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Adam “Pacman” Jones and his wife, Tish Holmes-Jones, come by the New Orleans kitchen for an impromptu double date with me and LeeAnn. While we're waiting for Warren Sapp to show – I make a gumbo and LeeAnn makes some cheddar corn biscuits. We also get to the bottom of why Pacman was suspended, black vs white strip clubs, and get more than a little contact high. Watch The Pacman Jones Show - Politely Raw here: https://tinyurl.com/PacmanJonesShow Follow Pacman Jones: https://www.instagram.com/realpacman24 Follow Tish Jones: https://www.instagram.com/realmrspacman24 This episode is brought to you by Shopify. Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at https://shopify.com/burning SUBSCRIBE so you never miss a video https://bit.ly/3DC1ICg Stream LUCKY on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/81713944 Double Down Las Vegas March 21 and 22 https://www.axs.com/series/25430/bert-kreischer-artist Register to join us in Tampa, FL (or virtually) for the 2 Bears, 5K on May 4, 2025! https://www.2bears5k.com For upcoming TOUR DATES: http://www.bertbertbert.com/tour For all things BERTY BOY PRODUCTIONS: https://bertyboyproductions.com For MERCH: https://store.bertbertbert.com/ Follow Me! Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/BertKreischer Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/bertkreischer YouTube: http://www.YouTube.com/user/Akreischer TikTok: http://www.TikTok.com/@bertkreischer Threads: https://www.threads.net/@bertkreischer X: http://www.Twitter.com/bertkreischer Text Me: https://my.community.com/bertkreischer GUMBO AND CHEDDAR CORN BISCUITS Gumbo Ingredients: * 1 stick unsalted butter * 1 cup flour * 3 Tbsp EVOO – Divided * 1 LBS Gulf Shrimp, peeled, deveined and tails removed * 1 LBS jumbo lump crab, picked clean * 7 oz. Andouille sausage * 1 cup frozen okra, thawed * 8 oz can of petite diced tomatoes * 5 cups fish broth * ¼ dry white wine * 2 – 12 oz bottles of amber ale * ¾ cup celery, sliced on the bias 1/8” thick * 1 cup green bell pepper, diced * 1 cup sweet onion, diced * 3 Tbsp garlic * 2 large bay leaves * 4 sprigs fresh thyme * 2 TBSP Worcestershire sauce * 2 Tbsp Cajun seasoning * 1 ½ tsp kosher salt * ½ tsp pepper * Green parts of scallion * Parsley * 1 LBS Mussels Steps: 1. Preheat oven to 415 degrees. Evenly distribute flour on parchment paper and bake for 25 minutes. Flour will become a coca color and have a nutty smell. Set aside. 2. Add 2 TBSP of EVOO and stick of butter to pan on med-low heat. Add the flour slowly while quickly whisking to make a roux. Whisk in fish broth 1 slowly mixing very well until there are no flour lumps. 3. Add the ale, tomatoes (juices and all), Worcestershire, Cajun seasoning, salt, pepper, bay leaves, and thyme sprigs. Once this is brought to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 45 minutes. 4. Heat 1 TBSP EVOO, once oil simmers add the sausage and brown on both sides. Add peppers, onions, celery, garlic, and okra. Sauté until vegetables become soft. Add shrimp and white wine then cover and sauté. 5. Steam or boil mussels. Then shuck and put the meat to the side 6. Remove bay leaves and thyme stems from gumbo base. Add shrimp and veggie mixture including any juices to gumbo base. Add crabmeat and mussel meat to the mixture and simmer for an additional 5 minutes. Cheddar Corn Biscuits: * 4 ¼ cups flour * 2 TBS baking powder * 1 tsp ground mustard * ¾ tsp salt * ¾ cup cold butter, cubed * 1 can cream-style corn * 1 ½ cups shredded cheddar cheese * 2 large eggs, lightly beaten * 2 TBS 2% milk Steps: 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Whisk flour, baking powder, mustard, and salt. Cut in butter and mix until coarse crumbs form. Add corn, cheese and eggs. 2. Turn onto a lightly floured surface, kneading for 8-10 minutes. Roll out dough and cut into biscuits. Bake 18-22 minutes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam “Pacman” Jones and his wife, Tish Holmes-Jones, come by the New Orleans kitchen for an impromptu double date with me and LeeAnn. While we're waiting for Warren Sapp to show – I make a gumbo and LeeAnn makes some cheddar corn biscuits. We also get to the bottom of why Pacman was suspended, black vs white strip clubs, and get more than a little contact high. Watch The Pacman Jones Show - Politely Raw here: https://tinyurl.com/PacmanJonesShow Follow Pacman Jones: https://www.instagram.com/realpacman24 Follow Tish Jones: https://www.instagram.com/realmrspacman24 This episode is brought to you by Shopify. Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at https://shopify.com/burning SUBSCRIBE so you never miss a video https://bit.ly/3DC1ICg Stream LUCKY on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/81713944 Double Down Las Vegas March 21 and 22 https://www.axs.com/series/25430/bert-kreischer-artist Register to join us in Tampa, FL (or virtually) for the 2 Bears, 5K on May 4, 2025! https://www.2bears5k.com For upcoming TOUR DATES: http://www.bertbertbert.com/tour For all things BERTY BOY PRODUCTIONS: https://bertyboyproductions.com For MERCH: https://store.bertbertbert.com/ Follow Me! Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/BertKreischer Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/bertkreischer YouTube: http://www.YouTube.com/user/Akreischer TikTok: http://www.TikTok.com/@bertkreischer Threads: https://www.threads.net/@bertkreischer X: http://www.Twitter.com/bertkreischer Text Me: https://my.community.com/bertkreischer GUMBO AND CHEDDAR CORN BISCUITS Gumbo Ingredients: * 1 stick unsalted butter * 1 cup flour * 3 Tbsp EVOO – Divided * 1 LBS Gulf Shrimp, peeled, deveined and tails removed * 1 LBS jumbo lump crab, picked clean * 7 oz. Andouille sausage * 1 cup frozen okra, thawed * 8 oz can of petite diced tomatoes * 5 cups fish broth * ¼ dry white wine * 2 – 12 oz bottles of amber ale * ¾ cup celery, sliced on the bias 1/8” thick * 1 cup green bell pepper, diced * 1 cup sweet onion, diced * 3 Tbsp garlic * 2 large bay leaves * 4 sprigs fresh thyme * 2 TBSP Worcestershire sauce * 2 Tbsp Cajun seasoning * 1 ½ tsp kosher salt * ½ tsp pepper * Green parts of scallion * Parsley * 1 LBS Mussels Steps: 1. Preheat oven to 415 degrees. Evenly distribute flour on parchment paper and bake for 25 minutes. Flour will become a coca color and have a nutty smell. Set aside. 2. Add 2 TBSP of EVOO and stick of butter to pan on med-low heat. Add the flour slowly while quickly whisking to make a roux. Whisk in fish broth 1 slowly mixing very well until there are no flour lumps. 3. Add the ale, tomatoes (juices and all), Worcestershire, Cajun seasoning, salt, pepper, bay leaves, and thyme sprigs. Once this is brought to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 45 minutes. 4. Heat 1 TBSP EVOO, once oil simmers add the sausage and brown on both sides. Add peppers, onions, celery, garlic, and okra. Sauté until vegetables become soft. Add shrimp and white wine then cover and sauté. 5. Steam or boil mussels. Then shuck and put the meat to the side 6. Remove bay leaves and thyme stems from gumbo base. Add shrimp and veggie mixture including any juices to gumbo base. Add crabmeat and mussel meat to the mixture and simmer for an additional 5 minutes. Cheddar Corn Biscuits: * 4 ¼ cups flour * 2 TBS baking powder * 1 tsp ground mustard * ¾ tsp salt * ¾ cup cold butter, cubed * 1 can cream-style corn * 1 ½ cups shredded cheddar cheese * 2 large eggs, lightly beaten * 2 TBS 2% milk Steps: 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Whisk flour, baking powder, mustard, and salt. Cut in butter and mix until coarse crumbs form. Add corn, cheese and eggs. 2. Turn onto a lightly floured surface, kneading for 8-10 minutes. Roll out dough and cut into biscuits. Bake 18-22 minutes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Analysis from Blois Olson on The WCCO Morning New with Vineeta Sawkar

Analysis from Blois Olson on The WCCO Morning New with Vineeta Sawkar

DJ & PK talked about the College Football Playoff format with the SEC and Big Ten wanting wholesale changes to its structure that would benefit those two leagues at the expense of the other conferences in the FBS realm.

Jawad Hussain breaks down how Warner Bros. Discovery's (WBD) new distribution deals will impact the company. He notes that linear TV is already struggling, and they just lost NBA rights, which is a bigger impact to Warner Bros. than Discovery. He also looks at the difficulties of the streaming business, particularly with content in a competitive space. ======== Schwab Network ======== Empowering every investor and trader, every market day. Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribe Download the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185 Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7 Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watch Watch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-explore Watch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/ Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetwork Follow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetwork Follow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/ About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

The race for Minnesota's House of Representatives could well result in an even 67-67 split between parties, with two anticipated recounts. The last — and only time — the house was tied was in 1979. And it was another election with high voter turnout in Minnesota. About 76 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots, according to the state's initial estimates.

This hour, Mike Detillier, Herb Tyler and Lee Ann Herring (Director of recruiting at The Rebel Walk) preview the LSU Tigers vs. Ole Miss, and discuss the conclusion of Alabama vs. South Carolina.

Name: Anna Reading: Lisa Robertson, Cinema of the Present Why did you want to read this? I chose Cinema of the Present because I'd needed to read it aloud to myself to fully experience it - I love books like that. It's a long poem that moves in and around and through its subjects: time, thought, surfaces, structures and language, and many, many, other things. Evenly spaced lines alternate between italic and Roman type: two sets of almost identical sentences, but ordered differently so that they begin to repeat each other as the book progresses.  The process of reading it aloud animates this typographical structure and brings each image fully into being. How did you record yourself? I sat on my bed on a wet Sunday morning, phone propped on my knee. 

PREVIEW: ERIE COUNTY: KEYSTONE STATE: POTUS: Conversation with colleague Salena Zito analyzes the bellwether Erie County that is evenly divided in party registration (advantage Democrats) and has successfully chosen the president for the Obama, Trump, and Biden elections. More tonight. 1890 Erie County PA

We've all heard of spring cleaning, but sometimes summer brings its own special blend of dirt, grime, and stuck energy. If you find yourself feeling unsettled in your space, it may be time for some magical housekeeping! Cleaning our space doesn't have to be drudgery, in fact, intentional housekeeping can be a powerful act of self-care. In this episode, we'll talk about clearing clutter, cleansing space, and raising the vibration of your environment. We'll even explore how sharing and caring for space with others, kids included, can be a magical experience of connection. So tie back your hair, roll up your sleeves, and get ready to banish your clutter and create a truly magical haven.What am I reading?What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, Alison Watts translator Magical Housekeeping by Tess WhitehurstWhat am I listening to on repeat?She's Kerosene by The Interrupters What's for dinner? Detox Harvest SaladFor the Salad:1 thinly sliced sweet potato1 tablespoon of olive oil3 cups of baby spring mix2 cups each of baby spinach and arugula2 cups of chopped kale1 thinly sliced radish1 peeled and thinly sliced red beet2 shaved baby carrots1 shaved small cucumberChopped grapefruit or orange slices 6 to 8 thinly sliced Brussel sprouts½ cup of pomegranate seeds¼ cup of micro greens2 tablespoons of sliced fresh chives½ cup goat cheeseKosher salt and fresh cracked pepper to tasteFor the Vinaigrette:½ small diced shallot1 tablespoon of grainy mustard1 ½ teaspoons of honey½ cup of champagne vinegarJuice of ½ of a lemonSeeds from ½ of a vanilla bean1 cup of olive oil1 tablespoons fresh basilKosher salt and fresh cracked pepper to tasteINSTRUCTIONSPreheat the oven to 425°.Evenly spread the sweet potato slices and Brussels sprouts on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper. Drizzle on the olive oil, salt and pepper and roast in the oven for 30 minutes and cool to room temperature.For the salad: Simply combine all of the ingredients in a large bowl and toss together with salt and pepper.For the vinaigrette: Whisk together all of the ingredients in a medium size bowl until the dressing is combined and emulsified and set aside.https://theinspiredhome.com/articles/winter-harvest-salad/Cleansing Cocktail 1 lemon1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepperStevia or agave nectar to taste2 cups water Instructions: Mix together ingredients. Serve hot or cold. 

On today's episode of the podcast Jair and Mickey Bernier are back to give their unpopular opinions. Timecodes (Episode #79): 0:00 - Intro 0:20 - Skip Intro 0:45 - Should You be FRIENDS with Your EX? 6:20 - Love is Overrated! 10:10 - Taylor Swift STINKS!!! 17:50 - What if Your Date Has GUY Friends? 30:50 - Chain Pizzerias are BETTER than Local?!?! 36:58 - Your Dreams are DUMB!!! 48:33 - Dinner Should NOT be split EVENLY! 55:14 - Women are Allowed to CHEAT but NOT MEN!!! 01:01:32 - Outro Follow Jair Bernier Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jairbernier/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@berniemadellz Follow Mickey Bernier Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slickmickdarula TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bigslickenergy Follow Johnny Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnrondi TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@johnnyrondi #podcast #johnrondi

Evenly matched John in Hereford goes up against Steven from Sutton Coldfield.

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Dave Hyde from the South Florida Sun Sentinel joins Danny and Omar as they talk about the Eastern Conference finals between the Florida Panthers vs New York Rangers that stars Wednesday night. They also talk about the Dolphins OTA's and so much more 

Today's guest is the one and only Jeff Booth, an author, technology entrepreneur and founding partner of ego death capital - a Bitcoin venture capital fund focused on investing in bitcoin layer 3 projects. This was an eye-opening discussion and I learnt a lot from the conversation including how Jeff sees the world, the importance of Bitcoin and where ultimately all of this is going in the future. I left feeling incredibly inspired and I hope you find as much value in the conversation as I did. Timestamps: 00:00 - Where his temperament comes from 07:04 - Why "fix the money fix the world" is true 16:27 - AI & Robotics & BTC 22:49 - Building bitcoin rails of the future 30:08 - I should run a node 37:14 - What's his most controversial Bitcoin view? 40:25 - Career path for techie 18 year old 42:33 - Thoughts on Saylor's Digital ID solution 47:02 - Key drivers for next 3-5yrs 49:53 - Will he be at Bitcoin Alive 2025? For more commentary on the world of Bitcoin and what makes it different to crypto, follow me on X at @Dale21M or the show at @whybitcoinshow, or visit www.thewhybitcoinshow.com for more episodes. Thanks to Jeff for coming on the show – you can follow his work on X at @@JeffBooth, NOSTR at npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe or his website at https://www.jeffbooth.ca/. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whybitcoinshow/message

Taylor Swift is officially a billionaire as Forbes shares its new list of the world's wealthiest people. Should billionaire wealth be distributed more evenly? We get reaction from Daisy Pearson, Campaigner for Global Justice Now.

Do you feel overwhelmed with doing everything at home/for the kids and wish your husband or partner would help out around the house more? Or maybe you have a partner wanting to help but don't know where to begin dividing household chores.  Tune in for practical tips you can begin to apply to your life RIGHT NOW and resources to finally get more support around the home so you can find more time to care for yourself as a mother. Because we all deserve a lil help (and a break). In this episode, I'm going to give you 3 actionable tips - including the very practice I use in my own home for fair labor division. I'll leave you with 3 resources to continue your journey to equity, I'll introduce you to a new community to join for additional support, and I've even included a snippet from an upcoming special guest on this very topic.  

After almost a decade, is winter finally here in Southeast Asia?   Join us in our latest podcast episode featuring special guests Dimitry Levit and Boon Ping Chua (aka BP), partners from Cento Ventures, each with over a decade of experience in venture capital, particularly in Southeast Asia.   Cento Ventures recently unveiled their Southeast Asia tech investment 2023 H1 report, and we have invited Dmitry and Bp to share further insights into their perspectives on investment in the region.   Tune in as we ask the experts:  Is tech & VC in Southeast Asia game over? Why do we even bother with Southeast Asia anyway? Why is it still exciting? How do they see VCs in the region deploying money in 2024? Featured materials:   Southeast Asia Tech Investment – 1H 2023, Cento Ventures 2023年上半年东南亚风险投资报告, Momentum Works  Our investment in Doxa: Unlocking new growth within the supply chain finance, Cento ventures  

This week's edition of The Brightest Conversation in Hamilton Radio features the City's response to the ransomware attack, if it's beneficial to have a city council who's evenly split on certain topics, the amazing comedians who've come out of Hamilton, people's desire to visit downtown and more. Guest: Jason Farr, Host of Hammer Down with Jay & Mike and former Hamilton City Councillor

Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we look to the year ahead (well, the 10 months ahead) and predict what will happen in the tech industry and the world in 2024. 2024’s predictions: [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:49] Jeremy: Sundar Pichai will not be CEO by end of 2024 [00:06:55] Jeremy: […]

The Denver Nuggets don't seem to be too concerned about getting the #1 seed in the Western Conference. In that spirit, Jeff talks about how the Nuggets could maintain winning without burning out the starters. It begins with evenly staggering the starters with the bench and taking advantage of the schedule. Enjoy the show!

Mike Smith talks about the importance of locker room culture year in and year out in the NFL, the matchup between the 49ers and Chiefs in the Super Bowl, the biggest reason beyond Patrick Mahomes that Kansas City can win this game, whether Brock Purdy is getting enough credit and more.

Candle scents, Clorox wipes and skinny ties make up Crazy Lines!

Hour 2- Bay Area's Damon Bruce talks evenly matched 49ers and Lions, Marty's NFL notes, Jason Kelce recounts meetings Taylor Swift, texts.

Spending crazy amounts of money to prove a point?! Is it really worth it?

Welcome to a Wide World of Sports update. A snapshot of the latest sport stories from the 9News team including: Boxing Day test evenly poised after day one Retirements aplenty in the Sydney to Hobart NBL's Christmas program declared a success The biggest sport stories in less than 5 minutes delivered twice a day, with reports from the 9News team across Australia and overseas. Subscribe now to make it part of your daily news diet.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After 39 years, LIVE UNDEAD may still be one of the finest recorded moments in SLAYER's budding thrash legacy, capturing a “kinda live” re-recording of the best parts of their hugely successful Metal Blade debut (SHOW NO MERCY) and their follow-up EP (HAUNTING THE CHAPEL) in a room full of  rowdy, surly, and occasionally unruly, die-hard SLAYER fans with the objective of capturing the “live” performance & energy of a band forged & tempered by dates on the road with an improved sound and just the slightest tweak of production sorcery.   It's time to uncover “the biggest scam on earth” and gear up for some “hijinks and shenanigans” as we ponder the question “does the upstairs match the downstairs?” and prepare to embrace “all the veins” of our brand new, exclusive “social media platform”. Get ready to “weedly-woo” and discover greeting cards perfect for “wordingsmiths” struggling to write “the perfect note”, grab “the last splash”, try “not to be a Taintler” and JOIN US as we get “a little dark” and discuss the timeless sonic magic that mimics a concert held in a dungeon foyer graced with hellscape decor as we take on SLAYER: LIVE UNDEAD.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on the iTunes/Apple Podcasts - Spotify or your favorite Podcast app Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your Podcasts. Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - Twitter Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com   Can't be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast   SLAYER on the Interwebs: https://www.slayer.net    Show Notes: (00:01): “That's fucking ridiculous…” / #thelastsplash #dangole #thirdshowenergy / “Time to get our tits hard and out there…” / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised ***/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / “A lot of fucks…”/ #hugewhiteclaw #monster #tentaclepower / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #CreatureComfortBrewing #AthensGeorgia #Athena #daydrinkingbeer (“Gently tart…”) / #theverdict / “It's more than slightly tart…”/ “He's not getting the finger…”/ #insuranceASMR / “There's a middle company…”/ #supershit #waterbutt / “That's not for you guys…that's for them.” / “I'm not gonna stain it, dude…”/ “I've never used a sock…”/ #crispysocks / “We can tie anything into metal…”/ “You can tie anything back to #ACDC …”   (10:42): “Do they know you play bass now?” / “It's a major demotion…”/ #beardeddude / #itsmarked / “All the veins…”/ #LMAO / “Just wait…you're gonna like this…”/ #hijinks #shenanigans #antirelaxers / “This is gonna be a shawty…” / METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: SLAYER – LIVE UNDEAD / “This is the #Slayer equivalent of #TypeONegative #OriginOfTheFeces …” / A re-recording of the best parts of Show No Mercy & Haunting The Chapel / ***Which did you hear first? This, or Show No Mercy? ***/ #kamalaASMR (“She allegedly still sucks…at wordsmithing.”) / #greetingcardsASMR / “That's dark…it's a little dark…”/ #exhausting #offputting #irresponsible (“We're just saying…listen to #LiveUndead …”) / “Willard said it, dude…”/ “They don't look like they sound…”/ #noncompeteclauseASMR / “You're gonna pay me to do nothing?”    (21:26): BLACK MAGIC (Listen to that audience…) / “I think it's tuned down even lower…”/ “You've gotta get up to the scream…”/ #liveinthestudio #rowdy #unruly #surly / “I don't know if I should tell you…”/ “All you fuckheads…” / DIE BY THE SWORD (“It could be buckets…”) / “They got the songs tighter…and they got rid of the 80's echo…”/ “It still has that ultra creepy factor…” / “This is for all the little cunts that like to spread their legs in the night…” / #laygz CAPTOR OF SIN    (29:24): “If that's the case, the antichrist must be a fucking idiot…”/ THE ANTICHRIST / “A little faster…”/ “Evenly…like boobs…”/ “That's not natural, man…”/ ***Does the downstairs match the upstairs? ***/ #featherduster / EVIL HAS NO BOUNDARIES (“it's veggie…veggie good.”) / The guitar solos are even more aggressive…/ “What's that?” / #widdlywoo (“It's a technical guitar term…”) / “Not a lotta banter on this one…” / SHOW NO MERCY (“Slay-yer, Slay-yer, Slay-yer…”) #gangvocals / “Here comes my favorite…” / “This is for #OldBridge militia…” / “If you have to say ‘not to be a dick' before you say something…” / AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR (“That's more like the #ReignInBlood version…”)   (41:26): “Woe to you…”/ #bonustrack CHEMICAL WARFARE (from Haunting The Chapel) / “The vocals are clearer…” / “Y'all just wanna go through Reign In Blood again?” / #mentaldiarrhea vs #mentalconstipation (“Wait, taint knowledge?”) #retaint / “I just thought of a hateful joke…”/ #justkidding (“He said taint…I had to go there.”) / ***You can GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182 OR EMAIL US AT metalnerdery@gmail.com or HIT US UP ON #INSTAGRAM AND #FACEBOOK at #METALNERDERYPODCAST *** / #whateverthefuckingfuckdotcom / “At least we'll be first…” / ***FEEL FREE TO GO AND PURCHANDISE SOME METAL NERDERY PODCAST MERCHANDISE AT metalnerdery.com/merch ***/ #weedlywoos / “I couldn't afford MTV when I was a kid…” / #powerhour / “I used to think #BillyIdol was metal…”/ #premetaldjunts / “Elvis didn't really do a snarl…”/ #GenerationX / The mystery of solo artists that emerged from other bands/ “We get old, we get fat, and then we die…”/ “59 ½?” / #Middlesex / #middlefuck / “That sounds like a made-up name…” / #dorking / “Who else can we piss off?” / #fuckbagASMR / The power of persuasion in marketing / “How long has that dartboard been there?” / ***THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR THIS EPISODE OF METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** / #untilthenext #bolth #alltheslayer / #outroreel   

Mike D talks about the struggle for couples', families each year trying to split up time for the holiday gatherings.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you ever feel stuck in an internal battle between right and wrong? There is a real struggle going on in the spiritual world of your life. The enemy, the adversary of your soul wants to trap you, destroy you, and keep you from God. But God is always drawing us to Himself—toward life, truth, freedom, and flourishing. But you may be wondering…if this is a spiritual battle, who's going to win? In Luke 10, Jesus told His disciples… “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning! Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy… The Bible tells us that our enemy, Satan, is an exiled angel. He has influence here, but he is no match for God! We have the ultimate victory through Jesus Christ. Don't let the adversary lie to you and convince you otherwise. radio.hopewithgod.com

Emma and her girlfriends do a girls trip every year, but there is a recurring issue she wants some advice on how to handle…

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It's the biggest weekend in the Gaelic Football Calendar as Kerry look to retain their title when they take on the old enemy, Dublin in the All-Ireland Football Final. Former Kerry football captain, Kieran O'Leary and former Dublin Footballer and ambassador for BoyleSports Diarmuid Connolly...

Ollie Pope, Ben Duckett and Joe Root all gifted their wickets to Australia's telegraphed short-ball plan, Duckett falling for 98 and missing out on a maiden Ashes hundred. The three wickets fell for 34 runs before Harry Brook, who had several near misses in his 45, and captain Ben Stokes, with a calm 17 from 57 balls, took England to 278-4, 138 behind. The carelessness of England's batting was compounded by the fact key Australia spinner Nathan Lyon was off the field with a calf injury that will be assessed overnight. Steve Smith earlier completed his 32nd Test hundred before being dismissed for 110 by Josh Tongue. That was part of an Australia collapse of five wickets for 65 runs on Thursday morning, with Tongue and Ollie Robinson finishing with three wickets apiece.

On Portland Bill. Dorset. We climb down jagged rocks. Naturally formed steps, waist deep, towards the water. Evenly uneven. Like narrow walkways. Some puddles along. Sea spray or resting rain? Now crouched down, she's peering silently into one of the puddles. Look, she says, tiny creatures. They're just speckles, swimming.  Rumbling waves roll in from open sea. Break against the sheer rock. Fifteen feet beneath us, deep gurgles. An underwater space, I say, can you hear it? Exposed, then sunk, then exposed again. Can you hear, the way the water seems to bend the air? We listen. Like plucking the opening of a wine bottle, with a wet thumb. Sort of, she says. Is this a good place? She already knows it is. It's where she wanted us to come. Perfect, I say, swinging round the rucksack to unpack the kit.  Away up the rock like a mountain goat and she's gone, semi vertically, back up to the path. Now, sitting alone, with the mics, hardly breathing, still as a statue. Almost at the precipitous edge of the cave mouth. Me and the mics, listening. Cave below to the right. Wild sea to the left, it's main power a few hundred yards out. Such still listening, makes me daydream. Eyes shut. Imagining I'm inside the sea cave. The waves rolling towards me. Breaking. Fizzing. Slooshing into craggy pools. Making reflections. In light, and in sound.

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This week we sit down with Matt Conte, Co-Founder of Outbound Lighting. Matt discusses the origin story of the business and details the benefits of Outbound's approach to lighting (hint: it has its origins in the automotive world). Outbound Lighting Support the Podcast Join The Ridership  Automated Transcription, please excuse the typos: Outbound Lighting [00:00:00] Craig Dalton: Hello, and welcome to the gravel ride podcast, where we go deep on the sport of gravel cycling through in-depth interviews with product designers, event organizers and athletes. Who are pioneering the sport I'm your host, Craig Dalton, a lifelong cyclist who discovered gravel cycling back in 2016 and made all the mistakes you don't need to make. I approach each episode as a beginner down, unlock all the knowledge you need to become a great gravel cyclist. This week on the show, we welcome Matt Conti, one of the founders of outbound lighting. You may remember outbound from a number of years ago when they originally launched the company via Kickstarter project. I, for one, pay a lot of attention to Kickstarter cycling projects. For some reason, I'm a sucker for them, and I was sort of curious, you know, with so many industry stalwarts in the lighting business, how this company was gonna make a mark. Well, they successfully funded the campaign and have successfully built a. Manufacturing in the United States, which is absolutely amazing. But what was equally amazing was Matt's description of the technology that he applied to the bicycle lighting industry. He came from automotive lighting and had a lot of, advanced engineering skills specific to how to light the world in front of you at night. And it was fascinating to just hear his take on the existing bicycle light in. Further how he evolved the very specific lighting options that outbound uses and offers customers. Today I've been using their helmet mounted light as well as their bar mounted light and definitely appreciate a number of things about the design that Matt will get into you for you during this episode. So I hope you enjoy it. And just a quick note, I apologize. A little bit of sporadic release of episodes these days. I've been traveling and had a ton on my plate, and it's been a real struggle to get to the editing and everything else involved in the podcast, so I appreciate your patience. There certainly will be another couple weeks towards the end of the year where I take off just to decompress, but look forward to getting many, many more great episodes out the door to you in the coming year. With that said, let's jump right into my conversation with Matt. Matt, welcome to the show. [00:02:16] Matt Conte: Hey, glad pleasure to be here. I'm [00:02:19] Craig Dalton: excited to dig in and learn a little bit more about outbound lighting. Why don't we start by just letting the listeners know where you are in the world, and then let's talk about what led to you starting outbound light lighting in the first place. [00:02:32] Matt Conte: Yeah, so we are located in just north of Chicago, Illinois in Skokie, just kind of a middle suburb and stuff. And then we got Tom, my co-owner. He's out in Olympia, Washington. Kind of the Mecca Mountain biking out there for him. Couldn't convince him to move to the city, unfortunately, but yeah, so we are, we got our headquarters here. It's where we design, assemble, ship, every bike light that we make. And yeah, I guess from like far as what got us to start this company like you sort of mentions that kind of interestingly, like I'm not that kind of guy who. Hardcore biker who saw an opportunity to make something. I came from the automotive lighting ex world. Used to design l e d headlights, off road lights stuff like that, like Baja trucks and things like that. And I was really into rally car racing where you're on gravel roads, slinging cars, and a hundred miles an hour at night through the woods to blast. But at the time I was kind of looking to how. Basically branch out and take my experience from developing lighting products to something else. I just kind of wanted to do my own thing. And so I looked at experimental aircraft. I looked at exterior architectural lighting and all that kind of stuff. And wasn't until a friend of mine posted on Facebook basically a selfie of him writing at night Asia being like, Oh yeah, I heard night riding. And I was like, Huh, that's. You got a couple headlights on your bike, like what is that? Like, what are you using? And oh, I got the night rider, 1800 pros, the best light out there, all that kind of stuff. And I looked it up and it was like 350 bucks and I was like, it's a flashlight. And talked to him for a bit, kind of like, Hey, can I come over and check this thing out? Kind of seems like this is possibly an opportunity to take what we, what I've done in the automotive space and bring it to bikes. And so yeah, he took me out on a ride and I enjoyed it. Had a lot of fun and kind of was like, Yeah, I could definitely do way better than this. And from there I designed a prototype gave it to him. He liked it, loved it. Ran a Kickstarter campaign, was able to wait enough money to pay for the initial tool in the product, and bought a bing, bought a boom. Five years later. Here we are and we've now got three different products. We've gone through a couple iterations of stuff and yeah, now the goal is basically just continue to build the best bike lights that we can using all of the experience that I used to have from the automotive sector. Interesting. [00:04:50] Craig Dalton: So that was, that goes back to, was it 2017 for that original Kickstarter [00:04:54] Matt Conte: project? Yeah, just about I think I was starting to kick the idea around like 2016 or so. And then, They drew out some sketches, made some models pro, pretty printed a bunch of stuff, and I was doing this all like after hours from my normal job. Kind of trying to keep those two things completely separate. And yeah, so it was about a six months, eight months of just prototyping, validating, doing a bunch of stuff until it was like, All right, we've got something that looks production enough. Let's make a Kickstarter campaign and let's see what happens. I kind of use that as sort of that litmus test of either all my friends and family are wrong and it's not really a great product, or we do have something that other people who are outside of our little in sphere of influence actually find useful and want to have and all that kind of stuff. So that was kind of my testing ground just to see if this is what people wanted and turns out enough people wanted it that we were able to get that started and into production and all that kind of. That's [00:05:53] Craig Dalton: such an interesting kind of validating ground for new products Kickstarter. It's, it's got both incredible advantages, but also risks in terms of like getting, getting your fundraising across the finish line, et cetera. [00:06:07] Matt Conte: Yeah, it's certainly not as good as it used to be. Like I feel like Kickstarter usefulness, we were on the tail end of it. Not as ma a lot of people have been burned in the past by products that just never came to market, all that kind of stuff, and. It was kind of a challenge to like advertise and get the word out that this is what we're doing. And it's even harder nowadays. I think Kickstart has sort of pivoted their entire model away from my products to artists and creators and games and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, it's certainly not as, not as good as it used to be but it's definitely one of the best spots to kind of figure. Is this what people want? Yeah. And it's sort of a low cost, low risk kind of method before you go and dump two 50, $60,000 worth of tooling just to find out that you don't have a market, which I'm sure some people have done that, unfortunately, but that's. The way it goes. [00:06:58] Craig Dalton: I do remember when the product came to market on Kickstarter, simply because I sort of follow Kickstarter and certainly bike projects on Kickstarter with a lot of interest. And it had me thinking about the sort of decades of bike lights that I have experienced or have in the garage dating back to when you used to have the battery in your water bottle cage. Attached by a wire to your headlight and if you could get 250 lumens out of that setup, it was sort of miraculous. Yeah. And then I remember the sort of escalation of lumens being the sort of main driver of innovation. Like the, the form factors weren't changing too much. I just kept seeing this escalation of lighting power so much so that you know, when you got up to even north of 500, 600 lumen. You were getting outshined from behind. If the person behind you had a brighter light than you, it created this weird shadow, and it was worse than having your own light on the bike because they were so powerful behind you. And I think we'll get into this a little bit, but they were very sort of flashlight like and very directional in their beams. So it's, it's interesting and I wanna get into it for sure, your form factor and how that evolved. But let's, let's start what, you mentioned that you had a cyclic fr cycling front. You kind of showed you his lights that were state of the art at that moment in time. What did you see in that light that, given your experience in the automotive industry, you felt was, you know, dramatic shortcoming and the thing you could improve upon very easily? [00:08:32] Matt Conte: Yeah, definitely. So the first thing that. I kind of noticed just because a lot of the bike lights were kind of similar to sort of like the cheap off-road lights that I'd see in the automotive side where it was basically just an l e d sitting inside of a reflect bowl. It's kind of your most common, typical. Standard flashlight type of optic. And the problem with that is that gives you one pattern. It's just gonna be a straight up circle. You're gonna have a tight hotpot from where all of the light was bouncing off through a reflector size and concentrating on the middle. And then you're gonna have like a secondary ring of all the spill light coming straight from the l e d. So you end up. A very concentrated hotspot, an outer sort of just dimmer ring, and then a hard, sharp edge around the outside. And that's sort of what creates that sort of tunnel vision effect, like when you're riding quickly with behind one of those kind of lights. Basically we have not done that in the automotive sector since the sixties. We've all been shaped light with lots of, I mean, if you look at any headlight on a car anywhere the ones that are super basic with just a reflective, even like the old hoens, they're all segment reflectors and they're all doing very little things to redirect the light into certain. Because the automotive lighting inject is so heavily regulated. You have lighting targets that you have to hit, you have to get a certain amount of light at zero degrees, zero left and right, and zero degrees up and down. Like it has to be a hundred. I'm thinking off the top of my head, like 200 Ls or something like that, but then off to the left by 15 degrees up, five degrees down, you have to have a certain amount of Candela requirements to legally sell a vehicle. So the D o T and all that kind of stuff have set up basically all these lighting standards for high beam, low beam turn signals, brake lights, every kind of lighting you can think of. It's been standardized for targets, but in the bike lighting world, Especially offroad kind of step, especially in the US It's kind of very interesting how Europe and US are completely segmented. We can get into that later, but in the US there's absolutely no targets. There's no requirements. So the goal there was always just build a brighter looking light. Not always necessarily make it more useful. And I kind of feel like that segment was always so small and niche. Nobody was taking the advanced software packages that we use in the automotive side to bikes because I have personally designed reflectors and stuff for clients and things like that, and it gets expensive really quick. The software package that we use costs 25 to $30,000 a year just to license because it's such a niche automotive specific lighting package. There's only maybe 50 companies in the world that are using it. But it is what lets us redirect and shape light the way it is. And so when I rode with those older night Rider lights, and I, I don't want to call 'em out specifically cuz pretty much every brand is almost the same. That kind of what I noticed that these were all just flashlights. They were the same beam patterns that you would expect. From a flashlight that you're gonna use around your house, walking down the woods and all that kind of stuff. And I saw that opportunity to basically be like, All right, let me sit here as a driver. Not so much a writer, but like, how do I, how would I approach this problem if I was doing this from an automotive perspective? I could, Okay, I'm gonna be my eyesight eyelines here. My lights mounted two and a half feet below me. Six inches in front. Okay. I know that I want to be able to see with a reaction time of 10 seconds while riding at 35 miles an hour, the fastest, like super fast downhill. I know that I need I know that in order to recognize an object, you need three to five looks of light. Okay? If I know I'm doing 35 miles an hour. And I want 10 seconds, I can figure out that distance that I need to have something illuminated with three to five lus and then backtrack that to figure out how much cannella that I need. And that sets my minimum target in the center. And then basically I can then shape the beam pattern so that we hit that minimum target so it feels bright enough. And then we take all the other lumens that we have and kind of spread that around so that we build essentially a wall of light. Which is exactly how we do it in the automotive sector. A lot of fine tuning and figuring out what targets we wanna hit at what beam angles. All right, let's go into our software programs. Let's spend a couple weeks iterating, optimizing, simulating all these different types of beam patterns. Tweaking, reflect your facets individually until we get what we feel is inappropriate beam powdering for that Pacific type of light. Then we can prototype it. Test. Make changes. It's a very iterative process there. But yeah, it was pretty much that first night ride that I had was very eye-opening as far as, yeah, like if this is the best we can do so much better. And there's so much more opportunity to develop good lighting, utilizing the automotive sector and bring it to bikes rather than being just another bike and enthusiast who's putting together a really bright l e. Into an off the shelf reflector and calling it a bike light kind of thing. So, that's kind of how I see like our paths to arriving here being a little bit different than other companies especially in the logging space. But it does seem like a lot of biking companies start from bike and enthusiast, which obviously that makes sense. And so that's kind of how we arrived to that point and got. Yeah, it's super [00:14:12] Craig Dalton: interesting taking it with a kind of first principal's fresh eyes look and taking what you learned in the automotive industry. You know, one of the, the sort of hallmarks of the outbound lighting visual is it's sort of wider. You know, you think of a lot of these lights and they're, you know, essentially akin to a flashlight or circular or just square light right in the center kicking out a lot of lumens. As you just described, the outbound lighting profile is quite a bit wider. What do you do with that extra space? You mentioned how you sort of can really fine tune where you want the, the extra lumens to go to, et cetera. What are you doing across that big visual front plate of lights? [00:14:51] Matt Conte: Yeah, so that's also kind of playing into the whole like physiological way that our eyes respond to light. Our eyes prefer very. Evenly lit spaces as you can kind of imagine, like when you're riding in, driving in a tunnel and you come outta the tunnel and you get that like big flash of brightness, how it takes a little bit for your eyes to like auto expose. I guess like from a camera perspective. The same thing happens when you're riding a night. If you're riding behind a light that's like very bright, the center and has harsh edges, when that light is moving around, like your eyes are constantly trying to balance. This bright object moving around in front of you versus when you have a very wide even beam pattern, it feels a lot more like daylight. And that's kind of like why we feel so comfortable right around in the day because everything is evenly lit from, not only from like where you're trying to look, but also all the ground in front of you from like where you're looking all the way out to the front of your tire. And so that is definitely like one of the biggest challenges. And as far as like developing an optic. Is to set up the, the beam, and again, the, the surfaces on these things have to be so precise. The tooling for them is very expensive, but it's part of like, why it's so good. Basically what we're doing after we set that target hotspot that we want to hit, then like you said, we're taking all that extra lumens and stuff. And then first of all, I'm trying to like make the lighting from the, where you're looking all the way to the front of your. As evenly as even as possible on the ground. So I'm able to basically set up like a sensor plane in my software for brightness and then set up like a driver perspective, or in this case a writer perspective. But since we use an automotive software, we're always using driver. So I set that up and then basically I'm able to like do cross sectional curves and make sure that we don't have any like weird ripples or really. Peaks which you can kind of see if you study a lot of different beam pattern all over the spectrum from like the cheapest lights to the most expensive lights. You'll see, like there's blotchy areas where lights just gets a little bit more concentrated. You might not notice it, but isn't until someone like me points it out kind of thing. But it's a really, really tough job to try and do that. And that's sort of like where I find the value in the software that we. To be so valuable because yeah, once we set like the ground plane to be evenly lit from the front of your tire all the way out you're looking, then that's where I try to expand the width and then more importantly, try to taper the brightness so that it's, you get all this peripheral spill light to decide that never shows up in pictures, never shows up in video because it's just so. That camera sensors can't really pick it up unless you start pull a Photoshop and brightening stuff and all that kind of stuff. But our eyes are incredibly sensitive optical in instruments, so our eyes start to pick this stuff up and then from the very outside corners, I very progressively try to ramp up that brightness to the center so it feels very smooth and progressive. And that's sort of one of those things. . That's why like when you shine one of our lights, like against the garage wall or the back wall, it's not gonna seem as bright compared to some other lights because we spread it out so much. But it is one of those things like once you're on a trail, on a road pitch dark, and you turn on our step and you give your eyes a few minutes to adjust, and it's one of those things that people just never wanna go back to another type of light. And it really is all those little. Details and days of simulating and tweaking and simulating and tweaking, and simulating, tweaking over and over and over that it really pays off. And I'm pretty sure that, I mean, I notice kind of like why our lives have been so well received. It's a, yeah, it's, it's something that no one else has really done before. Because it is a very expensive it of process that if you try to hire that out to somebody, . Like you have to give them the targets. You have to say, I wanted to be this bright, I've got this much light I can do, make it work and that, and I'll give you 10 or $15,000. And that guy's gonna do two days, three days worth of work and be like, Oh, here you go. Versus like us, we're obsessive about it. I've been up till two or three in the morning just simulating, tweaking. Cuz every time I simulate I'm like, All right, I'm gonna let this simulate. I'm gonna go to bed and be. Wait five minutes, like, Oh, but I'm so close. Let me tweak this again. And Right another five minutes, ah, if I just move this another degree to the left, it'll be all right. And then boom, three o'clock in the morning. And my wife's wondering why I'm not in bed yet. It's, it's that kind of obsession with lighting is like, it's why I enjoy what we do. I love what we're doing, making lights and all that kind of stuff. And I think that really shows in the products. And customer. Yeah, [00:19:39] Craig Dalton: there's a lot of, there's a lot of detail we can get into on the lights. So after the Kickstarter project goes off, you've, you've amassed a little bit of capital to presumably pay for some tooling and get some of the basic products off the ground. What was your vision for how you would, you would assemble the product? Where are the components coming from and did that change from the original Kickstarter first version to, to what you guys are doing now? [00:20:02] Matt Conte: Yeah, so. At first, like the previous company I was at before, we did a lot of stuff overseas. Just cause like the tooling's cheap, all that kind of stuff. And so initially, like after we ran the Kickstarter, we raised like 30 grand. I still needed like another 40, so I ended up getting a home equity line of credit against our house at the time. So I was literally betting the house on this working. Thankfully it did but. It was one of those things where I wanted to work with domestic tooling companies and all that kind of stuff. But the problem is, is that you need a lot of scale. So these guys usually don't even wanna like start talking to you until you're doing like 5,000 units, 10,000 units. At the time I needed 500. I just needed enough to get going. So in order to get the company off the ground, we had to go overseas as far as like getting the tooling going because they'll do the tooling cheap and they'll do it with low minimum quantities, cuz all they really care about is the tooling. While domestic suppliers are more for the recurring orders that come in every day or every quarter or whatever. And so we were able to get stuff started and make the initial shipments and all that kind of stuff. And the tooling, all the tooling was done overseas. The PCBs the actual printed circuit boards and the assembly was done still stateside. At the time I was using a company out in Kansas City. We've always kept the electronics state side because that's, that's the part of developing these products. Needs a lot of hands on experience and needs a lot of like quick turn reaction parts will be out of stock and alright, quickly we gotta find another resistor that can drop into this and all that kind of stuff. And that's where you need that good kind of communication lanes which don't always get going overseas, but when it comes to like a rubber strap or just a guy cast piece, like yeah, you can go overseas and do that kind of stuff. My goal was always to try and build the company up to the scale that we could do more domestic manufacturing. And we finally have kind of reached that point where we're building 10,000 EVAs this year, well, I think we did about eight or 10,000 this year. And once you get to about six to eight to 10,000 units per year, that's when domestic manufacturing makes a lot of sense. Not just from, but the tooling's gonna be more expensive. The lead time's a little bit longer, but the per unit cost is gonna be a little bit cheaper. And more importantly, you're gonna save a ton on shipping shipping, tariffs, all that kind of stuff. And so, as well as just being able to quickly react to different changes and things like that. So we now have a fantastic supplier out in Michigan. They, they do automotive components as their bread and butter, but they also like working with small manufacturers like ourself and. , we're able to now utilize a lot more advanced materials. We're using thermally conductive plastics and everything, which I think is an industry first. We're able to get it. It's one of those things, like the quality just gets so much better as you're able to bring things domestically, but you can't do that until you get the scale. And so it's kind of like a chicken before the egg thing where either you're gonna have a ton of money and you can do it right away and just make a big risk, which I couldn't do because we didn't have investors. We didn't have anything. It. Me betting the house against some tooling that I hope works in an industry that I don't have a ton of experience in. But now we've gotten to that point where every single new product that we develop is almost a hun a hundred percent stateside developed. We do all the assembly and manufacturing in-house. I've invested a lot into automation, robotics stuff like that. Mostly because I love playing with them. I'm an engineer and I love programming them and trying to figure out how to make things better, faster, quicker. Not just from lights, but also how we can build things better. So we're able to build 30,000 lights a year, which is one production guy overseeing three or four different robotics systems. Wow. That autonomously dispense grease. They autonomously sold. I've got an order right now for a cobot arm, so we're gonna have like an arm that's picking up pieces, snapping 'em together, checking the torque on all the screws, checking the force to snap those pieces together. Basically, you can turn it on on an optical sensor, make sure that the light output is exactly what it needs to be. If it's not great, kick it off to the side. Someone else will look at it. But for the most part, trying to do everything I can. Basically make this business run as smoothly as possible so that we can just continue to focus on building better products and as well as like the customer service and all that kind of stuff. Cause yeah, for me it's one of those things that as if you build a great product first, everything else becomes easy. If you build a product that just works every time, you don't need a huge customer service department that's handling warranties and all this kind of stuff. Build a product that's just simple to operate. You don't need complex instruction manuals telling you how to turn on the light. Like it's just turns on, it goes and all that kind of stuff. So to me it's kind of one of those things like we'll always spend the extra couple bucks on genuine components and all that kind of stuff automotive grade sealants and plastics so that this stuff just won't break. And if it does break, we just fix it. We just. You know, if it breaks, it's an engineering issue, we'll be able to figure out how to make it not break and we'll be able to work with our suppliers quickly to modify the tool, and three months later we'll have the product with that problem solved. And so our stuff is incredibly iterative. The product that you buy a year from now is probably gonna be very slightly different than what you would get today, just because we're constantly trying to stamp out every little issue that comes up. And so, Yeah. Yeah, I love [00:25:41] Craig Dalton: that. I love that that benefit of us manufacturing and having that tight relationship. So you can take the customer feedback if you're listening and just put it right back into the product. And sometimes it's minor, but it's always a step in the right direction, whether it's for performance, durability, [00:25:57] Matt Conte: what have you. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And it's, yeah, it's one of those things that it sounds easy on paper. It's shocking, like how many companies don't actually do that. Yeah. [00:26:07] Craig Dalton: Listening to customers is surprisingly hard and actually doing something about it, I found. [00:26:12] Matt Conte: Yeah. Yeah. It definitely is. But, you know, let's, [00:26:15] Craig Dalton: let's, let's talk about the, the outbound and lighting lineup as of today. What are the different models? And I'd love to just talk a little bit about the intention of the various [00:26:24] Matt Conte: models. Yeah, yeah. So like, that's sort of another one of those things that makes us unique in this space is, We make a different light for each specific purpose. We're not just making one light at three different power levels or five different power levels. We first, we've got our like bread and butter, which is more for mountain biking. Its so a trail evo that's like a handlebar mounted bike light that's designed to go into handle bars. It's pretty heavy, so it's not gonna fit on your helmet. And it's just an incredibly wide even beam pattern. So that you can be moving your handlebars, you know, 30 degrees to the left and you'll still be able to see where you're going. And then we have our hangover light, which is an ultra lightweight, very slim, low profile helmet light that's designed to go on your helmet can work on the handlebar, but it's not great because it is a narrower spot. Because wherever your head is pointed is probably your eyes are looking. So we can kind of take that beam powder and narrow it down. And still get, have half the lumens, but still the same peak output as I like handlebar light, if not a little bit more. That's so [00:27:28] Craig Dalton: interesting and, and sorry to interrupt Matt, but I, I spent a bunch of time with the, the helmet mounted light. The hangover recently Loved it by the way. And hearing you describe kind of the very purposeful difference, honestly, my entire lighting. I've stuck handlebar mounted lights on my helmet. Yeah, and there was no distinction between the two. It was just like, Okay, great. For the uninitiated night rider, like having a helmet light is important because as you turn your head, as you're going through sweeping corners, A lot of times, certainly with traditional lights, the the light on your bar can disappear. All of a sudden you're going through this arcing turn and you're actually not seeing the trail you're seeing off in the woods. And, you know, you've touched on this in a couple different ways. One, on your handlebar lights you've described how you've tried to purposely widen that, that lighting profile mm-hmm. so that you can turn that 30 degrees and still be in. But the addition of the handle, or sorry, the, the helmet mounted light just gives you that additional ability to kind of look even further. So from by my likes when I'm mountain biking, the ultimate combination is definitely that Evo Plus hangover helmet. Helmet mounted light. [00:28:38] Matt Conte: Yeah, definitely. And that's where those two lights, we also designed to work in concert with each other. So like, the exact same color tempera. Pretty similar being punched strain, so you're not like one light isn't overpowering the other, but it is once you're like looking off down into a hair pan or something like that, that's where it's like you get the brightness of the helmet light. But we make sure that the peripheral spill blends well enough that you're not ending up looking at like two distinct lights. Like it's still feels like an unbroken wall. And so that was like a really important part of the design constraints that we set up when we set the initial lighting targets. Both of these lights was they need to work well together, so, I think it was like 135 degrees off center is like what I aimed for. So basically you're looking your hand, the bars are dead ahead and you're looking like way back behind you. And I still wanted to make sure that there light was blending a little bit so it didn't feel like you saw a black hole basically in between. Yep. Where you're looking and where your hand of eyes are pointing. So it always feels unbroken. Cause as long as you do that, then your eyes are not gonna like. I keep saying like auto exposure, but it's not really the terminology. But basically your eyes aren't trying to adjust for the blackness here and the bright intensity. So as long as it keeps it unbroken. Yeah. Also it's like as you write with it longer, your eye, your pupils start to open up. Cuz they're so used to it, they're not having to contract and expand and contract and expand with the varying brightness levels. As long as it's consistent, you have people who can slowly expand and take in more light. So even though we're working with Lower Lu. Because we wanna have a longer battery life. By just having that unbroken wall of light, it ends up feeling brighter as you get used to it because of the fact that you were, i your eyes are physically opening up more and able to take in more light. Just like when you sit in a room for five minutes in the dark, your eyes start to open up and you can start to see a little bit better. The same thing effect happens with just dim lighting. And all that kind of stuff. And so that's sort of where that philosophy of make sure everything's evenly lit, ultimately ends up helping a lot more as far as like having to like feel a lot brighter, even though the numbers on paper don't seem that impressive. But of course that's one of those things that you can't really, you can't break that down into a one line item on an ad. You can't show that in a picture. You can't show that in video. It's one of. . You just gotta get out there. You gotta ride with it. You gotta try it. And so that's why like word of mouth for us is our biggest yeah. Seller pretty much. Well hopefully [00:31:10] Craig Dalton: this deep dive in the podcast will be a good mechanism for people understanding like the depth of the. Engineering that go into these products and the thoughtfulness that you guys have put in there. Yeah. I think at, before I interrupted you, you were gonna talk about the third lineup, Third light, your lineup. Yeah. [00:31:28] Matt Conte: Yeah. So that's our newest light which is called Detour. It's basically like a road beam headlight. It's designed for gravel riding and road riding. The main difference is being, is that it's, it's basically like a low beam on a car headlight. It's got a cutoff. Where, basically a horizontal line where the light doesn't go above it. So that way you can aim the light up and flat and still be able to see really far down the road where you want to go. Cuz you can put the brightest part of the beam right there, but you're not blinding oncoming traffic. Which is a big deal especially for gravel riders, road riders, or you're approach. Other rider coming towards you, pedestrians and stuff like that. Definitely don't really need it for mountain biking. Cuz a moose doesn't really care if you don't blind him or not. He's still gonna be in the middle of the trail. So, so yeah, that's our newest one. Which again, it's a very specific type of light. It's designed to be a hand of our light, designed to be front and center on your bike. And designed to be aimed in a certain way so that you're not blinding oncoming traffic and stuff. And that's still very wide beam pattern, very progressive lighting from where you're looking all the way out to the front of your tire. I've got side market lights and stuff, so you have better side visibility for traffic or things like that. But yeah, it's just another one of those like. We're not gonna come out with a detour of 1500 or detour 2000 like it's, that's, this is the light. It does around 1200 lumens. You're able to get a lot brighter hotspot because the fact that you, you're not putting half that light in the sky, but to get the cutoff beam pattern so it feels brighter than actually is, you can get good run times and all that kind of stuff. So, Yeah. Cause I was, it's still, [00:33:06] Craig Dalton: it still boggles my mind as someone who started out with a 200 lumen light back then as being like the pinnacle of performance that now you can get 1200 lumens in this incredibly small package. No battery, no external battery. It's all right in there. It's, it's just [00:33:23] Matt Conte: astounding. And you still get an hour and a half, two hours of run time and weighs, was it 135 grams or something? Yeah, and I mean we've got some other designs in play right now that get set even smaller. I'm really, that's sort of like, you know, looking towards the future. Cause you know, like you said, it, it started out with like halogens and car batteries. That was kind of how it started out 20 years ago, 30 years ago. And then IDs bulbs came in and they came out with a little really miniature IDs that again, they did 250, 300 lumens. But they were power sucks. As you waste most of that energy and just heat, like heat coming out of the lamp. But then in around 2005, 2006 is kind of when LEDs became a lot more mainstream. You were able to get them cheap enough that you could build cheap products with. So you saw that explosion, not only the automotive side. Cause that was like when I was really into that, went. The H I d Offroad Lights to Rigid Industries coming out with all their LED D stuff. And the same thing, the bike side. That's like when Night Rider came out, their first I think it was the new or the Lua, their first Lua, like 2005, 2006. Again, 300 lumens. 400 lumens maybe. All that kind of stuff. But then over the last 10 to 15 years, LEDs have gotten, I'd say there's about a five or 10 year stretch where LEDs just every year, just huge leaps. Huge leaps, huge leaps, and then kind of slowed down and stuff. Now the biggest technological leaps in LEDs have basically come from the miniaturization of them. So, And that ultimate that's been driven by the automotive sector, that the automotive sector requires smaller and smaller optics, which means that you need a smaller and smaller source, AKA D L E D. The l e d has to be as tiny as possible so that we can control the rays that are coming, the rays of light coming outta the l e d. So we can control that on a very small optic, and you can put that exactly where you need to. Cause if you put a huge l e. Inside of a tiny optic, you're just gonna get scatter everywhere. It's not gonna be well optimized and all that kind of stuff. So the automotive sector has driven the LEDs to become smaller and smaller and smaller, and they come out like the lumen values don't look impressive on paper. They'll be like, Oh, it's only 300 lumens on this. But that's kind of like why our trail Evo has nine of these LEDs. Cuz you can put these tiny, tiny LEDs into a tiny optic. And still get incredible beam control versus if you try to take like a Cree X H P 3.0 whatever, whatever the biggest l e D is that can do 1300, 2000 lumens, but it's massive. It's like a centimeter wide. You need a ginormous optical reflector to put that into for it to be of any use. Otherwise, you're just scattering light everywhere, uncontrolled. And you see that a lot on a lot of cheap lights. You could tell. They looked at the data sheet, they saw who? 1300 lumens. That looks great. And they're like, Well, let's just, but we gotta fit in this little thing, so let's just taste this l e d, slap it into that. Cool. We got a really bright light. And it's like, Yeah, but it doesn't do anything. Well, it's either extremely concentrated or it's just blown out. Uh um, and so, man, I kind of go off on tangents a lot if you can't tell So, yeah, like the technological jumps, LEDs have kind of slowed down a bunch. And now there's incredibly tiny, incredibly power dense and it's great for us, but there's not, there's not much more that LEDs can do. Like we've kind of reached the final form, I guess you could say. But the next big technological leaf that's gonna be really interesting to jump into is batteries. You know, all these automotive company, again, automotive is leading the, the sector to kind of then drips down into bikes. All of the solid state batteries that every single automotive company is investing into companies like solid power, all that kind of stuff. They're basically promising these batteries that can charge instantly, they can put out huge amounts of power. They won't be as affected by thermals as much. So you can run 'em really cold or really hot and they won't lose a lot of life. And just a lot more power dense. And so to me that's gonna be like the next big generational leap. Not gonna happen next year. It's not gonna happen two years from now, but maybe like five or six years. We hope that we can get, you know, 21 700 cell batteries in a solid state battery for a reasonable price. And that's, These bike flights can either be twice as bright for the same run time, or last twice as long for the same brightness. And that's gonna be, and also incredibly lightweight. Those graphing batteries, I think are like half the weight of a single 21 700 cell. Wow. So that's gonna be, that'd be refreshing. Yeah. And that's gonna be really exciting once those can start coming online. But again, that's probably five years until that becomes more mainstream. They have these technological breakthroughs that they keep promising. Thankfully it's not as vaporware as like hydrogen energy, but we're getting close I feel like. And so a couple [00:38:29] Craig Dalton: nuance things I wanted to point out before we let you go is correct me if I'm wrong, but you can actually charge the light while you're running it. [00:38:37] Matt Conte: Yeah, that's, Yeah. Which of the, [00:38:38] Craig Dalton: It may seem counterintuitive to people that, that doesn't exist across the board, but mm-hmm. , I'd say the vast majority of lights I've ever run. You could not have an external battery pack to kind of top it off if you needed to. [00:38:50] Matt Conte: Yeah. Yeah, pretty much most bike flights, you do have your external battery pack that you have to plug in into, and once you unplug it, it dies. Cause obviously you don't have any power or you plug it in, you can't turn it on because it's just simply charging. Or if you can plug it in and turn it on, it's just gonna be stuck in a low mode because the charging current going into the light isn't enough to like actually power the light. So what we've done knowing that we had a lot of customers who do 24 hour races and all that kind of stuff we do USBC pass through charging where you can basically plug in the light and sort of the way that we can do it is that the. Is being powered off the battery, but we're charging the battery with an external power bank. So you can technically, if you're running like Evo on high with a sort of a low current battery pack, you can technically outrun the battery pack and end up running down. But if you're running like a medium or low, you basically the battery pack charging the battery faster than the LEDs are pulling the power out. So we're not trying to do like a straight through, like the light isn't being powered by the external battery. The external battery package, charging the battery inside the light, which is then being used. So yeah, that was basically just kind of like, as one of those like customer requests, like, Hey, how can we use a cheap Amazon power bank to power my light? Can I do that? And like, Oh yeah, we, we can, I don't see why not. Like you just set up the charging protocols and all that kind of stuff so you could allow that to happen. It gets really complex. Turns out USB stuff is not as easy as it seems. All these like handshakes that have to happen between two different components and it's a real pain in the us But Tom, my co-founder or co-owner out in Seattle, he loves that stuff. So while I'm up at 3:00 AM tweaking beam patterns, he's up at 3:00 AM trying to tweak USB charging protocol. I love it kind of stuff. So yeah, that Love it. Unique features. Yeah. [00:40:47] Craig Dalton: The final detail I wanted to talk about was just the mounting mechanisms that you guys have designed cuz I found them to be very clever and slick and unobtrusive, which is not something I could say about a lot of the mounting mechanisms I've had to endure from other lights. [00:41:00] Matt Conte: Yeah, I mean, you should have seen some of the prototypes that we came up with before we landed on this one. They were large Oakley or Vinicky and not great. But the current one that we use for the Well, for Hangover, we just simply just use what everyone has used for the last 15 years, which is just a standard action camera. I can't officially say GoPro anymore because now they clamp down on that, but it's a GoPro mal. So everyone's used to that. It works great. Low profile. A lot of bikes have, It was built into it, so why not just make sure our helmet light works with that out of the box, which is why Hangover has. Action camera tabs on the back of it. But for Evo and Detour that mounting system was one of those like real hard design challenges because like, like we obviously buy like every single competitor light we can get our hands on. And all of them, they always have at least like one or two good design features. And I'm like, that's a good idea. I'm gonna just take this and put this in mind. But when it came to mounting, I literally could not find anything. I was like, This is great. Cause a lot of the mounting things were, if they were secure, they were really hard to put on. Like, you could not take 'em off with like a pair of thick winter writing thick winter writing gloves. Which for me, that's always been like a design standard. Make sure that we can operate anything on a light with a thick pair of winter writing gloves because most of our customers are ready at night in the. And it sucks to not have to be, not be able to turn on your light or mount it or anything like that. So we went through a lot of iterations trying to figure out how in the world we're gonna mount this light so that it can quickly be taken on and off and all that kind of stuff. Until one of my friends not related at all the bikes or anything, he's a big camera nerd. He like, Hey, you should look at man photos, camera lights, or camera mounts that were the tripod stuff. Super simple. People have used it for literally 40 years. I bought one of them. I'm like, Huh, this is a really good idea. Just a little, It's [00:42:57] Craig Dalton: so interesting that you say that. Now that you say that, I'm like, Oh yeah, that makes sense. I've seen that before and [00:43:02] Matt Conte: that's where I've seen it. Yeah. Yeah. So basically I took the man photo design. I checked photo patents. They all expired in like the late nineties. They patented like in the seventies or 80. And so with basically a free for all you could use it you're not gonna infringe on anything. And basically I took what they did, miniaturized it and tried to make sure that it works so that no matter what, you could have it mounted bird according to light. Disney just gonna fall to the ground. So we put in a little notches and stuff like that to capture it. But for the most part, it's a man foot camera. Designed for bikes or for bike lights. And so all of our lights or all of our handlebar lights have that basically standard n size on the back, a a man photo camera base plate that can slot right into our quick release mount and. Click it in, push it back, closes the plunger torsion spring snaps it shut, and you just push down in the lever to really secure it in place. Little serrated teeth with a big thumb screw that can again, easily be operated when you're wearing a pair of gloves. So you can adjust the beam angle without having to over tighten the amount or anything like that. Yeah, it's one of. The, that mount is on its third iteration. We've already got a fourth one in work right now cause we want to get rid of the, the he screw and all that kind of stuff. So we're gonna try to do like an overcame mechanism and everything. Yeah, it's, I don't know if you ever got to experience the first ones where I did 'em, amount of die cast aluminum and powder coding and ugh, that was one of those hindsight. 2020. I really wish I hadn't done that. But now, last fiber amounts. They work great. The smooth action, all that kind of stuff. It's again, goes back to that whole situation of like, every, let's just iterate. Let's quickly make changes. Don't worry that this cool tool cost five grand. Like we've gotta make the product good. If it's not easy to operate for customers, then no one's gonna like it. Yeah, and all that kinda stuff. So, [00:44:54] Craig Dalton: Awesome. Well, thanks for walking us through the lineup and that backstory. I love, I love hearing your journey. I love, it's sort of admirable to get out there and Kickstarter and put yourself out there on the line. As a former small business owner myself, I, I feel your, I feel that pain of when you mortgaged your house just to get the, the product off the ground and congrats for. Ultimately bringing it back to the US for manufacturing, as you mentioned, so many advantages there, let alone helping the economy, but just advantages that you can continue to roll out better and better performance and take that customer feedback to heart every time it comes through. Yeah, [00:45:30] Matt Conte: yeah, definitely. Yeah, it's always the golds yeah, it's, it makes business sense from a money profit standpoint, and it makes sense just from. The product standpoint, we're able to, and it's, the goal is to just continually advance ourselves further. So like these thermally conducted materials it was something I wanted to use for almost a decade. But we just never had the volume to justify it. Cuz I have to purchase three to 4,000 pounds of this material, just like the minimum order quantity, which is equivalent to like 10,000 units. And when you're starting out, you only have 500 or a thousand for the entire years, like, I can't, I can't justify that. But that's sort of our business goal is like just continually advance and kind of pull away from the competition by integrating these technologies that is not as easy to integrate from the start. Or you need the scale. So, yeah, that's where, yeah, we've got a lot of fun things planned. We've got a long list of things we want to do. We're trying to push into. Bike shops. Next year, like we finally, we've got our manufacturing dial. We've got the robots in place, like we can finally like outpace building from our retail website demand. So now we're kind of trying to expand into bike shops. We're getting like retail, this display developed and all that kind of stuff. And so that's sort of what we're hoping, you know, if anybody shot you listening, you can always go to outbound lighting.com and talk to us, get connected, get you all hooked up and everything. . Yeah. That's where if anybody ideas and stuff like that, always open to listening. If you email us, it's gonna be either come to me, it's gonna come to Tom, like there's literally four people in the company. That's it. And so it's very personable. You're gonna talk to a real person. We don't have any bots running, thankfully. . [00:47:05] Craig Dalton: Right on. Matt, thanks again for the time. I'll make sure everybody knows how to get in touch with you and super informative and congrats. [00:47:12] Matt Conte: Yeah, I appreciate it. It's been great chatting. [00:47:14] Craig Dalton: That's gonna do it for this week's edition of The Gravel Ride podcast. Big thanks to Matt for coming on the show. 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