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Today's podcast is a story of one man's personal journey to making a difference by building communities. Zach Wyatt grew up caretaking an old 300-acre farm in Virginia. He went to college and ended up working in mortgage lending. And then something changed for Zack, and that's where the story gets interesting. He now leads the Carolina Farm Trust, working to strengthen local food systems in the Carolinas. The trust cultivates urban farm networks, farm apprenticeships, supports local farmers in purchasing equipment or land, making informed-decisions, and more. Interview Summary I'd like to understand a little bit more, why did you want to start the Carolina Farm Trust? Well, with a lot of things, it was just kind of by accident and circumstance. And I would say subconsciously I had agriculture in my bones, ever since I was a kid growing up in agriculture in Northern Virginia. It just kind of seeps in. We [The Family] still have that little arm reached out to being a part the DC metro area. Growing up in an urban-rural environment kind of planted, I think, a lot of the seeds in the work that was going to transpire so many decades later. But it really just kind of came down to a life event. I had a partnership that just ended in one day, which was a huge blow to us financially. We had to get on EBT and Snap and went through that process. And I was really soul searching and figuring out what were the next steps for me. Looking back on it, I think I was really grasping on to how do I do anything, to kind of just do something. I got back into reading about our food system and farms and started meeting some farmers. And once you start talking to farmers in a real way and understanding what our food system truly is, it's horrifying. It kind of came down to seeing this visual metaphor of a meteorite heading toward us every day, and either sticking your head in the sand or doing something. Circumstance just led to this next event and next event, and the next event. And eight years later, here we are. What I hear from you is this story of resiliency and it seems like that's something you also see in the food system or a need for that is that a fair assessment?   Absolutely. We just take food in agriculture for granted. And over the last 80 to 90 years, we've really given our entire means of survival pretty much away. Most people don't really look at food and agriculture and how it spins every major decision on Earth. Every social problem we typically have, every health issue we have, if you follow it all the way down to where that problem started, you go all the way back to the dirt. So, to kind of look at resilience and what do we mean by that and more importantly, building regional resilience in a global economy: I think getting supply chains a whole lot shorter, focusing on soil health and nutrition density and our farming community, is where we really have to start. I'm starting to get a sense of the big picture of the farm trust. What is the driving mission of your work? I think you're hitting on some of that, but I'd like to hear more. I'd say the vision is very clearly about building regional resilience and then using food and agriculture as a primary driver. The four main pillars we have are health and nutrition, upward mobility and equity, sustainability, and climate change. Our four action-on-the-ground pillars are first, building an urban farm network and to get people to understand where our food comes from. Why is that important? We do really need to push urban centers to be more responsible for where our food comes from and playing a role in that. Second, our farm apprentice program, workforce development. You know, the average age of our farming community right now is a little over 60. Where is this next generation of farmers coming from? Where is the land coming from? So, it is not only kind of a labor force for us, you know, but how do we make sure every community garden, every school garden is thriving? How do we create teams that can go help our rural farming community with different projects or step in when someone gets sick or an emergency? Third, when we think of food as health, what does that really mean? If we're talking about food as medicine, in my opinion, we've already missed the boat. We got to talk about food as health, we got to talk about prevention. How do community health workers get out in communities covering geographic locations, really understanding what those needs are and how do we create systems to go meet them where they are. And then our fourth pillar is our distribution platform, which is really there to give a profitable revenue stream to our farming community. How do we use economics to really push them to start their regenerative farming journey? And then how internally to create supply chains that not only can work with consumers, you know, up and down the socioeconomic ladder, but how do we make sure we can build supply chains for larger institutions to be able to participate in a local food economy because the infrastructure is just not there. I was struck by your earlier comment of if you get down to the, if you will, root cause of any problem, and forgive the pun, it seems like it's in the dirt. Right? And I'd like to hear you explain a little bit more about what you believe is what's wrong with the food system as it is today. And I got a sense it's about the lack of being local, but I want to hear it in your words and how does this guide your actions now?   Well, it's just evolution. I mean we always try to get better. We wanted to make food cheaper, so we went from hundreds of farms and rapid consolidation over the years. We have processed and now ultra-processed food, and we have to deal with slavery and reconstruction and everything that kind of came with it with such as sharecropping from a social standpoint. We're looking at nutrition density and in average produce and protein sources we're almost 30 to 6% less than what it was 100 years ago. We're looking at climate change, sustainability. Where does that come from? Look at the carbon footprint, our agriculture industry puts on the planet, look at the massive consolidation of looking at if the world gets 40% of its grain from Ukraine, and then having different political and social issues come up. I include inflation spikes. We're looking at carbon sequestration, we're looking at no-till, we're looking at all these big environmental and all these sustainability and allergies and cancers. And so, where does all that come from? It comes from our environment. Looking through all of this, you can very much see parallels of how our food system started to consolidate and get more aggregated with all the other problems I just mentioned. And if you look at 1930, 1940, and then going from there, you can very much see kind of a parallel with a lot of the challenges that we face. So, I think we really spent a lot of time trying to kind of cherry pick among all these really big problems. We're trying to cherry pick smaller problems because they seem a little bit more manageable, but we really have to go rethink the system as a whole. And that's really, really hard to do. What we're really trying to push forward is how do we just look at a region, because I really feel like you have to do this from a regional perspective. How do we get a regional model to work, really go rebuild all that infrastructure, get, buy-in, understanding what the data's telling us, and then we can replicate that going forward to really other regions around the world. This is very helpful and I appreciate the way you approach that question. Seeing that there are these large global issues and there are structural challenges when we talk about agriculture - and you're working in the region, my understanding, you're out of West Charlotte - and there's a distribution center. Can you tell us a little bit more about what you're doing in West Charlotte, especially through this distribution center? It became very clear that our farming community needed a market. Farmer's markets are tough. As consumers, some of us love them, some of us don't pay attention to them. But for our farming community, farmer's markets are really hard. And from a wholesale standpoint, it's very hard for Carolina farmers to compete with Mexico, California, Florida. How do you compete regionally on a global market? So, we had a distribution model planned for a while and in my head, I wanted it to be in West Charlotte and it needed to be near I-85. We wanted it to be in a community because this kind of distribution facility would be an employment place and we would have a real retail concept. We wanted a meat processing butchery component. So, it was kind of putting a lot of pie in the sky visions into one parcel. But one of our strategic advisors in 2021 was at coffee, talking to a friend about Carolina Farm Trust and kind of what our needs were. One of them said, "Oh, my family has this warehouse," So we took a look at it, and it met every criterion we could have dreamed of. The only thing that was different was that I was thinking in my head we would want like 100,000, 200,000 square feet and this one was 25,000 square feet. But the moment I looked at it, I realized this is the exact size or the range that we need because of the community impact. We want more of these not one or two, you know, that are gathered around. This being in the community was such a key factor to it. So, with our wholesale operation, our commercial kitchen, the retail, the event space, the meat processing butchery component of it all, we really could start to see this framework of getting kind of an independent food system together. So, we're working on phase one, which is our wholesale operation and our 3000 square foot commercial which should come online, you know, in the next six weeks. And then we're just waiting on permitting for phase two and fundraising on phase two to get that activated. It's a really cool project and we're really excited to see it to come to fruition here in the next few weeks. This is really fascinating. You know, I haven't asked this, but I'm intrigued. Tell me a little bit about the farmers that you work with. What kinds of produce or crops are they or animals are they producing? I mean, how are you developing those relationships?   Over the course of the years we've met a lot of different farmers and we grow everything that we can grow here in the Carolinas. We're talking greens and obviously tomatoes and melons and corn. We're working with our grain farmers who are growing wheat for us and grinding flour that we're actually getting into a hotel right now in Uptown Charlotte, which is really exciting. Cattle, pork, lamb. And really looking to create markets for our farming community in any way that we can. So right now, Michael Bowling, our general manager of CFT Market, which is the name of our distribution facility, he and his team are going all over the state and finding arms that we've never heard of and getting recommendations and compiling our list. A big part of what we're trying to put together is how we can take the burden on some things like transportation, because it's such a margin killer, and such a challenge for our farming communities. How do we get amazing produce from the east, you know, into Charlotte and the West, into Charlotte. So, we're working on getting a fleet of vehicles right now to do that. So, it's really just trying to find all of the barriers that our farming community faces, and then how do we create the infrastructure systems. I want to end by asking sort of what are your hopes? Like what is the long game? Where do you see your work and the work of those who will follow you? Where does it lead? Well, I think you have to be very naive to think this way. And sometimes, being naive isn't a bad thing because if you do too much research, then you think your way out of doing what you should be doing. So really, the long game is trying to change the entire industry. But it's so much more than that because our food and Ag is health. It IS our health industry, you know, and obviously it's our food industry. But it's also going to play a huge role in saving not our planet for the planet's sake but saving the planet for our sake. You know, it's just critical. So, I mean, really we're wanting to really follow in Netflix footsteps. Netflix came in and changed the entire entertainment industry relatively quickly. We're looking at automotive legacy manufacturers that weren't getting electric vehicles fast enough. So, Tesla came in and disrupted that. Now suddenly, everybody's moving in that direction. So really at our core, we want to take market share and drive our industry partners to focus more on this work. That is really the long game. For us, it's how do we build the foundation? I know I'm never really going to see it, but how do we build this foundation for the next generation of leadership to really get it going on what we've been able to build in this short time. Bio   Zack Wyatt is the President/CEO of Carolina Farm Trust. Zack grew up tending to a 300-acre dairy farm in northern Virginia. After graduating from Coastal Carolina University in 2003 with a degree in Business Administration, he worked in home mortgage lending and IT. Zack's passion for bringing the community together over food, his understanding of the importance of equitable food access, and his drive to improve local food systems led him to develop Carolina Farm Trust in 2015.  

 Ryan talks to Zack Wyatt, CEO of Carolina Farm Trust; and Michael Bowling, general manager of CFT Market, the site of a ceremonial groundbreaking the same day they appeared on the podcast. They discuss their plans for the local food distribution and production center as well as topics ranging from equitability in food accessibility to Black food culture in Charlotte. 

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Are you good at bluffing? Do you think you could beat a computer? What if I told you that it was mathematically proven that the computer would beat you? That's what Michael Bowling did for his program that plays heads-up, limit Texas Hold'Em: he proved that it was impossible to do better than draw against it. Michael is a professor at the University of Alberta, a research scientist at DeepMind, and has been on Scientific American Frontiers, National Geographic Today, and featured in exhibits at the Smithsonian. This is an interview from an unreleased archive interview from 2016, recorded at the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association annual conference. I was pretty green at this then, but Michael's answers are illuminating and just as useful today despite advancements in computer poker since then. He also talked about work being done on video games, and the conversation about artificial general intelligence that was just starting to become intense around the AI community then. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

Michael Bowling, professor of Computer Science at the University of Alberta, talks with Michael and Dave about robots playing robots at soccer, and how a computer program beat professional poker players at heads-up no-limit Texas Hold'em, and what it all means. [Image courtesy of Michael Bowling]

We have a preview of the upcoming Hops & Smoke beer and food event coming up on April 19th at Southern Strain Brewing. We sat down with Chef Michael Bowling from Hot Box Next Level Kitchen to talk about the munchies being prepared for this special beer and food event. The crew is excited to talk with Divine Barrel’s Ben Dolphens and Bart Roberts (Southern Strain head brewer) about their special West Coast Double IPA collab they brewed for the Hops & Smoke event. The post Episode 271 – Hops & Smoke at Southern Strain appeared first on Cheers Charlotte Radio | Craft Beer and Homebrew Podcast.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Alberta Innovates has put out a call for proposals with the aim to develop new business and technology accelerators; NACO has named True Angle Medical as Edmonton’s startup of the year for 2021; the Government of Canada has announced $2.89 million for the University of Alberta's Lipid-to-Hydrocarbon (LTH) technology project; the winners of NAIT's Innovation Challenge are proposing a ticket split for sporting events; and the University of Alberta's Michael Bowling has been named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

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Happy new year!As one of Canada's three centres of AI excellence, as part of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute in Edmonton, Alberta boasts some serious powerhouses of the artificial intelligence and machine learning world. People like Richard Sutton, who's widely regarded as the father of reinforcement learning, a branch of machine learning that focuses on how AI should take actions to achieve an end goal. Michael Bowling, who's work with DeepStack (the first AI to beat human professionals at heads-up no-limit Texas hold'em) showed the world that an algorithm can navigate its way through imperfect information to beat humans; Patrick Pilarski and his work with prosthetic limbs; and many many more.And the team is now turning their heads toward helping Alberta businesses get the strategic advantage that artificial intelligence and machine learning can provide. Join us for this first episode of the 2021 season. Welcome to Shift.BIOCam Linke is the CEO of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute in Edmonton, Alberta. He is a longtime leader in Edmonton's technology and startup community. Over the past 10 years, he has worked as a CEO, investor, community builder, product manager, software entrepreneur, academic, and developer.Past roles include co-founder of Startup Edmonton, Founder of Flightpath Ventures, CEO of Touch Metric, Product Manager at Nexopia.com, and Founder of DemoCamp Edmonton. Linke is a sought-after speaker and mentor and has been recognized as Avenue Magazine Top 40 Under 40.He is also an artificial intelligence researcher, currently studying under Dr. Richard Sutton and Dr. Adam White. His research, which focuses on AI adapting behaviours to improve their own self-learning, has been published at top conferences.Cam's bio was adapted from the AMII website.

On this episode, we're talking with Disney historian, Michael Bowling.  Each week, Michael along with Craig Williams, hosts the Connecting with Walt Podcast where they look at all aspects of the Disney company and remind their listeners how everything gets linked back to Walt and his inspiring ideas.  Have a topic for us?  We'd love to hear from you.  You can email or send us a recorded audio message at podcast@thehyperionhub.com.  Find us on social media on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.  The Hyperion Hub is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company or its subsidiaries.

Amidst protests, riots and racial injustice,  Chef owners Ricky Moore of Saltbox in Durham, Michael Bowling of Hotbox NC in Charlotte and Sherif Fouad of Raleigh Raw join the pod to make some sense of it all. Here is what was learned; A small understanding of what it's like to be a black person in America and in a professional kitchen. What it's like to be privileged.  What is a micro-aggression. Silver linings of the Raleigh riots. Ideas of how white people can be an ally to Black People at this time. Follow this link to support Black owned businesses:       Follow the show  and hosts at  &  Support our Sponsors: Use promo code 'NCFB' at checkout! The NC F&B Podcast is Produced and Engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media For booking or questions about the show, contact:  or    

Today's show is going to be a continuation of the series of interviews from the Soul Food Sessions dinner which was held at the James Beard Foundation house in Manhattan earlier this month. Soul Food Sessions is a dinner series that started in Charlotte, North Carolina as a way to acknowledge and support people of color in the culinary arts, restaurant and hospitality industries, and beverage services. Chefs Jamie Barnes and Greg Williams of What the Fries, Michael Bowling of Hot Box Next Level Kitchen, Gregory and Subrina Collier of The Yolk, Jamie Turner of Jamie's Cakes & Classes, Justin Hazelton of SB&J Enterprises, and friend of the show, Omar Tate were part of the dinner and each made a course for the evening. The name of the series hints at what the founders want guests to experience: dishes that act as an exploration of what we think of as soul food and pushing the boundaries on that definition. Dishes like pork pate with apple buttermilk and warm farro salad with smoked peaches ask what is soul food and what isn't it? Who cooks it and who doesn't? If a chef is black is what they're cooking automatically soul food? Before the dinner service I asked the Soul Food Sessions chefs these questions.A Hungry Society is powered by Simplecast.

Today's show is going to be a series of interviews from the Soul Food Sessions dinner which was held at the James Beard Foundation house in Manhattan earlier this month. Soul Food Sessions is a dinner series that started in Charlotte, North Carolina as a way to acknowledge and support people of color in the culinary arts, restaurant and hospitality industries, and beverage services. Chefs Jamie Barnes and Greg Williams of What the Fries, Michael Bowling of Hot Box Next Level Kitchen, Gregory and Subrina Collier of The Yolk, Jamie Turner of Jamie's Cakes & Classes, Justin Hazelton of SB&J Enterprises, and friend of the show, Omar Tate were part of the dinner and each made a course for the evening. The name of the series hints at what the founders want guests to experience: dishes that act as an exploration of what we think of as soul food and pushing the boundaries on that definition. Dishes like pork pate with apple buttermilk and warm farro salad with smoked peaches ask what is soul food and what isn't it? Who cooks it and who doesn't? If a chef is black is what they're cooking automatically soul food? Before the dinner service I asked the Soul Food Sessions chefs these questions.A Hungry Society is powered by Simplecast.

