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    WSJ What’s News
    An Underwhelming Jobs Report Sends Stocks Higher

    WSJ What’s News

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2026 11:08


    P.M. Edition for Oct. 2. The U.S. economy added 29,000 jobs last month, falling short of expectations. Journal economics reporter Konrad Putzier discusses why that's a more solid number than it may seem… and what it means for the Fed's next meeting later this month. Plus, the G-7 countries agree to release 100 million barrels of diesel and oil to help ease soaring prices. We hear from reporter Matthew Dalton about why that seems to end the threat of a U.S. ban on diesel exports, at least for now. And the Journal has learned that Oman had previously banned the FlyDubai attacker from flying over his radical views. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    The John Batchelor Show
    CONTENTS THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW, 10-1-2026

    The John Batchelor Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2026 7:51 Transcription Available


    1962 GALAZY MAGAZINECONTENTS THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW, 10-1-2026Reforming Globalization to Avoid ConflictJake Werner of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, writing in The Nation, discusses US-China trade relations following Xi Jinping's Washington visit. Werner traces how 1990s free-market globalization through the WTO, IMF, and World Bank enriched multinational corporations while exploiting developing nations. However, China leveraged its strong state and market scale to demand technology transfers and intellectual property sharing. Rising American grievances over IP theft, paired with Chinese fears of the middle-income trap, created mutual resentment. Werner advocates reforming the global economy by raising wages, providing public goods, absorbing overcapacity, and engaging China as an equal peer. (1)Demographic Shifts Reshaping American OpportunityJoel Kotkin, writing in UnHerd, details demographic migration patterns transforming the United States. Businesses, media production, and high-tech industries—like semiconductors and data centers—are departing traditional urban hubs like New York and Los Angeles for Sunbelt and "hillbilly" states, including Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Facilitated by remote technology, lower costs, and affordable land, these regions are cultivating elite universities and tech corridors. Conversely, coastal urban cores suffer from ideological dysfunction, homelessness, and high living costs, driving families and professionals to seek safety, space, and economic opportunity in expanding exurbs. (2)Navigating North American Trade PressuresMary Anastasia O'Grady of The Wall Street Journal examines trade dynamics under the USMCA. O'Grady clarifies that the US refusal to sign a 16-year extension in 2026 initiated a 10-year review clock rather than immediate dissolution of the pact. She outlines the Section 232 national security tariffs imposed by the US—50% on steel, aluminum, and manufactured derivatives, alongside 25% on finished automobiles—which dismantle traditional zero-tariff trade. US steel producers urge Mexico to erect high external tariffs on Asian metal imports, creating a regional customs union. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum negotiates obligingly to avoid a damaging trade dispute. (3)Confronting Escalating Federal Debt RiskVeronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center addresses rising United States national debt and global bond market volatility. De Rugy refutes assertions that high debt-to-GDP ratios carry no consequences, highlighting recent severe inflation and weak Treasury bond auctions that forced shorter maturities. With 10-year interest rates exceeding 5%, investors signal diminishing confidence that future debt will be repaid in uninflated currency. She emphasizes that Social Security and Medicare trust fund exhaustion around 2032 threatens massive automatic benefit cuts or trillions in new borrowing. De Rugy warns that failing to reform entitlement drivers risks triggering severe economic instability. (4)Reforming Globalization to Avoid ConflictJake Werner of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, writing in The Nation, discusses US-China trade relations following Xi Jinping's Washington visit. Werner traces how 1990s free-market globalization through the WTO, IMF, and World Bank enriched multinational corporations while exploiting developing nations. However, China leveraged its strong state and market scale to demand technology transfers and intellectual property sharing. Rising American grievances over IP theft, paired with Chinese fears of the middle-income trap, created mutual resentment. Werner advocates reforming the global economy by raising wages, providing public goods, absorbing overcapacity, and engaging China as an equal peer. (1)Demographic Shifts Reshaping American OpportunityJoel Kotkin, writing in UnHerd, details demographic migration patterns transforming the United States. Businesses, media production, and high-tech industries—like semiconductors and data centers—are departing traditional urban hubs like New York and Los Angeles for Sunbelt and "hillbilly" states, including Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Facilitated by remote technology, lower costs, and affordable land, these regions are cultivating elite universities and tech corridors. Conversely, coastal urban cores suffer from ideological dysfunction, homelessness, and high living costs, driving families and professionals to seek safety, space, and economic opportunity in expanding exurbs. (2)(2)Navigating North American Trade PressuresMary Anastasia O'Grady of The Wall Street Journal examines trade dynamics under the USMCA. O'Grady clarifies that the US refusal to sign a 16-year extension in 2026 initiated a 10-year review clock rather than immediate dissolution of the pact. She outlines the Section 232 national security tariffs imposed by the US—50% on steel, aluminum, and manufactured derivatives, alongside 25% on finished automobiles—which dismantle traditional zero-tariff trade. US steel producers urge Mexico to erect high external tariffs on Asian metal imports, creating a regional customs union. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum negotiates obligingly to avoid a damaging trade dispute. (3)Confronting Escalating Federal Debt RiskVeronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center addresses rising United States national debt and global bond market volatility. De Rugy refutes assertions that high debt-to-GDP ratios carry no consequences, highlighting recent severe inflation and weak Treasury bond auctions that forced shorter maturities. With 10-year interest rates exceeding 5%, investors signal diminishing confidence that future debt will be repaid in uninflated currency. She emphasizes that Social Security and Medicare trust fund exhaustion around 2032 threatens massive automatic benefit cuts or trillions in new borrowing. De Rugy warns that failing to reform entitlement drivers risks triggering severe economic instability. (4)Operating SpaceX Starship Flight ProgramEric Berger, author of Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX and Re-entry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age, co-host David Livingston: The Ars Technicawriter discusses SpaceX's Starship Mission 14 orbital test. Berger details successful orbital payload deployment of next-generation Starlink satellites while highlighting Raptor 3 engine reliability and re-entry heat shield tiles as ongoing engineering priorities. Crucially, Berger reveals SpaceX plans to retire Crew Dragon, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy by 2030 to concentrate resources entirely on Starship development. This strategic pivot leaves NASA and commercial space station developers facing potential human transportation supply gaps, forcing reliance on Boeing's Starliner, Blue Origin, or European partners amid growing commercial space competition from China. (5)Uncovering Slavery at Tower HillAlan Taylor, author of Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion: The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner examines Virginia's Blow family—Samuel, Richard, and George—across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Samuel built wealth dispossessing indigenous land; Richard amassed a fortune through wartime smuggling at South Quay, international commerce, and transatlantic slaving. George managed Tower Hill plantation, continuously debating his father over severe soil exhaustion, overcropping, and scientific agricultural methods. Taylor exposes the pervasive physical violence sustaining slavery, the self-pitying illusions of planters, and debt-fueled financial practices underlying the economic facade of elite Virginia gentility. (6)Evaluating Latin American Geopolitical SecurityEvan Ellis of the US Army War College, writing in Infobae, examines Latin American geopolitics, security, and technology. Ellis analyzes the Brazilian presidential election between Lula da Silva and Flavio Bolsonaro amid intelligence reports of foreign interference. Turning to Mexico, he evaluates President Claudia Sheinbaum's cartel security operations, extradition decisions, USMCA stance, and 50% tariffs on Chinese goods. Ellis discusses his Infobaepaper on artificial intelligence and robotics, detailing $84 billion in Mexican data center projections, severe power grid constraints, and cartels deploying drone swarms. Finally, he addresses Cuba's complete economic collapse and mounting international pressure. (7)

    Bloggingheads.tv
    Trump and the AI Safety Vibe Shift (Robert Wright & Liron Shapira)

    Bloggingheads.tv

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2026 60:00


    Cold Open ... Round Two of Nonzero × Doom Debates ... Trump, the FTC, and an Industry Feeling the Heat ... Google Says Gemini 4 Exists ... Greg Brockman Pulls His $25M from Leading the Future ... The Break-Ins Keep Coming ... The Market Wants Agent Swarms ... The End of “Alignment by Default” ... The Prelude to Recursive Self-Improvement ... David Sacks Can't Explain Dario ... The All-In Echo Chamber ... Scott Alexander vs. Steven Pinker ... Jason Calacanis vs. the Public Benefit Corporation ... The Elephant in the Room Is the AI ... What the Average American Thinks ... From Chatbot to Agent to Swarm ... Boeing, Agent Swarms, and the Off Switch ... Skynet as a Botnet That Trades With Us ... Tyler Cowen: National Treasure, Net Negative on AI ... Liron's Doomer DCF Yields a 20x P/E ... Interest Rates: Where Cowen Has Me ... Does Pinker Owe Us a Debate? ... Pinker vs. Instrumental Convergence ... Wrap-Up ...

    Pat Gray Unleashed
    FlyDubai Co-Pilot Stabbed the Captain and Tried to Crash a Plane Full of Israelis | 10/1/26

    Pat Gray Unleashed

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2026 100:47


    A FlyDubai jet full of Israelis was supposed to land in Tel Aviv. The co-pilot stabbed the captain instead. The plane plunged thousands of feet. Passengers had to break into the cockpit to stop it. Wednesday morning, FlyDubai flight FZ1073 left Dubai for Tel Aviv with about 174 people on board, most of them Israelis. At cruise altitude, near 34,000 feet, the co-pilot stabbed Captain Smit Machchhar. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacker apparently tried to crash the plane with the passengers on board. The Boeing 737 dropped thousands of feet — some flight data put the fall around 17,000 to 18,000 feet — sent a 7700 emergency squawk, and turned for Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Israeli fighter jets were scrambled. Airspace was briefly closed. A man trusted with the controls of a commercial flight to Israel allegedly used that access to try to kill the people in the back. Pat also covered: Trump says the last U.S. troops are out of Iraq. The Pentagon calls the Erbil pullout done, and Trump brands the war a “quagmire” and an “excursion into hell.” Tennessee failed to execute Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row, after two doses of pentobarbital. Vice President JD Vance says James Talarico wears Christianity as a "skin suit" to get elected. A Rasmussen/Our Republic poll found 19% of likely voters would accept a deal that dismantles Israel if oil and gas prices get cut. Controversy: Sophie Cunningham gets fouled by A'ja Wilson in Game 2, a Fever fan pointed and said, "That's on you," and Wilson marched into the stands and drew a technical. Was this a terror attack, or are you still buying the cockpit-fight story? If you had been on that plane, would you have gone for the cockpit door? If you want unfiltered truth and commonsense analysis that cuts through the noise, hit subscribe and turn on notifications. 00:00 Pat Gray UNLEASHED! 00:44 New Season of Pat Gray UNLEASHED! Begins Next Monday 01:11 Flydubai Hijacking 07:59 President Trump Gets the U.S.A. Out of Iraq 09:36 President Trump Praises Hispanics 11:37 Marco Rubio Loves America 13:05 Phone Alerts 15:23 Hillary Clinton Does Not Love America 19:03 Gas / Oil Prices 22:24 Drone Swarms in Ukraine-Russia War 30:37 Fat Five 38:51 JD Vance Praises Brandon Gill 39:45 JD Vance on New Jobs in Texas 42:32 JD Vance on James Talarico 45:46 Josh Howerton on Disagreeing with the Bible 47:11 James Talarico Waves the Trans Flag 48:21 University of Michigan Student Doxxed & Harassed 52:32 The World against Israel 55:12 FLASHBACK: Texas School Classroom in 1960 1:00:05 The Caravan is On Its Way 1:05:09 FLASHBACK: Jen Psaki on Immigration Background Checks 1:07:25 Female Iranian Singer Parastoo Ahmadi Sentenced to Flogging 1:12:24 Another WNBA Controversy 1:24:43 Murderer Christa Pike Survives Two Lethal Injections 1:32:27 John Fetterman is a LIFELONG REPUBLICAN?! 1:33:56 Gretchen Whitmer on Abortion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The John Batchelor Show
    CONTENTS-THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW, 9-30-2026

    The John Batchelor Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2026 7:26 Transcription Available


    1767 ARABIACONTENTS-THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW, 9-30-2026Oil Prices Defy Market ReportsMichael Bernstam examines a major disconnect between oil reporting and market conditions, where crude oil benchmark prices remain extremely high at $103.50 per barrel despite reports that most Middle Eastern oil is back on the market. Up to 17.1 million barrels per day are moving via alternative routes, such as the Omani route and Saudipipelines, protected by the U.S. Navy. Meanwhile, global oil reserves were depleted by 57 million barrels, and China has resumed imports to refill its reserves. Furthermore, European countries like Germany are seeking energy partnerships with Kazakhstan to bypass Russian political and economic dependence. (1)Hijack Attempt Aboard FlyDubai FlightBill Roggio analyzes an incident aboard a FlyDubai flight bound for Tel Aviv where a co-pilot attempted to crash the airplane after stabbing the pilot, but was subdued by courageous passengers and crew. Roggio critiques the label "lone wolf," noting that it often dangerously disassociates attackers from broader terrorist networks, much like historic cases linked to radical planners. The discussion highlights strict security protocols for Israeli flights and raises serious questions about how a weapon was smuggled past screening. Separately, British authorities arrested individuals connected to state-sponsored Iranian threats, illustrating persistent global security risks amid early reporting uncertainties. (2)Aging Triad Demands Urgent ModernizationPeter Huessy reflects on Cold War civil defense drills and stresses the urgent necessity of modernizing America's aging nuclear triad. The U.S. military currently operates 42-year-old submarines, 55-year-old Minuteman III ICBMs, and 70-year-old B-52 bombers that risk rusting into obsolescence without modernization. Huessy details historical arms control pacts, noting how exiting the 1972 ABM Treaty allowed the U.S. to build defensive interceptor systems against emerging missile threats from states like North Korea. Facing nuclear build-ups and aggressive posturing from Russia, China, and North Korea, the U.S. relies on extended nuclear deterrence and allied cooperation to maintain strategic stability. (3)Beijing Blocks Second Thomas ResupplyCaptain James Fanell, co-host Gordon Chang: Fanell discusses aggressive Chinese maritime tactics in the South China Sea, where a coordinated force of three PLA Navy warships and eleven Coast Guard and maritime militia vessels blocked two small Philippine Coast Guard vessels resupplying the grounded outpost Sierra Madre. This blockade broke a series of fifteen successful resupply missions conducted since July 2024, demonstrating Beijing's willingness to violate international agreements and its own signed code of conduct. Fanell notes that internal purges of over one hundred senior military officers in Beijing have not disrupted the execution of these coordinated bullying operations against neighboring sovereign nations. (4)US Navy Protects Hormuz TransitRebecca Grant, co-host Gordon Chang: Grant refutes Iranian propaganda claiming disruption of U.S. Fifth Fleetoperations near the Strait of Hormuz. Grant explains that Iran lacks precise real-time tracking capabilities to target agile, fast-moving American destroyers and aircraft carriers operating in deep zone defense formations. Even if foreign satellites provide imagery, targeting data quickly becomes stale and ineffective. Under U.S. Navy protection, between 10 and 20 million barrels of oil per day continue to transit safely out of the Gulf. This maintains an effective economic blockade on Iranian exports while keeping vital global shipping lanes secure. (5)Trump Meets Xi In WashingtonCharles Burton, co-host Gordon Chang: Burton evaluates the summit between U.S. and Chinese leaders in Washington, describing it as a diplomatic spectacle that delivered virtually no substantive policy agreements. Critical issues like artificial intelligence safeguards, Taiwan's sovereignty, and trade imbalances were completely omitted, handing Beijing a domestic propaganda victory. Burton also examines Canadian political dynamics under Mark Carney, where public sentiment has grown increasingly nationalistic and supportive of trade diversification toward Europe and India. This shift comes in response to economic pressure, U.S. tariffs, and covert intimidation operations conducted by Chinese state agents on Canadian soil. (6)Greenland Defense Strategy Secures NorthBradley Bowman highlights Greenland's vital geographic role in North American defense, dominating the GIUK gapand providing early warning detection against Russian and Chinese missile threats. While recent defense agreements properly expand radar facilities and military infrastructure, Bowman argues that coercive political tactics unnecessarily strained relations with Denmark, a steadfast NATO ally. Effective Arctic defense requires the three-D kill chain: detect, decide, and deliver. Because the U.S. lacks sufficient icebreakers and polar infrastructure, deep defense cooperation with Arctic allies like Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Canada remains indispensable for hemispheric security. (7)Private Enterprise Advances Space ExplorationBob Zimmerman highlights major developments in commercial space flight and astronomy. SpaceX achieved orbit on its 14th Starship test flight, deploying 26 Starlink version 3 satellites before completing soft vertical ocean splashdowns. Boeing and NASA agreed on an unmanned cargo mission to test fixes for Starliner thruster and corrosion issues. Meanwhile, Blue Origin raised $10 billion to advance New Glenn development under CEO David Limp. NASA's Perseverance rover resumed updates after surveying Jezero Crater for drilling. Finally, the James Webb Space Telescope detected heavy elements in early galaxies, challenging current cosmological models. (8)European Commodity Prices Rise Sharply — Guest: Simon Constable Simon Constable discusses global commodity trends, European political shifts, and artificial intelligence infrastructure. Brent crude has risen to $97 per barrel, while European diesel prices surged to $9.52 per gallon, placing severe economic strain on consumers and agriculture. Critiquing British politics under the Labour government, Constable expresses concern over heavy taxation, public debt, and bloated social welfare spending. Turning to artificial intelligence, Constable notes that while new data centers bring needed financial investment to rural communities, their rapid expansion raises widespread anxiety over massive power consumption, with facilities now using over 4% of U.S. electricity. 9Examining Wealth Inequality And Innovation — Guest: David Henderson David Henderson contrasts market innovation with political cronyism when evaluating wealth inequality. Rebutting Thomas Piketty's proposal for uniform wealth taxation, Henderson demonstrates that entrepreneurs like Robert McCulloch or Elon Musk created fortunes by delivering superior products that immensely benefited consumers. Citing research by William Nordhaus, he notes that innovators retain only 2.2% of the value generated by their innovations, with 97.8% flowing directly to consumers. Conversely, wealth acquired through government favor and anti-competitive restrictions harms consumers. Henderson concludes that heavy taxation on wealth discourages capital investment, productivity, and real wage growth. 10

