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programmier.bar – der Podcast für App- und Webentwicklung
News AI 29/25: Grok 4 // Kimi K2 // MedGemma // Windsurf // Devstral // MCP-Gefahren

programmier.bar – der Podcast für App- und Webentwicklung

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 44:16


Folgende Themen in den heutigen AI-News:Ein neues Frontier Modell geht mit Grok 4 an den StartKimi K2 von Moonshot AI ist der neue Stern am Open-Modell HimmelTeile von Windsurf wechseln zu Google DeepMindMedGemma – Ein Open Medical Vision-Language Model aus dem Hause Google Deep MindMistral: Devstral Models für Coding AgentsGemini Nano kommt bald „vorinstalliert“ in ChromeGefahren von MCP: Supabase leaked DatenbankNeue beeindruckende KI-generierte Game-UmgebungenGemini API jetzt mit Batch ModeWikiProject AI Cleanup räumt mit KI-Buzzwords aufAlle Details gibt's der Folge!Schreibt uns! Schickt uns eure Themenwünsche und euer Feedback: podcast@programmier.barFolgt uns! Bleibt auf dem Laufenden über zukünftige Folgen und virtuelle Meetups und beteiligt euch an Community-Diskussionen. BlueskyInstagramLinkedInMeetupYouTube

What's Cookin' Today on CRN
Wine & Cheese Pairings Tips For Summer, Wines Under $20

What's Cookin' Today on CRN

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2025


Affärsvärlden
Jakten på den nya världsordningen, DEL 3: Mellanöstern – Multipolärt och auktoritärt AI-centra.

Affärsvärlden

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2025 77:10


Vad ska Mellanösterns länder göra om och när oljekonsumtionen ebbar ut? Möjligen sitter de redan själva på svaret, och det handlar om att använda solenergi för att ge sig in i det notoriskt energikrävande AI-racet. Men kanske finns det också en mörkare baksida.

Wedgehead Pinball Podcast
Episode 91 - Stern's Dark Age: Pinball in the 2000s

Wedgehead Pinball Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2025 60:40


Support the show & get a link to our private discord server: ko-fi.com/wedgeheadpodcastThis episode features former guest on the show, and dot matrix pinball programmer Greg Dunlap to discuss how Gary Stern ends up surviving TWO pinball extinction events at the turn of the millennium, and then another one at the end of the decade.This is the only era in pinball's long history where there was only a single manufacturer in business.  Gary made a lot of tough calls and hard decisions to keep pinball alive during this dark age, and contrary to some popular belief, actually made quite a few awesome games during this period as well.So sit back and listen up as we discuss and give our flowers to Gary Stern, the man who saved pinball in this episode.Although we do cuss a little bit...Support the show

Kultur heute Beiträge - Deutschlandfunk
Irma Stern ziwschen Kapstadt und Berlin im Brücke Museum Berlin

Kultur heute Beiträge - Deutschlandfunk

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2025 5:25


Reber, Simone www.deutschlandfunk.de, Kultur heute

2wischendurch
113. "Wir waren alle Außenseiter" mit VELI

2wischendurch

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2025 53:19


Hier kommt die zweite Folge von der TAPEFABRIK 2025. Dieses Mal zu Gast bei Raphi und Lenz: The one and only VELI aka @theregularkid. Mit vermutlich dem glänzendsten Stern am deutschen Underground Rap-Himmel sprechen die beiden 2wischendurch Hosts über seine Zeit in der Vorstadt. Kriminalität und Existenzängste. Und wie sehr ihm das Social Media Game zu schaffen macht. Verpasst das nicht. Viel Spaß!Die Folge wird unterstützt von Aqua Monaco: aquamonaco.comAlle Infos zum Podcast: https://linktr.ee/2wischendurch.podcast

Fazit - Kultur vom Tage - Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Irma Stern - Eine Künstlerin der Moderne zwischen Berlin und Kapstadt

Fazit - Kultur vom Tage - Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 5:55


Reber, Simone www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Fazit

Bellmanhistorier
Vilda Västern nr 6, Prinsesstårta, Sova i Skogen, Hunden som kan Räkna

Bellmanhistorier

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 4:48


Ajaj, Bellman är verkligen i knipa, är detta slutet eller kommer han att komma undan?? PS. Duvor kan matas med frön! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

På minuten
Då släpper Eric Stern sin nästa brödskiva

På minuten

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 28:42


Hans Rosenfeldt med en klocka och en pratglad panel. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Programledare: Hans RosenfeldtI panelen: Helena Lindegren, Eric Stern, Babben Larsson och Pia Johansson.Musik: Erland von HeijneInspelning och redigering: Elin HagmanProducent: Mette GöthbergSpelades in i Lilla studion på Kulturhuset den 14 april -25.

Neil Rogers Show
Neil Rogers Show (November 12, 2004)

Neil Rogers Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2025 180:13


Stern show ends early, and Neil has to kill time until 11am, so he tells a Norm Kent story and rips Greg Reed. Gena Lee Nolin is behind the Beaded Curtain. POLL: The radio, TV, or movie celebrity you hate the most?

What's Cookin' Today on CRN
REPLAY: The Oldest Ice Cream Shop In America, Stop Fearing Carbs And Embrace The Comfort Foods You Love

What's Cookin' Today on CRN

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2025


Who Are These Podcasts?
Ep637 - Charlize Theron on Call Her Daddy, Opie's Friend, Brendan Schaub

Who Are These Podcasts?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2025 159:22


Charlize Theron was recently a guest on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper. She made big news talking about her sex life but I was much more interested in Charlize pretending that Alex's traumatic childhood is equal to hers. The fact that Alex went along with that tells me she's a total narcissist.  Adam Busch was checking in on Rob Saul again and he's back to the same insults that have never made sense. Brendan Schaub might actually not be liable in the new lolsuit that he was served by his former partner at that dumb CBD company. He should be sued for the promo videos he made. 2 Bears 1 Cave is taking the summer off but instead of doing it like Stern, they're going to let much more able comics take over for a couple of months… what could go wrong? Opie had to get a new phone and the result was a complete psychotic break from reality. He also announces a brand new podcast. Megan, Annie, and Cardiff join us for another round of 2 Minutes with Tom, we tease the next episode, read a recent review, and listen to your voicemails.  Tickets on sale for WATP with Anthony Cumia at The Villa Roma Resort in Callicoon, New York on September 5th – http://watplive.com/  Tickets on sale for the Magic Bag on September 12th – https://www.themagicbag.com/concerts-magicbag/who-are-these-podcasts-hide-september-15-2023-hide Support us, get bonus episodes, and watch live every Saturday and Wednesday: http://bit.ly/watp-patreon https://watp.supercast.tech/ Adam's new project – Jamie Levine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dNEZSherbA Cardiff's channel – https://youtube.com/@cardiffelect Annie's website – https://www.insanneity.com/ Watch the episode here: ⁠https://youtube.com/live/BRkoiVX6p58  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It Sure Is A Beautiful Day
Fix the Holes in Your Aura with Spiritual Guide Jana Stern

It Sure Is A Beautiful Day

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2025 50:38


What if your energy field — your aura — is leaking, and that's why you're exhausted, stuck, or just... off? In this episode, I sit down with psychic and astrologer Jana Stern for a raw, personal, and eye-opening conversation about intuition, belief systems, and how the pressure to perform can follow us long after the cameras stop rolling. Jana also gives me live reading, opening the door to a deeper understanding of my relationship with alcohol and the subconscious stories still playing out in my life. If you are in need of getting unstuck or unblocked, try Jana's  90-day program The Resilience Revolution for anyone ready to reconnect and reset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Die Diagnose
Der Spätzünder

Die Diagnose

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2025 28:19


Ein bartloser Mann hat eine hohe Stimme und nie eine Pubertät erlebt. Zitronen kann er nicht riechen. Was steckt dahinter?+++Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://datenschutz.ad-alliance.de/podcast.html +++ Wir verarbeiten im Zusammenhang mit dem Angebot unserer Podcasts Daten. Wenn Sie der automatischen Übermittlung der Daten widersprechen wollen, klicken Sie hier: https://datenschutz.ad-alliance.de/podcast.html +++Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Skip the Queue
It's not pipes and slippers

