Podcasts about Smithwick

Send us a textTake a seat at the bar with Rick and Princess as they embark on a flavor-filled expedition through two distinct craft beers that might change how you think about your own beer journey. This episode captures the essence of how our taste preferences evolve over time—sometimes in surprising directions.First up is Cold Triple Brewery's Go Devil Red Ale, a hidden gem Rick discovered during a camping trip near Pittsburgh. With its smooth character, rich caramel notes, and subtle complexity, this 5% ABV brew earns an impressive 9.5/10 rating from both hosts. Their detailed analysis reveals why this beer might dethrone their previous favorite reds like Alaskan and Smithwick's.The conversation takes a fascinating turn when the hosts sample St. Arnold's Art Car IPA from Texas—a more robust offering at 7.2% ABV with 55 IBUs. This stronger, hoppier beer sparks a revealing discussion about how beer preferences mature with exposure and experience. Princess confesses he once avoided certain styles entirely but now actively seeks out sours and other previously dismissed varieties.Between tastings, Rick shares the surprisingly relaxing experience of his first camping trip with his new trailer, a stark contrast to his previous tent-camping adventures. The hosts debate the noticeable differences between canned, bottled, and draft beers, agreeing that context and environment significantly impact enjoyment.What makes this episode special is how it captures the evolution of taste—not just in beer, but in life. The hosts' willingness to revisit assumptions and expand their palates mirrors the craft beer movement's spirit of exploration. Whether you're a seasoned craft beer enthusiast or just beginning to venture beyond your comfort zone, this conversation reminds us that taste is always developing, never static.Support the showwww.anotherreasontodrink.com

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In this episode of Greater Than Podcast, Elijah Murrell interviews John Smithwick, founder of Global Ventures, From reaching the lost to challenging a Voodoo Priest John shares his early experiences that ignited his passion for reaching the unreached, the challenges faced in the mission field, and miraculous encounters with witch doctors. The conversation emphasizes the importance of stepping out in faith, the power of God in healing, and the necessity of boldness in confronting darkness. John encourages listeners to embrace their assignments and highlights the ongoing work of Global Ventures in various countries.

Daniel Smithwick founded the Nehemiah Institute in 1986 and has authored several books. Topics today center around the decline of biblical worldview within churches and schools.Nehemiah Institute: https://www.worldviewcheckup.orgwww.worldviewmatters.tv© FreedomProject 2024

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Bid2Bank is a Security Today segment that is tackling everything from the bid to the bank. Uncle Baer interviews SMB Owners, Entrepreneurs and lowvoltage technicians who run their own show as the questions range from everything dealing with marketing, project management, customer experience and more! This week it's the legendary Pearce from All Green Lights. Pearce runs and operates a national IT/Datacom company and he does it through really good relationships with his subs. He has a passion for excellent worth and is one of the founders of teknowledge world wide; a non-profit that provides technology via charity. This one is full of ripe peaches for the picking! See All Green Lights Here: https://www.instagram.com/allgreenlightsllc/ Security Today here: https://www.securitytodaypodcast.com Follow, Like, Subscribe, Share, Send, Blood Oath... the whole thing. #interview #security #podcast #entrepreneur #business #businessideas #businessowner #smallbusiness #education #youtube #instagram #spotify

On this episode of the Podcast for Cultural Reformation, Dr. Boot is joined by Dan Smithwick, President of the Nehemiah Institute, to talk about the appalling state of Christian education and worldview thinking among Christians and the need for Christians to think Christianly. Episode Resources:⚒️

Dr. Boot is joined by Dan Smithwick, President of the Nehemiah Institute, to talk about the appalling state of Christian education and worldview thinking among Christians and the need for Christians

On this episode of the Podcast for Cultural Reformation, Dr. Boot is joined by Dan Smithwick, President of the Nehemiah Institute, to talk about the appalling state of Christian education and worldview thinking among Christians and the need for Christians to think Christianly. Episode Resources:⚒️

On this episode of the Podcast for Cultural Reformation, Dr. Boot is joined by Dan Smithwick, President of the Nehemiah Institute, to talk about the appalling state of Christian education and worldview thinking among Christians and the need for Christians to think Christianly. Episode Resources:⚒️

On this episode of the Podcast for Cultural Reformation, Dr. Boot is joined by Dan Smithwick, President of the Nehemiah Institute, to talk about the appalling state of Christian education and worldview thinking among Christians and the need for Christians to think Christianly. Episode Resources:⚒️

Guinness beer blends month continues with the “Blacksmith”! It's another blending of two iconic Irish beers: Guinness Draught and Smithwick's Red Ale! Two excellent beers on their own - how will they fair as a team? Tune in to find out! Let us know what you think! Like, share and subscribe! Sláinte!

Join Jane and Cormac as they delve into the vibrant cultures of Irish pubs versus Italian bars and explore the distinct atmospheres and designs that set these establishments apart. From the cozy, dimly lit, and rustic decor of Irish pubs to the bright, modern, and open designs of Italian bars, discover how these spaces create unique social experiences. We'll discuss the vital social roles these places play in their respective communities. Irish pubs are community hubs, where people gather for lively conversations, enjoy live music, and experience a sense of camaraderie. In contrast, Italian bars are integral to daily life, offering a quick stop for morning coffee and pastries, and a relaxed space for evening aperitivo. We'll also compare and contrast the non-alcoholic beverage rituals in both cultures including the Irish breakfast tea blend and various Italian coffee preparations like cappuccino and macchiato. Explore how these drinks are enjoyed and the specific times of day they are consumed, such as the Italian tradition of avoiding cappuccino after midday. Our exploration continues with a look at the wine and beer cultures of Ireland and Italy. Compare the imports and growing market of Italian and other international wines. Dive into the rich beer traditions of Ireland, featuring iconic brews like Guinness and Smithwick's, and contrast them with Italy's Peroni and the emerging craft beer scene. Discover the different drinking experiences and the typical food pairings that accompany beer in each country. Lastly, we'll tantalise your taste buds with a look at the traditional snacks served in Irish pubs and Italian bars. From Irish crisps, sausage rolls, and cheese toasties to Italian antipasti, cured meats, cheeses, olives, and bruschetta, learn about the importance of fresh, high-quality ingredients. Discuss how these snacks complement the beverages served and reflect the broader food cultures of Ireland and Italy.  Tune in for a captivating episode that uncovers the rich traditions, vibrant atmospheres, and unique social roles of Irish pubs and Italian bars. Whether you're a fan of cozy, rustic settings or sleek, modern designs, this episode offers a delightful exploration of two classic beverage producing cultures.   Social Links: https://linktr.ee/theirishpodcast   ABOUT SEASON 3 Join Jane and Cormac once again as they delve into the exhilarating and often challenging journey of moving abroad in Season 3. This season, we're diving deep into what it takes to make the leap to a new country, with firsthand accounts and practical advice for anyone considering an adventure. We'll be catching up with friends who have made Italy their home, exploring their unique experiences and insights. Our friends will share their stories of adapting to a new culture, finding work, and building a community far from home. But that's not all! We're bringing in some special guest episodes featuring our beloved friends and family back in Ireland. These episodes will provide a comforting glimpse of home, filled with heartwarming anecdotes and perspectives on what it's like to stay connected with loved ones while living abroad. Whether you're dreaming of an international move or simply curious about the realities of expatriate life, Season 3 promises a rich tapestry of experiences, practical tips, and the unmistakable charm of Irish storytelling. Download our FREE 6 week guide to Italy: https://www.theirishpodcast.com/shop/the-master-excel-sheet-6-week-holiday-in-italy Buy our €5 Ultimate Guide to Florence. Transport, Accommodation, Food, Fun & Hidden Gems:  https://www.theirishpodcast.com/shop/4ao8hsz5tyhcjskon3i4cbmw7pdbv7   Social Links: https://linktr.ee/theirishpodcast

This weeks guest is Dr. Jake Smithwick, a professor at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. Jake and his team have assisted hundreds of owners improve performance outcomes across thousands of projects ($15+ Billion of procured services in construction, IT, auxiliary services, design, healthcare, insurance, and more). His industry experience also includes field inspection of nearly 2,000 roofing systems (74 million square feet) across the United States, and six years in the US Air Force Reserve (civil engineering squadron).On this episode, Dr. Smithwick discusses the role of AI in facilities management, including: The value of mentorship in the FM industry and the positive impact AI can have in knowledge transfer and enhancing FM practices. The fear of the unknown and the skepticism surrounding AI Practical applications of AI in FM for tasks such as work order scheduling, maintenance planning, and data analysis. Chapters00:00Introduction and Background08:39The Impact and Potential of AI in FM15:31Practical Applications of AI in FM28:31Closing RemarksInterested in closing the skills gap? Check out our friends at Interplay Learning!

