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"Put me next to you at your darkest moment, Mr. Uber Driver." The entire crew reveals their Uber ratings: Does anyone have a perfect rating? Who has the worst? Who will make The Dot Nine Crew™? What would Kon, Kager, Kinston, Kash, Kid, and the rest of The Flying Knueppel's ratings be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I dag - og kun i dag, kan du hos Guldægget få dig en Trump "kvajekage". Vi fik en snak med indehaver Mark Mikkelsen om den lille gimmick i anledningen af indsættelsen af Trump som præsident i USA.

A new MP3 sermon from Fredericksburg Bible Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Bob Kager Funeral Service Subtitle: Single Topic Speaker: Alex Garcia Broadcaster: Fredericksburg Bible Church Event: Funeral Service Date: 1/2/2025 Length: 30 min.

De Nederlandse schrijfster Maria Kager heeft de Bronzen Uil 2024 gewonnen met haar debuutroman 'De buitengewoon geslaagde opvoeding van Frida Wolf'. Deze prestigieuze prijs wordt uitgereikt voor de beste Nederlandstalige debuutroman van het afgelopen jaar. Ze ontving zowel de juryprijs als de lezersprijs, dus dat kan tellen. Maar is het boek leesbaar?

Hans Wensveen heeft geweldige ervaringen met de KaagErvaring. Nadat hij in 2022 sprak met de makers en de vrijwilligers van de fluisterboot Kaagervaring organiseerde hij dit jaar voor leden van het oogcafe in Sassenheim een tocht op de Kagerplassen. Deze fluisterboot is speciaal ontwikkeld voor mensen met een beperking en het stelt hen in staat, binnen hun mogelijkheden, te genieten van al het moois wat de Kagerplassen te bieden heeft. De steiger van de KaagErvaring ligt op het Kaag eiland en dat ligt weer in de Kager plassen. Dat dan weer te vinden is in de gemeente Kaag en Braasum. Hans ondervroeg de gasten over hun KaagErvaring.

LiteraturPur #48: Liebesehe oder Vernunftheirat - ein spannendes Thema, über das ich mit dem Schriftsteller Sunil Mann und der Psychoanalytikerin und Paartherapeutin Andrea Kager im letzten Salon LiteraturPurdiskutiert habe. Das ist der Podcast dazu.Bei uns, in der westlichen Welt, ist die Liebesehe die Norm. Die grosse Liebe finden und heiraten, das ist der Traum der meisten Menschen. Das Verlangen nach romantischer Liebe inspiriert auch die Literatur seit Jahrhunderten, ebenso den Film. Doch die Liebesehe hat ihre Tücken. Oftmals scheitert sie, wenn der Alltag einkehrt und die Glückshormone sich verzogen haben. Dann kommen die ehemals Verliebten in die Praxis von Andrea Kager. In anderen Kulturen setzt man daher auf die arrangierte Heirat. Die Eltern suchen passende Partner für ihre Kinder. Mit der Hochzeit werden zwei Familien miteinander verbunden. Das wird stärker gewichtet als Liebe. So auch in Sunil Manns Roman «In bester Absicht», da verkuppeln die Eltern eine Schweizer Ärztin mit indischen Wurzeln und einen IT Experten aus Indien miteinander. Was dabei rauskommt, ob arrangierte Ehen besser funktionieren als Liebesehen und was es mit der romantischen Liebe auf sich hat und ob nicht auch Beziehungen über Plattformen wie Tinder oder Paarship eine Art arrangiert sind, einfach durch eine Maschine, darüber reden wir.Die Angaben zum Buch: Sunil Mann «In bester Absicht» Geparden Verlag

Der skulle gå helt fra jul til næsten Skt. Hans, før vi kom ud af vores vinterhi. Men anledningen er altså også særlig: Silberbauer & Blomseth har 4-års fødselsdag. Første episode løb af stablen 20. juni 2020. Det skal fejres. Og det bliver det med en række nedslag og genbesøg af emner, som ikke har andet tilfælles end, at vi synes, at det kunne være interessant at runde dem igen. De er alle pakket godt ind — Klaus står for at pakke ud — men det kunne meget vel tænkes, at der er noget om rumfart, AI, afantasi, krigsteknologi og pandemi, behørigt krydret med afstikkere. Den eneste måde at finde ud af det på er at tage en lytter — og i øvrigt hjælpe os nærmere på de 45.000 downloads, som totalen snart lyder på. ----Det er sjovt at lave podcast, men det tager også tid og koster penge. Det eneste vi beder om til gengæld – hvis du altså kan lide det, vi laver – er at du smider stjerner, og måske oven i købet en lille anbefaling, efter os på Apple Podcast. Det betyder alverden. Vi higer jo allesammen efter anerkendelse i en eller anden form. Husk at følge os på Twitter (@silberblom), på Mastodon (@silberblom@mstdn.social) og på Instagram (silberblom).Linktree

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Annemieke Bosman praat met schrijver Maria Kager over haar debuut De buitengewoon geslaagde opvoeding van Frida Wolf.  Frida's excentrieke vader is niet geschikt voor de rol van vader en ook niet voor die van gevangenisdirecteur. Hij drinkt en rookt te veel, neemt zijn dochter mee uit stelen, geeft haar zelfverdedigingslessen met echte wapens en voelt meer affiniteit met de gedetineerden in de koepel dan met zijn collega's bij Justitie. Als het evenwicht in huis wordt verstoord door een noodlottig ongeluk, begint de gevangenis een steeds grotere rol in het gezinsleven te spelen. Jaren later vraagt Frida zich af in hoeverre de koepel haar leven heeft bepaald. Je kan het kind uit de gevangenis halen, maar hoe haal je de gevangenis uit het kind?

In deze aflevering ontvangt Atze de Vrieze schrijver en literatuurwetenschapper Maria Kager (https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/auteur/maria-kager/). Haar debuutroman De buitengewoon geslaagde opvoeding van Frida Wolf komt uit op 16 januari bij de Arbeiderspers. Maria deelt haar cultuurtips met Atze en de luisteraar.  De tips van Maria: Het boek Nachtbloeiers van Ananda Serné (https://libris.nl/boek?authortitle=ananda-serne/nachtbloeiers--9789464520187) Solito van Javier Zamora (https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/solito/9300000144752354/?Referrer=ADVNLYAH002008-3BSRLXZQRXUUC-78615272091209&msclkid=492456342b3a17efc34233960fd4119e) The New Yorker Fiction Podcast (https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction) De opera Agrippina van Händel (https://www.operaballet.nl/de-nationale-opera/2023-2024/agrippina) De Bank van Banck, (https://www.vvvschiermonnikoog.nl/zien-en-doen/bezienswaardigheden/bank-van-banck) een kunstwerk  op Schiermonnikoog De film: About Dry Grasses (https://www.filmvandaag.nl/film/133237-about-dry-grasses) Het Allard Pierson Museum (https://www.getyourguide.nl/allard-pierson-museum-l7572/?cmp=bing&ad_id=78202969684274&adgroup_id=1251244881679688&bid_match_type=bb&campaign_id=710141762&device=c&feed_item_id=&keyword=www.getyourguide.nl&loc_interest_ms=152104&loc_physical_ms=151623&match_type=b&msclkid=757d205b5e3c1b3addcf45f97dded0b7&network=o&partner_id=CD951&target_id=dat-2330002578475814&utm_adgroup=ct%3Ddsa%7Cfn%3Df1&utm_campaign=ct%3Ddsa%7Cln%3D28%3Anl%7Ctc%3Dall&utm_keyword=www.getyourguide.nl&utm_medium=paid_search&utm_query=allard%20pierson%20museum&utm_source=bing) in Amsterdam Mocht je graag een artiest, kunstenaar of maker horen in Een Uur Cultuur, of heb je zelf cultuurtips? Mail ons dan op eenuurcultuur@vpro.nl (mailto:eenuurcultuur@vpro.nl)

Bem-vindos ao ANIBRCAST, um episódio especial e solidário! Hoje, estamos engajados na Campanha Maratona Teleton 2023, uma parceria com a AACD e o SBT, onde buscamos arrecadar doações para alcançar a meta de 35 milhões de reais. Sua doação, seja de qualquer valor, é fundamental! Utilize o PIX doeteleton@aacd.org.br e faça a diferença. Às vezes, o pouco para você é o tudo para quem mais precisa. Além disso, vamos abordar temas cruciais como inclusão e acessibilidade. No episódio de hoje, recebemos Bruno Sangregorio, um profissional multifacetado: ator, dublador, diretor de dublagem, professor e sócio da Central de Dublagem (Dubrasil). Bruno é reconhecido por seus trabalhos mais conhecidos, como Levi Ackerman em Attack on Titan, Bepo em One Piece, Kagerōza Inaba em Bleach, Undertaker em Black Butler, Sr. Resplendor em Rick & Morty, Cley Cerwyn em Game of Thrones, Dr. Caleb Subramanian em The Walking Dead, Sid Goralnik em Friends, entre outros personagens. Acompanhe Bruno nas redes sociais para conhecer mais sobre seu trabalho e projetos: Instagram: brunosangregorio. Para ficar atualizado com o ANIBRCAST e nossos conteúdos: ANIBRCAST: @anibrcast Iago Rangeli: @iagorangeli Ronaldo Alves: @ronaudo_alves Confira também nossos canais no YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ANIBRCAST e https://www.youtube.com/@R7GAMESCAST Participe deste episódio especial onde a cultura pop se encontra com a solidariedade e a inclusão. Juntos, podemos fazer a diferença!

Vi smager på science fiction-relateret snacks og slik. Vi starter med Coops "UFO's".

Bodil W. Lauridsen fra GEUS er blandt andet ekspert i fortidsmuslinger – en evne, der muligvis kan bruges til at spotte unaturlige gaslækager fra havbunden omkring vores olie-/gasfelter. Der findes nemlig helt naturlige gasudsivninger fra havbunden, som er svære at skelne fra dem, der kan skyldes olie-/gasproduktionen, hvilket gør det svært at placere et ansvar for de sidstnævnte. Emil Soltau og Mathilde Lieberkind besøger Bodil for at høre om det projekt, der forsøger at løse den hovedpine.   Læs Geoviden-tema om nedlukningen af de danske olie- og gasplatforme på geoviden.dk/oliedanmark

I dag skal vi finde ud af, hvad en pass basket er for noget - det er nemlig et begreb, der dækker over hvilket kendisser, man er villig til at tilgive for nærmest alting. Vi skal finde ud af, hvem der er vi vores pass basket, hvem der er i danskernes, og om Lene Beier kan tillade sig alt her i verden, fordi hun er så dygtig og vidunderlig. Vi lancerer også en intens dækning af diverse danske gaslækager, og der viser sig at være rigtig mange - og så skal vi også forbi det grå Facebook-guld, der har taget et bemærkelsesværdigt skridt ud i virkeligheden hos Pia Kjærsgaard. Værter: Christian Bonde og Maria Fantino.

We hit it, folks! Double digits for the Engel Reviews Podcast, and we're talking all major releases this week with a returning guest! First, thank you to Kager's Alcohol-Induced Shits Therapy Services for fake sponsoring the podcast! In this episode, we start big with returning guest Caitlin Wozniak to talk all things Stranger Things Season 4. FULL SPOILERS. (4.38-51.55) Next, I review the underwhelming final chapter in the Jurassic Park franchise: Jurassic World: Dominion. (51.55-1.15.01) Finally, capping off with the brand new Pixar film spin-off Lightyear. (1.15.01-1.33.48). Make sure to rate the podcast and follow my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engelreviews/, follow my Twitter: https://twitter.com/EngelReviews, and check out my new Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_CQcvk-ZjALGsMSy78V_A

Over de næste 9 dage giver vi 1000 prøvemedlemskaber á 14 dage væk i forbindelse med lanceringen af vores nye format Ajour, der giver et overblik over de vigtigste pointer fra morgenudsendelsen. Se mere på duah.dk Hør også Kristian Ditlev Jensen og Oberst Møller Det og meget andet i dagens En Uafhængig Morgen, Danmarks uafhængige radios morgenflade. Godmorgen og velkommen til. Dagens vært er Asger Juhl Medlemmer kan lytte til udsendelsen uden reklamer i vores app - download via duah.dk/app Tidskoder:  [00:03:00] Palle Mørk er stenhugger og kunstneren bag en havfrue statue på Asaa havn // Er det efterhånden så dyrt at vise billeder af Den lille havfrue i medier, turistorganisationer og souvenir-butikker, at det simpelthen bliver vanskeligere for Danmark at promovere sig som turistland? [00:13:00] Jan Jensen, direktør i Copenhagen og Scandinavian Souvenir // Om det er efterhånden så dyrt at vise billeder af Den lille havfrue i medier, turistorganisationer og souvenir-butikker, at det simpelthen bliver vanskeligere for Danmark at promovere sig som turistland? [00:25:00] Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, forkvinde, Akademiraadet //  Om de er danskere som betaler skat en lille smule til grin, når der bliver udbetalt støtte til kunstprojekter [00:40:00] Tine Kristiansen, skoleleder på privatskolen Th. Langs Skole i Silkeborg // Om Skal skoleelever skal have lov til at sove længe [00:53:00]  Peter Kiertzner, forældre til pige i 3.g på Herlufsholm // Bliver man socialt udstødt som elev på Herlufsholm? [01:10:00] Stine Linnemann, kunstner og kandidat til borgerrepræsentationen i København for Rolig Revolution (Z) // Om Kunstfonden giver penge til et urealistisk kunstprojekt [01:29:00] Oberst Lars Møller // Om NATO [01:39:00] Kristian Ditlev Jensen, præst og forfatter // Om Kunstfonden giver penge til urealistisk kunstprojekter [01:53:00] Helle og Henrik Stub,cand.scient'er fra Københavns Universitet  // Er nyt billede af sort hul videnskabelig verdenshistorie? Producer: Barry Wesil Redaktør: Peter Schwarz-Nielsen

Soutenir et s'abonner à Neurosapiens ♥️La musique a un pouvoir dingue sur notre humeur, notre journée, notre concentration… mais quel est ce pouvoir précisément ? Quel est réellement l'impact et, on peut le dire, les bienfaits d'écouter de la musique sur notre cerveau ? Quel est le pouvoir de la musique sur votre outil le plus puissant ? Réponse dans cet épisode ! Production, animation, réalisation et illustration : Anaïs RouxInstagram : https://www.instagram.com/neurosapiens.podcast/neurosapiens.podcast@gmail.comMusique d'intro KEEP ON GOINGMusique proposée par La Musique LibreJoakim Karud - Keep On Going : https://youtu.be/lOfg0jRqaA8Joakim Karud : https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarudSources A. R. Harvey, Links between the neurobiology of oxytocin and human musicality, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2020.A. Habibi et al., Childhood music training induces change in micro and macroscopic brain structure : Results from a longitudinal study, Cerebral Cortex, 2018.Mehta, R., Zhu, R., & Cheema, A. (2012). Is noise always bad? Exploring the effects of ambient noise on creative cognition. Journal of Consumer Research, 39(4), 784-799.méthodeRitter SM, Ferguson S. Happy creativity: Listening to happy music facilitates divergent thinking. PLoS One. 2017 Sep 6;12(9):e0182210. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182210. PMID: 28877176; PMCID: PMC5587106.Salimpoor VN, Benovoy M, Larcher K, Dagher A, Zatorre RJ. Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music. Nat Neurosci. 2011 Feb;14(2):257-62. doi: 10.1038/nn.2726. Epub 2011 Jan 9. PMID: 21217764.LIU, L., & KAGER, R. (2017). Perception of tones by bilingual infants learning non-tone languages. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20(3), 561-575. doi:10.1017/S1366728916000183Liu, L., Kager, R. Enhanced music sensitivity in 9-month-old bilingual infants. Cogn Process 18, 55–65 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-016-0780-7Zatorre RJ, Salimpoor VN. From perception to pleasure: music and its neural substrates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jun 18;110 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):10430-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1301228110. Epub 2013 Jun 10. PMID: 23754373; PMCID: PMC3690607. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/neurosapiens.

About EmilyEmily is an Android engineer by day, but makes tech jokes and satires videos by night. She lives in San Francisco with two ridiculously fluffy dogs.Links: Uber: https://eng.uber.com/ Blog: https://www.emilykager.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyKager TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shmemmmy TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service is flexible, full-featured and fully managed with built in access via key-value, SQL, and full-text search. Flexible JSON documents aligned to your applications and workloads. Build faster with blazing fast in-memory performance and automated replication and scaling while reducing cost. Capella has the best price performance of any fully managed document database. Visit couchbase.com/screaminginthecloud to try Capella today for free and be up and running in three minutes with no credit card required. Couchbase Capella: make your data sing.Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle HeatWave is a new high-performance query accelerator for the Oracle MySQL Database Service, although I insist on calling it “my squirrel.” While MySQL has long been the worlds most popular open source database, shifting from transacting to analytics required way too much overhead and, ya know, work. With HeatWave you can run your OLAP and OLTP—don't ask me to pronounce those acronyms again—workloads directly from your MySQL database and eliminate the time-consuming data movement and integration work, while also performing 1100X faster than Amazon Aurora and 2.5X faster than Amazon Redshift, at a third of the cost. My thanks again to Oracle Cloud for sponsoring this ridiculous nonsense.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. Today's episode is a little bit off of the beaten path because, you know, normally we talk to folks doing things in the world of cloud. What is cloud, you ask? Great question. Whatever someone's trying to sell you that day happens to be cloud.But it usually looks like SaaS products, Platform as a Service products, Infrastructure as a Service products, with ridiculous names because no one ever really thought what that might look like to pronounce out loud. But today, we're going in a completely different direction. My guest is Emily Kager, a senior Android engineer at a small scrappy startup called Uber. Emily, thank you for joining me.Emily: Thanks for having me.Corey: So, I'm going to outright come out and say it I know remarkably little about, I don't even want to say the mobile ecosystem in general, but even Android specifically because I fell down the iPhone hole a long time ago, and platform lock-in is a very real thing. Whenever you start talking about technical things, that generally tends to sail completely past me. You're talking about things like Promises and whatnot. And it's like, oh, that sounds suspiciously close to JavaScript, a language that I cannot make sense of to save my life. And it's clear you know an awful lot about what you're doing. It's also clear, I don't know, a whole heck of a lot about that side of the universe.Emily: Well, that's good because I don't know much about the cloud.Corey: Exactly. Which sounds like well, we don't have a whole lot of points of commonality to have a show on, except for this small little thing, where recently, I decided in an attempt to recapture my lost youth and instead wound up feeling older than I ever have before, I joined the TikToks and started making small videos that I would consider humorous, but almost no one else will. And okay, great. I give it a hearty, sensible chuckle and move on, and then I start scrolling to see what else is out there. And I started encountering you, kind of a lot.And oh, my God, this is content that it's relatable, it is educational, dare I say, and most of all, it's engaging without being overbearing. And this is a new type of content creation that I hadn't really spent a lot of time with before. So, I want to talk to you about that.Emily: Awesome. I want to apologize for having to see my face as you're just scrolling throughout your day, but happy to chat about it. [laugh].Corey: No, no, it's—compared to some of the things I wind up on the TikTok algorithm, it is ridiculous. I think it's about 80% confident that I'm a lesbian for some Godforsaken reason. Which hey, power to the people. I don't think I qualify, but you know, that's just how it works. And what I found really interesting about it, what does tie it back to the world of cloud, is that a recurring theme of this show has been, since the beginning, where does the next generation of cloud-engineering-type come from?Because I've been in this space, almost 20 years, and it turns out that my path of working to help desk until you realize that you like the computers, but not so much being screamed at by the general public, then go find a unicorn job somewhere you can bluff your way into because the technical interviewer is out sick that day, and so on and so forth, isn't really a path that is A) repeatable by a whole lot of people, and B) something that exists anymore. So, how do people who are just entering the workforce now or transitioning into tech from other fields learn about this stuff? And we've had a bunch of people talking about approaches to educating people on these sorts of things, but I don't think I've ever spoken to someone who's been as effective at it in minute or less long videos as you are.Emily: That's super kind. Yeah, I think there's actually a whole discussion and joke set on TikTok of people's parents suggesting why don't you just go slide your resume under the CEOs door? Like, why don't you just go get a job [laugh] that way? I think the realities of—what year are we in? 2022? [laugh]—Corey: All year long, I'm told.Emily: Yeah, [laugh] yeah. Yeah. I think that's not going to be the reality anymore, right? You can't just go shake hands with the CEO and work your way up from the mailroom and yeah, that's not the way anymore. So yeah, I think I, you know, started just putting some feelers out, making educational content mostly about my own experiences as a change career person in the tech world.I have some, I would say interesting perspectives on how to enter the industry, you know, either through undergrad or after undergrad, so. And it's done really well. I think people are really interested in tech is a career at this point. Like, it's kind of well known that they're good jobs, well paid, and, you know, pretty, like, good work-life balance, most of the time. So yeah, the youth are interested.Corey: It's something that offers a path forward that lends itself to folks with less traditional backgrounds. For example, you have a master's degree; I have an eighth-grade education on paper. And, yes, I'm proof-positive that it is possible to get into this space and, by some definitions, excel in it without having a degree, but let's also be clear, here, I have the winds of privilege at my back, and I was stupendously lucky. It is harder to do without the credential than it is with the credential.Emily: Yep.Corey: But the credential is not required in the same way that it is if I want to be a surgeon. Yeah, you're going to spend a lot of time in either school or prison with that approach. So, you have really two paths there; one is preferable over the other. Tech, it feels like there's always more than one way to get in. And there's always, it seems, as many stories as there are people out there about how they wound up approaching their own path to it. What was yours?Emily: Yeah. First of all, it's funny, you mentioned surgeons because I actually just today saw on my ‘For You' page some surgeons sharing, you know, their own suturing techniques. And I think it's a really interesting platform even, you know, within different fields and different subsets to kind of share information and keep up to date and connect with people in your own industry. So, beyond learning how to get into [laugh] an industry, it can also be helpful for other things. But sorry, I completely forgot the original question. How—what was my path? Is that what the question was?Corey: Yeah. How did you get here is always a good question. It's the origin stories that we sometimes tell, sometimes we wind up occluding aspects of it. But I find it's helpful to tell these stories just because, if nothing else, it reaffirms to folks who are watching or listening or reading depending on how they want to consume this, that when they feel like well, I tried to get a credential and didn't succeed, or I applied for a job and didn't get it, there are other paths. There is not only one way to get there.Emily: Yeah. And I think it's also super important to talk about failures that we've had, right? So, when I was in undergrad, I was studying neuroscience and I was pre-med. And I thought I wanted to go to med school, kind of decided halfway through, I was only lukewarm about it, and I don't think med school is the type of thing that you want to feel lukewarm about as you're [laugh] approaching, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and a ten-plus year commitment to schooling and whatever else, right? So yeah, I felt very lukewarm about the whole thing.Both my parents were doctors, so I just didn't really have exposure to many other careers or job options. I'm from a pretty, like, rural area, so tech had never really [laugh] occurred to me either. So yeah, then I decided to just take a year off after undergrad, felt super lost. I think when you're 22, everything feels so important, [laugh] and you look at everyone else who already has their first job at 22, and I was like, “Wow, I'm a huge failure. I'm never going to have a job.” Which is, you know, hilarious looking back because 22-year-olds are so young. And yeah, just decided to take a year off. I worked at a nonprofit. I hated it, hated the work. Decided, like I, you know, can never do this forever.Corey: I can't do nonprofit stuff. I'm going to do for-profit stuff. And it turns out that most—when you say nonprofit, it doesn't mean what I thought. It ap—usually means, you know, something that's dedicated to a charitable cause, not, you know, a VC-backed company that doesn't know how to make any money.Emily: Yeah. I mean, it could still be very corporate at nonprofit. After that, actually—Corey: Oh, yes. Money is the root of all good as well as evil.Emily: Yeah. And I actually had a task at the nonprofit where I was sorting a ton of things in spreadsheets. And I was like, wow, it'd be easy if there was just, like, some program I could write to, like, do this. So, I actually reached out to my brother, who was a computer science nerd—affectionately—and he helped me write some, like, Excel macros, and I was like, “This is so cool.” And I ended up taking a free course, CS50, which is great, by the way, great course, super high quality from Harvard, totally free to take online.And really liked it, so I did something a little crazy and decided to just dive right in. [laugh]. And I applied to a post-bacc program to kind of take all the courses that a CS undergrad would have taken just after. And that post-bacc turned into a master's program.Corey: And here you are now on the other side of having done it. If—sort of the dangerous questions: If you had known then what you know now, would you have gone down the same path, or would you have done something different to get into the space?Emily: Yeah, I mean, I think it's hard once you've kind of made it, to be like, “I would change all this.” I think I would probably try more things in undergrad. That would be the real answer to that. It obviously would have been a lot easier and more time-efficient if I didn't have to go back to school and do something. But that being said, I don't think that getting a post-bacc or a Master's is the only way into tech; it was just my path.And I try not to… I try not to promote other paths that I don't really know much about independently, right? So—on me. So—but plenty of people are successful going through boot camps or self-teaching, even, I think they're just much more difficult paths because the reality is, like, having a degree is still definitely an easier path when you show up to an interview and you can just kind of show your piece of paper, which, for better or worse, that's the reality sometimes.Corey: My wife's a corporate attorney, so I've been law adjacent for over a decade now, and one of the things that always struck me about that field is the big law approach is you go to a top-tier law school, you wind up putting your nose to the grindstone for all three years, and you hope to get an offer at one of the big law firms. And they all keep their salaries in lockstep. I think right now they're all—they just upgraded again to $235,000 a year starting. And if you don't get one of those rare, prestigious jobs at a number of select firms, it's almost a bimodal distribution where you're making somewhere between 60 and $80,000 a year to start somewhere else. It is the one path to make big money in law as you're fresh out of school, and there are no real do-overs in most cases.So, it's easy to apply that type of thinking to tech, and it's just not true. Talking to folks who have this dream of working at Google and they finally go through the interview process. And it turns out that oh no, they froze when asked to solve Fizz Buzz, or invert a binary tree on a whiteboard, or whatever ridiculous brainteaser question they're being asked, and, “Oh, no, my life is over.” And it's, you know, you can go to, I don't know, Stripe, two blocks down the street and try again. And if that doesn't work, Microsoft, or Amazon, or go down the entire list of tech companies you've heard of and haven't heard of, and they all compensate directionally the same way. It's not a one-shot, ‘this is it' moment in the same way. And I—Emily: Yeah.Corey: —I think that's a unique thing to tech right now.Emily: Yeah, definitely. And I think a lot of kids—I say kids, but really, like, you know, 18 to 20-year-olds—Corey: Oh, believe me, after being on TikTok for a couple of weeks, let me say that every one of you are children, to my perspective. I am now Grandpa Quinn over here.Emily: [laugh]. I'll take it. Yeah, but a lot of them have reached out like, “I didn't get hired at FAANG right out of school. Is my life over? Is my career over?” And I've never worked at a FAANG. [laugh]. I'm pretty happy. I definitely think I have a successful career, and I almost think I'm better for not having gone right into it, you know?I think it can be great for some people. There's great, you know… definitely great salaries, great mentorship options, but it's not the only option. And I think maybe tech is unique in that way, but there's just so many good companies to work at, and so many great opportunities, you really don't need to go to the name brand in the same way that maybe you would have to in law. It's funny you say that because my partner is also a lawyer [laugh] and [crosstalk 00:13:00]—Corey: Oh, dear. We should start a support group of our own, on some level.Emily: I know, yeah. He just went through the whole big law recruiting thing. So, I know much about that. [laugh].Corey: It's always an experience. The way that I have found across the board as well is there's also a shared, I guess, esprit de corps almost across the industry. I mean, you are on the Android side of the world, and I historically was on the DevOps side of the universe, although now mocking cloud services—but not the way test engineers say when they use the term ‘mocking'—is what I do. But there are shared experiences that tie us together, and that's part of what I found so interesting about a lot of your content.Because yes, there is some of the deep dive stuff into Android and, cool, sails right over my head—I hear the whistling sound vaguely as it goes over—but then there's other stories about things that are unique—that are, I guess, a shared experience. For me, one of the things that tied all of tech together, regardless of where in the ecosystem you fit in, is a shared sense of being utterly intimidated to hell by the miracle of Git, where it's like, Git's entire superpower is making you feel dumb. Doesn't matter who you are, from someone who doesn't know what Git is all the way to Linus himself. Someone is go—at some point, you're going to look at it and wonder, “What the hell is going on?” It's just a question of how far you get along the path before it changes your understanding of the universe.And I wound up starting to give talks, in the before times, at front-end conferences about this, which you want to talk about dispiriting things. I would build slides like, you know, a DevOps person would: Black Helvetica text on a white slide. Everyone else has these beautifully pristine, great slides. I have 20 minutes to go.How can I fix it? Change the font to Comic Sans because if you're going to have something that looks crappy, make it look like it was intentionally so.Emily: And did it work?Corey: Oh, it worked swimmingly. It was fantastic. I like the idea of being able to reach people in different areas, no matter where they are in their journey, and one of the things that appeals to me about TikTok in general in your content in particular, is it seems like we have something of a shared perspective on, getting people's attention is required in order to teach them something, and I think we both use the same vehicle for that, which is humor.Emily: Yeah, I would agree. I think the other interesting thing I just wanted to touch on; you were talking about is, we don't really know too much about each other's fields in tech. And I think when you're talking to a younger audience, maybe who you want to get interested in tech, it's really hard to communicate all the different avenues into tech that they can take. And this is something that I'm still struggling with because I know my experience as an Android developer, a mobile developer, I probably medium I understand, you know, back end development, but I don't think I could explain to a college student why or what even is, [laugh] you know, cloud development and how they could get involved in that, or all these other fields that I just really don't know much about. And I think that's kind of what ties a lot of people in tech together as well, right? Because we know our little corners of the world, and you have to start to get comfortable with the things that you don't know. And I think that's really hard to explain to [laugh] the younger generation as you're trying to get them excited about things.Corey: Oh, yeah. And the reality, too, of what we tell people and how the world works is radically different. Like, I want to learn a technology that will absolutely last for an entire career and then some, and I want to be able to be employed anytime, anywhere, at any company. The easy slam dunk answer that I think will not change in either of our lifetimes is Microsoft Excel. It powers the world.People think I'm kidding, but it is the IDE of back-office processes and communications. If Excel were to go away or even worse, Microsoft were to change Excel's interface, people would be storming Redmond by noon.Emily: Yeah, I believe it. Yeah, you know, it's interesting, right? Like, it's hard to tell people—because people will tell to me, “Well, do you have to keep learning things?” And I'm like, “Yeah. You got to keep learning things, like, all the time.”But I don't think that should be, you know, a deterrent from the career; it's just a reality. But to try to manage, like, the fears a lot of people have coming into tech and also encouraging them to still, you know, try it, go after it, I think that's something I struggle with when I'm creating my content for—towards, like, younger people. [laugh].Corey: Today's episode is brought to you in part by our friends at MinIO the high-performance Kubernetes native object store that's built for the multi-cloud, creating a consistent data storage layer for your public cloud instances, your private cloud instances, and even your edge instances, depending upon what the heck you're defining those as, which depends probably on where you work. It's getting that unified is one of the greatest challenges facing developers and architects today. It requires S3 compatibility, enterprise-grade security and resiliency, the speed to run any workload, and the footprint to run anywhere, and that's exactly what MinIO offers. With superb read speeds in excess of 360 gigs and 100 megabyte binary that doesn't eat all the data you've gotten on the system, it's exactly what you've been looking for. Check it out today at min.io/download, and see for yourself. That's min.io/download, and be sure to tell them that I sent you.Corey: Something I found on Twitter is that among other things that Twitter has going on for it, it doesn't do nuance, it does, effectively, things that are black and white, yes or no, it's always a binary in many respects. And one of those is that, like, should—like, is passion or requirement for working in tech. And there's the, “Yes, you absolutely have to be passionate for this and power through it.” And the answer, “No, you don't need to be passionate about it's okay to do it for the money and not kill yourself working 20 hours a day.” And from my perspective, I take a more moderate stance, which is how you get both sides of that argument to hate you, but it's, I don't think you need to have this all-consuming drive for tech, but I do think you need to like it.Emily: Oh yeah.Corey: I think you need to enjoy what you're doing or it's going to feel like unmitigated toil and misery, and you will not be happy in the space. And if you're not happy, really is the rest of it all worth it?Emily: I think that applies to most careers, though, right? Like that—definitely, when I was looking to switch careers, that was the main thing I was looking for. Number one was like, you know, pretty solid salary. And number two was, do I just not hate it? [laugh]. And I think if you're doing anything and you hate it, you're going to be miserable, right?Like, even if you're doing it to make a paycheck if you actually hate every single day when you wake up in the morning and you dread, you know, going to bed because the next morning, you have to wake up and do it again, like, you're going to be miserable. But I do think, yeah, like, to your point, there's a middle ground in all this, right? You don't have to dream about tech, but I think you do have to realize that, yeah, if you're going to be in this industry for decades, you're going to have to be able to learn and be interested enough in things that, you know, learning isn't a huge slog either. So.Corey: I've never understood the folks who don't want to learn as they go through their career because it just seems like a recipe to do the same thing every year for 40 years, and then you retire with what 40 years of experience—one year experience repeated 40 times. It's a… any technology or any disruption change happens, and suddenly you're in a very uncomfortable situation when we're talking about knowledge workers.Emily: Yeah, I think people—you know, I think we talk a lot about, like, imposter syndrome in our industry right? So, I think people already feel like maybe, “I don't know anything so why would I put myself out there and learn new things?” I mean, I definitely sometimes struggle with this where I'm like, “I'm very comfortable [laugh] in, like, what I do day-to-day. I know what I'm doing.” So yeah, when you have to learn, like, a totally new language or new architecture, whatever, it can feel very overwhelming to be like, wow, I actually am, you know, super stupid. [laugh]. But it's just new things, right? You're learning new things, and—Corey: Like, “Find the imposter. Oh, no, it's me.” Yes, it's a consistent problem.Emily: But it's a really powerful thing to acknowledge that you can feel stupid and you can ask questions and you can be new to something, and that's, like, totally valid. And I started taking a new language course a year or two ago, and showing up every day and speaking a new language and feeling like an idiot, it was actually super empowering because everyone in the class is doing it, you know? We didn't know the language and we were just, you know, talking gibberish to each other, and that's fine. We were learning.Corey: The emotional highs and lows are also—they hit quickly. I have never felt smarter or dumber in a two-minute span of each other than when working on technology. It's one of those, “I will never understand how this works—oh my God, it works. I'm a genius. Just kidding. It doesn't work. Nevermind. Forget everything I just said.” It's a real emotional roller coaster.Emily: [laugh]. There's only two ends of the spectrum, right? Like, there's no middle ground in this situation. It's, “I'm a genius,” or, “I should quit and never work on technology ever again.”Corey: So, I've been experimenting on TikTok a bit and you've been on it significantly longer. You have, as of this recording, something in the direction of 65,000 followers on the TikToks. I have a bit more than that on the Twitters, which only took me a brief 14 years to do. So, great. I've noticed that as I wind up—as you hit certain inflection points on Twitter, your experience definitely changes, when—as far as just, like, the unfortunate comments coming out of the woodwork.Like, I was making fun of LinkedIn at some point, and then there was some troll comment in the comments, and I looked at who the commenter was and it was the official LinkedIn brand account. And okay, well, that's novel, but all right. I'd like to add them to my professional network on TikTok. So, there we go. But have you noticed inflection points as well, in your—experience changes on the platform as you continue to grow?Emily: Yeah. I think—I saw something once that Twitter is only fun if you have less than, like, [laugh] 5000 followers or something. So, I think we both surpassed that a while ago. And yeah, I think it can be a very interesting experience as you start to gain followers. And to be honest, like, I'm on both platforms, just to kind of make content.It's a very, like, creative outlet for me. I don't necessarily care that much about how many followers I have. But it is an interesting progression to see, like, you know, you get a little bit of engagement, and it's usually, like, a back and forth; you're kind of like actually connecting to people, and then as you kind of surpass maybe five or ten-thousand followers, there's all these people who come in who you don't know who they are, they don't know who you are, they make assumptions about you, they are saying really mean things that I think just because you have, like, a high follower account that they're like, “I can say whatever I want to this person.” And it's definitely an interesting change. I think over the years—because I've been fairly public for a number of years now—you kind of get more immune to it. I'm sure you feel the same way, but you're like, whatever, just kind of brush off a lot of these things. But—Corey: Oh, yeah. You become more of a persona to people than an actual person.Emily: Yeah.Corey: And that is—Emily: Yeah.Corey: —people forget that—you know, everyone yells at you about, “That was an unkind thing, express more empathy all the ti”—I mean, you get that all the time when you get—when set a slight foot wrong. And they're right—don't think I'm saying otherwise—but they're not expressing a lot of empathy for you at the same time, either. So, it's one of those you have to disengage and disconnect on certain levels and just start to ignore it. But it's been a wild ride.Emily: I used to wonder, I used to see, like, accounts that have you know, 50, 60,000 followers on Twitter back when I was a smaller account, and they didn't—they never tweeted, and I was like, “How'd they get so many followers? They never tweet.” And now I understand. It's that they gained that many followers and then they left. [laugh]. They're done.Corey: [unintelligible 00:23:18] like, “This platform sucks now.” And it's—a lot of folks, like, “Oh, Twitter's not as good as it used to be.” It's like, well hang on. Has the platform itself changed or has your exposure to it changed? And it's a question that doesn't really have a great answer or way to find out, but it's… it's been a—it's an ongoing struggle for folks. And I do have empathy for that. I try to avoid getting involved in pile-ons wherever possible.Emily: Yeah. That's been a new change for me, too. I think a lot of my early brand on Twitter—as dumb as that word is—was, you know, kind of finding, like, misogynists in tech and really, like, creating a pile-on on them. And, you know, I think there is a space for calling out bad behavior in the industry, but you want to be careful because really, there are other people on the other side of the screen. And unless someone's really implying—like, unless they're really intending ill intent, you know, I think I've kind of now moved less towards that type of [laugh] pile-on. It is fun though. That's the thing. It's fun.Corey: Plus the algorithm rewards engagement. Say horrifying things and get a bunch of attention and more followers. But you don't necessarily want to participate in that.Emily: Yeah, exactly. And that's the other thing I realized that if someone is really saying something stupid, me bringing attention to it is only going to amplify it more. So. Especially as you gain followers and you have more of an audience to whatever you quote, tweet, or retweet, or comment on, right? So.Corey: As I look at, like, the sheer amount of content that you've put out—it's weird because if someone asked me this question, I don't know that I would have a good answer, but I am curious. You are consistently exploring new boundaries in terms of the humor, the content, the topics, the rest. How do you come up with it?Emily: This is going to be a really unsatisfying answer. [laugh]. I don't know. [laugh]. I'm a runner, and a lot of times when I'm running I don't use headphones. A lot of people say I'm sociopathic because I just am by myself in the world, and—this is such, like, a weird answer—but yeah, I just kind of—I'm thinking about things, usually I'm like digesting my day, things that happened, things that were annoying.And to be honest, I think it's pretty easy to identify things that are relatable, right? So, a lot of the gripes that all engineers have, right? So, you're like, “Wow, it was really annoying that I had to make a ticket in Jira today.” And you can kind of think about how is it annoying, and how can I make this funny and relatable to someone else? So—and to be hon—like, when I had, you know, a group of coworkers that I worked really closely in my last job, I would just send them the jokes, and then if they thought it was funny, I would just, like, post it on Twitter.And that's kind of… you know, it's just, like, the basic chit-chat that you do. But now we're all remote, so I found an outlet through Twitter and TikTok, where I would just express all my, you know, stupid engineering jokes to the world. [laugh]. Whether they want it or not.Corey: Something I found is that—and it always has frustrated me, and I figured, one day, I too, would figure out how to solve for this. And no. There are things I will tweet out that I think are screamingly funny and hilarious, and no one cares. Conversely, I'll jot off something right before I dive into a meeting, and I'll come back and find out it's gone around the internet three times. And there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, other than that my sense of humor is not quite dialed into exactly where most folks in this industries are. It's close enough that could be overlooked, but I still feel like the best jokes go unappreciated.Emily: Oh, I agree. I mean, I send jokes by friends all the time that I'm like, “I'm posting this,” and it gets, like, you know, 20 likes. And I don't even care. I think, you know—I think that's the—you know can—you start to learn as a content creator that you're like, “I'm going to put out the content that I want to put out and hope other people find it funny, but at the end of the day, I don't really care.” So, I'm laughing at my own jokes. I'll admit that. So. I think they're funny. My—Corey: [crosstalk 00:26:58]—Emily: —[crosstalk 00:26:58] funny, too.Corey: —for me because if—I'm keeping myself engaged, otherwise it gets boring, and I lose interest in the sound of my own voice, which is just a terrible sin for me. So, it's—I have to keep it engaging or I'll lose interest.Emily: Yeah, exactly.Corey: Do you find when you're trying to put together content, that—for TikTok, for example—that you've come up with something that, “Huh, this doesn't really fit the video format. Maybe it's more of a blog post or something else.” Do you find that one content venue feeds another? Do you reuse content across multiple platforms? And if so—Emily: Yeah.Corey: —what have you learned from all that?Emily: That's an interesting question. I think—I do maintain a blog, but I don't post so often on it, and I find that the—for the more serious content I'm making that's not jokes, right? I think TikTok just really hits a different audience. Like, people don't find my blog, it's not discoverable, maybe they're not checking it, and I think definitely the younger audience prefers to consume things in video content. And a lot of my content is also aimed towards people who maybe are exploring tech who don't work in tech yet, and so to really hit them, they probably aren't following me and they probably don't know who I am, they probably don't even know what to look for in my blog.So, for example, I have a blog post all about how I transitioned into tech, blah, blah, blah, and people still ask me all the time on TikTok, “How did you transition into tech? How did you”—I'm like, “It's in my blog.” On my—like, you know, linked my bio. But you still have to just kind of—I think, like, I tend to just recreate the content into the different platforms. And it can be a bit tedious, but I try to keep my blog up to date with, like, different stories of things that have happened to me. But these days, I mostly just post on TikTok, to be honest. [laugh].Corey: I had the same problem, but content reuse saved me. I started writing a long-form blog post of roughly 1000 to 1500 words every week, then reading it into a microphone. It became the AWS Morning Brief podcast and emailing out to the newsletter as well. So, it's one piece of content used three different times, which was awesome, but then there's the other side of it, which is, I need to come up with an interesting idea or concept or something to talk about for 1000 words every week, like clockwork. And one of the things that made this way easier is a tip I got from Scott Hanselman that I have been passing on whenever it seems appropriate—like in this conversation—which is if you find yourself explaining something a third time, turn it into a blog post because then you'll just be able to link people to the thing that you wrote where you go into significantly more depth around what you're talking about than you can in a two-tweet exchange, and that in turn, gives you a place to dump that stuff out.And I found that has worked super well for me because once I've written it and gotten it out, I also often find I stopped making the same reference all the time because now I've said it, I've said my piece. Now, I can move on and come up with a second analogy, or a new joke or something.Emily: Yeah. I've also found that um—that's a great idea from Scott; he's also great on the TikToks [laugh]—Corey: Oh, yes he is.Emily: —[crosstalk 00:29:45] [laugh]. Building his account. Yeah, I think another interesting thing is, specifically on TikTok and Twitter because it's more of a conversation between you and your community, I tend to get a lot of ideas just from people asking me questions, right? So, in the comments of something, it could be related to the video I just made and it really helps me expand upon, you know, what I was just saying and maybe answer a follow-up question in a different video. Or maybe it's just a totally unrelated question.So, someone finds, you know, one of my comedy videos and is like, “Hey, you work in tech. Like, what is that like in San Francisco?” Right? So, I think I've found a ton of inspiration just from community people and really what they're asking for, right? Because at the end of the day, you want to make content that people actually care about and want to know the answers to.Corey: Yeah, seems like that does help. If it's, “How do I wind up building a following or getting a lot of traffic or the rest?” And it's Lord knows, once you have a website that has a certain amount of Google juice, you just get besieged by random requests from basically every channel. “Hey, I saw this great article linked to a back issue of the newsletter talking about this thing. Would you mind including my link to it, this would help your readers.” And it's just it's a pure SEO scam.And it's yeah, I don't—my approach to SEO has been this, again, ancient, old-timey idea of I'm going to write compelling original content that ideally other people find valuable and then assume that the rest is going to take care of itself. Because, on some level, that is what all these algorithms are trying to do is surface the useful stuff. I feel like as long as you hold to that, you're not going to go too far wrong.Emily: No, that's true. Also, something funny about reusing content is sometimes I'll post a joke on Twitter, and if it does well, I'll make it into a video format. And you know, sometimes I change the format of the joke around, whatever. But I—a couple times this happened—I'll post something on Twitter, and then, like, a day or two later, I'll make a TikTok about it, and a lot of people will come in and be like, “I already saw this joke on Twitter.” And they won't know it's from me, so they're basically accusing me of joke stealing when really I'm just content-raising is what I should tell them. But it is funny. [laugh].Corey: That's happened me a couple times on Twitter. People are like, “Hey, that's a stolen joke.” And then they'll google it and they'll dig it out. Like, “Here's the original—oh, wait, you said it two years ago.” “Yeah. No one liked it then, so here we are.” “If you liked it then, why didn't you blow it up like you did now?” So.Emily: They remembered it from two years ago, but they didn't remember it was yours. [laugh].Corey: At some level, I feel like I could almost loop my Twitter account and just let it continue to play out again for the next seven years, and other than the live-streaming stuff and the live-tweeting various events, I feel like it would do fairly well, but who knows.Emily: Yeah. Yeah. But at the end of the day, I think there's also a finite amount of funny tech jokes, and we're all just kind of recycling each other's jokes at some point. So, I don't get too offended by that. I'm like, “Sure. We all made the same joke about NFTs. Great.” Like, I don't care. [laugh].Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to speak with me today.Emily: [crosstalk 00:32:36] been fun.Corey: If people want to learn more and appreciate some of that awesome content, where's the best place to find you?Emily: Yeah, I'm on the Twitters and the TikToks, just like you.Corey: Excellent. And we will, of course, put links to that in the [show notes 00:32:45].Emily: Had a great time. Thank you so much for having me again.Corey: No, thank you for coming. Emily Kager, senior Android engineer at Uber. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. 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Contact Jennifer Wolfenbarger, CMA: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-wolfenbarger-cma-5534ab1/FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPTMitch: (00:05)Welcome back to Count Me In, IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. This is your host Mitch Roshong. And today you will be listening to episode 155 of our series. The speaker on today's podcast is Jennifer Wolfenbarger. Jennifer is the vice president of finance at Owens Corning. She is a success driven, high impact and commercially astute executive that has a history of driving value creation, excelling in dynamic, fast paced and demanding environments, and one who has a passion for driving continuous improvement. So it is only appropriate that her focus for today's episode is on business transformation. Specifically, Jennifer addresses the role the finance function plays in enabling transformation and the need for effective change management. Keep listening to hear more as we jump over to the conversation now.Adam: (01:05)So today we're talking about business transformation and it's a term we're hearing a lot in finance and accounting and to get started. I just wanted to take, get your take on why is it so important now, especially?Jennifer: (01:16)Yeah, I think, is a great question and, you know, no matter what industry you operate in and I've, I've had the opportunity to operate in, you know, heavy equipment, building construction products, automotive med tech, and now, and building construction products. And no matter what industry you operate in, it's likely competitive. And the question is how do you differentiate yourself financially from your competitors? And what I've found over the course of my experiences at margin expansion is super, super critical. And business transformation is a key enabler to, to margin expansion, process improvement, like LEAN have been around for decades and typically drive incremental gains, which is important, but transformation is really key to moving the needle on margin expansion significantly to the point where, you know, you're, you're looking at revaluing, potentially the, the value of your company, business transformation is also critical to, you know, to a business culture, to be readily adaptable, to capitalize on opportunities to improve, whether it be through business growth or cost transformation, supply chain, transformation, et cetera, you know, having a culture of business transformation where it's, it's feels as natural as it possibly can is a game changer for a company and really a differentiator.Adam: (02:46)So when we're looking at the finance function specifically, they're going to play a role in completing the, that transformation. So how does the finance function play a role and then what are some of its top enablers?Jennifer: (02:57)Sure, sure. You know, I see the finance function playing a number of key roles and oftentimes may not even feel like they're really finance roles, not only in just completing the transformation, but also really kind of, even before you, you set the set, forward on, on, transformation itself, a key key role. They play finance plays is an identifying opportunities for transformation. And, you know, no matter from my experience, no matter where you are in, in terms of organizational capability and so forth, there are always opportunities. And sometimes prioritizing those opportunities is, is half is, is a battle in and of itself. So that's where finance plays a unique role in identifying and also helping prioritize what are what's going to make, you know, give us the biggest bang for our buck, the biggest return on investment, and be key to really moving the needle from an enterprise perspective. Then once the transformation opportunities identified, finance plays another key role in establishing governments, governance structures around how we measure progress, how we stay on track, how we stay on scope, through our goals, scope creep is, is, is quite common, particularly in transformation initiatives. And so it's important that we stay, that we have guard rails and governance systems to keep us on track. And these structures may not necessarily be financial. Oftentimes they're not financial guardrails, many times they could be operational or timeline-based, what have you, but finance plays a huge role in, in establishing governance structures. These, these structures are really critical in terms of ensuring how, how we hold, the necessary and applicable leaders that are driving the transformation, how we hold them accountable and also highlight early and often where we might need to course correct, which is, which is super important to enabling the success of a transformation. Some of the top enablers for completing transformation. I would say data can't be underscored data often plays a big role in, something that I'll likely talk about as we get into the podcasts a little further, but change management is super important in any transformation. And oftentimes that really what that means is influencing. And, it might mean getting, getting key stakeholders on board, but this is not only what we need to do, but how we need to do it from a transformation perspective. And then I'd say, lastly, enterprise focus is a key enabler. This isn't about hitting an isolated goal. When we're talking about transformation, this is about really shifting the needle on our enterprise performance. And I mentioned change management that is so easily overlooked in, in transformation. And what I've found from my experience, you need to ensure that you properly invest in train change management, because what you're going to find is that no matter how much data you put out there and how convincing it is that we need to take action. And, and this is how we need to take action, not everyone in the business is going to be on board. And that could be day one day, two days, day 30. So it's important that we go through that we take the time to invest in, in change management and ensure that we have everyone that's involved in the transformation marching in the same direction.Adam: (06:47)Of course. So it's like you're steering a massive ship and you gotta make sure everybody's doing all their parts to get where you're going in a sense. Right,Jennifer: (06:56)Exactly. Exactly. I was just going to add to that, you know, I think, you know, choosing the folks, the team members that are part of the transformation are super important. You kind of touched on that a little bit, made me think of that, about this is that diversity in terms of an address diversity in terms of gender ethnicity, it's diversity of thought is super important as we, you know, we think about who we want on, the, the, the stakeholder, the leadership team of the transformation is super important, so that we do challenge one another. And, and where that change management plays a big role, as we all agree that this is the goal that we have in mind and how we get there might vary along the way as we kind of challenge one another. I think that's, that's super important too.Adam: (07:46)So we've talked like it's this massive ship, it's a big thing. Like transformation is, is big and it affects everybody. And so there's gotta be key benchmarks and milestones that you have to be aware of. Can you talk us through some of those that you, cause obviously you've gone through transformation many times.Jennifer: (08:03)Sure, sure. You know what I've seen oftentimes, and I'm going to start with a little bit of what I think it is not an acceptable benchmark. What I've seen is, is, and not to name names of, I've seen actually in previous employers, previous companies I've worked for that. We're really keen to benchmark against themselves. In other words, picking a previous period and saying, we want to improve 10%, you know, based upon our last five-year Kager or whatever. And they set targets based on internal benchmarks and what I really encourage, and I've encouraged. The last few transformations I've been through is, is encourage the business that think like an investor in what an investor is thinking about when they're looking at a company is, you know, what is the best look like for this particular industry? And it may even include other industries as well. You know, I, I picked on LEAN and the automotive industry is historically been, you know, the, the benchmark for manufacturing, automation, operational improvement, and you could easily find yourself in a space to say, well, we're not automotive, so that's not a realistic target, but it's a good starting point to say, well, who's the best at this. And it may not even be within our industry and then establishing your targets based on what you, what would shift an investor to value your business higher than it is today. What's going to be a key differentiator that they're going to look at. So it really is stepping back and thinking, putting yourself in the shoes of an investor and saying, what is it, what are the, and you may even be talking to some of your, your key, key invest investor stakeholders to say, what, what is it that you are looking for? I think that's a good starting point. This tactic also helps with change management because it's really hard to argue, you know, with wanting to shift the overall value of the company moving forward. We're all at the end of the day - and I use this often - we're all, stakeholders stockholders in the company. Oftentimes particularly if it's a public company, we're all stakeholders. So we all value. We all benefit by, the company value shifting in the upward trajectory. So, that's, that's, that's where, where I focus, you know, from a benchmark perspective is shy away from those internal benchmarks. Those can be very easy. It's so easy to get into the trap of, well, we're so different. And we don't line up perfectly to our competition. It doesn't really matter at the end of the day.Adam: (10:45)So, you know, you mentioned that at the end of the day, everybody is kind of, you know, we're all stakeholders in the organization that we're in. And you've mentioned also that change management is very important and investing in that, how do you get the people who are supposed to be invested the everyday employees involved to get on board with that change management? What are some methods that you've done to help people along the way? Because that's a big part of the transformation.Jennifer: (11:11)It is. And that's, that's where investing in spending the time in, in change management is so important because oftentimes it's, it's individual in nature and one leader can't talk to all the individuals that are, gonna play a part. So it, oftentimes I find is it's top-down and what I've found works the best is, is helping individuals that are going to be key in moving the, moving the ball forward, helping them find the connection themselves. And, it's all about, I read a book and I'm going to butcher the title, but it's around purpose. And I think that's important, not only in the book was written more about vision and mission statements, but it's also the key to any transformation is finding the purpose. And that's very individual for, you know, depending upon what function you're playing and what role you're playing in a transformation, finding your true north, your purpose in, in that transformation is it goes a long way. It's, it's super critical. It's it's table stakes in terms of, of change management. And when you get there, now you have advocates that are, are going to be peer advocates to others, in the transformation journey, they're going to be the salespeople that, that help, you know, solve a benefit and the importance of the transformation. So, yeah.Adam: (12:38)It's finding your "why" in a sense, the purpose, finding your "why", and that gets everybody kind of, it helps them find their inspiration to keep going in a sense. Right?Jennifer: (12:48)Absolutely. Absolutely.Adam: (12:51)I'm sure as you go through transformation, the team faces new situations, and we just talked about change management and helping people find their "why", but also there's new skills that sometimes we get required. How do you encourage members of your team to take on jobs they weren't necessarily trained or equipped to do?Jennifer: (13:08)Absolutely. I, you know, I think this is the key here is, and I've been super privileged to work for a few different companies that really valued development. And, you know, these opportunities to participate in business transformation are huge from a development perspective. And I found in certain circumstances, you know, if you come into a company that's not, had a lot of history in business transformation, there's not a lot of people that have that experience. And so finding, giving folks the opportunity to, to step up and along with, you know, it's important to give them a safety net, and that might be in the form of a mentor or, you know, might be formal training. It might be a regular forum to talk about where they need help or where they're hitting roadblocks. I think it's super critical not to throw team members into the deep end, without a life preserver, so to speak, but these opportunities are huge from a development opportunity and really the folks that have had the opportunity to be a part of business transformation. And that could be, that could be as, as simple as implementing a new data analytics package, or it could be as big as, you know, strategic business transformation where we're taking the business to a new level, whether it be cost transformation or growth into a new segment, and these types of opportunities don't come around all that often and it's, but when you've had the opportunity to experience it, it's just, it's huge. From a leadership perspective, I look back on my own personal experience. And, you know, when I, when I was part of my first business transformation, I had no experience, you know, I came in pretty raw, but what I learned looking back has really propelled, where I, I went in my career from that point forward and it equipped me with so much knowledge and lessons learned and not everything went right. And, you know, reflecting back on, on that super important from a transformation perspective. But what I learned from those opportunities was a game changer in my career and really helped shape where I've been able to get to in my current position. So huge, huge development opportunity, and, you know, not every, every individual is going to be is maybe cut out for business transformation. It does take some pretty thick skin, depending upon the, the lift, but what a huge opportunity. And, if there's that ambition, oftentimes the other pieces are very, very trainable and that individual is going to be in a very different spot at the end of the transformation. So, yeah.Adam: (16:01)So I would be remiss in talking about business transformation and not discuss strategic decision-making because that's a big part of this. And so as we kind of wrap up our conversation, what's your approach to strategic decision-making.Jennifer: (16:14)Yeah. So it's a big, that's a pretty big question. And so where I would kind of start in terms of strategic decision-making is, is really properly understanding and making sure that we, have a good grip on our strategy here at the company that I'm currently part of. We refresh our strategy every year, and it may not be a complete revamp, but being very, very familiar with your strategy and, and really leveraging this as a beacon in terms of decision-making is super important. And that could be, you know, whether it's determining whether or not we invest in a particular growth initiative, it starts with strategic fit. And we much like many other companies, it's not rocket science. We do a SWOT analysis and, you know, strength, weakness, opportunities, and threats, and understanding that for your company is super important. And then how, how did that, educate or inform the strategy that you set out is super important, as a guidepost for strategic decision-making. And, you know, I'd say in addition to that, so that's really kind of the starting point doing a really good job of identifying the risks and opportunities of that particular opportunity is, is really important as well. And I recommend, involving various, I talked about diversity and, and when I talk about diversity, I'm thinking diversity of thought, getting a few folks in the room that are going to bring different perspectives is super important as you're insuring the decision that you're embarking on and the direction that you're headed is a good strategic fit and we've captured properly. And we're well-informed on the risks and opportunities before heading into that different industries or move at a different pace as well. So all of that, that I said sounds like it takes an awful lot of time and building a nimbleness around this is super important because many industries are fast-paced moving. And if, if we're not able to make agile decisions, we could potentially miss the boat. And, you know, that plays, I've seen that play heavily into, let's just say merger and acquisition decisions. You know, you find a great gem of a, an opportunity likely there are five other organizations that have also lasered in on that opportunity. So being agile and really having a good grip on a strategic fit and what that means for your organization, as well as being able to quickly move through the risks and opportunities and, and kind of stay quarterly holder alignment is, is super critical.Adam: (18:57)It's almost like you need the right people in the right room all the time. And that kind of goes back to what you were saying about change management and making sure that when you're getting to these points of these decisions, there's okay. I need to make sure I have the right people here to have that diversity of thought that you were talking about. Cause everybody's had the same life decisions, same work, just work experiences to make sure that they can bring the right things to the table, not be afraid to bring up saying, Hey, Hey, I went through that same thing here, and this is my experience, as opposed to everybody just kind of being yes, Yes People, which isn't what you want in that room, right?Jennifer: (19:29)Not at all, not at all. you know, it's, it's we always say a good, good, a bit of healthy debate. And then walking out of the room unified in terms of the direction that we're headed is, is our, our goal throughout, you know, these big decisions.Closing: (19:47)This has been Count Me In, IMA's podcast providing you with the latest perspectives of thought leaders from the accounting and finance profession. If you like what you heard and you'd like to be counted in for more relevant accounting and finance education, visit IMA's website at www.imanet.org.

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Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, MD of Rubber Cheese.Download our free ebook The Ultimate Guide to Doubling Your Visitor NumbersIf you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcastIf you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this episode.Competition ends October 31st 2020. The winner will be contacted via Twitter.Show references:www.9degreeswest.londonwww.linkedin.com/in/thompbenCOVID-19 and the enduring strength of the attractions industryThe above article was written in collaboration by Ben Thompson, Carolien Nederlof, Klaus Hoven, Luca Liboa and Raymond Oude Groen.Since recording the podcast, Ben has joined  Storyland Studios as their Chief Strategy Officer   Transcription:Kelly Molson:Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. These chats are fun, informative, and hopefully always interesting. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue. In today's episode, I speak with Ben Thompson. Ben is chief storytelling officer at 9 Degrees West, a strategic consultancy specialising in brand and marketing strategy for theme parks, visitor attractions, and brand homes. An IAAPA speaker, Ben has previously worked at Mars, the Walt Disney Company and Merlin Entertainments. We discuss the future of the experience economy and how organisations may need to adapt in a post-COVID world. Kelly Molson:Ben, welcome to the podcast. It's really great to have you on here. Ben Thompson:Thank you very much, Kelly. It's great to be here. Great to be talking to you and the dog today. Kelly Molson:Yes. So look, we are recording these in semi-lockdown or easing out of lockdown. So we're kind of at home, my dog is behind me. Ben Thompson:And I've left my dog Barney at home. So I'm actually in a nice quiet office. So it's all good on my side. Kelly Molson:I'm glad that you read the prep notes accordingly, Ben, well done. Well done for following instructions. So we're going to start off a little bit with a bit of a quick fire round, just to get to know you in a little bit of detail. We've spoken a couple of times previously, but we don't know each other super well. So I've got some quick fire questions for you. So, think I know the answer to this one already. Cats or dogs? Ben Thompson:Definitely dogs. Cats are rubbish. It's all about dogs. Kelly Molson:And what's top of your bucket list? Ben Thompson:Oh, my word. I think it is taking a long trip to Australia. We've got quite a lot of relatives over there. I've never been, it's one of the few continents I didn't get to go to when I was traveling the world with Merlin Entertainments. So yeah, definitely probably going to Ayers Rock, doing some of the islands getting down to Tasmania and so on. I think that's probably, yeah, I need to do that. Kelly Molson:Great choice, Ben. Do you know what actually, we got engaged at Ayers Rock. Ben Thompson:Oh, really? Oh, fantastic. Kelly Molson:Yeah, it's a really special place for us. Really, really special. Ben Thompson:Or Uluru as I probably should be should be calling it, yeah. But yeah, no, I'd love to get down to Aussie and meet up with my... My mother's brother went out there and he had five children. They all got married. I think there's about 50 Thompsons that are out there now. So yeah, looking forward to catching up with them one day. Kelly Molson:Oh, good. Well yeah, you've got a lot of people to visit out there. Sounds fab. Okay. Tell me one thing that you're not very good at. Ben Thompson:Oh, my word. I mean, how long have you got? I'm really, really impatient. I'm an ENTJ in Myers Briggs terminology, so extroverted blue-sky thinking. So I'm brilliant on the future and possibility and what could it look like? I get very bored very quickly with what I consider to be the mundane administrative tasks. And I'm terrible at hiding my feelings. So if I'm bored about something, it's written all over my face. You definitely can't air this now, this is far too personal. Kelly Molson:I'm really worried that I'm going to start looking at your face soon. And sense that boredom coming across as well, Ben, you're giving too much away. Ben Thompson:Good question. Kelly Molson:One last question. Tell me something that you believe to be true that nobody else agrees with you on. So what is your unpopular opinion? Ben Thompson:Oh, my word. Listen, these questions are really good and terrible. Okay. So I believe that cricket is the very, very best sport in the world, bar none. And I have a really solid argument as for why that is the case and hardly anybody apart from a very tiny percentage of people agree with me. Kelly Molson:Do you want to share that argument just in case we've got any listeners that share this opinion? Ben Thompson:In a nutshell, it's the ultimate combination of the individual and the team game and conditions and everything else, skills and experience sort of wrapped into one and it has different formats. You can have a really short game, like only three hours or quite a nice leisurely version of five days where you can have a draw at the end. Kelly Molson:Okay. I mean, I will agree to disagree on that one, Ben. Ben Thompson:Well, there we go. Kelly Molson:But maybe some of our listeners... Well, I mean, tell us, let us... Yeah. Tweet us and let us know if you agree with Ben, I'd love to hear. Thank you for sharing. I always like to do that. I think it's quite nice to get a little bit of an insight into people's mind. And also what I really enjoyed is that the thing that you said that you're not very good at actually showcased the things that you are very good at, which is talking about the bigger picture and the future and what things look like. And that's really one of the reasons that I have asked you to come on the podcast because you've got an incredible background in attractions and the experience economy, and it's challenging for many in that sector at the moment. And I'm really keen to get your opinion on how it's been and what you see the future to be. But could you just kind of give us what a typical project is for you, Ben? Ben Thompson:Yeah. I mean, obviously the immediate answer is there's no such thing as a typical project because every client is different and that is true. The kind of golden threads that I get involved, it's all about storytelling. I call myself a chief storytelling officer and that is what I do. I've always loved books and narrative and kind of rich tapestries. I love Lord of the Rings as a kid, I loved all of the kind of The Hobbit, all that type of stuff. And I read voraciously and as I got kind of older, I read a lot of psychology books, really fascinated by how the brain works. And Danny Kahneman is my sort of absolute number one fan in the... He wrote a book called Thinking Fast and Slow, and Kahneman worked with a guy called Amos Tversky and Kahneman ended up being a Nobel Prize winner and basically invented kind of behavioral economics. Ben Thompson:And I find all that stuff fascinating at the point where kind of story and narrative meets in a meaning, how we interpret the world around us. I think that story forms views, it forms culture, but it can also transform. So Joe Pine and Jim Gilmore talk about that they're at this stage of the transformative economy where the product is the change I see in me as a customer or a guest when I engage with your brand. And I think story has a huge role to play in creating those kind of transformative experiences. So that's sort of a big thread that runs through it. But back to my sort of personality and loving the new, I'm often working on new projects. So that could be like Tony's, which we released our beautiful video, which we produced with Storyline Studios. Kelly Molson:So this is Tony's Chocolonelies. Ben Thompson:Yeah, Tony's Chocolonely. Yeah, exactly. So that is an amazing brand that has got a fantastic story, wants to transform the industry in which it's working and wants to create a visitor experience to immerse people in that brand and to create advocates for their mission, which is to end slavery in the chocolate industry. And our role was to take that from very basic, "Okay, we want to do this and it's going to be kind of this size and it's going to be this location. Oh, and by the way, it's going to have a roller coaster." To, "Okay, how do we actually put an immersive narrative around that?" And what we've done successfully is this, it's either a great story when you stand back and you sort of, you think about it, it's so simple. Our approach to that was a three acts, heart, head, and hands. So we'd engage you with all of the joy and the fun of what chocolate is all about. Chocolate is ultimately about happiness and sharing. Ben Thompson:So we do all of that great color, great richness, texture, and so on, but then we do a twist and we go into the head, which is about saying, "What's the bitter side of the sweetness of chocolate?" It's the reality of people working on cocoa farms in West Africa, Ghana, Ivory Coast, where it's a really kind of terrible situation. Then we educate. So how can it be done differently? That's the rest of the head piece. And then we move into hands, which is all about impact. That particular brand is all about engaging people to make a difference with their decisions, with their activism, all that kind of stuff that we do. And that's where we segued into the roller coaster. So when you get on the coaster, which we're going to call something like the impact express or whatever, you're actually going to be shrunken down to the size of a bar and fired out into the world to have an impact. Kelly Molson:Wow! Ben Thompson:Not literally fired out, health and safety will be taken into consideration here. Ben Thompson:So that has been an awesome project. I have an amazing client in Brazil who are largest park operator out there, they run the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio, they run the Equis Sioux falls down in the South of the country, which is the number one waterfall in the world, they have a big aquarium and so on. And there it's all been about kind of, how do you go from being an organization that's grown through acquisition, has around 6 million guests a year, but in kind of silo style businesses. And how do you create the sort of structure that sits above that? A little bit like Merlin, where you can get great synergies, get great best practices, and a lot of that's in your world of digital and get right structures and so on. So they can get the good data, make the good decisions and so on. Ben Thompson:And we've got other projects that we can't talk about yet. Kelly Molson:Of course, there's always secret projects. Ben Thompson:Which is so frustrating. We've got two amazing, amazing clients that we're working on. One in Europe and one, a global company, but based on the East Coast where the work we're doing is just going to be incredible, but you're going to have to watch this space. Kelly Molson:All right. Well, we definitely will watch this space. And that brings me to my next question, really, because I'd like to know if you're having to advise your clients differently at this point, because we are still in the middle of a pandemic. As we sit here, it's the 1st of July, attractions in the UK can start to open safely from this weekend, if they are able to. And we're seeing a really big demand, actually. We've seen a huge demand for ticket sales for London Zoo, Whipsnade Zoo, for example. And we know that Shanghai Disney Resort sold out its capacity in three minutes. So we know that there's demand there. We know people want to go back. And what are those conversations like at the moment with your clients that are looking to open their experiences in a year from now, two years from now? Are you having to talk to them very differently about things? Ben Thompson:It's a great question. I think the first thing to say is, I'm not at all surprised that there's a massive pent up demand. And I think I've been fairly consistent with that, with my clients and stuff that I've written about. Disney have the most amazing metaphor for this, to explain why there would be this pent up demand and they call it the " Closing Window ". And as a parent of children, I can really relate to this. So the idea of the Closing Window is, if you have children, let's say you have two or three kids. You don't really want to go to the big park experience until they're sort of five or six, because they don't really get it. The rides maybe aren't quite ready for them, unless you go to Legoland of course. And by the time they get to be 15 or so, and I've got a 16 year old, so I can relate to this, parents are deeply uncool and they want to go off and do their own things. Ben Thompson:So you've kind of got maybe eight or nine summers to go and make the memories that last a lifetime. And actually, that's not that many summers, so if you take one away, you're like, "Oh wow. I just lost a really big opportunity to go and do something amazing with my family." And if you think about the experience for parents with their children in parks, basically, it's the best you ever feel in the whole year as a mum or a dad. I think particularly as a dad, by the way, because you've put so much energy into it, it can be really expensive and it's a day that you'd never have to say no to your kids, typically. At least the way I try and do it. So you feel great, right? And those memories kind of reinforce your sense of yourself and the story that you tell yourself. Ben Thompson:So that's the power of the industry that we work in, and if you close the doors on people and say, "You can't go," and then they open up again, no surprise, there's going to be a kind of a rush to the doors. I think indoor is going to be different from outdoor. I think outdoor's obviously going to have the benefit of it's going to feel safer for the more risk-averse folks out there, like my wife. But the thing about indoor is still a massive role for it. It all depends about whether you've refreshed the experience. A big part of our industry is about suspense, surprising people, "Oh, I didn't know they were going to do that. Oh, that's different from last time," or, "I want to go further into that experience than I could the time before." I think that's why escape rooms are such a great trend, because you want to do it quicker. Maybe they change a few things and it's a different experience each time. So I think for anybody who is still waiting to get open, please don't try and open with the same experience that you did last time, because I think people are going to be looking for something new. Kelly Molson:That's really good advice. I guess there are some experiences that can't open at all at the moment, and that's a huge challenge. So I read last week about the Poster museum who is allowed, they are allowed to open and the restrictions have been lifted. However, they can't make it safe enough for people to come in because they've got restricted space and actually restricted space on the postal ride that they have, the actual experience. And so it is still really, really difficult for the industry. And I guess how can you advise... I guess you can't advise them if they physically can't look at the safety implications and they can't make it safe for people to come, that's a very different story. But so your advice to attractions is to refresh what they're doing. Don't just open as they have previously. Ben Thompson:I think that's right. One of the most important things I feel is about empathy. So I engaged a few of my colleagues in IAAPA organization, in February I think, with an idea around how we might recognize our healthcare and key workers once we opened. We called the idea Healthcare Heroes, and actually a number of people have taken it on. People in China have done it, a load of the folks in Europe have done it as well. And the idea there was just simple way of... The first people who come through the doors of our attractions ought to be the people who put their lives on the line to help us during COVID. So doctors, nurses, people working in healthcare. Actually teachers as well, by the way, my wife's a teacher. Teachers get a bad rap most of the time, but they had to go back into their workplaces a long time before anybody else. Ben Thompson:I thought that was a good idea for two reasons. One, is it shows that the people who are running that organization understand and care and empathize with what people are going through. There's a sense we're all in this together. Secondly, I think it allays risk. So if you are more on the kind of cautious, risk-averse side, if you can think, well, actually these guys are going to get healthcare workers are going to come through and they'll help them check out their facilities and run the rule over their sanitation measures and so on. Then you can have a double win. Ben Thompson:So yeah, I think empathy is good, and I think just communicating with people, what you're doing and why. The guys over in Shanghai, when they opened earlier in May, I thought they did an outstanding job of just being right up front. Here are the guidelines, this is what we're following. We're not putting the full number that we can put through from the get go. I think they had the right to go up to sort of 25, 30,000 people a day, I think they put 5,000 in on the first day and then it kind of moved up to 10 and so on. And that shows a really, again, kind of a sensitive mindset. It's not all about shoving as many people through as possible to try and generate some revenue. It's a bit more caring than that. Kelly Molson:Yeah, absolutely. Again, that's one of the things that we've been talking about in the office the last couple of weeks is we talk quite a lot about getting visitor numbers through the door, we've got an ebook, Double Your Visitor Numbers. You can't do that at the moment, so you've got to try and kind of maximize the revenue of the people that can come through, but also caring about their health and safety and making sure that they are safe is the fundamental thing that you need to be hearing about when you get those visitors back through the door. Ben Thompson:Yeah. I mean, I think, again, I wrote another piece on this about guest centricity as opposed to customer centricity. I've always thought that the metaphor of the host at the dinner table is the right one for any kind of hospitality business. When you invite people to come into your home, you're treating them as if they are a member of your family. You do anything for them. You want to understand all about them, their needs, their preferences, whatever it is. I think in the article, I kind of used the example of so many of the CRM platforms where you get asked your name five times, or I have to fill in the same details, yeah. It's the equivalent of after the second course say, "Oh yeah, what's your name again?" And, "Oh, is your husband... Dave is it? Oh, James, oh, sorry." So I just think that mindset of being all about the guests and caring for them and their day will stand us in good stead. Kelly Molson:See, it's really interesting actually. I think I'm going to hook you up with a past guest who's on our season one of the podcast. We spoke to Alex Book from Arcade. So they are a big VR agency and they actually talk about not calling guests, guests, or visitors. They talk about calling them players. And it was a really interesting discussion around how you engage with them and what that kind of message is. I think that the two of you should have a chat about that. That would be... Maybe on here. Maybe on here actually. Ben Thompson:That'll be great. Language is important. One of the things Joe talks about is the idea of staging an experience. They say work is theater. It's not a metaphor. We're not saying, "Think of work like theater." They're saying, "It is theater." You go to work every day to play a role and when you have an organization that is like a theatrical production, everyone playing their parts, staging the experience for the guests, whether that's a pharmaceutical company looking after patients, or a retail organization looking after shoppers or Alton Towers or Disneyland looking after families and so on in the theme park. Kelly Molson:Yeah. So on that note actually, with Disney, we were discussing last week about the Disney magic and how they still create that feeling. I mean, it's super exciting. I've been to Disney about four or five times when I was a kid and my parents love it, and there's not one part of that experience that isn't magic. I can remember my dad parking the car, even getting on the little tram that takes you into it. Every part of it is exciting. How do they keep that up with the measures that they have to have in place now? Ben Thompson:Yeah. The funny thing about Disney, and I was trying to explain to people as you, with all the talk that we've just been talking about, guest centricity, you would think that Disney were the ultimate guest-centric company, but they're not. They're not guest centric, they're cast-centric. I went to the IAAPA Leadership Summit in March of this year just before lockdown happened, actually. And I attended a presentation and met with a lady called Chris Tyler. Chris is the operations VP at Disneyland, Anaheim, California. And she took us through the launch of Galaxy's Edge, and I'd had the kind of privilege of seeing Galaxy's Edge, both in Anaheim and in Florida and I think it's outstanding. Anyway, Chris just talked about the cast. She talked about the long lead-in to that opening and about how they invested in education, in programs to tell the backstory of the characters, the narratives, all the different movies, how they approach costuming, how they allow personalization of costuming, how they chose the staff, the cast who actually ended up taking up those frontline roles. Ben Thompson:And then the launch event that they ran, and actually they did a fashion show where the kind of key Imagineers, people like Scott Trowbridge, Chris Beaty, Margaret Kerrison dressed up in the new costumes for Galaxy's Edge for Batu, the new world, which they've created. Or should I say the existing part of the Star Wars universe which they've brought to life, because that's what it is, it is an existing part. And so, basically the philosophy is about happy cast equals happy guests. That's the mantra of the Disney Institute, which is the external-facing management consultancy part of the organization who train companies all round the world. And if you're listening, guys, I'd love to partner with you one day. Ben Thompson:But that simple principle is the reason why when you go into any Disneyland park, chances are 98 times out of 100, you're meeting somebody who is happy to be there, and they are super motivated. They believe in what Disney are trying to do, whether it's somebody who works in the janitorial department, whether they're doing the laundry, whether they're in frontline guest service, whether it's ride ops, whatever it is, they know they're there to create a magical experience and magical memories. And they're generally some of the happiest staff that you're going to find. And that, in my view, is the reason why Disney will endure, the magic will endure, because they've done a pretty good job of looking after people and they'll continue to do so. Kelly Molson:I love that. Yeah, I love that. Happy team makes for happy visitors, for sure. Ben Thompson:I mean, it makes sense, doesn't it? Kelly Molson:Yeah. Ben Thompson:So much of... Whenever I've done research on launching parks, and there's so much of... The fantastic experience comes down to staff. Probably 25% of the overall piece. It isn't the coast, it isn't the... Well, it is those things, but those guys make up so much a part... And we forget that at our peril. Kelly Molson:Yeah, you're right actually, and I can draw a parallel to one of our clients for exactly the same reason. So we work with Eureka, the National Children's Museum and their team are called enablers. And every single one of them, every time I've been, is happy. They are engaging. They are genuinely really so delighted to be there and to welcome you and to help you. And it is just lovely. And that is part of the whole experience for me, that front of house team are so incredibly caring and dedicated to the people that are coming through the doors. And that is a big part of what that makes that experience brilliant. Ben Thompson:Absolutely. Kelly Molson:Big, big question for you. So what do you think the experience economy is going to look like post-COVID? Are experiences like Tony's, for example, are they going to need to have a different focus? Are they going to need to look at things that are more virtual continuing? We've seen a lot of that during lockdown. Virtual museum tours, virtual tours, virtual experiences, is that going to continue, or do you think things are going to go back to how they were? Ben Thompson:It's a bit like the saying in the Hollywood industry, in the film industry. Nobody knows, right? You get a lot of people who'll say, "Oh yeah, it's going to be like this. The world's going to change." No, the world isn't going to change. It's going to be exactly the same. How do you say whether a film is going to be a success or not? Nobody knows. We do a lot of work benchmarking what we think are really successful brands who've understood what the transformational economy is all about, and we showcase their work. So good example, not in our industry specifically, but they are an experienced provider, Peloton. Peloton they provide the program of how you become a better cyclist. I actually think it's about becoming a better looking cyclist as well, by the way, because it's a very sort of sexy brand. Ben Thompson:The products of Peloton is wellbeing, how I feel about myself. Yes, my fitness, but my sense of belonging, being in something part of in myself, bigger than myself. My sort of competitive juices flowing and all that kind of stuff. People who love the brand, they would not lose their whatever it is, hour in the morning or at the end of the day, or whatever, for anything. It's a sort of super positive drug, effectively, if you kind of think about it like that. Now, interestingly, that's an experience that's in-home. They connect it around the world through these super cool screens and you've got people from all different parts of the world, and that's sort of the point of the online community. Ben Thompson:I'm sure though, that there's a version of that that could go from, in the home, to in a physical space with lots of other people. And a good example there would be eSports. So eSports has grown out of gamers sat in front of a screen like this, maybe one or two together, playing in multiplayer. Now you've got leagues, franchises. When the London resort launch in X number of years time down in Kent, there's talk of an eSports franchise, having their physical home. Like Arsenal or Chelsea Football Club. The equivalent of them having it there and having stadiums full of people, sort of watching the gamers. So the point is it can go both ways. We're talking about physical theme park visitor attraction, brand homes, museums being places where people go to and we're worried about will they kind of come back? Ben Thompson:Well, I think lots of good examples of organizations creating virtual digital experiences and they're obviously revenue-driving opportunities as well. So we're about to do some work with the distillery industry, they are a provider, a curator, if you will, of really, really high-end product that, unless you tell the story... So bottles of whiskey or gin or whatever that are selling for hundreds and hundreds of pounds, you're never going to buy that in Waitrose. But if you wrap a story around it and talk about the provenance and the heritage and the characters who put that together in the years and years and whatever, then I think you're going to stand more chance of being successful. And all that can be done virtually just as well as it can in a... And often more effectively with some of the latest digital technologies. Kelly Molson:Yeah, absolutely. Ben Thompson:I almost certainly haven't answered the question, but I at least hopefully gave some thoughts. Kelly Molson:Oh, I don't think the question can be answered, can it? It's impossible at the moment. It's like you say, we just don't know. At the moment we don't know what's coming in the next couple of weeks, let alone the next couple of years. So I think I really enjoyed your answer though. And distillery is something that we know a little bit about Ben, so I feel like, I feel like there might be something happening there. Ben Thompson:Okay. Let's talk, let's talk. Kelly Molson:Let's talk. Do you know what, we connected quite early on at the beginning of lockdown, and one of the things that I really enjoyed, you wrote an article, a brilliant article, actually on Blooloop. It was called COVID-19 and the enduring strength of the attractions industry. What I have really enjoyed about the content that you've been sharing and the things that you've been talking about over this period, is how unbelievably positive that you have been about the industry. And you've talked a lot about the overriding resilience that attractions have. I kind of wanted to know, that article came out right at the beginning of lockdown. If you could go back, is there anything that you would add to that now, having seen what you've seen over the past few months? Ben Thompson:Well, first of all, I collaborated. It was my idea to write it, but I collaborated with four brilliant Dutch people. And we actually... We love the idea of putting a Zoom collaboration together. Obviously, we did it on Google Docs and whatever. So Raymond and Luca and Caroline, and I've forgotten the other guy's name. Oh, I'm sorry. Kelly Molson:Don't worry. Let me know. We'll put it in the show notes. So there'll be.. Ben Thompson:Yeah, put it in the show notes. Yeah. So they helped me sort of put that together. I don't think I would change anything. If I had a bit more time, I would like to have gone more into the psychological drivers, the deep kind of reasons why... Joe and Jim have this experience framework. So you've got education, entertainment, aesthetic, which is the sort of art appreciation, and then escapism in this sort of four box grid. And then they overlay that with things like edutainment and escatainment. What I think is really interesting is why do we feel the need to be entertained? What happens when we appreciate art? In our mind, in our heart, in our soul, what's actually going on there? Ben Thompson:And often it gets down to transformations. We as human beings, I think, are always looking to better ourselves. We have an idea of ourselves that's bigger, more perfect, better than the way we kind of realize we are, and we're always striving to try and get there. And I think brands that can help that sort of journey, help me understand my ambitions, achieve some of those ambitions, contribute to the world. I sometimes think... I oscillate between thinking we're all fundamentally selfish and we're all fundamentally good. And I think the truth is we're both. Successful businesses in our industry will be those who can really create the environment where we can be our best selves. Now, I've forgotten what the question was, but... Oh yeah, would I change anything about the article. I would love to go into more of that, kind of the sort of psychological approach to it, and what psychology can teach us in the entertainment industry, but the article was way longer than we started out, so. Kelly Molson:There was a lot to talk about. Ben Thompson:Charlie Read at Blooloop would probably have got his editing pen out. Kelly Molson:Well, I'll ask him, he's coming on air in a few weeks. Ben Thompson:Yeah. Kelly Molson:We are coming up to the end of the podcast interview. I thoroughly enjoyed speaking to you, Ben. Ben Thompson:Yeah, me too. Kelly Molson:I think you've got a really great take on what things are going to be like future. I know we can't be so specific at the moment, but I think some of the things you're working on just sound so incredibly exciting, and I'm really pleased to see that there's still that kind of overriding resilience in attractions. They're going to come back bigger and stronger. We like to ask our guests at the end of the podcast, if there's a book that you'd recommend that has helped shape your career in any way. Ben Thompson:Yeah. So there's two books, actually, if I can be cheeky- Kelly Molson:You can. Ben Thompson:If you have marketing in your job title at all, or you have any responsibility to do marketing, you need to read a book called How Brands Grow. It was written about 15ish years ago by a guy called Byron Sharp at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute down in South Australia. I had the privilege of being trained by Byron and his team when I was at Mars. It's incredibly simple concept of how brands grow, obviously, hence the title, around mental availability, so that the memory structures that sit in your mind. So if I say Coca-Cola to you, now you're thinking about the colour red and swirls and the silvery writing and the shape of the bottle with the little glass pieces, which if you drop it on the floor, it's so recognisable that every shard will look like your worst Coke bottle. Ben Thompson:That's mental availability. And physical availability is the concept of being at arms reach. Whenever the desire to purchase from that category is triggered, that's the concept. But the book kind of goes into much more depth than that. And then I think for anybody in our industry, they need to get the latest copy of Joe's book, Joe and Jim's book The Experience Economy for which I really should be on commission. So I think Joe, we need to have a word about that. I just think you can't operate in this space without having understood that. Authenticity is also a really good one, which is the followup to experience economy. Kelly Molson:That's three books, that's super greedy, but I'm really glad that you shared The Experience Economy because it is a fantastic book. And I'm sure that many of our audience have read it. And if you haven't, you definitely need to. So what we like to do is if you'd like to win a copy, I mean, Ben, this is two books. So this is a double whammy. So if you'd like to win a copy of both of those books, then if you head over to our Twitter account, and if you retweet this episode announcement with the comment, "I want Ben's books," then you could be in with a chance of winning a copy of both of them. You've just upped my costs for this podcast, Ben. Ben Thompson:I actually have several spare copies of How Brands Grow. Kelly Molson:Oh, maybe Ben will send you one, personally. Ben Thompson:So, I'll put one in the post, well thumbed. Kelly Molson:Great. Ben, is there anything else that you'd like to share with us before we head off today? Ben Thompson:I think we're good. This has been really, really enjoyable. Apart from all the skewering you did at the end and made me talk about all the things I was rubbish at. Which is good. Kelly Molson:Just trying to get under the skin, Ben. Ben Thompson:Yes, you did that. Definitely need to edit that out. No, no, it's been great. I think this is a fantastic industry. We've taken a bit of a punch, but there's no limbs broken, we'll come back stronger. We've been growing 3 or 4% Kager for the last 10 years and the industry, entertained a billion people last year, probably slightly more and strong growth across the regions. I think it's a great place to work and have fun. Kelly Molson:That is a lovely place to end the podcast to us both today. Thank you so much for joining us, Ben. It's been a pleasure. Ben Thompson:Pleasure. Awesome. Thank you so much, Kelly. Kelly Molson:Thank you. Kelly Molson:Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website rubbercheese.com/podcast. 

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Join us Wednesday 6/17 at 8pm EST for "#SayHerName: Telling Stories of State Violence and Public Silence," a live conversation with the mothers and sisters of Tanisha Anderson, Sandra Bland, Michelle Cusseaux, Shelly Frey, Korryn Gaines, India Kager, and Kayla Moore. RSVP: bit.ly/AAPFcovid11 ~~ On September 5, 2015, India Kager and Angelo Perry drove to Virginia Beach to introduce their 4-month-old baby Roman, to Angelo’s family. Unbeknownst to them, Virginia Beach police were tailing their car and while India, Angelo, and Roman were parked at 7/11, a SWAT team threw a flash bang grenade and opened fire on their car. 4 officers fired over 51 rifle rounds into India’s car, while baby Roman sat in the back seat, killing Angelo and India within seconds. Virginia Beach police Chief Jim Cervera would later say India’s killing was an accident.  In this episode of Intersectionality Matters!host Kimberlé Crenshaw speaks with India Kager’s mother, Gina Best, about her memories of India, a “beautiful, soft-spoken poet.” She describes the anguish of never hearing from the police except to receive a bill for the destruction of the car her daughter was murdered in. While she waited for a call that would never come, officers pulled her daughter’s body out of the car and left it on the cold ground overnight. As India’s family desperately sought out information on his whereabouts, police handed India’s baby, Roman, over to foster parents. Learn More About & Support the #SayHerName Movement: aapf.org/supportshn Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
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In haar 15-jarig bestaan is ICT Recht uitgegroeid tot een vaste waarde in de Nederlandse ICT wereld. In dit gesprek met Simon Besteman opent Peter Kager, directeur Privacy bij ICT Recht, een boekje over het impact van de corona-crisis op het bedrijf. In korte tijd veranderde de vraag van de klanten radicaal, waarna iedereen heeft advies nodig heeft om zich aan te passen aan een hele nieuwe wereld. Ook ICT Recht zelf heeft moeten leren thuiswerken (met kleine kinderen in het geval van Peter). Hoe ziet Peter de sector veranderen? Hoe gaat de post-corona wereld eruit zien? Interessante inzichten van iemand die in de hele sector ook de dingen ziet die men liever voor de buitenwereld verborgen wil houden.

Medvirkende: Rasmus Holmen, Head of Tech and Data hos Cadreon. Det er for galt at virksomheder kan tracke brugernes adfærd i Chrome-browseren. Det mener Google, der nu udfaser tredjepartscookies og hermed følger Mozilla, Apple og Microsoft som har gjort det samme. Alt sammen for at beskytte brugernes privacy, når vi klikker rundt. Men eksperter er allerede på banen med kritik af Googles træk. Med udfasningen lukker de store techplatforme sig endnu mere om sig selv og ejerskabet over data bliver centraliseret i de såkaldte walled worlds hos techgiganterne. Hvilken betydning har det her for onlinevirksomhederne og de bureauer der anvender tredjepartscookies til onlinemarketing? Det sætter vi spot i denne udgave af Kvantespring.

Karantæneoptagelserne fortsætte, så på afstand af hinanden taler Carsten og Anne igen om konspirationsteorier. Kan det passe, at OREO-småkagen i virkeligheden er en frimurer-kage? Det ser Anne på. Og Carsten fortæller om nogle vamle kannibaler, der måske beviser, at en sygdom som kogalskab kan være menneskeskabt.

Med Credi Cake Vegan kommer du nemt i gang med at bage veganske kager. Lyt med og bliv klogere på tendensen, der er svær at komme udenom.

Hvor mange bolig-, bage- og madprogrammer har vi egentlig brug for i lille Danmark? Og er der en lumsk konspiration mellem folkene bag boligprogrammerne og Luksusfælden?Det er i hovedtræk de store spørgsmål i denne uges kaffebroksfiks, som bliver nydt... Øh, som bliver... Øh... Ja, der er lakridskaffe med... LAKRIDSKAFFE!

More filler badness as we approach the end of the Fuma clan arc, with Sakura being useless, Sasame wanting to fuck her cousin, Arashi being the ultimate ninja, and everything we witness not mattering in the end. Also, some bad optics for Kager?'s death and hot takes heaux!

The fillers have begun! And there is a lot to get through in these episodes, as Team Jiraiya (Naruto, Sakura, and Jiraiya) go on the hunt for Sasuke in the Land of Rice Patties and run into a squad of jobber shinobi from the Fuma clan! We investigate Sakura's tender moment with Sasame and discuss the incredibly bitter-sweet story of Kagero, the beautiful transwoman who was a butterfly. All this and more on Talking Naruto!

The fillers have begun! And there is a lot to get through in these episodes, as Team Jiraiya (Naruto, Sakura, and Jiraiya) go on the hunt for Sasuke in the Land of Rice Patties and run into a squad of jobber shinobi from the Fuma clan! We investig

I denne ”Kærlighed & Kager”-podcast møder SØNDAGs Rikke Hast forfatter Katrine Marie Guldager til en snak om kærlighed, kvinderoller, kollektiv og kartoffelkager. Vi hører bl.a. om, hvordan Katrine mødte sin ni år yngre mand til salsa-rytmer på dansegulvet og om, hvorfor hun synes, det er forfriskende som par at være ret så ”forskellige”. Vi taler også om vigtigheden af at prioritere hinanden og om indimellem have behov for at skærme sig som familie.

I denne episode af ”Kærlighed & Kager” møder SØNDAGs Rikke Hast Annette Vollmer Heick til en snak om kærligheden og ikke mindst kampen for den, da Annettes mand Jesper kom alvorligt til skade under en familieferie i Thailand. Men vi hører også om Annettes nyfundne feminine sider. Og så smager vi på søde marengs – som ifølge Annette godt kunne have fået lidt mere kærlighed.

I denne ”Kærlighed & Kager”-podcast møder SØNDAGs Rikke Hast sangerinden Maria Montell til en snak om at danne par privat og professionelt med Tomas Villum Jensen. Tomas måtte i længere tid gøre kur til Maria, men til sidst vandt han hendes hjerte. Vi taler også om de små ting i hverdagen, der vækker ”instant” lykke.

Danmarks blodigste jord, og kaffeborde. Kan du gætte sammenhængen? Ikke? Men så prøv at høre foredraget her. Claus Jørn Jensen holder rigtig mange foredrag igennem et år. Altid om det område der grænser op imod Tyskland, samt det tyske område på den anden side af den dansk tyske grænse. Det er ikke tilfældigt at han holder foredrag om netop det område. Det dansk-tyske grænseland har haft stor magtpolitisk, strategisk og økonomisk betydning på grund af områdets geografiske placering ved roden af den jyske halvø og tæt på de øer, som kontrollerer indsejlingen til Østersøen. Det er årsagen til, at grænselandet er Danmarks "blodigste jord". At tre folkeslag, det danske, det tyske og det frisiske, samtidig møder hinanden eller støder sammen i området, har i perioder yderligere forstærket spændingerne i området. Grænselandets historie er nøglen til forståelse af Danmarks historie, men også en inspiration til, hvordan fredelig sameksistens kan vokse ud af historiens krige, konflikter og modsætninger. Den fredelige sameksistens kræver gensidig respekt, og det igen kræver viden om hinanden. Netop derfor holder Claus Jørn Jensen sine foredrag på vegne af grænseforeningen.

Et godt råd til hvordan du serverer verdens hurtigste kage, blot ved at undlade at servere kage? - Jamen så er du kommet til det helt rigtige sted.  Dét, og selvfølgelig en lang række andre gode råd fra Familie Journalen, krydret med regulær hygge.  Jakob & Heino.  Husk at du kan hjælpe os ved at smide 5 stjerner og et par flotte ord i vores retning inde på itunes/podcastappen.     

I denne ”Kærlighed & Kager” podcast møder SØNDAGs Rikke Hast Vigga Bro til en snak om at finde den store kærlighed og miste den igen. Om at lære at leve med savnet og om at blive mormor midt i sorgen.

I denne første udgave af podcasten ”Kærlighed & Kager” møder SØNDAGs Rikke Hast Mette Blomsterberg til en snak om at møde sit livs kærlighed, der kom direkte fra et ”Bad Taste Party”, men havde rare øjne og var yderst galant. Hør også, hvad Mette mener om at køre parløb både professionelt og privat og om det at lade sine snart voksne døtre forlade reden. Desuden taler vi om Mettes vej ind i konditor-faget, og spiser en dejlig jordbærtærte – fra Blomsterberg, naturligvis.

Der er lagt i ovnen til et dejligt sidste afsnit: Vi skal til Mørdrupgård ved Buresø for at teste purpurhveden fra 2017 sammen med Per Grupe. Det foregår (naturligvis) ved at bage med den. Imens brødene er i ovnen på Mørdrupgård, tager vi på konditori-crawl i det Københavnske kagelandskab sammen med den talentfulde unge konditor Jonas Dahl Grue.Dine værter er Jeppe Kalnæs og Mette Juhl Jessen.Musik: HC Skibelund.Velbekomme!Sponsoreret af Det Danske Gastronomiske Akademi (2017).

Der er lagt i ovnen til et dejligt sidste afsnit: Vi skal til Mørdrupgård ved Buresø for at teste purpurhveden fra 2017 sammen med Per Grupe. Det foregår (naturligvis) ved at bage med den. Imens brødene er i ovnen på Mørdrupgård, tager vi på konditori-crawl i det Københavnske kagelandskab sammen med den talentfulde unge konditor Jonas Dahl Grue.Dine værter er Jeppe Kalnæs og Mette Juhl Jessen.Musik: HC Skibelund.Velbekomme!Sponsoreret af Det Danske Gastronomiske Akademi (2017).

Lars flygtede i ugens løb fra vintervejret og kommer glad og en smule solskoldet hjem fra en tur på den spanske solkyst. Wolny har til gengæld ikke sovet i en uge og er rasende over black friday. Alligevel lykkedes det at komme igennem ugens tema om lækager i trupper, klubber og på landshold. Der diskuteres, hvad det betyder internt, når en spiller en stabsmedlem lækker en startopstilling til medierne. Landsholds-Lars quiz’en nærmer sig sit dramatiske højdepunkt, og stakkels Producer-Sture kommer under hårdt angreb fra Landsholds-Lars, da denne som altid er langt fra tilfreds med overdommerens varetagelse af ansvaret som chef for retfærdighed og justitsmord. I Roulette-runden er der decideret krise efter nederlag i de sidste fem forsøg. Denne gang er drengene desperate for at vende stimen, og har meldt ud på forhånd, at de ikke forlader studiet før der er vundet igen. Bambino Pons får endnu en chance for at overbevise med en a cappella version af sin målkommentering. Endda med hyldest til en af Jacobsens tidligere holdkammerater. Ugens spørgsmål fra verdens bedste lyttere bringer os fra valg af straffesparksskytter og til længden på en lang violin. Og Legende News viser en helt ny side af Frank Pingel, da ugens anekdote bringer os helt tilbage til slut-80’erne, hvor han fik en noget hård hjemmebanedebut i Newcastle. Fodboldministeriet er lavet i samarbejde med Faxe Kondi og LeoVegas. Musik: Raske Penge & Klumben + Mads Julius Dyrst. Fodboldministeriet kan kontaktes på fodboldministeriet@mediano.nu eller hashtagget #LytTilLars på Twitter.

I ugens podcast kan du møde Christel Pixi, der har skrevet Aarstidernes nye kagebog. I bogen er der fokus på grøntsager, frugter og bær, nødder, chokolade, mel, smør og sukker, mens fondant, farvestoffer og kunstigheder er udeladt. I udsendelsen fortæller Pixi om, hvordan det har været at skrive bogen og om hendes syn på kager, sundhed og økologi. Kontakt: podcast@aarstiderne.com Af: Mads Malik Fuglsang Holm

Stadionnavne the quiz.... De frækkeste kagenavne og hvordan tjente du kassen som ung?

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