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Casey and Danielle are back from their holiday to bring you their 5th annual Gift (to yourself) Guide and it's chock full of psychics and things you don't need but must have, goddammit! Then they get into the nitty and the gritty that is Potomac and SLC, with drink throws a'plenty. Plus, our love of sleepy Robin is fading and just how many Angie's are we dealing with in Salt Lake? Too many for our taste. Happy Gift Guide links here:Go To Dinners by Ina Gartenhttps://www.amazon.com/Go-Dinners-Barefoot-Contessa-Cookbook/dp/1984822780White Marble Rectangle Hand Towel Tray and Hand Towelshttps://hudsongracesf.com/products/rectangular-marble-monogram-hand-towel-tray-set?currency=USD&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=CjwKCAiAhKycBhAQEiwAgf19enEOPV5yDJkf0I-U-K152gxLSPkoxi6_zVoqOItRHnWRiRm-R6Jx7RoCpIAQAvD_BwE&variant=39390573068370Hello Mollyhttps://www.amazon.com/Hello-Molly-Memoir-Shannon/dp/0063056232Heart Huggie earringshttps://www.the10jewelry.com/collections/earring-collection/products/copy-of-the-emma-huggiesTarte Creaseless concealerhttps://tartecosmetics.com/shop/creaseless-concealer-1312.html Lawless Forget the Filler overnight lip plumping maskhttps://www.sephora.com/product/lawless-forget-filler-overnight-lip-plumping-mask-P480326?om_mmc=ppc-GG_6557108122_78386322403_dsa-821893641530__463251591292_9031140_c&country_switch=us&lang=en&gclid=CjwKCAiAhKycBhAQEiwAgf19eqIWHmBoSP1HvVco76VDjirqSU0SDweJL0PumBOu3-WwSakP-r853BoCpdsQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&skuId=2592459Avene SkinCare line https://www.aveneusaDROWSY Midnight Blue Silk Sleep Mask. Face-Hugging, Padded Silk Cocoon for Deep Sleep Therapy in Total Darkness. https://a.co/d/1Fhg4zLThe10 BFF scribble necklace https://www.instagram.com/p/CkOnksjP1nk/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Hot ass swim suit!https://www.target.com/p/women-39-s-ribbed-plunge-front-v-wire-one-piece-swimsuit-shade-38-shore-8482-dark-green-m/-/A-83478493?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000086349400&CPNG=PLA_Women%2BShopping_Traffic_Local_Traffic%7CWomen_Ecomm_AA&adgroup=SC_Women_Local&LID=700000001170770pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=g&device=m&location=9010487&targetid=pla-1069759242670&gbraid=0AAAAAD-5dfYuhz7oIE3_EaKWpKfA73_xG&gbraid=0AAAAAD-5dfYuhz7oIE3_EaKWpKfA73_xG&gclid=CjwKCAiAhKycBhAQEiwAgf19eqcFwzhjHRT5h9BWfhL-Wk5gxCmZFW66ye8PY8BvRi1alzEH0pAG1RoCZSsQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds Feathered ConnectionsEmily Fitch: Medium, Channel, EmpathTo book: https://www.featheredconnections.comhttps://instagram.com/featheredconnections?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Dermatologists Dr. Jenny Segal and Dr. Brian Smith http://www.metropolitaninstitute.com/ The 100 Dresses (kids book)https://a.co/d/5GEKNIW Christmas Trees!BalsamHill.com Christmas stockings:Let's Make Memories Personalized Needlepoint Vintage Christmas Stocking – Family Stockings – Old-Fashioned Christmas Decor – Mantel Décor - 8"x17" - Tree - Customized Embroidered Name https://a.co/d/gaBfsdZTraditions Christmas storehttps://www.christmastraditions.com/Chai Modern Challah Board https://chaimodern.com/products/mensch-challah-boardChristmas Dishes/Hanukkah gifts https://www.spode.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Spode-Site/default/Default-Start?gclid=CjwKCAiAhKycBhAQEiwAgf19egZFLIVtZfS8jkNdh5BGxWyP7LwDH_EaV9d_8ff0DeHJdb_FM8TH2RoCbSIQAvD_BwELumbar travel pillow The Original McKenzie® Self-Inflating AirBack Lumbar Support by OPTP (710) - Back Support Pillow for Travel https://a.co/d/5ZgwCpaParenting Book by Dr. Becky KennedyGood Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be https://a.co/d/jazkVjsBIOLYTE Electrolyte Drink, Citrus 12 Pack | IV Liquid Bottle for Dehydration | Hydration Supplement Drink with B Vitamins | Amino Acid Energy Drinks | Keto-Friendly Natural Low Sugar https://a.co/d/8uZiKWWSolvang Bakery Personalized Gingerbread Houses 

WANT TO ADVERTISE WITH US? E-MAIL LOCKEDONRAYS@GMAIL.COM FOR INQUIRIES. Locked On Rays inbox got filled with worldwide questions and concerns from Australia, United Kingdom and Mexico! We will cover the following and more: -Have the trades done by the Rays due to the new rules coming in 2023? -What did we think about the José Abreu contract with the Houston Astros? -What are some answers to player options and DFA'ing players? Follow Kevin Weiss @KevinWeiss_ Follow Ulises Sambrano @SambranoUlises Follow the show @LockedOnRays #Rays #RaysUp #LockedOnRays #RaysBaseball #TampaBay #TampaBayRays #ChampaBay #TeamTampaBay #TBRays #MLBPodcast Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! SimpliSafe Today's episode of Locked On Rays is sponsored by SimpliSafe Home Security. With Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There's No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe dot com slash LockedOnMLB to learn more. BetOnline There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.net! BetOnline - the fastest and easiest way to wager on all your favorite sports and play your favorite games. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brace yourself! The holiday season is coming and Mike, Mike, Mary Ogle, Richard Ewell, and Kevin Eldridge have some gift ideas worthy of the ruling house of Westeros. All this, along with Angela's A Geek Girls Take, Ashley's Box Office Buzz, and Shout Outs! We want to hear from you! Feedback is always welcome. Please write to us at feedback@earthstationone.com and subscribe and rate the show on Apple Podcast, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, wherever fine podcasts are found, and now we can be found on our own YouTube Channel. Table of Contents 0:00:00 Show Open /Round 1 & 2 of the 2022 Geek Holiday Gift Guide 0:48:12 Box Office Buzz 0:50:20 Round 3 & 4 of the 2022 Geek Holiday Gift Guide 1:32:48 Round 5 of the 2022 Geek Holiday Gift Guide 1:55:00 A Geek Girls Take 1:57:12 Show Close Gifts Mentioned In this Episode Mary Ogle Moon Rocket Coin Bank with One Spaceman The Iron Giant: Signature Edition Ultimate Collector's Edition Blue Ray Jim Lee Batman Collection Lego Set Bean Box Coffee + Chocolate Tasting Box The Folio Society JAWS Kevin Eldridge The Illustrated AL Danger Will Robinson: The Full Mumy Beyond Bigfoot and Nessie Someday Is Today Sinkhole Richard Ewell Gore Noir Magazine NOPE -Steelbook- Best Buy Exclusive Sun-Man and the Rulers of the Sun (Target Exclusive) Pinsploitation Universal Studios Orlando Michael Gordon “What Child Is This: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Adventure” by Bonnie MacBird with illustrations by Frank Cho “TCM Underground: 50 Must See Movies” by Millie de Chirico and Quatoyiah Murray Storyworth Exclusive 40th Anniversary Wrath of Khan Pop Package Drunken Dragon Hotel Mike Faber Geeky Jerseys Lights, Camera, Accordion!: Eye-Popping Photographs of "Weird Al" Yankovic, 1981–2006 A Die Hard Christmas : The Illustrated Holiday Classic Fellowship of the Maps State Art Hello – Will You – I Do – Standard Style – Map Canvas Print, Anniversary Gift Links Earth Station One on Apple Podcasts Earth Station One on Stitcher Radio Earth Station One on Spotify Past Episodes of The Earth Station One Podcast The ESO Network Patreon The New ESO Network TeePublic Store ESO Network Patreon Angela's A Geek Girl's Take Ashley's Box Office Buzz Michelle's Iconic Rock Talk Show The Earth Station One Website NSC Live TV Tifosi Optical The New Earth Station One YouTube Channel EvisionArts Flopcast Night of the Nerdy Laser Podcast Bride of FrankenCon Snow Series by Bobby Nash Elton John's Final American Concert on Disney+ Promos Tifosi Optics Modern Musicology Earth Station Who The ESO Network Patreon If you would like to leave feedback or a comment on the show please feel free to email us at feedback@earthstationone.com Special Guests: Kevin Eldridge, Mary Ogle, and Richard Ewell.

In the Deep – Jordan (@BuntSingles) and Shwebsi (@shwebsi), are joined by fellow Pitcher Lister (but actual Hitter Lister) Scott Chu. Topics discussed include recent trade and DFA news, using rolling charts as a narrative tool, and which hitters Scott is high/low on compared to the rest of the community. ---- Join PL+ and support the podcast, get an Ad-Free Website, and access to our Discord community! If you enjoy the pod, please subscribe, drop us a 5-star review, and leave some kind words on your platform of choice: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Omny Feed Also be sure to follow Jordan, Shwebsi, and the official podcast account on Twitter, and check the pinned tweet on the show page for mailbag and feedback submissions! ITD Twitter | Jordan's Twitter | Shwebsi's Twitter | Mailbag Submissions Podcast cover art by Christine Weber Get PL+ and join our community and Discord server!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the Deep – Jordan (@BuntSingles) and Shwebsi (@shwebsi), are joined by fellow Pitcher Lister (but actual Hitter Lister) Scott Chu. Topics discussed include recent trade and DFA news, using rolling charts as a narrative tool, and which hitters Scott is high/low on compared to the rest of the community. ---- Join PL+ and support the podcast, get an Ad-Free Website, and access to our Discord community! If you enjoy the pod, please subscribe, drop us a 5-star review, and leave some kind words on your platform of choice: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Omny Feed Also be sure to follow Jordan, Shwebsi, and the official podcast account on Twitter, and check the pinned tweet on the show page for mailbag and feedback submissions! ITD Twitter | Jordan's Twitter | Shwebsi's Twitter | Mailbag Submissions Podcast cover art by Christine Weber Get PL+ and join our community and Discord server!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tampa Bay Rays had themselves a busy Tuesday as multiple players were both shown the door and welcomed on the same day. To recap all the moves, which included DFA'ing Ryan Yarbrough, Javy Guerra, Bligh Madris; trading J.T.Chargois & Xavier Edwards to the Miami Marlins for Santiago Suárez and Marcus Johnson; trading Brett Wisely to the San Francisco Giants for Tristan Peters; trading Miles Mastrobuoni to the Chicago Cubs for Alfredo Zárraga and releasing Brendan McKay. To dive deep and talk about these moves, WTSP's Sports Director, Evan Closky joins the show. Follow Kevin Weiss @KevinWeiss_ Follow Ulises Sambrano @SambranoUlises Follow the show @LockedOnRays #Rays #RaysUp #LockedOnRays #RaysBaseball #TampaBay #TampaBayRays #ChampaBay #TeamTampaBay #TBRays #MLBPodcast Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! SimpliSafe Today's episode of Locked On Rays is sponsored by SimpliSafe Home Security. With Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There's No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe dot com slash LockedOnMLB to learn more. BetOnline There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.net! BetOnline - the fastest and easiest way to wager on all your favorite sports and play your favorite games. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Boston Red Sox offseason is underway! Nathan Eovaldi and Xander Bogaerts each received a qualifying offer (one-year, $19.65 million deal) from the Red Sox, which were rejected by both the pitcher and the shortstop, respectively. So, now what? NESN's Lauren Willand looks into reports of the Red Sox and Eovaldi trying to work out a multi-year deal, while providing the latest on Bogaerts. Later, Lauren also looks at who the Red Sox added to the 40-man roster and who they DFA'd (and why she, as well as many others, were quite disappointed). Follow us on Twitter! @LO_RedSox & @jakeiggy & @lalalalaurrrren Support us by supporting our sponsors! SimpliSafe With Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There's No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnMLB to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All the reaction to the Marlins trade with the Rays, plus 5 DFA'd guys with 3 pitchers being added to the roster. Busy night Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

vThis morning on The Bat Around, the guys talk about World Series MVP Jeremy Pena, and the Astros World Series Championship. Stan "the fan" Charles joins the show to discuss free agency, and the DFA of Yusniel Diaz. At 11, Rich Dubroff of BaltimoreBaseball.com to talk all things Orioles, and the declined option of Jordan Lyles. Then, the Bet Around and Orioles banter where the guys break down the qualifying offer list and much more regarding free agency. Trivia and Final Thoughts to close out the show! That and more on The Bat Around!

