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This week on Shat The Movies, Gene and Big D close out the original Star Wars trilogy with a deep dive into Return of the Jedi (1983). Fueled by nostalgia, Minute Maid and vodka cocktails, and the crushing realization that not all endings stick the landing, the hosts explore the Ewok invasion, Jabba's deadly circus act, Boba Fett's humiliating demise, and the absurdity of Imperial helmet design. From Luke's questionable Force skills to the Empire's laughable "elite troops," nothing escapes the Shat boys' critical eye. Along the way, they celebrate Carrie Fisher's iconic (if problematic) gold bikini moment, mourn for Ewoks lost in battle, and dream up a darker, deadlier version of Endor warfare. Was this the fitting finale Star Wars deserved—or an early warning of Lucas' merchandising empire run amok? Tune in to find out! Plot SummaryA year after Han Solo's capture, Luke Skywalker launches a risky mission to free his friend from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt. After a daring escape involving Sarlacc pits, lightsabers and a lot of questionable strategy, the Rebel Alliance turns its attention to the Empire's new and even deadlier Death Star. Luke confronts Darth Vader once more, hoping to save his father from the Emperor's grip, while Han, Leia, and a band of unlikely Ewok allies attempt to destroy the shield generator on Endor. The fate of the galaxy hinges on battles fought in the forest and the throne room—where redemption, betrayal, and tiny bear-like warriors collide. Subscribe Now Android: https://www.shatpod.com/android Apple/iTunes: https://www.shatpod.com/apple Help Support the Podcast Contact Us: https://www.shatpod.com/contact Commission Movie: https://www.shatpod.com/support Support with Paypal: https://www.shatpod.com/paypal Support With Venmo: https://www.shatpod.com/venmo Shop Merchandise: https://www.shatpod.com/shop Theme Song - Die Hard by Guyz Nite: https://www.facebook.com/guyznite

Pour écouter mes autres épisodes:- Le libre arbitre existe-t-il ?Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/episode/3oVQpR2qpmhw94HJrmTjgI?si=62a17a0725f247bfApple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/bonus-le-libre-arbitre-existe-t-il-vraiment/id1057845085?i=1000703952672- Que se passe-t-il dans le cerveau lors d'une anesthésie ?Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ewTtsRwZQoRMtxux62Kcy?si=MmaPm0uJT6O5DcsHi9b-pQApple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/bonus-que-se-passe-t-il-dans-le-cerveau-pendant-une/id1062748833?i=1000703953386--------------------------Cette affirmation peut paraître exagérée… mais elle repose sur une réalité étonnante : la diversité gigantesque des produits que propose la marque à travers le monde.Un empire mondial du goûtCoca-Cola, ce n'est pas seulement la fameuse boisson brune au goût sucré. L'entreprise possède plus de 500 marques et distribue plus de 3 500 produits différents, dans plus de 200 pays. Cela inclut non seulement des sodas, mais aussi des eaux, des jus, des thés, des cafés, des boissons énergétiques, des laits aromatisés, et même des produits locaux spécifiques à certaines cultures ou régions.Par exemple, en Inde, Coca-Cola vend Maaza, une boisson à la mangue. Au Japon, on trouve Ayataka, un thé vert glacé. Au Mexique, on peut boire du Del Valle, un jus de fruit populaire. Aux États-Unis, la marque commercialise aussi Vitaminwater, Minute Maid, ou encore Fresca.Pourquoi 9 ans ?L'affirmation selon laquelle il faudrait 9 ans pour tout goûter repose sur un calcul simple : si vous testiez un nouveau produit Coca-Cola chaque jour, il vous faudrait près de 10 ans pour venir à bout de tous.3 500 produits ÷ 365 jours = environ 9,6 ansMais attention : cela suppose qu'on ait accès à tous ces produits… ce qui est quasiment impossible, car certains ne sont disponibles que dans un seul pays, ou même dans une seule région. Autrement dit, il faudrait aussi faire le tour du monde pour les goûter tous !Une stratégie de diversificationCette incroyable variété n'est pas un hasard : elle fait partie de la stratégie de Coca-Cola pour s'adapter aux goûts locaux, aux réglementations alimentaires, et aux tendances de consommation. Dans certains pays, les boissons sont moins sucrées, parfois sans caféine, parfois enrichies en vitamines, ou encore aux arômes totalement inconnus ailleurs.Coca-Cola investit aussi beaucoup dans l'innovation, lançant chaque année des dizaines de nouvelles saveurs ou formats, testés parfois sur des marchés spécifiques avant d'être élargis. Le dernier produit mis sur le marché par Coca-Cola est le Jack Daniel's & Coca-Cola Cherry, une boisson alcoolisée en canette de 330 ml, combinant le célèbre whisky Jack Daniel's et le Coca-Cola Cherry. Cette nouvelle saveur a été lancée au Royaume-Uni en avril 2025, en collaboration avec Jack Daniel's, et est disponible dans les supermarchés Tesco... Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Hosts Pat Cobe, senior menu editor of Restaurant Business, and Bret Thorn, senior food & beverage editor of Nation's Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality, had a busy week going to chain restaurants' promotional events in New York City.Pat had high tea featuring Portillo's menu items, and Bret went to a preview of the first United States location of Chinese chain Pull-Tab Coffee, whose signature menu item is a sort of reversed iced cappuccino: Coffee foam on top of milk on the rocks. He also went to Bar Tender, a two-day pop-up in Brooklyn created by Wingstop, featuring the chain's upgraded, crunchier chicken tenders in 12 different flavors (he didn't try them all, but he did his best).They also discussed the big chain news of Wendy's new Frosty options. They can now be blended with syrups, and starting in May there will be mix-ins available — like Dairy Queen Blizzards.Also big news: McDonald's has upgraded its lemonade, doing away with Minute Maid (although its orange juice is still in stock), and replacing it with a beverage of lemon juice, lemon pulp and sugar. Then Bret shared an interview with Juan and Gee Smalls, the owners of three-unit Virgil's Gullah Kitchen & Bar in Atlanta, featuring the food of the Gullah and Geechee people of the coastal areas from North Carolina to Georgia. They're first-time restaurateurs, motivated by what they saw as a need for venues owned and operated by Black gay people. The couple discuss their learning process and plans for the future.

Oh it's going to be one of those episodes right?Episode 297 of No One's Ready For Wrestling discusses a quick recap of SmackDown last week that involves Rey Fenix's debut, CM Punk's favor revealed, KO announces that he has to have neck surgery and Randy Orton is officially without an opponent at WrestleMania, and the weird segment involving Tiffany Stratton & Charlotte Flair. My thoughts on AEW Dynasty and a big rant on the ending of that main event. Tony Khan was asked about calling an audible and his response is just a no for me. How this main event ending shows that TK lost the plot and he had one FREAKING JOB!!!!!!!!! Swerve Strickland says F**k Booker T and his response. The Young Bucks explains why they helped Moxley which doesn't make any sense whatsoever and Kenny Omega's weak promo on Dynamite. Karrion Kross' upcoming book will detail his personal struggles & successes. Cody Rhodes extends a big partnership and Minute Maid named the official juice partner for WWE. WWE expected to make MITB announcement. How many matches are planned for WrestleMania 41? GUNTHER reveals special perk he got as part of new WWE contract. Triple Threat match for the Women's World Championship is confirmed for WrestleMania. Bayley & Lyra Valkyria had a great match for the Women's Intercontinental Championship. Rey Mysterio wants El Grande Americano at WrestleMania. Seth Rollins has a favor for Paul Heyman. Giulia returns to NXT and wants the NXT Women's Championship back. Finally, quick thoughts on the latest episode of EVOLVE.NOTE: I didn't get the chance to record SmackDown so I apologize for that.All this & so much more RIGHT HERE on No One's Ready For Wrestling!

Today on the Woody and Wilcox Show: Wilcox is still not feeling great; An alligator named Wally was left in a hotel room; The Luckiest Man in America movie; Stranded astronauts are finally headed home; NBA game stopped because Tracey Morgan got sick courtside; Woman charged with selling human body parts online; Americans who get less sleep are 4 times more likely to be unhappy; Stop drinking water out of plastic bottles; Soon Amazon will not let you opt out of sending data to their servers; Happy Gilmore 2 trailer; Coca-Cola rolls out spiked Minute Maid drinks; And more!

Episode 121: Kush PapiWhat's Good Famiglia?! How we doin out there?! This week we have a special guest from Chi Town. When we took a trip out to the Windy City, the Made Gallery hosted us and we seshed up real proper. I got a chance to sit down with the Instagram legend Kush Papi and talk about his come up! Kush Papi is a comedian, digital influencer, and musician from Chicago, IL. On his Instagram, Kush Papi releases comedic, relatable videos to his over 2M followers. Kush Papi is also known for other segments featuring stunts with Minute Maid, his first major sponsor, and even recently receiving a sponsorship by Welchs. In addition to his comedy career, Kush Papi is also a musician, with his first record "Doesn't Make Any Sense," debuting on WorldStarHipHop and has been streamed via HeartRadio and WGCI-FM. Y'all know what time it is… Roll em fat, torch your rigs, pack your bongs, bag up some work, water your plants, do what you gotta do because we're about to take this journey with the homie Kush Papi. ✌

Every Friday on City Cast Houston we're breaking down all of the big stories from the week with some of the top journalists and dynamic voices from H-Town. Today, Host Raheel Ramzanali is joined by Lucio Vasquez, reporter at Houston Public Media, and Anna-Catherine Brigida, immigration reporter at the Houston Landing. The trio start by talking about outgoing Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg charging a former director in Judge Lina Hidalgo's administration. Then, they dive deep into Anna-Cat's new story about Alexis Nungaray, mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, and how a call from Donald Trump after her daughter's murder changed her life. Plus, is Texas one step closer to putting biblical teachings in public school? And, of course, they end the week with their moments of joy!  Dive deeper into the stories we talked about today: The Best Houston Restaurants Open on Thanksgiving Former Harris County Public Health chief charged with misuse of official information ‘I don't want her to be forgotten': The election is over. Alexis Nungaray's grief remains. Houston Public Works has a new director, he's not an engineer Deer Park mayor says deadly pipeline explosion and fire ‘wasn't an accident' Texas leaders advance plan for biblical lessons in public schools Why the Texans Are Super Bowl Bound (Yes, Seriously!) Houston Got 6 Michelin Stars. Now, Where to Eat? 10 Better Things to Rename Minute Maid Park (That Are Not Daikin) Learn more about the sponsors of this November 22nd episode here: Classic Christmas Inprint A.D Players Theater Downtown Houston+ Looking for more Houston news? Then sign up for our morning newsletter Hey Houston  Follow us on Instagram  @CityCastHouston Don't have social media? Then leave us a voicemail or text us at +1 713-489-6972 with your thoughts! Have feedback or a show idea? Let us know!  Interested in advertising with City Cast? Let's Talk! Photo: Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bleav Hosts Robert Land & Stephen Kerr look at CJ Stroud's issues, an underrated Texans player, the Best 1-2 Punch in Texans history, the Rockets Incredible Start, the one thing the Rockets desperately need, Daikin Field replacing Minute Maid & Coogs basketball building a super team Brought to you by MyBookie (Promo Code 'HST') MyBookie Link - https://bit.ly/betwithHST (:40) Texans Expectations Too High? (3:15) Is CJ Stroud Problems too low on radar? (6:17) Danielle Hunter with JJ Watt game? (8:10) Is Mixon & Nico best 1-2 punch in Texans history? (12:12) Why did Rockets to lose Bucks? (14:30) Shocking Rockets Start: Top 5 Team? (15:37) What do Rockets Need Most? Jalen Green's albatross (19:15) Are we mad at Juice Box moving to Ice Box? RIP Minute Maid (24:49) Coogs Grab 21st Ranked Recruit Kingston Flemings Subscribe on Youtube, Spotify, Apple & iHeart X @HSTPodcast #cjstroud #jalengreen #astros

Minute Maid park undergoes a name change. Altuve snags another award. MLB insiders latest reports on the Astros-Bregman negotiations and other alternatives.

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Minute Maid screws up, Sweden and Denmark finally get around to not marrying cousins, none of us can pay attention and another heavy workweek for Diddy's lawyers!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Wrapping up their three game series against the Mariners yesterday afternoon, the Astros take one out of the two from Seattle and now head on the road up to Cleveland to take on the Guardians in their final series of the regular season. Finishing out the last game 8-1 here at home in Minute Maid, the Astros fanbase gives a standing ovation to Alex Bregman as the Astros close out the game. Entering into next season as a free agent, many begin to wonder, have we seen Alex Bregman's last game here in Houston as an Houston Astro? 

What kind of mixed drinks do you like in the summer? Here is a new one to try. Crown Royal Blackberry and Minute Maid Lemonade is today's review.

What kind of mixed drinks do you like in the summer? Here is a new one to try. Crown Royal Peach and Minute Maid Lemonade is today's review.

In this episode of Building Texas Business, I learned how a missed home run sparked the creation of Rivalry Tech from co-founder Aaron Canopy. He conveyed the early challenges of building their platform from the ground up and initial launches at Rice University football games. Aaron discussed their pivotal strategic partnership with Aramark, which led to expansion into major league venues like the Mets, setting them up for scalable growth. I also discovered how the company used the COVID-19 pandemic to refine its software and form industry relationships. Additionally, the importance of building a dynamic culture centered around transparency, open communication, and employee empowerment was highlighted. Strategic collaborations with Comcast Business assisted in entering new verticals. Aaron provides insightful entrepreneurial lessons through strategic partnerships on values like self-funding phases, team building, and innovation. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS In this episode, I interview Aaron Knape, CEO and co-founder of Rivalry Tech, about his journey from a missed World Series home run to founding a successful food delivery technology company for sports and entertainment venues. Aaron discusses the initial inspiration for Rivalry Tech, which came when his partner, Marshall Law, missed a crucial home run while waiting in line for food during a 2017 World Series game. Aaron and Marshall, neither of whom were tech experts, navigated numerous challenges in the early days, including finding the right tech talent and building a minimum viable product with the help of Craig Zekonty, a former Rice MBA classmate. The episode explores how Rivalry Tech started at Rice University football games and eventually expanded to other venues, including a significant partnership with the New York Mets. Aaron shares how the COVID-19 pandemic allowed Rivalry Tech to focus on fortifying their software and establishing key industry relationships, ultimately positioning themselves for scalable growth. The importance of strategic partnerships is highlighted, including collaborations with Aramark and Comcast Business, which have helped Rivalry Tech expand into new verticals like healthcare and hospitality. Aaron emphasizes the significance of company culture at Rivalry Tech, which includes transparency, open communication, and fostering an environment where employees feel empowered to voice their ideas and criticisms. The episode delves into the lessons learned from strategic partnerships, including the necessity of validating customer needs before development and anticipating market trends. Aaron discusses his philosophy on hiring, emphasizing the "hire slow, fire medium fast" approach and the value of team loyalty during tough times. The episode concludes with a glimpse into Aaron's personal life, including his preference for Tex-Mex over barbecue and what he would do on a 30-day sabbatical. LINKSShow Notes Previous Episodes About BoyarMiller About Rivalry Tech GUESTS Aaron KnapeAbout Aaron TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Chris: In this episode, you will meet Aaron Canopy, CEO and co-founder of Rivalry Tech. Aaron tells a fascinating story about how missing a home run during the World Series led to he and his partner creating a successful technology company in the food delivery industry. Aaron, thanks again for taking time. Welcome to Building Texas Business. Aaron: Yeah, great to be here. Thanks for having me, Chris so let's talk about Rival would use to order the food. And it's our software and it's our hardware that's back in the kitchen, that lets the people back there get that food out faster. So, known for sports and entertainment, we're now in healthcare, fast food, restaurants, hotels, resorts, casinos, wow. Chris: So kind of like the Amazon Prime of food delivery. I think so yeah, it is, I like that. So what was the inspiration to start the company? Aaron: Yeah, so my partner Marshall Law. Actually his full name is Jesse James Marshall Law no way, no joke. Chris: Yeah, that's his real name. Aaron: Parents are comedians. They must have been. Yeah, they're awesome. But he was at Astros-Dodgers World Series back in 2017, sitting out in the left field and ran up to get a hot dog and a Coke with his two boys, and while he was up there waiting in line for 20, 25 minutes, yuli Gurriel just hits a bomb and it's right over his seats and you can go back to the highlight reel and you can see Marshall's empty seats. So he's crushed, right, he's devastated, and that's the whole reason you go to an Astros game to see moments like that. But it was even worse that it was right over his seats. So he texts me that night and says man, we've got to fix this. We've got to like why is there no app for food delivery in a stadium? And so that's when Rivalry Tech was born. Back then we called it seats, but that's when it was born. Chris: Oh, we don't, yeah. So a lot of people start companies where they see gaps in a process or something. Aaron: Yeah. Chris: But that was pretty remarkable. I mean literally leaving the stadium. He sends you a text about this. Aaron: He did and he was adamant. You know my being, you know, skeptic in general. I was like, well, either it's already being done or it's not efficient to do in a stadium. And he said, well, it's got to be done somewhere, so we're going to do it. It's going to be you and me, and he's very charismatic. So he convinced me to join up with him and we started the company a couple months later, Wow so walk us through that then what was it? Chris: you know what was it like and kind of what were the missteps taken to kind of start from scratch on this kind of idea that born out of frustration. Aaron: Yeah, yeah, you know that neither of us are tech founders, right? Neither of us are tech guys. So we had another hurdle to cross. You know, marshall had done some internet research and found you could build an app for $3,000. And we laugh to this day we look at the millions of dollars we've spent on the platform. So we might have been a little fooled into thinking it was going to be easier than it has been. But we started by, you know, trying to understand what the real need was, trying to just kind of map it out. And then we had to find a tech guy who was going to build this for us, right, because Houston's got a lot of tech talent now, a lot more than it did seven years ago when we started the company. But seven years ago it was tough and all the tech talent was being utilized by oil and gas and healthcare. You know, it's not like the West Coast where you've got a lot of talent. So we set out to find tech talent and that's where I went to. One of my old rice MBA classmates got in Craig's a canty who I knew had been a developer in his past life. He had his own successful company called Pino's Palate that he had built and grown and scaled, and so I said, hey, help me find a tech guy. And so we looked for two, three months and finally Craig comes to me and he says I found him, it's me. So great. Aaron: So Craig got back into startup life and that was probably one of the best things that happened to us, because he's very organized, very methodical and he's not just a coder, he's an architect, and so we got really lucky early on that we weren't like a typical tech startup where we're just writing code and it's kind of all thrown together. We were building enterprise grade, minimum viable product in the early days, right. So we kind of had a leg up in those early days and Craig is also co-founder, so he joined the company, really helped us get it off the ground. And then we went to work. We went to work and started out at Rice University football with our wives handing out flyers, our kids and brothers and friends were delivering the food into the stands and I was running a laptop just manually assigning orders and it was definitely a minimum viable product back at the time. But Rice had faith in us and we did them right and delivered a good first product and we learned a lot from that experience. Wow. Chris: So yeah, and it's grown from there. Aaron: We've grown from there. We then went, we got the Skeeters now the Space Cowboys to sign up with us, right, and then we had our big break. Then we got really lucky. We're building software the whole time, we're learning from Rice and Skeeters. And we had really good opportunity to be put in front of one of our old mutual friends, jamie Roots oh, sure, and president of the Texans at the time, and it was at a pitch event and it was funny. I'd never met Jamie. I didn't know him prior to this and he was sitting in my chair at my table at some point and I didn't recognize him. And I walked up to grab my bottle of water and Marshall's wife, melissa, knows him and she said, hey, aaron, this is Jamie. And I'm like, hey, what's up man? And she goes no, this is Jamie Roots. And I'm like, oh. And so we had a great 15-minute conversation and he said, man, I really like what I'm hearing. I like your ethos, I like the aggressiveness. We have an issue with the fan experience at NRG Stadium. I want you to come down and meet with Aramark and let's give it a go. So he got us into the stadium and I remember walking in and meeting with Aramark and Jamie and I won't name names. But the Aramark guy walks in the in the boardroom and he sits down and he goes mobile ordering is BS. It'll never work at scale and in stadiums. And I thought, man, we're done, yeah, we're toast. And Marshall leans across the table and says, well, that's because you're doing it wrong. So we got a kick out of that. They gave us a shot and we did well. We had a few thousand seats we were serving. We showed them that it could be done logistically, we could make money off of it and that we had a good product. So from there we started to scale and and built a really good relationship with Aramark, one we maintain to this day. And you know the sports side. We work with them at other pro stadiums. We work with them at Minute Maid. Right now we work with them at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox, the New York Mets. Those are some key Aramark partnerships with us. Chris: Wow, that's a great story, fortuitous, like most, if you're working hard and you get that lucky break and take advantage of it. The combination of hard work and luck sometimes is a really good thing. Aaron: It is. It helps, and we were astute enough at the time to understand that there is a bigger problem. The bigger problem wasn't that a fan wanted a beer or a hot dog in their seat their seat. It's that the operators the arrow marks of the world were having trouble keeping up with that unfettered convenience. We'll call it right, okay. All of a sudden, you go from lines, which naturally throttle your demand, to cell phones and everybody can order as much as they want, whenever they want, and they all expect it to show up in two minutes. So we learned that the operational challenges were the real problem and that's where we turned our focus. So now, when you look at our platform, it's not just about delivering food, it's about streamlining that entire process. Yeah, if the kitchen can't keep up, then it doesn't matter. Right? That's exactly right. Yeah, that's exactly right. So building in the controls, the throttles, the reporting, the communication, all that stuff's baked into our platform. Chris: So a couple of things that come to mind as you talk about what sounds like a lot of focus in Energy One on product development, software and then trying to prove the concept. What did you all do to try to finance that? Did you have to go out and raise money? Were you doing it yourself? Because most startups and entrepreneurs face that conundrum and there's a number of different ways to handle it. Aaron: What did y'all do at Robbery, at the beginning we were self-funded, we were self-financed, we were bootstrapping it. I had a good job. I was president of a manufacturing company. Marshall has like three, four other companies, he's a serial entrepreneur and Craig was running Pino's Pallet. So we all had good jobs and we were able to fund the beginning parts of the company and ultimately it got to a point where really two things happened. One, I was spending more than 40, 50 hours a week on rivalry tech, and we saw that we were getting enough traction that it needed full-time focus, and so as a group we decided, okay, it was time for one of us to leave, and that was me. So I left my job and we financed a salary to get it going and do some fundraising, and we raised our first round of funding from Venture Capital probably about a year into operations, when we really wanted to start scaling, and that was interesting as well. That was a fun experience, but now that's how we got it started Just a lot of sweat, blood, tears and a lot of our own money. Chris: Yeah, that's a common theme for anyone kind of starting something from the ground up. Aaron: Yeah it is, and it's interesting when you do it that way, and I'll give credit to know when you have an idea and you want to start a company. You've got about a thousand ideas. Here's what it should be, and Craig was really good at saying, ok, but we can only afford to build three of those things out of the thousand things. What are the three things we really need to prove? What's going to help us get to that next round of funding or what's going to help us get that next customer? And it's not all the super convenient stuff right. It's not about sending you a text message when you're within a mile of the stadium. That's not going to generate revenue. So we really had to spend time and figure out what are the most most important things to build, and that's how we got the first version of the platform out right. We just wanted to prove that, a people would use it. B people would spend money to use it. And C we could help the customers make more money. And that was it right. So that's how you get to a platform where you have to have your kids deliver food. Chris: I'm sure that was great. Yeah, they enjoyed that a bit. They did, they had a blast. So then you know, the next, I guess, issue you face, I'm guessing is, as that success is coming, you've got to start building your team to service the customers that you're bringing in. Yeah, how did y'all go about doing that and kind of going through adding key people in the right spots at the right time? Aaron: You know that was a really interesting journey for us. You know, at the beginning we knew it was mostly about tech, like we had to build the technology and the software. We did hire an operations guy in January of 2020. It was a great time to hire a field ops guy, no-transcript. And so you know, at that stage we were really trying to figure out where we scale and how we scale, and we got to go hire all these operations, people et cetera. But then something happened in March of 2020 that changed the course of live sports and entertainment. Just a little bit. Chris: Right. Well, our good friend Jamie. I remember him saying at the time it's a terrible time to be in the mass gathering business. Aaron: That's exactly right. So you know, when COVID shut everything down, it was really funny we were actually in an investor meeting. It was, I think it was March 11th, 2020. And we're talking about raising a series A and we're going to raise some more money, and then the phones kind of start buzzing and vibrating and everyone's looking down and they're like, oh man, the rodeo just canceled and or just shut down. And then a few minutes later it was like, oh, the Rockets have postponed, you know, their season already. And or no, it was the Astros. I'm sorry, the Astros postponed their season, start dating all of this. And so we said, okay, well, maybe we shouldn't have this investment meeting right now. And that really kind of set the stage for, quite honestly, was a better growth phase for us, and I actually give COVID not that it deserves any, but I give it credit for turning us into the company we are today. We took COVID and took that time to build the software we really wanted to build, if that makes sense. So, rather than splitting resources you know we had precious resources at the time rather than splitting it between operations and marketing and all the other things you're normally spending money on, we put it all into tech and by then we had established a good relationship with Aramark. We had established a good relationship with the teams like the Texans, like the Astros, and we had established a good relationship with Major League Baseball through some of our other connections at Aramark. And so we just spent all that time in isolation talking to these other people who were in isolation. So, mlb, they became really good, almost friends, and said here's what hasn't been built, here's why you don't see it at every stadium. And we listened, and so we somehow managed to raise almost $2 million during COVID throughout 2020 and just put it all towards the software Wow. And so we were able to come out of 2020 better funded, but also with a product that MLB signed off on it we launched at the New York Mets in 2021, coming out of COVID. So that really helped us allocate those tech resources and then we could start. And, if you think about it, covid also gave us a really nice kind of gradual increase in activity with operations. So we hired one ops guy, because ballparks are only at 10% capacity, sure, and they were at 30, then 50, and then 100. So we were able to scale. It was a lot better runway than just getting hit with it all at once yeah, I guess it makes sense right. Chris: You were able to kind of that hiring process that we kind of started talking about you were able to ease into that right and not have to throw a lot of investment at it because of exactly the ramp up exactly and we were able to take our time and find good people. Aaron: You know, culture is huge for us. Startup life is a grind. Startup life in live sports and entertainment is probably worse because it's a lot of nights, it's a lot of weekends. It's going to happen, whether you want it to or not, you know. I mean, the schedule is the schedule and so we had to find those people who, you know, kind of thrive on that life. They like going and the insanity and the chaos around. You know, trying to serve food to 80,000 people, you know, on any given Sunday. Chris: Oh, I can't imagine right. The other thing, though, that you know, I hear from your lessons and the advantages you took during, you know, kind of the COVID shutdown, if you will, was you really and this applies at any time but the importance and value that you gain by listening to your customer? And we have what were the issues, what did they like, what would they change if they could? And then you were one listening and you took that back to the developers or maybe they were in the meeting too to make those adaptations and modifications. Aaron: Yeah, yeah, exactly. It really helped highlight a lot of those bigger challenges right, where we got to understand, okay, well, we did have the good fortune of working through Texan season in 2019 and we saw the issues, and then COVID just allowed us to sit face-to-face from the customer when they weren't distracted, when Aramark and the Texans weren't distracted by the season. They're just sitting at home literally and let's talk through it and we're going to build it for you guys. So, yeah, it really helped put a magnifying glass in without the chaos, and that made all the difference, right, because we have a lot of competitors who just build on the fly and they're just trying to build and learn and they're getting beat up every day and that, and they're getting beat up every day and that's the advantage we have. Chris: That's great. Advert Hello friends, this is Chris Hanslick, your Building Texas business host. Did you know that Boyer Miller, the producer of this podcast, is a business law firm that works with entrepreneurs, corporations and business leaders? Our team of attorneys serve as strategic partners to businesses by providing legal guidance to organizations of all sizes. Get to know the firm at boyermiller.com, and thanks for listening to the show. Chris: Well, you mentioned culture, and I definitely don't want to gloss over that. Couldn't agree more. I mean, culture is everything. What have you done at Robbery to build the culture that you appear to be proud of, and how would you describe that culture? Aaron: with grit. I mean a lot of people use that term as part of their core values, but for us it's. We really make sure, whoever sitting across the table, they know that this isn't an eight-to-five job, that this is going to be some nights and weekends and you may have a thought at 2 am and you know Marshall and I talk at 2 am all the time. We don't expect that from everybody, but hey, just know that you don't have to answer that 2 you in text, but if you want to, that's okay. But we've got a really fun culture. I mean, look, first of all, we're doing a lot of fun things. I mean whether we're at sports or, you know, I mean resorts. We do the Margaritaville up in Conroe. I mean there's worse places to go to have to do work, right. I mean we even enjoy going down to the hospitals. We're at Methodist in the Med Center. We've got some robotics stuff. It's just a lot of fun. And it's really fun to go into areas where, you know, people aren't using a lot of technology on the food and beverage side, and so we really focus just on people who are creative and they like to question and they like to come up with answers or solutions, you know we don't have. We try not to have any of those barriers where they feel like they can't approach me with an idea or criticism or feedback. You know, I think part of our success has been allowing everybody in the company to have a voice and there's no such thing as a stupid idea or a bad idea. You never know where it's going to go right, and so you know we like that everybody can feel safe just throwing it out there, right, I mean? And we've had some crazy ideas come across the come across the whiteboard, and some of them have gone on to become parts of the product and some we've tucked away and some we've giggled at and erased, you know yeah. And then we've got definitely a culture of you know, just a very candid culture, right? I'm trying to think of what the phrase is, but our candor is very important. So, you know, we have a lot of meetings where we'll share ideas and opinions and then we'll fight about those ideas and opinions and voices will get raised and pulses will increase and language will be thrown around. But at the end of the day, everybody does it respectfully and you can scream and yell at your partner all you want, but we always make up and we realize it's coming from a place of trying to better the company. Chris: Yeah, Sounds like transparency, but also in a safe environment, right. Aaron: It is. Chris: Yeah, the other thing that sounds like you've created within that culture is one that fosters innovation you talked about. People are encouraged to bring their ideas to the table. Yeah, their ideas to the table? Yeah, how? I mean? Are there things that are meetings you have to, or challenges you present to people so that they know that innovation is respected and welcomed? Aaron: Yeah, we do. I mean we have weekly meetings where we kind of go through everything from the tech roadmap to the operational roadmap to sales and marketing, and we just talk through what we're seeing in the market, try to identify the gaps, right. So we're really trying to teach everybody in the company look for those gaps. Where are we seeing, you know, areas where there's no solutions? And so I mean we love whiteboards. I mean if I could have every surface in the office be whiteboard, it would be whiteboard. I mean, put it up on the whiteboard and go and let's start playing with it. And we've gone through some sessions where we've covered a whole room and come up with new ideas or better ways to execute. Right, I mean we're dealing with, you know, a stadium or a hospital. They're not simple organisms, they're very complex. And then when you get back into the food and beverage service side and fragmented technology stacks that they're using in the back and how do you tie it all together? And then you got to pull in the different stakeholders the hospitals, the aramarks, the employees. It becomes a lot of moving pieces and within that is opportunity, yeah, and so we spend a lot of time just talking through you know where and how can we do this? Chris: so let's let's talk a little bit about you. Know you start in sports missing the home run of the World Series. You mentioned this and alluded to it earlier. You've grown in sports. While you still do. That's not your primary area. Tell us a little bit about you. Know how you moved into health care, as an example. Aaron: And what are some? Chris: of the innovative things that you're actually doing, that when people show up, you know hopefully not at a hospital, but at a resort or or something that they could see to know that this is your technology in play. Aaron: Yeah, so sports and entertainment was our focus market for a very long time and we realized that the needs existed everywhere. Right, the problem that we were solving wasn't just at large stadiums, so large operators like Aramark, they operate in a whole host of other industries, right, like we talked about hospitality or leisure hospitals, etc. And so we knew we wanted to expand into those other verticals at some point. And we got really lucky again where and you can obviously tell Aramark's been a great partner throughout all this Right, they called us out of the headquarters up in Philly and it was really funny. I'd gotten to know the guy well and he says, hey, great job in sports, you've solved a lot of issues for us. You've built a great platform. Can you do it in other business verticals? Could you do it in health care? And we said, absolutely, yeah, we've been wanting to for a long time. What are you looking for? And he goes well, we've got a customer down in Houston and you can hear the papers kind of flipping through. You ever heard of MD Anderson? Yeah, yes, I've heard of MD Anderson. He goes. Yeah, they have a need down there. We want you to go look at it, and so worked through some of that. But what ended up happening is we actually got in front of Houston Methodist and their innovation team is really great, really employee focused, really patient focused. But they wanted us to focus on putting in our mobile platform for the employees because you think about it a doctor or a nurse, 30-minute lunch breaks you don't want them waiting in line for 15, 20 minutes, right. So we saw that as our opening. We knew we wanted to expand here. We have a customer pulling us into this other market, right. So that's how we got started. We built the platform for hospitals at first, but the really cool thing about it is that that same platform applies to every other market in the world, right? Sports is unique. It's a four-hour event, five-hour event. You turn it on, you turn it off. A day or two, a couple days a week, depending on a baseball home stand football once a week, exactly, but a hospital, a hotel, fast food, I mean 365 days a year, sometimes 24 hours a day. So we built this new platform for them. And let's use Houston Methodist as an example. So we've got our mobile at all. And let's use Houston Methodist as an example. So we've got our mobile at all eight of their locations in Houston. We have our kiosks at all eight of their locations, so you can walk up to a coffee shop, order a coffee at one of our kiosks and the barista will make it. You don't have to wait in line and then we're doing some really fun stuff. So, like in the Med Center, we are integrated with a big robot made by ABB Robotics, and this thing makes your food from fresh ingredients to. It actually cooks it, it puts it in a bowl and puts it in a locker for you. That robot didn't have any way to communicate with the guest or for the guest to communicate with the food preparation system, right, which normally is a person behind a counter you talk to Right, and it didn't have any way to communicate with Aramark in the back. Hey, here's the reporting for the day. Here's what I've made. Well, we do all of that, and so we essentially said look, just let's and to oversimplify, just run a line from the robot into our platform and we'll take care of the rest. And that's what we we did. So you can order food from our app and the robot will make your food. It'll tell you when it's ready. It'll tell you what locker it's in. You walk up and you scan a little code we give you, and your locker just opens up, and then we do all the reporting for the customer at the end of the night as well, so they can see what you know delivery or make times were, etc. Now we're getting into delivery. Robotics have the just, so we're controlling that order fulfillment process again from the very beginning to the very end, right, Whether it's a human or a robot. So it's pretty fascinating. Chris: Sounds like I'm still trying to wrap my head around a robot cooking in the kitchen. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Aaron: It's their induction cookers. They look like concrete mixers and so it's tossing these, this pasta or this chicken, and like a concrete mixer and it's cooking it. So it's pretty neat. That's amazing. Chris: So you know clearly. You mentioned AeroMark several times and, based on the story, I can see that they're a key strategic partner for you, as are some others. What are some of the advice you could give others about how to cultivate those relationships that are so central to your business? Aaron: So I mean, Aramark was an obvious one for us in the early days because they were the gatekeeper to a lot of our stadiums. And the other part of that is we knew we didn't want to go door to door knocking on different stadiums' doors. They are in hundreds of stadiums, so build for one major customer, make them happy and they'll sell for you and they'll take you along right, and they'll take us along. That's exactly right. So we were very intent and strategic on a relationship like that and we've worked with Aramark's competitors as well. We work with a lot of them and it's that same mentality, right. But then, you know, we started looking for other partnerships and this was a really interesting one where Comcast Business, comcast Sports Tech, has, or Comcast Business has, a sports tech accelerator and we were asked to join a couple of years ago and we thought we might have been a little too big. We said, well, we've grown, we don't know that we need a tech accelerator. But they said, look, we're trying to give our partners in the space some more developed platforms and their partners are like PGA Tour, wwe, nascar, and so we signed up with. But we were very upfront with them. We said sports is not our focus market anymore. We want to work with Comcast business and they came back to us and said absolutely We'll intro you to the mothership big Comcast, join our sports tech accelerator. So we did, and great relationships out of that right We've. We now work with PGA Tour. We've got some agreements with them, working with them in a few locations, but Comcast Sports Tech did exactly what they said they would and I'll respect them forever for this, because you never know, right, like, do they really have any pull with the mothership Whatever? And so we are now fully ingrained in the Comcast business and what's called Comcast Smart Solutions, where they sell internet right, they sell connectivity and it's a commodity, but what they're using us for and a few other companies are where the value add wrappers right. So we're working with an NHL team. Right now Comcast is going to provide the Wi-Fi, the access points, but hey, guess what NHL team? We also provide mobile kiosk back of house software. There's other companies doing digital signage, iot, and so now they've got this whole ecosystem that they're taking out to their customers and we work with them, not just pro sports, but major franchise chains with 30,000 restaurants, more major hospitals, hotel chains with thousands of hotels, and so now we start going in and we've got this really strong partnership with a major player. And they had a lot of people knocking on the door and we just took the same approach Build, listen to them first, build what they want, build what their customers want, and they'll take you wherever you want to go. So that's great. It's not without its challenges, right. It's a slow process. You're building something for a multi-billion dollar company like a Comcast or an Aramark. You don't get sales overnight. You've got to dig in and you've got to understand that it's going to take time and investment. But when that flywheel gets spinning it's sure hard to slow down. Chris: Yeah, that's great, yeah, but you're right. I mean we talk about it. It doesn't happen overnight. You've talked maybe a little bit about it, but I think we also learned. I'm sure there were some mistakes made, setbacks that you and your team learned from. That also helped you later become as successful as you have been 100%. Anything that comes to mind that stands out as one of the bigger ones. Yeah. Aaron: You know, in software it can be challenging because people, customers, will just say, hey, I want this, I want it to do this, and the proper answer is do you really need it? Do you really need it to do that Other than a? Chris: programmer going sure, I can do that, yeah, and they will right. Aaron: And you could spend all the money you want. And I remember this isn't a major mistake, fortunately. But I remember we were at an NFL team and it was a customer and they said we want the ability for the app to, or the users to, pay with cash. And we're like why do you want to pay with cash? We're digital, we don't need, and they're like we have to have it. You have to have the ability to say this was a cash payment and then reconcile the end of the night. And we were like and this was a week before the season, and so we hired a couple of extra developers, we spent I don't know 50 grand to add this cache functionality. And we go back a week later and we're proud of it and we're like check it out, and you know what the team said oh man, we decided afterwards we didn't need it anyway. I wanted to strangle them. Aaron: I was going man, we jumped through hoops. You could have told us, right, yeah, you could have told us, like, when you decided you made the decision, but here we go and we built it. So you know, in the early days of a company you're really eager to please and you do have to kind of take a step back and say, look, we can't build it all, you'll go broke or you'll build need and you'll never use. That goofy function is still sitting out there somewhere attached to our platform, right just turned off, yeah like an appendix right. We don't need it and it's just there forever. That's probably one of the biggest things we learned in the early days. You know we've learned as well that I mean you've got to keep your head on a swivel for new developments in the market. You've always got to be looking at what's coming down the pipeline. You know we probably erred a little bit and not getting into kiosks earlier. When COVID hit, we thought no one's going to, no one wants a kiosk, they don't want to touch anything. Right, remember the early days we were fogging everything and the reality is kiosks are probably the biggest thing out there right now and it's a natural extension of our platform. We had the time to do it and we're getting in the game and getting in the game a good way and you know, to be fair, it's we're not worried about that first mover advantage. We've got a lot of mistakes from our competitors that we're learning from and gaining ground very quickly. But you do learn to start looking farther down the road. Right, we were maybe looking a year down the road. You've got to be looking two years down the road. What's really coming down? So now, if you look at what we're focused on biometrics, computer vision there's a lot of components that are on our roadmap or on our current integrations that we're building, that you won't even recognize our platform six months from now. Chris: Wow, that sounds pretty cool. Yeah, it's fun. So while we have some time, let's turn and talk a little bit about leadership. As you said, you kind of were the first to really step in full time. You were running a company before. How would you describe your leadership style and why do you think that style has been successful in helping Ravelry grow to the company? It's been. Aaron: Yeah, we like to hire people who take a lot of initiative on their own, who aren't afraid to go out and do something and maybe make a mistake and try it again. So you know, in the startup world or in the tech world there's a and this applies to a lot of places but you know it's hire slow and fire fast. And we hire slow and we'll fire like medium fast. You can't make everybody think they're going to get fired for making a mistake. My leadership style I'm not a micromanager. I very much. When we hire people, I say look, I'm not going to give you a book to tell you how to do your job. We're going to write this book together because we're breaking new ground every day and we're learning something new every day and I'm not going to pretend to know everything. So I'm hiring you because you're smarter than me. Hopefully. You're known for what you do and do it well. And if I'm going to teach you anything, it's going to be how this company operates and where you can find your best fit and your best purpose. You know, if it's a salesperson, where and how do they make their best fit as a salesperson. You know, if it's a salesperson, where and how do they make their best fit as a salesperson. So you know, that's been my style it's give them some autonomy, give them some ability to go out and make it their own and if you hire slow, you've got a good feel for the person, you know what they're going to be capable of and if you're comfortable with them. So that's how I've tried to lead the company. We've got you know, it hasn't always worked we've had people come and we've had people go. And then we've got some people who, just, you know, they grind it out every day for this company and they're always thinking of new ideas and their days. You go, man. You know when is this guy going to leave me? He's so good, he's bound to go find something better. And they don't and they stay and and I think that speaks to the culture and the loyalty and the environment that we've built- Well, that's certainly true, especially for those high performers. Chris: If they're staying, the reason they're staying is because of the team that they feel like they're a part of, which goes to the culture. Aaron: It does. Yeah, it does, and I'll share a little bit more on the intimate side. We're a tech company, right, and you have your ups and your downs you always do and teams come, teams go, covid happens, covid goes away. We've been through times in our history where we, you know, you're strapped for resources, you're strapped for capital, right, because you're raising venture dollars, sure, and we've let people go who have said can we work for free, like, can we still keep doing our job? We know you can't, you know, afford to have this big team. And you know, I mean I get emotional when I think about that. Sure, that we have people and it's been multiple people who've done that and you bring them back. And the goal is to bring them back. And I mean you can't buy loyalty like that. No, that's not something money buys. And so, you know, if we, as we grow, you know I know that would get harder to keep that part of the culture, but man, it's the early days. If you can just capture that magic of the stress and the trenches and have responses like that from all your employees, you know you can go out and teach a pretty good course. Chris: Yeah, yeah, absolutely Well, and get to your point. I think you know one of the goals of a company should be hire really good people, give them good opportunities, autonomy, training so that they become really good so good that they're marketable anywhere else in your industry or others, but also have a culture that's so good they don't want to leave. Yeah, Right, and if you can hit on those two things, man, it's like the key to the kingdom. Aaron: It is, it is and those people are priceless and you know our goal is down the road. If there's a big exit or something like that, I mean loyalty gets rewarded right, and you don't forget those times, because those are meaningful for business owners. Chris: Very good. That's great, man. It's great. What a cool story. I mean like seven years, yeah, it has been. So let's, we'll turn it a little bit on the lighter side. What you know growing up, what was your first job? Aaron: My dad's a large animal vet and so I was shoving the proverbial you know what. So, yeah, I worked at his vet clinic quite a bit, so it was a lot of painting, a lot of fence building a lot of you know cutting hay out in the pasture. Chris: So I was a farm boy. That's funny. So my dad was a primarily large animal and there was a big pile behind the stalls and that was one of the jobs and his partner's sons and I, yeah, I could totally relate. Exactly, that's too funny. Well, you know, not necessarily the best segue from shoveling that stuff, but I'm going to ask you do you prefer Tex-Mex or barbecue? Aaron: oh, tex-mex. All right, tex-mex. Yeah, you know it's. I've lived around the world and I you know, I know it's not exactly true, but I mean, it seems like you can find barbecue or barbecue adjacent foods almost everywhere, man, tex-mex, you just cannot find it. I mean, it's just you. There's tex-mex everywhere, but it's not Tex-Mex unless it's here. Chris: I think that's a pretty true statement. Yeah, and then the last question. I'm curious to know if you could take a sabbatical for 30 days, where would you go and what would you? Aaron: do. Oh man, if I could take a sabbatical for 30 days, you know I would go back. So we spent a lot of time as a family over in Europe and in France and in small towns. So you know there's just a, it's a part of that world. You know, if you asked me where I would go you ask a lot of people where they would go in France they'd say Paris. Paris is okay. I like the small towns, I like the history, the quietness that you get in a lot of those places. You know rivers and streams running through it. So I just found that part of the world to be especially peaceful. And if it's a sabbatical, you know that's where I prefer to be. Good food yeah, can't beat it. Good wine yeah, really good wine yeah, can't leave that part out. Chris: No, not at all. Well, aaron, this has been an amazing conversation, love and your story that you and Marshall and others have created. So thanks again for taking the time. Yeah, appreciate it, chris. Thank you, Special Guest: Aaron Knape.

Seth and Sean discuss Yuli Gurriel's return to Minute Maid last night but as a member of the Royals, the acknowledgement he got from the fans and if he's the most popular non all-star from the Astros' golden era.

HOUR 2 - Seth and Sean lay out their observations from the first real weekend of college football, give credit from the weekend where it's due in Acknowledge Me, and dive into if Yuli Gurriel is the most popular non All-Star from the Astros' golden era on the heels of his return to Minute Maid as a member of the Royals.

Seth and Sean are working on Labor Day! They discuss the Astros sweeping the Royals, how scared we should be of Colts QB Anthony Richardson, observations from week 1 of college football, give credit in Acknowledge Me, dive into Yuli's return to Minute Maid, if they're overestimating how hard the Texans' schedule is, what's next for the Astros, Andre Johnson talking CJ Stroud on the Nightcap podcast, and if Sunday will be a bloodbath between Colts and Texans.

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Rex attended his first in-person Major League game this week - his Rangers beat Craig's Astros and Rex did an okay job suppressing the urge to be a sore winner. Also this week, a look at standings going into the All-Star Break, Wander Franco may be in big trouble, Randy Hennis had a short, brilliant career for Houston and Rex has a few things to say about Globe Life's robot bartenders.For the record, in Texas' 4-2 win over Houston Sunday, Josh Sborz got out of the bases loaded, none out jam in 7 pitches in the Astros fifth. Jacob Latz needed 7 pitches to get out of a one-out, two men on jam in the 7th innings and in the frame, Kirby Yates got three outs with two men on 4 pitches.Errata: Whit Merrifield was not a Rookie of the Year, but he has been a 3-time All-Star. Five players have been suspended for prohibited gambling this season - one for life. The Astros were 65-97 in 1991. Sources - Information about the seedy Wander Franco case in Dominican Republic is here. The story on robot bartenders at Globe Life is here. -->Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/tT8d3pVUsN-->You can support Hooks & Runs by purchasing books, including the books featured in this episode, through our store at Bookshop.org. Here's the link. https://bookshop.org/shop/hooksandruns Hooks & Runs - www.hooksandruns.comHooks & Runs on TikTok -  https://www.tiktok.com/@hooksandrunsHooks & Runs on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thehooksandrunsRex von Pohl (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/people/Krazy-Karlz-Music-Emporium/100063801500293/ Hosts Emeritus:Andrew Eckhoff on Tik TokLink: https://www.tiktok.com/@hofffest Eric on FacebookLink: https://www.facebook.com/ichabodericMusic: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)     This podcast and this episode are copyright Craig Estlinbaum.

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On this episode of the MalloryBros. podcast, the guys start with a reflection on their 4th of July Weekend. Terrell tells all on his trip to the Nationals game and Terrance talks celebrating their parents birthdays. The guys start with the highlight of their 4th of July, which was the Not Like Us video dropping. They call back to their first reactions and give further thought to what's to come next. With Essence Fest facing criticism due to its attendance, Terrance starts the conversation about whether or not live events are losing interests. This leads to a conversation about Low Ticket Sales and Terrell gives an alternate point of view on some the cancellations and low numbers. The guys then give thougths on Ryan Garcia's derogatory comments toward black people. This leads to a conversation about Adam22's decision to interview one of Pop Smoke's killers. They talk his accessibility and abuse of the cultures worst. They call back to the list of things that people find annoying and "Agree to Disagree" returns. The guys conclude with movie suggestions for the week. Movie Suggestions of the Week: Terrance | "Supacell" | Netflix Terrell | "Poor Things" | Hulu

HOUR 3 - Seth and Shaun give some updates on dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, assess what kind of attendance they're expecting for tonight's Astros-Marlins game at Minute Maid, and assess which reasons would get us to excuse players from training camp.

Host Robert Land & original Host R.G. Seal ask Tal Smith about his role in the Astrodome, Astroturf, building the 1st Astros playoff team, building the 1st Astros World Series team & working with George Steinbrenner. (4:36) How Tal came to Astros? (6:27) Building Colt 45's Farm System (9:00) Joe Morgan, Larry Dierker & Jimmy Wynn's impact on franchise (12:58) Judge Roy Hofheinz, building Astrodome & creating Astroturf (20:27) 1st Astrodome Game Memories? (22:57) Feeling about Astrodome situation today? (25:36) What did Tal think about Spec Richardson after trading stars like Joe Morgan & Rusty Staub? (30:30) What was it like to work for George Steinbrenner & the Yankees? (32:35) Key moves in building Astros 1st playoff team in '80 (35:45) Remembering JR Richard's stroke in '80 (37:29) '80 Astros NLCS: Historic All-Time playoff series? (39:20) How did Tal get fired after going to playoffs in '80? McMullen relationship? (44:30) What was it like working for Drayton McLane? (48:46) Concern about Astros future in '94 & building of Minute Maid? (51:08) Tal's Hill thoughts? (54:40) Analytics Revolution? (57:05) Bringing in Jose Altuve (58:19) Best Astro of All-Time Subscribe on Youtube, Spotify, Apple & iHeart X @HSTPodcast #astrodome #astros #TalSmith

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TUESDAY HOUR 4:

Seth and Sean discuss the Astros' 13-3 loss to the Royals, Hunter Brown's struggles, and the team heading back to Minute Maid where they aren't very good so far.

This is all we need: a couple of smokes, a cup of coffee, and some good conversation. You and me and five bucks, earned at the GAP, where your friend was recently promoted while you were busy buying Rippled Pringles and cans of Minute Maid with your dad's gas card. Featuring Shrishma Naik, Carolyn Naoroz, and Justin Zeppa. Reality Bites was directed by Ben Stiller and stars Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke.We appreciate your support, so please subscribe, rate, review, and follow the show: YouTube: youtube.com/@oldmovietimemachineInstagram: @timemachinepodcasts Facebook: facebook.com/oldmovietimemachine Email: partyline@oldmovietimemachine.com Buy our luxurious merchandise: www.teepublic.com/user/old-movie-time-machine ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Silver Boot Series officially begins on Friday! #Relentless

By Davy Crockett New book on Barkley history The Barkley Marathons course (thought to be roughly 130 miles and about 63,000 feet of elevation gain) at Frozen Head State Park was the brain child of Gary Cantrell (Lazarus Lake) and Karl Henn (Rawdawg). The idea for the race was inspired upon hearing about the 1977 escape of James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., from nearby Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. The first year of the Barkley was 1986. Prior to 2024, only 17 men had finished the entire rugged course within 60 miles, and no women had ever finished. That would change this year. Let's let Jared Beasley tell the story in his article: Barkley 2024: A Bit Traumatic and Wonderful in Ultrarunning Magazine. Subscribe or renew your subscription to Ultrarunning Magazine with a 25% discount which support Ultrarunning History. Use this form. The Barkley 2024 was predictable: after three finishers last year, no one was expected to make it to the fifth loop. The course would be toughened up. But what unfolded was something altogether different and soon we were dealing with a rash of firsts, tattoos, a Rusty Spoon, a photo gone round the world and an Italian painting from 1603. By 4 a.m. on Friday morning, almost 48 hours after the race began, Jasmin Paris was sitting in a camping chair in a small pool of light near a metal gate attached to a stone pillar. This gate has come to embody the most challenging test in ultrarunning. It's a test that Paris has been battling for years. Items litter the ground in front of her: an empty Coke bottle, a half-full Coke bottle, a gallon of Minute Maid and a pint of oat milk. Read the rest of Jared Beasley's article here. Learn about the early history of the Barkley Marathons Barkley Marathons - The Birth Barkley Marathons - First Few Years Video: Barkley Marathons - The First Year 1986  

Hosts Robert Land & Stephen Kerr look at the Texans Day 2 of Free Agency - the additions of Joe Mixon, Azeez Al-Shaair, Noah Brown, Tommy Townsend, Del'Shawn Phillips & Mike Ford. Did the Texans miss out on Derrick Henry & Devin Singletary? Is there hope for Danielle Hunter & Arik Armstead? We hit on the big questions, hit on Framber's change of course, Roger Clemens & Roy Oswalt's return to Minute Maid & the Coogs clinching the Big 12 & destroying the Kansas Jayhawks.(1:26) Azeez Al-Shaair better than Blake Cashman?(3:45) Was Joe Mixon good trade?(8:30) Surprise about Devin Singletary miss?(9:07) Texans interested in Danielle Hunter?(10:18) Noah Brown re-signs!(11:00) Who are Del'Shawn Phillips & Mike Ford?(12:20) Is Texans new punter better or worse?(15:10) Big picture Texans after Day 2 of Free Agency?(17:15) Framber Valdez changes course on pitch calling?(19:02) Roger Clemens & Roy Oswalt pitch at Minute Maid again!(21:38) UH Cougars finish historic Big 12 season(25:09) Jamal Shead's gets major honors & Coog point guard traditionSubscribe on Youtube, Spotify, Apple, iHeart & GoogleTiktok @HoustonSportsTalkRobertX @HSTPodcast #texans #nflfreeagency #joemixon #azeez #astros #rogerclemens #royoswalt #gocoogs #forthecity

Charles and Dan recap the weekend in Houston, as LSU takes all three games. One more non conference weekend remains, as the Tigers face Southeastern on Wednesday and Xavier on the weekend.

What will the Astros do this offseason? How creative will Dana Brown get? Htown Wheelhouse has a couple names to talk about as well the Astros new Entertainment facility that is set to be built right next to Minute Maid Park. A mega entertainment facility.Locked On Astros, the daily podcast about the Houston Astros, hosted by Eric Huysman and Brett Chancey, is part of the Locked On Podcast Network.Be sure to subscribe to Locked On Astros on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and come back every weekday morning and spend your morning commute listening to the latest Astros news and notes. Thanks for listening, and tell your friends!We now have a YouTube channel as well, so go subscribe to that as well and get us to 20k subscribers! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9fXhBb2-ZTiPwk7WNwYjzQhttps://linktr.ee/LockedOnAstrosFollow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms…

What will the Astros do this offseason? How creative will Dana Brown get? Htown Wheelhouse has a couple names to talk about as well the Astros new Entertainment facility that is set to be built right next to Minute Maid Park. A mega entertainment facility. Locked On Astros, the daily podcast about the Houston Astros, hosted by Eric Huysman and Brett Chancey, is part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Be sure to subscribe to Locked On Astros on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and come back every weekday morning and spend your morning commute listening to the latest Astros news and notes. Thanks for listening, and tell your friends! We now have a YouTube channel as well, so go subscribe to that as well and get us to 20k subscribers! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9fXhBb2-ZTiPwk7WNwYjzQ https://linktr.ee/LockedOnAstros Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms…

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An Adolis Garcia Grand Slam in the top of the 9th inning put to bed any hopes that the Astros had of leaving Minute Maid with their World Series tickets stamped. Jake and Jordan break down all the action from the game, and look ahead to tonight's Game 7 which will see a rusty Max Scherzer face Cristian Javier. Then, the guys marvel at Zack Wheeler's performance in Game 5 of the NLCS, which saw the Phillies win 6-1 and take a 3-2 series lead, and preview tonight's Game 6.  Merch Link: podswag.com/baseball

Will the Aggies allow Jimbo Fisher to continue losing SEC games and ranked games?We tease the Astros GAME 7... make a small preview... we will follow up the Rangers series next episode!

The Minnesota Twins are back in town and primed to take control of the ALDS against the Astros. In this edition of Locked On Twins, Brandon breaks down the first two games, takes a look across the rest of the playoff landscape and even gets some fans involved at the end of the show. Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms…

The Minnesota Twins are back in town and primed to take control of the ALDS against the Astros. In this edition of Locked On Twins, Brandon breaks down the first two games, takes a look across the rest of the playoff landscape and even gets some fans involved at the end of the show.Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms…

HOUR 4 - Seth and Sean discuss Robert Saleh still selling the Jets and listen back to the various reactions to Aaron Rodgers injury, wonder if batters' eye plays a part in why they've been so bad at Minute Maid, and Seth lays out what he saw after combing through the all-22 footage of the Texans most recent loss in Baltimore.

Don't you wish you had a week like Ronald Acuña Jr.? Most of it, anyway – probably not the part that requires the update of NCiB Stadium Rules.. Miggy passes more all-time milestones and Triston chips away at the Rookie marks. TJ Friedl has no walk-up song for a reason that makes us like him even more. New guys are coming up all over the place this time of year. BOS's Wilyer Abreu debuts at Minute Maid, where he thought he'd be an Astro. NYY's Jasson Dominguez debuts with a homer off of Verlander. Our Police Blotter update the Wander Franco debacle with girl #3. Patti explains last week's waiver madness, LAA's plan, and the failure thereof. Pottymouth looks at Spanish language broadcasting in MLB and wonder why WAS is not part of that. It's Ladies Night if you want to get your nails done, but maybe not if you  want to learn more about women in baseball. And hey, COVID's back - four CIN pitchers are out.We say “Like a guy-Cougar,” “We're going to start colonizing things any time now,” and “We have no ‘ladies' cred.” Fight the man, send your game balls to Meredith, and find us on Twitter @ncibpodcast, on Facebook @nocryinginbball, Instagram @nocryinginbball and on the Interweb at nocryinginbball.com. Please take a moment to subscribe to the show, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to NCiB. Become a supporter at Patreon to help us keep doing what we do. Say goodnight, Pottymouth.

Tom and Julie watch clips of Robert Loggia being interviewed about the famous Minute Maid commercial, Eddie Murphy confirming Sammy Davis Jr's Satanism, and steampunk rapper Professor Elemental. Plus Producer Brett pitches Monster Uber and Tom and Julie get the latest updates on Little Lord Watchalong. Also the movie where Brian Cranston hides in the garage and spies on his family, do ducks prefer the bread after it get wet, Abel Ferrara as Rumpelstiltskin, Krispy Kreme donuts, Midnight Train to Georgia, Jonathan Richman in Something About Mary, Frank Sinatra was the biggest snowflake, the Boston Cream Pie Strangler, and much more. CLIPS FROM THIS EPISODE *Robert Loggia Talks abt Minute Maid Commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5f6ABDdnIM *Eddie Murphy on Sammy Davis Jr's Satanism https://youtu.be/uMHl7yz93ho?t=94 *Steampunk Rapper Professor Elemental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iRTB-FTMdk SUPPORT DOUBLE THREAT ON PATREON Weekly Bonus Episodes, Monthly Livestreams, Video Episodes, and More! https://www.patreon.com/DoubleThreatPod BUY JULIE'S NEW SONG "SILENCE" ON BANDCAMP https://julieklausner.bandcamp.com/track/silence WATCH THE "SILENCE" MUSIC VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY9DSQJN_yU WATCH VIDEO CLIPS OF DOUBLE THREAT https://www.youtube.com/@doublethreatpod JOIN THE DOUBLE THREAT FAN GROUPS *Discord https://discord.com/invite/PrcwsbuaJx *Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/doublethreatfriends *Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/doublethreatfriends DOUBLE THREAT MERCH https://www.teepublic.com/stores/double-threat TOTALLY EFFED UP T-SHIRTS https://www.teepublic.com/user/dttfu SEND SUBMISSIONS TO DoubleThreatPod@gmail.com FOLLOW DOUBLE THREAT https://twitter.com/doublethreatpod https://www.instagram.com/doublethreatpod DOUBLE THREAT IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/double-threat Theme song by Mike Krol Artwork by Michael Kupperman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Singleton?? JV returns to Minute Maid as an Astros & the guys give you the good, bad and ugly from the weekend.

JV first start back in Houston tonight, the wheel of bits & more this hour of The Killer B's

The Coca-Cola Company is no rookie when it comes to brand licensing…that is unless we are talking about the kid from the Rookie of the Year movie. Heck…The Coca-Cola Company is basically an elaborate licensing company when you realize about two-thirds of its total revenue are generated by "concentrate sales" aka licensing of its secret ingredients in syrup form. But that's neither here nor there, because ole Henry Rowengartner got something new up his sleeve. The Coca-Cola Company can be seen pretty much everywhere in the grocery store, right? Well…add the produce section to the list because the beverage CPG giant is entering into a licensing deal with an agricultural company to leverage the Minute Maid and Simply logos on select items. While the licensing revenue will help the petty cash fund grow…I think a bigger win is if this strategy helps boost branded juice sales. FOLLOW ME ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS LINKEDIN - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaschallmba⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TWITTER - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitter.com/joshua_schall⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ INSTAGRAM - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joshua_schall⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FACEBOOK - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/jschallconsulting --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joshua-schall/support

Alex and Kevin are perplexed by the amount of pasta dumped in the northern New Jersey woods and try to get to the bottom of one of Twitter's hottest stories, which happens the be the most Jersey story ever. They also talk about the Writers Strike, Zuck and Bezos, Jared Leto bringing back the cat outfit, The Browns Logo competition, L.L Bean taking the month off for Mental Health Awareness, Fall Out Boy's CRYNYL, the Sundance Rebrand, Minute Maid, https://fckoatly.com/tik-toxic and more!

The Rangers make a statement in Minute Maid. One new Astro is worthy of a keeping a concerned eye on. Yordan Alvarez is a god playing a man's game, but can he crack the MVP conversation?