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Whether you're chasing reservations at Portland's best seasonal restaurant pop-ups or hitting the streets on a new custom skateboard, May offers plenty of excuses to step outside and enjoy our city's sunniest season. City Cast Portland has handpicked the absolute best of the month's food, entertainment, and community happenings to help you narrow down your plans to this month's must-dos — like signing up for a local farm CSA. Plus, a bonus suggestion from our episode archive: Why Spring Is the Perfect Time To Visit Oregon's High Desert If you're new here, welcome! We've put together a starter pack for you, with episodes and articles to welcome you to the City Cast Portland community.  For even more tips on how to make the most of May in Portland, check out Hey Portland's take on what to do this month.  Join City Cast Portland at the 503 Day Block Party, Saturday, May 3, at downtown Portland's Ankeny Alley!! Details and RSVP here. City Cast Portland is also powered by our members, who enjoy an ad-free version of the show. Find out more about how to become a member of City Cast Portland. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here.  Reach us at portland@citycast.fm.  Learn more about OMSI, the sponsor of our May guide  And learn more about the other sponsors of this May 1st episode: Aura Frames - Get $35-off plus free shipping on the Carver Mat frame with Promo Code CITYCAST Clackamas County Masters Gardeners Association Rose City Comic Con Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Portland’s Third Angle New Music will debut a new commissioned piece at its upcoming show on April 16 at OMSI’s Kendall Planetarium. The composition, called “Spheres,” was written for percussion quartet and three American Sign Language performers. Deaf and hard of hearing audience members can experience the program through haptic vests that translate the sound from the instruments music into physical vibrations. The vests were developed by local nonprofit CymaSpace, which aims to make arts and culture performances accessible to Portlanders who are deaf or hard of hearing. Sarah Tiedemann is the artistic director of Third Angle. She joins us to talk about the new show and accessibility in the arts. 

Today: We went to go see an exhibit at OMSI, adults with legos and it's awesome, unboxing Twilight and taking care of yourself, plus it's the last day to fill out your TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS bracket! Have a great day all! :)  

Get cozy and listen and/or watch the latest chat between BikePortland Editor and Publisher Jonathan Maus (hi, that's me!) and Bike Loud Board Chair and former bike shop owner Eva Frazier.Here's a taste of this week's banter and helpful links:What's up with all the leaves in bike lanes and why the issue is challenging for advocates.How'd She Get There? OMSI to Gateway Green: Eva and I discuss the best bike route from Central Eastside to Gateway.Cranksgiving is this Sunday! Eva will be there helping organize.My impressions of TriMet's new ramp at Hollywood Transit Center — which is not a "bike ramp" because that is "ableist ideology".Bike Happy Hour promo - And yes we're meeting next week 11/27 even though it's a "blacked out" holiday week.Bike shop news updates and the new "Secret" bike shop on Hawthorne from the inimitable Starmichael Bowman.How the Tillamook/Hancock neighborhood greenway works through a plaza in HollywoodOur frustration with the new signal on NE Going and Martin Luther King Jr. BlvdWhat's up with the bumpy pavement on Tillamook and Ankeny greenways?!KGW called out drivers parking in bike lanes!*BikePortland: Community Journalism Since 2005*Latest news on our website (aka "blog"): https://bikeportland.org/ Subscribe and support: https://bikeportland.org/supportFollow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/bikeportland/ Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bikeportland.bsky.social Listen to our podcast: https://bikeportland.org/cats/podcast

Christopher Marley is an Oregon-raised artist and naturalist who creates extraordinary art with rare organisms that he collects from across the world. City Cast Portland executive producer John Notarianni talked with him to discuss his new exhibition, Exquisite Creatures Revealed, which opens this weekend at OMSI — and the conservation message behind his work. Exquisite Creatures Revealed runs October 5, 2024 – February 17, 2025. The exhibit is included in the cost of general admission to OMSI. More information and tickets can be found at omsi.edu. Become a member of City Cast Portland today! Get all the details and sign up here.  Who would you like to hear on City Cast Portland? Shoot us an email at portland@citycast.fm, or leave us a voicemail at 503-208-5448. Want more Portland news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter, Hey Portland, and be sure to follow us on Instagram.  Looking to advertise on City Cast Portland? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oregon head coach Dan Lanning; Ashton Jeanty's unique story; In The New featuring cat strangling and a plan to build out the OMSI neighborhood

Synopsis Oddity is a morality tale about why you shouldn't cross witchy women. When a blind woman's sister is murdered in a remote country estate, she uses her arcane knowledge and abilities to uncover the true identity of her murderer.  Review of Oddity I really liked this movie. It came under the radar and we almost didn't review it, but I'm glad we did, because I think I actually did like this one better than Longlegs. The film starts out basically with a prologue of what you see in the trailer, and acts as a really taut short film. A Woman answers the door to a creepy one eyed man that says that she's not safe inside and needs to let him in. We are given just enough information to make this situation plausible and build dread. That is a common thread through the film. We are given just enough information to constantly be uneasy and uncertain throughout the whole film. It really is structurally impressive, plot-wise. There isn't a ton of character development, but there is a constant stream of revelations and situations that keep the film engaging.  One criticism may be that there isn't much of an emotional element in the film, the characters all seem very cold. However, each character has enough of a personality and backstory to make their interactions and decisions interesting. There are several moments and lines that had me laughing out loud, including the ending. There were also some really effective jumpscares. On the surface, this movie utilizes a lot of tropes that are crutches for a lot of supernatural horror movies. The spooky dark house. The strange sounds in the darkness. Stretches of tense silence leading up to jump scares. But for some reason, instead of rolling my eyes, I was truly engaged with this movie. I think it's because all of the reality-based elements seem plausible, and all the supernatural elements seem interesting or novel.  I think it's a great movie, and honestly I don't have any real criticisms or anything that bothered me with it.  Score  10/10 Interview with Amber Victoria from The Skeleton Key Odditorium Bryce: Today, we welcome Amber Victoria, owner and operator of the Skeleton Key Auditorium Museum and Oddity Shop in Portland, Oregon. It's a retail shop that specializes in oddities, antiques, curiosities, Gothic art, gifts, crystals, tarot cards, dolls, metaphysical items, clothing, and souvenirs. The auditorium is a historical museum designed to provide intrigue and a better understanding of the human experience through exploring the strange, unusual, and gloomy characteristics of our history. It was recently voted as the runner-up for Portland's Best Museum, just underneath the multi-million dollar Portland Art Museum and OMSI. So, it's pretty high praise for a museum. Anyways, welcome, Amber Victoria! Sydney: Welcome! Amber: Hello. Yay, thank you. Thank you for having me. Bryce: So, Amber, why don't you tell us a little bit about how you got started? What's the story with you and the Skeleton Key? Amber: Well, it kind of started almost 10 years ago. I've always loved old things and was more of a Ren fair kind of person. I was doing immersion events and collected a lot of odd things. Eventually, I started collecting too much stuff, so I began selling items at Curiosities Vintage Mall about nine years ago. It just evolved from there. People really liked my odd things, so I decided to open a brick-and-mortar shop in 2020. And here we are, still doing it. Bryce: So, when did you open the brick-and-mortar shop? Amber: I opened it in 2020 on Belmont. It was a small oddity shop, about 600 square feet. When the lease was up, we moved downtown, and I brought my partner along. We decided to open a museum because there was so much knowledge and so many items. People were always asking questions, and we wanted to educate and preserve these items in a fun, interactive space full of oddities. Bryce: Awesome.

Today: We had a crazy weekend and give a recap, OMSI with children and Project Pabst, and ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOU ARE GETTING INTO THE RIGHT CAR :) Have a great day all!

Hello Playdate Community! This week, Nick, Ryan, and Don go long searching the crypts and sewers Under the Castle! We also cover the first ever Catalog sale, Playdate Update #5 and sprint through the second annual Playdate Community Awards! You'll also find our regular round-up of news, new releases, and more...Thanks for listening and joining us every other week! News/Links: Kind review from DamosGames Catalog Sale through March 14, 2024 Our Catalog Sale Highlights OMSI Panic Playdate Debut was a Hit 'Initial Daydream' on hand at OMSI via James Gameboy Initial Daydream on itch.io Initial Daydream Score Now Available on Bandcamp Playdate Update #5 on YouTube Flea 2 Kickstarter Playdate Community Awards 2023 on Catalog Playdate Community Awards List of Winners and Nominees on Playdate Wiki Playdate Community Awards on YouTube ScenicRouteSoftware Pricing Thread Intro/Outro Music - Made with Boogie Loops on Playdate Indie Inventory: (00:31:50) Mars After Midnight by Lucas Pope Cortex Chronicles 6 - The Infiltration of Nyx Sterling by Diogo Andrade Warp Defender by 0x72 Rotrex by dayamg The Bomb Disarmament Expert by juhxx_ Beating 'The Safe' on YouTube Lockspinner by Scribe Pick of the Week: (00:39:31) Under the Castle by Dani Diez, Zcorbs and Volcanobytes Our next Pick of the Week is Water Flow by Torsten Kramer Contact: Hello Playdate on Discord Hello Playdate on Instagram Hello Playdate on Bluesky Hello Playdate on Threads Playdatepodcast.com Indie Game of the Week Collection on itch.io Helloplaydatepodcast (at) gmail dot com Voice Mail - 1-(724)-BINGOS-1  (1-724-246-4671) For Amusement Only Games Merch For Amusement Only Podcast, Nick's EM Bingo and Pinball Podcast Game and Cast, Ryan's Handheld Gaming Podcast Series Tags: video games, gaming, handheld, handhelds, panic, playdate, play, date, yellow, crank, gameboy, ds, pocket, videogames, nintendo, sega, xbox, playstation, sony, vita, psp, ngage, itch.io, Keita Takahashi, katamari, gamegear

Here in Portland, Oregon, we're lucky to live so close to a world-class science museum, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, which we all affectionately call OMSI. A few weeks ago, we got the chance to take a tour of their latest exhibit, Staying Alive: Defenses of the Animal Kingdom, with Sarah, the exhibit's curator. We learned about all sorts of animal defenses, including speed, size, camoflauge, and lots of others. We hope you enjoy this virtual tour - and if you're in Portland, definitely check out this exhibit! It's up through April 2024.     

Portland is home to one of the largest comic book and graphic novel communities in the nation. We're not just talking about fans but about writers, artists, and publishers. So with the city's biggest comics convention underway this weekend, today on City Cast Portland, we're talking with Lauren Dabb of Leftfield Media, which produces the Rose City Comic Con, and Eisner-award-winning Portland comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick. They're both here to tell us why our comics community is unique and why you shouldn't sleep on this weekend's Rose City Comic Con. Events mentioned in the episode: Forest Park's 75th Anniversary: https://www.portland.gov/parks/forest-park-75 Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark in Concert: https://www.orsymphony.org/concerts-tickets/2324/indiana-jones-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-in-concert/  Laser Mort Garson: Plantasia on the Moon at OMSI: https://everout.com/portland/events/laser-mort-garson-plantasia-on-the-moon/e156197/  More on Mort Garson: https://www.portlandmercury.com/music/2023/09/19/46729036/finally-the-music-of-mort-garson-presented-as-it-should-be-with-lasers Who would you like to hear on City Cast Portland? Shoot us an email at portland@citycast.fm, or leave us a voicemail at 503-208-5448. Want more Portland news and events? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter, Hey Portland, and be sure to follow us on Instagram.  Looking to advertise on City Cast Portland? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry aims to create a hub for science learning, arts and culture. The plan includes a waterfront education park, more than a thousand units of housing and public green space. The proposal recently received approval from the City of Portland Design Commission. We hear more about the proposal and next steps from Erin Graham, the CEO and president of OMSI.

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Si alguna vez has pensado que la meditación no es para ti, durante este capítulo conocerás varias razones que te demostrarán lo contrario. Natalia Suárez, creadora de Buddhi.om, un espacio dedicado a la meditación nos contó por qué esta práctica es recomendada para todos. Nuestra invitada:Natalia Suárez es abogada y su búsqueda personal la llevó a encontrar en la meditación una herramienta para vivir una profesión intensa de una manera más consciente. Para ella, los beneficios de esta práctica han sido tan reveladores que decidió compartirlos en un santuario digital orientado a la meditación. Escucha esta conversación y considera si, al igual que Natalia, quieres tener más herramientas para vivir aquí y ahora.Síguela en:@buddhi.omSi te gusto este capítulo, recuerda compartirlo y darle clic al botón de seguir.

