner—last year's race went to the final week. Individual game prizes exceed $39M, plus MVPs, Jafonso Awards, and qualifiers. Week 1 kicks off with Dota 2, Apex, Fatal Fury; finals feature CS2, Trackmania. Tickets on sale since Jan 22—weekly passes, premium access available. Analytic Dreamz analyzes strategic shifts, new games (Fortnite returns, Starcraft 2 out), qualification paths, and why EWC cements Riyadh as esports capital. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/analytic-dreamz-notorious-mass-effect/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Singapore shares rose today in line with movements seen across regional markets. The Straits Times Index was up 0.65% at 4,599.43 points at 3.14pm Singapore time, with a value turnover of S$785.39M seen in the broader market. In terms of counters to watch, we have CNMC Goldmine, after a Malaysian unit of CNMC was hit with an additional income tax and penalty by the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia, amounting to RM29.6 million (S$9.4 million), for the assessment years 2019 to 2024. Elsewhere, from how China’s central bank unveiled a one-off credit repair scheme to allow overdue personal debts of up to 10,000 yuan (S$1,835) incurred since 2020 to be removed from credit records once fully repaid, to how Uber Technologies is teaming up with Baidu to trial driverless taxis in the UK – more international and corporate headlines remained in focus. On Market View, Money Matters’ finance presenter Chua Tian Tian dived into the key developments to watch for the day.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome, readers. We are thrilled to continue this new content from the creators of Currently Reading Podcast! This spin-off podcast series will tackle book to screen adaptations in a spoiler-FILLED format. Be sure you've read the book and watched the film version before listening to the episode, because we don't shy away from strong opinions OR from all the spoilers, unlike our regular episodes.   Show notes for this series will not be time-stamped, but will still include links to Bookshop dot org or Amazon for any books or resources referenced in the episode. These are affiliate links, so they kick back a small percentage to us if you buy through them, and help support the work we do on Currently Reading.   The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger 2:01 - Setup The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger 4:10 - Previews Release date. Sales info and awards. Released in September 2003 One of the longest books on PitP at 536 pages Won British Book Award for Popular Fiction in 2006 Movie name and release date. Box office and awards. Released September 2009 Did not get nominated or win any awards, but was a commercial success Grossed 19.2M Budget of 39M, Earned a little over 100M Adaptations include an HBO series that was canceled and a 14m run as a stage production in England 9:41 - The Cutting Room Pivotal Book scenes and how they translated to the screen His disappearing When Claire first meets Henry The wedding Car crash that killed Henry's mother The miscarriages (17:10 - 20:10 is this discussion. Skip to 20:10 if you don't want to listen to this section!) Henry's final months Changes from Book to Movie Car accident with Henry's Mom The miscarriages (17:10 - 20:10 is this discussion. Skip to 20:10 if you don't want to listen to this section!) Henry's final months Left out of the adaptation Henry's first time traveling Most of the interactions between Claire and Henry The relationship with Dr. Kendrick Claire's relationship with Gomez Henry coming to see Claire when she's 83 (should have been added) Lack of side characters from the book Added to the movie Henry's absence causing friction in their marriage Song used as symbolism Conversation about how Claire's parents don't get divorced Casting and alternates Claire: Rachel McAdams → Kristen Stewart, Emma Watson, Kiera Knightly, Katherine Heigl Henry: Eric Bana → Robert Pattinson, Shia LeBouf, Sam Rockwell, James Marsden Gomez: Ron Livingston → Edward Norton, Paul Walker, Cam Gigandet, Alex Pettyfer, Guy Pierce Mary Elizabeth: Mae Whitman →  Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie, Rose McIver Problematic elements Grooming Claire's racist family Comments against women Icky scenes due to the age gap between Henry and Claire 32:41 - Award Season Worst and best parts of the adaptation. The storytelling The "watered down" ness of the movie Not as many scenes between young Claire and older Henry Eric Bana's butt Worst and best actors. Ron Livingston as Gomez Rachel McAdams as Claire Worst and best book characters. Henry Claire Cherise Ben 1:10:22 - Book/Flick Energy Book scored on a 5 star scale. Book on Goodreads Movie scored on a 10 point scale. Movie on Rotten Tomatoes Movie on IMDB 1:17:20 - A Leftover Popcorn Kernel If you meet a guy who says certifiably insane things like Henry, but then he shows you his power, would you date him? (Kaytee) Do you believe in fate and a higher predestined life? (Shad) 56:30 - End Credits The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman The movie is available to stream on Netflix Connect With Us: Currently Reading Podcast | Kaytee | Meredith Shad is in the Bookish Friends FB Group (for our Patreon supporters) Our Website | Email Us Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Buy Some Merch

Join host Justin Forman for a milestone conversation with Bill Yeargin, CEO of Correct Craft, as they celebrate the company's 100th anniversary. From refusing bribes that led to bankruptcy, to refusing to work Sundays during WWII, to growing from a $39 million company facing the Great Recession to surpassing $1 billion—this is a masterclass in values-driven leadership that stands the test of time.Bill shares the dramatic "God moments" that convinced him to become the fifth CEO in five years at a broken company, and how a controversial service trip to Mexico became the turning point that saved the culture. Discover why Correct Craft sends employees around the world on company-funded mission trips, how they navigate tough stewardship decisions while maintaining strong faith values, and what it takes to build for the next hundred years.Key Topics:The WWII story: Building 420 boats in 23 days without working SundaysSpending 20 years of profits to repay legally discharged bankruptcy debtsTwo unmistakable "God signs" that led Bill to Orlando: a house sale and a tutor's callWhy the Mexico service trip (that everyone opposed) saved the companyGrowing from $39M to over $1 billion through culture and strategic planningThe Culture Pyramid: Building Boats to the Glory of God, Making Life BetterBalancing stewardship excellence with faith values in difficult decisionsGlobal expansion to 70 countries—including surprising markets like NamibiaVertical and horizontal acquisition strategy without outside capitalMaking decisions for the next 25 years, not just short-term winsNotable Quotes:"I believe we're alive today as a company because of that first trip." - Bill Yeargin"We're not just trying to help the people that we're going to serve, we're trying to help our own team too. We've seen so many lives change on our own team over the years." - Bill Yeargin"You don't make it a hundred years by being over on God's side. You gotta do the things we're supposed to do. Trust God, honor him. Let him bless us." - Bill Yeargin

