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Making Treks: Episode #22: Newbolder Than Before Captain's Log: Stardate 22052025 I have been contacted from the other side of the Delta Quadrant, by a Commander Newbold, here to speak to me about ... #startrek On tonight's 22nd episode of Making Treks, join Adam, and Mark as they fly the Good ship Mullet to the final frontier, and chat Star Trek Discovery, the new Nacelle line of articulated action figures, Khan, JJ Abrams Kelvin universe, and in the library we chat about the new second edition of Star Trek Adventures, with a shout out to a dear mate who's trying the game for the first time, and to composer James Semple for our new orchestral intro! Find Lethal Mullet Podcast on: Apple / Stitcher / Spotify / Google Play / Podbean / IheartRadio / YouTube Contact: Site: fpnet.podbean.com Twitter: @fanpodnetwork Facebook & Instagram: Fandom Podcast Network Adam: @thelethalmullet (Twitter/Facebook/Instagram) Mark: @prefect_timing on all socials Check out the Video Show on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@fandompodcastnetwork FPN Master Feed: fpnet.podbean.com Catch the flagship show: Culture Clash, Blood of Kings, and the host of amazing podcasts covering all of Lethal Mullet Podcast  Tee public: Grab all kinds of LM merchandise @ teepublic.com #makingtreksastartrekfanpodcast #startrekking #startrek #fandompodcastnetwork #lethalmulletpodcast #adamobrien #australia

Friend of the pod Brian Volk-Weiss is back to talk about the premiere of Roboforce Season 1 as well us updates to the Star Trek line! Join us for a chat about the Nacelleverse, working with the Rock, and more! Follow Nacelle on Instagram @toysnacelle, watch Roboforce Season 1 now on Tubi, and preorder Star Trek wave one now on Big Bad Toy Store! https://tinyurl.com/yc3ajwtjFollow us @aic_podcast on Instagram, Facebook, X, and YouTubeStart creating a podcast today with Zencastr! Learn more.Intro and other voices by Joe Azzarihttps://www.instagram.com/voicesbyjoe/Theme Music is "Game Boy Horror" by the Zombie DandiesProudly part of the Non-Productive Network

Brian Volk-Weiss from the Nacelle Company joins Tony and Laurie this week to talk about the new, deep cut Star Trek action figures his company has up for pre-order, as well their other Trek-related projects like Gates McFadden’s podcast and documentaries. He also gives us a preview of what’s next for the toy line and hints at some upcoming Star Trek docs too. Before the interview portion of the pod, Brian joins in to talk about the latest news, including Strange New Worlds going back into production, an actor update from Starfleet Academy, and high Nielsen ratings for Section 31, and the surprise announcement about the Star Trek: Khan audio drama. We also talk about the possible return of William Shatner to the Star Trek franchise. The pod wraps up with Brian taking a shortened version of our Star Trek Questionnaire.

Brian Volk-Weiss from the Nacelle Company joins Tony and Laurie this week to talk about the new, deep cut Star Trek action figures his company has up for pre-order, as well their other Trek-related projects like Gates McFadden’s podcast and documentaries. He also gives us a preview of what’s next for the toy line and hints at some upcoming Star Trek docs too. Before the interview portion of the pod, Brian joins in to talk about the latest news, including Strange New Worlds going back into production, an actor update from Starfleet Academy, and high Nielsen ratings for Section 31, and the surprise announcement about the Star Trek: Khan audio drama. We also talk about the possible return of William Shatner to the Star Trek franchise. The pod wraps up with Brian taking a shortened version of our Star Trek Questionnaire.

On this week's episode of WeeklyTrek, TrekCore's news podcast, host Alex Perry is joined by Brian Volk-Weiss from the Nacelle Company for a supplemental interview special. This week, we discuss the Wave One pre-order for Nacelle Company's new line of Star Trek action figures - six inch action figures covering characters from across the Star Trek universe from The Original Series through Enterprise.  We discuss the figures available for pre-order right now at the Nacelle Store, the first reveal for wave two (Generations Kirk!), that full waves of bridge crew characters in regular duty uniforms are forthcoming beginning with wave three, and Brian's hopes and dreams for the line. *** Do you have a wish or theory you'd like to share on the show? Tweet to Alex at @WeeklyTrek, or email us with your thoughts about wishes, theories, or anything else about the latest in Star Trek news!

Tom and Mickey have talked enough, it's time for a guest! CEO and founder of the Nacelle Company Brian Volk-Weiss joins the show! We'll talk about a range of things such as the Netflix Special "The Toys That Made Us" and the newly created "Nacelleverse", featuring Roboforce, Biker Mice from Mars, and more! Check out all of the latest Nacelleverse news here: https://nerdinitiative.com/2025/01/31... and be sure to visit https://www.nacellecompany.com/ for more information on this awesome entertainment company!   For more on Nerd Initiative: https://linktr.ee/nerd_initiative #toynews #actionfigures #collection #collector #toys #collectibles #podcast #livestreaming #nacelle #nacelleverse #roboforce #thetoysthatmadeus

Maximum Marvel Legends Spider-Man battles his arch nemesis Sticker Shocker! When do toys become too expensive to collect? Plus, Walmart sets sale for crazy town, slashing prices to the bone. And, Nacelle updates fans on the status of their Star Trek toys after Master Replica sets phasers to “huh?” Ay, Caramba! It's The Reluctant Adult Podcast. Email TheReluctantAdultPodcast@gmail.com Save and get Free Shipping on in-stock items on Entertainment Earth with code TOYPOD TikTok @TheReluctantAdultPodcast Instagram @TheReluctantAdultPodcast Twitter @Reluctant_Pod Facebook Toy Sale Boat YouTube The Reluctant Adult Podcast Paul's Amazon Wishlist Bill's Amazon Wishlist

This week we cover LM Wind Power's patent for improved hybrid pultrusion plates for blades, trying to manage lightning. Also GE Vernova's method for placing a crane assembly on the nacelle. And a double cereal bowl for slow breakfast-eaters. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia! https://www.windaustralia.com Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Phil Totaro: This is Power Up, where groundbreaking wind energy ideas become your clean energy future. Here's your hosts, Allen Hall and Phil Totaro. Allen Hall: Alright, Phil, our first patent of the week comes from our friends at LM Wind Power, and it is for improved hybrid pultrusion plates for wind turbine blades. That's a mouthful, by the way. But what they mean is that they have these protrusion plates that are the main structural element inside of the blade and LM likes to mix carbon fiber with fiberglass is a lot cheaper. So you can actually make stronger structural spars or spar caps by mixing carbon fiber with fiberglass. All that makes sense. The issue is lightning, actually. And when lightning likes to flow down carbon fiber quite naturally if you don't do it right, if you don't mix the fiberglass and the carbon just right and lay them out in certain orientations, you can get carbon sparking the carbon, which can damage the fiberglass, which can damage the protrusion, and your blade falls over. So LM has come up with a really unique way of controlling where the fibers go in a pultrusion. Phil Totaro: Yeah, and this is really fascinating to me because they have been one of the pioneers of developing this hybrid glass and, and carbon blade over the past, you know, decade or more that they've been investigating this type of technology. And what they're specifically doing with this is, as you mentioned, it's, it's really about controlling the temperature. The fiber orientation so that you don't have the arcing issues that you mentioned. But also, you know, when you're passing the lightning current through anything, whether it's copper wire, whether it's carbon or what have you, it heats up and the way it heats up can, you know, with. With this type of an application can specifically weaken or damage or deform the blade. And that's obviously undesirable. So this is really fascinating how they've kind of taken this kind of hybrid material technology to the next level with, all right, well, we figured out how to, you know, orient fibers but we need to tune it. in a way where you can actually conduct lightning that's not going to, you know, overheat the blade and, and damage things. So this is actually really fascinating and I, I hope that they're actually using this in or have this in commercial use because this is it's quite an interesting idea and a really clever approach to You know, be able to address a, a pretty common problem. Allen Hall: Our next patent comes from GE Vernova. It, it's a way of creating a crane assembly on the the cell by using the hub as a means of transport. So the concept goes like this. I have a winch on the hub. I lower that winch cable down, and I pick up this crane assembly and I'll hoist it up to the bottom. of the hub, and I mount it to the bottom of the hub. Then I rotate the hub, so now this crane's on top of the hub. I add some more support pieces into the nacelle,

Andreas Kipker, CEO of Jupiter Bach, discusses their dominance in wind turbine nacelle and spinner cover manufacturing and major U.S. expansion plans, including a new 20,000-square-foot facility in Pensacola and two decades of partnership with GE Vernova. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Register for Wind Energy O&M Australia! https://www.windaustralia.com Allen Hall: Welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast Spotlight. I'm your host, Allen Hall, along with my co host, Joel Saxum. And today we have an exceptional guest who brings deep insight from one of the wind industry's most important manufacturing sectors. Andreas Kipker is the CEO of Jupiter Bach, the world's largest supplier of nacelle and spinner covers for wind turbines. Andreas joins us at an exciting time for Jupiter Bach the company just celebrated a remarkable 20 year partnership with GE Vernova and broke ground on a 20, 000 square foot expansion of their Pensacola, Florida facility. And today under Andreas's leadership, Jupiter Bach operates state of the art manufacturing facilities across Europe, Asia, and North America. The company's focus goes beyond just manufacturing. They're driving innovation in composite materials and. Engineering to help reduce the levelized cost of energy for wind power. Andreas, welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast Spotlight. Andreas Kipker: Thank you very much. Pleased to be here. Thanks for the opportunity. Allen Hall: Well, Jupiter Bach is the world's largest supplier of nacelles and spinner covers. Could you give us just a sense of what your global footprint looks like? Andreas Kipker: Absolutely. Happy to do that. Yeah, so, um, In the global market, we consider ourselves leaders. We have, um, we have factories. We have four main manufacturing facilities one in China two in Europe, then Poland and Lithuania, and then one in Sonia, Florida. Um, and then adding to that's where we do our composites. And then, and in addition to that, we have we have a number of assembly sites that are. closer to servicing this Nacelle manufacturing plants assembly plants of our customers. So they're spread. Somewhat in the same regions, but but closer to customers. Allen Hall: Well, you just recently celebrated 20 years with G. E. Vernova, which is remarkable. And you're also expanding a facility down in Florida to another 20, 000 square feet. What is your footprint right now in Florida alone? Andreas Kipker: I'm a little bit in doubt, actually, the exact number. We're around 100, 000 square foot in in, in, in Florida today of, um, of. on the roof. And then it's a process that takes a bit of outdoors storage at outdoor space as well. So, the site itself is significantly bigger. You will know this from blade manufacturing plants as well, that the parts are quite big. So it takes a little bit of storage around. But yeah, we're super excited to have to have longstanding relationship with with several of our customers, but G we just we just reached this milestone. Um, um, so yeah, proud of that. Joel Saxum: I think it's important to to talk about nacelles here, right? Like when you see, when you say when we're in the wind world, where Alan and I touch most of the time, everybody in the large manufacturing space, you hear about gearbox manufacturers, bearing manufacturers,

Check out this fun interview with Nacelle Toys CEO Brian Volk-Weiss. They recently announced they got the Star Trek action figure license. Brian will tell us what figures we can expect in the 1st wave. What it's like to work with Paramount. And if you can expect a Moopsy anytime soon. Also, Brian talks about other lines they work on, such as Cowboys of MOO Mesa and Biker Mice From Mars. Trekcast is a fan-made Star Trek podcast. We talk about all things sci-fi, nerdy/geeky, from Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, DC Comics, Stargate, and everything else. If you love dad jokes, saving dogs and bears you'll love Trekcast.Connect with us: trekcasttng@gmail.comLeave us a voicemail - (570) 661-0001‬Check out our merch store at Trekcast.comHelp support the show - ko-fi.com/trekcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/star-trek-podcast-trekcast--5651491/support.TV Drama Version 2 by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Trek Untold sat down with Brian Volk-Weiss during NYCC 2024 to discuss the newly announced Star Trek figures from his company, Nacelle Toys. Brian, a lifelong Trek fan and collector, is choosing an unusual route to make his highly articulated collectibles, with the intent to please the hardcore fans more than putting these out in big box stores where they would fester and rot like previous attempts by other companies.Brian breaks down who will be part of his first wave and details what accessories they include (revealing some secrets he hasn't discussed elsewhere), his strategy and plans for longevity, the story behind how he got the license, and what he will do differently from others, and much more in this deep dive into a toy line that has the potential to make Trek fans extremely happy. Stay up to date with Nacelle Toys on their website - https://nacellestore.com/Please subscribe to our brand new YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@trekuntold .There, you will see all the old episodes of this show, as well as new episodes and all of our other content, including shorts and some other fun things planned for the future.Visit my Amazon shop to check out tons of Trek products andother things I enjoy - https://www.amazon.com/shop/thefightnerd View the Teespring store for Trek Untold gear & apparel- https://my-store-9204078.creator-spring.com Support Trek Untold by becoming a Patreon at Patreon.com/TrekUntold.Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a rating if you like us!Follow Trek Untold on Social MediaInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/trekuntoldTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/trekuntoldFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/trekuntoldFollow Nerd News Today on Social MediaTwitter: Twitter.com/NerdNews2Day Instagram: Instagram.com/NerdNewsToday Facebook: Facebook.com/NerdNewsTodayTrek Untold is sponsored by Treksphere.com, powered by the RAGE Works Podcast Network, and affiliated with Nerd News Today.

Brian Volk-Weiss, founder and CEO of Nacelle Toys, joins us for this week's Reluctant Adult Conversation. At last month's New York Comic Con, Brian revealed series one of Nacelle's Star Trek action figures and fans had some questions. Like, “What is up with those character choices? No Spock? No Kirk? But we're getting Valkris? In series one?!” We asked Brian to explain himself and you will want to hear what he has to say and what he has planned for future lineups. We also find out how this relatively new toy company already has its own dedicated endcap at Walmart, plus we learn Brian's true feelings about Kirkstarter. I think you are going to find that part very interesting. Email TheReluctantAdultPodcast@gmail.com Save and get Free Shipping on in-stock items on Entertainment Earth with code TOYPOD TikTok @TheReluctantAdultPodcast Instagram @TheReluctantAdultPodcast Twitter @Reluctant_Pod Facebook Toy Sale Boat YouTube The Reluctant Adult Podcast Paul's Amazon Wishlist Bill's Amazon Wishlist

In this episode, the hosts discuss GE Vernova's financial results and blade issues, and announce the Wind Energy O&M Australia Conference. They also touch on innovative wind turbine recycling projects and the latest in safety equipment for wind technicians. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Down in Dunedin, New Zealand, they have a problem with people in front of the airport, uh, hugging it out too long as they depart. They've actually put signs out, max hug time, three minutes. Uh, because they've had problems with people just hanging out, cuddling, I guess, in front of the airport at the, on the drop off area. And the, when I saw this story, I thought, man, I've been to, I had probably a hundred, at least a hundred U. S. airports and dozens overseas. I've never seen this happen anywhere else on the planet. So maybe just New Zealanders are just friendlier people? They like to cuddle? Is, is that the difference, Rosemary? Rosemary Barnes: New Zealanders are very friendly, I would say. Yeah, maybe, maybe that's it. Joel Saxum: It reminds me of my grandma. My grandma would give you a hug and then never let you go. And if you tried to like get away, she'd put her, put a hook around you and that's it. You're, you're there, you're there, you're there for the evening. Now Allen Hall: did she give you some candies too? They individually wrapped candies as you, as you departed. Joel Saxum: She was more of a, less than a individual candy. She was more of like a, here's a rum and coke that, that was my grandmother . Philip Totaro: We do not encourage underage drinking on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, and I'll be joined by my Uptime co hosts after these news headlines. In a major development for the U. S. offshore wind sector, GE Vernova has announced plans to remove and strengthen additional blades at the Vineyard Wind Project off the Massachusetts coast. This decision follows a blade failure incident in July. G. I. V. Ranoa's Comprehensive Quality Assurance Program now includes the re examination of more than 8, 300 ultrasound images per blade and physical inspection using specialized crawler drones. While eight new towers and nacelles have been installed since mid August, the company emphasizes that operations and power production will resume only after meeting all requisite safety approvals. Britain's energy sector is undertaking a transformative initiative as energy ministers direct the national energy system operator to develop the country's first strategic spatial plan for energy infrastructure through 2050. This groundbreaking blueprint aims to revolutionize the nation's approach to energy planning by identifying optimal locations for new infrastructure development. The government anticipates this comprehensive approach will significantly reduce grid connection waiting times. and provide investors with unprecedented clarity on project locations. The initial version of the plan, scheduled for release in 2026, will focus primarily on electricity generation and storage, encompassing offshore wind farms, hydrogen assets, and pump storage hydro facilities. In Scandinavian waters, Statcraft is advancing ambitious offshore wind development plans with their application for a 2. 1 gigawatt project in the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Offshore Delta North project,

The 2024 New York Comic Super Jam-Packed Episode is here! Erik and Dave chat with Blaine from Neca, Brian Volk-Weiss from Nacelle, Karissa from Thrilljoy, and Thomas from Jada Toys as well as provide some basic commentary on the event itself in this annual episode!Follow all of our guests on Instagram!Blaine @blainerthings and NECA @necaofficialBrian Volk-Weiss @brianvolkweiss and Nacelle @toysnacelleKarissa @karissamarston and Thrilljoy @thrilljoycollectiblesThomas @quomama and Jada Toys @jadatoysFollow us @aic_podcast on Instagram, Facebook, X, and YouTubeStart creating a podcast today with Zencastr! Learn more.Intro and other voices by Joe Azzarihttps://www.instagram.com/voicesbyjoe/Theme Music is "Game Boy Horror" by the Zombie DandiesProudly part of the Non-Productive Network

The ToyBoyz go LIVE to discuss the new Star Trek toy reveals at NYCC from Nacelle Toys! // The ToyBoyz: Nerds who collect new and vintage sci-fi toys. // Follow the Boyz // Buy Merch // The ToyBoyz logo is an original design, copyright Leen Isabel

Recorded before a live Facebook (and YouTube) audience, Will, Kat and Jon discuss current 1980s news including:0:00 - Introduction04:10 - McDonald's Boo Buckets are Back11:00 - Nacelle to produce Star Trek action figures18:00 - Frank Darabont has been lured out of retirement24:50 - The Montauk Project1:20:50 - Wrap Up and Thank YouBecome a patron at www.patreon.com/1980snowEmail us at will@1980snow.com or kat@1980snow.com.Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1980snow.Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@1980snow

In this special edition episode, the ToyBoyz got a chance to sit down with none other than the Nacelle Company Founder & CEO Brian Volk-Weiss to talk about Nacelle's newly announced Star Trek line of 1/12 scale (6-7") action figures! Just days after this bombshell news dropped, Brian talks about the inspiration for the Nacelle Company's expansion into toy production, answers questions about the new Star Trek line, and even gives the Boyz a sneak peek at a soon-to-be-released figure. ‪@nacellecompany Send figure suggestions to Nacelle: startrekideas@nacellecompany.com (‬Collider article) // The ToyBoyz: Nerds who collect new and vintage sci-fi toys. // Follow the Boyz: https://linktr.ee/thetoyboyzpodcast // Buy Merch: https://toyboyz-podcast-merch.mysprea... // The ToyBoyz logo is an original design, copyright Leen Isabel, https://leenisabel.com

This week Allen and Phil discuss Siemens Gamesa's accordion nacelle idea, Vestas's innovative yaw control system, LM Windpower's LEP install tool, and a helpful beach relaxation invention. Visit https://www.intelstor.com/ to learn more about their IP Prism services. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the Uptime podcast focused on the new hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Allen Hall, and idasaurus Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. Hey Phil, the first thing on our list today is a unique patent idea from Siemens Gamesa. Which is for a wind turbine nacelle with movable sections to expand it out. Kind of like Louis Armstrong's cheeks when he's blowing that trumpet. It just pops out. And gives you a little more space to get some work done on the nacelles. This is a pretty cool idea, even though I have, we've seen other versions of this, we haven't seen an expandable version of this, others have tried something similar though, right? Philip Totaro: Yeah, so this, Allen, this is basically what I've dubbed like the accordion nacelle, or bagpipe nacelle, I don't know what you want to, how you want to label it, but the idea here is, and look, the bottom line is, I, to be blunt, I actually think this is a terrible patent, but it's a clever idea, and I'll explain what I mean by all that. So, in the world of going and, capturing innovation, whatever industry you're in, You want to be able to capture Patentable ideas on things that a you're going to use and manufacture because then it's it's protecting your own business or you want to get patents on things that are actually things that a competitor might want to use And by having the patent, you basically blocked them from, from going down that technological path. Unfortunately, I don't think that this is this particular patent from Siemens Gamesa accomplishes that, because I don't think that they're gonna use this idea, and I don't think that Competitors would necessarily use this idea. So, however What I do like about this is the, the inventiveness of the concept and the way that the engineers were thinking and doing the creative problem solving around a legitimate transportation related issue that we have in the industry. So for those of you that aren't familiar, there are certain transportation constraints that we've got in, in wind energy where, particularly if you're trying to ship something, that has to fit underneath a bridge, overpass, or through a tunnel, You might have certain restrictions on things like the nacelle width and height, the blade root, the maximum chord of a blade, things like that, or even the tower diameter, and it creates certain technological challenges. And so that's actually why I flagged this idea to talk about today is because this is really great problem solving and very creative problem solving to say, look, We've got this challenge where in order to transport something, it's got to fit within those constraints of being, approximately 4. 2 meters. Or less it's about, what, 22, 23 feet or less for, for those of us on the, on the English system but the, the, there are different ways to skin a cat, basically Vestas has come up with this idea of having basically, cargo containers that are converted, or specifically manufactured,

Patrick Graney, Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Nacelle Solutions, joins Trent and Patrick on “At Home with Roby”.  Founded in 2014, Nacelle delivers solutions that solve strategic ESG initiatives for customers while delivering clean, environmentally friendly fuel.  Tune in to learn about Patrick's education, his upbringing working in the warehouse of his father's diesel fuel distribution business, the start of Nacelle Solutions and later his Avolta development company. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The 260th edition of our Select series features some old-school broody house vibes from Cairo-based DJ Hisham Zahran. Arguably one of Egypt's most renowned and well traveled dance music acts, Hisham Zahran is known for his innovative and impeccably curated house and minimal sound. Since 2006 Zahran has regularly played in Europe, Asia, North and South America and has had residency stints with Egypt's Nacelle and New York's Bespoke Music. As a producer Zahran has released on respected international labels such as Mood Music, Audio Tonic, and Brown Eyed Boy and is notably part of the A&R team at electronic label Anjunadeep. For Select 260 Zahran delves into the darker side of his record collection, a moodier fit to what we've usually come accustomed to in his sets, mixing in a selection inspired by 90s and 00s house featuring tracks from the likes of Housey Doingz, SPCE, Mataemon and Inner Lakes. www.scenenoise.com

Born in the UK, and currently based in UAE, Egyptian DJ Maks is a driving force behind its thriving underground music scene. Considered one of the first originators of minimal and microhouse music in the region, Maks' sound has left an indelible mark on dance floors in prestigious party series and festivals across the globe like Romania's Sunwaves and Washington DC's Flash. In October 2023, the DJ showcased at Nacelle and ByGanz's party in Soma Bay. For Select 243, Maks brings us a 90-minute mix of the early-morning six-hour set he recently played for Flash Club's NYE party in DC. A mix of hypnotic house and minimal beats with a splash of soul, the set features heavy-hitting tunes by famous artists like Traumer, Cap, Andrey Pushkarev, Eris, Monile and more.

 - Như VOV đã đưa tin, vào ngày đầu tháng 3 vừa qua, tại Nhà máy Điện gió Hòa Bình 5 (giai đoạn 1) do Công ty cổ phần Năng Lượng Hacom Bạc Liêu làm chủ đầu tư đã xảy ra sự cố khi trụ tua-bin gió WT08 nằm tại ấp Vĩnh Mới, xã Vĩnh Thịnh, huyện Hòa Bình bất ngờ rơi Nacelle và cánh quạt của trụ xuống đất. Sự cố này không chỉ gây thiệt hại về sản xuất, mà còn làm cho những người dân nuôi tôm, nuôi cá sống ở khu vực này hoảng loạn, lo âu, không biết thời gian tới tính mạng của mình có được đảm bảo an toàn hay không khi phải sinh hoạt, sản xuất ở bên dưới những trụ điện gió lừng lững với những cánh quạt khổng lồ quay tít trên đầu. Chủ đề : quạt điện gió, Bạc Liêu --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vov1sukien/support

Episode 894 - Jason Interviews Melissa Flores - NacelleVerse from Oni PressThe giant-sized NACELLEVERSE #0 – featuring the first comic book appearances of many of the NACELLEVERSE's biggest heroes and villains – will be followed by ROBO FORCE #1 (of 3), which will introduce the 22nd century world of the NACELLEVERSE in the first of a new slate of interconnected limited series from writer Melissa Flores. The debut comic series will chart the rise of ROBO FORCE – a scrappy, overworked team of once-thought-obsolete robots who might just be Earth's last, best chance at survival – in the lead-up to Nacelle's upcoming ROBO FORCE animated series. https://www.onipress.com/news/nycc-2023-nacelle-amp-oni-press-partner-for-new-comics-and-graphic-novel-publishing-lineLinks & Listen  https://beacons.ai/comicsfunprofit Thank you so much for listening and spreading the word about our little comic book podcast.   Patreon https://www.patreon.com/comicsfunprofit  Merch https://comicsfunprofit.threadless.comYour Support Keeps Our Show Going On Our Way to a Thousand EpisodesDonate Here https://bit.ly/36s7YeLAll the C4FaP links you could ever need  https://beacons.ai/comicsfunprofit Listen To the Episode Here: https://comcsforfunandprofit.podomatic.com/ 

ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo'Kelly' Presents – An in-depth conversation with Nacelle Company Founder and CEO Brian Volk-Weiss, who joins the program to announce Nacelle's partnership with Alcon Television Group to launch ‘The Expanse' collectible action figure Kickstarter campaign based on the hit (Syfy) Prime Video series considered by many to be one of the best sci-fi television shows of all time - on KFI AM 640 – Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

ICYMI: ‘Later, with Mo'Kelly' Presents – An in-depth conversation with Nacelle Company Founder and CEO Brian Volk-Weiss, who joins the program to announce Nacelle's partnership with Alcon Television Group to launch ‘The Expanse' collectible action figure Kickstarter campaign based on the hit (Syfy) Prime Video series considered by many to be one of the best sci-fi television shows of all time - on KFI AM 640 – Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

Hailing from Cairo, Chiati has emerged as a multi-instrumentalist performer in the Middle East. His music seamlessly blends emotive house rhythms with pop vocals, showcasing his versatility both in the studio and on stage. His seraphic vocals intertwined with harmonious melodies, honed through years of mastering various instruments such as the guitar and keys, have earned him various gigs at venues like Shorelines, XCHANGE Cairo, Glasshouse, and Nacelle's Sandbox, among others. Collaborating with artists like Juno and Naila Marie, Chiato has graced the stage alongside renowned acts such as &ME, Damian Lazarus, Henrik Schwarz, me, DJ Tennis and more. Recently, he unveiled his latest work on Noise Records' "Genesis, منش'' with his eclectic house single ‘In the Dark.' This week, Hatem presents us with a special set: a live gig by Chiati performed at Nacelle's Sandbox Festival in 2023. In this Select, Chiati performs an hour-long set guiding his listeners through his talents as a multi-instrumentalist. Starting off with a solemn debut featuring piano melodies, Chiati seamlessly transitions into different tempoed mixes, integrating various instruments and BPMs into his set. Touching upon various genres, Chiati's mix is musically complex and layered.

Oh, you thought we were done talking about "Up For Auction?" Joining us on this special bonus edition of Adventures in Collecting is comedian, actor, and host of Nacelle's "Up For Auction" is none other than Chris Hardwick! Follow Nacelle and Chris on Instagram @toysnacelle and @hardwickCatch all episodes of "Up For Auction" streaming NOW only on the CWSave 20% on Liquid I.V. by using our offer code at liquid-iv.comFollow us @aic_podcast on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTubeIntro and other voices by Joe Azzarihttps://www.instagram.com/voicesbyjoe/Theme Music is "Game Boy Horror" by the Zombie DandiesProudly part of the Non-Productive Network

Returning once again to the pod is our good friend Brian Volk-Weiss from the Nacelle Company! Here to discuss his latest show, "Up for Auction" featuring Chris Hardwick, Brian fills us in on the series as well as updates for all of the toys in the growing Nacelleverse. Follow Nacelle and Brian on Instagram @toysnacelle and @brianvolkweissCatch all episodes of "Up For Auction" streaming February 8, 2024 only on the CWSave 20% on Liquid I.V. by using our offer code at liquid-iv.comFollow us @aic_podcast on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTubeIntro and other voices by Joe Azzarihttps://www.instagram.com/voicesbyjoe/Theme Music is "Game Boy Horror" by the Zombie DandiesProudly part of the Non-Productive Network

DC is making a book that has Todd's two favorite things, apes and puns! Lunar is giving retailers free copies of the latest Transformers book because they're nice guys and gals! Plus, your one stop pod for all Great Garloo news! Plus, Beckie is here with My Walk Down Lois Lane talking a seminal, yet […] The post Longbox Heroes episode 689: Hell In Nacelle appeared first on Longbox Heroes.

Dave and Erik took on Toy Fair and came out the other end! Join the brothers Weinbrecht for some quick thoughts on 2023 New York Toy Fair and then listen as they sit down with friend of the pod Brian Volk-Weiss from Nacelle as they discuss the latest toys from the company and get some updates on Biker Mice From Mars LIVE from the Toy Fair floor!Follow Nacelle on Instagram @nacellecompany and keep up with all of their goings on and preorders right here!Ready to shop better hydration, use our special link https://zen.ai/aicpod20 to save 20% off anything you order.Save 12% at BlendJet - use our special link and the discount will be applied at checkout! zen.ai/aicpod12Follow us @aic_podcast on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTubeIntro and other voices by Joe Azzarihttps://www.instagram.com/voicesbyjoe/Theme Music is "Game Boy Horror" by the Zombie DandiesProudly part of the Non-Productive Network

Episode 333 of the Seibertron.com Twincast Podcast begins with a discussion of the recent reveal of Japanese Earthspark toys. The crew investigates if this is a sign of the end of several years of Hasbro and Takara's products being in near-total alignment with one another. Next up is a brief chat about the new reveal of Frankentron, an upcoming Universal Monsters Collaborative figure. After that, specluation and reflection occur prompted by reports of moldy Transformers toys arriving in some collector's mailboxes. New topics lead into the recurring segment "40 for 40", this time focusing on 1990 - the year where Transformers decided to stop Transforming, or at least mostly. As usual, Bragging Rights brings this episode to an end as the cast share how their collections have grown since the last episode.

On this episode, Wagner Paglia of BlueWind Technology joins me to discuss their company and one of the recent milestones they achieved – manufacturing 1,500 nacelle covers in 40 months with just one set of molds.  Based in Pensacola, FL, BlueWind is a fast-growing company that specializes in manufacturing composite materials for applications with high technical requirements, such as those […] The post Discussing BlueWind's Recent Milestone – 1,500 Composite Nacelle Covers in Just 40 Months first appeared on Composites Weekly. The post Discussing BlueWind’s Recent Milestone – 1,500 Composite Nacelle Covers in Just 40 Months appeared first on Composites Weekly.

This week on the Toy Power Podcast, we have a MASSIVE show organised for you!  As we attempt to cover almost all the wonderful news & reveals from the juggernaut that is San Diego Comic-Con!  We have a small batch of Pre-Con news, and then we get stuck into the Con headlines - breaking them down into Company Brands.  Kicking off with Mattel, (with a bonus breakdown from Criss Fresh on all things Wrestling); then Super7, Mondo, Nacelle, Neca, Hasbro, McFarlane & Mezco.  We have not one, but two "Shut-Up-And-Take-My-Money!" sizzle reels!   Then we rate the overall Companys display presence against each other - who was the overall best in our opinion?  Plus an interesting convo about if we even missed the Hollywood cinematic side of things this year?  This is probably our longest episode to date; so strap in as we break it all down for you! Episode cover art is an outstanding picture from Instagram Artist: @WorkMoreOrLess Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we bring on Toy de Jour, a toy store all the way from Chicago. Toy de Jour has an incredible space that not only sells vintage toys and artist made toys, but they also host shows that are beautifully curated and accompanied by custom food, prints, and incredible pieces of art! You get to hear their story from beginning to now and how they not only made it through covid, but then got to be on an episode of Nacelle's A Toy Store Near You only on Toys on Tap!On instagram @toydejourWebsite: https://www.toydejour.comCommercials brought to you by Chicken Burger DiscoOn instagram @chickenburgerdiscoSponsors:if you want to become a sponsor of Toys on Tap Podcast send an email to toysontappodcast@gmail.comPatreon:To support the show you can join the Toys on Tap Patreon. Go to patreon.com/toysontapThank you to our supporters:DKE Toys @dketoysEric Nichols @righteousmadeZachary Blackburn @ztblackburnChicken Burger Disco @chickenburgerdiscoToyz(A)live @toyzaliveRate and Review:The best way to support the podcast is to rate and review so that others can hear this sticky resin podcast!

NEWS Quick Mentions: SUPER7 - Power Rangers Ultimates W4 Madame Woe (LINK) LEGO - 2K Drive aka LEGO Racers 3 (LINK) Discussion Topics NACELLE - Biker Mice from Mars Figures (LINK) BRUDER - Trucks (LINK) FUNKO - New Hostess FUNKO Pop Figures (LINK) LEGO - News Round-Up: Mario Day Flop (LINK) / Solid J Park Showings (LINK) / Disney on the Nose (LINK) COLLECTION UPDATES Strick: MAKE IT BLOCKS - City Construction (LINK) Motyl: WHITE CASTLE - GITD Pull Apart Monsters (LINK) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-toy-talk-guys-podcast/support

From driving headliners around to being successful in his own right, comedian and "America's Favorite Husband" Steve Treviño joins Gary to discuss his journey. While his financial status has changed, Steve shares how working-class values and feedback from his wife have kept him grounded over the years. In This Episode:The Two Kinds of Comedians Depression Among Comedians Steve's Blue Collar Approach to Stand-UpThe Importance of Knowing Your Brand and Worth in the Entertainment Industry. Steve Shares Why He Values His Wife's Perspective This episode sponsored by: Habana CubaAbout Steve:Comedian Steve Treviño is “America's Favorite Husband.” He can “speak wife fluently,” he never calls “the guys” for help on a home project, and he knows better than to “make his own decisions” since decision-making is a privilege reserved solely for his wife, Renae.His relatable approach affirms his status as one of the country's fastest-rising comics, viewed over 223 million times, selling out shows coast-to-coast, amassing over 2 million total social media followers, and headlining specials for Amazon, NETFLIX, Showtime, and more. He started cutting his teeth in Dallas, Texas, working as a door guy at the Improv and earning himself a spot to open the iconic 2001 Three Amigos Comedy Tour. He quickly earned his stripes and an audience on the comedy club circuit, and he began headlining on his own by the age of 25. He delivered side-splitting performances on The Late Late Show and Comics Unleashed and produced and wrote for international GRAMMY® Award-winning superstar Pitbull's La Esquina. His first Showtime special, Grandpa Joe's Son, staked out a spot in the Nielsen Top 20. He funded, produced, and shot his 2014 runaway NETFLIX hit Relatable. To promote the special, he uploaded a clip titled “When Your Wife Comes Home From Shopping.” It exploded, generating 56 million views on Facebook alone and paving the way for heavily shared clips such as “When You Ask Your Wife If She Wants McDonald's” (21 million views) and “When Going to Vegas With Your Wife Goes Wrong” (4 million views). Co-produced by Nacelle, the follow-up special, Steve Trevino 'Til Death, arrived in 2018. Steve maintained his momentum by broadening his social media presence through fans redoing bits of his comedy specials and posting them to TikTok. In less than two years, that grassroots effort helped him build a worldwide fanbase on the platform from the ground up, amassing 4.8 million likes and over 50 million views on the platform while also changing up his entire social media game. In 2020, he and his wife, Renae, unveiled a joint weekly podcast entitled “Steve Treviño and Captain Evil,” which has generated over 1.5 million views/streams and is now in Season 3. He also filmed his fourth self-produced comedy special, My Life in Quarantine, which was picked up by Amazon Prime. The once-in-a-lifetime pandemic special was shot in front of a masked, socially distant crowd focused on the ups and downs of getting through quarantine.He regularly raises money for Helicopters for Heroes, an organization benefiting veterans, for whom he helped raise over $1.5 million in the past two years.Steve's self-produced fifth special filmed in Waco, Texas, entitled I Speak Wife, independently released on Friday, October 21, for free exclusively to his global audience on YouTube.www.GaryScottThomas.com

I am joined by Drew Clements, Front-end Engineer at Nacelle, to talk about his wild job search story! Come hang and say hey! Like what you hear? Connect with me - Website: www.vaco.com/taylorLinkedIn: Taylor Desseyn Tweet me: @tdesseyn Pics of the life, wife, daughter & dog: @tdesseyn

To the great relief of your beleaguered hosts, we actually got to review a decent episode this week in the form of "The Catwalk"! When the NX-01 needs to create a little hobo camp in the nacelle to avoid bad space weather, we get some Space Jackboots, a bucket for a seat, character development, and the first ever use of a future leader's favorite trick.

He's back! One of our earliest guests returns and A LOT has happened since we last had him on. From making popular documentaries about toys to profiling toy stores during the panedemic, and now, making toys of his own, the Nacelle Company's CEO Brian Volk-Weiss catches us up on everything he has going on!Follow Brian on Instagram @brianvolkweiss and keep up with everything going on with the Nacelle Company on their Instagram @nacellecompany.Use our special link zen.ai/aicpod and use aicpod to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #madeonzencastrThis podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com/aic to get 10% off your first month.Follow us @aic_podcast on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTubeIntro and other voices by Joe Azzarihttps://www.instagram.com/voicesbyjoe/Theme Music is "Game Boy Horror" by the Zombie DandiesProudly part of the Non-Productive Network

With PulseCon and NYCC reveals banking up, this was always gonna be a long, crazy episode. So crazy we forgot to tune Trents mic apparently! In this extended episode we cover it all from the usual suspects from Star Wars, Marvel Legends, DC Multiverse, Origins, NECA and Super7, but also the road less travelled with Nacelle, Mondo, Toho and too many more to name. We also unpack the recent closure of Aussie retailer BulletProof Villain and the fallout from it. Lastly, our hometown super-event The Adelaide Comic and Toy Fair gets a glowing recap as we talk tales, latest scores and hilarity from one epic day.Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The gang is back together again and Trent regales us with some hilarious Lego adjacent tales. Then it's onto the news and there's some tasty morsels to get too. There's the our favourite chefs serving up their main courses: Super7 Ultimates, DC Super Powers, Marvel Legends, and Ramen's finest noodles. And for a side dish, how about an unproduced dish not seen since the 90s all topped off with of Hasbro's finest statistics ever. Then it's dessert time with an assortment of goodies from PowerCon. Nacelle, NECA and Formo produce some sweet sweet treats and not just from Masters!  Bon Appetit!Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

durée : 00:51:02 - On cuisine ensemble - Un repas à quelques dizaines de mètres au-dessus du sol, avec une vue imprenable sur la colline de l'Hermitage et la vallée du Rhône, c'est ce que propose la cave de Tain pour célébrer ses 89 printemps. Associé à cet événement festif, France Bleu Drôme Ardèche était en direct et en lévitation.

This week,  the Dashing Duo take some time to discuss a variety of topics including: The Oscar slap Toy news from Super7 News from the Nacelle company Updates on the upcoming Wonder Twins movie The potential for wrestler Becky Lynch joining the MCU A while slew of Star Wars news

If the story of SuckLord's life has been a mystery to you, be puzzled no longer! Episode 2 in his 5 par saga has come. In this episode he walks us through early life of high school and college. We follow his story through the ins and outs of being lost and not knowing what was next for him. This is where his love of Star Wars comes in handy! Take a listen to this weeks Toys on Tap!Toys on Tap got to sit down with the Vice President of Content Strategy Rich Mayerik to talk toys, life, and the Nacelle Company! You get to hear all about Rich's origin story and how he got to Nacelle and what Nacelle has been up to!On instagram @sucklordCommercials brought to you by Chicken Burger DiscoOn instagram @chickenburgerdiscoSponsors:if you want to become a sponsor of Toys on Tap Podcast send an email to yuckotoys@gmail.comPatreon:To support the show you can join the Toys on Tap Patreon. Go to patreon.com/toysontapThank you to our sponsors:DKE Toys @dketoysEric Nichols @righteousmadeZachary Blackburn @ztblackburnChicken Burger Disco @chickenburgerdiscoRate and Review:The best way to support the podcast is to rate and review so that others can hear this sticky resin podcast!

Enterprise Ssn 3 Ep 9 – “North Star”   Todd welcomes back to the big show, artist J. Chris Campbell where they discuss westerns, steel horses, and being "wanted."   http://www.emilyberglofficial.com/   Write for Star Trek https://www.wired.com/1996/01/trek-script/    Have Gun Will Travel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Gun_%E2%80%93_Will_Travel   Netflix's Space Force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Force_(TV_series)   Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTTZQp5xKyg   ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRHBLwpASw   Kid Rock - Cowboy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28YQowZ0cvI   The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Brisco_County,_Jr.   If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell https://www.amazon.com/If-Chins-Could-Kill-Confessions/dp/0312291450/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VNT37CKO12R3&keywords=if+chins+could+kill&qid=1648940215&sprefix=if+chins+could+kill%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1    Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way: A Novel by Bruce Campbell https://www.amazon.com/Make-Love-Bruce-Campbell-Way/dp/031231261X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=make+love+the+bruce+campbell+way&qid=1648940346&sprefix=make+love+the+bruce+%2Caps%2C136&sr=8-1

Here are two incredible stories from Showrunner and Co-Creator of Friends and Grace & Frankie Marta Kauffman and Executive Producer of Movies that Made Us Brian Volk Weiss. These are the stories that haven't been made yet. Brian hopes to develop his story this in the next few years and Marta has pitched her story around Hollywood to no avail. These are the stories that were never made. From Season 2; Episode 15 - Marta Kauffman is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning television writer, producer, and showrunner behind the hit series Friends and Grace & Frankie. After graduating from Brandeis University, Kauffman got her big break alongside David Crane when their pilots Dream On (1990) and The Powers That Be (1992) were green-lit. The pair then launched Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions with Kevin Bright and became the trio that created the iconic sitcom Friends. In 2015, Kauffman started her production company, Okay Goodnight, with industry veterans Robbie Tollin and Hannah KS Canter. Their first series, Grace & Frankie, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen, and Sam Waterston premiered on Netflix in 2015 and is Netflix's longest-running original ever. The series has received multiple Emmy and SAG nominations and is beginning production on the seventh and final season. In 2018, the company produced the documentary Seeing Allred, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and is currently available on Netflix. Kauffman has received a number of honors and awards including the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for lifetime achievement in television writing from the Writers Guild of America, the 2016 Outstanding Television Writer award at the 23rd annual Austin Film Festival & Screenwriters Conference, The Kieser Award at the 44th Annual Humanitas Awards, and Variety's TV Producers Impact Report for consecutive years in 2019 and 2020. From Season 3; Episode 10 - Brian Volk-Weiss is the founder and CEO of the Nacelle Company, a leading Comedy producing and distribution house. Nacelle has produced and distributed scripted and unscripted content and established podcasting, development, distribution, records, publishing, marketing and management divisions. Volk-Weiss has created, directed and produced hits such as Netflix's docu-series, Down To Earth with Zac Efron, The Movies That Made Us, and The Toys That Made Us, and Kevin Hart's Guide To Black History, as well as Behind The Attraction for Disney +, A Toy Store Near You, CW's Discontinued, All The Way Black for BET+, and History's Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek. He served as EP on the revival of the 1992 series Mad About You. He has been nominated 19 times for Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album and won 4 for production on performances by Louis C.K. and Dave Chappelle. Through his years managing, producing, directing and writing in the entertainment industry, Volk-Weiss has negotiated deals with the likes of Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, HBO, Discovery, BET+, A&E Networks, Hulu, Viacom, History, and many more. He's grown Nacelle's comedy house, Comedy Dynamics, into the nation's largest independent producer and distributor of stand up comedy.He served as EP on the revival of the 1992 series Mad About You. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Brian Volk-Weiss is the founder and CEO of the Nacelle Company, a leading Comedy producing and distribution house. Nacelle has produced and distributed scripted and unscripted content and established podcasting, development, distribution, records, publishing, marketing and management divisions. Volk-Weiss has created, directed and produced hits such as Netflix's docu-series, Down To Earth with Zac Efron, The Movies That Made Us, and The Toys That Made Us, and Kevin Hart's Guide To Black History, as well as Behind The Attraction for Disney +, A Toy Store Near You, CW's Discontinued, All The Way Black for BET+, and History's Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek. He served as EP on the revival of the 1992 series Mad About You. He has been nominated 19 times for Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album and won 4 for production on performances by Louis C.K. and Dave Chappelle. Through his years managing, producing, directing and writing in the entertainment industry, Volk-Weiss has negotiated deals with the likes of Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, HBO, Discovery, BET+, A&E Networks, Hulu, Viacom, History, and many more. He's grown Nacelle's comedy house, Comedy Dynamics, into the nation's largest independent producer and distributor of stand up comedy.He served as EP on the revival of the 1992 series Mad About You. In this episode, we talk about: • The only job he's ever been fired from (unjustifiably) - and how that lesson has helped him his whole career: “Appearance is sometimes as important to action.” • The systematic approach he had to making it in Hollywood and why it wouldn't work in NY • How he lived off of $3k for 15 months working unpaid jobs - before he got a lucky break • How he turned a job he didn't like - being a manager to what he wanted to do, which was make TV and film • The book that made them change their entire business model and a library of over 1000 hours they still make money from • His tenets of directing comedy specials vs documentaries • Toys that made us took us 7 years to sell • What he looks for in a story and does he now cater to the audience • The most interesting story that he wants to share involving Chester A Arthur • Why he may not have started a toy division if he knew what it would entail Guest: IMDB Wikipedia Instagram Linkedin Twitter Host: Instagram: @MentorsontheMic @MichelleSimoneMiller Twitter: @MentorsontheMic @MichelleSimoneM Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mentorsonthemic Website: www.michellesimonemiller.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/24mmichelle Resources: The Long Tail

We welcome Rich Mayerik (VP of Content Strategy) of the Nacelle Company (The Toys That Made Us, The Movies That Made Us, A Toy Store Near You) to discuss Nacelle's toy division, which is aimed at preserving nostalgic franchises. We discuss their plans with some of their currently announced intellectual properties, like The Great Garloo, Robo Force, Power Lords, SilverHawks, and more! We also talk about the Nacelle Toy Stores of the World Passport! Present your Toy Stores of the World Passport at any other participating Nacelle consumer product partner store and receive a new unique stamp! Head over to NacelleStore.com to get your passport and check out their other merchandise!  NacelleCompany.com @dean_cameraon @themoviesnetflix @toysnacelle @brianvolkweiss @nacellecompany CannedAirPodcast.com Twitter: @CannedAirPod Instagram: @Canned_Air If you'd like to show your support, you can either visit our Patreon page at Patreon.com/CannedAirPod or you can leave us a review on iTunes! Thanks for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our 8th supplemental episode of our series: "The Collector's Corner," we are privileged to be joined by Brian Volk-Weiss, who is the CEO and Founder of The Nacelle Company. The Nacelle Company develops, produces, and distributes feature and documentary films as well as TV Shows. They are behind many of the great comedy specials out there and wonderful documentaries such as: "The Toys That Made Us" and "The Movies That Made Us." But, what we are extremely excited to talk to Brian about is the recently released History Channel docu-series entitled: "The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek. Brian highlights some behind the scenes moments from the series and gives us some insights on how and why he developed it. He also highlights some key contributions from Narrator and Executive-Producer, Gates McFadden. Brian also let's us in on some collectibles that will be coming our way in the near future. Please check out their website at http://www.nacellecompany.com and watch "The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek" on the History Channel. If you would like to be featured on The Divine Treasury, reach out to us on: - Twitter: @divine_treasury - Instagram: @divine_treasury You can also find video of the collections of our guests and reveals of our new items by subscribing to the Trek Geeks Podcast Network on YouTube.

Got to chat it up with Scott Cherry of Barbarian Rage! We talk all about his art and where he started. From painting, to figures, and several successful kickstarter campaigns! He has also partnered with the Nacelle company to release his comic books! Scott is one of the best artists in the scene with a drive like no other! Go take a listen and buy his stuff!On instagram @barbarian_rageCommercials brought to you by Chicken Burger DiscoOn instagram @chickenburgerdiscoSponsors:if you want to become a sponsor of Toys on Tap Podcast send an email to yuckotoys@gmail.comPatreon:To support the show you can join the Toys on Tap Patreon. Go to patreon.com/toysontapThank you to our sponsors:DKE Toys @dketoysBrian Johnson @be2thejEric Nichols @righteousmadeZachary Blackburn @ztblackburnChicken Burger Disco @chickenburgerdiscoRate and Review:The best way to support the podcast is to rate and review so that others can hear this sticky resin podcast!

In our 8th supplemental episode of our series: "The Collector's Corner," we are privileged to be joined by Brian Volk-Weiss, who is the CEO and Founder of The Nacelle Company. The Nacelle Company develops, produces, and distributes feature and documentary films as well as TV Shows. They are behind many of the great comedy specials out there and wonderful documentaries such as: "The Toys That Made Us" and "The Movies That Made Us." But, what we are extremely excited to talk to Brian about is the recently released History Channel docu-series entitled: "The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek. Brian highlights some behind the scenes moments from the series and gives us some insights on how and why he developed it. He also highlights some key contributions from Narrator and Executive-Producer, Gates McFadden. Brian also let's us in on some collectibles that will be coming our way in the near future. Please check out their website at http://www.nacellecompany.com and watch "The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek" on the History Channel. If you would like to be featured on The Divine Treasury, reach out to us on: - Twitter: @divine_treasury - Instagram: @divine_treasury You can also find video of the collections of our guests and reveals of our new items by subscribing to the Trek Geeks Podcast Network on YouTube.

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Toys on Tap got to sit down with the Vice President of Content Strategy Rich Mayerik to talk toys, life, and the Nacelle Company! You get to hear all about Rich's origin story and how he got to Nacelle and what Nacelle has been up to!On instagram @dean_cameraonCommercials brought to you by Chicken Burger DiscoOn instagram @chickenburgerdiscoSponsors:if you want to become a sponsor of Toys on Tap Podcast send an email to yuckotoys@gmail.comPatreon:To support the show you can join the Toys on Tap Patreon. Go to patreon.com/toysontapThank you to our sponsors:DKE Toys @dketoysBrian Johnson @be2thejEric Nichols @righteousmadeZachary Blackburn @ztblackburnChicken Burger Disco @chickenburgerdiscoRate and Review:The best way to support the podcast is to rate and review so that others can hear this sticky resin podcast!

This interview features Brian Volk-Weiss, CEO at The Nacelle Company. We discuss why betting big on standup specials got him Netflix's first streamer deal, how Iowa taught him about empathy in content production, bombing on stage and the genius of comedians, producing The Movies That Made Us, toy shopping as therapy, and why he'll retire when his first feature film is greenlit.Subscribe to our newsletter. We explore the intersection of media, technology, and commerce: sign-up linkLearn more about our market research and executive advisory: RockWater websiteFollow The Come Up on Twitter: @TCUpodEmail us: tcupod@wearerockwater.com---EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Chris Erwin:Hi, I'm Chris Erwin. Welcome to The Come Up, a podcast that interviews entrepreneurs and leaders. Brian Volk-Weiss:I'm shocked any of this worked. So much of what we built was theoretical for so long. And the fact that there's almost no greater feeling than watching the moment a theory becomes a fact. We were making stand-up specials at scale, 20 to 30 a year for years spending millions and millions of dollars. We didn't know if it would work or not, probably until year seven. We started this plan in '08, and I didn't know it would work for sure until 2014. Chris Erwin:This week's episode features Brian Volk-Weiss, the founder and CEO of The Nacelle Company. Brian grew up in Queens with an early love for the Star Wars in 1989 Batman films. But upon realizing these worlds weren't based on reality, but instead imagined through the magic of Hollywood, Brian fell in love with filmmaking. So after college in Iowa, he moved to LA to become a production assistant. He then took an early career bet on producing a catalog of stand-up comedy specials, which almost bankrupted him, but the bet paid off big and enabled Brian to found his own production company, which is behind hit titles like The Movies That Made Us on Netflix.So Brian exudes an incredible love for his work, as well as constant amazement he's got to where he is today, which makes telling his story really fun. Some highlights of our chat include why comedians are geniuses, empathy and content production, doing Netflix first streamer deal, toy shopping as therapy, and why he'll retire when his first feature film is green-lit. All right, let's get to it. Brian, thanks for being on The Come Up Podcast. Brian Volk-Weiss:Thank you for having me. Very honored. Chris Erwin:Awesome. Let's rewind a bit. And why don't you start with telling us where you grew up and what your household was like? Brian Volk-Weiss:I grew up in Queens, New York. Was born in the late '70s. It was my mom, my dad and me and that's it. Chris Erwin:And early on, when did this love for toys, entertainment, storytelling, when did that really come to be? Was there a glimpse in your pre-teen years or as you were growing up in your house, any inspirations from your parents? Brian Volk-Weiss:I obviously, I got to get my mom credit because at three years old I could not have bought my own ticket to Star Wars. So I guess I can give her credit for my whole career in that regard. But I'm very lucky. It's the luckiest thing in the world. I saw Star Wars when I was three and I was so young, and by the way, everything I'm about to tell you, I have no memory of whatsoever, but my mom told the story her entire life. So I have it memorized. But basically at three years old, I did not know the word documentary, but basically the way my mom described my reaction to seeing Star Wars, it was as though I thought it was a documentary. Brian Volk-Weiss:And you have to understand, my mom was one of the first women to get a PhD from St. John. My dad was a lawyer. It was very concerning to them that their son for months, when he was asked, "Hey, what do you want to do when you grow up?" My answer was, "I want to fly an X-wing fighter. I want to join the Rebellion." And I mean, this really freaked my parents out. So my mom bought me this book that I still have, that was about the making of Star Wars, but it's written for five-year-olds. And I opened the book, the Death Star that was supposed to be the size of the moon was only six feet across C-3PO. There was a picture of his helmet off and it's Anthony Daniels. Brian Volk-Weiss:From that moment, and by the way, before that I wanted to be a limousine driver, just to show you how young I was. When people would say, "What do you want to do?" "I want to be a limousine driver." And then they'd say, "What do you want to do?" I'd say, "Oh, I want to join the Rebellion." After I saw the book, when they said, "What do you want to do?" I would say, "I want to make movies." And I mean, I've never wanted to do anything else ever. Obviously, now that includes television, but that's what led to it. Chris Erwin:Okay. And were you involved, in your pre-teen years or in high school involved in the theater in any capacity where you're writing stories, any of that? Brian Volk-Weiss:So I wasn't involved with the theater. I did one theater thing in college and that was what it was, but I did make little movies all the time. I made five-minute short film. By the way, I do have to say, when it was really hard to do, I mean, forget about shooting on 16 or even 8mm film, the camera I had literally shot on VHS tapes. It must've been three or four feet long. And by the way, that was the easy part. Editing in those days, I mean, you had to buy a machine for 250 bucks when my allowance was $5 a week. I mean, it was not easy to make these films, which by the way, were all garbage. I mean, they were terrible films, but yes, I did a lot of that. I did crappy little films in high school, a lot of them. Chris Erwin:I imagine you're casting your neighborhood friends and your peers. And were you getting some feedback of like, "Hey Brian, there's something special here. You're really good at this. You have some good vision. You're telling stories that need to be told, or you see things in a different way." Were you getting any early feedback like that as you're starting to put together your first contents [inaudible 00:06:03]? Brian Volk-Weiss:So I don't want to make you seem like my parents and friends were jerks, because they were not, but I made crappy movies and they were crappy. So nobody could look at them and truthfully say, "Oh, Brian, this is great." I mean, I'll tell you this, I was in show business for at least 10 years before my parents realized, "Oh wow, he might have turned this into a career." They were in denial my entire high school and college time that I would turn this into a career. Like I said, both of them were children of immigrants. They wanted me to be a doctor or a lawyer or a dentist. The whole idea of going to show business with no job, I didn't know anybody when I got here. Brian Volk-Weiss:So again, their personalities, but I really do think being the offspring of immigrants that had to flee the Holocaust and everything, I chose a very risky career path. Chris Erwin:Understood. Like you noted, your parents were looking for the traditional route for you, for stability, for something was familiar for your parents who are immigrants coming to a country that was unfamiliar to them, trying to find things that were stable and known. And you're like, "No, that's not for me. I'm going to give something else a go." So you make a decision that this is the career for you, but when you go to University of Iowa, were these ambitions in your sites? Were you planning to go into the entertainment business then? What was your focus on for your study? Brian Volk-Weiss:Again, I never wavered for a billionth of a second from this being my career choice ever since I realized that Star Wars was fake. So it was always the plan. Like I said, not only were my parents highly educated, all of my grandparents were also, my grandfather was a doctor. My other grandfather was a dentist. And even the women, which traditionally, 100 years ago were not going to schools and becoming doctors and lawyers and stuff, they were also very ambitious, very hard working. So if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have even gone to college. I would have gone straight to LA at 18. Brian Volk-Weiss:Because of that, it never occurred to me until I was out of college, long out of college that I could have skipped college. But I did know when I chose where I went to school, it was irrelevant to my career. So that gave me a lot of freedom not to go to NYU, not to go to UCLA. I decided it was more important to me to have an experience that I could carry with me throughout my career, which I got to tell you, I think that was in retrospect one of the better decisions I've ever made for myself, because whenever I'm trying to look at things, should I green-light this or should I green-light that or whatever? I have a million friends in the Midwest. And a lot of people that I know, the majority of their friends are in LA or New York. Brian Volk-Weiss:So I get this point, I was in Minneapolis this weekend, this past weekend, was like eight or nine people that I know there. So that's who I think of when I'm making creative decisions, especially in the editing bay, by the way. Chris Erwin:In a way, are you saying that you can empathize with a broader audience mix than maybe those that have lived and grown up in LA, or the LA consumer is all they know where you're like, "No, I've traveled from east to west, in the Midwest. I've been in parts of the country where others have not. And I understand what they care about, what they don't care about, how they communicate with one another." Brian Volk-Weiss:Absolutely. I mean, 100%. And just to use a non-show business example, if I only had LA and New York friends, I would have a point of view of Trump that I do not have because of my Midwest friends. I still hate the guy's guts, no offense to anyone who likes them. And I respect your opinion if you like Trump. And I think I get that because I have friends in the Midwest, because I have friends that I've known for 30 years almost that like Trump. And I understand why they like Trump. I don't agree with it. I think it's terrible, but I understand why they do. Brian Volk-Weiss:So when I see Trump, I look at him from a point of view of, again, I truly think the guy might one day be responsible for the literal actual apocalypse. But I do know that I look at him differently from almost everybody I know in LA and New York. And that is because I have friends in the Midwest that voted for him and I understand why they did. And I know they're not racist. I know they're not antisemitic. It's that point of view that when I'm in an editing pay, I can think about what they care about, what they value, and not just LA and New York and Miami. Chris Erwin:I think that's very well said. And it's something that I feel that is an important value to me too. Look, I'm from the tri-state area. I grew up in Jersey, schooled in Boston, and then I worked in finance in New York. And then I did go to grad school in Chicago, but then I was in LA for 10 years and now I'm in San Diego. But I feel that my time in Chicago for a couple of years, as well as the fact that my brother's wife is from Ohio, and I have friends from Ohio. Chris Erwin:And sitting down with parents of my friends who have run steel mills in these manufacturing plants for over 40 years, and when I just talk politics with them, the notion of empathy is to understand their story is very different than what I hear from my coastal friends and my coastal peers. And not making this a political conversation of picking one side or the other, but just context and empathy, not only in the world is critical for political decisions for economic, but in telling story and reaching different audiences and understanding what they care about and thinking about what the marketing campaign is going to be is really, really critical. So I like how you've touched on that. Brian Volk-Weiss:You just said I think is, first of all, it's pretty much my favorite word. Second of all, I think if our country has lost anything as everybody says we have, it's context. It's a sense of context. Many times people I work with, trying to be nice, trying to be funny, whatever, kiss my ass a little, I don't know. But they'll write a script or something and they'll name something after me. And it's usually like a ship or a character, spaceship, boat, whatever. And it'll be like the USS Volk-Weiss. Brian Volk-Weiss:And I'll always say, "First of all, thank you. That's very kind. Second of all, that's not me. I don't like that kind of shit. Please change the name. And if you change it, please change it to the USS context." Because that's how powerful I think that word is because anything is nothing if you don't take into account its surroundings. And that's why I liked that word so much. And that's why, again, going back to your question, because I feel like I'm rambling, but that's why I went to Iowa. It gives me a sense of context I knew I wouldn't have if I had gone to school in LA or New York. Chris Erwin:So going back to your decision for you, Iowa, was there also in addition to context, something else that you received from that school or that experience that maybe was unexpected, but a delight you've brought with you for the rest of your life? Brian Volk-Weiss:I learned a lot from the school. I mean, just the experience of getting somewhere at 18 and leaving at 22. Just that experience is a great thing, but one of the things I learned because I learned a lot, but the thing that had a lot of value to me to this day is if you go to a school in LA or New York for the most part, again like UCLA or USC or in NYU, you're getting filtered in with lots of other people with the same beliefs. Another way to say it is, if I had gone to NYU, I would have been surrounded by people just like me who had made lots of student films. Brian Volk-Weiss:At Iowa, I mean, two of my best friends from Iowa, they were from farms. And by the way, that's another thing I learned, when you think of farm, you think of like, "Hey, there's a barn and a house and maybe 30 cows and a couple of pigs." These people were from... I was this New York guy. My mom had a PhD. My dad was a lawyer. These people from farms, they probably made 10 times what my parents made for a living. But you don't think that way when you hear farm. Brian Volk-Weiss:So just needing people who are the children of farmers, the first person in five generations to go to college and they're sitting next to me in the same class on the same first day of college, I took that, it's not destined that just because you make stupid films when you're in high school that everybody else around you doing that is going to end up in the same place. You can come from a farm. You can come from... One of my best friends, his parents owned a roofing company. Brian Volk-Weiss:The other thing that was great about Iowa was, Iowa City was very different than Iowa. So the minute you were five miles outside of Iowa City, you might as well have been in Nebraska or Oklahoma. But Iowa City had a lot in common with New York compared to the rest of the state. So just all of that knowledge and experience is just wonderful. Chris Erwin:Very well said. I think there're some themes that we can come back to there, but in moving your story forward, after Iowa, you move immediately to LA and you become a PA on Castaway. Brian Volk-Weiss:Eventually. That wasn't my first job. My first job, I always like to say this was a independent film called Going Back to Cali. It was a all white producers, but it was literally an African American copy of Swingers as my first job. I booked it six days after I got to LA. Every night, the producers would watch Swingers and the director. And then the next day we would basically redo the same scene with an entirely African American cast. That was my first job. I think six or seven months after I got here, I got here July, and about four months or five months later, I got Castaway. Chris Erwin:Got it. When you made that first move, and you got this first job, this call it African American copy of Swingers, did LA still feel right to you. Were you're like, "Yes, this is it. I'm excited?" Or were you like, "Actually, this is a little bit different than I thought and I'm questioning somethings." Brian Volk-Weiss:I'm not going to talk about LA because I hate LA the day I got here and I hate it now. But if you're asking me about show business, it was exactly what I thought it would be. If anything, it was more exciting, more fun, more awesome than I had even hoped it would be. I look back on those days, I know this might be a weird thing to say, but I only PA'ed for about a year, I was only an assistant for about a year and a half. And I'm sure if I could speak to 22 or 23-year-old Brian, they would tell me I'm smoking crack, but I wish I had PA'ed a little longer. I wish I had been an assistant a little longer because, especially a PA, I really enjoyed it. Like I really, really enjoyed it. Brian Volk-Weiss:I always joke, and if there's anything I've learned about myself over the years is as I've gotten older, a lot of times when I make the same joke over and over again, I'm not joking and I'll probably do it, but we'll see if I do it with this one, but I've always joked, "Maybe when I retire, I'll go back to PA-ing." I really enjoyed. Chris Erwin:What was it about it that you loved so much? Brian Volk-Weiss:There were two things about it. One of which I was aware of at the time, one of which I'm sure is now me looking backwards, but at the time, what I loved was it was such a tiny job. I was usually making 75 bucks a day, but you had such an important role. I'll never forget my first PA on a real job, it was a big car commercial. I'll never forget, at the end of the day... The whole day I got people, coffee, I did all those, "Menial jobs," which I actually enjoyed quite a bit. Brian Volk-Weiss:But at the end of the day, I'll never forget the producer handed me all the cans of film because it was filmed back then and said, "Take these to photo cam to get developed." And I was just like, "No problem." And he goes, "Never forget, every penny we spent from paper clips to producer salaries is in these cans." And I never forgot that. And that was what was so exciting. I'm 22 years old, I don't know a thing about anything, and yet, I have the most important job bringing these cans somewhere for an hour. Bringing an actress coffee may seem menial, but she needs the coffee. It's very hard to be an actor. Chris Erwin:You're delivering coffee, but you're seeing an actress preparing for when she's going to be performing. What's her headspace, what is your routine before, what is the hair and makeup and everything's happening in advance of her going on set. So you're seeing the full experience. That absorption so early on is so valuable. Brian Volk-Weiss:So valuable. And also, a lot of fun. I mean, a lot of fun. And then in retrospect, looking backwards, the other thing I liked about it is, it was so simple. My job now, I mean, we're planning stuff for 2024. Almost everything we do now, if not everything we do now is connected to other things. So we're not just putting out a TV show, we're putting out a TV show, a book and a podcast. When you're a PA, they say, "Yo, go to Walmart, buy a hammer." You go to Walmart, you buy a hammer, you go back, they say, "Thank you." And then they tell you to do something else. And it's just very A to B, A to B, A to B. And I miss that. Chris Erwin:I hear that. It reminds me of a story. There is this very famous IP lawyer that had a very complicated job, dealt with complicated legal cases. And on the weekends to relax and decompress all he wanted, like you said, Brian, was the simplest task and actions. So he got himself a bulldozer in his backyard and he would just move mounds of dirt. A mound of dirt from one corner of the yard to the other, do that for four hours on a Saturday, that's how he cleared his brain. Brian Volk-Weiss:I get that. You wouldn't even believe. I might go buy a bulldozer now. I totally get it. That's brilliant. Chris Erwin:And I hear you. Look, as an owner of a smaller business than yours, just the weight of the responsibility, taking care of your team, taking care of your clients, making sure that you have payroll, you're planning years ahead. I hear you. So what are the simple things that you do to keep your sanity? Brian Volk-Weiss:Honestly, buy toys, collect. It's like going to church or temple or whatever. It's so peaceful to me to walk around a vintage toy store and just see what they have and buy some things, bring them home and put them in my collection. People have every right to say I'm hoarding. I get it. I mean, the volume in which I'm buying toys, I know it's ridiculous, but it gives me tremendous joy just exploring vintage toy stores, even antique stores. It really gives me a lot of peace. Even if I don't buy anything, just seeing the way the world was, seeing little bits of history. You'll see an ashtray from [Bell and Root 00:21:59], knowing that it'll eventually become Halliburton. Just seeing that in a store, an antique store like that gives me a lot of peace. Chris Erwin:When you go shopping or looking at vintage toys and vintage items, do you like to do that alone? Do you do that with certain peers that are also aficionados? Brian Volk-Weiss:My favorite way to do it is alone. Well, that's not true. The only exception to that is my wife, because my wife is just like me. If we go to an antique store, she doesn't want to talk until we're walking out. So I don't talk to her. She don't talk to me. We just shop and explore. But most people they want to talk and everything and I'm very focused. I'm really focused on what I'm looking at. The exception to the rule, even though it's not helpful to my relaxing is of course with my kids, it's the opposite of what my wife and I do, but I love my kids like any father does, but they're just so fucking funny that it's worth the distraction being with them because of how funny they are. Chris Erwin:Going back to your career trajectory, so after being a PA and then you're on Castaway, you break into, I think, BKEG talent management. And there you start managing comedians and then you start producing stand-up comedy specials. And it kind of kicks off this incredible run that you have there and then through New Wave Entertainment, which I think acquired BKEG in 2003. So I'm curious, right now with the creator economy where every major social and incoming platform and all the major streamers, they realize that the talent, the creators, they bring the audience and thereby the audience then brings the money and the revenue. When you started working with talent early on, what were some of your key learnings? How did you gravitate towards them? And then why did you start working with comedians in particular? Brian Volk-Weiss:I started working with comedians completely randomly. It was all random. I'd only been in a comedy club once in my life before I went to BKEG. I was interning at a tiny company that on the floor that his office was at, there was a communal copy room and all the assistants to all the producers and other people in the floor would get to know each other because you would be in the copy room copying stuff together and you'd have to wait while people were using the machine. All I knew was this guy I knew was leaving his job. He needed to replace himself. He was making 50 bucks cash a day under the table. That's all I knew about the job. Brian Volk-Weiss:I knew that I was broke. I had saved up about three grand during college. I had burnt through the three grand. I was about to start waiting tables on the weekend. I was still PA-ing, even though I was an intern five days a week, I had still been PA-ing on the weekends, but I still was burning through my money. So I met with his boss and I just needed the 50 bucks a day cash so I didn't become a waiter again because I waited tables in college and I got the job, and about a week into the job, I understood what a... I didn't even know what a manager was when I took the job. It was a tiny management company. Brian Volk-Weiss:I basically was like, "I can't think of a worse job than being a manager." So I basically gave my two weeks notice. The owner of the company, a guy named Barry, Barry basically said, "What do you want to do for a living?" And I was like, "I want to produce movies." And he was like, "Well, as a manager, you can do that." And he started walking me through how you do that. So I stuck with it. Then I started managing and that's exactly what happened. I mean the first movie I ever got on into a movie theater was through a client. The first show I ever sold on television was through a client. And the entire foundation of our company is from that process. Brian Volk-Weiss:To answer your other question, I understood talent very quickly. It was very easy to understand. They're not like the rest of us. And as a manager or somebody who becomes a manager or is thinking of becoming a manager, you have to make peace with that or not do the job. Because if you're a manager for any other profession, you just say the obvious thing and you tell your client what to do. So if I was managing engineers and I had the client working at Boeing, and my client was like, "I'm mad at my boss. I'm not going to work today." I'd be like, "Well, you work for Boeing. You got to go to work or you're going to be fired." It doesn't matter what you think of your boss. Brian Volk-Weiss:When an actor, you can't say that nor should you, because I cannot tell you this enough, I had clients I talked to every day. I would go on vacations with them. I would go to movies with them on the weekends. These were people I talked to seven days a week, 18 hours a day, that kind of stuff. And I would still be on set with them and we're just hanging out like friends, and then the second [inaudible 00:27:11] comes over and is like, "Hey, so and so, you're up." And they would go and start doing a scene. And I'm like looking at them like they're levitating or flying or can split at, it never wore off on me how amazing it is that people can become other people. Brian Volk-Weiss:I know this sounds insane. I've been doing this for 23 years and I'm still amazed that actors can act, but I made peace with that on day one. And for me at the time, because pretty much all my clients were stand-up comedians, they're complicated people, but you have to be complicated to become a stand-up comedian. You also have to be a genius. There is no stand-up comedian I've ever met that can sell 100 tickets or more that wasn't a genius. So when they say they're not getting out of bed for any reason, you have to engage with them, find out the reason and then work with the studio or the network or the producers or the director to get them simpatico. And I enjoyed that because I respected how hard it was to do what they did. Chris Erwin:Hey listeners, this is Chris Erwin, your host of The Come Up. I have a quick ask for you. If you dig what we're putting down, if you like the show, if you like our guests, it would really mean a lot if you can give us a rating wherever you listen to our show. It helps other people discover our work and it also really supports what we do here. All right, that's it everybody, let's get back to the interview. Chris Erwin:I'm hearing two things from you, Brian, that I think are really interesting. One, which speaks to the longevity of your career and why I believe there's so much more ahead is because it really feels like, just from talking the last 30 minutes, how much you love what you do. When you were describing Star Wars and your early impressions of Batman and making movies as a teenager and in high school. And then even just describing back then working with talent, watching them instantly transform on set and that wow factor for you. And then you still have that same feeling today, it's that you're captivated by entertainment in Hollywood. And that even if you despise LA, you love the entertainment industry, you love show business. And I don't think that star is ever going to fade. It feels like it's just going to get brighter for you. Brian Volk-Weiss:I say this, this could sound like a metaphor. This could sound like I'm trying to be humble, I don't know. But I'm telling you, I mean this, the way I tell you the sky is blue. When I tell you, I cannot believe any of this is happening to this day, I mean it. I absolutely made it. I'm shocked any of this worked. Absolutely shocked. So much of what we've built was theoretical for so long. And the fact that there's almost no greater feeling not connected to family, there's almost no greater feeling than watching the moment a theory becomes a fact. And we were making stand-up specials at scale, 20 to 30 a year for years, spending millions and millions of dollars. 99.90 cents of every dollar that came in for five or six years, we spent that money on making stand-up specials. We didn't know if it would work or not, probably until year seven. We started this plan in '08 and I didn't know it would work for sure until 2014. Chris Erwin:Well, that speaks to an interesting point that we were talking about before this recording. What was the catalyst that caused you to keep reinvesting in these comedy specials? Why were you putting 99.90 cents of every dollar that you brought in back into this growing body of work? Brian Volk-Weiss:Well, there's two answers to that question. The first answer is the long-term answer, which is I knew the day I got here, again, I was 22 years old, but I'd been thinking about this since I was five. I wanted to build a studio. That was always my goal. I always wanted to build a studio and I had read about how all the other studios had been built. I knew Disney was built on Donald and Mickey and all of that. I knew Warner brothers was built on this Mack Sennett Library. And that was the key word, library. So I knew I had to build a library. And if I wanted to build a studio, I knew I needed a library. I didn't know how to build a library. Brian Volk-Weiss:A bunch of lucky things happened. The first lucky thing was, like I said, as a manager, you make a stand-up special for your clients once or twice a year. So one day I get a call from an agent, a guy named Mike Berkowitz, and at the time I was a manager. I had all my clients and I was managing full-time. And then 98% of my job was managing, 2% was producing. And I got a call from Mike, and Mike asked me if I would ever produce a stand-up special for a non-client. And I was really offended. And if I'm being honest with you, I was kind of rude to him. It was Michael Ian Black's agent, and I said to him, I'm like, "Dude, why are you calling me about producing a special? I'm not good enough to manage him. Why can't I manage him?" Brian Volk-Weiss:And I was really annoyed about it. The next day in the shower, I suddenly remembered my job was to make money. And as long as it was legal, it didn't really matter how I made the money. So I called Mike back and I apologized. And luckily he forgave me, which if you knew Mike, this doesn't happen very often. No offense, Mike, but it's true. You would agree with me, if you ever hear it. But that being said, we did Michael Ian black special and word got out to the community that we were making specials for non-clients. So that was the first thing that happened. Brian Volk-Weiss:The second thing that happened was in 2006, I read a book called The Long Tail. And the reason that anytime I talk about the long tail, I always mention what year I read it, 2006 was a very important year, not because of what happened, but because of what would happen. The book correctly predicted the rise of YouTube, iPhones, streaming, everything, AVOD, Asphalt, everything. So I took the biggest risk of my entire life and I bet everything that that book would be right. Brian Volk-Weiss:Because the truth of the matter is one of my clients blew up. I mean, I started working with this guy when he could sell 400 tickets and three years later he was selling 15 to 25,000 tickets a night. He was making a million dollars a show. And I could have taken that money and put it in the bank, invested it, and I'd probably have more money now than I do if I had done that. But the other thing is, in addition to wanting to go to studio since I was a little kid, it was always very important to me to leave something behind. I didn't want to die and not have contributed something, anything, but something to the world. Brian Volk-Weiss:And basically, I bet everything that the book would be right. And I'll be completely honest with you, when I made the decision, I basically said to myself, "This is it." If the book's right, I'll be able to achieve my dream. If the book is wrong, I'll have to quit or get fired and either become an agent at a big agency or go back to school and become a lawyer or something. I knew I was making a bet it all bet. By good Lord, the grace of God, that book could not have been more accurate and correct in what it predicted. Chris Erwin:Well, because I think when you read that in '06, Brian, and then your investment in this stand-up comedy special library from '08 through the next 6 to 10 plus years, that also led to growing credibility for you to start going into unscripted and scripted work and TV series and film projects. And then eventually you being able to launch your own production company and studio in a cell in 2017. Brian Volk-Weiss:That's exactly right. I mean, it killed a million birds with one stone. One of the most important birds that literally changed the course of my life, the company's trajectory, everything was, I do not know anybody in my entire life that did a deal with Netflix before me. My first deal with Netflix was in March of 2009. I swear to you, you're going to think I'm joking. I am not joking. I signed the contract. The contract said, all over the contract, streaming, streaming, streaming, s-bot s-bot, s-bot. I hadn't a clue what that meant. Not an iota of a fucking clue, but the deal was for so much money I didn't want to risk losing it. So I just signed it. Brian Volk-Weiss:And that deal did two things. First of all, it brought in the money that allowed me to keep growing the company because that deal was for the rights to specials I had already made, had already aired elsewhere, like Comedy Central or Showtime, and these rights had reverted. And that's the deal I had done with Netflix. We didn't even have Netflix in my house. When I signed that contract, I hadn't even seen Netflix yet. Chris Erwin:It was a DVD company. I think necklace was founded around what? '98, '99. And then 8 to 10 years in, probably exactly in the timeframe you're describing of '09, there was this slow transition to streaming. But I don't even know if it happened at that date yet. They were probably just going to put that into contracts and planning for the future. Brian Volk-Weiss:It had happened. But first of all, nobody really understood it. But second of all, the first person I ever met at Netflix, this woman named Lisa Nishimura. When I met with Lisa, they were in the middle of their biggest crisis. Up until this very second, they were going through, I forgot what it was called, like Flixster or Flicker. They were dividing their DVD business from their streaming business, which nobody understood because nobody knew what streaming was. So it was this whole like, "What?" But the reason I bring this up is that deal I did with Netflix in 2009 got me in the door with them before almost anybody. Brian Volk-Weiss:And because of that, I met this guy named Devin Griffin, and Devin at a very unique job where Devin, he was the guy that whenever we had the rights to a special ending at Comedy Central or something, or we had a special that we shot without a buyer, and again, I feel like that's worth mentioning. To this day, other people I'm friends with who own production companies will say, even though they know our plan worked, they will still say to me, "It is insane that you were making stand-up specials with no buyers at scale." Almost everybody I know would try it once or twice and then quit. Brian Volk-Weiss:Part of how I got through it and survived the risk was we did it at scale. You can't make one or two at a time. You have to make 5 to 10 at a time, which means instead of spending 300 grand, you're spending 5 to 10 million. So when I tell you, we bet it all, I mean, we fucking bet it all. But the reason I bring this up is we were doing this at a time when no one else was. So even though we were tiny, Netflix had no choice but to work with us because we were the only independent company that had a stand-up comedy library. Brian Volk-Weiss:So I knew this Devin Griffin guy, who's now a very good friend of mine for a lot of reasons, by the way. He's the smartest person I know, but you also changed the course of my life. He was transferred after a couple of years from stand-up comedy acquisitions to unscripted. And he was the guy who was like, "What do you got?" I had been trying to sell this show, which eventually was called The Toys That Made Us for seven years. I never could sell it because a lot of people don't understand this, but producers are tight cast just like actors. Brian Volk-Weiss:So I couldn't sell it because I was always the stand-up comedy guy and executives and buyers were always like, "Why is the stand-up comedy guy trying to sell me a show about toys?" But because I knew Devin, because I was friends with Devin. Devin had been to my house. And Devin had seen my toy collection. And he also knew me, he knew he could trust, take my word. So if I told him I could do X and he knew I was a, "Expert," in toys, he green-lit Toys That Made Us and had changed everything for the company, overnight. Chris Erwin:And when you say why it changed things for the company overnight, was it because of the money that was coming in from that deal? Was it the prominence of that, how popular became on Netflix? And then what came thereafter, which is The Movies That Made Us, what was that transformation? Brian Volk-Weiss:It changed a lot of things for a lot of different reasons. The first thing it did was, I mean, it was our first hit. I mean, we had never made anything that resonated in pop culture ever. So just by having a hit, not only do you get phone calls returned faster, but it's easier to sell shows once you have a hit. So that's the first thing it changed. The second thing it changed was it gave the company an identity for the first time other than stand-up comedy. The third thing it did, and I think a lot of people might even say this is the most important thing it did, Toys That Made Us was the first show we ever sold that was about a passion that I had. Every other show before that, and we probably had over a dozen shows on the air before Toys That Made Us, not a single one of those shows got a second season. Brian Volk-Weiss:If you go on IMDb or Amazon, they're all like three stars to five stars. What I learned, and you might be like, "It's really pathetic, Brian, you had to learn this the hard way." But before Toys That Made Us, I would do research on what the buyers want and then develop shows based on that research. And then I would make those shows to pay the bills. What Toys That Made Us show me was, I don't know if I cared about the show and was passionate about the topic, call me crazy, but we'd probably do a better job. So after Toys That Made Us came out, we haven't done anything that we're not passionate about. And knock on wood, not a single show that we've made since Toys That Made Us has not gotten at least a second season. That's what we learned. Chris Erwin:I love that. So then the natural follow up question is, with that new intention, let's create programming that stems from what we love as individuals, what we love as a team, what we're passionate about. Beyond just instilling that in your own mental framework, how did you instill that amongst your team? How did you change your development process to do that? Brian Volk-Weiss:Well, I mean, it was pretty easy because, a, almost everybody that works at the company is some degree of a geek. And by the way, I have to say, I'm very proud of this. The few people that have joined us that are not geeks, well, guess what they are usually six months later? We hired this awesome executive from Discovery, this poor girl. Oh my god, I mean, she didn't have a toy to her name the day she joined us. I mean, I think she has a shelf of toys now. And I guarantee you, she'll have probably five shelves of toys by the end of 2022. But anyway, I just love that. Brian Volk-Weiss:But anyway, so we just shifted into what we loved. I mean, it was such an obvious move, but I missed it. So basically after Toys That Made Us came out, and we were getting incoming phone calls for the first time ever, I was like, "You know how we all love this geek. Let's just do that." And that's not all we do, but it really became what we became known for. And it's funny, the exception to this of course, is Down to Earth with Zac Efron, that's not a pop culture show, but it was the same premise where I love Zac. I love that he was so excited about the environment and food and it was just very easy for us to get passionate about that, because I mean, who's not passionate about food and the environment. Chris Erwin:And I think like a powerful thing, this is a theme from a lot of the other entrepreneurs and leaders I talk to, it's just focus. And if you're trusting your gut, you're focusing on a more narrow lane. It also impacts who you recruit. Recruiting team members that are like, "Look, we want to find people who are nerds like at us, that deeply love things." If I was recruiting to be hired by your company, Brian, I'd be like, "Yeah, that's the type of team I want to work for." Where you're hiring me for my taste and what I love and you're going to help make that come to life and we could sell shows like that to Netflix and the other streamers, I'm going to be pumped to join you then probably some of the other studios. Chris Erwin:And it focuses the conversations around the table, and it focuses as a leader for, you can probably really push your team and say, "Do you really care about this topic? Do you really love it? Give me more. I sense that you're leaving something on the table here and you got to dig deeper." That's powerful. Brian Volk-Weiss:That's exactly right. We just do what we're passionate about, and don't get me wrong, we're not idiots. If I don't think I can sell it or I don't think the public will want to watch it, we're not going to do it. This is the other thing I always like to say, Sam Raimi had this great quote in 2000 when he was directing Spider-Man. I never ever forget this. It's like a real rule for us. He said, he goes, this is before the movie came out. He said, "I'm making Spider-Man. I not making Sam Raimi Spider-Man." And I am very passionate about what we make, but I never forget that we are making a product to be shared. And I don't want to make something that people won't like or be excited about. Brian Volk-Weiss:And by the way, sometimes we try and sometimes we fail, but we got a lot of criticism on a show we made once. I'll tell you the whole story. We put out a show last year on Amazon called A Toy Store Near You. And the first season, every episode, it takes place in toy stores all over the world. The first season, every episode was like 25% about the toys, 75% about how the stores were staying in business during COVID. It was a pretty deep dark show. We put it out. We think we've made a great show. We're all happy. We're all excited. And the feedback, I mean, it was 80% negative. And of the 80% negative, everybody was basically saying some version of this, "My life sucks. I'm depressed. Every news story I see is bad. When I watch TV, I don't want to be reminded about COVID. I want to forget about COVID." Brian Volk-Weiss:So we were in production on season two, and I think a lot of directors may have been like, "Fuck you. This is our show." I was horrified that I had misjudged the public so badly. And if you watch season two, season two is the opposite. It's 75% toys, 25% COVID. Season three is 99.9% toys, 0.1% COVID. And we're in post right now on season four, we literally just reshot something last week because you can see someone in the background wearing a mask. So we do listen and we do take all that stuff very serious with the public things. Chris Erwin:Well, look, I think that speaks to one of the earlier themes of our conversation, Brian, which was context and empathy. I think it's why Ted Lasso performed so well during COVID. People just wanted to escape. They wanted to smile, feel good content. And that was exactly that. And just speaking from personal experience, 9/11 happened. Recently, there was a lot of amazing documentaries on the 20-year anniversary. On Netflix, on the other streamers, I started watching the one on Netflix. Being from the tri-state area, really hits close to home. And I was like, "Look, being in COVID feeling isolated, the whole world going through tough times. I just can't see content like this right now. This is not what I'm looking for." Chris Erwin:Not saying that, that content's not valuable and that I want to come back and visit it, but that wasn't the right moment in time. Hearing you say that, Brian, I think it's like constant balance of staying true to you of telling the stories that are important to you. What you think the world should here, but also, what do people want to hear right now and I want to cater to that as well, which also drives longevity for your business. And it reminds me, we had Alison Eakle on the podcast, I think a couple months ago, she's the head of development at Shondaland. Chris Erwin:And she always says, "When I'm creating a show, I think of what's the movie poster. What's the marketing going to be?" Just as the ideas are coming together. And that just caused you to think, what is the audience reaction going to be? I went to business school at Kellogg, the way that they teach leadership and business management is through the marketing lens, marketing as a management philosophy. And marketing is all about understanding the customer mindset. So I really like how you captured that there. Brian Volk-Weiss:Thank you. And by the way, my best friend in college, Jamie Jackson, he went to business school. All I did for four years was make fun of him for that. "Oh, how was business today? What kind of business did you talk about?" By the way, I went to communications and I was cutting 16mm film together and taping it together with scotch tape, something that would've 0.0 value the day I graduated. Guess what I should have studied in college in retrospect? Chris Erwin:Well, at the least, you can hire people on your team that can now do this. Brian Volk-Weiss:Thank God. Chris Erwin:This has been such a fun conversation because we'll bring up different questions and then Brian, you just go off on these amazing stories and vignettes which have been awesome. But we did gloss over the point about your belief that the top comedians are really geniuses. Brian Volk-Weiss:I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I didn't say to top comedians. I very deliberately said anyone who can sell 100 tickets, which is nothing. I mean, that is nothing. Any comedian that gets to the point where you have 100 people in a market paying money to see them, that is a low bar, but anyone who gets to that point is a genius. It's not just the top comics. It includes them, but you cannot get to a point where 100 people are hiring babysitters and paying for two drinks unless you're a genius. Chris Erwin:Thank you for the clarification that further even reemphasizes my point. Brian Volk-Weiss:I didn't mean to jump on you, but it's important to me to say that because so hard is that job that I just want to make it very clear, long before you're selling out arenas, you need to be a genius. Chris Erwin:I have not followed comedians for my entire life, but I can admit that over the past, call it three to five years, I've really followed Bill Burr very closely. And I'm actually going to see him in Long Beach tomorrow night. And then also through some advisory work that we've done with Team Coco and Conan O'Brien's digital team, starting to pay more attention to what Conan does and his podcast and his interviews. And I think what is so unique about comedians, yes, whether they're they're the top or they're just starting to build their careers, their ability to observe human behavior and society and have really interesting commentary, I think is unparalleled. Chris Erwin:And in a writing class that I take with my brother, great writers just observe. And through great observation, they can make very interesting literary points and stories. And I look at the comedians today where I just watched the recent Dave Chappelle's special in Netflix. And despite the controversy that has driven, his ability to observe and see things that others do not, and then talk about it in ways that others do not, I think that's very valuable for society and something that's treasured. And I look at them, Brian, with awe and I'm like, "How do they see that?" So that's something I wanted to highlight. Brian Volk-Weiss:Like I said, I talk to comedians every day. I already talked to Tom Papa this morning. I was talking to Steve Burn two days ago. I talk to comedians every day. I was with Jim Gaffigan in Minneapolis on Saturday. I have never gotten over who they are and what they do. They're geniuses, but I'll tell you something, everything you said is right. There's nothing I'm disagreeing with, but I'll tell you something on top of that, that I think is also true, maybe. Yes, you need to be a genius. Yes, you need to observe. But you also need to understand how the public perceives you. So what works for Bill Burr wouldn't work for Chappelle. What Chappelle does wouldn't work for Bill Burr. They had to find not only who they were, but who the audience thought they were. Brian Volk-Weiss:And I'll tell you how I learned this lesson. So like I told you earlier, I used to represent this guy that went from selling 400 tickets to 15,000 tickets very quickly. I mean, over the course of three years, that's how big he jumped. And I was with him four to seven nights a week in the clubs, at the shows, everything. I had his act memorized. And I mean memorized, not just the words, I had the intonations up and down. I had his act. One day, we had a mutual friend who was preparing to be on, I believe Conan, might have been Kimmel, but doesn't matter. And he was practicing his set at this place called the Gower Gulch, which is a karaoke bar that had a, every Wednesday night, they had a open mic night. Brian Volk-Weiss:The crowd was very light and it was late. And they were waiting for people to come in. But Jay, our friend, didn't want to go up because the crowd wasn't big enough yet and he didn't want to do his test in front of six people. So my client says to me, "Hey, you know my act, why don't you go up and do my act." And I'm like, "Sure. Oh my god, I can't even believe you're letting me do this." That is such a no-no in the comedy community. Even though I'm not a comedian, you do not do someone's act. You don't do it. And I cannot stress this enough, this night I'm talking about, he was one of the biggest comedians of all time. Brian Volk-Weiss:So this was not a small person asking me to do this. He was a stadium act at that point. So I go up, cocky, whatever. And I'm like, dude, it didn't work for me. I knew every single word of his act. I knew every pause. I knew when to go up, when to go down on the pronunciation. To say, I bombed, this was a set that could make 15,000 people laugh simultaneously. And by the way, not just every single time, he could do 80 shows in a row with that exact same 20 minutes, and never not get a standing ovation. I did it once, I gave up. I was like, "All right, thank you." I didn't even finish the 20 minutes. Chris Erwin:Couldn't even get to the end there. Brian Volk-Weiss:Like, "Thank you. Tip your waitstaff." So I always think that's very important to say that it's not just about the genius, it's not just about the material. There are comedians I know who are geniuses that have great material that have been doing it, I kid you not, for 30 plus years that still have not figured out what the audience wants them to be and who they want to be. And they've been doing it for 30 years. They still can't sell 100 tickets. Chris Erwin:I Really like that. And I just have to ask in closing, Brian, how did it feel for you to bomb? Because I imagine, Bill Burr talks about this all the time on his Monday Morning Podcast, you have to get your reps in. You have to know what it's like to go to bomb because you have to try. And only through failure will you learn what your relationship is with the audience, when you feel comfortable, what your style is. So for you going up there, where you thought you had the best jokes in the world, what did that feel like? Brian Volk-Weiss:Well, I did have the best jokes in the world because I didn't write them. The guy who could sell arenas did. I mean, I was laughing my head off. I mean, I never wanted to be on stage. I never wanted to be a comedian. I didn't give a shit. I mean, it was like a really funny experiment, but, and this I only learned a day, a week, a month later, but it did give me that experience because think about it, there's no flight instructor in history teaching people how to fly planes that did not already know how to fly planes. Brian Volk-Weiss:So think about how weird it is to be a manager that only represents comedians and you've never been on stage telling a joke. So it wasn't early in my career, it was probably barely halfway through the management part of my career, but to have that knowledge, and I've used it the rest of my life, yes, was very valuable. Chris Erwin:Brilliant. Love that. All right. So let's talk about what's the future of Nacelle Company? This business is now around four years old, founded in January 2017, you were just highlighting before the break, some incredible traction that you have. What are you thinking about in terms of what's next? And I think you've recently read a book, again, the second time in your career that's really inspired some big future moves. Tell us about that. Brian Volk-Weiss:So the future for our company is there's two things we're basically doing right now. And if I had to guess, this would be the two things we're doing for the rest of the time. The first thing is we're taking knowledge we have and experience and revenue from an existing business and applying it to bigger and better things. So the example I can give you is we started making stand-up specials on spec, meaning we didn't have a buyer lined up, and then we sold them or licensed them. We didn't sell them, we licensed them, which is, for those that don't know, that's a temporary rental of our title. Brian Volk-Weiss:So we did that with stand-up comedy. We've been doing that now for about 15 years. Now what we're doing, and the first attempt at this was Down to Earth with Zac Efron, we are doing with series what we used to do with stand-up specials, but we're right now only it in unscripted series. So we have a show coming out in two weeks on History Channel called The Center Seat, which is 10 episodes, only about Star Trek. We own that show. We have a book coming out the same day and a podcast coming out the same day. And after a certain amount of time, History Channel will not have access to that show and the rights will revert back to us just like we did with stand-up comedy. Brian Volk-Weiss:So that's what we're doing now. And this is obviously much more expensive making series on spec than making stand-up specials. I mean, every at-bat is seven figures. Whereas in comedy, I would say 70% of our at-bats are under seven figures, 30% are above seven figures. With series, it's all above seven figures. And we're doing that right now. A Toy Store Near You, same thing, we own that show. In the future, we're going to go from doing one or two a year, God willing, to doing 10 to 20 series a year, combined with, we will then get into scripted and we'll start doing the same thing in scripted. So spending 5 million an episode on spec just like Sony, just like Lionsgate. Brian Volk-Weiss:And then after that, and maybe simultaneously, we will be doing the same thing with movies. The moment where if I had to guess the beginning of my retirement will start is the point where we green-light our first say a hundred million dollar movie. The minute that happens, I will probably be retired, probably about five years after that event. So that's the first answer. The second answer is I'm a big believer and a lot of this comes back to Walt and Roy Disney, I'm a big believer in the flywheel method, which since you went to Kellogg, you know what I mean, but I only learned about this in my early 40s where we are launching departments to service other departments. Brian Volk-Weiss:So that allows us to put out, like I said, we're going to put out a show on History Channel in two weeks, but we're also getting revenue from the podcast. We're also getting revenue from the book, yada, yada, yada. So two answers, answer one, just keep doing what we're doing, but do it bigger and better. Answer number two, create more departments to monetize what we're already doing. And I just want to say for the record, monetizing sounds like some big fancy word. I mean, to say that we're all having the time of our lives, launching a publishing arm not knowing a thing about publishing, that kind of shit it's a lot of fun, but I've been through that cycle now a lot. Brian Volk-Weiss:When we launched our stand-up arm, we didn't know what we were doing. When we launched our record arm, which now to say, it's the number one producer of stand-up comedy, audio is a tremendous understatement. We didn't know what the hell we were doing. I mean, I never have any fear about not knowing what I'm doing, for better or worse. The book you refer to, I just read it probably about less than six months ago, really boring title, it's called Liftoff. But it's a great book about the first 10 and years of SpaceX. But it's funny, the reason I find that book so valuable is the exact opposite of The Long Tail. With The Long Tail, it showed me a possible path forward. Brian Volk-Weiss:With Liftoff, again, I cannot stress this enough. I did not go to business school. So almost everything we're doing is just me trusting my gut and praying to God it works. What Liftoff showed me was a lot of what we're doing is the right thing to do. And what a lot of people don't understand about SpaceX, and I'll be honest with you. I didn't understand this either until I read the book. I mean, what Elon Musk started with SpaceX conservatively was the 15th time a rich person tried to build a space launching company. Every single person and company that tried before him failed. Brian Volk-Weiss:And a lot of the reasons why he succeeded, we were already doing, but I didn't know if it was right or not. And his book showed me, some of the things that we were doing, which were extremely unusual, and even I was questioning, is this smarter, stupid? His book showed me it was the right path. I mean, the example I like to give is, we develop almost all of our internal capabilities. We try to do things outside of the company as little as possible. I have a tendency to have a vendor, and then either hire the vendor or buy the company that was providing the service because I like to have everything under one roof. Elon Musk, in the book, it tells a great story where they needed these special kind of pumps, they're called turbo pumps to mix the fuels to get the rocket out of the atmosphere. Brian Volk-Weiss:There's two companies on the planet, one of which is American that make turbo pumps for everybody. NASA, Boeing, JPL, everybody. Because Elon Musk was the new kid on the block, he was getting them slowly and they were coming and they still needed work and then SpaceX's engineers had to actually finish working on them. Musk eventually said, "Fuck it. We're just going to start making our own turbo pumps." That led to a lot of things. First of all, they didn't have supply problems anymore with the vendor. Second of all, they were able to make them at 30% the cost of the other company. Fourth of all, guess what SpaceX now sells to other space companies? Turbo pumps. Chris Erwin:They've become a supplier themselves. Brian Volk-Weiss:Yeah. And that's what Amazon did with their cloud service. So I have long been a believer in having as many capabilities under our roof as possible. And for those that don't run a business, that's very risky and expensive. Every time your payroll goes up, it's risky. But my theory has always been, if it's all unified under one roof, we will make more money because everybody's talking to everybody all the time. Chris Erwin:Totally agree. This reminds me of a conversation that we were having with a direct-to-consumer retailer this year. And the challenge was their board and investors are thinking about, "Okay, we have this growth vision, but if we want to minimize the amount of capital that we're putting to work up front, how can we outsource some of these capabilities so that if things don't work, we're not on the hook versus this massive investment in fixed costs?" And I was like, "I hear that. I totally get that. But the challenge is you're not creating internal capabilities in intelligence and commitment to your internal teams that this is where you really want to go in the future. And so the quality of your effort, the quality of this business initiative is going to be inferior and will not necessarily outperform who you're trying to beat in the marketplace if it's just all outsourced from day one." So I think what you described is very on point. Brian Volk-Weiss:Absolutely. And by the way, I'll give you a great example, every company out there in theory that owns an amusement park, in theory, has their own version of the imagineers. That is not true. The Imagineering Department at Disney is over 2000 people, highly paid, highly skilled. There's a guy in the Imagineering Department, all he does for a living, I guarantee he gets paid six figures. All he does is designed better fake rock technology. There is an imagineer, all she does is create better realistic looking leaves from foam. That is all she does 52 weeks a year minus vacation time. Brian Volk-Weiss:But my point is, no other amusement park has that capability. And I think Disney might make more than every single amusement park on the planet combined. I could be wrong, but even if I'm wrong, I'm probably not wrong by that much. And I completely agree with you, anytime I hear a company is divesting and blah, blah, blah. I'm always like this is either the beginning or the end, or they will reverse that decision when the next CEO comes to fix the mistake you've made by trying to have a better quarter. Because that's the problem these companies make when they do that, all they care about is beating the same quarter the prior year. That is a recipe for failure. Chris Erwin:I agree. I think the other key variable here that makes SpaceX, that makes Disney perform, and then also the future for you, Brian with Nacelle, is you have to have a leader which then flows down to the team really believe in this business initiative. If it's like, "Hey, we're kind of into this. We were going to outsource some of this stuff, but we're going to bring it in house." But if you're not bringing the passion, the focus to your team every day after that massive investment in fixed costs, it's not going to work. And that really comes from the top. Chris Erwin:And from this conversation, Brian, I can feel that from you as a leader of your business and as a visionary for the industry that you're in. And I hear you, we just hired another person in our team that's replacing a couple contractors that we used to have supporting us. That scares me. I got more mouths to feed. That's more of a commitment for me to do business development, but I know in my gut it's the right move if I want this company to grow. So we are simpatico on that level. Brian Volk-Weiss:You went to Kellogg, I didn't. So take to put a grain a salt, but I believe you're right. Chris Erwin:So Brian, before going into rapid fire, I just want to give some kudos to you. I have really only gotten to know you through this interview and a little bit of prep before. And it feels like to me that you are really fulfilling your destiny as a creator and storyteller, which I put the different interviews of people that I have on the podcast together. And I just had Doug Bernstein, from House of Highlights. And that's a new social media native sports brand. Doug was all about sports since age three.

The fresh new cadets take the Protostar for a spin, right into a binary system where the gravitational pull of an orbiting white dwarf is in its final moments of tearing apart a red giant...Surely Hologram Janeway won't let that happen? Well, she just might, and, don't call me Shirley. And, we might encounter a time warp...It's just a jump to a left. -Brought to you by Section 31- 00:00 Episode 96 00:30 Your mother was a toaster! 01:00 The Cylon Fan Club? 01:40 Attachments 02:15 Pakleds Blocked! 02:50 Thank you Patreons! Become a member! https://patreon.com/starfleetunderground 02:57 NO KIDS! 03:50 It's Alive! 04:07 It's Dead! 04:11 It's Alive Again! 04:23 Star Trek: Prodigy Episode 1&2 both on YouTube: https://youtu.be/T4nTcYIEDL8 04:47 The Center Seat premiers on History Channel 05:20 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds planning Season 2 https://trekmovie.com/2021/11/01/report-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-planning-production-for-season-2/ 05:30 Dildo Drink 06:20 All the Star Trek Movies!!! https://trekmovie.com/2021/11/01/all-13-star-trek-movies-available-on-paramount-for-the-first-time/ 07:46 Animated Star Trek Movie to come? https://trekmovie.com/2021/10/28/new-paramount-chief-confirms-planning-for-multiple-star-trek-films-including-animated-movie/ 08:30 You may get a virtual red carpet email? 09:10 Never fake addresses? 10:00 Mail, without Honor 10:15 DOT Dildo 11:55 Star Trek: Prodigy S1E3 - "Starstruck" 12:05 Teaser - "Black Hole" 12:10 Act I - "Stubborn Little Shit" 13:06 The opening sequence 13:20 Looks like Star Wars? Way Cooler, actually 14:00 Poppin' a Nacelle out your ass 14:20 Heather Rants! Most Decorated Captains 15:20 DOTs with Dildos 15:40 Don't Like Dal? You're not alone 16:25 Crew's got a lot of potential 16:48 Murf eats a planet 17:03 Big red dots vs X's 17:30 Rok-Tahk is COOOL 17:55 Hologram Janeway Throws Shade 18:30 People in charge Lie? 19:00 Janeway Helps the Kids 19:50 Zero says some great stuff 20:30 He lies all the time 21:20 Sexy, Sexy Starship 21:30 Starboard vs. Port 22:40 Act II - "I Told You So!" 23:10 Captain's Quarters 23:44 Rok-Tahk's Food 24:15 Come to Poggy! 24:30 That looks like Poop 25:00 Gwyn is Patient 25:15 Vehicle Replicator 26:26 Rok-Tahk can fight 26:50 I Got Two Warp Cores and a Microphone 27:33 Gravitational pull of an orbiting white dwarf is in its final moments of tearing apart a red giant 27:45 What a Rare and Exciting Way to Meet Our Doom! 28:16 Only Guilty of Getting Caught 28:58 Pretty damn empathetic for a 9-foot rock 29:20 Warping within a Gravity Well 30:30 Fresh Replicated Time Warp Rum 32:00 Act III - "Rock Bottom" 33:05 You better have Janeway turn on the AC! 33:20 I'm gonna need help 34:50 Murf is eating a chair 35:18 Janeway's Coffee! 35:50 Gwyn 36:40 There's a Lesson 37:37 Mr. Rogers In Space 38:00 Mission: Be Better 38:42 Caitian Appearance 38:50 That Ship was The BOMB 39:10 Did the colony cloak too? 39:54 Somebody sent us up the bomb 40:30 Dal's been thru some things 42:05 Walking Hormone Factories 42:40 All good characters 42:56 Jankom Pog 43:10 2-letter vs 7-letter answers 44:00 Sparkly Stuff 44:45 Rating Time 47:45 Some other upcoming guest stars 48:15 A gateway drug for young kids to love Star Trek 48:45 What is the Uni-Boob? 50:10 Special Guest next week - Patreon Members already know! Thanks for listening! Now on Patreon! patreon.com/starfleetunderground Email: thecollective@starfleetunderground.com Website: starfleetunderground.com Twitter: twitter.com/StarfleetUnderG Instagram: instagram.com/starfleetunderground Facebook: facebook.com/starfleetunderground YouTube: www.youtube.com/Qtsy16 Explicit

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We welcome back David Vonner to the show and talk with him about what he has upcoming with the Nacelle company! Plus we wrap Pulse Con Day 2 and Premium livestream as well! Website: infinityequationpodcast.com Buy Infinity Merch! ➡️➡️ T-Shirts by Infinity Equation Podcast | TeePublic https://www.teepublic.com/user/infinity-equation-podcast Signup for your Comic Cutouts so you don't miss out https://comic-cutouts.com/ https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Iconicon-2021-by-RetroBlasting/77388341.7H7A9.XYZ

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If you didn't know The Nacelle Company has just released a new season of The Movies that Made Us! Brian talks Nacelle license acquisitions, publishing, and more! Go take a listen to the man himself!On instagram @brianvolkweiss @toysnacelle @nacellecompanyCommercials brought to you by Chicken Burger DiscoOn instagram @chickenburgerdiscoSponsors:if you want to become a sponsor of Toys on Tap Podcast send an email to yuckotoys@gmail.comPatreon:To support the show you can join the Toys on Tap Patreon. Go to patreon.com/toysontapThank you to our sponsors:DKE Toys @dketoysBrian Johnson @be2thejEric Nichols @righteousmadeZachary Blackburn @ztblackburnChicken Burger Disco @chickenburgerdiscoRate and Review:The best way to support the podcast is to rate and review so that others can hear this sticky resin podcast!

Author Brian Heiler (https://twitter.com/Plaidstallions) talks about rack toys; the cheap licensed toys that can be found at drug stores and five and dimes. Check out his book “Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings” from Nacelle Company Publishing at http://racktoysbook.com/ 0:00 SEGMENT 1: Brian Heiler talks about his parents being involved in the distribution of rack toys, getting locked in a drug store, reading his dad's toy publications, playing with his dad's toy samples, what Christmas was like for Brian, the types of movies and TV shows got rack toys, and the types of people that collect rack toys 10:10 SEGMENT 2: Brian Heiler talks about bonding with strangers over rack toys, weird water guns, why there is so much bizarre Marvel rack toys, and why monster toys are so crude. 20:24 SEGMENT 3: Brian Heiler talks about the Universal Monsters craze, rack toys as seasonal stocking stuffers, updating the book for the 2nd edition, the book selling for $100 on Amazon while it was out of print, and Brian Volk-Weiss of Nacelle writing the afterward for the latest edition of the book. 26:54 SEGMENT 4: Geek to Me Radio broadcasts a live radio show on The Big 550 KTRS along with streaming video on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and Instagram. Make sure to support the show by typing http://bit.ly/geektome into your browser before shopping on Amazon. 31:43 SEGMENT 5: Brian Heiler talks about all of his nostalgia interests being on full display at https://plaidstallions.com/ . All the Plaid Stallions links can also be found at https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions Thanks to our sponsors Marcus Theatres (https://www.marcustheatres.com/) and Historic St. Charles, Missouri (https://www.discoverstcharles.com/) Amazon Affiliate Link - http://bit.ly/geektome Buy Me a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3Y0D2iaZl Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/GeekToMeRadio Website - http://geektomeradio.com/ Podcast - https://anchor.fm/jamesenstall Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeekToMeRadio/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/geektomeradio Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/geektomeradio/ Producer - Joseph Vosevich https://twitter.com/Joey_Vee --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jamesenstall/support

Released in1975 for United Artists, Rollerball is a tale of skating, killing and standing up to a violent culture- where wars no longer exist, but rollerball does, Directed by Norman Jewison (Moonlight, Jesus Christ Superstar). Cameron is joined by Brian Stillman: a prolific collector and filmmaker, Brian is known for his hand in producing Netflix's “Movies that Made Us” and “toys that made us”. His work with the Nacelle company has brought nostalgia content to us when we all needed it most. And today we are going to wax nostalgic on this 70s futuristic sports classic. Learn more about Brian at: https://www.brianstillman.nyc/

In this episode of SaaS Connect, your host Sunir Shah, President of Cloud Software Association, speaks with Adrienne Coburn, Partner Program Manager at Shopify, and Brian Jambor, who at the time of this show was Head of Partnerships at Sendoso (he is now Head of Partnerships at Nacelle; see his LinkedIn profile for more info.) These two SaaS partnership leaders have built partnership teams from nothing by convincing leadership to invest more and more. What makes the discussion particularly fascinating is that the responses from the two are so varied. Brian Jambor (previously from Sendoso, now at Nacelle) has over ten years of experience building partnership programs. He convinced Sendoso to invest in partnerships by laying out a strong case for additional revenue. Adrienne Coburn of Shopify built the service partner program at Uberflip and recently joined Shopify to scale their strategic partner program. At Uberflip, she found success focusing on what customer problems partners could solve. What worked? What didn't? Why? And what can we learn by comparing the different approaches? Included in the discussion are the following topics: How do you convince the CEO to invest in partnerships? Do you lead with revenue or building ecosystems? What motivates agencies to partner and how the different industries impact motivation Sendoso's critical shift and its impact How the partner programs got traction. For Shopify, the biggest reason was providing the lowest barrier to entry possible. For Sendoso, it was promoting partners across their customer base. Scaling the visibility of agency partners without spamming customers Using agencies to deliver part of integrations How long it took to start driving real revenue from agencies Why invest in partnerships to build ecosystems, and how to sell the value and ecosystem beyond generating leads and gross revenue Recommended KPIs and tracking metrics How Sendoso got investors The strategy to pull revenue out of an ecosystem of partners Resources Mentioned: Yodel Uberflip Staples Promotional Products Salesforce Keep Web.com Marketo Oracle Crossbeam Thank you to our amazing podcast team at Content Allies. Want to launch your own B2B revenue-generating podcasts? Contact them at https://ContentAllies.com

In episode #73 of Pop Culture Weekly, Kyle McMahon talks with Marvel Studios Black Widow director Cate Shortland about creating the film, working with Scarlett Johansson, going from indie films to a big budget blockbuster and how she felt about the multiple release date delays.Then Kyle talks with the Emmy nominated writer / director / actor Thomas Lennon about Reno 911!'s move to Roku Channel, what we can expect in the new season and some news on a sequel to the Reno 911!: Miami movie and more! https://twitter.com/thomaslennonThen Nacelle Company CEO and uber producer Brian Volk-Weiss returns to talk about Behind The Attractions on Disney+, Season 3 of The Movies That Made Us on Netflix, Season 3 of A Toy Store Near You on Amazon Prime and so much more! https://www.nacellecompany.com-----------Watch celebrity interviews at: https://www.facebook.com/realkylemcmahon/videosor Kyle McMahon YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/officialkylemcmahonRead the latest at http://www.PopCultureWeekly.comFollow Kyle on:Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmacmusicFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/realkylemcmahonInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/kmacmusicYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/officialkylemcmahonWebsite: http://www.kylemcmahon.mePop Culture Weekly twitter: http://www.twitter.com/popculturepodca

Thomas Chejfec nous parle des innovations technologiques que Haulotte met en place pour rendre leurs produits plus performants. Il nous explique l'importance d'avoir un système d'information performant. 

The geek culture, pop history powerhouse The Nacelle Company (Netflix's The Toys That Made Us, The Movies That Made Us, Down to Earth with Zac Efron, Disney +'s Behind the Attraction with The Rock) is entering the podcast world with their Nacellecast debut, Gates McFadden InvestiGates: Who Do You Think You Are? Hosted by the iconic Star Trek actress (Dr. Beverly Crusher) and choreographer/puppet master (Labyrinth), the podcast will be a ten-episode limited series based out of NacelleCast Studios, Nacelle's new state-of-the-art podcast studio. In this interview, Les chats with Gates about the project, her career, and much more. Check it out!

In episode #65 of Pop Culture Weekly, Kyle McMahon talks with iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group CEO Conal Byrne about podcasts, podcasting and the future of digital audio. Byrne, a pioneer and trailblazer in podcasting, launched the How Stuff Works podcast a decade ago, bringing the company into the future. Then Kyle talks once again with The Nacelle Company CEO Brian Volk-Weiss about his company's projects including "The Movies That Made Us", "The Toys That Made Us" as well as upcoming projects "Behind The Attraction" on Disney+. They also discuss what they've been watching during the quarantine and the movies and series they're looking forward to in 2021.Follow Brian Volk-Weiss on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/brianvolkweiss/Check out The Nacelle Company at: https://www.nacellecompany.com-----------Watch celebrity interviews at: http://www.facebook.com/realkylemcmahonRead the latest at http://www.PopCultureWeekly.comFollow Kyle on:Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmacmusicFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/realkylemcmahonInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/kmacmusicYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/officialkylemcmahonWebsite: http://www.kylemcmahon.mePop Culture Weekly twitter: http://www.twitter.com/popculturepodca

When it comes to headless commerce, there are a few options. You can build in house, hire an agency, or use a platform to choose. These are the main choices. Headless OptionsShogun makes it much easier to get into headless commerce, particularly if your team isn't technical. It's great for marketers and brand driven ecommerce companies. Nacelle is much more technical, but allows for more flexibility and customization. Fabric is another platform, typically used by larger enterprise brands Customer or Agency build can be pricy, but fit for your needs.  SponsorsSponsored by https://getshogun.com/a/rolled-up-advisory-services-inc/shopify (Shogun). The marketing driven brand's choice for Headless Commerce

David McCary, Headless Commerce Expert, joins Lucas Walker to discuss headless commerce platforms. When should a brand consider headless commerce? Looking toward internationalization (Or regionalization) Flexibility in how their content is displayed and delivered Performance needed to bring store to the next revenue level Revenue in the 7 figured approaching 8 figure or higher Layers of Complexity Developers and marketers will mean different things  Platforms like Shogun Frontend drastically reduce the complexity  Modular platforms like custom builds or tools built for developers  can give more control but  add complexity and costs. Benefits of Headless Increased  flexibility of content assets, for example different images in different regions Increase speed like  http://nomadgoods.com/ (Nomad Goods). Tools Mentioned Carts: Shopify, Big Commerce CMS: Prismic, Contentful Headless Platforms: Shogun (sponsor), Nacelle. SponsorsSponsored by https://getshogun.com/a/rolled-up-advisory-services-inc/shopify (Shogun). Like David said, they make it significantly easier to get into Headless Commerce.

Heute sprechen Daniel Höhnke und Tim Schestag über die Insolvenz von Adler und anderen unternehmen, die sich bereits in den Insolvenz Schutzschirm begeben haben. Ist das der Auftakt zu einer Corona bedingten Pleitewelle? Oder ist einfach das unausweichliche durch Corona nur früher eingetreten? In den NdW haben wir: - MyTheresa plant großen IPO und zeigt wie ein digitales Geschäftsmodell funktionieren kann - Ryte (ehemals OnPage.org) sackt über 6 Mio. € Invest ein - Die auf Shopify spezialisierte Headless PWA Lösung Nacelle aus den USA sichert sich ein 18 Mio. $ Investment - Die auf KMU's spezialisierte und selbsternannte SAP Alternative Xentral aus Augsburg sichert sich ebenfalls ein 20 Mio. Investment und möchte international expandieren

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We’re back on this lovely Saturday with a bonus episode!Again!There is enough going on that to avoid failing to bring you stuff that we think matters, we are back yet again for more. This time around we are not talking Roblox, we're talking about ecommerce, and a number of rounds -- big and small -- that have been raised in the space. Honest question: do y'all plan to release news on the same week? Are trends a social construct?From Natasha, Grace, Danny, and your humble servant, here's your run-down: Webflow raised $140 million in a round that it says it did not need. This is not a new thing. Some startups are doing well, and don't burn much. So investors offer them more at a nice price. In this case $2.1 billion. (Webflow does no-code Checkout.com raised $450 million. The rich really do get richer. In this case the founders of Checkout.com, whose company is now worth around $15 billion Checkout.com does, you guessed, online checkout work. Which as Danny explains is complicated and critical. We also talked about this Bolt round, for context. And sticking to the ecommerce theme, Rapyd raised $300 million at around a $2.5 billion valuation. There is infinte money available for late-stage fintech. Early stage as well, it turns out, with Tradeswell raising $15.5 million to help businesses improve their net margins. Finally, ending with a chat on infrastructure, Nacelle closed an $18 million Series A. And now we're going back to bed.

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We’re back on this lovely Saturday with a bonus episode!Again!There is enough going on that to avoid failing to bring you stuff that we think matters, we are back yet again for more. This time around we are not talking Roblox, we're talking about ecommerce, and a number of rounds -- big and small -- that have been raised in the space. Honest question: do y'all plan to release news on the same week? Are trends a social construct?From Natasha, Grace, Danny, and your humble servant, here's your run-down: Webflow raised $140 million in a round that it says it did not need. This is not a new thing. Some startups are doing well, and don't burn much. So investors offer them more at a nice price. In this case $2.1 billion. (Webflow does no-code Checkout.com raised $450 million. The rich really do get richer. In this case the founders of Checkout.com, whose company is now worth around $15 billion Checkout.com does, you guessed, online checkout work. Which as Danny explains is complicated and critical. We also talked about this Bolt round, for context. And sticking to the ecommerce theme, Rapyd raised $300 million at around a $2.5 billion valuation. There is infinte money available for late-stage fintech. Early stage as well, it turns out, with Tradeswell raising $15.5 million to help businesses improve their net margins. Finally, ending with a chat on infrastructure, Nacelle closed an $18 million Series A. And now we're going back to bed.

In Episode #56 of Pop Culture Weekly, Kyle McMahon is joined by Benny Panella to discuss all of the announcements Disney made for their movies, TV series and specials through 2023 including Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Disney Studios and more! Then, Kyle talks with Brian Volk Weiss, CEO of The Nacelle Company. They discuss their projects, Holiday Movies That Made Me, Movies That Made Me and so much more.Additionally, Kyle and Benny discuss the new video game Kyle is obsessed with called Fuser. Listen to win your own copy of Fuser for Playstation or X-Box.http://www.PopCultureWeekly.com

In this episode, we talk to Brian Volk-Weiss (Founder of The Nacelle Company)as we discuss his company, why it took his Netflix hit "The Toys That Made Us" seven years to get the green light, and the common thing all the successful people he has worked with have in common.  **More About The Nacelle Company** Founded by Brian Volk Weiss, The Nacelle Company develops, produces, and distributes feature and documentary films as well as TV shows – both scripted and unscripted. Nacelle's vast array of partnerships include: Netflix, Amazon, Disney +, HBO, Discovery, BET+, A&E Networks, Hulu, Viacom, and many more. The Nacelle Company has produced the hit Netflix docu-series, Down To Earth with Zac Efron, The Movies That Made Us, and The Toys That Made Us, as well as Behind The Attraction for Disney +, Sony's Mad About You reboot, Netflix's How To Fix A Drug Scandal, CW's Discontinued, Netflix'sKevin Hart's Guide To Black History, All The Way Black for BET+, and Grant for The History Channel. Visit our website TheStartupLifePodcast.com Follow The Startup Life Podcast Facebook Page Want gear from The Startup Life? Check out our gear! Check out other great podcasts from The Binge Podcast Network. Written by: Dominic Lawson  Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson Music Credits: **Show Theme**  Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald  **Break Theme** Cielo - Huma-Huma 

Brian Anderson is the CEO and founder of GetNacelle.com, a headless eCommerce solution for Shopify Plus. Today he joins the show to discuss the benefits of using headless commerce, what a progressive web app is (and how it’s related to headless), and the kind of investment you may want to consider before committing to headless. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/30LaqcW  Interested in our Private Community for 7-Figure Store Owners?  Learn more here.   Want to hear about new episodes and eCommerce news round-ups?  Subscribe via email.

This episode features Brian Anderson, Founder and CEO of Nacelle. We focus on all things headless commerce and progressive web applications. We define what it means to be truly headless in plain language and how much of the current public information is misleading. We also talk about ideal candidates for headless builds and provide a detailed walkthrough of what a customer would experience when interacting with a headless solution.

A threat… the Hive Armadawants to… steal/capturethe… void crystalswhich will… start a war/invasion! We refer to a few other systems good for one-shots, Everyone is John from Gamer Nation Studios and One Last Job by Grant Howitt (both of which we have played with a Star Wars flavor). 0:00 – Intro1:35 – Character & Ship Creation13:16 – Adventure Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

En 1995, une chanson faussement naïve aux paroles surréalistes squatte les ondes des radios françaises et belges.

In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Brendan Wales, general partner at e.ventures on investing in data infrastructure unicorn Segment at the Seed and passing on TikTok (then Musical.ly) at the Series A. Check out Brendan Wales on Medium: https://medium.com/@brendanwales 2:10 First job running a Golf shop while at college 3:20 First job out of college in 2009 and entrepreneurial ambitions 4:29 'I gotta get to the Valley' finding Zozi's on Crunchbase 6:06 Joining e.ventures in 2012 7:52 History and roots of e.ventures 9:53 e.ventures current fund and global footprint 11:10 Investing in Segment.io at the Seed along with Kleiner Perkins 15:08 Consumer-tech perspective on Segment 16:02 Passing on Musical.ly/TikTok 17:30 Warm introductions vs. metric-based discovery (digital exhaust) 20:30 Metrics requested from Musical.ly/TikTok founding team / key consumer social metrics 22:17 Machiavellian founder perspective on Musical.ly/TikTok consumer retention 24:35 Ex-post reflections why they passed on Musical.ly/TikTok 26:35 Comparison to the recent Clubhouse a16z-led Series A 28:50 Venture capital returns over the lifetime of a fund 31:10 Pattern matching for early markups 32:58 This Week's Seed Companies 35:24 EVA Growth Index / X-Factors 37:37 Nacelle: headless CMS for Shopify stores, backed by Index and Accomplice 39:05 Most recent investment: Airvet, $14m Series A led by Canvas Ventures

My guest in today’s episode is Brian Anderson the Co-Founder and Product Architect of Nacelle. They are a headless Shopify solution paired with PWA (Progressive Web App) that helps merchants increase both mobile conversion rates and cart sizes.What You Will Learn TodayHow to give your customer’s ability to shop online as if they were using a mobile native app without having to download anything.What's all the buzz around headless commerce?How PWA (Progressive Web App) technology is helping Shopify brands significantly improve mobile conversion rates.Links And Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeNacelleNacelle - Free Strategy SessionShopify Headless CommerceThank You For ListeningI really appreciate you choosing to listen to the show and for supporting the podcast. If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.I would also be so grateful if you would consider taking a minute or two to leave an honest review and rating for the show in iTunes. They’re extremely helpful when it comes to reaching our audience and I read each and every one personally!New Strategies Each Week To Help You Build And Scale Lifetime Customer Loyalty. SUBSCRIBE HERE!Being an entrepreneur is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, strategy, Shopify app, or marketing platform to be the next thing you need to drive more revenue and lifetime loyalty for your Shopify store. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or Spotify and don’t miss a single episode!Proudly Sponsored By JustunoJustuno is an AI visitor conversion platform that provides intelligent lead captures, personalized website messaging, and actionable insights that help e-commerce businesses turn website clicks into customers. Learn more about how Justuno integrates with your e-commerce platform, ESP, SMS provider, and more to unify and maximize your marketing personalization efforts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You fans can stick it, brother! In our first episode of 2020, we're finishing up Season 3 of Netflix's The Toys That Made Us by discussing their episode about wrestling toys (as well as many, many other tangents). We couldn't do it without wrestling afficionado TOM G. WOLF -- our first international guest, Skyped in from Sydney, Australia! Throughout this extra-macho episode we make sure to hit on: Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Hulk Hogan: Supernanny, Baddie Hulk, wrestlers on Baywatch, Crazy Vince McMahon, Bayley and Heel Bayley, as well as kayfabe and other wrestling terminology. The laundry list of wrestling and toy companies discussed includes: WWF, WCW, WWE, Mattel, Hasbro, Jakks Pacific, Galoob, LJN, Ringside Collectibles, and more. Other toys discussed: NECA TMNT and predator. Mondo/Mondoids/Fallout/Iron Giant. McFarlane DC Multiverse (specifically Batman). Marvel Legends. MEGO (Nosferatu and other horror). Thanks to Tom G. Wolf and also thanks More Of That (and Bayley) for our theme music. Special thanks to Netflix and The Toys That Made Us, Nacelle, and Brian Volk-Weiss.

You fans can stick it, brother! In our first episode of 2020, we're finishing up Season 3 of Netflix's The Toys That Made Us by discussing their episode about wrestling toys (as well as many, many other tangents). We couldn't do it without wrestling afficionado TOM G. WOLF -- our first international guest, Skyped in from Sydney, Australia! Throughout this extra-macho episode we make sure to hit on: Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Hulk Hogan: Supernanny, Baddie Hulk, wrestlers on Baywatch, Crazy Vince McMahon, Bayley and Heel Bayley, as well as kayfabe and other wrestling terminology. The laundry list of wrestling and toy companies discussed includes: WWF, WCW, WWE, Mattel, Hasbro, Jakks Pacific, Galoob, LJN, Ringside Collectibles, and more. Other toys discussed: NECA TMNT and predator. Mondo/Mondoids/Fallout/Iron Giant. McFarlane DC Multiverse (specifically Batman). Marvel Legends. MEGO (Nosferatu and other horror). Thanks to Tom G. Wolf and also thanks More Of That (and Bayley) for our theme music. Special thanks to Netflix and The Toys That Made Us, Nacelle, and Brian Volk-Weiss.

In this episode Brian Volk-Weiss, the creator of the wonderful hit series The Toys That made Us on Netflix chats with your favorite host Galaxy about his smashing series. Brian answers many of the questions that fans have been wanting to hear. This is an episode you don't want to miss. Brian Volk-Weiss is an American film and television producer and director. He is the founder and current CEO of The Nacelle Company and Comedy Dynamics (a Nacelle subsidiary). He is also the creator, producer, and occasional director of the current Netflix series, The Toys That Made Us along with the television specials Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History (also Netflix) and Discontinued(originally on The CW). Through Comedy Dynamics, he has produced and directed numerous stand-up specials and comedy albums for comedians like Kevin Hart, Jim Gaffigan, Ali Wong, Tiffany Haddish, Ilana Glazer, and many others. Volk-Weiss has also produced several television shows including Join or Die with Craig Ferguson, Stevie TV, and Animal Nation with Anthony Anderson. He also serves as executive producer on the upcoming revival of the 1992 TV series, Mad About You.   For more amazing episodes go to: www.ComicCon-Radio.com Follow us on Instagram  @ComicConRadio Please subscribe to Comic Con Radio Always give us 5 stars. Say Hi when you can. Always #WatchLive Please share this episode with the world!   We love you all… Thank you for loving us back!   @brianvolkweiss @toysnetflix

Brian Volk-Weiss is the founder of Comedy Dynamics, a Nacelle company. It is the largest independent comedy production and distribution company, producing the reboot of Mad About You featuring Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt, Netflix’s Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History, Netflix’s The Toys That Made Us, Jim Gaffigan: Noble Ape, The CW’s Discontinued, Animal Planet’s Animal Nation with Anthony Anderson, the scripted comedy on Hulu There’s… Johnny!, History’s Join Or Die with Craig Ferguson, MTV2’s Wild ’N On Tour, and Hulu’s Coming To The Stage. Comedy Dynamics also distributes original films in theaters and will release the acclaimed independent film Slut in a Good Way in Spring of 2019. We spoke with Volk-Weiss at San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) about The Toys That Made Us and the soon to be launched The Movies That Made Us. Volk-Weiss shared his favorite toys and movies growing up, what his wife thinks about his collection and just generally having fun with he's doing with his life. #TheToysThatMadeUs #TheMoviesThatMadeUs #BrianVolkWeiss #ComedyDynamics #MadAboutYou #Discontinued #AnimalNation #ComingToTheStage #TheresJohnny #JoinOrDie #WildNOnTour #JimGaffigan #KevinHart #CraigFerguson #AnthonyAnderson #SDCC #SDCC2019 #SDCC50

In this Episode, I talk aviation technology with Nacelle Aviation, https://nacelleaviation.com/ a South African aerotech company, created in 2018.  We discuss why African aviation is their core focus, how their solutions allow customers to "pay as you grow" and what new technologies we can expect to reach the market and improve our future travel experiences. 

© artwork by franz zünkler ➲ contact ✉ franz.zuenkler@t-online.de Hisham Zahran (https://soundcloud.com/hishamzahran) presents Afterhour Sounds Podcast Nr.161 Unsere Nr. 161 kommt heute von einem Künstler, der mich seit 2 Jahren mehr oder weniger ununterbrochen musikalisch begleitet. Seine Jahresmixe sind immer ein besonderes Highlight bei uns zu Hause. Dezent, federleicht und wahrhaftig tiefenentspannt kommen seine geschichtsartigen Mixe daher. Ein wahrhaftiger Genuss. Selten habe ich solch einen DJ gehört, der sich nach all den Jahren des Mixens immer noch die Zeit und Muse nimmt, seine Sets von Anfang bis zum Ende mit solch einer Perfektion durchzuplanen, dass jedes Mal aufs Neue ein faszinierendes Gesamtkunstwerk entsteht. Die Rede ist von dem Ägypter „Hisham Zahran“, einem komplett unkomplizierten und zuverlässigen Künstler. Als Mitglied von den bekannten Labels Anjunadeep und Nacelle treibt er mittlerweile weltweit sein Unwesen. Egal ob New York, Paris, Berlin oder Dubai…überall hinterlässt er seine unnachahmliche, musikalische Duftmarke. Das von Ihm eingespielte Set ist eine herrlich ‚afterhoureske‘ Reise ins Dickicht der dezent melodischen und zugleich verträumten elektronischen Musik. Das sich Hisham für dieses Set etwas ganz besonderes einfallen lassen hat ist unüberhörbar. Waren seine Jahresmixe eher melodischer Natur, hat er sich unserem Projekt zum Anlass für eine extrem tiefenentspannte und hypnotische Richtung entschieden. Stimmungsförderlich und alleinstellungsmerkmal des Sets, sind die unnachahmigen, langgezogenen Übergänge, die sich wie ein roter Faden durch die Aufnahme ziehen. Sie fördern an dieser Stelle nicht nur das Verschmelzen der Songs, sondern sorgen auch für die damit einhergehende, stets gleichbleibend hoch gehaltene, entspannte Stimmung durch das ganze Set hinweg. Grandios. Und ein Beleg dafür, dass Tempo nicht für alles verantwortlich ist. Ich war beim ersten Hören des Sets tatsächlich komplett geflasht, hatte ich doch etwas leicht anderes erwartet. Aber diese Überraschungsmomente, die unsere Reihe und die jeweiligen musikalischen Interpretationen immer wieder mit sich bringen, hauen mich, nein uns, immer wieder um. Darauf darf man auch ein wenig Stolz sein. Vor allem dann, wenn die Künstler mit soviel Liebe zum Detail an die Sache rangehen und etwas vollkommen einzigartiges erschaffen. Nämlich ihrem bzw. seinem Afterhour Sound. Dass das heute leider keine Selbstverständlichkeit mehr ist, muss an dieser Stelle nicht gesagt werden. Umso mehr freut es mich / uns, dass wir Hisham mit einem Set gewinnen konnten. Schnallt euch an… Ich kann mich nur wiederholen, aber es erwartet euch eine Reise durch verspielte und hypnothische Felder, die wie gemacht für eine Afterhour sind. Das gabs bei uns schon lange nicht mehr….seid gespannt. Wir danken Dir vielmals für dieses besondere Set Hisham Zahran. Umwerfend und überraschend gut. Wenn Unikat, dann Hier. Chapeu. Wir sind entzückt. [Text: arkadiusz.] ✘ Hisham Zahran (Egypt) https://soundcloud.com/hishamzahran https://www.facebook.com/hishamzahran86/ Download for free on The Artist Union

The Two Gay Geeks chat with Zach Noe Towers about the new gay standup comedy series he hosts on Dekkoo. Out On Stage: The Series premiered on both Dekko and Pluto TV on November 30, 2018, and will run for six episodes. The show features a lineup of renowned LGBTQ stand-up comedians : Jonathan Rowell, Brendan Scannell, Casey Ley, Julian Michael, Irene Tu, Jared Goldstein, Raneir Pollard, Kyle Shire, Jordan Pease, Chris Bryant, Eric Hahn, Daniel Webb, Joe Dosch, Gloria Bigelow, Anthony Desamito, Janine Brito, A.B. Cassidy and Zach Noe Towers. In our second segment, we're discussing our website update and some other changes we are contemplating for the show and the site. In our third segment, we highlight recent articles posted to the tggeeks.com n the past week. As always we have our birthdays and we have the ever popular feedback segment. We welcome your feedback. Please, let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know and you could receive a shoutout in the feedback segment. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us.       ABOUT DEKKOO Dekkoo (pronounced “DECK-koo”) is the premiere subscription-based streaming service dedicated to gay men, providing the largest streaming collection of gay-centric entertainment available, boasting a larger selection than Here TV, Netflix or Amazon.  Dekkoo is available internationally via iTunes, Google Play, AppleTV and Roku.  In the U.S. and U.K., Dekkoo is also available via the Amazon Dekkoo Channel.  Dekkoo original series include “Feral,” “Love is Blind” and “I’m Fine.”  www.dekkoo.com ABOUT COMEDY DYNAMICS Comedy Dynamics, a Nacelle company, is one of the largest independent comedy production and distribution companies, producing Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History, Animal Planet’s Animal Nation with Anthony Anderson, the new scripted comedy on Hulu, There’s... Johnny!, History’s Join Or Die with Craig Ferguson, MTV2’s Wild ’N On Tour, and Hulu’s Coming To The Stage. In 2018, Comedy Dynamics began releasing original films in theaters starting with the acclaimed documentary, Poop Talk. The company has worked with a wide range of established and emerging comedic talent including Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, Jim Gaffigan, Katt Williams and many more. In total, 12 of Comedy Dynamics’ releases have been Grammy-nominated, with 2 wins.           Our YouTube channel is audio only:   Show Notes / Links: Dekkoo - Watch Gay Movies and Gay Series Online OUT On Stage zach-noe-towers (website) TG Geeks Episode 196 TG Geeks Episode 197 TG Geeks Episode 203 There is NOTHING Special about the Star Wars Holiday Special Happy Thanksgiving | Please Take Care of Yourself Mad About You (Giblets for Murray) At Eternity’s Gate: A Biopic Through the Artist’s Lens | Ro Reviews Dr. Zombie – Monster Family Physician #30 Ben’s Breakdown | Season One Thoughts on Titans The Awful Truth And My Favorite Wife | Old Classics?...Newly Reviewed Ben’s Breakdown | Series Review: Timeless Little Aims to Fill Some 'Big' Shoes | Trailer Coming to Netflix: Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse News Sushi: Morsels of News from Japan and Beyond #45 Zachry Wheeler Releases a Max and the Multiverse short The Rookie | Three Episode Thoughts Visit Hero Within Store Travel To Uncharted Regions Featured Podcast     Thank You: The Arkle Times Post Dispatch News - The Human Arkle on Twitter @arkle --- Be sure to take a look at Arkle’s other venture: Arkle Studios presents Shameless Cash Grab Here's a special shout out to “The Gay Geek” for graciously allowing us to post our episodes in their Facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/thegaygeek. And a special Thank You to Jeremiah Reeves, the moderator, for being such a great guy.   Things to know from The Two Gay Geeks: