Podcast appearances and mentions of Brian Grant

Send us a textAfter a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised brother must fight his way through the criminal underworld to make an appearance on a floundering podcast, unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares the show and its listeners. On Episode 670 of Trick or Treat Radio we are joined by Carlitos for our May Patreon Takeover! Carlitos has selected the films Havoc from director Gareth Evans, and Ash from director Flying Lotus! We also discuss war stories, celebrity encounters, and how to rise above the tropes of a genre. So grab your boxing magazines, practice your gun fu and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Spadoinkle Day, Cannibal: The Musical, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, the end of May, birthdays, Patreon Takeover, Carlitos, The Green Grocers Green Gringo, Benjamin Bratt, Blood In Blood Out, Nasty Boys, Saggin' Knobs, Spunkcast, Tom Towles, Kuso, Goldface the Fantastic Superman, Doom: The Dark Ages, Helldivers II, The Warriors, RIP Cartitos' Dad, Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now, Robin Williams, Demons, Shocking Dark, Brian Dennehy, Geretta Geretta, Glenn Fabry, Hellblazer, Preacher, Metallica's biggest fan, Pantera, White Zombie, Exodus, Soulfly, Phil Anselmo, 3:00 High, Ernie Hudson, The Dudesons, Mark Waid, Danny Trejo, Rick Martel, Spinal Tap, Ed Begley Jr. Christopher Guest, Dana Carvey, Shannon Tweed, Buff Bagwell, Luis Guzman, Gareth Evans, Havoc, Gangs of London, The Raid: Redemption, The Raid II, Tom Hardy, Dial M for Murder, The Living Head, Dead and Buried, Zombie Nightmare, Witchcraft 9, Jason Goes to Hell, Rupert Everett, Dellamorte Dellamore, Mars Attacks, Ted Levine, Tony Randall, Fist of the North Star, Danny Elfman, Kevin Conway, Bob Hope, The Last Action Hero, cliched action, Mickey 17, Gangs of London, Locke, the hourly rate of a bouncer, mumbaleo, Eric Roberts, The Immortals, that Gotham vibe, John Woo, Judge Dredd, The Book of Boba Fett, John Coltrane, Flying Lotus, Ash, Aaron Paul, Eiza Gonzalez, Heretic, Alien, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Jimmy Hart knock off, Iko Uwais, Buck Rogers, Event Horizon, scissor violence, Delroy Lindo, Sinners, Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Coogler, The Night Comes For Us, the legendary Brian Grant, Kill, Until Dawn, and trope-a-dope.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show

Gregory and guest co-host, Jennifer Ludwick, the Allegan County Director of Finance, discuss the goings on in the Saugatuck/Douglas area. Show guests today include: Candice and Brian Grant from Ivy House, Emerson Lunge, and Port 393; Rachel and Steven Thomas from Saugatuck's Grab N' Go and Stogies Cigar Shoppe; and Ryan Cummins, the Saugatuck City Manager. Happy Sunday Funday and Happy Memorial Day Weekend! 5-25-25.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dan is joined by former KFAN intern Brian Grant from California to get an update on how things are going after the horrific fires in the area before we open "Dr. Dan's Inbox."

Dan is joined by former KFAN intern Brian Grant from California to get an update on how things are going after the horrific fires in the area before we open "Dr. Dan's Inbox."

Dan is joined by former KFAN intern Brian Grant from California to get an update on how things are going after the horrific fires in the area before we open "Dr. Dan's Inbox."

Dan is joined by former KFAN intern Brian Grant from California to get an update on how things are going after the horrific fires in the area before we open "Dr. Dan's Inbox."

In this episode, we meet Amy Lavalee, who is a young-onset Parkinson's patient. She shares her personal story and then talks about her work with the Brian Grant Foundation. Check it out!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As the original architect and API design lead of Kubernetes, Brian joins the show to chat about why "APIs are forever", the keys to evangelizing impactful projects, and being an Uber Tech at Google, and more. Segments: (00:03:01) Internship with Mark Ewing (00:07:10) “Mark and Brian's Excellent Environment” manual (00:11:58) Poker on VT100 terminals (00:14:46) Grad school and research (00:17:23) The value of studying computer science (00:21:07) Intuition and learning (00:24:06) Reflecting on career patterns (00:26:37) Hypergrowth and learning at Transmeta (00:28:37) Debugging at the atomic level (00:34:27) Evangelizing multithreading at Google (00:39:56) The humble beginnings of Borg and Kubernetes (00:47:10) The concept of inertia in system design (00:50:07) The genesis of Kubernetes (00:53:45) The open-source proposal (00:57:25) The Unified Compute Working Group (01:02:16) Designing the Kubernetes API (01:05:03) AIP.dev and API design conventions (01:08:02) The vision for a declarative model in Kubernetes (01:17:25) Kubernetes as a DIY platform (01:19:07) The evolution of Kubernetes (01:21:40) The complexity of building a platform (01:25:11) Style guides? (01:28:23) Gotchas in Kubernetes workload APIs (01:32:02) Understanding your thinking style (01:35:37) Reflections on Kubernetes design choices (01:44:08) The importance of getting it right the first time (01:48:13) Designing for flexibility (01:51:16) Collaboration and leadership (01:52:21) The role of an Uber tech lead at Google (01:56:33) “Giving away the Legos” (02:02:29) Picking the right person to hand off (02:06:41) Overcoming writer's block   Show Notes: API Design conventions: https://google.aip.dev/ Brian's blog: https://medium.com/@bgrant0607   Stay in touch:

In this episode, we discuss a 2014 Irish tax law change and how it impacted large U.S. multinational companies. We are joined by Brian Grant, graduating PhD student at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. 

Brian Grant had a long and successful 12-year career in basketball. In 2008, at age 36, Brian was diagnosed with Parkinson's. Davis Phinney was an Olympic Bronze medalist and Tour de France stage winner who claimed the most victories of any cyclist in American history. In 2000, at age 40, Davis was diagnosed with Parkinson's. Since being diagnosed, both of these athletes have made it their mission to do everything they can to thrive not just survive with Parkinson's, and inspire others to do the same. In this genuine, inspiring, and relatable conversation, Brian and Davis talk about their experiences as athletes receiving a Parkinson's diagnosis, their difficulties in accepting the physical and mental challenges that have occurred with the progression of their Parkinson's, and how and why they are passionate about living well with Parkinson's each and every day. We hope you enjoy it! Want to read the article associated with this podcast? Check it out on our website! Want to watch the video version of this podcast? You can watch it on our YouTube! Loving the Parkinson's Podcast? You can listen to more episodes on our website!

Brian Grant Mayor of Wainfleet was Joe’s first friend ever! They grew up together and have watched each grow into the men they are today. If you have ever wondered what it’s like to wake up one day and be in politics, this is the podcast for you.

How much do you know about your OR tables? Do you ever put much thought into the design and function of this vital piece of OR equipment? In today's episode of the First Case podcast, we're talking all things OR tables with Brian Grant, Product Manager Commercial Operations at Getinge. We're going to talk about table design, patient and staff considerations when using OR tables, and safety. You'll definitely learn something new in this eye-opening interview! Love our show? Download our First Case mobile app on:

During this holiday week, Drs. Daniel Correa and Audrey Nath look back on 2022 and share clips from episodes that highlight the importance of elevating the voices of individuals whose lives have been impacted by neurologic conditions. Dr. Nath first shares a conversation she had with actor RJ Mitte who discusses his journey in finding confidence despite the bullying he endured in childhood as someone with cerebral palsy. Dr. Correa brings back a conversation with Greg O'Brien, a journalist diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, who shares how navigating the holidays can be especially trying while living with a neurologic condition. We hear more clips from past episodes including author/podcaster Nora McInerny, former NBA player Brian Grant, and more. Happy holidays (Felices fiestas) to you and yours! Additional Resources:  https://www.brainandlife.org/disorders-a-z/cerebral-palsy/ https://www.brainandlife.org/disorders-a-z/brain-tumor/   https://www.brainandlife.org/disorders-a-z/alzheimers-disease/   https://www.brainandlife.org/disorders-a-z/parkinsons-disease/   https://www.brainandlife.org/editorials/a-season-for-giving   https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/healthy-holiday-side-dish-recipes   Social Media:    Guest:  RJ Mitte @RJMitte (Twitter); Nora McInerny @noraborealis (Instagram); Brian Grant @bwgrant (Twitter) @briangrant44 (Instagram)  Hosts: Dr. Daniel Correa @neurodrcorrea; Dr. Audrey Nath @AudreyNathMDPhD 

In this episode, Dr. Daniel Correa is joined by former NBA player, Brian Grant. Brian shares his journey with young-onset Parkinson's and the mental health challenges that have accompanied his diagnosis. Brian also discusses how sharing his diagnosis with others has helped him find community and maintain a strong support system. Dr. Correa is then joined by Dr. Sotirios Parashos, a neurologist at Struther's Parkinson's Center in Minnesota. Dr. Parashos discusses the common motor and mood symptoms of the condition and explains the importance of establishing a strong support system as the condition progresses.   Additional Resources:    https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/after-a-12-year-career-with-the-nba-brian-grant   https://www.brainandlife.org/disorders-a-z/parkinsons-disease/   https://www.amazon.com/Navigating-Parkinsons-Disease-Brain-Books/dp/0190877472   https://briangrant.org/   https://briangrant.org/podcast/   Social Media:    Guest: Brian Grant @bwgrant (Twitter), @briangrant44 (Instagram) Hosts: Dr. Daniel Correa @neurodrcorrea; Dr. Audrey Nath @AudreyNathMDPhD

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Actually, yes.. It's a paper plane. [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2022/05/20133950/BillOafi_PaperPlanes_2005.mp3"][/audio] You might not be aware of this but Ireland competed in the Paper Planes World Finals last weekend in Austria and we didn't do too bad. Bill Oshafi, Brian Grant and Jamie Kinsella all represented our country in the Red Bull Paper Wings World Finals. Dublin native Bill Oshafi joined Dermot and Dave to chat about the experience and how he got into making paper planes. Click Play above to hear the full chat

Special Guest Assistant Coach Specialist Jillian Adge (@JillAdge) of the SportsEthos Sacramento Kings Coverage (@EthosKings) podcast joined us this week to share extraordinary tales about the Kings as well as help us choose the nominees for WHAT Assistant Coach of the Year awards. We end with each drafting our three favorite players who played for both the Kings and the Blazers. 1:00 Intro Jill Adge 7:00 Icebreaker: Spin the Draft Lottery wheel on Tankathon (Jill got her team's right!) 12:15 Why Jill is so versed in NBA Assistant coaches (and GMs) 29:45 Trail Blazer Assistant Coach of the Year nominees 30:15 Scott Brooks 34:30 Roy Rogers 36:44 Steve Hetzel 43:10 Edniesha Curry 49:00 Drafting our favorite players who played for both the Kings and the Blazers Cassidy's team: Brian Grant, Maurice Harkless, Seth Curry Jill's team: Shareef Abdul-Raheem, Bonzi Wells, Harry Giles Tara's team: Ben McLemore, Andre Miller, Skal Labissière Follow WHAT Pod @wehaveatake, Tara @tcbbiggs, and Cassidy @CassidyGemmet. This week's guest:@JillAdge Music used in the episode: "Happy Alley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Brian, Heather, Amber and Kevin answered your questions live! Amy Lavallee, who is also living with young onset Parkinson's disease, moderated the show. To watch the recording of the live show visit briangrant.org. 

Picture NBA player Brian Grant, known for his tenacity and fearlessness on the court. After pushing his body through conditioning, training, and contentious games, he learns he has Parkinson's disease two years into retirement. Naturally, this came as an enormous shock. However, Parkinson's is the fastest-growing neurological condition in the world. In fact, by 2040, the number of people living with Parkinson's is set to double. Once Brian learned how to navigate living with this disease, he launched The Brian Grant Foundation (BGF) to “help people become their best, even when it seems impossible.” The disease affects your movements, your mental health and non-motor skills, among other functions, completely altering your way of life. And often, people experience symptoms years prior to the onset of other more prominent ailments. In this new episode of Absolute Trust Talk, Kirsten sits down with Katrina Kahl, Executive Director of The Brian Grant Foundation. Katrina has over 20 years of experience in public health and advocacy. She is also known for her work as the Associate Director of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Together, Kirsten and Katrina discuss the science behind the disease, the causes, symptoms, and methods to help alleviate some of the issues surrounding Parkinson's. They also talk about the origins of the foundations, some current projects, and the abundance of free resources that BGF offers to help improve the quality of life for those with Parkinson's.

On Time is a podcast about living with Parkinson's disease. Co-hosts Brian Grant and Heather Kennedy share their candid stories of daily living with young onset Parkinson's, discussing topics like socializing, dating, parenting and the benefits and challenges of adopting a healthy lifestyle. On Time: A Parkinson's Podcast is coming April 1 from the Brian Grant Foundation.

Compelling content converts current listeners into future customers. Brian Grant, assistant vice president for marketing and communications at Odyssey Behavioral Healthcare, joins us to discuss how to build engaging content that connects with an audience and draws them back to hear more. He explains how he uses different forms of content to pair with a podcast, such as transcripts or blogs to help deliver the message, and also shares how live events can continue to nurture the relationship you have with your audience. > Transcript > Ready to start your own branded podcast? Let us help you get started with a free consultation.

Long-time NBA reporter formally of ESPN and now Fox Sports, Ric Bucher joins Etan Thomas The Rematch as they talk about the Ric co-writing former NBA Star Brian Grant's book, the greatness and leadership of Damian Lillard, and the bubbling tension between NBA players and their counterparts in the media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Grant joins Etan to talk about his new book "Rebound" that he wrote alongside longtime NBA journalist Ric Bucher, his 12 year NBA journey, and his ongoing battle with Parkinson's. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Izabela Ruprik is an author and indoor cycling instructor. A level 3 Personal Trainer in the UK, she has been teaching group fitness for over 9 years. Izabela has taught over 3.000 classes and currently works with special populations – specifically cycling for individuals with Parkinson's Disease. The Brian Grant Foundation provides tools to help improve the well-being of people with Parkinson's. Founded by former NBA player Brian Grant who is living with Parkinson's, our programs focus on exercise and nutrition. Learn more at - www.briangrant.org Learn more about Indoor Cycling Classes specifically for people suffering from Parkinson's Disease (PD) - https://www.parkinsonscyclingcoach.com/ Start a 7-day pass with Time 2 Train Fitness - https://bit.ly/3i7lmuy

 In this genuine, inspiring, and relatable conversation, past professional athletes, Brian Grant and Davis Phinney talk about their experiences as athletes receiving a Parkinson's diagnosis, their difficulties in accepting the physical and mental challenges that have occurred with the progression of their Parkinson's, and how and why they are passionate about living well with Parkinson's each and every day.

I Am Becoming Podcast Episode 54: Beyond The Game, The Story Behind Brian Grant Host: Alonda Brooks - Author | Speaker | Founder at Like Sunday Collection Guest: Brian Grant - Author | Former Pro Basketball Player | Founder at Brian Grant Foundation Produced By: Elite Conversations Podcast Media https://www.eliteconversations.com/mypodcast.html

This episode of When Life Gives You Parkinson’s features former NBA star Brian Grant who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in 2008. He spent 12 years battling for rebounds and putting points on the board playing professional basketball and the last 13 years battling Parkinson’s and putting points on the board as a PD advocate.   “You know, when I go onto court and go up against somebody who was a big name, I’d grit my teeth to try to be an animal out there,” Grant shared. But he admits, YOPD is a different beast than pro basketball, “You can do that at Parkinson's, but it's just going to sit there and say, keep gritting your teeth and when you get done gritting your teeth…  I'm going to have your cheekbone.” From denial and depression to acupuncture and advocacy, Brian Grant’s PD story is a unique but relatable journey for many suffering and living with the disease. His honesty and vulnerability are on display as he, like many of us, try to come to terms with a disease determined to do whatever it pleases, whenever it wants to.  You can find out more about the Brian Grant Foundation at BrianGrant.org. His book Rebound: Soaring in the NBA, Battling Parkinson’s, and Finding What Really Matters is available everywhere you buy books… Thank you for listening. Add your voice to the show and leave a message for us here; https://www.speakpipe.com/WhenLifeGivesYouParkinsons Follow us, Larry & Rebecca Gifford  Twitter: @ParkinsonsPod Facebook: Facebook.com/ParkinsonsPod Instagram: @parkinsonspod Thank you to the following people featured in this episode:  Diagnosed with Parkinson’s? You are not alone. Contact presenting partner Parkinson Canada http://www.parkinson.ca/, call the toll free hotline 1-800-565-3000 or on Twitter you can message @ParkinsonCanada. Here is a link to Parkinson Canada’s “Together: No Matter What” campaign Thanks also to our content and promotional partners The Michael J. Fox Foundation Parkinson’s Podcast hosted by Larry Gifford Spotlight YOPD – The only Parkinson’s organization dedicated to raising awareness for Young Onset Parkinson’s disease and funds for the Cure Parkinson’s Trust.   PD Avengers - United to end Parkinson’s. Join us. World Parkinson Congress 2022 –Make plans to join us for #WPC2022 in Barcelona, Spain. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Host Jack Foster and analyst Matt Ray go over post-spring WR and TE breakdowns along with reacting to the news of William Mohan and Kamal Hadden transferring to UT, and Brian Grant committing to UT. Matt also has some more transfer portal news before Jack closes out the show in the latest episode of the VR2 on SI Podcast.

The Locked On Vols podcast is your daily show covering Tennessee Volunteers football and basketball with Eric Cain.Tuesday's show breaks down Brian Grant - a three-star offensive tackle who became Tennessee's fifth commitment of the 2022 class. What's he project as and why haven't we really heard of him? In segment two and three, we answer your questions for #TwitterTuesday here on Locked on Vols!Be sure to participate in #TwitterTuesday by tweeting @LockedonVols or @_Cainer all your questions. Tuesday's show will answer them! DMs are open. Follow the show on those Twitter accounts and also on host Eric Cain's Facebook page: CainerOnAir. And every Friday is 5 Star Friday here on Locked on Vols! Head over to Apple Podcasts and leave a positive review + a 5 star rating and we'll shout you out each and every Friday!Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnline AG.There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus.Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.___________________________________________________________________________________________________A special shoutout to James Manning (@GooseManning5) for his assistance in graphic design. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Locked On Vols podcast is your daily show covering Tennessee Volunteers football and basketball with Eric Cain. Tuesday's show breaks down Brian Grant - a three-star offensive tackle who became Tennessee's fifth commitment of the 2022 class. What's he project as and why haven't we really heard of him? In segment two and three, we answer your questions for #TwitterTuesday here on Locked on Vols! Be sure to participate in #TwitterTuesday by tweeting @LockedonVols or @_Cainer all your questions. Tuesday's show will answer them! DMs are open. Follow the show on those Twitter accounts and also on host Eric Cain's Facebook page: CainerOnAir. And every Friday is 5 Star Friday here on Locked on Vols! Head over to Apple Podcasts and leave a positive review + a 5 star rating and we'll shout you out each and every Friday! Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG. There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ A special shoutout to James Manning (@GooseManning5) for his assistance in graphic design. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

GoVols247's Wes Rucker and Ryan Callahan discuss under-the-radar Florida offensive tackle prospect Brian Grant's commitment to Tennessee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Brian Grant retired from the NBA, he sunk into a deep depression. The life that he had fought so hard for seemed to evaporate, and his marriage started to crumble. Also, he noticed a strange twitch in his hand. Eventually Grant was diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson's disease. He tells the story of his life and struggles in his new memoir, “Rebound: Soaring in the NBA, Battling Parkinson's and Finding What Really Matters.”

Hustlers! Today we sit down with WNBA All-Star, ESPN broadcaster, Stanford grad, Vice-President of the WNBA Players Association, and executive producer of the new ESPN doc '144.' We discuss the process of being drafted Number 1 overall, WNBA GOATS, her relationship with Kobe, Love & Basketball, and more! We also sit down with NBA champion and current Boston Celtics broadcaster Brian Scalabrine (White Mamba) to chat about wild 2008 Celtics stories with KG and Rondo, the KD vs Rapaport saga, destroying scrubs in the gym who think they can beat him, Roy Williams, the current state of the C's, and Scal's Vodka Lemonade (it's DELICIOUS!) Finally, we sit down with former NBA bruiser Brian Grant to chat about his fight with Parkinson's and depression, his beef-turned-friendship with Karl Malone, Kobe & Shaq, Pat Riley, and his new book: Rebound: Soaring In The NBA, Facing An Incurable Disease, And Finding What Really Matters. Thanks for listening. You are loved.

Vover Hoops Insider, Ben Lyons, is joined by former NBA big man, Brian Grant, to discuss everything from his time playing with Kobe Bryant to his battle with Parkinson's Disease.Host: Ben LyonsGuest: Brian GrantVoice your thoughts on this episode by downloading the Vover app here!

Brian Grant is used to being in control. As a power forward for the Portland Trail Blazers and four other National Basketball Association (NBA) teams—the Sacramento Kings, the Miami Heat, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Phoenix Suns—from 1994 to 2006, he made life tough for opponents close to the basket, leaping for rebounds, denying positions, closing up passing lanes, blocking shots. His on-court confrontations with Hall of Fame power forward Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz were described as "one of the most physical and contentious one-on-one rivalries in the NBA," according to Trail Blazer video archives. Brian now has Parkinson's disease but he is not letting it slow him down. He has a foundation that helps people with the disease live an inspired life through exercise and better nutrition. What we discussed: Early beginnings The trap of judging a book by its cover The importance of second chances Taking responsibility for your actions BG's Best teammates and why Connect with Brian: https://www.instagram.com/briangrant44/?hl=en (IG) https://www.facebook.com/brian.grant.311056 (Facebook) https://twitter.com/BrianGrantOrg (Twitter) https://briangrant.org/ (website) Let's connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-molden-9693431b/ (LinkedIn) https://www.instagram.com/alexmolden/ (IG) https://www.facebook.com/alex.molden1/ (Facebook) https://open.acast.com/shows/5e759e3195fa07a414c9afe8/episodes/www.alexmoldenspeaks.com (website) https://thehaacademy.com/get-full-access (High Achievers Academy) Don't forget to Subscribe, Rate & Review (5 stars are dope)! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brian Grant, author of his recently published memoir, REBOUND: Soaring in the NBA, Battling Parkinson's, and Finding What Really Matters, joins Ryan, Michael, and D-Love to discuss his remarkable journey through life before, during and after basketball. The book, co-authored with Ric Bucher, details Brian's diagnosis with Young-Onset Parkinson's disease, his relationships with his family, and the challenges that come with retirement from the NBA. Told through a refreshingly candid and honest lens, REBOUND is an amazing book and having Brian on to discuss it was a blast. Brian's book REBOUND published April 6 - order now via Triumph Books, Amazon or anywhere books are sold. Have comments, questions or feedback? Want to propose a question to the guys? Email us at 3andDLoveNBAPodcast at gmail dot com or on Twitter (@3DLoveNBA)

Brian Grant (@BWGrant) - 12-year NBA Vet, Founder of the Brian Grant Foundation, which assists those living with Parkinson’s and Ric Bucher (@RicBucher) - NBA Analyst for FS1 and Author of the book "REBOUND, Soaring in the NBA, Battling Parkinsons and Finding What Really Matters" join Sports Business Radio this week to discuss the book about Brian Grant's life story. The book can be purchased on amazon.com and at bookstores everywhere. Grant and Bucher are close with Sports Business Radio Host Brian Berger and the idea for Grant's book was first discussed at Berger's home. Berger worked with Grant as his publicist and business manager for more than a decade. Berger and Bucher are business partners and friends. This week's Power-Up Premium Trail Mix "Power Player of the Week" is Alex Smith, who retired from the NFL this week. Smith inspired people worldwide with his return to the football field last year after a gruesome injury that nearly cost him his leg. SUBSCRIBE to the Sports Business Radio podcast on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon Music. Follow Sports Business Radio on Twitter @SBRadio and on Instagram @SportsBusinessRadio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12-year NBA veteran Brian Grant talks about his time in the league, his battle with Parkinson's disease, and his new book “Rebound” which is available in bookstores now. Learn more about the Brian Grant Foundation at www.briangrant.org

Former NBA player Brian Grant joined with HoopsHype's Michael Scotto and discussed stories behind the scenes with Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Rasheed Wallace, and guarding Shaq. The duo also discussed Grant's new book, Rebound, detailing his battle with depression, Parkinson's, and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Hour 3: Andre Drummond lost his toenail (or his whole toe if you listened to Zaslow), Former Miami Heat player Brian Grant joins the show and we play some Big Deal/Not a Big Deal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dan, Stugotz, and Amin talk to former NBA player Brian Grant about his new book, Rebound: Soaring in the NBA, Battling Parkinson’s, and Finding What Really Matters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Canzano talks with former Trail Blazer Brian Grant about his new book coming out next week. Then Bill Walton joins the show to wax poetic about life, basketball, and more. We also play The Big Splash, Punch It! Audio, and the Culligan Water Cooler Report. Subscribe NOW to this podcast for more great content. Follow @JohnCanzanoBFT on Twitter.

John Canzano talks with 12-year NBA veteran and former Portland Trail Blazer, Brian Grant. Canzano asks Grant about his new book 'Rebound' depicting the triumphs and defeats throughout his life, including his experience since being diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson's disease. Grant shares insight into his family life, his relationship with his ex-wife, the journey of discovering what really matters to him, stories of his NBA days with legends such as Shaquille O'Neal, responses he's received from his book, and much more. Subscribe NOW to this podcast for more great content. Follow @JohnCanzanoBFT on Twitter.

INTERVIEW: Part 2 of a 2 part interview series with retired NBA star BRIAN GRANT. In this interview we dig in on his book/his life story, who helped him in his life (Uncle John, his mother, Enzo Simone + others), his battle with Parkinson's, THE BRIAN GRANT FOUNDATION, who's the best basketball player of all time and much more.   You can also listen to this episode and all of our shows on:   https://twomikespdpodcast.podbean.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/.../2-mikes.../id1537782063 mixcloud.com/michael-quaglia/ and most major podcast sites

Re-Post of 6:00 EST, Thursday, March 18 We have the first of a 2 part interview with retired NBA star BRIAN GRANT. Book: REBOUND on Amazon by April 6, 2021 PART 2 March 25 at 6:00 PM EST on radioparkies.com   After a 12-year NBA career, Brian was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease. Brian speaks from a unique perspective, adjusting to life with PD from a background of elite physical conditioning. In this stark and engaging autobiography, he reflects on his altered worldview and the importance of focusing on what Parkinson's offers, rather than what it takes away.   We talk with Brian about his foundation, his life in the NBA, why he co wrote the book REBOUND, his family, friends, hardship, successes in a unbelievably honest interview of his life with Parkinson's

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BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE Eve Picker: [00:00:19] Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing. Daryl Scipio is a man of many talents. He's been deeply involved in community and political activism since his college days, taking on leadership of the Black law students, earning a fellowship to attend the Eagleton Institute of Politics for a year and working in the Community Law Clinic. After graduating law school, Daryl joined the ACLU of New Jersey, running the racial justice program there, and he spent the next few years working in the labor movement with Local 32 BJ Service Employees International Union. Justice runs deep with Daryl. And now he's applying that passion to a real estate project he's embarking on called Savers Village. He aims to help every tenant save enough for a down payment on a home. You'll want to hear more. Be sure to go to Evepicker.com to find out more about Daryl on the show notes page for this episode. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small Change.   Eve: [00:01:51] Hello, Daryl, thanks so much for joining me.   Daryl Scipio: [00:01:54] Hi, Eve, it's my pleasure. Absolutely.   Eve: [00:01:57] So you've led an incredibly rich and varied life, as far as I can see. Dual degrees in political science and Africana studies, .com jobs, entrepreneur, political fellowships, launching a chess mentorship program, racial justice work at the ACLU. And as a lawyer and I'm wondering how and why all of this and what really drives you.   Daryl: [00:02:24] Thanks for the question and thanks for having me today.   Eve: [00:02:27] Yeah, it's a pleasure.   Daryl: [00:02:28] It's a real pleasure and an honor to be here. I have always had varied interests, and if something looks interesting to me, I would say to myself, I want to try that. I want to learn more about that. I'd like to see what that's about. Sometimes it's worked and I've had great success. Sometimes it hasn't and I've been like, get me out of here. But, you know, I've really tried to take life by the horns and live it to the fullest and have as many experiences as I possibly can while I'm here. So I think one of the threads, the common threads between everything that I've participated in or most of the things that I've participated in is a desire to help others and a desire to take the resources that I've been blessed with having access to and using the knowledge or the connections that I've gained to help people that don't have access to that resource.   Eve: [00:03:37] Yeah, I think I see a fairly solid strain of racial justice in your work as well. Is that correct?   Daryl: [00:03:45] That is correct. It's because I've always been impacted by race in America. And so I just thought that the right thing to do was to to fight for racial justice in one way or another. Racial justice has always been and race has been a central factor in my life. As a Black man in America and as someone that has grown up with mentors and adults that are important to me, that have given themselves to me and their time and their expertise and their mentorship. And the only thing that they've said to me was, now, when it's your turn, give it back to someone else and you know, there's been in this country, a lot more racial unrest that I've seen since, you know, in the past decade or so. And it is something that has placed itself into my life because of who I've been around and who I've been influenced by. When you see some sort of injustice, I was taught that you address it. Because we're all, I believe that we're all here to make this world a better place and the way you do that and when it comes to racial injustice, it's to create racial justice.   Eve: [00:05:24] Yeah, I have to say, I feel a little more hopeful after meeting people like you and the project that you've embarked on, which which I'd really love to talk about next. It's a real estate project in Newark, New Jersey, and I know it has a social mission, but let's talk about the structure first. So after all these other things that you've done, you're now turning your attention to real estate and you're planning to build a rather large building. You want to just tell us a little bit about the building itself?   Daryl: [00:05:53] Yes, the building will be on a plot of land that's about twenty six thousand square feet, a little over half an acre. We plan to build 39 units in an apartment building. And we'll have three bedroom units, two bedroom units and one bedroom units, and I'm not exactly sure about the breakdown. It'll probably be 15 one and two bedroom units and nine three bedroom units.   Eve: [00:06:27] Right. Do you have a timeline for construction? Where are you in the in the process?   Daryl: [00:06:34] We are currently in the process of acquiring the land and getting city approvals, we're anticipating that takes about six months, and then we will spend 18 months on construction, so we hope to open our doors at the end of 2022. Worst case scenario, beginning of 2023.   Eve: [00:06:59] And who are your partners in this?   Daryl: [00:07:01] I've partnered with a developer named Patrick Turborg. I've partnered with real estate professionals Frank Robinson, Stephen Aravilo. And my architect is Mark Best. My engineer is Brian Grant. And these are folks, honestly that have a lot more experience than I do. So it was important that my team knows more than I do about their about their specific areas of expertise.   Eve: [00:07:37] And if I'm correct, it's largely a Black team as well. A team of Black professionals, is that correct?   Daryl: [00:07:43] That is correct. One of the goals that I seek to make a reality is that not only do we help empower the residents of Newark, that and the members of Savers Village, but also the people that are building and developing and raising capital. And we want to help empower folks that look like me so that, you know, we can start to pass down that institutional knowledge to our children and they can do it with their children. And the only way to do that is through having the experiences.   Eve: [00:08:17] So you mentioned the name of the project, Savers Village, which is a really interesting name. And I know there's a bigger social mission behind this project. And what challenge are you trying to solve with these thirty nine units?   Daryl: [00:08:32] We are working to turn renters into homeowners with this project. Newark, New Jersey, where the project is located, has a population that has seventy five percent of the people that live there as renters, they rent from other folks and that's that's huge. As you can imagine. So there's a big push to turn those folks into homeowners. And the city of Newark supports this initiative because part of that big push to turn renters into homeowners comes from the city and from the mayor and his administration to start to create and build wealth for Black folks in America. Most of our wealth has come through homeownership and land ownership. So during the mortgage crisis of 2008, 40 percent of the Black wealth in America was wiped away.   Eve: [00:09:29] Interesting.   Daryl: [00:09:29] And when all those subprime mortgages defaulted and all those banks went out of business. So, you know, there's a social component of trying to help turn renters into homeowners, but then also try to help folks understand what it means to build generational wealth and start to save and start to create systems to support people that are going to be here long after you're gone.   Eve: [00:09:56] So in addition to the building, you're building some systems. What are those? How you planning to turn renters into homeowners?   Daryl: [00:10:04] Our plan consists of taking 10 percent of someone's rent and putting it into an account for them and save that money and invest portions of it so that after a certain amount of time, let's say anywhere from three to five years, and they can take that money and use it for a down payment on a new home and to cover any closing costs that may come up.   Eve: [00:10:35] Are you going to do this for all renters in the building? Do they have to commit to that?   Daryl: [00:10:41] Our goal is to do it for all renters. And yes, we want them to commit to that. If they change their minds midway, through living there, then there's nothing that we can do to stop them and that money is their's, they'll get that if they say, hey, you know what, I'm moving out and I'm going to Bali and I'm taking my money with me. Then we'll say, hey, here's your money, have a great time in Bali, sent us a postcard.   Eve: [00:11:09] And they might buy a shack there, you know.   Daryl: [00:11:11] That's right. Yeah. I mean, with the amount of money that they're going to save with us, they can buy a lot more than a shack in Bali.   Eve: [00:11:19] Yeah, probably. Yeah.   Daryl: [00:11:21] They can do really well down there. It's voluntary. But, you know, we're looking for renters that are committed to home ownership and starting to build generational wealth through home and land ownership, saving and investing. Part of what we're going to offer to the tenants is financial literacy, credit repair and first time home buying education.   Eve: [00:11:43] And how are you going to do that?   Daryl: [00:11:45] We're going to partner with local non-profits that offer those services and make sure that they offer it to our tenants and, you know, it can be in person or over Zoom, but our tenants will have to commit to taking those steps towards achieving that goal through the education.   Eve: [00:12:03] And so how are you going to vet and prioritize tenants who come to you? Like people looking for somewhere to live.   Daryl: [00:12:10] Mainly through our application process. We're going to do a deep dive into who the tenant is and really kind of understand what their goals are and see if there's a fit between the tenant and our project and find people that meet that criteria and let them know that, you know, this is a long term project, but will have long term consequences as well.   Eve: [00:12:36] Do you think there's an ideal person? Is there an avatar of a tenant that you'd like to see move into this project?   Daryl: [00:12:43] To be honest, I would say, you know, when I think about who would be the ideal person, it was it would really just be someone that wants to be a homeowner, someone that has tried to save for home ownership, but has been unsuccessful and is really committed to moving from renting to home ownership. There's two things that you generally need for home ownership. And the first thing is a good credit score. So someone that's committed to keeping a credit score above 700, ideally. And then the second thing is, you know, someone that has constant income, if you have constant income and if you have a good credit score, then you can give a mortgage to a bank and get a loan for a home. So folks that are committed to those things are ideal tenants.   Eve: [00:13:34] Are there any local banks that are interested in partnering with you? I wonder about redlining as well. And, you know, if it's going to be more difficult for some tenants than others.   Daryl: [00:13:45] There are some local banks that are interested. Investor's Bank has shown some interest in working with us. There's  a community development, financial institution in Newark called Invest Newark that's interested in working with us. And New Jersey Community Capital, a nonprofit lender and developer, is interested in partnering with us on this project.   Eve: [00:14:11] That sounds really great. So you've also listed the project on Small Change, and I'm wondering why crowdfunding and what you hope to get out of raising funds for the project through our real estate platform.   Daryl: [00:14:26] Sure, it's been a real blessing to have the opportunity to list the project on a platform like Small Change. I'm a huge fan of crowdfunding. As someone that comes from the non-profit world I run a 501(c)(3) chess mentorship program and I think that crowdfunding is an awesome way to get donations and to raise money. I don't know if you're familiar with the philanthropic world, but there's a way to do things that are outdated.   Eve: [00:14:55] Oh, yeah, I'm very I'm very familiar.   Daryl: [00:14:57] Yeah, there's a culture of philanthropy that says, all right, we're going to choose you and we're going to give you everything. And and even though this other group might have a great program, we're not going to give them anything because they don't come to us. We don't know them. And so I think crowdfunding really levels the playing field when it comes to investing in real estate. And it gives folks that otherwise would not have the opportunity to invest in a project that's worth millions of dollars, it gives them a chance to invest in a project for as little as a thousand dollars or as little as five hundred in some instances. I really like crowdfunding for that. It allows you to market your project while you're fundraising for it as well.   Eve: [00:15:45] Yes. And that brings me to another point. You talked about building generational wealth, and I'm wondering how you think this might take hold in in Newark. If it's possible to get the word out there so that people might invest in a project at their own doorstep.   Daryl: [00:16:05] I think people will invest. I've been sharing it on my social media and I've been getting a great response and I think when we launched in late December, it was a very busy time in most people's lives. And now that we're out of the holiday season, then, you know, I do believe that it will start to come to the forefront in most people's minds. And I'll make sure to get it to the forefront of most people's investment through sharing it with my friends and family that are here locally and through my social media channels.   Eve: [00:16:43] Yeah, I mean, investing is yet another step in figuring out how to build wealth, and it's not an easy one so it requires some education.   Daryl: [00:16:52] Education and patience and largely trust.   Eve: [00:16:55] Yes.   Daryl: [00:16:56] There's a relationship that my community has had with the government, with banking, with insurance, where we place our trust in these institutions. And we would be treated differently than other folks that don't look like us. You know, Black Americans are being treated differently than white Americans historically. And it's not just in the private sector. It's been in the public sector as well.   Eve: [00:17:20] Yes.   Daryl: [00:17:20] And so there's a distrust there when it comes to investing and not just in real estate. Investing in the stock market, as well is another area where there's some distrust amongst the Black community. We have to do our part to overcome that, to change that.   Eve: [00:17:36] I think that's why I love real estate, because it's so tangible, it's so visible. It's right in the middle of your community. And I don't know, maybe it's easier to trust that.   Daryl: [00:17:48] I think it is. I think it is.   Eve: [00:17:50] So this is one building. What's your big, hairy, audacious goal?   [00:17:55] My big, hairy, audacious goal is to do 60 of these within the next few years with Newark being the first one and starting to build Savers Villages in Detroit and Houston and Camden and in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and places all over the country where folks are facing the same challenges that Newark residents face with regard to moving from renting to home owning.   Eve: [00:18:27] 60 of them. Have you scoped out any of the next ones?   Daryl: [00:18:32] We we we started to look at a site in Philadelphia that may be ideal for this. But outside of that, no, we're pretty laser focused on Newark at the moment and just getting this one done. Yeah.   Eve: [00:18:49] Well, Darryl, I can't wait to see how this goes. I can't wait to see when it's built and I can't wait to see the first tenants become homeowners. I think that's an amazing goal. And I really appreciate you sharing this with us.   Daryl: [00:19:03] Thank you very much. I appreciate you joining us on this journey and supporting this initiative, with Small Change, so thank you.   Eve: [00:19:28] That was Daryl Scipio. He's led an incredibly rich and varied life. Degrees in political science, Africana studies and law, .com jobs, entrepreneur, political fellowships, launching a chess mentorship program, racial justice work at the ACLU and more. The common thread has always been social and racial justice. Now Daryl is turning his attention to his next endeavor, Savers Village, where he plans to help renters become homeowners and to build generational wealth. And he's listed the investment opportunity on Small Change because he believes that crowdfunding really levels the playing field for investors. You can find out more about impact real estate investing and access the show notes for today's episode at my website, Evepicker.com. While you're there, sign up for my newsletter to find out more about how to make money in real estate while building better cities. Thank you so much for spending your time with me today. And thank you, Daryl, for sharing your thoughts. We'll talk again soon. But for now, this is Eve Picker signing off to go make some change.

