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DoorGrow has been helping property management business owners transform and grow their businesses for over a decade… what's changed? In this episode of the #DoorGrowShow, property management growth experts Jason and Sarah Hull explore some of the things DoorGrow has been working on in the last 5 years to innovate the property management industry. You'll Learn [01:24] Why DoorGrow Continues to Innovate [06:94] Helping Property Managers Avoid Common Mistakes [13:23] Changes and Improvements to the DoorGrow Mastermind [21:52] Innovative New Sales Strategies Quotables “A lot of people think, ‘I just need more leads. I just need to turn that on.' And they ignore this hose that has six major leaks in it.” “If you ask them the right questions, people will basically sell themselves.” “It's like when you go to a buffet, you're not going to eat everything at the buffet… You only want to eat the things that you want right now.” “You are the sum of the five property management business owners that you're the most connected to.” Resources DoorGrow and Scale Mastermind DoorGrow Academy DoorGrow on YouTube DoorGrowClub DoorGrowLive Transcript [00:00:00] Sarah: Do you have any idea how powerful it is to be connected to a coach? 24 hours a day? Like there is no time in the world that you cannot message us. [00:00:08] Jason: All right. We are Jason and Sarah Hull, the owners of DoorGrow, the world's leading and most comprehensive coaching and consulting firm for long-term residential property management entrepreneurs. For over a decade and a half, we have brought innovative strategies and optimization to the property management industry. At DoorGrow, we have spoken to thousands of property management business owners, coached, consulted and cleaned up hundreds of businesses, helping them add doors, improved pricing, increase profit, simplify operations, and build and replace teams. We are like Bar Rescue for property managers. In fact, we have cleaned up and rebranded over 300 businesses and we run the leading property management mastermind for the industry with more video testimonials and reviews than any other coach or consultant in the industry. [00:00:59] Jason: At DoorGrow, we believe that good property managers can change the world, and that property management is the ultimate high trust gateway to real estate deals, relationships, and residual income. [00:01:09] Jason: At DoorGrow, we are on a mission to transform property management, business owners and their businesses. [00:01:13] Jason: We want to transform the industry, eliminate the bs, build awareness, change perception, expand the market, and help the best property management entrepreneurs win. Now let's get into the show. [00:01:24] Jason: Alright, so today, what are we talking about, Sarah? [00:01:28] Jason: We're talking about what's new. [00:01:30] Jason: So we've helped a lot of clients in the past, and if we've helped you three, five, maybe 10 years ago, there's been a lot that's changed at DoorGrow because we innovate and make changes pretty quickly, right? [00:01:44] Jason: And we've got systems for innovation in our business. And so, I think this is why we have the most comprehensive program in the industry and why nobody else can keep up with our pace and our level of creating and innovating and adding new stuff. And so a lot of you maybe have listened to this podcast a bit, maybe a while, maybe you're past clients. Maybe you've never worked with DoorGrow, but I'm going to talk about some of the stuff we've implemented since somebody was maybe a client in our older programs, like our seed program, or maybe did some initial marketing stuff with us back in the day. And so we're going to chat a little bit about what's new since then. [00:02:24] Jason: And so if you are a past client, this will be a great episode for you to catch up on what is new at DoorGrow. And if you'd like us to go deeper, I have a 37 minute video I recorded with slides on this subject going into a little bit more detail, but we're going to skim through some of this and help you understand there's a lot of innovation. [00:02:44] Jason: So if you had some connection with DoorGrow in the past, since then, we have become the world leaders at growing and scaling property management companies. And especially in the long term residential space. We've become the world leaders of property management branding. Like I said in the intro, we've rebranded over 300 companies. [00:03:04] Jason: We have launched hundreds of websites, more than we've done rebrands. And so hundreds and hundreds of websites. And we're still the leader in building responsive mobile friendly WordPress sites for property managers, which is the world's leading content management system. And if you're past client, you might be due for a website refresh. [00:03:24] Jason: We have over 70 different designs you can choose from, and they are clean designs, they're set up so that these sites, we call them seed sites, they're optimized for conversions, they're optimized to build trust. And so if it's, if you have an old website from us, you might be due for a refresh and we can certainly help you with that. [00:03:46] Jason: And past clients, we'll give you a discounted rate. So we're really great at doing websites for those that aren't a past client. And so, reach out, we can help you with that. And we include websites for free in some of our programs. You still have to pay like the support costs monthly, but the design piece, which normally is thousands of dollars to get a site built, we cover and take care of that. [00:04:09] Jason: That's included in our mastermind program. Related to that, we've also launched the world's leading mastermind for long-term residential property managers called The DoorGrow Mastermind. So, do you want to talk about this one? [00:04:22] Sarah: Sure. I guess. Okay. All right. So one of the things that we had launched, what, like two years ago now maybe? [00:04:29] Sarah: Yeah. Is what we call the DoorGrow code. So what we've done is we've just seen over the many years and over Jason talking with thousands of property managers. He's just amassed a whole bunch of data. And after that happens, then you start to kind of see some patterns. So. What we did is we created this whole map that lays out stage by stage and step by step. [00:04:56] Sarah: The various different ,I'm going to call them stages, of a property management business. So all the way from, "I'm brand new, I have no doors yet, not quite sure I really want to get started, but I, you know, I don't actually have any clients yet" to, "well, now I have my first client and then I'm growing up to, you know, 50, a hundred, 200, 300, 400 doors, all the way up to a thousand plus. So we've created this whole roadmap, and then if you're in the DoorGrow Mastermind, we also have created some corresponding belt levels. So we kind of like a martial arts system, we've created different color coded built levels that corresponds to both your door count and your income because both things are important. [00:05:43] Sarah: And what are the things that you need to do at each different stage in order to progress to the next level in your business? Meaning you are making more revenue, you're adding more doors, and hopefully you're stepping back a bit from the things that you're not loving in the business. [00:06:02] Jason: Yeah, and we call that the DoorGrow code, like we've cracked the code on growth and this is based on talking to thousands of property managers. [00:06:09] Jason: We started to notice a pattern. So if you'd like a copy of the DoorGrow code and see where you're at and stuck, reach out to us. We'd be happy to send you a copy. Just shoot us a DM on any social platform. Say, Hey. Just send us the word code and we'll, we can send you information about the DoorGrow code and that'll help you get some clarity on where you're at. [00:06:28] Jason: So that's been a game changer. We used to have this old program called the Seed Program, where we would kind of clean up their business and get it ready for growth. And it used to be a six month program. Some clients would take a year to do it. We've replaced that with a 90 day Rapid Revamp program, and so our Rapid Revamp program is even faster and this is where usually I use a diagram of a hose and there's like a faucet to turn on the hose. And that faucet Or spigot, it usually says lead generation. A lot of people think, "I just need more leads. I just need to turn that on." And they ignore this hose that has six major leaks in it, and so we've identified six major leaks, and so as part of this Rapid Revamp. [00:07:09] Jason: We spend like three months with clients, usually our newer clients that come on board, we do this first. This is like sharpening the ax before we go try to chop down trees, you know, try to do the work to grow the business, and we're optimizing it for growth and we're shoring up those six major leaks. [00:07:24] Jason: And the big leaks are branding, reviews, website, pricing, trust, and sales, your pitch. So we call it positioning, perception, presence, pricing, purpose, and pitch. And if we can get those things really well dialed in, we find that companies without even changing their lead gen sources, can double the amount of deals that they're getting on right now. [00:07:43] Jason: So if you feel like it's been hard and you can't see why, these are usually six major blind spots. And this is why it's been so hard. If we can get this stuff dialed in, even without changing any of the lead sources, however you're getting business right now, you could potentially double the amount of business you're getting on just by getting these leaks shored up. [00:08:02] Jason: And do you want to talk about pricing? [00:08:04] Sarah: Okay. Pricing is actually one of the things that we cover now in the Rapid Revamp. And what we've noticed is even companies that grow to a considerable door count, most of the times their pricing is still just not great. I think we have yet to see a business that their pricing is already optimized, so a lot of times, they're leaving money on the table, which is so awful. Because you're working so hard for your money. Yeah. And you're just not making enough of it. And there's some statistics and data from NARPM. If you ever look at the NARPM data and you look at what like the average property manager's profit margin is, it's pretty abysmal. Yeah. And this is one of the reasons why. [00:08:48] Sarah: It's not the like the only reason, but it's one of the big ones. It's one of the factors. Pricing. So what we've figured out is, hey, a lot of property managers, they just kind of go with the flow. They do what the competition in their market is doing. You know, they just kind of, sometimes they wing it and they go, I think this is good. [00:09:07] Sarah: And they put something together. And when we come in and take a look at it, we can find thousands of dollars more per year. So like Anthony O'Reilly Brookes just said a couple weeks ago on the pricing, he's like, oh, if I just do this one change, I don't even have to do all of these changes. He is like, if I just do this one change, then I can make myself an extra $26,000 a year. [00:09:28] Jason: Yeah. This is one of our clients. It was great. So yeah, so we had an old training. We were the first to roll out kind of the three tier sort of pricing model to bring this to the industry. The basic idea was based around the Goldilocks principle and how it's easier to sell if you have three different types of pricing based on three types of buyers. Pricing secrets, we've rolled out 2.0. [00:09:51] Jason: So some of our past clients, you've gone through our original pricing secrets. You've have maybe a three tier model or maybe at least three plans sort of. Some of you maybe have lease only as one of them, which we don't recommend anymore. But now we've got this three tier hybrid pricing model and I got some of the idea from Scott Brady, really brilliant property manager. [00:10:14] Jason: He was using a hybrid model for pricing out associations. I then put my own spin on it based on what I know about pricing psychology. And I believe this is the most ethical and easiest to sell model. And it allows you to be unique and sell against all your competitors and to kind of poison the well against flat fee companies or percentage based companies. [00:10:36] Jason: And so it gives you competitive advantage and it helps you close more deals more easily at higher price points. So we've got that. The next thing we've made some big advancements into sales. So some of you went through my old Sales secrets training and and this was old school sales, like it was based on NLP neurolinguistic programming. [00:10:57] Jason: It was based on different formulas of communication that some would maybe calm, manipulative, but the idea, and I would present at the beginning, like, don't be evil. You know, like, these are powerful techniques. Well, a lot of the old school sort of sales tactics of high pressure closing and a lot of training you get from most salespeople and people that are known for sales really isn't working in the last three to five years. [00:11:23] Jason: And so there's kind of this new model of selling that needs to be done. And because we're in this post trust era, like everybody's been kind of exposed and woken up a little bit that everything's kind of fake. The news is fake. The pandemic's fake. Voting's fake. Like, like nobody knows who to trust or what to trust because we realize we've just been gaslighted and lied to by everything. Especially the government and powers that are over us. And so nobody trusts anything anymore. And so there's a new model of selling that allows you to create trust that we've learned and rolled out, and we get into some cool tactics like the three dominoes to creating the ultimate pitch. [00:12:05] Jason: I have a model of four phase selling, which is a simple framework for understanding four simple phrases to take people through when having a conversation. And then our Golden Bridge formula, which is even if you learn nothing else, is the ultimate sales hack to just creating authentic trust and connection with somebody, which is the crux of sales. [00:12:25] Jason: You know? And so this is high trust selling, figuring out your personal golden bridge I've used for years in my own sales and in getting on clients, and it's why people trust me so much. And so we'll help you figure out your own. And then we get into this whole new model of selling, which has multiple phases that helps people get their own clarity. [00:12:44] Jason: And what I've realized is people don't understand their problems and what they need, and until you ask them the right questions, and so if you ask them the right questions, people will basically sell themselves. You don't have to push, be pushy In sales, this is more about being empathetic, curious, asking questions, and it feels very good to be sold to in this way, if you could even call it selling. It's really coaching. And so I'm teaching you how to do that as well in this training. And then we've also added recently offer documents, sales trackers, like some really cool stuff that we use at DoorGrow to close deals and that are helping our clients increase their close rates significantly. [00:13:23] Jason: So we made a lot of improvements to our coaching program. Maybe you could talk about some of those things. [00:13:30] Sarah: Yeah. So there... man, I feel like since I stepped into DoorGrow, we changed everything, so. [00:13:37] Jason: We did. [00:13:38] Sarah: Which is great because it's like there's a lot of things that we wanted to improve, and there were a lot of things that we wanted to add. So I think one of the best things for me anyway, is I really love the Jumpstart events. So if you join the DoorGrow Mastermind as a newer client, then part of your launch package is going to be an in-person deep dive into your business with Jason and myself, you spend the whole day together with a small group of property managers. [00:14:08] Sarah: We keep it small because I cannot do a deep dive with like 10 people or 20 people. So we do a very small group. Yeah, and we really get into the weeds. We get into the nitty gritty. You walk away with a very clear action plan. You know exactly what to be doing, and you just get so much clarity and connection with other property managers that are attending that event, which is really great because after the event, those people, they stick together for a while, you know? [00:14:36] Sarah: Yeah. [00:14:36] Jason: Create some nice connections. We rolled out the jumpstart sessions because we started to notice a pattern that when clients would meet us in person or come to DoorGrow Live or conference or anything in person, they would suddenly realize psychologically we were real people. There's just something psychologically about video Zoom calls video trainings in DoorGrow Academy. [00:15:00] Jason: That's not real to our brain. And so I call it the real bubble. And we've realized if we can pop that real bubble from the beginning, clients' perception of and recognizing that we're real people, then that translates into the things that we teach are real. And the things and the results clients are getting are