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Welcome back to the Ultimate Guide to Partnering® Podcast. AI agents are your next customers. Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://theultimatepartner.com/ebook-subscribe/ Check Out UPX:https://theultimatepartner.com/experience/ https://youtu.be/vEdq8rpBM3I In this data-rich keynote, Jay McBain deconstructs the tectonic shifts reshaping the $5.3 trillion global technology industry, arguing that we are entering a new 20-year cycle where traditional direct sales models are obsolete. McBain explains why 96% of the industry is now surrounded by partners and how successful companies must pivot from “flywheels and theory” to a granular strategy focused on the seven specific partners present in every deal. From the explosion of agentic AI and the $163 billion marketplace revolution to the specific mechanics of multiplier economics, this discussion provides a roadmap for navigating the “decade of the ecosystem” where influence, trust, and integration—not just product—determine winners and losers. Key Takeaways Half of today's Fortune 500 companies will likely vanish in the next 20 years due to the shift toward AI and ecosystem-led models. Every B2B deal now involves an average of seven trusted partners who influence the decision before a vendor even knows a deal exists. Microsoft has outpaced AWS growth for 26 consecutive quarters largely because of a superior partner-led geographic strategy. Marketplaces are projected to grow to $163 billion by 2030, with nearly 60% of deals involving partner funding or private offers. The “Multiplier Effect” is the new ROI, where partners can make up to $8.45 for every dollar of vendor product sold. Future dominance relies on five key pillars: Platform, Service Partnerships, Channel Partnerships, Alliances, and Go-to-Market orchestration. 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. Keywords: Jay McBain, Canalys, partner ecosystem, channel chief, agentic AI, marketplace growth, multiplier economics, B2B sales trends, tech industry forecast, service partnerships, strategic alliances, Microsoft vs AWS, distribution transformation, managed services growth, SaaS platforms, customer journey mapping, 28 moments of truth, future of reselling, technology spending 2025, ecosystem orchestration, partner multipliers. T Transcript: Jay McBain WORKFILE FOR TRANSCRIPT [00:00:00] Vince Menzione: Just up from, did you Puerto Rico last night? Puerto Rico, yes. Puerto Rico. He dodged the hurricane. Um, you all know him. Uh, let him introduce himself for those of you who don’t, but just thrilled to have on the stage, again, somebody who knows more about what’s going on in, in the, and has the pulse on this industry probably than just about anybody I know personally. [00:00:21] Vince Menzione: J Jay McBain. Jay, great to see you my friend. Alright, thank you. We have to come all the way. We live, we live uh, about 20 minutes from each other. We have to come all the way to Reston, Virginia to see each other, right? That’s right. Very good. Well, uh, that’s all over to you, sir. Thank you. [00:00:35] Jay McBain: Alright, well thank you so much. [00:00:36] Jay McBain: I went from 85 degrees yesterday to 45 today, but I was able to dodge that, uh, that hurricane, uh, that we kind of had to fly through the northern edge of, uh, wanna talk today about our industry, about the ultimate partner. I’m gonna try to frame up the ultimate partner as I walk through the data and the latest research that, uh, that we’ve been doing in the market. [00:00:56] Jay McBain: But I wanted to start here ’cause our industry moves in 20 year cycles, and if you look at the Fortune 500 and dial back 20 years from today, 52% of them no longer exist. As we step into the next 20 year AI era, half of the companies that we know and love today are not gonna exist. So we look at this, and by the way, if you’re not in the Fortune 500 and you don’t have deep pockets to buy your way outta problems, 71% of tech companies fail over the course of 10 years. [00:01:30] Jay McBain: Those are statistics from the US government. So I start to look at our industry and you know, you may look at the, you know, mainframe era from the sixties and seventies, mini computers, August the 12th, 1981, that first IBM, PC with Microsoft dos, version one, you know, triggered. A new 20 year era of client server. [00:01:51] Jay McBain: It was the time and I worked at IBM for 17 years, but there was a time where Bill Gates flew into Boca Raton, Florida and met with the IBM team and did that, you know, fancy licensing agreement. But after, you know, 20 years of being the most valuable company in the world and 13 years of antitrust and getting broken up, almost like at and TIBM almost didn’t make payroll. [00:02:14] Jay McBain: 13 years after meeting Bill Gates. Yeah, that’s how quickly things change in these eras. In 1999, a small company outta San Francisco called salesforce.com got its start. About 10 years later, Jeff Bezos asked a question in a boardroom, could we rent out our excess capacity and would other companies buy it? [00:02:35] Jay McBain: Which, you know, most people in the room laughed at ’em at the time. But it created a 20 year cloud era when our friends, our neighbors, our family. Saw Chachi PT for the first time in March of 2023. They saw the deep fakes, they saw the poetry, they saw the music. They came to us as tech people and said, did we just light up Skynet? [00:02:58] Jay McBain: And that consumer trend has triggered this next 20 years. I could walk through the richest people in the world through those trends. I could walk through the most valuable companies. It all aligns. ’cause by the way, Apple’s no longer at the top. Nvidia is at the top, Microsoft. Second, things change really quickly. [00:03:17] Jay McBain: So in that course of time, you start to look at our industry and as people are talking about a six and a half or $7 trillion build out of ai, that’s open AI and Microsoft numbers, that is bigger than our industry that’s taken over 50 years to build. This year, we’re gonna finish the year at $5.3 trillion. [00:03:36] Jay McBain: That’s from the smallest flower shop to the biggest bank. Biggest governments that Caresoft would, uh, serve biggest customer in the world is actually the federal government of the us. But you look at this pie chart and you look at the changes that we’re gonna go through over the next 20 years, there’s about a trillion dollars in hardware. [00:03:54] Jay McBain: There’s about a trillion dollars in software. If you look forward through all of the merging trends, quantum computing, humanoid robots, all the things that are coming that dollar to dollar software to hardware will continue to exist all the way through. We see services making up almost two thirds of this pie. [00:04:13] Jay McBain: Yesterday I was in a telco conference with at and t and Verizon and T-Mobile and some of the biggest wireless players and IT services, which happen to be growing faster than products. At the moment, there is more work to be done wrapping around the deal than the actual products that the customer is buying. [00:04:32] Jay McBain: So in an industry that’s growing at 7%. On top of the world economy that’s grown at 2.2. This is the fastest growing industry, and it will be at least for the next 10 years, if not 2070 0.1% of this entire $5 trillion gets transacted through partners. While what we’re talking to today about the ultimate partner, 96% of this industry is surrounded by partners in one way or another. [00:05:01] Jay McBain: They’re there before the deal. They’re there at the deal. They’re there after the deal. Two thirds of our industry is now subscription consumption based. So every 30 days forever, and a customer for life becomes everything. So if every deal in medium, mid-market, and higher has seven partners, according to McKinsey, who are those seven people trying to get into the deal? [00:05:25] Jay McBain: While there’s millions of companies that have come into tech over the last 10 to 20 years. Digital agencies, accountants, legal firms, everybody’s come in. The 250,000 SaaS companies, a million emerging tech companies, there’s a big fight to be one of those seven trusted people at the table. So millions of companies and tens of millions of people our competing for these slots. [00:05:49] Jay McBain: So one of the pieces of research I’m most proud of, uh, in my analyst career is this. And this took over two years to build. It’s a lot of logos. Not this PowerPoint slide, but the actual data. Thousands of people hours. Because guess what? When you look at partners from the top down, the top 1000 partners, by capability and capacity, not by resale. [00:06:15] Jay McBain: It’s not a ranking of CDW and insight and resale numbers. It is the surrounding. Consulting, design, architecture, implementations, integrations, managed services, all the pieces that’s gonna make the next 20 years run. So when you start to look at this, 98% of these companies are private, so very difficult to get to those numbers and, uh, a ton of research and help from AI and other things to get this. [00:06:41] Jay McBain: But this is it. And if you look at this list, there’s a thousand logos out of the million companies. There’s a thousand logos that drive two thirds of all tech services in the world. $1.07 trillion gets delivered by a thousand companies, but here’s where it gets fun. Those companies in the middle, in blue, the 30 of them deliver more tech services than the next 970. [00:07:08] Jay McBain: Combined the 970 combined in white deliver more tech services. Then the next million combined. So if you think we live in an 80 20 rule or maybe a 99, a 95 5 rule, or a 99 1 rule, we actually live in a 99.9 0.1 parallel principle. These companies spread around the world evenly split across the uh, different regions. [00:07:35] Jay McBain: South Africa, Latin America, they’re all over. They split. They split among types. All of the Venn diagram I just showed from GSIs to VARs to MSPs, to agencies and other types of companies. But this is a really rich list and it’s public. So every company in the world now, if you’re looking at Transactable data, if you’re looking at quantifiable data that you can go put your revenue numbers against, it represents 70 to 80% of every company in this room’s Tam. [00:08:08] Jay McBain: In one piece of research. So what do you do below that? How do you cover a million companies that you can’t afford to put a channel account manager? You can’t afford to write programs directly for well after the top down analysis and all the wallet share and you know exactly where the lowest hanging fruit is for most of your tam. [00:08:28] Jay McBain: The available markets. The obtainable markets. You gotta start from the community level grassroots up. So you need to ask the question for the million companies and the maybe a hundred thousand companies out there, partner companies that are surrounding your customer. These are the seven partners that surround your customer. [00:08:48] Jay McBain: What do they read, where do they go, and who do they follow? Interestingly enough, our industry globally equates to only a thousand watering holes, a thousand companies at the top, a thousand places at the bottom. 35% of this audience we’re talking. Millions of people here love events and there’s 352 of them like this one that they love to go to. [00:09:13] Jay McBain: They love the hallway chats, they love the hotel lobby bar, you know, in a time reminded by the pandemic. They love to be in person. It’s the number one way they’re influenced. So if you don’t have a solid event strategy and you don’t have a community team out giving out socks every week, your competitors might beat you. [00:09:31] Jay McBain: 12% of this audience loves podcasts. It’s the Joe Rogan effect of our industry. And while you know, you may not think the 121 podcasts out there are important, well, you’re missing 12% of your audience. It’s over a million people. If you’re not on a weekly podcast in one of these podcasts in the world, there’s still people that read one of the 106 magazines in the world. [00:09:55] Jay McBain: There are people that love peer groups, associations, they wanna be part of this. There’s 15 different ways people are influenced. And a solid grassroots strategy is how you make this happen. In the last 10 years, we’ve created a number of billionaires. Bottom up. They never had to go talk to la large enterprise. [00:10:15] Jay McBain: They never had to go build out a mid-market strategy. They just went and give away socks and new community marketing. And this has created, I could rip through a bunch of names that became unicorns just in the last couple of years, bottoms up. You go back to your board walking into next year, top down, bottom up. [00:10:34] Jay McBain: You’ve covered a hundred percent of your tam, and now you’ve covered it with names, faces, and places. You haven’t covered it with a flywheel or a theory. And for 44 years, we have gone to our board every fourth quarter with flywheels and theory. Trust me, partners are important. The channel is key to us. [00:10:57] Jay McBain: Well, let’s talk at the point of this granularity, and now we’re getting supported by technology 261 entrepreneurs. Many of them in the room actually here that are driving this ability to succeed with seven partners in every deal to exchange data to be able to exchange telemetry of these prospects to be able to see twice or three times in terms of pipeline of your target addressable market. [00:11:26] Jay McBain: All these ai, um, technologies, agentic technologies are coming into this. It’s all about data. It’s all about quantifiable names, faces, and places. Now none of us should be walking around with flywheels, so let’s flip the flywheels. No. Uh, so we also look at, and I sold PCs for 17 years and that was in the high times of 40% margins for partners. [00:11:55] Jay McBain: But one interesting thing when you study the p and l for broad base of partners around the world, it’s changed pretty significantly in this last 20 year era. What the cloud era did is dropped hardware from what used to be 84% plus the break fix and things that wrap around it of the p and l to now 16% of every partner in the world. [00:12:16] Jay McBain: 84% of their p and l is now software and services. And if you look at profitability, it’s worse. It’s actually 87% is profitability wise. They’ve completely shifted in terms of where they go. Now we look at other parts of our market. I could go through every part of the pie of the slide, but we’re watching each of the companies, and if you can see here, this is what we want to talk about in terms of ultimate partner. [00:12:43] Jay McBain: Microsoft has outgrown AWS for 26 straight quarters. They don’t have a better product. They don’t have a better price, they don’t have better promotion. It’s all place. And I’ll explain why you guess here in the light green line. Exactly. The day that Google went a hundred percent all in partner, every deal, even if a deal didn’t have a partner, one of the 4% of deals that didn’t have a partner, they injected a partner. [00:13:09] Jay McBain: You can see on the left side exactly where they did it. They got to the point of a hundred percent partner driven. Rebuilt their programs, rebuilt their marketplace. Their marketplace is actually larger than Microsoft’s, and they grew faster than Microsoft. A couple of those quarters. It is a partner driven future, and now I have Oracle, which I just walked by as I walked from the hotel. [00:13:31] Jay McBain: Oracle with their RPOs will start to join. Maybe the list of three hyperscalers becomes the list of four in future slides, but that’s a growth slide. Market share is different. AWS early and commanding lead. And it plays out, uh, plays out this way. But we’re at an interesting moment and I stood up six years ago talking about the decade of the ecosystem after we went through a decade of sales starting in 1999 when we all thought we were born to be salespeople. [00:14:02] Jay McBain: We managed territories with our gut. The sales tech stack would have it different, that sales was a science, and we ended the decade 2009, looking at sales very differently in 2009. I remember being at cocktail parties where CMOs would be joking around that 50% of their marketing dollars were wasted. They just didn’t know which 50%. [00:14:23] Jay McBain: And I’ll tell you, that was really funny. In 2009 till every 58-year-old CMO got replaced by a 38-year-old growth hacker who walked in with 15,348 SaaS companies in their MarTech and ad tech stack to solve the problem, every nickel of marketing by 2019 was tracked. Marketo, Eloqua, Pardot, HubSpot, driving this industry. [00:14:50] Jay McBain: Now, we stood up and said the 28 moments that come before a sale are pretty much all partner driven. In the best case scenario, a vendor might see four of the moments. They might come to your website, maybe they read an ebook, maybe they have a salesperson or a demo that comes in. That’s four outta 28 moments. [00:15:10] Jay McBain: The other 24 are done by partners. Yeah, in the worst case scenario and the majority scenario, you don’t see any of the moments. All 28 happen and you lose a deal without knowing there ever was a deal. So this is it. We need to partner in these moments and we need to inject partners into sales and marketing, like no time before, and this was the time to do it. [00:15:33] Jay McBain: And we got some feedback in the Salesforce state of sales report, which doesn’t involve any partnerships or, or. Channel Chiefs or anything else. This is 5,500 of the biggest CROs in the world that obviously use Salesforce. 89% of salespeople today use partners every day. For the 11% who don’t, 58% plan two within a year. [00:15:57] Jay McBain: If you add those two numbers together, that’s magically the 96% number. They recognize that every deal has partners in it. In 2024, last year, half of the salespeople in the world, every industry, every country. Miss their numbers. For the minority who made their numbers, 84 point percent pointed to partners as the reason why they made their numbers. [00:16:21] Jay McBain: It was the cheat code for sales, so that modern salesperson that knows how to orchestrate a deal, orchestrate the 28 moments with the seven partners and get to that final spot is the winning formula. HubSpot’s number in separate research was 84% in marketing. So we’re starting to see partners in here. We don’t have to shout from the mountaintops. [00:16:44] Jay McBain: These communities like ultimate Partner are working and we’re getting this to the highest levels in the board. And I’ll say that, you know, when 20 years from now half of the companies we know and love fail after we’re done writing the book and blaming the CEO for inventing the thing that ended up killing them, blaming the board for fiduciary responsibility and letting it happen. [00:17:06] Jay McBain: What are the other chapters of the book? And I think it’s all in one slide. We are in this platform economy and the. [00:17:31] Jay McBain: So your battery’s fine. Check, check, check, check. Alright, I’ll, I’ll just hold this in case, but the companies that execute on all five of these areas, well. Not only today become the trillion dollar valued companies, but they become the companies of tomorrow. These will be the fastest growing companies at every level. [00:17:50] Jay McBain: Not only running a platform business, but participating in other platforms. So this is how it breaks out, and there are people at very senior levels, at very big companies that have this now posted in the office of the CEO winning on integrations is everything. We just went through a demographic shift this year where 51% of our buyers are born after 1982. [00:18:15] Jay McBain: Millennials are the number one buyer of the $5 trillion. Their number one buying criteria is not service. Support your price, your brand reputation, it’s integrations. The buy a product, 80% is good as the next one if it works better in their environment. 79% of us won’t buy a car unless it has CarPlay or Android Auto. [00:18:34] Jay McBain: This is an integration world. The company with the most integrations win. Second, there are seven partners that surround the customer. Highly trusted partners. We’re talking, coaching the customer’s, kids soccer team, having a cottage together up at the lake. You know, best men, bate of honors at weddings type of relationships. [00:18:57] Jay McBain: You can’t maybe have all seven, but how does Microsoft beat AWS? They might have had two, three, or four of them saying nice things about them instead of the competition. Winning in service partnerships and channel partnerships changes by category. If you’re selling MarTech, only 10% of it today is resold, so you build more on service partnerships. [00:19:18] Jay McBain: If you’re in cybersecurity today, 91.6% of it is resold. Transacted through partners. So you build a lot of channel partnerships, plus the service partnerships, whatever the mix is in your category, you have to have two or three of those seven people. Saying nice things about you at every stage of the customer journey. [00:19:38] Jay McBain: Now move over to alliances. We have already built the platforms at the hyperscale level. We’ve built the platforms within SaaS, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, Marketo, NetSuite, HubSpot. Every buyer has a set of platforms that they buy. We’ve now built them in cybersecurity this year out of 6,500 as high as cyber companies, the top five are starting to separate. [00:20:02] Jay McBain: We built it in distribution, which I’ll show in a minute. We’re building it in Telco. This is a platform economy and alliances win and you have alliances with your competitors ’cause you compete in the morning, but you’re best friends by the afternoon. Winning in other platforms is just as important as driving your own. [00:20:20] Jay McBain: And probably the most important part of this is go to market. That sales, that marketing, the 28 moments, the every 30 days forever become all a partner strategy. So there’s still CEOs out there that believe platform is a UI or UX on a bunch of disparate products and things you’ve acquired. There’s still CFOs out there that Think platform is a pricing model, a bundle model of just getting everything under one, you know, subscription price or consumption price. [00:20:51] Jay McBain: And it’s not, platforms are synonymous with partnerships. This is the way forward and there’s no conversation around ai. That doesn’t involve Nvidia over there, an open AI over here and a hyperscaler over there and a SaaS company over here. The seven layer stack wins every single time, and the companies that get this will be the ones that survive this cycle. [00:21:16] Jay McBain: Now, flipping over to marketplaces. So we had written research that, um, about five years ago that marketplaces were going to grow at 82% compounded. Yeah, probably one of the most accurate predictions we ever made, because it happened, we, we predicted that, uh, we were gonna get up to about $85 billion. Well, now we’ve extended that to 2030, so we’re gonna get up to $163 billion, and the thing that we’re watching is in green. [00:21:46] Jay McBain: If 96% of these deals are partner assisted in some way, how is the economics of partnering going to work? We predicted that 50% of deals by 2027. Would be partner funded in some way. Private offers multi-partner offers distributor sellers of record, and now that extends to 59% by 2030, the most senior leader of the biggest marketplace AWS, just said to us they’re gonna probably make these numbers on their own. [00:22:14] Jay McBain: And he asked what their two competitors are doing. So he’s telling us that we under called this. Now when you look at each of the press releases, and this is the AWS Billion Dollar Club. Every one of the companies on the left have issued a press release that they’re in the billion dollar club. Some of them are in the multi-billions, but I want you to double click on this press release. [00:22:35] Jay McBain: I’m quoted in here somewhere, but as CrowdStrike is building the marketplace at 91% compounded, they’re almost doubling their revenue every single year. They’re growing the partner funding, in this case, distributor funding by 3548%. Almost triple digit growth in marketplace is translating into almost quadruple digit growth in funding. [00:23:01] Jay McBain: And you see that over and over again as, as Splunk hit three, uh, billion dollars. The same. Salesforce hit $2 billion on AWS in Ulti, 18 months. They joined in October 20, 23, and 18 months later, they’re already at $2 billion. But now you’re seeing at Salesforce, which by the way. Grew up to $40 billion in revenue direct, almost not a nickel in resell. [00:23:28] Jay McBain: Made it really difficult for VARs and managed service providers to work with Salesforce because they couldn’t understand how to add services to something they didn’t book the revenue for. While $40 billion companies now seeing 70% of their deals come through partners. So this is just the world that we’re in. [00:23:44] Jay McBain: It doesn’t matter who you are and what industry you’re in, this takes place. But now we’re starting to see for the first time. Partners join the billion dollar club. So you wonder about partnering and all this funding and everything that’s working through Now you’re seeing press releases and companies that are redoing their LinkedIn branding about joining this illustrious club without a product to sell and all the services that wrap around it. [00:24:10] Jay McBain: So the opening session on Microsoft was interesting because there’s been a number of changes that Microsoft has done just in the last 30 days. One is they cut distribution by two thirds going from 180 distributors to 62. They cut out any small partner lower than a thousand dollars, and that doesn’t sound like a lot, but that’s over a hundred thousand partners that get deed tightening the long tail. [00:24:38] Jay McBain: They we’re the first to really put a global point system in place three years ago. They went to the new commerce experience. If you remember, all kinds of changes being led by. The biggest company for the channel. And so when we’re studying marketplaces, we’re not just studying the three hyperscalers, we’re studying what TD Cynic is doing with Stream One Ingram’s doing with Advant Advantage Aerosphere. [00:25:01] Jay McBain: Also, we’re watching what PAX eight, who by the way, is the 365 bestseller for Microsoft in the world. They are the cybersecurity leader for Microsoft in the world and the copilot. Leader in the world for Microsoft and Partner of the Year for Microsoft. So we’re watching what the cloud platforms are doing, watching what the Telco are doing, which is 25 cents out of every dollar, if you remember that pie chart, watching what the biggest resellers are converting themselves into. [00:25:30] Jay McBain: Vince just mentioned, you know, SHI in the changes there watching the managed services market and the leaders there, what they’re doing in terms of how this industry’s moving forward. By the way, managed services at $608 billion this year. Is one and a half times larger than the SaaS industry overall. [00:25:48] Jay McBain: It’s also one and a half times larger than all the hyperscalers combined. Oracle, Alibaba, IBM, all the way down. This is a massive market and it makes up 15 to 20 cents of every dollar the customer spend. We’re watching that industry hit a trillion dollars by the end of the decade, and we’re watching 150 different marketplace development platforms, the distribution of our industry, which today is 70.1% indirect. [00:26:13] Jay McBain: We’re starting to see that number, uh, solidify in terms of marketplaces as well. Watching distributors go from that linear warehouse in a bank to this orchestration model, watching some of the biggest players as the world comes around, platforms, it tightens around the place. So Caresoft, uh, from from here is the sixth biggest distributor in the world. [00:26:40] Jay McBain: Just shows you how big the. You know, biggest client in the world is that they serve. But understand that we’re publishing the distributor 500 list, but it’ll be the same thing. That little group in blue in the middle today, you know, drives almost two thirds of the market. So what happens in all this next stage in terms of where the dollars change hands. [00:27:07] Jay McBain: And the economics of partnering themselves are going through the most radical shift that we’ve seen ever. So back to the nineties, and, and for those of you that have been channel chiefs and running programs, we went to work every day. You know, everything’s on fire. We’re trying to check hundred boxes, trying to make our program 10% better than our competitors. [00:27:30] Jay McBain: Hey, we gotta fix our deal registration program today, and our incentives are outta whack or training programs or. You know, not where they need to be. Our certification, you know, this was the life of, uh, of a channel chief. Everybody thought we were just out drinking in the Caribbean with our best partners, but we were under the weight of this. [00:27:49] Jay McBain: But something interesting has happened is that we turned around and put the customer at the middle of our programs to say that those 28 moments in green before the sale are really, really important. And the seven partners who participate are really important. Understanding. The customer’s gonna buy a seven layer stack. [00:28:09] Jay McBain: They’re gonna buy it With these seven partners, the procurement stage is much different. The growth of marketplaces, the growth of direct in some of these areas, and then long term every 30 days forever in a managed service, implementations, integrations, how you upsell, cross-sell, enrich a deal changes. So how would you build a program that’s wrapped around the customer instead of the vendor? [00:28:35] Jay McBain: And we’re starting to hear our partners shout back to us. These are global surveys, big numbers, but over half of our partners, regardless of type, are selling consulting to their customer. Over half are designing architecting deals. A third of them are trying to be system integrators showing up at those implementation integration moments. [00:28:55] Jay McBain: Two thirds of them are doing managed services, but the shocking one here is 44% of our partners, regardless of type, are coding. They’re building agents and they’re out helping their customer at that level. So this is the modern partner that says, don’t typecast me. You may have thought of me in your program. [00:29:14] Jay McBain: You might have me slotted as a var. Well, I do 3.2 things, and if I don’t get access to those resources, if you don’t walk me to that room, I’m not gonna do them with you. You may have me as a managed service provider that’s only in the morning. By the afternoon I’m coding, and by the next morning I’m implementing and consulting. [00:29:33] Jay McBain: So again, a partner’s not a partner. That Venn diagram is a very loose one now, as every partner on there is doing 3.2 different business models. And again, they’re telling us for 43 years, they said, I want more leads this year it changed. For the first time, I want to be recognized and incentivized as more than just a cash register for you. [00:29:57] Jay McBain: I want you to recognize when I’m consulting, when I’m designing, when you’re winning deals, because of my wonderful services, by the way, we asked the follow up question, well, where should we spend our money with you? And they overwhelmingly say, in the consulting stage, you win and lose deals. Not at moment 28. [00:30:18] Jay McBain: We’re not buying a pack of gum at the gas station. This is a considered purchase. You win deals from moment 12 through 16 and I’m gonna show you a picture of that later, and they say, you better be spending your money there, or you’re not gonna win your fair share or more than your fair share of deals. [00:30:36] Jay McBain: The shocking thing about this is that Microsoft, when they went to the point system, lifted two thirds of all the money, tens of billions of dollars, and put it post-sale, and we were all scratching our heads going. Well, if the partners are asking for it there, and it seems like to beat your biggest competitors, you want to win there. [00:30:54] Jay McBain: Why would you spend the money on renewal? Well, they went to Wall Street and Goldman Sachs and the people who lift trillions of dollars of pension funds and said, if we renew deals at 108%, we become a cash machine for you. And we think that’s more valuable than a company coming out with a new cell phone in September and selling a lot of them by Christmas every year. [00:31:18] Jay McBain: The industry. And by the way, wall Street responded, Microsoft has been more valuable than Apple since. So we talk in this now multiplier language, and these are reports that we write, uh, at AMIA at canals. But talking about the partner opportunity in that customer cycle, the $6 and 40 cents you can make for every dollar of consumption, or the $7 and 5 cents you can make the $8 and 45 cents you can make. [00:31:46] Jay McBain: There’s over 24 companies speaking at this level now, and guess what? It’s not just cloud or software companies. Hardware companies are starting to speak in this language, and on January 25th, Cisco, you know, probably second to Microsoft in terms of trust built with the channel globally is moving to a full point system. [00:32:09] Jay McBain: So these are the changes that happen fast. But your QBR with your partners now less about drinking beers at the hotel lobby bar and talking dollar by dollar where these opportunities are. So if you’re doing 3.2 of these things, let’s build out a, uh, a play where you can make $3 for every dollar that we make. [00:32:28] Jay McBain: And you make that profitably. You make it in sticky, highly retained business, and that’s the model. ’cause if you make $3 for every dollar. We make, you’re gonna win Partner of the year, and if you win partner of the year, that piece of glass that you win on stage, by the time you get back to your table, you’re gonna have three offers to buy your business. [00:32:51] Jay McBain: CDW just bought a w. S’s Partner of the Year. Insight bought Google’s eight time partner of the year. Presidio bought ServiceNow’s, partner of the year over and over and over again. So I’m at Octane, I’m at CrowdStrike, I’m at all these events in Vegas every week. I’m watching these partners of the year. [00:33:05] Jay McBain: And I’m watching as the big resellers. I’m watching as the GSIs and the m and a folks are surrounding their table after, and they’re selling their businesses for SaaS level valuations. Not the one-to-one service valuation. They’re getting multiples because this is the new future of our industry. This is platform economics. [00:33:25] Jay McBain: This is winning and platforms for partners. Now, like Vince, I spent 20 minutes without talking about ai, but we have to talk about ai. So the next 20 years as it plays out is gonna play out in phases. And the first thing you know to get it out of the way. The first two years since that March of 23, has been underwhelming, to say the least. [00:33:47] Jay McBain: It’s been disappointing. All the companies that should have won the biggest in AI have been the most disappointing. It’s underperformed the s and p by a considerable amount in terms of where we are. And it goes back to this. We always overestimate the first two years, but we underestimate the first 10. [00:34:07] Jay McBain: If you wanna be the point in time person and go look at that 1983 PC or the 1995 internet or that 2007 iPhone or that whatever point in time you wanna look at, or if you want to talk about hallucinations or where chat chip ET version five is version, as opposed to where it’s going to be as it improves every six months here on in. [00:34:30] Jay McBain: But the fact of the matter is, it’s been a consumer trend. Nvidia got to be the most valuable company in the world. OpenAI was the first company to 2 billion users, uh, in that amount of speed. It’s the fastest growing product ever in history, and it’s been a consumer win this trillions of dollars to get it thrown around in the press releases. [00:34:49] Jay McBain: They’re going out every day, you know, open ai, signing up somebody new or Nvidia, investing in somebody new almost every single day in hundreds of billions of dollars. It is all happening really on the consumer side. So we got a little bit worried and said, is that 96% of surround gonna work in ag agentic ai? [00:35:10] Jay McBain: So we went and asked, and the good news is 88% of end customers are using partners to work through their ag agentic strategy. Even though they’re moving slow, they’re actually using partners. But what’s interesting from a partner perspective, and this is new research that out till 2030. This is the number one services opportunity in the entire tech or telco industry. [00:35:34] Jay McBain: 35.3% compounded growth ending at $267 billion in services. Companies are rebuilding themselves, building out practices, and getting on this train and figuring out which vendors they should hook their caboose to as those trains leave the station. But it kind of plays out like this. So in the next three to five years, we’re in this generative, moving into agentic phase. [00:36:01] Jay McBain: Every partner thinks internally first, the sales and marketing. They’re thinking about their invoicing and billing. They’re thinking about their service tickets. They’re thinking about creating a business that’s 10% better than their competitors, taking that knowledge into their customers and drive in business. [00:36:17] Jay McBain: But we understand that ag agentic AI, as it’s going to play out is not a product. A couple of years ago, we thought maybe a copilot or an agent force or something was going to be the product that everybody needed to buy, and it’s not a product, it’s gonna show up as a feature. So you go back in the history of feature ads and it’s gonna show up in software. [00:36:38] Jay McBain: So if you’re calling in SMB, maybe you’re calling on a restaurant. The restaurant isn’t gonna call OpenAI or call Microsoft or call Nvidia directly. They’re running their restaurant. And they may have chosen a platform like Toast Square, Clover, whatever iPads people are running around with, runs on a platform that does everything in their business, does staffing, does food ordering, works with Uber Eats, does everything end to end? [00:37:08] Jay McBain: They’re gonna wait to one of those platforms, dries out agent AI for them, and can run the restaurant more effectively, less human capital and more consistently, but they wait for the SaaS platform as you get larger. A hundred, 150 people. You have vice presidents. Each of those vice presidents already have a SaaS stack. [00:37:28] Jay McBain: I talked about Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, et cetera. They’ve already built that seven layer model and in some cases it’s 70 layers. But the fact is, is they’re gonna wait for those SaaS layers to deliver ag agentic to them. So this is how it’s gonna play out for the next three and a half, three to five years. [00:37:45] Jay McBain: And partners are realizing that many of them were slow to pick up SaaS ’cause they didn’t resell it. Well now to win in this next three to half, three to five years, you’re gonna have to play in this environment. When you start looking out from here, the next generation, you know, kind of five through 15 years gets interesting in more of a physical sense. [00:38:06] Jay McBain: Where I was yesterday talking about every IOT device that now is internet access, starts to get access to large language models. Every little sensor, every camera, everything that’s out there starts to get smart. But there’s a point. The first trillionaire, I believe, will be created here. Elon’s already halfway there. [00:38:24] Jay McBain: Um, but when Bill Gates thought there was gonna be a PC in every home, and IBM thought they were gonna sell 10,000 to hobbyists, that created the richest person in the world for 20 years, there will be a humanoid in every home. There’s gonna be a point in time that you’re out having drinks with your friends, and somebody’s gonna say, the early adopter of your friends is gonna say. [00:38:46] Jay McBain: I haven’t done the dishes in six weeks. I haven’t done the laundry. I haven’t made my bed. I haven’t mowed the lawn. When they say that, you’re gonna say, well, how? And they’re gonna say, well, this year I didn’t buy a new car, but I went to the car dealership and I bought this. So we’re very close to the dexterity needed. [00:39:05] Jay McBain: We’ve got the large language models. Now. The chat, GPT version 10 by then is going to make an insane, and every house is gonna have one of the. [00:39:17] Jay McBain: This is the promise of ai. It’s not humanoid robots, it’s not agents. It’s this. 99% of the world’s business data has not been trained or tuned into models yet. Again, this is the slow moving business. If you want to think about the 99% of business data, every flight we’ve all taken in this room sits on a saber system that was put in place in 1964. [00:39:43] Jay McBain: Every banking transaction, we’ve all made, every withdrawal, every deposit sits on an IBM mainframe put in place in the sixties or seventies. 83% of this data sits in cold storage at the edge. It’s not ready to be moved. It’s not cleansed, it’s not, um, indexed. It’s not in any format or sitting on any infrastructure that a large language model will be able to gobble up the data. [00:40:10] Jay McBain: None of the workflows, none of the programming on top of that data is yet ready. So this is your 10 to 20 year arc of this era that chat bot today when they cancel your flight is cute. It’s empathetic, it feels bad for you, or at least it seems to, but it can’t do anything. It can’t book you the Marriott and get you an Uber and then a 5:00 AM flight the next morning. [00:40:34] Jay McBain: It can’t do any of that. But more importantly, it doesn’t know who you are. I’ve got 53 years of flights under my belt and they, I’m the person that get me within six hours of my kids and get me a one-way Hertz rental. You know, if there’s bad weather in Miami, get me to Tampa, get me a Hertz, I’m driving home, I’m gonna make it home. [00:40:56] Jay McBain: I’m not the 5:00 AM get me a hotel person. They would know that if they picked up the flights that I’ve taken in the past. Each of us are different. When you get access to the business data and you become ag agentic, everything changes. Every industry changes because of this around the customers. When you ask about this 35% growth, working on that data, working in traditional consulting and design and implementation, working in the $7 trillion of infrastructure, storage, compute, networking, that’s gonna be around, this is a massive opportunity. [00:41:30] Jay McBain: Services are gonna continue to outgrow products. Probably for the next five to 10 years because of this, and I’m gonna finish here. So we talked a lot about quantifying names, faces, places, and I think where we failed the most as ultimate partners is underneath the tam, which every one of our CEOs knows to the decimal point underneath the TAM that our board thinks they’re chasing. [00:41:59] Jay McBain: We’ve done a very poor job. Of talking about the available markets and obtainable markets underneath it, we, we’ve shown them theory. We’ve shown them a bunch of, you know, really smart stuff, and PowerPoint slides up the wazoo, but we’ve never quantified it for them. If they wanna win, if they want to get access, if they want to double their pipeline, triple their pipeline, if they wanna start winning more deals, if they wanna win deals that are three times larger, they close two times faster. [00:42:31] Jay McBain: And they renew 15% larger. They have to get into the available and obtainable markets. So just in the last couple weeks I spoke at Cribble, I spoke at Octane, I spoke at CrowdStrike Falcon. All three of those companies at the CEO level, main stage use those exact three numbers, three x, two x, 15%. That’s the language of platforms, and they’re investing millions and millions and millions of dollars on teams. [00:42:59] Jay McBain: To go build out the Sam Andal in name spaces and places. So you’ve heard me talk about these 28 moments a lot. They’re the ones that you spend when you buy a car. Some people spend one moment and they drive to the Cadillac dealership. ’cause Larry’s been, you know, taking care of the family for 50 years. [00:43:18] Jay McBain: Some people spend 50 moments like I do, watching every YouTube video and every, you know, thing on the internet. I clear the internet cover to cover. But the fact is, is every deal averages around these 28 moments. Your customer, there’s 13 members of the buying committee today. There’s seven partners and they’re buying seven things. [00:43:37] Jay McBain: There’s 27 things orchestrating inside these 28 moments. And where and how they all take place is a story of partnering. So a couple of years ago, canals. Latin for channel was acquired by amia, which is a part of Informa Tech Target, which is majority owned by Informa. All that being said, there’s hundreds of magazines that we have. [00:44:00] Jay McBain: There’s hundreds of events that we run. If somebody’s buying cybersecurity, they probably went to Black Hat or they probably went to GI Tech. One of these events we run, or one of the magazines. So we pick up these signals, these buyer intent signals as a company. Why did they wanna, um, buy a, uh, a Canals, which was a, you know, a small analyst firm around channels? [00:44:22] Jay McBain: They understood this as well. The 28 moments look a lot like this when marketers and salespeople are busy filling in the spots of every deal. And by the way, this is a real deal. AstraZeneca came in to spend millions of dollars on ASAP transformation, and you can start to see as the customer got smart. [00:44:45] Jay McBain: The eBooks, they read the podcasts, they listened to the events they went to. You start to see how this played out over the long term. But the thing we’ve never had in our industry is the light blue boxes. This deal was won and lost in December. In this particular case, NTT software won and Yash came in and sold the customer five projects. [00:45:07] Jay McBain: The millions of dollars that were going to be spent were solved here. The design and architecture work was all done here. A couple of ISVs You see in light blue came in right at the end, deal was closed in April. You see the six month cycle. But what if you could fill in every one of the 28 boxes in every single customer prospect that your sales and marketing team have? [00:45:30] Jay McBain: But here’s the brilliance of this. Those light blue boxes didn’t win the deals there. They won the deals months before that. So when NTT and Software one walked into this deal. They probably won the deal back in October and they had to go through the redlining. They had to go through the contracting, they had to go through all the stuff and the Gantt chart to get started. [00:45:54] Jay McBain: But while your CMO is getting all excited about somebody reading an ebook and triggering an MQL that the sales team doesn’t want, ’cause it’s not qualified, it’s not sales qualified, you walk in and say, no, no. This is a multimillion deal, dollar deal. It’s AstraZeneca. I know the five partners that are coming in in December to solidify the seven layers, and you’re walking in at the same time as the CMOs bragging about an ebook. [00:46:21] Jay McBain: This changes everything. If we could get to this level of data about every dollar of our tam, we not only outgrow our competitors, we become the platforms of the next generation. Partnering and ultimate partnering is all here. And this is what we’re doing in this room. This is what we’re doing over these couple of days, and this is what, uh, the mission that Vince is leading. [00:46:43] Jay McBain: Thank you so much. [00:46:47] Vince Menzione: Woo. Day in the house. Good to see you my friend. Good to see you. Oh, we’re gonna spend a couple minutes. Um, I’m put you in the second seat. We’re gonna put, we’re gonna make it sit fireside for a minute. Uh, that was intense. It was pretty incredible actually, Jay. And so I’m, I think I wanna open it up ’cause we only have a few minutes just to, any questions? [00:47:06] Vince Menzione: I’m sure people are just digesting. We already have one up here. See, [00:47:09] Question: Jay knows I’m [00:47:10] Vince Menzione: a question. I love it. We, I don’t think we have any I can grab a mic, a roving mic. I could be a roving mic person. Hold on. We can do this. This is not on. [00:47:25] Vince Menzione: Test, test. Yes it is. Yeah. [00:47:26] Question: Theresa Carriol dared me to ask a question and I say, you don’t have to dare me. You know, I’m going to Anyway. Um, so Jay, of the point of view that with all of the new AI players that strategic alliances is again having a moment, and I was curious your point of view on what you’re seeing around this emergence and trend of strategic alliances and strategic alliance management. [00:47:52] Question: As compared to channel management. And what are you seeing in terms of large vendors like AWS investing in that strategic alliance role versus that channel role training, enablement, measurement, all that good stuff? [00:48:06] Jay McBain: Yeah, it’s, it’s a great question. So when I told the story about toast at the restaurant or Square or Clover, they’re not call, they’re not gonna call open AI or Nvidia themselves either. [00:48:17] Jay McBain: When you look out at the 250,000 ISVs. That make up this AI stack, there is the layers that happen there. So the Alliance with AWS, the alliance they have with Microsoft or Google is going to be how they generate agent AI in their platforms. So when I talk about a seven layer stack, the average deal being seven layers, AI is gonna drive this to nine, and then 11, then probably 13. [00:48:44] Jay McBain: So in terms of how alliances work, I had it up there as one of the five core strategies, and I think it’s pretty even. You can have the best alliances in the world, but if the seven partners trusted by the customer don’t know what that alliance is and the benefits to the customer and never mention it, it’s all for Naugh. [00:49:00] Jay McBain: If you’re go-to market, you’re co-selling, your co-marketing strategies are not built around that alliance. It’s all for naught. If the integration and the co-innovation, the co-development, the all the co-creation work that’s done inside these alliances isn’t translated to customer outcomes, it’s all for naugh. [00:49:17] Jay McBain: These are all five parallel swim lanes. All five are absolutely critically needed. And I think they’re all five pretty equally weighted in terms of needing each other. Yes. To be successful in the era of platforms. Yeah. [00:49:32] Vince Menzione: And the problem is they’re all stove pipe today. If, if at all. Yeah. Maintained, right. [00:49:36] Vince Menzione: Alliances is an example. Channels and other example. They don’t talk to one another. Judge any, we’ve got a mic up here if anybody else has. Yep. We have some questions here, Jacqueline. [00:49:51] Question: So when we’re developing our channel programs, any advice on, you know, what’s the shift that we should make six months from now, a year from now? The historical has been bronze, silver, gold, right? And you’ve got your deal registration, but what’s the future look like? [00:50:05] Jay McBain: Yeah, so I mean, the programs are, are changing to, to the point where the customer should be in the middle and realizing the seven partners you need to win the deal. [00:50:15] Jay McBain: And depending on what category of product you’re in, security, how much you rely on resell, 91.6%. You know, the channel partners are gonna be critical where the customer spends the money. And if you’re adding friction to that process, you’re adding friction in terms of your growth. So you know, if you’re in cybersecurity, you have to have a pretty wide open reseller model. [00:50:39] Jay McBain: You have to have a wide open distribution model, and you have to make sure you’re there at that point of sale. While at the same time, considering the other six partners at moment 12 who are in either saying nice things about you or not, the customer might even be starting with you. ’cause there is actually one thing that I didn’t mention when I showed the 28 moments filled in. [00:51:00] Jay McBain: You’ll notice that the customer went to AWS twice direct. AWS lost the deal. Microsoft won the deal software. One is Microsoft’s biggest reseller in the world. They just acquired crayon. NTT who, who loves both had their Microsoft team go in. [00:51:18] Question: Mm. [00:51:19] Jay McBain: So I think that they went to AWS thinking it was A-W-S-S-A-P, you know, kind of starting this seven layer stack. [00:51:25] Jay McBain: I think they finished those, you know, critical moments in the middle looking at it. And then they went back to AWS kind of going probably WWTF. Yeah. What we thought was happening isn’t actually the outcome that was painted by our most trusted people. So, you know, to answer your question, listen to your partners. [00:51:43] Jay McBain: They want to be recognized for the other things they’re doing. You can’t be spending a hundred percent of the dollars at the point of sale. You gotta have a point of system that recognizes the point of sale, maybe even gold, silver, bronze, but recognizing that you’re paying for these other moments as well. [00:51:57] Jay McBain: Paying for alliances, paying for integrations and everything else, uh, in the cyber stack. And, um, you know, recognizing also the top 1000. So if I took your tam. And I overlaid those thousand logos. I would be walking into 2026 the best I could of showing my company logo by logo, where 80% of our TAM sits as wallet share, not by revenue. [00:52:25] Jay McBain: Remember, a million dollar partner is not a million dollar partner. One of them sells 1.2 million in our category. We should buy them a baseball cap and have ’em sit in the front row of our event. One of them sells $10 million and only sells our stuff if the customer asks. So my company should be looking at that $9 million opportunity and making sure my programs are writing the checks and my coverage. [00:52:48] Jay McBain: My capacity and capability planning is getting obsessed over that $9 million. My farmers can go over there, my hunters can go over here, and I should be submitting a list of a thousand sorted in descending order of opportunity. Of where my company can write program dollars into. [00:53:07] Vince Menzione: Great answer. All right. I, I do wanna be cognizant of time and the, all the other sessions we have. [00:53:14] Vince Menzione: So we’ll just take one other question if there are any here and if not, we’ll let I know. Jay, you’re gonna be mingling around for a little while before your flight. I’m [00:53:21] Jay McBain: here the whole day. [00:53:22] Vince Menzione: You, you’re the whole day. I see that Jay’s here the whole day. So if you have any other questions and, and, uh, sharing the deck is that. [00:53:29] Vince Menzione: Yep. Alright. We have permission to share the deck with the each of you as well. [00:53:34] Jay McBain: Alright, well thank you very much everyone. Jay. Great to have you.

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Próximo programa: Magic Knight Rayearth (Parte II). Elenco: * Chris como Armando Calafiore, ex forzudo de circo y Paladín (soldado del Grimorio). * Sole como Paula Fariña, periodista y Cronista (agentes del Grimorio que ocultan lo sobrenatural del público). * Eze como Roque Amuchastegui, pastor metodista y Clérigo (hechiceros del Grimorio). * Mael como Carlos Helmut Müller, ingeniero eléctrico y Artífice (alquimista y armero del Grimorio). * Dino como Sergio Benavides, contrabandista y cazador independiente. * Carlos como Perla Ríos, guitarrista de tango y cazadora independiente. Una fría madrugada de mayo, en un saladero abandonado del puerto de Montevideo encontraron el cadaver de Armando Canals y Creu, un empresario local que gustaba de comprar reliquias místicas, pero que todos (menos él) saben que son falsas. El cuerpo, muerto a balazos de fusil Mauser, despide una sangre aceitosa, algo no natural. En su bolsillo encontraron un paquete de cigarrillos italianos que solo se consiguen en la Fonda Liguori (propiedad de una familia mafiosa, los Geranzzano) y un pedazo de vidrio de vitral de iglesia con sangre y el nombre VAYNE tallado. Se dan cuenta que el vidrio probablemente proviene de la Iglesia San Francisco de Asís, cerca de ahí y que fue abandonada hace unos meses tras una tormenta. Saben que Karl Vayne fue un mago de escenario que a fines del siglo 19 presentaba un truco muy aclamado: la "invocación" de un "demonio babilónico" llamado Ishk'harhul a través de un espejo. El demonio aparentemente concedía deseos a los afortunados espectadores, pero esto era todo espectáculo, el demonio era completamente inventado, interpretado por un asistente con una máscara, puertas trampa, y bombas de humo Cerca de ahí, vive Ronaldo Fúnez, un partidario del Partido Blanco que en 1935 peleó en la Revolución de Enero contra la dictadura de Terra; los revolucionarios usaban fúsiles Mauser. En el piso de arriba encontraron un ritual falso, con una estatuilla de un dios apócrifo, vidrios del vitral, y un papel con un ritual que simula ser antiguo, pero es una falsificación y tiene palabras mal escritas. En el centro del ritual, una bomba de relojería, y todo el piso de arriba regado de combustible. Por suerte, Müller logra desactivar la bomba. También encuentran una caja llena de partes de reloj, incluyendo unos que solo se venden en una tienda del Centro, Re Dell'orologio. Charlando con un hombre en situación de calle, El Rata, averiguan que hace unas noches estuvieron en el lugar unos "copetudos", y además el Vasco Errazcuaga. El Vasco es un matón de alquiler, y junto con sus muchachos regentean un club de pelota vasca cercano. Además, se enteran de que el Vasco está sufriendo de fuertes dolores de cabeza. En primer lugar van al rancho de Fúnez, que se les escapa por los techos. Dentro encuentran herramientas para limpiar fúsiles y cargadores, además de un volante del club vasco con la inscripción "VASCO ERRAZCUAGA #2", y una foto de Renzo Geranzzano con una mujer que no es su esposa. En la iglesia, hablan con otro indigente, el Viyela, que les dice que alguien estuvo hace unas noches tocando el órgano, la Marcha Tres Árboles, hino del Partido Nacional. El órgano fue recientemente reparado. También averiguan que el vitral de en cuestión se llamaba "El Juicio a los Herejes". Se meten a la fuerza en el club de pelota y encuentran otro vidrio con la inscripción VAYNE y otro papel del ritual falso. En el conventillo donde vive el Vasco hablan con su madre, que les dice que está con fuertes dolores de cabeza. El Vasco (con una mano vendada) reta a Armando a una pulseada, y aunque brinda buena pelea, pierde con el Paladín. Entonces, les cuenta que no sabía que Canals estaba muerto. Sin embargo les comenta que una persona enmascarada que se hacía llamar Reflejo Oscuro lo citó a él y a varias otras personas más, no puede decir quienes eran todos porque también tenían las caras tapadas, pero uno seguro era Canals y otro era el empresario portuario Manstein. Reflejo Oscuro les propuso hacer un ritual para obtener poder, se cortaron las manos, el Vasco se enojó porque no pasó nada, y se fue. Tras hablar con ellos, el Vasco se toma la cabeza, grita de dolor, y muere. Engañando a su madre, le dicen que lo van a llevar al hospital, pero se llevan el cuerpo a la sede del Grimorio en el barrio Prado. CONTINUARÁ

Nightlife takes a deep dive into one of the most fascinating aspects of global trade and engineering, the great shipping canals of the world.  

Discover the Venice that most tourists miss – the actual canals that Abbot Kinney built in 1905, hidden just blocks from the boardwalk's chaos. Johnny Mac explores these unexpected European waterways before heading to Abbot Kinney Boulevard, where trendy boutiques, vegan restaurants, and coffee culture define modern Venice. From the quiet reflection of morning on the canals to the curated commerce of the boulevard to the carnival atmosphere of the beach, Venice compresses California's contradictions into a few walkable square miles. It's expensive, chaotic, beautiful, and troubled – quintessentially LA.

Amid life's devastations, where can we find true hope? Ramon J. Canals reminds pastors to proclaim Jesus' promise of an eternal home, urging them to share the good news of His imminent, glorious return.

Fluent Fiction - Dutch: A Taste of Spain: An Unexpected Feast by the Amsterdam Canals Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/nl/episode/2025-11-25-23-34-02-nl Story Transcript:Nl: De bladeren van de bomen langs de grachten dwarrelden zachtjes op de grond.En: The leaves of the trees along the grachten gently fluttered to the ground.Nl: De lucht rook naar verse regen en de geur van warme chocolademelk zweefde vanuit de cafés.En: The air smelled of fresh rain and the scent of hot chocolate drifted from the cafés.Nl: Bas, Sanne en Tijn zaten aan een houten tafel bij een knus café aan de Amsterdamse gracht.En: Bas, Sanne, and Tijn sat at a wooden table at a cozy café by the Amsterdamse gracht.Nl: Het was een typische herfstdag in de stad, en Sinterklaas stond voor de deur, met beloftevolle feesten en cadeautjes.En: It was a typical autumn day in the city, and Sinterklaas was just around the corner, promising festive celebrations and gifts.Nl: Bas bladerde gefrustreerd door het menu dat volledig in het Spaans was.En: Bas flipped through the menu, which was entirely in Spanish, with frustration.Nl: Zijn voorhoofd fronsde.En: His forehead furrowed.Nl: "Wat denk je dat 'pulpo' betekent?"En: "What do you think 'pulpo' means?"Nl: vroeg hij, terwijl hij het woord wijs.En: he asked, pointing to the word.Nl: Sanne grinnikte, haar ogen twinkelden speels.En: Sanne giggled, her eyes twinkling playfully.Nl: "Weet ik niet, misschien iets met kip?"En: "I don't know, maybe something with chicken?"Nl: Ze opende haar vertaal-app, maar bleef steken in hilarische vertalingen.En: She opened her translation app but got stuck in hilarious translations.Nl: "Ah, kijk!En: "Ah, look!Nl: Het zegt 'octopus'!"En: It says 'octopus'!"Nl: Tijn, die zijn blik naar het raam had gericht en droomde van het Spaanse platteland, kwam terug bij het gesprek.En: Tijn, who had been gazing out the window, dreaming of the Spanish countryside, returned to the conversation.Nl: "Octopus!En: "Octopus!Nl: Dat moeten we proberen!"En: We should try that!"Nl: zei hij dromerig.En: he said dreamily.Nl: "Nee, nee," protesteerde Bas, die eigenlijk niet voor verrassingen wilde gaan.En: "No, no," protested Bas, who wasn't really looking for surprises.Nl: Maar Sanne, die altijd wel open stond voor avontuur, overtuigde hem om door te zetten, verjaagd door haar eigen nieuwsgierigheid.En: But Sanne, always open to adventure, convinced him to go for it, driven by her own curiosity.Nl: Halverwege hun besluiteloosheid kwam de ober eraan.En: In the midst of their indecision, the waiter arrived.Nl: Bas, die de moed bijeen had geraakt, vroeg aarzelend om hulp.En: Bas, summoning all his courage, hesitantly asked for help.Nl: Maar Sanne bleef vasthouden aan haar app-experiment, en Tijn fantaseerde over de Spaanse zon.En: But Sanne stuck to her app experiment, and Tijn fantasized about the Spanish sun.Nl: Na een tijdje gaf Bas op, bekeek de ober en wees dapper een gerecht aan.En: After a while, Bas gave up, looked at the waiter, and bravely pointed at a dish.Nl: Een halfuur later stond er een kleurrijk bord op tafel, gevuld met tentakels van de octopus.En: Half an hour later, a colorful plate filled with octopus tentacles was on the table.Nl: Bas keek met grote ogen toen de realiteit van hun keuze tot hem doordrong.En: Bas stared wide-eyed as the reality of their choice dawned on him.Nl: Tijn klapte in zijn handen.En: Tijn clapped his hands.Nl: "Geweldig!En: "Amazing!Nl: Een avontuur!En: An adventure!Nl: Net als in de zomer in Spanje!"En: Just like in the summer in Spain!"Nl: Sanne kon haar lach niet langer inhouden.En: Sanne could no longer hold in her laughter.Nl: "Nou, Bas," lachte ze, "je hebt ons iets bijzonders bezorgd!"En: "Well, Bas," she laughed, "you've brought us something special!"Nl: Met een diepe zucht maar ook een glimlach, legde Bas zijn trots opzij en dook in het gerecht.En: With a deep sigh but also a smile, Bas set his pride aside and dove into the dish.Nl: En tot zijn verrassing was het heerlijk.En: And to his surprise, it was delicious.Nl: De pittige saus complimenteerde de octopus perfect.En: The spicy sauce complemented the octopus perfectly.Nl: De vrienden lachten en genoten samen van het onverwachte.En: The friends laughed and enjoyed the unexpected together.Nl: Bas leerde die dag dat het soms beter is om gewoon mee te gaan met wat het leven op je pad brengt.En: Bas learned that day that sometimes it's better to just go with what life throws your way.Nl: Hij leunde tevreden achterover en keek naar de Amsterdamse gracht, dankbaar voor de warmte van vrienden en de schoonheid van onverwachte momenten.En: He leaned back contentedly and looked at the Amsterdamse gracht, grateful for the warmth of friends and the beauty of unexpected moments. Vocabulary Words:fluttered: dwarreldengently: zachtjesforehead: voorhoofdfurrowed: fronsdetwinkling: twinkeldenplayfully: speelscuriosity: nieuwsgierigheidindecision: besluiteloosheidhesitantly: aarzelendfantasized: fantaseerdetentacles: tentakelsadventure: avontuurwide-eyed: met grote ogenreality: realiteitlaughter: lachcomplemented: complimenteerdeunexpected: onverwachtegrateful: dankbaarbeauty: schoonheidwooden: houtencozy: knuspromising: beloftevollefrustration: frustratiegiggled: grinnikteprotested: protesteerdesummoning: bijeen geraaktapp experiment: app-experimentdawned: doordrongpride: trotsgenerosity: vrijgevigheid

Venice is a museum without walls — but behind her doors, each palace tells a different story.In this episode, Monica takes you through the city's most fascinating museums — places where beauty, history, and imagination still breathe.In this episode:

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3. From Newtonian Physics to Canals: Projecting Life onto Mars. Matthew Shindell discusses how the shift from ancient cosmology to modern science was a slow process, with figures like Galileo and Newton developing new observations and physics. Enlightenment thinkers, including Buffon and Laplace, began searching for a natural (rather than divine) origin for the solar system, establishing that the planets are related and obey universal laws. This led to speculation about life elsewhere. Astronomer William Herschel believed that all planets, especially the Earth-like Mars, were likely inhabited, as it was common Enlightenment belief that God would not create empty space. By the late 19th century, Richard Proctor and Giovanni Schiaparelli intensified focus on Mars. American astronomer Percival Lowell popularized the idea of Martian "canals" and interpreted Mars as a glimpse into Earth's eventual desert-like future. This vision influenced authors like H.G. Wells, who used the idea of alien Martian invaders in War of the Worlds as a satire of the British Empire's destructive colonial actions. 1960

 #839 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/839 Presented By: FishHound Expeditions, Smitty's Fly Box, Mountain Waters Resort, Jackson Hole Fly Company Sponsors: https://wetflyswing.com/sponsors Ben Smith of Arizona Wanderings walks us across Arizona — from the high-country creeks that hold Apache trout to the canals and reclaimed ponds around Phoenix, where carp and tilapia lurk. He talks native-fish recovery efforts, the best shoulder-season windows for trout, small-stream tactics (long leaders, stealth, and micro presentations), and the surprisingly wide variety of warm- and cold-water opportunities within a few hours of the city. Along the way, Ben shares how he started blogging, why he still ties flies and furled leaders, and how junior angler programs are getting kids bitten by the fishing bug. #839 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/839

Parlem amb els DJs Inexxstable i Èric Canals, organitzadors del Regia Market Fest. 

Conversem amb Blanca Valletbó i Joan Esteve, actors de ‘Little women' al Teatre Lliure. Amb Mariona Borrull, la llista “inacabable” dels festivals de cinema que es fan a Barcelona. I entrevistem Inés Navarro i Èric Canals DJs, organitzadors del Regia Market Fest

Fluent Fiction - Dutch: Haunting Amsterdam: A Halloween Treasure Hunt on the Canals Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/nl/episode/2025-10-31-22-34-02-nl Story Transcript:Nl: De maan verlichtte zachtjes de mistige grachten van Amsterdam.En: The moon softly illuminated the misty canals of Amsterdam.Nl: De koude herfstnacht omhulde de stad in een mysterieuze sfeer.En: The cold autumn night enveloped the city in a mysterious atmosphere.Nl: Halloween bracht kostuumdragers en feestvierders op de kasseien.En: Halloween brought costumed figures and revelers to the cobblestones.Nl: Tussen hen door liepen Bram en Femke, hun adem zichtbaar in de frissere lucht.En: Among them were Bram and Femke, their breath visible in the crisp air.Nl: Ze stapten aan boord van een verlichte rondvaartboot, klaar voor een nachtelijke tocht over de grachten.En: They boarded a brightly lit canal boat, ready for a nocturnal journey on the canals.Nl: Bram zat vol energie.En: Bram was full of energy.Nl: Hij hield van mysteries.En: He loved mysteries.Nl: Vanavond wilde hij indruk maken op zijn lieve vriendin Femke.En: Tonight, he wanted to impress his dear girlfriend Femke.Nl: Femke, met haar scherpe geest en liefde voor spookverhalen, was opgewonden om iets bijzonders te vinden.En: Femke, with her sharp mind and love for ghost stories, was excited to find something special.Nl: Terwijl de boot kalm over de donkere wateren gleed, merkte Bram iets glinsterends op in het water.En: As the boat glided calmly over the dark waters, Bram noticed something shimmering in the water.Nl: "Kijk daar, Femke," riep hij uit.En: "Look there, Femke," he exclaimed.Nl: Hij wees naar een fles die naast hun boot dreef.En: He pointed to a bottle floating beside their boat.Nl: Femke vertrouwend op haar intuïtie, reikte naar de fles en ving die.En: Trusting her intuition, Femke reached for the bottle and caught it.Nl: Binnenin zat een verkreukelde brief.En: Inside was a crumpled letter.Nl: Ze openden de fles en rolden de brief open.En: They opened the bottle and unrolled the letter.Nl: De woorden waren oud, maar leesbaar.En: The words were old but readable.Nl: "Een schat," fluisterde Femke met twinkelende ogen.En: "A treasure," Femke whispered with twinkling eyes.Nl: Maar Bram wees naar de waarschuwingen en puzzels op de brief.En: But Bram pointed out the warnings and riddles on the letter.Nl: "Dit is geen gewoon avontuur," zei hij zachtjes.En: "This is no ordinary adventure," he said quietly.Nl: Femke keek even bezorgd, maar Bram's enthousiasme was aanstekelijk.En: Femke looked a bit worried, but Bram's enthusiasm was contagious.Nl: "We moeten verder gaan," besloot Bram vastberaden.En: "We must go on," Bram decided determinedly.Nl: De volgende dagen brachten ze uren door in het stadsarchief.En: In the following days, they spent hours in the city's archives.Nl: Ze praatten met eigenaardige, plaatselijke bewoners.En: They talked with quirky local residents.Nl: Elke aanwijzing bracht hen dichter bij het geheim.En: Each clue brought them closer to the secret.Nl: De puzzels waren complex en de waarschuwingen maakten sommige momenten erg spannend.En: The riddles were complex, and the warnings made some moments very thrilling.Nl: Op de nacht van Halloween, net toen de kerkklokken middernacht sloegen, vonden ze de laatste aanwijzing.En: On the night of Halloween, just when the church bells struck midnight, they found the last clue.Nl: Een verborgen compartiment op een brug over de gracht.En: A hidden compartment on a bridge over the canal.Nl: Hun hart bonsde in hun keel toen ze het vak openden.En: Their hearts pounded in their chests as they opened the compartment.Nl: Tot hun verbazing vonden ze geen goud of juwelen, maar een oud dagboek.En: To their surprise, they found no gold or jewels, but an old diary.Nl: Het was gevuld met verhalen van de grachten en de geschiedenis die bijna verloren was gegaan.En: It was filled with stories of the canals and the history that had nearly been lost.Nl: Het was een schat van kennis en verhalen.En: It was a treasure of knowledge and tales.Nl: Bram glimlachte naar Femke.En: Bram smiled at Femke.Nl: "Dit is de echte schat," zei hij en realiseerde zich dat niet alles tastbaar hoefde te zijn om waardevol te zijn.En: "This is the real treasure," he said, realizing that not everything needed to be tangible to be valuable.Nl: Samen lazen ze de verhalen en spraken af om deze kennis met iedereen te delen.En: Together, they read the stories and agreed to share this knowledge with everyone.Nl: Bram leerde dat echte avonturen samen gedeeld worden en dat de reis belangrijker kan zijn dan het eind.En: Bram learned that real adventures are shared together and that the journey can be more important than the end.Nl: Samen liepen ze de koude nacht in, met een verhaal dat ze nooit zouden vergeten.En: Together they walked into the cold night, with a story they would never forget. Vocabulary Words:illuminated: verlichttemisty: mistigeenveloped: omhuldemysterious: mysterieuzerevelers: feestvierderscobblestones: kasseiencrisp: frissereboarded: stapten aan boordnocturnal: nachtelijkeshimmering: glinsterendsintuition: intuïtiecrumpled: verkreukelderiddles: puzzelsthrilling: spannendcompartment: compartimentpounded: bonsdesurprise: verbazingjewels: juwelendiary: dagboekvaluable: waardevolarchives: stadsarchiefquirky: eigenaardigecompelling: aantrekkelijktangible: tastbaardeterminedly: vastberadencompelling: aantrekkelijkcompelling: intrigerendcompelling: boeiendprecious: kostbaarnarratives: vertellingen

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In this midweek mini, Mary Ellen continues her Netherlands adventure with a day trip to Utrecht and the stunning Castle de Haar. She shares the story behind this “modern-meets-medieval” castle, the beautiful gardens and moat, and even a family canoe ride through the canals. Along the way, she offers tips for traveling with kids, packing for picture-perfect moments, and making the most of less-crowded Dutch destinations.Find Us On OnlineMary Ellen | JoFacebook GroupWonderland On Points BlogMentioned in this EpisodeAffiliate LinksChase/Capital One/Amex Card Links30% off the CardPointers subscription!FlyKitt- the BEST Jet Lag Solution!Tripiamo Driving TutorialsComfrt Hoodie 15% OFF!Our Favorite Travel NecessitiesWe receive a small commission when you choose to use any of our links to purchase your products or apply for your cards! We SO appreciate when you choose to give back to the podcast in this way!

What to Do When Visiting Mechelen, BelgiumNestled between Brussels and Antwerp, Mechelen is one of Belgium's most charming yet often overlooked cities. With its rich history, vibrant culture, and welcoming atmosphere, it offers visitors an authentic Belgian experience without the crowds. Whether you're spending a day or a weekend, here's how to make the most of your visit to Mechelen.1. Start at the Grote MarktEvery great visit to Mechelen begins in the Grote Markt, the city's picturesque main square. Surrounded by beautifully restored guild houses, cafés, and the imposing St. Rumbold's Cathedral, this is the heart of local life. Grab a coffee at one of the terraces and soak in the view of the impressive Stadhuis (Town Hall), a blend of Gothic and Renaissance architecture.2. Climb St. Rumbold's TowerFor the best view in Mechelen, climb the St. Rumbold's Tower, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The 97-meter tower offers panoramic views stretching all the way to Brussels and Antwerp on a clear day. The climb includes several stops with exhibits about the tower's history and its world-famous carillon bells.3. Visit the Dossin Barracks and MuseumThe Kazerne Dossin Museum provides a powerful and moving experience. It tells the story of Belgium's Jewish community during World War II, focusing on the deportations that took place from this very site. The museum balances historical insight with personal stories, making it a deeply reflective visit.4. Discover the Beguinage QuarterWander through Mechelen's Beguinage Quarter, a maze of cobblestone lanes and quaint whitewashed houses. This peaceful neighborhood once housed a community of beguines—women who lived religious lives without taking vows. Today, it's a serene area perfect for a quiet stroll and a glimpse into medieval urban life.5. Explore the River Dijle PathFor a unique view of Mechelen, walk along the Dijlepad, a wooden boardwalk that floats above the River Dijle. This scenic walkway winds through the city, connecting green spaces and historic buildings, offering a tranquil way to experience Mechelen from a different perspective.6. Tour the Hof van Busleyden MuseumThe Hof van Busleyden Museum, housed in a Renaissance palace, showcases Mechelen's role during the Burgundian era. The exhibitions blend art, history, and innovation, providing insight into the city's golden age when it was a major center of European politics and culture.7. Visit the Het Anker Brewery and DistilleryNo trip to Mechelen would be complete without a stop at the Het Anker Brewery and Distillery, one of the oldest breweries in Belgium. Located in the heart of the city, Het Anker has been brewing beer for more than five centuries and is home to the famous Gouden Carolus range. Join a guided tour to learn about traditional brewing methods and sample a selection of their award-winning beers straight from the source. The onsite distillery adds another dimension, producing fine Gouden Carolus whiskies that have gained international acclaim. The adjoining brasserie is the perfect place to enjoy hearty Belgian dishes paired with their signature brews.8. Experience the Toy Museum (Speelgoedmuseum Mechelen)For a touch of nostalgia and fun, visit the Toy Museum of Mechelen, one of the largest of its kind in Europe. This museum showcases an extensive collection of toys from across generations—ranging from antique dolls and model trains to classic board games and modern LEGO creations. It's a wonderful experience for families and adults alike, offering both playful exhibits and thoughtful insights into how toys have evolved over time. Children can participate in interactive play areas, while adults will find themselves reminiscing about their own childhood favorites.9. Taste More Local DelightsBeyond Het Anker, Mechelen's culinary scene continues to impress. Try Maneblusser, the city's other signature beer, named after a local legend about the townspeople mistaking the moon's glow for a fire in the cathedral tower. Pair it with Flemish specialties at one of the city's many excellent restaurants, from traditional brasseries to modern bistros.10. Visit Technopolis with the FamilyIf you're traveling with children, Technopolis is another must-visit attraction. This interactive science museum encourages hands-on exploration, with exhibits that make learning fun for all ages. It's located just outside the city center and is a perfect choice for a family day out or a rainy afternoon.11. Relax at the Botanical GardenEnd your day with a quiet moment in Mechelen's Botanical Garden (Kruidtuin). Originally part of a monastery, it's now a beautifully maintained park with lush greenery, flowers, and shaded benches. It's the ideal spot to unwind before heading back to the bustling Grote Markt for dinner.12. Stay a Little LongerMechelen may be compact, but it rewards those who linger. With its blend of history, culture, and modern charm, it's the kind of city where every street holds a story. Whether you're climbing the cathedral tower, tasting Gouden Carolus at Het Anker, or rediscovering childhood memories at the Toy Museum, Mechelen invites you to slow down and truly experience Belgium at its best.*We mention a few other Belgium episodes to go check out! Here they are:Namur - Episode 129Brussels - Episode 136Bruges - Episode 145Antwerp - Episode 153Ghent - Episode 181

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire! In this episode, Arianne tries to crown Myrcella, only for her dad's goons to catch up, which is when her boyfriend commits suicide-by-cop. Next time: we return to Braavos for AFFC Arya II, technically the last Arya chapter--get ready to meet the Blind Girl, the Ugly Little Girl, Cat of the Canals, etc. Emmett's twitter: twitter.com/PoorQuentyn Manu's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ManuclearBomb  Manu's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ManuclearBomb Our patreon: www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF Our merch store: https://notacastasoiaf.threadless.com     Our twitter: twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF   Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notacastasoiaf/ 

Send us a textA hard-boiled police detective sets out to capture an aspiring Broadway dancer who has been terrorizing the canals of Amsterdam with his killer moves. On Episode 687 of Trick or Treat Radio we are joined by our boy Joshua Libre for his Patreon Takeover and he has selected the films Amsterdamned from director Dick Maas and Staying Alive from director Sylvester Stallone for us to discuss! We also talk about Dutch horror, the real reason disco died, and what could have been if Joe Spinell was cast as a choreographer in Staying Alive! So grab your scuba gear, strut on down the street in your finest clothes, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Horror merchandise, Chia Pets, Pennywise, Elvira, Ghostface, Jason Universe, making the pain go away, the prolific pisser, the 13th step, national hispanic heritage, Amityville, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Good Son, Warlock, The Forgotten, Shaun of the Dead, Rare Exports, Wendigo, Bloody Homecoming, Dead Women's Hollow, Woe, The Dunwich Horror, Stitch, Chronicles of the Dead, Trancers 2, Freaked, Alex Winter, Summer School, Mask, Cher, Boone the Bounty Hunter, Journey into Darkness, The Creeping Flesh, King Kong, Victor Wong, James Hong, Pooh-niverse, Anaconda, The Bride, Bonny and Clyde, Tremors, Remo Williams, Walking Dead, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, The Johnsons, Amsterdamned, Dick Maas, James Bond, boat chases, Police Academy 5, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, The Vanishing, Huub Stapel, The Last Crusade, Lucker the Necrophagous, Staying Alive, Sylvester Stallone, Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta, The Sandlot, Kurtwood Smith, Frank Stallone, That 70s Show, Johnny Vasolino, a bulge the size of a coconut, Pulp Fiction, Norman Wexler, Bee Gees, Flashdance, Cynthia Rhodes, Joe Spinell, Fame, Xanadu, D.C. Cab, My Bodyguard, Showgirls, Waiting for Guffman, The Producers, Disco Demolition, time capsule, Weapons, Until Dawn, Peter Stormare, Sinners, Bring Her Back, Amsterdarned, Hamsterdamned, a small serving of Giallo, War of the Worlds, Mac Sabbath, The Apple, The Last Starfighter, Patreon Takeover, Superman, Toxic Avenger, Peter Dinklage, Springtime for Tony and Amsterdamned II.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show

It's Thursday, and that means it's time to catch up on politics with The Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate's editorial director and columnist, Stephanie Grace. Today, she tells us about the likelihood that President Trump will still send the national guard to New Orleans — and why that puts Gov. Jeff Landry in a precarious position. Every two years, the state of Louisiana selects its Poet Laureate through its Endowment for the Humanities. The poet then travels the state encouraging fellow Louisianans to explore and engage with poetry.The latest Poet Laureate, Gina Ferrara, tells us more about her journey as a poet and educator, and how she's encouraging young people to pick up the pen. This week, Louisiana Considered continues to bring you Wetlands Radio, a series about coastal restoration from producer Eve Abrams. Today, we discuss backfilling canals. What is it? And why is this process — though effective and inexpensive — still a rare way to build back land?–Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Bob Pavlovich. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber. We get production support from Garrett Pittman and our assistant producer Aubry Procell.You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at noon and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, the NPR App and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you!  Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to.Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!

Surrounded by people yet aching with isolation, many pastors and ministry families quietly struggle with loneliness. What causes this hidden epidemic, how does it affect health and faith, and what practical, biblical steps can help restore connection and wholeness?

A couple from the UK have been banned from Venice after they were caught swimming in the Grand Canal. They were spotted by gondoliers and reported to police, for which they were fined €450 and banned from the city for 48 hours.Swimming in the city's 150 canals is prohibited, but that has not stopped people from doing it. This has reignited anger among locals, who are calling for fines to be higher and measures to be harsher…Joining Seán to discuss is Journalist Josephine McKenna, who is based in Italy…

Episode: 1440 Steam engines in England during the 18th century.  Today, a look at steam engines in 18th-century England.

On Episode 53 of the TID Water & Power Podcast we're joined by TID Civil Engineering Department Manager, Bill Penney, to discuss the District's solar over canals pilot project, Project Nexus.Since 2022, TID and its partners on the project have been working on Project Nexus—an innovative pilot that covers portions of TID's irrigation canals with solar arrays. The project, a first in the state of California, has the potential to provide benefits including renewable energy generation, reduction in aquatic growth, and much more—but it's not without its challenges. On this episode we discuss the recently completed project, the challenges of constructing a first-of-its-kind pilot, and what's next for Project Nexus. Let's get social! Facebook: @TurlockIDInstagram: @TurlockIDTwitter: @TurlockIDLinkedIn: /company/turlockid Find out more about TID at https://www.TID.org/podcast.

Today on TPE we explore if making Karachi a province is the solution to Karachi's problems.Chapters:0:00 Introduction2:00 Context:Brief History of Pakistan5:00 Minerals and the Canals movement9:30 Local Governments11:00 Establishment vs the Provinces15:00 Gwadar19:00 Local Government vs ProvinceThe Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations. Please consider supporting us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thepakistanexperienceTo support the channel:Jazzcash/Easypaisa - 0325 -2982912Patreon.com/thepakistanexperienceAnd Please stay in touch:https://twitter.com/ThePakistanExp1https://www.facebook.com/thepakistanexperiencehttps://instagram.com/thepakistanexpeperienceThe podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. Instagram.com/shehzadghiasshaikhFacebook.com/Shehzadghias/Twitter.com/shehzad89Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC44l9XMwecN5nSgIF2Dvivg/join

Are you into your trivia? Calling all connoisseurs of cryptic to the only quiz played live, all around Australia. Join the host of Nightlife Philip Clark for The Mighty Challenge!   

Were the Martian canals real? For decades, some of the world's most respected astronomers and newspapers answered with a resounding YES. But how did a simple misunderstanding spiral into a global belief in an advanced, dying civilization on the Red Planet? This episode unwraps the incredible story of the turn-of-the-century Martian craze, a period when fact and fiction blurred, and humanity collectively looked to the stars, convinced someone was looking back. We explore how this mania began, who its biggest champions were, and how the idea of intelligent Martians shaped science and culture forever.This deep dive into the history of our obsession with Mars is guided by acclaimed author David Baron, whose book "The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America" chronicles this fascinating era. We begin with the story's surprising European origins, specifically with Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli and his 1877 observations of "canali" on the Martian surface. A critical mistranslation of Giovanni Schiaparelli canali (Italian for "channels") into "canals" in English ignited the public imagination with the possibility of artificial structures. This idea was popularized by French astronomer and author Camille Flammarion, but it was an American who would become the theory's most fervent and influential advocate: Percival Lowell.Born into a wealthy Boston family, Percival Lowell dedicated his fortune and his life to proving the existence of an intelligent Martian race. We detail the astonishingly complex Percival Lowell Mars theory, which proposed that Mars was an old, drying planet and its inhabitants had built a planet-wide irrigation system—the Martian canals—to channel water from the polar ice caps to their desert cities. To prove it, Lowell founded the iconic Lowell Observatory in Arizona and even funded a massive expedition to Chile to capture the first-ever photographs of the canals, which he presented as undeniable proof. This led to a major rift in the scientific community, dividing astronomers into "canalists" and "anti-canalists."The belief in Martians wasn't just confined to scientific circles; it exploded into a full-blown cultural phenomenon. We discuss the immense impact of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds, a "scientific romance" that terrified and thrilled readers. Baron reveals how American newspapers, in a bout of Yellow Press sensationalism, pirated and serialized the story, localizing the invasion to New York and Boston and presenting it almost as a news report—a tactic Orson Welles would later famously use for his 1938 radio broadcast. The fervor grew so intense that in 1924, the U.S. military was convinced to enforce national radio silence to listen for signals from the Red Planet. So, what was the final nail in the coffin for the Martian canals? Baron explains how astronomer Eugène Michel Antoniadi's crystal-clear observations in 1909 and, ultimately, NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft flyby in the 1960s, finally disproved the theory, revealing a cratered, lifeless landscape where canals were once drawn. This entire episode serves as a powerful look into the turn-of-the-century Martian craze and how it left an indelible mark on science fiction, inspiring figures like Robert H. Goddard and Carl Sagan and shaping our dreams of outer space to this day.About Our Guest:David Baron is an author and science journalist who specializes in telling gripping historical tales about the history of astronomy. He is the author of the new book, "The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America," as well as the award-winning "American Eclipse," which is being adapted into a Broadway musical.Timestamps:(00:00) Introduction: The Martian Saga(03:01) The 1906 New York Times Headline: "There is Life on Mars"(04:47) European Origins: Schiaparelli, Flammarion, and the "Canali" Mistranslation(09:09) Percival Lowell: The American Champion of the Martian Cause(14:52) The Great Debate: Canalists vs. Anti-Canalists(19:26) The Hunt for Proof: Lowell's Astrophotography and The Chilean Expedition(23:26) Percival Lowell's Grand Theory of Martian Civilization(26:54) H.G. Wells and The War of the Worlds Sensation(33:32) Listening for Martians: The US Military's 1924 Radio Silence(35:11) How The Martian Canals Were Finally Disproven(41:01) The Enduring Legacy of the Martian Craze on Science FictionLearn More From Our Guest / Episode Resources:Get David Baron's Book, "The Martians"

Join the Dicks, and their guest Angel, as the conversation spirals from the personal knowledge of a gruesome Florida man murderer to the torture of peeps in a microwave. Get ready to be schooled about country vs. the city living, the political correctness of the word “secretary”, and the superiority of Publix. Get ready for some hot chip horror stories, a flurry of dad jokes and heated debates Concerning UFOs vs UAPs… This episode has everything you've come to expect from Two Dicks in a Bar! Buckle up!,

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Fluent Fiction - Dutch: Chasing Whispers: A Hidden Tale Along Amsterdam's Canals Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/nl/episode/2025-08-18-22-34-01-nl Story Transcript:Nl: De schaduwen werden langer boven de grachten van Amsterdam.En: The shadows grew longer over the canals of Amsterdam.Nl: De boten dreven rustig voorbij, terwijl de zon in de verte onderging.En: The boats drifted by quietly as the sun set in the distance.Nl: Maartje stond met haar vrienden Jeroen en Sanne op de Prinsengracht.En: Maartje stood on the Prinsengracht with her friends Jeroen and Sanne.Nl: In haar handen hield Maartje een oude journal.En: In her hands, Maartje held an old journal.Nl: De kaft was versleten en de bladzijden geel van ouderdom.En: The cover was worn, and the pages were yellowed with age.Nl: "Ik heb dit gevonden in de zolder van mijn oma," zei Maartje opgewonden.En: "I found this in my grandma's attic," said Maartje excitedly.Nl: Ze knielde neer en opende de journal.En: She knelt down and opened the journal.Nl: "Er staat een schatkaart in."En: "There's a treasure map in here."Nl: Jeroen fronste zijn wenkbrauwen.En: Jeroen raised his eyebrows.Nl: "Een schat?En: "A treasure?Nl: In Amsterdam?En: In Amsterdam?Nl: Dat klinkt als een sprookje."En: That sounds like a fairytale."Nl: Sanne glimlachte.En: Sanne smiled.Nl: "Het klinkt grappig.En: "It sounds fun.Nl: Laten we proberen het te ontdekken."En: Let's try to discover it."Nl: De zomerhitte hing over de stad, en de geur van verse stroopwafels vulde de lucht.En: The summer heat hung over the city, and the scent of fresh stroopwafels filled the air.Nl: Toeristen liepen druk rond, maar de grachten hielden hun geheimen stil.En: Tourists bustled around, but the canals kept their secrets quiet.Nl: Maartje bestudeerde de kaart.En: Maartje studied the map.Nl: De lijnen waren vaag, maar de aanwijzingen leidden hen naar de kade langs de Bloemgracht.En: The lines were faint, but the clues led them to the quay along the Bloemgracht.Nl: Naarmate ze verder liepen, groeide Jeroens twijfel.En: As they walked further, Jeroen's doubts grew.Nl: "Dit is zonde van onze tijd," verzuchtte hij.En: "This is a waste of our time," he sighed.Nl: "Misschien moeten we ons opsplitsen."En: "Maybe we should split up."Nl: Maartje bleef dapper.En: Maartje remained brave.Nl: "We moeten gewoon mijn intuïtie volgen," besloot ze vastberaden.En: "We just need to follow my intuition," she decided resolutely.Nl: Sanne knikte, altijd bereid om te helpen en plannen te maken.En: Sanne nodded, always ready to help and make plans.Nl: De zon was bijna onder toen ze een stille hoek van de Jordaan bereikten.En: The sun was almost set when they reached a quiet corner of the Jordaan.Nl: De gouden zonnestralen maakten de oude brug bijna magisch.En: The golden rays of the sun made the old bridge appear almost magical.Nl: Maartje zette een stap vooruit.En: Maartje took a step forward.Nl: "Kijk daar!"En: "Look there!"Nl: riep ze en wees naar een steen met vage inscripties.En: she called, pointing to a stone with faint inscriptions.Nl: Met samengebundelde krachten ontdekten ze een uitsparing in de stenen boog.En: With combined efforts, they discovered a hollow in the stone arch.Nl: Bing!En: Bing!Nl: Een kleine ruimte kwam tevoorschijn.En: A small space emerged.Nl: Het was gevuld met een verkreukelde journal en enkele oude munten.En: It was filled with a crumpled journal and a few old coins.Nl: "Niet de schat die ik verwachtte," zei Maartje lachend, terwijl ze de munten in haar hand liet rammelen.En: "Not the treasure I expected," laughed Maartje, letting the coins rattle in her hand.Nl: "Maar toch een vondst!"En: "But still a find!"Nl: Jeroen keek naar de journal.En: Jeroen looked at the journal.Nl: "De echte schat is misschien het avontuur zelf," gaf hij schoorvoetend toe.En: "The real treasure might be the adventure itself," he reluctantly admitted.Nl: Sanne keek naar haar vrienden.En: Sanne looked at her friends.Nl: "We zijn misschien geen rijke mensen nu, maar we hebben samen iets unieks meegemaakt."En: "We might not be rich now, but we've experienced something unique together."Nl: De zon verdween volledig achter de horizon, en de drie vrienden liepen terug, pratend en lachend.En: The sun disappeared completely behind the horizon, and the three friends walked back, talking and laughing.Nl: Maartje leerde dat samenwerking belangrijk is.En: Maartje learned that collaboration is important.Nl: Jeroen ontdekte de vreugde van avontuur.En: Jeroen discovered the joy of adventure.Nl: Sanne begreep dat onverwachte wendingen soms de beste reis beginnen.En: Sanne understood that unexpected turns sometimes start the best journeys.Nl: En zo verlieten ze de grachten van Amsterdam met iets veel waardevoller dan goud: een sterkere band met elkaar.En: And so, they left the canals of Amsterdam with something far more valuable than gold: a stronger bond with each other. 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The couple's view of life is in reflection reverie with lasting memories of an amazing journey to Europe. Three trips in one with Amsterdam, a Rhine River Cruise, and Swiss adventures rolled into one. True tales and big smiles!

Erin Hynes - Gouda Cheese Market, Den Bosch Canals & Dreamy Delft – Exploring the Netherlands with Pina TravelsIn this episode of the Winging It Travel Podcast, I'm joined by Erin Hynes from Pina Travels and the Curious Tourism Podcast for a rich, wide-ranging journey through the Netherlands — from bustling cheese markets to hidden medieval canals, national parks to charming historic cities.Erin's deep personal connection to the Netherlands, through her family's roots in Friesland, brings a unique insight into Dutch heritage and culture. Together, we explore well-known highlights and lesser-visited locations, weaving in stories about history, food, cycling culture, and the everyday beauty of life in this fascinating country.We cover:Delft – Iconic blue Delftware pottery, historic churches, and postcard-perfect canals.Gouda – The world-famous cheese market and the traditions that keep it alive.Den Bosch – One of the best-preserved medieval city centres, with canals running beneath the streets.Dordrecht – A laid-back city with picturesque streets and waterside cafés.Werkendam & Biesbosch National Park – Wetlands, birdlife, and the Dutch art of water management.Utrecht – Two-level canals, lively cycling culture, and a vibrant student city vibe.Friesland – A unique province with its own language, traditions, and proud heritage.Along the way, we dive into Dutch cuisine (from bitterballen to pannenkoeken), the country's ingenious engineering solutions for living below sea level, and why cycling here is more than just a mode of transport — it's part of the national identity. We also talk about the warm historical ties between the Netherlands, Canada, and the UK.Whether you're planning a trip to the Netherlands or love hearing about destinations beyond the obvious, this conversation will give you fresh ideas, practical travel tips, and a deeper appreciation for Dutch culture.

This week on The Pet Buzz, Petrendologist Charlotte Reed speaks with Venice Canals Association's Ramon Goni, about the mysterious illness that is killing dogs that frequent the Venice Canals in California; and with University of Illinois's Dr. Rebecca Smith, about how State Health officials would conduct to find the toxin which is killing the dogs.

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Fluent Fiction - Danish: A Surprising Birthday Bash on Nyhavn's Vibrant Canals Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/da/episode/2025-07-28-22-34-02-da Story Transcript:Da: Nyhavn var farverig og livlig denne sommerdag i København.En: Nyhavn was colorful and lively on this summer day in København.Da: De glade mennesker sad ved caféerne ved kanalen, og turistbådene sejlede forbi de farvestrålende huse.En: The happy people sat at the cafés by the canal, and tourist boats sailed past the brightly colored houses.Da: Midt i denne summen af liv var Mikkel, Freja og Emil.En: Amidst this hum of life were Mikkel, Freja, and Emil.Da: Mikkel gik hurtigt langs kanalen.En: Mikkel walked quickly along the canal.Da: Han havde en plan.En: He had a plan.Da: Emil, hans ven, skulle have en uforglemmelig fødselsdagsfest.En: Emil, his friend, was going to have an unforgettable birthday party.Da: Freja, altid organiseret, havde en liste med opgaver.En: Freja, always organized, had a list of tasks.Da: Hun smilede til Mikkel, men han kunne mærke presset.En: She smiled at Mikkel, but he could feel the pressure.Da: Freja ville have alt til at være perfekt.En: Freja wanted everything to be perfect.Da: "Vi behøver flere balloner," sagde Freja.En: "We need more balloons," said Freja.Da: "Vi har balloner nok," svarede Mikkel, lidt frustreret.En: "We have enough balloons," replied Mikkel, a little frustrated.Da: Han elskede spontanitet.En: He loved spontaneity.Da: Men han vidste, han måtte stole på Freja, så festen blev en succes.En: But he knew he had to trust Freja to make the party a success.Da: De havde brug for teamwork.En: They needed teamwork.Da: Freja lænede sig tilbage og besluttede at uddelegere nogle af sine opgaver.En: Freja leaned back and decided to delegate some of her tasks.Da: Emil, som altid lavede sjov, gik en tur langs kanalen.En: Emil, who was always joking around, took a walk along the canal.Da: Han havde en fornemmelse af, at hans venner planlagde noget.En: He had a feeling that his friends were planning something.Da: Han havde set dem være hemmelighedsfulde.En: He had seen them being secretive.Da: Det, han ikke vidste, var, at Freja og Mikkel havde planlagt en stor fest.En: What he didn't know was that Freja and Mikkel had planned a big party.Da: De havde lejet et lille skib i Nyhavn.En: They had rented a small boat in Nyhavn.Da: Da Emil nærmede sig feststedet, stoppede han og så noget mistænkeligt.En: As Emil approached the party site, he stopped and saw something suspicious.Da: Mikkel og Freja vinkede falsk til ham.En: Mikkel and Freja waved to him falsely.Da: Emil rynkede panden; hans mistanke voksede.En: Emil frowned; his suspicion grew.Da: Endelig gav Mikkel et signal, og alle sprang frem.En: Finally, Mikkel gave a signal, and everyone jumped out.Da: "Overraskelse!"En: "Surprise!"Da: råbte de.En: they shouted.Da: Emil grinede.En: Emil laughed.Da: Han havde ikke forventet det.En: He hadn't expected it.Da: Mikkel følte en bølge af lettelse og glæde.En: Mikkel felt a wave of relief and joy.Da: Festen blev en succes - med et par komiske fejl.En: The party was a success—with a few comical mistakes.Da: Et par balloner sprang uventet, og kagen blev lidt skæv under transporten.En: A couple of balloons popped unexpectedly, and the cake got a bit skewed during transport.Da: Men alle lo og havde det sjovt.En: But everyone laughed and had fun.Da: Det mindede dem om, at perfektion ikke altid er målet.En: It reminded them that perfection isn't always the goal.Da: Da festen sluttede, gik Mikkel langs kanalen med Freja og Emil.En: As the party ended, Mikkel walked along the canal with Freja and Emil.Da: Han indså, at hans frygt for at blive glemt var ubegrundet.En: He realized that his fear of being forgotten was unfounded.Da: Deres venskab var stærkt.En: Their friendship was strong.Da: Han så, hvordan samarbejde og åbenhed havde gjort festen uforglemmelig.En: He saw how cooperation and openness had made the party unforgettable.Da: Freja, der havde stresset for meget over detaljerne, indså, at nogle gange gjorde små uperfektioner begivenhederne mindeværdige.En: Freja, who had stressed too much over the details, realized that sometimes small imperfections make events memorable.Da: "Tak, fordi I gjorde min dag speciel," sagde Emil lykkeligt.En: "Thank you for making my day special," said Emil happily.Da: De tre venner gik videre hjemad, mens solen gik ned over Nyhavn, og deres minder om dagen lyste op som en varm, gylden glød.En: The three friends walked home as the sun set over Nyhavn, and their memories of the day glowed like a warm, golden light. Vocabulary Words:colorful: farveriglively: livlighum: summenamidst: midt iunforgettable: uforglemmeligorganized: organiseretspontaneity: spontanitetteamwork: samarbejdedelegate: uddelegerejoking around: lavede sjovsecretive: hemmelighedsfuldesuspicious: mistænkeligtwave: vinkefalsely: falskfrown: rynke pandenrelief: lettelsecomical: komiskeskewed: skævimperfections: uperfektionermemorable: mindeværdigewave: bølgeoccasions: begivenhederapprehension: frygtunfounded: ubegrundetcooperation: samarbejdeopenly: åbenhedcomfort: tryghedtask: opgavepast: forbilight: glød

Fluent Fiction - Dutch: Sunset Serenade: Navigating Amsterdam's Canals Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/nl/episode/2025-07-21-22-34-02-nl Story Transcript:Nl: De stad Amsterdams charme is onvergetelijk.En: The charm of the city of Amsterdam is unforgettable.Nl: Vooral in de zomer, wanneer de zon helder schijnt en de schaduwen van oude bomen de grachten sieren.En: Especially in the summer, when the sun shines brightly and the shadows of old trees decorate the canals.Nl: Op een dag besloten Bram, Sanne, en Daan om een boottocht te maken op deze prachtige grachten.En: One day, Bram, Sanne, and Daan decided to take a boat trip on these beautiful canals.Nl: De lucht was blauw en het water glinsterde in de zon.En: The sky was blue and the water glistened in the sun.Nl: Bram wilde de perfecte foto maken.En: Bram wanted to take the perfect photo.Nl: Hij had gehoord dat de zonsondergang boven de grachten magisch kon zijn.En: He had heard that the sunset over the canals could be magical.Nl: De reflecties op het water waren precies wat hij zocht.En: The reflections on the water were exactly what he was looking for.Nl: Sanne hield van het idee van een rustige vaartocht, maar ze wist dat Daan zich zorgen zou maken over hun strakke schema.En: Sanne loved the idea of a peaceful boat ride, but she knew that Daan would worry about their tight schedule.Nl: Bij de aanlegsteiger stapten ze aan boord van een kleine boot.En: At the landing stage, they boarded a small boat.Nl: Daan had de route zorgvuldig uitgestippeld.En: Daan had carefully mapped out the route.Nl: "We moeten op tijd terug zijn voor het diner," herinnerde hij hen.En: "We have to be back in time for dinner," he reminded them.Nl: Bram knikte, maar zijn gedachten waren bij de foto die hij wilde maken.En: Bram nodded, but his thoughts were on the photo he wanted to take.Nl: De boot gleed soepel langs de kanalen.En: The boat glided smoothly along the canals.Nl: Ze genoten van het uitzicht.En: They enjoyed the view.Nl: De gevels van de huizen langs het water waren prachtig met hun sierlijke daken en kleurrijke luiken.En: The facades of the houses along the water were beautiful with their elegant roofs and colorful shutters.Nl: Sanne zat ontspannen naast Daan en probeerde hem gerust te stellen.En: Sanne sat relaxed next to Daan and tried to reassure him.Nl: Daan keek af en toe op zijn horloge.En: Daan glanced at his watch from time to time.Nl: Toen begon de zon te zakken.En: Then the sun began to set.Nl: Gouden stralen vielen over het stadje en het water.En: Golden rays fell over the town and the water.Nl: Bram was in zijn element.En: Bram was in his element.Nl: Hij legde zijn camera gereed.En: He prepared his camera.Nl: Zouden ze het juiste moment vastleggen?En: Would they capture the right moment?Nl: Maar net op dat moment stotterde de boot en kwam tot stilstand.En: But just then, the boat sputtered and came to a halt.Nl: Daan's ogen werden groot van schrik.En: Daan's eyes widened in shock.Nl: "Wat als we te laat komen?"En: "What if we're late?"Nl: zei hij onrustig.En: he said anxiously.Nl: Sanne legde haar hand op zijn arm en glimlachte.En: Sanne placed her hand on his arm and smiled.Nl: "Het komt wel goed."En: "It will be okay."Nl: Gelukkig kwam de motor, na enkele pogingen van de bestuurder, weer tot leven.En: Fortunately, after a few attempts by the driver, the engine came back to life.Nl: De boot vervolgde zijn weg net op tijd.En: The boat continued its journey just in time.Nl: Bram drukte af en maakte de foto, precies toen de zon in het water weerspiegelde.En: Bram clicked the shutter and took the photo, just as the sun was reflecting in the water.Nl: Bij de aanlegplaats stapten ze snel uit.En: At the landing spot, they quickly disembarked.Nl: Daan keek opgelucht naar zijn horloge.En: Daan looked at his watch with relief.Nl: De tijd was aan hun kant geweest.En: Time had been on their side.Nl: Ze liepen haastig maar voldaan naar het restaurant, net voor hun reservering.En: They walked hastily but satisfied to the restaurant, just in time for their reservation.Nl: Tijdens het diner lachten ze om het avontuur.En: During dinner, they laughed about the adventure.Nl: Bram leerde om beter met de tijd om te gaan, en Daan leerde dat niet alles volgens plan hoefde te verlopen om te genieten.En: Bram learned to manage his time better, and Daan learned that not everything had to go according to plan to be enjoyable.Nl: De zonsondergang zat in hun hoofden en in Bram's camera, als een herinnering aan een perfecte zomeravond in Amsterdam.En: The sunset was in their minds and in Bram's camera, as a memory of a perfect summer evening in Amsterdam. Vocabulary Words:charm: charmeunforgettable: onvergetelijkshadows: schaduwendecorating: sierenreflections: reflectiespeaceful: rustigeschedule: schemalanding stage: aanlegsteigermapped out: uitgestippeldglided: gleedfacades: gevelselegant: sierlijkeshutters: luikenrelaxed: ontspannenreassure: gerust te stellenglanced: keekhalt: stilstandanxiously: onrustigattempts: pogingenengine: motorcontinued: vervolgdeshutter: drukte afdisembarked: uitstaptenreservations: reserveringhastily: haastigsatisfied: voldaanadventure: avontuurmanage: omgaanenjoyable: genietenmemory: herinnering

Send us a textIt's been a long sweltering day. Darkness is reluctantly beginning to fall, and a restless heat lies heavy over the canal. Let's settle down and listen to some echoes from the canal-side past as we hear Tom Rolt's account of his journey up the Stratford upon Avon Canal (North) and the ‘battle for Bridge Number 1 (Lifford Lane).' At a time when many of us are feeling the strain of today's network, Rolt's account reminds us of just how far we've come — and of the grit and vision of those who fought for the future of our waterways. Episode Information:Tonight's episode was recorded under some rather challenging conditions, a failing voice being one of them! Apologies for the sound quality and extraneous noises floating in from outside!!The reading featured in this podcast is from the second volume in Tom Rolt's Landscape Trilogy, Landscape with Canals (1977), republished by The History Press.   With special thanks to our lock-wheelers  for supporting this podcast.Susan BakerMind ShamblesClare HollingsworthKevin B.Fleur and David McloughlinLois RaphaelTania YorgeyAndrea HansenChris HindsDavid DiromChris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger Captain Arlo Rebecca Russell Allison on the narrowboat Mukka Derek and Pauline Watts Anna V. Orange Cookie Mary Keane. Tony Rutherford. Arabella Holzapfel. Rory with MJ and Kayla. Narrowboat Precious Jet. Linda Reynolds Burkins. Richard Noble. Carol Ferguson. Tracie Thomas Mark and Tricia Stowe Madeleine SmithGeneral DetailsThe intro and the outro music is ‘Crying Cello' by Oleksii_Kalyna (2024) licensed for free-use by Pixabay (189988). Narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.All other audio recorded on site. Support the showBecome a 'Lock-Wheeler'Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.Contact Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw I would love to hear from you. You can email me at nighttimeonstillwaters@gmail.com or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon. For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

David Bentley Hart is a scholar with wide-ranging interests in philosophy, theology, religions, and culture. He is the author of hundreds of literary essays and more than twenty books. Our conversation today focuses on two in particular; the first is The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, and Bliss; and the second is David's most recent work entitled All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life. This book is playfully written in the form of a Platonic dialogue in which the characters explore questions of ultimate reality. David is also an avid fan of baseball, a subject that he eloquently praises in his popular essay “A Perfect Game”.  Can we actually see the divine in nature? Or do we project meaning onto reality? Learn how to tell the difference in On Seeing Divinity in The World: Ultrasound Scans and The Canals of Mars  by Stephen Law.  Join our growing community of 200,000+ listeners and be notified of new episodes of Templeton Ideas. Subscribe today.  Follow us on social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.   

Fluent Fiction - Dutch: A Breath of Calm: Navigating Amsterdam's Canals and Crisis Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/nl/episode/2025-07-11-22-34-01-nl Story Transcript:Nl: De zon scheen helder boven Amsterdam.En: The sun shone brightly over Amsterdam.Nl: Het zomerlicht danste op het water van de grachten.En: The summer light danced on the water of the canals.Nl: Op een kleine open boot zat een groep mensen klaar voor een rondvaart.En: On a small open boat sat a group of people ready for a canal tour.Nl: Bram, nieuw in de stad en enthousiast om foto's te maken, tuurde verwachtingsvol om zich heen.En: Bram, new to the city and excited to take photos, gazed expectantly around him.Nl: Sanne, de gids, stond vooraan de boot.En: Sanne, the guide, stood at the front of the boat.Nl: Ze glimlachte en begon de geschiedenis van de grachten te vertellen.En: She smiled and began telling the history of the canals.Nl: Bram klapte enthousiast zijn camera open.En: Bram enthusiastically opened his camera.Nl: Hij wilde elk moment vastleggen.En: He wanted to capture every moment.Nl: Maar plotseling voelde hij een druk op zijn borst.En: But suddenly, he felt a pressure on his chest.Nl: Zijn ademhaling werd zwaar.En: His breathing became heavy.Nl: Hij wist wat er aan de hand was.En: He knew what was happening.Nl: Het was een astma-aanval.En: It was an asthma attack.Nl: Zijn hand trilde terwijl hij naar zijn inhalator zocht.En: His hand trembled as he searched for his inhaler.Nl: Sanne merkte Bram's verandering.En: Sanne noticed Bram's change.Nl: Ze stopte even met praten en liep naar hem toe.En: She paused her talking and walked over to him.Nl: "Gaat het, Bram?"En: "Are you okay, Bram?"Nl: vroeg ze bezorgd.En: she asked with concern.Nl: Bram knikte, maar hij kreeg geen woord uit.En: Bram nodded, but he couldn't get a word out.Nl: Hij worstelde verder met zijn tas, op zoek naar zijn inhalator.En: He continued struggling with his bag, looking for his inhaler.Nl: De andere passagiers keken nu ook gespannen.En: The other passengers now watched tensely as well.Nl: Zonder te aarzelen, pakte Sanne een flesje water en gaf het aan Bram.En: Without hesitation, Sanne grabbed a bottle of water and handed it to Bram.Nl: Ze bleef kalm en stelde de andere passagiers gerust.En: She remained calm and reassured the other passengers.Nl: "Blijf rustig, ik regel het."En: "Stay calm, I'm handling it."Nl: Ze draaide zich weer om naar Bram.En: She turned back to Bram.Nl: "Heb je je inhalator gevonden?"En: "Did you find your inhaler?"Nl: Bram schudde zijn hoofd, steeds wanhopiger.En: Bram shook his head, looking increasingly desperate.Nl: Sanne dacht snel na.En: Sanne thought quickly.Nl: Ze wist dat er niet veel tijd was.En: She knew there wasn't much time.Nl: Ze deed een oproep naar de noodhulp.En: She called for emergency assistance.Nl: Ondertussen probeerde ze Bram te kalmeren met zachte woorden.En: Meanwhile, she tried to calm Bram with gentle words.Nl: "Ik ben hier.En: "I'm here.Nl: Het komt goed," zei ze geruststellend.En: It'll be okay," she said reassuringly.Nl: Na enkele spannende minuten arriveerde er hulp bij de volgende aanlegplaats.En: After a few tense minutes, help arrived at the next dock.Nl: De medici controleerden Bram en hielpen hem met zuurstof.En: The medics checked Bram and assisted him with oxygen.Nl: Langzaam werd zijn ademhaling stabieler.En: Gradually, his breathing became more stable.Nl: Bram keek Sanne dankbaar aan.En: Bram looked at Sanne gratefully.Nl: "Dank je," fluisterde hij, nog steeds wat zwak.En: "Thank you," he whispered, still somewhat weak.Nl: Met Bram nu in betere conditie, kon de tour verder gaan.En: With Bram now in better condition, the tour could continue.Nl: De spanning was verdwenen, maar de groep was nu alerter.En: The tension was gone, but the group was now more alert.Nl: Ze bewonderden de grachten met meer respect en aten de woorden van Sanne op.En: They admired the canals with greater respect and soaked in Sanne's words.Nl: Toen de boottocht ten einde kwam, voelde Bram zich weer sterker.En: As the boat tour came to an end, Bram felt stronger again.Nl: Hij waardeerde de grachten meer dan ooit.En: He appreciated the canals more than ever.Nl: Niet alleen om hun schoonheid, maar ook om de ervaring die hij had gekregen.En: Not just for their beauty, but also for the experience he had gained.Nl: Sanne, trots op hoe ze de situatie had aangepakt, zag het belang van voorbereid zijn in.En: Sanne, proud of how she had handled the situation, saw the importance of being prepared.Nl: Haar vertrouwen in haar rollen groeide.En: Her confidence in her role grew.Nl: Bram en Sanne wisselden nog enkele woorden uit voordat ze afscheid namen.En: Bram and Sanne exchanged a few more words before saying goodbye.Nl: Ze omhelsden elkaar kort, als nieuwe vrienden die samen een bijzondere ervaring hadden gedeeld.En: They briefly embraced, as new friends who had shared a special experience together.Nl: De zon scheen nog steeds, maar nu leek het allemaal nog helderder.En: The sun still shone, but now everything seemed even brighter.Nl: De grachten van Amsterdam straalden in al hun pracht.En: The canals of Amsterdam radiated in all their splendor. Vocabulary Words:sun: zonbrightly: heldercanal: grachtguide: gidscapture: vastleggenexpectantly: verwachtingsvolpressure: drukbreathing: ademhalingasthma: astmaattack: aanvaltrembled: trildeconcern: bezorgdhesitation: aarzelingdesperate: wanhopigeremergency: noodhulpreassuringly: geruststellendtension: spanningadmired: bewonderdenalert: alerterappreciated: waardeerdebeauty: schoonheidexperience: ervaringproud: trotsprepared: voorbereidembraced: omhelsdensplendor: prachtboat tour: boottochthandled: aangepaktconfident: vertrouwenradiated: straalden

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Fluent Fiction - Dutch: Stormy Canals: How a Summer Storm Inspired Art & Design Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/nl/episode/2025-07-05-22-34-02-nl Story Transcript:Nl: De zon scheen fel boven de grachten van Amsterdam.En: The sun shone brightly over the canals of Amsterdam.Nl: Het zomerfestival kleurde de stad met levenslust en vreugde.En: The summer festival painted the city with vitality and joy.Nl: Overal om hen heen waren mensen, lachend en genietend van de zomerse dagen.En: All around them were people, laughing and enjoying the summer days.Nl: Maar Lars en Anouk voelden zich verloren in de drukte.En: But Lars and Anouk felt lost in the crowd.Nl: Lars, de avontuurlijke architect, wilde de oude ziel van Amsterdam vastleggen voor zijn nieuwste ontwerp.En: Lars, the adventurous architect, wanted to capture the old soul of Amsterdam for his latest design.Nl: Aan zijn zijde was Anouk, een energieke schilderes, op zoek naar nieuwe inspiratie voor haar tentoonstelling.En: By his side was Anouk, an energetic painter, searching for new inspiration for her exhibition.Nl: Maar de mensenmassa om hen heen maakte het moeilijk om de stilte en echtheid te vinden die ze zochten.En: But the crowd around them made it difficult to find the silence and authenticity they sought.Nl: "Misschien moeten we een andere weg inslaan," stelde Lars voor.En: "Maybe we should take a different path," suggested Lars.Nl: Hij keek om zich heen en zag een klein bootverhuurbedrijf.En: He looked around and saw a small boat rental business.Nl: Hij glimlachte naar Anouk.En: He smiled at Anouk.Nl: "Laten we een boot huren.En: "Let's rent a boat.Nl: Op het water kunnen we aan de drukte ontsnappen."En: On the water, we can escape from the crowd."Nl: Anouk knikte enthousiast en pakte haar schetsboek.En: Anouk nodded enthusiastically and grabbed her sketchbook.Nl: Ze hoopte dat de kalme grachten haar creativiteit zouden laten stromen.En: She hoped the calm canals would let her creativity flow.Nl: Samen stapten ze aan boord van de kleine boot en voeren weg van de geluiden van het festival.En: Together, they boarded the small boat and sailed away from the sounds of the festival.Nl: Langzaam dreven ze naar een rustiger deel van de gracht.En: Slowly, they drifted to a quieter part of the canal.Nl: De historische gebouwen weerspiegelden in het heldere water.En: The historical buildings reflected in the clear water.Nl: Het was alsof de tijd stil had gestaan.En: It was as if time had stood still.Nl: Anouk haalde diep adem en begon te schetsen.En: Anouk took a deep breath and began to sketch.Nl: Maar net toen ze het moment echt begonnen te waarderen, gebeurde het onwaarschijnlijke.En: But just as they truly started to appreciate the moment, the unlikely happened.Nl: De lucht verduisterde en een plotselinge zomerstorm brak uit.En: The sky darkened and a sudden summer storm broke out.Nl: De boot schommelde gevaarlijk heen en weer.En: The boat rocked dangerously back and forth.Nl: Lars nam de touwen stevig vast.En: Lars held onto the ropes tightly.Nl: Water spatte om hen heen en de wind huilde.En: Water splashed around them and the wind howled.Nl: "We moeten een schuilplaats vinden!"En: "We need to find shelter!"Nl: riep hij boven het lawaai van de storm uit.En: he shouted over the noise of the storm.Nl: Ze zagen een oude brug in de verte.En: They saw an old bridge in the distance.Nl: Lars stuurde de boot er naartoe en ze vonden beschutting onder de bogen van de brug.En: Lars steered the boat towards it, and they found refuge under the arches of the bridge.Nl: De regen viel rustig langs de stenen muren en het water kabbelt er vredig onderdoor.En: The rain fell gently along the stone walls and the water rippled peacefully beneath.Nl: Daar, in de luwte van de storm, vonden Lars en Anouk iets onverwachts.En: There, in the calm of the storm, Lars and Anouk found something unexpected.Nl: De wereld leek anders, zuiverder.En: The world seemed different, purer.Nl: De storm werd een stille symfonie die de stad omarmde.En: The storm became a silent symphony embracing the city.Nl: Voor Anouk was het alsof er een gordijn werd weggetrokken.En: For Anouk, it was as if a curtain had been pulled back.Nl: Ze begon te tekenen met vernieuwde energie, elke lijn vol betekenis.En: She began to draw with renewed energy, each line full of meaning.Nl: Lars keek naar de oude brug en de regen die de gracht omhulde.En: Lars looked at the old bridge and the rain embracing the canal.Nl: Hij zag schoonheid in het onverwachte en realiseerde zich dat de beste ontwerpen die flexibiliteit en verrassende schoonheid moeten omarmen.En: He saw beauty in the unexpected and realized that the best designs must embrace flexibility and surprising beauty.Nl: Toen de regen eindelijk ophield en de zon zijn weg terug vond aan de hemel, waren Lars en Anouk veranderd.En: When the rain finally stopped and the sun found its way back in the sky, Lars and Anouk were changed.Nl: Ze keerden terug naar de bruisende stad met nieuwe ogen, klaar om hun ervaringen om te zetten in kunst en design.En: They returned to the bustling city with new eyes, ready to transform their experiences into art and design.Nl: Zo eindigde hun dag niet alleen met nieuwe inspiratie, maar met een diepere waardering voor wat de stad had onthuld: dat in chaos en stilte beide schoonheid te vinden is.En: Thus, their day ended not only with new inspiration but with a deeper appreciation for what the city had revealed: that in both chaos and silence, beauty can be found. Vocabulary Words:canals: grachtenvivacity: levenslustauthenticity: echtheidsteered: stuurdeenthralled: verlorenadventurous: avontuurlijkecapture: vastleggenexhibition: tentoonstellingsuggested: stelde voorrental: verhuurbedrijfenthusiastically: enthousiastboarded: stapten aan boorddrifted: drevenreflected: weerspiegeldenappreciate: waarderenunlikely: onwaarschijnlijkerocked: schommeldehowled: huildeshelter: schuilplaatsarches: bogenripples: kabbeltembracing: omarmencurtain: gordijnrenewed: vernieuwdeflexibility: flexibiliteitbrisk: felbusking: bruisendesketched: schetsteunexpected: onverwachtsvitality: levenslust

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Fluent Fiction - Dutch: Integrity on the Canals: A Tale of Ambition and Honor Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/nl/episode/2025-06-29-22-34-02-nl Story Transcript:Nl: De zon scheen fel op het glinsterende water van de Amsterdamse grachten.En: The sun shone brightly on the glistening water of the Amsterdamse canals.Nl: In het moderne kantoorgebouw van het advocatenkantoor zat Elin voor haar computer.En: In the modern office building of the law firm, Elin sat at her computer.Nl: Ze keek naar het scherm vol met dossiers.En: She looked at the screen full of files.Nl: Haar gedachten dwaalden af naar vanavond, het jaarlijkse zomerfeest van het kantoor, die plaatsvond op een boot.En: Her thoughts wandered to tonight, the firm's annual summer party, which would take place on a boat.Nl: Elin wist dat dit feest niet alleen bedoeld was voor ontspanning, maar ook voor de grote aankondiging. Een promotie.En: Elin knew that this party was not just for relaxation, but also for the big announcement—a promotion.Nl: Iedereen wist dat zij tegenover Maarten stond, haar grootste concurrent.En: Everyone knew that she was up against Maarten, her biggest competitor.Nl: Elin had altijd hard gewerkt.En: Elin had always worked hard.Nl: Ze was grondig en gedreven, en dit was haar kans om aan iedereen te laten zien waartoe ze in staat was.En: She was thorough and driven, and this was her chance to show everyone what she was capable of.Nl: Aan de overkant van de gang, in een kantoor vol met stapels papier, zat Maarten met zijn telefoon in de hand.En: Across the hall, in an office full of stacks of paper, Maarten sat with his phone in hand.Nl: Maarten was charmant en geliefd bij zijn collega's.En: Maarten was charming and well-liked by his colleagues.Nl: Hij had dezelfde promotie op het oog.En: He had his eyes on the same promotion.Nl: Voor hem betekende het meer dan alleen een stap omhoog; het was een kans om zijn gezin financieel te ondersteunen.En: For him, it meant more than just a step up; it was an opportunity to support his family financially.Nl: De boot was versierd met kleurrijke vlaggetjes en bloemen toen het feest begon.En: The boat was decorated with colorful flags and flowers when the party began.Nl: Terwijl de boot over de kalme grachten voer, voelde Elin haar zenuwen toenemen.En: As the boat sailed over the calm canals, Elin felt her nerves increasing.Nl: Collega's lachten en proostten, maar Elin en Maarten waren stil en gefocust.En: Colleagues laughed and toasted, but Elin and Maarten were silent and focused.Nl: Ze wisselden korte blikken uit, beiden zich bewust van de onderliggende spanning.En: They exchanged short glances, both aware of the underlying tension.Nl: Op een bepaald moment tijdens het feest kwam de CEO naar voren.En: At a certain point during the party, the CEO stepped forward.Nl: Elin voelde haar hart sneller kloppen.En: Elin felt her heart beat faster.Nl: Net voordat hij de naam van de promotiekandidaat kon noemen, onderbrak iemand de rust met nieuws over een project.En: Just before he could announce the name of the promotion candidate, someone interrupted with news about a project.Nl: Een fout, belangrijk en potentieel schadelijk voor het kantoor.En: A mistake, important and potentially damaging to the firm.Nl: De schuld lag bij Elin of Maarten, maar het was onduidelijk wie verantwoordelijk was.En: The blame lay with Elin or Maarten, but it was unclear who was responsible.Nl: Elin's maag draaide zich om.En: Elin's stomach turned.Nl: Ze zou kunnen zwijgen en de schuld naar Maarten laten gaan.En: She could remain silent and let the blame fall on Maarten.Nl: Maar iets in haar zei dat dat fout was.En: But something inside her said that was wrong.Nl: Met bevende stem sprak ze.En: With a trembling voice, she spoke.Nl: "Ik neem de verantwoordelijkheid voor de fout in het project," zei ze terwijl ze Maarten aankeek.En: "I take responsibility for the mistake in the project," she said, looking at Maarten.Nl: Een golf van stilte overspoelde de boot.En: A wave of silence swept over the boat.Nl: Iedereen wachtte op wat er zou komen.En: Everyone waited for what would come next.Nl: Tot Elin's verbazing stapte een senior partner naar voren.En: To Elin's surprise, a senior partner stepped forward.Nl: "Elin," zei ze, "je beslissing laat zien dat je integriteit hebt.En: "Elin," she said, "your decision shows that you have integrity.Nl: Dat waarderen we zeer."En: We value that highly."Nl: De promotie ging die avond naar Maarten, maar Elin werd aangeboden om deel te nemen aan een speciaal mentorshipprogramma.En: The promotion went to Maarten that evening, but Elin was offered to participate in a special mentorship program.Nl: Elin voelde een mix van emoties.En: Elin felt a mix of emotions.Nl: Teleurstelling maakte plaats voor een gevoel van trots en voldoening.En: Disappointment gave way to a sense of pride and fulfillment.Nl: Ze had misschien de promotie niet gekregen, maar haar keuze had iets veel waardevoller gebracht.En: She might not have gotten the promotion, but her choice brought something much more valuable.Nl: Haar collega's keken haar nu met nieuw respect aan.En: Her colleagues now looked at her with newfound respect.Nl: De boot keerde langzaam terug naar de steiger, en terwijl de avond over Amsterdam viel, voelde Elin dat dit niet het einde was, maar een nieuw begin.En: The boat slowly returned to the dock, and as evening fell over Amsterdam, Elin felt that this was not the end, but a new beginning.Nl: Een begin waarin ze leerde dat rechtvaardigheid en eerlijkheid veel verder gaan dan welke promotie ook.En: A beginning where she learned that fairness and honesty go far beyond any promotion.Nl: En zo eindigde de avond op de grachten, met Elin en Maarten die elkaar bemoedigend toeknikten, wetende dat in de wereld van de advocatuur niet alleen ambitie, maar ook integriteit telt.En: And so the evening on the canals ended, with Elin and Maarten encouragingly nodding to each other, knowing that in the world of law, not only ambition but also integrity counts. Vocabulary Words:glistening: glinsterendecanals: grachtenpromotion: promotiecompetitor: concurrentthorough: grondigdriven: gedrevensailed: voernerves: zenuwenglances: blikkentension: spanningcandidate: kandidaatmistake: foutpotentially: potentieeldamaging: schadelijkblame: schuldunclear: onduidelijktrembling: bevenderesponsibility: verantwoordelijkheidwave: golfintegrity: integriteithighly: zeerdisappointment: teleurstellingfulfillment: voldoeningvalued: waardevollerrespect: respectdock: steigerfairness: rechtvaardigheidhonesty: eerlijkheidencouragingly: bemoedigendambition: ambitie

Episode: 1388 A short history of tunneling.  Today, let's tunnel our way through history.

Want more MTM Vegas? Check out our Patreon for access to our exclusive weekly aftershow! patreon.com/mtmvegas Episode Description This week social media was abuzz with reports of more layoffs for Fontainebleau including the reduction of hours. The big question looms as to whether this property will be able to find its footing and whether or not new ownership will be needed. Who could possibly take over and why isn't Fontainebleau catching on. In other news the next step in Las Vegas' new commercial airport is happening. We are still a long way from having a new airport in Ivanpah, but things are on track. In other #news Flamingo's renovated pool is now open, Caesars is paying their employees to sell credit cards, Holstein's is reopening, Wynn gave up on a new casino, Rio is charging resort fees up front, Primm is still a mess and are free Vegas drinks a trap? Episode Guide 0:00 The Strip walking fallacy 0:59 Next step in Las Vegas' 2nd major airport 2:04 Rio charging resort fees up front on comps 3:55 A new Las Vegas “restaurant fee”? 5:15 Wynn gives up on New York casino - Cancels Hudson Yards project 6:25 Caesars front desk commissions on credit card sales 8:55 Holstein's (former Cosmo burger spot) opening in Arts District May 26 9:38 Flamingo's Go Pool is now finally open 10:08 When Vegas inflation isn't too bad! 11:10 Vegas that never was - Fremont Street canals 13:00 Why you shouldn't get free drinks in Vegas casinos 14:30 Will Vegas free drinks ever go away like free parking? 15:37 More turnover and problems for Primm casinos 17:11 More trouble at Fontainebleau - Layoff rumors, potential lawsuit 19:25 Will Fontainebleau Las be sold and can it be turned around?   Each week tens of thousands of people tune into our MtM Vegas news shows at http://www.YouTube.com/milestomemories. We do two news shows weekly on YouTube with this being the audio version. Never miss out on the latest happenings in and around Las Vegas! Enjoying the podcast? Please consider leaving us a positive review on your favorite podcast platform! You can also connect with us anytime at podcast@milestomemories.com.  You can subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or by searching "MtM Vegas" or "Miles to Memories" in your favorite podcast app. Don't forget to check out our travel/miles/points podcast as well!