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Andrew Browning and the 9 Pound Hammers dive into the raw, gritty landscapes of California with their upcoming album, Love is a Beautiful Thing, set for release on November 22nd. With a sound steeped in the raw energy of '70s rock and Americana, and storytelling that echoes the messiness of real life, this album brings listeners on a journey through the highs and lows of love, framed by Browning's distinctly Californian lens. The lead single, “Econoline,” kicks off this journey with electrifying energy, capturing the untamed spirit of life on the road. It's a raucous anthem that blends hard-driving guitar riffs with evocative lyrics, telling tales of roaming, survival, and finding moments of warmth and love in the most unexpected places. Love is a Beautiful Thing the groups latest release stands as a testament to Andrew Browning's evolution as an artist, bringing together his love for narrative songwriting with his Californian rock influences. Since their inception, Andrew Browning and the 9 Pound Hammers have been known for creating a sound that is uniquely theirs—gritty, narrative-driven, and unapologetically raw.  Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/9poundhammers Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/30e8Pj1gUJcu2KQvV3Puu0?si=AYqGK-c6RQGBhUhm4HU1Sw  Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris is sponsored by Shure Microphones. Voice overs provided by Nigel John Farmer from his studio VoiceWrapStudio.com in France. Our thanks to Rodney Hall FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for our intro and outro backing music clip. A Big Shout and thanks to our friends at  @Shure for their support!   Contact us at inquiry@darrellcraigharris.com Social: www.Instagram.com/musicmatterspodcastofficial https://www.Facebook.com/musicmatterspodcastofficial Website www.MusicMattersPodcast.com   

In this episode of Trippin With Bondzee I sit down and talk with the lead singer of Econoline Crush, Trevor Hurst. We chat about the band and its music. New and old. We discuss the death of his bandmate and best friend Ziggy. We also chat about what the band is up to these days and what to expect moving forward. We also chat about some old hits and how they came to be and he tells an awesome story of stealing girls from Gene Simmons of Kiss. I really enjoyed this one. Plus I talk about having 2 mini strokes in Nicaragua while jogging and what happened upon arriving back in Canada at the hospital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Avsnitt 385 är här! Krick har tillbringat nästan 14 timmar på akuten och mår helt otroligt, förträffligt bra. Ponkan mår också bra. För han har fått för sig att han ska köpa en ny Explorer. Sen skade-glädjs vi åt en tjomme som laddade sin elbil för 15.751 kr. Efter denna märkliga inledning så hugger vi tag i ett lyssnarbrev där vi ska hjälpa Tobbe att skapa den perfekta Ford Econoline 88:an. Inte helt oväntat så snegler vi bakåt i tiden. Krick fortsätter och drömmer om sin nya jacka som han precis beställt. Inget mindre än Axel Foleys Detroit Lions baseballjacka från Beverly Hills Cop. Detta leder oss in på Veckans bil - den ikoniska Mercedes-Benz 450 SL. Vi rundar av veckan med lite GGN nyheter och hur vi skulle förvandla en magisk Jaguar XJ6 som ligger på Bidders Highway. Häng med!

Ford se ha revelado como el fabricante que más veces ha aparecido en películas de terror entre 2020 y 2023, con un total de 87 apariciones en películas como ‘Posesión infernal: El despertar', Halloween Kills y ‘Expediente Warren: Obligado por el demonio'. En esta última, de los 35 coches que aparecen en, el 31% son modelos de Ford, como el Econoline. #peliculas #terror #autosenimagen See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lead Pedal Featured Truck of the Week: Steam Whistle Econoline Van Today's Lead Pedal Featured Truck is and old Ford van from Steam Whistle Breweries. This 1961 Ford Econoline has been turned into a mobile beer tap. We found this one at a recent Sound of Music Festival.  Watch the video on this van here Enter Your Truck to be a Featured Truck of the Week To get your truck entered into the Lead Pedal Featured Trucks email photos of your truck and a write up about and why it supposed to be part of these amazing trucks. Email leadpedalpodcast@gmail.com    This episode is sponsored by Bison Transport with many opportunities for truck drivers in their fleet across Canada. We have a wide variety of Canada Only positions for Owner-Operators to choose from! AND Bison has the steady freight to keep Owner-Operators moving!   You can learn more about Bison and the opportunities available at www.bisondriving.com   or call 1-800-527-5781 @BisonTransport #bisontransport   Chrome Supply Warehouse has the best selection of chrome and truck parts in Ontario Canada. Located in Belleville Ontario on the North side of the Highway with lots of truck parking. Stop in for a break or to check on their Deal of the day. Learn more online at www.chromesupplywarehouse.com    Join us for the Great Canadian Truck Show in Grand Bend On - July 21th-22th, 2023 - www.facebook.com/greatcanadiantruckshow  - Grand Bend Motorplex About the Show LISTEN TO THE PODCAST- The show is available at www.theleadpedalpodcast.com  , ITunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Tunein, iHeartradio, SoundCloud, and other popular podcast platforms. Thanks for listening JOIN THE LEAD PEDAL PODCAST FAN CLUB  www.TheLeadPedalPodcastFanClub.com  LISTEN TO LEAD PEDAL RADIO at www.LeadPedalRadio.com  The Lead Pedal Podcast for Truck Drivers talks all things trucking for people in the transportation industry helping them improve their business and careers. Interviews with industry professionals and truck drivers, trucking information, and other features on the industry are meant to be helpful for truck drivers and those in transportation. The Lead Pedal Podcast for Truck Drivers has main episodes released every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with bonus material on other days. You can learn more about the host and show on our website and make sure to SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favourite podcast platform. www.theleadpedalpodcast.com  What does The Lead Pedal Podcast mean? The Lead (pronounced - Led) stands for acceleration or fast-track of your career or business. It is a play on words and we certainly are not here promoting speeding in the industry. We are hoping this information will help you become a professional driver faster than if you didn't know about many of these topics. Are you enjoying the show? If so we would appreciate you leaving us a rating and review on iTunes or on your favourite podcast platform. www.theleadpedalpodcast.com  Join The Lead Pedal Podcast Fan Club where are loyal fans get first chance at specials, discounts on merchandise and much more.The club is free to join and you can learn more at www.theleadpedalpodcastfanclub.com     

The Road The Stage is missing one of the PP boys this week as Patrick was down with the sickness. Ironic as our guest is also a nurse! Trevor Hurst has put the medical career aside to revive the legendary Econoline Crush who are back with a new song called No Quitter from a soon to be released new album which will be followed by a documentary called Flatlander chronicling Trevor's work as a Psychiatric Nurse with Canupawakpa Dakota Nation in Manitoba. Peter and Trevor weave through stories about the bands beginning at the height of the grunge movement, memories of Edgefest, and things get emotional as they discuss their fathers who have both passed on, but whose presence are still felt in mysterious ways. Dig in and subscribe to the Communal Creative Studios YouTube channel. Recorded at Bo's Bar & Stage, produced by CCSbyBo's in #reddeer #alberta

When The Devil Drives is the latest album from Canadian rock veterans Econoline Crush, formed some 30 years ago by frontman Trevor Hurst, now the sole original member. The band's first full-length album in over a decade, and documentary film, Flatlander, about a rocker from Brandon, Manitoba's second career as a psychiatric nurse, will be …

In this 1273rd episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with Econoline Crush's Trevor Hurst about the band, Martin Streek, working with Bob Rock, the passing of David "Ziggy" Sigmund, his side hustle as a nurse and more. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, the Yes We Are Open podcast from Moneris, The Moment Lab, Ridley Funeral Home and Electronic Products Recycling Association.

