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Best podcasts about Megabus

Latest podcast episodes about Megabus

Cold Pod
Ep135 - "The DIY Continuum" with Moon King

Cold Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 94:46


Moon King is a Toronto based musician, producer and DJ who's most recent EP 'Roses' was released last year on Arbutus Records. Moon King sat down with us to discuss knowing each other for 20 years, our high school bands, working as a session drummer, the Rosedale music program, Spiral Beach, the golden age of Toronto DIY, Montreal overshadowing Toronto in the 2010s, The House of Everlasting Superjoy, Sterling gentrification, the $1 Megabus as a connector for DIY scenes, 64 Augusta, The White House, Phedre, covering The Beastie Boys, Shae Stadium, Silent Barn, Andrew WK, Torn Curtain, when Moon King was a band, playing in an early version of DIIV, the tunnel between 285 Kent and Glasslands, living in Detroit, Doldrums, The Ward, Detroits influence on his later music, Ryan Spencer, learning to DJ with 2lanes, the blog era, getting a bad Pitchfork review, the death of music media and more!Moon KingJosh McIntyreNick Marian----COLD PODSign up below to access all episodes:https://www.patreon.com/c/coldpod

Thank F*ck For That with Sarah Keyworth & Micky Overman
Thank F*ck For Megabus (in my Levi's)

Thank F*ck For That with Sarah Keyworth & Micky Overman

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 45:51


Welcome to this week's episode A.K.A the best episode we've ever made because we recorded it in a perfect scenario (7am on a Monday). Sarah and Micky are on tour together throwing TVs out of windows and staying in the spookiest hotel in York. Meanwhile Lucas has become the king of Stockton on Tees. We also discuss the Megabus and how we'd like to be murdered. We hope you enjoy, apologies its a couple of days late. We love you!Sarah: https://www.sarahkeyworth.co.uk/Micky: https://www.mickyoverman.com/Lucas: https://www.lucasjefcoate.com/ Get an uncut version of this episode on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thank F*ck For That
Thank F*ck For Megabus (in my Levi's)

Thank F*ck For That

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 45:51


Welcome to this week's episode A.K.A the best episode we've ever made because we recorded it in a perfect scenario (7am on a Monday). Sarah and Micky are on tour together throwing TVs out of windows and staying in the spookiest hotel in York. Meanwhile Lucas has become the king of Stockton on Tees. We also discuss the Megabus and how we'd like to be murdered. We hope you enjoy, apologies its a couple of days late. We love you!Sarah: https://www.sarahkeyworth.co.uk/Micky: https://www.mickyoverman.com/Lucas: https://www.lucasjefcoate.com/ Get an uncut version of this episode on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yellow Brit Road
Yellow Brit Road 13 October 2024: Live Shows, Welsh Music Prize Ceremony, New Music!

Yellow Brit Road

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2024 31:13


This week's show (prerecorded on the TTC and Megabus) checks in from live shows: we recap recent UK and Irish bands playing shows in Canada: Yard Act, Nia Archives and Fontaines D.C.! Jaz also phones in from Cardiff to tell us about attending the Welsh Music Prize ceremony and to talk about the year in Welsh music. Plus the best new releases, including music by Razorlight, Rachel Chinouriri, Cat Burns, Ezra Collective, Honeybadger, Kofi Stone, Mannequin Flowers, Nia Archives, Sports Team, Lava La Rue, Master Peace, LEMFRECK, Yard Act, Fontaines D.C., The Astros, Kings of Queens, Tiny Horse. Find this week's playlist here. Do try and support artists directly! Touch that dial and tune in live! We're on at CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston, or on cfrc.ca, Sundays 8 to 9:30 PM! Get in touch with the show for requests, submissions, giving feedback or anything else: email yellowbritroad@gmail.com, Twitter @⁠YellowBritCFRC⁠, IG @⁠yellowbritroad⁠. PS: submissions, cc music@cfrc.ca if you'd like other CFRC DJs to spin your music on their shows as well. Like what we do? Donate to help keep our 102-year old station going!

Shaun Keaveny's Daily Grind
Return of the Impressions + Dan Tiernan's Mega Bus Doozy

Shaun Keaveny's Daily Grind

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 37:20


There's (probably) some fairly strong language in this podcast, so it might not be suitable for all ages. If you want to email the Daily Grind you can email us: shaun@radiox.co.uk. Or you can text us (for you standard network rate) on 83936 (start the message with GRIND).If you like the episode please leave a review and subscribe to get the Daily Grind in your feed everyday at 5pm.

The Quantum Leopard Podcast
Episode 22: Bobbie Jones

The Quantum Leopard Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 30:18


Bobbie Jones is a superb queer comedian & writer, wielding a turn of phrase like a falchion of fun, and alongside a wonderful QL set she talks with host and MC James Ross about shaved tits, the Megabus and how pain is not the root of all creativity. If you'd like to see more from Bobbie, she regularly performs with QL's Northern sibling Blizzard Comedy (they're taking a brief hiatus at the moment, but you can catch loads of their content HERE) or you can find her on TikTok HERE - very fun if you're into Zelda and/or Björk. EDITOR'S NOTE: Unfortunately Bobbie's audio wasn't great, so I had to piece it together a bit more diligently than usual. Mostly successful but there are a few points here and there where it's a bit... crunchy. My apologies! Do you want to see Bobbie whip a study out of thin air? Then consider joining our Patreon where you can get early access to podcast episodes and watch full videos of Quantum Leopard comedy shows, from the high-energy openers to the loveliest of headliners, including the set from this very episode! Quantum Leopard is a lovely comedy night for lovely people and you can find more links to info about us here: https://linktr.ee/quantumleopard   Edited by Rhys Lawton Original show recording by Aniruddh Ojha Music is by ROOKES production services (https://www.iamrookes.com/)

City Cast Houston
HISD Closes Audit Meetings, Tree Thief, and RIP Megabus

City Cast Houston

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 25:39


Host Raheel Ramzanali and Dusti Rhodes, comedian, educator, host of the Moth Story Slam in Houston, are getting you ready for the week as they discuss why HISD is making their audit committee meetings private and what it means for transparency, how a local university just set a new record, a bizarre theft which has Houstonians baffled, and more! Featured stories: Houston ISD's audit committee has held public meetings for more than 17 years. It no longer will. University of Houston enrolls record-breaking first year class of more than 6,200 students Judge rejects Attorney General Ken Paxton's attempt to shut down Houston immigrant rights group Once-popular Megabus departs Houston and Texas after bankruptcy filing 'Who steals trees?' Neighborhood baffled by unusual crime caught on camera in north Houston Superintendent Mike Miles Answers YOUR Questions About HISD The Moth Story Slam in Houston Learn more about the sponsors of this August 27th episode here: Downtown Houston+ Holocaust Museum Houston Looking for more Houston news? Then sign up for our morning newsletter Hey Houston  Follow us on Instagram  @CityCastHouston Don't have social media? Then leave us a voicemail or text us at +1 713-489-6972 with your thoughts! Have feedback or a show idea? Let us know!  Interested in advertising with City Cast? Let's Talk! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transit Tangents
Ep. # 34: The History of Regional Buses In The US

Transit Tangents

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2024 28:25 Transcription Available


What if a simple bus ride could reveal the fascinating history of American transportation? Join us on Transit Tangents as we uncover the incredible story of intercity bus travel in the United States, starting with Carl Eric Wickman's entrepreneurial journey in 1914. From the humble beginnings of motorized stagecoaches to the revolutionary coast-to-coast routes established by the Yelloway Pioneer system in 1928, this episode promises to transport you back in time and shed light on how Greyhound became an iconic symbol of cross-country travel.Explore the dramatic rise and eventual decline of bus travel in America, focusing on the rivalry between Greyhound and Trailways. We'll discuss how World War II and the post-war suburban boom fueled the popularity of buses, only for it to wane in the face of automobiles, interstates, and airlines by the 1970s. Greyhound's surprising business diversification, including ventures into meatpacking with the Armour Company and unexpected forays into pharmaceuticals and cruise lines, is sure to captivate you as we trace its efforts to navigate changing times.Fast forward to the 1990s and 2000s, where we see a resurgence in intercity bus travel with new players like Megabus and Flixbus transforming the industry. Discover how technological advancements like online booking and smartphone apps have breathed new life into the bus travel experience, despite some humorous hiccups with onboard Wi-Fi. And don't miss our playful connections between Dial Soap, Vienna sausages, and Mickey Mouse as we celebrate the rich, evolving tapestry of intercity bus travel. Buckle up for an engaging ride through history and into the future of this quintessential American journey!Louis recreated the Yelloway Pioneer Map from 1928 that you can see on Google Maps here for those who are interested: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=15C9-rcuMo-txoKzIfq71Ke68mGuy9j0&usp=sharingSupport The Show: https://buymeacoffee.com/transittangentsSend us a Text Message.Support the Show.

Marketplace All-in-One
The Fed says one thing, investors hear another

Marketplace All-in-One

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2024 7:54


Wall Street investors bet on extra rate cuts this year, in spite of Fed predictions that there will be just one. Plus, Megabus parent company Coach USA has filed for bankruptcy after ridership dropped during the pandemic and failed to recover. And for Baltimore firms, work on the Francis Scott Key Bridge reconstruction is personal.

Marketplace Morning Report
The Fed says one thing, investors hear another

Marketplace Morning Report

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2024 7:54


Wall Street investors bet on extra rate cuts this year, in spite of Fed predictions that there will be just one. Plus, Megabus parent company Coach USA has filed for bankruptcy after ridership dropped during the pandemic and failed to recover. And for Baltimore firms, work on the Francis Scott Key Bridge reconstruction is personal.

Wintrust Business Lunch
Wintrust Business Minute: Owner of Megabus files for bankruptcy protection

Wintrust Business Lunch

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2024


Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. The company that owns Megabus has filed for bankruptcy protection. Coach USA made the filing in Delaware and says it owes creditors between $100 and $500 million. Megabus has commuter lines connecting Chicago to dozens of Midwest cities. The filing says […]

Great Company with Jamie Laing
STEVEN FRAYNE (the magician fka DYNAMO): I'M LIVING PROOF YOU CAN ESCAPE DARK TIMES

Great Company with Jamie Laing

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 62:23


TW: This episode contains discussion of suicideLiving in fear, burying the past and discovering magic in unusual places, STEVE FRAYNE is one of the most successful magicians of our time, having overcome health issues, bullies, and an alter-ego that came to be too much to live up to.Having destroyed his alter-ego, DYNAMO, in December 2023, Steven chats to Jamie about the beauty of naiveté, arriving in London on a £1 Megabus from Bradford, to taking a leap in the states, which ultimately led to him to find the persona of Dynamo. It's a story inspired from humble origins of watching his grandfather perform magic [06.55], which has enabled him to overcome shyness and connect with people all over the world [28.22]. Steven also opens up about finding light after dark times [34.59]AND of course, Steven blows Jamie away with some sleight of hand, and real magic. This episode is truly inspiring and shows that everyone has their own magic to share…If you enjoyed this episode, please click follow - we have so many great guests like this one, you won't want to miss out!You can also follow us on Instagram and Tiktok @greatcompanypodcastTHE CREDITS:Exec Producer: Jemima RathboneAssistant Producer: Gurlina HeerBooking: Ben JohnsVideo: Jamie GilbertGreat Company is an original podcast from JamPot Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Silly History Boys Show
Feel The Burn: The Great Fire of London part 2 (or Episode 88)

The Silly History Boys Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2024 29:41


FIRE! STILL FIRE!  If you thought the first part of our tale was overcooked, then get in on this chewy action!  The Great Fire of London is taking hold!  The Pear Bear is in search of Samuel Pepys and the other Silly Boys!  Mayor Bloodworth is flapping and there is nary a fire-hook to be seen!  Can the boys help this fine old city? Or will their family MegaBus seasonal pass prove a waste?  We'll meet Kings and Dukes, hang with shifty bakers and feel conflicted regarding poor watchmakers.  Come inside! It's warm. (and why not listen to Fire part 1 if this is your first exposure to us?) Big thanks to ZapSplat for music & SFX And to Lord Fast Fingers for the intro Hit us up on our Ko-Fi if you like what we do :) Please do Rate and Review - we'll love you for it.   

Drama School Dropout
Ep 179. Hannah Mary Taylor

Drama School Dropout

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2024 33:41


This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Hannah Mary Taylor. We chat about £1 Megabus tickets, Flatmates, Hannah's hatred for the Virgin Mary, Flatmates, the time Hannah flashed her entire year of Drama School, learning to let go and not care, rehearsing in working men's clubs, zoom drama school, your first time on stage being your BA Acting showcase, Gillian Anderson, working with friends, a Flatmates tour, classmates having fake babies and Tinder mishaps. Submit your story for Stage Right or Stage Shite: https://forms.gle/1p296t4Uu1F1XVvN9 Host: Ingram Noble Guest: Hannah Mary Taylor Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble Links: Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble Hannah's Instagram: @hannahmarytaylor Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout Get Tickets!  This Is Where We Get Off Tour Tickets: www.thisiswherewegetoff.co.uk

City Cast Philly
Philly's Bus Terminal Forced to Move...Again

City Cast Philly

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2023 17:21


Since Philadelphia's bus depot closed this summer, travelers riding with Greyhound, Peter Pan, and other major carriers have had to wait outside for buses near 6th and Market Streets, alongside curbside companies like Megabus. This area has no dedicated bathrooms, seating, or shelter for passengers. This week, the city is moving the bus stop again, to yet another temporary curbside location in a different neighborhood. Host Trenae Nuri speaks with Inga Saffron, architecture columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, who explains how the city lost its intercity bus station and argues that a form of transit so many people use deserves more respect. Read Inga's past coverage of shelterless intercity buses here and here. Want some more Philly news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter Hey Philly. We're also on Twitter and Instagram! Follow us @citycastphilly. Have a question or just want to share some thoughts with the team? Leave us a voicemail or send us a text at 215-259-8170. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

City Cast Philly
Parker's Transition Team, Johnny Doc Trial & New Police Union President

City Cast Philly

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2023 19:05


It's the Friday News Roundup! Host Trenae Nuri is joined by Chris Brennan, political reporter and writer of the Philadelphia Inquirer's Clout column, Marco Cerino, reporter at the Philadelphia Tribune, and Meir Rinde, investigative reporter at Billy Penn. They react to the news that the city is once again moving the bus drop-off/pick-up location for several major carriers. Then, they discuss what's next for Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker. Plus, the police union is getting a new president and what we know about the embezzlement trial of former union leader John Dougherty, aka "Johnny Doc." Our Friday News Roundups are powered by great local journalism:  Philly changes bus stop location for Megabus, Greyhound, other carriers  Democrat Cherelle Parker will become Philadelphia's first female mayor Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker begins the transition process by vowing to fix Philly's ‘hope deficit' Philly's FOP elects its first Black president Ex-union head John Dougherty's embezzlement trial starts this week. He could get jail time. Want some more Philly news? Sign up for our morning newsletter Hey Philly ! Have a question or just want to share some thoughts with the team? Leave us a voicemail at 215-259-8170.  Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THE UNOFFICIAL LOUNGE
UL #83 Tim Hedgepeth - Megabus Tim

THE UNOFFICIAL LOUNGE

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2023 88:20


Welcome #ACC Referee, Tim Hedgepeth, to the Unofficial Lounge. Tim shares his experience from having cornrows to riding the megabus to get to football games. Also, check out www.Refclinic.com. #ACC #SIAC #CFP  #NCAAFB #unofficiallounge #unofficialpodcast #la #losangeles #cfb #collegefootball #ncaa Find us at https://linktr.ee/unofficiallounge  Follow the host:  @805monty - Instagram @thechefandtheref - Instagram  @CravonneB - Twitter

Service Design YAP
Service Design YAP meets Scott Shaw: design leader ex- R/GA ex-Beats by Dre

Service Design YAP

Play Episode Play 19 sec Highlight Listen Later Nov 1, 2023 45:41


In this episode we meet the multi disciplinary designer, Scott Shaw and hear his four tactics for designing experiences that engage humans.   He also shares tips about how he made his relationship with his "design husband" work, and how pervasive experience branding is ruining the game of cricket.Scott  has held various design leadership roles both in house and in agency. Having cut his teeth at R/GA and Huge, he's gained experience across the board on projects ranging from storytelling platforms for the visually impaired to full scale plant management software.References from the show: Universal Everything.  Fantastic any hypnotic AI generated walking figures.... prepare to lose an hour watching and guessing what's next. Super Mario Bros Designing On-Boarding  Elegant. Engaging. Does not feel like on-boarding. Service Design YAP is developed and produced by the Service Design Network UK Chapter.Its aim is to engage and connect the wider Service Design community. Episode Host: Stephen Wood Production Assistance: Jean Watanya

High Low with EmRata

Mobile, Alabama-born rapper Flo Milli stops by the pod to share the cinematic story of her come-up, from working at Metro PCS to riding the Megabus all the way to music biz success. Plus, Flo introduces us to some of her eclectic alter-egos. High Low is a finalist in the Signal Awards!  Vote for High Low with EmRata in the Signal Awards for Listener's Choice: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2023/shows/general/popular-culture-variety Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kevin & Query Podcast
Wednesday 8/9: Is Kareem Hunt heading to the Colts, Jonathan Taylor away from team + Stephen Holder & Doug Boles!

Kevin & Query Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2023 138:17


00:00 – 25:56 – Jake and company heading to Bruce Springsteen tonight at Wrigley Field, one person wins Mega Millions, Taylor Swift presale codes, Jonathan Taylor MIA at Colts camp, why does it seem the Colts best players always have drama attached to them, Kareem Hunt rumored to be meeting with Colts and why it's an awful look 25:57 – 31:33– Morning Checkdown 31:34 – 43:34 – Shane Steichen talks about Jonathan Taylor's absence from practice yesterday, timeline of Jonathan Taylor's ankle, Taylor's comments following surgery back in January, why is this injury situation lasting so long? 43:35 – 1:06:54 – Jake tells a story about Doug Boles' family at the airport, IMS President Doug Boles joins us to discuss the Brickyard week at IMS, ticket sales, road course vs. oval, thoughts on the 500 this year, the Kyle Kirkwood tire situation, Crown Hill Cemetery, ketchup potato chips, Morning Checkdown 1:06:55 – 1:29:45 – ESPN Colts reporter Stephen Holder joins us to discuss where Jonathan Taylor is currently as he's away from training camp, who blinks first in Colts/Taylor stand-off, the Kareem Hunt rumors, Shaq Leonard's status heading into preseason games, running back situation outside of Taylor, over/under 4.5 quarters played for Anthony Richardson in the preseason, which conference will Miami be playing in in 5 years, college realignment 1:29:46 – 1:58:14 – The possibility of the Colts signing Kareem Hunt, why it would be such a horrible look for the Colts, recliners, Jake's visit to Chicago to see Bruce Springsteen at Wrigley Field tonight, MegaBus, over/under win totals for the NFC North and AFC South, Morning Checkdown 1:58:15 – 2:07:05 – POP QUIZ 2:07:06 - 2:18:16 – What the Brickyard weekend used to be, Kareem Hunt stats, Colts curious depth chartSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

THE WEEKLY DRIVER
#263, Megabus returns to California market

THE WEEKLY DRIVER

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2023 33:51


Megabus, the discount city-to-city bus system, debuted in 2006. Marketed as having served more than 50 million customers in more than 500 cities, the express service features tickets between metro cities for as little as $1 each way. The travel option available throughout the United States and in Europe, has had successes and failures. But with heavy travel season approaching, Megabus recently announced its return to the California market. According to its press release, May 15 marked the return of Megabus to California with three trips daily between Anaheim, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Fresno, San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento. Colin Emerson, VP Commercial for Megabus, is our guest this week on The Weekly Driver Podcast. While co-host Bruce Aldrich is on vacation, James Raia interviews Emberson about the service's return to California. Megabus began its service on April 10, 2006 in the United Kingdom and advanced to the United States within two years with routes between Chicago and Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and St. Louis. Several major city hubs were quickly added as the inexpensive travel option had increasing success as a commuter and vacation travel option. "We pride ourselves in being a really good value-based, reliable, green option for people to get around," said Emberson. "We want to make it as easy as possible. We want to make it as enjoyable as possible." Like many businesses, Megabus face challenges during the pandemic. "We have a very good product and we know there's a need for affordable, safe to get folks around, Emberson said. "What we do is look to offer a really good value when things are a little bit slower. When the domain is high, the prices will reflect that." A recent search for a ticket from Sacramento to San Francisco within the month revealed a one-way ticket for as low as $7.77. A return ticket was also available for the same price. Emberson emphasized that passengers can use the service with the company's app as little as five minutes before departure. Most Megabus users book tickets like airplane travel with advance purchases and with ticket prices based on supply and demand. Another popular travel option, Emberson noted, is random travel with the company's "fare finder." The idea is explained: A trip from Sacramento leaving on June 27 at 3:05 a.m. at arriving in Los Angeles at 2:05 p.m. also costs $7.77. A return trip leaving at 7:05 a.m., and arriving at 7:15 p.m., also costs $7.77. A trip leaving June 27 and returning June from Las Vegas to St. George, Utah, is as low as $52 each way. A trip from Louisville, KY to Evansville, Ind., on the same dates is as low as $40. Some off-hour, low-demand travel is as little as $1 per each way. All transactions included a $3.99 service fee. "We did see quite a lot of folks buying very last-minute tickets which, I guess, is somewhat surprising to me that somebody on a whim might take in some cases an eight, nine or 10-hour bus ride," said Emberson. "But I guess some people live a little more spontaneously than I might." Megabus also has a call center to assist passengers with ticketing and other information. The company's website is https://us.megabus.com/.  The telephone number is 877-462-6342. The Weekly Driver Podcast encourages and appreciates feedback from our listeners. Please forward episode links to family, friends and colleagues. And you are welcome to repost links from the podcast to your social media accounts. Please send comments and suggestions for new episodes to James Raia via email: james@jamesraia.com. All podcast episodes are archived on www.theweeklydriver.com/podcast Every episode is also available on your preferred podcast platform.

Tim Conway Jr. on Demand
Hour 1 | Mega Bus or Mega Hours? @ConwayShow

Tim Conway Jr. on Demand

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2023 29:24


Valentine's Day Anniversaries: Curse or Treat // Sports Talk/Football Camp/Bending the Truth w/Tim Jr. // Car Show / Mega Bus Travel Options // Restaurant Prices/ Crozier and Female Judges

The Mo'Kelly Show
More Metro Attacks, Angels Pride Night & Bees…

The Mo'Kelly Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2023 30:29


ICYMI: Later, with Mo'Kelly Presents – Thoughts on L.A. County Supervisor Janice Han demanding answers after woman is attacked on a Metro train AND Anaheim mayor Ashleigh Aitken extending an invitation to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to be her guests at Angels Pride Night…PLUS – Bees are not your friend - on KFI AM 640 – Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

8 More Than 92
Megabus

8 More Than 92

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2023 76:02


This week on The 8 More Than 92 podcast (sorry for the break lol) Harrison , Tonio, and and Kendall discuss who would be their goto lawyer: Joe Proctor or Davis McClain, Dillion Brookes being a scapegoat, Action Jackson Mahomes, DaWhite baby daddy for DaBrat, a homeless revolt, Ebonie K Williams comments, and Chris Brown Runnin it across Ushers Eye …. As always this is The 8 More Than 92 Podcast, we always keep it

FomoCast
Gran Turismo, Mega Bus, And Disney Speedstorm

FomoCast

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2023 70:02


Chris and Tim come at you this week with the usual talk of all things Disney from park news to a De-Aged Harrison Ford for the new Indiana Jones. They also talk about how well Mario Bros movie is doing and the trailer for Gran Turismo. Tim gives a review of the new game Disney Speedstorm which is in Paid Beta.

Modern Mindset with Adam Cox
422 - Mark Venables on New Transport Research.

Modern Mindset with Adam Cox

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2023 11:13


Adam Cox is joined by Mark Venables, Managing Director at megabus, to discuss new research which suggests 3 in 4 Brits are rethinking which modes of transport we use. They look at why bus companies may have experienced an increase in use due to the rail strikes and cost of living crisis, and how this is affecting Brit's travel plans. Low cost coach and train travel in the UK | megabus.com  

Wintrust Business Lunch
Wintrust Business Minute: Megabus is returning to Chicago

Wintrust Business Lunch

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2023


Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Megabus is returning to Chicago. The company is teaming with Miller Transportation to launch and expand its services. The partnership will increase service options in 56 cities and connect Chicago to 23 cities. The partnership will also enhance service in Louisville, […]

The Detroit Evening Report
Megabus Expands Routes Between Detroit and 13 Midwest Cities

The Detroit Evening Report

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2023 2:52


Megabus announced a new partnership with Miller Transportation to expand service options for the Midwest, including connecting Detroit with 13 cities. Plus, Detroit's First Independence Bank receives $12.5M to support minorities, Pistons play in Paris and more. Do you have a community story we should tell? Let us know in an email at detroiteveningreport@wdet.org.

Women Talk & Empowerment Radio Show
Happy New Blessed Year! My Crazy Experience on The Megabus

Women Talk & Empowerment Radio Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2023 30:27


Happy, blessed new year to everyone what's up what's up? Welcome to today's podcasts. I'm your podcast hosts Shareta Barry. I want to say happy. Blessed new year to everyone out there. I hope that your new year is going blessed. I hope that you enjoyed your family over the holidays. Hey this is a crazy Podcast today cause I'm gonna talk about my craziest crazy experience first time riding the MegaBus. When was the last time that you took a trip and it just went south of the broader? To be a guest on our Spring Festival Shows email sharetaberry@outlook.com

Best of The Steve Harvey Morning Show

Sit in the middle seat of a plane or ride the Mega Bus for 8 hours?  Wear shoes on the wrong feet or really tight underwear? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HORSE
Ep. 110: I Guess There's No Wind Indoors

HORSE

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 70:07


Full Court Press: WNBA Playoffs Recap, Sue Bird Send-off, and Donovan Mitchell Trade  That Actually Happened: Adam Attended His First WNBA Game!  3-on-3: The Three Shortest and Three Farthest NBA Franchise Relocations  And Also: Mister Softee, Mise En Scène, Magic School Bus, Clean Shaven Adam, Bo Burnham, Berrrrng, Matt Bonner AKA Red Rocket, Manti Te'o, Savannah Bananas, Twerking, Gamecocks, Eyeball Massages, Super Sense, HORSE Osmosis, Hella Waspy, Shellfish Textures, Sea Bugs, Expense Boy, Leg Juice, Terrible Signage, Bougie Food Courts, Red Panda, Little Dippers, Jonathan Doordash, Dick Versace, Giant Bass Pro Shops, Joel Osteen, Atlantic Yards, Megabus, Hug Bill Walton    Sponsor: BetterHelp: Get matched easily with a licensed, board-accredited counselor today. More than 3000 therapists with 38 million+ counseling sessions are ready to help you! Get 10% off your first month at www.betterhelp.com/horse.    Find Us Online - website: horsehoops.com - patreon: patreon.com/horsehoops - twitter: twitter.com/horse_hoops - instagram: instagram.com/horsehoops - facebook: facebook.com/horsehoops - multitude: multitude.productions   HORSE is hosted by Mike Schubert and Adam Mamawala. Created by Eric Silver and Mike Schubert. Edited by Mischa Stanton. Theme song by Bettina Campomanes. Art by Allyson Wakeman. Website by Kelly Schubert.   About Us On HORSE, we don't analyze wins and losses. We talk beefs, dig into Internet drama, and have fun. The NBA is now a 365-day league and it's never been more present in pop culture. From Kevin Durant's burner accounts to LeBron taking his talents anywhere to trusting the Process, the NBA is becoming a pop culture requirement. At the same time, sports can have gatekeepers that make it insular and frustrating for people who aren't die hard fans. We're here to prove that basketball is entertaining to follow for all fans, whether you're actively watching the games or not. Recently featured in The New York Times!

Today in PA | A PennLive daily news briefing with Julia Hatmaker

Palmer Township police are warning all parents to be cautious when posting back-to-school photos on social media. Megabus is expanding its Pittsburgh service. Today marks the first day of the hunting seasons for species that rank among the smallest and largest game birds. Finally, this stranded bride and groom had the right to remain married on time.

GRAPPL Spotlight
Spotlight: “Lex's Megabus” w. GRAPPL Gareth (CM Punk vs Jon Moxley, All Out build, AEW backstage strife, Dynamite, N1, Luger A&E doc)

GRAPPL Spotlight

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2022 155:06


Benno and JP are joined by GRAPPL Gareth to talk a big news week for AEW as Jon Moxley beats CM Punk in record time on Dynamite, as the lads talk the positive and negative of the big match/angle and what will be next on the road to AEW All Out.They also talk the rest of Dynamite, Omega & Ospreay, all of the backstage issues coming to a head in AEW, as well as the Lex Luger A&E documentary and JP's thoughts as the N1 comes to a close!SHOWNOTES1:10 Intro20:14 WWF UK only PPVs, Ariel Helwani's Top 10 British Wrestlers38:33 Lex Luger Doc on A&E1:02:22 Punk vs Moxley, AEW Dynamite, Rampage2:19:15 N1 VictoryThanks to our patrons for supporting the podcast, with special thanks to current Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Günther Daniel, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns & LFDOOM.Get the extended version of Spotlight with pre and post-show, as well as live video, daily updates, weekend previews and all our bonus content at Patreon.com/GRAPPL!Subscribe to GRAPPL Spotlight:Spotify || Apple || Google || YouTube || TuneIn || Stitcher || RSSFollow us on Twitter:Benno || JP || GRAPPLDownload GRAPPL the wrestling rating app:App Store || Google Play || GrapplApp.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Justin Moorhouse About 30 Minutes No More Than 45

Justin catches up with Brennan Reece backstage, Benji Taylor in Stockport, and King of the North West Podcasts, Jamie Hutchinson in the car. #Janet and Justin chat about football, gigs and the weather. Justin tells us What He Reckons about Love Island before the sign off.   Get in touch or #AskJanet here: WhatsApp  – 07495 717 860 Twitter – @3045podcast Email – podcast@justinmoorhouse.com   PODCAST LINKS:   Bask, Stockport: http://thisisbask.co.uk/   THIS WEEK'S GUESTS:   Brennan Reece: https://www.brennanreece.com/   Jamie Hutchinson: https://twitter.com/JamieHComedy   THIS WEEK'S GIGS:   See Justin on Saturday here: https://www.ents24.com/wakefield-events/the-calder-vale-hotel/comedy-at-the-calder-8/6521942   AND/OR on Saturday here: https://www.theatresevern.co.uk/shows/shrewsburyinternationalcomedyfestival/justin-moorhouse/   See Justin on Sunday here: https://www.facebook.com/events/565977765158915/?active_tab=about   Stretch and Think 22-23 Tour:   https://justinmoorhouse.seetickets.com/tour/justin-moorhouse   Music by Liam Frost. Produced by Rachel Fitzgerald and Justin Moorhouse.

