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Back at it for another episode of B&B's Football Happy Hour, 20th edition. This week Bobby and I discuss our All- Fantasy AFC & NFC South teams. We are then joined by Bills Insider Fred Kilmartin. Man, he brought some great stuff previewing the upcoming season. I'm not a Bills fan by any means but he has me fired up for their season. After Fred, we are joined by Houston Texans fan Easton Mottu. He keeps it honest breaking down their season and the big Hopkins trade. We also touch on Watt, Watson and the RB situation. Another great guest and great guy! Please Follow, Like, Comment & Share our content!!!

College professor and author Dr. Jim Wetherbe from Texas Tech joins Tim to discuss the story of FedEx and how it changed the game in overnight shipping, in time management and e-commerce, and just how Americans shop online and conduct business. Jim is the author of the book, “The World on Time,” the story of Fred Smith and the company he founded FedEx. https://traffic.libsyn.com/shapingopinion/FedEx_-_The_World_On_Time_auphonic.mp3   Fred Smith attended Yale University in the mid-1960s, and that was where he wrote a term paper for an economics class that hatched an idea that would change everything. The focus of the paper was on the need for a reliable overnight delivery service in what would now what he described as the computer information age. His professor gave the paper a C grade and said if Fred wanted a higher grade he’d have to come up with an idea that’s feasible. How do you think Fred responded to that? Well, you’d have to know some things about him. He was born with a birth defect that forced him to wear braces and walk with crutches for most of his childhood. His mom wanted him to feel more confident, so she encouraged him to get involved with physical activities. In the process, he would learn how to overcome obstacles and naysayers. He would grow out of his ailment and by the time he went into prep school, he played basketball and football. After Fred earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale, he joined the Marines and went to Vietnam where he became a platoon leader. He met people from places and backgrounds he never knew before. He spent two tours of duty in Vietnam, and returned home. His stepfather had bought a company in Little Rock that modified aircraft and overhauled their engines. Fred went there to help him run it. One of the biggest problems the company faced was getting parts, and that was when Fred remembered the overnight delivery idea he’d come up with in college. The idea for what would become Federal Express, or FedEx, would be reborn, only this time it wasn’t about to get a C grade. The FedEx Story Fred Smith inherited $4 million from his father. He needed to raise money to buy airplanes for his plan. He had charisma and knowledge gained from studying the air-freight industry. Federal Express began operation in April 1971 with 14 Falcon jets servicing 25 cities. Fred was 29 years old at this time. He had tested the initial 25 city network, flying empty boxes across the country. The operations went live April 17, 1973, on that first night, FedEx shipped 186 packages. Volume picked up quickly and service was expanded. While the company was successful quickly, it went south fast, too, because of rising fuel prices in the 1970s.  Fred had raised $90 million in venture capital from investors like Allstate and Newport Securities. Costs surpassed revenue and by 1974, FedEx was losing more than $1 million per month. Fred couldn’t convince investors to give him more money. Bankruptcy was on the horizon. While waiting for a flight home to Memphis from Chicago after General Dynamics turned him down, he decide dto go to Las Vegas.  He won $27,000 playing blackjack, and that was as he said an omen that things would get better. He was able to raise another $1 million and keep the company flying. FedEx – When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight. 1976 – Profit of $3.6 million 1978 FedEx went public 1980 – Revenue went up to $415.4 million and profits were $38.7 million. Growth ever since. 1999, the No. 1 overnight shipper in the world. 3 million packages to 210 countries every day. Today 450,000 employees 150 million package tracking requests a day 15 million shipments each business day Thousands of locations: FedEx Express (Air) Freight Ground Office FedEx’s 11 Principles You can never do enough for your people. Everybody pitches in.

Director Jonathan Levine discusses his film, Long Shot, with fellow director Ruben Fleischer. The film tells the childhood crush, Charlotte, now one of the most influential women in the world. After Fred is hired to be a speechwriter on Charlotte's Presidential campaign, sparks fly and their chemistry leads to a romance, even though on the surface the two have nothing in common See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/Events/2019/June2019/LongShot_QnA_0519.aspx

Fred Minnick is a national bestselling author & nationally recognized bourbon & spirits connoisseur, as well a U.S. Army veteran. While growing up in Oklahoma, the Oklahoma County News published his 1st story at the age of 15. Fred states he will never forget the feeling of seeing his name in print-he was hooked. In 1996, Minnick, joined the National Guard to help pay for college. After Fred graduated in 2001 from Oklahoma State University with a B.S. degree in Agricultural Comm./Journalism, he joined the Army as an infantryman, but once he learned the Army had jobs for Army journalists-he reclassified. By the time he graduated & started his career with a marketing firm in Wisconsin, he found himself serving in a mobile public affairs detachment, the week before 9/11, becoming an Army staff sergeant & ultimately a public affairs photojournalist who in 2003 served a 1-year tour of duty deployment to Mosul, Iraq with the 139 Mobile Public Affairs Detachment ending in 2004. During this time, Minnick suffered from various physical wounds & PTSD during the time-frame of roughly 2004-2009, sparing you the details, the “day-to-day” became a real challenge for him after Iraq, & while working for Networld Alliance as a restaurant trade editor, until fall 2006, Fred took the giant leap to go out on my own, & 1 of the 1st things he did as a new freelancer was write a list of categories he could write about. BOURBON was on that list.  From a technique he learned called Mindfulness on how to deal with his PTSD, it, in turn, became a GREAT technique for learning how to taste bourbon. Which is how he has become the industry’s leading spirits taster, traveling all over the world there was no one specializing in bourbon & spirit tasting at that time, YET publications wanted the information. There was a broad audience & the market could handle it. Before he knew it, a new career was born! His 1st bourbon story was published shortly thereafter, & never looked back as they say! In 2009 he penned his 1st book about his tour of Duty in Iraq called Camera Boy: An Army Journalist’s War in Iraq. The success of that book led Fred to author 6 different books & become a Wall Street Journal-bestselling author from 2009 until this interview with such titles as: 2016’s Bourbon-The Rise & Fall & Rebirth of an American Whiskey or 2015’s Bourbon Curious: A Simple Guide for the Savvy Drinker, or 2013’s Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch & Irish Whiskey or total diversionary topics away from distilled spirits such as 2010’s Certified Angus Beef History Book. Today he serves as a judge on the San Francisco World Spirits Competition & the World Whiskies Awards. He’s also judged multiple cocktail contests, including the national competitions for Old Forester, Four Roses & Citadelle Gin. Is the official “Bourbon Authority” for the KY. Derby Museum, has been the Chairman of the Brain Injury Alliance of KY.’s Brain Ball. Not to mention a spirits writer for multiple national & international periodicals such as USA Today/Scientific American/Parade Magazine/Caviar Affair /Whisky Advocate/Whisky Magazine/Tasting Panel/Wine Spectator/Sommelier Journal/Wine Enthusiast/Bourbon Review-a Hunting Magazine named Covey Rise & yes even the Costco Connection! As you have heard it wasn’t an easy road to where he sits atop the bourbon world, waiting on a new batch to write about and taste. But looking back at Iraq as a father, husband, successful author, and a sought-after spirits expert–he said he is in a good place now. Minnick resides with his lovely wife Jaclyn and in Louisville, Ky.

Season two of Riverdale begins with a bang. After Fred is shot at Pops, all of Riverdale converges on the Hospital. Archie and Veronica get steamy. Betty and Jughead motor on. Cheryl is fired up. And an old friend makes a brief appearance. Join Chris and Brittany as they recap Riverdale Episode 14: A Kiss Before Dying.

Raiders Hall of Famer Fred Biletnikoff joins us to talk his 12th Annual Golf Invitational, being drafted by the AFL & NFL out of FSU & MUCH MORE!! After Fred we are joined by Jazz music legend & avid Raiders fan Marcus Roberts! More Info on Invitational | http://Biletnikoff.org Fred's First RaiderLife Episode is Episode 25. RaiderLife.com Twitter | @RaiderLifePod Facebook | www.facebook.com/RaiderLifePodcast Special Thanks, Fred Biletnikoff Angela Biletnikoff Marcus Roberts

In 1927, Ben Bass opened Strand Book Store on Fourth Avenue, home of New York's legendary Book Row. Named after the famous publishing street in London, the Strand was one of 48 bookstores on Book Row, which started in the 1890's and ran from Union Square to Astor Place. Today, the Strand is the sole survivor.  ("Ben's son, Fred, was learning the family business by the age of 13. He too a lover of books quickly took to the book trade. After Fred completed a tour of duty in the Armed Forces, he came home to New York where he worked side-by-side with his father. By 1957, Fred moved the store just around the corner, to [its] current space at 12th Street and Broadway. Fred came to spend most of his time at the buying desk, cultivating relationships with regulars and scoping out the next great find…") I recently asked current owner, and Fred's daughter, Nancy Bass Wyden, about The Strand's longevity.