Podcasts about MT

This Week’s Callers Caller 1: Nathan Mudhorn Gladiator talks about CA Tire Laws Caller 2: FU Bob talks more about Casey’s Pizza and BoJo’s Pizza Caller 3/4: Richard from Atlanta gives us a Shit I can’t stand. Caller 5/6: Kevin from TX gives his feedback on Wolfbox customer service Caller 7:Nick from MT talks about Man Purses Join Our Discord: https://discord.gg/yFyFFkQbuyCome hang out with us on the SnailTrail4x4 Discord — it’s the easiest way to connect with Tyler and Jimmy directly, chat with fellow off-road enthusiasts, and get first access to Group Buys and Treasure Hunt token drops. CALL US AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL!!!! We want to hear from you even more!!! You can call and say whatever you like! Ask a question, leave feedback, correct some information about welding, say how much you hate your Jeep, and wish you had a Toyota! We will air them all, live, on the podcast! +01-916-345-4744. An alternative method would be sending us an email at Jimmy@snailtrail4x4.com or at Tyler@snailtrail4x4.com. You can also find us on Instagram at SnailTrail4x4 or 4x4ToyotaTyler Listener Discount Codes: SnailTrail4x4 –SnailTrail15 for 15% off SnailTrail4x4 MerchMORRFlate – snailtraill4x4 to get 10% off MORRFlate Multi Tire Inflation Deflation™ Kits4WheelUnderground – snailtrail 10% offIceco – SnailTrail 12% offRUSOH Fire Extinguishers – RusohCrawlers discount code gets you 12% offIronman 4×4 – snailtrail20 to get 20% off all Ironman 4×4 branded equipment!Sidetracked Offroad – snailtrail4x4 (lowercase) to get 15% off lights and recovery gearSpartan Rope – snailtrail4x4 to get 10% off sitewideShock Surplus – SNAILTRAIL4x4 to get $25 off any order!Mob Armor – SNAILTRAIL4X4 for 15% offSummerShine Supply – ST4x4 for 10%Backpacker’s Pantry – AffiliateLaminx Protective Films – Use the Link to get 20% off all products (Affiliate Link)

Joe's Premium Subscription: www.standardgrain.comGrain Markets and Other Stuff Links —Apple PodcastsSpotifyTikTokYouTubeFutures and options trading involves risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone.

The last time BYU football defeated TCU in Fort Worth was in 2006. One player on that BYU team is current defensive coordinator Kelly Poppinga. He shared his memories of that game as BYU prepares to take on the Horned Frogs on Saturday in Cowtown. This is a news update that aired on KSL NewsRadio. You can listen to the daily Cougar Tracks updates on KSL NewsRadio at 5:55 a.m., 7:55 a.m, 3:55 p.m., and 5:55 p.m. on 102.7 FM, 1160 AM, and the KSL NewsRadio app. Subscribe to the Cougar Tracks Podcast sponsored by Zions Bank to stay up-to-date with all the daily episodes. Cougar Tracks is on YouTube every weekday at Noon (MT), and KSL NewsRadio at 6:30 p.m. (MT). Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cougar-tracks/id1146971609 YouTube Podcast: https://kslsports.com/category/podcast_results/?sid=2035&n=Cougar%20Tracks Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NCF1KecDsE2rB1zMuHhUh Download the KSL Sports app Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonneville.kslsports&hl=en_US  iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ksl-sports/id143593 Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for KSLsports.com and hosts the Cougar Tracks Podcast daily on KSL Sports YouTube and KSL NewsRadio (SUBSCRIBE). Harper also co-hosts Cougar Sports Saturday (12–3 p.m.) on KSL NewsRadio. Follow Mitch’s coverage of BYU athletics in the Big 12 Conference on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram: @Mitch_Harper. Want more coverage of BYU sports? Take us with you wherever you go. Download the new and improved KSL Sports app from Utah’s sports leader. Allows you to stream live radio and video, keeping you up-to-date on all your favorite teams.

It's game day eve. KSL Sports BYU Insider Mitch Harper delivers a comprehensive breakdown of everything you need to know before No. 10 BYU (3-0) travels to Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas, to take on TCU (2-2) on Saturday, October 3. Kickoff is set for 5 p.m. MT on ESPN, Disney+, & KSL NewsRadio. Mitch dives into the key stats, trends, and storylines entering this Big 12 matchup. You'll also hear from BYU defensive coordinator Kelly Poppinga, who reflects on the last time BYU defeated TCU in Ft. Worth in 2006. Will BYU get their first win over TCU in Cowtown in 20 years? Mitch gives his score prediction as BYU looks to improve to 4-0 for the third consecutive year. He also shares BYU football players he is intrigued to watch in this matchup. Subscribe to the Cougar Tracks Podcast sponsored by Zions Bank to stay up-to-date with all the daily episodes. Cougar Tracks is on YouTube every weekday at Noon (MT), and KSL NewsRadio at 6:30 p.m. (MT). Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cougar-tracks/id1146971609 YouTube Podcast: https://kslsports.com/category/podcast_results/?sid=2035&n=Cougar%20Tracks Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NCF1KecDsE2rB1zMuHhUh Download the KSL Sports app Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonneville.kslsports&hl=en_US  iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ksl-sports/id143593 Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for KSLsports.com and hosts the Cougar Tracks Podcast daily on KSL Sports YouTube and KSL NewsRadio (SUBSCRIBE). Harper also co-hosts Cougar Sports Saturday (12–3 p.m.) on KSL NewsRadio. Follow Mitch’s coverage of BYU athletics in the Big 12 Conference on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram: @Mitch_Harper. Want more coverage of BYU sports? Take us with you wherever you go. Download the new and improved KSL Sports app from Utah’s sports leader. Allows you to stream live radio and video, keeping you up-to-date on all your favorite teams.

This week we are joined by twitch streamer, MT!MT is a Toronto-based streamer and content creator who has built a strong community through gaming, IRL streams and his passion for creating.We get into the journey behind the scenes — the late nights, early mornings, edits, planning and sacrifices that come with building something from the ground up and perfecting your craft.We also talk about representing Toronto as creators, putting on for our city and showcasing the talent and culture that comes from here.Be sure to like, comment and subscribe! TIME STAMPS:0:00 - 7:35 - How MT got into streaming and deciding that career path7:36 - 15:24 - MT on when he realized streaming could be an actual career and the support15:25 - 20:15 - Misconception of content creation and habits that hes build20:16 - 24:01 - The importance of having the maturity with a platform24:02 - 26:35 - American creators vs Canadian creators 26:36 - 29:00 - MT's Attack squad community 29:01 - 34:02 - Funniest moment on stream and the change of support in Toronto34:03 - 35:32 - The importance of positivity 35:33 - 40:00 - streamer University application 40:01 - 42:33 - What has MT's mind changed in regards to streaming 42:34 - 44:45 - MT on balancing a career and a relationship if it's possible to do both44:46 - 47:10 - Best piece of advice MT received and dream collabs 47:11 - 50:26 - OUTRO

In this episode, we find out how many Mike's are too many without Jesse, who is out sick. Mike Gio and Mike Sterk look at the hobby values of the players who won so far in the MLB Playoffs. Plus, Mike and Mike share their misery about the Red Sox and Cubs being out. Looking at the Mantle and Ohtani markets. Then we are joined by Michael Katz from Trove, making it four Mikes on the show. We get his hobby backstory and his Mt. Rushmore of Boston Sports. We wrap up with the news that Larry is confirmed to be coming to town, which begs the question: should Sterk and Brendan come as well? 0:00-Intro + MLB Playoffs 8:00 - Looking at the hobby value of playoff winners 13:30 - Mantle vs. Ohtani in the market 24:00 - Michael Katz interview, CEO/Founder of Trove 33:05 - What was his education process getting back in the hobby? 45:00 - Boston Sports Mt. Rushmore 48:55 - Mike hits Gio about his eBay Live 1:07:30 - Gio has no interest in Nate Bargatze coming on the show 1:12:15 - Sterk wants to buy PSA 8s vs. Raw Follow Sports Cards Nonsense: https://www.tiktok.com/@sportscardsnonsense https://www.instagram.com/sports_cards_nonsense/ https://x.com/SCN_Pod https://www.facebook.com/groups/sportscardsnonsense https://collectibleslife.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://scnchallenge.com/ https://linktr.ee/SportsCardsNonsense?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=5764ed98-4893-4eae-bf91-0bd89949ed99 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jackson is NOT in mourning. Gold is a tough color for a pale fan. Doug's losing it. Everybody's talking WNBA. Stacking the show. Doug's rooting for the White Sox. Victory lap from Tim's MLB playoff parlay. Tim makes picks, we make money. What a lil' champion. Today starts text name change week. First thing you do is find a Sizzler. Congrats to Shooter McGavin for winning a garage door. Poor Kevin Miller. Lisa is on the line and wants to congratulate Jackson on his promotion. Lisa gets fired up about Oli Marmol. TBO: The Burkett Opinion. Doggies are handing out free money. Clean sheet. Robert Thomas at 9:00. Hypocriful.Feels like a Funky Thursday. Has Martin started watching Eastbound & Down? Jackson declares Danny McBride the funniest person of the 21st century. What's in that bag? A barrel of crypto for Doug. Audio of our guy Hunter Brody pontificating on the Braves/Phillies game. Central casting for Philly sports talk radio. Audio of an unhappy Sonny Grab talking about being pulled early from last night's game. Somebody needs to blow their nose.Is this The Neutron Dance? Use your hand on Jackson and you get what you want. A fraud and a hypocrite. Stop trying to make hypocriful work. Friend of the show, Mike McGreevy hops on the phone lines with us. Moving day for Mike. Preparing to drive to Southern California. No rooting for Texas Tech. Giving us a breakdown of his 2026 season. His velocity. Pitch counts. Starting pitchers in the postseason. Growing up a Padres fan. Moving company's there, he's gotta go (or he didn't like Doug's question).Mt. Rushmore of Oakland artists. What makes something Oakland Funk? The Ice Guardians podcast. Wanna see Chaser's Number 39 hanging the rafters at Enterprise Center. Martin's not sure that's in play. Latest from Ross Dellenger's latest on the expanding College Football Playoff. Doubling of the postseason a "foregone conclusion." Logistics of the proposed 24 team playoff. Stakeholders. That pervert is fourth.Blues captain, Robert Thomas joins us from Austin. Doing a little team bonding before the season gets going tomorrow night. Shots fired at Tim's golf game. We ask Robert about the expectations for the Blues and the areas of improvement that they will try to focus on early in the season. Robert also talks about some of the young guys, including Dalibor Dvorský, and some of the advice he can give. Bad Mamma Jamma. Lil Kim and Foxy Brown. Some nerve on Robert Thomas bringing up Tim's golf game. Frankly it's uncalled for. Right again, GOAT. More audio from our favorite new guy, Hunter Brody. Hunter was made for The Sopranos. What'd you think of Tim's plays on The Spread Zone. Doesn't sound like Doug's interested. Jackson loves Clemson this weekend. Audio of Josh Pate giving his thoughts on the Mizzou/Florida game. A Ramen Noodle Express. Doug doesn't have a good feeling about Mizzou.Continuing the Funky Thursday here on 101 ESPN. The city's going crazy for it. A DiCaprio-esque delivery.Some schedule clarity from Martin. The Veiled Prophet is on the phone lines with a Doggies report. Prophet says the game was closer than the score would lead you to believe. Lots of excitement and anticipation around City right now. Cuban sandwiches. Winning this baby is possible. Don't say table. Or fixtures. Or grounds. Or pitch.Design Aire Heating & Cooling EMOTDWe've covered it all. McGreevy's got quite the drive in front of him. The Oregon Trail. How far would you drive for a chicken finger? How about them White Sox? Audio of Mike Vasil's post game interview from the celebration. Erick Fedde got a little time last night. Herb's ex.Do more people know Rick James from Superfreak or Chappelle Show? Accidental heart attacks. More audio from Murakami's celebration last night. DId Mike Vasil win a contest to get on the team? Audio of Brandon Walker talking Mizzou/Florida and he's down on the Gators. Nick Saban on First Take talking about the value of coaches vs. the value of players. Coaches' buyouts.And the winner of the EMOTD is...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

(00:00-20:17) Mt. Rushmore of Oakland artists. What makes something Oakland Funk? The Ice Guardians podcast. Wanna see Chaser's Number 39 hanging the rafters at Enterprise Center. Martin's not sure that's in play. Latest from Ross Dellenger's latest on the expanding College Football Playoff. Doubling of the postseason a "foregone conclusion." Logistics of the proposed 24 team playoff. Stakeholders. That pervert is fourth.(20:25-39:37) Blues captain, Robert Thomas joins us from Austin. Doing a little team bonding before the season gets going tomorrow night. Shots fired at Tim's golf game. We ask Robert about the expectations for the Blues and the areas of improvement that they will try to focus on early in the season. Robert also talks about some of the young guys, including Dalibor Dvorský, and some of the advice he can give. (39:47-1:00:45) Bad Mamma Jamma. Lil Kim and Foxy Brown. Some nerve on Robert Thomas bringing up Tim's golf game. Frankly it's uncalled for. Right again, GOAT. More audio from our favorite new guy, Hunter Brody. Hunter was made for The Sopranos. What'd you think of Tim's plays on The Spread Zone. Doesn't sound like Doug's interested. Jackson loves Clemson this weekend. Audio of Josh Pate giving his thoughts on the Mizzou/Florida game. A Ramen Noodle Express. Doug doesn't have a good feeling about Mizzou.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In hour two, Crowder's take on how the Dolphins can counter the blitz vs. Minnesota. Hoch has never had a Chicken Tender Pub Sub. Trying to figure out the all-time Mt. Rushmore of South Florida sports athletes & we find another reason to not like Nick Saban.

The bye week is over, and No. 10 BYU heads to Fort Worth with a long list of injuries. KSL Sports BYU Insider Mitch Harper opens Thursday's show with the first availability report for Saturday's game against TCU. BYU will be without eight players. Mitch breaks down the key personnel who won't be available for the Cougars. Next, Mitch turns to basketball. With practice underway, he breaks down Kevin Young's 2026-27 roster in year three. The roster now runs through point guard Rob Wright III, and keeping him was the most important move of BYU's offseason. Wright entered the transfer portal in April, visited other schools, and then came back to Provo for his junior season. He was later named the program's "Cougar of the Summer." Mitch also gives his Week 5 Big 12 Football predictions. Then, he closes out the show talking with BYU football defensive back/return specialist Cannon DeVries. Subscribe to the Cougar Tracks Podcast, sponsored by Zions Bank, to stay up to date with all the daily episodes. Cougar Tracks is on YouTube every weekday at Noon (MT), and KSL NewsRadio at 6:30 p.m. (MT). Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cougar-tracks/id1146971609 YouTube Podcast: https://kslsports.com/category/podcast_results/?sid=2035&n=Cougar%20Tracks Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NCF1KecDsE2rB1zMuHhUh Download the KSL Sports app Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonneville.kslsports&hl=en_US  iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ksl-sports/id143593 Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for KSLsports.com and hosts the Cougar Tracks Podcast daily on KSL Sports YouTube and KSL NewsRadio (SUBSCRIBE). Harper also co-hosts Cougar Sports Saturday (12–3 p.m.) on KSL NewsRadio. Follow Mitch’s coverage of BYU athletics in the Big 12 Conference on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram: @Mitch_Harper. Want more coverage of BYU sports? Take us with you wherever you go. Download the new and improved KSL Sports app from Utah’s sports leader. Allows you to stream live radio and video, keeping you up-to-date on all your favorite teams.

BYU football continues preparations for the TCU Horned Frogs on Saturday in Ft. Worth. It's an intriguing game: the Horned Frogs have talent, but they have clearly underachieved so far this season, starting 2-2 and going 0-2 against Power 4 competition. KSL Sports BYU insider Mitch Harper asks: Would a BYU win put TCU coach Sonny Dykes on the hot seat? Dykes has a lot of respect for Kalani Sitake and the BYU football program heading into the Week 5 Big 12 clash in Cowtown. Mitch also caught up with BYU offensive line coach TJ Woods to discuss the outlook at right tackle with Andrew Gentry out with an injury. Then, finally, the latest on the recruiting trail as BYU jumps into the mix for some notable Junior College football recruits in the secondary for the class of 2027. Subscribe to the Cougar Tracks Podcast, sponsored by Zions Bank, to stay up to date with all the daily episodes. Cougar Tracks is on YouTube every weekday at Noon (MT), and KSL NewsRadio at 6:30 p.m. (MT). Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cougar-tracks/id1146971609 YouTube Podcast: https://kslsports.com/category/podcast_results/?sid=2035&n=Cougar%20Tracks Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NCF1KecDsE2rB1zMuHhUh Download the KSL Sports app Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonneville.kslsports&hl=en_US  iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ksl-sports/id143593 Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for KSLsports.com and hosts the Cougar Tracks Podcast daily on KSL Sports YouTube and KSL NewsRadio (SUBSCRIBE). Harper also co-hosts Cougar Sports Saturday (12–3 p.m.) on KSL NewsRadio. Follow Mitch’s coverage of BYU athletics in the Big 12 Conference on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram: @Mitch_Harper. Want more coverage of BYU sports? Take us with you wherever you go. Download the new and improved KSL Sports app from Utah’s sports leader. Allows you to stream live radio and video, keeping you up-to-date on all your favorite teams.

Mt 18, 1,5.10: Yo les aseguro a ustedes que, si no cambian y se hacen como niños, no entrarán en el Reino de los Cielos. ¿Cuál es la profunda razón que explica esta enseñanza? La dependencia, el abandono. Es reconocer que nada somos sin la gracia. “La santidad no consiste en esta o aquella práctica, consiste en una disposición del corazón que nos hace humildes y pequeños entre los brazos de Dios, conscientes de nuestra debilidad y confiados hasta la audacia en su bondad de Padre” (Santa Teresa de Lisieux).

Minikatechese zu den Lesungen am 26. Sonntag im Jahreskreis 2026:Jes 5,1-7/ Phil 4,6-9 / Mt 21,33-42.44.43 von Dr. Nina Heereman‎Follow the MiniKat channel on WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaBXJsPHbFUztdLxfT2C

Time for Sports Graffiti! Mason, Ireland, Mychal Thompson, and Pepe Mantilla dive into the USC Trojans and how hot the seat is for Lincoln Riley. The crew is joined by Rams Head Coach, Sean McVay! MT asks McVay the hard hitting question. Can the Rams expect Puka to be back on Sunday? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Originally built in the 3rd century BCE, the ancient Greek theater of Taormina is the second largest Greek theater in Sicily after Siracusa. Constructed against the natural slope of Mt. Taurus, the structure can accommodate up to10,000 spectators and offers spectacular views of the Ionian Sea and Mt. Etna. It is still used today for musical performances and film festivals.

Like all animals, horses need energy to survive. That energy comes from fuel, which is why many health issues focus on what horses eat—grains, hay, supplements, and treats are all fuels we can see and buy. We often ignore how well a horse's cells turn fuel into energy, since we can't see the process or buy a quick fix. We tend to focus on taking action, usually by giving something, rather than changing how we keep them. But for hundreds of thousands of years, horses have adapted to survive on very little fuel when needed. In this podcast, we talk about why horses need their cell engines—the mitochondria, or MT—to stay flexible in how they use different fuels. Today, horses often get the same type of fuel all the time, which can cause their MT to get stuck. Just like a car engine that loses power, adding more fuel or supplements won't restore full power if the engine itself isn't working right. Timestamps: 0:00 - How do hay, water, and air make a horse move? 1:28 - Insulin resistance/dysregulation is a distraction from the actual cause of EMS (Equine Metabolic Syndrome). 2:40 - The Cell has an energy budget. 3:30 - What makes a horse thrive? 5:00 - Adding food or supplements can't cause the horse to make more energy. 6:15 - First-principles thinking about energy production in horses. 6:50 - Mitochondrial flexibility. 8:23 - Fructose is unlike glucose in that it drains energy. 9:29 - Body fat is a system that buffers energy use and can also get stuck. 10:10 - Mitochondria manage energy production in several ways. 10:50 - Summary of the energy budget. 12:40 - Mitochondrial flexibility is critical for the horse's health. 14:05 - The Laws of Thermodynamics are the physics behind biology. 15:35 - How can "sugar" be required for life, but also blamed for all diseases? ******************************* #horses #veterinary #horseteeth #horsecare #equinedentistry Join us at The Horses Advocate Community page: https://community.thehorsesadvocate.com/yt Dentistry: https://theequinepractice.com/ Horsemanship Dentistry School: https://www.horsemanshipdentistryschool.com/c/information/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheHorsesAdvocate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/horsesadvocate/ Geoff Tucker is a veterinarian and horseman who has worked with horses since 1973, earning his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University in 1984. Geoff went from mucking stalls as a farmhand to starting his own equine practice. He advocates for horses by educating owners through his extensive experience, emphasizing dentistry, horsemanship, nutrition, and more.

This episode is brought to you by the 34th Annual Biketoberfest   Our bike review this episode is the Yamaha MT-03. Do not underestimate this bike; you get a lot of motorcycle for your money! Associate Editor Kelly Callan rode the smallest MT for several weeks, and that included commuting on it. One of the things that impressed her, was how the MT-03 acted like a larger motorcycle. Kelly also spent some time chasing Editor Don Williams through the canyons when he was on the Yamaha MT-07—obviously a much larger machine. She tells us about how it all went. *  *  *  *  * We're closing in fast on the 34th annual Biketoberfest, October 15–18, when all roads will lead to Teddy Morse's Destination Daytona—the more than 100-acre motorcycle playground in Ormond Beach Florida. This week we get to hear all about it from Teddy Morse himself. With his trademark high energy and enthusiasm, he tells us all about his recently established Triketoberfest that happens the week before, and how the Destination Daytona complex turns into a full-throttle hub of demo rides, vendors, custom builds, live music, food trucks, shops, and nonstop pavilion energy. So, whether you're on two wheels or three, whether you're hunting parts or lining up a test ride; grab a cold one and soak up the energy and gorgeous Florida fall weather. This is one of the many Daytona Beach places where Biketoberfest feels like home. So don't forget: make sure you download the Biketoberfest mobile App from Apple or Google Play or visit www.biketoberfest.org and we'll see you there! *  *  *  *  * Our guest this episode is Greg Arnold, Mecum's motorcycle auction director. He bought his first bike at eleven, joined the company in 2011, and has spent more than a decade helping turn this incredible event into the place collectors, consignors, and dreamers all show up. Next February 3rd through 6th, Mecum will—for the 36th time, bring the world's largest vintage motorcycle auction back to South Point, Las Vegas. That's over two thousand bikes over four days. Board-track racers, barn finds, customs, race iron, and especially, those incredible machines that make the room go quiet. Greg gives us insight into what it takes to make this event work so incredibly well, and if you're interested in selling your pride and joy, what steps you have to take to make it happen. *  *  *  *  * Here's quick reminder to check out our monthly digital magazine. It's filled with everything you want to read on motorcycling, including some things you've probably not seen elsewhere. It's absolutely free and you will find it on the Apple App Store and of course on Google Play as well. Don't forget to leave us your comments on our social media—we're on all the usual platforms at Ultimate Motorcycling. We love hearing your feedback… so good or bad, please let us know what you think. If there's something you'd like us to cover, we'd love to hear those ideas too!   @ultimatemotorcycling  @UltimateMotoMag  @UltimateMotorcycling  producer@ultimatemotorcycling.com

Welcome back to the Dirt Diaries! We are staying in Pompeii this week as we look at what may be the last offering left before the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. And new studies also show that the eruption wasn't the only thing going on!But while reports have always stated the eruption occurred on August 24, 79, is that true? Well, a charcoal finding may change that!For this, I'm bringing in the help of a professional, Dr. Caitie Barrett, an archaeologist whose focus highlights the everyday lives of people and the cross-cultural exchange between Egypt and the larger Greco-Roman world. She currently serves as co-director of the Casa della Regina Carolina (CRC) Project, a joint Italian/American excavation project at the site of Pompeii. As a National Geographic Explorer, she hopes to capture the profound human aspects of Pompeii before the eruption, as seen in National Geographic's series Pompeii: Out of Time, streaming now. For more from Dr. Barrett, follow her on Instagram: @caitie_barrettCheck out her National Geographic Explorer page: https://explorers.nationalgeographic.org/directory/caitie-barrettFor more on her project she is co-directing: https://blogs.cornell.edu/crcpompeii/See her in action now on Pompeii: Out of Time, streaming now.-Stay curiousTravel with me, my socials, and more!https://beacons.ai/dirtdiaries.tenn

Join the Conversation at 303-477-5600 or text 307-200-8222. Monday-Friday, 3 p.m.- 6 p.m. MT. https://RushToReason.com HOUR 1 George Markert - The Power Struggle: Inside the Race That Could Redefine Colorado. John and Andy dive into Colorado's high-stakes governor's race with George Markert, running mate to Victor Marks. Markert's 30-year Marine Corps legacy and bold vision set the tone for sweeping change. Hear why he joined the ticket—and what he'd do differently when it counts. Get the inside scoop on ICE, crime, housing affordability, and the regulations driving up your costs. Markert tackles tough questions on policing, government spending, and how faith shapes leadership in the governor's race. Plus, discover the campaign's first-100-days plan, including the bold moves Markert says will shake up Colorado's future. Guest 1:27 — George Markert — https://victor2026.com Website Mentioned https://coloradoworksbetter.org HOUR 2 UFOs, Fallen Angels, the Hidden War: Are We Missing the Real Story? / Tim Bennett - CD7. Derrick Warfel, creator of UFOs and God, throws out the rulebook on UFOs, arguing they're not aliens, but evidence of spiritual deception and ancient battles still raging today. Could those strange lights in the sky be part of a hidden war? John and Andy dig into the supernatural side of the unknown. Then Colorado CD7 candidate Tim Bennett joins the show to discuss his 30-year Army background, healthcare, housing costs, government spending, environmental policy, and his differences with incumbent Brittany Pettersen. The hour wraps up with a head-to-head on the governor's race, unpacking how competing campaigns would rewrite Colorado's future. Guests 1:59 — Derrick Warfel — https://ufosandgod.com Book: https://ufosandgodbook.com 23:08 — Tim Bennett — https://TimBennettForCongress.com HOUR 3 Border Battles, Skyrocketing Bills & the Government's Secret Playbook Hitting Your Wallet. John Rush and Andy Peth kick off with a heated debate on border security and immigration, revealing what's really at stake with government policy. John lays out a vision for a smarter, merit-based system that could change everything. Cyrus Western, EPA Region 8 Administrator, takes on the hot-button issues of energy costs and environmental rules. Hear what he says about balancing clean air with affordable power, and how new regulations could impact your bottom line. The hour closes with a hard-hitting look at the governor's race, where immigration, energy prices, and political power collide. Don't miss this fast-paced finale, because what happens next could change Colorado. Guest 29:45 — Cyrus Western — EPA Region 8 Administrator

Join the Conversation at 303-477-5600 or text 307-200-8222. Monday-Friday, 3 p.m.- 6 p.m. MT. https://RushToReason.com HOUR 1 George Markert - The Power Struggle: Inside the Race That Could Redefine Colorado. John and Andy dive into Colorado's high-stakes governor's race with George Markert, running mate to Victor Marks. Markert's 30-year Marine Corps legacy and bold vision set the tone for sweeping change. Hear why he joined the ticket—and what he'd do differently when it counts. Get the inside scoop on ICE, crime, housing affordability, and the regulations driving up your costs. Markert tackles tough questions on policing, government spending, and how faith shapes leadership in the governor's race. Plus, discover the campaign's first-100-days plan, including the bold moves Markert says will shake up Colorado's future. Guest 1:27 — George Markert — https://victor2026.com Website Mentioned https://coloradoworksbetter.org HOUR 2 UFOs, Fallen Angels, the Hidden War: Are We Missing the Real Story? / Tim Bennett - CD7. Derrick Warfel, creator of UFOs and God, throws out the rulebook on UFOs, arguing they're not aliens, but evidence of spiritual deception and ancient battles still raging today. Could those strange lights in the sky be part of a hidden war? John and Andy dig into the supernatural side of the unknown. Then Colorado CD7 candidate Tim Bennett joins the show to discuss his 30-year Army background, healthcare, housing costs, government spending, environmental policy, and his differences with incumbent Brittany Pettersen. The hour wraps up with a head-to-head on the governor's race, unpacking how competing campaigns would rewrite Colorado's future. Guests 1:59 — Derrick Warfel — https://ufosandgod.com Book: https://ufosandgodbook.com 23:08 — Tim Bennett — https://TimBennettForCongress.com HOUR 3 Border Battles, Skyrocketing Bills & the Government's Secret Playbook Hitting Your Wallet. John Rush and Andy Peth kick off with a heated debate on border security and immigration, revealing what's really at stake with government policy. John lays out a vision for a smarter, merit-based system that could change everything. Cyrus Western, EPA Region 8 Administrator, takes on the hot-button issues of energy costs and environmental rules. Hear what he says about balancing clean air with affordable power, and how new regulations could impact your bottom line. The hour closes with a hard-hitting look at the governor's race, where immigration, energy prices, and political power collide. Don't miss this fast-paced finale, because what happens next could change Colorado. Guest 29:45 — Cyrus Western — EPA Region 8 Administrator