Michael Meade spent over 20 years on Wall Street and then stepped away from the pressured world of high finance to do something totally different. Some, in his circumstances, may have opted for plenty of time on the golf course and cracking open a few brews, that's not the kind of person Michael Meade is.  Intrigued by a visit to Ireland, Michael wanted to build a business that would connect to his Irish roots, work with a famous brewing dynasty, revive Ireland's oldest brewing brand and return beer making to Kilkenny,  the home of red ale.It has, and will continue to be, a journey for a son of Buffalo, one of America's most Irish of towns. Michael's partnership with the Smithwick family, the revival of Sullivan's Brewing in Kilkenny, an award winning beer developed by brewmaster Ian Hamilton, is a tale of both passion and the value in building a great team, that combination just might yield Ireland's next great export company.Michael Meade's LinksLinkedInInstagramTwitterSullivans Brewing CompanyWebsiteFacebookInstagramTwitter

Luke Smithwick shares stories of his travels and adventures in the Himalayan mountains.  The dangers of climbing remote and unclimbed peaks, witness to ancient mask dances and blood sacrifice, and an encounter with the rare snow leopard.Luke Smithwick is an American professional skier, alpinist and mountain guide in the Himalaya with 98 Himalayan expeditions in the past 13 years. He is focused on the unclimbed and unskied in the Himalaya and hasn't repeated an expedition since he started climbing and skiing full time there in 2010. Formerly he worked as an environmental biologist and archaeologist in Alaska so his approach on expeditions isn't just about climbing summits and first ski descents, focusing on the cultures and natural history in each specific expedition. He lives at home in Teton valley, Idaho with his dog Wolfie when he isn't on expedition. Having done eight to nine Himalayan expeditions every year since 2010, that is not very often. Follow Luke at his website lukesmithwick.com and at his Facebook page.facebook.com/himalayaslukesmithwick Hosted by Michael J. ReinhartAdventure Journalist MichaelJReinhart.com An adventure and exploration podcast #travel #travelstories #outdooradventure #mountaineering #skimountaineering #adventuretravel

Dad pulls out of the Archives the Irish Beers Episode.  In this episode John and John explore some of the classic Irish beers. Josh cracks open Smithwick's Irish Red and serves up some classics, corned beef, Irish soda bread, and 5 cheese pizza. John pours the Irish favorite Guinness draft from a nito can. He pairs it with fish and chips, and Dubliner Irish cheddar with stout.Have a Happy St. Patrick's Day 2024! Slainte'!   

Which Irish stout is best?  Which Irish Red Ale is best?  This week we do something a little different and do two head to head matchups of different Irish beers in a celebration of St Patrick's Day.  We both try Irish Dry Stouts from Guinness and Left Hand, as well as Irish Red Ales from Killian's and Smithwick's.  Please like and subscribe and if you have any suggestions, let us know by tweeting us @tastetestdummies or email us at nickandjohnpodcast@gmail.com.      SPOILER!  Below is a list of which beer corresponds to which numbered glass it was in: 1. Killian's 2. Smithwick's 3. Guinness 4. Left Hand

A pint of plain is your only man...Drinking holidays are the best holidays.  St. Patrick's Day is a drinking holiday now, but it wasn't always that way.  The story is kind of crazy.Join us as we talk about the lore and legends of St. Patrick and St. Patrick's Day while we sample some Irish beers and whiskey.The Beer (and Whiskey) ListGuinness & Smithwick's - Blacksmith (“Pint of Special”)StillFire - O'Farrell's Irish Red (Red Ale)Sullivan's - Black Marble (Dry Irish Stout)Sullivan's - Maltings Irish Ale (Red Ale)Fat Orange Cat - Baby Leprechauns (Session IPA)Evil Twin - Even More Irish Jesus (Dry Irish Stout)Guinness Foreign Extra StoutSlane Irish WhiskeyWhistle Pig 10, 11, and 12 (OK, not Irish, but tasty.)TRIVIA! Order a ‘Black Bulldog' in Malaysia and you'll be handed a bottle of Guinness Foreign Extra Stout. This is because the first export bottlers of Guinness used to add their own symbols to the label to distinguish their bottles and exclusive territories. There were dozens of different symbols, the most famous of which were the bulldog, the wolf, the dog and a catSláinte!Thanks for listening to Beer Guys Radio! Your hosts are Tim Dennis and Brian Hewitt with producer Nate "Mo' Mic Nate" Ellingson and occasional appearances from Becky Smalls.Subscribe to Beer Guys Radio on your favorite app: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSSFollow Beer Guys Radio: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube If you enjoy the show we'd appreciate your support on Patreon. Patrons get cool perks like early, commercial-free episodes, swag, access to our exclusive Discord server, and more!

Steve discusses how Joe Biden's sentiment about the Supreme Court is right over the mark, kind of, but how his application is criminal (of course). Then, Dan Smithwick of the Nehemiah Institute joins the program to discuss his efforts at increasing biblical worldview literacy. In Hour Two, Theology Thursday studies the final chapter of "Know Thy Enemy." Finally, Ana Hibbs joins the program to give the guys another three non-political questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As part of Smithwick's Trad Fest Henry McKean was asked to try and learn an instrument and was approached by Ukulele Tuesday, a Ukelele band which meets every Tuesday in the Stags Head in Dublin, upstairs at 8pm. Henry McKean joined Sean to chat about how he got on...

Interview with ReGina Smithwick. ReGina talks about her journey to solve an unknown in her life, and, how God lead and directed her into new and vibrant beginnings.

On today's episode we take a deep dive into one of my favorite old school lures that's still made today. It's a lure I think everyone should at least have one of, so we talk about it's key features and where it shines. We also take a look at some new faces on the pro circuits for the 2024 fishing season and discuss who's leaving. And finally, we open up the mailbag to talk about weightless wacky rigs, dry suits, and rods and reels for lighter lures.   Brought to you by: American Legacy Fishing & Outdoors www.americanlegacyfishing.com Use Code: TACKLETALK10 for 10% Off*   Additional Support Provided By: Dakota Lithium Batteries - Use Code TACKLETALK10 for 10% Off RTIC Coolers - Brand New Everyday Tote Out Now!

The worldview of Americans has rapidly been transformed away from a biblical lens toward a secular-humanist or even socialist worldview and this is true even in the church, according to Dan Smithwick of the Nehemiah Institute. In this interview on Conversations That Matter with The New American magazine's Alex Newman, Smithwick describes the results of ... The post Saving US by Restoring Biblical Worldview: Dan Smithwick of Nehemiah Institute appeared first on The New American.

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, Founder of Rubber Cheese.Download the Rubber Cheese 2022 Visitor Attraction Website Report - the first digital benchmark statistics for the attractions sector.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. Show references: https://carbonsix.digital/https://www.linkedin.com/in/pmarden/Paul Marden is the Founder and Managing Director of Carbon Six Digital and the CEO of Rubber Cheese. He is an Umbraco Certified Master who likes to think outside the box, often coming up with creative technical solutions that clients didn't know were possible. Paul oversees business development and technical delivery, specialising in Microsoft technologies including Umbraco CMS, ASP.NET, C#, WebApi, and SQL Server. He's worked in the industry since 1999 and has vast experience of managing and delivering the technical architecture for both agencies and client side projects of all shapes and sizes. Paul is an advocate for solid project delivery and has a BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile. https://www.rubbercheese.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellymolson/Kelly Molson is the Founder of Rubber Cheese, a user focused web design and development agency for the attraction sector. Digital partners to Eureka! The National Children's Museum, Pensthorpe, National Parks UK, Holkham, Visit Cambridge and The National Marine Aquarium.Kelly regularly delivers workshops and presentations on sector focused topics at national conferences and attraction sector organisations including ASVA, ALVA, The Ticketing Professionals Conference and the Museum + Heritage Show.As host of the popular Skip the Queue Podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions, she speaks with inspiring industry experts who share their knowledge of what really makes an attraction successful.Recent trustee of The Museum of the Broads. Transcription:  Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip The Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson.In this new monthly slot, Rubber Cheese CEO Paul Marden joins me to discuss different digital related topics.In this episode, we're talking about the impact of design, navigation and content on selling tickets and how to go about testing if your design is working or not.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on all the usual channels by searching Skip The Queue.Kelly Molson:  We're doing something a little bit different on the podcast this season. So alongside the usual guest interviews, which we'll have each month, me and the Rubber Cheese CEO, Paul Marden are also going to be recording an episode on a different digital related topic. So we're going to do this once a month. Kelly Molson: Each of the episodes, we're going to share insight around design, user experience, content, accessibility, SEO and loads, loads more. We're going to talk a little bit about what's possible, give you some ideas about how easy or how hard that topic is to implement.Kelly Molson: Maybe what kind of budget that you might need to look at and what some of the next steps are to take if you want to implement some of these things. We're even going to call out some of the best in breed websites, people that are doing things really well within the sector.Kelly Molson:  So I've been hosting the Skip the Queue podcast since July 2019. Goodness, that's been a long time. Five seasons in now. This is season five. You all know me already. So I am the founder of Rubber Cheese and my background is in design. Kelly Molson: I co founded Rubber Cheese back in 2003 after learning about ecommerce when I worked at a very early kind of Shopify type startup agency. The person that you don't know quite as well as me is my fellow host on this podcast. That's funny to say, that my fellow host is Paul Marden. So. Paul. Hello. Welcome. Paul Marden: Hello. Kelly Molson: This is strange. I'm going to have to share the spotlight for a while, that's very uncomfortable for me. No, it will be fine."It will be fine", she says. Paul, I would love it if you could give us a little intro to yourself. Kelly Molson: I know your background and I know you very well. We've known each other for about, I think it's about 14 years now. It's been a long time, hasn't it?Paul Marden: Yeah. Not long after I started doing this as a proper job. Kelly Molson: Well, there you go. Tell us about what your proper job is. Paul Marden: Yeah, so I'm the CEO of Rubber Cheese now, alongside another agency that I run called Carbon Six, which we merged Carbon Six and Rubber Cheese just over a year ago. My background is as a geek. I'm a developer by training. I started out ten years at British Airways, all over the airline, doing all different sorts of IT related jobs. So I saw lots of operational side of things, commercial sides of the airline, say, selling tickets, that kind of thing. I don't know if I've told you, but my first visitor attraction job was a long time ago, because when I was at Uni, I did a placement at the National Botanic Garden of Wales when it first opened. So I was there when it was a hole in the ground and I helped them write their IT strategy. Paul Marden: So my visitor attraction experience predates my involvement in Rubber Cheese. Kelly Molson: I did not know that. So you've done geek stuff for attractions. Paul Marden: For a long time. Yeah, it was amazing. I can still remember I was in an office in a farmhouse as they were building the giant glass house. It was just the most amazing place and I've not been back for a long time. It would be amazing to go and see the place, how it's transformed in the, what is it, 24 years since I was there? God, I really sound old now, don't I? Kelly Molson: You do sound old. I'm just wondering if they still use the IT plan that you put in place for them. Paul Marden: Probably not. I was only a student at the time. It can't have been amazing. Kelly Molson: So what we normally do on the podcast, listeners, as you well know, is I ask my guests a series of uncomfortable questions, icebreaker questions, which they very graciously answer beautifully for me. We're not going to do that on this episode. Ha. So we thought, yeah, Paul has wiped his brow in a state of relief there. But what we thought we would do is Paul and I both visit a lot of visitor attractions, both professionally and in our personal life as well. We've both got daughters at very different ages, so Millie is  coming up for I think, 9.Paul Marden: 10 in two weeks' time. Kelly Molson: Okay. And my little one is 2. So we're going to very different visitor attractions right now. But we thought we would talk about the attraction that we visited most recently and what we loved about it, and we thought we'd ask each other that question. So I am going to ask you that question first, Paul. What attraction have you visited most recently and what did you love about it? Paul Marden: So we just finished the summer holidays, so went away for just over a week to the Netherlands. We did visit a few different attractions whilst were there, but went to an amazing place. We went back to it, actually, it was one that we've been to before called Burger's Zoo. So I loved the whole experience of going there the first time around and we wanted to go back there. It's an amazing place. But the reason why I was going to call it out today was a conversation that we've been having and something that we've done with Kitten Museums in terms of the food offering. Because when you go to Burger's Zoo, the restaurant is amazing. We've talked recently about the sorts of food that you get at visitor attractions and your frustration around this. Lots of fried food. Paul Marden: There's never any healthy food. So went to Burger Zoo, we had lunch and of course, there'd be obligatory portion of chips there if you want to have it. Lots of kids food there, but I was able to have a massive great salad. It was in enormous and it was lovely and healthy and really enjoyable and it didn't cost the earth when you were there. And it's so unusual to talk about going to an attraction and getting that kind of quality of food without spending the earth in doing it. So, yeah, that was pretty cool. Kelly Molson: That is cool. This is probably a whole another podcast episode to talk about that. I think actually, in your intro, you forgot to mention that you are a Trustee for the Kids in Museums, which is quite a new role for you, isn't it? But it's one that kind of immersed you into the world of attraction. I think that's been a good one for you. They have set up a brilliant scheme, which is kind of an accreditation scheme for attractions to go through, just to check into how healthy and how great their food offering actually is, which I think is brilliant. It's really weird. Kelly Molson: The day that they launched it, I was having a like, literally the day before, I was having a conversation on LinkedIn about how atrocious the food offering had been at an attraction that I went to, which is one of the top ten most visited attractions in the UK. It's a great place. It really is a brilliant place, especially if you've got toddler. However, the food was pretty horrendous and I've got an unusual toddler in that. Well, she will eat chips now, she will eat chippies, but she won't eat fried stuff or battered things or anything like that. She's just not interested.Paul Marden: Nothing beige.Kelly Molson: Not really, even pasta has to be, she should have been an Italian, she should have seen the amount of pasta that she wolf down when were over there. But it's got to be good. Kelly Molson: It's got to be good. Yeah, she is particularly fussy toddler. But just for myself, I mean, just the range of food that was available that day was just dreadful. I mean, the healthiest thing that was on the menu that Lee and I both had was jacket potatoes and I think I took a picture of it somewhere and it was too awful to put on social media. So, yes, that is well needed and I'm glad that attraction stood out on the food front for you. Paul Marden: What about you? Where have you been recently? Kelly Molson: I've been to lots of different places recently, but this one I can't stop thinking about and so I want to talk about it today and it's not one that I visited with Edie. It's one that I visited with a fellow attractions professional a little while ago, but it's the Beamish Living Museum. I honestly can't stop thinking about it. It's the first living museum that I've been to, so it's the first experience of that for me. And I had such an emotional reaction to it. I'm a bit embarrassed, actually. So I went to meet a couple of people. I met one person that I'd met briefly at a conference before, and then I met one of their colleagues who I'd never met before in my life. And I actually had a bit of a cry to this colleague because it was so emotive. Kelly Molson: If anyone who hasn't been to Beamish Living Museum, there's lots of different areas that you can visit, and one of them is a 1950s area and they essentially recreate what it was like in the 1950s, where the museum is located. And it brought back so many memories of my grandparents, both sets of grandparents, for different reasons. The house was very similar to my grandparents on my father's side and just down to some of the things that they had in that space. And I just got overwhelmed by it. It was so wonderful to go back and see that. And in my head all the time I was thinking, well, both my sets of grandparents are no longer with us. They passed away when I was in my early twenties. And so Edie will never get to meet her great grandparents on that side. And I thought, God, how amazing would it be for me to bring here and say, show her some of the things that great granny used to have in her house and yeah, just lost it. Paul Marden:  It's interesting, isn't it, that you can become so immersed that even now the emotional attachment that you've built when you were there takes you straight back there. Because there's a risk, isn't there, with those sorts of places of it feeling a little bit plastic and fake, isn't it? But this clearly had an emotional impact on you. Kelly Molson: Yeah, I think for me, I was worried that it would be people in costumes. It would feel like that. And it did not feel like that at all. It just felt so authentic. Anyway, you've got to go. I don't want to cry for the rest of this podcast, but yeah, it's definitely a must visit for me, it was something really special. Paul Marden: Excellent. Kelly Molson: Should we move on to what we're going to talk about? And I'll compose myself, shall we?Paul Marden: Okay, moving swiftly on.Kelly Molson: Let's. So in this episode, we're going to talk about the impact of design, navigation and content on selling tickets and how we go about testing if it's working or not. So this episode actually launches on the 4th of October, which is one day after we release the 2023 Visitor Attraction website report. There's data that has come out of this year's report that is so insightful and I cannot wait for everybody to get this year's report. It dives deeper into a lot of the topics that we talked about in the first report last year, but there's just so much more to it and I'm very excited about it.Kelly Molson: Anyway, looking at the data from the report, a 100% of the attractions that took part think that having consistent design and clear navigation is important, which is brilliant. Big tick there. However, many of them don't think that their site meets the need and some of them think it does, but they don't test that it does. There's some really interesting stats about testing that we're going to talk about in a minute that have actually blew my mind a little bit. But one good stat around the design is that 76% of respondents believe that their websites were consistently designed despite using multiple platforms in their customer journey. Kelly Molson: And this is something that we talked about quite frequently in that sometimes there's a big disconnect if you are using if you've got your website that's built and designed in WordPress for example, and then you've got your ticketing platform and the two don't look like each other, they're not consistent, they're incongruent. That can be a bit of a challenge for people in terms of trust and how they feel about your brand. Paul Marden: It can be a jarring experience, can't it? Kelly Molson: Yeah, absolutely. Responses this year once again saw that websites that look good and are easy to use are doing far better than those that don't prioritise consistency. So I'm just going to read out this snippet from the report. We saw that websites that were high scoring for their design and navigation made more sales over the past twelve months. So those successful websites had around 200,000 to 500,000 completed transactions. Whereas on the other hand, websites with lower design and navigation scores didn't do as well, stating that they had below 50,000 completed transactions in the last month. That's quite fascinating, isn't it? Paul Marden: It is. This is not just a handful of people that are answering, is it? Because there's a large number of people that are answering that this is important to them and that they think they're doing quite well. And then you see how their perception of doing well correlates really strongly with the actual outcomes of the site itself. Kelly Molson: Yeah, I think that the way that we asked the questions this year is interesting as well. So when I talked then about we said that websites that were high scoring for design and navigation, we gave respondents the options to score their website. So we gave them how well designed do you think your site is? Between 1 and 10, 10 being the highest. So we allowed them to kind of self score. But it's interesting because some of those self scores don't correlate to the data that we then took. So those scores, they're based mostly on assumption, which is always a difficult, challenging place to be. But I think, Paul, you had some insight here around the conversion rate and design and how they tally up. Paul Marden: So the stats you just talked about were about the volume of transactions. You could say that having good design leads you to have more transactions flowing through your website, but you could also say that the organisations that have more transactions flowing through their website can afford to spend more money on design. But what I found interesting was that when you ignore the absolute number of sales that they make on the website, if you actually look at what their conversion rate is on the website, the attractions who think they have good design tend to have a higher conversion rate by about 1% or 2%. Now, that could be on a low base. Paul Marden: There could be a fairly small attraction that has fewer people coming to it, but they still perform relatively better than those attractions that didn't think they had good design but could be massive organisations with large numbers of transactions flowing through. And what I found interesting is we started to work out what is the value of 1 or 2% extra conversion rate, because it doesn't sound like much. Really. There's somebody in the business that doesn't necessarily understand the technology side of it that doesn't sound like a lot. So we started playing with converting that into money. What could that actually be worth? So we played around with we tried to model what is our average attraction and what is the absolute top performing attraction. Paul Marden: And even for our average, an increase of 1% in conversion rate could mean tens of thousands of pounds of extra sales that they make. But for the top performing attraction, it could make the difference of hundreds of thousands of pounds of extra sales just by squeezing 1 or 2% of extra conversion rate out. I think that's absolute gold dust in terms of insight that we've drawn out of this data. The organisations that think they have good design tend to have a conversion rate of 1 or 2% more, which could equate to tens of hundreds of thousands of pounds of extra sales that they make. It makes you begin to think that investment in the design of the site could actually be really worthwhile. Kelly Molson: Absolutely. And information like that helps the marketing managers build the case for good design and investing in good design. Paul Marden: Yeah. And before you say, "Oh, the large organisations with the big budgets, they can afford to do this, what about the small ones?" The smaller organisations with small budgets who had good navigation tended to be the ones that would have the better conversion rate amongst their peers. So you don't need to be a nationally recognised attraction brand to be able to invest an appropriate amount of money in design and get a return on that investment that you make. Kelly Molson: I always think that the best use of budget is on the pre planning side, which is unusual coming from a designer, I think. Yeah.  But Paul, you're really data driven, aren't you? You're super data driven. Paul Marden: Such a geek. Kelly Molson: Yeah, you are a massive geek. Massive nerd. We're very complimentary, but I never used to be very data driven. I was always far more visual driven. But actually well, I'm not going to share it on this podcast, actually, because I'm going to share it at a talk that I'm given. But I've got a really good story around why user testing is very important. We'll come a bit more onto that later. And why you should be driven by the data and the stats and not just by what something looks like. Okay, let's talk about navigation quickly as part of this design section. So it's really interesting. So we've actually got some findings from the Journal of Market Research. Kelly Molson: So they state that, when websites are easy to understand and navigate, individuals have a lower cognitive load, so fewer things to work out, and therefore are more likely to have a positive experience to go on to purchase. So having a consistent and well designed website can really help people make complete purchases with your visitor attraction. What I've always said, it's about trying to stop making people think, give them something that is really easy. So I think when we worked with Eureka!, and this is back in 2016, when we first worked with them, we did some research around what people wanted to find out about attractions, what were the first things they needed to know about. And it was literally, when you open, how much do you cost? How can I get there? Kelly Molson: So, if they're the three things that people desperately need to know, they're the three things that really need to be highlighted front and centre when you arrive at the site, wherever you arrive at it, whether that's the homepage or what. And it's the same with navigation. People need to understand where they're being taken and why they're being taken to certain places. So we're working with an attraction at the moment, we've just about to start work with them. They have got some really key, really strong elements to their Nav, but then they've got an area that says more, and there's a load of stuff that's been added onto the more section, and things like this happen over time. Kelly Molson: When you've got a website, people will say, “I need this to be featured on the site, I need this page to put up there”, and it gets added to, and ultimately you end up with all these things that haven't been thought about from the start, about where they're supposed to go. So they get kind of bundled somewhere, and a more section kind of feels an obvious place to put them. But what is it? Users don't understand what's in there. And they're not going to go searching for hours to find something that they want. They need to find it quickly. And so that for me, is a huge no about bundling stuff into these kind of sections. That just so ambiguous, you don't know what they are. Paul Marden: I think that figuring out what people are trying to do, what are they trying to get out of the website? I think that bundling exercise, putting lots of things onto the site that happened over time or putting it in a bucket of more is often there's so many people in an organisation that want their content heard and seen, don't they? Everybody wants their content on the site. It all goes on there. And sometimes you have to step back and think, what's the point? Who is it that's coming to the site and what are we trying to get them to do? We want the customer at the end of it to think, now that you've read this, what are you going to do next? But we don't always think about that journey. Paul Marden: We think about the snippets of information that we put onto the site, but we don't think about what the journey is they're going through. Attractions are really lucky. I think a lot of the people that go to their sites are really motivated to buy, a lot more motivated to buy than the average ecommerce site. So how do you get out of the way of those people so they can just buy stuff? And then for the people that are less motivated, they don't necessarily want to know how, when and how much they still want to be sold on the idea of going to the attraction, then maybe you need to give them more information. Paul Marden: But identifying who those people are and giving them a journey to go through and coming up with a navigation that makes it really easy for those people to navigate along that journey, there's a lot of psychology that's hard. That's your prep work, isn't it, before you do the design? Kelly Molson: Yeah, and