Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael Mack

Familie Mack spricht über 50 Jahre Europa-Park – geplante Events, den Einstieg in die Filmbranche, Besonderheiten der letzten Jahre und Wünsche für die Zukunft.Der Europa-Park feiert sein 50. Jubiläum und in dieser Folge nehmen wir euch mit hinter die Kulissen dieses besonderen Jahres. Wir sprechen mit den geschäftsführenden Gesellschaftern über die Highlights der letzten fünf Jahrzehnte, den Wandel vom kleinen Familienbetrieb zu Deutschlands größtem Freizeitpark und die spektakulären Events, die 2025 auf die Besucher warten.Roland Mack erzählt, wie sich der Freizeitpark entwickelt hat und warum das Familienerlebnis immer im Mittelpunkt stand. Jürgen Mack erinnert sich an lustige Anekdoten von früher, darunter eine Gondel voller VIP-Gäste, die plötzlich feststeckte. Michael Mack gewährt exklusive Einblicke in die Kinofilmproduktion sowie die neue interaktive Attraktion GRAND PRIX EDventure und Thomas Mack verrät spannende Neuigkeiten zur Gastronomie – von Eatrenalin bis zu den kulinarischen Themenfesten.Außerdem erfahrt ihr alles über die geplanten Jubiläums-Highlights: neue Shows, Paraden, Themenfeste und vieles mehr. Jetzt reinhören und 50 Jahre Europa-Park-Geschichte hautnah erleben.Ihr möchtet keine Folge mehr verpassen? Dann abonniert Zeit.Gemeinsam.Erleben. auf eurer Lieblingsplattform. Außerdem freuen wir uns auf Bewertungen und Feedback.Unsere Sondersendung läuft jeden Samstag von 11 bis 15 Uhr bundesweit im Schwarzwaldradio und auch weltweit auf europa.radio Unsere weiteren Podcastformate: Parkgeflüster, Ride & Slide, The World Beyond, Schlagertalk und Grenzenlos findet ihr bei VEEJOY: veejoy.de/de/podcast und natürlich überall, wo es Podcasts gibt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

[2025/03/16 PM] God's Wisdom and Kingdom are Superior (Daniel 2:1-49) Michael Mack

Zarah ist unterwegs im Europa-Park! Sie spricht mit Michael Scholz, dem ersten Mitarbeiter des Parks, der viele Anekdoten zum Besten gibt. Danach unterhält Sie sich mit Stefan Mross, der seit 21 Jahren die Sendung "Immer wieder sonntags" live aus dem Europa-Park moderiert unter anderem über dessen Lieblingsplatz. Zu guter Letzt redet Zarah mit Michael Mack, einem der Gesellschafter des Europa-Parks, über die Zukunft und den ersten Kinofilm des Freizeitparks. Freut euch auf eine informative Episode mit vielen Neuigkeiten aus dem Europa-Park. Seid gespannt!

Sujets traités : De la prison avec sursis pour le jeune homme qui avait menacé un groupe de collégiens avec un couteau la semaine dernière à Mutzig. Ce sans-domicile fixe de 26 ans a été condamné en début de semaine par le tribunal correctionnel de Saverne à une peine de neuf mois de prison avec sursis. Il devra aussi indemniser chacune des parties civiles à hauteur de 500€. Pour expliquer son geste, le prévenu, alcoolisé au moment des faits, a affirmé avoir voulu prendre la défense d'une élève qu'il croyait harcelée par ses camarades. La famille Mack à son tour honorée à l'Elysée. Alors que diverses personnalités alsaciennes ont dernièrement déjà été décorées, Roland et Michael Mack ont respectivement été nommés Officier et Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, par le président de la République Emmanuel Macron ce mardi. Une façon de valoriser l'engagement visionnaire de la famille à la tête d'Europa Park en Allemagne, mais aussi leurs actions en faveur de l'amitié franco-allemande.Toujours dans la thématique transfrontalière, une Journée Internationale Retraite avec la Carsat Alsace-Moselle et la caisse de retraite allemande est organisée le 13 février prochain par l'INFOBEST Vogelgrun/Breisach. Pour les intéressés, les inscriptions sont encore ouvertes jusqu'à jeudi prochain.En début de semaine, les conseillers communautaires de la Vallée de Munster ont fait leur rentrée de 2025. Un ordre du jour relativement léger a débuté cette nouvelle année. Malgré cela, un point important a tout de même été abordé lors de cette réunion : les attributions de compensation aux communes. Norbert Schickel, Président de la collectivité en dit plus. Au total, la communauté de communes de la Vallée de Munster reversa aux 16 communes du territoire 2 million 19 mille euros en 2025. Vous pouvez retrouver l'article et l'entretien complet sur notre site azur-fm.comAprès quelques semaines de fermeture et un record de fréquentation la saison dernière, La Seigneurie située à Andlau ouvre à nouveau ses portes dès ce samedi. Pour marquer l'occasion, un concert de jazz sera proposé à 18h. Aurélie, médiatrice culturelle de cet établissement, en dit plus sur ce nouveau rendez-vous. De quoi redécouvrir ce centre d'interprétation du patrimoine sous un nouveau jour. Pour assister à ce concert, le tarif plein est de 7€ et est de 5€ pour les enfants. Attention, c'est sur réservation.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Michael Mack, Owner of Max Pawn, talks fake Birkin Bags being sold at Walmart and how hard it is to get on the list for an Hermes Birkin bag.

sasserathNOW ist eine unabhängige Strategieberatung, die Marken, Menschen und Organisationen hilft, ihre Einzigartigkeit wirksam zu machen. In dieser Podcastfolge sprechen wir mit Michael Mack, CEO des weltberühmten Europaparks. Der Europapark ist Deutschlands größter Freizeitpark, der mit über 100 Attraktionen & Shows Groß und Klein verzaubert. Im Herzen Europas, zwischen Schwarzwald und Vogesen, liegt einer der schönsten Freizeitparks der Welt: der Europapark. Als Deutschlands größter Freizeitpark verzaubert er mit über 100 Attraktionen & Shows Groß und Klein. Über 5,7 Millionen Besucher aller Nationen kommen jede Saison, um sich von über einhundert Attraktionen und Shows begeistern zu lassen. In der Positionierung als Erlebnis-Resort verbindet der Europapark die klassischen Achterbahnen mit Virtual Reality Erlebnissen, Hotels und einem eigenen Animationsstudio: „der Europapark kombiniert unterschiedlichste Kompetenzen und entwickelt sich ständig weiter“. Im Zentrum dieses Erfolgs steht Michael Mack, der mit seiner einzigartigen Mischung aus Technikbegeisterung und Kreativität die Zukunft des Entertainments prägt. „Unsere Produkte ermöglichen es den Menschen, kurzzeitig der digitalen Welt zu entfliehen“ erklärt Michael. Denn trotz einer zunehmend digitalen Welt besteht der Wunsch nach echten und authentischen Erlebnissen. Der Europapark zeigt, dass die Unterhaltung der Zukunft hybrid ist: eine Verschmelzung aus analoger und digitaler Welt. Im weiteren Gespräch mit Michael diskutieren wir: Wie hat sich das Familienunternehmen über die Generationen weiterentwickelt? Wie definiert Michael Mack „gute Arbeit“ und was macht seinen Führungsstil besonders? Was steckt hinter der Kreativagentur MackOne? Ihr wollt mehr erfahren zu unserer Perspektive auf Marken – schaut auf unserer Website vorbei: https://www.sasserathnow.com Gäste des Talks: Michael Mack https://www.linkedin.com/in/mack-michael/ Anna Lüders https://www.linkedin.com/in/annalueders/ Marc Sasserath https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcsasserath/

On today's show, we spoke with Michael Mack, Associate Portfolio Manager for Victory Capital to discuss how to calculate free cash flow, if the Mag 7 would have shown up on a free cash flow screen, avoiding value traps, sector exposure within high free cash flow strategies, and much more! Find complete show notes on our blogs... Ben Carlson's A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick's The Irrelevant Investor Feel free to shoot us an email at animalspirits@thecompoundnews.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.   Check out the latest in financial blogger fashion at The Compound shop: https://www.idontshop.com Past performance is not indicative of future results. The material discussed has been provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as legal or investment advice or a recommendation of any particular security or strategy. The investment strategy and themes discussed herein may be unsuitable for investors depending on their specific investment objectives and financial situation. Information obtained from third-party sources is believed to be reliable though its accuracy is not guaranteed.   Investing involves the risk of loss. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be or regarded as personalized investment advice or relied upon for investment decisions. Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are employees of Ritholtz Wealth Management and may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this video. All opinions expressed by them are solely their own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholtz Wealth Management. The Compound Media, Incorporated, an affiliate of Ritholtz Wealth Management, receives payment from various entities for advertisements in affiliated podcasts, blogs and emails. Inclusion of such advertisements does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof, or any affiliation therewith, by the Content Creator or by Ritholtz Wealth Management or any of its employees. For additional advertisement disclaimers see here https://ritholtzwealth.com/advertising-disclaimers. Investments in securities involve the risk of loss. Any mention of a particular security and related performance data is not a recommendation to buy or sell that security. The information provided on this website (including any information that may be accessed through this website) is not directed at any investor or category of investors and is provided solely as general information. Obviously nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. See our disclosures here: https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lester Kiewit speaks to Michael Mack, the founder of ebooksforkids about his goal of uplifting children AND educators by providing access to online books as well as an opportunity for online learners and educators to connect with each other. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Über vergangene und bevorstehende Projekte. Die 50. Saison in Deutschlands größtem Freizeitpark ist gestartet. Der Europa-Park öffnet erneut seine Pforten. Frisch von der Saisonstart Pressekonferenz hat sich die Inhaberfamilie Mack zum Gespräch mit Zeit.Gemeinsam.Erleben. Moderator Matthias getroffen.Roland Mack spricht nicht nur über die Baustellen, sondern blickt auch auf die Erfolge des Europa-Park und gibt einen Ausblick auf zukünftige Bauprojekte. Voltron Nevera ist nicht nur ein Meisterstück der Technik, sondern auch ein Erlebnis, wie man es nur im Europa-Park findet. Mit welchem Promi Roland Mack gerne mal fahren würde erfahrt ihr in dieser Folge Zeit.Gemeinsam.Erleben.Für Ann-Kathrin Mack ist Off-Season der Falsche Name. Überall im Park herrschte Trubel von vorne bis hinten. Mit über 40 Baustellen stand der Europa-Park in der Schließphase keinesfalls still. Die Schirmherrin dieser Baustellen gibt spannende Einblicke über die vielen Projekte, die sie Betreut. Die Beiden wohl größten davon sind die Themenbereichen Österreich und Kroatien.Auch für Coastiality Fans wird kommende Saison gesorgt. Storytelling ist für Michael Mack sehr wichtig, deshalb ist er froh mit „Eurosat Coastiality – Das Phantom der Oper“ eine IP gefunden zu haben, die gut zu Europa-Park passt. Und alles wurde von Mack Interactive in Plobsheim umgesetzt. Außerdem kommt mit dem Yoomi Coastiality Erlebnis der VR-Spaß auch wieder nach Österreich.Und zu guter Letzt hören wir von Thomas Mack, der frisch aus Amerika kommt. Dieser hat, stellvertretend für die Familie Mack und alle Mitarbeiter, den TEA Thea Award in der Kategorie „Experiential Dining Attraction“ entgegengenommen. In Hollywood, auf der Bühne der großen Stars, wurde ihm der Branchen Oskar für die Restaurant-Weltneuheit Eatrenalin verliehen.Ihr möchtet keine Folge mehr verpassen? Dann abonniert Zeit.Gemeinsam.Erleben. auf eurer Lieblingsplattform. Außerdem freuen wir uns auf Bewertungen und Feedback.Unsere Sondersendung läuft jeden Samstag von 11 bis 15 Uhr bundesweit im Schwarzwaldradio und auch weltweit auf europa.radio Unsere weiteren Podcastformate: Parkgeflüster, VIP Talk, Ride & Slide und The World Beyond findet ihr bei VEEJOY: veejoy.de/de/podcast und natürlich überall, wo es Podcasts gibt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of CTSNet's flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning interviews Dr. Michael Mack. Dr. Mack, of Baylor Healthcare System, is the first author of the PARTNER 3 trial, which recently published its five-year results. They talk about the outcomes of the trial and what they mean for the future of TAVR. Items Mentioned Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Risk Patients at Five Years Disclaimer The information and views presented on CTSNet.org represent the views of the authors and contributors of the material and not of CTSNet. Please review our full disclaimer page here.

In this episode of CTSNet's flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of CT surgery information—and breaking cardiothoracic surgery news and research from around the world. Joel discusses the outcomes of TAVR in low-risk patients, the gender equity gap in CT surgery, and assessing donor-recipient size mismatch in pediatric heart transplantation. He also talks about an interview with the GGO guidelines co-chairs, a video demonstrating Konno root enlargement for endocarditis treatment, and a detachable aortic cross-clamp used in robotic cardiac surgery. After discussing upcoming events in the CT surgery world, he closes with a shoutout to Dr. Michael Mack, lead author of the new TAVR study. JANS Items Mentioned Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Risk Patients at Five Years  Women in Cardiac Surgery: Closing the Equity Gap Assessing Donor-Recipient Size Mismatch in Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Lessons Learned from Over 7,500 Transplants CTSNet Content Mentioned New Guidelines for the Management of GGOs: An Interview with the Co-Chairs Using Konno Aortic Root Enlargement Technique to Solve a Complex Post-Endocarditis Anatomy Use of Detachable Aortic Cross Clamp for Robotic Cardiac Surgery Other Items Mentioned CTSNet Events Calendar Disclaimer The information and views presented on CTSNet.org represent the views of the authors and contributors of the material and not of CTSNet. Please review our full disclaimer page here.

Der goldene Herbst begrüßt uns mit dem Elsass Tag in Deutschlands größtem Freizeitpark. Bereits zum elften Mal feierte der Europa-Park diesen besonderen Anlass. Gäste aus aller Welt hatten die Gelegenheit, sich im Brezelmachen zu versuchen, die Peugeot-Autoausstellung zu besuchen und ein tolles Showprogramm der großartigen Künstler des Europa-Park zu genießen.In Vorfreude auf den neuen Themenbereich Kroatien erleben die Gäste ab sofort im Magic Cinema 4D im Kurzfilm Voltron 4D mit all ihren Sinnen, wie der im heutigen Kroatien geborene Erfinder Nikola Tesla eine bahnbrechende Entdeckung macht. Das 4D-Kinoerlebnis wurde von Michael Mack, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter Europa-Park und CEO MACK One produziert, der uns weitere Einblicke gibt.Verwesende Leichen, Kettensägengeräusche oder Giftcocktails: Es ist Zeit für Traumatica – Festival of Fear. In der heutigen Ausgabe sprechen wir mit Ines Schönthaler, Projektleiterin Traumatica. Sie erzählt uns von den neuen Attraktionen und verrät ob man die Charakter, die in ihrer Rolle so gut aufgehen, ob man sie überhaupt wieder loswerden kann.

Wisconsin Badgers call in show, Buffalo preview depth at secondary a concern with Michael Mack news! We discuss what we expect to see in the season opening, why Buffalo is a great team to start with and how many young players will get meaningful reps. We talk about Luke Fickell and if they are going to use this weekend's game to send a message and get the offense rolling behind Tanner Mordecai and Braelon Allen.We also talk about the news that the NCAA denied cornerback Michael Mack's waiver and how that might impact the secondary and create an opportunity for Jonas Docluna.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Athletic BrewingGo to AthleticBrewing.com and enter code LOCKEDON to get 15% off your first online order or find a store near you! Athletic Brewing. Milford, CT and San Diego, CA. Near Beer.BetterhelpThis podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp.If you're thinking of starting therapy, give BetterHelp a try. Visit BetterHelp.com/lockedoncollege today to get 10% off your first month.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase.LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. Terms and conditions apply.eBay MotorsFor parts that fit, head to eBay Motors and look for the green check. Stay in the game with eBay Guaranteed Fit. eBay Motors dot com. Let's ride. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Right now, NEW customers can bet FIVE DOLLARS and get TWO HUNDRED in BONUS BETS – GUARANTEED. Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wisconsin Badgers call in show, Buffalo preview depth at secondary a concern with Michael Mack news! We discuss what we expect to see in the season opening, why Buffalo is a great team to start with and how many young players will get meaningful reps. We talk about Luke Fickell and if they are going to use this weekend's game to send a message and get the offense rolling behind Tanner Mordecai and Braelon Allen. We also talk about the news that the NCAA denied cornerback Michael Mack's waiver and how that might impact the secondary and create an opportunity for Jonas Docluna. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Athletic Brewing Go to AthleticBrewing.com and enter code LOCKEDON to get 15% off your first online order or find a store near you! Athletic Brewing. Milford, CT and San Diego, CA. Near Beer. Betterhelp This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp.If you're thinking of starting therapy, give BetterHelp a try. Visit BetterHelp.com/lockedoncollege today to get 10% off your first month. Gametime Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. LinkedIn LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. Terms and conditions apply. eBay Motors For parts that fit, head to eBay Motors and look for the green check. Stay in the game with eBay Guaranteed Fit. eBay Motors dot com. Let's ride. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. FanDuel Make Every Moment More. Right now, NEW customers can bet FIVE DOLLARS and get TWO HUNDRED in BONUS BETS – GUARANTEED. Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we're talking about OpenAI's one billion dollars in revenue, up from a measly 28 million in 2022. They've got plenty of competition, including Tel Aviv-based AI21, which just raised another $155 M to compete with their business offering. We also get into VRChat and Meta Horizon's new mobile apps, and the announcement the Magic Leap One Creators' Edition won't be supported after 2024, whatever that means. Our guest is Michael Mack, CEO and owner of Europa Park, the second-largest theme park in Europe, hosting six million visitors a year. The Park recently added a free-roam VR attraction, as well as an interactive restaurant, Adrenaline. Thank you to our sponsor, Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR!https://linktr.ee/thisweekinxr Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mack and Moss commit and the Wisconsin Badgers football team is practicing, early thoughts! Air Force transfer Michael Mack has committed to the Badgers as well as 2025 DB Remington Moss - we discuss the continued overhaul of the Badgers defensive secondary.Plus two tight ends leave the program, are we worried about the depth at the spot?Its day 1 of practice, we respond to news of TJ Bollers being on the first team, positive reports of Bryson Green and Joe Huber starting at guard.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. Terms and conditions apply.eBay MotorsFor parts that fit, head to eBay Motors and look for the green check. Stay in the game with eBay Guaranteed Fit. eBay Motors dot com. Let's ride. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Don't miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mack and Moss commit and the Wisconsin Badgers football team is practicing, early thoughts! Air Force transfer Michael Mack has committed to the Badgers as well as 2025 DB Remington Moss - we discuss the continued overhaul of the Badgers defensive secondary. Plus two tight ends leave the program, are we worried about the depth at the spot? Its day 1 of practice, we respond to news of TJ Bollers being on the first team, positive reports of Bryson Green and Joe Huber starting at guard. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! LinkedIn LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. Terms and conditions apply. eBay Motors For parts that fit, head to eBay Motors and look for the green check. Stay in the game with eBay Guaranteed Fit. eBay Motors dot com. Let's ride. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. FanDuel Make Every Moment More. Don't miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eine Kooperation wie sie im Buche steht - Fußball und Europa-Park passen perfekt zusammen! Das beweist auch wieder der SC Fan Tag in Deutschlands größtem Freizeitpark. In der heutigen Ausgabe von Zeit.Gemeinsam.Erleben. geben wir euch einen kleinen Einblick von einem erfolgreichen Tag mit mehr als 2.000 SC Fans.Apropos Fans: Auch die Fans von Spezialeffekten werden in dieser Folge begeistert sein: Wir verraten euch was es mit dem Besuch von Oscar-Preisträger und Spezialeffektkünstler Sir Richard Taylor auf sich hat. Er ist nicht nur Gast in der aktuellen Podcastfolge von „,The World Beyond – The Emotioneers of Tomorrow' brought to you by Michael Mack“, sondern hat gemeinsam mit MACK One hat er großes vor. Außerdem kommt Tamara Schwab zu Wort. Die Speakerin, Trainerin und Autorin war im Erlebnis-Resort und hat den Mitarbeiter eine Schulung zum Thema Resilienz gegeben. Ihre persönliche Geschichte und warum gerade sie die Expertin für das Thema Resilienz ist, erfahrt ihr in der heutigen Folge.Hier geht's zu unseren Podcast-Formaten: veejoy.de/de/podcastUnsere Sondersendung läuft jeden Samstag von 11 bis 15 Uhr bundesweit im Schwarzwaldradio und auch weltweit auf europa.radio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mauritia Mack macht in der heutigen Podcastfolge den Anfang – denn Schmuck kaufen und dabei Gutes tun, steht im Vordergrund wenn Frau Mack ihre neuste Charity-Kollektion Mauritia Mack by LEONARDO vorstellt. Seit 2011 gibt es jedes Jahr eine neue Kollektion, die es ermöglicht soziale Projekte zu unterstützen. Ein absolutes Herzensprojekt! An welche Organisation in diesem Jahr die Spende von 14.000 Euro ging, hört ihr in der Folge.Auch die Botschafterin des Kinderhilfswerkes, Miriam Mack, kommt zu Wort, denn der Deutsche Kinder- und Jugendpreis wurde im Europa-Park Teatro verliehen. Bei der Preisverleihung werden Projekte gewürdigt, bei denen Kinder und Jugendliche beispielhaft an der Gestaltung ihrer Lebenswelt mitwirken. Wie man Jugendliche mit Politikern zusammenbringen kann? Wenn man gemeinsam zockt! Das Projekt „Freiburg zockt!“ hat in der Kategorie „Politisches Engagement“ gewonnen und zeigt wie das ganz einfach geht.Außerdem gibt's einen Ausschnitt aus dem Podcast „The World Beyond – The Emotioneers of Tomorrow brought to you by Michael Mack“. Hier lädt Michael Mack internationale Visionäre zu einer Gesprächsrunde über Innovation und Entwicklung ein. Diesmal ist es Amy Jupiter, die exklusive Einblicke und das Eintauchen in emotionalisierende Attraktionen gibt.Hier geht's zu unseren Podcast-Formaten: veejoy.de/de/podcastUnsere Sondersendung läuft jeden Samstag von 11 bis 15 Uhr bundesweit im Schwarzwaldradio und auch weltweit auf europa.radio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ResortPass, neuer Coaster, High Diving ShowIn einer neuen Folge von Zeit.Gemeinsam.Erleben. verrät Matthias Drescher tolle Neuigkeiten für die großen und kleinen Europa-Park Fans: Der ResortPass ist zurück! Die Gold- und Silber-Versionen bieten verschiedene Vorteile für die Besitzer: unbegrenzte Parkbesuche, zwei Extra-Tickets für Rulantica und Rabatte auf Veranstaltungen im Europa-Park. Domi Merz berichtet von seinen Eindrücken vom Kauf des ResortPass Silver. Mehr Informationen auf unserer Website: Europa-Park ResortPass (mackinternational.de)Kürzlich verfolgte die Öffentlichkeit, wie die letzten Teile der neuen Achterbahn auf der Großbaustelle installiert wurden, heute können die Zuschauer von VEEJOY eine neue Version aus dem On-ride-Video genießen und den Kommentaren von Lukas Metzger (Parkleiter) und Patrick Marx (Ingenieur) lauschen, zwei Personen die maßgeblich am Bau des Projekts beteiligt sind.An besonders heißen Tagen können sich die unglaublich talentierten Europa-Park-Künstler abkühlen bei der neuen High Diving Show. Sie springen aus einer Höhe von 25 Metern ins kühle nass und dabei meistern sie verschiedene akrobatische Figuren. Es eifern raubeinige Piraten um einen geheimnisvollen verborgenen Schatz, der in der Tiefe auf dem Meeresgrund ruht. Das erwartet euch bei der neuen Show 'Retorno dos Pirates' und Hannes Lindner erzählt, wie sich Turmspringen und Klippenspringen unterscheiden.Thomas Mack, der geschäftsführende Gesellschafter, schildert außerdem seine Eindrücke vom HavnFest, dass bei dem Hotel Kronasar stattfindet.Diese Woche hat Michael Mack, Clark Parsons der Managing Director der Internet Economy Foundation zu seinem Podcast eingeladen. Er schilderte seine Ansichten über die zukünftige Entwicklung der Unterhaltungsindustrie sowie KI und VR. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This lecture was given at Hillsdale College on April 22, 2023 as part of the Thomistic Institute conference "Christology in Literature." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Michael Mack is an Associate Professor of English at the Catholic University of America. He specializes in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, and his research interests include Shakespeare, sixteenth and seventeenth-century English poetry, and Renaissance poetic theory. Dr. Mack has published a study of Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry and he is currently working on a book provisionally and pretentiously entitled Shakespeare and the Human Condition. He regularly teaches Shakespeare at the undergraduate and graduate levels and the Renaissance humanities course in the University Honors Program. Dr. Mack has served as Director of the University Honors Program, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies. Michael Mack received his A.B. from Harvard University, where his concentration was Economics, and his Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. He has been at CUA since 1997.

Michael Mack shares his top 3 favorite books in 5 minutes or less.