Allen, Joel, Rosemary, and Yolanda discuss Modvion’s €39M grant for wooden wind turbine towers, leading to a discussion about funding vs. engineering readiness in the wind industry. Plus they highlight Veolia’s blade recycling advances in PES Wind Magazine. And the Weather Guard team announces they’ll be in Edinburgh for the ORE Catapult Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spotlight! Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia 2026!Learn more about CICNDT! Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes’ YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Allen Hall: A portion of the Weather Guard team. We’re headed to Scotland for the ORE Catapult Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spotlight, which is gonna happen on December 11th in Edinburgh. We’re gonna attend that and it’s gonna be a, a number of great offshore companies there. We’re hoping to interview a couple of them while we’re there. But Joel, this is a real opportunity, uh, for offshore companies in the UK to showcase what they can do and they can get on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Joel Saxum: Of course. So we’re flying over the sixth and seventh there over the weekend. And we will be, uh, in Edinburgh, uh, on the eighth. So Monday morning through Thursday. Thursday and Thursday is the or E Catapult event. And yeah, we’re excited to see some of the companies that are gonna be there, interview some of them, get the, the picture, uh, of the uk um, supply chain, right? Because I think it’s a really cool event that they’re doing. I’d love to see other countries do that. I’d love to see the US do that. Um. Just say like, Hey, this is, these are the companies, the up and [00:01:00] comers and the, the people that are changing the game and, and kinda give them a platform to speak on. So we’re excited to do that. It’s gonna be a one day event. Um, love to see some people join us, but the other side of that thing is we’re gonna be over in Scotland. So we’re, well, we’ve got a couple meetings in Glasgow, a couple meetings in Borough. So if you are around the area, um, of course we’re linking up people on the uptime network, but, uh. If you’re around the area and you want to, you wanna chat anything wind, or maybe you got lightning protection problems, get ahold of us. ’cause we’ll be over there and, uh, happy to drop in and uh, share coffee with you. Allen Hall: It’s just part of Weather Guards and the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast outreach to the world. So we’re gonna be in Scotland for an entire week. We’re heading down to Melbourne, Australia for probably a couple of weeks while we’re down that way. And we will be somewhere near you over the next year probably. It’s a really good, uh, free service that we provide, is we want to highlight those businesses and those new technology ideas that need a little bit of exposure to grow. And that’s what the Uptime podcast is here to do. So join us [00:02:00] and if you want to reach out to us, you can reach us via LinkedIn, Allen Hall, Joel Saxon. We’ll respond to you and hopefully we can meet you in Speaker 3: Edinburgh. You’re listening to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast, brought to you by build turbines.com. Learn, train, and be a part of the Clean Energy Revolution. Visit build turbines.com today. Now here’s your hosts, Alan Hall, Joel Saxon, Phil Totaro, and Rosemary Barnes. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I’m your host, Alan Hall in the Queen city of Charlotte, North Carolina. Soon, the home of Maersk North America, I think we’re going to find out. And also the new Home of Scout, if you haven’t seen the little, what was formerly a MC little vehicle that’s gonna be made, well engineered in Charlotte and then built in South Carolina. So we’re looking forward to that. And with me as Yolanda Pone in Texas. Joel Saxons up in the great state of Wisconsin and Rosemary [00:03:00] Barnes is back in Australia. And there’s plenty of things to talk about this week, and I, I think our pre-recording discussion has centered on wooden wind turbines. And if everybody’s been following, um, mod Vion, they have received a 39.1 million Euro grant and they are making of all things. Wooden wind towers. So, uh, up in Sweden, there’s plenty of wood to make towers out of, out of it. And it’s a laminated process. And if, if you’ve looked online, I encourage everybody to go look online. It’s kind of an interesting technology they have where they’re layering wood together to build these towers sections. And so instead of using steel or other materials, concrete, you can make them outta wood. Uh, so the European Union is backing this, and as Joel has pointed out. This is not the only money they have received to develop this technology. Joel Saxum: Yeah. Back in 2020, they received a six [00:04:00] and a half million euro. Grant as well. And then they had some investment money come in, um, and it was in Swedish Knox. Okay. Or of course they’re in Sweden, so Makes sense. But that was a, a convertible note around 11, 12 million, uh, euros as well. So when you add this 39 million Euro grant on, you’re looking at about 55, 50 7 million euros in funding over the last five or six years for this company. Allen Hall: How does the European Union decide where to invest? These innovation funds at, Rosemary Barnes: you know, it’s interesting ’cause I visited MO when I was in Sweden a few months ago. I actually have a video, uh, about to come out hopefully next week. Um, about, yeah, I got a tour of their factory and, uh, interviewed one of their engineers who’s been with them like the whole time. Um, and I visited them just a few days after I visited C 12. I made a video about that as well. That’s a floating vertical axis wind turbine. C 12, just like four days after I visited them, they, um, received the [00:05:00] news that they had been awarded a similarly sized European grant. So, yeah, in the tens of millions, I can’t remember the exact number. And I was thinking, what would I do if I got, you know, 40 million euros, which is like nearly 80 million, I think Australian dollars. Like I could really come up with something major and develop it in that time. It’s not, they haven’t been given the money to come up with the right solution, right? They’ve been given the money for the solution that they already have. And I think that it’s really interesting that these European grants, it’s set up like that where they’re supporting, uh, assume that they’ve got a certain technology readiness level that you have to be at before that they will support you. And that kind of means that you’re locked in to a solution by the time that you’re at that point, right? Rewards only that kind of model where you have a charismatic person with a vision that they just pursue to the end. It does not reward getting the smart people who could find solutions to the real problems. It [00:06:00] doesn’t reward that because you, no one’s getting heaps of money, like $10 million early on to be like, here’s a problem, now find a solution and we’re going to. Fund that through the 10 things that you try that don’t end up working, no one is funding that, right? So all of that has to be done on the basis of your own pockets or the ability of your charisma to convince other people to support it. And I just think that it’s probably like. Not the right way to spend your, you know, if you’ve got like $500 million to spend to get the next big thing in wind energy, you shouldn’t be picking a bunch of companies that are tier L five. You should be getting the smartest people and giving them money to found a company and um, yeah, come up with solutions that way. Joel Saxum: Is it wooden? Wind turbine tower worth it. Rosemary Barnes: And ev everyone will have to have to watch my video. ’cause I asked, I asked quite in depth questions ’cause I went into it very, very skeptical thinking that this was a su sustainability play. And I’ve got two issues with that. Like, first of all, wind turbine tower is [00:07:00] not that unsustainable. I mean, wind turbines on average are paying back the energy that it took to make them in, you know, six months or so. But what was interesting is, you know, wood is a, a composite material, right? It’s got the, um. Fibers, cellulose fibers in a malignant matrix. It’s, it’s, it’s a composite material, just like fiberglass is. Why don’t we make fiberglass towers? I mean, it’s partly ’cause of the cost and it’s partly ’cause joining them is quite tricky as well. Um, and yeah, those are probably the, the main two things, but I’ve actually done a bit of work into it. If you could make a fiberglass tower, you could go. Way, way taller than you can with, with a steel tower, with, you know, transport constraints and whatever. So the wooden tower actually has a lot of the advantages that you would find if you had, were able to make a fiberglass tower. So they are expecting to be able to go taller, um, with, you know, they’re as constrained by transport because, you know, the fibers are all running this way. It’s fine to cut it, um, like longitudinally, um, slice it into pieces and join the all site. Doesn’t, um, [00:08:00] reduce the, the. The strength really. So there from that point of view, there’s something to it. If you can go taller, make it easier to go taller with towers, then that’s a real problem that needs a solution. There are other solutions. There’s like NARA Lift, you know the one just got bought by Ford Spanish company where they build a turbine on like a tiny tower and then slot pieces in underneath it to come up. That’s another great solution. Um, people are also looking at 3D printing concrete towers and thing, things like that. So it’s not like this wooden tower is the only way that we’re gonna be able to do that, but it’s a real problem with a plausible solution to it. So. I think that they’re ahead of many, many, many, many of this kind of company. Just just from that, that at least they’re solving a real problem. Allen Hall: Delamination and bottomline failures and blades are difficult problems to detect early. 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Are we all saying what we’ve got here is a solution looking for a problem? Like there’s a real disconnect between. Engineering a good solution and, um, that, that will work in the field versus fake it till you make it to attract investor money. I think it’s like this, this Silicon Valley like model where with software you kind of can fake it till you make it and it, you know, like update quickly, learn quickly. But with a hardware product as big as a wind turbine. You can’t, like if the engineering isn’t right, the product will never succeed. You can’t bluff your way through that. Um, the projects that are done, like with the right engineering can’t attract enough. Funds. So they, they fail before they ever prove it. But the ones that attract enough funds are doing it because they’re like, uh, designing for investors rather than to build a successful project. And so it’s like you’ve got these two alternatives, both of which are guaranteed to fail.[00:11:00] Um, I think that that’s the, like the biggest problem for how hard it is to get like legitimate innovation in energy Yolanda Padron: up. I feel like it’s almost like a, it should be a training. For engineers in school to be able to at least pretend like you can not care about the details as much, you know, for 20 minutes in the day or something. ’cause imagine how successful some of these projects could potentially be if you were at least for a meeting like par with. Those people who just have that personality type. Allen Hall: Not all engineers are gonna be founders of company and not all founders of company are gonna be engineers. And that has an influence on what the little tiny pool of people that can be able to do this where you’ve taken a very complicated problem, come up with a solution and being able to sell it or market it, which is even harder. You gotta market before you can sell it. [00:12:00] The engineering. Type person tends to wanna focus on the details, the of the product, not on the problem that someone is struggling with and what that means to that person. Here’s, I think where that line gets crossed, and you can do both, is that, that the engineers that are just. Focused, super focused on learn, learn, learn, learn, knowing what you do not have and going to get those skill sets because you don’t have to be the world’s best engineer, nor do you have to be the world’s best marketer, but you have to know enough to be dangerous and you as an engineer. Training I had in school was keep. Pounding, keep trying to learn more. And I, I feel like Rosemary’s in the same vein, right? So she’s always trying to learn more and that’s why she has her engineering with Rosie, uh, YouTube channel is because she’s constantly trying to pick up new things. But you also look at Rosemary. Oh, Rosemary, I don’t mind if I use you [00:13:00] as an example here, but you didn’t come out of, uh, Australian Elementary School, whatever that is, being a a, a really good speaker, like that’s something you’ve learned over time. You’ve been able to. Work in a very large company, you now, you’re in a very small company, the one that you own, and you’ve had to bridge that. And that means you have to know what the budgets are, what the money, where this money’s coming from. You have to sell to large corporations. You have to learn all those skills. That takes time, and each one of those skills you learn is extremely painful. So you have to have the resilience to say, you’re shooting arrows at me all the time. I’m not dead yet. I’m gonna keep moving forward because I could, I can see a way that I can make a business that produces a revenue that I can pay the mortgage with. Joel Saxum: That’s what it takes. Another, another side of this is, is if you’re trying to, to get, you’re getting to the point where you’re building a team out, right? I think it’s very [00:14:00] important for a founder to under, to understand their limitations at certain points in time. Because if you build a company and you’re just like, I like engineers, so I’m gonna build a company with five engineers and us six are gonna make something happen that may not be the best, you know, the best strategy if you’re gonna want like. I did, we used to do this thing, um, in a, in a company that I was a partner in where we had those, it’s a, basically like a spider graph, right? And you take, you answer all these questions and it ranks you on points of like, where you are for problem solving and where you are for the, you know, the big picture where you are for details. And then it overlays them all. So you look at your management team, you overlay ’em, what you wanna see is a perfect circle that you’ve filled every one of these. Areas, these silos with skills on your management team or on your execution team, or on your project team or whatever it may be. You can’t really Allen Hall: have an ego in a sense. The thing about starting a company is everybody is shooting Arrow, is that you, when you first go to a customer [00:15:00] that first time, they are gonna blow holes in you because you haven’t thought of all these different things that they consider to be very important. And you come out of it like, boy, yeah, yeah, I was not ready for that. Yes, Rosemary Barnes: but you’ve gotta want that. See that not as an insult to your ego, but as information that you need to, to grow. I think. ’cause I work a lot with startups as well as having one of my own. Um, and one thing that I do is I really, really early on screen them to figure out what kind of founder there are. ’cause there’s, there’s two kinds. There’s the one that wants to develop a significant product that will be successful in the world. And then there’s other ones who just love their idea and want to keep on working on it forever. And that second type, they don’t, they don’t want to learn anything wrong with their product. They don’t want to know about, um. You know, showstoppers because that’s gonna prevent them from doing what they love, which is working on this idea. So I only wanna work with the, the first kind, who would see a, being informed about a [00:16:00] showstopper for their project. They would see that as a real win. So that’s my always, my philosophy is just, uh, just gonna break it. What, whatever your idea is, I’m gonna do whatever I can to break it. Whether that’s physically or whether that’s commercially break the business case. You just throw everything you can at it intentionally. And with my own products too. You. Do everything you can to make it a failure. ’cause that’s how you learn how to make something that cannot fail, you know? And that’s what you need to succeed. It’s not enough to have an idea that, you know, like, like a lot of times with wind energy, you come up with something that might make be better, right? Than the status quo. So let’s think about, you know, um. Wind turbine. They’ve all got three blades. They all have a, um, the upwind facing rotor. You know, they’re, they’re very, very similar. There are all sorts of ideas that could be better. Right? That could be a better way to do it. You know, there’s different ways to make the, the blade maybe out of sailcloth instead of fiberglass. You can have two blades. Um, you can have a [00:17:00] downwind rotor. You can, like any, all of these ideas have been tried before, but being a little bit better is, is not. It’s not close, it’s not close to being enough like it is so far from, from being enough. It has to be so good that it can’t fail. That is the only way for you to overcome the, um, the gap that you have to what the status quo is. And so many people like, but my, you know, but my design is 1% more efficient. People could, you know, get all this amount extra. They, they’re not, that is not enough to get you over that massive hump between where you are now with an idea. What it would take to get people buying enough of it that it will ever reach its potential. That’s what people don’t see. Allen Hall: That’s exactly circling back what we’re talking about. The idea has to be a big improvement. Whatever it does. The wheel was a big improvement. The pencil was a big improvement. Paper was a big improvement. [00:18:00] Sliced bread, huge improvement. It just made your life easier. It has to be something that makes. Life easier, not just a little bit. And Rosemary is 100% right about this. It has to be a lot. So when, when I hear people in wind that are working in technology talk about a quarter percent, a half a percent, say 2%, that’s usually not enough to get somebody to react to it. It has to be a bigger number. Now, the two percents of the world. Incrementally, we will make the world better. Rosemary Barnes: It, it’s fine if it’s a, if it’s a small technology that will just fit in with a status quo without making anyone’s life harder than 2% is amazing. If it requires anyone to do anything different, then it is not close to enough. Allen Hall: Don’t miss the UK Offshore Wind Supply Chain Spotlight 2025 in Edinburg on December 11th. Over 550 delegates and 100 exhibitors will be at this game changing event. Connect with decision makers. Share your market ready innovations and secure the partnerships to accelerate your [00:19:00] growth. Register now and take your place at the center of the UK’s offshore Wind future. Just visit supply chain spotlight.co.uk and register today. So we have somebody on the other side of the table, which is Yolanda, who sees all the crazy people come up to ’em. If you’re sitting across the table from someone who wants to sell you a product, I, I can’t even think of what. To be selling you, honestly. ’cause there’s not a lot of, um, maybe, maybe they’re selling aerodynamic improvements. Maybe they’re selling some blade whizzbang thing or CMS system. Maybe CMS system. Can you suss that out? Can you just tell that this person is not locked in on reality? It’s, does that show up in a meeting? Yolanda Padron: Well, initially, a lot of times some people just won’t. They don’t care exactly what your problem is or what the, you know, a problem might be big, but it might [00:20:00] not have as big an impact on generation as the spend to fix it would be. Or a lot of times the, the problem that you may be seeing is just. You know, it, it’s a risk that you’ll, you’ll take because of the, the cost of the solution. I mean, if, if you have, if I have $2,000 budgeted to fix or deal with an issue and you’re offering me a solution for $45,000, I just can’t take it. You know? I mean, as great as you might sound and as much as you believe in your project, uh, on your product, you just can’t take it. And I think there’s some people who. Come to the table really caring about what the issue is and finding a solution together for the sake of the industry, as was weather guard and is. Uh, but there is also [00:21:00] just some, some teams who just really, really just want their product, who will come to an engineer and won’t even bring an engineer to the table, who will just not even care about testing. Their, their product in a, their an accredited facility. And we’ll say, I mean, I had people come to me in a sales pitch and then when I asked them for testing results, they would say, well, will you fund this testing? It’s like, no, I. I, I won’t, you’re, you’re selling me the product. Like I don’t, Rosemary Barnes: I don’t think you understand. I saw so many companies that that was their biggest failure. They couldn’t get real world testing and that, that’s why I know that weather guard and paddle load are like poised for at least once you have a good idea, you’re gonna be able to develop it. Because the testing is, the testing capability is built in and I definitely could get people to pay to test. [00:22:00] A product that I developed because I know exactly what their problem is. I know exactly how much it’s worth to them, and they know that I understand it better than than them even. So I think people don’t, um, like it’s a very wind specific thing, but it is so hard if you just come up with an idea and you don’t know anybody that, um, managers wind farms. It’s so hard to convince someone to put something like even to just allow you to put it on for free. That’s a really, really hard sell. Allen Hall: So what is the advice for. Small businesses that want to be large businesses that are, have wind products that they’re offering today, what are the steps they need to take to make it a reality? Rosemary Barnes: They need to understand the, the problem really well, or the problem that they’re. Potential customers had and they also needed to understand the other pain points in that person’s life. Because a lot of times I’ve seen people get so, um, kind of worked up that, yeah, they’ve got a business case on [00:23:00] paper that, you know, the company should, in theory, make way more money from having this product. They’re not having it, but people don’t have enough time. Um, it has to be. Solving, either solving a problem that is taking up their time already, and you will immediately take up less of their time with when your solution is, when they even start to implement your solution. It’s not enough that they do a year project and then they start to have their problem solved. Um, so either, yeah, it has to be so much better or it needs to be totally painless to implement it. That’s the, that’s the two, two options that you have. There isn’t a third option. Yolanda Padron: I think it’s really important to balance your humility. Uh, and just your ego a little bit. Of course, you need to be proud of your product and you want to believe in it and everything. Uh, but you need to be humble enough to listen to the person and listen to their issues and listen to maybe your product isn’t perfect and it needs some tweaks [00:24:00] and mower likely than not, it will need some tweaks. So just don’t. Continue going forward to something that just won’t work. Speaker 6: Australia’s wind farms are growing fast, but are your operations keeping up? Join us February 17th and 18th at Melbourne’s Pullman on the park for Wind energy ONM Australia 2026, where you’ll connect with the experts solving real problems in maintenance asset management. And OEM relations. Walk away with practical strategies to cut costs and boost uptime that you can use the moment you’re back on site. Register now at WMA 2020 six.com. Wind Energy o and M Australia is created by wind professionals for wind professionals because this industry needs solutions, not speeches. Allen Hall: So everybody’s preparing to go to Melbourne in February of 2026 for Woma [00:25:00] Wind Energy, o and m Australia and the promos have just hit LinkedIn. Everybody’s talking about it. We’re getting a, a quite a number of sponsors. Joel. We have a, a couple of sponsorship levels still available, but not many. Joel Saxum: Yeah, we are fresh out of round table sponsors. Um, we’ve still got a couple hanging out there for some. Receptions and lunches and things like that. But, uh, yeah, we’ve got, uh, a lot of our friends joining up, a lot of emails coming in to ask of can I get involved somehow? Um, which is great because to be honest with you, even if we don’t have a spot for an ex ex exhibitor spot or a sponsorship spot, getting to talk with people at an early engagement level is fantastic. But we’re, ’cause we’re finding more and more subject matter experts through these conversations as well. So we’re able to bring, if, if we can’t. Engage on a sponsorship level, fine. Still reach out because the, there might be a spot for you up on a panel as one of these people that can educate, uh, and share, uh, with the Australian wind industry Allen Hall: and as the promos are saying, Rosemary. We [00:26:00] want solutions, not speeches. So this whole event is about solution, solution solutions, right? Rosemary Barnes: And problems. Allen Hall: What kind of problems are we gonna talk about? Rosemary Barnes: I mean, I think that’s the, the interesting part is that it brings those two, two parts together. That’s what we’ve been talking about with technology development. That the, you know, the critical thing is to know, understand very well what your customers. Facing in terms of problems. And so this is the event where everybody is there to talk about exactly what problems they’re actually spending time on day to day. And those are the ones where, you know, it’s a much easier pathway to succeed. So if you’re a, a. Technology developer, you know, a company that has some new technologies, then this is the event to come to to make sure that you get that fit right. Allen Hall: And Woma 2026 will be held the 17th and 18th at the Pullman Hotel, which is in beautiful downtown Melbourne. And you need to be going online. Go to Woma 2026 WOMA, 2020 six.com. Get registered. There’s only 250 seats [00:27:00] available and a number of them have already been reserved. So it’s shrinking day by day. If you want to attend and you should attend, go ahead, register for the event. If you’re interested in sponsorship, you need to get a hold of Joel. And how do they do that? Joel Saxum: Uh, you can reach out to me on LinkedIn, um, pretty easy to find there. Uh, or send me a direct email. JOEL Do a xm. I have to say that out loud because. I gets confused a lot@wglightning.com, so Joel dot saxon@wglightning.com. Allen Hall: So go to Wilma. 2020 six.com and register today. This quarter is PES WIN Magazine, which has arrived via the Royal Mail. There are a number of great articles and uh, I was thumbing through it the other day and the article from Veolia, and we had Veolia on the podcast, uh, a couple of years ago on blade recycling. And there’s a number of, of cool things happening there. You know, Veolia was grinding down the blades and then using them, [00:28:00] uh, mixing them with, with cement. Reducing some of the coal and other energy forms that are used to, to make cement. And they were also using, uh, some of the fiber as fill. So that process, when they first started, we were talking to ’em. Then there’s been a lot of iterations to it. It’s like anything in recycling, the first go around is never easy. But Veolia has the. That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Thanks for joining us as we explore the latest in wind energy technology and industry insights. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on LinkedIn and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. And if you. Found value in today’s conversation. Please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show and we’ll catch you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy [00:29:00] Podcast.

