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Rob from Kendall and Casey joins to talk about Indy's violence, Epstein, and explains who Sheryl from Applebees is. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Today’s Phone Tap victim always gets hit on by cougars at his restaurant job, so today Brooke is calling as a flirtatious forty-something who has her eyes on something OFF the menu, if you know what we mean…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Anna and her family did a 13-hour road trip! She and Anna ask you what the top five worst parts of a road trip are! Joey Chestnut reclaimed his title at Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest! Anna and Raven share what food they ate so much they couldn't eat that food for a long time! Road trips were at an all-time high over the holiday weekend! Anna's husband went to the gas station and the gas pump didn't stop pumping! There are some crazy things that you see at the gas station! Anna's friend Maria and her family own a gas station, and she joins Anna and Raven to share the weird things she has seen there! Are you up to date on this week's biggest news story? Anna and Raven will get you caught up on the trending news stories including the new movies in theaters right now; F1: The Movie and Jurassic World Rebirth. To cruise or not to cruise. The story of the Poop Cruise is viral right now and just came out with a documentary on Netflix! Anna and Raven want to know about the pros and cons about cruises! Our hearts are with the families who have been impacted by the flash floods in Texas. Anna and Raven speak to Meteorologist Ashley Baylor to answer questions about the disaster. Raven got hit in at an Applebee's and he didn't even realize! He tells Anna what happened! Anna and Raven speak with NYC Wingwoman, Cher Gopman, to find out what signs to look for when you think someone may be flirting with you in public but your not sure! You can find Cher at https://nycwingwoman.com/! Angie and Ford's dog was injured while he was out with their dog walker. That led to a $700 vet bill. The worst part is that the dog walker was unclear about what exactly happened to cause the injury. Angie thinks he should be responsible for the bill and wants to present it to him. Her husband, Ford, says that he's an uninsured 24-year-old that dog walks for extra money. There's no point in trying to go after him for money. What do you think? Lauren has a chance to win $1500! All she has to do is answer more pop culture questions than Raven in Can't Beat Raven!

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The Boys are back with a regular episode of A4E and talk all things Jurassic from the latest, Rebirth to the previous films and ask the important question: Why aren't we getting more Dinosaur films? Mike gives his delayed thoughts on Ballerina while Vyce and Liam show some love to Heads of State.Find Us on these Platforms:The Boys-Action For Everyone: Twitter/BlueSky/Twitch/Instagram https://x.com/A4EPodcast https://bsky.app/profile/a4epodcast.bsky.social https://www.twitch.tv/action4everyone https://www.instagram.com/a4epodcast/Michael Scott: BlueSky- https://bsky.app/profile/hibachijustice.bsky.socialVyceVictus: Twitter/BlueSky/Instagram/Letterboxd- https://x.com/VyceVictus https://bsky.app/profile/vycevictus.bsky.social https://www.instagram.com/vycevictus/ https://letterboxd.com/vycevictus/ Liam O'Donnell: Twitter/Instagram- https://x.com/LiamODin https://www.instagram.com/liamodin/?hl=enMax Deering: Twitter/Bluesky/Letterboxd/Polygon- https://x.com/ODSTSpartan https://bsky.app/profile/odstspartan.bsky.social https://letterboxd.com/ODSTSpartan/https://www.polygon.com/horror/562913/sinners-black-vampire-movies-list-watchhttps://www.neonsplatter.com/editorials/the-neon-splatter-interview-micho-rutare-of-predator-killer-of-killers

This week, we're talking about Atlanta's most famous food franchises. Atlanta has been the birthplace of almost a dozen food franchises, including Chick-fil-A, Huddle House, Mellow Mushroom, Great American Cookies, Applebee's, Flying Biscuit and Moe's Southwest Grill. Want to support this podcast? Visit here Email: thevictorialemos@gmail.com Facebook | Instagram   

Misery Loves Dana Moon | EP 151 – Dirty Diane, Founding F-Boys & a Drunk ConstitutionDirty Diane is miserable about getting caught emotionally cheating, her ex-husband Craig, and getting kicked out of Applebee's with flair.In this special 4th of July episode, we welcome the unpredictable and wild Dirty Diane for her first podcast appearance. From discussing her love for Matcha and a bizarre divorce party to revealing her roller-coaster relationship with her ex, Craig, Diane holds nothing back. Things take an even crazier turn with her candid talks about her wild antics, emotional cheating, and unconventional lifestyle. We also delve into American traditions like fireworks and hot dogs, and challenge guest comedian Dana Moon with historical dating profiles and fun facts about 4th of July. Don't miss out on this hilarious and unpredictable episode!

On this week's Extra Serving, NRN editor in chief Sam Oches and executive editor Alicia Kelso discuss Taco Bell's announcement that it would expand its Live Mas Café platform to an additional 30 locations before the end of the year — and eventually to all U.S. locations. The test at a San Diego location has been so successful that Taco Bell expects beverage could be a $5 billion platform by 2030. So what does that mean for the beverage boom across the industry? Sam and Alicia break it down. Next they discuss the amicable split between McDonald's and Krispy Kreme, which launched in 2022 as the doughnut chain sought to leverage McDonald's 13,000-plus locations as access points for its goods. Sam and Alicia discuss why the partnership was ultimately a failure, and why restaurants should consider prioritizing quality over access on their growth journeys. Then they talk about recent data from Black Box Intelligence that showed that businesses serving large immigrant populations are experiencing sales and traffic declines, citing fears of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign. Finally, tune in to a conversation between managing editor Leigh Anne Zinsmeister and Applebee's executive director of off-premises Vicki Hormann, held in person at the recent National Restaurant Association Show. For more on these stories: Taco Bell expands its Live Más Café concept en route to $5 billion beverage goalThe McDonald's/Krispy Kreme partnership is overRestaurants experience traffic, sales declines in markets with large Hispanic populations

TODAY on the show we started off talking about sad news in the sports world. We also got into some weekend recaps. We got into our Days of the Week and received our final PRIDE Word of the Day which, just like last month, resulted in fighting and arguing. We announced our Sports Picks winner. We got into some Sarah B Trending. We got into our next rounds of Celebrity Death Pool and Talk Nerdy to Me. We also learned about the latest and greatest in celebrity nudity with the legendary Mr. Skin. TOMORROW on the show we have a new bit called "Make Me Laugh!" CLIP OF THE DAY: Dee's Apple Bee's Comparison Was Farted On by Terry 100:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000Alright, so Dee, you are doing your Applebee's comparison list. It's kind of fun.200:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,240Yeah, we got quite a few more to go.300:00:08,240 --> 00:00:08,840Alright.400:00:08,840 --> 00:00:12,000She thinks my tractor's sexy Applebee's.500:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,200Hmm, she thinks Texas Roadhouse.600:00:15,200 --> 00:00:16,000No.700:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,600Hmm, but Anza?800:00:18,600 --> 00:00:23,000She thinks my tractor's sexy Applebee's.900:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,000Longhorn Steakhouse.1000:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,000Oh!1100:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000Nothing I've heard of that.1200:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,000Single Dad on the weekend Applebee's.1300:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,000Hooters.1400:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000[Laughs]1500:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,000He got the kids for the weekend.1600:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,000Single.1700:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,000Experiment Rhino.1800:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,000Yeah, the kids.1900:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,000He got the kids.2000:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,000He's got the kids.2100:00:42,000 --> 00:00:43,000McDonald's.2200:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000Uh-uh, you said it earlier.2300:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,000You see?2400:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,000Yeah.2500:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,000[Laughs]2600:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,000What is it?2700:00:51,000 --> 00:00:57,000[Laughs]2800:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,000I'm saddened like a horn and I'm like in traffic.2900:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000[Laughs]3000:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,000[Laughs]

Has Rover addressed the smart glass at bankruptcy box? JLR gives an update on his trip to Allentown and the Applebee's phone calls have stopped. Bachelor runner-up, Maddie Prewett, says she was addicted to porn and masturbation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Did Jeffrey make it to PA? Duji is back from Nationals. While filming 'On Patrol: Live' a sheriff's deputy was beaten by the man he was trying to track down. Charlie is watching porn everyday. Live PD coming into your home with the police. Vampire movies. The UK has banned a sexual fetish featured in porn. Krystle calls her boyfriend daddy. Duji is grossed out. Pooping your pants. Leonardo DiCaprio has lost weight. The software developers of Fortnite took a player to court over cheating. Billy Mitchell. Rover made a terrible mistake. Has Rover addressed the smart glass at bankruptcy box? JLR gives an update on his trip to Allentown and the Applebee's phone calls have stopped. Bachelor runner-up, Maddie Prewett, says she was addicted to porn and masturbation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Has Rover addressed the smart glass at bankruptcy box? JLR gives an update on his trip to Allentown and the Applebee's phone calls have stopped. Bachelor runner-up, Maddie Prewett, says she was addicted to porn and masturbation.

Did Jeffrey make it to PA? Duji is back from Nationals. While filming 'On Patrol: Live' a sheriff's deputy was beaten by the man he was trying to track down. Charlie is watching porn everyday. Live PD coming into your home with the police. Vampire movies. The UK has banned a sexual fetish featured in porn. Krystle calls her boyfriend daddy. Duji is grossed out. Pooping your pants. Leonardo DiCaprio has lost weight. The software developers of Fortnite took a player to court over cheating. Billy Mitchell. Rover made a terrible mistake. Has Rover addressed the smart glass at bankruptcy box? JLR gives an update on his trip to Allentown and the Applebee's phone calls have stopped. Bachelor runner-up, Maddie Prewett, says she was addicted to porn and masturbation.