This episode starts with a quick round of “roses and thorns” about the Trail Blazers' week that we'd like to forget.  Then we perk way up, because our idol, Portland-based broadcaster Ann Shatz, joined the W.H.A.T. podcast! We heard about the beginning of her career in Omaha, Nebraska and Portland, Oregon. We reminisce about the Portland Fire and talk about her time as the Trail Blazers' sideline reporter. Cassidy shared some of the ways that Shatz had inspired her and we begged her to come back and tell us more stories from her incredible career.   1:00 Ice breaker. Who is an NBA player that the other players are cheering for?  2:30 What is going on with Kyrie?  4:00 Take a mental health day! 7:00 James Harden to the Nets is annoying.  8:00 Roses and Thorns we're going to try not to talk about injuries but we probably will.  9:00 CJ Is more mature than either of us 10:00 Thorn: stop hitting Derrick Jones Jr in the face.  11:30 Rose: Derrick Jones Jr in general 13:30 Thorn: Stop making Derrick Jones Jr take so many 3s 14:45 Rose: When Derrick Jones Jr misses dunks they are still spectacular 17:00 Introducing Ann Schatz 18:00 Growing up in the midwest, learned sports from brothers and her dad. 21:00 Getting started as the first female sportscaster in Nebraska 24:00 Didn't have anyone to bounce anything off of. Couldn't get anything wrong, but had lots of supportive people around.  25:00 Moved to Portland in 1989 and it wasn't a very warm reception. Was there a moment that she remembered that made her feel like she had been accepted in Portland?  30:30 Started working for the Blazers and the Fire in 1999 as sideline reporter.  33:45 The time Brian Grant need a hair-tie. 35:00 The time she made Mike Dunley mad 36:00 Daily routine as a sideline reporter. Shoot arounds, sound bites, pre-game hits, half-time, post game. There was a routine but every day was different.  37:40 Hosted in the studio while the team was on the road.  39:15 Working with Bill Schonley 41:15 Remembering when the Fire was coming to town, working with Mike Barrett.  44:00 How Ann influenced Cassidy's love for women's sports.  48:00 Hoping to be in inspiration to young girls and women to get into sportsl 49:30 Working with the Pac-12 Network, working with college kids.  51:30 What it was like learning how to call games as opposed to being the analyst.  55:00 Working for the Thorns. Never thought she'd see in her lifetime that kind of a crowd watching women's sports.  58:30 Fantastic eclectic fanbase.  1:00:00 Thorn's draft 1:02:00 Memorable interviews: Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Nancy Lopez, Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter   @wehaveatake @tcbbiggs @CassidyGemmet @bluewirehustle Subscribe:  https://apple.co/2Vn9Hf9 https://spoti.fi/3lARIww Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I am joined by Brian Grant the director of the Britbox documentary Lennon's Last Weekend a not to be missed program. Today mark’s the 40th anniversary of the death of one of music’s greatest icons John Lennon. Earlier on that same day, he said goodbye to BBC Radio One D.J. Andy Peebles who had spent the weekend doing the last and possibly the most detailed interview ever given by the formal Beatle. After avoiding any interviews Lennon knew that he would have to something to promote his almost soon to be released Double Fantasy.Despite agreeing to a short twenty-minute interview with Peebles, the two hit it off and Lennon and Ono spent eight hours over what would turn out to be the final weekend of his life-giving his most lengthy, comprehensive, and honest interviews ever. Lennon spoke very openly about everything from The Beatles break-up, working with fellow music legends on their projects, producing solo albums, and life in New York.The tapes of that extraordinary interview are the focus of a brilliantly crafted documentary “Lennon’s Last Weekend,” that is streaming now on Britbox here in the U.S. “As the true home of Great British programming, BritBox is proud to be sharing this beloved British icon’s story with our audience,” said BritBox President and CEO, Soumya Sriraman. “I hope this documentary provides a way for John Lennon’s fans to celebrate his life and legacy in what would have been his 80th yearThis is a five star must-see documentary for anyone who is a music fan but especially for those who loved the Beatles. Britbox is a streaming service of the BBC and ITV, which can be seen on multiple devices. They also offer a seven-day free trial of their service where you will find some of the best in British, comedy, drama, documentaries, and much more.https://www.britbox.com/us/Promotional consideration for Stream On with Jim Williams comes from Sling TV. They are far and away, the best live streaming service on the planet.Cord cutters and cord nevers want a place to keep up with live TV with sports or news. Well, we have the best possible option at the best cost in the business.Check them out at https://www.sling.com/It doesn’t matter if you like sports, or news, or entertainment they have it all in one place at a price that will have you cutting the cord today! Check out www.slingtv.com for their outstanding live service today and start saving money.Have questions or comments?No problem just ask away on social media Twitter @JWMediaDC Instagram – Jimwilliams200 and Email at jimwilliamsmedia@gmail.com

Después del éxito de las movilizaciones de ayer "Alerta Roja (hacemos eventos)" desde M.U.T.E. terminamos (capítulo 14 y último de "¿Cómo lo llevas?") nuestra ronda de charlas con gente relacionado con el mundo de la música en directo con Carla Varona, presidenta de UFI (Unión Fonográfica Independiente) que se vieron afectados por la pandemia al suspenderse la fiesta anual de entrega de premios que al final será en televisión en Movistar Plus el próximo 16 de octubre. Dos noticias del día que tienen que ver con el mundo de los Beatles. Por un lado que el 31 de agosto del año próximo saldrá "The Beatles: Get Back" que es el resultado de la transcripción de 120 horas de conversaciones entre los miembros de la banda desde principios del 69 (acababa de llegar al número 1 su doble blanco) hasta las sesiones del "Let it be" con el mítico concierto en la azotea. También se incluyen fotos de Linda nunca vistas. Por su lado se anuncia un documental llamado "Lennon last weekend" dirigido por Brian Grant sobre la última entrevista de John Lennon concedida a la BBC y realizada por Andy Peebles. Otras noticias tienen que ver con el trabajo conjunto en el estudio de Sharon van Etten, en el piano, y Linda Perry (aquel proyecto de 4 Non Blondes), en la guitarra, componiendo juntas y que los jueces no estiman que haya plagio de Nicki Minaj de su tema ·Sorry" de una pieza del debut de Tracy Chapman del 88 que lo denunció hace dos años. Además, Angel Olsen fue la elegida por la directora Miranda July y el compositor Emile Mosseri (película "Kajiliionaire") para hacer una versión del tema éxito de Bobby Vinton del año 62 y ya llegará película (en España se verá el 21 de octubre) y disco con el "24 Karate Gold" de Stevie Nicks con temas de su carrera en solitario y de Fleetwood Mac. En la recta final Steve Earle planea disco de homenaje a su hijo Justin Townes Earle con temas suyos, Lambchop hacen disco de versiones llamado "Trip" y Eels avanzan otro corte de "Earth to Dora". Apenas dos temas de aquí. La mirada atrás (con g.a.t.o.) cuando Bright Baby Blues acababan de fichar por Subterfuge y aún no eran The Bright y lo nuevo de Caballo Prieto Azabache con formación renovada. El último tema ha sido uno de "Parklife" que apenas tocaron en directo el año pasado Blur mientras que Damon Albarn no descarta más reuniones con sus compañeros. Escuchar audio

"The General" grew up working on farms and was drafted to the Sacramento Kings in 1994, then played for the Trailblazers, Heat, Lakers and Suns. Diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease at 36, Grant now runs the "Brian Grant Foundation" helping those with Parkinson's improve their health and wellbeing.

Craig speaks with Aree Spivey and Brian Grant from the music group Failed Kingdoms about becoming Christian-Anarchists and their perspectives on the current state of American society following the events of George Floyd's death.  Connect with Failed Kingdoms: Facebook, SoundCloud, Instagram For full shows and to learn more about The Bad Roman project please visit thebadroman.com.

This time on it is all about the past (where we have been), the present (where we are ), and the future (Stuff coming your way). The Past -  I am a basketball fan and not to brag but I went to my first game with my brother when I was ten years old. One of my favorite players was Brian Grant. Brain played 12 years in the NBA as a power forward and was the heart and soul of the 1997-2000 Portland Trail Blazers. We have my interview with him that I recorded on February 7, 2012. The Present - Stories are our present, but do all stories take part in the here and now. Not always. All of the stories for this show form a theme of sorts. They have time in common. Specifically lost time or lost in time. You will hear three brand new listener’s stories. The Future - Jason Dowd joins me to talk about what has been going on with him, shares a story and we talk about a new segment coming your way in late June or early July. Tune in to find out more and take Jason’s doll challenge.  If you dare. About Jason Dowd - Art is a way of life for Jason. From an early age, he created various forms of artwork using various mediums, but none was as profound to him for his own work than photography. He finds inspiration wherever he goes because he keeps his eyes open for things that will make the perfect embellishment for a photo or looks for the story that inspires him to tell it to the world as only he can. Jason’s Links: , , , , and . Ron’s Amazing Stories Sponsored by: Audible - You can get a free audiobook and a 30 day free trial at   and - Good Treats for your dog to eat. Ron’s Amazing Stories is produced and hosted by Ronald Hood:Email: Blog Page: Facebook: Twitter: Helpful Links: - Help the podcast by taking this survey.  - Use this link to submit your stories to the show. - Looking for the first 100 episodes of the podcast?

In the latest edition of the Miami Heat Stories series, Ethan J. Skolnick and Alex Toledo are joined by former Heat player (1990-99) and current Heat scouting director Keith Askins. They discuss his signing with the Heat as an undrafted free agent, his role before Pat Riley arrived, the Heat's transformation in the Riley era, some highlights from the Big 3 era (when Askins was an assistant) and the differences between the 1990s and today's game -- including what it was like to defend Michael Jordan and coach LeBron James. Check out the other Heat Stories episodes, with Chris Bosh, Shane Battier, Mario Chalmers, Grant Long, Ron Rothstein, Brian Grant, Udonis Haslem and more. Sponsored by MACAInc.Net, Mr. M's Sandwich Shops and the Lessons Via Leaders podcast    

In this Episode 29 of Mt. Orab Sports Complex "Talk Sports to Me" LIve University of Middle Tennessee Woman's Assistant Coach Shalon Pillow talks to us about the impact her father "The Mayor" Coach Dan Pillow had on her basketball career. She talks the importance of education and how her mother kept her focus in the classroom as well as on the court. Coach Pillow talks about her high school let down not winning a state championship, along with her prolific stat line her senior year. Shalon goes in detail about her opportunity to attend University of Tennessee on a basketball scholarship and some of the success she enjoyed. She will speak on the feeling on of love she knowledge she got from her grandparents and how she looked up to her big Cousin NBA star Brian Grant. Coach Pillow will speak on the success of her brother and sisters due to her firm upbringing. All this and much, much more on the this Episode 29 of "Talk Sports to Me" LIVE. This Episode 29 is brought to you by Mt. Orab Sports Complex and Anchor.FM. Thanks in advance for your listen. Enjoy this Episode with the Sports Guru --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/talk-sports-to-me/support

Huge thanks to Brian for agreeing to appear on this episode! And thank you all for your continued support of the podcast.  We'll be back soon with our review of the new Black Widow, and some other interesting topics!

In this Episode 28 we catch up with local high school coaching legend Coach Jerry Underwood. In this episode Coach Underwood explains how his Eastern Kentucky roots help build his championship mentality. Coach will speak briefly on his Morehead State University days on the gridiron and tell us how his passion for coaching basketball overcame his desire to play football. He will give details on how he accelerated his educational process to begin his career in teaching and coaching. He will give us the inside scoop on getting a chance to be on a staff coaching Xavier and NBA star Brian Grant. Coach Underwood will give details on how Coach Tim Chadwell prepared him to be a head coach. Coach will also walk up through each of his successful season at Georgetown leading up to his 2007 State Championship. Coach Underwood will also pay homage to the late, great assistant Coach Jim Young. All this and much, much more on Episode 28 of "Talk Sports to Me" Live. This episode is brought to you by Anchor. FM and Mt. Orab Sports Complex, and your host the one and only "Sports Guru" --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/talk-sports-to-me/support

Guests: Fred Schreyer, Brian Grant, Anna Canzano John Canzano talks with these guests about how Michael Jordan changed the endorsement landscape, voting 'Yes' on ballot measure 26-210 to increase funding for the homeless community of Portland, why it may be beneficial for Justin Herbert to be pushed back in the NFL Draft, and bad jobs. Plus, The Big Splash, Punch It! Audio, and 2@2. Subscribe NOW to this podcast for more great content. It’s free. Why wouldn’t you? Follow @JohnCanzanoBFT on Twitter.

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In this episode of The Podlets Podcast, we welcome Michael Gasch from VMware to join our discussion on the necessity (or not) of formal education in working in the realm of distributed systems. There is a common belief that studying computer science is a must if you want to enter this field, but today we talk about the various ways in which individuals can teach themselves everything they need to know. What we establish, however, is that you need a good dose of curiosity and craziness to find your feet in this world, and we discuss the many different pathways you can take to fully equip yourself. Long gone are the days when you needed a degree from a prestigious school: we give you our hit-list of top resources that will go a long way in helping you succeed in this industry. Whether you are someone who prefers learning by reading, attending Meetups or listening to podcasts, this episode will provide you with lots of new perspectives on learning about distributed systems. Follow us: https://twitter.com/thepodlets Website: https://thepodlets.io Feeback: info@thepodlets.io https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/thepodlets/issues Hosts: Carlisia Campos Duffie Cooley Michael Gasch Key Points From This Episode: • Introducing our new host, Michael Gasch, and a brief overview of his role at VMware. • Duffie and Carlisia’s educational backgrounds and the value of hands-on work experience. • How they first got introduced to distributed systems and the confusion around what it involves. • Why distributed systems are about more than simply streamlining communication and making things work. • The importance and benefit of educating oneself on the fundamentals of this topic. • Our top recommended resources for learning about distributed systems and their concepts. • The practical downside of not having a formal education in software development. • The different ways in which people learn, index and approach problem-solving. • Ensuring that you balance reading with implementation and practical experience. • Why it’s important to expose yourself to discussions on the topic you want to learn about. • The value of getting different perspectives around ideas that you think you understand. • How systems thinking is applicable to things outside of computer science.• The various factors that influence how we build systems. Quotes: “When people are interacting with distributed systems today, or if I were to ask like 50 people what a distributed system is, I would probably get 50 different answers.” — @mauilion [0:14:43] “Try to expose yourself to the words, because our brains are amazing. Once you get exposure, it’s like your brain works in the background. All of a sudden, you go, ‘Oh, yeah! I know this word.’” — @carlisia [0:14:43] “If you’re just curious a little bit and maybe a little bit crazy, you can totally get down the rabbit hole in distributed systems and get totally excited about it. There’s no need for having formal education and the degree to enter this world.” — @embano1 [0:44:08] Learning resources suggested by the hosts: Book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, M. Kleppmann Book, Distributed Systems, M. van Steen and A.S. Tanenbaum (free with registration) Book, Thesis on Raft, D. Ongaro. - Consensus - Bridging Theory and Practice (free PDF) Book, Enterprise Integration Patterns, B.Woolf, G. Hohpe Book, Designing Distributed Systems, B. Burns (free with registration) Video, Distributed Systems Video, Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications Video, Distributed Algorithms Video, Operating System - IIT Lectures Video, Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2018) Video, Advanced Database Systems (Spring 2018) Paper, Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System Post, Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods Post, Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit Post, On Time Post, Distributed Systems @The Morning Paper Post, Distributed Systems @Brave New Geek Post, Aphyr’s Class materials for a distributed systems lecture series Post, The Log - What every software engineer should know about real-time data’s unifying abstraction Post, Github - awesome-distributed-systems Post, Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit Podcast, Distributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft. Jason Gustafson Podcast, The Systems Bible - The Beginner’s Guide to Systems Large and Small - John Gall Podcast, Systems Programming - Designing and Developing Distributed Applications - Richard Anthony Podcast, Distributed Systems - Design Concepts - Sunil Kumar Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: The Podlets on Twitter — https://twitter.com/thepodlets Michael Gasch on LinkedIn — https://de.linkedin.com/in/michael-gasch-10603298 Michael Gasch on Twitter — https://twitter.com/embano1 Carlisia Campos on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlisia Duffie Cooley on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauilion VMware — https://www.vmware.com/ Kubernetes — https://kubernetes.io/ Linux — https://www.linux.org Brian Grant on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgrant0607 Kafka — https://kafka.apache.org/ Lamport Article — https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf Designing Date-Intensive Applications — https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable-ebook/dp/B06XPJML5D Designing Distributed Systems — https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Distributed-Systems-Patterns-Paradigms/dp/1491983647 Papers We Love Meetup — https://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/ The Systems Bible — https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Bible-Beginners-Guide-Large/dp/0961825170 Enterprise Integration Patterns — https://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Integration-Patterns-Designing-Deploying/dp/0321200683 Transcript: EPISODE 12 [INTRODUCTION] [0:00:08.7] ANNOUNCER: Welcome to The Podlets Podcast, a weekly show that explores Cloud Native one buzzword at a time. Each week, experts in the field will discuss and contrast distributed systems concepts, practices, tradeoffs and lessons learned to help you on your cloud native journey. This space moves fast and we shouldn’t reinvent the wheel. If you’re an engineer, operator or technically minded decision maker, this podcast is for you. [EPISODE] [00:00:41] CC: Hi, everybody. Welcome back. This is Episode 12, and we are going to talk about distributed systems without a degree or even with a degree, because who knows how much we learn in university. I am Carlisia Campos, one of your hosts. Today, I also have Duffie Cooley. Say hi, Duffie. [00:01:02] DC: Hey, everybody. [00:01:03] CC: And a new host for you, and this is such a treat. Michael Gasch, please tell us a little bit of your background. [00:01:11] MG: Hey! Hey, everyone! Thanks, Carlisia. Yes. So I’m new to the show. I just want to keep it brief because I think over the show we’ll discuss our backgrounds a little bit further. So right now, I’m with VMware. So I’ve been with VMware almost for five years. Currently, I'm in the office of the CTO. I’m a platform architect in the office of the CTO and I mainly use Kubernetes on a daily basis from an engineering perspective. So we build a lot of prototypes based on customer input or ideas that we have, and we work with different engineering teams. Kurbernetes has become kind of my bread and butter but lately more from a consumer perspective like developing with Kurbenetes or against Kubernetes, instead of the formal ware of mostly being around implementing and architecting Kubernetes. [00:01:55] CC: Nice. Very impressive. Duffie? [00:01:58] MG: Thank you. [00:01:59] DC: Yeah. [00:02:00] CC: Let’s give the audience a little bit of your backgrounds. We’ve done this before but just to frame the episodes, so people will know how we come in as distributed systems. [00:02:13] DC: Sure. In my experience, I spent – I don’t have a formal education history. I spent most of my time kind of like in a high school time. Then from there, basically worked into different systems administration, network administration, network architect, and up into virtualization and now containerization. So I’ve got a pretty hands-on kind of bootstrap experience around managing infrastructure, both at small-scale, inside of offices, and the way up to very large scale, working for some of the larger companies here in the Silicon Valley. [00:02:46] CC: All right. My turn I guess. So I do have a computer science degree but I don’t feel that I really went deep at all in distributed systems. My degree is also from a long time ago. So mainly, what I do know now is almost entirely from hands-on work experience. Even so, I think I'm very much lacking and I’m very interested in this episode, because we are going to go through some great resources that I am also going to check out later. So let’s get this party started. [00:03:22] DC: Awesome. So you want to just talk about kind of the general ideas behind distributed systems and like how you became introduced to them or like where you started in that journey? [00:03:32] CC: Yeah. Let’s do that. [00:03:35] DC: My first experience with the idea of distributed systems was in using them before I knew that they were distributed systems, right? One of the very first distributed systems as I look back on it that I ever actually spent any real time with was DNS, which I consider to be something of a distributed system. If you think about it, they have name servers, they have a bunch of caching servers. They solve many of the same sorts of problems. In a previous episode, we talked about how networking, just the general idea of networking and handling large-scale architecting networks. It’s also in a way very – has a lot of analogues into distributed systems. For me, I think working with and helping solve the problems that are associated with them over time gave me a good foundational understanding for when we were doing distributed systems as a thing later on in my career. [00:04:25] CC: You said something that caught my interest, and it’s very interesting, because obviously for people who have been writing algorithms, writing papers about distributed systems, they’re going to go yawning right now, because I’m going to say the obvious. As you start your journey programming, you read job requirements. You read or you must – should know distributed systems. Then I go, “What is distributed system? What do they really mean?” Because, yes, we understand apps stuck to apps and then there is API, but there’s always for me at least a question at the back of my head. Is that all there is to it? It sounds like it should be a lot more involved and complex and complicated than just having an app stuck on another app. In fact, it is because there are so many concepts and problems involved in distributed systems, right? From timing, clock, and sequence, and networking, and failures, how do you recover. There is a whole world in how do you log this properly, how do you monitor. There’s a whole world that revolves around this concept of systems residing in different places and [inaudible 00:05:34] each other. [00:05:37] DC: I think you made a very good point. I think this is sort of like there’s an analog to this in containers, oddly enough. When people say, “I want a container within and then the orchestration systems,” they think that that's just a thing that you can ask for. That you get a container and inside of that is going to be your file system and it’s going to do all those things. In a way, I feel like that same confusion is definitely related to distributed systems. When people are interacting with distributed systems today or if I were to ask like 50 people what a distributed system is, I would probably get 50 different answers. I think that you got a pretty concise definition there in that it is a set of systems that intercommunicate to perform some function. It’s like found at its base line. I feel like that's a pretty reasonable definition of what distributed systems are, and then we can figure out from there like what functions are they trying to achieve and what are some of the problems that we’re trying to solve with them. [00:06:29] CC: Yeah. That’s what it’s all about in my head is solving the problems because at the beginning, I was thinking, “Well, it must be just about communicating and making things work.” It’s the opposite of that. It’s like that’s a given. When a job says you need to understand about distributed systems, what they are really saying is you need to know how to deal with failures, not just to make it work. Make it work is sort of the easy part, but the whole world of where the failures can happen, how do you handle it, and that, to me is what needing to know distributed system comes in handy. In a couple different things, like at the top layer or 5% is knowing how to make things work, and 95% is knowing how to handle things when they don’t work, because it’s inevitable. [00:07:19] DC: Yeah, I agree. What do you think, Michael? How would you describe the context around distributed systems? What was the first one that you worked with? [00:07:27] MG: Exactly. It’s kind of similar to your background, Duffie, which is no formal degree or education on computer science right after high school and jumping into kind of my first job, working with computers, computer administration. I must say that from the age of I think seven or so, I was interested in computers and all that stuff but more from a hardware perspective, less from a software development perspective. So my take always was on disassembling the pieces and building my own computers than writing programs. In the early days, that just was me. So I completely almost missed the whole education and principles and fundamentals of how you would write a program for a single computer and then obviously also for how to write programs that run across a network of computers. So over time, as I progress on my career, especially kind of in the first job, which was like seven years of different Linux systems, Linux administrations, I kind of – Like you, Duffie, I dealt with distributed systems without necessarily knowing that I'm dealing with distributed systems. I knew that it was mostly storage systems, Linux file servers, but distributed file servers. Samba, if some of you recall that project. So I knew that things could fail. I know it could fail, for example, or I know it could not be writable, and so a client must be stuck but not necessarily I think directly related to fundamentals of how distributed systems work or don’t work. Over time, and this is really why I appreciate the Kubernetes project in community, I got more questions, especially when this whole container movement came up. I got so many questions around how does that thing work. How does scheduling work? Because scheduling kind of was close to my interest in the hardware design and low-level details. But I was looking at Kubernetes like, “Okay. There is the scheduler.” In the beginning, the documentation was pretty scarce around the implementation and all the control as for what’s going on. So I had to – I listen to a lot of podcasts and Brian Grant’s great talks and different shows that he gave from the Kubernetes space and other people there as well. In the end, I had more questions than answers. So I had to dig deeper. Eventually, that led me to a path of wanting to understand more formal theory behind distributed systems by reading the papers, reading books, taking some online classes just to get a basic understanding of those issues. So I got interested in results scheduling in distributed systems and consensus. So those were two areas that kind of caught my eyes like, “What is it? How do machines agree in a distributed system if so many things can go wrong?” Maybe we can explore this later on. So I’m going to park this for a bit. But back to your question, which was kind of a long-winded answer or a road to answering your question, Duffie. For me, a distributed system is like this kind of coherent network of computer machines that from the outside to an end-user or to another client looks like one gigantic big machine that is [inaudible 00:10:31] to run as fast. That is performing also efficient. It constitutes a lot of characteristics and properties that we want from our systems that a single machine usually can’t handle. But it looks like it's a big single machine to a client. [00:10:46] DC: I think that – I mean, it is interesting like, I don’t want to get into – I guess this is probably not just a distributed systems talk. But obviously, one of the questions that falls out for me when I hear that answer is then what is the difference between a micro service architecture and distributed systems, because I think it's – I mean, to your point, the way that a lot of people work with the app to learn to develop software, it’s like we’re going to develop a monolithic application just by nature. We’re going to solve a software problem using code. Then later on, when we decide to actually scale this thing or understand how to better operate it under a significant load, then we started thinking about, “Okay. Well, how do we have to architect this differently in such a way that it can support that load?” That’s where I feel like the beams cut across, right? We’re suddenly in a world where you’re not only just talking about microservices. You’re also talking about distributed systems because you’re going to start thinking about how to understand transactionality throughout that system, how to understand all of those consensus things that you're referring to. How do they affect it when I add mister network in there? That’s cool. [00:11:55] MG: Just one comment on this, Duffie, which took me a very long time to realize, which is coming – From my definition of what a distributed system is like this group of machines that they perform work in a certain sense or maybe even more abstracted like at a bunch of computers network together. What I kind of missed most of the time, and this goes back to the DNS example that you gave in the beginning, was the client or the clients are also part of this distributed system, because they might have caches, especially in DNS. So you always deal with this kind of state that is distributed everywhere. Maybe you don't even know where it kind of is distributed, and the client kind of works with a local stale data. So that is also part of a distributed system, and something I want to give credit to the Kafka community and some of the engineers on Kafka, because there was a great talk lately that I heard. It’s like, “Right. The client is also part of your distributed system, even though usually we think it's just the server. That those many server machines, all those microservices.” At least I missed that a long time. [00:12:58] DC: You should put a link to that talk in our [inaudible 00:13:00]. That would be awesome. It sounds great. So what do you think, Carlisia? [00:13:08] CC: Well, one thing that I wanted to mention is that Michael was saying how he’s been self-teaching distributed systems, and I think if we want to be competent in the area, we have to do that. I’m saying this to myself even. It’s very refreshing when you read a book or you read a paper and you really understand the fundamentals of an aspect of distributed system. A lot of things fall into place in your hands. I’m saying this because even prioritizing reading about and learning about the fundamentals is really hard for me, because you have your life. You have things to do. You have the minutiae in things to get done. But so many times, I struggle. In the rare occasions where I go, “Okay. Let me just learn this stuff trial and error,” it makes such a difference. Then once you learn, it stays with you forever. So it’s really good. It’s so refreshing to read a paper and understand things at a different level, and that is what this episode is. I don’t know if this is the time to jump in into, “So there are our recommendations.” I don't know how deep, Michael, you’re going to go. You have a ton of things listed. Everything we mention on the show is going to be on our website, on the show notes. So nobody needs to be necessarily taking notes. Anything thing I wanted to say is it would be lovely if people would get back to us once you listened to this. Let us know if you want to add anything to this list. It would be awesome. We can even add it to this list later and give a shout out to you. So it’d be great. [00:14:53] MG: Right. I don’t want to cover this whole list. I just wanted to be as complete as possible about a stuff that I kind of read or watched. So I just put it in and I just picked some highlights there if you want. [00:15:05] CC: Yeah. Go for it. [00:15:06] MG: Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Honestly, even though not the first in the list, but the first thing that I read, so maybe from kind of my history of how I approach things, was searching for how do computers work and what are some of the issues and how do computers and machines agree. Obviously, the classic paper that I read was the Lamport paper on “Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System”. I want to be honest. First time I read it, I didn’t really get the full essence of the paper, because it doesn't prove in there. The mathematic proof for me didn't click immediately, and there were so many things and concepts and physics and time that were thrown at me where I was looking for answers and I had more questions than answers. But this is not to Leslie. This is more like by the time I just wasn't prepared for how deep the rabbit hole goes. So I thought, if someone asked me for – I only have time to read one book out of this huge list that I have there and all the other resources. Which one would it be? Which one would I recommend? I would recommend Designing Data-Intensive Apps by Martin Kleppmann, which I’ve been following his blog posts and some partial releases that he's done before fully releasing that book, which took him more than four years to release that book. It’s kind of almost the Bible, state-of-the-art Bible when it comes to all concepts in distributed systems. Obviously, consensus, network failures, and all that stuff but then also leading into modern data streaming, data platform architectures inspired by, for example, LinkedIn and other communities. So that would be the book that I would recommend to someone if – Who does have time to read one book. [00:16:52] DC: That’s a neat approach. I like the idea of like if you had one thing, if you have one way to help somebody ramp on distributed systems and stuff, what would it be? For me, it’s actually I don't think I would recommend a book, oddly enough. I feel like I would actually – I’d probably drive them toward the kind of project, like the kind [inaudible 00:17:09] project and say, “This is a distributed system all but itself.” Start tearing it apart to pieces and seeing how they work and breaking them and then exploring and kind of just playing with the parts. You can do a lot of really interesting things. This is actually another book in your list that was written by Brendan Burns about Designing Distributed Systems I think it’s called. That book, I think he actually uses Kubernetes as a model for how to go about achieving these things, which I think is incredibly valuable, because it really gets into some of the more stable distributed systems patterns that are around. I feel like that's a great entry point. So if I had one thing, if I had to pick one way to help somebody or to push somebody in the direction of trying to learn distributed systems, I would say identify those distributed systems that maybe you’re already aware of and really explore how they work and what the problems with them are and how they went about solving those problems. Really dig into the idea of it. It’s something you could put your hands on and play with. I mean, Kubernetes is a great example of this, and this is actually why I referred to it. [00:18:19] CC: The way that works for me when I’m learning something like that is to really think about where the boundaries are, where the limitations are, where the tradeoffs are. If you can take a smaller system, maybe something like The Kind Project and identify what those things are. If you can’t, then ask around. Ask someone. Google it. I don’t know. Maybe it will be a good episode topic for us to do that. This part is doing this to map things out. So maybe we can understand better and help people understand things better. So mainly like yeah. They try to do the distributed system thesis are. But for people who don’t even know what they could be, it’s harder to identify it. I don’t know what a good strategy for that would be, because you can read about distributed systems and then you can go and look at a project. How do you map the concept to learning to what you’re seeing in the code base? For me, that’s the hardest thing. [00:19:26] MG: Exactly. Something that kind of I had related experience was like when I went into software development, without having formal education on algorithms and data structures, sometimes in your head, you have the problem statement and you're like, “Okay. I would do it like that.” But you don't know the word that describes, for example, a heap structure or queue because you’ve never – Someone told you that is heap, that is a queue, and/or that is a stick. So, for me, reading the book was a bit easier. Even though I have done distributed systems, if you will, administration for many years, many years ago, I didn't realize that it was a distributed system because I never had this definition or I never had those failure scenarios in mind and it never had a word for consensus. So how would I search for something like how do machines agree? I mean, if you put that on Google, then likely they will come – Have a lot of stuff. But if you put it in consensus algorithm, likely you get a good hit on what the answer should be. [00:20:29] CC: It is really problematic when we don't know the names of things because – What you said is so right, because we are probably doing a lot of distributed systems without even knowing that that’s what it is. Then we go in the job interview, and people are, “Oh! Have you done a distributed system?” No. You have but you just don’t know how to name things. But that’s one – [00:20:51] DC: Yeah, exactly. [00:20:52] CC: Yeah. Right? That’s one issue. Another issue, which is a bigger issue though is at least that’s how it is for me. I don’t want to speak for anybody else but for me definitely. If I can’t name things and I face a problem and I solve it, every time I face that problem it’s a one-off thing because I can’t map to a higher concept. So every time I face that problem, it’s like, “Oh!” It’s not like, “Oh, yeah!” If this is this kind of problem, I have a pattern. I’m going to use that to this problem. So that’s what I’m saying. Once you learn the concept, you need to be able to name it. Then you can map that concept to problems you have. All of a sudden, if you have like three things [inaudible 00:21:35] use to solve this problem, because as you work with computers, coding, it’s like you see the same thing over and over again. But when you don’t understand the fundamentals, things are just like – It’s a bunch of different one-offs. It’s like when you have an argument with your spouse or girlfriend or boyfriend. Sometimes, it’s like you’re arguing 10 times in a month and you thought, “Oh! I had 10 arguments.” But if you’d stop and think about it, no. We had one argument 10 times. It’s very different than having 10 problems versus having 1 problem 10 times, if that makes sense. [00:22:12] MG: It does. [00:22:11] DC: I think it does, right? [00:22:12] MG: I just want to agree. [00:22:16] DC: I think it does make sense. I think it’s interesting. You’ve highlighted kind of an interesting pattern around the way that people learn, which I think is really interesting. That is like some people are able to read about patterns or software patterns or algorithms or architectures and have that suddenly be an index of their heads. They can actually then later on correlate what they've read with the experience that they’re having around the things they're working on. For some, it needs to be hands-on. They need to actually be able to explore that idea and understand and manipulate it and be able to describe how it works or functions in person, in reality. They need to have that hands-on like, “I need to touch it to understand it,” kind of experience. Those people also, as they go through those experiences, start building this index of patterns or algorithms in their head. They have this thing that they can correlate to, right, like, “Oh! This is a time problem,” or, “This is a consensus problem,” or what have you, right? [00:23:19] CC: Exactly. [00:23:19] DC: You may not know the word for that saying but you're still going to develop a pattern in your mind like the ability to correlate this particular problem with some pattern that you’ve seen before. What's interesting is I feel like people have taken different approaches to building that index, right? For me, it’s been troubleshooting. Somebody gives me a hard problem, and I dig into it and I figure out what the problem is, regardless of whether it's to do with distributed systems or cooking. It could be anything, but I always want to get right in there and figure out what that problem and start building a map in my mind of all of the players that are involved. For others, I feel like with an educational background, if you have an education background, I think that sometimes you end up coming to this with a set of patterns already instilled that you understand and you're just trying to apply those patterns to the experience you’re having instead. It’s just very – It’s like horse before the cart or cart before the horse. It’s very interesting when you think about it. [00:24:21] CC: Yes. [00:24:22] MG: The recommendation that I just want to give to people that are like me who like reading is that I went overboard a bit in the beginnings because I was so fascinated by all the stuff, and it went down the rabbit hole deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper. Reading and reading and reading. At some point, even coming to weird YouTube channels that talk about like, “Is time real and where does time emerge from?” It became philosophical even like the past where I went to. Now, the thing is, and this is why I like Duffie’s approach with like breaking things and then undergo like trying to break things and understanding how they work and how they can fail is that immediately you practice. You’re hands-on. So that would be my advice to people who are more like me who are fascinated by reading and all the theory that your brain and your mind is not really capable of kind of absorbing all the stuff and then remembering without practicing. Practicing can be breaking things or installing things or administrating things or even writing software. But for me, that was also a late realization that I should have maybe started doing things earlier than the time I spent reading. [00:25:32] CC: By doing, you mean, hands-on? [00:25:35] MG: Yeah. [00:25:35] CC: Anything specific that you would have started with? [00:25:38] MG: Yes. On Kubernetes – So going back those 15 years to my early days of Linux and Samba, which is a project. By the time, I think it was written in C or C++. But the problem was I wasn’t able to read the code. So the only thing that I had by then was some mailing lists and asking questions and not even knowing which questions to ask because of lack of words of understanding. Now, fast-forward into Kubernetes’ time, which got me deeper in distributed systems, I still couldn't read the code because I didn't know [inaudible 00:26:10]. But I forced myself to read the code, which helped a little bit for myself to understand what was going on because the documentation by then was lacking. These days, it’s easier, because you can just install [inaudible 00:26:20] way easier today. The hands-on piece, I mean. [00:26:23] CC: You said something interesting, Michael, and I have given this advice before because I use this practice all the time. It's so important to have a vocabulary. Like you just said, I didn't know what to ask because I didn’t know the words. I practice this all the time. To people who are in this position of distributed systems or whatever it is or something more specific that you are trying to learn, try to expose yourself to the words, because our brains are amazing. Once you get exposure, it’s like your brain works in the background. All of a sudden, you go, “Oh, yeah! I know this word.” So podcasts are great for me. If I don't know something, I will look for a podcast on the subject and I start listening to it. As the words get repeated, just contextually. I don’t have to go and get a degree or anything. Just by listening to the words being spoken in context, absorb the meaning of it. So podcasting is great or YouTube or anything that you can listen. Just in reading too, of course. The best thing is talking to people. But, again, it’s really – Sometimes, it’s not trivial to put yourself in positions where people are discussing these things. [00:27:38] DC: There are actually a number of Meetups here in the Bay Area, and there’s a number of Meetups – That whole Meetup thing is sort of nationwide across the entire US and around the world it seems like now lately. Those Meetups I feel like there are a number of Meetups in different subject areas. There’s one here in the Bay Area called Papers We Love, where they actually do explore interesting technical papers, which are obviously a great place to learn the words for things, right? This is actually where those words are being defined, right? When you get into the consensus stuff, they really get into – One even is Raft. There are many papers on Raft and many papers on multiple things that get into consensus. So definitely, whether you explore a meetup on a distributed system or in a particular application or in a particular theme like Kubernetes, those things are great places just to kind of get more exposure to what people are thinking about in these problems. [00:28:31] CC: That is such a great tip. [00:28:34] MG: Yeah. The podcast is twice as good as well, because for people, non-natives – English speaker, I mean. Oh, people. Not speakers. People. The thing is that the word you’re looking for might be totally different than the English word. For example, consensus in Germany has this totally different meaning. So if I would look that up in German, likely I would find nothing or not really related at all. So you have to go through translation and then finding the stuff. So what you said, Duffie, with PWL, Papers We Love, or podcasts, those words, often they are in English, those podcasts and they are natural consensus or charting or partitioning. Those are the words that you can at least look up like what does it mean. That’s what I did as well thus far. [00:29:16] CC: Yes. I also wanted to do a plus one for Papers We Love. It’s – They are everywhere and they also have an online. They have an online version of the Papers We Love Meetup, and a lot of the local ones film their meetups. So you can go through the history and see if they talked about any paper that you are interested in. Probably, I’m sure multiple locations talk about the same paper, so you can get different takes too. It’s really, really cool. Sometimes, it’s completely obscure like, “I didn’t get a word of what they were saying. Not one. What am I doing here?” But sometimes, they talk about things. You at least know what the thing is and you get like 10% of it. But some paper you don’t. People who deal with papers day in and day out, it’s very much – I don’t know. [00:30:07] DC: It’s super easy when going through a paper like that to have the imposter syndrome wash over you, right, because you’re like – [00:30:13] CC: Yes. Thank you. That’s what I wanted to say. [00:30:15] DC: I feel like I’ve been in this for 20 years. I probably know a few things, right. But in talking about reading this consensus paper going, “Can I buy a vowel? What is happening?” [00:30:24] CC: Yeah. Can I buy a vowel? That’s awesome, Duffie. [00:30:28] DC: But the other piece I want to call out to your point, which I think is important is that some people don't want to go out and be there in person. They don’t feel comfortable or safe exploring those things in person. So there are tons of resources like you have just pointed out like the online version of Papers We Love. You can also sign into Slack and just interact with people via text messaging, right? There’s a lot of really great resources out there for people of all types, including the amount of time that you have. [00:30:53] CC: For Papers We Love, it’s like going to language class. If you go and take a class in Italian, your first day, even though that is going to be super basic, you’re going to be like, “What?” You’ll go back in your third week. You start, “Oh! I’m getting this.” Then a month, three months, “Oh! I’m starting to be competent.” So you go once. You’re going to feel lost and experience imposter syndrome. But you keep going, because that is a format. First, you start absorbing what the format is, and that helps you understand the content. So once your mind absorbs the format, you’re like, “Okay. Now, I have – I know how to navigate this. I know what’s coming next.” So you don’t have to focus on that. You start focusing in the content. Then little but little, you become more proficient in understanding. Very soon, you’re going to be willing to write a paper. I’m not there yet. [00:31:51] DC: That’s awesome. [00:31:52] CC: At least that’s how I think it goes. I don’t know. [00:31:54] MG: I agree. [00:31:55] DC: It’s also changed over time. It’s fascinating. If you read papers from like 20 years ago and you read papers that are written more recently, it's interesting. The papers have changed their language when considering competition. When you're introducing a new idea with a paper, frequently that you are introducing it into a market full of competition. You're being very careful about the language, almost in a way to complicate the idea rather than to make it clear, which is challenging. There are definitely some papers that I’ve read where I was like, “Why are you using so many words to describe this simple idea?” It makes no sense, but yeah. [00:32:37] CC: I don’t want to make this episode all about Papers We Love. It was so good that you mentioned that, Duffie. It’s really good to be in a room where we’ll be watching something online where you see people asking questions and people go, “Oh! Why is this thing like this? Why is X like this,” or, “Why is Y doing like this?” Then you go, “Oh! I didn’t even think that X was important. I didn’t even know that Y was important.” So you stop picking up what the important things are, and that’s what makes it click is now you’ve – Hooking into the important concepts because people who know more than you are pointing out and asking questions. So you start paying attention to learning what the main things it should be paying attention to, which is different from reading the paper by yourself. It’s just a ton of content that you need to sort through. [00:33:34] DC: Yeah. I frequently self-describe it as a perspective junkie, because I feel like for any of us really to learn more about a subject that we feel we understand, we need the perspective of others to really engage, to expand our understanding of that thing. I feel like and I know how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I’ve done it a million times. It’s a solid thing. But then I watch my kid do it and I’m like, “I hadn’t thought of that problem.” [inaudible 00:33:59], right? This is a great example of that. Those communities like Papers We Love are great opportunity to understand the perspective of others around these hard ideas. When we’re trying to understand complex things like distributed systems, this is where it’s at. This is actually how we go about achieving this. There is a lot that you can do on your own but there is always going to be more that you can do together, right? You can always do more. You can always understand this idea faster. You can understand the complexity of a system and how to break it down into these things by exploiting it with other people. That's I feel like – [00:34:40] CC: That is so well said, so well said, and it’s the reason for this show to exist, right? We come on a show and we give our perspectives, and people get to learn from people with different backgrounds, what their takes are on distributed systems, cloud native. So this was such a major plug for the show. Keep coming back. You’re going to learn a ton. Also, it was funny that you – It was the second time you mentioned cooking, made a cooking reference, Duffie, which brings me to something I want to make sure I say on this episode. I added a few things for reference, three books. But the one that I definitely would recommend starting with is The Systems Bible by John Gall. This book is so cool, because it helps you see everything through systems. Everything is a system. A conversation can be a system. An interaction between two people can be a system. I’m not saying this book says that. It’s just like my translation and that you can look – Cooking is a system. There is a process. There is a sequence. It’s really, really cool and it really helps to have things framed in this way and then go out and read the other books on systems. I think it helps a lot. This is definitely what I am starting with and what I would recommend people start with, The Systems Bible. Did you two know this book? [00:36:15] MG: I did not. I don’t. [00:36:17] DC: I’m not aware of it either but I really appreciate the idea. I do think that that's true. If you develop a skill for understanding systems as they are, you’ll basically develop – Frequently, what you’re developing is the ability to recognize patterns, right? [00:36:32] CC: Exactly. [00:36:32] DC: You could recognize those patterns on anything. [00:36:37] MG: Yeah. That's a good segue for just something that came to my mind. Recently, I gave a talk on event-driven architectures. For someone who's not a software developer or architect, it can be really hard to grab all those concepts on asynchrony and eventual consistency and idempotency. There are so many words of like, “What is this all – It sounds weird, way too complex.” But I was reading a book some years ago by Gregor Hohpe. He’s the guy behind Enterprise Integration Patterns. That’s also a book that I have on my list here. He said, “Your barista doesn't use two-phase commit.” So he was basically making this analogy of he was in a coffee shop and he was just looking at the process of how the barista makes the coffee. You pay for it and all the things that can go wrong while your coffee is brewed and served to you. So he was making this relation between the real world and the life and human society to computer systems. There it clicked to me where I was like, “So many problems we solve every day, for example, agreeing on a time where we should meet for dinner or cooking, is a consensus problem, and we solve it.” We even solve it in the case of failure. I might not be able to call Duffie, because he is not available right now. So somehow, we figure out. I always thought that those problems just exist in computer science and distributed systems. But I realized actually that's just a subset of the real world as is. Looking at those problems through the lens of your daily life and you get up and all the stuff, there are so many things that are related to computer systems. [00:38:13] CC: Michael, I missed it. Was it an article you read? [00:38:16] MG: Yes. I need to put that in there as well. Yeah. It’s a plug. [00:38:19] CC: Please put that in there. Absolutely. So far from being any kind of expert in distributed systems, but I have noticed. I have caught myself using systems thinking for even complicated conversations. Even in my personal life, I started approaching things in the systems oriented and just the – just a high-level example. When I am working with systems, I can approach from the beginning, the end. It’s like a puzzle, putting the puzzle together, right? Sometimes, it starts from the middle. Sometimes, it starts from the edges. When I‘m having conversations that I need to be very strategic like I have one shot. Let’s say maybe I’m in a school meeting and I have to reach a consensus or have a solution or have a plan of action. I have to ask the right questions. My private self would do things linearly. Historically like, “Let’s go from the beginning and work out through the end.” Now, I don’t do that anymore. Not necessarily. Sometimes, I like, “Let me maybe ask the last question I would ask and see where it leads and just approach things from a different way.” I don’t know if this is making sense. [00:39:31] MG: It does. It does. [00:39:32] CC: But my thinking has changed. The way I see the possibilities is not a linear thing anymore. I see how you can truly switch things. I use this in programming a lot and also writing. Sometimes, when you’re a beginner writer, you start at the top and you go down to the conclusion. Sometimes, I start I the middle and go up, right? So you can start anywhere. It’s beautiful or it just gives you so many more options. Or maybe I’m just crazy. Don’t listen to me. [00:40:03] DC: I don’t think you’re crazy. I was going to say, one of the funny things about Michael’s point and your point both, it’s like in a way that they have kind of referred to Conway's law, the idea that people will build systems in the way that they communicate. So this is actually – It totally brings it back to that same point of thing, right? We by nature will build systems that we can understand, because that is the constraint in which we have to work, right? So it’s very interesting. [00:40:29] CC: Yeah. But it’s an interesting thing, because we are [inaudible 00:40:32] by the way we are forced to work. For example, I work with constraints and what I'm saying is that that has been influencing my way of thinking. So, yes, I built systems in the way I think but also because of the constraints that I’m dealing with that I have to be – the tradeoffs I need to make, that also turns around and influences the way I think, the way I see the world and the rest of the systems and all the rest of the world. Of course, as I change my thinking, possibly you can theorize that you go back and apply that. Apply things that you learn outside of your work back to your work. It’s a beautiful back-and-forth I think. [00:41:17] MG: I had the same experience with some – When I had to design kind of my first API and think of, “Okay. What would the consumer contract be and what would a consumer expect me to deliver in response and so on?” I was forcing myself and being explicit in communicating and not throwing everything at the client back to confusing but being very explicit and precise. Also on communication every day when you talk to people, being explicit and precise really helps to avoid a lot of problems and trouble. Be it partnership or amongst friends or at work. This is what I took from computer science actually back into my real world in order to taking all those perceptions, perceiving things from a different perspective, and being more precise and explicit in how I respond or communicated. [00:42:07] CC: My take on what you just said, Michael, is we design systems thinking how is this going to fail. We know this is going to fail. We’re going to design for that. We’re going to implement for that. In real life, for example, if I need to get an agreement from someone, I try to understand the person's thinking and just go, “I just had this huge thing this week. This is in my mind.” I’m not constantly thinking about this, I’m not crazy like that. Just a little bit crazy. It’s like, “How does this person think? What do they need to know? How far can I push?” Right? We need to make a decision quickly, so the approach is everything, and sometimes you only get one shot, so yeah. I mean, correct me if I’m wrong. That's how I heard or I interpreted what you just said. [00:42:52] MG: Yeah, absolutely. Spot on. Spot on. So I’m not crazy as well. [00:42:55] CC: Basically, I think we ended up turning this episode into a little bit of like, “Here are great references,” and also a huge endorsement for really going deep into distributed systems, because it’s going to be good for your jobs. It’s going to be good for your life. It’s going to be good for your health. We are crazy. [00:43:17] DC: I’m definitely crazy. You guys might be. I’m not. All right. So we started this episode with the idea of coming to learning distributed systems perhaps without a degree or without a formal education in it. We talked about a ride of different ideas on that subject. Like different approaches that each of us took, how each of us see the problem. Is there any important point that either of you want to throw back into the mix here or bring up in relation to that? [00:43:48] MG: Well, what I take from this episode, being my first episode and getting to know your background, Duffie and Carlisia, is that whoever is going to listen to this episode, whatever background you have, even though you might not be in computer systems or industry at all, I think we three all had approved that whatever background you have, if you’re just curious a little bit and maybe a little bit crazy, you can totally get down the rabbit hole in distributed systems and get totally excited about it. There’s no need for having formal education and the degree to enter this world. It might help but it’s kind of not a high bar that I was perceiving it to be 10 years ago, for example. [00:44:28] CC: Yeah. That’s a good point. My takeaway is it always puzzled me how some people are so good and experienced and such experts in distributed systems. I always look at myself. It’s like, “How am I lacking?” It’s like, “What memo did I miss? What class did I miss? What project did I not work on to get the experience?” What I’m seeing is you just need to put yourself in that place. You need to do the work. But the good news is achieving competency in distributed systems is doable. [00:45:02] DC: My takeaway is as we discussed before, I think that there is no one thing that comprises a distributed system. It is a number of things, right, and basically a number of behaviors or patterns that we see that comprise what a distributed system is. So when I hear people say, “I’m not an expert in distributed systems,” I think, “Well, perhaps you are and maybe you don’t know it already.” Maybe there's some particular set of patterns with which you are incredibly familiar. Like you understand DNS better than the other 20 people in the room. That exposes you to a set of patterns that certainly give you the capability of saying that you are an expert in that particular set of patterns. So I think that to both of your points, it’s like you can enter this stage where you want to learn about distributed systems from pretty much any direction. You can learn it from a CIS background. You can come it with no computer experience whatsoever, and it will obviously take a bit more work. But this is really just about developing and understanding around how these things communicate and the patterns with which they accomplish that communication. I think that’s the important part. [00:46:19] CC: All right, everybody. Thank you, Michael Gasch, for being with us now. I hope to – [00:46:25] MG: Thank you. [00:46:25] CC: To see you in more episodes [inaudible 00:46:27]. Thank you, Duffie. [00:46:30] DC: My pleasure. [00:46:31] CC: Again, I’m Carlisia Campos. With us was Duffie Cooley and Michael Gesh. This was episode 12, and I hope to see you next time. Bye. [00:46:41] DC: Bye. [00:46:41] MG: Goodbye. [END OF EPISODE] [00:46:43] ANNOUNCER: Thank you for listening to The Podlets Cloud Native Podcast. Find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ThePodlets and on the http://thepodlets.io/ website, where you'll find transcripts and show notes. We'll be back next week. Stay tuned by subscribing. [END]See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brian Grant (@BrianGrantOrg) - Founder of the Brian Grant Foundation and former NBA star joins us to discuss his charitable foundation and how it is assisting those people living with Parkinson's. Grant was diagnosed with Parkinson's a decade ago following a successful 12-year NBA career with the Sacramento Kings, Portland Trail Blazers, Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns.  Sports Business Radio is teaming with the Brian Grant Foundation for Giving Tuesday. Purchase a Sports Business Radio t-shirt from Parish Project and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Brian Grant Foundation (www.briangrant.org). Order a Sports Business Radio t-shirt by emailing Steve Ullrich at Parish Project at sullrich@ignite-design.net. Designs available on our Twitter feed @SBRadio or on our Instagram feed @SportsBusinessRadio. Donate to the Brian Grant Foundation directly on Giving Tuesday by going to www.briangrant.org. Also joining us on Sports Business Radio this week is Melissa Harper, Co-Founder and CEO of Good Sports (www.goodsports.org). Good Sports is a national nonprofit connecting Fortune 500 companies and the sports industry directly to underserved communities in an effort to save youth sports. Over the past 15 years, Good Sports has provided more than $50M worth of new sports equipment, footwear and apparel to 4265 youth programs impacting 7.2M kids in all 50 states. Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Sports Business Radio!

