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Catching up with Spud..."Three Things You Need to Know"...sports roundup...contaminated fuelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

""Three Things You Need to Know"...top pizza place in US here in Alabama...Spud's weight loss...stealing electricity...parasites in Texas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stabbing in NYC..."Three Things You Need to Know"...Spud's Turn...food talkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An unlicensed potato chip factory in Australia has been fined after authorities were tipped off by the facility's grand opening event.According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Western Australia “Spud King” Tony Galati created the house brand chips Spuddies so he could sell them at his Spudshed stores. He established a facility to manufacture the potato chips and acquired all the necessary equipment including an industrial peeler, blancher, fryer and weight checking system to help with portion control and bagging. He just didn't get any work approvals.The “Spud King” may have gotten away with it, at least for a little bit longer, if he hadn't planned and notified regulators about a grand opening event for the factory. But now the Galati Group has been caught for manufacturing without a license and for dumping “non-oily chip-making waste” without a license. The company has been fined $20,000, equal to about $14,000 in the U.S.This is not the first time the “Spud King” has gotten salty with regulators. Galati, a well-known potato grower in Western Australia, played a key role in the full deregulation of the state's potato industry. Even after the Potato Marketing Corporation was cooked, Galati was still found in contempt for purposefully planting more potatoes than allowed.In 2024, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission hit Galati with more than $60,000 in fines for trading with at least four growers without a horticulture produce agreement in place.No matter how you slice it, the “Spud King” sounds like a potato man who doesn't play by anyone else's potato rules.#manufacturing, #foodmanufacturing, #foodindustry, #industrialnews, #factorynews, #manufacturingnews, #australia, #businessnews, #operations, #compliance, #regulatorycompliance, #potatochips, #foodprocessing, #industrynews, #supplychain

WARNING: This story contains mild swearing and some adult themes.A rift develops between two adolescent boys when their friendship with a seasonal worker at the funfair seems to coincide with sinister events in their hometown. An original story © copyright of Jasper L'Estrange.

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Jerry of the Circus - Spud Is Hired Boris Has New Plot - 12/15/1937Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/harold-s-old-time-radio--4206392/support.

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Episode 47: Inside The Spud Goodman Radio Show #47 (Originally aired 1-11-2018) A look at "The Peaked Too Early Episode" featuring Actor/Author Robert Wagner (Austin Powers/Two and a Half Men/Hart to Hart) and Comedian/Host Jordan Klepper (Comedy Central's The Daily Show). Musical Guest: Spirit Award. Spud reveals he peaked in the 9th grade in most phases of his life and has come to grips with it. TV On Radio! Visit Spud's website at: spudgoodman.com

This week on Ricker and Bon: Tim Cook exits Apple, Tesla raises its 2026 capex to $25B, OpenAI ships GPT-5.5 "Spud," SpaceX eyes a $60B acquisition of Cursor, and consumer sentiment hits a 74-year low.

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus's biggest challenge 2) Is turnover at Apple a good thing 3) The products Ternus will take to market 4) What is Apple's tabletop robot all about 5) OpenAI is communicating differently 6) Is TBPN helping OpenAI messaging? 7) Anthropic's Mythos rollout vs. OpenAI's Spud rollout 8) Meta's latest layoffs. 9) Meta tracks employees keystrokes 10) Is Meta's tracking a reinforcement learning play? 11) Ranjan's Streamflation rant. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here's 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OpenAI dropped GPT-5.5, so we did the only reasonable thing: went live immediately and tried to break it.In this off-the-cuff Neuron Live, Corey and Grant walk through OpenAI's GPT-5.5 release notes, benchmark claims, rollout details, and early access reactions before testing the model live across coding, reasoning, creativity, web research, and absurd prompt challenges. We also compare a few GPT-5.5 responses against Claude Opus 4.7, test Codex, build a new version of Cat Doom, and ask the important questions, like whether a sentient vending machine that only dispenses expired tuna salad deserves to live.In this episode, we cover:• What OpenAI says is new in GPT-5.5• GPT-5.5's improvements in coding, computer use, research, and knowledge work• Early benchmark results across Terminal-Bench, GDPval, Frontier Math, BrowseComp, and scientific research tasks• Why token efficiency may matter as much as raw intelligenceGPT-5.5's rollout across ChatGPT, Codex, Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise• Live Codex testing with a one-shot Cat Doom game buildCreative stress tests involving palindromes, time-traveling potatoes, dystopian vending machines, and Lord of the Rings product reviews• First impressions of whether GPT-5.5 feels meaningfully different from GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.7This was not a formal benchmark. It was a first-contact livestream: messy, fast, weird, and exactly the kind of test we like.Subscribe for more AI breakdowns, live model tests, beginner-friendly explainers, and weirdly useful prompt experiments from The Neuron.Sign up for The Neuron newsletter: https://www.theneuron.ai/Follow along for more AI news, analysis, and live experiments.

April 24, 2026 ~ Chris Renwick and Lloyd Jackson talk with David Douches, director of the MSU Potato Breeding and Genetics Program. They discuss how his team developed five new potato varieties for better, more consistent potato chips. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Greg Brockman is the president and co-founder of OpenAI. Brockman joins Big Technology to discuss GPT-5.5, also known as Spud, and what it means for OpenAI's next phase of AI development. Tune in to hear Brockman explain how the model gets better at coding, computer use, slides, spreadsheets, and agentic work across everyday applications. We also cover OpenAI's competitiveness, model economics, distillation, cybersecurity risk, trust in agents, and the compute-powered economy. Hit play for a timely look at OpenAI's newest model and where the AI race goes next. ---- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here's 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Chapters: 00:00 Intro: GPT-5.5 “Spud” 00:57 What GPT-5.5 Can Do 02:56 OpenAI's Agent Roadmap 05:49 Training and Real-World Tasks 09:55 Model Moats and Distillation 15:55 Cybersecurity Risks 21:01 Trusting Agents 23:36 The Compute Economy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Walter Sterling for a late-night ride through the strange and unexplained! In this episode, journalist Ross Coulthart drops a bombshell about 11 missing aerospace and nuclear scientists who may be tied to a secret government UFO crash retrieval program. Retired NYPD detective Vic Ferrari also stops by to share the hilarious saga of a 300-pound serial car thief named Spud who made a terrible police informant. Plus, Walter and his callers debate whether a weaker gravitational pull is the real secret behind the construction of the pyramids and giant dinosaurs, argue about the physics of water on a spinning globe, and ponder if shape-shifting reptilians and mermaids secretly live inside the Earth. Finally, Matias "Boom Boom" delivers the Hollywood scoop with a review of Bob Odenkirk's bloody new action-comedy Normal. Tune in for aliens, anti-gravity, and absolute late-night chaos! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The AI compute crisis is here. Anthropic's Claude is getting dumber and Opus 4.7 & OpenAI's Spud are about to make it worse. What happen's next? This week on AI For Humans, we dig into the AI compute crunch that's quietly becoming the industry's biggest problem. The Wall Street Journal just ran a cover story about AI using so much energy that computing power is running out. Claude users are noticing the model getting worse, and an AMD Senior AI Director confirmed. AI pundits are asking whether Anthropic's reluctance to release Mythos is really about safety or about not having enough compute.  Meanwhile, Opus 4.7 is reportedly coming next week, rumors are swirling about a new OpenAI model dropping any day, and Uber already blew through its entire annual AI coding budget. Anthropic just signed a deal with Google and Broadcom for more compute. Greg Brockman published an essay on the computer-powered economy.  Plus, Google DeepMind drops Gemini Robotics Reasoning Model ER-1.6, Steven Soderbergh comes to the defense of AI filmmaking, Diplo says you can't fight AI and the internet has opinions, and Ray Kurzweil says we'll soon just accept AIs as conscious because it'll be useless not to. AI IS RUNNING OUT OF POWER. CLAUDE IS GETTING DUMBER. WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/   // Show Links // WSJ Cover Story: AI Is Using So Much Energy That Computing Power Is Running Out https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-using-so-much-energy-that-computing-firepower-is-running-out-156e5c85 Data on Claude Getting Dumber: AMD Senior AI Director Confirms Nerfing https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2042979500103815306?s=20 Opus 4.7 Coming Next Week (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-anthropic-preps-opus-4-7-model-ai-design-tool?rc=c3oojq Anthropic's Compute Crunch (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/ai-agenda/anthropics-compute-crunch-strikes?rc=c3oojq Claude Code Routines https://x.com/claudeai/status/2044095086460309790?s=20 New Claude Code Desktop App https://x.com/felixrieseberg/status/2044128194647994585?s=20 Uber Blew Through AI Coding Budgets for the Year Already https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/uber-cto-shows-claude-code-can-blow-ai-budgets?rc=c3oojq Greg Brockman Essay on the Computer-Powered Economy https://x.com/gdb/status/2043831031468568734 OpenAI's Reckless Spending and Datacenter Cancellations https://x.com/firstadopter/status/2043009456103993426?s=20 Ray Kurzweil on AI Consciousness https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/2043716604442128460?s=20 Gemini Robotics ER-1.6 Blog Post https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-1-6/ Steven Soderbergh Defends AI Filmmaking https://variety.com/2026/film/news/steven-soderbergh-the-christophers-star-wars-ben-solo-movie-controversial-ai-comments-1236713201/ Diplo: You Can't Fight AI https://youtu.be/zFVpJFFN3dI?si=C6_0MxmNzSHCdrds PI Hard: Fun AI Video https://x.com/aiordieshow/status/2044044721459265557?s=20  