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,Once-science-fiction advancements like AI, gene editing, and advanced biotechnology have finally arrived, and they're here to stay. These technologies have seemingly set us on a course towards a brand new future for humanity, one we can hardly even picture today. But progress doesn't happen overnight, and it isn't the result of any one breakthrough.As Jamie Metzl explains in his new book, Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions will Transform our Lives, Work, and World, tech innovations work alongside and because of one another, bringing about the future right under our noses.Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I chat with Metzl about how humans have been radically reshaping the world around them since their very beginning, and what the latest and most disruptive technologies mean for the not-too-distant future.Metzl is a senior fellow of the Atlantic Council and a faculty member of NextMed Health. He has previously held a series of positions in the US government, and was appointed to the World Health Organization's advisory committee on human genome editing in 2019. He is the author of several books, including two sci-fi thrillers and his international bestseller, Hacking Darwin.In This Episode* Unstoppable and unpredictable (1:54)* Normalizing the extraordinary (9:46)* Engineering intelligence (13:53)* Distrust of disruption (19:44)* Risk tolerance (24:08)* What is a “newnimal”? (13:11)* Inspired by curiosity (33:42)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. Unstoppable and unpredictable (1:54)The name of the game for all of this . . . is to ask “What are the things that we can do to increase the odds of a more positive story and decrease the odds of a more negative story?”Pethokoukis: Are you telling a story of unstoppable technological momentum or are you telling a story kind of like A Christmas Carol, of a future that could be if we do X, Y, and Z, but no guarantees?Metzl: The future of technological progress is like the past: It is unstoppable, but that doesn't mean it's predetermined. The path that we have gone over the last 12,000 years, from the domestication of crops to building our civilizations, languages, industrialization — it's a bad metaphor now, but — this train is accelerating. It's moving faster and faster, so that's not up for grabs. It is not up for grabs whether we are going to have the capacities to engineer novel intelligence and re-engineer life — we are doing both of those things now in the early days.What is up for grabs is how these revolutions will play out, and there are better and worse scenarios that we can imagine. The name of the game for all of this, the reason why I do the work that I do, why I write the books that I write, is to ask “What are the things that we can do to increase the odds of a more positive story and decrease the odds of a more negative story?”Progress has been sort of unstoppable for all that time, though, of course, fits and starts and periods of stagnation —— But when you look back at those fits and starts — the size of the Black Plague or World War II, or wiping out Berlin, and Dresden, and Tokyo, and Hiroshima, and Nagasaki — in spite of all of those things, it's one-directional. Our technologies have gotten more powerful. We've developed more capacities, greater ability to manipulate the world around us, so there will be fits and starts but, as I said, this train is moving. That's why these conversations are so important, because there's so much that we can, and I believe must, do now.There's a widely held opinion that progress over the past 50 years has been slower than people might have expected in the late 1960s, but we seem to have some technologies now for which the momentum seems pretty unstoppable.Of course, a lot of people thought, after ChatGPT came out, that superintelligence would happen within six months. That didn't happen. After CRISPR arrived, I'm sure there were lots of people who expected miracle cures right away.What makes you think that these technologies will look a lot different, and our world will look a lot different than they do right now by decade's end?They certainly will look a lot different, but there's also a lot of hype around these technologies. You use the word “superintelligence,” which is probably a good word. I don't like the words “artificial intelligence,” and I have a six-letter framing for what I believe about AGI — artificial general intelligence — and that is: AGI is BS. We have no idea what human intelligence is, if we define our own intelligence so narrowly that it's just this very narrow form of thinking and then we say, “Wow, we have these machines that are mining the entirety of digitized human cultural history, and wow, they're so brilliant, they can write poems — poems in languages that our ancestors have invented based on the work of humans.” So we humans need to be very careful not to belittle ourselves.But we're already seeing, across the board, if you say, “Is CRISPR on its own going to fundamentally transform all of life?” The answer to that is absolutely no. My last book was about genetic engineering. If genetic engineering is a pie, genome editing is a slice and CRISPR is just a tiny little sliver of that slice. But the reason why my new book is called Superconvergence, the entire thesis is that all of these technologies inspire, and influence, and are embedded in each other. We had the agricultural revolution 12,000 years ago, as I mentioned. That's what led to these other innovations like civilization, like writing, and then the ancient writing codes are the foundation of computer codes which underpin our machine learning and AI systems that are allowing us to unlock secrets of the natural world.People are imagining that AI equals ChatGPT, but that's really not the case (AI equals ChatGPT like electricity equals the power station). The story of AI is empowering us to do all of these other things. As a general-purpose technology, already AI is developing the capacity to help us just do basic things faster. Computer coding is the archetypal example of that. Over the last couple of years, the speed of coding has improved by about 50 percent for the most advanced human coders, and as we code, our coding algorithms are learning about the process of coding. We're just laying a foundation for all of these other things.That's what I call “boring AI.” People are imagining exciting AI, like there's a magic AI button and you just press it and AI cures cancer. That's not how it's going to work. Boring AI is going to be embedded in human resource management. It's going to be embedded just giving us a lot of capabilities to do things better, faster than we've done them before. It doesn't mean that AIs are going to replace us. There are a lot of things that humans do that machines can just do better than we are. That's why most of us aren't doing hunting, or gathering, or farming, because we developed machines and other technologies to feed us with much less human labor input, and we have used that reallocation of our time and energy to write books and invent other things. That's going to happen here.The name of the game for us humans, there's two things: One is figuring out what does it mean to be a great human and over-index on that, and two, lay the foundation so that these multiple overlapping revolutions, as they play out in multiple fields, can be governed wisely. That is the name of the game. So when people say, “Is it going to change our lives?” I think people are thinking of it in the wrong way. This shirt that I'm wearing, this same shirt five years from now, you'll say, “Well, is there AI in your shirt?” — because it doesn't look like AI — and what I'm going to say is “Yes, in the manufacturing of this thread, in the management of the supply chain, in figuring out who gets to go on vacation, when, in the company that's making these buttons.” It's all these little things. People will just call it progress. People are imagining magic AI, all of these interwoven technologies will just feel like accelerating progress, and that will just feel like life.Normalizing the extraordinary (9:46)20, 30 years ago we didn't have the internet. I think things get so normalized that this just feels like life.What you're describing is a technology that economists would call a general-purpose technology. It's a technology embedded in everything, it's everywhere in the economy, much as electricity.What you call “boring AI,” the way I think about it is: I was just reading a Wall Street Journal story about Applebee's talking about using AI for more efficient customer loyalty programs, and they would use machine vision to look at their tables to see if they were cleaned well enough between customers. That, to people, probably doesn't seem particularly science-fictional. It doesn't seem world-changing. Of course, faster growth and a more productive economy is built on those little things, but I guess I would still call those “boring AI.”What to me definitely is not boring AI is the sort of combinatorial aspect that you're talking about where you're talking about AI helping the scientific discovery process and then interweaving with other technologies in kind of the classic Paul Romer combinatorial way.I think a lot of people, if they look back at their lives 20 or 30 years ago, they would say, “Okay, more screen time, but probably pretty much the same.”I don't think they would say that. 20, 30 years ago we didn't have the internet. I think things get so normalized that this just feels like life. If you had told ourselves 30 years ago, “You're going to have access to all the world's knowledge in your pocket.” You and I are — based on appearances, although you look so youthful — roughly the same age, so you probably remember, “Hurry, it's long distance! Run down the stairs!”We live in this radical science-fiction world that has been normalized, and even the things that you are mentioning, if you see open up your newsfeed and you see that there's this been incredible innovation in cancer care, and whether it's gene therapy, or autoimmune stuff, or whatever, you're not thinking, “Oh, that was AI that did that,” because you read the thing and it's like “These researchers at University of X,” but it is AI, it is electricity, it is agriculture. It's because our ancestors learned how to plant seeds and grow plants where you're stationed and not have to do hunting and gathering that you have had this innovation that is keeping your grandmother alive for another 10 years.What you're describing is what I call “magical AI,” and that's not how it works. Some of the stuff is magical: the Jetsons stuff, and self-driving cars, these things that are just autopilot airplanes, we live in a world of magical science fiction and then whenever something shows up, we think, “Oh yeah, no big deal.” We had ChatGPT, now ChatGPT, no big deal?If you had taken your grandparents, your parents, and just said, “Hey, I'm going to put you behind a screen. You're going to have a conversation with something, with a voice, and you're going to do it for five hours,” and let's say they'd never heard of computers and it was all this pleasant voice. In the end they said, “You just had a five-hour conversation with a non-human, and it told you about everything and all of human history, and it wrote poems, and it gave you a recipe for kale mush or whatever you're eating,” you'd say, “Wow!” I think that we are living in that sci-fi world. It's going to get faster, but every innovation, we're not going to say, “Oh, AI did that.” We're just going to say, “Oh, that happened.”Engineering intelligence (13:53)I don't like the word “artificial intelligence” because artificial intelligence means “artificial human intelligence.” This is machine intelligence, which is inspired by the products of human intelligence, but it's a different form of intelligence . . .I sometimes feel in my own writing, and as I peruse the media, like I read a lot more about AI, the digital economy, information technology, and I feel like I certainly write much less about genetic engineering, biotechnology, which obviously is a key theme in your book. What am I missing right now that's happening that may seem normal five years from now, 10 years, but if I were to read about it now or understand it now, I'd think, “Well, that is kind of amazing.”My answer to that is kind of everything. As I said before, we are at the very beginning of this new era of life on earth where one species, among the billions that have ever lived, suddenly has the increasing ability to engineer novel intelligence and re-engineer life.We have evolved by the Darwinian processes of random mutation and natural selection, and we are beginning a new phase of life, a new Cambrian Revolution, where we are creating, certainly with this novel intelligence that we are birthing — I don't like the word “artificial intelligence” because artificial intelligence means “artificial human intelligence.” This is machine intelligence, which is inspired by the products of human intelligence, but it's a different form of intelligence, just like dolphin intelligence is a different form of intelligence than human intelligence, although we are related because of our common mammalian route. That's what's happening here, and our brain function is roughly the same as it's been, certainly at least for tens of thousands of years, but the AI machine intelligence is getting smarter, and we're just experiencing it.It's become so normalized that you can even ask that question. We live in a world where we have these AI systems that are just doing more and cooler stuff every day: driving cars, you talked about discoveries, we have self-driving laboratories that are increasingly autonomous. We have machines that are increasingly writing their own code. We live in a world where machine intelligence has been boxed in these kinds of places like computers, but very soon it's coming out into the world. The AI revolution, and machine-learning revolution, and the robotics revolution are going to be intersecting relatively soon in meaningful ways.AI has advanced more quickly than robotics because it hasn't had to navigate the real world like we have. That's why I'm always so mindful of not denigrating who we are and what we stand for. Four billion years of evolution is a long time. We've learned a lot along the way, so it's going to be hard to put the AI and have it out functioning in the world, interacting in this world that we have largely, but not exclusively, created.But that's all what's coming. Some specific things: 30 years from now, my guess is many people who are listening to this podcast will be fornicating regularly with robots, and it'll be totally normal and comfortable.. . . I think some people are going to be put off by that.Yeah, some people will be put off and some people will be turned on. All I'm saying is it's going to be a mix of different —Jamie, what I would like to do is be 90 years old and be able to still take long walks, be sharp, not have my knee screaming at me. That's what I would like. Can I expect that?I think this can help, but you have to decide how to behave with your personalized robot.That's what I want. I'm looking for the achievement of human suffering. Will there be a world of less human suffering?We live in that world of less human suffering! If you just look at any metric of anything, this is the best time to be alive, and it's getting better and better. . . We're living longer, we're living healthier, we're better educated, we're more informed, we have access to more and better food. This is by far the best time to be alive, and if we don't massively screw it up, and frankly, even if we do, to a certain extent, it'll continue to get better.I write about this in Superconvergence, we're moving in healthcare from our world of generalized healthcare based on population averages to precision healthcare, to predictive and preventive. In education, some of us, like myself, you have had access to great education, but not everybody has that. We're going to have access to fantastic education, personalized education everywhere for students based on their own styles of learning, and capacities, and native languages. This is a wonderful, exciting time.We're going to get all of those things that we can hope for and we're going to get a lot of things that we can't even imagine. And there