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Die erste Primadonna fand "keinen Zugang zur Rolle". Nun übernimmt Christina Nilsson die Titelpartie in "Ariadne auf Naxos" in Salzburg. Regisseur Mondtag wählt einen speziellen Zugang zur Oper. So wird die Premiere am Sonntag.

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Nessa Barrett talks with iHeartRadio's Shannon Burns about her actual close relationship with her fans, and her run of intimate shows touring the 'Jesus Loves a Primadonna' EP! Nessa Barrett talks about eventually getting in to filmmaking, shedding light on BPD, opening for The Neighborhood, looking forward to going back to London and what she's manifesting next. Nessa Barrett tells Shannon about her relationship with social media, being ghosted by a Pet Psychic, and the two playfully chat conspiracy theories! #NessaBarrett #moonlanding #bpd

SEASON 4 EPISODE 71: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump is paying Iran to try to kill Americans. $14 billion, he’s giving them. Fourteen billion for oil Iran can now sell, per Trump. What’s that called again? If you’re ‘adhering to our enemies, giving them aid and comfort’? And that fop Scott Bessent defended it yesterday as "jujitsuing" Iran, using its money against it. In fact Trump is using Iran's money against American troops. Trump, who is garbage - who celebrated the death of Robert Mueller just as he celebrated the death of Rob Reiner - who Friday said the Strait of Hormuz would open itself and then Saturday said he would destroy Iran’s power grid unless Iran opened it - who then compared the majority political party of this nation TO Iran - who announced he is sending his ICE terrorists into the airports because ANYBODY can be a TSA agent and apparently he forgot about his mass deportation thing – and who has had some sort of hallucinatory dream in which he decided this was quote “the death of Iran” when Iran is not only winning but most Americans recognize that Iran is winning... Trump has freed up $14,000,000,000 of Iranian oil because that will lower the price of a barrel of oil by like a dollar for like a week. Oh and remember when he made that joke to the Prime Minister of Japan about Pearl Harbor? Turns out President S-Stain didn’t know what HAPPENED… AT… Pearl Harbor. BY THE WAY the Iranians say if Trump does attack their energy infrastructure, that'll black out much of the Gulf, and they'll hit Israel's energy infrastructure, and all the neighboring nations' desalination plants. Good plan, Grampa Garbage. B-Block (36:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Twitter-X user Chris950003 has invented a new "eggcorn." Is Peter Navarro sticking to his prediction that Trump's war would lower energy prices? And the sabotage of CBS is nearly complete: Bari Weiss and the Ellisons have not only destroyed the birthplace of American broadcast journalism (Edward R. Murrow's CBS Radio) but she actually wants to have Stephen A. Smith host the CBS morning show. C-Block (50:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: I am an alum of CBS Radio - at KNX in Los Angeles and for the radio network as a sportscaster and reporter in the '80s - and I bleed for its murder. But my connection is even more personal. The head of its all-news operation in New York personally validated, personally made tangible, my career aspirations. With one note he turned my possibility into a reality. The story of the Lou Adler Letter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Benvenuti al nuovo episodio di NAP!E per fortuna che Marica si era svegliata di buon umore e voleva raccontarci una storia leggera! In questa puntata ci parlerà di Judy Malinowsky, la giovane mamma 33enne bruciata viva dal suo ex-compagno, Michael Slager a Columbus, in Ohio, nel 2015. E per fortuna che era una storia leggera! No, a parte gli scherzi, è una storia importante, che tocca il cuore e che, nonostante l'epilogo triste, ci dà tanta speranza nel futuro.Nel blocco centrale torniamo a parlare delle vostre storie paranormali, questa volta con la testimonianza di Dario. Il nostro caro ascoltatore ci racconterà uno dei tanti episodi incredibili che hanno attraversato la sua vita e vi sembrerà di essere dentro un film di Shyamalan.Nella parte finale, quella più bella e interessante, Stefano, cioè io, vi parlerà di Jacques Vallée, ufologo e astrologo francese, che ha rivoluzionato con le sue teorie il modo di interpretare gli avvistamenti UFO. Andremo avanti e indietro nel tempo per convincervi che folletti, gnomi, fatine, demoni, puffi e alieni non sono altro che lo stesso fenomeno visto con occhi diversi. E a proposito di Puffi, concludiamo la puntata discutendo di questi omini blu alti due mele e poco più. Quale orribile segreto nasconde Grande Puffo? Scopritelo con noi! Supporta questo podcast!Compra i nostri libri, sono bellissimi: Li trovi qui!Seguici su Instagram: @mentremorivo_podcast e raccontaci LA TUA storia paranormale!Lasciaci una recensione (positiva eh!) sulla tua app di ascolto preferita!Info e contatti su divanooscuro.it/nap/

Den Namen Leyla Gencer kennen nur noch wenige, obwohl die Sopranistin oft in einem Atemzug mit Maria Callas genannt wurde. Beide hatten zur gleichen Zeit Engagements an der Mailänder Scala. Ihre Biografin erinnert sich.

Für den «Spiegel» war sie «Deutschlands letzte Diva»: Heute genießt Hildegard Knef nicht nur unter ihren Fans Ikonenstatus. Ob als Heroine des deutschen Nachkriegskinos oder als Primadonna assoluta des anspruchsvollen Chansons – die Knef hat Maßstäbe gesetzt. Eine Hommage zum 100. Geburtstag. «Die ist nett» hielt Joseph Goebbels fest, nachdem er 1943 Probeaufnahmen der jungen Hildegard Knef in Augenschein genommen hatte: «Jedoch muss die Nase operiert werden». Die Schauspielerin startete ihre Karriere in der NS-Zeit. Später hat sie sich von den Nazis und ihren Verbrechen distanziert – glaubhaft, wie ihre jüdischen Freunde fanden. Während sie sich auf der Bühne als selbstbewusste Powerlady präsentierte, war sie privat ein eher schwieriger Charakter: Nervenzusammenbrüche und dramatische Beziehungen prägten wichtige Phasen ihres Lebens. Hildegard Knef – ein Leben zwischen den Extremen.

Sette omicidi in sei mesi, la caccia all'uomo più intensa nella storia della Florida, e al centro di tutto: Aileen Wuornos, la prima serial killer donna documentata degli Stati Uniti.Nel nuovo format del Martedì, varchiamo le porte della sala degli interrogatori. Non ascolterete un uomo, ma la voce di una donna spezzata e violenta, una che ha trasformato il dolore in furia omicida.In questo episodio, ascolteremo la drammatica traduzione integrale dell'interrogatorio che portò Wuornos al crollo e alla confessione.Cosa ascolterai in questo episodio:Il Profilo: Chi era Aileen Wuornos, vittima di abusi e prostituta, prima di diventare una cacciatrice di uomini sulle autostrade.La Tattica: Come Aileen cercò disperatamente di mentire e manipolare gli investigatori, tentando di far passare i suoi omicidi come legittima difesa estrema.Il Crollo: Il momento drammatico in cui la donna, messa alle strette, ammette la sua colpevolezza e descrive la brutale escalation della sua violenza.Il Contesto: L'inquietante panorama americano che ha portato una donna a compiere una serie di omicidi con tale freddezza.Non perderti l'approfondimento. Ascolterai la tensione crescente, le bugie e, infine, la verità brutale di una vita finita nel corridoio della morte.Ti piacciono i misteri della mente criminale? Iscriviti ora a "Scary Monster True Crime" sulla tua piattaforma preferita (Spreaker, Spotify, Apple Podcast) per non perdere i nostri due appuntamenti settimanali!Martedì ore 12:00: Intervista col serial killerVenerdì ore 12:00: Approfondimenti e Casi Risolti e IrrisoltiLascia una recensione se l'episodio ti è piaciuto! Ci aiuta a crescere e a portare nuove storie oscure.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scary-monster-true-crime-podcast--4789759/support.Visita il sito https://scarymonstertruecrime.com per leggere post esclusivi sui casi criminali, scoprire nuove storie e acquistare ebook dedicati al true crime.

Rufus Wainwright is a singer-songwriter and composer renowned for his distinctive voice and the theatricality of his performances. Born into a family of folk musicians, his mother was Kate McGarrigle and his father is the songwriter Loudon Wainwright III. Since his debut in 1998, his 11 studio albums have been characterised by their candid autobiographical themes, with songs about addiction, sexuality and fraught family dynamics. He has also worked as a classical composer, with his operas Prima Donna and Hadrian, and a choral piece called Dream Requiem. As a performer he has created musical tributes to Judy Garland, Shakespeare's Sonnets, the songs of Kurt Weill, and most recently has staged symphonic versions of his much-loved Want albums.Rufus Wainwright tells John Wilson about his earliest musical experiences, singing with his mother and aunties in Montreal, Canada where he spent his early years. He chooses The Wizard Of Oz as one of his formative creative influences and explains why the film's star, Judy Garland, became such an important musical role model for him. Rufus reveals how hearing Verdi's Requiem at the age of 13 led to a lifelong love of opera and an aspiration to write classical compositions. He also recalls the impact that seeing La Dolce Vita, director Federico Fellini's masterpiece about wealth and decadence in 1960s Rome, had on him as a teenager. Producer: Edwina Pitman

Prendi parte alla nostra Membership per supportare il nostro progetto Missione Cultura e diventare mecenate di Geopop: https://geopop.it/Muh6X Marie Curie è stata una fisica, chimica e matematica polacca, nota per essere stata la prima donna a vincere un premio Nobel. In realtà, grazie ai suoi studi sulle radiazioni, ne vinse ben due: uno per la fisica con il marito Pierre Curie e Antoine Henri Becquerel nel 1903 e uno per la chimica nel 1911. Fu anche la prima donna a diventare professoressa ordinaria all'Università di Sorbona di Parigi e diede un grosso contributo alla Francia durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale, mettendo le sue competenze scientifiche a servizio della nazione. I suoi studi sulle radiazioni le costarono probabilmente la vita nel 1934. In questa nuova puntata della serie “Chi è”, ripercorreremo la vita della scienziata Marie Curie e vedremo cosa ha scoperto di importante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lingerie, Leadership et Liberté, "créer des dessous qu'on oublie d'enlever le soir"La lingerie est bien plus qu'un accessoire.C'est un acte d'amour envers soi, un outil de confiance, une forme de liberté.Dans cet épisode passionnant de We Love Belgian Brands Podcast, j'ai eu le plaisir de recevoir Carole Lambert, Head of Design des marques Primadonna, Marie Jo et Sarda — trois icônes du groupe belge Van de Velde.✨ Cet épisode mets en lumière l'histoire incroyable de ces marques, qui ont toujours été à contre-courant de leur époque — inclusives avant que ce soit un mot à la mode, féministes avant qu'on en parle, audacieuses depuis toujours.

Come la Lady di Ferro britannica, Sanae Takaichi si muove in un parlamento, e in un Paese, dominato dagli uomini, ma non fa del femminismo una battaglia politica: a lei il compito di guidare un governo più debole e più a destra di quelli che l'hanno preceduta.

This week, a nostalgic Cancer Last Quarter Moon is a time to reflect on what we've accomplished in our recent New Moon goals. Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, glides into her elegant home sign of Libra, and promptly meets up with idealistic Neptune, unpredictable Uranus, and probing Pluto. Power issues rise to the surface as Pluto stations direct. The Sun and Jupiter bring a fresh start, but might bring up conflicts in all types of relationships. Words can get a little hurtful as Mercury and Mars come together in Scorpio. And a listener question about houses in the horoscope that are ruled by the same planet - how are they connected? Plus: Calming tea, an autumn leaf, and a trip to Disneyland. Read a full transcript of this episode. It's eclipse season! Order your copy of my “Followed by a Moonshadow” eclipse report! Have a question you'd like answered on the show? Email April or leave it here! Subscribe to April's mailing list and get a free lunar workbook at each New Moon! Timestamps: [01:44] Moon Report: Cancer Last Quarter Moon (Mon., Oct. 13, 11:13 am PDT, 20º39' Cancer-Libra). Reflect on what you've built since September's Virgo Solar Eclipse. Balance your personal spotlight (“A prima donna singing”) with collective harmony (“A crowd upon the beach”). [04:05] Lunar Phase Family Cycle (LPFC) Connects back to the July 17, 2023, New Moon in Cancer — a long-term story about power, control, and emotional authenticity, with peaks at the First Quarter Moon on April 15, 2024, and Full Moon on Jan. 13, 2025. [06:02] Void-of-Course Moons. Mon., Oct. 13, Moon in Cancer trines Saturn at 10:05 pm PDT. It's VOC for 5 hours 42 minutes, then enters Leo on Tues. Oct. 14 at 3:47 am. Perfect for bedtime reflection and initiating soothing routines. [07:18] Wed., Oct. 15, Moon in Leo sextiles Sun in Libra, 10:06 pm PDT. It's VOC for 12 hours 59 minutes, then enters Virgo on Thu. Oct. 16, 11:05 am. Express yourself creatively. [08:13] Sat., Oct. 18, Moon in Virgo opposes Saturn at 2:10 pm PDT. It's VOC for 6 hours 51 minutes, then enters Libra at 9:01 pm. A reality check — do what you can, then let go. [09:31] Venus enters Libra (Mon., Oct. 13, 2:19 pm PDT, until Nov. 6). Venus in Libra delights in beauty, grace, and harmony — but expects manners and mutual respect. It's a time for refinement, art, music, and creating peaceful surroundings. [10:56] Venus opposes Neptune (Mon., Oct. 13, 6:16 pm PDT, 0º12' Libra-Aries). Beautiful illusions or confusing emotions? This transit heightens creativity and longing. Lean into art and inspiration, but beware of wishful thinking in love or finances. [12:52] Pluto stations Direct (Mon., Oct. 13, 7:52 pm PDT) at 1° Aquarius on the Sabian symbol “An unexpected thunderstorm,” an awakening to change and empowerment. With Venus and Uranus in the mix, expect surprising revelations and renewal. Pluto has been retrograde since May 4. [14:33] Venus trines Uranus (Tue., Oct. 14, 7:09 am PDT, 0º52' Libra-Gemini). Fresh energy in relationships, art, and finances — and maybe a glimpse beneath the surface. Sabian symbols: 1 Libra, A butterfly made perfect by a dart through it, and 1 Gemini, A glass-bottomed boat in still water. [16:55] Venus trines Pluto (Tue., Oct. 14, 4:45 pm PDT, 1º22' Libra-Aquarius). Depth of feeling, and a reminder to love deeply, feel our losses, remain open to life's beauty. Sabian symbol: 2 Aquarius, An unexpected thunderstorm. [18:31] Sun Square Jupiter (Thu., Oct. 16, 10:43 pm PDT, 24º06' Libra-Cancer) Confidence meets challenge — a time to stretch beyond your comfort zone while keeping your balance. Excellent for self-promotion, creative pursuits, and reconnecting with loved ones. Sun's Sabian symbol: 25 Libra, All information in the symbol of one leaf. [21:12] Mercury conjunct Mars (Sun., Oct. 19, 11:51 pm PDT, 19º11' Scorpio). Sharp minds and sharper tongues. Productive for research and problem-solving, but watch out for heated words. Speak with care and precision. Sabian symbol: 20 Scorpio, A woman drawing two dark curtains aside. [23:02] Listener Question: Houses with the same ruler. Listener Michelle asks how life areas ruled by the same planet connect in the birth chart. April explains how a shared planetary ruler weaves together different houses — with an example from John Coltrane's chart (b. Sep. 23, 1926, 5 pm EST, Hamlet, NC, Placidus houses) that ties together creativity, study, and financial opportunity. [27:51] To have a question answered on a future episode, leave a message of one minute or less at speakpipe.com/bigskyastrologypodcast or email april (at) bigskyastrology (dot) com; put “Podcast Question” in the subject line. Free ways to support the podcast: subscribe, like, review and share with a friend! [28:30] A tribute to this week's donors! 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Tell Gordeeva, 10.09.2025THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT KATERINA VLADIMIROVNA GORDEEVA, OR RELATES TO THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT KATERINA VLADIMIROVNA GORDEEVA.BY WATCHING THIS VIDEO, YOU CONFIRM THAT YOU ARE OF LEGAL AGE.IF NOT, DO NOT WATCH IT.Contents: 00:00:00 Who plays this piano? 00:03:18 "Sometimes my knees tremble, but my hands don't shake yet" 00:05:24 "This interview is a document for my children" 00:07:18 When and why Pugacheva left Russia 00:08:30 What Kiriyenko told Pugacheva in September 2022 and how she replied 00:10:56 How Galkin and Pugacheva's children were teased at school when their father was declared a foreign agent 00:11:20 "Conscience is more precious than fame, luxury. It's more precious than anything" 00:13:24 "We had neither citizenship nor a home" 00:17:18 "Arrogance is inherent in any Russian authority" 00:20:06 Why Pugacheva never left the USSR and whether she had a chance 00:24:42 "You know what, better have a smoke" 00:27:14 "Born, endured life, and died" 00:32:00 "I was supposed to be the general, and my brother the artist" 00:36:44 "My father was arrested, and my mother said he had picked flowers in someone else's garden" 00:39:39 Was Pugacheva ever in the Communist Party? 00:43:14 "Stand still!" - how Pugacheva learned to speak to audiences 00:49:49 "I like the legends about my life" 00:58:18 "So why am I a traitor?" 01:01:31 "I'm very happy for Nadezhda Kadysheva" 01:02:30 Advice from Bulanova 01:04:50 What is Shaman missing? 01:09:18 Pugacheva suddenly sings 01:13:13 "I don't know what envy is" 01:17:12 "This is real happiness" 01:18:34 "I wish you happiness, Pugachevochka, in your personal life" - Pugacheva's five husbands 01:25:35 Who is the song "Don't Hurt Me" about? 01:29:32 "Kirkorov can't possibly be mad at me" 01:32:18 "I fell in love and that's all" 01:33:58 A dream in which Pugacheva saw her whole life 01:36:00 Is it true that Pugacheva's grandmother knew witchcraft and passed it down? 01:40:29 "For the first time in my life, someone lives for me" 01:44:59 "Kristina just happened to be there" - why Orbakaite was banned from entering Latvia 01:48:37 The talent of Nikita Presnyakov 01:50:38 "You'll hear about me again" - where Alla first said this phrase 01:53:14 "Such unattractive people are the ones urging childbirth" 01:56:15 Who is the song "Maestro" dedicated to? 01:58:34 "Not only the Pugachevs, but also the Bukharins." A family story 02:02:41 "Voznesensky suggested adding in every verse: a million, a trillion scarlet roses" 02:03:45 "Three Happy Days." Who is this song about? 02:04:42 "We wrote each other in verse. That's how the song ‘Airplanes' was born" 02:06:09 About Manizha 02:07:02 "I visited a talented man who was having a hard time" - how Pugacheva visited Serebrennikov under house arrest 02:08:28 A question from Evgenia Berkovich! 02:10:05 What's going on with Pugacheva's voice? 02:14:37 What happened to Pugacheva in Chernobyl? 02:18:52 Did Pugacheva like Solzhenitsyn? 02:23:02 How Gorbachev asked Pugacheva for advice 02:27:01 "I'll show you what vulgar really means" 02:30:07 Why Alla supported Mikhail Prokhorov 02:31:16 "You can't shoot everyone" 02:33:52 Pugacheva for president? 02:36:20 "Birdsong is my music today" 02:37:19 Who is in Pugacheva's playlist today? 02:41:20 "Remember, 2027" - Pugacheva's prediction 02:43:09 "It hurts when haters hit the mark" 02:47:46 "A great country lacks magnanimity" 02:52:16 "Money has defeated kindness" 02:53:53 Pugacheva's charitable foundation 02:56:30 "A profitable acquaintance" 02:58:22 "I voted for Putin and was thrilled" 03:01:47 "What others say about our family doesn't concern us" 03:02:57 "Nikita Mikhalkov, stay healthy!" 03:04:28 "I didn't retire, I entered restless times" 03:07:27 Who did Pugacheva ‘cut off the oxygen' to? 03:13:28 Who is the real Prima Donna? 03:15:35 "Why do I need influence over the masses? It's the masses who influence me" 03:21:01 "No one noticed that I was coming back to Russia" 03:22:14 Pugacheva's new war songs 03:24:46 "The children will come home" 03:26:35 "If anything happens to me, the children know they must go on living" 03:28:38 What comes after death? 03:30:52 A message to the fans 03:33:12 "If there's even a little left in your hearts, I wish for no greater reward"Оригинальное видео доступно на YouTube:https://youtu.be/D6rFxVPz7UI

This week's episode is buzzing with milestones, surprises, and raw honesty straight from the road. Fresh off the 10th anniversary Everybody Wants tour, we dive into the energy of sold-out shows, the rush of playing the album front-to-back, and the unforgettable moment when a fan guitarist stole the spotlight in Chicago. Adam checks in from backstage at The Fillmore in Charlotte, reflecting on the highs, the tough nights—including a candid story of battling a panic attack on stage—and the unshakable power of connecting with fans through music. Plus, we tease the massive news that's shaking the Struts universe: a reimagined version of Could Have Been Me featuring none other than Queen's legendary Sir Brian May. With surprise guests, fan moments turned viral, and a setlist packed with anthems like “Put Your Hands Up,” “Primadonna,” and “One Night Only,” this episode captures the magic and chaos of a band in full stride. If you think you know what to expect from The Struts, think again—this conversation proves the best is still to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Fast wäre die große Wagner-Sängerin Kirsten Flagstad Pianistin geworden. Denn erst 1930 verschrieb sich die 1895 geborene Norwegerin ganz der Kunst Wagners. Doch dann ging alles ganz schnell: frisch entdeckt, wurde sie an der New Yorker Met zum großen Star und so populär, dass die US-amerikanische Wagner-Rezeption in das Zeitalter "before and after Kirsten" eingeteilt wurde. Eine Jahrhundertstimme, von immenser Kraft und Größe. Privat indes blieb der Weltstar stets nahbar und uneitel. ZOOM würdigt die Sopranistin zu ihrem 130. Geburtstag.

Sie hat den Glamour in die zeitgenössische Musik gebracht und ihre Solorezitals hatten Kultstatus: Die armenisch-stämmige Cathy Berberian, in den USA geboren, verbrachte fast ihr ganzes Leben in Italien. Primadonna der Avantgarde: Vor 100 Jahren wurde die Sängerin Catherine Anahid Berberian geboren. Sie, die eine perfekte Belcanto-Technik besass, zog mit einem Stipendium nach Italien, mischte dort bald die Musikszene auf und wurde international berühmt als Interpretin zeitgenössischer Werke. Später erfand sie sich wieder komplett neu und entwickelte ihren eigenen schrill-humorvollen Stil, den sie «New Vocality» nannte und der bis heute Sängerinnen beeinflusst. Auf den Spuren von Anne-Berberian: Annelis Berger im Gespräch mit der Sängerin und Autorin Anne-May Krüger.

Primadonna der Avantgarde: Vor 100 Jahren wurde die Sängerin Catherine Anahid Berberian geboren. Sie, die eine perfekte Belcanto-Technik besass, zog mit einem Stipendium nach Italien, mischte dort bald die Musikszene auf und wurde international berühmt als Interpretin zeitgenössischer Werke. Später erfand sie sich wieder komplett neu und entwickelte ihren eigenen schrill-humorvollen Stil, den sie «New Vocality» nannte und der bis heute Sängerinnen beeinflusst. In der Diskothek hören wir uns die Schlüsselwerke des berberianschen Universums an. Gäste von Annelis Berger sind die Sängerinnen Silke Gäng und Anne-May Krüger.

Das Oratorium „Isacco“ der einst erfolgreichenBarockkomponistin Marianna Martines wurde gestern als Oper in der Kammeroperpräsentiert. Unser Opernexperte Richard Schmitz berichtet. Tatsächlich entpuppt sich dieses Oratorium von PietroMetastasio durchaus als bühnentauglich. Anfangs lässt uns die RegisseurinEva-Maria Hockmayr im Glauben, es handle sich um ein Konzert. Die fünf Solistensitzen und warten auf ihren Einsatz. Doch bald beginnen sie ihre Rollen auch zuspielen. Der Raum weitet sich zu einer spärlich möblierten Gründerzeit-Wohnung,in der Abraham und Isaak, Sara, Abrahams Frau, und Gamari - anfangs Freund Isaaks,später sein älterer Bruder, das bekannte biblische Geschehen reflektieren. Sehrsensibel – mit Kreuzen und einem Christbaum - wird auch zum Ausdruck gebracht,dass auch Gott seinen eigenen Sohn am Kreuze geopfert hat.Christian Senn schildert mit seiner angenehmen Stimme dieQualen des Vaters, der von Gott angeleitet wird, den eigenen Sohn zu opfern. SophieGordeladze differenziert ihre Gefühle als Mutter Sara mit viel Ausdruck. Dawird das Drama spürbar. Der Sopranist Dennis Orellana macht aus dem gehorsamenSohn, der bereit ist zu sterben, eine Person, mit der man mitleidet. Alle dreibringen aber auch die emotionalen Zwischentöne, die in Metastasios Text stehen,zum Ausdruck. Auch Anle Gou als Gamari kann da mithalten. Andjela Spaic singtden Engel mit klarer Stimme. Die Dirigentin Chiara Cattani unterstützt mit demBach-Consort Wien die Sänger bei ihrem Bemühen und bringt die Partitur zumBlühen.Metastasio hat nicht nur diesen großartigen Textgeschrieben, sondern auch an der Entwicklung der Komponistin entscheidendenEinfluss geübt. Seine Förderung reichte über seinen Tod hinaus, weil er sieauch finanziell sicherstellte, sodass sie bis an ihr Lebensende freikomponieren konnte. Die Uraufführung des Oratoriums im Hofburgtheater (!) warein großer Erfolg. Und das wundert mich nach dem gestrigen Abend nicht.Musikalisch geht das Werk über viele der wiederentdeckten Barockopern hinaus.Die zahlreichen Koloraturen dienen dem Text und nicht der Präsentation vonVirtuosität. Schön, dass diese Musik entdeckt wurde. Unser Freund Otto Biba warda auch nicht ganz unbeteiligt.   Dieser Abend zeigt, dass es schon zu Mozarts Zeitenaußergewöhnliche Komponistinnen gegeben hat und dass eine Regisseurin, eineDirigentin und die Primadonna ein Werk zum Erfolg machen können. Nicht nurFeministinnen sollten hingehen. Sie werden ebenso zufrieden sein wie dasPremierenpublikum.   Wertnote: 8,4Foto (c) Herwig Prammer/Musiktheater an der Wien

La Coalition cerca un cambio di marcia con una nuova coppia al timone, mentre il secondo governo Albanese ha prestato giuramento. Il punto di Paul Scutti.

Die Italienerin Renata Scotto war eine der größten Opernsängerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihre amerikanische Soprankollegin Angel Blue ist einer der ganz großen Stars von heute. Und die junge deutsche Mezzosopranistin Valerie Eickhoff ist auf dem besten Weg in den Gesangsolymp. Drei Frauen, drei Karrieren - vereint in Juliane Sauters Filmdokumentation. Michael Atzinger hat sie sich angesehen.

Maria Teresa d'Austria fu una sovrana illuminata che attuò riforme politiche e sociali, modernizzando l'Impero Asburgico.

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En av Roms mest ökända kejsare som gått till historien som en tyrannisk primadonna, en grym, dekadent despot. För maktens och sin fåfängas skull var han beredd att offra vad som helst: sin stad och till och med sin egen mor. Nya avsnitt från P3 Historia hittar du först i Sveriges Radio Play. Redaktionen för detta avsnitt består av:Cecilia Düringer – programledare och manusEmilia Mellberg – producent, research och manus Zardasht Rad – scenuppläsareViktor Bergdahl – ljuddesign och slutmixMedverkar gör också Ida Östenberg professor i antikens kultur- och samhällsliv vid Göteborgs universitetVill du veta mer om kejsar Nero? Här är några av böckerna som legat till grund för avsnittet: Roms kejsare av Mary BeardKejsarbiografier av Suetonius Nero – the end of a dynasty av Miriam T. Griffin Nero – Matricide, Music and Murder in Imperial Rome av Anthony Everitt och Roddy AshworthRome is burning – Nero and the fire that ended a dynasty av Anthony Barrett

(00:42) What if a beloved restaurant from your past could be brought back to life, dish by dish? Join us as we explore the captivating legacy of The Primadonna, McKees Rocks' cherished Italian eatery, with insights from former owner Joseph Costanzo Jr. and his daughter, Maria C. Palmer. Maria's book, "On the Rocks," co-authored with Ruthie Robbins, chronicles her father's extraordinary journey in the restaurant world, highlighting The Primadonna's unique charm and warm hospitality that set it apart during its heyday in the 1980s.(12:06) Feel the nostalgia as Joe and Maria share stories of made-to-order pastas and handmade meatballs, capturing the artistry that defined the restaurant. The journey is as much about storytelling as it is about food, with readers and listeners longing to relive the flavors and memories of their past.(42:43) Then we pour a glass of Italian wine fit for royalty, with Catherine Montest @urfairywinemother and share a family meatball recipe from Heather Abraham of KDKA. This episode is a tribute to the vibrant world of local Italian cuisine that's sure to resonate with food lovers and nostalgic souls alike.Maria's website: https://mariacpalmer.comSupport the showLiked the episode? We'd love a coffee!

La ley 4/2023 para la igualdad real y efectiva de las personas trans aún no se ha implementado de manera efectiva para las personas migrantes, que se siguen enfrentando a importantes barreras burocráticas. Vamos a hablar con Thrixia, una mujer trans migrante que está teniendo dificultades para obtener su documentación. Y vamos a conocer a Marcos French, un artista argentino, afincado en España, que acaba de sacar su segundo álbum, “Marcos French desde sala Villanos”.Escuchar audio

To celebrate 2024, we're taking a look backwards, and diving into the standout thinkers who have taken to the Intelligence Squared stage in the past 12 months. You might still be on the hunt for that perfect gift for the avid reader in your life, or perhaps you're after some food for thought over the festive period. Either way, this 12 episode mini series will highlight the books that shaped 2024. We hope you'll join us in 2025 for more events that intrigue, fascinate and entertain. Platinum-certified singer-songwriter MARINA, formerly known as Marina and the Diamonds, has been an integral part of the U.K music scene over the last decade. Amassing over 3 billion streams worldwide, her music — which includes hit songs Primadonna and Bubblegum B*tch — has connected with fans for their unique electro-pop sound and powerful lyrics. On October 22, MARINA came to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss the themes of her debut poetry collection Eat The World. Her talent for evocative song lyrics has found a new outlet in poetry. MARINA will touch on themes of trauma, youth, and the highs and lows of relationships in these autobiographical poems, which retain the same energy and emotive power of her music. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all of our longer form interviews and Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events - Our member-only newsletter The Monthly Read, sent straight to your inbox ... Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series ... Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. ... Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ab 1703 arbeitete Antonio Vivaldi am Ospedale della Pietà. Aber weil sein Vertrag jährlich verlängert werden musste und das Verhältnis zu seinen Vorgesetzten nicht immer unproblematisch war, suchte er sich ein zweites Standbein, wurde Opernkomponist und Impresario. Durch diesen Beruf lernte er auch eine Frau kennen, die sein Leben maßgeblich beeinflussen sollte: Die Sängerin Anna Girò. Unser heutiges ZOOM berichtet von ihr.

durée : 01:28:32 - Anna Netrebko, prima donna au timbre envoûtant - par : Aurélie Moreau - Anna Netrebko, immense soprano de notre temps, à de jeunes artistes : "Il faut être lucide et savoir pratiquer l'autocritique. Jamais l'automutilation. Si cela n'a pas marché un soir comme on l'espère, il faut travailler. Et s'améliorer". (Classica)

durée : 00:58:28 - La Série musicale - par : Zoé Sfez - Mina a la voix immense et inoubliable. Elle a marqué son pays et le monde entier. Retour sur la trajectoire de cette chanteuse adorée qui n'a cessé de repousser les frontières musicales entre rock, jazz et immenses chansons orchestrales italiennes et napolitaines.

Digital-guillotine = Digitine in the world of uncle Al [gorithm] and the children of the new millennium, as per usual these days, it is already outdated! Amy Dee and I stretch our necks out to play with this micro-limited hangout movement where age matters and if you were born in the 1900s you are not in the club. "Bunk Bunk on the head"

Welcome to Puddles. Andrew and Brenna joke about everything, mostly their own relationship. In this episode, we cover 7-11 taquitos, the top 5 best smells, a woman in cheetah, Primadonna syndrome, party sizes, Crappo, Chewbacca, dirty fantasies, amd a warehouse werewolf. Leave us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/Puddles Send us questions: puddleboyandpuddlegirl@gmail.com 00:00 - Shrimp Platter 03:15 - Alone time with Taquitos 09:00 - Freelance Chewbacca 12:00 - Crappo's costumes 16:00 - Warehouse werewolf 17:30 - Andy Shallows 22:00 - Crowdwork 26:00 - Sunscreen in eyes 28:00 - Spoon buddies 30:00 - Dirty fantasies 33:30 - Snews 38:00 - Justin Timberlake's downfall 44:00 - A woman in cheetah 49:00 - Skincare tip SUBSCRIBE! Puddles Youtube Feed: https://tinyurl.com/4u5mcxdt Puddles Podcast iTunes Audio Feed: https://tinyurl.com/4vanarmr Puddles Podcast Spotify Audio Feed: https://tinyurl.com/yyb8zc46 Puddles Patreon: patreon.com/thepuddlespodcast FOLLOW US: Puddles - https://www.instagram.com/puddlespodcast Andrew - https://www.instagram.com/andrewtcollin/ Brenna - https://www.instagram.com/brennaalexiss/ Melanie - https://www.instagram.com/melaniemeisner/ Theme song performed by: Ed Glaser Ending song written by: Andrew Collin Visuals and Graphics by: Melanie Meisner Produced by: Melanie Meisner

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This week on the podcast you're coming home with me to McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. An Italian-American enclave about ten miles west of Pittsburgh, it's the home of the once-famous Primadonna restaurant, which serves as the backdrop of the story you'll hear this week from "On the Rocks" author Maria Palmer--daughter of the restaurant's owner, Joe Costanzo. "On the Rocks" chronicles Joe's rise to success in the 1990s as not only the owner of the Primadonna, but also a radio host, columnist, and aspiring politician, to his sharp fall in the early 2000s, ending in a stint in federal prison. Maria walks us through what it's like to watch as everything her father has built comes crumbling down, and what it's like to recover from it. Come with us on a conversation that dives into hard work, loyalty, betrayal, and a whole lot of Italian food. Get your copy of On the Rocks HERE. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wegottatalkwithsonni/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wegottatalkwithsonni/support

O queerowym Bogusławie Kaczyńskim, rozmawialiśmy w związku z nową książką Bartosza Żurawieckiego "Primadonna. Biografia Bogusława Kaczyńskiego".

On today's show, Jase is bringing back a lost art form, Mike's having tradie trouble, and Keyzie's been annoying his wiiife.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 327 - Maria C Palmer - On The Rocks, The Story of the Primadonna RestaurantMaria Costanzo Palmer is a writer and Page Turner Award Finalist for her co-authored book On the Rocks (Koehler Books 8/8/23). She is also a regular co-moderator for the Food Is Religion Club on Clubhouse. She was a former host on L.A. Talk Radio. Maria was recently featured on Food and Beverage Magazine Live, a nationally syndicated podcast. Her writing has been published in OC87 Recovery Diaries, and she has made a number of media appearances. You can find Maria on FB and IG @joecostanzoprimadonna and on Twitter @mariacpalmer.Beyond the RocksWritingMaria is currently working on her second manuscript, What I Learned on the Bus. This unpublished manuscript, represented by her agent Leticia Gomez, details her 3,000-mile journey to escape and to make sense of her dad's incarceration. The manuscript was recognized this year as a Finalist for the Writing and Screenplay Book Adaptation categories for the Page Turner Awards. https://pageturnerawards.com/2022-screenplay-award-finalists.Maria's article “The Magical Little Pill,” talking about her difficulties with mental health following her father's federal investigation, is featured on OC87 Recovery Diaries ( https://oc87recoverydiaries.org/magical-little-pill/).   Maria's article “The Culinary Cardinal,” which details her experiences growing up having Sunday dinners at her Italian immigrant grandparents' home, was featured in Growing Up in an Immigrant Household, Essays by Descendants of Immigrants published by Innovative Ink Publishing in an anthology edited by Vicky Giouroukakis.https://mariacpalmer.com/___https://livingthenextchapter.com/Finally a podcast app just for kids! KidsPod is founded on a simple idea:Every kid should have access to the power of audio.https://kidspod.app/Support the showhttps://livingthenextchapter.com/Want to support the show and get bonus content?https://www.buzzsprout.com/1927756/subscribe

“I said to Cybill Shepherd, ‘You are a Prima Donna!'And she said, ‘Yes. I am. Do you know what ‘Prima Donna' means, Glenn? It means First Woman. And don't you forget it.”– Glenn Gordon CaronIn the second of our two-part conversation with Moonlighting and Medium creator Glenn Gordon Caron, we cover everything from Al Jarreau's iconic theme song to sparring with Cybill Shepherd, to a forty-year career spent working with “audacious people”…Moonlighting, which ran from 1985-1989 starred Cybill Shepherd, a then-unknown Bruce Willis, Allyce Beasley and Curtis Armstrong, and become a landmark classic of 1980s television. Glenn also directed movies such as Clean and Sober, Picture Perfect and Love Affair.THE CONVERSATIONGetting invited to the horse races by Cary Grant – who then dies before they could go!How dinner with Stanley Donen led to Glenn asking him to direct the dance sequence from “Big Man on Mulberry Street” as a favor. But what did Donen ask in return? That Glenn co-write that year's Academy Award show with Larry Gelbart!How a chance meeting with Rona Barrett resulted in one of the weirdest -- and most talked-about -- episodes of Moonlighting ever!On Cybill Shepherd: “The topography of her life fit the topography of the story. She was a model. She became a huge movie star. And then she lost everything.”On Bruce Willis: “He was like thirty guys I grew up with. And I understood, underneath all that bravura, and all that jazz, there's a genuineness that's hard to resist."WHEN LES IS MORE: How Now and Again was born when Les Moonves told Glenn: “Write me a pilot, and if I don't make it, I'll give you one million dollars.”How for Glenn, the TV show Medium is less the story of a mystic – and more the story of a marriage.So, join Susan and Sharon – and Glenn – as they talk Pierce Brosnan, Love Affair, Jennifer Aniston, Clean and Sober, -- and Susan's Vicodin mood swings!AUDIOGRAPHYWatch Moonlighting on Hulu.Stream it on Apple TV or at Amazon Prime Video.Follow Glenn Gordon Caron on Twitter.com/GlennGCaron.80s TV LADIES NEWSSusan's new play Confidence (and the Speech) has been published!Now available for purchase and licensing at DPS via Broadway Licensing.CONNECTRead transcripts and more at 80sTVLadies.com.Tell us your fav Moonlighting episodes at 8TL Facebook or via 80sTVLadies.com.Sign up for the 80s TV Ladies mailing list.Get ad-free episodes and exclusive videos on PATREON.Find more cool podcasts at our host sight, Weirding Way Media.

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Derek, Joey and WoolleyDoog enjoy the big win over USC. Of course, there were a couple of regressions where we complained about the refs and discussed the woes on defense. But a fairly upbeat podcast where we enjoy the 9-0 Dawgs. Admittedly, we failed to mention Dillon Johnson and his 256 yards rushing until late in the show, for which we apologized. We also answer a bunch of listener questions. The show opens with A.I. Norm MacDonald reading a graphic post from PurpleJ and then expressing his disappointment over said post. Come register for free and join the malarkey at HardcoreHusky.com!

Il lavoro di Claudia Goldin si concentra sul contributo delle donne nel mercato del lavoro e sulle disparità in esso. Goldin è la terza donna ad essere premiata con il Nobel per l'economia, ma la prima a vincerlo da sola.

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If you're living through a challenging time, it may feel like this is the end of your story. But Maria Costanzo Palmer contends that the most beautiful part of a tiger is their stripes. And living through difficulty is how you earn those stripes and develop the resilience it takes to be successful. Maria is the coauthor of the 2021 Page Turner Award Finalist On the Rocks: The Primadonna Story, a book about the rise and fall of her father, an A-List restauranteur. Maria is also a successful food influencer, hosting 30,000 monthly visitors on her social media pages, where she features recipes and shares her life working in the family restaurant business. On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Maria joins Anjel to share her experience growing up in the family restaurant and describe how her father made The Primadonna one of the premiere Italian restaurants in the nation. Maria explains why her father lost his restaurant and how she started writing On the Rocks to help her dad remember better times. Listen in for Maria's advice on cultivating resilience in the face of challenges and learn how to turn your difficulties into something positive and productive! What You Will Learn  How Maria's Italian-American grandmother demonstrated her love through food Maria's experience growing up in and eventually working for her father's restaurant How Maria's dad made The Primadonna one of the premiere Italian restaurants in the nation Why Maria's father lost his restaurant and served time in federal prison How Maria started writing On the Rocks to help her dad remember better times Maria's process of engaging support to finish On the Rocks and get the book published Maria's take on why resilience is the most important ingredient for success How to turn hard times into something positive vs. being the end of your story Connect with Maria Costanzo Palmer Maria's Website Resources On the Rocks: The Primadonna Story by Maria C. Palmer and Ruthie Robbins Wickedly Smart Women: Trusting Intuition, Taking Action, Transforming Worlds by Anjel B. Hartwell Connect with Anjel B. Hartwell   Wickedly Smart Women Wickedly Smart Women Facebook Community Wickedly Smart Women Store on TeePublic Wickedly Smart Women on Clubhouse The Wealthy Life Mentor The Wealthy Life Mentor on Facebook Anjel on Twitter Anjel on Instagram Listener Line (540) 402-0043 Ext. 4343  Email listeners@wickedlysmartwomen.com 

In a career spanning more than 40 years, Jude Kelly – theatre director, and CEO and founder of the WOW Foundation – has done A LOT. As well as her previous role as artistic director of London's Southbank Centre, she also set up the hugely successful global Women of the World festival, and is one of the 17 founding “primadonnas” behind the Primadonna Festival, which returns for its fifth year, this summer. In this week's Chops, she chats to Jen about the festival, her career highlights, platforming women, and dismantling prejudice. WOW indeed. The Primadonna Festival takes place in Stowmarket, Suffolk, July 28-30. Tickets available now.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Learn how to identify prima donna syndrome, why it's harmful to your organization, and how to address it when you encounter it.

Last week, Lemon lashed out at co-host Kaitlain Collins. Allegedly, he screamed at her to such a degree that she ran away from him. He was instructed to take a day off work to cool down. This week, Lemon halted the whole show. His point was much too important to proceed!

This week we sit down with Lizard Skin founder, Brian Fruit to learn the original story of the brand founded in 1993. From cycling bar tape and accessories now to baseball, hockey and lacrosse, the brand has had an interesting journey making its products in the United States. Lizard Skins Episode Sponsor: Hammerhead Karoo 2 (code: TheGravelRide for free HRM strap) Support the Podcast Join The Ridership  Automated Transcription, please excuse the typos: Lizard Skins [00:00:00] Craig Dalton: Hello, and welcome to the gravel ride podcast, where we go deep on the sport of gravel cycling through in-depth interviews with product designers, event organizers and athletes. Who are pioneering the sport I'm your host, Craig Dalton, a lifelong cyclist who discovered gravel cycling back in 2016 and made all the mistakes you don't need to make. I approach each episode as a beginner down, unlock all the knowledge you need to become a great gravel cyclist. This week on the show. We welcome Brian fruit, the founder of lizard skins. Was there a skin spin part of the cycling industry since 1993. It's been quite an incredible journey for the company. Y'all know how much I love the business side stories behind the brands we know and love. So I was super excited to get into it with Brian and just learn more about the journey. With respect to their bar tape. What I find is interesting is that the material they have is definitely. Sort of on the gummy air side and you'll hear Brian, describe a bit about that product. But also it's worth noting. They offer four different sizes of kind of the diameter. Of the bar tape, which really changes the feel you can go from super thin. I E a lot of bar feel all the way out to kind of pair Ruby style, super cush. Which I think is an interesting option that you don't see across the board. A lot of times when you go into your local bike shop, You see only one diameter tape that's available. So it's an interesting thing to play around with and something I've enjoyed while testing out some of the lizard skin tape. Just before we jump in, I need to thank this week sponsor the hammerhead crew to. I am literally in Spain as you're listening to this, I'm recording this intro just before I'm boarding my flight and definitely thinking about all the adventures I'm going to have on the roads of Jarana. I thought about borrowing a computer from the group that I'm going with, but it was from another brand that I had a little bit of a bad experience with back way back when. I've come to love many things about my hammerhead computer. And I am convinced it's the most advanced GPS cycling computer available today. It's got industry leading mapping navigation and routing capabilities that set it apart from other GPS options. Free global maps with points of interest included like cafes and campsites. Mean that my riding in Gerona. I won't be without information. I'll have everything at my fingertips. As I'm saying all this, I'm literally reminding myself that I should go download the country maps. So I've got everything on hand. In my hammerhead crew to device. Hammerhead gives bi-weekly software updates. So the features are always up to date. And they're always listening. You can provide feedback to the team in hammerhead and potentially it's going to end up in a software update. You're not locked to a particular software package because they're always upgrading it. I really look for the climber feature. That's one of my favorite features these days. It was particularly poignant for me when I was riding in, uh, Bentonville Arkansas, a few weeks back at the big sugar gravel event, all those punchy climbs. I was really on the limit. I'm much more of a sit and grind on the coastal range here in California. So this punchy climbs or something I wasn't used to. So understanding exactly how far I was to the top and how many candles I could burn staying with the groups I was desperate to stay with really came in handy. So very much recommend the hammerhead crew to it's my exclusive computer. For gosh, probably over a year now. I'm not the only one singing its praises. It was named bicycling magazines, editors choice in GPS, cycling computers. For the past two years. Take a look on their websites for a limited time offer our listeners can get a free heart rate monitor with the purchase of a hammerhead crew to just visit hammerhead IO right now, and use the promo code, the gravel ride at checkout to get yours today. Remember it's an exclusive limited time offer for our podcast listeners. So don't forget that promo code, the gravel ride for that free heart rate monitor strap. Would that business behind us, let's jump right into my conversation with Brian. Hey Brian, welcome to the show. [00:04:27] Brian Fruit: Awesome. Super glad to be beyond today. [00:04:30] Craig Dalton: Yeah. I'm excited to dig into Lizard Skins a little bit, but I'd love to start out, as we always do, by a little bit about your history and how you ultimately got into cycling, and let's talk about the origin story of lizard skin. [00:04:44] Brian Fruit: Well, that's a, that's a good one. Yeah, it's been. Three decades ago now dating myself a little bit I was a college student at BYU and I got my first mountain bike. I worked, you know, most of the summer and saved up some money and got a mountain bike and, and thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it. Not just for the awesome writing that we were able to do in the mountains. Just as a way to get around campus and commute. It was just so much more liberating than fighting the parking spots. So I just fell in love with cycling. I think I'd, you know, from a very small age, I've always loved everything with wheels on it. And then this mountain bike was, that was a revelation. So fast forward a few more years and I'm a senior about to graduate and there's a company. Called Reflex bikes. [00:05:35] Craig Dalton: I remembered them. [00:05:36] Brian Fruit: yeah, they made these cool lugged frames. You know, some of them were aluminum tubes, some of 'em were carbon tubes, and they sold to another company. Look, that makes, you know, pedals and things like that. [00:05:49] Craig Dalton: And did Reflex have some sort of Utah connection or were you just familiar? [00:05:54] Brian Fruit: they were making 'em here in Utah, [00:05:56] Craig Dalton: I, Wow, I didn't know that. I had a girlfriend who had that one of those bikes in the very early nineties. [00:06:02] Brian Fruit: Did it creak? [00:06:03] Craig Dalton: It creeped. And the one thing I remembered too about it was that there was some really challenging cable routing. So when it came time to build it up, it was like a nightmare. Getting something through the bottom bracket, I think was what I struggled with. [00:06:17] Brian Fruit: Yeah. So it was a cool bike and it had a great designer and, and he had sold the business. And, and moved over to Europe actually to, to work on design there. And, and apparently there was a, a trademark issue on the name reflex. And the people that owned it were no longer willing to allow that name to be used. And so, Look just said, I think we're just done with this, but this doesn't make sense for us to be involved with. So they decided to liquidate everything. So rims and cranks and headsets, and you name it, bottom brackets, shifters, handlebar. And, and so they sent out these postcards to all these stores, and my friend worked as a bike patrol at Sundance Ski Resort, brought the. Postcard home. And I'm like, that's kind of interesting. So I drove up there the next day and I bought $300 worth of bike parts. Didn't have any money. I was just a college student and all the way home like, Oh, what am I doing? I don't have 300 bucks is the worst decision ever. And I sold all those parts that night to just random people in the apartment complex and friends that I rode with. It's cuz there was no social media back then. This is, you know, early 90. 92, I believe. And and the next day I went up there again, like, you know, being drawn to the, you know, bike parts, like the bug to the blue light zapper, and bought like $300 of the parts again and all the way home. Like, Oh, what am I doing? This is the worst decision ever. Sold all those parts again. And that was it. You know, over the next six weeks I was buying and selling parts and I sold them to bike stores and I sold them to individuals and I, I sold about $30,000 worth of parts, made a decent amount of money on that, bought my wife a wedding ring and saved up a little money for us to get married. And, and that's kind of how how my life got started. You know, in the bike world, I just kind of fell in love with the whole, the whole scene and, and not the people, but even like the smells when you walk into a bike store, I just like the smell of a bike store. It just, I know that sounds weird, but it just feels right in bike stores. I, even, when I'm on vacation, I like to go try to find a bike store to pop my head in and look around, so, [00:08:49] Craig Dalton: What an, that's an amazing kind of origin story, and I love the name dropping of reflex. It brings back very, very fond memories for me. So did you continue sort of pursuing kind of like a distribution type business model? [00:09:04] Brian Fruit: So, that lasted for about six weeks. You know, they were selling all those parts at this big discount and that just kind of made me think, man, something in the bike industry would be really fun. And we looked at two or three ideas and, and. None of 'em actually worked out. And then a friend introduced me to another friend and that guy's name was Lance Larson. And Lance had this idea of making neoprene and Velcro accessories for bicycles and calling 'em lizard skin. and but Lance wasn't a, a writer and he wasn't really familiar with the space. So he and I connected and, and in the simplest terms, the original, you know, premise was that he would make the products and I would sell 'em. It, it didn't really work out exactly like that. There was a lot more crossing over, back and forth, but Lance and I got to work together for eight and a half years. And, and built the company from nothing. The very first month we did $350 of annual sales. [00:10:09] Craig Dalton: Do you remember what the first product was that you came out with? [00:10:12] Brian Fruit: Yeah, yeah, it was the little neoprine and Velcro chainstay protector and man, they were small back then. It was like a really small length and really small diameter. And now, you know, they make the tubes so much larger. You know, the, the old one wouldn't even fit on a bike today. [00:10:29] Craig Dalton: Yep. Yeah. If you think about those old steel tube change stays that used to wrap, they were tiny, like the, like the size of your pink. [00:10:36] Brian Fruit: Yeah, so small. Exactly. And we made all kinds of fun colors and, and we made these little headset seals that would keep the dirt and grim out of the headset. And then eventually we started making fork boots, which would keep the dirt out of the front fork because the seals back then weren't very good. And then we made a same kind of a boot for the rear shock. And eventually started making rubber injection molded grips. And then we added in some BMX products. We made BMX pad sets and BMX plates and BMX shin guards and elbow guards. And and then, you know, I bought my partner out and, and that, that took several years and there wasn't a lot of extra cash, you know, cuz. Everything just seemed to go to him to, to buy him out. And, and eventually we got that all done. And, and then we were able to really kind of move forward more dramatically because we had, you know, some money to work with. [00:11:34] Craig Dalton: Right, Right, right. Yeah, I, I think back across that period that you're describing, and I do remember those original lizard skin chain guards, but I probably, I remember more. Like the arrival of color, cuz back in the early nineties, certainly on the mountain bike scene, that was the heyday of anize parts and finding any, any way to make your bike a little bit more colorful and have a little flare to it. [00:11:59] Brian Fruit: Oh, people were putting on Coca Cranks and Cook Brothers and, and you know, Paul components and everything was purple and red and yellow and, you know, green and yeah, you could buy a, a Chris King headset and it was all Rastafari and [00:12:16] Craig Dalton: Yeah, a hundred percent. A hundred percent. So, yeah, absolutely. I mean, it was, it was like there was so much innovation going on back then in the world of mountain bikes, and I mean, I think that's what I've enjoyed about the last several years in the gravel bike world is you just see that kind of innovation. No one knows exactly what's right. The bike designers have been given a lot of freedom to design bikes that, you know, range from a road plus bike to a full on bike packing bike, and they're all in this, this quote unquote new genre of gravel cycling. [00:12:49] Brian Fruit: It is fun. I rode a friend of mine's you know, bike packing bike just earlier this week, and. It was super fun, you know, it just had a, a cool geometry to it. And, and he had, he had outfitted mountain bike breaks onto his, you know, drop bar controls, and it had some significant breaks. You know, he's a bike store guy and he figured out how to do it. It was awesome. [00:13:16] Craig Dalton: at what year did you sort of transition your business partner out and start to think really like what new products could you innovate? [00:13:24] Brian Fruit: Yeah, so I bought him out in 2001 you know, early part of 2001. And you know, we, the philosophy then was like, turn over every rock just. If nothing else to see what was under underneath. And you know, we bought different equipment to do our manufacturing with. We, we just really tightened up to try to make everything more frankly more profitable and more efficient. [00:13:50] Craig Dalton: Yeah. I meant to ask earlier, did you, at what point did you bring manufacturing in-house and what does that look like from an equipment perspective? [00:13:59] Brian Fruit: So we were making these little neoprine and Velcro accessories in the United States from day one and, and still do 30 years later. So what it takes is, I mean, we did it differently. You know, in the old days, the equipment we used wasn't very efficient. We've got. Good stuff now. And so it's a dye press with a still rule dye and then that allows you to cut the fabric out in these perfect shapes. And anybody that's working on the dye press the first day, you know, you have to make sure and tell 'em, you know, if, if you're dropping the dye or if the dye is slipping outta your hands, just let it hit the ground. Like don't try to catch it, you know, cuz it's [00:14:45] Craig Dalton: Sharp all over. Yep. [00:14:47] Brian Fruit: we can, we can fix the, we can fix the dye. It's [00:14:50] Craig Dalton: And then after you, after you're dye cutting the neo printer, are you then going into a sewing process? [00:14:57] Brian Fruit: We have really nice commercial sewing machines. We use a zigzag stitch on it and we sew that in-house with different sizes of Velcro on each side. And then kind of do some trimming to make it look. And then we package it up all, you know, done in the us. So, you know, that was a good thing and we were able to make a super high quality product and, and we sold a lot of those. Eventually a lot of the brands started adding some type of a. Chain protector or you know, chain stay guard to the bikes and it, and definitely impacted our sales. But we added these other products, you know, injection molded grips, and eventually we created a great relationship with odi where they made a. a significant line of lock on grips for us under their, under their patent and technology, but sold by us, under our name and, and to our customers. [00:15:53] Craig Dalton: With ODI manufacturing in the US as well. [00:15:56] Brian Fruit: That's correct. Yep. They're out in California actually, so, you know, it's like, double hard in the United States and California , but great product and they, they have great tooling and they could make these grips just so crisp and clean and, and the technology they have just, and still have is, is second to none. So we teamed up with them on, on lock, on grips. And then eventually we really wanted to come up with a lightweight mountain by grip that was just different. And so we checked into another industry and we made some appointments and we started visiting factories, hoping to get this lightweight grip you know, maybe for cross country racing. And, and unfortunately we weren't successful in finding, you know, that. You know, through maybe another industry. But on that trip we figured out that we found a company that could make tape for us. And it was literally my, my general manager, Brad Barker. And he and I were on this trip together, and as we were about to walk out the, the the building, the business, he kind of turned around and asked them. It was like, Hey, could you guys make tape for. And they're like, Oh yeah, we could totally do that. He says, Great. I'll, I'll, I'll be in touch. So, you know, he says, Brian, I really wanna try this. I really wanna, you know, sink my teeth into it. So, you know, he was working with the factory back and forth about nine months and making samples for handlebar tape for road bikes. The first sample was like, what, 12 or 18 inches long? And we're like, Well, this is not gonna work. And then the next sample was, you know, really long, but the product didn't stretch. Well, that's not gonna work. And so we went through rendition, after rendition after rendition, frankly, not knowing how to create the proper tech kit to speed the process along, but just trial and error and. [00:18:01] Craig Dalton: was there something in the road bike market that you felt was missing like some type of performance out of the grip that you guys saw as an opportunity? [00:18:09] Brian Fruit: Yeah, that's a great a great question. We, we did feel like that there could be something different. Most of the tape that was available at that time was the synthetic cork and you know, gets dirty and it kind of slippery and it wasn't really any. as to it or any technical, anything. So when we came out with ours, it was completely different and had a much different texture and feel. It, it actually felt softer even though it was the same thickness and way more grippy and it was cleanable. You could just take a little alcohol and a, and a clean, you know, white rag or something. You could clean it right up and, and it wasn't stained and dirty. So we ended up finding a product that was gonna work and we were really proud of, of the product we had designed. And then the factory told us how much it was gonna cost and it was like one of those, you know, stressful moments and we're like, Ugh, how's this ever gonna work? Cuz Bar Tape at that time sold for 15 to $20 for, you know, the common synthetic co. [00:19:18] Craig Dalton: Yep. [00:19:19] Brian Fruit: Ours was gonna be $35. . And so we're just like, Oh, this is gonna be tough. But everybody that touched our tape loved it. And so we're like, Well, we just gotta get people to touch it, you know? Cuz once they do, they'll love it. And that's the phrase, Touch it, feel it, love it came from [00:19:39] Craig Dalton: Yeah. I, you know, it's so, it is poignant when you put your hands on some lizard skin tape, it feels different. You know, I'm riding it on my, my bike right now and. Everything you've just described is what I've felt about it, like it feels When I'm barehanded I often ride barehanded and I, I feel much more connected to the grip because of the sort of, I dunno, stickiness is the right word, but this kind of sticky quality that I feel when riding it that's quite different than court grip. [00:20:12] Brian Fruit: Yeah, it's, it's grippy, you know, and it's from this patented, you know, technology and material that that our partner supplier created in tandem with us. And and it's just been absolutely wonderful. [00:20:28] Craig Dalton: So it's, so, it's so interesting to me as, Sorry to interrupt Brian. Just as like a business journey, you sort of realize, hey, we've got something unique here, but I can't tell you about it. You've gotta feel it and touch it to believe and see. I can imagine, like in the bike industry, that's a challenge, right? To kind of just translate that into the hands of enough people to develop a passionate following to say, I'm willing to pay this premium price for this performance now that I know about it. [00:20:59] Brian Fruit: So I happened to be on a, a family trip, and again, I love bike stores, right? So we have a distributor in Guatemala that, that was selling our product and they had a bike store. So I went and visited that store while we were on this family trip. And there was a customer that came in and he had a road bike, I think it was a tri bike actually. And the handlebar tape was all falling off and, and I just happened to hand him my handlebar sample that I had and he just fell in love with it. And he told the, the manager owner of the store there, he's like, I want this. And and we told him kind of what the price was, and that's a lot of money in Guatemala. and he's like, No, no, I want that tape. Like, so give me that tape. And, and that's kind of how it's worked. Like we pay a ton more for our tape. It's not that we make a lot of money on it. We actually have a pretty tight margin on it, but the manufacturing cost is just a lot more because of what the product is and the, the materials that are, that are used. But once you feel it, it's like, . Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna splurge and I'm, I'm, This is what I want. [00:22:12] Craig Dalton: So are you still using the same manufacturing partner [00:22:15] Brian Fruit: We are, Yeah. And they've come up with, you know, new technology and, and you know, improvements to the polymer to make it, you know, even more grippy and even more durable. So it's been nice. You know, we did a complete redesign on the tape a couple years ago, two or three years ago now. And the new tape actually has a pattern on it. And if you looked at that pattern with like a, a jeweler's loop or a magnifying glass, you would see that the pattern is like, It, it's multi depth. So some of the little bumps are really deep, some are less deep, some are really shallow, just to maximize the feel and control on the bike you know, with, with these different dimensions into the pattern. So pretty technical. [00:23:05] Craig Dalton: Yeah. I think as as riders, we benefit from your obsession over this one little part of the bike. Say, how can we make it the best it can be? [00:23:15] Brian Fruit: I mean down that same conversation, and this is not a, This is me telling a bad story about myself. Unfortunately, not a good business story, but our plug that we had was really cool looking and was shiny and, and had the little lizard on it, but it did have a tendency to fall out. You know, if you didn't leave enough tape tucked in. So some people, it worked great and it never fell out, but other people, it fell out. So I wanted to get a new screw in plug and, and unfortunately we allowed ourselves to run out of plugs during that process. And probably lost a million dollars of sales just because we didn't. The actual plug that I wanted and I didn't want to go back to the old plug, cuz in my mind it already moved on to the new plug and the supplier for the new plug was being a Turkey and not making a for us. And, and we had to actually switch, you know, suppliers and, and but honestly now we have an amazing screw and plug which is a super simple thing and like, it shouldn't even be like a big thought, but. It probably cost me a ton of money making that transition, just cuz we didn't, we didn't wanna continue on with the old one and we didn't have our ducks in a row on the new one we thought we did. But but [00:24:32] Craig Dalton: I think anybody who's ever manufactured anything can commiserate with that story, myself included. [00:24:39] Brian Fruit: So, but now we got a great plug and the supplier's good and, and everything's, everything's functioning well. [00:24:46] Craig Dalton: You know, one of the, one of the things when you visit the lizards in skin site as a customer is that the first thing you see is an array of colors. And you're like, Great, if I wanna create some accent color, like you just have so many different unique colors available for the bar tape. But when you select your color and you get into it, you also then realize there's this secondary, probably much more important from a performance perspective, opportunity to choose your thick. Of color. For most riders, you probably buy bar tape and you don't even think about it. I don't know what the average is. Maybe it's a two and a half millimeter, but on your site you've got, I think it's 1.8 millimeter, 2.5, 3.2, and 4.6 millimeter bar tape, which is a pretty wide array. [00:25:35] Brian Fruit: So when we started this journey on making Hbar tape And we really tried to figure out what everybody else was doing and trying to get understanding. So we were out there with a micrometer trying to measure it and, and kind of the normal standard tape out there was about 2.5 millimeters, but nobody ever called that out. There was never any technical data. It was just a box and it. You know, Hbar tape with no detail. So we came out originally with the 2.5, which is still our very best seller and it's kind of the most common that you would see. But we had a request for some thinner tape, and there were some customers that said, Oh man, you know, you need to make it a little thinner. So then we came out with a 1.8 in limited colors. And, and we found that certain people in, in certain, you know, applications really like the thinner product and especially people with a little bit smaller hand because they just couldn't get their hand comfortably around, you know, this big fat bar. Big fat tape. Then we had a lot of people was like, Oh, why don't you make a thicker tape? You know? And I think they were like, Man, if you're gonna make a thinner one, why don't you make a thicker one? So then we came out with a 3.2 and you know, the packaging was bigger. Everything about the, the thing is just bigger. And people loved it. Like, man, it, it quickly became a great seller for us. Not better than the 2.5, but it was better than the one eight in fact. And so we've done real well with the three, two, and it lays down nice. And then we just had certain customers you know, wanting to do gravel rides, you know, cobbles, maybe they just have hands that hurt. You know, they have, could be an injury, just could be the way they are on the bike. But their hands just go numb and get sore. They. They wanted more cued. And so some people would like double wrap their bars. You know, but that, that has some challenges to it. So it came out with this 4.6 and it's a beast. It is a big, old fat role. But super comfortable when you get it on. It is a little harder to lay it down, you know? And. In all honesty, if you're wrapping 2.5, that's pretty easy. 3.2 takes a little more finesse and 4.6, it takes a decent amount of experience to make it lay nice and flat, but. [00:28:07] Craig Dalton: interesting to layer in those op those options for gravel cyclists. Obviously, like on this podcast we've got had lots of discussions around, you know, how do you create suspension? You start with your body, then the tires. Then grip tape's gonna play. Play a role in there. And again, for all the reasons you're just talking about, for some people, they're really taking a lot of abuse in their hands for one reason or another. Maybe they've got an injury and I, I could see having that option available to them, even if it's for a special purpose, a special event, wrapping your bars in a separate way. I remember back in the Perry Ru Bay classic days. When you're talking about people doing double wrap bar tape, everybody was consorting themselves in the prop peloton to find some way to make their bikes more comfortable. For days like Perry rba. [00:28:57] Brian Fruit: Yeah, and there's been a few different products made, you know, like, little gel packs and little foam pieces and stuff to put underneath there, and. And, and they work to some degree, but you know, the gel packs are break or they'll get kind of wiggly and the handlebar tape doesn't work well with it. And by doing this nice 4.6 and the 3.2, like, it just fits. It's just there. It's solid. You don't have to worry about a bump or a weird spot on there. And it, and it's been successful. [00:29:30] Craig Dalton: And as I understand things, you've been also getting feedback from a couple pro tour teams for the bar tape. [00:29:36] Brian Fruit: We were very fortunate to get a pro tour team to use the HA Bar tape many, many years ago. That first team was the con and this was kind of like a Forest Gump moment. But they were using our tape and one of their writers Johnny Hoer. Always being indebted to him. He was leading the polka dot jersey competition, the mountain mountain points in the tour, Frances, and it was a flat part of the beginning of the, of the tour. So ultimately he was doing breakaways and getting these points and on one of those days that he was in a breakaway, you know, getting a, a handful of mountain. A press car bumped him and another rider. And they went off the road and into a Bob wire fence. They hit that fence so hard that it actually pulled the P wood post outta the ground. And as just hardcore professionals, they got back on the bike, all cut up and dazed and, and jerseys and shorts all ripped up from the Bob wire. And, you know, their team gives 'em a push and off they go. You. At the end of the race, you know, Johnny gets off and he had been bandaged by the medical car and you know, they're trying to bandage him as he was riding his bike. So by the time he finished the race, you know, most of the bandages were falling off. It was a mess. And they interviewed him afterward and his attitude was like, this was an accident. I wished it wouldn't happened. This is gonna really mess up my opportunities at the tour, but it could have been worse. Let's move on. The other gentleman, writer that got hit had a very different take. His team was trying to find out who was responsible, who was gonna pay. It was just very bitter and, and interestingly enough, everyone fell in love with Johnny. And they started looking at his bike and once those chain rings he used and what kind of bike it was and what was his saddle and what kind of handlebar tape he used. Oh my goodness. Our handlebar tape started selling like crazy. [00:31:55] Brian: So all the distributors started having a run on the product and they ran out of, you know, lizards, skins, bar tape, and and boom. That was it. That was our four Gump moment. Handlebar tape became the most popular aftermarket tape in the world. And it was because, you know, one guy was was cool, you know, [00:32:17] Craig: And thrown into and thrown into a barb wire fence. I remember those images. [00:32:22] Brian: Oh. But you know, he just handled it right. You know, I think a lot of times in life we all have bad things that happen to us that are out of our control, but it's how we handle those things that kind of impact, you know. How we interact with the rest of the world [00:32:42] Craig: Yeah, as you remind me of that story, I remember very viscerally thinking about, gosh, this is gonna be another Primadonna roadie that has a tantrum. And I remember how you describe like the other team, the other writer. It was just this big to do and you know, who's gonna pay for this and how do we replace how he would've done throughout this tour juxtaposed to how Johnny handled it and how their team handled it. [00:33:10] Brian: Yeah, it was it was, it was pretty crazy. So, taught me, you know, a great lesson, right, of, you know, it's important to manage how we react you know, to, to potentially bad things, you know, happening to. So, you know, how we behave can really, you know, change overall how something goes down. [00:33:34] Craig: Yeah. Such, such an amazing journey and so cool that you've been able to do it using us manufacturing all this time. I love that part of the story. Before I let you go, Brian, I did wanna touch on one other thing because I think it's interesting. I mean, the gravel cyclist should go to your site and check out the different dimensions of bar tape and all those cool colors. You have great product. It definitely delivers that kind of grippiness and unique feel that we were talking about earlier. But I was also bemused to learn that you're also into several different sports, and I think the listeners would kind of dig hearing just a little bit about your journey into those other sports. [00:34:13] Brian: Y. So Hannah Bar tape was, was doing extremely well. And one of the guys from work Brad Barker that helped design the tape. Originally, he loved baseball. He had boys that were playing on baseball teams. Had another friend from college that, that gave me that little postcard for the sale at at Reflex actually. He. He was one of the guys that helped me feed my mountain bike passion. He had three boys that loved baseball and they were all putting this tape on baseball bats, bicycle tape on baseball bats. So it, it, it was like, Huh, is there something there? So we started making two thicknesses of baseball grip. We made a 1.1. Which is kind of the traditional thickness for baseball. And we made a 1.8, which is a little thicker. You know, think of the 3.2 in cycling, that kind of thing. And we put it out there. We won best of show for the first trade show we went to, and, and you know, nothing really happened. But when we sold the stuff into a store, it, it, it did. . So we figured out, it's like, well, we just have to increase the amount of stores. So we eventually got a bunch of stores selling it, and then there was a local probe by the name of John Buck. He connected up with us and wanted to go to a trade show and we said, That'd be great. You can share our booth and you can show your product in our booth and it, and it'll be fun. So we start that and at that show, . He brings his bats and we wrap 'em for him. And the whole time he's like feeling the bat, you know, while talking to customers about his products. And at the end of the show he's like, you know, if you made this thinner, I would use it in the pros and I would get other people to use it in the pros and I think have something. So Brad came back from that show and we talked and he says, this is, this is the convers. and we both looked at each other like 130 years of history with people using like sticky stuff, pine tar on baseball bats. Like, how in the world are we gonna change that tradition? Like, that's never gonna happen. And they were like, Yeah, probably not. And they were like, What? What should we do? And we both agreed it's a pro player, we should probably make it. So we did, we made a, a thinner version, one or a 0.5, really, really. and John started using it. Hunter Penn started using it. Big Poppy started using it like, you know, Miguel Cabret, I mean, just tons of these great players and they were sluggers and and eventually we got invited to go to the Equipment Manager show for Major League Baseball, which then led to us getting a license of Major League Baseball where we became the official bat grip on field license. for Major League Baseball and, and it was amazing and our sales grew, grew, grew, which allowed us to hire more people and get into a bigger, you know, better facility and you know, hire more designers and then continue to make more products and and grow the company. [00:37:33] Craig: Yeah, cuz now you're in baseball, hockey, lacrosse as well as cycling. [00:37:39] Brian: and recently we just added pickle. [00:37:42] Craig: Of course, the rise of pickleball, that is the moment in time we're in [00:37:48] Brian: So it and each of these sports, the product is different. So we're not just repackaging, we're actually redesigning the product each time. So you know how long it needs to be, what's the thickness, what type of a backing do we use? For cycling, we use an EVA backing, but for baseball we use afil. [00:38:09] Craig: Yeah. [00:38:10] Brian: you know, different patterns and the gripping qualities on the patterns are very different. So, we've, we've replicated ourself effectively in all these different sports. [00:38:23] Craig: When you, when you think about the business now, what percentage is cycling versus everything else? [00:38:29] Brian: Wow. I mean, in 2020, you know, there was a surge and cycling was the biggest part of the. 2021, it was still great. 2022. You know, cycling sales have, have slowed a little bit because there's a lot of inventory that's been shipped out there. So baseball is now the biggest part of the, of the business. Cycling is second, and then hockey would be third. [00:38:52] Craig: Gotcha. [00:38:53] Brian: So, [00:38:55] Craig: Yeah, super interesting story. Totally appreciate you sharing the journey with me. I enjoyed the conversation. [00:39:02] Brian: Oh, you bet. It, it's been a lot of fun. You know, I look back I, I wouldn't have wanted to go a different route, you know, I've loved the cycling industry and I actually started lizard scans and then several years later I, I started a bike store and then a couple years later I bought another bike store and, and I still have those bike stores. They're, they're great. I love 'em. And, and it, it just, it feels like walking into the Cheers bar, you know, from, from that sitcom. So when you go in the bike store, that's what it feels like, you know, it's just like, it, it's just, it's another home, right? [00:39:42] Craig: absolutely. Yeah. We all, I I hope that many of the listeners out there have that kind of relationship with their local bike shop, cuz I certainly do in my town. I love going there, I love seeing all the team that works there and, and just saying hi and having that familiar, you know, love of the sport that you can share. [00:40:00] Brian: Yeah, it's just, you know, fun getting to have friends continue to come in and get to see 'em. I mean, it's almost like a little mini fan family reunion, like every day that you go in the store. So [00:40:12] Craig: Yeah, absolutely. Well, have a great weekend, Brian, and we'll talk again soon. [00:40:17] Brian: appreciate it. Take. [00:40:19] Craig Dalton: That's going to do it for this week's edition of the gravel ride podcast. Big, thanks to Brian from lizard skin for joining I hope you enjoyed learning a little bit about his journey and are intrigued by some of the other product categories that they've found themselves in over the years. Definitely go check them out@lizardskins.com. Uh, as I mentioned earlier, that bar tape's been, it's been interesting trying out the different diameters. I'm still in the 2.4 camp, But I am curious about that 1.8 thickness bar tape as well. If you're interested in connecting with me, please join the ridership. That's w w w dot the ridership.com. That's a free global cycling community. It's hosted on slack. So it's basically a slack channel that you can communicate with other gravel, cyclists. From all around the world. If you're able to support the show, please visit buy me a coffee.com/the gravel ride. Or ratings and reviews are hugely appreciated until next time. Here's the finding some dirt under your wheels