    The John Batchelor Show
    5. LOW EARTH ORBIT - Accelerating SpaceX Starship Flight Program - ERIC BERGER & DAVID LIVINGSTON 100126

    The John Batchelor Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2026 19:41 Transcription Available


    1968 HOUSTON MISSION CONTROL APOLLO 8Accelerating SpaceX Starship Flight ProgramEric Berger, author of Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX and Re-entry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age, co-host David Livingston: The Ars Technicawriter discusses SpaceX's Starship Mission 14 orbital test. Berger details successful orbital payload deployment of next-generation Starlink satellites while highlighting Raptor 3 engine reliability and re-entry heat shield tiles as ongoing engineering priorities. Crucially, Berger reveals SpaceX plans to retire Crew Dragon, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy by 2030 to concentrate resources entirely on Starship development. This strategic pivot leaves NASA and commercial space station developers facing potential human transportation supply gaps, forcing reliance on Boeing's Starliner, Blue Origin, or European partners amid growing commercial space competition from China. (5)

    Jason & Alexis
    SCREEN QUEENS 8/31: Project Runway, Dolly Parton and Boeing Documentaries

    Jason & Alexis

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2026 26:16


    Jason, Colleen, and Holly are here to share their reviews of Project Runway (Amazon Prime), Dolly Parton (ABC, CBS, and Hulu) and the Boeing documentaries (Netflix)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    The Dallas Morning News
    DMN Morning Debrief: Biz Court slashes scope of damages in Southwest Pilot's 737 MAX suit against Boeing

    The Dallas Morning News

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2026 6:46


    In today's DMN Morning Debrief, a North Texas Christian author and her husband face child abuse-related charges, downtown Dallas leaders push for more housing and retail, and a court narrows a lawsuit over Boeing's 737 MAX. Plus, what are the Stars' chances of winning the Stanley Cup?  This digest was partially generated by AI and then reviewed and edited by our newsroom staff. Learn more: dallasnews.com/ai_use. We welcome your feedback: audience@dallasnews.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Alles auf Aktien
    Die Profiteure der Zuckersteuer und 3 ETFs für die Zins-Wette

    Alles auf Aktien

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2026 17:17 Transcription Available


    In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Philipp Vetter und Holger Zschäpitz über einen verpatzten Börsen-September, Microns Zahlen-Feuerwerk und Googles nächtliche KI-Überraschung. Außerdem geht es um Mercedes-Benz, BMW, SAP, Infineon, Moderna, Fair Isaac, KLA, Applied Materials, Micron, Jabil, Alphabet, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Constellation Energy, Amazon, Accenture, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Monster Beverage, Ingredion, Ajinomoto, Symrise, iShares $ Treasury Bond 20+yr ETF (WKN: A2JKTZ), iShares $ Treasury Bond 20+yr ETF EUR Hedged (WKN: A2DXN8) und iShares Euro Government Bond 15-30yr ETF (WKN: A0LGP5). Am 2. Oktober findet unser „Alles auf Aktien“-Summit in Berlin statt. Mit dem Code „AAAFRIENDS“ sparst du 50 Prozent auf dein Ticket – aber nur unter folgendem Link: https://veranstaltung.businessinsider.de/event/financesummit26/summary?rp=c6dc55d6-6f4f-4fb4-b75f-3f3501d84859 Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Hier könnt ihr den AAA-Newsletter abonnieren: https://www.welt.de/newsletter/article232797673/Alles-auf-Aktien-Der-taegliche-Boersen-Newsletter-fuer-WELTplus-Abonnenten.html Und – ganz neu: AAA gibt es jetzt auch auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alles_auf_aktien/ Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Anzeige: Eight Sleep: Der Pod 5 reguliert die Temperatur im Bett automatisch, trackt Schlaf- und Gesundheitswerte ohne Wearable und kann so zu besserem Schlaf beitragen. Mit dem Code ALLESAUFAKTIEN erhaltet ihr auf https://www.eightsleep.com/allesaufaktien bis zu 350 Euro Rabatt. Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

    EZ News
    EZ News 10/01/26

    EZ News

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2026 5:48


    Good afternoon, I'm _ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened up 21-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 47,961 on turnover of 11.2-billion N-T. The market made solid gains on Wednesday, despite Wall Street closing largely in negative territory overnight. Defense ministry mum on alleged Philippines warship donation plan The Ministry of National Defense Ministry is refusing to comment on reports that the government is considering gifting the Philippines a soon-to-be-decommissioned Navy warship. According to the United Daily News, the Lai administration is hoping to donate the Navy's 500-tonne-class Jin Chiang Patrol Ship to the Philippines after it's decommissioned at the end of this year. K-M-T lawmaker Ma Wen-chun is voicing concern that the reported plan to donate the warship could undermine (破壞) the safety of Taiwan fishermen operating in an area where the exclusive economic zones of the two countries overlap. No government agency has confirmed whether such a plan is under consideration and what the reason for it would be. Aftershocks possible after magnitude 5.9 quake strikes off Hualien coast The Central Weather Administration is warning of possible aftershocks over the coming days following Wednesday's magnitude 5.9 earthquake, that struck off the coast of Hualien. The earthquake was centered some 136-kilometers east of Hualien County Hall, at a depth of 13-kilometers. It was felt strongest in parts of Hualien, Yilan, Chiayi County, Changhua and Yunlin, where it measured a 2 on the weather administration's intensity scale. According to the weather administration's Seismological Center, the quake was caused by the Philippine Sea Plate moving beneath the Eurasian Plate and possible aftershocks could reach a magnitude of 5. ISRAEL SUSPENDS FLYDUBAI FLIGHTS AS MOSSAD JOINS PROBE INTO CO-PILOT SUSPECTED OF STABBING CAPTAIN ON TEL AVIV-BOUND PLANE Israel has suspended all FlyDubai flights and launched a multi-agency investigation — involving Mossad, Shin Bet and the military — after a co-pilot on a Tel Aviv-bound flight allegedly stabbed the captain and attempted to crash the aircraft. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the incident on FlyDubai flight FZ1073 an extremely (極為) serious security breach, saying the Omani co-pilot appeared to have tried to sabotage the plane's systems before passengers and crew subdued him. The Boeing 737, carrying 174 passengers including 27 children, was diverted to the Saudi city of Tabuk after plunging more than five thousand metres in under two minutes. Blake Sifton reports from Tel Aviv. Switzerland Glaciers Lose 5Percent Ice Volume Experts report that glaciers in Switzerland have lost 5.5% of their ice volume this year due to heat waves and low winter snowfall. The GLAMOS Swiss glacier monitoring service and Swiss Academy of Sciences released a statement Thursday, warning that Alpine glaciers can't survive (存活) long-term under these conditions. The report highlights concerns about global warming's impact on Europe, the fastest-warming continent. The record retreat of glacier ice in Switzerland occurred in 2022. Over the past five years, Swiss ice volume has declined by nearly one-fifth. This accelerated melt affects Switzerland and the continent's major rivers. That was the I.C.R.T. EZ News, I'm _. ----以下為 SoundOn 動態廣告---- 臺灣企銀 Hokii 數位帳戶『推薦友禮』大加碼~ 理財第一步,交給 Hokii! 現在參加 Hokii數位帳戶推薦活 動,推薦好友開戶及完成指定任務,好康一起拿,還有機會把 Apple 商品禮券帶回家! 手刀揪朋友開戶抽大獎:https://sofm.pse.is/9pd4dx -- 南部朋友有福啦! 高雄出發遊澳洲看雪梨跨年煙火、玩滑沙,還有元旦假期日越泰行程! 若是想衝日本環球影城跨年派對、韓國濟州神話世界跨年演唱會、歐美曼谷夢幻煙火,也通通有! 跨年搶先卡位! 快搜尋「可樂旅遊」迎接最難忘的2027吧! https://sofm.pse.is/9pd4ds -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

    WSJ What’s News
    The U.S. Military Leaves Iraq

    WSJ What’s News

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 15:12


    A.M. Edition for Sept. 30. After more than 23 years and $1.7 trillion, America is winding down its war in Iraq, closing the last major U.S. military base today. WSJ's Jared Malsin went to Iraq and reports that while Baghdad has undergone a renaissance, behind the scenes, Iranian-backed militia groups have gained a lot of power. Plus, a state judge in New York rules that mayor Zohran Mamdani must redo the rollout of his pied-à-terre tax. And WSJ's Aaron Zitner details our latest poll, showing Americans want populist policies that defy traditional political labels. Daniel Bach hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    The John Batchelor Show
    8. EARTH-MOON SYSTEM - Private Enterprise Advances Space Exploration - BOB ZIMMERMAN 093026

    The John Batchelor Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 19:41 Transcription Available


    1950Private Enterprise Advances Space ExplorationBob Zimmerman highlights major developments in commercial space flight and astronomy. SpaceX achieved orbit on its 14th Starship test flight, deploying 26 Starlink version 3 satellites before completing soft vertical ocean splashdowns. Boeing and NASA agreed on an unmanned cargo mission to test fixes for Starliner thruster and corrosion issues. Meanwhile, Blue Origin raised $10 billion to advance New Glenn development under CEO David Limp. NASA's Perseverance rover resumed updates after surveying Jezero Crater for drilling. Finally, the James Webb Space Telescope detected heavy elements in early galaxies, challenging current cosmological models. (8)

    WSJ Minute Briefing
    10-Year Treasury Yield Hits New 24-Year High

    WSJ Minute Briefing

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 2:07


    Plus: Oil prices are on the rise, after easing in recent days. And Boeing shares fall slightly after it secured a U.S. Navy contract to build its next-generation jet fighter. Pierre Bienaimé hosts. Sign up for WSJ's free What's News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Airplane Geeks Podcast

    This episode: ETOPS flights could be impacted by the closing of an airport on a tiny South Pacific island. FAA rescinds Cessna Citation single-pilot exemptions. Heart Aerospace unveils the ES-36 hybrid-electric 30-seat regional commercial aircraft and JSX purchase agreement for up to 100 aircraft. A Congressman questions the FAA deployment of the Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories (“SMART”). The Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board determined that incorrectly positioned variable vanes caused the F-16 crash in December 2025. A Boeing 737 MAX software glitch could disrupt a navigation feature. Boom Supersonic loses the launch customer for their land-based Superpower stationary powerplant. And pilots are accused of being in a “club” of furry fetishists. Aviation News Midway Atoll's Airport Has No Flights, But Its Closure Could Disrupt Airlines Worldwide Midway Atoll Airport (MDY) in the South Pacific, also known as Henderson Field, is a public airport on Sand Island. Midway Atoll is a 2.4-square-mile unincorporated territory of the United States. With a 7,800-foot runway, the airport primarily serves as an emergency diversion point for transpacific flights. The DOT estimates that the airport needs at least $100 million to stay certified. The Airline Dispatchers Federation (ADF) opposes closing Midway Atoll Airport because it will affect airline operations across the Pacific. ETOPS ratings (“Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards) apply to twin-engine jets and specify how many minutes a plane is allowed to fly on a single engine to get to the nearest suitable diversion point. The FAA grants approval for each airframe-engine combination and again to each operator, based on its maintenance and dispatch program. The ETOPS rating process is informal. The FAA grants two separate approvals, one for the design and one for the operator, and both are needed before an airline can fly a route: Type design approval (Aircraft Certification Service) The manufacturer shows that a specific airframe-and-engine combination is suitable for extended diversions. It involves: Design and systems review. The FAA assesses ETOPS-significant systems such as fuel, electrical, hydraulic, APU, cargo fire suppression, and pressurization for redundancy and their ability to keep working through the maximum diversion time, including time-limited systems. Propulsion system reliability. Assess in-flight shutdown (IFSD) rates and the engine’s overall service record. For new engine/airframe combinations without an in-service history, an early or accelerated ETOPS relies on design assessment, testing, and a demonstrated reliability program instead of accumulated fleet hours. The Configuration, Maintenance, and Procedures (CMP) document defines the required airplane configuration, maintenance tasks, and operating procedures that an ETOPS-approved airplane must follow. Operational approval (Flight Standards) Type design approval doesn’t let any airline fly ETOPS routes. Each operator must be authorized through its FAA certificate-holding district office (CHDO). The airline must show that it can: Maintain the airplane to the CMP standard, with an ETOPS maintenance program, ETOPS-qualified maintenance personnel, and procedures such as verifying critical systems after work and monitoring reliability. Dispatch properly, including selecting ETOPS alternate airports with suitable weather and services, and planning for time-limited systems, fuel, and diversion scenarios. Train crews and dispatchers on ETOPS procedures. Conduct a validation process, which for new operators or new airplane types may include proving or validation flights. The FAA conducts ongoing oversight and monitors IFSDs and other events that could affect ETOPS. It can restrict or revoke an approval if reliability degrades. For detailed ETOPS information, including EDTO (Extended Diversion Time Operations), see How Do Planes Fly Over the Pacific? (ETOPS Explained) from Aeruxo – Flight Ops Insights. FAA Rescinding Cessna Citation Single-pilot Exemptions The FAA is rescinding exemptions that allow some Part 25-certified Cessna Citation jets to operate with a single pilot. The exemptions date back to 1984 and had been based on a lack of data showing any negative impact. The FAA’s decision is based on an 18-year review indicating that older Citation jets operated by a single pilot have a significantly higher accident rate than other models. Also, investigations revealed issues such as incomplete training records and unauthorized use of training devices among exemption holders. The ruling is effective September 28, 2026, and affected pilots must operate these aircraft with a qualified second-in-command. Pilots who previously held single-pilot exemptions will lose their privileges.  The FAA has been issuing single-pilot exemptions for transport-category CE-500 variants for over forty years, starting with Exemption No. 4050 to Cessna in 1984. The eight variants covered are the 500 (Citation and Citation I), 550 (Citation II), S550 (S/II), 552 (Navy T-47A), 560 (V and Ultra), 550 Bravo, 560 Encore and Encore+. The exemptions went to training providers, who issued single-pilot logbook endorsements. Heart Unveils ES-36 With JSX Order In Episode 898, our guest was Heart Aerospace co-founder and CEO Anders Forslund. We talked about the ES-30, a hybrid-electric 30-seat regional commercial aircraft the company is developing. Heart just unveiled the 36-seat ES-36 with an additional 1,415 pounds of payload capacity. Maximum takeoff weight and battery capacity remain the same, and the plane now employs two series-hybrid electric powertrains. The changes result from Heart's experience flying the X1 demonstrator aircraft. JetSuiteX, Inc. (or JSX) charters a 30-seat Embraer regional jet that is operated by a subsidiary and then resells seats on that aircraft to the public. It offers point-to-point flights in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Utah, and Baja California Sur in Mexico. JSX's agreement converts a 2023 letter of intent into a deposit-backed purchase commitment and secures early delivery positions for the carrier. See also, press release: Heart Aerospace Unveils ES-36 with JSX Purchase Agreement for Up to 100 Aircraft Beyer Calls For Suspension Of AI System Deployed By FAA At Washington Area Airports In a press release, U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) says, “The FAA should not use my constituents as guinea pigs for an unproven AI air traffic control system.” He was referring to the FAA's deployment of the Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories (“SMART”) system to manage flights at Washington area airports. Beyer cited uncertainty among regional residents about air safety, and the lack of public awareness about the change. Air traffic controllers were also neither consulted nor trained, and airlines “were privately ‘panicking' about the hasty implementation of this system.” Beyer serves as co-Chair of the bipartisan Congressional Artificial Intelligence (AI) Caucus. His Northern Virginia district includes Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA). ‘Misaligned' fan blades, loss of thrust caused Thunderbird F-16 crash The F-16CM aircraft that crashed on Dec. 3, 2025, in California was powered by a Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229 turbofan. The pilot was rejoining the formation after a vertical loop/barrel roll sequence when the engine stalled. The pilot described it as “the jet just… stopped midair.” He fought the aircraft for roughly four minutes, then ejected at under 500 ft AGL. The Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board [PDF] determined the mishap was caused by three misaligned or turned variable vanes in the engine’s 4th and 5th stages, which caused a 5th-stage compressor blade and a 6th-stage compressor blade to fracture and separate, resulting in catastrophic engine damage at low altitude with no ability to recover. The aircraft had a documented foreign object damage (FOD) event years earlier (2021, per Common Defense’s reporting) that produced damage in the 1st stage on three separate occasions, plus recovered foreign material at the 4th stage (paracord). Because the visible damage was upstream and nothing was seen in the sections preceding the 5th/6th stage core, that area was never inspected and the investigators concluded the FOD “substantially contributed” to the mishap by leaving a latent path for the vane misalignment to develop undetected. Variable vane actuators on the outside of an engine case. Image by Olivier Cleynen. Boeing flags 737 MAX software glitch: reports The software glitch identified can prevent pilots from accessing an automated navigation feature when they change their planned flight path after a missed approach. Pilots have been notified, and Boeing is working on a software update. The Air Current reports that the software issue emerged nearly two years ago. Boeing “was alerted by a customer in November 2024 to the potential issue affecting 737 models with flight management computer (FMC) updates U14 and 14.1… When a pilot alters their preprogrammed flight path following a missed approach, the FMC may transition from vertical navigation (VNAV) mode to a simpler level of automation for pitch control.” Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers In Episode 874, we looked at Boom Supersonic's plan to develop the land-based Superpower stationary powerplant as a derivative of its Symphony engine, generating a revenue stream to fund Boom's other operations. We cited reports that Crusoe Energy, an AI data center startup, had 29 Superpower units on order, valued at $1.25 billion, with delivery expected in 2027. Crusoe has now announced it will not pursue a deal with Boom. Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl posted on X his congratulations to Crusoe on their latest funding round, and: “Also wanted to let everyone know Crusoe and Boom are no longer launching our Superpower turbine together. The TL/DR is that turbines are no longer part of Crusoe’s near term primary power mix at Abilene/etc., so a launch partnership just didn’t make sense.” Further, “Boom will be delivering about 250MW of Superpowers next year to other sites, and we’re targeting 1GW in 2028.” Trump ally Tuberville isn't kidding when he says US pilots are in a ‘club' of furry fetishists Senator Tommy Tuberville from Alabama claimed on the Senate floor that “many airline pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community.” The International Anthropomorphic Research Project's Furscience website says “furries” are an anthropomorphic animal subculture. Members of this group adopt alter egos known as “fursonas” and wear “fursuit” costumes. Tuberville said, “We got a huge mental illness problem in this country, and we need to address it. We need to address it quick.” The IARP website says, “Furscience is the public face of the International Anthropomorphic Research Project (IARP), studying furries and their fandom and disseminating our evidence-based research to furries, the general public, scholars, and the media to increase understanding and decrease stigma.” Hosts this Episode Max Flight, our Main(e) Man Micah, Rob Mark, and David Vanderhoof.

    Miles to Go - Travel Tips, News & Reviews You Can't Afford to Miss!
    Bilt Adds Amtrak, Aeroplan Gets Better, and Can an Airplane Have Too Many Premium Seats?

    Miles to Go - Travel Tips, News & Reviews You Can't Afford to Miss!

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 40:35


    Watch Us On YouTube! Take advantage of our ongoing benefit for annual subscribers of our Slack community. Annual subscribers receive a free Points Path Alerts subscription OR a 30% discount on Points Path Pro. Ed and Richard are back together after a weekend in New York—and before they can get to travel, there are some important matters to resolve. Richard has strong opinions about restaurant eggs, Ed has an explanation for his highly unusual chicken-wing-eating technique, and Julian and Jillian apparently think a perfectly reasonable honeymoon itinerary involves going from the Maldives to Lapland to Iceland. Eventually, travel news breaks out. First up is a partnership Richard knows particularly well: Bilt Rewards has added Amtrak Guest Rewards as its 26th transfer partner. Richard says the deal took roughly 14 months from the first phone call to launch and marks Amtrak's first traditional transfer partnership since Chase ended its relationship in 2015. Transfers are 2 Bilt points to 1 Amtrak point, and Richard argues the economics can still work because of the relatively high value of Amtrak points—especially when cash fares get expensive. There's also a follow-up to last week's Citi Strata Elite discussion. Listeners point out a potentially powerful pairing with Citi Double Cash: earn effectively 2 ThankYou Points per dollar on everyday purchases if you pay the balance in full, combine those points with Citi Strata Elite, and then transfer them to American Airlines AAdvantage. For someone specifically trying to build an AAdvantage balance, Richard thinks the strategy deserves consideration. Then Ed and Richard discuss a new software issue affecting the Boeing 737 MAX. According to the information discussed on the episode, a newer software version can cause issues with certain autopilot functions around an aborted landing/go-around. Boeing has identified a workaround involving the earlier software version, but Ed questions why increasingly powerful simulation and AI tools couldn't be used more extensively to find edge cases before software reaches aircraft. The Aeroplan credit card has also received a refresh. One new benefit provides a 15% discount on Air Canada flight rewards—and importantly, Ed says Aeroplan confirmed that it can stack with elite Priority Rewards. At the highest elite level, that creates the possibility of combining a 50% Priority Reward with the additional 15% card discount. The card is also making its fourth-night-free hotel award benefit permanent and adding a fourth-day-free benefit on car-rental redemptions. Finally, there's a strange problem developing around the Airbus A321XLR. Premium-heavy configurations planned by American and United may need ballast in the rear of the aircraft to keep the plane properly balanced. That's particularly interesting because adding otherwise unnecessary weight requires more fuel and could eat into the very long-range capability that makes the XLR attractive for "long, thin" international routes. That raises another question: How long are you willing to fly on a single-aisle airplane? Richard thinks a New York-to-California transcon is already approaching his limit. Ed is more willing to judge the experience by the quality of the seat rather than the number of aisles. Get hydrated like Ed in Vegas with Nuun If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you'll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! If you're looking for a way to support the show, we'd love to have you join us in our Travel Slack Community.  Join me and other travel experts for informative conversations about the travel world, the best ways to use your miles and points, Zoom happy hours and exciting giveaways. Monthly access Annual access Personal consultation plus annual access We have witty, funny, sarcastic discussions about travel, for members only. My fellow travel experts are available to answer your questions and we host video chats multiple times per month. Follow Us! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/milestogopodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@milestogopodcast Ed Pizza: https://www.instagram.com/pizzainmotion/ Richard Kerr: https://www.instagram.com/kerrpoints/ ✈️  What We Cover in This Episode ✈️ Bilt adds Amtrak as a transfer partner 2:1 transfers from Bilt Rewards to Amtrak Guest Rewards Why Richard thinks the math can still work A Rent Day transfer bonus The partnership took about 14 months to complete Amtrak's first traditional transfer partner since Chase ✈️ The world's easiest honeymoon to pack for Maldives Lapland Iceland Julian apparently has some flights to figure out ✈️ A better Citi strategy for earning American miles? Pairing Citi Double Cash with Citi Strata Elite Effectively earning 2 ThankYou Points per dollar on everyday spending when the balance is paid in full Combining the points Transferring to AAdvantage Why the strategy gets Richard's attention ✈️ Another Boeing 737 MAX software issue An autopilot-related software problem Why the timing during a go-around matters Boeing's workaround Could simulation and AI catch more problems before deployment? ✈️ Aeroplan refreshes its U.S. credit card 15% savings on Air Canada flight rewards Stacking the discount with Priority Rewards Fourth Night Free on hotel redemptions Fourth Day Free on car-rental redemptions Why Ed thinks Aeroplan keeps finding ways to appeal to U.S. travelers ✈️ Can you have too many premium seats? American and United's A321XLR configurations Why premium-heavy planes may require ballast Extra weight means extra fuel How ballast could affect the XLR's range The economics of long, thin routes ✈️ How long is too long on a single-aisle plane? Seven-hour transcons Potential eight- and nine-hour XLR flights Richard wants a widebody Ed cares more about the seat ⏱️ Episode 456 Timestamps 4:32 – Bilt adds Amtrak as its 26th transfer partner 7:46 – Follow-up, restaurant eggs and Richard's Cracker Barrel problem 13:07 – Julian's completely normal Maldives–Lapland–Iceland honeymoon 15:01 – Points Path discounts for M2G supporters 16:33 – Citi Double Cash + Strata Elite: a better way to earn American miles? 23:03 – Another Boeing 737 MAX software issue 25:37 – Aeroplan's refreshed credit card and stackable award discounts 29:00 – Fourth Night Free hotels and Fourth Day Free car rentals 31:46 – Why premium-heavy A321XLRs may need ballast 35:53 – Would you fly eight or nine hours on a single-aisle plane?

    The Marc Cox Morning Show
    Trump Accounts IRS Update, St. Louis County Roads, Boeing Win & Toys "R" Us Comeback (HOUR 2)

    The Marc Cox Morning Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 31:21


    Hour 2 opens with Marc Cox and Kim St. Onge evaluating internal revenue announcements regarding federal "Trump Accounts" savings programs, analyzing automatic enrollment protocols for newborn Social Security applicants, private philanthropic funding structures, and long-term financial literacy objectives. The segment reviews demographic birth rates alongside U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee questioning of Special Counsel Jack Smith by Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz. On the St. Louis Morning Brief, the hosts examine St. Louis County budget management options regarding municipal road maintenance transfers, St. Charles County revenue initiatives at the Family Arena, and legal developments involving a former Missouri Department of Transportation worker. The segment highlights defense manufacturing updates, reporting on the U.S. Navy's selection of Boeing St. Louis to develop the sixth-generation F/A-XX carrier-based fighter aircraft. Financial reporter Nicole Murray delivers market indicators, covering Panera Bread consumer litigation and clinical weight-loss data for Novo Nordisk's Wegovy oral treatment. The hour closes on In Other News (sponsored by Zerorez St. Louis) with reports on Toys "R" Us store expansion plans and morning dating trends. LISTEN TO 97.1 FM TALK LIVE IN ST LOUIS OR STREAM WORLDWIDE AT 971TALK.COM Hashtags: #971FMTalk #StLouis #STLNews #TrumpAccounts #BoeingSTL #ToysRUs

    TD Ameritrade Network
    BA Wins $20B U.S. Navy Contract Following Stock Price Plunge

    TD Ameritrade Network

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 6:08


    Boeing (BA) has won a $20 billion contract to sell its next-gen fighter jets to the U.S. Navy. Marley Kayden explains the significance of the 11-digit sale and the lackluster price action to the headlines during trading late Wednesday morning. Prosper Trading Academy's Scott Bauer turns to an example options trade for Boeing.======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day.Options involve risks and are not suitable for all investors. Before trading, read the Options Disclosure Document. http://bit.ly/2v9tH6DSubscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

    A Breath of Fresh Air
    Jeff “Skunk” Baxter: From Steely Dan Guitar Hero to Missile Defence Expert

    A Breath of Fresh Air

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 52:00


    From founding member of Steely Dan and former guitarist with The Doobie Brothers, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, comes the astonishing true story of one of the most fascinating lives in American music, tracing his extraordinary journey from legendary rock and roll guitarist to cleared access missile-defense consultant and counterterrorism expert. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter lives two lives. In one, he is a rock and roll legend, founding member of the Steely Dan and former core member of The Doobie Brothers, with fourteen Gold Records, eight Platinum albums, two Grammy Awards (plus six nominations), induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a Lifetime Achievement Award. In the other, he is an advisor to the U.S. Department of War's Missile Defense Agency and, over the course of the past 30-plus years, a consultant to the Department of Homeland Security, NASA, prestigious research laboratories, and top defense contractors, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop-Grumman. Told in his own words for the first time, "the most interesting man in music" (NPR) chronicles the improbable twists and turns that carried Baxter from rock star to national security subject-matter expert. Blessed with natural talent, insatiable curiosity, and serendipity, Baxter recalls how a music-obsessed-kid growing up between Mexico City and New York City quickly became a first-call session musician, and then a founding member of the band that would become a cornerstone of his legacy: Steely Dan. He vividly captures the grit and magic of the rock music scene in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles in the '60s and '70s, and describes the soaring highs and rock-bottom lows of superstardom: his transition from Steely Dan to the Doobie Brothers, world tours, and recording with legends like Dolly Parton, Carly Simon, Elton John, Ringo Starr, and Joni Mitchell. Then, comes his surprising pivot to the defense industry, trading the recording booth for the cockpit of a recon plane. After all, if you can grasp the basic physics of converting a weak vibration from a guitar string into a distorted wail as loud as a jet engine, you can understand how a radar system works. All the while-whether playing arenas or playing war games at the Pentagon—Baxter reflects on the mystical intersections of music and technology, and the mentors, friends, and collaborators who helped him. His book - 'From Rock to Rockets' is to be released in January 2027. It features 16-pages of never-before seen photographs and fascinating insights into Baxter's favorite guitars and gear and is a testament to the power of curiosity and the extraordinary opportunities that come from embracing the unexpected.

    Capital
    Capital Intereconomía 10:00 a 11:00 30/09/2026

    Capital

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 56:59


    En Radar Empresarial analizamos el nuevo contrato conseguido por Boeing para desarrollar los nuevos cazas del Ejército de Estados Unidos y las implicaciones de esta adjudicación para el negocio de defensa de la compañía. En Empresas Cotizadas conversamos con Pablo Pereiro, presidente ejecutivo de Squirrel Media, para analizar los resultados del primer semestre y las claves que explican el crecimiento del grupo. Abordamos también las perspectivas para la segunda mitad de 2026, los objetivos de la compañía para los próximos ejercicios y dónde quiere situarse Squirrel Media dentro de tres años. Ponemos el foco en la reciente adquisición de ADSPLANNING, qué aporta esta operación al grupo y si la estrategia de crecimiento puede incluir nuevas compras. Analizamos además la evolución en bolsa de Squirrel Media y las razones por las que su cotización no está reflejando el fuerte crecimiento de sus fundamentales, pese a los incrementos de doble dígito registrados en sus principales líneas de negocio. Con Pablo Pereiro repasamos también el momento que atraviesan los medios de comunicación y el mercado publicitario, dónde está aumentando la inversión y qué áreas ofrecen actualmente mayores oportunidades dentro del sector audiovisual. La inteligencia artificial ocupa igualmente parte de la conversación para conocer cómo está incorporando Squirrel Media esta tecnología a su estrategia. En el Foro de la Inversión recibimos a Jaime Botín, fundador de MIND y CEO de Epika Comunicación, para conocer las claves de MIND 2026. Explicamos a quién está dirigido este encuentro, las novedades de esta edición y los principales temas que marcarán la jornada, además de los conocimientos y experiencias que pretende ofrecer a sus asistentes. Por último, abrimos el Consultorio de Fondos con Borja Nieto, cofundador de MiCappital, para resolver las dudas de los oyentes y analizar fondos, carteras y diferentes estrategias de inversión.