Join the Conversation at 303-477-5600 or text 307-200-8222. Monday-Friday, 3 p.m.- 6 p.m. MT. https://RushToReason.com HOUR 1 George Markert - The Power Struggle: Inside the Race That Could Redefine Colorado. John and Andy dive into Colorado's high-stakes governor's race with George Markert, running mate to Victor Marks. Markert's 30-year Marine Corps legacy and bold vision set the tone for sweeping change. Hear why he joined the ticket—and what he'd do differently when it counts. Get the inside scoop on ICE, crime, housing affordability, and the regulations driving up your costs. Markert tackles tough questions on policing, government spending, and how faith shapes leadership in the governor's race. Plus, discover the campaign's first-100-days plan, including the bold moves Markert says will shake up Colorado's future. Guest 1:27 — George Markert — https://victor2026.com Website Mentioned https://coloradoworksbetter.org HOUR 2 UFOs, Fallen Angels, the Hidden War: Are We Missing the Real Story? / Tim Bennett - CD7. Derrick Warfel, creator of UFOs and God, throws out the rulebook on UFOs, arguing they're not aliens, but evidence of spiritual deception and ancient battles still raging today. Could those strange lights in the sky be part of a hidden war? John and Andy dig into the supernatural side of the unknown. Then Colorado CD7 candidate Tim Bennett joins the show to discuss his 30-year Army background, healthcare, housing costs, government spending, environmental policy, and his differences with incumbent Brittany Pettersen. The hour wraps up with a head-to-head on the governor's race, unpacking how competing campaigns would rewrite Colorado's future. Guests 1:59 — Derrick Warfel — https://ufosandgod.com Book: https://ufosandgodbook.com 23:08 — Tim Bennett — https://TimBennettForCongress.com HOUR 3 Border Battles, Skyrocketing Bills & the Government's Secret Playbook Hitting Your Wallet. John Rush and Andy Peth kick off with a heated debate on border security and immigration, revealing what's really at stake with government policy. John lays out a vision for a smarter, merit-based system that could change everything. Cyrus Western, EPA Region 8 Administrator, takes on the hot-button issues of energy costs and environmental rules. Hear what he says about balancing clean air with affordable power, and how new regulations could impact your bottom line. The hour closes with a hard-hitting look at the governor's race, where immigration, energy prices, and political power collide. Don't miss this fast-paced finale, because what happens next could change Colorado. Guest 29:45 — Cyrus Western — EPA Region 8 Administrator

(00:00:00) Opening (00:00:54) Midweek BONUS Stupidity (01:01:38) Insane Week In Review (01:16:15) Genius Awards (01:27:48) Closing Some people who drink too much hard soda might start to see things. Mt. Dew will pay you $1M to see things THEN drink hard soda. Would you drink beer that tastes like candy corn for Halloween? Or would you rather drink candy corn beer dressed like an orange slice? It's not a good idea to wait until you're under the covers with your mate to "let one rip". One man went from a fart to a felony when he did.In this Midweek BONUS Episode...Coach Brings Frat Bros To Heckle His LSU Players Before Ole Miss GameShoplifter Banned From Walmart Arrested For—Shoplifting From Walmart…AgainYou've Seen Bigfoot? Prove It & Win $1M From Hard Mt. DewNeedle Little Help? Doctors Scanned A Man's Chest and Found a Sewing Needle in His HeartBrewing Up A CORNY Idea: Shock Top and Spirit Halloween Brew Up Shock Top Candy Corn BEERWoman Tied Man To Tree, Hacked Off Finger And Tattooed His Forehead‘Where's my momma?' Detroit Funeral Home Cremated Wrong Woman, Presented Another BodyMan Spray-Painted A Courthouse Claiming They Ruined His LifeWoman Rescued After Falling Into An Abandoned Cesspool In Her Own BackyardFart ASSault: FL Man Attacks Girlfriend After Being Asked To Not Fart In BedMechanic Drag Races Marked OH Police SUV—Gets Roasted by Sheriff's OfficeFL Woman “Assults” School Bus Driver With Water Bottle For Not Picking Up Her DaughterBatman's Real-Life Manor Now Overrun With Actual BatsFL Man And His Dog Attacked By Blade-Wielding “Stabby Crab”WV Woman Leaves Child Behind Following Single-Vehicle Car CrashFL Man's LEGO Theft Plan Hits a Brick Wall Following A Pursuit Near Jacksonville, FL2025 Powerball Winner Arrested For 5th Time Since $167 Million JackpotMan Sets Off Live Fireworks On A Grocery Store Shelf—As A ChallengeMO College Student Confesses To Vandalizing 17 Vehicles To ChatGPTFL Woman Throws Glass Jar Of Vegan Mayo At Victim During Road Rage IncidentLet ‘Er RIP! Selena Gomez's Husband, Benny Blanco, Says Love Means Farting FreelyAnother week of stupid headlines and I've got the stupid spin on all of them with the Insane Week In Review as well as all the stupendious stupidity on display from our 7 weekly winners of the Genius Awards!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/insane-erik-lane-s-stupid-world--6486112/support.Real-time updates and story links are found on the TELEGRAM Channel at: https://t.me/InsaneErikLane  (Theme song courtesy of Randy Stonehill, ”It's A Great Big Stupid World”. Copyright ©1992 Stonehillian Music/Word Music/Twitchin' Vibes Music/ASCAP) Order your copy on the Wonderama CD from Amazon!This episode includes AI-generated content.

(00:00-25:28) Doug doesn't care for Red Bull New York. Doggies last loss back in May. Case Keenum and the Bears. Sam Bradford's career earnings. Mt. Rushmore of Kanye West songs. Brett McMurphy coming at Mizzou in some tweets yesterday. Josh Pate yaks and gabs. Audio of Josh Pate wondering how Missouri is still ranked? Tim's got an existential take. Rankings are a thing of the past. Audio of a radio host in Birmingham talking Drink's record against teams with winning records. Audio of John Sumrall talking about calling Drink when he was at Troy. Martin ranks Jackson 24th this week.(25:36-34:48) Hard to believe this song is 20 years old. A modern day Rob Deere. Who's the favorite to win the World Series? Who's the biggest long shot? Everybody's rooting for the Padres because of Tim's parlay. Big Boy's and Howard Johnson's. $900 hotel room in Columbia.(34:58-54:21) Buzz Killington emailed Tim directly to request an unblocking. A quick text audit. Suspended and banned. A sea of sadness. Martin's biggest takeaways from Chaim Bloom's press conference. More audio from Chaim's comments yesterday. Sticking to the plan. The devil's threesome. Why didn't they every make a play at Max Scherzer? Scherzer career earnings.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

(00:00-10:42) Did you catch any of the Sacramento Kings media day? Audio of an unfortunate hot mic. Hella fine and smooth skin. Are sports reporters always this horny? Mt. Rushmore of STL athletes with soft skin.(10:50-23:39) Heather Dinich reporting things have never been closer to a 24 team college football playoff. Everyone agreeing to play ten Power 4 opponents. PR malarkey. Obscure tooth growth.(23:49-25:15) And the winner of the EMOTD is...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tuesday Stew. Is Case Keenum the lede? MLB playoffs getting started today. Tim's crib situation this morning. Audio clip logistics. Chaim Bloom's extended presser yesterday. Plans going forward. The catching situation. Maybe Chaim Bloom will read a Kevin Miller email when he comes in next week. Mozeliak and Kevin Demoff. Text name change week starts soon. I tired and you pass me up. Who Iggy sure seems like a simp. Marty has a hit on his hands. Text inbox names are status symbols. Swingers looking for cottage fries. Highway and traffic talk for the olds. The Facts of Life.Audio clips from Chaim Bloom's press conference yesterday. Starting with Bloom on manager Oli Marmol. Joined by Sean Kelley, voice of the Florida Gators. What's the vibe in Gainesville? Expectations going into the year with new coach John Sumrall. The emergence of Jadan Baugh. How is Mizzou viewed in the SEC from Florida's perspective? Was there scepticism around the Sumrall hire? Going to Priory High School. Where is he going to eat in St. Louis? Toasted Ravs.Doug doesn't care for Red Bull New York. Doggies last loss back in May. Case Keenum and the Bears. Sam Bradford's career earnings. Mt. Rushmore of Kanye West songs. Brett McMurphy coming at Mizzou in some tweets yesterday. Josh Pate yaks and gabs. Audio of Josh Pate wondering how Missouri is still ranked? Tim's got an existential take. Rankings are a thing of the past. Audio of a radio host in Birmingham talking Drink's record against teams with winning records. Audio of John Sumrall talking about calling Drink when he was at Troy. Martin ranks Jackson 24th this week.Hard to believe this song is 20 years old. A modern day Rob Deere. Who's the favorite to win the World Series? Who's the biggest long shot? Everybody's rooting for the Padres because of Tim's parlay. Big Boy's and Howard Johnson's. $900 hotel room in Columbia.Buzz Killington emailed Tim directly to request an unblocking. A quick text audit. Suspended and banned. A sea of sadness. Martin's biggest takeaways from Chaim Bloom's press conference. More audio from Chaim's comments yesterday. Sticking to the plan. The devil's threesome. Why didn't they every make a play at Max Scherzer? Scherzer career earnings.The lore of Stan. Jackson had a half an egg mcmuffin in the break. Doug can't stop microwaving fish at work. If it tastes good, spit it out. AirBnb talk. A six-part docuseries on Nick Saban comes out in October. Jackson wants Nick Saban to have a little fun. The F word vs. the S word. Stanford Steve and Chris Long. Famously unmarried.Brody Herman. Mizzou and Florida. Stumbling into hot takes. Illinois fired their DC. Blues season getting ready to get going. MLB Playoffs.Design Aire Heating & Cooling EMOTDDid you catch any of the Sacramento Kings media day? Audio of an unfortunate hot mic. Hella fine and smooth skin. Are sports reporters always this horny? Mt. Rushmore of STL athletes with soft skin.Heather Dinich reporting things have never been closer to a 24 team college football playoff. Everyone agreeing to play ten Power 4 opponents. PR malarkey. Obscure tooth growth.And the winner of the EMOTD is...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

BYU football head coach Kalani Sitake spoke with the media on Zoom on September 28, 2026, to preview No. 10 BYU's matchup at TCU. Kickoff is set for 5 p.m. (MDT) on Saturday on ESPN and KSL NewsRadio. BYU enters the game with a 3-0 record and 1-0 mark in Big 12 play. Subscribe to the Cougar Tracks Podcast sponsored by Zions Bank to stay up-to-date with all the daily episodes. Cougar Tracks is on YouTube every weekday at Noon (MT), and KSL NewsRadio at 6:30 p.m. (MT). Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cougar-tracks/id1146971609 YouTube Podcast: https://kslsports.com/category/podcast_results/?sid=2035&n=Cougar%20Tracks Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NCF1KecDsE2rB1zMuHhUh Download the KSL Sports app Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonneville.kslsports&hl=en_US  iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ksl-sports/id143593 Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for KSLsports.com and hosts the Cougar Tracks Podcast daily on KSL Sports YouTube and KSL NewsRadio (SUBSCRIBE). Harper also co-hosts Cougar Sports Saturday (12–3 p.m.) on KSL NewsRadio. Follow Mitch’s coverage of BYU athletics in the Big 12 Conference on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram: @Mitch_Harper. Want more coverage of BYU sports? Take us with you wherever you go. Download the new and improved KSL Sports app from Utah’s sports leader. Allows you to stream live radio and video, keeping you up-to-date on all your favorite teams.

BYU returns from its bye week with bad news at a key position. KSL Sports BYU Insider Mitch Harper opens Tuesday's show with the injury to starting right tackle Andrew Gentry. The Michigan transfer, a co-captain and two-year starter, got hurt in the first quarter of the 41-23 win at Colorado State. At first, he thought it was a mild ankle sprain. It turned out to be worse. BYU left him off the depth chart for Saturday's trip to TCU, and in a message on Instagram, Gentry said the injury was "a little more significant" than he expected.  Who is next for BYU at right tackle? The top contenders look to be Siosiua Latu-Finau and Bott Mulitalo. In the second segment, Mitch brings back J.D. Andress of TCU on SI. The two last talked during BYU's spring tour in May, and this time they break down the Horned Frogs ahead of Saturday's game at Amon G. Carter Stadium (5 p.m. MT, ESPN & KSL NewsRadio). TCU is 2-2 and 0-1 in the Big 12. Mitch closes the show with an update on former BYU basketball players reporting to NBA Training Camps. AJ Dybantsa is preparing for his rookie season, Egor Demin gears up for year two in Brooklyn, Richie Saunders update in Memphis, and Keba Keita with the Indiana Pacers. Subscribe to the Cougar Tracks Podcast sponsored by Zions Bank to stay up-to-date with all the daily episodes. Cougar Tracks is on YouTube every weekday at Noon (MT), and KSL NewsRadio at 6:30 p.m. (MT). Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cougar-tracks/id1146971609 YouTube Podcast: https://kslsports.com/category/podcast_results/?sid=2035&n=Cougar%20Tracks Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NCF1KecDsE2rB1zMuHhUh Download the KSL Sports app Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonneville.kslsports&hl=en_US  iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ksl-sports/id143593 Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for KSLsports.com and hosts the Cougar Tracks Podcast daily on KSL Sports YouTube and KSL NewsRadio (SUBSCRIBE). Harper also co-hosts Cougar Sports Saturday (12–3 p.m.) on KSL NewsRadio. Follow Mitch’s coverage of BYU athletics in the Big 12 Conference on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram: @Mitch_Harper. Want more coverage of BYU sports? Take us with you wherever you go. Download the new and improved KSL Sports app from Utah’s sports leader. Allows you to stream live radio and video, keeping you up-to-date on all your favorite teams.

BYU football players Cade Uluave (LB), Bruce Mitchell (IOL), and Kyler Kasper (WR) spoke with the media via Zoom on September 28, 2026, to preview BYU's upcoming matchup against TCU on Saturday, October 3, 2026. Subscribe to the Cougar Tracks Podcast sponsored by Zions Bank to stay up-to-date with all the daily episodes. Cougar Tracks is on YouTube every weekday at Noon (MT), and KSL NewsRadio at 6:30 p.m. (MT). Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cougar-tracks/id1146971609 YouTube Podcast: https://kslsports.com/category/podcast_results/?sid=2035&n=Cougar%20Tracks Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NCF1KecDsE2rB1zMuHhUh Download the KSL Sports app Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonneville.kslsports&hl=en_US  iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ksl-sports/id143593 Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for KSLsports.com and hosts the Cougar Tracks Podcast daily on KSL Sports YouTube and KSL NewsRadio (SUBSCRIBE). Harper also co-hosts Cougar Sports Saturday (12–3 p.m.) on KSL NewsRadio. Follow Mitch’s coverage of BYU athletics in the Big 12 Conference on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram: @Mitch_Harper. Want more coverage of BYU sports? Take us with you wherever you go. Download the new and improved KSL Sports app from Utah’s sports leader. Allows you to stream live radio and video, keeping you up-to-date on all your favorite teams.

We have the return of content creator, solventless extract producer and all around cannabis enthusiast @mr.rosins.neighborhood Pedro back on the show though Pedro has taken a short break recently he has been consistently putting out content based on simple principles, quality and quality out. Take a look at his page and you'll see what I mean. We will get into some tricks and tips and see what Pedro can thinks about the ever changing hash landscape. Speaking of the landscape we have Kyle from @Reservethereserve rolling into the studio to give us some details on the upcoming HITMAN BLIND TASTE TEST where you will get a chance to see if you can distinguish between Rosin and BHO only by smoking it so far the best has been 16 out of 20 can you beat that ? And we will possibly have Dougie @hitmanglass calling in if he's not too busy, stirring the industry pot. So not only do we have the RESERVE event coming up October 9th,10th and 11th but Dougie has also announced recently the return of @chalicefestival in 2027 Good to see people trying to advance the culture with real events . So get that @puffco peak pro or proxy charged your @gramglass.labs Clean with some ice

Welcome back to another week of your favourite five-part countdown pod, Nattering E Drop 5! This week we're talking about Mt. Rushmore's, Death Matches, and Hot Dog Toppings! That's right, hot dog toppings! But I didn't come alone, as my good buddy Dewey the Hotdog, who you may have seen or heard as a ring announcer for a variety of Hardcore Indie Wrestling Promotions, joins me! We go over our Top 5 hotdog toppings you wouldn't want to get hit with in a death match. You can find this and all the other Nattering With E Podcasts on the Nattering With E Network and the Visionaries Global Media Network, where you get your podcasts. For Dewey: Dewey The Hotdog on all social media platforms (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook) Souperstar Spotlight is coming back in October, so be on the lookout for more episodes on that and go support We Love Wrestling cause the more you see them, the more you'll see me!