Sal and Chris Present: Hey Babe!
Secret Impractical Jokers PUNISHMENT with Andrew Santino | Sal Vulcano & Chris Distefano Present: Hey Babe! | EP 84

Sal and Chris Present: Hey Babe!

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2022 63:13 Very Popular


Hey Babe! is a podcast where comedians Chris Distefano and Sal Vulcano share stories and have fun. Let your hair down & come hang out with the BABES! This week the babes are LIVE FROM JOEY ROSES!!! They are joined by comedian  @Andrew Santino  from  @Bad Friends  Shout out Hotels Tonight! Booking hotels day of is freedom. Sal has a nightmare experience at a hotel on the road. Chris loves going on impulsive trips with no plans. Pack a book bag and GO BABES! Is over planning a bad thing? Sal talks a bout a brutal punishment they can never get on air for Impractical Jokers. Shout out Megabus! Are you pro or anti vestibule? Benjamin Franklin woulda got MURKED on Shark Tank. Clean versions of music on radio STINK. A man saves his own father after a heart attack. Chris got pulled over for driving crazy. Andrew talks about his friendship with Patrick Mahomes II. Andrew has been going on adventures around the world! Peaches used to mean something else. Prostate exams are LIT FAM. Bobby Lee walked out of the new Jurassic Park movie. Top Guns secret message. HEY BABE! Support the sponsors to support the show shipstation.com code heybabe blenderseyewear.com code heybabevip betterhelp.com/heybabe butcherbox.com/heybabe code heybabe Follow The Show! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/heybabepod/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/heybabepod Support the sponsors to support the show https://linktr.ee/Nopreshnetwork Follow The Show! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/heybabepod/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/heybabepod Chris Distefano Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/chrisdcomedy/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/chrisdcomedy Website - https://www.chrisdcomedy.com/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/chrisdcomedy/videos Sal Vulcano Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/salvulcano/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/SalVulcano Website - https://salvulcanocomedy.com/ Our Producer @TheHomelessPimp https://www.instagram.com/thehomelesspimp/ https://twitter.com/homelesspimp?lang=en #Comedy #ChrisDistefano #SalVulcano #HeyBabe #Podcast    

News Headlines in Morse Code at 15 WPM

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Joe Biden Monkeypox should be something everybody is concerned with USA TODAY USA TODAY Ukraine peace deal Kyiv rules out ceding land to Russia Monkeypox Israel and Switzerland confirm cases Pennsylvania Senate candidate Fetterman released from hospital after stroke 35 tonnes of baby formula flown into the United States Australia election Anthony Albanese signals climate policy change Crews upright Megabus after it rolled onto its side on I 95 WBAL TV 11 Baltimore President Biden visits South Korea 23 ABC News KERO Verstappen wins in Spain to take title lead Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, kept secret database, report says Inside the push that landed a Trump legal adviser on a federal election advisory board Colonel in Irans Revolutionary Guard assassinated Afghanistans female TV presenters cover their faces Pampered pooches ride Japans Shinkansen in style Ukraine rejects concessions as Russians attack in east and south Canada storms Nearly a million homes lose power in high winds Military plane carrying 39 tons of baby formula arrives in U.S. Man Shot and Killed on Subway in Manhattan Man City win title after thrilling fightback

News Headlines in Morse Code at 25 WPM

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Monkeypox Israel and Switzerland confirm cases President Biden visits South Korea 23 ABC News KERO Pennsylvania Senate candidate Fetterman released from hospital after stroke Joe Biden Monkeypox should be something everybody is concerned with USA TODAY USA TODAY Ukraine peace deal Kyiv rules out ceding land to Russia Military plane carrying 39 tons of baby formula arrives in U.S. Canada storms Nearly a million homes lose power in high winds Australia election Anthony Albanese signals climate policy change Man City win title after thrilling fightback Colonel in Irans Revolutionary Guard assassinated Afghanistans female TV presenters cover their faces Inside the push that landed a Trump legal adviser on a federal election advisory board Man Shot and Killed on Subway in Manhattan Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, kept secret database, report says Verstappen wins in Spain to take title lead Ukraine rejects concessions as Russians attack in east and south 35 tonnes of baby formula flown into the United States Crews upright Megabus after it rolled onto its side on I 95 WBAL TV 11 Baltimore Pampered pooches ride Japans Shinkansen in style

News Headlines in Morse Code at 20 WPM

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Man City win title after thrilling fightback Australia election Anthony Albanese signals climate policy change Verstappen wins in Spain to take title lead 35 tonnes of baby formula flown into the United States Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, kept secret database, report says Military plane carrying 39 tons of baby formula arrives in U.S. Pennsylvania Senate candidate Fetterman released from hospital after stroke Inside the push that landed a Trump legal adviser on a federal election advisory board Colonel in Irans Revolutionary Guard assassinated Joe Biden Monkeypox should be something everybody is concerned with USA TODAY USA TODAY President Biden visits South Korea 23 ABC News KERO Man Shot and Killed on Subway in Manhattan Ukraine peace deal Kyiv rules out ceding land to Russia Crews upright Megabus after it rolled onto its side on I 95 WBAL TV 11 Baltimore Afghanistans female TV presenters cover their faces Monkeypox Israel and Switzerland confirm cases Pampered pooches ride Japans Shinkansen in style Ukraine rejects concessions as Russians attack in east and south Canada storms Nearly a million homes lose power in high winds

Cold Pod
Ep11 - "Rejuvenation"

Cold Pod

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2022 65:53


We're back with another solo pod. In this episode the boys caught up to discuss Austin's birthday weekend in Montreal, bottle service, Snack n' Blues (RIP), Toronto being ‘back', Charlotte Cardin, Junos, the death of the ‘arms crossed cool guy', feeling rejuvenated, vice parties, going to the How Long Gone live podcast event, too many dudes at the party, the unreleased ‘Part 3' of Rob Gordon Pod, Josh maybe getting Covid, Mercury Retrograde, moving ‘slowly and with intention', Twenty Something's Austin, SXSW, Imagine Dragons and Foster the People opening for Josh's old band, flying Porter, Megabus, Adam Sandler, Ethel Cain, Kendrick Lamar and much more! Josh McIntyre Austin Hutchings ---- Cold Pod https://www.patreon.com/coldpod

Trusty Hogs
Ep30. Motherhood, The Megabus, & Murder Podcasts

Trusty Hogs

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2022 55:32


THE BIG 3-0! Thank you so much for all your support over the last 30 episodes - we couldn't do it without all your listens, reviews, tweets, and indeed patronage. Here's to many more x Thank you so much for listening! Support us at https://www.patreon.com/TrustyHogs for exclusive bonus content, merch, and more! Trust us with your own problems and questions... TrustyHogs@gmail.com Please give us a follow @TrustyHogs on all socials Be sure to subscribe and rate us (unless you don't like these little piggies - 5 Stars only!) Thank you to our Patreon supporters... EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Simon Moores / Guy Goodman / Janinna Bautista / Mary Fox PRODUCERS: Richard Bicknell / SBDubz / Elle / Richard Bald / Neil Redmond / Victoria Hutchison / Emma Walton / Karen & David Bull / Harald van Dijk / Kierah Leach / Tim & Dom / David Walker / Rachel R / Anthony Conway / Sadie Cashmore / Claire Owen-Jones / Kim Dubhghaill / Jess & Nick / Zoë / Jo Holmes / Caitlyn Lyth / Sarah & Molly / Melissa Dunkeld / Sarah Jarque-Deakin / Sarah & Adam With Helen Bauer (Daddy Look at Me, Live at the Apollo) & Catherine Bohart (Roast Battle, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats)

Amoral Support
Fugaz - Ep 65

Amoral Support

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2022 87:02


https://www.MarketExplainer.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MarketExplainer Big Man Gear: http://www.bigmangear.com Avenue Lucky: https://www.AvenueLucky.com --- Elon Musk does Twitpol asking if Twitter sucks, then buys nearly 10% of the company: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-stake-in-twitter-just-the-appetizer-wedbushs-dan-ives-says-163355410.html Update: Frontier and JetBlue are going to the mattresses over who can buy MegaBus of the sky discount airline Spirit: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/business/jetblue-offer-for-spirit/index.html FedEx will begin testing autonomous drones next year. Will this solve last mile delivery?: https://www.engadget.com/fedex-autonomous-drone-cargo-transports-elroy-air-chaparral-c1-130003209.html?src=rss ; https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/4/23006894/alphabet-wing-drone-delivery-dallas-kick-off GaryVee Surprises us again by buying a major league….Pickleball: https://www.thedinkpickleball.com/gary-vee-is-now-an-owner-in-major-league-pickleball/ --- Want to see cherubic faces? Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLOwdGY5vjd6tBp62y6of6A --- https://www.twitter.com/MarketExplainer https://www.facebook.com/MarketExplainer https://www.linkedin.com/company/MarketExplainer

Cross Talk:  The Kurtis & Paula Show!
Episode 50 | "Smurf Juice & The MegaBus" | 4.3.2022

Cross Talk: The Kurtis & Paula Show!

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2022 64:17


Welcome to episode 50 of "The Kurtis & Paula Show!"  Yes... this is Episode 50!  With a title like this one, it better be good!.  Tune in to hear about...•Spring Break•Paula's Windshield Washer Fluid Hack•We Seasoned The Grill!•It's Time For A New VacuumAll of this and more is what you'll find in Episode 50.View Kurtis' "How To" video by Clicking Here!If you're not caught up on episodes 1-49, now would be the time to catch up.  But don't miss this week's episode and tune-in each week!Be sure to connect with us socially...FacebookInstagramTwitterEmail us with questions at kurtisandpaula@gmail.comOur website is www.kurtisandpaula.com.Hope you enjoy!

Best of Roula & Ryan
9 am: Megabus Trips and Short Flights - 03/10/22

Best of Roula & Ryan

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2022 6:19


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Perfectly Boring
Freight Finance with Bharath Krishnamoorthy, CEO of Axle

Perfectly Boring

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2022 46:39


In this episode, we cover: 00:00:00 - Introduction  00:02:20 - “B's” Background and the Beginning of Axle Payments 00:06:40 - Why Transportation and Freight 00:17:00 - The Details and Risks of Working with the Industry  00:22:45 - Client Changes from Working with Axle Payments 00:28:30 - Axle Payments' Future   00:33:15 - How Axle Payments Makes Money 00:35:50 - The Supply Chain Crisis   00:39:00 - The Future of the Industry Links:Axle Payments: https://www.axlepayments.com TranscriptWill: Welcome to Perfectly Boring. I am Will Coffield from Riot Ventures.Jason: And I'm Jason Black from RRE Ventures.Will: And today on the podcast, we've got Bharath Krishnamoorthy, who is the founder and CEO of Axle Payments. And Bharath is joining us today to talk about the unbelievably boring and strange world of freight intermediaries and invoice factoring. Jason, this is a business you know pretty well—have known Bharath for a couple of years—but this was a really interesting discussion. You know, like, what were some of the key takeaways that you had from our discussion with [B 00:00:37]?Jason: Yeah, I think this is another classic case of an under-digitized industry that runs the world, right? It's a multi-trillion dollar industry that's run on paper, fax, Excel, phone calls, and human relationships. And you've got these freight intermediaries that actually benefit from all those relationships, those things are actually fantastic. That's what they want to be focusing their time on that allows them to offer great services to their customers, but we've got a new kind of class of tech companies coming in that are offering new financial services that allow for, kind of, QuickPay and faster payments in the industry. And that's a benefit to everybody involved, but the incumbents have a difficult time actually meeting those new demands of the market.And I think what B has built with Axle Payments is a way for that industry to focus on what they're best at, which I think is what we want to see technology and financial services do. So, I thought it was a fantastic discussion. And before we get too deep into the weeds, let's kick off the interview with B.Will: All right everybody, we are joined today by Bharath Krishnamoorthy, who is the founder and CEO of Axle Payments. Bharath, thanks for joining us today.Bharath: Yeah, thank you for having me, Will.Will: So, that I don't botch this going forward, Bharath actually goes by B. So, B, appreciate you being with us today. And I think maybe as kind of a way of kicking off the podcast, what we've been kind of doing throughout the first couple of episodes is having the founder give a little bit of a background just on, sort of, themselves personally, kind of your personal and professional background that ultimately led you to founding Axle Pay, and then we'll kind of dive into the business from there.Bharath: Sure. Sounds good. So, my personal background, I grew up in New Jersey, moved to Virginia in high school with my family, studied economics at JMU in Virginia, and then moved to New York for law school. So, graduated from Columbia Law School, practiced as an attorney here in New York, doing M&A and private equity work, which is about as fun as it sounds.And sort of parallel with this, my co-founder, Shawn, who's my high school best friend, had taken a slightly different path. So, you know, he went to UVA for school and then started working in the FinTech space, a couple of different FinTech startups of varying sizes. And throughout this, we'd started a bunch of small businesses together. Those have been the projects where I'd felt the most energized and the most excited to actually do work. It seems sort of obvious to me, and I think to him as well, that down the road, that's what we ultimately wanted to do, right, was to build something really dope together, something big enough that it could be our full time jobs, right, where we could quit our jobs and just work on something awesome together.And the obvious difficult question was, you know, what are we going to build? So, in 2017 when I was working as a lawyer and Shawn was working at this tech startup in DC, we were taking these buses back and forth to visit each other all the time. Probably you know Greyhound, Megabus, you may or may not know that there's, like, a dozen other smaller regional operators that all kind of operate similarly in the same areas. And we realized that these companies are just, they're kind of like airlines in terms of their business model, but just way lower tech. And so we came up with this idea to build a revenue optimization solution for them that would basically help them with their pricing and scheduling in order to maximize the money they earned.Started working on that; we have to quit our jobs, incorporated the company. We got a few customers within, I think, about six months, we were doing about 100 grand in annualized revenue. So, it was, you know, it was working a little bit. And what we realized is it wasn't going to work much more than that because the market in the US was just very small, right, that if we totally knocked it out of the park and did everything right, maybe we get to a million dollars a year, which sounds like a lot of money, but really isn't that much if you're banking on everything going perfectly.So, that started this process of us really taking a step back and trying to find a better opportunity. And we basically just, like, pivoted over and over again over the course of two years to various opportunities in the transportation space. Eventually we came up with this framework, right, that whatever we decided to do had to meet three criteria: it should be something that we thought we had a relative advantage at given our backgrounds, it should be something that we cared about solving, right, so a problem that we would feel good about working on today, tomorrow, and in ten years; and it should be a really attractive business opportunity. And it's pretty difficult to find something that satisfies all three of those.Where we eventually found some traction was in the world of freight finance. And we found this problem which, at a high level, was solving cashflow problems for small logistics businesses. And it struck all three chords, right? It was at the intersection of transportation and finance. By this point, we had a lot of exposure and a lot of relationships in the transportation industry, and both of our professional backgrounds very closely tied to the financial world.Second, it was a pain point we cared about, right? It's not that we were coming from a long line of truckers or had some extensive background in the logistics industry, but we were small business owners, and we know that for small business owners, cashflow problems are often the most salient problems they face. And so the idea of solving that problem for thousands of companies was just very compelling for us. The first client we closed literally had his COO recording him signing the contract because it was such a life-changing experience for him. And I was like, “Man, if we can just do that again, I'm going to feel really, really happy.”And then the third is that it was, it's kind of a no-brainer business opportunity, right? Huge market, highly fragmented, the incumbents are notoriously low tech, so there's a really clear opportunity to come in, build a better tech-enabled solution and really consolidate the space. You know, that was mid-2019, and it's sort of an off to the races since then.Jason: What drew you to transportation as an industry to begin with?Bharath: Pretty random. It was, we're literally riding on those buses thinking of business ideas, and we're like, well, here's a busine—here's an industry that needs help, right? The bus industry clearly needs better technology. And it started there, and then through that, we just ended up meeting a bunch of other founders and investors who work in transportation technology. I think over the course of those two years, we really started expanding our lens.I think initially, we were very focused on the passenger transportation side, just given that's an industry that we had direct exposure with. Buses aren't sexy, but passenger transportation is sexy because of Uber and Lyft, and freight was just sort of this other part of the ecosystem we didn't really think about. But over time, we realize, like, hey, from a business perspective, freight transportation is actually much more interesting. A) there's just way more money flowing through that ecosystem, there's just there's a lot going on, and it's a lot more complex, right? So, there's a lot of different types of opportunities. And B) the bar is so low right now, in terms of where the state of the art is, so there's a lot of room to come in and deliver a ton of value to the companies that are operating in it by building them better technological solutions.Jason: As you're starting to look at transportation, what drew you away from the passenger side into freight? And what does a typical freight operation in the US look like today?Bharath: So, a typical freight operation in the US today, there's basically three key players in the space to understand: you've got carriers on one end, which are the actual trucking companies who are getting paid to haul freight; you have shippers on the other end, which are the end customers, right, so these are companies like Target or WalMart who paying to have their freight moved; and in between, you have 100,000 freight intermediaries, which is an umbrella term that captures freight brokers, freight forwarders, 3PLs. And what these companies have in common is that they're essentially acting as outsourced logistics arms for the shippers. And they'll find carriers who have excess capacity and connect them with the shippers who have too much demand. So, they'll essentially broker those transactions.What's interesting about this ecosystem is that it's under a lot of stress right now and it's changing very rapidly, right? So, these freight brokers have essentially operated in the same way for decades, but over the past five or six years, there's been this rapid influx of venture-backed, tech-enabled freight intermediaries. These are companies like Convoy, Uber Freight, Flexport that basically raised a bunch of venture capital and used it to build software that's enabling them to disintermediate this customer segment. And in part, they're doing that by expanding their product offering to include payments and financial services.And that's what's putting so much pressure on these incumbents to try and modernize, right? They're not just going to lie down and give up. They're going to try to figure out how can we get those same capabilities, ideally without having to raise a billion dollars in venture capital ourselves? And that's where we come in, right? We're essentially building the software and the tools to give that long tail of the market the equivalent capabilities of the Convoys and Ubers of the world.Jason: And can you give us a sense of scale for that market? Like, what is the topology of the industry? My sense is very fragmented, lots of small mom-and-pop kind of business operations. Could you put some numbers on that?Bharath: Yeah, that's a great question for people who are not from the logistics industry, the first time they hear the numbers, it's kind of like shocking how big it is, right? So, in the US alone, there's over $700 billion generated in freight movements, right? So, payments to carriers and to freight brokers. And freight broker segment of that market—the freight brokers and freight forwarders—rake in almost $250 billion. So, it's a pretty sizable segment.In terms of how fragmented that is, there's about 100,000-plus freight intermediaries in the US. And the top four of them combined are only raking in 10% of the segment's revenue. So, there's a lot of fragmentation. So, when we look at the market, we see just a ton of these small mom-and-pop shops that are, you know, small relative to these big billion-dollar companies, but meaningful businesses, you know, raking in millions of dollars a year, often employing 5, 10, 15-plus people. So, it's a very, very fragmented market.And each of them does things in their own way, their business model is slightly different from other ones, they maybe add-on other services that other ones don't provide, or they don't provide other services that some of their competitors do. So, it's very interesting, complex space.Will: And, B, as the venture-backed companies have moved into the space, wha—I mean, aside from having better digital tools, has there been a key mechanism that they've used to win over customers and build market share? I mean, is there, like, a key differentiator that the Flexport and Convoys are introducing to the market that created an opportunity for Axle Pay?Bharath: I think it's hard to narrow it down to a single one. The industry was just very outdated and these companies—the Convoys, the Flexports—they're doing a lot of things differently, and that combination of things is making it very compelling to the shippers. One in particular that has really changed expectations in the market is around this payments and financial services, right? And this is particularly true for the digital freight brokers, right, which are the Convoys and Ubers.So historically, the broker didn't need to pay the carrier until they received payment from the shipper, right? So, if the shipper pays him 30 days after the load is moved, then after they receive payment, the broker will pay whatever they owe to the carrier then. What's changed is that Convoy and Uber have normalized the practice of offering their carriers next day payments. In the industry is called QuickPay. So, as carriers have come to expect QuickPay, all of these other freight brokers have been forced to provide it.But it's very difficult for them because remember, their shippers are still waiting 30 days to pay them. So, now these other brokers are in a spot where, “Hey, we just moved the load. Now, I need to pay the carrier today, but I'm not going to get the money for that load until 30 days from now.” And that's, I think, really the genesis of the problem that we went to market solving. What we do is we go in and buy that freight broker's invoice, let's say it's $1,000 that they're supposed to get paid from the shipper, we will buy it some amount upfront, let's say $900. We'll pay some of it to the broker right now will pay out the carrier in entirety, right, so we're providing that QuickPay to the carrier. And then 30 days from now, when the invoice becomes due, we'll collect from the shipper the full amount, and we basically pocket that spread.Will: Factoring isn't a completely new concept, right? I've got to imagine that there are lots of folks that have been doing factoring, even specifically within the trucking freight ecosystem for decades, maybe give folks a little bit of the state of play of how factoring is currently done within this, kind of, specific niche, and how you guys are kind of turning that on its head.Bharath: Yeah, that's a great point. So, factoring has been around for literally thousands of years, right? It's one of the oldest forms of business financing. Huge ecosystem, right? There's over $3 trillion dollars in invoices factored globally.To your point, in the US the largest vertical for the factoring industry is actually freight and logistics, right? So, there's a lot of companies in this space. They are very similar to the freight brokers that we're serving, in the sense that it's a very outdated industry, right, very low tech, not a lot of innovation. You know, just one example, a lot of these factors still require clients to fax them documents in order to factor the load, which is outrageous because I don't even know how to send or receive a fax, and then if think about the fact that their clients are truck drivers who were literally on the road the vast majority of the day, that makes it a lot—even more difficult to understand how that works.In contrast, right, we're building a tech-enabled solution. The software that we've built our business around, provides us three very distinct competitive advantages. The first is that it allows us to do a lot more than just factoring, right? We're able to automate a lot of the key back office workflows for our clients and provide them more sophisticated reporting so they can make better decisions. So, when I'm talking about these back office workflows, I'm talking about carrier payments, invoicing, collections, book reconciliation. These are all really important, but normally time consuming, and error-prone business functions that our clients just no longer have to worry about.And it's more than just, like, the hour saved or the reduction in hours, right? If you look at it from the perspective of these, like, small freight brokers, right, they got into this business, they started a freight brokerage because they love logistics, they love sales, they love client service, but I guarantee you, none of them got into freight brokering because they love accounting, or accounts payable or accounts receivable, right? So, it's the parts of the business they see as the most mundane, but are still absolutely critical for growth that we're able to take over for them. The second piece, the second really—Jason: Sounds really Perfectly Boring, I will say.Bharath: [laugh]. Yeah.Jason: It's the perfect time to have you on the show.Bharath: For sure. The second big advantage that we get from the software is that it allows us to run a much more efficient and effective operation, right? So, if you look at freight factoring companies generally, it's very difficult for them to scale, and that's because they're normally based on these really manual and paper-based processes that become really difficult to manage as you add too many clients and debtors into the portfolio. In contrast, we're able to automate a lot of that operational overhead and streamline our onboarding and client-funding cycles so that we can continue to deliver really high quality service, even as we're rapidly scaling the business.The last differentiator is—you know, I mentioned that factoring—that freight and logistics is the largest vertical for the factoring industry in the US, but a nuance there is that almost all of those factors exclusively service the carrier, right, the trucking companies. Very few of them will take on freight brokers as clients. And the reason for that is a piece of the Uniform Commercial Code, which is a statute which has been adopted by all 50 states. And this piece of the UCC provides carriers a first position statutory lien on their freight broker's invoices. So, what that means in practice is if you as a lender, buy an invoice from a freight broker and that freight broker uses that money to pay a sales rep or to cover some other business expense instead of paying the carrier who hauled their load, then you as the lender, are really out of luck because that carrier still has that statutory lien which supersedes your own.So, when it comes time to pay, the shipper is legally obligated to pay the carrier instead of you, which is a bad position to be in if you're a lender. What we've done to get around this problem is we've designed our product to handle multi-party payments. So, in addition to onboarding all the brokers into our system, we separately onboard their carriers. They create their own accounts, we verify their identity, we link to their bank accounts via Plaid, and this enables us to directly pay out the carriers to extinguish their lien at the time that we purchase the invoice. So, now we're in first position so when that invoice becomes due, we're able to safely collect on it.Because most of these other factoring companies are running on an off-the-shelf software that lacks this functionality, they're really just not able to effectively compete in this space.Jason: That's interesting. So basically, you have perfect information on both sides, right, which allows you to see that both the shipper and the carrier are receiving the proper payments, and you're able to factor, kind of, the time in between confidently because you can actually watch the flow of funds. Is that correct?Bharath: Yeah. A hundred percent right. Normally, if you don't have this type of software and you're trying to buy that invoice from the broker, you don't really know what's happening with the money once you send it to them, and because of that you're taking on a lot of additional exposure. In our case, that's not a problem, right, because we have visibility on both sides.And what's really cool here is that it provides this risk mitigation benefit to us, but it also solves the brokers' pain point of them wanting to QuickPay their carrier, right, which was sort of the original genesis of this whole problem, which is that they need cash to pay the carrier today. We can make that even faster by paying it out to them directly instead of sending money to the broker and then having them pay the carrier, right? So, it's sort of a two-birds-with-one-stone solution.Jason: I think you brought up an interesting point which I'd love to dig into as well is, like, there still is a bit of risk in the system, right, even with a typical loan, right? People can default on their loans. What mechanisms have you guys come up with to make sure that you have, kind of, the proper payments flowing through and that you're not putting yourself at outsized risk. This looks like, you know, a great part of that solution, but things can still break down. I'm curious how you guys, you know, do kind of quality assurance and make sure that you're also going to be in a position to get paid properly and payout properly?Bharath: Yeah, that's a great question. So, when we look at risk mitigation, we look at it at three levels. On the first level is us underwriting the client themselves, right? So, that's making sure that they have the proper licenses to operate, that they have no other liens against their assets, there's no red flags on their [Carrier 411 00:20:25] account, right? So, just making sure that we trust them to be a good actor, essentially.Once we've approved the client, we separately have to approve or reject each of their shippers, right, their customers. And this looks more like a traditional credit underwriting approach. We'll look at Ansonia, Experian, Dun & Bradstreet. If there's not great credit data available, or if they don't have great credit, then we will not approve the shipper.Once we've approved both the client and the shipper, we separately approve or reject each individual invoice, right? And so this is looking at, on a transaction basis, do the receivable documents match and do they make sense, right? Is the carrier they're asking us to pay the same carrier listed on the bill of lading? Is the bill of lading signed? Is the dollar amount they're requesting the same as what's included on the rate confirmation? That type of thing.So, between these three layers, we're able to catch problems before they end up in our portfolio. There's other things outside of this we've implemented. For example, you know, we buy the invoices full recourse, we only advance a certain portion of it. It's a full suite of risk mitigates, but the combined effect is that we are very protected in our portfolio. So, we've not actually lost a penny in more than the past year. Actually, since we hired our head of operations we haven't lost a dollar.Jason: And what percentage of freight intermediaries do you bring out on the platform, of the people who apply to become Axle Payments customers?Bharath: So, I don't have the exact number there, but it's a good portion. It's around, I would guess, like, 70, 80 percent. We typically see more rejections on the shipper side, right? So, they're working with debtors that we don't feel confident will pay us, or there's issues on, like, the invoice-by-invoice level. But we are generally able to work with most clients, right?So, we a lot of times will reject them upfront, like, there's some issue, maybe there's someone has liens against their assets, their account is inactive, but we'll usually work with them to get those remediated. It's not super often that we find someone who we both cannot work with, and can't get them to a position where we could eventually work with them.Jason: And once you're on the platform, then you've got that visibility as well, which is great.Will: I think this is all super interesting, and I'm curious, you've been operating for long enough at this point and I'm sure I've had a couple of these great intermediary and kind of broker clients for any one client for 12 to 18 months at this point. I'm curious, like, what you notice in the evolution of their business after they start working with Axle Pay, and just what streamlining cashflow does for the freight intermediary from an operational perspective, and then, you know, kind of what the impact of not only streamlining cashflow but also accessing digital tools for running other parts of the business. Like, what's kind of the emergent behavior you're seeing, if any, within the customer base?Bharath: Well, that's one of my favorite questions because it's incredible what we see with the clients, once they start working with us. A huge number of them just blow up, just start growing very, very quickly. On average, our clients grow, over a 12 month period, about 75% over the course of the year. So, if the average client is doing $100,000 in revenue, January 2020—or January 2021—12 months later, we're expecting them to do 175,000. The segment of our clients that actually already have a functioning business when they start working with us grow much faster, even.So, with that portion, if they're already doing least 50,000 a month in revenue, we see them growing on average 250% over the course of the year. And there are some crazy outliers there too, right? People who started working with us, and then a year later are doing more than ten times as much revenue as they were a year prior.Will: That's insane.Bharath: Yeah, it's really cool. And it feels really good, right, to talk to them. And, you know, I'm not going to take credit for their success; they're all excellent at what they do, but it's awesome to hear them attribute, you know, even a portion of that growth to working with us and having the capital they need to scale and having a partner who can take over a lot of the business administrative functions.Will: There's an interesting dynamic at play here where most of the other venture-backed businesses in the market have decided to be the operators themselves and to build the technology to be the most digitally native, nimble operators in the market. You've taken a completely opposite tack of saying you're actually going to be an arms dealer to the a long tail of operators in the market to enable them to compete in a more digitally powered market. How does this play out? Like, what is the evolution of the way the old guard, now armed with tools that you're selling them, engages, competes with the new guard and this kind of class of venture-backed companies that have come into the market over the last really, you know, just over the last three to five years?Bharath: The way I look at what we're doing is very similar to what Shopify did in retail, right? So, you have Amazon who comes in and builds this incredible business and really consolidates a huge chunk of the retail market, but there's still this long tail of retail businesses that are not just going to give up and die, but who will demand and pay for services that allow them to compete with Amazon. And Shopify was able to build a massive business by building that tooling for the long tail of the market, right? I think the founder of Shopify uses the analogy that Amazon is the Empire, and Shopify is arming the Rebels.And what we're doing is something very similar, right? You have Uber, and Convoy, and Flexport who are building these incredible, valuable businesses by consolidating a large chunk of the logistics space, but there's still a very long tail of the market, that's not going to just give up and die, right? They're looking for services that will allow them to compete. And we're filling that gap by providing them the tools that allow them to compete with these companies. And you know, I am a huge fan, if it's not clear, of all three of those businesses, right, Convoy, Uber, Flexport, and even some of the smaller ones like Loadsmart.We, you know, we've met with some of the founders, some of them are invested in the company. They're building great businesses and I think they're going to build huge multi-billion dollar businesses that will be profitable, independent public companies, but there's still going to be a lot of other very large logistics players in the business, right? So, if I zoom out ten years what do I think the market looks like? I think it will continue to be highly fragmented, but I think every player in this space is going to be tech-enabled because if you're not tech-enabled, you're not going to be able to keep up and the business is going to die. Now, if you look at those technical players, a handful of them are going to be tech-enabled because in the early 2020s, they raised billions of dollars in venture capital and built out their own internal proprietary software, but the vast majority of the market will be tech-enabled because they used the profits they were generating to pay for software services that gave them the equivalent capabilities.Jason: You know, this is, kind of, maybe an inversion, a little bit, of enabling the kind of incumbents here. The incumbents are incumbents for a reason, right? They have a lot of great relationships, et cetera. Now, that you're providing them with a modern set of tools, what advantages do they have in order to compete? I mean, as you mentioned, it's a multi-trillion dollar industry, so there's plenty of space for great companies of different kinds of origins to be grown, but what are the advantages of being an incumbent here now that you've enabled them with, kind of, technology and financial services to compete?Bharath: Yeah, I mean, I think you hit the nail on the head, right? They have been huge rolodexes, right? It's the relationships, both the people they work with, and with customers, employees, and they have a lot of in-house expertise and knowledge that allows them to deliver a really great service. I don't think those benefits are going to go away or become less important just because someone has built software that helps them operate more efficiently.Jason: Yeah, one amazing thing here is, you're kind of getting paid to build trust with an amazing, huge incumbent base, initially with factoring and some back office workflow. I can imagine that you have a pretty robust roadmap for things that you'd like to build going forward. Maybe you can talk about some of those features that go beyond just the factoring part of the business.Bharath: You know, we see this as, sort of, three phases, and this first phase is just building out this carrier payments platform, right, and taking two freight brokers and just making it as great of a product as we can and being the market leader for that. And I think we can build a massive business on just that. But like you said, I really think what's exciting here is that's, sort of, a platform to build out a lot of other cool products and services.So, phase two, I see as building this all-in-one financial services platform. And what's exciting there is there's adjacent financial services we can introduce, like credit cards or [shipper 00:29:25] finance. There's better workflow automation tools, right, to help them run a more efficient business.And where it goes from there is to this phase three, right, which is—you know, my co-founder and I joke, it's world domination, right, because there's logistics is just one of the biggest markets in the world, globally, and there's this opportunity to take this suite of solutions that we're building for freight brokers to distribute it to shippers, to carriers, to take it international, right, to Canada, Mexico, overseas to Europe, and build a payments network that allows all of these different players in the supply chain to efficiently transact with one another. And that's where I think the really exciting opportunity is, right? There's a lot to be done; there's a lot of value to create there.Jason: Yeah, no, I can imagine that the international freight landscape looks quite a bit different than the US. What are some of those, you know, interesting idiosyncrasies that you guys have uncovered? I know that's a couple phases down the line, but it is a global ecosystem, we have a global economy now, so I'm curious what opportunities you see in other countries.Bharath: Like you said, there's a lot of nuance between different countries. I think one of the biggest things that separates the US market from most other domestic freight markets, is that, besides just the dollar amount of transactions happening in the US, is that in most countries, if you go to Germany and you look at the freight that's coming in, it involves a lot of different modes of transportation more frequently than just trucks. In the US, so much of the freight movement is via trucks. Like obviously, things are shipped in, and obviously things are flown in, but trucks just make up a vast majority of it. And that becomes less true as you go to other countries. And they're reliant more on international shipments to get products in.Jason: I would assume they still also have the factoring issue. Are there other, kind of, unique issues that pertain to maritime or air freight that are kind of unique to that market versus trucks?Bharath: Of course, the factoring issue is still there. I think one of the interesting ones is around this shipper finance problem, right? So, when you look at the shippers themselves—so, like, again, these are the companies that have freight that needs to be moved—there's this issue of them getting financing both to buy the goods themselves, to pay for the very expensive shipment overseas, to pay customs and duty fees. And right now, they go to a bunch of—you know, it's a super fragmented space of independent lenders who provide this trade finance to the shippers. I think there's a really cool opportunity for us to piggyback off the business we're already building to provide a better financing solution to those shippers, right, for a couple of reasons.One is that because we're going through these freight intermediaries, we have access to all of their shippers, right? If we partner with our client and say, “Hey, we're going to distribute to your shippers. We'll do a revenue share.” Which really reduces the cost of us acquiring new clients, right, because we can just piggyback off their distribution channels. The second is that our current clients, the freight intermediaries, have all of this data on the relationship with their shipper, right?For example, if they say, like, the shipper we're working with has been doing 5 million a year in revenue every year, like clockwork, but then two years ago they did 4 million, last year they did 2 million, this year they're doing 1 million, well, that's a sign that, like, maybe we don't want to be lending a bunch of money to that business, right? So, there's interesting underwriting applications of the data they're collecting. And then finally, with these international shipments, the freight forwarders often take possession of the goods themselves, which means we can use that to secure the loans, right? Which is like, “Hey, it's a long-term relationship. If you don't pay back the first one we made, then we will take possession of these goods.” So, there's an incentive for them to make sure that we're currently—you know, we're always being paid out on time.Will: And B, one of the things we actually haven't touched on much yet is, you know, you're a lender, and would be great to spend a little bit of time talking about, like, kind of, the capital side of the business, some of the unit economics there. And you're creating a monster amount of value for your clients. How does Axle Pay make money?Bharath: Right now we have two sources of capital. So, like many tech startups, we raised money from VC funds, and that comes in as equity and funds the business operations, right? So, that's paying our salaries, our marketing spend, our software costs. Separately, we also raised debt from other sets of financial institutions, and that's where we get the money to actually lend out to the clients, right, because VCs aren't going to give you a million dollars if you're using 800,000 of that to lend to another business, right? And so this allows us to get a lot of leverage off of our equity dollars.So, when we first started, right, because we had no real operating history, we had to go out to hedge funds or high net worth individuals to get that debt that we could then lend out. I think as the business scales, there's opportunities to go to larger banks, who will, [write 00:34:29] larger credit facilities and have a lower cost of capital. And farther down the road, there's an opportunity to set up securitization programs where we're basically able to sell off that debt at an even lower cost of capital and get that off of our books, as you had alluded to.Will: Yeah, I mean, I think that there's a super interesting opportunity to do that, particularly as you accrue more data to support at least what appears to be ridiculously compelling numbers as it relates to default and repayment stats. So far it looks like unbelievably reliable borrower with a very predictable payback period.Bharath: You know, like, right now, there's a lot of people with a lot of money, looking to deploy that in the market, and getting a lot of interest from lenders of all different sizes and backgrounds who are looking for somebody to get a piece of that. So yeah, I think to your point, there's a lot of cool stuff that can be done in the long run.Jason: Well, yeah, and we've also—you know, now that we're kind of getting to a little bit into the, like, the shocks. We've had a COVID impact, you know, massive global supply chain shortages. We also at the same time have kind of a generational shift in a lot of these, you know, under-digitized industries that are now rapidly digitizing. I'm curious what you see as kind of like, the macro impacts on the freight space right now, and how that's been evolving and maybe accelerating in the past year or two.Bharath: The obvious one is, like, the current supply chain crisis. I think people naturally look for a single cause and effect, which is tough to do here because there's a lot of problems, right? There's raw material shortages, there's exceptionally high demand, there's driver shortages, factory closures, right? And I think a lot of these are, you know, indirectly caused by COVID, people not being able to work, so the factory shuts down; people not being able to spend money on anything except physical goods, so they're just buying a ton of physical goods. And I think there's this narrative that, like, oh COVID caused this supply chain crisis, which is not entirely true, right?I think, yes, those are all causes of the current crisis, and COVID did sort of supercharge the problem, but there were underlying trends which I think made this crisis somewhat inevitable and which are continuing to accelerate. One of these is, this is just the growth in e-commerce. Obviously, the growth in e-commerce is increasing demand, but what's more interesting is that it's not just increasing demand; it's a new type of demand, that's putting a ton of stress on supply chains, right? Before, you would go to Walmart and you would buy whatever Walmart had in stock, and there's sort of a handful of brands they carry in stock for each good, and you go get it there. And that's a fairly simple supply chain problem.But today, you go to Amazon, which is, you know, quote-unquote, “The everything store,” and there's a million different brands for every product you want to get. And then there's actually a ton of things you can't get on Amazon that all these direct-to-consumer brands are selling to you that, you know, creating more competition. And each one of these companies needs to have their own supply chain set up to be able to deliver a product in two days to you, wherever you are in the country, right, which is a much more interesting and complex problem than what we've been dealing with in the past. Then if you combine this with globalization and the diversification of supply chains—so people are getting those products from different parts in the world—you get even more complexity. And then you look at this in the context of an industry where technology and processes just really haven't evolved much in a decade, and you get a recipe for disaster, right?They're solving today's highly complex problem with tools that were designed for a much, much simpler supply chain. So, you know, this is going to sound really self-serving, but to me, the obvious solution is in technology, right? We need better visibility into the movements of goods and the status of payments up and down the supply chain. We need to make it easier for brokers and for forwarders to run really efficient business operations. We need to supply them with the analytics that allow them to see problems in the supply chain before they become an all-out crisis.And you know, I don't think—I'd be lying if I said Axle is going to single-handedly deliver all of these solutions to the market, but I do think will be a key piece of that solution, and I think there are a number of other really cool, interesting companies in the supply chain tech space that are delivering the rest of this solution.Will: B, what does the market look like in ten years when, you know, you're a public company, you have sufficiently armed the long tail of these great intermediaries with the digital tools to succeed and grow in kind of a, you know, modern supply chain, what has changed forever? Are there any, you know, kind of, predictions you have about the way the Axle Pay is going to dramatically alter the topology of this industry?Bharath: Yeah. I mean, I think from, like, a payments side, it's just going to be clean and efficient, right? It's not going to have multiple companies auditing the same physical piece of paper to find out if a load was delivered on time, right? That data is going to be digital and it's going to be easily accessible by everyone up and down the supply chain. Payments will flow seamlessly between parties, access to capital to scale will be a lot more efficient so you're not going to have these behemoths existing just because they happen to have access to capita;. It's going to be the businesses that actually run the most efficient operation to deliver the best service will get access to capital they need in order to scale it, and those are the businesses that dominate the market.Will: And so, I mean, that sounds a little bit like we're almost predicting that what is today an unbelievably fragmented market, once armed with these digital tools, is potentially going to see some consolidation, right? I mean, and a lot of your customers have operated in almost an exclusively regional kind of mindset for, you know, basically their entire existence. With these new tools, do you think that they start to—we start to see more national expansion from some of the leaders of the pack here, and therefore some consolidation?Bharath: Yeah. So, I think the market will still be fragmented, but I think it will be relatively a little bit less fragmented. So, I think to your point, there will be some consolidation. I don't think it's going to have—you know, I don't think the market has, like, winner-take-all dynamics where there's going to be, you know, two or three freight brokers that dominate the US market. I think it's going to be a lot of smaller freight brokers who are able to deliver really good, tailored service to their clients, but maybe it won't be 100,000 freight intermediaries in the country.Jason: I think there is, like, a generational shift that's happening, and the people who grew up on, like, iPhones and smartphones, [audio break 00:41:16] and they also don't know how to fax anything [laugh]. Like, I have no idea how to fax things. I could watch a YouTube video to figure it out. There are also—as you kind of mentioned a little bit in the consolidation piece, like, is it going to go truly national?—there are benefits to the existing players, and I'm curious, like, what resistance there is in the market to change.Because, like, e-commerce isn't new, factoring isn't new, tech in workflows isn't new but, you know, for some reason, it feels like they're all coming to a head. You tend to have people who were, kind of like, on the forefront but, you know, maybe there are pockets that have resisted for one reason or another.Bharath: You know, we've definitely spoken to brokers who are basically like, “Brokers shouldn't need factoring because they shouldn't need to QuickPay carriers, right, so I don't want to work with you.” Which is very much this mindset of like, “Hey, when I built this business, this was not a problem, so I don't need this solution because that's the way things are.” Which is just, you know, it's the resistance to change. And I think that's the same approach which is like, “Hey, I don't need to provide visibility to my customers in real time because I built a great business and never did that, so why do I need to do it now?”And I think what's inevitable is that those companies are not going to be… around in ten years, right? Because at the same time, there's a bunch of other people we've worked with who are 28-year-olds, 32-year-olds, starting freight brokerages who are asking—you know, emailing us, asking us if we have an API, right? Like, “Hey, can you integrate with our stuff because we'd rather pipe all this data in so we don't have to do manual data entry.” That attitude is going to get them so much farther than someone who's just like, very resistant to change, right? And I think what's going to be great is that some of these companies have, like, the best of both worlds; some of our clients are just, like, super, super smart people who have a ton of logistics experience, who are great at running a business, and who realized, like, technology is not going to solve all of your problems, but it's going to solve your technology problems, right? It's going to solve a lot of things that you would have had to do manually otherwise.And so they're building businesses that are growing incredibly fast. I think it's easy to sort of paint the whole industry with a brush and say, “Oh, like, freight brokers are outdated.” And on average, I think that's true, but like you said, there's pockets here and there which are very tech-forward, who are reading about ways to implement technology to make their business better, and who are probably going to be the market leaders in five, six years.Jason: I always think it is fascinating in these markets that are meaningfully digitizing for the first time—like, they're using some software, but not modern software—the kind of tension between pushing, you know, all the way to the forefront with, you know, the demands of the customer base that might only be able to meet you halfway. Like what you have to do? Like, do you guys still enable people to manage, like, faxes coming in? Like, what did you kind of have to build in the product that made it attractive enough for the freight company that's been operating for 100 years and it's been passed down, you know, from generation to generation to the 28-year-old, who's just starting their own?Bharath: Yeah, that's a good question. So, we don't take faxes, but we have run into issues that, like, you know, I wouldn't have expected we ran into, and so we've had to build around it. So, for example, we've had clients who forgot their email address, right, which for me, is like forgetting your own name because it's so core to, like, you know, that's—it's like, I'd forget my phone number before I got my email. But that's, you know, they just come from a different world where it's just not as important. We had to build up the functionality for us to send payments by check—even though we offer free electronic payments—because a huge chunk of carriers would prefer to receive a check in the mail instead of getting the money direct-deposited into their account for whatever reason. And so, like, you know, we had to go integrate with another company and figure out how to manage that process.So, there's definitely been, you know, a number of these things which are like, if you asked me to write a list of the problems we might face, this would not have come up on that list, but by virtue of, like, the industry being a little bit older and used to different types of practices, we've run into those issues and we've been able to solve them. And I think that's part of it; like you said, it's meeting them halfway because everyone's sort of at a different point on this curve.Jason: Yeah. Because you're there to serve the customer, right? And so you got to kind of meet them where they are. Which I think makes a lot of sense and makes this a particularly interesting challenge to solve because you're solving for a fairly broad. Swath of customers that are—you know, might as a whole look homogeneous, but are heterogeneous, particularly because they're regional and smaller, older generation, you know, newer generation, et cetera. That's really interesting.Will: Bharath, thank you for joining us today, man. This is awesome.Will: Thank you for listening to Perfectly Boring. You can keep up the latest on the podcast at perfectlyboring.com, and follow us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. We'll see you next time.

Redrum and Red Wine
Episode 44 - Drink and Mega Bus

Redrum and Red Wine

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2021 39:12


We don't usually talk about haunted lakes... and Lake Lanier is probably why... Be sure to follow us at: Twitter: @rarwpodcast Instagram: @rarwpodcast Contact us at: E-mail: redrumandredwinepodcast@gmail.com All music written and produced by: Savasas savasas | Free Listening on SoundCloud How safe is lake lanier? here's a look into the data. fcn. (n.d.). Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://www.forsythnews.com/local/how-safe-lake-lanier-heres-look-data/. Jarvis, R. (2016, October 14). Most people have no idea this sunken community in Georgia even exists. OnlyInYourState. Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/georgia/sunken-community-in-ga/. Karimi, F. (2020, October 31). A Georgia Lake's dark and deadly history has some people seeing ghosts. CNN. Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/us/lake-lanier-urban-legends-trnd/index.html. Lake Lanier Construction - YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09S8tGRkQiQ. Lake Lanier Drought Photos - YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfmhPKjeRWI. Morris, B. (2021, October 18). The haunting of lake lanier and the Black City buried underneath. NewsOne. Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://newsone.com/4185919/lake-lanier-black-city-oscarville/. n. (n.d.). The haunting of lake lanier. Oxford American | The Haunting of Lake Lanier. Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-113-summer-2021/the-haunting-of-lake-lanier. Paddle boarder drowns in Lake Lanier: Georgia officials ... (n.d.). Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://www.macon.com/news/state/georgia/article252865393.html. Tinwala, Y. (2021, July 17). 'curse' of Lake Lanier rears its ugly head again as boat explodes at Georgia Reservoir. MEAWW. Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://meaww.com/lake-lanier-creepy-haunted-lake-lanier-deaths-lady-of-the-lake. Wynne, K. (2019, September 6). 'haunted' lake lanier missing people, deaths reported in 2019. Newsweek. Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://www.newsweek.com/heres-how-many-people-have-died-gone-missing-haunted-georgia-lake-lanier-2019-1446845. [{"@type":"Person", "name":"A. L. (2021, September 29). Every time lake lanier told y'all it's haunted, and the horrible history surrounding its origin. BuzzFeed. Retrieved October 29, 2021, from https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexalisitza/lake-lanier-told-yall-its-haunted.

Is My Rabbit A Lesbian?
Episode 6: The Sex Toys on the Megabus Episode.

Is My Rabbit A Lesbian?

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2021 31:50


Chris and Emma discuss their run-ins with security and reveal when they've been ‘lost in translation'. Please do not listen if you're related to or have ever dated any of the podcast hosts.

Spiral
Involuntary Lobotomy

Spiral

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2021 39:05


It's me (Elaine). Plug your ears: we bicker all episode! We also talk "like grown-ups." We discuss feeling awkward, what happens when someone acknowledges a bad mood, the art of reading emails in public, Megabus memories, doing accents, waiting for the perfect moment, and Papa John's Day of Reckoning. This episode has so much crazy tension. Idk what's going on and for some reason I have a hard time caring about deciphering it at all... If you wanna diagnose us, email us; if you know what that computer game is that I talk about, email us; if you want to say hi, just email us. I CARE ABOUT WORDS!!!!! FOLLOW SPIRAL: @spiralthepod / FOLLOW LAUREN: @s.ilver (IG) @laurentepfer (TW) / FOLLOW ELAINE: @elainerfarah / EMAIL US: spiralthepod@gmail.com

Dirty Glove Bastard: Off The Porch
Mattazik DGB Off The Porch Interview

Dirty Glove Bastard: Off The Porch

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2021 50:10


Mattazik is quickly becoming one of the hottest producers & music engineers in the game! He is Lil Baby's go-to engineer and has also worked with Rylo Rodriguez, Young Thug & Tokyo Jetz to just name a few. Recently we sat down with music producer/engineer Mattazik for a very in-depth and entertaining “Off The Porch” interview! During our discussion he talked about engineering Lil Baby's new album “My Turn” that debuted #1 on Billboard, first making beats while in college, how he got his start as an engineer, explains how he got his producer tags “Mattazik Been Boomin Off Rip” & “Matt, What Up?!”, explains his production group 48 kHz with Prezzley P & Jay Rich was created, lists some Do's & Don'ts for engineers while recording, Do's & Don'ts for rappers while working with engineers, reveals how he first linked up with Lil Baby, explains how him & Quay Global produced “Pure Cocaine”, working on “My Turn” for a year, being nominated for a Grammy, going viral when Lil Baby told him “Matt, get this shit right” during a studio session, going viral when the Megabus he was riding on was raided by the police, explains the difference between Mardi Gras in Mobile & in New Orleans, explains what Dirty Glove Bastard means to him and much more! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dirtyglovebastard/support

Into The Wikiverse
Von der Skyline zum Bordstein zurück With Whitney Wasson

Into The Wikiverse

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 34:16


Each week, host Mike Hover (@hoverdrive) and a guest use Wikipedia's random article generator to determine what they will chat about. This week comedian and artist Whitney Wasson (@soberrabbit) journeys Into The Wikiverse and we stumble upon German rap music. We learn about controversial rapper Bushido, reminisce about Total Request Live, and talk about the double-edged sword that is Mega Bus. Check out soberrabbit.com Follow us on IG @intothewikiverse.  Music provided by audionautix.com and additional sound effects music provided by freesfx.co.uk. Cover art by Lev Cantoral (IG @ominusorb).   Weekly Ad - Children of the Lost Gods by Oscar K Reyes is now available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Children-Ancient-Greek-Mythology-Retelling-ebook/dp/B08JQQ41SN

Sorry Mom
FLYING COACH | Sorry Mom w/ Nikki Howard & Sydney Maler feat. Brent Pella / Ep. #120

Sorry Mom

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2020 44:37


Sydney and Nikki talk about filming movies, rapid tests, dog anxiety, gyms, centipedes, James and the Giant peach, trains, Japan, Halloween, Megabus, and other random shit.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices