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The business world was buzzing when Burger King posted 8.5% same-store sales growth in the US, beating McDonald’s by the widest margin in at least two years. Meanwhile, Wendy’s dropped 7%, losing its number two spot in American fast food. But is this turnaround as impressive as the headlines suggest? Through the lens of category design, the story looks very different from what most business journalists are telling you. On this episode of The Pirate Street Journal, Christopher , Eddie, and Bri break down what is really happening with Burger King and the fast food wars, why Reddit has become the most valuable and most manipulated room on the internet, and whether mascots are a genuine brand asset or just a sign that a company has nothing real to say. What emerged was a masterclass in how companies confuse marketing wins with actual category leadership. This is just some of the topics that Pirates Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon and Bri Clark discuss on this episode of The Pirate Street Journal. Each week, the Category Pirates pick three headlines worth paying attention to and break down the category underneath. You're listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let's go. Burger King’s Growth Numbers Do Not Tell the Whole Story When Burger King rebuilt the Whopper with a premium bun, new mayo, and a box instead of a wrapper, it made headlines. CEO Tom Curtis started taking personal calls from customers, reportedly logging over 3,300 conversations. These are real operational improvements, and the marketing shift from stunt-driven content to customer-celebrating campaigns like “You Rule” shows genuine progress. However, as the panel pointed out, you do not deposit percentages into a bank account. Franchise profit per location actually dropped from roughly $205,000 to $185,000, hammered by record beef prices. The chain making less money per store is winning traffic, but not building wealth. Marketing can improve perception, but it cannot solve for a weak category position. Why Burger King Cannot Win by Fighting for Number Two The deeper issue is that Burger King has spent decades trying to be a better version of McDonald’s rather than something genuinely different. McDonald’s has far more locations and is legendary for speed and consistency. Premium burger brands like Five Guys and Shake Shack own the taste-driven, quality-focused space. Burger King is caught in the middle, without a clear category to own. The contrast with In-N-Out Burger is striking. In-N-Out has been owned by one family since its founding, has never franchised, has never gone public, and operates with one of the simplest menus in fast food history. The result is that customers do not say they want a burger. They say they want In-N-Out. That is what a category of one looks like, and it is the standard Burger King should be measuring itself against. What Reddit and Mascots Teach Us About Category Thinking The Reddit story carries a powerful lesson that connects directly to Burger King’s situation. Brands are paying agencies thousands of dollars a month to plant fake organic reviews on the one platform consumers trust precisely because nothing there is bought. The panel argued that the real opportunity on Reddit is not manipulation. It is listening. Angry customers are not indifferent customers. They are passionate ones who can be flipped into advocates with radical generosity and a genuine point of view. The mascot trend follows the same pattern. Crocs, Liberty Mutual, Stanley Black and Decker, and others are launching brand characters, but research shows a mascot needs more than three years of consistent use before it delivers measurable results. Most marketing teams do not have three years. Duolingo’s Green Owl succeeded because one person committed to it consistently over five years and built something culturally meaningful. A mascot, like any marketing asset, cannot substitute for a clear category. It can only amplify one that already exists. To hear about the topics in this week's The Pirate Street Journal, download and listen to this episode. You can also read more Pirate Street Journal entries in the Category Pirates newsletter. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, and subscribe on Apple Podcast / Spotify!
Somali piracy is rising again. The buccaneers capitalize on security gaps, targeting cargo ships and demanding multi-million dollar ransoms. On Sunday, nine people were reportedly killed in a drone strike on a small boat off the coast of Somalia, in a series of attacks linked to the hijacking of a Cameroon-flagged vessel. And in Mozambique, a simple paper appointment book is helping tackle long clinic queues hoping to bring healthcare services closer to pregnant women Presenter: Nkechi Ogbonna Producers: Keikantse Shumba, Carolyne Kiambo and Blessing Aderogba Senior Producer: Charles Gitonga Technical Producer: David Nzau Editors: Daniel Dadzie and Maryam Abdalla
Pirate Gold announced field spectral analysis has identified alunite and pyrophyllite alteration across more than 3 km of outcrop and sub-crop at its Clipper Brook target, located 12 km east of the Moby Dick copper-gold discovery within the Crippleback Intrusive Suite. CEO Denis Laviolette spoke to Mining Stock Daily. The alteration sits within a broader electromagnetic resistivity low spanning over 10 km, closely matching the geophysical signature that defined the 3,100 m by 850 m Moby Dick zone, where drilling previously returned 0.54% Cu Eq over 180.8 m, including 1.48% Cu Eq over 49.4 m. The company says the presence of alunite indicates limited erosion and a well-preserved mineral system, and with drill permits now in hand, Pirate Gold is preparing to test Clipper Brook as a second district-scale target on the property.
RADIO PIRATE FREE édition du 25 août 2026 avec Jeff Fillion et sa gang! ________________________________________ 0min00 - Une guerre de mots, de déclarations et d'insultes fusent dans le dossier de l'entente commerciale annulée entre les USA et le Canada. Jeff explique avec Gerry et MisterWhite. (Partie 1) ________________________________________ 15min58 - Une guerre de mots, de déclarations et d'insultes fusent dans le dossier de l'entente commerciale annulée entre les USA et le Canada. Jeff explique avec Gerry et MisterWhite. (Partie 2) _______________________________________ 35min33- Réjean Tremblay se joint à Jeff, Gerry et tous les Pirates pour un podcast sur tout ce qui touche l'actualité, le sport, les médias, la politique, le showbizz, la philosophie, l'histoire, les voyages, la vie et tout le reste. _______________________________________ Le Podcast avec Réjean est une présentation de Pavés Concept. https://pavesconcept.ca/ _______________________________________ 55min36 - Gerry boursicote en nous racontant toute sorte d'histoires reliées à une panoplie de sujets reliés à la bourse. _________________________________________ Substack du Gerry ici https://gerrypizza.substack.com/ _________________________________________ Le Boursicotage avec Gerry est une présentation du Groupe VR 185, le concessionnaire de VR complice de vos vacances depuis plus de 30 ans. https://groupevr185.com/ _______________________________________ Pour plus de 3h30 de contenu PRIME de RADIOPIRATE par jour, abonnez-vous ici https://radiopirateprime.supercast.com/ _______________________________________ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
RADIO PIRATE FREE édition du 24 août 2026 avec Jeff Fillion et sa gang! _______________________________________ 0min00 - Jeff discute avec Gerry de la fin de négociation catastrophique de l'entente commerciale entre les USA de Donald Trump et le Canada de Mark Carney. Que sera maintenant la suite avec nos politiciens opportunistes qui sont prêts à toutes sortes de manigances pour gagner votre vote? (Partie 1) _______________________________________ 15min56 - Jeff discute avec Gerry de la fin de négociation catastrophique de l'entente commerciale entre les USA de Donald Trump et le Canada de Mark Carney. Que sera maintenant la suite avec nos politiciens opportunistes qui sont prêts à toutes sortes de manigances pour gagner votre vote? (Partie 2) _______________________________________ 28min48 - Jeff discute avec Gerry de la fin de négociation catastrophique de l'entente commerciale entre les USA de Donald Trump et le Canada de Mark Carney. Que sera maintenant la suite avec nos politiciens opportunistes qui sont prêts à toutes sortes de manigances pour gagner votre vote? (Partie 3) _______________________________________ 41min38 - Le spectaculaire Jo Hamel fait le tour de l'actualité économique, politique et sociale d'ici et d'ailleurs avec Jeff et Gerry. _______________________________________ Pour plus de 3h30 de contenu PRIME de RADIOPIRATE par jour, abonnez-vous ici https://radiopirateprime.supercast.com/ _______________________________________ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jeff discute avec Gerry de la fin de négociation catastrophique de l'entente commerciale entre les USA de Donald Trump et le Canada de Mark Carney. Que sera maintenant la suite avec nos politiciens opportunistes qui sont prêts à toutes sortes de manigances pour gagner votre vote? Enregistré au studio Pirate le 24 août 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Started the week with that live-streamed school shooting in the Philippines, and then talked about the return of the Somali pirates. Also the Lindsay Clancy trial, Trump visa ban blocked by judges, Japan guy leaves kid behind to summit Mt. Fuji, and a 75-year old priest caught receiving oral sex in a public park by a male registered sex offender.
On November 22, 1987, Chicago sportscaster Dan Roan was recapping a Bears game when WGN suddenly went black. Fifteen seconds later, millions of viewers were staring at a man wearing a rubber Max Headroom mask. Twenty-eight seconds later, he vanished. Then, two hours later, he did it again—this time hijacking a Doctor Who broadcast for ninety bizarre seconds of distorted jokes, obscure WGN references, and a woman with a flyswatter. The FCC and FBI investigated, but nearly forty years later, nobody knows who did it. Tonight, we investigate the Max Headroom signal intrusion: one of the strangest unsolved crimes in television history, committed by someone who may have known far more about WGN than he should have. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistoryTikTok - @hah_podcasthauntedamericanhistory.comPatreon- https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistoryHAH DISCORD - https://discord.com/invite/bJdbpH3hQm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
RADIO PIRATE FREE édition du 21 août 2026 avec Jeff Fillion et sa gang! _________________________________________________ 0min00 - Jeff essaie de comprendre pourquoi du monde capote sur l'arrivée de nouveaux produits américains sur nos tablettes alors que déjà 57% de nos tablettes sont garnies de produits Made In USA! _________________________________________________ 26min51 - Maxime Bernier, chef du Parti Populaire du Canada, est avec Jeff et Gerry pour parler de sa vision et celle de son parti en plein milieu de la négociation actuelle entre le Canada et les USA concernants l'entente commerciale et les tarifs. Puis on parle du dossier du référendum en Alberta à venir plus tard cette année. (Partie 1) https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/fr _________________________________________________ 43min57 - Maxime Bernier, chef du Parti Populaire du Canada, est avec Jeff et Gerry pour parler de sa vision et celle de son parti en plein milieu de la négociation actuelle entre le Canada et les USA concernants l'entente commerciale et les tarifs. Puis on parle du dossier du référendum en Alberta à venir plus tard cette année. (Partie 2) https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/fr _________________________________________________ 53min07 - Maxime Bernier, chef du Parti Populaire du Canada, est avec Jeff et Gerry pour parler de sa vision et celle de son parti en plein milieu de la négociation actuelle entre le Canada et les USA concernants l'entente commerciale et les tarifs. Puis on parle du dossier du référendum en Alberta à venir plus tard cette année. (Partie 3) https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/fr _________________________________________________ Pour plus de 3h30 de contenu PRIME de RADIOPIRATE par jour, abonnez-vous ici https://radiopirateprime.supercast.com/ _________________________________________________ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
RADIO PIRATE FREE édition du 20 août 2026 avec Jeff Fillion et sa gang! _________________________________________________ 0min00 - Le président Trump annonce qu'il a conclut une entente avec le Canada pour la question des tarifs et commerce entre nos deux pays. Faites vous confiance au PM Mark Carney pour qu'on en sorte pas trop perdant? Jeff, Gerry et MisterWhite sont pas sur pantoute! (Partie 1) _________________________________________________ 20min44 - Le président Trump annonce qu'il a conclut une entente avec le Canada pour la question des tarifs et commerce entre nos deux pays. Faites vous confiance au PM Mark Carney pour qu'on en sorte pas trop perdant? Jeff, Gerry et MisterWhite sont pas sur pantoute! (Partie 2) _________________________________________________ 34min12 - Nicolas Gagnon de la Fédération Canadienne des Contribuables est avec nous pour dévoiler les dépenses hors de contrôle à travers tous les paliers gouvernementaux que ce soit municipaux, provinciaux ou nationaux et leurs impacts sur la population. (Partie 1) https://www.contribuables.ca/ Suivez Nicolas sur X https://x.com/LeVraiGagnon _________________________________________________ 48min27 - Nicolas Gagnon de la Fédération Canadienne des Contribuables est avec nous pour dévoiler les dépenses hors de contrôle à travers tous les paliers gouvernementaux que ce soit municipaux, provinciaux ou nationaux et leurs impacts sur la population. (Partie 2) https://www.contribuables.ca/ Suivez Nicolas sur X https://x.com/LeVraiGagnon _________________________________________________ 59min49 - Cette cuvée Grenache (60%), Cinsault (20%) et Syrah (20%), explose d'arômes complexes : fruits rouges et blancs s'associent à des notes florales. Au fil du temps ces arômes fruités évolueront vers des notes plus moelleuses, avec des touches d'épices et de fruits à noyaux. Il dispose, dès la première année, de tous ses arômes mais possède une exceptionnelle potentialité au vieillissement. (Description captée sur https://www.1jour1vin.com/) Gerry l'Aubergiste présente le Tavel Roc Épine Domaine Lafond 2024 https://www.saq.com/fr/13963762 _________________________________________________ Pour plus de 3h30 de contenu PRIME de RADIOPIRATE par jour, abonnez-vous ici https://radiopirateprime.supercast.com/ _________________________________________________ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The business world is obsessed with who has the biggest AI model, the fastest chips, and the most impressive benchmarks. But the real question shaping the next decade of technology is not about computing power. It is about trust. Meta recently made headlines when Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto outlining his vision for democratizing artificial intelligence, and at the same time announced plans to spend up to $145 billion on data centers. Meanwhile, LinkedIn is grappling with an AI content crisis that reveals just how confused platforms are about the role of artificial intelligence in human communication. These stories are connected, and understanding them through a category design lens changes everything about how you see them. This is just some of the topics that Pirates Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon and Bri Clark discuss on this episode of Pirate Street Journal. Each week, the Category Pirates pick three headlines worth paying attention to and break down the category underneath. You're listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let's go. Zuckerberg Meta’s Big Vision Has a Bigger Problem Zuckerberg’s manifesto is genuinely compelling as a piece of category design. He frames a problem, presents a new vision for the future, and positions Meta as the company that will put artificial intelligence into the hands of everyone. That is textbook category design thinking, and directionally, much of what he writes makes a great deal of sense. The problem is that the person delivering this vision is Zuckerberg himself. Meta’s business model is built on advertising, and advertising gets more profitable the more intimately the platform knows you. No matter how inspiring the language in a 6,500-word essay, the underlying give-to-get dynamic remains deeply unfavorable to the user, and a history of privacy scandals makes it nearly impossible to take the trust language seriously. The AI Abundance Argument and Why It Falls Short One of the more attractive ideas in Zuckerberg’s manifesto is the concept of AI abundance, the idea that everyone should have access to powerful artificial intelligence tools for free or at very low cost. On the surface, this sounds generous and even visionary. But abundance without accountability is not a category strategy. It is a data acquisition strategy dressed up in philosophical language. Compare this to what companies like Google have done with moonshot projects such as Waymo and AlphaFold. These initiatives demonstrate a give-to-get dynamic that at least gestures toward broader human benefit. Meta has consistently struggled to articulate what the consumer actually receives beyond the product itself. The metaverse is the clearest example of a massive investment that never produced a meaningful answer to the question of what it was for. LinkedIn’s AI Slop Problem and the Scarlet Letter Trap LinkedIn is now reporting that 41% of long-form posts on the platform are entirely AI generated, and the company has introduced a button allowing users to flag content they suspect was written by artificial intelligence. On the surface this sounds like a reasonable response to a real problem. In practice, it is a dangerous overreaction that punishes legitimate creators alongside lazy ones. The future of creating everything is vibe creating, meaning humans working in genuine collaboration with AI to produce ideas, arguments, and content that reflect real thought and real points of view. Labeling that output as synthetic or slop is the equivalent of telling someone their spreadsheet contains synthetic math. If a piece of content is unhelpful or obvious, the solution is an unfollow button, not an AI scarlet letter that penalizes the tool rather than the thinking behind it. To hear about all the topics in this week's The Pirate Street Journal, download and listen to this episode. You can also read more Pirate Street Journal entries in the Category Pirates newsletter. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, and subscribe on Apple Podcast / Spotify!
RADIO PIRATE FREE édition du 19 août 2026 avec Jeff Fillion et sa gang! _________________________________________________ 0min00 - La maire de Québec Bruno Marchand traite l'événement du pont Pierre Laporte qui a fait un mort et deux blessés grave comme un fait divers. Jeff s'emporte avec Gerry et MisterWhite. _________________________________________________ 14min14 - Trump, Carney, la guerre des tarifs, le référendum et PSPP. Jeff discute de ce beau mélange avec Gerry & MisterWhite. _________________________________________________ 19min07 - Le spectaculaire Jo Hamel fait le tour de l'actualité économique, politique et sportive d'ici et d'ailleurs avec Jeff et Gerry. (Partie 1) _________________________________________________ 38min35 - Le spectaculaire Jo Hamel fait le tour de l'actualité économique, politique et sportive d'ici et d'ailleurs avec Jeff et Gerry. (Partie 2) _________________________________________________ 54min10 - Gerry ouvre sa Boîte aux nouvelles et nous raconte toute sorte d'histoires reliées à une panoplie de sujets, Jeff et MisterWhite commentent. _________________________________________ Substack du Gerry ici https://gerrypizza.substack.com/ _________________________________________________ Pour plus de 3h30 de contenu PRIME de RADIOPIRATE par jour, abonnez-vous ici https://radiopirateprime.supercast.com/ _________________________________________________ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
RADIO PIRATE FREE édition du 18 août 2026 avec Jeff Fillion et sa gang! _________________________________________________ 0min00 - Coups de feu près du pont Pierre-Laporte, un chauffard roule à l'envers du traffic, circulation complètement jammée pendant des heures, on a des détails, merci aux Pirate, à la gang on sait tout, mais il faut qu'on se parle... MisterWhite raconte à Jeff et Gerry. _________________________________________________ 22min13 - Pas de référendum tant que Trump est au pouvoir dit PSPP. Jeff en discute avec Gerry & MisterWhite. _________________________________________________ 40min27 - Les cuts audio les plus particulières des derniers jours choisies par MisterWhite présentées à Jeff et Gerry et aux Pirates avec en prime, les #GerryHorsContexte. _________________________________________________ 1h00min35 - Gerry ouvre sa Boîte aux nouvelles et nous raconte toute sorte d'histoires reliées à une panoplie de sujets, Jeff et MisterWhite commentent. _________________________________________ Substack du Gerry ici https://gerrypizza.substack.com/ _________________________________________________ Pour plus de 3h30 de contenu PRIME de RADIOPIRATE par jour, abonnez-vous ici https://radiopirateprime.supercast.com/ _________________________________________________ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reading Bug Adventures - Original Stories with Music for Kids
A Reading Bug Adventure with Original Songs Ahoy, Reader! Hop into the Reading Bug's magic book bag and set sail with Lauren and the Reading Bug to meet some of the nastiest, rowdiest, smelliest, song-and-dance-iest pirates to ever sail the seven seas! But there's trouble on the high seas — a young girl has been captured by the fearsome Captain Blackbeard and his motley crew, and she needs our help. To get everyone to safety, we'll need to be brave, cunning, and ready for action. Can we outsmart Blackbeard before it's too late? Explore the Magic! Check out the books featured in this adventure at: www.thereadingbug.com/adventures/pirate
RADIO PIRATE FREE édition du 17 août 2026 avec Jeff Fillion et sa gang! _________________________________________________ 0min00 - Coups de feu près du pont Pierre-Laporte, un chauffard roule à l'envers du traffic, circulation complètement jammée pendant des heures, les politiciens qui s'en mêlent. Jeff en discute avec Gerry & MisterWhite dans sa Poubelle de Nouvelles. (Partie 1) _________________________________________________ 13min53 - Coups de feu près du pont Pierre-Laporte, un chauffard roule à l'envers du traffic, circulation complètement jammée pendant des heures, les politiciens qui s'en mêlent. Jeff en discute avec Gerry & MisterWhite dans sa Poubelle de Nouvelles. (Partie 2) _________________________________________________ 27min17 - Réjean Tremblay se joint à Jeff, Gerry et tous les Pirates pour un podcast sur tout ce qui touche l'actualité, le sport, les médias, la politique, le showbizz, la philosophie, l'histoire, les voyages et tout le reste. _________________________________________________ Le Podcast avec Réjean est une présentation de Pavés Concept https://pavesconcept.ca/ _________________________________________________ 43min51 - Gerry ouvre sa Boîte aux nouvelles et nous raconte toute sorte d'histoires reliées à une panoplie de sujets, Jeff et MisterWhite commentent. _________________________________________ Substack du Gerry ici https://gerrypizza.substack.com/ _________________________________________________ Pour plus de 3h30 de contenu PRIME de RADIOPIRATE par jour, abonnez-vous ici https://radiopirateprime.supercast.com/ _________________________________________________ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ever want to reach out to us? Send us an email and let us know how we are doing. Reach out to adamandeddiedumbshow@gmail.com and maybe you'll be part of the show! Also check us out on facebook, tiktok, and youtube! Just search Adam and Eddie Dumbshow! Eddie has been sailing the high seas with Pirate Rum for so long that it forced Adam to watch a bunch of movies. Listen to Adam's Hot Takes on The Mandolorian and Grogu, Disclosure Day, Leave the World Behind, The Last House, and Jackass Best and Last. Stick around to hear his grumblings on those movies and then stay for Eddies tales on the High Seas. Just don't ever ask him about Big Black Dick Pirate Rum, you may never hear the end of it! This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm
[REDIFFUSION] Bienvenue dans les Fabuleux Destin, le podcast pour découvrir des histoires vraies et étonnantes, racontées par Andréa Brusque. Cette semaine, plongez dans l'incroyable épopée de l'un des pirates les plus connus de l'histoire. Corsaire mystérieux, flibustier légendaire, c'est l'une des figures mythiques de l'âge d'or de la Piraterie. Son nom : Barbe Noire. De l'essor de la république pirate à son inéluctable déclin. Découvrez ce Fabuleux Destins. Pirate jusqu'à la mort Des semaines sans voir la lumière du jour. Une soif telle qu'il n'en a jamais connu, et qui le pousse à lécher le sol humide du matin au soir. William Howard vit un cauchemar dont il ne voit pas la fin : il est hanté quotidiennement par les cris lointains de prisonniers qui, comme lui, sont entravés par des chaînes tranchantes et rouillées. La volonté de fer qui a fait sa force pendant des années le quitte un peu plus à mesure que défilent ses journées d'agonie. Longtemps, il s'est accroché à la devise que son équipage répétait avant chaque combat : « Les hommes de Barbe Noire ne se rendent jamais. » … Mais il ne se fait plus d'illusions maintenant : il sait qu'il va finir par parler, par révéler l'endroit où son mentor se cache. … Depuis le blocus de Charleston, son ancien capitaine, s'est, en effet, retiré dans un lieu si difficile à trouver que les autorités commencent à croire qu'il n'existe sur aucune carte… Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Clément Prévaux Voix : Andréa Brusque Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Did an Egyptian princess really travel across the ancient world and give Scotland its name? In Episode 207 of Ninjas Are Butterflies, we dive into the bizarre legend of Scota, the mysterious figure some ancient traditions connect to Egypt, Ireland, and the origins of Scotland. But that's only the beginning. We investigate the horrifying story of the Black Hole of Calcutta and ask how much of the version passed down through history actually happened, before uncovering the unbelievable story of Captain Henry Every — the pirate who pulled off one of the greatest scores in history, became one of the most wanted men on Earth, and then seemingly vanished without a trace. Ancient bloodlines, disputed history, buried treasure, missing pirates, and mysteries that somehow get stranger the deeper you go. This is Ninjas Are Butterflies. Thanks to Monarch for partnering with this show. Go to https://monarch.com and use code NINJAS to get 50% off your first year of Monarch Core. #ad This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit Betterhelp.com/ninjas today to get 10% off your first month. #ad Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/5ay8eqzk #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Savings provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. #ad Get MORE Exclusive Ninjas Are Butterflies Content by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NinjasAreButterflies NEW EPISODES EVERY FRIDAY @ 11:15AM EST! Ninja Merch: https://www.sundaycoolswag.com/ Start Your Custom Apparel Order Here: https://bit.ly/NinjasYT-SundayCool Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this special 7,000+ word extended autopsy set to the aggressive thrash metal of golden-era Metallica, I dismantle the terminal rot, financial death spirals, and internal cartel wars tearing the Russian Federation apart.From 20-kilometer hallucinations on Putin's desk maps and university trick-contracts sending medical students to the front, to 1,400km drone voids over Bashkortostan, the 6.5 trillion ruble deficit, and Tatiana Montyan's violent collision with her own FSB masters. We take an extensive deep-dive into the dynastic panic in Grozny, where Ramzan Kadyrov is hoarding a pristine 36,000-man Praetorian Guard for the upcoming North Caucasus war.Finally, we bring the hammer down with an unvarnished tribute to Anna Politkovskaya and Boris Nemtsov—the journalists and visionaries who saw the dragon in the room long before the world woke up.Car4Ukraine Eastern Border Summer Campaign! https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/summer-sunshine-trucks-2026-eastern-border Become our patron: https://www.patreon.com/theeasternborder Merch store + another option for memberships: https://theeasternborder-shop.fourthwall.com/ Follow what's going on here in the very border of Eastern Europe: https://bsky.app/profile/theeasternborder.lv Download all episodes for free on our website; pictures accompanying certain episodes can be found there as well! http://theeasternborder.lv/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kathy Clugston and the panel visit Clarkston Halls near Glasgow.Joining Kathy are botanist James Wong, Birmingham Botanical Gardens' Head Gardener Bethan Collerton, and Balmoral's Head of Gardens Kirsty Wilson.The panel answers questions on overwintering anemone corms, revitalising a gloomy shaded corner beneath mature lime trees, and whether an unheated Scottish greenhouse is suitable for growing peaches.They also discuss a mysteriously weeping houseplant, what might be causing a Japanese maple to decline, and why healthy nasturtiums can sometimes produce plenty of leaves but no flowers.Plus, Kirsty shares some late-summer pruning tips, and the panel reveal the gardening advice they would give to anyone just starting out.Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith Assistant Producer: William NortonA Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4* If listening on BBC Sounds and you wish to view the plant list, please go to the Gardeners' Question Time website and open this week's episode page.Tickets are available for the BBC Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time Summer Party 2026 held at RHS Garden Wisley on Saturday 5th September. Information and ticket details can be accessed via: https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley/whats-on/gardeners-question-time-summer-garden-party
Bob Walk joins the show! What did Bob see from Braxton Ashcraft last night? He said that it was the best pitching performance by any Pirate this season. Does Paul Skenes need to be shut down for the rest of the year? Bob says that Skenes needs to be honest with himself and the team as some players will never turn the ball down. What does Bob expect for the rest of the Pirates' season?
RADIO PIRATE FREE édition du 14 août 2026 avec Jeff Fillion et sa gang! _________________________________________________ 0min00 - Jeff félicite le PCQ de Éric Duhaime qui promet de couper 47 G$ dans l'État québécois sur 5 ans dans un premier mandat. _________________________________________________ 23min15 - Conseiller financier avec plus de 125 employés à sa charge, producteur de gin, consul de Monaco au Vanuatu, notre Pirate des îles lointaines effectue sa visite annuelle en studio. Martin St-Hilaire discute entre autre de comment bien veillir et entretenir notre corps dans un monde ou nous sommes tous très occupé par autres choses avec Jeff, Gerry et MisterWhite. _________________________________________________ 46min45 - Gerry ouvre sa Boîte aux nouvelles et nous raconte toute sorte d'histoires reliées à une panoplie de sujets, Jeff et MisterWhite commentent. (Partie 1) _________________________________________________ 1h01min14 - Gerry ouvre sa Boîte aux nouvelles et nous raconte toute sorte d'histoires reliées à une panoplie de sujets, Jeff et MisterWhite commentent. (Partie 2) _________________________________________________ Substack du Gerry ici https://gerrypizza.substack.com/ _________________________________________________ Pour plus de 3h30 de contenu PRIME de RADIOPIRATE par jour, abonnez-vous ici https://radiopirateprime.supercast.com/ _________________________________________________ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
RADIO PIRATE FREE édition du 13 août 2026 avec Jeff Fillion et sa gang! _________________________________________________ 0min00 - Les négociations entre Trump et Carney piétinnent. Comment faire pour que tout ça débloquent en faveur des deux nations? Jeff, Gerry et MisterWhite en discutent. (Partie 1) _________________________________________________ 14min56 - Les négociations entre Trump et Carney piétinnent. Comment faire pour que tout ça débloquent en faveur des deux nations? Jeff, Gerry et MisterWhite en discutent. (Partie 2) _________________________________________________ 29min08 - Jo Hamel fait le tour de l'actualité économique, politique et sportive d'ici et d'ailleurs avec Jeff et Gerry. (Partie 1) _________________________________________________ 51min07 - Jo Hamel fait le tour de l'actualité économique, politique et sportive d'ici et d'ailleurs avec Jeff et Gerry. (Partie 2) _________________________________________________ 1h11min20 - Le Tread Softly Pinot Grigio est un vin blanc frais et vibrant originaire d'Australie-Méridionale, produit par Fourth Wave Wine. Il se distingue par un degré d'alcool modéré et des arômes délicats de citron, de pomme et de poire. Gerry l'Aubergiste présente le Tread Softly Pinot Grigio 2025 https://www.saq.com/fr/15597188 _________________________________________________ Pour plus de 3h30 de contenu PRIME de RADIOPIRATE par jour, abonnez-vous ici https://radiopirateprime.supercast.com/ _________________________________________________ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Most business coverage focuses on companies, products, and technologies. Rarely does anyone ask the more important question: what is actually happening inside the market category that makes a business win or lose? The Pirate Street Journal exists to answer exactly that question. On this episode, Christopher, Eddie, and Bri unpacked three stories that expose how business really works, starting with one of the most surprising turnarounds in the restaurant industry: Chili’s is up over 500% since 2022, and the secret had nothing to do with artificial intelligence. The story of Chili’s parent company Brinker International challenges nearly every assumption that modern business culture makes about technology and growth. While the broader corporate world chases AI pilots and flashy robotics programs, Chili’s went the other direction. Their CIO Chris Caldwell invested in the fundamentals, and the results speak for themselves. Understanding why this worked requires looking at the deeper principles of category design and what it truly means to solve the right problem. This is just one of the topics that Pirates Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon and Bri Clark discuss on this episode of Pirate Street Journal. Each week, the Category Pirates pick three headlines worth paying attention to and break down the category underneath. You're listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let's go. Chili’s Bet on Basics Over Buzzwords Chili’s success came from a two-year Wi-Fi overhaul across 1,200 restaurants, 23,000 iPads to replace tablets that could not hold a charge through a shift, and 9,000 kitchen touch screens. The CIO’s team brainstormed dozens of AI use cases and kept only six or seven. They killed the robot servers entirely. What Chili’s actually did was identify the lowercase problems first, like whether staff could communicate with each other, before reaching for a technology solution. Communication is at the heart of what makes a restaurant work. As the hosts pointed out, anyone who has watched the show “The Bear” understands how high-stakes and fast-moving kitchen environments are. Chili’s fixed the foundation, and in doing so, created a compounding advantage over competitors who were chasing novelty. Twenty consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth is not luck. It is what happens when a business solves the right problem with the right tool. Small Businesses Have the Biggest Leapfrog Opportunity The Census Bureau data that the three discuss reveals something striking. Between December and May, only 17 to 20 percent of American businesses reported using AI at all, and that number did not move over five months. The widest adoption gap exists between large companies and small ones. Yet paradoxically, small and medium-sized businesses may have the biggest opportunity right now because they can move faster and are not weighed down by bureaucracy. Christopher pointed out that the S&P 493, meaning the S&P 500 minus the Magnificent Seven, spends roughly twice as much on dividends and stock buybacks as it does on innovation. Stock buybacks are essentially a company admitting it has run out of ideas. Small businesses, by contrast, can adopt AI as a co-founder and reimagine their operations from the ground up in 12 to 18 months, something a legacy corporation simply cannot do at the same speed. The Real Lesson From Chili’s Is About Problem-First Thinking The Chili’s story is ultimately a lesson in what the hosts call problem-first thinking. Rather than starting with a solution like robots or AI and working backward, Chili’s started with the fundamental challenge of any restaurant: how do you feed a lot of people, make them happy, and maximize the number of table turns and ticket sizes? Every technology decision followed from that question. That discipline is what separates genuine business transformation from expensive experimentation. The three drew a parallel to restaurant culture in Asia, where customers pay before eating, and a simple button at the table replaces the need to flag down a server. These are not sophisticated technologies. They are elegant solutions to clearly defined problems. Chili’s proved that the most celebrated turnaround in casual dining did not require a robot. It required leadership willing to ask what was actually broken and fix that, first. To hear about all the topics in this week's The Pirate Street Journal, download and listen to this episode. You can also read more Pirate Street Journal entries in the Category Pirates newsletter. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, and subscribe on Apple Podcast / Spotify!
Tonight the guys give their after action report from the 2026 GOALS in Iowa. They talk about what they saw, what they liked, who they met, and their overall impressions of the show. Then they revisit some of the more controversial firearms they got their hands on, which mostly means arguing about the Stenzel SAK-21 and whether seeing it in person changed any minds.
RADIO PIRATE FREE édition du 12 août 2026 avec Jeff Fillion et sa gang! _________________________________________________ 0min00 - «C'est rendu gênant pour les jeunes d'être en couple», ce titre d'un extrait de la radio de COGECO fait réagir Jeff, Gerry et MisterWhite. _________________________________________________ 22min13 - Les cuts audio les plus particulières des derniers jours choisies par MisterWhite présentées à Jeff et Gerry et aux Pirates avec en prime, les #GerryHorsContexte. _________________________________________________ 47min15 - Réjean Tremblay se joint à Jeff, Gerry et tous les Pirates pour un podcast sur tout ce qui touche l'actualité, le sport, les médias, la politique, le showbizz, la philosophie, l'histoire, les voyages et tout le reste. _________________________________________________ Réjean Tremblay est une présentation de Pavés Concept https://pavesconcept.ca/ _________________________________________________ 1h10min06 - Gerry ouvre sa Boîte aux nouvelles et nous raconte toute sorte d'histoires reliées à une panoplie de sujets, Jeff et MisterWhite commentent. _________________________________________ Substack du Gerry ici https://gerrypizza.substack.com/ _________________________________________________ Pour plus de 3h30 de contenu PRIME de RADIOPIRATE par jour, abonnez-vous ici https://radiopirateprime.supercast.com/ _________________________________________________ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reading Bug Adventures - Original Stories with Music for Kids
A Reading Bug Adventure with Original Songs Part 2 of 2. Ahoy, Reader! Hop into the Reading Bug's magic book bag and set sail with Lauren and the Reading Bug to meet some of the nastiest, rowdiest, smelliest, song-and-dance-iest pirates to ever sail the seven seas! But there's trouble on the high seas — a young girl has been captured by the fearsome Captain Blackbeard and his motley crew, and she needs our help. To get everyone to safety, we'll need to be brave, cunning, and ready for action. Can we outsmart Blackbeard before it's too late? Explore the Magic! Check out the books featured in this adventure at: www.thereadingbug.com/adventures/pirate
What makes a brand worth betting on? Ken Sadowsky, affectionately known as "The Beverage Whisperer," returns to Taste Radio with a sharp look at where the biggest opportunities — and potential pitfalls — are emerging across the beverage category. A senior advisor at Verlinvest, board director at Vita Coco and Icelandic Glacial, and early-stage investor in several emerging beverage brands, Ken explains why coconut water still has plenty of runway, what founders can learn from playing the long game, and why he believes colostrum could represent the next big functional beverage opportunity. Ken also shares his perspective on the rise of caffeine-free energy, hydration, matcha, protein and functional beverages. He also offers candid takes on celebrity-backed brands, flavor versus function, packaging, category positioning and the question he asks when evaluating any new beverage. Show notes: 0:20: Ken Sadowsky, Sr. Advisor, Verlinvest – Ken kicks things off by praising his beloved Red Sox before sharing his perspective on why coconut water has quietly become one of beverage's fastest-growing categories. He explains how strategic decisions by major beverage companies can temporarily shape retailer perceptions of an entire category, and why occasion- and benefit-based shopping may increasingly blur traditional category lines, particularly in smaller-format stores. Ken also discusses several emerging brands in his investment portfolio, including Rite, a caffeine-free energy drink powered by ketones and paraxanthine, and Leisure Hydration, which he sees as a function-first product with a more relaxed approach to hydration. He and Ray also evaluate products from Stillers, Yass, Gimber, Fizzin Protein and Grind. At the heart of Ken's philosophy is a simple question: Why will a consumer buy the product again? While functional benefits can drive trial, he argues that taste remains critical to repeat purchase in most categories. For founders, he emphasizes the importance of spending time in stores, studying the competitive set and allowing consumers to determine where a product belongs rather than relying too heavily on conventional category definitions. Ken also weighs in on celebrity-backed brands, arguing that celebrity involvement can drive discovery but is far more powerful when the celebrity genuinely invests in and believes in the business. He reflects on the extraordinary velocity of beverages compared with other CPG categories and explains why he often asks if a brand has the potential to sell a billion cans. Brands in this episode: Vita Coco, Harmless Harvest, Zico, Gatorade, Red Bull, Monster Energy, Celsius, Rite Energy, Parch, Subourbon Life, Ponyboy Slings, MOTH Cocktails, Spikedade, Super Lyte, Yass, Orange Toucan, Leisure Hydration, Spindrift, Coca-Cola, Neau Water, Eatyx, Oshee, Stiller's, Gimber, Vitaminwater, Pirate's Booty, AriZona Beverages, Ancient Nutrition, Fair Life, Fizzen Protein, Protein Pop, Grind, Onyx Coffee, Donpon Energy
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RADIO PIRATE FREE édition du 11 août 2026 avec Jeff Fillion et sa gang! _________________________________________________ 0min00 - Jeff Le marché de l'emploi et la pénurie de main-d'œuvre, l'impact de l'université sur la jeunesse, voici une partie des sujets traités dans les RP NEWS d'aujourd'hui. (Partie 1) _________________________________________________ 13min53 - Jeff Le marché de l'emploi et la pénurie de main-d'œuvre, l'impact de l'université sur la jeunesse, voici une partie des sujets traités dans les RP NEWS d'aujourd'hui. (Partie 2) _________________________________________________ 27min17 - Gerry ouvre sa Boîte aux nouvelles et nous raconte toute sorte d'histoires reliées à une panoplie de sujets, Jeff et MisterWhite commentent. _________________________________________________ 43min51 - Gerry boursicote en nous racontant toute sorte d'histoires reliées à une panoplie de sujets reliés à la bourse. _________________________________________ Substack du Gerry ici https://gerrypizza.substack.com/ _________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Pour plus de 3h30 de contenu PRIME de RADIOPIRATE par jour, abonnez-vous ici https://radiopirateprime.supercast.com/ _________________________________________________ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
RADIO PIRATE FREE édition du 10 août 2026 avec Jeff Fillion et sa gang! _________________________________________________ 0min00 - Jeff discute des prochains sujets que devrait aborder le PCQ d'Éric Dumaine pour frapper un grand coup pour la campagne électorale actuelle. (Partie 1) _________________________________________________ 14min08 - Jeff discute des sujets que devrait aborder le PCQ d'Éric Dumaine pour frapper un grand coup pour la campagne électorale actuelle. (Partie 2) _________________________________________________ 43min56 - Gerry ouvre sa Boîte aux nouvelles et nous raconte toute sorte d'histoires reliées à une panoplie de sujets, Jeff et MisterWhite commentent. _________________________________________________ Substack du Gerry ici https://gerrypizza.substack.com/ _________________________________________________ 1h25min02 - Alors que l'on a instauré des politiques de prix dans tous les secteurs d'activités, il faut apprendre à dire NON! Jeff explique aux Pirates. _________________________________________________ Pour plus de 3h30 de contenu PRIME de RADIOPIRATE par jour, abonnez-vous ici https://radiopirateprime.supercast.com/ _________________________________________________ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Carth and Scrybe have a chat about stuff again.
We celebrate episode 700 the only way we know how, talking about video games and covering the latest industry news! We kick things off with Jocelyn's time with Corsair Cove now that it's launched, while Ryan updates us on the next TGI Game Club with Transistor. Over in the news, Sony says they're pushing forward with ditching discs, Dave Bautista may be up for the Kratos TV role, the next Fire Emblem gets a Nintendo Direct, and Electronic Arts has officially sold for $55 billion.Discussion00:00:00 - Corsair Cove00:20:39 - Transistor00:30:48 - NewsImportant StuffSupport us on PatreonDiscord ChannelEmail the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Benjamin Hornigold... Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced recreates the key people, places and events of the Golden Age Of Piracy. The game puts players in the salty shoes of Captain Edward Kenway as he rubs shoulders with real historical pirates as they fight for their freedom from the British and Spanish empires.In the final episode of this special series, Matt Lewis is joined by the game's Narrative Director Joel Janisse, and Level Design Director Julien Koch to find out how Ubisoft meticulously recreated the world of pirates with new historical details; and what were the biggest challenges of revisiting a fan-favourite game?Echoes of History is a Ubisoft podcast, brought to you by History Hit. You can watch this interview on YouTube.Hosted by: Matt LewisEdited by: Robin McConnellProduced by: Robin McConnellSenior Producer: Anne-Marie LuffProduction Manager: Beth DonaldsonExecutive Producers: Etienne Bouvier, Julien Fabre, Steve Lanham, Jen BennettMusic:A Short Life But A Merry One by Brian TylerAssassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Theme by Brian TylerIf you liked this podcast please subscribe, share, rate & review. Take part in our listener survey here.Tell us your favourite Assassin's Creed game or podcast episode at echoes-of-history@historyhit.comChapters00:00 - Introduction02:09 - Did you reuse assets from the OG Black Flag?09:31 - New decade, new tech: how did you stay faithful to Black Flag?12:21 - Did you do new historical research?14:10 - What's your favourite historic detail?16:31 - Why is it called "Resynced"?20:07 - Narrative vs Level Design21:49 - Does History get in the way of Gameplay?26:09 - 2013 vs 2026: the changes to working on Black Flag 29:48 - What's your favourite level/mission in the game?30:15 - New Crew: are they based on historical people?33:56 - Avoiding Pirate Tropes37:28 - Did Matt Ryan re-record his performance as Edward Kenway?39:31 - Why remake Black Flag?44:17 - Why did Ubisoft remove the Abstergo sequences?45:56 - Combat gameplay: fighting like a true pirate47:56 - What did you learn making this game?50:23 - What other games will be Resynced? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Pirates fan favorite Josh Harrison joins the show right now! Does Josh get sick of hearing about the play against the Mets where he avoided the tag? He says he doesn't get sick of it but gets reminded of it a lot during the Holiday's. Josh's favorite memory as a Pirate was his first walk-off hit on Mother's Day in front of his mom and grandmother. An EAS alert ended the interview early. The guys discuss the player Harrison was and how important he was to fans. Do any current Pirates remind them of Harrison?
On this episode of The Pirate Street Journal on Chistopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different, the trio tackled three major business stories that mainstream financial media fumbled. From Google’s record-breaking quarter to AI disrupting the legal industry and a historic merger of black-owned banks, the conversation offered a perspective that most financial journalists simply miss because they focus on companies rather than market categories. This is just one of the topics that Pirates Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon and Bri Clark discuss on this episode of Pirate Street Journal. Each week, the Category Pirates pick three headlines worth paying attention to and break down the category underneath. You're listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let's go. Google’s Negative Free Cash Flow Is Not the Story You Think It Is Google’s parent company, Alphabet, posted second-quarter revenue of $119.8 billion, up 24% year over year. Cloud revenue surged 82%, net income jumped nearly 300% to $112 billion, and the cloud backlog hit $514 billion. By nearly every rational business measure, this was a historic performance. Yet the stock fell because free cash flow turned negative for the first time in company history, prompting the Wall Street Journal to run a dramatic chart they called “Alphabet’s cash flow falling off a cliff.” What the Journal conveniently left out is that Alphabet is sitting on $242 billion in cash and marketable securities. The negative free cash flow is the direct result of Google doubling its capital expenditures to $44.9 billion in a single quarter, raising its full-year CapEx guidance past $200 billion. This is not a company bleeding out. This is a company making one of the largest strategic bets in the history of technology. Google Is Quietly Achieving Something That Almost Never Happens For the first time in recent memory, Google Cloud’s incremental revenue growth in absolute dollar terms outpaced Google Search. Cloud added $11 billion in incremental revenue during the quarter while Search added $8.3 billion. Search is still a monster business, still growing, still one of the greatest category king positions ever built on the internet. But Cloud has crossed a threshold that very few people are talking about seriously enough. This is extraordinary because history shows that dominant category kings almost never successfully pioneer into a new category at scale. Google is refuting the Innovator’s Dilemma in real time, alongside Microsoft. Both companies are investing in AI infrastructure at a pace that reflects how massive the category potential truly is. The aggregate CapEx guidance for the Mag Seven this year sits between $700 and $750 billion, and that arms race exists because the stakes are unlike anything the technology industry has ever seen before. Google’s Sleeper Advantage Could Define the Next Era of Consumer Technology Beyond the financial results, Google holds a strategic position that most analysts overlook entirely. The company that successfully builds a mega consumer AI agent, one that aggregates your email, calendar, messages, social activity, and daily life into a single intelligent interface, will own what Christopher calls the experience layer of AI. Google, with Gmail, Google Calendar, and its vast suite of personal productivity tools, is one of only two companies genuinely positioned to build that product. Apple is the other. What gives Google an additional edge that even Apple cannot easily replicate is YouTube. YouTube functions as the world’s largest knowledge repository, a platform where human expertise, creativity, and information accumulate at an unimaginable scale. The moment Google’s Gemini AI can perform deep inference learning on YouTube’s content library, the competitive moat becomes extraordinarily difficult to cross. Paired with the return of co-founder Sergey Brin and a CEO who appears to be operating in genuine partnership with the company’s founding vision, Google is not a company in decline. It is a company in transformation, and that is a very different thing entirely. To hear about all the topics in this week's The Pirate Street Journal, download and listen to this episode. You can also read more Pirate Street Journal entries in the Category Pirates newsletter. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, and subscribe on Apple Podcast / Spotify!
Great Pacific Gold has reshaped its leadership team while advancing drilling at the flagship Wild Dog Project in Papua New Guinea. Pirate Gold identified widespread advanced argillic alteration at the Clipper Brook target within its Treasure Island Project in central Newfoundland. Outcrop Silver reported high-grade results from the Morena and Aguilar targets at its Santa Ana silver-gold project in Colombia. Asante Gold updated the mineral inventories at its Bibiani and Chirano mines in Ghana, reporting a combined 4.6 million ounces of measured and indicated resources, plus 1.8 million inferred ounces. Osisko Gold reported drilling from the Proserpine target, seven kilometres southeast of its Cariboo Gold deposit in British Columbia. Galway Metals reported fourteen holes from the Southwest Deposit at its Clarence Stream gold project in New Brunswick. Aztec Minerals reported step-out results from its Tombstone Project in Arizona, expanding shallow oxide gold-silver mineralization into the newly acquired North Extension Zone. Adyton Resources increased the indicated resource at its Gameta Gold Project on Fergusson Island, Papua New Guinea, by 131 percent following its 2025 infill drilling program. And with a big shout-out to our own Trevor Hall, I'm pleased to report that Mr. Hall has joined the board of directors for Apex Critical Metals, adding mining-sector communications and community-engagement experience as the company advances the Rift Rare Earth Project in Nebraska. The Mining Stock Daily morning briefing is produced by Clear Commodity Network. It is distributed throughout the world through your podcast network of choice, and at Clear Commodity Network.The information presented should not be considered investment advice. Mining Stock Daily and its affiliates are not responsible for any loss arising from any investment decision in connection with the material presented herein. Please do your own research or speak with a licensed financial representative before making any investment decisions.Integra is a growing precious metals producer in the Great Basin of the Western United States. Integra is focused on demonstrating profitability and operational excellence at its principal operating asset, the Florida Canyon Mine, located in Nevada. In addition, Integra is committed to advancing its flagship development-stage heap leach projects: the past producing DeLamar Project located in southwestern Idaho, and the Nevada North Project located in western Nevada. Learn more about the business and their high industry standards over at integraresources.comVizsla Silver is advancing the Panuco silver-gold project in Sinaloa, Mexico — one of the highest-grade silver development projects in the world. The project hosts the world's largest, undeveloped high-grade silver resource, and the company has been aggressively expanding its drill program to grow that resource ahead of a development decision. Learn more at vizslasilver.ca.Equinox Gold is a growth-focused gold producer operating mines across the Americas. With cornerstone assets like the Greenstone Mine in Ontario and the Valentine Gold Project in Newfoundland & Labrador, Equinox is advancing a new generation of large-scale, long-life gold operations. Learn more about their portfolio and development pipeline at equinoxgold.com.Revival Gold is one of the largest pure gold mine developer operating in the United States. The Company is advancing the Mercur Gold Project in Utah and mine permitting preparations and ongoing exploration at the Beartrack-Arnett Gold Project located in Idaho. Revival Gold is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the ticker symbol “RVG” and trades on the OTCQX Market under the ticker symbol “RVLGF”. Learn more about the company at revival-dash-gold.com
"It's a difficult thing, to separate legend from story from memory from fact." Folklore and legend are critical components to any culture, passing tidbits of local history and lessons learned through generations. The idea of the folk hero in particular plays an important role in creating this legacy, rooted in the idea of benevolence and a direct connection to the people themselves. As a child, author Isaac Fitzgerald was always captivated by the tales of Johnny Appleseed, drawn in by family ties to the legend. Spurred on by his father's larger-than-life stories and a shared restlessness to leave home and discover what lies beyond, Fitzgerald found himself compelled to go on a new adventure. In American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed, Fitzgerald sets out on a particularly ambitious hike: walk from Massachusetts to Indiana, following Appleseed's path and turning a childhood fascination into a year-long personal journey. American Rambler recounts both the tangible and emotional trails Fitzgerald uncovered along the way, littered with explorations of loss and grief, ritual and faith. Fitzgerald invites readers to meander beside him– stopping everywhere from grimy gas-station bathrooms to scenic apple picking destinations– with reflection, humor, and humility. Blending memoir, history, and travelogue through the American heartland, American Rambler presents a welcome step away from the breakneck pace of modern life and a return to the roots of connection. Isaac Fitzgerald is the New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts. He is also the author of the bestselling children's book How to Be a Pirate as well as the co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (winner of an IACP Award). He appears frequently on The Today Show, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, The Guardian, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and numerous other publications. He lives with his wife on the North Fork of Long Island. Jon Mooallem is the author of three books, Wild Ones, This is Chance! and the essay collection Serious Face. He lives on Bainbridge Island. Buy the Book American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed Elliott Bay Book Company
Reading Bug Adventures - Original Stories with Music for Kids
A Reading Bug Adventure with Original Songs Part 1 of 2. Ahoy, Reader! Hop into the Reading Bug's magic book bag and set sail with Lauren and the Reading Bug to meet some of the nastiest, rowdiest, smelliest, song-and-dance-iest pirates to ever sail the seven seas! But there's trouble on the high seas — a young girl has been captured by the fearsome Captain Blackbeard and his motley crew, and she needs our help. To get everyone to safety, we'll need to be brave, cunning, and ready for action. Can we outsmart Blackbeard before it's too late? Explore the Magic! Check out the books featured in this adventure at: www.thereadingbug.com/adventures/pirate
Jason kicked off his birthday week celebration with a quick Disney trip! Holly went to East Tennessee -- Dollywood, Downtown Flavortown, and Buc-ee's! And Colleen went to SummerSlam 2026!"This is awesome" -- more SummerSlam dish from Colleen, we discuss Ariana Grande stepping away from "visibility," and Jared Leto faces criminal sexual conduct allegations in a new BBC documentary. SCREEN QUEENS: Colleen and Holly finished Apple TV's "Cape Fear," Jason watched the first episode of "The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare," and we're all watching the trainwreck that is "Project Runway" Season 22. Jason tried a new pirate-themed tavern at the Magic Kingdom that might be an introvert's nightmare. Be sure to order the marrrrrrgarita if you go! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Adam Crowley doesn't understand how several Pirate fans are expressing on Monday that they want the team to sell instead of buy at the MLB Trade Deadline this year.
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We are living through a fundamental shift in how businesses operate, compete, and create value. The Pirate Street Journal, hosted by Christopher, Eddie, and Bri, breaks down three major business stories through the category design lens, revealing a common thread that most mainstream business coverage misses entirely. That thread is AI data, and how the companies and individuals who understand it best are quietly rewriting the rules of entire industries. From energy infrastructure to ice cream shops to management consulting, the signal is clear and growing louder. This is just one of the topics that Pirates Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon and Bri Clark discuss on this episode of Pirate Street Journal. Each week, the Category Pirates pick three headlines worth paying attention to and break down the category underneath. You're listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let's go. Portable Power and the AI Energy Race China now controls 90% of the world’s battery storage cells, and the top ten storage cell manufacturers on Earth are all Chinese. The easy read on this is that the centralized, top-down model has already won. But the more interesting story is happening on the other side of the equation, where pioneers are refusing to wait for governments to build grids and are instead making power portable, distributed, and locally owned. Elon Musk quietly acquired a mobile power company capable of deploying a functional power plant in 30 days and driving it wherever demand exists. Tesla is simultaneously selling Mega Packs to cities experiencing brownouts while offering Powerwalls to individual homeowners. The insight here is that AI data is driving the need for entirely new power infrastructure, and the winners will not necessarily be the nations with the biggest grids. They will be the builders who understand that decentralized, distributed power networks can outmaneuver any centralized system when speed and flexibility matter most. Eddie raises the concept of a “Mega Pod,” a combination of batteries and GPUs in a scalable unit that could allow businesses, farms, and institutions with unused land to generate power, offset costs, and participate in a distributed data center economy. This is AI data infrastructure being rebuilt from the bottom up, and the annuity potential mirrors what Alaskan citizens receive from oil revenues every year. Niche Down AI Data and the Rise of the Small Company Ben Affleck sold a stealth AI startup called Inner Positive to Netflix for $587 million. The company trained small models on individual film footage, replicating a director’s lighting style and visual language to accelerate post-production. An ice cream shop in downtown Los Angeles used prediction markets to hedge against cold weather, covering nearly half its monthly rent. A seven-person software company hit $10 million in revenue doing the work that once required 50 employees. These three stories appear unrelated on the surface, but they share a single strategic insight. Each one identified a narrow, specific type of AI data that nobody else was paying attention to and built an economic advantage around it. The Ben Affleck startup did not steal from other artists. It used a creator’s own footage as training data, producing tools that serve the creator rather than extract from them. The ice cream shop owner recognized that temperature data was weakness data for his business and converted it into a revenue stream through smart financial instruments. What AI is doing for smaller operators and independent entrepreneurs is lowering the barriers to prosecuting what Christopher Lochhead calls the magic triangle, building a legendary company, product, and category simultaneously. The surplus economics of AI are not accruing only to OpenAI, Anthropic, or the Mag Seven. They are flowing toward anyone willing to identify the weird data specific to their own situation and build something original with it. Consulting and the Death of the Billable Hour McKinsey now ties 25% of its global fees to outcomes rather than hours. Bain reports that 30% of its business is AI and tech enabled, with ambitions to reach 50%. BCG expects AI work to jump from roughly 20% of revenue to 40% within a year. These are not small firms experimenting at the margins. These are the most conservative, hour-worshipping institutions in the professional services world, and they are cracking under the pressure of a new reality driven by AI data and what it makes possible. The billable hour was always a proxy for value, not a measure of it. What consulting firms are beginning to acknowledge is that AI data and the tools built around it can compress the time required for entry-level analytical work dramatically, which means the old pricing model no longer reflects what clients are actually buying. The shift from time-based to outcome-based compensation is not unique to consulting. It is the direction that professional compensation has been moving across all sectors for decades, from hourly wages to salaries to bonuses to equity. Eddie frames this shift clearly. People who are naturally oriented toward outcomes and who understand how to use AI data to drive measurable results are going to be rewarded more generously than ever before. Those who have relied on time as their unit of exchange, without a clear connection to the value they produce, are entering genuinely uncertain territory. The consultants are the last ones you would expect to change. The fact that they already are should function as a signal flare for every professional in every industry paying attention. To hear about all the topics in this week's The Pirate Street Journal, download and listen to this episode. You can also read more Pirate Street Journal entries in the Category Pirates newsletter. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, and subscribe on Apple Podcast / Spotify!
Before the girls hit menarche, they trailed rainbow sorbet, tie-dye, and enough Pirate's Booty to leave a breadcrumb trail across every airport in North America. In this episode, Jeff remembers the summers his family spent touring with the Wanderlust yoga festivals: one squeaky roller bag, three dozen Trader Joe's totes, and three young daughters who could double as walking coat racks. Pirate's Booty wasn't just a snack; it was how the ops team always managed to track him down. The story lands at a Vancouver airport ticket counter, where the "yogul" of Wanderlust finally, and very publicly, loses his equanimity. This is the 7th episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go. Order Diaries of a Dance Dad audiobook & hear the tales that bookend my paternal journey from cradle to empty nestdom at onecommune.com/dancedad. This episode was made possible by: CocoaVia: Use code COMMUNE2026 for 25% off at CocoaVia.com LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT's most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 25% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune. Stripes: Visit stripesbeauty.com and use the code COMMUNE20 for 20% off our entire product line.
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God has given us mere humans the opportunity to participate in giving life. A mom and dad bring life into this world with their newborn baby. And as believers, we have the privilege of bringing the message of new life to people as we share Christ. But some folks are not easily persuaded. They’re stuck in their sin and don’t want to move. Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie points out how we can reach the unreachable. It’s part of his series called Refresh. Join Greg Laurie for the Annual Jesus Revolution Baptism at Pirate's Cove on July 18. — Become a Harvest Partner today and join us in knowing God and making Him known through media and large-scale evangelism, our mission of over 30 years. Explore more resources from Pastor Greg Laurie, including daily devotionals and blogs, designed to answer your spiritual questions and equip you to walk closely with Christ.Support the show: https://bit.ly/anbsupportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? God reaches people through people. God may want to reach someone you know . . . through you! And today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us be ready for that assignment. There’s nothing like helping someone meet Jesus and find eternal life! You’ll never forget it. The reward is worth the risk. Join Greg Laurie for the Annual Jesus Revolution Baptism at Pirate's Cove on July 18. — Become a Harvest Partner today and join us in knowing God and making Him known through media and large-scale evangelism, our mission of over 30 years. Explore more resources from Pastor Greg Laurie, including daily devotionals and blogs, designed to answer your spiritual questions and equip you to walk closely with Christ.Support the show: https://bit.ly/anbsupportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.