it's the hardest part of it. And I think that's where the most amount of time needs to be spent there and the wireframes really, the design. If you've got good brand guidelines in place, the design ultimately becomes a simplified process at that point. But the pre design work is really where the time and effort needs to be spent. And I think it is a challenge for attractions. So there are attractions that are, if you compare a Chessington World of Adventures, for example, a theme park orientated to a historic museum that you're coming to visit, that not only is an attraction, but obviously has a lot of historical information to share and learning and education plays a big part in them as well. You have different audiences for those. Kelly Molson: So I think one part of that process is you need to think about all the different audiences you have and what are their motivations for visiting the site and what do you want them to do, what actions do you want them to take? But I think when you are working, this has gone off a bit of a tangent, but when you're working with an agency, I think what's really core for the attraction is to make sure that you've got key stakeholders from each of those areas of your attraction that play a part in those early conversations. So you don't want the site redesign to be driven solely by the marketing team for the attraction side. You need someone from the education side to be part of those conversations as well. Kelly Molson: You need visitor experience to be part of those conversations because if you're planning content, each of those individuals will have a different need for what content they need to showcase on the site. So they all need to be talking to each other about how that's going to look. I'm talking from experience because this has not happened in the past. Paul's nodding his head at me because he knows that we've had this challenge previously.Paul Marden: Yeah. Kelly Molson: So yeah, and I think that kind of leads us nicely onto content, really, and about the need to frequently update your site and keep it refreshed. So once you've done all of that hard work of working out what content is going to be on it doesn't stay static. So in the report we have a stat that says 31% of respondents said that they updated their online content multiple times a week. That's good. Another 31% said that they did so at least once a month. Good. However, 22% of respondents said they had infrequent content updates or didn't update their content at all. Not updating your content at all. Paul Marden: That surprised me, that one. Yeah, I was surprised that there were 31% of respondents updated it multiple times a week. I was really impressed by that. Yeah. That takes some work, doesn't it? To be able to produce that level of content change, but to do it infrequently or not at all, that surprised me. Kelly Molson: I guess it depends on the attraction and what their offering is as well. Thinking about one of our clients, Holkham actually, so we know that Holkham update their website frequently. They have a lot of different events, they write a lot of really incredible content about what happens across Holkham Estate. So they're engaging with the audience from the perspective of someone coming to visit and what they can do on the day and what they can come and see. But they're also talking about their wider sustainability efforts across the state and what they do and how they focus on that, which again, might be for that same audience. Might be for a slightly different audience as well. Kelly Molson: So the volume of content that they produce is a lot higher than potentially Thorpe Park as a visitor, they will talk about what's on that day and maybe an events that they're running, but they might not talk about the same things that are going on across the Estate that Holkham would, for example. So I think, yeah, it's what your attraction offers. Paul Marden: Holkham's a really good example because they can take inspiration from the place. They're very diverse, they've got lots of different things that they do at that location. It's quite a large location, but there's lots of different things going on and those things are inside and outside. They can take inspiration from the season. So there's a lot of inspiration that you can take there and produce. Just off the top of my head, I could think of lots of different stories that you could tell and changes to the site that can be inspired by the season. But then I think about a theme park where there's lots that goes on. I think I've done lots of trips to Legoland. There's Legoland at Halloween. There's Legoland in Spring time. It changes through the seasons and there's a lot of story around that. Paul Marden: I wonder if you're an indoor attraction, if you're Heritage Museum based, there's going to be lots of stories that you can tell about the items that you've got in your collection. But it might be harder to tell those stories influenced by the seasons, which can be a real driver for telling varying stories throughout a year, can't they? Yeah, but I don't write a lot of stories for those sorts of organisations, so maybe I don't have the right view of the world, but I would imagine it would be a lot harder to write lots of content varying through the year for that sort of organisation. Kelly Molson: Yes, probably so I'm just thinking about it would just be a change in topic, wouldn't it? So I know Blackpool Pleasure Beach, who Andy Hygate, the Operations Director, came on the podcast a couple of seasons ago, actually, and he talked about the experiences they've developed around walking up the big one and the rise that they have there. And actually, I think for people that are interested in theme parks, there's probably a lot of content around how things are built and how they're developed and that kind of side of stuff that people would be really interested in. So it's not talking about seasonal stuff, it's about the things and how they're constructed and how they're designed and kind of stuff like that. Kelly Molson: So, yeah, again, it comes back to just knowing your audience and what are they interested in and how you can engage them and what are your potential new audiences as well, and how can you develop content that attracts them. There is a correlation between content and purchases, though, which is quite interesting. So our report shows that those who were deliberate in ensuring their content was kept fresh and engaging saw an average of 25 to 50,000 completed website purchases a year, whereas those who didn't, on average, had around 10,000 completed purchases. In the same time frame. That's interesting. In addition, of the respondents who recognised the need for regular content updates but weren't action in them, 23% stated that their average sales conversion rate sat between one and 4%, which is below the benchmark for the sector. Kelly Molson: So the sector benchmark is 5% now, so that 1% is significantly low. Paul Marden: Absolutely. Shall we move on and talk about some testing? Because I know you think this one really is. Kelly Molson: Oh, yeah, I really do. So there is a statistic in the report that I had to reread a few times, actually, to believe. So last year's survey and report, we had about 70 attractions take part. This year has been significantly more than that. We got 188 attractions from up and down the UK and Europe take part, which was incredible.Paul Marden: And one in North America as well. I was really excited when I saw that one. Kelly Molson: Yes, we went international. That was exciting. Okay, so think about this: 188 attractions took part in this. 70% of the respondents have never conducted user testing of any kind on their website. 70%! That's actually not the worst stat though. I'm going to save the worst stat for another episode, but that's not the one that shocked me the most. But this one is really surprising. We've talked a bit about making assumptions about how well your website is perceived by people.Kelly Molson: Hard data from actual users is the key to designing a website that has an improved user experience because it can clarify problem areas and identify where most effort is needed to create a really great online experience. So if you're not asking your users how they're interacting with the site and do they like it? Can they buy things well? Can they find what they want? How do you know if it's good or not? It's blown my mind. Paul Marden: It's really hard, isn't it? Really hard. Kelly Molson: And I think it's really you wrote this down, actually. It's really important to be aware of a familiarity bias. So just because you think your website is easy to navigate doesn't mean other people think is it's because you're familiar with it so you understand where things are. Which is really interesting. Actually, I've just been reminded of a conversation that I had with somebody when I was at an attraction. Now I can't name this attraction, we're working with them and we're under NDA, but they asked me about a website that we'd redesigned. They said, "Oh, you did this website, didn't you?" I said, "Yes", "I can't find this thing anymore that I couldn't find. It took me ages to find it before" and I was like, "All right, what is the thing?" And he talked about what it was. Kelly Molson: I said, "Oh, well, it would be in this area". And he said, "Yeah, which makes sense. But before it was over here and I knew where it was and it just feels a bit weird now." I said, "Do you think it was in the right place before?". "Oh, no, shouldn't have been." Okay. So it's just because you know where it is doesn't mean it's actually in the right place. It's just what you get used to over the years. Paul Marden: It is incredibly hard to put yourself into the position of the person that knows nothing about your organisation. Trying to imagine what the customer is going through takes a lot of effort and I think that you can get data to be able to do that. But a lot of there's kind of levels of kind of understanding of that, putting yourself into that customer's position, the empathy that is required. Lots of people that we meet and work with will talk about how they want their site to be structured and what makes sense to them. Some people then will go the next stage and think about what they think their customer wants. And then there's a stage beyond that which is not even trying to put themselves into the customer position, but actually test what the customer thinks. Paul Marden: It's really hard to have the empathy to understand. If you know nothing, what would you do? And there's loads of stuff that you can do. I'm sure we'll come on to that later on to try to understand and test. But just sitting somebody down and watching them go from zero to hero and buying your tickets is a valuable thing that you could do, couldn't it? Kelly Molson: Yeah, absolutely. Now the report on the survey is anonymous. All the data that we get from it, we don't talk about the people that have submitted it and we don't talk about them. There was a number of websites within the data set that were doing really well in terms of both design and navigation and the impact that they were having on their conversion rate. So we reached out to these organisations to ask if we could talk about them today. And all of them were very happy for us to talk about it. So we have had their permission. I think I'll hand over to you, Paul, because you've been doing the analysis over on these sites. It's really lovely to see that Roman Baths are on this list.Paul Marden: They're on the list.Kelly Molson: Because they have been on the podcast and they're our podcast alumni. So that was good.Paul Marden: Yeah, more than once, I think, as well. Kelly Molson: Yes, they have been. Paul Marden: What I went looking for were who were the organisations that thought that they had good design and navigation in their site? But I didn't think that was really enough because of course you could think that it was good and it isn't very good. So what could I dig into the data to try to pull apart the people that thought they had good design and following through from that good design actually had good outcomes. And Roman Baths was up there in that top set of organisations that had they thought they had a good, consistent high quality design, but they also had a conversion rate up there in the top ratings that we had inside the data set. Obviously, Roman Baths really well known organisation, lots of international visitors will be going there. Paul Marden: There was another that I pulled out in the data set, which was also a really high profile brand. London Zoo came out in that top set. Kelly Molson: Also past podcast guests. Thank you. Yes, lovely people. Paul Marden: So they also thought they had good, consistent design, but coincidentally also had good quality conversion rates up there in the top performance in the data set. But to avoid you saying to me, "Oh, but all these are all big, internationally recognised brands. What's design got to do with it?" Up there we've got Roman Baths, London Zoo. Big, well known brands. But there's also some organisations that I wasn't familiar with in that data set. So there were organisations that are probably more regional, less internationally well recognised brands. And one of those that considered that they had good quality design and they also had high levels of conversion rates. Alongside that were Smithwick's experience in Kilkenny in Ireland. It's an attraction that is a brewery tour. I thought that one was really interesting when I went and looked at it. Paul Marden: It was really easy to navigate around the site, ridiculously easy to go and buy tickets. You go onto the site, it's right there to be able to buy those tickets, to go to that experience. So I think that told me that you didn't need to be a big, well recognised brand to be able to devote the time and attention and budget that's needed to get a good design, which then has the impact on your conversion rates. Yeah, this is not just for the big brands. This is also for other brands, smaller, regional brands that can maybe not devote the same levels of investment to it that a large organisation can, but they can still have good outcomes and good design. Kelly Molson: Yeah. And I think it's fair to say we do ask questions in the report about budget, but we don't ask them specifically. So we haven't asked. We don't, for example, know the investment that Roman Barths, London Zoo or Smithwicks have made in their website to get it to where it is now. We literally have no idea. So their budgets could be phenomenally big, they could be phenomenally small. We have no idea whatsoever. But we know that they have invested in good design and they've done it to a really great standard, which means it's easy for people to make purchases. Therefore their sales are sitting at a really great level. Kelly Molson: The Roman Baths I just a little shout out to Simon Addison, actually, because Simon did come on to the podcast a couple of times now, and actually he came onto a recent episode where we talked about the value of this report and the survey that we carry out. And this is its second year now and we can see the value in terms of the data that we've been able to glean from it is so much more insightful this year. The key insights themselves are much more in depth than they were last year. But one thing that Simon mentioned is that we don't work with Roman Baths. I've made that clear on the last podcast. We didn't design their website. We've not worked with them. Kelly Molson: They did use the report to inform some of the decisions that they made about designing their website and making changes to it, which I think is so great. Right. The report is actually actively doing what we set out for it to do. Regardless of whether anyone comes to work with us or not. Someone can take this report and use the insights from it to inform their current agency to make changes to their site that are going to make a significant difference to their bottom line. Well done, us. Paul Marden: Well done, us. But well done, everyone that's responded as well. Kelly Molson: Whatever. Well done, us. Well done, everyone. Thank you. Paul Marden: So I just think it's really impressive, isn't it, that we've got what was it you said? 180 something respondents from across the sector.Kelly Molson: 188.Paul Marden: It's so hard in a tough industry. There's lots of industries where people would not work together. And this is a collaborative exercise in sharing your data that takes a certain confidence within the sector to be able to be willing to share that information so that then somebody like us can then do the graph that aggregating that and seeing the interesting stories that people can then use to make things better. There's so many places where you would not see that happen.Kelly Molson: It's a wonderful part of the sector, that collaboration and that willingness to share and be open about things. Right, let's talk about next steps then, because we've talked about some of the items within design, navigation, testing. We've talked about who's doing it well. Let's wrap this up with next steps that you can take.  Kelly Molson: If you think some of these things are relevant to you and you want to do something about them. Do some testing. Do some testing and you can do that in a variety of ways. Paul Marden: Do you want me to test some stuff? Kelly Molson: Let's do some testing. Let's test. Look, there's loads of ways that you can do user testing if you're going through the process of a redesign at the moment. Go back to your wireframes, make them interactive. Do some internal testing, do some external testing. You can do this in multiple ways so you can do focus groups, get bums on seats in front of computers and give them some things that you want them to do on your site. Don't tell them how to do it, but just give them some things that you want them to achieve. I want you to buy a ticket. I want you to tell me how easy it is to go and find the interactive map. I want you to find a blog post and can you get from the blog post to buying a ticket, some of those things. Kelly Molson: This doesn't need to cost you a huge amount of money, right? You all have an asset in that. "Hey, would you like a free ticket to our venue if you come and do some testing for us?" Put on a little bit of lunch, put on people are really happy to help and give you feedback in that way. So that doesn't need to be a huge cost at all. You can use online tools, so we use tools like UserTesting.com. You can select a certain demographic that you want to test out and you upload what you want them to test. And then they go off and they do it, and they record videos, and you can see how they interact and they talk through what they're doing and how easy it was for them to do those things as well. Kelly Molson: They are not a huge, costly I actually don't know off the top of my head. There will be a fee to use the system, which will be a monthly fee and then there'll be a fee probably for that will cover X amount of tests within that monthly fee. So it will probably be from what, 150, maybe a month, something like that, maybe a bit more. Paul Marden: The cost depends as well on factors, how many factors you place on the do you only want people to do user testing that are of a particular demographic and age? If your attraction has mainly parents with young kids coming, do you want your user testing to be done only by parents with young kids? When you add more constraints to it, the cost of doing it becomes higher. But arguably the quality of the data that you get back from the testing is more relevant to you. Kelly Molson: You can do this with I've talked about going back to the wireframe stage. You can do this at any point. So great, do a load of testing before you go ahead and release something to the world. But if you've got something that's up and running now, do some testing. So you can do user testing on what you already have. You can do exit surveys so you can ask people once they've bought a ticket, you can ask them how easy that was. What did you find difficult? What were your challenges at the end of your purchasing journey? So there's small little things you can do there. Paul Marden: The world has changed a lot, hasn't it? In the last few years we've moved to almost exclusively online sales beforehand. So we've got this massive pool of data, of contact information of the people that have bought your tickets. That's such a great resource that you could use, which in previous years pre pandemic it would have been a struggle because a large chunk of your people would have been walk ins who you didn't necessarily it wasn't easy to capture those sorts of contact details and follow up with them. Kelly Molson: Yeah, exactly. And then I think there are things that you can do in terms of looking at your user experience and the design side of things. We do things like UX reviews for people. We actually offered one as a prize for all of the people that entered the survey this year and the lovely people at Cheddar Gorge won that. We're going to be looking at that in a couple of months for them. Paul Marden: Back near my home proper, that's Cheddar Gorge is where I went as a kid, like, so that's exciting to be. Kelly Molson: In that we'll be carrying that out later on in the year for them. So, yeah, there's things that you can do in terms of working with an agency to look at what your user journeys look like. Are they correct for the audience that you have? Does your design flow? Where are the barriers that you're seeing? And again, if you're looking at some of the data of where you're seeing people drop off, is that a design issue, is that a function issue? How do we work those things out? Paul Marden: There's loads of tools, isn't there, as well, like Hotjar that you can stick on, which doesn't cost a lot of money. And it's not just Hotjar, there are lots of other tools just like it which would give you insight into the behaviour of the users on the site. It's just a snapshot that you get for free, but that snapshot could really help inform decision making about maybe I need to make it easier for them to find the button because they're finding it hard to book tickets or whatever. Kelly Molson: Because they can't see where they need to book their tickets. Paul Marden: Yeah. Kelly Molson: So, yeah, I think in summary, do some testing is what I'm going to end this podcast episode with. Do some testing, come back and tell us what you find.Paul Marden: Exciting. I'd love to have those conversations. Kelly Molson: As ever, if you want to get in touch with either of us, all of our contact details are in the Show Notes. If anything has sparked your interest that we've talked about today, we're really happy to answer any questions and things like that. So if you do want to ask any questions about any of the kind of stats that we've talked about, again, just our email addresses will be in the Show Notes. And also, if you haven't downloaded the report yet, why not? Because it's out. It launched yesterday. We did a webinar. Did you come to it? Why not? If not, but if you do want to go and download the report, we'll put the link to that in the Show Notes as well. But just head over to the rubbercheese.com website and you'll be able to find it. We'll see you next time. Paul Marden: Awesome. Thank you. Kelly Molson: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip The Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast.

Luke Smithwick is a seasoned mountain guide, climber, and skier who has spent the last 13 years mastering the awe-inspiring peaks of the Himalayas. But it's not all about danger and adrenaline; Luke's passion for the Himalayas extends far beyond the summit.In this episode of Consequence of Habit, Luke takes us on an extraordinary journey from his humble roots in North Carolina to becoming a professional mountain guide amidst the towering giants of Nepal. He reveals how his expeditions have opened doors to a world of diverse cultures, languages, and environments.There are - of course - profound risks and challenges that come with leading daring expeditions in one of the world's most treacherous terrains. Learn about Luke's philosophy of risk management and safety, and the impacts of climate change that he has witnessed firsthand, right at the roof of the world.Luke Smithwick Instagram- - - - - - - - - - -Support Consequence of HabitSubscribe: Apple Podcast | SpotifyCheck us out: Instagram | Twitter | WebsiteThe show is Produced and Edited by Palm Tree Pod Co.

Welcome to the COTM Brotherhood Podcast. Join us in hearing John Smithwick's message from our September breakfast. Brotherhood Breakfasts occur on the first Friday of each month. If you would like to attend search for COTM Brotherhood Breakfast on www.eventbrite.com to see our upcoming events. To learn more about the Brotherhood go to www.cotmbrotherhood.com or follow us on social media facebook: /cotmbrotherhood instagram: @cotmbrotherhood To learn more about Church on the Move go to www.churchonthemove.com

Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Award-Winning Author, Devoted Teacher, and Legacy Equestrian, Patrick Smithwick, exploring the themes of his new book, War's Over, Come Home, and the realities faced by those who love those who have served._____LINKShttps://www.patricksmithwick.com/https://www.facebook.com/PatrickSmithwickAuthor/https://www.instagram.com/patricksmithwick_author/https://twitter.com/SmithwickAuthor_____Starting at the age of twelve, Smithwick began working with his father and mentor, the legendary steeplechase jockey, A.P. Smithwick. Patrick worked his way through college by exercising Thoroughbreds at the major East Coast racetrack and by competing in steeplechase races at Belmont Park, Monmouth Park and Saratoga, as well as at hunt meets, such as The Maryland Hunt Cup and the Grand National. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University in 1973 and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Hollins College in 1975. In 1988, he received a Master of Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University, and in 2000 his degree in Education for Ministry. A newspaper writer for several years, Patrick began teaching English, philosophy, photography, and journalism at both the high school and collegiate levels. In addition to his trilogy of memoirs–Racing My Father, Flying Change, and Racing Time–he has written The Art of Healing: Union Memorial Hospital and Gilman Voices, 1897-1997. Patrick lives with his wife Ansley, formerly the Associate Head of Oldfields School, on the Monkton horse farm where he was raised. In his latest book, War's Over Come Home (TidePool Press, May 16, 2023), Patrick departs from the horse-centric themeAn ex-evangelical boomer, a middle-aged gay artist, and a frazzled stay-at-home mom walk into a bar, share a table, and go deep about some of life's big questions.Join Frank, Ernie, and Erin as they share stories of love, sex, grief, religion and so much more. This is “Love in Common.”Visit LoveInCommon.org to Subscribe on your favorite Podcast platform. Support the show_____In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of Fall In Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy. Learn more at https://www.lovechildrenplanet.comFollow Frank on Substack, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, and YouTube. https://frankschaeffer.substack.comhttps://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaefferhttps://www.instagram.com/frank_schaeffer_arthttps://www.threads.net/@frank_schaeffer_arthttps://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTube In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer PodcastApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-conversation-with-frank-schaeffer/id1570357787NEW: Love In Common Podcast with Frank Schaeffer, Ernie Gregg, and Erin BagwellApple Podcasts: ...

Hi! I'm Olivia Bria, but my friends call me Liv— and you can too! In this episode, I interviewed a Season 21 Hell's Kitchen contestant, Chopped finalist, and successful entrepreneur—Chef Sakari Smithwick! We dove behind-the-scenes of filming Hell's Kitchen, his mission on food scarcity, and Smithwick revealed what he learned cooking for Gordon Ramsay.Make sure to follow the podcast on Instagram or check me out on TikTok. You can keep up with Chef Smithwick's latest projects on Instagram.Recording by Riverside.fmMusic by Music_Unlimited from Pixabay

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Join host Cyrus Webb on #ConversationsLIVE as he welcomes author Patrick Smithwick to discuss his new book WAR'S OVER, COME HOME. 

On this episode of Free Thinking, Montel talks with the author of War's Over, Come Home, Patrick Smithwick. War's Over, Come Home chronicles his families two-year quest through cities across the country looking for his son, Andrew, a two-tour Marine veteran of the Iraq War, who is running away from war memories, nightmares, hallucinations, and those that love him. His relentless focus on the life of his homeless son is a microcosm of the national nightmare 50,000 homeless veterans and their families are living every day. Yet, he imbues every chapter with hope: hope for his son, hope for his marriage, hope for his country. The book is a memoir of love, perseverance and hope.  War's Over, Come Home Book link: patricksmithwick.com

On today's episode we have a bracket style showdown between EIGHT of the most popular jerk baits on the planet. I've fished all 8 of these jerk baits side by side so that we can accurately compare them in a 1v1 showdown until only one is left standing. Who wins? Who loses? And do you agree?   Brought to you by: American Legacy Fishing & Outdoors www.americanlegacyfishing.com Use Code: TACKLETALK10 for 10% OFF!   Additional Support Provided by: Dakota Lithium (Code: TACKLETALK10) RTIC Outdoors 

There's a price for freedom, and it involves doing your work.  For Regina, this meant moving from a place of being “ok” about her adoption status, to being accepting of it.  This was no easy task, because adoption was not discussed with her since the age of six, during an interrupted viewing of Soul Train.  40+ years later, the topic remained, hush.  Consequently, Regina grappled with failed relationships, being loyal to a fault, and suppressing her feelings and emotions about who she was and how she came to be with her family. After one critical event of begging a man to like her, she recognized that her unresolved issues about her adoption kept her from loving herself, and she begins working with a life coach.  This is pivotal for her as she begins to speak truth to power, openly acknowledge her adoption, and embrace her calling to help others in this world.  This story solidifies how secrecy, stigma, shame, and silence are detrimental to adoptees being able to fully, heal.  What's an adoptee to do when it appears that society and adoptive/biological families express that adoptees should just move on with their lives and remain in the dark about where they come from?  How do adoptees receive adequate medical care when a visit at the doctor's office feels disempowering if you don't have information about your health history?  When the credits roll, is it not fair to admit that sometimes, reunions are “like a gift wrapped in sandpaper?”  We have questions, and the answers.  Take a listen to Season 4, Episode 47.  Share. Subscribe. Leave a review. SHOW NOTES CONNECT WITH US! Black to the Beginning on ⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠ Black to the Beginning on ⁠Facebook⁠⁠ ⁠ Black to the Beginning on ⁠Youtube          RECOMMENDED ADOPTION RESOURCES LIFE COACHING: with Regina Smithwick READ: ⁠Adoption, the Unknown Blessing by Regina Smithwick WATCH: My Other Mother LISTEN: Voices of the Black Adoption Experience and African American adoptees on ⁠The Black Adoption Podcast⁠ REQUIRED READING: ⁠Black to the Beginning Reads Bookshop⁠  - A carefully curated list of #BTTBreads #BTTBreads SUPPORT THE BLACK ADOPTION PODCAST ⁠SUPPORTER⁠: Make a monthly contribution of $0.99, $4.99, or $9.99 PayPal/Zelle: info@blacktothebeginning.com ⁠SHOP Black to the Beginning           ⁠ SHARE YOUR BLACK ADOPTION STORY ⁠Podcast Guest Questionnaire⁠ #ADOPTION #THEBLACKFAMILY #MENTALHEALTH #SEARCHANDREUNION --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/black-to-the-beginning/support

Beer: Smithwick's Irish Red Ale Water Cooler Topic: Diablo IV Open Beta Beer Review/Game Pairing Aaron's Mobile Minute Main Topic: Discuss previous generation games (PS4, XBOX ONE) being re-released for current gen. Is the upgrade worth it? Is it a cash in? Personal feelings about subject? Couch Co-Optionals Next Weeks Beer: Jarrod's Pick --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecouchcoopshow/message

Tune in to John and Wes's entertaining podcast, where they vent about life's most annoying things, from slow drivers to TSA checkpoints, while enjoying the smooth taste of Smithwick's Irish Red Ale and the surprisingly good Two Stacks "Dram in a Can" Irish Whiskey. And as a bonus, enjoy a witty poem by ChatGPT-4 that perfectly captures the frustration and humor of life's little irritants

Happy St. Patrick's Day! We ring in this fine holiday with a shot and a beer. We tell our favorite St. Paddy's stories and spend some quality time with each other. Grab a pint and join us!Drinks of the day:      Jameson 18 Year     Guinness stout     Smithwick's Irish Red AleComing up this week:Wed:  Tasting some badass Irish WhiskyFriday:  Irish Whisky Cocktails (YouTube exclusive)We truly appreciate all of your support!Make sure to check our pinned posts on Instagram and enter our giveaways! We appreciate you all! Cheers!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stinkerdrinkerthinker/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@StinkerDrinkerThinkerWebsite: https://www.stinkerdrinkerthinker.com Shop: https://www.stinkerdrinkerthinker.com/shopJust want to say hello? We love hearing from you! contact@stinkerdrinkerthinker.com

We bring a little early St. Patrick's Day tasting for our 50th episode so you can go pick up your own selections ahead of time. We are lucky to sample some great beers from @resurgencebrewingco, @fatheadsbeer, @stbcbeer, and @glbc_cleveland with some bonus Smithwick's. Sláinte! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/buffalobrews/message

It's time to paddy like the Irish do!   Today we are discussing The Black Raven Irish Pub in Harrah, OK.   Stop in to the Black Raven and enjoy an authentic Irish pub, right in the heart of historic Harrah. Taste the Emerald Isle with pub standards like a Scotch egg or Guinness chips- Irish chips blanketed in Guinness cheddar sauce. Continue your experience with traditional favorites such as fish-n-chips, shepherd pie, corned beef cabbage or bangers and mash. The pub kitchen also features other Irish staples like shepherd pie filling, bangers or Guinness cheddar.   Pub food and draft beer go together like bangers and mash or fish and chips. Of course, Guinness tops the tap list here, but the Dublin brew is seconded closely by Harp, Smithwick's, Strongbow Cider and Killian's Red. The bar keep to pull several traditional beer mixes such as an All-Irish Black & Tan, Black Castle, Snake Bite or Half & Half. If none of these fit the bill, choose a brew from their extensive bottle list, including a selection of root and ginger beers.   In true pub fashion, Black Raven hosts a regular selection of weekly bands, so order up a pint and enjoy a song or three.     Harrah calls itself the "best kept secret in Eastern Oklahoma County" with all the hospitality of a small town while be close to the city attractions. If you enjoy gaming, stop in at the Kickapoo Casino and test your luck on the slots and blackjack table, and don't miss the annual Harrah Day celebration full of family fun that celebrates the founding of the town.     Also discussed: Onlyinokshow,  Travelok, Route 66 and Tulsa People.   Subscribe to the Only in OK Show.     #TravelOK #onlyinokshow #Oklahoma #MadeinOklahoma #oklaproud #podcast #okherewego #traveloklahoma #rt66

In 2019, Regina Smithwick experienced a rejection that caused her to have a mental breakdown, but she took that breakdown and turned it into a positive life-changing journey. As she walked through this experience, she realized that she had been suppressing many negative feelings about her adoption as a baby and came to realize that these feelings were all placed on her by others. Listen to this lively conversation about Regina's journey of discovery and see what resonates with you. To learn more about Regina you can find her at the following: Facebook – Let's Talk 1943 IG- Lets_Talk 1943 Pinterest- @letstalk1943 Twitter- @LetsTalk1943 YouTube- Let's Talk 1943 Website- www.letstalk1943.com ************************************** Kim Benoy is a recently retired RN, wife and mother who has found a passion for inspiring other women using essential oils, blog, and podcast called Midlife with Courage. She is following her journey to be a light and lead others who are feeling stuck and even bored doing what is expected. She helps women over 40 find their courage, confidence and calm so they can live every moment! Website: www.midlifewithcourage.com Instagram: @midlife_with_courage Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Midlifewithcourage LinkedIn profile: linkedin.com/in/kim-benoy-250754111

Everyone who knew Brad Smithwick knew that he loved his two children more than anything in the world. That's why he fought tooth and nail to gain full custody of them. Finally, on October 3, 2007, Brad got what he was working so hard for: full custody. He was set to fill out the paperwork in two days. But he would never get the chance to sign his name on the dotted line.This episode was suggested by Albert “Bubba” Summerlin, a retired Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Agent Summerlin assisted with the investigation I'm discussing in today's case. He was gracious enough to not only recommend the topic, but speak with us on multiple occasions to make sure we got the details right. So, thank you to Agent Summerlin! Hosted and produced by Erica KelleyResearched and Written by Haley GrayAdditional writing by Erica KelleySpecial thanks to Albert “Bubba” Summerlin, retired Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.Original Graphic Art by Coley HornerOriginal Music by Rob Harrison of Gamma RadioEdited & Mixed by Next Day Podcast & Erica KelleySources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/the-murder-of-brad-smithwickSponsors: Friends without the “R” - Best Fiends BetterHelp.com/southern

We discuss education, how it was never intended to be under control of secular government; biblical worldview battles in both culture and in many churches, the influence of godless socialists and Marxists in America, and the importance of building a foundation on Christ the Cornerstone. Daily podcast, relevant articles on issues pertaining to Christians and more can be found on Stand Up For The Truth.

Have you ever faced a life challenge that catapulted you into your destiny / purpose? In this segment, ReGina Smithwick shares how life's challenges allowed her to go through a breakdown period that ended up being a breakthrough. It took going through rejection, period of self-reflection, knowing who and whose she is, to realize the true path and purpose for her life. See video here - https://youtu.be/noUI93bLePQ WHO IS REGINA? ReGina Smithwick was born in Harlem, NY raised in Mount Vernon, NY, and Teaneck NJ. She now resides in Winterville, NC with her three children. She is the founder of ReGina Smithwick Enterprises LLC, providing Certified Life Coaching. She is also the creator and producer of Talk Show & Podcast, Let's Talk 1943. In addition, she is a Motivational Speaker and Author of Adoption: The Unknown Blessing. She also publishes many self-help journals, available for purchase on Amazon. She attended Virginia State University and received her Master of Science degree in Organizational Leadership from National University. She is also a proud member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated. REGINA'S CALL TO ACTION Helping women live in their purpose. Learn more by going to my website and connect on social media. https://letstalk1943.com/ GENESIS'S INFO https://genesisamariskemp.net/ CALL TO ACTION Subscribe to GEMS with Genesis Amaris Kemp Channel, Hit the notifications bell so you don't miss any content, and share with family/friends. **REMEMBER - You do not have to let limitations or barriers keep you from achieving your success. Mind over Matter...It's time to shift and unleash your greatest potential. If you would like to be a SPONSOR or have any of your merchandise mentioned, please reach out via email at GEMSwithGenesisAmarisKemp@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/genesis-amaris-kemp/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genesis-amaris-kemp/support

Taste Radio's hosts discussed Coca-Cola's decision to discontinue Honest Tea, the brand's legacy and impact on better-for-you beverage and food companies, and what the move might mean for new and emerging upstarts. They also highlighted recently announced speakers, including Bang Energy founder/CEO Jack Owoc and top executives from Whole Foods and Kroger, that will be joining the stages at BevNET Live and NOSH Live this summer and chatted about several innovative products that crossed their desks over the past month. Show notes: 0:40: Jacqui Wins Again, Mike Is ‘Country Curious' And Drinks Broccoli, Ray's Essential Travel Food – The episode opens with a chat about a country music star's bourbon brand, another trophy for Jacqui and why March 1, 2011 was a special day. John explained why some small brands will likely benefit from Honest Tea's discontinuation, Ray noted the sale of a pioneering cold-pressed juice brand and the hosts collectively spoke about some of their favorite new products, including a mouthwatering coated nut snack, outstanding RTD cocktails and cannabis drinks, plus some beverages made with unusual ingredients. Brands in this episode: American Highway Reserve, Honest Tea, Smithwick's, Shaka Tea, Odwalla, Zico, Nantucket Nectars, Snapple, Evolution Fresh, Bolthouse Farms, Bang Energy, Monster, Red Bull, Rockstar Energy, SkinnyDipped, Tipsy Lady Cocktails, Madre Mezcal, Artet, Levia, Reveal Avocado Seed Brew, Frescos Naturales, Broc Shot, Doozy Pots, Honey Mama's, Unique Belgique, Blissfully Better, Momofuku

We discuss education, how it was never intended to be under control of secular government; biblical worldview battles in both culture and in many churches, the influence of godless socialists and Marxists in America, and the importance of building a foundation on Christ the Cornerstone. Daily podcast, relevant articles on issues pertaining to Christians and more can be found on Stand Up For The Truth.

Why should you love yourself more?Is singleness the best season?How to accept and embrace singlenessThe stigma attached to being single3 essential things to find joy in being single RESOURCEPodmatch ABOUT REGINA SMITHWICKRegina Smithwick was born in Harlem, NY, raised in Mount Vernon, NY, and Teaneck, NJ. She now resides in Winterville, NC with her three children. She is the founder of ReGina Smithwick Enterprises LLC, providing Certified Life Coaching. She is also the creator and producer of Talk Show & Podcast, Let's Talk 1943. In Addition, she is a Motivational Speaker and Author of "Adoption: The Unknown Blessing." She also publishes many self-help journals available for purchase on Amazon She attended Virginia State University and received her Master's of Science degree in Organizational Leadership from National University. She is also a proud member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated. CONNECT WITH REGINA SMITHWICKWebsite: https://www.letstalk1943.comPodcast: Let's Talk 1943Youtube: Let's Talk 1943Facebook: Let's Talk 1943Twitter: @letstalk1943Pinterest: @letstalk1943Instagram: @lets_talk1943 CONNECT WITH USWebsite:  www.fireflybyirisjanet.comInstagram - @firefly_ijFacebook - @Iris Janet CoachingPodcast - Firefly by Iris Janet Clubhouse @fireflyirisAudible - www.audibletrial.com/firefly

Meg, Symphony and Hal discuss episode 105 of Welcome to Night Vale: What Happened at the Smithwick House. They chat about the timey whimey wieirdness of the Smithwick House, birth stones and a time Hal refused to go out to lunch with Meg and Symphony. In the FanZone Calzone™ we ponder what anger smells like, what the scariest episode of Night Vale is, and what makes this episode so chilling. Leave us a voicemail at 929-277-2050 or e-mail us at info@goodmorningnightvale.com. Find out more about satan on our Patreon. www.patreon.com/goodmorningnightvale Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Good Morning Night Vale is a production of Night Vale Presents Hosted by Symphony Sanders, Hal Lublin, and Meg Bashwiner Produced by Meg Bashwiner Edited by Felicia Dominguez Mixed by Vincent Cacchione Theme Music by Disparition