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Disciplinas Alternativas
DIS-004-V-37-La Investigacion de Lazar

Disciplinas Alternativas

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024 6:58


La INVESTIGACIÓN de BOB LAZAR El enfoque de Lazar era trabajar en el Proyecto Galileo, para investigar si la tecnología utilizada en los discos voladores recuperados podía duplicarse utilizando materiales de la Tierra. Esto se hizo desmantelando un producto terminado para ver cómo funciona, una técnica conocida como ingeniería inversa. La historia comienza cuano Lazar se reunió con su supervisor inmediato Dennis Mariani. Lo hizo en el aeropuerto McCarran en su primer día de su trabajo como empleado para la empresa conocida como: Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc; cuyo acrónimo es: EG&G y juntos volaron al campo de pruebas de Nellis. La Empresa EG&G Fue un contratista de defensa de Estados Unidos que comercializaba materiales y servicios técnicos para una amplia variedad de instalaciones militares. La empresa trabajó para el Gobierno de Estados Unidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y llevó a cabo actividades de investigación y desarrollo de armamento después de la guerra. Su estrecha colaboración con alguna de las tecnologías más sensibles del gobierno americano han conducido a esta empresa a ser una de las presuntas involucradas en las teorías de conspiración de los Proyectos negros del Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos.. Atendamos a lo contado …

Equestrian Legacy Radio
DEBRA GRINER and ROWDY McCARRAN on LIVE FROM NASHILLE

Equestrian Legacy Radio

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2024 81:00


TUESDAY MAY 28th NOON CST on LIVE:FROM NASHVILLE.... Debra Griner and Rowdy McCarran are our special guest! We'll be sharing music from Debra's album A PLACE TO START and Rowdy's HERE! Great Music+Great Interviews = GREAT SHOWS… And a Whole Lotta Fun. Join Award Winning Host Gary & Mary Kaye Holt, Heard Around the World at Equestrianlegacy.net on iHeart Radio, Apple Podcast, Spotify and Most Streaming Platforms…Just search for Equestrian Legacy Radio!

Equestrian Legacy Radio
DEBRA GRINER and ROWDY MCCARRAN on LIVE:FROM NASHVILLE

Equestrian Legacy Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024 80:00


TUESDAY APRIL 16th NOON CST on LIVE:FROM NASHVILLE.... Debra Griner and Rowdy McCarran are our special guest! We'll be sharing music from Debra's album A PLACE TO START and Rowdy's HERE! Great Music+Great Interviews = GREAT SHOWS… And a Whole Lotta Fun. Join Award Winning Host Gary & Mary Kaye Holt, Heard Around the World at Equestrianlegacy.net on iHeart Radio, Apple Podcast, Spotify and Most Streaming Platforms… ​Just search for Equestrian Legacy Radio!

Disciplinas Alternativas
DIS-004-IV-26-Labor de Bob Lazar al Area 51.

Disciplinas Alternativas

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2024 8:59


Cuando Lazar habla sobre cómo lo transportaron hacia y desde la base, dice en sus propias palabras: …"Cuando me dijeron que fuera a trabajar, se me informó que fuera al aeropuerto internacional McCarran. Y dentro de él me dirigiera a una dependencia de proyectos especiales de la empresa EG&G. Desde ese aeropuerto, abordé un avión que me llevó en un vuelo corto a Groom Lake. Que me condujo en un accidentado y áspero viaje, de veinte a treinta minutos hasta “El Área 51” que se encuentra a unos 200 kilómetros al norte de Las Vegas, cerca de las montañas Groom y el lecho del lago seco Groom. Desde el Área 51, una vez que el avión aterrizó, subí a un autobús con ventanas oscurecidas o tintadas de negro. Dentro de este bus, me llevaron a una instalación aún más segura ubicada a unos 24 kilómetros del Área 51, llamada S-4. Cuando llegué a la base, ví una combinación de edificios y hangares, que se construyeron en la ladera de la montaña. Valoremos lo descripto …

Renoites
Michael Moberly on Beverage Innovation and the Bartending Trade

Renoites

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 51:59


Last time Michael Moberly was a guest on Renoites, it was the middle of the COVID pandemic and we talked about Reno's bar environment and history, especially in the midtown area. Michael has been a bartender and spirits educator for well over a decade in the Reno area. On this week's episode, Michael returns to the podcast to talk about his new role with Monin Gourmet Flavorings, the largest family-owned company in that industry, with a huge production and distribution facility right here in Northern Nevada. We talked about being an ambassador for Reno, developing skills in whatever industry you work to build expertise, how bartending has become more inclusive, the ability to make a career as a bartender, the differences between Reno and Las Vegas cocktail bars (and why Reno is better), the recent decision not to allow a cannabis lounge in Northern Nevada, non-alcoholic beverages and sobriety, what is going on in Spanish Springs as many people are moving to the area but not spending much time inside the McCarran loop, and a whole lot more! This episode was recorded on-site at Monin's facility in Sparks, Nevada.  Thank you for listening! If you have feedback or guest suggestions, please feel free to send me an email at conor@renoites.com and if you'd like to support the show financially (think of it like tipping your barista or a musician at a small bar?) you can do that on Patreon! Learn more at http://www.patreon.com/renoites  This season of Renoites is produced by Conor McQuivey, Lynn Lazaro, and Ember Braun

Our Town Reno
Reno Food Systems Prepares for 2022 and Another Big Year

Our Town Reno

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 19:48


Reno Food Systems is an urban farm located on the corner of Mayberry drive and McCarran boulevard. Everything from fruit to fresh vegetables to medicinal and culinary herbs are produced on the lot during the growing season. Everything is grown organically and with sustainability in mind. “We have workshops, we have volunteers, we have interns,” said Lyndsey Langsdale, the farm manager. “We also do a lot of educational things as well.” The non-profit began as a vision between a few friends about five years ago and this last season was the fourth successful growing season on the farm. Next year they hope to expand growing into the winter. Find out more about all the growing they plan to do and the partnerships they keep building in this interview with reporter Richard Bednarski.

World's Dumbest Criminals
Google Maps Boob Flash, the Alien-Seeking Limo Driver and more

World's Dumbest Criminals

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2022 25:06


Episode 19 of World's Dumbest Criminals is about an Aussie woman who flashed her boobs at one of the Google camera cars, as appearing on Google Maps was on her bucket list, a Las Vegas limo driver who drove onto the tarmac at the airport with a fake bomb, because he wanted to hijack a plane and fly to Area 51 to look for aliens and much more.Social MediaFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/374526270632196Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Worlds-Dumbest-Criminals-Podcast-100965498857602/?ref=pages_you_manageTwitter: @WDCriminalsPod and InstagramInstagram: @worldsdumbestcriminalspodcastPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/worldsdumbestcriminalsSources:Overexposed: Woman who bared her K-cup boobs to Google street view charged with disorderly conduct by police who say she's no different from a common flasher, Heather McNab, Daily Mail, Apr 1, 2015. Street View Streaker's charges dropped, but she says she'd do it again, Shane Hendrickson, Port Pirie Recorder, Jun 4, 2015. Aussie mum charged after flashing Google car, 9news.com.au, Apr 1, 2015. Limo Driver In Clown Mask Breaks Into Vegas Airport With Fake Bomb In Bid To Fly To Area 51, Anish Vij, Ladbible.com, Dec 10, 2021, Airport crash suspect also cited for reckless driving on Las Vegas Strip, Ashley Casper, fox5vegas.com, Dec 9, 2021. Motorist breached McCarran security, made bomb threat, police say, Ricardo Torres-Cortez, Las Vegas Review Journal, Dec 9, 2021. 'Batman' brings in suspect to Bradford police, bbc.com, Mar 4, 2013. Bradford Batman's identity unveiled, bbc.com, Mar 5, 2013. Batman's villain Daniel Frayne admits cheque scam, bbc.com, Mar 8, 2013. Bradford 'Batman' Stan Worby spared jail over burglary, bbc.com, Dec 10, 2013. “I Wore the Juice” - The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Little, Brown and Company, medium.com, Jun 15, 2016. 'STUPID': The bizarre bucket list that landed 55yo in court, Sarah Steger, couriermail.com.au, Nov 15, 2017. Accused drunk Florida boater poops in water, throws pot overboard during arrest, Meg Wagner, nydailynews.com, Dec 19, 2015. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

PokerFraudAlert - Druff & Friends
Poker Fraud Alert Radio - 12/26/2021 - Mark "shoeshine box" Fucile Memorial Episode

PokerFraudAlert - Druff & Friends

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2021 435:15


(Topic begins at 0:23:33 mark): PFA friend Mark "shoeshine box" Fucile passes away at age 58 from cancer, Druff memorializes him.... (0:38:32): On the way to Vegas, Druff develops sudden intense illness in the middle of the desert.... (1:04:40): Update: Hospital with Druff ER fail gives result of investigation of incident.... (1:27:27): The gambling world attempts to make sense of self-professed -EV game casino crusher "Mikki Mase".... (4:14:44): Bovada and Ignition have a massive, multi-day crash -- what happened?.... (4:43:46): New rule on 2+2 means trolling days there are over.... (4:58:43): You might qualify for a free cryptotoken worth real money if you used Opensea to buy/sell NFTs.... (5:06:51): Update: Johnny Chan's 88 Social sells to new owner, changes cardroom name.... (5:14:53): Sam Farha gets roughed up by poker dealer at Legends in Houston, following alleged chronic rude behavior.... (5:28:10): Las Vegas McCarran Airport changes name to Harry Reid International Airport.... (5:38:20): PFA member "Jeff Dime" runs into weird "tenant's rights" issue during long Bally's Las Vegas stay.... (6:08:20): Paris Las Vegas security drops the ball, allows man with knife into secure area, who then attacks an employee.... (6:15:58): MGM National Harbor doing "rookie event" on February 19th, for people with less than $25k in Hendon Mob documented cashes.... (6:23:03): Omicron variant quickly dominating new infections in US, but has it evolved into something like a common cold?

PokerFraudAlert - Druff & Friends
Poker Fraud Alert Radio - 12/26/2021 - Mark "shoeshine box" Fucile Memorial Episode

PokerFraudAlert - Druff & Friends

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2021


(Topic begins at 0:23:33 mark): PFA friend Mark "shoeshine box" Fucile passes away at age 58 from cancer, Druff memorializes him.... (0:38:32): On the way to Vegas, Druff develops sudden intense illness in the middle of the desert.... (1:04:40): Update: Hospital with Druff ER fail gives result of investigation of incident.... (1:27:27): The gambling world attempts to make sense of self-professed -EV game casino crusher "Mikki Mase".... (4:14:44): Bovada and Ignition have a massive, multi-day crash -- what happened?.... (4:43:46): New rule on 2+2 means trolling days there are over.... (4:58:43): You might qualify for a free cryptotoken worth real money if you used Opensea to buy/sell NFTs.... (5:06:51): Update: Johnny Chan's 88 Social sells to new owner, changes cardroom name.... (5:14:53): Sam Farha gets roughed up by poker dealer at Legends in Houston, following alleged chronic rude behavior.... (5:28:10): Las Vegas McCarran Airport changes name to Harry Reid International Airport.... (5:38:20): PFA member "Jeff Dime" runs into weird "tenant's rights" issue during long Bally's Las Vegas stay.... (6:08:20): Paris Las Vegas security drops the ball, allows man with knife into secure area, who then attacks an employee.... (6:15:58): MGM National Harbor doing "rookie event" on February 19th, for people with less than $25k in Hendon Mob documented cashes.... (6:23:03): Omicron variant quickly dominating new infections in US, but has it evolved into something like a common cold?

Juan on Juan Podcast
#58 | Speaking without speaking with Jeffrey Davis from the Functionally Dysfunctional Show

Juan on Juan Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2021 58:53


In this episode, Jeffrey Davis from the Functionally Dysfunctional Show and I talk about podcasting, God, religion, the bible, the Law of Attraction, and his experience of being an evangelist. This was a solid episode with an awesome flowing conversation. I hope you enjoy it.  Check out Jeff's work: FunctionallyDysfunctionalShow.com IG: @functionallydyfunctionalshow IG: @heyjeffreydavis Please don't forget to shoot us a comment, rating, and follow us on social media! Check out our website at www.thejuanonjuanpodcast.com IG: @thejuanonjuanpodcast TIKTOK: @thejuanonjuanpodcast YT: "The Juan on Juan Podcast" Stake your Cardano with us at FIGHT POOL at fightpool.io! Thank you for tuning in! Full transcript: 00:00:13Welcome back to another episode of the 101 podcast. This is the maiden voyage of the new setup. So hopefully it sounds crispy in your ears. And today. I am joined by what you want to call. You want me to call you by your name, or you want me to call you? Cuz I usually have people. 00:01:02Short-haired assholes, I don't care. Whatever my name. So, Jeffrey Davis, from the functionally dysfunctional. Show. What's up, man? What's going on, brother? We've been talking for a little bit and then we linked up on. I was listening to the was the one that you did with the 00:01:22she's not a psychologist, you something else. Was there a purpose? Michael therapist. And my first question to her was what what is the difference between a psychotherapist? 00:01:34Yeah, and I understand that when I saw you were going down, some some stuff and I was like man, let me, let me, let me link up with this guy. So before we get started, share your socials, Instagram, YouTube, whatever it is, you have so people can find your work and I'll wait till the end when they like the two people that are listening to the show. I like pie your mom and your wife or something isn't the show and then they just tune out. So they don't hear it. You know, so just do it front. That's why I can't write. Make them, make them. Hang on. No man. You can catch me everywhere at, Hey, Jeffrey, Davis personally. That's twitch, Twitter, Facebook, all that shit. 00:02:19And then my other, my, my my podcast, the funk, he's functional show. You can catch on Twitter at Funk jazz funk Show Instagram at Foxy's, functional show or email monkeys. Functional showed, you know that calm. The reason I like that name is because it's like the 101 podcast, you know, it's the one I want and I can say that shit cuz I'm Brown so it's not racist if I say it but it'd be pretty fucking races of somebody else said that. So all see that's a great conversation right there by itself. Would it be? Would it be right? Can't pull. I can't pull my black card, even though Puerto Ricans. Do you have some black in them somewhere in the mix in there, but I can't quite pull that but you know, the full on black. I'm Brown as fuck. So what got you into podcast knew? It was it was it the old Joe Rogan or what? No, man. That's a long story. I did it because I felt like there we got time. 00:03:18Right. Shitt. I don't tell a short story. That's the problem. I have to like I'm always catching myself in and rain in myself in where I'm going on my God. I'm getting too long with it. But long, long story like multiple episode long Story Once Upon a Time. I am 38. Now. I was a professional Minister and evangelist and yellow. Yeah, dude, travel the country speaking and my beliefs are nowhere in the neighborhood of that realm now and Bloated never thought that. Oh no one does but but people that hear me talk now, that knew me back then. Her like, what the heck happened to you. I'm like, 00:04:05That's another conversation. Well, that's what they think right? And for those actually want to have a reasonable conversation about it. Then then we have a good time. But most people just want to make their own assumptions and move on. But but yeah, so I have a lot of experience speaking and I'm the kind of person you are. 00:04:26I think about shit and ask a lot of questions and and and I see a lot of things on answered. I'm driven by the by the big questions of 00:04:38Who we are? Why are we here? Where we come from? How we get here? What's the point? And I just asked the shit that everyone else asks in their head, if they're honest with themselves, but no one talks about and I was like, man, don't talk about this shit and I want to talk about this shit and I want to do it where other folks can be a part of it if they want to be, was that be listening or or anything. So we just, we talked about real schitt's enough to talk about on my podcast, you know, we talk about movies and TV shows and shit like that, but more times than not were talking about 00:05:13Real shit. In the why not right now. We have Chit Chat all day everyday. Why not talk about real shit is it's like that one saying, did a conversation really happen. If it wasn't on a podcast, the tree really fall in the woods, if there was nobody around to hear it right that the bear shit in the woods and there's nobody else around to hear it. When I was in college. I had us roommate. That was not the sharpest knife in the drawer and he 00:05:45We were meeting with a roommate were talking about. You missing the sound yours is just waves. You sound waves. Huge waves, hit your ears and is similarly, we were talking to him and he really now, you know, color doesn't exist until you see it. It's just wavelength of light and until you the rising cones in your, in your eyeballs. And they, they they interpret those spectres of light as certain colors. Like the fuck ton of colors behind me, which is just where I roll. But we long story short. We had that mother fucker trying to catch the lack of color behind him. We're like, if you look behind you fast enough, you can catch and that motherfukers, you know, he's like try and I'm like, yeah, like I said, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I have had Lawrence Corona on the show and 00:06:37Back at you talk about vision and being you know something back then Vision was thought of as something. I mean, let me. I'm trying to look through the emails now do it. So right here, Visionary seeing so, long trying is a Visionary artist. And what they do is they focus on Vision. They paint what they see in this realm and he's written a bunch of books and he does Alchemy in. And I had them on My Chauffeur is a fur to talk about narcissism and Converse store, email about this Visionary. Seeing first about seeing particularly Vision, seeing is active, rather than passive that seeing was always understood as the active projection of sight from early Greek culture. And then he's got a particles, some fucking Greek guy Play-Doh Optics into the Middle Ages, only during the Renaissance and scientific. 00:07:37Leonardo and Newton. Did we come to regard seeing as the passive reception of light and Visionary State? We try to open or I to the Divine eye and it's more. It's the more active way of creative sing so back. Then we understood seeing as an active projection of sight versus. It's always there. And then we interpret whatever comes in, which is really interesting. And we only see point 0 0, 2 5 0 0, 2, 5 of the light spectrum that loan. We only hear certain amount of the frequency. That's why I tell people, 00:08:18Who know, we don't see infrared. We don't see you. No, ultraviolet light. We don't see all these different types of wavelengths and lights. So who's to say that there's not like a world going on in front of us. Right now. We can't see. Oh man. I I I agree totally dude, so I can't just skip over the fact that you were like this. This minister is this changes the entire Dynamic of the podcast, bro. I got to dig deeper into that. What what click bro, like what happened that it you were just like fuck. This is not it cuz usually when it's like that you're deep in the shit like deep and I grew up Pentecostal Christian. So gospel church. It's deep shit. You know what I mean? Like it and I can. I play guitar for 5 years. I was in the worship. Grabbed it. I did it all until I started realizing I hate. 00:09:12This is bullshit. You know what? I mean? I opened up my eyes and when I really started seeing and reading other literature and other scriptures, that's when I was like, okay, I've been bamboozled, you know, okay, so 00:09:30The thing, the thing about it is, so I wouldn't go so far as to say that. 00:09:39It's bullshit, right? So well, lay back up. I guess I would ask someone that. Makes that that statement the question. What about it? Do you think is bullshit? Because that could be far-reaching. So, for me, as I grew up in the church wasn't necessarily that Super Active till my teenage years. Has some people that took an interest in me and in the ministry they invested in me. Yo, groom me for professional Ministry. I travel the country, preaching ended up starting at church so on and so forth and army. 00:10:19You're a dub. 00:10:21And yes, I say no, but but it in in, in all of that, and one of my things is, I'm, I'm big on history, on big on Origin stories. I'm big on. I don't want to just read an English translation of you Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. And I'm like, okay. Well, I've always been back to your original question about why I started my podcast is, is I've always been that person to ask those questions. Those that that everyone seems to stop just short up for some reason and I go. Okay. Well, how did we end up with out of the Bible? End up the way, the Bible is, how why do we only include the writings of these people? Well, what's the other stories that were circulating in the time of someone and still want to still want? And when you start reading things like that, you start to go, huh? 00:11:12As a whole you start to notice like a lot of interesting motherfukers it motherfukers yet and they're telling us different versions of the same stories, which makes you ask questions about the infallibility of scripture and it makes you asking all these questions. And in the church. Yeah, I grew up in the end of the Southern Baptist Church. I went through. I was in very strict, Baptist churches, in Progressive Baptist Churches. I was in the Pentecostal church for a bit, spend some time with a charismatic church. I've got around a bit right. Lots of friends that were in Weston traditions and so on and so forth. So not and just don't want pigeon hole, right? And 00:11:56Do all those asking the questions? 00:12:00It is kind of like pulling at the thread, the loose thread on a sweater, right? If if you pull on it, I completely promise it will unravel for you. Unless, and this is what many, many, many out here, is yours coming to pull back the curtain on professional Ministry, a little bit. Cuz this is is true across the board. Most professional ministers have come to that point where they went old. Fuck. 00:12:27When they pull on that thread enough to where they realized, if they kept pulling, it was all going to unravel and the vast majority of them. 00:12:39Made the decision it with the face with the same problem. The same same quandary, that I was to go. Now. What do I keep pulling or do I just stop and pretend, like, it never happened? And this is my livelihood at this point and I'm not going to, I'm not going to pull any more and most of them make that choice and I almost did almost went. You know what I've invested so much in this, I cannot, but I'm the kind of person that I can't. 00:13:12I can't do that. I just, I can't stop when I'm on. 00:13:20An interesting Journey been where I've been and and I'm not going down the road. I'm going down it. So for me, I just for better or worse, when I got to see where this leads, and what it led to for me was the unraveling of 00:13:37Christianity specifically to begin with and then organized religion as a whole after that. And I went through a thankfully, very brief time where for about a year where I was, as fervent income convinced trying to convince people that 00:14:00Christianity was bullshit as I had been in trying to create to miss them of the existence of a DD or God and 00:14:10I think they realize, well, that was about as as much Folly is. 00:14:16As the other side, right? As as as the religious side, so I settled in this place where I went. You know, what, there's no evidence to. 00:14:27Prove or disprove the existence or non-existence of a God or Gods? So for me, I'm not going to throw my lot in with 00:14:38you know, some kind of faith in some kind of DD until that deity is proven to exist and 00:14:46Is that Deedee your aura quartz prove that we are totally alone. There's no higher power, you know, and, and I'm completely over so that that, that freed me up to go. You know what? Let me just consider all perspectives, all possibilities of what could be, and whatever ends up being proven to actually be is fine with me. I just want to know, empirically, what is if there is anything greater than ice higher than us. You know, I don't give a shit if it's the judeo-christian notion of God. I don't give a shit. If it's, you know, the the Hindu Pantheon. The Greek pantheon, it was something that we don't have any frame of reference for at all. I don't care what it is. As long as it's empirically proven that it does exist. If anything does exist until then, because I told her what you did write, the religion only exist because in my opinion because of unanswerable questions. 00:15:45Okay in ancient history. As far as we know, we can talk about. Pretend you possible past Advanced civilizations on planet. Earth is so what? So what I do all day about that. I know you can't do your but you know, you look at it and go if you buy the line. 00:16:03That were fad of what history is and it may or may not be the truth. 00:16:08No evidence either way in my opinion. But if you buy the line that we were super primitive in Antiquity, well, okay, let's let's by the line that people were just stupid motherfukers in Antiquity and we go. Okay. Well, Joe Farmer goes, man, my crops haven't fucking grown will hasn't rained in a while while I wonder, I wonder. Why not. Well, maybe I fucking pissed off that thing in the sky writing for some reason. Every culture on every corner of the globe, in ancient history, came to the realization, or the assumption, that that thing requires, blood sacrifice, how that happened. But you have all these unanswerable questions and he's quandaries that people go. I don't know, maybe it was this and boom. There is Faith. There's religion and we sacrifice John down the road because John is a bad motherfuker and he needs to die. So we're going to just sacrifice him and we go. Oh, 00:17:08Well, what happens? OSHA training for a while, let's kill someone and then it'll rain exactly confirmation biased in cognitive dissonance all day, too. So anyway, that was like these soup. I told you I'll do it. So don't don't tell us your story. That's a long-ass version of explaining how religion in a multi-year process of of how that had it wasn't like. I woke up one day and went off this shit. It was like a multi-year was terrible time. It was a time of great existential angst for me to go cuz here, I've invested my life in this. This belief system in this profession, around this belief, system is dogma and 00:17:57Now it's just I keep pulling at the thread and just keeps falling apart for me. And it's terrible. Terrible feeling cuz you mean everything about your life at that point. You might relate to that depending on how deep into it. You got, you go. Will it it? It shapes your worldview. It shapes. The is the lens through which you view things, and when that's gone. That's a horrible feeling until it becomes a great feeling when you go in a second. If I don't hold anything is sacred. That means everything is possible. And for me, that's a very freeing thought. Once I got to that place, right? For a lot of people that is it's paralyzing and it was me for a while. That's what? 00:18:37Existential angst is but once you get beyond that, if you allow yourself to to move beyond that and press through that thing and stay within your stay self-aware and continue processing and don't just give into the paralyzing overwhelmingness of it. Then it becomes very freeing for me, at least an in potentially for other people. Just depends on the person. Yeah, that's a lot to unpack. That's heavy man. So I can relate because 00:19:14Even with just so I've done. Probably collectively with all the podcasts. I've done probably over a hundred episodes. Very nice. So, 00:19:25Once. 00:19:27That indoctrination sets in, right? And I can't even imagine. 00:19:33I can really a little bit because I was in that realm of things as far as the church goes, but I can't imagine putting my livelihood on that and then going down this rabbit hole and be like, wow, this is this might be bullshittin, then lying to yourself. 00:19:51To hold back, right? Cuz I can't even now that you're saying that. I can't imagine how many ministers are preachers. Are going through the same. 00:20:02Almost like an existential crisis, where that's crazy, dude, that is crazy. Because at the end of the day, it's all a narrative fallacy. At the end of the day. It is what it is. Now. 00:20:19There is no proving or disproving. 00:20:23This this God figure whoever it is, at the end of the day. I feel it's 00:20:29an internal battle and 00:20:33I've been looking more and more into the aspect of 00:20:38What these philosophers called, the demons aren't where they, where they do the mass hypnotized by demons. I mean, the things that they use thoughts real, Play-Doh thought, that the da thought world was another dimension of Plato's theory of forms where we have the perfect image of a horse, but in the real world, 00:21:00There is fucked up versions of horses, right? With a good rest of the form of the chair. Exactly. So so when it comes to these thoughts because and forever was either Alan, Watts are forgot who it was. It was like an action doesn't happen without with a lot of thought and the actions that are happening in the future happened because of things that happened in the past. So you think I've been listening to a lot of turns but cannot talk about time travel in time itself. And how time is an illusion. And obviously, there's only the Eternal. Now there is no future. There is no past. It's only now and but they're the way they talk about is like everything is being pushed to One Moment In Time all together like this Collective klusterfuk of just time and moment just happening on it, which is what like the Multiverse theory is and all that stuff that everything has happened. 00:22:00At once, right? It's right there, that's connected. And we only in time is just way we experience BC system. This the guy that invented that it was, he was, he was a Jesuit monk. That's when we wasn't, look this up Jojo. Yeah, Joseph Gallagher and time as as people with that's just something that we measure it's just it's just another unit of measurement but back to the topic of proving or disproving up. There is a God or not. I don't believe that there is I believe 00:22:35I consider myself a gnostic PS. I believe there is some higher power. There is I refer to him as a programmer like in The Matrix the program for the architect, that's in the room and he's creating reality. Because in the reason I feel we live in some sort of simulation is because 00:22:54Law of Attraction. And what you said about how you not trying to look and see if the colors of change, you know, the observer effect is 100 fucking percent real, and people don't know about the double slit experiment. If you can figure out why atoms react differently, when you're observing them versus, when you're not, you will win a Nobel, Peace Prize. I was when you mention that was fixing to bring up the folks, split experiment, you know, we have not brought up this episode at all. We just happen to be speaking. The same fucking language ride, right. You're ever this shit that I'm aware of. I'm ready for the shitz. You're aware of. It is like serendipitous. They were having this conversation. What got me into Park Housing. Other than, obviously, Joe Rogan was that when I started looking into things, when I started reading, 00:23:47Scriptures in the nagamati library. When I start reading things the Dead Sea Scrolls, when I started looking into it. And then when I questioned and I asked somebody was in the church. I said, hey why what's up with the Old Testament, man? What's up with the why do the bogomils in the cathars things? That it's a work of a demon? You know, who's Yahweh? Who's out? What's going on, man? What's up? Like they said, ignore the Old Testament. 00:24:10What ya, ignore. We don't. We don't regard that. I said, wait a minute, but it's fundamental ignore. So, that's what really when I, when I, when they told me, I said, all right, I see what's going on here. I see what's going on. So the narrative is, when it fits, right, when it fits, it's okay. When you're reading the scripture, you know, how many people go to church, and don't understand the scripture that they're reading 99.999% of them. Cuz what what happens you as a, as, you know, as a preacher you go in and and you see it when they're reading old Revelations. This is what happened, right? Everybody. That's what happened. Hallelujah, know what I mean. I take this indoctrination and just what was happening right now. It's in the it's a business model. Yes. It's a, it's a, it's a brokered experience. Who are you? When I'm not saying you to tell me. 00:25:04That I'm able to achieve Divinity or not. 00:25:09Oh, well, this guy talks to God every other day. This other guy talks to him everyday this house. I got it's a brokered experience and you're ruled a heretic when you go against the grain, when you questioned and. Yeah, cuz we have to have a hierarchy, right? Or there's not going to be what Ward is rather shy. See the fear is that there will not be any order without a hierarchy, right? Like the beat the, the the b-bus, why the Ten Commandments were given to Moses. He needed to lead the people he needed some order, he needed that, right? Then again before too stupid to, to live in some Society where there is no heart. That's the problem because that's why they haven't told us that there is aliens. Because can you imagine the mass hysteria? What happened? If if you could you imagine the breakdown of society? If they told him God wasn't real or Hey, listen, where a brain. 00:26:09About jar. That's why I said. I think therefore I am that's the only thing he was fucking sure. Of, you know, like when Neil asked Morpheus what is real, he goes with what is real right? As if you know, the electrical impulses that your, you know what I mean? What is your, how do you define real? How do you last week that there's a third one Matrix directions to like, where the fuck is that happened, is coming out now resurrections. Yes, which is going to be pretty much Neil was cuz at the end of the last one, the third one, which does the best one was the first one. Obviously. Right? Whenever there's a just as, you know, your Star Wars fan, right? Yeah, when there's the first movies, always like the greatest. I don't know about Star Wars that we can get into that. But the Matrix is the first one was great. The second was okay. It's like aliens, aliens. 00:27:09When was the amazing? Yeah, and then obviously, they went off that. But the Matrix, the first down the third movie. It's very Gnostic to the the the feel of it. Right? And every character has a few Google their name. They have, you know, Trinity or the Holy Trinity Morpheus. I know, but the god of sleep, right? Morpheus the Nebuchadnezzar, the ship are all this shit, Neo the one and at the end of the third, movie. Spoiler alert. He pretty much dies. And then this way I was wondering how they're going to bring it back. Like, hey, how are we going to do this? Everybody's dead is like, I was having a dream. I've had these crazy dreams and it's like fucking boom, dude. So there's this theory, in various in a very small subject of, yo, Chris and unloved of of Christianity, and it's called, it's, it's people. I don't know that that, that, that that the sect were the has any kind of of name, but there's a inner light. 00:28:09Was that the weather? Is it the Temple of inner life? Oh, I don't know if there is a name. I'm not aware of it. But there is no Thursday, a theory, a theology or whatever concept that of this thing called V A Dimock dream and it is the theory that that obviously, Adam and Eve are not a physical man and woman. That is there a metaphor for Humanity? Because he's so, here's your, here's your Hebrew lesson of the day, right? In. Because that was one of my things is. I was I read and read. He didn't speak, but read Hebrew and Greek. And because I want them like, you know, I want to read the original language that the other text was in not, what is been translated into? Guess who came up with the King James version? Take a wild. Guess. I used to know it, but I forgotten go ahead in King James, dude. 00:29:09There was a big bro, like who the Council of nicaea with the whole canonical versus not going on at all. You know, is that the Ethiopian Bible has the Book of Enoch as a canonical book, right? Not the Western, the western United. I've had Joseph. There's three books. I've had Joseph Lumpkin. Dr. Joseph pumpkin in on my podcast and he has a PHD in in church history and all the Teletubbies eat shit and and he's written numerous numerous books on it and it's fucking crazy. But in your listening, you're a Christian. Don't start down the church history Rabbit Hole cuz you will not be one for long. I've had some emails come my way. And so so so here's your Hebrew lesson of the day, right? In Genesis when 00:30:06Adam is talked about, he's called Adam. He's called eating the humanity basically, right? And then, once you're once Eve, is, is taking is created. Adam is no longer be in English. The translation is so Adam, but in the Hebrew, it's each right? And so each is a male incomplete. 00:30:32If Dee Wright and Eve is Isha, and it's a female in Kuwait City. It's only once each any Shah come together, right? Where they become collectively referred to as high tide on McCarran and swnd the human soul. The trinity. 00:30:522 degree. Yeah, it's so it was showing that that that you 00:30:57He will I sense a potential out there. Anyway, you go on and the theory that was talking about was the Via didn't dream is there's this this theory that when that went went, went out of me felt when they ate of the apple, of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, which is massively misunderstood, but that's a different podcast when they did that, that they fell asleep and Humanity has been sleeping. Not unlike all of the humans in the power plants in The Matrix, right? If they're asleep and and you're like, yeah, bulshit. Will you find me a book in the Bible for all whatever that's worth. We talked about the canonization process of the Old and New Testament and so on and so forth and the different sects of Christianity that use different cannons and blah blah, but let's just simplify and find me a, a a writing, a book in any Canon of the Bible. That doesn't have a common Narrative of 00:31:59It is said in every single book with potentially the exclusion. I'm not for certain of of Leviticus, were just run it through all the laws. But wake up is, said, by every Prophet, by every Apostle, die. Every judge. Really? Yes. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up, Jesus wake up. 00:32:23It's okay. You know, I'm not saying I buy it. I'm saying it's an interesting perspective and thought and conversation that have what's what's the story? I'm sure, you know, where he is wrestling with the angel and he telling he's telling him may have to go before the sun comes out. What's the what's the? So that's the story of Jacob and I had somebody on the podcast we talkin about that about how it was almost forgot. What the fuck you said. This is forever ago. It was pretty much. You was you was, you know, it was like an a like a like a shadow type of the like a Carl Jung type of thing where he's just battling with his with his shadow temperatures, you know, the person is described. I will say I'm starting to hate. I haven't been a preacher since I was in my early twenties, I'm taking way fucking back, but I Stay 00:33:18This just stays in my Consciousness because I'm always looking, I'm always on the journey for what is whatever that might be. I want to know what is and so this ship stays in my Consciousness and that's what my favorite stories. And it was back when I was preaching towards the end of my preaching career, for lack of better term, and that really is the most appropriate term. That was one of my favorite stories that I would that I would use because there's a chance that you've lost the Jacobs or Jacob story. What the fuck are the chances that I'll bring that up when I was your first or one of them and because one of the things that there's, there's there's two stents in Hebrew called the, the future perfect tense. And I can't recall if we have one of those in English. I don't believe we have a future perfect and English. Anyway, we read the story as it's so Jacob wrestles. So it is assumed for the writing that this, this purse. 00:34:18Did Jacob wrestle with was God? Okay, and Jacob wrestled With God all night long and I got invited the wrestling. And one way you can read that is way back up a step. So, Jacob wrestles with God, and obviously, God could best him. God, could best him, anytime you wanted to, but chose not to because Jacob was still engaging in the wrestling. So he kept them in the fight basically, right? And they wrestle all night long, all night long. The the text says, and in the end at the end of the fight was, as the sun's coming up. The The Stranger this person's called The Stranger. 00:35:01Depending on what translation you're reading touches. Wrenches, injures. Whatever, does something to Jacob's hip. Well. 00:35:11That's so we we, we can read on right? Past that in the Hebrew, the that that sentence is what was done to Jacobs hip was done in the future, perfect tense in Hebrew, which means it changed the way that Jacob would walk forever future. Perfect. It's never going to be undone. So what I, what I took that ass in the circle hear here comes the the preacher really want to reading any sacred texts that is completely open to interpretation. You can kind of read it how you want with that meant to me at the time and what I think is interesting way to look at it was if you wrestle with God 00:35:54And I interpret that is asking the hard questions. Digging, deep figure that. Figure it out. Ask tough shit, right? If you wrestle with God, you better fucking be prepared. 00:36:05Because it will change you forever. If you go down that road in Hewitt, if you engage in that fight you will you will not walk the same forever you may or may not like the way you don't walk the same and in my case it led to religion unraveling for me. And yeah, that's just the way it is, and I don't 00:36:30Not like that happened in a lot of ways. I feel like it was a emancipation almost but that's fucking deep dude. You know what the guy talked about was cuz he was in a cave or something before he was meditating or something before. Then why you is the reason I had brought that up was because 00:37:00There there is. He's monks that go underground for weeks at a time days at a time. And the reason that they do that as they go underground to meditate because they say that DMT, wait, wait, wait for it. Wait for a dimethyl trip to me. They say that in the lungs, right? And William Hoff, which is this crazy freaking nature guy. He says, get high on your own Supply and the way he does that is through breathing exercises. And he says that I've had a friend of mine who has done it before where he's like had hallucinations from just I don't know if it's the lack of oxygen or what it is. But he's had these great from doing those breathing exercises. So these monks go underground. 00:37:51In the darkness, right? Because they say that you're able to produce more DMT in the darkness, for whatever reason and they do these breathing exercises in the Darkness 2 in to induce these Visionary states. Where are they? 00:38:10Again. Maybe have fights with entities that they perceive. That's why the the the entity kept telling him. He I have to go before the sun comes up. I have to go before the sun comes up. Hope it stays. I have to go because once the sun came up maybe snap out of that Visionary state. If you know what I mean, I could maybe it was this the shadow. I don't, I don't know it. It's it's this crazy thing that I've always thought about but 00:38:37That that's wild to me bro. Where it where it makes perfect sense. What you're saying where you know, what do they save you? If you mess with the bull you get the horns type thing. So but 00:38:52In your case. It wasn't a good. But why wouldn't let me rephrase that? I want to say it was not good outcome. 00:39:01And what you're saying is, if you look into God, right? Or the one, or the parent or 00:39:09The demiurge or whatever. It is to you the program or whatever. 00:39:14That you're going to be altered 100% in some way. And what would you call it? That? The future? Perfect. Yeah, the future perfect, kiss. It will change your imperfect tense. It it will change you forever. And it's not. The perfect part is, it's, it's, it's not going back there. Right? Like you can't just take. You can't be reinserted back into the Matrix. So it's like, either you take the red pill or the blue pill, what the fuck. You can take this when I wake back up and that Eternal Slumber, you know, within that Eternal Slumber or take this other one and it's like you're going to be with the big boys and that's when he wakes up in the fucking factories. Are you know what? I mean? That's why all dude. So I love that. I love that. That's awesome. But in your case 00:40:00When people are in religion, and when they're in in church, they want to further that relationship and nurture that relationship with God and your case. It wasn't that. So what did that kind of defeat, the whole purpose of God or do you feel that he's there to help show you the way not necessarily in the Christian religion, but in Life or, you know, what, it whatever religion it is, cuz that's kind of, you know, what is paradoxical thought? You're supposed to look for more of God. But then, in your case, it kind of pushed you away. Because it on traveled that fabric of everything you thought to be and it turned out not to be true and I think it stands a good chance to do that for anyone that digs and I think and in a lot of people are going to stop once they realize they're going to stop pulling on the thread, once they realize this weather is going to unravel. That's bullshit, dude. Well, I think it is but that's that, that gets down to the kind of person that you are. You are you the kind of person that is using Faith as a crutch. 00:41:01Which I think more times than not. It is. You know, where are Young, Thug's about religion. Organized religion is just a way of people's predict projection their projections of of their own problems and just fine. Like I said, finding a crutch and a place to to dump watch those those this doing that this just using as a crutch. Just to answer things. You what happened to my favorite, you know, Grandma repairing her spouse or child? That died. Where are they? Well, they're in heaven will make you feel good right into the wrong with that thing wrong with with feeling good. 00:41:41Well, let me add a little ask her to that, in my opinion. Nothing wrong with that. As long as you don't go around claiming that to be the absolute truth. Where is he at now? Do you believe something that that bit whatever you want to believe in your head because it makes you feel good. Cuz it answers questions are unanswerable and that causes you anxiety, or stress, whatever, and you want to choose to believe something because it makes you feel better. Awesome, great fine, but the second you say, well, but what I believe is the truth and you offer right in it. And the burden of proof is on the person that makes the claim, right? So if you say ex is your, ex is true, or the burden of proof is on you to to 00:42:28To provide evidence for that privalia and if you're unwilling, or unable to do. So then Hitchens, razor says that that which can be assertive without evidence can be dismissed without evidence that different from Occam's razor off top my head, like the, the, the the, the more 00:42:49The choice that would make the most sense. 00:42:52Yeah, you're basically saying. 00:42:57The simplest answer is normally normally, I'd hate to see a berry pie saw a fucking beer, right? So yeah. Yeah, that's different than that says. If you say, you know, he wanted, you know where I was. If I say once, you know that I can fly and you can hold your mother fucker. 00:43:17Columbus roof and jump off and let's see. And I feel well, I don't have to cuz I told you that I could I have made in it and I have asserted something that I'm unwilling to prove and because I'm a willing to prove it you, it is folly for you to engage in an argument or whether or not I can fly because I've been unwilling to prove my claim so that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed. And I would argue should be dismissed without evidence. You don't need to provide evidence of why I can't fly. If I wasn't willing to prove that I can but there's like this delusional State when it comes to to religion than anything any beliefs like that right were work. Again, these intrusive thoughts, these demons that get within people and they possess some right is, what is happening World War Racine right now? Like the the 00:44:17We are. 00:44:19All act, like I said, earlier, our actions all come from thoughts, right? And then, there wouldn't be any action without thought of either. One of your thoughts or one of my thoughts and we project those onto others, which is what happens with we talked about hierarchy earlier, when the higher-ups, which we're seeing it happen to history. Right now on the higher-ups come up with some sort of idea. They projected onto the masses. And that's when you get this, massive stereo, massive noses. 00:44:48To control people through that, but it starts with the headright starts up top. And then it works it. They indoctrinate that had figure and then it works his fucking way down and those people push those ideologies and whatever it is. And dude, Stalin or Hitler, fucking Fidel Castro, all these head figures, you know, Kim Jong while he's had two figures, all starts with an idea. So, how is that significant for you? Why when you cuz I sent that or not, since I gather that, that's something that's important to your worldview, that everything starts with a, with a thought. How someone play with Devil's Advocate number 1. How is that important to your daily life? And secondly, if you found out that that in fact is not the case. How would that affect you? 00:45:46It would affect me because at the end of the day, I feel that. 00:45:53And I don't want to say what was happening right now, cuz I'm I'm just tired of talking about it, but the way it's funny you don't want to talk about talking. Sure. 00:46:04At the end of the day, I've always said that we are thoughts fighting with one another and let's go back to the simulation. Hypothesis. Not Theory, a theory can be proven proven scientifically. A hypothesis has not been proven scientifically for those fucking conspiracy theorist a shit. When you know, you're part of a game, right? That's why these Elites, they are the way they are because they know this is a game. So when, you know, and you acknowledging that you're in some sort of game, 00:46:39It's okay. You know, you're okay, after about, when you're using Windows 10, you can't use a Windows 2000 program, right? Because it's not programmed in Windows 10 to be able to do that. So, there's certain things in this realm that we can't do now. 00:46:56When I say that we are thoughts in this whole idea of thoughts is because some people and they say you die by the sword or whatever. They don't understand. They can't grasp that concept. They can't break out of that Matrix to be able to think for themselves because they are being influenced by others and their thoughts and their words and their actions, right? So, 00:47:19Not until the mass. 00:47:24Of people, the population, whoever it is has an Awakening and says, hey, wait a minute. This is bulshit simulacra and simulation. We are giving power to these empty symbols rather, it be a thought or whatever else a symbol and it has power over us. That's why it's so important to me because if we as a society came together and said, hey, this is all bulshit. 00:47:51What gives money do the power that it does, what the government who is the government, owal? Right, we're all, we all come together as a collective Consciousness and agree upon this head. Figure of the so-called free world and he is the president, he is dead. Figure will says, fucking who writes says the system? What system the system is flawed. But as long as there, are the sheeple, in the people who don't understand that they're having these thoughts projected onto them and they're beaten. They didn't know, they were being manipulated, right? That's why I say defund. The media. Don't be from the police be from the fucking media to because it's called mimetic occultism in the medical tourism back to Plato. The Republic mimetic occultism is propaganda. Used to talk to people soul on a deeper level. 00:48:45No, no, so I'm going to relate to the Republic now. The reason I bring that up is because What did Plato want to do in the Republic? He wanted to take away the Arts. He wanted to take away certain sounds and in certain note, why? Because you understood that the Arts, talk to people on a deeper level. That's why they're prohibiting us from doing the things that we want to do from going to the movies from doing all the shit. You will stay inside and you will listen and you will do as your fucking told right. Why? Because people will still do it time and time again and not until they wake up from this eternal Slumber. Will they know? That's why the guy in The Matrix, you can eat in the state. He goes. I know this shit is fake, but I'd rather have this because it tastes good, but he knows he he knows he know that he's in the simulation yet. There's nothing he can do about it. He said, hey, I don't want to remember shit when I wake up on the other side, when he snatches them out because I don't know shit. When I wake up on the other side, just wipe me. I want to be super fucking rich.

Dental A Team w/ Kiera Dent and Dr. Mark Costes
#408: Shifting Our Expectations of Others

Dental A Team w/ Kiera Dent and Dr. Mark Costes

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2021 24:07


Welcome to Zach Scott, the Dental A-Team's newest employee! Zach is part of the sales and customer success team, and shares his mindset about leadership and growing others with Kiera. You'll learn all about Zach and his background, how he manages his expectations of others, and how to not resent other people. We're so excited to have Zach on board and know you'll love meeting him! About Zach: I have been working in sales and sales management for over 9 years and I am extremely excited to be part of the Dental A-Team family! I grew up on a cattle ranch in Arkansas where I was taught that problem solvers rule the world and with enough creativity, ingenuity and maybe a little bit of duct tape, you can solve about anything. I have recently moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. The move has been great and I can't wait to see what hiking activities are around as well as look into travel opportunities through the McCarran airport. Anyway, the great news about this is you can learn a little about me while I get to help clients, like you, solve critical problems for your business every day.  Episode resources: Reach out to Kiera Subscribe to The Dental A-Team podcast Become Dental A-Team Platinum! Review the podcast on iTunes

Culture, Comms & Cocktails
Ep #51 - Kelly Lawrence McCarran, Weatherford

Culture, Comms & Cocktails

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2021 25:47


On this episode of Culture, Comms & Cocktails, Chuck Gose is joined by the inspirational Kelly McCarran, Corporate Communications Manager at Weatherford. They talk about how to keep employees connected to their company's culture, the role of data in communications and how to build humor into your messaging. Kelly shares some examples of the engaging campaigns she's led, using employee's stories. She describes the active role her leadership team have played in internal comms activities and talks about the importance of recognition in building an engaging culture. Featured in this episode: • Find out how Kelly chose internal communication as a career. • Learn about the cultural journey Weatherford has been on and how communication and sharing employee stories has been central to that. • Discover what Kelly uses the One Weatherford app to share, including how the ability to translate content has helped employees feel more connected. • Get some insight into the role leaders play in internal communication at Weatherford. • Listen in to Kelly's secrets for building humour into her communication in an effective and engaging way.

Tooth Talk
#47 McCarran-Ferguson Reform Passes - What Comes Next?

Tooth Talk

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2021 38:17


On this episode of Tooth Talk, Sarah and Peter talk about the effects of McCarran Ferguson repeal with George Slover, Senior Policy Counsel with Consumer Reports. Bringing his expertise on an issue he has worked on since his time as a Congressional staffer, George provides insights into the effects of the repeal of the healthcare antitrust exemption.

The Boys Are Back In Town!
Episode 77 - The Titty Trailblazer

The Boys Are Back In Town!

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2021 78:49


The boys are joined by recurring guest Troy Jordan (@troyj26). They discuss the new rover landing on Mars, new emojis, McCarran airport changing its name, Texas being frozen, natural disasters, hypothetical questions, music, sports and a lot more. Come laugh with the boys and follow them on social media! @TBABNT

Show & Vern
01/05 - 12 pm - Mike Singletary

Show & Vern

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2021 49:07


Today on What's Trending, Stefanski tested positive, Update on where EB has interviews or has completed interviews, Josh Jacobs busted for DUI following the win on Sunday after single car crash near McCarran airport, Elway moves up and down, and KU vs TCU 9:00 tip as they try to rebound after getting blown out by Texas, Missouri at Mississippi State, and K-State at Texas Tech. The Cleveland breakout is a very real example of how the postseason could fall apart. We're joined by NFL Hall of Famer and Super Bowl winner Mike Singletary to discuss the difficulty of trying to repeat as a champion in back to back years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Back to the Pilot
Episode 5: Up in the Air

Back to the Pilot

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2020 91:00


In this episode we take to the skies with shows L.A. to Vegas and Pan Am to see what life is like working above the clouds. L.A. to Vegas (0:00) - All aboard Jackpot Airlines, the budget-fliers choice for the quick flight from LAX to McCarran. The flight may be short, but between the regular flight crew and recurring passengers, it's anything but your typical flying experience. Pan Am (44:27) - Pan American World Airways was certainly the classiest way to fly in the 60s. However, there's more to this airline than meets the eye. From passionate affairs to undercover intelligence, this group of Pan Am stewardesses is far from your average flight crew. From both of us here at C2C Productions, we thank you for tuning in today. We know you have a choice in podcasts when you listen, and we're glad you've decided to listen to ours. So sit back, relax, and let us take you Back to the Pilot! Instagram: @BackToThePilot Music: https://www.bensound.com

God Guns and Country
McCarran-Walter Act 1952

God Guns and Country

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2020 8:53


65 year old law on the books, written by Democrats, used by Democrats and forgotten when President Trump decides to enable the Law. Great history podcast, a must listen for all.

Skift Airline Weekly Lounge
Las Vegas Airport's Coronavirus Lessons

Skift Airline Weekly Lounge

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 28:37


Chris Jones, McCarran International Airport chief marketing officer, discusses the steep drop off in traffic when Las Vegas closed down and how traffic is slowly starting to recover now that many shelter-in-place restrictions are easing. Listen to how McCarran is “betting against the spread” by mandating social distancing, disinfecting public areas, and encouraging mask use.Understand more about the aviation industry with this week"s issue of Skift Airline Weekly.

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Tim Conway Jr. on Demand
@ConwayShow - You're on Day 2?! We're on Day 9!

Tim Conway Jr. on Demand

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2020 132:21


Tonight on the show Dr. Ray Casciari joins us and talks about how isolation can be very difficult. Corbin Carson talks 29 cases in OC and Drive Thru testing. Mark Thompson talks how essential services don't include cannabis and people are livid. Morgan talks being young while all the bars are closed. Millenials could very well be the key to stoppping Corona virus. Bellio gives us an OC update. CA public schools may be closed for the rest of the year. Right after Tim gave a tip about the Mccarran airport his mic mysteriously got caught off. Coincidence?

Skift Airline Weekly Lounge
Interview: Las Vegas' Rosemary Vassiliadis

Skift Airline Weekly Lounge

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2019 14:42


Rosemary Vassiliadis, director of aviation for Clark County, Nevada, leads operations at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport and oversees four other airports in southern Nevada. Vassiliadis thinks airlines are flat wrong in their opposition to raising the passenger facility charge, or PFC. Airports have long argued for raising this fee to a maximum of $8.50 per passenger, up from $4.50 today, but airlines say doing so would crimp demand for travel. This isn't true, Vassiliadis argued in this interview, pointing to the many — and higher — ancillary fees that airlines already levy that haven't dampened demand. Airports are pushing for the increase, ultimately, in order to better serve the passenger, she noted.Vassiliadis also told Skift Airline Weekly about McCarran's new air service and plans for a new airport on the California-Nevada border. 

Bob Phibbs, The Retail Doctor
LaDonna McCarran of Nook & Cranny Says Manage Your Business From Your Customers' Viewpoint [Episode 107]

Bob Phibbs, The Retail Doctor

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2018 25:10


Bob Phibbs, The Retail Doctor, interviews LaDonna McCarran, Co-Owner The Pantry, Nook & Cranny, Rose & Alice Handcrafted Soaps. She talks about how kismet allowed her to grasp opportunities and run with them, trust your instincts when buying, and how to manage your business from your customers' viewpoint.

Curiosity Daily
How Your Friendships Change, a Secret Airline to Area 51, and Magic Words to Get What You Want

Curiosity Daily

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 7:18


In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you learn something new in just a few minutes: This Is How Your Friendships Differ in Your 20s and 30s This Secret Airline Flies Nonstop to Area 51 Every Day These 4 Words Can Double Your Chances of Getting What You Want Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to learn something new every day withCody Gough andAshley Hamer. Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Numb Bills Fan Podcast | Authentic Buffalo Bills and NFL Talk
#179 Facebook Live! Aj Mccarran signs with the Buffalo Bills, Nick Foles Still in Play? Ej Destined to Fail From the Jump, Lets Not Repeat.

Numb Bills Fan Podcast | Authentic Buffalo Bills and NFL Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2018 36:27


The Buffalo Bills have signed Aj McCarron a few days ago, most of the free agent dust has settled. Nick Foles has a very affordable contract and Aj McCarron's is even cheaper for the price of Josh McCown the Bills could afford both qbs and snag Foles in a reasonable trade offer not involving a first round pick. If the Bills draft a quarterback, they need to be setup to succeed from the jump. Reviewed the fan hype of grabbing a quarterback, while reminding fans to pump the brakes and hope the next high pick rookie comes into the BEST situation he can have to develop, and not prematurely start. if youd like to join the conversation set ypur alerts  on Facebook Live!, follow along on Twitter and Instagram for an announcement on a Live show to leave your comments and join in! NumbBillsFan.com GrandStandsportsnetwork.com PunchDrunkSports.com

George and Tony Entertainment Show
George and Tony Entertainment Show #196

George and Tony Entertainment Show

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2017 72:49


Middleburg Film Festival 2017 Happy Halloween! The Hallmark Channel's Countdown To Christmas movie marathon is in full swing and film critic, podcaster, and Creative Manager of Alamo Cinema Drafthouse in Ashburn, VA, Bryan Loy, returns to the guest co-host director's chair to talk about The Middleburg Film Festival (https://middleburgfilm.org). Bryan and George talk about the movies they saw including Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, and Lady Bird. Plus, Bryan met legendary film critic Ann Hornaday, George met local newscaster Andrea McCarren and he may or may not have met actor Griffin Dunne. All this plus George attends a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show hosted by Bryan himself. Bryan is a frequent guest on www.epicfilmguys.podbean.com and he co-hosts their sister show called B-Sides with Epic Film Guy Justin. Check 'em out and let them know George and Tony sent you. We celebrate cinema this week and you can too by using the Amazon link at www.georgeandtony.com when purchasing your Blu-Rays, DVDs, digital downloads, and all your holiday gifts and supplies. Please help support the show by sharing our links on your social media pages. Subscribing on iTunes and leaving positive five-star reviews are always appreciated. Thank you for listening.

The Vegas Tourist Podcast
237 Talking with Toni Jackson Firelight Barn Dinner Theater

The Vegas Tourist Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2017 46:49


Today's podcast is about the Firelight Barn Dinner Thater in Henderson, Nevada. But first, Mark and Debbie get a few other things off the note pile * Bing watching Breaking Bad * Las Vegas is on track to pass last year's 42 million tourists * California woman's $5 bet wins $1.6M jackpot at McCarran (link) * Steve Wynn's Paradise Park update * Las Vegas Vistors and Convention Authority(LVCVA)  gives their CEO a bonus. $700K in pay * Death Valley Update (See Tours) * PBR World Finals Update (PBR Tickets) The little town of Henderson, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas on your way to Boulder City and Hoover Dam. Is going through a resurgence as they spruce up the downtown business district.  Attracting new and unique small businesses. One of those small businesses is The Firelight Barn Dinner Theater. Its owner is Las Vegas Territory member Toni Jackson. She and her 4 musically talented kids opened the place in 2016 after spending the last 16 years on the road as The Jackson Family Band and Cloggers! The family-friendly venue offers up a wild west show with the option of a barbeque Dinner and drinks beside the fun entertainment

Congressional Dish
CD152: Air Traffic Control Privatization

Congressional Dish

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2017 105:26


Air traffic controllers in the United States are a part of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) but Congress is seriously considering changing that. In this episode, we examine a plan being developed to transfer control of the nation’s air traffic to a new non-profit corporation. Also, with former FBI Directory Jim Comey’s testimony to Congress dominating the news cycle, we take a trip down memory lane to the Bush years when Jim Comey testified before Congress in one of the most riveting moments in Congressional hearing history. Please support Congressional Dish: Click here to contribute using credit card, debit card, PayPal, or Bitcoin Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Additional Reading Article: So What's the Deal with Air Traffic Control Reform? by Aarian Marshall, Wired, June 6, 2017. Article: Inspector General Reports on FAA's Efforts to Modernize the NAS by Rob Mark, Flying Mag, May 25, 2017. Article: The Wait for ATC Privatization is Over as White House Budget Emerges by Rob Mark, Flying Mag, March 16, 2017. Article: Shuster admits relationship with airline lobbyist by John Bresnahan, Anna Palmer, and Jake Sherman, Politico, April 16, 2015. Article: FAA seeks new air traffic controllers - no experience needed by Tanita Gaither, Hawaii News Now, 2014. Article: The Real Battle Over Air Traffic Control by Robert Poole and Dorothy Robyn, Reason Foundation, November 3, 2003. References Boston University: Dorothy Robyn Bio Hartzell Prop: Joseph W. Brown Bio Office of Inspector General: Calvin L. Scovel III Bio NATCA: Paul Rinaldi Bio Reason Foundation: Company FAQs Reason Foundation: Robert Poole Bio GovTrack: H.R. 4441 Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act Overview GovTrack: H.R. 4441 - Supporters vs Opponents GovTrack: H.R. 4441 - Text OpenSecrets: Rep. Bill Shuster OpenSecrets: Rep. Bill Shuster - Campaign Finance OpenSecrets: Airlines for America YouTube: James Comey testifies about Gonzales pressuring Ashcroft to OK spying Sound Clip Sources Hearing: Air Traffic Control Reform, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, May 17, 2017. Watch on CSPAN Witnesses The Honorable Calvin Scovel, III, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Transportation Joseph W. Brown, President, Hartzell Propeller, Inc. Mr. Robert W. Poole, Jr., Director of Transportation Policy, Reason Foundation Mr. Paul M. Rinaldi, President, National Air Traffic Controllers Assocation Ms. Dorothy Robyn, Independent Policy Analyst Timestamps & Transcripts 3:33 Chairman Bill Shuster: Today we’ll focus on the need for air traffic control reform, divesting the high-tech service, 24/7 service business, from government and shifting it to an independent not-for-profit entity. 4:20 Chairman Bill Shuster: Everyone should be reminded of what happens if we choose the status quo. It means our system will be subject to more budget constraints, sequestration, and threats of government shutdowns. Sequestration isn’t gone. In 2013 sequestration led to furloughs and reduced operations, controlled our hiring, and training suffered, and the FAA bureaucrats tried to shut down contract towers. Fiscal constraints continue to be tight, as so in the federal budget, and that’s not going to change anytime soon, and it may get worse. We continue to rely on the unstable, dysfunctional, annual appropriations cycle. We have had no stand-alone transportation appropriations bill since 2006, and over that time period, Congress has passed 42 continuing resolutions to keep government doors open. The FAA also relies on authorizing legislation, and it took Congress 23 short-term extensions over five years before it passed previous long-term FAA authorization bill. Under these conditions, the FAA bureaucracy has been trying to undertake a high-tech modernization of air traffic control system for over three decades. It’s not working, and it’s never going to work. 5:52 Chairman Bill Shuster: Some argue that the latest attempt to modernize NextGen is showing some signs of progress, but we all know any progress is incremental at best and only in locations where the FAA partnered with the private sector. And let’s remember the name NextGen was really just a rebranding of the FAA’s ongoing failed efforts to modernize the system. NextGen is just a marketing term, not an actual technology or innovation, but it sounds catchier so Congress will fund it year after year. But the bottom line is there should be far more progress by now. Money has never been the problem; Congress has provided more than $7.4 billion for NextGen since 2004. Results of the problem: according to the FAA’s own calculation, the return on the taxpayers’ 7.4 billion invested has only been about 2 billion in benefits. And we’ve still got a long way to go. According to the DOT inspector general in 2014, the projected initial cost for NextGen was $40 billion, but they’ve said it could double or triple and be delayed another decade. Over the years, the FAA has described NextGen as transformation of America’s air transportation network. They also said it will forever redefine how we manage the system. But in 2015 the National Research Council confirmed what was already becoming painfully clear. According to the NRC, the original version of NextGen is not what was being implemented. It is not broadly transformational and is not fundamental change in the way the FAA handles air traffic. Only in the federal government would such a dismal record be considered a success. 7:40 Chairman Bill Shuster: Some have proposed targeting reforms to fix the FAA’s problems, but that’s an approach we’ve already tried many, many times, starting in the 1980s. Since 1995, Congress has passed various reforms to allow the FAA to run more like a business. Procurement reform in 1995 for the FAA to develop a more flexible acquisition-management system. Additional reforms in 1995 exempt the FAA from most federal personnel rules and allow the FAA to be able to implement more flexible rules for hiring, training, compensating, and assigning personnel. Procurement reforms in 1996 developed a cost accounting system. Additional personnel reforms in 1996 allowed FAA to negotiate pay. Organizational reforms in 2000 to establish a COO position, additional forms to allow greater pay so the FAA could recruit good candidates, particularly for a COO position. Additional reform in 2000 by the executive order to create the Air Traffic Organization. Organizational reforms in 2003 to establish the Joint Planning and Development Office to better coordinate NextGen. Reforms in 2012 to establish a chief NextGen officer. Property management reforms in 2012 to allow a better process for realignment and consolidation of facilities. All have failed to result in the FAA being run more like a business. The FAA has always performed like a massive bureaucracy and will continue to. 9:33 Chairman Bill Shuster: Last year’s bill that passed out of committee will serve as a framework for new legislation, but we are open to change. We want to talk to people and get their ideas, and that’s what we hope to hear today. 9:45 Chairman Bill Shuster: Our air traffic control reform proposal will be based on the following principles: create an independent not-for-profit corporation to provide air traffic services; fund the new service provider by fees assessed for air traffic service; free the new service provider from governmental dysfunction, political interference, and the uncertainty of the federal-budget process; create a governance structure that is right sized and balanced; and a board with sole fiduciary responsibility to the organization—and I need to repeat that—fiduciary responsibility. That’s a legal term. If you’re on a board of directors in the United States and you have the fiduciary responsibility, it’s not to who appointed you to the board; it’s to the board, it’s to that organization is who you’re responsible for, and that’s the law. That’s just not some pie in the sky. People can be removed and be prosecuted if they’re not doing their fiduciary responsibilities. 11:47 Chairman Bill Shuster: Give the new service provider the ability to access financial markets, leverage private funding for multi-year capital projects needed to modernize the system. 12:35 Chairman Bill Shuster: The only way to realize these benefits is to get the government out of the way. As President Ronald Regan said, government is not the solution to the problem; government is the problem. And we see all over the world people turning to the private sector—whether it’s Europe or it’s Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada—look around the world: countries, governments, are looking to partner with the private sector because they see they do it better. 13:01 Chairman Bill Shuster: Since the introduction of the Air Act over a year ago, this has been an ongoing process of education and discussion. We’ve held over 130 meetings with stakeholders, including both supporters and opponents of the Air Act. We’ve had numerous meetings with members of the House, the Senate, the White House, and other committees. These meetings have been extremely productive and give us new ideas to improve the legislation. 14:20 Chairman Bill Shuster: Air traffic control is not an inherently governmental function; it’s a 24/7 technology service. For those who worry that the system is too complex, I would say this: the most complex thing in the air space is not the air traffic control system, it’s the airplane. It’s the people at Boeing and Airbus and Cessna and the people that build these aircraft—that’s the most complicated thing in the system. And the FAA already oversees those highly sophisticated private-sector aircraft manufacturing, maintenance, and flight operations at arm’s length. We don’t build airplanes today, the government does, and that’s the most complex thing in the system. 16:26 Rep Peter DeFazio: We are now on the cusp of a 21st century system that will be the envy of the world. And other experts—MITRE Corporation, others—say a massive change now, where you cleave the FAA into parts, you leave the most vital thing to our manufacturers—certification, subject to appropriations, sequestrations, and shutdowns—you leave the most vital thing that is important to the American public, which is safety and oversight of safety, subject to sequestration, shutdowns, and political meddling. The only thing that gets moved is the ATO, and the ATO would be moved and essentially effectively controlled by the airlines. I know that the airlines aren’t here today, perhaps because they haven’t looked so great recently in public, and I’d also note that the airlines themselves have had outages 36 times—major outages—36 times since 2015. I’m not aware that the national air traffic control system has had a major disruption, with exception of deliberate sabotage by a contractor who knew how to get the system and the backup system. But the airlines, on their own, with no sabotage, have managed to melt down their dispatch and their reservation systems 36 times, stranding millions of people, so they can do it better, right? 18:15 Rep Peter DeFazio: In terms of funding, the FAA has currently projected, over the next decade, to be 97% self-funded. Unfortunately, the way our colleagues around here and the budget process works, despite the fact they’re self-funded, they can be sequestered or shut down. That’s a simple, simple fix. Take it off budget, make it into a trust-funded program. They are raising the revenues. That’s a simple fix. No, we’re going to cleave it in half, put vital functions over here—still subject to sequestration shutdown—and take this one part and put it over here and say somehow they’re going to self-fund. Now, the question, of course, is, how are they going to self-fund? The airlines have told me time and time again, they hate the ticket tax, they hate the ticket tax; they say, that’s our money. I say, no, it’s not your money; I buy a ticket, I pay the tax, the tax goes to the government; it’s not your money. They say, no, no, that affects the price of the ticket and competition and everything else; it’s a horrible thing. So, if they do away with the ticket tax, there goes 70% of the revenues. Well, what are they going to put in its place? Oh, it’s going to be a per-operation charge or something; we don’t know. Congress will have no say over this. 22:11 Rep Peter DeFazio: See all that yellow? That’s the U.S. That is going to be totally ADS-B, satellite-based, in 2020, with an exception—the airlines that petitioned and been given permission from the FAA for exceptions because many of their older planes do not have modern-enough GPS systems to use the new ADS-B. The airlines again have petitioned that they have a number more years before those planes would be able to use the ADS-B system. Not the FAA, the airlines themselves. 28:38 Rep Peter DeFazio: They can set user fees. User fees, I consider to be taxes. I consider the ticket tax to be a user fee, but we can argue semantics over that. But they are going to determine how the system is funded, which is tantamount to taxation without review by the Ways and Means committee or Congress. 37:00 Joseph Brown: Now, as a pilot, 4 to 500 hours a year, my office is the cockpit; and when I fly, I find a modern system, a high-functioning system, and I’ve seen it evolve over time, right before my eyes. I find controllers that do their job well, I find easy access, and powerful technology. I can file a flight plan from my smartphone and get my proposed route back, before I get to the airport, in a text. When I take off, I have GPS navigation systems on board that allow me to fly point to point all over this country. Couple months ago, I took off out of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area and got cleared direct to Burlington, Vermont, 1300 miles ahead. And while I’m flying, I have the veil of safety brought to you by ADS-B, which is in fact deployed, giving me traffic callouts and separation cues and weather in my route of flight. And when I come in for landing, I can pick from 3,000 precision approaches, brought to me by a NextGen feature called WAAS, including at my home airport, which I value tremendously on foul-weather days. So, the bottom line for me is, NextGen is working—it works for me every day—and it’s getting stronger all the time. And from a technology standpoint, I believe we’re on the right track. 43:30 Robert Poole: Business Roundtable group began in 2011, made an initial presentation to A4A in the spring of 2012. We got a pretty cool, if not negative, reception at that point. No one wanted to restart the battles that had raged over this issue in previous decades. Everything changed in the spring of 2013, thanks to the sequester. Controller furloughs closed FAA Academy; threatened closure of 189 contract towers got everybody’s attention. In response, A4A, NATCA, and AOPA all requested new conversations with the BRT working group. And in May 2013, all three groups in the conference room at Business Roundtable agreed that an air traffic control corporation, converting the ATO into a corporation, self-funded, and out of the federal budget was the best approach. After this happened, that fall, Governor Engler and several others briefed Chairman Shuster on the proposal. This was not coming from the airlines. BRT group included a former FAA administrator, a former chief operating officer of the ATO, two former senior officials of USDOT and several consultants. Our governing model, as I said, was patterned after Nav Canada’s. Their stakeholder board represents airlines, general aviation, unions, and the government plus four other private citizens selected by the stakeholder members. 47:50 Paul Rinaldi: NATCA members guide approximately 70,000 flights per day in the United States, ensuring over 900 million passengers arrive safely at their destination every year. The United States Airspace System is considered the gold standard in aviation community, but that status is at risk. Unstable, unpredictable funding and status quo threatens it. We need a stable, reliable, predictable funding stream to operate our current system and allow for growth in the United States aviation system. 48:30 Paul Rinaldi: We also oppose any system that would put ATC in a for-profit model. In order for NATCA to consider a support of any proposal, it must meet our four core principles of reform. First, any new system must keep the safety and the efficiency of the National Airspace System the top priority. Second, any reform must protect our members’ employment relationship. This must maintain our members’ pay, benefits, retirement system, healthcare system, as well as the work rules in our contract. Third, any reform system must have a stable, predictable funding stream adequately enough to support air traffic control services, growth, new users, staffing, hiring, training, long-term modernization projects. Also, this reform must provide a stable funding stream through a transition period. Fourth, any reform must maintain a dynamic, diverse aviation system that continues to provide services to all segments of the aviation community and to all airports across America. 50:10 Paul Rinaldi: Please don’t take NATCA’s position as a need for stable, predictable funding as to mean the appropriators have not done their job. The appropriators in both chambers of Congress, on both sides of the aisles, have done their job well. The problem stems from lack of regular order we’ve been experiencing for over 10 years now. This lack of regular order has led to stop-and-go funding, many threats of shutdown, and our current staffing shortage. We’re at a 28-year low of fully certified controllers. We have 10,532 certified controllers; approximately 3,000 of them are eligible to retire at this time. 50:47 Paul Rinaldi: Unstable funding has prevented on-time implementation of NextGen modernization projects. NATCA takes pride in our role in partnering with the FAA in developing and implementing important modernization projects. We have successfully worked on many over the years. Unfortunately, all have been impacted by uncertainty of funding. If you just look at FY 2018, as we approached April 28 of this year, the FAA shifted its focus from NextGen to shutdown. We, then, received a one-week funding extension, followed by a five-month funding bill. While we’re elated over the funding bill, five months is certainly no way to plan for the future in aviation. Congress needs to pass an FAA reauthorization bill that provides stable, reliable, predictable funding. Congress should exempt the FAA employees from indiscriminate sequester cuts, otherwise we will see a hiring freeze, reduced staffing, furloughs, delays, reduced capacity, and suspension of key NextGen programs. 52:07 Dorothy Robyn: I am a policy wonk, and I’m a Democrat. I testified before some of you during the five years I spent in the Obama administration—first as the deputy under secretary of defense for Installations and Environment and then as the GSA Public Buildings commissioner, following the scandal at GSA. Previously, I spent eight years on President Clinton’s White House economic team, where, during his second term, I was the point person on aviation and air traffic control, among other issues. A policy focus I maintained after leaving the White House, first at Brookings and then as an economic consultant. The first point I want to make this morning is that corporatization of the air traffic control system is not a radical idea, nor is it a Republican idea. The Clinton administration tried unsuccessfully to do this in 1995 with its proposal to create a self-supporting government corporation—USATS—which would be run by a CEO and a board and regulated at arms’ length by the FAA. At the time, only four countries had corporatized their air traffic control system; now, more than 60 other countries have done so. 53:40 Dorothy Robyn: Air traffic control is not an inherently governmental function; it is not inherently governmental. Keeping planes safely separated is complex and safety-critical, but it is a purely operational process that follows well-established rules. Like running an airline or manufacturing a Boeing 787, air traffic control can be performed by a non-governmental entity as long as it is subject to oversight by FAA safety regulators whose job is inherently governmental. 54:50 Dorothy Robyn: Is it a monopoly? Yes, at least for now, but the telephone system was a monopoly for many years, and we didn’t have the government operate that. 55:03 Dorothy Robyn: The current arrangement is flawed on safety grounds. This is important. Echoing safety experts worldwide, ICAO, the International Civil Aviation Organization, has long called for the air traffic control regulator to be independent of the operation it regulates in order to avoid conflicts of interest. We are one of the only industrial nations in which the same agency both regulates and operates the air traffic control system. 1:06:00 Rep Peter DeFazio: So, let’s see, if I think about it, funding, sequestration, shutdowns—that all has to do with Congress. So if we had the FAA with its current funding sources, 97% projected over the next 10 years, so just a few efficiencies would get us to 100% self-funded, without meddling, exempt them from sequestration and shutdowns, would that solve many of your concerns—I’m not saying all—but would that solve many of your concerns, Mr. Rinaldi? Paul Rinaldi: Yes. 1:07:01 Peter DeFazio: Who would be responsible if the ATC failed financially in this country? Joseph Brown: Well, that’s one of my risk calculus when I think about this problem. The day the assets move out of the public sector and into the private sector, we’ve moved the essence of the system and the people with it. And there’s no way we can spend one day without that system full functioning and healthy and thriving. And so all the financial risk accrues to the people, regardless of where that monopoly reports. DeFazio: So, too big to fail. Brown: Too big to fail is my concern. 1:10:45 Joseph Brown: First, you have to invent and deploy the technology, which has generally been the FAA’s purpose, but then the user community has to equip and in many cases change equipment to experience the benefits, and that’s exactly where we are right now, and that’s why there’s an inflection point coming up. We have ADS-B fully deployed on a nationwide basis in terms of the ground structure, but only a percentage of the aircraft flying enjoy the benefits because they are not ADS-B compliant. Likewise, that will be true of Data Comm and other technologies. So, where we are right now is the FAA has done a lot of heavy lifting, and the users have to equip. 1:12:08 Chairman Bill Shuster: I would oppose going for a for-profit organization. 1:14:08 Rep Rick Larsen: Can this system be safe and broken, or should I drive? Calvin Scovel: It is safe, of course. And that’s— Larsen: How can it be safe if it’s broken? Scovel: —certainly a big plus for the FAA. Larsen: It seems to me that there’s a fundamental argument going on here— Scovel: Yeah. Larsen: —that says we have to go to privatization because the system is broken that actually controls the airspace. And if it’s broken, I don’t know how it can be safe, and so it would support the privatization argument. However, if it can’t be safe and broken, it would seem to undermine the whole argument for privatization. Scovel: I would characterize the system currently, it certainly is safe, and the record shows that. For a number of years now, no commercial aviation fatal accidents. As far as broken, I would take issue with that characterization. I would say certainly modernization has been lagging far behind where it should be, but it’s not broken. Larsen: Well, that’s good to hear. I’ll cancel my car rental. 1:31:37 Joseph Brown: I don’t think the comparison of our national airspace and management system to Canada is anything other than an exercise in gleaning some observations, but it’s not proper to directly compare. I mean, for sure, in our system we’re driving a much more substantial portion of our economy out of the aviation sector and the airspace that supports it. I mean, we have 10 times more pilots, 50,000 flights a day—it’s a wholly different organization. So for me, when I think about Canada, I believe that they made a choice that they thought suited their purposes with the role of aviation and its infrastructure, but we’re faced with entirely different objectives here, and as far as I’m concerned, the system that we’ve been living in has done a masterful job of adjudicating all of the interests of stakeholders, all the interests of our expansive country and the states that are in it and their needs, and so I can applaud things they’ve done that have worked for their country, but I also very much applaud things we’ve done in our country. And I would take exception to one thing Ms. Robyn said, which is she characterized our system as a laggard. That is just false. We have the technology deployed in our system today that no other country can rival. We lead in our NextGen initiative. So I’m pretty proud of where we are, and by the way, I know it because I fly it. It’s not a mystery, and it’s not a theory. 1:34:15 Calvin Scovel: As you know, my office looked at the air traffic control organizations for the other four countries. And we were told by officials in those organizations that they consider part of their borrowing authority to be leveragable or to be recognized by private lenders because, ultimately, should something drastic go wrong, the government would step in behind them. I’m not representing that that would be the case here—that’s your policy call to make—I’m simply relaying what officials for other air traffic control organizations have told us about their systems. Rep Albio Sires: So, in those four countries, they were on the hook? Is that what you’re saying? Scovel: Conceivably, they may be. 1:38:50 Rep Mark Meadows: Why would you suggest that the federal government can do something more efficiently than, perhaps, private stakeholders? Joseph Brown: You know, my calculus— Meadows: Can the federal government run your business better than you do? Brown: I would hope not. Meadows: I would hope not either, so why would you suggest that they can do that here? Brown: Well, because we’re talking about a range of interests here that’s much larger than my business. I mean, my business, I get to pick my product, I get to pick my customers, I get to decide what I think the value proposition is, I get course corrected by competition— Meadows: And it’s efficient that way, right? Brown: Yeah, but the— Meadows: So what if we had stakeholders who were making the same exact decisions that you’re making, with some parameters that are out there, wouldn’t you think that that would be more efficient? Brown: Actually, you’ve outlined my top concern which is that if this organization picks their customers and picks their service level and picks their product— Meadows: But, but— Brown: —they are no longer going— Meadows: But the chairman’s— Brown: —to pay taxes on public— Meadows: —already said that that can’t happen. We have an airspace that is available to everybody. Unknown Speaker: Gentleman’s time’s expired. Meadows: Thank you for [unclear] point. Unknown Speaker: Mr. Brown, you can finish, if you wish. Brown: I believe that I’ve made my point which is that the thing about this enterprise, one of the things that I’m concerned with is that it’s a coalition of stakeholders with a shared purpose which is to serve their own ends. And the thing that I like about the federal role in our airspace today is that is adjudicates an enormous diversity of needs in this community, whether it’s the Alaskan pilot who’s flying kids to school or whether it’s my business in Ohio or air tractors in Olney, Texas, they all have a seat at the table, and this has been demonstrated in this room today. Meadows: Yeah, my time has expired. 1:49:30 Dorothy Robyn: The FAA is two hatted; it does two very different things. It regulates all aspects of aviation, and that is an inherently governmental activity. You cannot write a contract that makes it possible for the private sector to carry that out. It requires judgment calls that the private sector can’t make. It also operates in the air traffic control system. There is nothing government—that is not inherently governmental; that is operational. That is no different than when GSA goes to the private sector and has them build a building. It is not an inherently governmental activity. The idea that, yes, the regulatory part of the FFA needs help. That part needs help. I agree with Mr. Brown. The idea, though, that in order to fix that, you don’t spin off the non-governmental part; that’s illogical to me. That’s exactly what you want to do—spin off the non-inherently governmental parts so that the FAA can stick to its knitting, focus on the regulatory function. 2:23:25 Rep Lloyd Smucker: Can you explain why you believe a regulated air traffic service provider would be outside of democratic oversight? Joseph Brown: It’s my understanding that this would be empowered as a business that can effectively decide what it invests in, how much it borrows, what technologies it picks, maybe what— Smucker: But still with congressional oversight. Brown: Well, are we going to have a committee for how they spend their money and what they invest in and where they deploy pappies and vassies and where they put up the next Data Community tower? Because if we are, why would we carve it out? 2:31:00 Rep John Duncan: I chaired the aviation subcommittee for six years, from 1995 until 2001, and Speaker Gingrich asked me to hold the first hearings on the proposed air traffic control corporation—Ms. Robyn, I think, will remember that—and at that point, I think almost everybody, maybe with the exception of Mr. Poole, was opposed to it and so forth. But the chairman, Chairman Shuster’s done an amazing job and now has brought some groups and people on board that were not in favor of this proposal at the time. 3:11:34 Paul Rinaldi: September will be here before we know it. We will be looking at another possible government shutdown, and as I said in my opening statement, as we lead up to a shutdown, the FAA turns their attention from NextGen or from UAV implementation to shutdown procedures. For the last 10 years, it happens a couple times a year, and we lose this time; and it’s four or five weeks leading up to it, five weeks on the back end of it, and they’re not sure what sequester is going to bring us if we actually do get a budget and do get a bill passed or what type of cuts we’re going to have into the aviation system. Hearing: Airline Customer Service, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, May 2, 2017. Witnesses William McGee, Consumers Union Aviation Consultant Scott Kirby, United Airlines President Timestamps & Transcripts 2:34:43 Rep Dina Titus: We’ve heard all this kind of ranting about how bad the airlines are and all these unfortunate experiences, and yet pretty soon this committee is set to consider a proposal to privatize air traffic control and hand over billions of dollars’ worth of investment and assets to a private corporation that’s going to be controlled by y’all, by the airlines, and then you’ll be able to run it as you see fit. Now, I’m opposed to that for a number of reasons, primarily because of how it’s going to leave customers kind of in the lurch, but my question is, what do you have to show that means you’re going to be able to take over this corporation and do well by your customers from that angle any better than you do from your angle that you are now? For example, there’re questions like, how much is the traveler going to have to pay to this corporation; what kind of things have you done at your airline in terms of routing that might be better that you’ll do through this corporation; terms of investment and technology, management decisions; what have you done about your own scheduling? All of those questions that have seemed to be criticized today, how are they going to translate into your being able to control air traffic control system through a private board? So, maybe y’all could just tell me some of the things you’re doing that would make an argument for why you should control that aspect of airlines as well. Scott Kirby: Well, thank you for the question, Congressman. And we believe that one of the ways we can actually help our customers is through ATC privatization. The worst thing we do to our customers is the long delays and cancellations. And those lead to customer service problems, they lead to the customer that gets to McCarran and is upset, and we want to fix that. And the FAA is a fantastic partner, and they want to fix that as well, but they’re handicapped today by the model, by the model where they do annual budgets, where investing for the future and the kinds of investments we need to make for the future are hard for the FAA to do in the normal course of business in the government. And the kinds of things that we could do to make the process better is, for example, you have more sophisticated GPS technology in your car than we use on aircraft today. We have these systems, and we could fly straight-line routes, but we still fly zigzag to highways in the sky to get from Washington to Las Vegas. We could do things like continuous-descent approaches. So today we’re at 35,000 feet, we step down in each one. It’s like driving your car and slamming on the accelerator and then hitting the brake, slamming on the accelerator—and we burn gas, and we take more time. All of that could allow us to fly shorter paths and get our customers there quicker. And we believe it’s one of the best things we could do for customer service is to reform the ATC program, and one of the best ways to do that is FAA privatization, not because the FAA is doing a bad job—they do a wonderful job—but the process is designed to be difficult and particularly for making long-term investments. 3:58:43 Rep Peter DeFazio: The question would be, well, now if we give control of the air traffic system to the airlines—effective control—four seats on a 13-person board, what do you think that means for customers and efficiency? William McGee: Well, it’s going to be particularly hard felt in the high-density airports and the busiest airports in the country. Now, I mean, what you just said is obviously a critical-enough issue: 17 flights scheduled at the same time. But underlining that is another problem that hasn’t really been discussed and that is the outsourcing—and it is outsourcing; the airlines call it partnering—but outsourcing of mainline flights to regional carriers. Up until recently, I don’t know if it’s still on there, but the Regional Airline Association on its homepage posted about the fact that not only more than 50% of all domestic departures operated by regionals on behalf of major carriers, but in addition they boasted of the fact that most of the departures every morning between New York and Washington, two of the busiest airports, not just in the country but on the planet—LaGuardia and Washington National—are operated by regionals. So, we have to ask ourselves, is that the best use of those slots to use smaller aircraft on some of the highest— DeFazio: So you’re saying that just because you’ve got a small aircraft and basically, maybe, you can follow it a tiny bit more closely, a little bit more closely, but because of wake turbulence, you’re taking up, basically, a slot with 60 people on board versus a slot with 180 people on board. McGee: Absolutely. I mean, I’m rusty on some of these issues; it’s been a long time since I worked as an airline dispatcher. But the bottom line is that, as they used to say, all metal requires x amount of space between it. So whether it’s a large aircraft or a small aircraft, there are differences with wake turbulence and things like that. But the bottom line is, again, are we using—these are public resources, let’s remember. These are not airline resources. The slots, they belong to the public. They’re treated as if they were private domain—but are we using them to the best ability in many ways, not just in terms of safety and efficiency but also in terms of the carbon footprint? 4:01:50 William McGee: And I think we also want to ask, well, why would they do that? Now, the response often comes from the airlines that customers prefer high frequency to consolidating flights. But there’s also another factor that doesn’t get discussed as much and that is the competition factor. In other words, if you have scarce slots at LaGuardia and you’re trying to prevent the competition from low-cost carriers, then use more frequencies out of those airports. Again, these are the most high ensity airports that we’re talking about. Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations

Las Vegas Web Design & Marketing Insights
Hey Las Vegas: It's Not 1994!

Las Vegas Web Design & Marketing Insights

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2017 3:55


Last week my husband and I dropped off family at McCarran airport and on the way back to the parking deck, I stopped cold in my tracks in unbelief and disappointment for Las Vegas marketing when I saw this blurry, pixelated attempt at advertising: Most locals walk past these advertisements daily without a second thought. And that's a problem. Poor, outdated presence has become part of Las Vegas cheese. But as owner of a digital marketing agency, my heart is for design, presence and first impressions. And when I saw a multi-million dollar Strip hotel casino with a faded, blurry and flat out ugly wall banner that looked like it had been there since the airport was constructed, it confirmed for me that Las Vegas has an online culture problem. We have come to love this community, its people and the organizations that make it up, so we hate to see beautiful places like this present themselves as less than. So let me tell you a bit about why this strikes a chord with me: I grew up an hour south of Cleveland, OH with a work ethic and a strive for excellence and quality. Many parts of northeast Ohio are rural and I suppose the culture carries its farmer roots when it comes to work principles. It's not unusual to see people who still live in their 1800's well-kept family home. Buildings don't fall apart after 10 years, jobs aren't finished until the customer is happy, and business websites are modern and up to date. Companies understand the importance of quality representation online. Let me give you an example from a small winery in Hartville, OH called Maize Valley. This is a tiny local winery off State Route 619 that you finally arrive at once you pass fields upon fields of corn (hence the name). They're not famous, and their wine isn't the best you've ever tasted, but you would never know that by their presence online. Maize Valley sits on beautiful land and they know it. So what do they naturally show off on their website? The very thing that makes them great! (And in a modern, high quality way might I add). Las Vegas is a much younger culture than those closer to the East coast and it has settled and become comfortable with an outdated online presence. The 1990's still dominate this region's graphics, usability, look and feel. It's embarrassing. I could ruthlessly list outdated website after website, posts, banners, and endless advertisements I've encountered since relocating that I would be too ashamed to put my name on and label "finished work." We're talking serious, established, legitimate companies that anyone would be (unpleasantly) surprised to land upon. It just doesn't match up. There is no consistent experience. But there will be no name and shaming. Instead, we're looking to shape the culture in Las Vegas and bring a modern, high quality standard through our agency. Las Vegas is a leader in tourism, entertainment and attractions and every business here should reflect that on every front. Las Vegas should lead online. Here is a prime example of what that looks like: Below is the old, "before" screen shot of Nevada NASA Programs, a division of Nevada System of Higher Education at UNLV. It was a typical, unimpressive, outdated website. Every state offers NASA Programs, but we wanted Nevada to be the leader and the best so that when other states check them out, they're absolutely floored. And so we did. This is the new face of Nevada NASA Programs and you can believe other state programs are talking. I highly encourage you to check out their live site as it's even better than the screen shot (spoiler: the 3D effects are awesome!) The technology exists. We know how to use it and wield it for good. Your company website should be your hardest working, best looking employee on staff. We're here to introduce Nevada to twenty-first century modern web design.

the Fallout Feed
Let's Play Fallout: 1.023 - the Fallout Feed

the Fallout Feed

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2017 43:05


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Security Expert Shows You How To Get Through Airport Lines Faster

DPL-Surveillance-Equipment.com

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2016


Click Here Or On Above Image To Reach Our ExpertsSecurity Expert Shows You How To Get Through Airport Lines FasterMobile PassportStumbling off a 13-hour flight from Hong Kong a few weeks ago, I dreaded the long queue at border control. But instead of joining hundreds of other weary travelers in the cattle drive, I launched an app. Like an angel from on high, an airport employee whisked me to an empty—yes, empty—line reserved for tech-savvy travelers.Even if you're not planning a trip immediately, do yourself a favor and download the free Mobile Passport for Apple and Android phones now.With the app, American and most Canadian citizens can skip the slowest part of U.S. Customs by using a smartphone to import passport details, snap a selfie and answer basic questions.By entering all your info in the app, there's no filling out forms or queuing to use one of the newer photo-booth kiosks that immortalizes your airplane hair in a government database.Even with the app, you'll still need to travel with your real passport. And you'll still have a brief customs interview—the one where an officer looks you in the eye and asks whether you handled any livestock abroad or are smuggling snails. Think of Mobile Passport less as a replacement and more like a Fastpass at Disneyland.This app earns props from me because two decades into the mobile phone revolution, so much of the U.S. government feels stuck on the rotary dial. Only one state, Iowa, has begun testing a smartphone driver's license, even though the tech could vastly improve the security, not to mention the convenience, of our most ubiquitous form of I.D.PRO-DTECH II FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Mobile Passport brings the government and tech industry together to solve a real pickle: Funding for customs officers hasn't kept pace with surging international arrivals at U.S. airports. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Airports Council International, a trade group, teamed up to make the Mobile Passport app with Airside Mobile, whose founders helped introduce the first mobile boarding passes in the U.S. It is paid for by sponsors including Boeing, and its functionality could be incorporated into future airline apps.The result: Wait times are going down. Other tech efforts are helping, too, including automated kiosks and a $100 program called Global Entry that requires your fingerprints. But Mobile Passport is free and about as fast as Global Entry. It's especially good for families and takes zero planning, other than remembering to download an app. Though simple, it can be confusing if you don't know what to expect. Here's the play by play:Step 1: Open the app. Add your real passport details, either by typing them or by scanning your passport with your phone's camera. Then take a selfie. No hats or duck face, please—this is official business.CELLPHONE DETECTOR (PROFESSIONAL)(Buy/Rent/Layaway)If you're traveling with your family, you can add the whole gang to your app. And you can do it all from home, from the airport or even on board the flight (assuming you already have the app). All your family's personal info is stored on the phone for future uses, locked behind a passcode you set.Step 2: On your never-ending return flight, you'll have a little bit of homework. Pull out your phone—yes, even in airplane mode—open the app, tap New Trip, select a participating airport and answer four basic questions.PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)It's an abbreviated version of the standard white-and-blue U.S. Customs form. You and your family members won't need the paper form; if your flight crew is pushing it hard, show them you have the app. Bonus: No scrambling for a pen. You can also fill out this information in the airport after you land.Step 3: When you're back on American tarmac, turn on your phone's cellular or Wi-Fi connection, open the app and press a button. The app submits all the info you just entered to customs, and gives you back a digital receipt with a QR code. This is your ticket to the express lane.PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Step 4: When you get to the border control area, find the dedicated Mobile Passport lane. It should be much, much, much shorter than the regular lane. If you don't see it, just ask; it's so short, it may be hidden.When your turn comes, hand over your passport to the customs officer and wave the app over a scanner. After you answer a few questions, you're on your way to the luggage carousel. You'll scan the app one more time after you grab your bags.Since it launched in 2014, Mobile Passport has been used more than 380,000 times. Now it's available in 13 airports, covering 62% of international fliers. (It should pass 20 airports by the end of this year; find a full list here.) It doesn't currently work at land or sea ports—and, of course, it won't speed up queues outside the U.S.RE-ENTRY ON THE FAST TRACKUse Mobile Passport at these airports:Hartsfield-Jackson AtlantaChicago O'HareDallas/Fort WorthDenverFort Lauderdale-HollywoodMiamiMinneapolis-St. PaulNew York, JFKNewark LibertyOrlandoSan FranciscoSan JoseSeattle-TacomaIt's coming soon to:Raleigh-DurhamTampaWashington DullesPRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)I had a smooth experience using Mobile Passport at San Francisco International Airport, but my parents had more challenges on a recent flight into Newark. There, airport staff who weren't familiar with the app hustled my parents along to the regular line. Ouch. If you get pushback from airport staff, “be somewhat insistent,” said Dan Tancier, the CBP's Director of Travel and Tourism Initiatives.I followed up with a few more questions:Aren't phones banned in customs? That used to be the case, but those signs are coming down. Still, don't even try filming officers or their computer screens.Does the government use Mobile Passport to track us? No. Your information stays on the phone until you transmit it upon landing. “Nothing extra is being collected other than what is on your passport and what you enter into the app,” Mr. Tancier said.Is it secure? It is, so long as you are mindful of your phone. The app encrypts your data and stores it on your phone; you never create an account in the cloud. Your data is protected by a four-digit code; please don't choose 1234.When you submit your data to customs, it is encrypted and never saved on a nongovernmental computer.Does using Mobile Passport make you more, or less, likely to be questioned by customs staff? Officials say they treat you just like any other passport holder. If you're smuggling goods into the U.S., they're still onto you, even if you use the app.When more people find out about this app, won't it be less efficient? When Mobile Passport first came out, some flight attendants were hesitant to recommend it to passengers out of fear passengers would fill up their secret fast line. But at airports where it has grown popular, such as Miami, local officials have been able to add additional Mobile Passport lines, because it doesn't require much overhead.More to the point, studies have shown a Mobile Passport user requires about a fifth as much time at border control as a traditional passenger because there's no futzing with forms or data entry. The lesson: Using Mobile Passport speeds up everyone, so there's no reason to keep it a secret.WIRELESS/WIRED HIDDENCAMERA FINDER III(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Airport Security Shortcuts Other Than PreCheckWould you pay $10 to $15 a month for a guaranteed cut to the front of some crowded airport security lines, even ahead of PreCheck members and first-class passengers?Clear is a private trusted-traveler program sanctioned by the Transportation Security Administration. It has lanes at only 13 airports—San Francisco, Denver and Orlando, Fla., among them.Once enrolled, members go to Clear's faster lane instead of TSA and have their identity verified by fingerprint or iris scan. Then they go straight to the X-ray machine. The speedy service is finding new life because airport security screening lines have disrupted so many passengers this year.PRO-DTECH IV FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Enrollment this year through June tripled, compared with the same period a year earlier, and now 500,000 people are enrolled. Delta Air Lines bought 5% of the company in April. It will be giving Clear memberships to its top-level frequent fliers and helping Clear open up at more airports, including Delta hubs, by the end of this year.Airports like Seattle-Tacoma International, which has had big problems with long lines, have invited in Clear, with service to start in July. Sea-Tac had been talking with Clear for several years, and decided to bring it in before wait times escalated, airport spokesman Perry Cooper says.Clear says it is making it easier for airports to make room for its operation at crowded checkpoints by shrinking the space it needs, moving from large kiosks to portable computer tablets for its ID verification. By the end of the year, Clear will be in 24 airports, chief executive Caryn Seidman-Becker says.“When you don't have to take anything out of your wallet, it's transformative. It's step one to a faster, better experience,” she says.Verifying identity at TSA checkpoints is just the beginning of what Clear and other biometric technology companies hope to do at airports. Just as ATMs shortened bank waits and toll tags sped up driving, identifying people by their fingerprints, eyes or photographs may shorten airport lines and speed up what has become a lengthy process.Clear and Alaska Airlines are already using biometrics in San Jose, Calif., for boarding passes—travelers can get on flights with just their fingerprints. Clear hopes airlines will start using biometrics to simplify entrance to airport clubs—two fingers on a reader instead of showing a card or having a clerk verify membership.Wireless Camera Finder(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Customs and Border Protection's Global Entry program uses fingerprint readers to identify trusted travelers who can skip passport control lines. Airlines are working on baggage tags issued from biometric identification instead of driver's license and reservation number. And retailers may someday use biometrics to speed up purchases at airport stores, since Clear has customer credit cards on file.Another path: sports stadiums. The San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies and Miami Marlins are using Clear to give fast access to member fans at baseball games. The New York Yankees have tried Clear for suite access.Clear doesn't do background checks. It verifies identity by checking passports or driver's licenses, plus specific questions on past history similar to credit-application type queries. Enrollment can be done in a few minutes. Clear originally issued cards, but now just identifies members by the fingerprints, iris scans and photographs it collects.At checkpoints, Clear employees verify identity, check boarding passes through TSA's system, then carry the Clear member's bags to the X-ray machine belt. All Clear members still go through physical screening.MAGNETIC, ELECTRIC, RADIO ANDMICROWAVE DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)The cost of such privilege is $179 a year, but Clear does offer discounts, such as a current $59 Groupon for a nine-month membership. Family members are $50 and children under 18 are free. Delta says it will offer free Clear memberships to its diamond-level frequent fliers shortly and discounted rates for all members of its SkyMiles frequent-flier program.Clear was launched in 2006 by Verified Identity Pass Inc., a company founded by New York journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill. He was frustrated that the newly formed TSA was putting everyone through the same screening process even though some people were willing to undergo background checks for expedited screening.Verified Identity won over few airports and few customers and went bankrupt in 2009. A new company, Alclear, bought Clear out of bankruptcy in 2010 and offered to honor the 160,000 existing memberships. Alclear was formed by Ms. Seidman-Becker and co-founder Ken Cornick, Clear's president and chief financial officer. The company is based in New York.COUNTERSURVEILLANCE PROBE / MONITOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Some travelers say the certainty of not having to wait in TSA lines at airports with a Clear station allows them to schedule more meetings on business trips or spend more time at the beach. They can show up at the airport only a few minutes before flights start boarding.“It's almost like you're paying to get out of jail,” says John Ormesher, a Florida-based semiconductor distributor who travels frequently for business and pleasure and signed up for Clear in January 2015. He's loved it so far. “As PreCheck has gotten more and more crowded, it really is nice, because if there are 25 or 30 or 50 people in a PreCheck line, we jump right ahead of all those folks,” Mr. Ormesher says.But others think it's wasteful, since PreCheck lines are usually relatively short, even when regular screening lines are long. Phil Corriveau, a consultant in Raleigh, N.C., signed up for Clear when it first started and renewed his membership for five years. He still has more than two years remaining, but he hasn't bothered to reactivate.

Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast
APG 201 – Know Where You’re Going?

Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2016 156:18


The crew for this week's episode is Captain Jeff, Doctor Steph, and our new regular crewmember, Captain Nick. Do you know where you're going? Apparently, pilot crews on a couple of flights in the last few weeks didn't. What we can tell you, though, is the APG knows. We have set our sights on continuing to improve our show and grow our community! NEWS Plane lands on taxiway instead of runway in Seattle Andre Turcat, Captain On Concorde’s First Flight, Dies At 94 United Airlines Chief, Oscar Munoz, Has Heart Transplant After flying South & Circling over Strait of Malacca, EY#440 diverts: FL24... Shades of MH370? Malaysia Airlines pilot queries flight path Report: Government not ensuring airline pilots’ skills are sharp FEEDBACK Yunus - Garmin 1000 Capt. Al - Handicapped Airline Pilot Tom Seagraves - British Airways jet that caught fire before takeoff at McCarran to fly again Mark Van Raam - APG 198 feedback & Havana Jerry - First feedback from Taiwan! Virtual Captain Paul - Voice feedback Louis -  Decision time.........for pilots Passenger Ken - Alternates Hillel - This Plane Lost An Engine With Cameras in the Cockpit David - Heads Down NASA ASRS Callback Newsletter Subscription Sign-up CHIRP Aviation and Maritime Confidential Incident Reporting Newsletter Sign-up Joe Schema - Ground crew safety Capt Oli - Book Recommendation SpaceX Nails Falcon 9 First-Stage Landing Cant. Oli - Stabilized Approach Criteria Big Ron - TV drone crashes during ski race - Marcel Hirscher at Madonna di Campiglio Capt. Oli - Medical questions Big Ron - DJI F550 Hexacopter crash after flight above the clouds Steve Horne - Oops! Ken - Nice article on RC model of 747-400 Dispatch Gregg - ATC Callsigns Scott Richardson - Can I avoid becoming a bug splat on an A-10 windscreen? Capt. Nick - Old Curmudgeon on the Phonetic Alphabet Nick Carson - Episode 200 Congrats Nevil Bounds - Thanks for Episode 200! Christopher Sims - Happy 200 episodes, & some Audio feedback Hillel - Congratulations on ep 200! And on your community! EPIC! VIDEO Audible.com Trial Membership Offer - Get your free audio book today! Give me your review in iTunes! I'm "airlinepilotguy" on Facebook, and "airlinepilotguy" on Twitter. feedback@airlinepilotguy.com (304) 99-PILOT (304) 997-4568 airlinepilotguy.com ATC audio from http://LiveATC.net Intro/Outro music by Tim Brown, BrownHouseMedia, iStockphoto.com Copyright © AirlinePilotGuy 2016, All Rights Reserved

360 Vegas
E-185: Riding the Moustache

360 Vegas

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2015 65:40


Uber & Lyft approved for McCarran, Showcase Mall Purcahsed, Self Service Craft Beer @Nacho Daddy and loads of rambling that didn't get cut from the show.

Faces And Aces: Las Vegas
S1E7: Fast But Not Furious

Faces And Aces: Las Vegas

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2015 68:02


August 28, 2015 – Welcome back Katie! Aaron & Chris discuss another trip to Vegas. We reveal our own Batman-esque hitchhiking robot  hitchBAT and talk about how the Gold Strike Hotel and Gambling Hall let us use the 1966 Batmobile! A special thank you to vegasnews.com for letting us use your Richard Petty car image. Show Notes: Elvis Exhibition, dashboard cookies,  hitchBOT, hitchBAT What Happened In Vegas News: Uber / Lyft at McCarran, Medical MJ Dispensary in LV Faces: Ricky talks about some of the muscle cars, stock cars and exotic cars that you can open up and drive 160MPH at the Richard Petty Driving Experience and  LV Motor Speedway! Aces: SLS, Gold Strike Hotel and Gambling Hall, You Can Bet On That Podcast Tip The Player: Hofbräuhaus, Red Rock, Aliante, Richard Petty Driving Experience, Shelby Museum, Mt. Charleston, Titanic Exhibition, Leticia’s Mexican Cocina Speedway Children’s Charities, Victory Junction

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Merrimack Warrior Hockey
Teddy McCarran Intermission (10/05/14)

Merrimack Warrior Hockey

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2014 6:21


Intermission with Merrimack FR F Teddy McCarran.

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FSBreak - The Flight Simulator Podcast
FSBreak 13: Orbiter Space Simulator, X-Plane Impressions, FSDreamTeam McCarran, and More!

FSBreak - The Flight Simulator Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2009 87:20


Hosted by Eric McClintock, Richard, Mark, and Adam.Listen Here:Subscribe to automatically get the latest podcast: iTunes, Zune, RSS XML, E-Mail, All Other.FSDreamTeam’s Las Vegas McCarranFeatures: Fully customized ground and runways in high resolution, both in FSX and FS9 Animated custom ground vehicles. Full 3d taxiways lighting. Improved Night Effects High resolution building textures. NEW ParkMe? [...]

The VegasCabbie Show  [iPod]
The VegasCabbie Show #6: The VegasCabbie in San Diego

The VegasCabbie Show [iPod]

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2008 21:01


This week the VegasCabbie takes a break from his visit to San Diego to give you the lowdown on the long vs short route from the airport.

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The VegasCabbie Show  [AppleTV]
The VegasCabbie Show #6: The VegasCabbie in San Diego

The VegasCabbie Show [AppleTV]

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2008 21:01


This week the VegasCabbie takes a break from his visit to San Diego to give you the lowdown on the long vs short route from the airport.

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The VegasCabbie Show  [iPod]
The VegasCabbie Daily #1: Storing Your Luggage

The VegasCabbie Show [iPod]

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2008 1:55


Today's daily tip explains where you can store your luggage when you get in too early to check in.

The VegasCabbie Show  [AppleTV]
The VegasCabbie Daily #1: Storing Your Luggage

The VegasCabbie Show [AppleTV]

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2008 1:55


Today's daily tip explains where you can store your luggage when you get in too early to check in.

The VegasCabbie Show  [iPod]
The VegasCabbie Show #3: Late to the Airport

The VegasCabbie Show [iPod]

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2008 12:49


This week The VegasCabbie gives you an insider tip on what to do if you get to the airport late for your flight and answers more viewer questions.

The VegasCabbie Show  [AppleTV]
The VegasCabbie Show #3: Late to the Airport

The VegasCabbie Show [AppleTV]

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2008 12:49


This week The VegasCabbie gives you an insider tip on what to do if you get to the airport late for your flight and answers more viewer questions.

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Reagan Years (1981-1988)

Congress repeals embarrassing Act which banned visitors from the US because of their political beliefs. This archive edition of Letter from America was recorded by one of two listeners, who between them taped and labelled over 650 Letter From America programmes from 1973 to 1989. It was restored by the BBC in 2014.