Dimetre asked our good pal Eric Alper to see if this silly little podcast could get Trevor Hurst from Econoline Crush, a band that we here at CAF completely adore. Eric, as always, gets the job done! This conversation with Trevor is one of our faves. From high school in a small town in B.C., to playing some of the biggest stages on the planet, Econoline Crush and Trevor have done it all. Trevor's stories are amazing, and captivating. Check out this episode, you won't be disappointed. Listen to Canadian AF on Canada's BIGGEST podcast network: https://crier.co The planet's best online radio station is live, 24/7 at: https://revolutionradio.live Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Santa Barbara resident and SBWC regular Sue Grafton was an American author best known as the author of the "alphabet series" ("A" Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California , which was based on Santa Barbara . Before her success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies.Stewart O'Nan's first book, and only collection of short stories, In the Walled City, was awarded the 1993 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Many of the stories in that collection also originally appeared in publications such as Ascent (the short story "Econoline"), Columbia (the short story "The Third of July"), Jam To-Day (the short story "Mr Wu Thinks"), The Nebraska Review (the short story "Winter Haven), Northwest Review (the short story "The Finger"), The South Dakota Review (the short story "The Calling") and The Threepenny Review (the short story "Steak").In this combined talk Grafton and O'Nan spoke together and titled it "Aria For Two Authors".

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GHIT 0380:  Lemons Rally Wrap Up – Day 2 of the 2022 Fall Failage Rally Day two has concluded and we are reporting live from a restaurant arcade somewhere in either NY State or Vermont.  It has been a long trip and another long day on the road.  Spirits remain high and the rain has held off to this point.  In addition, we have three entrants with birthdays today, so everyone wish them all a happy birthday.  On this episode we are joined by Rally Master Jeff Stobbs and Carl and Kirk, two entrants from the Cut Rate Roofing team in their "convertible" Econoline. Tomorrow is the last day for this event, and we may or may not be reporting back again tomorrow as most entrants and teams will be making a mad dash to return home.  Some may even be silly enough to try to make it into work on Monday.  Rookies, lol. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/FallFailage2022Day2 If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast: You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that we would appreciate that very much.  Even better, a podcast review, would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would appreciate it. We hope you enjoy this episode! PS  If you are looking to stream or save your integrated telemetry/racing data with you video, Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you.  We are amid installing the system in two of our cars.  If this sounds like something that may help you and your team, please use our discount code "GHIT" for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/ PS2  Please do not forget that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, do not forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.  Just enter the code “ghitlikesapex!” when you order from https://apextrackcoach.com/ Best regards, Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, and Bill Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

Ron starts this episode talking about his crazy week in the shop : takes a call on a 94 Econoline that is banging from 1st to 2nd gear : takes a call on a 90 Toyota Pickup with electrical problems, and a 78 Silverado that “kinda starts”, then dies : we re-run a 2013 interview with Ron's late Uncle Steve who fought in World War II.   Visit us at https://www.cardoctorshow.com   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lawrence Bittaker was an evil munchkin who helped pioneer the use of an Econoline to torture innocent victims in the forest. He was labeled "The Toolbox Killer" because of a toolbox he carried which featured several instruments of torture. He made audio recordings of several of his murders, which were so disturbing that his lawyer vomited uncontrollably when forced to listen to them. He was pure evil, and died in San Quentin State Prison, on Death Row, at the age of 79, having outlived many kind, charitable, humanitarian men. 

Come with me inside the fertile mind of a man who came to the crossroads and took a hard left, finding himself in a very unique position – one in which he could affect change in the lives of indigenous citizens while realizing incredible change within himself, on a road that leads straight back to music Support the Show: https://www.jeffwoodsradio.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The twins welcome author, academic and rocker Joe Oestreich, a founding member of Columbus, Ohio-based band Watershed. Joe is currently the department chair of the English Department at Coastal Carolina University. He's got four books under his belt and his shorter work has been widely published. Watershed is still rocking after more than three decades. Joe discusses the band's trajectory, lasting friendships, Jim Steinman, Cheap Trick and much more. Included: Watershed's new single. Photo: Joe Oestreich by Easton Selby SHOW NOTES 0:00 - "Bleeding on the Blank Page" - by Watershed 3:05 - About Joe Oestreich / Coastal Carolina University / Watershed 5:35 - "Hitless Wonder" / "Rock On, Mr. Chips" / Andre Pope 8:55 - Greetings, Joe! 9:20 - Watershed 36 years in / "Extended Player" EP / About "Bleeding on the Blank Page" / The video shoot / Mike McDermott 12:25 - More Coastal Carolina University / Kate Faber Oestreich 13:35 - Early visits to South Carolina with Watershed / The Ohio State University / Rockafellas' Columbia / Art Boerke / Epic Records / "Twister" / Jim Steinman / The Smithereens / The Headroom Myrtle Beach 15:25 - House of Blues Myrtle Beach / Opening for Insane Clown Posse / Juggalos / The Scranton Incident 17:55 - More Coastal Carolina University / Children Beckett and Ellie / Tenure-track jobs in academia 18:55 - About creative nonfiction 22:05 - The origins of "Hitless Wonder" / Joe's academic journey / Becoming a writer 25:44 - "Partisans" / Van trouble in Mexico and the kindness of strangers 29:04 - "Lines of Scrimmage" (coauthored with Scott Pleasant) 31:11 - "Waiting to Derail" (coauthored with Thomas O'Keefe) / Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown / #MeToo allegations against Adams 33:58 - Watershed - going deep / Colin Gawel / Herb Schupp / Dave Masica / Watershed albums and other recorded works 37:08 - "Econoline" tours then and now / Chasing the next good song 38:50 - Watershed and Cheap Trick / Opening for Cheap Trick / Why Isn't Cheap Trick in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and eventual induction / Cheap Trick Soundman Bill Kozy / Detroit band Speedball 43:04 - Chris talks about Cheap Trick opening for KISS in Los Angeles, 1977. 44:41 - Watershed's Hollywood Experience / Continental Hyatt House (Riot House) / House of Blues Hollywood / Dan Aykroyd takes out the trash in a tux / Epic/Sony meeting 48:56 - Watershed and Jim Steinman / Richard Griffiths, Epic Records / David Sonnenberg / Downtime Bar Manhattan 53:50 - Reactions from Joe's students about Watershed 55:24 - Watershed stage setup 57:28 - Future plans in writing and music / Producer Tim Patalan / Sponge 59:12 - Shout-out to Elijah

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Welcome to the maiden voyage of Canada FM! We Picked Vancouver Industrial band Econoline Crush to kick things off. From their routes, tours with kiss, front man Trevor Hurst's second career and so much more giver a listen. And subscribe on instagram @Canadafm

This is the conclusion of a chat I had with Trevor Hurst of Econoline Crush. In it, we discuss working with Sylvia Massey (Tool, Prince) on The Devil You Know, Shannon Hoon, touring with Kiss, the future of EC, his second career as a medical professional and much more. So, please give it a listen and if you want more '90s CanRock content, find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and follow our official playlist on Spotify and Apple! Also, if you want to support the podcast, visit https://www.patreon.com/ravedrool, subscribe/follow the podcast wherever you're listening to this and give us a positive rating and review! https://www.twitter.com/RaveDrool/https://www.instagram.com/RaveDrool/https://www.facebook.com/RaveDrool Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ravedrool)

This is part one of a chat I had with Trevor Hurst of Econoline Crush. In it, we discuss his time in Seattle in the early '90s, the origins of EC, his Canadian influences, the making and touring of Affliction and much more. So, please give it a listen and if you want more '90s CanRock content, find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and follow our official playlist on Spotify and Apple! Also, if you want to support the podcast, visit https://www.patreon.com/ravedrool, subscribe/follow the podcast wherever you're listening to this and give us a positive rating and review! https://www.twitter.com/RaveDrool/https://www.instagram.com/RaveDrool/https://www.facebook.com/RaveDrool Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ravedrool)

Remember Econoline Crush? They had a string of Canadian Radio hits in the late 90s into the 2000s, were featured on MuchMusic and Big Shiny Tunes. Well, Econoline Crush is basically one guy: Trevor Hurst. Trevor joins Bob in the basement this week and he tells his story of change and his adaptive nature. Trevor is a Psychiatric Nurse now. He just wrapped up three years of work with the Dakotas of Manitoba as the Public Health Nurse to a community of 300. His story of being a rock star on weekends and a full time nurse is the subject of a documentary to be released in 2021 called "Flatlander".

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This week's show features Econoline Crush with music from Foxer, Teenage Wrist, The Frixtion, The Empty Hearts, Kendall Rocks, Shred Kelly, Ways Away, The Veras, Circa Waves, The Darcys & Black Bear Kiss! Hosted by Aaron Zytle. 09/22/2020

In our local news today: Arkansas is preparing for the impact of Hurricane Laura; a Lawsuit against the Plumerville Police Department is headed for a jury trial; two new COVID cases in Conway County with one in Perry County; FEMA approves Arkansas unemployment grand; the Museum of Autos is set to host an Econoline show; and we'll check sports.

***CONTENT WARNING FOR CHILD HOMELESSNESS***With the one true Marshal of Spencer's Folly KITTNAPPED BY SOCIAL SERVICES, it's up to Oddie and Katt to rescue him from the clutches of WELL-MEANING SERVANTS OF AN INHERENTLY BROKEN SYSTEM.CAN Deputy and Dog extricate their best pal and master from the most secure Econoline a government travel per diem can afford before Kitt is lost in the system LIKE SO MANY STOOP KIDS?HOW can the boys ever be safe in their town again, knowing now that the PTA and the Children of the Black Sign are ONE AND THE SAME?And WHAT does Thony have against flatsnacks, which EVERYONE KNOWS are the most space-efficient comestible for the peckish lawman on the go? THERE'S JUST ONE WAY TO FIND OUT, CITIZENS!Peculiar Objects is run by Thony "Dog of Kings, King of Dogs" Moore and played by Nigel "What A Deputy Does" Collins and Casey "100% What's Supposed To Be Happening" Hills, who also edits and produces it. Find it and more of our shows on the Semiautomagic Podcast Network at semiautomagicinc.com, and follow our twitters @Semiautomagi and @The_PO_Box!

***CONTENT WARNING FOR CHILD HOMELESSNESS***With the one true Marshal of Spencer's Folly KITTNAPPED BY SOCIAL SERVICES, it's up to Oddie and Katt to rescue him from the clutches of WELL-MEANING SERVANTS OF AN INHERENTLY BROKEN SYSTEM.CAN Deputy and Dog extricate their best pal and master from the most secure Econoline a government travel per diem can afford before Kitt is lost in the system LIKE SO MANY STOOP KIDS?HOW can the boys ever be safe in their town again, knowing now that the PTA and the Children of the Black Sign are ONE AND THE SAME?And WHAT does Thony have against flatsnacks, which EVERYONE KNOWS are the most space-efficient comestible for the peckish lawman on the go? THERE'S JUST ONE WAY TO FIND OUT, CITIZENS!Peculiar Objects is run by Thony "Dog of Kings, King of Dogs" Moore and played by Nigel "What A Deputy Does" Collins and Casey "100% What's Supposed To Be Happening" Hills, who also edits and produces it. Find it and more of our shows on the Semiautomagic Podcast Network at semiautomagicinc.com, and follow our twitters @Semiautomagi and @The_PO_Box!

Opening Act: Stryper releases new single Make Love Great AgainBlink 182 releases Quarantine song Triumph documentaryThe Go-Gos documentaryGeorge Lynch retiring Lynch Mob nameEar Candy: Tokyo Motor Fist--Lions (2020)Upon a Burning Body--Built From War (2020)Rockversation: Trevor HurstMatt recently spoke with the singer of Econoline Crush about their new single “get Out of the Way,” and working on their upcoming album. Follow the band on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/EconolineCrush/.Bonus Track: Stryper--Make Love Great AgainFrom the new album Even the Devil Believes, coming September 4th on Frontiers Music SRL. You can preorder now at https://stores.portmerch.com/stryper/pre-order-even-the-devil-believes.html.Thanks for listening! If you're subscribing on iTunes or Google play, please leave us a review, as it will help spread the word about the show! You can find more news, reviews, and discussion at powerchordspodcast.com. You can also hit us up on twitter at twitter.com/powerchordspod, and email us at powerchordspodcast@gmail.com.

Opening Act: Stryper releases new single Make Love Great AgainBlink 182 releases Quarantine song Triumph documentaryThe Go-Gos documentaryGeorge Lynch retiring Lynch Mob nameEar Candy: Tokyo Motor Fist--Lions (2020)Upon a Burning Body--Built From War (2020)Rockversation: Trevor HurstMatt recently spoke with the singer of Econoline Crush about their new single “get Out of the Way,” and working on their upcoming album. Follow the band on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/EconolineCrush/.Bonus Track: Stryper--Make Love Great AgainFrom the new album Even the Devil Believes, coming September 4th on Frontiers Music SRL. You can preorder now at https://stores.portmerch.com/stryper/pre-order-even-the-devil-believes.html.Thanks for listening! If you're subscribing on iTunes or Google play, please leave us a review, as it will help spread the word about the show! You can find more news, reviews, and discussion at powerchordspodcast.com. You can also hit us up on twitter at twitter.com/powerchordspod, and email us at powerchordspodcast@gmail.com.

Listen To This Ep140 - Econoline Crush Trevor Hurst Playing MSG with KISS (08 04 '20) by Todd Hancock

Econoline Crush singer Trevor Hurst - THE FULL 33 MIN CONVO by Todd Hancock

Try typing “Bonin” into your phone and you’ll get autocorrected to abomination... How fortuitous. Bonin, aka The Freeway Killer, may be the epitome of stranger danger as he and associates (yep, he worked with partners) terrorized boys in California out of an Econoline van. Please don’t hitchhike, people, and for the love of God avoid vans. Or Volkswagen Beetles. Or just any vehicle, for that matter.  Warning: this includes descriptions of sexual assault and torture. 

EP021 - CEO and Founder of Your Location Lubrication (YLL), Zach Zeller http://www.vehicle2.getspiffy.com Episode 21 is an interview with Zach Zeller, CEO and Founder of Your Location Lubrication (YLL); recorded on Thursday, November 7th, 2019. Scot and Zach discuss a variety of topics, including... How Zach got his start in the industry with YLL YLL’s last 10 years of growth, driven by their fleet-focused approach The creation of YLL’s proprietary high volume oil change system Spiffy and YLL joining forces for Fleet Management as a Service Zach transitioning into his new position as SVP of Fleet Business Development at Spiffy Zach’s thoughts on the Vehicle 2.0 framework from a fleet maintenance perspective If you enjoyed this episode, please write us a review on iTunes! The four pillars of Vehicle 2.0 are electrification, connectivity, autonomy, and changing ownership models. In the Vehicle 2.0 Podcast, we will look at the future of the auto industry through guest expert interviews, deep dives into specific topics, news coverage, and hot takes with instant analysis on what the latest breaking news means for today and in time to come. This episode was produced and sound engineered by Jackson Balling, and hosted by Scot Wingo.   Transcript: Scot:    Welcome to the vehicle 2.0 Podcast. This is episode 21 and it's being recorded November 7th, 2019 welcome back to vehicle 2.0 listeners. We took a little bit of a fall break there on the podcast and are excited to be back with you here today. It's 50 we recently announced that we are merging with your location lubrication, also known as YLL. So we took this opportunity to have the CEO and founder Zack Zeller on the podcast. Zach has been working in the industry for over 10 years, so we're really excited to get his insights about the automotive industry and his experience. Welcome on the show, Zach. Zach:    Thanks Scot. Scot:    And I think this is your first podcast ever. Zach:    So it is. Scot:    So we're excited to land the big first interview here on vehicle 2.0 let's start off by you and I have had the opportunity to spend a lot of time together and I've got to hear your story, but listeners haven't. So tell us how you got into the automotive space. Zach:    Yeah, so, you know, I got into automotive, the mobile onsite oil change space by having a bad experience at a, at a brick and mortar business. So, you know, had to go get the oil changed, you know, trying to upsell and, and do all these services that I didn't think were necessary. You know, it was cold, snowy, and so, you know, after my experience, bad experience yeah, I needed to, the thought there had to be a better way to do oil changes, right. There had to be somebody that could come to my house and provide this service, you know, while I'm at, at that, at home or at work. And so I started looking around and this was about 10 years ago and couldn't find, couldn't find that service. So, you know, with some research and idea, I thought, you know, I'm, I'm going to go out there and do this myself. Zach:    So jumped on Craigslist, went out and bought an old 2000, two 40 Econoline van and it put some oil in it and filters and started going door to door and knocking on people's doors to, you know, offer this service. Quickly realized that doing it one at a time, I wasn't making any money. Right? It's pretty quick. So, you know, I determine that, you know, for, for, for a while L that you know, our opportunity was in, in the fleet business and where could I go to find large fleets? And that led me to Orlando, one of the largest rental car company locations in the U S so moved down to Orlando and start knocking on the door of the rental car companies. And that was kind of my first end. So, you know, start off by doing four, five, six, 10 oil changes a day. And you know, I could start seeing the opportunities there and seeing that there was at the airports, right. Large fleets, large concentration of cars. And that's kinda how I got started. So, you know, by, by doing the one and two a day to five to 10 a day to, you know, now we're doing, you know, several hundred a day at the, at large airport locations. Scot:    Yeah. Awesome. and then one of the things that's pretty interesting is, so first of all, congratulations. Most businesses don't make it like five years. You've made it 10 years. I'm very successful. That's awesome. One of the things that we got excited about is you guys can handle, you know, something like four to six oil changes somewhat simultaneously. Talk a little bit about, so you've developed some proprietary technology, we don't want to go too far into that, but you know, how did, how did you realize you needed to be able to do that? You know, that many oil changes simultaneously did to really capture the high volumes. Zach:    Yeah. So, you know, it started you know, I w the day I got a phone call that there was about 200 oil changes at, at the airport location there in Orlando. And I went out there by myself. It was just me and one van. And, and you know, I had thought I had developed a system that to work, to be able to handle that. And what I realized was about after 10 cars that the system I had developed couldn't handle high volume. You know, I mean it was good for the five, 10 cars and, and it just wasn't working right. So it was really that I, I realized that, you know, to service 200 cars to do it efficiently, to do it. So the rental car companies could put those cars back on rent that we need to develop a system that could be high volume, right. That that could do four, six, 10 cars an hour. You know, so those cars can get back on the road. And so that's where we, we started trying all these different systems. We went to different manufacturers and trying different ideas and you know, over the last 10 years, we think that we finally found the right system that allows us to, to do what we consider high volume oil changes. Scot:    Yeah, yeah. If you're doing 200 oil changes and it takes 30 minutes per, that's a hundred hours separate. Zach:    Right? Yeah. Just doesn't work. Yeah. Scot:    So there, you know, that's weeks and weeks of time, which, which doesn't work. Cool. So what locations are you guys in? So you started in Orlando and have expanded quite a bit. What are some of the locations where you're in now? Zach:    Yeah, so we start in Orlando and then you know, through, through word of mouth. You know, we expanded into Tampa. We went down to Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm beach. So we kinda cornered the Florida markets, Fort Myers, and we worked our way up to Atlanta and then kind of out to out the West coast. So then we, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver. So kind of the, the major, what we consider major airport locations is kind of what our target market's been. Scot:    Hmm. Okay. And then talk a little bit about, so you spend a lot of time with rental, large rental car fleets. How do they think about the life cycle? Like how often are they buying vehicles selling them and, and how, what does that life cycle like for those kinds of really large fleet owners? Zach:    So, you know, I think what we've learned in the businesses, you know, the rental car companies are in the business of buying and selling cars, right? And making money off those you know, they're, they're keeping them in fleet and renting them out to really for the depreciation. So they're an asset to the rental car companies, right? And so providing the service and maintaining the vehicles is in the best interest of them. Right? They want to maintain that value of that vehicle so they can turn around and sell for the most money. So what we found is, you know, they're going out there and they're, they're buying cars there, pain to maintain them. Right? And that's part of the, you know, it's part of the service we offered the preventive maintenance service, right? They want them to, first of all, they want him to be safe on the roads. Zach:    So, you know, they care about the tires, they care about making sure the cars are rentable and ready to go. And then, you know, again, trying to get the most value out of them at the end of their life cycle. And you know, they're only keeping them for six months a year, right? They're putting 30,000 miles on these cars. You know, and they've got a lot smarter people than me that can figure out, you know, the life cycle of these vehicles and, you know, when's the right time to send them to auction and when to sell them and, you know, so we're there to support them and to help maintain those vehicles to the highest standards. Scot:    Right. And then you started in preventative maintenance. And then if they go out and buy a bunch, you know, I think today you're actually dealing with a situation where they went out and bought a bunch and you have to help them on that and they and then when they get rid of them, do you guys do anything there? Zach:    So currently, no. Yeah, you know, we help them, you know, there's, there's times that they have an increase of business and they need to go out and buy cars quickly so they'll go out to the auction. Right. And the goal is to get those cars on the road as quickly as possible. So, you know, doing a safety inspection, and getting the oil changed and helping them there. But as far as, we haven't been able to get in that market of the D fleeting of the vehicles a lot of opportunity there. Scot:    Awesome. anything else kind of on the YLL history or, you know, so you've, you guys maybe give us, give us an idea of the scale of the company today. Zach:    Yeah. So, you know, 10 years ago, start off with, with one person, one van. And you know, now whileL he's just,just over a hundred employees, we've got just about 70 vehicles on the road. You know, and more in 12 cities. Scot:    So it depends on how you count cities. Yeah. Yeah. We get that a lot. Awesome. Well, we're really excited to, well, let's talk about you know, so you, so you approached us a while ago and talked about how do we combine forces with what was your thinking there? Zach:    Yeah. You know, I started to see spiffy and learn, learn a lot about what spiffy was trying to do. You know, what I saw is, you know, we've, we've got, you know, while Al had this niche, right, the high volume oil change at airport locations soft, spiffy, had a lot of other interesting, you know, you guys rolled out your fleet management of services, which is really what caught my eye of, you know, you guys saw the need of fleets from the beginning of the inflating through the whole cycle to the D fleeting. And that's really where I thought that there could be, you can see the benefit to the rental car companies, the one stop shop, right? And so instead of sort of, you know, spiffy and while L kinda going at it against each other and being the competition, let's, let's join forces and let's, let's be the, to be the leader in the industry for the entire life cycle, those vehicles for the fleets. Scot:    Awesome. Well, we're real excited here at spiffy to join forces with Weill L a we feel like this is going to be, you know, put jet fuel behind the fleet management as a service division. And my favorite part is we can kind of go through the numbers combined. We'll be in over 20 locations. Our goal is to get to 50, so we're almost at that halfway Mark now. So that's good. Well together we'll have over 200 vans out there with all the equipment to do the variety of services we offer. And then the high volume capabilities you have. And then, you know, driving and servicing the vehicles. We'll have together over 300 technicians that are trained. They're W2 technicians versus kind of random 10, 99 kinds of folks. So we, we share a vision in that. We, we, you know, to make the consumer or the B2B consumer customer happy, you really have to have a trained technician there. Scot:    It can't be just kind of a random consult contractor. And then I think together we're servicing about 1500 vehicles a day. So that's a little scary as a software guy to get my head around. But that's a, that's kind of a, a good size of the scale over 40,000 services a month. And for all the people that are excited about oil I did some math and I think we're we're changing over 50,000 gallons of oil every month is combined company. So if there's anyone in the oil industry on the podcast would love to work with you. Cool. So you know, the topic of the podcast is vehicle 2.0 where we talk about the cars are going to change more in the next 10 years than they have in the last 110 years since the introduction of the model T. And we use the, the vehicle 2.0 framework where we talk about the four big waves that are changing vehicles connected car changing ownership, Evie and AB. So, so you guys are really you're kind of, I would say in that ownership side. So you've, you've been deepened the rental car model for a very long time. So we can spend the bulk of our time there. And if you wanna talk about anything else, that's fine too. But do you see any interesting trends with the future of car ownership? Zach:    Yeah. You know, I mean if we're looking at car ownership and, you know, for the rental car companies, you know, we're seeing a lot more shared services. So, you know, riddled car companies are, are working with, you know, the big ride share services, you know, they're trying to try to get them to use their rental cars, provide, you know, new cars that are, you know, safer and, you know, provide a better experience for the riders. You know, we're also seeing a lot more the car shared, I guess when I say car shared services, but you know, commutes, the Scot:    Kind of pulling and yeah, those are all the areas one out there. Yeah. Zach:    Yeah. And we're seeing a lot more of that to where, you know, especially on the West coast, that's becoming a big part of the fleet business. You know, the Facebooks and Goggles and all that are trying to provide ways for their employees to get to work instead of bringing individual cars. Let's, let's start doing this car pooling and they're going to turn into the rental car companies task for the help. Yeah. So we've started to see that quite a bit. Scot:    Yeah. I was I was listening to one of the conference calls with the Hertz CEO. And they got a question from one analyst, which was essentially you, you would think the Uber's and lifts of the world would start eating into the rental car companies. I know I consciously, a lot of business trips all, all kind of just use ride sharing instead of renting a car if I'm only going to one or two locations. And they, it was interesting, they, they actually said they have lost kind of like 5%, but it's like they're real short kind of, you know, kind of half a day kind of rentals but actually lose money on those. So it's actually been okay to lose that because then what have been able to do to your point earlier about keeping the cars they're keeping the cars longer and they're using that, they're adding a little tail period of three or four months there where they're now running them into the rideshare networks and that's, that's actually increasing their profitability because they get rid of the less profitable stuff and now they're keeping the cars longer and they're, they're getting a little bit of a longer life cycle out of the vehicles. Scot:    So it's pretty interesting how it's to predict the unintended consequences of how some of these things will, will, will be impacted out there. I know a question I get a lot when we talk about you know, that we're doing preventative maintenance including oil changes is, and you know, I drive an electric car, so I get this question a lot is, you know, why, you know, why would you guys be investing in this oil change thing when electric cars are clearly going to be here tomorrow? What do you think about that? Zach:    Yeah. You know, it's funny cause you drive an electric car. And I owned one for a while too. And you know, I got the same question of you on an oil change company and you're driving an electric car. And you know, what we realized is, is, you know, [inaudible] our main objective is to make sure the cars on the road that are safe, right? And so electric car or you know, a gas powered car, you know, they still need preventative maintenance if that's, you know, tire rotations, brake checks, you know, down to windshield washer fluid, right? They still have fluids in them. The key fobs still needs batteries. You know, there's a lot more than just changing oil. And so, you know, I think that electric cars, there's still the opportunity there and you know, we're getting asked to, to provide preventative maintenance services. Zach:    You know, as the car industries are starting, you know, rental car companies are starting to purchase electric cars, right? I mean, we're, and we've seen it now for the last couple of years and you know, still providing those services. You know, we've, we've gotten calls of, you know, electric cars on the side of the road that are dead. Right. And can you guys go provide, you know, can you guys take a generator out there and try to figure out how to, you know, get these cars back on the road or, you know, maybe they're stuck in the bottom of a parking garage deck and they can't get a tow truck in there to get them out because they're dead. You know, so I, I think that they're, even though they don't have oil right there, still need preventative maintenance and I think the possibility for services is still there. Scot:    Yeah, absolutely. It's funny, we work with some auction clients and one of the auctions had a bunch of Teslas come through and they didn't realize that, you know, they lose a little bit of charge everyday. So they let them sit there for 30 days and then they got bricked and you know, they, they, they didn't have any charging infrastructure. So we got that same kind of a call, you know, do you guys have any capability to come charge 20 Tesla's tomorrow in five hours kind of a thing. We didn't at the point, but it's something we're, we're always thinking about how can we, Oh well, you know, when that happens, how can we be ready for it and provide those types of services as well. How about connected car? We do a fair amount of that here at 50 because of the consumer. Maybe you guys ever kind of run into connecting car. Zach:    Yeah. You know, I think it's something that we're starting to see. Yeah, I think that for the, the rental car companies, you know, having the ability to, you know, connect to the cars remotely, right? To track mileage, to track service history, things like, you know, you always a car check engine lights, right? Can the car give all that data, push that data, the rental car companies instead of, you know, physically having to go out there and pull that information from the car. I think it's going to be a game changer. Scot:    Yeah. It seems like they'd have enough pull though Em's that they would be able to ask for those kind of capabilities in a, in a fleet management kind of way. Zach:    Yeah. I think it's, I think it's common for, I mean, I think that's kind of the next, the next round. Scot:    Cool. And then the last one, and this one's kind of out there, is autonomy. Any, any thoughts around autonomous vehicles? Zach:    Yeah, I mean, I think it's coming, right? I mean, we're starting to see a lot more of it, a lot more testing, you know, with, with, I had a Tesla and, and you know, it was supposed to be, you know, I mean, getting towards the autonomy. Right. I mean, it always amazed me. And you, I think that as, as, as we get closer and closer to fully autonomous cars, you know, we we see LIDAR, right? And all the camera systems. And, you know, I, I think it's going to actually provide more of an opportunity for us to provide the, the proven preventative maintenance, right. Preventative maintenance to me is more than just an oil change, right. It's, it can be LIDAR, you know, calibration. It could be, you know, camera calibrations, you know, whatever that's gonna be, you know, I think that there's going to be the opportunity there. Scot:    Yeah. And the, you know, these autonomous cars are racking up because they don't have a human in there that gets tired. They're racking up a lot of miles. You one of the examples of autonomy it used to be that, you know, it's coming tomorrow and now that they've scaled it back, one of the things that they're doing in Europe that I think will happen here is certain interstates having kind of autonomous truck lanes where, you know, there's, there's a human that kind of gets you to that point and then that's Honami takes over with a human backup. And then so, so it gives like truck drivers more hours. They can drive essentially by, by having the autonomy there. And you guys do some commercial stuff as well, so I could see that being interesting there where you would, you would want a mobile capability instead of, you don't want the autonomous thing to have to kick in and, and you know, drive someone 10 miles out of their way to get a preventative maintenance. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Well, Zach, thanks for coming on the podcast. We're excited to be your first venue. Hopefully this is the start of a very long podcasting career. And we're real excited to combine both spiffy and while L and look forward to working with you and your new role as our senior vice president of fleet business development. Zach:    Yeah, thanks for having me. Appreciate it.  

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Mike Watt is a bona fide punk rock legend. And he probably hates being described like that. His work with The Minutemen and fIREHOSE is seminal stuff, and hard to describe, especially The Minutemen. The second you hear it, you know it's punk, but it's also funk and jazz and so many other things, and completely in-the-moment music. It's as if all music, past and present, lives on the same plane, and he's filtering all of it at once. The reason for that, he says in this interview, is that when he and D. Boon started, they were innocent of genre delineations. They knew Creedence and Van Halen and a few other bands, but they weren't locked into FM radio expectations. When Watt heard jazz great John Coltrane, he thought he was listening to punk. More than anything, Watt is a seeker. On his new project, Jumpstarted Plowhards, he found a new way to collaborate. He recorded bass parts for a batch of songs and sent them to Todd Congelliere of Toys That Kill and F.Y.P. Congelliere then recorded vocals and guitar parts and found a revolving cast of drummers to complete the songs. The result is a tough and tuneful merging of their voices. The new album, Round One, is out October 4 on Recess Records, and that's where the conversation begins. Along the way, we talk about the different ways Watt has kept his creative juices flowing, the early days of The Minutemen and how he didn't even know what a bass guitar was when D. Boon's mom told him that's what he was going to play, what he learned from playing with The Stooges, making rock operas for major labels, the unreleased Minutemen stuff he's playing on his new tour, and the new Missingmen and Secondmen albums in the works. On a more personal note, it is wonderful to have Watt on this podcast. He was the first person I interviewed as a “journalist,” back in 1995. I had thought the tape of that interview was long gone, but I found it just this week. I have to admit, it's a little cringe-inducing for me to hear how unprepared I was for this interview. Fortunately for me, Watt is a warm and open guy, which comes across in both interviews. The interview took place on October 7, 1995, outside of The Showplace Theater in Buffalo, New York. Watt had made a big splash with his solo debut, Ball-Hog or Tugboat?, which featured Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Dave Grohl just as he was getting Foo Fighters going, J Mascis, Henry Rollins, and a lot of other musicians that represented some of the best and most well-known alternative players at the time. Watt was on the Crew of the Flying Saucer tour with Nels Cline on guitar and Michael Preussner and Vince Meghrouni on drums. I had grabbed my tape recorder on my way out the door, but hadn't actually expected to get to speak with Watt. When I asked the door person at if Watt might be open to answering a few questions for the University at Buffalo campus magazine, they said “sure” and let me up into the green room. Watt was apparently getting a bit of rest in the van, and I hung out with Preussner, chewing his ear off until Watt came upstairs. Standing out on the street, Watt showed me his signature Econoline van, complete with bullethole in the bumper, as fans streamed into the venue and said hello. The new album from Jumpstarted Plowhards is called Round One, and it will be available October 4 on Recess Records, which you can find at www.recessrecords.com. Round Two is already in the works, and look for the band to start playing live once they've got to Round Five. And you can keep up with Watt and check his tour dates and news on his Web page at www.hootpage.com. We are approaching Halloween, which means it is time once again for the Daily Horror Film Fest. Every day through October, the Department of Tangents presents a different short horror film. If you have a favorite short horror film, or if you yourself have made a short horror film, tell me about it, and it may wind up in the fest. E-mail me at nick@nickzaino.com and show me what you've got. This week's featured track comes from stand-up comedian Dave Ross's new album, The Only Man Who Has Ever Had Sex, out now on A Special Thing Records. He's been on Drunk History, the WTF podcast, The Last Late Show with James Corden and a bunch of others. Ross is a storyteller, but with a lot of sneaky punches hiding in these looping kind of tales. He will be on the podcast soon, so you'll hear more about that. Find out more about Ross and the new album on his Web site at www.davetotheross.com. This is the track that sold me on the album. It's called “I Attack Strangers.”