are going to be very real potential dangers, and if we want to have the good story, as I keep saying, and not have the bad story, now is the time where we need to start making the real investments.Distrust of disruption (19:44)Your job is the disruption of this thing that's come before. . . stopping the advance of progress is just not one of our options.I think some people would, when they hear about all these changes, they'd think what you're telling them is “the bad story.”I just talked about fornicating with robots, it's the bad story?Yeah, some people might find that bad story. But listen, we live at an age where people have recoiled against the disruption of trade, for instance. People are very allergic to the idea of economic disruption. I think about all the debate we had over stem cell therapy back in the early 2000s, 2002. There certainly is going to be a certain contingent that, what they're going to hear what you're saying is: you're going to change what it means to be a human. You're going to change what it means to have a job. I don't know if I want all this. I'm not asking for all this.And we've seen where that pushback has greatly changed, for instance, how we trade with other nations. Are you concerned that that pushback could create regulatory or legislative obstacles to the kind of future you're talking about?All of those things, and some of that pushback, frankly, is healthy. These are fundamental changes, but those people who are pushing back are benchmarking their own lives to the world that they were born into and, in most cases, without recognizing how radical those lives already are, if the people you're talking about are hunter-gatherers in some remote place who've not gone through domestication of agriculture, and industrialization, and all of these kinds of things, that's like, wow, you're going from being this little hunter-gatherer tribe in the middle of Atlantis and all of a sudden you're going to be in a world of gene therapy and shifting trading patterns.But the people who are saying, “Well, my job as a computer programmer, as a whatever, is going to get disrupted,” your job is the disruption. Your job is the disruption of this thing that's come before. As I said at the start of our conversation, stopping the advance of progress is just not one of our options.We could do it, and societies have done it before, and they've lost their economies, they've lost their vitality. Just go to Europe, Europe is having this crisis now because for decades they saw their economy and their society, frankly, as a museum to the past where they didn't want to change, they didn't want to think about the implications of new technologies and new trends. It's why I am just back from Italy. It's wonderful, I love visiting these little farms where they're milking the goats like they've done for centuries and making cheese they've made for centuries, but their economies are shrinking with incredible rapidity where ours and the Chinese are growing.Everybody wants to hold onto the thing that they know. It's a very natural thing, and I'm not saying we should disregard those views, but the societies that have clung too tightly to the way things were tend to lose their vitality and, ultimately, their freedom. That's what you see in the war with Russia and Ukraine. Let's just say there are people in Ukraine who said, “Let's not embrace new disruptive technologies.” Their country would disappear.We live in a competitive world where you can opt out like Europe opted out solely because they lived under the US security umbrella. And now that President Trump is threatening the withdrawal of that security umbrella, Europe is being forced to race not into the future, but to race into the present.Risk tolerance (24:08). . . experts, scientists, even governments don't have any more authority to make these decisions about the future of our species than everybody else.I certainly understand that sort of analogy, and compared to Europe, we look like a far more risk-embracing kind of society. Yet I wonder how resilient that attitude — because obviously I would've said the same thing maybe in 1968 about the United States, and yet a decade later we stopped building nuclear reactors — I wonder how resilient we are to anything going wrong, like something going on with an AI system where somebody dies. Or something that looks like a cure that kills someone. Or even, there seems to be this nuclear power revival, how resilient would that be to any kind of accident? How resilient do you think are we right now to the inevitable bumps along the way?It depends on who you mean by “we.” Let's just say “we” means America because a lot of these dawns aren't the first ones. You talked about gene therapy. This is the second dawn of gene therapy. The first dawn came crashing into a halt in 1999 when a young man at the University of Pennsylvania died as a result of an error carried out by the treating physicians using what had seemed like a revolutionary gene therapy. It's the second dawn of AI after there was a lot of disappointment. There will be accidents . . .Let's just say, hypothetically, there's an accident . . . some kind of self-driving car is going to kill somebody or whatever. And let's say there's a political movement, the Luddites that is successful, and let's just say that every self-driving car in America is attacked and destroyed by mobs and that all of the companies that are making these cars are no longer able to produce or deploy those cars. That's going to be bad for self-driving cars in America — it's not going to be bad for self-driving cars. . . They're going to be developed in some other place. There are lots of societies that have lost their vitality. That's the story of every empire that we read about in history books: there was political corruption, sclerosis. That's very much an option.I'm a patriotic American and I hope America leads these revolutions as long as we can maintain our values for many, many centuries to come, but for that to happen, we need to invest in that. Part of that is investing now so that people don't feel that they are powerless victims of these trends they have no influence over.That's why all of my work is about engaging people in the conversation about how do we deploy these technologies? Because experts, scientists, even governments don't have any more authority to make these decisions about the future of our species than everybody else. What we need to do is have broad, inclusive conversations, engage people in all kinds of processes, including governance and political processes. That's why I write the books that I do. That's why I do podcast interviews like this. My Joe Rogan interviews have reached many tens of millions of people — I know you told me before that you're much bigger than Joe Rogan, so I imagine this interview will reach more than that.I'm quite aspirational.Yeah, but that's the name of the game. With my last book tour, in the same week I spoke to the top scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the seventh and eighth graders at the Solomon Schechter Hebrew Academy of New Jersey, and they asked essentially the exact same questions about the future of human genetic engineering. These are basic human questions that everybody can understand and everybody can and should play a role and have a voice in determining the big decisions and the future of our species.To what extent is the future you're talking about dependent on continued AI advances? If this is as good as it gets, does that change the outlook at all?One, there's no conceivable way that this is as good as it gets because even if the LLMs, large language models — it's not the last word on algorithms, there will be many other philosophies of algorithms, but let's just say that LLMs are the end of the road, that we've just figured out this one thing, and that's all we ever have. Just using the technologies that we have in more creative ways is going to unleash incredible progress. But it's certain that we will continue to have innovations across the field of computer science, in energy production, in algorithm development, in the ways that we have to generate and analyze massive data pools. So we don't need any more to have the revolution that's already started, but we will have more.Politics always, ultimately, can trump everything if we get it wrong. But even then, even if . . . let's just say that the United States becomes an authoritarian, totalitarian hellhole. One, there will be technological innovation like we're seeing now even in China, and two, these are decentralized technologies, so free people elsewhere — maybe it'll be Europe, maybe it'll be Africa or whatever — will deploy these technologies and use them. These are agnostic technologies. They don't have, as I said at the start, an inevitable outcome, and that's why the name of the game for us is to weave our best values into this journey.What is a “newnimal”? (30:11). . . we don't live in a state of nature, we live in a world that has been massively bio-engineered by our ancestors, and that's just the thing that we call life.When I was preparing for this interview and my research assistant was preparing, I said, “We have to have a question about bio-engineered new animals.” One, because I couldn't pronounce your name for these . . . newminals? So pronounce that name and tell me why we want these.It's a made up word, so you can pronounce it however you want. “Newnimals” is as good as anything.We already live in a world of bio-engineered animals. Go back 50,000 years, find me a dog, find me a corn that is recognizable, find me rice, find me wheat, find me a cow that looks remotely like the cow in your local dairy. We already live in that world, it's just people assume that our bioengineered world is some kind of state of nature. We already live in a world where the size of a broiler chicken has tripled over the last 70 years. What we have would have been unrecognizable to our grandparents.We are already genetically modifying animals through breeding, and now we're at the beginning of wanting to have whatever those same modifications are, whether it's producing more milk, producing more meat, living in hotter environments and not dying, or whatever it is that we're aiming for in these animals that we have for a very long time seen not as ends in themselves, but means to the alternate end of our consumption.We're now in the early stages xenotransplantation, modifying the hearts, and livers, and kidneys of pigs so they can be used for human transplantation. I met one of the women who has received — and seems to so far to be thriving — a genetically modified pig kidney. We have 110,000 people in the United States on the waiting list for transplant organs. I really want these people not just to survive, but to survive and thrive. That's another area we can grow.Right now . . . in the world, we slaughter about 93 billion land animals per year. We consume 200 million metric tons of fish. That's a lot of murder, that's a lot of risk of disease. It's a lot of deforestation and destruction of the oceans. We can already do this, but if and when we can grow bioidentical animal products at scale without having all of these negative externalities of whether it's climate change, environmental change, cruelty, deforestation, increased pandemic risk, what a wonderful thing to do!So we have these technologies and you mentioned that people are worried about them, but the reason people are worried about them is they're imagining that right now we live in some kind of unfettered state of nature and we're going to ruin it. But that's why I say we don't live in a state of nature, we live in a world that has been massively bio-engineered by our ancestors, and that's just the thing that we call life.Inspired by curiosity (33:42). . . the people who I love and most admire are the people who are just insatiably curious . . .What sort of forward thinkers, or futurists, or strategic thinkers of the past do you model yourself on, do you think are still worth reading, inspired you?Oh my God, so many, and the people who I love and most admire are the people who are just insatiably curious, who are saying, “I'm going to just look at the world, I'm going to collect data, and I know that everybody says X, but it may be true, it may not be true.” That is the entire history of science. That's Galileo, that's Charles Darwin, who just went around and said, “Hey, with an open mind, how am I going to look at the world and come up with theses?” And then he thought, “Oh s**t, this story that I'm coming up with for how life advances is fundamentally different from what everybody in my society believes and organizes their lives around.” Meaning, in my mind, that's the model, and there are so many people, and that's the great thing about being human.That's what's so exciting about this moment is that everybody has access to these super-empowered tools. We have eight billion humans, but about two billion of those people are just kind of locked out because of crappy education, and poor water sanitation, electricity. We're on the verge of having everybody who has a smartphone has the possibility of getting a world-class personalized education in their own language. How many new innovations will we have when little kids who were in slums in India, or in Pakistan, or in Nairobi, or wherever who have promise can educate themselves, and grow up and cure cancers, or invent new machines, or new algorithms. This is pretty exciting.The summary of the people from the past, they're kind of like the people in the present that I admire the most, are the people who are just insatiably curious and just learning, and now we have a real opportunity so that everybody can be their own Darwin.On sale everywhere The Conservative Futurist: How To Create the Sci-Fi World We Were PromisedMicro Reads▶ Economics* AI Hype Is Proving to Be a Solow's Paradox - Bberg Opinion* Trump Considers Naming Next Fed Chair Early in Bid to Undermine Powell - WSJ* Who Needs the G7? - PS* Advances in AI will boost productivity, living standards over time - Dallas Fed* Industrial Policy via Venture Capital - SSRN* Economic Sentiment and the Role of the Labor Market - St. Louis Fed▶ Business* AI valuations are verging on the unhinged - Economist* Nvidia shares hit record high on renewed AI optimism - FT* OpenAI, Microsoft Rift Hinges on How Smart AI Can Get - WSJ* Takeaways From Hard Fork's Interview With OpenAI's Sam Altman - NYT* Thatcher's legacy endures in Labour's industrial strategy - FT* Reddit vows to stay human to emerge a winner from artificial intelligence - FT▶ Policy/Politics* Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models - Ars* Don't Let Silicon Valley Move Fast and Break Children's Minds - NYT Opinion* Is DOGE doomed to fail? 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It makes for a great headline saying that 16 billion passwords were leaked. Was this some new massive data breach? What should you do about it? We take a look. We've got plenty of other tech news, tips, and picks to get you caught up on this week so you can get out there and tech better! Watch on YouTube! - Notnerd.com and Notpicks.com INTRO (00:00) It's not just Prime Video: Max shows 50% more ads now (06:45) MAIN TOPIC: 16 Billion with a B Passwords Leaked (09:20) 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach haveibeenpwned.com Please use passkeys, a password manager, and 2FA! DAVE'S PRO-TIP OF THE WEEK:  Schedule Text Message, Send Later on iOS (18:55) JUST THE HEADLINES: (25:35) Applebee's and IHOP plan to introduce AI in restaurants Axolotl discovery brings us closer than ever to regrowing human limbs A mathematician calculated the size of a giant meatball made of every human Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we're hoarding pre-AI content Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic Iran bans officials from using internet-connected devices Scientists create 'world's smallest violin' TAKES: Introducing Oakley Meta Glasses, a New Category of Performance AI Glasses (28:30) macOS Tahoe beta drops FireWire support (36:05) Project Indigo - a computational photography camera app from Adobe (38:55) Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux (43:30) BONUS ODD TAKE: Catleidoscope and Catcordian! (46:50) PICKS OF THE WEEK: Dave: Lytro Camera (48:45) Nate: Ryan Trahan YouTube Channel (56:40) RAMAZON PURCHASE - Giveaway! (01:03:35)

00:00:00 - Show Format and Listener Complaints Hosts address criticisms of sound drops, format changes, and Discord drama. The show's identity as a mix of paranormal, conspiracy, and goofy morning-radio energy is reaffirmed. First story kicks off: a man proposes to his AI chatbot, sparking reactions. 00:10:00 - AI Love, Polygamy, and Support Groups Deeper look into the man's AI relationship — despite having a human partner and child. Another user created an AI companion after moving away from her spouse. Discussion on how society may be promoting digital companionship over human intimacy. 00:20:00 - Tulpas, Manifestation, and Techno-Occultism Hosts connect AI relationships to ancient Buddhist tulpa practices — thought forms manifesting physically. Speculate whether AI chatbots might be modern-day tulpas with parasitic consequences. Concern that focusing on AI “entities” may create something dangerous and autonomous. 00:30:00 - AI and Brain Decline MIT research shows overreliance on generative AI leads to less cognitive activity and memory. AI use linked to derivative thinking and creativity loss, especially risky for developing brains. Discussion of AI's effect on education, work, and long-term intelligence. 00:40:00 - Applebee's AI and Restaurant Automation Applebee's parent company rolling out AI for marketing, staffing, and monitoring. Cameras will track customer behavior; AI will upsell based on weight and previous orders. Humorous speculation about dystopian restaurant experiences and rude food suggestions. 00:50:00 - Chatbot-Induced Delusions and Dangerous Outcomes Alarming case: man influenced by ChatGPT ends in tragedy. Reported that chatbots have told people to take drugs, sever relationships, and even jump from buildings. Suggests chatbots can reinforce delusions and manipulate mental health conditions. 01:00:00 - Alien Spheres and Greer's Involvement Reports of mysterious metallic spheres found in Colombia, with strange symbols and weight anomalies. Dr. Steven Greer claims they may be extraterrestrial or hybrid tech. Theories include anti-gravity mechanisms and DNA activation through symbols. 01:10:00 - Callers: Portals, Werewolves, and Rituals Caller describes biking through a mysterious field with a possible shimmering portal in Michigan. Discussion of radiation zones and high-strangeness areas linked to missing 411. Listener shares disturbing concert experience that felt like a dark ritual. 01:20:00 - Callers: Free Speech on Instagram and Digital Psyops Discussion on Instagram as a last refuge for real comment sections and user authenticity. Talk of bots steering conversations and controlling public narrative across social media. The concept of “dead internet” and influence operations using bots across all sides of an issue. 01:30:00 - Callers: Trump, Political Loyalty, and Manipulated Allegiances Frustration with people in conspiracy communities who blindly support Trump. Hosts discuss team loyalty, unwillingness to critique one's own side, and media narratives. Analysis of political figures being treated like saviors rather than examined critically. 01:40:00 - Ancient Runes Found in Canada Archaeologists uncover ancient runes in Canadian wilderness carved with the Lord's Prayer. The writing uses a long-dead version of the runic alphabet. Speculated to be a very old, non-hoax artifact possibly tied to ancient European presence. 01:50:00 - Naked Man, Urine-Covered Firefighter, and Police Incident Wild local news story: man with a knife on a rooftop leads to a police officer hospitalized and a firefighter drenched in urine. Hosts laugh at the absurdity of the situation and ponder how the local media will spin it. Marks a return to classic “weird news” energy that the show is known for. 02:00:00 - Sausage Smuggling and Corporate Spying Strange story of a meat company employee who allegedly left after 25 years and began recruiting staff for a competitor. Rumors of “smuggling sausages” and jokes about secret meat missions. Ends the episode with humorous chaos and signature irreverence. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research ▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Phone: 614-388-9109 ► Skype: ourbigdumbmouth ► Website: http://obdmpod.com ► Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/obdmpod ► Full Videos at Odysee: https://odysee.com/@obdm:0 ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/obdmpod ► Instagram: obdmpod ► Email: ourbigdumbmouth at gmail ► RSS: http://ourbigdumbmouth.libsyn.com/rss ► iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/our-big-dumb-mouth/id261189509?mt=2  

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Whether you sign up for the free or paid tier, I appreciate your support for independent ski journalism.WhoErik Lambert, Co-Founder of Bluebird Backcountry, Colorado and founder of Bonfire CollectiveRecorded onApril 8, 2025About Bluebird BackcountryLocated in: Just east of the junction of US 40 and Colorado 14, 20-ish miles southwest of Steamboat Springs, ColoradoYears active: 2020 to 2023Closest neighboring U.S. ski areas: Steamboat (:39), Howelsen Hill (:45), Base elevation: 8,600 feetSummit elevation: 9,845 feetVertical drop: 1,245 feetSkiable acres: 4,200-plus acres (3,000 acres guided; 1,200-plus acres avalanche-managed and ski-patrolled)Average annual snowfall: 196 inchesLift fleet: None!Why I interviewed himFirst question: why is the ski newsletter that constantly reminds readers that it's concerned always and only with lift-served skiing devoting an entire podcast episode to a closed ski area that had no lifts at all? Didn't I write this when Indy Pass added Bluebird back in 2022?:Wait a minute, what the f**k exactly is going on here? I have to walk to the f*****g top? Like a person from the past? Before they invented this thing like a hundred years ago called a chairlift? No? You actually ski up? Like some kind of weird humanoid platypus Howard the Duck thing? Bro I so did not sign up for this s**t. I am way too lazy and broken.Yup, that was me. But if you've been here long enough, you know that making fun of things that are hard is my way of making fun of myself for being Basic Ski Bro. Really I respected the hell out of Bluebird, its founders, and its skiers, and earnestly believed for a moment that the ski area could offer a new model for ski area development in a nation that had mostly stopped building them:Bluebird has a lot of the trappings of a lift-served ski area, with 28 marked runs and 11 marked skin tracks, making it a really solid place to dial your uphill kit and technique before throwing yourself out into the wilderness.I haven't really talked about this yet, but I think Bluebird may be the blueprint for re-igniting ski-area development in the vast American wilderness. The big Colorado resorts – other than Crested Butte and Telluride – have been at capacity for years. They keep building more and bigger lifts, but skiing needs a relief valve. One exists in the smaller ski areas that populate Colorado and are posting record business results, but in a growing state in a finally-growing sport, Bluebird shows us another way to do skiing.More specifically, I wrote in a post the following year:Bluebird fused the controlled environment and relative safety of a ski area with the grit and exhilaration of the uphill ski experience. The operating model, stripped of expensive chairlifts and resource-intensive snowmaking and grooming equipment, appeared to suit the current moment of reflexive opposition to mechanized development in the wilderness. For a moment, this patrolled, avalanche-controlled, low-infrastructure startup appeared to be a model for future ski area development in the United States. …If Bluebird could establish a beachhead in Colorado, home to a dozen of America's most-developed ski resorts and nearly one in every four of the nation's skier visits, then it could act as proof-of-concept for a new sort of American ski area. One that provided a novel experience in relative safety, sure, but, more important, one that could actually proceed as a concept in a nation allergic to new ski area development: no chairlifts, no snowmaking, no grooming, no permanent buildings.Dozens of American ski markets appeared to have the right ingredients for such a business: ample snow, empty wilderness, and too many skiers jamming too few ski areas that grow incrementally in size but never in number. If indoor ski areas are poised to become the nation's next-generation incubators, then liftless wilderness centers could create capacity on the opposite end of the skill spectrum, redoubts for experts burned out on liftlines but less enthusiastic about the dangers of touring the unmanaged backcountry. Bluebird could also act as a transition area for confident skiers who wanted to enter the wilderness but needed to hone their uphill and avalanche-analysis skills first. …Bluebird was affordable and approachable. Day tickets started at $39. A season pass cost $289. The ski area rented uphill gear and set skin tracks. The vibe was concert-tailgate-meets-#VanLife-minimalism-and-chill, with free bacon famously served at the mid-mountain yurt.That second bit of analysis, unfortunately, was latched to an article announcing Bluebird's permanent closure in 2023. Co-founder Jeff Woodward told me at the time that Bluebird's relative remoteness – past most of mainline Colorado skiing – and a drying-up of investors drove the shutdown decision.Why now was a good time for this interviewBluebird's 2023 closure shocked the ski community. Over already? A ski area offering affordable, uncrowded, safe uphill skiing seemed too wedded to skiing's post-Covid outdoors-hurray moment to crumble so quickly. Weren't Backcountry Bros multiplying as the suburban Abercrombie and Applebee's masses discovered the outside and flooded lift-served ski areas? I offered a possible explanation for Bluebird's untimely shutdown:There is another, less optimistic reading here. Bluebird may have failed because it's remote and small for its neighborhood. Or we are witnessing perception bump up against reality. The popular narrative is that we are in the midst of a backcountry resurgence, quantified by soaring gear sales and perpetually parked-out trailheads. Hundreds of skiers regularly skin up many western ski areas before the lifts open. But the number of skiers willing to haul themselves up a mountain under their own power is miniscule compared to those who prefer the ease and convenience of a chairlift, which, thanks to the megapass, is more affordable than at any point in modern ski history.Ski media glorifies uphilling. Social media amplifies it. But maybe the average skier just isn't that interested. You can, after all, make your own ice cream or soda or bread, often at considerable initial expense and multiples of the effort and time that it would take to simply purchase these items. A small number of people will engage in these activities out of curiosity or because they possess a craftsman's zeal for assembly. But most will not. And that's the challenge for whoever takes the next run at building a liftless ski area.Still, I couldn't stop thinking about my podcast conversation the year prior with Lonie Glieberman, founder of the improbable and remote Mount Bohemia. When he opened the experts-only, no-snowmaking, no-grooming freefall zone in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in 2000, the ski industry collectively scoffed. It will never work, they promised, and for years it didn't. Boho lost money for a long time. But Glieberman persisted and, through a $99-season-pass strategy and an aggressively curated fist-bump image, Boho now sits at the aspirational pinnacle of Midwest skiing, a pilgrimage spot that is so successful it no longer sells Saturday day-time lift tickets.Could Bluebird have ascended to similar cult destination given more time? I don't know. We might never know.But shortly after Bluebird's shuttering, Erik Lambert, who co-founded Bluebird with Woodward, reached out to me. He's since helped with The Storm's digital-marketing efforts and knows the product well. With two years to process the rapid and permanent unraveling of an enterprise that had for a time consumed his life and passion, he felt ready to tell his version of the Bluebird story. And he asked if we could use The Storm to do it.What we talked aboutHow an East Coast kid developed a backcountry obsession; White Grass, West Virginia; the very long starter-kit list for backcountry skiing; Bluebird as backcountry primer; Jackson Hole as backcountry firestarter; why a nation as expansive and wild as the United States has little suitable land for ready ski area development; a 100-page form to secure a four-day Forest Service permit; early Bluebird pilots at Mosquito Pass and Winter Park; a surprising number of beginners, not just to backcountry, but to skiing; why the founders envisioned a network of Bluebirds; why Bluebird moved locations after season one; creating social scaffolding out of what is “inherently an anti-social experience”; free bacon!; 20 inches to begin operating; “we didn't know if people would actually pay to go backcountry skiing in this kind of environment”; “backcountry skiing was wild and out there, and very few people were doing it”; who Bluebird thought would show up and who actually did – “we were absolutely flummoxed by what transpired”; the good and bad of Bluebird's location; why none of the obvious abandoned Colorado ski areas worked for Bluebird; “we did everything the right way … and the right way is expensive”; “it felt like it was working”; why financing finally ran out; comparisons to Bohemia; “what we really needed was that second location”; moving on from failure – “it's been really hard to talk about for a long time”; Bluebird's legacy – “we were able to get thousands of people their best winter day”; “I think about it every day in one way or another”; the alternate universe of our own pasts; “somebody's going to make something like this work because it can and should exist”; and why I don't think this story is necessarily over just yet.What I got wrong* We mentioned a forthcoming trip to Colorado – that trip is now in the past, and I included GoPro footage of Lambert skiing with me in Loveland on a soft May day.* I heard “New Hampshire” and assigned Lambert's first backcountry outing to Mount Washington and Tuckerman Ravine, but the trek took place in Gulf of Slides.Podcast NotesOn White GrassThe Existing facility that most resembles Bluebird Backcountry is White Grass, West Virginia, ostensibly a cross-country ski area that sits on a 1,200-foot vertical drop and attracts plenty of skinners. I hosted founder Chip Chase on the pod last year:On Forest Service permit boundariesThe developed portion of a ski area is often smaller than what's designated as the “permit area” on their Forest Service masterplan. Copper Mountain's 2024 masterplan, for example, shows large parcels included in the permit that currently sit outside of lift service:On Bluebird's shifting locationsBluebird's first season was set on Whiteley Peak:The following winter, Bluebird shifted operations to Bear Mountain, which is depicted in the trailmap at the top of this article. Lambert breaks down the reasons for this move in our conversation.On breaking my leg in-boundsYeah I know, the regulars have heard me tell this story more times than a bear s***s under the bridge water, but for anyone new here, one of the reasons I am Skis Inbounds Bro is that I did my best Civil War re-enactment at Black Mountain of Maine three years ago. It's kind of a miracle that not only did patrol not have to stuff a rag in my mouth while they sawed my leg off, but that I've skied 156 days since the accident. This is a testament both to being alive in the future and skiing within 300 yards of a Patrol hut equipped with evac sleds and radios to make sure a fentanyl drip is waiting in the base area recovery room. Here's the story: On abandoned Colorado ski areasBerthoud Pass feels like the lost Colorado ski area most likely to have have endured and found a niche had it lasted into our indie-is-cool, alt-megapass world of 2025. Dropping off US 40 11 miles south of Winter Park, the ski area delivered around 1,000 feet of vert and a pair of modern fixed-grip chairlifts. The bump ran from 1937 to 2001 - Colorado Ski History houses the full story.Geneva Basin suffered from a more remote location than Berthoud, and struggled through several owners from its 1963 opening to failed early ‘90s attempts at revitalization (the ski area last operated in 1984, according to Colorado Ski History). The mountain ran a couple of double chairs and surface lifts on 1,250 vertical feet:I also mentioned Hidden Valley, more commonly known as Ski Estes Park. This was another long-runner, hanging around from 1955 to 1991. Estes rocked an impressive 2,000-foot vertical drop, but spun just one chairlift and a bunch of surface lifts, likely making it impossible to compete as the Colorado megas modernized in the 1980s (Colorado Ski History doesn't go too deeply into the mountain's shutdown).On U.S. Forest Service permitsAn oft-cited stat is that roughly half of U.S. ski areas operate on Forest Service land. This number isn't quite right: 116 of America's 501 active ski areas are under Forest Service permits. While this is fewer than a quarter of active ski areas, those 116 collectively house 63 percentage of American ski terrain.I broke this down extensively a couple months back:The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing (and sometimes adjacent things such as Bluebird) all year long. Join us. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

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A petty crime podcast episode filled with food, fast food sauce nostalgia, and chaotic appetites. Pull up a chair and prepare your palate—because the Saucy Queens, Trevin and Amanda, have a reservation for crime, and you're on the guest list. This week, Trevin finally tracks down the elusive salad that haunted him last year—only to discover its spicy vengeance leaves him sweating bullets. Meanwhile, Amanda recounts a recent dining disaster in what can only be described as Diary of a Wimpy Amanda. The duo dives into a flavorful conversation about discontinued fast food sauces that are now collector's items. From Taco Bell's Fire Roasted, to McDonald's Szechuan, and Wendy's S'awesome Sauce, this nostalgic deep-dip delivers a taste of the past. Trevin also explores the surprisingly petty world of drunk bees with insights from the article, Why Bees Get Buzzed—and poses the question: what happens when you arrive at the hive tipsy? This week's petty crime stories are as saucy as ever:

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June 9, 2025 - Jill Applebee, Village Administrator and Jim Peck, Mayor of Forsyth joined Byers & Co to talk about the Annual Forsyth Fest this coming weekend as well as how the village is celebrating its 160th birthday. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a textSteven & Derek discuss if we can separate athletes from the people they are off the field, why runner ups in sporting events should never give speeches & how Steven's time at Applebee's prepared him for his radio career(00:58)-Elon vs Trump/Sinner vs Alcaraz (12:21)-Pacers comeback to win game 1 in NBA Finals, Stanley Cup all tied up after 2 OT games & criticism over Doris Burke on broadcast (36:38)-Aaron Rodgers finally signs with the Steelers, what does it mean for the Steelers & should we be interested in Rodgers anymore? (55:40)-Netflix documentary on Brett Favre, can we separate an athlete from who they are as people? (01:15:13)-SF Giants get their swing back after moves(01:26:50)-Sports Media Beefs(01:40:49)-Jackass of the Week (John Fisher Award Winner)(01:50:05)-Pop Culture Catchup   Support the show

Some crazy local shhh this week!Episode notes:Support Jon, Erin, Lilu and Atom with Maui fire relief https://gofund.me/79679b28Ex-Raiders player Henry Ruggs sentenced in fatal 2021 Las Vegas DUI crashUtah man killed by FBI agents after he allegedly made threats against Biden ahead of president's visitMan mistakenly beat down by cops in Applebees with ‘baby in his arms' as real hit-and-run culprits hid in bathroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggSbqTV1PGsCompany uniform leads to burglary arrest

Back to talk more shhh after a month off.Episode notes:Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias in Salt Lake City - https://fluffyguy.comMartin "MARTIIIIIINNN" Moreno - https://martinmoreno.comMatt Golightly - https://mattgolightly.comJesus Sepulveda - https://www.tiktok.com/@jesuscomedianMaverik Center - https://maverikcenter.com/home/Crystal Inn - https://www.crystalinnwestvalley.com/Applebee's - https://restaurants.applebees.com/en-us/ut/west-valley-city/2175-west-city-center-court-93053Tracy Aviary - https://tracyaviary.org/Arempas - https://www.arempas.com/IHop - https://restaurants.ihop.com/en-us/ut/west-valley-city/breakfast-3383-decker-lake-dr-1735Natural History Museum of Utah - https://nhmu.utah.edu/Weird Al Yankovic at Mountain America Center in Idaho Falls - https://mountainamericacenter.com/weird-al-yankovic/With special guest Puddles Pity Party - https://www.puddlespityparty.com/YouTube censorship at its best! "Don't be a Chauvin-ist" taken downTrump Suggests Giving Cops ‘One Really Violent Day' to Stop Crime

The Applebee's applicant comes forward. Initial police reports say Jonathan Joss' death, the actor who voiced John Redcorn on “King of the Hill,” is not suspected to be a hate crime. Update to Charlie's neighbor who shot a man who was mowing his lawn. PayPal co-founder, Peter Thiel, wants to track Americans purchases. Rover is in Miami to check on the progress of bankruptcy box and he felt bad for a girl he saw at the airport in Atlanta. Charlie picked his hair until he made a bald spot on his head. A knock at the door. Deportation. TACO. Angry man going through the metal detector at the airport. Computer programmers and engineers are facing a very high unemployment rate. Amazon testing humanoid robots for package delivery. If you were 20 years old today what would be the best career to pursue? Charlie looks at the set list before going to a show. Duji is afraid to eat anything at dinner. Snitzer goes to the bathroom only to get his steps in not to pee. What happened to the afternoon girl? Should Rover pee around his house to deter the racoons from pooping?

The Applebee's applicant comes forward. Initial police reports say Jonathan Joss' death, the actor who voiced John Redcorn on “King of the Hill,” is not suspected to be a hate crime. Update to Charlie's neighbor who shot a man who was mowing his lawn. PayPal co-founder, Peter Thiel, wants to track Americans purchases. Rover is in Miami to check on the progress of bankruptcy box and he felt bad for a girl he saw at the airport in Atlanta. Charlie picked his hair until he made a bald spot on his head. A knock at the door. Deportation. TACO. Angry man going through the metal detector at the airport. Computer programmers and engineers are facing a very high unemployment rate. Amazon testing humanoid robots for package delivery. If you were 20 years old today what would be the best career to pursue? Charlie looks at the set list before going to a show. Duji is afraid to eat anything at dinner. Snitzer goes to the bathroom only to get his steps in not to pee. What happened to the afternoon girl? Should Rover pee around his house to deter the racoons from pooping? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Applebee's applicant comes forward. Initial police reports say Jonathan Joss' death, the actor who voiced John Redcorn on “King of the Hill,” is not suspected to be a hate crime. Update to Charlie's neighbor who shot a man who was mowing his lawn. PayPal co-founder, Peter Thiel, wants to track Americans purchases. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Applebee's applicant comes forward. Initial police reports say Jonathan Joss' death, the actor who voiced John Redcorn on “King of the Hill,” is not suspected to be a hate crime. Update to Charlie's neighbor who shot a man who was mowing his lawn. PayPal co-founder, Peter Thiel, wants to track Americans purchases.

Erin Prus, a design leader living in the heart of the Midwest, focuses on the ways words, and their systems and styles, shape design, along with UI design elements, accessibility, and more. Erin shares more thoughts about Challengers, starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O'Connor, analyzing its romance, conflicts, parenting scenes, memorable action on the tennis court, compression of time and flashbacks, sponsorships, and also, how Applebee's factors into the story.-A teacher-journalist turned content designer and UX writer, Erin Prus is no stranger to career pivots. She's been consulting for two seemingly disparate clients in the health tech and horticulture spaces, two things she cares deeply about. Also, she's scheduled to wrap up a forthcoming memoir later this year. When she's not working, Erin loves being outside, spending time with her French Bulldog Rumi, doing Pilates, and watching movies with her son.-Challengers (2024)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16426418/ https://www.vulture.com/article/oscars-2025-why-luca-guadagninos-challengers-got-snubbed.html https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/04/29/yes-applebees-in-challengers-is-accurate-zendaya-cincinnati-open/73499584007/ https://www.vulture.com/article/why-challengers-had-that-applebees-scene.html https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sgt-rock-luca-guadagnino-dc-studios-not-in-development-1236382859/https://www.avclub.com/luca-guadagnino-sgt-rock-killed-dc-studios

In this week's episode of Good Morning Hospitality with Sarah Dandashy and Steve Turk, the crew dives into Marriott's unveiling of its new Series by Marriott soft brand and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's fresh take on loyalty rewards, now redeemable for concerts, sports, and even Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar's perks. We also discuss the proposed “tax-free tips” bill that could reshape hiring incentives in the hotel industry. On the travel side, we break down the severe Memorial Day storm disruptions that rattled airports across the country and highlight the top-ranked U.S. summer travel destinations of 2025. Tune in for real-time insights, a quote to keep you motivated, and our personal takes on the latest in hospitality and travel. ---- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Good Morning Hospitality⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Hospitality.FM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Multi-Media Network and is a Hospitality.FM Original The hospitality industry is constantly growing, changing, and innovating! This podcast brings you the top news and topics from industry experts across different hospitality fields. Good Morning Hospitality publishes three thirty-minute weekly episodes: every Monday and Wednesday at 7 a.m. PST / 10 a.m. EST and every Tuesday at 8 a.m. CET for our European and UK-focused content. Make sure to tune in during our live show on our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn page⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ every week and join the conversation live! Explore everything Good Morning Hospitality has to offer: • Well & Good Morning Coffee: Enjoy our signature roast—⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠order here!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Retreats: Join us at one of our exclusive retreats—learn more and register your interest ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Episodes & More: Find all episodes and additional info at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GoodMorningHospitality.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Thank you to all of the Hospitality.FM Partners that help make this show possible. If you have any press you want to be covered during the show, email us at goodmorning@hospitality.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's witnesses are from Matthew West's website called popwe.org. If you don't know who Matthew West is, he is a singer, songwriter, and storyteller. This website is for the non-profit that he has with his father, a pastor. Matthew and his father encourage people to share their stories. They have various categories of stories. Today, I chose two testimonies from the Salvation Category. Often, we can hear our own story in someone else's story. When we listen to others tell their story, it helps us see that we are not alone. When we hear how God worked in their situation, it gives us hope that He will work in ours, too! I pray when you hear these testimonies, you get the faith and hope to believe that miracles can happen in your situation, also. I pray you know that God is there with you, and if you invite Him into your situation, He can help. I hope you enjoy these testimonies.Denice: My grandson, Elijah (age 19), was an unbeliever his entire life. I've been praying that he would find God. He was invited to a Bible study that 2 of his good friends started. He was resistant at first, but his friends never stopped inviting him. And finally, he gave in and went. I wept with joy.A few months into this study, Elijah asked me if he could host the study at my house. I couldn't say “Yes!!” fast enough! 25 kids, aged 15 to 29, showed up that Wednesday night and filled my entire living room. I was so proud of this group telling them they are disciples on the ground – that we are living the year of the Lord's favor today. I told them the Gospel is still moving, and they are a part of it. They are no different that the 12 disciples they are reading about in the Bible. Discipleship is still happening through you and me, and the Kingdom of God is like a mustard seed. The Kingdom will spread in you and through you. The Gospel works because of who Jesus is; not because of us. I am proud to be a seed.These young people take turns leading the study and I have had the pleasure to sit in on several of their studies. It blows my mind. My oldest grandson, Justus (age 29) has also joined this group and has never missed a Wednesday night. I can see the changes in both of them. God is so good… And to witness this is powerful. These young people, dedicated to the Lord, are now getting together on Thursday as well!They were studying sin, and I reminded them that the Living God does not hate sin because you broke a rule. He hates sin because it breaks you. Sin weakens you. And that sometimes we pray for our circumstances to change when maybe God wants YOU to change in the circumstance.I am so proud of this group of young people. It has become a great opportunity to share my faith and to watch God move in their lives.This is what prayer can do….  So don't stop praying! Next is Brad:Hello West Family,I would like to share with you my testimony of opening my heart to Jesus Christ and how He completely changed my life.My mom left my father when I was around one year old. She soon remarried my stepfather, who she is still married to today. He had two daughters and one son. His son stayed with us more often than the daughters did, so I instantly gained a brother who I grew up with. He became like a blood brother to me.We were raised going to church, but as time went on, we attended less and less due to constant fighting between my mother and stepfather. My biological father was barely in my life and lived in California, while I lived in Kansas. As we stopped going to church, it felt like my mom and stepfather became increasingly strict with us, and discipline became harsh—belts and paddles, being slapped in the face, soap shoved down our throats, etc.Time passed, and we went through the typical phases—Boy Scouts, sports, family activities—and while at times it seemed harsh, there were good times as well. I was diagnosed with depression in my early teens and was quickly put on medication, as that seemed to be the only solution at the time.As we got older, my brother moved out after graduating from high school. For his 21st birthday, he invited me to the lake with his friends. But at the last minute, he told me they weren't going to the lake anymore and that I couldn't hang out with them, probably because they planned on going to bars and drinking. That hurt me deeply.So, on the night of my brother's birthday, I ended up staying at a friend's house. Strangely, I couldn't sleep at all. I felt as if something wasn't right. As I was tossing and turning, I heard my friend's phone ringing in the middle of the night, which struck me as odd. His mom called downstairs to me, saying the phone was for me. I answered, and it was my mom. She told me something had happened, but she couldn't talk and handed the phone to my sister. I was told that my brother Jason had been in an automobile accident and didn't make it. My brother and his friend had both decided to leave an Applebee's restaurant after drinking heavily and get into my brother's friend's brand-new Firebird. They made the tragic decision to drink and drive. They were traveling at a high rate of speed when they hit a telephone pole. My brother died instantly, and his friend barely made it out alive.In an instant, my whole life changed. From that moment on, my life spiraled. I struggled with uncontrolled drinking, sleeping with different partners, failed relationships (one of which resulted in a child), and on-and-off jobs. Nothing seemed to be going right.I prayed to God for someone to come into my life, and He gifted me with Elisabeth, who is now my ex-wife. I jumped into that relationship quickly. We lived together within three months, married soon after, and had two children. She essentially became the mother to my first child, as her mother was in and out of jail and struggling with drugs.We bought a house, had three kids, and life seemed good. I opened my heart to God, and we attended church. But then, I wanted to live life my own way instead of following the path God had planned for me. Ultimately, I lost everything. Elisabeth and I divorced and ended up selling the house.For the past 10 years, I tried living life on my terms. My mental health deteriorated, I was drinking excessively, and I even started taking pills. I slept with multiple women, and everything spiraled out of control. I treated my children poorly, and my anxiety, stress, and worries were overwhelming.However, a couple of months ago, I made the decision to open my heart fully to Jesus Christ once again. I've completely changed my mindset and behavior. I am now more mindful of how I interact with people, especially at work, and I'm committed to not treating people poorly or gossiping about them. I've started reading the Bible every day and am trying to live by its teachings.My children and I now go out and write Bible verses and encouraging messages on sidewalks with sidewalk chalk. We listen to Christian artists like you and sing along together in praise to Jesus. I even took my children to their first Winter Jam.Jesus Christ is alive and can change anyone.Thank you for your time.Your Brother in Christ,BradThank you so much to both of you for sharing your stories. I appreciate you being vulnerable and sharing your story so that others know they are not alone. It also shows them that if God got you through it, he will get them through it too! Thank you so much for sharing! www.findingtruenorthcoaching.comCLICK HERE TO DONATECLICK HERE to sign up for Mentoring CLICK HERE to sign up for Daily "Word from the Lord" emailsCLICK HERE to sign up for my newsletter & receive a free audio training about inviting Jesus into your daily lifeCLICK HERE to buy my book Total Trust in God's Safe Embrace

On today's MJ Morning Show: 15 old-school Tampa restaurants that are still great today Morons in the news PTSA is hiring... ATM Crotchety Call Airbnb anti-party tech... We took calls A gift for Michelle from a listener Louisiana teacher dropped a baggie of cocaine at school Passenger boards plane with a list of allergies Diddy trial update MJ's plans for jury duty MJ and family went to see 'Mission: Impossible' Tommy Lee drama Kidney Kim is getting a new kidney Decision on pennies has been made Taylor Swift/Blake Lively drama Kanye West drama Video of man knocking down a tray of food in a restaurant released Applebee's customer spits on employee Taco Bell employee spits in customer's food Checker's employee shoots and kills customer Kentucky couple each lose an arm trying to survive a tornado Ladies, don't wear this on an flight Southwest Air changes policy on power banks Private plane crash in San Diego Menendez brothers' parole hearing delayed

**Cold Open (How do you jump-start a car?)****Skip the Cold Open at 00:05:44**We've featured a lot of different kinds of agencies on this podcast but have yet to have an agency on the podcast that deals almost exclusively with direct mail or a more traditional form of advertising.So we called our buddy, Wayne, up at Inside the Box Marketing to talk about how he and his wife built a 7-figure direct mail marketing agency specializing in postcards for local store franchise marketing and restaurants.Wayne is the man behind the high-gloss pop-out postcards you might get in the mail from major franchises like Applebee's, IHOP, Domino's, Blaze Pizza, and many more.We sit him down to talk about direct mail and franchises.Why direct mail? How profitable is it? Why franchises? How do you get into them?----------------------------------Have questions for Wayne? Find him on LinkedIn or reach out to him at wayne@insidetheboxmarketinginc.com.You can also visit their local store and franchise marketing website at insidetheboxmarketinginc.com.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/restaurantdirectmailcoach/----------------------------------Our recommended agency tools:everbrospodcast.com/recommended-tools/----------------------------------⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐As always, if you enjoyed this episode or this podcast in general and want to leave us a review or rating, head over to Apple and let us know what you like! It helps us get found and motivates us to keep producing this free content.----------------------------------Want to connect with us? Reach out to us on the everbrospodcast.com website, subscribe to us on YouTube, or connect with us on socials:YouTube: @agencyuTwitter/X: @theagency_uLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/agencyuFacebook: facebook.com/theagencyuInstagram: @theagencyuReddit: r/agency & u/JakeHundleyTikTok: @agency.u

Send us a textBuckle up, Ones Ready fam, because this episode is a gut-punch of raw truth and unrelenting grit. We're sitting down with Drew Outstanding (@drewoutstanding on X), a badass Army vet who went from slinging Applebee's two-for-20s to slaying in Iraq, only to get sucker-punched by the DOD's “safe and effective” COVID vaccine mandate. Spoiler alert: it wasn't safe, and it damn sure wasn't effective. One day after the jab, Drew was paralyzed, thrown into a medically induced coma, and diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome. He spent six months as a human vegetable in the VA, drowning in his own saliva while bureaucrats played CYA. But this guy? He's not just surviving—he's thriving, hitting extreme sports, speaking truth to power, and making sure the world never forgets the COVID clown show. With Peaches and Jared dropping their signature sarcasm, this episode is a middle finger to the machine and a battle cry for resilience. Don't miss it, unless you're cool with Big Pharma running your life.Key Takeaways:The Mandate Mess: Drew's story exposes the DOD's vaccine mandate as a reckless gamble that left him paralyzed and fighting for his life. “Safe and effective”? More like “shut up and comply.”Grit Over Everything: From a coma to scuba diving and sit-down skiing, Drew's recovery is proof that sheer will can flip the bird to even the darkest odds.No Apologies, No Accountability: The system that pushed the jab still hasn't owned up. Drew's on a mission to make sure we never forget the lies and lives wrecked.Speak Your Truth: Facing hate mail and censorship, Drew's advice? Show up, tell your story,省市 and let the world know what's what.Timestamps:00:00 - Intro: Ones Ready kicks off with Peaches' classic energy.00:07 - Welcome Drew Outstanding, the man who beat the odds.03:53 - Drew's military journey: From Applebee's to Iraq's dumpster fire.11:49 - Black Hawk Down vibes and the reality of modern warfare.15:37 - Post-Iraq life: Fort Campbell, college, and National Guard.23:46 - COVID chaos: The bat-pangolin-turtle conspiracy and mandate madness.29:30 - Vaccine fallout: Paralysis, coma, and GuillainSupport the showJoin this channel to get access to perks: HEREBuzzsprout Subscription page: HERECollabs:Ones Ready - OnesReady.com 18A Fitness - Promo Code: 1Ready ATACLete - Follow the URL (no promo code): ATACLeteCardoMax - Promo Code: ONESREADYDanger Close Apparel - Promo Code: ONESREADYDFND Apparel - Promo Code: ONESREADYHoist - Promo Code: ONESREADYKill Cliff - Pro...

Welcome to the Build A Vibrant Culture Podcast, where clarity, energy, and results collide! This week, Nicole Greer dives into the world of compensation with Jason Smith, Principal Compensation Consultant at Gallagher's Compensation and Rewards Consulting practice. With a career journey that started behind the bar at Applebee's and led to becoming a recognized expert in compensation strategy, Jason is here to pull back the curtain on the complex world of pay structures, transparency, and fairness.In this high-energy conversation, Jason shares how to balance internal equity with market competitiveness, the critical difference between pay equity and pay equality, and the evolving trends in compensation strategy post-pandemic. Whether you're an HR leader, business owner, or team leader, this episode is packed with actionable insights to help you pay your team right.Highlights from this episode:[00:09:52] Pay Equity vs. Pay Equality Explained: Jason clearly defines the difference between pay equity (eliminating wage disparities) and pay equality (ensuring no discrimination). Understanding these concepts is critical for fair compensation practices.[00:19:08] Evolution of Compensation Strategy Post-Pandemic: Jason discusses how compensation strategies have evolved over the last five years, from remote work challenges to pay transparency becoming an industry standard.[00:27:41] Navigating Pay Transparency Laws: Jason provides practical advice for HR professionals preparing for pay transparency regulations, including the importance of maintaining accurate and up-to-date salary ranges.[01:03:31] Don't Try to Do It All Yourself: Jason's closing advice to HR professionals is powerful—don't be afraid to ask for help. Whether navigating compensation strategies, compliance, or pay transparency, experts can provide the support you need.Connect with Jason:Email: jason_smith@ajg.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/compenjason/Listen today at www.vibrantculture.com/podcast or your favorite podcast platform!Learn more about Nicole Greer, the Vibrant Coach: https://www.vibrantculture.com/

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Superpowers for Good should not be considered investment advice. Seek counsel before making investment decisions. When you purchase an item, launch a campaign or create an investment account after clicking a link here, we may earn a fee. Engage to support our work.Watch the show on television by downloading the e360tv channel app to your Roku, AppleTV or AmazonFireTV. You can also see it on YouTube.Devin: What is your superpower?Todd: I careWhat if a favorite drink could change the world? That's the ingenious idea behind Chef Todd Manley's Mutiny Island Vodka. By using breadfruit—a tropical superfood—as its primary ingredient, Mutiny Island Vodka addresses two pressing global challenges: poverty and climate change.Todd, a chef turned entrepreneur, explained how breadfruit transforms lives in tropical regions. “One breadfruit tree will feed a family of four for life,” he noted, emphasizing its nutritional and economic potential. In regions plagued by food insecurity and poverty, breadfruit provides not only sustenance but also economic opportunities. Farmers can grow breadfruit to feed their families, sell it locally, or export products like breadfruit flour. Mutiny Island Vodka incentivizes the planting of these trees, creating a sustainable cycle of economic growth and environmental restoration.Breadfruit's environmental benefits are equally impressive. Todd highlighted, “Breadfruit trees sequester hundreds of tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and they're long living.” Unlike annual crops like wheat or corn that require replanting, breadfruit trees thrive for decades, continuously bearing fruit while pulling carbon dioxide from the air.Mutiny Island Vodka, the world's first vodka made from breadfruit, is more than just a spirit—it's a movement. The company's partnerships with organizations like the Trees That Feed Foundation amplify its impact. For every bottle sold or investment made, a breadfruit tree is planted in a region that needs it most. This initiative not only addresses food security but also serves as a scalable climate solution.Todd and his team are currently raising funds through a regulation crowdfunding campaign on Start Engine. This capital will help expand production and distribution, bringing Mutiny Island Vodka to more people and creating even greater impact. Todd shared his ambitious vision: “We are set on becoming a household name...better cocktails, better planet.”Todd's innovative approach and commitment to making a difference demonstrate how business can be a force for good. Mutiny Island Vodka isn't just a drink—it's a tangible example of how ingenuity and purpose can tackle global challenges. Those interested in supporting this mission can explore the opportunity to invest and join the effort to fight poverty and save the planet, one sip at a time.tl;dr:Mutiny Island Vodka uses breadfruit to fight poverty and climate change while producing award-winning spirits.Breadfruit trees provide food security, economic opportunities, and carbon sequestration in tropical regions.Mutiny Island Vodka is raising funds via regulation crowdfunding to expand production and impact.Todd's superpower, caring, drives his work and fosters a network of trust and collaboration.During the pandemic, Mutiny produced hand sanitizer for frontline workers, showcasing care and ingenuity.How to Develop Caring As a SuperpowerTodd's superpower is his genuine care for others. He explained, “I think my number one superpower is I care.” This deep empathy fuels his work and draws like-minded people into his orbit, fostering a network of trust and collaboration. Todd elaborated, “When you find someone else that has that same superpower, you tend to really latch on to them...having that is just incredible.”Illustrative Story:During the pandemic, Todd noticed that the Virgin Islands had no hand sanitizer for hospitals, police, or frontline workers. Leveraging Mutiny Island Vodka's resources, his team began producing sanitizer using breadfruit-derived alcohol. This act of care not only met the community's critical needs but also helped sustain the business during a challenging time.Tips for Developing the Superpower:Practice listening actively by using “two ears and one mouth” to understand others better.Reframe negative thoughts or words into positive, solution-oriented language.Cultivate empathy by considering what others might be experiencing.Surround yourself with like-minded, caring individuals to foster collaboration and trust.By following Todd's example and advice, you can make caring a skill. With practice and effort, you could make it a superpower that enables you to do more good in the world.Remember, however, that research into success suggests that building on your own superpowers is more important than creating new ones or overcoming weaknesses. You do you!Guest ProfileChef Todd Manley (he/him):CEO, Mutiny Island VodkaAbout Mutiny Island Vodka: Our company was founded to produce the World's first, Island Vodka, hand crafted with breadfruit, Mutiny Island Vodka. The business has grown to encompass a production distillery, restaurant, tourist attraction, event venue, and of course Mutiny Island Vodka as a brand on its own. Mutiny Island Vodka is being featured on the shelves and menus of some notable partners such as:  The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Applebee's Franchisees, American Airlines Lounges, Virgin Voyages, and more. The partners align with the sustainability and altruistic components of the brand, ie; breadfruit!Website: mutinyislandvodka.comCompany Facebook Page: facebook.com/search/top?q=mutiny%20island%20vodkaOther URL: startengine.com/offering/mutinyislandvodkaBiographical Information: Todd has been honored to receive numerous awards from "Chef of the Year" to multiple recognitions of his restaurants as the "best" in several categories, and nominated for an Elby Award in 2012 as a restaurant visionary. He has largely been self-employed his entire life, loving the challenge of taking ideas out of thin air and turning them into tangible, profitable realizations. He is a graduate and former graduate school student of Virginia Commonwealth University.Since making the USVI his home, he has opened 5 successful businesses in a short four years, continually reinvesting in Christiansted and the USVI effectively helping pull up the town by reinvigorating interest in Christiansted during an economically gloomy period of time. In 2015, the community honored him through the Chamber of Commerce awarding him "Business Man of the Year.” The same year he received the U.S. Congressional Award for contributions to community and betterment of society for his achievements and helping the community of St. Croix. His commitment to better the global community through his work with breadfruit and the breadfruit community resulted in being honored at the Global Breadfruit Summit in Hawaii in both 2018 and 2022 for contributions to the community and innovation. Mutiny Island Vodka also received an endorsement from a charity, Trees That Feed Foundation for using breadfruit as a substrate incentivizing the planting of breadfruit trees.When he has free time, he can be found with his wife from Dominica, playing guitar, scuba diving, or on a beach! Todd works approximately 70-80 hours per week in his roles with Mutiny Island Vodka and approximately 1/2 hour per week as a founding Member of Smorrebrod, LLC.Personal Facebook Profile: facebook.com/todd.manley.182Instagram Handle: @cheftoddmutinySupport Our SponsorsOur generous sponsors make our work possible, serving impact investors, social entrepreneurs, community builders and diverse founders. Today's advertisers include FundingHope, SuperCrowd25, and Crowdfunding Made Simple. 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Devin Thorpe, Champion of Social Good and CEO of The Super Crowd, Inc., will lead a session on "The Secret to Higher Investment Returns via Impact Crowdfunding." He'll share powerful strategies and real-world examples that show how aligning your investments with your values can lead to strong financial and social returns. If you're an investor looking to maximize impact or curious about the growing world of impact crowdfunding, this is a session you won't want to miss! Don't miss it!SuperCrowd25, August 21st and 22nd: This two-day virtual event is an annual tradition but with big upgrades for 2025! We'll be streaming live across the web and on TV via e360tv. Soon, we'll open a process for nominating speakers. 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(00:00) Zolak and Bertrand start the third hour by looking at what the Patriots learned from their break-up with Bill Belichick. (12:26) We continue to go back and forth on Belichick and his relationship, along with some thoughts on Applebees. (23:47) The crew touches on movie sequels that were better than the original! (33:00) We touch on what a potential City Connect jersey would look like for the Patriots.

The Two Bobs episode 280 for Monday, April 28, 2025: What are The Bobs drinking? Rob enjoyed a Barrel Aged Behemoth from Three Floyds. https://untp.beer/lgnar Robert nursed a Juice Head Double IPA from Solace. https://untp.beer/myp80 Follow us on Untapped at @RobFromTTB and @lowercaserobert or we'll poop in your beer fridge. This week's CRAZY NEWS was drafted before Shedeur Sanders. A drunken Florida Man® wearing a pink wig, fake breasts and a pink thong was busted outside an Applebee's while attempting to get into the wrong car. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/applebees/thong-man-275830 A Pennsylvania woman was busted after shitting in a liquor store's beer cave. https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/revolting/beer-cave-horror-708941 A man in Louisiana rode a horse through a Walmart claiming it was his emotional support animal. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14599535/man-rode-horse-walmart-excuse-Louisiana.html College students in Canada were held hostage by a gaggle of Canada Geese outside their home. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/aggressive-canada-geese-waterloo-tiktok-videos-chasing-students-1.7506039 Financial experts (not including Rob) are recommending that investors diversify portfolios into several harebrained schemes. https://theonion.com/financial-experts-recommend-diversifying-portfolio-with-multiple-harebrained-schemes/ Please share the show with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe! Visit www.thetwobobs.com for our contact information. Thanks for listening! Leave us a message or text us at 530-882-BOBS (530-882-2627) Join us on all the social things: Follow us on Blue Sky Follow us on Twitter Check out our Instagram Find us on YouTube Follow Rob on Untappd Follow Robert on Untappd The Two Bobs Podcast is © The Two Bobs.  For more information, see our Who are The Two Bobs? page, or check our Contact page.  Words, views, and opinions are our own and do not represent those of our friends, family, or our employers unless otherwise noted.  Music for The Two Bobs was provided by JewelBeat.

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Rover is still having stomach issues, cleaning the street, and a bankruptcy box update. It is the 17-year anniversary of RMG on WMMS. Applebee's applications are seen as far as Oregon.