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Who dares to make predictions in the current landscape? We do!  Our Predictions are back. Will our track-record continue on a high or will we be fundamentally wrong? Listen in to our Predictions for 2026 Navigation: Intro What will 2026 be all about? AI, AI and … more AI The big Hardware movements Of Start-ups and VCs Regulatory & Geopolitical Headwinds… and the Wars Fintech, Crypto and Frontier Tech Conclusion Our co-hosts: Bertrand Schmitt, Entrepreneur in Residence at Red River West, co-founder of App Annie / Data.ai, business angel, advisor to startups and VC funds, @bschmitt Nuno Goncalves Pedro, Investor, Managing Partner, Founder at Chamaeleon, @ngpedro Our show:   Tech DECIPHERED brings you the Entrepreneur and Investor views on Big Tech, VC and Start-up news, opinion pieces and research. We decipher their meaning, and add inside knowledge and context. Being nerds, we also discuss the latest gadgets and pop culture news Subscribe To Our Podcast Bertrand Schmitt Introduction Welcome to Tech Deciphered Episode 74. That would be an episode about some predictions about 2026. What will be 2026 all about? I guess this year is probably starting with a bang. We saw the acquisition of xAI by SpaceX. We saw an acquisition from Grok by NVIDIA. What’s your take about what would be the big themes in 2026? I guess it would be for sure about AI and space. Nuno Goncalves Pedro What will 2026 be all about? Yeah. I predict a year that will be a little bit more of a year of reckoning in some way. There will be a lot of things that I think we’ll start seeing through. The fact that we are in the midst of an amazing transformational era for technology, the use of AI, but at the same time, obviously, a ridiculous bubble that is going alongside it as we’ve discussed in previous episodes. I think that we’ll start seeing some early reckonings of that, companies that might start failing, floundering, maybe a couple of frauds along the way, etc. I’ll tell you what I will not make many predictions about today, which is geopolitics. Geopolitics, I will not make predictions at all. Who the hell knows what’s going to happen to the world this year in 2026? I don’t dare making any predictions on that. Back to things where I would make predictions. I think on AI, we’ll have a little bit of reckoning. We’ll talk about it a little bit more in detail during this episode. Interesting elements around the hardware and physical space. Physical space, we just dedicated a full episode to it. We won’t go into a lot of details on that, but definitely on the hardware side, we’ll talk a little bit more about it. The VC landscape is going through an incredible transformation. We’ll talk about it today as well and some of our predictions for this year. What will happen to the asset class? It seems to be transforming itself dramatically. Obviously, that has a very direct impact on startups, so we’ll talk about that as well. And then to close a little bit the chapter on this, we will address some regulatory and geopolitical, let’s call it, headwinds without making maybe too many complex predictions. We shall see. Maybe by that time of the episode, we will be making some predictions. You guys should stay and listen to us, and maybe we will actually make some predictions about the geopolitical transformations that we will see this year in the world. Then last but not the least, we’ll talk about fintech, crypto, frontier tech, and a couple of other areas before concluding the episode. A classic predictions’ episode. We normally have a pretty good track record on some of these, but right now, the world is going a bit interesting, not to say insane. Bertrand Schmitt Yes, and going back to some news, Groq technically was not acquired, but, practically, it’s as if it got acquired. I’m talking about Groq, G-R-O-Q. The AI semiconductor company focused on inference AI, and it was late December. It was a way to end the year. This year, we started again with an acquisition of xAI by its sister company, SpaceX. I guess that’s where we are starting. AI, AI and … more AI We are going to start on AI. That’s definitely the big stuff. Everything these days, I guess, is about AI or has to have some connection with AI, or it doesn’t matter. I think every company in the world has seen that. You have to have the absolute minimum on AI strategy. You better execute on this strategy and show results, I would say. For the companies that were not AI native, you truly have to have a way to transform yourself. I guess at some point, the stretch might be too much, and it’s not really reasonable. Then you maybe better stay on what you are doing, especially if you’re in tech, you better be moving faster to AI. Nuno Goncalves Pedro Just to highlight, and I think throughout the episode, you’ll see that there’re obviously a lot of implications that would manifest themselves into capital markets. I mean, we’ll specifically talk about VCs and startups later on. But the fact that everything needs to be AI, the fact that there’s so much innovation happening right now, in my opinion, and this is maybe the first pre-topic to AI, is we’ll see a tremendous increase in M&A activity this year across the board. I mean, we’ve seen already some big acquihires we mentioned in some of our previous episodes, but we’ll see a lot more activity on M&A this year. Normally, that’s a precursor to the opening of capital markets. I predict also that there will be a reopening of the IPO market that never really reopened last year, to be honest. M&A, a lot more, reopening of the IPO market. Normally, it happens in the second or third quarter of the year. That’s what my M&A friends tell me. First quarter of year, everyone’s figuring out stuff. Then last quarter of the year, things should be more or less closed. Maybe the third quarter is the big quarter. We shall see. But definitely, as a precursor to our conversation today, I think we’ll see a lot of M&A, and we’ll see reopening of the IPO mark. Bertrand Schmitt I guess last year was not as big as you could expect on M&A given the tariff situation announced in April and May. I mean, it became quite tough to do IPO in such market conditions. Definitely, we can hope for something dramatically different in 2026. I guess talking about public markets and IPO, I guess the big one everyone is waiting for is SpaceX. SpaceX getting even more interesting with its xAI acquisition. Nuno Goncalves Pedro Do you think that because of the acquisition, it’s more likely that it will happen this year, or because of the acquisition, it’s less likely that it will happen this year? Bertrand Schmitt That’s a good question. My guess is the acquisition of xAI is all about xAI needing more financing and cheaper financing. This acquisition is a pathway to that. SpaceX being a much bigger company, a company that is also making much more revenues. I could bet that there is higher probability that, actually, SpaceX will go public in order to finance itself. At the same time, will it have enough time to prepare itself for the IPO given this acquisition just happened? Can they do that in 6 months? I mean, if anyone can do it, I guess it’s Elon Musk. It’s a strategy to present an even more attractive company with an even more interesting story, a story of vertical integration from AI to space. I guess the story as it’s presented itself right now, it’s one about having your AI data centers in space. Because in space, you have much better solar energy production with solar panels. You have a perfect cooling situation because you are in space. Thanks to Starlink, you have the mean to communicate between the satellites and with Earth itself. I think if someone can pull up a story like AI data center in space, I guess Elon Musk can. There is, of course, a lot of questions about is it practical? Is it economical? Yes. I certainly agree. I’m not clear on the mass, and can you make it work? Again, I mean, Elon Musk single-handedly, with SpaceX, managed to transform the space market on its head. I mean, they are the biggest satellite launching company in the world. They have the most satellites in the world. I mean, I’m not sure I would bet against him, and I guess I would probably believe that he could pull up something. Time frames, different story. The 2-3 years data center in space for AI as cheap as on Earth, I have more trouble with that one. I mean, it’s a usual suspect with Elon Musk. You promise something unachievable in a few years, but, ultimately, you still manage to reach it in 5 or 10. Again, I would not bet against the strategy. Nuno Goncalves Pedro Yeah. I’ve talked to a couple of space experts, people that have launched rockets, and have worked JPL, NASA, and a couple of other places, etc. For what it’s worth, their feedback is, “No way in hell, and we’re decades away.” We’ll see. I mean, to your point, Elon has pulled very dramatic stuff. Not as fast as he normally says he’s going to pull it, but within a time span that we all see it. Difficult to bet against him. In terms of actually the prediction, maybe to respond to the prediction as well, will SpaceX IPO? I’m going to make a prediction that has a very high likelihood of missing the mark, but I think Tesla’s going to buy and merge them both into it. It’s going to become a public company through Tesla. That’s my hypothesis. Bertrand Schmitt No. That’s supposed to be it. That’s how you solve that. Nuno Goncalves Pedro And Elon controls the whole universe. X, xAI, Tesla, SpaceX, all under one umbrella beautifully run. And SolarCity is well in there, of course, so wonderful. Bertrand Schmitt That’s possible. Certainly, you are not the only one thinking Tesla will acquire or merge with SpaceX. To remind everyone, Tesla is around 1.3, 1.5 trillion market cap. Depending on the day, SpaceX seems to be valued at similar range, 1.2, 1.3 trillion. It looks like it’s the most valued private company at this stage. These are companies of similar size, so that’s one piece of the puzzle. When you think about the combined company, we could be talking about a 3 trillion entity. Playing right here with the biggest companies in the marketplace today. Nuno Goncalves Pedro With a couple of tweets from Elon, it will rapidly get to 4 to 5 trillion. Bertrand Schmitt That’s so tricky. Nuno Goncalves Pedro Yes. On AI and back to AI, one thing I think that we’re about to see is this will probably be the year of agentic AI. Obviously, we predict a lot of growth on that side of the fence, in particular on the enterprise B2B side. We see a lot of opportunities coming through. From our perspective, at least at Chamaeleon, we generally believe that there’s going to be a lot of movements on agentic AI. It’s also going to be probably the year of the first big fails of agentic AI that will be newsworthy. There will be some elements about that loop and how it gets closed that will happen. I think we might see some scandals already. We’re already seeing the social network of bots talking to bots. We will see other scandals going on this year even in the consumer space and in the bot to bot space, which we now can talk about or in the AI agent to AI agent space. My prediction is we will see some move forwards. There’ll be some dramatic funding rounds along the way. We’ll see a couple of really cool things out of the gates coming out that are really impressive, but we’ll also see the first big misses of the technology stack. I don’t think we’ll go fully mainstream yet this year, so it’s probably maybe something more for 2027 along the way. That would be my prediction again. I think enterprise will lead the way. We’ll definitely see a lot of stuff on consumer as well that is cool. Then we’ll all have our own personal assistance in our hands, basically, literally in our phones. Bertrand Schmitt Going back to agentic AI, we also started the year with some pretty dramatic move. I mean, the launch of Clawdbot, renamed OpenClaw. I mean, this stuff took fire in like a week or 2. It was coded by just one person who actually didn’t even code the product but used AI to build the product, 100% used AI, proposing some new ways also to leverage AI to do coding. He has a pretty unique approach. It’s not vibe coding. I would say it’s a better way to do that. Then the surprising evolution with the launch of a social network for AI agents, Moltbook. I mean, this stuff, probably there is some fake in it. But at the same time, I think it’s quite impressive because it’s the first time we see truly 100,000 plus agents communicating directly to each other. Yeah. I mean, that’s the first time we see surfacing the possibility of some sort of hive mind on the Internet. It’s pretty surprising. Right now, all of this is a hack done in a few days. By end of year, by 2 years, 3 years, we might discover that, actually, the best approach to AI might not be the AI assistant like we are doing today, but a combination of hundreds of thousands of AI working closely together. We might be witnessing the first sign of new intelligence in a way. Nuno Goncalves Pedro Things like this social network might either be Skynet, the beginning of Skynet. They might be the beginning of Her, or they might just be a fad and nothing really happens. It’s just interesting to see what these agents are doing. Bertrand Schmitt Totally. Nuno Goncalves Pedro Obviously, there are real and clear and present dangers of some of the integrations of AI we’re seeing in the market. Interesting enough, and I’ll ask you for your prediction a bit, Bertrand. I think we’ll probably see the first big mishap of AI being used in some infrastructural decision in the age of AI. I mean, we’ve seen AI issues in the past and software issues in the past. We talked in previous episodes about that as well. Mishaps of software that have led to people dying. But I think probably the first big mishap will happen this year as well. Very public mishap of the use of AI and serve its interactions with infrastructure or something that’s very platform related, etc, that will have big impact that everyone will notice. That’s my prediction for the year as well. We’ll have the first big oops moment, as I would call it, for AI in this new age of full on AI. Bertrand Schmitt I would say first some perspective. I think today, people are not using AI directly for life and death decision, at least not that I’m aware. We’re not going to let AI fly a plane, for instance, tomorrow so you can be, reassured. At the same time, given there is such a race to AI, there definitely might be some mistakes. We were talking about the social network for AI agents, Moltbook. Apparently, all the keys used to secure the AI were shared by mistake because it was not properly locked down. We can see that indirectly, mistakes will be made for sure. Two, it’s highly probable that some people will trust AI too much to do some stuff, and this stuff might not work and might have some grave consequence. Hopefully, there is not so much of this. Hopefully, it’s mostly AI used for the good. But you’re right. I mean, at some point, the more we use the technology, the more there would be issue. I mean, it’s highly probable. Nuno Goncalves Pedro That will lead me to another prediction, which is, and we’ll talk about more of it later, but it probably will lead to the first significant movement in terms of regulatory environment certainly in the US at some point if it happens in the US in particular, where there will be some movement that will be like, “Hey, you guys can’t do this anymore.” Because this will probably emerge from mismanaged interfaces. From systems having access to stuff that they shouldn’t have access to in the first place. Talking a little bit more about what’s happening in AI. You’ve already mentioned some of the issues that relate actually to security and cybersecurity. We keep talking about AI. We keep talking about all these infrastructure pieces and platforms that are being built. I think we’ll have a lot more incidents like the one you just mentioned where things will be shared that shouldn’t have been shared, where people will break systems and get into it, etc. Let’s see where that takes us, which is a little bit ironic because, obviously, with AI, the promise is that cybersecurity becomes more robust as well because there’re agents working on our behalf on the cybersecurity side. There’s also agents working on the other side. Bertrand Schmitt It’s a constant race. It’s the attackers, defenders. Each time you have new technology, you have a new race to who is going to attack or defend the best. Each new wave of technology, it’s an opportunity to challenge the status quo. Nuno Goncalves Pedro The attackers have been winning, and I feel they’ll continue winning in 2026. I think it’s going to still be a year of attack. We’ll see more and more breaches, more and more stuff that will happen. Bertrand Schmitt I don’t know if they will win. I mean, it’s normal that they win once in a while. For sure, some infrastructure is not updated as it should. Some stuff are not managed as it should, so there will always be breaches. I don’t know if things are dramatically going to change because, again, everyone who cares who is going to update his infrastructure with AI for defense. There is no question that you have no choice. We will see. That I don’t know. For sure, AI will be used to attack directly with AI. Maybe you’re able to do bigger, larger scale attack. Or thanks to AI, you are simply able to create new type of attacks more easily. AI can be used behind the scene as a way to prepare and organise new type of attacks, even if it’s not used directly live in the battle. Nuno Goncalves Pedro One topic that we’ll come back to later is the geopolitics of everything, but maybe more broadly. On the geopolitics of AI, it’s very clear that we have an arms race going on. Obviously, the US on the one hand, China on the other hand is the two extremes, putting tremendous amount of capital into data centers just at the base of that infrastructure. Chipset development, chipset access, a huge theme in terms of the export restrictions, etc, that are being forced by the US. I think it will continue. From a European standpoint, obviously, they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place, to be very honest. Let’s see what happens on that side of the fence. My view of the world is that certainly from a US and China perspective, we’re going to see a lot more movements in 2026, like big movements. The Chinese movements we always see in delay.  It takes us a couple of months, sometimes even more than that to understand exactly what’s going on. I think we’re going to see some huge moves this year in terms of the States, the United States of America, and China really pouring capital into the creation of the next big winners around AI. I think the US is obviously more visible. We see a lot of these companies. We’ve just discussed xAI and its acquisition by SpaceX or merger. I don’t know what they’re calling it exactly. Effectively, on the China side, the movements I think are already very big. As I said, it will take a while to figure out exactly what those moves are. One thing that I propose is that at some point, China will have very little dependency on chipsets from the US. I’m not sure it’s going to happen this year, but I think the writing is on the wall. Irrespective of any other geopolitical issues that is coming to the fore at this moment in time. That’s one of the key areas or in arenas of fight. Bertrand Schmitt It makes sense. If you are China, you will look at what happened. You would think that you cannot just depend on the largest of one country. It makes rational sense, the same way it makes rational sense for the US to limit exports to China because there is value to delay some peer pressure that could use these technologies for good but also for bad. If you were an ally of the US, that would be one thing. But when you are not an ally of the US, that certainly should be a different perspective. Maybe one last point concerning agents, I think there will be a lot that will revolve around coding. We can see OpenAI with Codex. We can see Cloud with code. There was, of course, [inaudible 00:18:28] that was trying to be big on agentic coding. I think agentic coding was one of the big transformation in 2025 and is going to get bigger in 2026. I think for a lot of people who do coding, there was a radical transformation in terms of what you can achieve, what you can do, how much you can trust AI to help you code. I start to think we might see this year, the replacement of not just one AI replace one coder, but one AI replace a full team because of the new ability to manage that at scale. Coding might be a common activity where you are going to think about outcomes, think about objective, think about how you organise, but not really coding by itself anymore. A big change, like you used to code, directly your hand on the stuff, but step by step, everyone is going to become a manager of agent. I think in one year, we saw enough transformation to think that in the coming year, the transformation can be even more dramatic. Nuno Goncalves Pedro The big Hardware movements Now switching gears to hardware. Obviously, a lot of movements in 2025 and over the last few years. One piece of thesis that we’ve had long-standing at Chamaeleon is that we will see the emergence of AI devices. Some of them have been tremendous failures as we discussed in the past. I predict that we’ll have a couple of really interesting full stack AI devices in the market this year. Why does that matter? Because, as many of you know, obviously, there’s compute that can happen in data centers and cloud infrastructure all over the world, but also there’s compute that can happen at the edges. The more you can move to the edges and the more you can create devices that actually allow you to have user experiences that are very distinctive at the edge, the more powerful some of these devices might become. I predict Apple will not be the first to launch anything on this. I predict probably OpenAI, after the acquisition of IO, will maybe not launch something this year, but will announce something this year. I’ll step back on that prediction. They’ll announce something this year, but maybe not launch. But we’ll start seeing some devices that have some interesting value in the market, probably devices that are AI devices, but they are very focused on very specific user flows, and so very much adequate to specific activities. I won’t make a prediction on that, but I think areas that would make sense for that to happen would be obviously around fitness, health, et cetera, et cetera, where we already have the ascendancy of products like Oura Ring and others out there. Definitely, that’s one area that might have quite a lot of developments. I think AI-first devices, devices that are very focused on compute at the edges, providing user flows that are AI-enabled to end users, we’ll see a lot more of that and a lot more activity this year. Again, I don’t think Apple will be necessarily ahead of the game. Again, maybe OpenAI will give us something to at least think about and look forward to. Bertrand Schmitt First, I’m not sure it will be that transformational because if it’s not in your phone, in your pocket, there is only so much you can do with it, and there is only so much computing power you will have. I’m doubtful it would be really impactful this year. Nuno Goncalves Pedro I feel we’ve been discussing this shift of paradigm in input and output. For me, some of these devices could lead to that shift. Because, again, a mobile phone is not a great long-term paradigm for the usage that we have because it’s really constrained by the screen. The screen is really what takes most of the battery life away. If we didn’t have that screen, what could we do? If we have the block that is as big as a mobile phone, and it didn’t have a screen, it was just compute, that’s a mini computer, a microcomputer. Bertrand Schmitt That’s a fair point, but I don’t see that transformation this year. That’s really more my point. I can see that you can have AI-enabled smart glasses, and it’s clear there is a race to AI-enabled smart glasses. My point is more to go beyond the gadget, it would take quite a while. It would need to have cameras. It would need to analyse what you see. It would need to hear what you hear. Again, it might come, but then at some point, it would be okay, what do you do with it? We have the example of the movie Her. That’s showing Her what it could be. There are definitely possibilities. It’s clear that if you take the big VR headset like the Apple Vision Pro, there is a failure from that perspective in the sense that I think it’s a great, amazing device. The big problem is that it’s doing way more that makes sense. I think there will be a clearer separation between your smart AR glasses that has to be light, that has to be always unconnected, and that’s primarily there to help you make sense of the world around you. The true VR headset that doesn’t really require much in terms of AI, and it’s just there to immerse you in a different world. For this, we know, unfortunately, in some ways, that there is not a lot of demand for it. Maybe there is little demand because you are too hidden in your own world. The technology is not working well enough yet. There are a lot of reasons. But I think Apple trying to do both at the same time, AR and VR, with the Vision Pro, was a pretty grave structural mistake. I think we would see a clearer line of separation between the two. There is bigger market opportunity for AR glasses. That, I certainly agree. There is opportunity to connect that to a computing device. As you talk about, your glasses are your screen, your phone becomes something in your pocket connected to your glasses. Nuno Goncalves Pedro For me, Apple has their way of doing things. From the perspective of what you said, they normally really plan their devices. Even if it’s a big shift in terms of a new area, like they tried with the Vision Pro, and we criticised them for launching it as a device that should have been more of a dev device that they really launched as a full-on device, but that’s their playbook, classically. I think Apple needs to change how they put products out and how they experiment with those products, et cetera. I think they have enough money to be doing everything all the time and figuring it out. If they don’t want to put it out, then they need to do a lot more hell of testing internally with their silos, but they should be playing across all these arenas, VR, AR, everything. They just should put devices out that are either ready for prime time, or they should call it something else. They should call it like this is a dev device or whatever it is. Bertrand Schmitt I agree with you. My complaint is more that it was marketed as a consumer device when it was not. It was a true developer device. Two, they tried to mix the two at once, and it made no sense. No one is going to walk in their home or in the street with their Vision Pro on their head. You have to be deranged, quite frankly, to have use cases like this. I think that for me is a crazy mistake from a company like Apple that prides itself in pure UI, pure user interface, very well-designed device for one specific use case, not mixing the two use cases. We still don’t have Macs with a touchscreen, you know?  We still don’t have an iPad with a good OS that makes use of this great hardware. For some strange reason, they decided to mix everything in the Vision Pro with a device that weighs a ton on your head and is so uncomfortable. That’s why, for me, I’m like, “Guys, what is wrong? Why did you let this team run crazy?” I hope at some point, Apple will go back to the drawing board. My understanding is that that’s what they are doing. They are going to have two devices, one smart glasses, an evolution of the Vision Pro, just focus on VR. They might actually abandon the concept of the pure VR-oriented headset. Because, from a market size perspective, it might not be big enough for Apple, quite frankly. Nuno Goncalves Pedro I read on all of the above, and people at this point was like, “Why are then players like Samsung and others not doing it. LG, et cetera?” Because those players historically have not invented new categories. They’re amazing at catching up once the category is invented, and then they scale the hell out of it, and that’s what these companies have been exceptional at. I wouldn’t see a dramatic innovation, I think, in terms of devices coming from any of the big ones on that side of the fence. Not to disrespect them in any way, but I think that’s not been their playbook ever. Again, if the origination doesn’t come from a start-up or from an Apple, I don’t see those guys going after it. My bet is that we’ll see some start-up activity and, again, hopefully, some announcement from IO now within the OpenAI world. Bertrand Schmitt I would slightly disagree with you. I see where you are coming from. But take the Samsung Galaxy Note, that sudden much bigger headphone that no one was doing that was launched by Samsung, at some point, it forced Apple to launch an iPhone Max. Let’s look at the Z Fold that Samsung launched 7 years ago, copied by everyone. Now Samsung launching a trifold. Apple has still not launched their foldable phone. I think there is a mix, actually, of sometimes- Nuno Goncalves Pedro For me, that’s not a proper new category. It’s still a mobile phone. It just happens to have a screen that folds in half. Bertrand Schmitt The iPhone was still a mobile phone, you could argue.  