Eine bunte Palette aus Wissenschaft, artistischen Beiträgen und SportMatthias Drescher und Domi Merz von Zeit.Gemeinsam.Erleben. sprechen über den neuen Podcast aus dem Studio78 von und mit dem geschäftsführenden Gesellschafter Michael Mack. In dem englischsprachigen Format: „The World Beyond – The Emotioneers of Tomorrow brought to you by Michael Mack” trifft der digitale Pionier internationale Visionäre und unterhält sich mit diesen über Innovationen und Entwicklungen unserer Welt. Wie die deutsche Übersetzung des englischsprachigen Titels bereits preisgibt, geht Michael Mack mit seinen Gästen hier über die Grenzen der aktuellen Welt hinaus und wirft einen Blick in die Zukunft. Durch einen kurzen Audioausflug mittels eines Einspielers in die erste Folge erfahren wir von seinem Talk mit David Reynolds von der NASA. Mit ihm philosophiert er unter anderem über die potentielle Existenz von Aliens. In den Augen mancher Leute mag auch Hannes Lindner, Artist der Piratenshow „Retorno dos Pirates“ - „Rückkehr der Piraten“ mit seinem adrenalingeladenen und mutigen Beruf des Wasserspringers über Grenzen hinweg schwimmen. Waghalsige Sprünge aus 25 Metern Höhe gehören in der aktuellen Saison zum Tagesgeschäft. Hannes erzählt über seine Highlights der Shows und wie es dazu kam, dass die Piraten ihre heilige Schatzkarte freiwillig in fremde Hände gaben. Gesprungen wird außerdem aus Vorfreude von vielen Kindern des diesjährigen im August stattfindenden FC Bayern Kids Club Fußballcamp. Corina Zanger, Leiterin der Unternehmenskommunikation, gibt einen Teaser hinter die Kulissen. Die Kinder erfahren hier eine bunte Mischung aus Abenteuer, Adrenalin, Auspowern und guter Küche. Wer sich nun fragt, was er bei Interesse an einem Camp dieser Art tun kann und wie konkretere Details aussehen, sollte am besten erst einmal reinhören. Zum Podcast „The World Beyond – The Emotioneers of Tomorrow brought to you by Michael Mack”: https://www.veejoy.de/en/series/the-world-beyondMehr Infos zur Show „Retorno dos Pirates“ im Themenbereich Portugal: https://www.europapark.de/de/freizeitpark/shows/retorno-dos-piratasUnsere Sondersendung läuft jeden Samstag von 11 bis 15 Uhr bundesweit im Schwarzwaldradio und auch weltweit auf europa.radio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us on the Legacy United Podcast as we welcome Michael Mack, who traveled from ATL to our studio to share his incredible journey.

Endlich ist es wieder so weit: Die Tore des Europa-Park sind für Besucher und Gäste zur 49. Saison geöffnet. Spannende Einblicke gibt es heute von Michael Mack höchst persönlich. Er war zum Saisonstart zu Gast im Studio78 und plaudert eine Runde mit Moderator Matthias Drescher. Was gibt es Neues an digitalem Content? Was hat es eigentlich mit Amber Blake auf sich und was hat sie mit YULLBE Pro zu tun? Außerdem verrät uns David Ginnuttis, Storyteller von MackMagic, wie eine Geschichte im Erlebnis-Resort entsteht und wie eng die Zusammenarbeit mit Michael Mack hier ist.Aufregende Neuigkeiten gibt's auch in der Wasserwelt Rulantica. Michael Kreft von Byern, Direktor Rulantica, schildert was es mit Europas größter Speed Rutsche auf sich hat und offenbart uns Tipps und Tricks wie man am schnellsten mit dem Kopf nach vorne auch wieder nach unten kommt. Außerdem hören wir Alois Braun! Er ist nicht nur großer Europa-Park Fan, sondern auch der erste Resort-Pass-Besitzer überhaupt. Er hat Deutschlands größten Freizeitpark schon über 300 x besucht und berichtet uns von einem tollen Moment, den er so schnell nicht wieder vergessen wird.Das und noch viel mehr in der aktuellen Folge Zeit.Gemeinsam.Erleben. Hier geht's zu unseren Podcast-Formaten: https://www.veejoy.de/de/podcast und natürlich überall, wo es Podcasts gibt! Unsere Sondersendung läuft jeden Samstag von 10 bis 14 Uhr bundesweit im Schwarzwaldradio und auch weltweit auf europa.radio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Redfield Arts Audio Presents THE DRUM MAJOR A Palatine Hill production With Michael Mack as the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. Narrated by Jim Pollack and Leslie Willson Music and Sound by Jennifer Rouse Recorded at Drat Productions. Audio Engineer, Bill Dickson “Canaan Land” performed by Donal Leace Special Thanks to Jeff Herberger Produced by Michael Mack and Jim Pollock Written and Directed by Michael Mack. THE DRUM MAJOR explores the last and most challenging year in the life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Written and Directed by Michael Mack (HOUSE OF CARDS, HEAD OF STATE, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION), THE DRUM MAJOR features narration by producer Jim Pollock, with Leslie Willson, Music and Sound Design by associate producer Jennifer Rouse, and a special performance of the song CANAAN LAND by folk music legend Donal Leace, who marched with Dr. King in the 1960s. “Mack,” who portrays the Voice of Dr. King, “is a compelling actor” raves The Washington Post. For more great audio essays, audio drama, and audio books, please visit http://www.RedfieldArtsAudio.com DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE! New Podcasts every week!

Michael Mack and C. Michael Gibson discuss a novel method for extracting antithrombotics from the blood during CABG.

Michael Mack ist nicht nur Europa-Park-Chef. Er gilt auch als Pionier im Unterhaltungssektor. Diese Woche skizziert er in Basel die Zukunft des Themenparks.

Michael Mack AND Michael Garrick join us on the show today. They are two very funny gentlemen from Columbia who have fun, but don't shy away from any topic. Mike, Mike and I talked about hell mics, anime, what's wrong with Jake from State Farm, why the universe is just a ship in a bottle, politics, race, and more. Please follow them both at the links below, and check them out on stage all over South Carolina. Enjoy the interview, and have a great week! #standup #podcast Follow Our Guest(s): https://www.instagram.com/comedian_mack/ https://www.facebook.com/michael.mack.9655806 https://www.instagram.com/mikeg_comedy/ https://www.facebook.com/mgarrick2 https://www.tiktok.com/@mikegcomedy Follow My Other Stuff: David on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbakker7/?hl=en The Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ididthisinsteadofkillingmyself/?hl=en The Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2GGXI851tdRDK1XmiSgcMk David's Twitter… https://twitter.com/davidbakker7 And TikTok…I guess (you don't have to…really. We should all delete this app). https://www.tiktok.com/@davidbakker7 And your mom… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Chers auditeurs, c'est avec une grande émotion que nous vous proposons notre 100e épisode du podcast ! Et pour marquer ce chiffre symbolique, nous avons eu l'immense privilège de rencontrer Michael Mack, co-dirigeant d'Europa-Park, directeur de Mack Rides et de toutes leurs filiales. Une interview riche en histoire, de coulisses sur le passé, le présent et le futur d'Europa-Park. Un grand merci aux équipes d'Europa-Park qui ont rendu cette rencontre possible et merci à VOUS chers auditeurs, de nous être aussi fidèles après toutes ces années ! 〰 RETROUVEZ-NOUS EN LIGNE 〰

Author and Professor of Literature Dr. Michael Mack delivered a lecture entitled “Hamlet: Shakespeare's Mousetrap?” to students and faculty at Christendom College on February 7. The talk was the first in the College's new Faith & Reason Lecture Series.In his lecture, Mack reveals how Shakespeare uses one of his most famous plays to cause the audience to examine their own conscience. In the play itself, Hamlet uses a play,The Mousetrap, to cause the villain, Claudius, to examine his conscience.Mack is an Associate Professor of English and the Dean of the Undergraduate Program at The Catholic University of America. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research interests include Shakespeare, sixteenth and seventeenth-century English poetry, and Renaissance literary theory. In 2005, CUA Press published Mack's book, Sidney's Poetics: Imitating Creation. He is currently working on a book on Shakespeare.

Author and Professor of Literature Dr. Michael Mack delivered a lecture entitled “Hamlet: Shakespeare's Mousetrap?” to students and faculty at Christendom College on February 7. The talk was the first in the College's new Faith & Reason Lecture Series.In his lecture, Mack reveals how Shakespeare uses one of his most famous plays to cause the audience to examine their own conscience. In the play itself, Hamlet uses a play,The Mousetrap, to cause the villain, Claudius, to examine his conscience.Mack is an Associate Professor of English and the Dean of the Undergraduate Program at The Catholic University of America. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research interests include Shakespeare, sixteenth and seventeenth-century English poetry, and Renaissance literary theory. In 2005, CUA Press published Mack's book, Sidney's Poetics: Imitating Creation. He is currently working on a book on Shakespeare.

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, MD of Rubber Cheese.Download our free ebook The Ultimate Guide to Doubling Your Visitor NumbersIf you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this episode.Competition ends October 1st, 2022. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references: https://www.iaapa.org/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakob-wahl/ Jakob Wahl is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer at IAAPA, the global association for the attractions industry.Wahl has ten years of experience working for IAAPA. He first came to IAAPA as program manager where he served the association for five years in the association's office in Brussels. He then went on to work at Europa- Park in Rust, Germany as director of communications before returning to IAAPA in 2017 as Vice President and Executive Director of IAAPA Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). He was promoted in November 2021 to Executive Vice President and COO.Wahl holds the German and French master's degree in economics from the IUP of Aix-en-Provence. Transcriptions: Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson.In today's episode, I speak with Jakob Wahl, Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of IAAPA, International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions. We discuss just why the attractions industry is so exciting, the ongoing labour shortages, sustainability and where the attractions industry is headed in terms of technology. If you like what you hear, subscribe on all the usual channels by searching to Skip the Queue.Kelly Molson: Jakob, thank you so, so much for joining me today. You're a very, very busy man, so I'm very grateful that you could come on and spare some time.Jakob Wahl: It's a pleasure to be with you today, Kelly, so thanks for the invite. I'm honoured.Kelly Molson: The honour is all mine, trust me. But you might not be so honoured once we finish with our icebreaker questions, although I feel like I've been quite kind again, today.Jakob Wahl: Okay.Kelly Molson: All right. I want to know what is the best theme park ride that you have ever been on?Jakob Wahl: Wow. That's difficult... I think it's as difficult as, say, a favourite car; because there's a specific mood for everything. And if I... It also depends on the company. If I go with my buddies, probably I would have said Boulder Dash at Lake Compounce, which is an intense wooden coaster. If I go with my kids, I'd take any kind of Disney ride, or whatever. And if I go with my wife, it's probably no ride at all, but it's a great restaurant in a park. So, it's actually very, very hard to judge.Jakob Wahl: But I have to say, and obviously, the big things in the industry always blew me away; and that was Indiana Jones at Disneyland, Anaheim. It was Spiderman at Islands of Adventure. It was the first Harry Potter rides. It was really kind of those, where I would consider revolutionary developments in the dark ride industry, where you just walk out and say, "Wow. What was that?" And Star Wars was the most recent one.Kelly Molson: Oh, that was a great answer. I think that was a brilliant answer. I love that you gave different answers for the different people that you were with, as well. I think that was-Jakob Wahl: Yeah, but it is.Kelly Molson: Right.Jakob Wahl: I think it's the same thing about favourite parks. I have... I love the atmosphere in a Scandinavian park at night, when it comes alive with the lights, with concerts. But if I would go just for rides, it would be probably the Universal Parks. If I go with my family, it's something else. It really depends on the mood of the day.Kelly Molson: Brilliant. Perfect answer, could not have been better. Right. If you had to listen to one album on repeat, continuously, what would that album be?Jakob Wahl: Wow. It would be a classic album, I think; because as much as I love all kinds of music, if I would need to listen to something continuously, I need something which doesn't stress me and which kind of relax me. I don't know the English term. It's a track called Moonshine Sonata. It's a sonnet of the moonlight, or Tchaikovsky, which I like a lot as well.Kelly Molson: Well, that sounds lovely. I actually do this in the car; so I've started to listen to Classic FM, which is a radio station in the UK, because it's really calming.Jakob Wahl: Yes.Kelly Molson: And if you're just... It's just really relaxing and really calm; and it just puts you in a really kind of Zen mood.Jakob Wahl: Yeah.Kelly Molson: I'm sure that's all right for driving, to be Zen. Sure, that's fine.Jakob Wahl: Especially in a traffic jam, if you have aggressive drivers around you, that is actually...Kelly Molson: Exactly. Just wind the window down, take in my Classic FM. Okay. What would be your favourite tradition? Something that you do every year, or something that you do every month?Jakob Wahl: It's probably a ski weekend with my best friends. I'm moving to Orlando, so that's actually the hard part; because I love skiing, and I probably spend most of my money on skiing because this means... I think it comes back to what you say in music. There's nothing else where I can more relax and unwind, because you're just in the nature, you're doing sports... Well, it's not really challenging as a sport, but it's just wonderful to be out there. And I think that's something I really, really love; to go with my best friend, just for a weekend, and whiskey and ski.Kelly Molson: That sounds pretty cool, doesn't it? That's going to be a big change for you then, moving-Jakob Wahl: Oh, yes.Kelly Molson: ... to Orlando.Jakob Wahl: Yes. I live right now in the Black Forest, and we have the four seasons here. In Orlando, I think it's the four seasons of humidity. But there are other great things about Orlando. So, I will definitely miss the snow, but there will be plenty of other things I'm very excited about.Kelly Molson: Absolutely. Well, yes. For an Attraction Specialist, could there be a better place to be than Orlando? Maybe not. Right. Jakob, what's your unpopular opinion?Jakob Wahl: I don't like special days in theme parks. And this comes from a longer history. We have seen, in theme parks, days for special needs, or days, or so-called gay days. And I think I would like us to be so inclusive that we don't need special days to accommodate those people. It should be a normal thing. It should be just... I don't also like when you go to toilets, and there's a special sign for disabled people. It should be that they are always accessible. And I think it should be a regular part of our business that you don't need to market designated days for designated groups; because we should be so inclusive that it's every day.Kelly Molson: That's a really good opinion. And I'm pretty sure that a lot of people would agree with you on that one, as well. So maybe it's not going to be quite as unpopular as you think.Jakob Wahl: Then I have another unpopular opinion, for sure.Kelly Molson: Oh, well, throw that at us. If you're going to get... Let's have another one.Jakob Wahl: I'm tired of the word immersive. I don't think every attraction needs to be immersive. I think it's totally fine that you have a great thrill ride, that you have a great rollercoaster. It doesn't always need to have a storyline or own soundtrack or a big theme. It's also fine sometimes, to just have a great ride in itself, and to let it stand for itself without any IP, without a branding, without a soundtrack, without all of that stuff.Kelly Molson: Hmm. All right. Well, listeners, I would love to know your thoughts on these. Tweet me, let me know what you think. Thank you for sharing, Jakob. Can you tell us a little bit about your background and where you are now?Jakob Wahl: I'm sitting right now in Germany, where I'm originally from. I work for IAAPA, which I have done now for four and a half years; it's my second time with IAAPA. Beforehand, I worked for Europa-Park. So this is why I still kind of live in that area, because I was lucky enough to meet my wonderful wife here in this region. So I stayed here even, when moving away from Europa-Park.Jakob Wahl: But I have been, what you would consider in this industry, aficionado. You can call me nerd, enthusiastic, whatever you want. But I think, as many people, I started in the industry as a teenager. My first job was when I was 16. I checked tickets Phantasialand at the entrance, the Mexican side entrance to Phantasialand. And I fell in love with this industry. And I never left, for the disbelief of my parents, who still hope one day I have a serious job. But I think I even got them so far that they understand what this is about, and what it means for me, and that we are huge industry.Jakob Wahl: But since then, I think I love this industry, and I'm sometimes like the child in the candy store, because I think we have the privilege of... Actually, our only purpose is bringing joy to the people. And there are not many industries is out there which can say that for themselves. And in that way, you see lots of discussion about human resources, about bringing young talent to the industry.Jakob Wahl: And I think we need to highlight that more; because you see that it's those companies which have a purpose, which have a mission, which are very popular among young people. Patagonia, Oakley, Veja, other sneaker brands. It's those which say that they're doing good for the people. And ultimately, yes, we are. As an industry, as our members, we are commercially driven, but hey, we bring fun to the people. And I think that is unfortunately, today, more needed than ever before.Kelly Molson: Ah, I could not agree with you more. Bringing fun to the people; there could not be a better definition of what the sector is all about. I absolutely love that. What's really interesting is, most people that come on here that are attractions aficionados, as you called yourself, they do start very young in the sector. So it is an industry that... It really, it does retain people. Right? People fall in love with it at a really early age, which is really lovely to see. And I want to ask you a little bit about this later on in the podcast, actually, something that you talked about, in terms of recruitment and getting more younger people into the industry.Jakob Wahl: We always said two things; we said, "Once you work for the industry, you will never work for anything else, for two reasons. Because you don't want to work for anything else." And actually, the second one is, "No one will take you seriously once you have worked with us."Kelly Molson: That's it. You're done in, so you have to stay.Jakob Wahl: Yes, you have to.Kelly Molson: I love that. Okay. Well, let... You are now at IAAPA.Jakob Wahl: Yes.Kelly Molson: And you've just taken on an incredibly senior role there. Can you tell us a little bit about that, and then what that role involves?Jakob Wahl: Yes. My first time at IAAPA was from 2009 to 2014, and I worked with Karen Staley, who was back then the Vice President. Today, she's with Sally Dark Rides. And I fell in love with this association, because I think, again, we fulfill a role in trying to promote the industry and in bringing people together; and I think that's a wonderful thing.Jakob Wahl: I left then for Europa-Park, where I had four amazing years with the Mack family, with Michael Mack, where I learned a lot. And then, this job opened up at IAAPA EMEA, and as the Vice President. And I always had two hearts in my chest. I was very passionate about the association, and then I took that chance, and I have had four and a half fantastic years with IAAPA EMEA.Jakob Wahl: And then, I was lucky enough to have a great CEO with Hal McEvoy. And we discussed, and then one moment, he changed the strategy in saying that he wanted to be also more in presenting IAAPA on a picture, and asked me to take over the role as COO. And this is a great opportunity, and I'm very happy about what we have achieved in the EMEA region. And I look forward to work with the regional leaders, which we have with June Ko in the APEC region, with Michael Shelton in North America, and with Paulina Reyes in Latin America. And my successor now, Peter van der Schans, to try to bring that industry further, and to deliver more membership services and be of help for our members.Kelly Molson: So, what is your role there now? And what is your kind of purpose at IAAPA? What do you drive?Jakob Wahl: So, I lead the operations of IAAPA across the world. And so that means I'm in charge for the four regional offices, for the global sales, for our three expos. We have IAAPA Expo Asia, which unfortunately, we had to cancel due to the COVID situation in Hong Kong, or in the region and in Shanghai, where the expo was supposed to take place. And the one in Europe, which takes place this year in London, Kelly, I hope to see you there.Kelly Molson: Yes, I will be there.Jakob Wahl: And then, obviously, our big ship, the one in Orlando, which always takes place in November. So, I'm ultimately in charge for those big trade shows for the regions, but also for the many regional events across the world, where we try to bring together people, to learn from each other, to inspire each other, to connect with each other.Jakob Wahl: And we have the next upcoming event in Orlando now, where we are going to see the new Ice Breaker coaster at SeaWorld. We are going to have in mayor region, an event in May, in Italy, where we are going to see Cinecitta World, Magic Land, and Zoomarine, where we'll really try to look into things: what's hot? What should be seen? What can we tell, in terms of educating our members about best practices? That really, everyone comes and sees something and walks away back home to say, "Hey, I can apply that in my business to become better." And I think that's what drives us in trying to come up with those events.Kelly Molson: It's been an incredibly difficult time for the attractions industry-Jakob Wahl: Yes.Kelly Molson: ... full-stop. But for you personally, that must have been very difficult. Because I guess that you are used to traveling a lot all over for the world, to all of these incredible places and attractions that you described. That must have been really tough for you.Jakob Wahl: Well, I think... First, I have a very passionate team; and I think the whole IAAPA team is very passionate. And we felt for our members. We struggled because we had to cancel shows as well. It was sad, because we put a lot of work into things which had to be canceled. But I think we suffered mainly seeing our members struggling with changing rules, with being forced to close down, with all of those things.Jakob Wahl: And I tried to look at the good sides of things. And I think during those past 24 months, our industry grew together. And I think when the pandemic first hit, it was in very short notice that we got together the key leading experts, health and safety experts from all the big parks across the world, who developed a paper on safe re-opening for theme parks.Jakob Wahl: And seeing that, how we worked together as, or unity, how we work with national associations; how we tried to support each other, how we sent letters, how we talked to governments; I think that was actually where the association came alive. And yes, it was hard for us to not being able to bring people face-to-face together, but it was, I think, good because we saw stronger than ever before, the value of an association. And it was... We got many feedback from members across the world saying, "Listen. I went to my government with this paper, and they saw that we are safe. And they saw it, and they let me open again." And that was very fulfilling, obviously, for the members, but also for us; because we saw that what we did was of purpose.Kelly Molson: That's incredibly powerful, isn't it?Jakob Wahl: Yeah.Kelly Molson: That document had such a huge effect on attractions all over the world.Jakob Wahl: But that is again, a privilege of this industry, I think. In a way, yes, parks or members or facility members or our supplier members are in a certain way competing. They're competing about the same money, about the same time. But I think if we have certain discussion items of whatever nature, and I call the different members, they all group around the table, they all share their learnings, their best practices. And they walk away, and everyone is kind of doing their thing again.Jakob Wahl: But I'm not sure if this is the same thing in many other businesses: in the car industry, in the computer industry, in the mobile industry. I don't think people are that open with each other. And I think this is where it's special to work for this association; because you feel that. One member thinks, "Listen. If a client, if a guest, has a good time in a different park, it's helpful for me as well. But if they have a bad experience somewhere, they are probably less likely to visit other amusement parks." And I think this is what makes our industry special, because I think we have understood that.Kelly Molson: That's really interesting. And that is something, again, that's come up time and time again, when we've spoken to people in the sector. It's just, one, is how collaborative it is and supportive of each other. But two... Do you think that that... Do you think it's more so since the pandemic? It was prior to, but do you think that that's accelerated because of the pandemic situation?Jakob Wahl: It was always there. I think it was always there. And I think we always have had those dedicated members which have contributed massively through committees, through white papers for all members on best practices, on right commissioning for example, or on right of a creation; those really kind of guidelines where we get safety experts together, creating a document for those parks which might not have the same resources, and trying to level that up.Jakob Wahl: I think what we have seen through the pandemic is that we got those members who might have been inactive before, to get them closer; to get them closer to the association, closer to other members. And I think that has been a benefit. I think we have never talked to so many members throughout the pandemic; and sometimes listening, and sometimes giving advice, and sometimes we only let them vent. But it was good to realise that none of us was alone in that time. And we did some live chats where we had 50 or 60 water park operators; and everyone shared their story. And maybe there were some learnings, maybe there were... But I think it was more important for them to actually see, "Hey, I'm not alone in this. And others go through this as well." And to create that community feeling while we could not have those face-to face-experiences at the events.Kelly Molson: Yeah. Wonderful. It is phenomenal that you've been able to facilitate that level of support for your members. Let's talk about what's coming next, though; because I guess one of the positives from going through that process, is that you did get to speak to so many members. Like you said, some of them had... There was things that you could share to support them; some people just wanted to rant. But I guess all of that knowledge helps you understand what more you can do for your members, and then develop new kind of support programs for them for the future. So what have you got in development? What can you share with us about what's coming next for IAAPA?Jakob Wahl: I think the pandemic has probably been an accelerator to things in the same way it has been to members as it has for us. And we see that with operators across the world, that those past two years have been a huge accelerator for everything digital. And I think that is something which we see for ourselves as well. If I remember trade shows three years ago, we always have the sign at the exit, "See you next year." And I think this is 2019. Today it is, "See you tomorrow on a digital space." Because you need to create those connections all year round; because people have learned to live digitally, and don't want to wait to be face-to-face to be able to do that. And I think that is something where we, for ourselves, and also with our board of directors, have decided, "Listen. We want to invest more into digital options." We already have great, great digital learning availabilities and those offerings. But I think it's really kind of the networking, the connecting part, where we want to become stronger in the years to come.Kelly Molson: Absolutely. Because with digital, we can facilitate conversations like this.Jakob Wahl: Yeah.Kelly Molson: We're in different parts of the world, and we're just having a lovely chat on our podcast. But you can bring together people from all over the place in one central location. It's so incredibly powerful to be able to do that. And it seems crazy that we've only been doing that for the last couple of years because of the pandemic. Right? It wasn't mainstream prior to that.Jakob Wahl: No. No.Kelly Molson: It is crazy. Well, that's brilliant. So we're going to be seeing more digital engagement for IAAPA, bringing people together more frequently; which is absolutely what people, I'm sure, want.Jakob Wahl: And I also think what we are going to see, and what we are already doing, is to try to be more regional. I think we have seen that with the trade shows last year, those in Barcelona and Orlando, that they were good trade shows. They were smaller than they used to be. And they were more regional, because of travel restrictions and because of everything. And I think we have seen that there's a need for the regional presence. And those success stories of the regional offices of IAAPA come from that; because we have people on the ground, they speak the language, they understand the market, they know of the players. And this is where we want to offer more small opportunities of bringing people together face-to-face. Obviously, digital, we do that; but also face-to-face. Because as great as this all is in connecting, it's still a difference also, I think for the two of us, Kelly; if we sit down in front of the screen, how much nicer it would be if we sit somewhere next to each other and talk about-Kelly Molson: Absolutely. Absolutely.Jakob Wahl: And this will never replace it. I think it complements each other. And this is where we try to be closer to actually our members, to go towards them; to see what they're doing, and to highlight what they're doing, what innovations there are. There's so many wonderful innovations, facilities, stories to tell out there. And ideally, I would like to do something every week. We don't have the resources for that, but we want to be closer to our members.Kelly Molson: Brilliant. It's interesting you said about that, the kind of face-to-face and in-person; because nothing will ever replace that whatsoever. But I had this-Jakob Wahl: Especially in our industry, I think; because we are a very social industry.Kelly Molson: Absolutely. And you've got fantastic venues and spaces to do that in as well; so why not?Jakob Wahl: Yeah.Kelly Molson: But I had this conversation with somebody last week, about how it's just kind of cut down a lot of the longevity and travel that was associated with kind of little mini, micro meetings. You want to meet someone for a coffee, and kind of see if you get to know them first. Right? This is a great way of doing that without spending two hours on a train to get wherever they are.Jakob Wahl: So true.Kelly Molson: So, I see this is the first date. The second date is the coffee in real life.Jakob Wahl: Yes. Exactly.Kelly Molson: I want to go back to something that you talked about right in the beginning.Jakob Wahl: Yes.Kelly Molson: You said about you worked in the sector from a young age, and that they're good at retaining people because they fall in love with the sector.Jakob Wahl: Yeah.Kelly Molson: So, in the UK, there's a huge labor shortage in the UK currently. And it is a huge challenge to the sector, especially in the kind of hospitality roles that attractions have.Jakob Wahl: Yeah.Kelly Molson: Is this something that's widespread across Europe and the US?Jakob Wahl: Yes.Kelly Molson: So you're still, you're having those problems as well?Jakob Wahl: Unfortunately, yes.Kelly Molson: What do you see as a solution to that? I don't know if you have seen any kind of interesting examples of attractions that are doing things really well to hire new staff and retain the ones that they have?Jakob Wahl: I think what you said, unfortunately, it's a global problem. And I don't know where everyone went, but for sure, we all lack, and we all lack of workforce. And I think that's a huge problem. And the pandemic has not helped that, because, I think we have seen many people who received furlough money. And they were all okay, but people want to work. And if you have that chef who sits at home and can't work, he might not come back to a theme park, because we were so affected by that. And I think this is something first, where we need to create the circumstances that we can operate and that we can actually employ our people, that we stay open.Jakob Wahl: What I see as several trends; I think one of the things is that many parks try to extend their season, to walk away more from seasonal workforce to all year round; so that creates a better, attractive place. I think then, what we have also seen, is that... How to say, sometimes our jobs lacked a little bit of content, in the external view. I think people have had not the highest regards of our industry. And I think this is where we need to kind of diversify our offering a little bit more, and actually tell people what a great job they can have with our industry. And I'm very impressed by initiatives which you see popping up all across members, to highlight what a great place this is to be.Jakob Wahl: I'll give you two examples; Europa-Park in Germany, and Amelia Mack, one of the family members of the Mack family, she introduced a health program for her staff, so that they have very good health benefits. They all have those values which are of relevance for young people today, where they care about. I think it's less about the money, but it is about, "What can a company offer to me in the overall package?" We will not win the race for money. You can, I think, probably increase the salary; but I don't think that the young generation is about money. It's about what we discussed before; purpose, it's about what does the company deliver?Jakob Wahl: And then, we have a third example, or a second example, from the US. Herschend Entertainment Cooperation, with beautiful parks like Silver Dollar City, Dollywood. They actually introduced free education for all their 11,000 employees; completely free.Kelly Molson: Wow.Jakob Wahl: And this is where you see, they kind of try to work on the benefits; not only on the money side, but really try to make people, young people, understand, "Hey. This is a great place to work. We educate you. We promote you. We give you options." And it is the same way why I'm sitting here. I started at 16, and I checked tickets; and now, I'm sitting here where I am today. And there are hundreds of those stories. And I think that is something where we need to highlight that, "Hey. You might start only putting down seat belts, or checking, or selling burgers, but there's a great career path ahead of you."Jakob Wahl: And we, as IAAPA, sorry for taking that so long, but you feel it's close to our hearts. We, as IAAPA, try to work closely with universities across the world, which specialise in Attraction Management program. We, just like three days ago, we had the first intern in our office from BUas, in Breda, which is a university specialised in attractions classes. And it's those people kind of, when they come in huge groups to the trade show, they usually come with 40 students; you see the passion for that industry. And this is just one example of many, where we are very grateful for working with those universities, to try to highlight how attractive we are actually as an industry.Kelly Molson: Absolutely brilliant examples, then. That'll be really, really useful to our listeners, I'm sure. And it goes back to what we were saying. It is about value driven, purpose driven.Jakob Wahl: Yeah.Kelly Molson: Explaining what it is, that is the benefit of working there. Not just, "This is how much it is, and this is the role that you'll do." "This is where you can go. This is where you can progress." And really showcasing the kind of culture of the attraction as well.Kelly Molson: And now, I know sustainability is something that you like to talk about quite a lot; I've seen some of your posts on LinkedIn. So it is a real big, hot topic now, as it should be. How can attractions start to put sustainability at the heart of what they're doing? And have you seen any great examples of that that you could share with us as well?Jakob Wahl: Yes. I'm actually the staff liaison for the Sustainability Committee. IAAPA, two years ago probably, introduced a Sustainability Committee under the leadership of Andreas Andersen, the CEO from Liseberg. And to be very frank with you, we probably have not been on the forefront of that subject as an industry. And I think we have to pick up a little bit, but I see a huge interest in that. And I see when we started the Sustainability Committee in the past years, we noticed all the big power groups of this world are enthusiastic about collaborating with us. They all want to say, "Listen, we want to do more. What can we do more? We need to step up the game here." And it's very nice to see the growing importance of that.Jakob Wahl: I'm not a firm believer, or it's a thin line between educating people, and still let them have fun. I think you... It's always difficult, because you don't want to spoil the day by kind of delivering all those horror messages. And we just had an event in... Yeah, in end of February at the World Expo in Dubai. And we had a great session with the head of the Sustainability Pavilion, which did a fantastic job about telling a story, telling about what needs to be better, but not kind of being Debbie Downer, and depressing the guests.Jakob Wahl: But I think what we need to understand, is that sustainability is more than just the ecological aspect. And we refer to the 17 goals of the United Nations, in which I think are at the core of sustainability. And there are some beautiful examples in this industry; and it starts with small attractions. One of our board members, Massimiliano Freddi, he has a small attraction called Wonderwood in Italy, which is not the biggest facility, but they only kind of produce food from the local farmers, and they only serve that. And they're very inclusive to everyone; and they really stand up for their values, which is beautiful. Another wonderful example is Miniature Wonderland; that... Craziest place. I'm not sure. Have you heard of that, Kelly?Kelly Molson: No. No. It sounds up my street, though; I'm 5'2". I feel like I would fit in well there.Jakob Wahl: It's absolutely... No, it's absolutely crazy. It's a place in Hamburg, which started as a miniature railway. And it's so in love with details, I think they make more than a million guests every year. It's three brothers, and I think no business plan, no feasibility study would have ever expected this to be successful. But it was their passion and their heart which made them come this way.Jakob Wahl: So what they did, is that they introduced, I think two weeks in spring, weeks where they let in everyone for free, who comes to the entrance gate and says, "I can't afford it." And if you don't feel comfortable in saying that, you can put a paper, and they let you in for free. And interesting enough, I think it's a wonderful gesture in a very social, ethical way, of allowing people to experience what they normally couldn't. But they actually also said, "Listen. This was commercially successful for us because it brought such an attention to our place, such an awareness, that it paid off." And I think this is a wonderful example. And if you have time for one more example.Kelly Molson: Please. Yeah, please.Jakob Wahl: Karl's Strawberry Farms, also Germany. It's a place which grew out of a strawberry farm. They had so many guests that they built a cafe, and then a restaurant, and then attractions. They built a hotel completely up-cycled; so all the material they used is recycled. And I think this is, all those things, examples for wonderful, sustainable policies without hitting you like, "You are a bad person. You must not do that. You must not do that." But kind of showcasing, "Hey. We do something with the right values, and we do it, and it's actually still a beautiful experience for everyone."Kelly Molson: It's about weaving it into the whole experience, isn't it, like it's a story? It's part of, it's at the heart of the attraction.Jakob Wahl: Yes.Kelly Molson: Rather than kind of something that you've stuck on as a plaster at the end of it. "Oh, by the way, this is our sustainability policy, and this is our recycling policy." And it's about kind of living and breathing it.Jakob Wahl: It needs to be lived. Yeah. It needs to be lived, it needs to be led I think also; and it doesn't help to say, "Listen. We do it because we have to. And everyone is doing..." It's a classic greenwashing example.Kelly Molson: Yeah.Jakob Wahl: But I see in our Sustainability Committee, we have wonderful members from all across the world. When you look at what Liseberg is doing, what Monterey Bay Aquarium is doing, what all those fantastic and wonderful places are doing to be more sustainable in what they do, to try to, through their business model, I think it's very impressive. And again, to quote my Chairman, Andreas Andersen, of that committee, he says, he thinks that, "Sustainability will be in five years as important as safety is today for our industry." And I wouldn't disagree with that. I think it will be a basic of our industry. If it's in five years, if it's in seven or in 10, we will see; but I think it will be a basic expectation of our guests.Kelly Molson: Absolutely. Yeah. I think you're absolutely right.Jakob Wahl: One more thing. It comes back to HR as well. That is also something young people look at. And if people today, if the generation that looks for employment, I think they also want to see, or many of them want to see that those values of sustainability are lived within the company.Kelly Molson: Yeah. You're absolutely right. And it's the change in demographic or age brackets of people that will start to visit those attractions. Right?Jakob Wahl: Yeah.Kelly Molson: Because that's what the younger generation are really interested in, sustainability, caring for the environment. And that's what they'll be looking at; places that they come to work for, or places that they come to visit and spend their hard-earned cash. Yep.Kelly Molson: I'd like to just go back to something that you said earlier about the shift in kind of digital advancements in the sector. So, we've seen the kind of contactless economy grow rapidly during the pandemic; the shift to digital ticketing and payments in the attractions industry has rapidly, rapidly accelerated. What do you think is next? And what do you... Because you didn't... Because you said that you need to be at the forefront of what's hot and what's coming next; so I'm testing you now. What do you think is next for the attractions industry, and where do you see these things going in the next kind of three to five years?Jakob Wahl: I think that there are two sides to the story. I think there's a back-end side and the front-end side. I think what we have seen is that people won't get rid of this little thing. It's everywhere; they can't let it go. They're all addicted, including myself. It's horrible.Kelly Molson: He's talking about... Jakob is talking about the phone, just for everyone who can't see it.Jakob Wahl: Oh, the phone, yes.Kelly Molson: Just in case you don't know what he's holding there.Jakob Wahl: Everyone knows. I we say we're all addicted to it, we all know about those smartphones dominating our day. And I think this is where we need to incorporate the smartphone, the mobile, into the experience of day. And that is kind of where I say, "This is the guest excitement." Because while 20 years ago, they only looked at the scenery all day long, now they look at the mobile half of the day. So the question is, "How do you bring the park experience on the mobile?"Jakob Wahl: And I think there are some great examples. There's this wonderful little Danish park called Summerland Sjaelland. And they have a great owner called Kare Dyvekaer. Probably I pronounce it wrongly, but he's a technology aficionado, the same way I'm about amusement parks. And he kind of plays with his app in a way that you can shoot water canons, you can feed the animals, all with your smartphone. And I think this is funny, because it's an enhancement of the experience through your phone; and I think that is something which we will see further.Kelly Molson: That's a really important point to make, is that it's about enhancement and not detraction.Jakob Wahl: Yeah.Kelly Molson: So we... Just to compliment that, we had Jakob Thompson on from Attractions.io a few weeks ago. And this was a question that we posed to him actually, is that, how do you... You want people to engage with the app, but you don't want to distract them from what's actually going on around there. So it has to be an enhancement; it has to be things that you... You use it. For example, he painted a really great picture of... He said, "Okay. Well, look. Imagine that you are in one of the play areas at the park, and your kids are going crazy. They're running all over the place. They're hungry. You are starting to get hungry. Everyone's a bit angry because they're hungry. You can just grab your phone now, place your order for your food, and then five minutes later, go and collect it. You haven't got to trudge around trying to find where it is, or wait in a massive queue.Jakob Wahl: Yeah.Kelly Molson: And it's those little things that make that experience better, and they solve a problem that you have instantly. But they're not detracting you from the experience at all.Jakob Wahl: Yeah. And I think that comes actually, to my other aspect. Because I think there's an experience aspect, in a way of experiencing the fun part. But I think technology is probably even more important today, in terms of the customer journey. I think we have an expectation today, and I always say, "It's the opposite of a car rental company at an airport." You go there, you have booked everything, you have put in all the data beforehand; and still, you need 10 minutes or 20 minutes to give them all the data again.Kelly Molson: Yeah.Jakob Wahl: And that is kind of the worst example of customer flow. And if you think about this as a worst example, you need to think about, "How can I use technology to make it as easy as possible for my guests to come, to book his ticket, to have the best day ever, and in the best way, actually, in the end to recommend it?"Jakob Wahl: And there, I think that there are those very innovative people. I am coming back to what I said before: skiing. I recently went to a ski resort in Switzerland, Laax. And they have an app, which is perfect; because if you don't want to go by a car to the lift station, you can order a shuttle. If you go by car, you can order a parking space. You can buy your lift pass. You can extend your lift pass. You can buy a virtual line. You can order a restaurant table for lunch. You can see, through all cameras, how many people are waiting at which lift, so you can plan your day.Kelly Molson: Nice.Jakob Wahl: You can actually, in the evening, you have kind of the same idea of Uber Eats. You can order your food all through that app. And this is just in one flow, where you really kind of just make it as easy as possible for the guests to enjoy and to have the best time ever.Jakob Wahl: Because I think what we have seen in the past years, that time is limited. And if people, especially now after the pandemic, if they want to get out, if they want to make an excursion, if they want to do a trip to an amusement park, to a ski resort, to whatsoever, they want this to be seamless, to be perfect from A to Zed.Jakob Wahl: And the masterminds in this industry, and I'm happy that they are an IAAPA member, is to Tomorrowland, the Music Festival in Belgium. They are so sophisticated in what they're doing. It always blows me away. Have you heard about it, how they work?Kelly Molson: No. Please share.Jakob Wahl: So, it's a festival which takes place this year on three weekends. I think each weekend is sold out within like 10 minutes, one of 80,000 persons each weekend. And when you book your ticket, when you get one, when you're lucky, you get after probably like eight weeks out; it might be more, but some weeks out, you get a box home with a wristband. On that wristband, everything is safe: your name, your access ticket, wherever you can go, because there's special categories. You can upload money on that wristband through a credit card online. So you don't need anything than this wristband. Two weeks prior to the event, it starts actually living. It breathes, it blings. There are little LEDs on it. And when you go there, this is your only thing which you need all the time. And this is where I think using technology to make things easier, but at the same time, enhancing the experience again; because it is themed, it looks beautiful. Really, Kelly, I will send you a link afterwards. You should have a look at it.Kelly Molson: Please do, yeah.Jakob Wahl: It's so thought through. You can pay. And it's a temporary festival; you can pay everything cashless on site, and everything is settled. And I think it's just fantastic. And we looked at several technologies of that, and you could even, if you want to, you could even use it in a way that if someone comes, I would recognise who that is. And we thought about it, at one moment, how great this would be for Halloween. When you walk into a horror house or into a maze, and I would know, through your wristband, "Oh, Kelly is coming." And I'm the scare actor, and I can say, "Hi, Kelly." I could see you. How great is that? And this is, I think, where digital technology has abounded so much. The only problem is, it advances so quickly that I have no idea, probably in four years, we will laugh about where we stand today.Kelly Molson: Yes. That's true, isn't it? It's an unfair question. We are developing so rapidly in that area, who knows what the next three or four years will hold?Jakob Wahl: Yeah.Kelly Molson: That's been fantastic. Thank you so much for your input today, Jakob. I've really enjoyed talking to you.Jakob Wahl: Same here.Kelly Molson: I always ask my guests for a book at the end of the show, that they would recommend to our listeners though. Now, it can be something that you love, personally, or it can be something that you've read that's maybe helped shape your career in some way. Have you got anything that you'd recommend for us?Jakob Wahl: I have a favourite book, but it has absolutely nothing to do with my career or whatsoever.Kelly Molson: That's fine. That's fine.Jakob Wahl: I really, really enjoyed reading Tender Bar. I don't even know who the author is, I'm afraid to say. But it's a wonderful story about the love of a young boy to a bar. And he grows up with that bar, and it's a beautiful story. They actually made a movie out of it. The movie was not so great. So don't watch the movie, read the book. And then, what I actually also like, from a personal development kind of thing is, there's a book called The Courage to be Disliked.Kelly Molson: Oh, I like it. Okay.Jakob Wahl: It's a very nice book. Not that it helped me, but I enjoyed reading it. And it gave some great inspiration.Kelly Molson: Is it about forming opinions? So, not being scared to state your mind?Jakob Wahl: Yes. And it's also about not trying to set as an excuse where you come from. You shouldn't excuse yourself for the person you are because of your history. You can change every day, and you can decide to be a different person every day. And I think that is something which is very, very interesting.Kelly Molson: That's a great book. I'm going to get that book.Jakob Wahl: You should. It's very interesting. And if you don't like it, blame it on me; and then the drink is on me the next time we see each other. But I honestly, really, really enjoyed it.Kelly Molson: I'll take you up on that. Well, look; listeners, as ever, if you want to win, head over to our Twitter account, and you retweet this episode announcement with the words, "I want Jakob's book," then you can win it. I'm going to go and buy myself a copy and read it before you guys get it. But Jakob, thank you so much for your time today. You're an incredibly busy man, so I'm very grateful that you've been able to come on and share with us. And I look forward to meeting you in person, hopefully at the IAAPA Conference in London.Jakob Wahl: Same here, Kelly; it was a huge pleasure to talk to you. And if I can, and I don't want to do a commercial thing here; but I was just trying to explain what IAAPA does. But we want to be there for our members, and also for those who are not members. So, whenever you thought I said something great, or you thought I said something horrible, reach out to me. Disagree with me on LinkedIn, on Twitter, on wherever; send me an email, and say, "Why did you say that?" An, "Have you ever thought about doing this?" I think we can only serve the industry as good as we know what the industry needs. And this is where I'm always happy for any kind of feedback.Kelly Molson: What we will do, is put all of Jakob's contact details. I might not give you his email address, but I'll put his LinkedIn address in there.Jakob Wahl: Oh, it's out there, anyway, for dealing with me.Kelly Molson: All right. All of his contact details will be in the show notes. You know where to find them. Take him up on that offer, and you'll have a great conversation if you do. Thanks, Jakob.Jakob Wahl: Thank you, Kelly. It was a pleasure.Kelly Molson: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast.

Roxana Mehran celebrates a milestone with Alain Cribier, Martin Leon, and Michael Mack.

Wie ist es eigentlich, wenn man so eng mit dem eigenen Vater und der Familie zusammenarbeitet? Der Geschäftsführer des #europapark #michaelmack gibt uns sehr persönliche Einblicke und schaut zurück auf die Anfänge des Freizeitparks, die alles andere als einfach waren. Er blickt aber vor allem nach vorn und setzt dabei weiter auf Regionalität und die tiefe Verbundenheit zu den Geschäftspartnern und Freunden der ersten Stunde. Er spricht über unternehmerischen Mut, Bodenständigkeit und den Stolz auf seine große Europa-Park-Familie, die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter, für die er nicht nur Chef, sondern auch Freund und Ratgeber sein möchte. Das gute Verhältnis zu seinem Vater liegt ihm sehr am Herzen, auch wenn sie nicht immer einer Meinung sind. Aber genau das verbindet und bringt das Unternehmen weiter. Auch der Vorstandsvorsitzende #peterrottenecker kennt die respektvolle Reibung mit seinem Vater. Er erinnert sich immer wieder gerne an seinen Rat und die Werte, die er ihm mitgegeben hat: „bodenständig bleiben und immer wissen, wo man herkommt!“ #michaelmack weiß im #vobatalk auch so manche Geschichte aus seiner Kindheit zu erzählen; z. B. wie er gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder ein „Silverstar“-Wettfahren ? durchgezogen hat oder wie sie mit dem Skateboard ?die Bobbahn heruntergefahren sind! Auch seine beiden Söhne lieben den #europapark. Vielleicht steht ja schon die nächste Generation in den Startlöchern?? Bei der Schließung der „Dschungel-Floßfahrt“ haben sie gemeinsam letztmalig den Schlüssel umgedreht. Doch zuvor haben sie noch einige Schätze „gerettet“ und im Wohnzimmer aufgebaut“, sagt der stolze Vater. Bei uns im #vobatalk erfahrt ihr noch viel mehr…? Wir bedanken uns beim #europapark und #michaelmack für die Gastfreundschaft im „Studio78“ und für zwei wirklich spannende Podcast Folgen #30 und #31 unter: www.volksbank-lahr.de/vobatalk und überall da, wo es #podcasts gibt, auf YouTube und www.veejoy.de

Schon in ein paar Wochen ist es soweit: Der Europa-Park öffnet seine Pforten und startet voller Vorfreude in eine neue Saison! Mit im Gepäck: Viele Highlights, die ihr so aus Deutschlands größtem Freizeitpark noch nicht kennt. Michael Mack aus der Europa-Park Geschäftsführung berichtet, worauf er sich 2022 ganz besonders freut und welches neue, europäische Talk-Format seit heute auf VEEJOY zu finden ist. Hier geht's zu VEEJOY: https://www.veejoy.de/de Keine Folge verpassen? Abonniert den "EUROPA Radio Podcast"! Euch hat der Podcast gefallen? Gerne eine Bewertung abgeben! ________________ Rund um die Uhr die neuesten Infos hört ihr im EUROPA Radio: https://europa.radio/

Magisch und aufregend zugleich ist der Besuch in Deutschlands größtem und für die meisten von uns schönstem Freizeitpark in Rust. Wir lieben ihn und sind heute zu Gast im „Studio 78“ bei #europapark Geschäftsführer Michael #mack im #vobatalk mit dem Vorstandsvorsitzenden #peterrottenecker und Radiochef Hitradio Ohr #markusknoll. Mit 240 Jahren Familiengeschichte liegt eine starke Tradition zugrunde, die in der inzwischen achten Generation gelebt wird. „Alles ist möglich“, sagt Michael Mack, „wir kommen aus der Tradition und müssen uns immer wieder neu erfinden.“ Zum Jahresbeginn ist der Europa-Park mit seiner eigenen Streaming-Plattform #veejoy gestartet. So können sich die Fans ihren Lieblingspark direkt nach Hause holen und die Vorfreude auf den nächsten Besuch hochhalten. Wie geht es weiter? Welche fantastischen Ideen, Erlebnisse und Innovationen uns in Zukunft begeistern werden, können wir nur ansatzweise erahnen. Doch, wer denkt sich das alles aus? Michael Mack verrät uns, dass er auch mal nachts mit der VR-Brille im Park unterwegs ist und Blödsinn macht. Wir sagen herzlich danke für das tolle Gespräch und zwei spannende Folgen #vobatalk (#30 und #31) unter: www.volksbank-lahr.de/vobatalk überall da, wo es #podcasts gibt, auf allen bekannten Kanälen und auf www.veejoy.de

Endlich Winterzeit im Europa-Park: Auch für die Betreiberfamilie Mack eine ganz besondere Saison - wir sprechen mit Michael und Roland Mack. Außerdem: Entertainer Ross Antony hat sein Backbuch "Backen mit Ross" im Europa-Park vorgestellt. Und: Bülent Ceylan war im Studio 78 zu Gast und seine schönsten Geschichten gibt es in dieser Podcast-Folge!

In diesem Podcast bekommt ihr ein "Best of" aller Interviews unserer Jubiläumssendung "Zeit.Gemeinsam.Erleben." vom 20. November 2021. Roland, Thomas und Michael Mack aus der Europa-Park Geschäftsführung haben mit uns die 100. Sendung gefeiert und erzählen Geschichten, die es nur hier zu hören gibt. Außerdem mit dabei: Sänger Daniel Johnson. Moderiert wird das Ganze von Matthias Drescher, Stefan Mayer und Jörg Schött

Die Monster sind wieder los! Und mit ihnen eine ganze Menge prominenter Gäste: Die neue Folge vom EUROPA Radio Podcast spielt sich auf dem roten Teppich der Weltpremiere von "Happy Family 2" ab, dem neuen Animationsfilm von Holger Tappe und Mack Animation. Was der Europa-Park in Sachen "Storytelling" dazu beiträgt und ob unsere Gäste wie Streamer Knossi, das Schauspielerpaar Kai Wiesinger und Bettina Zimmermann sowie Sänger Marc Terenzi begeistert waren, erfahrt ihr hier. Noch mehr Infos zu "Happy Family 2" bekommt ihr hier: https://www.europapark.de/de/freizeitpark/happy-family-2 __________________ Rund um die Uhr die neuesten Infos hört ihr im EUROPA Radio: https://europa.radio/

Comedian Michael Mack and I review the first three episodes of Marvel's What If.

[audio mp3=“https://talkaboutlasvegas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Michael_Mack_081621.mp3"][/audio] This week, Ira spoke with Michael Mack, a fourth generation pawnbroker and owner of Max Pawn, a pawn & jewelry store specializing in luxury designer goods. He was recognized in July as “Pawnbroker of the Year” by the National Pawnbrokers Association. In this 30-minute episode of Talk About Las Vegas, Mack talks about challenging the old image and “stigma of pawn”; how he considers his business “the people's bank”; why he specializes in luxury goods; where he stores his large items, such as automobiles; what is the most expensive item he has sold; why the industry is highly regulated in Las Vegas; how technology has transformed the buying and selling of goods, which includes maintaining a large online presence; and why he thinks Rick Harrison and the “Pawn Stars” show is great for everybody in the business.

Comedians Michael Mack, Sauce Got Jokes and I review the One Piece anime.

In conversation with Michael Mack Lili Owen Rowlands speaks to the publisher Michael Mack, the founder of the eponymous publishing house. Over the course of his two-decade long career, Mack has published hundreds of photographic works and helped launch the careers of dozens of talented new photographers and artists through his coveted First Book Award.

Michael Mack discovers that the conversations he needed to have were with a far bigger audience than just his molester. "Conversations With His Molester" is the companion podcast to the WRAL Documentary, "Speaking the Unspeakable."

Michael Mack's journey leads him to answers but not to the questions he was asking. "Conversations With His Molester" is the companion podcast to the WRAL Documentary, "Speaking the Unspeakable."

Michael Mack's questions about what happened to him and why lead him on a journey for answers that he hopes he'll find in a conversation with his molester. "Conversations With His Molester" is the companion podcast to the WRAL Documentary, "Speaking the Unspeakable."

Michael Mack, who always wanted to be a priest, is abused by his Catholic priest in Brevard, North Carolina at age 11. "Conversations With His Molester" is the companion podcast to the WRAL Documentary, "Speaking the Unspeakable."

  Carolyn: Welcome to Circulation on the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. I'm Dr. Carolyn Lam, associate editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. We have such a special podcast for you today. The entire podcast is going to be a conversation with two very special guests, Dr. Marc Ruel from The University of Ottawa Heart Institute, the guest editor of the surgery themed issue this week. Hi Marc.   Marc: Hello Carolyn. How are you?   Carolyn: Very good. Especially because we also have Dr. Timothy Gardner, Surgeon, Associate Editor from Christiana Care Health System. Welcome back again, Tim.   Timothy: Thank you, Carolyn. Glad to be here.   Carolyn: Marc, could you first give us an overview of the surgery themed issue from your perspective.   Marc: This year as we have had on previous years, we are having a surgery themed issue which comprises what I would argue which is some of the very best cardiac surgical science can offer to the wide readership in the cardiovascular community that served by circulation. This year, we will have a total of ten articles that would be published in circulation, as a section of one of our regular issues and out of those ten, there are five original papers. There's one research letter which is an original research article but in a shorter format and we'll also have one invited perspective paper namely about coronary artery bypass grafting and its future with respect to multi-arterial grafts and the themed issue will be completed by three state of the art papers that deal in a very in depth comprehensive way with some important problems that the cardiovascular community faces from a clinical point of view.   Carolyn: Thanks Marc. That was a beautiful summary of the issue. I couldn't help but notice that there was a theme of coronary artery bypass surgery covering at least four of the papers and I really like your thoughts on that. You covered everything from medical therapy, CABG versus PCI, on versus off-pump, emergency surgery in the setting of shock. Could you go through each of these four papers a little and tell us what was your take home message from each?   Marc: As you said, there are three original research articles and one invited perspective that relate to coronary artery bypass grafting surgery and these encompass the number of clinical problems that are still controversial and certainly I believe they contribute a very, very significant [inaudible 00:02:31] with the wealth of knowledge that the cardiovascular community is looking for at this point. If I may go one by one, just with a very high level overview, if you will. The first one is a paper from the Leipzig Heart Center with first author, [Pieroz Adewalla 00:02:45], which looked at surgery for acute myocardial infarction but accompanied with cardiogenic shock. As you know, many patients undergo surgery in an acute MI context, but surgery for cardiogenic shock is often a very gruesome difficult decision.     Leipzig Heart Center looked at over 3,000 patients who had an acute MI prior to cardiac surgery for bypass surgery and of these, there were 508 patients who actually had cardiogenic shock due to [valve 00:03:15] failure with myocardial dysfunction and to give you an idea, these patients were quite sick. There's about 40% of the patients who were ventilated prior to surgery or very close to 40%. The timing was quite urgent, those patients were on inotrophes and on vasopressors to support their blood pressure prior to operation. Essentially, what they found is that first the outcomes got better over the last number of years, this is a series that dates back to about the 2000's, so the early 2000's.     They also favor an approach where they tried to avoid a cardioplegic arrest of the heart. Their favored overall approach is to do what we call on-pump beating heart type of surgery which would be a surgery where the cardioplegia would not be administered to stop the heart but the hemodynamics would be supported for the cardio coronary bypass. They also have over the years since the beginning of this year, is in 2000 ranging up to 2014 of increasing the use of the off-pump bypass surgery and certainly the outcomes have been better and the mortality although high has decreased significantly. It was as high as 40% in the early parts of the cohort if you will and in the latest third of the experience, therefore from 2010 to 2014, the mortality has been down to about 25%.     Again, these are patients who present with cardiogenic shock. What's also interesting to note is that patients who survive out of hospital still have a significant mortality burden and about 50% of them survive long term. What was interesting is the  Leipzig group is looking at some predictors of bad outcomes in those patients and they found that the serum lactate over four minimal per liter was actually a very robust and multi-variative predictor of a poor outcome after surgery.   Carolyn: That was a great summary of that first paper. You mentioned beating heart surgery and so on. Would you like to comment on next paper that I think was the largest single institution European study comparing on versus off-pump bypass surgery?   Marc: You're absolutely right. This is a paper from England, [inaudible 00:05:25] from Liverpool, where the patients were gathered from and with some contribution from Oxford as well from a statistical and methodological point of view and it's a retrospective cohort study of all isolated CABG patients in Liverpool between 2001 and 2015. These are bypass surgery patients and in total, there were over 13,000 patients who had CABG. About 6,000 patients had off CAB which is off-pump bypass surgery and more than 7,000 had bypass with cardiopulmonary bypass. The median follow up was 6.2 years. What's interesting in this paper is that they essentially found equivalent long term outcomes. As you know, there has been some debate regarding the completions of myocardial revascularization and the long term graft patency with off-pump surgery versus on-pump surgery. Also named conventional CABG.     What's interesting here is that the benefits of off-pump CABG appear to be seen early on with regards to antiemetic release as stroke rates, etc. Which does correspond to some of what has seen in the randomized controlled studies. However, the long term data is interesting. There's a a nice editorial about this paper written from a group from the Cleveland Clinic with Dr. Joe Sabik as the senior author and essentially it raised a number of good points, although this is an important series, it also shows that the surgeons who are very good at off-pump bypass surgery may overall be slightly technically more skilled at doing bypass surgery in itself and for instance, use more often arterial grafts and have more advanced techniques in their completion of bypass surgeries for their patients.   Carolyn: Right. I'm so glad you mentioned the editorial. I was about to bring that up as well. Switching gears to you very kindly included a paper that talked about medications and the impact of here is the medical therapy on the comparative outcomes between CABG and PCI. Would you like to discuss that paper?   Marc: This is a paper from the Care Registry which has generated some interesting publications in the past. The lead author is Dr. Paul Polinski and there's co-authors, Dr. Herbert Prince and Michael Mack from Dallas as well. This was presented at the science sessions in Orlando last November and it's an interesting paper. Essentially they have looked at large databases, again the Care Registry which comprises eight community hospitals and they look at six month period of performance of CABG and those eight community hospitals. They ended up with over 2,700 patients who were then systematically followed on a regular basis up to 2009 at which time the database was locked.     They look at various outcomes but also medication use in great detail over that period of time and the interesting perspective that this paper brings is that first, most patients at least in that period were not on optimal medical therapy. The authors used their own predefined definitions of what constitutes optimal medical therapy and this is with regards to adherence to aspirin use, lipid lowering agents, beta blockers and indicates of PCI, dual anti-platelet therapy. As expected but nicely documented in this paper, the outcomes of patients who were not on optimal medical therapy were much worse than those who were and CABG proved to be more robust in patients who were not on optimal medical therapy compared to PCI.     The differences between CABG and PCI in patients who were on optimal medical therapy tended to vanish. However, a number of caveats here is that only 25% of patients in fact in this cohort were on optimal medical therapy. The vast majority of patients were not considered to be on optimal medical therapy. Therefore, there are considerations of definitions that one has to be aware of and also considerations of statistical power because the group that was on optimal medical therapy was much smaller than the other group. Therefore, the effects, the superiority of CABG over PCI could only be firmly demonstrated in the group was not on optimal therapy, again comprising 75% of patients in this cohort.   Carolyn: I love your summaries and they really show that these are true significant original contributions to that knowledge gaps in coronary artery bypass surgery. To round it all up, you also invited a perspective on novel concepts. Would you like to comment on that paper?   Marc: This is an invited perspective in the view classifications that circulation has which is entitled, "The evolution of coronary bypass surgery will determine relevance as a standard of care for the treatment of multi-vessel CABG." It is authored by three leaders in the field, Dr. Gener, Dr. Gudino, and Dr. Grouw. Dr. Gener has been leading several of what I would call the advanced multi-vessel coronary re-vascularization trials looking for instance at multi-arterial grafts doing numerous anastomosis with two ventral mammary arteries in a wide fashion. He's been a leader of this movement certainly. Dr. Gudino recently published [inaudible 00:10:43] the 20 years of outcome of the radial artery graft and certainly has been one of the pioneers which use of this arterial graft for coronary artery bypass surgery. What the authors provide here is a very nice summary of what the trials have shown so far and they also report as many know that their rate of multi-arterial grafts use in SYNTAX, FREEDOM and I think we will soon see in EXCEL and NOBLE that will be presented this fall, has not been as high as it should have been.     In the US, it is estimated right now that the rate of use of more than one mammary artery is less than 10% across the nation, and other countries have not performed better than this either. This perspective is a call to improving the quality of multi-vessel coronary artery bypass mainly through the use of multiple arterial re-vascularization. There is also considerations around the hybrid coronary re-vascularization and as well as the use of off-pump versus on-pump surgery.   Carolyn: I am really proud and privileged to have helped to manage one of the papers as associate editors in this issue as well and that is the paper from the group with corresponding author, Dr. Veselik, from Boston Children's Hospital and it centers around patients with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries but a management problem that is really increasingly encountered and really needs to be reviewed properly and that is the management of systemic right ventricular failure in these patients. Tim, you were so helpful in looking at this paper as well. Could you share some of your thoughts?   Timothy: Well, this is a somewhat unique situation where a patient with this condition, congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries may go through early life, in fact may end up as a young adult before this particular condition is identified because if there is no shunting or no cause for cyanosis and heart murmurs and so on early on, the circulations seem to work pretty well until the poorly prepared right ventricle which is the systemic ventricle, starts to fail after years of work carrying the systemic circulation and that is really the focus of the paper. There's been a lot of work and publications and attention to transposition syndromes but this particular one is a condition that may be first encountered by adult heart failure cardiologist who have not had this kind of exposure to congenital heart disease. It's a particularly apt paper to bring this condition to our attention and to demonstrate that really it's the adult heart failure cardiologist who may be managing these patients in their late 20's or 30's, when that systemic right ventricle fails because of a lack of formation to manage the systemic circulation.   Carolyn: Exactly. Written by a group that has one of the most robust experiences in this field, so that also brings to mind another state of the art article in the issue that refers to the hypoplastic left heart syndrome and though it's entitled that and people may think it's rare, I think it's increasingly being seen in the adult cardiology world as well. You want to comment on that one?   Timothy: That actually is one of the main points of this paper that this very, very difficult condition of hypoplastic left heart syndrome that requires staged operations beginning in the neonatal period has now reached the state of surgical accomplishment in medical management where many of these young children are surviving into young adulthood. Albeit, with having had two, or three, or four operations. In a community like ours here in Delaware, where pediatric patients transition to adult services and adult cardiologist sometime around their 20's, it's really important for the entire cardiology community to be aware of what has happened in terms of the successful staged treatment of children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and that is brought out very nicely by the three authors who look at various accomplishments and different techniques for managing these staged repairs. It is very amazing to someone who has been observing this field for sometime as I have, that many of these children are in fact surviving into young adulthood and will require comprehensive cardiovascular treatment, not just by neonatal specialist but by specialist in adult congenital heart disease.   Carolyn: Exactly, which is why such a timely state of the art articles both of them for this issue. There is another state of the art article that you were handling, Tim, "The Surgical Management of Infective Endocarditis Complicated by Embolic Stroke", now that's an important topic.   Timothy: Absolutely, as we know up to a half or more of patients with infective endocarditis primarily on their left sided heart valves will have cerebral embolic problems and it has really been a dilemma for many of us in terms of optimal timing for the cardiac surgery with respect to the existence of cerebral injury from the embolism, from hemorrhage that may occur, from hemorrhage that may be exacerbated by placing the patient on the heart-lung machine, etc, and this paper really takes an extremely comprehensive, careful and judicious look at all of the evidence that has emerged and it has been a confusing field of evidence as to how to best optimally manage these patients with cerebral involvement from infective endocarditis.     I think this paper is going to have a big impact. It appears that there are a couple of messages that I took away from this paper. Number one, we really need to use the full panoply of diagnostic opportunities or diagnostic test for characterizing the nature and the extent of the cerebral involvement in these patients and then perhaps even more important, we need to convene what the authors called the infective endocarditis team and that has to include not just the surgeon, the cardiologist and the infectious disease specialist but also the neurologist, the neuro-interventional specialist, the neurosurgeon and so on because all of these specialist need to contribute to the assessment and choosing the optimal timing for these patients.     That is the central message of the paper. The authors also suggest that we may be getting to the point where we need to update and make sure that the guidelines that we're using are in fact current. Current in the sense that the experience now with advance imaging and with more aggressive management of the neurological or cerebral issues really need to be factored into how best to handle these patients, but I think this paper is going to have a big impact, it's very well written and very thorough.   Carolyn: I agree. In fact all the content we just discussed is just so rich. Congratulations on such a beautiful issue. Marc, do you have any last highlights you'd like our audience to hear about?   Marc: I'd like to also mention two other original research papers that will be featured in the surgery themed issue. One, in keeping with the congenital theme that we had talked about is about the modified [Straun's 00:19:08] procedure for palliation of severe Ebstein's anomaly and this is a series actually from Professor [Straun 00:19:16] himself mostly originating from Children's Hospital Los Angeles and essentially, the series here is that of 27 patients about equal in gender distribution who were operated at seven days of life, between 1989 and 2015.     It's very interesting that patients did well, the survival at ten years is 76% and most of them have undergone successful Fontan completion. I think this is a very important paper not only because it is an extremely vexing and difficult problem to deal with Esbtein's anomaly but it comes from the innovator of the operation himself with his team and it provides much needed data regarding the long term outcomes of these children with this very difficult solution. I think this will be of great interest and also as we commented before veering into the world of adult cardiology as well, because fortunately most of these patients survive into adulthood.     The other paper I wanted to touch upon which is also an original research paper that will be in this themed issue, is a paper from the CTSN Group looking at the impact of left ventricular to mitral valve are being mismatched on recurrent ischemic MR after ring annuloplasty and this paper used the free innovative and interesting methods. As some of you may know, there were two large files recently that were conducted by the CTSN looking at either moderate MR at the time of coronary artery bypass grafting or at severe ischemic mitral regurgitation. The randomizations were different when the moderate MR was CABG lone versus CABG post mitral valve repair and the severe MR was mitral valve repair versus mitral valve replacement.     These studies have led to interesting conclusions that several will know about but what's been interesting in the current study is that they have gathered all patients who underwent mitral valve repair from both studies, original randomized trials and they ended up with about 214 patients who underwent mitral valve repair. The others had moderate or severe MR and basically the point of this study is to look at predictors of failure of mitral valve repair and this is an extremely relevant problem, not only for the cardiac surgical community I would venture, but also for heart failure community and for JV General cardiology community. What the others found is that the most important predictor of recurrent mitral regurgitation after mitral valve repair was something called the left ventricular and systolic diameter to ring size ratio and they provide an algorithm which will have to be tested clinically with regards to whether it is applicable and indeed changes outcome, but this is a very important discovery in the field of ischemic MR and enabling us to hopefully better understand and improve outcomes for patients with this very difficult problem.   Carolyn: I agree. Thank you so much, Marc and Tim for this most insightful discussion. Thank you very much and to the listeners out there, don't forget you've been listening to Circulation on the Run. Join us next next week for more highlights and features.    

  Speaker 1: Welcome to Circulation on the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. I'm Dr. Carolyn Lam, Associate Editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. Joining me in just a moment are Dr. James Gammie and Dr. Timothy Gardner to discuss our feature paper this week describing the first-in-human clinical experience with a novel transapical beating heart mitral valve repair.     First, here are the highlights of this week's journal. The first paper is from co-primary authors doctors Yoon, [Tsue 00:00:49], and [Cha 00:00:50] as well as corresponding authors Dr. [Che 00:00:55]  and Dr. Kim from the Seoul National University College of Medicine. These authors examine mechanisms underlying diabetes-induced microvasculopathy, testing the hypothesis that Notch signaling in endothelial cells may play an important role in this condition.     The authors tested this hypothesis by inducing diabetes in eight-week-old adult mice using intravenous streptozotocin. They then modulated endothelial Notch signaling using chemical inhibitors in both wild type and transgenic mice. Results showed that the Notch ligand called Jagged-1 was markedly increased in endothelial cells of diabetic mice. Using endothelial specific Jagged-1 knocked down mice, they found that blocking Jagged-1 prevented diabetic microvaculopathy. Furthermore, using the induceable endothelium-specific Jagged-1 knocked down mice, blocking Jagged-1 even at four weeks after the establishment of diabetic microvaculopathy could reverse the condition.     In summary, these findings show that diabetes induces Jagged-1 over expression and suppresses Notch signalling in endothelial cells leading to diabetic microvaculopathy in adult mice. The clinical implications are that dysregulated intercellular Notch signalling may therefore represent a novel molecular target in the treatment of diabetic retinopathy.     The next study by Dr. Smith and colleagues at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands evaluated the association between LDL cholesterol variability and four cognitive domains at 30 months in the 4428 participants of the prosper study.     Results showed that a higher LDL cholesterol variability was associated with lower cognitive test performance for intermediate and delayed memory-related tasks, selective attention, and processing speed. Higher LDL cholesterol variability was also associated with lower cerebral blood flow and greater white matter hyperintensity load in an MRI substudy of 535 patients.     In addition to being independent of the mean LDL cholesterol levels and of clinically overt cardiovascular diseases, these associations were present both in the placebo and pravastatin treatment [inaudible 00:03:43] of the prosper trial suggesting that the findings did not mearly reflect pleiotropic effects of statins or of nonadherence.     The study importantly provides the first observational evidence that lipid variability, not just absolute or mean values, but the variability, maybe of importance to neurocognitive function and thus contributes while understanding potential pathways of neurocogniticve decline.     The next study is by first author, Dr. [Huh 00:04:19], and corresponding author, Dr. Ralph, from the Menzies School of Health Research Charles Darwin University in Australia. These authors aimed to investigate the long term outcomes from acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.     They achieved this aim by using linked data between the rheumatic heart disease register, hospital data, and death register for residents of the northern territory of Australia, and examined 1248 patients with rheumatic heart disease as well as 572 patients with acute rheumatic fever in the period 1997 to 2013.     The main findings were that in the first year after an acute rheumatic fever episode, the incidents of progression to rheumatic heart disease was 10 times higher than acute rheumatic fever recurrence; 10% of rheumatic heart disease patients had severe disease at diagnosis. The presence of comorbidities was associated with higher incidence of rheumatic heart disease complications and mortality. In particular, comorbid renal failure and hazardous alcohol use accounted for 28% of the access indigenous mortality.     These findings have global relevance for settings with high acute rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease rates and really emphasized the need for integrated chronic disease management strategies for these patients.     The final paper is by first author Dr Bettencourt, corresponding author Dr. Blankstein, and colleagues from Brigman and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. These authors sought to answer the question what is the most appropriate score for evaluating the pretest probability of obstructive coronary artery disease?     To answer the question, the authors compared the Diamond-Forrester score with the two CAD consortium scores recently recommended by the European Society of Cardiology, and they did this in 2274 consecutive patients without prior CAD referred for coronary CT angiography. CT angiography findings were used to determine the presence or absence of obstructive CAD defined as 50% or more stenosis.     Here's a refresher of the different probability scores. The Diamond-Forrester score is calculated based on chest pain type such as non-anginal, atypical or typical angina, gender, and age. The first CAD consortium model score called CAD consortium basic is also based on these factors, but was developed using more advanced statistical modeling strategies which were not available when the Diamond-Forrester model was derived. Additionally, the population had a lower prevalence of disease than the original Diamond-Forrester derivation cohort.     The second CAD consortium score called CAD consortium clinical included the same characteristics as CAD basic, but also included the following clinical risk factors; diabetes, smoking status, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. Moreover, the presence of typical chest pain was weighted less in diabetics compared to nondiabetics in the CAD clinical score.  Results showed that among symptomatic individuals referred for coronary CT angiography, the CAD consortium clinical pretest probability score demonstrated improved calibration and discrimination for the prediction of obstructive CAD compared to the Diamond-Forrester classification.     Driving home the clinical implications of this, the authors applied these observed differences in pretest probability of obstructive CAD to guidelines-based patient management algorithms and projected that the use of the newest score could decrease the proportion of individuals in whom testing would be recommended and increase the yield of diagnosing obstructive CAD.     Those were the highlights of these weeks issue. Now, for our feature paper. Our feature paper today is about the first-in-human clinical experience with the transapical beating heart mitral valve repair using a expanded polytetrafluoroethylene chordal insertion device. We're really lucky today to have the first and corresponding author, Dr. James Gammie from the University of Maryland Medical Center as well as Dr. Timothy Gardner, associate editor from Christiana Care Health System to discuss this exciting paper. Welcome, both of you.   Tim: Thank you.   James: Thank you.   Speaker 1: James, may I start with you? What an exciting title, a first-in-human experience, and this is really sounding very reminiscent of our experience with TAVR and aortic stenosis valves. Could I ask you, with so many exciting things, what is it about the results that excited you most?   James: This is an exciting project in that we believe it affords a new treatment option for patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation. We believe that this is a less invasive way of achieving surgical grade reduction of mitral regurgitation. This is a project which has involved a great number of people on our team both within the university and then within Harpoon Medical, as well as our colleagues in Europe to bring this device from an idea which was asked more than a decade ago into a clinical experience.     It really rose out of our recognition in particularly my own practice that virtually, every patient with degenerative mitral regurgitation could be fixed with ePTFE or Gore-Tex neo-chords, and the question became how can we place neo chords on a prolapsed mitral leaflets without doing open heart surgery?     We begin working on that in the laboratory a number of years ago and went through a variety of prototypes, and ultimately, came up with this idea where we could use a 3 millimeter shafted instrument with a specially designed wrap of Gore-Tex on a 21-gauge needle such that we could land on the underside of the mitral leaflet, deploy device, and create a specially designed knot on the atrial surface of the leaflet, and that would anchor the ePTFE on the leaflet. We could repeat that a few times transapically and then adjust the length of those chords in real time using transesophageal echo guidance.     We got this to work in the laboratory and we had hoped that we would have some modest success in humans, but we've been quite pleasantly surprised that it has just worked and we've outlines this initial clinical experience in the manuscript.   Speaker 1: First of all, I'd just like to pick up on the point that this is degenerative mitral regurgitation, so this is limited to the primary mitral regurgitation, not secondary?   James: That's correct and we know that right now, at least in North America, that two-thirds of mitral valve operations are done for degenerative disease. That's correct.   Speaker 1: I think a lot of the audience out there is going to be wondering how this new technique compares to the MitraClip. Could you tell us a little bit more about that?   James: I do MitraClip as well, so I think I'm well positioned to comment on the differences. The Harpoon device right now is still in operation. It does require a small one or two-inch incision. We anticipate it's going to be a thoracoscopic approach in the very near future and then, beyond that, we would hope to extend it to a transcatheter approach. That's one difference.     The MitraClip now is certainly across the world. It's used predominantly for functional mitral regurgitation. In our own experience, it seems to work best for functional mitral regurgitation and as you know, there are anatomic limitations for MitraClip in degenerative disease. The MiraClip replicates the LCRA surgical approach and I think what we've learned from all the less invasive approaches to treat mitral valve disease is that we have to respect what we've learned from our surgical experience, and we know that the LCRA approach works best when it's combined with an annuplasty ring, and certainly, the MitraClip, again, is mostly this perfunctional MR.     Another point I'd bring up is that the experience with MitraClip has been that when you place a MitraClip, you get a fairly strong fibrous reaction and in most of the series, it's not been possible to then go back and surgical repair the valve, but you have to do a replacement because you've compromised the leaflets. Our own approach were simply putting Gore-Tex sutures in the leaflets and we believe that one advantage is that we're not burning any bridges, and that you can go back and do an open repair of you had to.     In our experience, you asked about our results, we had great results in 10 out of 11 of our patients. One patient did require a reoperation. Actually, one of the chords had come untied on the surface in that patient. We were able to go ahead and do a repair and we saw as we had anticipated it based on our animal experience, there was not much compromised to the leaflets.     One of the advantages of our approach is that we can titrate the length to the Gore-Tex chords to optimize the amount of coaptation and maximize the quality of the repair, and that's something that we can't do an open cardiac surgery, and one of the challenges of mitral valve repair is that you have to figure out how long to make those chords while the heart is arrested and placid, and that's one of the challenges in why mitral valve repair is certainly some degree of an art to doing that.     What we've found is that the imager is incredibly important, and so we've teamed up with our echocardiography colleagues, and they really provide essential input into the procedure, and it's done not looking directly at the valve, but looking up at the screens. I think as surgeons, with this procedure, we're moving more into almost becoming interventionalists.   Speaker 1: Thank you, James. That was so exciting. Tim, I have to bring you into this now. Now that James has said they're becoming like the interventionalist. Back to my original comment of TAVR and aortic stenosis, are we witnessing history in the making now? You invited an editorial by Dr. Michael Mack and his title was very provocative, Transcatheter Treatment of Mitral Valve Disease. Is it deja vu all over again? What are your thoughts?   Tim: I think this is an exciting report and I think that this is the wave of the future. I agree completely with Michael Mack that we are beginning to see interventions for mitral valve disease that are effective, less invasive, in some instances catheter based, but this is just the beginning. In fact, mitral valve disease is somewhat more complex even than aortic stenosis, but this type of experience and the ingenuity and the technical prowess, and the ability to do this minimally, invasively, and so on really portend a whole new era.     I agree with Jim. This is sort of the common ground between the interventional structural cardiologist and the surgeon, and we're becoming even more entwined, more collaborative, and more mutually supportive. We are in a new era and I think over those next decade or so, we're going to see this and similar, and even different procedures tried and proven to be useful for the variety of mitral valve disorders that we encounter. Perhaps the era of the full sternotomy for fairly straightforward, single, focused operations will become something of a thing of the past.   Speaker 1: That's beautifully put. James, with that comment, what are the next steps?   James: As we said in the manuscript, this isn't barely experience and we're continuing to learn as we move [inaudible 00:17:07] to the clinical arena. We are currently in the midst of a CE Mark trial in Europe. We rolled it out to eight separate centers. As we approve clinical experience, we will learn more about precisely which patients work best with this approach and we will accrue longer term data. We now have a number of patient out to a year with stable results and so, as the numbers go up, we'll do that, and then we anticipate a randomized trial in the United States in the early to mid portion of 2017 where we'll compare this approach to conventional open cardiac surgery.   Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Thank you so much to both of you, gentlemen, for joining me on our podcast today.   Tim: Thank you.   James: Thank you.   Speaker 1: You've been listening to Circulation on the Run. 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