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WE discuss the final game of tag, catalog the history of Caspers, and get their fingers in some gold.    Facebook:@WEAintSeenIt Ethan: @ethangoose.bsky.social; letterboxd: egeese Wesley: @weswee.bsky.social; letterboxd: babyweswee   Review: Infernal Affairs Quiz (37:27): Goldfinger

The Casper family's century-old farm in Jackson County, Wisconsin, holds a deep legacy of resilience and love. Established in 1919, the farm has witnessed countless hardships, from the Great Depression to the daily struggles of farm life. Jane Casper fondly recalls her grandmother's unwavering strength, running the farm alone while her grandfather worked miles away to save it. Over the years, the farm has grown from its original 80 acres to 132 acres, with the original house still standing, now home to Jane's grandson. For the Caspers, the farm is more than just land; it's a place filled with cherished memories, hard work, and the love of family. As the next generation steps up to take over, Jane finds great joy in knowing that the legacy will continue, with her grandson adding his own chapter to this beloved family story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In der ersten Sonderfolge der Sommerpause sprechen Christina Caspers-Römer und Tobias Stärk über die Zukunft der Virtual Production hierzulande. Gibt es auf dem… Der Beitrag Sonderfolge: Welche Rolle spielt Virtual Production in Zukunft, Christina Caspers-Römer & Tobias Stärk? erschien zuerst auf Hinter der Kamera.

Du hast Lust auf die gesamte Folge und möchtest unser Projekt unterstützen? Steady -> https://steadyhq.com/de/favouriteworstcast/about Patreon -> https://www.patreon.com/favouriteworstcast Bevor wir in die BRAT-Season eintauchen, haben wir uns über unsere ersten Erfahrungen auf größeren Live-Events in diesem Sommer unterhalten. Eric hat Caspers emotional größten Auftritt seines Lebens gesehen und Jan hat am Strand von Viareggio Fontaines D.C., Shame, Michael Kiwanuka und BC,NR bewundert. Im kalten Deutschland brodelt aber eine ganz andere Debatte, denn Ski Aggu und Ikkimel reden über Sex und Drogen. Wir blicken auf einen „Skandal”, der so wirklich keiner ist, aber trotzdem besprechenswert erscheint. Danke für deine Unterstützung!

De Bergense School was een groep kunstenaars die in en om Bergen woonde en werkte, en tot bloei kwam in de periode 1915 tot 1925. In deze aflevering praat Caspar Stalenhoef met gastcurator Eliane Odding over de kenmerken van deze school, vergeleken met de kunstenaars van daarvoor en daarna.Daarna vertelt kunstenaar Charlotte Caspers tijdens een wandeling over het strand en de duinen hoe het landschap haar werk beïnvloedt.Muziek: ‘Jadie Grange' en ‘McKrary' van Blue Dot Sessions

Hvis du er fra 70'erne så husker du ham måske for den hashpibe i delte til en af de  vilde fester på Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium eller Københavns Universitet, hvis du husker 80'erne bedre, så er det måske mere Melodi Grand Prix og et stort smil over, at det var lørdag, du forbinder med hans smukke ansigt, er det 90'erne som udgør fundamentet for din hukommelse, så kender du ham måske bedst som Ivan eller i skattefritselskab med Tina Kjær, men er du helt fresh ud af fissen, og 00'erne er din primære referenceramme, jamen så kan du godt blive lidt bange nu, for mange fra den generation tror nemlig - at han døde med et par bowling sko på i 2006. Dagens gæst er Caspers svigerfar, Jarl Friis Mikkelsen!Tsunami lærte:Man må godt ryge i hotel-hallenCasper ønskede Jarl død Hvem Joan Collins er Vi har talent Jarlen ville heller have været præst _____________________Værter: Chano De Jørgensen & Sebastian Von PeeblesMusik: Bliv Ikk Forelsket & Upright-MusicTilrettelægger: Sally Junker Bo Larsen

I avsnitt 140 intervjuar vi Casper Janebrink från Arvingarna. Tillsammans med bandet har han släppt ett öl som är tillverkat av Odd Island Brewing. Vad är Caspers förhållande till öl? Varför blev det just en lager? Hur har den mottagits? Allt detta och mycket mer i avsnitt 140.

Caspers and Vine combine to lift our sky-blue girls to a resounding win against Perth. Cortnee bagging a brilliant brace and Maddie scoring a sublime goal so effortlessly. However, our men squandered a two-nil lead in Hobart against Western. The OG's Jono and Sean with our own star girl, Michelle, dissect the recent SFC happenings with reviews, previews and looking ahead to wearing our Hawaiian best this Saturday evening in Gosford.

It's been a great week for Dub fans and an even better week for the Caspers family! Dale is in good spirits after getting married (congratulations!), Eric takes great delight in Ash Irwin's goalkeeping heroics, Maj talks about the multi-talented Katrina Gorry and Emma laments an upcoming Thursday 5pm kickoff.

Todd Caspers, a Biologist for North Dakota Game and Fish's fisheries in Devils Lake joins the JMO Podcast. This interview features insights about the jumbo perch in Devils Lake including facts about the forage base, spawning habitat and current year class information. Hearing Todd explain how the test net data is collected was a real eye opener and will forever help me interpret lake data wherever I go fishing from now on. We can't wait to have Todd on again to talk walleyes on the future.Devils Lake Tourism - www.devilslakend.comNorth Dakota Game and Fish - www.gf.nd.gov/jobsWebsite - www.jmopodcast.comFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/JMOFishingPodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/the_jmopodcast/

Måndagen den 16 oktober 2023 var en helt vanlig dag för Casper, och han arbetade som vanligt på sina morföräldrars gård. Ett arbete som han älskade. Då vände allt. Casper hamnade under en ensilage bal och efter flera dagar av hopp och förtvivlan för familjen, tillsammans med Casper på sjukhuset, konstaterades det att hans liv inte gick att rädda. Flera av hans organ gick däremot att rädda, och familjen beslutade att donera flera av dem i hopp om att Casper skulle kunna rädda andra personers liv. I avsnittet gästas vi av Caspers storasyster Cornelia. Hon berättar om sin sorg och kärlek ur en storasysters perspektiv, och vi pratar om begravningen som ägde rum några dagar efter att vi spelade in detta avsnitt. För att hedra Casper vill vi såklart hjälpa till att sprida information om organdonation, och ber därför våra lyssnare att gå in på socialstyrelsens hemsida för att läsa mer om donationsregistret.https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/ansok-och-anmal/anmal/donationsregistret/ Hjälp till att äga din sorg här: https://plus.acast.com/s/utan-dig-ag-din-sorg. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Wie gut ist Caspers mittlerweile sechstes Album? Josi und Sieke reden über "nur liebe, immer" und erklären Casper zu unserem Act der Woche! Und vorher gibts für alle Unwissenden noch drei schnelle Fakten über ihn.

