Podcasts about East Coast

In this episode, the crew breaks down an unforgettable trip to La Bresse, France, where flight delays, last-minute travel changes, and nonstop chaos turned into one of the most memorable hill climb weekends yet. From sharing bikes with the French riders to discovering wild custom machines, unique race rules, and an incredible club atmosphere, the conversation captures what makes international hill climbing so special. The team also talks about the Great American event, East Coast vs. West Coast hill styles, and why support from family, friends, and the racing community is everything in this sport.

Osprey populations are falling across the East Coast. In the past year, the number of chicks documented is at its lowest since 2014. One cause is overfishing, meaning less food for the birds to eat. Miley Bull and Matt Joyce from the Connecticut Audubon Society share more of their concerns.Then, like many artists, James Cook focuses his work around portraits of notable people, iconic landscapes and busy cityscapes. But what sets him apart are the tools he uses to create his pieces. Cook joins us to explain how he uses nearly 100 vintage typewriters to make these detailed, unique pieces of art.And, people who have synesthesia can see time, hear colors or even taste words. Cognitive psychologist Dr. Mary Spiller explains more about the neurological phenomenon that means “union of the senses.”See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

The Goods Mart got its start eight years ago in California. Today, it has traded the West Coast for the East Coast as it operates its new flagship store in New York — it's fourth but only current location. This single-store chain knows a thing or two about the power of reinvention and it is doing big things with community partnerships and better-for-you products, and it even has a vintage section in the store. Listen in to get to know The Goods Mart, featuring Founder Rachel Krupa.

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Pope Leo talks to Tom Llamas about family's history with slavery; Fauci pleads fifth during Covid hearing; Powerful storms slam the East Coast; and more on tonight's broadcast. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Morgan Norwood reports and Lee Goldberg has the forecast as deadly storms slam the East Coast, with nearly a foot of rain prompting urgent water rescues and washing out some major roads north of New York City; Dr. Anthony Fauci faced a barrage of questions during a Republican-led hearing on the Covid-19 pandemic, with Fauci refusing to answer questions, invoking the 5th Amendment more than 100 times. Jay O'Brien has details; Mary Bruce reports on the widening war with Iran as Pres. Trump vows to hit Iran "very hard" after "an attempted surprise attack" on U.S. military bases in Jordan; More than five decades ago, a high school librarian lost her wallet. Now, 54 years later, workers found the lost item and returned it to her grateful family with treasured family photos inside. Whit Johnson has the #AmericaStrong story; and more on tonight's broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Host Jesse Jackson welcomes Denver-based Springsteen fan Tracey Konigsbauer, who grew up in Philadelphia and says Bruce has always been in her blood. Tracey shares her musical influences (soul, R&B, Prince, The Roots, classic hip hop, The Beatles), her own playing (saxophone inspired by Clarence Clemons, plus guitar), and her move to Colorado. She discusses how Tunnel of Love became her gateway to deeply absorbing Bruce's lyrics, reflects on seeing Bruce seven times on the East Coast (including Meadowlands and Philly), and recalls an emotional 2012 Philly performance of “Jungleland” after Clarence's passing as Jake Clemons took the solo. Tracey talks about Bruce and politics, songs she loves and chases, being moved by “I'll See You in My Dreams,” her local music life in Denver, and answers the “Thunder Road” question: she doesn't think Mary gets in the car. 00:00 Show Intro 00:48 Meet Tracey 02:38 Denver And East Coast Shows 04:43 Musical Roots And Influences 06:52 Moving Without A Network 10:36 Discovering Bruce Early 11:43 Tunnel Of Love Connection 14:37 Seven Shows And Favorites 16:17 Jungleland Without Clarence 18:08 Bruce And Politics 22:13 Songs That Matter Most 23:24 Top Bruce Picks 23:57 Shore Album Memories 24:40 Marys Place Porch Flashback 26:23 Husband Joins The Fun 28:36 Songs Still Chasing 29:39 Letter To You Grief 31:59 Concert Buddies And First Show 33:00 Red Rocks And Summer Shows 36:41 Sports Allegiance And Bruce Truce 39:19 Does Mary Get In 40:45 Final Thoughts And Real Estate 43:34 Podcast Farewell Message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us Fan MailSmoke turns the sky orange and suddenly everyone wants a simple villain. We get why that's tempting, but we care more about what the evidence says about Canadian wildfires, boreal forest fire behavior, and the real drivers behind those brutal smoke days that drift into the U.S. Midwest and East Coast. We walk through just how massive Canada's boreal forest is, why so many ignitions happen far from roads and crews, and why lightning-caused wildfires account for so much of the total area burned. Once fires hit “extreme” size and intensity, the goal shifts from “put it out” to “protect people and infrastructure,” because the physics stops cooperating.We also talk about the spooky side of mega fires: pyrocumulus clouds and fire thunderstorms that can generate their own lightning and spread. From there, we connect the dots to climate change and why hotter, drier conditions raise the likelihood of severe burn seasons, alongside knock-on effects like pest-killed trees adding fuel. And we don't skip the health impacts either, because wildfire smoke and fine particulate matter are a serious air quality issue, not just an inconvenience.Then we pivot to a different kind of public trust question: emotional support animals. ESAs can be meaningful, but they don't always come with specialized training or consistent public access rules. We break down research on what shapes trust in ESA owners, why dogs are judged differently than snakes or tarantulas, and why the setting matters so much (a park feels different than a gym or a plane). If you like smart science with real-world stakes and a few laughs along the way, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave us a review. What's the most unexpected ESA you've ever heard of?All our social links are here!Support the showFor Science, Empathy, and Cuteness!Being Kind is a Superpower.All our social links are here!

  About this episode:  In this, the 250th year of American independence, we look back over time's shoulder to revisit the nation only eleven years after its great civil war. From Philadelphia, Washington City and the relatively civilized East Coast to the wilds of the territories, Montana, Dakota and New Mexico, we bring to light issues that dominated then and still linger. Our focus: this country as it struggled to come into its own - struggled to establish its identity. For our 100th episode, we tell the story of our nation's Centennial. This is the story of the United States in 1876.        ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Dwight Moody William Jennings Bryan Horatio Alger, Jr. Pedro II Matilda Joslyn Gage George Armstrong Custer   For Further Reading The Year of the Century, 1876 by Dee Brown   Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here   Thank you to our sponsor, Celebrity Word Scramble. In collaboration with Fred Kiger, they have published a Civil War edition of the Celebrity Word Scramble series. Included in the book is 16 pages of Civil War facts, stories, and insights written by Fred Kiger. Get your copy of the book here   Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here   Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org   Thank you to our sponsor John Bailey.   Producer: Dan Irving

Jon Paul Crimi is a Breathwork pioneer known for his zero filter East Coast edge and his ability to make deep transformation practical, powerful, and accessible. With more than a decade and a half of experience, he has helped redefine modern Breathwork by stripping away the overly mystical tone and replacing it with grounded, results driven work that speaks to skeptics, leaders, and everyday people alike. Originally from Boston, Jon Paul moved to Los Angeles in his early twenties and quickly became one of the most sought after celebrity trainers and sobriety coaches in the country. He worked with Oscar and Grammy winners, Olympic gold medalists, top studio executives, and industry leaders. It was through his dear friend Matthew Perry that Jon Paul was first introduced to Breathwork. The experience was profound and life altering. He immersed himself in the practice, developed his own distinct style, and soon began selling out classes across Los Angeles. Jon Paul's work focuses on emotional regulation, resilience, and trauma integration. Participants often describe their first experience as feeling like decades of therapy without saying a word. His ability to combine intensity, humor, and psychological depth has made him especially effective with entrepreneurs, creatives, executives, and those navigating major life transitions. Jon Paul has worked with major companies including Nike and LinkedIn, bringing Breathwork into corporate environments through customized workshops and retreats. He has also led in person and online teacher training certifications, mentoring the next generation of facilitators. His work has been featured at the HEAL Hay House Summit and recognized by major media outlets including The Hollywood Reporter, LA Magazine, Good Morning America, and numerous international podcasts. Jon Paul's clientele ranges from CEOs and founders to professional athletes and award winning artists. Leaders often seek him out for his no nonsense delivery and measurable impact. He believes Breathwork should not be reserved for the spiritual elite but made accessible to anyone willing to do the work. Now based in Bend, Oregon with his wife and two children, Jon Paul continues his mission to bring Breathwork into the mainstream and help people move from rock bottom to mastery using the most overlooked tool they already possess: their breath.  https://breathewithjp.com/ Come take an online Breathwork class with Jon Paul. Even if you think Breathwork isn't for you, or you're skeptical about online classes, you need to be willing to try something different to see a different result in your life. Keep an open mind. People who do it call it the most transformational experience they've ever had—like 20 years of therapy without saying a word https://www.instagram.com/jonpaulcrimi/

In this episode, Bela Musits and Mike Wasserman dig into the transition from "the plan" to "the lifestyle." Mike Malekoff discusses how his expectations were met (and challenged) by the actual experience of long-term coastal cruising. Whether you are a weekend sailor or planning your own offshore passage, this conversation provides invaluable insights into the mindset and preparation required for a life at sea.Key Discussion Points:Life on the Hook: The practicalities of long-term anchoring and managing life aboard a cruising sailboat.Maintenance & Reliability: A year's worth of wear and tear—what broke, what worked, and how Mike managed repairs while underway.Coastal Navigation: Lessons learned while navigating the diverse and often challenging waters of the East Coast, from the Florida Keys up through the Mid-Atlantic.The Cruising Community: The importance of the social network on the water and how it shapes the cruising experience.Enjoyed the episode? Hit the Like button on your app!Email: sailingtheeast@gmail.comWatch: Find us on YouTube at the Sailing and Cruising channel.Happy Sailing!Bela and MikeConnect with Us

Tony opens the show by reading an email, and he also talks about spending time with childhood friends, and he talks about the Nats, and the bad weather that slammed the East Coast last night. Tim Kurkjian calls in to talk about what he's hearing on the trade front as the deadline approaches, Ryan McGee calls in to talk about what's going on at UNC after they placed football GM Mike Lombardi on paid leave, and Tony closes out the show by opening up the Mailbag. Songs : Fifi Knifefight “Leech” ; “So Cool”

The League Episode #51 – Show Notes In this episode of The League, Clean energy demand continues to accelerate as utilities, data centers, manufacturers, and large commercial customers seek more power. Solar, storage, transmission, and nuclear all have major opportunities, but the next phase of industry growth will depend less on demand and more on execution. In this episode of The League, we discuss the growing importance of permitting, interconnection, community engagement, tax-credit certainty, domestic manufacturing, and access to capital. We also examine the rising cost of grid upgrades in ISO New England, the renewed interest in nuclear development, and the continued evolution of tax equity and transferable tax-credit markets. The companies that can navigate complexity, manage risk, and move projects from development to operation will be best positioned to win.   Host Bio: Benoy Thanjan Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of Rene Down down down down downu Energy, solar developer and consulting firm, and a strategic advisor to multiple cleantech startups. Over his career, Benoy has developed over 100 MWs of solar projects across the U.S., helped launch the first residential solar tax equity funds at Tesla, and brokered $45 million in Renewable Energy Credits (“REC”) transactions. Prior to founding Reneu Energy, Benoy was the Environmental Commodities Trader in Tesla's Project Finance Group, where he managed one of the largest environmental commodities portfolios. He originated REC trades and co-developed a monetization and hedging strategy with senior leadership to enter the East Coast market.  As Vice President at Vanguard Energy Partners, Benoy crafted project finance solutions for commercial-scale solar portfolios. His role at Ridgewood Renewable Power, a private equity fund with 125 MWs of U.S. renewable assets, involved evaluating investment opportunities and maximizing returns. He also played a key role in the sale of the firm's renewable portfolio. Earlier in his career, Benoy worked in Energy Structured Finance at Deloitte & Touche and Financial Advisory Services at Ernst & Young, following an internship on the trading floor at D.E. Shaw & Co., a multi billion dollar hedge fund. Benoy holds an MBA in Finance from Rutgers University and a BS in Finance and Economics from NYU Stern, where he was an Alumni Scholar. Connect with Benoy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benoythanjan/ Learn more:  https://reneuenergy.com https://www.solarmaverickpodcast.com   Host Bio: David Magid David Magid is a seasoned renewable energy executive with deep expertise in solar development, financing, and operations. He has worked across the clean energy value chain, leading teams that deliver distributed generation and community solar projects. David is widely recognized for his strategic insights on interconnection, market economics, and policy trends shaping the U.S. solar industry. Connect with David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmagid/ If you have any questions or comments, you can email us at info@reneuenergy.com.   Please provide 5 star reviews      If you enjoyed this episode, please rate, review and share the Solar Maverick Podcast so more people can learn how to accelerate the clean energy transition.    Reneu Energy Reneu Energy provides expert consulting across solar and storage project development, financing, energy strategy, and environmental commodities. Our team helps clients originate, structure, and execute opportunities in community solar, C&I, utility-scale, and renewable energy credit markets. Email us at info@reneuenergy.com to learn more.  

The AccuWeather Lightning Network™ detected 29 lightning strikes within 5 miles of the Mount Blue Sky summit during a 13-minute window. Also, a multi-day severe weather threat will bring damaging winds and flash flooding to parts of the East Coast before expanding into the Southeast and Plains later this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do things feel a little disconnected between team members in your practice? Tiff and Dana discuss the common signs that usually mean your practice could use a communication refresher, and then give advice on what can be done about improvement. Episode resources: Subscribe to The Dental A-Team podcast Schedule a Practice Assessment Leave us a review Transcript: Tiffanie (00:01) Hello, Dental A Team listeners. We are back at you on the podcast slash video cast, which is still really weird to me. I think I spend more time getting prepped and ready for the podcast than I do for coaching calls, which is wildly, wildly annoying. And here we are. I secretly do   wish that we could just be off camera still, but I I know I enjoy watching the podcast and Aaron watches podcasts every morning. So here we are. Dana, you are my favorite podcaster on a Friday. I love ending my week with you. I love beginning my week with you as well. You are an amazing podcaster and just an incredible person. How are you today, Dana?   DAT-Dana (00:44) Doing pretty good. Excited. I know this is a good way to like have a solid Friday. Get some tip time.   Tiffanie (00:50) It is.   DAT-Dana (00:51) Get to get to chat. it is a great way to end   Tiffanie (00:54) Yeah.   DAT-Dana (00:54) the week.   Tiffanie (00:55) I agree. I agree. And I I was excited because I forgot what the schedule I look at my schedule a million times. This week has been weird. and I look at it a million times, a million times. I even put podcasting in a different color on my calendar so that I know that it's like it's coming. And then this morning I was like, Happy surprise podcasting today. Like two hours ago, I was like, my gosh, this is wild tough. I just can't get it together this week. But alas, I think it's because Brody's birthday threw me off.   He turned eighteen and that has been spinning my world. So here we are, Dana. You have littles at home. It's summer right now and at the point of recording this, we all have we all have some sort of children at home on some level. And how are how's your summer over there going with the with the clan? You have a whole clan.   DAT-Dana (01:44) Yeah, it's going good. It's it's super busy.   Tiffanie (01:48) Yeah.   DAT-Dana (01:48) I feel like, you know, I get to summertime and I'm like, vacation and relaxation and it never happens.   Tiffanie (01:54) No.   DAT-Dana (01:56) but they're enjoying what downtime they get. They're enjoying, you know, being in sports and and the sunshine. So it's good   Tiffanie (02:03) Good.   DAT-Dana (02:03) overall.   Tiffanie (02:05) Good. And I feel like school comes like school starts back up so fast. Like you think you have time and then it's just summer's gone.   DAT-Dana (02:14) Yeah, I know. I'm like I can't believe it'll be here in like a week, really. Yeah.   Tiffanie (02:17) Literally. I know.   Up here, in Phoenix they started going back to school last week. My nieces already had a week and a half of school.   DAT-Dana (02:24) my gosh, that's   Tiffanie (02:26) I know.   I know. But modified year round, that's what we like to do around here. And I think East Coast, they really don't go back until most of them don't go back until after Labor Day. So then they're like wildly thrown off with the mid July start of school.   DAT-Dana (02:41) Mm. Yep.   Tiffanie (02:42) But here we are. today we are talking about leadership and that's one of our favorite topics. I think Dana, you and I definitely thrive in the leadership world and like communication is really, really massive. I think both of us   thrive on communication in our personal lives as well, and just really, really look for those opportunities to create clarity, create trust, to be vulnerable. and all of those pieces. And today's conversation kind of encompasses all of those, I feel. And it has been coming up for me a couple of times, Dana you and I spoke. You've had it come up a couple of times on coaching calls as well. And really talking about and looking at that transparency space.   between a doctor and a team? And I think you and I have some really phenomenal ideas on this. And first I wanna work through kind of workshop with you backwards. Like what is it that a doctor can maybe find in their lives that says maybe we need a little bit more communication or or this space isn't as evolved as it could be? Like what are some signs and symptoms that you've seen within teams that say, hey, we're not   connected a hundred percent and there's a gap here because I do think Dana a lot of times the team knows and notices, but oftentimes the doctor, like to their credit, they're doing dentistry. They're over there working, they're head down and they don't always realize that there's a gap, but the the team does. So what are some of those signs or symptoms that you've witnessed with your practices recently or previously?   DAT-Dana (04:21) Yeah, I think a couple big ones are when it's hard to delegate. I think to when like expectations aren't met, oftentimes there's a gap in communication there, as well as team members not feeling bought in, right? And   Tiffanie (04:37) Mm.   DAT-Dana (04:38) yet we feel like we're saying all the things, we're explaining all the things, and yet team members don't seem really bought in or really aligned.   with pieces, I think those are three that I notice pretty routinely in offices that there is just either a communication gap, a trust gap, or something, there's a disconnect somewhere.   Tiffanie (04:56) Yeah, I love those. I think that's spot on. And within that like delegation and expectation and maybe even follow through. So maybe you've asked for things and the team's not doing it. you've asked for systems to be put in place and they're just not getting completed, or you see you maybe implemented some systems to get a specific result and we're still not hitting that result. those are huge, Dana. That was that was phenomenal. And   Some of them that I've seen too are like an upset manager, like an easily upset manager or a frantic manager, a frantic front office team. I feel like they get hit with it the hardest when there's a a gap and a disconnect and the like frantic or overwhelmed. I actually was listening to a podcast yesterday that was talking about the idea of like actually listening, of being a good listener. And   one spot that it brought up was this sense of overwhelm where a lot of people will come to us and say, gosh, I'm overwhelmed. There's too much on my plate. And so then what a manager or or an owner will do is say, okay, well let's look at what you got. Let's figure it out. And and I remember I told Kira this actually probably July. So probably like six months ago, I told Kira this. I said, Kira, you can find you and I are phenomenal at finding space in a calendar. We can find   blank space and and time in a calendar for the duties and the things that I'm supposed to get done. Right. And I think managers will say that too. Like, yeah, I can see the time and we'll look at things, Dana, and be like, I think they should be able to do this. So if they can do the things, but they're saying there's an overwhelm, this podcast talked about it's not necessarily always, sometimes it is, an overwhelm of physical tasks, like things that need to get done.   Oftentimes it's an emotional overwhelm that's overriding the tasks that need to get done. And so the the emotional aspect of it and sometimes it's that gap in communication can create this whirlwind sense of not being able to accomplish the thing. So I've seen that a ton in front office team members and managers where they're like, gosh, I can't get to the I can't get to the unscheduled treatment calls.   Because I I don't have time. There's no space. And I'm like, it's it they're not gonna answer. Like, leave a voicemail, send a text. Like ninety-nine point nine percent of the time people aren't answering the phone. So it really doesn't take that much time, but that's not the actual issue. Like, there's a root cause underneath that we have to dig into, and all of those things that you said, Dina, those are the symptoms that something else is going on. And I think usually it's an emotional.   space and a and a communication gap or an emotional distance between two people that causes that.   DAT-Dana (07:53) Yeah, I completely agree with you.   Tiffanie (07:55) And I think even at home, right? Like sometimes we're like, he never takes all the trash, or he never does this. I have to do everything. And it's like maybe we just haven't connected on an emotional level to be able to see the contributions that each of us are making. Like we're so disconnected that everything is then something. And I think that happens I say really all the time. Relationships are relationships, they're just like formed a little bit differently, but your connection and your communication is relatively similar.   So if anyone can see themselves in any of that, a team member, a doctor who's here, or a doctor who might think like, wow, I thought everything was okay, but I do hear the word overwhelm a lot or stressed or tired or I don't have, I don't have, I don't have time, I don't have space, I don't have s a spot to do it in. If you're hearing those things over and over and over again, it might be more of a trust gap and a communication gap.   than an actual physical tasks gap. So I beg of you before jumping to hire a new team member, because Dana, how many times have we witnessed that we must need someone else? And I'm like, you've got 16 people for a   DAT-Dana (09:08) Right.   Tiffanie (09:08) four op practice. You're fine. Or how   DAT-Dana (09:11) Yeah.   Tiffanie (09:11) many virtual assistants do you need? Before we jump to hiring a new person, number one, take a look at the space that you have. Dana and I have countless times.   talked through an org chart and an ops manual and all those pieces. We talk about those all the time because they work. So take a look at the space that you have, like what you're trying to create, what your practice is. What is the organizational chart? How who do you need physically? Not the people you already have, but like the seats. What are the seats that you need in your practice to be successful? Because if all those seats are filled, now we need to take a step back and say, okay, great, why isn't this working? And   If they're not filled, awesome, let's hire. But if they are filled, now it's just working reverse engineering backwards. So with that, Dana, how do you think the trust gap, right? Because I I really think communic communication gap is like when there's not communication happening, it's very easy to say we have a communication gap. But really what it boils down to is that without that communication, my trust is broken because I'm trying to figure things out.   DAT-Dana (10:23) Mm-hmm.   Tiffanie (10:23) So   how do you feel are some common areas or ways that that trust gap is created between a doctor and a team?   DAT-Dana (10:33) Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think the first and foremost thing that I see, and I have an office that really, really struggles with this. And it is that like the doctor will announce things or share things before they're   Tiffanie (10:46) Mm.   DAT-Dana (10:47) actually fully 100% in place or going to happen. And then when it doesn't happen, or he changes his mind, or he makes a different decision or pivots down a different path, the team members one feel like whiplash.   Right. And then two, don't always know when to trust the office manager and the doctor in that it is actually going to happen. Right. So when to prep themselves and when to really start to get things into place because oftentimes they've started those pieces and then it just feels like time or work wasted because the decision pivots or changes. And so it's really, really broken down.   Trust in that way because team members, one, aren't really sure if things are really happening. And then two, frustration happens on doctor and leadership when they're like, Why aren't they excited? Why aren't they bought in? Why aren't they ready   Tiffanie (11:32) Yeah.   DAT-Dana (11:33) to go? Why aren't they super motivated? Right. And that's because the team is like, Well, it's changed 35 times. And so we're just kind of waiting until we know for sure because we don't want to feel like we wasted our time, our energy, our effort.   Tiffanie (11:45) Yeah. Yeah. I all I think when that not when I think a lot of times when those things happen, the team muscle memory reverts back to the original way of doing it. So then you've got a billing representative that's sending paper claims because she's like, I know this works, right? Yeah.   DAT-Dana (12:03) Yeah. Yeah.   Tiffanie (12:04) Yeah. And then you've got a doctor that's like, I'm paying AI Yes.   DAT-Dana (12:08) I wanna be super tech savvy and I'm paying AI and we're still sending   paper claims. Yeah.   Tiffanie (12:14) Yes,   and an office manager who's like, Well, I don't know what to tell you, but I've got an overloaded plate of things here 'cause I have people coming in my door constantly crying and saying they're overwhelmed. Yeah. Yeah.   DAT-Dana (12:26) Yeah. Yeah.   Tiffanie (12:28) And I think that's a common thing and I I I know that it's really exciting to like be on the threshold of innovation. And dentistry is constantly innovating.   And within that, we've got you know the scanners and the tech and the AI and the I mean, gosh, like the AI like pearl tools that are reading x-rays and now insurances are starting to use those things like innovation is constant in dentistry. And I think oftentimes what that makes us feel like is that the simple systems that have gotten us here also need to innovate and change. And so we're throwing all of these tech innovations from a back office standpoint now.   into every aspect of the practice, but we're also saying, okay, cool, well if I can do this with a scanner, why can't you do something different with insurance verifications? And it's like, I can't even fathom that. And then they're saying, okay, well, try this, try that, try this, try that, try this. And in dentistry, when you're trying to find a new bond and primer, cool, try it until you find the one that works. But when you're overloaded with like to-dos and   paperwork is what we'll call it, tasks. It's not as easy to try it and see if it works and continue to do that. So that innovative mind tries to cover so much ground that we do end up with so many changes and it's like a pivot constantly. Gosh, Kira and I had we had pivot. I don't remember Dana when it was. You might have been here for pivot. I don't remember. Yeah. Like I don't remember how long ago it was. That was   DAT-Dana (14:04) Yep. Yes. Yeah.   Tiffanie (14:08) the worst year of our   freaking lives in this company. We had pivot as a core value and we use pivot as a core value because we want to be on the threshold of inva innovation and we want to be able to roll with the punches. Like, okay, great, something came up, great. We we figure it out and we move on is what we meant by pivot. But what happened that year, Dana? What did that year look like?   DAT-Dana (14:27) It was chaos because we also used pivot as a reason to be able to like justify lots of change, right?   Tiffanie (14:33) Correct.   Correct. So we just like constant it was like this wheel that it just never ended, right? A wheel just keeps going, keeps going, but on every little tread was a new something. And so every time that tread hit the ground, it was a change, it was a change, it was a change. And I think it's really easy in business, and in entrepreneurship to do that because you are having to create, you know, Wells Fargo and Chase, like   They're they've got innovators on their team, but they're pretty steady eddy of what that business structure needs to look like. When you're an entrepreneur and you're super innovative, it's very easy to get stuck in that like let's jump to the next thing mentality. So again, if you're feeling yourself in this, don't worry, it's not just you, or we wouldn't do an entire podcast about it, by the way. And also there are solutions. And Dana, you've you said you've got   you know, practices you can think of, I think both of us do, because again, it's not just you, it's everyone that go through this. What are some ways that you help your teams and your doctors to bridge that gap when those things come up? Like when we're in this constant state of change and they're like, I'm out, I can't even get excited anymore. How do you help them bridge that gap?   DAT-Dana (15:50) Yeah, I think it is it it is getting them to understand that like while change is really, really great, you have to understand that your team members are who is implementing the change. So be cautious and cognizant of how many things you're changing at once. Be cautious and cognizant that the team feels like, hey, yep, we've got this, we can do it independently, we're good, before we add the next change. So just really keeping a pulse on those pieces. And then two, just really   Making sure that you get to a certain point in your decision making process before you're   Tiffanie (16:25) Yeah.   DAT-Dana (16:25) involving the team. And even your office manager, right? Another breakdown of trust that I see is it's like we either share too much or share too little, right? With the people   who then help us implement or help us guide those decisions. And so I think like figuring out that clarity of what is the right amount to share.   Or when is the right time to share and who those appropriate channels are. So just like you said with the org chart tip, I think as you're   Tiffanie (16:52) Yeah.   DAT-Dana (16:53) building out your org chart, building and knowing like, okay, when it comes to what I need to share, who actually do I need to share certain things with and having clarity amongst you, your leaders, and the people that are on your org chart about those things.   Tiffanie (17:09) Yeah, that's beautiful. And it made me think of just like how much communication you have with those key players in the practice. And a and a couple of dissecting pieces there, Dana. The team and team members who are here doesn't need to know everything. The leadership   team of the practice needs to know.   what they need to know in order to push the needles forward. And as you were talking, I was thinking oftentimes doctors go like a full in it or out of it, right? It's either one or the other. And so they're either oversharing or they're sharing nothing because it's hard to find that happy medium. And something we do with our offices and something we do in our own company is we create those targets. And so when you have those yearly targets, those quarterly rock targets that you're looking at.   we're able to say, does this push us towards our targets or is this a distraction? And Dana, I think after the year of pivot, that's something we implemented and we stuck to because Kira is an idea like machine. She her famous words are, I have an idea. Right. And my famous words are awesome, what is it? Let's go. Right. I don't even need to hear it. And I'm like, yep, let's do it.   And so then the whole company just goes into this spiral. So it needs to be a space of of innovation. So you've got to have be able to have the ideas, but then you need someone, what's where Britt comes into our company really strong?   DAT-Dana (18:41) Hm.   Tiffanie (18:42) Someone in between the heck yes girl and the idea generator that says, hang on a second, is this pushing us forward or is this just a distraction? So they go on like I have doctors that have made them carry notebooks.   For ideas. It's an idea book or an idea board. It's like I've got all of these great ideas, but let's go back to them when the timing is right. So if the timing is right right now for that thing, great, let's add it to our list of to-dos or our changes or updates. Let's do it. Let's figure out how to do it and then implement with the   team when everything's ready to go. Don't implement prior and then we all figure it out together. You guys figure it out, you implement and then you follow through.   And all of those other things stay on that like idea board. If it's not generating what we need it to generate today, it might later. And Dana, I don't know how many times I've I've even gone back to my own boards, but that I've had doctors, I have one doctor in particular that I'm thinking of, and I hope she listens to this and knows exactly who I'm talking about. I know she will, because I bought her the notebook and the special pen and she would carry it around. She had it for years. And sometimes she'd go back to the other pages and be like   I don't even know what these words mean. I don't know what this idea was. So I was like,   DAT-Dana (19:59) Yeah.   Tiffanie (20:01) great. No reason to like try to figure it out, cross it out. If it was that important, it was gonna be that phenomenal and life-changing, you'll think of it again. It'll come back up.   DAT-Dana (20:11) Mm-hmm.   Tiffanie (20:12) And otherwise that idea would have been something that we jumped on, right? So we jump and we change and we jump and we change, but we need to be able to have that space of discussion. So what I have a lot of doctors and office managers do is whether you've got a full leadership team or not.   Doctors and office managers are meeting weekly. I had to do this years ago with my doctor when I was office manager just to keep up with his ideas. And if I didn't catch him before he caught the team, I was   DAT-Dana (20:42) Mm-hmm.   Tiffanie (20:42) in a frenzy, like backtracking, trying to fix things, right? I had people in my office like, why are we doing this? I'm like, I don't even know what you're talking about. I've never heard that before. So I had to catch him and be like, nope, everything funnels here.   We talk here. This is where we talk about project status. This is where I tell you what where I'm at on the projects we've already said yes to. This is where you bring problems, issues, and ideas. Same for me. And we discuss them and we figure out what's being implemented to the team. So again, whether there's like a whole leadership team doing it or not, that trusted person in your practice who's supposed to carry things out is the person that needs to have these conversations. Even as far Dana, I think, as   Hey, in the next five years, I'd love to do a build out. Cool. But like that's not today. So then when you   DAT-Dana (21:28) Mm-hmm.   Tiffanie (21:28) go to the team and you're like, yeah, we're gonna get bigger, some are gonna be like, yes, when? And five years is a long time. And others are gonna be like, I don't want to get any bigger. Peace. You know? Do   DAT-Dana (21:38) Yeah. Yep.   Tiffanie (21:40) you do that too, Dana? With those, I know we do it in our company, but those kind of like office manager and doctor meetings, do th are those working for your practices too?   DAT-Dana (21:49) Yeah, they really are. And I think that it's it's the it's the doctor understanding that and then the office manager really making sure that we follow those lines   Tiffanie (21:57) Yeah.   DAT-Dana (21:57) and and really making sure too that sometimes we mess up, right? We're human and so we we skip over. But then also just teaching the team, hey, if something's brought to you that doesn't come from me, bring it back to me so we can talk about it,   Tiffanie (22:06) Yeah.   DAT-Dana (22:07) we can figure it out. but yeah, I feel like that is such a key tool into not feeling like   Chaotic, when it's not   Tiffanie (22:15) Yeah.   DAT-Dana (22:16) funneled down, when ideas are just thrown out there and we're just changing things and changing things and changing things because we had this idea, but it wasn't actually super important. And so we keep trying to change it and manipulate it to make it be important. When you have those kind of conversations, the chaos and the overwhelm in the office goes down and the trust really starts to increase too.   Tiffanie (22:37) I agree. You said something there. You said, when something comes to you that I didn't bring, bring it to me. That's a huge space. And I think that's a space where managers can work really hard at bridging the trust gap between yourself and the doctor. A lot of managers are afraid to say what needs to be said to their doctors and you lose trust and that doctor loses trust in you too. If you're not willing to say, Hey, I this was brought to my attention.   What are we doing with that? Like what is that? I didn't you didn't come through me, which isn't not everything has to come through me, but I didn't know about it. So what is this? Not being able to not being able to say that, now you've got a huge issue, office managers, massive, because now you have asked your team to funnel to you like a dramatic little tattletale, and you're gonna start going, he did it again. there she goes, in front of your team.   Instead of being like, yeah, let me know, keep me in the loop, and then going and talking to your doctor. Because if you go and talk to your doctor, your doctor's like, shoot, you're right. I didn't follow I didn't follow the lines again. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. Right? That's the trust gap, and that's the second, the second that office managers break that trust and start getting the team to rally against the doctor because they feel slighted or they feel like, he didn't tell me because he doesn't trust me.   No, we didn't tell you because the dental assistant was closer. It doesn't matter. It's not, it's not typically out of spite. It's not typically even thought about. It's this is the person who's the closest proximity to me right now, and I need to say it and get it out. Period. There's no malintent. Yes.   DAT-Dana (24:19) Yeah. Because I'm afraid I'm gonna forget it, or I'm afraid, you know, or I'm so excited about   it. You're right. There's no malice in there. And I love how you said go back, and it's not, it's not you jumped over me, right? You skipped over me. It's hey, I just heard of this thing. This is the first time I'm hearing about it. What's my role in it? Right? Where   Tiffanie (24:38) Yep.   DAT-Dana (24:38) do what what am I supposed to do? What's the plan for   how I'm supposed to get this implemented. Do you've got a time frame? Do you have again, it's just you're kind of coming more from that curiosity of, hey, I heard about something I hadn't heard about before. What's the plan here? Because there is, again, like you said, that's just it's not ever malicious when it comes to those   Tiffanie (24:57) Yeah. Yeah. It's not   DAT-Dana (25:00) types of things.   Tiffanie (25:01) it's not. I like to remind people we're not that important. Our egos tell us the opposite and that everything is about us and that they must be mad at us. Like I they're not thinking about us as much as we are. I'm not that important. So if I can if I can be like Chill, Tiff, you're not that important. As in like they didn't do it to you, just go find out the information. So if you can just come in at like a neutral space of   non-emotional attachment, not thinking that someone was doing something to you, you can get to the bottom line in the answer and start to train the habits that need to be trained. And I think Dana, those are two massive like earlier I was like, what are the action items? Like I think those are the two action items, right? As org chart, make sure that you know the order of operations, like who who talks to who, how do how do things get nailed down to the team and increasing those   office manager and doctor meetings, making sure that you're having those meetings and then office managers increasing your communication back to the doctor. I had to learn this with Kira that I wasn't always reporting back. And I was like, what like yes, I did my job. Like, stop asking me. Stop   DAT-Dana (26:12) Yeah. Yeah.   Tiffanie (26:13) asking me. And so many people say they're just micromanagers, right? Like, okay, yeah, they're micromanagers. And you know what? It's fine.   they have an entire business that they're trying to run. The way that you battle micromanaging is you report back. So   DAT-Dana (26:26) Mm-hmm.   Tiffanie (26:26) guess what? It's fine. This like ideal that the society has come up with about micromanaging, like whatever, we just have to make sure that things are getting done. So delete the term and just say, I need to report back. So org chart, increase your meetings and your one on one meetings or leadership. And still I think even Dana   Even if there's a leadership team, I still think it's very important for the doctor and the manager to meet, even outside of leadership. And   DAT-Dana (26:52) I agree. Yeah.   Tiffanie (26:55) then managers learn how to report back and communicate with your doctors and bridge that gap of trust starting with you. Doctors, your f your last one is if you listen to this without your manager, share it to your manager. I think it might be good for them to hear too. Dana, any parting words or anything you can think of that we missed in those action items that I was really afraid we weren't gonna come up with.   This is how we do it.   DAT-Dana (27:19) No, I honestly   I really loved this one and I think that there's a takeaway for everybody from owner, doctor to to to managers to leadership team to team in this. and these things take time to implement, they take time to incorporate, but truly the change in the trust can be massive.   Tiffanie (27:37) I agree. I agree. All right. So beginning of this podcast, we talked about the ways that you can see that you might have a trust gap. And then we walked you through how to start bridging that gap. There's a lot more to it than what this 30 minute podcast allows for. So reach out, you guys. We are here to help. Hello@TheDentalATeam.com. You can find us on the socials, Dental A Team, all of the places. And as always, leave us a five star review.   if you loved this and want to follow up, let us know as well. Cause again, this does go further than just this. Dana, thank you so much. and everyone we'll catch you next time.  

What does the world's most prolific cybercrime operation look like from the inside? And why does it operate suspiciously like a mid-sized tech company, complete with HR headaches, salary negotiations, and a distracted boss nobody respects? Ron Eddings sits down with investigative journalist and author, Geoff White, who has spent over 20 years covering cybercrime for the BBC, Channel 4 News, and Sky News. Geoff has read 47,000 of Conti's 300,000 leaked internal chats, the gang that dominated the ransomware world in 2021 and 2022, pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars in ransoms. From the Moscow movie studio the gang's leader used to launder money years previously, to the Ukraine war leak that brought the whole Conti empire down, this one plays like true crime… because it is. Geoff makes the case that defenders should think the same way: you're not buying security tools to fend off a hoodie in a basement, you're investing to outcompete a rival business. For anyone trying to integrate a better incident response plan, this episode reframes the whole conversation. Impactful Moments 00:00 - Introduction 01:45 - The Rewind: Colonial Pipeline and the week the East Coast ran dry 03:50 - How Geoff went from tech news to cybercrime reporting 05:10 - The difference between threat groups, APTs, and crime gangs 07:25 - Inside the Conti leaks: 300,000 messages 08:55 - Meet the gang: Stern, Mango, and Target 13:20 - Stern's origin story: Zeus malware, money mules, and the 25th Floor front company 16:50 - Ransomware gangs vs. the mafia: where's the protection? 18:10 - The money: $2.5M single payouts and 400 years of wages 19:30 - The Conti member arrested on a layover in Miami 20:35 - The downfall: the Ukraine war and the leak that ended it all 23:05 - What businesses can learn from Conti: recruitment, retention, reputation 27:45 - Advice for defenders: response waves, segmentation, and negotiating down 31:05 - Ron's takeaway: belonging and the thin line between operator and criminal   Links Connect with Geoff White on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffwhitetech/ Get your own copy of Geoff's books (Crime Dot Com, The Lazarus Heist, Rinsed): https://geoffwhite.tech/book/ Want more information on Conti? Check out Geoff's BBC podcast series, Cyber Hack: The Conti Files, available on BBC Sounds, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts – Check out our upcoming events: https://www.hackervalley.com/livestreams  Love Hacker Valley Studio? Pick up some swag: https://store.hackervalley.com  Become a sponsor of the show: https://hackervalley.com/work-with-us/

In the last month we have seen a flurry of warnings that lettuce might be infected with cyclosporiasis. To date, there have been over 60 cases here in Connecticut. Wildfires from the west brought smoke to the East Coast, leading to air quality warnings and recommendations for residents to stay inside, if they can. Today, we get updates on these public health situations, and hear what you need to do to stay well. GUESTS: Dr. Manisha Juthani: commissioner, Connecticut Department of Public Health Scott Dolch: President and CEO of the Connecticut Restaurant and Hospitality Association Connecticut State Senator Dr. Saud Anwar: East Hartford, South Windsor, East Windsor, and Ellington Indu Upadhyaya: Food Safety Extension Specialist, UConn Extension Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GE Vernova posts a record quarter as gas and grid surge while wind orders drop 40%. Plus Envision grid-connects its first AI turbine for Fortescue. Visit https://woma2027.com/ to register speaking and sponsorship interest! Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! If you haven’t visited woma2027.com, you should do so right now because we are putting together all of the, uh, events at WOMA 2027, which is March 3rd through 5th in Melbourne at the Pullman, Matthew, Pullman East? Pullman East Melbourne. And it’s packed full. Our, in fact, actually, we have so many people applying to attend the event, we’re getting a little nervous on if the size of the venue is not large enough, and we, we have a lot of people already chime in wanting to be sponsors, which is great. But I wanna talk about what you will experience at WOMA. We’ve done it for two years now, and the feedback has been great. And Yolanda, you’ve been to the one just this past February, and participated in panels and saw some of the, uh, workshops and was involved in a lot of WOMA 2026. What are you expecting in 2027, and what did you think of 2026? Yolanda Padron: I thought [00:01:00] 2026 was great. I loved seeing everybody there. Uh, got to meet a lot of new people. It was, it was sweet. There was a lot of r- people returning from WOMA 2025, um, and a lot of new people that were told that that was the event to be at to learn about wind, which was really, really nice to hear. Uh, something that I loved, especially since we’ve been through quite a few conferences since then and before then, was just the fact that, like, you’re, you’re just talking about problems and just talking about solutions, and you’re talking about real stories, and it’s nothing that’s super, super public. You know, like, you, you can have real conversations with real people. I know during a panel I mentioned a, a solution to an issue that I had seen that was kind of niche, and then, uh, like three minutes later, like I had had some people come up to me and we all talked about the problem that we saw and then [00:02:00]talked about their problem, and it was really similar, and obviously in a totally different continent. And it was, it was good to, to be able to have those conversations that you usually wouldn’t have elsewhere, especially if everything’s just really, really public and just big and you’re having a lot of people sell at you, and it’s, it’s just something that we’ve really shied away from. What, what was your favorite part of it? Matthew Stead: I, I think, um, it was really the fact that it was a a technical, useful, helpful conference rather than having some rando talking about things that they’re told to talk to you about  Allen Hall: It’s real answers from real problem solvers. And everybody’s gonna be in Melbourne on the 3rd through the 5th of March 2027. If you’re interested in attending, you need to go to woma2027.com. If you’re interested in sponsoring, it’s also woma2027.com. There’s limited [00:03:00]sponsorship left, so if you wanna do something, you better get in quick. And if you wanna attend the event, and I suggest that you do, that you visit woma2027.com and get registered today The Uptime Wind Energy podcast, brought to you by StrikeTape. Protecting thousands of wind turbines from lightning damage worldwide. Visit StrikeTape.com. And now, your hosts Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall. I’m here with Rosemary Barnes, Matthew Stead, and Yolanda Padron. It’s been a busy day as we record because GE just announced its second quarter earnings and a bunch of things about the business. They had an investor call early, early, early on the East Coast, and even earlier for those on the West Coast of the US, and it was a very good quarter for GE, but a really lopsided one. Uh, GE Vernova reported second quarter orders of [00:04:00] $24.2 billion, up 88% with a backlog that has now climbed to $176 billion. Free cash came in at $5.1 billion. Man, $5.1 billion is a lot of cash, everybody, which is more than the company generated in all of last year. So they made more in one quarter in cash than made in all of last year, and management is raising its full year guidance, but the strength is coming from gas power and the electric grid, not from wind. The wind segment saw orders fall 40% and revenue slip 10%, and the company still expects wind to lose about $400 million this year. Although in the investor call, they did say that the forecast for wind in Q3 and maybe even Q4 was to be essentially break even on the EBITDA scale. So that’s a, a, a good number. It does seem like GE is being more [00:05:00] aggressive on pricing and selective on the projects they are choosing to participate with. Repowers was way down, if I remember correctly. Uh, they are not doing a lot of that at the moment. So there is a slowdown they’re seeing in wind, but they’re more than making up for it in gas turbines and electrification. Orders for gas turbines are out to ’30, ’31, and I think they’re gonna close out all of ’30, ’31, um, book orders for gas turbines here shortly. So if you want a gas turbine, Matthew, you’re gonna have to get in line because your GE has a long list of, of clients in front of them. What does this mean for wind? When I hear the discussion where GE is focused on gas and electrification because of the huge cash flow that comes in their door- Does that mean a good positive things for wind because they have the cash to kinda hang around wind? Or is it gonna be set aside for other [00:06:00] more profitable business segments? I  Matthew Stead: mean, GE’s had a number of setbacks over the years. Um, you know, we know, we know all about them. We’ve been talking about them, you know, multiple times. But, you know, they’ve gotta just wait it out, don’t they? Um, you know, wind is not gonna go away, so they just need to wait it out, get their problems out of the way, get their cash flow in, build the order books again, just wait for things to improve. Um, I, I think one thing I just wanna pull out, the Sands Ear, i- isn’t that a massive achievement?  Allen Hall: It is. It’s, it’s a colossal engineering achievement on its own. Forget about just delivering and manufacturing all those turbines and getting them installed. And that’s a pattern energy project, and Fairwind I think was involved with that in terms of project development, EPC items. It’s huge. It’s gigantic. But it may be the last one we see in the United States for a while.  Matthew Stead: And but Vineyard, you know, they’ve gotta resolve that, don’t they? We’ve spoken about that before. Get that one out the way, clear out the decks and, yeah. That’ll come good.  Allen Hall: Rosemary, of our former GE [00:07:00] employees, I guess we have two of them here. I’m one. Not of wind, but of another division. What’s your thoughts on GE Vernova at the minute?  Rosemary Barnes: These days I see them through the O&M lens. That’s how I work with them, is when my clients need support for all their wind farms and It’s just, it’s just never enough. It’s not a GE-specific thing. Uh, you know, across Australia, anybody with a full service agreement does not… Uh, the, the company performing that agreement just gives the impression that they just do not have enough, um, uh, enough people. Y- you know? It’s just, just hands or maybe it’s budget. Uh, I guess it, it’s both at the same time. Yeah, I mean, I see some good things like their, the pace of new technologies has slowed and they’re consolidating, which was needed, but it’s just hard to imagine that it’s even gonna be enough considering how many fewer blade engineers that they’ve got now. Like, how are they, [00:08:00] how are they going to get the, you know, the issues with the platforms that they are, uh, pushing, how are they gonna get all that under control with so many fewer engineers? And will they ever be able to, you know, go back to innovating a- again when they’ve lost so much of their, you know, institutional knowledge? Allen Hall: Two things they did not mention during the phone call today or in any of the documents that I saw was TPI Composites and that EPC has acquired that and is now operating the factories, uh, making GE blades. And LM Wind Power was not discussed either, although LM Wind Power has been integrated into the overall financials of the company, so it’s not a standalone financial entity like it was last year. So you can’t really r- read the tea leaves of what’s happening at LM, but nobody talked about or even asked on the investor call what was happening on the wind side. They were very interested in gas turbines and what the order rate was going to be, and GE was concerned [00:09:00] on their side, saying that they’re trying to ramp up production to make more gas turbines, but there’s limitations to how much they can do. Rosemary Barnes: I guess that’s the s- the zeitgeist now, right? Or it’s the, I don’t know, like, it’s, it’s a sign of the times. Everyone’s obsessed with data centers, and for some reason, data centers are obsessed with gas turbines, um, even though, like, it’s not a fast solution to, uh, y- you know, to, to anything. So I don’t… You know, I’m not saying that building a, you know, a wind farm or solar farms, batteries, those are not without challenges. But I really don’t think that the, yeah, gas turbine challenge is so much easier than the, um, yeah, than the renewables challenges. It’s a bit weird to me how everyone has just kind of latched onto, “Oh, you need new power, then it needs to be gas.” It’s just a bit weird to me.  Allen Hall: GE was predicting a peak of orders in gas turbines to happen sometime in 2026. They, they think that the demand curve is gonna trend downward because everybody is already in [00:10:00] line essentially, and it’s five years out, so not many other people are gonna join that line to make it seven, eight years out That also indicates that sort of the d- the demand for gas turbines may be waning a little bit, or there’s just a backlog, they just can’t produce more. Is that going to then maybe finally open up the best solar wind discussion for AI data centers?  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, I wonder if it’s partly because y- you know, in a lot of cases… So people wanna build data centers, and then those data centers need power. You can’t just plug into the grid in an easy, timely manner. So then now they’ve gotta BYO their own power, and in fact, in Australia they’ve just announced a, a policy where you will have to… You can bring your own power, and it will have to be renewable, actually, in Australia. So, um, at least that’s, at least that’s a win for, you know, generation source.  Allen Hall: Yeah. The, the AI data center discussion and gas turbines in the United States has more recently been focused [00:11:00] on, on the AI data centers that use those gas turbines, and the number of gas turbines that they’re choosing, and that they’re choosing gas turbines that fall under some sort of EPA threshold on size. And what is happening, and which, uh, SpaceX has done and some others have done, is they go underneath that threshold on the size of the gas turbines, and then they, you know, and they daisy chain them together, right? So you, you… Instead of having one massive, I don’t know, two-megawatt generator of some sort, you have a bunch of 200 kilowatts, and you just stack them all together. And the concern is, is that are some of these data centers violating EPA, the… If not the actual rule or the intent of the rule in terms of emissions, and it’s causing a little bit of a stink. It’s, it’s raised enough of, uh, the noise floor about it that you’re, you’re hearing it on podcasts, you’re hearing people involved in AI data ce- [00:12:00] data centers push back on it saying, “It’s all legal. It’s all legal.” So it’s gonna come to a head pretty quickly in the United States.  Rosemary Barnes: It was some real, like, real sketchy loophole finding, right? Like, I can’t remember the exact wording, but you’re not supposed to be able to just chuck in a diesel generator or a gas turbine in without any kind of planning, right? But they found a loophole where it’s like, okay, well, you know, it’s just like a truck except for that there’s no truck, and so it was called, like- off-road or non-road use or something. And it’s just, like, clearly not the, um, the meaning of the, of the law, right? The spirit of the law had, like, obviously been broken. In Australia we have a saying, the pub test. It doesn’t pass the pub test. Like, if you said that to someone in a pub, then they would be like, “What the hell is that? That is not right.” They have closed the loophole. However, I think that they also kind of quietly just allowed them to keep the ones that they had or had planned or something, so [00:13:00] it’s, like, overall by far not ideal. But I think that it’s just, like, you can, you can do that for a single site, but it’s obviously, like, the more that you do ridiculous stuff like that, that you lose the community ac- acceptance, which they barely had and definitely don’t really have anymore. Um, and secondly, yeah, like people, uh, people close the loophole and they respond. It’s, it’s much better, and we see it with wind as well. Like, yeah, you can do things technically by the law, but if you wanna have a, you know, sustainable, uh, industry through the years, through the decades, you actually have to kind of, you know, think, “What happens if I do y- push to the furthest extent of the law, um, to get away with whatever I can?” What’s gonna happen is regulation is gonna come down on you and you’ll lose the ability to kind of self-regulate.  Allen Hall: We’re gonna take a quick break, but when we come back we’ll meet a wind turbine that runs on artificial intelligence, Rosie.[00:14:00] Delamination and bondline failures in blades are difficult problems to detect early. These hidden issues can cost you millions in repairs and lost energy production. CIC NDT are specialists to detect these critical flaws before they become expensive burdens. Their nondestructive test technology penetrates deep into blade materials to find voids and cracks traditional inspections completely miss. CIC NDT maps every critical defect, delivers actionable reports, and provides support to get your blades back in service. So visit cicndt.com because catching blade problems early will save you millions In the red dirt of Western Australia, a mining company and a Chinese turbine maker are trying something new. Envision Energy says it has grid connected its first [00:15:00] artificial intelligence wind turbine prototype for Fortescue’s Nullagine Wind Project in Pilbara. The full project will use 17 of Envision’s EN182 turbines, each rated for 7.8 megawatts and built to handle mining sites, desert heat, and tough grid rules. The turbines- The turbines pair a self-erecting tower from Nabler Wind with a hub standing an astonishing 188 meters tall. Behind it all sits Envision’s Energy Foundation Model software that company calls the world’s largest physical AI system. The goal is to swap diesel and gas for wind across the mine’s fleet and processing sites. So this is an effort by Fortescue to power mining operations with electricity. It’s a pretty ex- exciting [00:16:00] project if you’re watching. The Envision artificial intelligence piece is an aspect that I didn’t know much about, and I still am trying to gather more information on, because there’s not a ton of info about what AI means in terms of a physical system. And maybe Rosie, you know a little bit more, or Yolande, you can brief us on what this really is.  Rosemary Barnes: We just need to start with a pronunciation lesson, Allen. Sorry.  Matthew Stead: Not Pilbara, Pilbara. Pilbara.  Rosemary Barnes: I, I don’t actually… I hadn’t heard that part about AI and that it doesn’t… I, I don’t know. It’s, it’s such a buzzword that it might not mean anything, you know. However, there’s so many cool aspects to that project that aren’t related to AI. Um, yeah, the tower height, the tower erection technology. I’m interested to hear that they have taken the heat of the environment into [00:17:00] consideration, ’cause that’s one of the, my obsessions actually, as long as I’ve been working on wind turbines, and ever since I found out how, you know, the materials qualification and certification process works, that it just doesn’t take into account the really high temperatures. That’s one of the projects that Padlo has going on at the moment, is, um, putting sensors on some turbines to, like, look into that more. Um, yeah, because we do see in Australia a lot of sites have, you know, even within a few years, they might have 20 years of operation left, but we already see a whole lot of cracks that look suspiciously like end of, end of life fatigue cracks on them. So yeah, we are looking into that more, and it’s very interesting to hear that Envision have taken the heat into consideration. I hope it includes the blade structure as well as just, you know, other turbine components, electronics, and that sort of thing.  Allen Hall: It does sound like they’re pairing batteries or BESS with wind turbines, where the BESS is located at the base of the turbine. That would make sense in [00:18:00] Australia, particularly around where mines are, because it tends to be very remote, and storing electricity would make sense. The Discussions I’ve seen on YouTube deal with more on the energy trading side, that the wind turbine stores energy, of course, and it does it very efficiently into the best system, and then the AI system sits on top of that to help arbitrage the energy that’s stored in the battery to make more money. Not a bad way of doing it, but it does lead to a ton of questions about national security, the use of AI, the, uh, and how this is all going to integrate together from a asset manager side. Yolande, I know in the United States we have a lot of restrictions about the technology that is in wind turbines and the, and the firewalls that exist there, where you, you can’t even plug into a wind turbine without having a lot of approvals. Is AI coming in wind [00:19:00] turbines in the US and the rest of the world, or is this mostly a Western Australia event?  Yolanda Padron: We talked a little bit about a trading company a couple episodes ago, right? And that was a… It sounded like it’s, it’s coming. Um, I, when I first read the article that we’re talking about for Fortescue, I thought this was more of, like, a SCADA self-learning AI type thing, where, like It, it kind of learns from the, from itself, and then maybe it, it tells you you’re more likely to be seeing some sort of blade issue that wasn’t shown before  Rosemary Barnes: I heard, um, Andrew Forrest speak at a smart energy conference earlier this year, and he was talking about not for, um, not for wind, but for the solar and battery projects that they’ve already got there. He called it a self-healing grid, and AI was the technology that enabled that. And so he, [00:20:00] he was saying, and I can’t remember the, the details specifically either, but when there was a, a disturbance, something that would’ve caused the, you know, without the AI, um, you know, layer looking after everything, a fault that would’ve shut the whole site down was able to self, self-heal with no interruption to supply. Um, and that that was the kind of AI that, uh, they were talking about. I believe that the new wind farm addition to that is the same sort of thing, where they’re looking at, you know, a very complex system with… I mean, they don’t have energy prices to deal with, uh, in that case because it’s self-contained. They’re not conne- connected to any external grid. Um, but you know, they’ve got wind, they’ve got solar, they’ve got, uh, so obviously weather conditions related to those two going on. They’ve got batteries, they’ve got, you know, yeah, the, um, availability of every single different… of probably many [00:21:00] thousands of different components in that system that, um, y- you know, you need to make sure that if there’s a failure or when there’s a failure in any one or combination of those things, that you’re always going to be able to reroute around that and kind of heal itself. So it probably does include some of, of what you were saying, Yolanda, but I think when they say this is the biggest physical AI, like, I think that that might be a little bit of a meaningless term because y- you know, like, there’s AI… It, it could be like… I, I don’t know. It, like, what, what does that mean? Like, if you have AI that is, um, you know, playing some role in controlling America’s electricity grids, then that would be the biggest, the biggest one, even if it was, you know, like a tiny little, playing a tiny role. I, I, I don’t know what that specifically means and… Is it bad marketing ’cause it’s just confusing and makes you assume that it’s, um, just meaningless buzzword cool [00:22:00]sounding thing  Allen Hall: It’s probably genius marketing because they attach AI to whatever the product is. So we have AI lightning diverters at Weather Guard. EOLOGIX-PING has AI CMS, and Partload has whatever Partload does, AI-Partload. So that’s the smart move, th- uh, because it does seem to raise the value  Rosemary Barnes: But you know what? Partload is anti-AI because 90% of our work is you get, you know, drone inspections, and they use AI, and then it w- and it works really, w- it works really… I’d never wanna make it sound like it is bad technology because, you know, the status quo before we had drones with using AI was to just not inspect your blades. So, you know, like, we’re doing much better than that now. But everything that we do is where AI was not able to do it or AI did it wrong. So y- you know, um, like I- we use AI in that everything that comes into us is AI. Allen Hall: Well, if the same AI [00:23:00] technology that is reviewing blade images is being applied inside of a wind turbine, what do you see as a likely outcome there, Rosemary?  Rosemary Barnes: Well, it’s not, I mean, it’s not the, it’s not the same. And like I said, uh, it’s very easy for me to be like, “Oh, AI, you know, makes all these mistakes,” but it, I only see the mistakes. I don’t see the 90%-plus of correctly categorized things. I don’t, they’re not relevant to me. Um- Uh, but I think for controlling a complex system, like it, it is… That, that’s a really great application. I mean, I think it’s like with any like super hyped up technology, it’s like really useful in a few things, and that’s what leads to the hype, and then people start to just wanna apply it everywhere. It becomes the, you know, like when the only tool you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Like, that’s where we’re at. Like AI is this, um, is this hammer that we’ve got, and everyone wants to solve every problem with it. And I do it myself, you know. Like I hate writing LinkedIn posts, and so I’ll work with, with Claude or, um, I [00:24:00] use NotebookLM as well to, you know, I draft my LinkedIn post. And you’re like, “Well, th- no, that sucks. Do this, do this, do this.” And then, you know, like half an hour later, you’re like, okay, I could very easily have written my own post in less time, and I could… I, I try again and again because I just, I, uh, you know, hate that kind of writing so much. But yeah, I think that like economy-wide, that’s the problem, that everyone is just trying to whack every problem with AI regardless of whether it’s the right one. Allen Hall: Okay, so there’s gonna be products that are gonna incorporate AI or have AI somewhere hyphenated in the name of the product. What products should not be using AI right now?  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I think there’s… Uh, I wanna add to the… You know, go back a few steps. That calling this the largest, you know, physical AI device is complete rubbish really. That’s stupid, really. It’s like, like, like what you said, Rosie. It’s like putting an AI machine on a road, and then it becomes the world’s largest AI infrastructure. I mean, that was, that was pretty stupid, um, [00:25:00] really. And that, that’s just marketing. My, my view is if you can’t explain what it does, you shouldn’t be using the word AI So in marketing, you know, you can’t just say, “Oh, it’s AI ’cause I don’t understand what it does.” You should actually be able to explain, “This is what this product does, and this is why it does it, and we use AI to help make that occur in a smart way.” Rather than just being randomly talking about, um, AI solving all of these complex issues and not actually knowing how it’s done is rubbish.  Rosemary Barnes: To answer your question, Allen, I think AI shouldn’t be used for most creative stuff. Like video, um, creation, everybody hates it, and companies keep on pushing it, and it sucks. And I think also it’s kind of… It, it makes people so angry, I think it’s gonna backfire if it hasn’t already for most, [00:26:00] most people that are using it. Um, yeah, so that would be one thing. And also, uh, you shouldn’t use too much AI for, like, I see it heaps on LinkedIn now, and it’s, it’s kind of… Like, at the first time you use AI, you’re like, “Whoa, th- this is pretty, pretty good. Like, this is something, you know, like I could… That’s very similar to the stuff that I, yeah, used to post on LinkedIn or the infographics that I used to make.” But the issue is that, like, it looks that way the first time, but then once you use it a bit and you can recognize that it’s AI, then you see it everywhere and it, it turns you, really turns you off whoever’s put it out there. And so, like, there’s so much on LinkedIn now where it’s, like, just AI-generated things. It’s… Even if, you know, like, if an expert has created it and edited it afterwards and made sure that the output is accurate, then I wouldn’t call it AI slop. But it is also, like, it’s always too [00:27:00] wordy. It’s, um, you know, it’s just like the style is just clearly e- the h- if the point is that you’re trying to express, “I’m an expert. These are my expert opinions. I know what I’m talking about,” AI is not doing that for you. Like, you write your post or create your graphic with AI, it’s just not doing that for you. So I think that that is another example of where people shouldn’t be using AI.  Allen Hall: That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on LinkedIn. And if you found value in today’s conversation, please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show. And please, please, please don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. For Rosie, Yolande, and Matthew, I’m Allen Hall, and we’ll see you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy [00:28:00] podcast.

Trees are a major cause of power outages. They're also a wildfire risk—when branches hit a conductor, a small spark can become a big blaze. Lynn Petesch of Overstory joins thinkenergy to talk trees, exploring how AI, satellite imagery, and vegetation intelligence help utilities prevent outages and reduce wildfire threats. Including Hydro Ottawa, who saw a 44% drop in tree-related outages since partnering with Overstory. Listen in for how we work together to keep the grid safe in an era of extreme weather.   Related links    Overstory: https://www.overstory.com/ Lynn Petesch on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnpetesch/    Trevor Freeman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-freeman-p-eng-8b612114    Hydro Ottawa: https://hydroottawa.com/en      To subscribe using Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thinkenergy/id1465129405 To subscribe using Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wFz7rdR8Gq3f2WOafjxpl To subscribe on Libsyn: http://thinkenergy.libsyn.com/ --- Subscribe so you don't miss a video: https://www.youtube.com/user/hydroottawalimited Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydroottawa Stay in the know on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HydroOttawa Keep up with the posts on X: https://twitter.com/thinkenergypod --- Transcript: [00:00:00] Trevor Freeman: Hi everyone, and welcome to the summer edition of Think Energy. We are officially in podcast vacation mode. So while our normal day-to-day work continues, we're taking a brief pause from our kind of regularly scheduled episodes to recharge, to think about what's coming up in the year ahead content-wise, and just do some planning. But while we do so, we don't want to leave you without anything to listen to, so we look back at some of our favorite insights and episodes over the past year, and that is our summer rewind. So this summer, we're tackling a pretty significant and overarching theme that's really defining the current state of the energy transition, and that is the collision between digital infrastructure and physical infrastructure as it relates to our energy grid. It's this really kind of fascinating look at old versus new, traditional versus up-and-coming, and how we progress to meet the energy needs of our customer base, the growing energy needs as we electrify, as we, you know, expand, while also implementing new technology to protect our grid, protect our assets, to better manage things. So it's kind of a common theme in a lot of episodes that we have done in the last little while and a lot of the conversations that we're having. So in Part 1 today, we're kicking things off with a look at the physical world of our grid and how we're using new technology to protect it, and that is our conversation with Overstory. So we'll re-examine how we use high-resolution satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to act as kind of a shield almost, you know, helping utilities proactively manage our vegetation and reduce vegetation-to-powerline contact, which can reduce power outages, wildfires in many cases, and really has been an important tool for us here at Hydro Ottawa as well as in the utility industry more broadly. So sit back and have a listen to my conversation with Lynn Pedesch from Overstory, and enjoy this summer rewind.   [00:02:26] Trevor Feeman: Welcome to Think Energy, the podcast that dives into the fast-changing world of energy through conversations with industry leaders, innovators, and people on the frontlines of the energy transition. Join me, Trevor Freeman, as I explore the traditional, unconventional, and up-and-coming facets of the energy industry. If you have any thoughts, feedback, or ideas for topics we should cover, please reach out to us at thinkenergy@hydroottawa.com.   [00:02:58] Trevor Freeman: Hi everyone, welcome back. Today on Think Energy, we're going to be talking about trees. Yes, you heard that correctly—trees. I know this is a show about energy, but there's actually a very real connection between our electricity grid and those slow-growing, majestic givers of shade, lumber, fruit, and so many more benefits. Honestly, who doesn't love trees? But I'm not just kicking this episode off in my capacity as a tree hugger. Let's take a look at this through a utility lens, and I will use Hydro Ottawa as an example. Hydro Ottawa's service territory includes some very rural and very forested areas. Even our urban territory has a fairly extensive tree canopy. As a result, Hydro Ottawa trims about 60,000 trees each year. Now why? Because trees contacting power infrastructure is a big problem. Tree interference remains a leading cause of power outages for us. Strong winds force them onto our wires. Heavy snow or freezing rain builds up and weighs down branches, breaks limbs, and increases the risk that part of a tree may touch a line. And in some extreme cases, heavy storms can even send trees or branches crashing into our poles, damaging the poles. The struggle between power lines and trees—which again, don't get me wrong, we all love trees—has been going on for years. There is a constant struggle between trimming enough and getting the right trees trimmed and maintaining as much tree coverage as we can. In 2022, we identified a disruptor in this stance. The solution came through a partnership with Overstory, a company that uses satellite imagery, infrared technology, and artificial intelligence to help utilities manage vegetation and trim trees more efficiently. And the timing could not have been better. Just days after we started working with Overstory in the spring of 2022, the Derecho hit Ottawa. Our Ottawa-based listeners will remember this storm well. It was monumental in the history of our city and indeed for us as a utility. Winds reached 190 kilometers an hour. For our non-metric listeners, that's nearly 120 miles per hour. The storm ripped through poles, houses, and caused considerable damage to our city's urban forest. Overstory played a crucial role during the cleanup and in helping us level up our vegetation management strategies moving forward. We realized that the insights we got from Overstory would help improve our proactive approach to tree encroachment and hazard identification, and this is essential in this era of extreme weather events. We know that climate change is causing more frequent and more extreme weather events. According to Climate Central, the number of weather-related power outages in the United States increased by 78% between 2011 and 2021. And severe weather accounted for over a thousand outages across Nova Scotia just in the year of 2024. We want to keep you connected during these heavy storms, and that's why we're looking to organizations like Overstory. So what does Overstory do to help us keep the lights on? Well, without giving away too much, because we're going to get into the details shortly, Overstory, through a detailed analysis of the scans they do of our entire grid, identifies high-risk areas which we can then prioritize and better focus our resources when it comes to vegetation management. This level of monitoring and focus reduces the risk of trees from coming into contact with our poles and disrupting your connection to the grid. The results speak for themselves. Since partnering with Overstory, we've reduced vegetation-related outages by 44%. And that's only part of the story. As we'll discuss further, Overstory also plays a crucial role in helping utilities prevent wildfires in high-risk areas across North America. Similar to extreme weather, wildfire frequency and intensity is also increasing, in part due to climate change, expanding cities, and many other factors. And when wildfires do happen, these stories are heartbreaking. What many people don't realize is that lots of wildfires are sparked by trees making contact with power lines. And that is why Overstory plays a key role in tagging areas where those fires are most likely to ignite and spread, making it easier for utilities to prioritize trimming work and vegetation management in those areas. To dive more into how Overstory is helping us here at Hydro Ottawa and other utilities, helping us identify and act to mitigate risk associated with vegetation, I'm really excited to have Lynn Pedesch on the show today. Lynn is Overstory's Head of Customer Success and has spent the past 10 years building customer-facing teams with a specific focus on technologies that tackle the climate crisis. She began her career working for the United Nations and the diplomatic service of her home country Luxembourg, before moving into the tech sector to really work in environments where she could drive impact more quickly and at greater scale. Lynn Pedesch, welcome to the show.   [00:08:05] Lynn Pedesch: Thank you. Thanks for having me.   [00:08:07] Trevor Freeman: Okay, so let's start at the very top with a high-level look at what Overstory does and how the organization came to be.   [00:08:15] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, let me tell you about Overstory. I mean, we are a vegetation intelligence platform. We use remote sensing and AI to give electric utilities, including Hydro Ottawa and others, a clear system-wide view of their risk. They always do it because they want to address three things, or sometimes more, but kind of there's always a few goal posts, and it's either improving reliability, reducing wildfire risk if that is if they're in an area where that is a concern, and/or improving operational efficiencies. So Overstory very much becomes a decision-making tool for their programs. We're used mostly by the vegetation management people, operations people, wildfire mitigation teams, and they each time they want to either use a program that exists, prioritize it, reshape their work, they might be preparing for a storm, they might be working on a wildfire mitigation risk. So the company more broadly was founded in 2018 by Aniek Schouten and Indra den Bakker—this was back in the Netherlands. And they were leveraging or getting really interested in satellite imagery and were very initially using it for deforestation purposes. So the climate resilience DNA has always been with us, but like any startup, we were looking at that kind of target audience that was most interested in what we had to offer. And pretty quickly, we landed on the electric utilities. They had the most pressing need to use remote sensing at scale to solve very big problems, honestly. And so we pivoted into that space of electric utilities. And then in 2020, Fiona Spruill, who's our CEO right now, she joined us. She shaped the company into what it is today, and that is really around building safer and more reliable operations.   [00:10:14] Trevor Freeman: That's great, and I want to dive into some of the details. Our listeners will know that we talk a lot about grid modernization here and talk a lot about better intelligence of what's happening on the grid in all aspects. And something we haven't really talked about and I'm excited to talk to you about today is the sort of vegetation management side of it. So really excited to get into the details, but before we do that, I'm always really curious to understand, you know, the people behind the conversations. How did you get into this area of, you know, high-tech vegetation management? I touched a little bit on your bio in the intro, but give us a sense of, you know, how did Lynn come to be in the space that you're in right now?   [00:10:52] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, I wouldn't say I grew up thinking I was going to work in this space, but I love working in it now. So actually right out of college, I went to work for the United Nations, but then in the last 15 years, I started working at high-growth tech companies, startups, and I've always been focused on leading and building CS operations, which is basically the customer success teams. They're the ones that are in front of the customers, implementing these software programs, kind of working very closely with customers, solving problems. And about four years ago, I decided that I did want to focus the rest of my career on solving the climate crisis more broadly. And I remember very clearly that I came across Overstory and there were two things that really resonated with me. One was hearing that utility-caused wildfires could be a thing of the past—like they are preventable—and the other thing was learning about this world where vegetation is the biggest cause of outages, which is, you know, I did not know before! And so I think, you know, having these very clear goals is very compelling to kind of work on something where it's so easy to understand what the big problems are. So I joined Overstory, and for the last couple of years, I've been building a team that gets really deeply embedded in these utilities, specifically with the vegetation management and the wildfire mitigation teams. And we work on their programs, we understand their programs, we help them reshape their programs, we roll out obviously the software element that is Overstory. It's been very fun and rewarding work.   [00:12:30] Trevor Freeman: That's great. And I really love, you know, talking to people from a variety of areas that touch on climate change and the climate crisis, and I think there's a bunch of us who share that passion of wanting to do something. I spoke with a group of recent grads about what a green career, what a career in climate change looks like, and really it looks like whatever you want it to look like. There are so many aspects that touch on this. So kind of neat to hear how that was your passion and then you figured out where it made sense for you to enter into the climate sphere, so that's great.   [00:13:06] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, I guess when I was young, I thought you had to be a scientist to work on climate, and I think now anyone can find an angle on how to contribute to it, and I think everyone needs to help contribute.   [00:13:15] Trevor Freeman: Yeah, any job can be a green job if you care about it and if you make it that. Okay, so let me get back to Overstory. Tell us a little bit about the evolution of the company. You talked about it kind of founding about seven years ago. Tell us how it's evolved and progressed over those seven years.   [00:13:30] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, so when we started working with utilities, I think at that point everyone was kind of assessing whether satellites could be a good use case for analyzing vegetation. We're now talking about 30-centimeter imagery, so the resolution of satellites has become incredible. You can really see branches, you can detect species of trees, you can see if they're healthy or not. So initially that was kind of our MO. We really were the leading provider to find out where the trees are, how close they are in terms of proximity to your network, so to the conductor, which is the risk. You know, we're looking at the terrain. If you're looking in the mountains in Colorado, you have very different terrain than maybe in Ottawa. So, you know, detecting tree species has been really interesting, detecting the health of trees, and how that decline is furthering. A lot of utilities are experiencing a lot of tree decline, die-off right now. So that was how we started. And then we started working with the really big utilities, and you had to think about this problem at scale. Now we might be scanning with satellites tens of thousands of miles at a time. And some of these utilities, they might have thousands, if not tens of thousands of trees that could pose a risk to their network. They might have had a really big, large weather event, a storm that knocked over some of their system. So at that point, it all becomes about that decisioning tool. Everything starts becoming a priority. And I think that's now where we're really leaning into, is making not just surfacing the data, but making it very actionable. Utilities have a lot to deal with. They deal with very tight budgets, they deal with crew constraints, they might have an aging workforce, there's regulatory pressure, they're really vulnerable to storms, increasingly there's a lot of wildfire exposure. So everything becomes a decision of where should I focus my attention, where can I get the biggest bang for my buck, what should I do, what should I not focus on. And that decisioning is where we really want to be a key player in.   [00:15:47] Trevor Freeman: Absolutely. And looking forward, I know we're jumping the gun here, we haven't gotten into the details of what you do, but looking forward, what is your vision for kind of the future of this space and how it's going to continue to evolve? Are you mature as a company yet or as a sector, or is there still a lot of growth to happen?   [00:16:04] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, I think the vast majority of utilities are now leveraging remote sensing. It could be LiDAR, it could be drones, it could be satellites, so that has become a pretty established tooling within the sector. I think what our vision really is, is providing utilities that share resilience-first picture of risk. So, you know, we imagine a world where you can kind of see the emerging risks and you can start becoming proactive. Being proactive in this space of vegetation management has been really challenging. You never know where the next tree is going to fall, and over the last couple of years, customers suddenly have access to this risk across the territory so they can start being proactive about it. As a matter of fact, that was a key use case also with the team at Hydro Ottawa, is to start launching these proactive programs. And I think when we think about it, we get very excited about the world in which anyone from the field crews to the vegetation managers to the operation folks to the execs to the regulators, the community partners who think about the safety of their communities, all have that kind of shared view of risk. Just imagine, they all understand the same risk, they operate off the same sheet, and they make the same data-driven decisions. That could solve a lot of problems, because right now the data is often scrambled across different people—certain people have access to it, and certain people don't.   [00:17:33] Trevor Freeman: Great. Okay, so let's get into the specifics here. I want to actually talk about specifically what Overstory does. How do you find—we've kind of talked about vegetation management, obviously you're supporting Hydro Ottawa and other utilities in our vegetation management programs—how do you find and tag high-risk vegetation? What is high risk? Like, what do you actually do on a day-to-day basis?   [00:17:58] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, that's the part that I deal with the most often! So excited to get into the specifics. Implementing with Overstory is actually pretty easy. I mean, when we start working with a customer, we need to know where your grid is, so we need to understand where your power lines are running. We need to understand the main configurations of them, you know, how tall are the poles, etc., so we can really compute that whole focus of where the trees are in relation to your power lines, to your conductors. That's all ultimately that we're focusing on. Increasingly, we're also focusing on the ground, I'll be talking about that as well. We then task these satellites over your territory. We do that during the leaf-on season, so that will be the summer, essentially. And then we run all these models. So we first need to understand where the trees are, what is their height, and what is their health. An unhealthy tree is much more likely to fall and cause damage to your power lines. We're looking at the fuels on the ground. We can help you determine what type of equipment you might need to attack certain types of vegetation, and we always compute that risk to the conductor, and we look at your right-of-ways. Now, I think the interesting part about your question is what is high risk, and that can be very different across different utilities. And I think that's the maybe unique part with Overstory, is that we can configure it to your standards. So every utility has very unique components. If you're on the West Coast and you're concerned about wildfires, your tolerance to risk will be very different than if you're on the East Coast where you're mostly concerned about not causing too many outages. Including that, you might have specific trimming specifications. The crews run around with chainsaws, they know exactly how far out they need to trim, how much they can trim, and there's a bit of a risk tolerance thing. So we build very configurable risk frameworks for all of our utility partners, so "high" means one thing to Hydro Ottawa, means something different to a customer in California that is facing a very different type of risk.   [00:20:04] Trevor Freeman: So you're out there assessing, essentially just for the context of our listeners, you know, we've got power lines that run overhead, they run through residential neighborhoods, commercial areas, but also forested areas, treed areas where there's lots of vegetation near our equipment. Your company really gets an understanding of the interaction between the vegetation and our lines, and says these ones are too close, or this is a tree that's, you know, not healthy and could come in contact with your lines based on your analysis. So help us, like let's paint that picture a little bit more detailed. How do utility companies take the information that you are coming up with, that your analysis is coming up with, and use that to run a vegetation management program more effectively? What does a utility do with that information?   [00:20:56] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, so we always center it around four main use cases. One is optimizing a program that already exists, it's creating a targeted program for you, it's quantifying your work, and risk reporting. And I'll dive into each and every one of them a little bit to illustrate a bit more what that could mean. So when we think about program optimization, a lot of utilities have existing vegetation management cycle, they might have a regulatory obligation to visit their territory every four years, for example. Now a lot of times, they've been doing their program the same way for the last 10, maybe 20 years, but the conditions in their territory are different, right? I mean, the things we're seeing, the storms are heavier, there's more tree decline that we're seeing right now. So they know they need to adapt and they need to adjust it, but it's big programs with lots of budgets attached to it, a lot of crews running around, so starting to think about how you can start pulling a circuit that you're meant to trim forward, or starting to tackle an area where you say is more residential, there's fewer trees, focusing on your high-risk areas first, re-managing these programs is one key component that we work with a lot of companies on, and thinking about Oklahoma Gas and Electric, for example, that they have a budget and they can only do that much with the budget, and it was really about reinventing where they can get the biggest impact. The second use case is this targeted program creation, and I'll use the Hydro Ottawa use case for that. You know, they suddenly had a view about where all of their hazard trees are. Hazard trees are these trees that are declining, they're dying or they're dead, and they could have an impact on your system. Now suddenly you know where they are, so you can start building a targeted program about dedicating some time and budget and crews to actually going and addressing those trees. That has a big impact on your reliability and on reducing tree-caused outages. And there's many others, sort of like hot-spotting is a very common term about starting to become proactive and doing something for a specific program. The third use case is work quantification, and I think there, when you think about it again, there's large contractors that are running around managing your territory, and now utilities for the first time often have that data to actually assess how much work there is. So that's really helpful in terms of negotiating your contracts, getting better bids. Some utilities say it's pretty hard to find contractors that want to work on their system because it's very hard to estimate how much work there is. Or they might have a budget to mow certain vegetation along a transmission corridor. Just knowing how much vegetation there is is a really helpful tool to address it and prioritize it in the right way. And then the fourth use case is risk reporting, and that is about getting that baseline view about your risk and tracking it year-over-year. And this is really where we want utilities to have that data to report it out to their boards, insurers, regulators, and often it's used to defend your budget, secure your budgets, or really have some data to kind of back you up on what the problems are that you're facing.   [00:24:26] Trevor Freeman: Great. So you talk about data, and, you know, each of those use cases that you mentioned or strategies that you mentioned really are about getting the right information in the hands of the right people to make decisions and sort of more efficiently and effectively make decisions. But it's a lot of data. And so Hydro Ottawa has over 6,000 kilometers of lines, you know this of course as our partner. We have a big territory and we have a fairly treed territory. That's a lot of data points. You're collecting a lot of data from your satellites, you're doing analysis on that. How are you doing that analysis? Is it—you know, AI is kind of a buzzword in every sector right now, and the utility sector's no different. Are you using some form of AI or machine learning analytics? What are you doing in terms of, you know, crunching the numbers and coming up with the right actions?   [00:25:25] Lynn Pedesch: Totally. Yeah, AI is a buzzword, but it's also very exciting. I think utilities have really embraced it already. They're using it for demand forecasting, they're using it for customer service, they're using it for asset planning. I mean, at the core, Overstory has been using AI to turn remote sensing data into operationally useful intelligence about their vegetation. So when you say, yes, Hydro Ottawa has that many thousands of kilometers of overhead lines, we need to rank it to them: This is your worst circuit, this is your worst area, this is the area where you have the most hazard trees, for example. So we can really rank order on a span level from the worst to the best, right? So that could be one thing. It's still an overwhelming amount of data. So where we started by using AI to kind of predict where the trees are, how tall are they, what was their relation to the conductors, now what we're really excited about or kind of leaning into with AI is how to intelligently kind of assess and prioritize risk. So not every hazard tree has the same impact. If a hazard tree falls on a line where more houses are dependent on, you will knock out the power of more people. So it's always a prioritization exercise, and leveraging AI for that is what is most exciting to us right now. And I think it's important to note that we also don't just want it to be a black box. All of the models we've built, they're always validated by certified arborists and kind of our utility partners, and I think at this stage, this is very important, because every tree that we find exists in the real world, and so validating this AI with ground-truthing has been really important for us to also build that trust in the technology.   [00:27:14] Trevor Freeman: That's great. And I do think it's helpful for our listeners to kind of understand the context before this. This work is sort of done—you know, in the absence of a tool like yours, it's sort of done, you know, there's a degree of manual effort here. There's a degree of patrolling the lines, there's a cycle of vegetation management. So if you've done a line this year, in three years or four years or five years, you want to be looking at it again. This takes a little bit of that—I don't want to call it guesswork, but it takes a little bit of that manual effort out of the equation and really focuses efforts in the right way, and it's only with the tools that, you know, you folks are using that you're able to do that volume of analysis and get that pinpoint accuracy. So that's fantastic. Let me get into the success of it all, like the big picture. We've obviously talked a couple times here that you're our partner here at Hydro Ottawa, so I know the success that we're having with you, but, you know, tell us some of the great success stories with other utility partners. Are you actually reducing weather-related outages? Are you seeing the impact of using the Overstory tools and methodology to support utility partners?   [00:28:28] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah. I mean, weather-related outages can mean many things. You have trees knocking over, like the pole might crack, etc. You know, those, there's a lot of things that can happen during a storm, and I've heard a lot of stories about some of the storms that Ottawa has experienced in the past years where, you know, you could have had anything and they're just heavier and the consequences are really strong. But what we can impact is the tree-caused outages. And that we've proven with Hydro Ottawa where, within a year, by focusing that targeted program on going to an area where you had a massive amount of these trees that were dying off, and at any point with just a little bit too heavy wind could be toppled over and fall on the line, we had a 44% reduction in tree-caused outages. That's a real, tangible number you can see. I'm thinking about a utility as well on the East Coast, a co-op that runs through very rural areas. In those areas, you have trees outside of the right-of-way that are toppling over onto lines, so tree-caused outages are a huge issue for them and it's really impacting their SAIDI and SAIFI, those key KPIs that utilities are always tracking. And by us just giving them a rank order of which hazard tree—they had so many of them—which hazard tree to even go to first, because if that hazard tree were to fall on a line, a ton more people are going to be out of power than if the other one were to fall on the line where you will have like one rural cabin that will not have power. That led to a reduction of something around 90% of tree-caused outages to 70%. It's still a long way to go, but it was a really tangible number that you can see, and it shows that if you then do that proactive work, you have a real impact on your tree-caused outages. And if I think about our customers in California, Pacific Gas and Electric for example, it's a lot about helping them understand where they don't need to go. So it's kind of doing something of a visual inspection and actually skipping certain spans. That can be in itself a really big use case, because right now, if you don't have an understanding about where your risks are, you might be sending trucks to roll for hours around areas where there is not really any tangible work to be done. So redirecting them to the right areas is where we've seen a lot of success there, and that obviously leads to budget wins, right? You'll be saving a lot of money by doing that, and those are kind of the use cases that we chase and that we kind of help prove the cases on.   [00:31:07] Trevor Freeman: Absolutely. Yeah, there's only so many resources you can throw at this, and making sure that we prioritize and focus those resources in the right spot is absolutely critical. You were just talking about the West Coast and you mentioned this earlier, I know wildfires is an area that is obviously of great interest for your organization. We're fortunate here at Hydro Ottawa in that we haven't really had to deal with that much, but anybody who's, you know, following the news knows this is a major problem for us. So how, what is your role in helping those utilities prevent wildfires? Maybe give us a very quick primer on why utilities are a factor when it comes to wildfires first, and then how your organization is supporting that.   [00:31:52] Lynn Pedesch: So unfortunately, utility-caused wildfires tend to be the most catastrophic wildfires because they're critical infrastructure, and we've obviously seen that happen across the world and in the US recently again and again. But utility-caused wildfires, as I said at the beginning, are also the actual wildfires that are preventable. So that's really where we're lying into. A lot of the forests right now, they've become tinderboxes. That is obviously because of fire suppression policies, that's because of forest management techniques that have been leveraged in the last couple of hundred years that are slowly changing at a different pace. Canada's had some, unfortunately, some really bad fire seasons recently as well. And so where Overstory wanted to place itself is in that prevention space—to even not get to the point where you have a spark, because there's a lot of tools out there that focus on mitigation and what do you do when you see that first plume of smoke coming up, and so we've landed in kind of really focusing on the prevention side so that utilities are hopefully in the future not the ones that spark any of those catastrophic wildfires. We've already always been looking at the vegetation that could touch your conductor, right? That I've been speaking about a lot. But now we're really excited for the first time and we recently announced that we launched a fuel detection model. So that's us looking at the ground fuel conditions, and those are actually usually the key contributors to the spark that spreads the fire. We're now providing that to utilities as a much higher resolution than ever before. For me, it's interesting cause I've spent a lot of time looking at trees, and now I'm going into the field and I'm looking at the ground, and it's a new perspective! But yet again, we could just, you know, we don't want to overwhelm our customers with a lot of maps and showing the fuel conditions necessarily, we can really help them identify those spans where a single failure would have the greatest consequence. So yet again, it's about how to make that data—there's a lot of wildfire risk maps out there—but make it a very actionable list of spans that if they were to tackle those, they are very proactively reducing the risk of igniting a fire and as a result obviously protecting their communities.   [00:34:10] Trevor Freeman: Got it. So it's not just about the overhead trees, branches, etc., contacting the line, it's, you know, if a switch goes, if an insulator pops, if something happens that will cause sparks, what's happening on the ground below that line, and how do we make sure it is able to withstand sparks that might happen.   [00:34:29] Lynn Pedesch: Exactly. If you have dry grasses, if you have sagebrush, if you have certain types of fuels, they're just much more likely to spark a fire and then spread out without there even being any trees. You have these prairies along Texas that can blow up in a fire very quickly, and the fires can spread to tremendous sizes. And so understanding the fuels on the ground is really important.   [00:34:55] Trevor Freeman: Super interesting and fascinating, fascinating work to get involved in. As you mentioned, this is obviously an area of, I don't even know if I'd call it growing concern anymore, great concern for the utility industry and all of us. So with the technology that's, you know, we talked about AI a little bit ago, it's literally growing before our eyes, it's really evolving fast. Do you see your technology evolving along with it? What's kind of next for your organization? You talked about getting into sort of the ground vegetation management—what comes next? How do you see it evolving as AI and tools evolve?   [00:35:32] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, I mean, if we see that the future is where we want to support a grid that is much safer and reliable as I mentioned, we also want to make sure it's resilient to the climate and the economic pressures that there are. So our initial focus and our continued focus and where we have a lot of our expertise has been with vegetation. Now we're starting to look at the ground fuels, then that naturally evolves into looking at the asset vulnerabilities, so, you know, the actual poles and if there's any failures potentially on those, as well as further weather exposures, right? It becomes then about the soil moisture, it becomes about the wind speed, it becomes about the rain precipitation, etc. So there's a myriad of things that we can start looking at and that we want to start looking at in order to get that more holistic view of risk and go beyond just vegetation. Right now where we're investing most heavily in is that wildfire risk. There's also the resolution that we see with satellites right now is at 30 centimetres, that might drop down to 15 or 10 centimetres, so the resolution will get higher. There's other sources that we're exploring already, sometimes flying aerial imagery that is at 5 to 15 centimetres. Then you really start seeing—then you can start seeing a leaf on a tree! It gets really impressive. There's LiDAR, there's lots of other kinds of remote sensing technologies that we're looking to leverage in the future. And then as a company as well, we're starting to obviously also expand internationally. We started working with utilities in New Zealand that have very similar problems and various regulatory changes, they also have a problem with wildfire risk. So that is another angle that at Overstory we're chasing right now.   [00:37:18] Trevor Freeman: Yeah, I'm glad you brought up that understanding of other assets beyond just vegetation has kind of been running through my head of—we talk about, and I think we've talked about it here on the show, if we haven't I should do an episode on that, like a digital twin. A digital twin of our grid, and really having a good understanding of not just, you know, a line drawn on a map of, "Hey, your circuits run this way," but really physically what's happening out there and it being able to sort of model that, interact with it in a digital way to understand if we do X, Y, and Z, what happens. So the technology that you guys are using to really get good imagery and understanding of what's out there, I think what I'm hearing from you is that could potentially be leveraged in that next level to understand what poles do we have, what health are they in, what's happening with that conductor, is it sagging too much, is it in good health, like there's all this opportunity. That's really fascinating to hear.   [00:38:15] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, already now when we look at transmission corridors, we look at the sag of these lines, and the terrains are also really challenging things to look at. So there's a lot of factors that need to be taken into account, and that can only expand as we want to look at risk more beyond just the vegetation element.   [00:38:34] Trevor Freeman: Very cool. Well, Lynn, very, very interesting to hear this. I'm really glad you came on the show today to talk to us. Fascinating to hear what Overstory's up to. I know that we're super excited to be working with you here at Hydro Ottawa, and excited for what comes next. We always end our interviews with a series of questions, so I'm going to dive into those, and here we go. What is a book that you've read that you think everyone should read?   [00:39:00] Lynn Pedesch: I was thinking about an author more than a book. My favorite author is Jonathan Franzen. If I would recommend one book, it'd probably be The Corrections, his most famous one, I believe. But they're like these chunky 800-900 page books where you kind of get immersed in these families and you feel like you know them at the end, and then they kind of, I think about them for like months afterward! They're really good reading, at least for the winter when it's cold and you spend a lot of time inside, so probably Jonathan Franzen's books, yeah.   [00:39:31] Trevor Freeman: Yeah, we're recording this just before the holidays and I think we'll be releasing the episode after, but winter is such a great time to curl up with a book and it's awesome to have a good recommendation of a nice thick book.   [00:39:41] Lynn Pedesch: It'll still be cold in January, especially in Ottawa!   [00:39:44] Trevor Freeman: Absolutely, absolutely. So, same question, but a movie or a show?   [00:39:49] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, I'm not a big movie buff, but I recently rewatched What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I don't know if you've seen it, with Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio, and I always felt like Leonardo DiCaprio should have received an Oscar for that performance back when he was 14, but yeah, it's a beautiful movie.   [00:40:07] Trevor Freeman: Oh, nice! Yeah, that's a bit of a blast from the past, but you're right, that is a fantastic one. If someone offered you a free round-trip flight anywhere in the world, where would you go?   [00:40:17] Lynn Pedesch: French Polynesia, because it's so far, I've never been. I had a friend who went, and I'm sure it's very expensive to go there, so it'd be great for someone to pay! Yeah, no, that's a place I'll go one day, so yeah.   [00:40:31] Trevor Freeman: Fantastic. Who is someone that you admire?   [00:40:34] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, that's a tricky one because I was thinking about people in my family, etc., but if I were to think about a public persona—and also a bit of a blast from the past—I'll think about Tina Turner. She's been my icon since I'm a kid. I was always listening with my dad to Tina Turner. And I think the word that I've probably most used in today's episode was like "resilience," and I always think about her as like possibly the most resilient woman in the world who reinvented herself and her career in her 40s and 50s, and is this complete power woman, you know, always done everything at her own terms. So I get so much energy from, not just her music, I've seen so many documentaries about her, and she's always been this kind of woman that fills you with energy and kind of drives you. So, I'm a big, big fan of Tina Turner.   [00:41:28] Trevor Freeman: That's fantastic. I have to say, that's never come up on the show before, and now I need to go and dive down a rabbit hole of learning about Tina Turner and listening to some music. That's a really good answer. Last question: What's something about the energy sector or, let me expand that to kind of the climate sector, that you're really excited about?   [00:41:47] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, I'm going to take a very high level, but I think the thing I've been following the most is like that broad topic of the energy transition, and I think the recent changes or like kind of the way we talk about it has become a lot more interesting because it used to be this kind of fluffy, big kind of vision, and now we're in that phase where it just has to be very practically implemented. And we're trudging along with it, no matter the political climate, etc., there is kind of a move forward. And I actually really like the way that, I think when I first started learning about it or getting interested in it, it was always about renewables, and now it's around just sort of like needing to build a system that is both like low carbon and climate resilient, and there's something in that like way we talk about it now that I find really interesting. There's immense amounts of innovation in it, so, yeah, I'm just enjoying following what's happening on that and how we are moving that direction no matter what's happening right now, so that's exciting.   [00:42:48] Trevor Freeman: Yeah, good one. I know my listeners are probably rolling their eyes because I say this all the time, but it's a very exciting time to be in this industry, and very exciting to kind of see the evolution of energy and how we're interacting with it, how it's impacting our society. It really feels like we're at an inflection point, and very great to have you working on one aspect of that that people probably don't think about a lot, so thanks very much for what you're doing.   [00:43:13] Lynn Pedesch: Yeah, exactly! When you start working for Overstory, the one thing that happens is wherever you go, you see trees and power lines, and I have a very keen eye for, unfortunately, trees that are in poor health right now, so that's one of the professional things I've developed.   [00:43:28] Trevor Freeman: You carry like a spool of red ribbon around, you can tie on the at-risk trees, just so someone could come along! Lynn, thanks so much for coming on the show today, really appreciate it. It's been great chatting with you.   [00:43:38] Lynn Pedesch: Thank you so much. Take care.   [00:43:40] Trevor Freeman: Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Think Energy podcast. Don't forget to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, and it would be great if you could leave us a review—it really helps to spread the word. As always, we would love to hear from you, whether it's feedback, comments, or an idea for a show or a guest. You can always reach us at thinkenergy@hydroottawa.com.  

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​United was ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration to reduce the number of flights in and out of O'Hare out of concerns that the airport could become overloaded. The orders were set to expire this October, but the FAA recently extended them through October, 2027. ​United now has ended plans to start regional flights from O'Hare to 10 Midwest and East Coast destinations, including Champaign and Bloomington in Illinois. United Airlines says it hopes to serve those regional airports when the FAA order expires.

Start spreading the news… because the U.S. national championship for track and field has officially landed on the East Coast, taking over Randall's Island and Icahn Stadium for the next four days of action.As the sun set over the Harlem River, U.S. titles were handed out in the men's and women's 10,000m, men's long jump and hammer throw, and women's javelin. The finals were set in the 1500ms and the steeplechase, and we got our first look at Noah Lyles, Sha'Carri Richardson, and more of the country's best sprinters in the first round of the 100m.The most memorable moment of Day 1 wasn't exactly a feat of history-making speed — it was the 1:39.55 first 400 meters of a ridiculously tactical women's 10,000m final, where the field crawled through halfway over 18 minutes before Sydney Vaught took control and never looked back, covering the second half in 15:21 to break the field and the tape with a 33:30.60 victory.In the men's race, a similarly slow early pace (16:12 through halfway) seemed to be playing perfectly into Grant Fisher's hands, but after he dropped a 60-second lap with 4k to go to winnow his rivals down to Drew Bosley and Woody Kincaid, the pace over the final laps slacked just enough that Kincaid was able to uncork his signature finishing speed to lethal effect, closing in 25.95 for the final 200m to beat Fisher to the line, 30:13.66 to 30:14.66. While Fisher has two Olympic medals, he only has one U.S. 10,000m title, and Kincaid picks up his third at the age of 33.Despite a relatively light program, there was plenty of drama in the middle-distance prelims, as pre-race contenders like Sam Prakel and Gracie Morris found themselves on the wrong side of the time cutoffs in the men's and women's 1500m, respectively. Nikki Hiltz had no problem advancing to the final in their heat in pursuit of a fourth straight U.S. outdoor title, and Andy Powell disciples had a romp of a time with the men's heats, as four of the twelve finalists are current or former UW Huskies.The biggest shock of the day came in the men's steeple prelims, because for the first time since 2022 there will be a new national champion. Kenneth Rooks failed to advance to the final after a spotty 2026 season to date, which opens the door for someone like Parker Stokes, who led all qualifiers, or last year's third-placer Benard Keter to claim the title.Our YouTube channel is full of mixed-zone interviews with all the top athletes. Make sure to follow along on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky as we continue to bring you live action as the weekend of running, jumping, and throwing continues.

Send us Fan MailRead about Dinette here: https://online.fliphtml5.com/kcndc/hvwa/#p=1Dinette Neuteboom is a Dutch-born equestrian professional, writer, and educator, and the founder of HorseGrooms — a platform dedicated to supporting and educating grooms around the world. She grew up in Hattem, the Netherlands, where despite coming from a non-horsey family, a friend in elementary school introduced her to horses and she was immediately hooked — spending hours absorbing everything she could about horse care, riding, and showing jumpers. That early passion quickly found a second outlet: she began writing for her equestrian club's quarterly journal, which quickly morphed into covering equestrian sports for Dutch regional and national papers. After earning a degree in education and her international trainer's license through the Dutch Equestrian Federation, Neuteboom combined her work as a teacher at an equine college with riding young show jumpers, training horses and riders, singing in a classical choir, and writing for equestrian magazines. Then, in 2009, she made a decision that would define the next chapter of her life: at age 34, she quit her job, sold her horses, said goodbye to family and friends, and left for what she thought would be a trip of a lifetime — an around-the-world journey without an expiration date. What followed was a career that spans five continents and almost defies summary. She worked as a trainer of young show jumpers in Argentina and China, was a barn manager in New Zealand, and eventually made her way to the United States — including working a summer riding across the plains and mountains of Wyoming and becoming part of the teams behind some of hunter-jumper sport's most celebrated performances. She experienced the highs of the equestrian world by being part of the teams of the winning horse in the WCHR Peter Wetherill Hunter Spectacular and the International Hunter Derbies at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington — and also the lows, including horses breaking a leg, dying from colic, and suffering difficult lives. She even has the distinction, delivered with characteristic candor, of having been fired by George Morris because the tack trunk didn't come back clean enough after a summer of showing horses all over the East Coast. Today, as the founder of HorseGrooms, Neuteboom believes the industry is only beginning to understand how much responsibility rests on the shoulders of the people working behind the scenes — and she has made amplifying and supporting those voices the central mission of her work. Through HorseGrooms, she has launched educational partnerships, including a legal education series with equine attorney Kimbrell Hines, to give horse care professionals practical knowledge before they need it. Whether developing educational resources, writing for a global audience, or helping equestrian teams refine their practices, her guiding question remains the same: what does the horse need, and how can we help people see that more clearly.theplaidhorse.comThank you so much for joining us today on the Plaidcast. This podcast is a labor of love, and every single episode exists because of this incredible community of riders, trainers, barn managers, parents, and horse lovers who show up in the barn, in the ring, and right here with us.At The Plaid Horse, our commitment goes far beyond the show ring. We believe deeply in the power of literacy and education and that every rider, at every level, deserves access to knowledge, stories, and ideas that make them a better horseperson and a better human being. Reading matters. Learning matters. And the stories we tell each other in this sport matter more than we sometimes realize.Whether you are a junior rider picking up your first copy of The Plaid Horse  Magazine, a professional trainer looking for inspiration, or someone who simply loves horses and everything this world stands for then this community is for you. You belong here.We build this together. Every article, every episode, every conversation is an opportunity to learn something new, to feel less alone in the challenges of this sport, and to be reminded of why we fell in love with horses in the first place.Until next time, keep reading, keep learning, keep riding, and remember that the horse world is better when we build it together. I will see you at the ring!

Nick Wilson and Jonathan Peterlin analyze LeBron James' decision to join the Philadelphia 76ers on a veteran minimum contract and how it affects his basketball legacy. They also debate the Cleveland Cavaliers' front office strategy regarding players like Jonathan Kuminga and take calls from fans regarding the benefits of watching LeBron play on an East Coast schedule. 01:01 - LeBron's Philadelphia Legacy 09:09 - Cavs Roster Moves 13:14 - East Coast Schedule Benefits

The Avengers Doomsday trailer dropped this week and Doug has already watched it four times. The full reaction is here: what landed, what it means for the MCU, why the Russos coming back gives genuine reason for optimism, and why Thor not cracking a single joke in the entire trailer is one of the most promising signs this movie is going somewhere real. The biggest moments get the full breakdown. Captain America's return and the Mjolnir handoff. RDJ as Doctor Doom and the most logical in-universe explanation for why he looks exactly like Tony Stark. The Loki TVA card and whether the average viewer has any idea what that means. Shang-Chi showing up despite not appearing in a single piece of Marvel content since 2021. The Fantastic Four's involvement. Gambit getting a moment that made a 10-year-old lose her mind. And the theory that this film is essentially Marvel's version of Secret Wars, a way of pruning timelines, retiring legacy characters, and rebooting the X-Men in a way that actually makes sense. Speaking of the X-Men, Doug and Natalie watched all five original Fox X-Men films over the weekend specifically to prepare for Doomsday. The full post-mortem covers everything the franchise got wrong: Wolverine was never supposed to be the main character, Cyclops got done catastrophically dirty across every single film, Rogue never threw one punch in three movies, the X-Men never once fought as a team despite that being their entire thing, and Hugh Jackman looked completely fine in the year 2000 and we as a society did something terrible to that man over the next 24 years. Before all that: a Reddit question about socially acceptable life choices that are actually kind of insane when you sit with them. Spending money you don't have to impress people you don't like. Working five days a week just to get two days of freedom. Choosing your entire career path when you are 17 years old. Sports fanaticism and the double standard that exists between jersey-wearing adults and anyone who shows up to a convention. Gambling, specifically the rise of sports betting apps and why that cottage industry is genuinely sinister. Posting everything on social media compulsively. And the hokey pokey. The Urban Dictionary game returns. This round covers Gert, Yop, Opstopper, Cap-tain, Gup, and Poo Shuttling. Justin's definition of Poo Shuttling involves Colorado, underground pipe hacking, and a thriving East Coast black market. It is not correct. It is significantly better than correct. This week's recommendations: Justin: Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die (Hulu/Disney+). Sam Rockwell is extraordinary. Zazzy Beetz, Michael Pena, Juno Temple, Haley Lou Richardson. Weird, funny, and not far off from where we are headed. The third act gets away from itself slightly but the film is absolutely worth your time. Doug: The Long Walk (HBO). Stephen King adaptation. Dystopian future. 50 boys from 50 states walk until one is left alive. Dark as hell. Completely enthralling. Not a pick-me-upper. Go watch it. Subscribe: youtube.com/mindgappodcast  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/T3HwyEw5v7  Listen everywhere you get podcasts  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mindgappodcast Merch on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/67768184

Following a sizzling 4th of July weekend, we talked with Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha is a democratic socialist from the Mid-Hudson Valley. She has long been a champion of of rapidly expanding New York's public system to accelerate the buildout of renewable energy sources. We spoke with her following a 4th of July weekend heat wave that roasted much of the East Coast and knocked out service to thousands of Con Ed customers in Queens.

In the first segment, we spoke with Anna Yoney and Ivano TK of Columbia Postdoctoral Workers-UAW Local 4100 about their battle to win a new union contract from Columbia University that improves pay, working conditions, child care and provides more protections for international postdocs. Following a sizzling 4th of July weekend, we talked with Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha is a democratic socialist from the Mid-Hudson Valley. She has long been a champion of of rapidly expanding New York's public system to accelerate the buildout of renewable energy sources. We spoke with her following a 4th of July weekend heat wave that roasted much of the East Coast and knocked out service to thousands of Con Ed customers in Queens.

The war with Iran widens as Houthis target ships in the Red Sea.  Tropical storm Bertha fuels a serious threat to the East Coast. The Secret Service is investigating one of their own for a suspected leak surrounding Vice President Vance's travel plans. A Florida teen drops their addiction case against Meta.  Plus, the New Bedford Whaling Museum turns a bad review into merch.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over the past week, smoke from wildfires in Canada (as well as northern Minnesota) has affected air quality and visibility across the Midwest and East Coast of the United States. As of Monday, air-quality alerts remained in place for a large portion of the country, and experts expect wildfire smoke to remain prevalent through August. The fires have raised concerns about climate-related catalysts of extreme environmental events, as well as scrutiny of Canada's forest management. Ad-free podcasts are here!To listen to this podcast ad-free, and to enjoy our subscriber only premium content, go to ReadTangle.com to sign up!A new Suspension of the Rules.This week, Isaac, Kmele, and a fresh-faced Ari reunite to talk election integrity, Bill O'Reilly, a twist in an old Hunter Biden story, and the challenge of separating political rhetoric from reality. Check it out here.You can read today's podcast⁠ ⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ and today's “Have a nice day” story ⁠here⁠.You can subscribe to Tangle by clicking here or drop something in our tip jar by clicking here. Take the survey: What's responsible for Canada's wildfires? Let us know.Our Executive Editor and Founder is Isaac Saul. Our Executive Producer is Jon Lall.This podcast written by: Ari Weitzman and audio engineered and edited by Dewey Thomas. Music for the podcast was produced by Diet 75.Our newsletter is edited by Managing Editor Ari Weitzman, Senior Editor Will Kaback, Bailey Saul, Audrey Moorehead, and Carina Pacheco. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drew Chalfant and his wife brought HAWKs – Hiking Adventures With Kids – to Lake Norman, planting the national brand's first East Coast flag right here in our backyard. A recovering franchise attorney (and former emo-band touring musician) turned hands-on owner-operator, Drew makes a compelling case that the "kick out the front door, come home when the streetlights come on" childhood isn't gone for good – it just needs a van, a trail, and a few naturalist educators to bring it back.Jeff and Drew get into why "60 minutes a day" outside is the bare-minimum floor, not the goal; how HAWKs uses after-school programs, summer day camps, and school-closure coverage as a genuine childcare resource for working parents across Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, and Mooresville; and the surprising magic of letting kids get bored on the trail – like the day a group spontaneously invented their own little society and begged to come back to finish the story. It's a warm, funny conversation about screens, stewardship, and why our kids come alive outdoors.Hawks Kids Lake NormanSupport the show

“I was rapping before singing” ~ Kocky Ka Brooklyn, New York artist Kocky Ka joins Lalaa Shepard of The Progress Report for an all-new episode of Skipping Class. During the conversation, he reflects on growing up in Brooklyn, singing in church, pursuing music after the passing of his father, and why he was rapping long before he transitioned into the melodic sound fans know today. Kocky Ka also explains why he chose to sign with Quality Control (QC) after meeting with several major labels, including Sony and Yo Gotti. He discusses becoming one of the first East Coast artists on the QC roster and talks about how his collaboration “Dark Nights” featuring Meek Mill and Fridayy helped elevate his career. He also clears up the viral Busta Rhymes moment, revealing what really happened after Busta heard one of their records together and how social media created its own narrative. Kocky Ka opens up about using music as therapy, the challenges that come with fame, why he believes he makes uplifting music instead of “sad music,” pays tribute to Lil Poppa, discusses his collaboration with Trae Tha Truth on “Alone,” speaks on his new single “Westside,” and shares what progress means to him. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kocky_ka/ https://www.instagram.com/lalaashep/ https://www.instagram.com/theprogressreport101/ https://www.instagram.com/tprmediagroup1/ Website: https://TPRMediaGroup.com Listen to us on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-progress-report-podcast/id1494070183 Listen to us on Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/5sBgF6wWa7NmHraP2QuBEv?si=a0f5f19b8a494fb5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The solo debut from the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting, a post-apocalyptic/survival horror novel written in the bestselling traditions of Stephen King's The Mist and Josh Malerman's Bird Box.A top-secret government project hits upon a revolutionary idea for transporting matter across the vast reaches of the universe, and it succeeds in bringing something back. Something alive. Soon, mankind's reign comes to an abrupt halt when a truck hauling a very special shipping container overturns and rolls off the highway, unleashing an otherworldly horror upon an unsuspecting New England countryside, where it cannot be contained…Several years later, an unidentified man emerges from the rubble of humanity, seeking other survivors and a shred of hope amid an eerie and lonely landscape. He travels by night up the rural East Coast, discovering Americana ruins and encountering monsters the likes of which no one has survived. Scarred and molded by the cruel horrors of this new natural order, he must face his own dwindling humanity and pray that any others out there have not become monsters themselves…Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dangerous weather is impacting much of the U.S., with Tropical Storm Bertha nearing the Gulf Coast while severe storms trigger flooding and possible tornadoes across parts of the East Coast. Federal health officials say iceberg lettuce grown by Taylor Farms in central Mexico has been linked to this summer's Cyclospora outbreak. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last year's budget cuts had no impact on the outbreak or investigation as questions continue over the federal response. New video of what appears to be Nolan Wells before his death following a Fourth of July boat trip with friends in Mississippi. Authorities say there's been no indication of foul play.

Recorded at the ACORE Finance Forum, Benoy Thanjan speaks with James Gutman of S&P Global about the findings from S&P Global's latest report created for ACORE on the state of renewable energy finance and investment in the United States. James discusses the continued flow of capital into solar, battery storage, and other energy infrastructure, while examining the transmission, permitting, and market challenges that could constrain future growth. The conversation also explores James's work with Young Professionals in Energy New York City and the importance of mentorship, networking, and developing the next generation of energy leaders.   Biographies Benoy Thanjan Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of Reneu Energy, a solar development and consulting firm, and the host of the Solar Maverick Podcast. He also serves as a strategic advisor to multiple cleantech startups. Over his career, Benoy has developed more than 100 MW of solar projects across the United States, advised on more than 1 GW of energy projects worldwide, helped launch some of the first residential solar tax equity funds at Tesla, and brokered approximately $50 million in renewable energy credit transactions. Before founding Reneu Energy, Benoy worked in Tesla's Project Finance Group as an environmental commodities trader, where he managed one of the company's largest environmental commodities portfolios. He originated renewable energy credit transactions and worked with senior leadership to develop monetization and hedging strategies supporting the company's expansion into East Coast markets. Benoy also served as Vice President at Vanguard Energy Partners, a solar and energy storage construction company, where he developed project finance solutions for commercial-scale solar portfolios. At Ridgewood Renewable Power, a private equity fund with approximately 125 MW of U.S. renewable energy assets, he evaluated investment opportunities, supported portfolio strategy, and played a key role in the sale of the firm's renewable energy portfolio. Earlier in his career, Benoy worked in Energy Structured Finance at Deloitte & Touche and in Financial Advisory Services at Ernst & Young. He also completed an internship on the trading floor at D. E. Shaw & Co., a global investment and technology development firm. Benoy holds an MBA in Finance from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from the NYU Stern School of Business, where he was an Alumni Scholar.   Guest Information James Gutman Senior principal analyst at S&P Global focused on providing energy finance analysis and advisory services to financial and capital market clients. Previously a deal advisory senior associate with five and a half years experience in public accounting. He has a distinctive background: started his career advising entrepreneurs on building up successful businesses, scaling up full cycles accounting processes with growth strategies and tax planning. Moved into full time audit and then deal advisory at a Big 4 firm in New York City to assist asset managers and private equity in mergers and acquisitions with a specialization in renewables and infrastructure.   Stay Connected: Benoy Thanjan Email: info@reneuenergy.com  LinkedIn: Benoy Thanjan Website: https://www.reneuenergy.com Website: https://www.solarmaverickpodcast.com/   James Gutman Report: https://acore.org/resources/clean-energy-investment-trends-sp-global-energy-report-produced-for-acore/   Email: james.gutman@spglobal.com   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-gutman/   Young Professional in Energy NYC:  https://www.ypenyc.org/ Sponsor This episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast is brought to you by Reneu Energy. Reneu Energy works with companies and organizations on renewable energy strategy, project development, owner's representation, project finance, renewable energy credits, and market advisory services. To learn more, visit: https://www.reneuenergy.com Listen and Subscribe Subscribe to the Solar Maverick Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast platform. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a rating and review. It helps more people discover conversations with the leaders shaping the future of solar, storage, and the energy transition.

Mark dives into the Canadian wildfires and the smoke affecting much of the East Coast. He discusses President Trump's frustration with Canada's handling of the wildfires and his suggestion that tariffs could be used in response. Mark also talks about Zohran Mamdani's latest comments about going after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and what they could mean. The economic impact of the 2026 FIFA World Cup was largely positive, and he comments on the difference in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's accent when speaking in Southern states compared to New York.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark dives into the Canadian wildfires and the smoke affecting much of the East Coast. He discusses President Trump's frustration with how Canada has handled the wildfires and his suggestion that tariffs could be used in response. Mark also talks about Zohran Mamdani's latest comments about going after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and what they could mean. The economic impact of the 2026 FIFA World Cup was largely positive, and he comments on the difference in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's accent when speaking in Southern states compared to New York. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin. Michael says Mamdani's comments about arresting Netanyahu could be a political stunt to energize his supporters. They also discuss Vice President JD Vance facing criticism over comments he made about Israel during his appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast. The guys speak about the future of the Democratic Party and whether Sen. John Fetterman could help change its direction after calling Mamdani a "clown" over his push to arrest Netanyahu if he came to New York City.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark dives into the Canadian wildfires and the smoke affecting much of the East Coast. He discusses President Trump's frustration with how Canada has handled the wildfires and his suggestion that tariffs could be used in response. Mark also talks about Zohran Mamdani's latest comments about going after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and what they could mean. The economic impact of the 2026 FIFA World Cup was largely positive, and he comments on the difference in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's accent when speaking in Southern states compared to New York. Mark interviews New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin. Michael says Mamdani's comments about arresting Netanyahu could be a political stunt to energize his supporters. They also discuss Vice President JD Vance facing criticism over comments he made about Israel during his appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast. The guys speak about the future of the Democratic Party and whether Sen. John Fetterman could help change its direction after calling Mamdani a "clown" over his push to arrest Netanyahu if he came to New York City. Mark discusses Iran's threats against President Trump and his family. He also talks about comedian Bill Maher criticizing NPR, calling the outlet "far left" after a recent interview. President Trump is considering a subscription service that would allow users to pay $100,000 a month for early access to his posts on Truth Social before they are made public. Mark also discusses plans for a new Amazon facility on Long Island. Mark interviews National Review columnist John Fund. They discuss British politician Nigel Farage and whether his socialist political style could influence U.S. politics. They also talk about the Democratic Party's shift toward more socialist policies. Fund says elections are becoming more secure and argues that President Trump should sign an executive order eliminating capital gains taxes on the increased value of a primary home when it is sold.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Garrett Klahn of Texas is the Reason joins us this episode to talk 30 years of Do You Know Who You Are?, the TX30 reissues that Revelation Records are releasing this year, how the band reunited, plans for the rest of 2026 and much more GARRET KLAHN www.texasisthereason.com www.instagram.com/texasisthereasonofficial www.instagram.com/staplesinger PCH Instagram - www.instagram.com/powerchordhour Facebook - www.facebook.com/powerchordhour Youtube - www.youtube.com/channel/UC6jTfzjB3-mzmWM-51c8Lgg powerchordhour@gmail.com Donate to help show costs - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/pchanthony https://cash.app/$anthmerch Check out the Power Chord Hour radio show every Friday night at 8 pm est/Tuesday at Midnight est on 107.9 WRFA in Jamestown, NY. Stream the station online at wrfalp.com/streaming/ or listen on the WRFA app/Apple CarPlay/Android Auto

It's hot on the West Coast, the air is unbreathable on the East Coast, and so this week's show gets weird right from jump. Facts are misstated, and names have a hard time being remembered. It's all in a day's work for Conor Kilpatrick and Josh Flanagan. Note: Time codes are estimates due to dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Running Time: 01:06:10 Pick of the Week:00:03:20 – Dark Knights of Steel II #1 Comics:00:12:23 – Punisher vs. Spider-Man #100:20:41 – Superman Unlimited #1500:24:40 – Fantastic Four #740 (14)00:31:16 – Super Creepshow #500:34:33 – Absolute Flash #1700:38:45 – The Savage Sword of Conan #1500:41:58 – Captain America #784 (13) Patron Pick:00:46:57 – Dark Knights of Steel II #1 Patron Thanks:00:48:05 – Dan Audience Questions:00:51:49 – Josh H. from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania wants to know when The Bronze Age officially began. Brought To You By: iFanboy Patrons – Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or join for a full year and get a discount! You can also make a one time donation of any amount! iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch – Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We've got TWENTY THREE designs! Music:“Left to Right (iFanboy Theme)”Josh Flanagan Watch The iFanboy After Show for Pick of the Week #1035! Listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron on their other show Goodfellas Minute. Listen to Conor and Ron reminisce about Goodfellas Minute on Sporadicast: An Oral History of Movies by Minutes. Listen to Conor discuss Dirty Harry on Movie of the Year: 1971. Watch Ron talk about the online pinball ecosystem on Dirty Pool Podcast. Listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron discuss Blade (1998) on Cradle to the Grave. Listen to Josh discuss Fargo on Movie of the Year: 1996. Listen to Conor discuss Swingers on Movie of the Year: 1996. Watch Ron talk about pinball technology on the Daily Tech News Show. Listen to Conor discuss Ghostbusters on Movie of the Year: 1984. Listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron discuss The Crow (1994) on Cradle to the Grave. Listen to Josh discuss Jaws 4: The Revenge (1987) on Cradle to the Grave. Listen to Josh discuss Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) on Cradle to the Grave. Watch Josh and Conor talk about how to start a podcast on OpenWater. Listen to Ron talk about The Phantom Menace minute 80 on Star Wars Minute. Listen to Ron talk about Return of the Jedi minute 124 on Star Wars Minute. Listen to Conor talk about Return of the Jedi minute 104 on Star Wars Minute. Listen to Ron talk about The Empire Strikes Back minute 115 on Star Wars Minute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Rivers reports on the more than 100 million people under air quality alerts, as new video shows hazardous Canadian wildfire smoke blanketing major cities from the Midwest to the East Coast, and Lee Goldberg has the forecast; Elizabeth Schulze has the latest on the the cyclosporiasis outbreak sickening thousands across the U.S., with supplier Taylor Farms voluntarily removing iceberg lettuce sourced from Mexico from the U.S. market; Victor Oquendo has details on the two Florida deputies lucky to be alive after authorities say they were ambushed with gunfire while searching for a suspect accused of holding his ex-girlfriend hostage; and more on tonight's broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week takes us to Summer tour 1976 - to the first night of a six night run on the home turf of San Francisco California for a delightful show at the intimate Orpheum Theater on July 12, 1976.  'The Music Never Stopped' provides a fine and fitting opener as the boys return to the stage on the West Coast following their hiatus from touring and the completion of 'Blues for Allah' and an East Coast swing.  This first set is filled with old favorites colored with new tempos and some very sweet jams. Some of my favorites include 'Tennesse Jed' (here included from an audience recording), 'Row Jimmy', 'Lazy Lighting into Supplication' and a short but sweet 'Deal'. We'll listen to set 2 next week with more 'new' material included....    Grateful Dead Orpheum Theatre San Francisco, CA 7/12/1976 - Monday One The Music Never Stopped [5:23] Brown Eyed Women [4:25] Cassidy [4:05] Tennessee Jed [8:27] New Minglewood Blues [4:22] Candyman [7:04] Looks Like Rain [6:26] Row Jimmy [9:33] Lazy Lightnin' [2:55] Supplication [4:46] Deal [4:37] The Promised Land [4:08] You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:   https://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod071726.mp3   My thanks for your kind support my friends 

Matt Rivers reports on the smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketing the Upper Midwest and Northeast for a second day, triggering air quality alerts in at least 19 states, and Lee Goldberg tracks the smoke as it drifts down the East Coast; Trevor Ault has the latest on the massive water main break that unleashed a torrent of water in West Hollywood, flooding Sunset Boulevard, submerging cars and opening a giant sinkhole; Aaron Katersky has details on the White House teleprompter operator who was put on unpaid leave after allegedly using inside information to make $100,000 betting on Pres. Trump's speeches, sources tell ABC News; and more on tonight's broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Link for official Scott Adams Merch https://emblempromos.chipply.com/ScottAdams/store.html?eid=389221# ☕ Scott Adams School## Thursday, July 16, 2026**Guest Co-Host:** **BJ Dichter** joins Erica and Marcella for another morning of coffee, current events, and conversations that go wherever the facts (and occasional sarcasm) lead us.### Today's Class*