As a native of Utah, Jason grew up visiting the National Parks, Monuments, and other regions throughout the Western United States. That is where he first fell in love with the history and geology of the area. As he grew up, he continued to enrich his education and knowledge at nature camps and class trips throughout the Southwest. One of his favorite trips was down to Havasupai Falls and the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Even when he attended college in California, he continued to enjoy the diverse geological and ecological environments nearby. He has enjoyed camping, hiking, backpacking, and touring throughout the west for the last 20 years. One of his greatest loves is sharing his passion for the history, geology, and beauty of the Southwestern United States with the tours he hosts. On this episode of Destination on the Left, I talk with Jason about his experience building an adventure tour operation from scratch over the past six years. With tours running all over the southwestern United States (and now in Oregon!) it’s all about relationship-building. From customers to guides, to all those involved with making these unique experiences happen, building relationship and building trust have been the key to success. What You Will Learn in this Episode: Tips for hiring the best client-facing employees How to create an environment of constant improvement Staying connected to customers as you grow The little things you can do to create “Wow!” experiences Building great relationships with DMOs and vendors Why trust is such a crucial ingredient to success in this business From Point A to Point B For large tours on the open road, there is a ready solution: buses made specifically for the travel industry. For smaller group tours, Jason was not finding the right mode of transportation. Bench seats in an Econoline might work for very short distances, but not for a 5 to 12-day trip. Through dedication, research, and customization, Jason finally found the right van and now the comfort of travel is remarked on by customers almost as much as the destinations. That kind of attention to customer experience can set your company apart from the competition. When you’re in a business where the journey is literally as important as the destination, everything that happens between point A and points B becomes important. Navigating the Travel Ecosystem As a tour operator, Jason relies on DMOs for information and broader marketing initiatives. He relies on service providers like river rafting companies and glamping outfitters – who could easily undercut him and steal customers away. It all comes down to trust. That’s why developing relationships is important, from customers to all the players in the travel ecosystem. When you know and trust each other, the opportunity to cooperate gives everyone a fair shake. Wrestling for the same clientele can be nerve-wracking, but you have to put yourself out there and find the people and organizations that are a good fit. Resources: Website: southwestadventuretours.com Episode Transcript We value your thoughts and feedback and would love to hear from you. Leave us a review on your favorite streaming platform to let us know what you want to hear more of. Here is a quick tutorial on how to leave us a rating and review on iTunes!: https://breaktheicemedia.com/rating-review/

Stop Me… Ep023 - Econoline Crush Trevor Hurst On Bands Making It Now VS Early 90s (04 30 ’19) by Todd Hancock

Latest episode with Bari-born, London-based Valentina Magaletti is a drummer and percussionist who strategically tries to enrich the folkloristic and conventional palette of the place where she is born, experimenting with new places and sounds. She worked, performed and co-wrote with Econoline, Bat for Lashes, Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), Fanfarlo, Oscillation, Lafawndah, Raime, Helm and many more. In her current project, Vanishing Twin (“Choose Your Own Adventure” out on Soundways), she has a more conventional jazz approach that finds its escape in the drone/field recordings of the percussive approach in her other project Tomaga. We can't wait to hear more from this drummer.

In 2006, I was working for the WCNC-TV Investigative Unit in Charlotte, NC. I was part of the team sent to the U.S.–Mexico border in Arizona in the hopes to find people migrating to the Carolinas. I was sent with the team because I knew the land, the people, and how to navigate the bureaucratic monster called “The Wall”. I found myself in a Econoline van riding with 15 people from Altar, Mexico to Sasabe, Arizona to cross in the United States. Along with 15 people traveling was a Coyotaje (Coyote). Coyote is a colloquial Mexican–Spanish term referring to the practice of people smuggling across the U.S.–Mexico border Smuggling should not be misinterpreted to mean human trafficking. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) define smuggling as the "importation of people into the United States involving deliberate evasion of immigration laws.” In part two of my interview with Morgan Loew, we pick-up talking about crossing the border in Sasabe, the dangers of the border, and what is life is like for a reporter to tell these stories in such dangerous conditions and treacherous times. We continue this journey was we examine the institution of “The Wall” in Beyond the Borders.  Check Out Links Below:Morgan Loew [Bio]Morgan Loew [Twitter]Morgan Loew [Facebook] Find Me Online:Bobby Rettew TwitterBobby Rettew Portfolio WebsiteIntersection Podcast Twitter 

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss: Would you have sex with a sex doll endowed with Artificial Intelligence? (Part 1 of the Podcast only content) Baker Mayfield is legit, it's just too bad it means fans are donning chef hats and bringing baking supplies to the games now because dude's name is "Baker". But what are going to do, they're fan hobos. The story of "Beard Guy". Since when did going to an NFL game and dealing with security at the stadium become so much worse than going through TSA at the airport? What happened when one guy from Cleveland disrupted another guy from Cleveland from watching a live band from Beijing? (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 1:07:00 mark) Let Me Tell You A Story: Lachlan MacKinnon’s “Cleveland's Angriest Door Guy” (begins at the 1:21:00 mark) According to Fansided Cleveland Browns fans are the #1 fans in the country... Sounds much better than it does after you look at the other top 10 entries on the list. The biggest problems with partying at the Muni-Lot before games. If ever in Middlefield stay away from the toothless guy driving an Econoline van, he might think you're a deer and open fire. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 1:51:00 mark) "Compression Pants", aka Men's Leggings, aka Gotchies? First Energy stadium only features music geared for people who clearly have nor real interest in music, sort of like the Grammy's. Mollie’s PuhFooFuh Spotlight Part 13: “Catman” (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:36:00 mark) The Grammy's have a history of getting it wrong, and with the 2018 nominees announced it's sure to be just as embarrassing as ever. Explaining what a two way player technically stands for in the NBA, and then telling you what the designation really means. #Blossomgame Bottom line, Greg Williams and Freddie Kitchens should be seriously considered as permanent replacements for Hue Jackson and Todd Haley, just like any other top candidates for the positions should be considered the same. And try not to overthink this. All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~ Check out Lachlan MacKinnon’s best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family’! Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio. For more details about the Thursday, December 13th "All Players Welcome" pinball tournament sponsored by Kidforce Pinball at Melt Bar & Grilled in Independence, Ohio, click on this event page, and/or register to be a participant on the EventBrite by clicking here. Your recommended listening for the week is "The Essential Dolly Parton" 2005 compilation featuring the biggest highlights of this musical titan's solo career.    The intro and outro to Lachlan’s segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it’s used with permission.

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Chicago's Dorian Taj has indie rock bonafides for which a lot of artists would trade their black Converse hi-tops; he got his start in a hardcore punk band, has worked with Bob Mould, released records on Steve Albini's imprint over the course of his several-album career and he knows his way around an Econoline, but he's more than just a pretty face grimacing at a low-slung guitar. Taj also has a way with a song, and he serves up just the right amount of crafty writing to elevate his music above the noisy fray. His vocals are delivered in a Dylan-meets-Westerberg sneer and he has always made the smart play by surrounding himself with solid players. He's that rare artist that hits all the right career notes seemingly without trying. And all of this would be moot without witnessing the dervish of energy that is a Dorian Taj show. Bands of all styles the world over could learn a thing or two from the manner in which Taj can captivate an audience.

Chicago's Dorian Taj has indie rock bonafides for which a lot of artists would trade their black Converse hi-tops; he got his start in a hardcore punk band, has worked with Bob Mould, released records on Steve Albini's imprint over the course of his several-album career and he knows his way around an Econoline, but he's more than just a pretty face grimacing at a low-slung guitar. Taj also has a way with a song, and he serves up just the right amount of crafty writing to elevate his music above the noisy fray. His vocals are delivered in a Dylan-meets-Westerberg sneer and he has always made the smart play by surrounding himself with solid players. He's that rare artist that hits all the right career notes seemingly without trying. And all of this would be moot without witnessing the dervish of energy that is a Dorian Taj show. Bands of all styles the world over could learn a thing or two from the manner in which Taj can captivate an audience.

Chicago's Dorian Taj has indie rock bonafides for which a lot of artists would trade their black Converse hi-tops; he got his start in a hardcore punk band, has worked with Bob Mould, released records on Steve Albini's imprint over the course of his several-album career and he knows his way around an Econoline, but he's more than just a pretty face grimacing at a low-slung guitar. Taj also has a way with a song, and he serves up just the right amount of crafty writing to elevate his music above the noisy fray. His vocals are delivered in a Dylan-meets-Westerberg sneer and he has always made the smart play by surrounding himself with solid players. He's that rare artist that hits all the right career notes seemingly without trying. And all of this would be moot without witnessing the dervish of energy that is a Dorian Taj show. Bands of all styles the world over could learn a thing or two from the manner in which Taj can captivate an audience.

- GM Readies for Downturn - Ford Econoline Still Kickin’ - Official Leak of Autonomous Bolt - Tesla May Add Car Washes to Charger Stations - China Sales Surge Forward

- GM Readies for Downturn- Ford Econoline Still Kickin’- Official Leak of Autonomous Bolt- Tesla May Add Car Washes to Charger Stations- China Sales Surge Forward

“The future begins with a traffic jam.” This is how Eliot Fintushel describes the setting of Zen City (Zero Books, 2016), his science fiction novel about the obstacles encountered along the path toward spiritual fulfillment. In Fintushel’s book, the quest for enlightenment manifests as a physical journey as his protagonist, Big Man, makes his way from an eternal traffic jam (in which people have been rooted so long on a highway exit ramp that they’ve created cults around their Econoline vans and Chevrolet Chevelles) to the City, where those who have achieved true enlightenment are literally merged into a single body-consciousness that transcends reality as we know it. More than a commentary on Buddhism, the story is a meditation on religion and the challenge of using “robes and rituals” to find enlightenment, Fintushel explains. The problem is when enlightenment itself becomes a sign of status, he says, undermining the goal of enlightenment, which is supposedly a state of “no status.” Fintushel’s adventure is both poetic and funny, meditating on language as much as belief. He is playing with the “limits of identifying things,” evoking the viewpoint of a baby. “If you watch a baby’s eyes moving around, they don’t fix on objects or even on people the way we do. They don’t have categories of objects and people. And I’m assuming, for the sake of the fiction anyway, that that’s more real than the reality of objects and things and people.” Links related to things mentioned in the podcast: Philip Kapleau’s The Three Pillars of Zen Chogyam Trungpa’s Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Wallace Shawn’s “The Fever” Shelley Berman’s joke about University of Chicago students Eliot Fintushel’s YouTube channel and excerpts from his performance of Revelations. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The future begins with a traffic jam.” This is how Eliot Fintushel describes the setting of Zen City (Zero Books, 2016), his science fiction novel about the obstacles encountered along the path toward spiritual fulfillment. In Fintushel’s book, the quest for enlightenment manifests as a physical journey as his protagonist, Big Man, makes his way from an eternal traffic jam (in which people have been rooted so long on a highway exit ramp that they’ve created cults around their Econoline vans and Chevrolet Chevelles) to the City, where those who have achieved true enlightenment are literally merged into a single body-consciousness that transcends reality as we know it. More than a commentary on Buddhism, the story is a meditation on religion and the challenge of using “robes and rituals” to find enlightenment, Fintushel explains. The problem is when enlightenment itself becomes a sign of status, he says, undermining the goal of enlightenment, which is supposedly a state of “no status.” Fintushel’s adventure is both poetic and funny, meditating on language as much as belief. He is playing with the “limits of identifying things,” evoking the viewpoint of a baby. “If you watch a baby’s eyes moving around, they don’t fix on objects or even on people the way we do. They don’t have categories of objects and people. And I’m assuming, for the sake of the fiction anyway, that that’s more real than the reality of objects and things and people.” Links related to things mentioned in the podcast: Philip Kapleau’s The Three Pillars of Zen Chogyam Trungpa’s Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Wallace Shawn’s “The Fever” Shelley Berman’s joke about University of Chicago students Eliot Fintushel’s YouTube channel and excerpts from his performance of Revelations. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

   Episode #159   Link to Photos of the Event The guys at Pickups Limited of Orange County, California always sponsor a good show for the ever growingly popular Ford F Series truck. If you own a 1950-75 Ford truck, you should spend some time at the Canyon RV Park situated near the Santa Ana

There’s a whole of confusion when I arrive at the Mercury Lounge. By the time I emerge from the front of the club, on being informed that I was supposed to meet Mike Watt at “the boat,” the I spot the musician limping his was toward me on Houston Street. He’s longer the skeletal figure the late D. Boon described as a dimensionless “serious of points” of course, but the bassist is still a force of nature, now barreling through the crosswalk.  I introduce myself and add that I’m more than happy to go back to the van, but Watt waves me off. “It’s fine,” he answers. “We’ll find something inside the venue.” And for once, I’m disappointed at the prospect of not following a stranger back to a van, the giant white Econoline at the center of year’s worth of road stories, behind whose wheel Watt conducted the lion’s share of interviews for the delightful 2005 documentary, We Jam Econo. We settle in a small alcove, where the instruments are stashed between sets. Watt takes a moment to settle in, compensating for a bum knee exacerbating by chronic touring and then asks in earnest why I’m interested in speaking with him. There’s no false modesty there.  He is, after all, just one-third of Il Sogno Del Marinaio a trio formed with two Italian musicians from a younger generation marking yet another sharp turn in the Watt’s long and winding career path. “Because you’re Mike Watt” seems a strong enough answer, but instead I sit and listen as he maps out the band’s approach in typically democratic language, playing alongside two tremendous young musicians in a situation that requires continual musical growth, nearly three and half decades after the release of the first Minutemen LP. He may be limping slightly, but Watt shows no outward signs of slowing down, music or verbally — and hell, I’ll be the first to admit that for the first few minutes of our conversation, I have some trouble keeping up. As with his music, Mike Watt speaks in a language uniquely his own — a sort of Southern Californian free jazz approach to verbal communication that requires dialing into his very specific frequency. And as with everything else the music does, once you’re tuned in, it’s best to just hang on and enjoy the ride.

This week on The One You Feed we have Joe Oestreich. He is the author of the memoir, Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll, which documents the twenty-five years he toured the country in a beat up Econoline as the bass player and co-singer for Columbus Ohio's Watershed. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Ninth Letter, Fourth Genre, and many other magazines. He's been awarded a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, honored by The Atlantic Monthly, and shortlisted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, The Best American Essays 2008 and 2009, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 2010 and 2014. He is now teach creative writing at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, where he is the nonfiction editor of Waccamaw. In This Interview Joe and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable. Getting the work done. Making time for your art. Taking selfishness too far. Working hard. How working hard is sometimes you the only thing you can change. Not being attached to external success. The work has to be it's own reward. The frustration of not seeing the success you want. That there has never been a better time to get your work in front of people. The support from his father. Watershed's legendary manager Biggie. Optimism versus fear. Opening for the Insane Clown Posse. His upcoming book. Joe Oestreich Links Joe Oestreich homepage Watershed homepage Buy Hitless Wonder Some of our most popular interviews you might also enjoy: Mike Scott of the Waterboys Rich Roll Todd Henry- author of Die Empty Randy Scott Hyde See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jokes You Can Use: A married couple, both avid golfers, was discussing the future one night. "Honey", the wife said, "if I were to die and you were to remarry, would you two live in this house?" "I suppose so - it's paid for." "How about our car? Continued the woman. "Would the two of you keep that? "I suppose so - it's paid for." "What about my golf clubs? Would you let her use them too? "Heck, no," the husband blurted out. "She is left-handed." A French man nearly got away with stealing a number of paintings from the Louvre. However, after planning the robbery and getting in and out and past security, he was captured only three blocks away when his Econoline ran out of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied, “I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh.” This guy goes up to a bar located at the top of the Empire State Building in New York. It looks like a nice place, and he takes a seat at the bar. On Our Mind: Happy Birthday to Ron King! Eileen Award Camilla from Australia Peter Price the Math Guy: http://www.classroomprofessor.com Advisory: How much of an eight hour day does a person work, on average, to pay for taxes? http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/27256.html Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) NASA eClips. You can view them at: http://nasa.gov/eclips. It is a great video resource for middle school teachers and students. From the Twitterverse: Don’t forget to join the conversation on MiddleTalk and Twitter at #midleved this Friday at 8:00 pm EST. News: Many high school seniors may be old enough to vote, but just one-quarter of them demonstrate at least a “proficient” level of civics knowledge and skills, based on the latest results from a prominent national exam. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/05/04/30naep.h30.html?tkn=RMPFOV3rVoDO%2FJcoQfhRKdSuqL0NUqmg9zNN&cmp=clp-sb-ascd District Administration http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/pmg/da0511/#/0 Strategy of the Week: Using teaching as inquiry to guide an eLearning action plan http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/04/using-teaching-as-inquiry-to-guide.html Resources: Wifiiti: http://wiffiti.com/ Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges. Use it for brainstorming Put test questions up there for review … Visibile Vote: http://www.visiblevote.us Shadow a Congressman or Senator. Take a position on an issue or take theirs. Connect with legislators. Need the latest info on the legislator from your district? VisibileVote! Econ Stories Hayek vs Keynes in an economic showdown. http://econstories.tv/ Say It Visually Check out their portfolio. http://www.sayitvisually.com/portfolio Web 2.0 Tools for Math Educators http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/tools_technologies/web_2_0_tools_math_educators Web Spotlight: 20 Technology Skills that Every Educator Should Have 21 Things for Administrators. Have Schools Reached Their Limits? Have we reached the limits of our traditional school system’s capacity to deal with the diversity of learners that come into our schools today? http://weblogg-ed.com/2011/have-schools-reached-their-limits/ Events & Happenings: