Podcasts about concho

Bad Bunny y su disco DtMF es el primer highlight musical de este 2025 que recién comienza. Es su sexto álbum de estudio y, con cada escucha, se va convirtiendo en nuestro favorito. No sólo porque escapa a los sonidos que estamos acostumbrados oír en su carrera (no te asustes, también hay hitazos BB de fórmula), si no porque también está cargado de simbología y protesta social. Todo bajo una manta artística sin bajadas de líneas burdas o innecesariamente literales. Abrimos la sexta temporada de USM con este episodio FULL ALBUM DtMF, el disco de Bad Bunny que habla de Puerto Rico al mundo, pero también lo hace para adentro de la isla. Hay referencias de PR en absolutamente todas las canciones, la mayoría sólo para entendidos. Es por eso que invitamos a Juan Arroyo, periodista puertorriqueño que escribe en RollingStone, Remezcla y Complex, entre otros medios internacionales, para que nos cuente desde qué es el pitorro de coco hasta cómo fue el recibimiento de este disco en Puerto Rico, y nos aclara algo importante: el sapo Concho no es una rana Coquí. LINKS DATEROS: Juan Arroyo escribe sobre DtMF en Complex Seguí a Juan Arroyo en Instagram Cortometraje DtMF Visualizers con la historia de Puerto Rico Full Album DtMF escuchar Momentos de este episodio: 00:00 - Intro 02:01 - Claves para antes de escuchar el disco 4:32 - Charla con JUANJO ARROYO desde PUERTO RICO 18:13 - Géneros caribeños y puertorriqueños del disco 19:34 - ¿Qué es la PLENA? Sobre la canción "DtMF" 22:25 - El REGGAETÓN como identidad puertorriqueña 27:41 - El SAPO CONCHO y el COQUÍ 28:31 - ¿Cómo ven a BAD BUNNY en PUERTO RICO? 31:08 - NUEVA YORK y PUERTO RICO 34:25 - ¿Qué le pasó a Hawai? 37:59 - ¿Qué es el PITORRO DE COCO? 45:33 - ANÁLISIS de las TRES PARTES del álbum Seguinos y escuchanos en Youtube, Spotify o tu plataforma preferida:   Si te gusta nuestro podcast, seguinos en Spotify y activá la campanita para recibir aviso cuando se publique un nuevo epísodio Conectá con Rocktails en Instagram. Escucha nuestros podcasts.

Vivien Mattei y José Raúl Cepeda conversan con Abdias Mendez Robles, artista plástico sobre su libro y exposición en Ponce. Segmento 1 Abdias Mendez, veterano artista plástico, líder de varias organizaciones artísticas y culturales. Participante activo de organizaciones artísticas de América Latina. Su carrera artística empezó en Ponce hace 30 años y los conmemora con su libro Antología de un Artista 30 47 Segmento 2 Méndez nos cuenta sus inicios en galerías y talleres de arte de San Juan, historias q forman parte del libro. El libro se divide en etapas q reflejan la carrera del artista. Contienes narraciones, recortes de prensa y referencias a donde encontrar sus columnas de crítica de arte. Puertorriqueños están a la altura cualitativo del arte en Latinoamérica. El mayor reto está relacionado con la representación y gestión política internacional, por nuestra falta de soberanía. Segmento 3 Actividades en El Candil próximo fin de semana. Méndez habla de las experiencias a nivel internacional. Segmento 4 Lanzamiento de la propuesta de “Bad Bunny” o Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, “Debi tirar más fotos” Desde la fotografía de portada hasta el cortometraje con Jacobo Morales y “Concho”, el impacto internacional de temas que afectan a Puerto Rico hoy es innegable, como la gentrificación, el ambiente y los adultos mayores. Definitivamente, un verdadero fenómeno global/mediático, lo entendamos y nos guste o no.

Introducción:Celebración del Día de Reyes y cómo las tradiciones han evolucionado.Contexto del cortometraje "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" y su conexión con la nostalgia puertorriqueña.Reflexión sobre el Cortometraje:Perspectiva de quienes crecieron en la isla y regresaron tras vivir en la diáspora.Cómo los cambios demográficos afectan nuestras tradiciones y cultura.Simbolismo del personaje “Concho” y su representación del puertorriqueño en peligro de extinción.Puerto Rico y su Futuro:Impacto de la migración, el turismo y la transformación de nuestras comunidades.Discusión sobre cómo preservar nuestras raíces mientras enfrentamos los cambios inevitables.Acción Financiera y Comunitaria:Cómo tomar control de nuestras finanzas puede contribuir al desarrollo de Puerto Rico.Importancia de invertir en la isla y fortalecer nuestras comunidades.Invitación a unirse a la Membresía de Café on a Budget para ser parte del cambio.Cierre:Reflexión sobre el poder de las pequeñas acciones para mantener vivas nuestras tradiciones.Llamado a tomar responsabilidad financiera y personal para construir un mejor futuro para la isla.

Today on LIVE! Daily News, PETA posts old footage and riles up the internet, DPS is stepping up this weekend, and the city offices that are closed.Also, Clint Havins with ASU is in the studio. Today's Top Stories: NWS: Cold Front Racing Through Big Country Will Hit San Angelo Momentarily (11/27/2024)VIDEO: Texas Woman Killed by Police SUV While Crossing Road with Kids (11/27/2024)FBI Agent Suspended After Rape Charges Linked to Tattoo Shop Scheme (11/27/2024)Meth-Soaked Clothing, Including Cow Onesie, Seized in Smuggling Bust (11/27/2024)Watch Colonel McCraw Give His Final Goodbye at DPS Headquarters (11/27/2024)Pfluger, Dingell Lead in Calling on Tech Companies to Better Address Deepfake P0rn (11/27/2024)Texas Man to be Released from Chinese Imprisonment (11/27/2024)Markets Along the Concho to Host Small Business Saturday Celebration (11/27/2024)Your I-10 and I-45 Thanksgiving Traffic Forecast (11/27/2024)Rainbow Trout Stocking Kicks Off in San Angelo Ahead of Thanksgiving (11/27/2024)Safe Haven Baby Box Fundraising Underway for San Angelo (11/27/2024)Texas Influencer Sentenced to 10 Years for Murder-for-Hire Plot (11/27/2024)18-Year-Old Ejected and Killed in Eddy County Crash (11/27/2024)San Angelo City Offices to Close for Thanksgiving Holiday (11/27/2024)Christmas at Old Fort Concho to Return for Its 43rd Year (11/27/2024)DPS Stepping Up Patrols for Thanksgiving Week (11/27/2024)Largest Counterfeit Musical Instrument Bust: $19M in Fake Gibsons Seized (11/27/2024)Strangers Rescue Kids from Burning Car While Mom was Shoplifting (11/27/2024)Wall Hawks Look to Slow Down Littlefield's High-Powered Offense (11/27/2024)Texas Leads U.S. in Moving Trends with 3.3 Million In-State Movers in 2023 (11/27/2024)Angelo State's 26-Foot Christmas Tree to Light Up the Season (11/27/2024)CBP Seizes $880K Worth of Cocaine Hidden in Broccoli Shipment (11/27/2024)Cold Front to Bring Temperature Drop for Thanksgiving (11/27/2024)Aggravated Robbery and Continuous Violence Against the Family Tops Booking Report (11/27/2024)50 Shades of Feathers: Old Footage Claiming Workers are Sexually Assaulting Turkeys (11/26/2024)San Angelo Central's Colter Farmer Signs With Vernon College (11/26/2024)Water Valley Enjoying Return to Six-Man Football With Another State Quarterfinal Run (11/26/2024) 

This is the weekly columnWinemakers: To oak or not to oak, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up oak to craft your wine to shake the spheres of ordinary.Oak and wine were made for each other. The wood and how it is treated introduces flavors compounds and textures. Oak barrels allow slow oxygenation, which engenders complexity and depth. Malolactic fermentation in oak converts tart malic acid into softer lactic acid, creating a creamier, buttery texture. The winemaker must decide if oak is in the wine's future. For some whites, the answer is no. For reds, usually yes.Next decision—which oak to use. There are some 600 species of oak trees. They are divided into two main groups: red oaks and white oaks. In North America alone there are about 90 native species.American white oak (Quercus alba) has wide grain and high levels of lactones, delivering flavors of vanilla, coconut, marshmallow, volume, creaminess, and sweetness. It usually receives a medium toast (flame treatment inside the barrel). It often is used for bold wines—cabernet sauvignon and petite sirah—because its robust flavors and higher oxygen ingress complement such wines.European white oak (Quercus petraea) has finer grains. It has a more subtle influence on wine than American oak and imparts elegant flavors of vanilla and spice, and thus is preferred for lighter wines—pinot noir and chardonnay. The tight grains also mean a more measured integration of flavors, often preferred for premium wines. At medium toast, French oak imparts notes of coffee, chocolate, leather, and mushrooms. Wine must spend more time in French oak than American oak to attain these flavors.Eastern European oak, particularly from Slovakia, Hungry, and Romania, are similar to French oak. They can be more subtle than French oak and provide more delicate flavors.Bourbon barrels are another category, pioneered in the 20th century by Chilean mega-maker Concho y Toro with its American label, 1000 Stories. It involves using American oak, blackened and heavily charred to make bourbon and whiskey in first use. In second use with wine, the barrels deliver caramel, burnt sugar, dried herbs, coffee, and vanilla. Wine finished in bourbon barrels are only part of a blend—around five percent—but add smoothness and another layer of flavors with hint of its bourbon back story. They also are a booming category in wine because they are smooth and delicious. Wood you not be interested in trying this category?Last roundI only know 25 letters in the alphabet. I don't know Y. Wine time.Email: wine@cwadv.comNewsletter: gusclemens.substack.comWebsite:  Gus Clemens on Wine websiteFacebook:  facebook.com/GusClemensOnWine/posts/Twitter (X): @gusclemensLong form wine stories on Vocal: Gus Clemens on VocalLinks worth exploringDiary of a Serial Hostess Ins and outs of entertaining; witty anecdotes of life in the stylish lane.As We Eat Multi-platform storytelling explores how food connects, defines, inspires.Balanced Diet Original recipes, curated links about food systems, recipe reviews. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gusclemens.substack.com/subscribe

There's a massive hoarding problem of animals in Apache County. Heather Hutchison is one of those trying to solve the horrific problem.

What did you think? Text us!In this episode, Peter Haines, an elder at Concho Valley OPC in Concho, Arizona talks to two elders—Kris Lehner,  an elder at Immanuel OPC in Medford, NJ and David Drake, an elder at Trinity OPC in Hatboro, PA. Each offer guidance to deacons, based on their expertise in the field of personal insurance in order to strengthen the understanding of "people-based insurance". Kris and David touch on risk management—a complicated topic for which diaconal resources are hard to come by.Kris and David share their expertise on the importance of working within a budget to aid pastors, their families and others in choosing benefit packages with  appropriate and sufficient amounts of disability insurance. Whether you are wealthy or struggle to make ends meet, everyone needs a plan and wisdom in knowing how to go about it. We hope that this episode will leave you with some important first steps toward that goal. Referenced in this episode:If you have questions you'd like to ask of Kris or David, please contact them:Contact Kris LehnerContact David Drake"The Exchange" (government website for insurance plans)You can find all of our episodes at thereformeddeacon.org. Make sure to follow us on your favorite podcast player, so you don't miss an episode. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for giveaways and more information. Find other resources on OPCCDM.org. Make sure to send us some feedback on your podcast player or ask a diaconal question by going to OPCCDM.org.

