Podcast appearances and mentions of dave haynes

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT The UK-based research and advisory firm Futuresource Consulting sends a big team every year to the ISE trade show in Barcelona, and then a few weeks later releases a big report that serves as a technical recap for the pro AV community - both for people who could not attend, and for people like me who did, but didn't have anywhere near enough time to see everything. The 2025 report is out now and the good news is that it is a free download - a departure for a company that produces detailed reports that are typically paywalled and tend to cost at least four figures. In this podcast, I chat with Ted Romanowitz, a principal consultant focused mainly on LED, and Morris (or Mozz) Garrard, who heads the pro displays file and looks more at LCD and OLED. We get into a bunch of things in a too-short 30 minute interview. You'll hear about mass-transferred Chip On Board tech. Where Chip On Glass, also known as MicroLED, is at. And we also get into LCD, OLED, e-paper and projection. Have a listen. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Ted and Morris, thank you for joining me. You guys are from Futuresource Consulting.  Every big trade show, like an ISE or an Infocomm and some other ones as well, but those are the ones I'm most familiar with, Futuresource sends a whole bunch of people to these shows. I'm curious how many people at Futuresource are on the pro display file, and why do you go to trade shows like ISE?  Morris Garrard: Dave, I'm glad to jump in. Thank you again for your time today, and looking forward to tossing with you. Overall, we took nearly 20 analysts and business development people to ISE which shows Futuresource's commitment to the trade show and our clients, specifically the Pro AV, we took four analysts, and I'm on the consulting and advisory side, so we had a really good representation across all the technologies: projection, flat panel, interactive, and LED.  I assume the reason that you go is it's a very efficient way to see a whole bunch of new stuff and touch base with a whole bunch of companies under one roof in a matter of days. Morris Garrard: Oh, absolutely. For me, it's just always, you walk in and you hit that Hall 3 where a lot of the display companies are, and it's just. Like that first impression you go, oh my gosh, here we are. How am I gonna do all this?  It's always nice. I always start at the Lang booth because they always do a nice job of having that big wow something right there at the major intersection. Yeah, they've done well with that. One thing about Futuresource is that the great majority of the material you put out is understandably paywalled. That's your business, you're producing subject matter expertise reports and selling them. So I'm always a bit curious about a complete 180 with these post-show reports. They're very detailed, there are many pages, and it's almost boy, that's more than you needed to do. Morris Garrard: Yes, I think it's, this year was something between 40 and 50 pages to cover the many, different areas of our practices, but, yeah, we think it adds value to our clients to see the latest and greatest, what's happening and not just a reporting of this product announcement or that product announcement, but it provides the context of what's really happening the undercurrents and the, big stories, the technology transitions, if you will, that are happening that are driving shifts in the industry. That kind of helps us open doors with clients to have deeper Engagements with them based on our unique insights.  Ted Romanowitz: I think just to add to that as well is we don't produce these show reports solely for the benefit of our clients. We also work with an extensive research network that benefits from these show reports, as well as other industry bodies that we work with, like trade associations, for example, and our channel partners as well.  It's a way, obviously, that you're getting driving awareness of the sort of work that you guys do and what is possible behind the paywall.  Ted Romanowitz: Exactly that. Yeah. It's a brilliant opportunity to raise our profile and also to raise the profile of the analysts working within these product sectors as well. So we're already four minutes in, and I've got about half an hour to chat with you guys. So we should dive straight into some of what you saw and came away with, and I would say that the biggest thing is probably LED in the context of pro display, anyway. So let's skip past audio and some of those other areas. You talked a lot in the report about mass transfer chips on board. Can you, first of all, describe what that is? Because we're in an industry that's overwhelmed by acronyms and why they're important, and what's the distinction? Why are you saying mass transferred when you're processing COB with mass transferred? Ted Romanowitz: Yes, and not only are there a lot of acronyms, Dave, but the problem is that terms are being misused, and I've heard you talk about that a little bit. It's a really strategic inflection point that's happening right now, literally right in front of our very eyes at ISE, where you're shifting from packaged LED technologies that have driven the industry for 20 years where the LED: red, blue, green are packaged and then picked and placed onto a PCB. That's shifting to package list technologies where the individual chiplets are red, blue, and green and are being mass transferred. So instead of one pixel at a time, they're doing thousands, and when you think about it in context, a 4k display is over 8.2 million pixels. So if you can transfer thousands at a once instead of one by one, you save a lot of time, and so this package list technology is like a chip on board where the backplane is a PCB and it's a passive driver and then chip on glass or what we call micro LED. Truly micro LED, that is, sub-100 micrometers mass transferred onto a TFT black backplane with an active driver. So at ISE, you saw this crazy tidal wave, I'm going to go with that term, this crazy tidal wave of companies that are announcing COB, and the biggest thing is that they're coming to the fruition of manufacturing processes so that they can mass transfer instead of pick and place. So the cost is going to be a lot less to make them, first of all, because you don't have to package first, then pick and place, and then secondly, because you can mass transfer.  So we expect, and this is going to, within maybe the next 12 months following, this could drive up to a 50 percent decrease in the ASPs, average sales price of 1.5 millimeters and below. It's just truly amazing. We've been hearing about this for several years, Futuresource has been writing about it, and now it's happening right before our eyes.  With COB, there are other inherent advantages as well, right? The first one would be that as they're manufactured, the finished modules have some sort of protective coating on them. That's just fundamental to how they do them, right? Versus SMD, it's the older school packaged LED displays where they're unprotected unless they've got this glue on board coating, and they're more prone to damage.  Ted Romanowitz: Yes, exactly, and those processes have been perfected over the last two to three years. So not only can you do a nice job of encapsulating it, but they can repair the LEDs as well, even after encapsulation.  So that's a major thing that's happening, and one of the things that I saw at the show was i5LED actually had a double difficult display that they did in the sense that it's a corner, an inside corner, which is difficult to do with LEDs to get, so there's not any seams or anything. But then the second thing they did is they put a touch overlay on an encapsulated COB display so you could touch. It had multi-touch on it. So again, really interesting to see the future of what's happening.  Yeah, because touch and LED were different worlds for the longest time, and it's only been recently where you start to see IR frames around displays that would make them interactive, and you wouldn't want to touch a conventional SMB display because it was going to damage it.  Ted Romanowitz: Exactly, especially when you get to 1.2 millimeters and below. The joke has always been that you needed to put a little tray underneath the LED wall that you were touching to capture all of the LED pixels that were falling off. But now, that's improved with all these new manufacturing techniques.  Are there benefits as well to COB in terms of energy consumption or brightness, things like that? Ted Romanowitz: Yeah, and the answer is yes. It's really incredible to see. Early in the LED market, if you've got 600 nits that was a lot, now you're seeing indoor displays at a 1000 or 1500 nits, which allows you to put them in a high ambient light situation, room that has Florida ceiling windows, like an office or an atrium, or even in a store window or of course outdoors in a kind of a kiosk or a standalone LED display. So this package is like technology; the chips are getting so small that you're filling in the space between the chips with an ultra black covering. That increases the contrast ratio and makes HDR content sing.  Yeah, it's like the old days of plasma displays and how their big benefit was deep blacks.  Ted Romanowitz: Exactly.  Yeah, so one of the things I came away with from ISE, and I had the impression in earlier shows as well, but really amplified this year with all the talk around micro LED and how it's coming, and that's like the ultimate super premium display.  I would look at the current product line of manufacturers who are doing COB and think, okay, that's more than good enough. I don't know that the world needs to get to micro LED video walls for us to finally have good-looking LED video walls. We're already there.  Ted Romanowitz: That's true, but really, it comes down to a cost basis, and this is where we've modeled. Working with some of the biggest OEMs and ODMs in the world, we've modeled the volume that they're going to be able to produce over the next several years, and the quality that they'll be able to deliver in mass quantities, and basically, the outcome is that by the early 2030s, let's say a 77-inch or 80-inch micro LED display chip on glass will be $4,000 or less and so that brings it into mass adoption and really makes it useful for, not only does it enable the close up viewing that chip on glass does, or chip on board, but it enables a price point where you're going to see it broadly deployed in meeting rooms and corporate, you'll see it in classrooms and education, all across stadiums, venues, hospitality, every different market vertical is going to be impacted by a price point of LED that's comparable to LCD today within the next several years.  Why wouldn't that happen just with COB?  Ted Romanowitz: It's the cost basis of being able to do things on a PCB is more expensive versus a TFT backplane. Over the long run, it has to shift towards a TFT backplane, a glass backplane.  The barrier to that happening right now is unlike COB, where mass transfer appears to have been worked out. It's still a work in progress on the chip on the glass or micro LED side, right? Ted Romanowitz: It is. There are a few other roadblocks that have to be overcome for chip on glass to be in volume with high quality, high yields, and when that happens, then you'll start seeing the volume ramp and the price really starts to drop.  So there will be a day, early in the next decade, when chip-on-glass micro LED displays have the same dimensions, same resolution, everything else would be at price parity with LCD. Ted Romanowitz: Yes, with LCD today. What Moss has been looking at with the rest of the team is what's gonna happen with flat panel LCD, interactive LCD, and projection. What are the unique instances where those need to be implemented, best-fit applications and what they're doing to drive price down and add value, differentiate to keep extending those product life cycles. Moss, is there much runway still for LCD? I'm also very curious about OLED, which keeps getting better technically but is still pretty narrowly defined, particularly on the pro-AV side.  Morris Garrard: Yeah. I think there are a few nuances here that we need to consider when we're talking about the LCD product lifecycle.  How we looked at this in our recent strategic market outlook was to split the market into three parts. So first, looking at the video will market, then looking at the digital signage market, and then looking at what we define as the presentation market, so in front of classroom, front of boardroom devices. Video wall, I think it's no real surprise that it is certainly being cannibalized by LED the fastest. We're already seeing that kind of impact happening at, I think, back in 2020; even LED overtook LCD as the main contributor to market value in the video wall market. If we then look at digital signage, which obviously would include screens that are sub 100 inch, which typically would have the price per resolution advantage over LED. We're already seeing LED making inroads to that market as well, so it's actually in 2025 that we're expecting LED to overtake LCD as the main contributor to the market value. Then, looking at the presentation market, which is very much dominated by the likes of interactive flat panel display, but then also obviously nontouching in many boardrooms as well. Obviously, there is still that cost consciousness when it comes to presentation displays. However, in the more narrow pixel pitch segments, as Ted mentioned, that price attrition that we're expecting over the next few years, it's going to rapidly increase the adoption of LEDs within the boardroom, especially the boardroom, and perhaps less so in K12, which obviously makes up the bulk of the education segment. But we're expecting by 2028 that LED will overtake LCDs and market value share by that point. That's not to say necessarily that the LCD market is going away in volume terms. I think the key point is in terms of value. Prices are continuing to erode to really race to the bottom on LCD. And then obviously, yeah, with volume starting to flatten out, LED is making inroads quite rapidly.  What about OLED? Morris Garrard: OLED's an interesting one. I think the key stumbling block for OLED in the professional displays market has been the price, as opposed to LCD. We're looking at around about 1.5 to 2X differential, which within the cost conscious mindset, especially in signage, but also in presentation displays as well. It has presented an obstacle to adoption. So OLED, we're looking at around 1% of volumes across the global market in terms of volume, and really that's stayed quite stable over the last few years, hasn't ramped as perhaps was expected a few years ago,  One thing that was intriguing to me was reading some of the stuff coming out of CES and then going to ISE, and I went to the TCL booth, I believe and they had a 120 or 125-inch something, giant TV, and I was thinking, okay, that I know what they're doing with these things. There's local dimming and everything else, and the visuals coming out of these displays are stunning. They look borderline OLED quality and at that form factor, as costs come down on manufacturing those things, they are starting to approach, very close in size to all in LED displays that a lot of manufacturers have in their product lines to simplify things for meeting spaces, conference rooms and so on. Do you see these LCDs getting some traction, supplanting the all-in-one LEDs?  Morris Garrard: Do you know what, Dave? That's a really interesting point because we had a number of conversations at ISE about the opportunity for larger than 100-inch LCDs. I think my answer to those individuals was that there may be an opportunity for now. I think the price attrition that we're seeing on all-in-one LEDs will bring those displays into, maybe not into price parity, then at least, within the same kind of ballpark.  But I think the other key issue with, let's take 120 inch LCD, for example, is the logistics of it. If you're in a boardroom and you're on the fifth floor, and you've got to fit a 120-inch LCD into a lift, then where we're based in Europe, that's absolutely not going to happen. Maybe in North America where you guys have your freight elevators and whatnot, but I think in terms of being able to install the display itself. You're not carrying that on the stairs.  Morris Garrard: Exactly, and let's say someone does crack it on the floor as they're installing it, then you've got to replace the whole thing. Whereas with an LED wall, it's just one module that needs to be replaced. I think there are those challenges as well that will limit the opportunity in that segment.  Are you seeing much innovation when it comes to LCD and OLEDs?  Morris Garrard: I would say in terms of the commercial LCD market, over the last few years, the key points of innovation have been, as you say, OLED initially, 8K resolution, 21:9, and then high brightness and kind of outdoor displays lumped into one. Those have really been the key points of development.  In terms of market adoption, though, they haven't really taken off. I would say high brightness and outdoors are probably the best examples, accounting for around 2 to 4% of market volumes, whereas the rest is still lingering around 1 to 2%. There was a lot of buzz and quite a bit of activity at ISE around electronic ink products, e-paper products, particularly on the color side. They've gotten bigger. There were 75-inch versions there. I had seen them earlier when I was over in Taiwan, and I thought, okay, this is interesting, but it's really early days, and this is a proof of concept more than anything else because yeah, they didn't look bad, but they didn't look good.  Morris Garrard: Yeah, I think e-paper is an interesting one and I think it presents a fantastic opportunity to the pro displays industry as a whole I think there has been a bit of maybe industry confusion around the purpose and the intended use case for e-paper and I think the point that really needs clarifying is that e-paper is not here to replace lcd I think in many ways it's there to complement LCD. Yes, it's there to replace print.  Morris Garrard: It's there to replace print, exactly, and one of the key conversations around that exact point is, would using the 16:9 aspect ratio be the most appropriate? Obviously, for signage customers that are used to digital signage, then yes, but for those end users that are replacing print signage would actually like the A Series, for example, be a more appropriate sizing range to use. I think that this market segment is still figuring some of those things out. But yeah, definitely a lot more, A lot more on on show at ISE this year, which was fantastic to see, and even new brands as well, not only kind of new models from those brands that were already active in the space. As I say, it's the early adopter phase at the moment, but I think certainly a lot of industry potential.  It was interesting, though, because, with all the buzz around it, I don't know that many people because they don't have a reason to be paying that close attention to it. They don't understand that all of these color e-paper displays are coming from one manufacturer, and whether it's Samsung Sharp or Agile Display Solutions, they're remarketing and tweaking E Ink's product. Is there any other manufacturer out there that you've run into that's actually coming up with something that is also color e-paper? I'm aware of some ESL manufacturers who are not using E Ink, but that's monochrome stuff.  Morris Garrard: Yeah, I would say really the pioneer is obviously E Ink. I have seen some Chinese facsimiles, but I would say, generally, the major brands that we work with are working with E INk.  Tearing through stuff here out of necessity, but I wanted to ask about projection.  Morris Garrard: With projection, I think, there is a tendency within the industry to focus on all of the innovation that's happening in LED especially, and thinking that projection is going away silently, but we're still expecting the projection is going to be a very robust component of market value by the end of the decade. We're still looking at a multi-billion-dollar industry by 2029 or 2030.  I would say the conversation within projection has shifted; it's a very mature product segment, of course. We're not really seeing the kind of product revolutions anymore in terms of feature sets or whatnot, the conversation has now shifted more towards the applications for projection. So where can projection be used where other display technologies may not be appropriate? One of the key applications, of course, that's grabbing a lot of headlines is projection mapping, for example, being able to scale an image at a massive scale onto things like historic buildings, for example. You're not going to be doing that with led in, historic cities in Europe, for example, it's just not going to happen. But finding other applications as well, for projection where the other technologies just wouldn't be able to be deployed basically.  When I go to a giant show, like an ISE, I will run into folks like you two and lots of other industry people who've been around for a long time, and we'll always have the conversation of: so,  what did you see that? I need to go see that as well, and I have my own thoughts around that, but I'm curious if there are technologies or particular manufacturers who you came across and thought, “Oh, that's interesting”. Ted Romanowitz: I'll jump in and say, both the chips on board, the wall at Samsung and the LG magnet at their booth looked fantastic, and then you saw chip on glass actually demonstrated in a large format, 136 inch at LG, as a kind of a TV kind of format. Samsung had the transparent micro LED, which I think shows they're starting to evolve their thinking. It's such a cool technology, but I think everyone's struggling with what the killer application for transparent micro LED is just because companies have been struggling with the idea of a transparent OLED. Where does it really fit in? Those are some of the killer things that I saw.  The waterfall at Lang booth. I thought it was incredibly cool, as was the kinetic LED display facing the LG booth. Not practical, but it's cool.  Yeah, and that one, I was impressed by a lot more than previous kinetic LED walls that I've seen because this was more like a game show spinning tile thing where you didn't have all this, very tight synchronizing of modules to make it look good, and I saw another kinetic LED wall I was talking to an old industry friend who said, yeah, this thing's cool, but it's breaking down every half an hour because his stand was right next to it. So it's handled with care.  Ted Romanowitz: Yeah, I thought the other cool part of that kinetic display at LG was the fact that they drew in a social media aspect where you could, upload your picture and they do a little AI magic and all of a sudden you can see Dave Haynes right up there in the middle of the LG kinetic wall. Yes, you could, but I tried that, and it turned me into a guy going through a gender transition, which I'm not quite sure how that happened.  Ted Romanowitz: We love everybody. So that's good. We love you for just who you are, Dave. That's all I'm gonna say about that. It's a side of me I hadn't thought about, but some people said you look good like that. I don't know. Okay, sorry, but it ain't happening.  Moz, how about you?  Morris Garrard: Yeah, we've already touched on it. Compared with the conversations I was having around e-paper at the end of last year, I was amazed to see larger than 32-inch form factors, let alone 75 inches. I think it was at the Dynascan booth. I was just impressed purely with the progress that technology is making in such a short space of time. So yeah, that, for me, was the takeaway.  All right. This has been great. We could have easily spoken for three hours, but we had limited time somehow or other. I appreciate you guys jumping on the phone with me.  Ted Romanowitz: Thanks so much. It's a pleasure, and we're headed over to Taiwan and Korea, so maybe we can talk again and give you some feedback on what we saw at Touch Taiwan with some of the big OEMs and ODMs in Asia.  You gonna have some Soju? Ted Romanowitz: I will definitely have that.  Alright, thanks, guys.  Morris Garrard: Thanks so much, Dave.

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT All kinds of people in this industry are very aware that while there is lot of dodgy stuff, there is also lots of well made display technology available from Chinese manufacturers who have zero brand recognition outside of that country. Buy potential buyers don't tend to have the time or resources to make the big flights over the Pacific to visit China and directly source reliable manufacturing partners. And they really - if they're smart - don't want to just order stuff, and then cross their fingers and toes hoping the stuff shows up, lines up with what was ordered, works, and then meets necessary certifications. Jacob Horwitz saw an opportunity to create a new company that functions as something as a boutique digital signage distribution company that sources, curates and markets display and related technologies that its resellers can then take to market. Horwitz will be familiar to a lot of industry people for a pair of installation companies he started and ran the U.S. - IST and later Zutek. In both cases, he sold the companies, and he could have just retired ... but he didn't want to retire. Nor did his wife, because a Jacob with too much time on his hands would make her crazy. So he started Illuminology with a longtime industry friend and business partner Stephen Gottlich, who for many years ran the digital file for Gable. I caught up with Horwitz to talk about the origins and rationale for Illuminology, which is just spinning up but has some big plans. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Jacob, it was nice speaking with you. You have started a company called Illuminology, which sounds like you started a cult, but I think that's not what it is.  Jacob Horwitz: Not yet, no, We hope it will be at some point, a good following, but first off, Dave, thanks for having me. It's been nine years since you and I first chatted on a podcast. I don't know if you realize that. It was December of 2016, and we had just finished, I think maybe the nationwide rollout of Burger King, you and I had a chat about that, and it's hard to believe nine years have gone by.  This was when you had IST?  Jacob Horwitz: Installation Service Technologies was a nationwide installation and service company, that was sold in 2018 and then a year later, I restarted a company called Zootech, and I was approached by a customer who was looking to be entrepreneurial and that company is now owned by Karen Salmon. It's a woman-owned business mow, and her father was the founder of Powerpoint of Sale. I took a couple of years off. I have a person that I have worked with for 30 years, my business partner, Stephen Gottlich. I think you've met Stephen, and he has been working with Gable Signs for the last 17 years and I think what Illuminology is now is a culmination of really two parallel journeys. Stephen took a traditional sign company 17 years ago down a path of innovation, and Gable went from a bending metal traditional sign company to a visual solutions company my background, which has been installation and service for the last 20 years, brings together two people who are a little bit older than when you and I first talked nine years ago.  It was probably 60 pounds ago when I talked to you for the first time. I'm a little gray or a little wiser and a little bit older. So the two of us come from really parallel journeys in different areas of digital signage, and we wanted to create something a little different in the United States. We'd seen some business models and other parts of the world that seem to be working. So we wanted to create a marketplace that would expand digital signage to companies interested in expanding their scope of business. So we focus a lot on traditional sign companies other technology-type companies, and installation companies. They all have some type of footprint in the verticals with technology but they're not carrying digital signage.  So we thought, how do we expand digital signage to reach a lot more people? And we've come up with this business model.  So for people who are completely unfamiliar with it, how do you describe it in your elevator pitch? Jacob Horwitz: The easiest way to describe it is to think of us as a traditional distributor of digital signage to authorized resellers. Much like a Blue Star, B&H, except that we're very boutique, and we're very focused, and we're very passionate. Stephen and I are not, we've been fortunate in business. I'm 65, Stephen is 70-ish, so we know we don't have a lot of time to build something that's going to take years and years, but we wanted to build something special.  So you would be like, an Almo or those kinds of companies, but much more focused specifically on digital signage?  Jacob Horwitz: … And being able to support them differently. So take a digital traditional sign company, next month, we'll be at the International Sign Show in Las Vegas, the USA, and a lot of those people are digital, but it's amazing how many fast signs, and banners to go, those types of places that are selling digital signage today and have no idea what digital is. They're very old and traditional.  I think of it if you sold typewriters or telephones a couple of decades ago and you didn't evolve in the IP phones and computers, you're probably not in business anymore. So we're taking a lot of those types of sign companies. We have a course called Illuminology University. We take them through an 8 to 10-week course. These are live training classes and curricula we put together to train them about what is a sign in digital singage, what's LED, what's LCD, what is GOB versus COB, just really teaching them about the industry and they have a lot of reach in the verticals that traditional people selling digital signage today don't have. The other thing that makes us unique. When you go to traditional companies like Blue Stars, you don't have everything available under one distributor. We have an experience center that's opening next week in Kansas City. It's a supermarket of visual solutions, so you'll be able to see not just LED or LCD, but you're also going to see light boxes, you're going to see different kiosks, you're going to see where AI comes into play with digital signage, you're going to have a good understanding in our experience center of the programmatic side of how things can be monetized with a digital retail network. I think that because of the 30 years that Steven and I have been involved in technology and in the last twenty in digital signage, we can be much more of a boutique to help people with a wider range of solutions, not just a traditional 55-inch monitor, but LED posters, you had on your blog a few weeks ago that digital desk, which is part of our showroom, so I think it's about innovation. I think it's about a wider range of solutions, and it's hopefully in our last chapters of life, having a lot of fun with our partners.  So I assume if I call or contact one of the larger distributors who do unified communications, do all kinds of different things, and I start asking them about it, I'm a POS company, I have a customer who's asking me about menu boards and things like that. I don't know where to start.  If you talk to a larger distribution company, they have a sheet or a system that lists all the stuff they have and they can rattle off, here's what we have, what do you want, whereas you're saying because you're much more focused on this area and you have an experience center, people could come in and you can try to find something that's tailored to their needs as opposed to what we have.  Jacob Horwitz: Yeah, I think that all those traditional distribution models are very good at taking orders and taking money. A couple of them even have some departments where they're trying to help you with that consultive part of the business but I think at the end of the day, from my installation side, conservatively, we installed well over 400,000 displays in every kind of vertical you could imagine when I owned IST.  We did the new SoFi Stadium. We did all of their point of sale. Arlington Stadium, we did all of their digital assets when Daktronics had contracted us. And Stephen has done every kind of hardware installs you could think of when he was with Gable. So I think that being able to work with a company and be there to hold their hand too, we've already gotten on a plane and gone to sales calls with our partners. You're not going to get that from a traditional distributor. We work and do the RFPs with them. We work with them on pricing and quotes. So it's a little bit different than just trying to take an order so I think that's what makes us unique and the education and our school of hard knocks, you know, god knows, we've made an awful lot of mistakes in 20 years So I think we're gotten pretty good at what we do.  So are you selling strictly third-party stuff, or are there products that fall under the Illuminology brand or a related brand?  Jacob Horwitz: We've been going back and forth for a decade now to China. Stephen and I's first project together, was Simon Properties, 250 malls, and one of the largest media networks for digital out-of-home in the country, we designed the kiosk 10 years ago that they were still using and running in their malls, and that was a factory direct where we worked directly with the factories, built a kiosk, and were able to give Simon an amazing solution, especially where technology was 10 years ago.  So through that experience and over the last decade, we've met absolutely the best factories in China. There are a lot of stereotypes of what a Chinese factory could look like, and until you go and you see the automation and the technology there, God knows you've done it. You've been all over the world. It's not what a lot of people think. So we work directly with factories. We are creating two brands. There are more later on in the year, we are white labeling or branding our product. There'll be a line of displays called LightScapes, and then there'll be a line of kiosks called EasyOSK. So these are part of our longer-term business plan to have a brand. So you're not just saying, well, we bought these from some factories in Taiwan Korea Vietnam and China. We work very closely with the factories. We work very closely with people like AUO who are on the display side, and the panel side, and we will have some things that are unique within that brand. It will not just be the same product that everybody can buy. But because we're doing factory direct because we've got ten-year relationships with these factories, and they know Stephen and me well. We've been going except during COVID several times a year to China. I think that we're able to buy from them at incredibly good pricing and pass those savings on to our resellers. So what if you had a Chinese manufacturer that's strong domestically in that country and has a lot of them trying to come to the U.S. or over to Europe and say, here we are, and not get anywhere, would you sell their product under their brand or would it have to fall under one of your brands? Jacob Horwitz: No, we sell generic products as well. So for example, that desk that you talk about, I was in that factory last month. The person who owns that factory is a very small equity owner within Illuminology because we've known her for ten years and anything that comes from any factory out of China, she will go do that quality check before it ever hits the container to get over here. So she's a very instrumental part of our business over there, but we sell some of the stuff out of her factory as a generic product. It's not necessarily branded with LightScapes. It might be branded with Illuminology, but when you go look at the certification tags and serial numbers, it's still her company name on it, whereas LightScapes and EasyOSK are true white-labeled products that are going to be unique to us. Does that get around any regulatory issues in terms of what can come over from China if it's coming through you?  Jacob Horwitz: The regulations that are driving everybody in our industry crazy right now are the tariffs. But, to us, I think some of the big things that you don't see out of Chinese companies are the right approvals. We're very focused right now on our products being a UL or UL equivalent. There are five or six laboratories that are like MET. That is exactly like UL. It's UL-approved. We had a very large factory send us apart to test and they looked at it yesterday and we already rejected it because the power supply was not a UL-approved power supply. We said, we're not even going to test it.  So I think that those are things that are not regulatory from the U.S., but they're important to us, from a safety side, especially when you're working with enterprise tier one customers, they, have to have the right certifications, but I think the only thing that's causing us headaches is not the regulatory side, but, trying to figure out the right pricing with tariffs and how we handle that. Cause it's changing by the day.  Jacob Horwitz: Every time I look up, I'm afraid to look at the TV to see if it's higher or whatnot, but all of our pricing that we post to our dealers today is a landed cost from Kansas City. So it's including if we had inbound shipping or we had tariffs, we don't want our resellers to have to worry about that and they know that this is the pricing and if the tariffs go away, then we can lower that price. But if it goes crazy, they need to be prepared. We're working closely with some factories right now in Taiwan, Korea, and others in Vietnam so that we have a backup solution because right now the lion's share is coming from China.  If it's touched in Taiwan or touched in Vietnam, but with Chinese components, does that make a difference? Jacob Horwitz: Yeah, we just had that problem. We had ordered some stuff that came in from Canada, and this was before the Canadian tariff of 25%. This was two-three weeks before that, and we got a bill for tariffs, and we were talking with the U.S. Customs and the experts at DHL and UPS, and it turns out, if you're buying something from, for example, the great area of Canada, where you're sitting at home, but the company we bought it from manufactured their part in China when they ship it to us and their commercial invoice to U.S. Customs asks the company in Canada, where the country of origin it was manufactured and even though I bought it from Canada, had no idea that the part I ordered was not manufactured in Canada, we got hit with that 20 percent tariff on that product, and that surprised us. We didn't think it through or understand and the hard part is even when you talk to the absolute top people at U.S. Customs at the borders that are doing this, they're not even sure hour by hour what the rules are. So it's been hard.  We had another container come in and we had, I think, a $7k or $8k tariff. This is when it was 10%, but it landed in the U.S. before the tariff started and they still would not release it without us paying the tariff. Two days ago, we got that money back from U.S. customs. They realized they shouldn't have even charged it. It was before the date the tariff started. But unfortunately, by the time we released it, they held it hostage for a bit. So it's a hard situation, but we're going to work with other countries and I think that everybody's in the same boat, and I think in terms of pricing, our distribution model is much like the traditional guys. It's on a very low margin. So we have to have a lot of resellers that are looking to expand their business. So I'm curious about markets like Vietnam and India, which I keep hearing about, having gotten into electronics and being alternatives to Korea, Taiwan, particularly China, is that industry, particularly on the display side, mature enough now to buy products from there?  Jacob Horwitz: Since September, I've visited sixteen different countries across the world, I think on three or four continents and getting ready for the right factories and the right things and just enjoying travel at the same time, and the one thing that surprised me is how far behind the U.S. is compared to a lot of parts of the world and how much digital signage you see. Also, when you talk to these people what they're paying for digital signage throughout other parts of the world is far less money than the U.S. customers paying us companies for digital signage. The margins in Asia and Europe are much thinner than the traditional margins that resellers have been getting in the U.S.  Our motto, and you see it across our website, is “The Best for Less”, and we have tried to find the best factories in the world and be able to give it at a price that is not greedy. That's a win for us, for our resellers, and most importantly for the companies that are trying to buy and put that digital signage into their business so they can inspire and tell a story to their customer. And I think that even in the smallest towns of Vietnam, you still see digital outdoor LEDs on the sides of buildings and you go into the shopping malls and it's far more digital than you see here. So that was interesting to me as I've got to travel the world in the last four months. Is it a function of cost or awareness?  Jacob Horwitz: I'm not sure, but I'm assuming first it's a function of cost because where they're working on margins that are so much less, it allows that to get into people's businesses, and when you're charging $1k for a 55-inch commercial grade LCD, 500 nit monitor, it's a barrier to entry. So we're trying to brand something and bring something to the market where we can be 20% less to the end user than a lot of the traditional things, and we think we've accomplished that. The tariffs hurt us a little bit, but they hurt everybody by and large. So I think that's really why the U.S. is slower. I don't want to use the word greed. I own businesses, but people have tried to get margins that I don't think you can get anymore, and I think that you're going to have to find other ways to monetize your business through the installation side, through the content side, and I think that it's also helping companies. It's a big part of what we do. I think of Chris at Stratacash, he has a whole area where he helps monetize their solutions and it's helped, and we're looking at that closely. We're working with three or four companies right now where we can have our resellers work directly with them and educate their end users on how they can monetize the solution, through advertising in certain verticals. Not all verticals are conducive to digital out-of-home, but most are.  So that's an important part of how we're going to help move products into places that normally maybe couldn't afford to put the right solutions in. I assume that there are all kinds of people in North America, the U.S. in particular, who are aware that they can buy stuff via AliExpress or whatever. But they've heard enough to know, yes, you can pay substantially less, but you have to cross your fingers when it shows up.  Is Illuminology positioned as a safe harbor way to do it? Like we're doing the sourcing, we've figured that part out so we could pass on those savings without all the worry. Jacob Horwitz: Look to me, those sites are a lot like a box of chocolates. You never really know what you're going to get when that product shows up. As I said, even with the sample we got from somebody yesterday not being the right display, UL, and approvals, we're not going to be a website where you can buy whatever you want. It's going to be very focused on innovation. It's going to be the same factories. As I'm sure you've seen I get if I get one I get at least three emails every day from some Chinese factory trying to sell you whatever and everyone is a nickel cheaper than the other and I think that's just Pennywise and quality foolish.  So we're not going to be that it's going to be the best for less, and if we can create this supermarket of visual solutions, and it's a great product and the pricing can hit the street to an end user, double-digit, less expensive, and we are distributing through companies that have reached where the traditional resellers aren't touching, then we think that will help expand digital signage across the U.S.  So these would be reached to like the sign companies you mentioned, maybe the point of sale technology companies, those kinds of companies?  Jacob Horwitz: I have a guy I talked to a couple of days ago who sells medical devices. Nothing to do with digital signage. He's out there every day selling blood pressure machines or whatever medical devices he's selling and in the last few days, I've probably talked three times to him now about the opportunity he has to do stuff in the medical world because he's already out there calling on places to put in screens and some LED posters. And, so I think it's all kinds of places that maybe haven't even thought about incorporating digital signage into their end-user business, and these people are now educating why being able to tell a story through digital is so much better than a static sign.  So yeah, it's been enlightening to see all the different verticals you can all of a sudden make inroads that you never thought about. Yeah. So many companies are just going down the same familiar path of chasing QSRs, chasing retail, and I've always advised people to look at those other kinds of companies that already have established trust with your target vertical who supply other things to them and partner with them. Jacob Horwitz: Yeah, it's been interesting. When I was doing the installation side, we did a lot of QSR, McDonald's, Burger King, Sonic, Del Taco, that type of stuff, and a lot of them have seen a few of the first initial posts we've done and they're calling and asking more of what we can do and I'm excited just about window technology whether that be an LED, a double-sided LCD hanging in the window of a fast food restaurant is so much more effective than printing two breakfast sandwiches for $5 and shipping it out to the store, hoping the manager puts it in the window during the promotional time. Half the time, three weeks after the motions are over, they still have that digital thing in there saying breakfast sandwiches or the static poster thing, and then at 10:30 when breakfast is over, they're still talking about breakfast sandwiches instead of talking about Value meals or other desserts or other things they could be buying during dinner. So it makes nothing but sense to have those assets in there.  But the people who are buying their outdoor digital menu board don't even offer that product. So we feel that a supermarket with a full set of solutions, in a C-store to be able to do a stretch screen and a gondola and still do their monitors over their register and doing their digital menu board and having things that inspire people to walk in from the pump into the C-store, we have that full range of product where a lot of people just don't have a full range of offerings to that.  When you say a full range of products, is it purely display technology, or does your supermarket have other things?  Jacob Horwitz: We do light boxes, which are just an aluminum extruded frame that hangs on a wall with backlit LED, but it's a fabric, you see them in every airport. So we do a lot of light boxes, and that's a very affordable and very effective solution. It's a static display, but it pops.  We are doing music. We have partnered with CloudCover. CloudCover is owned by SiriusXM, I believe, and Pandora, because we think that it's part of the whole experience, it's touching all the senses of when you go into that business, we think music is a really important part of branding your business. So there are several out there that are there. We've hitched our ride there on the software side. Because we have to support the dealers, we have, we offer two software platforms, and it's because of relationship and stability and they're the best. There's a saying, if you're the smartest guy in the room, you're in the wrong room and so we've partnered with people that make me where I am not even close to the smartest guy in the room. We love working with Navori. We think Jeffrey Weitzman is amazing. So we offer to our partners and we've worked aggressively to have a good distribution model in Navori to our partners and potential end users. So if I'm sitting in a room with Jeff Hastings, I'm not the smartest guy in the room anymore. So we offer BrightSign, and BrightAuthor, and the players we go with are either the Navori or the BrightSign players, and we offer that CMS. They're not. The cheapest CMS, you had a great interview with Alistair and what they're doing and I listened to you last night. So there are a lot of options, but we have to support the dealer network. So to be able to have a dealer that wants to go off and do a different CMS, we support that. They can send us software and we'll test it to make sure, particularly if it's going to be SOC, that what they're using is going to run properly on that version of Android. So we'll support them that way or just before we order the product, we'll go into our lab and throw that on, but we can't support that dealer network on how to use the CMS. We have BrightAuthor and Novori, and we're good, and then we have two full-time people thatwho NOVA certified. So on the LED side, we're no, we have NOVA-certified experts, so we can help them with Novastar. So we can support that, but we can't support every CMS. So we encourage them, especially if they need a 4-a-month CMS, then I think that Alistair is a great solution, and there are a lot of those types of companies out there. But that won't be us. We'll have a couple of CMS, we'll have the music solution and we hope we can create a visual experience and a sensory experience that when they walk into an end user that's bought a product through one of our resellers, that product's inspiring consumers to spend more money. You and Stephen are hands-on with this, but how many other people do you have working with you?  Jacob Horwitz: Oh gosh, I've tapped into a lot of my old employees in a lot of years, so Stephen and I have known each other for 30 years. For us, it's more passionate at this age. It's certainly not about really the money. This is because your wife said you need to do something.  Jacob Horwitz: After years of being in the house and driving her crazy every 10 minutes, she made it clear I will either go find a job, or I'll have to support her next husband. So that had a little bit to do with it. But Stephen and I are wired the same way. It's about quality. It's about good solutions. It's never been about trying to make money on this. I think it's helping people. The people that I've brought in, I have a Project Manager who worked for me starting 15 years ago, and now she's ahead of our marketing, Becca, and she's been with me for a decade and a half. The girl in my accounting department has been with me for over 15 years. I have a fragment in the house Legal who is my full-time in my old business and they've all been around at least 10 or 15 years. My CIO has been with me since 1999. So he was in college when he started. So we've got a good, like Stephen and I, that these are not newbies to this industry. One of my Project Managers started with me when we first talked nine years ago when she was a Senior Project Manager for Burger King. So, everybody that I've surrounded myself with so far, there's been at least a decade of hitting the shows, doing the installs, and that school of hard knocks. So have you got 20 people, 40 people? Jacob Horwitz: Right now, we're a team of maybe ten or eleven people. I have three people coming in next week for interviews after the experience center is open that are all industry veteran types and we're just getting started. The idea started in September. I went to Infocomm and then maybe I saw you and just started feeling the waters. We were going to launch in early January or February. We're a month old. The container of our showroom sat in Long Beach for six weeks before it got. It took longer to get from Long Beach to our offices than it did from China to Long Beach. So we're just getting started. But we're going to stay in a boutique. We don't want to be all things to all people.  Right, and they can find you online at Illuminology.com?  Jacob Horwitz: Illuminology.com and there's an online brochure of the product and we thank you. And Dave, I said this to you the other day, but I want to say it again. I need to thank you because, for everybody I've ever hired for the last decade, the first thing we have them do is go through your podcast and your blogs and learn about the industry, and what you do for us is so valuable and I mean that with all sincerity.  Thank you.  Jacob Horwitz: We hired a new sales guy and he started a month ago. He called me yesterday and said, Do you know this Dave Haynes guy? He didn't know, he did not know I had a podcast today. He goes, I am learning so much from him. And, I go, yeah, I'm chatting with him tomorrow. So thank you for what you do as well.  Thank you. That's very kind.  Jacob Horwitz: Very well deserved. So thank you for the opportunity to share our story and we look forward to working with the people in the industry, to help and expand digital signage into places that can be more like your Europe where it's everywhere. All right. Thank you!

Dave Haynes is a founding partner at FOV Ventures, an investment firm backing the founders who are building the Metaverse. FOV Ventures is a new fund with a focus on European-based startups at the pre-seed and seed stage.Dave previously led HTC's $100 million Vive X fund in EMEA and was part of the investment team at Seedcamp (Fund III). Prior to investing, Dave founded two startups in the music industry and was part of the founding team of SoundCloud.In this conversation, Dave talks about his front-row seat to the evolution of the digital music industry and the parallels to the current AR/VR ecosystem. He describes his new fund, areas of investment focus, and how they think about current investment market conditions. He also talks about the risk of market timing as it relates to AR: [quote]Dave goes on to share some advice for pre-seed startups as well as his perspective on the evolution of the market and the risks ahead.You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com. Please consider contributing to my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/theARshow.

Dave Haynes and Terry West welcome artist and creator Scott James! He somehow found himself in Salida, so Dave shanghaied him for the podcast. Scott has done it all including working with Erik Larsen on "Savage Dragon" at Image Comics. We discuss everything from how he got started, working on gaming illustrations, and his new comic "Juiceman"! Scot is one helluva cool cat, talented writer and artist, and a really nice guy.  Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West welcome rockstar chainmail artist Metalyssa back to the show as they gear up for Salida Fantasy Con this Sunday, July 31st, 2022. Doors open at 10 am! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West are back with our 101st episode! Behold: There be a kickstarter here! We're joined by The Noah and Seth Braintrust describing the new Fantasy Games & Comics D&D Kickstarter that's coming very soon!  And mark your calendar for July 31st, 2022 for the next Salida Fantasy Con!  Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Welcome to the 100th episode Guest-a-palooza! Dave Haynes and Terry West welcome more guests than our equipment can handle! Joining us are: Comic Artist and creator Ozzie Longoria! (Check out the Sword and the Sorcerer Indiegogo campaign here) Chain Mail Artist and "Voice of God" Metalyssa! Artist Naters! Sanctum Drawing School's Ryan O'Brien! Artist Amy Elizabeth! and Matt Mr. Comics 89! This is the podcast you've been looking for! And mark your calendar for July 31st, 2022: The next Salida Fantasy Con!  Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West take a look behind the scenes on our 99th episode. How did this thing called "Fantastic Realms" get started? And the countdown to the 100th episode of Fantastic Realms is on! Join us June 29th, 2022, at 6 pm for a very special podcast. We'll have guest galore, surprises, and everyone gets a free puppy! Okay... no puppies... but surprises! And mark your calendar for July 31st, 2022 for the next Salida Fantasy Con!  Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West go full Trekkie on this week's episode as they talk "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", "Star Trek: Discovery", and "Star Trek: Picard"! And the countdown to the 100th episode of Fantastic Realms is on! Something big is coming...!  Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West talk the new "Black Adam" trailer starring The Rock and are getting ready for the 100th episode of Fantastic Realms! We have something big planned!  Check out Fantasy Games & Comics on the new collectable auction site WhatNot (just search for "FGandCS")! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Welcome to a special BONUSCAST! Dave Haynes and Terry West talk with Dr. Alison Brown who is running for Chaffee County Commissioner. In this episode we dig deep into Dr. Brown's history beginning in Scotland, becoming a United States Citizen, graduating from MIT, Fox Hunts, and what made her decide to run for Chaffee County Commissioner. Learn more at Alison4Chaffee.com and vote in the primary election on June 28th! And the countdown is on to the 100th episode of Fantastic Realms! Something big is coming...! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West talk "Top Gun: Maverick", Salida politics, Oculus gaming, and Darth Vader's arrival on "Obi-Wan Kenobi"! And the countdown is on to the 100th episode of Fantastic Realms! We have something big planned!  Check out Fantasy Games & Comics on the new collectable auction site WhatNot (just search for "FGandCS")! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West welcome back Salida's F Street Plaza! Plus, the gear up for "Top Gun: Maverick", and "Obi-Wan Kenobi"! Don't forget to check out Fantasy Games & Comics on the new collectable auction app WhatNot (just search for "FGandCS")! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West review "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness"! Was Marvel's latest Avengers-style crossover worth the wait? It's BONUS CON time! Salida Fantasy Con is this Sunday, May 15th, 2022, at the Salida Community Center on the corner of F and 3rd in Salida! Check it out from 10 am to 4 pm.  Don't forget to check out the new collectable auction app WhatNot (just search for "FG&CS"). Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. 

Happy Star Wars Day! On this episode, Dave Haynes and Terry West react to the new "Obi-Wan Kenobi" trailer, talk the season finale of "Moon Knight" on Disney+, and dig into the latest "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" rumors, news, and spoilers! Plus, Fantasy Games & Comics is on the new collectable auction app WhatNot (just search for "FG&CS"). Reminder: It's almost BONUS CON time! Salida Fantasy Con is coming up on May 15th, 2022, at the Salida Community Center on the corner of F and 3rd in Salida!  Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! Recorded live every Wednesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Salida's Dynamic Duo, Dave Haynes and Terry West, talk VR gaming at Fantasy Games & Comics and Terry discovers that he isn't strong with The Force.  There are so many new things coming to Fantasy Games & Comics: Virtual reality gaming via the Oculus Quest, Magic: The Gathering league play, and so much more!  Plus, we break down the latest "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" trailer--is that you Superior Iron Man? We reveal when "Spider-man: No Way Home" is coming home, and we discover the extraordinary runtime of DC's "The Batman"! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you. Recorded live every Wednesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us!  

It's February and everybody's broke... especially Salida's Dynamic Duo, Dave Haynes and Terry West.  There are so many changes coming to Fantasy Games & Comics! Virtual reality, Magic: The Gathering league play, and so much more!  Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you. Recorded live every Wednesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

It's evolution versus extinction! Dave Haynes and Terry West, Salida's Dynamic Duo, talk about the changes coming to Fantasy Games & Comics! This Friday, February 11th, be one of the first to experience "Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty", Magic: The Gathering's first sci-fi set! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Welcome to episode 80! Dave Haynes and Terry West, Salida's Dynamic Duo, wrap-up Chaffee County's first-ever comic con: Salida Fantasy & Sci-Fi Con! On this week's episode, we feature interviews conducted with local chain mail artist Metalyssa, Ryan O'Brien of Sanctum Drawing School, comic book artist and creator Ozzy Longoria, artist and cartoonist Naters, and YouTube host Mr_Comics89 during the Salida Fantasy & Sci-Fi Con! Find out more and check out photos at facebook.com/SalidaFantasyCon. Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes and Terry West, Salida's Dynamic Duo, are gearing up for Chaffee County's first-ever comic con: Salida Fantasy Con on Saturday, January 22nd! We're joined this week by Metalyssa, an incredibly talented local chain mail artist who will be appearing at the Con. The 1st annual Salida Fantasy Con is Saturday, Jan. 22nd, at the Salida Community Center on the corner of F and 3rd! The one and only comic artist and creator Ozzy Longoria will be signing comics, local artists, and many more. Find out more at facebook.com/SalidaFantasyCon. Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes and Terry West, Salida's Dynamic Duo, are gearing up for Chaffee County's first-ever comic con: Salida Fantasy Con! Mark your calendar for January 22nd! We're joined this week by Ryan O'Brien of Salida's Sanctum Drawing School who will be appearing at Fantasy Con. The one and only Ozzy Longoria will be signing comics, we have local artists, and a lady who makes chain-mail armor... and that's just to name a few! Learn more: facebook.com/SalidaFantasyCon. Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes and Terry West welcome you to Fantastic Realms season 3! Salida's Dynamic Duo are gearing up for Chaffee County's first-ever comic con: Salida Fantasy Con! Mark your calendar for January 22nd! The one and only Ozzy Longoria will be signing comics, we have local artists, and a lady who makes chain-mail armor... and that's just to name a few! Learn more: facebook.com/SalidaFantasyCon Plus, we talk about "The Book of Boba Fett" on Disney+, DC's "The Batman", and Marvel's "Morbius" has been delayed... again.  Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us!     

Dave Haynes and Terry West talk about the surprise cameo on "Hawkeye" episode 5 on Disney+. All we can says is that we totally called it, and no, it's not Mephisto. Plus, Dave is feeling a bit "roguish".  This is what happens when you schedule a podcast and then forget to do any research.  Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes and Terry West welcome Mr_Comics89 to the podcast, talk the latest "Spider-Man: No Way Home" rumors, and we review the first three episodes of "Hawkeye" on Disney+.  We have the results of "The Knockout Exhibition Match-up: Static Shock Vs Electro!" Mr_Comics89 is also hosting a subscriber contest! Get the details and enter here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHfWFAeqNbY&t=997s Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes and Terry West talk the latest "Spider-Man: No Way Home" rumors and Sony has officially announced that they are already planning a new trilogy of Spidey Marvel movies starring Tom Holland! Plus, Dave allegedly reveals the amount of screentime both Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have in "No Way Home".  Dave guest starred on the latest episode of "The Knockout Exhibition Match-up: Static Shock Vs Electro" hosted by Mr_Comics89! See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSgfgkpG3zo And Terry is utterly convinced that the Christmas Tree on Tenderfoot Mountain is crooked this year...!  Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

The new "Spider-Man: No Way Home" trailer has premiered! Dave Haynes and Terry West live-cast the new trailer and break it down. "Spider-Man: No Way Home" arrives in theaters on December 17th!  We also have another Paint Night on Saturday, November 20th. Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes is back from his Kiss Kruise! We get the full update on all the festivities. And Terry West talks COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots.  Plus we have an update on this week's 'Magic: The Gathering Innistrad Crimson Vow' tournament and so much more! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

For our 69th episode, Salida's Dynamic Duo, Terry West and Dave Haynes, interview the Monarch Madams (you can't write this stuff). The Madams are hosting a neo-burlesque show called "Salida Freakshow" on Devil's Night, October 30th, and we have a preview of what to expect from this adults only show. We welcome Bailey and Sophia to the podcast! Tickets for "Salida's Freakshow" are $25 and are available HERE. The show sounds amazing! Marvel's "Eternals" arrives November 5th. So far reviews have been divided with many reviewers calling the film "spectacular" but "boring". Are Dave and Terry excited about the new film? And hear it here first: There is a comic con coming to Salida! Details inside...  Plus Dave's final Kiss Kruise update! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Is Disney running a bit behind? Salida's Dynamic Duo, Terry West and Dave Haynes, run down Disney and Marvel's re-scheduled movie lineup.  "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" broke a lot of records when it premiered... but is it actually a good movie? Dave and Terry break down the gooey, alien-filled sequel and have two very different opinions on Venom's second adventure. Warning: There be many, many, many spoilers here! Plus Dave's weekly Kiss Kruise update! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Superman (Jon Kent) is coming out as bisexual. Salida's Dynamic Duo, Terry West and Dave Haynes, have two very different views on what that may mean for comics, readers, and the industry.  DC Comics announced on October 11th, on National Coming Out Day, that Jon Kent, son of the original Superman Clark Kent and reporter Lois Lane, will kiss a male journalist friend Jay Nakamura. The kiss takes place on issue five of the series, “Superman: Son of Kal-El,” which becomes available on November 9th. We also address the rumors that the Netflix versions of The Punisher, Daredevil, and Jessica Jones are officially joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, director James Gunn has announced who he cast as Adam Warlock in "Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3", and there is a "WandaVision" spinoff on the way starring Kathryn Hahn's Agatha Harkness! If they don't call the series "Agatha All Along" we're gonna lose our minds... Plus Dave's weekly Kiss Kruise update and Batman Legos have arrived at the shop! Check this out: Fantasy Games & Comics was reviewed by YouTuber Mr_Comics89! Check out his awesome video review on his YouTube Channel! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

It's the podcast about nothing... and yet it's 48 minutes long. We obviously found something to talk about. Salida's Dynamic Duo, Terry West and Dave Haynes, break down Ultron's attack in "Marvel's What If...?", Magic: The Gathering's Crimson Vow, Terry's upcoming oral surgery, "Amazing Spider-Man" #74, and sci-fi icon William Shatner is launching into space on Blue Origin's extremely phallic shaped rocket! Plus Dave's weekly Kiss Kruise update! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday evening (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Salida's Dynamic Duo, Terry West and Dave Haynes, break down another week of comics, collectables, Dungeons & Dragons, and Magic: The Gathering live from Fantasy Games & Comics in Salida! The Magic: The Gathering Innistrad Crimson Vow is coming very soon! Dave is already planning a new tournament and we find out about the "Crimson Vow"!   Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Sunday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Salida's Dynamic Duo, Terry West and Dave Haynes, break down another week of comics, collectables, Dungeons & Dragons, and Magic: The Gathering live from Fantasy Games & Comics in Salida! Is Spider-Man about to exit the Marvel Cinematic Universe... again? Sony been setting up the "Sony Spider-Man Universe" for quite some time. Does "No Way Home" mark Spidey's grand finale in the Marvel Cinematic Universe this December? We should know for certain on October 1st when "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" arrives in theaters! The Magic: The Gathering Innistrad Tournament was a huge success! So much so that Dave's ready to do it again. He still has Innistrad packs and is ready for another tourney if you are.  Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Sunday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Terry West reveals that Dave Haynes is positive for Cat Scratch Fever! Kidding aside, Dave is still on about his Halloween Kiss Kruise but we're gearing up for the Innistrad Tournament! Werewolves have arrived in Magic: The Gathering! You still have time to get in on the tournament this Friday, September 17th! Is Sony revoking their Spider-Man rights from Disney... again? They've been setting up the "Sony Spider-Man Universe" for quite some time. Does "No Way Home" mark Spidey's grand finale in the Marvel Cinematic Universe this December? Plus we chew through the latest "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" rumors including the already infamous mid-credit scene. We also breakdown the new "Hawkeye" Disney+ trailer, and we take a deep dive into The Matrix in honor of the new "Matrix: Resurrection" trailer! Is Neo John Wick? Or is John Wick Neo? Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Sunday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes and Terry West announce an upcoming Magic: The Gathering event featuring werewolves! Plus we chat about Marvel's What If...?, the ongoing lawsuit between Scarlett Johansson and Disney, Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins calls streaming the death of good movies, and we have early reviews of Matt Reeves' The Batman from CinemaCon! It sounds like Robert Pattinson's Batman is going to be a very dark Dark Knight. Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Sunday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes and Terry West are back!   An Avenger just brought a lawsuit against Disney. Scarlett Johansson has sued the House of Mouse over lost wages on Marvel's Black Widow while Disney rebukes her claims characterizing her as greedy and insensitive during a global pandemic. She claims they ignored her contract and now she stands to lose nearly $50 million due to their simultaneous release in theaters and on their streaming service. Who's right? Does Disney have to pay her for streaming? Dave and Terry talk about the impact of the F Street Pedestrian Walking Mall on Salida's downtown businesses, how the Marvel/Disney+ series Loki broke the Marvel Cinematic Universe in wonderful ways, and the multiple Batman... um, Batmen... in the new Flash movie. Plus we preview James Gunn's reboot/sequel The Suicide Squad.  It's a rich, full podcast! Let's get to it! Shop Fantasy Games & Comics online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Tuesday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West celebrate the nation's oldest whitewater festival - FIBArk (First In Boating on the Arkansas). Every June, since 1949, except during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the festival consumes Salida, Colorado with whitewater boat races, events, music, and people from around the world.   Dave and Terry talk about the impact of the festival on Salida's downtown businesses, and the return of the F Street Pedestrian Mall.   We also discuss the potential return of DC's Snyder-verse, early reviews of Marvel's Black Widow, and break down the first two episodes of the new Marvel/Disney+ series Loki.  We're hosting a premier party for Marvel's Black Widow! The movie premiers in theaters and on Disney+ on July 9th. We'll host a viewing party Sunday, July 11th at 6 pm. Everyone's invited! Free, but please support the shop. Shop Fantasy Games & Comics online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Sunday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes and Terry West break down the new Modern Horizons II expansion arriving June 11th! Get in on what's shaping up to be the Shop's biggest Magic: The Gathering event ever! Plus our Junior Podcast Hosts, Jack and Fish, talk us through a recent Dungeons & Dragons one-shot campaign, we examine DC versus Marvel movie physics (or lack thereof), and Terry's son Jack tries to explain his dragon collection (WARNING: Jack and Fish are 12 and 14 respectively).  We're hosting a premier party for Marvel's Black Widow! The movie premiers in theaters and on Disney+ on July 9th. We'll host a viewing party Sunday, July 11th at 6 pm. It's the first new Marvel movie since Spider-man: Far From Home back in 2019! Everyone's invited! Free, but please support the shop. Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! Recorded live every Sunday (usually) at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

In this special two part episode, Dave Haynes and Terry West are live at the 1st annual Salida Social Gaming Event, we chat with the Executive Director of the Pregnancy Resource Center, and wrap up the event.  And we update the face mask policy. Again.  We're hosting a premier party for Marvel's "Black Widow"! The movie premiers in theaters and on Disney+ on July 9th. We'll host a viewing party on Sunday, July 11th at 6 pm. Everyone's invited! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you!

Dave Haynes and Terry West breakdown the current status of the mask mandate in Salida and the state of Colorado, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, and free Social Gaming. Salida Social Gaming Day: We're hosting a FREE community gaming day on May 22nd from 11 am to 5 pm. Join us at the Salida Community Center! All are welcome! We want to have a premier party for Marvel's "Black Widow"! The movie premiers in theaters and on Disney+ on July 9th. We'll host a viewing party on Sunday, July 11th at 6 pm. Everyone's invited! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you!  

Dave Haynes and Terry West discover that Dave has secretly been microchipped against his will! No... Not really. That's conspiracy theory mumbo-jumbo. But they do discuss the end of the pandemic, vaccinations, and how your vaccination card will be your ticket to most events this summer! Starting in June, vaccination proof is required to participate in gaming.  Was Dr. Strange supposed to appear in Marvel's "WandaVision"? We discuss how the Disney+ show could have been very different! We're hosting a premier party for Marvel's "Black Widow"! The movie premiers in theaters and on Disney+ on July 9th. We'll host a viewing party on Sunday, July 11th at 6 pm. Everyone's invited! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! New Paint Class! The next paint class is Saturday, May 15th!  Community Gaming Day: We're hosting a free community gaming day on May 22nd from 11 am to 5 pm. Join us at the Salida Community Center! All are welcome!  

Dave Haynes and Terry West talk about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the vaccines, the switch to Penguin Publishing, and 3D printers. We missed two weeks... but we're back in the saddle!  It's been over a year since COVID-19 ground the world to a stop, but the issues facing local business owners continue. Dave and Terry recount their experiences with the Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Vaccines, discuss Marvel and DC's switch to Penguin Publishing, and Fantasy Games & Comics new 3D Printing service.  The Club House has a brand new look! Dave has completed remodeling to add new areas for gaming, comics, and more, and the shop looks incredible! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! INCOMING New Paint Class! Sign up now for the next paint class on April 25th!  Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers.  Friday Night Magic: Every Friday night assemble your best Magic: The Gathering deck and come play! Weekend D&D: Every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm, and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm! Everyone is welcome! Saturday night Dave is hosting his classic Universal Movie Monsters game, and Sunday's game is geared toward younger players. Sunday Paint: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint or customize with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all!  Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes and Terry West discuss Marvel Comics' move away from Diamond Distributing! In a move very much like DC, Marvel has completely abandoned Diamond Distributing in favor of Penguin Publishing. What does this move mean for Marvel, and for the comics industry as a whole? Plus we spotlight Marvel's new 'Alien' comic, and review the best Alien and Predator comics of all time.  The Club House has a brand new look! Dave has completed remodeling to add new areas for gaming, comics, and more, and the shop looks incredible! Find out what's new for the shop and what's coming very soon! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! INCOMING Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers.  Friday Night Magic: Every Friday night assemble your best Magic: The Gathering deck and come play! Weekend D&D: Every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm, and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm! We have two new DMs and everyone is welcome! Saturday night Dave is hosting his classic Universal Movie Monsters game, and Sunday's game is geared toward younger players. Sunday Paint: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint or customize with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all!  Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes and Terry West take a look at "Zack Snyder's Justice League"! "Zack Snyder's Justice League" was released on HBO Max on March 18th, and "Falcon & The Winter Soldier" dropped on Disney+ today (March 19th)! Dave drops his complete and unfiltered review of the "Justice League." The Club House has a brand new look! Dave has completed remodeling to add new areas for gaming, comics, and more, and the shop looks incredible! Find out what's new for the shop and what's coming very soon! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! INCOMING Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers.  Friday Night Magic: Every Friday night assemble your best Magic: The Gathering deck and come play! Weekend D&D: Every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm, and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm! We have two new DMs and everyone is welcome! Saturday night Dave is hosting his classic Universal Movie Monsters game, and Sunday's game is geared toward younger players. Sunday Paint: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint or customize with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all!  Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes and Terry West throw down a good, old fashioned Friday Free-For-All! We are in-between releases, so it's a Friday Free-For-All where we discuss everything from classic movie monsters, the upcoming release of "Zach Snyder's Justice League" on March 18th, and "Falcon & The Winter Soldier" on March 19th!  Changes are happening at the Club House! Dave is in the process of remodeling to add more areas for gaming, comics, and more! Find out what's new for the shop and what's coming very soon! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! INCOMING Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers.  Friday Night Magic: Every Friday night assemble your best Magic: The Gathering deck and come play! Weekend D&D: Every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm, and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm! We have two new DMs and everyone is welcome! Saturday night Dave is hosting his classic Universal Movie Monsters game, and Sunday's game is geared toward younger players. Sunday Paint: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint or customize with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all!  Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado. Come join us! 

Dave Haynes and Terry West talk the final episode of 'WandaVision'! Dave and Terry break down the ninth and final episode, "The Series Finale!" The big reveals! The battles! Did it live up to the hype? And what the heck was really up with "Pietro?" Find out what's new for the shop and what's coming very soon! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! INCOMING Weekend D&D: Every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm, and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm! We have two new DMs and everyone is welcome! Sunday's game is geared toward a younger group Weekend Gaming Spotlight! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol' and more! Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers on its new night, Thursday at 6 pm.  Sunday Paint: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all!  Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West talk the penultimate episode of 'WandaVision'! The second-to-last episode of 'WandaVision' from Disney+ is upon us! Dave and Terry break down the eighth episode, "Previously On", the big reveals, and the introduction of a brand new character! It was a big, glorious episode and we talk about every detail.   Find out what's new for the shop and what's coming very soon! Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you! INCOMING Weekend D&D: Every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm, and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm! We have two new DMs and everyone is welcome! Sunday's game is geared toward a younger group Weekend Gaming Spotlight! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol' and more! Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers on its new night, Thursday at 6 pm.  Sunday Paint: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all!  Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West welcome two special guests: Jenny & Megan from Denver! Who are they? We don't know either!Jenny & Megan stopped in to the shop while on vacation in Salida, so they chatted with us about horror comics and the latest episode of 'WandaVision' from Disney+. Dave is still pushing the Memphisto angle... but was the big bad just revealed to be the Salem Witch Agatha Harkness? Find out what's new for the shop and what's coming very soon!Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you!INCOMINGWeekend D&D: Every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm, and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm! We have two new DMs and everyone is welcome! Sunday's game is geared toward a younger groupWeekend Gaming Spotlight! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol' and more!Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers on its new night, Thursday at 6 pm. Sunday Paint: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all! Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West reveal a secret society within Fantasy Games & Comics: The Illuminati!Find out what's new for the shop and what's coming very soon!Plus we chat about the latest episode of 'WandaVision,' and how Dave walked to school in 23 feet of snow, uphill... both ways (or something like that). We also cover the firing of 'The Mandalorian' star Gina Carano (Cara Dune), and the continuing trials and tribulations of Joss Whedon. Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Shop the store online at FGandCS.com! You can pick up in-store or have your items shipped to you!INCOMINGWeekend D&D: Every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm, and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm! We have two new DMs and everyone is welcome! Sunday's game is geared toward a younger groupWeekend Gaming Spotlight! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol' and more!Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers on its new night, Thursday at 6 pm. Sunday Paint: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all! Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West take a deep dive into the fifth episode of 'WandaVision' on Disney+While the fifth episode, 'On A Very Special Episode', does return to see Wanda and Viz in an 80s sitcom, there are still many moments with the agents of SWORD trying to discover a way to storm the 'Hex Field'. The episode does answer a lot of lingering questions, including the true status of Vision, but poses many more.And of course we talk about the special guest star who appears at the end of the episode! Did we just witness the debut of mutants in the MCU?Taking cues from the Marvel series 'House of M', and 'Avengers Disassembled', the Scarlett Witch has become the next major villain of the MCU.And we have two very special guests on this week's episode as well! We say hello to a young lady named Domino, and the action-packed return of Fisher!Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Bookmark FGandCS.com! INCOMINGWeekend D&D Is back! Every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm, and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm! We have two new DMs and everyone is welcome! Sunday's game is geared toward a younger groupWeekend Gaming Spotlight! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol' and more!Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers on its new night, Thursday at 6 pm. Sunday Paint & Football: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint and watch football with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all! Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West take a deep dive into the new 'WandaVision' series on Disney+.With the release of the fourth episode of "WandaVision', we are introduced to several returning MCU characters, and we discover what happens to Monica after she's forcefully ejected by Wanda. The fourth episode is a major detour from the first three sitcom-inspired episodes, and we discover how the rest of the world is dealing with the events of the series. Taking cues from the Marvel series 'House of M', and 'Avengers Disassembled', has the Scarlett Witch become the next major villain of the MCU?Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Bookmark FGandCS.com! INCOMINGWeekend D&D Is back! Every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm, and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm! We have two new DMs and everyone is welcome! Sunday's game is geared toward a younger groupWeekend Gaming Spotlight! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol' and more!Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers on its new night, Thursday at 6 pm. Sunday Paint & Football: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint and watch football with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all! Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes opens his case files from the 1980s and delves into the 'Mystery of the Flaming Floridian Bar.' Plus co-host Terry West confirms that reports of his demise have been greatly exaggerated.On this episode, Dave takes us back to his days in Florida in the 1980s, we continue to dissect 'Wonder Woman 1984,' and break down Marvel's first Disney+ series 'WandaVision.'Fantasy Games & Comics is online! Bookmark FGandCS.com! INCOMINGWeekend D&D Is back! Every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm, and Sundays from 1 to 3 pm! We have two new DMs and everyone is welcome! Sunday's game is geared toward a younger groupWeekend Gaming Spotlight! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol' and more!Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers on its new night, Thursday at 6 pm. Sunday Paint & Football: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint and watch football with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all! Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

The famed Sixteen:Nine Happy Hour is coming back — at the AVIXA and DSF D=SIGN Digital Signage Conference! In the meantime, check out this videocast with rAVe’s Gary Kayye and Sixteen:Nine’s own Dave Haynes, chatting about the state of the digital signage market, too! It’s worth the watch! Space for the happy hour is limited to 300. Don’t miss it — register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dsign-happy-hour-hosted-by-avixa-and-sixteennine-registration-128767987517 

Dave Haynes, Terry West and Ozzy Longoria present: The Weirdest. Episode. EVER.We chat about episode 10 of 'The Mandolorian' and the egg stealing cuteness of Baby Yoda, the result of the presidential election, Johnny Depp leaving ' Fantastic Beasts 3,' numerous disappearing DC titles, and the possibility of an Adam "SandlerVerse."You still have time to stop into the shop and enter to win "The Mandalorian" giant chrome Funko Pop with Baby Yoda! Raffle tickets are only $1 and we'll draw a winner November 10th. INCOMINGWeekend Gaming Spotlight! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol' and more!Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers on its new night, Thursday at 6 pm. Sunday Paint & Football: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint and watch football with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all! Weekend D&D: Fantasy Games & Comics is on the hunt for new DMs to run the games. Interested? Apply at the comic shop.Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes, Terry West and Ozzy Longoria welcome a very special guest for their 30th episode, The Child, aka Baby Yoda!'The Mandolorian' returns to Disney+ today with the first episode of season 2. Baby Yoda discusses the new season, Pedro Pascal's on-set behavior, and we even get his take on the comic industry--all before nap time.We also spotlight the new comic, 'TMNT: The Last Ronin', an "elseworlds" style story set in an apocalyptic future where only one turtle remains, the possibility of Oscar Isaac joining the MCU as Moon Knight, and is Ben Affleck in negotiations to play Batman on a new  HBO Max series?Don't forget to stop into the shop and enter to win "The Mandalorian" giant chrome Funko Pop with Baby Yoda! Raffle tickets are only $1 and we'll draw a winner in November. INCOMINGWeekend Gaming Spotlight! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol' and more!Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers on its new night, Thursday at 6 pm. Sunday Paint & Football: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint and watch football with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all! Weekend D&D: Fantasy Games & Comics is on the hunt for new DMs to run the games. Interested? Apply at the comic shop.Recorded live every Friday (usually) at noon at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes, Terry West and Ozzy Longoria gear up for the new season of 'The Mandalorian' with more new Baby Yoda merchandise!Mandolorian Monopoly? You bet! Baby Yoda that talks when you squeeze its tummy? So cute! And, Mandolorian Operation...? Oh yeah! It's a real thing now. We've got more Baby Yoda/Mandolorian Merchandise than you can shake a lightsaber at.  Plus we gear up for Halloween 2020, discuss the demise of the Wizards Comic Book Price Guide in the 90s, and discover if there will there be a live action Miles Morales in 'Spider-Man 3'? INCOMINGWeekend Gaming Spotlight! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol' and more!Thursday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers on its new night, Thursday at 6 pm. The Next Paint Class is coming up on October 24th! We're painting an Ogre Zombie for Halloween! The figures are in!Sunday Paint & Football: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint and watch football with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all! Weekend D&D: Fantasy Games & Comics is on the hunt for new DMs to run the games. Interested? Apply at the comic shop.Recorded live every Friday (usually) at 11 am at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes, and Terry West enjoy a beautiful fall morning and discuss the possible arrival of the Sinister Six to the Marvel Cinematic Universe!  According to recent reports, three different actors will be filling Spidey's webs, Dr. Strange is coming along, and we'll meet the MCU Sinister Six: The Vulture, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Shocker, Mysterio, and Scorpion. Welcome to the live-action Spider-verse! And, of course, we discuss the passing of a rock n' roll icon: Eddie Van Halen.CONTEST TIME! We're giving away a brand new Mandolorian Funko Pop figure! Get your raffle tickets at Fantasy Games & Comics for $1 each. We'll draw a winner in November. INCOMINGWeekend Gaming Spotlight! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol,' 'Frost Grave,' and more!Weekend D&D: Fantasy Games & Comics is on the hunt for new DMs to run the games. Interested? Apply at the comic shop.Monday D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers every Monday night at 6 pm. The Next Paint Class is coming up on October 24th! We're painting an Ogre Zombie for Halloween!Sunday Paint & Football: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint and watch football with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes, Terry West and Ozzy Longoria talk about 'The Mandalorian' on-set issues, and Marvel and DC movies enter the multiverse! According to recent reports, we will have FOUR different actors wearing Batman's cape and cowl, THREE different Spider-Man actors, multiple Iron Men, Captain Americas, and Black Widows in the new 'Flash' and 'Dr. Strange' films. You're gonna need a scorecard to keep it all straight. We geek out about the new Star Trek series 'Strange New Worlds' featuring Captain Pike and the crew of the Enterprise, and announce the casting of 'Ms. Marvel' and 'She Hulk' at Disney+.And we give away two life-size Baby Yoda figures! Oh yeah, this is happening.INCOMINGWeekend Gaming Spotlight! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol,' 'Frost Grave,' and more!Weekend D&D: Fantasy Games & Comics is on the hunt for new DMs to run the games. Interested? Apply at the comic shop.Monday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers every Monday night at 6 pm. The Next Paint Class is coming up on October 24th! We're painting an Ogre Zombie for Halloween!Sunday Paint & Football: Every Sunday bring your characters in to paint and watch football with Dave. This is a paint free-for-all! Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Welcome to the Fantastic Realms' 25th Episode Extravaganza with Dave Haynes and Terry West and Ozzy Longoria!To all those who said we would never make it past our second episode... we're as surprised as you are!On our 25th episode we discuss the fate of 'Supergirl,' 'Black Panther 2,' 'Black Widow,' 'Eternals,' 'WandaVision,' and 'The Mandalorian.' PLUS: Is Marvel planning to recast Captain America and Iron Man in the MCU? What happened to DC's 'Batman Day?' Did Grant Morrison leave DC... again? Are comic shops going to stop carrying DC comics?Find out in this podcast True Believers!INCOMINGNEW Weekend Gaming! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol,' 'Frost Grave,' and more!Weekend D&D is on hold for awhile. Fantasy Games & Comics is on the hunt for new DMs to run the games. Interested? Apply at the comic shop. (Monday night D&D continues as usual.) Monday Mature D&D is going strong! Join up with an experienced group of adventurers every Monday night at 6 pm. The Next Paint Class is coming up on October 24th! We're painting an Ogre Zombie for Halloween!Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

This week, Dave Haynes and Terry West and Ozzy Longoria take on the Great Pandemic Movie Shuffle.Marvel's "Black Widow" is on the way November 6th (hopefully) but DC's "Wonder Woman 1984" has been postponed until Christmas. They examine all the delayed and updated comic book movie releases through 2022. Plus we talk about the return of "The Baby Yoda Show"... um, we mean "The Mandolorian," on Disney+ October 30th. And we discover a terrible truth about Jason Momoa from Dave and Ozzy. INCOMING: NEW Weekend Gaming! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Marvel Crisis Protocol.'Weekend D&D is on hold for awhile. Fantasy Games & Comics is on the hunt for new DMs to run the games. Interested? Apply at the comic shop. (Monday night D&D continues as usual.) The Next Paint Class is coming up on October 24th! We're painting an Ogre Zombie for Halloween!Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Salida’s Dynamic Duo discuss the loss of Black Panther actor, Chadwick Boseman.Dave Haynes and Terry West are joined by artist and author Ozzy Longoria to talk about the heartbreaking loss of King T'Challa / Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman on August 28th, 2020.We also chat about new comics including 'Wolverine' #4, 'DCeased Dead Planet' #3, and the new Black Label 'Hell Blazer' with John Constantine.INCOMING: NEW Weekend Gaming! Every Saturday at 10 am Fantasy Games & Comics are starting a new in-store gaming featuring 'Gaslands,' and 'Marvel Crisis Protocol.'Weekend D&D is on hold for awhile. Fantasy Games & Comics is on the hunt for new DMs to run the games. Interested? Apply at the comic shop. (Monday night D&D continues as usual.) The Next Paint Class is coming up on October 24th! We're painting an Ogre Zombie for Halloween!Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Salida’s Dynamic Duo take a look at all the DC News released during their virtual FanDOME event.Dave Haynes and Terry West are joined by Naters to break down the first "The Batman" trailer, James Gunn's "Suicide Squad," and address the rumors of multiple Batmen in the upcoming Flash movie, "Flashpoint"--including Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck.INCOMING: The Next Paint Class is coming up on October 24th! We're painting an Ogre Zombie for Halloween!Marvel Crisis Protocol is now available at Fantasy Games & Comics. Win a Baby Yoda! In celebration of their grand opening at their new location, they're giving you a chance to win a "life sized" Baby Yoda POP Figure! Stop into the store, buy a raffle ticket for $1. We'll pick a winner this September. Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Salida’s Dynamic Duo gear up for the Magic: The Gathering Double Masters Launch!Dave Haynes and Terry West talk new comics from Marvel and DC including "Joker War," "Dark Knight Death Metal #3," and Marvel's "Empyre" and "Maestro!" INCOMING: The Double Masters Launch Party is set for Dave's birthday, Friday, August 7th. He's doubled everything for Double Masters: Double the rare slots, double the box toppers, double the promos, and double the first picks during the launch party! Players get two promos either from playing at the event or buying a box of Double Masters. Fantasy Games & Comics Paint Class is August 15th. Tips and tricks to paint the Manticore and your minifigs. Entry fee is $25 (figure and paints included). Magic: The Gathering Mystery Booster Tournament is set for August 22nd. Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Salida’s Dynamic Duo celebrate "Something Fest 2020!" Or maybe not. It's hard to say. Details--much like Dave and Terry--are sketchy.Dave Haynes and Terry West talk new comics from Marvel and DC including "Joker War," "Dark Knight Death Metal," and Marvel's "Empyre." INCOMING: The Double Masters Launch Party is set for Dave's birthday, August 7th. He's doubled everything for Double Masters: Double the rare slots, double the box toppers, double the promos, and double the first picks during the launch party! Players get two promos either from playing at the event or buying a box of Double Masters. Fantasy Games & Comics Paint Class is August 15th. Tips and tricks to paint the Manticore and your minifigs. Magic: The Gathering Mystery Booster Tournament is set for August 22nd. Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Salida’s Dynamic Duo drop a special Friday episode and ask a very important question: "How much is that doggy in the window?"Dave Haynes and Terry West talk new comics from Marvel and DC including "Joker War," "The Three Jokers," and Marvel's "Empyre." And we're joined by Steve Chapman of SalidaWalkingTours.com!INCOMING: A Magic: The Gathering tournament looms on the horizon.  Recorded live every Wednesday (usually) at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Salida’s Dynamic Duo discuss an unsettling recent event involving a two pound box that had Dave asking, "what's in the box? What's in the f*****g box?"Dave Haynes and Terry West give an update on Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons gaming at Fantasy Games & Comics! Adventurers: gear up for the 2nd level of "The Mad Mage" starting Monday, July 20th!Fantasy Games & Comics is in its new location on the corner of 1st and F Street in Salida!Recorded live every Wednesday at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on the corner of F and 1st Streets in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes and Terry West are back! Having survived the quarantine, Salida's Dynamic Duo are ready to talk comics, graphic novels, the return of comic distribution, and go in-depth with award-winning author and historian Steve Chapman about his new book "Dead Bodies & Brothels." Learn more about Steve Chapman and his books (and order a book). Recorded live every Wednesday at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

This week Dave Haynes and Terry West talk about how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting comic book shops, distributors, and publishers. And since we're self-quarantined, Dave has come up with new ways to play Magic and Dungeons & Dragons together! Plus, we celebrate the 1st anniversary of Fantasy Games & Comics, and debut the new Mystery Boxes!Join Fantasy Games & Comics on Discord! https://discord.gg/uJCNTVRecorded live every Wednesday at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

This week Dave Haynes and Terry West chat about movies and shows you may not have known were based on comics, new comics, DCeased Unkillables, and a COVID-19 update. Our guest this week is Nerdling Naters! Check out Naters Art!Recorded live every Wednesday at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

This week Dave Haynes and Terry West talk about the art of Dungeons & Dragons model building with guest Ryan O'Brien, new comics this week, and how COVID-19 is affecting the industry.Recorded live every Wednesday at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Welcome back to Fantastic Realms! This week Dave Haynes and Terry West talk about a one-off Dungeons & Dragons adventure called "The Quest For Cheese," "Locke & Key" on Netflix, new comics this week, and movies you didn't know were based on comics.Recorded live every Wednesday at 5 pm at Fantasy Games & Comics on 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Welcome back to Fantastic Realms! This week Dave Haynes and Terry West talk about the return of the brooding Batman, Marvel's "Wolverine" #1, Lucasfilm's new "Star Wars: High Republic" multimedia event, upcoming movies, and the Magic: The Gathering Unsanctioned tournament happening on Friday, February 28th.Recorded live at Fantasy Games & Comics on 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Dave Haynes appears on the Bob Sirott Show on WGN to talk about the best donuts in Chicago, and Fat Tuesday.

Welcome to Fantastic Realms! On our inaugural podcast, meet your hosts, Dave Haynes and Terry West, talk this week's new comics, and the upcoming Magic: The Gathering Unsanctioned tournament.Recorded live at Fantasy Games & Comics on 1st Street in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

Nir’s Note: This guest post is written by Max Ogles. Max is an editor for NirAndFar.com and heads marketing for CoachAlba.com, a mobile health startup. Follow him on Twitter and read his blog at MaxOgles.com. Weight gain happens pound by pound, over many years, and that’s how Dave Haynes found himself sixty pounds away from a healthy BMI. In his career, Dave was immersed in the startup world; he helped start Soundcloud, which allows anyone to share and produce music and has over 10 million users. So when he ultimately resolved to reverse this disturbing weight trend, he naturally looked to technology for the solution; he downloaded the popular fitness apps and bought an Internet-connected Withings scale. But could these online apps help him achieve real-life behavior change? You can read the Nir and Far blog post on: Can Online Apps Change Real-Life Behavior? https://www.nirandfar.com/2014/05/can-online-apps-change-real-life-behavior.html Nir & Far, a podcast about business, behaviour and the brain by Nir Eyal. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe on iTunes and leave an iTunes review. It will greatly help new listeners discover the show. Please visit my website Nir and Far for other info about my writing, books and teaching: http://www.nirandfar.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nirandfar/support

More than 1 million reports of drug side effects were filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2015, a fivefold increase since 2004, according to an analysis by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today. Reporter John Fauber has been working on that story with MedPage Today. He joins Behind the Headlines to discuss the findings and what they mean for consumers. Also in today’s show, opinion editor Dave Haynes addresses some of the changes to his section and why those changes were made.

Two winners of the prestigious Mary L. Nohl Fellowship are using their award to create art exploring their transracial adoptions. Arts reporter Sarah Hauer joins our show with more on that story. We'll also hear from business reporter Tom Daykin with the latest on an eastside development offering affordable housing. And political reporter Patrick Marley talks with opinion editor Dave Haynes about the incoming Republican legislature.

Ben Drury, Founder of 7Digital, joined Seedcamp’s Dave Haynes for this interview talking through his journey as an entrepreneur. From starting in the first dot-com boom within early online music tech to building 7Digital during the dot-com crash, Ben discusses everything from building new services for a new era of technology, acquiring and selling other companies, to 7Digital’s own IPO.

Rob Moffat, Principal at Balderton, recently hosted an Academy session at Seedcamp. Following his presentation to our Founders, Rob joined our own Dave Haynes for this podcast to give his investor view on understanding customer acquisition costs. Rob talks through different marketing channels and how more startups are using mobile, TV and even direct mail, as search engine marketing becomes more expensive. Pulling on his experiences working with Balderton investments such as Wooga, Qubit and HouseTrip, Rob provides an overview of cost per acquisition (CPA) and lifetime value (LTV) and the risks of blending the two. Giving a summary of what VC’s look at when analysing your marketing data. The full presentation Rob gave our teams is available here: http://www.slideshare.net/robmoff/understanding-customer-acquisition-costs-a-vcs-view

In this episode of the Seedcamp Podcast, Dave Haynes is joined by Fred Destin, Partner at Accel to talk through the career path that led to him working at one of the world’s leading VC funds. Fred talks about the key differences he sees between the US and European venture ecosystems and his five years spent serving on the board of Seedcamp. Fred Destin joined Accel in 2014 and focuses on consumer and software investments. He is the lead investor and board member at Deliveroo, Pillpack and KNC. Prior to Accel, he was a partner at Atlas Ventures where he worked with with companies like Zoopla (public), Secret Escapes, Dailymotion (acquired by Orange), PriceMinister (acquired by Rakuten) and others. Fred grew up in Belgium and graduated from the Solvay Business School (University of Brussels).

Debmaster - "Clap Your Head" - Grossmutter [Free Music Archive] Music behind DJ: YACHT - "I'm In Love With a Ripper (instr)" - See Mystery Lights (Instrumentals) [Free Music Archive // CC BY-NC-SA] Set: Dave Haynes interview Dave Haynes - "interview with Jason" - at Idle Hands Bar NYC, Nov 9th 2010 [Dave Haynes is VP Business Development for SoundCloud and was recently listed by the British Council as one of the UK's Young Music Entrepreneurs. He is also the founder of Music Hack Day and OpenMusicMedia, which hit NYC this week for a free discussion on "Music Discovery: Humans vs Hackers". The OMM event took place at the Lower East Side bar formerly known as Robots, where -- after a few whiskeys -- Jason caught up with Dave to chat about open source, freemium, Justin Bieber, and the music industry's slow embrace of technological innovation.] End of set Spinnaface - "Dansu ga Suki" - Music For The People [ Free Music Archive // CC BY-NC-SA] Stealing Orchestra - "Uma Pândega de Paranóias, Fobias e Mania da Perseguição" - Bu! [ You Are Not Stealing Records @ Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND] Kraus - "Beloved Girlfriend" - Faster than the Speed of Time [Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-SA] File Under Toner - This Is The End, Beautiful Friend [ Are the hiss, crackles, and pops on records protected by copyrights? This controversial project by File Under Toner (Anki Toner, founder of Hazard Records, the free public domain label) posed the question and got into some trouble. [via Oddio Overplay]] Dan Melchior und Das Menace - "Summer in Siberia" - Catbirds & Cardinals [ Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND] Montañas - "Andrín" - 7'' [ Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND] Sibirskaya Vechora - "Muzyky Vyryazukhi Moi (My Musical Instruments Carved Out of Wood)" - Muziki, Viryazukhi Moi [ Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND] Jay Tholen - "Hashivenu" - Control Me [ Free Music Archive feature by True Chip Til Death // Creative Commons BY-NC-SA] Boodle Boy - "Entitled" - Boodle Boy [ Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND] 8Bitch - "In the Moog for Love" - Jus Like Music and Apple Juice Break present: Oscillations Part 2 [ Free Music Archive // CC BY-NC-ND] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38070

Debmaster - "Clap Your Head" - Grossmutter [Free Music Archive] Music behind DJ: YACHT - "I'm In Love With a Ripper (instr)" - See Mystery Lights (Instrumentals) [Free Music Archive // CC BY-NC-SA] Set: Dave Haynes interview Dave Haynes - "interview with Jason" - at Idle Hands Bar NYC, Nov 9th 2010 [Dave Haynes is VP Business Development for SoundCloud and was recently listed by the British Council as one of the UK's Young Music Entrepreneurs. He is also the founder of Music Hack Day and OpenMusicMedia, which hit NYC this week for a free discussion on "Music Discovery: Humans vs Hackers". The OMM event took place at the Lower East Side bar formerly known as Robots, where -- after a few whiskeys -- Jason caught up with Dave to chat about open source, freemium, Justin Bieber, and the music industry's slow embrace of technological innovation.] End of set Spinnaface - "Dansu ga Suki" - Music For The People [ Free Music Archive // CC BY-NC-SA] Stealing Orchestra - "Uma Pândega de Paranóias, Fobias e Mania da Perseguição" - Bu! [ You Are Not Stealing Records @ Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND] Kraus - "Beloved Girlfriend" - Faster than the Speed of Time [Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-SA] File Under Toner - This Is The End, Beautiful Friend [ Are the hiss, crackles, and pops on records protected by copyrights? This controversial project by File Under Toner (Anki Toner, founder of Hazard Records, the free public domain label) posed the question and got into some trouble. [via Oddio Overplay]] Dan Melchior und Das Menace - "Summer in Siberia" - Catbirds & Cardinals [ Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND] Montañas - "Andrín" - 7'' [ Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND] Sibirskaya Vechora - "Muzyky Vyryazukhi Moi (My Musical Instruments Carved Out of Wood)" - Muziki, Viryazukhi Moi [ Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND] Jay Tholen - "Hashivenu" - Control Me [ Free Music Archive feature by True Chip Til Death // Creative Commons BY-NC-SA] Boodle Boy - "Entitled" - Boodle Boy [ Free Music Archive // Creative Commons BY-NC-ND] 8Bitch - "In the Moog for Love" - Jus Like Music and Apple Juice Break present: Oscillations Part 2 [ Free Music Archive // CC BY-NC-ND] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38070