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It's time for a brand new episode of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it's Episode 487: Space Hotel Hijinks. Some of the stuff nerds love on this episode include the latest episode of the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the season three premiere of For All Mankind, space travel and a lot more. Very few tangents this week. Again. The boys are still trying to stay on topic. It isn't easy.  Picks this week include Chris' pick of the podcast Great Moments In Weed History and Joe's pick of the Leonardo DaVinci Notebooks, some of which are currently on display at OMSI in Portland, Oregon. Coincidently, Joe also picked OMSI (the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) this week which, if you've never been, is well worth it. Chris' pick can be found wherever you find podcasts. Obviously.  If you like the show, please give it a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, or your app of choice. Every rating and review helps. And if you're really feeling it, consider becoming a Patron and supporting the show on Patreon. That would be super cool.  Thanks for listening! As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Plus, our newest Discord Channel is now live. Click the link for an invite and be sure to check it out.   Opening music by GoodB Music under Creative Commons License End music by Kevin MacLeod under Creative Commons License Image: Apple TV+

It's time for a brand new episode of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it's Episode 487: Space Hotel Hijinks. Some of the stuff nerds love on this episode include the latest episode of the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the season three premiere of For All Mankind, space travel and a lot more. Very few tangents this week. Again. The boys are still trying to stay on topic. It isn't easy.  Picks this week include Chris' pick of the podcast Great Moments In Weed History and Joe's pick of the Leonardo DaVinci Notebooks, some of which are currently on display at OMSI in Portland, Oregon. Coincidently, Joe also picked OMSI (the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) this week which, if you've never been, is well worth it. Chris' pick can be found wherever you find podcasts. Obviously.  If you like the show, please give it a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, or your app of choice. Every rating and review helps. And if you're really feeling it, consider becoming a Patron and supporting the show on Patreon. That would be super cool.  Thanks for listening! As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Plus, our newest Discord Channel is now live. Click the link for an invite and be sure to check it out.   Opening music by GoodB Music under Creative Commons License End music by Kevin MacLeod under Creative Commons License Image: Apple TV+

Tiny Crystals, Global Impact is a touring museum exhibit about snow and the vital role it plays in the global climate system. Dr. Matthew Sturm presents at OMSI's Science Pub, and speaks with PNSAA President, Jordan Elliott.   Follow along with this slide deck. A virtual tour of the exhibit is here: Ourwinterworld.org How Much Water Comes From Snow and What is it Worth? 

Jon's on vacation in New Mexico (?) and Eric does Many Mundane Things. Exotic Lily was an IAB for Conti, how to make phishing even harder to detect with browser-in-browser popups, Germany warns against Kaspersky use, and Okta is breached by Lapsus$. For fun we have 9 lines to represent all of physics, a da Vinci exhibit at OMSI, and Mesa Verde National Park.

Welcome to December 30, 2021 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate the power of pork and other ordinary ingredients.  If you've ever made a volcano at home then you already know the magic of bicarbonate of soda. In 2017 the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry decided to make the world's largest baking soda volcano to best the record of an elementary school in the U.K. OMSI's volcano was constructed from pipes, tarps and scaffolding that was filled with 66 gallons of vinegar, along with 50 gallons of baking soda mixed with water. 3,000 people witnessed the event at the site with another 72,000 viewers watching the livestream. You may be planning your own epic celebration of New's Years Eve, but on National Bicarbonate of Soda Day, remember that baking soda also makes a good hangover cure.   Most people think that the phrase “bringing home the bacon” refers to a paycheck, although actual bacon is worth cheering for as well. But it turns out that the saying goes back to 12th century England, when married men would swear an oath that they had not argued with their spouse for a whole year and a day. Upon taking this oath they were rewarded with a side of bacon. The phrase then referred to men who were seen as exemplary citizens and husbands. Another story says that the phrase came about in 1906, when boxer Joe Gans got a telegram from his mother before fighting for the world lightweight championship. Her message was simply to “bring home the bacon,” which he did, though not literally. On Bacon Day we pay tribute to a food that receives a hero's welcome, no matter who brings it home.  I'm Anna Devere and I'm Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Birthday for Tiny which means favorite cereal, Dinosaurs at OMSI, and looking for the One Ring! History of Summer Break. New Spider-Man trailer. Charmed 2018 and Sam loves witches but not real ones. Want to have your voice heard or questions answered? Leave a message on our anchor page: https://anchor.fm/dontwakethekids/message Email: pleasedontwakethekids@gmail.com Follow Samantha on her social media: https://www.instagram.com/sami_and_ari/ Follow Ryan on his social media: https://www.instagram.com/chasingryan/ https://www.facebook.com/babyfacechase https://twitter.com/RyanChasingryan https://chasingryan.blogspot.com/ https://www.instagram.com/penny.rae.the.pup/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dontwakethekids/support