Singapore shares dipped today, tracking declines in most Asian markets. The Straits Times Index was down 0.2% at 4,435.25 points at 1.27pm Singapore time, with a value turnover of S$839.39M seen in the broader market. In terms of companies to watch today, we have China Aviation Oil, after China’s largest oil refiner, Sinopec, is said to be in discussions to take over the nation’s dominant distributor of jet fuel. The tie-up talks between Sinopec and China National Aviation Fuel were initiated by Beijing. China National Aviation Fuel balances domestic supplies by importing or exporting cargoes through trading arms including China Aviation Oil, of which it owns 51 per cent. Elsewhere, from how Australia’s central bank held its key interest rate steady in a widely anticipated decision, to how South Korea will triple spending on artificial intelligence and make its biggest defence budget increase in six years, more international headlines remain in focus. Plus – how ChatGPT-maker OpenAI signed a US$38 billion deal with Amazon’s AWS cloud computing arm. On Market View, Money Matters’ finance presenter Chua Tian Tian unpacked the developments with Dan Chang, Investment Specialist and Trading Representative, PhillipCapital.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Send us a textPeaches kicks in the door with another Daily Drop, tearing through the Pentagon's SHIELD program (yes, they actually named it that), a $39M rocket motor bailout, and why Army inventory reports sound like Mad Libs. He drags the idea of draft “policies” floating around the Guard Bureau, laughs at new bunker buster contracts, and side-eyes social media witch hunts after troops cheered Charlie Kirk's assassination. Oh, and in case you forgot—it's fiscal year chaos, which means budgets, BS, and Peaches reminding you that the Air Force stockpile ain't what you think it is. Plus, Nashville OTS is coming—train smart, not smoked.⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 – Intro: Peaches sets the tone 00:45 – Special Warfare selection isn't about smoking you 02:10 – Nashville Operator Training Summit pitch 04:25 – DoD launches SHIELD (no, not Marvel) 05:00 – Rocket motor industry bailout 05:45 – Army inventory audit that says nothing 06:50 – Draft Guard deployment leaks 09:05 – New bunker buster prototype 09:55 – Misawa Range Day flexes Indo-Pac power 10:20 – Quality of Life initiative at Eielson 10:50 – Space Force's Tronch-1 launch 11:20 – Troop social media witch hunt over Charlie Kirk 13:40 – Free speech vs. military standards 14:30 – Ukraine assistance package cleared 15:20 – Fiscal year chaos and why it matters

Following her sudden resignation, the longtime treasurer of a small Arizona county faces questions about her time in office.SponsorsRoutable - http://ohmyfraud.promo/routable(00:00) - An Unexpected Resignation (01:07) - Welcome to Oh My Fraud (03:23) - Listener Mail and Fraud Discussion (08:23) - Santa Cruz County Background (09:50) - Liz Gut Far's Career and Sudden Resignation (10:50) - Investigation and Initial Findings (16:34) - Massive Embezzlement Uncovered (17:17) - Legal Actions and Allegations (24:58) - Fraud Techniques and Cover-Up (29:55) - Criminal Charges and Court Proceedings (40:12) - Lessons Learned and Conclusion HOW TO EARN FREE CPEIn less than 10 minutes, you can earn NASBA-approved accounting CPE after listening to this episode. Download our mobile app, sign up, and look for the Oh My Fraud channel. Register for the course, complete a short quiz, and get your CPE certificate.https://www.earmark.app/Download the app:Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earmark-cpe/id1562599728Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earmarkcpe.appCONNECT WITH CALEBLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebnewquist/Sources:Santa Cruz County's Industry Clusters [SantaCruzCenter.org]County Treasurer Elizabeth Gutfahr resigns [Nogales International]Unrecorded money transfers trigger FBI investigation on former Santa Cruz Co. treasurer [News4Tucson]County Tells School, Fire Districts That Over $4 Million Has Disappeared [Patagonia Regional Times]County BOS, SEFD, Sonoita School District Release Statements on Missing Funds [Patagonia Regional Times]Supervisors Told $39.4 Million in County Funds Is Missing [Patagonia Regional Times]Report sheds light on Santa Cruz Co. Treasurer's alleged theft of $39 million [KGUN]A Santa Cruz County official is accused of stealing $39M. A lawmaker wants tighter controls [Arizona Republic]Santa Cruz County v. Elizabeth Gutfahr, et al.U.S. v. Elizabeth GutfahrFormer Arizona Elected Official Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement of More than $38M of County Funds [DOJ]Former Santa Cruz County Treasurer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Stealing Over $38 Million in County Funds [DOJ]“One of the dumbest…crimes in Arizona state history” [KGUN]Email us at ohmyfraud@earmarkcpe.com

Most agencies never crack eight figures. Mark Orttung helped one grow to $130M—by breaking every "safe" rule.In this episode, we dive into what agency owners at the $1–5M mark can actually do to punch past the common growth ceilings.The most important shift?He stopped selling to job titles—and started selling to buyers with something to prove.⏱ Timestamps00:00 – Intro: Why agencies need a rethink00:36 – Mark's background: Accenture, startups, bill.com, Nexient02:23 – Studying AI in the 90s: symbolic vs neural nets04:30 – Stepping into Nexient at $39M—and losing $5M first06:59 – Early differentiation struggles and customer perception08:29 – Building product-style squads inside a services business10:38 – The big leap: shifting from selling people to selling outcomes11:08 – Simplifying the pitch: “life's too short for crappy software”13:12 – Saying no to revenue: the scary path to focus14:14 – Selling without data: enterprise outbound as testing lab16:26 – Creating their own conference as a positioning feedback loop19:34 – Cross-industry client base: healthcare to gas utilities to tech20:25 – Specializing by service vs vertical in today's world24:52 – Growth “walls”: from founder-led to decentralized structure29:21 – Change agents: how to spot internal buyers who take risks32:40 – The next wall at 150M and why he chose to exit36:56 – Getting ghosted on a term sheet, then driving a bidding war40:17 – The Project Works origin story: from spreadsheet to SaaS42:28 – Why every services firm needs better resourcing visibility47:29 – What's next: proposal automation, AI, and growth tooling48:49 – Where to find Mark and Project WorksKey PointsWhy scaling past the eight figures in a services firm requires breaking the founder bottleneckWhy “life's too short for crappy software” became a high-converting missionThe opportunity of building or early adopters—not the mainstreamHow to identify and win over internal change agents in large enterprisesHow Project Works helps agencies resource smarter and prevent margin leaksUsing conferences as real-time feedback loops for positioningWhy now is the time to apply AI to services growth ops—especially proposalsLinks & Resources:

(00:00-31:01) Brad Thompson joins us. Cards pitching woes. Manipulating the IL. Pozo, Pages, and the Cardinals catchers. AAA stats are hard to judge. Flushing that trip to Chicago and moving on. Compartmentalizing the wins and losses as a broadcaster. Players mic'd up during games. Good for fan access.(31:09-42:46) Peace and love, peace and love. The Home Run Thief. Diamondbacks fan has been banned for the season for reaching over the wall to grab a ball. Ohtani's 50th homerun in 2024 was the most expensive ball ever sold at $4.39M. We just have to break.(42:56-44:38) Doug meant a million, not a billion baseballs per year. We gotta get that clock right.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on This Week in Real Estate (tWiRE), we're unpacking a whirlwind of industry headlines that could reshape how agents, brokers, and buyers navigate the market.

This week on LeatherBrainz, the NFL offseason continues to be absolutely unhinged — we've got social media scandals, surprise retirements, international matchups, and a certain QB is calling himself Tom Brady (sort of). Buckle up.

Gabe Davis is back on the market after being released by the Jaguars just one year into a $39M deal. Could a Buffalo reunion make sense? Or has the team already moved on?In this episode, we break down what Gabe Davis' release means for the Bills, including whether he fits in the current WR room. We also dive into rounds 4 through 7 of the 2025 NFL Draft, including potential steals like Deone Walker and roster shake-ups that could impact Buffalo's playoff push.Topics Covered:Gabe Davis was released by the Jaguars. Should Buffalo bring him back?Analyzing the Bills' WR depth: Keon Coleman, Curtis Samuel, Elijah MooreFull breakdown of Day 3 draft picksIs Deone Walker a boom-or-bust defensive tackle?Jackson Hawes, Jordan Hancock, Dorian Strong, impact analysisBattles to watch in training campWould YOU bring Gabe Davis back to Buffalo? Drop your thoughts in the comments!Go Bills!The Wandering Buffalo Podcast: A Buffalo Bills Podcast for May 9th, 2025.----------------------------------Sponsored by WearBUF - Buffalo Inspired Apparelhttps://www.wearbuf.com/ Use code "TWB" at checkout for 10% off your first order.----------------------------------If you like the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Bills news today, and other Buffalo Bills content, connect with us!Stay up to date with all things Buffalo Bills: https://www.wanderingbuf.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TheWanderingBuf Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TheWanderingBuf Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheWanderingBuf Subscribe to The Wandering Buffalo Podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wandering-buffalo-podcast/id1553575732 Subscribe to The Wandering Buffalo Podcast on Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/7HCluqByJZqhUQD9DJE0Iq ----------------------------------Host, Justin Goddard:Twitter -- https://www.twitter.com/jgods22 Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/jgods22 Producer, Jakob Merkel:Twitter -- https://www.twitter.com/jakobmerkel Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/jakobmerkel ----------------------------------The Wandering Buffalo Podcast is a part of the Buffalo FAMBase, the originators of #BillsMafia.Buffalo FAMBase is your #1 source for all of your Buffalo Bills news, Buffalo Bills updates, and everything else to do with the Buffalo Bills.Buffalo FAMBase Podcast Network: https://anchor.fm/buffalofambaseBuffalo FAMBase on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_JTz1SmD0Ml3D10HVQ50g Gabe Davis Cut by the Jaguars. Should the Bills Bring Him Back?#BuffaloBills #BillsMafia #GabeDavis #BuffaloBillsNews #BillsHighlights #NFLDraft2025

Gabe Davis is back on the market after being released by the Jaguars just one year into a $39M deal. Could a Buffalo reunion make sense? Or has the team already moved on?In this episode, we break down what Gabe Davis' release means for the Bills, including whether he fits in the current WR room. We also dive into rounds 4 through 7 of the 2025 NFL Draft, including potential steals like Deone Walker and roster shake-ups that could impact Buffalo's playoff push.Topics Covered:Gabe Davis was released by the Jaguars. Should Buffalo bring him back?Analyzing the Bills' WR depth: Keon Coleman, Curtis Samuel, Elijah MooreFull breakdown of Day 3 draft picksIs Deone Walker a boom-or-bust defensive tackle?Jackson Hawes, Jordan Hancock, Dorian Strong, impact analysisBattles to watch in training campWould YOU bring Gabe Davis back to Buffalo? Drop your thoughts in the comments!Go Bills!The Wandering Buffalo Podcast: A Buffalo Bills Podcast for May 9th, 2025.----------------------------------Sponsored by WearBUF - Buffalo Inspired Apparelhttps://www.wearbuf.com/ Use code "TWB" at checkout for 10% off your first order.----------------------------------If you like the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Bills news today, and other Buffalo Bills content, connect with us!Stay up to date with all things Buffalo Bills: https://www.wanderingbuf.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TheWanderingBuf Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TheWanderingBuf Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheWanderingBuf Subscribe to The Wandering Buffalo Podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wandering-buffalo-podcast/id1553575732 Subscribe to The Wandering Buffalo Podcast on Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/7HCluqByJZqhUQD9DJE0Iq ----------------------------------Host, Justin Goddard:Twitter -- https://www.twitter.com/jgods22 Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/jgods22 Producer, Jakob Merkel:Twitter -- https://www.twitter.com/jakobmerkel Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/jakobmerkel ----------------------------------The Wandering Buffalo Podcast is a part of the Buffalo FAMBase, the originators of #BillsMafia.Buffalo FAMBase is your #1 source for all of your Buffalo Bills news, Buffalo Bills updates, and everything else to do with the Buffalo Bills.Buffalo FAMBase Podcast Network: https://anchor.fm/buffalofambaseBuffalo FAMBase on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_JTz1SmD0Ml3D10HVQ50g Gabe Davis Cut by the Jaguars. Should the Bills Bring Him Back?#BuffaloBills #BillsMafia #GabeDavis #BuffaloBillsNews #BillsHighlights #NFLDraft2025

Happy Earth Day! We'll take a look at what you can do, what Apple is doing, and how saying thank you to AI isn't helping. We've got a great set of Just the Headlines this week. Which one are you curious about? There's plenty more to get caught up on in the world of tech this week and we do our best to break it all down for you, so you can get out there and tech better! Watch on YouTube! - Notnerd.com and Notpicks.com INTRO (00:00) Insta360 X5  (04:35) Instagram Edits App (10:35) MAIN TOPIC: Happy Earth Day (12:35) Earth Day 2025 Apple celebrating Earth Day in the these five ways Sam Altman admits that saying “Please” and “Thank You” to ChatGPT is wasting millions of dollars in computing power DAVE'S PRO-TIP OF THE WEEK:  Earth Day Tip! - Clean Energy Charging (22:35) JUST THE HEADLINES: (26:00) Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes The FBI can't find ‘missing' records of its hacking tools Google used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraud Hertz says customers' personal data and driver's licenses stolen in data breach Hackers spied on 100 US bank regulators' e-mails for over a year James Webb space telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise Scientists recreate brain circuit in lab for first time TAKES: Alamo Drafthouse rejects Meta's Second-Screen technology (30:50) Apple says all Mac minis with Intel are now ‘vintage' or ‘obsolete' (36:00) Google announces Agent 2 Agent AI protocol (39:40) BONUS ODD TAKE:  My Abandonware (42:40) PICKS OF THE WEEK: Dave: Mockuuups (44:50) Nate: Apple TV+ YouTube Channel (49:20) RAMAZON PURCHASE - Giveaway! (52:15)

When you listen in to this week's podcast/YouTube show guest, Elijah Iung, you'll love hearing about his journey from farmhand to capital raiser. Before he was investing in multifamily deals, he was knee-deep in… well, let's just say a much messier kind of asset management.   But that dirty work paid off. Elijah built a multi-seven-figure business in cattle waste management, which set the stage for his transition into farmland investing and, eventually, multifamily syndication. His journey from tractor-driving farmhand to capital allocator is as unconventional as it is insightful.   Betting Big on Multifamily After selling his waste management business, Elijah discovered that much of his wealth was actually growing through his farmland investments, not from his business itself. That realization led him to multifamily real estate, where he quickly learned the ropes by investing as an LP, joining masterminds, and building key sponsor relationships.   Raising His First Million Elijah's first capital raise wasn't a walk in the park. Tasked with raising $1M for a $39M multifamily deal in Savannah, GA, he hustled hard, digging through his contacts, cold calling, and leveraging LinkedIn to bring investors into the fold. As a co-GP with Lake City Equity, he put up his own capital, structured investor incentives, and navigated the complexities of syndication.   Lessons from the Frontlines Raising capital might sound like a simple process; build an email list, send a few messages, and watch the money roll in. The reality? It's anything but that and Elijah quickly learned that trust is everything – and that trust isn't built overnight. It takes time, persistence, and a thick skin to handle the inevitable rejections.   His first raise was a grind. Cold calls were brutal, follow-ups felt endless, and convincing investors to part with six figures took more than just a good pitch; it required credibility and relationships. Then came the complexities of syndication: structuring equity splits, managing fees, and balancing the interests of both sponsors and investors.   Despite the hurdles, Elijah delivered. He raised the full $1M, became the largest LP in his own deal, and walked away with something even more valuable – experience. Now, he's doubling down on building his investor network through LinkedIn, masterminds, and in-person connections, ensuring that his next raise won't be nearly as uphill. *** This episode is a real, unfiltered look at what it takes to break into capital raising, the myths that get shattered along the way, and the strategies that actually work. If you've ever thought about raising money for real estate deals or just want to hear how a former farmhand turned syndicator made his first million-dollar raise, you'll want to hit play on this one. *** Explore the world of real estate capital allocators—a fresh approach to financing that's reshaping the industry.   In this series, I talk with allocators, investors, sponsors, and service providers to give you an inside look at this fast-growing space.   PLUS, subscribe to my free newsletter for real estate investors and gain access to: * Introductions to sponsors, allocators, and investment opportunities. * Insights drawn from my 30+ years of experience in real estate investing. * Hacks and tactics for raising capital to help you scale your real estate portfolio.   Visit GowerCrowd.com/subscribe

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With the offseason rolling on until we reach August following the start of preseason, the Texans are still and have been very active in the offseason looking to acquire as much depth as possible in order to give them the best shot at furthering their appearances in the postseason. Following some major off season extensions like Derek Stingley and Danielle Hunter, the organization continues to further their depth on the defensive side of things now extending Safety Jalen Pitre to an 3-year $39M contract extension. Sean and Dan break the news live on air and share their thoughts on what this means looking ahead of a pretty far but highly anticipated season set to come.

Hi friends!! This weeks episode consists of: 1. I (29F) am thinking of ending my relationship with my bf (34M) of 4 years due to his lack of ambition. 2. My husband (39M) has thrown me (27F) under the bus to his family with his silence and lack of a spine, how do I salvage this? 3. My boyfriend (30M) has a close female friend (34F) who blatantly dislikes me (29F) and makes no secret of it. I've reached the stage where it's her or me - how do I confront my bf? I hope you all enjoy this Monday's episode and thank you for being here!! :)

The Love of God by Dieter F. Uchtdorf and Song- Hold On to Me by Lauren Daigle. ACU Sunday Series.   The Love of God Dieter F. Uchtdorf - Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship. To watch the entire speech visit- https://youtu.be/bCCqqorvCkE?si=NK3dpmDRpp6lncgs General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ 584K subscribers 21,741 views Dec 15, 2014 Dieter F. Uchtdorf - Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship. https://www.lds.org/general-conferenc...   Lauren Daigle - Hold On To Me (Official Audio Video) https://youtu.be/RWua9o2KEv0?si=4UMuTm4nUh6KJWV7 Lauren Daigle 3.39M subscribers 2,821,083 views Feb 25, 2021 #LaurenDaigle #HoldOnToMe The official audio video for "Hold On To Me" by Lauren Daigle. 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It has been updated and refreshed to better cope with the challenges and temptations of our day. The new version of For the Strength of Youth is available online in 50 different languages and will also be available in print. It will be a significant help for making choices in your life. Please embrace it as your own and share it with your friends. This new version of For the Strength of Youth is subtitled A Guide for Making Choices. To be very clear, the best guide you can possibly have for making choices is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the strength of youth. So the purpose of For the Strength of Youth is to point you to Him. It teaches you eternal truths of His restored gospel—truths about who you are, who He is, and what you can accomplish with His strength. It teaches you how to make righteous choices based on those eternal truths.13 It's also important to know what For the Strength of Youth does not do. It doesn't make decisions for you. It doesn't give you a “yes” or “no” about every choice you might ever face. For the Strength of Youth focuses on the foundation for your choices. It focuses on values, principles, and doctrine instead of every specific behavior. The Lord, through His prophets, has always been guiding us in that direction. He is pleading with us to “increase [our] spiritual capacity to receive revelation.”14 He is inviting us to “hear Him.”15 He is calling us to follow Him in higher and holier ways.16 And we are learning in a similar way every week in Come, Follow Me.   American Conservative University Podcast (ACU) is not an official representative for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. All opinions, selections and commentary are solely those of ACU.  We post a variety of selections from various Christian denominations.   ACU Endorsed Charities -------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Born! 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Another week in the books. Join us for the previous week's top headlines. Week of 10-15-2024 Rundown NFL NFL owners unanimously approve Jaguars' $1.4B stadium renovation Jerry Jones calls out radio hosts during feisty interview over Cowboys' struggles Jets grant holdout on Haason Reddick permission to seek trade Mike Tomlin to consider starting Russell Wilson vs Jets NFL owners approve Super Bowl's return to Atlanta in 2028 NFL owners approve Tom Brady's bid to buy minority stake of Raiders Jets trade for Davonte Adams reunite with Rodgers Arami Cooper traded to Bills from the Browns NBA What are the longest winning streaks in NBA history? George suffers hyperextended left knee, bone bruise Clips' rule out Kawhi for the rest of preseason Pistons' owner Tom Gores ok'd purchase of 27% stake in Chargers by NFL owners Sources:  Grizz signing Pippen Jr. to multiyear deal Miscellaneous 10-16-2024 Rundown NFL Rayshawn Jenkins - on IR with an arm injury Brian Robinson Jr - felling great returning to practice Russell Wilson - takes first-team reps in practice Saquon Barkley - staying humble, no hate with the New York Giants Cooper Kupp - trending in the right direction for a possible return Davonte Adams - expects to play vs Steelers Rashid Shaheed - out with a knee injury and Chris Olave - out with a concussion Brandon McManus - grateful to join Packers after ‘difficult time' NBA Adam Sliver:  No regrets on backing legal betting Lonzo Ball set to play in 1st game since '22 Sources:  Doug McDermott agrees to deal with Kings Mavs' Doncic practices for first time in 2 weeks Rick Carlisle reaches resolution on suit, avoids trial Miscellaneous WNBA Finals series tied at 1.  Game 3 tonight 8 p.m. ET on ESPN Threatening, anti-gay email sent to wife of Liberty's Breanna Stewart after game 1 loss 10-17-2024 Rundown NFL Davonte Adams - trade a little weird, but need a change Tom Coughlin, Mike Shanahan and George Seifert advance in cutdown of HOF Chiefs owner OK with Harrison Butker's traditional values PAC Jets Superman Fireman Ed say team is phasing him out at MetLife Browns moving ahead with plans for new dome stadium in suburbs Titans release safety Jamal Adams, honoring his request Steelers Justin Fields - No QB debate if I play better Rashid Shaheed - out for the rest of the season (knee) NBA Lonzo Ball scores 10 in return; rehab ‘all behind me now' OKC's Hartenstein (hand) out at least 5-6 weeks 76er's Mccain released from hospital after fall Sources:  Kawhi out indefinitely to start season Miscellaneous World Series WNBA Finals; Liberty takes 2-1 series lead.  One win away from franchise first championship.Game 4 Friday night 10-21-2024 Rundown NFL Colts vs Vikings flex to SNF for week 9 while Jags and Eagles will go to 4:05 PM EST JuJu Smith-Schuster and Jaylen Watson out vs. Raiders Jamel Dean is on IR with a right hamstring injury MRI show Deshaun Watson ruptured his Achilles DK Metcalf is week to week with MCL sprain Tua set to practice, eyeing Sunday for return Jayden Daniels is week to week with a rib injury Brandon Aiyuk out for the season with torn ACL NBA Some NBA player props dropped after Porter case Curry (finger) sits, should be OK for Dubs opener Thunder sign Reese with Hartenstein sidelined Dunk champ McClung gets two-way deal with Magic Sources:  Grizz sign Kawamura to 2-way deal Lakers sign standout rookie Olivari to two-way deal Knicks waive injured guard Shamet sources say Cavs' Strus out six weeks with ankle sprain Raps' convert Battle to two-way deal, waive trio Sources:  Celtics to waive Walker, open 15th spot Knicks big man Achiuwa (hamstring) out 2-4 weeks Monty Williams to coach sons at Texas prep school Warriors extend Moody on 3-year $39M deal #DTSTInspire #DTST #opinion #debate #twins #podcasters #podcast #latestsportsheadlines --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/double-take-sports-talk/support

Transformers One debuted behind Beetlejuice Beetlejuice at the domestic box office, and we analyse the film's both young and nostalgic appeals. Matthew, Simon, and Ryan also dive into the box office and audiences of the latest releases, plus, we take a look at The Wild Robot and Megalopolis ahead of their domestic releases on this week's Behind the Screens. Topics and times: Transformers One box office overview - 1:04 Transformers One audience analysis & marketing recommendations - 2:48 Never Let Go box office overview - 8:04 Never Let Go audience analysis - 8:23 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and The Wild Robot international opening – 9:53 Pre-sales for The Wild Robot - 11:45 Next week - Megalopolis- 12:10 Find us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/vista-group-limited/, and follow lifeatvistagroup on Instagram Box Office Overview: Transformers One debuted in the US at $25M, and $14M International for a worldwide total of $39M.  Beetlejuice Beetlejuice remained at the top spot with $26M domestically and $43 million worldwide in its third weekend. This brings its worldwide cumulative total of $330M. Never Let Go opened to $4.5M domestically. The Wild Robot opened at 8 international markets, taking the top spot in Australia with $2M.

Kamala Harris hits a six-point record lead in the race for the US presidency, exploding pagers injure thousands in Lebanon, four columnists quit the Jewish Chronicle over allegations of fabricated Gaza articles, Russia's Vladimir Putin orders the military to boost its numbers by 180K, Meta bans several Russian state media outlets, Georgia's parliament approves a controversial LGBTQ+ bill, a frenchman accused of orchestrating the mass rape of his wife takes the stand, the Murdoch family ‘succession' hearing begins, state troopers are deployed to Ohio's Springfield amid ongoing threats, and superbugs are forecast to kill over 39M by 2050. Sources: verity.news

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I recently spoke to Aaron Letzeiser, co-founder of Obie Insurance and Forbes “30 under 30” award recipient. Aaron told me about his startup journey and the steps he took to raise capital for his firm. Aaron's firm (Obie Insurance) went through the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program in Silicon Valley. The firm is making moves in the rental property insurance space.

Today is 2/11/24 which is the Superbowl with the Kansas City Chiefs vs. the San Francisco 49'ers and this marks the 57th time that this game will have been played. This is a large amount of years, so we decided to run some math based on the amount at which things are consumed and what they cost. Let's start with advertising and the cost for a one minute spot during the game:In 1967: $37,500. For 2024: $7 million. This equates to an increase 185 times. To further that, this means gas would be $61 per gallon and the S&P would be at 16,000 - for context today it is at 5,000As for as food and beverage:Chicken wings would be $43/lb. A 6-pack of beer: $340.A bag of Doritos $18.5.So needless to say, for most items, they only increase in price and this led us to look into inflation and compound interest. For example, that $1 football square would be $9.18. How about the average house? According to the St. Louis Federal Reserve, it was $24,400 and in February of 2024, it is $492,300So let's just put it out there . . It is expensive to be an American. Therefore, the best plan of attack is to budget and live within your means. In unison, the mission is to invest in yourself and build a moat for your future while balancing inflation. 'For context, the S&P since 1926 has averaged a return of approximately 10% and a 7% return when factoring in inflation. If we were to emulate that, we can invest in exchange traded funds that closely mimic these returns such as the tickers of SPY, IVV, VOO and SPLG. For context VOO has returned 9.99% over the last 30 years. According to Forbes, the average American works 42 years before taking retirement, so let's see how much money adds up over time without inflation and expenses:At $100 a month, the amount would be $679,602.At $250 a month, the amount would be $1.69M.At $500 a month, the amount would be $3.39M.So this is fantastic and this shows the power of compound interest - and the reminder is that the more that you can invest, the more you make and you let the market do its thing. So the next question is … will this prompt you to look at your budget and find a few dollars to put away? All it will do is make you money. Website:https://www.somethingonmymind.net/Social Media https://www.instagram.com/somm.podcast/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChec5qcZBcGkIhUU3belNDwhttps://www.tiktok.com/@somm.podcast?lang=enhttps://www.facebook.com/somm.podcasthttps://twitter.com/Somm_podcast

The long-awaited Wonka debuted in the US and opened to a wider international audience this weekend, so we dive into the box office and audience for Timothée Chalamet's latest movie. As the year comes to a close, we look back in our year in review: what films stunned us, which fell flat, and what trends do we see continuing into 2024? Join us Behind the Screens to find out! Topics and times: Wonka box office overview - 0:26 Wonka audience analysis - 2:29 Top 5 domestic box office roundup - 7:10 Next week - 7:35 2023: The Year in Review - 7:55 Find us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/vista-group-limited/, and follow @moviohq & @numeroboxoffice on Twitter Box Office Overview: Wonka debuted $39M domestic, opened in 40 more intl for intl $53.6M, weekend total 92.6M global cume $153M. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes passed the $300M mark globally this past weekend, adding another $5.8M domestically. The Boy and the Heron dropped 60% in its second weekend with $5.8M domestically. Godzilla Minus One grossed a further $4.9M domestically. And Trolls Band Together grossed $4M domestically, with its domestic cumulative total now nearly $90M.

Welcome to the PullHitter Podcast, your destination for actionable resources and tools to grind your way to ultimate fantasy baseball success. Support my work and join the Pull Hitter Patreon:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -Access to lively Discord with highly active members sharing player evaluations, draft boards and strategies..get a leg up on your league mates! -Player Breakdowns series in audio and video form -Draft recaps from me -Much more! https://patreon.com/user?u=32383693&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ On this episode I talk to Randy Haines about all the player movement in MLB yesterday as well as Baltimore Oriole ADP in NFBC Draft Champions Nick Anderson to KC (picked in 22nd rnd in Gladiator last night) Kyle Wright for Jackson Kowar Boston traded Luis Urias to Mariners for Isaiah Campbell Valdez, Reyes boost? Which one you prefer? Scott Barlow for Enyel de los Santos Vidal Brujan & Calvin Faucher to MIA for Erick Lara (dsl), Andrew Lindsey (cmplx lg) Jake Bauers moves from YANKS to Brewers for Jace Avina (A ball 14 HR / 10 SB / 134 wRC+) as a 20 yr old Deals (Avoiding Arb) Ramon Laureano 1 yr 5.15M DJ Stewart - 1 yr 1.39M → what is his role looking like for 2024? Miguel Andujar & Abraham Toro Non-Tenders Brandon Woodruff Rowdy Tellez Promo Code: PULLHITTER Signup Link: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-pull-hitter-media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow on Twitter:  @pullhitterpod  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/PullHitterPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  @deadpullhitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/deadpullhitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Email : pullhitterpodcast@gmail.com  Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pullhitter.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ My link tree with all of my links in one spot: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/pullhitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Also check out me cohosting the Launch Angle Podcast with Jeff Zimmerman and Rob Silver! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/robert-dipietro8⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Encouraging feedback and comments. Sports dialogue is the best, so tell me what's on your mind! Thanks for listening! If you feel so kind to show some support for the show that would be greatly appreciated! Ratings and reviews are much appreciated if you listen on a platform that allows that- Thanks! (send me a DM on Twitter for #pullhitterswag when you do!) If you enjoyed the remastered edition of Take Me Out To The Ballgame, that was done by my pal Mike Wrocklage and you can find his work under the name Wrack Attack on Spotify, Sound Cloud and Reverb Nation For inquiries on logo and web site design email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rodeobot@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  https://twitter.com/deadpullhitter

Commission lawsuits are piling up in the wake of the Sitzer | Burnett verdict, Compass' Q3 Earnings Report shows $39M net losses, and iBuyers slide even farther from hyped market disruption.

Reunited and it feels so good. We'll talk about Anthony Macri back in the 39M, plus what's next for Lance Dewease, tonight's High Limit show and more.

Reunited and it feels so good. We'll talk about Anthony Macri back in the 39M, plus what's next for Lance Dewease, tonight's High Limit show and more.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Interpreting OpenAI's Whisper, published by EllenaR on September 24, 2023 on LessWrong. (Work done as part of SERI MATS Summer 2023 cohort under the supervision of @Lee Sharkey . A blog post containing audio features that you can listen to can be found here.) TL;DR - Mechanistic Interpretability has mainly focused on language and image models, but there's a growing need for interpretability in multimodal models that can handle text, images, audio, and video. Thus far, there have been minimal efforts directed toward interpreting audio models, let alone multimodal ones. To the best of my knowledge, this work presents the first attempt to do interpretability on a multimodal audio-text model. I show that acoustic features inside OpenAI's Whisper model are human interpretable and formulate a way of listening to them. I then go on to present some macroscopic properties of the model, specifically showing that encoder attention is highly localized and the decoder alone acts as a weak LM. Why we should care about interpreting multimodal models Up to this point, the main focus in mechanistic interpretability has centred around language and image models. GPT-4, which currently inputs both text and images, is paving the way for the development of fully multimodal models capable of handling images, text, audio, and video. A robust mechanistic interpretability toolbox should allow us to understand all parts of a model. However, when it comes to audio models, let alone multimodal ones, there is a notable lack of mechanistic interpretability research. This raises concerns, because it suggests that there might parts of multimodal models that we cannot understand. Specifically, an inability to interpret the input representations that are fed into the more cognitive parts of these models (which theoretically could perform dangerous computations) presents a problem. If we cannot understand the inputs, it is unlikely that we can understand the potentially dangerous bits. This post is structured into 3 main claims that I make about the model: The encoder learns human interpretable features Encoder attention is highly localized The decoder alone acts as a weak LM For context: Whisper is a speech-to-text model. It has an encoder-decoder transformer architecture as shown below. We used Whisper tiny which is only 39M parameters but remarkably good at transcription! The input to the encoder is a 30s chunk of audio (shorter chunks can be padded) and the output from the decoder is the transcript, predicted autoregressively. It is trained only on labelled speech to text pairs. 1) The encoder learns human interpretable features By finding maximally activating dataset examples (from a dataset of 10,000 2s audio clips) for MLP neurons/directions in the residual stream we are able to detect acoustic features corresponding to specific phonemes. By amplifying the audio around the sequence position where the feature is maximally active, you can clearly hear these phonemes, as demonstrated by the audio clips below. 1.1) Features in the MLP layers It turns out that neurons in the MLP layers of the encoder are highly interpretable. The table below shows the phonetic sound that each neuron activates on for the first 50 neurons in block.2.mlp.1. You can also listen to some of these audio features here. Neuron idx0123456789Phoneme'm''j/ch/sh''e/a''c/q''is''i'white noise'w''l''theNeuron idx10111213141516171819Phoneme'I'N/Awhite noisevowels'r''st''l'N/A'ch''p'Neuron idx20212223242526272829Phoneme'I''l''th''g''b/d'N/AN/AN/A'u/A'N/ANeuron idx30313233343536373839PhonemeN/AN/A'd''p''n'q''a''A/E/I'microphone'i'Neuron idx40414243444546474849Phoneme's'N/A'air''or/all''e/i''th'N/A'w''eer''w' 1.2) Residual Stream Features The residual stream is not in a privileged basis so we would not expect the features it learns to b...

Marketing has never been more challenging than it is now: As technology has matured, so have the layers between you and your audience become murkier. Your outreach is likely dependent on third parties in ways you may not realize. Economic forecasts and audience demand for privacy seem daunting. And though innovation is desperately needed, it never feels like the right time to ask for more investment dollars.Data privacy has become such a concern for consumers that they're demanding more control. Because of this, tech giants and regulatory bodies are making huge shifts in audience targeting capabilities – you're likely already seeing the impact. In this episode, data privacy expert Elyse Wallnutt will share how your consumer demand for privacy is impacting nonprofit acquisition and how to pivot your digital strategy to focus on data autonomy and audience trust. About ElysseElyse Wallnutt is a senior marketing and tech leader with 16+ years of experience driving results at the intersection of revenue, advocacy, brand, and policy objectives. She delivered $39M+ in net new revenue for organizations over the past five years. She built the digital activation campaign for the clean future plan that powered the majority of President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. And she has grown acquisition programs to more than 9x their former size.She launched Agility Lab Consulting in 2022 to support business leaders in reaching their audiences through smart strategies that stay ahead of shifts in technology, algorithms, consumer interest, and rising demand for privacy.In this episode, data privacy expert Elyse Wallnutt will share how your consumer demand for privacy is impacting nonprofit acquisition and how to pivot your digital strategy to focus on data autonomy and audience trust.Connect with Elyse:Agility Lab Consultingelyse@agilitylab.iohttps://www.agilitylab.io/resourceshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/elysewallnutt/  ResourcesThe Nonprofit AllianceLegislation updatesGoogle updatesConnect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliacampbell/

In this episode we're joined by CARS Tour, NASCAR Truck Series and Coca Cola iRacing Series driver Kaden Honeycutt to talk about the grind it takes to get to the top level of NASCAR, his truck starts, how his CARS Tour career is coming along and how important his big time iracing is to him along with our 10 questions. We're joined by our buddy Bailey Watson to discuss the Xfinity Series at Pocono won by Austin Hill and Josh Berry and Sam Mayer getting together and costing each other a chance to win. Denny Hamlin's controversial move on Kyle Larson to win the Cup race along with Austin Dillon's awful helmet throw and Joey Logano's hilarious tantrum on the radio. We talk Justin Haley to Rick Ware Racing, who we see getting in the Kaulig 31. We talk the week in Pennsylvania for the World of Outlaws and the wins by David Gravel at BAPS along with Logan Schuchart and Rico Abreu at Williams Grove and all the news this week in the PA sprint car world with Lance Dewease out of the 69K, Anthony Macri out of the 39M and Jacob Allen out of the 1A. We close with an SRX Stafford recap and preview of their race at Motor Mile and picks for that race and the doubleheader at Richmond and Xfinity Series at Road America

Host Ricky Sacks is joined by returning guests Lee McQueen, Patrick Tyrant and Adam Osper on this bumper edition of Last Word On Spurs. We provide first reaction to Ange Posteclogou's first lenghty interview as Tottenham Hotspur head coach. We discuss the imminent signing of Manor Solomon, who spent last season on loan to Fulham. We reflect on the arrivials of Guglielmo Vicario and James Maddison. We also discuss Harry Winks leaving the club for Leicester and Spurs trigging the £39M release clause of Pedro Porro. We finally debate Harry Kane's future of the club and our thoughts of some of the non-international players as they returned for the first couple of sessions of pre-season under Ange Postocoglou along with a quick summary who what Spurs need to do between now and the end of the window. Grab an EXCLUSIVE Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + a Bonus Gift by going to ➼ https://nordvpn.com/lwos An independent Tottenham Hotspur Fan Channel providing instant post-match analysis and previews to every single Spurs match along with a range of former players, managers & special guests. Please can we ask you to take this opportunity to *SUBSCRIBE* to the Last Word On Spurs and THANKS FOR WATCHING. Whilst watching our content we would greatly appreciate if you can LIKE the video and SUBSCRIBE to the channel, along with leaving a COMMENT below. - DIRECT CHANNEL INFORMATION: - Media/General Enquiries: lastwordonspurs@outlook.com - SOCIALS: * Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/LastWordOnSpurs * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/LastWordOnSpurs * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LastWordOnSpurs * Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/@LastWordOnSpurs * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LastWordOnSpurs WEBSITE: www.lastwordonspurs.co.uk #THFC #TOTTENHAM #COYS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How is the DocuSign (DOCU) stock price performing post their earnings report announcement? The adjusted EPS came in at $0.72 and revenue came in at $661.39M. What did the CEO and CFO have to say about the eSignature company? Next, Jenny Horne weighs in on Adobe (ADBE) and its entrance into artificial intelligence within Photoshop.

Welcome to Open Red! The Official podcast of the World of Outlaws Sprint Cars and Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series. Joe Mooney is the featured guest on the show this week. After spending many years and miles on the road with Shark Racing and Kasey Kahne Racing on the World of Outlaws tour, Joe Mooney departed KKR at the end of last season to become Crew Chief for Anthony Macri and his 39M team. Fresh of their incredible, last-lap victory at Lincoln Speedway last week, Joe joins the show this week to talk about the spectacular win, and his new role with Macri.

Today's word of the day is ‘wrong' as in not right as in Bob Huggins as in WVU. What happened? Suspension of 3 games. $1M reduction of salary. New contract is year-by-year. Sensitivity training. LOL. (12:20) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about Ja Morant and what it means to not make All-NBA this year. Well, it means he's missing out on $39M! (27:00) Review: Rye Lane. (30:45) Will JJ Redick be the latest booth to bench? The Toronto Raptors reportedly interviewed Redick for the team's vacant head coaching job. (40:15) NPPOD. It's Thursday! Get outside and get some sun! Some fresh air! Take an extended lunch! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cousin Sal, Dave Dameshek & Martin Weiss are together in studio for a Thursday edition of Extra Points! The show starts off with the group reviewing the NFL 2023 schedule as it has started to leak and they say which games they are looking forward to. Next, they get into the Warriors and Knicks staying alive with wins, make their picks for the rest of the games and they discuss how Ja Morant lost out on $39M. They move onto recapping some of the NHL playoff games before getting into their plays of the day. The show rounds out with Sal and Martin discussing their upcoming Cap of Consequences video shoot, Shek telling a very funny Carl Weathers story and the group discusses Connect Four. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cousin Sal, Dave Dameshek & Martin Weiss are together in studio for a Thursday edition of Extra Points! The show starts off with the group reviewing the NFL 2023 schedule as it has started to leak and they say which games they are looking forward to. Next, they get into the Warriors and Knicks staying alive with wins, make their picks for the rest of the games and they discuss how Ja Morant lost out on $39M. They move onto recapping some of the NHL playoff games before getting into their plays of the day. The show rounds out with Sal and Martin discussing their upcoming Cap of Consequences video shoot, Shek telling a very funny Carl Weathers story and the group discusses Connect Four. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices