Podcasts about Seeding

Fall is coming, and now is the time to start filling the schedule. In this quick episode, I break down what we're doing to create urgency around aeration and overseeding, reconnect with existing customers, and keep new business flowing in. I talk about why your current customer list is one of your biggest marketing opportunities, why you need to promote a service more than once, and how simple things like texts, emails, social media, and neighborhood marketing can make a huge difference. Whether you're selling lawn treatments, aeration and seeding, or even trying to fill a live event, the lesson is the same: don't wait until you need the business to start asking for it.

In this episode of Ag Tech Talk, we explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping transform precision agronomy with Dr. Jasmine Neupane, assistant professor of Agricultural Systems Technology at the University of Missouri. Dr. Neupane's research focuses on integrating digital agriculture technologies, including sensors, remote sensing, and data analytics, to help farmers and ag retailers make more informed, field-specific decisions that improve productivity, profitability, and sustainability.

In the 19th episode of Voice of the Harvest, Kasey Sees and William Chapman discuss God's unconventional way of meeting needs. They focus on the biblical principle that what you give in one area, whether money, encouragement, love, or support, often comes back in another. This episode is especially useful for anyone feeling depleted, discouraged, or stuck and needing a practical, scriptural reminder of how kingdom giving works. Timeline00:00 Introduction to Unconventional Ways of God 02:09 Luke 6.38 and the Power of Giving 03:24 Giving Love to Overcome Emotional Depletion 04:25 Tearing Down vs Building Up in Spiritual Growth 05:50 Encouragement as a Reciprocal Gift 07:55 The Power of Supporting Others' Revival 10:48 Seeding into Missions and God's Economy 13:44 Meeting Others' Needs to Receive Full Blessings 15:11 God's Rewards for Generous Giving 16:50 Closing Thoughts on Giving and Blessings

Recorded: 8/5/26Join Penn State Extension Agronomy Educators for a timely and practical conversation on current crop conditions across Pennsylvania. In this episode, the team shares on-the-ground observations from fields spanning multiple regions. They highlight how recent weather patterns, soil moisture variability, and crop growth stages are shaping corn and forage performance. The discussion includes two questions about timely decisions happening on the farm: soil testing and seeding fall forages. Educators will outline practical tools and approaches farmers can use right now. Host: Justin Brackenrich, Penn State ExtensionGuests: Erin Cuprinka and Heidi Reed, Penn State ExtensionLinks:How Late Can Cool-Season Perennial Forages Be Planted?Grain Drill CalibrationS4E7: Back to Basics: Soil Fertility TestingSign up for our newsletter, Field Crop News, and follow us on Facebook!

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Keith & Freya are back on the plot in Marshfield this week, surveying the desert like conditions this UK summer has delivered this year.Sunshine and drought conditions mean plenty of watering from cans, but it also means seeds are germinating in just a few days in the warm conditions. It's time to start fussing over your tomato crop if you're growing them. Water, but not too much. Feed, but not to much. Allow to crop, but not too much. Toms are the divas of the fruit and veg world , but a little fuss never hurt anyone......But don't over fuss....

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Michelle Biase, president and managing director of HP Canada Michelle Biase has now been in the president and managing director chair at HP Canada for eighteen months. In that time, the company has grown its Canadian sales team by fifty percent, moved from siloed PC, print, and Poly sellers to a unified One HP go-to-market model, and watched AI PC sales accelerate to nearly two-thirds of PC volume. In this episode of In The Channel, Biase sits down with Robert Dutt to talk about what HP actually learned from seeding AI PCs into partner hands more than a year ago. The candid answer: “It was early days, so we didn’t have a ton of use cases per se come out of that. But I think it really did help the partners to realize the value of AIPCs and help them think about how they’re going to help their customers deploy those devices.” The partners who are now selling AI PCs well, she says, share three common threads: they are educating themselves through programs like HP’s AI MasterClass, they are thinking about future-ready fleet strategies rather than transactional replacements, and they are using persona-based deployment tools to match the right device to the right worker. On HP IQ, which entered early access this spring, Biase positions it as a better-together play across the entire HP ecosystem – print, PC, and Poly – with AI at the edge addressing latency, token cost, and security concerns. She also points to the Elite Board, a keyboard-integrated PC with no built-in monitor, as a cost-effective and security-minded option for the roughly thirty percent of laptop users who never use their screen because they are docked. The pricing conversation is unavoidably central. With HP operating on 30-day price validity windows and memory costs expected to stay elevated, Biase’s guidance to partners is direct: accelerate the demo-to-close cycle, lean on distribution partners for available inventory, and avoid long configure-to-order cycles that risk price changes during the build. She also makes the case for moving from transactional hardware sales to solution-led conversations anchored in the Workforce Experience Platform, which she describes as a way to “change the conversation from being a transactional hardware conversation to really more of a value-added solution conversation.” Read Full Transcript ROBERT DUTT: Hello and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel community for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca, and your host for the show. On today’s show, we’re catching up with a channel leader who’s now been in the chair long enough to know what’s real and what’s still aspiration. Michelle Biase is president and managing director of HP Canada. She returned to the company in December 2024, just as HP was launching its first wave of AI PCs into partner hands. 18 months later, she’s running a sales team that’s 50% larger, steering a unified One HP go-to-market model, and trying to help Canadian partners navigate memory prices that have made hardware procurement feel like a commodities trading desk. We’re going to talk about what partners actually did with those early AI PCs, how the company’s HP IQ onboard AI assistant is landing in the channel, and the reality of running a hardware business in 2026, and the one part of HP’s portfolio she thinks partners are still sleeping on. Let’s get right into it, my chat with Michelle Biase. ROBERT DUTT: Michelle, thanks for taking the time. I appreciate it. MICHELLE BIASE: Great to see you again, Robert. Happy to be here. ROBERT DUTT: When we first gave those AI PCs to partners, that was the early days, right? MICHELLE BIASE: Yeah, geez, that seems like a long time ago. So those are really the early days of AI PCs, right? As manufacturers, we were rolling out those AI PCs. And the intent originally was to allow partners to really get those devices in their hands so that they could experience what was possible with those devices and really start to play with them and get comfortable and explore what they might offer their customers. And I would say it was early days, and so people were still sort of figuring out what the use cases were at that time and thinking about what was possible. But we did want them to play with some of the built-in tools that we had offered and we still offer as part of our HP PCs, AI PCs. So we had our Poly Studio tools and at that time we had AI Companion. And so we had some tools built in and we wanted to show the power of those tools with AI PC. We wanted people to experience the battery life and run Copilot and understand how the PC was going to respond and be utilized. And so there was a lot of good conversations around the power of the AI PC at that time and really sparked people to think about, okay, we need to get over the hump of the hardware transition and investment and start thinking about how we’re going to move forward with this. And so we had some good experiences. I would say, to be honest, it was early days, so we didn’t have a ton of use cases per se come out of that. But I think it really did help the partners to realize the value of AI PCs and help them to think about how they’re going to help their customers deploy those devices in their environment. So it was really intended to get people rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands on the product. And I think we did accomplish that. ROBERT DUTT: A year on from that experiment, now, what do partners who are having success in selling AI PCs have in common? What are some of those common threads that you’re seeing? MICHELLE BIASE: Yeah, I mean, we have a lot of partners who are doing well, we’re definitely seeing our AI PC volumes increase pretty significantly. So first of all, I would say that those partners are educating themselves. So they’re completing training like HP AI MasterClass, which is a suite of educational series that we offer to help partners and their sellers in their organizations really understand AI and the value. And they’re also working really closely with us on how to help their customers navigate the current environment and prepare for the future. I think partners who are selling AI PCs are really thinking about equipping their customers to be future ready. You know, we’re still learning all the use cases as an industry right now, and customers are going about different ways of kind of figuring out what those use cases are going to be. But we all know that the adoption of AI is going to happen at a rapid pace, it is happening at a rapid pace. And so having the right hardware strategy in place is really important. And so partners are helping their customers, you know, deploy technology that really sets them up for that future ready conversation. And then I think the other thing they’re doing is really helping their customers and guiding them to think about a persona-based fleet deployment strategy. So as we think about, you know, costs increasing, and the, you know, number of options that are out there in terms of devices, we have tools like WXP, which is our Workforce Experience Platform, which is a single pane of glass IT management tool that when deployed can help customers to see in their environment, who within their organization based on persona and workflows and work streams need what type of devices. So maybe not everyone needs an AI PC today. I think that, you know, this tool then helps them to understand who needs an AI PC right now, who needs a refresh, who doesn’t, you know, and really help them to kind of manage the deployment of those devices, you know, considering cost and AI adoption and all the things that customers are considering. So I think those are some of the things partners are doing is really educating themselves, thinking about being future ready, and then thinking about new ways of fleet deployment and management to help their customers navigate current situation. ROBERT DUTT: So since that initial test run, we’ve had the rollout of HP IQ in early access since the spring. The idea being more onboard capabilities, basically running a full LLM on the machine. How is that landing with partners and their customers so far? Is it one of those… is it a today conversation? Is it early adopter? Or is it in that kind of future ready mode that you were just touching on? MICHELLE BIASE: Yeah, HP IQ is a really exciting advancement for us in terms of our One HP strategy. So I would say it’s early days, we’ve just launched it recently at our event. It’s only available on some PCs, so not available on our full fleet of products at this point. But HP IQ really represents HP’s vision for a true better together connected, intelligent workplace experience. So, you know, when you think about, you know, some of the opportunities it presents, one is around leveraging AI at the edge, right? So, you know, we know that as customers are thinking about deploying AI, and I talked to a lot of customers who are going to a more, what I would say is like a distributed rollout model now where instead of it kind of holding the reins, they’re putting AI tools in the hands of their employees and saying, here’s a tool you figure out, you know, how to make this make sense for you in your day to day job, and then having a reaction to their cloud and token costs as a response to that, they’re quickly sort of thinking, okay, well, how are we going to manage security, cost, latency, all these things. And so having functionality work at the edge on the device is an interesting opportunity and something that we’re talking a lot to customers about. So, you know, that’s one opportunity is around AI at the edge. And then the other is really around what I said around better together. So, HP IQ provides this connected opportunity for all of the HP devices across our entire One HP portfolio. So, print, PC, Poly, etc. So when you think about, you know, imagine an experience where you walk into a meeting room that’s outfitted with HP Poly collaboration technology, and you have an HP laptop, all of a sudden, those devices start speaking to each other. And the room recognizes that I have the meeting room booked for that next hour, that there’s going to be 10 people in the room and five people online, and it starts firing up the right cameras and opens up the screens that are in the room and sets up that meeting for me. So that, you know, we don’t have to lose that sort of 10 minute, we call it the meeting room tax, right at the beginning of every meeting, there’s like 10 minutes consumed trying to figure out how to get the technology to work in the way that works for everybody in a hybrid environment. So, you know, HP IQ is really intended to provide one that better together story across the entire HP ecosystem, and then leveraging AI at the edge to solve challenges around latency, cost, security, environmental impact. And so it’s early days, but it’s a really exciting advancement for us to kind of bring that narrative together around the One HP value proposition. ROBERT DUTT: Does that better together part of things… is that a big part of sort of how partners can answer that? I have to imagine partners are going to get asked if they present an idea like HP IQ, what are the natural responses for customers is going to be, don’t I kind of already get this with a Copilot license? Obviously, it’s differentiated. But is that that kind of better together? Is that the path to explaining the value difference there? MICHELLE BIASE: I think there’s a couple things. I think for sure, better together is one big value proposition that we believe. I mean, when you think about HP and our position in market, we are the only OEM that can address the entire employee ecosystem. And so having a single vendor across the edge, and then having that ecosystem be AI powered really can create a lot of different experiences, both from an IT manageability perspective, and then from an employee user perspective. And so, you know, the possibilities once the devices are able to speak to each other, the possibilities are kind of endless in terms of, you know, advanced detection of hardware challenges, better usage of the products that they’re using together, so headsets and PCs and cameras and all of those things and how they connect together. So there definitely is that value proposition around the better together One HP story if you have an entire HP ecosystem. And I think, you know, with so many AI applications out there now Copilot, there’s others people are using, I think it’s really important that partners work together with their customers to understand their specific needs, and how they want to design and deploy AI and the concerns they have around doing so because, as I’ve mentioned a few times, you know, things like latency, things like cost, data residency, sovereignty, security, all of those things are hot topics for sure right now. And each customer has their own unique needs and different applications can solve for that. And, you know, we’ve used the word hybrid in our industry in many over the decades in many different ways. When we went all cloud, we said, Oh, no, it’s probably going to be hybrid. When everybody went home, now we’re saying it’s going to be hybrid. And I think AI deployment and AI solutioning is also going to be hybrid. There will be a home for multiple applications inside of customer ecosystems. There will be, you know, cloud deployments that make sense, edge deployments that make sense. And so I don’t think it’s a HP IQ versus other tools per se, but it’s here’s how you can get the most value out of your HP ecosystem with HP IQ and how we can enable that hardware to be most powerful when you’re using other applications as well. ROBERT DUTT: You touched on how customers are actively thinking through where their AI investment lives, edge versus cloud. What are you seeing as really shaping that decision? You know, amongst the things that are in the mix, you know, sovereignty, privacy, sustainability, security, pricing, what moves the needle the most right now? MICHELLE BIASE: Yeah, it’s a good question. And we are having a ton of those conversations with customers. And so I would first say, you know, in the last maybe three to six months, we have seen a rapid shift in the fact that people are getting over the hump about the hardware investment. So, you know, six months ago, people might have still been questioning like, do I need an AI PC? Or what’s, you know, when do I need the AI PC? We’ve seen our AI PC sales accelerate significantly, we’re at, you know, almost two thirds of our PC sales are now AI enabled PCs. So I think we’re over the hardware hump, we are over the hump of people thinking like, AI, is it really coming when what is it going to do for me now? So from an investment perspective, I think, you know, we’re there. When you think about some of those things, you listed sovereignty, privacy, sustainability, pricing, etc. I think, you know, security, if you’re talking private sector, you know, security and pricing, or cost is probably those are the two biggest things that I’m hearing from people is they know they have to roll it out quickly. So very quickly, customers are moving from IT controlled AI deployment to let’s put it in the hands of our users and see what solutions they can come up with. And by the way, AI is getting better every day. So AI can help them figure out what solutions they can come up with to make their days more productive or, you know, better serve their customers. And but and there is an associated token cost or cloud cost that very quickly they’re realizing comes with that. So those are kind of the two main factors. I think the other thing that I hear customers talk about is, you know, how are they kind of leading their AI strategy? So is it an IT led strategy? Is it a business led strategy? How are those two things coming together? And then finally, how are they measuring ROI? So, you know, we’re going to invest in this, we understand that there’s going to be associated costs. But sometimes a cost is okay, if the ROI is greater, and you’re making an investment to, you know, increase your revenue or improve your profits or serve your customers better or create a competitive advantage. So the possibilities are so endless, I think there’s a lot of conversations, but I think privacy and cost are the ones that kind of float to the top of the conversation these days. And we’re really trying to address that with a secure AI at the edge story. I think that that’s where we’re really trying to help customers is figure out what applications you can run at the edge. And we have some good use cases for that already, examples of things we’ve worked with customers on. And so those are exciting opportunities when you can really figure out how to deploy at the edge makes a big difference. ROBERT DUTT: So one more around HP IQ specifically, it’s requiring 24 gigs minimum. So a pretty performant machine. It’s bringing together two of the biggest shaping factors, I think, of the IT industry in the first half of this year, one being RAMageddon and the other being tokenomics. How do you want partners walking customers through thinking about cost of acquisition for a more performant machine versus the ongoing cost of tokens if they’re living their AI in the cloud? MICHELLE BIASE: Yeah, it’s definitely a tricky time. There’s a lot of factors right now that are at play in terms of decision making around investment. So I think while prices have gone up, and as I mentioned earlier, I mean, customers are still making those investments where they need to future proof their business. And so they’re figuring out how to do that within their broader IT budgets. I think things like persona-based fleet management, like we discussed is helping to manage costs. We’re actually bringing some interesting technology you may have heard through our CES announcements with devices like the Elite Board, which is basically a keyboard that has the full power of an EliteBook built into the keyboard. And it has no monitor on it. And so it’s not a full laptop, people might say, why would I need that? Why would you create a keyboard that doesn’t have a monitor? And we actually have data that suggests that over 30% of people who have a laptop actually never use the screen on their laptop, they just use it to dock. And so, you know, we are bringing innovative technology like the Elite Board to market. So if you think of a use case where you have a person who’s not a mobile worker, but maybe they work at home two days a week, and they work in the office three days a week, and they’re in a cube environment or an inside sales rep, and they’re just carrying that device back and forth from one office desk to another and plugging it in, and then using a big monitor, this can now be used as the keyboard. So it reduces the cost of having to add another keyboard to the desk. The Elite Board provides options around security. So you think about someone, unless they’re carrying a portable monitor, they can’t go to your local coffee shop and start working on their work there. So it addresses a security concern, and it’s priced more competitively than a laptop. So we’re giving people options when they think about their full fleet to say, you know, do you have personas where an Elite Board might make sense that frees up some dollars for you to then go invest in areas where people need full powered AI PCs or workstations. So token costs are really a reality, and many customers are realizing that. And so as I said, like the real opportunity, I think, is AI at the edge and getting creative around how they’re rolling out their fleet. And then I think many of our partners are also adding AI development and consulting services to their offerings so that they can help customers to really focus on where the greatest ROI is and help them to develop solutions to roll out AI as well. So a lot of factors, but we’re bringing a lot of flexibility to market in terms of some of those answers and opportunities to help customers. ROBERT DUTT: HP’s CFO said a couple of months ago that memory prices will stay elevated for many quarters, I think was the line used. I’ve seen reports or suggestions, everything from things are stabilizing this month to things are still going to surge, acknowledging that there’s no single crystal ball or source of the truth. You know, what’s your current read for partners who are trying to plan what things are going to look like on the costing issue going into the second half of the year? MICHELLE BIASE: Yeah, if I had a crystal ball, then I may be doing a different job. So, I’m hearing the same things you’re hearing. There’s varied feedback depending on which chip manufacturer you’re talking to or kind of which industry trends you’re following. So I’m not going to try to predict what’s happening. I do think that partners need to, again, be working with their customers on future ready strategies. And so when we think about what tools we’re providing partners and what flexibility we’re giving them in terms of the value of their partnership with HP and what they can take to customers, we have several things that we’re bringing to market to help. First of all, again, WXP, which I mentioned, which is our Workforce Experience Platform, is a fairly economical software solution that partners can deploy within their customers’ organizations. And it really is designed to help them assess and gather information that they need to make intelligent and proactive fleet management decisions. So deploying that tool gives partners an opportunity to introduce a new solution and service to their customers and helps them to use that data to then provide proactive and intelligent decision making and support to their customers. So WXP is one. Introducing new products like the Elite Board, which I mentioned, is another that gives flexibility. Also, the value of selling across our ecosystem is another way that partners can help to manage their overall profitability in their business these days. So if you think about selling only PCs, there might put some profit pressure for partners as they’re heading into the next couple of quarters and halves. But if they’re selling across the entire ecosystem, adding on accessories and attach and Poly and print and all the things, then we have extra value and benefits in our programs for partners to help make that more beneficial for them. So we are trying to bring programs and initiatives and technology to market to help provide our partner ecosystem with new tools that they can use to manage their business going forward from a profit perspective a little bit better and also provide data and intelligence to help their customers to navigate. One thing we are saying is, we’re not advising a wait and see strategy. We do know that in the near… I shouldn’t say we know, but we suspect that in the coming quarters, prices will continue to rise. And so we’re not really advising a wait and see, because the price you have today is likely better than the price 30 days from now or 60 days from now, depending on when the next price increases occur. So we are working with partners and helping them to help their customers say, “What are your real needs? And then how can we get creative to solve for those needs within the confines of budgets or other things that might be at play?” ROBERT DUTT: Do you find partners are doing a good job of optimizing that bundling playbook opportunity with Poly and displays and printers and services and software and all that good stuff? Or that’s still something that needs to be… Or where there’s an opportunity to take better advantage of that? MICHELLE BIASE: I think we’re seeing some good progress. There’s still opportunity for sure, but we are starting to see partners lean in to the One HP strategy. And our team has moved to a sales structure that is now One HP focused. And so as we’re co-selling with our partner ecosystem, we’ve made a lot of changes in our sales organization. And so when we’re selling with our partner ecosystem to customers, we are selling through an entirely One HP lens. And so that helps to drive that conversation forward. And partners are embracing the value of the One HP ecosystem, especially with the introduction of HP IQ and WXP runs across our entire ecosystem as well. So some of those solutions that we’re bringing forward really drive that further. So we’re seeing some good progress there and always more opportunity to drive that conversation with customers and partners as well. ROBERT DUTT: You guys are currently, as far as I know, doing 30 day price quotes. No shade on that. I was at a partner conference this week, literally. The biggest cheer line of the event was that pricing quotes were going back up to 30 days. It’s kind of the state of the world. But where customers are still wanting 60 or 90 day sales cycles, what’s the guidance for partners right now? I suspect a big part of it is that, don’t wait and see side of things, but what else are you telling partners about best taking care of their margin and best taking care of their customers in this pricing environment? MICHELLE BIASE: Yeah, there’s a couple things we’re doing. I think one is obviously working very closely with our partners to accelerate the sort of demo to close conversation. So how quickly can we get the customer to move from, I think I need some PCs. Here’s the demo to here’s my PO. You don’t have the luxury anymore of allowing that sales cycle to take now 90 days. So we’re working closely to try to accelerate that sales process. One of the other things we’re doing is really making sure that we have a good level and assortment of product in our channel. So our distribution partners are really playing a key role right now in making sure that we have product available. And so we are, in certain cases, steering demand towards what’s available in channel and having more of a buy what’s available strategy versus customized CTO units that might take longer to arrive. And by the time they arrive, there’s maybe cost changes or product availability issues and things that come up during the configuration cycle. So we’re really leaning on and working closely with our distribution partners to make sure that we have a lot of inventory in channel and then that we have a good assortment and then asking partners to work with their customers to say, hey, is there something available in channel today? That would meet needs. It presents an opportunity as well if they can get the components for partners to do some configuration work for their customers as well. If the spec is not 100% aligned to what the customer needs, then we’re working with them as well from that perspective. ROBERT DUTT: On that point, given your background at D&H, you’ve seen the other side of supply chain issues and pricing pressure and those sorts of things. How does that inform how you’re managing this whole situation with both your partners and the distis right now? MICHELLE BIASE: Yeah. As I mentioned, our distribution partners are playing a very critical role in our success at this period in time. And so we’re working with them closely to make sure that they have inventory on hand and that we have the strongest assortment that we can to make sure that we have the right mix of product and that it’s close to most of the common CTO units and then steering partners and customers to a buy what is available approach. We’ve made sure that our distribution partners are well aligned with our teams internally so that their risk is minimized in terms of making those types of investments as well. And then making sure that we have an assortment across our entire ecosystem. So not only on PCs, but on some of our what we call attached products. So headsets and accessories and those types of things. So that both the distributors and the channel partners can fulfill that One HP ecosystem together through the channel and not having to wait for different components of products to become available to fulfill the customer’s needs. So they’re really our distributors are critical to our business right now. And we really appreciate them leaning in and are working very closely with them. ROBERT DUTT: This time last year, it felt like the big drivers that everyone was betting on for PC refresh was the AI PC, obviously, which we’ve talked about a fair bit and Windows 10 end of life. Curious how that, which is now in the rear view mirror, played out, especially given the cost environment that we are in today, you know, has it sort of played out the way you expected or are customers kind of holding steady a little bit. MICHELLE BIASE: You know what, I would say the first half of this fiscal year for us, so starting in November, I mean, we’ve had very strong results in the first half. And I think customers are not holding back. As I mentioned, they are, you know, realizing they have to be future ready and future proof their business. And so, you know, there was a lot of customers who made the decision to buy early as opposed to waiting. And so they were sort of leaning in and saying, how can I get ahead and, you know, look at my refresh cycle and buy up for the next X number of quarters, you know, to get ahead of it. The Windows 10 obviously is a requirement for some customers that they couldn’t wait depending on how their environment is managed and the support that they get. And so it really drove, I would say, accelerated refresh cycles, not delayed refresh cycles. I think customers were like, okay, let me get ahead of this and get what I need for the next, you know, three to four quarters. And then we have enough to keep us going. Again, those that were deploying WXP are looking at sort of alternate ways to manage their refresh. Might not have done a one for one for one refresh for everyone, but they certainly bought up inventory and then were like, okay, we can stretch the assets on some of these folks and refresh more people in other areas where the refresh is more critical. So it’s been interesting because I think it’s created a more creative refresh conversation than we’ve sort of been stuck in that typical, you know, three year refresh cycle that everybody has managed for a long time. It’s created some interesting dialogue around alternatives. ROBERT DUTT: When you came into this role in December 2024, I don’t think, AI PC was just kind of in the early days of conceptualizing. I don’t think we could have foreseen the memory spikes we’ve seen. We couldn’t have seen something like HP IQ necessarily coming down the tubes. A lot has changed in that period of time. I’m curious, you know, at this point where you’ve been in the job the time you have, what’s kind of been the biggest thing about running HP Canada that’s different now than what you expected to look like when you took the job? MICHELLE BIASE: Well, that’s a big loaded question. So I’ve been in the role for, I guess, just over 18 months now. And for sure, a lot has changed in terms of what you reference. AI PCs were just getting launched. You know, the One HP strategy was just being released, the whole better together concept. So, you know, from the technology perspective, I would say, you know, it has moved very quickly. I wouldn’t say surprising to me. I think, you know, I always sort of believe that AI was going to drive a rapid transformation in our industry pretty quickly. And so I think, you know, that has played out as I would have expected in terms of technology advancement. I think the thing that is most significant internally for HP Canada is we have made a very significant investment in transformation in our go-to-market strategy. So we, as I mentioned before, have moved to a One HP go-to-market strategy and invested heavily in resources in Canada. So our sales team is 50% larger than it was when I joined. We’ve added several resources in Canada. We’ve added a whole new layer of sales management. And we’ve added several specialists in the areas that we believe are important to our customers in terms of driving their growth strategies. So, you know, around workstations and print and, you know, software and solutions. And so we are going to market now with a whole new approach around selling the One HP value proposition wrapped and layered in our software solutions like WXP and HP IQ. So it has been a big transition. When I joined, we had PC sellers, print sellers, Poly sellers going to the same customers and having those conversations. And now we are elevating our conversations with customers and getting higher up inside the organization because we have a more strategic value proposition to offer around our One HP strategy and the value and benefits of the software and solutions that we’re bringing to market. So it’s been a really interesting time because I get to have, you know, very cool conversations with customers about what they’re trying to do with their technology. There’s a lot of factors around their people strategies and security strategies and all the things that we lean into from an HP perspective, you know, environmental impact of AI. So there’s a lot of HP, you know, long standing strategy, security and environmental, you know, focus is not new for us, but those things are being heightened yet again, because of the advancement of technology. So it’s been a fun 18 months. We have done a ton in that time in terms of transforming our whole team and upskilling our team and adding a lot of resources and then supporting our partners and customers through all the transition that is happening in the market right now. So it’s been fun and there’s a lot more good stuff to come. ROBERT DUTT: With any vendor that’s got a lot in the organization, and that would include you guys, there’s always that, you know, message of we’d love you to cross sell more. We’d love you to, you know, the better together message in whatever form that may take. And I think with One HP, that’s even driving that more. I’m curious at this point, is there any one place where you’d like to, you know, in the portfolio that you’d like to see partners pay a little bit more attention, give a little bit more love towards part of the business, maybe because it’s an untapped opportunity for partners right now. MICHELLE BIASE: I think it depends on the partner. We certainly have some partners who are selling across the One HP ecosystem successfully. Other partners are more focused on print versus, you know, other areas of the business collaboration. So I think really leaning into, you know, the software and solution side of the business, because when you think about Workforce Experience Platform, it is a single pane of glass that provides that management and manageability across our entire ecosystem. And so leaning into selling from a solutions perspective changes the conversation from being sort of a transactional hardware conversation to really more of a value added solution conversation that we believe we’re bringing to market today. And so having more partners lean in and sell that way, if you start with WXP, then selling all of the products that fit in our portfolio under that just bring a greater value. So I think, you know, thinking about HP, you know, as a software and solutions company, and really thinking about the value we bring from that better together in One HP perspective, when you wrap the solutions around it is really, I think, you know, the next great opportunity for partners in terms of them adding more services and growth to their business and what differentiates us as we bring our One HP strategy forward. ROBERT DUTT: All right. Well, good luck on getting that actualized and realized in the market. And once again, thank you so much for taking the time. MICHELLE BIASE: Awesome. Thanks so much. Great chatting with you.

Movie of the Year: 2006The Devil Wears Prada (feat. Katie Walsh!)The Devil Wears Prada Podcast Episode: Fashion, Power, and the Best of 2006Welcome to The Devil Wears Prada podcast episode from Movie of the Year: 2006. This week, the Taste Buds enter the gleaming offices of Runway magazine. Furthermore, they bring backup. Film critic Katie Walsh joins Mike, Greg, and Ryan to decide whether David Frankel's fashion-world comedy can survive the 2006 bracket. Along the way, the panel debates feminism in the workplace, the myth of the suffering artist, and the eternal question of Andy's terrible friends. Additionally, the episode features a full Anne Hathaway Career Retrospective bracket. Consequently, this one runs deep on both style and substance.About the FilmThe Devil Wears Prada arrived in the summer of 2006 and promptly stole it. Director David Frankel adapted Lauren Weisberger's bestselling novel about a young journalist grinding through an impossible job. Anne Hathaway stars as Andy Sachs, an aspiring writer who lands a position at Runway magazine. Her boss is Miranda Priestly, the most feared editor in fashion, played by Meryl Streep in an Oscar-nominated performance. Moreover, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci deliver career-launching supporting turns. The film earned over $300 million worldwide and near-universal acclaim. Notably, Roger Ebert praised Streep's icy, understated Miranda as the engine of the whole picture. For more background, the Wikipedia entry on The Devil Wears Prada covers its production and legacy in detail. The film now faces its toughest challenge yet: the Movie of the Year 2006 bracket.Guest Panelist: Katie WalshThe Devil Wears Prada 2006 podcast episode welcomes a genuine authority to the panel. Katie Walsh is a Los Angeles-based film critic who reviews weekly releases for the Tribune News Service and the Los Angeles Times. Additionally, she serves as Vice President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Her writing has appeared in GQ, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Vulture, Slate, and The Playlist. She co-hosted the podcast Miami Nice and has guest-hosted Switchblade Sisters. Furthermore, she frequently appears on KCRW's Press Play and has taught film criticism at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. In practice, that means the Taste Buds must actually defend their takes this week. Someone in the room knows what she is talking about.Feminism and the WorkplaceIs Miranda Priestly a feminist icon or a cautionary tale? The panel digs into how the film frames women, power, and ambition. Miranda runs an empire, yet the film punishes her with a collapsing marriage. Meanwhile, Andy gets scolded by nearly everyone for taking her job seriously. The episode asks whether the movie critiques workplace sexism or accidentally reproduces it. Notably, Katie Walsh brings a critic's perspective to how 2006 audiences read Miranda versus how we read her now. Two decades of think pieces have flipped the film's villain into its hero. Ultimately, the panel debates whether that reversal says more about the movie or about us.Can Art Only Come from Suffering?Andy suffers for a job she claims to hate, all in service of her writing dreams. Consequently, the Taste Buds tackle a bigger question: does great art require misery? The film suggests that paying dues at Runway makes Andy a better journalist. However, it also shows the cost. She loses friends, a boyfriend, and nearly herself. The panel weighs the romantic myth of the starving artist against the reality of creative work. By contrast, some of the best art comes from stability, support, and cerulean-blue sweaters chosen by someone else. Above all, this segment asks what we actually owe our ambitions.Andy's Friends: The Worst People in FashionEvery rewatch of The Devil Wears Prada produces the same realization: Andy's friends are monsters. They mock her job, demand free designer swag, and play keep-away with her work phone. Meanwhile, her boyfriend Nate pouts because she missed his birthday party for her career. Therefore, the panel litigates the great question of the film's second act. Are these people grounding Andy in reality, or are they sabotaging her? Specifically, the group ranks the friends from least to most insufferable. Nevertheless, at least one Taste Bud attempts a defense of Nate. It does not go well.Anne Hathaway Career Retrospective: The BracketSpecial segment time. The Devil Wears Prada podcast crew builds a full bracket to determine Anne Hathaway's most iconic role. The field spans her entire career. The Princess Diaries, Brokeback Mountain, Rachel Getting Married, Les Misérables, The Dark Knight Rises, and Interstellar all enter the arena. Additionally, deep cuts and dark horses make surprise appearances. Seeding arguments get heated. Upsets happen. As a result, friendships within the panel are tested. Does Andy Sachs herself take the crown, or does an Oscar-winning turn steal it? You will have to listen to find out. Check Anne Hathaway's full filmography on IMDb and play along at home.Why The Devil Wears Prada Still MattersTwenty years later, The Devil Wears Prada refuses to fade. The film remains a Rosetta Stone for conversations about work, ambition, and the price of excellence. Miranda's cerulean monologue is still the definitive speech about how culture actually functions. Moreover, the movie launched Emily Blunt, redefined Anne Hathaway, and gave Meryl Streep one of her signature roles. A 2026 sequel proved the appetite never left. In addition, the film's questions have only grown sharper in the era of hustle culture and quiet quitting. Is Miranda a monster or simply held to a different standard? Ultimately, that debate keeps the film alive, and it makes for a fierce competitor in the Movie of the Year 2006 tournament.Related Episodes from Movie of the Year: 2006Catch up on the season so far, from the 2006 season introduction to the music that defined the year:Movie of the Year 2006: Intro Part 1The 2006 Bracket Reveal: Meet the Sweet 16Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull StoryThe 2006 Mixtape, Part IAll Movie of the Year episodesFAQ: The Devil Wears Prada Podcast and FilmWhat is this episode of The Devil Wears Prada podcast about?The Taste Buds and critic Katie Walsh debate whether The Devil Wears Prada deserves to advance in the Movie of the Year 2006 bracket. Topics include workplace feminism, art and suffering, Andy's awful friends, and a full Anne Hathaway career bracket.What is The Devil Wears Prada about?Aspiring journalist Andy Sachs takes a job assisting Miranda Priestly, the tyrannical editor of Runway magazine. Consequently, Andy must decide how much of herself she will trade for success.Who directed The Devil Wears Prada?David Frankel directed the film. He later directed Marley & Me and worked extensively on Sex and the City. Aline Brosh McKenna wrote the screenplay from Lauren Weisberger's novel.Who stars in The Devil Wears Prada?Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci lead the cast. Streep earned an Academy Award nomination for playing Miranda Priestly.More Questions About The Devil Wears PradaIs Miranda Priestly based on Anna Wintour?Widely, yes. Author Lauren Weisberger worked as an assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour, and Miranda is broadly understood as her fictional counterpart. However, Streep has said she modeled the performance on powerful men she knew rather than on Wintour.Who is the guest on this episode?Film critic Katie Walsh joins the panel. She reviews films for the Tribune News Service and the Los Angeles Times and serves as Vice President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.What is the Anne Hathaway Career Retrospective?It is a bracket-style special segment. The panel seeds Anne Hathaway's most famous roles against each other and votes round by round until one iconic performance remains.Why does The Devil Wears Prada still matter?The film remains the defining movie about ambition, mentorship, and toxic workplaces. Moreover, its cultural conversation keeps evolving, as the 2026 sequel proved.

In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down AI distillation, the teacher-student technique frontier labs now lean on to train smaller, cheaper models. He also covers GPT-5.6’s government-vetted rollout, Claude Sonnet 5 landing on AWS, Maryland’s two-year data center pause, and Microsoft’s climbing carbon numbers. Finally, he wraps with Apple’s $30 billion Broadcom deal, Meta’s tamper-proof recording light, Michigan’s parasite outbreak, and a simulation that erased a super El Niño. – Want to start a podcast? Its easy to get started! Sign-up at Blubrry – Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the show. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Email Ray if you want to get in touch! Like and Follow Geek News Central’s Facebook Page. Support my Show Sponsor: Best Godaddy Promo Codes Get 1Password Full Summary Cochrane opens with a quick personal update. Longer days have him outdoors, including a float trip on the Sandy River at Dabney State Park, where he found clearer water, clay-like sand, and easy footing. Next week brings both a move and a trip home, so he is stocking up on Trader Joe’s “Power Berries” and IKEA bags at his mom’s request. Then he turns to the lead story. AI Distillation Explained: How Frontier Models Teach Each Other Cochrane’s featured story comes from Hugging Face engineer Sergio Paniego. Distillation is teacher-student training for AI: a capable model generates the training signal, and a smaller student learns to match it. The classic off-policy version compresses giant models into cheap students, either through soft labels or piles of worked answers. Google’s Gemma models and DeepSeek’s R1-Distill line were built exactly this way. However, the industry is now converging on multi-teacher on-policy distillation, or MOPD. Labs build reinforcement-learning specialists for math, coding, and agentic work, then have them grade a single student, word by word, as the student generates its own answers. DeepSeek-V4, MiMo-V2-Flash, and NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Ultra all run versions of the recipe, and the Qwen3 team reported better results at roughly a tenth of the GPU hours of raw reinforcement learning. Finally, self-distillation lets models like Cursor’s Composer 2.5 learn from better-prompted versions of themselves. Sponsor: GoDaddy Economy hosting $6.99/month, WordPress hosting $12.99/month, domains $11.99. Website builder trial available. Use codes at geeknewscentral.com/godaddy to support the show. GPT-5.6 Arrives With a Government-Vetted Rollout OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 as a three-tier family: Sol, Terra, and Luna. Sol costs five dollars in and thirty dollars out per million tokens, half of Claude Fable 5’s rate. The benchmarks split: Sol Ultra wins Terminal-Bench at 91.9 percent, while Claude Fable 5 still leads SWE-Bench Pro. Notably, the API launched in limited preview to roughly 20 partners vetted by the U.S. government, though the model went live in Microsoft 365 Copilot on day one. Claude Sonnet 5 Lands on AWS, Plus Quick AWS Wins Claude Sonnet 5 arrived on AWS through Bedrock, pitched as top-tier intelligence at Sonnet pricing. Additionally, Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents reached general availability, enabling agents to drive full desktop applications securely. OpenSearch gained a log-analytics engine claiming four times the price-performance, and SageMaker now scales inference about twice as fast. Cochrane also flags that Kendra and Q Business move to maintenance mode at the end of July. Anthropic Wants You to Reflect on Your Claude Habits Anthropic launched Reflect, a beta feature that analyzes your past Claude conversations and visualizes how you actually use the assistant. It requires Memory, excludes incognito and health-related chats, and keeps its insights inside the tool. Cochrane loves the idea. He reviews his own transcripts to extract prompt patterns and turn them into reusable skills, and he suggests listeners simply ask their AI to do the same. AlphaEvolve Goes GA on Google Cloud Google made AlphaEvolve generally available to Google Cloud customers on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The agent acts as an evolutionary collaborator: provide a baseline algorithm and your goals, and it searches for better, human-readable code. BASF, JetBrains, and Kinaxis are the named early adopters. Meanwhile, Cochrane renews his standing wish that DeepMind release AlphaGo as a playable teacher. Google Adds “How This Ad Was Made” AI Labels Google is adding a “How this ad was made” section to My Ad Center across Search, YouTube, and Discover. Ads built with Google’s own AI tools automatically get the disclosure, backed by invisible watermarks. However, ads made with outside tools rely on advertiser self-declaration. Cochrane points out the limits of voluntary disclosure in an AI-flooded content economy. Microsoft’s Carbon Emissions Climb 25 Percent Microsoft’s new sustainability report shows emissions up 25% in 2025, driven by a data center construction spree. The gross figure is 34 million metric tons before offsets, while other coverage puts the net figure at around 20 million. Water consumption also jumped thirty-four percent, even as Microsoft claims its first water-positive year. Cochrane argues regulation needs to catch up, since Google and Amazon report similar increases. Prince George’s County Pauses Data Centers for Two Years Prince George’s County adopted a two-year moratorium on new data center development, the longest pause in Maryland so far. The resolution blocks new applications, including hyperscale projects, until the council passes real regulations. Water and energy impacts remain open questions the county intends to study. Cochrane gives kudos to residents for making their voices heard. Apple and Broadcom Ink a $30 Billion U.S. Chip Deal Apple is expanding its partnership with Broadcom with a multiyear agreement expected to exceed $30 billion. The deal covers custom silicon and wireless components, with more than fifteen billion chips to be made on American soil. Broadcom’s Fort Collins, Colorado plant anchors the work with a $1.5 billion equipment expansion. Tim Cook framed the deal as accelerating Apple’s commitment to American manufacturing. MSI and Intel Ship the First Arc G3 Extreme Handheld Intel detailed how it co-engineered the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+, the first handheld on the Arc G3 Extreme processor. Highlights include a heat-spreading board layout and game-tuning loops that Intel says run Cyberpunk 2077 up to thirty-seven percent faster. The device is on sale now in void purple for around $1,500. At that price, Cochrane jokes he would rather buy a computer. Meta’s Glasses Get a Tamper-Proof Recording Light Meta answered the most common privacy questions about its AI glasses. Photos stay private on the device until the wearer imports or shares them, and a white capture LED blinks during any recording with no off switch. Moreover, newer glasses disable the camera if the LED is blocked, tampered with, or destroyed. Cochrane reminds listeners these claims are Meta grading its own homework, but the blink signal is worth recognizing in public. Michigan’s Parasite Outbreak Tops 1,200 Cases Michigan’s cyclosporiasis outbreak reached 1,251 cases since June 22, with roughly forty hospitalizations along the way. Northwest Ohio adds more than five hundred cases. The parasite typically spreads through contaminated fresh produce, and investigators still have not found the source. Cochrane’s advice: wash your produce, and get tested if your symptoms fit. AI Finds the San Andreas Fault’s Silent Slips Researchers paired AI with borehole strainmeters to detect dozens of hidden slow-slip events beneath the San Andreas Fault’s Parkfield section. Each silent slip releases stress within hours and is reliably followed by low-frequency earthquakes. Together, the findings support a continuous spectrum from silent creep to destructive quakes. The study appears in Nature Communications, and Cochrane hopes it will lead to better earthquake prediction. Cloud Brightening Erased a Super El Niño, in a Simulation Finally, a Science Advances study simulated marine cloud brightening in response to the 1997 and 2015 super El Niño events. Seeding clouds over the eastern Pacific erased the events entirely inside the model. Real deployment would take roughly 2,400 ships spraying continuously, and the simulations showed side effects like extra warming over Europe and Asia. Cochrane finds the weather-machine concept fascinating, yet he questions the consequences of altering cycles the planet runs for a reason. The post AI Distillation: How Frontier Models Teach Each Other #1870 appeared first on Geek News Central.

Have you ever tried gardening by moonlight? Shirli Ewachuk says that thanks to the moon's connection to water in the ground, the sky, soil and seasons work together to create the juiciest gardens. Shirli tells Rosanna how knowledge like moon planting was passed on by her mother and her aunties — knowledge she now passes on to others. Also on the show, we'll hear how Gracyn Tanche hopes an upcoming medicine picking workshop will help Dehcho Dene access their land, culture and their Elders' knowledge. And, Marie Anderson shares how taking part in her first medicine picking workshop helped her feel more connected to her Dene identity.

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This month on Laura Flanders and Friends, we're revisiting conversations around work, workers, and the Labor Movement on the Move.  This week we explore how the folks at The People's Network for Land & Liberation (PNLL) are building for the future in the midst of the crisis facing us now.  They say the forces that got us here are bigger than one bad leader; entire systems must be taken down. This show is made possible by you! To become a sustaining member go to LauraFlanders.org/donate Description: People across the country are resisting authoritarianism in creative and powerful ways, and this is just the start. The folks at The People's Network for Land & Liberation (PNLL) say the forces that got us here are bigger than one bad leader; entire systems must be taken down. Building a brighter future requires a vision of economic and social justice — and lots of practice. Today on Laura Flanders & Friends, we look at some of those practical experiments and paths for radical change, and discuss why they're just as important as resistance. The members of PNLL, a multiracial, multiethnic consortium of six community-based organizations, are doing politics and economics differently in real places across the U.S. right now. Joining us are Edget Betru, an attorney, activist and Coordinator of the People's Network for Land & Liberation; David Cobb, PNLL staff person and Co-coordinator of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network; and Blair Evans, Founder and Executive Director of Incite Focus, a production and training lab based in Idlewild, Michigan. Find out how to build for the future — even in the toughest circumstances. All that, plus a commentary from Laura on William Morris's News From Nowhere. “We've been colonized in our minds . . . Involving people in day-to-day produce, meeting their needs through a different way, through thinking, Hey, who in my neighborhood knows how to fix this? . . . It's really that shift in consciousness that needs to happen that's going to allow for this new economy to emerge.” - Edget Betru “My mama and my mamaw and my papa who raised me taught me a lesson as a little boy, and that is, there's enough to go around as long as we share. That made sense to me when I was five years old. It makes sense to me now when I'm 63 years old. There's enough to go around as long as we share. It's just as simple as that.” - David Cobb “We can make things that make things, we can design and build our own equipment that can then use locally sourced materials, hyper localizing the supply chain . . . We can stop feeding the monster that's consuming us and actually disconnect from that process and use what we have.” - Blair Evans Guests: • Edget Betru: Coordinator, People's Network for Land & Liberation; Board Member, Community Movement Builders • David Cobb: Staff, People's Network for Land & Liberation; Manager, Butterfly Impact Fund; Co-Coordinator, U.S. Solidarity Economy Network • Blair Evans: Coalition Member, People's Network for Land & Liberation; Founder & Executive Director, Incite Focus; Designer & Trainer, Fab Lab   Watch on YouTube this episode that includes video clips referenced in this episode from Third World Newsreel; PBS World Channel 11:30am ET Sundays and on over 300 public stations across the country (check your listings, or search here via zipcode). Listen: Episode airing on community radio (check here to see if your station airs the show). 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This month on Laura Flanders and Friends, we're revisiting conversations around work, workers, and the Labor Movement on the Move.  This week we explore how the folks at The People's Network for Land & Liberation (PNLL) are building for the future in the midst of the crisis facing us now.  They say the forces that got us here are bigger than one bad leader; entire systems must be taken down. This show is made possible by you! To become a sustaining member go to LauraFlanders.org/donate Description: People across the country are resisting authoritarianism in creative and powerful ways, and this is just the start. The folks at The People's Network for Land & Liberation (PNLL) say the forces that got us here are bigger than one bad leader; entire systems must be taken down. Building a brighter future requires a vision of economic and social justice — and lots of practice. Today on Laura Flanders & Friends, we look at some of those practical experiments and paths for radical change, and discuss why they're just as important as resistance. The members of PNLL, a multiracial, multiethnic consortium of six community-based organizations, are doing politics and economics differently in real places across the U.S. right now. Joining us are Edget Betru, an attorney, activist and Coordinator of the People's Network for Land & Liberation; David Cobb, PNLL staff person and Co-coordinator of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network; and Blair Evans, Founder and Executive Director of Incite Focus, a production and training lab based in Idlewild, Michigan. Find out how to build for the future — even in the toughest circumstances. All that, plus a commentary from Laura on William Morris's News From Nowhere. “We've been colonized in our minds . . . Involving people in day-to-day produce, meeting their needs through a different way, through thinking, Hey, who in my neighborhood knows how to fix this? . . . It's really that shift in consciousness that needs to happen that's going to allow for this new economy to emerge.” - Edget Betru “My mama and my mamaw and my papa who raised me taught me a lesson as a little boy, and that is, there's enough to go around as long as we share. That made sense to me when I was five years old. It makes sense to me now when I'm 63 years old. There's enough to go around as long as we share. It's just as simple as that.” - David Cobb “We can make things that make things, we can design and build our own equipment that can then use locally sourced materials, hyper localizing the supply chain . . . We can stop feeding the monster that's consuming us and actually disconnect from that process and use what we have.” - Blair Evans Guests: • Edget Betru: Coordinator, People's Network for Land & Liberation; Board Member, Community Movement Builders • David Cobb: Staff, People's Network for Land & Liberation; Manager, Butterfly Impact Fund; Co-Coordinator, U.S. Solidarity Economy Network • Blair Evans: Coalition Member, People's Network for Land & Liberation; Founder & Executive Director, Incite Focus; Designer & Trainer, Fab Lab Watch on YouTube this episode that includes video clips referenced in this episode from Third World Newsreel; PBS World Channel 11:30am ET Sundays and on over 300 public stations across the country (check your listings, or search here via zipcode). Listen: Episode airing on community radio (check here to see if your station airs the show) & available as a podcast. Full Conversation Release: While our weekly shows are edited to time for broadcast on Public TV and community radio, we offer to our members and podcast subscribers the full uncut conversation.  Music Credit:  'Thrum of Soil' by Bluedot Sessions, 'Steppin' by Podington Bear, and original sound design by Jeannie Hopper Support Laura Flanders and Friends by becoming a member at https://www.patreon.com/c/lauraflandersandfriends   RESOURCES:   Full Episode Notes are located HERE. *Recommended book: “Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation”, Learn More Here* (*Bookshop is an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. The LF Show is an affiliate of bookshop.org and will receive a small commission if you click through and make a purchase.)   Related Laura Flanders Show Episodes: •  Jackson Rising: Creating the Mondragon of the South: Watch •  Resisting Trump & Authoritarianism: The “Beautiful Solutions” Toolbox:  Watch / Listen •  Community Wealth Building: An Economic Reset: Watch / Listen:  Full Uncut Conversation and Episode Cut Related Articles and Resources: •  Community Movement Builders' Community Sea Moss Cooperative •  Tale of the Tape:  An Expert Weighs In on the ‘Cop City' Bodycam Footage, by Madeline Thigpen, February 15, 2023, Capital B • Cooperation Jackson, The Build and Fight Educational Series •  The Butterfly Effect Fund •  Cooperation Vermont, Seeding the Alternatives for the Future •  Cooperation Vermont Buys Former Rainbow Sweets Building, by Paul Fixx, February 4, 2025, The Hardwick Gazette • Incite Focus, where ideas and imagination meet inspiration and innovation •  Wellspring Cooperative, building a just and sustainable economy, one co-op at a time •  U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (US SEN) Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders-Executive Producer, Writer; Sabrina Artel-Supervising Producer; Jeremiah Cothren-Senior Producer; Veronica Delgado-Video Editor, Janet Hernandez-Communications Director; Jeannie Hopper-Audio Director, Podcast & Radio Producer, Audio Editor, Sound Design, Narrator; Sarah Miller-Development Director, Nat Needham-Editor, Graphic Design emeritus; David Neuman-Senior Video Editor, and Rory O'Conner-Senior Consulting Producer. 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We are LIVE from By The Yard Furniture showroom in Jordan, MN and we chat with horticulturist Mary Meyer with the University of Minnesota on a variety of gardening and lawn care topics - from tomato maintenance, ant problems, catmint planting, hydrangea seeding and much more! For any questions regarding your gardening project or lawn care questions visit extension.umn.edu !

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha's top stories with Lucy Ngige and Amy Cortese. Up this week: The first edition of ImpactAlpha Africa explores new ways capital is being mobilized for impact on the continent; a spotlight on two African funds investing in human capital and creating high productivity jobs; and, how some LPs are stepping up to help emerging managers cross the chasm to their next fund.To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠.This week's stories:“⁠Seeding impact investing ecosystems in Senegal, Zambia, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire⁠,” by Lucy Ngige“⁠(Some) LPs step up to help emerging managers cross the chasm to their next fund⁠,” by Amy Cortese with Roodgally Senatus

Kyle Devitte and Owen Hart discuss a difficult season personally and then preview the upcoming MIAA boys lacrosse playoffs, emphasizing how unusually unpredictable the year has been. They suggest parity might be influenced by more players leaving for prep/private schools and by broader talent saturation driven by youth coaching and participation (noting 208 Massachusetts varsity programs). They highlight surprise teams Winchester (16–1) and Bishop Feehan, and stress roster depth as increasingly decisive, especially across lower divisions. They review notable tight results involving St. John's Prep and identify key D2 contenders (Reading, Billerica, Mansfield, Longmeadow). Sleepers include Newton North, Needham, St. John's Shrewsbury, Weston, Foxborough and Bourne/Mashpee; favorites include Cohasset (D4), Norwell/Medfield (D3), Billerica (D2), and Lincoln-Sudbury (D1). They also pick NCAA winners: Princeton (D1), Adelphi (D2) and Tufts (D3). MIAA boys lacrosse, MIAA, MIAA lacrosse, high school lacrosse, Winchester, Bishop Feehan, St. John's Prep, Reading, Billerica, Mansfield, Longmeadow, Chasing the Goal podcast, lacrosse Topics 00:52 Podcast Kickoff Banter 01:10 Season Grind Stories 02:06 Playoff Preview Setup 02:49 Why This Season Is Wild 04:57 Prep School Talent Drain 06:09 Talent Boom Theory 10:14 Coaching and Expectations 15:47 Surprise Teams Rising 17:51 Depth Wins Playoffs 22:16 St. Johns Prep Close Calls 24:09 Division 2 Contenders 24:52 Division 3 Chaos 27:44 Division Cutoffs Explained 28:33 Weston Moves Up 29:06 Giving D4 Some Love 29:31 D4 Towns and Cohasset 30:34 Wild Injury Tangent 32:32 Seeding and Dream Matchups 34:55 D1 Sleepers to Watch 37:00 Sleepers D2 to D4 40:58 Picking Division Favorites 44:05 LS Title Case in D1 46:07 Games to Watch Soon 47:34 NCAA Final Four Picks 51:07 Wrap Up and Thanks

In this product spotlight episode of The Impact Farming Show, we sit down with Cole Ambrock, Sales & Marketing Manager with KWS Seeds Canada and an Alberta farmer who brings both industry expertise and real-world farming experience to the conversation. Cole shares a firsthand look at his experience growing hybrid rye under extremely dry fall conditions and why he stayed committed to the crop despite a long stretch without moisture. From planting decisions to digging through snow in mid-November to assess emergence, this episode offers valuable insight into the resilience and performance potential of hybrid rye. The conversation explores: • Why Cole chose to plant hybrid rye on his own farm • What conditions looked like during an extended dry fall • Managing uncertainty and maintaining confidence in the crop plan • What he discovered when checking fields under snow cover • Winter survival results and spring crop performance • Lessons for farmers considering hybrid rye in challenging moisture conditions Conversation Timestamps: 0:00 - Why he chose to plant hybrid rye in the first place 0:45 – Cole's journey with KWS Seeds Canada and their family farm 1:28 - Why Cole decided to plant hybrid rye on their farm 3:18 - Seeding into dry fall conditions with little to no moisture 5:25 - Staying confident through uncertainty 8:00 - Digging through snow in mid-November to assess the crop 10:12 - Winter survival and spring performance results & key lessons for farmers considering hybrid rye under challenging conditions This episode provides practical insight for growers looking at crop resilience, fall seeding strategies, and long-term confidence in hybrid rye performance under real prairie conditions. A big thank you to this episode's spotlight partner: KWS Seeds Canada SHOW RESOURCES 1) To learn more about hybrid rye and KWS products, visit: KWS Seeds Canada Hybrid Rye Information 2) KWS WeatherGuard Insurance — KWS Seeds Canada https://www.kws.com/ca/en/hybrid-rye/farmer-programs/weatherguard-insurance/ 3) KWS Canada Spring 2026 Video May 8/2026 Hybrid Rye Update from the Field https://youtu.be/Z537IkOHMlw?si=sBgaAzTudSlvVET6 ================================= Related Searches

Sports conspiracy theories REVEALED! Was Michael Jordan's jump to baseball a gambling related punishment? Did Cal Ripken, Jr. orchestrate a power outage to see if Kevin Costner was banging his wife? Tune in and find out. Check out DITD on Roku and go support their sponsors, Ryze Coffee and Opus Clips. Go to ryzesuperfoods.com and use the promo code PODNA15 for 15% And go to podnationopus.com for your free trial. Go to our social media to follow, like, subscribe, like again and so on.Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70h5xuFqYyHqckybMNrkQ1?si=yTXkq5L3RRCUhitN7r7W5gApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digging-in-the-dome/id1505253541Twitter: @diggingdomeFB/IG: @digginginthedome

The Southeastern 16 crew breaks down the final Thursday of SEC regular season play with series including Auburn's win over Georgia, Mississippi State's victory at Texas A&M, Kentucky's much-needed triumph over Arkansas, Alabama's edging Ole Miss, Texas's win over Missouri, Vandy knocking off South Carolina in a must-win spot, pius, Florida at LSU, and Tennessee at Oklahoma. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Thanks for tuning in to the Farmer Rapid Fire brought to you by Corteva Crop Protection! On today’s edition of RealAg Radio, your host, Lyndsey Smith, is joined by: 00:00 - Coming up... 01:43 - Ryan McCarron of Antigonish, N.S. 13:48 - Tyler Lester of Bloomfield, Ont. 24:36 - Keith Fournier of Lone Rock, Sask.... Read More

Thanks for tuning in to the Farmer Rapid Fire brought to you by Corteva Crop Protection! On today’s edition of RealAg Radio, your host, Lyndsey Smith, is joined by: 00:00 - Coming up... 01:43 - Ryan McCarron of Antigonish, N.S. 13:48 - Tyler Lester of Bloomfield, Ont. 24:36 - Keith Fournier of Lone Rock, Sask.... Read More

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Jason chats with Tony Tran.

Charlie Eisenhood and Keith Raynor discuss everything from the exciting weekend 2 of College Regionals! They chat with captains Allie Kingsley and Kalei Foley-Rutherfurd from the first ever B team to make College Nationals, Vermont Bruckus! After the break, they dive into Nationals seeding predictions and discuss semi-pro ultimate results.

We are ‘Keeping it Green’ with Bob Bertog, president of Bertog Landscape Co. in Wheeling and a certified landscape professional with the National Association of Landscape Professionals, joins John Williams to answer all of your lawn and garden questions. Bob says the window is now open to do your seeding!

We are ‘Keeping it Green’ with Bob Bertog, president of Bertog Landscape Co. in Wheeling and a certified landscape professional with the National Association of Landscape Professionals, joins John Williams to answer all of your lawn and garden questions. Bob says the window is now open to do your seeding!

We are ‘Keeping it Green’ with Bob Bertog, president of Bertog Landscape Co. in Wheeling and a certified landscape professional with the National Association of Landscape Professionals, joins John Williams to answer all of your lawn and garden questions. Bob says the window is now open to do your seeding!

On this episode of The Agronomists, your host Lyndsey Smith is joined by Curtis de Gooijer of Bourgault and Horst Bohner of OMAFA to discuss setting up for success with soybeans and canola, including row spacing, target populations, seeder/planter settings for tough conditions (too dry, too wet), minimizing seed damage, and troubleshooting the most common... Read More

Yes, everyone's favorite tournament of the terrible, Stinko de Mayo returns. In our 7th annual Stinko, the fates decided to send us back in time to dissect the worst of 1980 to 1984. In this episode, Chris and Kevin draft TV and Movies.Check out DITD on Roku and go support their sponsors, Ryze Coffee and Opus Clips. Go to ryzesuperfoods.com and use the promo code PODNA15 for 15% And go to podnationopus.com for your free trial. Go to our social media to follow, like, subscribe, like again and so on.YT: https://m.youtube.com/c/digginginthedomeTwitter: @diggingdomeFB/IG: @digginginthedome

Chris Williams and Chris Hassel pack a ton into a fast-moving episode.

Thanks for tuning in to the Farmer Rapid Fire brought to you by Corteva Crop Protection! Your host for today’s edition of RealAg Radio is Lyndsey Smith! 00:00 - Coming up... 1:20 - Jonny de Matos of Cape Breton, N.S. 12:40 - James Parsons of Cache Bay, Ont. 24:11 - Mike Shewchuck of Blaine Lake,... Read More

Bill and Roger talk with guest Pastor Jay Roberson about covenant living and why many believers don't know their covenant rights, emphasizing that the Bible is your contract with God and faith is believing God will do it for you. They connect financial struggle and debt to being tied to the world system, describing tithing as something sacred that confirms you're in covenant with God, using Abraham's choice in Genesis 14 between the king of Sodom's "gimme" and Melchizedek's blessing with bread and wine. Jay links Satan's fall in Ezekiel 28 to the love of money and accumulating "stuff," encouraging you to give and seed what you have. He shares a testimony of giving an entire $11,000 offering to Charles Capps, which later contributed to building a paid-for 42,000-square-foot facility and influenced the spread of cowboy churches through Glen Smith. The episode ends with an invitation for you to receive Jesus as Savior, healer, and provider, plus a call to partner with the ministry at billandroger.com.   EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:   00:00 Tithe Confirms Covenant 00:18 Show Welcome and Setup 01:05 Covenant Promises and Faith 02:33 Escaping the World System 04:00 Abraham's Tithe Choice 05:17 Lucifer and Love of Money 06:53 The Trap of Stuff 09:59 Seeding and Giving Away 11:36 Why Tithing Matters Today 12:49 A Pastor's Offering Testimony 14:17 The 11K Offering 15:49 Radar Bill Miracle 16:25 Seed That Built 17:01 Remembering Glen Smith 18:09 Cowboy Apostle Legacy 19:36 Cowboy Church Explosion 21:09 Power And Wonders 22:21 Salvation Prayer 23:53 Partner With Ministry 26:11 Connect And Subscribe   Connect with Bill & Roger Ministries: www.billandroger.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064668460680

Cotton seed is expensive, but the real question isn't “How many seeds did you plant?” It's “How many healthy, evenly spaced plants actually carry yield to the picker.” We sit down with cotton specialists from the University of Georgia, Texas A&M AgriLife, the University of Tennessee, Auburn University, and NC State to compare seeding rate recommendations across the Cotton Belt and explain why the right number changes with moisture, irrigation capacity, and planting risk. We talk straight about what growers are doing now, where populations tend to be too high, and how far you can realistically back down without paying for it later. You'll hear the pros and cons of wide rows, skip-row patterns, and singulation, plus why the economics can look completely different in water-limited Texas compared with higher-yield environments farther east. We also dig into the management side of plant population: canopy light, fruit retention, maturity, plant-to-plant competition, and why uniform stands often matter more than raw seeding rate. Seed quality and planter setup close the loop. We break down warm germination vs cool germination as a vigor signal, how emergence timing affects yield, and what stand counts can reveal that a cab monitor can't. Then we lay out a practical planter checklist: meter condition, vacuum settings for seed size, row-unit depth consistency, downforce, row cleaners in heavy residue, and closing the furrow for strong seed-to-soil contact in no-till and strip-till systems. Subscribe, share this with a cotton grower or consultant, and leave a review so more people can find these cotton planting and seeding rate insights. What seeding rate are you targeting this year, and what's your biggest planting risk?

ITA CEO Dave Mullins joins Editor-in-Chief Alex Gruskin to make the case for why the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships should be played in the Fall moving forward. He explains why an NCAA Fall Championship brings greater stability to the college tennis calendar, addresses concerns about participation and the qualifying pathway, plus SO much more!! Episode Bookmarks: ITA position - 5:00 Losing the fall - 14:05 Incentivizing participation - 21:30 USTA WC Playoff - 32:45 Host bidding process - 34:15 Qualifying pathway/Seeding - 39:15 Fans - 48:30 Playing the 1998 Stanford Men - 51:20 Laurel Springs Ranked among the best online private schools in the United States, Laurel Springs stands out when it comes to support, personalization, community, and college prep. They give their K-12 students the resources, guidance, and learning opportunities they need at each grade level to reach their full potential. Find Cracked Racquets Website: https://www.crackedracquets.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/crackedracquets Twitter: https://twitter.com/crackedracquets Facebook: https://Facebook.com/crackedracquets YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/crackedracquets Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Cleo is the Co-Founder of Barrière and also serves as the brand's CEO and brand-lead. Before starting Barrière with her Co-Founder, Alexa Adams, in 2020, Cleo had over a decade of experience in corporate fashion and styling.  She was inspired to leave the corporate world and start Barrière to offer a chic, yet medically-effective masking option to customers during the global pandemic. This led her and Alexa to expanding the brand into transdermal supplement patches, as inspired by her own issues with nutritional deficiencies.  Before starting Barrière, Cleo's most recent professional roles included Brand Manager at Moda Operandi and Director of Special Projects at Saks Fifth Avenue, where she led brand, marketing, and e-commerce strategy for these top fashion destinations.  In This Conversation We Discuss: [00:00] Intro [02:19] Finding inspiration from personal pain points [05:04] Sponsor: Klaviyo [07:03] Setting your own standards when regulations fall short [10:26] Avoiding the one-size-fits-all trap in product design [12:16] Sponsor: Intelligems [14:15] Seeding products to spark word-of-mouth online [16:18] Choosing product confidence over paid promotion [18:35] Measuring the long-term return on free samples [20:07] Sponsor: Electric Eye [21:16] Thinking creatively when marketing funds run dry  [22:48] Callouts [22:58] Owning customer relationships through websites  Resources: Subscribe to Honest Ecommerce on Youtube Wear your vitamins mybarriere.com/ Follow Cleo Davis-Urman linkedin.com/in/cleo-davis-urman-91928322/ Get your free demo klaviyo.com/honest Book a demo today at intelligems.io/ Schedule an intro call with one of our experts electriceye.io/connect If you're enjoying the show, we'd love it if you left Honest Ecommerce a review on Apple Podcasts. It makes a huge impact on the success of the podcast, and we love reading every one of your reviews.

0:00 - Yesterday, Aqib Talib said the Broncos might make another flashy move on draft night. Let's expand on that...what does he mean? Does he mean the Broncos would try to trade up and draft someone? Or package some picks for a draft night trade?14:04 - The Pacific Division is a wonderful dumpster fire! All the playoff teams are set, BUT playoff SEEDING is still up in the air. The Avalanche could face any of 4 different teams in Round 1 with 2 games remaining in the regular season. That's crazy. Of all those options, which team would you want to see first?32:35 - Oh, by the way...a kid just broke Usain Bolt's 200m sprint time. And his name is...Gout Gout. Oh, by the way...Doc Rivers "stepped down" as head coach of the Bucks. Poor guy can't find a consistent job anymore. Oh, by the way...the Costa Rica Women's National Soccer Team recently won a game 21-0. Their offensive charge was lead by a player named Priscila Chincilla. 

A heated conversation breaks out over the Knicks playoff positioning and whether dropping to the four seed could actually be the smarter path. The discussion dives into competing perspectives, media narratives, and the reality of how matchups could shape the postseason outlook in the East. The episode also features a bizarre and uncomfortable Karl-Anthony Towns interview moment that sparks debate, plus a deep dive into emerging Mets and Yankees pitching comparisons and the nature of New York sports rivalries. From strategy debates to classic fan arguments, the show captures the passion and unpredictability that define the city's sports scene.

Chris Forsberg and Kayla Burton break down the Celtics' 112-106 loss to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Forsberg raves about Baylor Scheierman after he dropped 20 points and made some big shots down the stretch. They also discuss Jayson Tatum's return, and what gaining his confidence means for the team. 0:00 - Reacting to Baylor Scheierman's game 3:05 - Looking at Jayson Tatum's return to Madison Square Garden 11:45 - A shout out to the Bus 1 Boys WATCH every episode of the Celtics Talk podcast on YouTubeFollow NBC Sports Boston:NBCSportsBoston.comX @NBCScelticsFacebookInstagramTikTok Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Time to Get Up with Draymond in disbelief - he is mad and he is absolutely right to be! We're on that! (0:00) Meanwhile - Shefty has the latest on the contract that could change everything - could Lamar be ready to say bye bye Baltimore? (13:10) And - a conference semis rematch looms large tomorrow night. Seeding and pride is on the line in this Eastern Conference Barnburner between the Celtics and Knicks! (23:30) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The focus shifts to the Knicks and a heated debate over what actually matters most heading into the playoffs. Is it about seeding, matchups, or simply playing better basketball right now? After another frustrating loss, questions arise about effort, consistency, and whether this team can just flip a switch when the postseason begins. Evan and Tiki break down the numbers behind the loss, including a massive free throw disparity, while also debating whether dropping in the standings could actually benefit the Knicks' playoff path. The hour wraps with fan calls and a look at the latest buzz surrounding a potential Odell Beckham Jr. return, adding another layer to an already packed New York sports conversation.

A fired-up episode dives straight into two stories that had fans boiling: the Dominican Republic's controversial loss to Team USA in the World Baseball Classic, and St. John's landing a frustrating NCAA tournament draw despite its late-season surge. The hosts channel the mood of New York sports fans, unpacking how missed calls, questionable bracket decisions, and raw emotion can turn a great sports moment into an all-day argument. From the case for ABS after a game-ending strike call that looked like a ball, to debates over Juan Soto, Aaron Judge, and whether the better team actually won, the baseball conversation is loaded with passion and perspective. The episode also breaks down why St. John's fans feel disrespected by a brutal path through the tournament, with plenty of caller reactions, sharp opinions, and the kind of heated sports talk that captures exactly why these moments hit so hard.

Dominican baseball fans furious over late strike calls in Team USA's win, and St. John's fans upset over what feels like a punishing NCAA tournament seed and draw. It is a fast, opinionated start that taps into the emotional fallout from a dramatic sports weekend and makes room for both outrage and analysis. The conversation centers on whether the World Baseball Classic should have used the ABS system after multiple pitches that appeared to be called incorrectly in key moments, while also debating Juan Soto, Aaron Judge, and the difficulty of deciding the “best team” in a one-game setting. The segment then shifts to college basketball, where the hosts argue that St. John's strong recent play and Big East title run were not properly rewarded, leaving fans to wonder what more the team could have done to earn a better path.

Bowl ties going away? New assistants in college football making big impacts The Auburn Tigers visit the Alabama Crimson Tide Tomorrow in the final SEC regular season game. The importance of a win for Auburn Basketball can't be overstated. The Tigers are in desperate need of resume helping wins and Alabama would be a Q1 win for the Tigers and a potential “ticket puncher”. For Alabama Basketball, it is now all about seeding. The Tide is locked into a SEC Tournament Double Bye and can lock the 2-Seed in Nashville with a win. They can also continue to build their NCAA Tournament seeding with most projections having Alabama as a 4-Seed with an outside shot of reaching a 3-Seed. ESPN's Joe Lunardi (and others) will have their latest Bracketology, what does it tell us about the importance of this game. PLUS, LT's Trash presented by Bud Light! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inside Carolina senior reporter Greg Barnes joins Tommy Ashley to discuss North Carolina vs. Clemson, highlighting the importance of the matchup for both teams. Clemson, having fallen off since a hot start to the season, is now trying to secure a double bye in the ACC tournament and a decent NCAA seed. Carolina heads into the final two games of the regular season in a similar situation in league play as the double-by or not double-bye will likely come down to the ACC's tiebreak policy.   Barnes and Ashley point to the physical play of Clemson and how Henri Veesaar will handle the interior and who will step up in the paint - Jarin Stevenson?  Zayden High?   - and the need for a balanced offensive approach.  They also touch more on ACC tournament scenarios and NCAA seed projections, noting the potential impact of Caleb Wilson's absence and how the selection committee will view Carolina's loss to NC State and other performances without a full roster.   **Call to Action:**   **Subscribe:** Follow 'Inside Carolina' wherever you get your podcasts to never miss an episode!   **Review:** Leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help us reach more Tar Heel fans!   **Visit:** Explore http://www.InsideCarolina.com for breaking news, recruiting updates, and expert commentary on all things UNC sports. This show is brought to you by Inside Carolina, the No. 1 site for UNC sports coverage and community. Visit http://www.InsideCarolina.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Alabama Crimson Tide have a home tilt tonight facing Mississippi State at 8:00 on ESPNU. Alabama Basketball is hovering around the 5-seed in most NCAA Tournament projections, does that make this a “Protect Your Seeding” game for the Crimson Tide? Alabama is a 14.5-point favorite in Tuscaloosa. Alabama also now controls their own destiny for the 2-Seed in the SEC Tournament in Nashville meaning the Crimson Tide would earn the Double Bye and not have to play a game until Friday. Nate Oats gets asked what the biggest area of growth is since the last time they played Miss St Nate Oats - we're playing for a top 4 seed in Nashville and we're trying to reach our peak going into postseason Also Tuesday Night: Kentucky Wildcats 72 vs. South Carolina Gamecocks 63 & Missouri Tigers 73 vs. Tennessee Volunteers 69 Wednesday: Florida Gators (-6.5) at Texas Longhorns 6P ESPN2, Georgia Bulldogs at Vanderbilt Commodores (-9.5) 6P SECN, Texas A&M Aggies at Arkansas Razorbacks (-7.5) 8P ESPN2, LSU Tigers at Ole Miss Rebels (-1.5) 8P SECN PLUS, LT's Trash presented by Bud Light! FOLLOW TNR ON RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/c-7759604 FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-next-round/id1580807480 SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive 267,216 Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spent more time on AI than we meant too (and stand by very little of it in the sober light of the morning!) Also hit some of the other topics du jour toward the end. Support us: patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty