Podcasts about frankensteining

On this weeks episode, I'm sitting down with footwear wizard Vinnie Tao from Sneaker Pharm. Vinnie loves shoes. Restoring them, tweaking them, Frankensteining em. Anything that'll give them a longer, better or more loved life. He's an appreciator of great design and the value that can create in an object and I'm buzzing to chat to him about his combined love of footwear culture and sustainability.If you're loving this series of My Own Garms and you want to show some love for what we're doing here. Get over to pattern.com/myowngarms and chuck us a few quid. There's a few levels depending on how flush your feeling and if you're skint, that's cool. We'll just keep doing what we're doing anyway. Big shout out to the musicians whose tunes you've heard on this series. Ocsar Kenny, Sam Black, Dave Shurr. Very grateful to you lot for sharing your ace music with us. And also a big thanks to Trailberg who are supporting the series. Appreciate you a lot.Right let's get to it. This is Vinnie Tao on My Own Garms…Vinnie from Sneaker Pharm joins us to talk about repairing kicks, restoring memory, and building a fashion philosophy rooted in punk, purpose, and play. From the smell of waxed jackets to the rise of repair culture, this episode digs into what makes good design last — not just physically, but emotionally. It's about more than trainers. It's about the stories they carry.If you love this ep then drop us a comment on YouTube, a review on Apple Podcasts, or a comment on Spotify Get at us on the socials and let us know what you thought, we're @myowngarms everywhereIf you wanna support us with a little donation head to patron.com/myowngarms If you want to advertise with us, slide into the DMs. We'll have a chat.My Own Garms is a video podcast. You can watch on ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠. There's gonna be loads of clips on ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ (@myowngarms). But if you just want the audio, then you can find us wherever you usually listen to your podcasts.

More than a year ago, the U.S. Air Force took on the unique task of taking two wrecked aircraft and Frankensteining them together into one operational F-35A Lightning II. Now, after a whole lot of weird science, it's alive!In late 2023, the F-35 Joint Program Office assembled a “dream team” consisting of the 388th Fighter Wing, the Ogden Air Logistics Complex and Lockheed Martin. The mission: rebuild an AF-211 that lost its nose cone in 2021 using the front end of an F-35 that suffered a severe engine fire in 2014. The endeavor was affectionately called the “Franken-bird” project.

If you've been stuck in an endless cycle of tweaking, redesigning, and overanalyzing your UX resume, this episode is for you. Sarah breaks down why perfectionism keeps you from landing interviews, how to shift your mindset, and what you should focus on instead. She also shares why conflicting resume advice from too many sources slows you down and how Career Strategy Lab can help you streamline your job search with a clear, strategic approach.Plus, Sarah announces the 1-Week Resume Sprint happening February 10-14, 2025, where you'll create a recruiter-ready, ATS-optimized resume in just five days. Save 35% with the code RESUMELASTCALL. What You'll Learn in This Episode:✅ Why endlessly tweaking your resume is delaying your job search✅ The dangers of Frankensteining feedback from multiple sources✅ How to create a minimum viable resume and start applying now✅ The biggest resume myths that might be holding you back✅ Why clarity in your resume, LinkedIn, and portfolio is crucial for landing interviews✅ How Career Strategy Lab can help you build a job search strategy that worksJoin the 1-Week Resume Sprint (Feb 10-14, 2025):If you're ready to stop overthinking your resume and start getting interviews, join Sarah for a 5-day Resume Sprint inside Career Strategy Lab. You'll get step-by-step lessons, feedback, and expert guidance to create a recruiter-friendly resume that actually works.

To kick off 2025, Did I Do That? is turning back the clock back to the waning days of Brat Summer for Fontroversy, live at the AIGA Design Conference! Host Lena Hall (freelance designer) and producer Sean Schumacher (Host of Did I Do That? and Ass't Professor at PSUGD) talk through type's best known knock-off(?), Arial. Is it a grotesque Frankensteining or merely a case of typeface carcinisation? Is Arial hate the design blogosphere's first hot take? Is Lena the only person ever to have actually watched the Minecraft: Story Mode show?ABOUT THE SHOW: Fontroversy is a limited series podcast created by Portland State University Graphic Design students in 2023. You can learn more about PSU's Schnitzer School of Art, Art History, and Design at pdx.edu/art-design. This edition was presented as part of the AIGA Design Conference in October 2024. Special thanks to Lee-Sean Huang and the team at AIGA for selecting us to be a part of the conference. We

We jump right into our highlights of #Olympics2024, everything from the cycling, to the triple jump, to ping pong. If you missed any of the big moments from Paris, tune in here to get caught up. On to the movie, Mad Cow: A mad scientist vows to continue his quest to create the perfect super-soldier by Frankensteining a bunch of body parts from powerful physical specimens. What could go wrong? Well, if the only head he has access to is that of a Holstein Friesian, things can go sideway quickly...and boy do they ever. Luckily a crack squad of very special police and the T.W.A.T are around the protect the citizenry. Night of the Wererooster final grade: Steve This one would be an easy top-shelfer, were it not for the last 10 minutes. Bad acting, but funny writing that draws from other classic comedies was great. Unfortunately, gotta dock them for the extended ending. 3.69/5.0 Brandon There were plenty of laughs in this one, but at some point, it seemed like they were trying to hard. The good jokes could have hit better with more setup. Trying to do a Monty Python/National Lampoon/Every other funny move ever got a little busy. 3.56/5 Cocktail of the Week: Gin Daisy 1 1/2 oz Dry Gin, but it was good with "Gin" too 1/2 oz Fancy Grenadine 1/4 oz Benedictine Dom 3/4 oz Fresh-Squeezed Lemon Juice Topo Chico or other sparkling water Add all ingredients to a shaking tin. Shake over ice to combine, then strain over ice in a rocks glass. Top with Topo Chico. Garnish with lemon wheel. Cocktail Grade: Another Anders Erickson homerun. Delicious, refreshing. Goes down faster than you'd think. 5/5 Fancy Grenadine Recipe 450 g granulated sugar 300 g 100% Unsweetened Pomegranate Juice 20 g Pomegranate Molasses 5 ml Rose Water Heat sugar, juice, and molasses to a saucepan. Heat and stir to dissolve sugars. Cool and then stir in the rose water. Yields about one quart. ------------------ Contact us with feedback or cocktail/movie recommendations to: boozeandbmovies@gmail.com X: @boozeandbmovies Instagram: @boozeandbmovies Threads: @boozeandbmovies www.facebook.com/boozeandbmovies --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/boozeandbmovies/support

2nd of a few episodes recapping the first half of 2024:

This is the first of a few episodes that recap the first half of the year: buying, selling, subbing, Frankensteining, etc. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gamegallery/message

Bruno, of O.C. Tanner, stops by to talk Rolex and Registry of Interest. He shares his horology journey and reveals his real age. The guys each come to terms with their relationships with the Wilsdorf Empire. Aaron drinks the Kool-Aid and new vows for Frankensteining are conjured.

DMA'S is an iconic Australian indie rock band known for their infectious melodies, nostalgic yet contemporary sound, and compelling songwriting, seamlessly blending elements of Britpop and alternative rock. In today's episode, we have Johnny Took of DMA'S joining me for an intimate chat about the band's journey, offering a behind-the-scenes look at DMA'S. We get a sneak peak at the demo of delete and discuss the bands process of what “they like to call Frankensteining. Johnny shares insights into co-writing, being open to new ideas, and the importance of remaining flexible in the creative process. We chat about country music , the definition of successes and some hilarious stories from the many years of being a part of DMA'S Support the show

What does it mean to be rooted in spooks? How does Halloween offer us the thought that we are not separate from death and the suffering happening abroad? Root into spooks with me and listen to Taniari's groovy new pop single Frankensteining Love. Support Palestinians experiencing harm in Gaza: https://www.mecaforpeace.org/ Text “Ceasefire” to 51905 to send an email to congress Taniari's Frankensteining Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzmcV2rro4o Follow Taniari on instagram @_taniari Come see me dance! With Deanna DiLandro https://partiful.com/e/EQ9mKGSN599eNdrKGIo6 Try Couplet Coffee: https://coupletcoffee.com/ CREDS: Pod Logo: Callan Moore Intro Music: Afterspace Recording/editing: Claire Moore love & magic, Claire

Nish Kumar is one of the most powerful and provocative voices in British stand-up comedy, and his debut special “Your Power, Your Control” is streaming now on Sky On Demand & Now TV, for those in the UK & Ireland. He returns to the podcast to talk in depth about the creative process behind the writing of that show, the inciting incident in which a bread roll was thrown at him at a charity gig, and how that led to a media frenzy, terrifying death threats, and ultimately a total re-evaluation of his mental health.We talk about making serious things funny, and the phenomenal rise of The Mash report, as well as “Birbiglifying”, “Frankensteining”, and phantom pooping…23mins of extras exclusively available to members of the Insiders Club include Nish on his therapy journey, writing topical stuff for The Mash Report, and the rollercoaster of creating a stand-up show, from first scribblings to the marathon of the Fringe.Catch up with Nish:Nish's first stand up special is streaming NOW on Sky On Demand & Now TV for those in the UK & Ireland.
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Have you ever tried pattern hacking (making changes to a sewing pattern to create a different look)? This episode is a wide ranging introduction to the topic. Whether you are new to this practice, or are a more seasoned ‘hacker', by the end of this you should feel emboldened by the infinite possibilities! Support the podcast over on Patreon! The patchwork denim quilted jacket is finally finished! Read all about it on my blog. One way of thinking about pattern hacking is by breaking it down into these three approaches: Pattern-first - that is Choosing a pattern you own and considering how you can alter it to come up with a different look Style-first - that is finding inspiration for a garment from elsewhere, then looking through your patterns to find a good candidate to hack to get close to that inspiration. Frankensteining - taking two existing sewing patterns, or the parts of existing sewing patterns, and splicing them together to create a different looking garment. My Fibre Mood Ermine/Norma Franken-garment is an example of taking the sleeve piece from one pattern and the bodice from another to create a new look. Suggested equipment for pattern hacking: Large format paper / pattern cutting or drafting paper / the dot and cross type or plain. Also consider large sheets of paper from an art shop or printing shop, the back of wide rolls of wrapping paper or rolls of paper from a business that regularly prints out plans and so on Some kind of ruler or set square (a metre or yard ruler is also super helpful) Pattern weights or pins Sharp pencils Paper scissors Some kind of tape such as scotch, masking or washi tape Tape measure

This week, as Spey-O-Rama approaches, I'm chatting with Zack Williams of Swing the Fly. We wander into mountian men, his new book "Anchor-Centric Spey Casting," alien abductions, Swing the Fly, the OP, sink tips, line splicing, and Frankensteining through the woods.

Despite having all media at our fingertips, there are still thousands of people who prefer to put mp3 files on their Apple iPods when they listen on the go. In fact, there's a large online community of people who love the simplicity of the retro music player. For some it's pure nostalgia. For others, there's a deeper hobby. Alli and Lindsey talk with Michi, a prominent modder in the iPod community, and Austin Lucas, the owner of Elite Obsolete Electronics, a shop that sells replacement parts and upgrades for these ancient devices. They discuss how people are resurrecting and Frankensteining their iPods, why the device has so much staying power 20+ years on, and the tale of one iPod that has traveled around the world. Follow Michi: https://twitter.com/NekoMichiNyan Check out Elite Obsolete Electronics: https://eoe.works/ Support 2G1P on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/2G1P Join the 2G1P Discord community: http://discord.gg/2g1p Join the 2G1P Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2girls1podcast/ Email us: 2G1Podcast@gmail.com Call the show and leave a message! (347) 871-6548  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This ain't your parent Star Wars. It ain't Star Wars at all. Some magical connections of parallel thinking happen. Can a ballsack save a planet? A lot of Frankensteining in the middle of the episode, see if you can tell where. Our Xmas episode is announced and is the end of the podcast upon us. Listen to find out. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mattanddoug/message

It's Halloween. While ghost stories and local hauntings are gracing many articles, Valley 101 has a different kind of ghastly story to tell. One that just might make your skin crawl. In a small shop in midtown Phoenix called Curious Nature, a sort of "Frankensteining" happens several times a month. While the front of the shop is filled with bones, stuffed and dried animals, and pinned insects, in the back, intrepid crafters meet to learn the old art of taxidermy. Taught by one of Arizona's longest working experts in the field, Doug James of Frank James Artistry, curious students learn how to skin, preserve and then stuff dead animals.  It is not for the faint of heart.  Valley 101 attended one such class where rabbits were transformed into jackalopes.  Listen if you dare! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A fixture of the Salt Lake City music scene, Andy Patterson has been active in music production behind the controls at his studio, The Boar's Nest, and making his own brand of heavy since the 90s, starting off by going on tour with Iceburn and then drumming in previous bands SubRosa and Insect Ark. His latest outfit, The Otolith, sees him reunited with fellow members of SubRosa and their debut record comes out very soon. You could not find a more fitting nickname than "The Loud Guy" for Andy, when it comes to his music and production anyway (Spoiler alert: he's pretty mild-mannered). Dylan and Andy explore his origins as a musician and get deep into the nitty gritty of his tried-and-true production approaches, plus getting a drum kit by searching for Satan, playing eight sets as the mayor of Crucial Fest, recognizing a genuine take versus a perfect one, Frankensteining the Iceburn remasters, how to really say Cirith Ungol, bailing out Visigoth at Fire in the Mountains, chasing the dragon for horror movies, and recounts his lost year of 2020. And of course, we talk about SLC Punk! Support The Otolith over at Blues Funeral Recordings Track featured is "Hubris" off their upcoming debut, Folium Limina, out on October 21st!  

We enter the Gaming Hut to ponder the constituency of gamers who prefer lots of crunch, but don't actually use it when they play. In the History Hut beloved Patreon backer Gene Ha asks if electricity-loving Benjamin Franklin was the real modern Prometheus. The Culture Hut situates itself near a vast outdoor art work as […]

This week, we're Frankensteining a Frankenstein film in the interest of a wild behind-the-scenes murder mystery. Join us as we barricade ourselves in the recording studio, sell bootleg t-shirts at an execution, and bury ourselves in the ominous Immersion Set. Don't miss this fascinating experiment that explores the contentious relationship between the artist and the audience, between truth and fiction, and between creator and creation. You can purchase this hard-to-find film directly from director Tim Kirk, just email tim2kirk@yahoo.com. Please rate, review, and tell your fiends. And be sure to subscribe so you don't miss future installments. Join us on Patreon at patreon.com/thefrankencast. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram @thefrankencast or send us a letter at thefrankencast@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you! Your Horror Hosts: Anthony Bowman (he/him) & Eric Velazquez (he/him). Cover painting by Amanda Keller (@KellerIllustrations on Instagram).

Today is part 2 of 4 in my series on the core values, or compass points, that Simple Prospering orients as its True North, and values that I think can be mighty helpful for all businesses. I talked about value 1, make progress, in the last two week's episodes. Today we are talking about value #2: how to keep it simple! Simple is in the name of my business, so obviously it's important to me, but “keep it simple” is often thrown around like trite advice and it's easier said than done when you are in business for yourself. In this episode I focus on 2 common barriers I see to effective simplicity in one's work. Really I am sacrificing 2 sacred cows in this week's episode: Barrier number one/aka Sacred Cow number one (especially in service-based businesses): Workism and The Passion Principle. Barrier number two/aka Sacred Cow number two (for nearly all entrepreneurs) Frankensteining your offerings until you've created, you guessed it. a monster. SHOW NOTES Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, Workism is Making Americans Miserable https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/ Erin Cech, book, The Trouble With Passion: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520303232/the-trouble-with-passion Kelly Diels: https://www.kellydiels.com/  

Elan Pasmanick is the equipment guru behind Born to Repair, a company specializing in restoration equipment repair. Have a broken dehu? Elan can fix it. Need some tips on deep-cleaning difficult equipment? Also, Elan. In this video, check out our conversation with him on equipment repair tips and tricks, how he found himself in restoration, the art of effectively cleaning equipment of all kinds, and more! You can also find Restoration Today on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Elan Pasmanick is the equipment guru behind Born to Repair, a company specializing in restoration equipment repair. Have a broken dehu? Elan can fix it. Need some tips on deep-cleaning difficult equipment? Also, Elan. In this video, check out our conversation with him on equipment repair tips and tricks, how he found himself in restoration, the art of effectively cleaning equipment of all kinds, and more! You can also find Restoration Today on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Chelsea is back for Part 2 of business lessons she's learned in 2 years! She opens up about: Tracking finances and the importance of financial management “Frankensteining” offers, and when to stop Growing slow and baby steps Planning, systems and automation and how they free you Tracking your time more insights on efficiency, money, productivity, boundaries and creativity Hopefully, her mistakes can teach you what to avoid or what to implement as you build a sustainable biz! CONNECT WITH CHELSEA: Website: chelseariffe.com IG: @chelseariffe + @nonexpertopinionpod Email: info@chelseariffe.com Work with Chelsea: https://www.chelseariffe.com/links Want to launch, grow, or monetize your own podcast? Apply right HERE. Try Curious Elixirs booze-free cocktails! Get $10 off an order of $50 or more with code RIFFE22, or click HERE. Take advantage of the O-P-E-N app and join the May Challenge right HERE.

Welcome to the Glutiverse, baby! This week we're talking Tales of Frankenstein, a wildly entertaining anthology with 4 (you guessed it) tales of Frankenstein. Join us as we talk about Frankensteining the perfect marriage, how jewel collecting can be a dangerous hobby, stereotypes subverting stereotypes, and what happens when you accidentally get vampire in your Frankenstein. Please rate, review, and tell your fiends. And be sure to subscribe so you don't miss future installments. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram @thefrankencast or send us a letter at thefrankencast@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you! Your Horror Hosts: Anthony Bowman (he/him) & Eric Velazquez (he/him). Cover painting by Amanda Keller (@KellerIllustrations on Instagram).

HIGHLIGHTS 00:40 A passion for materials innovation, comfort, and human performance04:55 Market research: Figuring out how to make the most versatile products09:09 Launching on Kickstarter after many product iterations 12:36 Creating a Shopify product page for your brand and ideal customers20:35 The user experience of Ministry of Supply's website21:06 The brand's future with video ads24:57 Connect with Gihan and Ministry of SupplyQUOTES02:43 Gihan: "What we both did is we were Frankensteining our own products, so I was cutting running shirts and making dress shirts out of them and Amman was making dress socks by cutting the bottoms of Nike dri fit socks and sewing them to Gold Toe dress socks, essentially."06:08 Gihan: "The antithesis of fast fashion is if you have better products, but you can't just do that by just saying the product is more expensive and thicker and whatnot, but really making sure that it's versatile to be used in a lot of different scenarios."18:25 Gihan: "Be very judicious on where you want to innovate on your site experience because iterating something like a nav, a Shopify theme for example, like you can kind of swap that out a little bit easier. It's a little bit more dev work."23:38 Gihan: "Most of the people who land on a Kickstarter video, it was like 60% of it, of the people that came to the page would watch the entire two minute video. And nowhere have we seen a conversion experience like that."You can connect with Gihan in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gihanamarasiriwardena/Website - https://www.ministryofsupply.com/Ministry of Sound's five year plan: https://www.ministryofsupply.com/about/5-year-plan

Kenji C. Liu is author of Monsters I Have Been (Alice James Books, 2019), finalist for the California and Maine book awards, and Map of an Onion, national winner of the 2015 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize (Inlandia Institute). His poetry is in numerous journals, anthologies, magazines, and two chapbooks, Craters: A Field Guide (2017) and You Left Without Your Shoes (2009). An alumnus of Kundiman, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and the Community of Writers, he lives in Los Ángeles. Using an invented poetry method called frankenpo (frankenstein poetry), Liu takes existing texts and remixes them, creating multi-faceted poems that investigate the relationship between toxic masculinity and forms of violence plaguing our modern society. It also explores the male-male erotic and marginalized masculinities that are urgently needed as a counterweight to today's dominant hypermasculinity.

Recorded October 1, 2021   Hey, Classroom: Turn on projector.  Turn ON projector.  Hey, Classroom: Turn projector ON.  Darn this voice control!     On this episode, the AV SuperFriends share their current frustrations with supply chain issues causing delays in projects.  We also share some solid suggestions on how to mitigate those challenges.  Justin is Frankensteining systems out of whatever he has on hand, whereas Larry is ordering equipment for summer 2022 already.     Next, who wants to talk about org charts?  Trick question-- we all do!  Marc is currently experiencing adventures in IT reorganization and it has raised the question of where AV belongs in the larger IT structure.  Or does it?  Regardless of whether your AV team is part of IT Support, IT Networking, or IT Academic Technology, we all agree that it's different everywhere.   Finally, we're going touchless.  That is, we promise to stop touching... things.  Larry doesn't want people yelling into the void to operate classroom systems, Chris wants to schedule every space in order to automate as much as possible, Jamie still wants to use more arcade buttons, and Marc suggests even if we don't like the concept of touch-free UI, it's coming soon, one way or another.

Tim Powers and Ken Mills throw the body of the first Monkees album up on the table and deconstuct it and reconstruct it. We made a Monster and "It's ALIVE!" Hear the album in a way you never have before , Listen to our Youtube play list to hear full versions of these songs. Playlist on Youtube here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUN_OvZd42BWnSbcXkosqowmziBk6iv2nAired 7/31/21We were born to love one another.Support Zilch, get a cool shirt!www.redbubble.com/people/designsbyken/works/12348740-zilch-podcast?c=314383-monkees-inspired-artJoin our Facebook pageFind us on Twitter @ZilchcastIf you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file hereDownload (right click, save as)

Hey friends, today we're continuing our discussion of password cracking by sharing some methodology that has helped us get a high cred yield, and some tips on taking cracked passwords from multiple sources and Frankensteining them into a beautiful report for your customer. For some background, when 7MS started as a biz, we used to crack passwords in Paperspace but invested in an on-prem cracking rig a few years ago. That rig has been flipping sweet, but had some heating issues which prompted me to send the system in for warranty and use an awesome cracking rig in AWS in the meantime. Whether you're cracking locally or in the cloud, here's a quick methodology that has cracked many a hash for us: Do a straight-up hashcat crack against the PwnedPasswords list (at time of this writing I don't have a good source for the cracked versions of these passwords. I used to grab them at hashes.org. Anybody got an alternative? Do a straight-up hashcat crack through the RockYou2021 list Run the hatecrack methodology, including the quick crack, the quick crack with rules (I'm partial to OneRuleToRuleThemAll), and brute-forcing all 1-8 character passwords Once I'm ready to wrap up all the cracked passwords and put them in a nice shiny report for the customer, I do the following (using hashcombiner and pipal): # Run hash_combiner on hashcat's pot file and write results to a file python /opt/hc/hash_combiner.py user_hash /opt/hashcat/hashcat.potfile > /tmp/round1.txt # Run hash_combiner on hatecrack's pot file and write results to a file python /opt/hc/hash_combiner.py user_hash /opt/hatecrack/hashcat.pot > /tmp/round2.txt # Cat the two files together into a third file cat /tmp/round1.txt /tmp/round2.txt > /tmp/round3.txt # Sort and de-dupe the third file cat /tmp/round3.txt | sort -uf > /tmp/nice-and-clean.txt # Take just the passwords out of the “nice and clean” output cut -d ':' -f 2 /tmp/nice-and-clean.txt > /tmp/pipal-temp.txt # Score the passwords using pipal /opt/pipal/pipal.rb /tmp/pipal-temp.txt > /tmp/pip-final.txt Now you've got a nice-and-clean.txt list of users and their cracked passwords, as well as the pip-final.txt with deeper analysis of cracked passwords, their commonalities, etc.

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Good advice, bad jokes and questionable fashion sense. The rad dads of the 80s had it all! Today we'll celebrate Father's Day by hand picking bits and pieces of our favorite 80s dads and Frankensteining the mother of all…. or father of all patriarchs.  I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always the Danny to my Jack Torrance, Max Sanders. And with that, let's get to work!

In this incredible, unfortunately titled, highly experimental, rambunctious, triumphant, jumbo-sized episode, we discuss... ghost orb!Roomba!Duckworth, Dewey's determination to die in a tragic buzzsaw accident, Webby as a Weird Girl Done Right, what an evil old bitch Scrooge is, the art of war, the joy of arguing, Character Actress Margo Martindale, Not-Gosalyn, helping puppies, Andy Biersack, the real life George Mallory, setting out to Build-A-Boy to make Launchpad some birthday boyfriends, Forged in Fire, the terrors of the cartoon meritocracy, Scrooge McDuck's ongoing feud with Theodore Roosevelt, the hot-button topic of librarian representation, our own troubled 11-year-old selves, harrowing theatre-based experiences, Frankensteining a podcast mascot together, but we trip and fall and topple into all the lab equipment and look like idiots, the contentious issue of animated birds in chocolate fountains, Hotel California, a pretty great episode of Star Trek, the very real possibility that if you push Gladstone Gander he'll just keep going forever without resistance like a buttered melon, Silicon Valley losers, the most irritating character ever conceived, the karmic narrative punishment of bad behaviour manifesting as "bad luck", tiny little boy rage, beautiful, beautiful AMVs, social frameworks, grieve the death of Launchpad McQuack, fully rewrite the cartoon, pick apart Launchpad's murderous intent, discuss Louie's Pride and Prejudice addiction, lend an ear to some concerned parents, watching The Good Wife with the boys, laughter in media, disrespecting the dead, little boys with an Agatha Christie obsession, an infestation of Daft Punks, an episode of Frasier, Sherlock season five, Greek Mickey Theory, exploding the royals, Stonehenge For Golf, the constant specter of Chris Diamantopoulos haunting our every move, the triumphant return of evil old men, Gustales, Homer's Ithaca vs Ithaquack, the most sublime character ever conceived (Storkules), hallucinated themes, the persistent Della Was Crushed By A Big Rock theory, #notmylouie, Lothario Huey, Launchpad's continued murders, Louie's suit obsession, a return to Gladstone's Bad Hair, the terrible news, the sensual news, the Spaceball, Fecal Friday, the intricacies of Horse Code, the malingering issue of Lipbite himself, the surprisingly palatable Straight Duck phenomenon, Scoorge McDuck, guns that make you ghost, corpse statues, the terrible effect Podcasting can have on a career, Quackerjack's cool new voice, a Jemaine Clement-based vendetta, Scrooge finally gets cancelled, the McDuck Industries Widows and Orphans Fund, girlbosses, poignant abuse metaphors, Lena's Columbo moment, Big Bond movies, coercion, Archer, big horrible orbs, Sealab and its various parodies, 20 year old Gummi-Bear-centric Geocities sites, more bad parenting, the best iteration of a certain skyfaring wolf, little boy tantrums, Jaime Camil, metaphors for Elf Death, beat the everloving christ out of some uquizzes, go to Castle McDuck, learn some secrets, rob some graves, flawlessly impersonate Donald Duck, mourn the lost Law & Order episode, discuss brain surgery, take a trip back to the VS Battles Wiki, try our very very hardest to get Fenton fired because he's really, really, really bad at his job, talk about our Facebook ad preferences, drunk fortnite, familial abuse, take parenting tips from the greatest parental figures ever to die in space, consider the worrying implications of Nether World War II, fall down a rabbithole in our desperation to find out whether Scrooge McDuck can drive, finally find out how Donald Duck would have killed Fidel Castro, address some fan questions, delve into the depths of Scrooge's pizza palace, discuss Magica's rich cultural heritage, epic child murber and the intricate effects of Uno Reversals. #scrogeisoverparty

Joe Juba (Game Informer) and I face off in a high stakes game of chess with millions of dollars on the line....oh actually, that got cancelled - we just do a ninety-nine question interview instead. Join Joe and I as we discuss his journey that led to him writing for Game Informer magazine for over a decade, a couple of good ol' fashioned Final Fantasy discussions, metal cubes in soup, bank espionage, novelty-shaped candy, Frankensteining action figures, and a new Peter Falk themed holiday. 99Q Merch 99questionspod@gmail.com 99Q on Twitter And as mentioned in the show, here is Joe's amazing painting! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/99questions/support

Dress for the podcast you want not the podcast you have! Katie Pritchard came fully prepared for this battle - wearing superhero socks. Stuart Goldsmith was not so prepared (He forgot to pick a head). Episode 4 of The Silliest Superest Heroest Podcast consists of more Frankensteining of superheroes body parts and powers to create a hero that is more of a Frankenstein's Monster than Frankenstein's Monster. What is this episode's Mr Potato Head of miraculous powers going to be? Spoiler Alert: There are no potatoes featured in this episode. Sorry.Listen to Stuart's podcast The Comedian's Comedian Podcast here: https://play.acast.com/s/thecomedianscomedianpodcast and check out everything else about him on stuartgoldsmith.co.ukWatch Katie on Twitch here: www.twitch.tv/katietwitchard and if you want the snazziest T-shirt's in town: https://katie-pritchart.teemill.com/They're both on Social media @StuGoldsmith and @KatiePritchardsIf you want to email the show you can: SuperestPod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode covers the first half-ish of J.R.R. Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf. Jackie shares her murderous daydreams, and Theo tells an okay Yu-Gi-Oh! joke. Beowulf and Grendel share a disarming encounter, about which Grendel’s mother has something to say. Topics include: Beowulf/Breca shipping, good parenting, amateur Frankensteining, and what constitutes a valuable ally.

It's our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!!! We are turning to King Gizzard for this special night with their spookiest album yet, "Murder of the Universe." Join us for a night full of trick or treats and altered beasts. Tonight you will hear about the Lord of Lightning, who's very frightening, and his Frankensteining of Balrog. But in the future, when all is said and done, the murder of the universe will have begun. Join Brad and Jon with an all star cast of returning guests including Trevor, Reis & Nate (the Heretic & the Blasphemer), and Alex & Griffin from Woodchickens as they try and survive the night... COMING UP: 11-09-20 Hellogoodbye - Would it Kill You? Links: Golem thoughts: https://lithub.com/in-the-age-of-trump-reclaiming-the-golem-as-a-symbol-of-jewish-resistance/ Woodchickens: https://woodchickens.bandcamp.com/album/well-done Nate aka the Blasphemer aka GRYMGAR's minecraft channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK75qPqPLMV4siDkF7YXpVw Tenegger (band with throat-singing): https://tengger.bandcamp.com/ Other Links: www.twitter.com/RevoloverAudio www.anchor.fm/AlbumConceptHour www.twitter.com/AlbumConceptPod www.myspace.com/AlbumConceptHour www.ko-fi.com/RevoloverAudio --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/albumconcepthour/support

Ed Seay is one of music’s treasured producers and engineers. He’s worked with some of his heroes - The Beach Boys and The Birds. In this episode, Seay reveals his start in the music business and how he got inspired to become a producer.   ****Listen to this episode and subscribe! www.richredmond.com/listen   The Rich Redmond Show is sponsored by The School of Rock Nashville and Franklin!   https://locations.schoolofrock.com/nashville https://locations.schoolofrock.com/franklin A few things that came up: -Bringing something to life via sound.... -"I Go Crazy" almost went to Lou Rawls -Transporting tape in the 70s -Cutting and splicing tape...ever miss it? -Working in LA versus NY -Paul Worley -The production of 10cc’s “I'm Not In Love” creativity... -Having a great cue mix... -Working with loops -Manipulating a kick drum sound in a loop.... -Performance recording vs. Frankensteining it together... -What makes Ed happy about a drummer coming in.... -How a recording session works in Nashville...   Follow Ed: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-seay-5722a91b/ _____________________________   The Rich Redmond Show is about all things music, motivation and success. Candid conversations with musicians, actors, comedians, authors and thought leaders about their lives and the stories that shaped them. Rich Redmond is the longtime drummer with Jason Aldean and many other veteran musicians and artists. Rich is also an actor, speaker, author, producer and educator. Rich has been heard on thousands of songs, over 25 of which have been #1 hits!   Rich can also be seen in several films and TV shows and has also written an Amazon Best-Selling book, "CRASH! Course for Success: 5 Ways to Supercharge Your Personal and Professional Life" currently available at:   https://www.amazon.com/CRASH-Course-Success-Supercharge-Professional/dp/B07YTCG5DS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=crash+redmond&qid=1576602865&sr=8-1   One Book: Three Ways to consume....Physical (delivered to your front door, Digital (download to your kindle, ipad or e-reader), or Audio (read to you by me on your device...on the go)!   Follow Rich: @richredmond www.richredmond.com   Jim McCarthy is the quintessential Blue Collar Voice Guy. Honing his craft since 1996 with radio stations in Illinois, South Carolina, Connecticut, New York, Las Vegas and Nashville, Jim has voiced well over 10,000 pieces since and garnered an ear for audio production which he now uses for various podcasts, commercials and promos. Jim is also an accomplished video producer, content creator, writer and overall entrepreneur.   Follow Jim:  @jimmccarthy www.jimmccarthyvoiceovers.com  

Born into a musical family, Joe Vitale is a veteran musician and drummer whose career has spanned over forty years of touring, recording, song writing, and producing with legendary and Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame artists.  Along with vocals, he also plays percussion, keyboards and flute.  His drumming encompasses all styles of music.  A dedicated professional, his quality of performance is evident in his resume.   ****Listen to this episode and subscribe! www.richredmond.com/listen   The Rich Redmond Show is sponsored by The School of Rock Nashville and Franklin!   https://locations.schoolofrock.com/nashville https://locations.schoolofrock.com/franklin   Joe has recorded and toured with Ted Nugent, Joe Walsh, Dan Fogelberg, Peter Frampton, The Eagles, Crosby, Stills and Nash, and CSNY to name a few.  In addition, he has recorded with Rick Derringer, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Ronnie Wood, Van Morrison, Carl Wilson, Don Felder, Boz Scaggs, John Entwhistle and many others.   He has three solo albums, “Roller Coaster Weekend,”  “Plantation Harbor,” and “Speaking In Drums,” and a book, “Back Stage Pass,” about his career in music. He’s also produced his son, Joe Jr.’s, first album, “Dancing with Shadows.”   A few things that came up: -Coming up in the music business with Joe Walsh -Having to listen to record and tapes to figure out drum parts -Giving it your all even if there are only 10 people in the audience -The Frankensteining of "Life's Been Good" -Recording Dan Fogelberg's "Leader of the Band" and trying not to cry while performing it -Lesser known song that Joe recorded with Joe Walsh "Too Late to Hero" was his most proud recording -Mispronounced italian words   Follow Joe: www.joevitaleondrums.com   _____________________________   The Rich Redmond Show is about all things music, motivation and success. Candid conversations with musicians, actors, comedians, authors and thought leaders about their lives and the stories that shaped them. Rich Redmond is the longtime drummer with Jason Aldean and many other veteran musicians and artists. Rich is also an actor, speaker, author, producer and educator. Rich has been heard on thousands of songs, over 25 of which have been #1 hits!   Rich can also be seen in several films and TV shows and has also written an Amazon Best-Selling book, "CRASH! Course for Success: 5 Ways to Supercharge Your Personal and Professional Life" currently available at:   https://www.amazon.com/CRASH-Course-Success-Supercharge-Professional/dp/B07YTCG5DS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=crash+redmond&qid=1576602865&sr=8-1   One Book: Three Ways to consume....Physical (delivered to your front door, Digital (download to your kindle, ipad or e-reader), or Audio (read to you by me on your device...on the go)!   Follow Rich: @richredmond www.richredmond.com   Jim McCarthy is the quintessential Blue Collar Voice Guy. Honing his craft since 1996 with radio stations in Illinois, South Carolina, Connecticut, New York, Las Vegas and Nashville, Jim has voiced well over 10,000 pieces since and garnered an ear for audio production which he now uses for various podcasts, commercials and promos. Jim is also an accomplished video producer, content creator, writer and overall entrepreneur.   Follow Jim:  @jimmccarthy www.jimmccarthyvoiceovers.com  

This week Johnny and Andy make their perfect college football program by Frankensteining all the best elements of other schools across the country.

In episode 001, I am interviewing Jessi Kneeland about coaching breakthroughs, body positivity vs. body neutrality, and the importance of language and the words we use. We discuss how self-care does not have to be rooted in self-improvement, how global pandemic might impact those who are used to following a rigid set of rules when it comes to food and exercise, and how we often use a Frankenstein-approach when thinking about our bodies. Jessi also talks about how her perception of her own body changed over time. And whether using a scale is ever a good idea. Jessi Kneeland is a writer, a speaker and a body image coach. You can find Jessi at jessikneeland.com and @jessikneeland on Instagram.

A discussion with Redshift Sports co-founder, Stephen Ahnert about the Shockstop gravel suspension stems and other products. Redshift Sports Instagram Redshift Sports Website Automated Transcription, Please excuse the typos.  Hello everyone and welcome to the gravel ride podcast. I'm your host Craig Dalton. This week on the podcast I've invited Stephen Ahnert from Redshift sports on to talk about the shockstop STEM and their forthcoming suspension seatpost. I've been riding the STEM for about a month now and the results have been unexpected, so I can't wait to have the conversation with Stephen about some of the design and performance principles behind the STEM. Additionally, I've been intrigued by the notion of how reducing fatigue in long rides can affect performance. If you're going to be out there for 1214 hours in event like dirty Kanza or some of the other long distance gravel events, how does making your body feel better affect your ability to ride harder and longer? I think it's really fascinating when we talk about suspension in that light and particularly a suspension STEM as it's something that you can throw on and off quite easily to adapt your bicycle to a particular ride. So with that, let's jump right in. Stephen, welcome to the show. Thanks. It's great to be here. Right on. Could we start off by talking a little bit more about your background and since we're going to be digging into your company and your product, in addition to kind of your cycling background and how you found gravel, let's talk a little bit about your professional background. Yeah, so I'm a mechanical engineer by training. And so are the two other cofounders of Redshift, Scott Poff and Eric Debrune. Eric and I actually met in college studying mechanical engineering. And we did our kind of senior thesis project together. We built a pool playing robots that would kind of move around a pool table and had pool shots. So that was pretty cool. And then Eric actually knew Scott from high school and they kind of linked up after, after college. And then Eric Scott and I co founded a small company doing mechanical engineering consulting work for other companies. So we were doing product development analysis, mechanical and electrical engineering for other companies, helping them develop products. And during that time, sort of the whole time throughout college and afterwards we'd always talked about different product ideas that we had for, you know, improving products and coming up with new products. I think it's something that a lot of people do. You know, you kind of idly talk about, Hey, wouldn't it be great if, if we could do this or that, you know, improve this thing that I have an issue with. And then in 2012, we finally kinda decided to do something about it. So I had been doing a lot of writing. And specifically I was training for some, some triathlons. I was in triathlons, a kind of on the dark side there. And then I was riding my road bike. And like a lot of people do when they get into triathlons, they, you know, see people going faster than them with arrow bars and they say, Hey, you know, I want to put arrow bars on my bike. So, you know, I knew enough about bike fit to understand that you couldn't just slap arrow bars on a bike. You also had to change your riding position. And so I ended up Frankensteining my road bike to make it a better kind of triathlon bike that, but it kinda made it a terrible road bike. So our first product which was the switch arrow system, which was these two very, very niche products or designed to let you ride a road bike in a narrow position but still keep your road bike set up. So we kinda decided, Hey, this is, this is something that I really want. You know, the other guys were on board and we developed this system. We developed a C post and the arrow bars and we decided to launch it on Kickstarter in 2013. And got enough of a response that we, you know, decided to make kind of a go at, at growing Redshift. And so gradually over the six years since then, we've grown Redshift. And then a few years ago, we finally tapered the consulting side of our business down enough that we were, you know, full time on Redshift. And so in the interim between then and now, we've introduced a couple products. The shock stops, suspension STEM was in 2015 and then the seatpost was last year and we did those again via Kickstarter, which was an awesome way for, for us as a small company to, you know raise funds and, and kind of prove our market prove that people would actually, you know, get out their credit card and buy these products that we had thought people would like but didn't really know. Yeah, it's interesting, I think for the uninitiated to think about product design and development, it takes a lot to get that first product off the production line and having that validation of a certain number of units at least gives you the sort of financial comfort to know part of the run can be paid for before it's even begun. Yeah. The finances are obviously a huge issue because a lot of people don't really realize what goes in. You know, obviously there's tooling costs, there's the production order, all of these things that are going to kind of hit up front that you have to pay for. But I think the really big thing for us was, was kind of this proof of market. You know, you can sit around and do focus groups, talk to your friends, you know, but you really never know is somebody going to you know, pony up and pay for something if you know, if, if it's a real product they're going to buy. Yeah, absolutely. So when did the, the STEM actually start shipping into market? So it started shipping at the beginning of 2016. So it's been shipping for, you know, almost almost four years at this point. During that period of time was obviously a period of time in which the gravel sector started to really emerge as a, as one of the bigger and faster growing segments of cycling. Did you start to see riders from that sector immediately gravitate over to the product or has it been a kind of a slower roll? Yeah, the, the growth of the gravel kind of area. And biking has been huge for the growth of this STEM as well. I mean it's such a natural fit. And ironically, when we first designed the product, it was designed more with a road market in mind. That's what we set out to do. But sort of during the development process, gravel was growing. It was becoming more of a more of a thing. And we, we were I think really lucky to be in the right time at the right place with the right product to be able to offer something to gravel riders that would kind of take the edge off. You know, there were other brands at the time that were kind of doing similar things, but in general they were kind of proprietary to, you know, a particular frame or particular manufacturer. So you can think about things like, you know, Trex ISIS, bead a system or the future shock on specialized. So for us it was awesome that those things also existed because it, it kind of helps cement, I think in, in writers' minds that compliance in a bike is, is something that you actually want. Because I think for so long, the bike industry has just, you know, beaten this message of like stiffer, later, faster, you know, and stiffness is kind of this, this ultimate metric that, that the, the frame is measured by when in reality, especially as you get to rougher terrain, compliance can, can not only be obviously more comfortable, but it can also help you go faster because you're just not absorbing all of this vibration. It's not a, you know, going into your body, you don't have to float your body over all of it and you saved more energy to pedal. Yeah. Yeah. No, those are good points. Let's take a step back and tell the listener exactly what this STEM is and what it does. Yeah. So the shock stop STEM is pretty straight forward and concept. It's a single pivot suspension, STEM. So a lot of your listeners might remember the old suspension stems of your of the eighties and nineties kinda like the F of Gervin flex STEM, the soft ride. So similar in spirit to those kinds of forebearers, but, but totally different in execution. So it's a single pivot, a STEM that has some internal elastomers that are swappable basically to tune the stiffness of the suspension for your body weight. And we're targeting kind of a small amount of suspension, so 10 to 20 millimeters of, of total travel depending on if you're at the, you know on the flats or out at the hoods. And it's really just designed to take the edge off of vibrations and small bumps that you encounter. You know, as you're riding on gravel and other, you know we call them road surfaces. So this isn't designed for necessarily like a mountain bike. It's not going to replace the suspension fork and we don't intend it to. So that's kind of the, the gist of, of the product. Yeah. You know, and I've, you know, as I mentioned to you offline, I've been writing it for three weeks now and I think one of the biggest compliments I can give you is that in many instances it completely diff disappears. It is a very elegant design from a aesthetic perspective. I find myself almost missing that it is a suspension STEM. But now that I've had it on my bike long enough, I've, I've actually seen other riders out on the trails with it. So very unobtrusive design and in, in many instances the, the movement is very subtle. As you mentioned. My personal experience was obviously when I was the farthest point away from the fulcrum point out on the hoods, I could feel the the most emotion and I felt that motion most kind of when I was riding on the road because my experience off-road was that there was often so much going on in terms of feedback through the bike that it was almost disappearing. The fact that I was getting additional compliance in the handlebar and the STEM part of the bike. Yeah. So again, you know, you mentioned a couple of things. Having the, having the STEM blend in aesthetically with the rest of the bike was a major design goal during the development process. We, we knew just not only from a market standpoint, but just some what we wanted on our bikes. We did not want some sort of weird contraption, you know, bolted onto the front of the bike. We wanted it to blend in to be more or less invisible and be something you wouldn't notice if you weren't looking for it. So that was a, that was a huge goal. And then, yeah, absolutely it was, it was something where this is a pretty common refrain is people will put it on their bike and then notice it for the first, you know, a few minutes of a ride or maybe the first ride and then, and essentially forget about it. And ironically enough, we've had enough number of customers contact us and say, Hey, you know, I, I, I don't think my STEM is working anymore. And what we encourage people to do is say, Hey, okay, cool. Swap the STEM out for, for, you know, your old STEM. And see what the differences and feel. And it's funny, you get used to the difference in feel very quickly and then when you go back to our rigid STEM, the differences is night and day. It's, it's a really sort of amazing experience to go back from, you know, having that compliance to go back to a rigid STEM and to feel the difference. But yeah, you're absolutely right. It's, it's not meant to, it's not meant to make the trail, you know, completely disappear under you. It's not going to do that. But what it is going to do is just take the edge off of all of those, those impacts that are normally gonna sort of jar you and you know, vibrate through your arms, through your wrists, hands and in your shoulders and neck. Yeah, it's probably important to note and add that the STEM ships with a series of elastomer bumpers and a pretty straight forward guide as to how to tune them to your particular rider weight and obviously like suspension forks and other suspension products. If you feel a desire to have a stiffer setup or a softer setup, you can make those adjustments based on your body weight guide. Yeah, exactly. So the, the SEM is designed to, to run with a little bit of sag just to make it as active as possible. But there are some people who prefer more traditional feel and so they set it up a little bit stiffer such that there's really no deflection under normal in their normal riding position. And that it would only, you know, deflect when they hit a bigger bomb or a bigger impact, something like that. So you can, you can tune it in. You know, there's quite a, quite a few levels of, of stiffness that you can choose to let you tune it in. And body weight is kind of the main guidance that we give because that's the most obvious one. But other things like writing position and the type of terrain that you're writing on are also going to have a pretty big impact on that. So if you're writing kind of a more upright position or slacker geometry on your bike, you may need a slightly softer setup just cause you're not going to have as much weight, you know, on your hands and vice versa. Yeah. And I want to go back to something you mentioned earlier for the listener to think about when you think about the total package of your bike, the frame, the rigidity and stiffness of your frame, your tire set up, all that kind of stuff. There's certainly bikes that fall in a wide variety of categories. Like I, I spent a lot of time on an open up, which was a very stiff race oriented carbon frame. In fact, moving from my road bike attract Medona to the open. I felt very little loss in performance, but it was an incredibly stiff bike off road. And you know, my solution to that was riding six 50 B 1.9 tires to get that right match of. But not all gravel bikes have that ability to go that wide in a tire. So I think it's really interesting as a solution to understand as a, as a listener and as a bike owner, as to what an option may be to add additional compliance. If, say you were stuck at a, you know, a 700 by 38 as the, as the widest tire you could go for on a, a very stiff carbon frame. Yeah. The, the comparison that we make, and obviously there are other reasons why you might choose wider tires besides just, you know, ride quality or comfort, you know, traction and handling and things like that are, may drive you in, in that direction anyway. But the comparison that we make is basically to get the same amount of compliance out of your tire that you would get out of this, the STEM, you'd have to increase your tire, you'd have to increase your tire with from like a 38 or something like that, you know, to a 50 or a 55 or something. Really, really dramatic. Because when you think about the amount of deflection that you're going to get out of a tire you know, it's literally like adding 15 to 20 millimeters to the height of your tire. So it's, it's a, it's a much bigger change than, for example, just going from a, you know, a 35 to a 45 or something like that. Yeah, absolutely. And I think, you know, as, as we look at events on the calendar throughout the year and some of the longer distance, more grueling events, it's pretty clear to me that as a kind of mid pack cyclist, you need to be as concerned with how your body's going to survive a long day. Like, like dirty Kanza as much as how fast you're going to go. So it's all well and good to say, I'm gonna, you know, have an incredibly stiff bike and I'm going to run narrow tires. But your bite, your body may not survive that, you know, in a, in a 10, 12, 14 hour day. Yeah. I think when you look at not only, you know, mid pack writers but, but front of pack writers and really long endurance events like that the event is as much about sort of their, their fitness and their ability to produce power as it is about their ability to kind of maintain, maintain a positive mindset during those events. And I think that goes throughout throughout the, the tiers, you know, all the way from the people who are going to win the event, you know, to the people who are gonna be right in front of the sag wagon. Your fitness is going to be a huge aspect of that. But your ability to maintain your, your mental mindset and and be positive is going to have such a huge impact on your performance. And kind of, you know, as anybody written on gravel, on rough roads for a long period of time, it just kind of builds and builds and builds. And that fatigue of just sort of dealing with all of this vibration and impacts like, you know, after you've been riding for six hours, your hands, your shoulders, you know, your rear end and everything is just, you know, if it's not, if it's not numb, it's, it's, you know, none might be the best thing that it could be at that point. You know, so it makes, it makes a huge difference, you know, in your, in your ability to enjoy the ride, have a positive mental mindset going into it. And then the other thing is that it just, it saves you energy over, over the ride. You know, you don't have to lift as much body weight off of the saddle and the, the handlebars when you're riding. And I should mention that, you know, I'm talking about lifting off the saddle. We also make a complimentary product called the chalk stop suspension. Seatpost that's just launching that, that does the same thing kind of for the rear end of the bike. So that energy savings, you know, of not having to float your body over rough terrain and instead just be able to, you know, sit down, relax, relax your upper body, relax your lower body and pedal through that, you know, the accumulated energy savings over especially along event like that are huge. So it's difficult to overstate how much that that contributes. Yeah, I think that's what's very interesting and elegant about the STEM as the solution because you may, in your, your daily rides not require that, but swapping the STEM out for an altar distance event is quite easy to do. And that's not to say that this STEM doesn't work well as a daily rider cause I've been riding it every day, both on the road and off the road. But for those people maybe who are [inaudible] and concerned about the, the, you know, modest additional weight penalty, being able to throw it on for a specific event, I think is a really viable way to see if it's a good product for you. Yeah. and like you said, you know, it's, it's an easy swap. It installs and removes exactly like a normal STEM does. So you don't have to it fits a bike, you know, pretty much the same way, the stack height on this deer tube and you know, if it's 31.8 millimeter bars. So something that's very easy to try out. And just as a, you know, a pitch a sales pitch here, if, if any writers are interested in testing it out, we offer a 30 day risk-free, you know, ride trial. So you get free shipping, free return shipping if you don't like it and you can ride it for 30 days and return it, no questions ask if it doesn't work out for you. So we're pretty confident that once they try it, they really love it. And so we want to give people the opportunity to, to test it out, see if it works for them and hopefully it does. Right on. Well, let's dig in. You mentioned that the, the product, the new forthcoming seat posts that you guys are going to be shipping, what's the sort of vision behind that product and how does it actually perform? Obviously, you know, the, the sort of concern that will jump up in the listeners mind right away is that, you know, my pedaling cadence and fluidity and sort of just that sense of being directly connected to the motion of the crank and the distance of my crank arms is going to be affected by any suspension. Can you dig in a little bit on that product? Yeah, yeah. So this was sort of a natural follow on to the shock stop STEM. We, we always knew that we wanted to make a C post, but it took us a while to figure out exactly what we wanted to do and how we wanted to improve on, you know, the products that were already on the market. The STEM was a little bit different in that, you know, at the time we launched the STEM, there were really no other bolt-ons, sort of front suspension options for, for gravel or drop bar bikes. Whereas with the C post, you know, there are things on the market like thawed, Buster body float and then a variety of sort of, you know, inexpensive telescoping suspension seatpost options that you could buy. And that's not to mention kind of what I'll call pseudo suspension C posts, things like the specialized CGR where they're relying on sort of carbon flexing or something like that to, to provide a little bit of additional compliance. So, you know, we wrote a bunch of those C posts, tested them out, like the lot of them disliked some of them and kind of crystallize exactly what we were looking for in a sea post. And, and it kinda boils down to a couple things. One, as I mentioned previously, we wanted to make sure that the, the aesthetics of the post, you know, blended in well with modern bikes. We didn't want it to be something where you're sort of like, look at the bike and all you can see is this giant contraption at the top of the, you know, the seatpost. And then we wanted the suspension travel to be meaningful. And when I say meaningful, something that is not just going to mute, you know, small vibration or buzz, but it's actually going to absorb impacts, you know, rocks, roots expansion, joints on the road, things like that, that kind of like a, a specialized CGR or just a compliant carbon post is not really going to handle. And then we basically wanted the, the travel and the response of the CBOs to be really responsive because, you know, in a situation like a gravel ride, you know, you're dealing with a lot of high frequency impacts or oscillations. So the post needed to be responsive enough to deal with that. And the direction that there were, those impacts are coming from. So we took all of that, spent a long time, you know, refining and prototyping and testing different designs and finally arrived at the design of the shock stops. He posts that, that we have now. And we believe that it provides a, you know, a super compliant responsive ride that is going to absorb all of those impacts but still blend in with the aesthetic of your bike. To answer kind of the, the second part of your question regarding how does it feel, how does it feel? Do you lose a connection to, to the bottom racket or lose your ability to smoothly generate power? I mean, I can only speak for myself and the answer for me and for the people that I know that have tested it is no that basically there's enough damping in the post that your, your pedal stroke is not going to cause bobbing. And so again, it's sort of it's going to actuate when you ride over something. And then the other thing is that the, the motion of the seatpost is unlike a telescoping post where the distance between the bottom racket and the saddle would just be decreasing linear league with travel linkage based posts like ours or you know, similar to something like a thought Buster has the advantage that the motion of this saddle is sort of back and down a little bit towards the rear wheel. And so that motion, the tra the suspension travel doesn't course correlate to such a large change in the bottom bracket to saddle distance. And at the end of the day, this is sort of a little bit difficult to explain, but it's just not something that you notice because again, you have to compare that the, you know, the bottom bracket to saddle distance is changing slightly as the, as the CBOs moves through his travel. But that's because you're riding over a bump. And normally what would happen if you rode over a bump that caused that sort of deflection is you would either bounce up off of the saddle or you would be off of the saddle to begin with. To, you know, suspend yourself as you wrote over that bump. So it's kinda funny because you know, you think of this as something that's compliance, but you can really sit down and battle through things that you might otherwise stand up and coast through. Because there's just enough travel there to, to kind of mute out all of those vibrations. Yeah. I suppose as a user of the STEM, I can visualize exactly what you're talking about, like you know, happening, But there's the feedback that you'd normally be getting from riding through that bumpy section. You're just getting it in a different way. And perhaps by being able to sit, stay seated through that experience, you retain more control and potentially a faster ability to put power back into the pedals. Yeah. And, and you notice this, you can really notice this, you know, for example, descending it's something where on a, you know, on a bike that's not equipped with a, with a dropper seat post for example. When you're descending in a lot of situations, it's much easier to control the bike if you have some weight on the saddle. But if you don't have a suspension seatpost you run the risk of hitting something and sort of getting bucked or bounced off the saddle. If you, you know, if you hit a bump that you don't notice. That's one place where I noticed it the most is where at the end of long dissents where I would often find that my legs were quite tired because I was standing up the whole way down the descent basically that, you know, I can strategically pick places where I can sit down and just, you know, ride and relax my legs. And so it's that kind of energy savings that, you know, beyond sort of the comfort aspect there. There's a real energy savings associated with, with being able to, with not having to stand up and suspend your body with your legs, you know, as much. Yeah. I, I definitely have personal experience with a dropper posts both on road and off road that mimics that experience. I really do enjoy being able to drop it a little bit and remain seated and just kind of take that as recovery time and have the additional control of having weighed on the, on the rear of the bike, like you said. Yeah. Fascinating stuff. You know, it's interesting to me, I think, you know, I've said this before on the podcast that many new or gravel cyclists are coming to the sport from a road background and there's heavily steeped traditions and mentalities around road riding, around stiffness, lack of suspension, all these biases that we're bringing to the table that this year and next year in the gravel market. I see those biases being challenged dramatically by products like this and different compliant frame designs and even suspended frames that are gonna prove themselves out as being faster, more comfortable, just generally better, more fun bicycles. And I think it's a really exciting time to be exploring that. And I think you guys are in a great spot for that exploration. Yeah, it's, it's really, it's really I think a fun time to be, you know, just in the bike industry, but, but to be a consumer, to, to be shopping for bikes because more and more you can find whatever bike you know you want to ride. And I think that's super interesting. If you're, if you're, you know, a roadie who occasionally ventures off road, you can find a great bike for that. If you're a mountain biker who wants, you know, a, a drop bar monster cross mountain bike with two and a half inch knobby tires on it, like you can find the bike for that too. But totally agree. I think that much like, you know, much like we saw in, in sort of cross country mountain biking where the, there was resistance to the adoption of, of full suspension bikes certainly at the highest racing levels in gravel. I think there's a little bit of resistance there just because people are accustomed to sort of the, the purity and, and the aesthetics of of unsuspended bikes. But it definitely seems, you know, I, I would put money on the fact that full suspension, gravel bikes are, are going to be something that are pretty common in the future as people, as people realize, you know? Yeah. They're, they're faster, they're more comfortable. They're more enjoyable to ride. So yeah, it's gonna be fascinating to see kind of where everybody drives to and what the different what the different options are for people. But I think regardless of what, regardless of what people, you know, think they're going to be able to find a bike that, that works well for them. And I think that's the thing to me that's so exciting about gravel is, yeah, maybe, maybe not serious cyclists, but you know, they're asking or they're interested in buying a bike and it's just a no brainer. Now, you know, it's like, yeah, if you're going to buy a bike, you should buy a gravel bike. You shouldn't, you shouldn't even think twice about it. Like, that's the bike that you should buy. So I think that that's, that's pretty, pretty awesome. Yeah. And mean as we've covered before. And as the, the the listener most likely knows the beauty of these gravel bikes, that they're like chameleons, right? You can have two sets of wheels, you can have a shock stop STEM, you can have a suspension seat posts and you can swap them in and out depending on what you're doing. And the net net is you end up with a bike that can take you everywhere from bike packing to cyclocross racing. And that's, it's really exciting and certainly a great value for your money as a cyclist to be able to have one bike that can sort of wear many dresses. Yeah. And as a recovering, you know, and plus one, a bike, alcoholic. I currently probably have seven bikes in my garage, so I'm trying to try and get rid of them. But you know, the idea of having one, you know, One great bike that you can really sort of do everything with is, is super attractive. Yeah, absolutely. Well, Steven, thank you so much for, for sharing your thoughts on the company and the products. And the time I've really enjoyed riding the product thus far and I'm really curious to kind of explore it as something that can help reduce fatigue and increased performance over my rides. Yeah, thanks so much Craig. Really appreciate it. It was great talking to you and hopefully we can get together for a ride sometime soon. Right on. Thanks again to Steven for joining the pod this week. Since recording, I've actually spent another couple of months on the shock stops STEM due to some back issues and I remain impressed every time I get that thing off road. I am happy to have a little bit of cush in these days where my body could use a little break. So kudos for them for an interesting design and something to consider if you're finding off road riding a little too jolting to your body in this week's can't let it go. Segment, I want to talk about lights. I've been using a night sun Lumia light and it's been shocking to me how compact this lighting system is compared to the wattage that it's putting out. It's made my night rides home commuting super comfortable and safe. I remember back in the day when you used to have to Mount a battery in your water bottle cage and how heavy and obnoxious those setups were. Whereas today you can get something that mounts simply on your handlebar plug in. Charger is all good to go and you can be completely safe out there. So as we're concluding winter, I hope everybody's invested in some good safety lighting to keep them safe and hopefully even get out there and explore off road. So that's it for this week. I appreciate all the support. If you have any feedback, shoot me a note@craigatthegravelride.bike or hit me up on any of the social media platforms. As always, if you're enjoying what we do, please leave a rating or review those few minutes of efforts, really help us reach a broader audience, which is important with that. Until next time, here's to finding some dirt under your wheels.  