Skip the Queue

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2025 49:43


Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is Paul Marden.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website SkiptheQueue.fm.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter  or Bluesky for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcast.Competition ends on 23rd July 2025. The winner will be contacted via Bluesky. Show references:  Sam Mullins, Trustee at SS Great Britainhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sammullins/https://www.ssgreatbritain.org/ Transcriptions:  Paul Marden: What an amazing day out here. Welcome to Skip the Queue. The podcast for people working in and working with visitor attractions, I'm your host, Paul Marden, and today you join me for the last episode of the season here in a very sunny and very pleasant Bristol Dockyard. I'm here to visit the SS Great Britain and one of their trustees, Sam Mullins, who until recently, was the CEO of London Transport Museum. And I'm going to be talking to Sam about life after running a big, family friendly Museum in the centre of London, and what comes next, and I'm promising you it's not pipes and the slippers for Sam, he's been very busy with the SSGreat Britain and with other projects that we'll talk a little more about. But for now, I'm going to enjoy poodling across the harbour on boat number five awaiting arrival over at the SS Great Britain. Paul Marden: Is there much to catch in the water here?Sam Mullins: According to some research, there's about 36 different species of fish. They catch a lot of cream. They catch Roach, bullet, bass car. Big carpet there, maybe, yeah, huge carpet there. And then your European great eel is here as well, right? Yeah, massive things by the size of your leg, big heads. It's amazing. It goes to show how receipt your life is. The quality of the water is a lot better now. Paul Marden: Oh yeah, yeah, it's better than it used to be years ago. Thank you very much. All right. Cheers. Have a good day. See you later on. So without further ado, let's head inside. So where should we head? Too fast. Sam Mullins: So we start with the stern of the ship, which is the kind of classic entrance view, you know. Yeah, coming up, I do. I love the shape of this ship as you as you'll see.Paul Marden: So lovely being able to come across the water on the boat and then have this as you're welcome. It's quite a.Sam Mullins: It's a great spot. Isn't it?Paul Marden: Really impactful, isn't it? Sam Mullins:  Because the amazing thing is that it's going this way, is actually in the dry dock, which was built to build it. Paul Marden: That's amazing. Sam Mullins: So it came home. It was clearly meant to be, you know,Paul Marden:  Quite the circular story.Sam Mullins:  Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Paul Marden:  Thank you. Wow. Look at that view.Sam Mullins: So that's your classic view.Paul Marden:  So she's in a dry dock, but there's a little bit of water in there, just to give us an idea of what's going on. Sam Mullins: Well, what's actually going on in here is, preserving the world's first iron ship. So it became clear, after he'd come back from the Falklands, 1970 came back to Bristol, it became clear that the material of the ship was rusting away. And if something wasn't done, there'd be nothing left, nothing left to show. So the innovative solution is based on a little bit of science if you can reduce the relative humidity of the air around the cast iron hull of the ship to around about 20% relative humidity, corrosion stops. Rusting stops. It's in a dry dock. You glaze over the dock at kind of water line, which, as you just noticed, it gives it a really nice setting. It looks like it's floating, yeah, it also it means that you can then control the air underneath. You dry it out, you dehumidify it. Big plant that dries out the air. You keep it at 20% and you keep the ship intact. Paul Marden: It's interesting, isn't it, because you go to Mary Rose, and you go into the ship Hall, and you've got this hermetically sealed environment that you can maintain all of these beautiful Tudor wooden pieces we're outside on a baking hot day. You don't have the benefit of a hermetically sealed building, do you to keep this? Sam Mullins: I guess the outside of the ship is kind of sealed by the paint. That stops the air getting to the bit to the bare metal. We can go down into the trigger, down whilst rise up.Paul Marden:  We're wondering. Sam, yeah, why don't you introduce yourself, tell listeners a little bit about your background. How have we ended up having this conversation today.Sam Mullins: I'm Sam Mullins. I'm a historian. I decided early on that I wanted to be a historian that worked in museums and had an opportunity to kind of share my fascination with the past with museum visitors. So I worked in much Wenlock in Shropshire. I worked created a new museum in market Harbour, a community museum in Leicestershire. I was director of museums in St Albans, based on, you know, great Roman Museum at Verulamium, okay. And ended up at London Transport Museum in the 90s, and was directed there for a long time.Paul Marden: Indeed, indeed. Oh, we are inside now and heading underground.Sam Mullins: And you can hear the thrumming in the background. Is the dehumidification going on. Wow. So we're descending into thevery dry dock.Paul Marden: So we're now under water level. Yes, and the view of the ceiling with the glass roof, which above looked like a lovely little pond, it's just beautiful, isn't it?Sam Mullins: Yes, good. It sets it off both in both directions, really nicely.Paul Marden: So you've transitioned now, you've moved on from the Transport Museum. And I thought that today's episode, we could focus a little bit on what is, what's life like when you've moved on from being the director of a big, famous, influential, family friendly Museum. What comes next? Is it pipe and slippers, or are there lots of things to do? And I think it's the latter, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Yes. Well, you know, I think people retire either, you know, do nothing and play golf, or they build, you know, an interesting portfolio. I wanted to build, you know, something a bit more interesting. And, you know, Paul, there's that kind of strange feeling when you get to retire. And I was retiring from full time executive work, you kind of feel at that point that you've just cracked the job. And at that point, you know, someone gives you, you know, gives you a card and says, "Thank you very much, you've done a lovely job." Kind of, "Off you go." So having the opportunity to deploy some of that long term experience of running a successful Museum in Covent Garden for other organisations was part of that process of transition. I've been writing a book about which I'm sure we'll talk as well that's been kind of full on this year, but I was a trustee here for a number of years before I retired. I think it's really good career development for people to serve on a board to see what it's like, you know, the other side of the board. Paul Marden: I think we'll come back to that in a minute and talk a little bit about how the sausage is made. Yeah, we have to do some icebreaker questions, because I probably get you already. You're ready to start talking, but I'm gonna, I'm just gonna loosen you up a little bit, a couple of easy ones. You're sat in front of the telly, comedy or drama?Sam Mullins: It depends. Probably.Paul Marden: It's not a valid answer. Sam Mullins: Probably, probably drama.Paul Marden: Okay, if you need to talk to somebody, is it a phone call or is it a text message that you'll send?Sam Mullins:  Face to face? Okay, much better. Okay, always better. Paul Marden: Well done. You didn't accept the premise of the question there, did you? Lastly, if you're going to enter a room, would you prefer to have a personal theme tune played every time you enter the room. Or would you like a personal mascot to arrive fully suited behind you in every location you go to?Sam Mullins: I don't know what the second one means, so I go for the first one.Paul Marden: You've not seen a football mascot on watching American football or baseball?Sam Mullins: No, I try and avoid that. I like real sport. I like watching cricket. Paul Marden: They don't do that in cricket. So we are at the business end of the hull of the ship, aren't we? We're next to the propeller. Sam Mullins: We're sitting under the stern. We can still see that lovely, gilded Stern, saying, Great Britain, Bristol, and the windows and the coat of arms across the stern of the ship. Now this, of course, was the biggest ship in the world when built. So not only was it the first, first iron ship of any scale, but it was also third bigger than anything in the Royal Navy at the time. Paul Marden: They talked about that, when we were on the warrior aim the other day, that it was Brunel that was leading the way on what the pinnacle of engineering was like. It was not the Royal Navy who was convinced that it was sail that needed to lead. Sam Mullins: Yeah, Brunel had seen a much smaller, propeller driven vessel tried out, which was being toured around the country. And so they were midway through kind of design of this, when they decided it wasn't going to be a paddle steamer, which its predecessor, the world's first ocean liner, the Great Western. A was a paddle steamer that took you to New York. He decided that, and he announced to the board that he was going to make a ship that was driven by a propeller, which was the first, and this is, this is actually a replica of his patent propeller design. Paul Marden: So, this propeller was, is not the original to the show, okay?Sam Mullins: Later in its career, it had the engines taken out, and it was just a sailing ship. It had a long and interesting career. And for the time it was going to New York and back, and the time it was going to Australia and back, carrying migrants. It was a hybrid, usually. So you use the sails when it was favourable when it wasn't much wind or the wind was against. You use the use the engines. Use the steam engine.Paul Marden: Coming back into fashion again now, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Yeah, hybrid, yeah.Paul Marden: I can see holes in the hull. Was this evident when it was still in the Falklands?Sam Mullins: Yeah, it came to notice in the 60s that, you know, this world's first it was beached at Sparrow Cove in the Falkland Islands. It had lost its use as a wool warehouse, which is which it had been for 30 or 40 years. And a number of maritime historians, you and call it. It was the kind of key one realised that this, you know, extraordinary, important piece of maritime heritage would maybe not last too many war winters at Sparrow cope had a big crack down one side of the hull. It would have probably broken in half, and that would have made any kind of conservation restoration pretty well impossible as it was. It was a pretty amazing trick to put it onto a to put a barge underneath, to raise it up out of the water, and to tow it into Montevideo and then across the Atlantic, you know, 7000 miles, or whatever it is, to Avon mouth. So it's a kind of heroic story from the kind of heroic age of industrial and maritime heritage, actually.Paul Marden: It resonates for me in terms of the Mary Rose in that you've got a small group of very committed people that are looking to rescue this really valuable asset. And they