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Will Page returns to the show for a “state of the industry” episode. In last year's appearance he correctly called out the slowdown in streaming subscriptions, bubbles in web3, and more.Will believes the value of copyrighted music could hit $45 billion annually when the 2022 numbers are calculated — up $5 billion from 2021, which is already an all-time high for the industry.  Another massive shift is glocalisation”: the trend of local music dominating the domestic charts, as opposed to Western artists. This phenomenon isn't just being felt in music, but across every industry, from film to education.We covered both these trends, plus many more. Here's all our talking points: 1:33 Why the music industry is actually worth $40+ billion annually7:03 Physical music sales on the up and up10:47 How publisher and labels split up copyright value16:59 The rise of “glocalisation” will impact every industry34:39 DSP carnivores vs. herbivores 40:23 Why video vs. music streaming isn't a perfect comparison 46:31 Music as a premium offering in the marketplace 51:38 How to improve streaming royalties  1:06:05 AI music benefits that goes overlooked 1:10:07 Will's latest mix pays homage to Carole KingGlocalisation report: https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/Assets/Documents/LEQS-Discussion-Papers/EIQPaper182.pdfWill Page's 2023 Believe in Humanity:https://www.mixcloud.com/willpagesnc/2023-believe-in-humanity/Listen: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | SoundCloud | Stitcher | Overcast | Amazon | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | RSSHost: Dan Runcie, @RuncieDan, trapital.coGuest: Will Page, @willpageauthorThis episode is sponsored by DICE. Learn more about why artists, venues, and promoters love to partner with DICE for their ticketing needs. Visit dice.fmTrapital is home for the business of hip-hop. Gain the latest insights from hip-hop's biggest players by reading Trapital's free weekly memo. TRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Will Page: I put so much emotional time and effort into making these mixes happen and going out for free.They get your DJ slots, but more importantly, it goes back to what makes me wanna work in music, which was a lyric from Mike G and the Jungle Brothers from that famous album done by the forties of Nature, where he said, it's about getting the music across. It's about getting the message across. It's about getting it across without crossing over.How can I get art across an audience without delegating its integrity? And it's such an honor to have this mixed drop in this Friday I mean, that's, made my year and we're not even into June yet.[00:00:30] Dan Runcie Intro: Hey, welcome to the Trapital Podcast. I'm your host and the founder of Trapital, Dan Runcie. This podcast is your place to gain insights from executives in music, media, entertainment, and more who are taking hip hop culture to the next level.[00:00:56] Dan Runcie Guest Intro: Today's episode is all about the state of the music industry, and we're joined by the One and Only, Will Page. He is a fellow at the London School of Economics. He's an author of Tarzan Economics and Pivot, and he is the former chief economist at Spotify. Will's second time on the podcast. Now, the first time we talked all about the future of streaming and where things are going in music, and we picked that conversation, backed up.We talked about a bunch of trends including the glocalisation of music, which is from a new report that Will had recently put out. We also talked about why he values the music industry to be close to a 40 billion industry, which is much higher than a lot of the reports about recorded music itself.And we also talk about a bunch of the topics that are happening right now, whether it's ai, how streaming should be priced, the dynamic between record labels and streaming services, and a whole lot more love. This conversation will always brings it with these conversations, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Here's our chat.[00:02:00] Dan Runcie: All right, today we have the one and only Will Page with us who is recording from a beautiful location. I don't know if you're listening to the pod you can't see, but will tell us where you are right now.[00:02:09] Will Page: So great to be back like a boomerang on Trapital. Dan, and I'm coming to you from the Platoon Studios. Part of the Apple Company Platoon is our label services company, which is owned by Apple. They're doing great stuff with the artists like Amapiano music from South Africa. And the best place I can describe to you here, it's like a Tardus.Have you've ever seen Dr. Who? There's a tiny door in this tall yard music complex in North London just behind Kings Cross. When you enter that tiny door, you enter this maze of the well class spatial audio recording studios of Apple. And it's an honor they've given me this location to come to Trapital today.[00:02:41] Dan Runcie: Well we're gonna make the best of it here and it's always great to have you on, cuz Last year, last year's episode felt like a state of the industry episode, and that's where I wanna start things off this year with this episode.A couple months ago, you put out your post in your Tarzan economics where you said that this industry is not a 2020 5 billion industry, the way others say. Mm-hmm. You say, no, this is almost a 40 billion industry. So let's break it down. How did you arrive there and what's the backstory?[00:03:12] Will Page: I get goosebumps when you say that you think like 10 years ago we were talking about a 14 billion business and now it's a 40, you know, skews a slurred Scottish pronunciation, but let's just be clear from one four to four zero, how did that happen?Well the origins of that work, and you've been a great champion of it, Dan, is for me to go into a cave around about October, November and calculate the global value of copyright and copyright is not just what the record labels publish, that famous IFPIGMR report that everyone refers to, but it's what collecting studies like ask F and BMI collect what publishers generates through direct licensing.You have to add A plus B plus C labels, plus collecting societies plus publishers together. Then the complex part, ripping out the double counting and doing all the add-backs, and you get to this figure of 39.6 billion, which as you say, you round it up, it begins with a four. And I think there's a few things that we can kind of get into on this front.I think firstly we should discuss the figure. I'll you a few insights there. Secondly, I think we should discuss the division. And then thirdly, I want to cover the physical aspect as well. So if you think about the figure, we've got 39.6 billion. We know it's growing. I think what's gonna be interesting when I go back into that cave later this year to redo that number, it's gonna be a lot bigger.Dan, I'll see it here on Trapital First. I think a 40 billion business in 2021 is gonna be closer to a 45 billion business in 2022. And one of the reasons why it's not labels and streaming, it's a combination of publishers are reporting record collections, essentially they're playing catch up with labels, booking deals that perhaps labels booked a year earlier.And collecting studies are gonna get back to normal after all the damage of the pandemic. And when you drive those factors in where you have a much bigger business than we had before. So for the people listening to your podcast who are investing in copyright, this party's got a waiter run. You know, don't jump off the train yet cause this thing is growing[00:05:18] Dan Runcie: And the piece I want to talk about there is the publishing side of this. If you look at the breakdown of the numbers you have, the publishing is nearly, publishing plus is nearly 13 billion itself. The major record labels own most of the largest publishers right now. Why isn't this number just automatically included? Wouldn't it be in everyone's advantage to include the fact that yes, Universal Music Group and Universal Music Publishing Group are together, part of the entity that make this, whether it's them, it's Warner Chapel, it's others. Why isn't this just the top line number that's shared in all of the other reports?[00:05:56] Will Page: It would be nice if it was, and indeed, I think the publishing industry around about 2001 used to do this. They haven't done it since. But it's like spaghetti. It's the best way I can describe it. I mean, how do you measure publisher income? You know, is it gross receipts by the publisher? Is it the publisher plus the collecting Saudi? That is money that went straight to the songwriter and didn't touch the publisher. So what the publisher holds onto what we call an industry, a net publisher, shares all these weird ways of measuring this industry that we have to be clear on.And it's, not easy. but I think what we do in the report is we try and make it bite size. We try and make it digestible to work out how much of that publisher's business came through, CMOs, the S gaps and BMIs this X over here PS music and how much do they bring in directly? And that allows you to understand a couple of things.Firstly, how do they compare vi to vis labels in terms of their overall income? And secondly, how do they compare when they go out to market directly, let's say putting a sync and a TV commercial or movie versus generating money through collective licensing that is radio or TV via ASCAP or bmr. So you get an interpretation of how these publishers are making those numbers work as well.[00:07:03] Dan Runcie: That makes sense. And then when we are able to break it down, we see a few numbers that roll up into it. So from a high level, at least what you shared from 2021, we have that 25.8 billion number from the recorded side. So that does fall in line with what we see from what the IPIs and others share. 10 billion Sure.From the publishing. And then you do have, the next 3.5 and then a little sliver there for royalty free and for the publishers' direct revenue that doesn't come from the songwriters. The next piece though, within the elements of how all of the revenue flows into that. We've talked a lot about streaming and we've talked, we'll get into streaming in a little bit, but I wanna talk about the physical side cause that was the second piece that you mentioned.We've all talked about vinyl, but it's not just vinyl. So could you talk a bit about where the trends are right now with physical sales and why this is such a huge factor for this number?[00:07:56] Will Page: Who would've thought on a Trapital podcast in May, 2023. We'll be talking about physical as a second topic on the agenda, but it's worth it. I mean, it's not a rounding era anymore. It's not chump change. in America, physical revenues largely vinyl outpaced the growth of streaming for the second year straight. It's not as big as streaming, but it's growing faster and it has been growing faster for two years now. That's crazy. Here in the uk the value of physical revenues to the UK music industry has overtaken the value of physical to Germany.Quick bit of history. For years, decades, Germans used to buy CDs. that's fallen off a cliff. They've given up on CDs. Whereas over here in Britain, we've all started buying vinyl again. So the value of vinyl in Britain is worth more than the value of CDs to Germans, that type of stuff you didn't expect to see.And if you go out to Asia, you see the CD market still strong. You've still got people who buy more than one copy of the same cd, of the same band. Don't ask me to explain the rationale for that, but it happens and it moves numbers. But after all this, when the dust settles, I mean a couple of observations, all the data to me is suggesting that 55, 60% of vinyl buyers don't actually own a record player.So I think it was Peter Drucker who said, the seller really knows what they're selling, and I don't think you're selling intellectual property or music cop right here. What we're actually selling is merchandise, you know, Taylor Swift, I got an email from Taylor Swift team saying they've got a marble blue vinyl coming out this week.Now we're talking about vinyl in the same way we used to talk about stone wash jeans, marble blue. This is like the fourth version of the same 11 songs priced at 29 99. Let's just figure that out for a second. I'm willing to give you 10 bucks a month to, access a hundred million songs on streaming services, but I'm also, it's the same person.I'm also willing to give you 30 bucks to buy just 10 of them. This is expensive music and I might not even be listening to it cause I don't even have a record player.[00:09:55] Dan Runcie: This is the fascinating piece about how we're calculating this stuff because the vinyl sales and all of that has been reported widely as a great boom to the industry and it has been.We've seen the numbers and in a lot of ways it brings people back to the era of being able to sell the hard copy of the thing itself, but it's much closer to selling a t-shirt or selling a sweatshirt or selling some type of concert merchant. It actually is the actual physical medium itself. So it'll be fascinating to see how that continues to evolve, how that embraces as well. On your side though, as a personal listener, do you buy any vinyls yourself that you don't listen to, that you just keep on display or?[00:10:34] Will Page: It's like your shoe collection, isn't it? Yes, right. Is the answer to that. But no, I mean, I will say that I got 3000 fi funk records in the house and they're all in alphabetical chronological order.So if they haven't been listened to, at least I know where to find them.[00:10:48] Dan Runcie: That's fair. That makes sense. So let's talk about the third piece of this, and that's the division of this. So you have the B2C side and you have the B2B side. Can we dig into that?[00:10:59] Will Page: Sure. this is, I think the backdrop for a lot more of the sort of thorny conversations happening in the music industry is now, you may have heard that in the UK we've had a three year long government inquiry into our business.We had the regulator turn over the coals, and so there's a lot of interest in how you split up this 40 billion dollar piece of pie. who gets what? And the division I'm gonna talk about here is labels an artist on one side. Songwriters and publishers on the other side as it currently stands, I would keep it simple and say two thirds of that 40 billion dollars goes to the record label and the artist, one third goes to the publisher and the songwriter.Now, when I first did this exercise back in 2014, it was pretty much 50 50, and when you see things which are not 50 50 in life, you're entitled to say, is that fair? Is it fair that when a streaming service pays a record label a dollar, it pays the publisher and the songwriter around 29 cents? If you're a publisher, a songwriter, you might say, that's unfair, cuz I'm getting less than them.I have preferences, issues, and I have any issues with this division. Well, let's flip it around. If you look at how B2B world works, licensing at the wholesale level, let's say you're licensing the bbc, for example, if your song's played on the bbc, you're gonna get 150 pounds for a play. 90 pounds goes to the songwriter and the publisher, 60 pounds goes to the artist and a record label.Now, is that fair? Why does the publisher win in the B2B market? By the record, label wins in the B2C market. And the one, the lesson I want to give your listeners is one from economics, and it's rarely taught university these days, but back in 1938, 1939, in a small Polish town called la. Now part of the Ukraine, ironically, free Polish mathematicians sat in a place called a Scottish Cafe, ironic for me, and invented a concept called Fair Division.And the question they posed was, let's imagine there's a cake and there's two people looking at that cake getting hungry. There's Dan Runcie over in the Bay Area and there's Will page back in Edinburgh. What's the best way to divide that cake up? And the conclusion they came up with is you give Will page, the knife.Aha, I've got the power to cut the cake. But you give Dan Runcie the right to choose which half. Damn, I've gotta make that cut really even otherwise, Dan's gonna pick the bigger half and I'll lose out. And this divider two model gave birth to the subject of fair Division and it simply asked, what makes a fair division fairer?How can I solve a preference? How can I solve for envy? I want that slice, not that slice. I'm unhappy cause Dan got that slice and not that slice. There's a whole bunch of maths in this. We had a third person that gets more complex. But I just wanna sow that seed for your listeners, which is when we ask questions like, why is it the label gets a dollar and the publisher gets 29 cents?There's gotta be some rationale why you know who bets first? Is it the label that bets first or the publisher who commits most? Is it label that commits most marketing spend or the publisher? These types of questions do with risk, often help answer questions of fair division, or to quote the famous Gangstar song, who's gonna take the weight?Somebody's gotta take a risk when you play this game, and perhaps there's a risk reward trade off, which is telling us who gets what Share of the spoils.[00:14:15] Dan Runcie: Let's unpack this a little bit because it's easy to see. May not be fair, but it's easy to see why the record labels get preference on the B2C side because as I mentioned before, the record labels have acquired a lot of the publishers, and especially in the streaming era, they were prioritizing that slice of the pie, their top line, as opposed to what essentially is the subsid subsidiary of their business, the publishing side.Why is it flipped with sync? Well, how did that dynamic end up being that way?[00:14:47] Will Page: That's an anomaly, which is actually blatantly obvious. You just don't think about it. And the way it was taught to me is anyone can record a song, but only one person can own a song. So I think, let's give an example of, I don't know, a Beach Boy song where I could ask for the original recording of that Beach Boy song to be used in the sync.Or I could get a cover band. So let's say I got a hundred thousand dollars to clear the rights of that song, and the initial split should be 50 50. If a band is willing to do a version of it for 10,000, the publisher can claim 90,000 of the budget and get the option. If the record label objects and says, well, I wish you used a master.Well, you got a price under the 10,000 to get the master in. So this kind of weird thing of bargaining power, if you ever hear. Let me scratch that again. Let me start from the top. Let me give you a quick example, Dan, to show how this works. One of my favorite sort of movies to watch when you're Bored and killing Time is The Devil's Swear, Prada great film.And then that film is a song by Seal called Crazy, incredible song, timeless. That guy has, you know, timeless hits to his name, but it's not him recording it. Now, what might have happened in that instance is the film producer's got a hundred thousand to get the song in the movie, and he's looking to negotiate how much you pay for publishing, how much you pay for label.Now the label is getting, you know, argumentative, wanting more and more, and the publisher is happy with a certain fee. Well, the film producer's got an option. Pay the publisher of the a hundred thousand, pay him 90,000, given the lion share of the deal. And then just turn the label and say, screw you. I'm gonna get a covers bant and knock me out.A decent version of it. And this happens all the time in TV films, in commercials, you'll hear covers of famous songs. And quite often what's happening there is you gotta pay the publisher the lion share of your budget and then just cough up some small chains to the covers bant to knock out a version.And then, so just a great reminder, Dan of anyone can record a song, but only one person can own the song that is the author. And that's why negotiating and bargaining power favors publishes in sync over the record labels.[00:16:59] Dan Runcie: That makes sense. And as you're saying that, I was thinking through five, six other examples of cover songs I've seen in many popular TV shows and movies.And this is exactly why?[00:17:08] Will Page: It's always car commercials. For some reason, every car commercial's got cover in a famous song. You think, remember that weird Scottish guy down Ronie Trapital? Yeah. That's what's happened. The publishers pool the rug from under the record label's feet at negotiation table.Another super important observation about the glocalisation trend, Dan, is I'm gonna take one of those 10 countries as our spotlight, Poland. Now the top 10 in Polands or Polish, the top 20 in Poland, or Polish. In fact, if you go to the top 40, it's pretty much all Polish bands performing in Polish, and you could say that's localization.But stop the bus. Most of those acts are performing hip hop, which is by itself a US genre. So perhaps we've got glocalisation of genre, but localization of language and artist. And that's a very important distinction for us to dissect. And perhaps it's for the anthropologist, the sociologist, to work out what's going on here.But it's not as straightforward as it's just local music. It's local music, but it's global genres, which is driving us forward.