Ashtyn Butuso (@lil_buts), co-founder and editor-in-chief Flagrant Magazine joins the WHAT podcast. The new magazine will debut this fall and we got a peek at what will be inside and what goes in to launching a new venture. Then we have a wide ranging discussion in which we report what we uncovered about the newest Trail Blazers from our exhaustive Twitter and Instagram research. Who has a long-standing love of fish? Who was once involved in a trade for Steve Blake? Does Hassan Whiteside have any tattoos? How is Anthony Tolliver working to make the word a better place? Along the way, we talk about CJ McCollum’s $100 million extension, Karl Malone hitting Brian Grant in the face, a potential Carmelo Anthony farewell tour and, finally, we open an investigation into whether Hassan Whiteside has any tattoos (drop us your tips: hoopsandtalks@gmail.com). Get Social Follow Blazer’s Edge on Twitter @blazersedge, WHAT Pod @HoopsAndTalks, Tara @tcbbiggs, and Cassidy @CassidyGemmet. This week’s guest: FlagrantMag on Instagram, @lil_buts Women’s Hoops And Talks (W.H.A.T.)Join the Women’s Hoops And Talks Facebook group to talk about Trail Blazers with others who identify as women who love basketball. Music used in the episode: "Happy Alley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Brian Grant joined the Borg team in 2009, and went on to co-found both Omega and Kubernetes. He is co-Technical Lead of Google Kubernetes Engine, co-Chair of Kubernetes SIG Architecture, a Kubernetes API approver, a Kubernetes Steering Committee member, and a CNCF Technical Oversight Committee member, where he’s sponsored 11 CNCF projects. Your hosts talk to him about all those things. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Sunset from Mauao (Mount Maunganui) Russian Doll on Netflix Edge of Tomorrow sequel back on News of the week Rancher introduces k3s Didn’t they launch it 5 months ago? k3s.io VMware launches VMware Essential PKS Istio Operator from BanzaiCloud CVE-2019-1002100 containerd graduates at the CNCF Scytale announces $5m funding and Scytale Enterprise SPIFFE and SPIRE Automate operations on your cluster with OperatorHub.io OperatorHub website RightScale State of the Cloud 2019 Links from the interview Borg, Omega and Kubernetes Borg paper Omega paper Issue 831: implement Image volumes and container volumes in Kubernetes Chubby key-value store paper IP per Pod LMCTFY CNCF TOC Updated 2018 mission for the CNCF SIG and Working Group List Devstats PR 1325: create kubectl Brian Grant on Twitter PR 607

The Portland Tribune's award winning sports reporter Kerry Eggers interviews Blazer legend Brian Grant.

Jerome's teammates, friends and family reflect on his career, and his tremendous impact on the Trail Blazers and Portland community.

5R139- Ethan and Chris are joined by former Miami Heat point guard Tim Hardaway for the latest installment of our Miami Heat series. We run through his entire basketball career, including the Run TMC era in Golden State, his trade to the Heat, his relationship with Pat Riley and Alonzo Mourning, the Heat's battles with the Knicks and more. Also, who was his toughest matchup, does he regret the way his Heat career ended, and why isn't he in the Hall of Fame? Thanks to our sponsors Doral Toyota and PC Reboot. Find other Heat Stories episodes including Udonis Haslem, Mario Chalmers, Brian Grant, Grant Long, Eric Reid, John Crotty, Ron Rothstein and Tony Fiorentino. 

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5R75 -- In the latest edition of our "Heat Stories" series, Ethan and Chris speak to Brian Grant, who played in the NBA from 1994 to 2006, including 2000 to 2004 with the Miami Heat. The candid conversation starts with Grant's upbringing in Ohio and his breakout at Xavier University; continues with his drafting to Sacramento and signing in Portland; and covers his recruitment by Pat Riley to join the Heat. It closes with his diagnosis with early-onset Parkinson's Disease, his friendships with Michael J. Fox and the Ali family, Pat Riley dubbing him a "Forever Man" at his Shake It 'til We Make It event, and his work toward a cure for the disease with the Brian Grant Foundation.   Sponsored by: -- Doral Toyota   -- Miss Ink - Miami Social Media Marketing Services

This week Tim and Sean are joined by former NBA Power Forward Brian Grant. Brian talks about his time in Portland with the Trailblazers, reflecting on how close they were to beating the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, What it was like playing with Rasheed Wallace and also talks about being in Miami and how soon he knew Dwyane Wade was a special player. Tim also gets a chance to talk to Brian about his time at Xavier University and his impressions of his college teammate and former Xavier Basketball coach Chris Mack. Lastly Brian talks about his involvement in Parkinsons research and how he is doing a lot of work in Parkinson's awareness as well as Public Speaking. Thanks to Tim Kitzrow of NBA Jam for the opening theme as well as Mega Ran for consent to use the song "48 Minutes"

I grew up watching Brian Grant compete during his 12-year career in the NBA. And I intentionally used the word "compete" because Brian played his tail off. He went up against bigger players like Shaq, and seemed to never blink an eye. He had a ferocity about him that I loved. He played with a chip on his shoulder.  In this episode, you will hear Brian discuss his unique and surprising journey to the NBA, his mindset when practicing and performing, and his battle with Parkinson's Disease which started at the young age of 36.  Today, Brian continues to inspire as a speaker, philanthropist, and a patient who insists on thriving with Parkinson’s disease. His mission is to help people become their best, even when it seems impossible. Brian started his career at Xavier University where he was Player of the Year twice for the Midwestern Collegiate Conference. He was drafted in the first round, eighth overall, in the 1994 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings. His career continued with the Portland Trail Blazers, Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers, and Phoenix Suns. During this time, Brian also served underprivileged youth and sick families in his community. His contributions earned him the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award. Brian has a great sense of humor and is an amazing story-teller. Check out his work at http://www.briangrantspeaks.com/, on Twitter @bwgrant, and his foundation https://briangrant.org/. Also, if you liked this episode and others, please support us at Patreon or follow me on Twitter: @brianlevenson or Instagram: @IntentionalPerformers. Thanks, Brian  

The Trail Blazers may be out of the playoffs but there is plenty still to talk about on the Women’s Hoops and Talks podcast! Join Tara and Kendyl to talk about what lies in store for the Blazers and meet the woman behind one of the most entertaining NBA Twitter accounts, @its_whitney, SB Nation’s, Whitney Medworth. Tara and Kendyl put the 2017-18 season behind them and start talking about the future. What lies in store for the team? What are the off season goals? When is it too late to add something new to your game? What will the summer bring? Then, Whitney Medworth (@its_whitney) of SB Nation joins the podcast to talk about the world of NBA social media, favorite non-basketball stories of the season, and chasing down players at All Star weekend to ask them who they would pick to be on their bobsled team? 1:00 What happened to the Trail Blazers in the first round? The Blazers were not able to adjust when Dame was not available. 3:00 Off season goals. 5:00 Is Zach Collins ready to start? 6:30 Is Ed Davis the new Brian Grant in terms of fan appreciation? Importance of having veterans on the roster. 11:50 What are you most excited about? 13:20 Last summer was too quiet, but something must happen this summer. Will it be exciting or a whole lot of nothing? 15:20 Stretching players is worse than unexciting, its anti-exciting. 16:00 Aminu is so valuable and his salary is actually going down next year. 15:00 Toronto vs Cavs and please let there never be a playoff round without LeBron. 20:30 A little bit about the OKC Jazz Series 24:15 Trading Evan Turner and Moe Harkless to OKC for Melo who we let start with Jake Layman as backup (ok, it was getting late . . . ) 28:00 Whitney Medworth on fan perspective 29:00 Checking in on how the Pacers season went 33:22 From sports management to event management to social engagement 35:12 Winning free tickets to Pacers games by being all in on Danny Granger 38:00 Running and coordinating social media for SB Nation during the season 41:40 The NBA never stops 43:00 NBA B-Sides column 46:30 Did a truck crashing into Evan Turner’s pool make it into a B-Sides column? 48:00 For those who are not yet into it, how would you suggest people get started with Twitter? 49:24 Going to the All Star Game as a media member 52:00 Get excited about the new, young players in the league 52:45 Will older players ever be more like elder statesmen laying the groundwork for the rising stars? 55:10 What will happen with LeBron, Paul George and other free agents this summer? 58:00 A woman Whitney admires is WNBA player and studio analyst Candace Parker. Get Social Follow Blazer’s Edge on Twitter @blazersedge, WHAT Pod @HoopsAndTalks, Tara @tcbbiggs, and Kendyl @kendylbennett16. Join the Women’s Hops And Talks Facebook group to talk about Trail Blazers with others who identify as women who love basketball. Music used in the episode: "Happy Alley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Google’s central system for managing compute resources is called Borg. On Borg, millions of Linux containers process a wide variety of workloads. When a new application is spun up, Borg provides that application with the resources it needs. Workloads at Google usually fall into one of two distinct categories: long-running application workloads (such as Gmail) The post Google Cluster Evolution with Brian Grant appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Google’s central system for managing compute resources is called Borg. On Borg, millions of Linux containers process a wide variety of workloads. When a new application is spun up, Borg provides that application with the resources it needs. Workloads at Google usually fall into one of two distinct categories: long-running application workloads (such as Gmail) The post Google Cluster Evolution with Brian Grant appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Former Los Angeles Laker Brian Grant came on to discuss some of the stops in his NBA career and his current work with the Brian Grant Foundation. Brian was diagnosed with Parkinson's several years ago and has committed his time and resources to helping others in the Parkinsons community. Check out his web site and make a donation if you can: https://briangrant.org/

Trailblazer great, Brian Grant joins the Rip City Drive to discuss Portland's big win last night over the Golden State Warriors and much more!

Chad is flying solo today on a Thursday. He gets into the Blazers big win last night versus the Golden State Warriors and what made it so special going into the All-Star Break. He chats with Rachel Baribeau, Brian Grant, and Dan Marang is in-studio. Don't miss out!

IT'S ALMOST FRIDAYYY! One more day until the weekend and we are all ready for it! We jump right into the Blazers new alternative jerseys... and they are all Red. Dan somewhat dislikes it, and Nigel is all for this new Jersey idea. Also on the show, we talk about Brian Grant's fundraiser happening later tonight, the Ducks and Beavers matchups this weekend,Brian Cushing getting suspended, and more. We had former Duck Anthony Newman, and former Blazer Brian Grant on the show this morning.

In the latest episode of The Trail, Michael Lewellen and Brooke Olzendam look back on the signing of big man Brian Grant, his lasting legacy in Rip City and his rivalry with Hall of Famer Karl Malone.

Brian Grant in studio to start off the show. What are the chances the Blazers will beat the Warriors in the first round

Brian Grant stops by the studio and makes the mistake of sticking around for Kirk's questions.

Utah Jazz radio voice and Jazz NBA insider David Locke previews the Jazz match up with both LA teams and then talks to Brian Grant, former NBA player about playing the Mailman, living with Parkinson's and Sloan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the second part of the two-part series, we pick up where we left off in the Arvydas Sabonis saga: His arrival and impact in the NBA. Guests include David Stern, Brian Grant, PJ Carlesimo, Chris Dudley and Bob Whitsitt. [Includes music from Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s » http://apple.co/2a97NqX]

Simon Fraser Clan head football coach Kelly Bates, Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary athletic director Brian Gemmell, B.C. girls hoops coaches Brian Grant of Immaculata and MEI’s Rick Thiessen.

Tues. Feb 10th Noon CST on Equestrian Legacy Radio's SADDLE UP AMERICA! GARY HOLT and TINA MAE WEBER are joined by ROBERT "TRAILMEISTER" EVERSOLE  for lively and informative discussion on Horse Camping in the Back Country. We travel to Southern California to talk with BRIAN GRANT of STAGECOACH TRAILS HORSE CAMP & RV RESORT at the edge of the Anza Borrego State Park.  Great riding in the High Desert near the historic town of Julian CA. SADDLE UP AMERICA! is brought to you by Trailguard 24 hour Roadside Assistance Learn more about Trailguard at www.trailguard.org And by Trailhead Supply your Source for the Best Camping Gear, Horse Packing Equipment & Horse Riding Gear.   Learn more about Trailhead Supply at www.trailheadsupply.com EQUESTRIAN LEGACY RADIO is Heard Around the World on our FREE Mobile App and Online at www.equestrainlegacy.net

Guests on this weeks show include Trail Blazer Team President Chris McGowan, Bob Robertson - Blazer Oregonian Beat Writer from 1974-78, and Brian Grant to discuss "Shake It Till We Make It"

Message from Brian Grant on August 15, 2007