Here's Johnny! This time we are here to talk about Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Will we fall into madness? Or will we come out of this episode having added a new movie to The List? There's only one way to find out. You gotta listen! Starring: Evan Mehlschau, Matthew Molina, Michael Bowling, and Sarah Daly Music by Michael Scuri Promo for The IMDb Journey Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/btml/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/btml/support

We take a walking tour of Charlotte, NC and chat with Chefs Naomi Knox, Ashley Nightengale, Whitney Thomas and Michael Bowling and find out what it takes for Black cuisine experts to ply their craft in the Queen City.

This time we've assembled the greatest collection of movie goers you've ever heard to talk about Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, starring... well pretty much every actor/actress you can think of. We are fresh off seeing Endgame in theaters and are ready to do our own time heist so we can do it all again. If you are looking to listen to a group of friends geek out about the entire MCU, this is the episode for you. Starring: Evan Mehlschau, Matthew Molina, Michael Bowling, Carter McGowan, Chase Higa, and Julia Duyst Intro music by Michael Scuri --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/btml/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/btml/support

05/21/18 - On this weeks episode, very special guest Michael Bowling takes us through the best ways to connect with Walt while at Disneyland. These are the little secrets that can bring you one step closer to being in the mind of the mouse maker himself.

11/20/17 - Michael Bowling shares the history behind the popular overlay, Haunted Mansion Holiday.

10/30/17 - In this week’s Disneyland and Southern California news, Disneyland opens the flood gates with plans for new parking garages, a new hotel, and new fireworks, plus Disney Cruise line announces more San Diego cruises for 2019. This episode covers housekeeping and Rapid Fires, including some brief thoughts about Michael Bowling’s trip to Asia.

05/09/13 - Michael Bowling chats with historian David Lesjak about Walt Disney's Hyperion Studios.

11/27/14 - Michael Bowling has the first part of his chat with historian and author David Lesjak about the Walt Disney Studio’s involvement in World War II.

You have found episode 43 of the leavingtoday podcast!! Thank you so much for stopping by! In this extended and remixed show, we have the pleasure of spending some time with Disney Historian and all-around wonderful person, Michael Bowling. We are sure that you'll enjoy and appreciate his passion, knowledge and enthusiam for all things Disney. But before we talk with Michael, we have the news and a very special 101 with Jes! segment! Thank you again to all of you that phoned in for this, it means so much to us!   ***Get your LTP merchandise here or click on the Merchandise tab on the top of this page!!!!***   News   Halloween overlay coming to Guardians of the Galaxy at DCA STAR WARS!! JURASSIC WORLD's Colin Trevorrow Is No Longer Directing EPISODE IX!! Haul-O-Ween materializes at Disney California Adventure   101 with Jes! Jes gets the listeners to leave us a message!! Awesome!!! We so appreciate you!!!!   Feature Presentation The team has a special interview with Disney historian, Michael Bowling. Michael is the Disney Historian for The DIS Unplugged Podcast Network of shows: The DIS Unplugged Podcast: Disneyland Edition including series on "60 Years of Disneyland" and "Windows on Main Street" amongst others. He is also the host of The DIS Unplugged Connecting with Walt Podcast, which is a show dedicated to Disney history.     Thank you so much for listening!!! Contacts: Please comment and subscribe to us on iTunes Listen to us on Stitcher radio!!! Follow us on facebook Follow us on Twitter: @leavingtodaypod Follow us on instagram Hury: haxgoalie@gmail www.badorbad.com Mark: info@leavingtodaypodcast.com Jes: jes.farfan@gmail.com

08/14/17 - Michael Bowling chats with Michael Labrie from the Walt Disney Family Museum about their new exhibition featuring the art of Eyvind Earle.

We spoke with Michael Bowling, a professor at the University of Alberta whose team of researchers created a GPU-trained AI that has defeated professional poker players at heads-up no-limit Texas hold’em. The work promises to yield applications in the real world, where — unlike games such as Go and Chess — we often have to make decisions based on incomplete information.

02/20/17 - Michael Bowling continues his look at Disneyland of the 1990s, including the opening of the Indiana Jones Adventure and the premiere of Light Magic.

11/28/16 - Michael Bowling begins his look at Disneyland of the 1990s, including the opening of Mickey’s Toontown and the premier of Fantasmic.

10/17/16 - Michael Bowling continues his look at Disneyland of the 1980s, including the openings of Star Tours, Captain EO, and Splash Mountain.

08/29/16 - Michael Bowling continues his celebration of Disneyland’s 60th anniversary beginning at the 25th anniversary of the park in 1980, through New Fantasyland, and continuing through the rise of Michael Eisner.

07/18/16 - Michael Bowling and special guest Jim Korkis celebrate Disneyland’s 61st birthday with a look a back at Disneyland’s opening in 1955.

04/25/16 - Michael Bowling and guest Chris Lyndon talk about the history of Disney music in both films and theme parks.

01/08/16 - In this episode, Michael Bowling and Craig Williams discuss the lifetime relationship between Walt and his brother Roy, paying specific attention to Roy's side of things.

12/01/15 - Michael Bowling talks with "The Wisdom of Walt" author Jeff Barnes about how to apply Walt Disney’s wisdom in your everyday life.

11/03/15 - Michael Bowling continues his celebration of 60 years of Disneyland with a look at Tomorrowland 1967.

10/30/15 - In this episode, Michael Bowling and Craig Williams discuss the effect Walt's passing had on the Florida Project and how it progressed with his brother, Roy O. Disney.

10/23/15 - In this episode, Michael Bowling and Craig Williams discuss Walt's master plan for what The Florida Project and E.P.C.O.T. would eventually look like.

10/16/15 - In this episode, Michael Bowling and Craig Williams discuss the pressure Walt was under to move forward or reject the proposals to build another, and the 1963 plane tour of potential sites, which led to Walt making his decision.

10/09/15 - In this episode, Michael Bowling and Craig Williams examine several of the offers Walt received after the opening of Disneyland to build other Disneyland's around the U.S. Also, they share their feelings on the PBS documentary about Walt Disney.

10/02//15 - In this episode, Michael Bowling and Craig Williams discuss our current view of the future compared to Walt Disney's in order to better understand the basis for creating the Florida Project in the debut episode of Connecting with Walt.

09/22/15 - Tom Bell, Nancy Johnson, Tony Spittell, Mary Jo Mellado Willey, Michael Bowling and Wayne Toigo celebrate the 500th episode of the podcast by answering listener questions about the show.

09/22/15 - Michael Bowling continues his chat with former Cast Member Ben Harris, who began as a conductor on the Disneyland Railroad in 1958 and worked his way up to Operations Manager.

09/08/15 - Michael Bowling continues his celebration of Disneyland’s 60th birthday in this chat with former Cast Member Ben Harris, who began as a conductor on the Disneyland Railroad in 1958 and worked his way up to Operations Manager.

08/11/15 - Michael Bowling’s focus on the Windows on Main Street returns as he and special guest Doug Lipp discuss Van France, who was instrumental in early Cast Member training.

07/14/15 - Michael Bowling continues his celebration of Disneyland’s 60th birthday with a discussion of the years surrounding the opening of New Orleans Square.

05/26/15 - Michael Bowling talks about adding visits to the tasting rooms of the Disney Family of Wines to your California vacation.

04/21/15 - Michael Bowling continues his celebration of Disneyland’s upcoming 60th birthday with a look back at the 1964-65 World’s Fair.

03/31/15 - Michael Bowling talking about businessman Kay Kamen and how he made Mickey Mouse a merchandise superstar.

In this ALL NEW GameTek, Geoff interviews Dr. Michael Bowling of the University of Alberta. Mike and his team put together computer hardware and software to 'solve' Heads-Up Limit Texas Hold'Em. So how does it work? And what does 'solve' really mean in a game with so much hidden information? Duration: 38:00

02/24/15 - Michael Bowling continues his look at the Windows on Main Street in this exclusive chat with Disney Legend Rolly Crump.

01/27/15 - Michael Bowling continues his celebration of Disneyland’s upcoming 60th birthday with a look at the first ten years of the Park.

12/04/14 - Michael Bowling has part two of his chat with historian and author David Lesjak about the Walt Disney Studio’s involvement in World War II.

11/27/14 - Michael Bowling has the first part of his chat with historian and author David Lesjak about the Walt Disney Studio’s involvement in World War II.

11/13/14 - Michael Bowling continues his chat with Disneyland Hotel historian and author Don Ballard.

11/06/14 - Tom Bell, Nancy Johnson, Michael Bowling and Mary Jo Mellado Willey discuss their favorite, and least favorite, bathrooms in Disneyland Park.

11/06/14 - Michael Bowling continues his lead-up to Disneyland’s 60th birthday with the first part of a conversation with author Don Ballard about the history of the Disneyland Hotel.

10/16/14 - Tom Bell, Michael Bowling, and Mary Jo Mellado Willey discuss early entry, including what it is, who gets it, and how to make the most of it.

10/02/14 - Tom Bell and Michael Bowling talk about their experiences at Mickey’s Halloween Party at Disneyland Park and Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights.

09/11/14 - Michael Bowling continues his lead-up to Disneyland’s 60 birthday with a look at its first year of operation.

07/17/14 - Michael Bowling continues his lead up to next year’s 60th anniversary of Disneyland Park with a look at opening day in 1955.

06/26/14 - Michael Bowling talks about a recent presentation at the Walt Disney Family Museum focusing on the classic Lady and the Tramp.

05/22/14 - Michael Bowling continues his lead up to next year’s 60th anniversary of Disneyland with a look at the construction of Disneyland.

04/10/14 - Michael Bowling discusses a couple of recent Walt Disney Family Museum presentations focusing on animators. The first presentation looked at some of the first animation directors that worked with Walt Disney himself. The other presentation featured women in animation.

03/27/14 - Michael Bowling continues his lead up to next year’s 60th anniversary of Disneyland Park, this time going back to the beginning with Walt’s idea.

02/13/14 - Michael Bowling talks about Walt Disney’s involvement in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley.

01/30/14 - Michael Bowling begins his celebration of Disneyland’s upcoming 60th anniversary with a look at Mary Poppins and Saving Mr. Banks and their effect on Disneyland.

01/23/14 - Michael Bowling celebrates the 20th anniversary of Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin.

01/16/14 - Michael Bowling talks about a recent tribute to Annette Funicello that was held at the Walt Disney Family Museum.

11/14/13 - Michael Bowling discusses artist Tyrus Wong and the art and animation of Bambi.

10/31/13 - Michael Bowling chats with author Kate Abbott about her book, Disneylanders.

10/24/13 - Michael Bowling and his wife Carol discuss their experiences in the Parks following the implementation of the new Disability Access Service. DIS legal correspondent Jack Burgin joins in the discussion.

10/10/13 - Michael Bowling chats with Swampy’s Underground Adventures animator Rob Fendler about work with Disney, plus a new project for the Carolwood Foundation.

10/03/13 - Mary Jo Mellado Willey and Michael Bowling discuss their experiences at Haunt, Knott’s Berry Farm’s Halloween event.

08/15/13 - Audio of the live daily recaps from the 3 days of the D23 Expo featuring Tom Bell, Michael Bowling and Craig Williams.

08/15/13 - Tom Bell, Michael Bowling and Craig Williams share their final thoughts about D23 Expo 2013.

07/25/13 - Michael Bowling shares some stories from Disney Legend and Imagineer Rolly Crump.

07/11/13 - Tom Bell and Michael Bowling chat with D23’s Jeffrey Epstein about the upcoming D23 Expo.

Michael Bowling celebrates the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room.

Michael Bowling continues his Windows on Main Street series discussing Imagineer Harriet Burns with her daughter, Pam Burns-Clair.

04/18/13 - Michael Bowling celebrates at this year's D23 Fanniversary event.

04/11/13 - Michael Bowling begins a series focusing on the windows on Main Street USA. In this segment, Michael and guest Sam Gennawey discuss the most recent honoree, Buzz Price.

02/28/13 - Michael Bowling chats with Russell D. Flores about his new book, "Seen, Un-Seen Disneyland".

02/07/13 - Michael Bowling talks about what Disney is doing to preserve their classic film library.

01/10/13 - Special guest Michael Bowling talks about Walt Disney's love of trains and how they inspired him and the Parks.

11/22/12 - Special guest Michael Bowling reviews the new Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs exhibit at the Walt Disney Family Museum.