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In today's Driver Edition, we share a scary moment from a recent road trip, dive into Flying J's move toward electrification, and round up some of the top news from the RV world. From high winds to the latest in sustainable RV tech, it's all here in this action-packed episode! Topics Discussed: Getting Off the […] The post Windy Adventures, EV Charging, and RV News You Need to Know appeared first on Beyond The Wheel. The post Windy Adventures, EV Charging, and RV News You Need to Know appeared first on Beyond The Wheel.
Send us a textClean restrooms. 100+ gas pumps. A beaver logo. Buc-ee's has entered the chat.Though the travel center/convenience store chain - coined the "Disneyland of gas stations" - has been around since 1982, growth has accelerated in recent years, and Buc-ee's mania is here to stay.But what makes Buc-ee's so special? And can it sustain this success? In this segment of Business Breakdowns, Namaan Mian and Jenny Rae Le Roux examine the chain's business model for hints at what is next for Buc-ee's.Can Buc-ee's become the next 7-Eleven or Flying J? You tell us!Business Breakdowns drops on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. Have a company you'd like to see covered? Let us know via text or email.Relevant LinksConnect with Namaan and Jenny Rae on LinkedInBuild your business acumen through our Black Belt case coaching programStrategy Sprint one-week consulting project: learn more and joinMore about Buc-ee'sBuc-ee's websiteBuc-ee's careersConnect With Management Consulted Follow Management Consulted on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok for the latest updates and industry insights. Schedule a free 15min consultation with a member of the Management Consulted team. Join an upcoming live event - case interviews demos, expert panels, and more. Email our team (team@managementconsulted.com) with any questions or feedback.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Ahold Delhaize USA. Kellanova is offering two new snacks at Pilot and Flying J travel centers nationwide. And Walgreens Boots Alliance will lay off 256 workers.
On January 18, 2020, Keeslyn walked into the Flying J truck stop in Resaca, Georgia acting strangely. She entered an employees- only area, still behaving oddly, and one of the workers called the authorities. Keeslyn ditched her backpack in the store and fled the scene, leaving her car in the parking lot. When authorities arrived, Keeslyn was nowhere to be found. A couple of days later, Keeslyn missing an appointment with her probation officer. Her father was notified, and he went in search of his daughter. She was nowhere to be found. Another young man vanished just two days before Keeslyn, from the same truck stop, with his car left next to hers. Coincidence? Or is something nefarious going on in Resaca, Georgia? Most importantly, where is Keeslyn Roberts? Follow us on: Facebook: www.facebook.com/wherearetheypodcast Instagram: @thewherearetheypodcast Email me: Canwefindthem@gmail.com Join our online detective group at Patreon: www.patreon.com/wherearetheypodcast Support our mission: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wherearethey --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wherearetheypodcast/message
SummaryChristopher Volk discussed his experience starting and growing real estate companies that provided a solution by being a landlord rather than a banker, allowing for assumable leases and providing all the capital for the real estate, freeing up equity for business expansion. He emphasized the importance of lowering the cost of capital to make a business more valuable and explained the benefits of choosing a lease over owning a building. The group emphasized the importance of prioritizing the customer and adapting to change.Key Points• Christopher discusses his experience taking his first company public, which owned over a thousand chain restaurant properties, and how they expanded to include other ventures like Flying J truck stops. (12:53)• Christopher Volk talks about his experience starting and growing three real estate companies, each with a different focus and business model (13:49)• When asked why someone would want to own a business but lease the real estate, Christopher explains that owning real estate can come with problems such as lack of long-term financing options and non-assumable loans, which can prevent business growth and flexibility (18:48)• His companies provided a solution by being a landlord rather than a banker, allowing for assumable leases and providing all the capital for the real estate, freeing up equity for business expansion and ultimately creating millionaires. (20:42)• Christopher discusses the cost of capital, which includes the cost of leases, debt, and equity, and how lowering the cost of capital can make a business more valuable (23:45)• Sam asks for a simplified explanation, and Christopher explains that choosing a lease eliminates the need for a down payment and allows for more cash flow to expand the business, while owning a building has opportunity costs and restrictions (24:51)• They emphasize that all businesses are there to solve a problem for a customer, and that the customer should always be the top priority (29:29)• Christopher gives an example of Blockbuster's failure to adapt to changing technology and emphasizes the need to embrace and make change happen for oneself. (49:42)
www.atravelpath.com We were so glad to be able to chat with Kyle and Renee Hanks from Happily Ever Hanks! They shared their inspiring story of how they uprooted their lives to pursue full time travel in order to get the most fulfillment out of life. In this episode you'll learn all about: Getting Out Of Debt Kyle and Renee attribute much of their Freedom to the habits they developed to getting out of debt and not having to constantly pay large bills and debts every month. We learn some actionable steps they took to get themselves out of $230k in debt! How to Seek Fulfillment Tired of the mundane 9-5 work life with only two weeks off out of they year, they wanted to pursue something different. They discussed how the loneliness of the road can be nerve-wracking at times, but it's also proved to be a great source of fulfillment, knowing they are out on their own and getting through everything. They discuss chasing the addiction of finally getting one whole month off from work, and how they turned it into a game so that they could find ways to take even more time off. When Things Go Wrong Kyle and Renee shared a few things that cause them frustrations while they are on the road, and how they have learned to just laugh at times. They make a really good point about how when things go wrong, they have two choices: They can either get upset about it, or stay positive, share a laugh, and get through it. Learn all this and much, much more during this inspiration-filled chat with Happily Ever Hanks! Chapters · 00:00 Introduction · 04:30 What was some of the skepticism you faced when you started out in your RV? · 06:15 How did you balance work and travel when you were travel nursing? · 07:45 How long have you been out of travel nursing for? · 09:30 How were you able to get out of $230k of debt? · 11:45 When did travel become a priority for you? · 12:45 What are the biggest frustrations you face currently while traveling? · 15:45 Saying goodbye to family for the first time. · 16:45 Any mistakes or embarrassing stories you'd like to share? · 21:00 How do you handle it when things go wrong? · 21:30 What do you love most about your RV lifestyle? · 22:45 RV Techs · 23:30 Do you have any advice for someone looking to buy an RV for the first time? · 25:45 How do you get internet while traveling? · 29:15 What does your budget look like while traveling? · 32:30 What is it like traveling with a cat in your RV? · 34:00 What has been your coolest travel experience? · 36:15 What is one thing you need & don't need while traveling? · 38:30 What tools should every RVer have? · 41:00 Using the trucker lanes. · 43:00 Who influenced you to travel? 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We are not experts and the information is not designed to serve as legal, financial, or tax advice. Always do your own research and due diligence before making a decision. Transcript Host: Kyle and Renee, welcome to the Travel Path podcast. Guest: Thank you for having us. Host: So we know you on YouTube as Happily Ever Hanks. You built a very large community with your mission of both educating people in the RV life and inspiring your audience to break free from their comfort zone. Before we start, I do want to give a shout out to Laura, Jason, and Alexis. One episode of our podcast mentioned that they had watched so much of your content that their younger daughter, Alexis, has been inspired to become a travel nurse herself when she grows up. So here we are talking now full circle. But why don't we start by having you guys share a little about yourselves and then letting our audience know what your current travel lifestyle looks like? Guest: Sure. Well, first of all, that's really inspiring to hear. Yeah, that's really cool. That's neat that we're bringing up the younger generation and inspiring them. That's like kind of why we started all this. We first started as your nurses back in Pennsylvania in around 2015. We just got tired of the mundane lifestyle and wanted to explore life on the road a little bit. So we started looking at travel nursing and in 2016, we started applying for our licenses. Actually, in late 2016, we started applying for a California license for our nursing. And from there, we just kind of hit the road. And then we had no really idea where we were going. We went to San Francisco for our first travel assignment and then thereafter is kind of up in the air. But basically, over the time being, I'm sure we'll get more into this later on in the podcast, but around 2019, something there, you'd say we were kind of hit a hiccup with nursing itself and we laid off for a little bit. And then that's what inspired us to start documenting our adventures and the RV lifestyle, sharing all the things. When we worked in the ER, man, how many times we were asked by our coworkers and other patients, they were so fascinated with us living in an RV or like, how does that work? It doesn't make sense. You're not living in a house. You're living in an RV. And yeah, we were just educating. We had people gathered around and we were talking about how they can get into like RVing with travel nursing. Host: So I feel like that's probably maybe we've got the ball rolling for you guys starting your YouTube. Was it everyone asking you questions in your career as travel nurses that kind of got your head scratching? Well, maybe there's a void here we can make start a channel and actually inform a larger audience. Guest: Yeah, pretty much. We just we learned that there's people who are RV and there's travel nursing. And, you know, when you think of an RV or you tend to focus more on people who are retired, so to have these travel nurses who were younger, just so interested, they're like, I've never even heard of this. I never even thought to get an RV. It's just it's like we were teaching others. But, you know, we didn't know it was a thing either until we found it on the Internet. We were just going to do housing, like apartment housing that the travel nurse company gives you until we stumbled upon some article that talked about, hey, you can live in an RV and do this. And we were like, no. And then here we are. Host: Now, the purpose of the podcast is to help people, you know, get started traveling and ultimately reach their travel goals. So I do want to dial it back a little bit on your website. You had mentioned that when you made this transition, you fought some skepticism and then also you were, quote unquote, bucking the trend when you sold your house and went to travel full time. What was some of that skepticism and how are you able to overcome that? Guest: Well, I guess the skepticism was jumping into a different way of life. See, when we were working as nurses back in Pennsylvania before we even started living in an RV, we were kind of just doing the mundane nine to five. And it just like one week flowed into another. And we were having to wait for those two week vacations. You know, you work all year to get those two weeks off. And it's like once you get those two weeks, it's just like, where do we go? What do we do? It seems so condensed into one time frame where we just didn't know we were kind of fumbling around. We're like, why don't we just kind of make a lifestyle out of this? And then through working in the ER, you know, we met a lot of other travelers there and it just blew my mind immediately that nurses could bounce around the country and live this different lifestyle filling in the gaps within schedules across the country, you know, other hospitals. So, you know, I think that's a really good question. So that's kind of like what inspired us, you know, to kind of get there. Is there anything I'm missing? Guest: No, I pretty much we just also the trend of like you buy a house, you get married, you have kids, it's like life teaches you to follow these certain rules. We were like, what if we sell the house now and just kind of do whatever, travel around the country. So yeah, yeah, get out of debt, lose the mortgage and travel the country. Host: You mentioned that mundane, like the two week vacation, right? That's kind of the ritual, the path that most people follow. And on our last episode with Wanda with Katie, she had mentioned that she had many nurses or many friends in the travel nurse field where what they kind of do is they'll get to a destination, an assignment. They'll be working like crazy hours for however many weeks. And then they'll take like an extended break, whether it's a couple of weeks or a month in that destination where they are and just explore it. Is that how you pretty much lived it when you were travel nursing? Guest: That's exactly how we lived it. Yes. So we got a little taste of that. A typical travel nurse contract lasts about 13 weeks. And from that point, when you complete it, you can either ask to resign at the hospital if they still need you or you can move along to a different state, different hospital. It's also flexible. So we got a little taste of that when we finished our contract. We're like, well, now what? We have this money. We saved up a little money on the side and, you know, we could go work another job immediately and start making more money. Take a little time off, go explore some surrounding areas. And that's kind of what led us into becoming debt free. But yeah, just so much like just work your boat off for 13 weeks and then take like a month or two off and actually travel. Guest: It was such a liberating feeling to be debt-free and have the flexibility to choose how we wanted to spend our time and money. Host: Do you find it easier or harder, the fact that both of you are travel nurses? Guest: Oh, easier, much easier. Yeah. Yeah. When we went to San Francisco, oh, my goodness. We were just... I'm not a city person. So I was kind of thrown in the middle of everything. It was very busy, very hectic, and just fast-paced. So having each other to rely on in the new location was kind of nice to kind of get through some of those hiccups. Host: How long have you been out of the travel nurse space for? Guest: Oh, man, it's... we took an assignment in 2019, and then that's when they were saying they couldn't resign us. So it's been... it's been a minute for sure. And then, you know, when we got laid off, you know, at that temporary time, we had tried to resign with the hospital, like, you know, we can't afford to rehire you guys. This is right during all the pandemic just to be completely transparent. You know, the hospital took such a hit with the money, you know, depleted and they kind of afford travel nurses. So they really had to hunker down with the budgeting and everything. So luckily we had set up enough of a almost like a safety net for ourselves to take some time off. And, you know, we were always wondering, well, this may be the opportunity to share and document all of our experiences with others. Yeah. And we didn't expect that it was going to replace travel nursing. Host: I'm sure the travel nurse space has changed a little bit since you guys exited that area. And I'm just realizing now this is like the purpose. This is like a perfect follow up from our previous episode with Courtney and Dakota, who are actually just getting into the travel nurse space. So the episode that came out actually hasn't been released yet, but it's going to get released before this one. So if you listen to this now and you're looking to get into it, they provide details on actually like modern-day, currently what it's like transitioning into that. So that's perfect. Transitioning a little bit, I want to talk a little bit about how you went out of debt, because that's a... I forget the statistic I read, but I know there's a lot of consumer debt in this country. And you had a video a while back on how you went from two hundred and thirty thousand dollars in debt to financial independence. I want to know what your definition of F.I. is because I know that's been thrown around a lot with financial freedom. But how are you able to get or to get out of debt, essentially? Guest: Well, getting out of debt was just mostly, I would say... I don't know what would what would the term be that I'm looking for? It's kind of just mostly discipline and just having a goal and following through with it. So we broke it down in as simple pieces as we could. We usually referred to Dave Ramsey at the time. We had utilized a lot of his teachings. I don't know how familiar most people are with Dave Ramsey out there. But it's a really simple way of just setting aside like baby steps of like setting some money over here for an emergency fund and then tackling all your lowest debt and then going forward from there to your bigger, bigger debts. So financial independence was a huge thing because, as I said before, once we got that taste of finishing a contract and then having that time off, well, we kind of became addicted to having more of that time off. Freedom. That freedom was like, oh, my gosh, I want more of that. A month was like only a month now that we get to travel. We want two months, three months. And so it became a game to us, to be honest. It turned into a game. We just went all in over time. All of our pennies and dollars went to paying off every single piece of debt that we had. So that to actually qualify, what would the financial independence? It was like the freedom side of it. That's what it meant to us is like not being tied to a loan or like having to work because you have to pay all these bills. It was like, what if we didn't have to pay all these bills and we can kind of just... you can live frugally if you want to not have to work as much or you can work your butt off and save. It's just like you had freedom to do whatever you want with your money. Host: Yes, it's like once you learn it's that delayed gratification. Yeah, it's a sacrifice. You're giving up certain things now. But once you realize what you're able to do with that extra money and that extra time in the future, that's when it becomes, like you said, like a game and it gets addicting. And then you just try and find every nook and cranny you can start saving and and growing from there. Guest: Absolutely. Yeah. Host: Twenty seventeen is when we started travel nursing, right? And twenty nineteen is when we decided to start going full time. At what point did travel become the driving factor in that? Guest: So, not the answer for Renee, but for most of my growing up, we traveled around as a family, maybe a couple of hours away here and there. We had done some flights across the country to go see some places, but nothing crazy. So jumping into the lifestyle was very new for us because we knew we would have to drive all the way from Pennsylvania to California for our first travel nursing assignment. And there is a lot of land in between to sightsee and just explore and take it all in. So as we proceeded from there, I think it just became a little bit of an addiction over time of like, wow, you know, we only do have one life to live. We live it responsibly. You know, we're not out here discriminating YOLO and blowing money like crazy and doing whatever. We're actually trying to be really responsible people, but get the most fulfillment out of this life as we can. So to kind of answer your question, I just say it gradually increased over time to where we are now of, you know, eventually one day, hopefully we can do some international travel. Yeah, it's a lot to see out there. Lots to see. Host: Fast forward to where you are on the road now currently. What are some of the biggest frustrations you currently face traveling? Guest: Probably the lack of consistency. You know, you might be in one area and the cell service is great and the resources are close by. But the campground is iffy or I don't know the weather is not good. So it's like and then you go to another place and the Internet's bad and then you go to this place. And the grocery store is like 20 miles away. So it's like you can never have consistency, but that's OK, because the best part is that you could just pick up and move and go somewhere new all the time. Guest: Yeah, and it may seem just to piggyback on that, it may sound kind of like... I don't know where we're coming from. You know, if you're living at home, you're like, that doesn't really make sense. But try to uproot your life and all the routines that you have, the typical grocery store, you know, where everything's laid out all the time. You know, your favorite gas station that has all the best prices, friends, your family, everything you can rely on for. You know, you're kind of out here by yourself and it's a little nerve-racking. But in that, you kind of find some fulfillment within your life that you're pushing yourself, you're exploring new places, and it's just fun to be immersed in that kind of lifestyle. Guest: Going to a grocery store and everything's backwards. Yeah. Walmart. Hey, got to learn it. We'll tackle it together. It's like every time stop and shop, they rearrange everything, except for you guys. It's every time you go to a grocery store. Yeah, it's like there's no learning the grocery store. Like you're just you're always walking around like you're clueless everywhere you go. And that's just the way it is. Roll with it. Host: Do you guys ask for help in the grocery store? It's the first thing I do. Hope will never. Guest: Yeah, I don't know. I thought she would be more, but I'm just like you, Tyler. I ask for a couple of times. She's like, where is this? And I immediately just find somebody. I'm like, listen, we don't want to. What's... I don't want to be defeated. It's like if I can't find the eggs, like what she likes, you know, can I even get by in life? It's like a personal scavenger hunt every time. Host: Yeah, yeah, exactly. I wonder if that's like a man and a woman like personality thing, because it's the first thing I do when I go to a store, even if I know where it is, I'm still asking. But I know with you, like I just ask somebody, no. OK, fine. OK. Guest: That's because we want to still look at everything. We want to meander around the store. We don't just want to get that one item. I do want to say that the thing I always forget about. I don't want to knock our friends and family like that. That's a big part of travel. That's hard is, you know, he has family in California. I have family in Pennsylvania. So they're spread out and they're all up north. So it doesn't make it like a snowbird situation where we could be in the south and visiting one of them. So that's another inconsistency or an issue with traveling that we don't like. Yeah. Yeah. Host: So yeah, family. So that's one thing you probably expected, right? Obviously, if you're traveling full time, you're going to be saying goodbye to your family. Was that harder or easier than you expected it to be? Guest: The first time, the very first time we said bye. Guest: Yeah. Yeah. That was hard. That was hard. It was difficult. I mean, like Renee said, you know, with us having family on the other side of the country, it was like saying bye to them and then being like, oh, I'm excited to see the other side of the family. But it's still kind of it hurts like that, that first time, because it's like, you know, your your mind is telling you, oh, my gosh, this is forever. But in reality, it's it's not it's just it's just a new step in life. That's what it is. Still hurts because we'll go back and visit for a month or two and then you say goodbye again. So it's like you're constantly reliving the like, well, you know, I'll see you next time. And it's always you're always trying to delay it because you don't want to say goodbye. But you think we'll be back. Host: Like I said, you're mobile, so you can always pick up and go whenever you want to. Do you have any — and I know you guys do because I've watched your videos — but do you have any embarrassing stories or mistakes you want to share that could potentially save a future listener some trouble? Guest: To keep it as short as possible, we were in Mississippi driving and we need to pull over for some fuel at a Flying J at the time. Now, Flying J is a truck stop out on the road that we had used quite frequently. And why we liked it so much is they also had these RV fuel lanes there. So if you can imagine where normal cars would fuel up, then there's RV fuel lanes. And then on top of that, they have the other section for all the truck drivers and 18-wheelers, so we pulled into the RV fuel lane. But we have been so used to filling up in the trucker lanes where everything was diesel over there. If you don't know where I'm going with this, eventually I got out of the truck, started pumping fuel, but quickly realized I pumped about a gallon, maybe two, two gallons of diesel and two or, excuse me, of gas into my diesel truck. So I stopped, panicked, received his panic. We likely didn't do anything. Didn't start the truck, but I I had no idea what to do. I didn't know what happened if I would fill it up with diesel and start running it. I just said, let's not do anything. We'll call for a tow truck and see what happens. So we end up calling for a tow truck, having to get the truck towed all the way to like a body shop or somewhere that can deal with dropping the tank, cleaning out the fuel injectors, everything. Meanwhile, our RV, our travel trailer sat there blocking the entire fuel lanes for three hours straight. Guest: Yeah, I think Flying J didn't care. Yeah, they're like, I just let it sit there. Guest: So we forgot we lock it up or anything. Guest: I forgot. Guest: So at the time we traveled with two vehicles. Guest: Yeah. So I stayed back and just parked the car. Guest: Oh, that's right. In front of it and just blocked it. Guest: We need to see the trailer. Host: Yeah, on guard. Guest: So just be careful. The reason, just one last thing I want to add to that story, the black handles is what got me. So when you're over on the 18-wheeler side, it could be green handles for diesel or it could be black handles for diesel. But unfortunately, in the RV fuel lanes, it was only green for diesel. And I had picked up a black handle. Host: Well, fortunately, you caught it and then you didn't end up starting it. Do you know what would have happened if I know it's only a gallon or so you said, but I can't imagine that being good. Guest: My buddy said something with the combustion of like gasoline. They are nerding out on this stuff, but they said somehow the combustion rate of gasoline basically could really like do some internal damage on a diesel truck engine so that he made the best. A lot of people out there had commented on the video to like, hey, I've done that before, filled it up the rest of the way with diesel. I was fine, but I like to look at it with it being a truck that was at the time paid off. It was under warranty. I'm not sure. We just didn't want a chance that, you know, no dad. I called dad. I called my buddy. They're like, I'm not sure what what to do. So we just called again. Host: Yeah, when in doubt, you're better off just calling someone. At least you're you're safe that way. Plus, when you're on the road, I mean, you couldn't go on to you. There's a good chance you're going to be in the middle of nowhere at some point. You know, that thing breaking down. There's no service. There's no one, nobody to help you. Guest: Yeah, yeah. On that same trip, we did almost break down a mile in nowhere, Texas, with my car. Then it needed a new alternator. I don't know where. So we were just like, OK, this lifestyle is great. Yeah, you know, everything's breaking. Host: You mentioned your previous video every time like you guys just you laugh when there's problems, you said something about that. We just can't get any worse. And is that is that a coping mechanism? Guest: I think so by now. I got to laugh or cry. So we just figured, let's just laugh about it. We make it a duty to like pick up the camera to show it. So the camera is in your face. You know, you kind of pep up a little bit. You're not. Yeah. There are so many kinds of words around. So yeah, like when things go wrong at first, it's like you used to get so angry. Like, why me? You know, why is this happening to me? Everyone's out at home and joined in or we're all stuck on the side of the road dealing with this, but we quickly realize that's just the way life goes. You know, either live at home. You deal with life or you live in an RV and you deal with life still. So yeah, you can laugh or you cry, but you can't change it. Host: Yeah, exactly. You got to get it done. On a more positive note, what's the thing you love most about this lifestyle? Guest: Probably just being able to go somewhere new all the time. You know, we'll be we'll be in one area and we'll love that area. But after a month, we're like, all right, it's time to go see something new. So the flexibility, you just go anywhere. You know, if you want to spend a summer up north, sure. Or if you want to be in the south, we're chasing all the warm weather. It's like, yeah, we're meeting some new people. Yeah, like our faith in humanity was restored. You know, once again, it was like turn off the TV and just get out there and have some conversations with people. And you'll realize that like people are awesome out there. There's a lot of great people to meet. We've met some amazing, amazing people during our travels. And still to this day. Host: No, that's 100 percent sure. I do want to comment to you on your latest video when you had your leaf spring repaired, you talked about how you had called the RV techs and you weren't sure how they were going to be. But in our experience and at the end of your video, too, you mentioned it. They've been phenomenal. I have not met. We've worked with plenty of them so far. We've only been, you know, about four months. But everyone we've worked with has been great. And we've only heard good things like secondhand about them. I don't know what it is about our RV techs, but they're important to be aware of. Guest: Absolutely. Yeah, we kind of agree more with that because a lot of people are sitting out there looking on the dealers to fix their problems and they're just not getting any answers. They're waiting. They're saying, hey, you got to wait six months before we can squeeze you into the schedule. And, you know, the RV technicians have been come such a great intermediate between the dealership and the consumer who had bought the RV and is looking for some help. So they're kind of just like that guiding light that could get some of those quick fixes done. Some of them are just beyond what we could ever ask for and repairs and done so much. It'll be to not have to pack up your whole home to take it to a dealership and sit and wait. It's just like they'll come to you and you just hang out. It's so it's so nice. Very convenient. Host: Yeah. Do you have any advice for someone looking to buy an RV for the first time? Guest: Oh, we did a video on this recently. Kind of where we talked about making sure you're doing your price checking and comparing. And I would say in today's world, like have an RV inspection, have like a certified RV tech that can do inspections. Come and look at your RV, whether it's used or buying it new off the lot. And if the salespeople or the dealership won't allow external inspectors to come in like a third-party inspector, I would probably not. I would. That's a big red flag. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes it's not going to be well received, but you always got to be your own advocate with these things and have as many, I don't know, people on your side looking out for your best interests because the dealership certainly isn't going to be that person for you. Unfortunately. Yeah. Yeah, we, the reason we bought at the dealer and the reason we bought new is because it was our first time ever buying an RV and we had no clue what to look for. And I didn't want to buy something new or something from a private person or a private dealer just because I had no idea what to look for. Yeah. Had I known I could have had the RV tech inspector available, I think we would have jumped on that and done that instead of buying new and going through all the loops and hurdles and the pain points of going through a dealer and warranties that aren't really warranties and all that fun stuff. For sure. For sure. We were through that too when we bought our first one. We didn't even know anything about tow ratings. I mean, we just showed up with our half-ton truck. And luckily, they were really good about not looking at any RVs. He said, well, before we look at any RVs, I need to know what your truck can tow. We were like, what do you mean? Like, so, yeah, we rolled the dice on a good one. Yeah. A lot of people out there said, well, we never got that. They just, they'll show us that, you know, yeah. I'll show you the rakes and that's that. So that was good. Host: So there are good ones out there, but just are good. Guest: Absolutely. Yes. Yes. Tom Shafers in Pennsylvania. That's where that was. Yeah. So, OK, we'll link down the show notes. Host: Obviously, you guys need Internet when you're traveling, you're full-time content creators. How are you getting Internet? Guest: Our main form of Internet is Starlink right now. Yeah. Do you guys have Starlink at all? Host: We're getting it. Host: Yeah, we've asked this question almost every episode. And so far, the consensus has been T-Mobile, the T-Mobile home Internet plan with this. So the Starlink has been the most popular, but more often than not. What they're saying is they're using it as backup. And then they're using T-Mobile for the most part for their Internet. And then if they're in an area where there's no service there, it's Starlink. That's really nice. Starlink, that's your go-to. Guest: That's our go-to. Yeah, we always have that up and running. And it's been working out good. You know, it was a little touch and go when we first purchased it. It was very somewhat newish and not as many satellites up in the sky. But yeah, well, we are also in the eastern US. So like so much more heavily populated, more like we were in Florida during snowboard season, so everyone had Starlink. We were all fighting for the satellites. But last year, it is perfect. I mean, it's beautiful. And then when we go east, we're going to be complaining about it. But it's good to hear about the T-Mobile because we do have we have a basic cell phone plan with AT&T and we use the hotspot if we need Internet, if the Starlink is not doing well. So it's good to know about that T-Mobile because we'll have to look into this if we need to. Absolutely. Yes, Ben. So far, so good. Host: And we have our phone plans with T-Mobile and then we have like a third when we transfer over, we got a third like bonus phone. So we have 150 gigs of hotspot before we ever have to do anything. And then we're using the T-Mobile for Internet. So we're kind of rolling the dice with T-Mobile, kind of putting all of our eggs in one basket. But we'll get Starlink too just to have that as a backup. Is that set up process? The reason people have mentioned they don't use it primarily is because of the set-up process. How long does it take to set that up? Guest: We're less than five minutes. Yeah. Guest: Less than. Yeah. It's just we've integrated it with our typical setting up routine. It's mostly just sneaking a wire through the side, through one of the slide-outs, and then connecting it to the modem, and then getting the actual Starlink mounted onto a pole. Guest: A pole. We call it a pole, buddy. You can buy it off Amazon and it just gets it up above your roof of your RV to have better signal, better access to the sky. Host: Does the boot-up time take a long time? Is that what it is or? Guest: That is probably what it is, that they're mostly, you know, it's not as soon as you plug it in, it's up and going. It does take about three to five minutes, I would say. Yeah. But like you could like get that set up. And then while you're doing the outside, I'll plug in the router and then just finish setting up the inside. And by the time I even have a second to like go on the internet it's already running. Guest: So yeah, I guess if you need it in a quick pinch, if you pull over on the side of the road, take a break, it probably would be a little inconvenient because you'd have to set it up and wait a few minutes. So something like that. Guest: But I will say, like, I think boondocking is becoming a lot more popular because of Starlink. Before, when you were off-grid, you were truly off-grid. There was like no cell service in a lot of these cool places you see on Instagram, you know, like Utah, Arizona boondocking. Yeah. Now, everyone's out there streaming and gaming. It's like a whole new, no longer off-grid. So it's really nice to have that. Host: So you guys have been traveling for part-time, full-time. And I know you're pretty tight with your budget. You post videos on your YouTube channel. Have you ever been able to break down what a monthly or weekly budget looks like? I know it probably fluctuates quite a bit. Guest: It varies. It just depends. Like we just had a very expensive month in San Diego, and our budget looked way different when we were trying to get out of debt. We still budget and track every penny, but we're a little bit more lenient. And then Alaska was kind of like a moment where we were strict. Yeah, I guess the best way to think about it was when we were getting out of debt. What was our budget? Did we go out to eat at all? Like, do you remember? Did we go out to restaurants and treat ourselves to something? Guest: Yeah, we would give ourselves like two hundred dollars a month. Wasn't it like to go out to try new restaurants or go out to eat? And that included if you wanted to get drinks somewhere. So that ended up really quickly. So that wasn't even nowadays, like nowadays, I would get you a couple of drinks, two hundred bucks. Yeah, like a drink. Here's a cup of water. Yeah, like, wow, great. Yeah. And then groceries were kind of like, I mean, that's hard to control. Groceries are our biggest downfall just as a married couple. I don't know. You know, you get old, you get happy and you just like, oh, let's, you know, have some good dinner tonight and have some snacks. So that's one we got to like always keep coming back to. Yeah. The grocery bill. But to give you the other numbers, I can't really remember what it's been strict in the past. When we were really strict with our budget, we would just look at what we were already spending and then we would just try to cut that like a quarter of that and just try to chop that out and be better about spending. Host: Do you have any budget apps or tools that make keeping track of that easier? Gues: Now we use a program called Tiller, but we used to just do pen and paper and Microsoft Excel. And that was to kind of keep track of everything. Watch a quick YouTube video on how to line up with your expenses, highlight it all, and make a running total. And then it was really cool because as you paid off your credit cards or whatever debt you had, you subtracted that and then it would take away from the bottom big number. That was nice to see that. It's kind of like a little encouragement to keep going. So that was fun. Yeah. Host: The visual is important. I'm glad you mentioned you had that starting out small, but bucks a month. You have to celebrate the small victories. Otherwise, you're going to burnt out. So being able to set money aside to celebrate, you pay something off. You're paying things down slowly. You know, those mini victories. Guest: No, no. Yeah, it's crazy how when you don't track how much it slips away, because when we first started travel nursing, we weren't budgeting and we weren't being strict about our budget. It wasn't until we decided to see what our three to six months of expenses were. So we kind of got into it by accident because I was like, well, let's see what we are currently spending on every month. And then I saw how much we spent in restaurants because we were travel nursing. We wanted to go eat all the good food. We want to enjoy ourselves. And there was one month that it was close to a thousand dollars and just going out to eat. And I was like, oh, my gosh, like there's that there's a problem. I never guessed. So we saw that and we were like, OK, no more. And that's how like the whole budgeting happens. Host: You guys are traveling with your cat, Dexter. And I don't believe we've had a guest who's traveled with a cat so far on the show. I would assume most people would assume that there's not much involved in taking care of a cat. But anyone to add to that? Guest: Oh, yeah. There's, I say, oh, go ahead. I was just going to say that he we had no idea when we got in this lifestyle if he would take well to actually living in an RV. That was kind of what pushes into RV life, to be honest, is having a consistent home for him. So we always joke that we buy these RVs for him, you know. And because the other option was when we were travel nursing is to bounce between apartments and, you know, there's all sorts of smells and you don't know what the rules are with pets and especially cats. So I don't like not having a consistent home. Yeah. So we did it. Exactly. So, you know, I would just say if you do own a cat and you're a little nervous about taking him or her out on the road, you know, just take some car rides, maybe just put them in a kennel and start off small. There's no need to bite off a huge chunk and travel across, you know, halfway across the United States to get an idea of how will they travel? Yeah. He did pretty well right away. We knew he didn't get nauseated or have anxiety or anything like that. He mostly just slept. So it was a good fit for him. I mean, if it's getting close to his dinner time, he'll speak up and he will not be quiet. So like it's yeah, he knows to tell us like, OK, I've been good this whole time, but it's time to pull over. Host: Don't we all? Guest: Yeah, don't we? Exactly. Well said. Host: All right, guys, what has been the coolest experience you've had while traveling? Guest: Oh, yeah. This question is great because there's, there's just been so many. Like sometimes we would be like, remember that time we just got first, the first time we ran the AC in Iowa, but we were so happy that the thing worked. Yeah, small things. I think there was one of our coolest times was when we were in the Florida Keys, we were at a state park Bahia Honda, and we managed to get a site that was right on the water. So we could literally snorkel like right off where our view was part every day. And that was just like such a cool thing to do. That was nice. Host: Yeah, we have not been there, but we've seen videos and pictures of actually Alexis and Lauren Jason, the podcast I mentioned you guys, their part to travel tips was all about the Florida Keys, so very detailed on that. And they were sending us pictures. And yeah, that campsite, no joke, it's right on the water. Guest: And you can snorkel, sit and pull up a long chair. And yeah, so cool. It's like being in the Caribbean, but you're in the States. So that's like what's so cool about it. Host: And same thing for you, Kyle, Bahia Honda?. Guest: Yeah, I really enjoyed that. And I guess this to kind of cover your story that you brought up at the AC. It was funny when I said we hit the road at the first time when we left for travel nursing, we left at two o'clock in the morning, left her parents' house, and just drove to WalMart, stayed the night in a random WalMart. And then we kept driving and it was about to where did you say it was Iowa? I remember we made it to Iowa. We made it to Iowa. It was just it was so hot and humid for whatever reason. It was right around four o'clock. We finally pulled in an RV park. But then we turn on the AC for the first time in the RV. I know crazy, right? We tried this out when we got the dealership before we drove off. Now we waited till we got to Iowa before we ran the AC. But I kid you not, it was just like when that cold air was blowing on you and then you could turn around and look out and it's just something completely new. It is just like, wow, we are doing it and we're actually we're going to live like this. And yeah, that was really cool. That was a neat moment. Host: After spending just about seven years traveling now, has there been anything you've learned that you cannot live without outside of the internet? Guest: I would have to say, I mean, this is going to sound like something a young person would say, but my smartphone. Think about when you're out to get anything or figure out anything directions. Where's the nearest grocery store? Like, what's the Google reviews on this restaurant? It's like you gotta have your cell phone, like that little mini computer, to tell you so much. Host: On the contrary, has there been anything that you've learned that you don't need while traveling? Guest: Yeah, I think living in the RV when we started watching YouTube videos way back when we were first getting into it, there was a lot of unrealistic expectations of like, do I need all that before I hit the road and, you know, something like a ten thousand dollar solar set up or the same thing like crazy like that. You don't really need it to get it out, include knocking and blowing time off grid. You know, you can survive a night or two. Yeah, kind of what what what comes with your RV, just a battery, a water tank, water heater, you have everything you need. So I guess I just would say don't keep up with the Joneses all that much. You know, try to keep it realistic for the lifestyle you're looking for. Yeah, there's a lot of pressure online, social media with all these products. You gotta have this before you own this. And it's like just take your RV. Like, don't buy anything and just go like buy your basic stuff, your hoses and all the stuff to get by. But you don't need all the fancy digits and gadgets. Like, we still don't have a backup camera. And that was on our list when we first hit the road. We were like, look at one eventually. And now it's seven years and we're like, we don't really need it. You don't have to have it like you'll get by. Host: If you wait and wait and wait until you have everything you need, you'll never hit the road. Exactly. A good point is kind of air on the side, especially with those expensive things. Air on the side of don't buy it. And then once you hit the road and you're traveling, you'll either learn that you need it and then you can buy it then or you're going to learn you don't need it and save ten thousand bucks on a solar panel set. Guest: Well said. Well said. Guest: Yeah, that's exactly how we feel, too. You can always get one battery and then add batteries from there. Any tools that RVers should have on them? Why don't you tell them about your favorite one? Guest: Oh, yeah. We have a thing called a VIAIR and we just love it. It's amazing. Basically, it's an on demand air compressor that you can hook up to your truck battery and then it just creates on demand compressed air. They can fill up your tires if they're running a little bit low. Man, that was a huge concern for us because we were thinking when we get out there, how are we going to be able to fit into gas stations to fill up the tires if they're running low? This just eliminates all those stressors and you just have that whenever you need it most. And we had this huge normal air compressor like I think it's still in a storage unit. Guest: Oh, yeah, that thing is huge. Really? Do we bring that? How do we fill up our tires? But I think we use that almost every time. This thing is lightweight. It's small. It doesn't take up a lot of space and it can pump up tires to like 120 PSI. So our trailer tires are 100 PSI maximum at cold pressures. So it does more than enough to handle those loads. So if you're thinking, oh, I drive a big class, say that's not going to help me. Actually, probably will. Yeah. And we just told people you don't need to buy stuff, but you do need to buy that. Host: That's a good point. That's actually something we have not heard in the podcast yet. That's not one of those. I know you said it's smaller, but it's not one of those 20 volt compress bigger than that for your rig, right? Or is that something you can actually use? I guess you can charge it. I guess. Guest: Well, I'm thinking of one. I've seen like people have like handheld ones. I don't know if those that's what you're thinking of. But this one is probably. Yeah, it's all it runs off the volt battery. So, you know, and you don't really charge it. It just literally plugs into the positive and negative terminal on a truck battery. Host: And I think it's something else. And because it's the point I want to make was you really can't rely on gas stations. Like you said, you can't you might not be able to fit your RV, but also the air doesn't always work. We've had tire issues where we've pulled in. I've gone back and forth. I went to one gas station. The air didn't work. The next gas station. The air worked, but it didn't have the pressure gauge. So I go back to the first one and it was just the crapshoot going back and forth. But yeah, one person in the gas station had one of those. I think it was VIAIR, but it was smaller. It was like a DeWalt size volt compressor. And we just pumped it up right there. So, yeah, that's a good thing to have for sure. Guest: Absolutely. Host: If you could listen to this podcast when you were first starting out, is there a question I did not ask tonight that you wished I would have? And how would you answer that now? Guest: Oh, you know what? There's, going back to the trucker lanes. I remember when we first hit the road, we had the diesel truck, but we were towing a smaller RV, and we kept squeezing into small, normal-sized gas stations because we didn't know that we could use the trucker lanes. We were like, "We're not allowed in there for the truckers." But if you're starting out, and I mean, basically, you're allowed to use the truck lanes. You're allowed to park in rest areas where trucks park. Like, basically, there were a lot of moments where we felt very timid. And then, just as you go along, you start to be more like, "Yeah, we own this road," you know? Like, you start to be a little bit more like, "Come on in and move over." So, and the reason we say that is because, you know, these RVs, especially the one we're living in, it's the same kind of tractor-trailer. So we measure 13 foot six inches at our first AC over our bedroom. So you've got to be really considerate of where is able to accommodate you. You can't just pull into any random gas station because you can get into a pickle pretty quickly. So, after some time of traveling and sweating it out, those trucker lanes look real nice at the end of the day. And you're like, "No, partaking that. Yeah, go in there, stretch out." Host: That's a good point. I could definitely see myself being more hesitant like you guys. And once you start seeing, "Oh, there's an RV over there. Okay, we can go over there." And then once you start seeing that, "Okay, we can do that too." But I would be a little more reluctant to get over there. Guest: Exactly, yeah. Host: I know, you guys. It seems like you were kind of trailblazers in the digital creation space with travel nursing and traveling full time. But were there other influences or YouTube channels that influenced you or books maybe to do this travel full-time life? Guest: What got us into travel nursing was just meeting other travel nurses at work. You met actually a couple that would travel together. That's how you found out they do it together. Yeah. But then when we started looking into RV travel, you know, we got on YouTube like a lot of people do. And I remember watching a lot of Long Long Honeymoon and Keep Your Daydream as a lot of them just to help get us, you know, give you, like, not you're not just learning, but you're gaining that confidence to, like, travel on the road. Yeah. And Kara and Nate is another one that's really fun. If people like fast-paced adventures that are like across the world, they're some of our favorite, or my favorites. Yeah, because they do. Yeah, they're really good with their storytelling, things like that. And so they inspire us to be better storytellers too. Host: Yeah, I feel like if we were starting out, we didn't discover your channel. We were starting out because we were in the van life space. We were watching a lot of Adventures of A and K and Kara and Nate. But if we were looking for fifth wheels or camp trailers, we would have been all over your channel. I feel like we were like relate a lot to you guys and you're very entertaining. But also you provide a lot of useful information. So, yeah, I'll link your channel as well as the other channels you mentioned in the show notes. One last question for audiences in a ton of suspense before the next episode. Where are we talking about for travel tips? Guest: So our destination we want to talk about is San Diego. San Diego. Yeah, we got a lot to say about that. Host: All right. San Diego. Tune in in two days, everybody. Kyle and Renee, thanks again. Guest: Thank you so much.
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This episode starts with a proper promotion for our sponsor. Carol feels bad about the massive attention Burt Korn, Alabama has gotten from this podcast. Arik begins with bad driver's test questions. If you are getting a learner's permit, do you have to know the maximum weight of a vehicle for a commercial driver's license? The answer: who gives a Flying J? Additionally, if Lindsey Graham shows up in a crosswalk, do you speed up? Arik doesn't realize that he isn't the only one using a one exit shortcut. He uses it four times a day and doesn't understand why it is busy. We aren't sure if it's just the traffic being slow. This pause in rational thinking is brought to you by Come-And-Go. Glory Holes take over most of the rest of this episode. Arik helps his contractor understand why there are holes in the bathroom stalls. Beads as entryways to bathrooms have been added to The Hate Napkin. Arik hasn't thought enough about Glory Holes, and he believes Hollywood is avoiding the topic. Just when you think this episode couldn't get any dirtier, somehow sex with socks ends up on The Hate Napkin. Also, the college multipurpose go-to sock, and any sock not being used for its proper purpose, goes on the list. Send your ridiculous hate to info@thehatenapkin.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thehatenapkin/support
This episode starts with a proper promotion for our sponsor. Carol feels bad about the massive attention Burt Korn, Alabama has gotten from this podcast. Arik begins with bad driver's test questions. If you are getting a learner's permit, do you have to know the maximum weight of a vehicle for a commercial driver's license? The answer: who gives a Flying J? Additionally, if Lindsey Graham shows up in a crosswalk, do you speed up? Arik doesn't realize that he isn't the only one using a one exit shortcut. He uses it four times a day and doesn't understand why it is busy. We aren't sure if it's just the traffic being slow. This pause in rational thinking is brought to you by Come-And-Go. Glory Holes take over most of the rest of this episode. Arik helps his contractor understand why there are holes in the bathroom stalls. Beads as entryways to bathrooms have been added to The Hate Napkin. Arik hasn't thought enough about Glory Holes, and he believes Hollywood is avoiding the topic. Just when you think this episode couldn't get any dirtier, somehow sex with socks ends up on The Hate Napkin. Also, the college multipurpose go-to sock, and any sock not being used for its proper purpose, goes on the list. Send your ridiculous hate to info@thehatenapkin.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thehatenapkin/support
Jill and Tom are both in studio today for another topic-packed show. Tom opened the episode acknowledging the installation of the first EV charging station under the provisions of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Act, signed into law in 2021. The first unit went live at a Flying J gas station in Ohio earlier this week. Jill and Tom went on to discuss Jill's evaluation of a Starbucks Coffee/Volvo joint effort. This past week Jill drove electric Volvo vehicles from Denver, Colorado to Seattle, Washington, charging the cars only at Starbucks locations along the way equipped with high-speed Volvo-sponsored chargers. Listen in for more on this unique cooperative exercise—and what Jill ordered to drink at each stop. In the second segment Jill and Tom are joined by Consumer Report's Steven Elek. Steven gave the hosts the lowdown on the organization's latest Auto Reliability Study. Steven shared insights into how and why electric vehicles are proving problematic for some owners, and walked Jill and Tom through top-ten list of most-reliable car brands. The list includes a few surprises. In the final segment, Jill is subjected to Tom's “Car Sales in Europe” quiz, capped by a Kikkoman soy-sauce bonus question. Because Jill has not yet listened to last week's episode, Tom explained to her why he was looking to shoot a water buffalo.
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San Francisco movie and media critic Pam Grady joins us and she finally brings Westerns into OMFYS with ZACHARIAH (1971), a homoerotic oater starring John Rubenstein and a very young Don Johnson as star-crossed gunslingers who just can't quit each other on their road to hippy-dippy enlightenment. Billed as "The First Electric Western," Country Joe & the Fish, the James Gang and the New York Rock Ensemble show up with their late-1960s Gibson guitars and Fender stacks even though everything else about the movie takes place in the 19th Century. John Coltrane drummer Elvin Jones nearly steals the show by shooting a dude and then playing a kick-ass drum solo. ZACHARIAH is streaming on YouTube but this DVD-rip on Archive is far superior so Airplay that to your flat screen: https://archive.org/details/zachariah-1971-dvdrip-xvi-d Our second feature is the very-noir psychological western PURSUED from tough guy director Raoul Walsh in 1947. The Hollywood pothead par excellence ROBERT MITCHUM plays Jeb Rand who struggles to recall the massacre of his family through repressed memories and expressionist dream sequences. Making the past more than prologue is that the people who slaughtered the Rands are still plotting to finish the job. Also starring Teresa Wright as Jeb's love interest and sister-by-adoption (ew); Judith Anderson as the matriarch who's definitely keeping secrets; and the Skipper's dad, Alan Hale Sr. New Mexico's landscapes are brought to life in PURSUED by the breathtaking cinematography of James Wong Howe and it's all set to a sweeping Max Steiner score. Bob and Cory also discuss how Raoul Walsh got his eyepatch plus the ghastly prank the great director played on Errol Flynn, so wait for that. PAM GRADY will be introducing Scorsese's Dylan near-mockumentary, ROLLING THUNDER REVUE, on Sunday, Sept. 24th at the 4 Star Theater (2200 Clement Street, San Francisco). Go here for tickets and info: https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/scorsese-more-than-a-gangster-rolling-thunder-revue-a-bob-dylan-story-live-music-500-pm You can follow Pam on X (Twitter) @cinepam and read many of her latest reviews on the #AWFJ site: https://awfj.org/blog/author/pam-grady/ OMFYS Hosts: Bob Calhoun, Cory Sklar and Greg Franklin Philena Franklin is on strike but her dad did the TikTok Report. Philena will return later this month for our PUBLIC DOMAIN ZOMBIE episode with MESSIAH OF EVIL (1974) and Bela Lugosi in WHITE ZOMBIE (1932). MUSIC Theme song: Chaki the Funk Wizard "Pray for the Flying J" courtesy of Count Dante & the Black Dragon Fighting Society. "Royale" by Josh Lippi & the Overtimers and "Les-ly" by Mini Vandals courtesy of the YouTube Audio Archive. Trailer audio courtesy of Archive.org Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Bluesky: @oldmoviesystoners.bsky.social Twitter (X): OM4YStoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com
A Scott County sheriff's deputy is shot and killed while conducting a traffic stop. A suspect is in custody... The Knox County Coroner appears in court on Monday in connection with felony an misdemeanor drug possession charges.... Portions of Highway 41 will be closed this afternoon as hundreds of motorcycle riders take a break at the Flying J... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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It's been three years since Keeslyn Roberts went missing. She was last known to be at the Flying J truck stop in Resaca, Georgia. Police found her car backed into a space in the parking lot. Her keys, bookbag, and money were inside. If you have any information on Keeslyn's disappearance, you can call the GBI at 706-624-1424, the Murray County Sheriff's Office at 706-624-1424 or the Roberts' private investigator at 423-413-6848. Joining Nancy Grace today: Eric Roberts - Father of Keeslyn @FindingKeeslyn gofundme.com/f/wsq7et-help-us-find-keeslyn James Shelnutt - 27 years Atlanta Metro Area Major Case Detective, Former S.W.A.T. officer, Attorney (Gadsden, AL), The Shelnutt Law Firm, P.C., ShelnuttLawFirm.com, Twitter: @ShelnuttLawFirm Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA, AngelaArnoldMD.com, Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women, Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University, Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital, Voted My Buckhead's Best Psychiatric Practice of 2022 Chris Byers - Former Police Chief Johns Creek Georgia, 25 years as Police Officer, now Private Investigator and Polygraph Examiner with Lancaster Information services in Atlanta, lancasterservices.com Liam Collins- Reporter for Local 3 News Twitter:@LiamLocal3 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The convoy drives through Okotoks, Alberta and meets up with the rest of the convoy at the Flying J in south Calgary. As the ONE YEAR Anniversary of the Canada Convoy 2022 approaches, we've decided to compile our videos and photos from the fateful journey. Be sure to come back daily for updates.
Episode: #301 Topics 0:00 Pregame - Krystals White Castle, Iron Skillet, Flying J & Pilot 10:40 Doctor charged with attempted murder, after driving family over cliff in a Tesla https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/04/us-doctor-charged-over-tesla-cliff-plunge-with-family-on-board-18036968/?ITO=msn 21:49 M3GAN movie preview review M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a lifelike doll that's programmed to be a child's greatest companion and a parent's greatest ally. Designed by Gemma, a brilliant roboticist, M3GAN can listen, watch and learn as it plays the role of friend and teacher, playmate and protector. 28:31 Dana White “ non backlash “after hitting wife in cabo nightclub. Our reaction to Stephen A. Smith's response to domestic violence. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2023/01/ufc-dana-white-slaps-wife-needs-to-be-fired 56:15 A woman on Tiktok confronts her husband after she overhears him using a racial slur against a group of Black men. She expresses her disappointment and hurt at his use of the language, and they have a conversation about why it is not acceptable. https://www.yourtango.com/news/woman-confronts-husband-hearing-him-use-racial-slur-against-group-black-men 1:09:09 McDonald's manager paid employee $50 an hour to cover staff shortage https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/mcdonalds-50-dollars-an-hour/ 1:32:07 Reddit AITA Man who told friend to lower his standards to get a date cheerleading program https://www.newsweek.com/brutal-man-told-friend-lower-standards-get-date-cheered-1769097 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/schwebelroom/message
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Show Notes Radioactive implant wipes tumors in unprecedented pre-clinical success | New Atlas (00:52) Pancreatic cancer is notoriously difficult to diagnose and treat, with tumor cells of this type highly evasive and loaded with mutations that make them resistant to many drugs. 3.2 percent of all cancers, yet is the third leading cause of cancer-related death Engineers at Duke University have developed a novel delivery system for cancer treatment and demonstrated its potential against one of the disease's most troublesome forms A radioactive implant completely eliminated tumors in the majority of the rodents The team wanted to figure out a way to implant into the tumor without causing damage to the surrounding tissue. Created one from more biocompatible materials (instead of titanium) that wouldn't post the same risks to the human body. Synthetic chains of amino acids known as elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs), which form a stable gel-like material in the warmer environment of the body. This substance was injected into tumors in various mouse models of pancreatic cancer along with a radioactive element called iodine-131. ELP entombs the iodine-131 and prevents it from leaking into the body. Allows it to emit beta radiation that penetrates into the surrounding tumor. Once the radiation is spent, the ELP biogel safely degrades into harmless amino acids. The treatment was tested in combination with a common chemotherapy drug called paclitaxel. Across all the models tested, the scientists report a 100% response rate to the treatment. In three quarters of the models, the dual treatment completely eliminated the tumors 80% of the time. The scientists deployed the novel treatment against pancreatic cancer because they wanted to explore its potential against one of the trickiest forms of the disease, but believe these results bode well for its wider application. Study author Jeff Schaal, explains the significance of their finding: “We did a deep dive through over 1,100 treatments across preclinical models and never found results where the tumors shrank away and disappeared like ours did … When the rest of the literature is saying that what we're seeing doesn't happen, that's when we knew we had something extremely interesting." In a first, scientists grow fully mature hair follicles in cultures | Interesting Engineering (07:12) According to a press release, researchers from Japan generated hair follicles in cultures while working on the processes of hair follicle growth and hair pigmentation. Could contribute to the development of different applications such as hair loss treatment, animal testing and drug screenings. Scientists have been trying to understand the essential mechanisms of hair follicle development through animal models for a long while. Hair follicle morphogenesis wasn't something that could be reproduced in a culture dish until now. Morphogenesis is the process when the outer layer of skin and the connective tissue interacts while the embryo develops. Researchers built hair follicle organoids by controlling the structure generated from the two types of embryonic cells tapping into a low concentration of extracellular matrices. Extracellular matrix is a network that supplies structure for cells and tissue in the body. These matrices change the spacing between the two types of embryonic cells from a dumbbell-shape to core-shell configuration. Fully mature hair follicles with approximately 3 millimeter (mm)-long hair shafts were produced by the hair follicle organoids on the 23rd day of being cultured. Researchers included a melanocyte-stimulating drug that helps produce hair color pigmentation in the culture medium. The findings could help understand how physiological and pathological processes develop in relation to other organ systems as well. Junji Fukuda, a professor with the faculty of engineering at Yokohama National University, speaks on next steps: “Our next step is to use cells from human origin, and apply for drug development and regenerative medicine.” Team uses live plant cells in 3D printing | Futurity (11:35) Researchers have developed a reproducible way of studying cellular communication among varied types of plant cells by “bioprinting” those cells with a 3D printer. Communication is key to understanding more about plant cell functions. Could ultimately lead to creating better crop varieties and optimal growing environments. They bioprinted cells from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and from soybeans to study not just whether plant cells would live after being bioprinted but also how they acquire and change their identity and function. Lisa Van den Broeck, first author of a paper, describes the work: “A plant root has a lot of different cell types with specialized functions … There are also different sets of genes being expressed; some are cell-specific. We wanted to know what happens after you bioprint live cells and place them into an environment that you design. Are they alive and doing what they should be doing?” Live plant cells without cell walls, or protoplasts, were bioprinted along with nutrients, growth hormones, and a thickening agent called agarose. Agarose helps provide cells strength and scaffolding “When you print the bioink, you need it to be liquid, but when it comes out, it needs to be solid. Mimicking the natural environment helps keep cellular signals and cues occurring as they would in soil,” explained Professor Ross Sozzani, co-corresponding author of the paper. The research showed that more than half of the 3D bioprinted cells were viable and divided over time to form microcalli, or small colonies of cells. Also bioprinted individual cells to test whether they could regenerate, or divide and multiply, which showed that Arabidopsis root and shoot cells needed different combinations of nutrients and scaffolding for optimal viability. More than 40% of individual soybean embryonic cells remained viable two weeks after bioprinting and also divided over time to form microcalli. End off with Professor Sozzani: “All told, this study shows the powerful potential of using 3D bioprinting to identify the optimal compounds needed to support plant cell viability and communication in a controlled environment,” IKEA Is Using Driverless Trucks to Move Its Furniture in Texas | SIngularity Hub (18:49) Thanks to its mild climate, expansive highway network, and lax regulations, Texas has become the country's proving ground for driverless trucks. traveling the state's highways partially driver-free for a couple of years already autonomous mode on highways, but safety drivers take over to navigate city streets This week Kodiak Robotics announced a partnership to transport IKEA products using a heavy-duty self-driving truck. The route runs from an IKEA distribution center in Baytown, east of Houstin, to a store in Frisco, 290 miles away just north of Dallas. Kodiak has been around since 2018, and is focused on building a technology stack specifically for long-haul trucks. Use a modular hardware approach that includes easy-to-install “mirror pods” with lidar and cameras. Seems like this company is on the rise with self driving trucks partnerships in place with CEVA Logistics and U.S. Express In August announced an agreement with Pilot Companies to develop services for self-driving trucks at Pilot and Flying J travel centers. Kodiak's founder and CEO Don Burnette hopes the IKEA pilot will lead to a long-term relationship between the two companies, and an expansion of delivery routes for the furniture store. Burnette told Forbes: “Up until now we've primarily been working with other carriers who work on behalf of shippers as their customers, and this is the first time we're working with a shipper directly … It was a really good opportunity to build that relationship and understand their operational needs.” New VR app lets you step inside your smartphone videos | Freethink (24:40) Startup Wist Labs is developing a VR app that converts your smartphone clips into 3D videos — giving you a chance to walk inside your memories using a VR headset. To create a memory with Wist, a user opens the app and records a video. The app collects the information it needs to make the 2D clip look three-dimensional. Co-founder Andrew McHugh explained to Freethink: “During capture, we save color, depth, device pose, audio, and scene information … Depth is captured using the LiDAR sensors on the Pro model iPhones and iPads.” Once the app processes the video, the user can play it back using mobile AR or a VR headset. Video example of how it works The next steps for Wist Labs are to close pre-seed funding, launch a beta, and then roll out features to fill in those gaps and improve the app. McHugh plans to continue using it to capture and share memories of his first child McHugh explaining how the experience has been using it: “I loaded [an ultrasound video] into our VR app, shared it with my mom who lives halfway across the country, and we were able to both walk around that moment together … It's better than a video because it feels like you're actually there.”
We have a new schedule for Freight Broker TV Podcast and videos. Tuesday and Thursday will be when our YouTube videos drops and the FBTV Podcast will be available on Wednesday. The Tuesday YouTube video will be our FBTV Fuel Update with Thursday's video will focus on topics and Q & A's. In this FBTV Podcast the topic of the day is once again, email. As perception creates reality, we really want to be perceived as a professional in our selected industry. We'll talk everything email from using email to prospect to signatures. Alto in this FBTV Podcast, 2290's, a tomato mess on I-80 in California, no more gas vehicles to be sold in California starting in 2035, fuel prices, the EIA and their issues, foods to avoid before bed, and much more. A new FBTV Podcast is available every Wednesday & Saturday and is hosted by Michael, the lead consultant for TALTOA. If you've been considering a career as a freight broker or freight broker agent, seeking freight broker training or freight broker agent training, looking for a work at home job... a career? Take a few minutes and see what TALTOA has to offer! https://taltoa.com. Looking for more informative information for working as a freight broker, freight broker agent, or even if you are a trucking company considering adding a broker operation as an additional stream of revenue, then you should visit our YouTube Channel “Freight Broker TV. FBTV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/freightbrokertv Freight Broker TV Website: https://freightbrokertv.com TALTOA Website: https://taltoa.com
Brinks Semi Truck gets robbed while at a Flying J Truck Stop
07/28/22 - Kenny is joined by Dave Dinatale (dinocleveland), Senior Digital Content Producer/On-Air Contributor at WKYC-TV3. After 10 years of the Hsalams, Dino writes about the complete saga including Flying-J, Johnny Football, and the Watson Trade.
We are hearing some more details on how this heist of a lifetime went down and it only has me asking more questions. With so much money on the line and so many pieces of high end jewelry in one place, how is it possible that something like this could even occur? (commercial at 11:25)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11043879/The-27-minute-highway-heist-netted-100-MILLION-Thieves-secretly-tracked-truck-pouncing.html
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In This episode we Talk about the escalation of people's attitudes towards the gas situation and how it might not be so funny in a few months if it goes higher and people start feeling pain economically they haven't seen before.We Talk about all of the different shortages and supply chain issues and how they affect everyday life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swGP1NMGxt8This ridiculous video tries to try and convince people that the food plant fires are not intentional, but the comments tell a different story on why no one believes them anymore.White House Press Secretary what a waste…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3PS2bxfWVA5:08 she can't answer a question about baby formula shortages, bumbles and fumbles and sounds like amateur hour. https://www.facebook.com/superhotchiles/posts/10223892105504413Do you know what DEF fluid is? It's Diesel Exhaust Fluid. Every Diesel truck that has been made since 2010 is required to use it. It's a product made of 67% Urea fertilizer and 33% distilled water. Every diesel truck you see driving down the road today has to have this product to drive. The engines won't start without it. There are regulators inside the engine that mix DEF with the Diesel to reduce Diesel emissions. That's the purpose of DEF.Right now, Russia is the largest exporter of Urea by a wide margin. Qatar is second. Egypt and China are Tied for 3rd. Both Russia and China have decided to no longer export Urea. On top of that, India is the largest manufacturer of Urea in the world even though they consume most of what they make. What little they would export..........they no longer do. They are now stopping the exportation of any and all Urea minus a deal they just cut with Sri Lanka.What does this mean for you and me? Well, first, the United States imports most of its Urea fertilizer. We are the third largest importer in the entire world. We depend on other countries to eat, drive and ship our products.Secondly... Flying J is the largest Service provider for Truckers around the United States. I'm sure you've seen their massive gas stations when traveling around the country. Flying J gets 70% of their DEF fluid from shipments via Union Pacific railroad. UP has single user access to the Fertilizer plants that Urea/DEF fluid comes from. No other rail provider has access to these distribution points. This means Flying J can't just go around Union Pacific. Union Pacific is in charge....Flying J provides 30% of all DEF consumed in the United States. UP has told Flying J to reduce their shipments by a whopping 50%. And if they do not comply then they will be completely embargoed. That would in effect bankrupt FJ. This means that 15% of all DEF consumed by truckers in the US is no longer available at the largest travel service center for the entire trucking industry....Drag queen dance for kids in Dallas???Father's Day in June and pride month in June.Mother's Day in May Roe versus Wade comes out in May. Is Vladimir Putin blaming Americans for anything funny the Bien administration is…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKF-jzflEbY 1:20 talks about DEF sensor shortage , food plants burning down etc 5:14 talks about the future of gas prices in America.Please SHARE AND SUSBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST !Support the Show.
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This FBTV Podcast is audio only available on your favorite podcasting app. There's a reason for that as starting next week you'll get the FBTV Podcast on Wednesdas with a LIVE FBTV Video Podcast on Saturday mornings that everyone can watch on our YouTube channel. In this FBTV Podcast the main topic answers a question we get every week, how soon can you start making money as a freight broker or freight broker agent. There is so much missinformation out there it's not even funny. Also in this FBTV Podcast play "The Impossible Question," lots of talk about Russia Ukraine, The People's Convoy is rolling, upcoming Truck Shows, and so much more including Trucking & Logistics Professional For Ukraine that has already raised over $350K. FBTV from TALTOA. If you've been wanting to work as a freight broker or freight broker agent, seeking freight broker training or freight broker agent training, looking for a work at home job... a career? TALTOA! https://taltoa.com. FBTV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/freightbrokertv
Jeremiah Johnson from Showcase Floors joins Amy & JJ. In this episode: when DIY's go wrong, Showcase's labor warranty, spring planning and more! Contact Showcase Floors today: Easy access off I-29 and 32nd avenue - 3 blocks south of the Flying J - 3499 39 th Street South in Fargo… and now in Detroit Lakes. Call 701-293-8738 or go to www.showcasefloorsfargo.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Minute Thirty-Four: From a Cameo to a Day Off ‘Jovial' Jay Shepard digs around in the impact crater with us in this minute as we talk about wormholes and Puente Antiguo. In the thirty-fourth minute of Kenneth Branagh's 2011 film Thor... The townie who finds the impact crater turns out to be none other than J. Michael Straczynski. The connections are strong with this one as they relate to the Thor comics, Babylon 5, and more. We also talk about the nature of comic book creator cameos and how it's nice to see. (We don't get into the issues that these creators are having with Marvel over their creator rights, which is a huge topic for another day.) He runs down to the base of the impact crater and finds Mjølnir embedded in what looks like a block of cement. We debate the look of this prop because on the one hand, it allows the people interacting with it to really struggle but on the other hand, it looks manmade, not like something that would happen naturally from impact. To that end, it does allow for comparisons with the sword in the stone and the fact that no one can pull it free. But then we also now can judge each of these people trying to lift Mjølnir. Apparently, this town ain't worthy. As Straczynski tries to lift Mjølnir, the sound design kicks in with that sound we've come to know and love that we hear when Thor wields the hammer. But is it diagetic? Is this townie hearing the ringing sound too? We leave our time with the townie as he gives us a little ‘huh,' which is played so well. Kudos, Straczynski! Welcome to Puente Antiguo. Finally. As we bid adieu to the townie and Mjølnir for now, we find ourselves in the small town of Puente Antiguo, which means ‘old bridge' in Spanish. Turns out, they named it this because of how it works as a reflective opposite of Asgard. They built this town of Puente Antiguo at the Cerro Pelon Ranch, aka Cooks Ranch Filming Studio in Galisteo, NM. Turns out Tom Ford owns it and if you're on the market for your own movie ranch, you can buy it from him right now! The elevation of Puente Antiguo matches that of Galisteo. That doesn't track at all based on the mileage from Albuquerque we saw in the One-Shot A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer. The population of Puente Antiguo doesn't make sense at all either. It's over 2000 people which, for this small a town, makes no sense. Even Galisteo only has a population just over 200 people. Where do all these people live? Were they just trying to make it seem like more lives were in danger here in Puente Antiguo when the Destroyer arrives? Hey, they've got at least one big chain! The town is big enough to have a 7-11, but it really feels like a Flying J would make more sense. Then again, why would people drive here? It feels so isolated. We point out the newsstand, the liquor store, and a very prominent billboard advertising the great state of New Mexico while also dropping another comic reference. And of course Smith Motors stands at the end of the main drag, essentially filling in for Valaskjalf in this small town. It's a fantastic design as a defunct car dealership here in Puente Antiguo with a star on top. We love it! The billboard looks like some information has been redacted. Was that left accidentally as something they forgot to clean up? Or was it intentional and meant to be something perhaps graffitied on there? Jane, Erik and Darcy busy themselves in Smith Motors at the end of Puente Antiguo's main street. We join them here where clearly Jane has made her temporary workspace. But is that a crew person in a hammock we see in the next building over? Darcy works overtime in this scene as our audience surrogate because Jane and Erik talk about the possibility of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, or a wormhole. Erik explains to her what that means, so he's essentially explaining it to us. Are superhero films science fiction? Or are they their own genre that happen to be pulling science fiction elements in to enhance the story? The dialogue here feels like the screenwriters had some scientific conversations with people who understand this stuff far better than we do to make sure it sounded somewhat accurate and possible. We talk about impact craters, Straczynski, Puente Antiguo, Einstein-Rosen Bridges, and more in this minute. Tune in! Join the conversation with movie lovers from around the world on The Next Reel's Discord channel! Film Sundries Watch this film: iTunes • Amazon • Netflix • YouTube • Disney+ Join the conversation on Discord Script Transcript Trailer #1 Trailer #2 Poster artwork Original Material ‘Jovial' Jay Shepard at MCU:Location Scout and Retrozap
The topic for this FBTV Podcast --- Double Brokering Also in this episode... It's Veterans DayCourt Grants Emergency Stay On Mandate RequirementInduced Demand? Ain't Gonna Believe This One...ELDs Losing The 3G Network This and more in this FBTV Podcast from TALTOA. https://taltoa.comhttps://freightbrokertv.com
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Key topics in today's conversation include:Oakley Trucking update: owner-operator shoutouts and Flying J discounts (2:39)Re-introducing Toby to the show (5:43)The differences in the level one and annual inspections (6:31)Managing trailer inventory (12:00)Customizing dumps for Oakley (14:33)Being full staffed at the wash shop (18:19)Getting trailers worked on quickly (23:45)Drivers are proud of their trucks and expect the best protections for them (26:19)Automatic transmissions and the compatibility of the DT-12 (30:16)Thank you Toby for taking the time out of your schedule to come back on the Oakley Podcast.Oakley Trucking is a family-owned and operated trucking company headquartered in North Little Rock, Arkansas. For more information, check out our show website: podcast.bruceoakley.com
THE LAZY TRUCKERS OF AMERICA. America is hurting right now and truck drivers that refuse to work are no help. A high percentage of Truckers are still at home collecting money while their brothers and sisters are out on the long road delivering freight across America. This is not only a trucker problem but also a person problem. Ever since the covid-19 issues in 2020, Americans are still trying to hold onto the free money that was given out during uncertain times. Many Americans have been getting an extra chunk of money added unto their unemployment compensation. Many people are taking home $900 per week or better which means there is no need to work. The government has been basically paying people to stay home. What this does is, it insights laziness. Which n turn puts a strain more and more on the working class people, after all it is their labor that is supporting the man that refuses to work. It also is putting America more in debt by the second. We need you. When the corona virus struck last year, it put many people out of work. It also slow down if not shut down many productions. When production was shut down, it created a shortage with many things, such as trailers, rubber, ammunition and many products that are used every day. We need the work force to ramp up production in order to meet the demands of every day life. So its time to get off the couch and do your part. It's time to get back to earning your way in life instead of collecting welfare because, after all, relief is another form of welfare. TalkCDL interviews and more We are once again excepting interviews for the show. TalkCDL is seeking those that are in the trucking industry for upcoming shows. If you are interested in joining the show for a segment, please email us at Troy@TalkCDL.com. If you are a company and wanting to sponsor TalkCDL, please write to Ruthann@TalkCDL.com, a commercial will be created for your company and you will appear on the show to spotlight your business. Trucking Back In The DayTwo Trucking DUI StoriesJohnny Acid & Married to a TruckerTruck Stop Survey! Sapp Bros, TA, Pilot, Loves, Petro and Flying J which do you prefer?S2E27 – Truckers face off with protestersS2E22 – Trucking Company Makes a Mistake. Watch what you say on Facebook
This week on the Back to the Future fishing podcast, we revisit the 80s to chase northern pike in nuthugger shorts, provide tips for saving your pager from an accidental dunking, fish for hotdogs in a truck stop parking lot, and breakdown a lure (and punk record) that changed the way we mosh while throwing swimbaits forever. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch
This week on the Back to the Future fishing podcast, we revisit the 80s to chase northern pike in nuthugger shorts, provide tips for saving your pager from an accidental dunking, fish for hotdogs in a truck stop parking lot, and breakdown a lure (and punk record) that changed the way we mosh while throwing swimbaits forever. Connect with Joe, Miles, and MeatEater Joe and Miles on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Keeslyn Noell Roberts disappeared from a Flying J Truck Stop in Resaca, Georgia on January 18, 2020. In fact, Keeslyn wasn't the only one to go missing from the same spot that week. Is there something going on at the Flying J? What happened to Keeslyn? Support our show & our charity of the month- 'The Charley Project'. Proceeds from the below links will benefit 'The Charley Project'. Become a Patreon Detective with us at: https://www.patreon.com/wherearetheypodcast?fan_landing=true Shop our Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/the-where-are-they-podcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wherearetheypodcast/support
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Keeslyn Roberts was 20-years-old when she went missing on January 18th, 2020 from a Flying J truck stop. She was reported two days later. Her car was found at the Flying J and all of her belongings were left behind. This truck stop happened to be the same exact truck stop that a man went missing on just TWO days before Keeslyn did. The Gordon County Sheriff's office states that they do not believe these cases are connected. But are they? Listen now! Family GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/wsq7et-help-us-find-keeslyn?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp%20share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR2fhaJnGyjabeuzJbgFjk4oqL9DpyOxjncepi06QMqyQNTv30EUEYHS5Wo SUGGEST A CASE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRLzV8NmvFon-1uSotjyFjz6rcf5bY5wjAv4qSOwXP35buYQ/viewform CRIMEAHOLICS FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CrimeaholicsPodcastDiscussionGroup CRIMEAHOLICS ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/crimeaholics.podcast/?hl=en RESOURCES: https://cdllife.com/2020/truckers-daughter-vanishes-under-mysterious-circumstances-from-georgia-flying-j/ https://www.facebook.com/100010371760072/videos/1322894054732974/ https://www.transportationnation.com/trucker-offers-reward-in-desperate-search-to-find-daughter-last-seen-at-flying-j/?fbclid=IwAR2be18XLvgK6KpnTbFfUmhf_KvKKwEUhJPDNsiPLBmWYFhWyq0pIsQL9_U https://www.transportationnation.com/new-evidence-discovered-as-reward-grows-in-search-for-missing-truckers-daughter/ https://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/calhoun_times/missing-murray-woman-last-seen-at-flying-j-in-gordon/article_c83ce034-4910-11ea-86e3-d722df0b2448.html https://wdef.com/2020/02/15/search-continues-missing-woman-gordon-county/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yhLBNW19_c&t=214s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkqRK89xYLg
Kyle the Intern and Big Mo rejoin the Flying J show to breakdown all the action from the Conference Championship games. The crew gets an early start on this off-season's quarterback carousel. Jacob teases upcoming changes to the 1201 lineup.
22 Days till Christmas and Georgia re-opens a weigh station • Bad Week For Mayors• It's The "Hauliday: Giveaway• Bridge Set To Re-Open December 23• Kingman Krazy Arrested For Harassing Drivers This and a lot more on the epidsode of The Kitchen Table for Thursday, December 3, 2020 The Kitchen Table, weekday mornings at 9A.M. Central Time on FBTV Radio FBTV Studio Line - (479) 668-0213Visit our website: https://freightbrokertv.comFBTV Insider: https://fbtvinsider.comOur Sponsor: https://taltoa.comTwitter: @FreightTV (please follow)
When you live the part-time RV life as 'Weekend Wanderers', travel happens on vacations, weekends and school holidays. But - the reality is you CAN travel farther, cover more miles and make more memories on your vacations from work!Over the last 5 years, we've logged over 20,000 km towing our trailer coast to coast and north to south on our vacations from work. In this episode, we're going to show you the tricks and shortcuts that will let you travel and make memories in the far-flung places you've always wanted to go by car. Air travel is great, but there's nothing like a road trip to really see how connected North America is. Here's what we'll cover:How to optimize your departure to cover the most groundTips on how to manage the in-cab experience to travel farther and keep the kids entertainedTime saving tips when you need to overnightReal-life examples of just how far you can go on a one or two week vacation!We think this episode is a super important one, as we know how special and life-changing these memories can be. As a special thank you to our listeners, we've arranged a $5 discount off our favourite planning app, Roadtrippers Plus - which will open your eyes to the fun, quirky, historical and downright amazing things you can see on your trip. Sign up HERE and use the RV Canucks special code: RVCANUCKSAs always - follow us on Facebook and Instagram for the latest updates and Happy Trails!
After we mentioned boondocking in our episode on the five best travel apps, Melina received a text from a friend asking what boondocking was. Turns out, after talking to some of our other RV Newbie friends, our friend wasn't alone! Fast forward to this week, and we've adjusted our podcast schedule to bring you the answer!Essentially, boondocking with your RV or travel trailer is staying somewhere outside a traditional campground where you don't have fresh water, sewer or power connections. Boondocking for us, is a safe night's sleep on our way to our other camping destinations!In this episode we cover (and use the chapter markers in the episode navigation bar if you want to skip to a particular section):What boondocking is [0:59]The difference between RV boondocking, dry camping and dispersed camping [1:35]Why, when, and where to boondock [3:43]Boondocking etiquette (if you only listen to one section - let this be it!) [5:57]And we round out the episode with a review of our recent stay at Bronte Creek Provincial Park in Oakville, Ontario Canada [11:37]Mentioned in this link:How to find Crown Land Camping in Ontario, visit the Crown Land Policy Atlas Camping on public lands in the USA, visit the Bureau of Land ManagementFor our review on Bronte Creek Provincial Park and links to activities, events and bookings, visit our Bronte Creek trip guide
On today's episode, we're talking about the five most essential websites or apps for taking a road trip. And it all starts with hauling our current trailer 3000 kilometers round trip to chase a solar eclipse. (Which was just a good excuse for a road trip and a chance to hit the road.) It was the first time we've taken our 29' trailer and the girls on a really big trip and it was really I think a dry run for bigger things to come. We talk our five favourite apps:RoadtrippersPilot/Flying JRV ParkyGoogle Satelite ViewAllstays Camp & RVWe also talk about some of the best places we've had an overnight at:RV Express 66 RV Park in Marshfield, MOEnchanted Trails RV Park in Albuquerque, NMAnd of course, that famous park that has golf-cart pizza delivery - Ocean Lakes Family Campground in Myrtle Beach, SCFinally, we answer our FIRST listener question about Bike Racks for RVs and Trailers!Don't forget to subscribe and follow us on Instagram @rvcanucks
Andy’s fly cousin Jeff a.k.a Flying J a.k.a The Dixonator joins Andy on Junkyland! Whoa! Jeff pops off about his days as a juvenile delinquent and hardcore boozehound, and Andy and Jeff both reminisce about unpleasant encounters they had with coppers. Topical! More importantly though, Jeff shares how sobriety lead him to live a meaningful […] The post JUNKYLAND 024: “Humane Society Recovery!” appeared first on ANDY GOLD.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Pilot Co., which operates Pilot and Flying J travel centers, has rebranded its commercial-fleet credit card and rewards program. The new Axle Fuel Card promises quick credit approvals and enhanced payment terms, money-back rewards, and loyalty benefits for fleet drivers. “In the current environment, trucking companies and their drivers are facing unprecedented challenges as they work incredibly hard to supply our country. The majority of goods that we rely on every day are transported by truck, and we are committed to doing everything we can to keep them moving,” said Jimmy Haslam, CEO of Pilot Co. “Through the new Axle Fuel Card, we're able to extend much-needed credit to the industry with added rewards for fleets and professional drivers. Our goal is to provide fleets of all sizes with a reliable credit solution that fuels their business and enables them to focus on the road ahead.” The Axle Fuel Card is accepted at more than 950 locations in the U.S. and Canada, including Pilot and Flying J travel centers, the One9 Fuel Network and Pilot Flying J Truck Care Service Centers. The card can be used for fuel purchases, truck care services and select truck merchandise, as determined by each fleet. Pilot Co. says the Axle Fuel Card has no transaction, account management, annual or other hidden fees and that money-back rewards earned go toward fuel purchases. In addition, users have access to an enhanced online account portal. Drivers using the Axle Fuel Card will earn one bonus loyalty point per gallon at Pilot and Flying J locations and two bonus loyalty points per gallon at One9 Fuel Network locations. In addition, cardholders can receive savings at Pilot Flying J Truck care centers, including $30 off any tire or service and 10% off the service center's hourly rate, and there is no callout fee for roadside service. For more information, visit pilotflyingj.com/axle-fuel-card.
What do truckers on the road do if they're feeling sick, particularly in the age of the coronavirus? They often just suck it up. But they also can head to an urgent care center at a truck stop, like the UrgentCare Travel centers found at Pilot and Flying J truckstops. On this week's Drilling Deep podcast, we talk to Mitch Strobin of UrgentCare Travel on what his urgent care centers at those truck stops are doing to cope with the demand for their services coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The centers are the first line of medical treatment for a lot of the drivers keeping the country supplied with goods right now.Also on Drilling Deep, host John Kingston looks at some recent numbers coming out of the diesel market. They point to lower prices but more worrisome, they also point to a lot lower demand, a sign of the weakening for trucking services.More FreightWaves podcastsApple PodcastsSpotify
What do truckers on the road do if they're feeling sick, particularly in the age of the coronavirus? They often just suck it up. But they also can head to an urgent care center at a truck stop, like the UrgentCare Travel centers found at Pilot and Flying J truckstops. On this week's Drilling Deep podcast, we talk to Mitch Strobin of UrgentCare Travel on what his urgent care centers at those truck stops are doing to cope with the demand for their services coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The centers are the first line of medical treatment for a lot of the drivers keeping the country supplied with goods right now.Also on Drilling Deep, host John Kingston looks at some recent numbers coming out of the diesel market. They point to lower prices but more worrisome, they also point to a lot lower demand, a sign of the weakening for trucking services.More FreightWaves podcastsApple PodcastsSpotify
Welcome to the Stay Your Ass Inside episode of the W(S)P. On this One Hundred and First episode I give a PSA for everyone to stay home, that includes you Dak Prescott, Dak and Dez play flag football instead of taking their asses inside, people all over the world act like grown children, first graders are now taking online courses, a Turd Ferguson licks a Flying J toilet seat and gets the Rona, Todd Gurley becomes Eddie Bravo's best evidence of a Flat Earth, Tony vs. Khabib is officially off, Mcgregor says he's in Vegas and ready for Tony, Masvidal and Usman are yip yapping, Billy Joe Saunders makes an instructional on how to beat up your Betty, and as with all previous 100 episodes of the W(S)P, all kinds of miscellaneous gum bumping. Seth Geko Music and the W(S)P on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/11YKjFUgJooKWemJveZF0N?si=vfFbc1zeToiRy32KrPXenw Instagram: @therealsethgeko The W(S)P official playlist on Spotify: "That Ol' Dope Shit"
What a fun and educational episode. We learn that there was no water before Noah and his big ol’ boat. Luke learns some earth science and how time works, and we debate whether fruit is alive or dead. Did you know that plane’s have basements? Well we do and we discuss all the things you can do in them. Big thanks to our sponsors, Flying J pizza and Mr. Lee’s Home Security. Send us any unconventional solutions, ideas, art, or just say hi at Nicolparktours@gmail.com or on Instagram @nicol_park_podcast.
We unpack another tricky episode as Fresh Off the Boat tries to determine the truth about “The Real Santa” in this season two episode of the ABC sitcom (available on Hulu).Other complex Christmas conversations include: Hated holiday carols, whether Jingle Bells is public domain, complicated Santa Claus coverup schemes, people loving Santa, the horrors of Sinterklass, is Collateral a Christmas movie, the brilliance of Constance Wu and Randall Park, Lao Ban Santa vs. Lo Pan Santa, Brian starts bits he can’t finish, Godwin’s law, the art of letting it ride, gift ideas from the Flying J truck stop, we confront our whiteness, and appreciate Ray Wise. IMDB for this episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5159444/
I met Mr. Curry in person for the first time back in August of this year on the Inner City Visit to Louisville, KY were both invited to join by Greater Fort Wayne. We introduced ourselves in the parking lot of a Flying J rest stop half way to Louisville. From that brief interaction, I knew I needed to spend some additional time getting to know Mr. Curry as we talked briefly about relational engagement, listening to neighbors, and the high level neuroscience of social connectivity. I'm a thinker, observer, and learner by nature and when I meet people like Mr. Curry, I feel like I find a new friend. We spent some additional time together on that trip, including catching dinner together where we discussed heavy justice related topics, the feelings of not being understood, the often mis-aligned relief and aid efforts of well intentioned development, and visions of how to approach community building differently. The only thing we solved that night was that we appreciated each others pursuit of knowledge and commitment to their work, a recognition that the work we do is hard but necessary, and that we should connect more. This podcast is a continued pursuit of getting to know Mr. Curry, what motivates his work, and how his approach to youth development feels like a breathe of fresh air. Mr. Curry's innate curiosity and commitment to find answers to the massive questions he asks continues to awake himself to the greater story that he is finding himself in. Mr. Curry spends quite a bit of time talking about the significant moments throughout his childhood that broadened his worldview and set him on a pursuit of deep scholarly knowledge, cross cultural and artistic experiences, and global pursuits to learn from others. For 29 years old, Mr. Curry has experienced more than many of us will experience in a lifetime and he's just getting started. I imagine that Mr. Curry is often misunderstood, but I think many of us just haven't gone on as deep of a dive into our curiosity, our history, and are willing to dive into the complexity of brokenness that exists in our community and in our own lives to be able to hang onto Mr. Curry's perspectives. I'm taking away from my conversations with Mr. Curry a deeper desire to dive in deeper rather than to pull away as I know I have a lot to learn by being present in complex conversations rather than allowing what I don't know to scare me away from them. Lean into it. What Mr. Curry is doing with the Art Leadership Center, his relatively new company that takes a fresh approach to youth development is really inspiring. Adrian's approach to youth development is “designed for the systematic development of leaders of character with a global conscience that serve underdeveloped and underrepresented communities Nationally and Internationally.” Mr. Curry is taking all that he's learned from the youth centers that impacted his life, his perseverance through his own personal struggles, his global travel, his neuroscience and psychology education, and his extensive step dancing background to teach kids about holistic health that comes through learning, application, and discipline. I first saw Art Leadership Center in action at a Black History Month Celebration earlier in 2019 and you can tell the approach is having an impact. If you've not seen the students and Mr. Curry in action, I would recommend you check out their schedule and prioritize it. Mr. Curry, thank you for being you and spending time with me. I look forward to our friendship growing. I'm wishing you all the success and collaborating in some way to bring life, joy, and celebration to neighborhoods in Fort Wayne.
Hotel employee stayed at work during the flooding to assist people...the Flying J in New Caney stayed open to help people stranded by the Imelda flooding...and 16-year old Jayden Payne, from Aldine High School, who saved a Mom and her daughter from the floodwaters...
Classic style episode with just the two review boys on this one. We get into some shit on this talking about a Flying J in Indiana, a Family Dollar in Mississippi, and mother freaking Mount Rushmore. We also try to get to the bottom of this whole "Q" business. If you want to submit a review to us send a screenshot of it including the name of the place being reviewed at onestarcast@gmail.com Music for this week is Dream CD by Histrionic check their stuff out here: https://histrionic.bandcamp.com/album/diary-party https://open.spotify.com/artist/5zcgn3CC6BgIqOCTjCzdNa?si=ntgnD5z2TMqObTiH7Ff_PA https://music.apple.com/us/artist/histrionic/1448284814
Classic style episode with just the two review boys on this one. We get into some shit on this talking about a Flying J in Indiana, a Family Dollar in Mississippi, and mother freaking Mount Rushmore. We also try to get to the bottom of this whole "Q" business. If you want to submit a review to us send a screenshot of it including the name of the place being reviewed at onestarcast@gmail.com Music for this week is Dream CD by Histrionic check their stuff out here: https://histrionic.bandcamp.com/album/diary-party https://open.spotify.com/artist/5zcgn3CC6BgIqOCTjCzdNa?si=ntgnD5z2TMqObTiH7Ff_PA https://music.apple.com/us/artist/histrionic/1448284814
Spencer and Chris go over the Infamous Doctor Death: Christopher Duntsch and the crimes of Aileen Wournos.
Whether you’re a trainee or veteran driver, this episode will be the best 30 minutes of entertainment you’ve heard in a while. Trainer Mike Cline took CFO Bill Wettstein out on the road as a trainee for a week. And the stories are just as good as you’re imagining. Fresh Off the Asphalt We caught Bill and Mike for this interview straight from the interstate. Bill’s fresh first impressions are cringeworthy, laughable, and unfiltered. Relive the adventure, and share a chuckle or two, with Mike and Bill. “I told Mike, ‘Alright, I’m going to do less than five mistakes here.’ And I don’t think I got away from the guard shack before I had two…” From Desk Chair to Driver’s Seat Bill vividly compares and contrasts his daily life in the office to his daily life in the truck cab. And what are his weak points? Even though Bill signs the paychecks at the end of the day, Mike’s not afraid to bare the truth. “Well I think I might have won because at the very beginning of the first day you said, ‘Mike, you’re the boss.’” No preamble can do this raw, rushed episode justice – press play for instant entertainment. Quotes “What surprised me was how misunderstood the truck driver is out there. Just dealing with the public.”“Backing – I can do it. I need to get out and look and to pull forward a lot more than anyone else that drives for us does.”“Now, did you hit anything?”“Not that I’m aware of.”“Good enough!”“His lane departure system warning in his truck works quite well… one night, I told my wife, ‘If he tells me one more time to stay in my lane, I’m going to scream!’”“I could feel my whole body stiffen up, and I thought, ‘Ok, I’m done with that lane departure warning!’”“I never got to honk at anyone. It’s a pity!”“We took four weeks of training and crammed it into one.” – Mike “Yeah, we staged that one but the other 999 were not staged.”“I told Mike, ‘Alright, I’m going to do less than five mistakes here.’ And I don’t think I got away from the guard shack before I had two…”“The one way I figured out how to make Mike be quiet and not coach me is… to… go… slowww…”“Well I think I might have won because at the very beginning of the first day you said, ‘Mike, you’re the boss.’”“I really hope people recognize that. That management does care. It’s not us vs. them.”“Mike was in the truck stop, and he told me just to park the truck. I mean seriously, how hard can that be? And I got myself in a jam over there in Lebanon at the Flying J. I got out of it, but my three minutes without him with me proved to myself I’m not ready to roll.” Pics/Video
This week Dan and Andy are joined by as somewhat special guest, Andy’s brother, Jeffrey—a multilingual world traveler, to review I Love Tacos Taqueria, the humble food truck parked near the Flying J in northwest Springfield. They begin by discussing their experiences with last week’s live show, including stuff they forgot to talk about and some listener corrections. Later Andy unveils a new song called “I Love Every Taco,” and then later the Foodmales introduce a profoundly unoriginal new segment called Last Meal. It’s a fun time!Support the show!
The three-quarters of a century episode of the W(S)P is now live!! I'm back and today I got fight talk, UFC 237 predictions, The Triple Champ starts camp for "Danger" Cerrone set for the year 2040, Greg Hardy fights a janitor from the Flying J, I got Game Of Thrones reactions, OBJ shows up as Arya Stark at the Met Gala, I recap the NFL Draft, I ask ESPN to come get their boy Chris Mortenson, I discuss the NBA Playoffs and how Ayesha Curry messed up Steph, I talk some new Hip Hop, an asshole gets duffed out by a group of nerds at an Avengers End Game premier, and of course plenty of miscellaneous ish talking. The W(S)P seventy-five deep and nowhere close to slowing down! Seth Geko Music: soundcloud.com/chris-guy-5 Instagram: @therealsethgeko W(S)P Spotify Playlist: "That Ol Dope Shit" Holler at the W(S)P: sethgeko858@yahoo.com
Mister and Height Keech break down the newest Mister single, recap their week of shows and discuss mystery men seen in a Flying J bathroom.
A brief broadcast from a Flying J. Josh talks about what $100 gets you these days.
There are no words. David’s life is crazy. For real, son. Here’s this week’s episode of Useless Drivel – A Podcast Without a Point. TOPICS DISCUSSED – Deloreans, AirBnB, Tempe Arizona, R. Kelly, Flying J, Cabazon Dinosaurs, Nose Beer, Avengers: Infinity War, Evita, The Handmaiden’s Tale, SDCC 2018, Dracula, Cobra Kai, Persona 5 Anime, UnderTow, Cuddle … Continue reading →(Read more...)Categories: "The" David Apps Comic Books Comics Drinking Food Movies Music News Podcast Pop-Culture Ramblings Useless DrivelTags: AirBnBAnimeAvengers: Infinity WarCabazon DinosaursCobra KaiCocaineCuddle PuddleDeloreansDraculaEarthquakesEvitaFlashpoint ParadoxFlying JGentrificationLarge MargeNose BeersPersona 5 Anim...
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Troy and Johnny Acid break down a truck stop survey on 6 big Truck Stop Chains. Of course they do it a little different than most hosts would, if you can call them that. Find out what truckers prefer. Also tune in and hear some of the complaints and reasons why truck drivers have their favorites. TalkCDL starts now!
Becoming Your Best | The Principles of Highly Successful Leaders
The Transformation Challenge: The Six Steps of Planning and Execution Welcome to our podcast listeners wherever you might be in the world today, this is Steve Shallenberger your host. And have you ever had a big problem in your life, a challenge or a tremendous potential opportunity and not really sure how to tackle it? How to start? How do you develop it? How do I solve this problem? And sometimes the problems are highly emotional or discouraging. You're just not sure what direction to turn. Have you ever been immobilized by a problem so big that you just couldn't get going on it? Well, today we're going to talk about a tremendous process, it's an invitation really to each one of us of how to take our bad where it exists and make it better. And how to take your good and make it better. And how do we take our better and make our best and there is a process, it's a challenge really to each one of us. We call it the Transformation Challenge, and it is an invitation to each one of us to take these types of situations and transform them into something that is good, better and best. And how do we get the best results? This is the Transformation Challenge. When they come down the pike at us, whether it's a threat, or an opportunity, or a problem that we say we will take it on we because of our leadership, because of our commitment to get things to a better place, we will transform this. And so, let's go, game on. This is the idea, it's almost a response. So, we'll talk about a skill that you can use over and over and over again, that you can be courageous that you can have confidence, and be excited to tackle things. Wouldn't that be wonderful? And not only that, you can teach the transformation challenge to every member of your team. I'd like to give the background to the transformation challenge, The Six Steps of Planning and Execution. That's really the subtitle. About 30 years ago, I was working with an outstanding organization that has had a company named Buffalo Rock, one of the top Pepsi distributors in the world. They've been in business like for over 125 years and really great at what they do. I'll never forget as we're having the chance to work together that Jim, one of the very... he was the Executive VP of the company was sharing with me about a book that he read and he said, "This is the best book that I've ever read on planning and execution." And something happened to me that day that I said, "Hold it, this is a big part of what highly successful leaders do, the best of the best." And so, what is it? This is a learned skill and that if we can learn this skill, it helps us to get to a better place. So, I started researching and studying every bit of literature that I could find. Books, magazines, Harvard Business Review, the Stanford work that they had done and really from the best business schools in the world on planning and execution. How do we solve problems? And after all that time, I started developing some ideas. It had to be simple, it had to be something that anybody could really learn to apply from a child to a seasoned executive of a billion-dollar company. Could we really do that? Could that exist? Well, in the meantime, as many of you know, we've had a couple of sons who have been F16 pilots among other things. Another one has been an engineer and a lawyer, another got his master's in accountancy and so on. So, these you know, it's really been fun to watch them be thinkers about these kinds of things. Well Rob, as he is getting ready to get out of the United States Air Force, and we have decided to work together in a leadership training firm, he brought to bear as we talked about these Six Steps of Plan and Execution, this transformation challenge. He brought with him all of his experience in the Air Force world who are experts in planning and execution. Their ultimate success depends on being really the best in planning and execution and carrying out a mission. And so, what we did as we pulled these two worlds together, this experience that I had had and also planned it myself as a business executive and a leader, but also then bringing in Rob's experience and this is how we came up with the transformation challenge, The Six Steps of Plan and Execution. So, what are they? How can they be used? Well, you can use it virtually in any imaginable situation. How to increase sales, how to improve a relationship, how to save a relationship, how to save a marriage, how to improve operating margins, how to grow your revenues, how to take advantage of an opportunity if you're an entrepreneur, how do I really get this idea going and make it a success and how do I overcome depression? Well, let me first teach the six steps, and I invite you and challenge you to see if you can memorize these six steps by the time I've done. See if you can get them down cold and then they'll serve as a reflex, a guide any time you have an issue to move right into the transformation challenge you say, I've got this. And this is a lot different than a transaction challenge, a transaction could just be so routine and we don't think of all of the capacity to leave things better than when we found them. That's the heart and soul of the transformation challenge, to leave things better, leave a better world. To leave a better company, to have a better relationship. So, these are the ideas, here they are. Here are The Six. The first is, what is the vision? Typically, when we have a problem, we start with the problem when we try to solve it. We say, I've got this problem, but that is just exactly the wrong place to start. As leaders, what we wanna do is shift the playing field and take it to what is the vision? And you'll notice this elevates all of your thinking, it helps to see the problem in the perspective of a bigger picture. And so, many times a problem is weighed down with emotion or conflict or other people are involved, and it can get you're really off on the wrong pathway. So, when you shift it to saying, what is the vision, it helps get us to a better place and it puts the problem in a perspective and a way to deal with it. That is order number one, what is the vision? Step number two, what is the current reality? So, determine whether what you're currently doing aligns with the vision and will help accomplish your goals, and so this may seem simple, but it actually can be quite challenging. So, for example, how many banks since that there was a problem in 2007 when just a year later, there was a total collapse of our financial system creating this huge recession and even in many people's lives a depression. Or in a marriage, one partner might feel like, and you may know somebody where this has happened. Like everything is fine while the other partner's ready for a divorce. I mean, how many partners have been surprised that they came home and there's the paper sitting on the table seeking the divorce where they had no idea it was coming? So, be thoughtful and considerate yet brutally honest when looking at the current reality. And so, what you're doing is you're like a fly on the wall, you're saying, here's the vision, but what is the current reality? And if there is a gap between these two, that is the signal that you'll go through all six steps and apply the six steps to get to a better place. On the other hand, if there's no gap as you do this gap analysis, and your current reality is equal to what your vision is, then you just keep doing it. This is what you wanna do. But if there is a gap and you need to go through the six steps, then step three is, what is the real issue here? What's the cause of this gap? It's important to identify the real problem that's causing this gap between the current reality and the vision or your goals. And if you're not focused on the real issues and causes, it's easy to get distracted by secondary factors. So, the real issue is often allusive and you want to identify the root cause, the real problem, question or opportunity. And so, what you're gonna do is, be sure you keep an open mind, don't jump to conclusions, suspend your judgment and just analyze the facts. One of my favorite quotes has always been, "Get the facts or leave it alone or the conclusions you come to may be your own." Well, so analyzing this fact is a critical step and you're asking, What? How? and continue to ask why until you have the real cause. And rarely, are the initial ideas about causes correct. And when you continue asking why, and usually at least five times, the real cause is uncovered or determined. And I found that determining the real cause may take 10 minutes, it may take 10 days, it may take longer if it's a complicated issue. So, we're sure that we identify the real issue so we can solve the right problem. Step four, now let's just repeat the first three because you're gonna get these memorized so they can become reflex. Number one is, you shift everything to what is the vision. Number two, what's the current reality and as you compare those two if there's a gap you go through the six steps and move right to number three which is, what is the real cause? And once we identify the real cause, then we can go to Step four, what are the best options? And this is a fun part of the six steps because once the real problem, issue or opportunity is identified, we can work to find the best options. And this is brainstorming all the way I mean, you're listing all the options and solutions and you can ask whether each is feasible or ethical at the end, but what you do is, you come up with this bigger list as you can and you'll notice that encouragement and hope, and energy starts coming into this process and you may have started with a very heavy problem, but as soon as you start getting into this part, light starts coming into your life. And then once you have your list, you can weigh the possible options using a balance sheet. Positives on the left and negatives on the right and which alternative might be among the best and you can rank them one, two and three. And from this, now you're starting to develop a course of action with the best options first. So, this is Step four. What are the options and which ones would be the best courses to go. And this leads us right into step five. And Step five is that, we implement the best options, we implement a plan. So, all of the steps up to this point will help prevent the development of a plan that wastes time and resources by not accomplishing the vision or by maybe focusing erroneously on the wrong cause. Now, we're headed in the right direction. By this time, the real issues or the problems should have been identified and at least one viable solution or idea has been generated. Now, we'll walk through the specific steps in developing the plan and every step of this plan is important and critical to the overall success of the plan. And so, here are some of the components that we're gonna want to ask as we implement the plan. That's Step five, implement the plan. So, we list the key stakeholders or any additional inputs from them. We want to share with them the process we've gone through, some of the conclusions we've come to and get their thoughts and ideas. This will help improve then the implementation. What are the factors or threats that could affect this plan? So, we briefly pause and examine the external environment. We consider any of the threats from the external environment that could impact this plan and once they've been identified, we can put the proper steps to address these threats into the actual plan and what we're going to do. These are examples and I'll give a few examples in a moment of the application of the transformation challenge, the six steps to plan and execution. And then list the factors that could affect the plan whatever they might be, and as we do that then we start actually coming up with who will do what, when? What are the systems and structures and resources that are required to leverage put this plan into action. By the way a little sidestep here, and the Pentagon when the war plans are developed, they have something called "The Red Team". So, people that have not been involved in the planning process are invited in, these are very capable people and they actually look for flaws in the plan that's been put together and offer recommendations. And then once they've done that, they leave and the group that's been making this plan can contemplate the outside observations. The plan is then put into practice who's gonna do what, when and that is step five and it's kind of fun I think for all involved, for whoever's developing this plan to put together an executive summary of the six steps that you've gone through. Here's the vision, here's the current reality, here's the real issue, the process we went through to thinking about this, here is the brainstorming that took place on the options and weighing the pros and the cons and why we came up with the best options and now, here are the steps that we put together to implement the plan. This can be done on one page actually, an executive summary to give to your key stakeholders and before you really implement it, then you can invite final suggestions and then of course, it is the introduction of the plan, the rollout of the plan that's all part of the implementation. And last of all is, we evaluate step six, the results. So, we have put together a plan, we've said here's the problem, here's the opportunity. So, in that regard, here's the vision. Here's the current reality, here are the real causes, here are the options that we have. Now, here are the best options and how we're gonna implement this plan and how did we do? Did it solve it? Is the new result in line with our vision? If so, we keep doing it. However, if we're off the mark, then we can go back through the six steps. Let me just now illustrate a few case studies that helps illustrate how we can take this transformation challenge and get things to a better place by effective planning and execution using these six steps. One is the Challenger disaster that took place and as of course, the vision is what? The vision is to send our astronauts in the space with the shuttle on the shuttle program and bring them back safely having accomplished the mission objectives. Well, in the case of the Challenger, the current reality is, there was a disaster. The Challenger exploded and all perished and that was the current reality and so, there is a definite gap between the two. Now, what we need to do is what is the cause? And as the engineers and the leaders started going down the list of the real causes, it was cold, okay? Well, all right. What else happened because it was cold? Well, the O-rings were frozen, they didn't work. That's what caused the explosion, okay? So, why did we launch with the O-rings... now, just think what would have happened if the engineers those in charge would have stopped with that problem thinking that was the cause. Well, then they're gonna solve this problem, apply the rest of the things to the O-rings, but that wasn't the real problem. So, they kept going deeper and the problem was to go no go process in place, that there wasn't a way for people to speak up and stop the launch if they saw a problem. And so, indeed that was the problem and they were able to come up with a process, a way to create a failsafe go, no go process. And this prevented any future disasters from their launches. Of course, there've been other problems on the reentry, again, we go through the same process. This is how it is applied and we evaluate the results, we got a good result and let me just give a few other examples. A good friend of mine Crystal Maggelet is an outstanding person. I mean, she's one of the best people I know. Her father Jay Call, also a tremendous entrepreneur, he developed a set of truck stops called Flying J. Very successful throughout our country, Jay loved flying and his name was Jay so he called it The Flying J. They built this company to be one of the most successful in the country as Crystal was growing up, and came to the point where she could... she graduated from college, she could go to a graduate school, she chose the Harvard Business School, and was able to get in and had a great experience. That's where she met her husband Chuck. And some years ago, it's now probably been about 14 to 15 years ago, and Jay was flying to one of their executives with his wife, and one of them, he had been recovering from cancer I believe it was, and for some R and R. And during this trip, while he was flying their jet there was a problem that developed and an accident that took place and they all perished in the accident. It was a terrible tragedy for all of us who new Jay. Crystal sat on the board of Flying J, and within a short period of time, the CEO came to the board and said we have a problem. We are going to have a requirement for $400 million in cash within the coming month and we don't have it. We've tapped out all of our lines of credit, we simply don't have the resources and they looked in disbelief they said, "How could this ever happen?" And he had been running the company for some time and maybe hadn't been all the best that communicate in some of the decisions. The short of it was that after a crucial meeting they realized that the directions they were going were different and he resigned and Crystal became the president. She was an excellent business person in her own right, she had started a set of Hotels called The Crystal Lands and had been successful. But here Crystal was right in the middle of the biggest crisis they had ever had that threatened their future existence. The pundits said and the professional said they needed to... they were gonna go out of business. They were gonna go out of business, the employees are gonna lose their jobs, they're gonna have to close the doors. They simply didn't have options to come up with this money, they were gonna have to liquidate. There was doom and gloom all over the company and I think intuitively and instinctively, Crystal applied these six steps of planning and execution. And as she described it, she was so discouraged she just didn't know what to do. She was overwhelmed, but one day she woke up and realized that the vision needed to be save the company. And remember, everybody's focus is, how do we come up with the cash? But, the vision was shifted, there it was, save the company. And as soon as they did this, they sprang into action they said, "Okay, what's the current reality," and they got their key executives together. Crystal said, "We're gonna get in this room here today and we're not leaving until we come up with a plan and the vision is save the company." And so, they realized the current reality is that they were threatened with bankruptcy. They needed $400 million immediately and they didn't have it that was current reality. So, they then went to the step three, what are the causes for this gap that we have? And as they talked about it and did this analysis and went through the facts and asked why, why, why? They realized that two predominate factors had taken place. One is, they had invested in an oil refinery, it was going to cost, it was an older one, but they felt like it would be helpful to them. The spent several hundred million dollars and invested in this older plant, they're gonna have to renew it, and rebuild it, remodel it, bring it up to speed and that this had taken a lot of their valuable cash. The other is that they'd gotten into the pipeline business of shipping oil out from the Gulf, they had hundreds of millions of dollars of oil in the pipeline and the price of oil was dropping. So, these were the factors their primary business was very successful and they were being profitable there, but these two are what cost them the money. So now, they could go to Step four which is, what are the options? And the options they brainstorm, they came up with 15 different things they could do to save the company. They took the best ones and they came up with a plan of who would do what, when and where. When they left that meeting, Crystal described that they were excited, they were focused, there was fresh energy and it took about a year for them to fully execute this plan and involved a chapter eleven bankruptcy where they could have some protection and room to operate. They implemented some other measures including divest in themselves of the processing plant and also divest in themselves of the pipeline. They got the business back in order on their core business, they made some other key steps. The ultimate result a year later is that they came out of the Chapter eleven bankruptcy, they had satisfied every one of their obligations a 100% and the resulting company was a more successful company than they had had before by far. Now, this is a clear example of these six steps it gives you a starting point, but we have other examples. For example, you can do this informally. I was out jogging one morning with my daughter about seven or eight years ago, she was a junior in high school and loved soccer. We lived in Spain for three years, it got in her blood and so, she played a lot of club soccer, she played in high school and so she was contemplating playing soccer in college. And she said, I'm just trying to think about this dad and what we ought to do. So, here we are out just jogging along and so I decided without doing this formally, just take her through the process, six steps. So, I said, "What's your vision? And look how this focused discussion, how it's different. It wasn't, what college should I go to or you know, who do I pick. It was, I wanna go to an outstanding college, I wanna have a good environment, I wanna gain a good education, I wanna be where there are really good guys, dad. And where I can be happy. I'd like to be away from home, but not too far and so that was her vision. And we said, what's the current reality? And the current reality is, well, I'm a junior in high school and just getting going and I don't know a lot about the possibilities. Okay, what's the cause? And sometimes when you're planning in the future, it's not so much a cause, but it's what are the key factors? The things that might affect this decision and she said, "Well, I'm gonna need to visit, I'm gonna need to do some research, I'm gonna need to have a really good junior and senior years as a soccer player and then set up a list of criteria." Great, all right. So, what are the options? She says, "Well, I can set up a plan, I think I'll list 12 colleges I'd like to go to. I can look at each of the things, factors that are important and I can set up a rating system." And I said, okay. These are really good ideas, so the plan then was actually went into implementation. And so, as we talked about this, she said I need to write it down, get my colleges clear and then I'll weigh each one out. And so, that's exactly what she did. She set up the plan, started contacting colleges, set up a little informational sheet for herself, a bio if you will with her picture, with her accomplishments and she went to work. She had a number of full ride offers and she ended up actually choosing a college that I was a little surprised about. It was the archrival to the university town that we live in. It was the University of Utah and Pac 12 and we live about three minutes from Brigham Young University, and so, this was her choice and now that her college career is over, she had a great experience, she met great friends, she'll never forget that experience, it helped pay for her college, she met a wonderful young man who was a football player, he was the kicker for the Utah team and she graduated with a bachelor's degree in entrepreneurship and so here we are. There we go. See, I just can't imagine what would have happened if we didn't apply something like this transformation challenge, the six steps that made it so simple. Well, that's it today folks. So, let's just think about these six steps, here they are. Let's see if you've got them. Number one is, you shifted to what? To the vision. What's the vision? Any problem you have, any opportunity. Number two, what's the current reality and you do a gap analysis. Number three, right, what's the real cause for the problem? And we ask what, why, why, why, why, why, why and we really drill down, we pull back the layers. And your number four, what are the options? What are the possible options? We brainstorm and this is exciting. And number five, we implement the best options. And we talked about the things there. And number six, we evaluated, how did we do? What's the result? Well, this has been great folks, I hope that you've got a few ideas I challenge each one of you to start practicing this. Teach it to others you can use it formally or informally. One of our key managers for our team came to me, he started... he learned this like four years ago, and practiced it, and I guarantee you this key manager transformed an industry by taking a problem and taking that problem as a $25,000 administrative problem, and turned it into a $30 million contract. I'm not kidding, it was this that caused that to happen with his intellect, he took it and it helped him get to a better place. That took about six years to do by the way. And just three or four months ago, we were talking about this and he said, "Steve," he said I want you to know this is Matt and Doug, they were telling me this. He said, I walked into a meeting with some of our managers and they were using the six-step process to solve a problem that they had and they were gonna bring the solution to me. Now, isn't that what every manager wants? You want others doing this, thinking about how to solve the problems before they come up rather than bringing it to you and say, "What do you think we ought to do?" Well, that's the idea. Finally, then we evaluate and we see how we did. Well, remember as we do this, you will make a difference and this is Steve Shallenberger wishing you a great day. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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