Episode 300 marks a milestone moment for The Six Five Pod as AI shifts from innovation to consequence. This week, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack the risks of frontier models, the growing complexity of AI deployment, and the market signals that reveal where tech is heading next. The handpicked topics for this week are: The Frontier Model Arms Race: Anthropic Mythos + OpenAI Spud — Frontier models are advancing beyond controlled testing environments, exposing real-world vulnerabilities across operating systems and enterprise infrastructure. The hosts examine how rapidly increasing model capability is colliding with security readiness, and what this escalation means for competition across leading AI labs. (The Decode) Controlled Release and the Emergence of Gated AI Deployment Models — Anthropic's decision to limit access to Mythos reflects a broader shift toward security-first deployment strategies. Rather than prioritizing speed to market, companies are beginning to gate access, signaling a transition toward more controlled, compliance-aware AI rollouts. (The Decode) Meta's AI Offensive: Muse Spark Launches — Meta's first reasoning model from its Superintelligence Labs is now live across its consumer ecosystem, giving the company a direct distribution advantage while signaling that its infrastructure spending is beginning to translate into frontier-level model output. The hosts unpack what Muse Spark means for reasoning, multi-modal use cases, and the pressure it could put on closed-model pricing. (The Decode) Intel Joins Musk's 'Terafab' Mega-Project — Intel's involvement in Terafab gives real weight to its foundry comeback narrative and opens up a larger conversation about who will actually build tomorrow's AI manufacturing infrastructure. More than just a partnership, this could determine whether Intel becomes a central player in the next generation of AI chip production. (The Decode) Intel in Talks with Google and Amazon on Advanced Packaging — Advanced packaging is becoming a strategic layer in AI infrastructure as chiplets, memory, and interconnect design grow more complex. Pat and Dan unpack how Intel's reported talks with Google and Amazon suggest the company is moving beyond wafers and deeper into the system integration layer that hyperscalers increasingly need. (The Decode) Intel and SambaNova Launch Heterogeneous AI Inference Architecture — Intel and SambaNova are pairing GPUs, RDUs, and Xeon 6 CPUs into a heterogeneous inference blueprint aimed at demanding agentic AI workloads. The conversation focuses on why this matters for enterprise, sovereign, and cloud deployments, and how it reinforces Intel's effort to stay central in an increasingly mixed-compute future. (The Decode) Maine's Data Center Ban: Maine's proposed freeze on large data center construction turns infrastructure buildout into a political and local governance fight. The hosts connect this story to the broader backlash against AI infrastructure, making the point that land, water, energy, and community consent are becoming real constraints on hyperscaler ambition. (The Decode) Broadcom + Google + Anthropic Lock in Gigawatt-Scale TPU Capacity — This deal shows compute is no longer being treated like an on-demand utility. It's being secured like strategic infrastructure. Pat and Dan break down how gigawatt-scale TPU capacity, custom silicon collaboration, and Google's expanding role in the stack reshape the competitive map for frontier AI. (The Decode) Is AGI Really Here, Or Is This the Best Marketing in Tech History? — The debate on The Flip this week centers on whether Anthropic's Mythos behavior and OpenAI's claims around Spud signal a true AGI threshold, or whether the labs are using selective disclosures, gated releases, and ambitious framing to shape market perception before the technology actually meets a general intelligence standard. (The Flip) Iran Ceasefire Triggers $1.5 Trillion Relief Rally — Announcement of a fragile ceasefire drove one of the biggest market relief rallies of the year, while oil reversed sharply and investors rushed back into risk. The segment looks at what this says about geopolitical sensitivity, supply chain exposure, and how quickly macro conditions can reshape market sentiment. (Bulls & Bears) April 14 Semiconductor Tariff Deadline: The AI Supply Chain's Moment of Truth — With the Section 232 deadline approaching, the market is watching whether semiconductor tariffs are extended, softened, or escalated. Pat and Dan frame this as a major supply chain and pricing question that could affect chip economics, sovereign AI buildouts, and infrastructure costs across the rest of 2026. (Bulls & Bears) Samsung Q1 Guidance Signals Continued AI Memory Boom — Samsung's guidance reinforces the idea that the AI infrastructure cycle is still driving massive memory demand. The hosts use the company's quarterly results to read through pricing, margin recovery, and discuss whether the current memory upcycle is a short-term squeeze or part of a more durable AI supercycle. (Bulls & Bears) The Decode Anthropic Mythos https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-mythos-latest-ai-model-too-powerful-to-be-released-2026-4 OpenAI Spud https://happycapyguide.com/blog/openai-gpt-55-spud-pretraining-complete-agi-leap-2026 Meta Launches Muse Spark Reasoning Model https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-08/meta-debuts-first-ai-model-from-prized-superintelligence-group Intel Joins Musk's Terafab Mega-Project https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/intel-join-musks-terafab-mega-ai-chip-project-2026-04-07/ Intel in Talks with Google and Amazon on Advanced Packaging https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intel-reportedly-in-talks-with-google-and-amazon-over-advanced-packaging Intel and Sambanova Launch Heterogenous AI Inference Architecture https://sambanova.ai/press/sambanova-announces-collaboration-with-intel-on-ai-solution Maine's Lawmakers Propose Data Center Moratorium https://www.wsj.com/us-news/maine-data-center-ban-e768fb18 Broadcom + Google + Anthropic Lock in Gigawatt-Scale TPU Capacity https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute The Flip Is AGI Really Here — or Is This the Best Marketing in Tech History? FOR: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-mythos-latest-ai-model-too-powerful-to-be-released-2026-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6vYvk7R190 AGAINST: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/anthropic-mythos-ai-model-preview-security/ Bulls and Bears Iran Ceasefire Triggers $1.5 Trillion Relief Rally https://fortune.com/2026/04/08/markets-sp-trump-truce-ceasefire-iran-war-rally-strait-of-hormuz/ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/30/stock-market-today-live-updates.html April 14 Semiconductor Tariff Deadline: The AI Supply Chain Moment of Truth https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/adjusting-imports-of-semiconductors-semiconductor-manufacturing-equipment-and-their-derivative-products-into-the-united-states/ https://www.z2data.com/insights/the-section-232-semiconductor-tariff-explained Samsung Q1 Guidance Signals Continued AI Memory Boom https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-announces-earnings-guidance-for-first-quarter-2026 https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/samsung-flags-eight-fold-jump-q1-profit-ai-chip-demand-drives-up-prices-2026-04-06/ https://www.wsj.com/tech/samsung-forecasts-record-first-quarter-operating-profit-d85414ac  

It's another loose Silly Saturday on the Proper True Yarn Podcast packed with outrageous listener stories, unfiltered banter, and absolute chaos. From backyard spud gun disasters to a brutal “Ring of Fire” yarn that'll have you wincing, nothing is off limits.We dive into ridiculous would-you-rather questions, share some of the funniest (and most cooked) call-ins yet, and wrap it up with a wild New Zealand pig hunting story that proves things can go sideways real quick in the bush.If you love Australian humour, hunting stories, pub yarns, and uncensored comedy podcasts, this episode is for you.

Anthropic filtró por error los documentos de su modelo más potente y OpenAI prepara el suyo en paralelo. Mythos y Spud son sus próximos modelos y también son la señal de que la IA ya no es solo una herramienta de productividad. * * * Loop Infinito, podcast de Xataka, de lunes a viernes a las 7:00 (hora peninsular española). Presentado por Javier Lacort. Editado por Alberto de la Torre. * * * Contacto: [lacort@xataka.com](mailto:lacort@xataka.com), @lacort en X.

In this episode of Gangland Wire, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence detective Gary Jenkins sits down with former drug trafficker Carlos Perez for a direct, unfiltered discussion about the evolution of the drug trade in America. Carlos has a new book out titled Pedro Pan: The Product of a Revolution Gone Bad The conversation opens with recent controversy surrounding the reported death of  the Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader El Mencho, and what that development signals for the balance of power among modern Mexican cartels. From there, Gary and Carlos trace the arc of the drug trade from the Caribbean smuggling routes of the 1970s and 1980s to the dominance of today's cartel-controlled corridors. Carlos reflects on the era of Ronald Reagan and the early “War on Drugs,” describing a time when enforcement was uneven and smugglers routinely exploited weak regulatory environments in places like the Bahamas. He explains how traffickers adapted faster than policymakers, using maritime routes, small aircraft, and coordinated pickup operations to move multi-ton quantities of narcotics. Gary and Carlos contrast those earlier days with modern interdiction efforts—advanced Coast Guard surveillance, satellite tracking, military-grade radar, and cross-border intelligence sharing. What was once opportunistic smuggling has evolved into highly structured cartel logistics supported by corrupt officials and narco-state dynamics. Carlos provides a candid account of his own rise in the trade. Starting as a construction laborer, he moved into pickup crews retrieving floating bales of drugs in open water. Over time, he became involved in larger-scale operations involving aircraft and organized distribution networks. He details the operational mechanics, the risks, and the constant calculation between profit and prison—or worse. The discussion also explores the blurred lines between political authority and cartel influence. Carlos explains how governments in certain regions became intertwined with trafficking operations, illustrating how power, money, and violence intersect across borders. In the second half of the episode, Carlos shifts to a personal reckoning. He discusses the moral compromises required in the drug trade and the toll it takes on family and identity. Ultimately, he chose to step away, prioritizing stability and long-term survival over fast money. Now living a legitimate life, Carlos has documented his journey in his book Pedro Pan: The Product of a Revolution Gone Bad, offering readers a firsthand account of smuggling culture, Cuban heritage, revolution-era influences, and the psychological weight of that world. His story reflects both personal accountability and a broader commentary on the human side of organized crime. This episode blends law enforcement perspective with insider testimony, giving listeners a rare dual lens: the cop who chased traffickers and the man who once outran them. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Transcript [0:00] Hey, all you wiretappers, Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence [0:03] Unit detective. It’s great to be back here in the studio. It’s a cold day in Kansas City, Missouri, but we’re going to talk to a warm state and with a man that lives in that warm state, Carlos Perez. Welcome, Carlos. How are you doing, Gary? Doing good? Yeah, I’m doing good. A little cold, and I know it’s much warmer down there. We talked about that. Carlos was involved in the drug business, which is quite topical right now, especially today. Now, this won’t come out today, but as of over the weekend, the Mexican government arrested the El Mencho, the head of that, I can’t remember the name of that cartel. It was a Western Mexico, the state of Jalisco cartel. And somehow he got killed on the way to Mexico City as they’re transporting him. And his guys, the cartel members, are going crazy. Carlos, let’s talk about that a little bit, about this new war on drugs. When I was in Ronnie Reagan’s war on drugs, it was different than it is now. Now we have this new war on drugs with blowing drug boats out of the water. And this guy dies on the way to the bigger jail. Well, let’s talk about that a little bit. Carlos, how would you, as a former drug trafficker, how do you react to that? [1:18] The laws change. And the more that the smugglers change, the more that the system to catch them changes also. In fact, when you’re talking about Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs, there was quite a few things that allowed the smugglers to succeed. One was, most of it, and I’m talking Caribbean now, most of it was going through the Bahamas. The Bahamas had laws at that time where anything governmental was not allowed to land nor dock a boat anywhere in the Bahamas without the permission of the Bahamian government. Which, by the time they got to wherever, if they reacted, if they were advised of some drugs coming in, it would take them a long time to react. I think they had two boats for all the islands that had to travel back and forth. You never, you couldn’t, they couldn’t, the DEA, the Coast Guard, they couldn’t catch you. [2:12] And when you fly a plane in, you just land anywhere and say hello to the DEA as they’re flying by because they can’t land. And therefore, you score the load that you have. Nowadays, Jesus God Almighty, now you’ve got the Coast Guard out there. You’ve got the Coast Guard citation constantly flying, plus Navy. But you couldn’t get it done. And back in those days, that’s the way it was done. It was the Bahamas played a huge part. The prime minister of the Bahamas was so heavily, even though he never. [2:42] Did any time or anything he was heavily involved he took payoffs to left left and right the whole the situation is completely different now you got AWACS flying overhead that can hear you when you’re in the bathroom anybody here’s my opinion on that I want to know who in the hell was in charge of sending those boats out of Venezuela that after the first one got blown up who was telling them to keep sending boats over now if maduro this is my theory if maduro was smart he would have stopped that if he was really the one in charge he would have gone god you got to make me look better you can’t keep doing it that tells me he was not in charge of the shit okay so there’s someone behind that kept going send them we got to see if we can score keep the score, i don’t know how he kept doing that that was to me that was such a stupid move especially when you You see that you’ve got half of America’s Navy sitting on your doorstep, and you keep trying to send drugs. What are you, nuts? The Pacific, they should have gone over to the Pacific, where there’s less surveillance, and maybe run it up the Pacific coast by land. [3:53] Okay. Try to get it into Mexico by land. Because back in the day, Mexico was not really involved at all in that. It was the Caribbean. And then when the Colombian cartel, which was Medellin cartel, when they stopped losing so many loads, they started to go to Mexico. And through Mexico, they just flew small planes, landed in the woods somewhere in Mexico, and then they moved it up. That was not – you weren’t doing that in the Caribbean by that time. And talking about Reagan’s war on drugs, I had two – this is the sideline. I had two little boats coming in from the Bahamas that had marijuana on them. [4:35] I still got to laugh at this freaking idiot. One of them, they were coming in from – Bimney’s only 47 miles away. You can almost do it on the fumes of a gas tank. This guy forgot to gas up. Coming over, he gets stopped by the Marine Patrol, right? As they’re searching him, the other boat had gone through but was wondering where his partner was, and he goes back to see where the guy is. [5:01] How’s that for – anyway, they get them both. It was a total of about 1,200 pounds. That had come from Jamaica, that’s about –, And the vice president, who was Bush, was at the Coast Guard dock when they were unloading the boats. And I was sitting there watching, going, damn, they look like my boats. And when I investigated, it was a—but that was one little incident that had happened. But the difference between yesterday, yesteryear, and now is chronologically things change. They trump the other everybody that was a president or that that had something to do with stopping the trade with drugs never really stuck their foot in deep to stop it it makes me feel like yeah you’re not really you’re talking a lot but you’re not really doing much because if i was a cop my god i usually i’d have had all kinds of medals from stopping these people because it’s an easy thing but no one really had the interest who was involved economically up the top god and only In the Bahamas, I knew who it was. It was the prime minister. Knew his people real well. In the States, everything changes every couple of years. And you don’t know what they’re thinking, what their process of thought is to try to stop this. You know what it was? None. They didn’t try. Okay, they did not try. [6:22] There used to be, oh God, probably about two or three DC-3s a night landing in Bimini, 47 miles away. Okay? Each one of them had 10,000 pounds on it. The boats were running up the river, the Miami River. Once you get inside on a river, inside land, you pretty much already scored. That changed. Then it went to freighters, fast boats going out, picking up, coming in. Then when the United States stopped that, when they declared, we’re going to be able to stop any boat anywhere in international waters. You couldn’t do it back then. [7:02] When that ended then you began with the airplanes the airplanes would take it this is still back when you when the US or any governmental agency could not, set foot in the Bahamian territory, Bahamian waters, without the prime minister’s knowledge. The prime minister’s involved. You’re not going to get it. It’s not going to happen. So that change, and it went to small airplanes. Fly it in anywhere you want in the Bahamas, and then get your boats, and from there on in, try to see what you’re thinking, your process of thought is going to be to get it from the Bahamas, some of the shorter points to the States and to Miami at that point. One of them for me was easy. And that was because I had information on the Miami tower and where in the hell everything was at any point in time. So I would sit and wait for my messenger to get back to me, to tell me where the smoker was, which was the big Coast Guard boat and where the citation was. Once I knew that, I knew I could come across. And the only thing I was going to run into was fishermen. [8:10] So things changed. And then they allowed things change after that. And obviously they were allowed to go into the Bahamas and do whatever they wanted. But that was when Pinland was finally out. I don’t know who the prime minister became after that, but it changed. And now it became, this is why I think that the cartels were stupid. They, instead of doing as much as you could without getting noticed, they started bringing in loads of 10,000 and 20,000 kilos. I was like, God, what the hell do they get all that? I know where they get it, but since I know how the situation goes, I want to know how they amass it and get it onto one boat or one container or whatever and not have it noticed. That’s just way too much to not notice at one point or another. People get edgy around shit like that. In other words, I could take two people and put them in front of a container and separate them and tell one of them, that’s full of drugs, and then tell the other one, no, that’s full of furniture. And then stand both of them there and see who gets nervous. [9:16] It’s human nature. It’s human nature. If you know something bad is going on, to feel it and to react. Why they did that, I don’t know. I was one of the ones, if not the only one, that was sent to Mexico to teach them how to put airstrips in the middle of the jungle, how to protect them, what to do with them, where to put potholes with certain rocks, get them out when they play in the stomach, put them back in when he’s done so if anyone else tries to land, they’re gone. But how it got so deep, I’ll never understand that. And I was pretty much in the beginning of smuggling as to notice chronologically how everything’s seen because I stayed for quite a while. Yeah. Now, Carlos, you’ve written a book about this. What’s the name of that book? The book is called Heisting the Beard. I just need the beard. The beard with a D, meaning Fidel Castro. Ah, interesting. Yeah, he’s just in Cubans when they go like this to their chin or they mention him and they mention him as the beard. He was heavily involved in the decision-making of Cuba running drones. [10:27] That book is about, oh, I ran into a guy. This is how this happens, which is really fun. I ran into a guy who I used to call him by the name of Banco. And he came and told me that he knew where there was a big load of drugs, jewels that they had pilfered from the ocean where they knew that shipwrecks have gone down. Because no one can dive around Cuba. And Cuba is a country that held all the gold before it went to Spain. Everything stopped there and went on. So he told me he knew where there was a warehouse that was holding that plus a lot of coke. And I had ways to get in. I have a friend who’s Bahamian, who was actually one of my partners, who’s from Ragged Island in the Bahamas. Ragged Island is maybe… [11:17] 20 miles off the Cuban coast, down on the eastern end of Cuba. So it was easy for me to sneak in. Everyone thinks of Cuba as this military power, Russia’s buddy. They didn’t have shit. They couldn’t put a plane in the air. They didn’t have patrol boats. They had patrol boats, but I swear I could out-swim them. It was ridiculous to see at what point they were developed as far as a country. And it was like, everything is going downhill as today, and it keeps going downhill. So I would sneak in on a Zodiac. [11:53] And I’d hit the coast, middle of the night. No one would see me. I speak perfect Spanish. I speak a Cuban dialect. So I wasn’t going to get caught by it because I looked like a black bean in a pot of white rice. It wasn’t going to be like that. So we figured out where everything was, and we went in and took a little look. And got awake after a lot of headaches, but we were able to do that. There’s other instances where there’s an airport right next to Havana called the Varadero Airport, and it’s a military airport. And I know that they were holding a lot of cocaine that was going in there. The reason I know that is because hearsay in the streets in Miami, you go drink a little Cuban coffee somewhere, you hear assholes talking garbage, and they would say that they were getting boats ready to go to Cuba to bring in whatever they had. So it’s not really why they make it a mystery as to why they were involved. If you think logically, let’s say you leave Colombia and you’re doing business with Cuba. Wouldn’t it be safe to just, oh, you’re chasing me, let me land in Cuba and I got no problem, not because they don’t want you here, but they want me here. That’s logically speaking. So why that… [13:11] That mystery among people that they weren’t involved. What are you, crazy? Not only that, recently, you might have seen it, they’ve had a Carlos Leder Riva. Okay. [13:27] Carlos, can you say that over again? It just zeroed out to say that over again. After you said Carlos Leder. Leder Rivas. Yeah. Now, whatever you said after that, say that over again. [13:45] Carlos Lerder Rivas recently has done some interviews on the drug trade. He did a lot of time in the States over the Norman’s Key transporting point where all the coke would go there. And then, like I told you before, they fly it into the Bahamas and then over into the States. He recently has been on saying how he was personally involved with Raul Castro. I have no doubt about that. I knew him personally. i flew a couple times into that island where it was transported out so i know what he was told the reason i also know that is everybody has this pablo escobar myth in their head he was neither the boss and he was neither the money man the money people were the ochoas the military his might and his force did not come from him and his mouth that he could do this and that it comes from rodriguez gacha who had a 2 000 man private army and he was one of the members of the cartel and they never tell you who started it all and it was carlos letter rivas he was the one that started the cartel he’s the one that wanted to be on in the colombian parliament and was looking for votes escobar is he was a he was a late comer into all that stuff the only reason they put him out there that I can understand is because they just wanted to figure out that they could knock the hell out of later on. [15:09] Okay? Because when he started fighting against Los Pepes, which was that organization that got together to try to kill Pablo, Pablo reversed it on those guys. He got rid of almost all of them, but it wasn’t him. It was Rodriguez. [15:24] Rodriguez gotcha. He’s the one. And he was involved in the Emerald business before he got into the coke business. He was the guy, let me tell you what, when Pablo was around, and I only saw that once, when Pablo was around Gacha, okay, this was down in La Guajira, in the high desert in Colombia. When he was around Gacha, you could tell that he was subordinate. He was scared. He was like, damn, if I mess up with this guy, he’ll take my head off. [15:53] So people really have the whole story, Pablo, Pablo, my, you know what, Pablo, my ass. There’s a lot of people who you had to have money to do those things yeah and in those days they were strong enough because of the ochoas well they could gather big loads a thousand two thousand keys and put it all together but as time went on chronologically that shit changed okay i can remember once getting a load where it had it damn you they labeled it they labeled everyone One had one name, one had the other So what they were doing at that time Was it got so tough on them Because of Pablo’s big mouth And because of his, I’m going to take over Blowing up a plane Doing a few other attacking parliament All those things You couldn’t put those loads together To me there’s no cartels anymore To me they’re government Narco systems You. [16:55] The Mexican government is definitely involved with the cartels. And as you saw, we went after a cartel in Venezuela, but the head of the cartel was the Venezuelan government. So what they are is narco states now. And you know how hard it is to attack or to deal with a narco state? Now you’re dealing with a government entity that has a lot of power. It’s a completely different ballgame. And Venezuela themselves, including Cuba, had a diplomatic immunity flying into different countries with the drugs. And they could put a load of cocaine on and fly into Spain, and they had no problem with it. And they were doing those kind of things, I would say, recently, like within the last 10 or 15 years. Maybe even since Maduro has been there, which is about 20 years, that they’ve been doing that. Really, the United States can get information on anything they want. They had this information but couldn’t do anything about it. [17:57] So chronologically, everything changes. Back in the beginning, let me tell you, the first time I made a little money was hauling some marijuana with old Touch Brown from the Everglades. And I worked like a Hebrew slave for four days in the swamp hauling bails from marijuana and into the into the everglades and then over into miami and it was completely different game and you know what they didn’t cheat me for one penny they didn’t cheat me for one penny and how much came in 40 tons on one of the boats yeah it was 80 000 pounds on a freighter and we worked like little like slaves and they paid me like two weeks later, they paid me $2. I’ll tell you that story in a minute. You asked me a while ago how I got started. Should I answer that, or you got another question you want for me? No, go ahead. How’d you get started in that? You started out as a grunt, as we say in the military. You started out as a low-end worker, a guy that transports bales. What did you do? You started saving your money up, and you knew where the connections were, and finally you You bought your own load and just kept getting bigger and bigger. [19:11] In a sense, yeah, it wasn’t drastic. When I came in, here’s the story. I’m in Texas. My mom calls me up and tells me I have an uncle who’s in Texas. He wants to see me. I get together with him, and he’s driving a brand-new Cadillac. This is a guy who, two and two to him is 22. I know he’s my uncle, but he’s a dumb son of a bitch. [19:35] He’s telling me that he’s got a, you know what a roach coach is? Yeah. with those construction things with food. He tells me he has a red smoke in Miami and that he bought a house, got a house, he’s doing really good. And I looked at him and I said, bro, you’re the one that’s crushed. You’re the wetback. I came on a plane a long time ago. He’s telling me stories. What’s going on here? So anyway, he tells me and I say to him, get me a job. I was working as a carpenter in Houston. Straight out of college, I’m banging nails. I said, God damn, I’m banging nails. but I got an education here. What’s going on? So anyway, I loaded up in Houston. I head and I end up in Coconut Grove working for one of the bosses. My job was $500 a week and I had to go and sleep on his yacht about 7 p.m. And by 6 in the morning when the workers started coming in, just go. That went on for about four or five months and I finally said, let me make some real money because I saw he was still moving and doing things economically economically moving forward, and I was sleeping on a boat. So he finally gets me an interview with two of the bosses. And this is a building in Miami that was called the DuPont Plaza building. [20:52] And so we go to the meeting, and I’m talking to the two guys. One of them, they called him El Coronel, and the other one, El Colorado. The Colonel and Red. They were the ones that were handling it. And this was, by the way, this was marijuana, coming from Colombia at that time. So we go in there, and he tells me, no problem. I’ll pay you $2 a pound. Now, understand that at that time, at that point in time, my mind is in Jersey and New York. And if you’re moving 20 pounds from one place to the other, it’s a lot. You’re not dealing with loads at that time. We’re talking, what, 1977 in New York? And I looked at him, I said, you’re fucking crazy. You think I’m going to risk my ass for $2 a pound? Even if it’s 300 pounds, that’s $600. Are you fucking nuts? [21:45] My uncle grabbed me by the shirt, stood me up and said, excuse me. Walked me outside and said, listen, there’s 40 tons coming in. You want the job or not? I went back in. I apologized to you guys. I said, no problem. I will go to work. From that point on, there wasn’t, that’s just, was right about at the end of the big freighters. And so now my uncle invites me to go to Bimini because he had a friend there and they were going to do some job. I don’t know. When we go, I end up running into a younger guy, Bahamian, and I became partners with him. We call him Dreamer. And I said, look, if you can set things up over here and gather up whatever materials you can gather up, I’ll come and get it and we’ll be partners. At that time, a lot of freighters and a lot of boats were being chased by the Coast Guard and what they would do is they would drop, they would dump it overboard. Oh yeah. Ergo the, what they call it, the square grouper. [22:44] Yeah, I’ve heard that before. Bales were floating everywhere. You could go out. So what he would do is he would go on a boat, find bales that were floating. He would call me up, and he would tell me, hey, I salvaged a 300-horsepower engine. Come and get it. I knew what the weight was, so I knew what kind of boat I had to take. So I bought an 18-foot formula. I dug out the hole in the bottom. I made a secret hole. What the what cubans call a clavo a clavo which is you’re hiding it underboard he called me up one day tells me there’s three he can get 300 pounds i left at eight in the morning was back in miami by 11 30 left at about 12 30 went back and picked up another load so in that first job we ended up making a couple hundred thousand dollars from there we bought a bigger boat, Now he started patrolling, All the area where the boats were coming in Because everything flows from the Gulf Down in this area, flows north The Gulf Stream goes north So everything’s going to float this way somehow. [23:54] We did that for probably a year Until one time, I was over there. We were going fishing, and we ran into a duffel bag. The duffel bag had 65 kilos in it that was just floating. At that time, it cost probably around $40,000 a kilo in Miami, let alone New York. We didn’t bother to take it up north. Sold it all in Miami. I used to say to myself, where in the hell does all this cash come from? Because they would pay. We made a lot of money that time. And then we had seen… Carlos, let me interject here. No, no. [24:38] You were making hundreds of thousands of dollars just by picking up cocaine and marijuana that had been thrown off other boats. So you didn’t even have to go buy it, really. You guys were just picking it up, the square groupers, and then putting it together and then bringing it to money. That’s crazy. You are an entrepreneur. You’re a guy that sees an opportunity and seizes it. Tell you what. And that’s exactly how it went, Gary. When we made that big chunk of money, we had seen how things were going because we knew that planes were coming in and landing. And they had whatever it is that they were hauling, either coke or marijuana. So with that amount of money, we bought a plane and I decided to become a pilot. I said, hell, we’re going to cut this down. I’ll fly. We’ll save money that way. And now we can talk to the people down in Jamaica or Columbia and say, hey, we’re coming together. We’re taking a responsibility. We’re not going to middle it. We’re not going to find it. We’re going to do the job. And it took off from there. [25:43] Took off real good from there. Eventually, I see that you are going to build in to have a legitimate life, become a horse breeder and a ranch owner and rub elbows with all the kind of the muckety mucks, if you will, down there in Florida. So tell us about that transition and how did your life change during that time? [26:04] I had a family. I had four kids by then. And I knew that I was in a business where the chances were threefold. I either score or I die or I go to jail. And I didn’t like any of those odds at that time. I was like, you know what? I’ve made enough money. I got a small little ranch out here. I don’t need to do anything. And I decided that was it. I don’t need to be doing this anymore. I’m set. And I’m the kind of person, I’m set with what I mathematically calculate. I’m not like I need almost $20 million. I calculated it to where I knew I could be comfortable. And talking about the mucks and the big famous guys, I had lunch with Sam Walton one time. How did you do that? [26:59] I was at his, his daughter, Nancy Walton, Laurie was heavily into the horse. And by that time I was into horses also. So we used to, I used to show them all over the country and we were in, in Illinois at a horse show. And the setup that his daughter used to put out there was unbelievable. It was like, whew, she really put out a spread. And he happened to be there one time. And it wasn’t like I went and had lunch with him, but a few people sat around, ate a couple of grilled burgers. And that’s my story of Sam Wolfe, the richest man in the world at that time. And look who he’s having lunch with. how really i’ve noticed going to horse races that a lot of the support staff are all hispanic i think because hispanic people know how to deal with horses have an affinity affinity for horses, you’re absolutely right the barn work even me and who as far as the horses went i was a nobody i just had my own little stretch even my workers were mexican they just are good at it they’re very good at that. Interesting. They understand country life, too. Yeah. [28:10] So, what happened? You’re like, you’re going straight. You haven’t really done any time. Surely DEA, I know enough about them that they keep files, and they may not do anything about you now, but they know a lot about you, and they don’t forget. So, what happened here? You can’t feed the government. It’s an entity, not an individual. You know, one guy prosecutes you and he retires. That doesn’t mean your case is over. He hands it over to somebody else and it goes on and on. They didn’t get, I didn’t get caught doing anything. I had too many ways to outmaneuver them and not because I was smarter than anybody else. It’s because I had contact. I had a contact, like I told you, at the Miami Tower where I would call him and say, hey, I need to know where this was. He would call me back and let me know exactly when I could cross. [29:06] So it was a matter of, in my case, I didn’t play Russian roulette. I tried to put things on more of the positive end of it on my side but i’m so they arrested me for money because they thought i had too much first the irs came in and they started checking out the next thing i know is i’m being visited by by the fbi but it was alphabet soup when they showed up at their hotel yeah not the farm i was like what the hell are these guys doing here anyway they grabbed me took me in and i’ll give you a funny story and you used to be a policeman yes all They pick me up, and I say to the guy, the old James Cagney state, I’ll be home before you tonight. Yeah, I’ll be home. You’ll be still writing your report when I’m back home. You’ll still be filling out the paperwork, but I’ll be sitting at home. [29:58] So I played that act. And actually, I did get home pretty quick. I was able to call my lawyer. He actually called up the mayor of Fort Myers. His name was Wilbur Smith. And he was a lawyer also. And Wilbur is the one that got me. It happened to have been on a Friday, which meant if they didn’t work something out, I was going to sit my ass in the jail until Monday. When the judge comes up. But Wilbur got me out of it. Wait a minute. Wait till the dogs get, okay. Can you start that with Wilbur? Wilbur got me out of that when the dogs quit. Let’s see. [30:38] Anyway, Wilbur gets me out of it. I’m walking down the hall with Wilbur to go see the judge real quick. And he says to me, he goes, do you do drugs? Do you have any drugs on you? And I’m like, oh, Jesus. I don’t know. I smoke weed, but I don’t touch anything else. I never have. And he goes, so, okay, we’re okay with that. And in my pocket. I had a joint in my pocket. I pull it out and I go, here. Oh, Jesus Christ, put that back. Oh, Wilbur. Oh, Wilbur’s shit when he saw that. But anyway, I was home. I was home that night. Now, here’s another funny story. I had a, along with this story, I had a maid at the house at the farm. And she was Brazilian. And she was not a resident or anything. That girl took, when they came, went to pick me up. And they took me into, it was a U.S. Marshall. She took off running into the woods. and I’m talking deep Florida woods and when I got back home about an hour later she ends up showing up and I said what are you doing why did you take off like that I was scared they were going to deport me, if you were scared what do you think I was. [31:46] And when they showed up that one time when they showed up you could have sworn that they were picking up Pablo Escobar it was alphabet soup long guns long freaking guns not just People holding their little long guns. Yeah. And I’m like, all this for me? Really? And you know what it is? It’s not long before that happened. They had called me in to do a polygraph. [32:14] The FBI did. I had no problem because they were trying to associate me with the head of the Indian cartel in America, the guy that handled everything, including the money. You might have, did you see Cocaine Cowboys Kings of Miami? Yeah, I did. Okay. The one guy, George Valdez, that was pretty much testifying against the other guys that he said he helped. Like how can you you’re snitching right in front of everybody bro anyway he i had a farm next to his, and the next thing i know because i guess they tried to associate me with him i had nothing to do with him next thing i know the fbi is calling me out they do a polygraph even my lawyer said don’t do the polygraph it’s not mandatory said i got nothing to hide now they told me they were going to ask me about horses they ended up asking me everything except horses until i finally yeah took those things off my fingers i pulled them off and i said this is done and i left not long after that is when they swatted in i was like jesus god who do they think they’re picking up here i’m just a in in uh in sense i’m still even if they know everything i’m still a grunt, I’m working for you. It’s not like I’m Mr. Put-it-together shit. You call me up, hey, we got a job. You want it? Yes or no? But it was unbelievable. [33:41] I went to jail. I did some time in jail. When I got out, I never once again really, even though I got 100 phone calls about you want to go to work, you want to listen to that, I never really thought about it again. My kids were growing up. The youngest one was six or seven by then. And they had suffered because I was gone. Yeah. And I didn’t like that. That made me feel like shit. [34:10] It just, it got to the point where when I was working, I looked at everything economically. Hey, this is what I’ll be able to have. Once you have what you want, economics is bullshit if that’s what you’re working for, because you already have it. Yeah. And when I got out, my thoughts were completely different. My thoughts were that the money is not going to solve any issues I may have. Physically, maybe. Mentally, no. mentally, I’ve got to learn how to deal with a little bit of reality here and figure out who is affected by my actions. And the people that were affected by my actions were people that were close to me. And I didn’t enjoy that. I didn’t enjoy that at all. It made me double take. It made me go inside and do a lot of things. [35:04] So from that point on, I really didn’t know what to do. And so I have a friend who is a big-time producer in Hollywood. We grew up together in Jersey, who told me, wow, you’ve got a lot of stories. You should start writing. I never thought about writing. So I started putting down ideas. I wrote a book. I wrote a bunch of political essays on what was going on in Cuba. See, I grew up in a revolutionary family. My father was in intelligence, and my uncle trained the troops that were going to go to the Bay of Pigs, among other incursions into Cuba. So I came over, I’m six years old. I’m a Peter Pan kid. I don’t know if you know what that is. Now, what is that? You’ve mentioned that before. What is that? Tell the guys. Peter Pan is, it’s not a good translation because it has nothing to do with Peter Pan. In Spanish, it’s Pedro Pan and had to do with a little kid eating some bread or whatever. But in 1960, the Catholic Church got together and decided to send the children out of Cuba so they wouldn’t suffer the wraths of the revolution. In essence, 14,000 kids were put on planes and sent into the States. I was one of them. Wow. I ended up in Miami. [36:27] I was one of them, and I was actually one of the lucky ones because I had family in Miami at that time, so I was able to stay with them. My parents were still back in Cuba applying to leave. Back then, they called the freedom flights. So a lot of those kids though they were sent some of them were sent to alaska montana wyoming really they were dispersed all over through families that were willing to help and and keep them until their parents came so i was one of them that grew up because of my father and my uncle the conversation most of the time if not all the time was around cuba and his freedom so the revolution at that time is going really strong in New Jersey. There’s a family in New Jersey by the name, the last name is Cook. [37:17] And they owned a big factory called Cook, Color, and Chemical. They were very wealthy people, but evidently they lost a lot of land or investments in Cuba. So they were willing to help the revolution and the revolutionaries. They had a big farm in this small little town called Hope. And that little town, you had all the Cuban revolutionaries up there getting ready. I’m talking about going into the woods with every kind of equipment you could think of. And they were training to go to Cuba. Now, here I am, six, seven years old. And I’m running around the woods with these maniacs. They would dress me in camouflage and tell me I was the next generation of Cuban revolutionaries. And I’m like, what the fuck is this guy talking? I didn’t. I was having a good time with all these guys. [38:06] And it ended up being that the new york times caught wind that there were these crazy cubans. [38:12] In the woods in jersey and they had to move their operations down to florida but about what happened in jersey in jersey the mafia at that time they were all involved with the kennedy and the prior to the assassination and everything that was going on they thought that the cubans did it they thought to the mafia. They didn’t know who did it. But there was a get-together one time. I was probably about seven or eight years old, and it was a dove shoot where they had a thousand doves, and they would all line them up and let some of them go, and then they would do a big dove fricassee. But that meeting, I just remember the names because I was being introduced, the son of, and this is Mr. Spud. The names never left me. One of them was Santos Traficante, who was the head of the mafia in in in tampa the other one was fat tony salerno who was the head of the mafia in new york there was my mom’s cousin who was an fbi uh agent and a bunch of other guys that looked exactly like him they dressed exactly like him well i could pick you out of a barrel boy and a lot of these other i grew up in the jersey new york area so i know what tough guys act especially of the Italian guys. So there was a bunch of them walking around like they could take on the world. And this is part of my life. I’m a young person doing it. I really don’t know what’s going on, but I’m picking up on all this stuff. [39:40] They moved to Florida. I’m away from all that stuff for a while. But my parents regularly go to Florida for a visit, for vacation. So every year, I’m running into my uncle and the things that he’s doing, what’s going on. [39:57] And so the life never mentally never leaves me. I’m always, I’m always hearing next year in Havana, we’re going to get them, all this nonsense. So the years go on and on and the situation, you wonder how the smuggling game got started. The smuggling games basically, and I saw a report on this not long ago, some lady reporting on it. You had a lot of educated men that were involved in the revolution that wanted to get their country done. The U.S. government, Secret Service at the ICIA, whoever they may be, cut off the funds when all the bullshit with Cuba was done. You’re not allowed to leave from U.S. soil if we cut you with any arms headed down. And they caught a lot of these Cubans trying to go to Cuba on little boats with all kinds of armament. They didn’t do shit to them. Okay, they just slapped them on the head and don’t do that. But it got to the point where the government was not funding that part of the Cuban Revolution anymore. What do a bunch of college-educated, university-educated men do? [41:06] They’re going to go work at the Fountain Blue? My father worked at the Fountain Blue when he first got to Miami. And there was water fountains that said whites, blacks, and Cubans. He was still trying to drink. It’s like my mother used to tell me. I didn’t know I was white until I got to this country. And now all of a sudden we have white Spanish, white this, white this. It’s ridiculous. So these men were not going to go to work with a little bacon with a little Cuban coffee. They have all these contacts all through Central and South America because of the revolution. So who becomes the primary smugglers? [41:44] Yes, the Cuban revolutionaries. And that’s how smuggling was started in the Caribbean. I’m involved with all these people because of my father and my uncle. My legacy is I can get right in. I don’t have to prove anything to anybody. And that’s how I got to my uncle and him giving me the job with the guy. No, that nonsense. So it’s like the grateful dad said, what a long, strange trip it’s been. It’s been. [42:13] So where are you at now with your life? [42:17] Right now, we’re putting together hopefully a TV show on basically my life, but my life in a novel way, not in a very direct memoir way. And I continue to write. I am married to a wonderful woman who actually led me down this path. I was sitting on my farm doing quite well. My wife at that time had passed away from pancreatic cancer. That’s a death sentence. Yeah, I’ve heard that. [42:52] I didn’t have a will, and everything was in her name because I wanted to protect the family. Yeah. So when she dies, everything’s gone. I’m not knowing which way to turn here. I was 50, 70 years old. I thought I was going to be relaxing and fishing every day, and it didn’t work out that way. I was going downhill like a sled in a snowstorm, boy. I was going to hit eventually. I don’t know what bottom would have been, but I knew there wouldn’t be good. And I ran into a wonderful woman who led me down the road of, we’ve got to write, we’ve got to do this. And she is my manager, and we eventually got married. And sometimes things are tough, but they’re a whole lot better than getting that bottom. Yeah, really. Better than you’re out of jail. You’re not in jail. Not there anymore. What a long, strange trip it’s been for Carlos J.C. Perez. [43:57] I want to know how strange it gets to the point where the DEA comes to me to get information. And I’m like, you guys got to be kidding me. I always knew that when you’re in law enforcement, you depend on information. You go wherever you think the source is, that’s for sure. You think you can get something out of them. Exactly. They ended up being great, by the way. Great guys. Super nice guys. Okay? And if I said any different, I’d be lying. [44:28] But it doesn’t sound like you ever particularly worked for them. You didn’t go back in undercover for them either. No, no, I didn’t do that. Luckily, when I was doing the stuff that I was doing, it wasn’t out. It wasn’t a guns and roses type deal. I don’t ever remember collecting any money or doing anything where I had to have a gun on it. I’ll give you a little tidbit of something that just happened recently. I had to go into a government and reinstate my license or something like that. The lady’s going through it. She comes up with a ticket that I got in 19—now, I’m talking in the year 2000 and probably 14. She comes up with a ticket that I got in 82. It was a ticket. Yeah. The ticket was for $52. Two different tickets, 26 each. Okay. Yeah. You know what that ticket was for? I had come in from the Bahamas in the hull of the boat. I had 800 pounds. The Marine Patrol pulls me over and says, let me see what you got. They go through the whole thing. He finds two lobsters that I had in the live $26 per lobster. I got the ticket. The guy never checked the boat, never did anything. And I got in with 800 pounds, which at that time was like a quarter million bucks. [45:50] Oh my God. Life is funny, man. Life is funny. Life is funny. That’s for sure. All right. Carlos Perez. Now the name of the book and guys, I will, I will have a link in the show notes to it. Remind me of the name of the book, Carlos. Pedro Pan. Pedro Pan, as in Peter Pan. And Ron is bred in Spanish. So there’s something to think about the little magical character, Peter Pan. Not a thing. Not a thing. And it’s a product of a revolution gone bad, which basically is me. I’m an unfortunate product of that. Revolution. You’re back around now. You’re contributing to society. That’s the only thing that’s important in the end. Hey, I have a quick question. Did you ever hear of a book called The Corporation written by a guy named T.J. English? Oh, hell yeah. Read it from cover to cover. As a matter of fact, I know the guy. [46:46] What’s his name? Batista? Was it Jorge Batista? No, Battle. Battle, yeah. As a matter of fact, I know the guys that own the manuscript. Okay tj what’s his name what’s his last name tj english english the only thing he did was write the book off of the notes that they had gotten from a guy that i know his name is tony gonzalez tony gonzalez has another partner by the last name of freitas and what they did was they investigated battle over the years and years and and then somehow ran into english because he had written a couple of books on Cuba. And then T.J. English ended up writing that. And by the way, Battle took the New York mafia and put it on its knees. Yeah, I did a story on the book. And that’s true. He had to get permission. Actually, he had to get permission from back in the 60s from Fat Tony Salerno, and they couldn’t get an approval until Traficante stepped in and said, work with him. And what the hell were they doing then? They were killing each other. They were blowing up their little bolita houses and all that. Oh, that was crazy. But you know what? He was never any kind of a Cuban mafia boss. [48:05] He liked to fight chickens and play the numbers. The Cubans don’t really have a mafia per se. They’re too splintered. And in the mafia, you’ve got to go ask permission to do this and that. These crazy guys, they don’t ask anybody permission for anything. [48:19] Interesting that’s a that’s an interesting world that’s a whole different world that cuban, You’ve got the revolution on one side, the Castro revolution, and then you’ve got the anti-revolution against Castro that’s been going on all these years. And in the middle of it, you’ve got some of these people that were kicked out of Cuba that can’t get jobs and they only want you to work as a waiter or something. And so you go into business and the best business going with your connections is the drug business. And so it’s just a really interesting millage, if you will, or mix of people and situations down in the southwest part or southeast part of the United States. Oh, yeah, you’re right. It is a millage of like, how does this work? [49:04] There’s no sense to it sometimes. No, that’s for sure. I guess I’m glad they weren’t blowing boats out of the water. They might have got you back then. I can’t tell you what. They wouldn’t have dared because I would have said, I said, why don’t you do that? Oh, you get somebody else to do it. Yeah, probably what would have saved my ass anyway is that I have never, ever been money hungry. My family in Cuba, my great-grandfather was a sugar baron. And I’ve heard all the stories about all the money, but I’ve yet to see a penny. [49:36] I don’t work that way. I grew up with a bunch of humble people. And it wasn’t, damn sure, it wasn’t about money. And when I’m young, I’m not thinking like that. But now at my age, I go, wow, man, if I knew then, what do I know now? Yeah, really. All right, Carlos. Thanks a lot for coming on the show. I really appreciate it. No, no problem, Gary. Thanks for having me on. Okay.

Can you vibe code a $1.8 billion company with AI? Sam Altman predicted the one-person billion-dollar startup, and with MedVi, it might've just happened. Today on AI For Humans, we break down the story everyone in AI is talking about: two brothers vibe coded a $1.8 billion company called MedVi, running on GLP-1 supplements with $70 million in profit and a $1 million donation to an animal shelter.  Sam Altman predicted the one-person billion-dollar startup two years ago and now it's real. Greg Brockman weighs in on what this means for the AI hard takeoff.  Plus, Google drops Gemma 4 with small open models built for phones, laptops, and desktops. Qwen 3.6 arrives as another strong open-source contender. We've got updates on Qwopus, Turbo-Quant, and on-device AI's wild future.  We follow up on the Claude Code leak with Anthropic confirming it was human error, and the /buddy tamagotchi feature is now live. Plus, Seedance 2.0 rolls out to more platforms with some incredible new prompts to try. TWO PEOPLE JUST VIBE CODED A BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY. THE HARD TAKEOFF ISN'T COMING. IT'S HERE. Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/   // Links // Two Brothers Built a $1.8 Billion AI Company (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/technology/ai-billion-dollar-company-medvi.html Sam Altman Predicted the One-Person Billion Dollar Startup Two Years Ago https://x.com/alexisohanian/status/2039711886384722106?s=20 Not Everyone Thinks This Is a Good Thing https://x.com/pitdesi/status/2039725523849593241?s=20 Greg Brockman on Spud and the Hard Takeoff https://youtu.be/J6vYvk7R190?si=QY-YSdvRwOEmADQN OpenAI Raises $122 Billion in Cash https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai/ Gemma 4: Google's Best Open Models for On-Device AI https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/ Qwen 3.6: New Open-Source Model From Alibaba https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2039705104723611829?s=20 Claude Code Leak Follow-Up: Anthropic Confirms Human Error https://x.com/bcherny/status/2039210700657307889?s=20 Claude Code /Buddy Is Now Live https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2039424476262355294?s=20 April Fools' Fake Post About the Leak Being Fake Goes Viral https://x.com/Harish_521/status/2039544042980356505?s=20 Grok Gets the Puka Nakua Rehab Story Completely Wrong https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2039500653425483829?s=20 HeyGen x Seedance 2.0 Integration https://x.com/HeyGen/status/2039628911727030360?s=20 Seedance 2.0 JSON Prompt Technique https://x.com/CharaspowerAI/status/2039704453784191201?s=20 Gavin's One-Shot Seedance 2.0 Result https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2039730049558139217?s=20