Nuno Goncalves Pedro No. I think the iPhone was…  I could actually agree with you on that point. Maybe Apple is not as innovative in that case. I think what Steve Jobs was exceptionally good at in terms of his ability as this master product manager was to be an exceptional curator of user flows and user experiences, and creating incredible experiences from devices based on that. That was his secret sauce. Could you say, “Wasn’t all of this stuff already around?” It was. You just put it all together very neatly and very nicely. But if you’re talking about significant shifts in how a category is done, the iPhone was a significant shift in how the category was done. The Fold is still an interesting device. I actually have a Fold right now in front of me. The 7 that you highly recommended to me that we both got, the Z Fold 7. I think they do amazing devices. I don’t think they normally are the most innovative players. Then, when they come to innovation, it comes from technology edges. Obviously, they have Samsung Display, there’s a bunch of other things. They had the ability to do foldable screens in-house themselves. Bertrand Schmitt I don’t disagree with you. I think there is an interesting situation where some companies have some strengths, another one has some strengths. My worry with Apple is that this was not demonstrated with the Vision Pro. The Vision Pro was a hot pot of technologies barely integrated together, with use cases absolutely not well-defined and certainly not something that makes sense for most of us. There is a question of has Apple lost it? While Samsung actually keeps doing their own stuff, that, yes, might be more minor improvements, but at least they are doing it. Because it looks like Apple is missing the train on even the minor improvements. By the way, you might not be aware, but Samsung launched its Vision Pro competitor. Interestingly enough, it might be a better product in some ways, being much lighter and much more comfortable. Nuno Goncalves Pedro We should play around with that and report back to our listeners. Of Start-ups and VCs Moving to venture capital and the startup ecosystem and what’s happening there, I think it is very much a bifurcated environment, and it’s bifurcated for both VCs and for startups. If you’re a startup in the AI space, and you have the hottest team since sliced bread, and you can create FOMO at the speed of light, you can raise ridiculous rounds. Five hundred million at the $3 billion, or $4 billion, or $5 billion valuation, and you still haven’t really even started. First round, you can raise 500 million. That’s back to the whole discussion on Bubble and where are we, et cetera. Some of these companies might actually become huge, some of them might not. But definitely, we are seeing really the haves and have-nots on the startup ecosystem with incredible teams raising a lot of money very, very early on or mid-stage if they’ve already existed for a while, and then the rest not being able to raise. We see a lot of non-necessarily AI sectors, some of the areas of SaaS that don’t necessarily have AI in it, or fintech, or the consumer space that are really, really struggling. If you don’t have an AI story for your startup right now, it’s extremely difficult to raise money unless your numbers are just the best numbers ever. That’s, I think, the first part of the element of bifurcation that we’re seeing today. The second element of bifurcation that we’re seeing today in terms of fundraising is for VCs themselves, and really propelled by the large VC firms raising more and more capital in recent orbits, announcing 15 billion across funds raised. Lightspeed, I think, had made an announcement a couple of weeks ago as well. They’ve raised a bunch of money as well. The big guys are all raising a lot of money. At some point in time, the question some of you might ask is, “These VCs are redeploying more and more money if they have a couple of billion for a VC fund. How does that look like? Is that still VC?” My perspective, I’ve shared before in some of our previous episodes, is that that’s no longer venture capital. At that point in time, we’re talking about something else. Private equity hedge funds, if you want to call them, maybe funds that are really driven by growth investment or late-stage investment. If you have a couple of billion under management, you’re not going to make your returns by writing a $3 million check in a series seed and leading that round.  That has implications for everyone in the ecosystem. It has implications for smaller funds that obviously have a lot more difficulty in raising capital. It’s difficult to differentiate. Last but not least, also for startups that really continue searching for that capital that is out there. Andreessen Horowitz, for example, runs Speedrun, which is a great program for companies around consumer in particular. Initially, it was a lot for gaming. But at some point in time, Andreessen Horowitz could decide that they don’t want to invest more in you. They just put money from Speedrun, which is obviously a very small check compared to the very large checks they could write mid to late stage and that will have an effect on you as a startup. What happens at that point in time if Andreessen Horowitz is not backing you up in later stages? More than that, what happens if I can’t get these big funds interested in me? Are the small funds still valuable to me? Punchline, my view is yes. Obviously, we’re a smaller fund, so there’s parochial interest in what I’m saying. Small funds can still create a ton of value for you, also in terms of credibility, ability to accompany you in those first stages of investment, and the ability to bring other larger investors later down the road as well. There’s definitely a big movement happening in terms of the fundraising for VC funds, which we shouldn’t neglect, which is the big guys are raising a lot more capital and are therefore emptying the market to smaller funds that are having more and more difficult raising at this point in time. We had discussed that there would be a need for concentration in the industry, that micro funds would need to concentrate, and we didn’t have the space for so many micro funds as we had around. But the way it’s happening is extremely dramatic at this moment in time. I think it will continue through 2026. Bertrand Schmitt Remember a few years ago, with the rise of AI, there was more and more of the question about, “What’s the point of SaaS at this stage?” Because SaaS was around for 15 years. Basically, how do you come up with something new that was not already tested, validated by the market? How do you bring something new? We say this was reinforced to the power of 10. If your product is not clearly built from the ground up for a new use case enabled by AI, anyone could then might have built your product 5, 10 years ago, and therefore, why now has no clear answer, and it’s a big problem. I’m still surprised myself to still see some entrepreneurs where you talk to them about AI because you don’t see them in the deck, and they explain to you, “It’s not yet there,” and you’re like, “What’s wrong with you guys?” Fine. Do whatever you want. Do a small business and whatever, but don’t think you can come up pitch and raise without an AI story. The second category is people who come with an AI story, but you can feel very quickly, I guess you saw that many times, Nuno, where just a story layered on top with little credibility. It’s not better. It’s not enough to just have a story. Your business needs to be radically built differently or radically proposing some brand-new use cases that were impossible to solve 5 years ago. Nuno Goncalves Pedro To stack up on that, absolutely in agreement. If you’re just adding to the story, and it’s an afterthought, and you’re just trying to make the story somehow gel, once you go into one or two layers of due diligence, your investors will very quickly realise that you’re not really AI-first or dramatically AI-enabled or whatever. It’s just you’re sort of stacking something on top of another thesis. It needs to make sense from the product onwards. It’s not just, let’s just put it together with chewing gum, and magically, people will give you money. It was true also if we remember the good old crypto blockchain days, where everyone’s investing in crypto. A lot of stories that didn’t make much sense. In that sense, it’s not very different. I would go one step further. I think in the world of the VC winter that we’re a little bit in, where it’s more and more difficult if you’re a smaller fund to raise your fund at this moment in time, there’s a lot of sources of distinctiveness still talked about, like proprietary networks, access to deal flow, fast track record, all that stuff that really, really matters. But our bet continues at Chamaeleon continues being that you need to be AI-first as a VC fund yourself. You need to have core advantages in using not only readily-available AI tools or third-party available AI tools, data sources, technology stacks, but actually building your own stack over time, which is what we did with Mantis at Chamaeleon. Again, just to reinforce that, I think we’re at the beginning of that stage. We, Chamaeleon, are ahead of the game, but we think that the rest of the market will have to move towards that as well. Still, to be honest, very surprising to me to see that many significant large players are doing very little still around some of these spaces. They have data scientists. They’re running some tools. They’re running some analysis and all that stuff, but it’s still, again, back to the point I was making for startups, all glued up with chewing gum. It doesn’t all come together nicely, which it does need to from a platform standpoint. Bertrand Schmitt It’s quite surprising. I agree with you that some VC funds might think that they can do business as usual in that brand-new world. It’s difficult to believe. Nuno Goncalves Pedro Maybe moving a little bit toward the capital formation piece. We already discussed the M&A space really accelerating. We’ve also discussed the IPO market and some predictions on that. Secondaries, there’s obviously a lot of liquidity coming from secondaries from mid to late stage. I think it will continue throughout the rest of 2026. A lot of activity in buying, selling in secondaries as some asset managers are becoming more distressed, as some very high net worth individuals and family offices are becoming more distressed as well, at the same time, where there’s a lot of opportunities to potentially arbitrage around some investments. I believe a lot of money will be made and lost this year by decisions made this year, just to be very, very clear in terms of equity, purchases, et cetera. Exciting year ahead of us. Definitely a very, very interesting market ahead of us. Secondaries, M&A, growth, and late-stage investing, also, early-stage investing will continue just for those that were wondering. Last but not least, the public markets, the IPO market as well. Bertrand Schmitt One of the big questions for the IPO market would be, will SpaceX go public? Would it be good for the startup ecosystem? Because suddenly that they go public, it would be to raise money. If they raise money, will there be any money left for anybody else? That would be an interesting test of the market. For sure, it would be proof that market are risk on financing a new IPO like this one. Or as you said, maybe there is no IPO, and it’s a merger with Tesla. Time will tell. Nuno Goncalves Pedro Regulatory & Geopolitical Headwinds… and the Wars Moving maybe to our topic of regulation and geopolitical headwinds, as we’re seeing … definitely not tailwinds. The Google antitrust verdict and, obviously, the remedies are expected to come forward now, and a lot of people are saying, “There are some risks of structural separation.” What do you think? Is it cool, but nothing will happen in the end dramatically? Alphabet or Google? I’m not sure, actually. It’s Google LLC. I think that’s the case. It’s The United States versus Google LLC. Bertrand Schmitt I’m not sure. Personally, I’m not a big fan. I think there needs to be a better way to manage some anticompetitive behavior. I’m not a big fan. There was this temptation to do that for Microsoft 25 years ago. Look at what happened. No one needed to buy Microsoft to leave space for others. I see the same with Google, and I guess they are happy to not be the number 1 in AI today, but to have an open AI in front of them. Even if they are doing a great job, by the way, to move forward and go faster and faster. Personally, quite impressed now with some of what they have released. Gemini 3 is doing great from my perspective. I’m not a big fan of this. I think to be clear, it’s important that bigger companies don’t behave anticompetitively, but at the same time, we need to find the right approach where it’s not about breaking these companies, and it’s also not about forbidding them to do acquisitions. Because then you end up with what NVIDIA just did with a $20 billion acquihire IP licensing type of acquisition, because they didn’t want to have the uncertainties. They didn’t want to wait 1–2 years in order to acquire the people and the technology, so they organised it in a different way. But I don’t like that. I think they should be able to acquire companies without facing so much uncertainty. To be clear, it’s not new. Uncertainty when you are Google, NVIDIA, or others, it happens. It has happened for a decade plus, 2 decades. I think there needs to be, for sure, some safety valves. At the same time, we want an efficient capital market. An efficient capital market need companies that can acquire other companies. If you don’t do that efficiently, it will be worse for the entrepreneurs, it will be worse for the investors, it will be worse for everybody. I think we have not reached a good equilibrium from my perspective. We need more efficient acquisition process. And at the same time, we need to also enforce faster anticompetitive behavior. Because what you talk about concerning Google, this is a case that was what? That is 10 years old. You see what I mean? This is way too long. If you’re a startup, you are dead by then. It’s like the story of Netscape facing Microsoft. They were dead long after the fact. I think we need a different approach. I’m not sure the best answer. I’m not sure we’ll get a better approach. There are probably too many vested interest. My hope is that it will get better with this current administration because, certainly, the past administration was very anti acquisition and efficient markets. Nuno Goncalves Pedro We’ve talked about the European Union AI Act a bunch of times, so I don’t want to spend too many cycles on that. The only effect that I would say is we are seeing in very slow motion the splitting of the Internet. I once had Tim Berners-Lee, by the way, shouting at me that we were going to break the Internet when we were applying for the .mobi top-level domain. I was part of that consortium that eventually did get the .mobi top-level domain, and I had him shouting at us. But, apparently, this is going to split the Internet, Tim. So in case you’re listening. Because it will create all these different rules. If your data is relating to consumers there, then it’s treated in a different way, and The US is… Well, obviously, we have the case of California with its own rules and laws. I don’t know. I feel we’re having a moment of siloing that goes beyond economic and geopolitical siloing. It will also apply to the digital world, and we’ll start having different landscapes around it. We’ll see how this affects global expansion of services, for example, around AI, particularly for consumer, but I don’t foresee anything dramatically positive. Recently, we had the whole deal around TikTok finally having a solution for their US problem where there’s now a US conglomerate magically that owns it. The conglomerate doesn’t magically own it, they just straight up own it for the US. But it was driven by many of these concerns around data ownership. Where’s the data? Where is it based? I think a lot of other concerns that have to do with the geopolitics of China, obviously, being the basis of ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, that still is a significant owner, by the way, in TikTok in US. Then also the interest in the economics of making money out of something as powerful as TikTok, to be honest, in The US. Just to be clear, I don’t think this was all about the best interests of consumers. It was also about money. Just follow the money. Bertrand Schmitt There are for sure, some powerful interest at play. But let’s be clear. I think one is data, as you rightfully said, but the other one is algorithm. It’s not as if China is authorising any competitor on its territory. They have blocked access to most of the Internet platforms from the US, either finding new rules or just trade blocking them. So I don’t think it’s fair competition. You don’t want some of that data in China about the US or European consumer. Three, it’s about the algorithm. If suddenly, you are a foreign power, and you can as we know in China, you better follow what’s required of you from the Chinese Communist Party. You cannot take a chance with influencing other stuff like elections in other countries. It’s fair from the US perspective. One could even argue it’s fair from a Chinese perspective to want that. I think the only one in the middle who doesn’t really know what they want is Europe because on one side, they want to benefit from American platforms, on the other end, they want to have some controls. On the other end, they don’t create the environment for startups to flourish. So in that weird situation where they have to accept some control by the big US providers and either provider of underlying infrastructure or provider of consumer business facing services. Then they try to regulate them. But I think they are misunderstanding the power relationship, and I think some of this regulation would get some blowback, at least by the current administration. Just, I believe, this morning, there was some news around X being under a criminal investigation in France. This is not going to end well for the French startup and VC ecosystem. This is not going to end well for France and Europe when you depend so much from your American friends. Nuno Goncalves Pedro Regulation will be weaponised. Regulation constraints around exports, all of this will be weaponised geopolitically, and the bigger guys will normally win. I think that’s normally what we’ve seen. Just on TikTok just to… And you guys, if you’re listening to us, just see if you see a pattern here, but obviously, 19.9% still owned by ByteDance of the TikTok entity in the US. It was initially said that 80% of the TikTok entity is owned by non-Chinese investors. Initially, people were saying US investors, and then they changed it to non-Chinese because MGX, I think, has 15% of it. MGX is based in the UAE, connected obviously to Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund. Silver Lake is in there, I think, with 15% as well. Oracle as well with 15%. Those three are the big bucket owners together, 45%. Silver Lake having collaborated with MGX before, and I’m sure a lot of connectivity there. Then you still see a pattern in this in terms of shareholders. If you don’t, then just Google it. Dell Family Office, Vastmir Strategic Investments, which is owned by billionaire Jeff Yass, Alpha Wave Partners, obviously involved with a bunch of things like SpaceX and Klarna, Virgoli, Revolution, which is Steve Case’s, a former founder of AOL, is also in there. Meritway, which is managed by partners, I think, of Dragonair. Vinova from General Atlantic, an affiliate of General Atlantic. Also, NJJ Capital, which I believe is Xavier Nil, the French billionaire that founded Iliad. Mostly American, I think, if the math is correct. 80% non-Chinese, which was what mattered, I think, in many cases. But do see if you saw a pattern in most of those investors. I won’t say anything more than that. Maybe moving to other topics, maybe just to finalise on regulation and geopolitics. In geopolitics, we should talk about wars if we predict anything. Not that we are nasty and one want to be negative, but what the hell is going on? Will we have ending to the wars we already have ongoing or not? But before that, the struggles on the App Stores, I think, will continue both for Apple and for Google Play Store. The writing’s on the wall, the EU keeps pushing it dramatically and Apple keeps just doing stuff. I’m on the board of an App Store company. Apple just creates all these things that basically make you not really… It doesn’t work. You can’t provision then an App Store on Apple devices. On iPhones, et cetera. We’ll see how that will continue going, but I feel the writing’s on the wall. Both Apple and Google will have to open up a bit more of their platforms. I’m not sure it will have a huge impact in the medium to long term, but definitely we need to see more openness in access to apps as given by the two big platform owners, Apple and Google, out there. Bertrand Schmitt Let’s be clear. Google is way more open than Apple. We both have Android devices. You can install alternative app stores. It’s a different ballgame by very far. Nuno Goncalves Pedro Google does other nasty stuff. It’s public. You can check which board I’m a part of. You can see what that company has done towards Google over time. But to your point, yes. It is true that Google has been more open than Apple, but Google has done their own things. Just to be very clear, so I’ll just leave that caveat bracketed there for people to think about it and maybe read a little bit about it as well. Bertrand Schmitt I can say that, me, from my perspective, that path of total control that Apple has been going through on all their devices, that includes macOS, pushed me to, over the past 2, 3 years, to completely live and abandon the Apple ecosystem. I just couldn’t accept that level of control, that golden handcuff approach of the Apple ecosystem, each their own obviously, they are golden, their handcuffs, but they are still handcuffs. Personally, that pushed me way more to Linux, Android, Windows, back to Windows after all these years. I just couldn’t stand it anymore. I want to pick my devices. I want to pick what I install on them, and I don’t want to be controlled like this by just one entity for all my tech devices. For me, at some point, it was just not acceptable anymore. It’s still very warm, very golden handcuffs, but for me, they were just handcuffs at this stage. Yes, what they are doing with the App Store is very typical of that mindset. I think it’s quite sad because I think it started with good intention in some ways. “We need a new computing paradigm, we need to make things smoother and safer,” but it has really become a way to control your clients. For me, it has reached a point where it’s just way too much. Nuno Goncalves Pedro There’s obviously the great power comes great responsibility that uncle Ben told Spider-Man or Peter Parker. But there’s also with great power comes shitload of money, and control. So it’s like, “Yeah. Should we open the server? Do we want to delay opening it up?” “Yeah.” Anyway, it is what it is. Maybe let’s end on the more difficult note of the episode, which is going to be around wars. What’s our prediction? Will we have an end to the Gaza situation with Israel? Will we have an end to Ukraine and, obviously, Russia? What will happen in Iran? Those are the three big, big conflicts right now. Then, obviously, if we want to add just bonus points, what’s going to happen to Greenland, and what’s going to happen to Taiwan, and what’s going to happen to Venezuela? Let’s throw the whole basket in there. We’ve never had like… Let’s talk about all these territories and all these countries. At some point in time, I’m saying this in a light manner, but it’s obviously more tragic than it should be light, and people are dying, and there’s a lot of implications of all of that that is happening right now. Do you have any predictions, Bertrand, for this year? Bertrand Schmitt No. It’s tough to predict on an individual basis. I think on a more bigger picture basis is on one side, obviously, the rise of China on one side. You have also the rise of other countries like India, while very indirectly connected to some of these conflicts are still part of the game, buying oil from Russia, for instance. At the same time, I think overall, the US is more clear about with the sheriff in town. I think it’s good because in some ways, you cannot pay for the goods, you cannot have such a massive advantage versus nearly every other country on earth and just not be clear about who is the boss in some ways. As a result, what are the rules of the game and how it should be played? The US is not alone, obviously, you have China, you have Russia, you have India, you have Europe. You have different other countries. But at some point, it’s not good when countries are not rational and are not clear. I think I prefer the current situation where things are more clear and where you have to assume responsibilities about what you are doing. It’s time to be rational again about how the world behave. Yes, the concept of power and balance of power. I think there has been that dream, maybe mostly coming from Europe, about the end of history. I think that’s simply not the case. It’s not the end of history. It’s still about the balance of power. It has always been about the balance of power. If you are dumb enough to think it was not about that anymore, I just have a bridge to nowhere to sell you. I don’t have specific prediction, but I think it’s clear there is a new sheriff in town. There is a new doctrine about the Western Hemisphere that has been in some ways resurrected on the [inaudible 00:51:35] train, and I think we’ll see more of it. I think at this point, the biggest question is for the Europeans. What do they want to do? Because right now, their position of being a dwarf militarily while being a pretty big giant economically, I don’t think it works. Nuno Goncalves Pedro I agreed on everything that you said. I do have predictions. I’ll stick a flag on the ground just with my predictions. Bertrand Schmitt Good luck. Nuno Goncalves Pedro They are mostly positive. I do think we’ll see an end or, for the most, end to the two big conflicts, the one in Gaza and the one in Ukraine. I think Ukraine will end up in readjustment of territory and splitting between Russia and the Ukraine, but the end of hostilities, I think that we will see an end to the conflict in Gaza also with a readjustment on what that will mean for the Palestinian territories and the Palestinians in general. That I’m not sure, but I feel that there will be an end to those two big conflicts. Iran, I have no clue. I will not put a stick on the ground that I have no clue. There are so many things that could go wrong there. I’ve been reading some really interesting thoughts about even some aggressive thoughts that this might be the time to really change regimes in Iran and for the US to have a bit more of an aggressive stance. I really don’t have a perspective. Obviously, there’s a lot at stake there. Then, if we talk about the other parts, Greenland, I will not opine too much on. Maybe we’re done for now. Maybe there’ll be some other concessions to the US that weren’t already there in the ’50s. Taiwan, I won’t bet either. I’m sad to say I think it might happen at some point in time, but I’m not sure when and what would drive it. Last but not the least, Venezuela is my only really negative prediction. I feel it will continue to be a significant dictatorship as it was before managed enough by other people with the difference now that it has a tax to be paid to the US in the form of oil of some sort, etcetera, and maybe gas, maybe other things as well that it didn’t have before. That’s probably my most negative prediction for the coming year on the geopolitical side. Bertrand Schmitt Without going into detail, I would mostly agree with what you shared. At least that makes sense. But as we know, it’s not always what makes sense, but what might happen. I can tell you 100% I would not have guessed this operation against Maduro. This was so well done, well executed, and shocking at the same time that it’s… I think it shows that it’s hard to guess some of this stuff because there are certainly some new ways to wage limited war, for instance. So it’s certainly interesting, and we certainly need to get used to pretty bombastic statements. But for Venezuela, I don’t think it can be worse than what it was before. I’m probably more optimistic that gradually it can get better. Nuno Goncalves Pedro Just to put perspective on why we’re not making predictions on some of these elements, I think this is a funny story, but I was in Madeira. Actually, first time I was in Madeira, although I’m originally from Portugal. I’ve never been to the islands. Obviously, as you guys know, or some of you might know, there’s a lot of connection between Madeira and Venezuela. There’s a lot of immigration from Madeira Islands to Venezuela. One of my Uber or Bolt drivers there in Madeira was Venezuelan. Was born in Venezuela, but Portuguese descent, et cetera. He was telling me this was still last year. Late last year. Because I told him I lived in US, et cetera, and he was like, “Oh, hopefully, Trump will get Maduro out of there.” In my mind, I was like, “Dude.” No disrespect to the gentleman, but it’s like, “Okay. Mike, your perspective on geopolitics is maybe a little bit exaggerated.” And a couple of days later, we know what happened. When geopolitical decisions are better predicted by some probably very astute Uber drivers, you’re like, “Maybe I shouldn’t make a bet. I have no clue what’s going to happen, no clue what’s going to happen in Greenland, et cetera.” Anyway, a couple of predictions on that element. Bertrand Schmitt That’s why it’s so right. You have to be careful with the prediction, but it doesn’t remove the fact that I think nations and companies that have to play a global game have to understand in some ways what is the game, what are the powers in place, what could happen potentially, but also be realistic. Not be about wish and dreams, but more about, what’s the power relationship? Who has the money? Who has the means? Who has the capacity to do this or that? Because if you start that way, at least the scope of what’s possible, what’s reasonable is more and more clear more quickly. Some stuff like happened with Maduro, I would never have predicted, but for sure, if there’s one country that can do this sort of stuff, it’s the US. I’m not sure anyone has a technology and the means in terms of support infrastructure to do something like this. It’s tough to predict what will happen a year from now for any specific country, but I think that even trying to get a better understanding about the forces in play and their capacity and understanding and accepting that at some point, it’s all about real politic and relationship of power, the more your eyes would be wide open about what’s possible versus simple, wishful thinking. Nuno Goncalves Pedro Fintech, Crypto and Frontier Tech Moving maybe to our last section around fintech, crypto, and frontier tech. For me, just two very quick predictions, views of the world. I think on the frontier tech side, I won’t make a prediction. I will just tell you all to go and listen to our episodes, the one on infrastructure, which is immediately prior to this one, and the episodes that we’ve had around a couple of other topics including AI, what’s the future of your children, because I think they illustrate a lot of the points that we’re seeing and manifesting themselves over the next year and over the next 2 or 3 years as well beyond that. I feel those tomes are complete in and out of themselves, so you can just go and listen to them. Then my second comment is on crypto. I feel crypto has become of the essence, particularly under the current administration in the US, very favored. Obviously, we are now in a world where crypto is just part of the economic system, and I think we’ll see more and more of that emerging, and in some ways, crypto is becoming mainstream. Question is what blockchains will be the blockchains of the future? Obviously, there’s a bunch of bets put out there. We, ourselves, as Chamaeleon, have one investment in one of the significant bets in the space. But besides that, who’s going to win or not, we feel that we’re past the crypto winter. It’s now mainstream days, and we’ll see a lot more activity in there. Bertrand Schmitt I must say with crypto, I’m a bit confused. As you say, we are past the crypto winter. There is much less uncertainty in regul