find it and, you know, catch it just in time. Sam Mullins: Absolutely. That was one of the kind of eye openers for me at Mary rose last week, was just to look at the kind of sheer difficulty of doing conventional archaeology underwater for years and years. You know, is it 50,000 dives were made? Some immense number. And similarly, here, you know, lots of people kind of simply forget it, you know, it's never gonna, but a few, stuck to it, you know, formed a group, fund, raised. This is an era, of course, you know, before lottery and all that jazz. When you had to, you had to fundraise from the public to do this, and they managed to raise the money to bring it home, which, of course, is only step one. You then got to conserve this enormous lump of metal so it comes home to the dry dock in which it had been built, and that has a sort of fantastic symmetry, you know about it, which I just love. You know, the dock happened to be vacant, you know, in 1970 when the ship was taken off the pontoon at Avon mouth, just down the river and was towed up the curving Avon river to this dock. It came beneath the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which, of course, was Brunel design, but it was never built in his time. So these amazing pictures of this Hulk, in effect,  coming up the river, towed by tugs and brought into the dock here with 1000s of people you know, surrounding cheering on the sidelines, and a bit like Mary Rose in a big coverage on the BBC.Paul Marden: This is the thing. So I have a very vivid memory of the Mary Rose being lifted, and that yellow of the scaffolding is just permanently etched in my brain about sitting on the carpet in primary school when the TV was rolled out, and it was the only TV in the whole of school that, to me is it's modern history happening. I'm a Somerset boy. I've been coming to Bristol all my life. I wasn't alive when Great Britain came back here. So to me, this feels like ancient history. It's always been in Bristol, because I have no memory of it returning home. It was always just a fixture. So when we were talking the other day and you mentioned it was brought back in the 70s, didn't realise that. Didn't realise that at all. Should we move on? Because I am listening. Gently in the warmth.Sam Mullins: Let's move around this side of the as you can see, the dry dock is not entirely dry, no, but nearly.Paul Marden: So, you're trustee here at SS Great Britain. What does that mean? What do you do?Sam Mullins: Well, the board, Board of Trustees is responsible for the governance of the charity. We employ the executives, the paid team here. We work with them to develop the kind of strategy, financial plan, to deliver that strategy, and we kind of hold them as executives to account, to deliver on that.Paul Marden: It's been a period of change for you, hasn't it? Just recently, you've got a new CEO coming to the first anniversary, or just past his first anniversary. It's been in place a little while.Sam Mullins: So in the last two years, we've had a, we've recruited a new chairman, new chief executive, pretty much a whole new leadership team.One more starting next month, right? Actually, we're in July this month, so, yeah, it's been, you know, organisations are like that. They can be very, you know, static for some time, and then suddenly a kind of big turnover. And people, you know, people move.Paul Marden: So we're walking through what is a curved part of the dry dock now. So this is becoming interesting underfoot, isn't it?Sam Mullins: This is built in 1839 by the Great Western Steamship Company to build a sister ship to the Great Western which was their first vessel built for the Atlantic run to New York. As it happens, they were going to build a similar size vessel, but Brunel had other ideas, always pushing the edges one way or another as an engineer.Paul Marden: The keel is wood. Is it all wood? Or is this some sort of?Sam Mullins: No, this is just like, it's sort of sacrificial.So that you know when, if it does run up against ground or whatever, you don't actually damage the iron keel.Paul Marden: Right. Okay, so there's lots happening for the museum and the trust. You've just had a big injection of cash, haven't you, to do some interesting things. So there was a press release a couple of weeks ago, about a million pound of investment. Did you go and find that down the back of the sofa? How do you generate that kind of investment in the charity?Sam Mullins: Unusually, I think that trust that's put the bulk of that money and came came to us. I think they were looking to do something to mark their kind of, I think to mark their wind up. And so that was quite fortuitous, because, as you know at the moment, you know, fundraising is is difficult. It's tough. Paul Marden: That's the understatement of the year, isn't it?Sam Mullins: And with a new team here and the New World post COVID, less, less visitors, income harder to gain from. Pretty well, you know, all sources, it's important to keep the site kind of fresh and interesting. You know, the ship has been here since 1970 it's become, it's part of Bristol. Wherever you go in Bristol, Brunel is, you know, kind of the brand, and yet many Bristolians think they've seen all this, and don't need, you know, don't need to come back again. So keeping the site fresh, keeping the ideas moving on, are really important. So we've got the dockyard museum just on the top there, and that's the object for fundraising at the moment, and that will open in July next year as an account of the building of the ship and its importance. Paul Marden: Indeed, that's interesting. Related to that, we know that trusts, trusts and grants income really tough to get. Everybody's fighting for a diminishing pot income from Ace or from government sources is also tough to find. At the moment, we're living off of budgets that haven't changed for 10 years, if we're lucky. Yeah, for many people, finding a commercial route is the answer for their museum. And that was something that you did quite successfully, wasn't it, at the Transport Museum was to bring commercial ideas without sacrificing the integrity of the museum. Yeah. How do you do that?Sam Mullins: Well, the business of being an independent Museum, I mean, LTM is a to all sets of purposes, an independent Museum. Yes, 81% of its funding itself is self generated. Paul Marden: Is it really? Yeah, yeah. I know. I would have thought the grant that you would get from London Transport might have been bigger than that.  Sam Mullins: The grant used to be much bigger proportion, but it's got smaller and smaller. That's quite deliberate. Are, you know, the more you can stand on your own two feet, the more you can actually decide which direction you're going to take those feet in. Yeah. So there's this whole raft of museums, which, you know, across the UK, which are independently governed, who get all but nothing from central government. They might do a lottery grant. Yes, once in a while, they might get some NPO funding from Ace, but it's a tiny part, you know, of the whole. And this ship, SS Great Britain is a classic, you know, example of that. So what do you do in those circumstances? You look at your assets and you you try and monetise them. That's what we did at London Transport Museum. So the museum moved to Covent Garden in 1980 because it was a far sighted move. Michael Robbins, who was on the board at the time, recognised that they should take the museum from Scion Park, which is right on the west edge, into town where people were going to be, rather than trying to drag people out to the edge of London. So we've got that fantastic location, in effect, a high street shop. So retail works really well, you know, at Covent Garden.Paul Marden: Yeah, I know. I'm a sucker for a bit of moquette design.Sam Mullins: We all love it, which is just great. So the museum developed, you know, a lot of expertise in creating products and merchandising it. We've looked at the relationship with Transport for London, and we monetised that by looking at TFL supply chain and encouraging that supply chain to support the museum. So it is possible to get the TFL commissioner to stand up at a corporate members evening and say, you know, you all do terribly well out of our contract, we'd like you to support the museum as well, please. So the corporate membership scheme at Transport Museum is bigger than any other UK museum by value, really, 60, 65 members,. So that was, you know, that that was important, another way of looking at your assets, you know, what you've got. Sometimes you're talking about monetising relationships. Sometimes it's about, you know, stuff, assets, yeah. And then in we began to run a bit short of money in the kind of middle of the teens, and we did an experimental opening of the Aldwych disused tube station on the strand, and we're amazed at the demand for tickets.Paul Marden: Really, it was that much of a surprise for you. And we all can talk. Sam Mullins: We had been doing, we've been doing some guided tours there in a sort of, slightly in a one off kind of way, for some time. And we started to kind of think, well, look, maybe should we carry on it? Paul Marden: You've got the audience that's interested.Sam Mullins: And we've got the access through TFL which, you know, took a lot of work to to convince them we weren't going to, you know, take loads of people underground and lose them or that they jump out, you know, on the Piccadilly line in the middle of the service, or something. So hidden London is the kind of another really nice way where the museum's looked at its kind of assets and it's monetised. And I don't know what this I don't know what this year is, but I think there are now tours run at 10 different sites at different times. It's worth about half a million clear to them to the museum.Paul Marden: It's amazing, and they're such brilliant events. So they've now opened up for younger kids to go. So I took my daughter and one of her friends, and they were a little bit scared when the lights got turned off at one point, but we had a whale of a time going and learning about the history of the tube, the history of the tube during the war. It was such an interesting, accessible way to get to get them interested in stuff. It was brilliant.Sam Mullins: No, it's a great programme, and it was doing well before COVID, we went into lockdown, and within three weeks, Chris Nix and the team had started to do kind of zoom virtual tours. We all are stuck at home looking at our screens and those hidden London hangouts the audience kind of gradually built yesterday TV followed with secrets of London Underground, which did four series of. Hidden London book has sold 25,000 copies in hardback, another one to come out next year, maybe.Paul Marden: And all of this is in service of the museum. So it's almost as if you're opening the museum up to the whole of London, aren't you, and making all of that space you're you. Museum where you can do things.Sam Mullins: Yeah. And, of course, the great thing about hidden London programme is it's a bit like a theatre production. We would get access to a particular site for a month or six weeks. You'd sell the tickets, you know, like mad for that venue. And then the run came to an end, and you have to, you know, the caravan moves on, and we go to, you know, go to go to a different stations. So in a sense, often it's quite hard to get people to go to an attraction unless they've got visitors staying or whatever. But actually, if there's a time limit, you just kind of have to do it, you know.Paul Marden: Yeah, absolutely. Everybody loves a little bit of scarcity, don't they? Sam Mullins: Should we go up on the deck? Paul Marden: That sounds like fun to me.Sam Mullins: Work our way through.Paul Marden: So Hidden London was one of the angles in order to make the museum more commercially sound. What are you taking from your time at LTM and bringing to the party here at the SS Great Britain?Sam Mullins: Well, asking similar, you know, range of questions really, about what assets do we have? Which of those are, can be, can be monetised in support of the charity? Got here, Paul, so we're, we've got the same mix as lots of middle sized museums here. There's a it's a shop, paid admission, hospitality events in the evening, cafe. You know that mix, what museums then need to do is kind of go, you know, go beyond that, really, and look at their estate or their intellectual property, or the kind of experiences they can offer, and work out whether some of that is monetisable.Paul Marden: Right? And you mentioned before that Brunel is kind of, he's the mascot of Bristol. Almost, everything in Bristol focuses on Brunel. Is there an opportunity for you to collaborate with other Brunel themed sites, the bridge or?Sam Mullins: Yeah. Well, I think probably the opportunity is to collaborate with other Bristol attractions. Because Bristol needs to. Bristol's having a hard time since COVID numbers here are nowhere near what they were pre COVID So, and I think it's the same in the city, across the city. So Andrew chief executive, is talking to other people in the city about how we can share programs, share marketing, that kind of approach.Paul Marden: Making the docks a destination, you know, you've got We the Curious. Where I was this morning, having coffee with a friend and having a mooch around. Yeah, talking about science and technology, there must be things that you can cross over. This was this war. This feels like history, but it wasn't when it was built, was it? It was absolutely the cutting edge of science and technology.Sam Mullins: Absolutely, and well, almost beyond, you know, he was Brunel was pushing, pushing what could be done. It is the biggest ship. And it's hard to think of it now, because, you know, you and I can walk from one end to the other in no time. But it was the biggest ship in the world by, you know, some way, when it was launched in 1845 so this was a bit like the Great Western Railway. It was cutting edge, cutting edge at the time, as we were talking about below. It had a propeller, radical stuff. It's got the bell, too,Paul Marden: When we were on, was it Warrior that we were on last week at the AIM conference for the first. And warrior had a propeller, but it was capable of being lifted, because the Admiralty wasn't convinced that this new fangled propeller nonsense, and they thought sail was going to lead. Sam Mullins: Yeah. Well, this ship had, you could lift a you could lift a propeller, because otherwise the propeller is a drag in the water if it's not turning over. So in its earlier configurations, it was a, it was that sort of a hybrid, where you could lift the propeller out the way, right, set full sail.Paul Marden:  Right, and, yeah, it's just, it's very pleasant out here today, isn't it? Lovely breeze compared to what it's been like the last few days. Sam Mullins: Deck has just been replaced over the winter. Paul Marden:  Oh, has it really. So say, have you got the original underneathSam Mullins: The original was little long, long gone. So what we have replaced was the deck that was put on in the in the 70s when the ship came back.Paul Marden: Right? You were talking earlier on about the cafe being one of the assets. You've done quite a lot of work recently, haven't you with the team at Elior to refurbish the cafe? What's the plan around that?Sam Mullins: Yeah, we're doing a big reinvestment. You always need to keep the offer fresh anyway, but it was time to reinvest. So the idea is to use that fantastic space on the edge of the dock. It's not very far down to where the floating harbour is really well populated with kind of restaurants and bars and an offer, we're just that 200 meters further along the dock. So perhaps to create an offer here that draws people up here, whether they visit the ship, you know, or not. So it's money, it's monetising your assets. So one of the great assets is this fabulous location on the on the dockside. So with early or we're reinvesting in the restaurant, it's going to go in the auto into after some trial openings and things, Paul, you know, it's going to have an evening offer as well as a daytime offer. And then it's been designed so the lights can go down in the evening. It becomes, you know, an evening place, rather than the museum's all day cafe, yes, and the offer, and obviously in the evenings would similarly change. And I think our ambition is that you should, you should choose this as the place to go out in the evening. Really, it's a great spot. It's a lovely, warm evening. We're going to walk along the dockside. I've booked a table and in the boardwalk, which is what we're calling it. And as you pay the bill, you notice that actually, this is associated with Asus, Great Britain. So, you know, the profit from tonight goes to help the charity, rather than it's the museum cafe. So that's the,Paul Marden: That's the pitch.Sam Mullins: That's the pitch in which we're working with our catering partners, Eli, or to deliver.Paul Marden: Andrew, your CEO and Claire from Eli, or have both kindly said that I can come back in a couple of months time and have a conversation about the restaurant. And I think it would be rude to turn them down, wouldn't it?Sam Mullins: I think you should test the menu really fully.Paul Marden: I will do my best. It's a tough job that I have. Sam Mullins: Somebody has to do this work. Paul Marden: I know, talking of tough jobs, the other thing that I saw when I was looking at the website earlier on was a press release talking about six o'clock gin as being a a partnership that you're investigating, because every museum needs its own tipple, doesn't it?Sam Mullins: Absolutely And what, you know, I think it's, I think what people want when they go to an attraction is they, they also want something of the offer to be locally sourced, completely, six o'clock gym, you know, Bristol, Bristol beers. You can't always do it, but I think, I think it's where you've got the opportunity. And Bristol's a bit of a foodie centre. There's quite a lot going on here in that respect. So, yes, of course, the museum ought to be ought to be doing that too.Paul Marden: I was very kindly invited to Big Pit over in the Welsh Valleys about 8 or 12 weeks ago for the launch, relaunch of their gift shop offering. And absolutely, at the core of what they were trying to do was because it's run by Museums Wales, they found that all of their gift shops were just a bland average of what you could get at any of the museums. None of them spoke of the individual place. So if you went to big pit, the gift shop looked the same as if you were in the centre of Cardiff, whereas now when you go you see things that are naturally of Big Pit and the surrounding areas. And I think that's so important to create a gift shop which has things that is affordable to everybody, but at the same time authentic and genuinely interesting.Sam Mullins: Yeah, I'm sure that's right. And you know I'm saying for you is for me, when I when I go somewhere, you want to come away with something, don't you? Yes, you know, you're a National Trust member and you haven't had to pay anything to get in. But you think I should be supporting the cause, you know, I want to go into that shop and then I want to, I want to buy some of the plants for my garden I just seen, you know, on the estate outside. Or I want to come away with a six o'clock gin or, you know, whatever it might be, there's and I think, I think you're more likely to buy if it's something that you know has engaged you, it's part of that story that's engaged you, right, while you're here. That's why everyone buys a guidebook and reads it afterwards.Paul Marden: Yeah, it's a reminder, isn't it, the enjoyable time that you've had? Yeah, I'm enjoying myself up on the top deck. Sam Mullins:  But should we go downstairs? The bow is a great view. Oh, let's do that. I think we might. Let's just work our way down through.Paul Marden: Take a sniff. Could you travel with these smelly passengers? Oh, no, I don't think I want to smell what it's like to be a cow on board shit. Sam Mullins: Fresh milk. Just mind yourself on these companion, ways are very steep now. This is probably where I get completely lost.Paul Marden: You know what we need? We need a very good volunteer. Don't we tell a volunteer story? COVID in the kitchen. Wow. Sam Mullins: The Gabby.Paul Marden: Generous use of scent. Sam Mullins: Yeah, food laid out pretty much based on what we know was consumed on the ship. One of the great things about the ship is people kept diaries. A lot of people kept diaries, and many have survived, right? You know exactly what it was like to be in first class or in steerage down the back.Paul Marden: And so what was the ship used for? Sam Mullins: Well, it was used, it was going to be an ocean liner right from here to New York, and it was more like the Concord of its day. It was essentially first class and second class. And then it has a founders on a bay in Northern Ireland. It's rescued, fitted out again, and then the opportunity comes take people to Australia. The Gold Rush in the 1850s. Migration to Australia becomes the big kind of business opportunity for the ships. Ships new owners. So there's more people on board that used to it applies to and fro to Australia a number of times 30 odd, 40 times. And it takes, takes passengers. It takes goods. It does bring back, brings back gold from because people were there for the gold rush. They were bringing their earnings, you know, back with them. It also brings mail, and, you know, other. Kind of car goes wool was a big cargo from. Paul Marden: Say, people down and assets back up again.Sam Mullins: People both directions. Paul Marden: Okay, yeah. How long was it taking?Sam Mullins: Well, a good trip. I think it did it in 50 odd days. Bit slower was 60 odd. And the food was like this. So it was steerage. It was probably a bit more basic. Paul Marden: Yeah, yes, I can imagine. Sam Mullins: I think we might. Here's the engines. Let's do the engines well.Paul Marden: Yes. So now we're in the engine room and, oh, it's daylight lit, actually. So you're not down in the darkest of depths, but the propeller shaft and all of the mechanism is it runs full length, full height of the ship.Sam Mullins: Yeah, it runs off from here, back to the propeller that we're looking at. Okay, down there a guy's stoking the boilers, putting coal into into the boilers, 24 hour seven, when the engines are running. Paul Marden: Yes, that's going to be a tough job, isn't it? Yeah, coal is stored in particular locations. Because that was something I learned from warrior, was the importance of making sure that you had the coal taken in the correct places, so that you didn't unbalance the ship. I mean,Sam Mullins: You right. I mean loading the ship generally had to be done really carefully so, you know, sort of balanced out and so forth. Coal is tends to be pretty low down for yes, for obvious reasons.Paul Marden: So let's talk a little bit about being a trustee. We're both trustees of charities. I was talking to somebody last week who been in the sector for a number of years, mid career, interested in becoming a trustee as a career development opportunity. What's the point of being a trustee? What's the point of the trustees to the CEO, and what's the benefit to the trustees themselves? Sam Mullins: Well, let's do that in order for someone in the mid part of their career, presumably looking to assume some kind of leadership role. At some point they're going to be dealing with a board, aren't they? Yes, they might even be doing, you know, occasional reporting to a board at that at their current role, but they certainly will be if they want to be chief executive. So getting some experience on the other side of the table to feel what it's like to be a trustee dealing with chief executive. I think he's immensely useful. I always recommended it to to my gang at the Transport Museum, and they've all been on boards of one sort or another as part of their career development.Sam Mullins: For the chief executive. What's the benefit? Well, the board, I mean, very directly, hold the chief executive to account. Yes, are you doing what we asked you to do? But also the wise chief executive recruits a board that's going to be helpful in some way or another. It's not just there to catch them out. Yeah, it's it's there to bring their experience from business, from IT, from marketing, from other museums into the business of running the place. So here we've got a range of Trustees. We've been we've recruited five or six in the last couple of years qquite deliberately to we know that a diverse board is a good board, and that's diverse in the sense not just a background, but of education, retired, still, still at work, young, old, male, female, you know, you name in.Paul Marden: In all of the directionsSam Mullins:  Yeah. So a diverse board makes better decisions than one that just does group think all the time. It's, you know, it's a truism, isn't it? I think we all kind of, we all understand and understand that now and then, for the trustee, you know, for me, I particularly last couple of years, when the organization has been through huge changes, it's been really interesting to deploy my prior experience, particularly in governance, because governance is what it all comes down to in an organisation. You do learn over the course of your career to deploy that on behalf, you know, this is a great organisation, the story of Brunel and the ship and and, you know, his influence on the railways. And I travel down on the Great Western railways, yeah, the influence of Brunel is, you know, is enormous. It's a fantastic story. It's inspiring. So who wouldn't want to join? You know what in 2005 was the Museum of the year? Yes, I think we'll just go back there where we came. Otherwise, I never found my way.Paul Marden: Back through the kitchen. Sam Mullins: Back through the kitchen. It looks like stew is on the menu tonight. You've seen me at the mobile the rat.Paul Marden: And also the cat up on the shelf. He's not paying a lot of attention to the ratSam Mullins: Back on deck. Paul Marden: Wonderful. Yeah. So the other great endeavor that you've embarked on is writing, writing a book. Tell us a little bit about the book.Sam Mullins: Yeah, I've written a history of transport in London and its influence on London since 2000 since the mayoralty, elected mayoralty was, was started, you know, I was very lucky when I was running the museum where I had kind of one foot in TfL and one foot out. I knew lots of people. I was there for a long time, yes, so it was, it was easy to interview about 70 of them.Paul Marden: Right? I guess you've built trust levels, haven't you? Yeah, I don't mean that you don't look like a journalist walking in from the outside with an ax to grind. Sam Mullins: And I'm not going to kind of screw them to the Evening Standard, you know, tomorrow. So it's a book based on interviews, oral reminiscences. It's very much their story. So it's big chunks of their accounts of, you know, the big events in London. So what was it like to be in the network control room on the seventh of July, 2005 when the bombs went off? What was it like to be looking out for congestion charge the day it started? Yep. What was it like to kind of manage the Olympics?Paul Marden: You know? So you're mentioning these things. And so I was 10 years at British Airways. I was an IT project manager, but as well, I was a member of the emergency planning team. Yeah. So I got involved in the response to September the 11th. I got involved in some of the engagement around seven, seven, there's seminal moments, and I can, I can vividly remember myself being there at that time. But similarly, I can remember being there when we won the Olympics, and we were all sat in the staff canteen waiting to hear whether we'd won the Olympics, and the roar that erupted. There's so many of those things that have happened in the last 25 years where, you know, you've got, it's recent history, but it's real interesting events that have occurred that you can tell stories of.Sam Mullins: Yeah. So what I wanted to get in the book was a kind of sense of what it was like to be, really at the heart of those, those stories. And there are, you know, there are, there are people in TfL who made those big things happen? Yes, it's not a big, clumsy bureaucracy. It's a place where really innovative leadership was being exercised all the way through that 25 years. Yes, so it runs up to COVID, and what was it like when COVID struck? So the book's called Every Journey Matters, and it comes out in November.Paul Marden: Amazing, amazing. So we have, we've left the insides of the ship, and we are now under, what's this part of the ship? Sam Mullins: We're under the bow. There we go, and a bow spread that gets above our heads. So again, you've got this great, hulking, cast iron, black hull, beautifully shaped at the bow. Look the way it kind of tapers in and it tapers in and out.Paul Marden: It's a very three dimensional, isn't it? The curve is, is in every direction. Sam Mullins: Yeah,it's a great, great shape. So it's my sort of, I think it's my favourite spot. I like coming to look at this, because this is the kind of, this is the business, yeah, of the ship.Paul Marden: What have we got running along the front here? These these images in in gold.Sam Mullins: This is a figurehead with Victoria's Coat of Arms only sua Kim Ali points on top with it, with a lion and a unicorn.Paul Marden: It's a really, it's not a view that many people would have ever seen, but it is such an impressive view here looking up, yeah, very, very cool. And to stand here on the on the edge of the dry dock. Sam Mullins: Dry Docks in to our right, and the floating harbor is out to our left. Yeah.Paul Marden: And much going on on that it's busy today, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Yeah, it's good. Paul Marden: So we've done full loop, haven't we? I mean, it has been a whistle stop tour that you've taken me on, but I've loved every moment of this. We always ask our guests a difficult question. Well, for some it's a difficult question, a book recommendation, which, as we agreed over lunch, cannot be your own book. I don't think, I think it's a little unfair Sam Mullins: Or anything I've ever written before.Paul Marden: Yes, slightly self serving, but yeah.Sam Mullins: It would be, wouldn't it look the first thing that comes to mind is, I've actually been reading my way through Mick Herron's Slow Horses series, okay, which I'm a big fan of detective fiction. I love Ian Rankin's Rebus. Okay, I read through Rebus endlessly when I want something just to escape into the sloughhouse series Slow Horses is really good, and the books all have a sort of similar kind of momentum to them. Something weird happens in the first few chapters, which seems very inconsequential and. Suddenly it turns into this kind of roller coaster. Will they? Won't they? You know, ending, which is just great. So I recommend Mick Herron's series. That's that's been the best, not best, fiction I've read in a long time.Paul Marden: You know, I think there's something, there's something nice, something comforting, about reading a series of books where the way the book is structured is very similar. You can, you can sit down and you know what's going to happen, but, but there's something interesting, and it's, it's easy. Sam Mullins: It's like putting on a pair of old slippers. Oh, I'm comfortable with this. Just lead me along. You know, that's what, that's what I want. I enjoy that immensely.Paul Marden: And should we be? Should we be inviting our listeners to the first book in the series, or do they need to start once, once he's got his, got his, found his way? Sam Mullins: Well, some people would have seen the television adaptation already. Well, that will have spoilt the book for them. Gary Oldman is Jackson lamb, who's the lead character, okay, but if you haven't, or you just like a damn good read, then you start with the first one, which I think is called Sloughhouse. They're all self contained, but you can work your way through them. Paul Marden: Well, that sounds very good. So listeners, if you'd like a copy of Sam's book, not Sam's book, Sam's book recommendation, then head over to Bluesky and repost the show notice and say, I want a copy of Sam's book, and the first one of you lovely listeners that does that will get a copy sent to you by Wenalyn. Sam This has been delightful. I hope listeners have enjoyed this as much as I have. This is our first time having a @skipthequeue in real life, where we wandered around the attraction itself and hopefully narrated our way bringing this amazing attraction to life. I've really enjoyed it. I can now say that as a West Country lad, I have actually been to the SS Great Britain. Last thing to say for visitor, for listeners, we are currently midway through the Rubber Cheese Annual Survey of visitor attraction websites. Paul Marden: If you look after an attraction website and you'd like to share some information about what you do, we are gathering all of that data together to produce a report that helps people to understand what good looks like for an attraction website. This is our fourth year. Listeners that are interested, head over to RubberCheese.com/survey, and you can find out a little bit more about the survey and some of the some of the findings from the past and what we're looking for for this year. Sam, thank you so very much.Sam Mullins: Enjoyed it too. It's always good to rabbit on about what you do every day of the week, and being here and part of this really great organisation is huge privilege.Paul Marden: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others to find us. Skip The Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them to increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcripts from this episode and more over on our website, skipthequeue fm. The 2025 Visitor Attraction Website Survey is now LIVE! Dive into groundbreaking benchmarks for the industryGain a better understanding of how to achieve the highest conversion ratesExplore the "why" behind visitor attraction site performanceLearn the impact of website optimisation and visitor engagement on conversion ratesUncover key steps to enhance user experience for greater conversionsTake the Rubber Cheese Visitor Attraction Website Survey Report

WISCO SPORTS SHOW with Grant Bilse
Grant enjoyed watching Freddy! Jack Stern

WISCO SPORTS SHOW with Grant Bilse

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025 92:20


Grant praises Freddy Peralta for his start vs. LA and continues to pick over Murph's comments about Joey Ortiz. Jack Stern from Brewer Fanatic joins in Hour 2. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's Cookin' Today on CRN
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What's Cookin' Today on CRN

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025


Science Busters Podcast
Wie man die erste Sprosse der Extragalaktischen Distanzleiter erklimmt - SBP108

Science Busters Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2025 65:37 Transcription Available


In der 108. Ausgabe des Science Busters Podcasts feiern Kabarettist Martin Puntigam und die Astronomin und Planetariumsdirektorin Ruth Grützbauch den 100. Geburtstag der Extragalaktik und das Ende der Milchstraße. Und besprechen, was man mit der Parallaxe machen kann, wie weit man mit einem Daumen kommet, wieso die Nebel im All Karriere gemacht haben, ob man Forscher:innen aus vergangenen Jahrhunderten beneiden sollte, wie heimelig das Milchstraßen-Universum war, warum ungeheizte Sternwarten das Beobachten begünstigen, wann das Computer-Model Henrietta Leavitt auf den Markt gekommen ist, wie man eine Periodenleuchtkraftbeziehung führt, warum Astronominnen lieber heiraten hätten sollen statt zu studieren, ob Edwin Hubble und Henrietta Leavitt persönlich bekannt waren, was man mit Cepheiden anfangen kann, wie ein Stern die Milchstraße vom Universum zur Galaxie degradierte, wieso Hubble mit der Entdeckung des Universums nicht glücklich war, wo die Milchstraße wirklich endet, was das Wienerlied damit zu tun hat und wo sich Halo und Halo Hallo sagen.

Awakening Code Radio
Vijaya Stern and Sarah Beck

Awakening Code Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2025 113:20


Michelle takes the helm in this episode, welcoming two of her "golden girlfriends" Ayurvedic Naturopath Vijaya Stern and spiritual guide Sarah Beck to the studio. Together, they explore themes of personal growth, holistic wellness, and living with greater awareness.

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Eclectic Gamers Podcast - Pinball & Video Games
Episode 249 - Steelbound for Battlefield

Eclectic Gamers Podcast - Pinball & Video Games

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2025 67:53


Pinball: We discuss Stern Pinball's new premium version of Jaws for the 50th Anniversary of the film, For Amusement Only's newly announced title Steelbound for the P3, CGC's delay on Cactus Canyon Expansion kits, and finally a discussion topic on what it means to be a pinball collector. Video Games: We talk about Summer Games Done Quick, Helldivers 2 coming to Xbox, EA's expectations for Battlefield 6, and Microsoft's mass layoffs impacting their Xbox division. Episode Links: Bloody Disgusting article on Stern's Jaws 50th pin: https://bloody-disgusting.com/video-games/3886613/stern-pinball-celebrates-jaws-50th-anniversary-with-new-pinball-machine-launch-at-sdcc/ Pinball News article on Steelbound's announcement: https://www.pinballnews.com/site/2025/07/01/steelbound-announced/ Knapp Arcade article covering the CGC Cactus Expansion delay: https://www.knapparcade.org/post/chicago-gaming-company-delays-cactus-canyon-expansion-again-jaws-50th-pinball-to-make-public-debut Show Links: EGP Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/eclectic_gamers Website: http://eclecticgamers.com EGP T-shirts: https://teespring.com/stores/eclectic-gamers-podcast iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/eclectic-gamers-podcast/id1088802706?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-465086826 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/eclecticgamerspodcast/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC40Frd1Fep4u5bjrw3cvwoQ Discord: https://discord.gg/sgnrsBT Email: eclecticgamerspodcast@gmail.com

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Les histoires de 28 Minutes

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2025 46:05


L'émission 28 minutes du 05/07/2025 Ce samedi, Renaud Dély décrypte l'actualité avec le regard international de nos clubistes :  Juan Jose Dorado, correspondant espagnol à Paris, Martial Ze Belinga, économiste et sociologue, Anna Kowalska, correspondante de la télévision publique polonaise TVP et la dessinatrice de presse à l'hebdomadaire allemand “Stern”, Dorthe Landschulz.La climatisation : une solution démagogique pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique ?Alors que ce début d'été 2025 est marqué par des températures caniculaires dans toute l'Europe, la question de l'adaptation aux vagues de chaleur devient pressante. En France, entre aménagement des horaires de travail, réflexion sur l'urbanisme et refonte des infrastructures, les pistes apparaissent nombreuses. Pourtant, c'est davantage la climatisation qui s'est invitée au cœur d'un débat de plus en plus idéologique. Marine Le Pen (RN)  a promis un « grand plan climatisation » si elle accédait au pouvoir. Une déclaration qui n'a pas manqué de faire réagir à gauche, notamment Marine Tondelier (EELV), qui a raillé cette solution jugée simpliste face à une crise systémique. Le RN est-il en train de faire de la climatisation un étendard populiste dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique ? Ce débat autour de la “clim” est-il circonscrit à l'Hexagone ?Guerre en Ukraine : Trump va-t-il lâcher Kiev ?Voilà qui semble un aveu d'abandon. Après un récent échange téléphonique avec Vladimir Poutine, Donald Trump semble buter sur la réalité de la guerre en Ukraine, reconnaissant n'avoir obtenu “aucun progrès” sur le front diplomatique. Dans la foulée, Washington a annoncé, à la surprise générale, la suspension temporaire de plusieurs livraisons d'armes à Kiev. Officiellement, il s'agit de “préserver les intérêts américains”, selon la Maison Blanche, alors que les stocks de l'armée s'amenuisent. Un rééquilibrage stratégique ou le début d'un désengagement ?  Nous recevons en invité de la semaine Cyril Thomas, maître de conférence en psychologie cognitive à l'Université Marie et Louis Pasteur et créateur de tours pour prestidigitateurs internationaux. Dans “Les Secrets de la prestidigitation. Comment les magiciens manipulent notre esprit”, paru chez Odile Jacob, le chercheur démontre et analyse comment les tours de magie “tirent parti du fonctionnement de notre attention, de nos failles cognitives et de nos biais de raisonnements”. Valérie Brochard nous donne des nouvelles de nos chers voisins belges. Leur ministre des Classes moyennes, des Indépendants et des PME, Éléonore Simonet, vient de proposer une mesure consistant à affilier les trafiquants condamnés au régime social des indépendants. Objectif : imposer rétroactivement leurs revenus illégaux, tout en suspendant leurs aides sociales.Olivier Boucreux décerne le titre d'employé de la semaine à Mette Frederiksen, surnommée “la dame de fer du Danemark”. Le pays assure, depuis le 1er juillet dernier, la présidence tournante de l'Union européenne. Portrait.Fred Pommier zappe sur la télévision britannique où, une nouvelle suscite nombre de commentaires : Charles III dit adieu au train royal, privilège des Windsor depuis 1977. Marjorie Adelson s'intéresse à un fait de société, celui des divorces gris, qui démontre que l'on n'hésite plus à divorcer passé les 50 ans.Enfin, ne manquez pas la question très intéressante de David Castello-Lopes : demain, y aura-t-il toujours des bananes ?28 minutes est le magazine d'actualité d'ARTE, présenté par Élisabeth Quin du lundi au jeudi à 20h05. Renaud Dély est aux commandes de l'émission le vendredi et le samedi. Ce podcast est coproduit par KM et ARTE Radio. Enregistrement 5 juillet 2025 Présentation Renaud Dély Production KM, ARTE Radio

Cyber Briefing
July 04, 2025 - Cyber Briefing

Cyber Briefing

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2025 9:30


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Poor Man's Pinball Podcast
PNP 628- Jaws 50th Top 5 Rad

Poor Man's Pinball Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2025 29:43


Orby is back with a new mic, feeling refreshed from a vacation, and back just in time for Jaws 50th!

What's Cookin' Today on CRN
Strange USA: Historical Oddities, Roadside Rarities, Unique Eats, And Amazing Americans, Beer Trends & History

What's Cookin' Today on CRN

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2025


The Flipside Pinball Podcast
Episode 35: JAWS 50th Anniversary Edition Revealed… But the Real Surprise? Stern's Code Updates!

The Flipside Pinball Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2025 33:06


Stern Pinball just revealed the long-rumored JAWS 50th Anniversary Edition! In this episode, we react to the reveal and dive into the art, features, and whether it lives up to the hype. But that's not all...Stern also dropped major code updates for several games that really needed it. We break it all down!

The CMO Podcast
Elizabeth Rutledge (American Express) | The Customer at the Center of Everything

The CMO Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 48:15


Jim's guest this week on The CMO Podcast is Elizabeth Rutledge, the Chief Marketing Officer of American Express. Elizabeth is a unique CMO–she has been at AmEx for her entire career of 35 years, and she has been CMO for seven of those years. AmEx's stock was about $4 when Elizabeth joined, and it is about $300 currently. More trivia–American Express was founded in 1850–one of the oldest brands in the world. Elizabeth graduated from Princeton, and earned her MBA from the Stern school at NYU. Recorded in person at the Deloitte Apartment at the Cannes Festival of Creativity, join the two for Jim's conversation with the CMO of a 175-year-old brand that is certainly not behaving that way.---This week's episode is brought to you by Deloitte and StrawberryFrog.Learn more: https://strawberryfrog.com/jimSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Take A T.O. With Turner And O'Neill
Live From The Capitol Hoops Summer League (Pt. I) With Marc Stern | 6.25.2025

Take A T.O. With Turner And O'Neill

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 41:03


Welcome to The Capitol Hoops Summer League @ DeMatha Summer Series of The DMV Hoops Podcast.  We are broadcasting from DeMatha Catholic HS, for the entirety of the 2025 Summer League.  Check in with us throughout the summer for player & coach interviews, live look-ins & more!In this episode, we sit down with...Capitol Hoops Summer League Commissioner Marc Stern.  This is a must listen as you'll get an inside look at what it takes to manage 50+ teams and 230+ games during the Capitol Hoops Summer League.  From interns to sponsors... officials to scheduling, you'll get straight talk from Marc Stern during playoffs time.  We discuss the NIT championship, The Governor's Challenge, the social media efforts and then some.***BONUS CONVERSATION***One of the area's most experienced Officials Tyrone Conyers steps in to discuss his perspective on today's high school game, how the game has changed in his 20+ years and how he has managed the increasing voice that players, coaches and fans seem to have.Listen to all of this & more in this episode of "The DMV Hoops Podcast."Kurt Cross - Producer & Host | Adam Crain - On Air TalentFollow On InstagramFollow On X/TwitterSports, DMV, Basketball, Kurt Cross, Hoops, Adam Crain, DMV Hoops, AAU, Capitol Hoops, Summer League, Marc Stern, Tyrone ConyersSupport the show

What's Cookin' Today on CRN
Wines Under $20, Grilling Secrets For National Grilling Month

What's Cookin' Today on CRN

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025


Brewers Coverage
Monday, June 30th: Jack Stern Joins WSD!

Brewers Coverage

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2025 14:58


Jack Stern of Brewer Fanatic joins Wisconsin Sports Daily to discuss how close Brandon Woodruff is to finally finishing his rehab assignment. Jack talks how Woodruff & Nestor Cortes both returning to the rotation soon will affect the MLB roster.

On The House with Spartan
Stephen Stern, Insurance for Real Estate Investors

On The House with Spartan

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2025 29:58


In this episode of On the House with Spartan Invest, host Lindsay Davis speaks with Steven Stern, vice president of Stern Risk Partners, about the intricacies of homeowner and rental property insurance. They discuss the differences in insurance needs for landlords versus homeowners, the evolving landscape of the insurance industry, and the impact of location and tort reform on insurance costs. Steven shares essential insurance tips for real estate investors, including the importance of tenant liability insurance and the differences between actual cash value and replacement cost value. He emphasizes the need for education in navigating the insurance market and choosing the right provider.To learn more about our full-service turnkey operations, check us out online at www.spartaninvest.comConnect with Spartan!Facebook: @spartanTURNKEYInstagram: @spartaninvestLinkedIn: @spartaninvestConnect with Lindsay!Facebook: @spartanlindsaydavisInstagram: @spartanlindsaydavis

Dental Assistant Nation
Episode 390: The Real Reason Dental Offices Feel So Stressful — And How to Fix It

Dental Assistant Nation

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2025 16:31


When dentists and dental assistants support each other, everything gets better In this episode, Dr. Alan Stern opens up about the hidden tension that lives inside many dental practices—not between patients and staff, but between dentists and dental assistants themselves. He shares why miscommunication, lack of feedback, and unspoken expectations are doing more damage than any full schedule ever could. Dr. Stern challenges the old top-down model of dental leadership and makes the case for a more human approach—where assistants feel empowered, dentists feel supported, and mutual respect drives the entire practice forward. From hiring the right fit to giving feedback with empathy, this conversation is a blueprint for reducing stress and creating a workplace people actually want to be part of. If your office feels tense, this episode might explain exactly why—and how to finally fix it. Connect with Alan: Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/betterricherstronger/ Email: Alan@betterricherstronger.com —-------------------------------------------- Hey friends—cool news! The Dental Assistant Nation Podcast was featured on Feedspot's Top 100 Dental Podcasts and their Top Dental Assistant Podcasts list. Huge thanks to you for listening, subscribing, and supporting the show. Couldn't have done it without you. Go check it out—we're listed alongside some amazing shows! 100 Best Dental Podcasts - https://podcast.feedspot.com/dental_podcasts/ 4 Best Dental Assistant Podcasts - https://podcast.feedspot.com/dental_assistant_podcasts/ —--------------------------------------------

Echo der Zeit
Supreme Court-Urteil zu US-Geburtsrecht

Echo der Zeit

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 39:30


In den USA geborene Kinder sollen nicht mehr automatisch die US-Staatsbürgerschaft erhalten. Das hat Präsident Donald Trump am ersten Tag seiner zweiten Amtszeit per Dekret verfügt. Die Verordnung wurde rasch angefochten – nun hat der Supreme Court das Urteil veröffentlicht. (00:00) Intro und Schlagzeilen (01:16) Supreme Court-Urteil zu US-Geburtsrecht (06:23) Nachrichtenübersicht (10:49) In welche Richtung steuert Lars Klingbeil die SPD? (17:18) Italiens Aufrüstungspläne stehen unter keinem guten Stern (21:48) Der Dollar im Sinkflug (26:55) Ferien für Lehrlinge: Wie viele Wochen sind genug? (31:52) Holzhäuser für die Ukraine

Daily Devotionals with Pastor Xavier Ries
6/26/2025 A Stern Judgement for the Rich (James 5:4-6) C

Daily Devotionals with Pastor Xavier Ries

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 4:07


Thursday, June 26, 2025

The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Dan Soder

Jay reenacts a classic radio bit originated by Howard Stern. Back in the day, Stern made headlines pleasuring listeners by humming in his microphone and they would straddle their speaker. In this updated version of radio history, Bob and Jay do the buzzing with their mouths and Bonfire campers put their phones in their pockets. Find out if they recreate broadcasting magic. | A caller requests an update on one of Jay's favorite people, Corey Feldman. Jay takes everyone through the timeline of his obsession and sings a song in the style of the Feldog. | One member of the group Wilson Philips once posed for Playboy, and it's the least likely of the three songbirds. *To hear the full show to go www.siriusxm.com/bonfire to learn more FOLLOW THE CREW ON SOCIAL MEDIA: @thebonfiresxm @louisjohnson @christinemevans @bigjayoakerson @robertkellylive @louwitzkee @jjbwolfSubscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of The Bonfire ad-free and a whole week early.  Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.

The Phillip Scott Audio Experience
Latina Says She's Appalled That FBAs Aren't Protesting With Them & Gives Stern Warning.

The Phillip Scott Audio Experience

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 17:53


Daily Devotionals with Pastor Xavier Ries
6/25/2025 A Stern Judgement for the Rich (James 5:4-6) B

Daily Devotionals with Pastor Xavier Ries

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 4:07


Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Let’s Talk Memoir
179. Taking Risks with Genre and Form featuring Erica Stern

Let’s Talk Memoir

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 33:37


Erica Stern joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation about self-interrogation and taking risks to tell the story we need to, exploring the liminality of a lived experience through the speculative, hybrid memoir and leaning into history and research to illuminate and deepen understanding, the unexpected complications she experienced in childbirth, the historical misogyny in U.S. medical system, the male takeover of birth, how trauma can stunt empathy, trusting the work will go where it needs to go, giving our projects time and space to grow, when publishers and editors are not quite sure what to make of your book, exercising control over the uncontrollable, the long road to publishing, capturing the timelessness of an experience, and her new book Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story.    Also in this episode:  -discovering material through writing -meditations on the history of childbirth -when an editor encourages you to make your book even more like itself   Books mentioned in this episode:   -The Suicide Index by Joan Wickersham -An Encyclopedia of Bending Time by Kristen Keane -My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shaplans -A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk   Erica Stern's work has been published in The Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Erica received her undergraduate degree in English from Yale and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native of New Orleans, she now lives with her family in Evanston, Illinois.   Connect with Erica: Website: erica-stern.com Instagram: @ericasternwriter Substack: @ericastern Bluesky: @ericarstern.bsky.social Get the book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/frontier-a-memoir-and-a-ghost-story/876292ffe52fe93f?ean=9798985008937&next=t&next=t https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/frontier-erica-stern/1146916883?ean=9798985008937 https://www.barrelhousemag.com/books/frontier-erica-stern   – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book. More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social   Background photo credit: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll's Fingers

Daily Devotionals with Pastor Xavier Ries
6/24/2025 A Stern Judgement for the Rich (James 5:4-6) A

Daily Devotionals with Pastor Xavier Ries

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 4:07


Tuesday, June 24, 2025

BMitch & Finlay
Hour 3: Joe Beninati Talks Caps Season, Marc Stern Discusses High School Basketball

BMitch & Finlay

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 36:06


Joe Beninati Talks Capitals At The Course Marc Stern of Capitol Hoops Discusses High School Hoops

You're Wrong About
The Hitler Diaries with Adrian Daub

You're Wrong About

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 84:40


What happens when you're just a little too good at forging the diaries of Adolf Hitler? And why did so many people want to read them? In 1983, the West German news magazine Stern bought sixty volumes of forged journals and held a press conference to announce their publication. This week, Adrian Daub of podcasts In Bed With the Right and The Feminist Present is here to tell us all about what would be the publishing hoax to end all hoaxes…if only the book in question wasn't so boring. More about Adrian Daub:https://www.adriandaub.com/More about the Hitler Diaries (German language podcast):https://www.stern.de/faking-hitler/Support You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merchWhere else to find us:Sarah's other show, You Are GoodSupport the show

Morbid
Episode 677: The Murder of Anthony LoConte

Morbid

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 47:38


On the evening of May 10, 1988, a passing driver on Howard Street in Brockton, MA, stopped to investigate something unusual on the side of the road. When the driver got closer to what they thought was a bag, they realized it was actually the body of twenty-four-year-old Anthony LoConte, bleeding badly from injuries to his face and head.Initially, investigators believed LoConte was the victim of a hit-and-run accident; however, when the coroner examined the body, he discovered a bullet hole in the back of LoConte's head, indicating that he'd been murdered.It took twelve years for investigators to track down LoConte's killer, but in the winter of 2000, California Highway Patrol arrested Robert Morganti on drug charges and a quick background check connected them to a 1988 warrant for Morganti for the murder of Anthony LoConte. Robert Morganti was extradited back to Massachusetts, where he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for LoConte's murder. However, due to a controversial 2024 law concerning life sentences for young offenders, Robert Morganti could be granted parole in the near future.Consider signing the petition by visiting https://www.change.org/p/help-uncle-tony-uphold-mandatory-life-sentences-in-massachusetts-bill-s942 .Thank you to the Incredible Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research and Writing support!ReferencesBoston Globe. 1988. "Police believe drugs are linked to slaying of Brockton man." Boston Globe, May 12: 35.Boyle, Maureen. 2000. "Murder suspect caught in Calif." The Enterprise (Brockton, MA), March 21: 1.Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Robert J. Morganti. 2009. SJC-09830 (Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth, November 25).Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Robert J. Morganti. 2014. SJC-11281 (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, February 12).Peterson, Dave. 2000. "Murder suspect's long flght ends in Modesto." Modesto Bee, March 21: 1.Stern, Amelia. 2025. 'No remorse': Taunton woman devastated by ruling that could free her brother's killer. April 25. Accessed May 04, 2025. https://www.tauntongazette.com/story/news/courts/2025/04/25/taunton-ma-brockton-anthony-loconte-murder-victim-sjc-robert-morganti-parole/83271252007/.Stay in the know - wondery.fm/morbid-wondery.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.