The Jason & Scot Show.  Podcast about e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Editor note: We're trying some fun new AI features for this episode. The following show notes were written by ChatGPT. We're also let AI remove all the "stop words" in our audio, and we've switched from Google to OpenAI for our audio transcription. Let us know your feedback. In this episode of the Jason and Scot show, our special guest is Sean D. Nelson, the CEO and founder of Lovesac. He shares his inspiring journey of starting the company as a beanbag business in his basement and growing it into a successful public company. Sean highlights the key moments of his entrepreneurial journey, including winning a million dollars on Richard Branson's reality TV show and navigating the ups and downs of the business. Sean has upcoming book and podcast, both entitled "Let Me Save You 25 Years: Mistakes, Miracles, and Lessons from the Lovesac Story." Sean emphasizes the importance of being a direct-to-consumer brand and how Lovesac has found sustained success by focusing on customer acquisition costs and offering a high-quality product. He discusses the concept of direct-to-consumer and shares his thoughts on its significance. Sean believes that having a differentiated product that provides value to customers is crucial, rather than simply relying on an online sales strategy. The conversation also touches on the topic of innovation and how Lovesac has been able to push the boundaries of what a furniture company can offer. Sean discusses their Stealth Tech innovation, which incorporates surround sound into their couches, as well as their commitment to creating products that are built to last and designed to evolve. Sean acknowledges the challenges of operating in physical retail and highlights the importance of their showrooms in reducing customer acquisition costs and providing a hands-on experience for customers. He also mentions their partnerships with Best Buy and Costco to expand their reach. The discussion expands to the future of retail and e-commerce, with Sean mentioning the transformative role of AI but cautioning that it takes time for movements to fully evolve. He emphasizes the importance of being patient and keeping an eye on developments in the industry. The conversation concludes with Sean expressing his long-term commitment to Lovesac and his desire to build something meaningful rather than focusing solely on personal gain. Listeners are invited to check out Sean's podcast and website, as well as his upcoming book, which will be released in January. Overall, this episode provides insights into the journey and philosophy behind Lovesac's success and offers valuable perspectives on entrepreneurship, innovation, and the future of retail. Chapters 0:00:46 Introduction and Welcome to the Show 0:08:36 The Journey of Love Sack: From Highs to Lows 0:12:05 Love Sack's Traditional IPO and Company Performance 0:15:49 The Importance of Having a Differentiated Product 0:19:49 The Value and Overhype of Market Movements 0:23:18 Sactionals: Built to Last, Designed to Evolve 0:25:56 Driving a Movement for Sustainable Consumerism 0:31:36 Innovation and the Evolution of Lovesac's Product Line 0:37:07 The Strength of Lovesac's Physical Showrooms in the DTC Landscape 0:40:03 Testing and Learning: Mobile Concierge and Shop and Shop 0:41:52 AI's transformative role in the future of technology 0:50:08 Long-Term Vision vs Quick Profit Episode 313 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday, November 9th, 2023. Transcript Jason: [0:23] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show. This episode is being recorded on Thursday, November 9th, 2023. I'm your host, Jason "RetailGeek" Goldberg, and as usual, I'm here with your co-host, Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:37] Hey, Jason, and welcome back. Jason and Scot show listeners. Jason, we're very fortunate to have a entrepreneur on the show. I'm the entrepreneur side of our partnership. So I always really enjoy these. Introduction and Welcome to the Show [0:49] We have on the show, Sean D. Nelson. He is the CEO and founder of Lovesack. And a little birdie told me that he recently started a podcast himself. He started Love Sack as a beanbag company in his basement when he was around 18. And now it's a public company and doing relatively large revenues over 600 kind of run rate. If I look at the last quarter, I took a little glance at that. Sean, welcome to the show. Shawn : [1:13] Thank you. Thanks for having me. Great to be with you. Jason: [1:16] We are thrilled to have you, Sean. Listeners always like to kind of get the background. I'm imagining you don't have a deep background before you started Love Sack because you started it so young. But can you, like where were you in life when that brought you to start build your own product? Shawn : [1:34] Yeah, strangely, 25 years in and still running the same company I founded as my side hustle in college, which is exactly what Love Sack was. So 95, all the way back then, I made a giant not bean bag because I thought it would be funny. I literally, 10 days out of high school, got off the couch at my parents' house, having this dumb idea, like, how about a beanbag, like, me to the TV, like, the whole floor, like, huge. Drove down to the fabric store, bought some fabric, brought it home, cut it out, and then began sewing it up, broke my mom's sewing machine, neighbor finished it, took three or four weeks to try and stuff it, originally with beads, but couldn't possibly find enough, so looked around the house, I just found out my parents' camping mattresses chopped up yellow foam, you know, like those yellow slabs of foam you take camping, on a paper cutter in the basement. And eventually, I mean, foam, packing peanuts, old blankets, had this thing stuffed and started using it out and about through university, taking it camping, back of the truck, driving movies. Ended up putting it away for a couple years. And by the way, everywhere I took it, everybody wants one. Like everyone's always like, Oh my gosh, what is that thing? Where'd you get it? I was like, I'll never make another one. It was such a pain in the butt and put it away for a couple of years to go be a missionary for my church. [2:58] And came back to finish up university in 1998. And that's when I founded the company. Cause people kept bugging me to make them one. And it became my side hustle in college. And we tried to sell these things eventually beyond our friends and family and beer fest, May fest, October fest, car shows, boat shows, 10 by 10 booths, how we got started. Tried to sell them to furniture stores and they laughed at us and told us it was a dumb idea. [3:34] Eventually, at a trade show got discovered by the limited to this is like, you would not today as justice like in the malls, like little girls pink and purple fuzzy stuff for their bedrooms and, and clothing. Anyway, they ordered 12,000 little love sacks, not knowing it was me and a buddy and like a woodchipper shredding foam in the back of this furniture place. And, and that forced us to source over in Asia, which is, you know, where I had served my mission. So I speak Mandarin Chinese. There's a whole story there I won't get into it it was just kind of one thing led to another led to another week we built a factory to support that 12,000 sack order we then went out to the furniture stores who again laughed at us didn't want our $500,000. [4:19] Beanbags having completed that order wanting to keep the factory going so we finally opened our own store in a mall that didn't even want us there but finally capitulated let us in because they We had a space to fill for the holiday season, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and it just exploded. We did a good job, carpet paint, neon sign, made it look like a proper mall chain store selling giant beanbags, and it just took off. Like, it worked. People came in, flopped down, music bumpin', big screen TV, playin' movies, had a great time. There was a couch in the corner to look pretty, be part of the decor. People kept asking about the couch, And that led us to eventually, many stores later, many states later, invent Saxionals, which is our modular sofa solution, which now drives almost 90% of our sales today. So we're more a couch company by far today than we are a beanbag company. And there was a whole, listen, I'm skipping over decades of time really, but there was a whole transition where we... We went through after we invented the sectionals and solved all these problems people have with couches not only can you ship it to your house via FedEx which was hyper relevant you know for. [5:32] E-commerce and digital marketing obviously but it's watchable and changeable, and movable and it can be with you the rest of your life that that led us to a whole design philosophy that now. [5:42] Drives are innovation we think is a really cool secret sauce called design for life but. 10, 20, 50, 100, 250 locations now. We came public in 2018 on about 100 million in sales. Right around the time there was just tons of fervor in this direct consumer movement. We had farted around, we'll call it as a furniture store, selling rugs and lamps and bowls and baskets and all the obvious things along the way. And it was really when we purged all that stuff around 2015, seeing the Caspers of the world emerge and Warby Parker's and even Tesla with their showrooms. Could we adopt a more e-commerce-led model with showrooms for people to kick the tires, so to speak? And that transition is really what unlocked the lovesack that you see today and where most of our growth has come since about 2015, 16, when we made that pivot, took the company public, wrapped around that direct consumer story. So we're not a digitally native brand originally, we were actually a retailer that pivoted and became digitally led. And now we don't even operate stores in the traditional sense. We don't, we don't stock things there. You know, you don't walk out of there with your product. They're all really online sales and those showrooms are extremely powerful mechanisms for helping people make up their mind around a five or 10, $15,000. [7:06] Purchase where they want to see the thing and sit on it and, and, and see if it's everything it's cracked, it's cracked up to be online. And so we, we, we believe that we really, uh, through that arc. And then by the way, since coming public, I don't know, six, seven X, the company this year, you know, we'll, we'll be on a run rate to the analysts were a public company. So the analysts show us around, you know, it's called 700 plus in revenue and profitable, very profitable and cash generative. So we think, you know, the direct consumer game, in a lot of respects, Love Sack is one of the unlikely winners of that entire movement. Because I think at that scale, there are very, very few, what I call successful direct to consumer brands. And so we're really proud of that. And it's been a long saga, and we continue to grow and change and adapt and evolve. Jason: [8:01] It's an amazing story. And we definitely want to unpack it. But I want to go all the way back to the beginning for one second. Did that neighbor who helped finish sewing the first prototype get any equity? Shawn : [8:13] No, it was my ex-girlfriend's, mom, so about the time she exited, you know. No, it was just a friendly favor, but the truth is a lot of people helped out along the way, and a lot of people had equity or have equity in Love Sack from along the way, but look, we've been through every high, every low. Somewhere in the middle there, I skipped over it just because of brevity. Not only did I win a million dollars on TV with Richard Branson, The Journey of Love Sack: From Highs to Lows [8:38] his reality TV show on Fox Network back in 2005, if you can believe that, the rebel billionaire. But I also guided the company through a complete chapter 11 reorganization back in 2006, spearheaded by Venture Capital, which was painful and ugly and embarrassing and humiliating. So we've been through every kind of thing over these better than two decades. Scot: [9:01] Yeah, my deep dive question is, when you rented or bought the wood chipper, did you tell them you'd be throwing foam in there, or did they think you were clearing up a tree? Shawn : [9:09] Oh, that's so the original story. Yeah, the original woodchipper actually, you know, if you've ever used one in your backyard or, you know, you shove sticks into these things, that's basically what the original shredder was. And it was in the back room of this furniture factory already. They had used it back in the seventies to shred foam, but it had an electric motor, right? Instead of like, okay. Scot: [9:30] So it's okay to be inside here. Shawn : [9:32] Well, yeah, but I had to rehab it because it hadn't been used in like a decade or two because shredded foam had fallen out of favor in furniture. And then later to do that bigger order, we couldn't afford like a proper German, shredder, so we ended up driving out to farm country to find more of those same kind of shredders and actually found a hay grinder called a hay buster can shred 2000 pounds at a whack. Scot: [9:57] And that's a lot of power. Shawn : [9:59] Yeah, it's powered by a tractor. So we, you know, agricultural loan for tractor and hay grinder. I mean, crazy, crazy story in the beginning. Scot: [10:07] Yeah, as a family, you gotta figure out how to get it done, right? Whatever it takes. Shawn : [10:12] Whatever it takes. Scot: [10:13] I didn't know the Richard Branson thing, so that was interesting. Did he like, was he an active investor, or that's like one of those things where his people kind of take over and you never hear from him again? Shawn : [10:22] No, I mean, it was a weird situation. He had a reality TV show, 2004-5, The Rebel Billionaire, you know, whatever, 16 contestants. It was like The Apprentice, but not for apprentices, for entrepreneurs. So my runner-up on the show was Sarah Blakely of Spanx, gives you an idea. Scot: [10:38] Oh, okay, cool, neat. Shawn : [10:39] Yeah, yeah, so we became great friends, she and I, Richard and I. I ended up also being named President of Virgin Worldwide for a minute as part of the prize, believe it or not. So, worked with Richard, worked with all of his CEOs. Totally weird outcome. And, you know, but huge, huge blessing and a huge piece of story. And he was involved in sort of our VC round that ensued on the tail of that. Scot: [11:06] Okay, and then I think I saw that you guys were on Shark Tank, right? You were like one of those that you know, kind of one of the big success stories. Was that the OG Shark Tank or? Shawn : [11:16] No, we weren't on Shark Tank. A lot of people thought that. There was a Love Sack copycat that's on Shark Tank. Okay, and so they got... Scot: [11:23] I was confused because like Google says you were and then I was like, but then I couldn't find the episode. Jason: [11:28] There's a whole TikTok channel dedicated to Love Sack and Shark Tank and it's super weird. Shawn : [11:36] That's super, yeah, people get confused. Scot: [11:42] Yeah, yeah, super weird. Yeah. And then when you did your IPO, was it a traditional IPO or did you guys get caught up in the SPAC craziness? Shawn : [11:51] No, we did a traditional IPO back in 2018 and you know, our stock has been really volatile for lots of different reasons that, you know, COVID was crazy, but the company performance has been really solid. So we're just trucking. Love Sack's Traditional IPO and Company Performance Scot: [12:06] He, I think, was at Graham that said in the short-term it's an emotional machine, in the long-term it weighs your financials. So you got to, it's very hard, you know, I took a company public, not to the level you have. And yeah, it is, I was like, I'm not going to look at the stock, it's not going to influence me. And then suddenly everyone's like, are we making the quarter? And it's like, okay. And then suddenly it's very hard to get out of that, that short-term mindset. So congrats to you for sticking to it for so long. Shawn : [12:29] Yeah, look, I'm actually a big advocate of it, having lived inside of it now for almost six years. Scot: [12:36] Yeah, the transparency is good, you know, and I like that part of it, I think that's good for, you know, to kind of have to put out everything that you're doing, you know, it's a, the ultimate, yeah, it's like, yeah, transparency tends to be a good thing. Shawn : [12:48] I think it's the right way for companies to be governed and ran. Anyway, we could get into that if you want. Scot: [12:56] Yeah, I like the, you know, and you talked about all the other, we call them digitally native vertical brands, like the Warby's and Bonobos and all that. And yeah, a lot of them have not made it past kind of like that hundred million dollar level. And you guys have obviously, you know, six, seven X that, which is awesome. And then, you know, the big knock on Casper for a long time was as we've actually had this guy, Dan on the show, people were able to pick apart the CAC LTV and they found the average selling price was like, Jason will know these numbers, but it was like 350 and their cost to acquire a customer was 400. And they were like, you know, that obviously wasn't sustainable. So it's pretty neat that you guys have figured that out. Shawn : [13:36] Yeah. I mean, that's at the root of why obviously we've had some sustained success. And I think it's also at the root of why there are almost no other direct consumer brands making any money. End of story, full stop. And it's pretty fascinating to watch the whole thing unfold, because it really has been a movement for almost a decade. Scot: [14:01] Yeah, and I don't want to dig into the information you don't divulge publicly, so this is not a trap or anything but is it because the selection or your products, you've kind of cracked the code on Kakao TV, like what do you, and I don't want to know any methods or anything. and what do you attribute it to? Shawn : [14:18] Look, I think, let's start at the root. I think that many companies, product companies, let's start there, overlook the fact that you need a really good product. I think they pick a category and they say, oh, it could be a direct consumer brand. And the truth is, what does that even mean? Do you mean, because here's the funny thing. When I hear analysts and industry people talk about direct consumer, it has become synonymous over the last decade as it's unfolded today with