Podcasts about Burger King

President Trump and the modern right have a theory of beauty. You see it in Trump's gilded Oval Office, his imagined arch and his executive order requiring classical and traditional styles for certain federal buildings. This isn't my theory of beauty, but it is a theory. And it's a response, in part, to something that a lot of people have been feeling, and not just on the right: that the modern world is ugly, or getting uglier. I've seen at least a dozen articles or videos over the last few years asking, “Is the world getting uglier?” They point to the drabness of new apartment blocks, the sameness of new cars and the reign of “greige” in homes and fashion. So I've wanted to do an episode on this for a while. Why does the world seem to be getting uglier, or drabber? And at a moment when the right has a clear answer to this feeling, does the left have any answer at all? Debbie Millman teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and hosts the long-running podcast “Design Matters,” where she talks to creative people about design. In her long career as a brand designer, she revamped the logos for companies like Burger King, 7 Up and Häagen-Dazs. She's also written a number of books on design, and recently wrote an article for Time magazine, “Is the World Getting Uglier?” Mentioned:“Is the World Getting Uglier?” by Debbie Millman“Why Is Everything So Ugly?” by n+1“How Did The World Get So Ugly?” by Sheehan QuirkeBook Recommendations:“The Voice That Is Great Within Us” by Hayden Carruth“Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel García Márquez“Ulysses” by James Joyce“Hunger” by Roxane GayThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find the transcript and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.htmlThis episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin and Marie Cascione. Fact-checking by Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our recording engineer is Aman Sahota. Cinematography by Marina King and Kyle Kelley. Video editing by Kristen Williamson. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Shows is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Vanessa Friedman. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Listen to and follow Fair Game from Vanity Fair on ⁠YouTube⁠ or ⁠wherever you get your podcasts. When you sit down with playwright, producer, and provocateur Jeremy O. Harris, you never really know what you're going to get; today's conversation is no exception. In this episode of Fair Game, Harris and Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci touch on everything from Jeremy's childhood to the Democratic Socialists of America, from the state of the American theater to why the tech industry's leaders are not prioritizing giving back to society. They also discuss Jeremy's 2018 theatrical debut, Slave Play, and why Jeremy pushed to make sure it made a splash.  “People don't realize that every year that I wasn't making real money, my mom was calling me and saying, 'Goodyear's hiring. You could come back and work at the factory,'” Harris says. “I was doing anything I could to not go back to Virginia and have to work at a Burger King.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Listen to and follow Fair Game from Vanity Fair on ⁠YouTube⁠ or ⁠wherever you get your podcasts⁠. When you sit down with playwright, producer, and provocateur Jeremy O. Harris, you never really know what you're going to get; today's conversation is no exception. In this episode of Fair Game, Harris and Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci touch on everything from Jeremy's childhood to the Democratic Socialists of America, from the state of the American theater to why the tech industry's leaders are not prioritizing giving back to society. They also discuss Jeremy's 2018 theatrical debut, Slave Play, and why Jeremy pushed to make sure it made a splash.  “People don't realize that every year that I wasn't making real money, my mom was calling me and saying, 'Goodyear's hiring. You could come back and work at the factory,'” Harris says. “I was doing anything I could to not go back to Virginia and have to work at a Burger King.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shit girl summer isn't over just yet! Join the ladies for a final hurrah before fall. Rest in peace to sweet podcat Diablo. We will miss that silly shoe loving boy ❤️ Write us some of your cringe stories at nervouslaughterpodcast@gmail.comThe socials: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

Guest: Christina Amparon City of Aurora Youth Violence Prevention Program During the afternoon of Sunday, August 30, over 500 teens descended upon the King Soopers store and the Burger King restaurant in the Aurora Hoffman Heights Shopping Center. It took over 70 police to quell the vandalizing and ripping off of merchandise. These “teen takeovers” have also happened in Chicago and Detroit. This program covers what can be done to end them here. 

What comes to mind when you think of the phrase “flamed-grilled” burgers, or even to “have it your way”? For over seven decades, Burger King built its identity around its freshly flame-grilled burgers and the iconic Whopper. But behind that familiar bite, is a giant food empire altogether. The brand is part of Restaurant Brands International, a company formed in 2014 following the merger of Burger King and coffee chain Tim Hortons. Today, the Toronto headquartered company owns four of the world’s most prominent fast food chains, namely Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeyes and Firehouse Subs. It is more notably one of the world’s largest quick service restaurant companies with nearly US$49 billion in annual system-wide sales generated across over 33,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries and territories. Restaurant Brands International is a company to look at not just because of the sheer scale of its operations, but also because of its recent efforts to rejuvenate APAC business in the past three years. In late October 2022, Restaurant Brands International’s subsidiary PLK Apac appointed Fei Siong Group to run the Popeyes fried chicken chain in Singapore after working with Malaysian restaurant operator Revenue Valley for over a decade. The firm also launched the Popeye’s brand in Indonesia and South Korea that same year, and announced a nationwide expansion in China the following year. Then came the year 2023, where its coffee brand Tim Hortons entered the Singapore market, and made a plan to open over 150 outlets in South Korea in five years. But perhaps what’s even more exciting was a move by Restaurant Brands International to buy Burger King China back from Turkish restaurant franchise operator TFI and global private equity firm Cartesian in 2025. Later that year, the company announced a joint venture with Chinese alternative asset manager CPE to reimagine the next phase of growth for Burger King, with the aim to expand the burger chain’s footprint from roughly 1,250 outlets to over 4,000 by 2035. So why is the firm aggressively expanding in Asia right now? On Under the Radar, finance presenter Chua Tian Tian posed these questions to Daphne Kuah, Chief Commercial Officer, Restaurant Brands International APAC.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The attorney and podcaster Charles Star joins us from Brooklyn to discuss the first Star Wars theatrical release in 7 years, Jon Favreau's The Mandalorian and Grogu, featuring Pedro Pascal and Grogu as himself in his big screen debut.The film itself wasn't as captivating to us as the mysteries around the release: why did Disney turn a planned fourth season of their streaming series The Mandalorian into a 2 hour movie for theatres instead? Why does it still feel like a tv show even on the big screen? Why were Grogu garlic chicken fries on the menu at Burger King? Do kids still even care about Star Wars at this point?  And why are the online jokes about killing Grogu so funny? Charles and I go to Riff City trying to answer these questions.Over 30% of all Junk Filter episodes are only available to patrons of the podcast. To support this show directly and to receive access to the entire back catalogue, consider becoming a patron for only $5.00 a month (U.S.) at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/junkfilterFollow Charles Star on Bluesky.Charles co-hosts the No Homework podcast; listen to the show and support them on Patreon. “Grogu's Hungry” - Burger King commercial (2026)“Kill Grogu”, by Sean T. Collins, for Defector, May 21, 2026

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Starbucks is closing even more locations. Burger King is shifting gears on drive-thru AI. And Cyclospora fears put a damper on Olive Garden's summer.Learn more about Yelp Host at https://business.yelp.com/nrn

Andy and Scott are joined by Hunter Fagan to discuss more spooky and nostalgic commercials in time for the Halloween Season including 7-11, Nightmare, Snickers, Burger King, and the Simpsons. Happy Spooky Season, Real Fans! Find more Real Fans 4 Real Movies on the internet: Web | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram   Rate, review, & subscribe to the RF4RM Podcast on: Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn   Your feedback is appreciated. Send emails to podcast@rf4rm.com

This week, Marc and Scott talk about the Connor Hellebuyck suspension, the pre-season is in full swing, and Burger King in Switzerland is having it their way. Lyle Richardson of Spector's Hockey joins to talk Hellebuyck, Dylan Larkin, and more!! 

When a client asks for a rebrand, the instinct is obvious: change it. New logo. New look. New everything.But what if the smartest design decision is knowing what NOT to change?In this episode of The Angry Designer, Massimo and Shawn break down Calendly's latest rebrand, revisit the controversial identity it replaced, and question why Graphic Designers feel so much pressure to redesign everything just to prove their value.Because great design isn't about how much you change. It's knowing what actually needs changing.In this episode, you'll discover: Why Graphic Designers are often pushed to overdesign  How to know when to keep, evolve, or completely overhaul a brand  Why restraint may be one of the hardest skills for a Graphic Designer to learn From Calendly and Pentagram to Burger King and Cracker Barrel, this episode looks past whether a logo simply "looks good" and asks the question Graphic Designers should be asking first:Does this actually need to change?Stay Angry our Friends –––––––––––Join Anger Management for Designers Newsletter at https://tinyurl.com/mr4bb4j3Want to see more?  See uncut episodes on our YouTube channel at youtube.com/theangrydesigner Read our blog posts on our website TheAngryDesigner.comJoin in the conversation on our Instagram Instagram.com/TheAngryDesignerPodcast

Ode (@thatsod.e / @thatsod_e) and Mo "Kid" Licorish (@licorishislegit) welcome rock journalist and MP3s and NPCs founder Terrance Pryor for a conversation that traces his path from a college radio host at UCCR through booking tours and writing for NJ Underground and Examiner, all the way to launching his own outlet in June 2019 after years of frustration with industry access. Terrance recounts publicly calling out Metal Sucks and Metal Injection over how the metal press treats Black writers, and he describes being passed over for credentials in favor of comedians and Twitch streamers with large followings despite two decades of experience. He connects that fight to Cheryl Lee Ralph's Emmys red carpet remark about building a table when none is offered, the same instinct that led MP3s and NPCs to eventual distribution through Microsoft Start and Apple News. The conversation moves through fandom territory covering Bocchi the Rock, The Devil Is a Part-Timer, Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, and Samurai Pizza Cats, alongside newer game favorites like Vampire Survivors and Fear & Hunger, plus a detour into Slipknot's real-life Burger King collaboration from his time on AXS TV's Music's Greatest Mysteries.Terrance closes with direct advice for anyone breaking into journalism: start a blog, own the platform instead of renting space on TikTok or Instagram, and treat BET's recent deletion of its journalism archive as a warning about what happens when writing lives on someone else's server. Mo shares an update on new medication and describes the adjustment period using a Goldilocks analogy, while Odie discusses recently connecting with a psychiatrist ahead of upcoming talk therapy. The big mad segment covers Terrance's exhaustion after PAX West travel, Mo's frustration with YouTube's repeated interface changes and his past experience working for the MTA, and Odie's breakdown of designer Telfar's 9/11-themed shirt and the backlash to its accompanying Instagram caption. The episode ends on lighter ground with Terrance's love of LA's improv scene at UCB and The Pack Theater, Odie's upcoming trip home to North Carolina, and Mo's seasonal apartment cleaning ahead of Halloween.Terrance Pryor's Website: terrancepryor.comInstagram: instagram.com/terrancepryormp3sandnpcs.comConnect with the Snerdy Crew: Watch, Listen, or Sponsor the show: ⁠https://beacons.ai/blackandsnerdy⁠⁠

Het aandeel heeft prachtige jaren achter de rug, het orderboek stroomt over, maar toch vindt de grootste aandeelhouder van Heijmans het genoeg geweest. De familie Van Wanrooij doet z'n gehele belang in het bedrijf van de hand. Het belang van 8,4 procent wordt prompt op de beurs verhandelbaar gemaakt, en Heijmans zegt zelf niks met de transactie te maken te hebben. Wat is hier aan de hand? We zoeken het deze aflevering voor je uit. Ook iemand anders gooit de handdoek in de ring. 12 Amerikaanse staten staken hun rechtszaak tegen Paramount Skydance. Ze wilden voorkomen dat de overname van Warner Brothers Discovery door zou gaan. Maar na een schikking denken ze er anders over. En zo is de grootste beer van de weg in de overname waar 110 miljard dollar mee gemoeid is. Verder hebben we het over Muse. De AI-agent van Mark Zuckerberg is een hit, en zelfs de meest gedownloade app in de Appstore. Het is de kers op de taart voor het aandeel deze maand, want terwijl iedereen gespannen luistert AI-topmannen die bang zijn voor hun eigen creatie vliegt Meta door het dak. En we vertellen je over McDonalds. Vette burgers en frieten leveren daar niet genoeg op, dus hebben ze een nieuw idee om geld te verdienen. Te gast: Corné van Zeijl van Cardano BNR Beurs is een journalistiek onafhankelijke productie, mede mogelijk gemaakt door Saxo. Over de makers: Jelle Maasbach is presentator van BNR Beurs en freelance financieel journalist. Zijn favoriete aandeel om over te praten is Disney, maar daar lijkt hij de enige in te zijn. Sinds de eerste uitzending van BNR Beurs is 'ie er bij. Maxim van Mil is presentator van BNR Beurs en journalist bij BNR, waar hij zich focust op de financiële markten en ontwikkelingen in de tech-wereld. Je krijgt hem het meest enthousiast als hij kan praten over ASML, of oer-Hollandse bedrijven zoals Ahold of ABN Amro. Jorik Simonides is presentator van BNR Beurs, economieredacteur en verslaggever bij BNR. Hij wordt er vooral blij van als het een keer níet over AI gaat. Je hoort hem ook in de BNR-podcast Moerdijk: dorp van de rekening. Milou Brand is presentator van BNR Beurs, freelance podcastmaker en columnist bij het Financieele Dagblad. Jochem Visser is presentator van BNR Beurs, maakt Beursnerd XL en is redacteur bij de podcast Onder Curatoren. Vraag hem naar obscure zaken op financiële markten en hij vertelt je waarom het eigenlijk nóg leuker is dan je al dacht. Over de podcast: Met BNR Beurs ga je altijd voorbereid de nieuwe beursdag in. We praten je in een kleine 25 minuten bij over alle laatste ontwikkelingen op de handelsvloer. We blijven niet alleen bij de AEX of Wall Street, maar vertellen je ook waar nog meer kansen liggen. En we houden het niet bij de cijfers, maar zoeken ook iedere dag voor je naar duiding van scherpe gasten en experts. Of je nu een ervaren belegger bent of net begint met je eerste stappen op de beurs, de podcast biedt waardevolle inzichten voor je beleggingsstrategie. Door de focus op zowel de korte termijn als de lange termijn, helpt BNR Beurs luisteraars om de ruis van de markt te scheiden van de essentie. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sorry we are all in Pittsburgh standing outside a Sheetz asking people if yinz can spare a hoagie so we had to unlock one   Jelly Roll got divorced from Whoopi Goldberg because she was cheating on him with an IDF soldier named Egirl Vitubor. Men are just playthings to her. You need some squishy dumplings so bad at the store. If you have a Burger King and a Dairy Queen and a Jack in the Box near you try doing the Royal Flush

