Podcast appearances and mentions of Jim Barker

It's all about Canadian Football as Bob and John welcome Jim Barker to the show to dive into the CFL's biggest storylines. They start with the B.C. Lions, who are spiraling down the standings, and discuss the challenges posed by Nathan Rourke's underwhelming return and the impending comeback of Vernon Adams Jr. After addressing the Lions' dilemma, the conversation shifts to Chad Kelly, the Toronto Argonauts, and the excitement building around the Labour Day Classic. Jim shares his insights on these key developments as the CFL season heats up.

Ruby is joined by former publicist for gaming companies like PlayStation and Xbox and former PR manager for Aussie games distributor Five Star Games, Jim Barker, to talk about the twists and turns of working in PR for video games. Have a listen, but all good if not! Thanks so much for considering this podcast for the opportunity of being listened to by you.Find Jim here:TwitterInstagramFind us online:TwitchVODs/Highlights on YouTubeTikTok/Twitter/Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of Bob's favourite CFL guys from back in the day joins the podcast today, as Jim Barker shares his thoughts on the Canadian Football League. From how to get more fans in the stands to how to keep players in the country, the three go over it all today as they take a look at everything they think needs to be changed if we are going to see some real growth in the popularity of the Canadian Football League.

Week 3 of the Good Questions Series . Jim Barker.

Week 3 of the Good Questions Series . Jim Barker.

This week we have part 2 of our conversation with the legendary Coach and TSN Analyst Jim Barker. We talk about his road to the CFL and his long lasting career in Canada. We also pay tribute to the great host of SportsCentre that recently passed, Darren Dutchyshen

Ray & Benny take a look into the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Training Camp, position battles, the wide receiver room and what other alumni they would like to see take part in training camp. Around the CFL they give their thoughts on Jim Barkers comments and how long till Taylor Powell takes over as started for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.In Winnipeg Jets talk, they discus if hiring Arniel will hamper ticket sales and what would be a reason for and against hiring Craig Berube as the next head coach. In the NHL talk they take a mulligan on their conference finals predictions and they take a look at the McDavid/Soucy/Zadorov incident.Quick ShotsDid the Oilers drop the ball on the goaltending position again?Which QB taken in the 1st round of this year's NFL draft will have the best career?Will LeBron James ever play in a regular season NBA game with his son?Is it time for the Avalanche to cut ties with Valeri Nichuskin?Initial thoughts on the hiring of Jesse Marsch as the New HC for Canada Men's Soccer?00:00 INTRO00:34 Winnipeg Blue Bomber Training Camp05:55 Position Battles10:47 Blue Bomber Receiver room16:53 Bomber Alumni in camp18:50 Jim Barker's quote24:25 How long before Powell takes the reigns?27:22 Winnipeg Jets Talk28:22 Will an Arniel hiring hamper ticket sales?33:00 Craig Berube; A reason to hire, a reason to stay away37:41 NHL Playoff Mulligan39:08 McDavid Stick play42:06 QUICK SHOTSFahrenheit Airbrushing - https://www.facebook.com/fahrenheitairbrushing?mibextid=LQQJ4d#forthew #cfl #nfl #nhl #stanleycup #canadianfootball #winnipeg #podcast #sports #manitoba #bluebombers  #winnipegjets #gojetsgo #canadianfootball #bombers ———FOLLOW US ON...Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raybennytalksportsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/raybennysports/Twitter: https://twitter.com/raybennysportsTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@raybennysportsApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3rPuut8Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3rO0AFFGoogle Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3y5q4zwBuzzsprout: https://rayandbennytalksports.buzzsprout.com/Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/raybennytalksports/Discord: https://discord.gg/2kR4uhKv8a

With the CFL draft around the corner and the NFL draft going live, TSN's Jim Barker stops by to talk about this year's draft class, the Canadians entering the NFL draft, and the overall state of the league as we see it

Jim Barker leads revenue growth for Live Earth out of Dallas, Texas, helping the world's largest organizations make faster and better decisions with data. Live Earth's operational analytics and data enrichment platform leverages real-world data with customer data to provide actionable insights allowing them to win in their marketplace over the competition. Jim is a driven sales and marketing leader with 25+ years of experience leading organizations in the technology and communications space.    

The Green Zone with Jamie & Drew The Green Zone

The Green Zone with Jamie & Drew The Green Zone

Over the past few years, it has become faster, better and easier to collect data on practically anything.  Technology tools like artificial intelligence and predictive analytics are driving this capability and I don't see it slowing down anytime soon. But as more and more data is collected, the question becomes, what do you do with it and how do you use it. Many companies just don't have the resources or expertise to collect it, manage it, analyze it or visualize it. However, there are companies and people out there who are doing amazing things with data and you're going to hear about that in our episode today.  Jim Barker is the Chief Revenue Officer for Live Earth, a real-time data visualization and data streaming platform.  Listen in as we discuss the evolution of technology and the internet, some of the really cool things Live Earth is doing with technology, data and visualization that affect real lives, how the discovery process can unearth amazing ideas, how artificial intelligence (AI) is being utilized, and more.   

Droughtcast is back for another quickfire update on all the news you need to know about the drought situation across England & Wales.    Email any questions you have about drought and we'll answer them on the podcast: podcast@ccwater.org.uk   Timestamps   1:33 - Lead of the Hydrological Status and Reporting Group at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Jamie Hannaford, reflects on the weather of the past two months and looks ahead to the future    8:21 - Head of Water Resources at Portsmouth Water, Jim Barker, discusses the new Havant Thicket reservoir being built and what this means in terms of combatting future drought    13:10 - CCW's Karen Gibbs gives a broad overview of the current situation in England & Wales    Shownotes    UKCEH Hydrological Outlook Havant Thicket reservoir   

This is part 2 of our conversation with Jim Barker, a wise man who has for decades explored the invitation into sonship and become comfortable sitting with big questions. In this episode I press Jim to help us understand how sons are practically transformed by the love of God, and how experiencing it and operating in it go hand in hand. There is a secret power released in us only when we learn to move from the sickness of the singular into the power of the plural. It's the essential shift from "Me to "We". Our intended destiny as God's sons can only be realized via ever-increasing union with our Father, a reality Jesus demonstrated with perfection so that today we can experience the same union as we follow in His footsteps. Jim Barker has taken a wild journey from mocker of God to present day discipler of men. He is a national treasure, as are all the rare sages of the Kingdom. ---------------------------------------------- Being Sons helps men discover and live the powerful life God intended. Being Sons: https://www.beingsons.com/​ YouTube Subscribe to our free 47-week Video Journey called "The Way of Sonship": https://mailchi.mp/beingsons/way-of-sonship Being Sons Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@beingsons9393 Check Out Our Adventures for Men​: https://www.beingsons.com/events

My guest on this episode is Jim Barker, a man who has done the work to become a true sage to me and so many other men. I asked Jim to sit with me and share some of the stories and wisdom he's gathered on his journey from being a pro golfer who mocked Christians to a son of God and gifted discipler of men. 