Tonight's Topic is:  Health Pros Live Q&A!Join us live on zoom every Monday at 5pm PT / 6pm MT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83191880777

Are you ready to tackle 26.2 miles in the Windy City? This week, Tommie and Aaron break down everything you need to know to prepare for the Chicago Marathon, from packing your bags to conquering "Mt. Roosevelt" at the finish line! SUPPORT THE SHOW Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pr-project-podcast/id1744936895Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2rNI60zlORbkS9ghe5uw1n?si=7f5b4e97dc5d4999 ABOUT THIS EPISODE It is just Tommie and Aaron holding it down this week, and we are going all-in on Chicago Marathon preparation! If you are traveling for a marathon this fall, this is your ultimate guide. We break down the do's and don'ts of your packing checklist, the real secrets to carb loading, and how to avoid the trappings of the race expo. We also cover the logistics of choosing a shakeout run, planning your marathon eve dinner, and how to stop doom scrolling the night before the race. Once race morning hits, we talk about getting to the start line and keeping your effort honest in the first half of the race. We also dive deep into the Chicago Marathon route details, including that dreadful out-and-back portion and the infamous "Mt. Roosevelt" waiting for you at the end! Beyond the marathon, we react to Wiz Khalifa becoming the newest running superstar, discuss Hyrox's latest incontinence scandal, and review the On Cloudboom Strike 2. Plus, Run Culture Court is in session to decide what actually constitutes a proper PR and to yell at people who walk in lane 1 of a public track! TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 03:15 - Packing Checklist Do's and Don'ts for a Travel Marathon 06:34 - Tips On Carb Loading for the Marathon 09:15 - Avoiding the Trappings of the Race Expo 10:25 - Choosing A Shakeout Run 15:15 - Planning Marathon Eve Dinner 18:02 - Doom Scrolling the Night Before the Marathon 21:01 - Getting to the Start Line On Race Morning 28:45 - Keeping the Effort Honest in the First Half of the Chicago Marathon 32:00 - Route Details of the Chicago Marathon 41:25 - Hyrox's Latest Incontinence Scandal 43:26 - Wiz Khalifa is the Newest Running Superstar 47:45 - Run Culture Court: Walking In Lane 1 of a Public Track 49:35 - What Constitutes A Proper PR 51:50 - Shoe Review: On Cloudboom Strike 2 CONNECT WITH THE CREW  Instagram:   / the.pr.projectTommie:   / tommie_runzAaron:   / aaronxworldwideGary:   / garyisarunner #ChicagoMarathon #MarathonTraining #WizKhalifa #OnRunning #CloudboomStrike2 #ThePRProject #RunningPodcast #RunCulture

2026 Hyundai IONIQ 5 Limited AWD Hyundai cut thousands off the price of the IONIQ 5 for 2026—but did it cut any of the good stuff? John and Richard Rush review the IONIQ 5 Limited AWD, including range, one-pedal driving, charging, interior space, and whether this EV deserves a test drive. Have a question about a car review or a general automotive question? Call the KLZ560am studios in Denver during the Drive-Radio program on Saturdays from 10 am to 1 pm MT at 303-477-5600 or text 307-200-8222. Listen live on the KLZ560am app or at https://Drive-Radio.com

2026 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro The Toyota 4Runner has entered a new generation—but is the TRD Pro worth its $70K+ price tag? John and Richard Rush break down the hybrid powertrain, performance, interior space, off-road capability, and what it's really like to drive. Have a question about a car review or a general automotive question? Call the KLZ560am studios in Denver during the Drive-Radio program on Saturdays from 10 am to 1 pm MT at 303-477-5600 or text 307-200-8222. Listen live on the KLZ560am app or at https://Drive-Radio.com

Join the Conversation at 303-477-5600 or text 307-200-8222. Monday-Friday, 3 p.m.- 6 p.m. MT. https://RushToReason.com HOUR 1 Disaster Strikes, Power Shifts: Inside Colorado's Most Explosive Political Showdown Kicking off with chaos, John Rush and Tyler from American Restoration and Remodeling reveal what happens when disaster hits your home—and the costly mistakes to avoid. Dive into secrets of fast action, smart insurance moves, and why your next remodeling project could change more than just your walls. But it doesn't stop at home repairs. John Rush takes you from the latest Starship launch to the front lines of AI in government and dramatic Medicaid changes that could impact thousands across Colorado. Then, the hour explodes into political drama as Congressman Gabe Evans joins John for a no-holds-barred faceoff. Discover the real stakes behind Colorado's 8th District race—energy wars, big money, and bruising attacks. Will Evans' vision for property rights and agriculture topple his opponent, or are the odds stacked against him? Guests 1:08 — Tyler — https://american-restoration.com 26:31— Gabe Evans — https://electgabeevans.com HOUR 2 Surging Gas, Football Thrills, and an EV That Changes Everything—Don't Miss the Shocks Hour 2 fires up with John Rush and Phil Kerpen exposing the real reasons behind soaring gas prices—and what could finally bring relief. Get the inside track on oil, Federal Reserve moves, and the domino effect on your wallet. Next, John breaks down radical new fuel economy rules that could upend car shopping for years. Will your next vehicle even run on gas? Then, it's “Victory Monday” with Richard Rush: relive the Broncos' epic comeback, wild penalties, and game-changing calls. Plus, get the unfiltered scoop on CU football's turning point. And the shocker—can a Hyundai electric SUV truly win over the toughest critics? The 2026 IONIQ 5's price drop and next-gen features just might change the game for good. John and Richard debate how new regulations could flip the EV world upside down. Guests 1:08 — Phil Kerpen, American Commitment — https://americancommitment.org 27:38 — Richard Rush — 45:26 — 2026 Hyundai IONIQ 5 Review HOUR 3 Starter Homes Vanish—Are We Losing the American Dream? Hour 3 plunges into the housing crisis with John Rush and David Ryan, who expose the hidden rules and red tape strangling affordable homes. Find out why starter houses are disappearing, and what's really blocking new, budget-friendly neighborhoods. After David's insights, John opens up about his own climb from humble beginnings to a home of his own. Hear how building wealth and independence starts with smart choices, hard work, and real-world financial lessons. The hour closes with a powerful discussion: are we preparing young people for real success? John argues the path to opportunity might run through a skilled trade—not just a college degree. Guest List 1:08 — David Ryan — https://buildtheamericandream.org

Join the Conversation at 303-477-5600 or text 307-200-8222. Monday-Friday, 3 p.m.- 6 p.m. MT. https://RushToReason.com HOUR 1 Disaster Strikes, Power Shifts: Inside Colorado's Most Explosive Political Showdown Kicking off with chaos, John Rush and Tyler from American Restoration and Remodeling reveal what happens when disaster hits your home—and the costly mistakes to avoid. Dive into secrets of fast action, smart insurance moves, and why your next remodeling project could change more than just your walls. But it doesn't stop at home repairs. John Rush takes you from the latest Starship launch to the front lines of AI in government and dramatic Medicaid changes that could impact thousands across Colorado. Then, the hour explodes into political drama as Congressman Gabe Evans joins John for a no-holds-barred faceoff. Discover the real stakes behind Colorado's 8th District race—energy wars, big money, and bruising attacks. Will Evans' vision for property rights and agriculture topple his opponent, or are the odds stacked against him? Guests 1:08 — Tyler — https://american-restoration.com 26:31— Gabe Evans — https://electgabeevans.com HOUR 2 Surging Gas, Football Thrills, and an EV That Changes Everything—Don't Miss the Shocks Hour 2 fires up with John Rush and Phil Kerpen exposing the real reasons behind soaring gas prices—and what could finally bring relief. Get the inside track on oil, Federal Reserve moves, and the domino effect on your wallet. Next, John breaks down radical new fuel economy rules that could upend car shopping for years. Will your next vehicle even run on gas? Then, it's “Victory Monday” with Richard Rush: relive the Broncos' epic comeback, wild penalties, and game-changing calls. Plus, get the unfiltered scoop on CU football's turning point. And the shocker—can a Hyundai electric SUV truly win over the toughest critics? The 2026 IONIQ 5's price drop and next-gen features just might change the game for good. John and Richard debate how new regulations could flip the EV world upside down. Guests 1:08 — Phil Kerpen, American Commitment — https://americancommitment.org 27:38 — Richard Rush — 45:26 — 2026 Hyundai IONIQ 5 Review HOUR 3 Starter Homes Vanish—Are We Losing the American Dream? Hour 3 plunges into the housing crisis with John Rush and David Ryan, who expose the hidden rules and red tape strangling affordable homes. Find out why starter houses are disappearing, and what's really blocking new, budget-friendly neighborhoods. After David's insights, John opens up about his own climb from humble beginnings to a home of his own. Hear how building wealth and independence starts with smart choices, hard work, and real-world financial lessons. The hour closes with a powerful discussion: are we preparing young people for real success? John argues the path to opportunity might run through a skilled trade—not just a college degree. Guest List 1:08 — David Ryan — https://buildtheamericandream.org

Join the Conversation at 303-477-5600 or text 307-200-8222. Monday-Friday, 3 p.m.- 6 p.m. MT. https://RushToReason.com HOUR 1 Disaster Strikes, Power Shifts: Inside Colorado's Most Explosive Political Showdown Kicking off with chaos, John Rush and Tyler from American Restoration and Remodeling reveal what happens when disaster hits your home—and the costly mistakes to avoid. Dive into secrets of fast action, smart insurance moves, and why your next remodeling project could change more than just your walls. But it doesn't stop at home repairs. John Rush takes you from the latest Starship launch to the front lines of AI in government and dramatic Medicaid changes that could impact thousands across Colorado. Then, the hour explodes into political drama as Congressman Gabe Evans joins John for a no-holds-barred faceoff. Discover the real stakes behind Colorado's 8th District race—energy wars, big money, and bruising attacks. Will Evans' vision for property rights and agriculture topple his opponent, or are the odds stacked against him? Guests 1:08 — Tyler — https://american-restoration.com 26:31— Gabe Evans — https://electgabeevans.com HOUR 2 Surging Gas, Football Thrills, and an EV That Changes Everything—Don't Miss the Shocks Hour 2 fires up with John Rush and Phil Kerpen exposing the real reasons behind soaring gas prices—and what could finally bring relief. Get the inside track on oil, Federal Reserve moves, and the domino effect on your wallet. Next, John breaks down radical new fuel economy rules that could upend car shopping for years. Will your next vehicle even run on gas? Then, it's “Victory Monday” with Richard Rush: relive the Broncos' epic comeback, wild penalties, and game-changing calls. Plus, get the unfiltered scoop on CU football's turning point. And the shocker—can a Hyundai electric SUV truly win over the toughest critics? The 2026 IONIQ 5's price drop and next-gen features just might change the game for good. John and Richard debate how new regulations could flip the EV world upside down. Guests 1:08 — Phil Kerpen, American Commitment — https://americancommitment.org 27:38 — Richard Rush — 45:26 — 2026 Hyundai IONIQ 5 Review HOUR 3 Starter Homes Vanish—Are We Losing the American Dream? Hour 3 plunges into the housing crisis with John Rush and David Ryan, who expose the hidden rules and red tape strangling affordable homes. Find out why starter houses are disappearing, and what's really blocking new, budget-friendly neighborhoods. After David's insights, John opens up about his own climb from humble beginnings to a home of his own. Hear how building wealth and independence starts with smart choices, hard work, and real-world financial lessons. The hour closes with a powerful discussion: are we preparing young people for real success? John argues the path to opportunity might run through a skilled trade—not just a college degree. Guest List 1:08 — David Ryan — https://buildtheamericandream.org

Mike and Jesse are joined by Funcle in the studio today (and Papa Gio, kind of) to look back at most of Week 3 in the NFL. Why it might be too late to sell some of your non-rookies for football. Funcle's guide to buying and grading in the current market. The Cooper Flagg Debut Patch wrapped up at auction, and Mike thinks people have too much money. Plus, are cards now status symbols? Wrapping up with the Mt. Rushmore of non-sports cards. 0:00 - Intro and Funcle in studio 12:30 - NFL Buy/Sell after Week 3 14:30 - Better to sell football before the season starts, as guys will sell more in preseason than once the season starts 17:25 - What is Funcle buying to grade these days? 29:15 - Differences between the major sports as investment pieces 37:35 - The Cooper Flagg Debut Patch Auto sold for $8M, but how outrageous is that sale? 42:00 - Are cards turning into status symbols? 47:15 - Why aren't Bowman Chrome U more popular for football and basketball like Bowman prospects for baseball? 1:05:00 - Tips for vending at a card show 1:13:40 - Are PED suspensions a death sentence for hobby value? 1:36:00 - Who is the most underrated athlete? 1:39:45 - Mount Rushmore for Non-Sports Voicemail Mt. Rushmore: Larry Beefcake Hans Gruber Caleb Follow Sports Cards Nonsense: https://www.tiktok.com/@sportscardsnonsense https://www.instagram.com/sports_cards_nonsense/ https://x.com/SCN_Pod https://www.facebook.com/groups/sportscardsnonsense https://collectibleslife.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://scnchallenge.com/ https://linktr.ee/SportsCardsNonsense?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=5764ed98-4893-4eae-bf91-0bd89949ed99 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BYU football moved down in the latest AP Top 25 poll after not playing a game. Is it a big deal? KSL Sports BYU Insider Mitch Harper broke it down and always weighed in on one national pundit who feels head-to-head doesn't matter. He also gives his Big 12 Power Rankings for BYU football coming out of the bye week. Then, as always on a Monday, the Cougar Stock Exchange looks at what's trending up and trending down in the world of BYU Sports. Subscribe to the Cougar Tracks Podcast sponsored by Zions Bank to stay up-to-date with all the daily episodes. Cougar Tracks is on YouTube every weekday at Noon (MT), and KSL NewsRadio at 6:30 p.m. (MT). Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cougar-tracks/id1146971609 YouTube Podcast: https://kslsports.com/category/podcast_results/?sid=2035&n=Cougar%20Tracks Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NCF1KecDsE2rB1zMuHhUh Download the KSL Sports app Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonneville.kslsports&hl=en_US  iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ksl-sports/id143593 Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for KSLsports.com and hosts the Cougar Tracks Podcast daily on KSL Sports YouTube and KSL NewsRadio (SUBSCRIBE). Harper also co-hosts Cougar Sports Saturday (12–3 p.m.) on KSL NewsRadio. Follow Mitch’s coverage of BYU athletics in the Big 12 Conference on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram: @Mitch_Harper. Want more coverage of BYU sports? Take us with you wherever you go. Download the new and improved KSL Sports app from Utah’s sports leader. Allows you to stream live radio and video, keeping you up-to-date on all your favorite teams.

Anyone who violates God's moral standards as flagrantly as was apparently being done in Rome (v13) has lost most or all of their fear of God. Any real expectation that they will be held accountable for their actions must have receded in their thinking so far into the future that it no longer had any power to restrain their behavior. Jesus made it abundantly clear how He wants His disciples to think. He said, "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone" (Mt 24:36). Then He gave us several examples of people being caught off-guard by the sudden arrival of God's judgment (Mt 24:36-51). Basically, He tells us you don't know when I'll return, so live each day as if I might arrive at any minute, because when I do come, I will evaluate your lifestyle and judge those whose behavior proves them to be hypocrites.  

Dr. Molly Stillwell is a leadership coach, qualitative researcher, and founder of The Uprising Collective. She holds a PhD from Saybrook University, where her research was awarded Dissertation with Distinction and produced an original theory of how humans find purpose through life's transitions. She spent years in academic research and has facilitated leadership development across eight countries, including Morocco, which she has made her second home. Her work sits at the intersection of evidence-based research, sacred feminine wisdom, and intentional AI — helping high-achieving women stop leading from exhaustion and claim their place at the tables where the future is being designed.Links:https://www.instagram.com/the.uprisinghttps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61589313248832https://www.linkedin.com/in/molly-stillwell-phd-4903aaba/ ***********Finalist "Women in Cloud - Podcast of the YEAR" - #empowHERaccess Global Prestige Awards 2026Susanne Mueller / www.susannemueller.biz TEDX Talk, May 2022: Running and Life: 5KM Formula for YOUR Successhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT_5Er1cLvY Join Substack: https://substack.com/@susannemuellernyc?Enjoy one coaching session for free if you are a yearly subscriber. 800+ weekly blogs / 550+ podcasts / 1 Ironman Triathlon / 5 half ironman races / 26 marathon races / 4 books / 1 Mt. Kilimanjaro / 1 TEDx Talk

Series: Galatians 5Sermon Title: The Spirit-Led LifeMain Scripture: Galatians 5:5 “Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit"Synopsis: As we close out our series studying Galatians 5, we're reminded that Paul warns believers of two forms of slavery that pretend to give freedom: legalism, which tries to earn God's favor, and licentiousness, which uses grace as an excuse to indulge the desires of the flesh. The way of avoiding these is not a better checklist, or our discipline, but a life led by the Holy Spirit. It is by His leading in our life that we can rest in the finish work of Jesus, learn to not gratify the desires of our flesh, and use the freedom Christ has given us to serve others in love.September 27, 2026 • Tucker Parman• • • • • • • •.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Join us for service in person and online every Sunday at 10am (MST) at the City Life Community Center in Missoula, MT. We believe that you matter. We would love to connect with you and hear your story! https://www.anchorchurchmissoula.com/contactIf you would like to engage financially with Anchor Church you can give by texting any amount to 84321 or by visiting https://www.anchorchurchmissoula.comNeed prayer or have a praise report? https://www.anchorchurchmissoula.com/needFor more information about Anchor Church or ways to get connected visit us at https://www.www.anchorchurchmissoula.com or follow us on our social media platforms below.Instagram - @anchorchurchmissoula - https://www.instagram.com/anchorchurchmissoulaFacebook - @anchorchurchmissoula - https://www.facebook.com/anchorchurchmissoula

In this sermon, pastor Chad Hendley explains why Mt. Sinai is so important, but we needed something BETTER--Mt. Zion. Let's not refuse Him who's speaking from heaven. Learn more in this sermon preached to Hillside Baptist Church in Eastman, GA on 9/27/26.www.hillsideeastman.com

KFC For Breakfast?...Acceptable Office Attire...Morning Crew Survey: What TV Show Would You Binge Watch 10 Times For $1 Million? -- PLUS -- we (don't) need more cowbell, quit pee'ing on Mt. Everest, and so much more!

Join the Conversation at 303-477-5600 or text to 307-200-8222. Saturdays from 9 am to 10 am MT. https://FixItRadio.com From Lawn Care to Snowblowers: Your Fall Home Prep Guide. Ready to conquer winter before it strikes? In this action-packed episode of Fix It Radio, host John Rush—joined by Larry Unger—delivers essential, hands-on tips to get your home and gear prepped for the cold. Discover smart, time-saving fall maintenance strategies that will keep you a step ahead of the coming chill. Kick off with John's expert lawn care hacks—learn how to fine-tune your sprinklers, prep your grass for winter with mowing secrets, and maximize fall fertilization and weed control. Discover the tricks pros use to get lush spring lawns! Plus, John reveals the one easy sign your mower blade needs sharpening—and how blade balance could save your machine from costly repairs. Get ready for snow season—find out how to guarantee your snowblower will fire up, what winter gear to check now, and why organizing your garage and shed before the freeze makes life easier all winter long. Bonus: John tackles a live caller's Wi-Fi woes and shares his top pick—Eero—for powerful, whole-home internet coverage.

Fresh off an unforgettable trip to Baltimore — and battling a bit of post-travel sickness — I'm recapping a genuine rugby bucket-list experience: the All Blacks and Springboks in the United States, historic attendance at MT&T Bank Stadium, incredible access to the teams, and what an event of that scale can mean for rugby's growth in America.Then we get into a massive week across New Zealand rugby. I break down NZ Rugby's reported $66 million financial challenge, why the NPC and Ranfurly Shield remain vital to the game's future, and why it matters that players including Beauden Barrett, Noah Hotham, Cortez Ratima, George Bell, Emoni Narawa and others are returning to represent their provinces.I also unpack the Black Ferns' heartbreaking Red Roses defeat, Counties Manukau's emotional Ranfurly Shield win, Northland's incredible Shield journey, and the attacking ambition of Auckland's Rico Simpson.In the second half, it is all about one of the wildest Tests of the year: the Wallabies' 42–38 win over the Springboks. Australia held on with just 11 men, lifted the Mandela Challenge Plate, and delivered a major statement against the reigning world champions.Plus, I reflect on making my play-by-play commentary debut for UCLA Rugby's last-minute win over Michigan, and look ahead to UCLA's upcoming home fixtures against Brown and Southern Nazarene.In this episode:Baltimore recap: All Blacks, Springboks and a record U.S. rugby crowdWhat NZ Rugby's financial challenge means for the gameWhy All Blacks returning to the NPC mattersBlack Ferns v Red Roses reactionCounties Manukau win the Ranfurly ShieldWallabies survive with 11 men against South AfricaUCLA Rugby commentary debut and upcoming matches

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org From March 2026. Today's 2 topics: - Once every 1,435 days , a 780 foot diameter space rock, 2017 TC1, that my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls discovered makes an annihilation defying close approach to our star. At it's nearest point to the Sun, Carson's well done space rock is traveling at an amazing 93 miles per second and receives 26 times the amount of solar radiation that heats the surface of the planet Mercury to 800° F. After Carson first discovered his heat resistant space rock traveling towards it's next hot date with the Sun, it was observed by telescopes in New Mexico, Arizona, Hawaii, and England.   - The orbits of the planets are closely aligned with the extension of the Sun's equator into space and are contained within the flattened disk of material which forms the plane solar system. Most asteroids have orbits with inclinations or tilts to the solar system's plane which are less than 20 degrees. Thus, when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Rose Matheny discovered 2017 TF4, a small space rock which soars into the lonely space high above and below our solar system's plane, it got our attention. As with all of our asteroid discoveries, Rose had no idea of what kind of object she had discovered with our Schmidt Telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona until it had been tracked by observers around the world.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast thinks that yelling “PIZZA!” and “FRENCH FRY!” at a 2-year-old superman straightlining down a green slope is a highly effective ski instruction technique. If you agree, please sign up for my newsletter:WhoBrian Bensch, founder of Snow SchoolersDate recordedSeptember 24, 2026About Snow SchoolersSnow Schoolers, per its website, is an “independent ski school program” that teaches lessons “at any mountain where we've established a revenue-sharing partnership with the ski area.” Skiers sign up for lessons on their Pet Rectangles, like this:Why I interviewed himThat sounds pretty neat, right? Let me go see if Snow Schoolers teaches at my favorite mountain. Snow Schoolers probably does not teach at your favorite mountain. Unless your favorite mountain is 222-vertical-foot Granlibakken, which is about five feet away from 6,000-acre Palisades Tahoe, or 100 vertical-foot Frisco Adventure Park, tucked off highway 9, after 1.5 million-ish skiers exit I-70 on their way to nearby Breckenridge.That is not an indictment of small ski areas, which I love, or Snow Schoolers' business model, which I also love. Rather, it's my way of saying that the only way to sign up for ski school at Palisades Tahoe or Breckenridge is through Palisades Tahoe or Breckenridge. With the strange, grandfathered-in exception of the strange, cobbled-together ski bazaar that is Summit at Snoqualmie in Washington, all major American ski areas (so far as I know) operate with a monopoly over ski school operations on their property. In ways subtle and aggressive, they police and ban rogue instructors who would offer discounted lessons on resort property.There are probably ways to break this system, either through the courts or legislative amendment of the Forest Service leases that 125 U.S. ski areas operate on. Such change sounds radical only in an American context - most European ski areas already operate with multiple independent competing ski schools onsite. Over the past 20 years, technology has challenged monopolies across American commerce. Sports and concert tickets and taxi rides offer two prime examples of power shifting from one central operator to many operators, with benefits and drawbacks for the consumer. Perhaps we will get there with ski school. For now, I see a more practical path for an asset-light, app-based, independent ski school like Snow Schoolers - as the costs of labor, utilities, infrastructure, and insurance pile up, perhaps outsourcing the operation of a ski school is more practical for many smaller, independent ski areas than establishing and maintaining one of their own. That is what you get at Granlibakken and Frisco: Snow Schoolers pays the ski areas a share of each lesson, essentially as rent for the right to operate a ski school on their property. And Granlibakken and Friso don't have to worry about hiring instructors and organizing lessons. There are probably 100 under-resourced ski areas in America where this model could work tomorrow. Brian and I discuss why Snow Schoolers works where it does, and why the model has been slow to spread.TranscriptsThere are two transcripts. Both are generated by robots. Both are helpful and defective in their own unique ways. I do not proofread either of them.Transcript 1: Click the “transcript” button at the top of this article. You can only see this transcript on a computer. Because I don't know why exactly but everything is getting better and dumber all at once it seems. Anyway, this is the transcript that the robots create when I upload the podcast to the internet. The cool thing about it is that you can click on any block of text and the audio will teleport there instantly. The uncool thing about this transcript is that it does not indicate who is talking at any given moment.Transcript 2: You can read this below. This is the transcript that Zoom creates as we record the podcast. The cool thing about this transcript is that it indicates who is talking at any given moment. The uncool thing about this transcript is that the timestamps do not match the audio. Also, you cannot click on this text to move to the associated point in the audio.ZoomStuart Winchester: My guest today founded Snowschoolers in 2014 with the mission to make skiing and riding affordable and accessible for average Americans.00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:11.000Stuart Winchester: and to pay snow sports pros a sustainable living wage.00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:19.000Stuart Winchester: Today, Snowschoolers operates at Grand Lebakken in Lake Tahoe, and Frisco Adventure Park in Colorado, two small ski areas.00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:36.000Stuart Winchester: Last year, Snow Schoolers hosted approximately 6,000 students. He is a good friend of the Storm. He is Brian Bench. Brian, welcome to the Storm. You reached out to me very shortly after I launched in 2019 or 20, and we've been talking for years, and you've helped me out a lot.00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.000Stuart Winchester: With the…00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:45.000Stuart Winchester: digital side of things, which I'm not so good at, so it's awesome to finally get you on and talk some snow schoolers. How you doing today?00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:48.000Brian Bensch: Doing lovely. Can't complain. Always busy, never bored.00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:52.000Stuart Winchester: And that is… yeah, that is a picture out your window of Tahoe, right?00:16:51.000 --> 00:17:00.000Brian Bensch: Yes, that is a, it's called Maggie's Peak, but that's looking at the little lake just next to Emerald Bay.00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:05.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, which would be sort of north side of the lake, so you'd be looking…00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.000Brian Bensch: Oh.00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:08.000Brian Bensch: South Tahoe, kind of on the other side of the corner, like, across from Heavenly.00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:18.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, south, right? I was… I was backwards. So… so on the… up the left side, there would be Homewood, and then up the right side would be Heavenly and Diamond Peak, and at the top is, like.00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:10.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:15.000Brian Bensch: Correct.00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:19.000Brian Bensch: Mostly correct.00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:26.000Stuart Winchester: Or North Star? North Star, Northwood. Okay, alright, uh, before I hurt myself, let's just get into this. So, so Brian.00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:28.000Brian Bensch: Well, we'll get you out to Tahoe soon enough, and then your Tahoe geography will get.00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:31.000Stuart Winchester: It's been a minute. So…00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:40.000Stuart Winchester: What is broken about American ski schools, and how did you try to fix it with snow schoolers?00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:45.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. So I would say similar to, you know.00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.000Brian Bensch: The the general diatribe about, you know.00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:55.000Brian Bensch: The ski industry being kind of broken with lift tickets too expensive and climate change is gonna end the world.00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:07.000Brian Bensch: Not everything is broken, but particularly the most front and center in your face resorts that you know everyone hears about, and you know, makes the quote unquote mainstream news has been broken for a while.00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:15.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, the gist is, if you roll up to, you know, a Tier 1 destination resort.00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:16.000Brian Bensch: Brooke, uh…00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:32.000Brian Bensch: Not only is lift ticket price what it is, but if you are looking for a group lesson, you're looking at a couple 100 bucks. And if you're looking for a private lesson, you're lucky if you can find anything that is under 1000 today. When we started Snow Schoolers, I remember telling people like, you know, a private lesson is $700 or $800.00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:35.000Brian Bensch: Well, now it's roughly double that.00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:51.000Brian Bensch: And I started teaching skiing back in college at the Dartmouth Skiway shout out to Mark and the team there, and you know I thought it was the best job ever making 12 bucks an hour in college, but it is still a minimum wage hourly job.00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:55.000Brian Bensch: Despite the high margins that resorts take.00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:59.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, wait, wait, let's, let's pause right there. So over a thousand a day for a lesson.00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:07.000Stuart Winchester: patrollers are making… I think at the Tier 1 resorts, they're probably making more than minimum wage. I think it's probably more in… at least in the 20s.00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, the, the, go ahead.00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:09.000Stuart Winchester: Plus tips, but, but.00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:19.000Stuart Winchester: Still, right, so you figure it's $1,200 a day for a lesson, and the instructor's getting, you know, $150 of that, or something. What… why…00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:23.000Stuart Winchester: Why does that model even exist? Like, who would even do that?00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.000Brian Bensch: Out.00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.000Brian Bensch: Because…00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:31.000Stuart Winchester: Like, who would work for that? Like, when you, right? Like, why not just give your own lessons?00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:44.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, well, and there's two sides… two sides of the mark, and I, uh… outside of my passions for skiing, I consider myself sort of a marketplace, you know, guru of sorts. And, you know, on the supply side, or, like, the staffing side.00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:52.000Brian Bensch: could ever imagine, and there's a reason why people love to teach skiing.00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:55.000Brian Bensch: One of the, I would say.00:19:54.000 --> 00:20:03.000Stuart Winchester: Hey, Brian, I'm sorry, you froze there for probably about, like, 5 seconds. Um, I don't know if you're on a hard line, or you have good Wi-Fi, or…00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:00.000Brian Bensch: Okay.00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:11.000Brian Bensch: It's Tahoe Wi-Fi. But it's generally fine, unless it goes out and flickers, but…00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.000Stuart Winchester: Is it?00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.000Stuart Winchester: It's Tahoe Wi-Fi.00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:13.000Stuart Winchester: you…00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:19.000Brian Bensch: I can close a couple tabs, that might help. Or we can just… I don't want you to… I know editing is tough.00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:17.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I think so.00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:22.000Stuart Winchester: No, no, no, you, you, uh, can you plug in, possibly?00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.000Brian Bensch: I don't have an Ethernet.00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:31.000Stuart Winchester: You know, okay, alright. Um, yeah, let's just, yeah, try to close some stuff, and we'll keep going, and at worst case, you can, uh, go off screen.00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:29.000Brian Bensch: Yep.00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:32.000Brian Bensch: Sure.00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:38.000Brian Bensch: To pick back up the… the kind of…00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:54.000Brian Bensch: Why is it, you know, possible for a lesson to cost $1,200 and the instructor only keeps 20% of that? There's two components to it. The first is that, you know, historically there was a glut of ski instructors going back into the 60s, 70s, 80s.00:20:54.000 --> 00:21:10.000Brian Bensch: Uh, you know, the, the quintessential ski bum, uh, is and was a great job, particularly for people that, you know, get the addiction that I know we both have. Um, and so, you know, lessons didn't used to be this expensive, um, just like lift tickets didn't used to be this expensive.00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:29.000Brian Bensch: Um, and so just like being a lifty, being a ski instructor was, you know, maybe a slight step above, you know, requires more training, but it has always been the sort of an entry-level hourly position. Um, and it's certainly not the federal minimum wage at most resorts. Uh, when Vail came out, uh, post-COVID with the $20 an hour kind of cross-board raise.00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:41.000Brian Bensch: Uh, that was great for the industry, not just, you know, Vail Resorts staff. Um, and… but the prevailing wage for, you know, first-year ski instructor is certainly in that $20 an hour range today.00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, we try to do things differently.00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:49.000Stuart Winchester: Right, but okay, so, but fundamentally to get at the…00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:55.000Stuart Winchester: at this dynamic. I'm a ski instructor. Let's say I'm a great ski instructor, right? And everybody loves me.00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:57.000Stuart Winchester: And I… I can see that…00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:07.000Stuart Winchester: you know, Northstar is charging $1,000 for a lesson, and they're paying me $25 an hour. I don't know what Northstar pays, so feel free to correct me, Northstar, but…00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:10.000Stuart Winchester: Why don't I as an instructor?00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:25.000Stuart Winchester: just say, well, I'm just gonna go on Facebook and advertise my services, and say, meet me at the Lyft at Northstar, and I'll give you a lesson for $200 for the day, because then I'm making more, and… and we're just… and the consumer's getting a better deal.00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:34.000Stuart Winchester: And then we established this one-on-one relationship. Why doesn't that marketplace exist? Why do ski areas exist?00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:42.000Stuart Winchester: How are they able to do this weird market dynamic, which sounds fundamentally unfair to the instructor?00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:57.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. Well, that question is certainly more or less exactly what I pondered 10 years ago. And how I got into this fun little project called Snowschoolers.00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:03.000Brian Bensch: was the realization that, oh my god, like, why does this exist? Um, and, you know, and…00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:08.000Brian Bensch: 10 years ago, Uber and Airbnb had just become kind of a mainstream thing.00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.000Brian Bensch: Um, and so I was like, oh.00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:28.000Brian Bensch: I wonder if we could just connect instructors to students directly and have a little marketplace for ski school. At the time, I knew nothing about, you know, special use permits from the Forest Service and the ski industry broadly. You know, I'd grown up skiing, but I was just a lay consumer skier. The reality is, and very similar to.00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:36.000Brian Bensch: you know a lot of the work you've done this summer going into Forest Service kind of history. The special use permit system.00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:54.000Brian Bensch: effectively grants the resort, at least on Federal lands, where the special use permit exists, a micro monopoly over all business activity at their mountain. And it doesn't have to be that way. If you do go over to Europe, it is a much more laissez-faire free market.00:23:54.000 --> 00:24:07.000Brian Bensch: Um, and most major resorts in Europe have at least four to six, you know, uh, ski schools that operate and compete, and, you know, the average lesson prices are roughly a third, and instructors keep, you know, 50 to 60% of lessons.00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:19.000Brian Bensch: And so it doesn't have to be the way it is. But at at the core it is. It is because resorts have the legal right to be the only ski school of record. And.00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:30.000Stuart Winchester: Right, so just to get ahead of the people who like to point out details, so North Star was a weird example for me to use because it's on private land, it's not on Forest Service land. However, it's owned by Vail Resorts, and I think what you're saying is.00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:44.000Stuart Winchester: even though not every U.S. skier is on U.S. Forest Service land, 125 of them are, it… the fact that that encompasses the majority of our ski terrain has normalized the culture of one mountain, one ski school. Is that fair?00:24:44.000 --> 00:25:01.000Brian Bensch: Correct. And there is maybe a dirty little secret of capitalism that monopolies are great businesses. So Northstar does not want six other ski schools competing and driving the price down because ski school is very, very lucrative to the at least traditional big resort ski model.00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:50.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:09.000Stuart Winchester: So, disruptor Brian comes out and says, alright guys, get out of the way, I am gonna change the world with.00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:19.000Stuart Winchester: snow schoolers and my Uber for skiing app, which I know you don't want to call it anymore, but nonetheless, since you brought up the analogy, let's go back to 2014.00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:22.000Stuart Winchester: Take us into it. What did you do and what happened?00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:32.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. In short, I would say, did a little bit of experimenting with that idea. And, you know, by the end of the first season.00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:43.000Brian Bensch: Learned pretty quickly that the ski resort management does not like the idea. And if you want to be able to ski at places that you love to ski.00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:55.000Brian Bensch: it's probably a good idea to not, uh, not poke the bear too much, so to speak. Um, and so, uh, that first kind of pilot program very much led me into the, uh.00:25:55.000 --> 00:26:14.000Brian Bensch: and and this it was always a snooze. This has been a side project of mine for a while. It's a I would call it a thriving small business. That 1st year I I pretended it was a startup, or I called it a startup, but never took funding and you know that 1st pilot program helped me realize that the only way, if I was going to turn this into real business.00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:07.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:27.000Brian Bensch: was to find a way that was mutually beneficial for both resorts and instructors, uh, and obviously the students. Um, and that led me to, you know, how can I create a revenue share model.00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:41.000Brian Bensch: Uh, where by bringing more new skiers to the mountain, everyone benefits. Um, the resort gets to share the revenue, uh, the student gets a cheaper lesson, and the instructor gets higher pay. Um, and, uh…00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:54.000Brian Bensch: you know, by the time 2016 rolled around I was ready to quit my corporate job and give it a role, and so moved to Tahoe. And you know, without the.00:26:54.000 --> 00:27:04.000Brian Bensch: A gentleman named Brian Schilling out in Homewood. Without him taking sort of a chance on me, snow schoolers would not exist. But Homewood was coming off.00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:22.000Brian Bensch: we'll say a typical bad snow year, and had to let go a lot of their ski school staff the year prior, because I think they were open for, like, 40 days that season, and hiring was a huge priority. Like, they were rebuilding a ski school from scratch, and the reality was the pitch that resonated with Homewood.00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:37.000Brian Bensch: was much less about, can we, like, you know, offer more affordable lessons and increase gear visits that way, but we need, like, we don't know how to hire instructors, we need a bunch of instructors, and this Uber model of.00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:52.000Brian Bensch: uh, pseudo-freelance instructors was attractive to them. Um, and, you know, I told them that, like, I had put up a couple ads and had, you know, 20 people apply within a few weeks, and they're like, ah, that's interesting. Um, and so that led to our first season, uh, which I would say was.00:27:52.000 --> 00:28:06.000Brian Bensch: uh, not a hands-down success at Homewood, um, but I skied nearly 100 days, and it ended up being, uh, Tahoe's second best winter of at least my young adulthood, um, and, you know, you know, no regrets at all.00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:17.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I mean, Homo's a serious mountain. I mean, right on the lake, it's dramatic, it has pretty nice chair lifts. But that didn't end up being the future, right?00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:23.000Stuart Winchester: How did Homewood break down, and how did you…00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.000Stuart Winchester: reassemble…00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:35.000Stuart Winchester: like, sort of rethink the business, uh, on a different scale, and I mean both, like, going smaller to get bigger, if that makes sense.00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:44.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. So the core hypothesis of snow schoolers was always kind of twofold. If you make lessons.00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:52.000Brian Bensch: more interest or demand and potential customers when lessons are affordable.00:28:52.000 --> 00:29:09.000Brian Bensch: I think the same thing is true of lift tickets, and that's why, you know, the places that are still offering $700 lift tickets are thriving. But affordable lessons drives an outsized increase in, you know, lesson visits. And if you pay instructors well, there's no shortage of instructors you can find if you're willing to pay them well.00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:25.000Brian Bensch: What we didn't get right in that 1st year at Homewood was the affordable lesson side of things. We were able to teach lessons at Homewood, but we were offering the normal prices from the year before, which were more or less, I would say, 10% below what Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows up the road was charging.00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:41.000Brian Bensch: Um, and we were not… yeah, we taught a total of, I think, 50 lessons that season, um, which was, you know, better than zero, but certainly not enough to get me too, too excited. Um, and the kind of going smaller to get bigger.00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.000Brian Bensch: Uh, it was a function of, uh…00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:57.000Brian Bensch: my my tiny little hill in the woods called Grand Lebakken, that, as someone who'd grown up skiing Tahoe, I had literally never heard of. I think I'd probably skied in Tahoe 500 days at that point.00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:59.000Brian Bensch: Um, but, uh…00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:02.000Stuart Winchester: And it's right by Palisades, right? It's, like, right across the street, basically.00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:17.000Brian Bensch: Not quite across the street. It is two minutes from the lake, but you can't see the lake from Grand Labaquin. So it's literally like tucked in the way, tucked kind of behind a hill. It is between Alpine Meadows and Homewood, if you look at the map. And it's roughly like 10 minutes from both of them.00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:05.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:23.000Brian Bensch: Um, and as I was winding down that first season with Homewood, I challenged myself, um.00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:39.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, tried to put it on social media, but no one really cared to do a March Madness Sweet 16 circuit, because there, at the time, were 16 unique mountains in Tahoe, and Grand Lebakken was one of the last stops on that circuit, and I forget who told me it existed.00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:44.000Brian Bensch: Um, but, you know, Grand Lubakken is not a ski resort. Grand Lubakken is a ski.00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:51.000Brian Bensch: Kind of known for its lodging and accommodations business.00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:54.000Stuart Winchester: Hey, Brian, you, uh, you just froze again, but you said Grand Lebakken is a ski…00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:55.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:57.000Stuart Winchester: So just start over from Grand Lebakken is a ski.00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:13.000Brian Bensch: Sure. Grand Labaca is not a ski resort. It is a ski hill or a ski area, as Stuart likes to say. It is two surface lifts. It is roughly 20 acres from the bottom of the hill of Grand Labaca. You can see the entire hill, the entire mountain. What you see is what you get.00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:30.000Brian Bensch: It is not, I would say, exclusively for beginners. The Poma that goes to the top, and it's, I think, roughly 225 feet. I would put it at a solid, you know, a Jackson Hole blue. It is at least a 25 to 30 degree slope.00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:46.000Brian Bensch: and I have seen 12 year olds straight line it and almost die. So it is. It is certainly like there's enough terrain that you could do ski race like training on it, and we do a little bit of that in the winter on weekdays. But it is a ski hill.00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:57.000Brian Bensch: Um, not at all, sort of, no bells and whistles, no high-speed quads, um, just a bunny lift, uh, rope toe, and a, you know, slightly more advanced poma that goes to the top.00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:09.000Brian Bensch: And, uh, spent a good afternoon with, uh, the Parson family back in spring 2017, and I was like, this price is pretty cool, this is cute, and told them about my ideas for ski school.00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.000Stuart Winchester: And who are they?00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:25.000Brian Bensch: Chris Parson and Ron Parson. Ron is Chris's father, and has owned the mountain for quite a while, and what Grand Lombachman is known for is, it is more of an accommodations center. It's a lodge and conference center.00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:42.000Brian Bensch: Uh, with roughly, I think, 150-ish units. Um, and the ski hill is an amenity, uh, along with their pool, along with their spa, along with, like, you know, their, you know, uh, dining areas and so forth. Um, and they've operated the ski area and sled hill, um, for…00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:29.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:55.000Brian Bensch: I think Ron is — the Parson family is going on maybe 30 years. I hope to convince him that he should come on the pod at some point. But he is —.00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:47.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:55.000 --> 00:33:12.000Brian Bensch: Their family, you know, is the quintessential mom and pop ski hill ski area sort of operators. When I met them, ski school was run mostly with Chris, who had sort of two group lesson slots a day and a piece of paper for people to sign up in the morning.00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:28.000Brian Bensch: And they were like, you know, we could probably be more organized with this. And I was like, yeah, I think I can help you a little bit. And then the season ended and I went home, had made no money. So, you know, my day job has been in marketing.00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:40.000Brian Bensch: for big and small tech companies for a while. Um, and so I went and had to get a big boy tech job again to, you know, pay for rent. Um, and my Tahoe ski lease was up for the season. So, I went back home.00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:39.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:47.000Brian Bensch: you know, wasn't sure if Snow Solutions was going to continue, kind of just assumed it was a one-year thing, and, you know.00:33:47.000 --> 00:34:03.000Brian Bensch: you know, hadn't talked a ton with Homewood, but I knew, like we weren't gonna you know the business wasn't great. But fast forward October 1st roughly, this time of year the Gm. Gives me a call out of the blue, and I pick up. I'm now at my new day job, and I just play it cool. And I'm like, Oh, yeah.00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:19.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, no, we'll run your ski school this winter. Grant Lebakken did, yeah. So the GM of Grant Lebakken picked up and said, hey, you know, we love meeting you in the spring, and you know, winter's around the corner. Let's talk about, you know, what needs to be done for you guys to run ski school for us this year.00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.000Stuart Winchester: Grand Labaquin?00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, okay.00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:11.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:14.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:20.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm. Right.00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:23.000Brian Bensch: Um, and I remember going home that night being like, huh.00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:33.000Brian Bensch: This is not going to be easy because I'm working 40 to 50 hours a week now at my new job. But skiing in this space is what I love to do.00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:25.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:51.000Brian Bensch: You know, at one point, a quote on the website was the Confucius quote, “If you find a job you love, you'll never work another day.” And, you know, I said, yes, you know, porque no las dos, let's do both. Didn't tell my employer at the time.00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:49.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:51.000 --> 00:35:06.000Brian Bensch: Because, you know, don't want to give them reason to question how much time you're putting in. But basically worked, you know, spent many nights, and I was a bad developer at the time. So everything snow schoolers is kind of built in-house from a code perspective.00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:55.000Stuart Winchester: Been there?00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:03.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:23.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, I just, every evening from 6 p.m. to midnight, I'd be plugging away to build the Grand Le Bacon kind of new system that we built that first year. And it worked. You know, year two, we taught.00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:38.000Brian Bensch: I think 300 plus lessons, and we did five times more revenue than year one at Homewood. And again, I was, you know, I only taught probably 2% of lessons because I had my full-time job. Christmas was a fun disaster where.00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:47.000Brian Bensch: all of a sudden, we were sold out every single day, and I was like, uh, I guess I need to figure out how to stop selling lessons, uh, because I hadn't really built that into the model the first year, because we were never sold out.00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:48.000Stuart Winchester: Ah, okay, okay.00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:56.000Brian Bensch: But, you know, we made it work and lots of families had amazing, you know, first experiences learning to slide on snow.00:35:55.000 --> 00:36:06.000Stuart Winchester: So let me zoom out and just tell you why I think this makes sense from my point of view, and then you can color that in with with how Graham Lebakken actually achieved it. I look at…00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:13.000Stuart Winchester: something like the Icon Pass, and they have a partnership with Jackson Hole.00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:22.000Stuart Winchester: but Altera doesn't have to own or operate Jackson Hole, and if a lift breaks, it's not Altera's problem, but they get the benefit of Jackson Hole.00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.000Stuart Winchester: on their IconPass. Uh…00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:36.000Stuart Winchester: this model that Grand Lebakken has, there used to be hundreds of ski areas like this, just attached to resorts all across. In this part of the country, there were a ton of them, in the Catskills and the Poconos, and…00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.000Brian Bensch: Okay.00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:42.000Stuart Winchester: most of them, I mean, they frankly weren't super interesting hills, but they…00:36:42.000 --> 00:37:02.000Stuart Winchester: Those resorts found that as God running a ski hill became more complex, it wasn't worth keeping all those pieces and parts as an amenity. So in the case of, of Grand Le Bacon, I, I imagine, you know, you have a couple Pomas, so your market is probably like people who wanted to come to Tahoe in the winter, but aren't necessarily skiers, but maybe want to try it.00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:18.000Stuart Winchester: Right? Because no one's like, hmm, should I go to Palisades or Grand Lebakken today, right? Like it's, it's a very unique place. So, but Grand Lebakken, I mean, if they're going to have a hill, that means they also have to have, you know, a rental shop and they have to have a ski school and instructors. This basically.00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:21.000Stuart Winchester: Takes the whole ski school, all that labor.00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:23.000Stuart Winchester: all the infrastructure.00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:25.000Stuart Winchester: out of it, and I'd imagine you just…00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:41.000Stuart Winchester: Pay, you know, you just write them a check like a lease, basically like a forest service lease where a skier operates and they, they pay based on what they make to the government. So it, it seems to me like ski areas would love that. And I, and I could think of 100 small ski areas in the country where that would work. That's how I'm understanding this is that.00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:44.000Stuart Winchester: Is that fair? And…00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:47.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, I I would say you more or less hit the nail on the head.00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:47.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:37:48.000 --> 00:38:03.000Brian Bensch: The and and the models the operating model that we've sort of developed, that we are sort of most in favor of is, we do ski school. We take full responsibility for ski school and nothing else.00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:14.000Brian Bensch: we've we've we're not obligated, or we don't have to stick with that model entirely. And at our Frisco location, Colorado. We also do all of rentals.00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:20.000Brian Bensch: And but ski school is what sort of what we love, what we care about.00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:34.000Brian Bensch: And you know, in in other past smaller partnerships we've done. We were responsible for even more of operations, grooming and parking and snow removal is.00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:40.000Brian Bensch: like very underappreciated. How time consuming, expensive those can be.00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:40.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:50.000Brian Bensch: And so I I am very thankful that Gran Lebakken and our partners at Frisco take responsibility for for grooming, and particularly grooming snowmaking.00:38:50.000 --> 00:39:00.000Brian Bensch: um, and sort of the general operations, uh, lift operations and so forth, are… are never gonna be our sweet spot. Um, and we would happily run the, like.00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:57.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:06.000Brian Bensch: like ski school is often the biggest human part of the organization, because you have a bunch of instructors.00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:22.000Brian Bensch: Uh, and you have to, like, you know, herding cats doesn't happen without effort. Um, and scheduling does not happen, uh, without good software, and a human to supervise the software. Um, and so, yeah, that's been our sweet spot. Um, I likewise, uh, think that there are at least.00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:11.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:16.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:35.000Brian Bensch: a few dozen, if not hundreds, of other small ski areas, whether they're surface lift only, or just small with, like, a single fixed grip lift, that, um, that want to do a better ski school program, and we would love to talk to them.00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:53.000Stuart Winchester: So, so Grand Labakin you've been with ever since, so I'm assuming they've been pretty happy with it. Let's jump across the country to another really weird ski area that probably people don't know exists, that we've been talking about, which is Frisco, which is… you pass by it on the way to Breckenridge, but you won't even see it. It's so small, like.00:39:53.000 --> 00:40:09.000Stuart Winchester: You have to drive around this weird road and it's, you know, underneath a hill. And I've not skied there, but I stopped by after they were closed, uh, a couple years ago. So, so that is not attached to a resort. That's, I think, a city park. So you have a completely different demo there.00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:19.000Stuart Winchester: So who is Frisco trying to serve, and how did you meet that need? And it seems like you've had a long-term relationship with them as well.00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:29.000Brian Bensch: Yes. So we're now going to our fifth season with the town of Frisco. And so, yes, it is a municipally managed ski area and tubing park.00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:42.000Brian Bensch: You can't miss the tubing element when you're driving from getting off I-70 and heading to Breckenridge, but very few people will know that there's beginner ski and snowboarding there as well. I've been to Colorado a good handful of times.00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:48.000Brian Bensch: definitely drove by it once and didn't know they were skiing there. And you know a mutual acquaintance.00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:45.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:40:48.000 --> 00:41:01.000Brian Bensch: post-COVID, when I was talking about, you know what, you know, the world's going remote, maybe I can just, you know, expand snow schoolers without me physically being there all the time. Um, and I was like, huh, have you heard of Frisco? I was like, no, what.00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:58.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:07.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, that was probably two months before our first successful season with Frisco.00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:22.000Brian Bensch: Um, the audience they're serving, to your question, is not nearly as local as you might expect for being, like, a town-run hill. Uh, we certainly have some local programs, but their audience is Summit County visitors.00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:15.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm.00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:35.000Brian Bensch: Who primarily are either not skiers yet, not skiers and swimmers yet, or are brand new and want to get their sort of their ski legs on because someone invited them on a trip to Breck or trip to Copper.00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:52.000Brian Bensch: and they're like, well, I've never skied before. You know a lifting. It's expensive, less expensive. B like, can I get my legs like, you know, get my footing somewhere, and we are smack dab in the middle of, you know, 4 major resorts. In addition to Copper Breck, you've got a base and and.00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:52.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:59.000Brian Bensch: and Keystone around the corner, and we are the affordable alternative for Summit County visitors.00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:03.000Stuart Winchester: It's expensive for a rope tail, by the way, it's like $40 for a lift ticket.00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:01.000Brian Bensch: Um, and the town…00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:07.000Brian Bensch: Sure. Expenses is very relative. That is fair.00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:07.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:08.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, okay.00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, okay, so, so…00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:21.000Stuart Winchester: you established… that's funny, that's not at all what I expected. I thought it would be, like, bust loads of kids, but I guess they probably have deals with Breckenridge or something. So you've had success.00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:35.000Stuart Winchester: at Frisco and at Grand Labaca, and you've had a couple others that you've been in and out of other than Homewood. Tell us about those, and what did work, and ultimately what didn't work about them.00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:46.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. Let's go with — let's stick with the Colorado trend first, and then we'll come back to Tahoe. There's an awesome little mountain.00:42:46.000 --> 00:43:01.000Brian Bensch: that, I think you know, and and didn't. As you think about your the last ski resorts to open or ski areas to open. I actually think Hoedown Hill is the most recently opened new ski area in the country. It's about an hour north of Denver.00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:06.000Brian Bensch: in Windsor, Colorado, and we worked with them for their 1st 2 seasons.00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:15.000Brian Bensch: Um, and we did not work with them last year. Um, still in touch with them, um, but they are a brand new ski area that is, I would say, a…00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.000Brian Bensch: a privately…00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:26.000Brian Bensch: run like you. You could say there's similarities to the Grand Lebakken business model, but on a whole other level of, I would say.00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:40.000Brian Bensch: affluence and like target demo. The Hoedown Hill facility is attached to the Raindance National Golf Course, which I'm not a golfer, but I hear it's a tier one destination golf course.00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:49.000Brian Bensch: They want to build, you know, 4 seasons esque hotel there, and it is a we'll say a bourgeois experience that they're going for with some, you know.00:43:49.000 --> 00:44:06.000Brian Bensch: you know, a good culture vibe there. And I think so long as the management team remains committed, it will continue to grow. They are at the IndyPass, so shout out there, like, it's worth a quick visit if you're flying into Denver with your IndyPass.00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.000Stuart Winchester: Yep.00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:07.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:10.000Brian Bensch: Um, and in our first two seasons there, um.00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:12.000Brian Bensch: We did, we did.00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:19.000Brian Bensch: we did okay. But we weren't able to draw the numbers that we saw in Summit County, or anywhere close to them.00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm. Okay.00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.000Brian Bensch: And my conclusion.00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:26.000Brian Bensch: or one of my conclusions is that.00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:39.000Brian Bensch: It is much, much harder to influence the macro kind of tide of skier movements than it is to siphon off.00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:55.000Brian Bensch: not to capture demand in an underserved market in Northern Colorado. You know, it's great that they have Hodown Hill, but there weren't a thousand people looking for affordable lessons in Northern Colorado before Hodown Hill existed.00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:45.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:55.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm. Okay.00:44:55.000 --> 00:45:11.000Brian Bensch: Uh, whereas there's, you know, thousands of Summit County visitors who want more affordable lessons and just don't take lessons today. Um, and so, like, it was… and same thing in Tahoe. Uh, it was much easier, like, we open up for business and, like, we don't have to do much marketing for.00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:04.000Stuart Winchester: You know.00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:25.000Brian Bensch: for the wave of customers to come in, whereas every customer we earned in, uh, in Windsor and Fort Collins area, sort of, we had to hustle to get. There weren't people, like, already looking for affordable skiing there, because it's… it's a suburb of Denver.00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:21.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, that's true.00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:28.000Stuart Winchester: That's so interesting because I.00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:39.000Stuart Winchester: wrote up, and I talked to the folks at Hood on Hill, and they were opening it. And the way I thought… the way they pitched it to me was more of making skiing accessible for locals at an entry level.00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:49.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, they didn't… I mean, I understood that it was attached to this other resort, but my understanding is it was kind of a low-cost thing for the community. I think one mistake they made, and…00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:53.000Stuart Winchester: Maybe you don't want to criticize them, but I think having four carpets.00:45:53.000 --> 00:46:02.000Stuart Winchester: I think they should have had at least one rope tower or T-bar, like, something to serve the terrain park that wasn't so slow. I think that would have gotten them more…00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:04.000Stuart Winchester: Energy on site.00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:18.000Stuart Winchester: And… and had a multiplier effect. I just didn't… I didn't like the four carpets model. I liked the model of putting a ski area there, because otherwise the closest place is, what, like Eldora, and a lift ticket's 180 bucks?00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:30.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, so… so there wasn't… or you go up to Echo, I guess, but that's a pain to get to. So… so I… I don't know, that… that was my… that's my impression of Hoedown so far, is it was, like, a good idea with bad execution.00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:24.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:35.000Brian Bensch: I I think that there's some fairness to that.00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:48.000Brian Bensch: They did a great job with the terrain park, given the resources available. And yes, like, a rope tower right next to the park is always, like, I think, a good idea. And it's something that the town of Frisco invested in, I think.00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:38.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:44.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:46:48.000 --> 00:47:05.000Brian Bensch: 3 years ago, maybe 2 years ago, and it has been wildly popular. And you know, rope toes, you know you don't need to convince me. But I'm I'm with you on the rope toes are the most affordable, accessible way for a ski area to like increase uphill uphill capacity.00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:06.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:17.000Brian Bensch: Um, I think the biggest challenge for Hoedown was… and you'd call this bad luck, um, I would say bad luck more than bad execution, but it is at, you know, 6,000 feet, and uh…00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:24.000Brian Bensch: Natural snowfall in an hour north of Denver is not the most plentiful.00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:28.000Brian Bensch: And they invested heavily in snowmaking, but you can't fight temps.00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:40.000Brian Bensch: And so, in both of our first two seasons at Hoedown, we opened between January 2nd and January 7th, but we missed Christmas both of those years, and it's really hard to, sort of.00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:57.000Brian Bensch: generate momentum for a ski area when you miss Christmas. Um, and, you know, Mother Nature is the biggest determiner of that. Uh, I'm not positive, but I don't think they got open for Christmas last year, and last year was obviously the worst of the three past seasons. So, um, hoping Mother Nature cooperates better for them this year.00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:44.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:55.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:00.000Stuart Winchester: All right, Brian, so you can keep hunting rope toes.00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:16.000Stuart Winchester: You know, I was having this debate with someone yesterday. A lot of the stats you hear when you point back in time, oh, there was 1,200 ski areas and now there's only 500. It's like, well, a lot of them were little rope toes. Like, most of the lost ski areas in Colorado were just little rope toes that existed. The reason they went away…00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:22.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, is, is not because there, there was some catastrophe in, uh.00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:34.000Stuart Winchester: anywhere other than the fact that there just was better ski areas built, and they're kind of boring. Like, when you just… you get over that pretty quick. Like, 100 vertical foot, wide open run, with a rope tow, unless it has some park features.00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:31.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:47.000Stuart Winchester: you're gonna get over it. And almost all of them, they still exist. And I've been to a lot of them across America, and they're mostly in New England and Midwest, and kind of sprinkled throughout the West, especially in the Pacific Northwest. They're almost all…00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:56.000Stuart Winchester: None of them are actual businesses, almost. Like, they're almost all subsidized, they're a city park, they're owned by a school, they're attached to a resort.00:48:56.000 --> 00:49:01.000Stuart Winchester: My point is, this is not a growth area long term.00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:02.000Stuart Winchester: And…00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:17.000Stuart Winchester: you know, the big ski areas mostly do have really good beginner centers, and they're getting better all the time, right? You see places like Jackson and Big Sky building mid-mountain beginner centers to put people more up in the alpine experience and away from.00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:22.000Stuart Winchester: the chaos of the base. So what I'm getting at here is.00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.000Stuart Winchester: Eventually…00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:28.000Stuart Winchester: It seems like you have to get…00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:41.000Stuart Winchester: into a ski area where there's somewhere else to go after the beginner hill's done, right? Or else you're just gonna be teaching pizza French fry forever, and… and I don't think that even the most passionate ski instructor wants to do that, so…00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:49.000Stuart Winchester: And it's funny, because you started at Homewood, and it's like, how do you get back to Homewood is almost the question I'm asking.00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:51.000Stuart Winchester: But I…00:49:51.000 --> 00:50:02.000Stuart Winchester: How do you… First of all, do you agree with that or am I totally missing the point? And second, if you do want to eventually get into bigger operations, what…00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:07.000Stuart Winchester: What are the obstacles to doing so other than the obvious permitting issue we just talked about?00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:20.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, so I would say I 80% agree with you. The 20% carve out would be that Grand Lavaca is still a business and Ron runs it like a business.00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:13.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:18.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:27.000Brian Bensch: And the town of Frisco, even if it's town-operated, is a business that, like, reports its P&L, and they're both, like, pretty thriving.00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:33.000Brian Bensch: medium sized businesses. Snow schoolers is a small business. They're they're certainly, you know, 5 to 10 x bigger.00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:42.000Brian Bensch: And and I think that just like, you know, grade school education is a business.00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:41.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:46.000Brian Bensch: There is a steady stream of families.00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:47.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:46.000 --> 00:51:01.000Brian Bensch: You know, kids that, you know, will hopefully have the opportunity to learn to ski. And, you know, I think there's a world for, you know, bump hills, so to speak, to remain thriving in existence without having, you know.00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:13.000Brian Bensch: the Jackson Hole Palisades terrain to keep people forever. As far as you know, snow schoolers and kind of the the lesson ecosystem.00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:06.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:07.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:22.000Brian Bensch: I would say vehemently believe there is an underserved market for intermediate and advanced lessons.00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:37.000Brian Bensch: at, you know, quote-unquote, real resorts. Um, I'd somewhat be lying if I said I had the answer, uh, to how to break into that, because I probably would have done so already, uh, even if this is my part-time endeavor. Um, but the… in a similar manner to.00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:29.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:44.000Brian Bensch: Uh, you know, how to… you know, we've… we struggled to create demand at Hoedown Hill. Hoedown Hill? Um…00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:43.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:59.000Brian Bensch: It is a completely new endeavor to create demand for that, you know, lifelong skier who skis, you know, 5 to 15 days a year, or maybe even like 10 to 50 days a year, and doesn't think that they need a lesson.00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:01.000Brian Bensch: Um, that is a much sort of.00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:14.000Brian Bensch: harder marketing challenge. But I can guarantee you, unless they are in the top 1% of like wealth. They're not going to pay $1,000. And so that's the like. How do you? How do you like? Come up with the right product?00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:15.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:26.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, when I talk to people on chairlifts, you know, fun skiing, I'll often ask, like, you know, hey, when's the last time you took a lesson now? Yeah, when I was a kid. What would you be willing to pay?00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:42.000Brian Bensch: Uh, you know, to get 20% better at your skiing riding today. It's like, yeah, maybe 50 bucks, maybe 40 bucks, 60 bucks, like, you know. Uh, and there's no mountain that offers that, particularly for, like, the one or two hour segment. Um, and, you know.00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:49.000Brian Bensch: I think there's a lot of experimentation that the bigger mountains could do with ski school to serve that sort of.00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:52.000Brian Bensch: Latent market, or latent demand, uh…00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:55.000Brian Bensch: I'd love to help, but I'd be lying if I think that.00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:58.000Brian Bensch: Ask a 3rd party to do it for them.00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:59.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:13.000Brian Bensch: And but you know, in the the only thing I think that I am a believer of Einstein's definition of insanity, and and if you do the same thing over over and over again, and expect different results like that's insane.00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:28.000Brian Bensch: Um, and I'd love to see more experimentation with, like, you know, better serving sort of lessons for people that already know how to ski. Um, because that's what… that's what got me addicted. Uh, becoming an instructor made me realize how much more.00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:23.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I'm.00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:26.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:37.000Brian Bensch: fun I could have and how much more like I still I want to learn to be a better skier this year uh and like everyone that sort of.00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:34.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I think so.00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:47.000Brian Bensch: really gets sort of addicted to ski instruction. They do it because, like there, it's a lifelong pursuit of learning to like, get better. And most.00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:50.000Brian Bensch: lace gears like don't have that sort of.00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:54.000Brian Bensch: have that spark that I'd love to spread.00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:52.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:53:53.000 --> 00:54:08.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I guess the cynic in me thinks you're never gonna get the robots to ski. Like, there's too much ego in American skiing, especially among the sort of core demographic of males. But what I… I think what I meant more was, like, okay.00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:24.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, Grand Le Bacon's kind of a novelty, and I get that it's a business, uh, that's attached to it. I, how about like Tahoe Donner, right? So it's, it's, it's not a big resort. It's, you know, right next to Sugar Bowl. It's got 500 vertical feet, like five double.00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:31.000Stuart Winchester: Maybe they don't need the hassle of running a ski school, and the…00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:41.000Stuart Winchester: they have locals, right? Because that's a mountain with interesting terrain, even though it's short vert, where parents would want to go and, like, put their kids in ski school while they go off and ski, even if you don't.00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:57.000Stuart Winchester: get the parents. Is there… do you see opportunity in that? Because there's… there's lots of hills like that, which are not, you know, down the Frisco level, but, you know, if you want to go Summit County, so you have Frisco, and you have, like, Keystone Basin.00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:07.000Stuart Winchester: uh, Breck, but then you also have Granby Ranch, and you have Ski Cooper, and it's like, okay, may… or you have Echo Mountain, maybe those places are sort of the logical next.00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:18.000Stuart Winchester: I don't even know if it's possible to get the really big ones, but, you know, do you see any growth in that? Just tiering up, not to destinations necessarily, but sort of like.00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:21.000Stuart Winchester: ski areas that families actually want to ski a whole season at.00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:23.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, um…00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:28.000Brian Bensch: A few things to come back to your earlier question. Not all of ski school is broken.00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:28.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:30.000Brian Bensch: I visited Granby Ranch.00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:37.000Brian Bensch: last spring, I believe? Maybe it was 2 springs ago. Um, and I've been to Tahoe Donner many a times. Both of those, uh…00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:36.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:42.000Brian Bensch: mountains have pretty phenomenal ski schools. Like, they don't need our help.00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:50.000Brian Bensch: You know, maybe, you know, maybe there's some cool software things that we're doing that they could, you know, borrow and replicate, but they are thriving.00:55:50.000 --> 00:56:00.000Brian Bensch: learning area programs. And I think there's a like for for the listeners that have, you know, you know.00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:03.000Brian Bensch: young kids that are thinking about when to start in ski school.00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:22.000Brian Bensch: That, I would say, tier of mountain is today, like, if it's not on your radar, it should be, because the affordability, like, they're not gouging people nearly as much as the Tier 1 Icon Epic Resorts are, and every time I've visited them, on a weekend at least.00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:30.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, their fault. They're thriving. And so I don't think that at least the class of the Tahoe Donners and Granbys of the world. I don't think they're broken.00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:38.000Brian Bensch: Other than, you know, yeah, more staff, like, how do you keep scaling? But they are thriving pretty well from what I've seen.00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:36.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I'm.00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:50.000Stuart Winchester: I could still see some operator… you know, I was talking to the guy who revitalized Steeplechase, and he was saying, you know, we don't have a ski school, and I think I may have even connected you guys, but it's like, you sort of have a ski school in a box you could offer them.00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:51.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:57.000Stuart Winchester: Alright, one more ski school question, and then you can make fun of my charts. Um, so… so, Summit at Snoqualmie.00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:11.000Stuart Winchester: and I'm sure you know this, for some reason, because of, like, it's grandfathered in, because it used to be, like, 92 different ski areas, and now it's… it's one. They have competing ski schools there. It's one of the few… might be the only place in America.00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:16.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, that I'm aware of, at least the only major, you know, it's owned by Boeing. And I've asked Boe.00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:25.000Stuart Winchester: I don't know, we don't really want to have that war. You know, it works. But but what do you think of Summit at Snoqualmie?00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:27.000Stuart Winchester: And is it just?00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:40.000Stuart Winchester: a fringe case, and it doesn't tell us anything useful about how we could maybe change American ski school structure. Any thoughts on that? That's right outside of Seattle, by the way, for folks who don't know.00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:40.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, yeah, uh…00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:43.000Brian Bensch: Now, fun, fun fact.00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.000Brian Bensch: You know, in my 1st year of.00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:52.000Brian Bensch: researching this space and figuring out what I was gonna do. Uh, the Pacific Northwest, and Snoqualmie in particular, was sort of.00:57:52.000 --> 00:58:08.000Brian Bensch: Number one, I'm like, I need to get up there and figure out, like, what they're doing, why, how they made it work, and how do we do that in Tahoe? That was my, like, year one thesis. I finally got up there just before the world shut down with COVID.00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:03.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:11.000Brian Bensch: Knocked on doors, had some good conversations.00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:23.000Brian Bensch: And and you're correct like there are at least 6 or 7, maybe even more independent ski schools. They all have their own little lodge building. They're all primarily seasonal programs.00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:33.000Brian Bensch: And they do. They still do a good deal of the sort of transportation coordination. You know that whole market is, you know, Seattle and Seattle suburbs, you know, coming up.00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:36.000Stuart Winchester: Right off the interstate. Yeah.00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:45.000Brian Bensch: to the mountains right off the interstate. It's it's as sort of like convenient as you could imagine. And more or less the answer I got was, we've done it this way.00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:40.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:48.000Brian Bensch: Uh, but we're not looking to make it more this way.00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:51.000Brian Bensch: And you know they.00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.000Stuart Winchester: That was the answer from Boyne or from the ski schools?00:58:52.000 --> 00:59:08.000Brian Bensch: Uh, it was… I would say both. There was a, uh, like, the first party unoperated, like, Snoqualmie Ski School manager, like, told me that. And there was a person who coordinated, basically, was the Boyne representative for the seven other independents.00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:11.000Brian Bensch: And it was like, yeah, we're not, you know, we're not inviting new people.00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:18.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, and in case anyone from the ski schools at Summit is listening to this, don't run to Guy Lawrence or Steven Kirchner and be like.00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:13.000Brian Bensch: Um, okay.00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:33.000Stuart Winchester: Stu Winchester said that you said this. I'm paraphrasing, and that's my take, is that they don't want that war. What they said was probably something like, our ski schools do a great job, and we're so happy to work with them. So don't run that back to them. This is just my take on it.00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:23.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:31.000Brian Bensch: Yep.00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:37.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, that they don't want to fight you, and I think they're smart not to.00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:43.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. The thing I would probably acknowledge is when a…00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:47.000Brian Bensch: Sierra is running a…00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:54.000Brian Bensch: a well executed, operationally efficient ski school.00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:54.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:59:54.000 --> 01:00:00.000Brian Bensch: They don't necessarily need third parties to come in and, like, try to do it better.01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.000Brian Bensch: Okay.01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:06.000Brian Bensch: However, there is a short term sort of.01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:09.000Brian Bensch: financially motivated incentive.01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:15.000Brian Bensch: to run a, I would say, less at scale, more profitable ski area over time.01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:19.000Brian Bensch: And you know that is sort of.01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:22.000Brian Bensch: what I would attribute to, like, you know, the…01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:37.000Brian Bensch: the non-snow summit at Snoqualmie Mountains that have one ski school and their list prices are $279 for group lesson or $1,299 for private lesson.01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:50.000Brian Bensch: they've decided that it's better for their business to, you know, maximize, like, short-term financials over long-term bringing skiers in the market. Um, and the history of Snoqualmie was, you know.01:00:50.000 --> 01:01:05.000Brian Bensch: Because it was like this, and because the ski schools were busing kids, you know, from school to the mountain afternoon, and, like, handling the very messy logistics and operations, that, like, they saw that as valuable and let them keep doing that.01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:12.000Brian Bensch: But from a business perspective, it's just more profitable, at least in the short term, to teach fewer lessons at higher margin.01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:17.000Stuart Winchester: So to end on this thought on ski lessons.01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:27.000Stuart Winchester: I think they're…

Live from San Francisco, we sit down with Tim Draper, the venture capitalist who wrote early checks into Tesla, SpaceX, Skype, Coinbase, Twitch and more than 20 unicorns. He was the first investor to say yes to Robinhood after its founders heard 25 no's, he bet on Bitcoin when almost nobody knew what it was, and he holds a Guinness World Record for hearing 52 startup pitches in 52 minutes while sitting in a cold plunge.Tim reveals the one question he asks every founder before writing a check, why he kept betting on SpaceX after watching its rockets blow up three times, and what happened when a self-driving car he was testing swerved into oncoming traffic. Plus how he lost his first Bitcoin in the Mt. Gox collapse, the condition he put on Robinhood's founders before investing, the industries he says AI will disrupt next, and his one piece of advice for building the next billion-dollar business.0:00 - Intro: Tim Draper Live in San Francisco3:48 - Tim Draper's Guinness World Record: 52 Startup Pitches in a Cold Plunge5:40 - Meet the Drapers: Why Tim Draper Became His Own Media Company9:48 - What Tim Draper Looks for Before Writing a Venture Capital Check12:20 - Why Tim Draper Looks for Controversial Startups13:20 - How Tim Draper Backed Tesla and SpaceX Before Elon Was Elon15:35 - SpaceX Rockets Blew Up 3 Times: Why Tim Draper Kept Betting19:10 - How Tim Draper Bet on Bitcoin Before Almost Anyone23:40 - Tim Draper's Bitcoin Prediction: Inflation, Debt and the Halving26:50 - Why Tim Draper Was Robinhood's First Investor After 25 Rejections28:45 - The Industries Tim Draper Says AI Will Disrupt Next32:30 - How to Invest Like a Venture Capitalist in the Public Stock Market34:50 - Tim Draper's Case for Capitalism and Free Markets39:15 - Why Tim Draper Says Not to Fear AI Taking Your Job44:30 - Rapid Fire: Tim Draper's Favorite Brand and Stock Ticker46:10 - Takeaway: How to Build a Billion-Dollar BusinessNEWSLETTER:https://tboypod.com/newsletter OUR 2ND SHOW:Want more business storytelling from us? Check our weekly deepdive show, The Best Idea Yet: The untold origin story of the products you're obsessed with. Listen for free to The Best Idea Yet: https://wondery.com/links/the-best-idea-yet/NEW LISTENERSFill out our 2 minute survey: https://qualtricsxm88y5r986q.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dp1FDYiJgt6lHy6GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Linkedin (Nick): https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/Linkedin (Jack): https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ About Us: The daily pop-biz news show making today's top stories your business. Formerly known as Robinhood Snacks, The Best One Yet is hosted by Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to another episode of Spooky Gay Bullsh!t, our weekly hangout where we break down all of the hot topics from the world of the weird, the scary, and issues that affect the LGBTQIA2+ community!This week, we cover: Mt. Everest has a tee-tee problem, a retailer's problematic Halloween costume gets pulled, introducing our new least favourite person from Texas, a man accused of killing a lawyer defends himself in court, and a zoo learns the power of words.See you next Friday for more Spooky Gay Bullsh!t! Join the Secret Society That Doesn't Suck for exclusive weekly mini episodes, livestreams, and a whole lot more! patreon.com/thatsspookyGet into our new apparel store and the rest of our merch! thatsspooky.com/storeCheck out our website for show notes, photos, and more at thatsspooky.comFollow us on Instagram for photos from today's episode and all the memes @thatsspookypodWe're on Twitter! Follow us at @thatsspookypodDon't forget to send your spooky gay B.S. to thatsspookypod@gmail.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.