Back to the three-man weave! It's a cold, rainy Saturday night in Chicago as we head into the final weekend of summer. The boys are also back where it all began: the basement where Saturday Night Pregame originated! We kick things off by recapping last week's fun, including a little over-serving of a friend. With tax season keeping everyone busy, the plans for the evening are pretty low-key. Sometimes a quiet night is exactly what the doctor ordered. Then it's time to jump into last week's news and kick off the new week. We discuss the HYROX race craze (and the very real fear of pooping yourself mid-race), cannabis edibles and kids, the costs of buying and remodeling a home, Burger King's new menu and whether anything has really changed, plus some local Chicago news. We also break down the UFC fights and Week 1 of the NFL season. The boys share their thoughts, make their picks, and somehow manage to go 3-for-4 on the bets! As always, we finish the episode on a high note with some feel good stories to close out another Saturday Night Pregame. Grab a drink and get ready — it's another classic episode of the Saturday Night Pregame!

00:01:00 — Weak Fart Start: The show opens with the 256th edition and immediately critiques the quality of a fart sound.00:01:20 — “Can't Do Attitude”: The official motto of the episode becomes a perfect summary of the entire show.00:02:13 — Fred Fred Fred: Fred gets introduced as Fred, a friend of the show, and possibly the most Fred person available.00:02:44 — Latino History Month: Allan's “big, important audience” arrives for Latino History Month, and the crew hands him an impossible cultural assignment.00:03:37 — Greatest Latino Artist: Ricky Martin, Menudo, and J.Lo enter the conversation before anyone is fully prepared.00:05:09 — Menudo Takes a Dark Turn: The crew starts with boy-band nostalgia and immediately lands somewhere much heavier.00:06:08 — J.Lo vs. Cardi B: A simple “greatest Latino artist” bit somehow becomes a booty-based ranking system.00:07:06 — Cardi B Research: Fred appears to know a suspicious amount about Cardi B's background.00:09:13 — Better Than Expected: Parker admits Allan's Latino History Month segment was significantly better than he expected, which is both praise and a roast.00:11:45 — Minefield of Discovery: Parker describes trying to transition out of the segment as “navigating a minefield of discovery.”00:12:36 — Internet Side Hustles: Fred says he reached out to the internet for side hustle ideas, which is never a safe sentence.00:17:22 — Yard Rules: If something is closer to the road than the house, apparently it is free. This includes bicycles, baby strollers, and possibly people.00:18:03 — Fake Possession: Mega churches allegedly paying people to fake possession becomes one of the better terrible career paths.00:18:46 — Demon Freelancing: The crew imagines faking possession so well that the devil takes it as an invitation.00:19:15 — Paid to Do Nothing: The dream side hustle is getting paid monthly to do nothing, which is immediately compared to Congress.00:20:22 — BLC Car Wrap: The crew offers to wrap someone's truck for $3,000, then admits they may just sharpie the logo on the side.00:21:01 — Doo Doo DLC: “BLC” becomes “DLC,” then becomes “Doo Doo DLC,” and the episode title is born.00:21:38 — Professional Wedding Crier: Parker turns crying at weddings into a full theatrical backstory involving betrayal, college roommates, and Terry.00:22:37 — “Don't Marry His Sister, Terry”: The paid crying bit reaches soap opera levels almost immediately.00:23:29 — Substitute Bee: The crew discovers people may pay you to pollinate plants and turns it into the weirdest agricultural job description possible.00:24:08 — Parmesan Bee Technology: The substitute bee job now requires a Parmesan cheese shaker taped where a stinger would be.00:24:23 — Twerk Through the Garden: The only way to pollinate properly is to twerk through the field for $45 an hour.00:25:03 — Japanese Food Explainer: “This is rice. What you do is you eat it.” Honestly, flawless customer service.00:25:35 — American Food Explainer: Parker wants to explain American food to foreigners by pointing at excessive cheese and suspicious meat patties.00:27:01 — Dog Poop Economy: The crew reminds listeners that people make good money vacuuming up dog poop, so maybe DoorDash is not the only path.00:28:14 — Fake NFL Romance Scam: A scammer allegedly built such a strong fake football persona that Google and AI started believing it.00:29:23 — Burger King, Best Restaurant in NYC: The crew explains how to trick AI by repeating bad information until the machine gives up and believes it.00:34:51 — Scam-Spiracy: Parker invents a new category: scams plus conspiracies, or “scam-spiracies.”00:35:48 — Culver's Drive-Through Theory: Culver's allegedly tricks you into thinking the line is short, then traps you in the waiting zone after you pay.00:38:12 — Ice Cream Math: Waiting 12 minutes for three cones becomes “four minutes per ice cream cone,” which is unacceptable in South Carolina heat.00:38:54 — Apparatus Plural: The crew debates the plural of apparatus because melted custard requires academic rigor.00:40:39 — Big Toilet Paper: Parker accuses RFK Jr. and Big Toilet Paper of working together to increase bathroom demand.00:42:49 — COVID Didn't Give You Diarrhea: Fred points out that people bought toilet paper during COVID even though that was not the problem.00:43:31 — Newspaper Bathroom Story: Fred remembers toilet paper disappearing immediately when it was introduced into a newspaper-only bathroom setup.00:44:01 — “You Can't Wipe Your Ass With a Dream”: Possibly the most profound line in the entire episode.00:45:06 — Streaming Is Cable Revenge: Parker argues streaming apps are so annoying they are trying to make cable look good again.00:46:46 — App-Hopping Football: Watching multiple games requires backing out, finding another app, loading, clicking, and watching commercials before anything happens.00:49:19 — “I'm Not a TVologist”: Fred explains he does not know how the loaded TV box works because he is not a TVologist.00:49:26 — “I Just Eat the Sausage”: Fred does not make the entertainment sausage. He just eats it.00:49:51 — Vegas Confirmed: BLC officially confirms the February 2027 Vegas trip.00:51:41 — American Airlines Chaos: A flight story involving a naked passenger becomes the least relaxing travel preview imaginable.00:52:49 — Pollinate the Plane: The side hustle bee bit returns in the worst possible location: an aircraft cabin.00:54:25 — Too Many Details, Not Enough Answers: The article gives gate details, aircraft type, and timing, but not the satisfying explanation everyone wants.00:55:32 — Weekly Naked Plane Incidents: Parker discovers this apparently happens often enough to feel like a recurring airline feature.00:56:50 — “Shalos”: The crew misnames “Shallow” as “Shalos” and then proceeds to dismantle the song anyway.00:57:33 — Starts Strong, Ends Bad: Parker argues “Shallow” begins emotionally powerful and ends as one long “sha-la-la” loop. #blcpodcast #podcastingforthepeople #funny #podcast #greenvillesc #scpodcast #yeahthatgreenville Listen at: https://americasfavoritepodcast.com Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blcpodcast/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blcpodcast/ Buy Fred and Allan Beer: https://www.patreon.com/blcworld

In this lively and offbeat episode of The Adventures of Pipeman on W4CY Radio, Pipeman sits down for a hilarious and unpredictable conversation with the manager of the parody band MacSabbath. The conversation covers their wild experiences at the Louder Than Life Festival, rock and metal culture, and the surreal blend of food, music, and humor that only MacSabbath brings. Expect festival stories, band mashups, and plenty of riffs on pop culture, fast food, and heavy metal classics.Main Topics CoveredLouder Than Life Festival Recap: Experiences performing and attending, wild crowd moments, and the impact of the heat and weather.MacSabbath and Band Crossovers: Interactions with other acts (Zakk Wylde, Gwar, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Tool, Pantera), humorous speculation about collaborations, and onstage antics.Parody Band Mashups: Creating food-inspired band names and stories (Metal Church's Chicken, Suicidal Tendon-See's Candies, Papa John's Roach, My Chemical Cool Ranch, and more).Rock Star Anecdotes: Encounters with Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne references, and fun behind-the-scenes tales.Festival Challenges: Enduring the heat, weather emergencies (“code red” and “code orange”), and backstage stories.Collectibles and Festival Swag: Discussions about Happy Meal toys, floaty drink accessories, and microplastics.Pop Culture Tangents: References to Tabitha and Darren Stevens (“Bewitched”), Gilligan's Island, In-N-Out Burger, Danny Elfman, Oingo Boingo, and Star Trek cast music careers.Upcoming Tours: Announcements about MacSabbath's October headlining tour and guests (Clownvis Presley, Dak Descantes).Key Discussions & StoriesLouder Than Life Festival HighlightsPipeman reminisces about nearly missing MacSabbath's set at Louder Than Life and jokes about rumors of crowd members mistaking Zakk Wylde for a Big Mac 00:31.Hilarious discussion about a supposed interview headline: “Zakk Sabath—uh, Zakk Wylde loves MacSabbath and wants to tour with them” 01:57.Both agree Zakk Wylde is “one of the nicest dudes” and reflect on the advice “don't meet your idols”—turned upside down by Zakk's personality 02:23.Stories about Ozzy Osbourne's health, Zakk's role as a “guardian angel,” and emotional moments reading about their bond 02:59.Describing the challenges of performing and interviewing in extreme heat and the joy of a temporary weather evacuation (“code red” = air conditioning) 08:27.Band Mashups, Food, and Festival AnticsOngoing joke about Gwar possibly “eating” MacSabbath on their tour together; is it blood or ketchup? 04:44Imagining Gwar burgers (“Guarbies”) and McGwar Nuggets as potential food items for fans 05:54.Festival fun: McSabbath video game ideas discussed as a potential project 07:01.Speculation and laughter about contract clauses preventing Zakk Sabbath and MacSabbath from playing the same festivals 12:23.Suggestion that Burger King and Gwar's onstage antics could merge for a hilarious show 19:44.Several new food-themed band names, including Flamin' Jacks, Metal Church's Chicken, and Papa John's Roach (shut down “for too many roaches”) 20:30.Memorable Festival Moments & Pop Culture ReferencesCommentary on the massive festival crowd (“240,000 of my closest friends”) and MacSabbath's surprise at performing on a main stage equally sized to Iron Maiden's 15:12.Iron Maiden's unexpected setlist of early-era songs, impressing even seasoned festivalgoers 16:22.Tangents include: In-N-Out BKUrge bumper stickers, the magic of Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo, “Bewitched” and its cast, Gilligan's Island, and wild festival swag stories (Happy Meal toys, drink floaties, microplastics, and pennies in Coca-Cola) 21:13.MacSabbath's Tour and Notable GuestsAnnouncement of an October headlining run with Clownvis Presley (Elvis clown) and Dak Descantes (“sexy Mexican Devo”) as support 45:25.Reflections on previous tours (“Clown Power”), lockdown livestreams, and what it's like to share the stage with such eclectic performers 46:19.Notable Quotes“Fuck these people that say don't meet your idols…Zakk Wylde…you're the nicest guy ever, man.” — Pipeman 02:28“Is it blood, or is it ketchup?” — Crowd speculation during Gwar/Tour with MacSabbath 04:44“You do deserve a break today, just not this day.” — Pipeman 06:40“How cool would it be…for blood for blood, it would be those two [Ronald and Burger King] that go at it.” — Pipeman 10:16“Taco Hell's bells would be ringing.” — In response to a Taco Bell/MacSabbath collaboration 24:29“Dark snack wave, I think.” — Defining a new music subgenre 25:24“Maybe the louder part would be the crickets.” — On what would happen if Pipeman tried singing at Louder Than Life 44:37“That was the McSabbath minute. Thanks for being in it.” — Show close 47:53Resources & Links MentionedMacSabbath Tour Dates: October headlining shows (with guests Clownvis Presley and Dak Descantes); check MacSabbath's official social channels for tickets and info.Clownvis to the Rescue: Clownvis Presley's YouTube livestream series 46:19.Referenced Books: Ozzy Osbourne's “Last Rites” 02:50.Festivals: Louder Than Life, Welcome to Rockville, Riot Fest.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-adventures-of-pipeman--941822/support.Click Here to Subscribe for PERKS, BONUS Content & FREE GIVEWAYS!Follow @pipemanradio on all socials & Pipeman Radio Requests & Info at www.linktr.ee/pipemanradioStream The Adventures of Pipeman daily & live Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays at 1PM ET on W4CY Radio & Talk 4 TV. Download, Rate & Review the Podcast at The Adventures of Pipeman, Pipeman Radio, Talk 4 Media, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, YouTube & All Podcast Apps.

Book a free strategy call to see how we can help you hit your goals and beyond: https://bit.ly/4b0wLaZ or call us at: (214)-453-1591  Get Predictable Calls From Proven Direct Mail Campaigns. Learn more about CertainPath's Lead Generation Direct Mail programs — for members AND non-members. Click here for a FREE Market Analysis: https://mycertainpath.com/lead-generation-request/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=tsc228  ------------------------ Three years ago he could not start a conversation with a stranger. Last year he sold and installed $703,000 in plumbing — as a technician, in Amarillo. Zachery Kongsy is a service technician at Frank's Repair Plumbing in Amarillo, Texas. He sold and installed $703,000 last year, his second straight year past the CertainPath plumbing Crown Champion threshold — in his third year holding a license.  He spent nine years in restaurants first: Subway, Burger King, Texas Roadhouse. His stepdad has been at Frank's for 32 years and all three of his brothers worked there too. One shift at Roadhouse, two of them showed him their checks. "I was like, I can do that." He applied, got hired the same day, and started as an apprentice the next morning — riding with a seven-time Crown Champion, taking notes from the back of the room. The part he volunteers without being asked is the part most technicians hide: "Before I got this job I was very shy. Would not talk to anybody. Couldn't even start a conversation."  What changed was method, not personality. He still gives himself pep talks driving to the house. The rest of this conversation with host Bob Houchin is his entire service call, start to finish. In this conversation, you'll discover:  • Why he is in the gym at five and through the call histories before the trucks roll  • What he reads on the front of a house before he ever knocks on the door  • Why he never diagnoses alone — and the four words that explain it • How he builds three options out of sight, then reveals the membership savings last  • The line he uses when a $300 repair turns out not to be $300 • Why he gets a shovel in the ground the same night, even at eight o'clock  • The review ask at the door that lands nine times out of ten Whether you run a plumbing, HVAC, electrical, or roofing company, Zachery's process shows how a shy third-year technician turns ordinary service calls into $703,000 a year.  Watch on YouTube or listen on your favorite podcast platform. And don't forget to subscribe to The Successful Contractor for more interviews that move the needle.  About the Show  The Successful Contractor is a podcast for residential HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing contractors. Hosted by Bob Houchin, each episode features real contractor growth stories, hard-won business insights, and practical takeaways for building a profitable home services company.  Meet the Host Bob Houchin has spent 20+ years immersed in the home services industry — listening to, learning from, and serving the people who run it. As host of The Successful Contractor, he's interviewed hundreds of the brightest minds in the trades. Beyond the mic, Bob is a Senior Strategist at CertainPath, building the training, onboarding programs, keynotes, and playbooks used by 1,200+ residential service companies. His motto: smart contractors learn from their mistakes; wise contractors learn from the mistakes of others.  About CertainPath CertainPath is a business coaching and training organization that has built successful home service businesses for more than 25 years. We serve 1,200+ member companies across HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing with professional coaching, training for every role, software solutions, and a vendor partner network that delivers millions in member rebates every year. Doubling your sales with a 20% net profit and an inspiring company culture is ALL possible. With CertainPath, Success is Made Certain.  Connect CertainPath: https://www.mycertainpath.com  FOLLOW CERTAINPATH: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CertainPath LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/certainpath Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/certainpath/ 

Drop us a line or two . . .## LONG SUMMARYThis episode opens mid-life, mid-mess — which is pretty on-brand for CDQ. Queenie kicks things off with a life update that's equal parts exhausting and quietly heroic: her mom, Mumsy, has been transferred to Sunnyview Hospital for acute rehabilitation following a pelvic fracture complicated by pneumonia. And it has been, to put it mildly, a week.The opioid reaction alone is a whole story. Mumsy — described as a tiny little bird of a woman at 105 pounds — went full superhuman after being administered medication that did not agree with her, requiring five adults (including two men, Queenie is quick to note) to safely get her back into bed. She was subsequently assigned one-on-one monitoring with what Queenie cheerfully describes as "a robot looking thing" watching her around the clock. Thursday was, in Queenie's words, a completely lost day. But by the time they're recording, Mumsy is up with a walker, fully participating in therapy, and apparently chatty as ever — which, given the steroid-fueled word avalanche Queenie witnessed upon transfer, seems to be something of a baseline.The path forward is genuinely uncertain: subacute care may follow, options are limited while oxygen stays in the picture, and Queenie is doing what she can, which right now means taking it a day at a time and trying to get to her grandchildren when she can squeeze it in.From the heavy to the delightful: TT received a birthday gift while the two were celebrating on the Cape, and it's a game called Ganja Land — a cannabis-themed Candyland knockoff from the brand Lightly Toasted. TT, who has not yet played it, gives an enthusiastic rundown: eight character pieces (including Mary Jane Mermaid, The Royal Highness, and Weedly Wizard, all dressed appropriately for the occasion), a board full of hidden objects for timed scavenger hunts, trivia cards, fun facts, and a Spotify playlist to set the mood. The goal is to reach the Cannabis Castle and claim the cannabis crown — a bedazzled, marijuana-leaf-encrusted upgrade on the Burger King paper crown. Gameplay involves passing a joint to the left per Ganja Land tradition, and turn order follows the same direction. TT and Queenie immediately begin plotting to play virtually or in person come October.Then Queenie brings an article she'd flagged from Time magazine: what to do when someone gives you the silent treatment. The timing is personal. She'd reached out to a friend she'd lost touch with — wrote a note, explained a difficult five-year stretch, opened the door. Got nothing back. Not even, as she puts it, a fuck you. The article's framework is practical: distinguish between a healthy pause and a deliberate withdrawal, send one calm non-accusatory message, do not chase, do not retaliate with more silence, don't apologize just to get a reaction. When contact resumes: lead with curiosity, describe impact without assuming intent, and if the silence is a pattern rather than a moment, maybe look hard at whether the relationship is worth the real estate it's taking up in your head.Queenie's takeaway is quieter than the article's framework. Reading it gave her permission to let it go — to acknowledge she'd done her part, fulfilled what she calls "the social contract," and move on. TT points out, warmly but pointedly, that reaching out at all was the brave move. It was. And the non-response is its own answer.Which connects to the Fucket List addition: you do not have to respond to everything. Queenie originally pulled this out as a parenting tool — when kids are being fresh or challenging or saying things that don't actually require your engagement, you give yourself permission to just not. She's had to resurrect it lately, for adults. For family situations. For the nurses at the hospital asking her how Mumsy likes her nasal cannula. (Her answer: "What would you do if I wasn't here? Do that.") The relief of not needing to be the one with every answer — not needing to fix, explain, defend, or respond to everything lobbed at you — is, it turns out, just as applicable at 60-something as it was when her kids were teenagers.The episode closes on a more tender note. While the women were on the Cape, two significant losses happened: Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem. Both are acknowledged with the kind of genuine warmth you can't fake. For Steinem, Queenie has a specific recommendation: Netflix's Final Words — a pre-recorded interview filmed in the last couple of years, designed to air only after her death. Remote cameras, no crew, just Steinem knowing this would be her last on-camera words. Queenie watched it the night Steinem died. She calls it powerful. Forty minutes, not overlong, completely worth it.The conversation turns briefly political — because it has to. Women couldn't get credit in their own names until 1977. Physicians could discuss a woman's health directly with her husband, without involving her. Queenie and TT were already out of high school by then. It doesn't feel like ancient history to them. It feels like a warning. The episode wraps with an original song — "What Would Gloria Do?" — a full-throated tribute to Steinem that closes the show the way Steinem apparently closed most things: with glasses on, something sharp to say, and zero apologies.---## SHORT SUMMARYQueenie opens up about a harrowing week navigating her mother's transfer to a rehabilitation hospital — steroids, an opioid reaction, and five adults required to contain a 105-pound woman — while finding small things to hold onto, like TT's birthday gift of Ganja Land, a cannabis Candyland that they're already plotting to play. The episode gets real about the silent treatment, the art of not responding to everything, and the very different kinds of quiet that can settle over a relationship. It closes by honoring Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem — two women who showed up, in completely different ways, and never once made themselves small.---## EPISODE VIBEThis one has weight to it, but it wears it lightly. It's the kind of episode that starts in the thick of a hard week — hospital transfers, oxygen dependency, a mom who needed five people to keep her safe — and somehow finds its way to a birthday gift and a cannabis board game without it feeling like whiplash. There's exhaustion here, yes, but also a kind of hard-won clarity that comes through in everything from the silent treatment conversation to the Fucket List to the tribute to Gloria Steinem. Queenie is navigating a lot — caregiving, grief-adjacent uncertainty, a friendship that quietly closed a door — and TT is steady beside her, funny when it helps, serious when it matters. The emotional throughline is permission: permission to let go, to not respond, to stop being the one with all the answers. It's a midlife episode in the truest sense — not defeated, not falsely cheerful, just honest about where they are and who they're choosing to be. Welcome to the Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast, a #1 ranked Women in Cannabis (Feedspot, Million Pods; 2025) comedy podcast with music and pop culture references that keeps you laughing and engaged. Join our hosts, Queenie & TT as they share humorous anecdotes about daily life, offering women's perspectives on lifestyle and wellness. We dive into funny cannabis conversations and stories, creating an entertaining space where nothing is off-limits. Each episode features entertaining discussions on pop culture trends, as we discuss music, culture, and cannabis in a light-hearted and inclusive manner. Tune in for a delightful blend of humor, insight, and relatable stories that celebrate life's quirks and pleasures. 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Episode 253 - Sept. 14, 2026 - The Two Man Again….- Violations Counter - DJ Intence - 2 x Ceddy - 12 - @Ceddy55 CRASHING OUT on the Podcast - Macklemore vs Robert Kraft & EVERYBODY - The HIGHEST Standards for Black Males in America verse against our WHITE Male Counterparts - Sony lets go of Hideo Kojima & he walked to Microsoft. Insomniac Games Marvel's Wolverine Game - Local Burger King closing down turned into Jumbo King Burger- NFL Talk - Sneaker Talk - NCAA Basketball Duke & Michigan Game CANCELLED over TV Rights - Donald Trump Iran Conflict & Policies - Gov. Kathy Hochul Energy Rebate Checks - New York City Outing & Ceddy doesn't GO OUTSIDE - Lindsey Clancy Trail Update - Tiliek Thompson Horrific Unaliving Lovay Williams- Lil Durk Unaliving for Hire Trial Update - Wise Guy's Segment - @thejccartershow - Wise Guy's Segment - Female Etiquette in 2026  

Our Heroes had to go to 2 different BKs to get the Dragon Ball meal but they did it. Sort of. Either way, Sauce Monkey is bringing you good tidings, bit*h. Support us directly https://www.patreon.com/100percenteat where you can join the discord with other 100 Percenters, stay up to date on everything, and get The Michael, Jordan Podcast every Friday. Follow us on IG & Twitter: @100percenteat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  Dylan Guenther of the Utah Mammoths has a problem with Mattress Firm not delivering his mattress...and it turns out he may be the reason behind it. KSL Brightside dives into the latest airport rankings and where SLC makes the list, the very real trend of business travelers hiding out in their hotel rooms for a little off-the-clock peace, and Burger King’s “Le Nuggutte” micro bag that has chicken nugget fans demanding more.  KSL Brightside streams live weekdays from 12–3 PM, with a YouTube-exclusive live stream from 12–1 PM and radio plus YouTube from 1–3 PM. 

What happens when you have to rank your favorite foods without knowing what's coming next? Matt, Iyla, and Megh are back in the Beard Laws studio for a new episode of Stay Outta My Fridge, and this time, nobody's eating anything. We're putting our food opinions to the test. The rules are simple: We reveal ten items, one at a time, and each person must permanently rank them from #1 to #10. Once a spot is taken, it's gone forever. Three rounds. Thirty decisions. Absolutely no second chances. ROUND 1: FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS McDonald's, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Chick-fil-A, Five Guys, Burger King, Subway, KFC, Arby's, and Dairy Queen. Somehow, Arby's ends up winning the entire round, and Dairy Queen gets absolutely buried. We have some explaining to do. ROUND 2: SNACKS Doritos, Oreos, Cheez-Its, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Cheetos, Lay's, Pop-Tarts, Goldfish, pretzels, and Little Debbie snacks. Iyla makes some interesting decisions, Matt refuses to abandon his beloved pretzels, and Oreos and Cheez-Its battle for the top spot. ROUND 3: APPETIZERS Mozzarella sticks, chicken wings, French fries, nachos, onion rings, potato skins, fried pickles, jalapeño poppers, soft pretzels, and chicken tenders. Things get personal when Iyla's favorite foods start falling down the rankings, and somehow soft pretzels end up taking the crown. THE FINAL RESULTS Best fast food restaurant: Arby's Best snack: Oreos Best appetizer: Soft pretzels We also attempt to settle the ultimate winner across all three categories and identify the worst item of the entire challenge. Agreement is not guaranteed. YOUR TURN! Who has the worst food opinions: Matt, Iyla, or Megh? And what should we blind rank next? Breakfast cereals, candy, drinks, pizza toppings, or something completely different? Tell us what you think, and join us for another episode of Stay Outta My Fridge. Stay Outta My Fridge. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review on your favorite podcast app! It's the best way to help our family show reach more people.This has been The Stay Outta My Fridge Podcast, your source for family comedy, snack reviews, and '90s nostalgia.Find us on social media The Stay Outta My Fridge Podcast is a part of the Bleav Network. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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In episode 120, Part 2 of Going Forward, host Eric Elliott continues his conversation with entrepreneur, advisor, author, and business thinker Peter Ricciardi for a deeper look at the ideas behind Peter's book, Mind Shift, Profit Lift.Peter explains why he did not write a book called Profit Lift, Mind Shift. In his view, the profit does not come first. Profit comes when business owners learn to look at their company through the lens of the customer and the employee. When the customer is happier and the employee is better equipped to deliver, the business has a stronger chance to grow in a meaningful and lasting way.Eric and Peter also discuss why “doing more” becomes such an addictive response for entrepreneurs, why many businesses try to save or squeeze their way to prosperity, and why value engineering can quietly damage the customer experience. Peter shares examples from restaurants, franchises, retail, RV sales, sports, Costco, American Express, and other industries to show why customer loyalty, employee retention, and real value matter more than vanity metrics.The conversation also explores pricing, revenue, profit, traffic, retention, and why many entrepreneurs celebrate top-line growth without talking honestly about whether the business is actually healthy. Peter challenges business owners to ask harder questions, including whether they would buy from themselves and whether they would want their own mother to see the way they do business.Topics include: why mind shift comes before profit lift; why focusing only on the bottom line can backfire; the difference between revenue and real business health; why retention matters more than attention; how customer value should shape pricing; why doing more is not always the answer; what businesses can learn from Costco, Burger King, Sticky Fingers, and other brands; why happy customers matter more than abstract numbers; and what going forward means to Peter Ricciardi.This episode is a clear reminder that profitability is not just a math problem. It is a mindset problem. The businesses that last are the ones willing to think differently, serve better, listen harder, and do the right thing even when the shortcut looks more profitable.Connect w/ Eric Elliott:Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ericelliott.com/Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/ericelliottspeakerLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theericelliott/ Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ericmelliott/Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/EricMElliottTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ericmelliottEmail: Eric@EricElliott.comText: 843-279-5843Connect w/ Peter Ricciardi:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterricciardi/Website: https://ten9eight7.com/Book: Mind Shift, Profit LiftSupercharge your online advertising campaigns with Optmyzr! Streamline management, optimize performance, and boost your ROI. Visit https://www.optmyzr.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to discover how Optmyzr can revolutionize your digital marketing.Also, as a special treat for our listeners, sign up with the code GOINGFORWARD20 and enjoy an exclusive 20% discount on your first year with Trainual! Seize this opportunity to supercharge your operations and propel your business forward!Eric Elliott is a legal marketing expert, entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of VIP Marketing. He is also the founder of Craft Creative and host of the Going Forward podcast. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, Elliott has nearly two decades of experience across advertising, media, branding, digital marketing and law firm growth.Going Forward is brought to you by VIP Marketing. VIP Marketing is a law firm marketing agency built to help firms become the choice in their market through strategy-led SEO, paid media, website design and development, brand strategy, and premium video production. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, VIP Marketing serves law firms nationwide. Our website provides detailed information on our services and expertise. For more information, visit vipmarketing.com.

Last time on 100% Eat, Our Heroes are searched harder for these new Burger King Dragon Ball Super meals harder than anyone looked for the Dragon Balls. But with help from an unlikely ally in The Sauce Monkey, we're finally able to try the Super Saiyan sauce. But only one dip each?! Was this any good? Find out next time on 100% Eat. Left over live show merch will be available soon at https://100percenteat.store Support us directly https://www.patreon.com/100percenteat where you can join the discord with other 100 Percenters, stay up to date on everything, and get The Michael, Jordan Podcast every Friday. Follow us on IG & Twitter: @100percenteat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason gets ahold of his new studio lights, Disney World antics: It was blazing hot and be careful when you're driving a mobility scooter. and Burger King launches Le Nugguette, a mini purse in the shape of a chicken nugget. Project Down and Dirty will be announced Thursday -- what is it?! Jason has a good guess...We call our boss, Bea Arthur to try and figure out this year's PDD. EMMYS: Our favorite moments of the night, HOLLY KNOWS SOMETHING: About a classic toy, and myTalk Loves Local: Pirronne Yousefzadeh, director of Theater Latte Da's production of "Indecent."SCREEN QUEENS: EMMYS: Perhaps the most cringe moments of TV in years, what we loved, and what could have needed some work. Jason and Colleen binged "Roast My Rental" hosted by Leslie Jones, and a "Double Lives of Suburban Wives" tease. Someone offers to help Colleen with her Trader Joe's anxiety. Old and busted: booty call, new and fresh: foodie call! And clowning is HOT!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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In this episode of the PWN Call, Nate, Josh, and Paul catch up on life and talk about the media, hobbies, and experiences they've been enjoying lately. From reflections on Hebrews 9 and Christian fellowship to Dragon Ball toys at Burger King, Rurouni Kenshin live-action films, poetry projects, storms, friendships, and also some talk about video games, this episode is a celebration of enjoying good things and sharing them with friends. The PWN Call is a casual conversation podcast from members and friends of the Play Well Network, where we discuss video games, books, movies, faith, and the media that's been shaping our lives. Rabbit trails may or may not be included. Enjoying the conversation? Follow The Backlog Breakdown, leave a review, and help us encourage thoughtful engagement with video games, faith, and culture.

September 11, 2001, changed Bob Ellis's life, just as it changed mine. Bob was working at the Pentagon that morning and had walked out of the building only minutes before Flight 77 struck the area where his meeting had taken place. You will hear how he immediately became part of the response, helping organize emergency supplies and support for those working at the Pentagon. We also compare our experiences from two different locations that day, Bob at the Pentagon and me at the World Trade Center with my guide dog Roselle. Twenty-five years later, our conversation is about more than remembering 9/11. It is about leadership, teamwork, service, controlling fear, and deciding what we do with the life we have been given. I believe Bob's story offers lessons we can all use when the unexpected happens. Highlights: 05:29-Bob shares how his early life and military support career shaped his path. 23:53-He recalls realizing the first World Trade Center strike was not an accident. 32:59-Bob describes being just 300 yards away when the Pentagon was hit. 37:00-He explains how he helped organize emergency relief supplies within hours. 1:03:54-Michael reflects on survival, fear, and the responsibility to move forward. 1:06:55-Bob shares the lasting life lessons he took from September 11. About the Guest: Bob Ellis is the Vice President, American Logistics Association responsible for Exchange, MWR, Food Service Operations. The native of Fort Walton Beach, Florida began his career with AAFES in 1972. From 1972 through 1984, he held retail management positions as a Branch Manager, and Operations Manager Main Store. In 1985, Ellis began a string of assignments as an Exchange General Manager trainee at Fort Belvoir, VA, and Exchange General Manager, Fort Hamilton, NY and Carlisle Barrack PA, (Army War College). Assignments as Area Retail Manager and General Manager at the former Japan Area Exchange ran from 1989-1992. In 1992, Ellis was transferred to Travis AFB in California as Retail Manager, Main Store. In 1994, Ellis was selected for the General Manager's position at Travis and spent three years assisting in the design and new construction effort of the largest retail Main Store ever constructed by AAFES. From 1997 to 2002, Ellis held the position of Director of AAFES' Washington Office, serving as the principal representative of the Commander, AAFES to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Departments of the Army and the Air Force, Congressional offices and industry representatives. Notable among his accomplishments, Ellis was instrumental in spearheading AAFES support to the Pentagon after the attacks of September 11th. Within 48 hours of the event, AAFES established a mobile exchange in the shadow of the impact site to support rescue workers and investigators with critical need and personal comfort items. After Washington, Ellis moved to AAFES Headquarters' in Dallas to assume the Vice President Specialty and Consumables position. In this role, Ellis was responsible for the SD-C Category Team Managers/Buyers. In August 2003, Ellis took his a position as Vice President of Corporate Planning and Communications where he managed the development of AAFES long range and contingency planning programs, oversight of corporate public affairs and ensured compliance with Department of Defense policy guidance with the goal of preserving and protecting the exchange benefit for soldiers and airmen and their families around the globe. Bob joined the ALA on 31 July 2006 where he continues to serve a role in military resale supporting Exchange, MWR, and Food Service, operations still serving military resale over 51 years continuous service. Ways to connect with Bob**:** You can find more benefits how Branded Riches can help you build your Brand, Product, Business, and Yourself at https://www.BrandedRiches.com   Connect:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/neryk-davydov Branded Riches Audiobook by Neryk Davydov https://www.audible.com/pd/Branded-Riches-Audiobook/B0GCP9MMRB Branded Riches Book https://www.amazon.com/Branded-Riches-Increase-Income-Irresistible/dp/1987753836 $5 Free Gift for Creating A New Ovato Wallet    www.ovatoCoin.com  About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset . Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes: Michael Hingson  00:00 Everyone, I am Michael Hingson, the host of Unstoppable Mindset. You've heard my voice for the last 471 episodes, but I'm calling you all out today and asking you to listen to this because we're going to make a special announcement now regarding the next four episodes, starting with 472. We're going to help commemorate the historic events of September 11, 2001. Yes, they're definitely historic, although not necessarily the most positive things that have ever happened. But as many of you may know, I was in the World Trade Center working on September 11, 2001, on the 78th floor of Tower One, and escaped with my guide dog. I've delivered a speech about that, which we put in the first episode of this podcast series back in August of 2021. But this Friday, episode 472 is going to have an updated speech that I delivered just a few years ago at the Marshfield, Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival. That festival is a yearly event celebrating different kinds of things that have happened in American history, and I was invited to come and speak, which I did. I'm going to put that speech up for you as episode 472. I think you'll find it enlightening. It'll teach you something about blindness and blind people. It'll tell you my story, and it'll give you some inspiration that I hope you will find helpful. Next Tuesday, september 8, Michelle Abraham is going to interview me. Michelle is with Amplify You, the company that does all of our back office stuff and helps me with the editing and other things regarding the podcast. Michelle owns her own podcast, and she is going to interview me about September 11th and other kinds of things relating to what I've learned and things that have happened over the past 25 years. She's also going to be putting this up on her podcast Amplify You, so you can find us in a lot of different places. On September 11th, I'm going to chat with Bob Ellis. Bob was in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and had literally just walked out the door of the Pentagon when the plane crashed into the Pentagon and did the things and the damage that it did, and of course generated all the things that occurred at the Pentagon. On the 15th of September, I'm going to come back and have a conversation with all of you about lessons that I've learned over the past 25 years, and just reminisce a little bit about all of that. While the podcast is occurring on September 11th, I will be actually in Kilgore, Texas, doing a speech about September 11th. So lots of things going on, I hope you listen to these episodes. I hope that you'll tell everyone that you can about them. I really enjoy all of the support that you've given us over the years, and we're going to continue to do things with Unstoppable Mindset. And of course, as always, if you'd like to come on or know anyone who would, please let us know. We're always looking for guests. Thanks very much. We'll see you on Friday with the first of these four episodes. What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't what's in front of you, but rather what you believe? Welcome to Unstoppable Mindset, where inclusion, diversity, and the unexpected meet. I'm your host, Michael Hingston, speaker, author, and advocate for inclusion and possibilities. This podcast explores how the beliefs we carry shape the way we live, lead, and connect with others. Each week, I talk with people who challenge assumptions, face adversity head-on, and show what's possible when we choose curiosity over fear. Together, we focus on mindset, resilience, and the small shifts that lead to meaningful change. Let's get started. Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of Unstoppable Mindset. You are listening to us today, or at least I'm assuming you're listening just when this came out. But whenever you're listening, it is today, September 11th, 2026, which is needless to say, a special day. If you have kept up with my podcast from the beginning, you know that I worked in the World Trade Center on September 11th, and ever since then I've been a public speaker, traveling the world, talking about trust, teamwork, leadership, the human-animal bond, and a variety of things. But recently, I met Bob Ellis. Michael Hingson  04:40 Now, Bob, as it turns out, on September 11th worked at the Pentagon, and I have not ever really had the opportunity to talk with someone who was at the Pentagon, especially on September 11th. But we get to chat about that today, and Bob knows our rules, which are basically. He sent me a series of questions that he wants to cover, but we are doing this as a conversation, so we'll probably talk about a lot of the things that he specifically sent. But we can go any old way that Bob wants to go, so that's what we'll we'll make this really fun. And I'm really looking forward to having the opportunity to talk with Bob. So again, welcome to September 11th, and Bob, I want to welcome you to Unstoppable Mindset. We're really glad you're here, Bob Ellis  05:28 Michael. Thank you for inviting me. I know you you've inquired several times, and I've debated it, and and I was just holding it for the right time, and this is the right time-the 25th anniversary of the event. Michael Hingson  05:40 Yeah, it is, and and and as as we've said, if you find anybody who needs a a speaker to come in and speak, let me know. But but for now, we get to chat about you and and hear your story, which I think is the important thing. I think we'll probably talk about both of our stories in the course of the day, no doubt about it. But I really am glad that you are here and that you are able to to talk with us today and and and talk about things. So let's start the way I love to start with people. Let's start at the beginning. Tell me kind of about the early Bob growing up and so on. Let's start with that. Bob Ellis  06:17 Well, I I grew up in let's say grew up until I was four years old. I lived. I was born in Pensacola, Florida. Lived in the Panhandle. Mother and father got divorced, and we moved to Norfolk, Virginia. And it was just my my mother and I until I was 14 years old. And I found out about my dad and found some letters from him and insisted to go see him. And so, between 14 and 15, I made a couple of unauthorized attempts to to make my way to Florida. On the third attempt, I made it, and it was quite a surprise for my father. Ended up living with him and being my closest friend up until I had he had grandkids, we had kids, and so I lived and grew up in the Destin, Fort Worth, Fort Walton area. Went to work, and this is where the story begins. I went to work at Eglin Air Force Base as a as a janitor in a gas station for the Army Air Force Exchange Service, so that I could continue to play high school football and practice, was a great job. It was an opportunity to work with the military, be around the military, and I took great pride in that feeling that that that that while I I wanted to go into the air force and I wanted to fly jets, that opportunity just never presented itself because the Vietnam War was going on and they were banking pilots instead of taking pilots. Anyway, I I ended up staying with the Army Air Force Exchange Service for 34 years. I moved all over the world. I've seen the every AOR and every combat scenario since the Vietnam War. Not in the Vietnam War, but I was in the refugee program, helping with the resettlement back in 1972, 1973. Spent the rest of my career going wherever they sent me, and and and that was from Tokyo, Japan, to to Tuli, Greenland, to California, and ultimately to to Texas. Michael Hingson  08:30 I remember during the Vietnam War, someone called me one day. I was a student at UC Irvine, and there was a refugee camp fairly close to the university, and someone said, and someone said, "There's a blind young man at the sent at the refugee center, and we should go see him. And so we we bought a transistor radio for him and went out to visit with him and spent some time with him, and I never got to see him after that. But I hope I hope he did well. He he seemed like he was doing okay, but he was a little bit lost, needless to say, because it's a whole bunch of people. There are no a lot of people who knew much about blindness and blind people, but I would presume he did reasonably okay. I hope so, but that was the only time I specifically had an involvement with him or anyone at the refugee camps. Later, when I met my wife Karen, she lived, I think, a door down, and she and her parents lived a door down from a Vietnamese couple, and he was a tailor and actually made her wedding dress, which was kind of cool, and so we got to spend a fair amount of time with the Voo's, which was was good, but what's. Interesting for me now, with with now being well so many years later. In November, I will be going to do a speech in Hanoi, so I'm really looking forward to to going over there and and experiencing it. At least it'll be a little bit cooler then than it probably is now. So we'll see, but it'll be it'll be pretty enjoyable to go and again see a different a different part of the world, and I I think we'll be fine. At least that's that's that's the plan. Bob Ellis  10:34 That that that that tour that I had at Eglin Air Force Base with the refugees, will come back to to to 911 2001 and the experiences that I had at that refugee camp replicated in the Pentagon park and lot there in 911. So we'll get to that. I'll explain it further. Michael Hingson  10:56 Yeah, I'm sure it was a a great a great lesson. Where did you do college, or did you Bob Ellis  11:03 went to went to Duke University and the University and the University of Maryland? Michael Hingson  11:10 Okay. Well, at Bob Ellis  11:12 least much of it was correspondence as well, only because I was deployed for for so many years back to back, 17 moves in 34 years. Michael Hingson  11:22 Wow, Duke University. At least you didn't go to one of those other schools in North Carolina. Boy, talk about talk about rivalries and basketball. What a what a group down there. Bob Ellis  11:35 Oh, I know, I know. Michael Hingson  11:38 I once spoke in Kentucky, and the Wildcats were in the NCAA championship that year, and I was asked to speak at an event on the night of the championship. But I was told I had to end by 630. I could not go one second past 630 because the gym I was speaking in was going to clear out. Well, I ended in time so that at 630, what they said was absolutely true. That gym cleared out. Everybody went home to watch the game. Bob Ellis  12:09 That's that's sports. Michael Hingson  12:11 Not sports. It is, but it's okay. I I learned a lot down there and got to meet a number of people, and so it was it was a lot of fun to to do it, and then years later I was in North Carolina when NC State and UNC were playing to see who was going to go into the championship. So again, pretty interesting world, and and sports ruled everything then, so it's okay. It Bob Ellis  12:43 hasn't it hasn't changed at all because my my my daughter I got her graduate studies done at NC State, and it hasn't changed a bit. It's just I'll bet it's just crazy as it's when was 20 3040 years ago, Michael Hingson  12:58 and it shall ever be, won't it? Bob Ellis  13:01 Yeah, yeah. Her undergraduate degree was at University of Texas. This was my son's, and she went on to NC State, and and he went on to medical school in in Houston. Michael Hingson  13:16 Okay. Well, UC Irvine, when I was there, had the championship water polo team, but that's what we had. But they started basketball while I was there, although it wasn't anything huge. But a couple of years ago, they made it to the Sweet 16, and that was kind of fun for UC Irvine. One of these days, it'll go all the way. Bob Ellis  13:40 Yep. Michael Hingson  13:41 Well, anyway, so you you went to college, and and what did you major in? Bob Ellis  13:45 Political science. Michael Hingson  13:47 Okay, political science Bob Ellis  13:48 and business management. With a with my two aspirations, I wanted to. I really wanted to major in in aviation science, but that that wasn't offered. So that's political science and business science, business law. Michael Hingson  14:06 But you were working for the Army Air Force Exchange Service. What is that exactly? Bob Ellis  14:11 Yeah, it's a it's it's it's a non-appropriated funded Service provided all goods. I think of it as the the Walmart or the Target of of the civilian sector, except the Army Air Force Exchange Service has stored everything from stores, every business that you can think of therein, from stores to convenience stores to gas stations to beauty shops and barber shops to dining facilities, franchise Burger Kings, anything that a soldier and his family needs at the base or overseas or in the combat arena, where we were there with it, providing it. It's been a great career. Michael Hingson  14:59 Did you? Do you have any involvement with, especially here in the U.S. the the Randolph Sheppard programs, the blind vending stand operations at any of the facilities? Bob Ellis  15:09 Yep, sure did many many times. We're still working with it. There's there's some issues present right now under the Randolph Shepherd that they're looking at. I don't know what what's going to change, but yes, sir, we were very, very close to that. Michael Hingson  15:24 Yeah, I know there. The current government's looking at it; they want to scale a lot of it back, which would, I think, not be a good thing. I think there's a lot of reasons to keep it, but we'll see. We'll see. We'll see how it goes. But I, the closest I ever came to dealing with anything from AAES was I was invited to speak once at an organizational meeting of the National Property Managers Association in the military. Are you familiar with that? Bob Ellis  15:56 I am. Yes. Michael Hingson  15:57 And when I was asked to come, the Speakers Bureau didn't do a good research job because they told me, "Oh, it's the people who rent apartments and all that. When I got down to the to the event, I will say that the National Property Managers Association certainly serves a nice breakfast. But anyway, the conversation just didn't seem like what I what I was expecting. So I asked somebody, and they told me that the organization was the organization that had complete jurisdiction over anything physical that the government owned, and Bob Ellis  16:30 absolutely Michael Hingson  16:31 that that changed my grass. Sorry, Bob Ellis  16:34 right down to the grass, right down to the grass and the concrete. Michael Hingson  16:37 There you go. Well, it also changed my speech in 10 minutes, but it was fun. They invited me back the next year, so that was good. But it's it's fun when you're you're planning to do a particular speech, and suddenly it turns out it's got to change. It's good to have the flexibility to do that. But I'm I'm glad I had the opportunity to do it, and hopefully we'll have opportunities to do it again, but you have served a lot of different kinds of of services within AAES, and and I assume that's all worked out pretty well. Bob Ellis  17:14 That that worked out very well. Yep, I had I started at the bottom and and climbed as close to the top as I possibly could, but Michael Hingson  17:23 you eventually got the the highest medal that was available for civilians when you retired or after you retired. Bob Ellis  17:31 No, the highest award that I ever received was from my man over the Pentagon 911 support program, which was a nice medoris civilian award. Michael Hingson  17:46 Okay, where is your favorite place to live in the world? Or is that really easy to say? I mean, you've been all over the place and seen a lot of different kinds of places. Don't know how much you got to two of them, but anyway, Bob Ellis  18:00 it wasn't the two places that I that I went overseas, which was Japan and Greenland. Those were the longest tours of my life. Beautiful country in Japan, and and great facilities and support in tuning Greenland. But I would I would guess throughout the United States, I had a great assignment at the Army War College, and I had a great assignment at Travis Air Force Base here in Michael Hingson  18:26 California. Yeah, Bob Ellis  18:28 yeah. Michael Hingson  18:30 I've spoken. Bob Ellis  18:30 My son was born in Japan. He's dual citizen as a result on the Air Force Base, and my daughter was born in California. So it was a great time, mainly because the kids were younger and and and and we were in great climate areas. Michael Hingson  18:48 When people ask me what my favorite place in the United States is, I say everywhere. I I just enjoy meeting people wherever I go in the U.S. It's so many different cultures and customs and ways of doing things. It is so fun to to see all the different places and see how they are. People ask what I like, where I like outside the U.S. And so far, it's been New Zealand. I would say is probably the best, but Japan has to be up there too. I've really enjoyed being in Japan. I've been there a couple times, and I thoroughly enjoyed Bob Ellis  19:23 it. I, I had, I think the most the the greatest thing about the assignments was some of the people I I got to to meet in in my in my tours. One of them would be the Crown Prince of of Thailand, who who is now the king of Thailand, King Rama, got to meet him when he was a pilot, and supported him when when I was at Yokota Air Base, and multiple other celebrities. I I had the opportunity as a kid to attend the funeral. For Douglas MacArthur, and and his his memorial was right across the street in North Virginia from where my mother worked. And 20 years later, I had the opportunity to to meet mrs. Mcarthur, Jean MacArthur, at Gracie Mansion in New York, and I I I wrote protocol. I when it came time for her to to meet me and meet meet her, I got down on one knee and I held her hand and I said, "I want to tell you a little story, ma'am. And she said, "Well, certainly, absolutely. And I told her the story how when the general had died in in 1964, I was required by my my mother to go to the funeral, and the most fascinating person I'd ever seen in my life was herself, and she just got she just turned red. Well, long story short, I was at an army command at Fort Hamilton. The next day, the the group the the installation commander called me over to his office, very angry, but he wanted me to know that I was going to be the first civilian aide for the old lady, which was mrs. Mcarthur, and he had to take one of his lieutenants off. And I got to know the family and and the Mcarthurs as a result of that. So lots of opportunities, just absolutely amazing. 911, and we'll get to it. I got to meet President Bush momentarily, but I I got to meet him and have a short conversation. Michael Hingson  21:32 I got to meet him in 2005. We went to the Oval Office, and we were supposed to have a two minute photo op, but he kept wanting to interact. We ended up talking for about 15 minutes. He kept the Italian ambassador or prime minister waiting, but it was a was a great conversation. I very much enjoyed having the opportunity to meet with him. Bob Ellis  21:53 Yeah, he was remarkable. Michael Hingson  21:54 Yeah, in in so many ways. If Speaker 1  22:00 you enjoy Unstoppable Mindset and would like to help us continue bringing these conversations to you each week, we've created a way for you to support the show. Your contribution helps us cover production costs and continue sharing stories, insights, and ideas that inspire people to live with purpose and possibility. If supporting the podcast feels right for you, you'll find the link in the show notes. Thank you for being part of the Unstoppable Mindset Community. Michael Hingson  22:33 So that's that's pretty cool. So as you were going around to all these different places, what would you say you were learning. Bob Ellis  22:41 I was learning business. I was learning relationships. I was learning marketing. Pretty much anything that you wanted to do as a general manager or a vice president, the exchanges let you do it. You know, until you got too far gone, and they they reel you back in. But I love being able to run multiple businesses on the installation, and and be accountable for them, and run them at a profit, and and at the end of the day, do great things for military families. Michael Hingson  23:16 Wow! So you um, you you've you've had a lot of challenges and and had to learn a lot of different things. Needless to say, but I would would think that you've you've been able to to keep a lot of that and use it. And you know we've referred to September 11 th, and so let's let's get to around that time. The first thing I would ask, and people have asked me, but you're in a better position in theory than I. Did you have any inkling that something like September 11th was going to happen? Bob Ellis  23:53 Well, actually, September 11th was was happening. I left for work about 4:30 in the morning. I lived out in the suburbs in Centerville, Virginia, and it was one of those days that you just wished you didn't have to go to work. It was the as the sun was coming up, it had a little cold breeze to it. The skies were blue. It was just one of those days that you just wanted to sit out in the yard and and relax or go bicycling, whatever. But I did my duty and I drove in to the Washington D.C. area and reported to my office on time, which was right around 5o'clock. My staff showed up around six and some at seven, and my secretary came in, and I don't know exactly what time it was, but it was shortly after, right around 9o'clock in Eastern Time, when the first airplane had hit the the trade center. Michael Hingson  24:49 Yeah, Bob Ellis  24:49 846-940-6846, Yes, right, 846. Yeah, and and so I I went in to look at the. The the television monitor standing there it was just her and I at the time and and and I said that's not an accident and she says how do you know that I said look at the skies that was an airliner they were talking about it was a little small private aviation well I'm a pilot I've been a pilot for 40 years 41 years I knew exactly, you know, that that where it was, what it was doing, and that wasn't a it wasn't an accident. And and my inkling was is that I was in a in rented space in Arlington, Virginia, because we had been moved out because the wedge that got attacked was the one that was still under construction. My office had not been completed there, and and I had a meeting in that wedge at 9o'clock that morning. And my secretary said to me, "You know, Bob, the Pentagon is next. And I paused for a minute and I looked at her and I said, "How in the world could you even imagine that, you know that that that's a fortress? Who would be crazy enough to attack the Pentagon? And she says, I I just I don't want you to go over, you know, just just just do it by phone, which I I probably could have done. And I said, No, I'm I'm going to go over there. If they're going if they're going to attack the Pentagon, I'm going to go down with it, and that was kind of my philosophy. So, in the back of my mind, seeing that airplane hit the Trade Center and her telling me that certainly made me wonder if it wasn't a possibility. Michael Hingson  26:33 So, you didn't. You don't think that anyone, and I've never heard of any such, but that anyone had any advance notice? There wasn't chatter. There wasn't anything that made people suspect what might be getting ready to happen. Bob Ellis  26:47 No, I I I think that is the the worst our country has ever been off guard. It reminds me of you know the the attack on Hawaii and that you know in in Pearl Harbor. We were completely unprepared, and I thought we were completely unprepared on 911. And in fact, after the attack, I knew we were unprepared when I saw the two jets fly over with no armament on the wings. So no, I don't think anybody had any idea. Michael Hingson  27:18 Well, the other side of it, and I've talked about this in in some talks I've given. I talk a lot about trust and teamwork, and like it or not, one of the things that I observe is you had 19 terrorists who functioned well enough as a team that they didn't talk about it. They didn't let anything come out. So no matter how much armament or whatever we might have had, I'm not sure whether we could have predicted that on September 11th, what occurred was going to happen. Bob Ellis  27:49 You know, all the indicators were there. You know, those those 19 trained at private airports, and they and during their training, it was it was reported multiple times that all they were interested in was taking off, not landing. I mean, first clue, you know. Okay. Why would you just be interested? He's taking off an airplane, and and I always found that very curious, and I'd heard it several times. That should have set alarm bells off. Should have. It didn't. Apparently, it did. Michael Hingson  28:20 Good point, and you know the the thing is though that, as as you pointed out, who would have thought that anybody would attack the Pentagon, the fortress that it was? Who Bob Ellis  28:33 yeah, Michael Hingson  28:33 who would have thought? So again, you can only go by what you got, and so nobody, I think, would have ever imagined that. Well, of course, the first plane hit the World Trade Center, and at first, people didn't really know what happened because there were really not very many people who who saw it. In fact, we only have the few photos that were taken by the French photographers who were there for something else, but then a little after nine, the second plane hit, and that changed the dynamic and changed the perspective a lot. Although a bunch of people who started seeing it on TV thought it was just a movie, and it wasn't true, but the second plane hitting changed the attitudes. I think for most people, and that's when people knew something was going on. Bob Ellis  29:24 Yeah, I didn't know anything about the second trade center. I had left my office in Crystal City, and I had headed to the Pentagon. And the meeting, the meeting that I had was with the Army Personnel Chief and several other folks. And as it turned out, that is exactly the window that the airplane flew into. That was ground zero for the for the for the target for the airplane going in just above the first floor for the Pentagon. So I didn't know anything. I was I was trapped at that point. I was trapped. Couldn't go um. Wouldn't go um. Didn't want to go um. And I had lived in New York City for five years, and I was my biggest. I was always impressed by the New York City Fire Department. I mean, they're they're just walking heroes if you've ever seen them. I mean, they were like they were like giants when you got next to them, and that they would they were just superhumans. And I always wondered upon the top floors how in the world you would get a fire put out at the top of the World Trade Center, and and I did not know until two days later when I made it home. That was my first question to my family: How did they get the the fire out at the top of the World Trade Center? And I and and it was repeated to me centers, and I said, What are you talking about? Centers in my family, and they said, "Bob, the World Trade Centers are gone. I said, "I don't understand. How could they be gone? And that was that. That was you know two days later that I found out about that. It was quite a shock to me to learn what it actually while I was on on the Pentagon mission. Michael Hingson  30:58 Well, when the first plane hit. Well, in the second plane, the firefighters were going up the stairs carrying all their equipment, and I had had had known about that and asked people, "Well, why are you or would you be carrying equipment? Because I met I I didn't meet the FDNY people ahead of the World Trade Center attacks, but I did meet with other people to learn about emergency preparedness and so on because I felt as the leader of an office, it was my job to know because I wasn't going to be able to read signs, and I love information, so I was trying to learn all I could, and they told me that where would if you if you had equipment stored in the in the towers, then people would go to it. Firefighters would go to it and get the the equipment. What floor do you put it on? Because no matter what floor you put it on, what if the fire broke out one floor below? You know, you can't get to the equipment. So the only way they could get up the stairs to fight the fires was to carry all of the equipment with them, yep, yep. Not enough is said about those guys in history. No, and I met a number of them coming up the stairs as we were going down, and they wanted to escort me down, and I didn't want them to do that because I knew they were a team, and I I pushed back pretty hard and said, no, you guys go up and we'll go down unless we can help you fight the fires, and they said no. The reason they eventually let me go down without any assistance was I had a friend with me who could see, and I said, "Look, David can see. Don't worry about us. And David and they turned to David and they said, "You're with him. And David said, "Yeah, leave him alone. He's fine. So we went on down, and they went up. I don't know whether the people we interacted with made it down or perished up above. It was about 10 after 10 after nine or so when we got to the 30th floor where we met them. So it was another hour and almost 20 minutes before the tower collapsed, but I don't know where the firefighters were, or how many people from the groups that we interacted with perished, or if they all made it out. I don't know, but Bob Ellis  33:12 yep, I I memorized all those numbers. You know, 189 between the airplane and the Pentagon, 200 injured, but 189. 189 total were 64 on the airplane, 125 in the Pentagon, and I'll never forget those numbers. Yeah, I'll never forget the time. I looked at my watch at 9:17, and and I have to tell you that on 9/11, I always sit very quietly until I get past 917, not 937. I'm sorry, 937. Michael Hingson  33:48 So Bob Ellis  33:48 in the morning. Michael Hingson  33:49 So, how close were you to where the plane came into the Pentagon? Bob Ellis  33:56 About 300 yards. When when it was clear that the meeting wasn't going to happen because the air traffic control system had been shut down. They released us to go back to our our offices, and I was going out the front door. I left about 930. It was supposed to start at nine 930. The generals said we'll just reconvene, and and I agreed. And from his office on on the south portico, I was walking out the front door. Literally, I heard the engines spool up. I had been in the AOR in rail combat munitions, and and I've heard cruise missiles, and and I could hear this one spinning up, and I thought it was a cruise missile, and so when it hit when it hit the building, it was just it was just a horrendous sound. But my first impression was to run to it to see what happened, what what what caused that, and there was nothing there. It was just four or five cars burning and smoke billowing out of the building. And and the the rest turned into a you know a rescue and a a recovery. Michael Hingson  35:08 AOR is what Bob Ellis  35:10 the area of responsibility. Michael Hingson  35:13 Okay, area of responsibility. Okay, Bob Ellis  35:16 yeah, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, wherever we are, it's it's N A O R, and that's your A O R. That's state. That's where you are. So that that's where I encountered first first and only live person coming out of the building, and which was a which was a really big surprise. But I knew that there was something that I I had to do, and and one of the things was to, if he needed assistance, getting him assistance. And there were several people. He was he was he was burned third degree burns over his whole body. He lived. I said one prayer was for him. And as it turned out, he became a a great ambassador. Turned out to be a great friend, and is actually back in the Pentagon to this day, just steps away from his old office as a civilian, went went back on a presidential appointment. Michael Hingson  36:09 So, you mentioned the general a while ago. Was did he survive? Bob Ellis  36:15 No, he was the he was the highest ranking person that we lost in in the entire encounter, and it was the entire office was just instantly vaporized. So he did not survive. Michael Hingson  36:33 Well, so you heard the engines revving up, and you went after you heard the explosion and so on. You went over to see what was going on, and then what did you do? Because it certainly had to be a major surprise and a shock by any standard. Bob Ellis  36:49 Yeah, I went that side of the building, saw the hole in the building, kind of convinced myself it was a cruise missile, but I never heard such a loud engine noise. As it turned out, it was it was two big engines off of a 757 200, and so I immediately tried to figure out you know what can I do? What should I do? Should I even be here? And that's when I saw the colonel coming out of the building, and I was able to walk with him and four others over to the the road, the Washington Boulevard that goes around the Pentagon, and and I sat down on the telephone pole, a light pole that the airplane hit going in. Now I'm a pilot, and and I have to tell you to take an airplane going at Mach point eight seven, and hit a target, hit the building, and not hitting the ground was just absolutely amazing to me. So as they got the colonel into an SUV and and and got him out of the the scene, I sat there. Just it was almost like a movie I was watching. The triage was being set up. The Pentagon was burning. The emergency services units were starting to show up, and we had very intermittent phone capability. And I had I had a a friend, my my the commander that I worked for in Dallas at the time. This secretary's husband was a bodyguard for Secretary Rumsfeld, and and Secretary Rumsfeld was actually carrying litter patients, carrying people out of the debris area and out of the offices. He was actually helping people, and he he realized that something needed to be done. So he gave Jerry a note, a piece of paper. We called them snowflakes, but it was a tablet, and he had listed what needed to be done and what needed to be done now. And Jerry found me sitting over there and gave me that that piece of paper, and it had everything listed on it. He wanted a a tactical field operation in place. He wanted it now, not yesterday. He wanted something in the interim, and it was to provide emergency relief supplies. So I I sat down on that telephone pole and I called our our local dist not local our largest distribution center in the world was down in Newport News, and I got the director on the phone and I said, I have an official order from you coming from the Secretary of Defense, and and don't override, don't just just follow my instructions until we can get to the commander at AFIS headquarters, and so I gave him the list. I just gave him the full list of things that we needed to get rolling, and I called another gentleman that was just across the river, the American Logistics Association, which owned all of the brokers and manufacturers, and I gave him a list of stuff that we needed now, like Gatorade boots. the The surface was over 2000 degrees, and the emergency service boots were melting almost upon contact. So I had I had 1000s, hundreds of 1000s of dollars of equipment. And supplies coming in, and we set up the USO tent, put everything in the USO tent. We raided all the stores in the in the Washington D.C. area. I was able to contact the region manager, and I told him, you know, what we needed to take it off the shelf, put it in the back seat of the cars, don't account for it, and get it to me. And that's what we did the entire first night was setting up the USO trailer, and the next morning I had two tactical field tractor trailers coming up the ramp just as the sun was coming up, and they were loaded with supplies, and that's what stayed in place for the next two months. Over $2 million worth of merchandise, emergency recovery type merchandise, everything from linens to the towels to eye wash, and and and we had to actually have some special boots made out of leather for the dogs because the dogs' feet were so it was it was quite an operation. We ended up well running within within 24 hours of the attack, Michael Hingson  41:04 why is it that you are able to stay pretty focused through all of this? Bob Ellis  41:08 I you know I you know I I've often asked that question. I wanted to go home. Alls I could think of is my kids, my wife. What what are they doing? What are they thinking? They're watching this on the news, and I had I had drifted over to which my car was very close, and it was taped off. The parking lot was taped off. It was a crime scene. There was no going anywhere. There was no transportation. If I wanted to walk 40 miles, I guess I could have, but because I couldn't go anywhere, I had to do something there on the scene, so that's that's that's what I did, and and it wasn't until the next day when the phone started working again, our two star in Dallas was able to get through to me on on my BlackBerry, and he wanted to know what the situation was, and and and I told him, and and he said, what what are we going to do? And I explained to him what we had done already, and he says, "How did you do all of that? I said, "I picked up the phone and I told him I was working for Secretary Rumsfeld, and this is the order. And and he says, "How are we going to pay for all of this? I said, "Sir, this is our finest hour. We're not. We're going to donate. These are all donating goods, and and it really was an interesting. I I just I just don't know. I was compelled. He he he ordered me on that second day to go home, and and I said I had no way to go home. And he said go to the motor pool. I'm going to call the motor pool. He had been the commander of the Air Force One Squadron, so he had a lot of connections in Washington, and he he got me a car, and I went home long enough to change clothes and and and to come back out. So it was it was just out of adrenaline, I think. Somebody had to do something, and and everything that I've told you here today is not written anywhere in history. I own every bit of what happened in in in that story, other than some of the people that were working there. Michael Hingson  43:07 What phone did you use that first day? You said you're you're it was the second day or the next day that you're phoned. So how were you able to communicate? Bob Ellis  43:17 We had Blackberries, and and until the networks got completely overrun, we were able to use it. And and so by the second third day, we we had pretty consistent communication, because the the the commander called me back that same morning, and and he said, you know, he said, how come you haven't been home? And I explained to him, and he says, "Will you do me one favor? And I said, "I would. He said, "Will you go back into the building? Said, "Sir, the building's on fire. He says, "Well, well, you get in the front, and I'm looking at it. He was looking at it on television, and the military clothing store was in the very front, within 100 feet, probably of that door that I went out of. And he says, "Would you see if our people survive, and if the store itself survived? It was sitting near the the area. I went in the store. I went into the building, into the burning building, and was able to look in the door, and I could see that the the room was full of smoke, and the door was locked. So I told him I would assume that our people made it out, alive and okay. And they say that was a, and they did, and they absolutely did. And in fact, everybody that that that that had any kind of supervisory capability around the Beltway, they volunteered to come over and work for me and and operating that facility for 2024 hours a day, seven days a week. Wow! So and not and not to shorten the the question, I wasn't there, but because of what I was doing in the in the Pentagon, my old homestead was at Fort Hamilton. Fort Hamilton picked up the same thing and went over to the Trade Center area, and they gave them a place to put a mobile. Food truck, and they brought supplies in and pretty much supported the firefighters and the and the and the police there. So so we had quite an operation going for a long time. Michael Hingson  45:11 Yeah, and and needed to, but it was interesting and commendable that in both places people were able to focus, and were able to carry out missions. I know at the World Trade Center when the two towers collapsed. Of course, it was it was unexpected, but we know now, of course, why they collapsed. It wasn't that the planes hit; it's that they were they were full of what 36,000 pounds of jet fuel each, and that exploding jet fuel is what damaged the infrastructure of the buildings to cause them to be able to collapse. But as well as at the Pentagon, but very quickly people were able to start to move and deal with issues and put procedures in place that were able to, I'm sure, keep more people from perishing and keep kept more people being able to focus throughout the whole the whole sequence of events. It it certainly was very scary, but it is something that that people like you were able to do. I know for me, the reason I was able to focus was because I had learned what to do in an emergency at the World Trade Center. I spent time with people and I learned how the whole building was structured, so I knew when the building tipped, why it tipped, and and things like that. You Bob Ellis  46:40 felt it. You you felt it. Michael Hingson  46:43 Oh yeah. Oh my god. We moved probably at least 20 feet, and then it came back, and oh my Speaker 2  46:48 god, it Michael Hingson  46:48 got vertical again. It got vertical again, and then a few seconds later, it dropped about six feet because the expansion joints went back to their normal configuration. But Bob Ellis  46:59 we uh we we knew from 937 till about 5o'clock that evening there would be no more survivors. It was over, and and and the dogs were getting depressed because they were they were they were not cadaver dogs. They were recovery dogs, and they were used to fight. And we we actually had ceremonies for the dogs every day, where we sewed flags onto their collars, and they had special water and special food. So they played a big, big role in morale, mine especially. Michael Hingson  47:33 And at the same time, I know people had to do drills to keep the dogs focused because they weren't able to find people, as you said, so they had to do things to give them something to find to keep them happy, which was was so important. Bob Ellis  47:50 Yeah, that we had two two tractor trailers lined up. It was just just two 300 feet from where you went into the damaged area of the Pentagon, and those dogs and their handlers would get up underneath those trailers and sleep, and they would play with the dogs. We actually had some carpets brought out, tarps brought out, and that's kind of where that was kind of their headquarters during 911. We had to make it up as we went along, and and the other interesting part of this story is in 1972 at the at the refugee camp, I was sleeping in the back of a van because there was just no way to go home. It was too it was too far to drive home to turn around and come back at 8o'clock the next morning, and I heard somebody knocking at the door, and and and I and I opened up the door, and it was a military colonel in uniform, and there was a civilian standing there with him. And he says, "Are you part of this operation? And I said, "Yes, sir, I am. He said, "Who are you with? And I said, "The Army Air Force Exchange Service. And and he says, "You're not provided any other facilities. This, I said, that was my choice. And as it turned out, I was speaking to Secretary Rumsfeld during his first administration as Secretary of Defense, and it was interesting that when he found out that what I did in in that program, I won the Indo Indo China Award for service, and then of course you you move ahead to to 2001, and we we knew each other. I had briefed him several times, and we we knew each other in the Pentagon. And that day, he knew that I would know what to do for the support role, and that's why he sent the letter up. And as it turned out, when he retired and and left the Pentagon, he was on a book tour, and and the the general secretary and myself got an invite to come to the book tour with him and and have lunch with him. And he handed me a book and he said, "I want you to have this, but I don't want you to open it up until you, Bob. I don't want you to open it up till you get home. I don't want you to give it to your wife. And and it was like this. Sure, I'm not not a problem, and so I got I got home. You know, this is this is 10 years later, and handed the book to her, and I said, "Open it up. I'm not wasn't allowed, and there's a nice thank you page on the front from Secretary Rums for allowing him to use me on 9/11, and you just you just that's the best reward that I could have ever ever expected. A guy that I just idolized to do that. Michael Hingson  50:26 When you got home, so you weren't able to talk to your wife before you got home, or did you ever get communication so you could call her? Bob Ellis  50:33 No, I didn't. I when I finally got the phone back up and running and got in the car. I had lost the battery, so I said, "I'm gonna be home in in an hour. I'll just be there. But General Wax called up, and she answered the phone. She went. She went sometime during that day and pulled the kids out of the private school, brought them home. She could see my car. It was a yellow SUV, and she could see it in the South parking lot in the news choppers going around. She said that was my car where my spot was, and General Wax got her on the phone and she and and she answered the phone and he said this is C J Wax and she thought that was the call. She thought that was it, and she alls I could do was drop to my knees and and and C J said and it's it's okay. I've ordered him to come home. He's all right. He's running. He's running a a program for us for for recovery. And if he's not there, he should be there shortly. And then by the time I got there, I got to the front step. I'm asking the question about the World Trade Center, how they got the fire out, and I was ordered that I could not go in the house because I smelled like smoke. So, so two minutes before that, I was the most important person in the world, and and then all of a sudden, I was I was back to Bob, and I wasn't going to wear that that suit in the house to to smoke it. So anyway, that's that's how she found out. He he called her up. I asked him. I think I asked him if he would get in touch with her at our last conversation, and he did. Michael Hingson  52:06 Soon after both towers collapsed, like a minute or so later, I called and got through to my wife Karen. I had talked with her before we left our office, and then when we got downstairs, I couldn't get through to her because the circuits were busy, and it was obvious that everyone we learned later was saying goodbye to loved ones, and so the circuits were busy. So after both towers collapsed, I was able to get through to her, and as I tell people, there were tears on both sides of the phone at the when that conversation started, but she was the first one who told us how two aircraft had been crashed into the World Trade Center towers, one to the Pentagon, and at that time, the fourth one was apparently still missing over Pennsylvania, and of course, then it crashed at Shanksville. Bob Ellis  52:52 I love it. Michael Hingson  52:54 Yeah, but we, you know, we talked, so she knew I was okay. Then a friend of ours, Tom Painter, who had been a friend of Karen's at high school out in California, but Tom, over the years, had ended up moving to New Jersey. He came down to stay with her, not knowing until he arrived whether I was in the office that day or out with a customer or what was going on. And of course, then she told him, and so he drove her to the train station to pick me up. When, when I got back out to Westfield, we went home. And you talk about with with dogs. We got in the house, and I took Roselle's harness off because I was going to take her out, and she would have none of it. She ran off, grabbed her favorite tug bone and started playing tug of war with my retired guide dog Linny, and I talked to the veterinarians at Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael the next day, and they said, "Did anything threaten her? And I said, "No, not directly. And they said, "That's why she ran off because it was over. Nothing threatened her. Bob Ellis  53:58 Comfortable. Michael Hingson  53:59 She, they don't. Dogs don't do what if like we do, and so she was comfortable. She was happy. She wanted to play, and then then she did go out. But by the same token, the the whole point was that she was able to deal with with all of it and was able to to focus. Then we got her outside and and came back in, and she ate and and all that. But the the the thing is that she focused all day, and and she did a a wonderful job. And the reason that she focused and did so well was mainly because I worked at keeping her focus by telling her every chance I got. You're a good girl. What a good dog! Good dog. You're doing a great job. Keep going. I did that all the way down the stairs in the World Trade Center, and I was very deliberate about that because I knew she had to sense the fear and what was going on, and I wanted her to know that I was okay and I was going to be there for. Her, which is of course what teamwork and support is all about. You understand that very well. You you proved it in so many ways. I kept working with Roselle and kept her focused, and you know it all it all really went well. I still think one of the most relevant things for me in the World Trade Center. I went down the stairs with a guy named David Frank. David was from our corporate office in California, and David and I were going to be conducting sales seminars that day, teaching some resellers how to sell our products. And we got down to about the 50th floor, so David was there to talk about the the pricing and so on. I was going to do the majority of the presentation because I was going to be their technical contact, anyway, and we got to about the 50th floor, going down, and suddenly David said, "Mike, we're going to die. We're not going to make it out of here. And as I tell people, since I got a teaching credential, I had learned all about the secrets of how to yell at students. So I just said, "Stop it, David. If Roselle and I can go down these stairs, so can you. And he then immediately said that I brought him out of his spunk, and he told me that later as well. But what he told me was that he wanted to walk a floor below me on the stairs and shout up to me everything that he was seeing. He had to take his mind off of what was going on, and so he asked if I cared, and I said, "No, go ahead. That's what you need to do. That's fine. So I got like down to the 48th floor, and he yelled, "47th floor, Mike. All's clear here. Going on down. So we went down several floors that way. Eventually, I got to 45, and he was 44th floor. This is where the Port Authority cafeteria is not stopping. And the reason I mention it is because I think what David did is one of the unsung things that is so important from September 11th. He kept shouting up to me everything that he saw, but the reality is, anyone in the sound of his voice heard that there was someone who was okay going down the stairs, and he had to keep panic out of people's senses for so many individuals, because they just heard him, Mike, 43rd floor, all's good here. Going on down the stairs, all the way down the stairs. He had to have been able to keep so many people focused because he was able to keep his mind off of what was going on by shouting to me, and I think that that's so important, and so I'm. I always tell that story. I've been telling it for many years now because I want people to know what he did to keep so many people focused going down the stairs, and he had to have done that. Bob Ellis  57:31 Well, you know, I have. That's that's the first I've heard that, and and and and I read everything that I followed your story very closely, as well as the colonel who I was so close to, but there there are a couple of stories that are just never mentioned, not talked about, and one of them where we had to do every day. There was an update that the military gave the families an update as to what is happening, what was found, what was recovered, what to expect, and they would bring the kids in to listen to these brutal military briefings. I mean, just you know, these were these were soldiers, these were these were combat folks, and this is the way they briefed. And the therapy dogs were brought in, and there wasn't but about a dozen of them, and I will never forget not only the kids on the floor with the arms around those dogs, but some of the adults were as well. And I thought, what what a moment! That was the most touching moment of my entire life witnessing that. I mean, I could have done without it, but it was it was a very special moment. And then the the other thing that the world doesn't know about is on the second day, I got a I got a phone call from Secretary Rumsfeld's office that the VA was completely out of coffin flags. We had nothing in inventory to to cover the remains or the caskets for burial, and what could I do? And and right right from the Pentagon parking lot, I I called one of the buyers that bought American flags in Dallas, and then I asked her who do you get flags from, and she says it's American Flag Company. I'll give them credit for that, and and I said you need you need to get their entire inventory. We need to get it flown in, whatever expenses cover it, and get them here. The Pentagon doesn't have them, and New York doesn't have them. And those flags came in. They were they were there about that midnight that that that night. Now boxed up, thrown in the bag box, whatever tape they were bound, but everybody that came out later, you know, the recoveries as we got deeper into the debris, that had a had a flag that that came that came from us in the as well as at the Pentagon, and they put two very big special flags in there. I mean, like you see flying over a car dealer. And they hung that on the side of the Pentagon. And if you look at any of the any of the news willers of that time, it was on day two that flag was hanging that that came in with the rest of the other flags. So it was it was quite impressive. You never know what the next moment was going to bring you on you know from my side and and and can I meet the challenge? That was what I constantly worry about. How could I let any of this down? And I've got to do something. And and we were making it up as we went along. Michael Hingson  1:00:33 Yeah, that's all you could do. And so when I go back to Bob Ellis  1:00:37 to to this to this day, you know, we go back. They've got 184 markers. I don't know how many people attend it, but it's it's right in that zone, right outside the building, in that grassy area where they they they've made that memorial. And 184 people, to include I think two infants, are are memorialized there forever, which is very touching. It was a that was a hard place to go back to. Still was New York City when I went to it because I'd never I had never been 20 years 20 years yet 18 years before I ever went to to New York City to see the recovery there. I've never I've not been to the to the to the Pennsylvania field. I plan to go. I want to go. Just hadn't been convenient to get there, but but if I do that, I will have seen all all the sites. Michael Hingson  1:01:26 Yeah, I haven't been to Pennsylvania either. In 2017, I did make it to the World Trade Center Museum. In well, so we moved out of Westfield, and I moved back to California in late January, beginning of February of 2002, to work for Guide Dogs for the Blind and and speak from there. And traveled around and speak. Karen was there for a couple more months selling our home, and then she came out. But in May of 2002, Roselle was going to be honored by Hart's Mountain, the pet food and pet supply company. So, so we went back to New York, and while we were there, I met one of the police officers with with one of the service with one of the rescue dogs that that had been around the World Trade Center, and he arranged for us to get in a vehicle and drive down into the pit that was where the World Trade Center was, and they had built an artificial, well, a temporary road, and they were bringing things up, but we got to go down to what would have been the seventh sublevel, the bottom of the tower, and it was just a for me just imagining it standing in that dirt area in a hole seven stories deep and remembering what what it was like, and then in 2017 I went to the World Trade Center Museum and got to spend a little bit of time there, and of course everything had been rebuilt. The reflecting pool was there, and so on. But it was nothing like what I remembered from having been in the World Trade Center, and I walked around with someone who was able to be aware and describe what was where we were and what was above us, or what part of the building we were in as we walked through the complex. But of course, it was totally different. So it was it was such a strange feeling to experience all of that. But we did it, you know. And so now I've been to the museum, and actually there is a there's an animal exhibit in the basement, and Roselle's collar is is part of that exhibit. We donated that to oh Bob Ellis  1:03:50 really, oh really, oh God, I I was I was thinking that when I asked you that question earlier today, and I was thinking about that that has got to be remarkable, you know that that that's what touched me so much at the period. That the fact that the two of you were such a team, and I read everything that newspapers printed and watched. I guess there was some there was some CBS specials and so forth too, where you were interviewed, and it was it was just it was just absolutely amazing. Michael Hingson  1:04:21 Well, it is. you know, it is a an awe-inspiring sort of thing. And you know, people always say, you know, don't you feel guilty about surviving when so many people didn't? And and I said, no, I I didn't have any control over that. But what I do have control over is having been a survivor. What am I going to do about it? It's my responsibility to decide how I'm going to deal with moving forward after something like that. And of course, the opportunity opened to travel and speak, and so I've been doing it ever since. And I believe my job is. Is to educate people about what happened on September 11th, and let them know t

On our radar this week… For the first time in our nearly six years and 295 episodes we're on the road, delighted to be in Grand Haven with good people of Progressive Lakeshore, a nonpartisan, women-led initiative working to connect, inform & grow the progressive community. Absentee ballots go into the mail in just 16 days … unless Trump's hand-picked Supreme Court majority decides to ignore the U.S. Constitution AGAIN! Trump has filed still another appeal with the Court demanding that the Post Office decides who gets their votes counted. We're also getting ready for this week's Trumpapalooze in Dallas, a two-day tribute to America's first and only criminal convict President. If he can stay awake, Trump will speak both nights of the gathering to an audience of people who 1) had nothing better to do, and 2) were willing to pay a minimum of $25,000 for the privilege of being in the presence of the nation's chief executive/poopie pants napper. One of the few Michigan Republicans on hand will be Senate candidate Mike Rogers who will no doubt use his podium time to lob anti-Muslim insults at Abdul El Sayed. Michigan Democrats will take the opportunity to reinforce the link between Rogers and a President who currently has a 30 percent approval rating in the state … with a whopping 67% saying in the EPIC-MRA Poll that Trump sucks. Also on the speakers list: 10th district congressional candidate Michael Bouchard Jr. A new study finds that Michigan households are paying an average of $5,600, more than anywhere in the nation, since new tariffs began to take effect in January 2025. During that period, importers of goods bound for Michigan paid an estimated $23 billion in tariffs, the third largest of any state – behind only California and Texas. The analysis by the conservative National Taxpayers Union Foundation found that the state's auto industry is particularly vulnerable to the tariffs because of its reliance on imported steel, aluminum and parts subject to tariffs. About $10 billion of Michigan's tariff cost was on cars and trucks, and another $5 billion in tariffs was on auto parts, the report said. Top of mind for everyone: retail prices. We paid $4+/gallon on the way over to Grand Haven. The price of diesel fuel – which impacts the price of anything that has to be delivered – is averaging $5.75/gallon, an all-time record high. Airline tickets are up 20% from a year ago, hotels up around 10%. Even a Whopper is a whopping $6.19 at your local Burger King…but at least the lettuce won't give us projectile diarrhea. Trump's wars continue unabated with no signs of peace with either Iran or Canada. Meanwhile, Trump's ace team of real estate salesmen (Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff) spent some time in Moscow getting their marching orders from Putin. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio, believed to be the alleged Secretary of State, has been seen about as often in Washington as Mitch McConnell or Melania. The share of Americans who associate themselves with the Democratic Party has grown significantly over the past year, according to data from Gallup. The shift, which signals the party's largest advantage since 2008, is the latest sign of backlash against Republicans and the president ahead of the midterm elections. The latest data shows Democrats with a 10-percentage-point advantage over Republicans when voters are asked which party they identify with and when independent voters are asked which party they lean toward.  We're still 2-plus weeks from the start of voting. All the signs point to the Blue Wave we've been predicting for nearly two years but, as we learned over the weekend in Ann Arbor, it ain't over until it's over … and even then it may not be over. Donald Trump is capable of seeing a losing score when the election is over, and then come up with a political Hail Mary. Mark is one of the legal team working to anticipate and head off a Trumpian coup and provides some insight into the preparations. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Republic, If You Can Keep It is supported by

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What's up in Aurora lately? Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman has been taking a new and low-key approach to homelessness; data center regulations are on the table, teens are taking over shopping centers, and one person is going “BYO gavel” at City Council meetings! Aurora Sentinel reporter (and former City Cast Denver newsletter writer) McKenna Harford joins producer Olivia Jewell Love to talk about Mayor Coffman's Friday night plans, kids jumping on tables at Burger King, and so much more.  For even more news from around the city, subscribe to our morning newsletter at denver.citycast.fm. Follow us on Instagram: @citycastdenver Chat with other listeners on Reddit: r/CityCastDenver Support City Cast Denver by becoming a member! What have you seen happening in Aurora lately?  Text or leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and you might hear it on the show: 720-500-5418 Learn more about the sponsors of this September 8th episode: Blue Sky Plumbing Cozy Earth - Use code COZYDENVER for up to 20% off Looking to advertise on City Cast Denver? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise

We're bringing some real sleepover energy, so kick up your feet and join us as we discuss: what's your favorite dinosaur? Who's the most Griffin-looking muppet? And what would you rather get in a Burger King meal, Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Goku, or a paper crown that actually fits your head?Suggested talking points: Aesop's Power Rankings, Elite Pokemon Series for Only Grandpas, 20 Pictures of Lew Zealand, Cool Cars to Drive Away In, Old Lizard History, Munch Your Body, Over 9000 NuggetsMidwest Food Bank: https://midwestfoodbank.org/disaster-relief/ Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinmbmbam

Sponsors: Monarch -Thanks to Monarch for partnering with this show. Go to https://monarch.com and use code HONEYDEW to get 50% off your first year of Monarch Core. Hims -Sponsored by Hims. Visit hims.com/honeydew to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. Brooklyn Bedding -Go to brooklynbedding.com and use my promo code HONEYDEW for 30% off sitewide Comedian Willie Macc joins me on The HoneyDew to Highlight the Lowlights of growing up as a preacher's son and becoming a father at just 16 years old. Willie shares how he met his son's mom, Erica while working at Burger King, experienced all of his firsts with her, and found out they were having a baby while they were still teenagers. He also tells the story of planning to run away before his mom woke up and stopped him, why Erica's mom never liked him, and the irony of failing sex ed when he already had a kid. Plus, Willie reveals what happened when comedy legend Bernie Mac absolutely dumped on him. Check out Willie's comedy special Good Dad, Bad Father SUBSCRIBE for new episodes of The HoneyDew every week.

Eating out is inevitable, whether you're traveling, meeting family, attending a work lunch, or simply not in the mood to cook. Dani and Alice break down how to navigate restaurants as a vegan while still building meals that work for your nutrition and physique goals.They cover Mexican, Indian, Thai, pho, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Mediterranean, American, and pizza restaurants, including what to order, where protein is easiest to find, and which seemingly healthy options can come with a surprising amount of oil or other hidden calories.They also share practical strategies like researching menus ahead of time, asking for light oil or sauces on the side, checking whether rice and beans contain animal products, bringing your own protein when necessary, and keeping a running list of reliable restaurants for travel.Finally, they discuss some surprisingly useful chain options, including CAVA, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Burger King, and Taco Bell, proving that even when your choices aren't ideal, you can usually find something workable.

Welcome back to Chill Filtered, the podcast where we drink whiskey so you don't have to (but you probably should)! This week, Cole and Bryan dive into a bottle with one of the most unbelievable backstories in spirits history: the brand-new Bruichladdich 14-Year "Yellow Submarine [Reclassified]" (2026 Release)! Before getting to the glass, the guys talk Scotland vacation planning, Cole's love of Paris, his recent trip to the home office in Ohio (featuring half-off whiskey night in Wadsworth), a top-secret family Disney trip in the works, and huge updates for the Phoenix Meetup—including hopefully hosting the Found North private barrel pick with Nick Taylor inside an authentic WWII airplane hangar!

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Patreon. The last first Monday in May. This week, Jimmy and Larry are hitting the stu before the long weekend to volley back and forth on wraps so good you gotta buy merch, picking your own pears, sewing at home, John Galliano's Met Gala is officially canceled but does this mean cancel culture is back, Anna Wintour taking a rare L, maybe we should just cancel the whole damn thing at this point, Derelict IRL, Lawrence works out with gloves (derogatory) and loves wake surfing like a billionaire (derogatory), our own personal fall fashion preview featuring corduroy, a brief history of Big Mac flannels, horizontal stripes that don't make you look like a baby, and engineer boots for guys who can't even ride a moped, Burger King abolished their monarchy so their chicken is good now, did James infect Novak Djokovic, eating Nobu twice in one week, what do you do if the bartender thinks you're Muslim, a review of the U.S. Open french dip by Salt Hank's and subsequent correspondence, and much more.  

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Bruce Campbell is an American actor, producer, director, and writer best known for playing Ash Williams in the cult-horror Evil Dead franchise. With his distinctive comedic style and charismatic screen presence, he has become an enduring icon of horror and genre cinema, while also appearing in shows like Burn Notice and Xena: Warrior Princess. For dates and theaters for his new movie, check out ernieandemma.com.IN THE NEWS: Colorado mob of 500 teens swarms Burger King, supermarket in chaotic shopping center takeover, Hunter Biden says he is “48.6%” gay, Randy Quaid rips into ‘woke' Anne Hathaway as ‘horrible choice' for ‘Days of Thunder' sequel, AOC says she would “probably not” date a conservativeGET IT ON!FOR MORE WITH BRUCE CAMPBELL:MOVIE: Ernie and Emma (Nationwide screening tour in partnership with Alamo Drafthouse Cinema) For dates go to ernieandemma.comFOR MORE WITH RUDY PAVICH:WEBSITE: RudyPavichComedy.comINSTAGRAM: @Rudy_Pavich PUNCH UP LIVE: https://punchup.live/rudypavichLIVE SHOWS: September 11 - Las Vegas, NV (2 Shows)September 12 - Las Vegas, NV (2 Shows)September 20 - Santa Ana, CA (Live Podcast)September 24 - Burbank, CAThank you for supporting our sponsors:Chime.com/ADAMoreillyauto.com/adampluto.tvSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Dopeycon Tickets: https://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation/2345507 Patreon Saves $15: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Summary Dopey Greatest Hits: Actor and storyteller Ned Van Zandt returns to promote his one-man show, Lost in Dell Valley, and revisit his astonishing life in addiction and recovery. Ned describes being recognized in jail by the leader of the Texas Aryan Brotherhood, who traded him protection and OxyContin for acting lessons using scenes from Lost and Prison Break. The episode then replays Ned's original Dopey appearance: doing heroin with Andy Warhol's circle, living at the Chelsea Hotel alongside Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, eating Burger King with Sid on the day Nancy died, and being in their room hours before her murder. Ned explains why he believes Sid was innocent and identifies the drug dealer he suspected may have been involved. Ned also recounts driving a cab while addicted to heroin, getting slashed during a robbery, buying drugs on the devastated Lower East Side, descending into meth addiction in Long Beach, and knowing dealers who smuggled exotic birds. After nearly 13 years clean, one glass of wine led to a cocaine overdose four days later and another seven-year run. His final arrest, time in jail, and a trip to treatment in Hawaii ultimately gave him another chance—although he arrived with Valium, Vicodin and OxyContin sewn into his clothes. Today, Ned has nearly 20 years clean, works at Transcend NYC, and performs all 19 characters in Lost in Dell Valley. Way More on the New Episode! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.