e-comm. Oh, you mean you're an e-comm company and in many cases you do half of your sales through wholesale. So what does it even mean? I mean, if you want to talk about a direct consumer brand, LoveSack may be the most direct. We don't have any wholesale. I'm talking zero, and we only sell through our own channels, whether it's our website or our showrooms. And we have these partnerships, for instance, where we operate our own showrooms inside of a Best Buy or a Costco. [15:26] But you know, so this whole phrase even, direct-to-consumer, I think is really kind of silly. You mean you're a company that sells stuff online and maybe in showrooms and maybe in wholesale? So you're a company that sells stuff. So let's start with stuff. And you have to make, I think, if you want to be successful in the world, it's not a new concept. You have to have... A great product or or you have to have some other really. Hiller efficiency The Importance of Having a Differentiated Product [15:52] and i think what most have discovered it was a list again over this long decade of direction sumer evolution is that without a really differentiated product. You're just another company with a clever name lots of funding and if you throw lots of money at anything it's gonna grow. But you need to be differentiated. So Love Sack, you know, start with the giant beanbags. They were unique, especially in their day. There's tons of copycats out there now. [16:24] Sactionals are extremely unique. The problem is they photograph just like any other sectional sofa. Like if you took an image of Sactionals and an image of one of, you know, out of any competitor that sells couches, ours looks a lot like theirs. But the difference, the differences are myriad in terms of their washability, changeability, quality, and modularity, and many of those aspects, especially on the modular side, are patented at LoveSac. And so once you dig into it, you find that that's the number one driving factor, is we have a product that's truly differentiated, truly gives more value to the customer, and therefore, we can extract more from the market. It's really that simple, right? And that's at the root of why our CLV to CAC ratio it was so high and sustainable and cash-generative and profitable. And then we could go down all kinds of other paths. We could talk about our website, execution and stuff like that. And all of it needs to be there. Look, running a business is multifaceted and difficult. But at the root of it is that. Jason: [17:27] For sure. One of the things I sort of admire about your company is the original premise was not to have a particular go-to-market strategy. It was to have this great product that people wanted to have in their lives, right? And it feels to me like that, the whole quote unquote D to C movement, like this notion that before you solve any other problem, you're just gonna put a flag in the ground, like this is how you're gonna go to market, that just, it just seems silly because that may not be how the customer wants to acquire your product. Shawn : [18:00] Yeah, I think you're right. And I think that, so I think that whole movement that we're a part of, so I don't mean to like bag on the movement. I'm just an observer as well. Like I've been living in it, right? And we put, and I'm being really transparent, we put on those clothes very intentionally. [18:16] Because people that planted those flags were getting funded. People that planted those flags were being understood at the time. And these movements come. Right now, I could hold up a flag that said AI on it and go out there and raise a bunch of money and do something. And in the end, 99 out of 100 of those, flags are going to fall by the wayside after having tons of money thrown at them and Probably 1% of them will go on to you know be the next Googlers or who knows what right? But these movements come and go and and and I'm and this is what I'm saying You gotta be careful. I'm not bagging on the movement because these movements are useful these movements drive economic activity these movements drive innovation But they're often way overhyped, not as, I think, not as, so, you know, I mean, we could get into AI, you guys are, I'm sure, tracking it just like I am. What does that even mean? Oh, you mean like software? You mean like software that, that does stuff in an automated fashion? Like is that, is that, is it really that new? But it doesn't matter. It's a story that's being heard. It's a story that's being understood and it's where the momentum is. And so if you're able to wield, take advantage of these movements in the marketplace to your end, that's what, and that's exactly what LoveSack did. We put on those clothes, we took a concept that had been around for a long time, our concept. [19:42] And look, in the end, the thinking and the development and even like, let's say the web services and all the things available to that movement that The Value and Overhype of Market Movements [19:49] were spun up because of that movement, we benefited from. The money raising pricing aside, momentum, going public, whatever, all these things aside. So that's why I'm saying I think that there is value in these movements, but fundamentally, you still need to have a great business, a great product, something that's truly differentiated, because anyone with some funding can go out, buy a logo, buy a name, and look like they know what they're doing. Jason: [20:20] And yeah, for sure. And to your point, there's a, there's a funny data by going around in, in our industry this week that like over a hundred million dollars or I'm sorry, Amazon's GMV is, I'm sorry, a hundred billion dollars of Amazon's GMV is from AI. And you hear that and you're like, oh my God, that's huge. And then you find out it's product recommendation tiles that they launched in 1997. Shawn : [20:45] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jason: [20:47] Which, yeah. Yeah, so I do just want to like kind of wrap up this section, but put it in context. When you open that first store in a mall, like the mall competition for furniture stores was like Expressions Furniture, right? Which no one on this call would even remember probably. And then like by the time you really, after your IPO and really caught fire, you were competing directly against all these D to C companies that were expanding in malls. You were probably competing for leases. Shawn : [21:18] Yeah. Jason: [21:19] It's quite the, quite the journey. Now, Scot mentioned at the beginning of the show that you had recently started a podcast and I'm two part question. How the heck did you have time to start a podcast and tell us what the premise behind the podcast is and what you're talking about? Shawn : [21:36] Sure. Yeah. Just to comment first on what you pointed out, there is this whole strip in the malls now out there right now. But by the way, in these shopping malls that I was told were dead, you know, I could read the headlines of shopping malls are dead back in 2001 when I was opening my first shopping mall and I was forwarded those kind of emails by friends and family who were concerned. And here we are in 2023 and while these things change, they take decades to change. Meanwhile, they've evolved and you have all of these direct consumer players now and it It just cycles through, you know? What the players inside of these shopping centers happen to rotate, and I've watched it all evolve, and by the way, they're rotating again, because a lot of those players are not viable. Some of the best ones, biggest ones, you know? Like, concepts like Peloton, who I think is amazing as a concept, you know? They have their struggles, and so we watch these things evolve. In terms of, the podcast is relevant to this. Let me explain why. We had the chicken, I'm going to go, given the nature of what your podcast is, I'll give you a much broader picture than just, hey, why am I recording a podcast on my own and writing a book? [22:55] It works like this. We had the chicken before the egg. Sactionals being the chicken, we discovered, as we observed and had success with it, we believe are so successful because they are are built to last a lifetime and designed to evolve. Like those two attributes in our product are quite unique. And those two attributes underpin what we call our designed for life philosophy. Sactionals: Built to Last, Designed to Evolve [23:21] I did not found Love Sack to make products that are super sustainable, sustain hyphenable. In other words, things that actually sustain. Who's talking about that? I was just trying to survive. I made a big beanbag, people liked it. Made a couch because people were asking about couches. who has solved all these problems, observed the success, and that success was rooted in the fact that things were built to last, designed to evolve. Now that's led us to this whole philosophy that will inform our innovation on every product going forward, and it's why I'm so confident that we can continue to succeed, is because of this design philosophy that I'm sharing with you openly. Because it's one thing to say it, it's another thing to execute to it. That's the hard part. It's the execution that's the hard part, you know? Now, that said... [24:08] I'm trying to drive a movement. I believe that there are many people that are sort of aware now that we have been conned into buying too much crap. New season, new collection, the merchandising hamster wheel, new iPhone, now it's got a titanium band. Really? Everyone knows. No, it's not even hidden. It's not even like a secret. it. This whole hamster wheel called planned obsolescence that was not an accident, it's absolutely an economic strategy to lift us out of the Great Depression and onward. And it has roots all the way back to Louis XIV. What's my point? The world has just, I guess, accidentally, not so accidentally, fallen into all kinds of rhythms that are unhealthy, unsustainable, and not good for anyone, not good for the environment, not good for people, you know, we're frenetically chasing out. Now my jeans are too tight, now they're too loose, now they're too long, now they're short, now I got, now they got to show my ankles, now they got to drape over my, like, this is not an accident. This is a self-propelling machine that we have created. What's my point? I believe we can drive a movement amongst people to reject that. And I believe factionals is one of the embodiments of that. Things built to last a lifetime are designed to evolve. So that movement is actually my long-term strategy. [25:33] In the near term, I need to... One of the ways that we will reach people besides buying advertising and using it to drive a strong CLV to CAC ratio is through... I don't know, even podcasts like this is through people finding our brand, finding out about me, finding out about the company through... Whether it be me, whether it be through the goodwill of our customers, sharing this or that, the other. And so I wrote a book called Let Me Save You 25 Years. It's our clever story Driving a Movement for Sustainable Consumerism [25:59] at Love Sack. It's really great. I think it launches in January. I spun up a podcast called Let Me Save You 25 Years where I share my own entrepreneurial mistakes, miracles, and lessons of the Love Sack story. That's the subtitle of the book. That's the spirit of the podcast. I talk to successful people, some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs and successful people about these concepts. And it's not an interview podcast. We go really deep into some of these concepts. So my long-term goal ultimately, is to write another book that can help drive this consumer movement that I'm describing because I think if we can get a little bit of luck and get people thinking about these things and then eventually seeking out. Products that can do this, and just a lifestyle that is supported in the way that I'm describing. Buy better to buy less. Buy better stuff so you can buy less stuff. Well, obviously, LoveSack will benefit from that as a company that makes better stuff. And so, look, it's a long, long, long, long way around, but you asked the question, and I'm totally serious about that. Scot: [26:58] Yeah. So I'm gonna guess you're not a fan of fast fashion. Shawn : [27:03] No, I mean, that's obviously gonna be I made the topic of the book, you know? Scot: [27:06] And I'm not. Jason's a huge Xi'an fan, so you just really hurt his feelings. No, I'm just kidding. Jason: [27:11] Hey, I wore a Patagonia, a used Patagonia jacket in honor of tonight's show. What are you talking about? Shawn : [27:18] You are speaking my language, man. And look, it's not even about being a tree hugger. I think that people have a brain. And people, I think, are waking up to the idea after the iPhone 15, that holy crap, Apple probably should have been forced to innovate a long, long time ago. Biggest company on planet Earth because they sell us the same thing every year or two. Had we not allowed them to do that, they would have had to use their enormous treasure and enormous skill base to innovate into other categories and and change the world. Instead, we've allowed them to sell us the same thing every year. Scot: [28:06] That's an interesting ethos. Having built a company, about how many people are in your company at this point? Shawn : [28:12] Total about 1,500. It's about 400 at the headquarters and another 1,000 out in the field-ish. Scot: [28:19] Yeah, you're at that phase where there's people at the company that you've never really met before. And it's awkward because they always expect you to know their name and they all know your name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So when you get a company to that scale, how do you keep innovating? And, you know, one of the ones that I really love that you guys have done is the Stealth Tech. I think that's genius because I love AV and like having a really immersive experience. And I'll let you explain what it is, but, you know, my wife hates the big black speakers that I try to put all over the house. So I think it kind of solves like six problems in one. So A, maybe let listeners know a little bit more about what we're talking about. And then be I'd love to hear like how do you guys you know it's really hard to kind of you know ideas are easy and execution is hard on execution. It's really hard to like you know nail what you're doing and you have a lot going on and then like keep innovating. How do you how do you like get the org functional that way? Shawn : [29:16] Yeah. I mean, I think number one is you have to, you have to really want it, you know, not, not just like, Hey, I want to, I want to get, I want to get more business. I want to sell more stuff. Obviously there's that. But this ethos that I just kind of unpacked for you that, that we tripped stumbled into does the design for life ethos animates this organization. Like, it is a lot of, it is very motivating to think about, holy cow, now that we know our purpose, and it's been identified, right? Inspiring humankind to buy better so they can buy, you know, everyone's like, it was purpose, purpose, purpose, and hire some consultant, you know what I mean? But for real, if you have something that's truly unique, and it's meaningful, it's not just like words on the wall, it really is motivating, it's exciting. Scot: [30:11] And you bake baked in the products have to get better too, right? Like you, that's not well, so you have to support it. Shawn : [30:17] That's exactly right. Like, yeah, like we have to make stuff that's built to last a lifetime and design to evolve, which is really hard because if it was easy, everyone would do that. And here I am telling you openly about it. Like that's what we're going to do. And I'm not afraid to tell you because most companies won't do it because it's just freaking hard. Like it's a lot easier. Like why doesn't love sack? You know, you brought up stealth tech. So Stealth Tech is full Harman Kardon surround sound, no quality sound loss audio. Perfect audio emanating from your couch through the phone through the next layer of fabric and through the decorative layer of fabric that's washable, changeable, removable, tuned down to the color of that fabric so that the audio is perfect rear, front, center, subwoofer, invisible, beautiful, because you don't see it, it looks just like a couch, and it has all that packed in there, it's radically successful. It's been, it's now a huge piece of our business. And nobody saw that coming, because what would they expect a couch company to do next? A couch beanbag company. An end table, a coffee table, a rug, a lamp, you know, decorative accessories, get into the bedroom, who knows, right? Like the obvious stuff. Scot: [31:32] Meatballs. Shawn : [31:32] And what, yeah, right? Why did we do that? We anyway, we saw the opportunity and we also invented it. So one is, Innovation and the Evolution of LoveSack's Product Line [31:40] to answer your question, a lot of play. We are constantly at our innovation lab playing. So it's not just consumer-led insights, which is a big piece of what we do, but it's also a lot of inventions. You gotta have teams to invent. You gotta have engineers. You gotta have, so you gotta support that. So there's a cost structure there. And that's why LoveSack is quite profitable, but not as profitable as it could be in the future, because we are investing in innovation. And there's a lot of heads. there's a lot of engineers, there's a lot of designers doing things. Now they're not just all running around playing, they also have a very disciplined approach to executing on innovation, like launching Stealth Tech a couple years ago, and bringing that to market, which is a heavy lift because it's our invention, it's our patents, and it was not easy for this beanbag company to get into home electronics in a real way. [32:29] We've done, I think, more than 100 million in home electronic sales and making us a pretty, a pretty big player in that space, believe it or not. Already, and I don't think most people even, you know, would think that. But we're, you know, totally serious about it. So, innovation, wrapped around an inspiring path to innovation, I think is the key. Do you have an inspiring path, or are you just trying to make more stuff? Because if I wanted all those things I mentioned, like I'm over here in Asia right now, I'm in Hong Kong. And if I wanted a whole line of living room furniture with our logo on it to make myself feel good, I could have it in four weeks. The suppliers will do it for me. They've been doing it for 30 years over here for all the biggest brands you can think of, you know? And we could give them some designs and give them some ideas and let our, I mean, it's so easy to just source stuff. I'm talking about, you know, product land. Now we're talking fashion, talking furniture, talk any category you want, the same is true. But to truly invent stuff's a lot harder. And that's why I think we've had success, that's why I think we will continue to have success. Jason: [33:35] Yeah, you know, so I am interested, I mean, obviously the product has to be the lead in solving that real problem for a customer. But I do think another helpful aspect to your business is that in order for those products to be successful, like, they have to be demonstrated somehow. Like, per your point, the catalog for the StealthTech sectional looks just like the catalog for a generic sectional. And so I'm thinking you having your own showrooms was a big advantage for being able to tell the story. And ironically, I'm not sure you opened that first showroom because you recognize that problem. It sounds like you opened that first showroom because you had no other way to get distribution. Shawn : [34:21] Oh yeah, yeah. And that's why I'm not taking any claim as some kind of marketing genius. We just kind of tried to survive in the beginning. And opening a showroom was actually a reaction to being rejected by the big furniture guys, because they didn't, you know, want our product, they didn't believe in us, whatever. They couldn't see it. And so thankfully, it went that way. And by the way, they weren't showrooms, they were stores. We were a furniture store for a decade and a half. And we did all the furniture store things. And we sold merchandise, and you pulled your car around and we loaded you up, believe it or not, or we shipped to you. And it took us a long, long time to, after copycatting all those furniture stores and hiring merchandisers and window dressers and all those kinds of things from our competition to do that stuff in our stores. [35:14] To make that pivot to the direct consumer model that we operate on today that obviously looks very prescient in today's model. Now, the reason I think we've been so successful at it is because we had those 15, 20 years to get really good at operating now 250 locations across every state, almost in the United States of America, where people are fighting and bickering and hiring and firing and touching each other, whatever it takes. The point is operating physical showrooms is not something you get good at in a day or a week or a year just because that seems like the next thing to do. We have a website, now people need to see our stuff, to your point. And that's the approach I think a lot of the direct consumer brands have taken. And I don't think that they realize how hard it is to be profitable at retail and how many pitfalls there are. Where if I want to get a little better at digital marketing, which I think we're pretty good at now, but I can hire that. I can agency that, I can platform that. And so I think that the physical side of things is really underestimated. And so thankfully, our very long haphazard history has played out in our favor in that realm. And I think it's a huge strength of ours, because by the way, now that the economy's pulling back and this and that, we're 250 locations ahead of most that are just really coming around to the marriage of physical with digital and not realizing that, You know, it's not something you can just turn on and be good at. Jason: [36:44] Yeah. And I think it's you, you rightly pointed out that like the whole landscape of DTC hasn't been particularly successful. There's not a lot of wins, but the, the people that are outperforming the average, even one thing they all have in common is they all have some kind of physical footprint to, to reduce CAC, right? So they're either have their own stores or they, they are white selling through wholesale, or they're, they're in front of customers in some way, The Strength of LoveSack's Physical Showrooms in the DTC Landscape [37:09] other than, than Facebook ads. Yeah, I, I did. I think there's a super interesting new evolution. I thought I read about though. So like Amen stores and showrooms are super complicated. People wildly underestimate how many mistakes you can, you can make owning and operating a retail store. And now, now that you seem to have that clicking, you guys are bringing the retail store to the customer's driveways. Is that true? Like talk to us about the mobile concierge. Shawn : [37:37] Yeah, so just like we're innovating in product, we're also always innovating go to market. So whether it's mobile concierge, which is a lovesack trucks, where you can, you know, from the comfort of your home, have us pull up in the driveway and show you our products, which we've which we've dabbled in, and have tested into. And we'll see, you know, where that goes. I think that that has its own just like retail has its own complications, but also more, I think, more. I guess scalable already is Shop and Shop. So our showrooms right now in shopping malls, they're only like 800 square feet. So obviously the metrics are great, right? We're selling very big ticket items out of very tiny footprints with a small staff. There's just good metrics. And I don't hide from that. That's been a big part of our success, right? So we chose a good category in that way. We chose a terrible category in the sense is that the home category has all kinds of other issues. Jason: [38:38] Not the easiest category to deliver the product. Shawn : [38:41] Yeah, I mean, there's delivery, but there's also just the cyclical nature. You couple that with the idea that, look, we are selling you something that we are intending you to have for decades. My sectionals in my home are 16 years old, some of them, made with brand new pieces, made with Stealth Tech. That's pretty cool. On the other hand, unless we give you Stealth Tech and other reasons to come back, like, you know, you've got your satchels and you've made your investment. And so look, we deal with cover. So we're innovating on product, we're innovating on go to market, shop and shop. So these thousand square foot showrooms have been very useful for us. We have 200 square foot showrooms inside of Best Buy's or Costco's, where our people are basically checking you out and allowing you to kick the tires on the product. And then look, whether you buy there or whether you go back and buy online, we don't care. We built an agnostic platform where we just want you to be in the family. So I think these are things that have evolved over time and you've got to test and learn, whether it's mobile concierge, as you described, whether it's shop and shops. And these tests and learn activities can take years to play out and really take to scale and stuff like that. And so I think in this day and age of, hey, I'm gonna go raise a ton of money and build my company to X revenue and exit for X multiple, which is I think Testing and Learning: Mobile Concierge and Shop and Shop [40:05] what drives a lot of entrepreneurial activity. [40:09] That kind of mentality just doesn't have the staying power necessary. And that's why you see so many of these brands reach a point where they have to be retooled, like some of them are going through now. And look, they've made someone rich. Sometimes these founders find ways to squeeze a bunch of money out of it, or private equity tosses the hot potato to the next guy and they make a ton of money out of it. But in the end, what's left? a brand that is at scale, doesn't make money, and can't go anywhere. So my point is you gotta have the stomach to grind it out, to spend the time, to really slow cook some of these things, and to be flexible when they don't work, and shut them down and move on to the next. And so constantly innovating on go-to-market, constantly innovating on product, and really putting in the time and energy it takes to refine concepts, you know. Scot: [41:03] I know we're running up against time, and you've obviously spent a lot of time thinking about this. I know your goal is to bring this ethos out, but if you think about retail and e-commerce, what do you think the next five years hold? You talked about AI. There's a lot of this stuff that's temporal, but anything you think that you believe is going to change the way we shop and buy, either in-store or online? Shawn : [41:29] Yeah, look, I think that it will just continue to evolve, and so I think AI is real. I think it will play a transformative role, and I think everyone's trying to figure out exactly what that is, and nobody really knows yet. I wish I could just give you a clever answer, but I think I've witnessed, AI's transformative role in the future of technology [41:53] you know, that's What's the benefit of having a 25-year perspective is it's like I was saying about shopping malls. The mall is dead, headline from 2001. TV is dead, headline from 2008. Here we are with both of them still intact. By the way, TV advertising is still a big piece of our marketing spend. I know that's kind of mind-blowing because it seems like everybody's cut the cord or gone to this extreme. And I'm just telling you, these movements take decades. And so while it's great to be ahead of a movement, you don't, unless you are trying to drive that movement, like unless you are trying to take advantage of that AI, boom, to go raise money and wave that flag or whatever. [42:40] I've found it's okay to be a laggard. It's not always beneficial to, unless you're trying to build your concept around that and take advantage of that movement itself, let the movements evolve. So I can't give you a great prediction of exactly what's going to happen. AI is important. But how, where the winners will actually be and what the effects will actually be, I think it's way too early to tell. But I do think it's important to keep your finger and keep watching and eventually, you know, to find the connection and lean into that to affect your business. You have to be a little bit patient, I think. Jason: [43:27] Yeah, well, certainly 25 years in, I think you've earned your patience creds, by the way. Shawn : [43:35] Maybe too much. Jason: [43:37] Yeah, I mean, there's pros and cons to both. Urgency can be useful in certain circumstances, but short time horizons come with a lot of problems, as you have rightly pointed out. That did lead me to one sort of thought question. And you, you referenced some of your, your CAC economics and side note, we've, we've one of the, our favorite guests on the show is this professor Dan McCarthy. Who's, who's a huge advocate for cohort analysis and customer lifetime value based businesses. And so he would be thrilled that you're on, because I know you guys disclose some of your cohort metrics in, in your financial statements, which he loves. And to me, you're in a really interesting category to do that because although your product has invented a reason for customers to come back and you've sort of turned a product into a system, it's not like a fast cycle, right? Like, and so like when you're thinking about like a time horizon for LTV, and you guys have a very good return on your CAC, but compared to most companies, your CAC still is really high, right? Like, you sell a lot of product to compensate for that. Shawn : [44:57] Yeah. Jason: [44:58] So how, like, you know, you're spending five or six hundred bucks to acquire a customer and then you're earning thousands of dollars on each of those customers. Like, was it difficult to sort of have the financial discipline to have a long enough time horizon to see those sorts of high CLVs come back for that initial customer acquisition? Shawn : [45:23] Yeah, I mean, you could call it discipline. In our case, again, it was just survival, being really transparent. You know, we were just trying to find a way to make this business work, and we weren't profitable right out of the gate. It took us many years to get better at retail, to get better at e-commerce, to have a shopping cart experience that was commensurate to the product, because that's really hard with our product. Our product is really weird and complicated. And so that's something that's overlooked with Lovesack. And I think a lot of our copycats and competitors are realizing that. You can't just use a Shopify checkout if you're going to sell something as dynamic as, let's say, factionals where, you know, you can buy a bunch of these and a bunch of those and combine them in a million different ways. How do you, how do you shopping cart that? How do you Amazon that, you know? And so, and so these are superpowers that we've developed over a long time and thankfully given it enough time to become profitable. So to answer your question about, you know, patience, I think part of it is just been our lot in life to, to be, to have patience forced on us. But secondly, real discipline around. [46:32] Our CLV and CAC metrics. So we are, we are, and have been for a long time, carefully monitoring them, tracking them, constantly innovating and refining on the marketing side, these things that I mentioned, whether TV, you know, over the top, linear, nonlinear, digital marketing with its 500 heads, you know, like I'm talking about species of digital marketing, it's such a big word, right? I have to be constantly and tirelessly refined and risk taken and stuff tried and stuff failed and all rolled it and it all rolls up into that CLV to CAC ratio that you can hope you can keep moving and then couple that with innovation so that people can come back and buy more. And so thankfully, look, we chose a category with a high ticket and that drives the lion's share. That first purchase drives the lion's share of that CLV to CAC relationship. But our long-term point of view now is not only to find other ways that we can do more of that, maybe even in other categories and adjacencies. [47:32] But also give like StealthTack, give people a reason to come back and add on. And then by the way, when they do come back, then they face the consequence of, well, what do I do with some of these things that I need to, let's say, I get StealthTack and I got to swap out two of my sides. Well, okay, the obvious answer is I don't want to throw those in the trash. We don't want them throwing them in the trash and they may not need another couch in another room. So it's leading us to services, trade in, trade up, recycle, you know, all kinds of things that will again, give us more reasons to reach out and touch that customer. And so I think that if you relentlessly pursue. [48:13] A good concept with good intentions being driven by good philosophy and purpose like I've described, it's been my experience that the universe kind of unfolds for you, but it doesn't do it overnight. And you can't just have a, at least in my experience, you can't just have a master plan and be like, we're gonna do this and then that and that. You have to iterate to it. You have to observe, you have to live some, like when we launched Stealth Tech, we just, you know, it's easy now to look back in hindsight and be like, well, of course people are gonna want to or trade in their sides or do whatever. But some of those things aren't always so apparent. And you need to plunge yourself into the pool, see what comes of it, and then react to that. And some of those reactions can take years to unfold. Like some of these services that I just described and whatnot, they'll take us years to manifest. [48:59] But the nice thing is, the core business can generate profits that will carry us to that and we'll invest some of those profits in that innovation that I'm describing. But it's like, it's just relentless, man. It's tiring. It's like you have to have the stomach to go the distance. And that's where the time horizon, look, I'm a big advocate of it. Culturally, you know, like when my whole organization knows, like the theme of our manager fest a month ago, this is where we all get together once a year, was 25 and 25 more. And I'm not kidding. Like my personal point of view, if I'm allowed to be here as a public company CEO, if I do good enough to stay in the seat, which is inherent, and that's why I love the structure. It forces you to be awesome, you know? [49:45] If I can do that, but the fact that my organization knows that I'm in for another 25, you know how grounding that is and stabilizing that is, as opposed to, man, when's Sean's gonna sell his stock and bail and go start his next company? That's what I'm supposed to do, isn't it? That's how I become a bazillionaire, isn't it? I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in building something. And I think that that, I don't know, desire is actually kind of rare these days. Long-Term Vision vs Quick Profit [50:14] I think everyone just wants to be a bazillionaire as fast as they can. Jason: [50:17] Oh, for sure. Yeah. Everybody's assuming you're going to cash out and invest in your first rocket. Shawn : [50:24] Yeah, whatever. And I think it's sad. Look, I'd love to make a ton of money, whatever. That's all great. But whatever happened to the ambition of let's build something awesome, no matter how long it takes. And that's where I'm at. Jason: [50:41] Yeah. Well, Sean, it's been an amazing run so far. This is going to be a great spot to leave it because we have used up our allotted time, but I know listeners are going to appreciate you saving them the first 25 years, and we're going to be super excited to watch what happens in the next 25. Shawn : [50:57] Thank you. Thank you. Scot: [50:59] We really appreciate it, Sean. I know you're in Hong Kong, you're in the middle of your day there, and we appreciate you coming on the show. If folks want to check out your podcast, where would you point them to? Shawn : [51:09] Yeah, wherever you love listening to podcasts, Let Me Save You 25 Years is the name. LetMeSaveYou25Years.com. You can find me on social media, Sean of Lovesack. I'm all over that and love to be connected, slide into my DMs. I mean, I love talking to customers, friends, peers, being very accessible and looking forward to building the movement. Of course, Lovesack.com. We're easy to find. Scot: [51:33] Trey Lockerbie 41 Yep. And the book's coming out in January and I assume it's going to be in all the usual places. Shawn : [51:37] Sean O'Toole 41 All the usual places. Yeah. Let Awesome. Jason: [51:45] Thanks again and until next time, happy commercing!  

Afsnit 489 Casper Christensen. Casper er en af de helt store komikere, manuskriptforfattere, TV-værter, radioværter og personligheder vi har herhjemme. Om du kender ham fra Langt fra Las Vegas, Tæskeholdet, Mandrillen, Husk lige tandbørsten eller Klovn, så har vi alle én Casper vi kan huske. For Casper er mester i at lægge sit liv og sin person om - Hvilket vi bl.a. snakker om i dagens afsnit. Caspers bidrag til den danske underholdningsindustri har slået bølger i vandene i flere årtier - og kommer uden tvivl til at slå i mange årtier endnu. Og efter dagens afsnit, kan du muligvis blive lidt klogere på hvorfor. Går fornøjelse, Christian.

Joining us for the second of several episodes recorded at the Wizeline remote podcast studio/beach cabana at Mandalay Bay during Shoptalk 2023 is Carrie Baker, President of  Canada Goose, the performance luxury brand that has grown to more than 50 of its own stores, along with an expansive online and global wholesale presence. In a wide-ranging interview we learn about the brand's legendary history and its unique positioning in the luxury retail world. We get Carrie's perspective on the complementary role of direct-to-consumer and whole partnerships in driving growth while maintaining a memorable and authentic experience. We learn the origin of Canada Goose's truly remarkable "Cold Rooms," the role of innovation, and how the company works to assure authenticity. We also discuss its recently launched resale program. As usual we kick-off with a fast-paced review of the week in retail news, including the US Census Bureau's monthly sales report which suggests more storm clouds on the horizon.Then we un-pack Amazon CEO Andy Jassey's Annual Letter, which points to expected continued economic headwinds but a commitment to figuring out a physical retail strategy for grocery. Then it's a quick jaunt to the Wobbly Unicorn Corner touching on Walmart's unloading of Bonobo's, Caspers fire sale of its Canadian business, and Rent the Runway's continued profitless prosperity.  We close calling BS on UBS's blaming e-commerce for the predicted shutting of  50,000 stores.World Retail Congress Offer: Select Guest, and use offer code WRCRR20 for 20% off your Retailer Pass. About CarrieRecognized as a dynamic and collaborative leader, Carrie oversees the global commercial business, as well as Marketing, Experience, and Insights. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, she is responsible for driving the company's growth and customer engagement. In her previous role as President, North America, she established a high-performance team and led the region's significant business acceleration. Carrie previously held the roles of Chief of Staff and Chief Communications Officer, helping lead the company through critical initiatives including its successful IPO and development of its industry-leading Sustainable Impact Strategy. Prior to joining Canada Goose in 2012, she was a Senior Vice President at a North American communications agency specializing in coaching executives and building the brands of some of North America's largest retail, technology and consumer goods companies. Carrie was named WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women Canada in 2019 and serves on the Board of Directors of Trillium Health Partners Foundation.About UsSteve Dennis is an advisor, keynote speaker and author on strategic growth and business innovation. You can learn more about Steve on his       website.    The expanded and revised edition of his bestselling book  Remarkable Retail: How To Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption is now available at  Amazon or just about anywhere else books are sold. Steve regularly shares his insights in his role as a      Forbes senior contributor and on       Twitter and       LinkedIn. You can also check out his speaker "sizzle" reel      here.Michael LeBlanc  is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice.   He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience, and has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career.  Michael is the producer and host of a network of leading podcasts including Canada's top retail industry podcast,       The Voice of Retail, plus  Global eCommerce Leaders podcast, and The Food Professor  with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois.    You can learn more about Michael   here  or on     LinkedIn. Be sure and check out Michael's latest venture for fun and influencer riches - Last Request Barbecue,  his YouTube BBQ cooking channel! 

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik & Clare ! This week we are welcoming Clare onto the podcast! Katie will forever be in our hearts & who knows, there may be 3 of us one day tehehe. Join us this week as Nik covers The Doodler. Sit back, smoke a lil j, and listen to us stumble through lmaoALSO if you have any audio experience and can tell us why our mics are crackling / glitching randomly,,, please email us at killerkushpodcast@gmail.comSocial Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Link to full transcript at https://www.fluentfiction.org/... Fluent Fiction - Norwegianwww.FluentFiction.org/Norwegia... Invisible No More: Casper's Journey Story Transcript: Nb: Casper var en gjennomsnittlig fyr som bodde i den lille byen Riverton. En: Casper was an average guy living in the small town of Riverton. Nb: Han hadde en god jobb og mange venner, men det var noe som manglet i livet hans. En: He had a good job and plenty of friends, but there was something missing in his life. Nb: Han følte ofte at han ikke ble hørt eller sett. En: He often felt like he wasn't heard or seen. Nb: En morgen våknet han med en merkelig følelse. En: One morning, he woke up with a strange feeling. Nb: Da han så seg i speilet, kunne han ikke se speilbildet. En: When he looked in the mirror, he couldn't see his reflection. Nb: Plutselig innså Casper at han hadde makten til å være usynlig. En: Suddenly, Casper realized he had the power to be invisible. Nb: Til å begynne med syntes Casper at hans nyvunne superkraft var spennende. En: At first, Casper thought his newfound superpower was exciting. Nb: Han kunne ikke tro lykken sin og begynte å spille praktiske vitser på vennene sine. En: He couldn't believe his luck and started playing practical jokes on his friends. Nb: Han trakk bort stolene deres når de skulle sitte, fylte rommene deres med ballonger og byttet til og med TV-kanaler mens de så på. En: He pulled their chairs away when they were about to sit, filled their rooms with balloons, and even changed the TV channels while they were watching. Nb: Det hele var i god moro og alle likte overraskelsen. En: It was all in good fun and everyone enjoyed the surprise. Nb: Men etter en stund begynte Casper å føle seg ensom. En: But after a while, Casper started to feel lonely. Nb: Uansett hvor hardt han prøvde, kunne han ikke bli sett eller hørt. En: No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't be seen or heard. Nb: Han var fortsatt den samme personen, men han satt fast i skyggene av alle andres liv. En: He was still the same person, but he was stuck in the shadows of everyone else's life. Nb: Han begynte å føle at han ikke hørte hjemme noe sted og at ingen engang la merke til ham. En: He began to feel like he didn't belong anywhere and that no one even noticed him. Nb: Uten andre alternativer bestemte Casper seg for å bruke sin usynlighet til noe større. En: With no other options, Casper decided to use his invisibility for something bigger. Nb: Han tenkte at hvis han kunne gjøre noe som gjorde stor innvirkning, kanskje noen ville legge merke til ham. En: He thought that if he could do something that made a big impact, maybe someone would notice him. Nb: Casper begynte å planlegge en serie bankran. En: Casper started to plan a series of bank robberies. Nb: Han ville bruke sin makt til å ta pengene, og la sin signatur "usynlig graffiti" som et visittkort. En: He would use his power to take the money, leaving his signature ‘invisible graffiti' as a calling card. Nb: En natt satte Casper endelig planen i verk. En: One night, Casper finally put his plan into action. Nb: Han ble overrasket over hvor lett det var å snike seg inn i banken og ta pengene. En: He was surprised by how easy it was to sneak into the bank and take the money. Nb: Han etterlot signaturen sin på veggen og følte en følelse av prestasjon. En: He left his signature on the wall and felt a sense of accomplishment. Nb: Men til hans forferdelse var det ingen som kjente igjen arbeidet hans. En: But to his dismay, no one recognized his work. Nb: Ingen visste engang at han hadde vært der. En: No one even knew he had been there. Nb: Dagen etter bestemte Casper seg for å prøve noe annet. En: The next day, Casper decided to try something different. Nb: Han skapte en usynlig bane av graffiti rundt i byen. En: He created an invisible path of graffiti around the city. Nb: Han håpet at noen endelig skulle se hva han prøvde å gjøre. En: He hoped that someone would finally see what he was trying to do. Nb: Endelig var det noen som la merke til det! En: At last, someone noticed! Nb: En ung reporter så graffitien og bestemte seg for å undersøke saken. En: A young reporter saw the graffiti and decided to investigate. Nb: Hun begynte å skrive en historie om den mystiske kunstneren, og snart snakket folk fra hele byen om Caspers verk. En: She started writing a story about the mysterious artist, and soon people from all over the city were talking about Casper's work. Nb: For første gang i livet følte Casper at han betydde noe. En: For the first time in his life, Casper felt like he mattered. Nb: Han var knyttet til verden på en måte han aldri trodde var mulig. En: He was connected to the world in a way he never thought possible. Nb: Han ble endelig sett og hørt. En: He was finally seen and heard. Nb: Casper innså til slutt at usynlighet ikke var en supermakt. En: Casper finally realized that invisibility wasn't a superpower. Nb: Det var en påminnelse om at han var en del av verden og at han hadde en plass i den. En: It was a reminder that he was part of the world and that he had a place in it. Nb: Han bestemte seg for å bruke sin makt til det gode og hjelpe de trengende. En: He decided to use his power for good and help those in need. Nb: Han ville fortsatt forlate sin signaturgraffiti som en påminnelse om at alle har makten til å gjøre en forskjell. En: He would still leave his signature graffiti as a reminder that everyone has the power to make a difference. Nb: Casper var ikke lenger usynlig. En: Casper was no longer invisible. Nb: Han var en del av noe større. En: He was part of something bigger. Nb: Han hadde funnet sin plass i verden. En: He had found his place in the world. Vocabulary Words: Casper : Casper Riverton : Riverton jobb : jobb venner : friends mangler : missing speilbildet : reflection makt : power spennende : exciting vitser : jokes stol : chair ballonger : balloons TV : TV moro : fun ensom : lonely høre hjemme : belong usynlig : invisible bankran : robberies prestasjon : accomplishment graffiti : graffiti innvirkning : impact undersøke : investigate reporter : reporter mystiske : mysterious la merke til : noticed knyttet : connected supermakt : superpower påminnelse : reminder forskjell : difference betydde : mattered

#HELLSANGELS #HELLSANGEL #OUTLAWMOTORCYCLECLUBS SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Kenneth Caspers Jr., 55, of Vacaville, charging him with being a felon in possession of ammunition, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Caspers is the fourth individual to be indicted in the Eastern District of California based on an investigation into a brutal beating at the clubhouse for the Vallejo chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. The other three defendants—Jaime Alvarez, Dennis Killough Jr., and Michael Mahoney—were indicted by a grand jury in 2022. 00:00 Here we go again 01:11 We don't know if this club was affiliated 03:19 The indictment 05:40 This is what they are trying to do to him 07:50 They're just hacks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/motorcyclemadhouse/message

I dagens episode taler vi blandt andet om nyheden om Irmas lukning, i Danmark. Derudover er vi på jagt efter det allermest elskede fastfood og prøver at finde ud af, hvorfor det virker som om at der er flere homoseksuelle mænd end kvinder? Er det bare Caspers teori?

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week we dive in to the wonders of Arizona, trams, reddit, strange internet questions, Xandra, and the very hot button topic of American laws. How slay. Have YOU ever met a murderer?Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week we talk about a broad cryptid topic with an esteemed guest, Nico! Thats right, Nik's bf is joining while Katie has tech week. Everyone tell k80 to break their mf legs!!!Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Charlotte Caspers is kunstenaar, presentator en restaurator. In de zesdelige tv-serie De kleuren van Caspers verkent ze deze zomer alle facetten van kleuren: wat maakt dat we blauw zien als koninklijk, en metalmuziek associëren met zwart? Caspers studeerde af als kunsthistoricus en reconstrueerde schilderijen voor het Tate Britain, Rijksmuseum en Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. Van 2016 tot 2019 maakte ze voor het televisieprogramma Het geheim van de Meester reconstructies van historische meesterwerken. Haar eigen kunst richt zich vaak op de natuur als basis van het bestaan, de mens als schepper, en de relatie tussen kunstwerk en toeschouwer. Lotje IJzermans gaat met Charlotte Caspers in gesprek.

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week we talk about another bit of scary tech/science! CERN, specifically the LHC, which will be turned on July 5th, 2022. Relevant indeed. This ep is quite a bit of science, and as we are not scientists, we ask for some forgiveness as we attempt to explain science that literally only the smartest people in the world understand. Slay.Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week we dive into the google AI who some engineers believe to be sentient! This is a co-episode where Nik and Katie read the transcript of the interview released on June 11th. What do you think? Is it a Person?Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week we are feeling Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. Katie shares a slimebeast original, and many tangents are explored including the possibly sentient google AI. Much to think about, and apologies for the late upload! We're going through it okay it be like that sometimes. Oooohh woaahhhh oohhh yeaahhhhh.Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week Nik reads Slenderman, and we explore a some other crimes that happened as a result of this Tall-Tale (haha get it bc he's tall??? hahahha). Apologies for the delay in posting...Katie went on vacation annndddd then went through a break up. Its brutal out here. Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

We're seeing creepy statues made from candles and crayons this week because we're discussing 2014's "House of Wax", an EP by the Insane Clown Posse! Join us as we chat about "Fat Guy Stuck In Internet", Shiba Inus, "100 Girls", Comedy Central movies, The Boogieman, screaming old women, yourdicklooksgreatinthoseheels, Ghost Busters vs normal humans, "Why Miracles Meme'd: Daisies Edition", emulation, a VERY off putting line in an otherwise perfect song, dang dirty Caspers, Playboy, & more! Find the Definitive playlist HERE on Spotify! Want to hear more from your favorite Marsh Land Media hosts? Hear exclusive shows, podcasts, and content by heading to Patreon.com/MLMpod! Buy some Shuffling the Deck / MLMpod MERCH, including our "Natty With Otters" shirt, over at redbubble.com/shop/msspod! Follow James @MarshLandMedia on Twitter, @MLMpod on Instagram, and listen to his music under "Marsh Land Monster" wherever music is found! Follow Sean on Twitter @SeanMarciniak and on Twitch @GooseVonKaiser! Join our Discord! Have fan mail, fan art, projects you want us to review, or whatever you want to send us? You can ship directly to us using "James McCollum, PO Box 180036, 2011 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618"! Send us a voice mail to be played on the show at (224) 900-7644! Find out more about James' other podcasts "Mostly Speakin' Sentai", "Hit It & Crit It", and "This Movie's Gay" on our website, www.MLMPod.com!!! Plus, download all Marsh Land Monster albums there, too!

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week Katie dives deep into identity conspiracies in Jack The Ripper 2: The Man Under the Hat. Also, what is the name of the tour guide with the hole in his pants? P.S. The Chicago World's Fair DID happen in 1893! More on this next next week. HAPPY BIRTHDAY K80!Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.Gooood Morning World and welcome to Killer Kush International!!! This week Katie dives deep into the murders of the Canonical Five, in part 1 of 2 "Jack The Ripper". Cue the special effects, the spotlights, the applause....and most importantly, pass the lighter, would ya? Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.Guess who's back back back again?! Nik tells us four separate stories he found in the beautiful land of Reddit. Yes, we still only have one mic because we are poor so pls make do with the audio. We love you each individually and don't forget to paint grandma's toes for the wedding. Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week Katie and K.C. tell a story about a group of guys in a bar in New York who decide to kill a mother fcker for money. The mother fcker lived happily ever after, and they did not. Nah jk he died too. (p.s. we have not received the second mic, so please do not hate message us if the sound quality is not as good this week aGAIN OKAY LIFE IS HARD.) Big s/o to SmithsonianMag for this story! We miss u Nik.Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.Hi, folks! Apologies for the hiatus...one of our mics broke last week and we were not able to record! Anndddd we have not received the second mic, so please do not hate message us if the sound quality is not as good this week I PROMISE ITS A PHASE IT WILL GET BETTER OKAY WE ARE SORRY WE ARE USING ONE LITTLE BITTY MIC! Anyways, Nik is fighting off COVID this week, so Katie is joined by Gabby (their childhood bestie) in talking about the Brenda Lafferty case. Shout out to our patron, Kaitlin, who requested this story! We love you and are praying we don't disappoint you....we are st*ners, tho, so what can ya do? Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.We did it, fellas...we convinced Nik to go on Reddit!!! This week Nik shares some spine-tingling Reddit true crime tales. Three sentence summary, you ask? "A lot of stories are talked about on the internet. Today, we take a few from reddit! Five!" Yeah, we're incredibly poetic, it's whatever...Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week Katie shares a few ghost stories they found on Reddit! We also pitch a brand new monsters university-esq ghost movie, for any eager producers who wish to fund us and also fund Nik's animation education.Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.We're back after a one week sick-hiatus....please forgive us for our week of unannounced silence. Being a 2o somethings and having le stomach illness is just as bad as you think it is. This week Nik explores Wendigos; a cool cryptid that eerily resembles Slenderman. The team dives into anthropology this week, too, as Nik explains possible explanations and how Wendigos came into existence. Big thank you to All That's Interesting!Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

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Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week Katie tells a story about a cannibal who cannibal-ed and lived to see the light of day. And later wrote a book about his cannibalism, which Katie calls "In the Frog" but is actually "In the Fog". Embarrassing. Anyway, Happy Spring! Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week Nik tells an American tale of a spooky little critter who lives in New Jersey (no wonder it's so spooky, he has to live in Jersey!! Har Har Har). A three hundred year old cryptic that for some reason lives in Jersey? You got it, not a high school sports team! A goat horse creature kangaroo guy who is responsible for milk-less cows. Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.Howdy y'all! Its our third rotation around the podcast with y'all! Today we tell stories from our dear friend Rob (@robynwilllson) and Nik tells the story of his time at the Edinburg Manor duh duh DUUUUH. If you like the Rotation, please send in your own stories about killers, caspers, or cryptids! We would love to read them to the world!Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week Katie tells a ghostly tale and dives into the Winchester Mystery House......and also goes on a lot of tangents. One of which is about the 1906 California Fire and San Fran rat infestation, which after a quick google search post-recording, we discovered that the fire did not indeed cause the infestation, they were just around similar time frames. People did, however, trade rat carcasses for the sweet sweet coin. Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week, Katie accidentally tells one of Nik's home-town murders. AND GUESS WHAT, Y'ALL? NIK'S MOM K N E W THE MURDERER!!! So that's pretty dope. We also talk about possibly visiting a jail, and how you guys should submit listener stories so that we can release another "Rotation" (aka, listener's story episode)Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week, Katie deeply contemplates the difference between sleepover culture and harsh religion, sort of? Nik tells a creepy little cold case that is so warm we didn't even have to microwave it. Also, theres a yucky tail in the first 10 minutes that could be triggering for some; CW: Animal abuse/death.Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week Nik & Katie both read an excerpt from Cursed Objects by J.W. Ocker. A lot of talking pre-stories in this episode, so we hope that you enjoy our annoying little voices. And guess what? NIK GOT THE GIG!!! Bazinga, Punks. Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.This week Nik & Katie both read an excerpt from Cursed Objects by J.W. Ocker. Katie calls Nik bald, then compliments his collective... hits him with the good one-two. We also try to perfect our Nordic accents, we are sorry if you are offended tehehehSocial Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.Happy almost weekend y'all! This week we dive into simulation theory and share some glitch in the matrix stories from Reddit. Please join us on this journey or weird glitches (possibly ghosts?) and year old eddies. We would kiss every one of you if we could - just FYI! Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.We're Back Bitches! This week we have some audio issues & lost our intro but no need to fear, Nik gets to talk about his favorite cult! So if you're hot & you like hot people, you will love this cult... Stay tuned for drum roll Buddhafield! Katie's 3 Sentence Summary : "Hot man teaches enlightenment. Gets a whole bunch of people together & then moves. They all realize he fucking sucks."Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.Howdy Y'all ! This week Nik leads us through the legend of Mothman & his ever growing list of sightings! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Katies 3 Sentence Summary : "Mothman, a man who is a moth. He is super fast; he never gets caught. Is he in Chicago or is he not?"Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.Mary Chrysler, it's our holiday episode!! We hope this brutal family murder can be used as a warm, comforting escape from the hectic holiday world. Anyone else hungry? We are accepting Christmas food and plant pics via gmail....don't let papa(s) down AND Don't forget follow us (on social media and in real life if you want) and submit your sound of the week via linktree!*Apologies, folks! Katie doofed and uploaded the unedited file. Here's the real one, kids!*Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush

Welcome to Killer Kush: A Recreational Podcast about Killers, Caspers, & Cryptids hosted by Nik LaMaack & Katie Luchtenburg.Happy Holidays, besties!!! Today Katie takes us on a little adventure with the famous Chicago Tylenol Murders, and the not as famous knock-off case conducted by a woman who Katie probably should have researched more. But, hey, you came here to laugh and we came here to indulge recreationally. There's quite a few side bars but you know that already. Don't forget follow us (on social media and in real life if you want) and submit your sound of the week via linktree!Social Media @KillerKushPodcastPatreon https://www.patreon.com/killerkushSubmission Forms https://linktr.ee/killerkush