Greg Brockman is the President and co-founder of OpenAI. Brockman joins Big Technology to discuss OpenAI's product strategy, the rise of its coming super app, and why he believes AI is entering a new takeoff phase. Tune in to hear Brockman explain OpenAI's bet on the GPT reasoning model tree over video generation, what the "Spud" pre-training run means for upcoming models, and why he believes AGI is 70-80% achieved. We also cover the competitive landscape, the economics behind OpenAI's $110 billion infrastructure bet, and public skepticism toward AI. Hit play for one of the most revealing conversations yet about where AI is headed and what it means for everyone. Join our June 18 event here: https://luma.com/q1tngaw7https://luma.com/q1tngaw7 --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here's 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 46: Inside The Spud Goodman Radio Show #46 (Originally aired 12-7-2017) A total look under the hood of "The Hyperthymesia Episode". It featured legendary Rock 'n' Roll singer Pat Boone, actress Suzanne Somers (Three's Company) & actor Michael Zegen (Rescue Me/Marvelous Mrs. Mazel). The musical guest was Trees and Timber. Co-Host Gerald Holcolmb shares he suffers from Hyperthymesia, a condition where people remember every moment of their lives. Show staff doubt his claim and he is challenged to prove it. TV On Radio! Visit Spud's website at: spudgoodman.com

OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly releasing new models any day now.

This episode explores the fascinating intersection of psychic prediction, deception, and criminal schemes. Through the story of Lamont Cranston (The Shadow), we uncover how predictions can be manipulated, the importance of skepticism, and the real motives behind seemingly miraculous foresight.Unlock the secret behind predicting catastrophic crimes before they happen. In this episode, the legendary Shadow reveals how a psychic conspired to plan a city-wide terror—yet, it was all a clever fraud. Discover how visual deception and misdirection can mask the truth, and why understanding these tactics could save lives.You'll learn the fascinating story of Spud, the psychic who claimed to foretell disasters, and how Lamont Cranston exposed his scheme as a meticulously planned con. We break down the psychological tricks criminals use—like false predictions and fake supernatural power—to manipulate and frighten the public. Plus, uncover the real methods behind these so-called "predictions," revealing they are often just elaborate ruses for criminal gain.We also explore how law enforcement, with the Shadow's help, outwitted a gang of criminals who planned to sabotage the city's power grid — and how technology and human intuition teamed up to stop catastrophe in its tracks. This episode is perfect for anyone interested in criminal psychology, deception, and the power of careful observation.Failing to recognize these tricks could leave cities vulnerable to chaos and destruction. But understanding the techniques criminals use to manipulate perception offers an invaluable advantage in protecting our communities. Whether you're a safety professional, a mystery enthusiast, or simply curious about how deception works, this story flips the script on what prediction really means.Join us for a gripping journey into the mind of a master manipulator turned hero. Intriguing, eye-opening, and essential for staying one step ahead of those who would do harm. Tune in now and see how the Shadow turned the tables on false prophets and dangerous criminals alike.

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Why AI-video didn't take off 2) Who wins now that OpenAI is shutting down Sora 3) The real reason OpenAI shut down Sora 4) What happens now that OpenAI and Anthropic are competing for similar AI assistant customers 5) Anthropic's new 'Capybara' model class is coming 6) OpenAI has a big new model called Spud in the works 7) Apple's Siri fix isn't much of a fix at all 8) Meta and Youtube lose a precedent-setting court case 9) Should Big Tech be liable for teen mental health? 10) Tech stocks tank 11) OpenAI shelves ChatGPT adult mode, probably forever --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here's 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OpenAI killed Sora, cancelled Spicy Chat, and went all in on enterprise and AGI. Their next frontier model is called Spud. Yes, like the potato.  This week on AI For Humans, we dig into OpenAI's massive pivot as they kill Sora entirely, cancel their Disney deal, shut down 'Citrus Mode', and go full defense mode against Anthropic. Their next hope? A new frontier model called Spud that Sam Altman says could accelerate the economy. Plus, Google drops Gemini 3.1 Flash Live with better audio and video agents, Google's new Lyra3 Pro model brings AI-generated music and audio, Mistral launches an open-source voice model, Runway debuts multi-shot video, Meta reveals TRIBE v2 which can predict your thoughts from brain scans, a fully autonomous ping-pong robot called SMASH, and CapCut is ready to grab all that Sora traffic. OPENAI CANCELLED THE FUTURE OF VIDEO. BET IT ALL ON A POTATO.  #ai #ainews #openai Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ // Show Links // OpenAI CEO Preps Spud: New Frontier AI Model Coming in Weeks https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-shifts-responsibilities-preps-spud-ai-model?rc=c3oojq&shared=2c9eeb0b22b15948 OpenAI Cancels Spicy Chat and Refocuses on Enterprise https://www.ft.com/content/de9bf0af-b241-424f-8229-5870b1c0d93d?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Sora Going Away Completely and Disney Deal Cancelled https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3e467ewqo CapCut Ready to Take Sora's Traffic https://x.com/capcutapp/status/2036943209956344181?s=20 Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Blog Post https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-live/ Google Lyra3 Pro: New AI Audio and Music Model https://x.com/Google/status/2036836307612119488?s=20 TurboQuant from Google Research https://x.com/GoogleResearch/status/2036533564158910740 Voxtral TTS Blog Post https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-tts Runway Multi-Shot Video App https://x.com/runwayml/status/2037170118669500537?s=20 Gavin's First Try With Runway Multi-Shot https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2037191271106961881?s=20 Meta TRIBE v2 Demo https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/ SMASH Project Page https://mmlab.hk/Smash/  

Has OpenAI ever had a more chaotic week than the past 7ish days?

Support the D.A.W.G.Z. @ patreon.com/MSsecretpod Support Billy & Spud @ https://www.patreon.com/WARMODE Watch 'TIRES' on Netflix Listen to 'Soder' and 'The Regz' Go See Dan Live @ https://www.dansoder.com/ Go See Matt Live @ mattmccusker.com/dates Go See Shane Live @ shanemgillis.com Go See Lemaire Lee Live @ https://lemairelee.fun/ Go See Shawn Gardini Live if you want  @  https://www.shawngardini.com/live Good morning. Happy Friday lol. We got your cast for you. From the Philadelphia Phaction. ShangHQ. We got half Gerbie half Sodie for you. 2+ hour long boy. Hope you all had a good week. Please enjoy. God Bless. Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/DRENCHED and use code DRENCHED and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Go to https://www.rugiet.com/DRENCHED to get 20% off ED treatments at Rugiet for a limited time only! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2025 Leadership Institute added a new layer of innovation with the introduction of capstone projects, requiring participants to identify and solve critical issues facing the U.S. potato industry. On this episode of Eye on Potatoes, we sit down with Michael Rainis of Friehe Farms, Mike Murphy of Childstock Farms, and Matthew McKenna of County Farms—the trio behind "SPUD Team Six." Fresh off their presentation on the main stage at Potato Expo 2026, these emerging leaders share their capstone project plan to double the participation rate of Leadership Institute graduates in state and national organizations within one year of completing the program. We discuss their personal highlights from the 10-day training—which took them from the fields of Wisconsin to the halls of Capitol Hill—and explore how the capstone process enhanced their teamwork and leadership skills. 

A big NBA day today with INJURY CHAOS hitting some playoff-contenders as Cade Cunningham, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Anthony Edwards ALL OUT with injuries! Plus a BIG 8-game NBA day … and we're talking NBA EXPANSION! How will it work? How do Seattle and Las Vegas get NBA teams? What about the expansion draft? Which players will they get? Also, all the latest NBA news! So today's NBA Straya looks at all the games in the NBA Straya Game Wraps, along with That's Not a Knife, Spud of the Night, Old Mate No Mates & Better Than Lonzo Ball…   We've also got YEAH NAHsUnpopular Opinion of the Day OUTBACK TAKEHOUSE, where we're serving up a flame grilled take.  Plus - there's an ANDREW GAZE GREY MAMBA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF EXCELLENCE… and a GREAT MOMENT IN NBA STRAYA STAT HISTORY! We also take a look at what ALL THE NBA AUSSIES GOT UP TO today! Cos a bunch of them played! Plus there's a preview of all the NBA games tomorrow, Thursday March 19.Plenty to cover & talk about, strap in, lean back & enjoy! … and remember to rate, review & subscribe! Cheers legends, and thanks for tuning in to the #bestNBApodcast in the world!!Onyas...  Love ya guts ledges!!

We gathered on a cold, snowy, generally Clevelandwintery evening in January to celebrate our 150th episode at Forest City Brewery! Joined by a few friends and a lot of Spud's extended family, we recorded an intimate live episode. Enjoy!Like this weeks episode and wish you could read as well as listen? Subscribe to our Substack for a summary of our opening discussion, a story from the episode, and a writing prompt! Be sure to follow us on Instagram (if that's your sort of thing). Please do send us an email with your story if you write along, which we hope you will do. Episodes of Radio FreeWrite are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. All Stories remain the property of their respective authors.

Send a textMany people mistakenly think that cryptocurrency is just bitcoin. Actually, there are many different types of cryptocurrency. One recently developed is SPUD, a meme coin built for the agricultural community. SPUD was created by Cody Holm, 5th generation farmer from Southeast Idaho.Cody knows there are skeptics about crypto. In this episode he takes the opportunity to address misconceptions and shares where he hopes it will go in the future. 

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander breaks Wilt Chamberlain's record with 126 straight 20+ point games, Luka Doncic drops 51 vs the Bulls, and the Celtics vs Thunder clash was an instant classic.We break down SGA's historic run, Luka's monster night, Spurs vs Nuggets, and the latest NBA Power Rankings on today's episode of NBA Straya.Also, all the latest NBA news! So today's NBA Straya looks at all the games in the NBA Straya Game Wraps, along with That's Not a Knife, Spud of the Night, Old Mate No Mates & Better Than Lonzo Ball…    Plus - there's an ANDREW GAZE GREY MAMBA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF EXCELLENCE.NO prizes for guessing who that goes today.We also take a look at what ALL THE NBA AUSSIES GOT UP TO TODAY! Cos a bunch of them played! Plus there's a preview of all the NBA games tomorrow, Saturday March 14.Plenty to cover & talk about, strap in, lean back & enjoy! … and remember to rate, review & subscribe! Cheers legends, and thanks for tuning in to the #bestNBApodcast in the world!!Onyas...  Love ya guts ledges!!

As Wisconsin’s potato growers get ready for spring planting, they’re also looking toward their trade associations to promote policy that works for growers, not against them. Mike Wenkel is the COO of the National Potato Council. He tells Stephanie Hoff about his hefty to-do list ahead of the growing season. He’s watching that nutrition definitions are pro-potato; he’s navigating labor reform conversations in Congress; and he’s advocating for market access during a period where we’ve got a big supply of spuds.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What an AWESOME NBA weekend that was! Jayson Tatum came back for the #celtics,  the #Spurs had an amazing 25-point comeback, an SGA MVP-clinching game winner… the Pistons struggling… it's all going on! So! We've got out SIX BIGGEST NBA WEEKEND WINNERS & LOSERS for you! Plus… ADAM SILVER SHUT DOWN MAGIC CITY NIGHT!?!?!?  Also, all the latest NBA news! So today's NBA Straya looks at all the games in the NBA Straya Game Wraps, along with That's Not a Knife, Spud of the Night, Old Mate No Mates & Better Than Lonzo Ball…   We've also got YEAH NAHs, Unpopular Opinion of the Day & OUTBACK TAKE, where we're serving up a flame grilled take.  Plus - there's an ANDREW GAZE GREY MAMBA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF EXCELLENCE.And a look at what ALL THE NBA AUSSIES GOT UP TO TODAY! Cos HEAPS of them played! Plus there's a preview of all the NBA games tomorrow, 311 DAY!! Wednesday March 11! Plenty to cover & talk about, strap in, lean back & enjoy! … and remember to rate, review & subscribe! Cheers legends, and thanks for tuning in to the #bestNBApodcast in the world!!Onyas...  Love ya guts ledges!!

In this intense and wide-ranging Monday edition of What's On Your Mind, Scott Hennen and Kevin Flynn tackle a weekend dominated by shifting oil prices and the ongoing conflict with Iran. Scott breaks down his latest column, honoring the North Dakota and Minnesota service members killed by Iranian-backed weapons over the last four decades, arguing that the U.S. is finally finishing a 47-year-old war. The tone shifts from the geopolitical to the celebratory as Moorhead Spuds head hockey coach John Ammerman joins the show to discuss his team's legendary double-overtime comeback to secure back-to-back state titles. Later, wellness entrepreneur Vince Wepker stops by for a lighthearted "Imus-style" hour of banter on Vikings free agency, the best movies of all time, and the "Superman" feeling of a daily sauna routine. Plus, Mike Lindell joins the program to announce a massive 75-city "marketing-style" rally tour in his bid for the Minnesota Governor's seat. Standout Moments [00:05:40] – The Gas Price Debate Scott fires back at local columnists criticizing Trump for a recent spike in gas prices. He highlights that despite the 10-day conflict with Iran, national averages remain significantly lower than the Biden-era peaks of $5.02. [00:16:10] – Hyperbaric Medicine & The Chinese ER Paul Watts from Swanson Hyperbarics joins the show to explain why the U.S. is behind Russia and China in using oxygen therapy to treat inflammation and concussions, noting that "you can't patent oxygen." [00:21:40] – The Moorhead Miracle Spuds Coach John Ammerman recaps the emotional state championship win, revealing that many "bandwagoners" actually turned off the TV when the team was down 4-1 before their historic rally. [00:30:15] – Mike Lindell's 75-Rally Tour Candidate Mike Lindell announces a nonstop campaign schedule across Minnesota, aiming to engage the 250,000 "Trump voters" who stayed home in 2022. He frames the election as a battle of "biblical proportions." [00:34:00] – The Gracie Mansion Bomb Plot Analysis of the thwarted ISIS-inspired terror attack in New York City. Scott critiques the media's relative silence on the perpetrator's motives and the "heightened threat environment" currently facing the U.S. [00:37:30] – A Father-Son Hockey Moment The hosts discuss a viral interview with Warroad Warrior Ryan Chagabay hugging his father on the bench, highlighting the massive sacrifices made by hockey parents to reach the state stage. [00:38:40] – "Iran's Murderous Regime Has Met Its Match" In a somber closing segment, Scott reads the names of fallen…

National Potato Council CEO Kam Quarles and Spudman Managing Editor Melinda Waldrop join the Eye on Potatoes Podcast to break down the inaugural 2026 Spud Sector Survey. This first-of-its-kind report moves past headlines to reveal the economic heartbeat of America's potato growers. Discover how NPC uses this "hard data ammunition" to advocate for our family farms in Washington, D.C. The group discusses the striking "optimism gap," where growers feel confident in their own operations but fear for the broader industry's future. From the 82.9% of growers facing inflationary disruptions to the "essential bridge" of federal emergency aid, this episode provides a strategic roadmap for the ongoing efforts to Stand Up for Potatoes on Capitol Hill.Download the Spud Sector Survey here: spudman.com/spudsector.  

Chip Scoggins, Ryan Burns and Justin Gaard are back to react to another Moorhead Spud committing to the U, discuss the Big Ten revenue discrepancies and differences, reminisce about their favorite Spring Game memories with the news the Gophers will do one again this year and take some questions from the audience to wrap up the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Who's your NBA MVP 3/4 of the way through the season? How about Defensive Player of the Year? Rookie of the Year? 6th Man? Coach? WHAT ABOUT YOUR ALL-NBA PICKS? Well… today's NBA Straya ANSWERS ALL THAT FOR YOU! Plus - 10 NBA games today! So today's NBA Straya looks at all the games AND has all your All-NBA and NBA Award winners for the ¾ season mark! We wrap up all 10 games from today in the NBA Straya Game Wraps, along with That's Not a Knife, Spud of the Night, Old Mate No Mates & Better Than Lonzo Ball…   Plus - there's a combo ANDREW GAZE GREY MAMBA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF EXCELLENCE and Shane Heal Shooter Shooter Light Em Up Award! And a look at what ALL THE NBA AUSSIES GOT UP TO TODAY! Cos HEAPS of them played! Plus there's a preview of all the NBA games tomorrow, Thursday March 5.Plenty to cover & talk about, strap in, lean back & enjoy! … and remember to rate, review & subscribe! Cheers legends, and thanks for tuning in to the #bestNBApodcast in the world!!Onyas...  Love ya guts ledges!!

A BIG NBA weekend needs a big wrap show… and that was a big NBA weekend! We got an OKC-Denver fight, the Knicks dominated Wemby & the Spurs and we got a Detroit-Cleveland CLASSIC! So today's NBA Straya looks at the SIX BIGGGEST WEEKEND WINNERS & LOSERS! We wrap up the weekend in the NBA Straya Game Wraps, along with That's Not a Knife, Spud of the Night, Old Mate No Mates & Better Than Lonzo Ball…   Plus - there's a Shane Heal Shooter Shooter Light Em Up Award! And a look at what ALL THE NBA AUSSIES GOT UP TO OVER THE WEEKEND! Cos HEAPS of them played! Plus there's a preview of all the NBA games tomorrow Tuesday March 3.Plenty to cover & talk about, strap in, lean back & enjoy! … and remember to rate, review & subscribe! Cheers legends, and thanks for tuning in to the #bestNBApodcast in the world!!Onyas...  Love ya guts ledges!!

Friday Fun day in the NBA with 10 games and we saw some cracking ones in there: like the 1995 NBA Finals rematch of Orlando and Houston! And Suns-Lakers! So today's NBA Straya looks at all the games AND has your FRIDAY NBA POWER RANKINGS! We wrap up all 10 games from today in the NBA Straya Game Wraps, along with That's Not a Knife, Spud of the Night, Old Mate No Mates & Better Than Lonzo Ball…   We've also got YEAH NAHs, Unpopular Opinion of the Day & OUTBACK TAKE, where we're serving up a flame grilled take.  Plus - there's a Shane Heal Shooter Shooter Light Em Up Award! And a look at what ALL THE NBA AUSSIES GOT UP TO TODAY! Cos HEAPS of them played! Plus there's a preview of all the NBA games tomorrow, Saturday February 28.Plenty to cover & talk about, strap in, lean back & enjoy! … and remember to rate, review & subscribe! Cheers legends, and thanks for tuning in to the #bestNBApodcast in the world!!Onyas...  Love ya guts ledges!!

Wow, 11 NBA games today and it was kinda AWESOME!? We saw a Cavs demo job, the Sixers roaring back to life, the Hawks showing Trae some love and the Lakers cooking… a chance to win. The NBA IS BACK! Today's NBA Straya also looks at the FIVE MOST EXCITING NBA TEAMS RIGHT NOW… as we launch the Anti-Tank Brigade! SO we wrap up all 11 games from today in the NBA Straya Game Wraps, along with That's Not a Knife, Spud of the Night, Old Mate No Mates & Better Than Lonzo Ball…   We've also got YEAH NAHs, Unpopular Opinion of the Day & OUTBACK TAKE, where we're serving up a flame grilled take.  Plus - there's an Andrew Gaze Grey Mamba Award combined with a Shane Heal Shooter Shooter Light Em Up Award! And a look at what ALL THE NBA AUSSIES GOT UP TO TODAY! Cos ALL of them had a game! Plus there's a preview of all the NBA games tomorrow, Thursday February 26.Plenty to cover & talk about, strap in, lean back & enjoy! … and remember to rate, review & subscribe! Cheers legends, and thanks for tuning in to the #bestNBApodcast in the world!!Onyas...  Love ya guts ledges!!

That was an awesome NBA weekend so today's NBA Straya breaks it ALL down with SIX WEEKEND WINNERS & LOSERS! Plus… does Cade Cunningham have a shot at MVP? And are the Houston Rockets cooked? From all the games on the weekend we also give out some DAILY NBA AWARDS: That's Not a Knife, Old Mate Not Mates, Spud of the Night and Better Than Lonzo Ball.  We've also got YEAH NAHs, Unpopular Opinion of the Day & OUTBACK TAKE, where we're serving up a flame grilled take.  AND a preview of all the NBA games tomorrow Tuesday February 24!  Plenty to cover & talk about, strap in, lean back & enjoy! … and remember to rate, review & subscribe! Cheers legends, and thanks for tuning in to the #bestNBApodcast in the world!!Onyas...  Love ya guts ledges!!

The first Saturday Rub of the year. Spud reunited with the crew for the first time in six months. And boy did he have six months' worth of dirt on all of them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brian, Dallas, and Marten discuss the Idaho Vandals taking home King Spud, preview this week's games against Portland State and Sacramento State, discuss Joe Begnal's hire as Vandal special teams coordinator, and last but not least, talk all about SAC to the MAC.Join us (and our OnlyTubs Discord) by subscribing to our Patreon!www.patreon.com/tubsattheclubShow Sponsors: Hughes River Expeditionswww.hughesriver.com

Well. That was the 2026 #NBAAllStar Weekend: what did you think? Today's NBA Straya  breaks down every part of the 2026 NBA All-Star weekend - from Rising Stars to the Saturday afternoon Three-Point Shoot Out, Shooting Stars challenge, the Dunk Contest & the Team Stars, Team Stripes, Team World NBA All Star game. We break it ALL down for you… The best and worst (Reggie Miller) NBA All Star moments, what we think worked and what obviously didn't (REGGIE MILLER) - and how we might fix it (Get rid of Reggie Miller). We also have a few awards to give away: the NBA Straya Approved All Star of the Weekend and Spud of the Weekend! PLUS - KEVIN DURANT'S ALLEGED BURNERS!?!?! WHAT'S GOING ON THERE!? Plenty to cover & talk about, strap in, lean back & enjoy! … and remember to rate, review & subscribe! Cheers legends, and thanks for tuning in to the #bestNBApodcast in the world!!Onyas...  Love ya guts ledges!!

Adam and Josh return to Danny Boyle’s drug-addled Edinburgh for TRAINSPOTTING’s 30th anniversary, then bring Producer Sam on to unveil the 2026 nominees for the Filmspotting Pantheon. Plus, Massacre Theatre. This episode is presented by⁠ Regal Unlimited⁠⁠, the all-you-can-watch movie subscription pass that pays for itself in just two visits. (Timecodes/chapters may not be precise with ads.) Intro (00:00:00-00:01:49) Trainspotting at 30 (00:01:50-00:47:32) Filmspotting Family (00:47:33-00:52:41) Next Week / Notes (00:52:42-00:56:34) Massacre Theatre (00:56:35-01:04:43) Pantheon Nominees (01:04:44-01:48:04) Credits / New Releases (01:48:05-01:53:10) Notes/Links: -Filmspotting Pantheon https://www.filmspotting.net/pantheon Feedback: -Email us at feedback@filmspotting.net⁠⁠ -⁠⁠⁠⁠Ask Us Anything⁠⁠⁠⁠ and we might answer your question in bonus content. Support: -Join the Filmspotting Family for bonus episodes and archive access.https://filmspottingfamily.com -T-shirts and more available at the Filmspotting Shop.https://www.filmspotting.net/shop⁠⁠⁠ Follow: https://youtube.com/filmspotting https://instagram.com/filmspotting⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://letterboxd.com/filmspotting⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://facebook.com/filmspotting⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/filmspotting⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://instagram.com/larsenonfilm⁠ https://letterboxd.com/larsenonfilm⁠⁠⁠ https://facebook.com/larsenonfilm ⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/larsenonfilm.bsky.social⁠⁠See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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