[00:18:08] Dan Runcie: And that's a great point for the people that work at record labels and other companies making decisions too, because there's been so much talk about hip hop's decline. But so much of that is focused on how this music is categorized and a lot of it's categorized solely on.What is considered American hip hop. But if you look at the rise of music in Latin America, which has been one of the fastest growing regions in the world, most of that music is hip hop. Bad Bunny considers himself a hip hop artist. You just brought up this example of Polish hip hop being one of the most popular genres there.So when we think about. How different genres get categorized, which genres get funding. Let's remember that key piece because hip hop is this culture and it's global, and that's gonna continue. So let's make sure that we are not taking away from a genre that is really one of the most impactful and still puts up numbers if we're categorizing it in the right way.[00:19:04] Will Page: Damn straight. I mean, I think genres are often like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole and in a paper published by London School of Economics, I was honored to use that line that I think I said on trap last time, which is rap is something you do. Hip hop is something you live. Rap could be the genre, hip hop could be the lifestyle.Maybe what those Polish acts getting to the top of the charts of doing is representing a lifestyle, but they're doing it in their mother tongue.[00:19:28] Dan Runcie: Well said. Agreed. Well, let's switch gears a bit. One topic that I wanna talk about, and I actually gave a talk recently, and I referenced you from this term, and its of music, was the glocalisation of music and why this is happening and what it means for Western music specifically in the us. But first, if you could define that term and explain why this is so important in music right now.[00:19:53] Will Page: Well, I'm so excited to be on Trapital talking about this because we are now officially published by London School of Economics, so I'm gonna make my mom and dad proud of me. At last Backstory, paperback of my book, guitars in Economics, retitled to Pivot. Apparently WH Smith's Travel and Hudson Travel said books with economics in their titles Don't sell an airport.So we've rebranded the whole book to Pivot and it's in airports, which is a result. that book, that paperback came out on the 6th of February and that night I was on the BBC one show and they had this great happy, clappy family friendly story. They wanted to bounce off me. They said, Hey, will, Isn't it great that the top 10 songs in Britain last year were all British ex?For the first time in 60 years, Britain got a clean sweep of the top 10 in the music charts. And I said, curb your enthusiasm because we're seeing it elsewhere. The top 10 in Germany, were all German. Top 10 in Italy, all Italian, ditto France, deto Poland. And if you go to Spain, the top 10, there were all Spanish language, but largely Latin American.So it's not just a British thing that we've seen this rise of local music on global streaming platforms. We're seeing it everywhere, cue some gulps and embarrassments live in the TV studio. But I made my point and I came out of that interview thinking. Well that stunned them. It's gonna stu more people.And I said about working on a paper called glocalisation, which with a Scottish accent, it's hard to pronounce. Let's see how you get on with it. Not localization and not glocalisation. Emerging to by definition and by practice glocalisation. I teamed up with this wonderful author, Chris Riva, who'd be a great guest on your show.He did a wonderful blog piece you may have read, called Why is There No Key Changes in Music anymore? It's a really beautiful piece of music writing and there isn't. Nobody uses key changes in the conclusion of songs. And we set out to do this academic study to explain to the world what's been happening in music and why it's relevant to everyone else.And what we saw across 10 European countries was strong evidence of local music dominating the top of the charts in these local markets on global platforms. Now history matters here. We didn't see this with local High street retailers, America, British, Canadian music dominated those charts. We still don't see it in linear broadcast models like radio and television, you know, it's still English language repertoire dominating those charts. But when it comes to global streaming, unregulated free market, global streaming, we see this phenomenal effect where local music is topping the charts. And you know, you look at what does it mean for us English language countries like ourselves?It means things get a little bit tough. It means exporting English language repertoire into Europe becomes harder and harder. Maybe I'll just close off with this quite frightening thought, which is Britain is one of only three net exporters of music in the world. The other two being your country, United States and Sweden.Thanks to a phenomenal list of Swedish songwriters and artists. And I can't think of the last time this country's broken a global superstar act since Dua Lipa in 2017. Dan, we used to knock them out one, two a year. 2017 was a long time ago, and it's been pretty dry since.[00:23:13] Dan Runcie: And that's a great point for the people that work at record labels and other companies making decisions too, because there's been so much talk about hip hop's decline. But so much of that is focused on how this music is categorized and a lot of it's categorized solely on.What is considered American hip hop. But if you look at the rise of music in Latin America, which has been one of the fastest growing regions in the world, most of that music is hip hop. Bad Bunny considers himself a hip hop artist, you just brought up this example of Polish hip hop being one of the most popular genres there.So when we think about, how different genres get categorized, which genres get funding. Let's remember that key piece because hip hop is this culture and it's global, and that's gonna continue. So let's make sure that we are not taking away from a genre that is really one of the most impactful and still puts up numbers if we're categorizing it in the right way.[00:24:07] Will Page: Damn straight. I mean, I think genres are often like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole and in a paper published by London School of Economics, I was honored to use that line that I think I said on trap last time, which is rap is something you do. Hip hop is something you live. Rap could be the genre, hip hop could be the lifestyle.Maybe what those Polish acts getting to the top of the charts of doing is representing a lifestyle, but they're doing it in their mother tongue.[00:24:32] Dan Runcie: Well said. Agreed. This is something that's been top of mind for me as well because technology in general has a way of making regions and making people in particular regions closer together than it does making the world bigger. It's like in, in a sense, technology can make the world seem bigger, but it actually makes it seem smaller, right? And I think that algorithms and bubbles that come from that are another symptom of this.But this is going to have huge implications for Western music. You mentioned it yourself. All of these markets that are used to being export markets, when they no longer have the strength to be able to have those exports, how does that then change the underlying product? How does that then change the budgets, the expectations of what you're able to make? Because if you're still trying to maintain that same top line revenue, you're still trying to maintain those airwaves you have, it's gonna cost you more money to do that, because you can't rely on the few Western superstars that you have to get, that you have to have equivalent of a superstar or at least a middle tier star in every region that you once had strong market share that you could export in.And it's gonna change cost structures. It's gonna change focus. And a lot of these expansions that we've seen of record labels, especially Western record labels, having strong footprints in different regions across the world, they're not just gonna need to have presence, they're gonna need to have strong results.And in many ways, try to rival the own companies that are in those comp, in those regions, the homegrown record labels, because every country is trying to do their own version of this and it's gonna be tight. This is one of the challenges that I think is only gonna continue to happen.[00:26:14] Will Page: You're opening up a real can of worms. I get it. Pardon to your listeners, we're getting excited here. Day of publication, first time we've been able to discuss it on air, but I know I'm onto something huge here and you've just illustrated why just a few remarks. One, some of the quotes that we have in the paper were just phenomenal. We have Apple included in the paper. We have Amazon, Steve Boom, the head of that media for Amazon in charge of not just music, but Twitch audio books, the whole thing. He's looking at all these media verticals. He makes this point where he says, as the world becomes more globalized, we become more tribal. Stop right there, as he just nailed it.What's happening here? It's The Economist can only explain so much. This is what's so deep about this topic. I wanna toss it to the anthropologist of sociologists to make sense of what I've uncovered, but it's massive. Now let's take a look at what's happening down on the street level with the record labels and the consumers. You know, the record labels are making more money and they're devolving more power to the local off seats. You know the headcount in the major labels, local off season, Germany, France, and Vietnam or wherever is doubled in the past five years. It hasn't doubled in the global headquarters. That's telling you something.If you look at how labels do their global priority list, maybe every month, here's 10 songs we want you to prioritize globally. So I had a look at how this is done, and across the year I saw maybe 8, 10, 12 artists in total, and there's 120 songs. There's not that many artists. You think about how many local artists are coming out the gate every week hitting their local labels or local streaming staff, up with ideas, with showcases and so on.Not a lot of global priority. Then you flip it and you think about the consumer, you know, they've had linear broadcast models for 70 years where you get what you're given. I'm gonna play this song at this time and you're gonna have to listen to it. FM radio, TV shows now they're empowered with choice and they don't want that anymore.They want what's familiar. What comforts them. They want their own stars performing in their own mother tongue topping those charts. So this has got way to go. Now, a couple of flips on this. Firstly, what does this mean for artists? And then I'm gonna take it out of media, but let's deal with artists.Let's imagine a huge festival in Germany. 80,000 people now festival can now sell out with just German X, no problem at all. So when the big American X or British X commanded like a million dollars a headlining fee, you wanna go play that festival. That promoter can turn around and say, sorry man, I can't generate any more money by having you on my bill.How much are you gonna pay me to get on stage? Price maker, price taker? You see what happens. And then the last thing, and there's so much more in this paper for your listeners to get to, and let's please link to it and you'll take, I'll take questions live on your blog about it as well, but. There's a great guy called Chris Deering, the father of the Sony PlayStation. Did you play the Sony PlayStation back in the day? Were you're a fan of the PlayStation.[00:29:08] Dan Runcie: Oh, yeah. PS one and PS two. Yeah. Okay.[00:29:11] Will Page: You, oh, so you, you're an OG PlayStation fella. So he's the father of the PlayStation and launching the PlayStation in the nineties and into the nineties. He offered us observation, which is when they launched a SingStar, which was karaoke challenge.In the PlayStation, he says, we always discussed why the Swedish version of SingStar was more popular in Sweden than the English version Science. Intuitive enough. Let me break it down. Gaming back then was interactive music was not, you interacted with your PlayStation, that's why you killed so much time with it. Music was just a CD and a plastic case that broke your fingernails when you tried to open it. That's how the world worked back then and gaming offered you choice. I could try and do karaoke with those huge global English language hits where I could go further down the chart and buy the Swedish version and sing along to less well known Swedish hits. And the consumer always picked the Swedish version. So as a bellwether, as a microcosm, what I think Chris Ding was teaching us was we saw this happening in gaming long before you started seeing it happen with music. 20 years ago when there was interactive content, which gaming was, music wasn't, and consumers had a choice, which gaming offered a music didn't.They went local. Today, Dan, we're dealing with music lists, A interactive, and B offers choice. And what we're seeing is local cream is rising to the top of the charts.[00:30:33] Dan Runcie: And we're seeing this across multimedia as well. We're seeing it in the film industry too. Even as recent as five, 10 years ago, you release any of the blockbuster movies that were successful in the us, almost all of them had some overseas footprint.Some of them definitely vary based on the genre, but they were always there. But now China specifically had been such a huge market for the Hollywood and Box office specifically, but now they're starting to release more of their own high ed movies and those are attracting much more audiences than our export content can one.Two, the Chinese government in general is just being very selective about what they allow and what they don't allow. And then three, with that, that's really only leaving certain fast and furious movies and Avatar. That's it. The Marvel movies are hit and missed depending on what they allow, what they don't allow, and how, and it's just crazy to see the implications that has had for Marvel Studios for everyone else in Hollywood as well.When you think about it, and we're seeing this across multimedia, I think there's a few trends here that makes me think about, one is. Population growth in general and just where those trends are and how different corporations can approach the opportunity. Because I look at Nigeria, you look at Ethiopia, these are some of the fastest growing countries in the world.And you look at the music that is rising more popular than ever, whether it's Amapiano or it's Afrobeats, that's only going to continue to grow. And that's only from a few regions in the huge continent of Africa. So when we're thinking about where success is gonna come from, where that lines up with infrastructure, people have been seeing it for years.But the reason that we're seeing the growth in Africa, the growth in Latin America, the growth in a lot of these markets is this trend of glocalisation and it's only going to increase. So if we're thinking about where we wanna invest dollars, where we wanna build infrastructure in the future, we not just being folks that live in the western world, but also elsewhere in the world, this is where things are heading.[00:32:37] Will Page: Let me come in down the middle and then throw it out to the side. So, Ralph Simon, a longtime mentor of mine, is quoted in the paper and where he's actually gonna moderate the address here at the Mad Festival here in London, which is for the marketing and advertising community here, where he says, what you've uncovered here that headwind of glocalisation is gonna affect the world of marketing and advertising this time next year.That's what will be the buzzword in their head. So if you think about, I don't know, a drinks company like Diagio, maybe they've got a globalized strategy and a globalized marketing budget. When they start seeing that you gotta go fishing where the fish are and the fish are localized, they're gonna devolve that budget and devolve that autonomy down to local offices. So the wheels of localization, this rise of local, over global, they've only just got started, if I've called it right. We're onto something way bigger than a 20 minute read LSE discussion paper. This goes deep, deep and far beyond economics. But then you mentioned as well China, I mean just one offshoot observation there, which is to look at education.If you look at the UK university system, about a third, if not more, of it is subsidized by the Chinese government and Chinese students here. Great for business, slightly dubious in its business, besties, charging one student more than another student for the same product. But that's what we do over here.And I recently, we made a fellow of Edmar University's Futures Institute, which is an honor to me, you know, gets me back home more often. Fine. And I was learning from them that. The quality of students coming from China to study here in Britain and across Europe is getting worse and worse. Why? Cuz the best students have got the best universities in China.They no longer need to travel. So there's a classic export import dilemma of, for the past 10, 15 years, universities have built a complete treasury coffer base of cash around selling higher education to the Chinese. And now the tables are turning. I don't need to send my students to you universities anymore.I'll educate them here. Thank you very much. So, like I say, this stuff is a microcosm. It's got a can of worms that can open in many different directions[00:34:39] Dan Runcie: And it's gonna touch every industry that we know of to some extent, especially as every industry watches to be global to some extent. This is going to be a big topic moving forward.Let's shift gears a bit. One of the terms that was really big for us. That came from our podcast we did last year. We talked about herbivores and we talked about carnivores, and we talked about them in relation to streaming. We haven't touched on streaming yet, and this will be our opportunity to dig down into it, but mm-hmm.For the listeners, can we revisit where that came from, what that means, and also where this is heading? What does this mean for music streaming right now as it relates to the services and competition?[00:35:24] Will Page: Well, when I first came on Trapital, that was in a small Spanish village of Cayo De Suria and I didn't think I'd come up with an expression that would go viral from a small village in Spain to be, you know, quoted from in Canada, in America.And Dan, this is quite hilarious. we have a new secretary of state of culture here in the UK. The right Honorable MP, Lucy Fraser KG, Smart as a whip. Brilliant. And when I first met her, you know what the first thing she said was, I listened to you on Trapital. I wanted to ask you about this thing you've got going called herbivores and carnivores.So right the way through to the corridors of power, this expression seems to have traveled. What are we talking about? Well, the way I framed it was for 20 years we've had these streaming services, which essentially grow without damaging anyone else. Amazon is up. Bigger subscriber numbers. Apple's got bigger subscriber numbers.YouTube and Nancy's bigger subscriber numbers. And then Spotify. Nancy's bigger subscriber numbers. Everyone's growing each other's gardens. That's fine. That's herbivores. What happens when you reach that saturation point where there's no more room to grow? The only way I can grow my business is stealing some of yours.That's carnivores. And the greatest example is simply telcos. We're all familiar with telcos. We all pay our broadband bills. How do telcos compete? Everybody in your town's got a broadband account, so the only way you can compete is by stealing someone else's business. The only way here in Britain Virgin Media can compete is by stealing some of skies.The only way that at and t competes is by stealing some of com. So that's carnival competition. Now, the key point for Trapital listeners is we don't know what this chapter is gonna read like cuz we've never had carus pronounce that word correctly. Carus behavior before. We've never seen a headline that said, Spotify's down 2 million subs and apple's up 2 million, or Amazon's up 3 million and you know, YouTube is down 3 million.We don't know what that looks like. So I think it's important for Trapital to start thinking about logical, plausible scenarios. You kick a one obvious one, which is again, a lesson from the telcos. When we do become carnivores, do we compete on price or do we compete on features? Let me wheel this back a second, you know, we'll get into pricing in more depth later. But downward competition on price tends to be how carnivores compete, and that'll be a fascinating development given that we've not seen much change in price in 22 years in counting or as we saw with Apple, they roll out spatial audio, they charge more for it, they've got a new feature, and they charge more for that feature.So do we see downward competition blood on the carpet price competition, or do we see. Upward competition based on features. I don't know which one it's gonna be. It's not for me to call it. I don't work for any of these companies. I've worked with these companies, but I don't work for any of them directly.But we have to start discussing these scenarios. How's this chapter gonna read when we start learning of net churn amongst the four horseman streaming services that's out there. It's gonna be a fascinating twist, and I'm beginning, Dan, I'm beginning to see signs of con behavior happening right now, to be honest with you.I can see switchers happening across the four, so I think we're getting there in the US and the UK. What are those signs you see? I'm just seeing that in terms of subscriber growth, it's a lot bumpier than before. Before it is just a clear trajectory. The intelligence I was getting was, everyone's up, no one needs to bother.Now I flag, you know, I signed the siren. I'm beginning to see, you know, turbulence in that subscriber growth. Someone could be down one month, up the next month. Maybe that's just a little bit of churn. The ending of a trial period, you don't know. But now for me, the smoke signals are some of those services are seeing their gross stutter.Others are growing, which means we could start having some switching. I can add to that as well. Cross usage is key here. I really hammered this home during my 10 years at Spotify, which is to start plotting grids saying, who's using your service? This person, that person, and next person now ask what other services are they using?And some data from America suggests that one in four people using Apple music are also using Spotify. And one in four people using Spotify are also using Apple Music. Cross usage confirmed. So if that was true, what do you make of that? With a public spending squeeze? With inflation, with people becoming more cost conscious in the economy with less disposable income, maybe they wanna wheel back from that and use just one, not two. And that's where we could start seeing some net churn effects taking place as well. So, you know, imagine a cross usage grid in whatever business you're working on. If your Trapital listeners and ask that question, I know who's using my stuff, what else are they using? Um, that's a really, really important question to ask to work out how this carnivore scenario is gonna play out.How are we gonna write this chapter?[00:40:23] Dan Runcie: This is interesting because it reminds me of the comparisons that people often make to video streaming and some of the dynamics there where prices have increased over the years. I know we've talked about it before to tend to a 12 years ago Netflix was cheaper than Spotify was from a monthly, US price group subscription.And now tough, tough. It's right. And now it's nearly twice the price of the current price point. That it is. The difference though, when we're talking about when you are in that carnival, when you're in that carnival market, what do you compete on? Features or price? Video streaming, you can compete on features essentially because the content is differentiated.If you want to watch Wednesday, that Netflix series is only one platform that you can watch it on. Yeah, you need to have that Netflix subscription, but in music it's different because if you wanna listen to SZA's SOS album, that's been dominating the charts. You can listen to it on any of these services.So because there are fewer and fewer limitations, at least, if your goal, main goal from a consumption perspective is to listen to the music, how do you then differentiate, which I do think can put more pressure on price, which is very interesting because there is this broader pricing debate that's happening right now about why prices should be higher.And we've seen in the past six plus months that Apple has at least raised its prices. Amazon has done the same, at least for new subscribers. Spotify has announced that it will but hasn't yet and this is part of that dynamic because on one hand you have these broader economic trends as you're calling them out, but on the other hand you do have the rights holders and others pushing on prices to increase.And then you have the dynamic between the rights holders and then the streaming services about who would then get the increased revenue that comes. So there's all of these fascinating dynamics that are intersecting with this her before shift to carnivores[00:42:23] Will Page: For sure. Let me just go around the block of those observations you offered us. All relevant, all valid and just, you know, pick off a few of them. If we go back to Netflix, I think Netflix has a, not a herbivore. I'm gonna talk about alcohol here cause it's late in the day in the UK. A gin and tonic relationship with its competitors. That is, if Dan Runcie doesn't pay for any video streaming service, and let's say Netflix gets you in and I'm the head of Disney plus, I say, well, thank you Netflix.That makes it easier for me to get Dan to pay for Disney Plus too. They compliment each other. They are genuine complimentary goods. They might compete for attention. You know who's got the best exclusive content, who's gonna renew the friends deal, whatever, you know, who's gonna get Fresh Prince of Bel Air on?That could be a switch or piece of content too, but when you step back from it, it's gin and tonic. It's not different brands of gin, that's really important technology, which is they've grown this market of video streaming. They've increased their prices and the same person's paying for 2, 3, 4 different packages.If I added up, I'm giving video streaming about 60 quid a month, and I'm giving music streaming 10 and the sixties going up and the music's staying flat. So it's bizarre what's happened in video streaming because the content is exclusive. Back to, how do music carnivores play out again? Could we see it play out in features?I listen to airport cause they've got classical and I listen to Spotify because it got discovered weekly. Is that plausible? Personally, I don't buy it, but you can sow that seed and see if it takes root, as well. I think just quick pause and Apple as well. I think two things there. They've launched Apple Classical. That's a very, very good example of differentiating a product because it's a standalone app like podcast as a standalone app. The way I look at that is you can go to the supermarket and buy all your shopping. You can get your Tropicana orange juice, you can get your bread, get your eggs, get your meat, get your fish or you could go to a specialist butcher and buy your meat there instead. Apple Classical for me is the specialist butcher as opposed to the supermarket, and they're offering both in the same ecosystem. It'd be incredible if they preload out the next iOS update and give 850 million people an Apple classical app.Imagine if they did that for Jazz, my friend. Imagine if they did that for jazz. Just if Apple's listening, repeat, do that for jazz. So there's one example. The other example from Apple is to go back to bundling. You know we talk about 9.99 a month. I chewed your ear off about this topic last time I was on your show.Just to remind your listeners, where did it come from? This price point in pound Sterling, in Euro in dollar that we still pay for on the 20th of May, 2023. It came from a Blockbuster video rental card that is when reps, he got its license on the 3rd of December, 2001. Not long after nine 11, a record label exec said if it cost nine 90 nines, rent movies from Blockbuster.That's what it should cost to rent music. And 22 years plus on, we're still there, ran over. But what does this mean for bumbling strategies? How much does Apple really charge? If I give $30 a month for Apple One, which is tv, music, gaming news, storage and fitness, all wrapped up into one price. Now, there's a famous Silicon Valley investi called James Barksdale.Dunno if you've heard of him from the Bay Area where you're based. And he had this famous quote where he said, gentlemen, there's only two ways to make money in business. Bundling and unbundling. What we've had for the past 10 years is herbivores. Unbundling. Pay for Netflix, don't pay for Comcast. Pay for Spotify. Don't pay for your CDs, fine. What we might have in the next 10 years is carnivores bundling, which is a pendulum, swings back towards convenience of the bundle and away from the individual items. So Apple, take 30 bucks a month off my bank balance. Please take 40. All I want is one direct debit. I don't care about the money, I just want the bundle.And I don't want to see 15 direct debits every month. I just wanna see one. I think that's a very plausible scenario for how the next 10 years it's gonna play out as we shift from herbivores to carnivores[00:46:31] Dan Runcie: And the bundle benefits, the companies that have the ability to do that, right? You can do that through Amazon Prime and get your video, your music, your free shipping or whatever is under that umbrella. You could do that through Apple. You mentioned all the elements under Apple one. Spotify has some element of this as well, whether it's exclusive podcasting and things like that. So you're starting to see these things happen, one thing that you mentioned though earlier, you're talking about going through the supermarket and all of the items that you could get there versus going to the specialty butcher.One of the unique aspects of the supermarket thing though, is that. You go into the supermarket, yes, you can get your high-end Tropicana, or you can get the generic store brand, but you're gonna pay more for that high-end Tropicana because you're paying for the brand, you're paying for everything else that isn't gonna necessarily be the same as the generic one.That may not necessarily be the same quality or the same taste. We're seeing this a bit in the streaming landscape now and some of the debates that were happening. You've heard the major record label executives talk about how they don't necessarily want their premium music. They see their content as HBO level and it's being in a playlist next to rain music, or it's next to your uncle that is playing some random song on the banjo and they're getting essentially the same price going to the rights holders for that song.And in the supermarket that's obviously very different, each item has its own differentiator there, or econ has its own price point there and its own cost, but that isn't necessarily the same thing in music. Of course, the cost of each of those tracks may be different, but the revenue isn't. So that's gonna be, or that already is a whole debate that's going on right now. Do you have thoughts on that?[00:48:21] Will Page: Well, you tossed top Tropicana, let me go grab that carton for a second. It's one of the best economic lessons I ever learned was visiting a supermarket in America cuz it's true to say that when you go into one of your American supermarkets, an entire aisle of that precious shelf space, it's dedicated to selling inferior brands of orange juice next to Tropicana.Just very quickly what's happening there, the undercover economist, if you want, is a bargaining power game. Tropicana knows The reason Dan Runcie pulled the car over, got the trolley, went into that supermarket is to get a staple item of Tropicana and other stuff. By the time it gets to the till, Tropicana could be $5.By the time he gets to till he spent $50. So here, subscriber acquisition cost contribution is really high. They're getting you into the mall. What you do once you're in the mall is anyone's business, but they got you in. Otherwise you would've gone to the deli across the street. So they could say to the supermarket, I'm gonna charge you $7 to sell that Tropicana for $5 in my supermarket.Supermarket knows this, they know that Tropicana's got the bargaining paris. They counter by saying, here's an entire shell space of awful brands of orange juice to curb your bargaining power to see if the consumer wants something different. Now is this Will Page taking a stupid pill and digressing down Tropicana Alley. No. Let's think about this for a second today, Dan, there's a hundred thousand songs being onboarded onto streaming services. Is there anybody what? Marching up and down Capitol Hill saying We want a hundred thousand songs. No, the floodgates have opened them. It's all this content. Two new podcasts being launched every minute.All this content, all of these alternative brands to Tropicana. But you just wanted one. And I think the record labels argument here is that one Cardinal Tropicana is worth more than everything else you're offering by its side. So we wanna rebalance the scales. Now this gets really tricky and very contentious, but what is interesting, if you wanna take a cool head on this topic, it's to learn from the collecting studies, which is not the sexiest thing to say on a Trapital podcast, but it's to look at your Scaps and your BMIs and understand how they distribute the value of money for music.Since their foundation in the 1930s, scap has never, ever treated music to have the same value. They have rules, qualifications, distribution, allocation practices, which change the value of music. And they don't have data scientists then. And to be honest, I don't think they have data scientists now, but they always have treated the value of music differently.When they were founded, they had a classical music distribution pot and a distribution pot for music that wasn't classical music. Ironically, their board was full of classical composers, and I think that's called embezzlement, but we'll leave that to the side. What we have here is a story of recognizing music as different value in the world of collecting Saudi.I call that Jurassic Park, but in the world of music streaming with all those software developers and engineers and data scientists, 22 years of 9.99 money coming in and the Prorata model, which means every song is worth the same for money going out, and that's your tension. That's your tension. How do you get off that?Tension is anyone's business. We got some ideas we can discuss. User-centric is one, autocentric is another. I've got a few ideas for my own, but I want your audience to appreciate. In straight no chaser language we call it. That's the undercurrent of what's going on here. How do you introduce Trapitalism to communism?[00:51:38] Dan Runcie: You mentioned there's artist centric, user-centric, but you mentioned some ideas you had of your own. What are those ideas?[00:51:44] Will Page: Can I bounce it off? Use my intellectual punch bag for a quick second. Yes, and I've worked 'em all. I've worked on the artist centric model. I've worked on artist growth models. That's up on YouTube. I've worked on user centric, but I'm just, I'm worried that these models, these propositions could collapse the royalty systems that these streaming services work under. The introduction of user centric or artist centric could become so complex, so burdensome, the royalty systems could break down.That's a genuine concern I have. It's not one you discuss when you talk about your aspirations and the land of milk and honey of our new streaming model that you envisage. Back in the engine room when you see how royalties are allocated and calculated and distributed out to right holders, I mean they're under stress anyway.Any more stress could snap it. So I come at this model, my proposition from the one that's least likely to break the system. I'm not saying it's the best model, but it's the least like least likely to have adverse impact on the system. And it came from my DCMS Select Committee performance in the UK Parliament, which your listeners can watch, we can give the link out, which is I said to the committee in terms of how you could change the model.What about thinking about duration? This wheel back since 1980s when B BBC radio plays, let's say Bohemian Rhapsody, it will pay for that song twice what it would pay for. You're my best friend, members of Queen wrote both songs, both released within three, four years of each other, but one lasts twice as long as another.So duration is not new. We factor in duration a lot in our music industry. We just never thought about it. If you look at Mexico, the Mexican collecting Saudi, which is so corrupt as an inside an army barracks, if you look there, they have sliding scales, duration. They factor in time, but they say the second minute is what?Less than the first. But I'm giving you more for more time just adding, decreasing scale. Germany, they have ranges in your country. America, mechanical licensing collective, the MLC in Nashville, they have overtime songs that last more than six minutes get a 1.2 multiplier. So I've been thinking about how could you introduce duration to this business?And the idea I've come up with is not to measure time. That'd be too complex, too burdensome. Every single song, measuring every second of consumption. How do you audit there? If you're an artist manager, but I wanna measure completion, then I think this is the answer. I want songs that are completed in full to receive a bonus and songs that are skipped before they end to receive a penalty.Not a huge bonus, not a huge penalty, but a tweak. A nudge that says, I value your attention. I value great songs, and you listen to these great songs and it captures my entire attention. You deserve something more. But if I skipped out after the first chorus, you deserve something less. I think that small nudge is a nudge in the right direction for this industry, and it wouldn't break the systems.So there it is. Tell me now, have I taken a stupid pill?[00:54:42] Dan Runcie: What I like about it, and I've heard other people in the industry mention this too, you're able to get something closer to what we do see in video streaming. I forget which app is specifically, but their threshold is 75%. So they acknowledge that yes, if you don't wanna watch the credits, you don't wanna listen to the closeout, that's fine.But if we at least get you for 75%, then we are gonna count that, and then that then can get used internally. That can then get used in different areas. But I think it provides everyone better data and analysis, much better data to be able to break down than. Whether or not you listen to the first 30 seconds, that's such a low threshold, but that's essentially where we are today.I think the biggest thing, regardless of what path is chosen, because as you and I both know, there's trade-offs to everyone. So instead of going through all the negative parts about it, I think it's probably more helpful to talk about it collectively, you accept the fact that there are trade-offs. You accept the fact that people are gonna try to game the system regardless of how you go about it.Because we have seen duration work elsewhere and it does get at that particular thing that we're trying to get at there is help there. And you mentioned other things such as, yes, if you're listening to the Bohemian Rhapsody, you, which I think is at least seven minutes and 15 seconds, most likely longer versus two minute song that is clearly idealized for the streaming era.There still should be maybe some slight difference there because listening to a minute and 30 seconds is very different than listening to five minute and 45 seconds to be able to hit that 75% threshold. So between that and then I've heard other topics such as which artists you start your session with should have some type of multiplier on there, and as opposed to someone that gets algorithmically recommended to you to be able to put some more onus on the on-demand nature of music streaming.The tough thing is that these things do get tough in general. Anytime there's any type of multiplier or factor in, there still is a zero sum pot that we're taking the money out of. So accepting the trade-offs, I like the direction, I think that there's a few ways to go about it that could make it more interesting, but in general, I do think that any of the proposed options I've seen at least, allow a bit more of a true economic reflection of where the reality is as opposed to where things are today.And I understand where things are today. It's easy. It's easy to report, it's easy to collect on and pay people out, relatively speaking. But like anything, there's trade offs.[00:57:14] Will Page: Yeah, it's really easy today. Even drummers can work out their royalties and no offense to drummers, but that's telling you something.But two points on my dura

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In this episode, Jeremy and Andrew use a word association game to see if Jeremy can relate random words to martial arts! Martial Arts Word Association 3 - Episode 783 Here at whistlekick Martial Arts Radio, we like to mix things up once in a while. We're going to do “Martial Arts Word Association” where Andrew gives Jeremy a random word that he could connect to martial arts. In this episode, Jeremy and Andrew discuss randomly generated topics from Pint Glass to Fishing Pole. Find out how they relate it to martial arts! After listening to the episode, it would be exciting for us to know your thoughts about it. Don't forget to drop them in the comment section down below!

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On this edition of the podcast we have guest Brad Fowler from the Pint Glass Football Podcast. Brad Fowler is a returning guest and we talk about the upcoming NFL season. We also talk about the who should the panthers start in week 1, The Lions in hard knocks, Is Jared Goff the right guy for the Lions, Which second year QB will make the biggest leap this season, can Kevin O`Connell  help the Vikings win the NFC North, How legit are the Bills, thoughts on the Patriots having Matt Patricia and Joe Judge calling plays on offense, the latest on Deshaun Watson, Roquan Smith no longer wants to be with the Bears and much more. You can follow the Point Glass Football Podcast on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @pgfpodcast.Use promo code STP2021 for 15% off your first order through https://helpyoufind.me/go/1036/Links to this episode:Promotional Link:Links to the Pint Glass Football Podcast:https://linktr.ee/pgfpodcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pint-glass-football-podcast-nfl-and-college-football-show/id1464987420?uo=4https://open.spotify.com/show/4FyENHemOjD5bOY0Uk2rULhttps://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81OWI2YTA0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNzhttps://www.pandora.com/podcast/pint-glass-football-podcast/PC:61143https://www.instagram.com/pgfpodcast/https://www.instagram.com/bettoredge/https://www.instagram.com/bradfowlerpgf/https://twitter.com/PGFpodcastLinks to the Sports Town Podcast:https://www.sportstownpodcast.comhttps://www.tiktok.com/@sportstown_podcast?lang=enhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sports-town-podcast/id1503395201https://open.spotify.com/show/5J6Jf043GLL5Z3He0vNMP8https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNzE5MjEzLnJzcw/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xMDgwMjE3NQ?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwiSz5j8kbr4AhW7C0QIHWE1D9YQjrkEegQIChAF&ep=6 https://www.sportstownpodcast.comhttps://www.tiktok.com/@sportstown_podcast?lang=enhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sports-town-podcast/id1503395201https://open.spotify.com/show/5J6Jf043GLL5Z3He0vNMP8https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNzE5MjEzLnJzcw/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xMDgwMjE3NQ?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwiSz5j8kbr4AhW7C0QIHWE1D9YQjrkEegQIChAF&ep=6HelpYouFind.ME HelpYouFind.Me is a secure - yet simple - way to share private data for use in emergency situations.

If I could erase all of my terrible, fuzzy memories of my drinking days, would I? Find out!(Originally released 2/21/2018)

How did Mike start Ray Gun?Where do they have storefronts? How many employees do they have?

Brought to you by Green Mountain Payments - helping small businesses, breweries, and independent business owners who need affordable merchant credit card processing solutions, point of sale solutions, and expertise. Go to https://greenmountainpayments.com/ What to do while sitting around a fire boiling Maple Sap? Drink Maple Beer of course, and the best ones come from DigInVT's list: https://diginvt.com/blog/seasonal-sips-maple-beer/ One of the BoozeBuddies gave it some brew for thought and sent this in - a headstone that is shaped like a Pint of Guinness! Honestly - I feel like any booze shape could be done... https://www.foodandwine.com/news/stout-beer-glass-guinness-headstone Mashed got together several bottles of bourbon to see what the best bourbon of 2022 is. Tough job and the real winners here are those who sampled them all https://www.mashed.com/709444/the-absolute-best-bourbon-of-2021/ Find me online - social media profiles & links at https://BoozebuddyUpdate.com Learn more about your host and voice over talent The Real Voice - Mel Allen at https://TheRealVoice.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/boozebuddy/support

This week we have one guest. That guest will be Brad Fowler from the Pint Glass football podcast. Before we talk about their podcast, don't forget to rate our podcast. It would help out a lot. So if you're listening on Apple podcast, Spotify, Google podcast, Pandora or others don't forget to rate, it would be greatly appreciated. and again don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel if you were not already subscribed. We released new content all the time. It will be in the description below as always. Brad Fowler from the Pint Glass football podcast (27:46). We talk about the Super Bowl, coaching vacancies, Brian Flores, Jimmy Garoppolo and other things related to the NFL. It was a great interview and you will enjoy it thoroughly. Don't forget to check out his podcast. He is on Apple podcast, Spotify and pretty much whatever you get your podcast. You can also follow him on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @pgfp. And as always we have The Sports Lightning Round (07:23), Questions From Instagram (01:15:21), Highlight of the Week (06:43), Weekly Poll Questions (05:20) and much more. Promotional Link:Go to this link http://www.buchheitmarketing.com to get a pack of XS Energy drinks!linktr.ee/sportstown_podcasthttps://www.sportstownpodcast.comUse promo code STP2021 for 15% off your first order through         https://helpyoufind.me/go/1036/https://www.buzzsprout.com/1719213Links to the Pint Glass Football Podcast:https://linktr.ee/pgfpodcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pint-glass-football-podcast-nfl-and-college-football-show/id1464987420?uo=4https://open.spotify.com/show/4FyENHemOjD5bOY0Uk2rULhttps://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81OWI2YTA0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNzhttps://www.pandora.com/podcast/pint-glass-football-podcast/PC:61143https://www.instagram.com/pgfpodcast/https://www.instagram.com/bettoredge/https://www.instagram.com/bradfowlerpgf/https://twitter.com/PGFpodcasthttps://www.facebook.com/pgfpodcastHelpYouFind.ME HelpYouFind.Me is a secure - yet simple - way to share private data for use in emergency situations.

This week Anthony K welcomes Brad Fowler for PGF and he makes some great NFC/AFC predictions, plus why he thinks Tony Pollard has surpassed Ezekiel Elliott in the Cowboys backfield. --- 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/sports-fluent/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sports-fluent/support

00:10 - Producer Katie casually dishes to the fellas about her super low-key adventures to tattoo parlors and peep shows in Amsterdam. No big deal…in the City of Tulips??04:28 - RTS Merch is still flying off the shelves, but should you get a Small, Medium, Shmedium, or Large?? It may depend on whether you wanna be like Kevin and get a zip up…or Chris and get a hoodie… Or avoid those altogether and go with a Die Cut Sticker and a Pint Glass! You got options, friends…you got options. However, if you prefer free stuff (who doesn't?), just review the show on any podcast app and give yourself a shot to win a customized (by you) official Kraken jersey…on RTS' dime!10:04 - School is in session once again, as Hot for Teacher Kevin continues his quest to educate the Kraken faithful who may be newer to hockey. In today's class, he sets his sights on the men and women in stripes: the refs. The ones we all love to hate and hate to love, depending on the call they just made. And wouldn't you know it…a fascinating discovery is made — one of your RTS hosts has donned the ref uniform in the past…now, who could it be???17:20 - The fellas go Hat Tricking this week with a 1) player spotlight, 2) a player pullout, and 3) a player exit. THE SPOTLIGHT: It's Philipp Grubauer time. Or “Grubby,” if you're cool. Another Sagittarius on the team, poised to do great things (including playing with Chris Driedger at the same time! ;) 28:40 - THE PULLOUT: it's NOT Matty Beniers time. The #2 pick in the draft has decided to leave the Kraken and go back to Michigan to try to win a collegiate National Championship with his buddies, Power and Johnson. Poor choice or nah? 37:23 - And THE EXIT: it is no longer Henrik Lundqvist time. The “King,” if you're cool, has decided to hang ‘em up and gets a well-deserved tip of the cap from RTS!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Brad Fowler from the Pint Glass Football Podcast and I discuss different NFL prospects we are excited about heading into the draft and give a preview of all 5 of the Power 5 conferences!

This week, Jen and V introduce a new segment called “Karen's Corner”, and it's exactly what you think it is. Then later, Jen interviews fellow podcaster and artist, Leysan about moving from Russia to America. They also talk about working in the industry and other fun stuff! Make sure you listen!

Check out the full book - Podcast Growth: How to Grow Your Podcast Audience Podcast-themed beer mats or coasters! This is a “helpful” way of distributing your podcast logo or branding around pubs and bars in your area. A little cardboard coaster is a useful thing in these places. They help keep the table dry, and some folks even collect them. If your design is intriguing enough, a person resting their glass on one may pull out their phone and subscribe to your podcast there and then. Type: Ongoing taskTime Required: One month from design through to creation and delivery. Ongoing strategy to distribute. Podcast Level: At any timeThe starting point is your coaster design. What are you going to put on there to catch people's eye? Your podcast logo can be a good choice here, just like with stickers or magnets. But, unlike those, you have a bit more time with the person looking at your coaster. They're also up close to it, so it doesn't need to work in an at-a-glance sort of way.  I actually recommend getting yourself 2-4 different designs. A typical bar or pub table sits 4 people, so you can leave 4 different coasters which could even spark some discussion amongst the folks who sit there next. Could you create one using a quote from a podcast review? Or, from yourself or an interview guest on the show? You can use humour or intrigue to make the person looking at it want to find out more. As always, it comes down to your own brand and tone, as well as your target audience. You should always have your podcast's name on each coaster. Get your URL on there too. Make sure the people who want to find out more, actually can. Cardboard coasters are relatively cheap to have made. Many online printing services offer this service, and you'll generally pick up bundles of 100 to 250 with each design. Next comes the distribution. I use this guerrilla marketing tactic myself; I'll shove a stack of them in my jacket pocket if I'm heading on a day out somewhere. Each time I'm in a pub, I'll stick coasters under all of our glasses at the table. When we leave, other folks will sit there, and who knows? One might even go on to become the show's biggest fan. You can also harness the power of your listeners by running a competition. Ask them to take a picture of their drinks proudly sitting on your coasters when they're out somewhere. You can run a hashtag for this so everyone can see each other's pictures, too. This is a fun way to market your podcast, because you never know who's going to sit down and start studying your “ad” next. Also, it's a great excuse to get some friends together and go for a drink one weekend! Task List: Have 2-4 different types of coaster design made. Use your logo, but also consider things like quotes from reviews or from the show itself. Remember to have the podcast name, or even a URL on them. Each time you're going to be in a cafe, pub, or bar, take some with you. Put them under the glasses or cups on your table as you drink. When you leave, leave them for the next people who'll sit there. Consider running listener competitions to see how many bars around the world you can get photos of your coasters “in action”. Further Reading: thepodcasthost.com/guerrillaCheck out the full book - Podcast Growth: How to Grow Your Podcast Audience Support the show (https://pod.academy)

Check out the full book - Podcast Growth: How to Grow Your Podcast Audience Podcast-themed beer mats or coasters! This is a “helpful” way of distributing your podcast logo or branding around pubs and bars in your area. A little cardboard coaster is a useful thing in these places. They help keep the table dry, and some folks even collect them. If your design is intriguing enough, a person resting their glass on one may pull out their phone and subscribe to your podcast there and then. Type: Ongoing taskTime Required: One month from design through to creation and delivery. Ongoing strategy to distribute. Podcast Level: At any timeThe starting point is your coaster design. What are you going to put on there to catch people’s eye? Your podcast logo can be a good choice here, just like with stickers or magnets. But, unlike those, you have a bit more time with the person looking at your coaster. They’re also up close to it, so it doesn’t need to work in an at-a-glance sort of way. I actually recommend getting yourself 2-4 different designs. A typical bar or pub table sits 4 people, so you can leave 4 different coasters which could even spark some discussion amongst the folks who sit there next. Could you create one using a quote from a podcast review? Or, from yourself or an interview guest on the show? You can use humour or intrigue to make the person looking at it want to find out more. As always, it comes down to your own brand and tone, as well as your target audience. You should always have your podcast’s name on each coaster. Get your URL on there too. Make sure the people who want to find out more, actually can. Cardboard coasters are relatively cheap to have made. Many online printing services offer this service, and you’ll generally pick up bundles of 100 to 250 with each design. Next comes the distribution. I use this guerrilla marketing tactic myself; I’ll shove a stack of them in my jacket pocket if I’m heading on a day out somewhere. Each time I’m in a pub, I’ll stick coasters under all of our glasses at the table. When we leave, other folks will sit there, and who knows? One might even go on to become the show’s biggest fan. You can also harness the power of your listeners by running a competition. Ask them to take a picture of their drinks proudly sitting on your coasters when they’re out somewhere. You can run a hashtag for this so everyone can see each other’s pictures, too. This is a fun way to market your podcast, because you never know who’s going to sit down and start studying your “ad” next. Also, it’s a great excuse to get some friends together and go for a drink one weekend! Task List: Have 2-4 different types of coaster design made. Use your logo, but also consider things like quotes from reviews or from the show itself. Remember to have the podcast name, or even a URL on them. Each time you’re going to be in a cafe, pub, or bar, take some with you. Put them under the glasses or cups on your table as you drink. When you leave, leave them for the next people who’ll sit there. Consider running listener competitions to see how many bars around the world you can get photos of your coasters “in action”. Further Reading: thepodcasthost.com/guerrillaCheck out the full book - Podcast Growth: How to Grow Your Podcast Audience

The 3rd episode of the ‘Beer n BS Show’ remasteredThis is a remastered release of an older show. We were new to recording and the audio quality was way off. Here it is - all shiny and easier on the ears. We hope you enjoy it. In this show we review beers, play Beer or Bullshit and introduce a new segment called: Beer n BS and the Philosophers Pint Glass.Geoff doesn’t quite piss off another segment of society, Rachel protests in Leeds and Nathan has his helicopter pilot license revoked. We discuss pubs, 3 days beer riots and a beer Tsunami that happened in central London.The ‘Beer n BS podcast’ is a monthly discussion on craft ales, politics, gaming, movies with a good dose of bullshit. Hosted by three drinking buddies – we aim to introduce a few new beers to you with a humorous breakdown of topical events and news. Recorded in the Leeds (Yorkshire/UK) from the finest taproom in the area: QuirkyAles.com. This podcast may not be suitable for listening at work or in public spaces.Ales Tasted:Love and Hate by Vocation Brewery (NE IPA) – 7.2% ABV Rachel rates 7.4 out of 10Coconut French Toast by Decadent (DIPA) – 8.6% ABV Nathan rates 8.0 out of 10Banana Bread by Eagle Brewery (Amber Ale) – 5.2% ABV Geoff rates 8.5 out of 10

Welcome to the Ad Read podcast, a podcast where we read ads.Disclaimer: Any references to products/companies real or fake reflect our opinion alone and not the opinion of the companies in question. This is especially true of the fake companies, who can be real assholes about this sort of thing.Subscribe to Ad Read in these places:Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | SoundCloud | Google | AndroidWe have a right to listen into this group therapy session, but have you given blood today? Think about it.Check out these credits:CastRankus: Jon Robertson (he/him)Sheila (Original and Double): Cheru (she/her)Chaz-Kendon/Kendon (Original)/Genie/Narrator: Kendon Luscher (he/him)Chaz (Original): Chaz Everett as himself (he/him)Amantha (Original and Double): Emily (she/her)Beverley Winchester: And Hollenbach (they/them)Abagail Reeves: Elena Hark (she/her)Spud/Mike/Mayor Oranges: Brian Roesler (he/him) of The Illegal Screen and TreblezineWritersThis episode was written by Kendon Luscher with additional writing by Jon Robertson. Mayor Oranges Campaign Ad written by Brian Roesler with additional writing by Jon Robertson.Sound Editing by Kendon LuscherSoundtrack by Kendon LuscherAd Read Logo by Sammy (twitter).Sound EffectsZapsplat.com - ambience_bar_small_001Sonniss:Studio 23 LTD - S23_SFX_Footsteps_Extras_Doormat_Scrapes_01, S23_SFX_Footsteps_Gravel_Loafers_Loops_Walk_Normal, S23_SFX_Footsteps_Metal_Boots_Loop_Jogging, S23_SFX_Footsteps_Extras_Doormat_Scrapes_013maze - glass_bottle_smash_005, door_lock_007Paul Virostek - Glass,Pint Glass,Break,Debris,Rock,Medium Distant, Metal,Crash,Concrete,Sheet Metal,20 Gauge,Slow,Complex, Metal,Hits,Pipe,Mixed,Fast,Irregular, Glass,Plate Glass,Thick,Break,Topple,Schoeps, Saw,Circular,Porter-Cable,315,7 1 4 inch blade,16 tooth,On,Cut,Plywood,OffArticulated Sounds - EMOTE Ashley, Woman, Anger Fight Grunt Big 02, EMOTE David, Man, Anger Fight Grunt Special Power 03, EMOTE Joshua, Man, Pain Hurt Grunt Big 03Borg Sound - Bag Foley_Wallet_Leather_Grab, Bag Foley_Canvas bag_Cotton_GrabPhil Michalski - PM_BA_BOOK_6_14 Book, Paper, Page Turn, PM_BA_BOOK_2_6 Book, Paper, Page TurnEffectswork - Wood_Creak_Basket_File_3_Takes_9Soundopolis - Door Hinge 02_Creaky_x3_Fienup_001Sound Ex Machina - Siemens W48 Wandapparat 1934 - Telephone Rings Once 03Apple Hill Studios - Cartoon Babbling On TelephoneAlexander Fokshtein - Snow Impact Stomp HardRock The Speakerbox - Professional SFX - BROKEN - DESIGNED - WOOD Break Small, Professional SFX - SORCERY - DESIGNED - MAGIC ELECTRIC Cast LargeVincent Fliniaux -MAGIC AIR Large Whoosh, Swirl, Wind Gust, Foliage 01Stephane Fufa Dufour - GORE Crack bones crush and break with tension

Todays episode of the podcast is truly a lute bag in a pint glass. Welcome to the first Monday show of 2021 as we return to work, return to school or return to .... lockdown. On the show today some thoughts on pints tried throughout the holiday season, the World Juniors thus far and how Canada stacks up heading in to the semi finals, the NFL bragging about finishing their season on time while repeatedly risking the health of it's employees and early thoughts on the Ottawa Senators trades and the first days of NHL training camps. Follow us on social media @TallCanAudio

Joey and Collin sit down with Pint Glass Football Podcast to talk about everything NFL. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/collin-and-joey/support

Go follow my guy Pint Glass football podcast on Twitter & Instagram @PGFpodcast and shoutout to the bro @Mane.e98 on IG for the intro beat

We're live from 1900 GMT Tuesdays Audio version available on anchor/spotify/pocket casts/radiopublic www.anchor.fm/grubandglory RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/10210d80/podcast/rss YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/HemmingfordGrey Dlive: https://dlive.tv/HemmingfordGrey Telegram: https://t.me/GrubandGlory email grubandglory@tutanota.com Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/hemmingfordgrey/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/theangrysaxon2 https://twitter.com/@sirhgrey Gab https://gab.com/Sir_Hemmingford_Grey Email: grubandglory@tutanota.com Hemmys other shows: www.anchor.fm/forteanwords and https://exodusamericanus.com/category/dope-movies-and-shows/ Music Royal Oak - XXXVII (37 Words) (remix of Cognitive Dissident by Iron Sound)

The 7th episode of the ‘Beer n BS Podcast’.Alex and Gideon join us on the show for an interview, a drop of mead and some Viking banter. We taste four meads from the fantastic Lancashire Mead Co. Beer or Bullshit becomes Mead or Manure as the team get to find the bullshit in five Viking/Mead facts. Alex is in the hot seat for ‘Beer n BS and the Philosopher’s Pint Glass’.Apologies to Norwich!Find out more about the Lancashire Mead Company and other mentions in the show below:Lancashire Mead Company:Website: https://www.lancashiremeadcompany.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lancsmeadco/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LancsMeadCoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/dragonsbreathmeadcompany/Buy at: https://www.facebook.com/wyrdraven/Check-em-lads: http://checkemlads.com/index.htmMeads Tasted:Sleipnir’s Mead – 14.5% ABVhttps://www.tremblingmadness.co.uk/store/p1581/Lancashire_Mead_Co_Sleipnir's_Mead.html#/Thrúd’s Mead – 14.5% ABVhttps://www.lancashiremeadcompany.co.uk/product/thruds-mead/Aegir’s Mead – 14.5% ABVhttps://www.lancashiremeadcompany.co.uk/product/aegirs-mead/Jarl’s Mead – 14.5% ABVhttps://www.lancashiremeadcompany.co.uk/product/jarls-mead/Beer n BS in this show is about Mead and the Vikings. Did the Romans give us modern mead? Are four days of the week named after Viking gods? Does Bluetooth technology owe its name to a Viking king?The ‘Beer n BS podcast’ is a monthly discussion on craft ales, politics, gaming, movies with a good dose of bullshit. Hosted by four drinking buddies – we aim to introduce a few new beers to you with a humorous breakdown of topical events and news. Recorded in the Leeds (Yorkshire/UK) from the finest taproom in the area: QuirkyAles.com. This podcast may not be suitable for listening at work or in public spaces.Ales Tasted:More or Less Evil Pale Ale by Evil Twin Brewery (Pale Ale) – 5.0% ABVOrganic Cherry Beer by Samuel Smith (Beer) – 5.1% ABVCitrus Tart by Fierce Brewery (Citrus Sour Ale) – 4.3% ABVPõhjala Orange Gose by Põhjala Brewery (Sour Wild Ale) 5.5% ABVO-G Hazy Jane by Brew Dog (NE IPA) 7.2% ABV

Thanks to Chad Smith and Pint Glass football podcast for being apart of the network and collaborating on this episode

Sorry for the little hiatus but were back be on the lookout for episode with Sam , Chad and Pint Glass football

The Tom Brady trade tops the sports talk this week as we are 3 weeks deep into the cessation of all sports. The Pint Glass of Discussion returns for a limited run!

Jacob and Jake wrap up the AFC with the offseason needs of every AFC West team. In this episode, Jacob has a list of questions for Jake that makes him think about his fandom. Also, a very special guest interview with Brad Fowler from the Pint Glass Football podcast! Check him out on all platforms and follow him on Twitter @PGFPodcast

First off we would like to thank everyone for rocking with us through this podcast journey this episode for ya'll NFL draft fanatics. We would like to introduce New member of the $LA network " Pint Glass football podcast " from Portland Oregon go check him out at https://linktr.ee/pgfpodcast

The 3rd episode of the 'Beer n BS Podcast'. In this show we review beers, play Beer or Bullshit and introduce a new segment called: Beer n BS and the Philosophers Pint Glass. Geoff doesn't quite piss off another segment of society, Rachel protests in Leeds and Nathan has his helicopter pilot license revoked. We discuss pubs, 3 days beer riots and a beer Tsunami that happened in central London. The 'Beer n BS podcast' is a monthly discussion on craft ales, politics, gaming, movies with a good dose of bullshit. Hosted by three drinking buddies - we aim to introduce a few new beers to you with a humorous breakdown of topical events and news. Recorded in the Leeds (Yorkshire/UK) from the finest taproom in the area: QuirkyAles.com. This podcast may not be suitable for listening at work or in public spaces. Ales Tasted: Rachel: Love and Hate - NE IPA by Vocation Brewery 7.2% ABV - she rates 7.4 out of 10 Geoff: Banana Bread Beer - Amber Ale 5.2% ABV - he rates 8.5 out of 10 Nathan: Coconut French Toast - IPA 8.6% ABV - he rates 8.2 out of 10 Website: http://beernbs.com/ Instagram: beernbsshow Twitter: beernbsshow Facebook: beernbsshow Email: admin@beernbs.com

The great pint glass fiasco, people who pay with cash, a millennial doctor fails to thread the needle just right, Sean makes a horrible confession, kung fu is illegal, the Slamdance rejection letter, Aydin Paladin calls in about a horseshoe theory of stupid, the participants of a Dickhead furry orgy call in, women and their breakup letters, Dame Pesos vs. MyroomRecords, YouTube bans mockery, the r-word, Boomers and their guns, a poly love story, and Destiny is gay; all that and more this week on The Dick Show!

Today Sam and I go over some NFL rankings, talk sports, play some trivia and just converse at the Table. Please check out the Pint Glass Football with Brad Fowler. A great podcast where you can get great detailed information on all things NFL and College Football.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pint-glass-football-podcast/id1464987420?ign-mpt=uo%3D4  If you are interested in being on the show or getting in touch with us, please see below: Contact usTwitter:RipcitycalebZthompson04Instagram:LamnationZackaroni_and_cheeseSamhoward20Email: Thetabletalkpod@gmail.com

Episode 57 - 4/15/2018 - Hosts Brian & Britt go on location at 5168 Taproom, in Mid-town Omaha, to talk with owner Charlie Yin.  They are also joined by Sean, from Into the Pint Glass, and a brief stop-in from Grant. Drinks sampled were all from 5168 Brewing: 88 Lager, Gone "A Rye" Ale, New Beginnings IPA, Hawaiian Porter, and Sun Dance Pale Ale. Check us out!

Episode 52 - 3/5/18 - Hosts Brian & Britt are joined by Sean, from Into the Pint Glass, and Grant, a returning guest host, as they talk about the new Pint Club Membership Program from Into the Pint Glass. Drinks are from the breweries that are currently participating: 3 Lions from Pint 9, Electric Cloud from Lucky Bucket Brewing, London Elixir and Lost Galaxy from Vis Major Brewing, Papio Kriek by Farnam House Brewing, and Bella Diva from Brickway Brewery & Distillery.

If I could erase all of my terrible, fuzzy memories of my drinking days, would I?  Find out!

Let's roam the streets of Dublin with show #346 with Celtic music from Wolf & Clover, Andrew Finn Magill, Jennifer Licko, Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac, Tara O'Grady, Samantha Gillogly & Tim Maurice, The Founding, The Jolly Rogues, Spencer Murray & Pipeslinger, Alex Sturbaum, O'Craven, Matt Hughes, Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfetones, Blackstone Cuil, The Selkie Girls, Screaming Orphans. http://celticmusicpodcast.com/ Listen and share this podcast. Download 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. Subscribe to the Celtic Music Magazine. This is our free newsletter and your guide to the latest Celtic music and podcast news. Remember to support the artists who support this podcast: buy their CDs, download their MP3s, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast.   TODAY'S SHOW IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Don't just see the world. Go on a relaxing adventure with a small group of Celtic music fans, just like you. We won't see everything. Instead, we will stay in one area. We will get to know the region through it's culture, history, and legends. You can help me decide where we should go into 2019. Subscribe to the mailing list to join the invasion at http://celticinvasion.com/ THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:04 "Top of Cork Road - First Avenue - The Merry Maiden" by Wolf & Clover from Wolf & Clover 3:39 "The Green Fields of Glentown / The Old Dudeen / McFadden's Handsome Daughter" by Andrew Finn Magill from Roots 7:41 "Light the Way" by Jennifer Licko from SING 11:13 "Boise Monsters" by Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac from Seinn 14:23 "In Belfast Tonight" by Tara O'Grady from A Celt in the Cotton Club 17:53 CELTIC PODCAST NEWS 19:10 "Young Catherine/James Bethag" by Samantha Gillogly/Tim Maurice from Celtic Chamber Music 24:07 "Beast of the Waves" by The Founding from Form. 28:12 "Maggie May" by The Jolly Rogues from Privateers 31:42 "California Clan" by Spencer Murray & Pipeslinger from Sound & Fury 35:55 "O'er the Water In France" by Alex Sturbaum from River Run Wide 41:00 CELTIC FEEDBACK 42:34 "Pint Glass" by O'Craven from Whiskey, Wenches, and Scallywag 45:45 "Mick McGuire" by Matt Hughes from Soul of the Common Man 48:11 "Dusty Dublin Streets Set" by Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfetones from Let Ye All Be Irish Tonight 51:48 "Dark Inishowen" by Blackstone Cuil from Blackstone Cuil 56:27 "Jack B" by The Selkie Girls from Pirate Queen 1:01:49 "Humour Is On Me Now" by Screaming Orphans from Taproom The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to iTunes or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/.   THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST! Imagine a world with no Celtic music. Sounds pretty horrible, right? All you have is boring music being shoved down your throats by big record labels. You wouldn't get to experience the incredible music shared each and every week in the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. Our incredibly generous people bring you hours of great Celtic music. You can help celebrate Celtic music and culture and keep this show running every week. Become a Patron of the Podcast at http://patreon.com/celticpodcast Thanks to our newest Patrons of the Podcast: Sally Harris   CELTIC PODCAST NEWS * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. My name is Marc Gunn. I am a Celtic and Geek musician and podcaster. This podcast is dedicated to the indie Celtic musicians. I want to ask you to support these artists. Share the show with your friends. And find more episodes at celticmusicpodcast.com. You can also support this podcast on Patreon. You may not realize. I host two other podcasts. Celtfather Music & Travel is sort of a behind the scenes look at my music and travel adventures. I just recently posted an interview I did with Samantha Gillogly. She's a Celtic fiddler and violinist who will be up next. We chatted about how she fell in love with Lord of the Rings in that episode. Listen and subscribe at celtfather.com. I also rebranded my Pub Songs Podcast. It's now called Geek Pub Songs. The content is still pretty much the same. You'll get a lot of Celtic music plus there will be a bit more geek music. So if you've ever wondered what I meant by Geek musician, this is a good way to find out about it. Find out more at pubsong.net. Finally, I don't think I've mentioned it, but my next album comes out on March 6, 2018. It's called As Long As I'm Flyin' features music inspired by Joss Whedon's cancelled cult classic TV show Firefly. Go to FireflyDrinkingSongs.com for details.   VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 It's easier than ever to do. Just list the show number, and the name of one or two bands. That's it. You can vote once for each episode help me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2018 episode. http://bestcelticmusic.net/vote/   I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? You can send a written comment along with a picture  of what you're doing while listening. Email a voicemail message to celticpodcast@gmail.com Brendan Prast emailed: "Thank you for the MP3s (which I have already downloaded and started to listen to), and of course, for your wonderful show! I have been listening to it for quite some time now and finally took a new step and subscribed to you!" Edward Midgett emailed a picture: "Top  of the morning to ye me laddie Mark, I'm a New Listener to your podcast, I love the music. I'm an American Irishman Born in America but my mum's from Dublin Ireland herself. Keep playing your music and I'll continue listening to ye me laddie I just learned about ye tonight from the Amazon prime music app. I'm a Celtic Cowboy for real in life.  I just drew and coloured this picture while listening to the podcast"

Episode 46 - 1/21/18 - Hosts Brian & Britt, joined by brewer Mitchell from Nebraska Brewing Company and Sean from Into the Pint Glass, talk about the changing landscape of craft beer. We talk about where we've been, where we are, and where we are headed. Drinks were supplied by Nebraska Brewing Company: Romancing the Cone IPA and Vanilla Bead Fathead. Check us out!

Episode 37 - 11/12/17 - Hosts Brian & Britt, with returning guest host Sean (from Into the Pint Glass), talk about and enjoy a few of their favorite drinks that are served on the rocks. These include: Manhattan, Jim Beam Red Stag Black Cherry, Kessler, Old Fashioned, and Homemade Amaretto. They also start a potential new series, "This Week in News." Check us out!

Episode 27 - 8/20/17 - Hosts Brian & Britt, joined by guest host Sean, discuss a new app by Into the Pint Glass (set to release September 15) and the latest in the digital revolution for craft beer.  The also chat about the upcoming Solar Eclipse 2017.  Drinks were all from Nebraska Breweries: Raj Gaj Imperial Ale & Jalapeno Pineapple Pils from Brickway Brewery, India Pale Ale from Zipline; and Luna Sea from Empyrean Brewing Company.

New Celtic music from West of Mabou, Andrew Finn Magill, Myddle Earth, The Prodigals, Blarney Castle, McDerry, Whalebone, Acoustic Butterfly, O'Craven, Matt Hughes, Screeched Inn, Wild Colonial Bhoys, Titanicdance.  Listen. Like. Share. Then download 34 Celtic MP3s for Free! Subscribe to the Celtic Music Magazine. This is our free newsletter and your guide to the latest Celtic music and podcast news. Remember to support the artists who support this podcast: buy their CDs, download their MP3s, see their shows, and drop them an email to let them know you heard them on the Irish and Celtic Music Podcast.   Today's show is brought to you by Celtic Invasion of Brittany Standing stones are pretty awesome and inspiring to see. But imagine 3000 of them, together... and you, able to make a daily sojourn among the stones. This June, you can see the Carnac Stones up close and personal, just a 20 minute walk from where we are staying in the coastal village of Carnac in Northwest France. You have until February 15, 2017 to reserve your spot on the next Celtic Invasion Vacation. Enjoy the culture, history and legends on a timeless adventure with a small group of 6-8 invaders. Join the invasion at celticinvasion.com   Notes: * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. My name is Marc Gunn. I am a musician and podcaster. You can share this show and find more episodes at celticmusicpodcast.com. And you can support this show on Patreon. * CELTIC PODCAST NEWS: You can now listen to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast in our very own app available for Android AND iOS devices. This was a part of one of our big milestones last month. So this app is now FREE! It was developed by Libsyn and has some nice features which will allow you to easily share the show on social media and contact me as well. Of course, if you're on Android, you may also have the Marc Gunn Celtic Music app. Mine lacks the sharing features but you can also listen to my other podcasts including the Pub Songs Podcast, Renaissance Festival Podcast and The Celtfather. * I want to send out a big thanks to the patrons of the podcast. Your generous pledge of as little as $1 per episode pays for the production of this podcast as well as my time in producing the show. You will enjoy a personal podcast feed where you can listen to the show before regular subscribers, occasional extended editions of the show, and my deepest thanks. When we hit a milestone, you get a 2-hour special. We are just $25 away from 2-hours of Scottish music. And of course, next week, we have a 2-hour retrospective coming your way. Thanks to our newest patron: Tony. Become a patron today! * I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK: What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? You can send a written comment along with a picture of what you're doing while listening, or from one of your trips to one of the Celtic nations. Call 678-CELT-POD to leave a voicemail message. That's 678-235-8763. Sytze Kamphuis posted in the shownotes: "Hey Marc, there is one Celtic Christmas song that I always play in the winter. It is not just one of the best Celtic Christmas songs I've ever heard, it's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, period. Seacht Suailci Na Maighdine Muire by Aoife ni Farragh from her album 'Aoife'. Hope you get a chance to listen to it and I wish you and your family all the best for 2017." Jeffrey Evans emailed a picture: "On the Celtic postcast, you're always asking what were doing when we're listening. Normally, that is difficult for me since I'm either listen to new episodes at work and there is a strict rule about taking pictures inside the plant fence or I'm listening to some favorite episodes that I have permanently downloaded as I'm falling asleep. Not today. It's probably the last decent day of the year for the Ohio Valley. I left work early and just sitting outside, cross stitching a celtic cross as a wedding gift for a friend as episode 154 plays." Alex Marling emailed: "Hello Marc I would like to say that I really enjoyed your Irish and Celtic pub songs from your #114th podcast it was great I live in Canada Ontario in a small town called innisfill. We are mostly farming but I am a high school student and whenever I have a bad day I just go and listen to your amazing podcast I also like to say that on YouTube you look like a wooky with long hair and your star wars song makes me laugh every time. Have a good day and keep it up your podcast is incredibly amazing."   This Week in Celtic Music 0:39 "The Foxhunter" by West of Mabou from West of Mabou 5:35 "Horizons" by Andrew Finn Magill from Branches 9:21 "Raggle Taggle Gypsies" by Myddle Earth from Celtic Jigs & Reels 12:21 "Home to You" by The Prodigals from Brothers 16:42 "Silhouettes Against the Soil" by Blarney Castle from Single 22:16 CELTIC PODCAST NEWS 24:06 "Beeswing" by McDerry from Chandler 29:04 "Anglicana" by Whalebone from Mirabilia 34:27 "Irish Eyes" by Acoustic Butterfly from Whispers EP 39:05 CELTIC FEEDBACK 41:55 "Pint Glass" by O'Craven from Whiskey, Wenches, and Scalleywags 45:03 "Rocky Road to Dublin" by Matt Hughes from Soul of the Common Man 49:08 "I's The B'y" by Screeched Inn from Screeched Inn 51:43 "Terrorist or Dreamer" by Wild Colonial Bhoys from Century 1:00:59 "Boiler Room" by Titanicdance from Music from the Show VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20. It's easier than ever to do. Just list the show number, and the name of one or two bands. That's it. You can vote once for each episode help me create next year's Best Celtic music of 2016 episode. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather. To subscribe, go to iTunes or to our website where you can become a Patron of the Podcast for as little as $1 per episode. Promote Celtic culture through music at celticmusicpodcast.com.

Toronto FC might have ended their road trip with a loss, but they did well to start off the year at a huge disadvantage. A 2-1 defeat to the Portland Timbers, while should have been a win, still is framed through a road trip that had three wins and eleven points. There are still some areas to fine tune, but others such as defending, that supporters can begin to look at as legitimately improved. We discuss the road trip and what to expect at BMO both on the field and in the stands.

For extended show notes and more pirate goodies, visit www.UnderTheCrossbones.com    O'Craven is a great band with the very specific niche of Irish Pirate Rock, from San Jose, CA.  In this interview we dig into how they stumbled across the music they were meant to be playing.  We also talk a lot about how being way different from most bands has helped them stand out in a positive way. Bonus! Since the band and I are in the same town, I finally got to do an in-person interview!  Thankfully I thought ahead enough to get video of the proceedings too. And since I had video of the interview, I figured I'd film my talky parts before and after the interview too, just for fun.  Get links to o'Craven's album "Whiskey, Wenches and Scallywags" at www.UnderTheCrossbones.com/037 Today's show is sponsored by: Anything Goes Vermont - Unique handmade goods for your favorite pirate. Plus comedy from Irish comedian Dave Nihill (There's a theme? Yes!) and of course, music from O'Craven.  You'll hear a song called "Pint Glass" and I'll explain in the show why I picked that one. Important Websites:   O'Craven -  www.OCraven.com Dave Nihill -  www.irishdave.co Phil Johnson - www.PhilJohnsonComedy.com   Additional Show Notes: www.UnderTheCrossbones.com/037 Support the show!: www.UnderTheCrossbones.com/support  

John and Dan talk about La Croix, olives, potatoes (which John calls fat dirt), tater tot guns, secondary body spray, eating in the bathroom, John's lady friend/special lady, Future John™, the clenched fists of determination, Neanderthal genes, golems made of mud, 6am meetings, guarding the perimeter, Mithril, sleeping naked, and silver underpants.

John and Dan talk about La Croix, olives, potatoes (which John calls fat dirt), tater tot guns, secondary body spray, eating in the bathroom, John's lady friend/special lady, Future John™, the clenched fists of determination, Neanderthal genes, golems made of mud, 6am meetings, guarding the perimeter, Mithril, sleeping naked, and silver underpants.

DAPF #79. Dark Angels & Pretty Freaks #79. We talk about the fires near our house. Finally getting a little rain, going to Rose City Comic Con, Custom pint glass order mishap, Free Dog Crates, Library visit, midweek podcast recording , 5 Favorite things about going to big events and so much more!  Please Download our free app!  

Tha Leg'cast Episode 7 - Hillbillies porn. In this episode of Tha Leg'cast, Trip is joined by Co-host H and Special Comments Midget to talk about the new Co-host Baby H only 4 days old, plus they guys talk about all the strange, weird and funny shit people do to make it into the news.   Segment 1: Wisdom Words.   Segment 2: The Way It Is.   Story 1. Man Misses own wedding, police arrest man but he has somewhere more important to be.   2. New Zealand Anglican church syas Jesus maybe gay, the Catholics are angry.   3. hilly billy porn is the in thing of the moment, people buy more hillbilly porn up 250%.   4. Anonymous have came out in defence of the American Newtown shooting victims.   5. weird things people like to put up their asses.   from oddee.com A Key Have you searched high and low for your car keys but can't find them? Don't forget to check your bum!(Photo) Vibrator and Salad Tongs It doesn't take a detective to crack this case. Getting a vibrator stuck in his bum wasn't enough to send this man to the ER. He simply attempted to remove the stuck object by using a pair of salad tongs. Trouble is, then the tongs got stuck, too! (Link | Photo) Live Ammunition This is his story, and he's sticking with it: A London WW2 veteran was plagued with terrible hemorrhoids, so he used a live artillery shell to push the hemorrhoids up into his rectum. One day, he pushed too far. The ammo became stuck in his anus, and when he went to the ER to get it removed, he admitted that the shell was live and could explode at any time. A bomb squad was brought to the hospital to assist in the removal of the shell. Peanut Butter Jar What, no jelly? (Link) A Bottle of Perfume A 39-year-old married white male lawyer went to the ER to get a bottle of Impulse Body Spray removed from his anus. This was not the first time he had inserted this object, but this time it got stuck. After trying to reach it using a back-scratcher, he eventually had to go have it removed by a doctor.No word on whether or not his wife got her perfume back. (Link) A Ringing Cell Phone A lawyer (what is it with lawyers?) from Georgia was reportedly showering with his cell phone, when he slipped and fell, getting the phone lodged firmly up his backside. During the surgery to remove the phone, the device rang three more times. (Link) A Pint Glass Bottoms up! (Link) A Flashlight Maybe he was using the flashlight to find his car keys. What? It's dark in there. (Link) A Toy Car This incident was not an accident, it was intentional. The late Ryan Dunn of the television show Jackass intentionally inserted a Matchbox car into his rectum just to mess with the ER doctors. (Link) A Cement Enema We saved the weirdest story for last. During a kinky sex session, two homosexual men decided to try something new. One man lay down and let the other man pour liquid cement into his anus using a funnel. Yes, really.Naturally, the cement didn't stay liquid for long, and when it hardened it became a huge mass of cement that had to be surgically removed. (Link) Read more at http://www.oddee.com/item_98446.aspx#xIEjHDZQ1x3iXRFV.99   6. Man kills prostitute by stabbing her in the neck, almost decapitated her. blames Roger. 7. Twin of dead sister wants to marry her sisters killer. He may have a big dick? Edith Casas pictured below. Ediths Twin Sister Johana Casas(Below) killed by Victor Cingolani Victor Cingolani(below) convited of killin Johana Casas pictures (Below) in 2010 8. Who does Chine Blame for inferier products after a Massive fish tank is bursts open. 9. A Japanese pornstar has requested on twitter asking her male fans send her as much sperm as they can. She Gets 100 bottles.   10. Someone gets hit with a sock filled of Shit.   11. Middle Eastern men get plastic surgery to get better mustache, Hair may come from the ass   12. Thousands of Muslims have an orgy in Indonesia, have to save the bath water and may have to wait for aids tests.   13. A middle aged south Carolina couple have recently got into a fight, after the husband dropped rancid fart.   14. A man has split his penis after he misjudged alanding, when he threw his girlfriend into the air and landing on his erect member.   15. A Hong Kong McDonalds is now doing weddings.   16. Bald men are sexyier. H calls bullshit

Two men, in a pub, rambling....

Samuel Merritt of Civilization of Beer warns us of an insidious plot to deny bar patrons a precious two ounces of beer. Inspect your pint glasses carefully, and get all the ounces you're paying for.