    Capital
    Radar Empresarial: Boeing consigue un contrato para desarrollar los nuevos cazas del ejército de EEUU

    Capital

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 3:49


    En el Radar Empresarial de hoy ponemos el foco en Boeing y en el importante contrato que acaba de recibir del Gobierno de Estados Unidos. La Armada y el Ejército estadounidense han concedido a la compañía un acuerdo valorado en más de 20.000 millones de dólares. El objetivo es desarrollar un caza de ataque de sexta generación destinado a sustituir, a partir de 2030, parte de la actual flota de Super Hornet y Growler del Pentágono. Esta cifra podría ser solo el comienzo, ya que, a medida que avance la producción y durante toda la vida operativa del programa, Boeing podría generar ingresos de cientos de miles de millones de dólares. La compañía se impuso en esta adquisición a Northrop Grumman y continúa reforzando su posición como uno de los principales proveedores del Pentágono en materia de defensa. A finales de agosto, la Administración Trump también le otorgó un contrato superior a los 130.000 millones de dólares relacionado con el programa F-15 Eagle Crest. El acuerdo contempla la fabricación de aeronaves, integración de sistemas, modernizaciones y servicios de mantenimiento. Además, en mayo, uno de los acuerdos alcanzados entre Trump y Xi Jinping contemplaba la compra por parte de China de 200 aviones Boeing, una cifra que podría llegar hasta las 750 unidades. El negocio de Defensa, Espacio y Seguridad ha aumentado su peso dentro de Boeing durante este año. En 2025 representaba aproximadamente el 30% de la actividad, mientras que durante los primeros seis meses de 2026 alcanzó el 32%. Aun así, la división comercial continúa siendo fundamental para la compañía. Esta área generó casi la mitad de los ingresos el año pasado y mantiene una evolución similar en 2026. Durante estos meses, Boeing también ha registrado varios pedidos destacados: Alaska Airlines realizó en enero la mayor compra de su historia y Turkish Airlines anunció el 23 de septiembre otro pedido récord. En total, Boeing acumula 498 pedidos brutos de aviones comerciales en 2026 y 444 pedidos netos después de descontar cancelaciones y ajustes contables. Sin embargo, la cifra continúa por debajo de la registrada por Airbus. Paralelamente, la compañía ha cerrado nuevos acuerdos internacionales en materia de defensa. Entre ellos sobresale el alcanzado con Arabia Saudí, mediante el cual Boeing proporcionará mantenimiento y apoyo a la flota saudí de F-15. Este contrato está valorado en unos 3.000 millones de dólares y refuerza la presencia de la compañía estadounidense en el mercado internacional de defensa.

    Capital
    Capital Intereconomía 9:00 a 10:00 30/09/2026

    Capital

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 56:57


    En Capital Intereconomía seguimos la apertura del Ibex 35 y del resto de las bolsas europeas, que comienzan la sesión con subidas mientras los inversores esperan nuevas referencias sobre la inflación en Estados Unidos. Analizamos los mercados con David Cortina, responsable de Renta Variable de Santander Private Banking, en una jornada en la que bolsas y bonos permanecen pendientes del dato de PCE estadounidense y de la evolución del precio del petróleo. Abordamos qué señales pueden ofrecer estas referencias sobre la inflación y las expectativas de tipos de interés y cómo pueden condicionar el comportamiento de los principales activos financieros. La inteligencia artificial vuelve a ocupar buena parte de la atención. Analizamos los riesgos asociados al comportamiento de los modelos desarrollados en China y Estados Unidos y ponemos el foco en los planes de OpenAI para captar 30.000 millones de dólares en una nueva ronda de financiación y alcanzar una valoración de 1,4 billones de dólares. En el ámbito empresarial, repasamos el nuevo contrato de Boeing para la producción de un avión de combate destinado a la Armada estadounidense y analizamos la situación de Telefónica ante su proceso de reorganización. Miramos también a las relaciones comerciales entre China y la Unión Europea después de que Pekín haya advertido de posibles represalias si Bruselas impone nuevas restricciones a los productos chinos, un nuevo foco de incertidumbre para las compañías con mayor exposición al comercio internacional. Por último, abrimos el Consultorio de Bolsa con Miguel Méndez, analista independiente, que responde a las consultas de los oyentes y analiza valores, tendencias y estrategias de inversión.

    Conspiracy Files : Conspiracy Theories
    The Malmstrom Missile Incident: Did Something Shut Down America's Nuclear Missiles?

    Conspiracy Files : Conspiracy Theories

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 34:54


    On March 16, 1967, all ten Minuteman missile sites assigned to Echo Flight near Malmstrom Air Force Base lost strategic alert within an estimated 10 to 40 seconds. The missiles were not launched, destroyed, or detonated. But a documented Cold War failure had taken an entire flight off alert almost at once.Captain Eric Carlson and First Lieutenant Walter Figel were on duty when paired No-Go indications appeared across the flight. Air Force, Ogden, Boeing, and Autonetics investigators examined power systems, guidance data, and shared logic pathways. The sites returned to alert without replacement equipment at the launch facilities, pointing toward a transient common-mode event rather than ten independent permanent failures.The official 1967 history said UFO rumors around Echo had been disproven. Decades later, Figel said a guard had reported a large round object near a launch facility. Robert Salas separately described an alleged Oscar Flight incident involving guards, a reported object, and missile faults. The available record does not establish Oscar as a second verified ten-missile shutdown.A 2025 report that Pentagon investigators identified a classified EMP test as an explanation offers a serious conventional lead. But the public material in this record does not include the dated, site-specific documentation needed to close the causal chain.What is established is narrow and consequential: ten Echo sites lost strategic alert together, recovered without launch-facility equipment replacement, and left investigators without an identified initiating field source.This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication.#TheConspiracyFilesWithPaigeCarter #DocumentedColdWarMilitaryIncidentAndDisputedUfoC #MalmstromAirForceBase #EchoFlight #OscarFlightYES OR NO: Does the available evidence identify what caused Echo Flight's ten-site No-Go event???????????

    Mercado Abierto
    Wall Street: Análisis de la sesión en el mercado estadounidense

    Mercado Abierto

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 10:01


    Boeing, Tesla, Anthropic y Micron, protsgonistas empresariales que analizamos de la mano de Rafael Damborenea, profesor de Finanzas en Eude Business School.

    I - On Defense Podcast
    President Trump Denies Iranian Sanctions Relief for Nuclear Concessions + US Forces Withdraw from Iraq + Boeing Wins US Navy F/A-XX 6th Generation Fighter Competition

    I - On Defense Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 19:22


    For review:1. U.K.'s counterterrorism police release five suspects on bail during an investigation into a suspected bomb plot at a U.S.-operated air force base in England. Police confirmed Tuesday that no explosives were found in three vans linked to the suspects, and said the decision to grant bail was grounded in “experience and strategy.”2. Iran threatened on Tuesday to attack infrastructure around the Middle East, intensifying its rhetoric as it awaits a formal response from Washington on a new plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.3. US President Donald Trump on Monday denied a report that he is prepared to offer Iran sanctions relief and the release of frozen funds in exchange for nuclear concessions by the Islamic Republic.4. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Monday pushed for the further implementation of a framework agreement with Israel during his meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington.5. The commander of Hamas's Northern Gaza Brigade was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City early Tuesday, marking the third top commander in the terror group to be killed in recent weeks.6. Russian special services were behind the fire at a building used by an Estonian military robotics company last month, the government in Tallinn said on Tuesday.7. Russia plans to spend  $202.6 billion, on defense in 2027, around 27% more than the  $159.8 billion, originally budgeted and the highest figure since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022.8. The Navy has chosen Boeing over Northrop Grumman to build its sixth-generation strike fighter, dubbed F/A-XX, two sources told Breaking Defense ahead of the formal announcement.The selection locks Boeing in as the sole supplier of sixth-generation fighters for the US. 9. The Defense Department has awarded Raytheon a multiyear contract worth up to $20.7 billion to build Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles, or AMRAAMs. The Pentagon said the deal will nearly double AMRAAM production.

    Le brief éco
    Boeing rencontre de nouveaux problèmes techniques sur son dernier modèle d'avion 737 MAX

    Le brief éco

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2026 2:40


    durée : 00:02:40 - par : Emmanuel Cugny - Le constructeur aéronautique américain accumule les mésaventures et cela pèse de nouveau sur son cours de bourse. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

    Main Engine Cut Off
    T+340: Starliner's Future and the Demand Signal

    Main Engine Cut Off

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2026 33:28


    NASA and Boeing laid out Starliner's return-to-flight plan as SpaceX prepares to leave Dragon behind. I talk through the weak demand signal for crewed flight in LEO, how NASA's commitment to the ISS and commercial stations boxed themselves into this decision, and what to do between here and the Moon.This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 33 executive producers—Theo and Violet, Miles O'Brien, Joakim, Steve, Warren, Joel, Frank, Joonas, Natasha Tsakos, Will and Lars from Agile, David, Matt, Jan, Matt from Built, Lee, Josh from Impulse, Russell, Heiko, Kris, Tim Dodd (the Everyday Astronaut!), Ryan, The Astrogators at SEE, Donald, Fred, Pat, Stealth Julian, and four anonymous—and hundreds of supporters.TopicsBoeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation - Ars TechnicaAfter being sidelined, Boeing's Starliner to get starring role in NASA's spaceflight plans - Ars TechnicaCongress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations - Ars TechnicaNASA chief concerned China may deny access to parts of Moon's south pole - Ars TechnicaSpaceX's Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks - Ars TechnicaVast Establishes Lunar Programs Division, Applying Haven Flight Heritage to Power, Communications, and Habitats on the Moon — an update by VASTThe ShowLike the show? Support the show on Patreon or Substack!Email your thoughts, comments, and questions to anthony@mainenginecutoff.comFollow @WeHaveMECOFollow @meco@spacey.space on MastodonListen to MECO HeadlinesListen to Off-NominalJoin the Off-Nominal DiscordSubscribe on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn or elsewhereSubscribe to the Main Engine Cut Off NewsletterArtwork photo by Zhou QuanWork with me and my design and development agency: Pine Works

    Business daily
    OpenAI scraps release of its latest AI model over safety concerns

    Business daily

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2026 5:33


    OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has decided to cancel the release of its latest agentic model Astra 6.1 because it did not meet safety standards. Rival AI firm Anthropic, meanwhile, is dedicating a large majority of its IPO prospectus to laying out the risk factors associated with AI, according to Reuters. Also in this edition: Russia adds another layer of secrecy to its energy sector and NASA reboots Boeing's struggling Starliner rocket programme.

    Frequent Traveller Circle - Essentials - DEUTSCH
    A340 statt 777X: Lufthansas neuer Plan A

    Frequent Traveller Circle - Essentials - DEUTSCH

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2026 11:37 Transcription Available


    Send us Fan Mail✈️ Lufthansa-Flottenpläne und neue Vielflieger-VorteileLufthansa plant den Sommer 2027 vorerst ohne Boeing 777-9 und hält mehr A340-300 aktiv. SAS bietet 500 EuroBonus-Punkte für den neuen App-Bereich. Außerdem: Atmos Rewards will Mitglieder künftig selbst über ihre Sammelmethode entscheiden lassen.Welche Entwicklung überzeugt euch – und wo seht ihr Probleme? Diskutiert in den Kommentaren!

    Alles auf Aktien
    Der Trafo-Zoll-Hammer und die Token-Gewinner der Finanzwelt

    Alles auf Aktien

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2026 20:41 Transcription Available


    In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Philipp Vetter und Holger Zschäpitz über rasant steigende Renditen, einen CEO, der 6 Milliarden Dollar wert ist und ein gigantisches Rückkaufprogramm bei Nvidia. Außerdem geht es um Meta, MongoDB, Nvidia, Apple, Boeing, Newmont, Barrick Gold, Merck KGaA, Siemens Healthineers, Jefferies, Evonik, BASF, Redcare Pharmacy, Renk, JP Morgan, Alphabet, Thyssenkrupp, Siemens Energy, Hitachi, Deutsche Bank, BlackRock, ICE, Nasdaq, Deutsche Börse, Securitize, Apollo, KKR, Figure, Bullish, Coinbase, Robinhood, Circle. Am 2. Oktober findet unser „Alles auf Aktien“-Summit in Berlin statt. Sichere dir jetzt dein Ticket, um Zugriff auf den Merch-Shop zu bekommen. Mit dem Code “AAAFRIENDS“ sparst du 50 Prozent aufs Ticket – aber nur unter folgendem Link: https://veranstaltung.businessinsider.de/GVdXnV Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Hier könnt ihr den AAA-Newsletter abonnieren: https://www.welt.de/newsletter/article232797673/Alles-auf-Aktien-Der-taegliche-Boersen-Newsletter-fuer-WELTplus-Abonnenten.html Und – ganz neu: AAA gibt es jetzt auch auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alles_auf_aktien/ Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Anzeige: Eight Sleep: Der Pod 5 reguliert die Temperatur im Bett automatisch, trackt Schlaf- und Gesundheitswerte ohne Wearable und kann so zu besserem Schlaf beitragen. Mit dem Code ALLESAUFAKTIEN erhaltet ihr auf https://www.eightsleep.com/allesaufaktien bis zu 350 Euro Rabatt. Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

    Capital Markets Quickie
    [207-2026] Oil Spikes as Trump Rejects Iran's Offer and Wall Street Slips

    Capital Markets Quickie

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2026 2:26


    Oil jumps around four percent after Trump rejects Tehran's peace proposal, pulling stocks lower to start the week. Plus: Nvidia announces a record buyback, Boeing stumbles, and Redcare Pharmacy soars in Germany.>>> Follow me on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/endrit-cela/>>> Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/endritcela_official/Disclaimer for "Capital Markets Quickie" Podcast:The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are based on information available at the time of recording and reflect the personal perspectives of the host. They do not represent the viewpoints of any other projects, cooperations, or affiliations the host may be involved in. "Capital Markets Quickie" does not offer financial advice. Before making any financial decisions, please conduct your own due diligence and consult with a financial advisor.

    Mitch Unfiltered
    Episode 400 - A Weekend Wipeout

    Mitch Unfiltered

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2026 126:03


    RUNDOWN   Mitch and Hotshot Scott celebrate Episode 400 before surveying a brutal Seattle sports weekend: Washington's loss to Minnesota, the Mariners' disappointing finish and the Seahawks' mistake-filled 33–31 loss to Washington. They debate Sam Darnold's gunslinger tendencies and Hotshots's annual complaint about defensive players who can't catch, Brady Henderson and Jacson Bevens dissect a maddening 33–31 loss to Washington, from Sam Darnold's brilliant-but-costly return to a nonexistent running game and Jadarian Price's growing fumbling problem. They assess a defense that unraveled when it mattered, Tory Horton's emergence and Rashid Shaheed's quiet start before marveling at JSN's ridiculous early-season pace. Brady Farkas and Joe Doyle close the book on a disastrous 76–86 Mariners season, starting with Dan Wilson's departure and the decision to retain Jerry Dipoto and Justin Hollander. They debate Seattle's next manager and what went wrong before turning to a pivotal offseason. Rick Neuheisel celebrates another winning pick before unpacking Iowa's wild finish against Michigan and the growing differences between college and NFL clock management. He weighs in on Oregon-USC, Jeremiah Smith's dominance and the latest SEC shakeups before diagnosing Washington's offensive problems following its loss to Minnesota.   GUESTS   Brady Henderson | ESPN.com Seahawks Insider Jacson Bevens | Seahawks Analyst, Cigar Thoughts Rick Neuheisel | CBS College Football Analyst, Dallas Renegades Head Coach & Former Washington Head Coach Brady Farkas | Host, Refuse to Lose podcast Joe Doyle | MLB analyst, Over-Slot   TABLE OF CONTENTS   0:00 | Episode 400, Seattle Sports Misery & the Sam Darnold Experience 17:02 | Seahawks No-Table: Darnold's Wild Ride, Price's Fumbles & a Game Seattle Gave Away 45:32 | Mariners No-Table: Dan Wilson Out, a Lost Season & the Decisions Ahead 1:08:45 | Rick Neuheisel: Husky Trouble, College Football Chaos & a Three-Game Heater 1:46:22 | OTHER STUFF: Seahawks looking ahead to the 49ers, San Francisco and Seattle injury concerns, Jadarian Price's fumbling problems, P.J. Fleck's bloody postgame celebration, Kevin Calabro joining the Timberwolves, Wisconsin fraternity hazing arrests, Steph Curry's $116 million extension, Tim Tebow pausing his LifeSurge relationship, Team USA's Presidents Cup comeback, Gregg Popovich marrying Mike Budenholzer's ex-wife. HEADLINES Woman charged over alleged sexual activity with family dog, Georgia trespasser takes late-night hot tub with rubber duck, China leases two giant pandas to Zoo Atlanta, Boeing 737 MAX software bug disables autopilot during aborted landing. RIPS Bob Pettit (93), Chris Spatola (47), Presley Gerber (27), Peter Byrne (74).

    WSJ What’s News
    Regulators Delay Approval for Boeing's 737 MAX 10

    WSJ What’s News

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2026 12:02


    P.M. Edition for Sept. 28. The FAA's delay, over a software glitch that could pose a potential safety risk, sent Boeing stock sliding. Plus, top researchers from some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence published a report today asking policymakers to oversee self-improving AI systems. It's the latest turn in the conversation over AI safety—which, as Journal tech policy reporter Amrith Ramkumar tells us, is also going on in the White House. Nvidia is launching the largest-ever U.S. stock buyback. And WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Russia in 2023 and spent more than a year imprisoned there, reflects with editor in chief Emma Tucker on how his experience has changed him on the eve of the release of his new book. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Mark Simone
    Hour 1: This past weekend's nor'easter.

    Mark Simone

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2026 34:57 Transcription Available


    This past weekend's nor'easter kept a lot of people indoors as heavy rain and strong winds hit the Tri-State Area. There's also a rumor going around that President Trump could get rid of the press room at the White House and replace it with a swimming pool. The future of AI is raising a lot of concerns, but how bad is it really? There's also a big announcement expected from President Trump today. In other news, Donald Trump's former lawyer, Alina Habba, 42, married 29-year-old Turkish billionaire Turhan Mildon in a huge wedding. People are also talking about President Trump's stamina at 80 and how unusual that is for a president. New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell has resigned following an ethics probe. A Boeing 737 MAX software glitch that has resurfaced could affect navigation features during landing, which could be a serious issue. Mark takes your calls! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    Mark Simone
    FULL SHOW: Nor'easter; Is AI scaring you?

    Mark Simone

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2026 102:10 Transcription Available


    This past weekend's nor'easter kept a lot of people indoors as heavy rain and strong winds hit the Tri-State Area. There's also a rumor going around that President Trump could get rid of the press room at the White House and replace it with a swimming pool. The future of AI is raising a lot of concerns, but how bad is it really? There's also a big announcement expected from President Trump today. In other news, Donald Trump's former lawyer, Alina Habba, 42, married 29-year-old Turkish billionaire Turhan Mildon in a huge wedding. People are also talking about President Trump's stamina at 80 and how unusual that is for a president. New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell has resigned following an ethics probe. A Boeing 737 MAX software glitch that has resurfaced could affect navigation features during landing, which could be a serious issue. New pipelines are being built as the situation with the Strait of Hormuz continues to cause problems for many Gulf countries while the war between Iran and the USA continues. On SNL this past weekend, Knicks star Jalen Brunson hosted the show, and Mamdani was also mentioned in the skits and got grilled about his performance as mayor so far. Last night was also the 72nd anniversary of The Tonight Show. Mark interviews NY Post columnist Miranda Devine. Miranda talks about Hunter Biden's new book and some of the things she found in it that she believes are not true. Miranda and Mark also discuss how President Trump treated Xi Jinping during his visit to Washington, D.C., last week and whether he was too cordial toward him. They also talk about how the military should be one of the USA's strong points. AOC has been around a lot lately, especially in upstate New York and the Tri-State Area, as she campaigns on political issues and promotes her book. An 18-year-old suspect has been charged in connection with vandalizing a teacher's home in Southbury, Connecticut. Actor James Woods and Robert De Niro also got into a recent tussle, and Mark explains what happened. China enjoys things hot, and Xi Jinping's visit to the White House seemed to confirm that. Mark interviews streaming host Bill O'Reilly. Mark and Bill break down Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping last week and why Trump was so cordial with him. Most Americans aren't really paying close attention to the AI situation happening in the USA right now, including concerns that hackers could break into AI systems and potentially take control using AI. Bill believes Congress should get involved. China wants unlimited use of AI, which could help turn the country into a dominant force on the world stage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    WSJ Minute Briefing
    Treasury Yields Soar as Tech Stocks Drop

    WSJ Minute Briefing

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2026 1:53


    Plus: NVIDIA shares rise after its historic buyback announcement. And Boeing shares slump amid safety concerns. Alexis Moore hosts. Sign up for WSJ's free What's News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    The David Alliance
    Marriage? Sex? Faith? There supposed to be hard!

    The David Alliance

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2026 7:30


    The David Alliance TDAGiantslayer@Gmail.com Garth Heckman What if…they gave up What if after succeeding but being doubted they gave up What if after being called liars they gave up What if?    But here is the beauty of the story!  The Acceleration   Here's where it gets powerful for your "how fast things take off" point:   1903: The Wright Flyer's first flight covered 120 feet in 12 seconds — a distance shorter than the wingspan of a Boeing 747.   1969 — just 66 years later: Apollo 11 landed men on the moon. Within a single human lifetime, humanity went from a 120-foot hop on a beach to walking on another world.   2026 — about 123 years later: SpaceX's Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, is in active development toward an uncrewed Mars landing attempt as early as the end of this year, with Musk targeting a self-sustaining city on Mars within about 20 years after that. Musk himself has said the flight rate will "grow exponentially" once the core technology is proven.   What if when conquered does not follow a natural growth pattern.The pattern isn't linear, it's exponential — the breakthrough FROM WHAT IF is slow and doubted and mocked, but once it actually happens, everything after it moves faster than anyone predicted. The years of ridicule aren't proof it won't work — they're often the price of admission for something that changes everything once it finally lifts off.     YOUR FAITH WALK IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE A HEALTHY AMOUNT OF “WHAT IFS”    XNY is supposed to be hard. That causes us to be dependent on God!    "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." -- Christopher Reeve **A faith walking power filled Christian is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming WHAT IF'S.     What if - is always asked in a negative lens. But what if… (see what I did there) what if we looked at it in a Godly mindset. What if God has something better for me, What if God is preparing me for something better, What if God wants me to fully realize how in control he is, What if God is keeping me from harm or pain.

    The David Alliance
    "What if" is the Fulcrum of Faith!

    The David Alliance

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2026 7:52


    The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com Garth Heckman What if?   The press called it before they even tried. On October 9, 1903 — just 69 days before the Wright Brothers and the Kitty Hawk —  New York Times published an editorial titled "Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly," declaring that a working flying machine might be developed "by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years." That editorial was actually a response to the very public failure of Samuel Langley, a Smithsonian scientist whose government-funded "Aerodrome" project had just crashed — twice, publicly, humiliatingly — using taxpayer money.  The Wright Brothers weren't just fighting skepticism about flight in general; they were flying directly into the wreckage of someone else's very public, very credentialed failure.   69 days later…Even after they succeeded, almost nobody believed them — for years. This is the part most people don't know: the Wrights flew successfully in December 1903, but the press largely ignored or dismissed it. When they invited reporters to watch a 1904 flight, mechanical problems limited it to a short hop, and the press left more convinced than ever that the brothers were exaggerating. A local beekeeper who witnessed real flights in 1905 tried to get Scientific American — a serious, credible publication — to cover it. They turned him down. The Wrights spent roughly five years being doubted, ignored, or dismissed by the same institutions that should have celebrated them, and they didn't get real public credit until they demonstrated flights in Europe in 1908.   What if…they gave up What if after succeeding but being doubted they gave up What if after being called liars they gave up What if?    But here is the beauty of the story!  The Acceleration   Here's where it gets powerful for your "how fast things take off" point:   1903: The Wright Flyer's first flight covered 120 feet in 12 seconds — a distance shorter than the wingspan of a Boeing 747.   1969 — just 66 years later: Apollo 11 landed men on the moon. Within a single human lifetime, humanity went from a 120-foot hop on a beach to walking on another world.   2026 — about 123 years later: SpaceX's Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, is in active development toward an uncrewed Mars landing attempt as early as the end of this year, with Musk targeting a self-sustaining city on Mars within about 20 years after that. Musk himself has said the flight rate will "grow exponentially" once the core technology is proven.   What if when conquered does not follow a natural growth pattern.The pattern isn't linear, it's exponential — the breakthrough FROM WHAT IF is slow and doubted and mocked, but once it actually happens, everything after it moves faster than anyone predicted. The years of ridicule aren't proof it won't work — they're often the price of admission for something that changes everything once it finally lifts off.

    Closing Bell
    Closing Bell Overtime: Stocks Take A Breather to Start Week 9/28/26

    Closing Bell

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2026 43:33


    Melius' Ben Reitzes breaks down Nvidia's record $150 billion buyback increase. J.P. Morgan Private Bank's Stephen Parker weighs the broader market setup and whether AI can keep driving leadership. Meantime, Julia Boorstin reports on Meta's latest moves with Muse as the company pushes further into enterprise AI. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman discusses Boeing, SpaceX and the future of the U.S. space industry. RBC BlueBay Fixed Income CIO Mark Dowding tackles the bond selloff and whether investors should try to catch the falling knife. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    WDR ZeitZeichen
    Vom Holz zum Himmel: William Edward Boeing

    WDR ZeitZeichen

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2026 14:44


    Das Leben des Flugzeugpioniers William Edward Boeing endet am 23.9.1956 auf seiner Yacht in der Meeresbucht vor Seattle. Sein Name bleibt in und über unseren Köpfen. Von Wolfgang Meyer.

    Alles auf Aktien
    Oracles Jupiter-Beben und die Gewinner des Agenten-Kriegs

    Alles auf Aktien

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2026 24:17 Transcription Available


    In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Philipp Vetter und Holger Zschäpitz über tiefenentspannte Börsen, Agenten-Fantasie bei Meta und Microsoft und was sonst noch wichtig wird in dieser Woche. Außerdem geht es um Meta, Microsoft, Akamai, Boeing, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Kyivstar, BASF, Evonik, Micron, Oracle, Blue Owl Capital, Santander, BNP Paribas, Morgan Stanley, Amazon, Alphabet, Softbank, London Stock Exchange Group, Moody's, Broadcom, Nvidia, AMD, ASML, TSMC, Netflix, Charles Schwab, Allstate, Progressive, Booking Holdings, Airbnb, Verizon, Planet Fitness, Goldman Sachs, Mondelez, Walmart, Shopify, Visa, Mastercard, Equifax, TransUnion, Fair Isaac (Fico), Cloudflare, iShares Core MSCI World ETF (WKN: A0RPWH), Amundi EUR Overnight Return ETF (WKN: LYX0B6). Am 2. Oktober findet unser „Alles auf Aktien“-Summit in Berlin statt. Sichere dir jetzt dein Ticket, um Zugriff auf den Merch-Shop zu bekommen. Mit dem Code “FINANCEFRIENDS“ sparst du 50 Prozent aufs Ticket – aber nur unter folgendem Link: https://veranstaltung.businessinsider.de/event/financesummit26/summary?rp=c6dc55d6-6f4f-4fb4-b75f-3f3501d84859 - Werbung - Alle Infos zum 50-Euro-Aktions-Angebot von unserem Partner Smartbroker findet ihr hier: https://get.smartbrokerplus.de/finance26_aaa/ Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Hier könnt ihr den AAA-Newsletter abonnieren: https://www.welt.de/newsletter/article232797673/Alles-auf-Aktien-Der-taegliche-Boersen-Newsletter-fuer-WELTplus-Abonnenten.html Und – ganz neu: AAA gibt es jetzt auch auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alles_auf_aktien/ Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Diese Folge enthält Werbung für Smartbroker+. Depot eröffnen, 30 € ETF als Bonus sichern und aus tausenden ETFs wählen. Smartbroker+ macht Investieren einfach. Alle Informationen gibt es unter: https://get.smartbrokerplus.de/triple-aaa-podcast2/ Anzeige: Eight Sleep: Der Pod 5 reguliert die Temperatur im Bett automatisch, trackt Schlaf- und Gesundheitswerte ohne Wearable und kann so zu besserem Schlaf beitragen. Mit dem Code ALLESAUFAKTIEN erhaltet ihr auf https://www.eightsleep.com/allesaufaktien bis zu 350 Euro Rabatt. Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

    The Peak Daily
    Time out ⏰- OpenAI pauses training for its new models, China has cracked the 5-minute EV charger.

    The Peak Daily

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2026 7:07


    OpenAI has paused training on its most powerful models as it and Anthropic investigate tens of thousands of incidents involving rogue agents bypassing safeguards, escaping sandboxes, and taking actions they were never instructed to perform — raising fresh questions about whether even the industry's top labs can reliably control frontier AI.Plus, China's Geely has unveiled an EV battery that can charge from 10% to 70% in just four and a half minutes, giving Chinese automakers another edge over North American and European rivals as Canada's battery sector struggles with delays and cancelled projects.And in The Big Picture: British police foil an alleged terrorist plot targeting a U.S. air base, Boeing faces scrutiny over a new 737 MAX software glitch, U.S.–Iran talks are set to resume, Apple is ordered to pay a record patent award, McDonald's rolls out an AI drive-thru bot, and more.The Peak Daily is produced in partnership with reframevid.com

    Mercado Abierto
    Wall Street: Protagonistas de la jornada en el mercado estadounidense

    Mercado Abierto

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2026 7:43


    Nvidia, Tesla, Boeing, Snowflake y Micron, bajo la lupa de Ignacio Vacchiano, responsable de distribución en España de Leverage Shares.

    Defense & Aerospace Report
    Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast [Sep 27, '26 Business Report]

    Defense & Aerospace Report

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2026 52:17


    On this week's Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable, sponsored by Bell, Dr. “Rocket” Ron Epstein of Bank of America Securities and Richard Aboulafia of the AeroDynamic advisory consultancy join host Vago Muradian to discuss a bumpy week on Wall Street as bond yields rise along with diesel prices that are up 77 percent over the past year; President Trump hosts Xi Jinping in Washington for a state visit; Washington wants China to return an F-35 fighter cockpit canopy and weapons bay door that ended up in Hong Kong on its way to the United States from Australia for repair; the agreement Denmark, Greenland and the United States signed to allow more American bases on the world's largest island; the Pentagon presses ahead with another framework agreement with Lockheed Martin, this time for the Air Force's AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile that would succeed Raytheon's Advanced Air-to-Air Missile; and Turkish Airlines' order for 150 new 737 Max jetliners from Boeing.

    Frequent Traveller Circle - Essentials - DEUTSCH
    737 MAX: Softwareproblem + SAS baut Mega-Lounge

    Frequent Traveller Circle - Essentials - DEUTSCH

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2026 12:00 Transcription Available


    Send us Fan Mail✈️ 737 MAX, neue SAS-Lounge und Chase-PunktetransferBoeing arbeitet an einer Korrektur für ein Softwareproblem der 737 MAX. SAS plant eine große Flagship-Lounge in Kopenhagen. Außerdem: Welche Chase-Karten ab Oktober beim Hyatt-Transfer schlechter abschneiden.Wir ordnen Fakten, offene Fragen und Folgen für Reisende ein. Diskutiert eure Sicht in den Kommentaren!

