Podcasts about Echo

I'm done hunting deer like everyone else.It's easy to get caught up in what everyone else is doing — the newest tactics, the perfect setups, the latest gear, and the idea that there's only one “right” way to hunt mature bucks.But this season, I'm changing my approach.In this episode of Before the Echo, I talk about why I'm simplifying the way I hunt, trusting what I've learned through experience, and making decisions based on what's actually happening in the woods instead of what everyone else says I should be doing.We'll talk about hunting pressure, mobile hunting, overthinking setups, trusting your instincts, and why sometimes becoming a better deer hunter means doing LESS — not more.If you've ever felt like deer hunting has become way more complicated than it needs to be, this episode is for you.Drop a comment below: What's one thing you've changed about the way you hunt over the years?

Two short tales from the Greek myths that explain the origin of our word echo and introduces us to the Greek nymph, Syrinx.  From the D'Aulaires book of Greek Myths for children.  An episode from Journey with Story, a storytelling podcast for kids ages 4-10. (duration 13 minutes) We have suspended our Patreon platform for now.  But, you can receive all of this month's coloring sheets by signing up for my newsletter and you will also receive some terrific resources for raising kids who LOVE to read.  Sing up for free now at www.journeywithstory.com If your little listener wants to ask us a question or send us a drawing inspired by one of our episodes, send it to us at instagram@journeywithstory.  Or you can contact us at www.journeywithstory.com.  We love to hear from our listeners. If you enjoy our podcast, you can rate, review, and subscribe at here Did you know Kathleen is also a children's picture book author, you can find out more about her books at www.kathleenpelley.com      

Johnny Pastrami joins Mike to talk about Black Order.Johnny's List:Characters (10)Cosmic Ghost Rider (6)Clea (3)Juggernaut (5)Nebula (2)Proxima Midnight (3)Echo (3)Hulkbuster (6)Black Swan (4)Team Tactics (10)First of the Black OrderPatch Up (R)Recalibration MatrixMothershipBlood to SpareSacrifice (R)WarpathExecuteDo You Know Who I Am?Stark ArmorySecure CrisisAssault Ships Make Sweeping Search! (W, 16)Deadly Meteors Mutate Civilians (I, 17)Lockdown! Security Systems Stymie Breakout (S, 18)Survivors Search for Safe Shelters (Z, 20)Wedding Party Targeted in Terrible Attack! (R, 20)Extract CrisisSkrulls Infiltrate World Leadership (J, 20)Evidence of Experimental Soldiers Exposed! (AB, 19)Salvaged Supplies Fuel Resistance Efforts (AA, 18)Surprise Assault! Mutant Homes Destroyed (U, 16)Sentinel Schematics Sabotaged! (AC, 17)

L'intelligence artificielle peine à s'imposer dans les entreprises technologiques. L'outil est mal ou pas assez connu et les investissements restent encore prudents et mesurés. Toujours pas d'accord entre l'État et Engie sur le rachat du parc nucléaire. Les négociations devaient aboutir pour aujourd'hui. Le délai est reporté d'un mois. Mais il n'y a pas vraiment d'urgence. Colruyt obligé d'émettre un avertissement sur ses résultats. Ils seront inférieurs à ses prévisions de juin. En cause notamment les ouvertures du dimanche dans la concurrence. Le Brief, le podcast matinal de L'Echo Ce que vous devez savoir avant de démarrer la journée, on vous le sert au creux de l’oreille, chaque matin, en 7 infos, dès 7h. Le Brief, un podcast éclairant, avec l’essentiel de l’info business, entreprendre, investir et politique. Signé L’Echo. Abonnez-vous sur votre plateforme d'écoute favorite Apple Podcast | Spotify | Podcast Addict l Castbox | Deezer | Google PodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a voice noteIn this conversation, Abram Bicksler shares insights into his work with ECHO, a Christian nonprofit focused on sustainable agriculture and food systems. He discusses the organization's core values, the importance of creation care, and his personal connection to nature. Abram elaborates on the concept of sustainable agriculture, the significance of agroecology, and how these principles are applied in real-world contexts, particularly in Southeast Asia. The discussion emphasizes the interconnectedness of food systems, environmental stewardship, and community engagement. Forrest and Abram discuss the transition from traditional agricultural practices to industrialized farming, highlighting the negative impacts on communities and the environment. Ab shares inspiring stories of communities that have returned to sustainable practices, emphasizing the importance of diversity and co-creation in agriculture. They also explore the concept of ecological community development, the significance of watersheds, and the interconnectedness of caring for creation and neighborly love. Bicksler advocates for a holistic approach to community development that includes both human and ecological needs, framing creation care as a vital aspect of the gospel. KeywordsAbram Bicksler, Echo, sustainable agriculture, agroecology, creation care, environmental science, Christian nonprofit, food systems, global impact, community engagement agriculture, sustainability, community development, agroecology, watershed management, creation care, food systems, environmental health, local farming, ecological community, A Rocha, Plant with PurposeFind us on our website: Earthkeepers Support the Earthkeepers podcast Check out the Ecological Disciple 

What does a successful deer season actually look like?For most deer hunters, the obvious answer is killing a big buck. But if that's the only way we measure success, we can do almost everything right for an entire season and still walk away feeling like we failed.In this episode of Before the Echo, I'm sitting down to talk about my goals for this deer season—and why I think setting the RIGHT goals can completely change the way we hunt.We're talking about:• My personal goals for this deer season • Outcome goals vs. goals you can actually control • Becoming a better deer hunter instead of simply hunting more • Why we shouldn't let social media change our standards • Hunting new areas and getting outside our comfort zones • Balancing deer hunting with family and the things that matter most • Why killing a buck doesn't have to determine whether your season was successful Obviously, I want to kill a mature buck. We all want to punch a tag. But I don't want one dead deer to determine whether hundreds of hours spent scouting, hunting, learning, and making memories were worth it.So here's my question for you:**What is YOUR #1 goal for this deer season—and it can't just be “kill a big buck”?**Drop it in the comments. I want to hear it.

Nach tagelangen Verhandlungen: Schwarz-Rot beschließt nun doch Pflegereform. Europaweite Razzia: NRWs mächtigster Hells Angel in Duisburg festgenommen. Deutschlandticket wird wieder mal teurer: Welche Folgen der neue Preismechanismus hat. Moderation: Tobi Strauß Von WDR 5.

Hi ha gent que no descansa ni quan dorm. A mitja nit s'aixequen del llit i passegen per la casa de manera generosa. No us espanteu, no us faran res dolent. 01 The Kinks - "Sleepwalker" 02 Lily Allen - "Sleepwalking" 03 XTC - "The somnambulist" 04 Ultravox - "Sleepwalk" 05 Scott Walker - "Sleepwalker's woman" 06 Julie Byrne - "Sleepwalker" 07 Destroyer - "Somnambulist blues" 08 Better Oblivion Community - "Sleepwalkin" 09 Camera Obscura - "Sleepwalking" 10 Modest Mouse - "Sleepwalking (Couples only dance prom night)" 11 Echo & The Bunnymen - "The somnambulist" 12 The Como Brothers - "Sleepwalking in the moonlight" 13 They Might Be Giants - "Sleepwalkers" 14 The Raveonettes - "Sleepwalking"

Ce 30 septembre, Marjorie Hache réunit Linkin Park, The Black Keys, Trust, Papa Roach, Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Anthrax et Public Enemy, Bob Dylan, Echo and the Bunnymen, Peter Frampton ainsi que The Smashing Pumpkins. L'animatrice souligne par ailleurs l'anniversaire de la naissance de Marc Bolan, véritable pionnier du glam rock et fondateur de T-Rex, avec le mémorable "Cosmic Dancer".Le duo Lambrini Girls s'illustre avec le percutant "Bang Bang Bang". Jack White fait résonner "Neighbors Blues", tandis que Phoebe Bridgers, les Toulousains de Slift et les New-Yorkais de Show Me the Body viennent enrichir cette belle sélection. La primeur de la soirée met en lumière la chanteuse francilienne Oma Jali, qui dévoile "Suddenly", un premier single solo mariant brillamment l'univers de la soul et du rock.L'album de la semaine prolonge l'exploration de "Ride Lonesome", le 15e disque de Beck. L'artiste américain, offre ici une parenthèse solitaire et introspective avec la douce balade "It Ends Right Here". Enfin, pour la reprise du jour le quatuor britannique Skunk Anansie s'approprie le frénétique "Search And Destroy" des Stooges, une version explosive initialement enregistrée pour la B.O. du film Sucker Punch.Linkin Park - FaintLambrini Girls - Bang Bang BangT. Rex - Cosmic DancerMano Negra - King Of BongoThe Black Keys - FeverTrust - AntisocialPapa Roach - Last ResortBeck - It Ends Right HereGrant Lee Buffalo - FuzzyJanis Joplin & Big Brother And The Holding Company - SummertimeStevie Ray Vaughan - Pride And JoyJack White - Neighbors BluesSkunk Anansie - Search And DestroyAnthrax & Public Enemy - Bring The NoiseShow Me The Body - Dance In The USABob Dylan - Lay, Lady, LayJeff Buckley - Forget HerPhoebe Bridgers - Lost BoysGary Glitter - Rock & Roll Part 2Mss Frnce - De Plein FouetOma Jali - SuddenlyThe Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly WingsEcho & The Bunnymen - The CutterPeter Frampton - Show Me The WaySlift - FantasiaHébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

On March 16, 1967, all ten Minuteman missile sites assigned to Echo Flight near Malmstrom Air Force Base lost strategic alert within an estimated 10 to 40 seconds. The missiles were not launched, destroyed, or detonated. But a documented Cold War failure had taken an entire flight off alert almost at once.Captain Eric Carlson and First Lieutenant Walter Figel were on duty when paired No-Go indications appeared across the flight. Air Force, Ogden, Boeing, and Autonetics investigators examined power systems, guidance data, and shared logic pathways. The sites returned to alert without replacement equipment at the launch facilities, pointing toward a transient common-mode event rather than ten independent permanent failures.The official 1967 history said UFO rumors around Echo had been disproven. Decades later, Figel said a guard had reported a large round object near a launch facility. Robert Salas separately described an alleged Oscar Flight incident involving guards, a reported object, and missile faults. The available record does not establish Oscar as a second verified ten-missile shutdown.A 2025 report that Pentagon investigators identified a classified EMP test as an explanation offers a serious conventional lead. But the public material in this record does not include the dated, site-specific documentation needed to close the causal chain.What is established is narrow and consequential: ten Echo sites lost strategic alert together, recovered without launch-facility equipment replacement, and left investigators without an identified initiating field source.This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication.#TheConspiracyFilesWithPaigeCarter #DocumentedColdWarMilitaryIncidentAndDisputedUfoC #MalmstromAirForceBase #EchoFlight #OscarFlightYES OR NO: Does the available evidence identify what caused Echo Flight's ten-site No-Go event???????????

Het Chinese AI-model Kimi van Moonshot blijkt na een zogeheten jailbreak te helpen met informatie over het maken van biologische wapens en het uitvoeren van dodelijke aanvallen. Dat meldt de BBC op basis van onderzoek door Mindgard, een bedrijf dat AI-systemen test op veiligheid. Moonshot reageerde pas serieus toen de BBC aan de bel trok. Verder komt Apple volgens Bloomberg op 13 oktober met een nieuw scherm voor in huis. Joe van Burik vertelt erover in deze Tech Update. Het gaat om de varianten Kimi K3 Swarm en K2.6. Bij een jailbreak proberen onderzoekers een AI met complexe instructies om de tuin te leiden. Of de instructies echt werken, heeft Mindgard niet bewezen, maar volgens het bedrijf schiet de beveiliging tekort. Mindgard waarschuwde Moonshot eind juli en een week later opnieuw. Moonshot stelt dat het model zulke verzoeken heel vaak weigert. Kimi is een open model, dat iedereen zonder toezicht zelf kan draaien. Apple komt met scherm voor in huis Apple presenteert op 13 oktober naar verwachting een nieuw soort scherm voor in huis. Dat meldt Bloomberg. Het product heeft intern de codenaam J490, maar zal niet zo gaan heten. Het scherm is 6 inch groot en kan aan de muur worden bevestigd of op een voet worden geplaatst. Gebruikers moeten er allerlei zaken mee kunnen beheren, van de temperatuur in huis tot persoonlijke zaken. Op het gebied van het slimme huis heeft Apple nu weinig te bieden, behalve de HomePod, die al jaren oud is. Ook die speaker en de Apple TV voor bij de televisie worden naar verwachting vernieuwd. Google en Amazon bieden al vergelijkbare apparaten aan, met de Home hub en de Echo. Het scherm van Apple moet elk lid van een huishouden herkennen en ieder gepersonaliseerde inhoud bieden. Het apparaat wordt gekoppeld aan Siri AI. BBC News over Kimi en instructies voor biologische wapens Kimi K3 zo populair dat Moonshot geen nieuwe abonnees aanneemt VS onderzoekt of Chinese AI-modellen getraind zijn met Amerikaanse modellen Apple presenteert op 13 oktober drie nieuwe producten voor in huis Apple werkte eind 2024 al aan scherm met codenaam J490 Over de maker:Joe van Burik volgt en duidt de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen in tech, met scherpte, vlotheid en de nodige humor. Je hoort hem dagelijks op BNR Nieuwsradio over het belangrijkste technieuws, van AI tot cybersecurity en social media tot quantumcomputers. Ook interviewt hij in De Grote Tech Show samen met Ben van der Burg leiders in digitale innovatie. In het bijzonder volgt Joe al twee decennia de wereld van videogames, nu voor zijn podcast All in the Game.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Эхо Хельсинки – 30 сентября 2026 года Война – день 1680 Соглашение DCA действует уже два года, но США пока не разместили технику и не начали строительство на объектах Сил обороны Финляндии. Ядерный зонтик над Финляндией может появится и без НАТО: Великобритания предлагает свою ядерную защиту. Миграционная служба Финляндии сокращает число центров приема: к концу февраля 2027 года закроются еще восемь из них. Владелец пустующего спа-комплекса Kolin Lotus в Лиексе подал заявку на его расширение, при том, что объект пустует уже почти 10 лет. Прокуратура США предъявила обвинения пятерым участникам сети RIS Network, связанной с российскими спецслужбами. Молдова, Румыния и Польша сообщили о новых инцидентах с российскими дронами и диверсии у своих границ с Украиной. Эстония назвала заказчика поджога здания оборонной компании Milrem Robotics: в Москве обвинения назвали «голословными». Интервью с аналитиком мирового рынка кинопроката, сценаристом и дистрибьютором Сергеем Бондаревым, в котором мы поговорили о гибридных угрозах со стороны финансируемой путинским режимом российской кинопродукции и о шести механизмах конверсии произведенного кинопродукта в такие угрозы.

La Flandre tenait son budget avec pour objectif de revenir à l'équilibre en 2027. Mais, Vooruit s'en est désolidarisé hier soir. En cause, une réduction surprise de l'enveloppe Bien-être. Une erreur de calcul, assure Matthias Diependaele, le ministre-président flamand. On en saura plus ce matin. La hausse des taux à long terme en Belgique coûte de plus en plus cher à l'État. Le remboursement de la dette coûte déjà 2 milliards d'euros de plus depuis le début de l'année. Le groupe VW veut construire deux usines d'assemblage de batteries en Europe. Mais,ce sera avec son partenaire chinois Gotion. Le Brief, le podcast matinal de L'Echo Ce que vous devez savoir avant de démarrer la journée, on vous le sert au creux de l’oreille, chaque matin, en 7 infos, dès 7h. Le Brief, un podcast éclairant, avec l’essentiel de l’info business, entreprendre, investir et politique. Signé L’Echo. Abonnez-vous sur votre plateforme d'écoute favorite Apple Podcast | Spotify | Podcast Addict l Castbox | Deezer | Google PodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In deze aflevering blik ik eerst nog even terug op de bruiloft op Bali en hoe bijzonder het was dat ik me daar soms juist mínder verbonden voelde met mijn zwangerschap. Eenmaal thuis kwam het gewone leven behoorlijk hard binnen en merkte ik pas hoe moe ik eigenlijk nog ben. En ja, ik vond het stiekem ook wel héél lekker om even zonder kind weg te zijn. Mag je dat zeggen zonder je schuldig te voelen?Deze week luisterden we twee keer naar het hartje én hadden we met 12 weken en 3 dagen al de 13 weken echo. Ik vertel hoe die ging, waarom de baby even flink wakker geschud moest worden en hoe het voelt om steeds meer van dat kleine mensje te kunnen zien. Ook werd er bloed geprikt, na een nogal onhandig fietstochtje door Utrecht in 30 graden, en daar kwam uit dat mijn ijzervoorraad aan de lage kant is. Wat betekent een laag ferritine eigenlijk als je Hb nog wel goed is? En kan dat verklaren waarom ik zo ontzettend moe ben?Ondertussen vierden we de verjaardag van Melle, moest ik weer wennen aan het gewone leven thuis en stond er ook alweer een volgende bruiloft op de planning. Op naar het tweede trimester!Elke woensdagochtend komt er een nieuw dagboek online. Luister je mee?***Extra:Gebruik onze code- MOEKES bij ⁠Boekadoe⁠ voor je eerste boekenpakket voor slechts 3,95! - MOEKES15 voor 15% korting bij SafeCourt Kitchen: PFAS-vrije keukenproducten- MOEKES20 voor 20% korting op alle groenten- en fruitsapjes van www.sap.je- MOEKES30 voor 30% korting bij ⁠⁠⁠Happy Earth & Waterwipes⁠⁠⁠Meer weten of heb je een vraag? Volg me op Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@moekesdepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Simone Plukkel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠----- Adverteren in deze podcast? Mail naar moekesdepodcast@gmail.com

THE MOVIE THEY TRIED TO SHELVE FINALLY ESCAPED THE VAULT! Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/rejects #rulapod Tara Erickson & John Humphrey watch Coyote vs. Acme (2026) for the first time in this full movie reaction and review! The live-action/animated Looney Tunes comedy follows Wile E. Coyote as he hires struggling attorney Kevin Avery to sue the ACME Corporation over decades of dangerously defective products. Tara & John react to the courtroom chaos, malfunctioning Road Runner traps, ACME evidence demonstrations, Will Forte's physical comedy, John Cena's outrageous corporate lawyer, and the movie's fight to finally reach audiences! Coyote vs. Acme Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   Directed by Dave Green (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Earth to Echo), Coyote vs. Acme stars Will Forte as Kevin Avery (The Last Man on Earth, Nebraska), John Cena as Buddy Crane (Peacemaker, The Suicide Squad), Lana Condor as Paige Avery (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Alita: Battle Angel), Tone Bell (Survival of the Thickest, Disjointed), P.J. Byrne as Bill Pellicano (The Wolf of Wall Street, The Legend of Korra), and Eric Bauza as the voice of Wile E. Coyote and other Looney Tunes characters (Looney Tunes Cartoons, Space Jam: A New Legacy). Tara & John discuss the film's blend of classic Looney Tunes slapstick, courtroom comedy and corporate satire, the chemistry between its animated and live-action characters, and how Ketchup Entertainment rescued the completed movie after Warner Bros. originally shelved it. Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Die geplante Pflegereform soll trotz Kritik aus der SPD eigentlich morgen vom Kabinett der schwarz-roten Bundesregierung beschlossen werden, aber noch gibt es keine Einigung, unterschiedliche Ansichten und viel Gesprächsbedarf. Spaniens Regierung will per Dekret gegen die Wohnungskrise vorgehen. In Deutschland sind die Schulpreise vergeben worden und die OECD macht Vorschläge, um den Schuldienst attrktiver zu machen. Moderation: Sascha Wandhöfer Von WDR 5.

Les visites domiciliaires reviennent sur le devant de la scène. Le texte sera discuté demain à la Chambre en seconde lecture après quelques adaptations. En dehors des terrains de football, la Belgique renforce sa collaboration avec la France. Particulièrement sur le plan militaire. La ministre française des Armées était de passage à Ostende hier pour dire tout le bien qu'elle en pense. Et si les titres de Beyoncé, de Justin Bieber ou d'Avicii pouvaient s'acheter et se vendre comme des actions... C'est presque vrai avec ANote Music, une startup luxembourgeoise. On vous explique ça dans cette édition. Le Brief, le podcast matinal de L'Echo Ce que vous devez savoir avant de démarrer la journée, on vous le sert au creux de l’oreille, chaque matin, en 7 infos, dès 7h. Le Brief, un podcast éclairant, avec l’essentiel de l’info business, entreprendre, investir et politique. Signé L’Echo. Abonnez-vous sur votre plateforme d'écoute favorite Apple Podcast | Spotify | Podcast Addict l Castbox | Deezer | Google PodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brad Young spent six years in the Air Force as a Korean linguist, including time at the National Security Agency in Hawaii, before an inter-service transfer put him in Army warrant officer flight school. He flew the AH-64D and then the AH-64E for just shy of 17 years across four combat deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and retired in 2025 out of 5-17 Air Cavalry in Korea. His unit at Fort Lewis was the first to receive and combat deploy the Echo model.Brad's book "Full Blooded Apache: An Attack Pilot's True Story of Family, Faith and the Fight" https://amzn.to/4hOLb1j0:00 The most feared helicopter in the world0:48 From Air Force linguist to Apache pilot4:37 9/11, a schoolteacher, and four recruiters8:58 The DLAB: learning a made-up language11:25 Korean linguist at DLI and NSA Hawaii13:16 How a Google Earth search ended in a kill cam16:51 Crossing over to Army aviation22:45 Army aviation paths and flight school24:38 The dunker and stress inoculation30:01 TH-67 primary and the airframe selection board34:09 Please bless daddy to get Apaches34:47 AH-64D vs AH-64E: what the Echo changed40:55 APKWS and the counter-drone fight43:19 Drones hunting helicopters44:34 The Apache 30mm and its new proximity fuze48:30 FPV drones vs helicopters49:40 Staying over the shoulder of ground forces50:57 Hit twice near Jalalabad53:18 The round that nearly brought him down55:02 Counter tech and the 3 to 1 advantage57:25 Two cockpits that can't see each other59:52 Flying night combat through one eye1:03:00 Front seat vs back seat sensors1:04:48 Why he wrote Full Blooded Apache1:07:20 Four Hellfires in eight minutes1:12:55 Wrap-up Have a story? Program and partnership inquiries: https://theafterburnpodcast.com/contact/

The AI smart speaker market is getting crowded. This year, Amazon, which is a Marketplace underwriter, rolled out a large language model-powered version of its classic voice assistant.You can still talk to Alexa+ using Amazon echo devices, but it also operates as a text chatbot, replacing the old Rufus AI. It's capable of conversational searches, managing to-do lists and even generating podcasts.Daniel Rausch, Amazon's vice president of Alexa and Echo, broke down what's new with Alexa+.More on this:“I've Been Testing Alexa for a Decade. Here's My Take on How Alexa+ Compares.” from Wirecutter“Amazon's Alexa+” from Amazon

The AI smart speaker market is getting crowded. This year, Amazon, which is a Marketplace underwriter, rolled out a large language model-powered version of its classic voice assistant.You can still talk to Alexa+ using Amazon echo devices, but it also operates as a text chatbot, replacing the old Rufus AI. It's capable of conversational searches, managing to-do lists and even generating podcasts.Daniel Rausch, Amazon's vice president of Alexa and Echo, broke down what's new with Alexa+.More on this:“I've Been Testing Alexa for a Decade. Here's My Take on How Alexa+ Compares.” from Wirecutter“Amazon's Alexa+” from Amazon

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This week on the Gospel Jubilee Chip  & Denny will be counting down their top ten picks of the most popular Southern Gospel songs for the month of September.   Here are all of the ways you can listen to the Gospel Jubilee On your Echo device say, Alexa, play the Gospel Jubilee on Apple podcast. For a direct download go to: https://api.spreaker.com/v2/episodes/75419524/download.mp3   Ocean Waves Radio ... every Wednesday at 5:00 PM Eastern time., www.OceanWavesRadio.com   Thursday afternoons at 4:00 PM and Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM  EST on Southern Branch Bluegrass Radio, www.sbbradio.org   Playlist:   Artists |Song Title   01. 11th Hour - You Can't Tell Me That Ain't God   02. Janet Paschal - In The Fire   03. The LeFevre Quartet - Whatever Hallelujah   04. The Mylon Hayes Family - Garden Tomb   05. Brian Free & Assurance - Looks Like Jesus   06. Soul'D Out Trio - Chariots Of Fire   07. The Nelons - Three Nails Instead   08. Legacy Five - You Have Always Been My Shepherd   09. The Craguns - We Have A Refuge   10. Justified Quartet - Beyond The Storm   11. Scotty Inman - Broken Man Can   12. Poet Voices - Now I'm On My Way   13. Michael Booth - That's Way It Goes   14. Our Mystery Artist Of The Week - The Glory Road   15. Karen Peck & New River - God Gives Good Answers                   16. Peach Goldman - Expecting A Mountain   17. Day 4 - We've Come This Far   18. Tim Lovelace - Pursuit Of The Ice Cream Truck   19. The Guardians - I Know You   20. 8th Street - Judge The Book By Its Cover   21. The Inspirations - Home Sweet Home   22. The Down East Boys - Preach Jesus    

Thomas bringt eine Erzieherin zum Weinen, Hazel tritt in Arenen auf, stellt einen Fun-Facts-Rekord auf und moderiert LOL NEXT. Warum sind Hazels Fans die Besten? Was ist Stoolmaxxing? Was sind drei Gründe für Deutschlands Wirtschaftskrise - und wie könnte man da wieder rauskommen? 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:09 Schoppe Schoppe Reiter 00:19:57 Das Viel-Spaß-Team 00:27:41 20 Comedians unter einem Dach 00:37:10 LOL Next 00:43:05 Hate-Watching 00:51:26 Hotel Matze 00:54:59 Kürbis-Regatta 00:56:38 Priisgeglä (Preis-Scheissen) 01:03:46 Friedrich Merz 01:21:30 Der Herbst 01:34:14 Outro Hazel Termine https://hazelbrugger.com/#termine Live Podcast im Dezember https://www.ztix.de/gross-umstadt/events/live-podcast-hazel-thomas-hoererlebnis-gfSguF Viel Spaß Studio https://www.vielspass.studio Viel Spaß Team (Mo, Niklas, Jan, Anja, Diana) https://vielspass.gmbh/pages/uber-uns IG Heaven Can Wait Chor https://www.instagram.com/heavencanwaitchor * der Chorleiter des HCW-Chors heißt „Scheibe“ Erwähnt werden die Formate: HTH Folge mit Chiara vom 21.09.2026 (alle Podcast-Plattformen), Folge Hazel bei Hotel Matze vom 09.09.2026, IG Stefanie Millinger https://www.instagram.com/stefaniemillinger Pinot Grigio (Remix) https://youtu.be/DdGJAr3UasM?si=HhEbMa-7-1AEDyZh Sound of Forest Festival https://www.instagram.com/soundoftheforest IG Heavy Saurus https://www.instagram.com/heavysaurus IG Dikka https://www.instagram.com/hallo.dikka/ IG Young Kira https://www.instagram.com/youngkirawestghosts Zlatan über Einflüsse https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdjNiNwiXz2/?stkn=MXgwb2dlOTIzYTNpbA== Hazels Fun Facts Folge https://youtu.be/ec9O6eq8kIw?si=T9BH8QLxfh3RBJkF IG James Regal https://www.instagram.com/baarelyregal/ Bekanntgabe LOL NEXT Staffel 2 https://www.swp.de/unterhaltung/lol-next-staffel-2-bestaetigt-das-ist-zur-fortsetzung-bekannt-79453878.html Hazel taucht bei Joko & Klaas https://youtu.be/TZjNJucYPrY?si=IYbb6adtm4zXCf-w Thomas im Darmstädter Echo https://www.echo-online.de/lokales/suedhessen/je-haerter-der-witz-desto-besser-muss-er-sein-5977748 Kürbis-Regatta https://www.blueba.de/de/veranstaltungskalender/detailansicht/kuerbis-regatta-2026.html IG Priisgeglä https://www.instagram.com/priisgegle_schwyz/ 9 Prozent für Friedrich Merz https://www.morgenpost.de/politik/article412937566/umfrage-klatsche-fuer-friedrich-merz-mehrheit-sieht-kanzler-vor-dem-aus.html YouTuber Vincent über Friedrich Merz und seine Beliebtheit https://youtu.be/9QI7UdVy9yw?si=cEPdRK2wL2rlJ7Wi Zeit was jetzt Spezial über deutsche Wirtschaft https://open.spotify.com/episode/63oihWN2raHQ7SWyITHDu1?si=XMqQDWwsR1OfMNq-ZTHiYA&utm_source=copy-link What's Wrong With Germany https://youtu.be/IlbPO9Vmuuo?si=U1h-UB4dzDvqsgca Top Kommentar: 1. Financial drain from American economy. 2. Losing competitiveness to China. 3. Loss of cheap fuel from Russia. Deutsches Startup erfindet E-Auto neu https://youtu.be/kN3UMEotCDU?si=QNq6uULLEgu-TDQd Hazel im Podcast „Was machst du am Wochenende?“ https://www.zeit.de/entdecken/2026-09/hazel-brugger-kinder-ki-wochenende-tipps-podcast Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/hoererlebnis Du möchtest Werbung in diesem Podcast schalten? Dann erfahre hier mehr über die Werbemöglichkeiten bei Seven.One Audio: https://www.seven.one/portfolio/sevenone-audio

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast thinks that yelling “PIZZA!” and “FRENCH FRY!” at a 2-year-old superman straightlining down a green slope is a highly effective ski instruction technique. If you agree, please sign up for my newsletter:WhoBrian Bensch, founder of Snow SchoolersDate recordedSeptember 24, 2026About Snow SchoolersSnow Schoolers, per its website, is an “independent ski school program” that teaches lessons “at any mountain where we've established a revenue-sharing partnership with the ski area.” Skiers sign up for lessons on their Pet Rectangles, like this:Why I interviewed himThat sounds pretty neat, right? Let me go see if Snow Schoolers teaches at my favorite mountain. Snow Schoolers probably does not teach at your favorite mountain. Unless your favorite mountain is 222-vertical-foot Granlibakken, which is about five feet away from 6,000-acre Palisades Tahoe, or 100 vertical-foot Frisco Adventure Park, tucked off highway 9, after 1.5 million-ish skiers exit I-70 on their way to nearby Breckenridge.That is not an indictment of small ski areas, which I love, or Snow Schoolers' business model, which I also love. Rather, it's my way of saying that the only way to sign up for ski school at Palisades Tahoe or Breckenridge is through Palisades Tahoe or Breckenridge. With the strange, grandfathered-in exception of the strange, cobbled-together ski bazaar that is Summit at Snoqualmie in Washington, all major American ski areas (so far as I know) operate with a monopoly over ski school operations on their property. In ways subtle and aggressive, they police and ban rogue instructors who would offer discounted lessons on resort property.There are probably ways to break this system, either through the courts or legislative amendment of the Forest Service leases that 125 U.S. ski areas operate on. Such change sounds radical only in an American context - most European ski areas already operate with multiple independent competing ski schools onsite. Over the past 20 years, technology has challenged monopolies across American commerce. Sports and concert tickets and taxi rides offer two prime examples of power shifting from one central operator to many operators, with benefits and drawbacks for the consumer. Perhaps we will get there with ski school. For now, I see a more practical path for an asset-light, app-based, independent ski school like Snow Schoolers - as the costs of labor, utilities, infrastructure, and insurance pile up, perhaps outsourcing the operation of a ski school is more practical for many smaller, independent ski areas than establishing and maintaining one of their own. That is what you get at Granlibakken and Frisco: Snow Schoolers pays the ski areas a share of each lesson, essentially as rent for the right to operate a ski school on their property. And Granlibakken and Friso don't have to worry about hiring instructors and organizing lessons. There are probably 100 under-resourced ski areas in America where this model could work tomorrow. Brian and I discuss why Snow Schoolers works where it does, and why the model has been slow to spread.TranscriptsThere are two transcripts. Both are generated by robots. Both are helpful and defective in their own unique ways. I do not proofread either of them.Transcript 1: Click the “transcript” button at the top of this article. You can only see this transcript on a computer. Because I don't know why exactly but everything is getting better and dumber all at once it seems. Anyway, this is the transcript that the robots create when I upload the podcast to the internet. The cool thing about it is that you can click on any block of text and the audio will teleport there instantly. The uncool thing about this transcript is that it does not indicate who is talking at any given moment.Transcript 2: You can read this below. This is the transcript that Zoom creates as we record the podcast. The cool thing about this transcript is that it indicates who is talking at any given moment. The uncool thing about this transcript is that the timestamps do not match the audio. Also, you cannot click on this text to move to the associated point in the audio.ZoomStuart Winchester: My guest today founded Snowschoolers in 2014 with the mission to make skiing and riding affordable and accessible for average Americans.00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:11.000Stuart Winchester: and to pay snow sports pros a sustainable living wage.00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:19.000Stuart Winchester: Today, Snowschoolers operates at Grand Lebakken in Lake Tahoe, and Frisco Adventure Park in Colorado, two small ski areas.00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:36.000Stuart Winchester: Last year, Snow Schoolers hosted approximately 6,000 students. He is a good friend of the Storm. He is Brian Bench. Brian, welcome to the Storm. You reached out to me very shortly after I launched in 2019 or 20, and we've been talking for years, and you've helped me out a lot.00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.000Stuart Winchester: With the…00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:45.000Stuart Winchester: digital side of things, which I'm not so good at, so it's awesome to finally get you on and talk some snow schoolers. How you doing today?00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:48.000Brian Bensch: Doing lovely. Can't complain. Always busy, never bored.00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:52.000Stuart Winchester: And that is… yeah, that is a picture out your window of Tahoe, right?00:16:51.000 --> 00:17:00.000Brian Bensch: Yes, that is a, it's called Maggie's Peak, but that's looking at the little lake just next to Emerald Bay.00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:05.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, which would be sort of north side of the lake, so you'd be looking…00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.000Brian Bensch: Oh.00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:08.000Brian Bensch: South Tahoe, kind of on the other side of the corner, like, across from Heavenly.00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:18.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, south, right? I was… I was backwards. So… so on the… up the left side, there would be Homewood, and then up the right side would be Heavenly and Diamond Peak, and at the top is, like.00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:10.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:15.000Brian Bensch: Correct.00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:19.000Brian Bensch: Mostly correct.00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:26.000Stuart Winchester: Or North Star? North Star, Northwood. Okay, alright, uh, before I hurt myself, let's just get into this. So, so Brian.00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:28.000Brian Bensch: Well, we'll get you out to Tahoe soon enough, and then your Tahoe geography will get.00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:31.000Stuart Winchester: It's been a minute. So…00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:40.000Stuart Winchester: What is broken about American ski schools, and how did you try to fix it with snow schoolers?00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:45.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. So I would say similar to, you know.00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.000Brian Bensch: The the general diatribe about, you know.00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:55.000Brian Bensch: The ski industry being kind of broken with lift tickets too expensive and climate change is gonna end the world.00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:07.000Brian Bensch: Not everything is broken, but particularly the most front and center in your face resorts that you know everyone hears about, and you know, makes the quote unquote mainstream news has been broken for a while.00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:15.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, the gist is, if you roll up to, you know, a Tier 1 destination resort.00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:16.000Brian Bensch: Brooke, uh…00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:32.000Brian Bensch: Not only is lift ticket price what it is, but if you are looking for a group lesson, you're looking at a couple 100 bucks. And if you're looking for a private lesson, you're lucky if you can find anything that is under 1000 today. When we started Snow Schoolers, I remember telling people like, you know, a private lesson is $700 or $800.00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:35.000Brian Bensch: Well, now it's roughly double that.00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:51.000Brian Bensch: And I started teaching skiing back in college at the Dartmouth Skiway shout out to Mark and the team there, and you know I thought it was the best job ever making 12 bucks an hour in college, but it is still a minimum wage hourly job.00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:55.000Brian Bensch: Despite the high margins that resorts take.00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:59.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, wait, wait, let's, let's pause right there. So over a thousand a day for a lesson.00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:07.000Stuart Winchester: patrollers are making… I think at the Tier 1 resorts, they're probably making more than minimum wage. I think it's probably more in… at least in the 20s.00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, the, the, go ahead.00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:09.000Stuart Winchester: Plus tips, but, but.00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:19.000Stuart Winchester: Still, right, so you figure it's $1,200 a day for a lesson, and the instructor's getting, you know, $150 of that, or something. What… why…00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:23.000Stuart Winchester: Why does that model even exist? Like, who would even do that?00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.000Brian Bensch: Out.00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.000Brian Bensch: Because…00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:31.000Stuart Winchester: Like, who would work for that? Like, when you, right? Like, why not just give your own lessons?00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:44.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, well, and there's two sides… two sides of the mark, and I, uh… outside of my passions for skiing, I consider myself sort of a marketplace, you know, guru of sorts. And, you know, on the supply side, or, like, the staffing side.00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:52.000Brian Bensch: could ever imagine, and there's a reason why people love to teach skiing.00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:55.000Brian Bensch: One of the, I would say.00:19:54.000 --> 00:20:03.000Stuart Winchester: Hey, Brian, I'm sorry, you froze there for probably about, like, 5 seconds. Um, I don't know if you're on a hard line, or you have good Wi-Fi, or…00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:00.000Brian Bensch: Okay.00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:11.000Brian Bensch: It's Tahoe Wi-Fi. But it's generally fine, unless it goes out and flickers, but…00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.000Stuart Winchester: Is it?00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.000Stuart Winchester: It's Tahoe Wi-Fi.00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:13.000Stuart Winchester: you…00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:19.000Brian Bensch: I can close a couple tabs, that might help. Or we can just… I don't want you to… I know editing is tough.00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:17.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I think so.00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:22.000Stuart Winchester: No, no, no, you, you, uh, can you plug in, possibly?00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.000Brian Bensch: I don't have an Ethernet.00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:31.000Stuart Winchester: You know, okay, alright. Um, yeah, let's just, yeah, try to close some stuff, and we'll keep going, and at worst case, you can, uh, go off screen.00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:29.000Brian Bensch: Yep.00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:32.000Brian Bensch: Sure.00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:38.000Brian Bensch: To pick back up the… the kind of…00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:54.000Brian Bensch: Why is it, you know, possible for a lesson to cost $1,200 and the instructor only keeps 20% of that? There's two components to it. The first is that, you know, historically there was a glut of ski instructors going back into the 60s, 70s, 80s.00:20:54.000 --> 00:21:10.000Brian Bensch: Uh, you know, the, the quintessential ski bum, uh, is and was a great job, particularly for people that, you know, get the addiction that I know we both have. Um, and so, you know, lessons didn't used to be this expensive, um, just like lift tickets didn't used to be this expensive.00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:29.000Brian Bensch: Um, and so just like being a lifty, being a ski instructor was, you know, maybe a slight step above, you know, requires more training, but it has always been the sort of an entry-level hourly position. Um, and it's certainly not the federal minimum wage at most resorts. Uh, when Vail came out, uh, post-COVID with the $20 an hour kind of cross-board raise.00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:41.000Brian Bensch: Uh, that was great for the industry, not just, you know, Vail Resorts staff. Um, and… but the prevailing wage for, you know, first-year ski instructor is certainly in that $20 an hour range today.00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, we try to do things differently.00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:49.000Stuart Winchester: Right, but okay, so, but fundamentally to get at the…00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:55.000Stuart Winchester: at this dynamic. I'm a ski instructor. Let's say I'm a great ski instructor, right? And everybody loves me.00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:57.000Stuart Winchester: And I… I can see that…00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:07.000Stuart Winchester: you know, Northstar is charging $1,000 for a lesson, and they're paying me $25 an hour. I don't know what Northstar pays, so feel free to correct me, Northstar, but…00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:10.000Stuart Winchester: Why don't I as an instructor?00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:25.000Stuart Winchester: just say, well, I'm just gonna go on Facebook and advertise my services, and say, meet me at the Lyft at Northstar, and I'll give you a lesson for $200 for the day, because then I'm making more, and… and we're just… and the consumer's getting a better deal.00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:34.000Stuart Winchester: And then we established this one-on-one relationship. Why doesn't that marketplace exist? Why do ski areas exist?00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:42.000Stuart Winchester: How are they able to do this weird market dynamic, which sounds fundamentally unfair to the instructor?00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:57.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. Well, that question is certainly more or less exactly what I pondered 10 years ago. And how I got into this fun little project called Snowschoolers.00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:03.000Brian Bensch: was the realization that, oh my god, like, why does this exist? Um, and, you know, and…00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:08.000Brian Bensch: 10 years ago, Uber and Airbnb had just become kind of a mainstream thing.00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.000Brian Bensch: Um, and so I was like, oh.00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:28.000Brian Bensch: I wonder if we could just connect instructors to students directly and have a little marketplace for ski school. At the time, I knew nothing about, you know, special use permits from the Forest Service and the ski industry broadly. You know, I'd grown up skiing, but I was just a lay consumer skier. The reality is, and very similar to.00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:36.000Brian Bensch: you know a lot of the work you've done this summer going into Forest Service kind of history. The special use permit system.00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:54.000Brian Bensch: effectively grants the resort, at least on Federal lands, where the special use permit exists, a micro monopoly over all business activity at their mountain. And it doesn't have to be that way. If you do go over to Europe, it is a much more laissez-faire free market.00:23:54.000 --> 00:24:07.000Brian Bensch: Um, and most major resorts in Europe have at least four to six, you know, uh, ski schools that operate and compete, and, you know, the average lesson prices are roughly a third, and instructors keep, you know, 50 to 60% of lessons.00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:19.000Brian Bensch: And so it doesn't have to be the way it is. But at at the core it is. It is because resorts have the legal right to be the only ski school of record. And.00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:30.000Stuart Winchester: Right, so just to get ahead of the people who like to point out details, so North Star was a weird example for me to use because it's on private land, it's not on Forest Service land. However, it's owned by Vail Resorts, and I think what you're saying is.00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:44.000Stuart Winchester: even though not every U.S. skier is on U.S. Forest Service land, 125 of them are, it… the fact that that encompasses the majority of our ski terrain has normalized the culture of one mountain, one ski school. Is that fair?00:24:44.000 --> 00:25:01.000Brian Bensch: Correct. And there is maybe a dirty little secret of capitalism that monopolies are great businesses. So Northstar does not want six other ski schools competing and driving the price down because ski school is very, very lucrative to the at least traditional big resort ski model.00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:50.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:09.000Stuart Winchester: So, disruptor Brian comes out and says, alright guys, get out of the way, I am gonna change the world with.00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:19.000Stuart Winchester: snow schoolers and my Uber for skiing app, which I know you don't want to call it anymore, but nonetheless, since you brought up the analogy, let's go back to 2014.00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:22.000Stuart Winchester: Take us into it. What did you do and what happened?00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:32.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. In short, I would say, did a little bit of experimenting with that idea. And, you know, by the end of the first season.00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:43.000Brian Bensch: Learned pretty quickly that the ski resort management does not like the idea. And if you want to be able to ski at places that you love to ski.00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:55.000Brian Bensch: it's probably a good idea to not, uh, not poke the bear too much, so to speak. Um, and so, uh, that first kind of pilot program very much led me into the, uh.00:25:55.000 --> 00:26:14.000Brian Bensch: and and this it was always a snooze. This has been a side project of mine for a while. It's a I would call it a thriving small business. That 1st year I I pretended it was a startup, or I called it a startup, but never took funding and you know that 1st pilot program helped me realize that the only way, if I was going to turn this into real business.00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:07.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:27.000Brian Bensch: was to find a way that was mutually beneficial for both resorts and instructors, uh, and obviously the students. Um, and that led me to, you know, how can I create a revenue share model.00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:41.000Brian Bensch: Uh, where by bringing more new skiers to the mountain, everyone benefits. Um, the resort gets to share the revenue, uh, the student gets a cheaper lesson, and the instructor gets higher pay. Um, and, uh…00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:54.000Brian Bensch: you know, by the time 2016 rolled around I was ready to quit my corporate job and give it a role, and so moved to Tahoe. And you know, without the.00:26:54.000 --> 00:27:04.000Brian Bensch: A gentleman named Brian Schilling out in Homewood. Without him taking sort of a chance on me, snow schoolers would not exist. But Homewood was coming off.00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:22.000Brian Bensch: we'll say a typical bad snow year, and had to let go a lot of their ski school staff the year prior, because I think they were open for, like, 40 days that season, and hiring was a huge priority. Like, they were rebuilding a ski school from scratch, and the reality was the pitch that resonated with Homewood.00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:37.000Brian Bensch: was much less about, can we, like, you know, offer more affordable lessons and increase gear visits that way, but we need, like, we don't know how to hire instructors, we need a bunch of instructors, and this Uber model of.00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:52.000Brian Bensch: uh, pseudo-freelance instructors was attractive to them. Um, and, you know, I told them that, like, I had put up a couple ads and had, you know, 20 people apply within a few weeks, and they're like, ah, that's interesting. Um, and so that led to our first season, uh, which I would say was.00:27:52.000 --> 00:28:06.000Brian Bensch: uh, not a hands-down success at Homewood, um, but I skied nearly 100 days, and it ended up being, uh, Tahoe's second best winter of at least my young adulthood, um, and, you know, you know, no regrets at all.00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:17.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I mean, Homo's a serious mountain. I mean, right on the lake, it's dramatic, it has pretty nice chair lifts. But that didn't end up being the future, right?00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:23.000Stuart Winchester: How did Homewood break down, and how did you…00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.000Stuart Winchester: reassemble…00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:35.000Stuart Winchester: like, sort of rethink the business, uh, on a different scale, and I mean both, like, going smaller to get bigger, if that makes sense.00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:44.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. So the core hypothesis of snow schoolers was always kind of twofold. If you make lessons.00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:52.000Brian Bensch: more interest or demand and potential customers when lessons are affordable.00:28:52.000 --> 00:29:09.000Brian Bensch: I think the same thing is true of lift tickets, and that's why, you know, the places that are still offering $700 lift tickets are thriving. But affordable lessons drives an outsized increase in, you know, lesson visits. And if you pay instructors well, there's no shortage of instructors you can find if you're willing to pay them well.00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:25.000Brian Bensch: What we didn't get right in that 1st year at Homewood was the affordable lesson side of things. We were able to teach lessons at Homewood, but we were offering the normal prices from the year before, which were more or less, I would say, 10% below what Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows up the road was charging.00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:41.000Brian Bensch: Um, and we were not… yeah, we taught a total of, I think, 50 lessons that season, um, which was, you know, better than zero, but certainly not enough to get me too, too excited. Um, and the kind of going smaller to get bigger.00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.000Brian Bensch: Uh, it was a function of, uh…00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:57.000Brian Bensch: my my tiny little hill in the woods called Grand Lebakken, that, as someone who'd grown up skiing Tahoe, I had literally never heard of. I think I'd probably skied in Tahoe 500 days at that point.00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:59.000Brian Bensch: Um, but, uh…00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:02.000Stuart Winchester: And it's right by Palisades, right? It's, like, right across the street, basically.00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:17.000Brian Bensch: Not quite across the street. It is two minutes from the lake, but you can't see the lake from Grand Labaquin. So it's literally like tucked in the way, tucked kind of behind a hill. It is between Alpine Meadows and Homewood, if you look at the map. And it's roughly like 10 minutes from both of them.00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:05.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:23.000Brian Bensch: Um, and as I was winding down that first season with Homewood, I challenged myself, um.00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:39.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, tried to put it on social media, but no one really cared to do a March Madness Sweet 16 circuit, because there, at the time, were 16 unique mountains in Tahoe, and Grand Lebakken was one of the last stops on that circuit, and I forget who told me it existed.00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:44.000Brian Bensch: Um, but, you know, Grand Lubakken is not a ski resort. Grand Lubakken is a ski.00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:51.000Brian Bensch: Kind of known for its lodging and accommodations business.00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:54.000Stuart Winchester: Hey, Brian, you, uh, you just froze again, but you said Grand Lebakken is a ski…00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:55.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:57.000Stuart Winchester: So just start over from Grand Lebakken is a ski.00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:13.000Brian Bensch: Sure. Grand Labaca is not a ski resort. It is a ski hill or a ski area, as Stuart likes to say. It is two surface lifts. It is roughly 20 acres from the bottom of the hill of Grand Labaca. You can see the entire hill, the entire mountain. What you see is what you get.00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:30.000Brian Bensch: It is not, I would say, exclusively for beginners. The Poma that goes to the top, and it's, I think, roughly 225 feet. I would put it at a solid, you know, a Jackson Hole blue. It is at least a 25 to 30 degree slope.00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:46.000Brian Bensch: and I have seen 12 year olds straight line it and almost die. So it is. It is certainly like there's enough terrain that you could do ski race like training on it, and we do a little bit of that in the winter on weekdays. But it is a ski hill.00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:57.000Brian Bensch: Um, not at all, sort of, no bells and whistles, no high-speed quads, um, just a bunny lift, uh, rope toe, and a, you know, slightly more advanced poma that goes to the top.00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:09.000Brian Bensch: And, uh, spent a good afternoon with, uh, the Parson family back in spring 2017, and I was like, this price is pretty cool, this is cute, and told them about my ideas for ski school.00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.000Stuart Winchester: And who are they?00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:25.000Brian Bensch: Chris Parson and Ron Parson. Ron is Chris's father, and has owned the mountain for quite a while, and what Grand Lombachman is known for is, it is more of an accommodations center. It's a lodge and conference center.00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:42.000Brian Bensch: Uh, with roughly, I think, 150-ish units. Um, and the ski hill is an amenity, uh, along with their pool, along with their spa, along with, like, you know, their, you know, uh, dining areas and so forth. Um, and they've operated the ski area and sled hill, um, for…00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:29.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:55.000Brian Bensch: I think Ron is — the Parson family is going on maybe 30 years. I hope to convince him that he should come on the pod at some point. But he is —.00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:47.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:55.000 --> 00:33:12.000Brian Bensch: Their family, you know, is the quintessential mom and pop ski hill ski area sort of operators. When I met them, ski school was run mostly with Chris, who had sort of two group lesson slots a day and a piece of paper for people to sign up in the morning.00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:28.000Brian Bensch: And they were like, you know, we could probably be more organized with this. And I was like, yeah, I think I can help you a little bit. And then the season ended and I went home, had made no money. So, you know, my day job has been in marketing.00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:40.000Brian Bensch: for big and small tech companies for a while. Um, and so I went and had to get a big boy tech job again to, you know, pay for rent. Um, and my Tahoe ski lease was up for the season. So, I went back home.00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:39.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:47.000Brian Bensch: you know, wasn't sure if Snow Solutions was going to continue, kind of just assumed it was a one-year thing, and, you know.00:33:47.000 --> 00:34:03.000Brian Bensch: you know, hadn't talked a ton with Homewood, but I knew, like we weren't gonna you know the business wasn't great. But fast forward October 1st roughly, this time of year the Gm. Gives me a call out of the blue, and I pick up. I'm now at my new day job, and I just play it cool. And I'm like, Oh, yeah.00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:19.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, no, we'll run your ski school this winter. Grant Lebakken did, yeah. So the GM of Grant Lebakken picked up and said, hey, you know, we love meeting you in the spring, and you know, winter's around the corner. Let's talk about, you know, what needs to be done for you guys to run ski school for us this year.00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.000Stuart Winchester: Grand Labaquin?00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, okay.00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:11.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:14.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:20.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm. Right.00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:23.000Brian Bensch: Um, and I remember going home that night being like, huh.00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:33.000Brian Bensch: This is not going to be easy because I'm working 40 to 50 hours a week now at my new job. But skiing in this space is what I love to do.00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:25.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:51.000Brian Bensch: You know, at one point, a quote on the website was the Confucius quote, “If you find a job you love, you'll never work another day.” And, you know, I said, yes, you know, porque no las dos, let's do both. Didn't tell my employer at the time.00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:49.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:51.000 --> 00:35:06.000Brian Bensch: Because, you know, don't want to give them reason to question how much time you're putting in. But basically worked, you know, spent many nights, and I was a bad developer at the time. So everything snow schoolers is kind of built in-house from a code perspective.00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:55.000Stuart Winchester: Been there?00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:03.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:23.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, I just, every evening from 6 p.m. to midnight, I'd be plugging away to build the Grand Le Bacon kind of new system that we built that first year. And it worked. You know, year two, we taught.00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:38.000Brian Bensch: I think 300 plus lessons, and we did five times more revenue than year one at Homewood. And again, I was, you know, I only taught probably 2% of lessons because I had my full-time job. Christmas was a fun disaster where.00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:47.000Brian Bensch: all of a sudden, we were sold out every single day, and I was like, uh, I guess I need to figure out how to stop selling lessons, uh, because I hadn't really built that into the model the first year, because we were never sold out.00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:48.000Stuart Winchester: Ah, okay, okay.00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:56.000Brian Bensch: But, you know, we made it work and lots of families had amazing, you know, first experiences learning to slide on snow.00:35:55.000 --> 00:36:06.000Stuart Winchester: So let me zoom out and just tell you why I think this makes sense from my point of view, and then you can color that in with with how Graham Lebakken actually achieved it. I look at…00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:13.000Stuart Winchester: something like the Icon Pass, and they have a partnership with Jackson Hole.00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:22.000Stuart Winchester: but Altera doesn't have to own or operate Jackson Hole, and if a lift breaks, it's not Altera's problem, but they get the benefit of Jackson Hole.00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.000Stuart Winchester: on their IconPass. Uh…00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:36.000Stuart Winchester: this model that Grand Lebakken has, there used to be hundreds of ski areas like this, just attached to resorts all across. In this part of the country, there were a ton of them, in the Catskills and the Poconos, and…00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.000Brian Bensch: Okay.00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:42.000Stuart Winchester: most of them, I mean, they frankly weren't super interesting hills, but they…00:36:42.000 --> 00:37:02.000Stuart Winchester: Those resorts found that as God running a ski hill became more complex, it wasn't worth keeping all those pieces and parts as an amenity. So in the case of, of Grand Le Bacon, I, I imagine, you know, you have a couple Pomas, so your market is probably like people who wanted to come to Tahoe in the winter, but aren't necessarily skiers, but maybe want to try it.00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:18.000Stuart Winchester: Right? Because no one's like, hmm, should I go to Palisades or Grand Lebakken today, right? Like it's, it's a very unique place. So, but Grand Lebakken, I mean, if they're going to have a hill, that means they also have to have, you know, a rental shop and they have to have a ski school and instructors. This basically.00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:21.000Stuart Winchester: Takes the whole ski school, all that labor.00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:23.000Stuart Winchester: all the infrastructure.00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:25.000Stuart Winchester: out of it, and I'd imagine you just…00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:41.000Stuart Winchester: Pay, you know, you just write them a check like a lease, basically like a forest service lease where a skier operates and they, they pay based on what they make to the government. So it, it seems to me like ski areas would love that. And I, and I could think of 100 small ski areas in the country where that would work. That's how I'm understanding this is that.00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:44.000Stuart Winchester: Is that fair? And…00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:47.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, I I would say you more or less hit the nail on the head.00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:47.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:37:48.000 --> 00:38:03.000Brian Bensch: The and and the models the operating model that we've sort of developed, that we are sort of most in favor of is, we do ski school. We take full responsibility for ski school and nothing else.00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:14.000Brian Bensch: we've we've we're not obligated, or we don't have to stick with that model entirely. And at our Frisco location, Colorado. We also do all of rentals.00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:20.000Brian Bensch: And but ski school is what sort of what we love, what we care about.00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:34.000Brian Bensch: And you know, in in other past smaller partnerships we've done. We were responsible for even more of operations, grooming and parking and snow removal is.00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:40.000Brian Bensch: like very underappreciated. How time consuming, expensive those can be.00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:40.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:50.000Brian Bensch: And so I I am very thankful that Gran Lebakken and our partners at Frisco take responsibility for for grooming, and particularly grooming snowmaking.00:38:50.000 --> 00:39:00.000Brian Bensch: um, and sort of the general operations, uh, lift operations and so forth, are… are never gonna be our sweet spot. Um, and we would happily run the, like.00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:57.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:06.000Brian Bensch: like ski school is often the biggest human part of the organization, because you have a bunch of instructors.00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:22.000Brian Bensch: Uh, and you have to, like, you know, herding cats doesn't happen without effort. Um, and scheduling does not happen, uh, without good software, and a human to supervise the software. Um, and so, yeah, that's been our sweet spot. Um, I likewise, uh, think that there are at least.00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:11.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:16.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:35.000Brian Bensch: a few dozen, if not hundreds, of other small ski areas, whether they're surface lift only, or just small with, like, a single fixed grip lift, that, um, that want to do a better ski school program, and we would love to talk to them.00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:53.000Stuart Winchester: So, so Grand Labakin you've been with ever since, so I'm assuming they've been pretty happy with it. Let's jump across the country to another really weird ski area that probably people don't know exists, that we've been talking about, which is Frisco, which is… you pass by it on the way to Breckenridge, but you won't even see it. It's so small, like.00:39:53.000 --> 00:40:09.000Stuart Winchester: You have to drive around this weird road and it's, you know, underneath a hill. And I've not skied there, but I stopped by after they were closed, uh, a couple years ago. So, so that is not attached to a resort. That's, I think, a city park. So you have a completely different demo there.00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:19.000Stuart Winchester: So who is Frisco trying to serve, and how did you meet that need? And it seems like you've had a long-term relationship with them as well.00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:29.000Brian Bensch: Yes. So we're now going to our fifth season with the town of Frisco. And so, yes, it is a municipally managed ski area and tubing park.00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:42.000Brian Bensch: You can't miss the tubing element when you're driving from getting off I-70 and heading to Breckenridge, but very few people will know that there's beginner ski and snowboarding there as well. I've been to Colorado a good handful of times.00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:48.000Brian Bensch: definitely drove by it once and didn't know they were skiing there. And you know a mutual acquaintance.00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:45.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:40:48.000 --> 00:41:01.000Brian Bensch: post-COVID, when I was talking about, you know what, you know, the world's going remote, maybe I can just, you know, expand snow schoolers without me physically being there all the time. Um, and I was like, huh, have you heard of Frisco? I was like, no, what.00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:58.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:07.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, that was probably two months before our first successful season with Frisco.00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:22.000Brian Bensch: Um, the audience they're serving, to your question, is not nearly as local as you might expect for being, like, a town-run hill. Uh, we certainly have some local programs, but their audience is Summit County visitors.00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:15.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm.00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:35.000Brian Bensch: Who primarily are either not skiers yet, not skiers and swimmers yet, or are brand new and want to get their sort of their ski legs on because someone invited them on a trip to Breck or trip to Copper.00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:52.000Brian Bensch: and they're like, well, I've never skied before. You know a lifting. It's expensive, less expensive. B like, can I get my legs like, you know, get my footing somewhere, and we are smack dab in the middle of, you know, 4 major resorts. In addition to Copper Breck, you've got a base and and.00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:52.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:59.000Brian Bensch: and Keystone around the corner, and we are the affordable alternative for Summit County visitors.00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:03.000Stuart Winchester: It's expensive for a rope tail, by the way, it's like $40 for a lift ticket.00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:01.000Brian Bensch: Um, and the town…00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:07.000Brian Bensch: Sure. Expenses is very relative. That is fair.00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:07.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:08.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, okay.00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, okay, so, so…00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:21.000Stuart Winchester: you established… that's funny, that's not at all what I expected. I thought it would be, like, bust loads of kids, but I guess they probably have deals with Breckenridge or something. So you've had success.00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:35.000Stuart Winchester: at Frisco and at Grand Labaca, and you've had a couple others that you've been in and out of other than Homewood. Tell us about those, and what did work, and ultimately what didn't work about them.00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:46.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. Let's go with — let's stick with the Colorado trend first, and then we'll come back to Tahoe. There's an awesome little mountain.00:42:46.000 --> 00:43:01.000Brian Bensch: that, I think you know, and and didn't. As you think about your the last ski resorts to open or ski areas to open. I actually think Hoedown Hill is the most recently opened new ski area in the country. It's about an hour north of Denver.00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:06.000Brian Bensch: in Windsor, Colorado, and we worked with them for their 1st 2 seasons.00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:15.000Brian Bensch: Um, and we did not work with them last year. Um, still in touch with them, um, but they are a brand new ski area that is, I would say, a…00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.000Brian Bensch: a privately…00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:26.000Brian Bensch: run like you. You could say there's similarities to the Grand Lebakken business model, but on a whole other level of, I would say.00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:40.000Brian Bensch: affluence and like target demo. The Hoedown Hill facility is attached to the Raindance National Golf Course, which I'm not a golfer, but I hear it's a tier one destination golf course.00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:49.000Brian Bensch: They want to build, you know, 4 seasons esque hotel there, and it is a we'll say a bourgeois experience that they're going for with some, you know.00:43:49.000 --> 00:44:06.000Brian Bensch: you know, a good culture vibe there. And I think so long as the management team remains committed, it will continue to grow. They are at the IndyPass, so shout out there, like, it's worth a quick visit if you're flying into Denver with your IndyPass.00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.000Stuart Winchester: Yep.00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:07.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:10.000Brian Bensch: Um, and in our first two seasons there, um.00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:12.000Brian Bensch: We did, we did.00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:19.000Brian Bensch: we did okay. But we weren't able to draw the numbers that we saw in Summit County, or anywhere close to them.00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm. Okay.00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.000Brian Bensch: And my conclusion.00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:26.000Brian Bensch: or one of my conclusions is that.00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:39.000Brian Bensch: It is much, much harder to influence the macro kind of tide of skier movements than it is to siphon off.00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:55.000Brian Bensch: not to capture demand in an underserved market in Northern Colorado. You know, it's great that they have Hodown Hill, but there weren't a thousand people looking for affordable lessons in Northern Colorado before Hodown Hill existed.00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:45.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:55.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm. Okay.00:44:55.000 --> 00:45:11.000Brian Bensch: Uh, whereas there's, you know, thousands of Summit County visitors who want more affordable lessons and just don't take lessons today. Um, and so, like, it was… and same thing in Tahoe. Uh, it was much easier, like, we open up for business and, like, we don't have to do much marketing for.00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:04.000Stuart Winchester: You know.00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:25.000Brian Bensch: for the wave of customers to come in, whereas every customer we earned in, uh, in Windsor and Fort Collins area, sort of, we had to hustle to get. There weren't people, like, already looking for affordable skiing there, because it's… it's a suburb of Denver.00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:21.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, that's true.00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:28.000Stuart Winchester: That's so interesting because I.00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:39.000Stuart Winchester: wrote up, and I talked to the folks at Hood on Hill, and they were opening it. And the way I thought… the way they pitched it to me was more of making skiing accessible for locals at an entry level.00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:49.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, they didn't… I mean, I understood that it was attached to this other resort, but my understanding is it was kind of a low-cost thing for the community. I think one mistake they made, and…00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:53.000Stuart Winchester: Maybe you don't want to criticize them, but I think having four carpets.00:45:53.000 --> 00:46:02.000Stuart Winchester: I think they should have had at least one rope tower or T-bar, like, something to serve the terrain park that wasn't so slow. I think that would have gotten them more…00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:04.000Stuart Winchester: Energy on site.00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:18.000Stuart Winchester: And… and had a multiplier effect. I just didn't… I didn't like the four carpets model. I liked the model of putting a ski area there, because otherwise the closest place is, what, like Eldora, and a lift ticket's 180 bucks?00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:30.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, so… so there wasn't… or you go up to Echo, I guess, but that's a pain to get to. So… so I… I don't know, that… that was my… that's my impression of Hoedown so far, is it was, like, a good idea with bad execution.00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:24.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:35.000Brian Bensch: I I think that there's some fairness to that.00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:48.000Brian Bensch: They did a great job with the terrain park, given the resources available. And yes, like, a rope tower right next to the park is always, like, I think, a good idea. And it's something that the town of Frisco invested in, I think.00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:38.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:44.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:46:48.000 --> 00:47:05.000Brian Bensch: 3 years ago, maybe 2 years ago, and it has been wildly popular. And you know, rope toes, you know you don't need to convince me. But I'm I'm with you on the rope toes are the most affordable, accessible way for a ski area to like increase uphill uphill capacity.00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:06.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:17.000Brian Bensch: Um, I think the biggest challenge for Hoedown was… and you'd call this bad luck, um, I would say bad luck more than bad execution, but it is at, you know, 6,000 feet, and uh…00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:24.000Brian Bensch: Natural snowfall in an hour north of Denver is not the most plentiful.00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:28.000Brian Bensch: And they invested heavily in snowmaking, but you can't fight temps.00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:40.000Brian Bensch: And so, in both of our first two seasons at Hoedown, we opened between January 2nd and January 7th, but we missed Christmas both of those years, and it's really hard to, sort of.00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:57.000Brian Bensch: generate momentum for a ski area when you miss Christmas. Um, and, you know, Mother Nature is the biggest determiner of that. Uh, I'm not positive, but I don't think they got open for Christmas last year, and last year was obviously the worst of the three past seasons. So, um, hoping Mother Nature cooperates better for them this year.00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:44.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:55.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:00.000Stuart Winchester: All right, Brian, so you can keep hunting rope toes.00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:16.000Stuart Winchester: You know, I was having this debate with someone yesterday. A lot of the stats you hear when you point back in time, oh, there was 1,200 ski areas and now there's only 500. It's like, well, a lot of them were little rope toes. Like, most of the lost ski areas in Colorado were just little rope toes that existed. The reason they went away…00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:22.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, is, is not because there, there was some catastrophe in, uh.00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:34.000Stuart Winchester: anywhere other than the fact that there just was better ski areas built, and they're kind of boring. Like, when you just… you get over that pretty quick. Like, 100 vertical foot, wide open run, with a rope tow, unless it has some park features.00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:31.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:47.000Stuart Winchester: you're gonna get over it. And almost all of them, they still exist. And I've been to a lot of them across America, and they're mostly in New England and Midwest, and kind of sprinkled throughout the West, especially in the Pacific Northwest. They're almost all…00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:56.000Stuart Winchester: None of them are actual businesses, almost. Like, they're almost all subsidized, they're a city park, they're owned by a school, they're attached to a resort.00:48:56.000 --> 00:49:01.000Stuart Winchester: My point is, this is not a growth area long term.00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:02.000Stuart Winchester: And…00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:17.000Stuart Winchester: you know, the big ski areas mostly do have really good beginner centers, and they're getting better all the time, right? You see places like Jackson and Big Sky building mid-mountain beginner centers to put people more up in the alpine experience and away from.00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:22.000Stuart Winchester: the chaos of the base. So what I'm getting at here is.00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.000Stuart Winchester: Eventually…00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:28.000Stuart Winchester: It seems like you have to get…00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:41.000Stuart Winchester: into a ski area where there's somewhere else to go after the beginner hill's done, right? Or else you're just gonna be teaching pizza French fry forever, and… and I don't think that even the most passionate ski instructor wants to do that, so…00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:49.000Stuart Winchester: And it's funny, because you started at Homewood, and it's like, how do you get back to Homewood is almost the question I'm asking.00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:51.000Stuart Winchester: But I…00:49:51.000 --> 00:50:02.000Stuart Winchester: How do you… First of all, do you agree with that or am I totally missing the point? And second, if you do want to eventually get into bigger operations, what…00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:07.000Stuart Winchester: What are the obstacles to doing so other than the obvious permitting issue we just talked about?00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:20.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, so I would say I 80% agree with you. The 20% carve out would be that Grand Lavaca is still a business and Ron runs it like a business.00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:13.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:18.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:27.000Brian Bensch: And the town of Frisco, even if it's town-operated, is a business that, like, reports its P&L, and they're both, like, pretty thriving.00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:33.000Brian Bensch: medium sized businesses. Snow schoolers is a small business. They're they're certainly, you know, 5 to 10 x bigger.00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:42.000Brian Bensch: And and I think that just like, you know, grade school education is a business.00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:41.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:46.000Brian Bensch: There is a steady stream of families.00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:47.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:46.000 --> 00:51:01.000Brian Bensch: You know, kids that, you know, will hopefully have the opportunity to learn to ski. And, you know, I think there's a world for, you know, bump hills, so to speak, to remain thriving in existence without having, you know.00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:13.000Brian Bensch: the Jackson Hole Palisades terrain to keep people forever. As far as you know, snow schoolers and kind of the the lesson ecosystem.00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:06.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:07.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:22.000Brian Bensch: I would say vehemently believe there is an underserved market for intermediate and advanced lessons.00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:37.000Brian Bensch: at, you know, quote-unquote, real resorts. Um, I'd somewhat be lying if I said I had the answer, uh, to how to break into that, because I probably would have done so already, uh, even if this is my part-time endeavor. Um, but the… in a similar manner to.00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:29.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:44.000Brian Bensch: Uh, you know, how to… you know, we've… we struggled to create demand at Hoedown Hill. Hoedown Hill? Um…00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:43.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:59.000Brian Bensch: It is a completely new endeavor to create demand for that, you know, lifelong skier who skis, you know, 5 to 15 days a year, or maybe even like 10 to 50 days a year, and doesn't think that they need a lesson.00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:01.000Brian Bensch: Um, that is a much sort of.00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:14.000Brian Bensch: harder marketing challenge. But I can guarantee you, unless they are in the top 1% of like wealth. They're not going to pay $1,000. And so that's the like. How do you? How do you like? Come up with the right product?00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:15.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:26.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, when I talk to people on chairlifts, you know, fun skiing, I'll often ask, like, you know, hey, when's the last time you took a lesson now? Yeah, when I was a kid. What would you be willing to pay?00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:42.000Brian Bensch: Uh, you know, to get 20% better at your skiing riding today. It's like, yeah, maybe 50 bucks, maybe 40 bucks, 60 bucks, like, you know. Uh, and there's no mountain that offers that, particularly for, like, the one or two hour segment. Um, and, you know.00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:49.000Brian Bensch: I think there's a lot of experimentation that the bigger mountains could do with ski school to serve that sort of.00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:52.000Brian Bensch: Latent market, or latent demand, uh…00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:55.000Brian Bensch: I'd love to help, but I'd be lying if I think that.00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:58.000Brian Bensch: Ask a 3rd party to do it for them.00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:59.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:13.000Brian Bensch: And but you know, in the the only thing I think that I am a believer of Einstein's definition of insanity, and and if you do the same thing over over and over again, and expect different results like that's insane.00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:28.000Brian Bensch: Um, and I'd love to see more experimentation with, like, you know, better serving sort of lessons for people that already know how to ski. Um, because that's what… that's what got me addicted. Uh, becoming an instructor made me realize how much more.00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:23.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I'm.00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:26.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:37.000Brian Bensch: fun I could have and how much more like I still I want to learn to be a better skier this year uh and like everyone that sort of.00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:34.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I think so.00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:47.000Brian Bensch: really gets sort of addicted to ski instruction. They do it because, like there, it's a lifelong pursuit of learning to like, get better. And most.00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:50.000Brian Bensch: lace gears like don't have that sort of.00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:54.000Brian Bensch: have that spark that I'd love to spread.00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:52.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:53:53.000 --> 00:54:08.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I guess the cynic in me thinks you're never gonna get the robots to ski. Like, there's too much ego in American skiing, especially among the sort of core demographic of males. But what I… I think what I meant more was, like, okay.00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:24.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, Grand Le Bacon's kind of a novelty, and I get that it's a business, uh, that's attached to it. I, how about like Tahoe Donner, right? So it's, it's, it's not a big resort. It's, you know, right next to Sugar Bowl. It's got 500 vertical feet, like five double.00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:31.000Stuart Winchester: Maybe they don't need the hassle of running a ski school, and the…00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:41.000Stuart Winchester: they have locals, right? Because that's a mountain with interesting terrain, even though it's short vert, where parents would want to go and, like, put their kids in ski school while they go off and ski, even if you don't.00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:57.000Stuart Winchester: get the parents. Is there… do you see opportunity in that? Because there's… there's lots of hills like that, which are not, you know, down the Frisco level, but, you know, if you want to go Summit County, so you have Frisco, and you have, like, Keystone Basin.00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:07.000Stuart Winchester: uh, Breck, but then you also have Granby Ranch, and you have Ski Cooper, and it's like, okay, may… or you have Echo Mountain, maybe those places are sort of the logical next.00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:18.000Stuart Winchester: I don't even know if it's possible to get the really big ones, but, you know, do you see any growth in that? Just tiering up, not to destinations necessarily, but sort of like.00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:21.000Stuart Winchester: ski areas that families actually want to ski a whole season at.00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:23.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, um…00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:28.000Brian Bensch: A few things to come back to your earlier question. Not all of ski school is broken.00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:28.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:30.000Brian Bensch: I visited Granby Ranch.00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:37.000Brian Bensch: last spring, I believe? Maybe it was 2 springs ago. Um, and I've been to Tahoe Donner many a times. Both of those, uh…00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:36.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:42.000Brian Bensch: mountains have pretty phenomenal ski schools. Like, they don't need our help.00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:50.000Brian Bensch: You know, maybe, you know, maybe there's some cool software things that we're doing that they could, you know, borrow and replicate, but they are thriving.00:55:50.000 --> 00:56:00.000Brian Bensch: learning area programs. And I think there's a like for for the listeners that have, you know, you know.00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:03.000Brian Bensch: young kids that are thinking about when to start in ski school.00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:22.000Brian Bensch: That, I would say, tier of mountain is today, like, if it's not on your radar, it should be, because the affordability, like, they're not gouging people nearly as much as the Tier 1 Icon Epic Resorts are, and every time I've visited them, on a weekend at least.00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:30.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, their fault. They're thriving. And so I don't think that at least the class of the Tahoe Donners and Granbys of the world. I don't think they're broken.00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:38.000Brian Bensch: Other than, you know, yeah, more staff, like, how do you keep scaling? But they are thriving pretty well from what I've seen.00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:36.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I'm.00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:50.000Stuart Winchester: I could still see some operator… you know, I was talking to the guy who revitalized Steeplechase, and he was saying, you know, we don't have a ski school, and I think I may have even connected you guys, but it's like, you sort of have a ski school in a box you could offer them.00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:51.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:57.000Stuart Winchester: Alright, one more ski school question, and then you can make fun of my charts. Um, so… so, Summit at Snoqualmie.00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:11.000Stuart Winchester: and I'm sure you know this, for some reason, because of, like, it's grandfathered in, because it used to be, like, 92 different ski areas, and now it's… it's one. They have competing ski schools there. It's one of the few… might be the only place in America.00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:16.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, that I'm aware of, at least the only major, you know, it's owned by Boeing. And I've asked Boe.00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:25.000Stuart Winchester: I don't know, we don't really want to have that war. You know, it works. But but what do you think of Summit at Snoqualmie?00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:27.000Stuart Winchester: And is it just?00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:40.000Stuart Winchester: a fringe case, and it doesn't tell us anything useful about how we could maybe change American ski school structure. Any thoughts on that? That's right outside of Seattle, by the way, for folks who don't know.00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:40.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, yeah, uh…00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:43.000Brian Bensch: Now, fun, fun fact.00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.000Brian Bensch: You know, in my 1st year of.00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:52.000Brian Bensch: researching this space and figuring out what I was gonna do. Uh, the Pacific Northwest, and Snoqualmie in particular, was sort of.00:57:52.000 --> 00:58:08.000Brian Bensch: Number one, I'm like, I need to get up there and figure out, like, what they're doing, why, how they made it work, and how do we do that in Tahoe? That was my, like, year one thesis. I finally got up there just before the world shut down with COVID.00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:03.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:11.000Brian Bensch: Knocked on doors, had some good conversations.00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:23.000Brian Bensch: And and you're correct like there are at least 6 or 7, maybe even more independent ski schools. They all have their own little lodge building. They're all primarily seasonal programs.00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:33.000Brian Bensch: And they do. They still do a good deal of the sort of transportation coordination. You know that whole market is, you know, Seattle and Seattle suburbs, you know, coming up.00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:36.000Stuart Winchester: Right off the interstate. Yeah.00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:45.000Brian Bensch: to the mountains right off the interstate. It's it's as sort of like convenient as you could imagine. And more or less the answer I got was, we've done it this way.00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:40.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:48.000Brian Bensch: Uh, but we're not looking to make it more this way.00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:51.000Brian Bensch: And you know they.00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.000Stuart Winchester: That was the answer from Boyne or from the ski schools?00:58:52.000 --> 00:59:08.000Brian Bensch: Uh, it was… I would say both. There was a, uh, like, the first party unoperated, like, Snoqualmie Ski School manager, like, told me that. And there was a person who coordinated, basically, was the Boyne representative for the seven other independents.00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:11.000Brian Bensch: And it was like, yeah, we're not, you know, we're not inviting new people.00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:18.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, and in case anyone from the ski schools at Summit is listening to this, don't run to Guy Lawrence or Steven Kirchner and be like.00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:13.000Brian Bensch: Um, okay.00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:33.000Stuart Winchester: Stu Winchester said that you said this. I'm paraphrasing, and that's my take, is that they don't want that war. What they said was probably something like, our ski schools do a great job, and we're so happy to work with them. So don't run that back to them. This is just my take on it.00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:23.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:31.000Brian Bensch: Yep.00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:37.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, that they don't want to fight you, and I think they're smart not to.00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:43.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. The thing I would probably acknowledge is when a…00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:47.000Brian Bensch: Sierra is running a…00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:54.000Brian Bensch: a well executed, operationally efficient ski school.00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:54.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:59:54.000 --> 01:00:00.000Brian Bensch: They don't necessarily need third parties to come in and, like, try to do it better.01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.000Brian Bensch: Okay.01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:06.000Brian Bensch: However, there is a short term sort of.01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:09.000Brian Bensch: financially motivated incentive.01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:15.000Brian Bensch: to run a, I would say, less at scale, more profitable ski area over time.01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:19.000Brian Bensch: And you know that is sort of.01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:22.000Brian Bensch: what I would attribute to, like, you know, the…01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:37.000Brian Bensch: the non-snow summit at Snoqualmie Mountains that have one ski school and their list prices are $279 for group lesson or $1,299 for private lesson.01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:50.000Brian Bensch: they've decided that it's better for their business to, you know, maximize, like, short-term financials over long-term bringing skiers in the market. Um, and the history of Snoqualmie was, you know.01:00:50.000 --> 01:01:05.000Brian Bensch: Because it was like this, and because the ski schools were busing kids, you know, from school to the mountain afternoon, and, like, handling the very messy logistics and operations, that, like, they saw that as valuable and let them keep doing that.01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:12.000Brian Bensch: But from a business perspective, it's just more profitable, at least in the short term, to teach fewer lessons at higher margin.01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:17.000Stuart Winchester: So to end on this thought on ski lessons.01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:27.000Stuart Winchester: I think they're…

WOOF! WOOF! This week, the Haggis Shack goes to the dogs as Chaz and Schatz celebrate the release of TRIBUTES - Songs for Neil, Volume VII and the triumphant return of THE RASH!It's a special episode featuring the international Rush family, a whole lot of charitable rock and roll, and the improbable story of how one of Rush's most notoriously overlooked songs became a labor of love.First, we welcome Steve Brown of Rushfest Scotland and Moving Pictures, along with Paul Beaulieu of Rushfest Canada, for a transatlantic reunion following the whirlwind of Rush's return to the stage. From Madison Square Garden to Toronto, backstage adventures, plush Canadian wildlife, and Paul's photography pit experience, the boys relive an extraordinary few weeks of Rush fandom.Then it's time to get down to business: Songs for Neil, Volume 7, featuring 27 tracks, artwork by Hugh Syme, and performances from musicians around the world, all raising money for charity. Steve reveals his ambitions for the series, the remarkable musicians contributing to this year's collection, and what's next for Rushfest Scotland and Canada.And THEN... THE RASH BREAKS OUT AGAIN!Back for a second consecutive year on Songs for Neil, THE RASH returns with another contribution to the tribute series. This time, the gang tackles "Dog Years" from Test for Echo, taking one of Rush's most divisive deep cuts and giving it the full RASH treatment.Chaz and Schatz welcome their fellow musical contagions into the Haggis Shack to tell the story behind the recording.MEET THE INFECTED:Alan "Schatz" Schatzberg — DrumsChaz Charles — GuitarsJanine Schwarz — VocalsGreg "Wolfie" Wolfe — BassEddie Hulce — Engineering, production, and musical wizardryFrom scratch vocals and challenging bass lines to studio frustrations, creative breakthroughs, and an unexpected canine recording debut, the gang reveals what happens when a bunch of Rush obsessives decide to take a supposedly throwaway song VERY seriously.We dig into Neil's own explanation of how "Dog Years" came to life, discover why the song deserves another listen, and celebrate the peculiar magic of making music with friends who share an incurable case of Rush Rash.IN THIS EPISODE:Steve and Paul take us behind the scenes of Rushfest Scotland, Rushfest Canada, and the new tribute album.Rush returns! Adventures from New York and Toronto, including Hugh Syme, Terry Brown, and a stuffed moose for Anika Nilles.Seven volumes and counting! Steve's quest to eventually cover every Rush song.The making of "Dog Years": THE RASH returns to the studio for its second consecutive Songs for Neil appearance.Janine's vocals, Wolfie's bass, Schatz's drumming, Chaz's guitar, and Eddie's production bring the song to life.Neil Peart's surprisingly amusing account of writing "Dog Years."The Rush community comes together to raise money for charity.THIS WEEK'S SONG:No wheel spin this week! We're celebrating THE RASH's contribution to Songs for Neil, Volume 7 with "Dog Years." Yes, THAT "Dog Years." And after this episode, you might never hear it quite the same way again.GET SONGS FOR NEIL, VOLUME 7:https://rushfestscotland.bandcamp.com/album/tributes-songs-for-neil-volume-7Preview the music and purchase the digital download, double CD, or double vinyl. All profits go to charity.So grab yourself a big-ass cup of Peart Family Coffee, gather your favorite four-legged friends, and join us for a celebration of music, friendship, and the enduring legacy of Neil Peart.Go scratch that itch. WOOF WOOF!HOT DAMN, EH!SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDSScratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribute Bands in the world! Yeah!⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here: ⁠Schatz's Scratch List⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠(And say it 5 times fast!)GO BONELESSCertified boneless in the state of Ohio by the Boneless Podcasting Network. Go Boneless. Boneless Makes a Better Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

‘Wij zijn hier omdat jullie daar waren.' De Nederlandse geschiedenis van kolonisatie is onlosmakelijk verbonden met het Nederland van nu. Aan de hand van de geschiedenis van Hindostaanse contractarbeiders gaan we in gesprek over hoe ons nationale verhaal verandert als we ons koloniale verleden en onze migratiegeschiedenis serieus nemen.Wie mag zich eigenlijk echt ‘Nederlander' noemen? Waar de ene migrantengemeenschap tot zondebok wordt gemaakt, gaan andere groepen schijnbaar geruisloos in de massa op. Met Hindostanen, een van de grootste Surinaams-Nederlandse gemeenschappen in ons land, gebeurde dat laatste. Daardoor bleef een belangrijk deel van onze Nederlandse geschiedenis lang ongehoord: hoe contractarbeiders na de afschaffing van de slavernij werden uitgebuit op de plantages in Suriname. Ragna Indra Heidweiller beschrijft deze geschiedenis in haar boek Wij zijn hier door jullie (De Correspondent). Tijdens deze avond gaan we in gesprek over die geschiedenis, hoe ons nationale verhaal verandert als we het koloniale verleden en de migratiegeschiedenis serieus meenemen en wie we zien als ‘echte Nederlanders' in een land dat door en door een migratieland is.Over de sprekersRagna Indra Heidweiller schrijft over identiteit, inclusie en relaties. In mei verscheen haar boek Wij zijn hier door jullie. Eerder verschenen In Voor- en Tegenspoed, maar alleen als jij de afwas doet (2021) en Werkboek voor de ideale rolverdeling (2023). Amber Kortzorg is journalist, presentator van Kassa en programmamaker. Haar documentaire Echo's van de Dam – 5 jaar na Black Lives Matter werd genomineerd voor een Gouden Kalf. Eerder maakte zij de serie Alles is Famiri, een persoonlijke zoektocht over Suriname.Tahrim Ramdjan uit Amsterdam is journalist, schrijver en spreker. Hij is afgestudeerd jurist in staats- en bestuursrecht en werkt als verslaggever en coördinator opinie voor Het Parool.Nordin Ghouddani is journalist en televisiemaker. Hij is de oprichter en presentator van Mocro Inside en vervult de rol van sportredacteur bij Tijd voor MAX. Als co-auteur van het boek Marokkaanse Trots en kenner van (internationaal) voetbal, weet hij sport en maatschappij naadloos met elkaar te verbinden.Tanja Jadnanansing was tot voor kort voorzitter van het stadsdeel Amsterdam Zuidoost. Van 2010-2016 was ze Tweede Kamerlid voor de PvdA. Daarna werkte zij als programmamanager Strategie en Externe betrekkingen op het Albeda College in Rotterdam. Eerder was ze diversiteitsmanager bij de Nederlandse Publieke Omroep, adviseur jongeren bij de NOS en presentator en programmamaker bij Multiculturele Televisie Nederland en de omroep Organisatie Hindoe Media.LAKSHMI is een songwriter en zangeres die activisme, persoonlijke groei en liefde vangt in dromerige, gelaagde songs. Naast haar muzikale werk is LAKSHMI actief als pleitbezorger voor meisjesrechten en klimaat- en dierenactivisme. Als ambassadeur van de VN en Plan International spreekt ze zich uit tegen ongelijkheid en seksueel geweld, en verbindt ze klimaatverandering aan vrouwen- en meisjesrechten. Op 28 augustus 2026 verscheen haar derde album Here, I Am, Alone with You. Vanaf oktober 2026 brengt ze het album naar het theater tijdens een tour langs ruim twintig theaters door heel Nederland.Programmamaker: Anne Grietje FranssenModerator: Amber KortzorgIn samenwerking met: De CorrespondentZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this week's show: CEDIA's first-timer list hints at where custom integration is heading next, Sonos teases a new soundbar, Control4 gets new Google Home and Google TV integrations, Wyze builds privacy right into a $40 indoor cam, Amazon raises prices on Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle gear while also handing some Fire TV users Alexa Plus for free, a pick of the week, project updates, and so much more!Are These First-Time CEDIA Expo Exhibitors the Next Big Thing in Custom Integration?Sonos Teases New Soundbar Ahead of September Hardware Reveal | iPhone in CanadaChowmainsoft Introduces Google Home and Google TV Integrations for Control4HomeTech HeadlinesRecessed Entry Sensor - Ubiquiti StoreMova's latest robot vacuum solves the kitchen stool problemWi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed, and home networks need itThe lens in Wyze's new $40 indoor camera retracts for privacyHackers Compromised 14,500+ Dahua Devices Using Credential Attacks, Auth Bypasses, and P2PFCC officially decides gigabit speeds are too good for youAmazon just hiked the prices for Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle products by up to 60 percentFire TV users are getting an Alexa Plus update – for freeAqara expands H1 Matter lighting lineup with new downlights and spotlightsFrom the homeautomation community on Reddit: I reverse engineered the Litter Robot 4 to control it 100% locally via Home Assistant. Custom firmware and install guide in description!From the homeautomation community on Reddit: I reverse-engineered local Ecobee control and put it on PyPI (no cloud, no dev key, no Home Assistant)From the homeassistant community on Reddit: Samsung Family Hub Reborn: Turning a Fridge Touchscreen into a Home Assistant Dashboard

The ECHO's Everton reporter Chris Beesley is joined by author and Evertonian Nathan O'Hagan for the latest edition of the Royal Blue podcast as the pair talk all things Colin Harvey.  Chris dives into Nathan's new book Succession about Colin Harvey and his time as Everton manager.  Having written novels The World Is (Not) A Cold Dead Place; Out Of The City and The Last Sane Man On Earth, Nathan has also penned articles about football, culture, current affairs and men's mental health for The New World; Byline Times; Four Four Two; Men's Fitness and Metro.  Succession explores an often-overlooked period in Everton's modern history under arguably the greatest servant the club has ever known. The book offers a sympathetic, clear-eyed account as it tracks the initial enthusiasm surrounding Harvey's appointment, the weight of expectation and his struggle to replicate the success he helped create as a player and coach. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Succession-Colin-Harvey-Everton-Manager/dp/1836802935 #EFC #EvertonFC #DavidMoyes #EvertonStadium #HillDickinson #RoyalBlue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Neuer Tankrabatt ab Oktober. Ausreisepflichtige Migranten - Stadt Köln räumt Fehler ein. Empörung über Stolpersteinverbot in Heidenau. Moderation: Sascha Wandhöfer Von WDR 5.

Relationship Boundaries: Controlling or Respectful?Relationship boundaries can look “controlling” when you're used to living single inside a relationship. John and Echo get real about transparency, trust, temptation, and why some rules are actually about protecting the relationship—not punishing your partner.In This EpisodeBoundaries should go both ways, or they can become controllingTransparency is not the same thing as micromanagingActing single while committed creates unnecessary riskTrust matters, but accountability protects the relationshipNightclubs, trips, and private friendships can blur lines fastIf the rules feel restrictive, ask what you're trying to protectRespect is about how your choices affect your partnerHealthy boundaries should feel like a house, not a jailTimestamps0:00 — Controlling Partner Or Single Mindset?4:02 — Respectful Boundaries Versus Control7:37 — What Real Controlling Behavior Looks Like10:57 — Radical Transparency In A Committed Relationship14:59 — Why Location Sharing Builds Trust18:05 — The Junk Food Analogy For Temptation21:25 — Attention, Social Media, And Two-Way Rules25:22 — Nicole's Single-Life Reality Check29:31 — How Small Slippages Become Big Betrayals33:17 — Boundaries As A House, Not A Jail37:18 — Why Intentions Aren't Enough Around Temptation40:26 — Healthy Friend Time Without Acting Single43:39 — Final Challenge And Practical SafeguardsConnect

We are living in a period when the greatest political opportunity I have ever seen for either party is being squandered. For the Democrats, it is understandable. For the Republicans, it is unforgivable. In today's Capital Record, David looks at this current moment, where true conservatives have a chance to present an actual contrast – a choice – to the left-wing socialist nonsense of our day. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and EVERY hunting spot you had was gone?No permission. No familiar public-land spots. No backup property. You're starting completely from ZERO.In this episode of Before the Echo, I'm breaking down exactly what I would do to find new places to hunt and still have a successful deer season. We'll talk about finding overlooked public land, knocking on doors for permission, using your network, scouting new ground quickly, and why learning how to FIND good hunting spots may be more valuable than having one great property.

Dr. Kimberly Spence is a member of the Show-Me Echo that focuses on mothers, infants, and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). This is a regular, virtual convening of medical professionals from across the state that works to share best practices of how to care for these at-risk infants and their mothers.

Als Chili in den Schweizer Bergen bei einem Jodelwettbewerb vorbeikommt, spielt das Echo plötzlich verrückt. Zum Glück weiß Chili Rat. Und das ist volle Tatze wahr! (Eine Geschichte von Martina Baumbach, erzählt von Christiane Roßbach.)

Ist die Reform der Nachrichtendienste nötig oder der Weg in den Überwachungsstaat? Warum empfängt Trump den chinesischen Staatschef Xi so pompös? Was plant Klopp beim Länderspiel-Debüt? Moderation: Caro Köhler Moderation: Von WDR 5.

>Join Jocko Underground Full Episodes< Twenty years after Navy SEAL Marc Lee was killed in Ramadi, his mother Debbie “Mama Lee” Lee joins Jocko and Echo to reflect on grief, faith, brotherhood, and the legacy Marc left behind. They discuss the work of America's Mighty Warriors, helping veterans heal from the invisible wounds of war, supporting Gold Star families, and turning unimaginable loss into a mission to help others.00:00 – 20 Years Since Mark Lee's DeathMama Lee reflects on losing Mark, faith, grief, and the extraordinary legacy that has grown from his sacrifice.14:40 – Mama Lee ReturnsDebbie Lee joins Jocko and Echo to reflect on the Task Unit Bruiser reunion and seeing Mark's teammates together again after 20 years.25:12 – Brotherhood Forged in RamadiRemembering fallen teammates, reconnecting with old friends, and why staying connected to the people who shared the experience matters.35:22 – Random Acts of KindnessHow Mark's final message inspired America's Mighty Warriors to provide immediate help to veterans, military families, and others in crisis.39:30 – Choosing to Keep Fighting Through GriefMama Lee describes the devastation of losing a child and the decision to turn that pain into purpose and service.45:28 – You Won't Feel Like This ForeverJocko and Mama Lee discuss the overwhelming nature of grief, losing control of your emotions, and learning to ride the wave until you can move forward.1:00:35 – Get It Out of Your HeadWhy talking, writing, sharing stories, and connecting with others can help process pain instead of allowing it to grow darker inside.1:12:40 – Healing the Invisible Wounds of WarMama Lee explains Helping Heroes Heal, traumatic brain injuries, blast exposure, sleep problems, suicide, and the veterans whose lives have been changed through treatment.1:26:00 – Helping Veterans and Gold Star Families HealThe retreats, treatment programs, and plans for a dedicated facility designed to bring veterans and families together while supporting their recovery.1:31:14 – Gold Star Families and the Power of Helping OthersMama Lee discusses retreats for Gold Star parents and families, while Jocko reflects on how even a small act of kindness can completely change someone's outlook.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/jocko-podcast/exclusive-content

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We recovered from the zombies (kinda) and now it's on to some good old fashioned mind-reading. In the episode, when Clark saves a factory from an explosion, the blast temporarily gives him the ability to hear everyone's thoughts, most notably, Lois's. And who will finally lift Oliver out of a dark place? His bitter ex/business partner Tess? Or his bitter whimsical nemesis the Toyman? Major props to Justin Hartley here as well. We're still not sure where this season is headed, but we're having a great time along the way. Join us for a quick jaunt! ...

Five games in, two points, two goals, and Spurs are rooted to the bottom of the Premier League after spending over £300m in the summer. Three fan channels, three different views, one very uncomfortable question: how worried should we actually be? We're debating: Has this start changed what you expect from the season? Top half, Europe, or just safety? When does the De Zerbi project get judged? Is "give him time" still a fair position, or has that window already started closing? Fatigue and condition: with 11 players at the World Cup and the full squad only together ten days before Everton, is this a genuine excuse or a convenient one? Bring your own take in the comments. The best ones get read out next week. Featuring hosts from An Echo of Glory, Last Word on Spurs and We Are Tottenham TV. #THFC #TOTTENHAM #SPURS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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World Premiere: The Peterson Show @ The Echo Theater Company – 8.1 out of 10! Good Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! www.latheatrebites.com

Bundesregierung stellt Aktionsplan gegen Sozialmissbrauch vor. Debatte um Spritpreise geht weiter. Präzedenzfall: AfDler in gemeinnützigen Vereinen. Moderation: Michael Imhof Von WDR 5.

This week on the Gospel Jubilee Chip  & Denny will be playing music by The Guardians, Calvin Wilson Road, Randy Travis, Jerod Akers, The Greenes, The Isbelles, The Sound, and their mystery artist of the week.   Here are all of the ways you can listen to the Gospel Jubilee On your Echo device say, Alexa, play the Gospel Jubilee on Apple podcast. For a direct download go to: https://api.spreaker.com/v2/episodes/75321797/download.mp3 Ocean Waves Radio ... every Wednesday at 5:00 PM Eastern time., www.OceanWavesRadio.com   Thursday afternoons at 4:00 PM and Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM  EST on Southern Branch Bluegrass Radio, www.sbbradio.org   Playlist:   Artists |Song Title   01. The Collingsworth Family - Mercy & Love   02. The Perrys - Moses & Elijah   03. Scotty Inman - Midnight Revival   04. The Guardians - Singing With The Saints   05. The Williamsons - The King Eternal   06. Gold City - Gonna Take It & Leave It   07. Calvin Wilson Road - Old Time Religion   08. Michael Booth - Morning Has Broken   09. Randy Travis - Doctor Jesus   10. Jerod Akers - Somebody's Praying   11. Jim Brady - Homesick For Heaven   12. Gordan Mote - Wake Up Dancing   13. The Greenes - Stand By The River   14. Our Mystery Artists Of The Week - Ain't No Dirt   15. The Craguns - My Faith Still Holds   16. The Isbelles - I Can See Clearly Now   17. Mark Bishop - I'm Gonna Do What I Said I'd Do   18. Tim Lovelace - Darkness Into Light   19. The Inspirations - Then We'll Be Glad   20. Tribute Quartet - It's Time To Sing   21. The Browns - Put a Little Love In Your Heart   22. The Bibletones - This Old House   23. Greater Vision - Never Ever Will I Again   24. The Sound - Can I Get a Witness            

What if your AI actually sounded like you? In this episode of The Life-First Solopreneur, our AI go-to guy, George B. Thomas of Sidekick Strategies, shows solopreneurs how he built Echo, an AI second brain loaded with his identity, stories, and core values. He also explains how he runs a team of AI agents in Grok Bot that drafts emails, schedules meetings, manages projects, and builds landing pages while he walks the dog.Hosts Carly Ries and Joe Rando dig into what a second brain really is (spoiler, it's mostly folders and files), how to stay the human in the loop, and the simplest AI task you can hand off this week to start buying back your time.In this episode, you'll learnWhat an AI second brain is and why solopreneurs should careWhy feeding AI your identity, stories, and values beats writing better promptsHow an AI agent team differs from typing questions into ChatGPT or ClaudeGeorge's five-minute rule for deciding when to use an agentWhen to keep AI in draft mode and when to let it run on autopilotAn easy email and calendar handoff you can set up this weekThe story behind "be a happy, helpful, humble human"Connect with GeorgeVisit sidekickstrategies.comFind George B. Thomas on LinkedInEmail george@georgebthomas.comListen to the HubHeroes podcast and Beyond Your DefaultWant to see Echo and George's agent dashboard in action? Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel.If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a five-star review, share it with a solopreneur friend who's curious about AI, and subscribe so you never miss an episode.

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Covert narcissism recovery isn't just about understanding what happened to you — it's about finding your way back to yourself. In part two of this conversation, Renee continues talking with psychotherapist and author Amy Lewis Bear, picking up right at the emotional core of this discussion: vulnerability, and why it's often the very thing survivors of narcissistic abuse recovery are most afraid to offer again. Amy shares two powerful stories from her own therapy practice — clients who spent years walking on eggshells and shrinking themselves inside relationships marked by trauma bonding and emotional dysregulation, and who eventually found the strength to reclaim their voice. She and Renee also talk candidly about why people often carry old defense mechanisms into new relationships, why healing takes real time before trusting again feels safe, and why so many survivors feel guilty just for being happy. You can learn more about Amy and her work at: http://www.amylewisbear.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/abearcounselor/  http://www.youtube.com/@therapywhenlovefeelshard If you're on your own healing journey and want more support, Renee's coaching program is a great next step — learn more at www.covertnarcissism.com. And if this conversation moved you, make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode. The Covert Narcissism Podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. Nothing shared here should be taken as professional mental health advice. If you are in crisis or need support, please reach out to a licensed mental health professional. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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