Today on LIVE! Daily News, the San Angelo Police Department is looking for two suspects who were involved in a high-speed chase last night, and Blair's Western Wear is calling it a career. We also have two great interviews with Tim Condon and Peter Mejia with the Angry Cactus and the other with Michael LePak with "Markets Along the Concho."

Today on LIVE!, COVER1's Ryan Chadwick and James Bouligny discuss the district matchups in Friday's basketball games including San Angelo Central, Wall, TLCA San Angelo, Christoval, and many others.

Today on LIVE! Daily News, Joven Pickett with Concho Christmas stops by the studio to discuss the Christmas Light Tour on the Concho this Christmas Season.

Today on LIVE!, Sara Ross with Fort Concho comes into the studio to chat with Yantis Green about all the events and activities that are planned for their Christmas at Old Fort Concho!Also, a former San Angelo mayor passes away, Sheriff Nick Hanna has a big announcement, and a local artist and the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce.

As the first iconic wine of Chile, Don Melchor has paved a path for many others to follow. Enrique Tirado, CEO and Technical Director, explains the vision behind Don Melchor, how it became an instant icon of Chile, and how it stays on top of its game.  Detailed Show Notes: Enrique's background - studied agronomy and enology, joined Don Melchor in 1993, became winemaker in 1997, in 2011, Don Melchor Winery was created and became CEODon Melchor overview:One specific vineyard in Puente Alto on the north bank of the Maipo River at the foot of the Andes Mountains1st vintage - 1987127ha, 151 parcelsMainly Cabernet SauvignonUses ~60-70% of the vineyard for Don Melchor wine~12-15k cases of 1 wine produced each year“One unique history, one terroir, one wine” is the ethos behind Don MelchorThe remainder of the fruit goes to other wines in the Concho y Toro portfolio (e.g., Marquis de Casa Concha)Becoming an iconic Chilean wineIt was 1st to create an “icon” wine in ChileIt was the most expensive Chilean wine on initial release1988, 2nd vintage, was in the Top 100 of Wine Spectator - the only Chilean wine and a big deal at the time which established Don Melchor's statusA string of critical praise - WS Top 100 9x, 3x in the Top 10, 100 points from James Suckling, Best of the Best from Robb ReportExport 90% of the wine to 70 countries; main markets include the US, Brazil, ChinaBecoming iconic todayIt is easier for other Chilean wines as Chile's reputation is more establishedThe country's image is critical and requires collaboration with other producersConsistency of quality is critical for both winemaking and the commercial sideAdd value to the wine world - e.g., come from a unique place, have a unique expression and personalityMay create a 2nd wine in the futureStaying on topRequires a singular focus on quality and consistencyNeed to focus on communication and optimizing the best routes to marketWine critics are still important, and they make consumer communication fasterCustomized routes to market by country (e.g., US, Brazil) and have offices in different countriesSold by the Concha y Toro sales forceHave a specific team for premium winesNot on La Place de Bordeaux  Get access to library episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Este 7 y 8 de octubre se realizará en la costanera de Valparaíso la décima versión de VALPO BIER, un encuentro de música y cultura cervecera que tendrá lugar en Avenida Altamirano. Alejandro Brito conversó con él productor de esta actividad, Alan Varas, quien dio a conocer las claves para disfrutar con todo de esta nueva versión del evento.

SAN ANGELO, TX – On today's LIVE! Daily News, two crashes in the Concho valley, a credit card scam at Walmart, and it finally rained in the Concho valley. Plus Joe Hyde and Matt Trammell tell you everything we know about the investigation into the Wall Co-op.

Al has a dilemma due to I-40 East from Concho. Does he wait in the traffic or motor on to O'thello's? Phone calls are abundant tonight. Enjoy the show and the first weekend of College football! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Al announces his big event coming September 7th, 2023 at Othello's. Jim was spent today from all the fun and frivolity of last night's get together. Matt Ravis hangs with Al live from Lucky Star Casino in Concho. Berry Tramel talks some Thunder with the guys and Dean offers his thoughts on Al's event.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two deadly crashes that affected the Concho Valley, an update on the Home Birth Heroin Baby Trial, and a look at this week's weather. Plus Tara Fatough with the San Angelo State Park joins the show! Also, the Texas High School Football season starts today with 2-a-Days! Catch up on today's stories!

Al goes two hours on Friday nights from Lucky Star Casino in Concho, OK. NBA Free Agency and fireworks safety. Who does 'Try a Little Tenderness' the best? Otis Redding or Three Dog Night?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Para trasladarnos de un lugar a otro es necesario un medio de transporte, no todos contamos con vehículos propios, y además en ciudades grandes como NYC es más factible el transporte público masivo. En el tema de hoy comparamos el transporte público de nuestra ciudad natal, Santiago, con la ciudad que vivimos ahora NYC. Como en cada episodio estaremos tomándonos una cerveza, en este caso es la Lion Stout.

Tisha Schuller welcomes Megan Hays, managing director at Kimmeridge, to the Real Decarbonization podcast. Listeners will hear Megan's investor perspective on how oil and gas companies should approach net zero targets and expectations to decarbonize. Before her start at Kimmeridge in 2021, Megan was VP of investor relations at Cimarex Energy. She has served in other investor relations, ESG, and corporate communications roles, such as VP of investor relations and public affairs at Concho (2017 to 2021) and director of investor relations and corporate communications at Approach Resources (2013 to 2014). Megan serves on the advisory board of the Ralph Lowe Energy Institute at Texas Christian University's (TCU) Neeley School of Business. She received a B.A. in political science and history from TCU and holds a certificate for the Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership program from Harvard's School of Public Health. Follow all things Adamantine Energy and subscribe to Tisha's weekly Both of These Things Are True email newsletter at www.energythinks.com. Thanks to Adán Rubio who makes the Real Decarbonization podcast possible. [Interview recorded on Jan. 11, 2023]

Steve Farhood has been around the Sweet Science for 34 years, most of which have been spent as editor-in-chief of “The Ring”and “KO” magazines.Farhood works as an on-air analyst for Showtime's “ShoBox” series, “Showtime Championship Boxing,” and the syndicated“Broadway Boxing” series. He also writes a column and features for “Boxing Monthly,” for which he serves as associate editor.“My work on ShoBox has been so much fun,” Farhood said. “I love watching prospects develop, and since its inception in 2001,the series has showcased a handful of future world champs. And besides, what else is ever going to bring me to places like Concho,Oklahoma, and Lincoln City, Oregon?”Farhood assumed command of “The Ring” in 1989, when London Publishing bought the title. “The Ring” subsequently regained much ofthe luster that was lost during the magazine's financial struggle in the ‘80s. Farhood resigned the position in September 1997 to pursueother interests, specifically in the broadcasting industry.In 1980, Farhood launched “KO” magazine.A ringside fixture at big fights, Farhood has served as an on-air analyst for ESPN, SportsChannel, Top Rank Boxing,and "Heavyweight Explosion," and regularly contributed to the USA Network's “Tuesday Night Fights.” He also worked for five years asCNN's boxing correspondent,and has contributed to boxing broadcasts on Fox and CBS.Source: http://www.stevefarhood.com/

Listen to Ashley talk about a haunted location in Oklahoma due to the history of a “school”, just another example of one of the many ways white Christian's tried to desecrate sacred Native Americans culture. It's always my intention to spread awareness and help give a voice to the souls that suffered. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ashley-matheny/support

Special Thanksgiving Episode! Robert Dominguez, and Steven Dominguez talk with Michael Hully Sulphur. We revisit Lucky Star Casino  in Concho, Oklahoma video tape incident. We discuss Bigfoot hunting grounds in Okemah, Oklahoma and Aliens in Dodge City Kansas.  Bigfoot Club Website https://www.bigfootclubpodcast.com/  Our social media, podcast platforms, YouTube, Pay Pal and Venmo links https://linktr.ee/BigfootClub  Steven Dominguez https://linktr.ee/bigboyjones2022

Welcome back, WTF Fans! On today's show, let's recap our trip down to Houston for the Texan Live Kickoff event. Plus, we get to chat with Standard Times Associate Manager/MMJ Amy McDaniel. Stick around for our take on the Concho Valley as we break down the region.

Jerry and Tracy talk about the Purple Church and Concho Indian Boarding School in Oklahoma. Jerry interviews Grant Wilson from Ghost Hunters.

Darren Brown, Senior Producer at Cheyenne and Arapaho Television in Concho, Oklahoma is a Native American. He was adopted when he was a baby and raised by a white family. Later he searched for his birth parents. He found them and an amazingly rich story of tradition, suffering, hope, and optimism. He talks about it all.

Conoce a Claudio Calmet, reconocido actor de teatro y televisión, quien forma parte del elenco de la obra "Tu madre, la concho", en el Nuevo Teatro Julieta.

Comentarios de un actor que participó en la película Utopía (basado en hechos reales) y en la serie que próximamente se estrena llamada Junta de Vecinos. Le damos la bienvenida a Claudio Calmet en Nada Nuevo! Link para ir a ver Tu Madre, la Concho: https://cutt.ly/tumadrelaconcho Marcas de Tiempo: 00:00 BIENVENIDA 01:21 INICIO DE CARRERA DE CLAUDIO 10:18 UTOPIA 16:27 JUNTA DE VECINOS --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sabdiel-valdivia/support

El hijo de Concho Perez

Episode 1521: Our article of the day is Fort Concho.

Riquísima charla con Don Concho. nos platica sobre la plantación del cacao su experiencia en cultivo de variedades del cacao, polinizacion, bebida de chocolate, hortalizas. su vida antes y después del chocolate.

En el episodio de hoy nos envían un super viernes de confesiones donde nuestro querido amigo fittca nos cuenta cuando su novia le propuso un trío que no salió muy bien del todo

Fort Concho is a former United States Army installation located in San Angelo, Texas. It was established in November 1867 at the confluence of the Concho Rivers and on the Butterfield Overland Mail Route and Goodnight–Loving Trail. At its height during the American Indian Wars, Fort Concho consisted of 40 buildings on 40 acres (16 ha) of land leased by the US Army. The fort was abandoned in June 1889 and fell into civilian hands. Over the next 20 years, its buildings were used as residences or recycled for their material in the nearby town of San Angelo. Beginning in the late 1920s, a serious effort has been made to preserve and restore Fort Concho by its eponymous museum organization, founded in 1929. The property has been owned and operated by the city of San Angelo since 1935. It was named a National Historic Landmark on 4 July 1961. Fort Concho is one of the best-preserved examples of the military installations built by the US Army in Texas. Over its 22-year career as a US Army base, Fort Concho housed elements of 15 US Cavalry and Infantry regiments, most prominently the "Buffalo Soldiers" of the 9th and 10th Cavalry and 24th and 25th Infantry regiments. From its establishment in 1867 until 1875, Fort Concho was the principal base of the 4th Cavalry and then of the 10th Cavalry from 1875 to 1882. From 1878 to 1881, the fort was the headquarters of the short-lived District of the Pecos, and troops stationed at Fort Concho participated in Ranald S. Mackenzie's 1872 summer campaign, the Red River War in 1874, and the Victorio Campaign of 1879–1880. The Shop: https://teespring.com/stores/yoga-where-youre-at DB Creative Designs: http://dbcreativedesign.com/ Baumgartner Ranch: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJxK5yVrrE9znZXITpCKBJg SBRanch@SBRanch.net --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/loren-alberts/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loren-alberts/support

On this episode we speak to the founder and one man show behind Concho Valley Custom Kydex. Check him out at CVCKholsters.com

Latest sales figures: Sparkling wine sales down in 2020; but Barefoot sees 32% sales rise in the UK; Concho y Toro also see sales increase - Update on Brexit bureaucracy - Exciting news on wine labels from Jumilla in Spain and Champagne Palmer! - Wine of the Week - Trothe Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 from Horse Heaven Hills in Washington State And here’s the link to the “Crafting World-Class Cabernet” webinar we mentioned on the pod: https://bit.ly/register-crafting-world-class-cabernet — Wednesday 31 March at 4pm Pacific Time!

This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots… Just the facts… for March 22nd, 2021. Germany’s Health Minister says vaccines will not arrive quickly enough to prevent a third wave of the pandemic. He said, new infections are rising at a "very clearly exponential rate and even if the deliveries from EU orders come reliably, it will still take a few weeks until the risk groups are fully vaccinated." Checking in on the 5 countries doing best so far ranked by percentage of the population that’s had at least one dose; Seychelles 65.1%, Maldives 58.8%, Israel 57.1%, the U.K. at 41.4%, and Chile at 29.3%. The United States is 8th at 25.4%. An Israeli-American pharmaceutical company is getting ready to launch a Phase I clinical trial for what could be the world’s first oral COVID-19 vaccine. The technology can be used to orally administer several protein-based therapies that’d otherwise be delivered by injection. This would be valuable in terms of wide-scale distribution, especially if the vaccine eventually gets recommended annually like the flu shot. A new study has looked at how effective the Pfizer vaccine is for those who are asymptomatic and the answer is it appears to be 94% effective in preventing infections from people who have the virus, but who aren’t showing symptoms. The study also showed the Pfizer vaccine is 97% effective in preventing severe cases, hospitalizations, and death. As predicted, Spring Break has become a bit of a problem. Miami Beach Police fired pepper balls into crowds of partiers and arrested at least a dozen Saturday. Officials say they are “out of control and more than we can handle.” A state of emergency has been set as well as an 8 p.m. curfew. In the United States cases were down 9%, deaths are down 40%, and hospitalizations down 19% over 14 days. The 7-day average of new cases has been trending flat since March 14. There are now 7,212,199 active cases in the United States. The current top 5 states by number of active cases: California, New York, Florida, Virginia, and Georgia. The top 10 counties with the highest number of recent cases per capita according to The New York Times: Lyon, KY. Concho, TX. Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK. Chattahoochee, GA. Huron, MI. Missaukee, MI. Boone, NE. Wexford, MI. Pitkin, CO. And Simpson, KY. The five states with the highest risk levels and most daily new cases per capita over 7 days are Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, Michigan, and Delaware. There have been 542,356 deaths in the US reported as Covid-related, with a current national fatality rate of 1.83%. The states with the most new deaths reported as COVID-related: California 85. Texas 55. New Jersey 40. Massachusetts 35. South Carolina 30. Illinois 28. Florida 27. Indiana 20. And New York and Kentucky 18. The top 3 vaccinating states by percentage of population that’s had at least one dose, New Mexico at 32.3%, Alaska at 30.2%, and South Dakota at 29.6%. The bottom 3 vaccinating states are Georgia at 18.1%, Alabama at 19.6%, and Utah at 20.3%. Globally, cases were up 21% and deaths down 1% over 14 days, with the 7-day average trending up since March 5. There are now 21,345,013 active cases around the world. The five countries with the most new cases: Brazil 47,774. India 47,009. The United States 39,496. France 30,581. And Poland 21,849. There have now been 2,714,606 deaths reported as Covid-related worldwide. For the latest updates, subscribe for free to Coronavirus 411 on your podcast app or ask your smart speaker to play the Coronavirus 411 podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots… Just the facts… for March 19th, 2021. It’s back to business for Europe and the AstraZeneca vaccine. A dozen countries will resume its use after the European Medicines Agency said its initial investigation of possible side effects concluded the vaccine is “safe and effective.” However, EMA officials said their inquiry could not rule out a connection between the vaccine and unusual clotting and bleeding disorders. The latest figures show England's worst Covid hotspot saw new cases rise nearly 50% in just a week. Corby in Northamptonshire is one of 124 places in the country where infections had big jumps in the previous 7 days. Back to lockdowns in Paris. The French government imposed a month-long lockdown for Paris and parts of northern France after a faltering vaccine rollout and the spread of highly contagious variants. The French President had been trying to avoid another hit to the economy, but the country is in the grip of a third wave. India and Pakistan also reported a big jump in new infections yesterday. In India, curfews have been extended in 9 districts and other areas are seeking additional vaccine doses as schools and colleges close. In Pakistan, they had the most daily infections since early December and hospital beds are filling fast. In the U.S. it’s March Madness meets COVID madness. The NCAA said it administered more than 9,100 tests before last night's opening round of the men's basketball tournament, with only 8 total positives among Tier 1, 2 and 3 personnel. Participants include the defending champion Virginia Cavaliers, who had to withdraw from the ACC tournament because of a positive test. In the United States cases were down 15%, deaths are down 32%, and hospitalizations down 21% over 14 days. The 7-day average of new cases has been trending flat since March 14. There are now 7,282,611 active cases in the United States. The current top 5 states by number of active cases: California, New York, Florida, Virginia, and Georgia. The top 10 counties with the highest number of recent cases per capita according to The New York Times: Lyon, KY. Concho, TX. Chattahoochee, GA. Webster, WV. Nuckolls, NE. Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK. Pittsylvania, VA. Pitkin, CO. Huron, MI. And Missaukee, MI. The five states with the highest risk levels and most daily new cases per capita over 7 days are Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, and Alabama. There have been 539,659 deaths in the US reported as Covid-related, with a current national fatality rate of 1.82%. The states with the most new deaths reported as COVID-related: Kentucky 448. California 276. Texas 194. New York 85. Florida 83. Georgia 61. Arizona 59. Pennsylvania 44. Michigan 34. And Illinois 32. The top 3 vaccinating states by percentage of population that’s had at least one dose, New Mexico at 30.1%, Alaska at 28.8%, and South Dakota at 28.1%. The bottom 3 vaccinating states are Georgia at 16.1%, Alabama at 18.2%, and Tennessee at 19%. Globally, cases were up 18% and deaths down 3% over 14 days, with the 7-day average trending up since March 5. There are now back over 21 million active cases around the world at 21,003,371 The five countries with the most new cases: Brazil 87,169. The United States 62,629. India 39,643. France 34,998. And Poland 27,278. There have now been 2,689,898 deaths reported as Covid-related worldwide. For the latest updates, subscribe for free to Coronavirus 411 on your podcast app or ask your smart speaker to play the Coronavirus 411 podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots… Just the facts… for March 18th, 2021. CNN reports new infections are again on the rise by more than 10% this week in 14 states across the U.S. That’s mostly happening in the upper Midwest, the New York area and the Mid-Atlantic. This is beginning to reverse downward trends that were happening since mid-January. According to the New York Times, in the last week, U.S. cases have averaged around 55,000 a day. Two strains first detected in California are now officially "variants of concern," according to the CDC. The variants may be about 20% more transmissible, and some treatments may be less effective against them. However, the CDC did not say that vaccines would stop working against them. The next classification after “variant of concern” is “variant of high consequence.” The EU's executive body proposed yesterday issuing certificates that would let EU residents travel freely across the 27-nation bloc by summer if they’ve been vaccinated, tested negative, or recovered from COVID-19. The plan to get travel going again will be discussed during a summit of EU leaders next week. In the U.S., it’s schools they want to get going again. The government plans to invest $10 billion in Covid-19 screening for schools. That’s the latest step to increase testing and encourage schools to reopen for in-person learning. Do you tend to walk really fast? Or are you a slow walker? British researchers say if you plod or shuffle along, you’re at higher risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19. The study found that among those whose weight was normal, slow walkers were more than twice as likely to develop severe COVID-19 and 3.75 times more likely to die of it than those who walk briskly, even obese people who walk fast. In the United States cases were down 16%, deaths are down 35%, and hospitalizations down 25% over 14 days. The 7-day average of new cases has been trending down since February 26. There are now 7,296,874 active cases in the United States. The current top 5 states by number of active cases: California, New York, Florida, Virginia, and Georgia. The top 10 counties with the highest number of recent cases per capita according to The New York Times: Lyon, KY. Chattahoochee, GA. Concho, TX. Pittsylvania, VA. Webster, WV. Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK. Pitkin, CO. Nuckolls, NE. Huron, MI. And Missaukee, MI. The five states with the highest risk levels and most daily new cases per capita over 7 days are Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, and Alabama. There have been 537,992 deaths in the US reported as Covid-related, with a current national fatality rate of 1.82%. The states with the most new deaths reported as COVID-related: California 272. Texas 181. New Jersey 79. Georgia 72. New York 65. Florida 58. South Carolina 52. Virginia 50. Massachusetts 44. And Pennsylvania 36. The top 3 vaccinating states by percentage of population that’s had at least one dose, New Mexico at 29.6%, Alaska at 28.2%, and South Dakota at 27.7%. The bottom 3 vaccinating states are Georgia at 16.1%, Alabama at 17.8%, and Tennessee at 18.5%. Globally, cases were up 15% and deaths down 5% over 14 days, with the 7-day average trending up since March 15. There are now 20,913,921 active cases around the world. The five countries with the most new cases: Brazil 90,830. The United States 62,794. France 38,501. India 35,838. And Poland 25,052. There have now been 2,679,063 deaths reported as Covid-related worldwide. For the latest updates, subscribe for free to Coronavirus 411 on your podcast app or ask your smart speaker to play the Coronavirus 411 podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Connect with Michael and BobThe Climb on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-climb-podcast/Bob Wierema: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-wierema/Michael Moore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpmoore/More on ConchoConcho's blog post that dives deep into the specifics of the Billy Bob's fiasco: https://www.ulterre.com/blog/lessons-from-the-honky-tonk/Connect with Concho: https://www.linkedin.com/in/concho-minick-62916910/[00:00:00] Concho: [00:00:00] You know, he found himself wanting to align with the people who wanted to develop the stock yards without any sort of historical context. Right. And that was an economic opportunity, I think, in his mind. But what I didn't know at the time is that to my other partners were offering him real incentives to align, but I learned that later and.[00:00:28] You know, there was, there was also some conflict occurred just prior with me, my stepmother and my dad, you know, through that whole process of the transition of me coming into the business and they hadn't gotten over it, you know, there were some imposter syndrome kind of things going on there. And you know, there's a whole lot to talk about.[00:00:47] They're given time that I, it really it's probably worthwhile talking about, but they couldn't let go of not being in control of Billy Bob's anymore. And I think they felt that was. My fault in some ways that I was now the president, no, I'm the president. I gotta be the precedent, but they weren't supposed to be working there.[00:01:07] And, you know, they were just about transitioned out and gone at the time we went through that whole real estate conflict. And, does that push them into a camp opposite of me? You know, I stood up in front of city council and argued for form basis and know some sort of developmental guidelines in control, but the stockyards, which would not have occurred had Philip benign, many other people not done that.[00:01:33] But I guess to get back to your question, Michael, and an answer, it is, I just can't imagine this. Anything other than just someone making their best economic. Right. And he made a bet against family at the same time [00:01:51] Michael Moore: [00:01:51] today, the climb Bob and I are joined by Concho Minnick. Hold on for a fascinating ride, deep into the world of honkytonks politics and legal maneuvers.[00:02:01] From growing up in Fort worth to attending Gale, to building Billy Bob's globally to now running a real estate firm. This episode is chocked full of life lessons. Enjoy the climb.[00:02:27] gotcha. Minute. Welcome to the client. [00:02:30] Concho: [00:02:30] Thank you. It's great to be here, [00:02:32] Michael Moore: [00:02:32] Bob and I are really excited to cohost you today. Bob always laughed at always say everything's bigger in Texas, but, nothing rings truer than Billy Bob's largest honky tonk in the world. certainly a big part of Fort worth history, big part of Texas history.[00:02:49] And under your guidance, a big part of the world's music scene. [00:02:53] Bob Wierema: [00:02:53] Now [00:02:54] Michael, hold on, hold on. I gotta interrupt because you know, from us Chicago boys, now I know what a hockey tuck is, but like let's, let's let for our other listeners, like what, what does that even mean? What is it?[00:03:07]Concho: [00:03:07] Good point. So you're the resident an error, you know, Billy Bob's is a hundred thousand square foot entertainment venue.[00:03:18] It's, you know, [00:03:20] driven really around. You know, live music is originally a barn that was built in, I think it was 1908 or so, and came to life as a music venue in 1981. And really, you know, I would say that it's more of a, kind of a Western culture entertainment complex, and this is the way we started thinking about it because we, you know, did bull riding and food and private parties.[00:03:45] And. Music festivals. And then we were starting to do music festivals around the world and the United States. And so, you know, it's really a, this big sprawling music video that whole 5,000 people. It shows every single day, just about closed one day a year, you know, with food and live bull, riding inside, believe it or not, inside of the bar.[00:04:07] And it's just, you know, it doesn't really look like a music venue. It looks like a barn that might fall in on you at any moment. You know, the ceiling's awkwardly low and in big columns in your way, depending on what kind of seat you have. But. That's Billy buzzes. It sits in the historic dish, the Fort worth historic district, which, you know, kind of sets the stage more, you know, authentic Western culture.[00:04:33] Which is kind of how, you know, Billy Bob's is that it's authentic. It's, they're presenting Western culture through music, food experience, rodeo, you know, that's, that's Billy bouts [00:04:46] Michael Moore: [00:04:46] and don't forget Willie's picnic. [00:04:48] Concho: [00:04:48] That's right. [00:04:49] Michael Moore: [00:04:49] Yeah. That was huge. He had attended a lot of [00:04:52] Concho: [00:04:52] that. I think we, I get how many Willie's picnics, Billy Bob's is hosted, but I ha I, I put on four w during my tenure there.[00:05:00] Michael Moore: [00:05:00] So before we jump into that though, because that is going to be the bulk of the conversation today, let's step back and just talk about  how you grew up things that shaped and defined you college, ultimately, president of Billy Bob's and now CEO of Christie's Altair here in Fort worth, Texas. [00:05:23] Concho: [00:05:23] How much time do I have,[00:05:27] you know, I grew up right here, Texas and, out by Eagle mountain Lake and which was just. It was the country back then, you know, it was, it was just typical suburbia in some ways, but it was just wide open living. You know, the bite, your bicycle is the most important piece of equipment. You could own country club on one end rec center and the Lake on the other end and, you know, just tons of open space.[00:05:53] And it was just. You know, it was good living out there. We were re in a, you know, my, my parents, divorced and remarried. Right. And so, you know, some of my earliest memories, I remember life briefly with my father, but, you know, once those families combined, there was six kids. So. You know, my two brother, my three, my two brothers, my sister was four and then two stepbrothers.[00:06:22] Then life really grabbed me around the head and I was like, Oh Jesus, okay. This is what it's all about. This was first grade or so when we put our families together and. We, we had moved. And I remember the story I tell a lot is, it was all happening so [00:06:40] fast. I didn't even know where I lived. Cause we, I went to Eagle mountain elementary.[00:06:43] The first day of school, I came home on the bus and I didn't know where to get off the bus. I was like, where the fuck? You know, I don't even know the name of my street. And so the bus driver drove me around the whole subdivision until I could recognize that house, which luckily I did, but, you know, I think that's, I think, growing up on the Lake almost every day, certainly influenced me.[00:07:03] I, I love the water and, I would learn to scuba dive and be on the ocean. I mean, I love, I love the mountains just as much, but I just, I really, it was some good introduction. To nature on a daily day basis being out there, you know, and I wasn't really adventurous. I went to TCU, you know, largely because it was right in my backyard and I didn't know anything about schools, you know?[00:07:25] I mean, yeah, it wasn't. Yeah. You know, I was a good, I was a wonderful student, a decent test scores, but I just went to TCU. I just didn't really know what I was getting into. And it was, I was lucky. I was lucky because it had an incredible business school, which I would find out later when I got to Yale, how good of an education I got at TCU and, met my wife at TCU and, you know, really just started establishing my professional career.[00:07:48] After that. I did have the backup a little bit though and say that, you know, part of my life experience was, you know, kind of shaping me was my mother's family is from North Dakota. And just about every summer, We would load up the suburban and drive there. And my parents might not stay there the whole time or my stepdad at least, but I would be there for at least a month.[00:08:12] And we were on the Western edge of North Dakota, a little town called Madora. which is still thriving today, but as a historic place where theater Roosevelt spent a lot of time ranching and hunting, and it's in the Badlands of North Dakota, which are just stunning. Beautiful. Right. And so it was, it was a couple of things.[00:08:32] I mean, it was just unspoiled nature and I would recommend going there to anyone that goes into theater Roosevelt national park is, is worth it. Yeah. So I got a lot of, just this feeling of the natural environment I needed to be involved, you know, and I need to, there's a, something about that experience that, that impacted me and I, you know, it just, it still does kind of show, [00:08:55] Michael Moore: [00:08:55] how far is that [00:08:56] Concho: [00:08:56] from Williston North Dakota?[00:08:58] I think it's about two hours. [00:09:01] Michael Moore: [00:09:01] Yeah. I've had a. Way too many vodka tonics that the Willis country love. If you can even call it that [00:09:08] Concho: [00:09:08] it's a wild place. [00:09:10] Michael Moore: [00:09:10] A really wild place. [00:09:11] Concho: [00:09:11] Yeah. If it weren't for oil, like they've been registered Wellston right in my mind for, you know, the first three quarters of my life.[00:09:18] But. But yeah, and you know, my grandfather who really bought all the property around the door and revitalize that whole historic town, he invented it. Bubble and another project product called snowy bleach. He had come and go gold seal. And so, you know, I got a lot of my entrepreneurial drive and vigor and excitement from him, from his journey from being just destitute young man to.[00:09:47] You know, growing that company and selling it in the eighties, there was us a lot of privilege for being there. Right, right. and I don't know that that was, you know, my favorite part of it or not, but really, I just had a button. They put [00:10:00] on me that said something, you know, and it, it was all wide open. It was like country club, any store, any restaurant trail rides.[00:10:10] Music, all this kind of, it was, I guess I was spoiled in some ways, but, [00:10:15] without knowing it, which is the difference. [00:10:18] Yeah. I didn't know it. I didn't, I knew it was a lot of fun up there and that really was every single summer of my life until, you know, I was late teens or something like that. So that's, before I skipped to.[00:10:32] College or grad school or first big jobs or any of that. I've got to mention that one. And I've been a lifelong theater Roosevelt fan since [00:10:40] Michael Moore: [00:10:40] it's good friends call him Teddy.[00:10:45]no, I mean, I think a lot of us can look back on how we were brought up and maybe we didn't know it at the time, but I mean, I think back to little dripping Springs, Texas, that you know, has produced. The guys that founded Yeti coolers, the guys that founded Diablo, paddle sports, we all grew up in the outdoors.[00:11:05] We didn't, I remember begging for an attender and playing it for like two days and like having dreams about super Mario brothers. And I was like, fuck this [00:11:16] Nintendo stuff. [00:11:17] Like I would rather be outside playing with my friends, building something, fishing, hunting. I mean, that's just, it, it, it defined us right.[00:11:26] Whether we knew it or not. [00:11:28] Concho: [00:11:28] Yeah. I haven't been able to let that one go. I didn't have it in television. Oh, did you have one of those? [00:11:34] Michael Moore: [00:11:34] No, but [00:11:35] it'll be some older than you. Right? So that was a little, maybe a few years, but yeah, but I had the same, same thing, you know, so many great opportunities to be outside where I was growing up and it's thank God.[00:11:47] You know, it doesn't happen these days that way. [00:11:49] So then you're at TC you and. Somehow a more global or at least regional bug hits you. Right. Because you do pick a graduate school, not in Texas. So make that leap for us. [00:12:08] Concho: [00:12:08] Yeah. I think it goes something like this, you know, I was a finance undergrad and just kind of.[00:12:14] Dark and around and a few different things, the equitable, and, you know, you can imagine how successful you would be selling mutual funds and insurance and life insurance and things like that. As at age 21, right. It sounds like a real promising career. And. I didn't really take finance that seriously. I was very interested in it, but I just didn't know.[00:12:34] I was just uneducated, you know, and not doing so well. And, and just trying to think about things that were really inspiring to me and that were meaningful to me. And I'd read a few books, this one biophilia hypothesis, which I want to take you down that path, but then I had this vacation and. Greece with a good buddy of mine, Matt tout.[00:12:55] And then I was, I can remember the moment pretty specifically, we were driving on a bus, go in town to town and it just hit me. I was like, I just, I I've never had that sort of definitive like aha ever in my life, but it hit me on that bus ride that I had to do something that was natural science related.[00:13:16] Right. And it just seemed like the most important thing in my [00:13:20] life, but the time I had to do so, you know, I went through this big process of, you know, being a finance undergrad and trying to get accepted to the Yale school of forestry. Right. And, the reason why I was doing that is because there's about three programs in the United States at the time that had combined degrees that had combined MBA.[00:13:43] And master's in environmental science, juries a knew if I could get into the forestry, the component at Yale, I could. Probably qualify again in the MBA school, but I had to have some science street creds. So I went through this whole process of, you know, taking chemistry classes and doing all sorts of things like getting certified.[00:14:04] I was a red cross canoe guide. I lived on this little Island and beliefs for two weeks on some of the scientific study thing and just everything it could to look like a credible, someone who actually cared about science, right. With a finance degree from TCU. Oh, I spent a, I was an intern at the biosphere for three months, right before I went to jail.[00:14:24] Okay. [00:14:27] Michael Moore: [00:14:27] Pre Pauly shore. [00:14:29] Concho: [00:14:29] Right. I think they might've, the poly shore that might've been, I might've been the target for that. I might've inspired that, but no, it's, you know, our connection to the biosphere. This are the basses from Fort worth right at, which was, that was a big. A big credibility may of getting an internship there.[00:14:46]I got accepted to all three of those graduate programs, unbelievably, and I picked Yale because it was the most, I imagined it to be the most unlike Fort worth. Right. And I didn't hate Fort worth, but it was just a, you know, I could have gone to. Wherever Duke. I forget where Duke but town that is, it doesn't matter, university of Michigan.[00:15:08] And I was like, you know, new Haven, Connecticut. It's gotta be the biggest stretch here. Right? it will be close to New York city. That's how I picked it. And, we were off to the races. W [00:15:19] Michael Moore: [00:15:19] was there anything particular in that, with that you said, you know, that forestry piece, you went into the environmental science piece.[00:15:25] Is there anything that was like particular of interest there to you that you wanted to pursue that for? Or was just pale? I want to go pursue this and then we'll figure out what the after is. [00:15:34] Concho: [00:15:34] Yeah. I just, I had to figure out what the after was. You know, I knew that I just had to inject science somehow into what I was going to do every day.[00:15:45] It's called the Yale school of forestry, but it has really everything from true forestry practice to like corporate environmental health and safety stuff to, you know, all kinds of stuff. But it's the oldest forestry program in the United States. Yale on its own is just a, it's a magical place to be. So yeah, I had to, it was a really figuring out where my career would take me as I was there, you know, kind of like a very late version of undergrad.[00:16:12] Michael Moore: [00:16:12] Right. We all bloom at different times. I just, I was asking just cause I think it's really interesting, you know, you, I feel like a lot of people Tuesday go into those and like when I did my MBA, I wasn't sure what was going to come [00:16:27] out that, [00:16:28] but like, if you're going out with them, the end goal, I just wonder if you kind of have those blinders on.[00:16:32] That's why I asked you. I know somebody, people go in with the open mind, but then people are like, I mean, I go to this, I'm going to get my finance. I'm [00:16:40] going to go back to school and I'm going to go into it. Private equity. Right. And it's such a defined path. And I think you can lose some things in that track.[00:16:48] Concho: [00:16:48] Yeah, no, I think you're right. What did I know? You know, redneck from forward Texas going to new Haven, Connecticut, it was, you know, it, it was, I wouldn't trade for anything. The breadth of people that I met, I mean, different groups of people in the forestry program. And then in the MBA school where, you know, 30% of my.[00:17:09] Class and the MBA programs from China. Right. And it was a, you know, 30% of them were wanting to go to wall street and be investment bankers, you know, or consultants. But, so I had a lot to learn it. I was, you know, what a better place to be. While I was there. I interned at S tobacco my first summer, which is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, just little train ride, which is just a mindblower wonderful thing.[00:17:38] And then the next summer I was at a United technologies, Sikorsky helicopter, and both of these were sort of environmental. Yeah, corporate environmental type assignments, where you can imagine big companies that have this environmental health and safety kind of component to them in that part of the work.[00:17:56] You know, I decided that's a definite no, for sure. And it's one thing, you know, if my mother hadn't always been telling me Contra, it's fine to learn what you don't want to do. You know, that I would have probably been really panicky. I'm going to be in a little panicky anyway, but what fortunately, what was happening at that time was the national power business was deregulating.[00:18:24] And, there's a little company in Houston, Texas called Enron that. All my classmates wanted to get to work for sure. Right? So it's, that was the hot sector to go with. Right? If you weren't going to be an ibanker or a consultant, you wanted to go into that hour. And gosh, I would say, you know, we had 12 dual, dual degree students.[00:18:49] You know, I think half of them went into power. Wow. Four of them went to Enron, which I really, really wanted to go to work. Fran, Ron, I was so pissed off. They didn't hire me, turned out okay. [00:19:01] Michael Moore: [00:19:01] For you [00:19:02] Concho: [00:19:02] later was a big blessing. but yeah, so, you know, long story, I got a chance to interview at Southern energy in Atlanta, which was a subsidiary of Southern company, which at the time was the largest utility United States.[00:19:15] Southern energy was their unregulated subsidiary. That was just on a tear. And I got offered a job doing M and a there and, in the North America finance group, to me, it was, is a wonderful intersection of science and are already, you know, well, I guess what I've learned more about myself over time is the finance and.[00:19:39] Analytic, you know, that I still had that started TCU, I guess. And then just, it hadn't left me, you know, and plus, you know, there's some admission that, Hey, this is an easier way to make a living than being like the environmental health and safety coordinator for us tobacco. Right? Sure. But anyway, we've got an offer to, to [00:20:00] come to Atlanta and work in their M and a group, and which was.[00:20:05] Just a mind blowing career opportunity that I could talk about for a long time too. But that's where Yale led me. It did, you know, bring me, allow me to combine finance and environmental science, if you will, or science. And, this, it's a great place to be energy is, is full of brilliant competitive people, you know, from all different kind of disciplines.[00:20:30] It's a. It's a, it's a great place to be start post MBA for sure. [00:20:35] Michael Moore: [00:20:35] No, I think that's great perspective for a lot of our young listeners. You know, if you're a fear religious person, you could say that, you know, your, your path has already created for you. It's just your job and influences in your life job to keep you on that path.[00:20:51]but I think, you know, so many young people coming out of school are so worried about their career in, in, in reality, it's like, College and post-college is the time to figure out what you don't want to do. [00:21:04] Concho: [00:21:04] Yeah. You know? Yeah. That saying from my mother, it's okay to learn. What you don't want to do is a thought about that a lot in my life, you know, and it's, it's right.[00:21:15] It's, it's good to win a couple bets and make a few good decisions along the way. Yeah. Saves you time and heartache. But, no, I appreciate all the, all the I've known all the dumb little environmental science jobs I had along the way and finance. Stuff too, you know, but stayed open to it and continues to this day.[00:21:34] Michael Moore: [00:21:34] And so you, you were in Atlanta. What eventually brought you back to Texas? How long were you at Southern? For [00:21:41] Concho: [00:21:41] a, I was in Atlanta for five years, you know, as that Southern energy, which became Mirant. so we spun that company out to get public it branded his mirror and I was there. Three and a half years or something like that.[00:21:55] Like I couldn't ask for it better introduction to advance business and finance and running companies, public and private. And through that experience, you know, I stayed there all the way up until they were about to file bankruptcy after Enron filed bankruptcy and we were all big trading counterparties are, we had a foreign person trading floor in Atlanta.[00:22:16] And the whole sector was about to go down. And so I left, I was a CFO of a startup. Oh, you're fine. So before I, I just decided, Hey, I want to be back in Fort worth. You know, I had to, my kids were born in Atlanta, so I had two little boys and I was like, Hey, if I'm, if I can figure this out, how to. You know, established my career back in Fort worth.[00:22:40] And that's what I want to do, raise them around my family. And so that's, family's really what brought me back, you know, Fort worth, Texas is fine. Yeah, for sure. [00:22:52] Michael Moore: [00:22:52] So is your, is your mind and thought process was being expanded at Yale and your, your different early careers? Billy Bob's was operating 364 days a year down here.[00:23:07] So walk us through the transition that brought you back and, and then start telling us about your time [00:23:14] there, [00:23:15] Concho: [00:23:15] Billy, about didn't bring me back, right. I, I went to work for, cash America [00:23:20] and, which, which wasn't a great fit for me. You know, I ended up. Finding myself back in energy. M and a really quick after that.[00:23:28] Yeah. Right. So, I worked for a company called Optum energy, which was joint venture between PNM resources, the New Mexico power company and cascade, which was bill Gates, right. Private equity. That was a fascinating adventure too. And I love that great time. In fact, some of the people I worked with there have hired to work at Christie's right.[00:23:52] You know, I just, I had this thing going on. It was, kind of a deeper search for, for meaning and what I wanted to do in my career, you know, had, at that point, I'd done a lot of energy, M and a, and never imagined. I would be anywhere, remotely involved in Billy Ball, you know, I mean, at that point, you know, it's like, man, I, you know, I like country music, you know, and I like Stevie Ray Vaughan a little bit more.[00:24:21] Right. You know, and, you too and Pearl jam, but, it just didn't really, it took time. For me to, to get what it was and the Maura was here. You know, I started to enjoy it a little bit and through a really odd set of circumstances, I had this opportunity to go to Beijing, China, and look at ability buds deal.[00:24:46] So the, the owner's ability Bob's at the time they knew me, they thought I was reasonably smart human. I'd been around the world with energy business. So I could. You know, I had good footing to travel and, and all that sort of thing. And, we went over there to analyze a deal, to put inability Bob's in Beijing ahead of the Olympics.[00:25:06] It's 2000, 2008 was the Beijing Olympics. And so I spent two weeks in Beijing thinking about really hard. And we looked at real estate, we went to a bunch of. Ranches and country Western things. And then we went to about every bar in live music venue. We could get our hands on, would go to three or four or five and night for almost two weeks.[00:25:32] And just trying to get our heads around what this meant. And is it possible? My partner in crime was Phillip Murren on that trip, which a man that's probably worth a whole nother podcast to review that. But no, the Beijing trip will be expanded upon in the book for sure. But you know, it really struck me.[00:25:53] We did all these things from going to like symphony type things and the great hall of the people to these little bitty, nowhere bars in Beijing and what. Kind of blew my head off was, you know, you go into these little holes in Beijing and you know, you're just, you're two white guys and you kind of stand out anyway and they're like, Hey, why are you guys here?[00:26:17] You know, we would get that question. And we say, well, we're, we're here with Billy. Bob's we're thinking about. But an ability Bob's here. And every single time, nowhere, Beijing people would say Billy bombs, Billy Bob's, Texas, and things like that. And you know, it just the brand, you know, and it, it was, it was more than a bird, [00:26:40] you know, that was like, Hey, our brand is recognized around the world, but it was, it was what it meant to me.[00:26:46] The opportunity. I'll tell you the opportunity unfolded for me to take over, but for me, what it meant was a way to kind of export Fort worth to the world. You know, I love our lifestyle here. I love the culture and for the people, the entrepreneurial-ism, you know, it's a good place to be. You know, I know you, and I've talked about that.[00:27:09] We it's good stuff. So the idea of being a part of Billy Bob's and seeing what we could do with it worldwide, it felt like a, it was very possible. Like if the, if the dive bars Beijing knew about it, there was something right. And at the same time it had meaning for me, it's like, here's our, here's our hometown, it's Western culture.[00:27:31] It's all these cool things. It just seemed to intersect. And something that was meaningful to me, [00:27:37] Michael Moore: [00:27:37] you know, that's definitely a defining moment, [00:27:40] Concho: [00:27:40] I'd say so. Yeah. So yeah, that was the intro. We ended up not doing that deal, which was. Was, I think it was the right call and, you know, it was through all of that work that have developed a relationship with the owners while I was still at Optim energy, I launched, an offer to buy the whole company, Billy Bob's while I was as a side job, that offer was rejected.[00:28:05] Okay. It got hung up on real estate, which is part of the. Subsequent story, but they locked me up and said, Hey, you know, your dad's going to retire once you retire, why don't you just come run this thing? You know, that coupled with my vision of really taking the brand around the world, I was so, yeah, let's do it.[00:28:22] Michael Moore: [00:28:22] And what year was that?[00:28:24]Concho: [00:28:24] 2011. [00:28:25] Michael Moore: [00:28:25] Okay. So your family's back and Fort worth is 2011. You're running Billy Bob's. From the outsider looking in, it's like gotta be the coolest job in Fort worth to have, you know, growing up in, in Austin. Obviously I was a huge live music fan and I was always so appreciative that as Fort worth was maturing culturally in a lot of other areas, right.[00:28:52] Any night of the week, I could go see a great [00:28:55] show at Billy Bob's now has appreciated that. [00:28:59] So now you're running, you're running the ship. Things are going well, you're expanding the brand globally. And then what happens? [00:29:08] Concho: [00:29:08] Yeah, we're skipping over a lot. Yeah. But, yeah, you know, the, to give the proper sort of diagnostic for, you know, why we, this lawsuit exploded in 2017, we gotta go back just a little bit and I'll try to do this quickly to 2013, 2014, we were at the time.[00:29:31] When the owners were still sort of more together and somewhat United, I guess, negotiating with majestic Realty for a master deal in the belly of, and in the stockyards. So in Billy Bob's is included in that and all our properties are included in that. And, and I was leading that negotiation and it got high centered, it got high centered on this idea of Western heritage.[00:29:59] You [00:30:00] know, to some extent, I don't want to say historic preservation because that's sometimes puts the wrong connotation to it, you know, kind of history kind of overdone in that fashion. But, you know, stockyards is about Western culture presentation, you know, and there's a lot of authenticity to the stockyards based on the past.[00:30:19] And so these ideas came up if, you know, majestic wanted to come in and develop the stockyards and. Now develop all these businesses. So like, okay, how are we going to keep this from being Disneyland? And that's what killed the unity on the first deal with majestic? I can remember Brad Hickman standing up in that meeting and saying, it doesn't matter to me, a bulldoze, any building to make money.[00:30:46] And that was the schism that was late 2013. That started at all. They, the Hickman family went away to negotiate with majestic privately wake up in 2014. And that conflict gets in front of city hall in 2014. And there began the main, there's a lot to that story too. We could get into, but learned a lot about how city hall works.[00:31:14] Right. And I think if you take that idea forward to 2017, it's really two groups of people. You know, a group of people who sees Billy Bob's as this magical a global opportunity to provide like a, an authentic Western cultural brand, kind of an American brand for the world for country music and another group that sees Billy Bob's as just another building in the stockyard is development play that may or may not have conflicts with other.[00:31:52] Parts of that development, you know, and that's what happened. And so there's some really interesting legal money that, that are, that the defendants in this lawsuit, you know, engaged in to try to kind of endure to this day, a lot of, a lot of good learning there, but that was the source of the conflict. You know, I think I wrote about that in my second blog visit, we dropped on that topic, and it was, you know, Hey, If, if you have a big segment of your owners that have conflicts of interest, you can bet that they're going to maximize their interest.[00:32:29] Right. And that's exactly what happened. [00:32:32] Michael Moore: [00:32:32] So how, how many owners at the time were involved in the business? [00:32:37] Concho: [00:32:37] I think when our, when I got kicked out of the company, like. Physically, I literally run out of the building. that happened three times, but the first time we have 11 owners. You know, and me on the small end, I just had a couple of percentage of the government.[00:32:56] I was, you know, president and I was gaining equity interest. And then all the way up to the Hickman to the whole family together had about, I don't know, 30, 40% or something, but, and they were all sorts of different kinds of people. People who've just been in Fort worth and business. My dad was, an equity owner.[00:33:13]the Moran family is multi-generational Fort worth, the Donnie Nelson and the general manager of the Mavericks who I brought into the [00:33:20] company. And then another family called the juries from this part of the world. So it's quite a diverse grid. [00:33:27] Bob Wierema: [00:33:27] Yeah. I just think about that. Like you said, with all those different sets of folks involved, I mean, you've got a lot of different people being pulled and I'm sure a lot of political back and forth and positioning it's, it's interesting when you get that many kind of call it cooks in the kitchen, right?[00:33:44] Concho: [00:33:44] Yeah, I'd say so. I thought I had structured around it in a decent way, you know, coming into it with a. What I thought was a decent company agreement, you know, and delegations of authority and all the things that you would expect in that kind of situation. But it just, it just didn't work out that way. You know, greed and conflict kind of dominated the day and a certain faction decided, Hey, we can, you know, create this legal conflict and.[00:34:15] We'll see who wins. And one of my big learnings from that is, you know, the influence of, of money in court. Right. And what I mean by that. And I think a lot of people know this. I, I, I sort of take this, you know, Hey, I'm such an idiot posture. And when I write about this and talk about this, because I really feel like I was, you know, I didn't realize the.[00:34:42] The battle of scale and attrition that you could set up in court through money. Right? And, you know, there's no, they didn't teach you that at Yale, like, you know how to budget for legal success, class one Oh one or something like that, that, you know, and it's not, it's not that I gotta be careful. I mean, it's, I would never accuse any judge or anything like for taking money.[00:35:09] That's not the thing. It's just, you know, you could be completely wrong, set up a legal argument framework and start deposing people. Creating motions and just create this battle of scale and endurance that if you can't counter it financially, you're going to lose. And that it's that simple. And you know, it's, it's one of those things where, Oh, wait, I've got tons of attorney, friends.[00:35:40] I respect the profession. My brother was a judge. He's still an attorney. completely. I just had this. Yeah, it was at the time I was I'm 40 something. Right. And I should know better, but that's a big learning that I've passed on to my kids. And hopefully I can share that with other people who weren't thinking that way, but good friend of mine would say the court's not a place for the common man.[00:36:02] And he told me that a bunch of times during the lawsuit. You [00:36:06] Michael Moore: [00:36:06] get the, yeah, I mean, I, I I've heard that, you know, saying before he say people will tie you up in court until you got nothing left. I mean, that's a real thing that happens and it's unfortunate. [00:36:18] Concho: [00:36:18] Yeah. Yeah. And we're still in court. We've been in Supreme court and back and still there.[00:36:23] So we're fighters, but, going away just a lot of learning along the way about how all of that works. Yeah. You know, and, you know, even depositions, I had a good friend of mine say, you know, you haven't really grown up in the business still. You've been deposed. And I agree [00:36:40] with that. I agree with that until you've been through that experience and get to post for six hours for two days.[00:36:46] I mean, that'll make you grow up quick. [00:36:50] Michael Moore: [00:36:50] It is not fun. unfortunately I've done [00:36:52] that before, [00:36:53] too. And you're right. I mean, it, Yeah, certainly a few more hair sprouted on the chest by the next day. I mean, it's a, it is a punch in the face and you can prepare all you want, but until you've done it it's yeah.[00:37:08] Concho: [00:37:08] I can remember having an attorney, hand me a document and get really mad that I'm reading it. For starters. I, do you want me to read what you're handing? Right. You know, and it's all about setting up this game where they can pop a clip back up on TV in court, where they catch you off guard, and one question and ruin your credibility.[00:37:25] Right? I mean, that's the whole game. [00:37:27] Michael Moore: [00:37:27] So, so for the back to being removed from the premise three different times, like for our listeners that maybe didn't grow up in Fort worth, didn't don't know the whole history of Billy Bob's like. Just the perspective, like, what does that feel like when you've got family involved, you've got multigenerational families involved, you've got iconic names and in Fort worth involved and you show up trying to do your job and there's literally a lock on the door.[00:37:56] Like, what does that feel like? [00:37:58] Concho: [00:37:58] It's it was, it was stunning, you know, to say the least. And it was, It's scarring. And I still think I'm affected by it in some ways. I mean, I've learned a lot about myself since, but you know, the, we were, we had great success, you know, we were essentially doubled the profitability of the company.[00:38:20] You know, we were, had just done a music festival in Italy. we're preparing to do one in Huntington beach. Did all kinds of, I mean, we were. On a tear. Right. And essentially, you know, had people walk into my office one day and say, you're no longer president. I said, how does that work? You know, and I'll say be sort of the legal maneuver they pulled, but just to get, stay in the zone of what you're trying to talk about there, it was, it was as much of a surprise as you could imagine, you know, there'd been some conflict with these people along the way, but just to say, you know, Hey, your employment contract doesn't matter.[00:39:00] The LLC agreement doesn't matter, none of this matters except for your really bad guy contract, get out, you know, and this was, you know, my dad in the room, you know, a few of them where we would just call the bad guys and I'm just walked out of the building and we had a, we had a great team, you know, and it's, it's stunning for all of them as it is me.[00:39:23] Right. I mean, we had a team that was killing themselves and doing really, really well and pushing the envelope and high performers. Right. And it's just a stunning for the employees too, based on the culture that we had. [00:39:37] Michael Moore: [00:39:37] So when you think about the family dynamic of it, and you've got this divisive line and one set on this side and one set on the other and you're sitting opposite from your dad.[00:39:51] And maybe this hadn't come out yet. Maybe you've got to give it more thought, maybe it's time, but like, why is he on that side? And you're on this side,[00:39:59]Concho: [00:39:59] I think it really [00:40:00] comes down to greed. You know, it maybe to some extent, ego, I mean, I think if you asked him that question of why he's hanging out with the, you know, the people that are developing the stockyards, it goes back to what I mentioned in 2014, you know, there was a few things that happened around then, you know, he found himself.[00:40:20] Wanting to align with the people who, and to develop the stockyards without any sort of historical context. Right. Right. And that was an economic opportunity, I think, in his mind. Well, what I didn't know at the time is that to my other partners were offering him. Real life incentives to align. But I learned that later and, you know, there was, there was also some conflict that occurred just prior with me, my stepmother and my dad, you know, through that whole process of the transition of me coming into the business and they hadn't gotten over it.[00:40:58] You know, there's some imposter syndrome kind of things going on there. And you know, there's a whole lot to talk about. They're given time that I really it's probably worthwhile talking about, but they couldn't let go of not being in control of Billy Bob's anymore. And I think they felt that was my fault in some ways that I was now the president, you know, I'm the president, I gotta be the president, but they weren't supposed to be working there.[00:41:24] And, you know, they were. Just about transitioned out and gone at the time we went through that whole real estate conflict and, that pushed them into a camp opposite of me. You know, I stood up in front of city council and argued for form based code and, you know, some sort of developmental guidelines and control for the stockyards, which.[00:41:46] Would not have occurred, had Phillip and I, and many other people not done that. But I guess to get back to your question, Michael, and an answer, it is, I just can't imagine this, anything other than just someone making their best economic bet. Right. And he made a bet against family at the same time. [00:42:07] Michael Moore: [00:42:07] Yeah.[00:42:08] That's a tough pill to swallow. [00:42:11] Concho: [00:42:11] Yeah. You know, I had it, it was, but I, you know, at that point I already had a few years of that schism, you know, through the real estate conflict. So when I wasn't altogether surprised for an abstinence, a lawsuit, you know, but have him. continue to, you know, work against me for years and years of the lawsuit and what I would, you know, there's all, all sorts of things that I think weren't necessarily on the up and up through that situation.[00:42:39] I don't think the truth was always told on the witness stand and, to saw a really terrible, extraordinary circumstance. It, it was tough, but you know, the, the loss of. It wasn't like the lawsuit ended my relationship with him. It was already kind of ending already. That's an unfortunate aspect of that, you know, to me, it was just so stunning to be on a tear and we were having such a great time and so much economic success.[00:43:08] And, you know, just have that, have that ended was, was I guess, more stunning to me. [00:43:16] Michael Moore: [00:43:16] Yeah, no, I mean, I, every time I went over there to. [00:43:20] To work with you on the insurance and the risk management side. I mean, it was just, you could feel the momentum. I mean, I remember one day I walked in, in your office and you have these virtual three D goggles on, and we're thinking about the concerts virtually it did, it had this amazing amount of momentum.[00:43:38] And then all of a sudden I'm reading this, the paper and I'm calling you. And you're like, there's literally a lock on my door. [00:43:47] Concho: [00:43:47] Yeah. I mean, like the dynamics around, you know, getting kicked out, getting a temporary restraining order, coming back in to kick all those guys out, you know, trying to conduct business while.[00:44:04] You know, the river was literally, I would call it sort of competitive terrorism going on. You know, it was, they were cabling, parking, lots closed, you know, and claiming ownership of them. They, there was a building next door. We did all these events and they tried to claim, we would violate our lease and we needed to get out of that.[00:44:24] They were, sending ex-employees and, and try to spy on what we're doing and, and all these kinds of things. We had $2 million transferred out of our bank account by one of the owners into another bank, which we still have not gotten back. There's every single thing you could imagine, including surveillance me in my home was happening to get us to relent.[00:44:47] Disengaged and just let that happen. Right. But we put up about, and it just, it went round and round. We would get kicked out, we'd get a TRO come back. the judge would make some dumb ruling and the other guys think they were in charge and they would bust in, in the middle of the night and you'd wake up and all the doors,[00:45:10] it seemed kind of childish on some level, you know, it's like wild West bullshit. [00:45:15] Michael Moore: [00:45:15] At what point were you like, I guess maybe more of the question is like, why did you keep fighting it? Right. Instead of just saying, I'm done with this, you know, what made you have that to say, I'm going to continue pushing that.[00:45:29] Concho: [00:45:29] You know, I, I think we, you know, the plaintiffs in the case. Yeah. We felt like we were right. We were right. We were very successful and we felt like we were due or, you know, we were do some justice. I felt like no way, no way are we going to lay down, to this group of people it's so wrong on so many levels.[00:45:50] And that doesn't mean we haven't tried to economically settle. Right? multiple times, have we been on the threshold of saddle again and if failed, but you know, it goes back to what kind of partners you have. And you know, when it's a lot of things are. You know, injected with conflict and, and create, and a lot of emotion, then it's just really hard to get people to settle.[00:46:17] Right. Because, you know, that goes into the dynamic of who's in that group who the partnership group is. But yeah, we, we felt like it was worth fighting for, you know, and it, and at the end of the day, it's more than just Billy Bob and Fort worth. You know, we were scaling to build Billy balls around the world.[00:46:34] And it's that kind of thought process that we were engaging in. We had drawings for a Billy Bob's in [00:46:40] Houston. We just, well, I'd already mentioned Italy, which was just a mind blowing experience to run a 26,000 person festival. And nowhere, Italy, there was more really at stake than just this little 5,000 person venue in the stockyards.[00:46:57] And so that's why we fought so hard. [00:47:00] Bob Wierema: [00:47:00] He brought up a great point earlier about, you know, not learning, in, in grad school, like how to fund a lawsuit. And I mean, we're a capitalistic society, like money runs things, but, and we could do a whole nother podcast on this. I mean, whether it's the legal system and these, you know, Bob and I see him every day, these nuclear verdicts that come down.[00:47:24] Plaintiff attorneys being funded by private equity firms now to participate in the, and the awards, you know, and then politics, right? I mean, just running a race to try to build a platform to do what you think is right. [00:47:39] Michael Moore: [00:47:39] Cost money. And so it's like, there's a tipping point where money has to be a vein of the operation.[00:47:47] Well, why does it have to influence the outcome and how do we, you know, if you're solely looking for justice and what's right, like how do you, how do we fix that? [00:47:59] Concho: [00:47:59] I wish I knew. Yeah. You know, my blog three is, is on this topic and I hope I get to release it soon, but it's, I'm not really staring at a solution in that.[00:48:11] That piece of work. It's really more of saying, Hey, here's, here's the problem that I, I was too dumb to really know in advance. And, and I hate to be that guy that says, Hey, here's the problem. I don't have a solution. You know, this is not how I work in business, but I think this one's important enough to put out there.[00:48:29] I can think of a few things that might help us, you know, break the chain a little bit, but gosh, it's such, it's the system is designed that way. I just didn't realize it when you have elected judges and, you know, you can get into the elect, diverse, appointed judges debate, and you know, how expensive it costs, you know, it is to hire attorneys and get the right kind of representation.[00:48:52] There's all sorts of things you can sort of imagine, but it's, it's such a big structural bear. I just, you know, At this point, it's just something that you have to take in, as you got to account for that in your business, you know, and it starts back with what kind of partners you have and that'll eliminate some of it, but it won't eliminate you getting sued from the outside or, you know, doing something like that.[00:49:18] And you'll be arrived back on court. [00:49:19] Michael Moore: [00:49:19] Right. I just had a, a futuristic blast of like it's Concho, Minnick. A junk professor at Yale teaching the class that you never got to learn. [00:49:33] Concho: [00:49:33] I mean, it's just, it's such an amazing experience, you know, and, and at the end of the day, that's what our life is made up of, his experiences and, and you know, that's why we're doing this podcast to share those, [00:49:46]Michael Moore: [00:49:46] on a lighter note.[00:49:48] Cause I really wanted to ask this question. I remember in one of our tours when you were taking me around and you know, you are looking at this a hundred thousand square foot building that does have this feeling of maybe [00:50:00] falling in on you. And I'm trying to figure out, like, how am I going to explain to underwriters that this is a really good risk that they need to underwrite at a fair price.[00:50:08]but we went to that, that backroom where. All of the artists gathered to get ready to come up on stage. And obviously as president, you got to be back there a lot, like give us a couple of highlights of some of the artists, some of the stories, some of the things that you saw back there as [00:50:24] they [00:50:24] were getting ready.[00:50:27] Concho: [00:50:27] This is where you might need to edit. Gosh, that's, I'd have to say, think about, I've had plenty of great music experiences, on, yeah. You know, Ryan being him is probably the pinnacle of that while we were there, we can talk about that. But in terms of backstage, you know, I never approached it from being in off for some reason, because I'd been around it a lot in my life.[00:50:51] And so I never really, I just. Treat is part of the, you know, the business and really providing hospitality. To artists and gosh, it's hard to, hard to pin it down. We would just back there with little bitty bands, just trying to, with their first ever performance on the main stage, the ability vibes, like guys like Mike and the moon pies.[00:51:13] Right. Who I love and, you know, and it's just. creating friendships with them and encouraging them and, you know, seeing how they're living their life to, Willie Nelson, you know, which is, even when, when you're running the honky tonk, they don't let you close to Willie Nelson. Right? He is. But, who I've I have met and I have talked to, but, in are really Revere.[00:51:39] It's really hard to say a defining moment. I think that when, when you're back there, you know, all the artists are signing the wall, painting their logo and things like that. And so, you know, we're staring at, you know, the Waylon Jennings signature on the wall, right. And then under its shooter, his son, and we just started adding to it.[00:51:59] You know, we're adding Lee, Bryce and rival sons and. You know, Florida, Georgia line. And I certainly had some really incredible, like invited back to the artist's bus experiences. You know, [00:52:17] that's what I'm talking [00:52:18] about. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I did see the, the glowing red eyes, skull bong on, you know, on certain artist's bus, but the I've seen it all in through that context, but, I guess it was an overall impact of just adding to those layers back there.[00:52:38] We were opening up the walls and drawing more and, and having artists sign. And then we reconfigured the room and we felt like we were a part of, of some big momentum that had started decades before us, that we were carrying on and we thought it was important. You know what we were doing. I'd like to think of.[00:53:02] I think there's probably a reason I can't really remember. Yeah. Fair enough.[00:53:10] I met a lot of great guys from, you know, Dwight Yoakum who get hit a lot of times gets a bad rap for being, not such a pleasant human, to Lee. So I really love, [00:53:20] you know, Kevin Fowler. I could go on and on. You know, I don't know. I guess there, there was no real big defining moment where I saw someone pass out and fall on the ground.[00:53:31] Cause I certainly saw that. Right. You know, and all sorts of things that shouldn't be backstage there backstage you see there. And you know, I think it's just the, what I enjoyed about is just the collective. just being a part of helping these guys do what they're doing. You know, I like hospitality.[00:53:51] I figured that out about myself over the years, maybe we like making them feel good about being there and you see how these guys live. It's, you know, some are a really great professionals, you know, and some of them are just making it from party to party. Right. You know, and you, you see all of that. Sure.[00:54:09] See the guys who won't touch a single drop of alcohol until they're backstage after the show. And then you see guys who stumble in to, you know, at three o'clock and their shows at 10 o'clock and you're like, Holy shit, they're going to make it on stage. [00:54:27] Michael Moore: [00:54:27] Right. [00:54:29] Concho: [00:54:29] And so I don't know, it was such a big kaleidoscope of things that happened back there.[00:54:35] Yeah, I've had a few artists asked me to sign my name, you know, next to theirs when, Oh, when we signed the wall. And, and that was great for me to be a part of it. And, you know, we recorded a few albums of Billy Bob's albums were there, and I think that's sort of a dying art form there, but, I don't know if that's real viable business model or long-term anymore, but that was certainly fun.[00:54:59] We recorded Billy Joe shaver. I believe I was when I was there. It's a good one. And you know, then the festivals, right. We, I did for Willie's pig next while I was there. And those are each collections of 20 plus pans, you know, and that kind of cadence to gear up for that, put that on for a day. And interact with all of them in that way and live physically, I could live that experience, right.[00:55:28] It's a lot of fun, you know, and it told us we could do it. And that's what gave us the confidence that our team could do it in other countries and other cities and things like that. [00:55:38] Bob Wierema: [00:55:38] I was going to ask you, as you kind of look back on some of your experiences there and even through what you went through.[00:55:44] Is there anything that if you look back, I know hindsight's always 20, 20, but you'd say, man, I really wish I would've done this differently. Or I did play my cards kind of the way I would play them. If I look back today, [00:55:58] Concho: [00:55:58] gosh, it's hard to say, you know, There was the business had been around for 30 years when I showed up.[00:56:06] And you would think that there would be all sorts of systems in place and, you know, it would be more advanced and I probably should have done my due diligence more. I talked about that a lot, you know, and when we came in, I started doing really innovative things like. Adding some HR, you know, budgeting, right?[00:56:26] Yeah. Who would have thought cleaning up the GL and you know, it was such a Malay of coming from nowhere to something you could really get your hands around on a monthly basis [00:56:40] that. You know, all those business decisions after business decisions, after personnel decisions, you know, there were so many of them that we had to get through so fast.[00:56:49] I couldn't point you to one, you know, that I wish I would have done that differently. I think that, you know, the, the biggest obstacle coming in, which I didn't realize was, was going to be my family. I thought there was just more. Yeah, there certainly love and understanding and relationships there, but that's not what it takes in business, you know, and I didn't realize the extent, Bob of how much my dad and stepmother bill about was a part of their identity, you know, and I probably could have seen more of that in advance and prepared some kind of plan around that, you know, I thought I treated them respectfully when, when Pam decided to retire massive events and parties and things like that.[00:57:41] But it was, I didn't anticipate that it was, they would have such a hard time letting go and it wasn't like I was pushing them out the door, but they knew they had to go. It was time for the new degenerations, but all the owners were asking for right. But it still came back to me. It was, it was, I was the catalyst for it and I don't think they ever really got over.[00:58:05] I don't know what the Brian antidote to that would have been.[00:58:09]Bob Wierema: [00:58:09] Yeah, no, it's, it's interesting because as we've had these conversations here with other, folks in business, you know, the family aspect comes into the conversation and, you know, you get both sides of it. It worked out really well. And then.[00:58:22] You get the side, we're a desert knit. [00:58:24] It's I mean, it's hard. It just puts a [00:58:27] totally different dynamic into a partnership. Cause your point when money and greed and ego gets involved with it and it's family, it's tough. [00:58:36] Concho: [00:58:36] Yeah. And I think that. You know, the whole imposter syndrome thing, like the probability that happened when it's a family situation is I think amplified because parents always have this, some amount of separation between who they are, their, their work life and how their kids perceive them.[00:58:56] And when I got to Billy Bob's, I mean, you just, this whole chapter opens up of well, Damn, I didn't, I didn't know that about you guys. And, you know, I think, you know, I was the smart Yale MBA, right. That was your, you know, fixing everything. And I'm sure I made some mistakes in there with what we did. The results were happening though.[00:59:21] And, you know, I think it bothered, I think my success bothered them in some ways and they felt like they might've been the, you know, the, the generation that. Then maybe they weren't there with the technologies and, and all the things that we were doing. And, I think it bothered them. They, I think they described some of that to me, unfortunately.[00:59:41] And, yeah, there's probably some lessons in there how to handle that better. I felt like I was going slow, but Mayo wasn't going slow enough. [00:59:51] Michael Moore: [00:59:51] Well, yeah. I mean, speed in business is defined by the individual. Right. [00:59:56] So, [00:59:56] I mean, it. Well, it seems slow to you and your sort of [01:00:00] worldly knowledge you were bringing back to sleepy old Fort worth.[01:00:05] Although I would say we're, we're very much in a Renaissance phase now again, I mean, it's, it's, that's interesting perspective, you know, one thing that, I mean, I guess the, for me, like the good in all this, right? Cause we've talked about the legal system we've talked about. Money. We've talked about money, influencing the legal system.[01:00:25] Like I go back to that room though. And it's like, that's where business and art and careers, like all just met. And for that moment before they went on stage and they're inscribing their name on the wall, it was like, all that was just perfect. So, you know, I don't know how this is all going to turn out.[01:00:47] Maybe you can give us a little. Light into the future of what you think, but you certainly created a really special place. And we thank you for that. [01:00:59] Concho: [01:00:59] You know, I, wasn't part of it for, you know, a lot growing up. cause my dad was involved for years and years and you know, I got the opportunity to be president for seven years and then plus, or minus a year of being thrown in and out of the building.[01:01:13] I'm not sure what I created, but I feel great about. Pushing forward. Something that felt really authentic, you know, and when we created the vocabulary of our culture, when I was there, authentic was our first word and I still like that. And that's still one of my favorite sort of cultural words. It felt good to be a part of it.[01:01:39] You know, I don't know how it's going to turn out. I don't know. Obviously what the live music world is going to look like has changed a little bit over the past few months. [01:01:49] Michael Moore: [01:01:49] Yeah. [01:01:50] Concho: [01:01:50] I still love live music, you know, we've, we didn't touch on my bands when I was growing up. We can do that later, but, I love it.[01:01:59] I love hospitality, you know, festivals. I don't know what's going to happen at Villa. Doug's a, hopefully it endures, it will be 40 years old next year. And. You know, I think there's still a lot of good things going for it, you know? And it's, there's still a lot of the original owners hanging on is hopefully we have some permanent shifts here where it can, you know, grab a hold of the new that instill, intersect that with the old, you know, and it can, it can happen.[01:02:30] I'd like to see it happen on a global scale. That's where the real. That's why I took the job. That's, what's exciting about it to me, you know? it's not being managed that way now. There's no global vision there now. And hopefully that gets reignited somehow, you know, cause it really is a nice representation of Fort worth for Texas or in some ways America.[01:02:53] Michael Moore: [01:02:53] Right. You know, do you have any thought on what live music does look like? You know, post figuring out COVID-19 [01:03:06] Concho: [01:03:06] got it. You know, I've really been, just been drug into that in a very detailed way in the past few weeks. because we're the ability that is reopening. Right. And so I've been asked to, to weigh [01:03:20] in.[01:03:20] And talking a lot of my friends at AEG and live nation and things like that. And it's, I really don't know. I mean, I've got to think that the outdoor festival has an advantage, you know, for some right. And maybe that's self-serving because that's what I really love. Sure. You know, I think that's practical for this fall.[01:03:43] Maybe. maybe a little bit later, although most of them are getting canceled. I think you can. I see some real premium, live music entertainment experiences where you can have a lot of space. If I build my own venue, you know, if I get in the music business again, that's probably what I'll do a smaller super-premium is a venue.[01:04:01] I think there's, there's plenty of room to do, you know, 500 or a thousand person shows like that. And that'll be easier too. If people have this ongoing, you know, contagion mindset, you know, whether it's COVID 1920, 21, whatever it is, then they're going to think about that. And. I think it ultimately break down into different, you know, demographics that feel like they're okay to go be shoulder to shoulder with somebody and other people who, who don't, or just don't want to, you know, we're hearing that all the 20 somethings right now, or have the COVID cases are spiking big time.[01:04:41] Right. Because they don't, they're not doing to counter it. Right. I don't even think my 19 year old washes his hands, but. yeah, so I, I really, I wish I had more structural thought than that, but, you know, it's, you know, people are just, you know, my friends in the live music business are really more into like the near term of saving their company.[01:05:08] There's I thought for a long time, there's a, there's a big virtual. There's some opportunities to do, first reality type experiences with music. I still think there's a lot of frontiers there that have not been tapped ticketed events sitting virtually in a seat at a YouTube concert or whatever it is, you know, but, so maybe that accelerates a little bit.[01:05:33] Bob Wierema: [01:05:33] It's interesting. I just today, so, Michael knows Mumbai. My fiancé's a professional ballerina and the Joffrey ballet here in Chicago. And she got the note today. That they're canceling season for the year. [01:05:48] And so for, [01:05:49] you know, for an artist and somebody that's her career and that's her passion and what you grew up doing, you know, she's really struggling with like, what's, what's next?[01:05:59] Like, what do I do? I just kind of got this ripped away from me a little bit. How do I, how do I think about how I can do this? And then I'm thinking about the fans that go in the people and just all that community. That's just struggling right now around. We're not having, you know, to your point. I can't go to an outdoor concert.[01:06:16] I can't do these things that I love. They're a part of my life where my social circle, you know, it's, it's, it's tough right now. [01:06:23] Concho: [01:06:23] Was it her season? Just canceled? Going forward into 2021. [01:06:28]Bob Wierema: [01:0

This is the companion discussion to Ruth chapter 3. I am joined in these episodes by Elijah De Jong, recent graduate of Mid-America Reformed Seminary. Elijah has served as a pastoral intern at OPC churches in Joliet, IL, and Concho, AZ. He is currently serving as a yearlong intern at the OPC church in Grant's Pass, Oregon. In these chapter by chapter discussions, Elijah and I will discuss the narrative and theology of the book of Ruth. In this episode, we explore the Old Testament law of the kinsman-redeemer (its importance in the Ruth narrative and its dark history in Boaz's ancestry), Naomi's ambiguous plan to move along God's providence, and why Ruth asks Boaz to “spread out” his wing over her. ReadyMag site: readymag.com/u1962753911/thebookofruth/ Music by Scott Buckley --www.scottbuckley.com.au Spotify Podcasts: open.spotify.com/show/5foBrfxojpOdkJpjPUHwtc Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…th/id1517706080

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After dinner, we settle in to await the first fall of snowflakes for this season's first winter storm with the bottle of wine I picked out to got with our dinner tonight – Moroccan Chicken from Blue Apron. It called for a Carmenere and as things are, we stock them in our cellar. So take a listen as we kick off Baron of Beverage while tasting and evaluating Concho y Toro's Terrunyo Carmenere Block 27 2008. Cheers!