Show 139. Which is about show 150. Which is this show, which is about show 139, which is also show 140. Frankensteining. Pink Flamingoid. Cantalouped commentary. White Rabbits.

Today on the podcast I'm sharing with you a conversation I had recently with none other than Amber De La Garza, the productivity specialist. Amber is the host of Productivity Straight Talk and she lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. I love going to Las Vegas! Yet every single time I go to Las Vegas, Amber is busy. So let's put our good magic together and hope that next time I go to Las Vegas, I will have the opportunity to see Amber in person again. It's been a year since I last saw her and I cannot wait to catch up. Before I go off on talking about my friendship with Amber, I want to make sure that you know that we have a full transcript of this episode at techofbusiness.com/095/ so that you don't have to sit there and take notes. I was starting to pull out some of the highlights of this episode. And my notes themselves got longer than I wanted. I decided to scrap that and just point you towards the show notes because that's where you're going to get all the juicy nuggets and make sure that you don't miss anything that Amber has to say. Now let's get into this episode and you are going to be blown away. I wanted to bring Amber on to the podcast to share kind of where technology and outsourcing help with productivity. This is something that people come to me all the time with. They're like, “Okay, so I want to use this new tool.” And my first question is, why? Why do you want to use this tool? And if the answer is, “So that I can be more productive.” I start to look and see if Amber has something in her podcast vault that I can send them to. That's really the true reason why I wanted to bring Amber on today. Tech and the relationship of productivity can be kind of a gray area. Amber was really excited to really define how they meet and how do they actually serve each other. Amber thinks that there are a lot of people just jump to, “If I get the right program or the right app or the right this or this, it makes me productive.” Because of this she was really excited to talk about how it actually does help us be more productive. I think that even myself, and probably Amber too, we've implemented technology, and it's made us less productive, either short term or long term. There are a lot of different variables. Sometimes it's even get a piece of tech working and have someone on your team do it or have someone get that piece of tech working and bring it back to you ready to go. So I realized that we never really said what Amber's podcast is and what she is actually a genius at. Amber De La Garza is the productivity specialist. She specializes in productivity for small business owners. And she does that in many different ways. One of them is the podcast she has called “Productivity Straight Talk.” She is also a coach. So she offers group coaching programs, one on one coaching, and she also speaks and trains. So just about any method or modality of sharing the message of why productivity is so important for businesses in our lives, she;s just sharing all the good stuff. So let's talk about when someone says that they want to be more productive. Where do you start with them? Do you start with asking what their day looks like? Do you start with what does their tech look like? Where do you start with that part of the conversation? Amber shared this great example. Let's say she has someone on a discovery call, and they're like, “Oh, I don't know where to start with you. I'm not quite sure.” She makes sure that they're on the same page with how they define productivity. Because if they don't define it the same way, then Amber says that she's not the right person or coach for them. So the very first place she starts is to define it. So how does Amber define productivity? According to Amber… “Productivity is simply when we are investing our best time into our best activities. And that's really, really important because you didn't hear me say an organized desk or color coded calendar or file folders that are completely alphabetical and organized and every paper has a place. I also didn't mention tech. I didn't mention programs. I didn't mention the next project management program. It's with investing your best time into your best activities.” - Amber De La Garza Now, when we say things like, “I don't have enough time, there's never enough time to do those important activities like sales, marketing and visibility, and getting out there and letting people know what you can do servicing your clients.” Then that's you need to be focused on figuring out how can you be more effective and efficient by using tech. How can you be more organized and efficient by being organized, so that you reclaim that time to now focus and show up your best as the business owner? That means doing the things that actually create revenue for your business. So that's how it's all tied in. And yes, we talk about tech and apps and an organization, but those are tools you use to leverage your time so that you show up your best in your business. I love that because there is never a good tech tool that costs you time, energy, or whatever it might cost you that is going to stay in your business if it's not giving you that time back. So when I'm thinking of how to get more time out of the day, that's really where structuring your day and structuring how you're using the technology is important. Simple things like what time is my project management tool going to let me know that things are due. Are they due at two o'clock in the morning? Or are they due at seven o'clock in the morning? Are they do at 10 o'clock at night? Amber can definitely speak to why you may want to use one of those or another based on your most productive time and most productive efforts. Amber thinks that when technology is leveraged correctly, it's actually like a silent employee. One that doesn't talk back and it's working for you behind the scenes. There is an investment, but the investment means you're getting a return on that. So if you create or set up a project management program, that when you put in information it now organizes it and spits it back to you, it now becomes kind of like your boss or your executive assistant. And your calendar can the same thing. You can have your calendar do notifications and say, “Hey, it's time to transition you're going on a podcast.” Or “Hey, this project is due or this task is due.” If you have systems with through automation and technology that you trust that are set up, then you actually create bandwidth space in your head to really focus on CEO things like a bigger vision. You aren't necessarily focusing on what's next on the task list. And so that's how Amber sees that it can be very beneficial if you're looking at setting up the tech, you want to make sure that it can actually feed back information to you in a way that you trust. Oftentimes they're more organized than you, too. So say you're leveraging a project management tool. They're consistent. You set it up once. And you put in the information correct. They're consistently showing up for you. And that can almost be better than you can count on employees sometimes. So that's why Amber sees that tech is a really, really cool thing. I do love the idea of outsourcing to your technology. I think that's a really valuable thought process. If you give this tech tool something and it's outsource properly, it's going to give you back what you need. So one of the pillars that Amber teaches is how to leverage through people. Her method “The Stop Method.” And that's how to leverage yourself, your time, organization, and people. What's interesting is that if you are not the tech person, if you're pulling your hair out dreading it, pushing that project off, it's never getting done, or you simply don't understand it, then that is not a hat that I believe you should be wearing. Because now you're stealing that time of when you're wearing that hat for time from when you could be really doing things that are going to move your business. So when Amber looks at building a dream team, she thinks it includes not just employees, but also independent contractors and such. You're using them for project based things like getting website up. Or maybe you're not a graphic designer and you need new business cards. You could probably do that, but it's probably going to take you three times as long. Another big place that Amber thinks a lot of business owners need help in is setting up systems. Either their brain doesn't think that way or they're just plain not good at tech. That's totally possible. And then it's a project. You're set up and now you get to utilize the benefits of that tech after somebody, like me, is serving it up and figuring it out. Working out the bugs and the kinks. To me, this made really good sense. So what I heard Amber say, is that just because you may not be, as a business owner, the most technology savvy person, that doesn't mean you can't still outsource good things to tech. It just means that the project of bringing that tech on is something that you will probably hire an independent contractor or me or things like that into the business. Amber shared that even if you are good at tech, you should think about outsourcing it if that's not the primary way that you make money and serve your business. For example, Amber loves tech. She's that person that is watching videos about Ontraport or the next new website thing. That's what she would actually do in her spare time for fun. But at the end of the day, she brought in an entrepreneur consultant. Because at the end of the day, it takes a lot of time, energy, and focus and it's not the best use of her time to grow her business. What she has, because she understands it, is an ability to be really clear about what she wants the program to do. And so she thinks that it's also beneficial for people that do get it. If you get it, that's cool. You can probably more clearly state what you want the program app or tech to do. But sometimes, you just have to get out of the way and let someone that that's their zone of genius to do so that you're reclaiming time. The time you need to do the things that only you can do. So if you don't have a sales person in your company, you're doing sales. That's not something you can project-based outsource, but you can outsource tech setup. I say that all the time that tech is outsourceable. Why not leverage that ability so that you can do something that is in your zone of genius? So that you can spend time on something that only you can do. If you as the business owner, get fired up getting on Facebook Lives, then get on more Facebook Lives. And dedicate the time that you would have had to spend to set up whatever that system is, or whatever that processes are to do what drives your business. Amber says to look at like real dollars and time. She shared that if it's not in her zone of genius it may take her two times as long as I do to set something up. So it's going to take her 20 hours. And it's going to take me 10 hours. So her question to herself as the business owner would be, what impact would 20 hours of my time be, in my business elsewhere? You can literally lay that over a networking event or a conference, whatever your marketing visibility is, or 20 hours of sales conversations. Could you not massively get a return on that investment versus 20 hours of tech set up? So we're not just looking at a trade of time and money. We're looking at opportunity costs. That 20 hours that you're spending, trying to figure out the tech and the frustration, is an opportunity cost of you not being elsewhere in your business that needs you and only you as a small business owner. We build our businesses to feel good about what we do. Amber shared that she doesn't know about you, the listener. But if tech is not your thing, then her guess is you're showing up and when you're done, you're frustrated and your mindset is altered. And while maybe you physically put in 20 hours, did it really take 30? Because you're just done with the day and so frustrated. What energy was depleted from doing something that was not in your zone of genius, versus showing up doing the things that light you up, which may be serving your clients? I'd like to lay on top of that as well, the cost of the outsourcing. So if it's something that I'm estimating is going to cost you $1,000 to do. So that's $1,000 out of your pocket. If it was going to take you 20 hours to accomplish it. You have to then look and say “Okay, Is 20 hours worth more? Or is $1,000 worth more?” But then, adding back in what Amber said, it's not necessarily just 20 hours. It's the energy! It's the 30 hours that she's talking about here. So all of a sudden, this $1000 outflow looks on the balance scales against all these other things that you could be doing in your business that are both positive and negative. And most of the time, the outsourcing opportunity far outweighs trying to do it yourself. Amber thinks that's the conversation about should we outsource? Should we not outsource? But she thinks more of that conversation is, should I even incorporate tech automation? That's where she would say, “Do we incorporate automation and what's the return on investment?” How much time is it going to save you or your team? For example, let's just say you had a CRM system set up, and now it's telling you when to follow up with people. Whereas by yourself, you were inconsistent at best. But now that you have a system telling you when to consistently follow up, how many more deals could you close because of the tech? That's the value of using these apps, programs, automation, and tech. How does it let you show up your best, consistently in the business? Which again, full circle is being your most productive self. I just loved the way that we brought this back to why you want to look at how you spend your time in your business! How are you spending things like your energy in your business? One of the things that I know is that oftentimes the learning side of a new process, a new system, a new tool, we will let that scope creep. We will let that time creep instead of stopping work at two o'clock, so I can go pick up the kids. Because of course, driving takes 25 minutes. But that's another story altogether. I'm going to say, “Okay, I have to stop now. But oh, I'll watch that YouTube video later.” And suddenly you dig into your family time and you dig into other times, because you're trying to learn something that is not beneficial to getting that next client. You're working on something that's not within your zone of genius! And you're not spending the best time on the best work. When Amber defines productivity, the investing your best time into your best activities, those activities for her and how she defines them for her clients is in four buckets. It doesn't matter your industry. Where you're at, as a small business owner and small businesses under 50 employees, and your most productive activities are either supervising or being in these four buckets. Bucket number one is marketing and visibility. And bucket number two is sales. Bucket number three is servicing your clients. And bucket number four is leadership. So as you're building your business, you're going to be spending more time leadership because you can eventually outsource servicing your clients, sales, and marketing. But the core of having your business profitable, will fall under one of those four buckets. Now, where does tech fall into? Tech can help us be better in one of those four buckets. But when we're learning the tech and in the videos, and we're actively trying to put this tech together, that falls under the other bucket. It is a way of actively procrastinating, but calling ourselves busy. We're thinking that we're being productive as a business owner if this is not our zone of genius. Amber shared for me this is not true. This would literally land under servicing my clients. So an investment in learning something is like sharpening my saw so that I can serve my clients. But for coaches, financial advisors, marketers, or whatever type of the business, that's not their zone of genius. So we can solve this like hamsters like, “Oh, but we're busy. But I'm moving the ball forward.” Yes, but it's not what your business needs from you the most to make the biggest impact. I really like that. What does your business need the most from you to make the biggest impact?  That is beautiful. That is most likely a quote that someone has just read somewhere on social media because it was good! That other bucket is a dangerous, dangerous place. But it is so, so necessary. It's also very for us to not always be on. And if we can be in that other bucket sometimes I think that makes good sense. The other bucket is absolutely relevant. Like you need to pay your bills. And you need your balance sheet. If you don't have a bookkeeper, you're balancing your checkbook. There's really real things!. Honestly, my strategies are for people running real businesses. The truth is that when you put on your tech hat, you're probably your janitor too. And you're the CEO, the marketer, and the salesperson. That's when smoothness feels super, super overwhelming. So in the context of this episode, we're talking where would that tech fall under and it's the other bucket. Now, you certainly can learn it sometimes. Amber said that she didn't want to make any false statements here. She still does tech in her business. But big projects, she outsources. So the other bucket is a necessity. It can't be at the expense of showing up in your first four buckets. And that's the thing is like it. Amber shared with her model, the fifth bucket, the other bucket, is important. We need a time and place for that. But we're approaching our businesses as we're showing up in that other bucket instead of the first four buckets. That's when businesses are not profitable. You're picking a paycheck. That's when immense frustration comes in. And so that's why I like separating the two. What I was thinking about just there is that things that you are doing in the other bucket, especially in the tech when you're doing that, is going to bleed into your being a better leader. It's going to bleed into doing better in your visibility and marketing. And it is going to help you service your customers better. It's going to help you close more sales. So there is definitely value. This is just one of the reasons why I really wanted to bring Amber on to the podcast. To help people get the perspective of how can we use our time to the best benefit of our business. I feel like we're really kind of covering that. Tech is going to definitely help. It doesn't matter what tool it is if it's the right tool for your business, right now. Amber shared that It's not the shiny object that you thought was going to fix a problem. She wants to get really, really clear about that. It has got to be like let's do some work. You need to research about this. It needs to be the right program for your need, not what your business bestie said they're using. You just want to jump and now you're jumping ship and adding another tech to your to your business. We don't add tech because it's a nice garnish because it's going to give us fuel. I feel like we've just really covered the advantages of using tech and outsourcing and making it so that your business just does more. Amber shared that her business is a small business. And they use quite a bit of tech. There's a lot behind the scenes that they use and they have some favorites. Every once in a while, something new will come on the market. Amber share that she is not a first adopter. She lets it get tried. She shared that she really has to have a pain point to do a switch in mher business because she does see the opportunity of cost, of switching. And so she just wants to be always cognizant of not switch, switch, switch every time something new hits the market. I firmly believe that is absolutely the fastest way to have tech make you go out of business is by doing that constant switching. Another other thing that Amber wanted to share is sometimes there's too much tech. And what that means is you have gone on a tech buying binge. You're just buying it all because you like this feature or this feature. And you didn't take the time to audit which you already had. Most likely, some of the tech you have already has the features because maybe they got upgraded or they didn't have that feature when you first bought that. Then what happens is it becomes really heavy. It becomes really, really complicated. You're paying more in subscriptions than you need to be paying. So Amber thinks that is a huge benefit in either having someone on your team or someone you're outsourcing to that, just letting you know, like, “Hey, did you know this could do this? Or did you know that I'm looking at the whole ecosystem of your tech and making sure it's as effective and efficient as possible.” is really beneficial. Then it's important to take the time to actually read those emails that come in that says there is a new feature on a program you already use. Because that's often a goal. That means you don't need to do the search of what's this new program out on the market. You may already have it at your fingertips. But you just didn't read that email or see that announcement. Similar to that is, if you get that announcement and you read it and you say, “Hey, this means I can throw out this other system because I don't need this other system anymore.” That's a really good time to say, “Okay, we're going to implement this new system, this new tool within the system we're already using and be able to get rid of another tool.” That's a huge piece of all of this. Nobody needs to have a virtual store room full of software tools and monthly subscriptions. Yes, our businesses don't need it. Even tech lovers like me, who can make it all work together and make it so that it doesn't feel so heavy and so big and so bloated. It still could be so heavy, so big and so bloated. So don't go there. And if you are trying to figure out how to streamline that, figure out where your pain point is. Are you not productive enough because you haven't used this tool efficiently? Then maybe Ambers got some resources for you. If you just need a tech audit, come to me! Ask me to help you out with it. This is why we are in business. It's why we have podcasts. This is why we are visible in this medium because we want to help you. Amber says it can be a total rabbit hole to go down and figure out what this feature is and is it compatible with other tools. Amber calls a tech audit Frankensteining your text together. You add this one. Then a little while later, you add another one, and then you add another one and, and then you're frustrated with it because something's not talking to something or it doesn't work. And really, you haven't stopped to take an audit of it. And when you do that, there's so many benefits. You get your time back, things work better. And it's more efficient. You're probably paying less in subscriptions or however you're paying for your tech. So Amber can see a tech audit to be very, very beneficial. This was such a fun conversation with Amber. As I said at the beginning, there are so many nuggets in this episode. We talked about outsourcing your tech. And we talked about figuring out how to be productive by using your best time for the best activities. We talked about what tools you can use to make this flow so much easier. Such amazing insight from a true professional. Be sure to head over to her website, the link is below so that you can grab her freebie to make sure that you are being as productive as possible. Now my one action step for you. If you have been looking at using tech more effectively in your business, let's set up a tech audit. Let's look at the tech that you're using and how it is helping you be more productive. Just go to techofbusiness.com/audit, and you'll be able to book your audit right there. I will be back next week with another solo episode. I cannot wait to share this one with you. Thanks for listening to the Tech of Business podcast. If you enjoyed the show, please subscribe, share, rate, and review on Apple podcasts, Stitcher Radio, Overcast, or wherever you download your favorite shows. You can also check out the show notes and learn more about me at techofbusiness.com. I'll see you next week. Connect with Jaime: Instagram: @techofbusiness Twitter: @techofbusiness Facebook: @yourbiztech LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimeslutzky/ Email: jaime@techofbusiness.com Connect with Amber: Website: https://www.theproductivityspecialist.com Instagram: @Amber_de la Garza. Freebie: https://www.theproductivityspecialist.com/techofbusiness

Today on the podcast I'm sharing with you a conversation I had recently with none other than Amber De La Garza, the productivity specialist. Amber is the host of Productivity Straight Talk and she lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. I love going to Las Vegas! Yet every single time I go to Las Vegas, Amber is busy. So let's put our good magic together and hope that next time I go to Las Vegas, I will have the opportunity to see Amber in person again. It's been a year since I last saw her and I cannot wait to catch up. Before I go off on talking about my friendship with Amber, I want to make sure that you know that we have a full transcript of this episode at techofbusiness.com/095/ so that you don't have to sit there and take notes. I was starting to pull out some of the highlights of this episode. And my notes themselves got longer than I wanted. I decided to scrap that and just point you towards the show notes because that's where you're going to get all the juicy nuggets and make sure that you don't miss anything that Amber has to say. Now let's get into this episode and you are going to be blown away. I wanted to bring Amber on to the podcast to share kind of where technology and outsourcing help with productivity. This is something that people come to me all the time with. They're like, “Okay, so I want to use this new tool.” And my first question is, why? Why do you want to use this tool? And if the answer is, “So that I can be more productive.” I start to look and see if Amber has something in her podcast vault that I can send them to. That's really the true reason why I wanted to bring Amber on today. Tech and the relationship of productivity can be kind of a gray area. Amber was really excited to really define how they meet and how do they actually serve each other. Amber thinks that there are a lot of people just jump to, “If I get the right program or the right app or the right this or this, it makes me productive.” Because of this she was really excited to talk about how it actually does help us be more productive. I think that even myself, and probably Amber too, we've implemented technology, and it's made us less productive, either short term or long term. There are a lot of different variables. Sometimes it's even get a piece of tech working and have someone on your team do it or have someone get that piece of tech working and bring it back to you ready to go. So I realized that we never really said what Amber’s podcast is and what she is actually a genius at. Amber De La Garza is the productivity specialist. She specializes in productivity for small business owners. And she does that in many different ways. One of them is the podcast she has called “Productivity Straight Talk.” She is also a coach. So she offers group coaching programs, one on one coaching, and she also speaks and trains. So just about any method or modality of sharing the message of why productivity is so important for businesses in our lives, she;s just sharing all the good stuff. So let’s talk about when someone says that they want to be more productive. Where do you start with them? Do you start with asking what their day looks like? Do you start with what does their tech look like? Where do you start with that part of the conversation? Amber shared this great example. Let’s say she has someone on a discovery call, and they're like, “Oh, I don't know where to start with you. I'm not quite sure.” She makes sure that they're on the same page with how they define productivity. Because if they don't define it the same way, then Amber says that she’s not the right person or coach for them. So the very first place she starts is to define it. So how does Amber define productivity? According to Amber… “Productivity is simply when we are investing our best time into our best activities. And that's really, really important because you didn't hear me say an organized desk or color coded calendar or file folders that are completely alphabetical and organized and every paper has a place. I also didn't mention tech. I didn't mention programs. I didn't mention the next project management program. It's with investing your best time into your best activities.” - Amber De La Garza Now, when we say things like, “I don't have enough time, there's never enough time to do those important activities like sales, marketing and visibility, and getting out there and letting people know what you can do servicing your clients.” Then that's you need to be focused on figuring out how can you be more effective and efficient by using tech. How can you be more organized and efficient by being organized, so that you reclaim that time to now focus and show up your best as the business owner? That means doing the things that actually create revenue for your business. So that's how it's all tied in. And yes, we talk about tech and apps and an organization, but those are tools you use to leverage your time so that you show up your best in your business. I love that because there is never a good tech tool that costs you time, energy, or whatever it might cost you that is going to stay in your business if it's not giving you that time back. So when I'm thinking of how to get more time out of the day, that's really where structuring your day and structuring how you're using the technology is important. Simple things like what time is my project management tool going to let me know that things are due. Are they due at two o'clock in the morning? Or are they due at seven o'clock in the morning? Are they do at 10 o'clock at night? Amber can definitely speak to why you may want to use one of those or another based on your most productive time and most productive efforts. Amber thinks that when technology is leveraged correctly, it's actually like a silent employee. One that doesn't talk back and it's working for you behind the scenes. There is an investment, but the investment means you're getting a return on that. So if you create or set up a project management program, that when you put in information it now organizes it and spits it back to you, it now becomes kind of like your boss or your executive assistant. And your calendar can the same thing. You can have your calendar do notifications and say, “Hey, it's time to transition you're going on a podcast.” Or “Hey, this project is due or this task is due.” If you have systems with through automation and technology that you trust that are set up, then you actually create bandwidth space in your head to really focus on CEO things like a bigger vision. You aren’t necessarily focusing on what's next on the task list. And so that's how Amber sees that it can be very beneficial if you're looking at setting up the tech, you want to make sure that it can actually feed back information to you in a way that you trust. Oftentimes they're more organized than you, too. So say you’re leveraging a project management tool. They're consistent. You set it up once. And you put in the information correct. They're consistently showing up for you. And that can almost be better than you can count on employees sometimes. So that's why Amber sees that tech is a really, really cool thing. I do love the idea of outsourcing to your technology. I think that's a really valuable thought process. If you give this tech tool something and it's outsource properly, it's going to give you back what you need. So one of the pillars that Amber teaches is how to leverage through people. Her method “The Stop Method.” And that's how to leverage yourself, your time, organization, and people. What's interesting is that if you are not the tech person, if you're pulling your hair out dreading it, pushing that project off, it's never getting done, or you simply don't understand it, then that is not a hat that I believe you should be wearing. Because now you're stealing that time of when you're wearing that hat for time from when you could be really doing things that are going to move your business. So when Amber looks at building a dream team, she thinks it includes not just employees, but also independent contractors and such. You're using them for project based things like getting website up. Or maybe you're not a graphic designer and you need new business cards. You could probably do that, but it's probably going to take you three times as long. Another big place that Amber thinks a lot of business owners need help in is setting up systems. Either their brain doesn't think that way or they're just plain not good at tech. That’s totally possible. And then it's a project. You're set up and now you get to utilize the benefits of that tech after somebody, like me, is serving it up and figuring it out. Working out the bugs and the kinks. To me, this made really good sense. So what I heard Amber say, is that just because you may not be, as a business owner, the most technology savvy person, that doesn't mean you can't still outsource good things to tech. It just means that the project of bringing that tech on is something that you will probably hire an independent contractor or me or things like that into the business. Amber shared that even if you are good at tech, you should think about outsourcing it if that's not the primary way that you make money and serve your business. For example, Amber loves tech. She’s that person that is watching videos about Ontraport or the next new website thing. That's what she would actually do in her spare time for fun. But at the end of the day, she brought in an entrepreneur consultant. Because at the end of the day, it takes a lot of time, energy, and focus and it's not the best use of her time to grow her business. What she has, because she understands it, is an ability to be really clear about what she wants the program to do. And so she thinks that it's also beneficial for people that do get it. If you get it, that's cool. You can probably more clearly state what you want the program app or tech to do. But sometimes, you just have to get out of the way and let someone that that's their zone of genius to do so that you're reclaiming time. The time you need to do the things that only you can do. So if you don't have a sales person in your company, you're doing sales. That's not something you can project-based outsource, but you can outsource tech setup. I say that all the time that tech is outsourceable. Why not leverage that ability so that you can do something that is in your zone of genius? So that you can spend time on something that only you can do. If you as the business owner, get fired up getting on Facebook Lives, then get on more Facebook Lives. And dedicate the time that you would have had to spend to set up whatever that system is, or whatever that processes are to do what drives your business. Amber says to look at like real dollars and time. She shared that if it’s not in her zone of genius it may take her two times as long as I do to set something up. So it's going to take her 20 hours. And it's going to take me 10 hours. So her question to herself as the business owner would be, what impact would 20 hours of my time be, in my business elsewhere? You can literally lay that over a networking event or a conference, whatever your marketing visibility is, or 20 hours of sales conversations. Could you not massively get a return on that investment versus 20 hours of tech set up? So we're not just looking at a trade of time and money. We're looking at opportunity costs. That 20 hours that you're spending, trying to figure out the tech and the frustration, is an opportunity cost of you not being elsewhere in your business that needs you and only you as a small business owner. We build our businesses to feel good about what we do. Amber shared that she doesn’t know about you, the listener. But if tech is not your thing, then her guess is you're showing up and when you're done, you're frustrated and your mindset is altered. And while maybe you physically put in 20 hours, did it really take 30? Because you're just done with the day and so frustrated. What energy was depleted from doing something that was not in your zone of genius, versus showing up doing the things that light you up, which may be serving your clients? I’d like to lay on top of that as well, the cost of the outsourcing. So if it's something that I'm estimating is going to cost you $1,000 to do. So that's $1,000 out of your pocket. If it was going to take you 20 hours to accomplish it. You have to then look and say “Okay, Is 20 hours worth more? Or is $1,000 worth more?” But then, adding back in what Amber said, it's not necessarily just 20 hours. It's the energy! It’s the 30 hours that she's talking about here. So all of a sudden, this $1000 outflow looks on the balance scales against all these other things that you could be doing in your business that are both positive and negative. And most of the time, the outsourcing opportunity far outweighs trying to do it yourself. Amber thinks that's the conversation about should we outsource? Should we not outsource? But she thinks more of that conversation is, should I even incorporate tech automation? That's where she would say, “Do we incorporate automation and what's the return on investment?” How much time is it going to save you or your team? For example, let's just say you had a CRM system set up, and now it's telling you when to follow up with people. Whereas by yourself, you were inconsistent at best. But now that you have a system telling you when to consistently follow up, how many more deals could you close because of the tech? That's the value of using these apps, programs, automation, and tech. How does it let you show up your best, consistently in the business? Which again, full circle is being your most productive self. I just loved the way that we brought this back to why you want to look at how you spend your time in your business! How are you spending things like your energy in your business? One of the things that I know is that oftentimes the learning side of a new process, a new system, a new tool, we will let that scope creep. We will let that time creep instead of stopping work at two o'clock, so I can go pick up the kids. Because of course, driving takes 25 minutes. But that's another story altogether. I'm going to say, “Okay, I have to stop now. But oh, I'll watch that YouTube video later.” And suddenly you dig into your family time and you dig into other times, because you're trying to learn something that is not beneficial to getting that next client. You're working on something that's not within your zone of genius! And you're not spending the best time on the best work. When Amber defines productivity, the investing your best time into your best activities, those activities for her and how she defines them for her clients is in four buckets. It doesn't matter your industry. Where you're at, as a small business owner and small businesses under 50 employees, and your most productive activities are either supervising or being in these four buckets. Bucket number one is marketing and visibility. And bucket number two is sales. Bucket number three is servicing your clients. And bucket number four is leadership. So as you're building your business, you're going to be spending more time leadership because you can eventually outsource servicing your clients, sales, and marketing. But the core of having your business profitable, will fall under one of those four buckets. Now, where does tech fall into? Tech can help us be better in one of those four buckets. But when we're learning the tech and in the videos, and we're actively trying to put this tech together, that falls under the other bucket. It is a way of actively procrastinating, but calling ourselves busy. We’re thinking that we're being productive as a business owner if this is not our zone of genius. Amber shared for me this is not true. This would literally land under servicing my clients. So an investment in learning something is like sharpening my saw so that I can serve my clients. But for coaches, financial advisors, marketers, or whatever type of the business, that's not their zone of genius. So we can solve this like hamsters like, “Oh, but we're busy. But I'm moving the ball forward.” Yes, but it's not what your business needs from you the most to make the biggest impact. I really like that. What does your business need the most from you to make the biggest impact?  That is beautiful. That is most likely a quote that someone has just read somewhere on social media because it was good! That other bucket is a dangerous, dangerous place. But it is so, so necessary. It's also very for us to not always be on. And if we can be in that other bucket sometimes I think that makes good sense. The other bucket is absolutely relevant. Like you need to pay your bills. And you need your balance sheet. If you don't have a bookkeeper, you're balancing your checkbook. There's really real things!. Honestly, my strategies are for people running real businesses. The truth is that when you put on your tech hat, you're probably your janitor too. And you're the CEO, the marketer, and the salesperson. That's when smoothness feels super, super overwhelming. So in the context of this episode, we’re talking where would that tech fall under and it's the other bucket. Now, you certainly can learn it sometimes. Amber said that she didn't want to make any false statements here. She still does tech in her business. But big projects, she outsources. So the other bucket is a necessity. It can't be at the expense of showing up in your first four buckets. And that's the thing is like it. Amber shared with her model, the fifth bucket, the other bucket, is important. We need a time and place for that. But we’re approaching our businesses as we're showing up in that other bucket instead of the first four buckets. That's when businesses are not profitable. You're picking a paycheck. That's when immense frustration comes in. And so that's why I like separating the two. What I was thinking about just there is that things that you are doing in the other bucket, especially in the tech when you're doing that, is going to bleed into your being a better leader. It's going to bleed into doing better in your visibility and marketing. And it is going to help you service your customers better. It's going to help you close more sales. So there is definitely value. This is just one of the reasons why I really wanted to bring Amber on to the podcast. To help people get the perspective of how can we use our time to the best benefit of our business. I feel like we're really kind of covering that. Tech is going to definitely help. It doesn't matter what tool it is if it's the right tool for your business, right now. Amber shared that It's not the shiny object that you thought was going to fix a problem. She wants to get really, really clear about that. It has got to be like let's do some work. You need to research about this. It needs to be the right program for your need, not what your business bestie said they're using. You just want to jump and now you're jumping ship and adding another tech to your to your business. We don't add tech because it's a nice garnish because it's going to give us fuel. I feel like we've just really covered the advantages of using tech and outsourcing and making it so that your business just does more. Amber shared that her business is a small business. And they use quite a bit of tech. There's a lot behind the scenes that they use and they have some favorites. Every once in a while, something new will come on the market. Amber share that she is not a first adopter. She lets it get tried. She shared that she really has to have a pain point to do a switch in mher business because she does see the opportunity of cost, of switching. And so she just wants to be always cognizant of not switch, switch, switch every time something new hits the market. I firmly believe that is absolutely the fastest way to have tech make you go out of business is by doing that constant switching. Another other thing that Amber wanted to share is sometimes there's too much tech. And what that means is you have gone on a tech buying binge. You're just buying it all because you like this feature or this feature. And you didn't take the time to audit which you already had. Most likely, some of the tech you have already has the features because maybe they got upgraded or they didn't have that feature when you first bought that. Then what happens is it becomes really heavy. It becomes really, really complicated. You're paying more in subscriptions than you need to be paying. So Amber thinks that is a huge benefit in either having someone on your team or someone you're outsourcing to that, just letting you know, like, “Hey, did you know this could do this? Or did you know that I'm looking at the whole ecosystem of your tech and making sure it's as effective and efficient as possible.” is really beneficial. Then it’s important to take the time to actually read those emails that come in that says there is a new feature on a program you already use. Because that's often a goal. That means you don't need to do the search of what's this new program out on the market. You may already have it at your fingertips. But you just didn't read that email or see that announcement. Similar to that is, if you get that announcement and you read it and you say, “Hey, this means I can throw out this other system because I don't need this other system anymore.” That's a really good time to say, “Okay, we're going to implement this new system, this new tool within the system we're already using and be able to get rid of another tool.” That's a huge piece of all of this. Nobody needs to have a virtual store room full of software tools and monthly subscriptions. Yes, our businesses don't need it. Even tech lovers like me, who can make it all work together and make it so that it doesn't feel so heavy and so big and so bloated. It still could be so heavy, so big and so bloated. So don't go there. And if you are trying to figure out how to streamline that, figure out where your pain point is. Are you not productive enough because you haven't used this tool efficiently? Then maybe Ambers got some resources for you. If you just need a tech audit, come to me! Ask me to help you out with it. This is why we are in business. It’s why we have podcasts. This is why we are visible in this medium because we want to help you. Amber says it can be a total rabbit hole to go down and figure out what this feature is and is it compatible with other tools. Amber calls a tech audit Frankensteining your text together. You add this one. Then a little while later, you add another one, and then you add another one and, and then you're frustrated with it because something's not talking to something or it doesn't work. And really, you haven't stopped to take an audit of it. And when you do that, there's so many benefits. You get your time back, things work better. And it’s more efficient. You're probably paying less in subscriptions or however you're paying for your tech. So Amber can see a tech audit to be very, very beneficial. This was such a fun conversation with Amber. As I said at the beginning, there are so many nuggets in this episode. We talked about outsourcing your tech. And we talked about figuring out how to be productive by using your best time for the best activities. We talked about what tools you can use to make this flow so much easier. Such amazing insight from a true professional. Be sure to head over to her website, the link is below so that you can grab her freebie to make sure that you are being as productive as possible. Now my one action step for you. If you have been looking at using tech more effectively in your business, let's set up a tech audit. Let's look at the tech that you're using and how it is helping you be more productive. Just go to techofbusiness.com/audit, and you'll be able to book your audit right there. I will be back next week with another solo episode. I cannot wait to share this one with you. Thanks for listening to the Tech of Business podcast. If you enjoyed the show, please subscribe, share, rate, and review on Apple podcasts, Stitcher Radio, Overcast, or wherever you download your favorite shows. You can also check out the show notes and learn more about me at techofbusiness.com. I'll see you next week. Connect with Jaime: Instagram: @techofbusiness Twitter: @techofbusiness Facebook: @yourbiztech LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimeslutzky/ Email: jaime@techofbusiness.com Connect with Amber: Website: https://www.theproductivityspecialist.com Instagram: @Amber_de la Garza. Freebie: https://www.theproductivityspecialist.com/techofbusiness

This is Part 2 of a two-part investigative deep-dive into the accusations of Bloomberg’s recent article, ‘The Big Hack’. Written by Bob Flores, former CTO of the CIA, and Babak Pasdar, CEO of Acreto IoT Security. Bloomberg Spy Chip - Bullshit? Part 2 Now let’s break down Bloomberg’s claims further. In the article they present a graphical image of a Supermicro motherboard and strip away components until the spy chip can be seen. The motherboard they present is a Supermicro B1DRi with an AOC-GEH-i4M add-on module. As shown on the Supermicro web site, the B1DRi is designed to host up to two Intel E-2500 v3 slash v4 CPUs and up to 256 Gb of 288 pin DDR4 memory and can be mounted to a sled with its own hard-disks. However it is not a standalone server and needs to be mounted in a Blade Enclosure to function. The enclosure provides power, hosts a network switch and most importantly has a shared IPMI management board plugin. If the spy chip works through the IPMI, how can Bloomberg show the spy chip placed on the motherboard, when the IPMI for the board is an external module in the enclosure? It looks like the IPMI must be individually linked to each server blade to manage that blade. The IPMI IoT is an external module plugged into the enclosure and to be used, it needs to be individually assigned to each of up to 16 server blades in the enclosure. If that is the case then there is a 1 in 16 chance of compromising a server and even then, it would be opportunistic and inconsistent depending on which blade the IPMI may be set to manage on boot. Now – let’s discuss the chip Bloomberg presented in the article. If the insanity of the logistics to effectuate this hack is not enough to make you call Bloomberg’s story Bullshit, then their presentation of the spy chip should. The chip presented IS NOT A SPY CHIP, it is an RF Balun. A standard, off-the-shelf Surface Mount Device (SMD) that converts between balanced signals and unbalanced signals, hence the name Bal-Un. If you look at the Stesys or Farnell websites, they are two of the many component providers who sell them. You too can have one for a mere $1.67. And if the pictures were supposed to be mere examples of what a spy chip might look like and the type of motherboard it could be embedded on, they certainly did not present it that way. Also, consider that a motherboard is an incredibly complex piece of equipment. These types of motherboards need to be extremely high performance and extremely compact at the same time. This makes them extremely dense. They are almost always multi-layer boards where traces connecting the various electronic components exist on as many as a dozen different layers. And these systems are delicate, their operation requires the various electronic components to operate harmoniously. Frankensteining hardware to the system would be at the very least — challenging. The majority of people within a company involved in R&D, design, procurement, manufacturing and testing of the motherboards are often sequestered into groups with access that is limited to specific functional domains. Very few people have complete access to the designs and schematics for the entire board. And this almost never includes subcontractors or some small security company out of Canada doing technical due diligence for a mundane acquisition. Furthermore, the people charged with manufacturing are typically not the same people who do quality assurance (QA). The job of QA is to test every permutation of every function. We have to believe that QA’s most fundamental tests would catch something as overt as communications where the spy chip tries to identify, fetch and inject packets on-the-fly. The number of people that would need to be turned or paid off would be staggering. As many as 30 – 50 people would need to be engaged throughout the supply chain spanning multiple companies and countries. An amateurish and incredibly messy way to run a covert op. How Everything Comes Together. Because of the vague assertions, it is tough to argue definitively that any one aspect of the article is wrong, however when you put it all together: 1. We don’t know of many security companies that do reverse engineering on PCs as part of their due diligence. 2. Schematics are trade-secrets and almost never available for complex multi-layer motherboards. How could the security company have had access to schematics? 3. The sheer number of people that need to be involved in implementing the spy chips is staggering and doesn’t make sense for this type of effort. 4. The QA process, one known to be particularly meticulous, never caught the issue. 5. The ridiculous complexity of the hack where the sun, the moon and the stars have to align for it to work. 6. Not only is this compromise overt and easy to identify, but the vast majority of organizations have built-in defenses against this attack vector — especially Apple and Amazon. 7. The need for an Internet accessible IPMI network. 8. The need for the chip to fast-flux, connect to a remote system and pull-down compromise code while the system is booting. 9. The complexity of pulling a different code set on-the-fly for each of the hundreds of unique operating system and revision combinations. 10. The B1DRi motherboard being part of the blade system without any on-board IPMI, which can only be managed one blade at a time. 11. The vagueness of the charges and lack of any supplemental follow up, while Bloomberg continues to sit silent. 12. And trying to sell us that an off-the-shelf $1.67 RF Balun is a spy chip. For these reasons, many of us believe the Bloomberg story just doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Bloomberg has made explosive allegations. They have had a drastic negative impact on Supermicro’s stock price — down 50% as of this writing. Their story is barely, if at all, viable. The information they provided was amateurishly vague. Their silence in the face of the backlash speaks volumes. And yet they continue to stand by their story and not recant. Add Bob Flores and Babak Pasdar to the growing list of skeptics. If you have evidence, then present it and if you were conned it is understandable – but please stand up and own it. Learn more or read online by visiting our web site: Acreto.io — On Twitter: @acretoio and if you haven’t done so, sign up for the Acreto IoT Security podcast. You can get it from Apple – Google or your favorite podcast app. About Acreto IoT Security Acreto IoT Security delivers advanced security for IoT Ecosystems, from the cloud. IoTs are slated to grow to 50 Billion by 2021. Acreto’s Ecosystem security protects all Clouds, users, applications, and purpose-built IoTs that are unable to defend themselves in-the-wild. The Acreto platform offers simplicity and agility, and is guaranteed to protect IoTs for their entire 8-20 year lifespan. The company is founded and led by an experienced management team, with multiple successful cloud security innovations. Learn more by visiting Acreto IoT Security on the web at acreto.io or on Twitter @acretoio.

Electronics often don't mesh well with flesh and blood. Cochlear implants can irritate the scalp; pacemaker wires dislodge; VR headsets weigh heavily on the face. That's why, for the past six years, Michael McAlpine has been Frankensteining alternatives. A mechanical engineer at the University of Minnesota, he creates prototypes of bionic body parts with nice, soft components—some of them alive.

We'll discuss "Frankensteining" fast food items. Also, I've got an idea for a safe word that gets us out of unwanted political conversations.

In this episode, I take you on a tour through my toolbox and share my top time-saving tools I can’t live without. I discuss the key functions of each program, their unique features, ways to customize them to meet your unique needs, and discuss why I absolutely love using these particular tools in my business. I also talk about the solution to wanting to read more, the problem with Frankensteining your processes and tools, and the must-have program that can turn any small business owner into a self-sufficient graphic designer. I hope you enjoy my episode on time-saving tools and encourage you to pursue finding tools that could level up your business. Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: My Toolbox Favorites My Business Can’t Function Without Handy Tips For Utilizing These Powerful Tools Solutions To Your Social Media Scheduling And File-Sharing Woes How I Successfully Manage Over 200 Tasks At Any Given Time Without Feeling Overwhelmed So Much More! Important Resources & Links From This Episode: Amber’s Toolbox Outlook Training Interest List Trello Training Interest List

A new guest in Matthew Hodson joins Yoad Nevo and Jamie Lidell on the panel this week we talk VCV Rack filter simulations, new MIDI controllers from Arturia (Keylab MK2) and Nektar (T4 and T6) and Native Instruments TRK-01 kick and bass Reaktor ensemble

A new guest in Matthew Hodson joins Yoad Nevo and Jamie Lidell on the panel this week we talk VCV Rack filter simulations, new MIDI controllers from Arturia (Keylab MK2) and Nektar (T4 and T6) and Native Instruments TRK-01 kick and bass Reaktor ensemble

Wendy is the founder of Pinzit Limited. Actually, this is Wendy’s third career. She also co-owns a family flooring business and practiced as a registered nurse too. Wendy’s product, Pinzit, is a women’s fashion accessory invented quite by accident. She was trying to solve a problem she was having while wearing her favorite new sweater and suddenly, the idea for Pinzit was born. But once Wendy had her idea, what was she to do next? She knew nothing about product development and manufacturing when she got started. But she sure does now! The Start of PinzitOne morning Wendy was trying to figure out how to wear her sweater so that it would in place. She was sick of using a safety pin to keep the shrug from slipping. So she searched through her jewelry box and found a pearl earring to do the job. Unfortunately, the clasp on her earring wasn’t made for that and the earring quickly loosened and fell away – lost forever. However, when Wendy recognized what happened, the idea for Pinzit was born. Business Building InsightsIf you can dream it, you can do it. The way to find resources and help is to ask those around you. You never know what connections others have, who could be the contact you need to advance your business. But you have to let people know what you’re looking for. Product creation is a series of small tweeks until you land on that perfect design. With anything, when you do it, you get better and better. The key is in the doing. As you start out, test out your product at a local trade show or craft fair. Business development is an evolution. Get your product right, then move on to creating your website, then enhance your packaging, etc. Step by step! Candle Flickering MomentFinding manufacturers in America was quite a challenge. First it was getting a designer for her prototype and then it was finding someone to make them in mass. In the beginning, Wendy became her own manufacturer creating over 5,000 Pinzits right out of her house. Luckily, those days are behind her. Contact Links Website (http://www.pinzit.net/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/pinzit/) Gift Biz ResourcesJoin our this quiz (https://quiz.leadquizzes.com/q/Ky85Vd) to find out. At the end, you’ll have access to a free download to help you along. P.S. This is not a quiz where your result gets published to social media. It’s for your eyes only :o) The Makers MBA (http://giftbizunwrapped.com/makersmba) program and access valuable videos, worksheets, and guides and connect with a community of gift biz builders just like you. It’s time to get moving on your dream. Get started today! If you found value in this podcast, make sure to subscribe and leave a review in (http://www.giftbizunwrapped.com/GooglePodcasts) . That helps us spread the word to more makers just like you. Thanks! Sue

Carolyn was a senior trial attorney for Fortune 100 and 200 companies for over 20 years. Now she is an executive coach. Listen as we chat about authenticity, marketing, confidence and more! Highlights: 2:45 Being truthful and sharing our struggles 5:20 We discuss public rants and the impact of what we post on social media 22:00 Frankensteining our business 31:00 Discussing the word "hustle" 34:00 Getting into our own power 50:50 Giving ourselves due credit Get the show notes, transcription and resources mentioned at https://thekimsutton.com/pp308.

In this episode, I take you on a tour through my toolbox and share my top time-saving tools I can’t live without. I discuss the key functions of each program, their unique features, ways to customize them to meet your unique needs, and discuss why I absolutely love using these particular tools in my business. I also talk about the solution to wanting to read more, the problem with Frankensteining your processes and tools, and the must-have program that can turn any small business owner into a self-sufficient graphic designer. I hope you enjoy my episode on time-saving tools and encourage you to pursue finding tools that could level up your business. Now let’s jump right in and get to the straight talk! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: My Toolbox Favorites My Business Can’t Function Without Handy Tips For Utilizing These Powerful Tools Solutions To Your Social Media Scheduling And File-Sharing Woes How I Successfully Manage Over 200 Tasks At Any Given Time Without Feeling Overwhelmed So Much More! Important Resources & Links From This Episode: Amber’s Toolbox Outlook Training Interest List Trello Training Interest List

NYC-based songwriter Mike Dillon joins us on this episode. Long hiatuses, Frankensteining, and NYC's paper-thin walls are among the subjects discussed. Enjoy, subscribe, and share! Follow us on iTunes, and drop us a line at flbwpodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

In PC 54 talks through more of your questions from Social Media including Blade Rest, Fall Aways, Micro diameter arrows, X10, Pro Tours, Different bow brands, cam designs, Hoyts backorders, Sight Pictures, Aiming, Strings and Cables, Frankensteining a bow and some other stuff i wanted to bend your ears about!

MICHAEL DARKHALLOW, JAY ROSELL, LAURA KETCHUMSHOW NOTESWith Crowley still investigating the vanishing of not one, but TWO of his Trini-G team members and Alex on the ground in Ohio investigating a massive invasion of crows, Michael Jay and Laura discuss the possible source of the Springfield Murder (of crows), a Swedish chemical concoction, and other current strange news.  The latest installment of the Spell Cop reading is delivered - you don't want to miss it!WEEKLY “IS IT REAL” VIDEOFor this week's video, you tell US what you think you're seeing!  Let us know what you think via our Contact Us page or in the comments on this post and tell us: hoax, natural explanation, or real!  Also.... what is it?

Sorry about the skipped week there...life got in the way.  I'm going to try to keep this weekly/biweekly for as long as I can.  Anyway, this week in the lab we explore one of the more notorious disembodied-head films, which started life in 1963 as "Madmen of Mandoras" but after some Frankensteining in of (painfully-obvious) extra footage, was reborn circa 1973 as the TV-movie "They Saved Hitler's Brain"  And when the pickled head of Der Fuehrer does the best acting in the film, you know you're in trouble...http://archive.org/download/ClockworkCardiacBadMovieRetreatEpisode004TheySavedHitlersBrain_201404/Clockwork_Cardiac_Bad_Movie_Retreat_Episode_004_They_Saved_Hitlers_Brain.mp3