James Barker, is a football executive and coach. He is currently employed by TSN as a CFL panelist. His most recent employment in Canadian Football League was a senior advisor for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Barker has been the general manager of the Calgary Stampeders from 2005–07, and the Argonauts from 2011-2016. He was also the head coach of the Argonauts in 1999, with the Stampeders in 2003, and then again with the Argos in 2010-11. He has also been a sports analyst for the CFL on TSN. Barker has also served as a football operations consultant and assistant coach for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He is a four-time Grey Cup champion having won twice as an assistant coach and twice as a football administrator. On February 9, 2010, Barker returned to the Toronto Argonauts for his second stint as their head coach. After leading the Argos to the playoffs for the first time since 2007, Barker assumed the role of general manager on December 15, 2010, replacing Adam Rita, whose contract was not renewed. The CFL announced on February 25, 2011, that Barker was the Coach of the Year for 2010, winning the Annis Stukus Trophy. Prior to the 2012 CFL season, Barker made a trade that brought All-Star quarterback Ricky Ray from the Edmonton Eskimos to Toronto to help an offense that had struggled for some time. That move, and others, helped the Argonauts win the league's 100th Grey Cup at Rogers Centre. After six seasons as the general manager of the Argonauts and compiling a 49–59 record in that time span, Barker was fired on January 24, 2017.[ Barker spent the 2018 season as a TV analyst on TSN. On January 3, 2019, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced Barker would join the team as a football operations consultant.[6] Following the departure of June Jones just prior to 2019 training camp, Barker also added the title of offensive assistant for the 2019 season.[7] For the 2020 season, he was also named a special teams assistant coach.[8] However, the 2020 CFL season was cancelled and Barker was not retained for the 2021 season.[9] Barker re-joined the CFL on TSN broadcasts as an analyst for the 2021 CFL season. Following the 2021 season, on March 4, 2022, Barker agreed to re-join the Toronto Argonauts as a senior advisor. On April 30, 2023 Barker stepped down from his role with the Argos. On May 5, 2023, it was announced that he was returning to TSN as a CFL panelist. #jimbarker #tsnanalyst #canadianfootballleague #torontoargonauts #calgarystampeders #montrealalouettes #hamiltontigercats #greycupchampion #headcoach #generalmanager #senioradvisor #livewithcdp #sportstalk #guest #host #chrispomay #wqee #radio #livestream #youtube #facebook #twitter #twitch #linkedin #audio #applepodcasts #googlepodcast #spotify #iheartradio #amazonmusic #stitcher #tunein #linkedin #barrycullenchevrolet #sponsorship

As not just the former president of Clemson University, but the former chairman of the ACC's Council of Presidents, Jim Barker had a front-row seat to many of the major conference realignment movements of the past. That institutional knowledge gives him some interesting and poignant perspective of the current shifts taking place -- and the possibly existential crisis facing the ACC. Two years ago, in the midst of Texas and Oklahoma announcing their departure for the SEC, Barker said he hoped the ACC would make a big, bold move. His idea at the time was merging with the Pac-12 to form the "American Coast Conference." That never happened. And Barker now finds himself gravely concerned for not just the ACC but entire enterprise of college athletics. "I think we need to blow the whole thing up and start from scratch," he said. "But I don't know how we do that because there's no leader to do it." Barker served as Clemson's president from 1999 to 2013.    

Today Kevin and Laura talk with Jim Barker about about satellite imagery, heat maps, IKEA, the movie Enemy of the State and debunking movie tropes like enhancing an image with the click of a mouse. Jim Barker leads revenue growth for Live Earth out of Dallas, Texas, helping the world's largest organizations make faster and better decisions with data. Live Earth'soperational analytics and data enrichment platform leverages real-world data with customer data to provide actionable insights allowing them to win in their marketplace over the competition. Jim is a driven sales and marketing leader with 25+ years of experience leading organizations in the technology and communications space.

5x Grey Cup Champ/TSN Analyst Jim Barker talks FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL, why Doug Flutie is the BEST, why Michael ‘Pinball' Clemons is even BETTER, stories behind his XFL experience and winning the ‘Million Dollar Championship Game,' how he helped convince Vince McMahon to honour his financial commitments despite losing $120MM on the XFL, provides an explanation of the ROUGE [and why he loves it], discloses that he will imminently be dragged kicking/screaming onto social media, shares why he proudly became a Canadian citizen, and explains his ingenious strategy of standing near QB Jay Barker whenever somebody yells out ‘Barker You Suck!' TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at andrew.applebaum@gmail.com All episodes available at www.podpage.com/toronto-legends/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Special Sermon by Jim Barker, OHC Elder..

A Special Sermon by Jim Barker, OHC Elder..

Jock Wilson catches up with Jim Barker, now a Senior Advisor with the Toronto Argonauts. You'll hear some great stories about Jim's time in the CFL, his start, his time with the Calgary Stampeders and the F-Troop days and he gives his thoughts on Argo's QB McLeod Bethel Thompson.

Week 5 of Life's Big QuestionsA sermon series featuring Jim Barker.

Week 5 of Life's Big Questions A sermon series featuring Jim Barker.

 In this episode, Senior Partner and Chief Change Officer Kait sits down with four-time Grey Cup Champion, Jim Barker to talk about change, resiliency and leadership through the lens of sport, specifically football.  Jim and Kait share personal anecdotes of their time in professional sport, as they lead us through a lively discussion centring on the complexities of leading fast-paced and oftentimes political change.  Have questions about our content or ideas you'd love to hear more about? Reach out - a phone call doesn't cost a thing!

In the second hour of Game Play, Matt Cauz is joined by former head coach and CFL on TSN analyst Jim Barker to preview the Tiger-Cats' game against the Redblacks and discuss what's going wrong in Calgary. Then Matt talks to Olympic gold medalist Duff Gibson about the release of his new book, "The Tao of Sport".

Former Head coach and CFL on TSN Analyst Jim Barker joins Game Play to preview the Hamilton/Ottawa game. Barker then talks about what's going wrong in Calgary and gives his thoughts on the Argos start to the season.

Former Clemson University president Jim Barker joins the podcast to share what he's been up to since leaving the high-pressure world of running a university. Barker had a fascinating window into Dabo Swinney long before many other people thought the coach had what it took to run a successful football program, let alone a perennially dominant one. Barker still teaches a course at Clemson called "The Architecture of Leadership," and Swinney's name comes up often in the class' conversations about great leaders. Barker, who was one of the main architects of NCAA reform years ago, acknowledges that those reforms failed and says the system is broken. Barker was a key figure in the ACC's courting of Notre Dame before the Irish joined the conference as a part-time member. As the ACC and everyone else grapples with the recent seismic development of Texas and Oklahoma joining the SEC, Barker said he hopes the ACC is thinking boldly and not conventionally. "I'm amazed that we don't use these moments in time to open up possibilities that are not just baby steps, but huge steps," he said.  

Have you ever wondered where the concrete that is used in construction comes from? Jim Barker, President of Roanoke Sand & Gravel, explains the process and the steps his company is taking to remain environmentally friendly while creating a park-like site, including a lake feature, for future enjoyment. Regina Bykov, PG, Project Manager at P.W. Grosser Consulting, provides insight to how this industry is regulated and what extent companies go to in order to provide an environmentally safe product. Join Paul K. Boyce, CEO/President of P.W. Grosser Consulting and his guests as they dig into sand and its value to the construction industry #Sand #Gravel #Construction To watch a video version of this podcast, ask a question, suggest a topic or to be a guest on the show visit us at pwgrosser.com/podcast If you or your organization is in need of our services please contact us at pwgrosser.com/contact/ or call 631-589-6353. Follow us Facebook: https://bit.ly/2Qceu3u Twitter: https://bit.ly/3wIri2x Instagram: https://bit.ly/3d4cZxv LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3s9dzya See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On todays show, Jim gives Charleston advice on his future, how he got starting coaching, he reviews his time in the CFL and what he has planned for his future. Enjoy!

A sermon series featuring OHC Elder, Jim Barker..

A sermon series featuring OHC Elder, Jim Barker..

A sermon series featuring OHC Elder, Jim Barker..

A sermon series featuring OHC Elder, Jim Barker..

In this episode we get Roofstock and Streetlane's VP of Construction, Jim Barker's take on what investors should keep an eye out for on inspection reports, and what to consider that might not be on it.   --- Transcript   Tom: Greetings, and welcome to The Remote Real Estate Investor. In today's weekend wisdom, we have Jim Barker. Jim is a seasoned professional in the single family space. He is the VP of construction at Streetlane and Roofstock and has seen thousands the homes. And the question we asked for him today is what are some key parts of the inspection contingency that he looks at?   Theme Song   Jim: Yeah, I know it's a it's a great question. And we're buying houses every week for institutional clients and bought thousands of houses for various owners over the last few years. And these are always things that come up is when you get an inspection report back -- what to worry about and what is fixable. Because there's things that you want to avoid that that are or maybe you know, functional obsolescence or something that is really foundational to the home that that is going to be a long term problem. And that those are the things that I really look for when I am going through an inspection report. And then there's things that are just either aesthetics or basic functional that they have a dollar amount next to them for a repair, replace, but as long as you understand that, it's still a good asset, and those things are easily fixed.   So that's kind of how I divide up the inspection reports. When I go through them, I really look for any sort of long term functional issues like structural cracks, I really try to avoid poor drainage, and that may cause water damage. And another thing with basements that we see quite a bit of is, you get a 50 year flood, or 100 year flood, which I use that term, but how come it always seems like this, these flood events happen so much more often than 50 or 100 years. And if you're a property owner, it always seems to happen while you own it. So I'm very leery about drainage, especially in homes with basements and want to make sure that it's not sitting on a downhill slope or that the gutters are properly diverting water away. But you know, other things like does the home have insulation in the attic? Or that that's something that you don't really think about, but it really impacts the livability of that home.   And the things that everybody always wants to look at, or like old HVAC the water heater, and it's good. But those are simple fixes. I mean, it's $1 amount, but once you swap it out for new equipment, you don't worry about it again for the lifespan of that equipment. So I guess that's it really for me is I want to focus on things that are not easily fixed and structural water damage, strange layout of rooms and things that may not show up on the inspection report the neighborhood issues, right? That's a as somebody who's doing their due diligence, not just to look at the asset, but really look at, you know, the immediate surrounding neighborhood.   Emil: I like that. I like that you frame that. An old age back and all the water heater, they're really not big deals because a first time investor, they'll see that. And I think like the warning signs go off. And you're right. It's just it's $1 amount. It's not that complicated. Someone can change it out in a day. Like it's not a long term issue. It's just going to cost them money to fix.     Jim: Yeah, no, it's the things that where you really have to rip into the structure or that I don't like to deal with it. If I'm not an experienced construction professional or have a contractor that I really trust, it's just tough to. You'll even fix some of those issues, and you're never quite sure if you really got them or like you said on the water heater, once you change it out, it's done. I would say it probably should touch on it though. Something that we've seen pretty regularly in the portfolios that we manage to is older plumbing systems seems to be one that's coming up regularly. And there's a lot of homes that are popular for SFR investors, but they're built maybe 40 or 50 years ago and that there's a series of items in homes that are really what I'll call like lifetime replacements and things like a driveway the supply plumbing so you really have copper plumbing from so a lot of these older houses, and then the drain line plumbing sewer lateral to the house.   And these things last 50 years. I mean, they're things that you don't ever think about replacing and a lot of times don't show up on an inspection report because they're your underground or within walls. But it's a good question to ask the inspector especially if you can have them focus on a few things is to give their evaluation of what are the materials that are they're used for supply plumbing, the waist plumbing, and give some evaluation of the driveway and other any of the other lifetime type replacement items as we see it right after 50 years. They do give out there are things that you may need to address and they tend to be a little bit more pricey when you have to take care of those things. They're not showstoppers, but you should definitely know about them. When getting your home inspected   Tom: Thanks, Jim and thank you to all of our listeners. If you enjoy the episode enjoyed the podcast, please subscribe and give us a rating and have a great day. Happy investing

This week, we bring you something different with a collection scary real estate stories from some friends of the show. Join Chad Carson, Gary Beasley, Jim Barker, Tom Schneider & Michael Zuber for some creepy stories for the Halloween season.  --- Transcript   Emil: Hey everyone. Welcome back to The Remote real estate investor podcast. On today's episode, we have something really special for you guys. In the theme of Halloween, we wanted to go out and collect a bunch of horror stories very, very spooky real estate investing stories. And so we asked a couple friends of the podcast to share some stories they've had along the way. Some of them funny, some of them a little scary, some of them real spooky. So we have a total of five people speaking given their stories today, and that includes author and coach, Chad Carson, Roofstock CEO, Gary Beasley, Jim Barker, who is the VP of construction at Roofstock, our very own Tom Schneider, you guys know from this show, and author and good friend of the show, Michael Zuber. So without further ado, let's hop into their stories.   Emil: So first up, we have author Chad Carson. So let's hear from Chad.   Chad Carson: It was actually an investor friend who tried to get me to take over his property and manage it for him. And we went and looked at it. It's like, Yeah, I got this tenant who's not really paying that well. And that's okay. Yeah, we'll see how that goes. And it was a big is a brick house with a huge basement. And I said, Well, I'm gonna have to go visit the house. I'm not gonna take it over before looking at it. And so we walked to the house, we were walked inside, and we could just tell the tenant was really not at ease. Like he was just kind of nervous about something and kind of watching us too closely. And I noticed he got really uneasy when I started going towards the door to the basement.   And I said, Oh, okay, I guess I better go the basement, open the top of the door, the basement. And all I heard was thousands sounded like of wheels going squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, like lots and lots of little wheels and little sound like little feet, you know, little rodent feet running on these wheels. And so I kind of went to flick on the light and I looked at the bottom of the stairs, and there's like two red eyes, kind of looking up at me in the dark, and I flipped the lights on. And there are, there's there's one whole room in this basement with just tons of tons of rat cages or mice cages too.   But that was only one part of this basement operation this guy had going on, there was all the reptiles and the other part of the basement that were the they're eating all of the rodents that he was raising, so he had big huge snakes. He had turtles and these big bats. He had I don't think I saw any alligators, but it's turtles and iguanas. And so it's like an exotic pet operation going on this guy's basement. This is one particular horror story. I was glad it wasn't my property and I told the guy as we walked out I said I'm not managing this property until you get rid of this tenant.   The final part of the story I'll try to make fast is that he did get the tenant notice the tenant had to leave it was like 60-90 days later when he finally got it out and we went back to the house with the same friend and we're like we walk in the front door the same front door it looks it looks empty oh okay and not so bad and we're walking down the hallway the same hallway that had the basement door and all of a sudden this massive like big you know kind of dark brown mouse rat thing like comes charging down the hallway right so we both for the living room and take off is this mouse like was not scared of us at all like runs around the corner right when that happened I was right before he said Ah not so bad.   There's this looks not so bad is this mouse comes charging down and after the mouse comes charging down we're getting ready to leave because I'm like let's just get out of this place. And I look over at my friend he's got this big huge roach crawling out of his shirt that must have dropped down from the ceiling somewhere. So long story short you know that if you get a bad tenant and that's the moral of this story was he didn't screen his tenet he didn't inspect it he didn't pay attention to what's going on and things can get out of control if you're not paying attention so that's that's the lesson there.   Michael: Holy Smokes. I thought you're gonna say yeah, you decided to take it over and have him cut you in on the business and get 10% commission for all the animals and sales.   Chad Carson: Oh man. I didn't touch that property I was I helped them advise them I you know from a distance so I didn't get any more roaches or or my shoes.   Emil: Right Next up, we have Gary Beasley so roofstock co as many of you know, he has a really spooky story to share with you guys. So let's hear from Gary.   Gary Beasley: When I was in the hotel business, this would have been back around 1997. I was in the midst of acquiring a very old hotel in Claremont Berkeley hills called the Claremont Resort and Spa. So this is right on the border of Berkeley in Oakland. It sits on top of the Hayward Fault. The really creepy thing we found out right before closing The general manager of the hotel came over the grab behind the diligence room took me in his office and said, Gary, I got to share something with you. Like, okay, what is this is the building have termites or something, he says, he hands me this file doesn't say anything. I opened it up. And it's a thick file full of handwritten notes.   These were from guests, and from people who worked at hotel, and was all very, very similar. And it all happened on the fourth floor of the Claremont hotel. So the guy's name was Henry Feldman, I could remember it like it was yesterday. And he looked at me and he really wanted to watch my reaction as I opened through and started reading some of these notes. But there were dozens and dozens of accounts of people seeing a woman in a long white flowing dress, and either hearing or seeing one or two small children. And sometimes they would look out their window and see them in the Rose Garden. And like her tending to the roses, and sometimes she'd be kind of floating the hallways and like Oh, come on is this I'm looking around for a camera. He's like, no, read more there. This is no joke. And a lot of these are pretty recent.   And then a number of things would happen in the rooms. One, sometimes the lights would go on and off unexplainably. tv would go on in the middle of the night, really blaring loud. Water would be on in the bathroom when they clearly had not been in the bathroom. drawers won't open in the dressers. And then one that was pretty freaky was a lot of people complained that they tried is when they tried to exit their hotel room, the door handle was hot, it was really hot, and it wouldn't, then they couldn't turn it. And so like this is really odd. And also, the other thing that was very common was people being awakened by someone thumping on their chest when they're sleeping, like bam. And no one's in the room.   It's like what is going on. And in fact, I heard this from when I was getting my haircut one day there. But the guy who used to cut my hair was telling the story that it just happened at someone who's the hotel, this was a few years ago, and she like, moved to a different floor or whatever. So I'm trying to say I asked him what's the commonality of all this stuff? Because you know, I have no idea. But none of these people know anything about any of the other stories. Oh, there's one more and then I'll tell you the kind of the genesis of it. And what puts the theory. There's an NBA team that used to stay there when the warriors have people in the LA Times will stay there. There was an A famous NBA player. I think you can even find this online somewhere, who was there and he was complaining about the noise in the next room, the little kids playing. And he called downstairs and they said Sir, there's no one in the room next to you. It's vacant. It's not been booked.   He's like, no, there is you could come up here right now. And so they come up open the door. Sure enough room, no one in the room, totally vacant, nothing touched. He freaks out. And I think he actually checked out of the hotel. I don't think he went to a different floor. So all this crazy, crazy stuff, right? And so I said, well, Henry, you know, what do you think that the genesis of it was? He goes well, there was a woman who lived here with her small children. Before it was a hotel, on the property. It was just a house. And she and her children died in a fire on the property   Michael: That's wild.   Tom: It's like all the different mediums to it's like the electrical, the water the…   Gary Beasley: Exactly, exactly. So he said, I'm not telling you, you know not to buy the hotel. I don't know if any of its true. But I was told by my lawyers, you know, this is the kind of thing we have to let everybody know about. And he said, we've never had anybody hurt or anything like that. So if there is anything there, it's not a malevolent thing. But he said I started very much a skeptic, but with all of these things happening that are so similar, because I don't know.   Michael: Wow, how many how many stories is that hotel here?   Gary Beasley: It's the top floor, the fourth floor.   Michael: The fourth floor? Okay.   Gary Beasley: Yeah. And then there's a tower as well, that goes up. There's a bell tower. So there's one room that actually connects to the bell tower where there's been a bunch of stuff. It's kind of centers around that whole part of the hotel   Michael: That is so wild.   Tom: If you haven't seen the hotel, just google Claremont hotel, and you'll immediately go Yeah, that's probably haunted.   Gary Beasley: Yeah, it's probably the largest wood frame structure this side of the Mississippi. So another bit of trivia with this hotel, so it was owned by this great guy named Harold Schnitzer. For probably 50 years before we bought it from him back in the late 90s. And he was one of only I think three owners and the hotel was built after the 1906 earthquake. But the land for that hotel, reportedly was one in a checkers game. Back in the around the turn of the century. So there's a lot of really, really interesting colorful history around the hotel.   Pierre: So you guys still ended up buying it?   Gary Beasley: We did end up buying it.   Michael: Wow.   Pierre: Have you received reports of this kind of stuff happening since you've bought it?   Gary Beasley: So you know, it never has been something that's been that widely reported or talked about obviously, this kind of stuff is still happening because I heard it from my the guy who was cutting my hair there probably five years ago, because I used to go there just to kind of stay connected and and all the people who work there like oh, yeah, it's just like common knowledge that this stuff happens. But But yeah, so I think if there's if there you know, there's something if there was something going on before we bought it, it's still going on.   Michael: Wow, you just in about four and a half minutes convinced me to never stay at the Claremont   Tom: Just avoid the fourth floor.   Gary Beasley: Some people pay a premium and ask to stay on the fourth floor. Like I said, No one's ever been hurt. I mean, you might be a little spooked.   Michael: Yeah, yeah.   Gary Beasley: But this way if the TV comes on or whatever, you know what to do. It's just nothing to worry about. Just go probably turn it off. Make sure the waters not running in the bathroom. Calmly Go back to sleep calmly Go back to sleep.     Pierre: Put a pillow on your chest.   Gary Beasley: Yeah, no. So the whole theory is she's trying to wake up or kids or wake up whoever's there and get out of here. Yeah. Happy Halloween boys.   Emil: Okay, next up, we have our very own Jim Barker. Jim's got another pretty spooky story for you guys. So let's hear from Jim.   Jim Barker: There's a lot of weird stories out there and I thought seeing a giant pipe organ built into a home was really up there, that was in Long Beach California but, but this one was a trip out to Indianapolis and we had a group of houses there for the firm that I was working with that that were really in need of a lot of renovation they had purchased these sort of sight unseen really low purchase prices knowing that they needed some rehab but didn't know exactly how much they needed and and when we got into this house, I think my first experience was walking into the home it didn't have the utilities on the walls were sweating. And being a Southern California native and and at the time kind of living in Florida and going out throughout the southeast. I didn't really think about it but that was like oh, it's got a basement and I kind of went to go walk in the basement I think I was using my my cell phone flashlight and it almost stepped into like a about five feet of water their water is just full of water in this basement.   So kind of quickly realized we needed to get a waterproofing company out there and they did a good job they they pumped the water out of the basement and identified Yeah, we had this long term issue there with this house and created a plan for us to waterproof the basement with some excavation around the outside and some sump pumps and rock Okay, this is a it's already a scary rehab house but it wasn't truly scary at this point, just a little odd, but when they got the basement dry and then the next step was sort of remediate all the water damage in the basement.   And they said okay, well take us a couple days and then you can come take a look at it really scope out this house after we're done. So in the process, they they stripped this entire basement of the drywall that was around the basement walls, and let it dry out had some fans in there. And then and that's really when when I got the call from this vendor saying Hey, you got to come back. This is something weird going on at this house. And yeah, I'd seen a lot of things probably you know, a couple thousand SFR houses that had been at this point and nothing really fazed me whether it was a hoarder house or or anything else that you might run into but when I got back to this house, he's like yeah, I just you know, it's so strange you just got to go in and experience it for yourself and so this house was odd enough already man had been stripped of drywall and didn't have cabinets or anything in the kitchen. So it just kind of looked like this old creepy space.   And as you went down in the basement, it was just kind of like a split level. So as you walk down the stairs and kind of went down there like what what does he guide me into I really didn't know and like, get to the bottom and you see this like, weird, creepy. Two foot by two foot hole that's been cut in this cinderblock wall of this basement. Like, what is that and go in there and like, what were they tunneling outside of this basement for I have no idea and stick your head in the little hole and you're like this doesn't even seem safe. But sure enough, they tunneled out and kind of created this maybe six foot by four foot little room that couldn't have been more than in two or two and a half feet tall, underground, and it had nothing in it, but a foam rubber mattress and some old like 1970s floral cushions from couch cushions and like what was going on in this house if it wasn't visible? Who decides to randomly tunnel outside of their house? And what could they have possibly been hiding in here?   You know, is that their escape room? makeshift escape room? Was it a, something where somebody was being smuggled, like I really didn't know. So it's just like, I don't know what to do with it other than like, we've got to get rid of it. And so luckily, we didn't ever find out anything bad happened here. But it was a scene out of Saw or something where you look down in this basement and everything is torn up. And there's this hole in the, in the side of the foundation wall. And so we quickly just crushed it from the outside, made sure that room was gone back-filled, the dirt and patched up that basement wall, and the house turned around. But there was a lot of speculation with me and my coworkers at the time and some of the neighbors, what the house might have been used for. And the the old man that used to live there. And I think one of the neighbors speculated that he had two wives and maybe he only ever saw one of them at any given time.   So the stories is just got more and more wild as we went along. But I don't think there was much truth in any of those specular stories, but it sure was a strange room and we never did quite figure out what was really used for but it no longer exists. And now it's a perfectly functioning SFR rental house and, and yielding well for the current owner.     Tom: Oh my gosh, just Yeah. Just perform an exorcism on that part of the house. How scary Jeez.   Jim Barker: Yeah, just Who knows? And maybe just a little hiding room or playroom for some kids. But yeah, when when you find it like that your imagination shirt runs wild.   Emil: I was trying to think in the background of something not ridiculous that could have gone on there. And I'm drawing a complete blank, like I can have it couldn't have been anything legitimate and had to have been something just, I don't know, really not safe or legal. Or…   Jim Barker: I'm convinced that the weirdest stuff happens in basements. And maybe it's just a myth from not growing up having a basement but now in my experience, I'd like a whatever weird happens. It's always in a basement.   Emil: All right, next up is our very own co host, Tom Schneider. Tom has another great, great story for you guys. Let's listen to this one.   Tom: So I was at the time this is, I don't know 10-15 years ago, I was working in acquisitions. And there was a property that I was looking to buy. This is for a company that eventually went public but we were in major buy time. And this property was located in this area called the Iron Triangle in Richmond and you guys are familiar anyways, I go to this property with my construction manager that I work with and the property is listed as vacant per the MLS listing so vacant. We go there I have my super key so I'm able to unlock the door and me and the contractor opened the door and you know I couldn't put it into words but it was so obvious this home was not vacant. There was nothing visually you can see that really spoke to someone was there but I don't know call it intuition as soon as you open the door and stepped inside you we're not the only ones in this room.   So we continue you know we look at each other and I think he felt it as well and we are walking you know through the house I think it's like a three bedroom one bath doing our our standard process right. First we go over to the kitchen estimated costs, pretty standard, you know and still have that kind of sinking feeling that this is not we're not on our own in here. So looking through the kitchen testing the water, you know a little bit of brown spurts out of the water just like a not a good omen. You know some rust or whatnot. Anyways, continuing working our way through one bedroom, another bedroom until we finally get to the master bedroom. And, I mean, we both just looked at each other. And in the corner of the room, there was this closet. And it was just slightly opened a little bit. And, you know, we had to know, is this house empty? Or is it not.   So I walk slowly over to the closet and I, it's dark out to, you know, not a lot of windows and I open the closet door. And looking in there. And I see, in the back of the closet, this is a weird deep closet, I see two eyes looking right back at me. And I turn around at the construction manager, we got to get out of here! So we sprint out of the door. I think we forgot to put the super key on and we were just spooked called the listing agent, that house is not vacant, you got to go and take care of that and made it out alive. No major issues. But man, it's it you got to trust your intuition. If you you feel the energy of somebody or you know something, I still don't know today could have been a bear. I don't know. You got to trust that, that intuition and double check with the listing agent that your house is vacant.   Emil: Next up, we have Michael Zuber who many of you know he's been on the show a couple times. I actually remember hearing this story on Michael's YouTube channel. And we had to invite him on to recount it here. So here it is.   Michael: Yeah, so let me set it up. Because again, so we were probably in year eight or year nine of our investing journey, we probably had 100 doors by this point, we had probably had 500 tenants by this point. And again, while this story is truly just truly nasty, I do want to say that most tenants are just awesome people. So I don't want this one horrible event to scare anyone away. But it is it is pretty bad. So this starts in a very unusual manner. Somebody comes in to pay rent, my property manager takes the check, tries to apply the check to the unit and says innocently enough name on check doesn't match tenant in house, what's going on? Right? Not thinking any of it.   The tenant at this point, I don't know. The first error or honesty or whatever you want to call it says oh, by the way, so and so I've already forgot their name, the other tenants left. And I moved in and I want to pay the rent that he was paying. So we're like, Okay, cool. We're not going to take your rent, we have to put all tenants through an application process, right? But good news is you have the money. So you're good, good sign. We think we're gonna get through this okay. So he fills out an application right there. He again tries to pay before he leaves and we say no, right? You're not an approved tenant yet. We can't take your money. But we should have an answer in 24. Worst case, 48 hours, right process is smooth.   So lo and behold, that evening, I get a call. And I start to hear this story. Right? Because I have at this point, they're not bothering me, the owner, I'm probably somewhere in Europe or Japan or somewhere. But they call me go we got we got a problem. I'm like, Oh, crap, what problem we're going to talk about today. So they go through it much like I have with you. And now they tell me that the application that the gentleman filled out, everything is wrong on it except his name. He's lied about everything. Where he works. Past references didn't check out. Just nothing is right. Other than his name, and the only reason they think his name is right is because it matched the check. That's that's all they know, at this point. And they're like, what do you want to do? Because he's already moved in. He was already going to pay rent. And they're just not sure.   And I'm like, well, you're my property manager. What's, what do you think the process is, this is this is not an approvable tenant. Right? So call him up. See if he has a legitimate excuse, which I don't know what it'd be, but check. So, my intention is okay, the guy's got to go, right, 30 day notice, you know, get out we'll you know, we'll Park friends but you're not approved right seems to set it makes sense. So long, behold, he calls me they call and now it turns tense. He is clearly upset. Which at which point the property manager the owner of the company gets involved because he is just berating my property manager, right my point of contact and he makes a call that Okay, you've got to get out in three days, you know, just three days to pay to quit and At which point he really doesn't like it.   We think nothing of it. He's just a grouchy tenant at this point, he tried to cheat the system and get out. Lo and behold, about two or three in the morning, my property manager gets a phone call from the police. I find this out the next day at like 6am or 7am. But apparently this individual sent out a mass communication on his social media, advertising a hammer party. So you know what, I grew up in the 90s. I'm thinking MC Hammer, right? I'm like, okay, he wants to throw a big bash. Before He Leaves. I'm like, in my, my property manager goes, No. He goes, he threw a hammer party. I'm like, all right, I give up. It's not MC Hammer. What is it, he told his entire social media staff to bring a hammer to his unit. And they started putting little holes in the drywall. Right, just smashing the drywall smashing the toilet smashing the tubs with hammers.   So much so that he almost broke into the unit next door, at which point the police were called, and people were arrested, because there were people on parole that shouldn't have been there. And lo and behold, we spent, I don't know something like $20,000 because again, right, once you start putting holes in drywall, you know, stuffs got to go. And, you know, toilets got to go and sinks got to go and countertops got to go and cabinet doors were just bashed off. They were demoing a relatively nice unit. And this all started from a guy who wanted to pay rent. That's the terrible thing of this story.   Tom: I'm never gonna hear hammer-time Just think of it and not think of that story again.   Michael Zuber: Yeah, it was a, it was not a good experience. And I just I think about it all the time. All he wanted to do is pay rent. He I'm sure he thought he was doing the right thing. But then you start lying on your application and your job doesn't check out. And yeah, I mean, it's just like, who knows what was going on? We never had a chance to dig into that. Because he just went from, you know, trying to sneak through to I'm going to be mean, And oh, by the way, he went to jail. He went to jail that night. And we're talking,   Emil: You and I we're joking before we started recording. But I mentioned I feel like if you've been doing this long enough, everyone who's been doing this decade or two, like they have a crazy story like that. It's impossible not to have one.   Michael Zuber: Yeah. You will. You're in the people business. I mean, I didn't understand that for years. Right. I thought it was spreadsheets, I thought it was sticks and bricks. I thought it was stuff. It's not stuff. If you're a landlord, and you're a long term landlord, you're dealing with people, people go through life. Sometimes you're winning in life, and sometimes you're losing sometimes. You know, it's it comes up aces, and sometimes it's deuces and Damn, I mean, it's you can run into people that are having pretty bad days. And I'm sure they don't mean maliciously, maliciously, but he was angry. And he destroyed a unit and ultimately, frankly, paid the price with his freedom because he went to jail.   Emil: Alright, thanks, everyone. Hope you didn't get too spooked out during all this. But hope you all have a great Halloween. I know it's going to be a little bit different of a year, but hope you all enjoy it. Anyway. One other quick thing to tell you guys about before you head out. We're running another Roofstock Academy promotion this month for all of our podcast listeners. And if you're not familiar with rootstock Academy, that is our online on demand training and coaching program where you can get one on one coaching with myself, Michael Tom, also in our private slack community. And we have tons and tons of hours of on demand lectures for you guys to go through to really, really power up your knowledge of real estate investing. And that code if you go to roofstockacademy.com and check out just enter the code HALLOWEEN, you'll get $151 off enrollments. So again, roofstockacademy.com, and apply the code HALLOWEEN at checkout before October 31 to get $151 off enrollment. All right, we'll check you out on the next episode. Happy investing

When his work ran out, photographer Jim Barker got creative to document the coronavirus pandemic from a distance. His 'Doortraits' series, a twist on the usual family portrait, captures Sydney households and their pets during the city's lockdown earlier this year.

Jim Barker is one of the most generous people I know. He does it instinctively. During this episode, we talk about the bigger picture, surrounding yourself with the right people, and lasting impressions.

Episode 9: Jim Barker is a four-time Grey Cup champion in the CFL and a football career that has spanned over 40 years. He was the General Manager of the Toronto Argonauts and led the team to win the 100th Grey Cup at the Rogers Centre in 2012. Currently, he is the Personnel Consultant and Offensive/Special Teams Assistant with Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Discussion topics include his football career, how the game of football has evolved mainly in the CFL, the team-building phases with the Argonauts to ultimately winning the Grey Cup, and more.

Week 1 of Colossians. A sermon series featuring Jim Barker..

Week 1 of Colossians. A sermon series featuring Jim Barker..

Week 1 of Colossians. A sermon series featuring Jim Barker..

Week 1 of Colossians. A sermon series featuring Jim Barker..

Caught Trying to Make the World Better! Best Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Safety Storytelling, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence, Resilience Engineering, Safety and Resilience Incentives... Give this a listen. Thanks for listening and tell your friends.  See you on Audible...a couple books are up on there.  Have a great day as well.

He won a championship with the XFL in 2001, and now Jim looks back on another sad day for the XFL 2.0

Dabo Swinney's mother, Carol McIntosh, shares the story of how she overcame a tragic childhood and how her son's fighting spirit is similar to hers. Also, former Clemson president Jim Barker offers some rich and fascinating anecdotes from his relationship with Dabo.

Join Michelle and Roger as they welcome Jim Barker, palm reader and creator of the Divine Hand method of palmistry. Tune in LIVE for your chance at a prize! Join in the chat! Share your opinions! We will be giving away prizes and readings to those listening live!

Week 1 of Summer 2019, A sermon series featuring Jim Barker.

Week 1 of Summer 2019,A sermon series featuring Jim Barker.

Week 1 of Summer 2019,A sermon series featuring Jim Barker.

Week 1 of Summer 2019,A sermon series featuring Jim Barker.

It was a busy, crazy day for personnel types in the CFL with the demise of the Alliance league of American Football.  

Week 7 of Overflow A sermon series featuring Jim Barker.

Week 7 of OverflowA sermon series featuring Jim Barker.

Week 7 of OverflowA sermon series featuring Jim Barker.

Week 7 of OverflowA sermon series featuring Jim Barker.

Always fun to talk football with former Stampeder head coach and excutive Jim Barker.  He joined me on sportstalk to chat about his new role with the Tiger Cats and to preview the wildcard weekend in the NFL

Does Bo Levi Mitchell have what it takes to play in the NFL?  What about the threat of the new XFL and the Alliance of American Football?  We check in with the former Stampeder head coach and Senior VP. 

Jon Abbott and Farhan Lalji fill in for Donnie and The Moj. Guests include Jim Barker.

Leading an organization takes time and attention, skill and knowledge, and talent. Leading a complex organization takes all of the above plus knowledge of complexities... Jim Barker talks about movement, leadership, adaption, and the world.    You will love this podcast. Best Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Safety Storytelling, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence, Resilience Engineering, Safety and Resilience Incentives Give this a listen. Thanks for listening and tell your friends.  See you in motion someplace.

He was the OC of the first and only XFL champions and Jim is excited about the XFL 2.0

It's always fun to catch up with former Stampeder head coach Jim Barker and tonight we're breaking down the NFL and does Roy Finch have what it takes to make it down south?

The former GM of the Toronto Argonauts is back in Calgary and following his passion!  Working with young athletes to make them better.  However, as Jim explains, this is not your old fashion Jim Barker school of football.  The Can Pro Football Academy is new and exciting and something we have not seen before. Calgary is the test market in partnership with Ernest Manning High School and if it work, Jim would like to take it international. 

The CFL lost a legend today.  With 231 wins and 10 Grey Cups on his resume, "the Don" was one of the most respected coaches in the league.  Mathews was 77 years old and he lost his battle with cancer. 

Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Safety Storytelling, Investigations, Risk, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence, Resilience Engineering, Safety and Resilience Incentives Who would have ever imagined using BlackJack as a method to talk about Hollnagal's notion of ETTO?  The quick anwer to that question is James Barker.  Our friend Jim has graced the podcast several times and most often discusses the idea of complexity and the world of reliabiltiy.  Today he goes one step farther on this journey and talks about risk and complexity using BlackJack. Complex systems are interdependant, interconnected, interrelated, and infinately possible...and so is BlackJack.  Give this one a listen - you will like it. Thanks for being a part of the podcast.   You make the show go.   

Jim Barker was fired by the Argos a couple of weeks ago and we were able to catch up as Jim is back from a holiday in Mexico. 

Join the Conversation: 714.242.5250 c.    THE BAD NEWS IN TORONTO: i.    1 Grey Cup in 13 years. ii.    All the BS about ….. Without Toronto the CFL will fold I can hear the Wahhhhhhbulances Sirens now. We the Argo Lifers want the Argos to survive for our own local selfish reasons. iii.    Mistep: Not firing Milanovich when the Team was 4 and 8 never mind 5 and 13 worst in the CFL. 1st Overall pick to Winnipeg. iv.    Barker Released most of the Free Agents he Signed in the offseason. v.    Drew Willy from Winnipeg for Toronto’s 1st & 3rd picks CFL draft. And the future CFL 2016 All Star defensive back T.J. Heath. vi.    Then released receivers Vidal Hazelton, Kevin Elliott, Tori Gurley and Phil Bates guys that may have made Willy’s ascension to the #1 QB postition in Toronto easier. vii.    Then Michael Copeland fires Jim Barker 3 weeks before Free Agency, viii.    3 days later Scott Milanovich signs as QB Coach for the Jacksonville Jags. We hear about it first form the NFL and the Jags. Appeared to have caught TSN off guard big bro of the Argos to Daddy Bell. ix.    Argos safety Jermaine Gabriel, a Toronto native, tweets.  “I need a sinking ship emoji.”  I need a sinking ship emoji  I sent him x.    Argos can learn from Shanahan and Leafs when hiring new GM, coach 1.    Hired Shanahan (Michael Copeland’s position) 2.    The GM they had in mind was still under contract (Lou Lamierello)

Big day in the CFL as Henry Burris makes it official and Jim Barker is fired by the Argos. (Jan 24/17)

We chat with recently retired Grey Cup MVP QB Henry Burris about his career and his decision to hang up the cleats. Also, we discuss Jim Barker receiving his walking papers in Toronto and Kevin Glenn's return to Riderville.

Jim Popp is out in Montreal, Jim Barker is on the hotseat in Toronto and do the Riders want to resign Darian Durant!  It was a hot discussion on Sportstalk. 

Remember Jim Barker.  You loved him last time and you will really love him this time.  He talks in even more detail about organizations and complexity.  Jim is the real deal expert in this topic and I love his thinking.  Clearly you do as well by the number of requests we got to get him back on the podcast.Listen to Jim talk about Safety and Organizational Complexity.  It is another good ride.   Thanks for listen to the podcast!  You are the best.

This is a repeat - command performance - of Jim's earlier pod cast on complexity and organizations.  So many people have asked to listen to this one again.  I decided to repeat the post. Enjoy!  Safety, Human Performance and High Reliability have never sounded better as a response to complex organizations.Jim Barker has some great ideas about complexity and organizations.  Dr. Barker is on the leadership faculty at Dalhousie University and spends his time thinking about how organizations function in complex operational environments.  This conversation will both change your thinking and prepare you with ways to move further in understanding and managing workers in complex operations.  This conversation is the beginning of what I hope is many more conversations about "the motion of complexity."  Listen carefully to Jim's comments about workers knowing what to do now - and how the now is not the past or the future.  This is a great podcast.

Jim Barker has some great ideas about complexity and organizations.  Dr. Barker is on the leadership faculty at Dalhousie University and spends his time thinking about how organizations function in complex operational environments.  This conversation will both change your thinking and prepare you with ways to move further in understanding and managing workers in complex operations.  This conversation is the beginning of what I hope is many more conversations about "the motion of complexity."  Listen carefully to Jim's comments about workers knowing what to do now - and how the now is not the past or the future.  This is a great podcast.