    The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast
    Storm Skiing 9/26/2026: Fixing America's Broken Ski School Model with Snow Schoolers' Brian Bensch

    The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2026 63:55


    The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast thinks that yelling “PIZZA!” and “FRENCH FRY!” at a 2-year-old superman straightlining down a green slope is a highly effective ski instruction technique. If you agree, please sign up for my newsletter:WhoBrian Bensch, founder of Snow SchoolersDate recordedSeptember 24, 2026About Snow SchoolersSnow Schoolers, per its website, is an “independent ski school program” that teaches lessons “at any mountain where we've established a revenue-sharing partnership with the ski area.” Skiers sign up for lessons on their Pet Rectangles, like this:Why I interviewed himThat sounds pretty neat, right? Let me go see if Snow Schoolers teaches at my favorite mountain. Snow Schoolers probably does not teach at your favorite mountain. Unless your favorite mountain is 222-vertical-foot Granlibakken, which is about five feet away from 6,000-acre Palisades Tahoe, or 100 vertical-foot Frisco Adventure Park, tucked off highway 9, after 1.5 million-ish skiers exit I-70 on their way to nearby Breckenridge.That is not an indictment of small ski areas, which I love, or Snow Schoolers' business model, which I also love. Rather, it's my way of saying that the only way to sign up for ski school at Palisades Tahoe or Breckenridge is through Palisades Tahoe or Breckenridge. With the strange, grandfathered-in exception of the strange, cobbled-together ski bazaar that is Summit at Snoqualmie in Washington, all major American ski areas (so far as I know) operate with a monopoly over ski school operations on their property. In ways subtle and aggressive, they police and ban rogue instructors who would offer discounted lessons on resort property.There are probably ways to break this system, either through the courts or legislative amendment of the Forest Service leases that 125 U.S. ski areas operate on. Such change sounds radical only in an American context - most European ski areas already operate with multiple independent competing ski schools onsite. Over the past 20 years, technology has challenged monopolies across American commerce. Sports and concert tickets and taxi rides offer two prime examples of power shifting from one central operator to many operators, with benefits and drawbacks for the consumer. Perhaps we will get there with ski school. For now, I see a more practical path for an asset-light, app-based, independent ski school like Snow Schoolers - as the costs of labor, utilities, infrastructure, and insurance pile up, perhaps outsourcing the operation of a ski school is more practical for many smaller, independent ski areas than establishing and maintaining one of their own. That is what you get at Granlibakken and Frisco: Snow Schoolers pays the ski areas a share of each lesson, essentially as rent for the right to operate a ski school on their property. And Granlibakken and Friso don't have to worry about hiring instructors and organizing lessons. There are probably 100 under-resourced ski areas in America where this model could work tomorrow. Brian and I discuss why Snow Schoolers works where it does, and why the model has been slow to spread.TranscriptsThere are two transcripts. Both are generated by robots. Both are helpful and defective in their own unique ways. 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Also, you cannot click on this text to move to the associated point in the audio.ZoomStuart Winchester: My guest today founded Snowschoolers in 2014 with the mission to make skiing and riding affordable and accessible for average Americans.00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:11.000Stuart Winchester: and to pay snow sports pros a sustainable living wage.00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:19.000Stuart Winchester: Today, Snowschoolers operates at Grand Lebakken in Lake Tahoe, and Frisco Adventure Park in Colorado, two small ski areas.00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:36.000Stuart Winchester: Last year, Snow Schoolers hosted approximately 6,000 students. He is a good friend of the Storm. He is Brian Bench. Brian, welcome to the Storm. You reached out to me very shortly after I launched in 2019 or 20, and we've been talking for years, and you've helped me out a lot.00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.000Stuart Winchester: With the…00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:45.000Stuart Winchester: digital side of things, which I'm not so good at, so it's awesome to finally get you on and talk some snow schoolers. How you doing today?00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:48.000Brian Bensch: Doing lovely. Can't complain. Always busy, never bored.00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:52.000Stuart Winchester: And that is… yeah, that is a picture out your window of Tahoe, right?00:16:51.000 --> 00:17:00.000Brian Bensch: Yes, that is a, it's called Maggie's Peak, but that's looking at the little lake just next to Emerald Bay.00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:05.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, which would be sort of north side of the lake, so you'd be looking…00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.000Brian Bensch: Oh.00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:08.000Brian Bensch: South Tahoe, kind of on the other side of the corner, like, across from Heavenly.00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:18.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, south, right? I was… I was backwards. So… so on the… up the left side, there would be Homewood, and then up the right side would be Heavenly and Diamond Peak, and at the top is, like.00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:10.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:15.000Brian Bensch: Correct.00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:19.000Brian Bensch: Mostly correct.00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:26.000Stuart Winchester: Or North Star? North Star, Northwood. Okay, alright, uh, before I hurt myself, let's just get into this. So, so Brian.00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:28.000Brian Bensch: Well, we'll get you out to Tahoe soon enough, and then your Tahoe geography will get.00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:31.000Stuart Winchester: It's been a minute. So…00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:40.000Stuart Winchester: What is broken about American ski schools, and how did you try to fix it with snow schoolers?00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:45.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. So I would say similar to, you know.00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.000Brian Bensch: The the general diatribe about, you know.00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:55.000Brian Bensch: The ski industry being kind of broken with lift tickets too expensive and climate change is gonna end the world.00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:07.000Brian Bensch: Not everything is broken, but particularly the most front and center in your face resorts that you know everyone hears about, and you know, makes the quote unquote mainstream news has been broken for a while.00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:15.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, the gist is, if you roll up to, you know, a Tier 1 destination resort.00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:16.000Brian Bensch: Brooke, uh…00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:32.000Brian Bensch: Not only is lift ticket price what it is, but if you are looking for a group lesson, you're looking at a couple 100 bucks. And if you're looking for a private lesson, you're lucky if you can find anything that is under 1000 today. When we started Snow Schoolers, I remember telling people like, you know, a private lesson is $700 or $800.00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:35.000Brian Bensch: Well, now it's roughly double that.00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:51.000Brian Bensch: And I started teaching skiing back in college at the Dartmouth Skiway shout out to Mark and the team there, and you know I thought it was the best job ever making 12 bucks an hour in college, but it is still a minimum wage hourly job.00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:55.000Brian Bensch: Despite the high margins that resorts take.00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:59.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, wait, wait, let's, let's pause right there. So over a thousand a day for a lesson.00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:07.000Stuart Winchester: patrollers are making… I think at the Tier 1 resorts, they're probably making more than minimum wage. I think it's probably more in… at least in the 20s.00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, the, the, go ahead.00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:09.000Stuart Winchester: Plus tips, but, but.00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:19.000Stuart Winchester: Still, right, so you figure it's $1,200 a day for a lesson, and the instructor's getting, you know, $150 of that, or something. What… why…00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:23.000Stuart Winchester: Why does that model even exist? Like, who would even do that?00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.000Brian Bensch: Out.00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.000Brian Bensch: Because…00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:31.000Stuart Winchester: Like, who would work for that? Like, when you, right? Like, why not just give your own lessons?00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:44.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, well, and there's two sides… two sides of the mark, and I, uh… outside of my passions for skiing, I consider myself sort of a marketplace, you know, guru of sorts. And, you know, on the supply side, or, like, the staffing side.00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:52.000Brian Bensch: could ever imagine, and there's a reason why people love to teach skiing.00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:55.000Brian Bensch: One of the, I would say.00:19:54.000 --> 00:20:03.000Stuart Winchester: Hey, Brian, I'm sorry, you froze there for probably about, like, 5 seconds. Um, I don't know if you're on a hard line, or you have good Wi-Fi, or…00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:00.000Brian Bensch: Okay.00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:11.000Brian Bensch: It's Tahoe Wi-Fi. But it's generally fine, unless it goes out and flickers, but…00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.000Stuart Winchester: Is it?00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.000Stuart Winchester: It's Tahoe Wi-Fi.00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:13.000Stuart Winchester: you…00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:19.000Brian Bensch: I can close a couple tabs, that might help. Or we can just… I don't want you to… I know editing is tough.00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:17.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I think so.00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:22.000Stuart Winchester: No, no, no, you, you, uh, can you plug in, possibly?00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.000Brian Bensch: I don't have an Ethernet.00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:31.000Stuart Winchester: You know, okay, alright. Um, yeah, let's just, yeah, try to close some stuff, and we'll keep going, and at worst case, you can, uh, go off screen.00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:29.000Brian Bensch: Yep.00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:32.000Brian Bensch: Sure.00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:38.000Brian Bensch: To pick back up the… the kind of…00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:54.000Brian Bensch: Why is it, you know, possible for a lesson to cost $1,200 and the instructor only keeps 20% of that? There's two components to it. The first is that, you know, historically there was a glut of ski instructors going back into the 60s, 70s, 80s.00:20:54.000 --> 00:21:10.000Brian Bensch: Uh, you know, the, the quintessential ski bum, uh, is and was a great job, particularly for people that, you know, get the addiction that I know we both have. Um, and so, you know, lessons didn't used to be this expensive, um, just like lift tickets didn't used to be this expensive.00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:29.000Brian Bensch: Um, and so just like being a lifty, being a ski instructor was, you know, maybe a slight step above, you know, requires more training, but it has always been the sort of an entry-level hourly position. Um, and it's certainly not the federal minimum wage at most resorts. Uh, when Vail came out, uh, post-COVID with the $20 an hour kind of cross-board raise.00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:41.000Brian Bensch: Uh, that was great for the industry, not just, you know, Vail Resorts staff. Um, and… but the prevailing wage for, you know, first-year ski instructor is certainly in that $20 an hour range today.00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, we try to do things differently.00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:49.000Stuart Winchester: Right, but okay, so, but fundamentally to get at the…00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:55.000Stuart Winchester: at this dynamic. I'm a ski instructor. Let's say I'm a great ski instructor, right? And everybody loves me.00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:57.000Stuart Winchester: And I… I can see that…00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:07.000Stuart Winchester: you know, Northstar is charging $1,000 for a lesson, and they're paying me $25 an hour. I don't know what Northstar pays, so feel free to correct me, Northstar, but…00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:10.000Stuart Winchester: Why don't I as an instructor?00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:25.000Stuart Winchester: just say, well, I'm just gonna go on Facebook and advertise my services, and say, meet me at the Lyft at Northstar, and I'll give you a lesson for $200 for the day, because then I'm making more, and… and we're just… and the consumer's getting a better deal.00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:34.000Stuart Winchester: And then we established this one-on-one relationship. Why doesn't that marketplace exist? Why do ski areas exist?00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:42.000Stuart Winchester: How are they able to do this weird market dynamic, which sounds fundamentally unfair to the instructor?00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:57.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. Well, that question is certainly more or less exactly what I pondered 10 years ago. And how I got into this fun little project called Snowschoolers.00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:03.000Brian Bensch: was the realization that, oh my god, like, why does this exist? Um, and, you know, and…00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:08.000Brian Bensch: 10 years ago, Uber and Airbnb had just become kind of a mainstream thing.00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.000Brian Bensch: Um, and so I was like, oh.00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:28.000Brian Bensch: I wonder if we could just connect instructors to students directly and have a little marketplace for ski school. At the time, I knew nothing about, you know, special use permits from the Forest Service and the ski industry broadly. You know, I'd grown up skiing, but I was just a lay consumer skier. The reality is, and very similar to.00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:36.000Brian Bensch: you know a lot of the work you've done this summer going into Forest Service kind of history. The special use permit system.00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:54.000Brian Bensch: effectively grants the resort, at least on Federal lands, where the special use permit exists, a micro monopoly over all business activity at their mountain. And it doesn't have to be that way. If you do go over to Europe, it is a much more laissez-faire free market.00:23:54.000 --> 00:24:07.000Brian Bensch: Um, and most major resorts in Europe have at least four to six, you know, uh, ski schools that operate and compete, and, you know, the average lesson prices are roughly a third, and instructors keep, you know, 50 to 60% of lessons.00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:19.000Brian Bensch: And so it doesn't have to be the way it is. But at at the core it is. It is because resorts have the legal right to be the only ski school of record. And.00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:30.000Stuart Winchester: Right, so just to get ahead of the people who like to point out details, so North Star was a weird example for me to use because it's on private land, it's not on Forest Service land. However, it's owned by Vail Resorts, and I think what you're saying is.00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:44.000Stuart Winchester: even though not every U.S. skier is on U.S. Forest Service land, 125 of them are, it… the fact that that encompasses the majority of our ski terrain has normalized the culture of one mountain, one ski school. Is that fair?00:24:44.000 --> 00:25:01.000Brian Bensch: Correct. And there is maybe a dirty little secret of capitalism that monopolies are great businesses. So Northstar does not want six other ski schools competing and driving the price down because ski school is very, very lucrative to the at least traditional big resort ski model.00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:50.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:09.000Stuart Winchester: So, disruptor Brian comes out and says, alright guys, get out of the way, I am gonna change the world with.00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:19.000Stuart Winchester: snow schoolers and my Uber for skiing app, which I know you don't want to call it anymore, but nonetheless, since you brought up the analogy, let's go back to 2014.00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:22.000Stuart Winchester: Take us into it. What did you do and what happened?00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:32.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. In short, I would say, did a little bit of experimenting with that idea. And, you know, by the end of the first season.00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:43.000Brian Bensch: Learned pretty quickly that the ski resort management does not like the idea. And if you want to be able to ski at places that you love to ski.00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:55.000Brian Bensch: it's probably a good idea to not, uh, not poke the bear too much, so to speak. Um, and so, uh, that first kind of pilot program very much led me into the, uh.00:25:55.000 --> 00:26:14.000Brian Bensch: and and this it was always a snooze. This has been a side project of mine for a while. It's a I would call it a thriving small business. That 1st year I I pretended it was a startup, or I called it a startup, but never took funding and you know that 1st pilot program helped me realize that the only way, if I was going to turn this into real business.00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:07.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:27.000Brian Bensch: was to find a way that was mutually beneficial for both resorts and instructors, uh, and obviously the students. Um, and that led me to, you know, how can I create a revenue share model.00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:41.000Brian Bensch: Uh, where by bringing more new skiers to the mountain, everyone benefits. Um, the resort gets to share the revenue, uh, the student gets a cheaper lesson, and the instructor gets higher pay. Um, and, uh…00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:54.000Brian Bensch: you know, by the time 2016 rolled around I was ready to quit my corporate job and give it a role, and so moved to Tahoe. And you know, without the.00:26:54.000 --> 00:27:04.000Brian Bensch: A gentleman named Brian Schilling out in Homewood. Without him taking sort of a chance on me, snow schoolers would not exist. But Homewood was coming off.00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:22.000Brian Bensch: we'll say a typical bad snow year, and had to let go a lot of their ski school staff the year prior, because I think they were open for, like, 40 days that season, and hiring was a huge priority. Like, they were rebuilding a ski school from scratch, and the reality was the pitch that resonated with Homewood.00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:37.000Brian Bensch: was much less about, can we, like, you know, offer more affordable lessons and increase gear visits that way, but we need, like, we don't know how to hire instructors, we need a bunch of instructors, and this Uber model of.00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:52.000Brian Bensch: uh, pseudo-freelance instructors was attractive to them. Um, and, you know, I told them that, like, I had put up a couple ads and had, you know, 20 people apply within a few weeks, and they're like, ah, that's interesting. Um, and so that led to our first season, uh, which I would say was.00:27:52.000 --> 00:28:06.000Brian Bensch: uh, not a hands-down success at Homewood, um, but I skied nearly 100 days, and it ended up being, uh, Tahoe's second best winter of at least my young adulthood, um, and, you know, you know, no regrets at all.00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:17.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I mean, Homo's a serious mountain. I mean, right on the lake, it's dramatic, it has pretty nice chair lifts. But that didn't end up being the future, right?00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:23.000Stuart Winchester: How did Homewood break down, and how did you…00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.000Stuart Winchester: reassemble…00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:35.000Stuart Winchester: like, sort of rethink the business, uh, on a different scale, and I mean both, like, going smaller to get bigger, if that makes sense.00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:44.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. So the core hypothesis of snow schoolers was always kind of twofold. If you make lessons.00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:52.000Brian Bensch: more interest or demand and potential customers when lessons are affordable.00:28:52.000 --> 00:29:09.000Brian Bensch: I think the same thing is true of lift tickets, and that's why, you know, the places that are still offering $700 lift tickets are thriving. But affordable lessons drives an outsized increase in, you know, lesson visits. And if you pay instructors well, there's no shortage of instructors you can find if you're willing to pay them well.00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:25.000Brian Bensch: What we didn't get right in that 1st year at Homewood was the affordable lesson side of things. We were able to teach lessons at Homewood, but we were offering the normal prices from the year before, which were more or less, I would say, 10% below what Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows up the road was charging.00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:41.000Brian Bensch: Um, and we were not… yeah, we taught a total of, I think, 50 lessons that season, um, which was, you know, better than zero, but certainly not enough to get me too, too excited. Um, and the kind of going smaller to get bigger.00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.000Brian Bensch: Uh, it was a function of, uh…00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:57.000Brian Bensch: my my tiny little hill in the woods called Grand Lebakken, that, as someone who'd grown up skiing Tahoe, I had literally never heard of. I think I'd probably skied in Tahoe 500 days at that point.00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:59.000Brian Bensch: Um, but, uh…00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:02.000Stuart Winchester: And it's right by Palisades, right? It's, like, right across the street, basically.00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:17.000Brian Bensch: Not quite across the street. It is two minutes from the lake, but you can't see the lake from Grand Labaquin. So it's literally like tucked in the way, tucked kind of behind a hill. It is between Alpine Meadows and Homewood, if you look at the map. And it's roughly like 10 minutes from both of them.00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:05.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:23.000Brian Bensch: Um, and as I was winding down that first season with Homewood, I challenged myself, um.00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:39.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, tried to put it on social media, but no one really cared to do a March Madness Sweet 16 circuit, because there, at the time, were 16 unique mountains in Tahoe, and Grand Lebakken was one of the last stops on that circuit, and I forget who told me it existed.00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:44.000Brian Bensch: Um, but, you know, Grand Lubakken is not a ski resort. Grand Lubakken is a ski.00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:51.000Brian Bensch: Kind of known for its lodging and accommodations business.00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:54.000Stuart Winchester: Hey, Brian, you, uh, you just froze again, but you said Grand Lebakken is a ski…00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:55.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:57.000Stuart Winchester: So just start over from Grand Lebakken is a ski.00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:13.000Brian Bensch: Sure. Grand Labaca is not a ski resort. It is a ski hill or a ski area, as Stuart likes to say. It is two surface lifts. It is roughly 20 acres from the bottom of the hill of Grand Labaca. You can see the entire hill, the entire mountain. What you see is what you get.00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:30.000Brian Bensch: It is not, I would say, exclusively for beginners. The Poma that goes to the top, and it's, I think, roughly 225 feet. I would put it at a solid, you know, a Jackson Hole blue. It is at least a 25 to 30 degree slope.00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:46.000Brian Bensch: and I have seen 12 year olds straight line it and almost die. So it is. It is certainly like there's enough terrain that you could do ski race like training on it, and we do a little bit of that in the winter on weekdays. But it is a ski hill.00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:57.000Brian Bensch: Um, not at all, sort of, no bells and whistles, no high-speed quads, um, just a bunny lift, uh, rope toe, and a, you know, slightly more advanced poma that goes to the top.00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:09.000Brian Bensch: And, uh, spent a good afternoon with, uh, the Parson family back in spring 2017, and I was like, this price is pretty cool, this is cute, and told them about my ideas for ski school.00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.000Stuart Winchester: And who are they?00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:25.000Brian Bensch: Chris Parson and Ron Parson. Ron is Chris's father, and has owned the mountain for quite a while, and what Grand Lombachman is known for is, it is more of an accommodations center. It's a lodge and conference center.00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:42.000Brian Bensch: Uh, with roughly, I think, 150-ish units. Um, and the ski hill is an amenity, uh, along with their pool, along with their spa, along with, like, you know, their, you know, uh, dining areas and so forth. Um, and they've operated the ski area and sled hill, um, for…00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:29.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:55.000Brian Bensch: I think Ron is — the Parson family is going on maybe 30 years. I hope to convince him that he should come on the pod at some point. But he is —.00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:47.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:55.000 --> 00:33:12.000Brian Bensch: Their family, you know, is the quintessential mom and pop ski hill ski area sort of operators. When I met them, ski school was run mostly with Chris, who had sort of two group lesson slots a day and a piece of paper for people to sign up in the morning.00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:28.000Brian Bensch: And they were like, you know, we could probably be more organized with this. And I was like, yeah, I think I can help you a little bit. And then the season ended and I went home, had made no money. So, you know, my day job has been in marketing.00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:40.000Brian Bensch: for big and small tech companies for a while. Um, and so I went and had to get a big boy tech job again to, you know, pay for rent. Um, and my Tahoe ski lease was up for the season. So, I went back home.00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:39.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:47.000Brian Bensch: you know, wasn't sure if Snow Solutions was going to continue, kind of just assumed it was a one-year thing, and, you know.00:33:47.000 --> 00:34:03.000Brian Bensch: you know, hadn't talked a ton with Homewood, but I knew, like we weren't gonna you know the business wasn't great. But fast forward October 1st roughly, this time of year the Gm. Gives me a call out of the blue, and I pick up. I'm now at my new day job, and I just play it cool. And I'm like, Oh, yeah.00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:19.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, no, we'll run your ski school this winter. Grant Lebakken did, yeah. So the GM of Grant Lebakken picked up and said, hey, you know, we love meeting you in the spring, and you know, winter's around the corner. Let's talk about, you know, what needs to be done for you guys to run ski school for us this year.00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.000Stuart Winchester: Grand Labaquin?00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, okay.00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:11.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:14.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:20.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm. Right.00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:23.000Brian Bensch: Um, and I remember going home that night being like, huh.00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:33.000Brian Bensch: This is not going to be easy because I'm working 40 to 50 hours a week now at my new job. But skiing in this space is what I love to do.00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:25.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:51.000Brian Bensch: You know, at one point, a quote on the website was the Confucius quote, “If you find a job you love, you'll never work another day.” And, you know, I said, yes, you know, porque no las dos, let's do both. Didn't tell my employer at the time.00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:49.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:51.000 --> 00:35:06.000Brian Bensch: Because, you know, don't want to give them reason to question how much time you're putting in. But basically worked, you know, spent many nights, and I was a bad developer at the time. So everything snow schoolers is kind of built in-house from a code perspective.00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:55.000Stuart Winchester: Been there?00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:03.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:23.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, I just, every evening from 6 p.m. to midnight, I'd be plugging away to build the Grand Le Bacon kind of new system that we built that first year. And it worked. You know, year two, we taught.00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:38.000Brian Bensch: I think 300 plus lessons, and we did five times more revenue than year one at Homewood. And again, I was, you know, I only taught probably 2% of lessons because I had my full-time job. Christmas was a fun disaster where.00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:47.000Brian Bensch: all of a sudden, we were sold out every single day, and I was like, uh, I guess I need to figure out how to stop selling lessons, uh, because I hadn't really built that into the model the first year, because we were never sold out.00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:48.000Stuart Winchester: Ah, okay, okay.00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:56.000Brian Bensch: But, you know, we made it work and lots of families had amazing, you know, first experiences learning to slide on snow.00:35:55.000 --> 00:36:06.000Stuart Winchester: So let me zoom out and just tell you why I think this makes sense from my point of view, and then you can color that in with with how Graham Lebakken actually achieved it. I look at…00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:13.000Stuart Winchester: something like the Icon Pass, and they have a partnership with Jackson Hole.00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:22.000Stuart Winchester: but Altera doesn't have to own or operate Jackson Hole, and if a lift breaks, it's not Altera's problem, but they get the benefit of Jackson Hole.00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.000Stuart Winchester: on their IconPass. Uh…00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:36.000Stuart Winchester: this model that Grand Lebakken has, there used to be hundreds of ski areas like this, just attached to resorts all across. In this part of the country, there were a ton of them, in the Catskills and the Poconos, and…00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.000Brian Bensch: Okay.00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:42.000Stuart Winchester: most of them, I mean, they frankly weren't super interesting hills, but they…00:36:42.000 --> 00:37:02.000Stuart Winchester: Those resorts found that as God running a ski hill became more complex, it wasn't worth keeping all those pieces and parts as an amenity. So in the case of, of Grand Le Bacon, I, I imagine, you know, you have a couple Pomas, so your market is probably like people who wanted to come to Tahoe in the winter, but aren't necessarily skiers, but maybe want to try it.00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:18.000Stuart Winchester: Right? Because no one's like, hmm, should I go to Palisades or Grand Lebakken today, right? Like it's, it's a very unique place. So, but Grand Lebakken, I mean, if they're going to have a hill, that means they also have to have, you know, a rental shop and they have to have a ski school and instructors. This basically.00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:21.000Stuart Winchester: Takes the whole ski school, all that labor.00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:23.000Stuart Winchester: all the infrastructure.00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:25.000Stuart Winchester: out of it, and I'd imagine you just…00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:41.000Stuart Winchester: Pay, you know, you just write them a check like a lease, basically like a forest service lease where a skier operates and they, they pay based on what they make to the government. So it, it seems to me like ski areas would love that. And I, and I could think of 100 small ski areas in the country where that would work. That's how I'm understanding this is that.00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:44.000Stuart Winchester: Is that fair? And…00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:47.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, I I would say you more or less hit the nail on the head.00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:47.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:37:48.000 --> 00:38:03.000Brian Bensch: The and and the models the operating model that we've sort of developed, that we are sort of most in favor of is, we do ski school. We take full responsibility for ski school and nothing else.00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:14.000Brian Bensch: we've we've we're not obligated, or we don't have to stick with that model entirely. And at our Frisco location, Colorado. We also do all of rentals.00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:20.000Brian Bensch: And but ski school is what sort of what we love, what we care about.00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:34.000Brian Bensch: And you know, in in other past smaller partnerships we've done. We were responsible for even more of operations, grooming and parking and snow removal is.00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:40.000Brian Bensch: like very underappreciated. How time consuming, expensive those can be.00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:40.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:50.000Brian Bensch: And so I I am very thankful that Gran Lebakken and our partners at Frisco take responsibility for for grooming, and particularly grooming snowmaking.00:38:50.000 --> 00:39:00.000Brian Bensch: um, and sort of the general operations, uh, lift operations and so forth, are… are never gonna be our sweet spot. Um, and we would happily run the, like.00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:57.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:06.000Brian Bensch: like ski school is often the biggest human part of the organization, because you have a bunch of instructors.00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:22.000Brian Bensch: Uh, and you have to, like, you know, herding cats doesn't happen without effort. Um, and scheduling does not happen, uh, without good software, and a human to supervise the software. Um, and so, yeah, that's been our sweet spot. Um, I likewise, uh, think that there are at least.00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:11.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:16.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:35.000Brian Bensch: a few dozen, if not hundreds, of other small ski areas, whether they're surface lift only, or just small with, like, a single fixed grip lift, that, um, that want to do a better ski school program, and we would love to talk to them.00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:53.000Stuart Winchester: So, so Grand Labakin you've been with ever since, so I'm assuming they've been pretty happy with it. Let's jump across the country to another really weird ski area that probably people don't know exists, that we've been talking about, which is Frisco, which is… you pass by it on the way to Breckenridge, but you won't even see it. It's so small, like.00:39:53.000 --> 00:40:09.000Stuart Winchester: You have to drive around this weird road and it's, you know, underneath a hill. And I've not skied there, but I stopped by after they were closed, uh, a couple years ago. So, so that is not attached to a resort. That's, I think, a city park. So you have a completely different demo there.00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:19.000Stuart Winchester: So who is Frisco trying to serve, and how did you meet that need? And it seems like you've had a long-term relationship with them as well.00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:29.000Brian Bensch: Yes. So we're now going to our fifth season with the town of Frisco. And so, yes, it is a municipally managed ski area and tubing park.00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:42.000Brian Bensch: You can't miss the tubing element when you're driving from getting off I-70 and heading to Breckenridge, but very few people will know that there's beginner ski and snowboarding there as well. I've been to Colorado a good handful of times.00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:48.000Brian Bensch: definitely drove by it once and didn't know they were skiing there. And you know a mutual acquaintance.00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:45.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:40:48.000 --> 00:41:01.000Brian Bensch: post-COVID, when I was talking about, you know what, you know, the world's going remote, maybe I can just, you know, expand snow schoolers without me physically being there all the time. Um, and I was like, huh, have you heard of Frisco? I was like, no, what.00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:58.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:07.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, that was probably two months before our first successful season with Frisco.00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:22.000Brian Bensch: Um, the audience they're serving, to your question, is not nearly as local as you might expect for being, like, a town-run hill. Uh, we certainly have some local programs, but their audience is Summit County visitors.00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:15.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm.00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:35.000Brian Bensch: Who primarily are either not skiers yet, not skiers and swimmers yet, or are brand new and want to get their sort of their ski legs on because someone invited them on a trip to Breck or trip to Copper.00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:52.000Brian Bensch: and they're like, well, I've never skied before. You know a lifting. It's expensive, less expensive. B like, can I get my legs like, you know, get my footing somewhere, and we are smack dab in the middle of, you know, 4 major resorts. In addition to Copper Breck, you've got a base and and.00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:52.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:59.000Brian Bensch: and Keystone around the corner, and we are the affordable alternative for Summit County visitors.00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:03.000Stuart Winchester: It's expensive for a rope tail, by the way, it's like $40 for a lift ticket.00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:01.000Brian Bensch: Um, and the town…00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:07.000Brian Bensch: Sure. Expenses is very relative. That is fair.00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:07.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:08.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, okay.00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, okay, so, so…00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:21.000Stuart Winchester: you established… that's funny, that's not at all what I expected. I thought it would be, like, bust loads of kids, but I guess they probably have deals with Breckenridge or something. So you've had success.00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:35.000Stuart Winchester: at Frisco and at Grand Labaca, and you've had a couple others that you've been in and out of other than Homewood. Tell us about those, and what did work, and ultimately what didn't work about them.00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:46.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. Let's go with — let's stick with the Colorado trend first, and then we'll come back to Tahoe. There's an awesome little mountain.00:42:46.000 --> 00:43:01.000Brian Bensch: that, I think you know, and and didn't. As you think about your the last ski resorts to open or ski areas to open. I actually think Hoedown Hill is the most recently opened new ski area in the country. It's about an hour north of Denver.00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:06.000Brian Bensch: in Windsor, Colorado, and we worked with them for their 1st 2 seasons.00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:15.000Brian Bensch: Um, and we did not work with them last year. Um, still in touch with them, um, but they are a brand new ski area that is, I would say, a…00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.000Brian Bensch: a privately…00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:26.000Brian Bensch: run like you. You could say there's similarities to the Grand Lebakken business model, but on a whole other level of, I would say.00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:40.000Brian Bensch: affluence and like target demo. The Hoedown Hill facility is attached to the Raindance National Golf Course, which I'm not a golfer, but I hear it's a tier one destination golf course.00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:49.000Brian Bensch: They want to build, you know, 4 seasons esque hotel there, and it is a we'll say a bourgeois experience that they're going for with some, you know.00:43:49.000 --> 00:44:06.000Brian Bensch: you know, a good culture vibe there. And I think so long as the management team remains committed, it will continue to grow. They are at the IndyPass, so shout out there, like, it's worth a quick visit if you're flying into Denver with your IndyPass.00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.000Stuart Winchester: Yep.00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:07.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:10.000Brian Bensch: Um, and in our first two seasons there, um.00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:12.000Brian Bensch: We did, we did.00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:19.000Brian Bensch: we did okay. But we weren't able to draw the numbers that we saw in Summit County, or anywhere close to them.00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm. Okay.00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.000Brian Bensch: And my conclusion.00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:26.000Brian Bensch: or one of my conclusions is that.00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:39.000Brian Bensch: It is much, much harder to influence the macro kind of tide of skier movements than it is to siphon off.00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:55.000Brian Bensch: not to capture demand in an underserved market in Northern Colorado. You know, it's great that they have Hodown Hill, but there weren't a thousand people looking for affordable lessons in Northern Colorado before Hodown Hill existed.00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:45.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:55.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm. Okay.00:44:55.000 --> 00:45:11.000Brian Bensch: Uh, whereas there's, you know, thousands of Summit County visitors who want more affordable lessons and just don't take lessons today. Um, and so, like, it was… and same thing in Tahoe. Uh, it was much easier, like, we open up for business and, like, we don't have to do much marketing for.00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:04.000Stuart Winchester: You know.00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:25.000Brian Bensch: for the wave of customers to come in, whereas every customer we earned in, uh, in Windsor and Fort Collins area, sort of, we had to hustle to get. There weren't people, like, already looking for affordable skiing there, because it's… it's a suburb of Denver.00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:21.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, that's true.00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:28.000Stuart Winchester: That's so interesting because I.00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:39.000Stuart Winchester: wrote up, and I talked to the folks at Hood on Hill, and they were opening it. And the way I thought… the way they pitched it to me was more of making skiing accessible for locals at an entry level.00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:49.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, they didn't… I mean, I understood that it was attached to this other resort, but my understanding is it was kind of a low-cost thing for the community. I think one mistake they made, and…00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:53.000Stuart Winchester: Maybe you don't want to criticize them, but I think having four carpets.00:45:53.000 --> 00:46:02.000Stuart Winchester: I think they should have had at least one rope tower or T-bar, like, something to serve the terrain park that wasn't so slow. I think that would have gotten them more…00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:04.000Stuart Winchester: Energy on site.00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:18.000Stuart Winchester: And… and had a multiplier effect. I just didn't… I didn't like the four carpets model. I liked the model of putting a ski area there, because otherwise the closest place is, what, like Eldora, and a lift ticket's 180 bucks?00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:30.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, so… so there wasn't… or you go up to Echo, I guess, but that's a pain to get to. So… so I… I don't know, that… that was my… that's my impression of Hoedown so far, is it was, like, a good idea with bad execution.00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:24.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:35.000Brian Bensch: I I think that there's some fairness to that.00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:48.000Brian Bensch: They did a great job with the terrain park, given the resources available. And yes, like, a rope tower right next to the park is always, like, I think, a good idea. And it's something that the town of Frisco invested in, I think.00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:38.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:44.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:46:48.000 --> 00:47:05.000Brian Bensch: 3 years ago, maybe 2 years ago, and it has been wildly popular. And you know, rope toes, you know you don't need to convince me. But I'm I'm with you on the rope toes are the most affordable, accessible way for a ski area to like increase uphill uphill capacity.00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:06.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:17.000Brian Bensch: Um, I think the biggest challenge for Hoedown was… and you'd call this bad luck, um, I would say bad luck more than bad execution, but it is at, you know, 6,000 feet, and uh…00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:24.000Brian Bensch: Natural snowfall in an hour north of Denver is not the most plentiful.00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:28.000Brian Bensch: And they invested heavily in snowmaking, but you can't fight temps.00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:40.000Brian Bensch: And so, in both of our first two seasons at Hoedown, we opened between January 2nd and January 7th, but we missed Christmas both of those years, and it's really hard to, sort of.00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:57.000Brian Bensch: generate momentum for a ski area when you miss Christmas. Um, and, you know, Mother Nature is the biggest determiner of that. Uh, I'm not positive, but I don't think they got open for Christmas last year, and last year was obviously the worst of the three past seasons. So, um, hoping Mother Nature cooperates better for them this year.00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:44.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:55.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:00.000Stuart Winchester: All right, Brian, so you can keep hunting rope toes.00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:16.000Stuart Winchester: You know, I was having this debate with someone yesterday. A lot of the stats you hear when you point back in time, oh, there was 1,200 ski areas and now there's only 500. It's like, well, a lot of them were little rope toes. Like, most of the lost ski areas in Colorado were just little rope toes that existed. The reason they went away…00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:22.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, is, is not because there, there was some catastrophe in, uh.00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:34.000Stuart Winchester: anywhere other than the fact that there just was better ski areas built, and they're kind of boring. Like, when you just… you get over that pretty quick. Like, 100 vertical foot, wide open run, with a rope tow, unless it has some park features.00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:31.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:47.000Stuart Winchester: you're gonna get over it. And almost all of them, they still exist. And I've been to a lot of them across America, and they're mostly in New England and Midwest, and kind of sprinkled throughout the West, especially in the Pacific Northwest. They're almost all…00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:56.000Stuart Winchester: None of them are actual businesses, almost. Like, they're almost all subsidized, they're a city park, they're owned by a school, they're attached to a resort.00:48:56.000 --> 00:49:01.000Stuart Winchester: My point is, this is not a growth area long term.00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:02.000Stuart Winchester: And…00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:17.000Stuart Winchester: you know, the big ski areas mostly do have really good beginner centers, and they're getting better all the time, right? You see places like Jackson and Big Sky building mid-mountain beginner centers to put people more up in the alpine experience and away from.00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:22.000Stuart Winchester: the chaos of the base. So what I'm getting at here is.00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.000Stuart Winchester: Eventually…00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:28.000Stuart Winchester: It seems like you have to get…00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:41.000Stuart Winchester: into a ski area where there's somewhere else to go after the beginner hill's done, right? Or else you're just gonna be teaching pizza French fry forever, and… and I don't think that even the most passionate ski instructor wants to do that, so…00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:49.000Stuart Winchester: And it's funny, because you started at Homewood, and it's like, how do you get back to Homewood is almost the question I'm asking.00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:51.000Stuart Winchester: But I…00:49:51.000 --> 00:50:02.000Stuart Winchester: How do you… First of all, do you agree with that or am I totally missing the point? And second, if you do want to eventually get into bigger operations, what…00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:07.000Stuart Winchester: What are the obstacles to doing so other than the obvious permitting issue we just talked about?00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:20.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, so I would say I 80% agree with you. The 20% carve out would be that Grand Lavaca is still a business and Ron runs it like a business.00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:13.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:18.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:27.000Brian Bensch: And the town of Frisco, even if it's town-operated, is a business that, like, reports its P&L, and they're both, like, pretty thriving.00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:33.000Brian Bensch: medium sized businesses. Snow schoolers is a small business. They're they're certainly, you know, 5 to 10 x bigger.00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:42.000Brian Bensch: And and I think that just like, you know, grade school education is a business.00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:41.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:46.000Brian Bensch: There is a steady stream of families.00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:47.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:46.000 --> 00:51:01.000Brian Bensch: You know, kids that, you know, will hopefully have the opportunity to learn to ski. And, you know, I think there's a world for, you know, bump hills, so to speak, to remain thriving in existence without having, you know.00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:13.000Brian Bensch: the Jackson Hole Palisades terrain to keep people forever. As far as you know, snow schoolers and kind of the the lesson ecosystem.00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:06.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:07.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:22.000Brian Bensch: I would say vehemently believe there is an underserved market for intermediate and advanced lessons.00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:37.000Brian Bensch: at, you know, quote-unquote, real resorts. Um, I'd somewhat be lying if I said I had the answer, uh, to how to break into that, because I probably would have done so already, uh, even if this is my part-time endeavor. Um, but the… in a similar manner to.00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:29.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:44.000Brian Bensch: Uh, you know, how to… you know, we've… we struggled to create demand at Hoedown Hill. Hoedown Hill? Um…00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:43.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:59.000Brian Bensch: It is a completely new endeavor to create demand for that, you know, lifelong skier who skis, you know, 5 to 15 days a year, or maybe even like 10 to 50 days a year, and doesn't think that they need a lesson.00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:01.000Brian Bensch: Um, that is a much sort of.00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:14.000Brian Bensch: harder marketing challenge. But I can guarantee you, unless they are in the top 1% of like wealth. They're not going to pay $1,000. And so that's the like. How do you? How do you like? Come up with the right product?00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:15.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:26.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, when I talk to people on chairlifts, you know, fun skiing, I'll often ask, like, you know, hey, when's the last time you took a lesson now? Yeah, when I was a kid. What would you be willing to pay?00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:42.000Brian Bensch: Uh, you know, to get 20% better at your skiing riding today. It's like, yeah, maybe 50 bucks, maybe 40 bucks, 60 bucks, like, you know. Uh, and there's no mountain that offers that, particularly for, like, the one or two hour segment. Um, and, you know.00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:49.000Brian Bensch: I think there's a lot of experimentation that the bigger mountains could do with ski school to serve that sort of.00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:52.000Brian Bensch: Latent market, or latent demand, uh…00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:55.000Brian Bensch: I'd love to help, but I'd be lying if I think that.00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:58.000Brian Bensch: Ask a 3rd party to do it for them.00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:59.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:13.000Brian Bensch: And but you know, in the the only thing I think that I am a believer of Einstein's definition of insanity, and and if you do the same thing over over and over again, and expect different results like that's insane.00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:28.000Brian Bensch: Um, and I'd love to see more experimentation with, like, you know, better serving sort of lessons for people that already know how to ski. Um, because that's what… that's what got me addicted. Uh, becoming an instructor made me realize how much more.00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:23.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I'm.00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:26.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:37.000Brian Bensch: fun I could have and how much more like I still I want to learn to be a better skier this year uh and like everyone that sort of.00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:34.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I think so.00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:47.000Brian Bensch: really gets sort of addicted to ski instruction. They do it because, like there, it's a lifelong pursuit of learning to like, get better. And most.00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:50.000Brian Bensch: lace gears like don't have that sort of.00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:54.000Brian Bensch: have that spark that I'd love to spread.00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:52.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:53:53.000 --> 00:54:08.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I guess the cynic in me thinks you're never gonna get the robots to ski. Like, there's too much ego in American skiing, especially among the sort of core demographic of males. But what I… I think what I meant more was, like, okay.00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:24.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, Grand Le Bacon's kind of a novelty, and I get that it's a business, uh, that's attached to it. I, how about like Tahoe Donner, right? So it's, it's, it's not a big resort. It's, you know, right next to Sugar Bowl. It's got 500 vertical feet, like five double.00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:31.000Stuart Winchester: Maybe they don't need the hassle of running a ski school, and the…00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:41.000Stuart Winchester: they have locals, right? Because that's a mountain with interesting terrain, even though it's short vert, where parents would want to go and, like, put their kids in ski school while they go off and ski, even if you don't.00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:57.000Stuart Winchester: get the parents. Is there… do you see opportunity in that? Because there's… there's lots of hills like that, which are not, you know, down the Frisco level, but, you know, if you want to go Summit County, so you have Frisco, and you have, like, Keystone Basin.00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:07.000Stuart Winchester: uh, Breck, but then you also have Granby Ranch, and you have Ski Cooper, and it's like, okay, may… or you have Echo Mountain, maybe those places are sort of the logical next.00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:18.000Stuart Winchester: I don't even know if it's possible to get the really big ones, but, you know, do you see any growth in that? Just tiering up, not to destinations necessarily, but sort of like.00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:21.000Stuart Winchester: ski areas that families actually want to ski a whole season at.00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:23.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, um…00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:28.000Brian Bensch: A few things to come back to your earlier question. Not all of ski school is broken.00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:28.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:30.000Brian Bensch: I visited Granby Ranch.00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:37.000Brian Bensch: last spring, I believe? Maybe it was 2 springs ago. Um, and I've been to Tahoe Donner many a times. Both of those, uh…00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:36.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:42.000Brian Bensch: mountains have pretty phenomenal ski schools. Like, they don't need our help.00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:50.000Brian Bensch: You know, maybe, you know, maybe there's some cool software things that we're doing that they could, you know, borrow and replicate, but they are thriving.00:55:50.000 --> 00:56:00.000Brian Bensch: learning area programs. And I think there's a like for for the listeners that have, you know, you know.00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:03.000Brian Bensch: young kids that are thinking about when to start in ski school.00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:22.000Brian Bensch: That, I would say, tier of mountain is today, like, if it's not on your radar, it should be, because the affordability, like, they're not gouging people nearly as much as the Tier 1 Icon Epic Resorts are, and every time I've visited them, on a weekend at least.00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:30.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, their fault. They're thriving. And so I don't think that at least the class of the Tahoe Donners and Granbys of the world. I don't think they're broken.00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:38.000Brian Bensch: Other than, you know, yeah, more staff, like, how do you keep scaling? But they are thriving pretty well from what I've seen.00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:36.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I'm.00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:50.000Stuart Winchester: I could still see some operator… you know, I was talking to the guy who revitalized Steeplechase, and he was saying, you know, we don't have a ski school, and I think I may have even connected you guys, but it's like, you sort of have a ski school in a box you could offer them.00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:51.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:57.000Stuart Winchester: Alright, one more ski school question, and then you can make fun of my charts. Um, so… so, Summit at Snoqualmie.00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:11.000Stuart Winchester: and I'm sure you know this, for some reason, because of, like, it's grandfathered in, because it used to be, like, 92 different ski areas, and now it's… it's one. They have competing ski schools there. It's one of the few… might be the only place in America.00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:16.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, that I'm aware of, at least the only major, you know, it's owned by Boeing. And I've asked Boe.00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:25.000Stuart Winchester: I don't know, we don't really want to have that war. You know, it works. But but what do you think of Summit at Snoqualmie?00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:27.000Stuart Winchester: And is it just?00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:40.000Stuart Winchester: a fringe case, and it doesn't tell us anything useful about how we could maybe change American ski school structure. Any thoughts on that? That's right outside of Seattle, by the way, for folks who don't know.00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:40.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, yeah, uh…00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:43.000Brian Bensch: Now, fun, fun fact.00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.000Brian Bensch: You know, in my 1st year of.00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:52.000Brian Bensch: researching this space and figuring out what I was gonna do. Uh, the Pacific Northwest, and Snoqualmie in particular, was sort of.00:57:52.000 --> 00:58:08.000Brian Bensch: Number one, I'm like, I need to get up there and figure out, like, what they're doing, why, how they made it work, and how do we do that in Tahoe? That was my, like, year one thesis. I finally got up there just before the world shut down with COVID.00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:03.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:11.000Brian Bensch: Knocked on doors, had some good conversations.00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:23.000Brian Bensch: And and you're correct like there are at least 6 or 7, maybe even more independent ski schools. They all have their own little lodge building. They're all primarily seasonal programs.00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:33.000Brian Bensch: And they do. They still do a good deal of the sort of transportation coordination. You know that whole market is, you know, Seattle and Seattle suburbs, you know, coming up.00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:36.000Stuart Winchester: Right off the interstate. Yeah.00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:45.000Brian Bensch: to the mountains right off the interstate. It's it's as sort of like convenient as you could imagine. And more or less the answer I got was, we've done it this way.00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:40.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:48.000Brian Bensch: Uh, but we're not looking to make it more this way.00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:51.000Brian Bensch: And you know they.00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.000Stuart Winchester: That was the answer from Boyne or from the ski schools?00:58:52.000 --> 00:59:08.000Brian Bensch: Uh, it was… I would say both. There was a, uh, like, the first party unoperated, like, Snoqualmie Ski School manager, like, told me that. And there was a person who coordinated, basically, was the Boyne representative for the seven other independents.00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:11.000Brian Bensch: And it was like, yeah, we're not, you know, we're not inviting new people.00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:18.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, and in case anyone from the ski schools at Summit is listening to this, don't run to Guy Lawrence or Steven Kirchner and be like.00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:13.000Brian Bensch: Um, okay.00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:33.000Stuart Winchester: Stu Winchester said that you said this. I'm paraphrasing, and that's my take, is that they don't want that war. What they said was probably something like, our ski schools do a great job, and we're so happy to work with them. So don't run that back to them. This is just my take on it.00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:23.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:31.000Brian Bensch: Yep.00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:37.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, that they don't want to fight you, and I think they're smart not to.00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:43.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. The thing I would probably acknowledge is when a…00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:47.000Brian Bensch: Sierra is running a…00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:54.000Brian Bensch: a well executed, operationally efficient ski school.00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:54.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:59:54.000 --> 01:00:00.000Brian Bensch: They don't necessarily need third parties to come in and, like, try to do it better.01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.000Brian Bensch: Okay.01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:06.000Brian Bensch: However, there is a short term sort of.01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:09.000Brian Bensch: financially motivated incentive.01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:15.000Brian Bensch: to run a, I would say, less at scale, more profitable ski area over time.01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:19.000Brian Bensch: And you know that is sort of.01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:22.000Brian Bensch: what I would attribute to, like, you know, the…01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:37.000Brian Bensch: the non-snow summit at Snoqualmie Mountains that have one ski school and their list prices are $279 for group lesson or $1,299 for private lesson.01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:50.000Brian Bensch: they've decided that it's better for their business to, you know, maximize, like, short-term financials over long-term bringing skiers in the market. Um, and the history of Snoqualmie was, you know.01:00:50.000 --> 01:01:05.000Brian Bensch: Because it was like this, and because the ski schools were busing kids, you know, from school to the mountain afternoon, and, like, handling the very messy logistics and operations, that, like, they saw that as valuable and let them keep doing that.01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:12.000Brian Bensch: But from a business perspective, it's just more profitable, at least in the short term, to teach fewer lessons at higher margin.01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:17.000Stuart Winchester: So to end on this thought on ski lessons.01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:27.000Stuart Winchester: I think they're…

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    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2026 14:31


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