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Subscribe to our Newsletter:https://theultimatepartner.com/ebook-subscribe/Check Out UPX:https://theultimatepartner.com/experience/ The Shift from Attention to Trust In this compelling episode, Ashleigh Vogstad, CEO of Transcends, joins Vince Menzione to discuss the tectonic shifts occurring in the global partner ecosystem. Ashleigh shares her firsthand experiences studying AI at Oxford, the rise of the “Trust Economy,” and the controversial Amazon vs. Perplexity lawsuit. They dive deep into the practicalities of becoming a “Frontier Firm,” the importance of building proprietary AI agents, and the ways Gen Z and AI-driven marketplaces are revolutionizing the buyer journey. Whether you are looking to win Microsoft Partner of the Year or navigate the demise of traditional SaaS, this conversation provides a strategic roadmap for leading through the AI revolution. Key Takeaways The economy is shifting from a focus on human attention to a foundation of verified trust. Future commerce will involve “selling to machines” as AI agents begin making purchasing decisions on behalf of humans. Microsoft is prioritizing “Frontier Firms” that integrate AI into every customer interaction and internal process. Gen Z buyers are prioritizing product value and “dupes” over traditional brand names, with 75% of buyers expected to be Gen Z by 2030. To win Partner of the Year, organizations must publicly celebrate “better together” stories with validated customer wins. Modern leaders should transition from a “growth mindset” to a “frontier mindset” to keep pace with rapid technological change. https://youtu.be/xJmd43NvfnI If you're ready to lead through change, elevate your business, and achieve extraordinary outcomes through the power of partnership—this is your community. At Ultimate Partner® we want leaders like you to join us in the Ultimate Partner Experience – where transformation begins. Key Tags Trust Economy, Selling to Machines, Amazon vs Perplexity Lawsuit, Frontier Firm, AI Agents, Copilot Studio, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Partner of the Year, B2B Marketplaces, Gen Z Buyer Behavior, Digital Freedom, AI Therapy, Ray Kurzweil Singularity, Substack Growth, Co-selling Partnerships, MCI Funding, Azure Accelerate, Agentic AI, Transcending Tech, Ashleigh Vogstad. Transcript Asleigh Vogstad Audio Podcast [00:00:00] Ashleigh Vogstad: The attention economy is about selling to human beings. Now, if you look at something like the Amazon versus Perplexity lawsuit, the whole underlying premise is around the shift of no longer selling to humans directly, but of selling to machines. [00:00:19] Vince Menzione: We just finished Ultimate Partners Winter Retreat here in beautiful Boca to a sold out crowd. Today I’m joined by Ashley Waad. The CEO of transcends for this compelling discussion. Ash, welcome back to the podcasts. [00:00:34] Ashleigh Vogstad: It’s so good to be here, Vince. Thank you. Uh, [00:00:37] Vince Menzione: so well, we’re back in Boca again and we were just here yesterday for the Ultimate Partner Executive Winter Retreat in person. [00:00:44] Vince Menzione: What a great event we had together. [00:00:46] Ashleigh Vogstad: It was phenomenal. Thank you so much for having us there and on stage and, and genuinely the community is like a family, so seeing so many familiar faces and spending some quality time was just great. [00:00:57] Vince Menzione: It has really, truly become like family. It really, I’m, I’m, I’m having so much fun with this and getting to watch. [00:01:04] Vince Menzione: Not just our business grow and our community grow, but to see all of our friends and, uh, organizations like Transcends that have been with us since the beginning, since the very first ultimate partner acting even before the first ultimate partner. And, uh. We were just talking about. I’d love to catch up with what you’ve been doing. [00:01:22] Vince Menzione: Like you just came, you’ve been on a whirlwind. I mean, you’re always, every time like it’s, where’s Ash? She’s, uh, she’s on a plane again, or she’s on, she’s on the slopes. But tell us where you were just this week. [00:01:34] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah. The week started in a snowstorm, actually transporting myself from Whistler. I didn’t know if I would make it to the airport, but then down to Silicon Valley and [00:01:45] Vince Menzione: Nice. [00:01:46] Ashleigh Vogstad: Wow, that place is just inspiring and eyeopening. I mean, seeing the Nvidia campus, a MD, it’s really just other worldly and it had me reflecting on, it’s [00:02:00] Vince Menzione: not Whistler. Yeah, it’s [00:02:02] Ashleigh Vogstad: definitely not Whistler. Definitely not Whistler [00:02:05] Vince Menzione: about, [00:02:06] Ashleigh Vogstad: um, yeah, it just had me reflecting on being down there. I used to spend a lot of time in the Valley around 2017 and. [00:02:13] Ashleigh Vogstad: In this theme of AI and kind of what’s really coming, I was, I was thinking about, I had met this woman, Julia Moss Bridge, who’s a neuroscientist studying ai. She had a project called Loving Ai, and I was down there when they had borrowed Sophia, this humanoid robot from S and Robotics. [00:02:32] Vince Menzione: Oh yes. Yes. [00:02:33] Ashleigh Vogstad: Really interesting. [00:02:34] Ashleigh Vogstad: Sophia’s actually a citizen of Saudi. Mm-hmm. First, first robot to actually be made citizen of a country. So they had Sophia set up and the part that was just mind boggling at the time was that Sophia was hosting in real life therapy sessions with actual human beings sitting across the table. And what really struck me as. [00:02:59] Ashleigh Vogstad: Kind of just, you know, that was only eight, nine years ago. And that was esoteric. Wacky and [00:03:05] Vince Menzione: eerie. [00:03:05] Ashleigh Vogstad: Weird. [00:03:05] Vince Menzione: Eerie at the time. [00:03:06] Ashleigh Vogstad: Incredibly eerie. Yeah. I mean, a, a human getting, uh, you know, therapy sessions from a robot sitting across the table. Yeah. And it just had me thinking how far we’ve come today. In 2025, Harvard Business Review said that therapy is actually the number one use case for ai. [00:03:26] Vince Menzione: I’ve heard that. That is striking. I go back to COVID. We were having this conversation last night at at the dinner for the Ultimate Partner event, and I think that COVID allowed us to transcend, [00:03:42] Ashleigh Vogstad: mm-hmm. [00:03:42] Vince Menzione: No pun intended there, but actually accelerate where we are today, that the acceptance of AI and the acceleration, or the ability to accept change so quickly. [00:03:56] Vince Menzione: Started with COVID because we were so, so we were forced on whatever it was, March 10th I think, here in the United States to shut down everything and move to this remote life. [00:04:08] Ashleigh Vogstad: Mm-hmm. [00:04:09] Vince Menzione: And I think we’ve been shocked by that. I think our systems have all been shocked by that. And then here comes chat GBT in November of 2022 and we’re like. [00:04:20] Vince Menzione: Shocked in some respects, but like really everyone has embraced it in such a strong way, and now we’re getting. It’s almost daily update. You know, we’re gonna talk, I know we’re gonna talk about Anthropic and some of the things that’s been happening just in this last month that are striking and changing that have a lot of organizations trying to navigate, which is what, you know, you, you help organizations do. [00:04:43] Vince Menzione: But it feels like this is happening so fast and will continue to happen so fast. And as I said yesterday, I don’t know what this world’s gonna look like by 2030. [00:04:53] Ashleigh Vogstad: You know, and I think the thing is, is that nobody knows what the world is gonna look like in 2030. I’ve been reading Ray Kurz Well’s, the Singularity is nearer, so the original book, the Singularity is near and he’s known to be a very accurate predictionist on the future. [00:05:11] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah. But even with someone like that, you know, there, there nobody really knows what the world is gonna look like. And when you talk about COVID. At transcends, we have a value of digital freedom. So I founded the business in 2018, which was pre COVID. I as a fully remote organization, and at the time that was, you know, more groundbreaking, but then very quickly with CI that, that became the so-called new normal. [00:05:37] Ashleigh Vogstad: But we’re always thinking about. You know, remote first doesn’t mean remote only, and I think in this tide of what you’ve talked about, technological change being more acceptable and the pace of change. One of the interesting things that we see as a go-to-market agency is that in-person events are increasing. [00:05:56] Vince Menzione: Yes. [00:05:57] Ashleigh Vogstad: People want and crave the face-to-face. Just like with the ultimate partner series. [00:06:02] Vince Menzione: I felt it. So it was striking yesterday. It, it seems like it’s, again, this was event number nine for us, but to see the, um, uh, receptiveness isn’t the right term, but it was this, uh, people, the, the embracing. Of seeing each other and hugging each other and being in the same room with each other. [00:06:22] Vince Menzione: And even people that didn’t know each other, like by the, the, as the day evolved, this, uh, connection that they all seemed to have with one another during the sessions and participating, everyone actively participated in the sessions. And, um, I said this in the beginning, we’re not a Slack channel and we’re not like some post on LinkedIn. [00:06:43] Vince Menzione: Uh, we’re there, there’s no playbook that’s set today around partnerships or even go to markets and marketing that we could espouse and say, this is the playbook for the next year. Right. It’s, it’s changing so rapidly. [00:06:55] Ashleigh Vogstad: So rapidly, [00:06:57] Vince Menzione: and you’ve embraced it. And I, and what we’re gonna talk about right now, I mean, I, I, you know, you’ve embraced AI in such a strong way. [00:07:04] Vince Menzione: Um, personally and with your business, I want to, I wanna dive in here a little bit. First of all, a couple things For those of those who are listening who don’t know you, I think maybe just a moment about transcends and your role, and then I wanna dive in on how you’re thinking about ai because I know you’re doing some things personally. [00:07:22] Vince Menzione: I want you to share that with, with our listeners and viewers today. [00:07:25] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah, great. And I just wanna comment that it was a cool moment yesterday being up on stage with yourself and Mark Monday from ServiceNow and having the audience so engaged and active and Nina Harding from Microsoft stepping up and entering the conversation. [00:07:40] Vince Menzione: So cool. [00:07:41] Ashleigh Vogstad: It just made for such a collaborative experience, which was a cool moment, but yeah. Um, so. I founded this business, transcends a go-to-market agency after being at Microsoft myself. And really our differentiation is deep strategic partnerships with hyperscalers, whether that’s AWS, Google, Microsoft, and you know, that. [00:08:03] Ashleigh Vogstad: It comes with a challenge to be on the leading edge of technology. [00:08:08] Vince Menzione: Yes, [00:08:09] Ashleigh Vogstad: it, it’s really an imperative for our business and we are an AI first firm. Microsoft talks a lot about Frontier Firm, and I’ll take a, a different kind of angle on it. You know, when I think about Frontier. I now think about it as instead of the growth mindset, I now think about a frontier mindset. [00:08:28] Vince Menzione: Frontier mindset. You have to change my principles. [00:08:32] Ashleigh Vogstad: You know, maybe, like you said, the world is changing so rapidly. Yeah, it’s [00:08:36] Vince Menzione: changing rapidly. [00:08:36] Ashleigh Vogstad: And what a frontier mindset means is that as we’re approaching work for our clients, we are thinking about AI innovation in every single customer. Interaction, customer innovation. [00:08:49] Ashleigh Vogstad: So today we’re building AI agents into much of the work that we’re delivering for clients. And as a business owner and leader, I’ve been challenged to also think critically around how I’m choosing to run the company. And right now we’re going through a huge overhaul of where we have data sitting in silos and different applications. [00:09:09] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yep. And getting that into one place with one view so we can start layering on more insight. AI innovation. [00:09:17] Vince Menzione: Yeah. And data’s such an critical part, part of this, as we, we talked about yesterday. But you know, even the, what you said, which is, would, would’ve been striking a year ago to say, we’re an AI first, uh, agency isn’t as striking anymore. [00:09:32] Vince Menzione: Uh, we heard Nina when we were having this conversation on stage yesterday, say that it’s an imperative at Microsoft that the agencies that they choose to work with, the third party vendors that they work with have to be an AI first organization. I have to be a frontier firm, and so I’m a, I am sensitive to the word frontier firm. [00:09:53] Vince Menzione: I understand why Microsoft uses it and I understand the value of what we used to call, you know, customer zero or back in the day we used to say eating your own dog food, but essentially being an organization that has leaned in, in a way, and with ai. Even more so, so important to do it. So tell us, I know you’ve done some things personally as well, but tell, tell us what you’ve done with the organization. [00:10:18] Vince Menzione: Uh, you talked about data and making data available and having, having a true data state as opposed to silos of data, but then you also made some personal investments and sacrifices. I would say. [00:10:30] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah. [00:10:30] Vince Menzione: Yeah. In terms of what you’re doing around ai, [00:10:32] Ashleigh Vogstad: so I mean, let’s start on the personal side. I’m the CEO of my organization, and you can read in books or news articles that it is critical for AI transformation to start at the C-suite and specifically in the CEO seat. [00:10:46] Vince Menzione: Yes. [00:10:46] Ashleigh Vogstad: And that really. Landed for me and so I’m personally leading in About two weeks ago, I built an agent, just end-to-end on my own, got into copilot studio. Wow. Got comfortable with the interface. You know, I was clunky moving around in there at first, chose my model. You know, I went with one of the anthropic Claude models for this particular project and built up an agent that can deliver executive communications like. [00:11:14] Ashleigh Vogstad: Thought leadership blogs, uh, LinkedIn posts, but in a particular human being’s voice by ingesting things like their social profiles, their SharePoint sites, where they live and work. And it has been so surprising doing an ab test between just what a chat GBT or a copilot could produce. [00:11:32] Yeah. [00:11:33] Ashleigh Vogstad: In comparison with the authenticity of the voice coming from the agent. [00:11:37] Ashleigh Vogstad: Uh, it was just a really cool experience to roll up the sleeves and get in there. But also I think the, the investment that you’re referring to is, I made a big decision to return to school and uh, got accepted to go to Oxford. [00:11:52] Vince Menzione: Wow. [00:11:52] Ashleigh Vogstad: And I’m studying artificial intelligence there. [00:11:54] Vince Menzione: That is incredible. That is incredible. [00:11:57] Vince Menzione: Oxford, uh, we’ve heard of that school before here in the United States. [00:12:03] Ashleigh Vogstad: You know, it’s been a really great experience. It’s in person, so I’m traveling there about every 60 to 90 days and living on campus. I mean, really, Oxford isn’t. Formally a campus, it’s sort of a, a city and a university all, all ruled into one and the experience has been really powerful. [00:12:21] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yes. One of the things I wanted to get outta the program was a more global perspective, and it’s been fascinating to me that about half the faculty so far, or or professors, guest lecturers that have been coming into the program have been from China or very direct experience working in the Chinese market. [00:12:38] Vince Menzione: That is fascinating. [00:12:39] Ashleigh Vogstad: It’s been a completely different view. Or for example, you know, really digging into some of the legal cases that are driving precedence for how AI is interacting with corporations. [00:12:51] Vince Menzione: Mm. [00:12:51] Ashleigh Vogstad: One of the big ones for me has been looking at Amazon versus p perplexity. This is still a live case that’s happening right now. [00:12:58] Ashleigh Vogstad: And you know, I think it was Forbes magazine that the headline was the End of Commerce for this case because it’s really about. How human beings are being replaced with machines and hearing some of the world’s leading thinkers, leading AI researchers on these topics has just been really expansive. [00:13:19] Vince Menzione: It’s fascinating. [00:13:20] Vince Menzione: I mean, it’s, this started a couple years ago with, uh, Hollywood, in fact. Suing the industry or suing the technology companies with regards to, uh, employment, right? Mm-hmm. About the, the, uh, copyright infringement and what’s gonna happen in the entertainment industry. And I think that was just a one very small example. [00:13:40] Ashleigh Vogstad: You know, voice people think about DeepFakes. Yeah. And they think about video, but actually voice is a big issue. And you look at the, um, you know, the what happened between Scarlett Johansson and her voice in her, and then open AI rolling out a voice that sounded identical. Sounds like her. [00:13:59] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:13:59] Ashleigh Vogstad: To Scarlett Johansen and, and where that went. [00:14:01] Ashleigh Vogstad: It’s, it, this is a new ground for, for everybody that we’re going through right now. [00:14:07] Vince Menzione: It is. We can dive and go in so many different directions, but let’s talk about marketing and advertising since that’s kind of. Transcends core, and a lot of the people that watch and listen to us are in the partnership world. [00:14:22] Vince Menzione: They’re leading organizations, they own organizations, the the chief executives or CVPs of organizations. Let’s talk about advertising and where that’s going. [00:14:32] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah, great. [00:14:33] Vince Menzione: Yeah, [00:14:33] Ashleigh Vogstad: I mean, uh, I love Marshall McCluen. He’s a Canadian theor, uh, media theorist, and in 1964, he very famously said, the medium is the message. [00:14:43] Ashleigh Vogstad: And what that really means when you peel back the layers is that every type of communication medium has these inherent biases. And I think what we’re experiencing right now is this new medium of artificial intelligence, and I’m really interested in exploring what that means for the media world. So. If I gonna take you back to 1997, there’s this really famous, the Innovator’s Dilemma. [00:15:10] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yes. Kind of a classic business 1 0 1 type book by Clayton Christensen. Yes. And he talks about this theory of disruption where new technologies, emerging technologies start at the low end of the market. They gain this momentum and they eventually displace incumbents. And you know, sometimes seemingly out of nowhere. [00:15:28] Vince Menzione: Yeah. And Microsoft was a good example of this at that time. [00:15:32] Ashleigh Vogstad: Def, [00:15:32] Vince Menzione: yeah. [00:15:33] Ashleigh Vogstad: All the big players. All the big players. I mean, Google go for search as well, right? So that’s one of the classic examples. And so. If we look at storytelling technology, you have things like chat, GBT and Sora entering the scene. And in the beginning, you know, they’re producing a shitty first draft. [00:15:51] Ashleigh Vogstad: Uh, you know, it’s things like post-apocalyptic dogs with five finger human beings. Yeah. Things like this. But, you know, and they really lacked emotional resonance. But as we all know. That’s not the case anymore. No, it’s [00:16:05] Vince Menzione: not. [00:16:06] Ashleigh Vogstad: AI is increasingly producing content that is very powerful and is starting to resonate with people. [00:16:13] Ashleigh Vogstad: You know, I’m definitely not a neuroscientist, but if we, we look into the neuroscience, it’s your cortical sal circuit that. Kind of is responsible for pattern recognition and it compares what you’re seeing in the real world with what you expect to see. So when you take this into a space of advertising, you know, if there’s an ad that is AI generated, that is just weird and kind of. [00:16:38] Ashleigh Vogstad: Tweaking for you. [00:16:39] Vince Menzione: Like that robot we were talking about earlier, [00:16:41] Ashleigh Vogstad: like the robot we were Exactly, yeah. Like Sophia, you enter what psychologists call the uncanny valley, so it’s like what you’re looking at isn’t exactly what you’re expecting to see and the Spidey sense is, is tweaking. You know, that’s a low place of emotional resonance. [00:16:58] Ashleigh Vogstad: This world is changing really, really quickly and we’re seeing AI generated media make huge impacts in the market Now, tools like Luma Dream Machine, I mean, it’s incredible what they can achieve today. [00:17:11] Vince Menzione: It’s fascinating. We see it in, you know, I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn. That’s sort of the world of our business community, and you can very easily detect when someone is doing a post. [00:17:22] Vince Menzione: Or they’re writing an art, whatever they’re doing. Right. Some type of draft of something. Uh, and you can tell when it’s ai, I mean, it’s so easy to tell, and even people are generating reports and claiming that their research papers or studies or whatever they call them, uh, and it’s AI generated and it’s just the authenticity isn’t there. [00:17:39] Vince Menzione: The, the sense that this is real. That it can be trusted is not there. And I think trust is what we’re talking about here too, as well. [00:17:47] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah. I mean, let’s go to authenticity ’cause that’s super important. Yeah. And I know a lot of your listeners, you come from the hyperscaler world of partnerships. You need to have that differentiated, better together story. [00:17:59] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah. It’s really important to have an authentic voice in market. And I think about that also in terms of platforms and channels. We’re seeing a decrease in certain major social media platforms, and yet Substack spiked 48% in monthly active users last month. [00:18:15] Vince Menzione: That’s [00:18:16] fascinating. [00:18:16] Ashleigh Vogstad: Um, you know, and I think that one of the reasons is it’s viewed as a more authentic channel where you’re getting thought leadership from people that you’re, you know, genuinely interested in hearing their, their points of view. [00:18:28] Ashleigh Vogstad: And I think that’s really an important piece in here. [00:18:31] Vince Menzione: Yeah, you mentioned this yesterday and you had me thinking about it as well because we have used LinkedIn for everything internally, our newsletter, which has been around for six or seven years now. But that Substack is really, and I go to Substack too, to, if I really wanna dig in on a topic. [00:18:47] Ashleigh Vogstad: Mm. [00:18:47] Vince Menzione: And there’s a particular author that I like their point of view, I’ll follow, I’ll follow them on Substack. [00:18:53] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah. I mean, and this comes, maybe brings us around to who is the buyer and who is the audience, and who do we need to be thinking about when we’re designing sales and marketing programs. And really we’re, we’re shifting into the place of the Gen Z buyer by 20 30, 70 5% of buyers are gonna be Gen Z. [00:19:12] Ashleigh Vogstad: They’re gonna control 12 trillion in. Spend [00:19:16] Vince Menzione: by 2030. ’cause we, we’ve been, we’ve been saying that the millennial is the new buyer the last three years. I think Jay said it right here at this stage. [00:19:23] Ashleigh Vogstad: Mm. [00:19:24] Vince Menzione: Um, so now it’s Gen Z. [00:19:27] Ashleigh Vogstad: And they’re buying online. Yeah, they’re buying in marketplaces. Yeah. So a stat recently was that roughly half of them made purchases on the social platforms of YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok in the last month. [00:19:39] Ashleigh Vogstad: I mean, that buyer behavior of being inside. Social type application and directly making a purchase. And I think in the B2B world, we need to take lessons from here and start thinking more front and center than we even have been around marketplaces. I mean, part of my reason for being in Silicon Valley this week was to celebrate a $12 million transaction that happened via Marketplace and two years ago that would’ve been a huge deal. [00:20:06] Ashleigh Vogstad: Huge, [00:20:07] Vince Menzione: huge. [00:20:07] Ashleigh Vogstad: And, and it still is a really big deal, but these things are becoming. More and more common experiences. Very much so. We need to be there and in that conversation. [00:20:16] Vince Menzione: So how are you thinking about it? How are you directing your clients to behave or act around it? What are you, what are you doing exactly that we could take to this community perhaps and share with them. [00:20:28] Ashleigh Vogstad: I’ll bring it back to the authenticity piece because you need to have a product that delivers value first and foremost. There is, there is no substitution for that. Yeah, and what I would say is. One of my professors at Oxford, Eric Zow, he has this theory that I’m really digging into and finding very fascinating, which is that for the last several decades we’ve been in the attention economy, and that’s shifting to the trust economy. [00:20:55] Ashleigh Vogstad: Now the attention economy is about selling to human beings. Yeah. It’s about the, the business model is essentially that you need human being eyeballs on lists of recommendation links. Yeah. Whether that’s from Google or from, you know, searching, shopping on Amazon, you get this list of recommendation links and the economic engine that drives that business model is advertising. [00:21:19] Ashleigh Vogstad: Now, if you look at something like the Amazon versus Perplexity lawsuit, the whole underlying premise is around the shift of no longer selling to humans directly, but of selling to machines, or in other words, agents who are making purchases, s on behalf on your behalf. And an agent isn’t going to be razzle dazzled by some inauthentic story. [00:21:44] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:21:44] Ashleigh Vogstad: They’re gonna be looking for third party validation on Exactly. You know, they need to be sure that they’re making the right decision. [00:21:51] Vince Menzione: They’re gonna look at surveys, they’re gonna look at customer comments. Like if I went through my Amazon site and I was looking to see what people said about the purchase or the product and specifically Exactly. [00:22:01] Vince Menzione: The agent’s gonna do this on my behalf, is what you’re saying. [00:22:04] Ashleigh Vogstad: This is what I’m saying. Yeah. And, and. I believe that to layer on top of, you know, Eric Z’s philosophy, I’ve been thinking about this in terms of the hyperscaler world, and I think that this is the time to lean into co-selling partnerships. [00:22:18] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah, because being third party validated by somebody like AWS Microsoft and having all that co-sell data, what are your recent wins? Yes, that’s really high integrity, trusted data source for an agent to make a purchasing decision, and marketplaces are a key part of that. [00:22:35] Vince Menzione: So we’ll move from AI will take a, a more active role in the marketplace. [00:22:40] Ashleigh Vogstad: I definitely believe so. [00:22:42] Vince Menzione: Which makes total sense. I, you know, we’ve been doing this for nine or 10 years now, and when I was at Microsoft, we started co-selling. In fact, it was, uh, Aaron Feiger was up on stage yesterday talking about it. Right? January of 2016, co-selling began. [00:22:55] Ashleigh Vogstad: Mm. [00:22:56] Vince Menzione: And there were only a few companies doing it. [00:22:59] Vince Menzione: Right. So she worked with one of the very first ones that were doing it. Uh, the challenge we have today is there are tens of thousands of partner organizations in the marketplace that are all trying to get the attention of the Microsoft sellers. Hmm. As, or the Google sellers or the AWS sellers and tell their story. [00:23:19] Vince Menzione: And a seller only has so many minutes in a day, they have a quota that they have to hit. These quotas are tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars of annual quota of cloud consumption. And I wanna sell my $50,000 widget, whatever it is. Yeah. Right. And I, I don’t understand why I’m not getting a callback. [00:23:38] Vince Menzione: And this, this is the dilemma we’ve faced because of, because of this, uh, scarcity of time and this over overwhelming of tech, you know. Tech, tech buyers trying to make this all happen, so now the AI can come in and help me solve for it as a seller, right? [00:23:55] Ashleigh Vogstad: The AI is definitely acting as an interface to make recommendations to field sellers in different organizations and. [00:24:04] Ashleigh Vogstad: To, to kind of take this on a, a tangent. Dupes. So a dupe. I know people of my generation, we’d think about this like a knockoff Right. You know, a knockoff handbag. [00:24:15] Vince Menzione: Yep. [00:24:15] Ashleigh Vogstad: Dupes have exploded. [00:24:16] Vince Menzione: Fake. Fake Rolexes. [00:24:18] Ashleigh Vogstad: Exactly. The fake Rolex for sure. And I think it was in December, P WC rolled out a survey. 81% of Gen Z were planning to purchase a dupe this holiday season. [00:24:29] Vince Menzione: That’s wild. [00:24:30] Ashleigh Vogstad: Dupes can be, you know, we gave luxury, good examples, but Louis [00:24:34] Vince Menzione: Vuitton and yeah. So, [00:24:35] Ashleigh Vogstad: but furniture, these sorts of things. And the important takeaway here for tech is the same principle will land, is that people are looking for value out of a product, not necessarily a name brand. AI is accelerating this whole process, and agents are gonna be looking at the same thing. [00:24:56] Ashleigh Vogstad: They’re looking for that authenticity in terms of the actual product value. So, you know, beware there’s lots of disruption happening in the market right now with this dupe mentality, which is actually a cultural shift talking about I appreciate value over a superficial. Brand name. In some cases, there’s also a, a small contrary trend where certain luxury goods are rising because yes, things are never that simple. [00:25:22] Vince Menzione: So you work with a lot of these tech companies, a lot of SaaS companies, is we, we call them ISVs, we also call them, uh, software development companies. Now we keep changing these acronyms around. Uh, there’s been a lot of, uh, consternation in that segment, I would say, around ai. Right, because a lot of them are getting told that they’ll be outta business in a few years. [00:25:43] Vince Menzione: Mm-hmm. I think Satya Nadella famously said this last year that SAS will go away. Right? He’s predicting the demise. How do you help some of these organizations to differentiate? And there’s some of these are huge value organizations. We have have them in the room with us, ServiceNow and Veeam and Adobe. [00:26:01] Vince Menzione: Um, how do you help them achieve their results? ’cause that’s what you, you know, your organization is really helping these organizations to achieve their pinnacle as a partner. What do you, what do you say to them now and how do you help them through this time? [00:26:16] Ashleigh Vogstad: I’m on the side of the fence that I really can’t see an organization ripping out something like Salesforce, Adobe, ServiceNow. [00:26:24] Vince Menzione: Agreed. [00:26:24] Ashleigh Vogstad: I mean that the amount of change management and. The extent to which these, these platforms are embedded, actually running and operating organizations. I personally, if, if we’re calling those companies, SaaS companies, I don’t agree that that layer is gonna go away. I mean, we’re seeing these organizations lean into AI in a huge way to borrow Microsofts. [00:26:50] Ashleigh Vogstad: Term, you know, they’re all becoming frontier firms. [00:26:54] Vince Menzione: Yes. [00:26:54] Ashleigh Vogstad: So where I would go to, to answer that question, we do work with many, you know, organizations on that caliber, on things like their marketplace strategy on how to light up the fields of different hyperscalers. It really does come down to things like having a strong drumbeat with the Microsoft field, celebrating your win stories. [00:27:15] Ashleigh Vogstad: Maybe that’s where I’ll land as Please do the marketer, because it sounds so simple, and I don’t know why we kind of continue to come back to this, but we’re talking about that third party validation and really, um, in order to have that, like what the hyperscalers want is you jointly celebrating success. [00:27:36] Ashleigh Vogstad: Here’s the kicker. Publicly. [00:27:38] Vince Menzione: Publicly, [00:27:39] Ashleigh Vogstad: you know, you need a customer story on your website, a press release that contains a quote from your customer. Ideally, also a quote from an executive at one of the hyperscalers. Like, actually lean in to live the value of your better together story. And when you do that, when you, when it comes around to partner of the year time, and we talk to you about, okay, what client stories are we gonna feature? [00:28:03] Ashleigh Vogstad: We’re even gonna know because when we Google you, we can see the public press of the joint wins that you’ve been celebrating. And I can tell you that that is a huge indicator on whether or not you’re well-placed to be in the 4% of partners who actually win Partner of the Year award’s. [00:28:20] Vince Menzione: Fascinating to me. [00:28:21] Vince Menzione: ’cause to me it would feel like table stakes maybe ’cause where we sit is ultimate partner and where this room sits with all the top partners that I just assume that everybody follows that. That, that guidance. [00:28:34] Ashleigh Vogstad: Mm. [00:28:34] Vince Menzione: And so this is really impactful and I want to get here because I know you spent a lot of time here and we’ve talked about it before, but I think the partner of the year awards, when we first met many years ago, that was a you, you’ve expanded the business, but that’s still a core mission and and value that you bring to the community and to the partner ecosystem is helping them through this process. [00:28:55] Vince Menzione: So I know that that’s gonna be coming up soon, so I thought maybe we’d spend a couple moments on that. [00:29:00] Ashleigh Vogstad: Partner of the Year awards, regardless of which partner, I mean, Salesforce has their own awards there. There’s more and more award programs coming out, and they’re a great way to celebrate the incredible work that your organization has done. [00:29:13] Ashleigh Vogstad: Jay McBain is brilliant on this. He’ll talk a lot about the increase in valuation. Yeah. The, the increase in stock valuation or the likelihood that if you’re looking to be acquired, that you’re acquired within 12 months of a partner of the year win it. It’s really impressive. There is strong business value there. [00:29:33] Vince Menzione: He like, he likes, he likes to tell the story of that when the award is handed to them and they go back into the audience, that the private equity people are all over them right then and there and making offers. I mean, that’s the visual that you get [00:29:47] Ashleigh Vogstad: and it’s very powerful. Yeah. Very powerful. It’s very powerful and it, it can make it worthwhile to invest in the process, but don’t invest in the process if you haven’t been investing in the process for the 12 months. [00:29:57] Ashleigh Vogstad: Prior, [00:29:58] Vince Menzione: exactly. [00:29:58] Ashleigh Vogstad: The Microsoft field or you we’re talking about Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. They need to know about your win that that needs to be top of mind for them. Yeah. How much Azure revenue is it driving? Was it a huge marketplace? Build sales and. You know, one of the questions I get asked a ton, everybody wants to know how do we get money out of the hyperscalers? [00:30:20] Ashleigh Vogstad: How do I get access to marketing development funds or all these different programs? Yeah. You know, at Microsoft, some of these programs are like EI and customer investment funds or Azure Accelerate, you know, and there’s millions and millions and millions of dollars in these, these buckets of funds, but. [00:30:36] Ashleigh Vogstad: An interesting point of view is that it’s actually a scorecard metric for many people at Microsoft who have partnership roles for you to be drawing down those funds. [00:30:45] Vince Menzione: Yes. [00:30:45] Ashleigh Vogstad: You know, your interests are actually aligned here, and so again, when it comes to Partner of the Year awards, how much money have you pulled down? [00:30:54] Ashleigh Vogstad: How much have you been an activating partner of key Microsoft programs that they’re pushing? What are you doing with marketplace rewards? How are you resing? Those into your business. These are the types of things that you really wanna be thinking about. Sitting it. You know, this time of year we probably will get the awards were likely be due in July. [00:31:13] Ashleigh Vogstad: They haven’t officially announced timelines, but you’ve got a few months to start moving these pieces into place. [00:31:18] Vince Menzione: And there are quite a few of them. And to your point, Nina, when she was up on stage here yesterday, there were at least 10 or 12 award. Uh. Funding categories that were on her, that were on her slide. [00:31:31] Vince Menzione: Her partner, her partner slide. So, [00:31:33] Ashleigh Vogstad: and what great looks like for a partner is that you understand your end-to-end funnel as it is mapped to Microsoft’s SEM model, the Microsoft customer Engagement model. Mm-hmm. The first stage there, inspire and design. That’s really the marketing space of lead generation. [00:31:50] Ashleigh Vogstad: So how are you generating leads with webinars, in-person, event activations, digital campaigns, and then at the very end, in the fifth column, you have the Microsoft outcomes that you’re driving. Yes. Whether that’s Azure consumed revenue, marketplace build sales, co-pilot, monthly active usage, these sorts of things. [00:32:10] Ashleigh Vogstad: And in each of those SEM swim lanes. There’s Microsoft funding associated to it. And that’s one of the things that Nina Harding was showing yesterday. When and where does it make sense to make requests for EA funds versus Azure accelerate the MCI funding? There’s different workshop proof of concept funding, and those all fall at specific stages in that EM model. [00:32:33] Vince Menzione: And what you’re also pointing out in this conversation is that the co the partners need to understand that mm, they need to understand MM. We talked about it years ago. I’ve had, haven’t had anybody on stage recently talk about m You could probably take us through that if we wanted to devote some time here, uh, and then understand all of those categories and how to access those funds. [00:32:52] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah, it’s critical and. The number one place we point partners, if you want a quick overview of what that looks like is to Microsoft’s FY 26 solution playbooks. Nice. They’re available on the web for download. There’s, well, there used to be three, but they’ve added a few agen being, being one. So, so there’s a handful of, they had [00:33:11] Vince Menzione: simplified it, now they’re, now they’re expanding it back again. [00:33:14] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah, exactly. I think there’s now a breakout for security as well. Yes. So take a look at those playbooks. It will map programs and incentives very specifically to each solution area and to each sales play that are gonna be available to you. And then we’re always happy to guide people through the details [00:33:32] Vince Menzione: as well. [00:33:32] Vince Menzione: I love that. I love that. And reach out to the. Ashley is just amazing at this process. I’ve, I’ve watched her for years now, work with some of the top, what have become the pinnacle partners of Microsoft and with the award season coming up. So we wanna make sure we have a plug there. But I also wanna talk about like, podcasts with you. [00:33:50] Vince Menzione: Um, you’ve been on this podcast multiple times, been in the studio before doing this, and I understand you have your own podcast now. So tell us about that. [00:33:58] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah, Vince, I just wanna say. As a friend and a mentor. You’ve been so inspiring. Thank you. And I think from years ago when we met, there was this seed in my brain of, you know, I, I should really get out there. [00:34:13] Ashleigh Vogstad: And you talk a lot about growth mindset and fear setting is, is one of Tim Ferriss’s terms? Yes. And models. [00:34:21] Vince Menzione: I love Tim Ferris. I’ve been, been a fan of his for 10 years now. So that’s settled. We all got started with this. Sorry. Sorry, I [00:34:26] Ashleigh Vogstad: interrupt. No, no, not at all. [00:34:27] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:34:28] Ashleigh Vogstad: And. I think it’s just been, it’s been back there. [00:34:31] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah. That I’m really passionate around having voice is how I think about it. And as a marketing agency, we’re really amplifying the voice, um, or helping companies to find their voice, particularly in hyperscaler partnerships. And what better way to assist, you know, authentically the amazing people in our network, in our community and our clients than with our own channel where we can celebrate their stories and success? [00:35:00] Vince Menzione: Very cool. [00:35:01] Ashleigh Vogstad: So the podcast is called Transcending Tech. It’s about [00:35:06] Vince Menzione: very cool transcending tech. Just so you don’t [00:35:08] Ashleigh Vogstad: transcending tech. [00:35:08] Vince Menzione: It’s out there now. [00:35:10] Ashleigh Vogstad: It, we just released our first episode. Okay. I think two days ago. [00:35:13] Vince Menzione: So by the time we’re live, yes. We’ll, we’ll be able to access it. Good. [00:35:17] Ashleigh Vogstad: You will be able to access it. [00:35:18] Ashleigh Vogstad: The first episode is with Alyssa Fit. Patrick from Elastic. [00:35:21] Vince Menzione: Oh my goodness. [00:35:22] Ashleigh Vogstad: And the concept of the podcast, it’s long form and it’s really about getting to the people behind the platforms. [00:35:29] Vince Menzione: Very cool. [00:35:29] Ashleigh Vogstad: And to the stories that transcend technology. So we’re here to get to know the human beings behind. Agents. [00:35:38] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:35:38] Ashleigh Vogstad: And taking the time to, to go in deep and really explore that. [00:35:43] Vince Menzione: So I am excited to see all the developments here with the, with the podcast. And you’re gonna be joining us again. You were just here, you in Boca. But you’ll be joining us again in Bellevue. Not too far a little bit. Closer ride or travel, uh, for you to come to Bellevue. [00:35:57] Vince Menzione: We’re gonna be hosting the first ultimate partner live, which is our larger events in this beautiful facility, this new Intercontinental hotel, which is fabulous. And, uh, you’re gonna be taking a more active role. Your leadership around AI is. Palpable and we’re gonna love to have you on stage and talking through some of the changes. [00:36:17] Vince Menzione: I, I suspect by the time we get to Bellevue we’ll have a lot more to talk about. That hasn’t even happened yet. [00:36:23] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah, I’m really excited. I’ll have been through my next cohort at at Oxford, kind of coming out hot from there back to the Pacific Northwest, and really excited to just share the learnings and Awesome. [00:36:35] Ashleigh Vogstad: Genuinely. It’s also helping me in my own research, really formulate particularly around the role of ag agentic AI in hyperscaler partnerships. [00:36:43] Vince Menzione: That’s so cool. And then what I’ll say is this, and I don’t know, we on the space perspective, and I’ll, the team will probably hang me for this because we haven’t done it yet, but if you wanna bring the podcast along with you, there might be, we’ll see if we can find an extra room for you to set up. [00:36:58] Vince Menzione: If you wanna do some interviews while you’re. In, at the event. So [00:37:02] Ashleigh Vogstad: you’re so generous, Vince. [00:37:03] Vince Menzione: That’s [00:37:04] Ashleigh Vogstad: amazing. [00:37:04] Vince Menzione: Thank you. Again, I can’t say for certainty yet, but, uh, let’s see, let’s see what happens with that. So, uh, let, let’s, uh, you know, I always, we, we have known each other for years and I just assume everybody knows this amazing Ashley sda. [00:37:19] Vince Menzione: But, um, we always, I like to ask this question because it helps us kind of dig in a little bit about you personally. And it’s my favorite question. I ask all my guests this question now, and it’s, um, you’re hosting a dinner party, Ashley, you are, pick a pace, place, you wanna have this dinner. We could talk about parts of the world. [00:37:36] Vince Menzione: You’ve traveled all extensively. Uh, and you can invite any three people, guests from the present. Or the past to this amazing dinner party you’re throwing. Whom would you invite and why? [00:37:52] Ashleigh Vogstad: It’s a beautiful question, Vince and. Instantly I go to a place in terms of the location, since you asked that part, which was surprising. [00:38:01] Ashleigh Vogstad: I, I like that is my home. I, I love where I live up in Whistler, Canada and [00:38:08] Vince Menzione: I hear it’s beautiful. I haven’t been yet, [00:38:10] Ashleigh Vogstad: it’s so gorgeous and it’s, it’s my own sanctuary. You know, I live on a plane 75% of the time and coming back to that place is really grounding for me. Yes. So, so I would love to have it at, at my home and to invite. [00:38:24] Ashleigh Vogstad: Pippa Malrin would be one. She, Pippa [00:38:26] Vince Menzione: Malrin. [00:38:27] Ashleigh Vogstad: Yeah. She’s sure. I get an advisor to the White House for many administrations. Okay. She’s an economist and she just has really interesting perspective on geopolitics. Uh, I follow her on Substack ’cause she’s a big substack. Okay, now [00:38:41] Vince Menzione: I need to look. This is awesome. [00:38:42] Vince Menzione: The [00:38:43] Ashleigh Vogstad: mal, she’s fantastic. I would say Dr. Lisa Sue, the CEO, Dr. Lisa of a md. [00:38:49] Vince Menzione: Okay. Yes, yes. I know a little bit about her. [00:38:51] Ashleigh Vogstad: So she was one of Time Mag, I think she was the only woman in Time Magazine’s, group of people of the year, which was basically this AI cohort in including, you know, the Elon Musks of the world. [00:39:03] Ashleigh Vogstad: Uh, it’s just so impressive what she’s doing with leadership in a MD. I don’t think it’s as public as. Anybody else who is on the cover of that magazine, but it’s incredibly powerful. [00:39:14] Vince Menzione: Yeah, they’ve made a com uh, turnaround’s probably not the right word, but it seems like they’ve made a tremendous, uh, gains turnaround probably in the last few years. [00:39:23] Ashleigh Vogstad: I would say that many would say turnaround. And then lastly is Dr. Fefe Lee, who. For those in the AI space, particularly AI research space. I mean, she’s arguably number one. Um, she’s leading at Stanford currently. [00:39:37] Vince Menzione: Wow. This is gonna be a heady conversation, but you know, I love conversations. So if you don’t mind, maybe I’ll bring dessert and come, come in for a few moments, maybe do some podcast interviews there. [00:39:48] Vince Menzione: How’s that? [00:39:49] Ashleigh Vogstad: That sounds absolutely perfect, Vince, [00:39:50] Vince Menzione: so, so good. So good to have you here today. So great. Good to have you in the studio again, and, uh, excited for transcends and all the great work you’re doing. Um. This time with ai. I think you, uh, we talked about this a little bit last night. I think you’ve made some really wise, personal and professional decisions about how to lead and how to take this forward and not kind of rest on your laurels, which you see so many organizations do People fear change [00:40:17] Ashleigh Vogstad: Hmm. [00:40:18] Vince Menzione: And you embrace it, which is just, it’s astounding to me that you do that and, um. I look forward to working with you in the future and for years and years to come. So I will ask you one more question though, because we are still at the precipice of these tectonic shifts and we’re still early in 2026. And so for our listeners and our viewers today, what would be the one thing you would tell them that they need to go do now that possibly they haven’t done yet as they prepare for 2026 and beyond? [00:40:52] Ashleigh Vogstad: The generic phrase would be, be curious, but if we want an action, it would be go build an agent. [00:40:59] Vince Menzione: Go build an agent [00:41:00] Ashleigh Vogstad: if, if you haven’t already. Yeah. And, and I’m, yeah. Speaking hopefully to like a business audience, you know, to, to anyone. Yeah. Really, um, find something that is interesting that you’re passionate about. [00:41:12] Ashleigh Vogstad: A, a use case that it doesn’t have to be some big thing. It could be quite mundane, but just something that’s gonna help you in your role. It’s, you know, what is creativity is an interesting question, and I can tell you that sitting down and hands-on keys and actually creating something is, is a beautiful, powerful experience. [00:41:32] Vince Menzione: Yeah. Awesome. All right. We’re all gonna go create agents this weekend, so thank you for listening. Thank you for viewing the Ultimate Guide to partnering on our YouTube channel, ultimate Partner, and on each end of your platforms at the Ultimate Guide to partnering. Thank you for being with us and supporting us all these years. [00:41:50] Vince Menzione: Thank you. Don’t forget, ultimate Partner Live is coming soon, May 11th through the 13th in beautiful Bellevue, Washington. I hope to see you there.
Nick - in London - is joined by Rishi Persad in Dubai as the conflict in the Gulf continues. They are joined to reflect on a surreal Super Saturday by treble winning trainer Ed Crisford. Also today, plenty of Cheltenham chat, with trainers Eddie Harty and Noel Kelly joining the conversation, while Jason Richardson joins Nick to reflect on an extraordinary weekend of top level performers strutting their stuff in the East, from Autumn Glow at Randwick to Romantic Warrior - again - at Sha Tin. Meanwhile, Wathnan's US Rep Case Clay analyses the winning effort of Commandment in the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream as he progresses along the road to the Kentucky Derby, plus news of the operation's Dubai World Cup hopefuls Tumbarumba and Hit Show.
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Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com My guest is Jerry Speiser, original drummer and founding member "Men At Work." In this episode we do a deep dive into Jerry's stellar drumming on Men At Work's “Business As Usual” and “Cargo,” including several tracks. So come along for the ride with Jerry Speiser! Please subscribe! Live From My Drum Room T-shirts and Hoodies are now available! 100% of the proceeds go toward my PAS scholarship. Visit https://livefrommydrumroom.com for details! Live From My Drum Room With John DeChristopher! is a series of conversations with legendary drummers and Music Industry icons, hosted by drummer and music industry veteran, John DeChristopher, drawing from his five decades in the Music Industry. Created in 2020, and ranked BEST Drum Podcast, "Live From My Drum Room With John DeChristopher!" gives the audience an insider's view that only John can offer. And no drummers are harmed on any shows! Please subscribe!https://livefrommydrumroom.comwww.youtube.com/c/JohnDeChristopherLiveFromMyDrumRoom
Chris Dobey und Luke Humphries sichern sich die Titel bei den Players Championships 03 & 04 in Wigan. Außerdem blicken wir auf die Next Gen in Kalkar, bei der insbesondere ein Mann triumphierte: Paul Krohne. Die Qualifier der UK Open & des Samsener Storchen Cups lassen wir nicht außer achten, werfen einen nüchternen Blick auf den Dartsport in Österreich und analysieren die Premier League in Antwerpen. Dazu unsere neue Frage der Woche: Braucht Darts eine Punkte-Rangliste?
Episode 71 and the boys are finally back together, attempting to recap what we've actually been up to lately.Tim is playing it smart with his injury and sticking to shorter races, Magnus is battling winter and Ralph has invested in some very serious-looking ankle braces in the name of “performance”. Matching outfits were involved for reasons still unclear.Somewhere between training updates and life admin we talk actual orienteering, drift into Winter Olympics chat, and compare how badly our nations are doing. There are a few small controversies, the usual apologies, and Ralph getting ready for Portugal O Meeting — hoping everything holds together this time.
Sean Farrington weighs up prime minister Keir Starmer's record on the economy - after a nerve-wracking start to the week for the PM. Elsewhere, three Manchester entrepreneurs tell us why they think business is booming in the city. And as Britain chases its first medal, we hear from the Scottish business that manufactures curling stones for the Winter Olympics.
7. April 1997: Quark hat eine Menge Dreck am Stecken, nur würden Euphemisten das meiste davon als Kavaliersdelikte auslegen – am Ende des Tages ist und bleibt er eben doch nur der schlawinerige Barkeeper vom Dienst. Nicht so aber an dem schicksalshaften Tag, an dem er sich überschuldet mit seinem Cousin Gaila sowie dem ruchlosen Waffenhändler Hagath einlässt und in den Abgrund der Gier starrt. In Deutschland: Kriegsgeschäfte, ausgestrahlt am 14. März 1998.
Bryan Gee rolls out the first V Podcast of 2026, blending fresh cuts, classic heat and standout vocal moments from across the drum and bass spectrum, plus a special catch up with Think Tonk, followed by a heavyweight guest mix packed with originals, dubplates and straight dancefloor energy. This month features new music from Sl8r, L-Side, Crystal Clear, Counter Culture, Riya, Illmatika, Business As Usual, Molecular and more, alongside iconic pressure from Roni Size, Krust, DJ Die, Die and SUV, Artificial Intelligence and Clipz. Tracklist: 01. Illmatika – Outside (Tim Reaper Remix) 02. Sl8r – Jus One More 03. Deekline feat. Dread MC – Be Your Girl (L-Side Remix) 04. L-Side – Make It Last 05. Business As Usual feat. Rider Shafique – People 06. Counter Culture – The Time 07. Level 2 – Get To Know 08. Riya and Level 2 – Love 09. Singing Fats and Inja – Love Letter 10. Catching Cairo, JJ Frost and WheelUp – Untitled 11. Illmatika, Curmiah and Mr Joseph – Winner 12. MC Fats and Inja – Rock Up the Vibes 13. Dillinja – Chapter 19 14. Roni Size – Physical 15. DJ Krust – Maintain 16. Die and SUV – Out of Sight 17. Artificial Intelligence – Pigeon Hole 18. Tyrone and Minus – Voyager 19. DJ Die – The Specialist 20. Crystal Clear – Set It Up 21. Crystal Clear and Alibi – Da Big Sound 22. Riya and Crystal Clear – Overlook 23. Zero T and L-Side – Gutter 24. Sl8r – Now or Never 25. Paul T and Edward Oberon feat. MC Moose – Future Style 26. Paul T and Edward Oberon, Brodie and Enamie MC – Mash Up Da System 27. Clipz – 2 Hi 28. Clipz – Heli Dubz 29. Serum – Wire Trap (Voltage VIP) 30. Mental Power – Purple (Serum Remix) 31. Business As Usual – Everything's Classic 32. Molecular – Sisyphos 33. Molecular – One Dub 34. Numatik – Ruff Dub 35. Cloud Lord – Ghost Train (VIP) 36. Alibi – Big Bad Soundclash Think Tonk guest mix and interview included in this episode.
Fragile negotiations continue with Iran, U.S.& Israel skeptical. Former hostage Keith Seigel and wife welcomed at White House. Hamas smuggling arms into Gaza w/ambulances. Antisemitism in the U.K. Exploring the roots of Zionism w/in the Black Church.
Fragile negotiations continue with Iran, U.S.& Israel skeptical. Former hostage Keith Seigel and wife welcomed at White House. Hamas smuggling arms into Gaza w/ambulances. Antisemitism in the U.K. Exploring the roots of Zionism w/in the Black Church.
Fragile negotiations continue with Iran, U.S.& Israel skeptical. Former hostage Keith Seigel and wife welcomed at White House. Hamas smuggling arms into Gaza w/ambulances. Antisemitism in the U.K. Exploring the roots of Zionism w/in the Black Church.
Fragile negotiations continue with Iran, U.S.& Israel skeptical. Former hostage Keith Seigel and wife welcomed at White House. Hamas smuggling arms into Gaza w/ambulances. Antisemitism in the U.K. Exploring the roots of Zionism w/in the Black Church.
Fragile negotiations continue with Iran, U.S.& Israel skeptical. Former hostage Keith Seigel and wife welcomed at White House. Hamas smuggling arms into Gaza w/ambulances. Antisemitism in the U.K. Exploring the roots of Zionism w/in the Black Church.
Fragile negotiations continue with Iran, U.S.& Israel skeptical. Former hostage Keith Seigel and wife welcomed at White House. Hamas smuggling arms into Gaza w/ambulances. Antisemitism in the U.K. Exploring the roots of Zionism w/in the Black Church.
Fragile negotiations continue with Iran, U.S.& Israel skeptical. Former hostage Keith Seigel and wife welcomed at White House. Hamas smuggling arms into Gaza w/ambulances. Antisemitism in the U.K. Exploring the roots of Zionism w/in the Black Church.
Fragile negotiations continue with Iran, U.S.& Israel skeptical. Former hostage Keith Seigel and wife welcomed at White House. Hamas smuggling arms into Gaza w/ambulances. Antisemitism in the U.K. Exploring the roots of Zionism w/in the Black Church.
Welcome to another week in Trump's America. The President is “renovating” the Kennedy Center a la the East Wing of the White House, the Washington Post continues it's descent into darkness, and MAGA cronies are looking for any way to undermine democratic elections this November. What is going on in America? David Rothkopf and Norm Ornstein discuss all this and more. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to another week in Trump's America. The President is “renovating” the Kennedy Center a la the East Wing of the White House, the Washington Post continues it's descent into darkness, and MAGA cronies are looking for any way to undermine democratic elections this November. What is going on in America? David Rothkopf and Norm Ornstein discuss all this and more. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to another week in Trump's America. The President is “renovating” the Kennedy Center a la the East Wing of the White House, the Washington Post continues it's descent into darkness, and MAGA cronies are looking for any way to undermine democratic elections this November. What is going on in America? David Rothkopf and Norm Ornstein discuss all this and more. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Send us a textSchedule an Rx AssessmentWith Medicare's Maximum Fair Price (MFP) rebates officially underway and the 340B rebate mechanism on hold, pharmacy owners are left navigating one of the grayest areas the industry has seen in years.In this episode, Scotty Sykes, CPA, CFP®, Bonnie Bond, CPA, MBA, and Austin Murray sit down with Julie Crozier, CEO at @secure340b to unpack how MDPNP is colliding with 340B and what pharmacies should be paying attention to right now.We cover:How MDPNP and MFP rebates are flowing todayThe duplicate discount problem no one is reconcilingBeacon's role and why future reconciliation risk mattersDispensing fee pressure, CE relationships, and contract implicationsPractical considerations if TPAs or covered entities push for carve-outsAnd more!More About Our Guest:As CEO of Secure340B, Julie is responsible for formulating and executing strategic plans and technology to deliver critical and timely intel to 340B stakeholders. Julie has over 25 years of pharmacy experience including co-founding, growing and leading a pharmacy software company, Macro Helix, which was acquired by McKesson Corp (NYSE: MCK) in 2012. Julie also has experience in retail pharmacy, long-term care, state Medicaid programs and healthcare revenue cycle. She holds a Bachelor's in Pharmacy and a Master's in Pharmacy Administration from The University of Texas at Austin.Julie serves on the board at Crossroads Community Services, a food pantry, and lives in Dallas, Texas with her husband and 2 daughters.Stay connected with Julie and Secure340B: Julie Crozier LinkedInSecure340B WebsiteSecure340B FacebookSecure340B LinkedInSecure340B InstagramStay connected with us: FacebookYouTube LinkedInInstagramMore resources on this topic: Podcast - Driving Independent Pharmacy Profitability in 2026Podcast – The Startup Compounding Pharmacy PlaybookPodcast – Inside the Fight for Compounding: Advocacy, Growth, and Regulation
Seriously, not all that new kids.Here's a few goodies for ya though:picslatest HawkPicks episodeHiHello cardSee ya in a couple weeks!Kyle
In this solo episode of the Small Business PR Podcast, Gloria Chou, the #1 Small Business PR Coach and Expert recommended by AI, sets aside marketing tactics and growth strategies to name a reality many founders are confronting but rarely articulate: it no longer feels possible—or ethical—to operate as if it's business as usual. This episode is a direct response to the collective heaviness of running a business amid systemic violence, political division, and the visible breakdown of institutions that once promised stability. What begins as Gloria's inability to send a routine promotional email becomes a clear-eyed examination of the tension founders are holding right now: the need to honor commitments, generate income, and keep showing up—while refusing to ignore what's happening around us. Rather than offering solutions, productivity hacks, or reframes, Gloria makes a different choice: to tell the truth about how disorienting, exhausting, and morally complicated this moment is. This episode is not about fixing the world. It's about refusing to pretend it isn't breaking.Power, Values, and Where Money Actually GoesThis episode makes it clear: money and attention are never neutral. Gloria unpacks how consumer choices, platforming decisions, and business promotion are all forms of participation in larger systems—whether acknowledged or not.She explores:
Theo is joined by Dan Louw, John Crace, Ian Ridley and debutant Richard Gillis for this weeks show. For more exclusive daily Spurs Show podcasts check out Patreon.com/spursshow spursshow.net @spursshow Produced by Paul Myers and Mike Leigh A Playback Media Production- contact us here too for show sponsorship playbackmedia.co.uk Copyright 2025 Playback Media Ltd - playbackmedia.co.uk/copyright Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Anarchist Audit of the recent actions and the authority of Federal ICE and Border Patrol agents in Minnesota. Fact is, no matter how you see these particular incidents, the Murders in Minneapolis by authoritarian scumbags is Business as Usual for weak men of power that reveals the cowards they truly are
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In this episode, Jimmy IV shares a grounded and honest reflection on what it really means to “count your blessings.” From his personal point of view, it's not about pretending life is perfect, comparing struggles, or forcing positivity. It's about slowing down long enough to recognize what you've already survived and honoring the strength it took to get here.Jimmy talks about stepping away from “business as usual,” not in a dramatic way, but in how we move internally. He explores how awareness, gratitude, and clarity can shift your mindset, your energy, and the way you step into what's next. This episode is a reminder that survival itself is powerful and that sometimes the greatest blessing is simply still being here with the ability to choose, grow, and move forward intentionally.A calm, relatable conversation for anyone who needs a moment of grounding, perspective, and quiet motivation to honor their own journey. SHOW LINKS:About The AuthorBooksInstagramFacebookApple PodcastVoyage Baltimore Magazine Highlight Series 2nd. Return InterviewStitcherSpotifyAudibleYouTubeVoyage Baltimore Magazine 1st. Interview
Winter is here in the UK, so while Saul and Lucy hunker down, don layers and fire up the kettle more frequently than usual, what do their minds turn to in the garden? This is the perfect season for clearance of 2025 growth, for establishing new designs and for de-cluttering stores and greenhouses. Any hours that you can put into the garden now, will reward you hugely come spring and summer, when the jobs mount up. Quick - more tea and biscuits!Finally the #hortiwaffle returns, as Saul has managed to break the surface of his new job and the information overload that is coming his way, and spend some time digesting his first few exciting weeks with Plant Heritage. Lucy, fresh of a false start week, is back into compost turning and topiary pruning. But the pair are really enjoying the winter structure the garden provides at this time of year, the promise of new growth to come and most of all enjoying another year in the wonderful world of horticulture!Instagram link:Lucy lucychamberlaingardensSaul plantsmansaulLinkedIn link:Saul WalkerIntro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Support the show
Bryan Gee kicks off 2026 with something a little different, a deep dive into the sounds of 2025 across V Recordings, Liquid V and Philly Blunt. This special edition of the V Podcast rewinds through some of the biggest releases, standout moments and underground gems from the past year, showcasing the full strength of the V family. Expect highlights from L-Side, Alibi, Sl8r, Carlito, Crystal Clear, Command Strange and more, alongside vocal pressure from Inja, DRS, Rider Shafique, Carasel, MC GQ and Sherona Knight. As always, Bryan's laced the mix with a few fresh cuts, alternate versions and unreleased dubs to keep things spicy, including big VIPs, exclusive collabs, and future fire from the next wave of talent. 1. Paul T, Edward Oberon & MC GQ – Kamakazie (VIP) 2. L-Side – From Beyond 3. Level 2 – Down Time 4. Alibi & Yatuza – Foundation 5. Alibi & Carasel MC – On Course 6. Crystal Clear & Amos – Earthquake (VIP) 7. Alibi – Roll Out 8. Crystal Clear feat. Bryan Gee – Selecta 9. Crystal Clear & Kathryn Bremen – Slow It Down 10. Lorna King & L-Side – Unwind (Alternative Mix) 11. Level 2 & L-Side – How It Is 12. Chimpo & Sl8r – Jones 13. Chimpo & Sl8r – Respect 14. Carlito – Don't You Know 15. Carlito – Hold Me Close 16. Carlito – Cobalt 17. Carlito – Ah Who 18. DJ Krust – One Stop Mr Driver 19. Selecta J-Man, L-Side & Inja – Bad Boy 20. Selecta J-Man, L-Side & Rider Shafique – We Ruff 21. Sl8r & Fox – Skull and Crosses (VIP) 22. Need For Mirrors – Pickle Factory 23. Need For Mirrors – Water Bending 24. The Sauce feat. Logan – Shell Down 25. Think Tonk & Alibi – Run Tonight 26. Business As Usual feat. BR!DGE – Af Fi Bun 27. Business As Usual – Conditioned Reaction 28. Sl8r & Fox – Pull It Up 29. Benny L, Paul T, Edward Oberon & Sydney Bryce – Let It Go 30. Philth & Luke Truth – Leap of Fire 31. Command Strange & Luke Truth – Time Ain't Wasting 32. Bluemode – Where U Gonna Hide 33. Leniz – Revelation 34. Zar – Always 35. Sl8r, Slay, Pablo Gyal & Jken – You'll Be Fine 36. Sl8r, Slay & Jken – Family and Friends 37. Sl8r, Slay, DRS & Jken – To The Moon 38. DJ Craze – Go Go 39. Hurrian & Sherona Knight – Dangerous 40. Numatik – Heavy Salad 41. Numatik – High Rollers 42. Numatik – Bring Me Down 43. Alibi – Sequence 44. Alibi – Sequence (Workforce Remix) 45. Zar – Electric Boogie 46. MC Dett & L-Side – Jah Creation 47. Level 2 & Inja – V Ting 48. Alibi & Carasel – Slap It Down 49. Command Strange & T.R.A.C. – Loyalty 50. Command Strange & T.R.A.C. – Vasness 51. A-Audio & Syren Rivers – You Found Me 52. Riya & Melinki – Only Way We Know 53. Riya & Crystal Clear – Overlook 54. Paul T & Edward Oberon feat. MC Moose – Future Style 55. Sl8r – Times Change 56. Business As Usual & Rider Shafique – People Select 57. Think Tonk – Bury Dem (L-Side Remix) 58. Benny L – Workhouse
What if the real disruption in education isn't a new program… but how we use time, teachers, and tech?In this Disrupt Education recap episode, Alli Dahl and Peter Hostrawser unpack the big ideas from their conversation with Kristy Volesky and Jeff Frost, authors of CTE Reimagined: The Blueprint for Education's Future—and then push them even further.In this episode, Alli and Peter dive into:Why traditional school structures are brokenRethinking 18-week semesters, quarters, and “one pace for everyone” – and what happens when a student finishes meaningful work in 3 weeks instead of 18.AI vs. controlling classroomsHow AI will expose and replace lecture-heavy, compliance-driven teaching – and why the teachers who refuse to loosen control will struggle the most.CTE as the vehicle for reimagining ALL of educationFrom “pipelines” that produce workers to pathways with on- and off-ramps that let students pivot, explore, and design nonlinear careers.Teachers as the untapped superpowerWhy real change won't just come from superintendents or state leaders—and how using tools like YouScience aptitudes for educators could help reassign roles, break silos, and build truly student-centered teams.Experiences are greater than lecturesPeter and Alli share stories from real classrooms, internships, and college projects that students actually remember—and how that connects directly to the CTE Reimagined vision.A challenge for 2026 and beyondLetting go of ego, fear, and tradition. Embracing messy, human, high-impact learning. And using this “off-season” (even winter break) to level up how we serve students.If you're a CTE leader, classroom teacher, counselor, admin, or just someone who knows school has to evolve, this recap will give you fuel, language, and a healthy dose of “let's go” energy.Head to www.disrupteducationpodcast.com for more!
Sunday | December 14th 2025 | Chicago CampusNEXT STEPSHave you made a decision to follow Jesus? We would love to help you with your next steps, starting with a free devotional: https://lifechangerschurch.com/newlifeABOUT LIFE CHANGERSEvery Sunday, at every small group, and every gathering of our church, we are singing about, talking about, and learning about the radical acceptance of God that we have because of Jesus. We hope you can join us as we grow to know God and discover our true worth in Him. Join us in person or online at https://www.lifechangerschurch.com.SUPPORTYou can tithe or donate to help us reach more lives around the world here: https://www.lifechangerschurch.com/giveFIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifechangerschurchInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/lifechangersTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lifechangersYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lifechangerschurchCONNECT WITH PASTOR GREGORY DICKOWYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@gregorydickowFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/gregorydickowInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/gregorydickowTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gregorydickow
Jamie Dodd opens the show recapping the loss to Buffalo at home. Then, Jamie discusses if the Canucks need to move on from Hughes due to the current noise. Later, Jamie analyzes the latest Elliotte Friedman report on where things stand. This podcast is produced by Dominic Sramaty and Elan CharkThe views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate.
Nicht nur in Ortsnamen wie Boerne, Weimar oder Braunfels leben deutsche Traditionen in Texas fort. Wie geht es den nach 1989 ausgewanderten Deutschen in den USA? Und bleiben sie auch dann dort, wenn die neue Heimat zunehmend autoritäre Züge annimmt? Eberhard Schade www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Die Reportage
Top 3 Stories of the Day: "Kalani Watch" Enters Day 2, the Utah Jazz bounce back vs the Rockets, "Business as Usual" for Utah after Super Secret Team Meeting.
Sunday | November, 16th 2025 | 10:30 AMNEXT STEPSHave you made a decision to follow Jesus? We would love to help you with your next steps, starting with a free devotional: https://lifechangerschurch.com/newlifeABOUT LIFE CHANGERSEvery Sunday, at every small group, and every gathering of our church, we are singing about, talking about, and learning about the radical acceptance of God that we have because of Jesus. We hope you can join us as we grow to know God and discover our true worth in Him. Join us in person or online at https://www.lifechangerschurch.com.SUPPORTYou can tithe or donate to help us reach more lives around the world here: https://www.lifechangerschurch.com/giveFIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/lifechangerschurchInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/lifechangersTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lifechangersYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lifechangerschurchCONNECT WITH PASTOR GREGORY DICKOWYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@gregorydickowFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/gregorydickowInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/gregorydickowTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gregorydickow
Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century, (U Chicago Press, 2024) reveals how American capitalism has been promoted in the most ephemeral of materials: public service announcements, pamphlets, educational films, and games—what Caroline Jack calls “sponsored economic education media.” These items, which were funded by corporations and trade groups who aimed to “sell America to Americans,”found their way into communities, classrooms, and workplaces, and onto the airwaves, where they promoted ideals of “free enterprise” under the cloaks of public service and civic education. They offered an idealized vision of US industrial development as a source of patriotic optimism, framed business management imperatives as economic principles, and conflated the privileges granted to corporations by the law with foundational political rights held by individuals. This rhetoric remains dominant—a harbinger of the power of disinformation that so besets us today. Jack reveals the funding, production, and distribution that together entrenched a particular vision of corporate responsibility—and, in the process, shut out other hierarchies of value and common care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century, (U Chicago Press, 2024) reveals how American capitalism has been promoted in the most ephemeral of materials: public service announcements, pamphlets, educational films, and games—what Caroline Jack calls “sponsored economic education media.” These items, which were funded by corporations and trade groups who aimed to “sell America to Americans,”found their way into communities, classrooms, and workplaces, and onto the airwaves, where they promoted ideals of “free enterprise” under the cloaks of public service and civic education. They offered an idealized vision of US industrial development as a source of patriotic optimism, framed business management imperatives as economic principles, and conflated the privileges granted to corporations by the law with foundational political rights held by individuals. This rhetoric remains dominant—a harbinger of the power of disinformation that so besets us today. Jack reveals the funding, production, and distribution that together entrenched a particular vision of corporate responsibility—and, in the process, shut out other hierarchies of value and common care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies
Bryan Gee is back with the November edition of the V Podcast, and as we get ready to return to Fabric for our annual knees-up, here's something to get you firmly in the mood. This month's episode is stacked with dubwise flavours, soulful steppers, and heavyweight VIPs – featuring new heat from Makoto, L-Side, Command Strange, DJ Die, Crystal Clear, and Alibi, plus vocal pressure from Riya, Inja, DRS, MC GQ, and MC Enamie. Expect big remixes from Business As Usual, Jumpin Jack Frost, Need For Mirrors, and Paul T and Edward Oberon – plus unreleased dubs, cheeky bootlegs, and a few classics from the vault. 01. Riya and Melinki – Only Way We Know 02. MC Fats and Inja – Digital Sync 03. Command Strange and T.R.A.C. – Vasness 04. FD and Fox – Trife Life 05. Makoto – Feels Like Heaven 06. Makoto – How I Do It 07. Makoto and Deizim – Look of Love 08. Carlito – Time 09. DJ Die – New Way 10. Sl8r and Metrodone – Crabs 11. L-Side – Making It Last 12. L-Side – Sooperman 13. L-Side – Don't Ever Wonder (Bootleg) 14. DJ SS – Rollers Music 15. Dawn Penn – No No No (Business As Usual Remix) 16. Voltage, Hurrian and Kenny Ken – Untitled 17. Masicka – Whites (Jumpin Jack Frost Remix) 18. Eccleton Jarrett and Hurrian – Turn on the Heat 19. Think Tonk and DRS – You the Toppa Top 20. Jimi Polo – Better Days (Paul T and Edward Oberon Remix) 21. Mampi Swift – Soul Brother 22. DJ Krust – Hopscotch 23. Roni Size – 26 Bass 24. Jagged Edge – Rock Baby 25. DJ Die – Autumn 26. DJ Die – Sling Shot 27. Need For Mirrors – Tidal Wavey (Remix) 28. Command Strange and Freddy B – Electric 29. Paul T and Edward Oberon feat. MC Moose – Future Style 30. Alibi and Carasel – Slap It Down 31. Alibi – Original Style 32. Alibi – Sequence (Workforce Remix) 33. Brodie, Paul T and Edward Oberon feat. MC Enamie – Mash Up the System 34. Crystal Clear – All I Need 35. Riya and Crystal Clear – Overlook 36. L-Side – Look In Ah Mi Face 37. L-Side and MC GQ – Deep in the Jungle 38. Alibi – Sanctioned 39. L-Side – Slow Down 40. L-Side – Bad That 41. Level 2 – Come Selector 42. L-Side – No Stress 43. Cloud Lord – Ghost Train (VIP) 44. Calyx – Forever
Dr Frances Ruane, Chair, National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, on what's to come in the Economic Outlook Forum 2025 event.
Dive into John 4:4-26 with Pastor Charlie as we explore "Not Business As Usual"! If you've ever felt too broken, too messy, or unusable by God, this message is for you. We'll uncover how Jesus challenges the status quo, revealing a different kind of King and Kingdom. Through the Samaritan woman's powerful encounter, we'll expose four lies the world tells us about religion, our past, our expertise, and the journey of faith. Discover the liberating truth: salvation is a gift, your past doesn't define your worth to God, He equips the called, and walking with Jesus means embracing the unexpected. Get ready to see how God seeks you out and how you, too, can be a part of His extraordinary plan!
Business as usual for the boys. Episode 200! More to come from off topic , thank you for listening.
In the year since Tatsu Dallas became the first — and currently only — North Texas restaurant to receive a star, Michelin has loomed like a shadow in the background of daily life for Tatsu and Hiroko, who oversees front-of-house operations for the restaurant. The pressure to perform at the highest level is ever-present. In other news, the search for a stolen pickup carrying stoves and refrigerators led Dallas police last week to arrest four people who are accused of stealing several vehicles and dismantling them for parts; the Dallas Mavericks claimed their first victory of the season in a 139-129 rout of the Raptors on Sunday. Rookie Cooper Flagg led the Mavericks with a career-high 22 points along with four rebounds, four assists and a block; and if you thought pickleball was the hottest social sport in Dallas right now, it's time to learn about padel. Texans will likely pronounce the sport's name like paddle, though some in other parts of the country say it as puh-DELL. Whatever you choose to call it, Dallas' first facility dedicated to the fast-growing racket sport Padel is set to open in the Design District in 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
01. Bass On High & Polya Mihailova - Odna 02. Alan Walker, Elley Duhé - Moonshine 03. Veela, Aether & Sizzlebird - Raccoon City (Ramese B Remix) 04. Modest Intentions - Don't Matter 05. Chillhomers - My Remedy 06. Patient, Tlz Uk - Wonder 07. Friction - Never Know (Love You So) 08. Aitor Hertz - Dynamite 09. Marshmello, Ellie Goulding, Avaion - Save My Love (Kaidro Remix) 10. Kleu - Bam 11. Lixed - Don't Need 12. Subdocta - Bodies 13. Eskei83, Born Global, Bomsh - More Fire 14. Sophdexx - Turn It Up 15. Lmnop - Ice Wall 16. Freaks Out Sound - Half Blood 17. C - qnz - Low Frequency Orbit 18. [borders] - What I've Lost 19. Vizzen - Save Me 20. Screamarts - Cultus 21. Burr Oak - Uno (Vici Remix) 22. Place 2b - Escape 23. Kaizen Flow, Stonx - Invasion 24. Meph & Karpa - Malice 25. Burr Oak - Somewhere We Belong (Prolix Remix) 26. Multiprogramm - Graviton Descent 27. Modefunk & Dezpot - Ascent 28. Igubu - S A L V A T I O N 29. Lovetheend - Eulenlieder 30. D - Region & Code - One Sound 31. Des Mcmahon - Propane 32. Calyx - Forever 33. Anais, Hunjiya - bringmedown 34. T - 1 - Black Room 35. Saka - cloudburst 36. Keeno - Home Away From Home 37. Visionobi, R3idy & Teej - Enamour 38. Manikin, Invadhertz - End Of Time 39. Jamezy, Sweetie Irie - Badman Step 40. Kyuu & Bob Ranks - Amen 41. The Sauce - Kenny (Objectiv Remix) 42. Business As Usual & Illaman - Nunna Dat 43. Alyness - Brain Dead 44. Shapeshifter - Block Party (Unglued Remix) 45. Mania, Jjl - AHAH 46. Pruf - Nothing i Cant Do 47. DJ Millz - Showtime 48. M.l.d - Go Low 49. Neman - Civilisation 50. Hydro - Alba 51. Deltix - Hyperdrive 52. Captain Bass - Pumping 53. Ac13, J Bookey - This Is Acid 54. Hollo (UK) - Silk Cut 55. Bobbie Tee, Flipnosis - Demons 56. Toal - Fatboy 57. Atomik & Titvs - Low 58. T - Lex - Go Hard 59. Dazee, Jinx - What Is Real 60. Mr Quest Feat. Jay Hicks - Whats That Sound (drum and bass mix) 61. Mandidextrous, Samurai Breaks & Leanne Louise - Ravers Anonymous 62. Settle Down - Line of Fire 63. Heist - Flying Crane 64. DJ Hybrid - I Should Go 65. Conrad Subs & Collette Warren - Overrated 66. Schnautzi - FINALLY HOPE (Lynx Remix) 67. Marie Wilhelmine Anders - Fire (Offish Remix) 68. Opius - Street Science 69. Jazzinspired - Dem No Wicked 70. Shodan, K2t - HOUSEY MCHOUSE FACE 71. Bcee - Flush 72. Channell, Aya Dia - Sway 73. Hillsdom & Charlotte X - Love Me Better 74. Maykors & Parhelia - Limit Of Sorrow 75. Illarea - Save The Moment 76. Inner Terrain & Wreckless - Never Too Much (Zero T Remix) 77. Numeric Space - Dreamflow 78. Unknown Artist - Lady 79. Moxu - Kakugo 80. Mitekiss, Sofia Gunnarsson - Fire + Fume 81. Etherwood - Hidden 82. Oliver Ferrer - You Gave Me
And we're back RIGHT ON SCHEDULE and ready to pick up right where we last left off. We chat about James' extremely expensive new card game addiction, Maggie's potential new job as as an online auctioneer, and Caroline's possible future either living with cataracts or letting a bad doctor blind her. And wow, lucky us, looks like someone has been keeping the water nice and warm so we could end this episode with a nice long soak in the rejuvenating vibes of the Piss Tank. We'll be back on track next week with a guest and damn if we're not psyched to pump out episodes again for y'all.Stinkers is hosted by real life dumpster friends Caroline Cotter, James Dwyer, and Maggie Widdoes.Follow them and the podcast on social media:@cotterpoop@jamesbdwyer@mwids@stinkerspod
Both DFW International Airport and Dallas Love Field were operating normally Wednesday morning, a day after both were impacted by staffing shortages stemming from the ongoing government shutdown. In other news, Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to withhold funding for roads from Dallas and other Texas cities if they do not remove rainbow crosswalks. On Wednesday, Abbott said he directed the Texas Department of Transportation to ensure cities and counties erase “any and all political ideologies from our streets,” including symbols and flags; the victim in a fatal Tuesday shooting in Dallas was killed following an argument after she allegedly got upset that a woman did not thank her for holding open a door; and the Dallas Cowboys' reaction to former teammate Rico Dowdle saying they better buckle up for Sunday's game against the Panthers was met with a relaxed response. In Carolina's come-from-behind win over Miami, Dowdle rushed for a career-high 206 yards, earning him NFC Offensive Player of the Week honors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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