Naomi Shah is the founder and CEO of Meet Cute. We discuss Naomi's early passion for STEM, being a Goldman Sachs equity trader, leaving VC to be a founder, why a rom-com podcast network solves a problem in the wellbeing market, raising $6M of capital during COVID, and how a non-Hollywood background makes her a better media entrepreneur.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. Naomi Shah:At the early stages, it was exploratory, "Let's make one of these stories, let's figure out how this process works." I was actually on the investment team at USV when I started working on this idea. I had a really close relationship with the partners at USV, two or three months into building this, they said, "Why don't you come in and pitch us more formally." And that was a crazy experience of being in the same room that I'd sat in for the last two years listening to pitches and being on the other side of the table pitching my old colleague. Chris Erwin:This week's episode features Naomi Shah, the founder and CEO of Meet Cute. Naomi grew up in Portland, and one of her earliest memories is not just learning to walk, but specifically walking to the local science museum. So from an early age, Naomi had a love for STEM and actually ended up going to Stanford to study mechanical engineering and human biology. But, her early career took her to Wall Street, first as an equities trader at Goldman Sachs, and then as an investor at Union Square, focusing on the intersection of entertainment and wellbeing. But after hearing hundreds of pitches and learning the power of story to convince her partners to invest, Naomi only decided to flip the script. Chris Erwin:She felt a large portion of the wellbeing market was under invested, and so wanted to create a product that mirrored the benefit of tech-powered health solutions, but done differently. And so Meet Cute, the rom-com podcast and modern media company was born. Naomi is one of the youngest founders I've interviewed on the show, and it was a lot of fun getting to know her over the past couple of months. Some highlights of our chat include growing up a tomboy, her love for the "Flubber room", how her family inspired her workplace culture, raising $6 million of startup capital during COVID, and how a non Hollywood background makes her a better media entrepreneur. All right. Let's get into it. Chris Erwin:Naomi. Thanks for being on the podcast. Naomi Shah:Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. Chris Erwin:As we always do, let's dive back a little bit. I'm curious to know a little bit more about where you grew up and what your household and parents were like, so tell me about that. Naomi Shah:I grew up in Portland, Oregon, loved growing up there. I always say it's like a small little big town. It has all the elements of a big city, but just geographically smaller, fewer people. And I grew up with my mom, my dad and my older brother, Preem. My older brother is two and a half years older than me, I always felt like I was chasing him, following in his footsteps in various ways, and we're still very close. Chris Erwin:When you say you always felt like you were following in his footsteps, was it because of like different hobbies he had or sports or friend groups or things he was doing in school? What do you mean by that? Naomi Shah:I would say when I was younger, I was pretty tomboyish just like in terms of what he did. So if he wore Pokemon shirts, I wore Pokemon shirts, if he was playing Pokemon, I was doing that. If he was like roughhousing with his friends at the playground, I was doing that, I was always kind of chasing him. I would also say that as I grew up, because we both went to the same high school, I was always Preem's little sister in high school, and so all the teachers knew me as Preem's little sister. So it was just always part of my identity growing up. Chris Erwin:And was he excited to have you following him around or was it like, "Ugh, my little sister's here. This is annoying." Naomi Shah:No, my brother is somehow is super mature and always took care of me and was totally fine bringing me around. Even to this day, if he's hanging out with his friends, he's always like, "Oh yeah, my sister's in town, she'll come hang out with us." Chris Erwin:Jumping forward. But describing yourself as a tomboy growing up, and now you run a rom-com podcast network, a little bit of a funny juxtaposition there. Naomi Shah:Absolutely. I think it's hilarious. And even as a tomboy growing up, I loved rom-coms and I identified with a lot of the protagonists in rom-coms because one of my favorite ones growing up, Bend It Like Beckham was about a woman who really loved soccer and her parents wanted her to be the like classic good, perfect girl. And she was like, "Why can't I be that and play soccer?" Same thing with She's The Man. And so I always identified with that type of tension where I knew that I could play soccer, be really good at soccer, and still be a woman. I could really care about science and math and still wear makeup if I wanted to. Naomi Shah:And kind of taking away the tension between those two things was something that was really important to me growing up and something that I really appreciate that my mom spent a lot of time on with me. She's like, "Just because you do science fairs and you like swimming and soccer, it doesn't mean you can't care about what you wear and want to look nice and all of these other things that people associate with being feminine." And so I really liked being able to do both of those, and I think that that's a big part of my identity today. Chris Erwin:Speaking of your parents, you're just talking about your mom, what were your parents like? So we know that you have an early history and interest in STEM, today you're media and entertainment executive. Is that inspired by your parents at all? What did they do? Naomi Shah:My parents ran a company together, it was a software consulting company. And so pretty early on in life, my brother and I were exposed to my parents being leaders. And they would bring work home with them, they would talk about it at dinner, they'd talk about it when we were on family vacations. And so I always saw myself in a role where I was impacting a lot of change in an organization, not really knowing what that meant. More tactically, both my parents went to business school and studied business, so I always imagined that past for myself. It turns out I didn't end up going to business school and I just threw myself into founding. And I feel like I've picked up a lot of the things just by practicing it day to day that I would have learned in business school. Naomi Shah:So I kind of felt like I'd stepped off of their path there, but it was inspired by seeing how they ran a company together when they were in their early 20s and early 30s. Chris Erwin:Co-owners and co-running this company? Naomi Shah:Yeah. Yes. My mom was the president, my dad was the vice president. Chris Erwin:You think of things of like, okay, the family income is not diversified. It's not like if one person loses their job or the company goes under, the other one's okay. But it's also like, they work together, spend so much time together. I'm sure a lot of it went swimmingly, but there's probably times and it was difficult and challenging. Did that come into the home front as well? Naomi Shah:I can't remember that happening. And I think they did a good job of making sure that they protected us from that. To be completely honest, when I was growing up, all I knew is that my parents ran a company together, I didn't really look into what they were doing, what the company did, all of that. So I felt like I was sheltered from that a bit. I'm sure it did. I'm sure that there was a lot of complexities to running a company and they probably had to work through that, and they spent a lot of time together. But I think that they split up the roles and responsibilities both at home and at work in a way that worked really well for them. Naomi Shah:And there was also a lot of flexibility that you get from that, like my mom was there to pick us up from school and if we got sick, she would take care of us. When my mom would travel for work trips, my dad would turn into, we joked he was Mr. Mom and he would make all over meals for us and drop us off to play dates. And so they really shared the load. And I think that that has played into not only like how I see running a company and making sure that people feel ownership over different parts of it, but also how we think about relationships and how work and relationships can be a symbiotic relationship and not in tension with each other. Chris Erwin:That's well put. I was going to ask you, does entrepreneurship run in the family? Clearly. And, what are the values of your parents as entrepreneurs that inspired how you run your company, how you find balance, how you empower different relationships on your team? I think the note that you just gave on that is really thoughtful. Now, it's like middle school going into high school, how early does this theme around STEM interest and passion start? Naomi Shah:I think it starts probably early, early on in our lives. I could imagine learning to walk and going to a science museum around the same time. In Portland, Oregon, there's a science museum called The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. And I just remember being maybe three or four years old and being in this Flubber room where you could just touch and play around with Flubber, and you're experimenting with how it's made and you're pressing it into different shapes and things like that. Naomi Shah:And my brother and my dad would be over in the chemistry and physics labs, and my mom would be in the Flubber room with me and I'd be walking around touching things and being like, "Why does this work this way? And what is this?" And they really encouraged us from a young age to not be scared of asking questions, not feel you're dumb because you don't understand how something works. And I think that they took it upon themselves to make sure that if we showed interest in something, that whatever that thing was, whether it was science or dance or writing, that they would help promote that curiosity in that space. Naomi Shah:And so I think that the curiosity piece has probably started way earlier than middle school, but my first foray into STEM and being interested in that happened in sixth grade, I would say when we were all, I remember this very vividly, we were all in the library at my middle school and our science teacher was like, "Everyone needs to do a science project this year. Go on Wikipedia, go on Google, go look for topics that you're curious about." And I was like, "That's an insane thing to ask a group of sixth graders. The world is huge, we're curious about so many things." Naomi Shah:And I remember like coming up with a list of topics that I was interested in and I ended up scratching all of them off, because I was like, "I want to do something that relates to my life and people in my life." And so what I ended up working on in sixth grade was a project around air quality and lung health because both my brother and my dad had allergies. And that was really the first time that I was setting up a research question, coming up with hypotheses, figuring out how to go about experimenting around it. And that process was what made me very interested in STEM and the whole discovery process. Chris Erwin:I have to admit, there's not many sixth graders who when tasked with a project and they could be like, "Go research any topic that you find interesting," that you take a pause, you caveat the project and say, "How is this going to help other people? How has this maybe going to help my family?" And then air quality comes to mind. So I think that's probably a pretty rare trait. Naomi Shah:I think so too. And I can't like take credit for that, I honestly think that like my science teacher in sixth grade probably sat down and helped me a lot with narrowing on topics. I actually think my dad was pretty influential and being like, "If you want to spend hours and hours researching something, you have to make sure you care about it." I'm pretty sure I came home and was like, "I want to build a hovercraft." I think that felt like the most interesting thing to me where I was like, "This is the future of travel. Let me research how to do that." My dad was like, "Awesome, I think that could be a really good project. Is that something that you as a person, as a human are really interested in?" Naomi Shah:And so I think I took some time there to think about, "What are things that I would actually want to know the answer to?" And seeing my brother and dad have allergies six months out of the year, I was like, "Why does that happen?" And I started looking up just very basic Google searches around it and found that indoor air quality was one of the top five silent killers. There's so many things that we know about pollution, we know about outdoor pollution, but no one really thinks about the air pollutants in their home. And so I was like, "Wow, no one talks about this. I don't know the first thing about it. I'm pretty curious in terms of, how does this affect my family?" Naomi Shah:I make it sound like in the hour that I was given, I figured it out, but I think it was like many conversations later, lots of lists, lots of hypotheses around these questions, and then I probably came to it. Chris Erwin:Got it. Okay. So it starts at an early age. You're describing an interest in STEM and science dating back to when you can start walking and you can actually visit some of these museums. Sixth grade, this big question for a report. Then you end up going to Stanford, and you actually focus on mechanical engineering and human biology. So at this point, you're going to undergrad, what did you think that your career was going to be? Naomi Shah:To be completely honest, because I was so interested in human health and things that impacted human health, I went in thinking that I would be a surgeon. I thought I was going to be pre-med the last couple quarters of high school before I went to Stanford. At Stanford, I started by taking a core classes like math and science that I would need for either an engineering major or if I were to do human biology, those were the classes I would need. So I went through a period of being a little bit confused about what my career was going to be. I can't say that I was like, "This is definitely what I want to dedicate my life to." Naomi Shah:And I think that that's pretty common for people in that age to go through a period of, "I'm not really sure what I wanted to do, but I know that whatever I end up doing, I want it to have an impact in some way." So I started out with human biology as my main focus. And then sophomore year, I took my first mechanical engineering class, kind of on a whim. I was excited about Stanford as a great design school, and I was excited about just sitting in on one of the classes there, figuring out what about design and engineering is pulling me into trying a class here. So I took my first class and was fascinated by the whole process of. you start with an idea, you sketch it out, you design it, you build it, you do user testing around it, you interview people, and then you put the final touches on it and you figure out how this could become a product in the world. Naomi Shah:And I think that that process to me felt very similar to the science research process that I loved in high school. I also feel like the pace of engineering felt very perfect for my personality where it's like, in academia, I think you'd spend a lot longer answering the same question and you have to be a lot more... you have to like apply for a grant, be patient about how long it takes you to get to the final answer. Whereas in engineering, you learn the process, you understand it, and you constantly apply that process to building. And I really liked that hands-on experience that Stanford offered in the mechanical engineering department. Chris Erwin:What I'm hearing though is also, you had a builder mentality early on where you liked the scientific method and process of, have a hypothesis, research, get some data, but also, you don't want to be stuck in the system where you're researching forever, that you wanted to put things out into the world. Naomi Shah:Exactly. And I think that that is a really important point, which is that, even in my science research when I was looking at air quality and lung health, when I got to my results and conclusions phase of the project, I think someone who wanted to stay in academia would have said, "Okay, this is great. I'm going to go back into the lab now." For me, what was interesting is, how does this connect into policy? How does this connect into building a product that people can use? So I think that my natural tendency at that point was to say, "What is the connection between research and humans? Naomi Shah:And that's where I loved mechanical engineering and in building because you had something physical that people could interact with. And so that's where I realized that, "Okay, I'm interested in the interface between engineering and humans. And so when people ask me, do I regret minoring in human biology? I always say, "No, I loved those lectures. I loved sitting down and learning about human development, psychology, behavioral studies, all of that, because I think that informs a lot of how you build." And tying that to today, building a company, constantly, I feel like I'm going through that process of like, "Here's a question, let's come up with what we think is going to happen. Let's go test it. Let's sit down and look at our results. Now let's see how can we implement those results into the product to make it better for our users." Naomi Shah:So I actually think that a lot of the things that I worked on starting in middle school, in college, and after college are all tied in to each other, and the common thread is just that curiosity and in that scientific process of question, hypothesis, results, and then implications, like, how does that tie into something tangible that people can touch? Chris Erwin:This is helpful because I went into this interview, Naomi, as I started doing research for it, I was like, "Okay, what's the through line here?" I was like, "Naomi is running a modern day audio media company focused on micro casts rom-com scripted content. Got it." So as I'm doing the research, I'm like, "All right, early STEM focus, mechanical engineering, human biology." I was like, "How does this come together?" But I think you've woven a tale for our listeners that makes a lot of sense. And I will say I've interviewed a lot of people on the show, I don't think anyone has a background like yours. Chris Erwin:But now, I think you might be inspiring maybe a whole new breed of people to enter into media entertainment saying, "Well, if Naomi can do it and look at her success now, then we can do it." My guest pedigree might be changing over the next couple of years. Naomi Shah:I love that you pointed that out. What I really about Meet Cute and how we've built Meet Cute is that I think we approach the space of media and entertainment through beginner's mindset. And I think that scientists and researchers always have to have a beginner's mindset because you never know what your results are going to be or what the data is going to show. And so, I often feel like media entertainment is one of those spaces that people are like, "Do you have a production background? Do you have an agency background? Do you know people in the industry?" Naomi Shah:And I actually think it's a strength to say no to those because you've come up with new solutions, new ways of doing things, you bring a fresh perspective to it. And honestly, I love talking about the different paths that it could take to get into media and entertainment because, to your point, we can inspire new people to join this way of like flipping existing and traditional models in an industry. But two, I think that people who are already in the industry love having conversations with new people because they bring a different perspective to the table, they bring something that hasn't been done before to the table. Naomi Shah:And so I love having those types of conversations and being like, "Yeah, I actually have no idea how these deals are done before, but here's an idea. What do you think of this?" Chris Erwin:I'd like to point out that you said also about a beginner's mind. It reminds me, I interviewed Matthias Metternich on this podcast, he's the founder and CEO of Art of Sport. And before he did that, he's launched a consumer product and media brand around it., he was at I think a FinTech company, like a B2B FinTech business. He actually also ran a women's bathing suit retailer and manufacturer. And I was like, again, "What's the through line?" He's like, "I like to get into industries with a fresh mind and solve consumer problems." And he's like, "I think it gives me an advantage versus I've been in this vertical for 20 years." Chris Erwin:But anyway, Naomi, we could go down a whole tangent on this. Before we get into your early career, going into being an equities trader at Goldman and being an investor at Union Square, I also do want to ask, I saw that, there's a pretty strong through line of volunteerism throughout your history. I saw Camp Kesem, I saw a StreetSquash, and then I saw OMSI, if I'm pronouncing that right. And so I'm just curious, when did this start? And I know Camp Kesem is for kids with parents undergoing cancer treatment. Honestly, I don't know what StreetSquash is. So what are some of the inspiration for these groups that you're involved in? Naomi Shah:This is a testament to my parents who have always encouraged us to try and be involved in our community in some way. OMSI is actually the science museum that I used to run around as a kid, and I volunteered there in middle and high school, basically talking about science experiments with the next generation of kids. And so I loved the education aspect of it. I thought that it was a way to give back to the community in a way to be involved in bringing STEM into more people's lives. Because I think that especially there is a stigma around middle and high school, I think a lot of women who could be really interested in STEM stop taking classes around it. Naomi Shah:And they either think that it's not for them or they don't see their friends in it, so they stop taking them, and that trickles into the breakdown of how many females are in certain college majors when you get to college. While I didn't think about this all as an eighth grader, now looking back, I can see that that was one of the things I loved most about volunteering at OMSI, is being able to bring an excitement around STEM to people who might not otherwise care about it. Showing people that there were really cool applications in the world by pursuing this stuff was part of OMSI. Naomi Shah:Camp Kesem in college was a summer camp that I worked at for a week at the end of the school year, and it was all Stanford counselors. I actually do have a personal relationship to cancer in my family, and so that was an important liaison for me. And it was at the first time that I shared that experience publicly, it was the first time I opened up about it to people that weren't in my closest circles. And I think that that was a really great way to be a leader and like learn how to lead with vulnerability and learn how to lead with transparency and honesty. Naomi Shah:And I think I take a lot of the things that I learned from being a counselor at Kesem into the way that I want our team to function at Meet Cute today, or the way that I interacted with my coworkers at USV and Goldman. Something that I always say is like, "Don't check your personality at the door, bring a lot of those experiences into your work." And I think it makes you a stronger colleague, I think it makes you a better teammate, I think it's easier to have discussions and brainstorms when you know a little bit more about your coworkers without oversharing. I think that that's also an important boundary to strike. Naomi Shah:So that was Camp Kesem, I loved being a counselor, I loved being outdoors. It was a week of no phones, a week of- Chris Erwin:So rare nowadays. Naomi Shah:Exactly. I think that those four weeks one every year was the longest I've ever spent off of my phone probably since I got a cell phone in middle school. It's one of the most liberating things when you come back to the real world at the end of the week and your phone is just like for the next 20 minutes, just like blowing up. And you're like, "It's actually so important to get away from your phones, but we just don't do it." And then the last one, you mentioned StreetSquash. Before I moved to San Francisco last year, I lived in New York for three years. And I don't play squash, but StreetSquash is a program that merges squash practice with academic involvement. Naomi Shah:It takes place in Harlem, in New York. And it's a primarily a program for kids who are usually first-generation, want to develop skills in a sport and get better in their homework and in academics. And we bring those two things together. And I actually love that because sports have been a part of my life growing up. I loved playing soccer when I was little, I ended up swimming in middle and high school, I skied throughout a lot of my childhood. And I found that having extracurricular activities that took up time meant that I was just more dedicated and learned things like discipline and showing up in teamwork, and those were all things that I think I took into school projects, my internships, my jobs after college. Naomi Shah:So I loved the combination of those two. And I started out as an academic tutor at StreetSquash, and then the second two years ended up co-chairing the young leaders committee. So was involved in fundraising, was involved in managing the board, all of that. Chris Erwin:Very cool. So now leaping forward a bit. You come out of Stanford, Naomi, and head to Wall Street, you become an equities trader at Goldman. Curious, what got you excited about going into finance? That was a path that I took right out of undergrad as well. What was the thinking? Naomi Shah:Yeah. I actually did an internship at Goldman my junior year. They came to campus and talked about how engineers that wanted to work on fast-paced problems could find a spot on the trading floor. Really interesting. And I was thinking about it and I was like, "I love patterns." When I think about science research, when I think about even mechanical engineering, I love looking for patterns in data and learning about why those exist and what we can learn from those patterns. And what was exciting to me about the trading floor is looking for those patterns in the public market, like how does this conflict internationally affect oil prices? Or how does a change in leadership in this government affect jobs? And things like that. Naomi Shah:So I think that I was just genuinely curious and I'd never applied it to thinking about the public markets until I started working at Goldman, and I loved the idea of working on projects that involve that data to the point that you were making earlier, applying that to something very directly, applying that to trades and making trades. So I can connect that in my mind to just curiosity and not really caring what the physical product was that I was working on, but instead caring about the process to get to that product. And so I actually loved my internship there. I really was excited about working in New York, about like that fast-paced lifestyle. Chris Erwin:You grew up in Portland you lived there your whole life, and then you were West Coast at Stanford, but you had never lived on the East Coast? Naomi Shah:Exactly. And I think part of me wanted to have one of those classic New York jobs. I think I was enamored by it. I loved the idea of waking up at... This is going to sound crazy, but I love the idea of waking up at like 5:30, grabbing a coffee and just being on all day. And I thinks that my personality has that intensity to it where I like the grind. And I think that that is part of what Goldman provided. They were like, "Yeah, everyone here is really smart and grinds, and you will be surrounded by people who will push you, will ask you questions. Will say, 'Why did you do that?'" And I really liked that. I thought that was a very important and pivotal part of my first job out of college. Chris Erwin:And what that sounds like to me, that's an early 20s love story with New York. Naomi Shah:Totally. Chris Erwin:I grew up in the tri-state area, Jersey Shore. And so I was super pumped about going into finance, being on Wall Street, being in New York, right out of undergrad, like you, Naomi, being like, "I'm going to work 24/7." To the point where I was walking around like delirious, because it was banking 7:00 AM to 4:00 AM, seven days a week. But it's funny, I'm seeing your eyes light up, which is probably reminiscent of when you were in your early 20s doing it. Now, you write about love stories, maybe you just got a theme for an upcoming Meet Cute show. Naomi Shah:We like to say that there's a rom-com every situation, so if there are there billion people in the world, there are nine billion rom-coms, and you can definitely see one happening around finance and the culture there. But yeah, I completely agree with you, I think that there is absolutely a... I wanted to live in New York, I wanted to have a job that pushed me really hard. I loved the culture around grinding. And I think that that was really a part of what made me sign a return offer at Goldman and come back as an equities trader. I really liked how fast paced the markets were. And I felt it played to a lot of my strengths. Naomi Shah:I always told people, "I don't think you need to be a finance major to go get a really good job in banking, I think you can be an art history major and apply that to banking. I think you can be an engineer and think of ways to automate and create process around trading." And I think that was what stood out on my resume to Goldman, where it was the scientific process, applying that to trading, how do you ask questions and create processes around answering those questions? And that's really the direction that banks want to go now. But what I've found there is that it didn't hit on the creativity part of what I was excited about. Naomi Shah:So I almost felt like a repetition to what I was doing that I liked at first, and then I started thinking, I don't know if this is what I want to do five or 10 years later. And I miss the creativity from building and college, from my mechanical engineering classes that said, "Okay, you have this idea. Now, go create it in the world, create something new that no one has seen before, and do it from scratch." And I missed that. So that's really what caused me to make the jump to venture capital, where I could work with early-stage founders and learn from them and learn that process of building something from scratch. Naomi Shah:And so that was what excited me about early-stage venture and about Union Square Ventures when I applied for that job, Chris Erwin:I also have to ask you just an inside question about Goldman and macro market trading. I know everyone likes to predict the markets of like, "Oh, there's a big governmental shift over here, some regulatory shift over there. Macro economic prices are soaring, they're falling." I think there's so much noise in the market that is actually very difficult to say, "Oh, because X happened, Y is then going to be the results," because you don't know the big institutional traders making their big market investments at incredible volume. Were you guys actually able to pinpoint specific market activity? I find that to be like so challenging for the retail traders that I talk to. Naomi Shah:Well, I definitely think you're right. I think that there is so much volatility and a lot of things can change an outcome of a trade. One of the interesting things is like, you have to be very good at taking risks in that role because you have no idea what the outcome could be. The market could move against you because something happens and you have to be really fast at trading out of that position. But I will say that there are a lot of research projects that you can do to say, "If this trade was executed... " Say for instance like oil prices crashed, "Well, what happened to these three prices when oil prices crashed five years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago?" Naomi Shah:So you can map out what you think is going to happen, what you predict is going to happen based on historical trade data and figure out patterns in that that create more educated hypotheses about what will happen today. And who knows, there could be so many confounding variables, so that's why you have to put a 95% confidence interval around it and then be okay with that 5% of risk where it's like, if something else happens that isn't part of your model, that'll move the needle on what the outcome of your trade is. Naomi Shah:Surprisingly, markets are so cyclical and you can come up with a lot of predictions based on historical trade data. And that's where the pattern recognition comes in. Chris Erwin:Very helpful. When you leave Goldman, I think you were there for about a year, did Union Square reach out to you or were you proactively looking for your next one? Naomi Shah:I was surprisingly not really aware that venture capital was a career path. And at that point, I think no one I knew was in VC, and so I didn't really understand what a job or a career in VC looked like, but I was looking around at different startups and different companies. And I stumbled upon the USV Blog, which is a dynamic blog that they post about their investments. And so I read back two or three years in their blog, like why did they make an investment in Twitter? Why did they make an investment in Duolingo? Why did they make an investment in SoundCloud and Etsy? Naomi Shah:And I was fascinated by, it's a very different risk profile than public markets because you're taking these like eight to 10 year bets on companies at the earliest stage of an idea, you're taking a bet on the idea and the founder. And I love reading why they took that bet, what convinced them to do it. And I felt like it was a really good example of taking some pattern recognition, which I think I had affinity towards and then taking some like creativity and intuition and saying like, "What do we want the world to look like in five years?" So I was reading their blog and then around that time, they actually put out a call for analysts and there was this two year analyst program. Naomi Shah:So in that evening that I was starting to read and stuff, I just submitted an application. I literally spent like a few hours on it, and the application was closing soon, so I probably just like made it into the application pool right as it was closing, and talked about what I found interesting about VC. And I think that one of the questions was, here are three companies, talk about whether you think they're overvalued or undervalued. And I obviously used a lot of my training from Goldman to answer that question, but then I applied a separate lens to it, which is like, what as a user do I think this company is doing well? I think I picked Snapchat, Chris Erwin:Were you bullish or bearish on Snapchat back then? Because now Snapchat is crushing it, but there were a lot of skepticism over the past. Naomi Shah:I was bullish. And I think that was rare. I think everyone else that just Snapchat was bearish at that time. And I pointed to a bunch of things that I thought they were doing really well and setting themselves apart. And maybe we're going through a tough few years, but I thought that they had a long-term view on a lot of things. And so I think that that was a pretty unique perspective. And then I backed it up with a few quantitative and qualitative points. Chris Erwin:What I like that I'm hearing from you is I think just going through your background, if you look at like STEM, engineering, biology, it was very defined data sets, very defined research methods and hypothesis creation. But I think then as you were saying, at Goldman, something you were missing was like, what's the creativity? What's the art and the science? And I think going into venture investing, and you're starting to read these theses on their blog, you're like, "Look, there's some market data and information, but the data sets are a lot less defined." And you have to trust your gut and have a different set of judgments. Chris Erwin:So it feels like the creativity vein you saw a lane for you that was building off of yet a financial background still got you excited, but this is clearly setting you up for even going deeper once you started Meet Cute, is that right? Naomi Shah:Also I'm very impressed with how you articulate things, because these are things that I've just started articulating to myself after years of doing this. And these are the types of things that I love thinking about. So absolutely. I think that venture investing is an art and a science. I think that founding a company is an art and a science. I love using both sides of my brain. I think that I didn't realize early on in my life that you could find a perfect fit that uses both sides of your brain. I love going deep and brainstorming and thinking creatively about things that don't exist. And I call it like my big picture brain. Naomi Shah:And then I love going into the details in the operations and saying, how does this actually work tactically? What are the steps we need to follow to get there? And I think both of those exist in venture investing and in founding a company. And at USV, I would do five to 10 coffee meetings with founders every week, and sifting through all of those conversations where every person is so passionate about what they're building was one of the coolest things. And a lot of it is intuition, you go into a founder meeting, which conversations make you lean forward and say, "This is the next big thing. This is what I want to invest in"? Naomi Shah:You get that when you feel that and when you find those companies, it's the best feeling in the world. And then it was my job as an analyst at USV to convince the team or one of the partners at USV, why they should spend more time with this company and meeting them. And so part of it was I had to tell a story to my team. And so there was like a storytelling component to venture capital that I think really trickled in. And I've pulled into things that I do at Meet Cute today, which is, we're a storytelling company, we're also a business that reports to investors. 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 guest, 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 curious about the exposure to audio, because I was looking at the Union Square portfolio, I know Headgum is an audio network. That investment was made by, I think it was after your time there or in the latter half. So what was the exposure to podcasting and audio and how did the actual like idea of Meet Cute start coming to be? When you were there, I may have read that maybe some partners approached you about it, but elaborate. Naomi Shah:Like I said, I was spending a lot of time in the wellbeing category of our portfolio. And what I was excited about was there was an under-invested category within wellbeing in venture capital. And I wanted us to be looking at that category more seriously. And that was, what do people do for fun? So Chris, what do you do for fun when you're like trying to blow off steam? Chris Erwin:I like to surf and be in the ocean and in the water. Naomi Shah:Okay. That's a great example of it's not prescriptive, no one is telling you, you have to do this. It's not a meditation, it's not healthcare, it's not mental health, but that supports your mental health, that makes you feel good. Similarly, people like reading books, watching movies, scrolling on Netflix, listening to podcasts, listening to music, going to concerts. So I was like, "If we could find a company in the media and entertainment space that felt like a product or technology investment that mirrors in the investments that we've made in product and technology, that'd be pretty cool. That'd be a great coming together of two different categories." Naomi Shah:And so I started looking for a company in that space and spent a lot of time on it. And eventually was very excited about short form content, very excited about audio, very excited about a verticalized media company that created a niche for itself in a massive market that could attract many consumers through network effects. And so to be honest, you can do what we're doing in many different mediums, many different genres, but we just had conviction in audio and in romantic comedies. And that's why we started there. Naomi Shah:And so I was actually on the investment team at USV when I started working on this idea, I was working really closely with one of the partners, Andy Weissman, who also led the Headgum Investment. And at first it was like an incubation, I was literally working out of the USV office. It was only when I started building a team around it did we spin it out and make it a portfolio company rather than a project within USV. Chris Erwin:Seems like you're starting to operate as like an EIR, where you're an investor there, and then you're probably increasingly spending more time here, your passion is here. And so your role is changing at the company. Naomi Shah:Yes. And there was like a six-month period where I was just doing two jobs at once. I was looking for investments, and then also spending a ton of time building out the earliest stages of an idea and business model around what ended up being Meet Cute. At that time we were calling it something else. It was a very unique path to founding where I had a really close relationship with the partners at USV. They trusted me, they knew me. And so two or three months into building this, they said, "Why don't you come in and pitch us more formally?" Naomi Shah:And that was a crazy experience of being in the same room that I had sat in for the last two years listening to pitches and being on the other side of the table pitching my old colleagues at USV. Chris Erwin:Naomi, I have to ask, when you started working on Meet Cute, did you have conviction like, "This is it. I know this is a great idea. I'm going to build this"? Or was it more exploratory, which is like, "I think there's something here, let's see where it goes"? Naomi Shah:At the early stages, it was exploratory. It was, "Let's make one of these stories. Let's actually figure out how this process works. Do people like this? Is there a certain time constraint that we can apply to it?" And I think that keeping things flexible in the early stages of a company means that you get to learn from user feedback, you get to learn from listening data and engagement data. And so I like to say that we definitely have conviction in certain things, like we said, we want these stories to be uplifting and positive because there is a gap in that market, but keeping certain things open to feedback and listening data was really important to us too. Naomi Shah:So I would say it's definitely, it started out more exploratory, it started out trying to figure out how this works and how we can build it. And a big reason for that is the founding team at Meet Cute, didn't have experience in doing this. And so it was really an experiment to say, "Is this a good idea first? And then now let's fundraise around it and let's build a team around it to execute. Chris Erwin:Now, the tables are turned. You're now pitching the partners at Union Square for a company that you want to found, and you're asking them for money. So how does that go down? Naomi Shah:The biggest part of that pitch was taking a bet on a new idea where we're essentially bringing Hollywood and a product company together, and taking a bet on me as a former colleague of theirs. I think that there was a lot of comfort in the idea that I was pitching people I knew. So there was that kind of ease in it, but there was a completely new paradigm that I was now on the other side of the table, I was a founder and I was looking for the right fit in terms of like, are they asking me questions? Are they pushing me? And they absolutely did. Naomi Shah:They asked me, why are you thinking about it this way? What is the vision of the company? And I loved that. And I think it showed me early on that as a solo founder, you want investors who are going to challenge you and who are going to almost like build alongside you. They're not just going to put the capital in and then step back. And so part of the fundraising process for me was learning to be able to find investors that were really involved in hands-on. And I'd seen at Union Square Ventures, the way that the team did that with other portfolio companies. Naomi Shah:And so I was really excited about them being involved in Meet Cute, even though they're not traditional media entertainment investors, we were approaching it from a different way and they were very excited about that. So that was a big part of the pitch. A big part of it is leaving room for experimentation to the point we were just talking about and saying, "I'm okay, not knowing all the answers today, but here's what I think, and here's the things that I want to test. And here's the team that we have around Meet Cute to go execute on that." Naomi Shah:And I think that setting it up like that is a really strong way for a seed company to say, "We don't have all the answers, but we're about to go figure it out and work really hard to do that." Chris Erwin:I think that's well put. Look, I'm a strategic advisor for companies and I always have to tell the team, "Yes, we're known to be the experts, but we don't have to have all the answers in the moment. It's more about, let's have a point of view, a vision. Let's also stand in our power where we don't know the answers, but let's have a plan for how we can figure that out thoughtfully." And I think that when you take that approach with confidence, it actually instills a lot of confidence in an investor, in a client. So I think that shows great self-awareness, Naomi. Naomi Shah:Absolutely. And honestly, these were things that I picked up from getting pitched to a lot, where sometimes I would be in a conversation with a founder where I'd suggest, "Have you thought of this? Or what do you think of this?" And if they hadn't thought of it, but they were willing to engage in conversation around it or say, "I'm not sure, I need to look into that," and have that humility that maybe they don't have all the answers, I was like, "That might be a founder that is really fun to have brainstorms with and discussions with because they're open to learning." Naomi Shah:And I actually think that if you have all the answers, then you'd already be a massive success, whereas at the earliest stages of founding, a lot of things are still unproven. Chris Erwin:After this pitch, do you get the funding? I think it's a $3 million seed. Does that happen pretty quickly? Naomi Shah:Happens pretty quickly. And a big reason is that I raised from people that I knew. Plus, we brought in Advancit Capital, which is Shari Redstone's investment team. I already had a team around Meet Cute of founding team. We already had our head of content and head of development. And so we go right into making a story. We now have capital to start testing this out. And we start bringing in creators around us like writers, producers, voice actors, and just start developing relationships in the field. A lot of this is trial and error. Naomi Shah:And so we start saying like, "It doesn't make sense to have a writing team in-house. It does it make sense to go get a studio space or rent studio space. How do we open up a bank account?" And so I had this like ongoing checklist of things. Some of them is super trivial, how do we get an EIN number? All these things that I had never had to do before. And so I just asked a ton of questions of people around me and asked for help when we needed it. And that was what the first few months of starting was like, it was just, this fire comes up, let's put it out, let's try it again. Naomi Shah:We don't know the answer to this question, let's go ask an expert in the field and send out a few cold emails. And that was the process of figuring it out. Chris Erwin:I think you finalized the funding in January of 2020. So this is just right before COVID is hitting. But at this point, have you released any content? Naomi Shah:Our first series came out in December of 2019. So we did put some content out there, and no one knew about us at that point, so we just sent it around to people we knew, friends and family, asked for feedback, posted it on social media. We were just trying to get our earliest beta testers, for lack of better word, to give us feedback. Chris Erwin:How was it received? Naomi Shah:It was received really well. People really liked the short form. Some people hated it and were like, "This is never going to work." And then it was up to us to take certain feedback with a grain of salt and say, "No, we want to make another one. We think this is going to work." Overall, feedback was very positive, it was really fun to see even not being discoverable in the podcast platforms, yet we were getting some organic lessons from people, sharing us with their friends. Our creators that worked on that story shared as far and wide, like the voice actors, the producers, the developers of that story. Naomi Shah:And that was really encouraging to us to see how proud the people who worked on it were and how they wanted to make sure everyone in their networks knew about it too. So pretty quickly we had like a few hundred people listening to the story and qualitatively getting some feedback around what engagement. And listening was like, it encouraged us enough to make the next few in January. Chris Erwin:I know that at RockWater for our content, some of the most powerful ambassadors are just our internal team. So after we podcast or publish a writing piece, they help spread the word and then hopefully it catches fire elsewhere. That's how you build initially. I have to ask, one of your themes has building a really diverse set of creatives, and also which then enable very diverse rom comedies, micro cast stories from a values perspective, from geography, from ethnicity, from gender, sexual orientation. Was that part of the mandate from very early on, or is that something that evolved in the beginning of it? Naomi Shah:That was something that we made a conscious decision about. So rather than building out an internal team of writers and producers, we thought if we can open a network of people that can participate in Meet Cute and can participate in our creative process, that's going to be a part of our business model to have multiple voices, that diversity and inclusivity piece that we valued as a company, but now it's baked into the way that we create. So I think that at first, it was just we want those voices to be a part of Meet Cute because we think that will create better storytelling, and that was important to us. Naomi Shah:And over time we were like, "This is our MO. This is something that we're doing that no one else has. We have the largest network of creatives because we're enabling people from multiple geographies, people from any sexual orientation, people from around the world to participate in our storytelling. And so I would say, it's both a business value and it's a creative value at Meet Cute that we think that the stories that were told from people who might not have a voice in media and entertainment today otherwise, we get to benefit from their storytelling because they care about the stories that they tell. Naomi Shah:They share it with their communities, they write stories for communities that might not be represented in pop culture. And that means that those stories are making our platform more diverse and inclusive in a really organic way. And what's important to Meet Cute is that we don't tokenize those communities. We're not saying, "This is a story from the LGBTQ community." No, we want that to be normalized in our feed, and just to be another rom-com, all of these stories are rom-coms. There are multiple ways to love in the world, and we want to be the brand that captures all of those stories. Chris Erwin:I really like that. Speaking to another very strategic decision that you made early on was micro casts. This is something that's near and dear to my heart and that of the RockWater team. We launched a micro cast podcast ourselves called the RockWater Roundup over the past few months, where you get your industry news in like 10 to 15 minutes. The reason behind that, we've been evangelizing this to our clients is because the growth of smart speakers expected to be like a 650 million install base over the next few years. Chris Erwin:We think it's going to bring audio into the home, more routine-based listening, listening in between your day-to-day moment. So that's probably like shorter time. And then Spotify has their playlist and they're curating for you and they want to have shorter snippets to pull in, we think that there's a lot of tailwinds of like micro cast is an exciting format, but it still hasn't caught on in the broad industry. But you guys made this decision dating back nearly two years. So is that you're going to stick to, or are you also exploring long form? Tell me about that. Naomi Shah:Yeah. We really like, exactly to your point that these stories can fit in in your day, anywhere. Within our 15-minute stories, we have three-minute chapters. So on the way to a meeting or when you're waiting for your Uber or whatever it is, you can throw in a story and throw in a chapter and get a little escape from your day. And that to us was really exciting, because there are a lot of books out there that could be eight or nine hours, but it's just a bigger time commitment. And so we wanted to create a slightly new product and a new use case. Naomi Shah:And we're finding that people are consuming these throughout the day in the mornings when they're getting ready for work. Even though rom-coms traditionally are like your evening, Friday and Saturday entertainment, now we're pulling them into new parts of people's day because they're so accessible and they're so short that you can fit them in anywhere. And so to us, it was exciting that we could create new listening behavior around this genre. Chris Erwin:I like that. I like to read Modern Love from The New York Times. Like you said, Naomi, I typically read that maybe at night, on the weekends, it helps me relax, go to sleep with just like a good feel. But I was listening to one of your episodes, like a cruise episode because it reminded me I had lost love on a cruise line dating back 15 years. And I was like, "Oh, I got to check this out." And I just liked the feeling that it left me with. So I liked that you could start inserting this feeling like earlier in the day or midday, a little bit different. Naomi Shah:Exactly. Like you have a stressful meeting, you want 15 minutes of optimism, or hope, or human connection, we want Meet Cute to be the go-to place for that. And to your point, there is a lack of optimistic stories. If you think about Ted Lasso, I don't know if you've seen that? Chris Erwin:Oh, I love Ted Lasso. I just started watching the new season, it just came out. Naomi Shah:Yes. The second episode I think dropped yesterday, but I'm obsessed with it, and everyone that I've talked to is obsessed with it. And it's because there isn't that much content out there that isn't darker or anxiety ridden or doom-scrolling related. And I think people are craving that, especially after the last year, it was such a hard year. There were so many negative news cycles. You were scared about a lot of things in the world, and people want an escape. People want a consistent feeling of hope in their lives. Naomi Shah:And so you can get that through a Disney movie, you can get that through Ted Lasso. How do you get that around human connection and love? We think that there is a place in the world for that, and that's what we were hoping to build at Meet Cute. Chris Erwin:Naomi, before we wrap up with the Rapid Fire round at the end, I just want to hear, look, you launched a business right before COVID. COVID hits, you're a new young founder, incredible challenges, but clearly you guys are doing something right, because fast forward into the end of 2020, and you raise another six million. That I think is from Lerer Hippeau, Newark Venture Partners. And then it's off to the races. So tell me quickly, where is Meet Cute headed from here? What's the grand vision? Naomi Shah:Meet Cute vision for the company is to become the official source of romantic comedies. We want to be one of the largest entertainment brands on the order of magnitude of Disney and Pixar, and create universes that people fall in love with, characters that you want to wear on your sweatshirt and your tote bag. And honestly, be a best friend to people in the entertainment world because of the stories that we're telling. And so the core of that is being an incredible storytelling company, enabling creatives to do their work best, and building a verticalized media business that focuses on optimism, and hope, and human connection. Naomi Shah:So five years from now, we're still working on our audio stories, we can adapt some of those into other formats, into TV, film, books, live shows. We're selling merch for some of our biggest theories. We have a community of people that cares about the show and wants to listen to every series that comes out. I could go on and on. There's so many possibilities for what you can do, but at the core bit, it's become one of the greatest entertainment brands that's long lasting, that stays relevant and fresh, no matter how society evolves and pop culture evolves, we want to be at the apex of that. Chris Erwin:And right now, you're focused on building audience and you're not yet monetizing, is that right? Naomi Shah:We're focused on audience and community. That's correct. Chris Erwin:I get that you are preparing for the long term, the vision for five years, but we're in something that we talk about, we're in the middle of the audio wars, and you see incredible capital flows. Amazon buying Wondery, Amazon buying Art19. You see the exclusive rights deals for Call Her Daddy with Spotify, and also with SmartLess. You see SiriusXM buying Stitcher, and so much more. Is there a world where you must be thinking about, you may have already gotten inbounds for Meet Cute as an acquisition target? What do you think about that? Naomi Shah:Yeah, there is a ton of movement. There's new headlines every day in the podcast world, in the world of acquisitions. A lot of people are looking for exclusive content. I see Meet Cute as a large entertainment brand. And so working really hard to not get distracted in the meantime as we're building that and just focus on telling amazing stories and building our community, I think it does take putting blinders on. And our work is set out for us, and that's something that we're excited about in the next few years. Chris Erwin:Before the Rapid Fire, I just want to give you some kudos, Naomi. Going into this interview, I think I was telling you before, you're one of the youngest people that we've brought on in terms of your experience, your experience before actually starting a company, but I think it's been so rewarding for me to hear about coming from such a different background from so many other media and entertainment professionals that have interviewed that it's been very refreshing. And I think that you make a really great case for why a background like yours is so powerful and it's so relevant and could be a really strategic asset for you. Chris Erwin:That's great to hear for additional investment that might come your way, additional team members that you want to recruit, but I really think that your story could also start to recruit new founders into the media and entertainment ecosystem, which would be such a beautiful thing. I think overall, Hollywood, traditional and digital new Hollywood needs some rethinking, some new brains and muscles to add to the mix. And I think that you're really paving the way for it. And I think that how thoughtful you are for how you are building and how that's inspired by some of like your home grown roots and your parents is a really beautiful thing. So I think you're set up for some really great success. And I want to acknowledge that Naomi Shah:Thank you so much. That means so much coming from you. I think that like new founders in any space, rethinking things, flipping the status quo, building from scratch, I love seeing that kind of movement in an industry, especially one that has been around for so long and things are done a certain way. And so I'm very excited to be building in a space that we can rethink a lot of the existing assumptions. And I know the whole Meet Cute team is excited about that. So I appreciate you acknowledging that. And I think that more people should jump into feels that they might not have experiencing, but have good ideas around. Chris Erwin:All right. Now we're in the Rapid Fire round, six questions. The rules are that you can answer as short as possible. So it could be just one sentence, it could maybe even just be one or two words. Do you understand the rules, Naomi? Naomi Shah:I understand the rules. Chris Erwin:Proudest life moment? Naomi Shah:Meeting President Obama. Chris Erwin:Oh, wow. Okay. What do you want to do less of in 2021? Naomi Shah:Being a slave to Google Calendar? Chris Erwin:What do you want to do more of? Naomi Shah:Spending time on big picture vision for Meet Cute. Chris Erwin:Not setting up EIN numbers anymore? That mini-stuff. Naomi Shah:Not setting up the EIN numbers. That's right. Chris Erwin:What one to two things drive your success? Naomi Shah:Caring about community and the people around me. Chris Erwin:Advice for media execs going into the second part of 2021, and then into 2022? Naomi Shah:Have conviction even when things are really rocky, like a global pandemic, and don't overthink things. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Keep it simple, is a core value for us too. Any future startup ambitions? Naomi Shah:I like blinders, so I'm focused on Meet Cute right now. I think Meet Cute has a lot of potential in terms of new products and offshoots from Meet Cute. And so I'm excited to explore that more. Chris Erwin:Before I ask you the last one, I have to go back. What were the circumstances for meeting Obama? Naomi Shah:Honestly, that was the first thing that popped into my head. I think that the things that I'm proudest about are the science research that led me to meeting President Obama. It was just something I spent seven years working on it, and that was an example of hard work pays off. We got to visit the Oval Office and I have a really funny photo with him where I have like a Lego trophy and it fell on the floor, and all that. So that was the circumstance. Chris Erwin:I love that. Very cool. All right. Last one, this is easy. How can people get in contact with you? Naomi Shah:Any social media. I'm on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, DM me, follow Meet Cute. Love Responding to DMs and happy to chat. Chris Erwin:Awesome. Naomi, this has been a delight. Thank you so much for being on the show. Naomi Shah:Thank you so much for having me. This was awesome for me as well. Chris Erwin:Wow. It's amazing how much Naomi has accomplished so early on in her career, yet she's so down to earth. That was such a fun chat. Really enjoyed it. All right. In closing, reminder that one, we love to hear from all of our listeners. So shoot us a note. If you have any guest's ideas, any feedback for the show, you can reach us at tcupod@wearerockwater.com. And also that we have a new podcast that's out, it's called the RockWater Roundup, where me and my colleague, Andrew Cohen, we break down must-know medi

Hablamos sobre cómo los museos de ciencias pueden ser detonantes sociales que incluyen a las comunidades y las empoderan para compartir sus saberes y entender que los conocimientos que consideramos como "básicos" u obvios como cosechar o construir, también son conocimientos y procesos científicos. Para entender mejor sobre cómo los museos pueden desarrollar trabajos en las comunidades, utilizar las artes para la educación de las ciencias y entender sobre la importancia de la relevancia en los procesos sociales, hablamos con Verónika Núñez, mánager de empoderamiento y aprendizaje de OMSI, Museo de Ciencias e Industria de Oregon, Estados Unidos.Recomendados:PBS Kids plataforma que ofrece actividades y recursos para niños y niñas en las ciencias y para educadores www.pbskids.orgMujeres, ciencias y artes. Libro de biografías de pioneras sin miedo que cambiaron el mundo. https://mujeresconciencia.com/2016/03/28/women-in-science-50-fearless-pioneers-who-changed-the-world/ "Museos y conversaciones científicas: hablemos sobre política y género en podcasts de ciencias". Artículo de Maritza Arango. Blog Akorde Media https://www.akordepodcast.com/hablemos-sobre-politica-y-genero-en-podcasts-de-ciencias/Conoce más sobre Verónika en nuestras redes sociales @a.ere.te Apoya nuestro trabajo y únete a nuestra comunidad en patreon.com/art_podcast

‘Adopted' Oregonian and now the Director of Space Science Education at OMSI, Jim Todd, stops by to talk about his hearing loss, intelligent people in Portland and intelligent life on other planets, and why Oregon is so great for stargazing

Intro: Hey everyone, welcome back to What a week!, I'm your host, Olivia Lee, here to deliver your weekly dose of the news. Let's get started!In Local News: https://katu.com/news/local/police-declare-riot-in-downtown-portland-on-may-dayhttps://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/05/may-day-demonstrators-gather-for-series-of-portland-events.htmlhttps://www.oregonlive.com/news/2021/05/portland-police-declare-riot-after-nighttime-may-day-demonstrators-break-downtown-windows.htmlThis past Saturday, demonstrators gathered for a series of May Day events in Portland, setting out on marches and distributing literature in Peninsula Park. The largest event began near the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, where about 100 people gathered for a march and car caravan demanding justice for migrant workers. Speakers at the event near OMSI rallied the crowd around themes of the exploitation of migrant workers, anti-U.S. imperialism and standing in solidarity with the working class.  After a day of mostly peaceful protests, demonstrators gathered in downtown Portland Saturday evening for a pair of quote “autonomous” May Day demonstrations that turned violent, causing police to declare a riot following reports of broken windows at multiple businesses.In-state news:https://katu.com/news/local/oregon-leads-country-in-covid-19-case-rateA number of states, once known to be COVID-19 hotspots, such as Florida and Texas, are now seeing a decline in coronavirus cases.  Oregon, a state that has kept cases relatively low throughout the duration of the pandemic, is now the leading state, having the nation's fastest growing rate of COVID-19 cases. Dr. Peter Graven with OHSU says a big reason for those numbers is primarily due to the fact that Oregonians got ahead of cases early, meaning fewer people were initially infected. Officials also believe this is due to a spike fueled by quote “human behavior,” as well as the more contagious B.1.1.7 variant, which is now the dominant strain in Oregon.https://www.oregonlive.com/dining/2021/04/what-does-oregons-new-indoor-dining-shutdown-mean-for-restaurants-and-how-long-will-it-last.htmlLast Tuesday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown announced that 15 counties, including most of the Portland metro area minus Washington County, will move to the state's “extreme risk” category for COVID-19 restrictions. New bans on indoor dining and strict capacity limits on gyms, movie theaters and other businesses were implemented last Friday. This is a significant stepback for many small businesses already struggling to survive. According to Brown, the ramping up of restrictions is necessary in order to keep health care providers from being “stretched to their limits” while dealing with the pandemic's latest spike. For the 15 affected counties, the ban effective as of last Friday marks the third indoor dining ban since COVID-19 cases first began to rise last year. For counties in the Portland metro area, both the initial shutdown and last winter's dining “pause” lasted about three months. There is no end date in line yet as to when this ban will end, but modeling by Oregon Health & Science University does indicate that covid cases could peak around May 4th, with hospitalizations starting to fall two weeks later. In National News:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/04/27/cdc-guidelines-say-vaccinated-people-dont-need-wear-masks-outside/7395850002/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/fully-vaccinated-cdc-masks-guidelines Last week, the CDC released new COVID-19 masking guidelines, allowing fully vaccinated Americans to go without masks in small gatherings and outdoors, except in crowded settings.  The new guidance is intended for people who have met the fully vaccinated benchmark which is at least two weeks after their last vaccine shot. With about 30% of Americans now fully vaccinated, the new masking guidelines had been expected for some time and mark a small milestone for the country emerging from pandemic conditions. Masks should also still be worn when gathering with unvaccinated people from more than one household, and people should still get tested if exposed to someone infected, the CDC said. Under the guidance, fully vaccinated people should also still wear masks and stay 6 feet away from people while in crowds, at larger gatherings, or when visiting with someone at high risk from COVID-19. https://nypost.com/2021/04/30/tsa-extends-mask-mandate-for-planes-public-transit-to-september/Last Friday, the TSA announced that it will be extending the  mask mandate for planes and public transportation in the U.S. through at least September 13th. All US domestic travelers are expected to abide by this mandate regardless of their vaccination status. Children under two years old are exempt as are people with certain disabilities. Everyone else is subject to fines starting at $250 and rising to $1,500 for repeat offenders. Most airlines also ban customers who violate mask rules. In International News: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/world/middleeast/israel-mount-meron-stampede.htmlLast Friday, a stampede at a  mountainside religious celebration in Israel that drew tens of thousands of ultra-orthodox Jews left at least 45 people dead and hundreds injured. According to some estimates, about 100,000 people were crammed together late Thursday to celebrate a holiday on Mount Meron in northern Israel, despite warnings from the authorities about the risk of Covid-19 transmission. The deadly crush began around 1 a.m. on Friday, as celebrants began to pour out of a section of a compound where festivities were being held. The death toll of 45, released later by the Health Ministry, made it one of the worst civilian disasters in Israeli history.Lastly here is the wildcard news for the week:https://www.npr.org/2021/05/02/991232213/astronauts-splash-down-in-spacex-dragon-capsule-after-6-months-in-orbithttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/science/spacex-nasa-landing.htmlFour astronauts who've spent the past six months aboard the International Space Station as part of the first operational mission of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule are back on Earth after splashing down safely last Saturday in the Gulf of Mexico. The astronauts are the first U.S. crew to make a nighttime splashdown since 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission to orbit the moon. Less than half an hour after landing, the capsule was brought out of the water onto a recovery ship.Closing:  Well that wraps up What a Week! Stay safe and see you guys next week. 

TML Studios macht es vor und zeigt wie vernünftige Simulationen auszuehen haben. Tatsächlich sieht nur noch der Microsoft Flight Simulator besser aus und mit The Bus hat man eine sehr realistische Bussimulation geschaffen. Da die ambitionierte Early Access Phase noch lange andauern wird, sieht man derzeit die Ansätze und kann noch kein wirklichen Eindruck des Endprodukts vermitteln. Wir finden derweil nur eine Linie in Berlin mit sämtlichen realistischen Gebäuden und bekannten Wahrzeichen. Hier dürfen wir noch Tageszeit und auch das Wetter selbst bestimmen und das war es auch. Dennoch so gut sah noch keiner der Bussimulatoren aus und das könnte sicherlich der nächste Maßstab sein. Ein gutes Fahrgefühl wird auf jedenfall schon vermittelt.

Erin Graham is the CEO of OMSI,s one of the nation's leading science centers and a featured attraction located in Portland, OR.

COVID-19 changes plans for the Parkrose Educational Foundation fundraiser. ER doctors are concerned people with potentially life threatening illnesses aren't getting help, because of the COVID-19 crisis. Gray whales along the West Coast are gaining as much weight, because of a shift in winds and changing ocean currents. OMSI is creating science videos for kids who are learning from home.

COVID-19 changes plans for the Parkrose Educational Foundation fundraiser. ER doctors are concerned people with potentially life threatening illnesses aren't getting help, because of the COVID-19 crisis. Gray whales along the West Coast are gaining as much weight, because of a shift in winds and changing ocean currents. OMSI is creating science videos for kids who are learning from home.

Good morning Rose City. Welcome to Monday, Feb. 24, National Tortilla Chip Day. Monday’s weather should be rainy with a high near 50. Here are headlines from Pamplin Media newspapers: In Portland: Nancy Stueber, chief executive officer for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, plans to retire at the end of May. Stueber has been with the museum for more than 35 years. She leaves May 31. OMSI officials said Chief Operating Officer Erin Graham would take over as the new president.

Oregonian Christopher Marley is the artist behind OMSI’s “Exquisite Creatures” exhibit, on display until the end of February. We listen back to a conversation with Marley about his unusual approach to animal preservation and how he draws inspiration from the natural world. The conversation was recorded last fall.

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Oregonian Christopher Marley is the artist behind OMSI's new "Exquisite Creatures" exhibit. We sit down with Marley to hear about his unusual approach to animal preservation and how he draws inspiration from the natural world.

The Cool Facts About Animals crew got the opportunity to head to Oregon’s science museum (OMSI) to check out the new exhibit, Exquisite Creatures, and interview the artist behind the exhibit, Christopher Marley.  Marley is an Oregon artist who uses animals and insects to create amazing pieces of art.  In this episode you’ll learn why it’s so important to go out and see nature in real life, what kinds of looks you get when you take your pet monitor lizard for a walk, and how you can help to protect animals. Thanks as always for listening, and we will be back soon with our regularly-scheduled episode! Many thanks against to Christopher Marley for speaking with us, and for OMSI for giving us this opportunity.   And thank you to Andrew Barkan of Ear Snacks for our theme music!         

Hier werden tatsächlich Lokführer mit ausgebildet. In der Zusi 3 - Aerosoft Edition können jedoch auch Hobby Lokführer starten, aber Vorsicht ist geboten. Denn wer hier einfach denkt: "Och ich steig mal ein und mach mich aufn Weg!", wird sicherlich enttäuscht werden. Denn ähnlich wie bei einem realen Zug gilt es genau den Anweisungen zu folgen und vielleicht das Handbuch genauer zu lesen. Denn der Fokus liegt hier klar auf der Simulation als dem Spiel. Ähnlich wie ein Omsi 2 wird hier nämlich etwas Eingewöhnung und vor allem Geduld benötigt. Wie funktionieren die Signale, was ist ein SIFA System und wie starte ich die Lok richtig. Wer sich hier richtig einliest und sich etwas mehr mit dieser Simulation beschäftigen möchte, wird sicherlich auch Spaß bei Zusi 3 haben. Wer sofort losfahren möchte, sollte doch vielleicht eher zum Train Simulator greifen. Denn grafisch ist Zusi 3 sicherlich keine Augenweide und bleibt deutlich hinter den aktuellen Standard zurück. Dennoch ist es durchaus realistischer und glaubhafter als die Konkurrenz. Ihr dürft also entscheiden!

Happy Moon Week! If you didn’t make it to OMSI or the High Desert Museum to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first crewed space mission to the moon, you can still celebrate our shared celestial history. We’re visiting an exhibition honoring Tomanowos, the Willamette meteorite, getting starry-eyed over Frances Quinlan’s music, and more...

Let's catch up on some Listener Feedback! This week, Brenda joins Derek to tackle last month's listener emails (and one voicemail). Also, some previous recordings that haven't made the podcast were unearthed and dropped into this mix this week. We'll go back in time to last summer's OMSI screening of War of the Worlds (dir. Byron Haskin) and chat with Chris McMillan, Dominique Lamssies, and David Heath; we'll also go back to a Weird Wednesday screening from earlier this year when Derek joins Dominique and Jeff Polier for a screening of Curse of the Crying Woman (dir. Rafael Baledón). All this, plus Kenny's Famous Monsters of Filmland and Professor Frenzy's Bedtime Stories! Help Derek have somewhere to sleep at Monster Bash - Voicemail: 503-479-5MKR (503-479-5657) Email: Monster Kid Radio on YouTube - Derek's eBay listings - Professor Frenzy - Monster Hunter for Hire (Supernatural Solutions: The Marc Temple Casefiles - Volume 1) -  Monster Kid Radio on TeePublic - Professor Frenzy's Bedtime Stories copyright 2019 Gerry Green Next week: Announcing the ballot for 2019's Monster Rally Retro Awards with author Stephen D. Sullivan The opening and closing song "Branca" () by permission of - All original content of Monster Kid Radio by is licensed under a .

No offense to kids, but it's nice to be able to enjoy the museum without them sometimes. In this episode, we share our surprise and delight at how many lesbians we noticed at one of our date night excursions: OMSI After Dark. OMSI is a science museum in Portland, Oregon. It was a nerdy night out!  And Siena got to pet a reptile (!) Show notes: http://sienaandtoast.com/podcast/58-omsiafterdark Join the email list: https://sienaandtoast.com/emailsignup If you enjoy the podcast: please consider rating it.  (If you don't like it, never mind, just don't rate it ;P ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No offense to kids, but it’s nice to be able to enjoy the museum without them sometimes. In this episode, we share our surprise and delight at how many lesbians we noticed at one of our date night excursions: OMSI After Dark. OMSI is a science museum in Portland, Oregon. It was a nerdy night out!  And Siena got to pet a reptile (!) Show notes: http://sienaandtoast.com/podcast/58-omsiafterdark Join the email list: https://sienaandtoast.com/emailsignup If you enjoy the podcast: please consider rating it.  (If you don't like it, never mind, just don't rate it ;P )

Michelle came into the studio to discuss her acting career in Portland Oregon, as well as the event OMSI: after dark which had plenty of nostalgic back to the future exhibits, including a Delorean. She moved to Portland from L.A. six years ago. Her parents were not strict, and as a result she was able to envision her successful life.

Was sind eigentlich heutzutage Nerds? Sind wir selbst welche? Helmut und David diskutieren ein wenig und offenbaren teils unschöne Geheimnisse. Viel Spaß!

The podcast goes back to the beginning with their first revisit to the works of Stephen King since their inaugural coverage. This time, they discuss his landmark 1977 horror novel, THE SHINING. This episode covers Parts 1 & 2 (of 5) for the book, where the reader is introduced to the principle characters and the setting/premise. Jack Torrance agrees to stay on at the Overlook Hotel as its winter caretaker along with his wife, Wendy, and their son, Danny. The threat of cabin fever looms as Danny has dark premonitions featuring the mysterious “redrum.”  Topics include: Stephen King’s impact on pop culture, King’s recounting of how he came up the idea for the novel, the sometimes confessional nature of fiction, James’ stay at a seedy motel, why Stephen King doesn’t like Stanley Kubrick’s famous adaptation, what the creeping of the boiler could represent, the SK extended universe, King’s love of telepathic children, and the guys’ personal feelings about the existence of premonitions and déjà vu. Luke’s upcoming Reel Science presentation for OMSI titled “American Psycho: Adapting Madness” on Oct 10th 2018   Ink to Film is now on Patreon! (Learn how to access bonus content)   Sign up for Ink to Film’s Newsletter Follow Ink to Film on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram Home Base: inktofilm.com Ink to Film Book Club on Goodreads Sign up and get a free audio book: audibletrial.com/inktofilm Buy The Shining Intro Music: Ross Bugden Featured Podcast: So It Is Told.

Coming to you LIVE from OMSI After Dark - Stranger Than Fiction! The crew chat about the fun trailers that dropped from Comic-Con. Plus, drops in from many special guests and amazing music from Shubzilla & Bill Beats from their new album - Boomers Vol. 2. Enjoy nerds!

Fresh off the heels of the Portland Tonya Harding Film Festival, we invited John-Ryan Griggs (the director of the festival) to talk about the two movies shown: a 1986 documentary about a then 15-year-old Harding working toward her first Nationals, and then a 1996 "action/thriller" called "Breakaway," which features Tonya in a smaller role. One of these movies was really good; the other was a flaming pile of garbage. Can you guess which is which? Let's do a triple axle into the cinematic world of Portland's own Tonya Harding. Screenshots (all from OMSI, where they filmed a few reshoot shots):

The squeeze on Portland's real estate market has sent artists scampering for affordable space. On Feb. 28, Portland city leaders will bring a year's worth of research to bear with two dozen recommendations aimed at preserving the arts spaces that remain and clearing a path for the studios, galleries and venues of tomorrow. We’re going to spend this hour looking at those recommendations and getting some innovative ideas that are not in the plan.Towne Storage - Where Are They Now?There are many artists and arts groups that have been priced out of their space. But one of the stories that stayed with us was Towne Storage. A 100-year-old warehouse in the Central Eastside, its brick walls and wood floors housed hundreds of creative businesses for decades — artists, photographers, musicians, booksellers and much more. We caught up with a few artists who used to work there.The Vision: Commissioners Nick Fish and Chloe Eudaly - 5:48City Commissioners Nick Fish and Chloe Eudaly, working in concert with Mayor Ted Wheeler, will present a series of two dozen recommendations aimed at preserving the city’s creative space. Their work has been deeply informed by Towne Storage and other projects, as well as by case studies from other West Coast cities. We sat down with both of them this week to hear more about what they’re proposing.Proposal I: Re-Establish the Arts Concierge - 9:21The minute you start asking around about creative space in Portland, there’s a guy everyone tells you to see: Ken Unkeles. The owner of five industrial buildings filled with maker space, he’s played a long-term strategy to turn inexpensive buildings into artist studios, while staying in the black. His secret weapon? A lone employee at the Bureau of Development Services, Suzanne Vara. Vara’s mandate was to help shepherd small businesses through the complex permitting process. One of Commissioner Fish and Eudaly’s proposals involves recreating Vara’s unique role.Proposal XV: Creative Districts — 18:17Another proposal up for consideration this month would ask Portland to designate creative districts. By drawing bright lines around a neighborhood rich with artists, music or other makers, in hopes of influencing design and permitting decisions. Seattle is already doing this. Our colleague Marcie Sillman from sister station KUOW in Seattle sent us this case study.Proposal XV: A Dedicated Real Estate Investment Model — 24:16Some arts non-profits would dearly love to buy their own building and leave behind the uncertainties of leasing space. We were fascinated by a nonprofit in San Francisco that’s helping arts groups do it: the Community Arts Stabilization Trust. Reporter Cy Musiker at KQED in San Francisco tells how it works. Then, we speak with Moy Eng, executive director of CAST, to talk about whether her group’s model could work in a smaller city.Proposal VI: Incentivize Creative Space — 34:50Fish and Eudaly’s proposals include a recommendation that the Revenue Bureau consider ways to make it more viable for commercial developers to build creative space into their buildings. Portland’s most famous experiment of this kind is Milepost 5. Perched on Northeast 82nd Avenue, the complex is full of condos and apartments for artists. But it has something of a mixed legacy, and the building is about to change hands. We check in with Milepost 5 at 10 years, and talk with the project’s developer, Brad Malsin.Zidell Yards Will Reshape Portland's Skyline — With Arts at the Table — 45:10The clanging of steel on steel that filled the air for a half century of barge building at the Zidell Yards went silent when the company launched its barge business last year. But consider this quiet on the 33- acre-stretch of land spreading out under the Ross Island Bridge along the Willamette River’s west like a field gone to fallow. Zidell Yards is waiting to be reborn as an enormous, new, multi-use development: office space, housing, parks, and restaurants, with, if the Zidell family has its way, affordable arts space interwoven throughout. We catch up with Charlene Zidell and some of the arts groups imagining how they might make a new model with arts co-working space, a flexible performance hall, and an ambitious public art plan that spreads across Zidell Yards, OHSU, and OMSI's coming development. Can they create a new center of gravity for the arts?

ป๋องแป๋ง Culture Shock กับอาหาร ทัวร์เรือดำน้ำที่ OMSI   ยวดยานที่ Museum of Flight ดอยวิลสันกับกล้องที่ค้นพบการขยายตัวของเอกภพ Edwind Hubble (สูบไปพ์ / ตรงกลาง) พา Albert Einstein (หัวฟู / ซ้าย) มาส่องกล้องที่หอดูดาวดอยวิลสัน (Mount Wilson Observatory) โดยมีผู้อำนวยการหอ Walter Adams (ใส่หมวก ขวา) ร่วมพาทัวร์ด้วยอีกคน   หอดูดาวกริฟฟิท   ป๋องแป๋งไปถึง NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)  ไปถึงแล้วเข้าไม่ได้ เลยเซลฟี่ในส้วมหนึ่งที แล้วออกไปนั่งรถเมล์เที่ยวคนเดียว ลงเอยที่พิพิธภัณฑ์ศิลปะ Norton Simon Museum ประมาณนี้ก่อนนะฮะ เดี๋ยวไว้มาลงรูปทริปของผมกับอาบันต่อ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mumOg5sv38Y https://www.facebook.com/witcastthailand/photos/a.384378794958298.93979.380263635369814/1641199429276222/?type=3

A description of the OMSI prenatal development exhibit, whether we think it should exist, and how grief should be balanced in our work. Share the Original Article: http://bit.ly/2rTRQw8 ERI Website: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com ERI Blog: https://Blog.EqualRightsInstitute.com ERI Course: https://EquippedCourse.com

Mid-winter blues got you down? We've got the remedy for that. Whether its getting outside in the darkest time of year for a European-style light festival, hearing music from one of Portland's premiere Americana stars, or meeting Portland's brand new city commissioner, Chloe Eudaly, this week's show is guaranteed to warm your soul.Chloe Eudaly on Her Big Step from Indie Bookstore Owner to City Commissioner - 1:23Chloe Eudaly started work as Portland’s newest commissioner amid a winter weather event that shut down city offices. In a town wracked by tumultuous gentrification, Eudaly is a single mom, a renter, and an eastsider who beat a much better-funded incumbent. In her first act as Commissioner, Eudaly has put up a proposal requiring landlords to pay relocation costs when tenants are evicted without cause that will go before council on Feb. 2. The Portland Winter Light Festival Shines Away the S.A.D. - 11:08You can stay in and be cozy at this time of year; no one would blame you. But the Portland Winter Lights Festival is giving you a reason to head outside on Feb. 1–4. Now in its second year, the fest fills Portland's waterfront between OMSI and the Zidell Yards with flashing drones, epics projections, other crazy light art and free events to celebrate the spirit of winter and the warmth of community. What It Takes to Design an Iconic Album Cover - 17:32So much goes into the making of a great record, but sometimes it’s the album art that bumps a great record into the realm of the iconic. Think about the collection of famous faces on the front of the Beatles “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” or that baby bobbing in the pool on the cover of Nirvana’s "Nevermind," or that very trippy prism on Pink Floyd’s "Dark Side of the Moon." Portland is home to many artists, and opbmusic welcomed two innovative designers, Orion Landau of the indie metal record label Relapse and Aaron Draplin of Draplin Design Company, into the studio to chat about their careers and which album covers inspire them. PDX Jazz Brings Music and Art to the Classroom - 24:54How do you get kids to understand a musical form that has no rules, no walls? Art can help. Volunteers with PDX Jazz have spent the winter fanning out in metro-area schools, playing music for kids and talking to them about jazz history. Teachers like Katie Robinson at Boise-Eliot/Humboldt then work with the kids on designing jazz album covers. All the students’ work will be part of a Feb. 7 art show at the Ace Hotel's event space, The Cleaners, in Portland. Douglas County Voters Grapple with their Vote to Close the Libraries - 28:39As a kid, do you remember trips to the library? Story time? Or maybe you stop by as an adult to get books and movies or use the computers. Douglas County readers will no longer have that option. In the November election, they failed to pass a measure that would create a special taxing district to fund the libraries, and now all of the branches of the Douglas County Library System, centered around Roseburg, will close by the end of May. Live Music from Americana Chameleon Tony Furtado - 34:46Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tony Furtado is an Americana chameleon. He effortlessly shifts between bluegrass, folk, blues, old time, and rock sounds. It’s a fascinating career arc that was beautifully captured in his most recent release, a live album called “Cider House Sessions” recorded at Portland’s Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider. Writer Sallie Tisdale on Mining the Deeply Personal - 40:31The Portland writer Sallie Tisdale is one of Oregon’s true literary treasures. She’s the author of eight books, including “Talk Dirty to Me” and “Stepping Westward,” but she is first and foremost an essayist — someone who can make art out of her process of trying to make sense of the world. Her latest book, "Violation," is a collection of essays that she wrote over the past three decades.

The creative firm behind such famous spaces as the Alexandria Library and the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has its eyes on Portland's waterfront, and there's good news and bad. First, the bad: the James Beard Market Snohetta was set to design got booted from the Morrison Bridge site that folks were so excited about by the developer, Melvin Mark. This is at least the fifth time organizers have had to change sites in the past 17 years.In good news, the partners behind Snohetta's other project, the Willamette Falls Riverwalk at the old Blue Heron Mill in Oregon City, have raised $19 of $25 million for the first phase, and Snohetta is deep in the design process with the public. Plus, the firm has signed on for a third project: to design plans for OMSI's 16 acres of riverfront property in the central eastside.Snohetta's team was recently in town to gather public feedback on their designs — a process that engaged several hundred participants, ranging from two former Oregon City mayors to arts advocates to kayaking enthusiasts.“What we're really hoping is to hear people's ideas," says Snohetta's head of landscape, Michelle Delk. "To have them start dreaming with us about these moments we've identified, that we know have potential to really be meaningful transformations of the site and integrated into the Riverwalk." Snohetta, teamed with local firm Mayer Reed, works a bit differently than most firms. Rather than present three designs and ask the public to put green dots on one, they show a few rough ideas for the area and then play games to glean impressions about how they can be further shaped.The River walk is not along pristine shores. It takes you over, under, through, and alongside years of accumulated industry. The participants honed in on some of the old mill's most dramatic features, like a huge pipe chase—a 30-feet wide tunnel, really. They invited people to weigh in: do you want to walk on top of it, punch some openings in it so you can walk through it and see the river, or make it disappear entirely in favor of fish habitat.There was also a big public plaza and a giant clarifier, and they had people pick cards representing what they wanted to do in them and how they wanted them feel — movie theater, play space, natural habitat, falls viewing platform, or something else altogether.If you missed the public meeting, you can still give input online until Dec. 5. Snohetta will be back in February with the plan they are calling “the preferred alternative.”

What a week! Disjecta's founder gets shown the door, we remember the precocious writer Roger Hobbs, Hari Kondabolu returns to Portland to put some funny back in politics, and we hear about the importance of play, even as an adult. Upheaval at Disjecta - 1:10Disjecta Contemporary Arts Center is losing its founding executive director at the end of this year, and it’s not a happy split. The organization’s board took the unusual step of asking founding director Bryan Suereth to leave in what it calls a "leadership transition." Thing is, there's no new leadership named, leaving the nonprofit's future in flux. Portland Through Decades of Skanner Photography - 4:55Few Portland artists can claim deeper ties to the city than Julie Keefe. She’s shot for everyone from the Oregonian to the New York Times, but she might be best known, at least in Northeast Portland, as the primary photographer for the Skanner newspaper, where she’s documented Portland’s African American community since 1991. A selection of photos drawn from the tens of thousands she's shot are on display at the Oregon Historical Society through Dec. 18. The Passing of Author Roger Hobbs - 14:33We lost a great young voice this month. Roger Hobbs was the author of two books, including the New York Times bestseller “Ghostman,” a thriller about a shadowy thief under a 48-hour deadline to clean up after a heist gone wrong. Hobbs was well known for wearing suits to class and saying his research involved hanging out at seedy bars and buying drinks for criminals in exchange for stories. Hari Kondabolu Finds the Funny in Politics - 22:15Comedian Hari Kondabolu is one of the sharpest wits around this election season, which maybe should come as no surprise — after all, he got his start in comedy from a very unlikely place: political activism. Onstage at comedy clubs throughout the Pacific Northwest, he discovered he could actually fuse the two, getting the audience warmed up to — and even laughing at — really hard subjects. The Mystical Paintings of John Simpkins - 29:23In a ghost town in Oregon’s Alvord Desert, John Simpkins spends his days in solitude, making huge, soulful paintings in one of the most remote places in the West. opbmusic Session with Genders - 35:15Portland band Genders is a story of rebirth. It started as the looser side project to another band in town, Youth. But band members pulled the plug on Youth in 2012, and have been going strong as Genders since. They stopped by the OPB studio to play songs from their newest EP, "Phone Home." The Architecture Firm that's Transforming Portland's Waterfront - 39:42Good news and bad in the global architecture firm Snohetta's quest to transform Portland's waterfront. First, the bad: the James Beard Market got booted from its home at the base of the Morrison Bridge, meaning it's once again homeless. But in good news, the partners behind the Willamette Falls Riverwalk at the old Blue Heron Mill in Oregon City have raised $19 or $25 million for the first phase, and Snohetta is deep in the design process with the public, which includes, well, games. Our columnist in residence, Randy Gragg, stopped by to tell us how it's working, plus to let us know Snohetta has signed on for a third project: to design plans for OMSI's 16 acres of riverfront property in the central eastside.It Ain't All Swings and Teeter-Totters — The Next Generation of Playground Design - 45:19Play is such an essential part of childhood, but it can be an even more lasting experience, when a little thought goes into the places we play. Design Museum Portland has an exhibition on view called "Extraordinary Playscapes" through Dec. 17 at the Pacific Northwest College of Art that examines the current thinking in play design and the importance of play in our lives.

For this segment of the Early Link Podcast, I brought my kids to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) to explore the exhibits and learn more about the science museum's involvement in early learning. We spent lots of time in the Science Playground learning about animals, playing in sand, splashing in water fountains and whirl pools, and building dams. We also visited Innovation Station and the Chemistry Lab, and after several hours felt like we had just scratched the surface of what the museum had to offer. During the visit, I spoke with Annie Douglass, the museum's early childhood education manager about how play can stimulate learning about the science process, the Living Laboratory program that teaches adults about cognitive science and early learning, and the role museums are playing in becoming access points for early education. Enjoy the sounds of OMSI with some very young special guests! Segment Highlights 0:02 OMSI is an amazing place! 0:41 Water play in the Science Playground 1:08 Early childhood education at OMSI 1:57 Living Laboratory helps adults learn about cognitive science 2:39 Museums increasingly serve as access points for early education 4:16 Adults are crucial to connect play and learning 4:58 An extra special closing song More information with photos: http://www.childinst.org/news/the-early-link-podcast/830-early-learning-at-omsi

On this episode of Antic the Atari 8-bit podcast, we venture out into the big scary world — both Randy and I went to VCF SouthEast, and Kevin went to the museum. The winners of the 2016 10-line BASIC programming contest are announced, and Bill Kendrick drops knowledge about the demo scene. Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin’s Book “Terrible Nerd” New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge ANTIC Facebook Page What we’ve been up to Hacking Jumpman: Finished GP III video Kevin’s a winner! Game Masters special exhibit at OMSI - https://www.omsi.edu/gamemasters SpartaDOS X Super Cart Edladdin Controllers - http://edladdin.com/ Podcaster’s Roundtable at VCFSE Steve DeFrisco - Antic Interview 123 Steve DeFrisco Wing War breakout PCB - https://www.bitsofthepast.com/?p=833 Interview Discussion Bruce Poehlman game “The Last Starfighter”, orginally “Orbiter” The Last Starfighter cabinet Transcription of David Heller (Dr. Wacko) interview (thanks to Kevin Chase) News Atariada 2016 FLOP - Diskette electronic "magazine" for Atari XE / XL (Czech) - http://flop.atariportal.cz/ 10-line contest youtube vidoes in which Kevin tests all the 10-line Atari games Atari 65XE USB Keyboard by Tynemouth Software on Etsy Atari 65XE USB Keyboard complete with Raspberry Pi and USB hub Atari 65XE USB Keyboard with USB joystick controller where the original joystick ports are Insert coin to tour the new National Videogame Museum National Videogame Museum A Look At Video Game History: ‘The Art Of Atari’ Due For October Release “The Art of Atari” preview Upcoming Shows: Last Chicago CocoFest - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/ April 23 & 24, 2016, Heron Point Convention Center, Lombard, IL Southern Fried GameRoom Expo June 10-12 KansasFest  - July 19-24, 2016 - https://www.kansasfest.org Atari Party - Saturday, July 30, at 12 PM - 5 PM in PDT, Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library, 315 E 14th St, Davis, California 95616 VCF west - Aug 6-7 VCF midwest — Sep 10-11, Elk Grove Village, IL PRGE Oct 21-23 http://www.retrogamingexpo.com Colo. Lottery Launches Atari Scratch-Off Upgraded internal replacement Mylars for the Atari 1200XL keyboard Widely used repair tips - 1200XL Keyboard Tune-up Atari800 handheld console emulator for Nintendo 3DS New at Archive.org APX manuals https://archive.org/details/@allan52 https://archive.org/details/XLXEPowerSupplies  - modern electronics magazine 1986 https://archive.org/details/ICDRamboXL256KBManual https://archive.org/details/AxiomAT846PrinterInterfaceManual https://archive.org/details/HebrewAtariClubJuly89 https://archive.org/details/AtariEnvisionSourceCode Bill’s Modern Segment "Control" demo, by LaResistance, 2010 Pouet entry: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=56481 DemoZoo entry: http://demozoo.org/productions/56527/ YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OsK4eC6rpg LaResistance website: http://laresistance.pigwa.net/ Based on "Control" demo for Amiga, by Oxygene, 1995 Pouet entry: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3031 Amiga Demoscene Archive entry: http://ada.untergrund.net/?p=demo&i=299 YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzOp3ngc1MA Definitions: "Demoescene" Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene “Demake” TV Tropes entry "Demakes" section of "Video game remake" article at Wikipedia Of the Month Bit 3 Full-View 80 - 80 column card for the Atari 800 - ebay auction Dave and Sandy Small wrote an article in Antic There's a few lines of BASIC code that will kick on the Bit-3. You'll find them at - http://www.cchaven.com/BIT3FV80.HTML  

This week the guys checked out Game Masters: The Exhibition at OMSI to play some games and to observe the evolution of this most modern form of entertainment. Then they rolled on out to Burger Guild, a funky little food cart on SE 50th & Division serving up stuffed burgers and pork chops. (read that last sentence in your best Guy Fieri voice) On this episode we're talking Disney, Daredevil, Supergirl, Preacher, The Path, Game of Thrones, (Fear) The Walking Dead, Xbox, Playstation, Star Wars, and tons more TV, movies, video games, comics, toys & a whole lot more. Game Masters: https://www.omsi.edu/gamemasters Burger Guild: http://www.theburgerguild.com

This week the guys checked out Game Masters: The Exhibition at OMSI to play some games and to observe the evolution of this most modern form of entertainment. Then they rolled on out to Burger Guild, a funky little food cart on SE 50th & Division serving up stuffed burgers and pork chops. (read that last sentence in your best Guy Fieri voice) On this episode we're talking Disney, Daredevil, Supergirl, Preacher, The Path, Game of Thrones, (Fear) The Walking Dead, Xbox, Playstation, Star Wars, and tons more TV, movies, video games, comics, toys & a whole lot more. Game Masters: https://www.omsi.edu/gamemasters Burger Guild: http://www.theburgerguild.com

Bill Bradshaw is a photographer, an author of three cider books and consider by many to be a Cider Ambassador for UK ciders.  I met with Bill at the United States Association of Cider Makers annual conference in Portland Oregon in February 2016. Later that same day, Bill was to present an overview of UK ciders to the conference attendees.   For this chat I asked Bill to give us a peek on some of his highlights for the OMSI presentation and to discuss what a cider tourist might find or where to go when seeking ciders in the UK. Find the full show notes at www.ciderchat.com Follow on Twitter @ciderchat

GUEST: AMAI and LEAH from THE LOST AND FOUND, Sarah Birthday, Birthday Facts, Top Song, OMSI, Sherlock Holmes, 90's Quiz, Tuggy, Worst Idea Ever, Leah and Amai, The Lost and Found Drinks, Halloween Costumes, Pure Awesomeness

Sean adores life. He finds excitement and intrigue in the tiniest of moss growing on the sidewalk, as well as the way a conversation unravels. This is probably why he is an educator at OMSI, a hands-on science museum. He loves growing food and sharing a feast. This story is about an unexpected revelation. Urban Tellers, December 8, 2012 RITES OF PASSAGE Sean Rooney on stage at Hipbone Studios for live storytelling with Portland Story Theater Hosted by Lynne Duddy and Lawrence Howard www.portlandstorytheater.com

Growing up sensory deprived and dyslexic made learning a challenge. Today, Ems holds a captain's license for sailing, knows how to fly planes, and is a science educator at OMSI. http://www.sea.edu/plastics/team/emilee_monson Urban Tellers, April 13, 2013 FINDING MY WAY Ems Monson on stage at Hipbone Studios for live storytelling with Portland Story Theater Hosted by Lynne Duddy and Lawrence Howard www.portlandstorytheater.com

GUEST: REGGIE WATTS, Beer And Water, Shin Splings, Sportlandia At OMSI, Video Games Retro Memories, Man Horse, Zelda, Metroid, Codes, Psalty Singing Song Book, REGGIE WATTS, Special Water, Portland, Hype, Anglophile, Nerds And Porn, Conan O'Brien, Kenny B's Nerd Facts, Memories, Nick

BmileCast hits the road as we go on our Willamette Jetboat field trip. Mr. Black interviews a few students on the bus ride to and from the dock near OMSI. Even though it was an overcast and cool day in Portland, we all had a great time! Next, Peyton reads President Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address, Belle and Zach interview Ms. Ghattas (our principal at Bridlemile), and we hear a composition from Chloe, who has been recovering from surgery since December 2009 to remove a tumor from her brainstem. Brianna and Zoie read Chloe's composition on her behalf.

On June 9th, Laura Gibson joined us at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry to film episode 12 in the middle of the museum's collection of Chinese Dinosaur bones. The episode features two songs, "Where Have All Your Good Words Gone" and "Come by Storm."

Jerry Barnes (Cottage Grove, OR), international forest genetics expert and owner of Tree Improvement Enterprises, Inc., discusses tree propagation and reforestation through the international species exchange. Second guest, Adam Smith (Portland, OR), Science Educator with the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, discusses OMSI, global warming and polar bears.

Subscribe on iTunes ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/plug-and-play-podcast/id1111887508?mt=2 ) Subscribe via RSS ( http://66.147.242.93/~engagin6/plugandplaygamer/feed/podcast/plug-and-play-podcast ) This week on Plug and Play Podcast we head back inside to Zach’s office. Tim and Zach decide to take up becoming a Butcher in their free time along with Tim still hooked to the Demon Crystals. Both our guys head to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2 while only one of them gets to go to OMSI and experience some awesome stuff. Zach hits the court in NBA Playground while Tim sets out on a epic quest with Elliot. So Plug In and see what we have in store this week. *Email Questions To* mail@plugandplayproduction.com

Subscribe on iTunes ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/plug-and-play-podcast/id1111887508?mt=2 ) Subscribe via RSS ( http://66.147.242.93/~engagin6/plugandplaygamer/feed/podcast/plug-and-play-podcast ) This week on Plug and Play Podcast Zach remains sick but gets some decent time in on Android based gaming. He finds a new friend in Braveland and destroys his phone with Cartman. Tim finds a new gym to check into and goes to OMSI with his daughter and of course with any good OMSI trip comes a stop at the Noodle shop for Noodles and Vita. Tim stays in a weird CyberPunk Bar and then assassinates a few deserving people to reveal the Origins of his guild. This and so much more on this weeks episode so #PlugIn *Email Questions To* mail@plugandplayproduction.com