Podcast appearances and mentions of John Donohue

On part 2 of this week's episode, we talk with Artist/writer, John Donohue. John was a writer and editor at the New Yorker and tried his hand at cartooning for a while and had five of his cartoons published in it. He decided to take a new direction in his career and started doing on-the-spot ink drawings of restaurants. He's drawn restaurants from all over the world, including London, Paris, New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia and many more. He's had three books published of his drawings from Paris, London and New York City. John does sell limited edition prints of his drawings, so if you have a favorite restaurant or one that brings back special memories, check out his website and see if he has it. He also takes requests!https://alltherestaurants.comYou can check out his personal webpage here:https://johndonohue.comAnd order his books here:https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004MN36OS/allbooksYou can also check out what he's currently working on at Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/eat.draw.repeat/(If you go back far enough, you'll get to see his daily drawings of his dish rack!)On Part 1 of the episode, we discuss the current contests:Winning captions for New Yorker contest #926 (He's a herb-a-bore.)Finalists for contest #928 (How about a little screen time?)Current New Yorker contest #930 (Krilling me softly with your song.) We also talk about our favorite cartoons from the current issue and we discuss the recently ended CartoonStock contest (The dog with fleas and flies). (I try to write bad pun descriptions of these contests and while thinking of one for this one, I came up with a caption I wish I thought of earlier, "Timmy says hi.")You can buy original New Yorker cartoon art at Curated Cartoons:https://www.curatedcartoons.comSend us questions or comments to:  Cartooncaptioncontestpodcast@gmail.com

In this inspiring 13th episode of Non-Profit North Stars with Jim Eskin, we honor the incredible journey of John Donohue, Vice President for College Advancement at The College of New Jersey. With a career spanning over four decades, John has mentored countless professionals and transformed the fundraising and advancement landscape. From adapting to diverse regional nonprofit cultures to fostering authentic donor relationships, John shares the wisdom and strategies behind his extraordinary impact. Nominated by Brett Davidson, John's legacy of leadership, mentorship, and service exemplifies what it means to be a true North Star. Key Takeaways: Mentorship Matters: Learn how mentorship shapes nonprofit leadership and how to seek out the right mentor for your career. Authenticity in Fundraising: Discover why building authentic connections is more impactful than mastering technical skills. Adapting to Change: Gain insights into embracing change in nonprofit cultures and regions to achieve greater success. Overcoming Solicitation Fears: Shift your mindset from “selling” to “sharing” to approach donors with genuine passion and purpose. Retention Strategies: Explore how flexibility, respect, and competitive compensation keep high-performing staff motivated. Supporting Regional Institutions: Understand how local colleges and nonprofits play a critical role in creating opportunities for underserved communities. Join us as we celebrate the leadership, wisdom, and generosity of John Donohue, a beacon of inspiration in the nonprofit sector.  

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150 Years Ago (November 1874) The editor of The Cold Spring Recorder observed "an unusual amount of dram drinking and personal coercion" around the vote, which he attributed to the "large amount of money received in this town 'for election purposes.' " He noted "the 100 voters who belong to no party but are found this year on one side and the next year on the other." The editor praised the saloons located near the polls for closing before 11 p.m., which helped maintain order during the count. Myron Clark, the Prohibition Party candidate for governor, received one vote in Philipstown. Twenty years earlier, Clark had won the 1855 race for governor by 309 votes, after which he quickly enacted a law banning the sale of alcohol. Eight months later, it was overturned by a judge as unconstitutional. A wildfire burned several hundred acres at the Cro' Nest across the river from Cold Spring and spread to the depression known as Cronk's Hollow and across the western edge to Buttel Hill (Storm King). It was stopped to the south by West Point cadets. The Recorder said baker John Lane had dropped several handfuls of naturally roasted chestnuts at the newspaper office. T.C. Baxter showed off a cypress shingle from the Beverley Robinson House near Garrison that had, at one time, sheltered George Washington. [The home, which also sheltered Benedict Arnold, burned down in 1892.] George Edwards, foreman of The Recorder office, left for Massachusetts to become publisher of the Northampton Journal. Its editor, A.M. Powell, was formerly with The Anti-Slavery Standard. The Recorder published the names, grades and attendance records of every student in District No. 3. Nellie Lloyd Knox, an instructor at the Teacher's Institute, lectured at Town Hall on the territory of Colorado. Officer Travis traveled to Albany to arrest Charles Annin on charges of deserting his family. John Halliday's horse dumped him from his wagon near Sandy Landing and ran down Northern Avenue, Church Street, Main Street and West Street. After the horse and wagon disappeared around a corner by The Recorder office, Halliday was seen limping along the route with the whip, blanket and cushion he had picked up by the roadside. Charlie Nelson published a notice denying rumors he had refused an old man a ride on Election Day, saying no one had asked him for a ride. The Special Express, due at Cold Spring at 8:12 p.m., unloaded a stranger who had been struck by the engine while walking on the track above the Breakneck Tunnel. He died inside the depot 90 minutes later. He was identified as John Daley, a brickyard laborer. The engineer said he threw up his hands before being struck. The horse of Milton Wise, secured at the corner of Main and Graden, pulled up the hitching post and took off "as did Sampson with the gate of Gaza," according to The Recorder. 125 Years Ago (November 1899) A meeting was held at Town Hall to organize a military company. Republicans won every part of Putnam County on Election Day except for District 2 in Philipstown. Members of the Cold Spring Hose Co. practiced with their new extension ladders on two Main Street buildings, running hoses to the roofs. William Curry was lighting a lamp in the show window at E.L. Post's dry goods store when he dropped the match and ignited a pile of blankets. He smothered the fire with an armful of comforters. John Donohue, of Garrison, resigned as Putnam County sheriff after being appointed deputy collector of U.S. Internal Revenue for Westchester County. James Smith left for Cripple Creek, Colorado, to look after his mining investments. George Cable of Nelsonville was arrested for not sending his son to school. Capt. Henry Metcalfe was appointed by the Army to oversee the Cadet Corps at Haldane. The Army provided $1,650 [about $63,000 today] for 40 stands of arms and accoutrements and Metcalfe donated $140 [$5,300] for gymnasium apparatus. Titus Truesdell, who owned the pickle factory, agreed to liquidate his assets to pay ...

Adam and Adir discuss the ACCC's action against The Good Guys, Nike's Worst Day Ever and are CEO John Donohue's Days Numbered, is Sendle's Capital Raise the most Dilutive Ever, Craig Hutchison's massive win as Sports Entertainment Group sells the Wildcats and the latest chapter in Adir's Bookclub

In the aftermath of the December shooting at Charles University, the debate over Czech gun control intensifies. Does increased firepower automatically increase mass shooting risks? I will ask my guest today, John Donohue, a professor at Stanford Law School.Všechny díly podcastu Vinohradská 12 můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Zákon o zbraních. Zpřísnit? Znamená víc zbraní ve společnosti i větší riziko, že dojde k masové střelbě? Kontroverzní, ale důležité téma. A kdo s ním má větší zkušenost než Spojené státy. O datech a zkušenostech mluví John Donohue ze Stanfordské univerzity. Ptá se Matěj Skalický.

Zákon o zbraních. Zpřísnit? Znamená víc zbraní ve společnosti i větší riziko, že dojde k masové střelbě? Kontroverzní, ale důležité téma. A kdo s ním má větší zkušenost než Spojené státy. O datech a zkušenostech mluví John Donohue ze Stanfordské univerzity. Ptá se Matěj Skalický. Všechny díly podcastu Vinohradská 12 můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Zákon o zbraních. Zpřísnit? Znamená víc zbraní ve společnosti i větší riziko, že dojde k masové střelbě? Kontroverzní, ale důležité téma. A kdo s ním má větší zkušenost než Spojené státy. O datech a zkušenostech mluví John Donohue ze Stanfordské univerzity. Ptá se Matěj Skalický.

In this episode, Pam Karlan and Rich Ford explore recent 2nd Amendment Supreme Court cases, the evolution of gun laws, and the implications of increased gun accessibility in the U.S. Joined by John Donohue, an empirical researcher who is an expert on firearms and the law, they discuss the proliferation of guns and automatic weapons, which make the US an outlier among Western countries for its mass killings, and the ways in which gun laws have made the U.S. more deadly—including for law enforcement. Connect:Episode Transcripts >>> Stanford Legal Podcast WebsiteStanford Legal Podcast >>> LinkedIn PageRich Ford >>>  Twitter/XStanford Law School >>> Twitter/XStanford  Law Magazine >>> Twitter/XJohn Donahue >>> Twitter/XChapters:(00:00:00) Introduction Pam Karlan introduces the episode, highlighting the recent surge in mass shootings in the US, and introduces this week's guest, John Donahue, one of the nation's leading experts on firearms and the law.(00:01:16) Proliferation & Access to Assault Weapons in AmericaThe impact of the termination of the federal assault weapon ban in 2004 on mass shootings and a comparison to other nations restrictions on these weapons.(00:05:07) Supreme Court and the Rahimi CaseAnalyzing the Rahimi case and its implications regarding the possession of weapons under restraining orders and the Supreme Court's evolving stance on gun rights.(00:06:37) The Gun Lobby & the Republican PartyExploring the relationship between the gun lobby, manufacturers, and republicans and the effects this evolving relationship has had since the mid nineties.(00:13:10) Constitutional Shifts The transformation in Second Amendment interpretations from the 1930s to the recent Bruen case, exploring the Supreme Court's methodology and its implications for gun regulations and the Rahimi decision before them now.(00:15:40) Frozen Interpretations The historical context of the Second Amendment, the oddity of freezing it, and how the current context challenges the applicability of historical Second Amendment interpretations.(00:19:05) Broader Implications The broader spectrum of issues stemming from the proliferation of access to firearms and the growing lethality of weaponry, including rising firearm-related suicides and homicides.(00:24:05) Bruen & Gun Laws The effect of the Bruen case on laws like restraining immediate access to weapons, and safe storage laws(00:26:08) Law Enforcement & Gun ProliferationJohn explains how the proliferation and of firearms has affected the polices ability to clear violent crimes, and increases police involved shootings(00:28:31) Conclusion

Second amendment expert John Donohue, a professor at Stanford Law School, discusses the Supreme Court allowing the Biden administration's ghost gun rules to remain in place. Securities law expert James Park, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses conflicting rulings on crypto regulation. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Second amendment expert John Donohue, a professor at Stanford Law School, discusses the Supreme Court allowing the Biden administration's ghost gun rules to remain in place. Securities law expert James Park, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses conflicting rulings on crypto regulation. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Emma and Joe chat with podcast regular guest, Kristin, about their most anticipated releases for May 2023! They also discuss Little Mermaid retellings, their book buzzwords that signal immediate interest in a title, Jessica Fletcher, mall kid nostalgia, urban legends, the Winchester brothers, and more. Books mentioned in this episode: Emma's picks:   The Chateau by Jaclyn Goldis   Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune   Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul   The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren  The Guest by Emma Cline  A Shadow Crown by Melissa Blair  A Taste of London by John Donohue     Joe's picks:   Witch King by Martha Wells  Four Found Dead by Natalie D. Richards  Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway  The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer  I Like Me Better by Robby Webber  We Don't Swim Here by Vincent Tirado  The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence  Kristin's picks:   The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw  Surprisingly Sarah by Terri Libenson  A Novel Disguise by Samantha Larsen  The Diva Delivers on a Promise by Krista Davis  Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs  Yellowface by R.F. Kuang  Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame-Adjei-Brenyah  Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today's episode on OverDrive.com or in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace here. We hope you enjoy this episode of the Professional Book Nerds podcast. Be sure to rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! You can follow the Professional Book Nerds on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok @ProBookNerds. Want to reach out? Send an email to professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com. We've got merch! Check out our two shirts in The OverDrive Shop (all profits are donated to the ALA Literacy Clearinghouse). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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John Donohue, Stanford Law School professor and economist, is known for his work on the death penalty, gun ownership, crime, civil rights, and abortion.

Without a federal ban on assault weapons, gun control is in the hands of deeply divided state legislatures across the country. Three Democratic state lawmakers in Tennessee face expulsion after protesting for gun control measures. In this episode first published on June 6, 2022, in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Stanford law professor and gun law expert John Donohue discusses the federal assault weapons ban with host Cecilia Lei. The landmark legislation was signed into law in 1994 but was allowed to expire a decade later. What difference would it make for mass shootings today if it was still in place? | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Got a tip, comment, question? Email us: fifth@sfchronicle.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Nearly ten years after the massacre of 26 students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the world has been shocked by another American school shooting—this one at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas where 19 students and two teachers were gunned down on May 24. That came barely a week after the racially motivated massacre of ten shoppers at a Tops Friendly Market in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. And these are only the most lethal mass shootings—hundreds more have already occurred in cities across the United States. In this episode, Professor John Donohue, an expert on gun law, joins Rich and Joe to discuss can be done to meet this uniquely American challenge of mass shootings.

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On today's episode: Ancient giraffe cousins were really into headbutting. Kids' mental health outcomes could worsen when they consume too little digital media. We talk to Stanford professor Dr. John Donohue about the scientific evidence that exists about gun violence and the effects of gun policy. All that and more today on All Around Science. LINKS: [ARTICLE] Giraffes may have evolved long necks to help them throw brutal headbutts when competing for mates [ARTICLE] A 'Goldilocks amount' of time spent online could be good for teenagers' wellbeing - Trinity News and Events THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

As the conversation around guns, gun control, school shootings, the 2nd amendment and other angles remains at the forefront , we dipped into Michael's archives to bring you a week-long special he aired in March of 2018, called "Aiming For Facts: A Week-Long Deep Dive Into America's Gun Culture." This is part 1 of 5 - an intro to the special, including conversations with: -German Lopez, VOX, "Gun Violence Explained in 17 Maps and Charts" -Adam Lankford, University of Alabama, Criminology Professor, on how a country's rate of gun ownership correlates with the odds of a mass shooting -John Donohue, Stanford University, Law Professor, on the impact of a "Good guy with a gun" - what happens when states all ow right to carry. 37 years worth of data in 50 states. Original air date 19 March 2018.

No conversation we've ever done has been more beloved than this one. The Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher insisted on beauty as a human calling. He had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination with the inner landscape of our lives and with what he called “the invisible world” that is constantly intertwining what we can know and see. This was one of the last interviews he gave before his unexpected death in 2008. But John O'Donohue's voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings.John O'Donohue was a poet, theologian, and philosopher. He authored beloved books, including Anam Ċara and Beauty: The Invisible Embrace. To Bless the Space Between Us, a collection of blessings, was published posthumously. A wonderful book drawn from his voice in conversation, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World, was published in November 2018.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “John O'Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty” Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.

No conversation we've ever done has been more beloved than this one. The Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher insisted on beauty as a human calling. He had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination with the inner landscape of our lives and with what he called “the invisible world” that is constantly intertwining what we can know and see. This was one of the last interviews he gave before his unexpected death in 2008. But John O'Donohue's voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings.John O'Donohue was a poet, theologian, and philosopher. He authored beloved books, including Anam Ċara and Beauty: The Invisible Embrace. To Bless the Space Between Us, a collection of blessings, was published posthumously. A wonderful book drawn from his voice in conversation, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World, was published in November 2018.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.This show originally aired in February 2008.

Hour 4 - Addison Gould (4) fights optic pathway gliomas, Jeff Kitaeff (71) discusses his fight with lung cancer, Arbella Insurance CEO John Donohue, With Cam Newton missing practice will Mac Jones be the starter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Arbella Insurance CEO John Donohue joins OMF See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, John Donohue, Vice President of Entity Services at Penn Medicine talks about their 6-years long, $1.5 billion investment in a hospital of the future to be launched by the health system in their West Philadelphia campus. The hospital features new interactive technology for improving patient care and Disney-inspired user experience design. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Turtle Point Press House of AnansiBrooklyn Book FestivalLit & Luz FestivalWriters Bone Otherppl with Brad ListiPaul HoldengraberLauren Cerand is a  writer and  arts and literary publicist with twenty years of experience running her own thriving global communications consultancy, based in New York and driven by an intensive personal focus on each client's needs and desires, a vast network of relationships, and unparalleled expertise and creative ingenuity.Recent and current clients for strategic public relations campaigns and representation in 2021 include the authors Darien Hsu Gee, Charles Vidich, Jasmin Kaur, Arisa White, John Donohue, Melissa Scholes-Young, Kia Corthron, Jai Chakrabarti, Joy Castro, and the international independent publishers House of Anansi Press and Sandorf Passage.In July 2019, Lauren took a sabbatical year to immerse herself in the study of jewelry design and creation full-time in Florence, Italy, and learn more about the Italian language and way of life. Her writing while there was published in April 2020 in Dining in Place, the online food and culture magazine based in Melbourne, and shortlisted for the 2020 Mollie Salisbury Cup memoir writing competition, administered by the Garden Museum in London. She also wrote about her life with Toscano for a December 2020 feature at Girls and Their Cats.You can listen to podcast interviews recorded since September 2020 with Tranquility du Jour (”A Creative Leap”), Finding Favorites with Leah Jones (”Making Jewelry in Italy with Lauren Cerand”), and Lost Ladies of Lit (”Princess Marthe Bibesco –– The Green Parrot”).In April 2021, she was interviewed by Publishers Weekly about “Bookishness,” and was the inaugural guest on Rachel Syme's Instagram Live show, Running on Fumes. Her remembrance of her friend, publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano, was published online at Literary Hub and in print in the spring/summer issue of Northwest Review. Lauren serves on the advisory committee for Film Forum and the advisory board for Turtle Point Press in New York, and is a member of the City University Club in London. She holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial & Labor Relations from Cornell University, a certificate in Jewelry Design & Marketing from Pratt Institute, and completed the first year of the two-year BFA program at Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Firenze. The music for this episode is from Karthik Nair.  He is a music producer attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and creating music under the alias “Ashgreen." Karthik produces electronic music that explores the idea of imagining a space or moment through music. In this piece named “Forest Plucks,” Karthik paints the sonic landscape of a surreal forest captured in the dead of night. Photo: Girls and Their Cats. Web design: Bud Parr. Music: Forest Plucks by Karthnik Nair. All Rights Reserved. 

In this episode, John Donohue, Vice President of Entity Services at Penn Medicine talks about their 6-years long, $1.5 billion investment in a hospital of the future to be launched by the health system in their West Philadelphia campus. The hospital features new interactive technology for improving patient care and Disney-inspired user experience design. John […]

In this episode, John Donohue, Vice President of Entity Services at Penn Medicine talks about their 6-years long, $1.5 billion investment in a hospital of the future to be launched by the health system in their West Philadelphia campus. The hospital features new interactive technology for improving patient care and Disney-inspired user experience design. John […]

He’s a law professor with a Ph.D. in economics and a tendency for getting into fervid academic debates. Over 20 years ago, he and Steve began studying the impact of legalized abortion on crime. John and Steve talk about guns, the death penalty, the heat they took from their joint research,  and why it’s frustratingly difficult to prove truth in the social sciences.

OMF - Arbella Insurance President John Donohue joins us to share a generous gift for The Jimmy Fund on this Giving Tuesday 12-1-20 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

OMF - Arbella Insurance President John Donohue joins us to share a generous gift for The Jimmy Fund on this Giving Tuesday 12-1-20 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The book is a collection of articles written by Levitt, an expert who had gained a reputation for applying economic theory to diverse subjects not usually covered by "traditional" economists. In Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner argue that economics is, at root, the study of incentives. The book's chapters cover: Chapter 1: Discovering cheating as applied to teachers and sumo wrestlers, as well as a typical Washington, D.C.–area bagel business and its customers Chapter 2: Information control as applied to the Ku Klux Klan and real-estate agents Chapter 3: The economics of drug dealing, including the surprisingly low earnings and abject working conditions of crack cocaine dealers Chapter 4: The role legalized abortion has played in reducing crime, contrasted with the policies and downfall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu (Levitt explored this topic in an earlier paper entitled "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime," written with John Donohue.) Chapter 5: The negligible effects of good parenting on education Chapter 6: The socioeconomic patterns of naming children (nominative determinism) One example of the authors' use of economic theory involves demonstrating the existence of cheating among sumo wrestlers. In a sumo tournament, all wrestlers in the top division compete in 15 matches and face demotion if they do not win at least eight of them. The sumo community is very close-knit, and the wrestlers at the top levels tend to know each other well. The authors looked at the final match, and considered the case of a wrestler with seven wins, seven losses, and one fight to go, fighting against an 8–6 wrestler. Statistically, the 7–7 wrestler should have a slightly below even chance, since the 8–6 wrestler is slightly better. However, the 7–7 wrestler actually wins around 80% of the time. Levitt uses this statistic and other data gleaned from sumo wrestling matches, along with the effect that allegations of corruption have on match results, to conclude that those who already have 8 wins collude with those who are 7–7 and let them win, since they have already secured their position for the following tournament. Despite condemnation of the claims by the Japan Sumo Association following the book's publication in 2005, the 2011 Grand Tournament in Tokyo was canceled for the first time since 1946 because of allegations of match-fixing. The authors attempt to demonstrate the power of data mining, as a number of their results emerge from Levitt's analysis of various databases. The authors posit that various incentives encourage teachers to cheat by assisting their students with multiple-choice high-stakes tests. Such cheating in the Chicago school system is inferred from detailed analysis of --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support

Race & Racism - Guest speakers include Condoleeza Rice, Claude Steele, Allyson Hobbs, Nate Persily, Richard Thompson Ford, Michelle Anderson, John Donohue, Jim Campbell, and Brian Lowery.

Julie Potiker leads a meditation in the ancient practice of Tonglen. Tonglen is a Tibetan word meaning "letting go" and "accepting". During this meditation you will breathe in pain, suffering, and darkness – and then breathe out peace, joy, and light. It’s the perfect meditation during these times of uncertainty. This meditation ends with the reading of the poem, "For the Belonging", by John Donohue. Poem: For Belonging, by John O'Donohue May you listen to your longing to be free. May the frames of your belonging be generous enough for your dreams. May you arise each day with a voice of blessing whispering in your heart. May you find a harmony between your soul and your life. May the sanctuary of your soul never become haunted. May you know the eternal longing that lives at the heart of time. May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within. May you never place walls between the light and yourself. May you allow the wild beauty of the invisible world to gather you, mind you, and embrace you in belonging. Get the latest by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and other podcast platforms.

Dr Hayes interviews Dr. Lawrence Einhorn and patient, John Cleland, on the cure for testicular cancer.     The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. Welcome to JCO's "Cancer Stories, The Art of Oncology," brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, a collection of nine programs, covering a range of educational and scientific content and offering enriching insight into the role of cancer care. You can find all of the shows, including this one, at podcast.asco.org. Welcome to the "Cancer Stories." I'm Dr. Daniel Hayes. I'm a medical oncologist and a translational researcher at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. And I've also been privileged to be the past president of ASCO. I'll be your host for a series of podcast interviews with the founders of our field, have been, and will continue to be over the next several months. In this series of podcasts, I'm hoping to bring the appreciation of the courage and the vision and the really scientific background among the leaders who founded our field of clinical cancer care over the last 70 years. I hope that by understanding the background of how we got to what we now consider normal in oncology. We can all work together towards a better future for our patients and their families during and after cancer treatment. Today, my guests our Dr. Larry Einhorn, who first demonstrated the cure of testicular cancer with cisplatin. And we have a special guest, Mr. John Cleland, who as far as I know was the first man to be cured of this cancer with cisplatin in the world. Dr. Einhorn is currently the Distinguished Professor of Medicine on the faculty of the section of hematology oncology at Indiana University School of Medicine. Mr. Cleland is now retired after a distinguished career as a high school teacher in track and field coach in Indiana. This interview is really particularly poignant for me. I knew John Cleland socially before I had ever heard of Larry Einhorn because our respective wives worked together while I was in med school as I began my clinical training. I then had the enormous privilege of being assigned to the oncology ward at the University Hospital for one of my rotations in internal medicine during my third year of medical school in 1977. And Dr. Einhorn was the attending. And frankly, for me, the rest is history. I had no chance. I had to become an oncologist. Dr. Einhorn received his undergraduate degree at Indiana University, went to medical school at the University of Iowa. He then returned to Indiana for his residency and fellowship. But he spent an oncology fellowship year at MD Anderson, Houston. After that you then returned back to IU in 1973 and has remained there ever since. He has won nearly every award and honor available in clinical research. And I'm not going to try to name them all, but most importantly, like me, as many people in this podcast series, he has served as president of ASCO, in his case, in the year 2000 and 2001. Dr. Einhorn and John, welcome to our program. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Dr. Einhorn, I'll start with you. Obviously, your greatest contribution is the cure for testicular cancer, which is pretty good. Can you kind of walk us through the history? How did you get involved with cisplatin? How did you derive the three drug regimen? What were the early obstacles? Especially with your returning back to Indiana. Can you kind of just walk us through that history? Certainly. So as you mentioned, I did a one-year fellowship in oncology at M.D. Anderson before returning to the faculty in 1973 and Indiana University. And in that time period, which was 46 years ago, the thought was that you might be able to cure adult leukemia like was cured with childhood leukemia from the wonderful studies from St. Jude's and that the studies that were ongoing in lymphomas and other hematological malignancies were very promising. But it was felt that you really don't want to do too much toxicity in a solid tumor, where you're getting a one log kill before you get progressive disease. And there was a clear pervasive atmosphere of pessimism of what can be done with solid tumors in general. So when I joined the faculty in 1973, I was the only oncologist. We had two hematologists that were there in our small faculty, which went from 2 to 3. And I wanted to be involved with both liquid tumors as well as solid tumors. But I wanted to be involved with solid tumors that were chemo sensitive. And even back in the early 1970s, testicular cancer was responsive to older drugs like actin or myosin-D and later with a two-drug combination of vinblastine plus bleomycin. And there were a small number of not just remissions but cures, and that was one of the few solid tumors that actually had a modest cure rate back at that time. And then the platinum story came around. And this is a podcast of itself with the wonderful work of a biophysicist at Michigan State, Dr. Barnett Rosenberg, who first discovered that platinum could be the first heavy metal ever to be looked at as antineoplastic agent. And when platinum entered first in human clinical trials in 1972 and 1973, it was [? selfed ?] at an NCI-sponsored phase I working group that I attended that this drug was producing minimal benefit and tremendous toxicity, especially horrendous nausea and vomiting. And the drug was pretty close to being discarded as a interesting novel mechanism of action, but not a drug that really had much of a future. But what changed the history of platinum and changed the history of testis cancer was the fact that among the phase I patients were treated with platinum, which included melanoma, lung cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, the usual type of patients that enter phase I studies back in those older days were 11 patients that had testicular cancer who had failed actin or myosin D, failed vinblastine, plus bleomycin, and so they received single agent platinum. And when we, even today-- Actually, where were those studies done? That was done at Roswell Park actually, phase I study. And Roswell Park-- and this was an era, by the way, that there were only four NCI cancer centers in the United States, Roswell Park, M.D. Anderson, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and, of course, the NCI. So Roswell Park did a broad-based phase I study. Jim Holland was there at that time. He has unfortunately subsequently passed away. He was one of the real pioneers and also a past ASCO president. So among the patients in that phase I study were 11 patients with testes cancer. And there were three complete remissions and two partial remissions. And even in 2019, if we saw that with the phase 1 novel agent, there would be a tremendous amount of enthusiasm generated. We also looked at some of the preclinical work with platinum. And it is a drug that can cause testicular atrophy. In my youthful ignorance, I didn't realize that there are many drugs that cause testicular atrophy. So with that as a background, in 1974-- and I was on the faculty for one year at that time-- we wrote a protocol to simply add platinum, a novel experimental drug, and added it to the established two-drug regimen that I learned about when I was at M.D. Anderson, namely vinblastine and bleomycin. And the principles of combination chemotherapy aren't complicated. We want each drug to have single agent activity, different mechanism of cytotoxicity, different toxicity, and platinum as a non-mild suppressive drug, which can be given in full dosage, with vinblastine as a mild suppressive drug, and evidence of synergy. And one of the unique characteristics of platinum is it is synergistic across a panoply of cytolytic agents. So we started to study in the late summer of 1974 as a phase II study. And so we treated 47 patients when we first presented this data at the American Urological Association, later at ASCO. And I would be the first to admit that I was as startled as anyone that we were able to literally have a one logarithmic increase in the cure rate, because most progress in oncology is going from a 5% to a 10% to a 15% long-term survival rate. But all of a sudden with this three-drug combination, 60% of these patients were not only complete remission, but durable complete remission and cures. There was a lot of toxicity with platinum. And over the years, we learned, as science tends to learn, when a drug is active to mitigate the side effects as far as nephrotoxicity and nausea and vomiting. And we made modifications to the treatment regimens as the years went by, as you know, with changing the dosages have vinblastine, lowering the duration of maintenance therapy, and eliminating maintenance therapy, reducing the number of courses of platinum, substituting etoposide for vinblastine to where it's now the standard, bleomycin, etoposide, platinum, or BET. And I will make a final comment, in my long career, that this was a very exciting time in 1974. There were several chemotherapy drugs that were experimental drugs, such as doxorubicin and even a nitrosourea the first drugs to have penetration into the blood brain barrier. But the era of chemotherapy is gone and appropriately so. And science and medicine has moved forward. And now, we look at molecular targeted agents and immune checkpoint inhibitors and immunooncology. And that's what is exciting, so much more exciting about the field in 2019 than it was in 1974. But nevertheless, platinum has had legs. In 2019, it is still first line therapy in 12 different types of malignancies. Of course, testis cancer being the poster child for curable cancer. And I often mention that just as platinum has cured thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of young men with cancer, testicular cancer saved platinum, because if it weren't for those early studies showing activity of platinum, I think I can say without fear of contradiction that the drug wouldn't be around right now because of this tremendous toxicity in the early phase I studies. Yeah, Larry, let me ask about that, because in the early 1970s when-- I wasn't around, but you didn't have antiemetics. You didn't have drug fractures. You didn't really understand the renal toxicity. Just briefly, how did you get around those? How do you get people-- I'm going to ask John the same question in a minute. What were you thinking, John? John is the recipient of our ignorance in that era. So taking it one item at a time. Platinum is a heavy metal. And we were somewhat slow in realizing that other heavy metals, like mercury, can cause acute tubular necrosis. And so when patients were getting platinum, as is true in those days, they would often just get IV pushed platinum. And so we learned that in order to prevent acute tubular necrosis, we needed to make sure that patients were well hydrated with IV saline solution before they start chemotherapy. We then give the intravenous platinum and then follow that with intravenous saline hydration, so that the drug doesn't accumulate in the proximal tubules, and we force a diuresis. And we never needed mannitol. And some people back then, in fact, perhaps even now, are doing the silly thing of mannitol diuresis, which is totally unnecessary. And so back in the early days before we had antiemetics, everyone had to be treated as an inpatient because we had to give 24-hour continuous hydration because of the [INAUDIBLE] from severe nausea, vomiting, and dehydration that would happen. Of course, today, it's all done as an outpatient with three or four hours of hydration. As far as nausea and vomiting is concerned, one of our first studies we published in The New Journal of Medicine was a cannabinoid derivative from Eli Lilly, called nabilone. And so nabilone, didn't produce a marijuana-type of high. It didn't cause euphoria. It caused some dysphoria and had a variety of side effects. But it lowered the incidence of nausea and vomiting. But what revolutionized chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting, and ASCO recognizes this as one of the five leading advances in the past 50 years, was the discovery of the first 5-HT3 receptor antagonists. And this was a rational, selective pharmaceutical development. And this truly changed the face of how we give chemotherapy with drugs like platinum. Instead of having an average of 10 to 12 emetic episodes on day 1 of platinum, today with appropriate anti-emetics, the median number of emetic episodes is zero. People still get nausea. People still get occasional vomiting. But everything is done as an outpatient now. And it's done as an outpatient because of the discovery by others of what is the mechanism with platinum, which is not a gastrointestinal mechanism, but affects the emetic center in the medulla oblongata and the chemo receptor trigger zone and finding that patients get drugs like platinum, they get high level of 5-HT3. And developing a selective 5-HT3 receptor antagonist change the field completely. And, of course, now we also [? weigh ?] a methasone and neurokinin-1 antagonist, aprepitant or fosaprepitant. And we also have olanzapine as far as the nausea issue. And olanzapine is probably the best drug for nausea. So patients today have no concept of what patients like John went through when we had no knowledge about any of this whatsoever. And we were looking at things kind of naively by 2019 standards. I don't think I'm making this up. I recall as a medical student walking down the inpatient at University Hospital and thinking this smells just like my fraternity house. Without the fun involved. Yeah. And I got a kick now out of the so-called medical marijuana. But didn't you talk the administration into looking the other way for a while so that these guys could do that? Sort of. What had happened with nabilone, it had to be under lock and key, as if it were gold at Fort Knox. When we had an audit by the FDA and we had-- I don't know how many, I think 60 or 70 patients on nabilone, you know, we had to make sure we had every consent form and every safety guarded and everything. You know, here, we're using these incredibly toxic chemotherapy drugs and there was no regulation at all. And here we're using a pill to lessen nausea and vomiting, and it was just the hoops you had jump through were tremendous. When did you start realizing you had something big. Was it, you know, after two, three patients, or later-- Well, again, when you're young and dumb, it's easy, because you treat someone like John and you get the first chest X-ray three weeks later and things are gone and with pulmonary metastases. And you naively think, not only this cool, but, gee, that's great, it's not going to come back again. But we know even 40 years later that most epithelial malignancies that we get nice remissions with, the disease does come back again. So we had initial enthusiasm that platinum vinblastine myosin was a very active, but very toxic regimen. And we had the hope that this might be durable remission. And, Dan, I actually first presented data with testes scores, not at ASCO, but with the Annual American Urological Association meeting, and that was 99% urologists there. And so we had 20 patients that we had treated. And then that following year, I submitted an abstract to ASCO. And back then, it wasn't done online. We would send a paper abstract with a self-addressed postcard that they would send back to us whether it was accepted or not. And so when I sent in the abstract, I get the postcard back saying it was accepted as a plenary session paper. And I had no idea what plenary session even meant. It's true. And we get this postcard back in January for this June meeting. And all of a sudden my naivete went away, and I thought what, if I make a fool of myself? And I had this initial abstract with these complete remissions, and by the time June rolls around every one of them would have relapsed, which I was starting to learn happens in other tumors like small cell lung cancer, that are chemo sensitive disease. But fortunately, the time of presentation everyone was still disease free. And, of course, everyone for the most part remain disease free. So we had the first glimpse of activity with the first few patients. But it really wasn't until patients were out at a year that we really had the realization that these were not temporary remissions, but these were durable. And as it turned out, permanent remissions and cures. I wasn't there, but I understand that after you recorded that it looked like you had change the ratio of [? puranoctur ?] from 10%, 90% to 90%, 10%, that people in the audience, you had a standing ovation at the end of your presentation. Yeah, it was very heartwarming. It's literally the walk on the moon type of things is the things that you do once in your career, you know, that you never forget about. I had the opportunity to do that and not one of those four NCI cancer centers, but little Indiana University with our faculty of three. And we had one oncology nurse at that time, Becky Furness. We had no data managers. We had no compliance office or anything else. And we were giving [INAUDIBLE] back in the 1970s. I'd like now to turn briefly to your relationship with John Cleland. John, can you give us a brief history of your cancer treatment before you and Dr. Einhorn decided to go with the cisplatin. I was a student Purdue University, the fall of 1973, when I discovered I had a lump on the my left testicle. And I went to a local urologist. And he examined me on a Tuesday afternoon, in the middle of November, and told me he wanted me at the hospital the following morning. And the following day after that, they performed surgery. And I was diagnosed with testicular cancer. That was November 15, 1973. On the 29th of November then, I had a retroperitoneal node dissection. That was at the UI Cancer Center by Dr. John Donohue. And then on December 3, 1973, on a Monday morning, Larry Einhorn walked into my hospital room. And that was my first introduction to Dr. Einhorn. He talked to me a little bit and said we were going to put me on a 5-day course of a drug called mithramycin. We took mithramycin for five days. And then a couple of days after that, I was released from the hospital. So that was in the 1st of December of 1973. The middle of February of '74, I returned to IU Med Center just for a routine checkup. And I was diagnosed there again with testicular cancer had returned. And Dr. Einhorn began putting me on a three-drug regimen-- adriamycin, bleomycin, and [INAUDIBLE]. And I was on that until about July of '74. Then I was on actin myosin-D for a couple of months. And then we ultimately started in on the cisplatin in early October of '74. You have to tell us the story that you actually had to tell Dr. Einhorn about cisplatin because of a radio show you listened to. Well, by the middle of the summer, I had been pretty beat up, after all the chemotherapy and the nausea and everything. And I didn't really have a job-- or I couldn't do a job or anything. So most of the time, I just lay on the couch in our apartment and listened to the radio or watch TV. And one day-- I really like Paul Harvey-- and he came on the radio every day at noon there in Lafayette, Indiana. And one day he begins talking about researchers at Michigan State University. have maybe come up with the cure for cancer. So I begin listening much closer. And they talked about this chemotherapy called cisplatin. So I just made a mental note to myself, well, the next time I go see Dr. Einhorn, I'm going to ask him about this. Well, a couple of weeks later, I'm down at IU. And he's palpating me and listening to my chest and all this type of thing, you know. And I began asking him about that. And he said, John, just don't get too excited about that. We've heard of these cancer cures before. Probably nothing important has happened here. Don't worry about it, you know. And then two or three months later, I'm taking it. So that was my introduction, Dan, to cisplatin. Well, I can't to you-- Some of those Purdue graduates are pretty smart every now and then. We get lucky, like a blind squirrel. I just say, I can't tell you how many-- probably 100, 200 patients will told me things like this. And I've said exactly what Dr. Einhorn said to them, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder how many cures I've missed. OK, and the second story I want you tell us, John, is about your readmission to the hospital after your first cycle of chemotherapy. Yeah, I started this platinum October 7, 1974. I had five doses in the hospital. And then I was released. That was on October 7. October 20 rolls around, which was a Sunday, and I was violently ill. I had a fever of over 104, almost 104 and 1/2. And I was just completely almost derelict. My wife and a couple of friends, we contact Becky first, us my oncology nurse. And I guess she called Dr. Einhorn. And he said, well, come on down and check in through the emergency room at IU. And so that's what we did. We got there late at night, 9:30, 10:00 at night, something like that. And they always-- if I went to the emergency room, they always took a chest X-ray, which they did. And then in the hospital overnight and middle of the next morning, I see Dr. Einhorn and Becky getting off the elevator. My room was kind of in a corner. I could see part of the lobby out there and the elevator and the nurses station. And I could see them kind of go past the nurses station. And I could just tell that something was up. Somebody had good, let's put it that way, just by their body language, and the way they looked at each other and talked and walked. And they kept coming closer and closer and closer to my room. And finally, they walked in. And Dr. Einhorn says, John, your chest X-rays are clear. That's really good news. And, you know, I kind of interpreted that as, hey, I'm cure, you know. And ultimately, I guess I was, because from that chest X-ray the night before, my chest film was-- the weak before, my chest film was just riddled like Swiss cheese. And then the film was totally clear. You probably don't know this, but I've seen your chest x-rays, which is probably illegal now. Probably did a lot of illegal things back then. And, you know, that's when the scales fell from my eyes and I said, I'm going to be an oncologist. This is unbelievable. But, you know, I think to emphasize, it wasn't clear you were going to survive that weekend. To survive, you would be cured. But that goes back to how toxic this drug was at the start. Right. Right. It was not a lot of fun. I know that. Yeah. Well, I want to get back, Larry, to you for a moment, because there were two people in your life who were really essential to this story. One, of course, was Dr. Donohue, with whom you have published the, I think, seminal and classic paper in the annals of internal medicine. You want to say a few words about John. And the other is I'd love you to talk a little bit about Steve Williams. Steve was a fellow when I was a med student that I used to tease-- I mean, he's the only guy I ever knew who went from being a fellow to cancer center director I think in one year. I'm making that but-- he kept saying, you know, I might as well put me on faculty because he doesn't have any other fellows. Sure. So when I joined the faculty in 1973, in July of 1973, as I mentioned, I was the first oncologists. There were two hematologists there. And John Donohue is a true gentleman, one of the world leaders in urological oncology and the urological transplant with kidney transplant and many other fields. His ability to surgically cure patients with extensive retroperitoneal disease was known worldwide. And because of who John was and the fact that there were very few oncologists in the state of Indiana treating solid tumors, when he would see patients who would relapse after a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection, he would give chemotherapy himself, usually with actin myosin-D, which, by the way, causes almost as much nausea and vomiting as platinum did. And when I first got there, I knew John by reputation, but not by his interpersonal relationships with others. And with some fear and trepidation, I walked into his office because I told him I wanted to start looking at clinical trials in testes cancer. And I thought we might have a turf battle because he was treating patients with chemotherapy himself. And he just welcomed me with open arms. And he was so enthusiastic about finally having a partner and someone to collaborate with. And we had a wonderful, 30-plus years of collaboration with many important discoveries that John made equally, as I did. And, unfortunately, after John retired, he subsequently died when he was in Florida. And it's a similar sad story with Steve Williams. So Steve Williams was in my third fellowship class, which means we had one fellow a year. He was great, very humble, from Bedford, Indiana. And father was a newspaper reporter from the small town newspaper. And Steve was the eternal optimist. And to show you what an eternal optimist he was, when the Indianapolis Colts would those 14 games in a row, he always knew they going to win the next game, you know. And that's Steve. And John Cleland talking about Paul Harvey, Steve would have believed that platinum was going to be the cure too, you know. He was just a very positive person. And Steve was very gifted. He has a great relationship with patients. And there's not a person, a doctor, nurse, or patient, who has ever said anything unkind about Steve. He's one of the kindest people that we ever had the privilege of knowing. And Steve was very much involved with our testicular cancer research studies and many other pivotal studies as well. We decided to be a NCI cancer center, which is an enormous amount of work. And by then, we had about 10 faculty members in hematology, oncology. And no one wanted to do it. And so we went up to poor Steve and said, boy, Steve, this would be a great career move for you-- without telling him how much work is involved. We are cancer center today because Steve Williams made us a cancer center and everything that goes along with that. And before leaving, and fortunately, we're talking about John being cured with fourth line therapy with platinum combination chemotherapy, whereas if John had had that disease diagnosed a year earlier, quite honestly, John, you wouldn't be alive right now. And it's sort of the opposite for Steve Williams. He eventually developed metastatic melanoma before any of the marvels with immunotherapy or even the BRAF inhibitors were around. And he eventually died from these diseases that he fought so hard to palliate and prolong survival and cure with metastatic melanoma. And now there's a 30% cure rate-- 30%, 5-year survival and continuous 5-year survival with single agent PD-L1 inhibitors. And I want to make a final comment about John. And if this were 2019, rather than 1974, and you're looking at a patient who has been through mitramycin, which is used by me as adjuvant therapy briefly for adenocarcinoma, which is what John had, and then going through actin myosin-D and all the toxicity with that drug and then gone through a adriamycin combination chemotherapy, and looking at fourth line therapy. So when we started platinum combination chemotherapy, and John his fourth line therapy, yes, his chest X-ray looked like Swiss cheese, as he mentioned, but he was pretty much asymptomatic. And the courage and fortitude that it takes to go through treatment like this, because we knew what the side effects were with platinum. It had been around for about eight months, and we knew about all the horrendous side effects of the drug. We had no idea whether this would produce as fourth line therapy any prolongation of survival or any meaningful quality of life. And to go through this therapy without any idea whether it's going to help you, but to do it with truly altruistic motives and knowing that maybe this will help other patients in the future is really noble and admirable. And this is why John over the decades has been such a role model for clinical trials and for the cancer patient population. And I want to follow up. John, briefly, tell us about your history since then-- your family, your athletics, your career. I think it's inspirational, frankly. Well, I worked for the animal science industry for five years following my cure. And I decided finally I needed to give something back a little more to society than what I was actually doing. So I knew I wasn't smart enough to be a medical doctor. Male nursing wasn't exactly in vogue at that time, which might have been honestly a pretty good job for me. So I thought, well, I could be a teacher. I can teach life sciences. So background is pretty much life sciences in agriculture. So I did. I turned to teaching and teaching biology for 31 years and did a lot of coaching of track and cross country. And my wife and I have three kids. I married my college sweetheart even before I had testicular cancer. And, you know, I owe her just about everything in life. She hung in there with me when times were really dark. And I say we got three kids. And I've had great job and great career and friends. I want to emphasize you've had three children since your treatment. I also want to emphasize I know you've run one or two marathons since your treatment. Actually, Dan, I ran four marathons. So you ran four marathons since your treatment. Four full marathons, yes, sir. And I believe that your baseline creatinine is something like twice normal. And, Larry, you probably know this better than I do. But, again you've been inspirational to all of us. Well, thank you. Thank you, Dan. I'll tell you this. Every day I live is a blessing. I should have probably died 44, 45 years ago. I could drop dead at the end of this telephone conversation and have no regrets in life whatsoever. Well, John, you keep thinking that maybe one day you'll live long enough to see Purdue win the NCAA, but I wouldn't count on it. I was going to make a point, it must pain him truly to thank two guys from Indiana and also be appreciative of Michigan State, you know, for a guy from Purdue that must really be painful. Well, yeah, you know, testicular cure is basically Big 10 centered with Michigan State coming up with this cisplatin and Dr. Einhorn being on the IU you faculty. But it took a Purdue Boilermaker to be tough enough to handle all that to begin with, you know. That's true. OK, we're running out of time. I need to bring this to an end. I want to thank both of you again, both of you're inspirational, John for all the things we've talked about and Dr. Einhorn for so many of us who've gone into the field that we've trained and even the ones we've never touched directly, you touched hundreds of thousands of oncologists around the world indirectly. So thanks for all your contributions and what you've done. And thank you both for being on this podcast. I hope it opens up more inspiration for other young investigators and other young oncologists who don't really realize how we got where we are. So with that, we'll end this. And thanks a lot. And hope you have a nice weekend. OK, thanks, everyone. Have a good rest of the week. Bye, bye. Until next time, thank you for listening to this JCO's "Cancer Stories, The Art of Oncology" podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard today, don't forget to give us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. 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EP196 - Apple Flagship, News, and Listener Questions   A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. Episode 1946 covers a visit to Apple's new flagship on 5th Ave in NYC, recent industry news, and listener questions. Apple 5th Ave Flagship Reopens News 2019 Holiday season has 6 fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas Credit card companies release new e-commerce payment flow EMV SRC  Best Buy moves to one-day delivery Nordstrom opens New York Flagship Barneys Bankruptcy eBay, Nike, and Underarmour get new CEO's Google Shopping flash sale and ‘buy on google’ Listener Questions Q1: Michelle Grant - Amazon and Walmart have patents around predictive shipping. Could you speculate on what impact predictive shipping will have on commerce? You mentioned it in episode 187, but it would be great to get more details. 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Episode 196 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday October 24th, 2019. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Automated Transcription of the show Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this episode is being recorded on Thursday October 24th 2019 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:37] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners, Jason I've been firmly planted here in North Carolina lately but I understand you've been traveling around a lot and one of the places I'm super jelly that you got to go to is Apple's new flagship tell tell us about that experience. Jason: [0:57] I sure sucks. So this is the Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York city so this was one of the first kind of. Architectural a distinct stores that Apple opened. And I I would I shouldn't remember what year it opened that I don't so it was called the cube so you know it was an underground store but above the ground they built this giant glass cube, with the floating Apple logo in it and you you kind of walk in and you either take a glass elevator or walk down this glass stairway into this underground store and the store has been closed for, probably a year while they were remodeling it and they opened it. Just in time for the iPhone 11 launch so I wasn't there on the launch day but I was there the next week and got a chance to check it out. Scot: [1:50] Wrinkle does it have that or they caught Town Hall kind of I would like the big wall in them. Jason: [1:57] Yeah it does it it is there new. Format the sort of city format so it has live trees in it it has a big Auditorium where they have a lot of educational content. This is already a quite large door and that it dramatically expanding in size so it's, it's a very big store one of the you know the old one was underground and it was all artificial lighting one of the things they did this time as they installed a bunch of. Fancy skylights so you know skylights throughout the roof and they all have light meters on them so the ambient light in the store, adjust to how bright the sky lights are so when it's bright outside the store is almost you know fully sunlit, but at night or on on overcast days there's more to ambient Lighting in the store so it's sort of a clever. [2:56] Fancy system I check a little bit because the this was the first store to have the glass staircase and that that's become a signature item for apple and then this door it was quite, controversial that the staircase is super expensive to build, and then a couple years after they opened it they had to remodel it and they upgraded the staircase and I don't know if you remember this but at the time like, the vendor took out the old staircase and through the stairs away in dumpsters outside of. [3:29] The store and entrepreneurial Apple Fans when dumpster diving collected these. These individual stairs from the glass stairs and sold them on eBay for quite a lot of money and. Scot: [3:45] I'm not forget dumpster dive to make some money. Jason: [3:48] Apple is really well I'm glad you didn't because Apple was really pissed and they they liked sued everyone that had one and tried to get them back and they like famous with, fire the vendor that did the work and you know if it became this Big Brand thing the Apple didn't want these like. This old Remnant from their store out on the market today it felt like a ginormous over reaction to a. You know some fans like like loving the Nostalgia of Apple but I will say it rains and snows a lot of New York and it was super impractical like all these people with wet shoes. Walk into the super slippery glass stairwell and the first thing Apple had to do like the first week they open the store is they had to hire a full-time guy with a mop. Just to be like constantly cleaning the stairwell and overtime with Abate they did is they threw in the towel and they they had like rubber, covers, did they would have over the glass stairwell for you know the winter season and so when I went back the first thing I was interested in it was that you at the stairwell and they totally gave up on the glass stairwell and it's now metal steps with like. Like a traction on it and stuff and I I imagine to myself that that was a about a piece of value engineering that they could only do after Steve Jobs have passed because I don't think he would have never accepted that. Scot: [5:16] How pedestrian metal stairs I would never go in that store. Jason: [5:19] Yet still at school the story is beautiful but I would not say it like. Move the ball forward in any meaningful way like it it uses all of the the traditional Apple gestures it feels very much like any of their other more modern Flagship stores and it's, it's quite big but there's nothing that you can get at that store that you can get at dozens of other Apple Stores and bigger equals. More of the same stuff not necessarily new stuff so in general like based on the amount of hype they had around the store I would call it slightly overwhelming it's a perfectly fine store there's nothing wrong with it but. It wasn't as I don't know evolutionary over previous stores as I had hoped. Scot: [6:07] You mean underwhelming you said overwhelming. Jason: [6:09] Oh gosh yes I apologize exactly meant underwhelming one kind of cool thing, yeah because some of the the new products that the what's it called the homepod is meant to be a sort of an audio file, Calibre product like they do hit now have like a. Like I so living room and then in an enclosed whistling space where you can kind of walk into a a little living room with a leather couch that's a little reminiscent of these. Magnavox ads from the 80s and you know listen to the airpod in a in an enclosed room instead of just on one of their wooden tables. And there's a secret exit I guess is the other interesting thing now so if you do. Scot: [6:55] What. Jason: [6:57] Yeah so if you you know there's a tourist entrance which is this stairwell and they're often is a line to get the bag down the stairs and into the store and it it's cool but it's kind of inconvenient answer they now have a like a. 10 of a discrete stairwell and a side entrance that you can like if you're local and needed to grab something you could pop in and out without going through the tourist entrance. So that's mine my scoop on Apple Fifth Avenue. Scot: [7:26] Any other trip reports to of what you've seen out there. Jason: [7:31] Also on that trip I visited some other New York retail that we talked about the Nike House of innovation store before and I want to go back cuz I've been there during the grand opening and to their true that they've done a month they continue to evolve that store and they actually had a pretty cool exhibit on the ground floor so. They have a a new like cushioning technology that they're promoting that uses thousands of little beads in the shoes. And so they they built kind of like I don't know what the best way to call it like almost like like one of those ping pong ball pits. [8:11] That you that you know kids would play in they built a giant caged pit, were the entire floor is this cushioning technology and then they figured out a way to project a digital image on the entire floor so they have things like. You know I cash a fake colored balls thing where you can run around and kick balls around and try to pop balls they're all virtual balls but it causes you to jump up and down on this floor a lot and you can you know you have all these bites. Different sort of instagrammable physical moments and you know people were in New York were in line to sort of get their picture taken in this so I kind of cool novel. Digital physical experience and. In the way you got in line is you had to be a nikeplus member and be running the app in the store and only then could you get in the queue so I thought that was kind of a clever experiential elements. To add to the to the Nike store and Nikes leaning heavily into forcing you to be a nikeplus member and having a lot of self-service mobile experiences in the store so this this kind of perfectly played into all of those things. Scot: [9:26] Lyrical will this episode of the Jason Scott show aside from the the trip reports is really focused on we're going to do some non Amazon news so you're where we have been Curry Amazon a lot here lately so wanted to catch up on some non Amazon news then we've also had a fair number of Wooster questions kind of TWP out on our Facebook page for we've had a pretty good discussion going so Jason watch on the new side. Jason: [9:53] So the first news item was sort of saving for our holiday show it's already starting to come up a few times so I thought I would that we needed to briefly mention it here. The way the calendar works this year. Thanksgiving falls on the latest calendar day it possibly could which means there are six fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Then there were last year and the reason I bring this up is, a lot of retailers are going to tell you you know that if they're their sales are soft at all it was because they had fewer selling days to sell this year and it already came up in the Amazon earnings call which was today, in a couple of other retailers have already issued cautionary tales that they have 6 who is selling days. And maybe we'll talk about this little bit more in a in a holiday took a show but, what are listener should know is that there's no science to the fact that when there's fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas that consumers spend less for holiday so like. [11:01] Back in the 1950s holiday shopping started on Thanksgiving and went through Christmas but for the last several decades holiday show shopping and started in the very beginning of November and went through Christmas. And there are still the same 61 days. Between November 1st and Christmas and New Year's at that there have always been in so like what tends to happen is when there are fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Purchases get compressed more and then there's less of a lowlands in shopping between the. Thanksgiving holiday in the Christmas cut off but I just want to sort of pre-plant listeners cuz we're already starting to see articles. Almost all of the retail data supports the fact that the number of days between Thanksgiving and Christmas doesn't have a material impact on. Holiday sales so when you hear that be skeptical it's a little like when retailers by in the weather. Scot: [12:01] She just took away the everyone's excuse for a bad holiday. Jason: [12:04] Yeah yeah sorry about that but like I feel like there should not be an excuse like everyone should have a good holiday. Unless something wacky happens with tariffs between now and then. I would seems unlikely so more newsy is so now get off my soapbox more Newsies stuff this week there was a new launch of a, a very boring Lee names product called the EMV, SRC in EMV is the name of a joint venture that MasterCard Visa Discover Card Diners Club. And a couple other companies started so it's a joint venture of all the credit card companies and SRC stands for secure retail checkout. So they watch the new product this week and, longtime listeners will remember that most of the credit card companies tried to wash their own check out services so there was a thing called check out by Visa there's MasterCard check out and these guys all wanted their home button on your Ecommerce checkout page, to have a alternative checkout flow. That was provided by the credit card company and they wanted to store your credit card instead of having the the retailer store the credit. [13:22] And they all have kind of you know what those products died they were never very successful customers number adopted them until they have now launched a new initiative, which has the same same sort of goals but it's not branded for an individual credit card it's it's branded as. Click and buy and it's you know in it it obviously works with any of the the credit cards and so it's an alternative checkout flow that's really designed that compete with PayPal. And today they announced their first three retailers head had launched and I think those retailers are Rakuten. November which is a donation site for a charity and one of the movie theaters at had launched and so this is. In theory an easier faster more secure way for for customers to check out and if you store your credit card in it on one side. And you could use that store credit card and any other site that use this flow and they so they've made the flow available for free and it's open so. And I think it's kind of lame. Scot: [14:34] Zoe has a big setup for it being line. Jason: [14:37] Yeah well so it's a step in the right direction when I get weight makes way more sense that they have to have a joint product in the each try to have their own product I used to call that. NASCAR in the checkout where you know all these different companies wanted to put their logo on your check out. So now you know it's Consolidated down to one there absolutely is a customer benefit like if you know the customer would love to be able to store their payment information in one secure place, and then be able to use it in any of the places they shop so if a bunch of retailers all adopted this checkout flow. It would save customers time cuz they could go to a new retailer that they never shopped at before and still not have to type their. They're shipping address and payment information because it would be stored in the the EMV SRC. So that makes sense and I think it's a smart play for for the company is to consolidate but here's my problem. [15:33] The people that should be the best in the world at a checkout form should be the credit card companies and they should you know follow all the best practices and make it as a little friction as possible and therefore isn't that great bike it's very kind of. A pedestrian middle-of-the-road checkout with a lot of practices that we now know aren't the best. They make you type every individual field for address and you know we know it works way better to have a single feel than and use like a a Maps API to do a autosuggest. You know it just it's surprising they didn't have a great check out for a while and then like PayPal. They make it kind of redundant so the way that these first retailers implemented it. You have to type your shipping address. Before you select your payment method so you don't have the benefit of this service should be that you don't have to take your shipping address but the retailers are making you type your shipping address before you get to the payment method so. To me that was just kind of disappointing. [16:40] So we'll see we'll see if it get some adoption or they do a Gentoo and try to you know I'm sure they're all listening to this and you know we'll take my advice. Which I will happily give them for free so a couple other little news Tibbetts that I promise will be shorter. Best Buy hasn't has announced that they're moving to one day delivery for e-commerce so you know obviously, Amazon send big ripples in the industry by doing one day delivery in Walmart quickly announced they would match and Target matches by using, store delivery and so now you know we see another big player Best Buy feeling like they're forced to go to one day delivery which I'm sure is going to be. A very expensive thing for Best Buy to implement so that's interesting seeing seeing more retailers follow suit there. Today is actually a big day in New York retail, there's there a Nordstrom store has been a flagship store has been playing there for a couple years and it just open today so Nordstrom open the men's store a little over a year ago in New York and now they have a you know like one of the best examples of there. Their women store available in New York City and I know that. The New York retail trade press was shopping at store today and I'll head that very favorable comments about the first day. Scot: [18:04] Cool I saw an article that said your Nordstrom was doing all this stuff to improve the brand and into Wall Street just kind of young and I think the Stock's been down about 25% year-to-date whatever they're doing hasn't been seem to get traction. Jason: [18:21] Yeah I mean like for a while the the growth had been in the discount stores which it for Nordstrom is Nordstrom Rack in the main light stores have been lagging and that you know they finally had to conceive the day the discount stores were cannibalizing the main line stores and you know opening 1 new story isn't likely to really move the needle this is like by all accounts has a great store it's a risky store because like vemos. Retail saturated Market in the world for sort of luxury department stores is New York City and you know that most of their competitors have, how much longer relationship with with the New York Shopper so, for for local New Yorkers it's going to be interesting to see whether whether Nordstrom is able to entice them, I see a lot of shopping in New York happens from Taurus and Nordstrom has a good brand so, I by no means think it's it's not going to work but I kind of think this could be become Nordstrom's best store and it still isn't going to be. You know a huge economic windfall you know happy story in the stock goes through the roof. [19:37] Diametrically opposed one of those historic New York department store brands Barneys has been in bankruptcy for a while and we are all waiting to see if they were going to, be able to emerge from bankruptcy with some sort of restructuring or they were going to liquidate or what the story was. You know Barney's is a strong luxury department store brand in New York Bike there you know heavily feet up. Featured in the The Sex in the City TV show. And you answer a lot of New Yorkers had a strong affinity for the brand. And then out today that they are not going to be able to restructure so they they sold all the assets to a company called authentic brand Group which is a we often Call ABG. I'm an ABG the holding company that owns the licenses to a bunch of. Mostly failed retailer so it's like the Nine West and Nautica and Frederick's of Hollywood and they license out the the. [20:45] The intellectual property for these these Brands to operators that want to run stores and so they it seems like the intention is to close all the bunnies doors except one in Boston. And they have already announced that they have a customer that they're going to license. The brand asset to and that customer is Hudson Bay Company which owns Saks Fifth Avenue so. Yeah Saks and Barneys would have been you know direct bitter competitors for a long time and you know it. Clear how they're going to use it yet but like in some way Saks Fifth Avenue is going to try to Leverage The Barney's brand which is. Interesting but almost certainly bad news for all the. The employees working in the in the Barney stores and you know people that like had a particular affinity for the bunnies experience. Scot: [21:36] How many Barney stores are there again. Jason: [21:38] Yes I was afraid you were going to ask me that and. Scot: [21:41] Have a uncanny Central would get one of our interns to work on it while I'm fucking in a. Jason: [21:46] Yeah if we ever had like notes or or like rehearsals or something like that would be super helpful under 10 I want. Scot: [21:54] We do rehearse every show three times so I don't don't get blisters confused by by the don't make it seem like we don't prepare for this thing. Jason: [22:02] Got you in my head I want to say at 7 stores so it's not a huge number of stores the a few of them ended up being inserted wackadoodle places like they open the wheel Las Vegas store. Scot: [22:17] They're pretty big. Jason: [22:18] Yeah it was their big beautiful stores. Scot: [22:21] Macy's size in my brain 20000 square feet. Jason: [22:23] Yeah but they were like no I think they're like considerably larger like 230,000 square feet. Scot: [22:33] This could be good from all again or bad depends on your perspective. Jason: [22:39] Yeah so I think they are like they are an anchor in a couple of miles but there's like something you know that the Manhattan stores were mostly freestanding stores their first non Manhattan store was like a Chicago store from the 90s I think they have a good store in Beverly Hills they actually there's two me a doom the mall trying to open in New Jersey it's called American dream and it's it's owned by the same people that own Mall of America and they've been trying to open the small for like 20 years and it's supposedly, can a partially open this month but guess who the the tenant retail anchor was supposed to be in that mall. Scot: [23:21] Barney's. Jason: [23:23] You got it so that's where obviously not happening so that's a yet another setback for for those guys I'm sorry not rooting against them but it just seems like that. A little bit of a wackadoodle concept in the current market it so definitely you know sad, to see Barney's go it'll be interesting to see what sax does with the brand you know sex is on kind of turnaround of their own trying to change their fortune and so, you know I think there's a lot of evidence that. When's red algae that does not work is to take to distress Brands and add them together so Kenny Mart plus years was not significantly stronger than Sears alone so what will see if if Saks and Barney's have a different approach. Scot: [24:15] Doesn't that don't sound terribly promising. Jason: [24:18] I'm super negative on these news items today I should have found some happier news. Scot: [24:22] You're grumpy Jason forgot grumpy Jason tonight. Jason: [24:24] Yeah also it's not a good week to be a retail brand CEO it seems like they're all losing their jobs. Scot: [24:31] Yeah and it's not entirely clear so an interesting one is both the Nike and UnderArmour CEOs have switched over. Nike + it's not entirely clear what's going on the lot of them site you know kind of standard just want to spend more time with family and all their stew lot of rumors that there's a lot of meat you kind of stuff happening out there that. You know that this is one reaction that I have no idea if that's true or not, eBay's CEO left in September that was kind one of the first ones and he just had a disagreement with a board board I want some start kind of dismantling eBay and if he wants all the parts to stay together so they the CFO took over there but I mention eBay because the new CEO of Nike is John Donohue who was the previous to Devin winning CEO of eBay, from eBay for SAS software business called servicenow and now he's running Nike, the new CFO is currently running until Under Armour I think president of the US took over on a reminder. Jason: [25:44] Yeah internal promotion what's a little interesting they're like I think you're right on Nike so 890 had phenomenal economic performance and Nike Revenue probably doubled during Mark Mike Parker's rain in Nike so that one didn't feel, like financial performance-related and there was a lot of controversy around. Like they're not being a lot of gender diversity in the senior management team at Nike and you know some sunlight you know not very good policies for treating female athletes in Nike inside I don't know if the cumulative effect of all of that was the deal or if he just chose to leave like Tiana I haven't heard any strong rumors on Nike but it almost certainly wasn't financial performance and Nikes case because they were you know they're frankly doing really well Under Armour has struggled more and what's interesting there is like the biggest rival for Under Armour has been the North American market and so you know now that the founder Kevin plank steps down I think he still the chairman of the board ebony step down from the day today and the guy they promote is the president of North America which is the market that that has been struggling so interesting and nothing else. Scot: [27:02] So that wraps up the news for show there was one thing I wanted to mention the news so I think one of the most under-reported and discussed in the industry Market places that I'm excited about I is the Google marketplace now they don't call it that I think that's part of the problem that the the way they articulate this to sellers what I would call sellers Merchants if they call it, Google shopping actions which is a terrible name and then for consumers you you can see it called by on Google the spin around 4 about two years if I recall and it's been on this kind of slow boil and what's, reason I mention it in the new section is here today right before we got on I got a email from Google shopping saying they were having a flash sale that's like you can't have a flashlight but look at what they've done is they've gone to all the the sellers that are in the buy on Google program, I'm in first while they've upgraded the program where I was able to use it on my iPhone and my Apple browser, I'm on my desktop and it's much easier to use than a then it has been in previous iterations work Sky Android only intact and to kind of like the Google Play permissions in and. [28:23] Payment methods do you have set up so it's really good experience so we'll put a link in the show notes to the splash page and I was able to get $40 off of a pair of iPods that had my eye on the new generation of some older ones so I was just blown away by The Experience got a really nice one page checkout the shipping was very Amazon asking that is Snappy so you know there's there's we talked about on the show about how Amazon's ads are really threatening Google looks like Google's waking up to this and I'm cautiously optimistic that this Mark this kind of by on Google it is a pretty interesting new and trending Marketplace world and I would encourage our our books to maybe this experiment without as a holiday item I think it's relatively easy to turn on if you already have you know you can go to Google shopping list. Jason: [29:22] Yep and it correct me if I have this wrong but in my mind this is sort of the successor to what used to be called Google Express rides are there there's both of delivery service but there was a, Google Express shopping portal where they aggregated all the items that work, being sold by Google Express and now they have this new portal which is shopping. Google.com which Aggregates all the sellers that are using the the. Google shopping actions tools to sell products on the Google platform is that am I thinking about that right. Scot: [29:59] Yesterday so they had two actions separate then they kind of had it inside of Express then Express kind of as we. As you know it kind of went away and now they're kind of gotten rid of that brand this far as I understand so they've gone through kind of like four or five iterations here that have been. Part of the reason I don't think a lot of people are talking about this is it it is very confusing but now I just want experience I went through was actually really good reggae email and it said there's a flash sale prices were really good it seems like Google was supplementing them took me to a page that was, coherence and really only shop on Google items that the only other thing I've noticed is you can now if you do a search result Uber Google shopping I get an Amazon Prime like filter which says you know hey show me only the buy on Google items that are in this market place and what's nice about that is you know it's got a cart metaphor so I don't have to go to 6 different retailers websites to buy stuff and and then the flash sale is nice because it also has a bunch of additional discounts to really nail the user experience it still think they need to do a lot on The Branding but I think. This is good cuz I can Foundation we have the right pieces in place to go do some Brandon that would make sense. Jason: [31:20] Yeah I know and it definitely seems like Google is fully committed to figuring shopping out and it makes sense that they would cuz obviously you know there's a lot of chatter about Amazon stealing ad revenue from Google news so you know if your, if your Google it would make sense that you'd want to have a viable shopping experience to try to protect that Revenue. Scot: [31:43] Absolute cool that wraps up our news part of program and let's jump into some listener questions. Jason: [31:57] Questions their questionnaire questionnaire questions. Scot: [32:02] Jason you know I don't, I feel like I've put my thumb on the scale or something but mostly questions are actually in your realm so I'm going to we're going to go into an interview style here. We usually like to alternate but really miss these are in your room so jump into a man and you're going to be the guy answering most of them so the first question comes from longtime listener frequent guests Michelle Grant and she says Amazon and Walmart have both have patents around predictive shipping could you speculate on what impact predictive shipping will have on Commerce we mentioned it in episode 187 but she'd like to get more details. Jason: [32:41] Oh. Now I have to try to remember what we said in 187 better than Michelle remembers it and that light. Scot: [32:47] You said you were the world's leading expert on it is Farrakhan. Jason: [32:50] Yeah I trust Michelle's memory a lot more than I trust must be haven't heard about predictive shipping before like super literally it's this notion of another way to call it would be in Tissa Batory shipping to say like hey using big data and your typical trans I assume you're about to run out of peanut butter so I'm going to send you a new jar of peanut butter and if I'm right and you needed peanut butter great you keep the peanut butter and I'll charge your account for it if I'm wrong here's some super easy way to return in the peanut butter and you won't be charged for it so. [33:34] It's a specific version of a broader category of experiences that I'll call Auto replenishment right and you know Auto replenishment to me is this notion that, today my shopping is very inquisitive like if you need peanut butter, you either go online find the right peanut butter added to your card and buy it or you drive your store find the peanut butter and and pay for it but you you had to take a bunch of overt actions to get that peanut butter and increasingly in the future there going to be a lot of products that you're going to get implicit lie without having to take all those steps and so, the ways you might get an implicit product or it might be predicted we ship to you which is what Michelle was specifically asking about. [34:21] You might have a webcam in your kitchen that's keeping this noticing how much you use peanut butter and ordering pink peanut butter for you when you when you need it kind of like a video version of Amazon Alexa. You might have a smart trash can that notices what packages you throw away and automatically reorder them. You might have a fridge that let you very easily tell it when you use the last of the milk or the eggs or something and increasingly you might have a bunch of. Internet-enabled devices that know when they're out of their consumables right so already you can have a water filter pitcher that knows when it needs a new filter in orders that you can have a dishwasher that orders more soap when it needs it, and so you know there's a. Using all of these techniques that iot devices the smart kitchen and the predictive shipping there's a significant amount of purchases that we that we have to explicitly do today that will probably happen in puts Italy in the. The not-too-distant future incident. [35:26] Specifically answered Michelle's question I think the cumulative effect of all of this Auto replenishment can have a huge pronounced effect on retail, so so I've had my team do some sort of. Studies on you know what percentage of products in a typical Walmart store for example. [35:51] Would be suitable for auto replenishment and in the answer is it ends up being about 40% of the skews in a Walmart are things that you could. Reasonably expect to be fulfilled via Auto replenishment, and so imagine the world was calling five years from now when you never go to the store to get toilet paper or paper towels or peanut butter because through one mechanism or another all those things. Show up when you need them at your house suddenly the Walmart store is 40% too big and. [36:26] A bunch of the reasons that you had to go to a store have gone away so the number of visits that you have to that store, have gone away in the amount of Isles you're going to walk in that store that are you know potentially going to cause you to serendipitous we discover new products and impulse items, have gone away and so the you know we talked in most markets that like if you can change the market by 10 or 15%. That really is an inflection point that can dramatically change the whole market and so if. Auto replenishment can get to 40% like that that would be. A pronounced change in retail and the way I like to talk to retards about it the way I think about it is you know I used to spend a lot of time at Best Buy. The 40,000 square foot store 10,000 square feet of that store where designed to sell these things that came on plastic circles called music. [37:26] And people would buy a new music in some cases every week so you might visit a Best Buy store 50 times to buy music and you probably only shop for a TV every 2 or 3 years. [37:37] Because you come to that store every week, you have to walk by the TVs and when you're ready to buy a TV. Most likely buy it from Best Buy so what happens in the world when no one buys plastic circles anymore and you all download your music on Spotify. [37:50] Suddenly the 40,000 square-foot Best Buy store is 10000 square feet too big and has a huge economic problem and then Best Buy's case. They they really struggled with what to do with that Gap that was both the traffic driver and you are significant, square footage in their store they tried a bunch of things today what they mostly do is outsourced that space they sublease that space so Apple buy some of that space Samsung buy some of that space, Microsoft buy some of that space and they sort of have a Bazaar of of a brand funded displays that I have taken up that space and they've done some different things to, replace the traffic they provide lawn services there now weaning into Health Smart Home all these different things but none of the things were completely successful at replacing the traffic that that CDs wants gave to Best Buy and you know it's very possible that grocery stores and you know major Mass merchants will go through this same same Quagmire where where they'll have to figure out you know changes to their business model to accommodate the fact that they're certain kind of products that we're just not likely to, explicitly shop for at some point in the future do you buy my version of the future at all. Scot: [39:11] I do you know the thing I would add and eating you do a, ask it what you talked you do where you talk about this where you wouldn't when you just drive it people may be saying you know that's really weird like stuff I haven't ordered shows of my house that's weird but what I think happens is where I need to loosen up to that little bit and use the example of you know 10 years ago people would say never get in the car the stranger now we press a button on her phone and do it all the time ride sharing apps and don't think twice about it if people put all their food on Instagram and stuff thanks to her behavior changes faster than we give it credit for and how do you say example of Stitch fix right so there's there's millions of subscribers to stitch fix that are used to the cycle of I get a box of stuff and I return pretty good chunk of it and I keep some I think that's the kind of the format it would take is you imagine you get all use Amazon cuz that's my I go to you say yes imagine you just kind of get this weekly box from Amazon and in there, you keep 60 70% of it and then Amazon's coming to your house so much in your neighborhood so much they don't mind picking up a bunch of stuff I hate you get back convenience factor without way you would you would really think of it as wasteful I think a lot of people kind of look at in the weather be super wasteful cuz it's actually more efficient. [40:29] Put more stuff in that box and it's Greener if you could be, the math of that in an Amazon you could actually pass a bunch of shipping savings to you as well when you stay so I didn't hear you say is just a simple one and I think the Amazon patents kind of Simply around one of the times I saw was around you know frequently people in my house on my Amazon account will throw things in the car and just kind of like leave it there for their fries and they won't check out to Amazon could preemptively ship stuff like that to you know so or if you spent a fair amount of time on an item page and items under their not to do that with a high consideration product like a digital camera but you know what say you're you're you know you're looking at a pair of shoes they can go ahead and ship you two or three sizes that shoe knowing you'll probably take one and you were probably going to do that exact same real kind of return pattern anyway if they've shipped that with a bunch of other stuff already on its way it kind of Ride Along Ride Along quote a quote for free or for very little, there's just kind of like science fiction where all the devices are ordering for you but there's kind of simpler stuff we can do in the interim to get there. Jason: [41:39] Oh for sure and I would even say it like, there's lots of signal the retailer can use to inform that prediction and you met you know the browsing signals that you mention the the stuff left in car that the actual purchase history but, like let me give you a scenario that's even easier so what happens when Kroger buys a popular app for tracking your calories online and they now know for a big chunk of their customers like what they ate at every meal because you logged your food consumption into your diet at right so now Kroger knows not only what you browse for and what you bought but actually when you consume it and so they can you know super accurately, predict when you need more of those items and it it you know it's not black magic or anything like there's a gentleman reason that some users would want to tell Kroger when they use those items, because I got some some benefit for that and I guess they're one of the thing I throw in there is predictive shipping doesn't. [42:44] Automatically mean to your house so there's a flavor predictive shipping that in essence is already have and it happening some of the Amazon patterns for predictive shipping, actually are proposing that they would predict that we ship popular items to the basement of your condo building our apartment building right so I can predict like I can aggravate the predictions for you know the 50 people that live in this building and I can Amazon can we space in though in the basement of that building and they can stage the stuff that that buildings most likely to buy in the basements and then when they get ordered the delivery cost is from the basement to the the unit instead of from the Fulfillment center to the unit right so a flavor predictive shipping is. [43:33] Predictably staging the stuff closer to the consumer and I would argue Prime now is sort of a version of that already where you know they have they put them in centers that are several hours from metropolitan areas and those those filming centers have a million items and then they take the 60,000 items that they're most likely to sell to that metropolitan area and they put that in a smaller Warehouse that's a 30 minute drive from most of the residents in that City and you know increasingly they might stage even more popular items more closely the customers to enable the one day delivery in all these other services so I I feel like baby steps in predictive shipping is kind of staging items closer and I do think it's totally realistic that In Our Lifetime you know there's white I did it just doesn't make sense that you should have to stress about running out of toilet paper. Scot: [44:25] Yes it's going to be one thing the e-commerce industry delivers to the world cool our second question comes from Holly Marie Pfeiffer and it says what's the future look like for personalization with ITP cracking down on Safari and talks about Google being closed behind and restricting third-party cookies. Jason: [44:45] Yeah well so I'm have to interpret this question. Partly because there was a thing called 3rd party cookies and they mostly are already not allowed so you know a cookie is a little digital footprint and it gets laughed when you visit a website and it can store some data, that that website uses about you right and so for a while it was possible to four. When you visit us a Retailer's websites a walmart.com Walmart could have permission to go look at a cookie that shared amongst many websites and that was called a third-party cookie Vera Bradley security reasons browsers don't allow that anymore so walmart.com can only see cookies that are designed for walmart.com and no other website can see those cookies so it said that kind of. Personalization has already tightened up but there are lots of other ways that browsers try to identify you and share information about you and I think Holly's main point is the internet is kind of cracking down on all of those ways so there's a thing called browser fingerprinting. And essentially you know I can ask the browser. [46:12] For thousands of settings that you have set in your unique browser and your combination of settings for all those settings kind of. Equals a unique fingerprint that's going to be different than almost any other user on the internet and so by. [46:27] Asking your browser all those questions I can create a unique fingerprint for you to identify you uniquely Scott even if you delete all your cookies and so there's a you know a fair amount of. Advertising based personalization on the web that leverages these fingerprinting Technologies, and increasingly the browser is not letting you asking all those questions because they realized that it was being exploited for for privacy reasons, and by default the browser isn't storing cookies at all or is much more restrictive than its privacy policies then then they used to be and so there are a lot of us that feel like, a lot of the ways that a marketer would have leverage third-party data to improve. Their ability to Market to you when you're in a particular website are all things that for a variety of privacy reasons are, going away and they're going to be more restricted right and so you know today when you go visit a website you visit Walmart Walmart knows everything that you told Walmart about it but Walmart can also go to. Axiom and Epsilon and all these third parties and buy a bunch of extra data about you that they could potentially use to Market to you, and you know there's probably like. [47:47] Nearer than further future when marketers aren't going to be allowed to apply any of that third-party data to you so they're only going to be allowed to use data, about you that you had explicitly provided to them and and they they have disclosed their collecting and what they're doing with and so, it does change a bunch of marketing tactics that does change. Did the palette of personalisation options that you have available but frankly like I would argue that we are doing an extraordinary crappy job of personalizing experiences to all the data that we have access today in to the fact that some of that data might be less accessible to us as marketers in the future like like, you know do a great job with all the data you have before you you're crying about not having access to more day that's why I feel like there is a huge opportunity to dramatically improve personalization you don't even with just first-party data and so I personally don't view it as a a disaster that the sort of wild west of third-party data is is likely going to go away. Scot: [49:02] Call Melinda secret time time so we'll probably maybe do the short version of these this next question comes from Jeff Vogel I saw Jason's question to Toby about performance and pwas do you see them actually sticking I know they are hot right now but how many pwa either of you have on your phone of those besides Amazon how many do you use seems like something that works for the Amazon to Nordstrom's the world but do you see it as a mid-market reality. Jason: [49:33] Oh Jeff it's so cruel. Just short answers and then gives me a juicy p p w a question. Scot: [49:41] Take all the time you want it's our podcast. Jason: [49:45] Yeah yeah that's got so so first of all the the question he's referencing is the founder and CEO of Shopify did a kind of ask me anything on Twitter, that's Toby and I took the liberty of asking him a question about you know is there any plans to dramatically improve, Paige performance, on Shopify sites and specifically of Shopify was going to move to something like Progressive web apps and Toby was nice enough to give a video response to my question and he said we're absolutely, doing major evolutions of our performance right now so stay tuned for you no big announcements about us optimizing our performance which candidly is a problem with Shopify it's not a particularly. Bass performing e-commerce experience at the moment so glad to hear that Toby is committed to fixing that and I floated pwas as one of the primary ways you would do that and Toby didn't agree with me like so he's like we support pwa, but that's really not the best way to get performance so this requires like a slightly deeper dive. Jeff I suspect the way you're thinking about pwas is exactly backwards right sappy wa stands for Progressive web app. [51:07] And it has this unfortunate word in it app and so when most people here that they go oh, pwa is a replacement for Native apps and what you would do is you go to a website that's a pwa and you'd quick save on my homepage and now you have an icon on your phone that you can click. Anytime you want to do lunch this pwa and you know he he's referencing that guy shike aren't only really big companies going to be able to convince people to save the pwa is to their homepage. And here's a funny thing what a pwa really is is it's a best practice way to build a mobile website. [51:45] And you never have to store it on your homepage it simply means if starbucks.com is built as a pwa when you go to starbucks.com from your mobile phone. You're going to get a highly mobile optimized experience that's likely to load much faster be perceived as welding Fastener and support the very latest. Mobile capabilities in your browser so it's using your browser to deliver a great mobile experience native apps, are indexed by Google so if you do a search on Google you're not going to get pointers to the, the interior content inside of a native app but a progressive web app is a website so it all of its content is indexed on Google you can get a result on Google click on that result and it'll take you right to that part of the progressive web app. It just so happens that as an optional feature of progressive web apps. [52:37] If it's a app if it's a website you use a lot you can save it to your desktop in or to your phone home screen and then there will be an icon that you can use to lunch at but you're really just watching. That Brands website and so I actually think. Pwa most benefits the not Amazon's of the world Amazon is about the only retailer that successfully has God than 50 million consumers to download and install their app like almost no other retailer can get a native app installed on a lot of. Devices Amazon can so if you're not Amazon and you want to Rich mobile experience. [53:15] A pwa is the way to go right now so I at the moment disagree with Toby I think. Pwa is are much more important for mobile performance then apparently Toby believes they are. Time will tell there are a bunch of retailers that have launched pwas and a reporting dramatically better. Performance and therefore business metrics as a result the example I use a lot is in the US Starbucks has a mobile app and super successful. But as they've expanded all these other countries they didn't rewrite that mobile app they built a pwa so in China the way you would do mobile order and pay the way you would do Starbucks pay is through the pwa website that Starbucks belt, and they have built a a pwa version of their website in the US now and you can try it and it basically it'll mobile web browser gives you all the functionality. [54:13] Previously you you would have needed an app to get so I think it's a really good experience. You don't see tons and tons of deployments right now because they're frankly really hard to build them so they're expensive to build. I'm in a ton of retailers just spent a bunch of money building building a responsive design website and saw the last thing they want is Jason Goldberg to fly in and go your responsive website sucks you should build a really expensive pwa to replace it right and so. Quite frankly there just a lot of retailers that aren't in cycle on. Making that kind of investment right now but almost every retailer that is having to make a new investment in their mobile experiences. [54:51] Is adopting pwa in the first crop of those that did are getting great performance so. I'm actually curious to have a Toby's a super smart guy. Cheers to have a longer conversation with him then you can have on Twitter to understand why she's not as bullish but my. Sort of skeptical suspicion is Shopify just isn't particularly well architected to. Replace the webstore model with a pwa web store and you know they built their own Paradigm they they have this development language called liquid and Toby obviously loves the stuff that he built so he believes the fastest way to get a mobile website is a better implementation and liquid and they support pwa is kind of a bolt on but not really is coordinated technology and so I suspect part of Toby's hesitation is that his architecture just doesn't support it as well but, hopefully I'll get the chance to have a deeper die with him and then we'll find out. Scot: [55:58] Cool that's a good tie into this final listener question this comes from Carrie and I'm not going to say carries last name cuz I won't say it right so will call Kerry k any new information regarding with a Dobby is doing with the Magento platform and kind of a it's a two-parter here as we're trying to go fast and then this is one you can do really fast what's your brief take on the current status of all of the Commerce platforms. Jason: [56:25] Yeah so that it's a better time than you might imagine because I'm like Shopify Magento is kind of all in on Progressive web apps, like here here's a kind of my Readers Digest on the Adobe and Magento first and then the overall landscape later show magenta was a super popular e-commerce platform it's been deployed millions of times it's you know most people that the plated didn't pay for it and it's you know open source on-prem solution and that was called magenta 1.0 so there's Tennessee. They're they're still running magenta 1.0 there's a you know even more sites that installed magenta 1.0 at one point and then just kind of abandon their business right so, it's been a super popular platform for a long time in the last three or four years if you were small business that wanted to do lunch and e-commerce site you were Louis less likely to pick. Magenta which is hard to install and host and all these things and way more likely to pick Shopify so Shopify his gain way more traction while I would argue Magento has lost a lot of traction with small businesses, but while that was happening, Magento didn't stand still they built Magento 2.0 which was much more modern architecture for an e-commerce platform it was better in a lot of ways. [57:44] And only one piece of bad news Magento got very few people to use Magento 2 and very few of the, the the magenta one sites have migrated to Magento 2, but Magento 2 is better in most ways and today Magento 2 is one of the platforms that had the best native support for Progressive web app. [58:10] So well they don't have like Magento is kind of A Tale of Two Cities they have a long in the tooth old e-commerce platform that that has a lot of flaws but has a huge install in loyal install base, and they have a new platform which is much better which supports much more modern standards and better security. And they don't have a lot of traction with it yet and then you know when they found them in that circumstance they got bought by Adobe. Which you know it has a huge investment in content management this platform called Adobe experience manager AEM. An AEM scomar strategy was to partner with e-commerce platforms so you know what a job you would say is. Run AEM in IBM websphere or run a.m. and sap hybris together and we have these design patterns that let you run these two super you know expensive complicated pieces of the software together. [59:12] So at the moment. I would say Adobe has not merge those two strategies like they now that they own Magento they they have a strategy that says hey run AEM and Magento together. Like we used to talk about running hybris or sap. And like I don't think they've got a lot of traction on that like it it frankly doesn't fit because in Magento is cheap and then in a.m. is expensive so if there's not. Like a huge amount of overlap of someone that wants those two platforms. And then separately they have this pure magenta solution which is hey you don't need a Content management solution adopter magenta to you know Embrace Progressive web apps and embrace the future and its really great solution so, what we're all waiting for is Adobe to kind of reconcile those two strategies and say like hey how does AEM fit into the Magento 2 pwa World am is not very good at pwas but you know with Magento is selling their vision of the future there they're talking heavily about pwa so is there in a little bit of an awkward place right now and we're all waiting to see how they they reconcile those those two pads there's there's a number of ways they could do it and frankly adobe's acquired a lot of other Technologies in the past and ultimately been able to do a pretty good job of weaving them together. Scot: [1:00:38] And then the second part of that question was some of the other platforms you've spent a fair amount of time on Shopify and Magento maybe throw was still a little big conversation there and then walk up to Salesforce Oracle sap platforms. Jason: [1:00:57] Play my one sentence answer is the state of e-commerce platforms right now is. Convoluted right so that you know that the entry-level small business platforms of choice Magento and Shopify and as I've already mentioned Shopify phenomenally gaining traction, and very low low risk easy implementation a lot of things going for it Magento 1.0 open source not so much not gaining a lot of new users One Step Up from that they're their platforms that are you meant to be like slightly more Enterprise friendly like you mentioned Bigcommerce and I would call you I would say Bigcommerce as a kind of. Stayed flat and Shopify his kind of successfully moved into Bigcommerce is space so they have a new flavor of shutters not that new now but. A newer flavor of Shopify called Shopify plus which kind of targets directly the Bigcommerce is of the world which were maybe like one step up Market from. From Shopify Bigcommerce is going to support more things like B2B workflows and things that that Shopify probably doesn't have yet they're a bunch of. [1:02:11] Newer platforms at the next step up that don't have very big installed bases but they're all these platforms like, mozu and. Commerce Tools in Alaska path and you know a whole set of platforms that each have some pros and cons but just don't have a huge installed base. And then you get up to the what what was the Big 4 which platform is most likely to be used by my clients and be used by it like big Enterprise clients it was demandware which is now Salesforce Commerce Cloud which. Is doing really well has a lot of traction and you know they're probably doing a really good job of evolving the platform. And then there are these three on-prem so in that that pop on his cloud-hosted platform. Dentistry on Prem platforms that were really big amongst Enterprises there was IBM websphere Commerce which I didn't actually sold and you know now. Is a little bit of forts platform there's Oracle atg and there's sap hybris and I would argue that all three of those platforms have wildly lostine. As users have seen how expensive and high-risk they are to install and how long the installation takes and how much of that experience you get out of these smaller cheaper platforms for a fraction of the price. [1:03:39] Sap hybris has a bunch of features that are not in Shopify plus but once you paid $10,000 for a year of Shopify Plus. It's really hard to spend millions of dollars and wait 9 months or 12 months for implementation of, of sap hybris so I would like say at the moment the Enterprise platforms are really kind of tanking, it remains to be seen what what will replace them do man wear his you know star Salesforce Commerce cloud is done by far the best of those Enterprise Solutions, and the the small business guys are growing up with their clients and so you know that the shopify's in the world have have many more Enterprise clients now that some of those. Originally small businesses like Warby Parker you know have gotten bigger on that platform. And not you not argue there's a bunch of new technologies that all the it guys like that are micro service-based and all of these new Frameworks, and it seems like that's what all the customers want but like. No one platform has kind of won the majority of users on that platform so at the moment it's a it's a very fragmented market and it's it's difficult to pick a winner so it's to be honest not the best time in the world to pick a new platform if you don't have to. Scot: [1:04:58] Yes some of the api-based funds called themselves headless which I think is bad Ben marketing unless it's Halloween. Jason: [1:05:05] Yes and pretend most of like there's not perfect overlap but most of the Headless systems or API BAE systems are. What we would call Micro service pay system there are ways to be headed west without microservices but that's getting in the nuances that we probably don't need to get into on the show. Scot: [1:05:25] Can you be headless without microservices but still do pwas without third-party cookies and predictive shipping. Jason: [1:05:34] I was going to say yes till you threw in. Scot: [1:05:37] Cool started to sound like a little word salad which means it's probably time to land the plane here. Jason: [1:05:46] Yep if I'm totally confused anyone and you want to ask me five questions feel free to hit us up on Twitter or Facebook page, you know is if we added value on the show we sure would love it if you jump on the iTunes and get us that five star review where one of the best reviewed e-commerce podcast on the web and frankly we'd like to keep that status and I need your help to do it. Scot: [1:06:09] We hope you enjoy this episode of industry news and listener questions. Jason: [1:06:15] Until next time happy commercing.

EP194 - Amazon Q3 2019Earnings and News   Amazon Q3 Earnings Revenue accelerated in the US and intl due to 1-day prime juicing demand US - 24%  (Q1 - 17%, Q2 - 20%, Q3 - 24%) Intl 21% (Q1 - 16%, Q2 - 17%, Q3 - 21%) Unit growth (items sold) accelerated to 22% - 4% acceleration (18%) - fastest in 2yrs. This came at a cost - profits were down 26% y/y and TODO wall st estimates because shipping costs grew 46%  Specifically GAAP operating income of $3.16b came in 2% below street consensus of $3.22b  EPS was $4.31 vs street $4.56. This caused the stock to soften by 7-9% in after-hours trading and articles are already out that bezos no longer richest man. Amazon’s Q4 midpoint revenue was $4b below Wall St. estimates and they projected lower margins than wall st expected. Specifically, guidance is $80b-$86.5b with midpoint of $83.25b - implies 15% growth, 5% below Wall St. Amazon’s Ads biz which grew 45% y/y and represented $3.6B in the Quarter.  Brian T. Olsavsky - CFO:  “So other revenue, which is principally advertising grew 45% this quarter, up from 37% last quarter. And the biggest thing in there is advertising and advertising grew at a rate higher than that 45%.” Amazon News Amazon Ad Conference - 400 people “AdCon 2019” 10/2 & 3 Cutting back on apparel Brands  Free shipping on $1 items, no more CRaP, No more Add-On Amazon Counter Expansion Amazon acquires digital health start-up Health Navigator  Amazon Launches Premium Gin “Tovess”  Amazon charges brands for slots in holiday catalog  Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan by Franklin Foer of  The Atlantic Is Amazon Unstoppable? New Yorker Charles Duhigg Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 194 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday October 25th, 2019. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Automated Transcription of the show Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 194 being recorded on Thursday October 24th, 2019 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott your listeners Jason I want to start us off with a deeply, personal question of personal nature and I know this is private awkward to just jump into on a podcast but do you have your episode 9 Star Wars tickets yet they just went on sale. Jason: [0:57] I know they went on sale I do not have them and I know you're probably mad at me. Scot: [1:04] I'm not because I got you an extra ticket so all you have to do is buy a plane ticket to RDU and you can come watch it with me. Jason: [1:13] Is as likely I'll be in RDU as a Chicago on that day so it's a December. Scot: [1:20] But it's an open offer to so if you have a hard time getting tickets let me know. Jason: [1:24] Yeah I just not a good enough plan or to know that I could get a babysitter on December 20th so we didn't buy tickets and I have to admit a total Star Wars newbie move I'm somewhere when the tickets went for sale and I got like a push notification on my phone and I'm like. Wait how did I miss this is the movie about to be released and I missed it. Of course it's there selling tickets 2 months early. Scot: [1:50] Come on dude that's that's embarrassing. Jason: [1:52] I'm going to edit that out of the podcast so people think I'm cooler like you are. Scot: [1:58] Speaking of Star Wars the even before then we have a big event the new series Mandalorian premiers on it's kind of one of the launch pieces of content for Disney plus that comes out November 12th so is Star Wars fans are going to have to big drops Within what is that like 40 days so it's going to be pretty exciting and rise of Skywalker so it's going to be exciting frothy times for Star Wars fans. Jason: [2:26] Yeah it is for sure there's a I feels like that watch is going to be successful for a variety of reasons I know you wouldn't read the trade press that my company poo Bose S1 the marketing contract Market Disney blessed so so I've been inundated and surrounded by Disney plus content. Scot: [2:49] Rico does that mean we can see the content early his friends Acres. Jason: [2:53] No I haven't when I say surrounded by Disney content I mean promotional mix actual show content unfortunately yeah yeah I'll be somewhere with you on November 12th. Scot: [3:06] But this is not a Star Wars podcast if this is your first time you listen to it she may be confused this is actually a retail e-commerce podcast Jason. It's a well-known for your sisters know that Jason has I think 50 different Alexa devices in his house did you jump in on the new Alexa faucet. Jason: [3:26] Yes I am staring at so this is not an Amazon product has a third-party product but I am staring at a box from Delta faucet right now which is the Alexa upgrade for my digital kitchen sink. Scot: [3:42] So what commands does it know on off. Jason: [3:45] Yeah so I'm a I'm utterly convinced this is going to be the least useful home automation product I've ever owned but I have. Scot: [3:53] The Alexa toilet. Jason: [3:54] But I had to have it yeah. Like when you hear about it you're like oh my god do I really need Alexa to flush a toilet Siri is, it's a it's an it's a very expensive way to put on an Alexa device in your bathroom and the hope is that we control music lights and your shower in your bathroom which kind of makes sense right like walk in and have some some music playing in the the proper lights and have your shower preheat so you can get in when it's Altos. Scot: [4:29] Does the music come out of the toilet. Jason: [4:31] It does not. Scot: [4:33] Wait are you talking about substance use are you talking about the faucet of the toilet. Jason: [4:38] I was so I was given into the toilet because you went there. And that the toilets are these Kohler toilets that are few that have an Alexa embedded in them in the one that's most like. Talked about because it's so ridiculous there is a $10,000 toilet that has the additional amenity of it has a motorized widtsoe in addition to flushing the toilet Canon fax. Put the way it up and down by voice commands and it also has a multicolor LED so you can set your own color scheme for your toilet. Scot: [5:14] Brickell and then tell us more about the faucet. Jason: [5:17] Yeah to the faucet is a Delta products and. It lets you so you can turn off and on the faucet you can specify a water temperature like not a specific degrees but you can say, hot water or cold water and then you can specify a volume so you can say like Alexa fill the Delta Fire ask the Delta faucet for 60 oz of water. Scot: [5:45] Pickle unfortunately the only time we can talk about it cuz once you get it installed Wii U you can't talk about it without turning the water on and off soon. Jason: [5:55] That I had to hit I had to hit mute on the device in this room like when I realized you were going to ask me about the faucet so we're safe. And yeah this is an upgrade to an already smart faucet that Delta cell so it also has like, its own website and its touch-sensitive so you so if you don't want to use voice you can touch anywhere on the metal. Fixture to turn off and on the faucet which that feature is at I have actually found to be useful and I now can't use anyone else has kitchen sink because I just touched there. Scot: [6:27] Tap it nothing happens you like what's wrong with this thing. Jason: [6:29] Yeah I've lost it. Scot: [6:31] People live in like 19 2019. Jason: [6:34] The Flintstones exactly. Scot: [6:37] Well if this is your first time listening to podcast it is not a Star Wars podcast nor is it a plumbing podcast that are actual topic du jour is an Amazon Q3 hot take it wouldn't be a Jason Scott show without talking about Amazon. Jason: [6:58] News new your margin is there opportunity. Scot: [7:06] So it was an interesting week in e-commerce we had back-to-back eBay and Amazon releases so I can want to set the table before we dig into some specifics first of all kind of the macro table is 2/3 is really important in the world of e-commerce because it's leading quarter into the all-important fourth quarter which is the holiday quarter I'm in still is true even though Amazon has Prime day and and, you know we don't see any of these like Toys R Us anymore and that separates each category where you had like seventy 80% of of their business done in Q4 but we still all retail Ducey a super sized before so it's very important time frame and so we like to we like to kind of it also kicks off kind of our holiday coverage on the podcast so kind of read the tea leaves a few 3 and then we're going to start to get some of the forecast of holiday coming in and then that'll see us up to then talk about the results of things like singles day and then Black Friday Cyber Monday and and all that good stuff Scot of the kick-off the holiday season oddly enough even though you know I'm here in October doesn't feel like we're quite that yet there yet here they make you jealous Jason here in North Carolina we had like an 85 degree day so it doesn't feel Christmassy but definitely right around the corner. Jason: [8:29] But you are drinking like a peppermint latte right. Scot: [8:32] No not yet not yet wait till have to wait till after Halloween to get in the spirit. To eBay announced yesterday and Amazon announced today and personal a quick disclaimer when we when we talk about these kind of financial results on the Jason Scott show we always like to go with a constant currency measures in and US results it doesn't matter but when Amazon eBay these other folks announce International you could talk about euros and then you weren't that $2 but that that exposes the results to the degrees of currency changes so currency constant currency you look at Euros vs Euros or basis vs. bases whenever the currency is so it's more true indication of actual growth rate of the company's stripping out the the different currency exchange rates between periods in the retail we always look at your rear because of the all the seasons that we have in retail okay that being said eBay was interesting because you had to set up the air oven September the CEO kind of shockingly announced his departure and I think use Twitter as the platform for that one Island usually got a lot of Co departures lately. [9:42] Olive public companies Under Armour for example I'm had one as well so see you there Devin when he got out of line with the board board wants to break parts of eBay further apart so that the kind of obviously split out PayPal about a year-and-a-half ago now and I think the board wants to split out there classifieds Division and StubHub and then Devon didn't wasn't on board with that so they have split up it's always scary when someone leaves a company kind of before the quarters announced so there's little bit of pins and needles going on around what's going on inside of their and if shirt off eBay has been on a little bit of a decline and their gmv went into negative territory on a year-over-year growth rate to - 5% a year ago their year-ago comparisons of Q3 at 18217 was plus 5% that's a 10% swing of a really really. Free large pool of Jim be there so you be as losing share and you know there's the world of eBay there's a lot of different reasons why I kind of feel like Amazon is a nut reason for that, eBay definitely kind of place that more value on a consumer in Amazon the convenience ring consumer the bifurcation we talked a lot about on the show so there is a world there's room for eBay I just think they're not really executing really well and they are distracted by a lot of these kind of corporate. [11:05] Mechanics that they're dealing with like the split of eBay PayPal and now StubHub and I was going to stop so heading so so that was kind of little bit of a Dark Cloud over the world of e-commerce and uneven retail and then today we had Amazon and the set of four Amazon is they announced that they were taking Prime from two day service level to one day in April and they even talk about how you know there's something like fifty million Prime eligible products and they talk about how, I'm each quarter they would add 10 to 12 million products into the one-day Prime bucket, and it's clearly on the site you know you when you add something to your car even before then you you can see if its 2 day primer one day Prime Saudi Amazon has been doing is turning that dial and trying to get the bulk of the Prime eligible products to be one day instead of just today so. So that that's interesting and you know what so it's listed in the results so the. Jason: [12:08] I was just going to say one fun fact before you jump into the actual Amazon results about eBay CEOs another one of the surprising CEO changes last week was Mark Parker the CEO of Nike. Announced that he was stepping down in the the reason I bring that up is his replacement was announced who is John Donohue who I think used to be a CEO at eBay. Scot: [12:34] Yeah it's Donohoe and it's really interesting cuz the CFO of eBay in John's regime is now the CEO of Intel so it's kind of funny I oddly I'm not a name-dropper in but I have like a Forrest Gump weird thing where I have met some folks there but they miss so I now know the CEO of Nike and until. Jason: [12:56] That's not remotely surprising to me but very cool. Scot: [13:00] Feels feels odd and here I am wearing Crocs so mean I need to get some Nikes. Star Wars Crocs that stick their own brand for me digging in the Amazons Q3 results the good news so it's kind of a good-news-bad-news kind of thing the good news is one day Prime has really accelerated to man so urea revenue for Amazon grew 24% in the third quarter and here's kind of the trajectory so the first quarter and then you ask this so this is North America the growth was 17% and then Q to 20% and now in Q3 24%, Just 4 percentage points higher than Q2 and so that that's pretty impressive and then internationally also saw acceleration to 21% so when you pull in those together Amazon grew about 20 to 23%. [13:54] The international progression goes to one of this year's 16% and then 17% and noun in Q3 21% sewing, also about a 4% acceleration on the international side another metric that we look at really closely as Amazon talks about paid units Nicole that unit growth that's a metric that it's slow down to about 12% and it is accelerated to 22%, how much is it straight in the last 2 years so so kind of packaging that together consumers love when they Prime and it is actually accelerated demand materially for free Amazon which I think is really good Top Line set up going into holiday now the bad news is this just comes at a pretty steep cost because you know his listeners know the difference between if you went to your your any carrier and you said what's the difference in price between 1 and 2 day shipping. [14:51] Quite pricey right so Amazon profits were down 26% on a year-over-year basis and that created a headwind on wall Street's bottom-line estimates because shipping cost effectively Groove 46%. This this makes a lot of sense and you know an Amazon philosophy that, that we talked about on the show but I live everyday is the Amazon philosophy is first figure out the man and then you can figure out the cost and. I'm doing this on a daily basis and it really work so if you can go put a product out there and get a lot of demand for it, decreased scale and scale is how do you drive the per-unit cost down it's hard to solve that equation at the same time so so I have a lot of confidence that these are one-time cost and we also see is an Amazon doesn't report this will see a little bit later you know in and you talk a lot about this Jason is we're getting to somewhere around half of the package has been delivered are Amazon delivering them and I think that's what they're going to do I think I think as that goes to 100% that's how they're going to get the cost down is by using that driver Network that they filled up, taking the third party shippers increasingly out and which is better user experience and War costume. Jason: [16:12] The interesting Lee they were to ask what the the ratio of Amazon deliver packages to carrier deliver packages was on their earnings call and they sort of coyly dodged the answer to that. Scot: [16:25] Yeah some people report on it I'm not exactly sure where they're getting their data so it's it's interesting but I can save for me you know what when you order from Amazon and look at the tracking number she can tell if it's a FedEx UPS USPS or are UPS never see FedEx any more rarely ups and, you may be 20% USPS so I'm almost at like 70% Amazon delivery 80%. Jason: [16:54] Also very high maintenance before but Chicago is a a test market and so we've had, Amazon doing their own deliveries along before that was a program they rolled out and we we've actually had one like all my Amazon packages are one day so. And it's like there still are some some ups and USPS deliveries but the overwhelming majority of of mine are Amazon carriers and I think you're right like so Amazon hasn't disclosed the exact breakdown but there are a couple of these companies that scrape. Email boxes. And so that's all you 1010 data and rocket on a data which intelligence which you speak sliced and we talked about in the show but they reported like quite, quite significant growth in the the the Amazon delivery percentage in I'm I'm sure at the end of Q3 it's even much. Scot: [17:59] So what you would call in Wall Street parlance what you call this quarter is a top-line beat in a bottom line Miss so specifically the bottom line and there's a couple different ways to look at this there's this guy property income earnings per share Yap operating income came in at 316 billion which was 2% below while she's consensus and EPS was $4.31 per share versus the street estimate of 4 56 now it's interesting is Amazon print out their own guidance and Wall Street and crap that up and kind of didn't listen to Amazon Amazon it tried to tell everyone last quarter hey this one day Prime things kind of expensive so. [18:37] We're lowering our ups and while she kind of said that they were wrong Amazon, I'm after hours this caused the stock to slide pretty significantly started judge after hours things like I'll look tomorrow and see what's going on, I bruised down as much as 9% and of course you know everyone was jumping with Glee that that Bezos because of that slide was no longer Richest Man that, Bill Gates was back on top and see how that goes, another kind of cause for concern was Amazon also in the current quarter they they tell you what their projection is for next quarter and their guidance was a midpoint on the revenue side that was below what Wall Street had estimated, about my belt for billion that sounds like a huge amount but at Amazon scale couple points percentage points so specifically the guidance was a bottom range of 8 revenue for sale 80 billion to 86.5 billion - 83 and a quarter billion. [19:47] That place at 15% growth rate and that was all she did kind of thought it would be about a 20%, to hear so it's I put out a lot of data there until let's go back up to 30,000 feet I've been falling Amazon for a good 15 plus years there lies pretty prudent going to queue for cuz you do have you know sitting here today we know the consumers in pretty good shape to condoms in pretty good shape but we got a lot of potential negatives out there around these terrorists and and there's a lot of sessions coming in, like noise in the market so it's always prudent to be pretty conservative going to queue for especially because it is such a big quarter but you know I'm going to go ahead and call it as a side from some externality that that I can't see I think they're just going to Absolute blow that away that midpoint in and I think I think even the top of the range is pretty conservative because you know what. [20:47] What you see in Q3 is it's really clear consumers a loved one day Prime its accelerated this business and it was really amazing to me is 300 billion dollar business accelerating its Revenue up to 23% yeah I don't think I ever seen anything like that Walmart is kind of just this kind of General size and growing Buttes low-single digits like you know for Walmart to accelerate their business to 24% if something like that after like add 24% more stores or their e-commerce would have to go up like math is probably like 300% or something like that so we've never seen a company scale like this I'm in the world of retail now some of the pure digital companies like a Facebook a Microsoft hey Google they've had periods of acceleration like this but never a company that has you where houses and shipping products in these kinds of things it's pretty crazy I'm so kind of help. [21:49] We talk about such a big numbers I always kind of like to try to ground it and something we can all kind of get our mental image around since here's my stab at that most will see if the Slants with you so, Amazon is forecasting about an 80 billion dollar fourth-quarter each percent they grow in their. 800 million JCPenney is they do 3 billion a quarter so effectively each 4% than Amazon grows in court 4th quarter is a JCPenney, I didn't Tire JCPenney so yo at like a 24% growth like let's say their growth is straight line from Q3 to Q4 and its 24% that is. [22:32] That's essentially six JCPenney's that that Amazon's going to have you no incrementally take out of the market if they grow that much your rear so last thought if you if you kind of piece this together and you look at Amazon's growth trajectory here's kind of what 2019 looks like let me see if you can pick out the dew point that doesn't really kind of fit in here so q1 they did 17% year-over-year growth due to 19%. [23:01] Q3 22% now they're saying oq for is going to be 15% do we really think Amazon's going to slow down to their slowest quarter in the fourth quarter after they spent all this money and time getting everything to one day Prime, he actually kind of look at that Trend you could kind of say well I could see that it could be 23 24% so, so the last thought is Wall Street is really fickle right now so eBay did better on the bottom line but didn't show growth that punished Amazon showed tremendous growth at the scale punished so young, when the world saying you're kind of in a lose-lose situation you might as well just kind of like rip the Band-Aid off and be super conservative out there and what I think's got the market in this choppy Waters is the the rough IPOs that have come out from Uber and Lyft and withdrawals of IPOs and then we work is got a whole Market on a spooked and let you know this company set to go public at something like you have 50 billion dollars and now it just had to raise Capital at 8 billion dollars to a bottom-line Bill Gates I know you'd listen to the podcast and so does Jeff Bezos don't worry Jeff I think you'll be back on top of Bill here shortly. Jason: [24:15] As you're saying that I'm getting like Iams from Bill and he's like pointing out dude I'm trying to give away all my money so. Scot: [24:24] She's stroking $500 checks here and there so yeah he's doing his best. Jason: [24:28] Exactly so I don't I'm not sure it is his aspiration to stay out of jail so that was quite the earnings call, I am. I'm with you on the revenue side for sure it seems like, one day shipping is going to drive a lot of incremental revenue for Q4, I guess the bigger question is like half how expensive that will be in it and you know it is there a commensurate drag down on earnings as a result of a lot more expensive deliveries for Q. Scot: [25:04] Yeah they framed that on the call I forget the exact amount but they did put in a pretty. Jason: [25:10] It's a big number is 1.5. Scot: [25:12] Pretty big number and I I suspect you know that number is the number if they had 24% growth and they put in 15 but yard is they have a blowout quarter I think they could have a blowout bottom line now I think what we'll see Amazon thing on a 10-year chunks I think over the next five years you're going to see them in criminally you'll get those they will figure out a way to get one day Prime to cost the same as two different and get it to scale first but then what's going to be killer is once they figure that out then they can probably just turn the dial on same day Prime, and probably without too much cost. It's not going to be as big of a jump it probably like half or less the jump from two to one day the same day I'm so so if you listen to this in your thinking how do I compete with Amazon that's that's what you're up against you know so they're they're going to be because they know that this is. So clearly created so much demand for consumers they're going to continue to turn the dial on on this in a lowering the the shipping time on Prime, and clean more and more season 2. Jason: [26:20] That. Hundred percent agree I feel like the they're very confident didn't however much pain it takes them to get to one day shipping if it will be orders of magnitude more painful for anyone else to match them cuz no one has close to there there's a film in infrastructure right so you know if if they give themselves a cold by doing this like they're giving their competitors Ebola. So very good play there was an interesting comment from Bezos he was playing up the fact that one day delivery is greener than two day delivery. Which it was not immediately intuitive but what he saying is, ultimately the only way we'll will cost-effectively get to one day delivery everywhere is. Way better Logistics and staging more of what people want closer to those people like it just not going to be possible to put stuff on planes everyday. For next day delivery and so, so his you know it it's for your point it seems like they're just investing in the infrastructure to Stage more Goods closer to customers and get them there quickly. Via cost-effective delivery mechanisms mostly their own sew-in the interns chimed in while while you were chatting in the but that data point we had from rocket on intelligence has Amazon at 47% of their own packages so just. Scot: [27:48] Daniel is kind of round hat that's a little bit I haven't seen an update that and it's it's kind of like the spring so. Jason: [27:55] Ya no soy it very likely has passed and that that update still have 1.6% of packages being delivered by FedEx which is no zero so yeah so. Yeah all interesting stuff that one of the things I knows about the earnings call they hired a hundred thousand people in Q3. Which is a big number and it's very likely that a lot of those people are. Delivery drivers and extra shifts in warehouses. Scot: [28:29] Those are 1099 they wouldn't show up in here I got to get spyware house and they're adding to AWS like crazy right now. Jason: [28:35] Yeah but that's so not all delivery drivers are 1099 so for example a lot of the the Chicago delivery Force are W-2 employees. So there. Scot: [28:47] Hi some Union thing. Jason: [28:48] There's a blend. I'm getting there as that has all the teachers on strike here in Chicago this week but yeah so huge hiring thing, and Sebastian I'm from Baird like he called that hiring number the most surprising metric in the room, I always like to keep an eye on the brick-and-mortar number which in the overall scheme of Amazon isn't isn't a. Is usually financially relevant number but it is interesting because it is. Absolutely going down. The rate of growth is like brick-and-mortar sales than Amazon actually declined and when we say brick-and-mortar sales what we're really saying is Whole Foods because the rest of the Amazon free is in. Really economically significant enough to impact the Whole Foods numbers so whole food sales are lower today than they were in 2017 when Amazon acquired them which is pretty interesting. And obviously there's a lot of Buzz about some new retail formats that are you seem like they're very close to opening and you know I've been speculating that there's a new grocery format that's going to open in Los Angeles here imminently. Going to be interesting to see. [30:04] What they do because you know is we both of observed Amazon doesn't always win with their first effort in something but you know they also don't tend to tuck their tails between their legs and retreat. [30:20] So that's going to be big you mention AWS that is also a declining its growth rate which you know. Pretty prodigious so they were they grew at 37% last quarter and then they drop down to 35%. Let you know there's a method gets repeated too much that all of Amazon's profit is AWS that's not true retail is profitable but but AWS is the, biggest contributor to profit and so is the fact that it still growing at 35%. Is certainly very robust and obviously the law of large numbers is that you would expect that rate of growth. To be slowing and what's interesting is you know they have two competitors Google and Microsoft who they sort of had a six-year Head Start Over. Until they have much bigger share than either of those two competitors we've actually seen those competitors. Rates of growth which are you know they're much smaller business is slow and worse than Amazon so it seems like. There's a little bit of plateauing in these cloud services and it's you know in Amazon is the least affected by that Plateau so. Yeah I would call that mostly positive signs for them. [31:39] I know you are a big fan of the marketplace side at. The Amazon business and you know that the marketplace sellers have for awhile accounted for over half of all sales. On Amazon but the it seems like the Knicks slightly to Klein this quarter so it went from. [32:00] 54% last quarter at to 53% this quarter and I'm assuming that's because. 100% of Amazon stuff is probably one day Prime and a lot of the and in some you know a significant amount of the. The 3p is not one day Prime and so the the. Shift to one day Prime probably uses a first-party sales a little bit disproportionate. And then the last thing that I always like to follow in his earnings calls is the advertising business right and so this is you saw the famous we listed as other in an Amazon parlance but other Groove 45%, so that was 3.6 billion dollars in Revenue in the quarter and Brian the CFO like answered a question about ad revenue and he kind of. Confirmed what we had all been saying other revenue is principally advertising advertising grew at 45% and you know. Advertising is the biggest part of other in fact, advertising had to grow bigger than 45% to cause other overall to grow at 45% so so the ad piece of business and Amazon is actually growing even bigger than 45%. Scot: [33:28] Yeah there's some kind of in this kind of rough on the add thing there was a couple reports out there is a is this a competitor of yours or part of your sperm dick Merkel put out some stuff about, yes I'm trans they saw I thought it was even more interesting though emarketer had a report out where, for the first time that I've seen how you can fax at me on this they did talk about search ownership or search. Pie chart of of search this kind of always been boring look at this cuz it's kind of like Google it 90% then you have like a little bit of Microsoft in a little bit of Verizon and like you know ask to use her ass or something like that so for the first time Amazon is listed as number 2 with about 13% share of search I'm So it seems like there now, expanding the definition of search from what we would think of is that you know that you know ask Google anything kind of a search to include product search and when you do that Amazon has cross the materiality threshold we've all known this because there's been surveys that just look at product search and Amazon's ahead of Google in that so this is another kind of interesting Awakening out there in the ad world that you know Amazon is actually compete with Google and it really interesting way that a lot. Jason: [34:54] Oh yeah and I think it's very clear that Amazon is taking advertising dollars from Google the. Like I am slightly skeptical about some of the like surveys that say, Amazon is leading Google in product search cuz I would just point out those tend to be tiny surveys of i2000 users and they're just kind of these like silly stated surveys like they just ask people and nobody has a consistent definition of what a product search is right so if if I die Pizza. [35:28] Is that in your definition of a product search or searching for a product of pizza you know there's a lot more pizza searches that happened on Google then that happened on Amazon, so you don't really have Amazon surpass Google you have to have a pretty narrow definition of product but but I absolutely think like. In that narrow definition Amazon is very big they're generating a bunch of dollars those daughters are clearly coming from Google and what super interesting to me is. Amazon actually had their first. Conference for advertisers this year is very beginning of October 2nd and 3rd in in Seattle and the big take away from this conference was. That they don't just want to be a search advertising engine so that the huge Focus was, I9 using Amazon for what we would call top of funnel advertising so like high-level brand-building not just the very specific product searches. And you know they're they're one of the biggest media properties out there with traffic to Amazon and all their video properties and everything else so it's. It's a little bit of stretch but it's it's totally credible that you know Amazon has it set set not just on Google's product search but on it so it's entire at business. Scot: [36:47] Anderson. Jason: [36:49] So that being said there's actually a fair amount of other interesting Amazon news over the last couple weeks that we should we should cover briefly. I mention Amazon had their their first advertising con conference adcon. So that's interesting you know Amazon's conference for for AWS is actually quite big event now so it won't surprise me to see this advertising show start to expand dramatically as well. I actually saw an interesting article this week from a former guest of our show and I I'm going to Massacre Joe's last name do you know how to pronounce it properly. Scot: [37:30] Concha. Jason: [37:31] Yes we're going to call in a joke a and he'd been studying all the private labels on Amazon and he noticed that like, 32 of the hundred apparel brands that Amazon has launched are no longer for sale on Amazon so it sort of highlighting the fact that that a lot of those. Those like quickly launched house Brands like don't appear to have a lot of legs in the Amazon has has taken them down which is interesting. [38:02] Another news item that really caught my eye first written about by Jason Delray and then confirmed on the earnings call today. It seems like Amazon is scaling way back on. Sort of enforcing what they historically have called crap which is the acronym for can't realize a profit. You know historically Amazon you know his put a lot of pressure on manufacturers to make products profitable of the cell and what that usually means is. They don't want to sell items that are difficult to ship and that are inexpensive so you can't buy a single roll of paper towels for example that you don't cost $2 and it's pretty Bowl. [38:43] And historically they would do things like at make that an add-on only sale that you can only add to a box when you had a bunch of other stuff in the box or they'd asked the manufacturer to provide a bigger bundle or things like that, and it now seems like Amazon is much more content. To sell one or two dollar items and include them in the Amazon Prime one-day shipping. Into it a lot of items that were formerly add-on only are now available for sale with free shipping witch. You again says that like Amazon appears to be willing to forego some profitability in exchange for. Fulfilling customer to man and catching more more share your point earlier. And I assume that the strategy is you get a big enough share of wallet you do a bunch of deliveries they all become much more cost-effective I just you know habitualized in the customer to buy everything from you. [39:40] Amazon has been expanding this program they call Amazon counter so there now a bunch of retailers in addition to Kohl's with that you can. [39:50] Have your packages shipped to and pick up so Rite Aid is in there. A number of other retailers are now providing the amenity of letting you ship Amazon packages to their store and come pick them up there. So that's an interesting play I think just today Amazon announced that they bought a new health company which is called Health Navigator. So listeners may remember that Amazon bought pillpack a couple years ago so this is a second acquisition in this space and my understanding is that Health Navigator is primarily like. Online symptom checking in remote diagnosis so. It sounds like some sort of friend in tool that you could imagine Amazon building into a future health offering and you know Amazon is already announced that they're doing a health pilot for their employees and they said they'll use this as part of the. The offering for their own place so it seems like there as everyone expects continuing to invest in hell. The most interesting private labeling as when I seen from Amazon in a while as a product I wouldn't have necessarily expected them to private label they launched their own, brand of gin last week so we may have to do a, a test on on the shelf or whenever episode Scott but they invented a new brand called tovis in their they're now selling their own premium gin. Scot: [41:12] Yep seems like a deep dive we could tied into a fun drinking game. Jason: [41:15] Exactly I'm sure they're already are some bad drinking games for a podcast drink every time Jason says um for example would be a good one and I just got two drinks right there so. When they got a bunch of Buzz that I don't think it's so surprising Amazon prints this a holiday catalog every year physical catalog that you know mostly focuses on what all the hot toys are going to be and it came to light that Amazon sells slots on the internet catalog so you can you no pay to have your product listed as the hot hot toys for the holiday. Retail have been doing that for a long time it's not super surprising the the slight Nuance here is when someone buys an ad on amazon.com, Amazon does the note that is a paid at like they they put a sponsor badge on it and the catalog. Doesn't have a disclaimer like that so it does sort of look like Amazon's claiming its editorial content and so you know it may surprise some listeners or viewers to know that they could. [42:19] That a lot of the products in that catalog to be in there because the the manufacturer paid for them. And then the the final thing that I think it's worth pointing out to our listeners is there were two really interesting long-form articles. [42:35] Primarily about Amazon and maybe even more about Jeff Bezos that came out in the last couple of weeks it's all put links in the show nose to both of them but one of them is called Jeff Bezos master plan. And that was in the Atlantic and there's a really long form article kind of talking about. The five phases of Jeff Bezos Evolution from juice or pre Amazon aged. Sort of his is space in Hollywood age today and that it's a really interesting Deep dive into some of his personality traits and how they've helped. Help the company grow and then there was also a really long expose in the New Yorker that was called is Amazon Unstoppable. And you know the big Travis there was Amazon is dominant not because they have a particularly you know a single. Interesting product or capability or piece of Ip that the real secret sauce on Amazon, is the Amazon culture and the business process that they've adopted and so it it focuses a lot on Jeff in the leadership style and the culture and process that they didn't still on the premises. Did that that culture has served them really well to dominate a bunch of different Industries so both really good reads if you haven't. Scot: [43:54] Yeah the spoiler alert the answer is Amazon's probably Unstoppable. Jason: [43:59] Yeah I think that might be the conclusion they're both a little balance so they both like in Meijer lot of Jeff Bezos traits and they also probably point out some. Some things that like some of us might be was personality flaws so I'll leave it to the two listeners to draw their own conclusions but. They're pretty interesting and Scott that's going to be a good place to leave it cuz we've slightly surpassed the amount of time that we budgeted for tonight show but as always is we've spawned a question or comment feel free to continue the conversation on Facebook or Twitter and as always if this is the show that finally got you over the hump we'd love it if you jump over to iTunes and give us that five star review that's really the best way to thank us for producing all this content. Scot: [44:46] Things are what we hope you've enjoyed this Q3 Amazon hot take. Jason: [44:52] And until next time happy commercing.

The controversial theory linking Roe v. Wade to a massive crime drop is back in the spotlight as several states introduce abortion restrictions. Steve Levitt and John Donohue discuss their original research, the challenges to its legitimacy, and their updated analysis. Also: what this means for abortion policy, crime policy, and having intelligent conversations about contentious topics.Commercial free broadcast from July 13, 2019 on the Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network, online at heartlandnewsfeed.com, Spreaker and other platforms.Listen Live: https://www.heartlandnewsfeed.com/listenliveFollow us on social mediaFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/hlnfradionetworkTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/HLNF_BulletinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/heartlandnewsfeedMastadon: https://liberdon.com/@heartlandnewsfeedDiscord: https://discord.gg/6b6u6DTSupport us with your financial supportStreamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/heartlandmediaPayPal: https://www.paypal.me/heartlandmediaSquare Cash: https://cash.app/$heartlandnewsfeedPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/heartlandnewsfeedCrypto via 1UpCoin: https://1upcoin.com/donate/heartlandmediaBusiness contact: jake.leonard@heartlandnewsfeed.com

The controversial theory linking Roe v. Wade to a massive crime drop is back in the spotlight as several states introduce abortion restrictions. Steve Levitt and John Donohue discuss their original research, the challenges to its legitimacy, and their updated analysis. Also: what this means for abortion policy, crime policy, and having intelligent conversations about contentious topics.

In today's episode of Malts in Your Mouth the boys have a sip of something different from Seattle Cider. Then, the boys delve into the epic journey of John Donohue and the greatest beer run of all time. All this and more on this episode of Malts in Your Mouth!

All The Restaurants In New York as per John Donohue on this perNYC episode! This time around on perNYC we talk with the illustrative John - a father, artist, writer, and very lucky person who happens to own the website that is his first name and last name dot com who quote unquote “ draws from life in ink”. All The Restaurants In New York is "a never-ending visual exploration of New York City's culinary offerings" in book, print and digital form. Tune in to learn about publishing, books, New York, illustrating, ink, drawing, places, travel, careers, strategy, interviewing, food, winter, summer, artists, journalism, and more.  perNYC is the “MUST LISTEN NOW" podcast really exploring NYC creations as per their creators. Also now, you can help perNYC grow by listening to more episodes, leaving a review, spreading the word about us, messaging trusty host Jennifer, recommending a creator or creation, coming onto the show and engaging with our websites at www.perNYC.com or @perNYC or @perNYC or @perjennifer More All The Restaurants In New York? alltherestaurants.com

We talk to Stanford law professor and economist John Donohue who for the better part of the last 20 years has been doing research into understanding gun violence.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Talking About Guns with guest John Donohue III" Stanford Law Professor John J. Donohue III joins us for a conversation about gun violence in America, and how the law is developing in the wake of mass shootings in Florida and Nevada. Originally aired on SiriusXM on March 3, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Talking about guns with guest John Donohue III" Stanford Law Professor John J. Donohue III joins us for a conversation about gun violence in America, and how the law is developing in the wake of mass shootings in Texas and Nevada and five years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings in Newtown, Connecticut Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 9, 2017.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Talking about guns with guest John Donohue III" Stanford Law Professor John J. Donohue III joins us for a conversation about gun violence in America, and how the law is developing in the wake of mass shootings in Texas and Nevada and five years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings in Newtown, Connecticut Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 9, 2017.

2:13: Approaching 200 homicides in 2017 already, Baltimore remains one of the most violent cities per capita in the country. One of those pushing the mayor and police commissioner to do more — or at least explain what they’re doing to reduce violent crime — is City Councilman Brandon Scott, chair of the council’s public safety committee.25:22: Do guns make us safe? A new Stanford University study throws big doubt on a classic argument of the National Rifle Association: That states with right-to-carry laws are safer and have less crime. The Stanford study of data from 1977 to 2014 found just the opposite. The lead author of that study, Stanford law professor John Donohue, joins us, along with Firmin DeBrabander, MICA professor and the author of "Do Guns Make Us Free?"Links:https://law.stanford.edu/donohue/https://www.mica.edu/About_MICA/People/Faculty/Faculty_List_by_Last_Name/Firmin_DeBrabander.html

Phosphate is a limited resource vital for global agriculture. Dr Iain Moyles and Dr John Donohue discuss their work funded by Science Foundation Ireland on mathematical modelling of nutrient flow in soil. During the podcast Iain and John describe the phosphate crisis which acknowledges that phosphorus is a limited resource and only a few countries have significant reserves of it including Morocco, China, Algeria and Syria. During their discussions on sulphur, they touch on some surprising outcomes of emissions regulations. Other talking points include the various collaborators in their research programme, the importance of mathematical modelling in science, and advice for scientists interested in collaborating with applied mathematicians or pursuing a career in the field. Recorded by GK Media Ltd.

No conversation we’ve ever done has been more beloved than this one. This Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher insisted on beauty as a human calling. He had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination with the inner landscape of our lives and with what he called “the invisible world” that is constantly intertwining what we can know and see. This was one of the last interviews he gave before his unexpected death in 2008. But John O’Donohue’s voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings.

No conversation we’ve ever done has been more beloved than this one. This Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher insisted on beauty as a human calling. He had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination with the inner landscape of our lives and with what he called “the invisible world” that is constantly intertwining what we can know and see. This was one of the last interviews he gave before his unexpected death in 2008. But John O’Donohue’s voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty.” Find more at onbeing.org.

John Donohue President and CEO of Arbella Insurance Group joins Dale, Michael, and Keefe on the first day of the 16th annual WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon. 

I’ve known John Donohue a number of years. He is a top flight coach on and off the field at Lowell High School-San Francisco where he has been the Varsity Baseball coach 31 years! So I wasn’t surprised to learn the American Baseball Coaches Association has selected him 2012 National High School, Division I Baseball Coach of the Year. A … Read more about this episode...

Dr John Donohue, Ph.D. has been working as a martial arts anthropologist and wrote his dissertation on the cultural and philosophical elements of Japanese martial arts. Today, we speak about his work as a writer and how he is working to uphold the traditions of martial arts through fiction novels. He has also compiled a book of philosophies and stories from the development of various styles of martial arts over the ages. Learn about the philosophical lessons of Kendo and how martial arts can help you in other disciplines and drastically change your life. Check out some of John Donohue's books: Fiction series: Sensei Deshi: A Martial Arts Thriller Tengu the Mountain Goblin: A Connor Burke Martial Arts Thriller Kage: The Shadow A Connor Burke Martial Arts Thriller Non-fiction books: Complete Kendo (Complete Martial Arts) Herding the Ox The Overlook Martial Arts Reader, Vol. 2 Warrior Dreams: The Martial Arts and the American Imagination

This week on Snacky Tunes, John Donohue, author of “Man with a Pan” comes on to discuss what challenges men are faced with as they take on the responsibility for cooking for their family. Find out how to be a better dad-chef from The Man with a Pan himself. Later on the show, Travis Hayden, founder of Our Label Records talks about what it takes to get your music out to the world in 2011. This episode was sponsored by Just Food & The City Chicken Project.

Just in time for AGDQ, we welcome John Donohue on the show to talk about speedrunning, the appeal of the spectacle, and the way it creates a uniquely cooperative social space!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsWant to advertise on this podcast? Go to https://redcircle.com/brands and sign up.