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What Is This Episode - Top of Show . OSCARS 2025 RECAP EPISODE: Red Carpet Fashion Takes From 2 UnFashionable Mikes - 1:53 Pros/Cons of the Broadcast - 7:53 . Show Open/Conan's Monologue - 15:46 Culkin Finishes His Supporting Actor Sweep - 20:51 Video Packages for BP Noms - 23:04 Flow Upsets in Animated Feature - 24:12 A 50:1 Winner in Animated Short!!! - 27:12 . Paul Tazewell Makes Costume Design History - 28:55 Catholics vs Convicts Foreshadowed After Screenplay, MUAH wins - 31:22 The Bond Tribute Miss & Conan Movie Theater Video Hit  - 33:51 Sean Baker wins his 2nd on the night for Editing - 36:29 . Zoe Saldana wins & we put the Emilia Perez controversies to rest - 38:59  Ben Stiller & Mick Jagger both kill for PD & Score + Diane loses again - 41:43 Docs make fools us & LA Firefighters get their due, but not enough applause  - 45:45 Dune Part Two + Live Action short wins secured by Mike1 & Radiohead - 52:38  A moving, but oddly constructed in Memoriam - 55:53  . Everything Brutalist was long, but Cinematography Fab 5 was great - 57:09  Broadcast Speeds Up for Brazil's big moment, Brutalist Score & The Whiz! - 58:45  Adrien Brody big times the play-off music - 1:02:08  Sean Baker wins Director & AM echoes his pro indie theater speech - 1:05:40  Mikey Madison over Demi Moore in Lead Actress - 1:10:12  Anora wins Best Picture! - 1:12:56  . Tallies, Stats, Our Predictions + a string of history making Best Pictures  - 1:15:07 . . OUTRO: 1:18:57 - What's coming next includes lots of great guests and potential early 2026 contending films that come out this spring.  Our Oscars thank you speech includes our heartfelt gratitude to all of our guests, our sponsors, and most of all, all of our listeners.

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00:00 Introduction00:37 Our Predictions for GTMOps in 202526:33 GTM or GTFO: Is AI email personalization worth it? 37:01 Q&A: When is data quality good enough?Hear more from us:Subscribe to us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN-x5u0G03LWmU0Ds_4zR8wSubscribe to our newsletter here: https://www.cs2marketing.com/revenue-growth-architects#subscribe-to-newsletterFollow Crissy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crveteresaunders/Follow Charlie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliesaunders/Follow Xander on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xanderbroeffle/

Send us a textThis week on Haunt Weekly, we're making our 2025 predictions and looking back at the ones we made in 2024.So what chaos will 2025 bring the haunt industry? Who knows! Certainly not us. But that won't stop us from making ten predictions about the upcoming year.Of course, it wouldn't be complete if we didn't also look back at our 2024 predictions to see how wrong we got them.So please sit back and relax as we think about the future.This Week's Episode Includes:1. Intro2. Housekeeping Notes3. Work We Did on the Haunt4. Question of the Week5. Our Predictions for 20256. A Look Back at our 2024 Predictions7. ConclusionsAll in all, this is one episode you do NOT want to miss!Get in Touch and Follow Us!Facebook: @HauntWeeklyTwitter: @HauntWeeklyYouTube: @HauntWeeklyEmail: info@hauntweekly.com

video: https://youtu.be/S4AH-QM2h30 This week, we're going to do our predictions for 2025, and they're all going to be correct. We'll see in 2026, or maybe not. Welcome to Destination Linux, where we discuss the latest news, hot topics, gaming, mobile, and all things open source and Linux. We will also be discussing some of the CES stuff, the highlights and stuff like that from this year's 2025 CES. Which there is some pretty cool stuff to talk about. So at least there's going to be some positive aspects. Now let's get this show on the road toward Destination Linux. Forum Discussion Thread (https://destinationlinux.net/forum) Download as MP3 (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/32f28071-0b08-4ea1-afcc-37af75bd83d6/a1370415-fd06-45a6-89c5-558360d2dec2.mp3) Support the show by becoming a patron at tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) or get some swag at tuxdigital.com/store (https://tuxdigital.com/store) Hosted by: Ryan (DasGeek) = dasgeek.net (https://dasgeek.net) Jill Bryant = jilllinuxgirl.com (https://jilllinuxgirl.com) Michael Tunnell = michaeltunnell.com (https://michaeltunnell.com) Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:38 Community Feedback 00:12:07 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security (ad) 00:14:01 What is Drift Detection? 00:15:31 Our Predictions for 2025 00:45:37 Cool Stuff from CES 2025 01:06:38 Our Steam Replays for 2024 01:13:06 Software Spotlight: ProjectLibre 01:16:41 New Years Linux User Resolutions 01:23:13 Support the show Links: Community Feedback https://destinationlinux.net/comments (https://destinationlinux.net/comments) https://destinationlinux.net/forum (https://destinationlinux.net/forum) https://tuxdigital.com/discord (https://tuxdigital.com/discord) Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security (ad) https://destinationlinux.net/sandfly (https://destinationlinux.net/sandfly) Cool Stuff from CES 2025 https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/generative-ai-studio-ces-geforce-rtx-50-series/ (https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/generative-ai-studio-ces-geforce-rtx-50-series/) https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/project-digits/ (https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/project-digits/) https://www.acer.com/us-en/laptops/aspire/aspire-vero-16 (https://www.acer.com/us-en/laptops/aspire/aspire-vero-16) https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337033/lg-samsung-microsoft-copilot-smart-tvs-ces-2025 (https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337033/lg-samsung-microsoft-copilot-smart-tvs-ces-2025) https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-at-ces-2025 (https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-at-ces-2025) https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-workstations-ces-covesa (https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-workstations-ces-covesa) https://mecha.so/comet (https://mecha.so/comet) Our Steam Replays for 2024 https://store.steampowered.com/replay (https://store.steampowered.com/replay) Software Spotlight: ProjectLibre https://www.projectlibre.com/product/1-alternative-microsoft-project-free-project-management-software-open-source (https://www.projectlibre.com/product/1-alternative-microsoft-project-free-project-management-software-open-source) Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) https://store.tuxdigital.com/ (https://store.tuxdigital.com/)

Hello and welcome to the Enchanted Ears Podcast, where we discuss anything and everything Disney. This week Disney announced some discounts for your next Disney World Vacation and they happen to conveniently coincide with the opening of an Epic new park. At the beginning of 2020 we made some bold predictions for the Walt Disney Company over the next decade.  It's crazy to think that it has already been five years since that episode, but here we are. It turns out we had some pretty good predictions, including the plot to the then unannounced Moana 2, and some pretty bad predictions, that although technically could still happen in the next five years, aren't looking good. So tune in to hear right we got right and not right (yet) and let us know your predictions for the rest of the decade. Submit a question/topic for us to discuss on a future episode. Don't forget to check us out on: -Instagram -Facebook  -Youtube Missing the smell of the parks? Check out Magic Candle Company and use code Enchanted at checkout to save 15% off your next order. Timestamp 00:00 Welcome 03:02 Disney News 07:59 Looking Back at Our Predictions for the Decade 11:21 Will Disney Get the Theme Parks Rights to Marvel Back? 15:55 We Predicted Monsters Inc Land 17:57 Where's the Inside Out Attraction? 21:05 Disney Buying a Private Island 24:57 Some Predictions That Weren't Correct . . . Yet 27:12 How Did We Know the Plot of Moana 2? 32:59 Predictions for the International Parks 35:19 Could Disney Buy Netflix? 42:19 Movie Predictions 48:20 See You Next Monday!

It's our first episode for 2025! After a quick look back at the year that was, unpacking our Top 10 Games of 2024, we discuss the year ahead! We share what games were most excited for, and reveal our 2025 gaming predictions. 00:00 Intro00:46 What We've Been Playing09:38 Our Top 10 Games of 202419:06 Our Most Anticipated Games of 202524:46 Our Predictions for 2025 In Video Games45:11 What Wins Game Of The Year In 202546:57 What The Wiki?!52:24 Outro The Press Start Podcast is Press Start Australia's weekly video game discussion podcast. Our Top 10 Games Of The Year And The Ones That Just Missed Out: https://press-start.com.au/features/2025/01/01/our-top-10-games-of-the-year-and-the-ones-that-just-missed-out/ SUBSCRIBE LiSTNR: https://play.listnr.com/podcast/the-press-start-podcastSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70QgrzSyPK476F9cTsfUWJApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-press-start-podcast/id812891885 For more gaming news, reviews & more visit https://www.press-start.com.au SUBSCRIBE | https://goo.gl/i9FGAxFOLLOW US | https://www.facebook.com/gaming/PressStartAu https://twitter.com/PressStartAU https://www.instagram.com/pressstartau/ https://www.tiktok.com/@pressstartau Contact us at hello@press-start.com.au #gaming #podcast #playstationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's addition of "Two Intellectual Idiots Fostering Political and Cultural Literacy" Dan, Corey, and Bel "The Bodysnatcher"  take YOU, the disenfranchised or politically homeless sane person into. 1) Our Predictions for 2025 in the political and cultural sphere. We're operating at a decent clip, so you should totally listen to us. You should't, but we really are operating at a decent clip. Whatever... you decide. 2) H-1B Visas. The new thing that everyone is a sudden expert about and get mostly wrong. Some of you just want DEI for white people... it's okay... the pendulum has already begun to swing. 3) Teror in New Orleans. Pick who to blame... It's way easier than remedying a problem. As the calendar changed over from 2024 to 2025, we are left wondering if the planet hopped into a wormhole and took us back to 2001. Where we are to fear the immigrants and "radical islam" again. wHo ArE wE gOnNa B AND MORE...  IF YOU LIKE: Breaking Points With Krystal & Saagar The Fifth Column The Tom Woods Show Scott Horton Reason Magazine The Reason Round Table The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie The Grayzone Dave Smith's "Part of the Problem" Blocked and Reported NPR Based Politics The Daily Wire StatusCoup The Jordan Harbinger Show The Jimmy Dore Show The Joe Rogan Experience Useful Idiots "Honestly" With Bari Weiss Matt Taibbi Glen Greenwald Aaron Matè Max Blumenthal

With the Buckeyes set to play the Ducks on a Wednesday in the College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl, this week's episode of Real Pod Wednesdays comes one day early as we discuss the keys to the game and make our final predictions for how the game will play out.The full rundown for our Rose Bowl preview edition of RPW:0:00 Setting the Stage for What Should Be A Classic Game2:44 The Buckeyes Have Turned Doubters Into Believers, But There's No Lack of Motivating Factors5:05 Ohio State's Defense Can Make the Difference in the Rematch8:43 But Ohio State's Offense Must Put Up Similar Numbers Without Key Offensive Linemen13:17 Will Oregon Benefit from More Rest or Will Ohio State Benefit from Building Momentum?17:39 Denzel Burke, OTs, DEs, RBs and Jeremiah Smith Among Players to Watch24:50 Score Predictions for Ohio State vs. Oregon29:57 Our Predictions for the Other Three College Football Playoff Quarterfinals

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SummaryTo summarize the summer, Laura and Sara thought it was timely to record a minisode (that turned out to be anything but mini) on Taylor's European Leg of the Eras Tour! From alllllll the clowning for Reputation TV, future collaboration speculations, London highlights, and some Easter Eggs for a potential Eras Tour documentary, Taylor certainly knew how to end this leg of her tour with a bang! To tie the episode up, Laura and Sara share their summer recipes that they love. Chapters(00:00) Intro & What's On Our Plates(13:19) Discussing Sabrina Carpenter's “Short n' Sweet”(19:15) European Eras Tour Highlights: Clowning For Reputation(24:47) Speculation About Taylor Featured on Charlie XCX's "Sympathy Is A Knife"(29:07) London Highlights!(38:26) I Can Do It With A Broken Heart Music Video & Documentary Speculation(49:23) Taylor's Statement Post-Vienna Show Cancellation(53:35) Our Predictions(01:06:16) Our Recipes Of The Summer(01:11:50) Signing Off!Links ReferencedAllison Bornstein's “Wear It Well”Abercrombie High Rise 90's Relaxed JeansBurger Bowls RecipeJaime Oliver's Crispy Chicken Legs With Sweet Tomatoes and Basil from Food52Please make sure to subscribe and leave a review. If you'd like to reach out to send in a question or comment, please do so via any of these platforms:email blankplatepod@gmail.comleave a voicemail at (717) 382-831YouTubeInstagramTikTokYou can also follow Sara and Laura individually:• Laura: Instagram and Tiktok• Sara: InstagramListen to our previous podcast: Passports & Pizza

This week, is it gold or bronze? The latest iPhone rumors have us worried… also, what you can expect from AirPods 4, the exciting new Mac mini, and OUR PREDICTIONS for the September event! This episode supported by: Listeners like you. Your support helps us fund CultCast Off-Topic, a new weekly podcast of bonus content available for everyone; and helps us secure the future of the podcast. You also get access to The CultClub Discord, where you can chat with us all week long, give us show topics, and even end up on the show. Support The CultCast at support.thecultcast.com — OR at CultOf9to5MacRumors.com This week's stories: Mockup reveals iPhone 16 Pro gold titanium color A new render shows the iPhone 16 Pro in a gold titanium finish, rather than the bronze that was rumored previously. AirPods 4 rumors: Dramatic change coming next week Here's what to look forward to in new AirPods variants when they're unveiled at the “It's Glowtime” event on September 9. M4 Mac mini might give up on USB-A entirely Reports suggest the Mac mini could finally get a new design this year. The revamp will make the overall machine much smaller, about the same size as an Apple TV. More affordable iPad Magic Keyboard is in development iPad users can look forward to a less expensive version of Apple's Magic Keyboard, according to information leaking out of Apple. The CultCast “It's Glowtime” Predictions Submit your own guesses

5pm: Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Resigns… // Our Predictions on Her Resignation From Yesterday // Harris heads to Wisconsin, powered by endorsements, money and delegates // Johnstradamus’ Next Bold Prediction:  Biden will resign the Presidency… As early as tomorrow! // LETTERS

Introduction (0:00:00). Spencer and Justin answer questions from listeners.Nationals Predictions (0:08:14). Brett Bayne and A.J. Bellido de Luna predict the winners at NTC and AAJ Finals . A.J. tries to color code. It doesn't go well.  Both guests manage to offend several schools and coaches while making their predictions. Our Predictions (0:32:42). After Spencer survives a field trip, the hosts make some predictions of their own.Main Interview with Illinois-Chicago's Kelly Navarro (0:42:00). Kelly talks about her career in the Chicago prosecutors' office, how she manages a program of 50 students, the story of the student who got his bar results while he was in trial, skiing during "Birkebeiner Season," and who deserves a Nobel Prize.

Hello Gentlepeople! We here at The Manderville Minute have been covering the amazing work of Manderville Family in all facets of Ul'dah life, and this time we have decided to tackle the most gentlemanly of gentlemen: Hildibrand Helidor Maximillian Manderville. He is a Manderville Man that can only do what a Manderville can, as he travels the realm as a self-titled “agent of enquiry, inspector extraordinaire” alongside his assistant, Nashu Mhakaracca. Now wait just a gosh darn moment… No, what do you mean this about an MMORPG called Final Fantasy XIV? No, this is an audio recording all about one of our great Thanalan heroes! Perish the thought that this could be about some mere game.Spoiler Levels: Truffles à la Manderville! This is a sweet and fluffy episode. We do talk about all sorts of the events that you can find in the various Hildibrand Adventures in Final Fantasy XIV, up to and including the events and trial in Patch 6.55. While we don't get into too much MSQ talk… If you want to go into Hildibrand completely unsullied, this is your warning.Manderville NotesHope you all enjoyed the episode! Here's a couple of useful links based off some of the things we talked about in this episode:Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 – Hildibrand & Nashu Storyline Cutscenes uploaded by LeonesaurusBut also, don't forget (since Tobias was nice enough to provide them) Time Cues:00:00:00 – Welcome to the Manderville Minute00:11:11 – Hildibrand in 1.000:22:36 – Inspirations of a Hildibrand00:33:36 – Hildibrand Adventures' Side Characters and Trials00:47:40 – The Future of Hildibrand01:08:38 – Our Predictions for Hildibrand in 7.0 and OutroMusic used in this episode: “Agent of Inquiry” composed by Masayoshi Soken, “The Pink Panther Theme” composed by Henry Mancini, “Theme from Lupin III 2015” composed by Yuji Ohno, “Where All Roads Lead” composed by Masayoshi Soken, “The Carbuncle Chronicle Theme” composed DJ Inubito and arranged by Anna.We also have YouTube Channels now! Both for OSMcast proper and The Carbuncle Chronicle! Please subscribe, hit the bell, and share amongst your friends.And as always, feel free to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Oh, and if you still use Spotify, go ahead and get on that mobile device and throw us some five stars there too. Tell your friends! As well, just like we mentioned when we do the OSMplugs, you can also join the Discord and support us on Patreon! PS If you have ever wanted some OSMmerch, feel free to check out our TeePublic page! PPS We appreciate you.

In this episode, we go over all of NYCFC new signings, 24/7 Kit and we see if Danny makes it to the end of the episode from an Allergic reaction. 0:00 Start a new tradition with us (Have a drink) 3:13 24/7 Kit is Fire but I'm broke 9:07 Malachi Jones is going to be a beast 13:02 David Lee Cooking with all these signings 39:57 Goodbye Alfredo (We miss you already) 45:00 Our Predictions for the Season 56:38 Our Expected Starting XI

Our Predictions episode was packed with many great insights and discussion points, but the guys had even more to discuss regarding what 2024 has in store. PLUS: Rite Aid gets a hefty penalty from the FTC, healthcare trends, “Trendcore” and “trendwashing”, and what Phillip and Brian are reading right now.Product is Content{00:08:41} - “The terminally online people are the ones who are constantly trying to gain recognition by glomming onto other people's visible success, and Yotpo just didn't have that kind of brand affinity in social media.” - Phillip{00:28:41} - “2024 is just gonna be another really rough year in health care because we've been saying forever that a lot of the technology does exist to bring some of these technologies to homes. It could be, but the problem is adoption by the ecosystem and by consumers. And that's not gonna hit in 2024. Sorry.” - Brian{00:35:50} - “The Rite Aid issue {is} a great example of this where people are actually genuinely relying on technology that ultimately is able to fail in ways that no one understands. As technology becomes more and more of a black box, it's going to be harder and harder to identify what the cause of something actually is.” - Brian{00:39:23} - “If you look at the Hailey Bieber dress can trend because Hailey Bieber in a red dress becomes a meme, and Shein produces it within a week, and then people are buying it within another week, and then it turns on social media as a result within a couple weeks. So the meme half-life of about a month is able to reach mass cultural and commerce adoption, and then necessarily dies to whatever is next.” - Phillip{00:42:39} - “People who have made phenomenal monetary investments in the last cycle get left out of the next two cycles, and that's how you get old.” - PhillipAssociated Links:Check out Future Commerce Plus for exclusive content and save on merch and printThe MUSES Journal is here! Grab your copy of our latest annual journal today at musesjournal.comHave you checked out our YouTube channel yet?Subscribe to Insiders and The Senses to read more about what we are witnessing in the commerce worldListen to our other episodes of Future CommerceHave any questions or comments about the show? Let us know on futurecommerce.com, or reach out to us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn. We love hearing from our listeners!

We're back for our annual tradition where we take a look back at all the news and events that happened in the previous year and see how well our predictions were. Then we make NEW predictions for 2024. This year, we added a completely arbitrary point system that MAY have made things a bit more chaotic... but that's all part of the fun! We also cover the latest Invincible news, read listener letters, and dive into a new Issue Spotlight! Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 6:25 Invincible News 10:00 Listener Emails 16:10 Wyatt's Gift 21:20 Looking Back at 2023 34:30 Our Predictions for 2023 Revisited 1:05:15 New Predictions for 2024! 1:59:27 Issue Spotlight 2:05:30 Wrap Up TheInvinciblePodcast.com Email: TheInvinciblePodcast@Gmail.com Twitter: twitter.com/InvincibleCast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theinvinciblepodcast?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc Facebook: www.facebook.com/Invinciblepodcast/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCXPRK7LdY0ph... Music: Wyatt Layne @wyatt-layne Spotify, Apple Music, Soundcloud Art: Ryan Ottley & Jeremiah Skipper #invincible #invinciblefriday #Omni-Man #atomeve #primevideo #Skybound #comicbooks

Holly's Hilarious Regifted Birthday Present. Queen City Confessions: Met Girlfriend's “Trailer Trash” Family. Blown Off: Keyboard Warrior. Our Predictions for Pop Culture, Each Other, & Charlotte.

episode 52 – So Long 2023 the boys Play “the Real Game of Life” while we talk Biggest News Stories of 2023 Donald Trump Indicted in Multiple Cases and Multiple Jurisdictions and Multiple Counts Hunter Biden also indicted Wildfires destroy Lahaina on Maui Hamas attacks Israel and Israel goes all out war Supreme Court ethics scandal(s) Supreme Court overturns Affirmative Action House Speaker craziness Titan Sub Explosion George Santos Bud Light Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce (oh my) Craziest News Stories of 2023 Mexican Aliens Mammoth Meatball Las Vegas Sphere Sun Bears in China “That motherfucker is not real” Damar Hamlin Jeremy Renner Vs. Snowplow Highest Grossing Movies of 2023: Barbie $1.4B+ The Super Mario Bros. Movie $1.3B+ Oppenheimer $933M+ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 $845M+ Fast X $704M+ Spider Man: Across the Spider-Verse $690M The Little Mermaid $570M Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One $567M+ Elemental $489M+ Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania $476M+ Transformers: Rise of the Beasts $438M+ John Wick: Chapter 4 $428M+ Best TV Shows of 2023 (Rotten Tomatoes 100%) Invincible (S2) Reservation Dogs (S3) Happy Valley (S3) A Small Light Collin From Accounts (S1) Foundation (S2) Drops of God (S1) Reacher (S2) Cunk on Earth (S1) Primo (S1) The Other Two (S3) For All Mankind (S4) Deadloch (S1) Blue Eye Samurai (S1) Somebody Somewhere (S2) Gremlins: Secret of the Mogwai (S1) Killing It (S2) Scavengers Reign (S1) Best Superhero Movies of 2023 (according to Insider) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 The Marvels Blue Beetle Shazam: Fury of the Gods Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom The Flash Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023 Teen Slang Words Bussin – Something that is really good or delicious. Cap – A lie or exaggeration. Cheugy – Something that is outdated or uncool, especially in a way that is trying too hard to be trendy. Drip – Stylish clothing and accessories. Finsta – A fake Instagram account that is used to post more personal and unfiltered content than a public account. Fleek – On point or looking good. Gas – Something that is really cool or impressive. Goated – The greatest of all time. No cap – For real, without lying. Salty – Bitter or upset. Slaps – Something that is really good or enjoyable. Slay – To do something incredibly well or to look amazing. Sus – Suspicious or untrustworthy. Tea – Gossip or drama. Our Predictions for 2024! Sharing is Caring (Book, restaurant, movie, TV show, article, etc. to share) End on something positive: Top 5 Hardest Celebrity Deaths of 2023 Leslie Jordan Paul Reubens Arleen Sorkin Marty Krofft Matthew Perry R-Take – 1st Half of Reacher Season 2 The boys review the 1st half of the new Reacher season.

In today's addition of "Two Intellectual Idiots Fostering Political and Cultural Literacy" Dan, Corey, and Bel "The Bodysnatcher " take YOU, the disenfranchised or politically homeless sane person into:1) Our review of 2023. What was over-covered and under-covered in the media and the problems with the ways these things were covered in the partisan, corporate-captured media.2) Our Predictions for 2024 and weather or not we got our predictions right for 2023. (HINT: Dan nailed his) AND SO MUCH MORE! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!! IF YOU LIKE: The Free Press Dan Carlin Breaking Points With Krystal & Saagar The Fifth Column Reason Magazine The Reason Round Table The Grayzone Dave Smith's "Part of the Problem" Blocked and Reported NPR Based Politics The Daily Wire StatusCoup The Jordan Harbinger Show The Jimmy Dore Show The Joe Rogan Experience Useful Idiots "Honestly" With Bari Weiss Matt Taibbi Glen Greenwald Aaron Matè Max Blumenthal

Join us, Jason, Miriam, and Maria, as we take a trip down memory lane, reflecting on the gems 2023 has bequeathed us. Let's reminisce about the intriguing insights, our favorite guests, and above all, the episodes on AI that sparked our curiosity and left us in awe. Our very own Maria, our guide in the realm of AI, has done a superb job of demystifying this often-daunting subject, making those episodes an absolute must-listen. As we wave goodbye to 2023, we can't resist but wonder what 2024 holds for us. The potential leaps in marketing, PR, and business development, and their impact on design businesses promise an exciting year ahead. A point of notable interest from our discussions is the pivotal role AI is expected to play in the upcoming year. Do ensure that you catch our 100th episode where guest host Charmaine pulls back the curtains, offering you a glimpse into our personal lives. Tune in and discover more about our interests, passions, and the driving forces behind what we do. Don't miss out on this chance to know us better!Episode referenced in this episode:https://www.designerdiscussions.com/episodes/episode-100-up-close-and-personal-chatting-with-charmaine-takeoverhttps://www.kitchenbathdesign.com/a-year-end-review-of-current-trends/If you would like to get the links and show notes for this episode, click on the link below:https://www.designerdiscussions.com/episodes/episode-104-The-Best-of-2023-and-Our-Predictions-for-2024About Designer Discussions Designer Discussions is an educational interior design podcast on marketing, PR and related business topics. We also provide in-depth, actionable products in the Marketing Studio including time-saving templates and guides to help design professionals grow their businesses. Download our FREE Client Avatar Guide https://designerdiscussionsmarketing.studio/store. Designer Discussions is a partnership of three experts: Jason Lockhart, CEO of KABMS; Maria Martin, founder of DesignAppy; and Mirjam Lippuner, founder of Get Ink DIY.Designer Discussions Academy is a cutting-edge membership program exclusively for interior designers & remodelers. Each month, we present a different topic, equipping you with knowledge through comprehensive training and engaging live coaching sessions. Our mission is simple: empower you with strategic marketing expertise that can be applied to your business.Learn more: https://www.designerdiscussionsmarketing.studio/pages/academy...

Join our discord: https://discord.gg/zqz5fVyx7mGet the merch: https://thisdayinaimerch.comTry Agents & Models on SimTheory: https://simtheory.aiIn our final episode for the year, we cover the surprise announcement of Google's Gemini AI models and give our first impressions. We road test Gemini Pro on Bard and discuss the likely impact of Gemini on the market and developer ecosystems. Then it's time for our holiday gift: SimTheory. Now you can use AI agents we mention on the show including our virtual girlfriends, Sports Betting with AI and many more! You can even create your own agents to try different models using the same tools we use to prepare for the show. We then discuss if Ilya is OK and the drama at OpenAI. And finally, we make predictions for 2024 and cover some of Meta's latest announcements.Thanks for watching, listening and all your support through 2023. We really appreciate it and will see you early next year!CHAPTERS:=====00:00 - Google Gemini is Here? Kinda38:48 - Our Holiday Gift: SimTheory: Virtual Girlfriend, Sports Betting with AI Agents51:15 - Is Ilya OK? Is GPT-4 Slowness About Cost Reductions?56:26 - NexusRaven-V2-13B for function calling: is this the future of specialized fine tune models?1:00:14 - Our Predictions for AI in 20241:12:54 - Meta announces AI Alliance for AI Openness + Updates to Meta AI Characters and SeamlessExpressive1:15:43 - Final thoughts and thank youSOURCES:=====https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/https://twitter.com/tunguz/status/1732444203437695387https://twitter.com/tunguz/status/1732444203437695387https://twitter.com/tunguz/status/1732444203437695387https://twitter.com/tunguz/status/1732444203437695387https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/early-impressions-of-googles-gemini-arent-great/https://twitter.com/clementdelangue/status/1732138699901809042https://huggingface.co/Nexusflow/NexusRaven-V2-13Bhttps://twitter.com/abemurray/status/1732723510810759369https://ai.meta.com/blog/ai-alliancehttps://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/metas-ai-characters-are-now-live-across-its-u-s-apps-with-support-for-bing-search-and-better-memory/https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/meta-ai-adds-reels-support-and-reimagine-a-way-to-generate-new-ai-images-in-group-chats/https://seamless.metademolab.com/expressivehttps://twitter.com/mattrickard/status/1731889331516936261

We're diving headfirst into the whirlwind that was 2023. Buckle up because this year was like a Netflix series on steroids! We kick things off with the geopolitical rollercoaster—Russia and Ukraine, Canada's political dance with India, and the emergence of a new reserve currency gang including Russia, China, Brazil, India, and South Africa. The world economy played peek-a-boo with recession and inflation, while artificial intelligence, especially Chat GPT, was the talk of the digital town. And hey, did you catch King Charles on the global stage? It's like watching a royal soap opera unfold! Climate change threw its weight around, but amidst the chaos, Elon Musk decided to play social media superhero by snatching Twitter and giving it a SpaceX-level makeover. Meanwhile, Instagram threads became our new addiction, and wildfires decided to paint both Canada and the US in shades of red. As the curtain fell on 2023, we bid farewell to some legendary figures. From the soulful Sinead O'Connor to the eternal Tina Turner, and let's not forget the ever-charismatic Matthew Perry. The list is a tear-jerker, including Jerry Springer, Angus Cloud from 'Euphoria,' and the iconic Raquel Welch. In the realm of discoveries, 2023 gifted us Ozempic+ and a rendezvous with extraterrestrial friends. Oh, and did we mention Harry's new book, 'Spare,' and Elon's autobiography? It's like the universe decided to drop its own version of cosmic Easter eggs. From laminated eyebrows to running shoes becoming the new fashion statement, 2023 had its own style revolution. And speaking of revolutions, 'Succession,' 'The Bear,' and 'Love is Blind' held us hostage on our couches. Don't even get us started on the movie lineup—Super Mario Bros, Barbie, and a prequel to the Hunger Games? Take our money! Love was in the air as Channing Tatum and Zoë Kravitz made it official, and Paris Hilton took the surrogate route to mommy-hood. And Kim Kardashian and Tom Brady? We're still scratching our heads on that one. Before we wrap up this rollercoaster of a year, let's crunch some numbers. Google processed a mind-boggling 8.5 billion searches every day, WhatsApp users exchanged a whopping 65 billion messages, and if you wanted to download all the internet's data, you'd need approximately 181 million years. Social media accounted for a third of our online lives—no surprise there! So, what GIF or meme would best capture your 2023? Join us as we laugh, reminisce, and maybe shed a tear for the year that was. Until next time, keep riding the waves of life!

The PlayStation Pals have both beaten Spider-Man 2 so we spend a lot of time gushing about the game, spoiler-free. Nick has gotten stuck in The Dark Place and shares his early impressions of Alan Wake 2. With the slate of big releases cooling down, we can finally talk about the 6 games we think will be nominated for the coveted Game of The Year. Finally we have a battle between two of the prettiest combatants so far, Cloud Strife and 2B! All this and much more in this week's episode! Please vote for who you should win the Battle Royale! Thanks for listening. Intro: Alan Wake 2 4 Things: - Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - Alan Wake 2 - Our Predictions for The Game Awards GOTY Nominations - Video Game Character Battle Royale Outro: Follow You Into The Darkness - Alan Wake 2 2 by RAKEL Questions or comments? Please send emails to playstationpalspod@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @PSPalsPod Subscribe to us on Youtube @PlayStationPals

Thank you for joining Coco Mocoe (@cocomocoe) and Nicky Reardon (@nicky.reardon) for episode 3 of #ShareYourScreen Today, we discuss the meteoric rise of PinkyDoll. The 'NPC' TikTok streamer who started making $7,000 a day on LIVE and has gotten shout outs from celebrities like Elon Musk, Cardi B and Timabland. TIME STAMPS: Introduction 0:00 - 1:20 The Origin of the 'NPC' Trend on TikTok 1:20 - 6:40 The Rise of TikTok LIVE 6:40 - 15:50 Who is PinkyDoll 15:50 - 23:24 The NPC Takeover 23:24 - 28:43 Why You Can't Look Away 28:43 - 32:37 What is next for Pinkydoll 32:37 - 46:18 Our Predictions for Social Media 46:18 - 52:00 But what is the marketing magic behind this trend? And what can streamers like PinkyDoll, and ItzPsyiconic, tell us about human behavior and why audiences gravitate towards some creators over others. Here is the VICE profile they did on Pinkydoll: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ny9/viral-tiktok-npc-streamer-pinkydoll-doesnt-care-what-you-think Listen to #ShareYourScreen on Apple, Spotify or Google Podcasts. Let us know what trending pop culture, marketing or creator trends you want us to talk about in our next deep dive slide show. For business inquiries, email: nickyandcoco@gmail.com #pinkydoll #itzpsyiconic #creatoreconomy #marketing #podcast

MONDAYS ARE BACK!!! EP88 IS OUT NOW CHECK OUT WHAT WE DISCUSSED BELOW! We discussed: -Our Predictions on Ja Morant's punishment (we know the outcome now) -The Impact of Tyler Perry Buying BET & VH1 - Can The Denver Nuggets Repeat? Who Will Challenge the Reigning Champs & More! THE FUNNIEST UNDERGROUND SHOW OUT THERE! Tune in weekly on Monday @10am as we provide Entertainment & Enlightenment, through thought provoking conversation and interviews with a comedic twist! Follow our host: @jefemilli @1yungaj__ @RomeoKojo & @waronwolves Follow us on TwitchTv: InsideWolvesTv - IG: @insidewolves - Twitter: @insidewolves1 - Subscribe On YouTube! Intro & Outro Beat Prod. By TAC 4 Beats Intro - 0:00 Ja Morant's Punishment - 1:09 Can The Denver Nuggets Repeat? Who Will Challenge the Reigning Champs? - 10:37 Break- 22:50 Shannon Sharpe Leaves Undisputed & His Impact on the Show - 22:59 Tyler Perry Buys BET & VH1 - 36:25 Lil Wayne Can't Be Beat in a Verzus? - 44:07 YNW Melly Trial - 53:50 Ending - 1:00:09

-Your Calls -Previewing all of the other Super Regionals and -Our Predictions

Our Predictions for Game 3 of the NBA Finals We Get Some Real NBA Insight from Kane Pitman What Would Steven Adams Do for a Time Out? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Predictions for Game 3 of the NBA Finals We Get Some Real NBA Insight from Kane Pitman What Would Steven Adams Do for a Time Out? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're back with 8 more planes from the new Planechase!   If you know anything about us, it's that we love Planechase. With March of the Machine, we're getting 25 new planes for the variant and we're going to spend the next few episodes getting hype!   Previous Planechase Episodes: Part 1: Planechase is BACK! Our Predictions and Anticipation of NEW Planechase What is Planechase? WHY is Planechase?   HEY! We got a YouTube channel where we'll be uploading our episodes, as well! Check it out and SUBSCRIBE! We might upload the occasional non-episode there as well. Temple of the False Pod on YouTube!   Come bask with us in the casual formats, and may your fifth land always be the Temple.  We are available wherever podcasts are found, so subscribe and leave us a review! It helps us out and drop us a line at falsepodmtg@gmail.com to tell us about your big plays! You can also find us on Twitter: @FalsePodMTG We are: Andy Stocker (@andyweekend) Bruce Richard (@manaburned)

San Diego State, FAU, Miami, UConn are the last four left...Our Predictions in this episode!!

0:00 Intro 1:26 What We're They Thinking??? 6:21 Din Seeking Redemption STILL 12:13 Fanboying over PURRGIL!!! 17:35 Pirate Dogfight 20:23 Bo Katan vs Din Djarin 28:10 What's the Quest? 31:13 Rating This Episode   After almost 2 years, we're back talking about The Mandalorian! AND we've missed this side of Star Wars SO MUCH! We discuss Chapter 17: The Apostate. How do we think this picks up after Book of Boba Fett? Why is Din still seeking redemption from The Watch? GUSHING over canon and Purrgill. And, what's Din's quest? (I'm rooting for living out his like by some hot springs with Grogu). Let us know what you thought of Chapter 17!  Our Predictions episode from 2021: https://youtu.be/YzuIgjNslxA Find us here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/KryptonAlderaan IG: https://www.instagram.com/kryptontoalderaan/ TikTok: @kryptontoalderaan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100065264920665 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kryptontoalderaan Email: kryptontoalderaan@gmail.com Please, also share this show and leave us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening! It would really help us and help people find us! Thanks for listening! We would really like to know how people who are listening feel about the show so, if you could/want to, drop us a line on Twitter, Facebook, and/or Instagram, or at kryptontoalderaan@gmail.com. Give us a like, follow, comment, quick email, tweet, whatever and let us know how we're doing. We'd really appreciate the feedback and it would help us to understand this whole podcasting thing going forward. If you want to take it to the next level, leave us a review wherever you're listening to this. #themandalorian #starwars #starwarsthemandalorian

Our Predictions for 2023 and how successful were our predictions from 2022?All these headlines and more represent our thoughts and views on the world of restaurants, technology and off premise food in our round up of the last week's hot news stories - subscribe today to the Monday Minute and register at www.learn.delivery for more bonus content. Carl and Meredith's 2023 Predictions:1. Leading digital restaurant brands will look increasingly like e-commerce companies2. E-commerce metrics will become critical to managing a great restaurant brand3. Restaurants will start to talk about the percent of sales they spend on technology4. Restaurants demand for technology ROI will combine with the interest rate environment to cause consolidation among technology providers5. 2023 will be a year of normalization for restaurant deliveryFollow us on our socials!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/learn.deliveryInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/learn.deliveryTwitter: https://twitter.com/LearnDeliveryLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/learndeliverySupport the show

In today's episode, What's Coming To Star Wars In 2023 - Our Predictions? The LSR Crew has a fun and Hilarious discussion about what we think is going to happen in 2023. We are going to give a prediction of what we think is going to happen in the shows that are coming out next year. Plus we will get to the What If???, some News, and Rumors, and finish off the show with The Star Wars Impossible Quiz. This is going to be a lot of fun and laughter on the most outrageous Star Wars show. We hope you enjoy today's show. If you liked the show, please give a five-star rating on whatever platform you use to consume your content. It really does help. If possible, share it with your friends and family. It would be greatly appreciated. And don't forget to subscribe to the show. That way you will be notified every time we release a new episode. As always, thank you for spending your time listening to this podcast. For anyone that would like to be a guest on the show, or has any questions about the show. Please do not hesitate to email us. We would love to hear from you. Follow us on our Social Media for more great content. LightSaber Radio Contact Info You can leave us a voicemail at (314) 877-8288 Website www.swaacast.com Social Medias https://linktr.ee/lightsaberradio The story, art, and characters therein are the property of whoever holds the copyright to this material. We do not claim ownership of the source material. This podcast was produced for noncommercial use, to be enjoyed by ourselves, fellow fans, and the original creators as a tribute to Star Wars. Please support the official release. #starwars #starwarspodcast #starwarsfan #themandalorian #maythe4thbewithyou #starwarscelebration #thebadbatch #starwarsday #starwarsvisions #lightsaber #starwarrebels #kenobiTrailer #starwarrebels #starwarsnews #andor --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lightsaber-radio/message

CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro (Suck it, Inter) 1:42 - Juventus v. Inter (2-0) 21:35 - Roma v. Lazio (0 - 1) 30:36 - Atalanta v. Napoli (1-2) 38:18 - Round 13 Results 48:21 - Serie A Table 50:35 - Our Predictions 52:08 - Our Picks for Rounds 14 & 15 58:14 - Champions League Fixtures (February) We really want to hear from you, so please join the live chat via Twitch or YouTube to be a part of the show. Every Monday night at 9pm EST, Tifosi Time is your time to chat Serie A with English-speaking fans.

MG'S Grand Final Preview | Brad Arthur & Craig Gower Join The Show, Our Predictions & One Huge Tattoo Bet!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on The Diamond Duo Podcast, Tom and Tony previewed the trade deadline before it actually came and past! Before everything though, Tony had to settle a lost bet to Tom (once again)! This time, to the musical genius that is Joe Pesci! Back to the subject at hand, due to recording on 7/31, the duo gave their predictions and reasoning as to where many of the most notable players on the market would land by August 2nd! Who ended up with the most correct predictions? Tune in to Episode 35 of The Diamond Duo Podcast to find out! This episode is also dedicated to the GOAT himself Vin Scully, who has passed away at the age of 94. R.I.P Vin Make sure to follow us on Instagram @thediamondduopodcast and on Twitter @DiamondDuoPod for more content and show updates! Timestamps: 5:46 - Tony Settles a Bet with a Musical Number 9:39 - Start of The Done Deals Before the Trade Deadline (as of 7/31) 10:03 - Benintendi to the Yankees (Pugliese's Paisan) 13:27 - Another NY Deal… For the Mets 15:33 - Joe Musgrove and Daniel Bard Sign Extensions 18:55 - Luis Castillo Moved For a Massive Haul 23:48 - Start of Our Predictions and Where Guys Ended Up 24:38 - Juan Soto 30:51 - Frankie Montas 35:23 - Willson Contreras and Ian Happ 41:37 - Noah Syndergaard and Shohei Ohtani 48:37 - Josh Bell 50:34 - Carlos Rodon 54:33 - Brandon Drury 58:06 - Jose Quintana 1:00:44 - J.D. Martinez 1:03:19 - Tyler Mahle 1:06:19 - Trey Mancini 1:10:23 - Pablo Lopez 1:14:07 - Whit Merrifield 1:17:28 - Martin Perez 1:20:58 - Joc Pederson 1:23:33 - Joey Gallo 1:28:15 - David Robertson 1:34:43 - A Tribute to Vin Scully Song Played in Episode: "Wise Guy" by Joe Pesci from his album "Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just For You" 1998

In this episode Will and I discuss all things rally scoring. What is it, Major League Pickleball using it, the advantages and disadvantages and much more.Show notes:0:00 - Intro0:46 - What is it?4:08 - How does Major League Pickleball do Rally Scoring?19:53 - Scoring Right Now is Way More Confusing28:53 - The Rally Score Serving Problem34:02 - Advantages and Disadvantages of Rally Scoring53:58 - Our Overall Thoughts on Rally Scoring1:02:35 - Our Predictions if Pickleball Switches to Rally ScoringChris Socials:YouTubeInstagramFacebookWill Socials:YouTubeInstagram

What is This Episode- Top of Show . Updates - 3:58 (Avatar 2, Amsterdam Get Titles; Netflix Buys; Decision To Leave Finds a Home) . 100% ACCURATE WAY TOO EARLY OSCAR PREDICTIONS: Craft Convictions - 7:19 (Our Predictions on VFX, Original Song, Cinematography, and more!) . Original Screenplay - 18:06 Adapted Screenplay - 21:43 Animated Feature - 27:10 Supporting Actress - 30:45 Supporting Actor - 38:25 Lead Actor - 45:55 Lead Actress - 56:35 Best Director - 1:05:11 Best Picture - 1:12:57 . . Where To Find Our Work/LEAVE US 5* REVIEWS! - 1:26:28 Words of Wisdom/What's Coming Next - 1:27:41

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This is the audio-only version of the livestream covering President Biden's State of the Union address. The livestream for this discussion can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC88pcKsKtM&t=9390s It's another crossover!!! Ryan is joined by Ken from Taboo Topic as we watch and comment on President Biden's first State of the Union Address. This is a looooong one but well worth your time! (Timestamps for all the content can be found below). Watch us react and comment in real time during the address, then stay for a discussion about all of Biden's main points as we fact-check, dispute, and add our own thoughts to them one by one. ______________________Content Timestamps______________________ 0:00 - Countdown 0:11 - Intro 4:10 - Our Predictions for the Address 33:39 - Start of Biden's Address 1:39:51 - Initial Reactions 1:42:03 - Ukraine/Russia 1:45:28 - Oil/Gas prices 1:46:50 - The American Rescue Plan 1:49:31 - Economic Policy 1:56:50 - FUND the Police 2:05:52 - Voting Rights 2:09:22 - Afghanistan 2:14:47 - SECURE the Border 2:35:08 - Paycheck Fairness Act 2:36:05 - Ryan DESTROYS the pay gap MYTH 2:49:20 - Big Picture/Overall thoughts 2:56:32 HOT TAKES!! 3:03:54 - Outro You can find more of Ken's show Taboo Topic here: https://linktr.ee/kengine296 We livestream our recordings Saturdays at 12 pm central--Come hang out! You can join from our Youtube channel, Facebook page, or twitch stream. Follow us on our social medias to stay up to date! Instagram: @between_the_liars https://www.instagram.com/between_the_liars/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pantsonf1re Twitter: @betweentheliars

This is the audio-only version of the livestream covering President Biden's State of the Union address. The livestream for this discussion can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC88pcKsKtM&t=9390s It's another crossover!!! Ryan is joined by Ken from Taboo Topic as we watch and comment on President Biden's first State of the Union Address. This is a looooong one but well worth your time! (Timestamps for all the content can be found below). Watch us react and comment in real time during the address, then stay for a discussion about all of Biden's main points as we fact-check, dispute, and add our own thoughts to them one by one. ______________________Content Timestamps______________________ 0:00 - Countdown 0:11 - Intro 4:10 - Our Predictions for the Address 33:39 - Start of Biden's Address 1:39:51 - Initial Reactions 1:42:03 - Ukraine/Russia 1:45:28 - Oil/Gas prices 1:46:50 - The American Rescue Plan 1:49:31 - Economic Policy 1:56:50 - FUND the Police 2:05:52 - Voting Rights 2:09:22 - Afghanistan 2:14:47 - SECURE the Border 2:35:08 - Paycheck Fairness Act 2:36:05 - Ryan DESTROYS the pay gap MYTH 2:49:20 - Big Picture/Overall thoughts 2:56:32 HOT TAKES!! 3:03:54 - Outro You can find more of Ken's show Taboo Topic here: https://linktr.ee/kengine296 We livestream our recordings Saturdays at 12 pm central--Come hang out! You can join from our Youtube channel, Facebook page, or twitch stream. Follow us on our social medias to stay up to date! Instagram: @between_the_liars https://www.instagram.com/between_the_liars/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pantsonf1re Twitter: @betweentheliars

With The Game Awards 2021 right around the corner, we make our official predictions for all 30 categories! Watch The Game Awards live with us on December 9th at 7:15PM Eastern at Twitch.TV/GoodnightGroofs! Gaming news, trivia, discussion, and more! Game Groofs is the weekly all-encompassing video game podcast from the Goodnight Groofs! Get this show 2 days early at https://www.patreon.com/goodnightgroofs Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:26 - Peak of the Week 7:41 - Trending Topics 10:52 - Our Predictions for The Game Awards 2021 1:46:24 - The Groof Awards 1:48:29 - Outro Goodnight Groofs is an independent media production team focused on creatively providing commentary on the video game landscape, and tangentially-related areas of pop culture, with enthusiasm, unapologetic authenticity, and diverse thinking for a massively underserved gaming community that deserves such honest, genuine, and fun content. Visit https://goodnightgroofs.com/ for all of our content! Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodnightGroofs

NFL Week 6 Upset Picks + World Series Predictions ft. Ryan Mountcastle of the Baltimore Orioles | Episode 7Calling Our Shot Podcast is back for it's 7th Episode. Today, Austin, Logan and Sam are joined by a special guest, Ryan Mountcastle of the Baltimore Orioles. We talk football giving our biggest takeaways from Week 5 as well as our Week 6 upset picks. We talk about Thursday Night Football, Our Predictions for the upcoming NBA Season and who we think wins the World Series this season. Subscribe to the channel if you are new, and click that like button!Time Stamps:0:00 Intro1:17 Ryan's Biggest Takeaway: Ravens4:10 Logan's Biggest Takeaway: Cowboys6:03 Austin's Biggest Takeaway: Browns vs. Chargers7:04 Sam's Biggest Takeaway: AFC West10:10 Early MVP Picks10:11 Kyler Murray11:01 Justin Herbert11:45 Josh Allen12:50 Tom Brady17:30 Week 6 Upset Picks22:22 Taylor Heinicke vs. Ryan Tannehill in Fantasy24:20 Ryan's Week 6 Upset Pick26:50 Austin's Week 6 Upset Pick30:55 Ravens vs. Chargers Predictions35:23 Cardinals vs. Browns Predictions37:20 Thursday Night Football: Bucs vs. Eagles Predictions43:08 NBA 2021-2022 Predictions48:45 World Series Predictions56:40 Ryan's Message to the FansSend us your questions in the comments or on Twitter @CallingOurShot and we will answer them next week.Download the Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & more here: https://callingourshot.buzzsprout.com/New Podcasts Every Wednesday at 10AM EST!Join Our Sports Betting Discord!: https://discord.gg/C9gMv4mFKz

Deandre Jordan to the Lakers, Paul Pierce Talks ESPN, Dennis Rodman, Our Predictions for Bottom Teams Making the Playoffs, and MORE

The familiar panels counterpart voice has reemerged albeit he wants to blame me for his injuries. lets get into it! Our Predictions are made into fruitions as federal mandates were for placed for on federal employees and contractors to be vaccinated . President Biden issued the directive on Wednesday's televised speech. It is unclear wether our military personnel are apart of that directive but we will study get out information and have it readily available in our next broadcast.

Our Predictions of All 30 Picks of the 2021 NBA Draft

Welcome to The Doctor Who: Alhambra Podcast, our Doctor Who centric podcast that discusses the recent DW and Big Finish news, reviewing Doctor Who audios from Big Finish, both classic and new series Doctor Who episodes, and much more! In this podcast, Brett, Liam, Legeon, and Humphrey discuss the results from the Radio Times "Top 5 Sixth Doctor Main Range" survey.  Also, Brett goes solo and reviews the Titan Comic Missy #2. Thank you for listening and downloading the podcast! If you don't subscribe, please think about subscribing to where ever you listen to podcasts.  Thank You! Episode 183 Synopsis and Intro  - 00:00:00 Radio Times Top 5 Sixth Doctor Main Range List and Discussion  – 00:01:31 Our Top 5 Sixth Doctor Main Range List and Discussion  – 00:07:38 Our Predictions for the Radio Times Seventh Doctor list and other speculations  – 00:21:12 Titan Comics: Missy Issue #2 review - 00:32:09 Conclusion, Contact Info, Closing, & Copyright - 00:53:26 *** We invite you to send us emails or DMs to discuss and react to regarding our our show, pose questions about our thoughts, revisit previous takes, or perhaps you have an original take that you would like to share...whatever it is, we'd love to hear it!   PLEASE Email the show at: alhambraaudio@gmail.com or Send the show a message or a DM on Twitter to the podcast @AlhambraPodcast.   Visit our website: AlhambraPodcast.weebly.com The Intro/Outro Music "Revolve" is performed by HisBoyElroy

Restaurant announcements are everywhere in Nashville as one new food hall opens downtown and announcements are made with an East Nashville concept. Plus, will this be a record breaking year for Nashville tourists?Become a subscriber! Visit us at https://www.patreon.com/nashvilledailyTake a Tour With Us! Use code NASH for 20% off - https://xplrtours.com/TEXT US: 615-392-1358Today's Sponsor: Screened ThreadsUse the Code "NashvilleDaily" for 10% off online and in-storehttps://screenedthreads.com/Nash NewsNashville COVID-19 Responsehttps://www.asafenashville.org/Updates for The Washhttps://fox17.com/news/local/former-car-wash-in-east-nashville-to-transform-into-dining-spot-with-6-restaurants-micro-kitchens-two-peruvian-chefs-soy-cubano-poki-tootsie-lous-tacos-esp-bay-6-bar-pandemic-recovery-gallatin-mckennie-ave?fbclid=IwAR2snECb-0MFCqWOi77-oHuHS-bidOnbrwCeNogWFlpzSkKIUKSX7rOxOoAAssembly Food Hall: Here are 13 new restaurants coming to Fifth + Broadway's dining destinationhttps://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2021/05/18/assembly-food-hall-13-new-restaurants-coming-fifth-broadway/5143911001/Our Predictions for people visiting Nashville in 2021Statistics & Facts | Visit Nashville TNhttps://www.visitmusiccity.com/explore-nashville/about/statisticsNashville sets record for number of tourists in 2019https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville-sets-record-for-number-of-tourists-in-2019/Local Artist Feature - Warren GarrettFirst Timehttps://open.spotify.com/track/4dMJ8DWSJ67nnLlx5eU0Xo?si=DpiSFiJvS7qJ5z-ZP1gOEwhttps://www.warrengarrettmusic.com/Nashville Daily Artist of the Day Playlisthttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/51eNcUWPg7qtj8KECrbuwx?si=nEfxeOgmTv6rFUyhVUJY9AFollow us @ XPLR NASHWebsite -  https://nashvilledailypodcast.com/YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/xplrnashInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/xplr.nash/Twiter - https://twitter.com/xplr_nashNASHVILLE & XPLR MERCH - http://bit.ly/nashville_merchMedia and other inquiries please email hello@xplr.lifeArtists can submit songs to be featured here https://forms.gle/mtkxUCFds7g9e2466

Our Predictions for the AL East & NL East are out! Dak finally gets paid & Dallas keep their franchise QB. NBA all star weekend comes to an end, the o bros break it all down & much more from this past week.

M+K finish the first epic series of season four and bond over the power of storytelling. Plus, That Indescribable Book Feeling; Death Claims Everyone Before Helene; K Tries to Quit Her Job to Become a Full-Time Bard; and Our Predictions for the Next Wave of Storytelling Technology.

We're back to recap and discuss episodes 4 through 7 of WandaVision on Disney+! First, we start out be reveling in how good the show is, debating if binging a show is good or bad, then get into the previous episodes and predict how it's all going to end! David thinks the big bad is still lurking out there. Rick thinks the whole world will change. All that and more! (1:53) WandaVision is SO GOOD! (8:04) To Binge or Not to Binge (19:57) Recapping Episodes 4-7 of WandaVision (43:08) Our Predictions for the End and Beyond Don't forget to Follow The Popcorn Diet: Twitter - http://bit.ly/TPDtwitter Facebook - http://bit.ly/TPDfacebook Instagram - http://bit.ly/TPDinstagram Patreon - http://bit.ly/TPDPatreon Find all of our latest episodes, reviews, articles, and more on our website https://www.popcorndietpodcast.com/

**SPOILERS ALERT** Leo and Augusto discuss that fantastic episode 5 of WandaVision! That Ending! Our Predictions for Episode 6! And talking about the new trailer for Falcon and Winter Soldier --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/say-no-more3/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/say-no-more3/support

2021 Predictions Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the eighth episode of Grocery Guru: Good Riddance 2020! Our Predictions for 2021… You Can Read the Full 2021 Predictions Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Welcome to episode 10, with the Grocery Guru that is Andrew Grant. How are you? Andrew Grant: Hello Darren. Yes, Merry Christmas. Darren A. Smith: Merry Christmas to you. We’re the 17th December, not long until the big one, until the big, fat man comes. Andrew Grant: Yeah. One week, one week, six nights, seven nights, something like that. Yeah. Darren A. Smith: Seven nights. All right. In this episode we said that we would talk about predictions for ’21, trying to put 2020 behind us with a big boo and a mask. Andrew Grant: Yeah. No. Absolutely. I mean, obviously, it’s been a pretty horrible year… everybody around the planet. We won’t be doing this again until it is 2021. So yeah, farewell 2020, won’t be missed. What’s 2021 going to look like? I’ve been thinking of a few things that may or may not happen. I don’t know about you if you have any predictions? Darren A. Smith: Well, I’ve got a few predictions, so I’m going to share my first one with you. I’ve got a few and I’m sure you have too. I’m going to predict that the title of the national account manager is going to be wiped. What I mean by that is national account managers traditionally looked after the account, looked after the buyer, did the negotiations. I think they’re all going to be turning into shopper insights managers, insights managers, category managers. I think it’s going to go. Andrew Grant: And NAM becomes a SIM. Darren A. Smith: And NAM becomes a SIM, yes. Andrew Grant: I think we talked about that last week, didn’t we? Absolutely. I think you said that any national account manager that’s been [inaudible 00:03:19] months and maybe is slightly worried about his or her future, the future gets on top of the data. Become an expert at turning that data into insight so that you can sit on Zoom with your supermarket buyers and show them that you know their shoppers better than they do. Darren A. Smith: Like it, like it. All right. That’s my first prediction, call me Nostradamus. What’s yours? Andrew Grant: Mine, I think this is a very, very safe bet of £10 of your money, Darren. I know yo

2021 Predictions Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the tenth episode of Grocery Guru: Good Riddance 2020! Our Predictions for 2021… You Can Read the Full 2021 Predictions Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Welcome to episode 10, with the Grocery Guru that is Andrew Grant. How are you? Andrew Grant: Hello Darren. Yes, Merry Christmas. Darren A. Smith: Merry Christmas to you. We’re the 17th December, not long until the big one, until the big, fat man comes. Andrew Grant: Yeah. One week, one week, six nights, seven nights, something like that. Yeah. Darren A. Smith: Seven nights. All right. In this episode we said that we would talk about predictions for ’21, trying to put 2020 behind us with a big boo and a mask. Andrew Grant: Yeah. No. Absolutely. I mean, obviously, it’s been a pretty horrible year… everybody around the planet. We won’t be doing this again until it is 2021. So yeah, farewell 2020, won’t be missed. What’s 2021 going to look like? I’ve been thinking of a few things that may or may not happen. I don’t know about you if you have any predictions? Darren A. Smith: Well, I’ve got a few predictions, so I’m going to share my first one with you. I’ve got a few and I’m sure you have too. I’m going to predict that the title of the national account manager is going to be wiped. What I mean by that is national account managers traditionally looked after the account, looked after the buyer, did the negotiations. I think they’re all going to be turning into shopper insights managers, insights managers, category managers. I think it’s going to go. Andrew Grant: And NAM becomes a SIM. Darren A. Smith: And NAM becomes a SIM, yes. Andrew Grant: I think we talked about that last week, didn’t we? Absolutely. I think you said that any national account manager that’s been [inaudible 00:03:19] months and maybe is slightly worried about his or her future, the future gets on top of the data. Become an expert at turning that data into insight so that you can sit on Zoom with your supermarket buyers and show them that you know their shoppers better than they do. Darren A. Smith: Like it, like it. All right. That’s my first prediction, call me Nostradamus. What’s yours? Andrew Grant: Mine, I think this is a very, very safe bet of £10 of your money, Darren. I know you

2021 Predictions Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the tenth episode of Grocery Guru: Good Riddance 2020! Our Predictions for 2021… You Can Read the Full 2021 Predictions Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Welcome to episode 10, with the Grocery Guru that is Andrew Grant. How are you? Andrew Grant: Hello Darren. Yes, Merry Christmas. Darren A. Smith: Merry Christmas to you. We’re the 17th December, not long until the big one, until the big, fat man comes. Andrew Grant: Yeah. One week, one week, six nights, seven nights, something like that. Yeah. Darren A. Smith: Seven nights. All right. In this episode we said that we would talk about predictions for ’21, trying to put 2020 behind us with a big boo and a mask. Andrew Grant: Yeah. No. Absolutely. I mean, obviously, it’s been a pretty horrible year… everybody around the planet. We won’t be doing this again until it is 2021. So yeah, farewell 2020, won’t be missed. What’s 2021 going to look like? I’ve been thinking of a few things that may or may not happen. I don’t know about you if you have any predictions? Darren A. Smith: Well, I’ve got a few predictions, so I’m going to share my first one with you. I’ve got a few and I’m sure you have too. I’m going to predict that the title of the national account manager is going to be wiped. What I mean by that is national account managers traditionally looked after the account, looked after the buyer, did the negotiations. I think they’re all going to be turning into shopper insights managers, insights managers, category managers. I think it’s going to go. Andrew Grant: And NAM becomes a SIM. Darren A. Smith: And NAM becomes a SIM, yes. Andrew Grant: I think we talked about that last week, didn’t we? Absolutely. I think you said that any national account manager that’s been [inaudible 00:03:19] months and maybe is slightly worried about his or her future, the future gets on top of the data. Become an expert at turning that data into insight so that you can sit on Zoom with your supermarket buyers and show them that you know their shoppers better than they do. Darren A. Smith: Like it, like it. All right. That’s my first prediction, call me Nostradamus. What’s yours? Andrew Grant: Mine, I think this is a very, very safe bet of £10 of your money, Darren. I know you don’t like spending your money on bets. But Amazon gets added to GSCOP, so the Grocery Code Adjudicator makes Amazon the 14th, I think I would be right, the 14th retailer to be covered by the code. With all this COVID stuff Amazon’s business has just skyrocketed this year, and possibly almost under the radar. But I think 2021 will be the year when the new adjudicator goes, “This is a massive, massive food business now.” We’re also going to have the first Amazon ghost stores, the checkout-less, completely checkout-less electronic stores. They’ll probably open first quarter. And probably just the publicity [inaudible 00:04:39] publicity over those will raise the awareness. So yeah, Amazon to be added to GSCOP. Darren A. Smith: Okay. All right. I think you’re right, to make 14. So that will be Mark White, the new GCA Groceries Code Adjudicator. Andrew Grant: Yeah. If you’re him you’re just coming into that fabled first 100 days, what’s the thing that you can say you’ve done in your first 100 days? Darren A. Smith: Very true. Very true. All right. All right. My prediction- Andrew Grant: I think that’s a good headline. Darren A. Smith: Sorry, go on. A good headline? Andrew Grant: No, a good 100-day headline for him is, “Yeah, I’ve added Amazon to the list of covered retailers.” Darren A. Smith: Very true. Very true. All right. So currently 39% of us buy our groceries online. So that’s 39%, so let’s call it 40%, 4 out of 10 of us are buying groceries online. I’m going to make an easy prediction, 2021 that’s going to topple above 50, which means one in two people are buying their groceries online. Andrew Grant: I can see that by the middle of next year. I mean, the current trend rate we’ll be there April, May time. Yeah. Darren A. Smith: Here’s my bit to add to that. I think what might happen is the shop falls into two, the boring I’ve got the toilet rolls, the kitchen rolls, the washing powder, blah, blah, blah, coming online. But then I want to go out for a sort of a treat, or as we call it in our family, a morsel shop where I buy those little things that are really nice, like king prawns in garlic or something. Andrew Grant: Yeah. Well, I think that will be potentially the saviour of the high street. They’ll order their big shop of toilet rolls and bulky stuff from the online retailer of their choice, but then they’ll want to go to farm shops and independent delis. People do love to get out there and shop. I mean, particularly the Brits, we love to get out there and browse and shop and mingle. I don’t think that will stop, but I think I [inaudible 00:06:46] very first of these that… It’s pretty remarkable that back in 1950, or whatever it was, the first self-service supermarket persuaded us to push our own trolley around a store and do self-picking and self-packing. It’s just crazy when you think back at it. Darren A. Smith: Very true. Very true. All right. What’s your prediction? Andrew Grant: Well, there’s another one linked to that, with your prediction of 50% of people shopping online. Will the world run out of vans? Darren A. Smith: Run out of vans, Transit vans? Andrew Grant: Well, other makes of van are available, but yeah, will the world run out of delivery Transit vans? Because that’s all I see on the roads now is delivery van after delivery van. Darren A. Smith: I saw a lovely viral video the other day of the Hermes driver versus the Amazon driver versus the DPD driver, and what they do differently. And one, let’s say, was a lot more polite and a lot more what you would want than the other. Andrew Grant: Actually, just on that, total aside, but [inaudible 00:07:56] inside the FedEx logo. Darren A. Smith: Yes. You’ve told me about this. Go on. I won’t steal your thunder. Andrew Grant: No, it’s great fun. Look for the arrow between the D and the E, or is it the E and the X, the E and the X in FedEx. There is an arrow pointing forwards, which is obviously is a perfect depiction of what they do. It’s like one of those pictures, once you see the arrow, that’s all you’ll ever see. Right, what’s your next prediction, Darren? Darren A. Smith: All right. Well, I’m going to go for data versus insight. I think as an industry we talk about data and insight an awful lot and people think that they are interchangeable, they’re not. So data might be I buy eight packs or eight bottles of Ghost Ship, one of my favourite beers, every week. That’s data. The insight is the reason I like it is because of its citrusy flavour and because my mate drinks it as well. That’s the insight. Andrew Grant: Okay. Darren A. Smith: So we’ve got to get from data to insight. And over the years, and I’m sure you saw it as well, I was presented lots of data, but no one really took it from, “Okay. Here’s a bunch of numbers, statistics. This is the insight and this is what you can do with it.” And that, I think, has got to come, particularly as 50% of shopping will be online and we’ll get even more data. Andrew Grant: Well, yeah. And that’s where you get some brilliant low hanging fruit. I used to love the sort of data where [inaudible 00:09:23] come along and say, “Look, it’s 60% of your shoppers buy fresh produce from you, but only 30% buy fresh meat.” So if they’re buying your produce, why aren’t they buying your meat? You’ve got an opportunity to double your meat business. And home shopping brings that exactly to life. So if somebody is ordering all their toilet rolls for home delivery, why aren’t they ordering their bleach and their cleaning products and their batteries and their kitchen towel, disposable kitchen towels, all the household stuff? There’ll be some massive insight opportunities in that sort of data. Darren A. Smith: One of my favourite ones is slabs of Heineken. They used to put on there, “Win FA Cup tickets.” But what some bright spark figured out, let’s call a shopper insights manager, a SIM, was that actually, the ladies were buying it for the husbands. So the offer became get a free spa day, Heineken went up. Andrew Grant: Well, there you go. Right. Final prediction from me. Darren A. Smith: Prediction, the final one. Go on. What have you got? Andrew Grant: Asda and convenience stores. Obviously, they’re now owned by those brothers that are preeminent forecourt retailers. Marry that to Asda and it will be interesting to see. I think they’ve got three stores called On the Move already, but it will be interesting to see what a convenience Asda looks like. They’ve tried it in the past, not so easy to go from big-box retailing with all the efficiencies and simplicity to something of 10,000 square feet or less in a city centre with lots of hassle and lots of operational issues. I’m not going to make a prediction as to how well they do or don’t, but I’ll be fascinated to visit some. Darren A. Smith: A much more complex supply chain and management. Okay. We’re up. Andrew, I’m going to thank you for 2020 and your Grocery Guru insight, and we’ll see you in 2021. Andrew Grant: I shall see you on the other side. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Darren A. Smith: Happy New Year. Thank you. Take care. For further tips and information, you can take a look at our Ultimate Guide to Category Management and our Category Management YouTube Channel. Also, check out our award-winning blog to see more Category Management tips and articles.

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On this episode, we make some wild predictions about what is going to happen in 2021! Specifically, we predict what might happen in the world of ecommerce and Amazon. This will be a fun and perhaps controversial episode… so with that, let’s get started! Listen now! Subscribe on iTunes: Listen now on your Apple device Listen now on Android Download … Continue reading "EEP #403 – Our Predictions for 2021"

Hello Internet, Welcome Back to the NCBS Podcast! Today we talk about the Game Awards. Our Predictions on winners of each category, how we feel and what we overall enjoyed about gaming this year. But also what we hated. A lot of what we hated. Enjoy the show! Share it! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ncbs/support

he Sunday Backcap OWL 2020 Week 1 Review. Hey Guys!! We're back with the Sunday Backcap reviewing Opening weekend of the OWL 2020 Season We're going to talk matches, Big plays, Teams, Our Predictions and a whole lot more!!!! This is the Full episode that Aired Sunday, there was a stream glitch that disconnected the stream, we lost a little time (plus us trying to figure it out) but here it is in it's entirety. Thanks to everyone who has checked us out in the past and to all of the new folks here!!Join the conversation below!! let us know what you think!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Streamer friends: (Alexander) imclutchbob: https://www.twitch.tv/imClutchBob Icehamjello: https://www.twitch.tv/icehamjello Streaming Channels Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/overtakeowl Mixer: https://mixer.com/OverTakes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOWNLOAD or LISTEN to us on Sound cloud: https://soundcloud.com/overtakes Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6tP1JMu... Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/o... Join Our Patreon Page!! https://www.patreon.com/Overtakes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OverTake_OWL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OvertakesOWL Discord: https://discord.gg/t6fTrdg Music by CULTIST Check them out at: https://cultistworship.bandcamp.com/

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Episode 269 (1 hr 42 mins 34 secs) As it goes at the end of every year, Jiaming and Albert share what they think are their favorite movies of 2019. Jiaming, Ruthy, and Albert, also announce their predictions for what they think will happen in 2020. Then they have a discussion about season 1 of The Mandalorian. It's the last episode of 2019 for The Stuff And Junk Show, so take a listen, and have a very Happy New Year!!! 00:01:49 - Our Favorite Movies of 2019 00:25:35 - Our Predictions for 2020 01:10:56 - Mid-Credits 01:12:44 - Spoilers Pleeze 232 : The Mandalorian - Season 1 Links Related To This Episode…https://www.whowhatwhereswhy.com/stuffjunk/2019/12/30/269 This episode was produced by Albert VergeldeDios and Jessica LinMore episodes, podcasts, movie reviews, and comic strips, at whowhatwhereswhy.com#stuffjunk

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In this episode Ep.18 We discuss week 2 of the CFB season & What games we are looking forward to week 3. We also talk about week 1 in the NFL as well as AB to the Pats & Our Predictions for week 2‼️ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In the latest episode of our Cricket World Cup special we talk about a week of washouts and look forward to a week of seemingly one-sided matches. Timestamps: 1:37 - Review of last week's matches 17:27 - Our Predictions for next week's games 23:45 - Stats for the tournament so far and our Top 4 PredictionIf you enjoy our content, don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. If you wish to contact us to ask a question or give us some feedback, please do via the channels below: Facebook Page: Cognitive Recalibration Instagram: cognitiverecalibration Twitter: @CRecalibration See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

WE are dropping The Unqualified Collection! CInco De Mayo!! yall make sure to go check it out!! This Episode we discuss the Playoffs, our rights and wrongs.  WE go on KD Tribute because dude is just that good!! Our Predictions for the this second round of the #NBAPlayoffs DeAngelo Russell and his Airport Antcs,. The NBADraft Lottery. ReCap of the #NFLDraft and Tyreke Hill and his Child Abuse Allegations!! #UnqualifiedSPorts  #TheUnqualifiedCollection #GoatMoment #GoatBlooded #GoatmomentCollection #ItsUpThere #FullCourtBully #SlowBucks 

Feedback - Leave us some feedback either by email ThePTRShow@gmail.com On Twitter @ThePTRShow Or if you want to hear yourself on the podcast use the Anchor mobile app and leave us a voice message that we can put in the show! TV Watched OA - Netflix; Dan Finished Season 2 Walking Dead - AMC; Season Finale The Twilight Zone - 1st Episode Free on YouTube Love, Death, and Robots - Netflix; Dan took Brian's recommendation Case Against Adnan Syed - HBO; More of the Serial Phenomenon NEWS/RUMOR MILL Jon Nolan and Lisa Joy signed an exclusive deal to produce shows for Amazon for the next 5 years! The deal is worth 150 million dollars. Disney+ to be released on November 12th for $6.99 per month Hawkeye TV Show with Jeremy Renner in development for Disney+ Movies Watched The Mule Dumbo Serenity Glass NEWS/RUMOR MILL Deadshot will not be part of new Suicide Squad movie, Idris Elba will be playing a whole new character. Child's Play remake; who is voicing Chucky? The Joaquin Phoenix "Joker" Trailer released. Star Wars Episode 9 Trailer released. Our Predictions for Avengers: Endgame --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theptrshow/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theptrshow/support

We hit record for a drive down 76 on our way to the Phillies Vs Nationals (4/10/2019). Our Predictions for the game were dead wrong! 76 was jammed so we bounced on down 476 to 95, and that was jammed too. Jake Finnegan makes his first appearance on the pod, and we almost all agreed the Phils need help with starting pitching and the bullpen, and after the game...well I think we are all in agreement now. We also make Sixers playoff predicitons!

NXT is the name of the game for the only Episode 17 of 1-2-3 Yes! Wrestling there will ever be! Plus Elimination Chamber thoughts and reactions. We also do a deep dive into NXT and how the future is maybe now? Are crowds killing these call ups? That and much more in this weeks jam packed Episode. Enjoy!  Curtain Jerker - 3:22- DX including Chyna are the first nominees in the 2019 Hall of Fame class- Tye Dillinger asks for his WWE release- Chris Hemsworth cast to play Hulk Hogan in biopic  Mid Card Wrap Up - 18:00- Elimination Chamber thoughts       - Our Predictions       - Kofi Kingston       - Women's Tag Team Championship- Seth Rollins injury causing major Raw rewrites- Dean Ambrose?- The start of an NXT main roster merging?  Main Event - 50:32- How the NXT stars were handled on Raw and Smackdown. What did we think?- Were these real call ups or the start of something bigger?- The crowds killing momentum of NXT debuts. Join the conversation: Like us: 1-2-3 Yes Wrestling on Facebook Email us: 123yeswrestling@gmail.com Download: Podbean @ YesWrestling Google, Apple, and Spotify podcasts available as 1-2-3 Yes! Wrestling Rate and Review us! 5 Stars! 5 Stars! 5 Stars!

In this episode, Jennifer and I discuss Ring of Honor Death Before Dishonor Results and if our predictions are correct. We also discuss New Japan Fighting Spirit Unleashed, Our Predictions for the event, discussing watching more New Japan Episodes, A Dean Ambrose Heel Turn, The Australia Super Show, and more! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Our Predictions for NXT TakeOver Brooklyn 4 and SummerSlam Follow on Twitter @NewAgeRudo @WalkWithGio

This week we discuss Stand Your Ground laws. Markeis McGlockton (a black man) was murdered by Michael Drejka (a white man) in a convenience store parking lot over a parking dispute. Markeis' girlfriend Brittany Jacobs and their children were waiting in their car, parked in a handicapped parking spot when Drejkas approached them. Drejka started harassing Brittany. The commotion caught Markeis' attention, who came to Brittany's defense by shoving Drejka who appeared to be a threat to his family. After being shoved to the ground Drejka pulled out a gun and shot Markeis in his chest. Markeis was pronounced dead 30 minutes later. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Department refused to arrest Michael Drejka because of Florida's lax Stand Your Ground laws. (0:00) BTS: If Dan were a person of power (scary). (1:22) Introduction. (2:56) Nia Wilson. (4:53) Maurice Rucker. (6:31) Markeis McGlockton. (10:05) Did Markeis do anything wrong? (16:38) Was Drejka the aggressor? (17:34) Could someone have legally killed Drejka? (19:59) Is it illegal to initiate conflict while carrying? (24:01) Ideally what should've happened? (28:51) Our Predictions. (30:11) Louisiana vs. Florida's Stand Your Ground. (35:46) No right to be there. (37:35) Shifting the Burden. (40:17) Mental Health & Owning a Firearm. (43:34) Common Sense Gun Laws. (50:38) Stand Your Ground States. (52:21) White Birthright. (58:11) Dan's Ask an Attorney. (59:51) Stand Your Ground vs. Self-Defense (62:03) Normalizing Negative Police Interaction. (66:05) Ask an Attorney. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/blacklawpodcast/support

Ahead of the 2018 World Cup, Talking Tactics preview Group H. Japan (01:20) - Dan Orlowitz https://twitter.com/aishiterutokyo Colombia (13:55) - Simon Edwards https://twitter.com/SimonEdwardsSAF Poland (26:50) - Christopher Lash https://twitter.com/rightbankwarsaw https://rightbankwarsaw.com Senegal (39:53) - Amadi Thiam https://twitter.com/amadoit__ Our Predictions (57:58) Rate us five stars on Apple Podcasts! http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1127264410 Talking Tactics Special Coup de tête: The Story of Zinedine Zidane & the World Cup https://bit.ly/2DXSMVk Follow Talking Tactics https://twitter.com/TaIkingTactics Intro Music / Tosin K.

Ahead of the 2018 World Cup, Talking Tactics preview Group B. Portugal (00:50) - Cristiano Oliveira https://twitter.com/10CO10 https://twitter.com/BenficaPodcast Iran (13:40) - Pezhman Pars https://www.instagram.com/pezhmanpars https://twitter.com/GolBezan Morocco (25:28) - Jalal Bounouar https://twitter.com/BounouarJalal https://almarssadpro.com Spain (35:57) - Rik Sharma https://twitter.com/riksharma_ Our Predictions (49:28) Rate us five stars on Apple Podcasts! http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1127264410 Talking Tactics Special Coup de tête: The Story of Zinedine Zidane & the World Cup https://bit.ly/2DXSMVk Follow Talking Tactics https://twitter.com/TaIkingTactics Music / Tosin K.

What Happened in Lesfic in 2017 and Our Predictions for 2018 Les Do Books In this episode, Tara is joined by Sheena, founder of The Lesbian Review and The Lesbian Talk Show. They talk about the predictions they had for lesbian fiction trends in 2017 and whether they came true, and make predictions about what’s ahead for lesfic in 2018. You can check out the books mentioned here: Timeless by Rachel Spangler Christabel by Karin Kallmaker Spark by Catherine Friend More info Come talk to us about these books and any other lesfic you’ve been reading lately at our Facebook group, The Lesbian Review Book Club. You can see all of our reviews, top 10 lists and author profiles on TheLesbianReview.com and don’t forget to send your emails, questions and more to Tara@TheLesbianReview.com

Welcome back to day three of E3 2017! Here's part three of our E3 reactions, with part one Sunday night and part two Monday night. In this episode, the Prof (@profplaysgames) and the Dev (@summerspeak) discuss Nintendo, Our Predictions, and Overall E3 Impressions. No outro music today. Sorry!

In the news Our Predictions for WordPress in 2017 Swag for submitting questions Whatcha wearing/drinking Kyle – WC North East Ohio t-shirt  and a  hoodie “Empowered by WordPress” Adam- WC Chicago hoodie + Woo “SHIP IT” shirt, drinking water from WP Engine pint glass Questions What took so long? (referring to us starting this podcast) –…

We're back for a new episode. Today we're discussing part 2 of our last topic.  The last time we discussed our predictions we spoke about eCommerce in general. So today's topic is Our Predictions for eCommerce: Amazon. The subject of Amazon is so in depth that its own episode. On today's episode we'll talk about what Amazon is facing in the next few years, and what sort of reactions a seller might see to that market. Here are today's topics: The inventory issues Amazon appears to be having. The increase in storage fees. The benefits of sellers having warehouses. Amazon's achilles heel and how the competition is exploiting it. The raise of “crap reviews” and why it's becoming a problem. The “Groupon effect” comes to Amazon. Amazon's growing product expansion. How that expansion affects other sellers. Amazon's brick and mortar stores. The customers Amazon have a hard time reaching (or may never reach.) The differences between A, B, and C grade malls. How the mall grade affects brick and mortar availability. The importance of niche marketing in eCommerce. The challenges a newcomer will see in the future. We don't see Amazon going away, but it will adapt to this highly competitive climate. E-Commerce is an evolving business and it is adapting with its market. These are just our opinions and observations, but maybe we will encourage you to form your own opinions and observations. Resources Mentioned Today: Amazon Cuttingboard.com Colorit Icewraps If you have any questions or anything you'd like us to discuss on the podcast please go to ecomcrew.com and fill out the contact form. Also we would really appreciate if you would leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks for listening!

On today's episode we discuss the future of ecommerce. We talk about what we notice in the market right now. We also discuss our future plans for our businesses. This will be a part one on this subject. Part two will focus on our predictions about business on Amazon. The topics we discussed today: Why Amazon's trade deal with China will cause trouble for American manufacturers. The things that Mike thinks will set China back in a “take over.” Signs that retail stores are dying. Automation's role in retail shopping and production. Will Facebook still be king of advertising? How PPC (pay per click) is becoming a unsavory business practice. Why SEO will phase out. Why arbitration sellers will have stricter guidelines and licensing. The reasons we moved away from Amazon and focused on personal selling platforms. Our predictions for Amazon are a whole episode in itself, so tune in for part two of this topic. Our Predictions for eCommerce: Amazon. Resources Mentioned Today: Amazon Color It Cuttingboard.com Icewraps.com If you have any questions or anything you'd like us to discuss on the podcast please go to ecomcrew.com and fill out the contact form. Also we would really appreciate if you would leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks for listening!

Our Predictions for the Big Show. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Kevin Cron and Steve Menendian review Vintage Champs and Eternal Weekend. 0:01:00: Eternal Weekend Summary 0:02:15: Announcements 0:08:00: Congratulations 0:11:00: Our Predictions 0:22:15: Metagame Breakdown 1:08:25: Brian Kelley’s Winning List and the Top 8 1:40:35: Our experience 2:23:15: Rules Complications 2:58:00: Scenarios 3:30:05: Future Podcast Plans and Listener Feedback Total runtime: 3:44:07 Show Notes – […]

Kevin Cron and Steve Menendian review Vintage Champs and Eternal Weekend. Contact us at @ManyInsanePlays on Twitter or e-mail us at SoManyInsanePlaysPodcast@gmail.com. 0:01:00: Eternal Weekend Summary 0:02:15: Announcements 0:08:00: Congratulations 0:11:00: Our Predictions 0:22:15: Metagame Breakdown 1:08:25: Brian Kelley's Winning List and the Top 8 1:40:35: Our experience 2:23:15: Rules Complications 2:58:00: Scenarios 3:30:05: Future...

Pitching Star Trek 13. The 50th anniversary of Star Trek is coming up in 2016. We're also getting the next Star Trek movie that year. In this episode of Standard Orbit, Mike and Drew pitch their ideas for what they would do if they were making this historic movie. Whether the mission continues after or if this is the end of the trilogy, this movie needs to make a statement. What would your hosts want that statement to be? What other anniversary would it most resemble? And what makes a trilogy a trilogy anyway? Find out all this and the etymology of a surprising phrase in this episode!   Hosts Drew Stewart and Mike Schindler   Editor and Producer Drew Stewart   Associate Producer Richard Rutledge, Jr. Production Manager Richard Marquez   Content Coordinator Will Nguyen   Chapters It’s Easy To Pitch Trek (00:04:54) Drew’s Pitch (00:05:48) Mike’s Pitch (00:10:01) What Makes A Trilogy (00:16:58) Our Predictions (00:22:31) Closing (00:27:21)   Send us your feedback! Twitter: @trekfm Facebook: http://facebook.com/trekfm Voicemail: http://www.speakpipe.com/trekfm Contact Form: http://www.trek.fm/contact Visit the Trek.fm website at http://trek.fm/ Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.com/trekfm Support The Network! Become a Trek.fm Patron on Patreon and help us keep Star Trek talk coming every week. We have great perks for you at http://patreon.com/trekfm

Welcome to Hot Lap. Kurt Busch gets in trouble, or does he? Will there be any consequences? Four out of the Chase and Nascar can’t be happy at who’s left? Newman, Harvick, Hamlin and Logano will decide who wins it all at Homestead. Our Predictions

Episode 126 is here! We loved all of the Facebook topic suggestions that you gave us this week, and tried to integrate all of them into this episode. Fan-built, fun, fast, and furious. On the show: • Listener Feedback (12:37) • Beer Therapy (20:32) • Using Animals as Melee Weapons (32:33) • Trivia! (44:14) • The One-Finger Salute (47:07) • Our Predictions for the Elder Scrolls MMO (56:27) • Recommendations (1:06:39) And don’t forget about the Bald Move network meetup, February 1st at 8:00 p.m. at the Avery Brewery in Boulder, Colorado. See all you Rocky Mountain listeners there! Listen up! And feed us back (we’ll put it on the cast) Send us an email Tweet our twitter Face our Book Or give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 360-362-0024 (and we’ll play it on the cast) Thanks for listening!