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Keith explores how investors can build legacy wealth by owning productive teak timber and the land beneath it in Panama.  Mike Cobb, an international real estate developer with over 30 years of experience, explains why Panama's legal framework, economic stability, and U.S. dollar economy make it a compelling destination for first-time offshore investors.  They discuss the long-term return profile of teak, its resilience as a hard asset, and common mistakes to avoid when investing internationally, along with how a sawmill and vertical integration can enhance returns.  This discussion highlights how the strategy can diversify both geography and asset type while also opening doors to potential residency options abroad. 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They'll help you build a long-term plan for growing your real estate empire with leverage. Start your prequal and even chat directly with President Caeli Ridge while it's on your mind. Start at ridgelendinggroup.com. That's ridgelendinggroup.com.   Speaker 1  2:08   You're listening to the show that has created more financial freedom than nearly any show in the world. This is Get Rich Education.   Keith Weinhold  2:24   Welcome to GRE from Cherokee, North Carolina, to Cherokee, Panama, and across 188 nations worldwide. I'm your host Keith Weinhold. Welcome back to another Wealth Building Week. You are inside Get Rich Education, where financially free beats debt free. Today we're talking about a specific investment that is not residential real estate. In fact, it's a more primordial real estate type that predates housing. So therefore, it is lucid and intelligible. It's easy to understand. Sort of the opposite of more arcane investment like AI data centers or crypto mining. At a basic level, this makes it easy to understand, and there aren't any tenants to manage. It also does not pay you as often as monthly, though as you'll learn, there is income and appreciation is expected too. Now, if you invest outside your home country, you're probably going to want to be diligent and select a politically stable nation that also has an operator based in that region with a fantastic track record. It helps if they're close to the U.S. This small nation is close to the U.S. in both geographic proximity and economically. Their currency is even the U.S. dollar. They even share an electrical system with the U.S. with the same outlets and voltages. As you might be guessing, where I'm talking about, this nation also has a consumer culture somewhat similar to the U.S. with American restaurants and retailers and brands in our real estate world. What we find more important is how, like the U.S. this nation is a constitutional presidential republic, and both nations have these separate executive, legislative, and judicial branches, the three branches and elected presidents, in these competitive multi-party elections, and both America and this place have market-oriented economies that emphasize private property and private enterprise, banking and financial services, international commerce, logistics, ports, and aviation.   Keith Weinhold  4:49   Today, we're talking about the opportunity for you to own productive timber and the land beneath it, teak hardwood trees in Panama, a quarter-acre parcel. At a time with your name on the deed, that direct ownership is known as fee simple ownership. I have directly invested in Panama for about 11 years myself. Now, though teak might be able to survive in a climate like Hawaii, mere survival is not enough in the U.S. It is difficult to impossible to find anywhere that grows productive plantation teak. Here in the late 2020s decade, we've had bouts of El Nino or La Nina a lot of places in the world, and that has severely weakened some crop types. Other providers of different agricultural investments are failing, but not this teak. They're resilient, and we'll get into the physical properties of the teak. I'm going to ask today's distinguished guest about that. He and his business partners planted some select timber 27 years ago, and they've been offering teak hardware parcels to investors for that long, 27 years, and for about the last 10 years to GRE investors. Hundreds of you are participating now, but I'm going to wait to ask more about the physical teak product itself until later, because what's more important are the investment environment and the strength of the operator. So learn more about this and what the projected investment returns are, and just how much exactly does a quarter-acre parcel of teak cost? If you so choose, owning teak parcels also gives you the option of residency status in Panama, and you only need to spend two days there every two years in part of maintaining that status, they offer investor in-person tours of the teak plantations too because they're proud of what they do there. I expect a fascinating discussion with Mike, the teak company co-founder and CEO. This week's guest has become a friend since I met him about 10 years ago. He co-founded and is CEO of an international real estate development company. He's got active projects throughout Central America. He's been doing it for more than 30 years, so he's not a tinkerer and not trying out project concepts.   Keith Weinhold  7:26   And at this point, he's helped thousands of North Americans diversify their portfolios through international real estate ownership and residency planning, and even lifestyle investing. And if you've ever attended an investment conference on something like global diversification. You might have seen him speak there because he's such a frequent, recognized speaker and voice, and he's authored multiple books on real estate, financial freedom, expat living, and just unlocking a better lifestyle. Hey, welcome back onto the show, Mike Cobb.   Mike Cobb  7:59   Oh Keith, nice to be with you. And you're right. 10 years, we've enjoyed one another's company at many conferences. It's always great to be back with you virtually. I look forward to seeing you again personally one of these days as well. And yeah, thank you for the very kind words on the intro.   Keith Weinhold  8:14   Yeah, if I'm teetering on whether or not to attend a conference, I ask myself, is Mike going to be there? That's right.   Mike Cobb  8:20   We'll hang out,   Keith Weinhold  8:22   100% And you know, Mike, he's also an avid reader of GRE's "Don't Quit Your Daydream" newsletter. So then, clearly, he's even smarter than you've ever thought. You heard him on the show before, so you knew he was smart, but now he's even smarter than you ever knew since he's a reader. Tell us what you like about the newsletter.   Mike Cobb  8:40   You know, Keith. I gotta say, every issue that comes in, I read it. By the way, today's issue said read before Thursday, so you give me a couple days tomorrow at least to read it. Anyway, no, you know what? You are so powerfully succinct. The charts that you put in are wonderful. You were a geographer major, and and so spatial things are important. I also recognize. I love the charts. I love the graphs, and I hate to even say I love sort of the I hate to call it the trivial information, but you know enough data points that seem trivial when you put a theory around them actually become meaningful. And what you are able to do is you're able to connect dots that most people don't connect. That's the hallmark of genius, and I think you are a genius, by the way. And I think your newsletter shows that. And so, thanks for putting it out. Your readers are very, very fortunate to have you there, giving them the kinds of information that are super relevant in the marketplace at one level and on a specific level. But even more important, creating the theoretical constructs that allow them to understand the why of something's happening because you know if you understand the why of something you know it makes a lot more sense first of all but it also allows us to maybe forecast the next what coming down the pike and if we can be on the front edge of something or you know being able to look over the hill or around the bend that's. Powerful in the marketplace, and and you bring that power to your readers. Well done, man.   Keith Weinhold  10:04   Thanks. Yeah, it's not just what; it's why this matters. And that was an incredibly kind thing to say. I write every word of the letter myself, and you, the listener, you can get the letter free now@greletter.com I send it about weekly, and Mike, I know that U.S. investors, including some Get Rich Education followers, they've been increasingly looking offshore for one thing many perceive the political risk has palpably higher than it was a few years ago. So, just broadly, tell us more about what North American investors seem to be looking for.   Mike Cobb  10:42   Sure, I summed it up earlier today. I was talking with a conference organizer, and he was really giving me the hard sell on why I should come to his conference. And it's probably not a good fit. But I heard myself say it for the first time. What we really help folks do in certain spheres, but maybe in this sphere, is help people get a good night's sleep, you know, peace of mind, right? And when you've got the political turmoil, you wrote an article or a newsletter a couple weeks ago, and it was about inflation, the kinds of things that were happening, and it was so spot on. And I think your readers, and not just your readers, but people who are tuned into what's really happening from a political standpoint, a financial standpoint. There is no way you can print this much money. There's no way you can have these kinds of things going on all the time that create a huge run-up of debt, right? And it's not even the debt; it's the implications of the debt. What's going to happen next? How's this thing going to unwind, right? And so when you have all of this stuff going on. You have people who are really, really worried about their future. It's a financial future. I say there are two train wrecks. There's a train wreck of debt, which is what I just talked about, and there's a train wreck of freedom. And that train wreck of freedom is really, in some ways, a result of the train wreck of debt. But when you've got a train wreck or two train wrecks happening, we really have three choices. We can ride it out, right? Take the ride and go for the crash, right? We can do something about it, but we really have to do something about it before. I'm going to mix a metaphor here, but if you know a hurricane's coming in three or four days, you don't wait till the wind's blowing 150 miles an hour to put up the plywood, right? You get out there while the sun's still shining. You put up the plywood, and then when the hurricane hits, like you got plywood over the windows, and you can ride out the storm. And this is where I think so many people are today. They're recognizing this hurricane is coming. The problem is, is that I don't think people always know where to go get plywood, right? What do I do? How do I protect myself and my assets, right?   Mike Cobb  12:38   And what this conversation right here is about is here's one kind of plywood you can put up on your window and the diversification overseas the diversification internationally into a hard asset that is not really inflation proof because I'm not sure there is such a thing but largely inflation proof or a big a great hedge against inflation real stuff hard assets real estate timber commodity right this is. what so many people are now looking at, and then the other piece of it is you can layer in a residency, which starts to give you that political plan B. You've got an economic plan B, kind of the hedge against inflation, but you've got this residency component that gives you sort of a hedge against the political uncertainty, and 1000s of folks have moved in this direction. Several 100, I think it's about 600 folks now, have picked up the residency as part of their timber investment as well. So a lot of different things going on, but I think they do circle all the way back to this train wreck of debt and a train wreck of freedom, the political divisiveness kind of what's happening.   Keith Weinhold  13:40   Now, what if someone hasn't invested in a hard asset overseas before, Mike? I'm thinking some people might come ask you. You know, why would I do this? For example, I live in the United States, where we have a rule of law and stable, mature markets and high property ownership rights. So, why should I look to diversify internationally with hard assets,   Mike Cobb  14:01   yeah, I think there's a general answer, and then maybe a couple specific answers. Generally, you know, I would never bet against the U.S. the U.S. economy. We're the largest economy in the world. I would never bet against it, right? But I think that for prudence, we would all want to have at least another basket for a few of our eggs: 5% 10% 20% Pick. Pick a number that's comfortable, but have some of your investable net worth outside your home country. Like that's just prudent, right? Why would you have everything all in one basket? And so we see that as a general answer. Specifically, a country like Panama, where we do have artique plantations, they have public title escritora publica. It's fee simple title, but in the civil law, so it's called escritora publica. The rule of law is strong in Panama. And then the other thing about Panama that I absolutely love is you have the canal, and the canal provides both economic stability and political stability. On the economic side, it generates just. Under $5 billion a year of cash flow, year in year out, right? So just it's like an ATM machine for a country with a population of about 4 million people. Do the math on that; like that's a huge amount of money on a per capita basis, right?   Keith Weinhold  15:13   Narrow water passages have really been newsworthy for a long time now, too.   Mike Cobb  15:16   Well, they have, and just like the Strait of Hormuz, right? You know, people sometimes go. I hear it said, "Oh, the canal is a vital strategic U.S. interest. That is absolutely 100% correct. But if you're a country that produces any goods that ship, or you're a country that receives any goods by ship, that canal is a strategic interest to you, and by definition, that's every country in the world. Every country in the world wants that canal open and transiting, right? Because everybody either produces or receives or both, right? And so you've got the political stability element as well as the economic stability element. You've got the rule of law. Panama is a great, great place for that person who you mentioned who's never done an overseas investment, never gone offshore, right? What's an easy place to start? What's one of the safest places to start is Panama, and it's in this hemisphere too, so it's close. I mean, you can get there for three hours from Miami, three and a half hours from Houston. Flights all over to U.S. Canada. It's easy. So I think a lot of folks see Panama as a very, very easy way to make that first step overseas.   Keith Weinhold  16:25   I happen to know that you just flew in from Panama. You're in the United States today, but you're constantly going to Central America. You span time zones more often than almost anyone I know. You mentioned fee simple ownership in there. For those that don't know, I think of that as direct ownership, where you don't have some weird administrative government layer in there that can dilute your hard asset.   Mike Cobb  16:47   Right, you can own it in your own name, you can own it in a corporation, so it's easy to own it. But yeah, no layering, right? By the way, the Constitution treats owners who are Panamanian the same exact ways it treats all foreign owners, and actually, we do business all over Central America. The one thing that we look for is a a legal regime that protects foreigners and foreign investors the same as it does domestic. Panama does that.   Keith Weinhold  17:12   Yeah, so investing in hard asset in Panama is a bit like investing internationally with training wheels on, due to its close relationship with the United States bolstered by the Panama Canal, but yet if someone hasn't invested internationally first, there are still a few mistakes to avoid. Maybe things that one isn't aware of. Can you tell us more about that?    Mike Cobb  17:33   The biggest danger people have when they make their first foreign investment is what I call margarita madness, right? And a lot of times it happens. You're on vacation in Cancun. You're having the time of your life. You're you just went parasailing, whatever. You're walking down the beach, and some developer says, "Hey, come on up here and take a look at my condo project. You know, and we'll buy you dinner at Senior Frogs tonight. We'll give you a coupon or whatever, right?   Keith Weinhold  17:55   Right.   Mike Cobb  17:55   And a lot of people do that, and then later that night, that's Senior Frogs. They're celebrating the condo they just bought, right? I mean, it's not how we transact real estate in the U.S. and Canada. There's a due diligence process. There's a due diligence period. It takes weeks or months to transact on a property, not hours, right? And so the single biggest mistake is that, and the way that we really can resolve it. I mean, my book is all about this. In fact, you have a copy, and I think you've helped some of your your readers and listeners get copies as well. It's called "How to Buy Your Home Overseas and Get It Right the First Time, and it really boils down to three simple principles: buy what you see. Is it there? Right. Own community. Right. Make sure it's in a place where you have people around. Right? Because there are a lot of ghost towns out there, and then know the developer. Do your due diligence on the developer himself, right? So you've got these three principles, and if you follow those three principles, you could do a lot better. But I actually think there's even a better way, and it has to do with character. It has to do with us, and you know when we move to the developing world, anywhere outside of you know North America, Northern Europe, maybe Australia, New Zealand, right? We're moving from the land of seller beware, right? Think lemon laws, think Ralph Nader, think advocacy groups, you know, lots of laws and regulations that control the seller, to the world of buyer beware, where none of those laws exist, and so now you're on your own. And because we've been living and transacting our whole lives in a seller beware environment, in a bubble of protection, we're protected by the government, right? We think we are. We'll just say that anyway. But we're protected. We're in a bubble, and we move to the land of buyer beware.   Mike Cobb  19:38   The problem is we don't really know how to transact. We don't know the right questions to ask, and our single biggest advantage, our single biggest attribute or asset that we have, is actually humility, because we don't know what we don't know, and we have to forget what we think we know. Assumptions, right? We can't bring assumptions with us that hold true. Some do some. Don't right. If we approach a transaction overseas with humility, there are no dumb questions. I'm going to ask every question I can think of. I'm going to do as much research as I can within a limited period of time. I'm not going to not analysis to paralysis forever. I'm going to say, look, I'm going to spend the next 30 days. I'm going to do a ton of due diligence, and at the end of 30 days, if I like what I say, I'm going to transact, right? So you're you're not getting the deer in the headlights never to do something, right? But you know, several weeks, maybe a month or two, depending on what it is you're doing, is enough time to do really, really good due diligence. Ask all the questions you can think of, but approach it with humility. And when we do those things, we transact so much, so much better than if we just rush into it with Margarita Madness.   Keith Weinhold  20:44   Right? People get caught up in those emotions with Margarita Madness and end up with a timeshare that they can't get rid of, or something like that. You said something so interesting there, Mike. When you move from the developed world to the developing world, you move from a seller beware world, like with some of the things you have to be aware of, and like you need to give disclosures and such into a buyer beware world. I hadn't thought of it that way before.   Mike Cobb  21:08   Yeah, and really, a lot of my book and a lot of the presentations that I've given, you've seen me give over the years, really deal with what I call a change in thought process. Because mostly in presentations, right? My goal in a presentation is to help somebody change how they think, to take away the bubble and understand that they're on their own, right? It's not really their own. They have you, they have me, they have other resources, right? But they don't have this bubble of government or regulations or laws out there protecting them anymore. Now it's the individual, and as an individual, I don't want to be rugged individual. I want to find other people that can help me, right? But I have to do that as opposed to it's just there for me, right? So if I can help people change how they think, they will transact so much better. They'll make better investments. They'll make investments that work for them in ways that they want them to work for them, right? They'll achieve the goal or the dream in a much, much, much higher percentage of the cases,   Keith Weinhold  22:04   we're talking about investing antique tree hardwood plantations, principally in Panama, like you mentioned, and we're talking about one mindset about crossing borders with our investing, and another is oftentimes, at least for GRE listeners, we're crossing asset use type because we're so used to residential rental housing. So when you cross into agriculture or forestry, I guess as it is with teak, what are some of the bridges to cross there as we change use type?    Mike Cobb  22:35   The reason I love timber generally and teak specifically in Panama in this case is that most people, most people, and I hope that many of your readers aren't most people. Most investors look at 20-five years and they simply say themselves, "No way, no way. And I love that because right now teak timber is being cut down 10 to 12 times faster than anyone is replanting it. And the reason people don't replant it is because most average investors come along and say, "Oh, it's 25 years. I can't wait 25 years. Well, you know what? Good, because the folks who do decide to move ahead and plant the teak, what that means is the price of teak is very highly likely to continue to increase in value far beyond inflation. Teak wholesale teak prices have gone up five and a half percent a year on average for the last 50-three years. I think that number is going to increase largely because there's this huge psychological barrier. People think, "Oh, 20-five years, but back in 1990-eight I bought 100-acre cattle pasture in Panama, and we had a professional forestry company plant it and maintain it for the last now 27 years, and two two and a half years ago, we started building a sawmill. Our sawmill is up and running. In fact, was just down there and brought back one of our first retail products. We're producing lumber. Our first container of lumber is headed out to a distributor in Colorado next week.   Keith Weinhold  23:56   Mike's holding up a nice cutting board for those in the audience.   Mike Cobb  24:00   Nice cutting board. We're setting up an e-commerce site. We're going business to consumer with cutting board, bath mat, shelving, tables, chairs. We have our whole production facility ramping up with new retail products. So the bottom line is, is yeah, man, it does take 25 years. You know.   Keith Weinhold  24:15   The lantation to harvest cycle. That's the 25 year span you're talking about here. The patience it takes for an investor.   Mike Cobb  24:21   Thank you. Yes, absolutely. And then, as we cut down this mature plantation that we we are now harvesting right now, it gets replanted, and the next 25 year harvest. I'm 61 Maybe I'll make 86 I don't know. Maybe not. Right. But my kids probably will, and they'll get the big harvest in 25 years, and then it'll replant, and maybe they'll get a next one, or maybe it'll be the grandkids, right? And so what we found savvy investors, people who are really not your average bear, right? And they think to themselves, how can I create generational wealth stewardship? I have enough money coming in. I mean, Keith, that the I mean, you can own teak for 10 grand. You can. Own a quarter acre of teak. You own the land. You own the trees. 10 grand, like it's 9000 something or other, but 10 grand, right? I mean, the bottom line is it's such an affordable, easy investment, right? And it turns into well over $100,000 in today's numbers. Who knows what inflation? But in today's numbers, buying power, you know, 10,000 turns into 100,000 right? Over 20-five years, and so most people who do this recognize the fact that they might get the first harvest, but it's their kids, their grandkids, their great grandkids who are going to get this harvest every 20-five years thereafter. And so the 20-five year thing becomes a wonderful thing, not a bad thing. Right, it keeps many people out, which keeps the price of teak high and growing, which we like. But it also creates this cash flow period. People go, "Oh, it doesn't cash flow. I'm like, "Absolutely, it does. It cash flows phenomenally four times a century. Like you have an internal rate of return of almost 11% 10 point something, right? You have an internal rate of return of 11% and it cash flows four times a century. This is a phenomenal cash flow investment. You might get to see the first one or the second one, but you're probably not seeing three or four. But somebody else in your lineage, your family, your heirs will see it, and they will all be so happy you made that decision to own teak.   Keith Weinhold  26:22   We're talking about the ability for you to own teak parcels and the land beneath it, title in your own name, one quarter of an acre at a time. We're going to talk more about that with Mike when we come back. You're listening to Get Rich Education. I'm your host Keith Weinhold. Flock Homes helps you retire from real estate and landlording, whether it's one problem property or your whole portfolio, through a 721 exchange, deferring your capital gains tax and depreciation recapture. It's a strategy long used by the ultra wealthy. Now mom and pop landlords can 721 their residential real estate. Request your initial valuation. See if your properties qualify at flockhomes.com/gre. 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Go to freedomfamilyinvestments.com to book a clarity call or text family to 66866 That's family to 66866.   Ken McElroy  28:12   This is Rich Dad advisor Ken McElroy. Listen to Get Rich Education with Keith Weinhold and don't quit your daydream.   Keith Weinhold  28:29   Welcome back to Get Rich Education. We're talking about international investing with teak tree plantations. This isn't something experimental. We're not talking about a tinkerer here. You have to be more careful when you go overseas, and we're talking about with the owner of an international company that's been doing this for 30 years, providing international investments. But the teak tree plantation, I think, began in 1998 or 1999 Is that right?   Mike Cobb  28:56   Yeah, 98 was the purchase of the property, and in the rainy season of 99 we planted the first 100 acres. Yep.   Keith Weinhold  29:03   Yeah. Well, talk to us more about that because you talked to us about how historically teak appreciates at about 5% per year. Tell us about how we get to that 11% internal rate of return.   Mike Cobb  29:15   Yeah. Sure. I mean, so two things. One, you've got the five and a half percent a year kind of calculated out over a very long period of time, 50-three years. So that's a pretty good statistical baseline. And then the fact that your trees actually physically grow, right? I mean, back in 2008 my joke is from 2008 to 2012 While the rest of us in real estate were hating life, my trees just simply kept growing, right? They just kept growing. And so what you start off with is about 100 maybe 110, I think, trees on a quarter acre, and in the end, after all the thinnings, you end up with somewhere between 22 and 25 trees per quarter acre, and each of those trees produces about 1.2 to 1.6 cubic meters of timber. For lumber, by the way, one of the things that we are working on, and you know, look at the end of the day, you had a walk, jog, run, right? And we're in the walk stage right now, but we're harvesting out all of the other elements of the teak tree. Your lumber piece, that just you know, sell it as boards, you know, one by fours, one by sixes, one by eights, whatever it is. Ship that stuff off. That's your 1.2 to 1.6 cubic meters, but you've got other pieces of the tree. You've got stuff that's too thin, the root stock that can be turned into other things, including cellucrete with cellulose, the ground up, the sawdust itself. We're saving all the sawdust. We're going to use that for cellulite. This is the math on this. Our investors get 80% of the net proceeds after processing costs, which is 15% my company gets 20% and so we, my company, has the highest incentive to drive the highest possible return to the investor possible because I get 20% of whatever I make for the investor, and so all the numbers we use are always the net investor number, right? And we have a business plan. All the numbers are laid out. It's all there, and it's pretty easy to see how the IRR gets up. About I think it's 10.6, 10.7% I can't remember. Just under 11% but it's all in the business plan, Keith. And again, this is part of that due diligence process, right? Get a copy of the business plan. Get on the phone with one of our property consultants maybe take a trip to Panama. I just got back. We just took a group of people. Yeah, we got tours. Yeah, we have tours, and so like as part of the due diligence process, come visit, come see the trees, come see the sawmill. Right? If it's something that makes sense from a an investment standpoint, yeah, the material, the facts, and the due diligence is all there for people to be able to pick up and do over a you know several week period, you know 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, whatever it is.   Keith Weinhold  31:47   Well, let's back up because seemingly you have had really good prescience. Because when we look at world agriculture today, we see some problems. Whether some people want to call it erratic weather, other want to call it climate change, and how that's really ravaged some crops and created disruptions in certain produce. Or with coffee, you know, we've also got a cattle production problem, for example. But you've chosen something that's been really resilient. Tell us more about that resilience and just why teak of all crops and forestry.   Mike Cobb  32:22   Let me start by saying, who was it? Yogi Berra says, you know, predicting is hard to do, especially when it's about the future or something. Exactly. Yeah. Right. But I mean, look, we're talking about the future. I mean, who the heck knows, right? I mean, that's what makes it investing rather than you know something else. But teak has been grown in plantations for almost 400 years. It was started by the British in India, what was then Burman throughout Southeast Asia. And one of the things the Brits did so so well is they documented everything. They had statisticians keeping track of altitude, rainfall, soil types, different stock. I mean, just anything and everything that you could imagine, and so by the early 1900s, some of the best books about teak and teak plantation farming was written. I actually read those books in order to interview the forestry management companies in Panama that we would hire them to manage our plantation, because I don't know anything about it, right? But I wanted to be prepared to do the interviews, so I was. What amazed and fascinated me was this incredible track record of production for almost 400 years of teak as a commodity in the marketplace, and then for the last 50 years, 53 years, you know, seeing what's happened to the price of teak in that time period. Look, nobody can predict the future. Weather patterns change. Teak as a species, is very very resilient. You know, the highest quality teak is grown in very specific conditions, and the Darien province of Panama has exactly the conditions to produce the highest quality teak. If those conditions change, maybe the quality of the teak goes down. Maybe the quality of the teak goes up a little bit. Who knows, right? I mean, at the end of the day, we don't control weather. We don't control weather patterns. We don't control the future. But that thing goes back to the idea of diversification. Like, how can we mitigate against the future? I think we do that by just simply broad diversification. And if we have all of our assets and stocks, bonds, and rental real estate, we're pretty concentrated, especially if it's all in the United States, right? Our home country, for example, and so some diversification into other sectors probably makes sense. I know it makes sense for me because I think that's my way of hedging against the uncertainties of the future.   Keith Weinhold  34:37   Let's talk about the tree quality and then the sawmill, because some people don't understand that teak really has pretty special properties that maple or black cherry or oak doesn't have.   Mike Cobb  34:47   It does. It has a very very high oil content and it has a hardness that makes it extremely resistant to rot fungus, which is why it's used in the marine environment. If you look at Chris Craft. Boats or yachts. You always hear about teak, teak, teak. Teak is used in maritime environments because it holds up to the salt water-not just salt water-holds up to water, but even more so, salt water and the environment, which makes it unique. And so, even if you don't treat teak, right, you just leave it out. It turns gray, but it doesn't rot. And then you can come back. You can you know sand it and varnish it and turn it into that beautiful, rich color. It's a beautiful, beautiful wood. It's funny because it has furniture uses, outdoor furniture, patio furniture, things like that, decking. But now they're starting to use it in hardwood floors. They're using it in gates and fences and soffit materials. Again, outdoor uses, but it can be used indoors as well for very very fine furniture, which at the end of the day teak has a panache that a lot of these other woods don't have. Mahogany is certainly one mahogany. The thing about mahogany is it's softer, right? It's a softer wood. It carries some qualities in terms of the grains and the colors that make it a a very favorable product for cabinetry and other things. We actually looked at mahogany as a species to possibly grow, and it's about a 30-five to 40-year harvest cycle. And so, when we looked at that, we said, you know, we can get our heads around 20-five, and and maybe someday we will do some mahogany plantations as well. But for now, we we started with teak. Actually, when we did the analysis, I don't know if this is still true, but 27, 28 years ago, when I did the initial research and analysis, it had the best time value of money ROI.   Keith Weinhold  36:29   Ah, that's the first time I learned that. And some of these durability properties that you've been talking about really go back to my earlier question about how some more sensitive crops have been ravaged lately.   Mike Cobb  36:39   Yeah, it holds up very very well to the environment. By the way, it'll do well in pretty much everything but desert, right? If it rains too much, the teak will grow faster. Actually, it produces a less quality. The quality of the teak is less. If so, if panama's rain system changed and it started raining every day of the year, where we have it growing, teak trees would grow wonderfully. The quality of the teak would be lower, right? Still, be teak. It'd still be valuable, but not as valuable in the marketplace. So.   Keith Weinhold  37:08   Now you've been here to talk about teak before, but something that you added a few years ago was a sawmill to really bring some vertical integration there. And now you're not at the mercy, perhaps, of the price that you would need to sell to a lumberyard. Can you tell us more about how it's going with that?   Mike Cobb  37:22   Yeah, absolutely. Well, the bottom line is, is because we earn 20% of what we earn for the investor on their wood, our goal is to sell it for as high a possible price. And lumber does pretty well. I mean, you can sell logs. Let's just start there. You can cut the trees and sell the logs for X. You can turn the logs into lumber and sell it for you know whatever 578 x. You can turn it into things like cutting board, chairs, tables, a finished product, and there you're talking about you know not just five to 7x You're talking about another 10x on top of that. So that's like 30x right? I mean it's an incredible difference. So from log to finished product, it's about a 30 times differential in what you ultimately achieve out of the marketplace for return. Right now it takes longer to do it. There's more work involved, but at the end of the day, because you make more of the investor, we make more. Some of the teak is going to go out as finished product, and so we get a blended return of lumber. We don't do logs, but we're going to have a blended return of lumber and finished product that will push that yield up maybe higher than we've anticipated, which would be just fine with everybody.    Keith Weinhold  38:30   ll right, all right. Diversifying your exit, then. Well, before we learn about how we can get a hold of more information, is there any last thing that we should know about investing across international lines into teak, maybe something that I didn't think about asking you, Mike.   Mike Cobb  38:45   The only thing there is two of the teak farm parcels can be bundled together for a half acre with about a I don't know it's a seven $8,000 legal piece government fees to achieve a residency. So you can actually become a resident of Panama with the teak investment, and again coming in on about 600 folks have done the residency as well as the investment and ownership of the teak farms. So I would say that's a piece. Again, if people aren't sleeping well at night, they're worried about inflation, they're worried about social disruption, polarization, where things are headed, right? And they like the idea of the teak investment, then you know it may make sense to just do the extra government legal piece and get the residency card. I mean, I just did that. By the way, I think you know I'm a I'm a Nicaraguan resident because I lived in Nicaragua for 14 years.   Keith Weinhold  39:34   Mike is holding up his Nicaraguan ID.   Mike Cobb  39:37   but last summer I also got my Panama residency card, so now I have, y'all. I'm a U.S. resident, U.S. citizen, and I'm also a Nicaraguan. I think I held up my West Virginia driver's license. Hold on, let me go. Here's my Nicaraguan residency. Sorry, I was like, yeah. Wait a minute. Anyway, so right. So I'm a U.S. citizen, and I'm a resident of both Nicaragua and Panama. And so, this is something that a lot of folks choose to do because of the uncertainty, the political and social uncertainty in their lives. The teak itself will help with the economic uncertainty, but the residency then helps with the other two elements.   Keith Weinhold  40:15   Next time you fly in and you're doing customs in Panama City or Managua, show them your West Virginia driver's license and see how they like it. See what happens.   Mike Cobb  40:22   It wouldn't work. Hahaha.   Keith Weinhold  40:25   Well, the prices are low. You do not need to be an accredited investor in order to do this. So there's really no qualification bar to clear. There's really no limit in the number of parcels that you can buy. Some people like to purchase 10 parcels, but you can buy as little as one, and tell us more about that price.   Mike Cobb  40:42   Yeah, in fact, we've introduced Keith since the last time we talked a financing program. Oh,   Keith Weinhold  40:48   I didn't know that yet.   Mike Cobb  40:49   We did. That's a fairly new. It's a this year thing, right? So the teak parcels, I think 9890 or something, whatever. Call it 10 grand. The parcels just under $10,000.   Keith Weinhold  40:59   Okay.   Mike Cobb  40:59   Yeah, and they have a down payment and a credit card thing. I think it stretches maybe over a year or two, so it's a fairly short period. Let's people who don't have the entire 10,000 upfront who want the teak investment to be able to acquire it. And if they're doing the residency piece, the residency piece can only begin after the teak farm piece is acquired, right? But it can also lead to the residency piece over time. So yeah, and then there are some discounts on three of them and 10 of them. So we have a lot of people that actually end up getting them for. And and here's a really cool thing because it's titled in your own name, it can also be titled in a child's name or a grandchild's name. And so we have a lot of people that actually acquire them and they don't take ownership. They put it in their kid's name or their grand name. Yeah, so it's a wonderful way to move that asset already right out of the gates into the next generation or the next generation.   Keith Weinhold  41:52   So we're talking about diversifying at least twice, both internationally and then in a different asset type as well. This has been fascinating to learn about, Mike. It's just fascinating alone, I think, to learn about the geography and the teak itself. And like we touched on earlier, they do organize tours. Any reputable provider should do that. They're proud of what they offer there. Tours in the Darien province of Panama, in this case, to see your teak tree parcels. It's a really approachable price. If you want to learn more and get a report and perhaps purchase some parcels, Mike's one of our GRE marketplace providers. You can visit gremarketplace.com/teak or talk to your GRE investment coach. Mike has been fascinating as always. It's been great having you back on the show.   Mike Cobb  42:40   Nice to be here. Thank you, Keith.   Keith Weinhold  42:48   Teak is one of the more durable crops that there is. The demand for teak hardwood is substantial, and it's really growing. They have also had the same tree manager for all 27 years since the teak was planted, some real continuity there. The name of the manager is Heyo Forestall. There's a little to manage with the teak hardwood trees, like performing thinnings, and those thinnings do give investors like you intermittent income. So you're not waiting for absolutely everything for 25 years, but the income from the thinning is really small. Most of the return takes place in that 25 years, and it's interesting to me to see the profile of the GRE investor in teak because it attracts young investors, and maybe that's because the cost of entry is so low. It also attracts older investors because they more often have an eye toward passing along something productive to their heirs that is going to outlive them. A lot of them don't want to give their heirs money because money can be spent on fleeting trivialities. Also, the older a person is, they just have an easier time visualizing the fact of 25 years and knowing that it really will pass by. And yes, in-person tours are offered there in the Darien province of Panama, and there were 13 to 14 attendees on a recent tour. They do need to limit the group size, and the tours are for you, whether you're an existing investor or not. If you're just checking it out, that's for you too. If you believe that you want to attend a tour and you don't want to buy, I understand that you can get your money back from the tour.   Keith Weinhold  44:35   The next tour is in September. Each quarter-acre newborn teak parcel costs $9,680 $9,680 and over 20-five years, it's projected to produce about 110k in today's dollars. And yes, now with financing, we've talked about this investment on GRE before, but it's the first time where they now have financing in place, so you don't even need. 9680 to get started. Also, retirement funds might be eligible for use here. And really, when you think about the long-term horizon of this investment, retirement funds make sense. If this is potentially interesting to you, get a hold of the report that goes into the details and shows you some projections and more. You can do so by either contacting your GRE investment coach or visit gremarketplace.com/teek. Money may not grow on trees, but sometimes trees grow into money. Until next time, keep growing your means and maybe a few trees. You could visit gremarketplace.com/teak. Until next week, I'm your host Keith Weinhold. Don't quit your daydream.   Speaker 1  45:53   Nothing on this show should be considered specific, personal, or professional advice. Please consult an appropriate tax, legal, real estate, financial, or business professional for individualized advice. Opinions of guests are their own. Information is not guaranteed. All investment strategies have the potential for profit or loss. The host is operating on behalf of Get Rich Education LLC exclusively.    Keith Weinhold  46:21   The preceding program was brought to you by your home for wealth building. getricheduceducation.com  

The BOB & TOM Show – July 14, 20266:00 Hour 6:00 – "Shut Up, Shut Up, Shut Up" (Live) 6:05 – Kristi out, Jess in, Pat out 6:05 – Esperanto language discussion 6:09 – Backward hat discussion 6:10 – Backward hat story 6:12 – Disliking raspberries 6:13 – "Go All the Way" (music) 6:27 – Beauty blender explained as a makeup sponge 6:29 – Jess compared to a little boy 6:30 – Review of yesterday's show for Chick 6:33 – Letter from New Zealand about winter 6:35 – Letter about concern for Tom's health 6:48 – Music segment 6:48 – Josh talks about not attending meetings 6:53 – "Along Comes Mary" (music) 7:02 – Jeff joins in studio 7:04 – Chris-Craft discussion 7:07 – Jeff talks about his dad building a boat 7:08 – Chris-Craft and Van Halen discussion 7:08 – Jeff jokes about wanting to see his father's boat fail once 7:10 – Alex Van Halen story 7:14 – Tom's dad's "the choker" saying 7:25 – World Cup update 7:27 – Discussion of the expression "resting face" 7:27 – Letter: What is a Van Dyke? 7:29 – Discussion of outdated expression about ponytails 7:29 – Meaning of "Tommy rot" 7:32 – Go-Jo hand cleaner discussion 7:33 – Letter: What is a jack stud? 7:34 – Left-handed smoke shifter prank 7:48 – Jess shares story about having implants removed 7:50 – Letter: "Yard spoon" means shovel 7:51 – Sports 7:52 – Josh running? 8:03 – More sports 8:07 – Favorite family curse words discussion 8:09 – Donuts named after cities 8:09 – Discussion of profanity in expressions 8:22 – World record: Most T-shirts worn during a marathon 8:25 – Jeff says he will not trim his beard on air 8:28 – Josh jokes about Jeff's mustache 8:29 – Story about man convicted after incident involving a vacuum cleaner 8:31 – Jeff joke about detailing the undercarriage 8:33 – Discussion of the Flowbee 8:33 – Chick shares vacuum hickey story 8:37 – Jess explains the "Indiana Left" traffic maneuver 8:50 – Tom's pronunciation of "Mel Cooley" 8:52 – Jess reacts with a mild expression 8:55 – Comedy clip 9:08 – World Santa Claus Conference 9:09 – Jess discussion 9:10 – Group of Santa Clauses discussion 9:10 – Chick reminds Tom about walking the dog 9:12 – Pet weddings with dogs as witnesses 9:25 – National Nude Day 9:27 – Belly-flopping contest discussion 9:30 – Story about woman arrested after assaulting her roommate 9:49 – "Raspberry Sugar" (music) 7:00 Hour8:00 Hour9:00 Hour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Laid Back Racing, Insane TrackWelcome back to Everyone Racers — where low-dollar racing meets high chaos.In this Chris Craft 431 episode, Chris suggests that people ride the corn, Mental appreciates paint huffers, Chrissy supports a specific Waymo use, Tim pimps welders, and Neal brings the funk.  Really, we dive deep into the world of 24 Hours of Lemons racing, kicking things off with a full recap of the first-ever Lemons race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. From wild mechanical failures and last-minute engine swaps to unforgettable team themes and penalty box antics, this race delivered everything we love about amateur endurance racing.Then we shift gears to a full preview of this weekend's Lemons race at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Washington  — one of the most underrated and technical tracks in the Pacific Northwest. 

GarageCast goes deep into the future of boating with Gavin Hunt, VP of Sales at Chris-Craft. From his early days selling skis to leading one of the most iconic premium boat brands in the world, Gavin shares sharp insights on dealer strategy, brand positioning, and why Chris-Craft's 151-year legacy still defines luxury on the water.We cover the launch of the new Sportster series, the rise of “dock jewelry,” the realities of today's shifting marine market, and how dealers can stay profitable by embracing transparency, fresh inventory, and emerging tech—including AI.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to one of BaT's favorite designers, teachers, sellers, and all-around renaissance men: Raffi Minassian, known in these halls as @raffi. He talks with Alex about his father's "trial by fire" mechanical training program; the roots of his obsession with car design; learning to drive in a 1952 Crosley (with doors!); human- and object-based empathy; a novel way to stay calm in the BaT comments; accidentally becoming a star seller for other people's cars; the odd calmness that 1,200 live BaT auctions can provide; his unorthodox, Pegaso-centric introduction to Art Center College of Design, his future alma mater; his 16 years in die cast design at Franklin Mint; insights into shifts in popular culture; embracing the ridiculous; and the Beetle as a gateway drug.The pair close out talking about Raffi's efforts in nontraditional, hands-on education for young children, his recent foray into TV writing and acting, and his numerous, fascinating upcoming projects.Links for things mentioned in this episode:1:05  Listings and Car Stories Contributed by Raffi 9:18  39k-Mile 1985 Ford Mustang SVO13:47  1-of-52 1967 Ghia 450SS18:58  Car Stories: Raffi's 1953 Pegaso Z-102–The “Thrill” of a Lifetime27:28  Franklin Mint 1970 Datsun 240Z28:35  BaT Limited Edition Hot Rod and BaT Limited Edition 1972 Chevrolet K10 Tow Rig and Trailer Combo31:36  1958 Chris-Craft 26′ Continental Hardtop31:50 Coronado Boats on BaT54:32  It's a Lot TV pilot trailer59:52 1990 Yugo Cabrio 5-SpeedGot suggestions for our next guest from the BaT community or One Year Garage episode? Let us know at podcast@bringatrailer.com!

Alex sits down with Randy and friend of BaT Jim Huff, furniture merchant and connoisseur of the Neue Klasse, to talk about racing at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion during this year's recent edition of Monterey Car Week. Both Randy and Huff drove in the Pre-Reunion and the main event later in the week; Huff describes mixing it up with Giulias and GTAs in the saloon class in his BMW 1800 Ti, while Randy and his Mustang held their own with more experienced racers amongst a crop of other animals: Cobras, Jags, and Tigers. Heartfelt recommendations come from all to spend time at the track if you ever find yourself on the Peninsula for Car Week (it's where it's at!). The duo "lightly threaten" to expand their efforts to the Pacific Northwest and (well) beyond, talk about developing camaraderie from on-track observations and paddock interactions, describe "helmet-yelling out of stoke," theorize about the ultimate old-school tow rig, take a brief aside to mention the the wooden boat of our dreams, and wrap up by recounting the recent 50th annual SAAC meeting at Sonoma.Links for things mentioned in this episode:07:18  7 generations of IROC race cars you'll see at Monterey this year Classic Motorsports08:17  Exclusive Tour: F1's 75-Year Display at Rolex Monterey with Zak Brown YouTube09:15  IROC Race Cars BaT09:24 Pontiac Firebird IROC Race Car BaT14:39  Presenting the 2025 Mohr Imports Car Week Collection: Postcards from Monterey BaT29:02  User cfujgo BaT32:05 1968 BMW 1600-2 Race Car BaT34:12  Lake Tahoe Concours d'Elegance Best-In-Class-Winning 1955 Chris-Craft 21' Cobra BaT36:40  SVO Mustangs BaTGot suggestions for our next guest from the BaT community or One Year Garage episode? Let us know at podcast@bringatrailer.com!

IN THE MORNING, BEFORE DAWN, Eric slipped out of the hotel as silently as a shadow, made his way to the dock in the dark, patted the flank of the Chris-Craft triple-cockpit barrel-back mahagony runabout, and drifted across the bay . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

A musical rendition of Capt David's Spring Checklist? You got it. Be nice, Steph went out on a limb and sang about engine mounts. Encyclopedia John sends us a really cool 1969 Chris Craft Cavalier for Boat Of The Week, including the original catalog copy for your Old Boat Ad.  We had to wrap up and get to a meeting, so this one is short. Thanks for listening! Email theboatyshow@gmail.com, back the Kickstarter if you want an album of original music https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theboatyshow/the-boaty-show-album/  

Our hearts go out to our fellow citizens in Los Angeles. God bless you. Steph briefs us on Canadian Super Scooper firefighting amphibious planes dumping tons of seawater on the fires, we run down a dozen LA Fire Boats from the last one hundred and twenty years, big-hair-don't-care on the curling ice, artificial intelligence and marine radar, an unbelievable Chris Craft 32 Runabout for Boat Of The Week, Jeff digs into his Yacht Rock aversion for the Yacht Rock Dockumentary all on this week's Boaty Show! email your Boat Of The Week submission to theboatyshow@gmail.com, check out pictures from the show on Instagram and Facebook @theboatyshow. Thanks for listening! 

Like three kings, rather two queens and a king we bring you gifts this Christmas Day!  Steph, Missy, and Jeff take your listener corrections, sing boaty Christmas carols, float through the earl history of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, and wrap up a massive Boat Of The Week like a present just for you!  Our second boaty kiddie ride, a Vanquish, metal flake midlife crisis, hot little wooden boat roadster, mysterious commercial fishing vessel, Chris Craft flybridge cruiser, and a polished aluminum tumblehome double cockpit runabout go toerail to toerail for the coveted win.  Recorded live in the bed of a pickup truck, check out @theboatyshow on YouTube to see us make the Christmas ham. Hope you have a restorative and pleasant Holiday season.  Thanks for listening!  

Port Dunsel Yacht Club hosts The Boaty Show!  Pictures, links in episode notes at www.theboatyshow.com.  Peak geek week as we delve deep into metallurgy, marine gas, propeller design, two stroke vs four stroke motors, and metal machining.  Steph drops chemistry knowledge, Jeff nearly strokes out from laughing, Kim gives a lesson on the Cow Tunnels of Tennis Island (dead ass), and Patrick is field-promoted from Rear Admiral For The Day to Honorary Co-Host.  We hit Boat Of The Week hard with five submissions, including from our youngest ever.  All that and more on this week's Boaty Show!  Listen every Wednesday, email your BOTW submission and recommendations for an editing intern to theboatyshow@gmail.com. Thanks so much for listening, following, sharing with a friend!   Notes: Boston Whaler Menemsha: Link to Lankford Bay Marina for E-Tec rebuilds https://www.lankfordbaymarina.com Bad fuel filth muck: Bombardier SeaDoo Switch mini jet pontoon boat Chris Craft XK-19 Grumman Canoe Chris Craft Sportsman Kawasaki Super Chicken Porsche Speedboat Montauk 17 

Sharon and Pam expand the business and meet new people.By 2soon2no – Listen to the ► Podcast at Steamy Stories. Sharon wondered what it was like when most people woke up? Even on the fourth week of a month long vacation, they probably don't wake up after an evening of drinking, smoking, sex and love making? Even then, are they next to a willing partner, if they want a sunrise treat?"Good morning My Love, do you need me?" Pam whispered, as she inched up Sharon's smooth thigh."Maybe, if you want to try that tongue thing that the Dentist from Milwaukee showed us?" Sharon suggested, remembering back to some balding, but enthusiastic guy.Pam responded with action, She figured her wife would want some loving, and she was ready for it. They could fool themselves, and make believe that a mutual orgasm wasn't the goal, but it usually was, even at 8 bells on a Tuesday morning in the small bay of an obscure Belizean Island.Pam may have been the first to get her tongue in a warm slit, but Sharon could still count to 69, and she was very familiar with her brunette partner, and what she liked around the clit.The harder they tried to make their spouse cum first, the more intense the moans got, until everyone was gathered at the Captain's hatch.Someone peeled the hatch open, and the six people started cheering on their favorite stripper-sailor, as they headed for sexual fruition.The sudden envelopment of light and sound, did little to quell the lust of the two beauties, as they enjoyed the exhibitionist side of their sexuality.Pam reached over, and grabbed a short and fat dildo and plopped it into Sharon's exposed love box.Sharon realized that Pam was playing dirty, so she got her mouth onto her pussy, and thrust two fingers into it, to find her g-spot before..."Oh!" Sharon shouted, as Pam started to pop the bulbous head of the short dildo, in and out, in and out, popping it for a well known effect.Pam would be the winner of this display, but everyone was happy to have shared it.It was the Pearl's turn to make breakfast, since no one wanted to be first up, in paradise.Two of the crew were from Detroit, one a nurse and the other a doctor. Pam was curious about a doctor wanting a free vacation so bad that she took a chance on their sexy Charter cruises, but this was the second time out for Phyllis, a 32 year old general practitioner and her cousin Gene, a 29 year old trauma nurse at the same hospital."I like sex, without attachments," Dr. Phyllis explained, "just like the Doctors and Lawyers that pay $5000 plus tip to sail on the same charter! Oh, and I know how much the tips are, cause I donated mine from my first trip to the Children's Hospital that we work at. I get to spend a week in the tropics with 4 men that are there more for the sex than the sun! This charter company makes me feel so lucky to have tits!" she declared.It was their morning to make breakfast, but their bunk-mates helped, as they set up the pancakes and bacon. They like to emphasize healthy eating on these cruises, but nothing says luxury quite like bacon, and the smell of coffee got people interested enough to smell the bacon and come forth, into the morning chill of 75 degrees."Shylo is coming out tomorrow!" Marny announced at breakfast. "She texted me this morning and I told her which one of my cousins would be able to get her out here the fastest.""There is always room for Shylo," Pam suggested, "Is she alone?""Yes, she was visiting Major Rodriguez in Panama, and she was heading home, but she had a proposition for 'Seafaring Delight Charters' and she wanted to share it with us in person, so I said come on over, of course." Marny really liked their sailing sex doctor. Shylo kept reminding them that she wasn't a 'Doctor' yet, but she certainly intended to get her Doctorate of Psychology, and she was still in school, so she was considered the brainiac of strippers at the Gingerbread House."She spends a lot of money on travel, but our Money Manager Carol says that she has 'family' money, so who knows," Sharon explained to Marny."She left me sore the last time she came through here," Marny pondered, "I had never been with a woman before you three ladies sailed into my life!""Well, you are a natural multi-sexual woman Marny, way ahead of your time," Pam teased.The Pearl's dinghy was heading for the other side of the island to catch some of the surf, and half a dozen adventurers were towing surf boards and paddle boards. The other dinghy was taking people to shore for exploration and private fun, while Marny stayed back at the sailboats.Pam wanted to explore the coast a bit closer, so Chad offered to go with her in a two person kayak. All they took with them was a jug of water, a tube of sunscreen, and their life jackets. They got their strokes synchronized quickly, and they paddled the opposite direction as the surfing party, so they were quickly on their own."Marny said that you and Sharon are Strippers in Hoboken, is that true?...I mean, you two are so hot that I wouldn't be surprised...""It is true Chad, do you go to strip clubs very often?" Pam asked."Our little town only has a topless bar, and it's not very nice," Chad responded, but I'm not too far outside of St. Louis, so we get to see the ladies there every now and then.""Are you a small town lawyer, Chad?" Pam questioned him."There are five lawyers in our town, but two are my sisters, so it's a small town and a family firm," Chad confessed with a shake of his head."Let's pull in over there Chad, I'd rather face you while we're getting to know each other," Pam suggested.They made sure that the kayak and paddles were secure before Pam grabbed the water bottle and started exploring.The small path was probably only used five times a year, so it wasn't easy to find their way, gradually upwards and away from the bay. A clearing was a natural spot to stop and survey the area. Pam realized that Chad just couldn't take his eyes off of her chest. He was in his mid thirties, and quite fit himself, but he obviously didn't have much experience with women, so Pam took pity on him."Do you have many opportunities for sex in that small town Chad," Pam took his hand gently, and pulled him to her."Oh, I'm so sorry Pam, I may have touched your breast..." but Pam had dropped to her knees, and took Chad's shorts with her. His cock had already started to stir, as Pam slipped it into her mouth."Oh, things are quite different in Strong Willow," Chad corrected his bold escort, while showing his backbone by not shying back while Pam double handed his testicles and licked the length of his 6 inches."Slow down Missy, if you don't mind I'd rather look into your eyes for our first time together."Pam realized that she was working this guy like a hooker works a John, so she stood, with Chad's help and let him take her into his arms.He did not hesitate to go in for a deep kiss, even though her tongue had run the length of his shaft just a moment ago. He lowered Pam to the grass and lay with her, enjoying the feel of her firm breast, he leaned in and kissed her some more, moving his tongue into her mouth, while exploring her nipple with his right hand. Pam let him take the lead, restricting her actions to tongue swirls and moans."These nipples are just the perfect size, and the way they upturn, hmm a guy could just look at them all afternoon!" Chad announced. He reached out and pinched a nib, making her jump. She pinched him, in retaliation and they rolled in each other's arms, finishing with Pam on top. She reached back and took his cock in her hand and fit it into her pussy, finding that it fit like Cinderellas foot in the wayward slipper.They pushed into each other, and Pam ground her labia into his pelvis, feeling the pressure of his cock on her cervix. They quickly found a comfortable pace that got faster as their passion increased. Chad's fingers explored Pam's breasts, like he was a blind man, though his eyes drank in the beauty like no blind eye could. Pam ran her hands over Chad's muscular chest and biceps. If Chad was a lawyer, he must be spending time in the gym, Pam realized as she did most of the work, lifting up and down on her latest fuck toy.They enjoyed a quick love wrestle, then resumed their exploration of the little island.Back at the Pearl, Marny had been warned of a heavier squall coming their way, and she shouted to the shore party to get their gear aboard.For once their com's worked, and Phyllis got the message to return immediately from their surfing, so Pam and Chad were the only ones to worry about.Marny did three blasts on the boat's air horn, then sent the second dinghy around the Western side of the Island where they found them, stroking home from their sexcapade.There was nowhere to run to. They had to separate their vessels, put out more chain, and set the anchor alarm to warn against dragging, while the wind picked up speed. Everyone secured the deck chairs and brought the towels in from the lines. Marny kept a tidy ship, so the sails and lines were already secure, but Pam and Marny double checked everything on their vessels.Just before the wind hit, Marny's cousin came speeding in, in an old Chris Craft with triple 300's on the transom. They pulled into the Pearl, knowing that Marny would be there.They only took two minutes to transport the athletic blond and her luggage. She certainly brought more than a few bikinis, but maybe she was hiding a midget? The taxi boat took off and sped away, expecting to outrun the approaching storm."Hi Ladies," Shylo spoke loudly into the microphone, not knowing how well the mic picked up her voice. "Can you hear us?""Yes, Shylo, we saw you come in, over," Sharon responded with no idea of proper radio protocols. "Should we come over, over," Sharon giggled."Let's wait for after breakfast," Shylo suggested, "I'm thinking I want to explore Belize tonight ladies, if you know what I mean.""I am with John Farris tonight Shylo, but maybe he won't mind the company," Marny responded without pressing the mic button.Mr. Farris was a fast learner, and certainly not a homophobe, which is a good thing, cause Marny was hungry for the soft touch of this white skinned sexpot. John was in fair shape, and only 37, but he couldn't keep up with his two lovers. He was sexually spent on the second round, but stayed awake for the finale.Shylo pulsed her vagina lips against Marny's larger and swollen labia in a scissor action. The moonlight came through the porthole and reflected off of Shylo's sweaty globes. The wind covered the sound of their grunts and moans and sighs, but they were still loud enough to make this a vivid memory for John.The ships spent the rest of the night separated by a steady wind of 40 knots. Sharon and Pam enjoyed a 'Carl the Accountant sandwich', then fell asleep with the three of them entwined.The morning brought a fresh paradise to the Caribbean, as it always did. The birds woke up the early risers soon after daybreak, but soon the heat brought everyone out of their cabins. Thoughts turned to water sports, or at least water fun.Breakfast was on the Opal, and Pam had Phyllis, Paul and Cory helping her with the omelets, one with meat and the other without. The men set up fruit and cereals for variety. Shylo gathered Pam, Sharon and Marny around the breakfast table.Shylo waited until only the four of them were left in the lounge of the Opal."As you all know, my field of study is 'Sexual Psychology'. It is my ambition to help people with their sexual problems, and it is my good fortune to have a big inheritance to help me get started," Shylo began. "So I shifted a lot of my Family Trust into a Non-Profit called Mindxes.""One important function of my new Foundation is to help people become Sexual Therapists, through an accrediting program that would take most college graduates only 6 courses to become certified. Even with no college, it only takes 10 courses and all of these classes are offered on the internet," she continued."My Organization will pay the tuition and all medical exams and certification fees for anyone in your employment that takes the courses. Your Nurses and Teachers will get an added qualification to put on their resume, and if they submit a diary from their cruises, to help us with our studies, we will stipulate that they have worked for our organization as Therapists.""This Foundation will also be paying for American Soldiers to seek such therapy on your charters, and we will expect a great price. The added advantage for your business, is the legitimacy it will offer, when your enemies notice that you are having wild fuck parties down here, and they accuse you of running a floating brothel." Shylo looked anxiously around the lounge, ready for the questions that were sure to follow."Java and I have talked about how this business could hurt her politically, but she loves what we do, so she is willing to take the risk," Marny replied."If you register your business as a Health Spa," Shylo continued, "...you would be monitored by the Ministry of Health. Here it would be Dr. Shantra Mistopa, and she is a good friend of Java!""We heard that you are looking for real estate," Pam prompted, hopeful for a better explanation."Yes, I want a small island to build a retreat, but that will be a few years in the making," Shylo explained, "Assuming that I can add the Doctor title to my name, I intend on opening a second Corporation, for profit, which would service the wealthy, and the filthy rich! Then I will want to employ lots of Sexual Therapists, and the pay will be just as nice as the paradise that they would work in.""We will have to talk to Java, but it sounds good to me," Pam proposed."I have no doubt that the young ones can do this," Marny said, "but I doubt that I could handle it.""You will have Java to help you, and you didn't mention that she was top of her class in Tourism! Doctor Shantra says that she could do whatever she puts her mind to," Shylo noted."Oh, I spent many summers on the shrimp boats with Shantra, when she was still a student, so she will help me herself!" Marny responded confidently, and it was as if the whole thing was decided."If you agree with my proposal, I think it would be smart for me to invest in your business personally, and sit on your board of directors," Shylo suggested. "I will email the link for you and your staff to look at the course outline, it includes two classes in safe sexual clinical contact, that could keep sexually transmitted infections from hurting you. I can not emphasize enough the importance of those two courses for you personally, and the Business as a whole.""We should all get full medical checkups as a start, including blood work," Pam suggested."That would be good, but keep in mind that the Certification Course requires certain blood tests and a physical exam in order to be accredited, so if you're taking the online classes, you should check there first."Shylo looked about the lounge and realized that everyone was out having fun. "Hey, let's go have a swim!" she cried, and scurried to the top deck.Marny beat the other two, scrambling after the blonde bombshell like she was 30 again.Sharon looked over at Pam. "I think Marny's in love!" she squealed, obviously happy with the idea.Pam decided to take care of lunch, and let Marny entertain their friend from Hoboken.It took two trips to bring the food and preparation equipment to shore, but by then Pam had corralled Gene and Cory to help her. They gathered driftwood for a fire and made two more trips to the sailboats, to get the tarp for shade and a cooler full of iced beverages.The paddle boards and kayaks started to come ashore as their passengers grew hungry and thirsty. Hydration is very important when heat and sex are involved!Sharon ate with Pam, though Paul was glued to her hip."I am going to have to talk to you, after lunch Paul," Pam casually claimed."That is my wife that you are mooning over, you know?"Paul looked confused, so Pam continued, rather than waiting."When I say talk, I mean fuck, Paul. She says you are a lot of fun," Pam finished with a wide smile.

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Pizza Time goes bust, Amiga announces a computer & Nintendo launches the VS   These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM!   This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in March 1984. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events.   Alex Smith of They Create Worlds is our cohost.  Check out his podcast here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/ and order his book here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/book   Get us on your mobile device: Android:  https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS:  https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine   And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM   Send comments on Mastodon @videogamenewsroomtimemachine@oldbytes.space Or twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com   Links: If you don't see all the links, find them here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/march-1984-104469980   7 Minutes in Heaven: Dolphin's Rune/Dolphin's Pearl Video Version:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/104389483     https://www.mobygames.com/game/21190/the-dolphins-pearl/     Game Manual: https://archive.org/details/c64man_dolphins-rune     Ecco the Dolphin 7 Minutes in Heaven: https://www.patreon.com/posts/7-minutes-in-80192007 Corrections: February 1984 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/february-1984-102404099 Ethan's fine site The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/     https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-la-pinball-or/145438040/     https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-san-francisco/145438150/     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc     https://www.mobygames.com/game/38079/cosmic-chasm/     https://www.mobygames.com/game/82890/cube-quest/     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomy_Tutor     https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/15340     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186#In_personal_computers   1974: Atari introduces Gran Track 10     https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_37/page/58/mode/1up?view=theater         https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_38/page/54/mode/1up?view=theater     https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_36/page/52/mode/2up     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYcNvAAeu6k     https://www.facebook.com/100057102354061/videos/1111919918819701/   Wurlitzer ends manufacturing     https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_37/page/59/mode/1up?view=theater     https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_35/page/44/mode/1up?view=theater     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer   1984: Laserdisc games galore!     https://archive.org/details/198403VideoGamesExpress/mode/1up        Play Meter 15th, 1984, pg. 56     Replay March 1984, pg. 10     https://www.dragons-lair-project.com/games/   Centuri turns it around     No Headline In Original, PR Newswire, March 14, 1984, Wednesday, Dateline: HIALEAH, Fla., March 14   The battle begins with Sente vs. VS!     Replay March 1984, pg. 10     https://sergiostuff.com/category/nintendo-vs-dualsystem/     https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/punch-out   Exidy goes interchangeable     Replay March 1984, pg. 10     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exidy#First_Star_Software_games     https://www.classicarcademuseum.org/exidy-max-a-flex-system     https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/boulder-dash--data   Bills pile up at Pizza Time     Company Deferring Some Debts, The Associated Press, March 9, 1984, Friday, PM cycle, Section: Business News, Byline: By LORETTA NOFFSINGER, Associated Press Writer         Bankruptcy Threat Issued, The Associated Press, March 16, 1984, Friday, AM cycle   Pizza Time Theater enters Chapter 11     Curtains for the Pizza Time Theatre, Financial Times (London,England), March 30, 1984, Friday, Section: SECTION I; Pg. 18, Byline: By Louise Kehoe in San Francisco     Joneva Barry - Chuck E. Cheese, Kadabrascope - https://www.patreon.com/posts/joneva-barry-e-101938460     Roger Hector - Atari, Disney, Sega, Namco, Sente - https://www.patreon.com/posts/72058794     Owen Rowley - Chuck E Cheese, Autodesk - https://www.patreon.com/posts/owen-rowley-88533133   Bally buys Sente     BALLY-MANUFACTURING; Acquires Sente Technologies Division of Pizza Time Theatre Inc., Business Wire, March 29, 1984, Thursday   Chip shortage looms     Play Meter March 1st, 1984, pg. 16         Jay Balakrishnan - HESWare, Radical, Dynamics, Solid State Software - https://www.patreon.com/posts/jay-balakrishnan-103071267   Goldman Sachs quantifies the Crash     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-12/page/182/mode/1up?view=theater      Battle for Warner is over...     Warner buys back Murdoch's stake with aid from Chris-Craft, Financial Times (London,England),  March 19, 1984, Monday, Section: SECTION I; Pg. 16, Byline: BY WILLIAM HALL IN NEW YORK     https://archive.org/details/masterofgamestev00bruc   Atari cuts another 200     Atari cuts jobs in restructuring, Financial Times (London,England), March 21, 1984, Wednesday, Section: SECTION II; International Companies; Pg. 19, Byline: BY LOUISE KEHOE IN SAN FRANCISCO     A Year After Layoffs, Atari Foresees Better Times in '84, The Associated Press, March 11, 1984, Sunday, BC cycle   Coleco losses dwarf expectations     COLECO LOSES $35 MILLION IN QUARTER, The New York Times, March 8, 1984, Thursday, Late City Final Edition, C, Section: Section D; Page 1, Column 3; Financial Desk, Byline: By DAVID E. SANGER         https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/08/business/coleco-loses-35-million-in-quarter.html   Coleco announces massive layoffs     No Headline In Original, The Associated Press, March 28, 1984, Wednesday, AM cycle, Section: Business News, Byline: By S.W. BELL, AP Business Writer, Dateline: AMSTERDAM, N.Y.   Massive losses can't bring Mattel's spirits down     Mattel, Despite $171 Million Loss, Optimistic About Future, The Associated Press, March 15, 1984, Thursday, AM cycle, Byline: By ROGER GILLOTT, AP Business Writer        Mattel reaches new financing agreement with creditor banks, Financial Times (London,England), March 15, 1984, Thursday, Section: SECTION II; International Companies; Pg. 27, Byline: BY PAUL TAYLOR IN NEW YORK   Intellivision reborn!     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-12/page/179/mode/1up?view=theater     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revco     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision#INTV_Corporation_(1984%E2%80%931990)   2600 goes to Turkey     ATARI; Signs agreement with Turkish firm to manufacture and distribute video game products in Turkey, Business Wire, March 20, 1984, Tuesday  https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCinemassacre/comments/1afkuz2/the_first_atari_2600_commercial_in_turkey_80s/        http://www.atariboxed.com/index.php?go=output&sort=T1.Modul_Complete_Title,%20T1.Modul_Complete_Model,%20T1.Modul_Complete_TV,%20T1.Modul_Complete_Label&dir=DESC&rows_per_page=50&select_system=1&select_company=49   Odyssey RIP     Pioneer Home Video Game Is Dropped, The Associated Press, March 20, 1984, Tuesday, AM cycle, Byline: By TOM EBLEN, Associated Press Writer First Home Video-Game Maker Calling It Quits, The Associated Press, March 21, 1984, Wednesday, PM cycle, Byline: By TOM EBLEN, Associated Press Writer   Nintendo may show off console at summer CES     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-12/page/182/mode/1up?view=theater      Goodbye Video Game Update including Computer Entertainer...     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-12/mode/1up?view=theater     https://archive.org/details/electronic-fun-with-computers-and-games-volume-2-number-5-march-1984/page/4/mode/1up?view=theater     https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_02_Number_12_1984-03_Reese_Communications_US/page/n5/mode/2up     Julian 'Jaz' Rignall - Computer and Video Games, ZZAP!64, Mean Machines, Future Publishing, Virgin, IGN  - https://www.patreon.com/posts/julian-jaz-and-97565043     Jerry Wolosenko - Synapse - https://www.patreon.com/posts/42014024   Amiga announces 68000 based home computer     Infoworld March 26, 1984, pg. 13     Infoworld March 19, 1984 pg. 20     https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/atari/museum/mickey.html     https://theretrohour.com/amstrad-cpc-40th-anniversary-with-roland-perry-pt-1-the-retro-hour-ep425/   Mac distribution widens     Infoworld March 26, 1984, pg. 11     Infoworld March 26, 1984, pg. 16   Apple IIx rumors begin     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-12/page/184/mode/1up?view=theater         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIGS     https://archive.org/details/Creative_Computing_1984-03/page/n43/mode/2up   Intel licenses chip designs to Sanyo     BOTH 8- AND 16-BIT MODELS; Tokyo Sanyo will make Intel-compatible MPUs, The Japan Economic Journal, March 13, 1984, Section: ELECTRICALS & ELECTRONICS; Pg. 9   Commodore and IBM become Intel licensees     https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/10/business/ibm-is-licensed-to-makeintel-chip.html?searchResultPosition=1   https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-15/mode/1up?view=theater     Don Greenbaum - Commodore - https://www.patreon.com/posts/don-greenbaum-67077078   Commodore goes brit     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-29/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHJ6vVxJLlQ   IBM slashes PC prices in Europe     Infoworld March 26, 1984, pg. 11     Creative Computing reviews the TS 2068         https://archive.org/details/Creative_Computing_1984-03/page/n93/mode/2up   Timex calls it quits     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-01/mode/1up?view=theater        InfoWorld March 19, 1984 pg. 16   Sinclair admits QL is a mess     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-08/mode/1up?view=theater        https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-15/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater        https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-29/page/n31/mode/1up?view=theater     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-22/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater   QL peripheral makers multiply     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-29/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater   Developers abandon QL for CPC     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-15/mode/1up?view=theater   Sir Clive's portable TV impresses     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-29/page/n15/mode/1up?view=theater        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV80   Sinclair EV to be made by Hoover     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-08/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater   Imagine begins Bandersnatch and Psyclapse ad blitz     https://archive.org/details/computer-and-videogames-029/page/n153/mode/2up   Imagine bungles deal     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-08/mode/1up?view=theater        http://redparsley.blogspot.com/2016/08/input-magazine-retrospective.html        https://archive.org/details/Input_Vol_1_No_01_1997_Marshall_Cavendish_GB      Imagine announces price cut     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-08/page/n2/mode/1up?view=theater       https://archive.org/details/Big_K_Issue_03_1984_Jun/page/n15/mode/2up   Bug Byte won't give up on Miner Willie     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-22/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater        https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/mattie-goes-mining/   Novotrade details     First All-Hungarian Stock Corporation Ventures Into Video Gaming, The Associated Press, March 3, 1984, Saturday, BC cycle, Byline: By ROLAND PRINZ, Associated Press Writer     https://www.stayforever.de/2024/04/ddr-computer-sft-14/     https://www.ddr-museum.de/de/blog/2020/genex-geschenkdienst     https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genex     https://archive.org/details/genexhauptkatalog1986   Hudsonsoft goes Speccy     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-29/mode/1up?view=theater        https://www.mobygames.com/game/company:1360/platform:zx-spectrum/sort:-date/page:1/     https://www.mobygames.com/game/19608/cannon-ball/   Geoff Crammond takes to the skies     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-29/page/n6/mode/1up?view=theater        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVNAippFbAs     https://www.mobygames.com/person/6244/geoffrey-j-crammond/   Mythos puts Karsten Köper on the map     https://archive.org/details/atari-club-magazin-1984-3/page/6/mode/2up        https://archive.org/details/atari-club-magazin-1984-3/page/10/mode/2up        http://thethalionsource.w4f.eu/Artikel/Mythos.htm   XOR brings Football Manager to the gridiron     Infoworld March 12, 1984, pg. 22        https://www.mobygames.com/company/1848/xor-corporation/   Palace software to leverage movie licenses     https://archive.org/details/home-computing-weekly-052   Enter the 'bookware'     https://archive.org/details/Acorn_User_Number_020_1984-03_Adn-Wesley_GB/page/n7/mode/2up     https://worldofspectrum.net/publisher/11213/        https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-08/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater   Addison-Wesley launches line of games for girls     Infoworld March 26, 1984, pg. 20        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgYqUjtPj8        https://www.mobygames.com/company/23943/rhiannon-software/        https://www.wearelivinginthefuture.com/p/space-girls-gaming-obsolescence        https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Lauren_of_the_25th_Century   Angelsoft founded     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-12/page/190/mode/1up?view=theater        https://www.mobygames.com/company/1107/angelsoft-inc/   Synergistic abandons publishing     https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_02_Number_12_1984-03_Reese_Communications_US/page/n13/mode/2up   Lotus goes for integration     https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-03/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Symphony_(MS-DOS)     http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-commodore-plus4-3-plus-1-and.html        https://archive.org/details/Ahoy_Issue_03_1984-03_Ion_International_US/page/n9/mode/2up   Egghead Softwear is slashing prices     https://archive.org/details/Creative_Computing_1984-03/page/n205/mode/2up   Comptiq brings US games to Japan     Comptique will market U.S.-made game packages, The Japan Economic Journal, March 13, 1984, Section: SPECIAL U.S. SECTION; Pg. 13         https://www.mobygames.com/company/6942/comptiq/        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptiq   MSX looks to be a dud     https://archive.org/details/home-computing-weekly-052/page/n31/mode/2up   Sega to export 70,000 SC300's     Personal computers, The Japan Economic Journal, March 6, 1984, Section: NEWS PACKAGE; Pg. 18   MAX RIP     Commodore withdraws from toy business, The Japan Economic Journal, March 13, 1984, Section: SERVICE/LEISURE/FOOD; Pg. 18   Robotron ships with dual controller holder     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-12/page/184/mode/1up?view=theater        https://forums.atariage.com/topic/166814-robotron-dual-controller-holder/   Violence in Gaming debate comes to the C64     https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Volume_2_Number_06_1984-03_Pumpkin_Press_US/page/n77/mode/2up         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqPymlvBrSA      Alladin's Castle finally beats Mesquite     Play Meter 15th, 1984, pg. 13   Computer hacking laws proposed     https://archive.org/details/home-computing-weekly-053/page/n15/mode/2up   Piracy has Apple in a tizzy     No Headline In Original, United Press International, March 10, 1984, Saturday, PM cycle   Japanese Industry backs MITI     KEIDANREN SUPPORTS MITI'S SOFTWARE PROTECTION BILL, Copyright 1984 Jiji Press Ltd.Jiji Press Ticker Service, MARCH 13, 1984, TUESDAY        https://www.keidanren.or.jp/en/profile/pro001.html   Video Nasties Bill gets games amendment     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-22/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Recordings_Act_1984   UK Libraries clash with software publishers     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-03-29/mode/1up?view=theater      Are computer graphics art?     https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/27/science/colorful-graphics-aren-t-for-everybody.html        https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/mindset-computer-vyper-game/         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset_(computer)   Smart devices invade homes     A Year After Layoffs, Atari Foresees Better Times in '84, The Associated Press, March 11, 1984, Sunday, BC cycle       https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/08/garden/the-digital-revolution-breeds-smart-new-appliances.html   Seiko introduces the smartwatch     https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-03/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater        https://www.namokimods.com/en-eu/blogs/namokitimes/seiko-originals-the-uc-2000-a-smartwatch-from-1984   RIP Mike Kogan     Replay March 1984, pg. 10     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kogan Recommended Links:   The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/ Games That Weren't - https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/ Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play. 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Sally Ann Black has been a lifelong lover of the outdoors and grew up along the shores of Lake Erie. Her father was a boating and fishing enthusiast and the family spent many summers aboard their Chris Craft cruiser fishing and camping along the inlets and bays. He shared with her his fishing and boating […]

From starting out by turning wrenches on Evinrude outboard motors to the #1 Chris-Craft dealer in the world - meet one of our favorite people - Dave Bofill.

L'industriel Winnebago Industries a annoncé le rachat du spécialiste des batteries lithium Lithionics Battery. Un investissement stratégique pour le groupe de véhicules de loisir, également à la tête des marques de bateaux Chris-Craft et Barletta. 👉 Lire l'article et voir les photos. En savoir plus sur les sujets abordés dans cet épisode : Rachat winnebago industries Parce qu'il n'a jamais été aussi important de se tenir informé des nouvelles tendances, de la vie des professionnels et des derniers développements de produits, BoatIndustry fournit un contenu journalistique indépendant afin d'apporter un éclairage indispensable aux acteurs, prescripteurs et décideurs de l'industrie du nautisme. Avec sa couverture globale de l'information, BoatIndustry est présent sur 4 secteurs : Les chantiers nautiques Les équipementiers et motoristes Les services, loueurs, la maintenance La filière, la réglementation et les événements Avec une diffusion en 5 langues (Français 🇫🇷, Anglais 🇺🇸, Allemand 🇩🇪, Italien 🇮🇹 et Espagnol 🇪🇸) et un lectorat reparti dans plus de 140 pays 🌍, BoatIndustry est considéré comme le média international essentiel de communication avec les chantiers nautiques, les fabricants d'équipements ainsi qu'avec les distributeurs et les concessionnaires. BoatIndustry est édité de concert avec le magazine Bateaux.com à destination des plaisanciers français 🇫🇷, qui se décline à l'international avec Boote.com pour l'allemand 🇩🇪, Boatsnews.com pour l'anglais 🇺🇸, Boatsnews.es pour l'espagnol 🇪🇸 et Boatsnews.it pour l'italien 🇮🇹. ✉️ N'hésitez pas à nous envoyer un commentaire ou une news en cliquant ici. 👉 Et n'oubliez pas de laisser 5 étoiles si l'information vous a plu 🙏.

Welcome to Episode 108 Sponsored by CultTVMan, Sean's Custom Model Tools and Return To Kit Form HostsStuart ClarkGeoff HeylandTerry MiesleThanks to our latest Patreon Supporters:Gord Catt***************************************LATEST NEWSMid- Michigan Model Makers would like to invite all/or any of the crew to join us for our contest.How a model for box art is prepared.Airfix 2023 announcements live on Jan 10th (we recorded on Jan 9th) ***************************************LATEST HOBBY ANNOUNCEMENTSKinetic 1/48 Tutor1/35th scale Tarhe from ICM coming in Feb 2023Special Hobby JanMiniart Catalog 2023Takom's 1/35 T-55AD with "Drozd" active tank defence systemKitlinx has new Hasegawa Macross items (do a search on Hasegawa Macross)New items from Roden   BusComing from Dora Wings ; P-47B and P-47C1/350 Q'onos 1 Klingon D-7M available for pre-order.What's new at Scalemates.com***************************************SPONSOR AD #1Cult TV Man***************************************Interview This Episode's Special Guest:HeritageCon 15With Duncan Young and Iain Fraser ***************************************SPONSOR AD #2Seans Custom Model Tools***************************************WHAT'S ON THE BENCHStuart: Working on the 1/48 Tamiya Beaufighter for the group build. Great fun.Also started work on 2 BattleTech mini's.Geoff. Focused on building two 1/18 3D printed “kits” supplied by the Jet Aircraft Museum of London Ontario: a Canadair F5D and a T33. The printing was very rough, but the shapes are close. Lots of sanding and scratch building are required to get close to a decent representation, but the sheer scale of these things is impressive. Rivet counters need not apply![foogallery id="3076"]Terry: Finished and photographed the Halberd Models NF-51T NASA Turbo Cavalier Mustang (link to masking file) and Dora Wings' P-43 Lancer. Now working on the two Fine Molds Ki-15 Babs and Kamikaze versions. Also working on the Moscato 1/72 F203 Dragon kit - mostly primary building and surface correction.***************************************THINGS WE'VE SEENBanshee correction set.Thunder Model - a Bofors AA Gun Truck.Kotare Models announce 1/32 Sptifire Mk.VaVince Hoffman getting close to operating his Chris-Craft.***************************************THE LAST WORDSMP Ep. 108 is also sponsored by Return To Kit Form (R2KF). Check out their web store!For more modelling podcast goodness, check out other modelling podcasts at modelpodcasts.comPlease leave us a positive review if you enjoy what we're doing!Check us out: FaceBook, YouTube, and our very own website 

A l'occasion du Monaco Yacht Show organisé du 28 septembre au 1er octobre dans le Port Hercule, Lanéva Boats a présenté son nouveau projet.  Après avoir mis au point le Vesper, 100% électrique, la start-up monégasque propose des kits de retrofit électriques industrialisés. L'idée est de pouvoir transformer les day boats de luxe classiques et thermiques en électriques.  Pour présenter cette activité, Lanéva Boat a installé son produit sur un modèle iconique: un Riva Ariston de 1961. Le kit retrofit électrique est toutefois destiné à d'autres marques comme Bœsch, Chris-Craft et Hacker Craft.  François Richard, le PDG de Lanéva Boats, répond à Nathalie Michet. 

As an HVAC contracting business, you know the value of HVAC and IAQ products and how they can improve your customers' lives. But how do you take your knowledge and turn it into sales? In this episode of REP Talk, Chris Craft breaks it down for you. He explains that it all starts with approaching customers with the problem you find, creating bundles, and selling more. By following his tips, you'll be able to increase your sales and make a real difference in people's lives. Thanks for watching! Check out our main Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/KGGConsulting For more information on IAQ-related news and trends: https://kggconsulting.com/articles/ KGG Consulting Website: https://kggconsulting.com/

On the PreSales Podcast, James Kaikis and Chris Craft connect on "Stay Ready So You Don't Have To Get Ready." Chris, Technology Leader at Docusign, discusses his perspective on being ready for change. Technology is always changing and it is easy to become complacent so Chris provides guidance on how to stay curious and engaged so that you are always ahead of the technology curve to better support your customers.

Chris Craft, an HVAC manufacturer sales rep, tells us that the secret to success is all about providing value and engaging the field. He says that it's important to be knowledgeable about the products you're selling and to be able to answer any questions that may come up. It's also important to build relationships with customers and always be available to help them out. By providing value and engaging the field, Chris Craft says that you'll be successful as an HVAC manufacturer sales rep. Watch and learn more now! Check out our main Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/KGGConsulting For more information on IAQ-related news and trends: https://kggconsulting.com/articles/ KGG Consulting Website: https://kggconsulting.com/

HVAC careers offer a lot of opportunities for growth. Just ask Chris Craft. He's been in the business for over 10 years and he's crushing it. HVAC is a career that offers a lot of opportunities for those who are willing to put in the work. There's always room to grow, whether you're moving up within your current company or starting your own business. HVAC careers offer a lot of stability and security, which is something that he appreciates. If you're thinking about a career in HVAC, get involved. Learn more about his incredible journey. Check out our main Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/KGGConsulting For more information on IAQ-related news and trends: https://kggconsulting.com/articles/ KGG Consulting Website: https://kggconsulting.com/

4THE PETERS FAMILY seemed, to me, quite rich, rich in all the ways that I would have considered a family rich at that time. They owned a whole island, after all. They had a maid, about whom I will have more to say later. They owned three boats: a working boat, a barge really, that they used for carrying freight from the mainland, and, in The Missing Garage, used to transport an entire Esso gas station; a sailboat, a lean blue sloop that Larry was permitted to sail by himself and on which Larry's sister enjoyed sunning herself; and a speedboat, a mahogany Chris Craft speedboat with a twelve-cylinder engine. On the mainland, they owned a small piece of waterfront property in the town of Murky Bay, where they had a dock, a boathouse for the speedboat, and a garage in which they kept a Jaguar Saloon and a war-surplus Jeep.     Everything that the Peterses did was of an order different from anything my family or the families of any of my friends did. My father might spend most of a Saturday changing the oil and filter in our aging Commander, trying to devise a scheme to make my mother's washing machine stop walking across the cellar floor, or painting the garage, but Mr. Peters was likely to spend a Saturday tied up in the hold of a sinking ship, rappelling down a rock face in pursuit of some bric-a-brac smugglers, or conducting delicate negotiations for the purchase of some fine amber in Lübeck.     And the meals! Every time the Peters family sat down to a meal, it seemed to be the kind of meal that I associated with festivals and celebrations and funerals. If they were having breakfast, they drifted into the dining room one by one, and each filled a plate from a sideboard laden with oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, sausages (sometimes two kinds), coffee, cocoa, milk, juices, sticky buns, crumb cake, crullers, bran muffins, bagels, kaiser rolls, English muffins, toasted rye bread, toasted raisin bread, jelly doughnuts, white mountain rolls, corn muffins, salt sticks, bialys, and fruit. Marie, the maid, would fix eggs any way anyone wanted them. At home, my father usually started the day with white toast, coffee, and a couple of cigarettes. My mother rarely had more than coffee. I usually had a bowl of graham crackers soaked in milk, sometimes a cup of cocoa and toast.     Dinner at the Peterses' was always a big deal: baked ham, turkey, a roast beef, bowls of potatoes and vegetables, everyone talking away and eating like mad. Of course, they had to eat a lot when they could, because most of the meals at the Peters house were never finished. No sooner would they get their plates heaped with food and eat a few healthy bites than someone would begin shooting at the house from a low-flying plane, an explosion on the mainland would rattle the windows, or Marie would announce the arrival of a mysterious stranger. Dinners were sometimes interrupted in my family, too, but the interruptions seemed to me, at the time, less likely to lead to anything interesting: the heating pipes would begin making metallic knocking sounds, but upon investigation we would find no dark-eyed waif tied up in the cellar, banging on the pipes to rouse some help, only air in the radiators; we'd be startled by a knock at the back door, but it was never a mysterious stranger, only the Mr. Doughboy delivery man, running late on his route; a flash of light would fill the room, and a moment later an explosive crash would rattle the windows, but it would only be a summer thunderstorm, and in those days I didn't find a summer storm as exciting as an exploding gimcrack factory.Have you missed an episode or two or several?You can begin reading at the beginning or you can catch up by visiting the archive or consulting the index to the Topical Guide.You can listen to the episodes on the Personal History podcast. Begin at the beginning or scroll through the episodes to find what you've missed.You can ensure that you never miss a future issue by getting a free subscription. (You can help support the work by choosing a paid subscription instead.)At Apple Books you can download free eBooks of “My Mother Takes a Tumble,” “Do Clams Bite?,” “Life on the Bolotomy,” “The Static of the Spheres,” “The Fox and the Clam,” “The Girl with the White Fur Muff,” “Take the Long Way Home,” “Call Me Larry,” and “The Young Tars,” the nine novellas in Little Follies, and Little Follies itself, which will give you all the novellas in one handy package.You'll find an overview of the entire work in  An Introduction to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy. It's a pdf document. Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

Sitting down with us in this episode is prolific writer and founder of strategic consulting firm Potomac Core, Daniel Varroney. He takes us into what motivated him to release the groundbreaking book Reimagining Industry Growth, which provides an insight to understanding the value of strategic partnerships with industry associations. In addition, we learn from him about trade associations, being a thought leader, the origins of industry relationships, and more! Mentioned on the episode: https://potomaccore.com/strategic-guidance-lab-association-ceo-group/ (Strategic Guidance Lab) https://www.chriscraft.com/ (Chris-Craft) https://www.amazon.com/Pour-Your-Heart-Into-Starbucks/dp/0786883561 (Pouring Your Heart Into It) by Howard Schultz Connect with Daniel on https://www.linkedin.com/in/danvarroney/ (LinkedIn), https://www.facebook.com/daniel.a.varroney/ (Facebook), and https://twitter.com/Dan_Vee (Twitter) His http://potomaccore.com (website)

For 27years - gott'a count those COVID years - the Lakewood Yacht Club has been host to one of the more unique 'shows' in the country.  It is an 'invite only' show that not only includes some of the finest automobiles in the country, but classic boats that show on the water.  Beautiful wooden boats that have been restored are mixed with yachts on the water surrounded by classic automobiles, the type of which are often seen at places like Pebble Beach.This is a two-day event, and the man responsible for leading the all volunteer team to hold this event is Bob Fuller.  Bob joins us today with an update on the upcoming show including news that the show will be focusing on the 100th Anniversay of the Chris Craft boats.On the land  will be several antique Electric Vehicles along with some restomods, European sports cars and Pre-War Classic trucks.For more information on this event and tickets, visit www.Keels-Wheels.com.Along with our regular features, in the New Car Showroom, Michael Marrs is reviewing the 2022 Toyota Avalon hybrid, along with a look at the future for this vehicle.----  -----Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast provider for the next episode of In Wheel Time Car Talk and check out our live broadcast every Saturday, 8a-11aCT simulcasting on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and InWheelTime.com.In Wheel Time Car Talk can be heard on you mobile device from providers such as:Apple Podcasts, Pandora Podcast, Amazon Music Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts,    Stitcher, iHeart Radio podcast, TuneIn + Alexa, Podcast Addict, Castro, Castbox and more on your mobile device.-----  ------  ------Want more In Wheel Time in 'real' time? Follow InWheelTime.com for the latest updates!Twitter: https://twitter.com/InWheelTimeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/inwheeltime/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InWheelTime/ YouTube:  https://www.YouTube.com/InWheelTimeTags: In Wheel Time, automotive car talk show, car talk, Live car talk show, In Wheel Time Car TalkTags: In Wheel Timeautomotivecar talk showcar talkLive

Episode 51: Gar Wood “The Gray Fox of Algonac.” Part 1: “Chris-Craft”Among the galaxy of stars which made up the City of Champions season, perhaps the most revered was Garfield Arthur “Gar” Wood. In today's episode, Jamie and Charles begin the exploration of his story with an examination of his legendary boat builder Chris Smith.https://linktr.ee/DetroitCityofChampionswww.DJJamieDetroit.comwww.WearingFunny.com

Think about your typical vehicle buying experience, whether it be car or boat. You research online, head to the showroom either eager to interact with a salesperson armed with all of your knowledge or dreading the back and forth, let me ask my manager negotiation. Some showrooms may stand out to you – well decorated, nice waiting room, great coffee, for me – an area to wait with kids toys. But the experience can often be….unremarkable. And when it comes to boats, something you are buying for the fun of it, the experience should be remarkable! Boats by George, located on our home lake in upstate NY, Lake George, is turning this typical shopping experience on its head and innovating the whole boat buying process. Boats By George is celebrating its 40th anniversary and represents esteemed brands like Cobalt, which they are a top 10 global dealer for, Chris Craft, Malibu, Axis, and Barletta Pontoons. With the recent purchase of a 50,000 square foot former event space, Boats By George is creating an immersive and interactive boat buying destination. I spoke to Adam Pensel, General Manager of Boats By George, about how this concept will redefine the showroom experience, bring new potential boaters into the mix, become part of the community, and bring back the joy in vehicle shopping. Adam worked his way up through the family business as a dockhand, delivery captain, salesperson and marketing lead prior to taking the GM role. We also spoke about his early days boating with his family then on his own by age 10, technology and connectivity trends in boating, the importance of safety and conservation, and much more. Fun fact, Adam's grandfather owned the marina we currently own and operate. When we were renovating, we found his original deed, and saw the mortgage payment. That has gone up just a bit in the past 60 or so years… enjoy!

“I studied electrical engineering knowing I didn't want to be an engineer — I wanted to be an artist, but still approaching art like an engineer.”—Chris CraftIf you're putting effort into your art, you want it to be seen. So how do you make sure that your creative projects reach the right audience?In this episode of Artist Inclusive, we're diving into the business side of creativity.Chris Craft is a lo-fi hip-hop artist who produces music under the name CRFT. He's also a record label owner, copywriter, and co-founder and Chief Content Officer of NeoLuxe Marketing, an agency with a diverse team that prides themselves on being “extra.” Though many creatives find SEO and marketing complicated or intimidating, Chris believes that they should embrace its potential to promote their art.“I think it's really helpful to have that love for the business side too,” Chris says. “Because at the end of the day, I'd love to be able to be profitable with this start-up, and have our earnings be reinvested back into making more and more music.”This conversation covers left brain and right brain topics, including finding collaborators remotely in the post-Covid digital age, why artists need to seek control when it comes to digital platforms, and why Chris gets so excited about royalty calculations.In‌ ‌this‌ ‌episode of the podcast,‌ ‌you'll discover:‌Simple steps for marketing your creative projects onlineFree resources and techniques to help you nail your keywordsWhy Chris approaches art and creativity with an engineer's mindset—and how that shows up in his creative processHighlights:‌02:26  Meet Chris Craft03:44  BeatCurve & music04:43  Writing as a family06:37  Writing for commercials08:07  Power of story & encouragement10:34  Race & story12:05  How parenthood changed him13:25  Before We Begin14:51  Lo-fi music & creativity20:20  Left-brain or right-brain23:35  Artists marketing themselves25:55  SEO steps29:46  What fascinates ChrisLinks:Chris Crafthttps://beatcurve.comhttps://soundcloud.com/crft-of-beatcurvehttps://open.spotify.com/album/2FPqzCBWHqjWzlWi6E2FNZhttps://inspirefirst.comhttps://neoluxemarketing.comIG: https://www.instagram.com/neoluxemarketingTwitter: @BeatsByCRFT,  @CraftWrites, @Inspire_Firsthttps://keywordseverywhere.comJoin Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/artistinclusiveWebsite: https://www.artistinclusive.comConnecthttps://www.hollandcreative.iodaniel@hollandcreative.ioIG: https://instagram.com/conversioncopydesignhttps://www.dashofcopy.comanna@dashofcopy.comIG: https://instagram.com/dashofcopy

Our FIFTH season is officially ON. We're continuing the reunion tradition with part two of our season five kick-off with this one. The funniest and "not approved for public consumption" stuff went on behind the scenes while we had some technical difficulties, and it's chock-full of great nuggets from every guest! "Quotables" as Jen says. In this second part we have brought together (10 people!) Rob & Kennedy, Dennis Wakabayashi, Dorothea Bozicolona-Volpe, Chris Craft, Nathalie Gregg, Alexis Heinrich, Melissa Majors, Judi Fox, and Gary Ware! We check in to recap their episode and have them answer "one big question"... This time: "What is the biggest business lesson you've learned through this (ongoing) pandemic that will help you (and our listeners) forevermore?"  The result is a very insightful and lively conversation! GUESTS & their episodes from season four: Rob & Kennedy - Mastering Email Marketing, Ep. 66 Dennis Wakabayashi - TikTok - Top Platform Worldwide - Ep. 79 Dorothea Bozicolona-Volpe - How a Marketer Turned Tragedy Into Triumph - Ep. 83 Chris Craft - Crafting Creative Copy Writing - Ep. 67 Nathalie Gregg - The Power of Twitter Chats - Ep. 62 Alexa Heinrich - Absolutely Accessible Marketing - Ep. 75 Melissa Majors - Inclusivity as a Business Advantage - Ep. 84 Gary Ware - Transforming Culture - Ep. 59 Judi Fox - Captivating Clubhouse - Ep. 80   We are "Making a Marketer"... in all ways. Check out episode 87 -- and please take a minute to follow, rate, & review us on iTunes & get each ep. when it drops! https://bit.ly/mamITuneNEW ::: This episode is made possible by Powers of Marketing - emPOWERing strategic communication ::: ** Our show music is provided by our GIFTED editor, MUSICIAN, Avri. Check out his song, "Too Close"! **

Coca-Cola C2 (also referred to as Coke C2, C2 Cola, or simply C2) was a cola-flavored beverage introduced by The Coca-Cola Company first in Japan, then later on June 7, 2004 in the United States (and shortly thereafter, Canada), in response to the low-carbohydrate diet trend. This Coke product was marketed as having half the carbohydrates, sugars and calories compared to standard Coca-Cola. It contains aspartame, acesulfame potassium, and sucralose in addition to the high fructose corn syrup typically found in cola beverages distributed in America. Aside from the high fructose corn syrup, one 12-ounce can of Coca-Cola C2 contains 19 mg of aspartame, 4 mg of sucralose and 19 mg of acesulfame potassium. The packaging design differs from other Coke products in that the logos are printed in black. For marketing on radio and television, and movie theaters the Queen song "I Want to Break Free" was used. When it was first introduced, though, The Rolling Stones song "You Can't Always Get What You Want" was used. American sales did not live up to early expectations mainly due to customer disinterest in a mid-calorie soda, and partly due to the success of Coca-Cola Zero, a zero-calorie version of Coca-Cola; however, Coca-Cola said the brand would remain in its lineup, even while Pepsi discontinued its equivalent product, Pepsi Edge, in late 2005, just one year after its introduction. Many store shelves completely replaced the product with Coca-Cola Zero due to display, shelving and storage limitations, and with the introduction of Coca-Cola Cherry Zero, the product disappeared from all store shelves where it had previously remained, and in 2013, it was replaced by Coca-Cola Life, which was marketed for using Stevia as opposed to artificial sweeteners. The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that launched on January 16, 1995. The network was originally owned by Chris-Craft Industries' United Television; Viacom (through its Paramount Television unit, which produced most of the network's series) turned the network into a joint venture in 1996 after acquiring a 50% stake in the network, and subsequently purchased Chris-Craft's remaining stake in 2000. In December 2005, UPN was spun off to CBS Corporation when Viacom split into two separate companies. CBS Corporation and Time Warner jointly announced on January 24, 2006 that the companies would shut down UPN and competitor The WB to launch a new joint venture network later that year. UPN ceased broadcasting on September 15, 2006, with The WB following suit two days later. Select programs from both networks moved to the new network, The CW, when it launched on September 18, 2006. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dwight-allen/message

FOLLOW UP: ANDREW GOT LOST IN LIVERPOOL Thank you, to the keen eared listener who corrected Andrew on where Aigburth Road actually is in Liverpool, when he described Edge Lane. FOLLOW UP: DEALERS UNHAPPY WITH VOLVO PLANSThis week’s ‘well knock me down with a feather’ news item is that the dealerships who found out that Volvo wants to ditch a lot of them for sales, are less than happy with this idea. To read more, click The Truth About Cars article here. NEW CAR REGISTRATION FIGURES FEBRUARY 2021This will be the last month that does not compare restricted UK, year on year, when looking at registration figures. Considering the country has been in another ‘full’ lockdown, manufacturers and dealers have done well to only be 35% down on last year. To read more, click the SMMT figures here. In our not very regular segment about LGVs, it is interesting to see that vans are still going strong, with registrations being up 22% on last year. To read more about that, click the SMMT article here. FUEL DUTY NOT RAISED IN BUDGETDuring his Budget speech, the Chancellor of the Exchequer confirmed that there would be no rise in fuel duty, as was expected. That was pretty much the only item specifically aimed at motorists. To read more, click the Autocar article here. ASTON MARTIN WILL MAKE EVS IN THE UKAston Martin are the latest brand to announce they will be building electric vehicles, ahead of the UK Government’s ICE ban. Additionally, these will be built in the UK. As the cost of purchasing their cars is so high and happens in such small numbers, any rules of origin issues will be minimised for Aston Martin. To read more, click the BBC News article here. PORSCHE INVESTS MORE IN RIMACPorsche has announced that it is increasing their stake in Rimac to 24%, with an new £60 million investment in the Croatian electric super car brand. By doing so, they will be able to access Rimac’s technology, which will help the development of their own EVs. To read more, click the EVO article here. M6 SHOCKED BY NEW RAPID CHARGERSAt Welcome Break services at Corley, in the West Midlands, Instavolt has opened a new rapid charging hub northbound, with one due to go in southbound by the end of March. To read more, click the ZapMap article here. STELLANTIS ASKS FOR GOVERNMENT AID FOR ELLESMERE PORTStellantis has asked the UK Government for financial aid, if it wants to keep the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port factory open in the future. To read more, click the Bloomberg article here. In what was claimed to be an unrelated move, the factory has been paused due to a lack of demand for the vehicle they make there. To read more, click the BBC News article here. SKODA SALES BOSS OFF TO BENTLEYAlain Favey, who is the head of sales and marketing at Skoda, will take over from Chris Craft later in the year. He will head up the vehicle launches for the new Beyond 100 strategy. To read more, click the Autocar article here. _____________________________________________If you like what we do, on this show, and think it is worth a £1.00, please consider supporting us via Patreon. Here is the link to that CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST——————————————————————————-DFT CALLS FOR MORE ACCESS TO E-SCOOTERSThe Department for Transport has called for e-scooters to be made more widely available and affordable to help increase uptake in this option for active travel. They also call for more urban and rural cycle lanes, so that users and potential users will feel safer with these types of transport. To read more, click here for the Zag article. LUNCHTIME LISTEN: THE ECONOMIST ASKS - HERBERT DIESSRichard Porter has written an excellent article popping the perception that the pinnacle of motorsport technology makes for gains in road cars. To read more, click the EVO article here. LIST OF THE WEEK: THE TOP 10 FRONT-WHEEL DRIVE RALLY CARS Following a ruling that will remove the front-wheel drive category from WRC, DirtFish compiled their favourite 10 Super 1600 and Kit Cars from the modern-ish era. To run through this fab list of ace looking rally cars, click the link here. Do not forget to tweet the chaps about which you’d pick, if you had to have one! AND FINALLY: LOVE BUG MOVIE NOT THAT BADJalopnik has published an article making the case for the movie, The Love Bug, saying that it is not as bad as you think or falsely remember. The piece must be convincing, as Alan has parted with his own cash to receive the back catalogue of movies (but not the remake!). To read more, click here for the link.

Clive Neville is the author of the book titled The Light Car Company Rocket: The Singular Vision of Two Men, it is the full history of a fascinating machine that changed the sports car market and the brainchild of former racing driver Chris Craft and design genius Gordon Murray. 

Jeremy Rolfs designer and creator behind Rolfs Craft shares his passions for wood water crafts. From restoring Chris Crafts to building wood kayaks and paddle boards. Iowa kayaking, different board types, taking advantage of the lake life and summer 2021 Shout out to Chesapeake Light Craft Kayak & Paddleboard building kits, tools, supplies and plans. For custom builds or projects contact: rolfsdesignllc@gmail.com Blog post: Wood SUP Build https://lunamoonsupyoga.com/wood-sup-build/ Web Site coming soon!! http://rolfscraft.com Visit https://lunamoonsupyoga.com use the code luna10 - all retail & all natural lip balms Instagram: @lunamoonsup --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/misty-marcum/support

The Right Stuff Companion Podcast Season 1 Episode 4:  (Directed by Nick Copus) By: Doug and Peter Werner VonBraun and Chris Craft struggle to get a working rocket, and reach an understanding. Cooper and Trudy confront his philandering again. Shepard adopts his neice. The Right Stuff, available on Disney+, is a new historical dramatic series about the US space program. Email us: therightstuff.companion@gmail.com (Music: https://www.purple-planet.com)

Brent and Jason return for a 7th season! Our first 4 episodes were recorded before OKT went on hiatus in March with the rest of the planet; the last 6 episodes were recorded 5 months later. They talk to Alexander Watson, author of the book River Queens: Saucy Boat, Stout Mates, Spotted Dog, America. Joined by his partner and intrepid shipmate, Dale Harris, they detail their refurbishing of a 1950s wooden Chris-Craft boat, visiting towns and rivers as they sail from Oklahoma to Ohio. The Fake History Sponsors are the 1915 Cloverport, KY Barbeque and The Modern Hotel of the Cumberland Mountains. Share comments here or on the Apple Podcasts app, iTunes or NPROne. Old Kentucky Tales is produced by sound engineer Todd Birdsong at WKCTC's Paducah School of Art and Design.

Copy writing is an art form. Effective copy writing is like GOLD... My conversation with this guest was quick (after the tech glitches were edited out!), so there are a bunch of great tips about how to craft good writing packed into about 20-minutes!Struggle with writer's block? Need some help sparking creativity? Chris has you covered.Our guest...Chris CraftChief Content Officer at Neo Lux Marketing AgencyAnd Founder at Nao MediaChris helps healthcare and tech companies grow through content marketing. He serves customers through content strategy, copywriting, blogging and copy editing.Twenty-minutes of pure goodness.Mentioned on the show also is the Inspire First community he helped found! Check out the community and the podcast.Please share your feedback with us too - we want to hear it. We are "Making a Marketer"... in all ways. Check out EPISODE 67 -- and please take a minute to subscribe, rate, & review us on iTunes & get each ep. when it drops!https://bit.ly/mamITuneNEW::: This episode is sponsored by Powers of Marketing - emPOWERing strategic communication :::** Our NEW show music is provided by ourGIFTED editor, MUSICIAN, Avri.Check out his recently released ALBUM, Underrated! **

After getting an engineering degree, running a record label, and then a marketing agency, Chris Craft landed back at the art he loved as a child—writing. Visit convertkit.com/creator-stories-chris-craft for show notes and more information.

Want to listen to one of the most interesting people in any industry? Spend the next 45 minutes with Steve Heese - his stories are exceptional.

The Wiki Boys are back at it this week as they make their way across Wikipedia from toilet paper to Xena Warrior Princess. What's really the big fuss over toilet paper? Who knew when a pandemic hit that's the first thing people would stock up on? Did Xena Warrior Princess use TP?--- For more Wiki U content follow Kyle and Jheisson Nunez on Instagram: @kyleberseth and @jheissonnunez ---Music provided by Davey and the Chains

Todd and John get into this week's Bring-a-Trailer picks. John picked a 1962 Chris-Craft 16' Ski Boat w/trailer, A 2009 Aston Martin Vantage Roadster and a 1968 Imperial Crown Convertible. Todd picked a 35k-Mile Mercedes-Benz 190E, a 1977 Honda Civic CVCC 5-speed Hatchback and 1995 BMW M3 Lightweight. Todd also had three weird cars to talk about: a 1972 Citroen ID21F Safari Wagon, a JDM 1991 Nissan Figaro and a 1974 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Touring Coupe from Brazil. We also talked about an odd Q1 sales milestone in California where the Tesla Model 3 outsold the Honda Civic and we talked about sadness for the fact that Chevy killed the Impala again when in 1965, the Impala set an all-time sales record for any nameplate that's never been beat: 1,074,925 units.

Communication can be tricky. People may not be reading something correctly, then they respond with something unclearly written and the next person responds to that. It can be a communication wheel from hell. Marketing Agency CEO Chris Craft joins Christoph Trappe on this episode of the Business Storytelling Podcast to discuss how to communicate better. Connect with him here: https://www.naomedia.co/ Check out Christoph’s latest book here: ctrappe.online/book

Timothy Clarke, Chairman of Gulfside Bank, has been a founding director of two area community banks. He was an organizer of Sarasota Bank which sold in 2003 to Colonial Bank and of Insignia Bank which was sold in 2017 to Stonegate Bank. His professional career has been in marketing and branding. He founded Sarasota-based Clarke Advertising & Public Relations in 1987 and held it until 2005, selling the firm to his managing partners. Prior to that, he held management positions with Tropicana Products and Chris-Craft. In addition to the two banks, Tim has served on the boards of the Tervis Tumbler Company and FCCI Insurance Companies. He currently is on the board of SAGA Communications, a publicly-traded company and he chairs its audit committee. Tim is very involved in community affairs and is past Chair of the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce and former chair of the Sarasota Season of Sculpture. He currently is on the board of the Sarasota Yacht Club and serves as a Guardian ad Litem in the child foster care program. Today Tim and I speak about his career path that ultimately led him to his present endeavor at Gulfside Bank. We also speak about the volatile state of the market, Tim's passion for boating and his involvement with the Sarasota Yacht Club as the present rear commodore. Without further adieu, please enjoy this conversation with Tim Clarke. https://www.gulfsidebank.com/ Watch this episode! https://youtu.be/Yw_bGQWoMHg Subscribe to our podcast: Apple Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyt84zoh Google Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/y4apzzn3 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/y69pjqsk Join Preferred Shore https://www.preferredshoreagentexperience.com/ Sell with Preferred Shore https://winmorewithshore.com/ Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PreferredShore/ #success #goals #lakewoodranch #topagent #floridarealtor #motivation #siestakey #luxuryrealestate #milliondollarlisting #waterfront #bradenton #youragent #realtor #local #srq #sarasota #sarasotarealestate #floridarealestate #realestate #realestatebroker #broker #billionssold #stpete #stpetersburg #preferredshore #stpeterealestate #instagood #luxury

The online space is saturated with content, so to stand out, we have to ensure that we can easily be found on a range of platforms. How can we create effective content for different platforms? How can we link our audience to our content across these platforms, and which online spaces should we be using as search engines in their own right? On this episode, founder of Nao Media, Chris Craft, shares how to be ‘Googleable’.    Takeaways + Tactics  Create pieces of core content consistently, then repurpose by slicing and dicing smaller pieces for other platforms. Don't put links to your core content when you repurpose it for other platforms. Put any links in the comments. People don't use Facebook and LinkedIn search engines, so don't waste time on things like hashtags for those platforms

Alexander Watson is an entrepreneur, adventurer, and lately, an author. With his wedded partner Dale Harris, Alexander rescued his family business, a furniture studio, built a portfolio of rental properties, and then sold it all to restore a vintage motor yacht and travel ‘The Rivah’. Watson’s book, River Queens – Saucy Boat, Stout Mates, Spotted Dog, America tells of their escape from the urban jungle and passage through the nation’s midsection. It is full of stories from the finding of the boat, to the characters they met along the way, to the challenges presented on the river. Their boat, Betty Jane, A forty-five-foot wooden motor yacht built in the height of the Korean War is hardly an extravagance; it is an obscenity. Promoted as part of Chris Craft’s "Freedom Fleet" for 1955, it had all the conveniences of a well-appointed home at twice the cost. She had fitted carpets, polished mahogany paneling, an en-suite for the owners, and quarters for the crew. The journey starts with an over-the-road transport from Lake Texoma, the impounded Red River on the Texas/Oklahoma border, to Applegate Cove Marina on the Arkansas River, one hundred miles south of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The journey ends at Cincinnati, Ohio on Labor Day Weekend 2009.  Alexander is primarily the deckhand. He is better able to shinny down docks and throw lines. He swabs the decks and shines the brass. He is also the painter, plumber, and carpenter. His upbringing in the world of fine furniture and interior design gives him intrinsic understanding of fine joinery and finishing. We discuss how Alexander got into boating, and specifically how he and Dale decided to take this journey. The book is full of colorful characters and vivid experiences from their time on the river and though you will get a sense of it from our conversation, we very specifically left a lot of the book in the book so that you can pick it up and give it a read. Enjoy!

This week Captain Rusty takes possession of his new 26 foot Chris Craft. Plus Memmorial Day weekend boating suggestions to keep everyone safe on your vessel.

In this episode of the Edufuturists Vault we chat to Chris Craft from EdTechTeam to discuss their Extensions. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edufuturistspodcast/message

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk Episode #298 with Michael Useem - How To Become A Learning Machine Full shownotes can be seen at www.LearningLeader.com Commonalities of sustaining excellence: Thinking strategically Communicating persuasively Decisive decision making The power of using real life examples to demonstrate leadership Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain He was a learning machine "We know not the future, and cannot plan for it much.  But we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour strikes." He was a self directed lifelong learner - "I have always been interested in military matters, and what I do not know in that line, I know how to learn. I study I tell you every military work I can find." He had a mentor/coach - Adelbert Ames was his tent mate and he learned all he could from him He had a disciplined focus on learning from him.  "I asked him every night to tell me what he knew so I could learn" He routinely got outside of his comfort zone - "I will watch myself and do an after action review to analyze." Get tangible experience The purpose behind taking students and family members to Gettysburg every semester - To "stand where Chamberlain stood." And to "get you in their moment on that ground." Recreate the moment as if you're there. Gene Kranz and Apollo 13 "Expecting high performance is a prerequisite to its achievement among those who work with you.  Your high standards and optimistic anticipations will not guarantee a favorable outcome, but their absence will assuredly create the opposite." Being a decisive decision maker and preparing for those challenging moments with an attitude that "failure is not an option." "I knew my teams even more than they knew themselves." Had a great mentor in Chris Craft to help him Teams that are well developed go through experiences together can outperform individuals under stress The motivation behind risk takers: "A calculating adventurer, deriving a thrill from taking a risk and watching it pay off."  This is how visions are created. How to become savvy about calculated risk Risk tolerance is a learned skill Persuasive communication is an art form It's a learned skill You can't hide, you must be persuasive as a leader There needs to be a solid narrative (story), a purpose behind it Every person must know how important their specific contribution is -- "Why are we doing this and what is my role?"

In this podcast, J. Warner Wallace is interviewed by Chris Craft for the Chris Craft Show and talks about the need for every Christian to embrace their calling as Christian Case Makers. How can each of us make a contribution to the cause for Christ? Be sure to listen to Chris interviews from his homepage.

Stephen Heese buys fallen iconic brands and brings them back to life. Find out how he turns big personal risk into great rewards.

Praise God! I'm thankful to publish this first episode of The Chris Craft Show. On this episode, I tell you my life story and my Christian testimony. I believe in ... Read moreCCS 001 | Chris Craft : My Life Story, My Christian Testimony The post CCS 001 | Chris Craft : My Life Story, My Christian Testimony appeared first on The Chris Craft Show Podcast.

Todd Lozier is a Principal at Lochwood Lozier Custom Homes in Seattle, Washington. You may recognize Todd’s family name as it relates to automobiles. The Lozier Automobile Manufacturing company was founded in 1900 by Henry Abraham Lozier, Todd’s great, great Uncle. They built touring cars until 1915 and they were top of the line automobiles and the most expensive cars of their time. Todd owns a 1914 Lozier Model 84 as well as numerous other collectible cars and a 1953 Chris Craft runabout that his father bought new. He was an honorary judge for the Lozier Reunion at the Atlanta Concours in early October.

Chris says that the best thing you can do for proper branding is have good content. He’ll give you details in this episode of what kind of content to create, and how to leverage your personality and knowledge. The voice behind the content is one of the most important parts to master. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review!   Best Ever Tweet: Can I do it on my own, or do I need to outsource it? Chris Craft Background: Founder of content creation agency Nao Media Author of The Foundation: Branding for Successful Real Estate Professionals Helps real estate professionals brand themselves through written content Real estate marketing and content expert Based in Atlanta, Georgia Say hi to him at Best Ever Book: The Content Code   Made Possible Because of Our Best Ever Sponsors:   Fund That Flip provides short-term fix and flip loans to experienced investors. If you're looking for a reliable funding partner, their online platform makes the entire process super easy, and they can get you funded in as few as 7 days. They've also partnered with best-selling author, J Scott to provide Bestever listeners a free chapter from his new book on negotiating real estate. If you'd like to improve your bestever negotiating skills, visit

This week Captain Rusty reflects on what he experienced at the Chris Craft dealer conference and how it paid off big time. Plus green slime invades Florida waterways!

This week Captain Rusty reports in from the Chris-Craft dealer conference in Sarasota. Plus Captain Patrick and Keith compare notes on the future of the boating industry.

Dan DeGeorge is VP of Sales for Dockwa. Founded in May 2015 and since Featured in Forbes, the NY Times, Boating Magazine, the Boston Globe, and more, Dockwa is changing the way boaters and marinas connect and reserve dock space. It allows boaters to search, reserve, and pay for transient dockage from their mobile device. It also allows marinas to manage their inventory online and connect with thousands of customers like never before. At the time of our recording Dockwa featured over 400 marinas and though boater numbers are not disclosed it was in the six figures. That is a lot of boaters connecting to marinas! Just prior to our conversation, Dockwa acquired Marinas.com, the world’s most extensive online marine directory of more than 75,000 marine locations, including 15,000 marinas, yacht clubs, and shipyards. Marinas.com was the first online resource of its kind for the marine industry, pioneering a comprehensive guide for boaters worldwide and amassing more than 100,000 users. With this acquisition, Dockwa has grown its marina partner network to more than 500 businesses and further expands its international footprint to Central and South America, and parts of Europe. Dockwa’s marina network and boater community tripled in size in 2016, resulting in a 1,766 percent increase in nights served. Dan himself is an avid boater and grew up boating on our home lake, Lake George. Starting with some rental boats and now boating on his family Sea Ray, Dan never lost his love of the water while getting his Economics degree at Princeton, embarking on a professional baseball career with the Cleveland Indians, and finally joining the marine/technology industry, helping Dockwa go to market in 2015. On getting into boating…..I grew up going to the lake every summer. My first time ever out on the water was on Lake George. We rented a Hurricane boat from Snug Harbor. For the majority of my childhood we rented and then we bought a Sea Ray that we can go skiing and wake-boarding on. On learning to boat…..My dad was always one of those guys who threw you into the fire. As far as I can remember it went well! We went to a place where no one was around and by the time we got our boat I was ready to go. The most important thing he taught me was check the weather early and often before you go out. On the Dockwa launch…..I was there pre-launch to market. It was the brainchild of our CEO, Mike Melillo. Mike had moved to Newport, RI out of college. He happened to live on top of a few marinas. One summer day he was watching one of the dockmasters take reservations, and it was a particularly crazy day. He was watching the dockmaster run around back and forth between docks and writing reservations in a notebook and walked up and asked the dockmaster about how he takes reservations. The dockmaster said it’s the way we’ve always done it, it’s an old school industry, and that set the idea off in Mike’s head. On fostering change in the marina business…..It’s our biggest challenge but also presents the biggest opportunity. There’s a lot of room for us to help these marinas and operators get more efficient and create a better experience for the boater. On response from the boating market…..We work with a little over 400 marinas. Boaters love it because they’re used to it in other industries. They can go online or on their phone and make a hotel reservation or an airline reservation, so it only makes sense that you should be able to do it for marinas and for boating. On the marina side you’re always running up against the challenge of people who have done something the same way for the past 30 years and there’s always that little resistance to change but once they see it working for other marinas and then use it themselves, it’s been well received. On the Marinas.com acquisition…..On the boater side we want Marinas.com to be the place you go to for all things boating. Whether that’s long term dockage, short term dockage, repair work, buying a boat, we want it to be the place boaters go to find anything they need. Within that, marinas can gain more exposure to their customers. On expansion and new locations…..We’re down in the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and we just signed up a marina in the Dominican Republic. Ideally we’ll expand internationally. A big opportunity is the Great Lakes. We have a good number of marinas in the Great Lakes and a big help for has been that the Chicago Harbor municipal marinas use Dockwa. The Puget Sound is a big hot spot, that’s our next target domestically. Internationally is a little farther down the product road map. I’d love to get out to Italy. On where he would like to do some personal boating…..I would love to go to the BVIs and hop around to the islands. I have a college roommate who grew up around the Puget Sound and speaks real highly of it so that’s on my vacation list. On the Dockwa Figawi sponsorship…..This will be our third year. We officially launched at Figawi two years ago. I had never heard of it until I moved to Newport. The first week I joined the company we went and it’s a blast. It’s great for boaters and non-boaters, a great experience. On the Dockwa Dock Free giveaway…..We were fortunate to team with BoatUS on that. It was an awesome promotion. Not only for BoatUS and for us but I think the winner has already made a few reservations to take advantage of the winnings. On technology taking hold in the boating industry…..I feel like we’re getting closer to the tipping point, especially as the younger generation who is more used to technology starts to get more into boating. With Boatbound and GetMyBoat, the younger generations really value the experience and embrace the sharing economy so that will become more prevalent and force the marine industry to embrace technology. On his dream boat(s)…..It was always a wooden Chris-Craft growing up on the lake. It looks so cool and smooth. Coming up to Newport, you see a lot of the newer center consoles like the Regulators, or Viking sport fishers, so I’ve gotten more into those recently when I moved up here.   Hope you enjoyed the conversation with Dan and check out the Dockwa app. Editors note: Having done both a sailing trip through the BVIs and raced in Figawi weekend, the Dockwa guys sound like they know how to enjoy their work! 

This week the WOB crew talk about the success of 2017 Miami International boat show. Plus Captain Rusty sells his first Chris-Craft!

In the world of digital marketing, content providers have something of a mixed reputation. On the one hand, real estate agents are struggling to find the time and the know-how to create great content that attracts prospects online. On the other hand, content providers are often dismissed as little more than “content mills,” promising front-page placement while churning out low-quality blog posts and articles. But Chris Craft begs to differ. As founder of Atlanta-based Nao Media, Chris has built a successful and ethical company that delivers high-quality, search-optimized content to real estate agents and other small businesses owners. In this interview, Chris takes us inside Nao Media's content creation process, and offers some valuable strategies to help real estate professionals get more mileage out of their marketing.

Fish-Tale Radio Host, Captain Scott talks with Beach School Principal Jeff Dobbins and Teacher Heather Lodavico about this year’s fund-raising Beach School Pancake Breakfast with proceeds going to the Beach Elementary! It was a record year for donations and a beautiful morning on the bay!  We go Fishing with Captain Neil Eisner who talks about fall and winter fishing excitement. You can pick up some top angler tips from Captain Greg Stamper regarding bait and our weather fronts.  Plus more about our new Fish-Tale Restaurant with a scheduled opening in January of 2017 and learn more about Walker’s Marine Group joining our Fish-Tale Team! Fish–Tale Marina is excited to announce our new partnership with Walker‘s Marine Group of Florida starting late November! Walker‘s Marine Group includes boat dealerships, marina operations, and carry a wide array of boating accessories, parts, and more for all your boating needs!   Walker‘s Marine Yacht Sales will offer a new on the water location for sales, service, sea trial and new vessel deliveries. Their dealership will include the best boat brands including Pursuit, Scout, Jupiter, Maverick, Hewes, Pathfinder, Cobia and Chris Craft.   In addition to their Yacht Sales, Walker‘s Marine’s Service Department will provide on-site factory authorized engine and electronic repair ranging from major to minor boat maintenance and service repair. Their service department has highly experienced technicians producing dependable results.   We at Fish–Tale Marina believe that this new partnership will benefit you, our valued customer, because it will significantly enhance our capabilities and allow us to provide a wider array of services with improved and more efficient results. Walker‘s Marine Group is a certified Yamaha 5 STAR GOLD Service and Mercury & MerCruiser and Volvo Service Center.   Fish–Tale Marina not only appreciates your giving us the opportunity to provide you with all of your boating needs, but for your loyalty and friendship over the time we have served you. We are confident that Walker‘s Marine will add a new level of professionalism and service to you.   The post Fish-Tale Radio “Beach School Pancake Breakfast” appeared first on Fish Tale Marina.

Are you wasting your time with outdated, ineffective real estate branding and marketing in today's digital environment? Real estate marketing and content expert Christopher Craft reveals what is no longer working anymore and, more importantly, what is working today to get you more commissions and leads. Listen now to get a jump on your competition by creating a rockstar brand and online marketing machine for your real estate business! Chris Craft is a Christian, husband, father, author, speaker, and founder of Nao Media. Craft approaches all things, including his writing projects, from a Christian worldview. He writes on faith, gratitude, marketing, and business. Chris and his team at Nao Media have branded, marketed, and strategized for real estate professionals with much success. Join us as Christopher shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by helping businesses develop and deliver content, define their brand, generate leads, and connect with their customers through story, content marketing, lead generation, and lead nurturing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A look at this months fishing report with Chris Craft & all the great events taking place on Lake Anna VA.

How you should be using content in your business.  We talk about why you should be using content in your business and what platforms you should be using.  If you've ever struggled with finding your voice or how to distribute content to grow your business, differentiate your brand and be unique in your marketplace. We discuss why you need haters and why knowing your ideal client is the foundation of knowing where to find your next client and connect with your database. Want to build more relationships and mine your database for deals?  Take a look at our new podcast production company www.viralkast.com.  Send us an email and lets get started. Join the Conversation Follow me on twitter @superagentslive Hashtag: #unpackthatidea Ready to level up and do radio?  Go to www.realestateradioexperts.com and see how you can double your business.

How you should be using content in your business.  We talk about why you should be using content in your business and what platforms you should be using.  If you've ever struggled with finding your voice or how to distribute content to grow your business, differentiate your brand and be unique in your marketplace. We discuss why you need haters and why knowing your ideal client is the foundation of knowing where to find your next client and connect with your database. Want to build more relationships and mine your database for deals?  Take a look at our new podcast production company www.viralkast.com.  Send us an email and lets get started. Join the Conversation Follow me on twitter @superagentslive Hashtag: #unpackthatidea Ready to level up and do radio?  Go to www.realestateradioexperts.com and see how you can double your business.

So in this latest episode, we discuss S1E1′s “The Skill to Catch a Killer,” which, as we mention, aired on 04/19/90, was directed by David Lynch, and worsen by Lynch and Mark Frost. It was watched by 19.2 million ABC viewers, down 4 million from the previous episode, so the show was continuing to lose viewers not ready for what it was offering. Although we mention having done our research this time, we didn't note that Jerry Horne is played by character actor David Patrick Kelly, a steadily working actor since the late ‘70s who nonetheless is hard to recognize if you're looking for someone who looks like spiky-haired Jerry. Kelly has appeared in a number of popular or cult classic series and films including The Warriors, Tales from the Darkside, Commando, Moonlighting, Miami Vice, on up to Bored to Death, The Blacklist, John Wick, and Spike Lee's just-completed Chi-Raq. He also acted in Lynch's Wild at Heart.  We might as well mention brother Ben, too, played by Richard Beymer, a North Hollywood High graduate who acted extensively in TV in the ‘50s until getting into films with The Diary of Anne Frank, playing Anne's pencil (sorry, just seeing if you're paying attention), and then one of his most well-known roles, Tony in West Side Story (also with future Peaks castmate Russ Tamblyn). Unlike his libidinous Ben Horne, the ‘60s films, Bachelor Flat and Five Finger Exercise, are apparently not very dirty. Screen work was sporadic in the late ‘60s through early ‘80s (perhaps more theatre?), but Moonlighting, Paper Dolls and Dallas got him back into the swing of things, leading to Twin Peaks, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and a surprising number of episodes of Murder, She Wrote, playing different characters (he has that look of a murdering weasel who's going to be found out by a doddering old novelist, right?).  Scott erroneously calls The Great Northern “The North Woods Inn.” It just happens once. Chris-Craft is indeed famous for its mahogany-hulled motorboats. The model in this episode is considered a classic and was popular from the ‘40s into the ‘60s, i.e. the era most influential on David Lynch. Despite at least one bankruptcy and many changes in ownership, the company is still going. And how about that Nadine Hurley, the one-eyed, super-strong, quiet-drape-runner-obsessed wife of Big Ed? She is played by Wendy Robie, who has acted largely in television and often as someone at least quirky, often mentally disturbed. Aside from Twin Peaks, she may be best known for The People Under the Stairs, a decent Wes Craven film, or Vampire in Brooklyn, a not-decent Wes Craven film. She is also apparently in the 2000 Baz Luhrmann film, Romeo + Juliet.  “You'd be looking for your teeth on Queer Street” - we speculate on this, but Wikipedia indicates it's an old expression referring to someone ending up in trouble, often in the financial sense. It is associated with Clarey Street in London, where the bankruptcy courts were located.  Chris isn't sure if Grace Zabriskie, who plays Sarah Palmer, is still alive. She is, and was excellent in the most recent season of Showtime's Ray Donovan as Miss Minassian, matriarch of an Armenian crime family. More on her in a later post.  Scott believes the One Armed Man's dialogue in this episode holds the key to the mysteries of this series. We'll see! Welcome to Twin Peaks has the text of Mike's speech, all the Log Lady intros, and plenty of theorizing. The One Armed Man, Mike, is played by Al Strobel, who has a few other credits besides this and TP:FWWM. His role was expanded because of his impressive performance as Mike. The Man from Another Place is portrayed by Michael J. Anderson, who used a phonetically reversed speaking style he and his friends developed in school, so it was not a Lynch or Frost idea. He has also been seen in the HBO series, Carnivale, as well as Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and (as a normal-sized man with the use of a prosthetic body) in Mulholland Dr.  “That Gum You Like Is Back in Style” is a track from Northern California rock band Camper Van Beethoven's 2002 concept album, New Roman Times. Cowritten by David Lowery and Johnny Hickman, who are also in the band, Cracker, it should probably have been a Cracker song, but Lowery felt it fit CVB better, and though it predated the New Roman Times concept, it fit in fine. By Lowery's admission, the lyrics aren't particularly meaningful and are just intended to create a weird, Lynchian mood.  Thanks for listening. Please tell us what you think of the podcast and/or these interminable notes Contact us at Google + and Gmail: WhoKilledLauraPodcast@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/WhoKilledLauraPodcast Twitter: @WhoKilledLaura1 Instagram: @WhoKilledLauraPodcast Tumblr: http://whokilledlaurapodcast.tumblr.com

John drops into Starr Studios while on a trip through Texas and talks to Sean about his many years as a sign painter, hanging with gold legend Rick Glawson, Chris Craft boats, David Smith and Gary Martin.

Mike Earle podcast As Rob mentions when introducing the podcast Mike Earle has spent five decades in the sport. I knew we were covering a lot of ground during the recording so when the audio file landed this morning, courtesy of Alan Hyde, I decided to write down the names that are brought up during the 90 minutes. Here they are, in order: David Purley, Derek Bell, Peter Gethin, John Watson, Roger Clark, Chris Craft, Jean-Luc Salomon, Denny Hulme, Bruce McLaren, Gerhard Berger, Carlos Pace, Bernie Ecclestone, Tom Pryce, Adrian Newey, Jean-Pierre van Rossem... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A collection of humorous essays including my parents' experiment with going over Niagara Falls in a 30-foot Chris Craft cabin cruiser; my father's inexplicable outbust that led to a major fast food chain going out of business; a brief introductory explanation of why you would be happier in Buffalo, as was Dr. Samuel Johnson; and how I modeled my moves with the ladies on our randy French poodle, Sir Oscar of Burbank, with little success.