real. [00:15:18] Jason: And so they start to get way better results. And so we want to give people that experience from the beginning, and we've got a much better outcome from all of our clients by getting them to do these in-person things towards the beginning of them joining DoorGrow's Mastermind and they're getting way better results. [00:15:36] Jason: They recognize that this is all real stuff and so they absorb the content in all the information in a completely different way, which is really powerful, so. [00:15:45] Sarah: And I would also say in addition to that too, though, if you had worked with us prior to what, four years ago? I would say probably four is the right answer. [00:15:56] Sarah: If you worked with us anytime before that, we recognized onboarding was very hectic and it was, oh man, it's really overwhelming. Everybody was like, "oh my God, there's so much information and I don't know what to do," and then they try to take it all in and they're overwhelmed and they're focusing on the wrong things. [00:16:13] Sarah: And then they have a bunch of questions and they're trying to like, jump on the calls to get their questions answered. So we did a few things. And the best thing that we have rolled out is. We have a really solid, streamlined onboarding process now. [00:16:29] Jason: Yeah. [00:16:29] Sarah: So we take you through a very proven like we have a whole course on DoorGrow Academy on onboarding to make sure that you get into all of the tools. You have access to everything. You know how to use it. Because just because you have it, doesn't mean you know how to use it. Yeah. And then that you're connected with our team. Because there are still some times that people are like, "oh, I didn't even know I could talk to Madi. Oh, I didn't know I could talk to Giselle." Or like, "oh, I didn't realize I could do that." Yeah, you absolutely can. We have a whole team to support you. So we make sure that you're connected with the right tools. We make sure you're connected with the team. You get on like a couple of 15 minute coaching calls with our like onboarding specialist right at the beginning just to make sure, like we're going to walk you through everything. We're going to check everything, we're going to explain everything to you, make sure you're on telegram, make sure you're connected to our entire team. And then they get a brand new thing that we had rolled out in addition that we added to onboarding is our client workbooks. [00:17:26] Sarah: So one of the things that everybody says is, "oh my God, it's like drinking out of a fire hose." I hear this almost from every client. [00:17:33] Jason: Yeah. That analogy comes up all the time. It's like drinking out of a fire hose. Like they say it all the time. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, oh my God, there's so much, there's so much available. [00:17:41] Jason: Yes, there is. So we help them get focused. [00:17:43] Sarah: And that's great. But it's like when you go to a buffet you're not going to eat everything at the buffet. [00:17:48] Jason: No. [00:17:49] Sarah: You only want to eat the things that you want right now. Yeah. And maybe you're like, oh, I'm saving room for dessert later. I know. Like, I'm going to pace myself because I want dessert later for sure. And that's great because you're not ready for dessert now. So it's not that you skip it, it's just that you don't need it right now. So we have a much better system of figuring out what do you need right now. So it's a lot more personalized, it's a lot more customized and then you're able to go through a proven roadmap that's for your business and for your stage. And a lot of that lives in our client workbooks. And that way there's like one place to refer to, you know your belt level requirements. You know your Rapid Revamp to do items. You know what the homework is that you're supposed to be doing. Your sales tracker lives in there and all of your action items and to do items, they're all in there, so you know exactly what to be doing and there's one document to refer to that makes it really easy. [00:18:45] Jason: And when you talk to a coach, we'll map out exactly what you know, we want to figure out your goals, and then we map out tactical items for you to check off and to work on specific to you. And so, even though we've got some different, you know, paths and formulas and classes, we always tailor this to our clients. [00:19:02] Jason: And the client workbook really helps that communication. It literally gets us on the same page, right? Yeah. Together. So, we've added client Success manager, my daughter Madi, who manages all her social media, does all our video editing. She is now also our client success manager, and she's amazing at that. [00:19:17] Jason: So we've had a couple different client success managers over the years and that's really helped improve the connection clients have, the clarity they have, and we also have giselle on our team who can find anything for clients and help them find things. [00:19:32] Sarah: Giselle is like ai, but she's not. [00:19:34] Jason: Right. Yeah. [00:19:36] Sarah: She's the best human AI I've ever seen. [00:19:40] Jason: Yeah. So, and so we've got really good support systems for our clients. We also now leverage Telegram Messenger. We used to use Voxer. Some of my clients in the past, maybe remember Voxer. So I think we've upgraded by using Telegram Messenger for sure. [00:19:54] Jason: And it's a lot more reliable. And so we coach clients directly through it. Walkie-talkie style. They can answer questions anytime. So that's been really effective. [00:20:01] Sarah: And I mean, that's super powerful too because, yeah, this is the one thing that I like, especially in the Rapid Revamp. I harp on this a lot. [00:20:08] Sarah: Do you have any idea how powerful it is to be connected to a coach? 24 hours a day? Like there is no time in the world that you cannot message us. Yeah. So you can message Jason, you can message me, you can message our whole client success team, including Madi. You can message us any time at all. [00:20:25] Sarah: It doesn't mean we're going to get back to you immediately. Sure. But we get back to you pretty darn quickly. Yeah. And out of all the communication channels, those are the ones that we check the most. So like Jason will never check his email. So if you ever email Jason, it's a black hole, don't do it. [00:20:41] Jason: Someone else will read it. Eventually [00:20:42] Sarah: But Telegram, he checks Telegram a lot. And I check Telegram. I mean, I message people sometimes back at midnight, like if they send me a message at 11 and I'm still awake at midnight, I'm like, okay. I'm like messaging you in bed. I have no problem doing that. [00:20:55] Sarah: But you're connected very easily and very quickly to a coach who can rapidly answer questions. And it's not, you know, it's not like this cumbersome thing where you're like, "oh, I have to get on a call and figure out a time that works for me." Right? Like it works for you all the time because you just send a message. [00:21:12] Jason: Yeah. So that's been real effective. We've got three different weekly group coaching calls. We've got a Rapid Revamp class where we're optimizing the product of the business. And getting the business dialed up and ready for growth. Then we've got our Growth Accelerator class that we do. So the Rapid Revamp's on Tuesdays. Growth Accelerator is on Wednesdays, and this is where we focus on just adding doors. [00:21:34] Jason: We work with BDMs, we work with salespeople, we work with business owners to figure out how to grow and working on different growth engines. And then we have our Friday class, which is our operations class where we get into creating scalable operations so that you can handle high paced growth without the business falling apart. [00:21:52] Jason: So, we've also added in our Growth Accelerator, we've added a bunch of different growth engines. These are different sort of vehicles or engines you can build in your business that feed you business organically without having to pay for marketing or advertising. And it's actually more effective than any cold lead advertising we've seen to date. [00:22:12] Jason: We just brought on a client with 6,000 doors that was spending 30 grand a month. Trying to do internet marketing and digital marketing to grow their business, and they reached out to us for help. And so we're giving them a better strategy of leveraging business development managers in each market doing organic outreach, and they're going to grow way faster. [00:22:29] Jason: And it's going to cost them way less money. Way less. Right. [00:22:32] Sarah: And for those of you that are doing paid marketing, do you think you can outspend someone who's spending $30,000 a month? [00:22:38] Jason: Right. And the reality is there's very little search volume of people looking for property management on the internet, and that's what all of the companies are competing in that red bloody water. And there's tons of blue ocean of people. 60% are self-managing. There's no scarcity. And so we help you get these different growth engines dialed in and we've got great tactics like you know, product research interviews, realtor intros, which is 10 times more effective than realtor referrals, which a lot of you try and it doesn't work super well. [00:23:05] Jason: We've got you know, some clever tactics of going direct to investors. We also launched this ROI calculator that's pretty brilliant. That goes along with our realtor intro strategy. We've got the neighbor strategy. Which helps you get business from neighboring property management companies, which is really brilliant. [00:23:23] Jason: We've got warm review outreach, which will help you get better reviews, help you increase the lifetime value of your tenants and owners, and help you get more referrals from your existing clients. And so that can be real effective. Any one of these has helped our clients at a hundred to 200 doors a year organically, and you can install as many of these as you want. [00:23:42] Jason: We've got outbound partner prospecting where you can go after lenders, insurance agents, attorneys, vendors, and another example is groups like one to many sales and how to, instead of walking away from a group interaction where you hope maybe you'll get a lead or a referral or something, you walk away with scheduled, booked calls and can make money. [00:24:04] Jason: So, cool. So those are some of our growth engines. Let's talk about, this is new. [00:24:09] Sarah: I love talking about DoorGrow Hiring. We could do a whole podcast episode on just that alone. Sure. And this is not specific just to property management businesses, this is businesses in general. Yeah. They. Really struggle with hiring. [00:24:22] Sarah: It's hard. It is so challenging and what usually happens is you wait until you're in pain and then you hurry up to hire and then your situation gets worse than it was before. And then, now you've got, you know, some scar tissue and now you're like, oh, I don't think I want to hire. Or like, ah, there's no good people out there. [00:24:44] Sarah: Like, I've been burned before. And it's because people approach everything pretty much the wrong way. Yeah. So we built this into entire system that's called DoorGrow Hiring. And we'll take people through it to make sure that you've got everything in line that you need ahead of time. So that you can actually be prepared to find the right person. We also give you proven processes to help you find the right people. Including things like your R Docs, which is just a fancy word for job description, your company culture. We build out your application, we put it on your website. We give you like the job postings. We give you an interview guide. [00:25:20] Sarah: I literally give you the words to use in an interview, these are the questions you're going to ask. This is the order you're going to ask them in, and these are the words you're going to say, and then that is it. We take you like step by step. So we created this whole system in order to help people find really great team members instead of playing Russian roulette with hiring, which is really dangerous. [00:25:45] Jason: Yeah. So, and the whole crux of it is focused on the three fits, which is finding the right culture fit, skill fit, and personality fit for the role. You cannot create those in people, you have to find them. And finding all three can be challenging and our whole hiring system's built around that. So, just three more things real quick. [00:26:03] Jason: One, we've focused on the five levels of exit. So a lot of property managers can't figure out how to exit the frontline work of the business, so they end up then selling the business because they're miserable in it. So we help you figure out how to get to there's five levels. We help you figure out how to get to somewhere in the middle where you're happiest and you're out of that frontline work without going all the way to exit five and selling the business and having a lack of purpose or you know, not having the business anymore and then trying to start something new and getting to the same level of problem in the video game and you keep losing against the same boss and whatever. So we help you figure out how to beat that boss in the video game. We also launched DoorGrow OS, which is a really robust planning system. [00:26:45] Jason: We have found some fundamental flaws in other planning systems, which are a step up. Just having one like EOS, Traction, Rocket Fuel, some of this kind of stuff. We've built something we believe is innovative and far better after working with some of the most brilliant operations people. And, probably in the world. [00:27:01] Jason: And so this is DoorGrow OS and this is our secret sauce at DoorGrow. And so we're helping people roll out and implement a planning cadence and system and get operators in place that can run this for you, the visionary entrepreneurs. So that your business runs smoothly and you can handle high-paced growth and have goals and get your team focused on the strategic side of the business rather than just being micromanaged through tactical work and task management. [00:27:29] Jason: And then this is the last item you want to talk about this one? [00:27:33] Sarah: Well, we've got our DoorGrow Live conference coming up, so I think you did the first one in like 2018. Then we took a break and then we brought them back. So yeah. We run our DoorGrow Live conference once a year, this is our big event, we open it up to clients, past clients, people who have never even worked with us. People who are in and around the property management industry, including real estate. Because if you're in real estate, you should seriously consider getting into property management, or at least knowing a property manager. And if you need to know a great property manager, there's going to be a lot of them in the room. [00:28:06] Sarah: So, the DoorGrow Live, it's a really powerful event. We bring in some fantastic speakers. It's always very motivational and very tactical, so no matter what it is that you're looking for from the event, you will find it there. And it's a great place to connect and meet people who are doing the same thing that you are doing. [00:28:28] Sarah: Because that is just such a powerful tool to be able to have a network of people that you can rely on and that understand you and understand what exactly you're trying to do and what you're going through. [00:28:40] Jason: Yeah, and we have some amazing vendors that sponsor the event. One of them told me this is the only event that they now do of all the property management events, because it's their favorite. It's the best one. Even though it's small compared to many. They love this one and they get so much value out of learning and being at it as an entrepreneur. And so that says a lot. And so, these are different property managers. [00:29:03] Jason: These are growth-minded people that invest in their businesses. These are not the people that are just trying to have a shitty vacation and escape and go to a bar. These are people that are focused on growth. And so if you want to be around the best in the industry DoorGrow Live is the place to be around the best, and you are the sum of the five property management business owners that you're the most connected to. [00:29:23] Jason: You know, birds of a feather flock together. So if you're growth minded, you want to be at this event. So, and by the time this airs, for a lot of you, if you're listening to this on Spotify or somewhere else. You may have already missed this year, so, but get your tickets and we've got some cool bonuses that we're giving to people if they attend. [00:29:40] Jason: So. Cool. That's it for today. If you have felt stuck or stagnant or want to take your property management business the next level, reach out to us at DoorGrow.com. Also join our free Facebook community just for property management business owners. We reject 70% of applicants doorgrowclub.com. And if you found this even a little bit helpful, don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review. [00:30:02] Jason: We'd really appreciate it. Until next time, remember, the slowest path to growth is to do it alone, so let's grow together. Bye everyone.
As the property management industry continues to evolve, it's important to stay up to date on the latest innovations in technology. In this episode of the #DoorGrowShow, property management growth expert Jason Hull sits down with David Normand from Vendoroo to talk about AI's role in the future of property management. You'll Learn [01:29] The AI Revolution [08:47] The Importance of Empathy and Human Touch [22:21] Decreasing the Cost of Maintenance Coordination [32:29] New Features Coming to Vendoroo Quotables “As any property manager believes, we know how to do it the best.” “If you're not reading articles and studying up on this, I think that's going to catch you by surprise pretty quickly.” “Empathy is the magic lubrication that makes everything better.” “Empathetic reflection and empathy is a magical ingredient.” Resources DoorGrow and Scale Mastermind DoorGrow Academy DoorGrow on YouTube DoorGrowClub DoorGrowLive Transcript [00:00:00] David: If you're not building AI tools from working with your partners, from being on the ground floor with them and using the data and building tools based upon the data and their pain points and their failures, buyer beware. If somebody's coming to you and saying, Hey, we figured this all out in the lab. [00:00:14] David: Come use it. Yeah. Right. Buyer beware. [00:00:18] Jason: All right. Welcome property management entrepreneurs to the DoorGrow Show or the Property Management Growth podcast. I'm Jason Hull, the founder and CEO of DoorGrow, the world's leading and most comprehensive group coaching mastermind for residential property management entrepreneurs. We've been doing this for over a decade and a half. [00:00:39] Jason: I've brought innovative strategies and optimizations to the property management industry. I have spoken to thousands of property management companies. I've coached over 600 businesses. I've rebranded over 300 companies like Bar Rescue for property managers, cleaning up their businesses, and we would love to help coach you and support you and your growth. [00:01:01] Jason: We have innovative strategies for building out growth engines, for building out your operational challenges, for helping you figure out how to get to the next level in your business and one of the cool tools that I'm excited to showcase today with my guest here, David Norman, is Vendoroo. We've had you on the show before. [00:01:19] Jason: Welcome back David. [00:01:20] David: Yeah. Thank you for having me. It felt like years ago, it was only about, I think eight months ago since we did this, so much has changed over the time, so it's great to be back. Yeah, it's great to be back. [00:01:29] Jason: Good to have you. I know you're in the middle of this AI revolution, which AI is just innovating and changing so rapidly. It probably does feel like years ago, so, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's been crazy. You guys have made a lot of changes too, so, you even changed your brand name from the last time we had you on the show. Yeah. Which was I think Tulu. Yeah. Right. And so, yeah. So why don't you get us caught up on what's going on 'cause, you know, there's been a lot. [00:01:55] David: Yeah. Yeah. Thank you first of all for having me here today, Jason, and from the entire Vendoroo group of us, which, you know, the team has grown 10 x over the past eight months, which has been awesome. And I just also wanted to start in thanking everybody from what we call our client partners who have jumped in into this great unknown that is AI and is going to be like, how is this going to work in our industry? And so that's really what we've been focusing on the past eight months. You know, it's been a unbelievable journey of both failures, successes learnings and insights. And ultimately we're getting excited here at the NARPM broker owner which is in Denver to unveil Vendoroo. Like this is the coming out party. And so we're super excited if you're going to be there. We have a massive booth that we have set up that we have the ai alliance with other people that are working in the AI space, and I really hope that you guys come over and check it out. I promise this. [00:02:53] David: You'll never see a booth or a display like we have set up. At the NARPM broker owner. So. [00:02:58] Jason: Now I want to go attend it. Yeah. Just so I can see your booth. [00:03:01] David: So, let me put it this way. You may see the robot from the Jetsons walking around the booth walking around the NARPM broker owner, so, okay. [00:03:07] David: Yeah. Rosie? Yeah. You may see something like that. So she'll be vacuuming with her apron? Yeah. She'll be doing a little social engagement. It'll be cool. So, okay. Okay. [00:03:17] Jason: Yeah. Very cool. Yeah, so catch us up on what, like, let's get into the kind of the background and the overview for people that have never heard about Vendoroo and what you guys do and how you got into this. [00:03:29] Jason: Yeah. Give people kind of the backstory. Yeah. [00:03:31] David: Yeah. Thank you for that. So really the backstory is that, you know, we know of this AI economy that's coming, right? And there was a few of us, you know, I've been in this industry for 18 years. You know, I've managed you know, portfolios of 40,000 doors. [00:03:47] David: I've managed them for governments. You know, I started off with our own property management. Much like you guys. We started off with 80 doors. We grew to 550 doors in four years. So it was exciting to know that technology that was coming that promised duplication because, you know, as any property manager believes, we know how to do it the best, right. [00:04:05] David: And so what we decided to do is to come together and say, Hey, if AI's coming, there's two things that we need to figure out. Number one is how is this going to help us show value in this new industry to this new generation of property owners that is here, that is coming, that has been raised in the technology world too, right? [00:04:25] David: And two, can it actually duplicate our efforts? Can it actually be an employee for us? Right? And I don't care what people are promising about ai, you don't know until you get into what we call like, you know, get into the weeds, you got to get into the trenches. And so that's what we did, right? We went out and we were the guys that grabbed the torch and we said, we are going to take all the risk. [00:04:46] David: We are going to jump into the mix. We're going to ask people to jump onto the bandwagon with us and we're going to figure this out. And oh my gosh, what an unbelievable eight months it has been in learning and insights. And I can't wait to get into all the things that we've learned about the property management industry. [00:05:01] David: But that's really what we've been focusing on here the past eight months, right? So we started off with well hey, can the AI assist the va? Can it turn them into a super va? Is that what it's going to be? And, you know, some people were like, yay. And some people were like nay, you know? And so, and you know, because that human failure still was there, right? [00:05:21] David: And you know, what happens if they left? There was that inconsistency. And then it was like, all right, well what can the AI own? Right? What can it do? What can it perfect? And you know, can AI actually be the last employee that I ever hire? Right. That's really, that's a really cool thing to do. [00:05:39] David: But the property managing community had some really specific demands that they said that if this is going to be the last employee that I've had, it has to do this. And that's what I'm excited about our new technology 'cause it's doing those things. You know? [00:05:52] Jason: Yeah. And now you guys have made some big moves. I know, like I've, I have clients that we've sent over to you and they've shared some incredible stories. Like one client, I think he had 154 units or something like under management, and he said in the first day you're of turning on Vendoroo, like it closed out like 80 something work orders. [00:06:12] Jason: Yeah, like, it was crazy. Another client, they had a little more doors. They said it was like 50 something work orders were closed out in the first day of turning it on. And so, I mean, you're creating some dramatic stuff. Like this is a very different thing than what people are used to in maintenance. [00:06:27] David: Yeah. Yeah. And really what the exciting part about this, Jason, is that maintenance is actually really easy. And I know people laugh when I say that it's managing communications that is extremely difficult. Okay. Okay. Right, because you have, you know what AI told us about our industry over the last eight months is when we dove in with it and it took a step back and it said, whoa, you guys don't have a data problem here. [00:06:51] David: You guys have a emotion problem here. There's very specific categories of emotion that are in this space, right? Like, how do you build a technology that senses something? And I know this relates with property managers, 'cause I know this for myself. A property manager can walk into their office, sit down at their desk, and their spidey senses go off and they know something's wrong. [00:07:15] David: There's no screen that's telling them anything. There's no spreadsheet. They know something's off. Right. And so the AI is like, well, the statuses really don't matter that much to me based upon the feedback that I'm seeing from the property managers. Because the status and the communication all seem to be in order, but there's a disruption somewhere. [00:07:35] David: So I need to know about people's emotions. I need to understand about is the resident happy? Does the owner feel supported? Is the vendor being directed? And does the property manager believe that I can own the outcome for this? And it was really cool to start seeing its learning and understanding and picking up on these cues where, you know, people say that this is a data-driven industry. [00:07:55] David: It's really in an emotion driven industry. [00:07:57] Jason: Oh yeah. It's a relationship and emotion industry for sure. Yeah. Yeah, big time. [00:08:01] David: And it's really cool to see, and it's really started happening over this past last 60 days, the amount of residents, I was actually just looking at one before I jumped on here, that are like thanking the system, right? [00:08:15] David: Imagine that, like think of all of us that actually worked with the chat bot at like Verizon. I've never thanked that chatbot at Verizon for being their customer service. Right. [00:08:25] Jason: And how do I get a representative? Representative. Representative! [00:08:28] David: Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Versus you seeing people, you know, seeing individuals saying to the, you know, saying to the Vendoroo maintenance coordinator, Hey, I really appreciate feeling supported and how fast you acted because you know, there's empathy that's inside of its law and learning. So I don't want to get too much into the details on there. But yeah, these are some of the exciting things that we're working on. [00:08:47] Jason: I mean, empathy is the magic lubrication that makes everything better. [00:08:52] David: Yeah, [00:08:52] Jason: I mean they, they've done studies. Teams, even in working in warehouses, are more productive if the team has a higher level of empathy. Yeah. And doctors perform better. Yeah. If there's a higher level of empathy, there's less malpractice suits, like empathetic reflection and empathy is a magical ingredient. [00:09:10] Jason: I coach clients to add that in during sales. Yeah. 'cause their close rate goes up dramatically. Yeah. Right. So yeah. So leveraging and like getting the AI to actually be empathetic in its communication. Yeah. When that's probably not a natural skill for a lot of maintenance coordinators to be empathetic. [00:09:26] David: It's not, it's not a natural skill for a lot of people in the maintenance industry. Right? Yes. Especially when you talk about burnout. People begin developing views of the rental community, right? Like, oh my gosh, they're calling again, and that empathy meter goes lower and lower and lower. [00:09:41] David: Yeah. As people have been in the industry longer. But isn't it great that you have an employee now that knows that, yeah, it's my duty, rain or shine, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 a year to always operate at the highest level of empathy? I never have a bad day. I never take a day off. [00:09:57] David: I'm never upset. I'm never short with somebody on the phone, never tired, never like, oh my gosh, Susan is calling me again. I'm going to let the phone just ring because I'm annoyed of talking to her. And it just is constantly hitting that same level of standard. And this is what's exciting to me, is that there are people that that have played around with this and have been a part of what I call the pain phase, right? [00:10:20] David: The pain phase is that understanding the way that agentic AI works, right? It's input in output. Input, output, right? The more that you're putting into it, the better the results are that you're going to get out of it, okay? Right. It's just like training an employee. So over the last eight months, what we've seen is that the community has trained this to be the level of a person that has now been working in the industry for five years. [00:10:46] David: In eight months. It's got five years of learning in eight months. Okay. Wow. In the next six to 12 months, we're probably looking at somebody that has 10 to 15 years understanding in the next six to 12 months and understand the level of type of tasks that it can do, especially getting into estimates and getting some other work. [00:11:04] David: And again, just you know, having empathy in my own life towards the people that jumped in that are like, what is this all about? Like, how does AI fail? Like, you know, there's still people that are involved and it was like this big like momentous train of like, you know, all these people were jumping on and giving ideas and people are in the loop and now it's weeding everything out and the AI stepping in and saying. [00:11:27] David: Hey, I appreciate all the input that you've given me. Thank you for all your effort. I'm now ready to step up to the plate and to own the outcome. Right. And that's what we're seeing at the NARPM show that's coming out. There's five AI tools. There's a master agent, five AI tools. And you know, I'll give you a couple of pieces here that, you know, we had feedback from our property managers like number one across the board. [00:11:50] David: A property manager said, if I'm hiring AI as my last employee, that has to work in my system. Yeah. Okay. Right. Like I don't want another, I don't want another technology. Yeah. [00:11:59] Jason: I don't want a new system I got to get every vendor to use or a new system I got to get my team to use or figure out. We don't need another tool to make our lives more difficult. [00:12:08] Jason: No. They've got to use our stuff. [00:12:09] David: They got to use, we have our existing stack. Yeah. So now the AI is fully integrated into all the most common PMS systems. You know, you have a cool chrome extension that you can download and there's a little yellow kangaroo right right there. And it's actually reading the work order that you're working on, and you can literally just ask it a question now and just being like, Hey, did anybody express frustration or concern on this work order? [00:12:32] David: Right? Because that's the emotion behind the status that you need to know. And it's like, yeah, two days ago Sally said that, you know, she was actually really frustrated about the multiple reschedules by this vendor. And it's like, great, that's a person I should be reaching out to and that's what I should be knowing that a status is never going to tell you. [00:12:47] David: Right? Yeah. It's in your slack, right? So if I have, if I'm on my phone, I'm talking to my employee and I'm laying in bed and I have a panic attack as a property manager, and I'm like, oh my gosh, did we take care of John's refrigerator and the office is closed? I can't get ahold of my employee. Yeah, you can. [00:13:03] David: Your employee works 24 7 now. Hey, can you give me an update on the refrigerator replacement at John's place? Yeah, it was scheduled this day. I contacted John. Everything's good to go. You know, go to sleep. You know, like, like that's the power. Full audit. Full syncing. So it's in your platform. That's really cool. [00:13:21] David: The other thing, it's got to be branded, right? This is a thing that we really learned about, like how important branding is to the community of property managers, right? Yeah. So the communications that go out have to be from your area code that's done. The emails that go out have to have like, you know, your company name and your logo on it. [00:13:39] David: The AI is doing that as well too. So that's being sent out, which is really cool. So people are feeling like, you know, that loyalty to brand is super important. And also do you know now that the AI can ask the residents to give a Google Review and we can link to the Google reviews and give you instant Google reviews to your page through the ai, which is cool, like how it's, it will know that if the success of a Google review is high on the way that the work order was done, that it's probably best to ask this person and it will send them a little thing. [00:14:11] David: Hey, can we get a feedback from you? And we link up to your Google review. And it posts that Google review to generate those 'cause we know those are super, super valuable to property managers. So that's actually going out today. That's kind of a little teaser there. That's the emails out now. [00:14:23] Jason: Nice. We'll have to get you to also connect it to our gather kudos links for clients 'cause then people can pick which review sites. So it diversifies the review profile. [00:14:32] David: Love it. Love that. I'm going to hook you up with our guy Dotan. He's running that. He's one of our head of product. He's, actually out of Israel. [00:14:39] David: He's a amazing guy. I'd love to get you connected with him. Yeah. Cool. Let's do it. Cool. And then the biggest one too is like, I need a single point of contact. Right. And we knew that before there was a lot of people were still involved. There was a lot of oversight that was going on there, having that confusion and single point of contact. [00:14:56] David: Now it's in your phone, it's in your Slack, it's in your phone extension. It doesn't matter what's going on. You have one point of contact. It's your employee. You ask the question, get the answer, Jason, you can even ask for a change. You can even say, Hey, I want to change a vendor on a job and you'll see that the vendor gets changed for you in the system. [00:15:17] David: You can even say to your ai, and this is the big one: hey how do you triage this work order? And I want you to do this, or I want you to do that. And you just do it right through Slack or right through your PM chat and it makes the change for you. And now you have custom triage and all property managers have the ability to train their own AI for their company. [00:15:36] David: Think how cool that is. A person with 75 doors now, and the product that's being released has their own AI agent customized for their company, right? Yeah. Like, that's what happened over the last eight months, so you can see my excitement. There's been a lot of hard work in this. [00:15:54] David: Yeah, that's amazing. But this has been all the effort and a huge thank you out to everybody who's tried us, you know, even said that this wasn't for them at that point in time because those learnings went into what's going to make this product the best product in the property management space and is going to help people leverage sales and leverage efficiencies and blow their owners' minds away in ways that, that we have never thought about. [00:16:15] David: Oh yeah. [00:16:16] Jason: Yeah. So I know like initially when you rolled this out, a lot of people were nervous about AI and you guys had kind of a human layer in between the AI and any communication Yeah, initially. Yeah. And so there was like, they had like a reps and a lot of people associated, oh, I've got this rep. [00:16:33] Jason: Yeah. You know, Steven or whatever is my rep or Pedro and I've got Pedro and like, oh no, what if Pedro leaves? And they were associating with that while the AI is really doing the crux of the work. Right. And so you guys have shifted away from even that now the AI is directly communicating with people. [00:16:52] Jason: Correct? Yeah. [00:16:53] David: Yeah. So let's talk about that. So, definitely, so in the beginning there was like, we all had like lack of trust. We believed what it was going to do, but it was like we had a ton of people still trying, like, you know, using qualified VAs, training them. Like, you know, like, you know, if it fails, like, you know, you have to have a person stepped in and so let's talk about that. [00:17:12] David: So, you know, it was definitely that human layer. And let's talk about where we're at today. It is very clear to us, and the one thing that separates us from everybody is we still believe that humans are super important in this process. Okay? Yeah. And where humans are very important in this process are going to be when the AI says, Hey, I need you to make a phone call to this person for me, right? [00:17:35] David: Hey, I've reached out to this vendor three times and they haven't responded yet. I need you to give a phone call to see what's going on. Right? Hey, I need you to recruit a vendor for me. I need you to reach out and do a recruitment for the vendor. For me. Hey, this owner is asking questions about this estimate. [00:17:51] David: I need you to give a call for me. So the AI is basically able, on a standard work order, the AI can handle 95% of the workflow, no problem. Work order comes in, gets assigned to the resident. It gets out to the vendor. It's under the NTE not to exceed. It's great. The work gets done, the resident uploads its photos, the AI says to the resident, are you happy? [00:18:14] David: Everyone's good. It closes the work order out. Cool. Right. And then if a human... [00:18:19] Jason: and how is it communicating with the tenant and with the vendor typically? [00:18:24] David: Yep. So, it's very clear that and this isn't a surprise to anybody. Everybody loves text messages, right? Yeah. I mean, that's just, it's just what it is. [00:18:32] David: You literally, like, people will get a phone call and they won't pick up and the text will come back and like text back. Yeah, text me. What do you need? Yeah. Text me here. But, so here's the things that people don't see behind the scenes that we'll talk about. So the complexity that went into. [00:18:51] David: Mapping out how to allow vendors... so a vendor could have like 20 jobs, right? And we don't want to send him like a code that he has to text for every work order so that it links to the right work order. Like what guy wants to do that? Okay. Like that's not how he works. So we figured out how to allow a vendor through AI just to use his regular phone and text anything about this thing. And it's understanding it and it's mapping it, it's routing it to all those work orders because we knew that in order for this to be the last employee somebody would have to handle, it also means that the vendor has to be happy and the same for the resident. [00:19:30] David: They can just text that they have multiple work orders. It understands what work order it's going to. If it's not quite sure, I would ask them, Hey, is this question about this work order? And they say, yeah. And so there's not like, again, codes and links and things that they have to do. It has to be seamless if they're working with a person. [00:19:46] David: So yeah, text message is massive. Email is second, and then phone is third for sure. [00:19:51] Jason: Got it. So is your AI system calling people yet or you or telling the property manager to make the phone call? [00:19:58] David: Yeah. People are okay with. If they're calling in like our new front desk agent, which if a person calls in and they want to get information about a listing or if they want to get information about a work order or something like that, or, you know, they're okay with getting that type of information. [00:20:13] David: Yeah. But they are, it is very clear that they are not okay with AI calling them when they're asking for an update on a work order like that. Like that line in the sand very clear. Yeah. And so we have people on on the team. That are constantly monitoring into ai, giving feedback, hitting improvement. [00:20:31] David: I want everybody to know there is not a work order that is taking place that is not touched by a human at least twice. [00:20:38] Jason: Okay. [00:20:39] David: Okay. Right. [00:20:40] Jason: So there's a little, there's some oversight there. There there's, you're watching this, there are humans involved [00:20:45] David: And then the ai will when it hits certain fail points, right? [00:20:51] David: It then escalates those things up to what we call the human in the loop, right? So there's an AI assistant, we there's people now that we're training a whole new generation of people that are no longer going to be maintenance coordinators. They're AI assistants now, right? And so when the AI says, Hey, this work order is not going down the path that I think it should go to be successful. [00:21:12] David: I'm escalating this up to a human, and so now as a property manager, not only am I getting this AI agent workflow that's standardizing the empathy and the workflows and all the stuff that we talked about in the communications, I also now get a fractional employee that when the AI says, Hey, I need help, I already have an employee that it can reach out to that can make that phone call or call the vendor. [00:21:36] David: But it's also monitoring the AI for me on top of it. So yes, there is, and that's one of the big thing that separates us apart is that the platform comes with what we call a human in the loop, an expert in the loop and so we're training the first generation of AI assistants in the property management industry. [00:21:55] David: Yep. [00:21:56] Jason: Got it. So the AI maintenance coordinator. Has human assistance. Yep. Underneath it. [00:22:02] David: And before it was the other way around where Yeah. The AI was assisting the human right. And now the humans are assisting the ai. That's what's happened in the last... [00:22:11] Jason: that may be the future of all of our roles. [00:22:12] Jason: So, [00:22:13] David: If you're not reading articles and studying up on this I think that's going to catch you by surprise pretty quickly. Yeah. Learn how to write prompts. I'll tell everybody right now. Yes. [00:22:21] Jason: Yeah. Interesting. So, now what about this, you know, there's the uncanny, you know, sort of stage where people get a little bit nervous about AI and what do they call it? The uncanny valley or something like this, or right where it gets, it's so close to human that it becomes creepy. And there's some people that have fear about this, that are concerned. You're going to have a lot of late, you know, adopters that are like resistant. "I'll never do ai." [00:22:49] Jason: What would you say to somebody when you get on a sales call and they're like, well, I'm really nervous about this AI stuff, you know, and they just, they don't get it. [00:22:57] David: Yeah. [00:22:58] Jason: I'm sure there's people listening right now. They're like, oh man, AI is going to kill us all and it's going to take over the world and it's going to take our jobs. [00:23:05] Jason: And they think it's evil. [00:23:06] David: Yeah. Yeah. I, and you know, I really want to hear that fear and I want to like, again, have empathy towards that. 'cause I do understand that fear of change causes people to get... Change in general. Yes. Right. It's like, whoa, I like everything the way it's going to be. Right. And we are historically in one of those phases of like, you know, the industrial revolution, the renaissance, like the automobile from horse. [00:23:34] David: Like, this is what is taking place. This is, this will be written down in history. It's massive change. It's a massive change. Massive. So what I would say to them, and not to, not from a way of fear. But to inspire them is there are a lot of hungry entrepreneurs out there that are embracing this head on. [00:23:57] David: Yeah. That are pushing the boundaries and the limits to be able to bring insights and customer service to their clients at a much higher level. And if you want to compete in this new AI economy. I would definitely encourage you to understand and get in and start investing in yourself now. But understand that investing in AI means having some pain threshold. [00:24:21] David: Like you got to get in, like you, you need to be able to give the feedback. You need to understand that if it falls short, do you have to be able to give it the time and the energy and the reward and the payoff of what I'm seeing for property managers who've embraced that when they're sitting there and they're going, I don't touch maintenance at all anymore. Yeah, it's wild. Right? And those are the people that in the beginning of this relationship, and there's a few that come to my head, are the ones that were sending me emails constantly saying, David, this is failing me. I believe in this, but this is failing me. And as my technology partner, I know that you're going to help us get this better. [00:24:58] David: And there is, you know, I have this word down that struggle equals great con conversation, right? Like, and so they had a struggle and that opened up a great conversation and because of that, their technology and the technology is getting better. So yeah, I think that from a personal point of view in this industry, one thing that I want to solve with AI is I think that we can all say that over the past 15 years, we've probably yelled at a lot of vendors or yelled at a lot of VAs or yelled at a lot of people. Let's start yelling at the ai. And then hopefully that the AI will actually eliminate the need for us to ever have to yell at anybody again because it knows us. [00:25:36] David: Yeah. It never fails us. [00:25:38] Jason: You know? It really is amazing. I mean, your company is creating freedom for the business owner from being involved in maintenance. Yeah. Really? [00:25:46] David: Yeah. [00:25:47] Jason: And it just, and they get used to that pretty quickly. Like maintenance is just running and they're like, yeah. It frees up so much head space for them to focus on growth. [00:25:56] Jason: It gives them a whole bunch of like just greater capacity. Yeah. So they feel like, yeah, we could handle adding any number of doors now and we know we can still fulfill and do a good job. [00:26:07] David: Yeah. Fixed cost scaling. Right? That's a term that we came up with is now that you know that I have a price per door that will cover all my maintenance. So if I went in and brought on 75 doors, I know that I don't have to go out and hire another employee. The system just grows with it and I know exactly what my margin is for all those doors. Right. And as we know previous, before fixed cost scaling a property managers is like, I have enough people. [00:26:32] David: I don't have enough people. Someone quit, someone didn't quit. My profit margins are good. My profit margins are bad. Yeah. And now with these AI tools. You know, you have your front desk employee, you have your maintenance coordinator, you have these fixed cost scales, and now somebody calls you up and says, Hey, I want you to take on 25 doors, and you're like, I have the resource resources for maintenance, which is, we know is 80% of the workload already. I don't have to go out and hire another maintenance coordinator 'cause the system just grows with me, which is cool. [00:27:00] Jason: So one of the things you shared at DoorGrow Live and you're our top sponsor for the upcoming... Can't wait for DoorGrow Live, can't wait to, so we're really excited to have you back so. [00:27:10] Jason: Everybody make sure you're at DoorGrow Live if you want. Our theme this year is innovating the future of property management. And we're bringing, we're going to be showcasing, innovating pricing structures that are different than how property managers have typically historically priced, that allow you to lower your operational costs and close more deals more easily at a higher price point. [00:27:30] Jason: We're, we'll be showcasing a three tier hybrid pricing model that we've innovated here at DoorGrow, and we've got clients using it. It's been a game changer. We're going to be sharing other cool things about the future hiring systems, et cetera. Right. So you guys will also be there showcasing the future. [00:27:46] Jason: One of the things you shared previously that really kind of struck me as you showed, you did some research and you showed the typical cost. Per unit that most companies had just to cover and deal with maintenance. Yeah. And and then what you were able to get it down to. [00:28:03] David: Yeah. [00:28:04] Jason: And that alone was just like a bit of a mind blowing. [00:28:07] Jason: Could you just share a little bit of numbers here? [00:28:09] David: Yeah. So one of the first things that we had to do when we started way back in the day is figure out well. Like, like what's the impact of AI going to be us from like a cost perspective, right? Is it a huge change? And so we went out on a big survey mission and we were surveying property managers and asking them, what's your cost per door for managing maintenance? [00:28:30] David: How much do you spend every door to manage maintenance? Now the first thing is less than 1% of property managers knew what that cost was. Sure. [00:28:37] Jason: Oh, sure. Right. Because, but then they got to figure out, oh, we got a maintenance coordinator and we've got these people doing phone calls and they cost this, and yeah, it's complicated. [00:28:45] David: It's complicated. So we built a calculator. Okay. And then people could start adding in that information out into the calculator, and the average person was around $13 and 50 cents a door. [00:28:56] Jason: Okay. Okay. [00:28:57] David: Wow. Right, right. So that was where the average person was, somewhere in the low twenties. Yeah. [00:29:01] David: And others were actually pretty good. Like, I'd say like, you know, some of the good ones that we saw were maybe around like, you know, 10, $11 a door or something along that line. [00:29:09] Jason: They probably had a large portfolio would be my guess. [00:29:12] David: Yeah. And also I think a lot of it's just like, you know, I don't know if they were still accounting for all their software and everything that they had. [00:29:19] David: Maybe they're not factoring everything. Yeah. No, I think if we really dug in, it'd be different. So now we know that, you know, the base package of what people are getting in. The average cost of what people are paying for 24 7 services that's emergencies around the clock is about $7 and 50 cents a door, right? [00:29:37] David: So right off the bat in AI's first swing, it said we cut the cost in half. Yeah. Okay. Right. So 50% reduction. I mean, to me as an owner, a 50% reduction in cost. That's like. You know, alarms and celebration going off, you know? For sure. And then, yeah. [00:29:55] Jason: And that's, if everything just stayed the same, like it was still the same level of quality, cutting in half would be a solid win right there. [00:30:03] Jason: Yeah. [00:30:03] David: Yeah. That's just like status quo stuff. And now what, with the release of the new Vendoroo product that, that's actually being announced here today. The email's going out to all of our existing clients of all the new features that are coming out now, we're starting to see that. You know that quality is now increasing to where if you were to go out and hire that person, you may have to be spending, you know, 55,000 or $65,000 a year. [00:30:29] David: Right? So now it's like saying, okay, if we can get as good as what these people are using for their VAs right, and we know what that cost is, and they're saying that's, you know, that's what their factors is. Well, what happens in the next six to 12 months when this is a seasoned person that you would've to pay $85,000 a year to? [00:30:45] David: Right. Yeah. And right, because they have knowledge of. Estimates and knowledge of vendor routing and knowledge of, you know, it can handle... [00:30:53] Jason: you've invested so much time into them, so much attention. They know your properties and know your portfolio. They know the vendors. Like you've invested so much into this person that now they sort of have you by the balls so that they're like, Hey, I want 80 k or I walk. [00:31:06] David: Yeah. [00:31:06] Jason: You're like, you've got to come up with it. [00:31:08] David: Yeah. [00:31:09] Jason: Right. You've got to do it. [00:31:10] David: Yeah. [00:31:10] Jason: And you know, because that's not easy to create. And a lot of people, in order to have a good maintenance coordinator, they need a veteran of the industry. Veteran of industry. [00:31:19] Jason: They need somebody that's been doing this a long time. [00:31:21] David: Yeah. [00:31:22] Jason: And that's really hard to find. [00:31:24] David: Yes. It's extremely hard to find as we know. One of the things that I think that we're doing for this industry is we're actually preserving knowledge that I don't think is necessary getting passed down. [00:31:33] David: Yeah. You know, there's a lot less people that I think are as handy as they once were in the Americas and so we have a lot of that knowledge. Like, you know, we know that the average age of an electrician is in the sixties, the average age of a plumber's in the sixties. And these guys, you know, they have wealth of knowledge that it can troubleshoot anything that's going on in a house. [00:31:54] David: And so to be able to try to preserve some of that, so maybe if a person does come in, you know, maybe there's some knowledge sharing along the lines. But let's take it even in another step forward Jason that in the future, you know, the AI is going to know the location of the hot water tank in that house. [00:32:10] David: It's going to then add it automatically to the system, like. It's going to know more knowledge than they will because it's going to have maps of every single property that's all currently sitting inside of, you know, that maintenance coordinator's head, right? And so it's going to, it's going to actually know more than them, you know. [00:32:26] Jason: Yeah. That's wild. Yeah, it is. Absolutely. It's the future. Cool. Well, you're rolling out a bunch of new features. You're announcing these today. You've told me a little bit, but why don't you tell the listeners what's changing, what's new, what innovations have come out? What are you guys launching? [00:32:41] David: Yeah. Exciting. Yeah. So, the biggest one I think is, which is the most exciting is, is Resiroo, which is the first one that actually handles all the communications with the resident and does the triage and troubleshooting. First one of what are you talking about? So we have our products. [00:32:57] David: So you have these AI tools, right? These agents. Right. [00:33:00] Jason: And so, you know, every, so think of them like different sort of people? [00:33:04] David: Skill sets. Yeah. Different person. Okay. Exactly. And so that's when you come and see our display at the NARPM conference, you'll actually will see these five agents kind of in their work desk and in their environments, kind of cool. [00:33:15] David: Okay. Able to see them right. So the coolest part about that one is we're doing a major product you know, update on that for not only the knowledge base, but we're actually turning that over to the company. We were talking about this a little bit before, and now they own their own AI agent and they can customize it into how they want it to ask questions or the type of questions and the mindsets when it's triaging stuff. [00:33:41] David: Triaging work orders for their portfolio. Like super cool. So fully customizable to your company, right? [00:33:49] Jason: So now sometimes the more humans get involved, the more they mess stuff up. [00:33:54] David: Yes. We make sure they don't mess it up. So everyone's going to learn how to write prompts and they'll submit it into us. [00:33:59] David: And we have a great team of AI engineers that when that knowledge base is written or what they're doing. We will ensure that it is put in so that it actually produces the desire outcome, right? Yeah. Yeah. So that's a very exciting one. The second one that I'm that I think is so cool, do you know that only 10% of all estimates get approved by the owner without one or multiple questions? [00:34:23] David: Because owners really struggle with trust when it comes to estimates. Like 10%. Like, that's a really bad number, I felt as the industry that owners only believe us one out of 10 times. Like that's the way I took that. Yeah. Right. And so, Owneroo is what I coined inside, is the estimate of the future. [00:34:41] David: That really was looking in understanding like what was, what questions was the owner asking when they were rejecting a bid that that we could proactively ask the answer for them to help guide them to understanding the value in this estimate that they're looking at in historical context of the property. [00:35:00] David: How many other people have experienced this issue? Like, like there's a whole bunch of factors that should go into an estimate and an estimate should no longer be like, here's a cost from Frank. Right? Like, like that was like, like that was... [00:35:14] Jason: here's what Frank said it is. Yeah. Like that was like from the 1940s. [00:35:17] Jason: That's good. How do I trust that? [00:35:18] David: How do I trust that? That was from the forties and we're still... [00:35:21] Jason: how much went into this decision? Was this just out of the blue, like pulled out of your ass or is this like legit? [00:35:27] David: Yeah. Yeah. What's the, you know, we live in a data-driven world, so what's the intellect behind this estimate? [00:35:33] David: And so I'm really excited about Owneroo, which is going to be the new standard for the way the estimates are created. We have the front desk agent which is coming out. So, that one is going to handle phone calls that are coming in, be able to talk about available listings, actual general questions about leases route phone calls over to property managers for you. [00:35:54] David: So again. Very human-like interaction, great AI voice. Actually. We feel it's going to be the best in the industry. So a person's calling in, just like they're calling your office able to handle all those front desk things. We, we have the PM chat, which is now the employee which is fully integrated into all of your systems. [00:36:14] David: It's in Slack. That's your employee that you get to talk to. We believe that if you're going to hire somebody, they should be inside of your communication channels. You have the Google Chrome extension that it's on right inside your AppFolio or your buildium or your Rentvine software that you can ask and talk to it. [00:36:31] David: So, yeah, so we have a lot of exciting products that have come out. And then of course the backbone of all of them in the middle is Vendoroo, which handles all the scheduling, all the communications. You know, a resident asks for an update, responds to them, an owner asks for an update, it responds to them. [00:36:48] David: And you know, it handles actually the body of the work order. So you have those five tools, we believe are what the property management industry said. If you are going to give me an employee, this is what the employee has to be. This is what makes up that employee. So we say that these tools, these agents were actually built by the property management industry. [00:37:08] David: And that excites me because if you're not building AI tools from working with your partners, from being on the ground floor with them and using the data and building tools based upon the data and their pain points and their failures, buyer beware. If somebody's coming to you and saying, Hey, we figured this all out in the lab. [00:37:25] David: Come use it. Yeah. Right. Buyer beware. [00:37:29] Jason: Yeah. So you guys connect with Slack. They can communicate through Slack, but it slack's a paid tool. Have you guys considered Telegram? I love Telegram Messenger. [00:37:37] Jason: Alright. Could you do that? Write it down. Telegram Messenger is like the iMessage tool that works on every device. [00:37:44] Jason: It's free. It's one of the most secure, it's not owned or controlled by Facebook. Like, WhatsApp, like, yeah. But WhatsApp might be a close second, but we use Telegram internally, so I love Telegram. [00:37:58] David: We'll definitely take that into, into consideration for sure. Yeah, check it [00:38:02] Jason: out. Because I, what I love is the voice message feature and I can just listen to my team and others at like high speed, but internal communications and it's free for everybody, which is great. [00:38:12] Jason: So, yeah. [00:38:13] David: Yeah. I think a lot, for a lot of people it was like you know, who was Vendoroo in the beginning and Vendoroo was like the team of like people that were trying to figure out like how is AI going to work in this industry? [00:38:26] David: How is it going to solve the needs of our property management partners? And this is why I say to everybody, if you thought about Vendoroo, if you came in and the experience wasn't great with Vendoroo, if you're one of our existing clients that has been with us and you're and you're still moving forward, and we thank you so much for your dedication to this, the Vendoroo product, everything that we've done, everything that we worked at is being showcased at the NARPM broker owner. The email's going out today. This is who Vendoroo is. We are a team that is a technology partner for the property management industry that is helping building meaningful AI tools, specifically by demand, by our industry to help us show value and to preserve this great industry. [00:39:09] David: For the future in this new AI economy, right? Like we need to step up. We have clients that are adding doors left and right because they're showing their clients that they use an AI maintenance system and their clients are like, this is what I expect from a property management in this community. [00:39:24] David: Right? And again, Owneroo, that estimate, we believe that in the future. Like, like owners are going to say like, I'm not approving an estimate unless it's like the estimate of the future, right? Like, like that's the new standard. So you got to know what the new standards are and you got to get technology that are going to help you compete with those new standards that will be in your community and are will be in your community in the next week, the next two weeks. [00:39:46] David: And definitely some really cool products in the next six months. [00:39:49] Jason: All right. Well, yeah, I'm really excited to see what you guys have been able to create so far. So yeah, it's pretty awesome. Yeah. All right. Well David, it's been awesome having you on the show. Sounds like you guys are really innovating the future. Everybody come to DoorGrow Live. David, are you going to be at that one? I will be there. All right, so you can come meet David in person. [00:40:08] Jason: We've got some amazing people that are going to be at this. We've got technology people. There's a gentleman there, one of the vendors they created another really cool tool, but he had a hundred million dollars exit, you know, in a previous business, like there's really amazing entrepreneurs and people at this event, so come to DoorGrow Live, get your tickets, and if you do, we have just decided that we're going to give out to anybody that registers. [00:40:34] Jason: You can pick from one of our free bonuses that are well worth the price of the ticket. Or coming or anything in and of itself, including our pricing secrets training that goes over a three tier hybrid pricing model or our sales secrets training, which goes over how we're helping property managers crush it and closing more deals more easily at a higher price point. [00:40:55] Jason: And reputation secrets, which are helping our clients get way more positive reviews by leveraging the psychology and the law of reciprocity and getting the majority of their tenants in order to give them positive feedback online. Maybe some others. So you'll be able to pick from these bonuses one of these that you might like and that's our free, most incredible free gift ever that we'll give to each person that registers for DoorGrow Live. [00:41:19] Jason: So. [00:41:20] David: Cool. Awesome man. Always great to see you. Looking forward to seeing you at DoorGrow Live and love that you guys are working on pricing because AI is going to make people think different about pricing. It's going to be way more efficient, so you guys are ahead of the curve on that. Great job, Jason. [00:41:33] Jason: Awesome. All right, so how can they check out Vendoroo, David? [00:41:36] David: Just visit, Vendoroo.ai, go to the website, request a demo with one of our great sales reps, and yeah they'd love to help you out. See all the new products, see how far it's come. And again, we thank everybody from the bottom of our hearts for all their effort, people who've tried us out. [00:41:52] David: Come back and see what you built and yeah. Come check us out at Vendoroo. [00:41:57] Jason: Got it. Go check out Vendoroo, it's vendor. If you know how to spell that, V-E-N-D-O-R-O-O dot A-I, go check it out. All right? And if you're a property management entrepreneur, you want to add doors, you want to make your business scalable, you want to get out of the day to day, you want to increase the capacity so your company could easily handle another 200 plus doors without having to make any significant systems changes, reach out to us at DoorGrow. We will help you figure it out. So until next time to our mutual growth. Bye everyone.
About the Lecture: Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, analysts and observers around the world were shocked and surprised that Ukraine did not fall in a matter of days or weeks. Instead people across the country resisted with both military and civilian means, halting the Russian advance. Surveys indicate that over 80% of the Ukrainian population contributed to the war effort in some way (e.g. Onuch et al 2022, 2023), suggesting that Ukrainian civilians have made a crucial, if hard-to-quantify, contribution to Ukraine's continued resistance. However, scholarship on civilian wartime engagement more broadly tends to focus on decisions to join the military or to flee following the onset of conflict – meaning that our understanding of how and why civilians mobilise in non-combatant roles is limited. Drawing on recent fieldwork conducted in Ukraine, this talk discusses the diverse roles Ukrainian civilians are playing in the war effort and what motivates this engagement, particularly in parts of Ukraine most acutely impacted by the war. The discussion will also contextualize this engagement in Ukraine's longer history of civilian mobilization, based upon Emma's doctoral research into mass mobilization in Ukraine prior to 2022. About the Speaker: Emma Mateo is a postdoctoral fellow at New York University's Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. She studies political behaviour in times of crisis, such as mass protest and war, with a regional focus on eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine and Belarus. Her current monograph project explores civilian responses to conflict, focusing on the case of Ukrainian mobilisation during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Drawing upon fieldwork in Ukraine and systematic analysis of local and social media data, the project investigates the actions and motivations of ordinary Ukrainians in different local contexts who engaged in the war effort as civilians. Emma also researches subnational mobilisation during mass protest, mapping and analysing local protests Belarus and Ukraine for her doctoral research. Emma's interest in the intersection of protest, civil society, media and technology has led her to make innovative use of social media data, such as Telegram Messenger. Her work has been published in Post-Soviet Affairs and Social Media + Society, and featured at major conferences and expert workshops in the US, Canada, UK, and EU. She has previously worked at Columbia University as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Harriman Institute, and Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology. Emma holds a PhD in Sociology (2022) and MPhil in Russian and East European Studies (2018) from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Modern Languages (Russian, French and Ukrainian) from the University of Cambridge.
An analysis of Telegram Messenger's crypto. A beautiful statement of the goal of modern crypto design. Who was behind Twitter's recent outage trouble? An embedded Firefox root certificate expired. Who was surprised? AI-generated Github repos, voice cloning, Patch Tuesday and an Apple 0-day. The FBI warns of another novel attack vector that's seeing a lot of action. Google weighs in on the Age Verification controversy. In a vacuum, Kazakhstan comes up with their own solution. Was Google also served an order from the UK? Can they say? A serious PHP vulnerability you need to know you don't have. A bunch of great listener feedback, some Sci-Fi content reviews and... A new tool allows YOU to test YOUR PCs for their RowHammer susceptibility Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1017-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/SECURITYNOW bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now veeam.com
An analysis of Telegram Messenger's crypto. A beautiful statement of the goal of modern crypto design. Who was behind Twitter's recent outage trouble? An embedded Firefox root certificate expired. Who was surprised? AI-generated Github repos, voice cloning, Patch Tuesday and an Apple 0-day. The FBI warns of another novel attack vector that's seeing a lot of action. Google weighs in on the Age Verification controversy. In a vacuum, Kazakhstan comes up with their own solution. Was Google also served an order from the UK? Can they say? A serious PHP vulnerability you need to know you don't have. A bunch of great listener feedback, some Sci-Fi content reviews and... A new tool allows YOU to test YOUR PCs for their RowHammer susceptibility Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1017-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/SECURITYNOW bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now veeam.com
An analysis of Telegram Messenger's crypto. A beautiful statement of the goal of modern crypto design. Who was behind Twitter's recent outage trouble? An embedded Firefox root certificate expired. Who was surprised? AI-generated Github repos, voice cloning, Patch Tuesday and an Apple 0-day. The FBI warns of another novel attack vector that's seeing a lot of action. Google weighs in on the Age Verification controversy. In a vacuum, Kazakhstan comes up with their own solution. Was Google also served an order from the UK? Can they say? A serious PHP vulnerability you need to know you don't have. A bunch of great listener feedback, some Sci-Fi content reviews and... A new tool allows YOU to test YOUR PCs for their RowHammer susceptibility Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1017-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/SECURITYNOW bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now veeam.com
An analysis of Telegram Messenger's crypto. A beautiful statement of the goal of modern crypto design. Who was behind Twitter's recent outage trouble? An embedded Firefox root certificate expired. Who was surprised? AI-generated Github repos, voice cloning, Patch Tuesday and an Apple 0-day. The FBI warns of another novel attack vector that's seeing a lot of action. Google weighs in on the Age Verification controversy. In a vacuum, Kazakhstan comes up with their own solution. Was Google also served an order from the UK? Can they say? A serious PHP vulnerability you need to know you don't have. A bunch of great listener feedback, some Sci-Fi content reviews and... A new tool allows YOU to test YOUR PCs for their RowHammer susceptibility Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1017-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/SECURITYNOW bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now veeam.com
An analysis of Telegram Messenger's crypto. A beautiful statement of the goal of modern crypto design. Who was behind Twitter's recent outage trouble? An embedded Firefox root certificate expired. Who was surprised? AI-generated Github repos, voice cloning, Patch Tuesday and an Apple 0-day. The FBI warns of another novel attack vector that's seeing a lot of action. Google weighs in on the Age Verification controversy. In a vacuum, Kazakhstan comes up with their own solution. Was Google also served an order from the UK? Can they say? A serious PHP vulnerability you need to know you don't have. A bunch of great listener feedback, some Sci-Fi content reviews and... A new tool allows YOU to test YOUR PCs for their RowHammer susceptibility Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1017-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/SECURITYNOW bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now veeam.com
An analysis of Telegram Messenger's crypto. A beautiful statement of the goal of modern crypto design. Who was behind Twitter's recent outage trouble? An embedded Firefox root certificate expired. Who was surprised? AI-generated Github repos, voice cloning, Patch Tuesday and an Apple 0-day. The FBI warns of another novel attack vector that's seeing a lot of action. Google weighs in on the Age Verification controversy. In a vacuum, Kazakhstan comes up with their own solution. Was Google also served an order from the UK? Can they say? A serious PHP vulnerability you need to know you don't have. A bunch of great listener feedback, some Sci-Fi content reviews and... A new tool allows YOU to test YOUR PCs for their RowHammer susceptibility Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1017-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/SECURITYNOW bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now veeam.com
An analysis of Telegram Messenger's crypto. A beautiful statement of the goal of modern crypto design. Who was behind Twitter's recent outage trouble? An embedded Firefox root certificate expired. Who was surprised? AI-generated Github repos, voice cloning, Patch Tuesday and an Apple 0-day. The FBI warns of another novel attack vector that's seeing a lot of action. Google weighs in on the Age Verification controversy. In a vacuum, Kazakhstan comes up with their own solution. Was Google also served an order from the UK? Can they say? A serious PHP vulnerability you need to know you don't have. A bunch of great listener feedback, some Sci-Fi content reviews and... A new tool allows YOU to test YOUR PCs for their RowHammer susceptibility Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1017-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/SECURITYNOW bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now veeam.com
An analysis of Telegram Messenger's crypto. A beautiful statement of the goal of modern crypto design. Who was behind Twitter's recent outage trouble? An embedded Firefox root certificate expired. Who was surprised? AI-generated Github repos, voice cloning, Patch Tuesday and an Apple 0-day. The FBI warns of another novel attack vector that's seeing a lot of action. Google weighs in on the Age Verification controversy. In a vacuum, Kazakhstan comes up with their own solution. Was Google also served an order from the UK? Can they say? A serious PHP vulnerability you need to know you don't have. A bunch of great listener feedback, some Sci-Fi content reviews and... A new tool allows YOU to test YOUR PCs for their RowHammer susceptibility Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1017-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: vanta.com/SECURITYNOW bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now veeam.com
Telegram Messenger, comúnmente conocido como Telegram, es un servicio basado en la nube, multiplataforma, de redes sociales y mensajería instantánea (IM). Se lanzó originalmente para iOS el 14 de agosto de 2013 y para Android el 20 de octubre de 2013. Unte a @Sebas y @Opik quienes en el Episodio 043 conversan sobre Telegram y sus opiniones sobre la aplicación de mensajería.
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Remember in the good ol' days of the pandemic where people were kicked off social media platforms for spreading conspiracy theories that the US paid for "gain-of-function" research? Turns out they were right. If there's a DIY project, there's going to be something stupid & as my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" will explain, such was the case in one woman who tried to give herself a fecal transplant. If your place of worship happens to worship Taylor Swift, expect a "High Attendance Sunday". You can also expect a podcast with the word "stupid" in the title to be just that... Pope Holds Press Conference on Aliens & the Supernatural; Stupid Criminal: A Grandma Groped Goofy at Disney World; Indiana Judge Decides That Burritos & Tacos Considered Sandwiches; Whose Fault Is This? Parents Were Outraged By a Small Business' Abysmal (But Free) "Bluey" Event; A World Record Attempt for Most People Dressed as Dinosaurs Failed Because Too Many Showed Up; "Train Karen" Persistently Placed Her Feet On Another Passenger; A Drunk Driver's Fake ID Said He Was 8 Ft. Tall; 'Passive Aggressive' Flyer Refused to Stand When Seatmate Needed to Use Bathroom; Swarms of Mormon Crickets Taking Over Roads, Homes: 'You Can't Even Open Up the Door'; Man Surgically Adds 4 Extra Nipples to His Body; The Hottest New Pool Accessory Is...a $7,000 Underwater Vending Machine; (Oof!)...Biden Says Maimed American is ‘Here With Us Today' at Rose Garden Party—Despite Still Being Held By Hamas; Almost 40% of Webpages From 2013 No Longer Exist; A Woman Discovered Her Husband Was Cheating...After Their Puppy Swallowed His Mistress' Thong; Frontier Airlines Passenger Forces Entire Flight to Deboard After Refusing to Comply With Exit Row Instructions; Woman Went Blind for Weeks After Tattooing Eyeballs: 'But I Did It Again'; Museum Has Largest Gathering of People With Underwear on Their Heads; Elderly Man Shoves Gas Pump In His While “Pumping” Himself. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions like, “Help! – My Husband Bought A Cheap Dollar Tree Mother's Day Gift!" & “Help! – Am I To Blame For My Wife's Weight Gain?" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E71 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - Remember the days when you would remember your deceased loved ones by those old, faded photographs? Well now you can let your great-great-grandchildren interact with you thanks to artificial intelligence! Just because a guy is in a wheelchair & parallelized from the waist down doesn't mean he can use his poopy diaper as an assault weapon! Spending the night in a fine, Las Vegas hotel does not mean you won't find a creepy-crawly stingy thing in your boxer shorts. Some of the stupidity will sting, however, as you'll discover... Pizza Hut Now Has Burgers...Very Weird Burgers; A Thief Was Caught...Because of a Footprint in Cajun Seasoning; McDonald's Customer Handed $580 Ticket for Using App in Drive-Thru; FL Man Waves Gun at Bartenders Who Told Him Bar Was Closing; The States That Are the "Most Normal" Are...Illinois & Florida; How Drunk (& HIGH) Must You Be...To Steal a School Bus & Drives 4 Hours; Cicadas Are on the Menu for This Stay-at-Home Dad's YouTube Channel. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
If only your mail could get delivered as fast as this Postal Worker was going in her mail truck. One delivery driver dropped a dildo out of a package as he handed it to the customer. And a instead of the cop taking a bite out of crime, you'll hear from my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero", that it was the crime literally taking a BITE out of the cop! And you have a mouthful of stupidity in this week's episode... Woman Who 'Identifies as Cat' Upstages Bride's Wedding by Crawling Behind Altar; A Billionaire Tried to Buy an Instagram Handle, and It Didn't Go Well; A Guy Threatened to Kill His Surgeon for Giving Him "Near-Constant Diarrhea"; Father/Daughter Held at Police Gunpoint After Typo Causes Wrongful Traffic Stop; SUV-Sized Radio Flyer Red Wagon Up For Auction; A Man Attacked a Subway Sandwich Artist for Not Including Enough Ham; A Restaurant Saw a Forgotten Credit Card, Posted Photos Online, & People Charged $2,000 on It; Someone Decided To Link NYC & Dublin Via Live Video...Cue The Lewd Displays; Porch Pirates Are Stealing Packages Out of Homeowners' Hands; A MI Woman Spent a Year Living Inside a Grocery Store...Sign; FL Man, In His Underwear, Arrested for Joyriding & Crashing Stolen $100,000 Boat; JERK of a Guy Accused of Tipping Over Portable Toilet, Trapping Woman & Child Inside; SENIOR PRANK: Students Hired Bagpiper to Follow High School Principal Around; GA Man Rides Lawn Mower on Highway While Drinking Beer–Gets A DUI; Tourists Arrested For Fighting Over Disney World Tickets & a Golf Cart; (Senior Prank) High School T-P'ed, Plastic-Wrapped & Spray-Painted; Dirty Tricks: 3 “Bob Fergusons” Filed to Run for Governor of Washington; Man Paints Fence To Look Like Boat In Malicious Compliance. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions like, “Help! – Reimbursing For A Wedding Gift After The Marriage Is Annulled?" & “My Teen Daughter Hates My New Boyfriend!" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E60 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - In the effort to curb violence, they're now making knives without blades. Too shy to go on a first date? Let your AVATAR date for you! Want to jump like LeBron James? Eat like a monkey with "Monkey Premium Cereal"! Can it get more stupid than this? Well... The Boy Scouts of America Is Changing Its Name Cat Owner Fumes After Neighbor Sends Note Asking to 'Keep Her Cats Out of the Window'; Marathon Winner Disqualified For Accepting Water From His DAD During Race; FedEx Fires Employee After Dana White Catches Him Tossing Packages Into Delivery Truck; Naked IL Man Arrested After High Speed Chase & Biting Officer's Finger; They Figured Out How To Connect SELFIES To 'Income Inequality'; Who Are the “Pineapples” Buying This $400 Pineapple? Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
Would you like to be out in the middle of the ocean on a boat full of naked people? Would you like to be wearing a tummy tat with a very naughty naked woman positioned strategically around your navel? Would you want your husband to breastfeed? Would you believe the sheer stupidity you'll be hearing in this week's episode?? It's almost too stupid for my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero", who has to tell you about some of them... People Are Getting Scammed Into Buying Seeds of Non-Existent Cat-Face Flowers Generated by AI; Someone Took a Bite Out of a Package of Bacon at a Grocery Store; Teenage Pizza Delivery Driver Shot at for Pulling Into Wrong Driveway; CDC Says 3 Women Diagnosed With HIV After Vampire Facial; IQ Scores Decline in the US–How Stupid is Your State? OH Parent in a Bigfoot Costume Forced a School into Lockdown; In Case You Didn't Know, Roads and Bridges Are Now 'Racist'; Dentist Drove a Dental Implant All the Way into a Guy's Brain; Have You Heard the "Man or Bear" Question That's Going Super-Viral? Viral Trends: Is Ordering Dr. Pepper with Pickles Inside a Thing? People Online Are Eating Whole Lemons, Peel and All; Brace Yourself: Audio Emojis Are Coming to Phone Calls; Japanese Rice Balls Rolled in Cute Girls' Armpits Are 10X More Expensive Than Regular Ones; Snoop Dogg Is Getting His Own College Football Game; A Thief Had an Elaborate Scheme to Steal & Then Return Stuffed Animals for Cash; NY Gov. Says Black Kids in the Bronx Don't Know What the Word ‘Computer' Means; FL HOA President Pulls A Gun on Kids Fishing on Property; Woman Pranks a Guy Who Sent Her an Unsolicited Groin Pic. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions like, “Help! – My Girlfriend Is Making Me Sick–LITERALLY!" & “Help! – Is Your Children's Mental Health As Important As Physical Health?" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E67 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - If you're looking for instant fame, grab an orange ski mask & the biggest tub of cheese balls you can find. A Mother's Day tribute to all the moms who brawl at the "Happiest Place On Earth". A Pennsylvania Priest who was "powering up"..but not with the Holy Spirit. Take your stupidity to the next level with some of these... Patrick Mahomes Embraces His 'Dad Bod' in T-Shirts Made in Collaboration With Coors Light; “AI Priest” Defrocked After Taking Confession & Saying Babies Could Be Baptized in Gatorade; Progressive Drops Thousands of FL Homeowners 1 Month before Hurricane Season; Thief Makes Off With More Than $1K–in Deodorant; Woman Tries Smuggling Meth Into Jail Using 'Private' Hiding Spot; When FL Siblings Attack: With Fried Chicken; FL Woman Breaks Into Ex-Husband's Home–Tries to Stab Him in His Sleep. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
Back in the day, it was chic to buy expensive ripped jeans but now you can be trendy with "pee stained" jeans. Forget the chimichangas, if you want real Mexican food, my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero", says it's gotta be rat broth. Guys, if you're worried about getting prostate cancer, you could be in "good hands". You'll be in disbelief after this week's stupid episode, too... The Cicadas Are so Loud, People Are Calling 911; Seriously? Sour Patch Kids Oreos; A Road Rager Threw Spaghetti at a Pregnant Woman; Life TIP: Vise Grips Are Not a Steering Wheel; Biden Reads 'Pause' Instruction Off Teleprompter in Speech to Union Members; Teen Girls Vandalizes Fleet of Pink Cars–Were Caught Twerking on the Hoods; Hero Neighbor Saves Friend by Driving Over 11-Ft. Alligator That Was Dragging Him Into a Pond; FL Car Thief Returns Stolen Ashes of Owner's Mom–Keeps Custom Vehicle; Perrier Had to Scrap Some Bottles...That Were Contaminated with Poo; WY Girl Scout Gets Fined $400 for Selling Cookies in Her Family's Driveway; $29K 'Casket on Wheels' Is Actually a Street-Legal Vehicle; A Man in Pennsylvania Got a Tax Bill...for $34 Billion; The NY D.A. Refuses to Pull Over for Police Because She ‘Didn't Feel Like Stopping'; UT Couple Reunites with Their Cat–After They Accidentally Shipped It to Amazon; UT Woman Charged With Sexual Battery For Yanking Down 19-y/o Girl's Skirt in Restaurant to Cover Her Cheeks; Woman Goes On Epic Rant At LAX Before Realizing She Was At The Wrong Terminal; Woman Hospitalized After Drinking Buggy Coffee; Rapist Who Impregnated 14-y/o Girl to Lose His Testicles As Part of His Sentence. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions like, “Help! – Does My Dog Know Something About My New Boyfriend?" & “Help! – Our Long Lost Dog Was Found…With New Owners" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E65 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - It's the cheesiest idea yet for all the paranoid food freaks out there. FL gator grabber grapples an 8-ft. reptile with his bare feet while taking a break from an ice hockey game. A DoorDash driver refusing to deliver to a nudist faces a penalty for pulling out from her order. And this Bonus episode will deliver a hefty dose of stupidity to get you through the week... A Woman Accidentally Slapped a Photo of Miley Cyrus on Her Resumé; (Young, Stupid) FL Teen Shined Laser Pointer At Police Helicopter Because He Was Bored; A Man Pulled a Gun on a Fast-Food Worker, Who Refused to Accept Drugs as Payment; You Can Now Buy Your Own Flamethrowing Robot Dog for $10,000; A Woman Stabbed Her Boyfriend in the Butt with a Fork; CA Man Arrested for Grilling in Shopping Cart, Using Sword as Skewer; Man With Britain's Largest Penis Reveals the 'Downsides'. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
This week we speak to Ioannis, a senior lawyer at PI, about his and his colleague's work on the landmark case protecting encyrption at the European Court of Human Rights: Podchasov v. Russia. The case dealt with a Russian law obliging telecommunications service providers to indiscriminately retain content and communications data for certain time periods, as well as a 2017 disclosure order by the Russian Federal Security Service requiring Telegram Messenger company to disclose technical information which would facilitate “the decoding of communications”. Links: PI case page: https://privacyinternational.org/legal-action/podchasov-v-russia ECtHR judgment in the Podchasov case: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-230854 PI's work on encryption: https://privacyinternational.org/learn/encryption PI's report on End-to-End Encryption (E2EE): https://privacyinternational.org/report/4949/securing-privacy-end-end-encryption More information about the Marper case: http://www.genewatch.org/sub-563146
High schoolers have been suspended for a variety of things from academics to pranks. What about eating corn chips? People have tried many ways to get money out of people. One woman tried using a dead guy. Love will make you do a lot of stupid things, like fly half-way across the country to meet someone who never shows up. And there's plenty more of that type of stupidity this week... End of an Era: Reclining Airplane Seats Are Being Phased Out; A Man Could Get 7 Years in Prison...for a Tirade Over a Pumpkin Donut; Elephant Roams Montana Streets After Escaping Circus; Drunk Priest Completely Ruins Couple's Wedding With 'Unforgettable' Ceremony; Memphis Man Tries to Rob Store With a 5-Ft. Snake; A Person Pretending to Be Aaron Rodgers Conned a Gullible Woman in OH; (It's Come To THIS)....Group Snatches Bear Cubs Out of Tree Just to Take Selfies With Them; A 16-y/o Student Suspended For Using "Illegal Alien" On An Assignment; Oops! Tim Hortons Told Thousands of People They Won a $40,000 Boat; Squirrel Named 'Furry Boi' Elected to UC Berkeley Student Government; Louisiana Woman Arrested for Breaking Into Home Seeking Threesome; A Man Broke a World Record by Ordering a Drink at 120 Bars in 24 Hours; Jason Kelce Is Strongly Against Underwear: It's 'Problematic to the Freedom My Boys Like to Enjoy'; These Florida Monkeys Could Give You Herpes; PA Middle Schooler Accused of Attacking Fellow Student with Stanley Cup at School; (Priorities)...FL Man Didn't Want to Waste a Drop of Beer While Being Held At Gunpoint; Man Suffers Shocking Double Penis Fracture From Rolling While Sleeping; Court Fines Man $44 for Claiming a Stranger's Handshake 'Shrunk His Penis'. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions like, “Help! – A Customer Over-Tipped Me & Now Wants His Money Back" & “Help! – My Server Snatched The Cash I Put On The Table & Called It His Tip?" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E63 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - If you think you've seen all there is to the different ways to reveal the gender of an upcoming birth, get ready for a pile-drive. The skies just got friendlier for Barkley & all his canine friends. The front doors of homes may become the place for target practice. This is the place where you can get enough stupidity to make it through the week... A High School Student Was Arrested for Impersonating His Principal in a Stunt; Married Teacher Caught Naked in Car With 17-y/o Student—Who Makes a Run For It In His Skivvies; Happiness Hack: Try Hugging Yourself for 20 Seconds a Day; A Man Is Being Harassed...with Endless Pizza; NH Man Runs Out Of Gas, Fires Gun To Get Someone's Attention; Walmart Customer SLAMS the Store's Bakery over Disastrous Frosting Fail; FL Firefighter Union President Asks Police "Do You Know Who I Am?" When They Found Him Urinating In Public. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
It's been 86 years, & Mattel has finally decided that humanity has digressed to the point that we need to dumb-down Scrabble. My Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero", tries to de-complicate a story about a "Ménage à Trois"...with DOLLS...and the woman who is in love with both--including a doll that is a "zombie". And you'll get to meet "Walter", who is also in love--with an 82-y/o woman's Toyota Avalon. You'll fall in love with the stupidity you're going to encounter this week... A Library Made a Little Goof...Giving Out Counterfeit Eclipse Glasses; Alligator Crawls Into FL Home & Settles in Front of Refrigerator; McDonald's Is Debuting the First-Ever Scented Billboards; OK Woman Claims She Received Stolen Jeep As a Birthday Tip From a Waffle House Customer; Mexican News Station Accidentally Shows Testicles Instead of Solar Eclipse; FL Man in a Car Chase Tried to "Thelma & Louise" It Off a Cliff but Survived; 55% of Americans Trust Google More Than Their Education; Man Asks Doctor to Remove 2 Healthy Fingers From His Hand Because They Traumatized Him; How DRUNK Do You Have To Be...To Forget Your ABC's Because Your Learned It 'So Many Years Ago'; 30% of Men Have Used Their Phone While Peeing at a Urinal; A Woman Got a Speeding Ticket While Her Van Was on a Tow Truck; Taking a "Fart Walk" After Dinner Could Be Good for Your Health; And The Bride Grabs A Stray...Jacksonville Newlywed Makes Grand Exit From Wedding But Grabs The Wrong Man; Motorcyclist Taunts Police, Leads Chase, Gets Arrested When He Runs Out Of Gas; Woman Horrified After Receiving 'Thinking of You' Letter With Bag of ToeNail Clippings in the Mail; Man Gets Sim Card Removal Tool Stuck Inside His 'Tool'; A Burglar Left a "Large Bowel Movement" in Someone's Toilet; An Airline Passenger Claims They Were Extorted for a "Tip" at a Check-In Counter. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions about “Help! – Is My Jealous Boyfriend A Bad Sign?" & “Help! – Is Alcohol A 'Truth Serum'?" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E61 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - Nothing makes a plane ride fun than when a dog craps in the aisle. If you got a "nudge" by an FBI agent, get ready to go to jail. Hell hath no fury like an angry woman...naked & swinging an ax. Nothing can compare to some of this stupidity... KY Man Didn't Want to Pay Child Support...So He Tried Faking His Own Death; Naked Defendant Appears in Court After Support Cat Goes Missing During Traffic Stop; Woman Who Married Herself at $3.7K Wedding Ceremony Is Now 'Cheating' on Herself; FL Woman Shoots Interstate Drivers, Says God Told Her to Because of the Eclipse; FL Bus Driver Fired After Stopping Bus Full of Students on Train Tracks as Freight Train Approached; Drunk FL Man Found Naked Sitting in Garbage Can; A 13-y/o Destroys $500,000 Lamborghini After Conning Seller Into Thinking They Were Old Enough to Drive. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
Did you know your personality can be summed up by the way you wrap your burrito? STD-infected zombie cicadas are coming out of the ground & they're horny! A Chipotle employee found out that guac can get him shot by an irate customer.... A Man Claims a Hotel's Staff Used His Toothbrush to Clean the Bathroom; Dan Orlovsky Goes Viral for Another Unfortunate Fart Moment; A Man Was Arrested for Shooting a Gun in the Air...to Celebrate a Divorce; Is Your Car Your Baby? 51% Say Their Vehicle Is A Family Member; Couple With 3 Kids Discover After 10 Years of Marriage…They're Cousins; A Guy Named Batman Was Arrested for DUI; A Man Pulled a Gun Because Burger King Was Running a Deal; Woman's Dying Wish...Have the Grim Reaper Show Up at Her Funeral; NY Inmates Sue to Watch The Solar Eclipse; Woman Goes Nuts as She's Dragged Off Spirit Airlines Flight in Cartoonish Meltdown; A Porch Pirate Was Caught Stealing a Package...Dressed as a Trash Bag; Toast Is Healthier Than Bread–So Says A Doctor In The UK; Most of the Elite Are Okay With Cheating to Win Elections; PA Guy Was Getting a Vasectomy When the East Coast Earthquake Hit; Hikers Protest New 'Beetlejuice'-Like Sculptures In An AR State Park; Arkansas Mom Allegedly Made 7-y/o Son Walk 8 Miles To School; PA Man Steals $200 In A Swear Jar From Minor League Baseball Team; A "Toilet Rat" Landed a Man in Intensive Care. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions about “Help! – A Nursery School Should Help Parents Potty-Train Their Kids!" & “Help! – My Tinder Date Wanted A Background Check!" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E59 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - More disastrous tales of toilet woes from 35,000 ft. An Aussie woman was incensed that the remodelers installing toilets in her house violated their "virginity". Park Rangers are warning guests about the dangers of cute little animals who want to steal your food & give you the plague. And there's more stupidity awaiting you for your mid-week recharge of stupidity... Gen Z Prefers "Digital First Dates"; A Walmart Thief Says She Was Playing a Game Called "21," Where You Dump Stolen Stuff in a Random Car; Dogs Cause $3K in Damage Trying to Reach Cat Inside Car; Sex Toy Company Offering Free Anal Vibrators at Next Chess World Championship; AI App Detects Penis Health Problems With a Single Penis Pic; Velveeta Just Launched a New Hair Dye—& No, It's Not a Prank. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
Now you can find online gift registries for your friends who are going through a DIVORCE. Did you know God was Republican & has sanctioned the Bible to Donald Trump? If you think the music licensing companies are ruthless when it comes to cracking down on copyrights, you haven't seen what happens when the sex toy industry tries to protect their "designs"... Well, you can't copyright stupidity--it's open to everyone-- Lego Asks CA Police to Stop Using Its Faces on Mug Shots; A Hunter Called the Cops to Ask if He Could Shoot Sasquatch; A Guy Bragged to Cops That He Drove 170 Miles-Per-Hour; 7-Eleven Is Selling Hot Dog-Flavored Sparkling Water; Guy Hijacked a Frontloader, Gets Flipped By Another Frontloader; SunChips Debuts an Eclipse-Inspired Bag of Chips With 2 Flavors in It; Abandoned Airport Transforms Into Huge Nightclub With Epic Raves & DJ Nights; A Guy Left His Fiancée's Wedding Dress on Top of His Car & Drove Off; OH Teacher Resigns After District Finds Her OnlyFans, Fansly Accounts; Reddit's 'Funniest Sex Stories' Are a Riot; Woman Dumbfounded After Plumber Boyfriend Steals Her Toilet After Breakup; A Runaway Sawblade Almost Sliced a Guy in Half; Police Chase A 9-y/o Boy Trying to Drive Himself to School, Then Crashes Into Cop Car; Just 2 Back-to-Back Nights of Bad Sleep Makes You Feel 4 Years Older; A Walgreens Thief Was Chased Down...By Cops on Horses; Get Paid If It Rains On Your Vacay! Weather App Offers Travelers Up to $10K If Forecast Spoils Your Fun; (How STUPID Are We?)...Oakland Airport Proposes To Change Its Name To San Francisco, Because Americans Don't Know Geography; American Airlines Passenger Berated Cops, Mocked Their Junk Size, & Then Wet Herself. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions about “Help! – Is A New Car A Bad Idea For A Weight Loss Incentive For Our Daughter?" & “Help! – My Kids Wanted To Adopt A Bunny For Easter!" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
Forget Botox treatments for your bust...My Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" wants you to think LOWER. If you hear about a naked woman setting fires to a church & a police car, you're probably in Florida. A new beauty hack that will have your teens asking for broccoli. And you'll be asking for more stupidity after you hear this week's show... 12-y/o Gets Hangover After Being Served Alcohol at Outback Steakhouse; FL Mom Arrested After Gun Found in Her Toddler's Lunch Box at Daycare; A Man Named "Literally Anybody Else" Is Running for President; Vermont State University Offering Weird Al Yankovic Music Class; Adult Content Creator Reveals His Horrifying Sex Accident; A Prank War at Work Resulted in a Ridiculous Mac 'n' Cheese Billboard; Jacksonville, FL Women Are Attempting a 500-Mile Journey in Toy Cars; PA School Assigned 5th Graders Homework Where They Pretended to Be White Slave Masters; Live Eel Removed from Man's Abdomen in Bizarre Medical Emergency; SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods Dropped on Their Street; (Ruh-Roh!) Jacksonville, FL Dog Digs Up Torpedo-Shaped Military Device; A Real Estate Agent Was Showing a House, & Accidentally Burned It Down; Man in Love with AI Chatbot: 'She Understands Me in Ways Humans Don't'; An Impaired Driver Crashed into a "Report Impaired Drivers" Sign; Woman Accidentally Broadcasts Herself Showering During a Zoom Funeral; In Love with a Coworker? It Might Just Be "Office Goggles"; 3 'Little Rascals'—One as Young as 11—Arrested for Houston-Area Wells Fargo Bank Heist; Man With 1” Pecker Opens Up About Life With a Micropenis. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions about “Help! – How young is 'too young' for girls to use makeup?" & “Help! – Am I Wrong For Not Wanting To Get My Wife A 'Push Present'?" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E56 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - A police department in CA has found a "creative" way to post photos of perps who commit non-violent crimes. A couple pays their gym to work out in the buff. Illegal migrants are using squatters' rights to steal homes from rightful owners. Ain't Uh-murika great? More stupidity like this ahead for your mid-week... GA Mom Instructs Her 7-y/o Daughter To Steal Purse From Restaurant; Man Spontaneously Tells Police Where a Corpse Is Found During Traffic Stop; (Priorities)...Parents Passed Out Drunk on Beach Vacation While Their Kids Wandered Away; Nutmeg: It's What Kids Are Sniffing To Get High; Stupid Criminal: A Mover Stole a Couple's Sex Dominoes; FL Man Intentionally Crashes Into a "Zero Tolerance, Drugs & Alcohol" Sign; A Dad Called the Cops Because His Son Had Too Much Homework. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
Many of us are surprised as what some of our neighbors are doing, but not quite like what THIS neighbor was doing. Supermarkets can be a great place to find romance but when the stock in the fruits & vegetables is finding romance with the produce, you may want to find a new supermarket. PETA has a new (?) SPUDdering (??) "idea" to replace Easter Eggs at the White House. Need any more stupid ideas? You've found the right place to pick up all you need... McDonald's Isn't Selling French Fry Perfume...Yet; ROAD RAGE!...Street Fighting In Middle of Expressway; Your Car Is Tattling on You: Major Automakers Share Driving Data with Insurance Giants; Drunk Driver Didn't Know the Difference Between "Blowing" & "Sucking" During a Breathalyzer Test; How Drunk Do You Have To Be...To Steal A School Bus; Frontier Airlines Now Lets You Pay to Guarantee an Empty Middle Seat; A Guy Got High, & Then Became a Vigilante-Crashing Into Bad Drivers; Woman Who Identifies as a Dog Likes to Sleep in a Crate, Has Handlers; Hilarious License Plate Appears to Spell 'A**hole* Upside Down; A Man Had 100 Pounds of Sliced Bread Dumped on His Property; Toronto Police Suggest Leaving Your Car Keys at the Front Door, So You Won't Be Attacked by Home Invaders; Man Tries To Bring His “Service Duck” Into TN Buc-ee's Store; An Angerball Was Arrested for Shooting at Ding-Dong-Ditching Teenagers; 35,000 Pounds of Sausage Got Recalled Because It's Full of Rubber; Overnight Camping at Cali. Beach Banned Thanks to Excess of 'Human Waste'; A Guy's Migraine Turned Out to Be a Tapeworm in His Head; Western NY Man Vows to Regain 750-lb., 11-Ft. Gator Removed From Home; Thai Man Rushed to Hospital After Squeezing Himself Into 11 Penis Rings. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions about “Help! – I Want To Marry A Convicted Felon!" & “Help! – Should a marriage be “comfortable'?" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E54 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - It's one thing to go into your local Kroger & ask for sliced bologna & receive sliced salami. But what if you're going under the knife to slice out your gall bladder & come out with your manhood sliced off? If you're all decked out in your Easter best for Sunday, you need to smell like Easter Peeps. A woman is aiming to convince American women they can be a sexy as French women by just letting your pit hair grow.... And there's more stupidity growing in this episode: Masturbating Man Interrupts Forum on Jail Renovation; A Guy with Stolen Stuff...Broke Into Prison; Hundreds of Rolls of Toilet Paper Litter Highway After Boxes Fall Off Truck; Welch Locals Baffled Over A 10-Ft. Mysterious Metal Monolith on A Hill; Dumbing Down of America? People Struggle to Differentiate Facts From Political Opinions; A 12-y/o Runaway Found After Spending Night Alone Inside OH Target; Rich Guy, No Class: $4.5 million Lamborghini Yacht Owner Whips Out His Man Parts–Threatens to Kill Marina Staff. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
When is a toothbrush a sex toy? My Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" will tell you about a man who tried to find out & it didn't end well. Drug pushers tend to push their evidence into various bodily cavities but one perp needed to removed the evidence while in the back of a police car. High school pep rallies try creative ways to excite the kids but there's one high school that may have had a bit too much excitement. All this stupidity will provide you with enough excitement for one weekend... A Man Tries to Steal a Self-Driving Car; (Visualize THIS)...Mom 'Drenched' In Her Own Breast Milk After Delta Airlines Allegedly Refused to Let Her on with Breast Pump; Florida woman sentenced to probation after pulling live alligator from her pants during traffic stop; Looking For Good Luck? 37% Would Let a Bird Poop on Them; A Radio Show's On-Air Leap Day Proposal Didn't Go as Planned; The Relationship Is Most Likely Over When...She Poisons The Boyfriend's Tea With a Bleach Tablet; Model Gets Boobs So Big She Can No Longer 'Clap Her Hands Together'; A Metal Singer Was Secretly Dosing His Bandmate with Estrogen So He Could Steal His Girl; A Burglar Got Arrested While Sitting on the Toilet; A Man Named "Deez-Nuts" Got Arrested for Battery; Woman Stabs Boyfriend's Penis With Scissors After Learning How Many Lovers He's Had; A Woman Drove Around with a Rattlesnake in Her Car for 2 Weeks; A Man Was Caught Dunking His Head in a Pickle Jar; Mom Was Uninvited to Wedding So The Family Hired A Man to Crash It; California May Ban...Decaf Coffee; A Guy Stole the Pants Off an Armored Truck Driver; Man at a Vegas Resort Was Stung by a Scorpion...in His Sleep...on His Junk; A Flight Was Delayed...When a Passenger Threw Coins Into the Engine. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions about “Help! – Should I keep my dating app active even after getting a boyfriend?" & “Help! – My Drunken Husband Blurts Out Who His Favorite Child Is!" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E52 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - Wendy's had a dynamic disaster when they released news they were launching "surge pricing". Does "size matter"? Nope. But circumference does. Sword fighting in school is all fun & games when the teacher brings in a samurai until someone's arm almost gets severed... It's all fun & stupidity here with this collection of mid-week madness... Now TikTok Has Kids Wearing Seat Belts Around Their Ankles; A Groomsman Attacked Multiple Wedding Guests, Including the Bride; OUTRAGE Of The Week: Kellogg CEO Suggests People Eat ‘Cereal For Dinner' to Save Money; Hundreds Turn Out For Candlelight Vigil At The Last WV Hooters Before Its Demolition; (What's YOUR Claim To Fame?)...Woman's Tongue Measures 5.21 Inches in Circumference; McDonald's Customer Got An Ice Cream Surprise: Literally, ICE & CREAM; A Strip Club Employee Used Cash to Assault a Customer. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
Now you can have the sexy, almond-like nipples like the famous soccer star! A baby is named for her grandparents but I doubt she'll ever use it in public. It was redneck heaven with hundreds of FL Men competing for the top honor. It is stupidity on octane this week... A Guy Offered a Lifetime Subscription to His Wife's OnlyFans Page for 2 Concert Tickets; University of IA Uses ‘Pokémon Go' to Teach Math; Robots Can Now Apply Fake Eyelashes with Sharp Tools That Totally Won't Stab Your Eyeballs; A Guy Got Busted Trying to Trick Men Into Having Relations Through a Hole in a Sheet; Men Can Now Literally Have Sex with Beer/Top Names for the Sex Toy Beer Can; Flight Diverted When Wing Started Coming Apart; A Man Was Caught with Crack Cocaine...& a Rocket Launcher; (IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN) Couple hold wedding in KY gas station's ‘disco bathroom; A Kilt-Wearing Sicko Shoved Antiques Up His No-Go Hole; CA Man's Penis 'Stops Working' After $1K Romp With Sex Worker; FL Woman Almost Had Her Car Stolen...By 3 German Shepherds; A Drunk Man Was Arrested After He Drove to the Police Station to Complain About a Previous Arrest; British Man Receives Box of 6 Pilfered Penises in the Mail; A Shoplifting Cop Got Taken to Jail in Her Own Police Car; Starbucks Releases Pork-Flavored Coffee in China for Lunar New Year; Japan's 'Naked Man Festival' Ends After More Than 1,000 Years; Man Jams Several Button Batteries Into His Penis for 'Sexual Gratification'; A Woman Had Her $800K Injury Claim Thrown Out...After Joining a Christmas Tree-Throwing Contest. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions about “Help! – I have a baby-naming crisis!" & “Help! – Is It OK To Post A Pic Of Me & My Kids On A Dating Website?" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E50 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - You should always respect your parents or they'll knock some sense into your head...just like one mom who was called a "Booger Face" by her son. So, she whacked him so hard it shattered his glasses & cut his face. Now she's just a "Booger". You should always tip your delivery boy when he drops off your food or he may drop off something for you that's more disgusting. You should grab your DoorDash delivery as soon it's dropped off because you never know what sort of "bandit" will sneak up & gobble it up from you. You should pay close attention to some of this stupidity so you'll know better... A High School Told a Female Student to "Cover Up"...While She Was Wearing Her Cheer-leading Uniform; An Olympic Horse-Jumper's Career Is in Jeopardy After Wearing a Borat-Style "Mankini"; Instant Karma: Car Wash Worker Pressure-Washes Rude Customer's Face; MO Man Brandishes a Gun, When Confronted for Having More Than "10 Items or Less"; Badger Ransacks Woman's Home Causing Thousands in Damage; THE SURVEY SAYS: 7 in 10 Americans Lack Basic Knowledge of How the US Government Works; (It's Come To THIS)...US Secretary of State Tells Staffers to Avoid ‘Problematic' Terms Like ‘Manpower' & ‘Mother/Father'. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
I don't think Methodists practice what this one pastor does, in spite of the name. I don't think maggots should be raining down on economy passengers on an airline, & I don't think squirmy worms should be feasting inside your sinus cavity. But this is real stupidity here, folks... Nursing Home Residents Got Valentine's Day Cards...from a Funeral Home; NM Man Arrested After Trying to Have His Mother-in-Law Killed on Hitman Parody Website; Christian-based Super Bowl Ads Spark Jokes Over Freaky Feet Fettish; Woman on TikTok Claims Dripping Urine in Your Eyes Cures Vision Problems; FL Man Charged With Stealing Airplane That Crashed on CA Beach; Customs & Border Protection Dog Sniffs Out Mummified Monkeys in Passenger's Luggage; Woman Claims She's Not Washed Her Hair in More Than 7 MONTHS…Ditched Shampoo For Pickled HERBS; (TRY THIS?)....FL Man Is Eating Raw Chicken Every Day For 100 Days—or Until He's Hospitalized; Suspect pulls a knife during a robbery but the store owner pulls an even bigger one; A Man Slipped Out of His Cuffs, Because He Had Lube on His Hands from Pleasuring Himself; 2 Kids Just Got the First Scholarships to Play Division-1 Cornhole; The Inventor of the Pop-Tart Has Died at the Age of 96; Former Penn State Prof accused of more naked, lewd acts at PA state park; Pizza-Puking 'Gangster' Found Passed Out & Arrested at Arizona Denny's; ROAD RAGE!!...NY Drivers Fistfight While Stuck at Traffic Light; Race Faker Worked as a School Teacher While Creating OnlyFans Content; A FL Cop Confused an Acorn for a Gunshot & Unloaded His Entire Clip; Arizona City Put Fake Alligators in a Lake & Received Multiple 911 Calls. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions about “Help! – Is Valentine's Day A “Hallmark Holiday”?" & “Help! – Restaurants Are Starting To Overcharge On Petty Menu Items" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E48 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - Most of the stories in this Midweek Bonus Episode are straight from the crapper...or are going straight TO the crapper... New Rule: Mt. Everest Climbers Must Collect Their Own Poop During the Journey; 40-y/o CA Woman Falls 25 Feet Inside Old Septic Tank; We Observed National Poop Day...46% of People Will Only Poop Around Other People "If It's an Emergency"; Too Much #2: Passenger Kicked Off Flight for Excessive Bathroom Use; No Pooping During A Date: 63% Hold It In; A Guy Says a "Higher Power" Gave Him Permission to Trespass at a Library; FL Cops Look for Perps Who Robbed Lowe's in Cookie Monster Pajamas; Cement Head: Concrete Worker Bought $30,000 in Lottery Tickets With Company Credit Card; Mystery Object Found on Roof of Philly Home. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
If you saw a naked man running along a highway, there's a pretty good chance you're in Florida. If you if a woman who's been sleeping with the corpse of her dead husband...for 4 years...it's probably happening in Russia. And if you are trapped in a crowded, enclosed space with a pooping Chihuahua, you're probably on a plane flight. And if you're hearing one stupid story after another, you're probably listening to this podcast... ‘The Simpsons' predicted Apple's Vision Pro 8 years ago—& chaos broke loose in Springfield; Tesla Driver Pulled Over For Wearing Apple Vision Glasses on Highway; Criminal Genius Kidnapped Ex-Girlfriend While Wearing Mask & Vest With His Name On Them; New Trend: Full-Body Deodorants; 74% of People Say It's "Not Acceptable" to Guzzle Gin & Tonics During a Virtual Work Meeting; A Teenager Threw a Party, & Other Kids Intentionally Trashed the Place to Get Her in Trouble; A Guy Shines a Laser at a Cop then Gets Caught with Meth; DoorDash Gave Out 1 of Everything Advertised During Super Bowl; A Guy Got Shot in the Knee After Using the Ladies' Room, Because the Men's Room Was Full; Police in MO Responding to Home Invasion Got Freaked Out By A Squirrel; Man Discovers Lost Wedding Ring, & Tracks Down Owner...But They Didn't Want It; 3D-printed human brain tissue works like the real thing; 24-y/o Brooklyn Woman Claims She's Had 'Multiple ALIEN Encounters'; Doctor Discovers Reptile Head in a Bag of Frozen Beans; NY Priest Arrested After Slashing The Tires Of Ex-Employee/Girlfriend; FOLLOW-UP: FL Mom Admits Her OnlyFans Shows 'Explicit Material' After Kids are Expelled From Christian School; Laughing NY Man Arrested After Joyriding in Pickup Truck in FL Surf; Principal Accused of Pretending to Shoot Students During School Drill. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions about “Help! – I'm Told I'm Too Old To Have A Baby At 50" & “Help! – Should I date a guy because of my appearance alone?" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E46 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - Uber drivers see a LOT of stupidity, but this driver had to clean up after one stupid passenger "finished" pleasuring himself. Kids are having to figure out which bathroom to use, but in CT the high school boys also have to figure out what is going into their bathrooms. One high school boy has figured out how to make some money on Instagram eating peanut butter...a LOT of peanut butter. Figure out these & other stupid accounts in this bonus batch of stupidity... Ex-US Army Man Claims 2 'Blue' Aliens said 'There's 135 Billion Humans Out There'; Girl Swings Huge Snake 'Like a Hammer Thrower' to Save Pet Guinea Pig; 3-y/o Trapped in Claw Machine as Police Snap Into Action: 'He Took 1 of Each Toy'; Demi Lovato Slammed for Singing 'Heart Attack' at American Heart Assn. Event; Someone Stole a Tower...a 200-Foot Radio Tower; Country Life: 10 Phrases Only Southerners Use; Kids Toppled a Port-a-Potty While a Senior Citizen Was Using It. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
Would you feel threatened if a naked woman came at you with a potato peeler? My Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" wants to know would you order from a Pizza Hut that had to close for the day due to "unforeseen CIRCUMCISIONS"? Would you cuddle with a pig a $15 for a half-hour? Would you listen to a podcast about stupidity? Too late.... Nancy Pelosi in Shouting Match with Protesters—Yells “Go Back To China”; How Would You React To This...Guy Takes a Shower During a Lecture; Kentucky's Groundhog DIED on Groundhog Day; OH Man Eats Costco Hot Dogs for Entire Week to Save Money: 'Best $43 I've Ever Spent'; A Colorado Woman Just Found Out She's Running for President; A Guy Stole a Truck Filled with $30,000 Worth of Ice Cream; A 60-y/o Woman Survived Being Compacted in a Garbage Truck...4 Times; Confederate Flag with Toilets Display Has OH Town Confused; SICKO Posted Video With Father's Severed Head on YouTube; Woman Banned From Picking Up Kids From Christian School Because Of OnlyFans Decal On Her SUV; “To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before” Is Now Offensive…& "Star Trek's" William Shatner Has Thoughts; Man shoots himself in neck while trying to steal car; Woman Mortified When Handyman Spots Sex Toy Stuck on Bathroom Wall; FL Man Sues 'Cheesy' Combos for Not Having Enough Cheese; A Woman Is Going Viral for Returning Her Couch to Costco...After Having It More Than 2 Years; Cold Water Dip Eases More Than Hot Flashes; What Is 'Jelqing?' Viral Penis-Enlarging Trend Could Make it Smaller—& Erections Painful; Order a Lyft in Philly, You Might Get Picked Up by Jesus. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions about “Help! – My New Boyfriends Wants Me To Change My Nickname" & “Help! – Am I a Good Neighbor or a Gullible Neighbor?" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
S5E44 ~ Midweek BONUS Episode! - Would you date a girl with the world's longest arm hair? It might depend on WHERE it is. A lawmaker thinks bringing back DUELS is a good idea for politicians. There's a growing popularity in feet...but just make sure your foot is has proper symmetry because not just any ol' foot will do. But you'll have some well-rounded stupidity in this episode... New "Space Dunk" Oreos Could Win You a Trip to the Edge of Space; FL Man Hands Over His License To A Cop at a Traffic Stop...with Meth on It; CO pastor accused of pocketing $1.3M in crypto scheme: ‘Lord told us to'; A Guy Stole His Father-in-Law's Life Savings & Went on a Spending Spree; For $50, You Can Name a Cat After Your Ex and Have It Neutered; 42% of People Think They Could Negotiate Peace with Aliens; Would You Dip Pizza in Guac? A Food Brand Wants to Make It a Thing. Get the low-down on the week's current events with the "Insane Week In Review" as well as the lowest of the stupidity in the "Genius Awards"! Don't forget to download TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support
Another TikTok trend is sweeping the nation. My Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guero" will fill you in on a new delicacy that will be worth picking your teeth over. How bad is crime? The Amish are having their horse & buggies stolen. A convenience store chain has found a way to attract new customers by installing a disco ball in their bathrooms. It's another party full of stupid for this week's episode... TSA Sign Says Migrants Without ID Can Choose Not To Have Photo Taken When Entering US....Sleep Tight America; Zamboni Driver Fired for Peeing in Drain Accuses Red Wings of Cover-Up; Man Spikes His Work Lunch With Laxatives After Coworker Won't Stop Stealing It; A School Removed Its Bathroom Mirrors to Stop Kids from Making TikToks; Couple's Wedding Is Canceled After Bride Is Caught Having an Affair with Groom's Uncle; Ancient zombie viruses trapped in Arctic ice could unleash deadly new pandemic: ‘Tangible threat'; Family Wanted 20 Chicken Nuggets Delivered—Accidentally Got 200; Braggadocious, Loudly Farting Passenger Got Kicked Off a Plane for Trying to Annoy People; Dad Mistakenly Buys 19-Ft, Dinosaur for 4-y/o Son-Dino Delivered by Crane; PETA Wanted to Replace Punxsutawney Phil with a "Giant Gold Coin"; Someone Vandalized a House...with Pepperoni; Tesla Battery Explodes Inside Home–Guy Decided to Remove & Charge It Inside; (Young, Stupid) UT Teen Busted For... Taping Fish To ATM Machines; A Woman Stole $2,500 Worth of Stanley Cups; Parents Spent $3,000 to Get Their 16-y/o Every Variety of Stanley Cup; Doctors Warn About 'Cheesy Penis Syndrome'-Often Mistaken for an STD; Reese's Pink Valentine's Day Hearts Look Like Something Else When Turned Upside Down. Play along with my Insane FL Nephew, "Pancho Guedo" this week & see if you can do better then he can at guessing in the "Insane Game Show" & find the answers to life's biggest questions when you hear his profound wisdom as he answers more questions from those who want to "ASK PANCHO" for some advice! "Pancho" addresses the burning questions about “Help! – My Daughter Is Bullied Because of Her Knockoff Stanley Cup" & “Help! – My Cupcakes Broke a 4th Grader's Tooth & They're Making Me Pay" Don't forget to download the TELEGRAM MESSENGER & join the "Insane Erik Lane's Stupid World" Channel to read the actual stories used for the podcast & check out the photos & videos with them! It's FREE & available for Windows, Linux, Android, & Apple for both mobile & desktop! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eriklane/support