MLB has dropped the official Minor League All-Star teams, MVPs, and Pitchers of the Year for each league within the minors, as voted on by the minor league managers. We cover all eight leagues within AAA, AA, & Hi-A, but some of the highlights: Jonathan Aranda has now won TWO minor league MVPs for his time in the Tampa Bay Rays system, this year getting it for AAA's International League, while 1B Quincy Nieporte of the Detroit Tigers won it for the AA Eastern League after being out of affiliated baseball for the last three years. 3B Christian Encarnacion-Strand won it for High-A's Midwest League despite getting traded midseason, and C Jackson Reetz won it for AA's Southern League and then was DFA'd by the Brewers. Find and follow LockedOn MLB Prospects on your favorite podcast platforms: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/locked-on-mlb-prospects/id1525225214 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2wzJIf26tGgVbB7rsoKyLD Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/locked-on-mlb-prospects Follow along with LockedOn MLB Prospects host Lindsay Crosby as we follow 120+ affiliated teams throughout the 2022 season! From prospect call-ups to impactful trades to the ever evolving battle for minor league living and working conditions, Lindsay is covering it all on five days a week. Available exclusively on the Locked On Podcast Network. Follow the show on twitter @LockedOnFarm and email your Mailbag Monday questions to LockedOnMLBProspects@gmail.com Follow Lindsay for up to the minute details on all things Minor League Baseball: On Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrosbyBaseball Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! SimpliSafe With Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There's No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnMLB to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nick Vespi and Bruce Zimmermann each had success in the big leagues with the Baltimore Orioles this season, but they also each spent significant time in Triple-A. So the question is — can either guy carve out a significant role in Baltimore in 2023? Host Connor Newcomb recaps the seasons for both Vespi and Zimmermann and discusses: -Vespi riding the Norfolk shuttle all season long -How he was able to get righties out at a much higher clip than lefties -What in the world made Zimmermann go from the Orioles ace to Triple-A in the span of a month? -Is there a chance he could even get DFA'd this offseason? Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! SimpliSafe With Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There's No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnMLB to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Information about today's podcast: Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) - https://us.dimensional.com/ “The assets we(DFA)manage represent more than shares in a portfolio.  That money represents the savings, sacrifice, and dreams that investors have entrusted to us. We take this responsibility seriously. Founded in 1981, Dimensional has a long history of applying academic research to practical investing. We offer a full range of equity and fixed income strategies designed to target higher expected returns.”   Apollo Lupescu, PhD, Vice President, Dimensional Fund Advisors: Apollo Lupescu is vice president at Dimensional Fund Advisors, one of the premier investment managers in the world, managing around $650 billion in assets. He is a nationally and internationally recognized speaker who has delivered hundreds of lectures and seminars to financial professionals and individual investors on various investment topics. Apollo is considered “secretary of explaining stuff”, because he has a knack for explaining complicated issues in a clear and understandable way. Apollo has been with Dimensional in Santa Monica for over 18 years, and prior to that he taught at the University of California. Apollo also served in a variety of roles with the US Department of State, from which he formed his own consulting firm, Apollo Consulting Group. He received his PhD in economics and finance from UC Santa Barbara. Apollo also holds a BA in economics from Michigan State University, where he competed and coached water polo. Rumor has it that even to this day he is still playing, and more recently he is not only in the pool, but also learning how to surf in the ocean.   Top Investor Myths... Common Questions & Lessons Learned: What does the evidence tell us about what to do in down markets? What do our innate biases tell us to do and why are they the opposite? 1. Myth -Successful advisors need to “time the market.” Common Question: “Clearly, the stock market is going down and going to get worse, why not just go to cash...?” The idea that an investor wants to avoid downturns in the market is an understandable and reasonable response. The challenge in the execution.  Most of the time, it turns into a bigger loss and more stress than staying invested. In summary, mistiming the market comes with punishing consequences.   From our experience, when someone sells their equity positions to relieve stress, they simply replace the stress of being in the market with the stress of being out of the market and wondering when they should get back in. There is no magic signal. In other words, they exchange one stress for another.  We miss the best days in the market... therefore “portfolio performance could be decimated.”  See JPMorgan “The Case For (Always) Staying Invested”https://www.jpmorgan.com/wealth-management/wealth-partners/insights/the-case-for-always-staying-invested#infographic-text-version-uniqId1663780633203 This chart shows the annualized performance of a $10,000 investment made between January 2002 and January 2022. A fully invested investment returned 9.4% or $60,253. When the investor missed the10 best days, the return is 5.21% or $27,604. When the investor missed the 20 best days, the return is 2.51% or $16,414. Finally, when the investor missed the 30 best days, the return is 0.32% or $10,651. An added fact is that seven of the 10 best days occurred within 15 days of the 10 worst days. 2. Myth - The Fed funds rate changes and impacts on bonds and stock returns. Common Question: “So, the Fed raises rates because the economy is strong enough to stand on its own and the stock market tanks? That doesn't make sense?” The expectations of the Fed's actions, commitment, and plan to fight inflation are very important.  For example, if consumers, employers, and investors believe inflation is here to stay, then in many ways, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we have confidence and believe the Fed is going to take strong action to fight inflation, then people's behaviors (spending patterns) will fall in line with those expectations as well. What does recent history tell us about stock market (S&P500) performance and rising interest rate environments? Rising interest rates can and will cause short-term pain in the economy and sometimes the stock market. However, in the most recent rising rate environments the stock market has been up. From January 2000 to December 2021, five out of six years of rising interest rates the market did not drop. As an investor, “...it is critical to remember that the stock market is about purchasing ownership in public companies. And the value of the ownership depends on the profits that the company expects to make. And we'll come back to this because it is a crucial concept. If you think in terms of the value of a company like Apple, Google, Facebook, you name it, Coca-Cola, etc., it is tied to the profits that they make. The question is, is the federal funds rate a primary variable that you can link directly to the profits of the company, and are they tied directly into what that interest rate does? And what the data seems to suggest is that it is quite likely that the fed fund rate does have some impact on the profits of a company, but there does not seem to be a primary connection there that you could say, if interest rates go up, profits go down.” ~Apollo Lupescu 3. Myth -Politics and the market (the President controls the markets) Common question or comment: “If X president was in office, we would not be in this mess.” The economy and the markets become an extension of investors' emotions related to their personal politics. It is important to have personal values and political points of view; however, most investing decisions need to be data-driven. Being careful to differentiate between personal emotional biases and what the data tells us. For example: Is there an obvious pattern that would tell you that having a Republican or a Democrat is better or worse for the markets? Is there evidence to suggest which political party fared better? When you look at the historical data, it is not clear that having one president, or another is better or worse for the markets. “...In fact, President George W.Bush was extremely business-friendly, and cut taxes, specifically on investments. And yet during the eight years that he was in office, the market dropped. Should he be blamed for that? My answer is, absolutely not because 9-11 happened just as he came into office...” ~Apollo Lupescu Listen to the podcast to hear how the stock market performed when Republicans had a unified government (controlled the White House, the Senate and Congress) versus when the Democrats had a unified government.    Bonus: What is the difference between Index Funds (Indexing) and the investment approach used by Dimensional Fund Advisors? What emerged in the 1970s, With the advent of computers and more rigorous data was a different way to think about investing. And the idea back then was that, okay, well, let's look at these companies. There might not be any reason why not to hold them, so let's consider them. But the idea was that instead of trying to understand the behavior of these companies and form an expectation about these companies by themselves, the idea was to create a different way of looking...And the idea is that as an investor, you want to understand not the stock itself, as much as the category to which it belongs. An idea that became known as asset-class investing. 

En el espacio de la Fundación DFA descubrimos la labor de la Asociación de Celíacos de Aragón junto a su presidente Ramón Moraza. Sobre cirugías raras y otros tratamientos como modificar las líneas de las manos hablamos con nuestra doctora de cabecera Carmen Orte. Los alumnos de la Escuela de Teatro de Zaragoza nos visitan para interpretar ‘Y el Oscar es para…' un texto del dramaturgo Marc Egea. Algunas canciones se convierten en la banda sonora de nuestras relaciones amorosas y otras, por el contrario, nos “cortan el rollo”. De este hilo tiramos con Javier Romero, director de ‘Los Intocables', el programa musical de Aragón Radio.

Junto a Marta Valencia, presidenta de la Fundación DFA, dirigida a oersibas con discapacidad, abordamos las cuatro áreas en las que se especializan: social, salud y bienestar, formación y empleo.

Junto a Marta Valencia, presidenta de la Fundación DFA, abordamos las cuatro áreas en las que se especializa la fundación dirigida a las personas con discapacidad; social, salud y bienestar, formación y empleo. La doctora Carmen Orte nos habla de la estética oncológica, la disciplina que mejora la imagen exterior y el impacto emocional de los pacientes en tratamiento. ¡Estrenamos sección quincenal! En colaboración con alumnos de la Escuela Municipal de Teatro de Zaragoza y la profesora Marisa Nolla, aprendemos sobre este arte con la dramatización de algunas obras. Javier Romero, director de ‘Los Intocables' programa musical de Aragón Radio, nos trae aquellos temas para reír, sonreír y alegrarnos la tarde. 

On today's episode, I sit down with Oliver and Erinn Hudson. We discuss the story of how they met, being friendly with exes, the struggle with meeting the right person in your early 20s, what it means when people say marriage is work, recent fights we've had with our partners, dating opposites, the Hoffman process, pet peeves, and more. This episode starts with a solo where I discuss why I didn't love the day of my birthday, my acupuncture mishap, DFA syndrome, and what to talk about on later dates.   Sponsors: Article.com/acme for $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more Athleticgreens.com/acme for a free 1 year supply of vitamin D and 5 free travel packs Nextevo.com/recover code ACME for up to 25% off when you subscribe and spend $50 or more Studs.com/ACME for 20% off your first purchase Thrivecausemetics.com/acme for 15% off your first order   Produced by Dear Media.   Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.

On today's show Martin North discusses the health of International Banking system. GUEST OVERVIEW: Martin North is Principal of Digital Finance Analytics which combines primary consumer research, industry modelling, economic analysis and segmentation analytics to offer insight into the dynamics of the mortgage, lending, savings, payments and superannuation industries. Digital Finance Analytics makes daily YouTube shows on property and finance at “Walk The World” and analyses housing and mortgage finance for the DFA channel, blog and mainstream media.

The Guardians are at 90 wins and counting, just as nobody predicted. Zack and T.J. discuss why Cleveland continues to play well despite little to play for, who is Cleveland's MVP this season, the debut of Bo Naylor, Will Brennan cementing himself as a playoff certainty and the DFA of Bryan Shaw. For additional playoff coverage, access to the show Discord and more episodes, consider supporting the show at Patreon.com/SelbyIsGodcast

Matt and Todd are October ready for Guardians baseball on today's episode of The Dery Brothers Guardians Cast. The brothers discuss Bryan Shaw's DFA, Bo Naylor's arrival, what the playoff roster could look like and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Game 158 of the 2022 Season and Cleveland Guardians fall to the Kansas City Royals 7-1. On today's show we're talking about Bo Naylor's debut, DFA'ing Bryan Shaw, Plesac's rehab start, and naming our MVP on the day (there wasn't really one in this one). If you want to share your thoughts on the game or anything Cleveland baseball you can find me on Twitter @daveyberris, you can email the show ClevelandBaseballMornings@gmail.com, or leave a message on the anchor app and we'll play it back on the show. Merchandise is now available at https://clevelandbaseballmornings.myspreadshop.com/ for T-shirts, Hoodies, Coffee Mugs, and More!!! Now available on iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-cleveland-baseball-morning-70571254/ Now available on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/17e3d70a-dd9e-4ed3-a6fc-2ef5d6f58bb8/Cleveland-Baseball-Mornings-An-Indians-Fan-Podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clevelandbaseballmornings/message

GUEST HOST: Jeremy Beck On today's show Senator Malcolm Roberts talks about the world's biggest pumped hydro plan for Queensland announced by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk this week. And Martin North discusses the Bond Market crisis and quantitative tightening and QE. GUEST OVERVIEW: Martin North is Principal of Digital Finance Analytics which combines primary consumer research, industry modelling, economic analysis and segmentation analytics to offer insight into the dynamics of the mortgage, lending, savings, payments and superannuation industries. Digital Finance Analytics makes daily YouTube shows on property and finance at “Walk The World” and analyses housing and mortgage finance for the DFA channel, blog and mainstream media.

EP296 - Guardian Baseball Co-Founder Matt Kubancik  Episode 296 is an interview with Matt Kubancik (@mattkubancik), CEO and Co-Founder of Guardian Baseball. Matt is a serial e-commerce entrepreneur who was the founder of Street Moda, Co-Founder of SKU Vault, and most recently Co-Founder and CEO of Guardian Baseball. Mark is an experienced Marketplace seller, and his current business Guardian Baseball is a hybrid seller selling both wholesale and owned brands direct to consumer from a Shopify site, and via multiple marketplaces including Amazon. Guardian Baseball is an early adaptor of Buy with Prime, and shares in the interview, that they would migrate off Shopify if necessarily to keep using Buy with Prime. He also discusses a number of the current limitations with the Buy With Prime offering. Episode 296 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Friday September 23, 2022. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:23] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 296 being recorded on Friday August 23rd 2022 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:38] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott showed listeners today we have a fun interview this is kind of a both a TBT a throwback for me and then also modern discussion around by with Prime but to set it up we are very excited to welcome mat kubancik to the show welcome mat. Matt: [1:00] Thanks Scott and Jason have my own. Scot: [1:02] Matt what's your what's your current title you have you have 50 things you're always doing so I never know what to say other than. Matt: [1:08] Always doing but Maine. Scot: [1:10] Entrepreneur genius. Matt: [1:11] Yeah sometimes sometimes a genius sometimes but that's the life of an entrepreneur I co-founder and CEO of Guardian baseball.com or multi-channel hybrid direct to consumer and brand partner of you know some of the biggest. Brand names and Sporting Goods retailer so predominantly in the baseball and softball market and we're on Amazon Walmart eBay and on our Shopify site. And we were named the fastest growing e-commerce retailer by ink magazine in the Inc 5000 and number 180 overall this year. Jason: [1:48] Amazing that congratulations I definitely want to jump into it but before we do you know our listeners always like to get a little bit of a gist of our guests background and so I'm imagining you you went to college and got a degree in baseball e-commerce is that how you started. Matt: [2:05] No not at all actually spent six months in in college dropped out was one of the original I started selling on eBay 1999. Um during think my first year of high school sold baseball cards ironically and then. Started selling fashion and store stock Closeouts Retail Arbitrage early days of eBay and then when I was 18 years old. I met an executive that was retired from the Footwear industry and him and I started a company called Street motor together, and we were a early on 2000s multi-channel retailer and I met Scott through signing Channel advisor when I was 19 years old I remember signing my contract, verbally over the phone like a grain to the contract and then I went into school and said hey I'm going to withdraw after six months of Indiana University so. Dropped out and did 100 million over, 10 11 years mainly thanks to the a lot of connections Channel advisor helped me create you know Market places like Amazon eBay buy.com back in the day, a lot of the shopping channels like Shopzilla and sites like that and we exited that business in 2017. And been involved in e-commerce and various other companies and degrees. Jason: [3:30] That's an amazing story for a couple of reasons first of all I love everybody that that helps helps fun they're beginning through Retail Arbitrage have you seen the latest version of we Retail Arbitrage kind of making the rounds right now. Matt: [3:46] What is the what is the latest version of I probably have but I'm wondering what it would lose. Jason: [3:50] It's dudes buying Walmart frozen pizza and then selling it as a ghost Kitchen on doordash. Matt: [3:56] I love it yes I actually posted that somebody needs to hire that guy with the tick tock video yeah. Jason: [4:01] Yeah that that was amazing and then one thing that's that I found peculiar about your background is most people tell me they even back then Scott was too fancy to actually talk to customer so it's kind of impressive that you were able to meet Scott in person back then. Matt: [4:16] Yeah the I would think I was like 18 and I was a channel advisor conference and I had a beer in my hand and he walked up to me and I remember he was like are you are you 21 I was like I don't think so. Jason: [4:26] So it was mostly a liability concerns. Scot: [4:30] Yeah yeah Matt Matt's a brilliant marketer and he would bring these t-shirts to the shows he did he did Wingo as my homeboy and then was a twingo made Millions so those are some of the best best marketing gimmicks, and I will show up at the show and I was wearing this this t-shirt with a picture of Miss really weird. Jason: [4:49] I feel like it's even it's gotten increasingly true and more much more true in the last month that you could sell more of those t-shirts the Wingo made me Millions. Matt: [4:59] Yeah it was a it was a lot of fun so. Scot: [5:04] And then so then that was your primary thing so then you did you guys realize that you needed to build you look at all the software for shipping and inventory management and build your own and then you, tell the story of that. Matt: [5:19] Oh yeah so it was like 2012 or 2011 and kind of the only inventory platform out there other than like something on the level like sap Oracle custom build for like larger retailers or Manhattan, a red Prairie was what was it called Scott like Stone Edge or something what was it was on Old access bit database yeah and I remember, they actually got bought out by a former competitor of Channel advisor so and there were so many Channel advisor clients on there so we tried to launch that in our warehouse and my childhood friend and he says who got an engineering degree and eventually became the CEO of skew vault, tried to implement that and then him and a programmer who was programming a bunch of stuff Slava who's the co-founder skew vault try to implement that system and it just didn't work properly for us so they came back to me a few months later and they were like hey we're just going to build it and I was kind of like okay if you guys can really do that and you know it worked we built a skew Vault version 1 out of Street Motors warehouse and then eventually I help those guys kind of get the business off the ground. [6:25] Was original co-founder Andy just exited the business lat ironically a week before Channel advisor so, to a company out of the UK and you know still work with Andy on a daily basis and good friends so really proud of those guys and yeah it was it was a great thing we did up having, thousands of customers and help them with their fulfillment needs and help a lot of the big direct to Consumer and Shabba fine Amazon retailers on a SAS, like platform manage their inventory and cycle counts and you know all that kind of stuff. Jason: [7:00] And so was q v predominantly like a order management system or I guess I always thought of it as kind of like a almost like a dim and a CMS and a way am I thinking of it wrong. Matt: [7:12] Predominately a warehouse management system you know we never we had a really good partnership with people like Channel advisor and, and other channel listing tools so Andy was always very adamant on not disrupting those Partnerships I think you saw a lot of, a lot of our competition would eventually move into the channel management and then disrupt those Partnerships so we always relied on and Scott was a huge part of that, and driving force and then Channel advisor folks were always a huge you know big partner of skew vaulting especially in the early days of really driving that home so we never really got into the listing. Pain management we really tried to rely on our. Excellent capability of functioning in the warehouse so providing quality control integrating with the shipping carriers like ship work shipstation. Companies like that and and then integrating with the channel Partners like a channel buzzer. And providing all the quality control Pick Pack you know scan in audits inventory sinking buffers all that type of normal WMS type of functions. Scot: [8:17] Cool so you you were a e-commerce entrepreneur so you've done that then you did software-as-a-service so you get the check that off the box and then I saw on LinkedIn you've also been working with a turbo host so that's actually getting into my world of cars now tell me tell me how you got into that one. Matt: [8:34] I just really like nice cars and you know I started renting them on Taro and I was down in Florida which is like a second home for me and I had one of my best friends move down there and from Louisville, and we just started buying cars it started with one so I didn't have to like rent Ontario anymore and then you know the turo market got really flooded so what I started to concentrate on was more mid-tier Exotics, so we bought cars like Porsches and Ferraris and then Terro raised there, they used to have a lower like coverage they would do like 150,000 and it was something that I was used to you know Scott on very well versed in the marketplaces I think if somebody looks at my. You know in between companies I've always consulted and I've always been brought in by big Brands to be on marketplaces Amazon eBay and how to really run and function those within a larger organization, so I really adapted well to the turo marketplace because I felt it was much like an eBay or an Amazon type of, mentality where they provide the customers you provide the inventory and then provide the service, and then you don't have to worry about all the legal jargon and a lot of the compliance and you know worrying about marketing spend, and Roi so you know we had three or four cars and and still working with my partner on that. Scot: [9:57] Cool it's a as I got into this Mobility space myself I was poking around it's like otter oh and then I saw the CEOs name is Andre Haddad and he's actually an eBay guy and it rang a bell and I had met him a couple times in eBay meetings so it's funny you've already kind of made that correlation there's a lot of, e-commerce people in the mobility world that I run across and then so my big question is if a Ferrari is a mid exotic for you what what's up there about already like Bugattis here like. Matt: [10:29] Like it in your old Ferrari California so it's something like a hundred and thirty thousand dollars and then we drop you know 20,000 into it to fix it up and it's running. You know we run it at like 750 to 1,000 a day where I would consider a more like. If you look at a competition like in Miami or Vegas they're generally running in the you know the Uris has or the Bugattis of the world so that would I would consider kind of the luxury like Newark here. Scot: [10:57] Got it where's and Lambo is kind of in the middle. Matt: [11:00] I would say Leo Lambo Huracan would be kind of be in the middle mid-tier luxury. Scot: [11:05] What's your daily driver their ass. Matt: [11:07] I have five kids now so it's a Ford Expedition in Louisville Kentucky but I have to I have two choices in Suburban or yeah there's no. Scot: [11:15] Low exotic low exotic yeah a lot of gold fish floating around in the car there I'm a that's our bread and butter here at spiffy is the five kids think you guys are Jim. Give them and give them lots of food to throw around back there. Matt: [11:33] Applesauce back and everything yeah I'm the Costco dead. Jason: [11:37] Spiffy spiffy charges extra for apple sauce stains just so you know. Side note I just got back from Vegas from grocery shop a grocery e-commerce show in the big news in Vegas is they just announced that formula one is coming to Las Vegas. Scot: [11:54] Yeah yeah that's gonna be awesome. Jason: [11:56] They're doing a track that's going to be on the Strip their clothes in the strip for a week it's going to that could be pretty cool. Matt: [12:03] Who's at that shop talk conference that they're involved in. Jason: [12:06] It's put on by the same people that started shop talk yes but it's more focused specifically on the like Grocery and Food Industries. So you've got all this Marketplace experience you got your fashion experience through shoot Street Mota. How'd you get there. Matt: [12:39] So I started the business with a friend of mine he owns the largest travel baseball organization in the state of Kentucky it's called The Wolves baseball organization he's around my age, Jewish kid from l.a. got recruited to play baseball in Kentucky so moved here were both only children both the same age both outside of Kentucky so we got along real well, he started training my kids he's really good with people really good people skills, really good with developing children and just teamwork and a lot of stuff and so we just started Guardian as a as honestly. It was supposed to be a lifestyle based business he was paying full retail from a local sporting goods store, for all his equipment and uniforms and I was this is when I was Consulting for the company that had bought Street mode and I was like hey, you know why don't we just go direct to the brands will sell some stuff on Amazon you know we'll have a little half a million dollar business. [13:35] And so we started working with like the wrongs and the Wilsons of the world and the Maru cheese and when I got into this business you know coming from the fashion business and when I consulted I consulted a lot of direct-to-consumer apparel Brands and launching them on. Amazon and helping with them their Logistics and health and beauty and those are very. Competitive Industries in the direct-to-consumer world right and they're very Advanced and a lot of their metrics and there's just heavy competition and there's a new direct-to-consumer player subscription boxes which is very competitive market and there's always something new. But in the Sporting Goods industry and you know Jason if you play baseball growing up is the same Brands like the same Louisville Sluggers Easton's. Of the world and you are having some direct-to-consumer. Brands that are kind of infiltrating the baseball and softball world but it's very much like an accessories like they might be a Brandon sunglasses or a bad brain and batting gloves but there's not really a big brand kind of doing it all, and there's almost no direct-to-consumer penetration so it's something that. [14:34] As we started evolving the business we started by buying just equipment then we would go to the brands and we started making our own equipment with them so we go to them and say hey. [14:44] You guys do black pink bags for girls that's really cool but like a lot of the girls are sick of black pink so we're going to make black Tiffany we're going to make black rose gold. How about we do these like new colorways kind of relating into the fashion business so you know I was still active in fashion and Consulting for and working with a lot of Brands like Puma, Steve Madden and Brands like that so I know kind of the colorways that are clicking and women's heels or Footwear and sneakers so I would and apparel and I would kind of put those over, and say okay maybe baseball and softball is a year or two behind so we kind of started doing that and that worked really well. And then we started producing our own cleats which are an Amazon bestseller so we're you know we out sell some of the biggest brands on the market came from Footwear so we started making kids cleats, our Guardian one of our Guardian kids please says over 6 700 reviews on Amazon it's one of the top sellers, we had inventory we have more inventory coming in so we just started started with cleats and then we started making sliding Nets bat bags. Um and then we released a baseball bat with a huge kind of direct-to-consumer startup brand that's taking over a lot of the market in the BB core which is high school and college is called stinger, bad company and we did a collab with them and it was called The Guardian bat by stainer and standards whole thing is basically the traditional direct to consumer. [16:07] Where they're you know the normal high school and college bats are costing three to five hundred dollars and they come in around 250 price point, 260 price point it's the same quality most of their sales are direct they do have a few retailers, and we came in and did a brand collaboration and we we had over 120,000 views 130,000 reviews on bat Bros which is the independent bat testing and they rated as a top five bat, and then when it came out for three or four months it was a top five bad on Amazon in terms of sales so. You know that's kind of what we're doing now and kind of evolving the business into more of a direct-to-consumer and making our own equipment and then working on with brand collaborations like a supreme would in the fashion business where, putting a guardian and going to a traditional brand and saying hey instead of just doing black and navy and red catching equipment let's do a kid's shark-tooth let's do a camouflage but like blue and green camo or something so we're kind of making it fun. And it's been good you know it's been a fun ride we're growing rapidly we, closing investment with Matt Joyce this year he came on as an owner so my business partners Evan I own the business along with a 14-year major Leaguer who just retired, and he was kind of a good Target for us we didn't want somebody that was just just going to sign a check like a really really big guy that was a Hall of Famer something and wasn't want to be active we wanted somebody that. [17:36] Was very entrepreneurial and Matt owns a line of gyms and Florida he does a bunch of real estate Investments and he's had kind of a blue-collar dad you know family raised him type of hard-working mentality and we wanted somebody like that. So he came on this year and we're really glad to have him and he's kind of helped line out a hole. Roster of athletes with us so we're very early on in The Cutting Edge of Ni El marketing and yeah so we're just kind of a cutting-edge retailer. Jason: [18:06] Interesting so a couple of quick questions jump to mind when you first got in the the baseball business, I would call that the sporting goods in general and I'm kind of assuming you'll correct me if I'm wrong baseball in particular is a little bit of a digital lagger right so, like you don't think of like Rowling and Wilson as kind of digital first companies. Matt: [18:31] No I would say the industry overall is is very traditional and they don't like a lot of change in the industry I think that's the baseball and softball equipment baseball in all I mean you see baseballs really losing out to Big sports like football and basketball and they're trying to figure out how do we become more engaged with the fan so I don't just think it's. Just necessary the equipment Brands I think it's overall as a sport but we definitely do see that in the baseball and softball equipment you know I think they don't really. They get they hand me these 500-page catalogs and there's 498 pages that are literally dedicated to male athlete ages 14 and above. And what they really forget and they do make equipment for him but it's not a focal point of their business and that's what Guardian kind of focuses on, is the softball Market is very underserved and then the youth market and if you think about the under 8 years old that's the most kids Everybody Plays little league right ever played buddy place, t-ball and coach pitch and then as you kind of Rise through the ranks then maybe you get more involved in swimming or maybe you get more involved in Lacrosse and that's your sport, or basketball or football and then you stop playing baseball so we are our cleats actually really Market to a 12 and under, and that's where really really kind of honing in the market and then the softball markets been huge you know two of our biggest influencers are Bella Dayton and Jasmine Perez chica they play for Arizona and Texas. [19:56] Their videos on Tik-Tok and Instagram we've done on marketing as and IL marketing have. Gotten hundreds of thousands of views and actually get more views than Major Leaguers we work with, and softball NCAA softball I think it was last 2021 surpassed college or viewership, for college men's baseball in the world series for the first time ever so college softball and softball in general is a very underserved Market by these Brands and it's something that, we're working with them on to develop more items and we're also working on ourselves of really kind of dressing that market and putting women at the Forefront. Jason: [20:33] Yeah that's super interesting I want to come back to the influencers but I'm just trying to make sure I understand so you started Guardian. In a lot of categories like a bunch of the aspirational Legacy Brands it's really hard to get a license to sell them right so you know. You do you want to start new footwear company you're not getting a Nike license you know it's really hard to get get a wholesale agreement with Oakley folks like that was it easy to get like Wilson in drawing to sell to you. Matt: [21:02] Yes it because of my business partners. The 14 travel teams he has the largest so those companies were already knocking down the door to be his uniform. Facility and and that sort of thing and at that time we started the business 45 years ago and like you said they're kind of behind the times of e-commerce so they hadn't started to clean up the marketplaces like a lot of the fashion brands or Electronics Brands had, on the Amazon and eBay world yet now they're starting to make a lot of those and they've kind of grandfathers as they in and putting those in those contracts. Where we've been able to do some special stuff like a lot of Brands we have you know brand registry with are able to come and do viral videos on the Amazon Marketplace and do a lot of things like that. Jason: [21:43] Yeah well you you anticipated my next question which is like it's often for those Brands controversial if they want to be on marketplaces and particularly on Amazon so with do I was that part of the discussion where they already on Amazon was it a foregone conclusion that they were okay with their products being a marketplaces or is that something you had to kind of evolve into. Matt: [22:03] Some of the brands are receptive to it you know I think there's three buckets there's you know brands that are like hey you can sew on your own.com but you can't sell in marketplaces then we've had brands that are like, hey you can be an authorized retailer but you have to kind of like follow these guidelines and fall in line you can't change product items we're not going to make smu's for us, and then we have a third brand the third option where a lot of and these are I would say these are more of your up-and-coming Brands and more of your brands that are, maybe number two that are really trying to take the market share of number one, you know like what's the car rental company that always said we're number two were working going to work harder so those type of brands are the brands that we really have the best relationships with like a stainer that's, kind of said hey go ahead and take not only can you be on Amazon but we're going to give you the keys to the kingdom here's brand registry go run with it, and you know do video ads do all type of editorial marketing handle all that for you so we're kind of acting like an agency in that type of a relationship, more were handling that and following all their guidelines working when it with ownership working with the executives, and then carrying their core merchandise and also making exclusive merchandise for the Amazon Walmart type of marketplaces. Jason: [23:16] Gotcha so not only are you doing it but you're helping them get better at it and is that controversial at all like are you potentially enabling them to go direct and not need you as much. Matt: [23:27] I think yeah I think we you know that is controversial right I think you know I spent. Six figures on an event in Florida last year hosting all the top equipment Brands and was very adamant on here's our vision you know I think we're going to be like a Target or a Costco where. This industry is a little unique because you're always going to have. The traditional brands on the Major League field and in the college's so this is not a. An industry where people are just going to say okay now I'm going to wear all birds instead of Cole Haans right where so there's always going to be elements of the industry like people are always going to want to use a Rawlings glove or you know a little Slugger bat right. Or a Marucci bat so. Working with those vendors and carrying that type of merchandise that the people demand kind of creates the ability for us to make our. Merchandise that we make. You know advertised more and have more effect in the market because we're carrying both so and we kind of have always said that that we're going to be like a Costco or a Target and carry our own private label but we always want the Best Brands and the best equipment in there. Jason: [24:38] Yeah so then that brings me back to the influencers because in my mind the world is slightly changed a little bit like hey. But influencers have become a much more effective comment marketing tactic in almost every category but but in Sporting Goods particularly like, Sporting Goods that have a significant College element like baseball historically the influencer wasn't the player it was the University because the players we're not allowed to be in for answers but the the team's I'll sign contract so you so if you were super rich you could go buy a bunch of colleges they are would use your gear and then you were the de facto market leader but you know for the last couple years it's been legal for those individual players, to be their own brand and in some sports a lot of those players had then. Opted out of using the team sanctioned equipment is like and I was curious is that happening in baseball at all and is that going to open the door for more brands or have they figured out how to keep it locked down pretty well. Matt: [25:41] Yeah so not so much on the latter part of the equipment I'll kind of get into that in a minute but the obviously we were very. Early on as soon as that IL law came out we were one of the first, people to start signing College athletes and we've kind of been at the Forefront as a retailer and especially even outpacing a lot of Brands a lot of brands are asking actually asking us for advice and how we run the program so we have it, about 15 College athletes now between baseball and softball signed to our roster and we utilize them and. Not so much in a sales standpoint you're seeing a lot of traditional retailers out there big box stores are signing these college athletes and they're having them like take a picture in a shopping cart, like in their store and it just looks very like hey use my code at the checkout for 10% off. And what we really try to do if you check out our Instagram or Tik-Tok as we do a little a lot of viral like videos of Just interviewing them, we fly them in or will fly out and do a lot of photo shoots with the video team and will do videos of them using different equipment Guardian Brandon also non Guardian Brandon some of our brand partners, which they're really appreciative of and will leverage that content not only on social media but on our website email marketing but also on the marketplaces, and it's you know, I think the new wave of Amazon you've had this wave of Scott seen the different cycles of e-commerce retailers out there and I think direct to Consumer brands are really going hard. [27:06] Are really coming hard on the Amazon Marketplace so I think really the private label companies you know that are strictly just trying to create a commodity product on Amazon, are really going to be forced out by brands that are really bringing really good content and really good marketing on the Amazon platform much like the direct to Consumer brands of the last five years did on social media. Scot: [27:28] Got it so one way of reframing Guardian is you know there's some percentage of your stuff that you sell that the bread and butter its existing Brands but then you're also inside of their building a DTC brand to fill in the holes that by selling other people's stuff you realize hey maybe there needs to be a bat that's kind of like you know it's BBCOR this and we'll all that jazz but it needs to be at a lower price point is that a is that a fair. Matt: [27:51] That's exactly that's a yeah. Scot: [27:54] Cool so you're like a delicious d2c doughnut or a yeah with a with a good feeling so, so one of the reasons I wanted to get you on the podcast is you've been out there pretty vocal talking about by with prime so maybe explain for listeners who don't know what that is what it is from your perspective and then then how you guys got looped in on that. Matt: [28:18] Yeah so by with prime is a new offering from Amazon and it integrates into. Platforms like Shopify and Bigcommerce. And it allows a e-commerce retailer to pool their FBA inventory if they're on Amazon or they can send in inventory into Amazon. And there's a button on the Shopify site or the Bigcommerce site that bypasses the normal checkout process and it's just a one click buy now with Prime and then that item is fulfilled by Amazon, and that can choose and what type of box or whatever and you can actually deliver it in very competitive pricing compared to UPS FedEx you know a lot of the mail consolidators in one to two business days. Scot: [29:06] Got it and then if I. Matt: [29:08] It's a lot like it's a dressed-up it's like a gastropub version of their original like multi what was it called mer multi-channel fulfillment service. Scot: [29:17] Yeah yeah but with a consumer front end to it. Matt: [29:20] Yes with the consumer and actually some of the people in that department are like. Hey we had this originally for like five or ten years but they just dress it up and gave it a good logo so and some more front-end technology but you know it's a very compelling offer. Scot: [29:35] Yeah so the user consumer is I go to your website and I see I'm in the checkout process and it says hey you're a prime user you can just you've already got your payment and everything with Amazon and you know you're familiar with the prime promise which is the fast free shipping and then I just essentially press a button in her my Amazon credentials and I'm good to go is that. Matt: [29:56] Yeah and it's actually before the checkout process so if you it actually supports variation so, if you were selling red dresses and you had extra small and small and FBA but you were sold out and medium and you I'd meet him in your Warehouse then, it would actually if you chose the extra small or small would populate that button on the checkout before you click or on the item page before you added it to check out. Scot: [30:17] So you need you need to make it an inventory aware that it's in a FB a kind of thing okay interesting yeah alright but then the you know so, so this has been another reason this was topical is you know if we kind of rewind I like five years I think there's been this kind of started this got on my radar well first of all shopify's Mantra is arming the rebels right and so that folks being a Star Wars fan that invokes a Star Wars kind of thing and then you're kind of like well who's the Death Star and it turns out Amazon's the Death Star and their arm the rebels so then they've been poking Amazon. Jason: [30:52] Oddly Kylie Jenner is Luke Skywalker in that metaphor but yeah. Scot: [30:56] Sure yeah and and then and then the Shopify social media started to really poke around Amazon it made fun of Jeff Bezos was in some tabloids for some pictures that surfaced and they were making fun of that and then his divorce and all that and then I was sitting there watching that you and I have seen other companies kind of poke the Amazon Baron it hasn't gone very well for him sitting there watching as like this is not gonna go well for these guys and then sure enough you know flash word to hear Shopify has hit some issues with growth rates they over-invested in the post covid world and then famously Toby the CEO was talking about he got asked on a conference call a Wall Street conference call what he thought about by with Prime and he's like oh we love Innovation and we would we would love to adopt it well then they had to backtrack that so are you guys caught up in that like are you know because they basically are now telling Merchants that if you use it, it's pretty hard language they're saying you're probably going to be open to fraud and we can't protect you and so they're definitely heading down this path I think of, trying to make it very hard for you to use this feature. Matt: [32:13] In terms of like are you asking what would I do as a business or in terms of where do you think the industry will kind of go. Scot: [32:19] We'll have has you know I'm assuming you're tracking this pretty closely because you're all you always are yeah. Jason: [32:25] Did you get the threatening letter from from Shopify. Matt: [32:27] Yeah it's we didn't get a threatening letter but we've seen all the pop-up of the terms of service and are account that popped up. Scot: [32:33] Yeah yeah it reminds me of the early days of eBay where they were like there's this thing PayPal we think it's very suspicious and we're not really sure you should use you should use our crappy payment thing that takes 50 clicks and rarely works but it's so super secure, yes so that that's interesting do you where do you think that you know as a merchant, you are on this platform and you want the flexibility to do everything how does it make you feel as from a business perspective to. Matt: [33:00] From a business for so personal and then where the industry is heading I mean where the industry is heading I think you have to look. Amazon is going to rule the world of logistics you know you've seen FedEx come out with the reports where they've had one of their biggest messes ever and I think. You're seeing Amazon trunks more and more and it's the more reliable you know delivery than a lot of the common carrier so. And I've seen you know Scott we've seen what GSI and eBay and Walmart I mean Rockies Han launched of a competitor try to take out FBI I mean these are huge companies that really tried to take on Amazon and Logistics front. And I can tell you I've used what is now I guess Shopify Logistics or whatever they're going to rename it but deliver and, it it did not really work for our business you know I can't speak for other people but it had a lot of bugs in the integration it's there's a lot of flaws with the delivery process and I don't know if that was the best egg acquisition for deliver and I don't know if it'll really work out. For a merchants and so I think there's a lot of there's a lot of progress that Amazon has made to really out do a lot of everyone in the logistics world. [34:14] And I just don't know if other people are going to be able to keep up and I think Innovation is always going to you know fee if Amazon is able to deliver things in one to two days for a Shopify, at prices than most Shopify Merchants can negotiate directly with UPS or FedEx or USPS for standard shipping then you know. [34:35] I understand what's good for Shopify and they want him to go through the checkout but what's good for their merchants on their platform than somebody might actually start to. Take that business platform because I know as as a business owner and as a CEO I would I would make the Assumption if Shopify came in and said that. And we saw by with prime become successful as we've seen in some initial few weeks of launching it, then we would probably consider re-platforming maybe to a Bigcommerce or maybe somebody that Amazon had a really good relationship with. And maybe that's not you know the smartest move at this point but in the future when you know we can deliver Goods because part of our selling feature to people to outdo the box stores, is not you know because people can go to a dicks or Academy, and they can have the much better selection they VIP programs and everything so something we instituted on Guardian baseball.com is when I set out to start the business is I wanted to offer a free 6-month extended warranty, on all bats and equipment. [35:35] Because the Brand's only offer a year so we're a year and a half and I said if we compete with these brands in a world of price monitoring and price mapping and the price is the same everywhere if we're going to have a pair of cleats listed on Amazon and F ba and then we're selling them with standard shipping on our website then the only thing we really have to do is play with price and discounting, and enduring a world of price parity that's impossible so for a d2c Merchants that plays on the Amazon space you have to able to offer that same offering, of that one to two day shipping like Amazon does on your own D2 seeing if you. [36:06] Then you can't really expand in the Amazon because you're just going to cannibalize your own sales on on your own d2c site so I think you have to offer it both so I think Innovation will always continue to succeed, in the market and I think Brands will start to partner with people that are going to partner with Amazon. Scot: [36:23] Yeah often kind of war game did this Jason I'm pretty sure we've said this on the podcast a couple times if I was personally Amazon and I got the job of disrupting Shopify, you know what I would do is I would leverage FBA and I would go and I get as many Shopify people using FBA and then then that would give me the hook to then say well let's say they came out with a competing platform or or they just. They wanted you to go to a, friendly third party platform like let's say it's Bigcommerce or something then then you just kind of proved to me that that is enough hook for the merchants to to make a front-end switch because that that, that fast relatively inexpensive shipping is so important to most companies and because customers expect. Matt: [37:09] And I think Amazon has the war chest to say if Java does come out with that I mean. And I go to the by with prom team and say hey look I have to lever I have to change the Bigcommerce it's going to cost me X you know if you want me to continue using by with prime what can you guys do for me I mean you know. Scot: [37:26] Yeah so you hinted that it's going really well are there any stats you can share with us so like I guess there's one thing would be you know you can only show it so many times because there's going to only be a surface area of inventory that's an FBA but then when it's shown is that got higher conversion than other things anything you can share there would be interesting. Matt: [37:46] So it does have some cons there's a lot of things that are on the road map with by with prime but I mean the obvious obviously the successes are, we're seeing a slight Improvement do the familiar with the prime badge and also the estimated shipping dates the Fulfillment costs are generally 25 to 30 percent less than we can currently negotiate and I'm with a lot of mail consolidators, you know resellers a post office obviously you know I've been in this world so I know that different ways to negotiate with FedEx ups and a lot of the mail consolidators. In the quicker delivery times are generally seen 24 to 48 hours max we're seeing is 72 hours and the a big con of that as you can keep the customer data unlike regular FBA sales. Um and they're also offering you know obviously I was doubted accelerate I spoke at by with Braun conference prior to accelerated Amazon HQ, last week and it accelerate they announced that they're you know offering a bunch of different initiatives that are kind of new for Amazon where they're offering. Brands are participating by with prime the ability to actually mark it on the Amazon platform but back to their d2c site. [38:53] So there's a lot of compelling offers out there that they're kind of opening up the amazon Universe to which is kind of unique and I was actually surprised about. But one of the big issues that they're working on is the conversion tracking so our marketing pixels don't record purchases made from the by with prime button which is something that they're working on. And the akan that they're working on other are releasing this is you can purchase you can only purchase one bearing at a time so it's not like a checkout experience, where you can group a bunch of different items you actually have to like physically buy one item go back to the site so we have a lot of multicart, on our website unlike Amazon which is a lot of single item you pts and so we're seeing you know on a lot of those bulk they're still going to do the traditional checkout process because I don't think it's like it's hard to really explain that to the customer we're like hey if you want to buy the single item go with by with Prime. So we're seeing at limited success with a lot of 10 items. [39:53] If we don't currently with the current integration with Shopify it doesn't have the inventory transparency so we have to double up with an mcf integration. So it's something. You know it's kind of a unique situation with our business model because we have a separate FB a skew so there's some you know quarks in there, and there's some different things that they're really kind of coming out so with but it's I call them cons but it's really things that are calling the roadmap and right as they kind of said at the conference to me and a large group of you know. Agencies and sellers is we wanted to get it out there in the marketplace and I said that's smart and then we want to work on these as opposed to having a perfect program and releasing it a year later. Jason: [40:38] Yeah so I actually just realized we didn't. We didn't articulate a couple things for visitors to just make sure everybody is tracking Guardian baseball is running on Shopify. And you are an early adopter by with prime so and you even you promoted on the homepage right so you've got like very distinctive branding by with prime which is Amazon's program that you know if you're already a Prime member gives you that, that Prime service level of fulfillment and the prime wallet even when you buy it on Guardian baseball so. A couple of things kind of jump out at me there. You hit one that is a big problem for me is the multi skew problem but I think of the by with prime checkout flow is being very similar to the traditional shot PayPal flow. In that the checkout button shows up on as a separate button on the pdps but PayPal also let you. Like use PayPal as the payment method in the cart for the multi skew purchase so you Amazon doesn't have a solution for that today but you could imagine that they would enable by with prime both on the product level and at the cart levels. Matt: [41:54] Yes and that's what they're working towards. Jason: [41:56] Yeah so so that's always one big problem because you know side note most e-commerce sites are not very profitable if the if the, if the average items per order is 1 so so we definitely we need to sell more stuff in most cases to make this profitable the threatening letter I would add to is not Shopify saying hey you're not allowed to accept by with, it's simply them saying in our opinion their security flaws in, doing this kind of thing and we might not be able to indemnify you if there's a fraud problem as a result of that right like that's that's the kind of passive-aggressive, approach shopify's taken to date on it and it is funny to me because all of those same security holes would also be true of PayPal by the way and Shopify has never really complained about PayPal before. Um so that gets me to the other big problem I see for both Prime and I'm curious if I'm wrong or if you're seeing it by with prime only works for existing Prime members there's no onboarding experience so if I'm not a Prime member and I go to Guardian baseball.com I see this huge well go on the homes thing that says by with prime which I don't have Prime and then when I'm looking at an individual skew I want to buy there's a by with prime checkout button, and I could click that button but I won't be allowed to check out because I don't I don't have Prime and so if the only. Scot: [43:21] Who doesn't have Prime. Matt: [43:23] I'm glad it's got Evans. Jason: [43:27] Nobody listening to this podcast but there's 100 million Prime members in the world so even if we assume, 70 million of them are in North America 80 million if you want to be really aggressive are in North America there's 240 million households in North America so two-thirds of the households in the United States of America would be the answer like can't click that button right and so I guess I went like you've got this fragmented inventory you have some of your inventory you can you can fulfill through the the Shopify check out some you can only fulfill through by with prime but then like you have no way to give the non-prime members access to that is that a am I making up a problem and that hasn't been a problem for you or do you think you have, have non-prime members that are kind of in the whole right now on that. Matt: [44:16] I think that's something to Amazon can better communicate we are obviously limited to what they can do on the side but a normal customer can still do the normal checkout process of adding the cart. But I think yeah that's obviously something Amazon can do and then also doesn't support discounts which is a big not only the conversion tracking but discount so obviously a lot of direct to Consumer sites. Like us are offering discounts or first-time customers or email you know pay 25% off with this code or Black Friday Cyber Monday so the currently does not support so it's very limited, but we really feel it's kind of right now in its use and this is going to change in the next three to six months but right now it's kind of like a fast lane, you know where you're paying like at Disney World for the fast ticket or whatever the top-of-the-line and we really feel that hey you can go through your normal checkout process. But we also have this ability we're going to a fast pass you know if you want it now you don't want to Discount you know you want it quicker and you want that problem delivery. Jason: [45:13] Yeah so it's weird like here's how I like I totally agree with how you're thinking about by with prime you also take shop pay on the site and I would argue there's a different set of pros and cons to shop pay for different customers in different circumstances it seems like the solution to all these that none of these companies are willing to do is you ought to be able to just expose the by with prime button to known Prime members and you ought to be able to just expose the shop pay check out to known shop pay holders. Matt: [45:46] I love that idea. Jason: [45:47] Yeah trust me when you suggested to Amazon they're not going to like you because they, because they want that logo everywhere but yeah so that that seems like the, the state of by with prime right now it's super interesting and it's super interesting you're saying like man if Shopify ever said we it's a it's a hard know then that would make you reconsider the platform like that you know like that speaks volumes that's interesting. Matt: [46:14] I think you know I think Amazon's coming out with this program in there. [46:19] I think everyone say okay is is a lot of these direct-to-consumer Shopify Brands going to adapt Amazon FBA and I think a number of them are but I think what also this is going to help. A lot of Amazon Brands a lot of Amazon DTC brands that are really executing well like a guardian on marketing, on creating good content in there not just these Dropship Private Label Amazon sellers, that are out there and you know let's go Source one or two products on Alibaba and sell them under some name and compete with the Chinese but really people that are building a brand you know the brands that are getting acquired by the aggregators and those type of brands. And those brands that may be. Our and expanded into Walmart expanded into other categories but are scared to kind of make that big investment into a Shopify site and hire the marketing team and really become like a full-fledged direct-to-consumer I think. What Amazon's doing on the marketing front. And the Fulfillment front is going to help these Amazon d2c Brands and I think what's going to happen is going to create a rise of the next wave of d2c or the next kind of. Trendy type of companies that come out there so you've seen obviously a lot of trends like 2010's as flash sales and then you saw direct to Consumer Brands and subscription boxes, and the direct to Consumer Brands predominantly grew on social media Instagram Facebook when the iOS changes you know weren't adapted and traffic was still cheap so. [47:44] I think you're going to see a lot of these the next wave of cool direct to Consumer Brands will come from Amazon and they will adapt on the data see sites with the help of Amazon. Scot: [47:54] Prick. Matt: [47:55] And I don't think you're going to see as much D to see big brands that are adapting the Amazon by with Prime at least initially and I think eventually that you'll see a lot more adoption once a lot of these quirks are worked out. Scot: [48:09] Yeah a lot of d2c Brands got born off Facebook but apple and the atti DFA of kind of crushed that so now Amazon used is kind of the way to go so I think what you're saying right. Matt: [48:20] Yeah I think so and I think that's going to create a next wave of either the brands are going to adapt from a t2c over to Amazon or you're going to see these kind of Amazon native people that have kind of running this world like I have for the last two decades that really know how to master the marketplace know how to assemble the teams of marketing customer service and everything and use the right technology stocks, for those businesses and really adopt and really grow really Innovative brands. Scot: [48:47] I know you need to go and like four minutes so we could wrap it a fire this. Matt: [48:50] You're good you can tell Ron few months if you. Scot: [48:52] About dying dying to know what do you think about all the FBA Roll-Ups they were all quite the fashion and now they seem to be hitting some hard times did you ever buy into that trend. Matt: [49:03] I think anyone in this market I mean you look at a lot of our outspoken people on social media of those, you know it's tough to acquire that many Brands and I think there are some people that are successful with it that are more going in The Tortoise and the Hare that you know we all I'm hearing some successful people where there's let you know. By maybe they own 15 brands or they own 10 brands but obviously the big big aggregators that everyone talks about are obviously struggling you're seeing layoffs so. I wasn't really you know how to directly opinion on it I thought it was there's no way they could acquire that many Brands and with it with the market model of not keeping the entrepreneurial on because I think there's always an art form to e-commerce you can have all the analytics you want you can have all the data scientists and, and all the formula but you know when you hire College grads and to run these businesses that don't have experience you it's always a touch and feel there's always 20-30 percent art right, that somebody needs to know and the older I get I realize that I have that on the marketplace of how to really build the brands and how to adapt Brands to that, and that's why I've been successful and I'm realizing that's my strength so I think some of those aggregators really didn't have that kind of DNA of the entrepreneur and keep that intact and that might have been a downfall of some of those. Jason: [50:21] Yeah it's it is interesting I can certainly see companies kind of being born direct-to-consumer on Amazon having their first customers come from Amazon and then outgrow Amazon over time where you want your own URLs or move to other things which like I mean I think, anchor is kind of the Prototype. Matt: [50:42] That yeah that was that's a really good. Jason: [50:45] But I do think I think it's really risky whether you're a rollup or an individual brand or whatever it's really risky to think I'm Amazon is always going to be my exclusive, acquisition Channel because the problem is Amazon Super efficient at getting the maximum, fee for each customer you acquire and so yeah you can buy some of those you know customers at first to get started but you're always going to be paying the highest price and you know the big news that came out this month is I forget what their new name was but Pharma packs which has been a top five, seller on Amazon for like 10 years, and exclusively sell through Amazon they just they declared bankruptcy and they're like one of the biggest most successful Amazon sellers of all time and to me that's a cautionary tale for, like at some point you need to diversify your customer acquisition you can't solely rely on Amazon as that is that source for you. Matt: [51:42] I think yes I think it's a part of a Playbook and you have to adhere to other channels and grow in other channels but you know obviously. Amazon's one of the biggest places to acquire customers one of the most successful so I think it's always going to be in a portfolio but it needs to be part of a whole portfolio. Jason: [51:58] Hundred percent that's why they robbed the money from the banks right because that's what, that's where the money is but man I think that's going to be a good place to wrap it because we have used up our lot of time as per usual if you got value out of this episode we sure would appreciate that five star review on iTunes. Scot: [52:16] Matt we really appreciate taking time to tell your arterial story and share with us your thoughts about both Prime if lister's want to look you up online other than going in and buying some stuff that Guardian baseball what should they do. Matt: [52:29] I'm on LinkedIn Instagram and it's (2) Matt Kubancik

Guests: Stephanie Walsh (Dairy Farmers of America), Melissa Malcolm-Cullison (Cooler Management), Mark Inkrott (Owner of Cooler Management) and co-host: Charlie BenzJoining us at the table to discuss what their organizations are doing to make significant impacts on food security and hunger are Stephanie Walsh, Melissa Malcolm-Cullison and Mark Inkrott. Stephanie Walsh, Director of Industry and Community Affairs for DFA (Dairy Farmers of America) highlights their Farmers Feeding Families Fund, ensuring community members receive the dairy products they need. 1:08Vice President for Cooler Management, Melissa Malcolm-Cullison also joined the evening discussion, sharing her teams' experience building infrastructure for food banks and food pantries across the country. 2:20Co-Founder of the UpField Group and Owner of Cooler Management, Mark Inkrott also joined in on the discussion. For his entire career after sports, Inkrott noted that he's been involved in supply chain work with both various brands and farmers alike. Since acquiring Cooler Management a few years ago, they have been specializing in cold storage ever since. 3:44Analyzing the impacts COVID-19 had on the supply chain, Melissa talked about her connection with Charlie Benz of Balchem early in the pandemic. Adding that she saw wasted food due to the influx of food donations during that time, caused by a shortage in refrigerator space. 10:30After brainstorming solutions with Charlie, Melissa said they realized infrastructure was the key to storing food donations safely to get them to families in need. Today, she added she is proud of the program because it offered a solution for nutritious foods like dairy to be donated without spoiling. 14:37Stephanie said in support of food insecurity concerns, the DFA Cares Foundation offers education and scholarships to students studying agriculture. Additionally, she added that in 2022 the foundation provided 53 scholarships through the program. 15:22 Bringing the Cooler Management team and DFA together, Stephanie added in 2020 the two established a partnership to help donate coolers across the country and dairy products to local food pantries. 19:15Melissa noted most people usually think about donating food to food pantries, but not dairy products or even refrigeration needs until programs like Cooler Management or Kooler Kids (from Balchem) begin. 30:26 To date, Mark said they have placed over 3,000 pieces of equipment into food pantries across the country. As for the Cooler Management team, they work with various retailers on finding adequate coolers for food banks and food pantries. 38:41Healthy food equals a healthy family, Mark stated, adding that's why investing 90 million dollars into 30,000 coolers for food pantries across the country just makes sense and keeps the team motivated. 48:09 It's September Hunger Action month and so far Stephanie said the Farmers Feeding Families Fund has raised more than $950,000. Their goal is to raise the last $50,000. If anyone is called to help, she encourages everyone to make sure their own fridge is full of dairy products and also asks people to volunteer at their local food pantry.  57:50Donations for the DFA Farmers Feeding Families Fund can happen at DFA.Wrapping up, Mark reflected saying we have an influx of food going into the system, but without proper infrastructure and foundation, it will go to waste. He said if the industry does something about the 30,000 coolers, in 10 years we won't have to think about refrigeration.1:13:02Be a part of feeding the hungry and bringing the benefits of fresh dairy, produce and meat to those in need. Contact Your Balchem Representative or email anh.marketing@balchem.com to learn more.Learn more about these great programs:https://www.coolermanagement.com/https://balchem.com/animal-nutrition-health/social-responsibility/kooler-kids-program/https://www.dfamilk.com/our-commitment/dfa-caresPlease subscribe and share with your industry friends to bring more people to join us around the Real Science Exchange virtual pub table.  If you want one of our new Real Science Exchange t-shirts, screenshot your rating, review, or subscription, and email a picture to anh.marketing@balchem.com. Include your size and mailing address, and we'll get a shirt in the mail to you.

GUEST HOST: Robert Brennan On today's show Martin North discusses the global economic situation, inflation and the Central Bank policy reaction. And, Professor Chen Hong talks about the latest situation regarding Taiwan and related geopolitical issues along with the current economic situation in China. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Martin North is Principal of Digital Finance Analytics which combines primary consumer research, industry modelling, economic analysis and segmentation analytics to offer insight into the dynamics of the mortgage, lending, savings, payments and superannuation industries. Digital Finance Analytics makes daily YouTube shows on property and finance at “Walk The World” and analyses housing and mortgage finance for the DFA channel, blog and mainstream media. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Prof. Chen Hong is Chair of Department of English Language and Literature, and Director of the Australian Studies Centre at East China Normal University in Shanghai. He is also Executive Vice President of the Chinese Association of Australian Studies, Editor-in-Chief of the Website of Australian Studies in China, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Studies of Australian Culture, and Journal of Australian Studies in China.

Kevin Plawecki was designated for assignment by the Red Sox on Friday. He joins the podcast to not only give his thoughts on the decision, but to recount his career in Boston as a whole. From being the personal catcher for Eovaldi and Wacha, to creating a rallying cry for the 2021 Red Sox with Dancing On My Own, Plawecki has been a pillar in the clubhouse for the last three years and his teammates made it well-known that his presence will be missed. We talk to him about his reaction to getting DFA'd, his teammates' support, his favorite memories in Boston, and a whole lot more. The Red Sox also won a series against the Royals so we're giving out some ketchup to maybe the most deserving KKSMVP of the year. Jared and Tyler are talking rotation for next year, the pressure on Chaim Bloom over the offseason, Jared needing a 162 girl who hates going outside, and more. Enjoy! If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/MI/NJ/PA/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 1-877-770-STOP (7867) (LA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/LA/MI/NH/NJ/NY/OR/ PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. Min. $5 deposit required. Eligibility restrictions apply. See http://draftkings.com/sportsbook for details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Sox drop both games at Fenway to the Yankees, and my goodness was it eventful. Lots of Aaron Judge talk and how he can't wait to play for the Sox, Xander hunts down the batting crown, Familia gets DFA'd, and much more! Presented by Audacy. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Sox drop both games at Fenway to the Yankees, and my goodness was it eventful. Lots of Aaron Judge talk and how he can't wait to play for the Sox, Xander hunts down the batting crown, Familia gets DFA'd, and much more! Presented by Audacy.Subscribe to Inside The Monster HERE! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Sox drop both games at Fenway to the Yankees, and my goodness was it eventful. Lots of Aaron Judge talk and how he can't wait to play for the Sox, Xander hunts down the batting crown, Familia gets DFA'd, and much more! Presented by Audacy.Subscribe to Inside The Monster HERE! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

大家好，欢迎来到无人知晓。我是孟岩。今天来做客的是我的好朋友，有知有行的伙伴，陈鹏博士。我和陈博士相识于去年（2021 年）5 月，在最初的接触中，我了解到他在 90 年代初赴美攻读经济学，取得了博士学位之后，开启了他在金融行业中迄今为止 25 年的职业生涯。他曾在美国晨星（Morningstar）公司担任全球投资管理部主席兼总裁，旗下管理规模约 1900 亿美元。之后又回到亚洲，担任德明信（DFA）亚太区首席执行官。但真正让我们彼此投缘并决定一起前行的并不是这份光鲜的履历，而是我们对投资、投顾理解上的默契，以及期待能够一起带给普通投资者更好投资体验的理想。陈博士在美国曾经和两位诺贝尔奖获得者尤金·法玛教授和罗伯特·默顿教授一起工作，这两位教授也是两家著名的资产管理公司德明信（DFA）和长期资本（LTCM）背后的灵魂人物。以有效市场假说理论为原点，德明信和长期资本走向了不同的道路，背后更根本的原因，可能是两位教授截然不同的性格。在《无人知晓》第三期，我们说「投资像一面镜子，照出真实的自己」，这一期也再一次呼应了这个主题。最终，决定我们投资业绩的，是我们每个人自己的价值观、世界观、认知，以及性格。希望带给你一些启发。*注：本期播客仅为分享，不作为投资建议，请听众审慎判断、独立思考。【收听地图】03:37 提出有效市场假说的尤金·法玛如何看待主动投资人巴菲特？为什么陈博士认为尤金·法玛只说对了一半？07:40 所以，有效市场假说到底在说什么？11:39 原来 2017 年之前的孟岩还会经常反驳有效市场假说，为什么现在他变了？15:29 为了让信息传播再快个零点零几秒，人们不惜砸下 20 亿美元新修电缆。这戏剧化程度之高还被拍成了电影《蜂鸟计划》29:56 同是诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，同是有效市场假说信奉者，尤金·法玛和默顿教授的确是同源而出21:46 陈博士开玩笑称默顿教授的书卖得太贵，却被默顿教授反过来调侃「这算你占了便宜」27:09 尤金·法玛和默顿教授的理论实践走向了完全不同的结局？性格决定命运29:38 尤金·法玛：那些我们无法解释的东西都是噪音，应该减少噪音的干扰32:42 DFA 创始人向陈博士描述卖短期业绩的危害，那是「invite the client to fire you」（邀请你的客户来解雇你）37:17 默顿教授：那些我们无法解释的部分是市场定价发生了错误，可以利用错误赚钱49:35 长期资本最终走向了失败，但自信的默顿教授并没有闲下来......58:08 当稳定与平衡被打破时，我们应该怎么去投资？低价、分散、长期、别加杠杆62:06 我们应该为未来不确定的极端情况留多少现金？69:10 投资没有标准答案，每个人都应该找到属于自己的游戏。【完整体验】请访问有知有行播客详情页：https://youzhiyouxing.cn/materials/1320【关于无人知晓】无人知晓是一档由孟岩主理的投资向对话类播客。每期都会邀请一位好友来做客。至于更新频率、嘉宾选择、每期主题，就如同这个名字一样，无人知晓。孟岩还打造了一款帮助普通人投资的产品「有知有行」，希望能够帮助到你。【关于有知有行】有知有行成立于 2020 年，目前在陪伴投资者用正确的方式学习投资，下场实操。凭借在投资领域的良好口碑，有知有行在初创阶段已与一大批忠实用户同行。未来我们希望成为一家财富管理公司，不仅帮助投资者学习投资，也能让大家在有知有行安心交易，踏实赚钱。欢迎在应用商城搜索「有知有行」下载我们的 App，记投资账，学投资课。你可以在这些渠道找到有知有行出品的播客：有知有行、小宇宙、喜马拉雅、QQ音乐、网易云音乐、苹果播客、三联中读、蜻蜓FM、荔枝播客、微信听书、Spotify、Amazon Music，以及 Overcast、Pocket Casts、Castro 等泛用型播客客户端。【音乐】Midnight Flash — AmaksiUnsolved Story — Pavel Poliakov【创作者】嘉宾 陈鹏博士｜主播 孟岩｜剪辑 柯霖｜文稿 娄娄｜制作 有知有行

GUEST HOST: Jeremy Beck On today's show we discuss Australia vacant properties, ABS property stats, inflation, forex, inflation, commodities, derivatives, China, economic outlook. GUEST OVERVIEW: Martin North is Principal of Digital Finance Analytics which combines primary consumer research, industry modelling, economic analysis and segmentation analytics to offer insight into the dynamics of the mortgage, lending, savings, payments and superannuation industries. Digital Finance Analytics makes daily YouTube shows on property and finance at “Walk The World” and analyses housing and mortgage finance for the DFA channel, blog and mainstream media.

Now there is a clock in baseball. The pitch clock is coming to MLB in 2023, and a shift ban is coming with it. MLB has been experimenting with these rules in the minors, and they were officially voted in on Friday. The pitch clock will eliminate tons of dead time between pitches where nothing happens and is likely to be a smashing success when all is said and done, despite not necessarily pleasing everyone initially. The ban on shifts will also have big consequences. There must be at least two fielders on either side of second base, and all must have both feet on the dirt. This will be a huge boon to left-handed hitters in particular, who have been victims of aggressive shifts that have taken away hits in shallow right field for many years now. The San Francisco Giants got swept in their doubleheader yesterday, but the big takeaway from the game was Sean Hjelle's strong five innings of work. The Giants right-handed pitcher was pumping mid-90s sinkers in the zone, racking up strikeouts and ground balls. The rest of the season should be about watching guys like Hjelle, and seeing whether they can be key pieces on next year's team. Outfielder Austin Dean was added to the 40-man and MLB rosters prior to Friday's game, and reliever Cole Waites is on the taxi squad. Dom Leone was placed on the IL with an elbow impingement. Yermín Mercedes was DFA'd and outrighted to Triple-A Sacramento. Find and follow Locked On Giants on your favorite podcast platforms:

Today's guest is Marlena Lee, the Global Head of Investment Solutions for Dimensional Fund Advisors, which manages over $600 billion. In today's episode, we start by hearing what it was like to be a TA under the legendary Gene Fama. Marlena gives he thoughts on the state of value investing, the mentality needed to navigate bear markets, and applying factors to fixed income.   As we wind down, Marlena touches on DFA's entrance into the ETF space and their plans for future launches. ----- Follow Meb on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube For detailed show notes, click here To learn more about our funds and follow us, subscribe to our mailing list or visit us at cambriainvestments.com ----- Today's episode is sponsored by The Idea Farm. The Idea Farm gives you access to over $100,000 worth of investing research, the kind usually read by only the world's largest institutions, funds, and money managers. Subscribe for free here. ----- Interested in sponsoring the show? Email us at Feedback@TheMebFaberShow.com ----- Past guests include Ed Thorp, Richard Thaler, Jeremy Grantham, Joel Greenblatt, Campbell Harvey, Ivy Zelman, Kathryn Kaminski, Jason Calacanis, Whitney Baker, Aswath Damodaran, Howard Marks, Tom Barton, and many more.  ----- Meb's invested in some awesome startups that have passed along discounts to our listeners. Check them out here! 

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Thank you for checking out this week's episode of the Baseball Together Podcast, baseball family! Brig and Brad get things started by getting you up to date on MLB news with the 2023 MLB schedule release, Dallas Keuchal getting DFA'd by the Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals DH Albert Pujols is chasing history, the Pittsburgh Pirates FINALLY having a Hall of Fame, the Seattle Mariners sweep the Cleveland Guardians, New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge is chasing history while the rest of his team continues to be a mystery, Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt could win the Triple Crown, the Philadelphia Phillies win big despite not hitting ANY home runs, MLB explains exactly why umpire Angel Hernandez isn't assigned to World Series umpiring crews, more updates on the World Baseball Classic, and Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman is finally called for a balk. The guys then update you on the Baseball Together Fantasy Baseball League and share their power rankings in the form of emoji tiers. Enjoy! Use code "BTPOD" at check out for 10% off Chinook Seedery: https://bit.ly/3Act6Fg (affiliate) Thanks for listening! If you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a rating and a review. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode! Check out the links below for our Link Tree that includes links for the shop where you can get the gear Brig and Brad wear every episode, follow us on social media, submit to the mailbag, leave a voicemail, and support the show with our affiliates. Submit questions through the mailbag or leave a voicemail for the show and the guys will give you a shoutout! Baseball Together only partners with companies we believe in. https://linktr.ee/baseballtogether --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baseball-together/message

In this week's episode, we have a discussion with Mitchell Gerber, an investigative journalist who has dedicated 22 years to exposing crimes against humanity happening in China. With a resilient character and a determined mind, he has been working hard on the frontline of a significant cause, which has been coined a “New form of evil.” Mitchell has been traveling the world in a crucial attempt to raise awareness about the crimes currently occurring against certain religious groups resulting in horrific acts of violence by the country's own government.  Resources:   https://faluninfo.net/     http://faluninfo.net/why-persecution/      http://www.stoporganharvesting.org/     https://endtransplantabuse.org/     https://chinatribunal.com/   Subscribe and leave a 5-star review! ----more---- Our website https://redpillrevolution.co/    Protect your family and support the Red Pill Revolution Podcast with Affordable Life Insurance. This is attached to my license and not a third-party ad!   Go to https://agents.ethoslife.com/invite/3504a now!   Currently available in AZ, MI, MO, LA, NC, OH, IN, TN, WV Email austin@redpillrevolution.co if you would like to sign up in a different state   Leave a donation, sign up for our weekly podcast companion newsletter, and follow along with all things Red Pill Revolution by going to our website: https://redpillrevolution.co    ----more----   Full Transcription     

Breaking News: Jared's herbal cigarettes are here and his journey to become the face of the herbal cig industry starts now. Albert Pujols hit his 695th home run and is now five away from 700. Zac Gallen hasn't given up a run in 41 2/3 innings pitched and we wonder if he's on the move to a contender in 2023. The Dodgers are straight up boring at this point because they win every game. Goldschmidt is in the triple crown conversation which prompts us to discuss if the qualifiers should be changed. The Twins caught the Guardians and their bullpen looks like it could be a problem for teams in the playoffs. Dallas Keuchel has been DFA'd for the THIRD time this year so he's inevitably going to end up with the Dodgers. The Yankees lose Benintendi to injury and are still scuffling despite Judge hitting a home run every game. The Seattle Mariners are in the midst of a 47-19 stretch since June 21st and are comfortably the third best team in the American League. The Mets lost two of three to the Nationals which brings their NL East lead down to one game. Joey still doesn't have the balls to say the Braves will win the division, though. Dylan Cease was PISSED after throwing a complete game shutout because he lost his no-hit bid in the 9th inning. Enjoy! If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/MI/NJ/PA/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 1-877-770-STOP (7867) (LA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/LA/MI/NH/NJ/NY/OR/ PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. Min. $5 deposit required. Eligibility restrictions apply. See http://draftkings.com/sportsbook for details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Red Sox won a series and about two minutes into the show Jared unintentionally breaks some news which becomes official 30 seconds later. There's been a shakeup in the bullpen as Big Fudge and Sawamura have been DFA'd. We're reacting to the series win against the Rays and Rich Hill's DOMINATE outing on Saturday. We're also talking about Chaim Bloom's job security and how important it is for him to have a good offseason. Not only is Matt Barnes BACK, he's the deciding vote in this episode's KKSMVP as there's a 2-2 tie. Jarren Duran was also optioned and Tyler thinks that might be it for his opportunity to be an everyday starter for the Red Sox. Coley joins the pod and floats some names as to who the Red Sox might chase in free agency this offseason. Enjoy! If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/MI/NJ/PA/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 1-877-770-STOP (7867) (LA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/LA/MI/NH/NJ/NY/OR/ PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. Min. $5 deposit required. Eligibility restrictions apply. See http://draftkings.com/sportsbook for details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Go to https://getroman.com/ROSE TODAY. If approved, you'll get fifteen dollars off your first order of Roman T-support Grade your sports with CSG. Get $15 off yearly memberships with promo code ROSE at https://csgcards.com Tyler Glasnow is back to talk about getting ready to throw to hitters, Drew Rasmussen's near perfect game, worried about being traded, Brett Phillips getting DFA'd, playing chess in NYC, watching "The Captain" and more!

The Nats were doubled up 4-2 in Seattle to open a two game series. Mark (Live from T-Mobile Park) & Al discuss how Robbie Ray had a no-hitter going until "Joey Four Bags" homered to dead center-field in the top of the 7th. Washington has never been no-hit and the last time Expos suffered that fate was in 1999. (08:24) Riley Adams returned to the Nationals and started on Tuesday as Tres Barrera was sent down to AAA. Will Adams see time at 1B or remain the backup catcher? (12:42) Erick Fedde only allowed two runs in his first start since returning from the IL. What is his potential status in the rotation as we project towards 2023? (22:05) Tyler Clippard was DFA'd due to Fedde needing a roster spot. This might be the end for the long-time reliever, who first appeared with the Yankees in 2007. Clippard only pitched in four MLB games this season, but is arguably the greatest relief pitcher in team history. (28:45) The Washington Post reported that Ted Leonsis has emerged as a viable candidate to purchase the franchise, among other bidders. The host analyze all angles to this and also add in the fact that the Angels are now too up for sale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a get to know you tequila shot, Suzy of the new Bourbon & Baseball podcast, and our own fantasy league, joins Pottymouth for this week's show while Patti lifts heavy things in Syracuse. Pottymouth braves Camden Yards without Patti because Kiké is back and there were bleacher seats to be had. Our pal Brett was DFA'd, making room for rising star Kyle Stowers. Suzy brings the Astros love and reassures us that all of our former BFs are being well taken care of by the Houston fan base. Pottymouth ponders the parenting style of Fernando's mom and dad. Suzy fits right in with a Yankees Suck segment, and enjoys how opposing teams believe the ‘stros can hack pitchcom. In the Police Blotter, Ozuna gets hit with a DUI, Blake Snell gets hit by a DUI, and we wonder about a secret backstory to Hader's move to the Padres. Pottymouth catches us up on qualifiers for the Women's World Cup and possibly drops a hack to getting World Baseball Classic tickets. We say “blanket of orange,” and “His strength came in his facial hair.”Get boosted, fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith,  and find us on Twitter @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. Say goodnight, Pottymouth.

Will attends an influencer party with Members Only Dave and finds a new guy for the crew., Mustard is DFA'd by the Guardies and there is only one ending that will make Brian happy., Kareem wants a deal and his timing wasn't as crazy as everyone thought. Goodell says how he'll treat the Watson appeal and the guys talk about their favorite Facebook beefs.

Jack and Aram open the week by discussing Ian Anderson being optioned, Franmil Reyes being DFA'ed, Spencer Strider's comments after facing the Mets, the Padres and Yankees being swept, and Carlos Correa's contract situation. Use Code "JustBaseball" for Deposit Match on Prize Picks Join our Baseball Groupchat! Get Your Just Baseball Merch! Check out our website: https://www.justbaseball.com/ Personal Twitters: @peterappel23, @jack_mcmullen11, @aramleighton8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suddenly, the San Francisco Giants find themselves in an urgent position. The Padres, losers of four of five in the Juan Soto era, has fallen to third in the wild card standings. That's the position the SF Giants have been chasing, and the timing is good since the Giants are set to begin a three-game series in San Diego on Monday night. If the Giants sweep, they could be as few as 3.5 games back of a playoff spot. If they are swept, they would be 9.5 back. Huge swings are possible one way or the other. Will the Giants be up to the task? Something else worth watching is what the Giants will do with their roster in order to add Evan Longoria today or tomorrow. Bryce Johnson and Luis González are candidates to be optioned; at some point, both may be optioned if the Giants decide to go back to 13 position players (as opposed to 14 with 12 pitch pitchers). There's a case to be made that the Giants shouldn't option those two, since the team is somewhat playing for 2023 at this point. But while they're still technically alive, perhaps they go with their veterans. Joc Pederson, Brandon Crawford, and Thairo Estrada were added back over the weekend. Dixon Machado was DFA'd and Yermin Mercedes and David Villar were optioned out to make room. Find and follow Locked On Giants on your favorite podcast platforms:

Breakfast w/ Herschel Walker, Braves big series, MLB big names DFA'd, Auburn QB arrested, NFL preseason starts w/ UGA player doing well, Big 12 tries to steal Big 10 team, Tom Brady calls another QB a "mother-blanker", NFL reporter in hot water for Britney Griner joke, more golfers in trouble with their wives, Pete's Tweets, This Day in Sports History. Come for Yankees pxp man attacking a player, stay for list of best CFB mascots & how SEC mascots stack up. Plus punching an umpire & great days for Phil Niekro & Tom Glavine. petedavis.buzzsprout.com

ADVERTISE/LIVE BROADCAST WITH US: LockedOnRays@gmail.com The Tampa Bay Rays fandom had to say goodbye to a cult hero, who not only gave magical moments to a lot of people but was also a hometown kid: Brett Phillips was DFA'd by the Tampa Bay Rays. Although the Rays gave Brett every chance he got to get his offense going, it never came. His defense, though impressive, could not carry his lack of offense anymore. In other news, another hometown hero, Matt Joyce has announced his retirement. Underrated career, the Tampa kid that surprised so many gets highlighted on the show. Follow Kevin Weiss @KevinWeiss_ Follow Ulises Sambrano @SambranoUlises Follow the show @LockedOnRays #Rays #RaysUp #LockedOnRays #RaysBaseball #TampaBay #TampaBayRays #ChampaBay #TeamTampaBay #TBRays #MLBPodcast Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Blue Nile Make your moment sparkle with jewelry from Bluenile.com. And, going on now is the Blue Nile Anniversary Sale … Save up to forty percent on classic fine jewelry pieces and twenty-five percent on engagement ring settings. Shop stress free and find your forever piece. Go to BlueNile.com today. LinkedIn LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Did you know every week, nearly 40 million job seekers visit LinkedIn? Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONMLB. Vroom With Vroom, you can buy a car entirely online, and have it delivered straight to you, so you never have to go to a dealership again. So, next time you need to buy a car, just grab your phone, go to Vroom.com and check out thousands of great cars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices