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Artlist 2025 License Number BTLWLLook At You The Satellite Station  HoneysuckleScott Ramsey began his investigation of the Aztec UFO Incident in 1988 while on a business trip to Aztec, New Mexico. Suzanne Ramsey learned of the Aztec UFO Incident as a child when her mother shared her reading Frank Scully's book Behind the Flying Saucers. Scott and Suzanne met when Scott was a guest on Suzanne's newstalk radio program. The two became friends and shortly after married. Together the Ramseys have diligently researched this case.  This search for truth on this casehas been part of virtually every day since. Taking a "boots on the ground" style of research they have traveled 18 states, interviewed dozens of witnesses and gathered thousands of documents.   Along with Frank Thayer, Phd the Ramsey's have authored two previous books  The Aztec Incident and The Aztec UFO Incident. Their third and final book on this event  It Came to Earth at Aztec, New Mexico    Revealed : The Recovery of a UFO  is a comprehensive collection of their complete research. Volumes of information not previously released including witnesses, physical evidence, documents and the impact on all of our lives that this historical incident has had.The Ramsey's reside in North Carolina where they have a small organically grown farm. Scott's is Southeastern sales manager for Pennsylvania Electrical Insulation. Suzanne is owner of Uncle Scott's All Natural Root Beer. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/night-dreams-talk-radio-with-gary-anderson--2788432/support.

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Send us a textTig by Heather SmithTig and her older brother, Peter, have been abandoned by their mother a few months prior to them being discovered living on their own. They are taken in by their mother's brother, their Uncle Scott and his partner, Manny. The problem is, everything is too perfect, for Tig anyway. After all, people can say they love you but leave you when you are not perfect. Recommended for grades 6 and up. 

The stretch from June 16 through July 7 of 2024 was amongst the deadliest in the recorded history of the Grand Canyon. Four hikers lost their lives during that period, with the assumption (it's too early for official causes to be released) that some, or perhaps all, were heat-related. One of those fatalities was Scott Sims, a 69-year-old entrepreneur from Austin. Mr. Sims had been in the Canyon many times before, and was heading to Phantom Ranch with his niece and her husband on June 29. He never made it. Now, Jessica and Greg Ryan—Canyon first-timers—share their story just 15 days after the most traumatic experience of their lives, hoping their personal tragedy can serve as a lesson for others. ***** Please join the Grand Canyon Hiker Dude Show's private Facebook group by clicking here. ***** The Rim2Rim Pack from Bright Angel Outfitters is now available! Check out our Canyon-inspired day pack by clicking here. ***** To reach Coach Arnie, you can call or text him (yes, really!) at (602) 390-9144 or send him a message on Instagram @painfreearnie. ***** Have an idea for the show, or someone you think would be a great guest? Reach out to Brian anytime at gchikerdude@brightangeloutfitters.com. ***** The all-new Grand Canyon Shade Tracker is LIVE!! This incredible interactive tool lets you see when and where you'll have precious shade on your Grand Canyon hike—every hour of every day of the year. Check it out at gcshadetracker.com. Another free resource from Bright Angel Outfitters aimed at making your Grand Canyon adventure the best and safest it can be. ***** For Canyon-centric hoodies, sweatshirts & tees—including the Victor Vomit tee and our new Rim-to-Rim collection— please visit BrightAngelOutfitters.com ***** For more great Grand Canyon content, please check us out on the following platforms: YouTube (@GrandCanyonHikerDude) for informative and inspirational videos Instagram (@GrandCanyonHikerDude) for photos from the trail TikTok (@GrandCanyonHikerDude) for fun and informative short-form videos Facebook (@GrandCanyonHikerDude)

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Happy Valentine's Day from us at Just Bugs! We hope you spend the day with a bug you love!  Thank you to Uncle Scott for the listener request!Support the showThank you for listening! To contact us please email justbugspodcast@gmail.comFollow us on social media at JustBugsPodcast Support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/JustBugs

Uncle Scott's 2023 buck was special! Enjoy as Scott and Joe tell the story of the biggest buck they've ever hunted! 

Bible Reading: John 14:1-6As August walked down the hallway at school, he saw a little boy crying up ahead. An older girl August's age was talking to him. "Don't cry, I know how to get to Miss Shelby's classroom," August heard the girl say as he got closer. "You go that way until you get to the gym, then turn right and go three doors down, and that's Miss Shelby's room." August frowned. Those directions weren't right!As the girl went on her way, August approached the little boy. "Hey, you're new here, aren't you?" The boy looked at him, wide-eyed, and nodded. "That girl gave you wrong directions," said August. "You have to turn left at the gym, not right." The boy's lip began to tremble, and August patted his shoulder. "Look," he said, "I'll take you there. Okay?" The boy smiled and nodded, and soon August had delivered him to his classroom.When August got home later that day, he told his mom what had happened. "I'm glad you were there to help," said Mom. "By the way, Milo's mom texted me. Milo wants you to go to Bible club with him tomorrow night. I hope you'll go.""Okay," said August. "But Mom, I wish you'd quit worrying about whether I'm going to heaven." His mom had recently become a Christian, and she often tried to talk to him about trusting in Jesus too. "I'll be there," August said with a smirk. "Uncle Scott says I'm such a good kid that if anybody makes it to heaven, it'll be me!""Well, I agree with Uncle Scott that you're a good kid," said Mom. "But he's wrong about the way to heaven. I'm afraid you're like that little boy at school. He was ready to follow directions from someone who didn't really know the way." Mom paused for a moment. "God tells us how we can be saved and have eternal life. His Word--the Bible--says it's not people's goodness that will get them to heaven. You were that boy's way to his class--you took him there. And Jesus is the only way to heaven. We need Him to save us and make us right with God so we can spend eternity with Him."August was startled. Maybe Mom's right, he thought. I need to make sure I'm going the right way. - Mary Rose PearsonHow About You?Are you following the right directions to heaven? God's directions are the only ones that can be trusted, and they're found in His book, the Bible. He says Jesus is the way--the only way--to be saved from sin and have eternal life. Don't be fooled into thinking you can get to heaven any other way. Trust in Jesus today. (To learn more, click the "Good News!" button in the right column of this page.)Today's Key Verse:There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death. (NIV) (Proverbs 14:12)Today's Key Thought:Jesus is the way to heaven

Subscribe to Baker Banter on Youtube: @bakerbanter  Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook: @bakerbanterThis week on Bakers Bantering, Baker Banter Mom's mom, Mimi Warren, joins the show! Jenna takes us through her exhilarating experience at her first St. Louis CITY soccer match, running into producer Ellis at the game, and her 5 year anniversary with her boyfriend, prompting Derek to question if the ring is on the horizon (00:58-16:58). Derek brings up another anniversary involving our good friend “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio, and continues with the “dirty” theme after an unfortunate mishap at softball involving his friend. In a complete turn of events, the family trip to the river for Labor Day weekend ended on an extra clean slate after Jenna saves Derek from a bathroom sink fiasco (17:23-25:03). The whole family, including Mimi Warren, enjoyed a great weekend at the river, even though Eric had a couple of mishaps with the boat and Derek got into it with Uncle Scott. Thankfully, as Valerie and Mimi describe, the whole community around the river are always more than happy to lend a helping hand (25:18-40:06). Mimi shares her experiences growing up in New Hampshire, starring on her basketball team, but not so much in her algebra class, and reveals where Derek might've gotten his love for wrestling. She reminisces about moving to Missouri, what Valerie was like growing up, and what she thinks about Baker Banter (40:08-1:12:55). In the Weekly Wrestling Wrap Up, Derek details some subtractions and new additions to the AEW roster. Dom is barred from ringside, but Valerie doesn't think that'll stop him. Jey Uso is back like he never left, and Derek shares how he feels about Jey and Sami Zayn hugging it out. Finally, we announce a special guest for our next episode, one of our first friends from the wrestling world (1:13:30-1:36:28).

We're ecstatic to celebrate and nominate the phenomenal Amy Poehler for the SNL Hall of Fame! Together with our fantastic guest, Victoria Fronso, we embark on the journey of Amy's illustrious career, from her kazoo-playing ice cream parlor days to her current status as an award-winning actor, producer, writer, director, and comedian. Get ready to be inspired by her amazing accomplishments, including her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, her Golden Globe win, and her friendships with Tina Fey, Seth Meyers, and Keena Faye.Discover the incredible impact Amy Poehler has had on the world of sketch and improv comedy. Reminisce on our favorite moments from the Upright Citizens Brigade Sketch Show and how Amy's trailblazing personality inspired us to chase our comedy dreams. Listen in as we analyze her unforgettable characters and sketches, her chemistry with Maya Rudolph, and her collaboration with guests like Justin Timberlake and Katy Perry, which all contributed to her remarkable SNL legacy.Don't miss out as we discuss Amy's groundbreaking depiction of Hillary Clinton, her hilarious lines like "You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go home. I'm going to go home, put my phone on vibrate and call myself." and how she's become an icon and role model for many. Celebrate the one and only Amy Poehler with us and make sure she gets voted into the SNL Hall of Fame!--------- EPISODE CHAPTERS ---------(0:00:08) - Amy Poehler(0:16:38) - Amy Poehler's Comedy Career(0:26:19) - Amy Poehler's SNL Impact(0:35:48) - SNL Characters With Amy Poehler(0:42:46) - SNL Sketches and Character Influences(0:53:37) - Amy Poehler's Impact on SNL(1:01:00) - Celebrating Amy Poehler's SNL Legacy(1:12:11) - Bronx BeatTranscript0:00:08 - Speaker 1It's the SNL Hall of Fame podcast with your host, jamie Dube, chief Librarian Thomas Senna, and featuring Matt Bardille At now. Curator of the Hall, jamie Dube. 0:00:41 - Speaker 2All right, thank you so much, doug Denats. It is great to be here in the SNL Hall of Fame podcast zone. Please come on inside, but before you do, wipe that spring mock off your feet. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair. Each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest or writer and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have all been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. Folks, it's time. It's absolutely time. The time has come. May 23rd is tomorrow and voting opens up. Have you registered to vote? Go to SNLHofcom, click vote and click register to vote there. Your ballot will be in your hands within 24 hours. Once the 23rd begins and all bets are off, we're going to elect another class in the SNL Hall of Fame. So this is really exciting. And what makes things even more exciting is today's nominee, because if you had your ballot set, it might be thrown asunder when you hear who we are nominating today, and that is Amy Poehler. We are closing out this season by nominating Amy Poehler. This is going to be great. I can't wait to hear what our guest has to say, and really I can't wait to hear what Matt has to say. So let's go and talk to our friend Matt. Hey, matt. 0:02:22 - Speaker 3Hey, jimmy, how are you doing? I'm great. How about you, matt? I am terrific. I'm really looking forward to today's topic of discussion, amy Poehler. Yeah, she's great. Right, she is wonderful 5'2". Born September 16, 1971. So we're starting to get into the cast members that are around my age and making me feel old, since they're already retired from SNL. She has 94 acting credits, 30 producer credits, 19 writing credits, 15 soundtrack credits and six director credits. Yeah, she was born in Newton, massachusetts, to two school teachers. Her dad pushed her from day one to try new things. Prior to going to college, she worked in an old-timey themed ice cream parlor called Chadwix, where she was made to wear a costume and play the kazoo while singing Happy Birthday to customers. And that's actually what helped her realize that she wanted to be a performer, because making people laugh made her feel like a queen. Yeah, so she started improv with my mother's flea bag. While working on her bachelor's in media at Boston College, she took classes at Second City, where she studied with improv. God, del Close. There's so many people I know who are like one degree separated from Del Close. It's bonkers and it's like man. It must have been wild studying with him. But yeah, so while studying with Del, she befriended and began performing alongside Tina Fey at Improv Olympics, and she then went on to co-found Upright Citizens Brigade and helped create the ASCAT format with Matt Besser, ian Roberts and Matt Walsh In 1996, growing from just an improv sketch troupe to a school of its own, sitting side by side with Second City and the groundlings, as one of the most influential improv sketch schools in entertainment. Ucb went on to train luminaries like Aziz Ansari, donald Glover, ed Helms, ellie Kemper, aubrey Plaza, nick Kroll and Zach Woods. Basically, if you see a hot young comedian who's actually no longer that young but still hot ripping up the industry right now, they likely took a UCB class. Now she is, like my wife, a noted fan of bone stugs and harmony. In the early 90s she had a recurring role on Conan O'Brien's late night as Andy Richter's younger sister, with a disturbingly intense crush on Conan. It was a lot to watch. Even back then She brought it all Now. During the first two seasons of Arrested Development she played Willar Nett, god Bluth's accidental wife, before eventually marrying him for real in 2007, before later divorcing. She also played his sister in the film's Blades of Glory with a disturbingly wife-like energy Now while filming the movie Baby Mama with Keena Faye, she was in fact pregnant with her first child, archie. She has formed lasting friendships with both Faye and Seth Meyers, whom she considers her best friends. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, along with a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in Television. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame along with a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series for Parks and Rec, as well as an Emmy and Writers Guild of America Award. The award was the third SNL alumni to give a class day address to the graduating class at Harvard. Alongside Al Franken and Will Ferrell, she started a wine store called Zoolow Wines and Spirits in Brooklyn Park Slope with musician friends Amy Miles and Mike Robertson, where they sell nice bottles of wine for as little as $13. And finally, during the filming of Parks and Rec, polar started a tradition that any time the show was shot on location, the whole cast and crew would have dinner together and she would dedicate a toast to someone, often picking out a cast or crew member, and the toasts would have to continue until everyone was toasted. Mike sure called this the Polar and continued this tradition on the good place. So yeah, she's just a nice human being. Sounds that way. 0:07:21 - Speaker 2Yeah, nice human being who belongs in the SNL Hall of Fame. What do you think? 0:07:25 - Speaker 3Agreed, definitely agreed. 0:07:28 - Speaker 2All right Cool, all right Yes. 0:07:54 - Speaker 4Thank you so much, matt and Jamie and I am to join here today by a wonderful first time guest here on the SNL Hall of Fame. She's a frequent guest on the Saturday Night Networks podcast. Our great friends over there, john Schneider and them Victoria, i actually heard you on John's shows and decided to poach you. That's kind of what I do here and there is all here talent on the Saturday Night Network and then just kind of get you over here on the SNL Hall of Fame, but John doesn't mind. 0:08:26 - Speaker 7No, I'm sure he doesn't mind the double dip. 0:08:29 - Speaker 4No, he does not. We are all good friends, we're all wonderful podcasting communities. So, victoria Fronso, thank you so much for joining us here on the SNL Hall of Fame. 0:08:39 - Speaker 7And thank you for having me. I'm excited to do this. I love debating Hall of Fame people and who's worthy and who may not be worthy, but we're here to discuss who's worthy. 0:08:49 - Speaker 4Yeah, absolutely, and we have a really good one today. But before we get to that, usually I go into more detail about my guest during this intro, but I want you to do it, victoria. So can you talk about your experience as a sketch and improv performer and maybe a little about being a 2023 SNL scholar? 0:09:09 - Speaker 7Yeah, i'd love to, so I always wanted to do comedy. It was kind of second nature, but my parents always told me, to quote get a real job, as a lot of performer parents tell them to do So. After college, probably around 2018, i started taking improv classes at the second city and did a lot of performances there as well, outside of my classes, and then in 2020, i auditioned for the conservatory, which I'll just pair like just for context is kind of like your masters of comedy and improv at the second city, you have to audition to get in and you have to audition to stay in, and then something called the pan pandemic is what it was called happen. 0:09:52 - Speaker 4I've heard about that. 0:09:53 - Speaker 7Yeah, I read about on Twitter and it was like, oh, it was a big deal or something. So I had to pause there. Pause there for a little bit. But last year, while living in Detroit, I was doing comedy at Go Comedy Improv Improv Theater. I don't know why I keep can't say improv for the life of me, even though I do it all the time. I was doing comedy there I was an understudy. I did a couple of sketch shows or a sketch show at the planet Aunt Theater, both theaters founded by Second City Detroit alumni, which is really cool. So you kind of get that training trickle down. And then last year I applied for the Saturday Night Live Scholarship at the second city and was one out of four people who got it, which is really cool. It's a diversity scholarship and it kind of is trying to build a pathway for folks who have a different background, whether that be ethnically racial, if they're part of the LGBTQ plus community, just to get them an opportunity to be in spaces that they may otherwise not have. And what that entails is they pay for my training and what my classes are, And I'm currently in the final stage of my classes at Second City. So it's kind of bittersweet there, But then I get to meet with a few of SNL folks and then hopefully get to audition this time next year. 0:11:12 - Speaker 4Wow, that's awesome And hopefully you won't forget all of us little people who you've interacted with when you're on the show in New York doing that. But that's Victoria, that's so awesome And I just kind of wish you really good luck and wish you well on your venture there. That's so wonderful. 0:11:32 - Speaker 7Thank you so much. I don't expect anything. I'll be very honest. I don't expect to be on SNL. I'm really just grateful to be doing this work. It's been a part of my life for such a long time And now that I'm able to kind of learn from the best and learn all these different techniques whether or not I make a SNL or whatever it is I end up doing I'm just happy to be doing it. And even being on podcasts like this one and just to share my love for comedy in different ways is awesome. 0:12:01 - Speaker 4You bring such a great perspective that we haven't had here. On the SNL Hall of Fame You're not just watching Saturday Night Live and watching sketch performers, you're doing it. You're performing sketch, you're taking the classes, you're making your way through. So I just love that perspective that you bring to this. So that's why I think you're the perfect guest to talk about Amy Poehler, because she was so influential in the sketch and improv world. So her first sketch and improv experience, just real quick, was with Improv Olympic. So can you tell us kind of about Improv Olympic and what Amy's background is with that? 0:12:41 - Speaker 7Yeah, i don't know entirely too much about her time at IO is what it is called But I do know her first class was taught by Sharna Halpern, who is an icon and a staple in the Chicago improv community and just improv everywhere, and so to have your first class in Chicago taught by her is kind of a big deal. You don't see it often. I don't think Sharna is teaching much anymore. She also learned and worked from Del Close, who's also a legend in the comedy world in Chicago and improv as well, and that's actually where she met Tina Fey. So a lot of folks think she met her at Second City, but I think it was actually IO where they met and then they moved on to Second City. But yeah, others at IO, just to name a few, was like Chris Farley was there, and so it's that institution among Second City or where they've built a lot of these great SNL cast members. 0:13:37 - Speaker 4Yeah, the roots of sketch and improv definitely go back to IO and Del Close especially. Del Close is one of those names that you hear. It's almost like hearing about if you're a baseball fan, like Babe Ruth or something like that, and they name Del Close rings like that amongst these circles. 0:13:54 - Speaker 7I was going to say, if you're a fan of improv and sketch and learning about where it all started, i highly recommend reading the book called Improv Nation, and it goes a little bit deeper. If you're a little nerd about it, like me, it goes a bit a lot deeper into it And it talks about how Chicago has become this for lack of a better term a cesspool of comedic geniuses, and that's where everyone comes to really get their foot in the door. 0:14:23 - Speaker 4I think that book delved into Mike Nichols and maybe his work in two And everybody knows Mike Nichols from his time as a director, a really famous director, but he has roots there. Improv Nation is a really good book. I second that. I suggest Improv Nation as well. So yeah, so Amy Poehler joined in 1995, she then moved on to Upright Citizens Brigade where I think most people who caught the me of the tail end are familiar with her before SNL. They know her with UCB. So she co-founded the UCB Theater in New York City in 1999. That's one of the main training grounds for aspiring and sketch improv and comedians. Like Second City and those others, The groundlings in California and LA, These are like the huge breeding grounds for sketch and improv reformers. So Victoria is someone who's currently a sketch and improv comedian. I know you're most associated with second city but you know we can put into context UCB standing in that world of sketch. So maybe let me tell us about UCB's standing in that world and Particularly Amy's influence. 0:15:34 - Speaker 7Yeah, i just take a step back to. I want to call out that Amy Polar was on second cities touring company, which has been part of second cities since, i think, 1967, and It was a way for if you weren't able to make it a second city, second city was gonna come to you and Not many people are able to do that. So I just want to call out how awesome it is and how you know Seldom it is that you get to see folks on touring company. It's very competitive. Former touring members include, like Julia Louis Dreyfus and Chris Redd, and they, her and Tina Fey, actually auditioned on the same day and got to tour together, which is really cool. But UCB, i think it was she founded in 1996 with Matt Welsh who you may know is like the doctor from the hangover. 0:16:20 - Speaker 4Mm-hmm, Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, he's awesome. 0:16:25 - Speaker 7He's so underrated but we'll talk about him another time Among a few others, and they, you know, really found their footing in New York City and that's where they really created a foundation You know they made appearances with. Back. Then was called late night with Conan O'Brien And they played like some characters in the audience You've seen that and also like late night with Jimmy Fallon and and all that where they sit among the audience. They also had a show on County Central, which is really cool. It was improv driven sketches like hidden camera stunts, and most notable, i think, is what was called the, the prostitute Parista, where she's this like former prostitute who goes and interviews at a coffee shop and Matt Well should we just talked about is the hiring man is like I don't think you're qualified And it's very funny, and then they end up being best friends and he ends up following his dreams. It was really funny. And then eventually she was one of the co-founders of UCB theater in New York And I think they also had it in LA, which unfortunately closed during the pandemic but is reportedly back. I I'm gonna describe a moment where I kind of like you know, people peak in high school Yeah, i peaked. I peaked in this moment and then it's been downhill since. It's been stagnant downhill and stagnant a little bit. But March 2020, right before, like literally two weeks before the world shut down, i Went to New York City and I was standing outside SNL at the what's it called, the, just outside where folks can meet the, the cast members. After the show and Chris read, who I've seen numerous times previously in Chicago, recognized me and said oh hey, victoria, how are you? and He said are you here on Monday, which I was Monday was actually March 2nd, was my birthday And he goes hey, come to UCB, me and Ego are doing an improv show. I was like, uh, okay, and Got tickets. We went and that was my first time at UCB. It was really fun. They did this cool little. They were. I love the format of it. I won't spoil it, just in case they're they're doing it again, but they basically are doing. They ask questions or they do a little bit at the beginning and then it turns into an actual scene. And then afterward I got to talk to him a little bit and meet Ego, new Odom, and that was my birthday and that was the best Birthday ever, yeah, and yeah, i peaked and I'll never get. 0:18:48 - Speaker 4You got, i mean, the personal invite from Chris read for one. He didn't. It's not like you went to the show as a fan and then you happen to meet them afterward like you. You Got the personal invite. So yeah, i would. That would be Damn near the peak for me too. 0:19:04 - Speaker 7Yeah, so and I mean it was just, it was a bit. It's a very cool theater. If you're in New York City I highly recommend you go and check it out. It's you can tell like the comedy and the genius that is Amy Poehler. You know why she's an awesome contender for a Hall of Fame spot, just kind of flows through that space and She's definitely inspired me. Her and Tina Fey when I was younger always inspired me Gilda Radner, of course, but you know from my generation, the folks that I, the women I looked up to, were those two and It was because of them I even signed up for my first second city class. And you know, here We are today, a few years later. 0:19:43 - Speaker 4But yeah, so she's. She's definitely an inspiration for you, and And a lot of people and I thought what one of the things that I find fascinating about her As it relates to her time before SNL was you will, you had mentioned the the upright citizens Brigade Brigade Sketch show that was on Comedy Central. So that ran for three seasons. It was with the aforementioned Matt Walsh, matt Besser and Ian Roberts also made up the UCB and it's interesting because she's one of the few, one of the handful of people who get to SNL who Did sketch on television before that. So of course, like we had, keenan Thompson had sketched experience on TV. Darren Killam, i believe, was on mad TV before SNL. Kate McKinnon was known for for Being on a sketch show, but Amy was like that too and I'd watched the upright citizens Brigade on Comedy Central as it was airing and So cool, yeah, so it was awesome. It was like a spiritual successor. I would say to kids in the hall. It kind of had that weird out there kids in the hall vibe, also a precursor to like I think you should leave Tim Robinson's Netflix show. There was some weird elements there. But just totally up my alley, did you have you gone back or did you get to watch upright citizens Brigade on Comedy Central? 0:21:06 - Speaker 7I Wasn't cool enough to watch it. I don't think even I was allowed to watch Comedy Central. 0:21:11 - Speaker 4I was probably dating myself, because I was plenty old enough to watch it. It was airing live. 0:21:17 - Speaker 7Yeah, it was hit or miss, like sometimes they could watch MTV But like I couldn't watch other things, or like my parents let me watch a godfather with that. It was just very weird what they pick and chose of what I could see, but I don't watch it then. I have gone back a few times and and watch bits and pieces of it just to. Sometimes you just need to like get re-inspired and Remotivated so you go and watch some of the folks that you really look up to and what they did and kind of make yourself feel better About where you're at too. No, i've watched it too, like the. The prostitute Parisone was again probably most notable, but one of my favorites too. It kind of demonstrates her Ability to be so multifaceted. I don't think that some of that content stands the test of time. 0:22:03 - Speaker 4Yeah, I don't think they could push it. 0:22:05 - Speaker 7But if you just look at it like face value for the time it was in it was, it was awesome. 0:22:10 - Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, definitely Something that, like I compared it to kids in the hall, which was a Lorne Michaels produced show, of course. So definitely something that probably would have caught the attention of SNL producers and possibly Lorne her time on the upright citizens brigade show. That's a tongue twister, upright citizens brigade. 0:22:31 - Speaker 7So no, i'm a little side note. I'm really impressed that you know what kids in the hall is. 0:22:36 - Speaker 4Oh, God, no, okay, i watched kids in the hall. I was a weird eight-year-old, okay, watching kids in the hall. So I would watch SNL in the early 90s. So again, dating myself. But so I was. I was probably watching SNL as it was airing probably around 1990, 91, and after SNL finished they would show kids in the hall. So so, yeah, so if I was able to stay awake by then I would maybe catch some kids in the hall. Of course I watched kids in the hall and comedy central when I was like in middle school, high school, so that's, yeah, i don't know. Just people, probably SNL viewers of my age and generation Also love kids in the hall you. 0:23:19 - Speaker 7You know, before the show, just for context for listeners, we were talking about Sterling Heights, michigan, and how very niche it was. But Kevin McDonald of Kids in the hall did a workshop to a go comedy improv theater in Frandale, michigan. So really. Yes, it was very cool. Yeah, and Again, also like didn't realize that a lot of people knew what kids in the hall is, because usually you mentioned. If you're like, what are you talking? 0:23:46 - Speaker 4about. Oh, yeah, i, the kids in the hall theme song was my alarm on my my phone for years. I think I maybe changed it last year, but the but the kids in the hall theme song was was my alarm that I woke up to for like year, like a decade. That's awesome. So, yeah, you're talking to a huge fan right there and it's a huge compliment to Amy that I would compare Her some of her work before SNL to kids in the hall, a show that I love Just so dearly. So we talked about her, her background before SNL Are flexing her muscles, already doing a lot in the sketch comedy world. So she was on SNL from 2001 to 2009. She debuted during a tense and confusing time in the country and SNL. So in her book yes please, which I highly recommend. Since we're recommending books on this episode, i recommend yes please by Amy Polar. So she talked about how difficult it was to start SNL right after 9-11 Because of the mood of the country. She wasn't sure if people were ready to smile, much less laugh, which is something that I remember Is. Well, that was just kind of the mood of the country in general. So, as far as her SNL stuff goes, what stood out to you about Amy as a sketch performer? 0:25:12 - Speaker 7so I know that a lot of the SNL Performers and cast members are able to take, you know, an ordinary thing and kind of exaggerate it, but I think what stood out about her is how she was able to do it and she, i think, a lot of her stuff What's the what's the word? like what? how do I phrase it? It was simple, yet like punchy, you know, like she didn't have to do a lot to get her point across, and we're gonna talk about a few of these characters, you know, coming down. But she was able to take something so ordinary and mundane and turn it into something Wild and funny and, you know, provide a different outlook. And you know she as as a woman, and especially as a woman in comedy, she was able to be a like a full-on feminist and kind of push through barriers. Not that she's the first to do it and not that she perfected it, but again, someone in my generation looking up to folks. She was right there after, you know, especially after the internet, and I think she was ahead of her time to you on some topics. I could talk about her pre SNL days forever, but she did which I'm gonna go back to really quickly here. She did a pilot, i think, with SNL slash IO called RVTV, with Del Close. You should, it's on, it's on YouTube and You know she has a line in there where she kind of calls out the establishment And she calls out the NRA and she goes it's cool to be a Republican, guns are cool, so is the NRA. Murder is hip, like she already had. She knew before we know, and she brought that perspective To SNL and to all of her, her comedy really. And so that to me, while it's general that her POV, is what stood out to me in her characters and what she wrote and how she performed them. 0:27:00 - Speaker 4Yeah, i think you brought up a good point. I think it she had like an economy of words. She didn't like it was just just just little punchy Kind of things. We would see a lot of that on weekend update, a lot of that on her UCB show, on Comedy Central. I can sell. Just kind of going through the previous seasons which I did recently, it was like, oh this is, this is Amy, and I think Victoria, you brought up just what I didn't even Consciously, i guess think that as far as Amy goes, like why did? why is she so appealing to me? Why is why, like when she was on weekend update, like why do I find her jokes more satisfying than like Seth Meyers jokes? And I like Seth Meyers? but there's a reason why I liked Amy's jokes maybe a little bit more. And then you I think what you said Perfectly encapsulates that- I mean in a word She was fearless. 0:27:52 - Speaker 7Yeah she really like she did her thing and I don't think she let much get in the way of her, you know, getting her point across and how she felt about things. It was always her point of view, which is what we need. We can't just have a shared point of view, which in some cases yes, but when she came, you know, to the writer's room or to the screen, she Was uniquely, always herself, which was brilliant. 0:28:17 - Speaker 4Yeah, and with packed with a lot of confidence To and that's the thing you can have a message and you can have ideas and what you think is a point of view. But I think you need to also really relay that with confidence and Amy had that in droves. She was super confident which is inspiring. 0:28:35 - Speaker 7I mean, we I'm, we being me. I'm gonna bring my perspective as as a woman, especially as a minority in comedy. Like we didn't have a lot of that, you know, on TV where a Woman is outspoken Like some of her character. A lot of her characters are outspoken and they weren't really a shy or reserve. She was up and center and, you know, really didn't care what people had to say. And it's inspiring to me to kind of bring That to the table too and it's allowed me to also in my comedy, to be fake confident. You know, fake it till you make it. But Yeah, she's, she's awesome in that way. 0:29:16 - Speaker 4Yeah, so as far as specific Characters and sketches from her time at SNL, where should we start? 0:29:25 - Speaker 7My goodness, that's a loaded question. I Think the most obvious is probably like what do you think Hillary Clinton? 0:29:33 - Speaker 5It has been such an honor to serve you, the citizens of my home state of New York. Oh, my kidding, this is not my home state. It never was my home state. Pack up the house a chap, a quad bill. What's that We never unpacked? 0:29:50 - Speaker 4even better, Yeah, that was one of her first recurring characters, especially she. She started that in her third season. So her depiction of Hillary Clinton. So we talked about what Amy brought to the table as a sketch performer. You saw some of that in her depiction of Hillary Clinton. 0:30:10 - Speaker 7Yes, she played, of course, an exaggerated caricature of Hillary Clinton, but again, it was this fearless confident. You know I'm calling out the sexism in politics. You know I'm calling out how insane like, especially with her. You know, with Tina Feyess, sarah Palin, calling out how kind of ludicrous it is that Sarah Palin has gotten a little well in 2008, got a little bit further in politics. And she did. And you know she brought her personality to Hillary Clinton and, you know, made it, made it really funny. 0:30:49 - Speaker 4Yeah, and as far as doing impressions and everything like that I'm preaching to the choir, probably here, but you got to find that hook right. As a performer, and I've heard, i've heard some of the masters, like Daryl Hammond, dana Carvey, love, they love talking about how they conjure up impressions. But you have to find that hook And I think with her, hillary Clinton, with Amy Pollars, hillary Clinton she started you know her mannerisms, that laugh, because Hillary didn't really laugh like that, to be honest with you, but it was something that Amy was able to grab onto and say this is an element of this character that I'm creating and let's work from there. 0:31:32 - Speaker 7Yeah, and it's funny that you mentioned that, because when she was with Hillary, which is, i think it was March, march 1st 2008. I think I forgot what season that was, but she does a call open with Hillary Clinton and Hillary Clinton asked her I don't laugh like that, do I? And she was well like, yeah, you know it was. It was just very funny that she you get to call impressions of yourself. You don't really see that And then, of course, in a cold open, which is even more rare, in Second City Saturday Night Live. So I mean, it's just iconic. She's done things that others have never done on that show. 0:32:08 - Speaker 4Yeah, she played Hillary Clinton 13 times throughout the years, from season 29 all the way up to her last season. It was season 34. So she played Hillary Clinton quite a few times. One of the sketches and I don't know if you remember this one, but it's it's what I kind of go back to as far as when Amy first announced herself with confidence something that she first led, it was in her second episode and it's it's a sketch that she wrote with Sean Williams Scott. It was the porn star sketch. 0:32:39 - Speaker 8Hey, can I ask you a question? 0:32:42 - Speaker 1You can ask me anything. You know that. 0:32:48 - Speaker 9When do you think it's a good time to mention in a relationship that you've done some porn? 0:32:56 - Speaker 10What Just like? how long do you think like in a relationship you should wait before you tell somebody you did a little porn? 0:33:05 - Speaker 7Like, first of all, what an era It was. It was again right after, you know, september 11th, unfortunately, but like those early 2000s, like when it comes to comedy, they were so out there It was almost the Wild West. 0:33:21 - Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, people were taking chances, it was. I mean, some of the bad stuff was like it was. I think it was the height of like edge lord kind of comedy which wasn't so wonderful, but then. But you also had people taking chances and delving into ideas that that that maybe are taboo or risque. 0:33:39 - Speaker 7Yeah, I mean Sean Williams, scott himself was in what American Pie Like again wouldn't go so well if it was released as is for the first time today. But yeah, i mean just having him there and then, you know, having her. Like I said, she takes simple things, which I guess being a porn star, dating is something you don't usually see, but it's a simple thing. 0:34:04 - Speaker 4She takes every day right. 0:34:06 - Speaker 7Yeah, and it is a slice of life. Yeah, and it's a different POV. We don't usually see that POV, but you know I love that. She was like downplaying. I know I was, i was in a porn movie and he's like, well, i don't care about your past. There's like, well, this afternoon I guess was my past And then you know, it was just very funny. I think again, really cool that she got to be she was fresh to SNL in the second episode, got to be in, got to be a main character with the host, her second episode. It just I don't know, man, do I? I'm preaching, i'm also preaching to the choir, but like she is doing things that are essentially unheard of in at SNL. Yeah, that's soon. Yeah, that's soon And it's your own sketch that you have co-written. But yeah, I mean, if you wanted to walk through, I guess how it how it went for the rest of folks, I don't want to ruin it for you if that's where you're going. 0:35:05 - Speaker 4Oh, no, yeah, go ahead. 0:35:06 - Speaker 7No, so I mean she's you know having I thought it was a dinner with a boyfriend or it's like. 0:35:12 - Speaker 4Yeah, And she was like Or just like it seemed like a they've maybe a first date or they were in the early stages of dating. 0:35:19 - Speaker 7Yes, Early stages of dating She's like oh, when is it a good time to mention that I've done a porn movie? And he was like what? And then you know she's like, oh, it's. She kind of does like, oh, it was like a one time thing, but she's been in multiple. And he finds out She's like oh, it's your past. And she's like well, this afternoon, i guess, is my past. And yeah, he's like I thought I thought it'd be cool to date a porn star, but it's now that I'm am. It's not fun. She was, i'm not a porn star yet. 0:35:51 - Speaker 4And I think she crossed her fingers to her. She had the mannerism like I'm not a porn star yet, Like yes, I might be looking soon And you know what? 0:36:01 - Speaker 7That's how you want to get your bag. Get your bag, like, not shaming Women for their choices. And then, of course, seth Meyers, who, like I think, was probably her top collaborator throughout her time on SNL, you know, comes in as the waiter. He's like, oh, i think I know you from somewhere, and then it turns out he casted one of her movies and then he goes and rushes to the kitchen and tell his friends And then at the end of it she's signing autographs. So, you know, josh, aka Sean Williams Scott, is just at the end, i guess, accepting of her career. 0:36:37 - Speaker 4Yeah, and I'm sure viewers at the time who knew Amy from her Comedy Central days were waiting for some kind of showcase like that And it came really soon. So she does cite that in her book too. It was just something that of course, was one of the more memorable experiences for her on the time from her time at the show. So that was, like her, basically the first Amy Polar led sketch on SNL. That was from season 27, episode two, sean Williams, scott, go check that out. I think it's a fun episode, just kind of overall. But that I think, and I think this porn star sketch I call it porn it's like porn star date sketch. I think it was like a 10 to one. So I think they kind of just put it at the end of the show. Yes, and it fit perfectly, yeah, so I'm glad it made air. 0:37:27 - Speaker 7I will plug Peacock. It's on Peacock if you want to watch it. So everything, mostly everything, is on Peacock, if I'm not mistaken. 0:37:34 - Speaker 4Yeah, So sometimes when you get to seasons like 30, 31 or so, you find like 15 minute episodes on Peacock. But I think season 27, we're still you can find mostly full episodes. 0:37:46 - Speaker 7Yeah, so go check that out If you're looking for musical performances. I think they cut a lot of those out. But other than that, if you Michael Jordan episodes on there, so just go for it and watch it. 0:37:58 - Speaker 4Another great episode as well. Yeah, and the LeBron James episodes on there too, just if you're more of a LeBron person. 0:38:05 - Speaker 7Oh, you can't say that to me. I literally live in Chicago. I know I was born in the 90s, lived in Chicago during Michael Jordan's era. What are you doing? I got it. I'm just going to start a different podcast about that. 0:38:23 - Speaker 4So what other sketches or characters could we not do the show without talking about? 0:38:32 - Speaker 7Bronx beat. 0:38:33 - Speaker 4Bronx beat Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph Just great chemistry. 0:38:38 - Speaker 7Yeah, they were like I'm surprised it was brought. I mean Bronx. I don't listen, i don't want to offend culture here. I don't know if it's a Bronx or Staten Island. I didn't realize that it was Bronx. I thought it was like the Italians were in Staten Island. But again, i don't want to be wrong, i don't want to offend any New Yorkers. I make it ignore me, but I really loved it. They were like these disgusted, outspoken, sassy women. 0:39:06 - Speaker 10Let me ask you something, frank. You married Well. 0:39:08 - Speaker 7I have a girlfriend. 0:39:09 - Speaker 10Why haven't you asked your girlfriend to marry you? You know what? Don't get married. Listen to us. Don't get married. Your life is over Over. 0:39:15 - Speaker 11She is right. You know what? My husband? I want to kill him. I want to strangle him while he's asleep. I want to kill him. You know what I love him. 0:39:23 - Speaker 10He's in love with my life. Here we go with the waterworks. He gave me my two dollars. What am I going to do? So emotional these days, it's true, i can't help it. He gave me my two dollars. I would die without him. You know what Frank Do. Whatever you want, what am I an expert? 0:39:35 - Speaker 7Who like fond over male guests and would flirt with them. There was a line I don't know if I'm allowed to say on this podcast Go ahead and say it, and if I feel I need to cut it, i will. Okay, she, amy Poehler, was with Jake Gyllenhaal, i believe, was it Jake? No, it was with Justin Timberlake and Andy Sandberg, and she was. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go home. I'm going to go home, put my phone on vibrate and call myself Like so gross but like so funny, like again, kind of talking about that confidence and that fearlessness and all of her characters, like I don't know that I'd be ever confident enough to say that. And then she's like now leave before I change my mind. 0:40:19 - Speaker 4Total Amy Poehler. Just we were talking about how confident she is And these characters both the characters that both she and Maya played in these sketches were sassy, aggressive, just shameless. Yeah, absolutely Just. And they played against most of the male. It was usually a host that would come in. They were shy and just trying to. You could tell they were maybe interns on their show, just trying to learn the ropes or whatever guests who were kind of shy. So they played really well off of these sassy, aggressive women. So I think perfect Amy was like one of the perfect people to play this. 0:40:56 - Speaker 7Yeah, i think the most I mean. Correct me if I'm wrong. I would think the most notable and beloved sketch of that is with Katy Perry, where she comes in in that Elmo t-shirt and they're like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You know, like you know, today's episode is brought to you by the number 38 in the letter D And just like, very funny and she was in but also very empowering for women. This, this feminist POV, comes in, she goes they go never be embarrassed by your body, never, ever. And so it just yeah, it was very funny. Betty Caruso has a piece of my heart. She's America's, america's mom. 0:41:36 - Speaker 4Just wonderful, yeah, and it seemed like this Bronx beat show for these characters was like their outlet, because they do allude to just their moms and they have families at home. So it almost seems like this is their outlet just to kind of say what they want and flirt with who they want. So, yeah, the Bronx beat we don't have to tell our listeners to I'm sure they've checked this out so many times Definitely, as far as Amy Polar goes, part of her canon for sure. Yeah, so, and one another recurring character that we're volleying over here. So another recurring character that I want to mention is Caitlin Rick. 0:42:18 - Speaker 8Rick, rick, listen, rick, i know it's 16 hours until Uncle Scott's wedding And I know that you told me it was too early to put my dress on. But as co-junior bridesmaid, i really feel like I need to walk around and practice in my dress, with the heels and the head thing, and I'll be like dum dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum dum. 0:42:42 - Speaker 4Oh God Which. And Amy says this character, it was the hyperchild who hung out with her uncle. I think it was usually Horatio Sands was the uncle. Yeah, and Amy says that this character was an homage to Gilda Radner and her Judy Miller character. From now And it's kind of funny when I just had that in my mind this reminds me of like the Gilda character. And Amy says that it was an homage to that Judy Miller character from Gilda's I didn't realize that. Yeah, so we're seeing Gilda's influence to an SNL Hall of Famer in her own right. She got voted in Yeah. So, yeah, we're seeing Gilda's influence And Amy, just I love that. She's paying homage to her heroes, essentially, and this was a fun character. 0:43:28 - Speaker 7No, now that you say that, that makes total sense And it comes out in the mannerisms. I mean, Caitlyn is such great birth control if you're debating whether or not you want kids. 0:43:40 - Speaker 4I just took a drink of water. I almost did a spit take. 0:43:44 - Speaker 7No, i just that's. When I think of Caitlyn, i think of great birth control. I was like, oh, i don't know if I want kids, just watch Caitlyn, you know if you're leaning. No, that'll solidify, solidify your decision there. No, i mean, she's like annoying kid with braces. I love the one with. Oh man, he retired twice. What's his name? Tom Brady, and you know, just, she puts on a dress. She's just so annoying, she's hyperactive, she's overly annoying, but that's the point. That's the whole point. 0:44:14 - Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, and I usually yeah, i usually don't love a lot of shouting in sketches. That's why I don't know, that's why I've had to. I've had to come around on Sarah Sherman. I love Sarah now and I love most of her stuff, but a lot I've had to really come around to her more shouty types of pieces that she does on SNL. But I still enjoy these Caitlyn sketches because of her interplay with her ratio And then the character feels fleshed out to me Like there's some hints for a sad home life, forcing Yeah, she's like always just kind of hints at that that she has a really sad home life. 0:44:55 - Speaker 7I think the best characters no matter if it's Saturday Night Live or Key and Peele or whatever it is always have a fleshed out POV And you can tell exactly who they are, where they came from. You can visualize their life outside of the scene that you're seeing. I think those are always made for the best characters. You don't really have to guess who they are outside of the scene. I think that was Caitlyn And I agree The shouty stuff is hard for me too, and I agree with you with Sarah Sherman. I think she's funny, yeah, And I think what she does is so unique and so niche. This is Sarah Sherman we're talking about, but yeah, no, those those louder ones are take a little bit more time for me to warm up to them, but I eventually do, and I think this was at that time, one of the few that were. So it worked because it wasn't constant. I don't think they've ever done constant shouting characters or something that I could be wrong, but I think it worked for her time there. 0:45:57 - Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, i agree, and I think part of her character which I find funny and it's, you know, hinting at how she is outside of the sketch is like her references are old. So she referenced like Dennis Leary Like what little kid references Dennis Leary? or Amadeus, the like the Amadeus? And it tells me that maybe, and this was probably by design by the writers and Amy for this character. It tells me that that that Caitlyn grew up being babysat by the TV and she probably watched a lot of adult content that she shouldn't have been in, not not like sex and violence, but just adult stuff, like like that. That's how I was when I was a kid and yeah, like I said, i'm not talking about like when I was a kid, i would watch movies with nudity. I would watch movies that had like themes of divorce and like finding yourself in midlife crisis, and I was like seven years old Sitting in front of the TV eating cocoa puffs just in my pajamas, watching like Kramer vs Kramer. Yeah, and I kind of think that's how Caitlin was with her homidaeus and Dennis Leary types of references. 0:47:09 - Speaker 7I wonder if her reference to Dennis Leary was kind of an homage to her Massachusetts upbringing as well, since they're both from Massachusetts. 0:47:17 - Speaker 4That's a good point. I'm gonna go ahead and say it was. 0:47:20 - Speaker 7Yeah, i mean, i don't know how close. I think she's from Newton, he's from Warchester, warchester. 0:47:27 - Speaker 4I don't know. You're not a person from Massachusetts, apparently Warester. 0:47:32 - Speaker 7I am a Midwestern gal, through and through from Chicago and Detroit. I call myself a chitroiter. 0:47:39 - Speaker 4Don't let somebody from Massachusetts hear you pronounce it, warchester. 0:47:44 - Speaker 7Okay, listen, i love. 0:47:44 - Speaker 4Duncan. 0:47:46 - Speaker 7I love Duncan, i love Winter, i love the movie Feverpitch Oh yeah, okay With Jimmy Fallon. Yeah, sorry, sorry to the Massachusetts community. You can't see my face. 0:48:06 - Speaker 4So I brought up. Caitlin, so I believe it's your turn. What characters sketch kind of stands out to you? 0:48:14 - Speaker 7Do we want to talk about the needlers? 0:48:16 - Speaker 4We can talk about the needlers. 0:48:18 - Speaker 8Does everyone know what they're getting? Yeah, i think I'm gonna get this beet salad. What. 0:48:24 - Speaker 2The beet salad Bee salad. 0:48:29 - Speaker 10Beet salad. Well, the first two times you said bee salad. 0:48:34 - Speaker 8Yeah, honey, i have a real craving for putting some bees in my mouth. 0:48:38 - Speaker 7I mean, we all know that couple in real life And sometimes I think that they perhaps solved those sketches back in like what 2005. And copy them on purpose, just to make all of us sad and mad. 0:48:54 - Speaker 4Yeah, just to make everybody uncomfortable for their own amusement. 0:48:57 - Speaker 7Yeah, it was. Just it was very like toxic, like the kids today would call that relationship toxic, i think I don't know. Maybe you know this. I have a question because I don't know everything about SNL. Was there a previous version of that called Dan and Sally Harrison, the couple that should be divorced? 0:49:16 - Speaker 4Yeah, so that was the first sketch. They were called Sally and Dan Harrison, the couple that should be divorced. I think they had a theme song. 0:49:24 - Speaker 1You're the horn in my side, you're the face that makes me angry. 0:49:30 - Speaker 5Nothing you ever say or do is right. Sally, and then Harrison, the couple that should be divorced. 0:49:39 - Speaker 4In SNL canon. I consider that the first Needler sketch was that, sally and Dan Harrison. I think their names are Sally and Dan Needler. Possibly going forward They changed the last name from Harrison to Needler, which of course they're needling each other, so there's a bit on the nose, but you want to remember. Sometimes it's on the nose, but yeah, we all know that couple. 0:50:03 - Speaker 7I don't know why I wrote that down when you said it. I wrote it down in my notes as if I'm going to have to retain that for a later day. 0:50:11 - Speaker 4You might. 0:50:12 - Speaker 7You might be on some SNL trivia show and it might come up, maybe that's like if I ever get to audition, they're like, hey, what was the first Needler sketch? I'm going to have to know it. 0:50:24 - Speaker 4Most people don't know that if you audition for SNL, there's a written test to go along with it. We hear stories about what it's like to be up there not getting laughs and still doing the thing, but then what we don't know is that there's a written test. Thorne Michaels is the proctor for the test and he's walking around, so this might be on SNL's written test, victoria. 0:50:46 - Speaker 7Okay, that's so good to know. I'm going to also, after this goes live, download it and like memorize everything we've said word for word, just in case. 0:50:55 - Speaker 4Yeah, just commit it to memory. So this sketch I love that you brought it up because Amy and Seth, they go from aggressive to passive aggressive just in an instant and they have really good chemistry here, that which we've seen a lot throughout SNL, throughout them in particular. 0:51:13 - Speaker 7They're a great duo. Hey, always comparing her to Tina Fey, but they were kind of each other's counterparts at the time but, like Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon, i think, have the same energy as Seth and Amy. they just worked really well together. I think they co collaborated a lot during, you know, their time in SNL. So you see, that which we'll talk about hopefully, i mean which I'm sure we'll talk about later is, you know, we can update and the needlers and and other things that they've, you know, written together and just they did that so well together. I really couldn't see her doing that sketch with anyone else. I love the fertility, fertility clinic one with Natalie Portman because it's like it describes those quote toxic and quote couples so perfectly. we're fighting all the time and then they end up like doing it Like they were doing it in the, in the waiting room, and Jason Sudeik has come and he's like I don't think we'll have any more patients for the day and she's like why is that he goes there doing it? 0:52:16 - Speaker 4Yeah, of course, that's like often the the button to those sketches. The first one, johnny Knoxville, is the one that walks in on them and yeah, that's just perfect, and that's that's how it is with those couples. It's so intense and passionate and it's in past. It's passionate negatively and sometimes passionate very positively. 0:52:35 - Speaker 7Yeah, oh, that's maybe a good word passionate versus toxic and that's what those couples will tell you. 0:52:41 - Speaker 4We're not talks, we're just passionate. 0:52:43 - Speaker 7Yeah, you don't know him like I know him okay. Okay, yeah, like they're like little lines of like, oh, we're late because he thought it was better to take the back roads instead of, oh, the highway. And then they were at dinner and she's like oh, be salad, be salad. He's like beat salad, yeah, because I wanted a bunch of bees in my mouth, just like. Very like. We know those couples, unfortunately, and if you think you're in that couple now and you're listening, please break up and find peace, please do everybody. Yeah, for the sake of society. 0:53:21 - Speaker 4So, yeah, you brought up weekend update, so I want to talk about that now. Actually, good segue. So she, yeah, started weekend update in her fourth season. So she did it season 30 to season 34, final update. Final update was in the middle of season 34. So what did you? and I know they say comparison is the thief of joy, but that's almost Kind of what we do here. Even if we don't do it overtly, it's almost applied that we're comparing cast members and errors and all of that. So I mean, what did you think of Amy on weekend update? 0:53:55 - Speaker 7Of course, to be reckoned with. You know she was part of the first and only female duo to host week and update with Tina Fey. Then, of course, she had a successful run with Seth Myers and she's just had like really great bits. You know, one that stands out to me was you know her and Tina Fey mentoring Lindsay Lohan at the time, who was like that was such a great mean girls era and you know, for folks who are younger, like millennials, i should say that was kind of like our Like the comedy growing up of was you know mean girls and and you know the Tina Fey and Amy Polars growing up. So it was really awesome. You know it was very like. I'm confronting her about rumors they've heard about her which, like at the time everyone had a rumor was very. I think as a side we've done a little bit better, not too much better, but we've progressed a little bit how we treat women and people who are famous but just like saying, you know you have me to Barton arms. You're too skinny, are you eating? I went to the club and then The fun part of the you know the twist of Lindsay Lohan throwing it back on them. She's like well, you slept with people for Tanta movies, are you know? you're drunk right now. And Amy Polars like, yes, i am, no, i mean, she was great. She brought a lot of originality to it again. It's that POV of I am myself, i am me, i'm fearless, i'm confident, and you better listen to me, and this is what I've got to say. She brought that there too. 0:55:26 - Speaker 4Yeah, amy, on update to me, that really allowed her to display her wit and charm on the show she was out of character. Well, kind of out of character, but it was. You know she. She straddled the line is weekend update anchors Do, but she really was allowed to display her wit and charm. She did like playful crowd work in spots. That was really entertaining. She and Tina did a lot of bits amongst themselves outside of the update jokes, like you mentioned that Lindsay Lohan mentorship bit. They would rap, they would sing songs, they would have bits like the The nutbird news quiz, the bitch news quiz, kind of different things like that. So I like that she and Tina When outside of we're just gonna take turns doing jokes and then have like a cast member do a week a bit with us or whatever, like they would do bits amongst themselves, which I think, yeah, really interesting. 0:56:25 - Speaker 7Yeah, i mean out of the wraps, which was your favorite. 0:56:29 - Speaker 4Oh man, not to put you on the spot. Yeah, they did one. It was either the one that I remember most and I went back and rewatched kind of Her weekend update stuff here and there and the one that always stood in my mind was I ended up being the first one that she did in season 30. And that stood out to me to watching it in sequential order because that was one of the first kind of bits that they did outside of the update jokes, so you never really saw like Kevin Niel and rapping. Or like Chevy Chase yeah yeah, jane and Bill Murray rapping together, so yeah, so I did like that first one because I maybe it was just because of the significance, as as if you are watching it how I did, but that one for sure stood out to me. 0:57:24 - Speaker 7And I'd be remiss if I didn't give Jane Curtin a shout out for being the first female weekend host. But no, the one that stood up to me wraps wise is the Sarah Palin rap. I don't know if you remember that. 0:57:53 - Speaker 5Smile, because that smile be creepy. But when I'm being all the leaders in the world gonna finally meet me, how's it go, eskimo? 0:58:02 - Speaker 7Tell me, tell me what you know Eskimo, how you feel Eskimo, tell me, tell me what you feel Eskimo Again. like that era of SNL, like 2000, like the 2008 election specifically, was so awesome to see the actual candidates come on to that show. I think now people would be like we're in such a crisis. what are you doing on SNL situation? so it's cool that we got that from then while we, while we could, and you know, sarah Palin joins the weekend update desk and then kind of like Amy Poehler kind of brings, brings the house down with a wrap about you know, about Sarah Palin like delivering her message and then Andy Sandberg and Fred Armisen as her backup. just really with like the fur coats and you know. Yeah, that was one that stood out to me. I she just man. Again, she's in a lot of things on that show that not many people got to do. I mean, i think I don't know if we're gonna end with a why she deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. But yeah, she was well, we'll get to it, but I had to, yeah, yeah, we'll get to it. So I'll leave my the rest of my thoughts there. I'll pause them for now. 0:59:10 - Speaker 4Yeah. 0:59:10 - Speaker 7so before we move on to what maybe she did after SNL and to your appeal to the voters, what else on SNL should we talk about as far as Amy Poehler goes, I would just love to give a quick honorable mention to two sketches, again also in a in the 2008 ish, you know, near the end of her time is the Bush twin secret language sketch. 0:59:38 - Speaker 8Jenna, we're twins. We have to share our most secret thoughts about everything. It's disrespectful. Just answer me in our secret twin language. 0:59:52 - Speaker 10Barbara, we haven't used that language since. We were like 19. 0:59:56 - Speaker 8Do be you, but think, but dance, but good. but president, but yes, i think, but he's, but really good. 1:00:09 - Speaker 7Like so funny there was, like you know they slapped on some Southern accents and they were drunk and you know they were using their, the secret, the language, to Figure out I'm trying to do it to figure out, like if their dad is actually like smart enough and competent enough to be president, which like was funny because I guess at the time when the rest of America was like what Is is he? and then another one was to love, honor and stock with John McCain hello, gillian. 1:00:45 - Speaker 10The conference wish cut short, so I rushed back to see you. 1:00:49 - Speaker 9David You shouldn't sneak up on people like that. You scared me half to death. 1:00:54 - Speaker 10Forgive me, darling, you know I'd never hurt you. 1:00:59 - Speaker 7That was so funny. It was just like her husband, her older husband, who was like very in love with her, invades her privacy and she's just like he's always in my space and like tries to sue him and so like you're literally married, like She's just a marriage, Yeah he's like he's just a poet and it's like kind of funny because it's like They also bring up again this feminism, feminist point of view of like if you were, if it was a rose reverse, it would be a big deal. Like we'd all be like, you know, leave him alone if she was the one doing it to him. But yeah, i think the amount of times she's gotten to play with you know politicians, especially during these Really important I mean she came during important time in in the US. I feel like that kind of set the tone for, like what she was gonna do in the years after. So I just wanted to give a shout out to those two. I now that I'm like we're talking about it. She did a lot of a lot of political stuff and good for her. I mean, she's involved politically in her personal life, so it just makes sense that she again is enough, is is authentic and genuine and says to herself, even when she's being someone else. 1:02:08 - Speaker 4Yeah, and I don't know if those lifetime movies Exist in that fashion anymore, but that was such a good parody of a lifetime movie from that area. So, that to love, honor and stock the the Jillian Woodward story, that's what that was called. It was in her second season, so that would have been about 2000, late 2002, when that's aired, and that was just Such a perfect parody of a lifetime movie from that era. They captured it so well and I don't know if there's anything Comparable now. Lifetime, does it exist? 1:02:42 - Speaker 7I think it might, but I haven't watched a lifetime movie since like 2006, yeah, so Sorry to say watched in 2006. 1:02:52 - Speaker 4This is, i'm sure. Yeah the reason why you appreciate something like that. So I think those are two excellent choices and really great examples of of her work on SNL. I also highlighted her Dakota fanning show that she did three times. That was a good one. She just was hilarious depiction of a precocious young girl. Amy, amy played that so well. Yeah, when she had Drew Barrymore Barrymore on and Drew Barrymore was playing The Abigail Breslin is a little miss. Yes, and then yeah yeah, Amy played that so well. 1:03:25 - Speaker 7How old were you when you first Scott your, when you got your first nomination? 1:03:28 - Speaker 4and she's like And she's like oh, i didn't know you were that young. 1:03:34 - Speaker 7Yeah, that's so funny. That's a good call out. That was such a. You know, dakota fanning, if you're watching this or if you're listening to this and I know that you are I hope you're doing well And I hope that you felt justice was served in your impersonation of you by Amy polar because it was done out of love. 1:03:53 - Speaker 4So yeah, and I think I think she knows that. So after SNL Amy polar, her main gig was playing Leslie nope in Parks and Recreation. I was a big fan. I imagine you were to Victoria. 1:04:09 - Speaker 7Yeah, i think it was. It just calls out a lot of the nonsense that we may or may not see in Politics, but especially, you know, local politics. A lot of like, a lot of pop culture and societal phrases that we used to like treat yourself, came from that and it's, it's made an impact on on TV and on how we speak to each other. And you know, you know again her and Tina Fey, i Think, are probably one of the few who had these successful TV shows after leaving SNL. Not only that, like producing and directing and and writing and being so successful at it and where it's So ingrained into our society, like. Another example would be like bridesmaids, you know with with Kristen Wiig and how, after SNL, you know she created this really awesome piece of piece of comedy for us to enjoy. And you know we Like I always say shit that is fresh. I pull that from from bridesmaids, but I always pull like treat yourself and you know it's, it's. They're not enough words and maybe they are, but I'm not smart enough to know them. I have a limited vocabulary. But she is Amy Poehler is She's not the first to do it. We like it. We've mentioned Gilda Radner and you know we also mentioned Jane Curtin. They're not the first but they are today's. You know they stand on shoulders but us after them are standing on their shoulders too. So We've been with, you know, parks and rec. She's opened some other doors and avenues for us to be creative and, you know, freed us a little bit to be Open about ourselves in our comedy and how we write and how we look at comedy. 1:05:58 - Speaker 4So after a very successful run on parks and recreation She returned to SNL numerous cameos throughout the years, especially at the weekend up

Talia interviews Uncle Scott about flying drones. Recorded 2021Thank you so much for listening to All Kids Voices – podcasts for kids, by kids -- home of Curious Kids podcasts, Making Memories podcasts, and Here Is A Story I Wrote podcasts. For information on how to submit your own podcast, please visit linktree.com/allkidsvoices

Uncle Scott, Unlce Mark, and cousin John-Mark relive a riveting adventure in Colorado as well as their past biking experience. Don't forget to write a review of the podcast and follow up with your New Years resolution.  

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*Warning. We're grumpy old sneaker heads, don't take this personally* We are back again! Summer vacations are coming fast and furious, and we did nothing last year, so you can't really blame us for wanting to take some weeks off and spend some time outside, right? Anyways, we've got lots to catch up on, including some huge news about an acquisition by Foot Locker Corp., as well as an NSR question that has us realizing just how un-athletic we really are. There's a reason we invited Uncle Scott on the program, and that's cause we're letting our grumpy old sneaker head-isms shine through, and talking about our sneaker pet peeves that make us feel cranky and washed up. Will Alvin swear more or less than 15 times? Will Sean's heart rate pass 200 bpm? Listen in to find out!   Follow our guest at: @SCollard23   Follow us at: @CanadaGotSole @MisterQMart @Jo_Doooney @LDoggyStyles  www.CanadaGotSole.ca Facebook.com/groups/CGS.TALK

From our buddy Uncle Scott! "It all began about 14 billion years ago when I emerged out of nothingness. It was a really Big Event. Then about 4.5 bya I took on a new form. I was a bit spherical and plump, but not flat, and ready to start circling the neighborhood. About a half billion years after that I woke up to my surroundings and began to copy and replicate and imitate reality around me through movement and gestures. A lot happened after that and I’ll spare you the details, but around 6 million years ago I left home, I left my tribe, and went my own way. I thought I knew it all. Around 500,000 years ago, give or take a few hundred millennia, I found my voice. I began to graffiti my bedroom with posters of animals and such. I started to communicate with my parents who had died and my children who were yet to be born. And about 2,000 years ago I created a band, called the Christians. We started out small, and our leader had some pretty crazy ideas, but we eventually grew and became famous. There’s some interesting stuff about us on the web. Then about 50 years ago, things started getting interesting. I started to rebel and dance to the beat of my own drum. I got married to someone in that band and we called ourselves the Society of Jesus (or, if you want our social media handle - the Jesuits). Then I began to party like it's 1999 and we had a separation. Since then I’ve been teaching the young how to assume nothing and question everything, to know their story and inhabit it. But most of all, I try to encourage them to look beyond themselves and to be open to laboring and giving birth to a sustainable future that offers hope and newness. And now the less interesting origin story: I was born and raised in a practicing Catholic family. As a child I was curious about the long and rich history of the Judeo-Christian tradition as well as the rich symbolism it manifested. That led me to study history and languages at Arizona State University. At the same time, I became conscious of the growing economic disparity in the world and felt called to do something about it. Reading the stories of St. Francis of Assisi, and other saints who lived and worked with the most vulnerable populations, I decided that the best way to respond to that calling was to enter into service through the Church. I entered the Jesuits at age 25 and from there my desires to be with the most vulnerable were met. I worked with oncology and AIDS patients in Hollywood, tutored gang members in east Los Angeles, lived with the Lakota Sioux in South Dakota, worked in a shanty town in Guaymas, Mexico, and lived in an orphanage in Montevideo, Uruguay. I was then sent to Chicago to study theology at the graduate level at Loyola University. I eventually left the Jesuits, started teaching theology at Loyola Academy and finally got my Ph.D. in theology from Loyola University. I taught at Loyola U for a couple of years and at Loyola Academy for 22 years." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mindfulgrooving/message

Miss Chrissie and Steve are joined by special guest, Chrissie’s Uncle Scott! In this laughter filled episode, we delve into Chrissie’s mischievous youth where we learn that she learned to drive stick with the wrong hand, hung out with a sod farm heir, unwittingly wore drug paraphernalia to school, and survived regular attendance at the “luncheon.” All that and more...LIVE from the 19046! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/partners-in-crime/message

On the fourth episode, two-time Stanley Cup Champion Scotty Gomez joins Ian Pulver to talk about his new endeavours, Scotty's House and Story Time with Uncle Scott. Gomez, one of the very best storytellers in the business, covers an array of topics, including his days with the New Jersey Devils and his 1,000-plus games in the NHL. Gomez renders advice to current NHLers, future pros and players at all levels. He is entertaining and witty as he discusses his heritage, his Alaskan roots and his current Scotty's House adventures.

EP229 - NRF NXT, Google Commerce, Big Commerce S1  Jason recent events: NRF NXT Tuesday, July 21 11:45am–12:30pm EDT “Future of Platforms” Forbes Article “Retail’s Great Pivot: How The Pandemic Has Changed Stores’ Criteria For Success From Traffic To Efficiency“ Jason Upcoming Events CommerceNext July 29th 4:10 pm EE “Lesson Learned and Thoughts for the Future” Industry News NRF NXT was this week, a digital commerce show from the National Retail Federation (the successor to the Shop.org tradeshow). You can still register for free, and watch all the sessions on demand. Google has eliminated commissions for it’s “Buy on Google” feature on google shopping, as well as offering PayPal and Shopify payments. Goldman Sachs equity research published: “Global Internet eCommerce’s steepening curve: Raising global forecasts & identifying new winners” July 20,2020. Scot breaks it down. eMarketer publishes “US ECOMMERCE BY CATEGORY 2020” July 22, 2020. Jason breaks it down. Big Commerce files it’s S-1. (Keep an eye on RetailRoadshow for their roadshow video). Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 229 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Thursday, July 24th, 2020. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is Episode 229 being recorded on Thursday July 23rd 2020. That’s a lot of two’s I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners well it starts in this episode we are going to focus on some news because last week we just couldn’t jam it all in and then more news has happened since then so we have a lot to talk about Jason before we jump into that you’ve had a busy week educating the world on some very various topics tell us how that went I think you spoke it in RF next. Jason: [1:05] That’s that’s right so for people that might not be familiar there’s been a longtime digital show about e-commerce arguably the first treat you about e-commerce called Shop dot-org you and I were both board members when it was independent organization it got bought by NRF, and overtime shop dot org has morphed into this digital conference called NRF next which of course was canceled this year because of covid so Monday Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, they hosted the virtual version of NRF next. I got to give a presentation about the future of platforms. Scot: [1:46] The future of platforms we don’t tell us much about it because these are the kind of things we love to turn into deep Dives but give us a teaser so what’s something that’s going to blow people’s minds but without telling us what it is. Jason: [2:00] Monoliths are dead. Scot: [2:04] Mmm the end of the model. Jason: [2:07] Just say no to monoliths and if you either listen to a waiter deep dive will do or you watch the segment the the digital version is free so you can still go register and all this stuff is available on demand so if you’re interested you can still go watch it, and I Unleashed a new web architecture for future e-commerce sites on the world and it’s called Jason secret web architecture hashtag, Jay SWA and it got a lot of play on Twitter after my presentation so just saying, you could you could be on the ground floor of Jess wha if you view either catch our Deep dive or watch the the segment. Scot: [2:46] What do things better just swallow or J-1. Jason: [2:49] Jay Watts way better. Scot: [2:51] Okay got it I saw some Jo Lighting in a when some protesters broke into an Amazon store. Jason: [2:58] Yeah that’s called the woo. Scot: [2:59] Joe what the heck oh okay that’s Mia well they did just walk out someone was like the Amazon apps going to charge their phone as like yeah I think it works that way. Jason: [3:11] Yeah I mean was it Amazon ghost or looted I didn’t see that that would have been like ironic I guess. Scot: [3:17] I don’t know if they get in but it was pretty clear they were working at it so the one I like Street I think there’s one on Pike Street I saw there was video of them smashing in a window and jumping in so. Jason: [3:26] I saw a lot of anti Bezos graffiti on some Amazon go stores in Seattle as well. Scot: [3:32] Controversial I’m sure Jeff’s up late at night worrying about it. Jason: [3:37] Yeah I’m sure his security detail is all over that, so slightly off traffic so in honor of next was three days it was really well attended there was a pretty good diversity of topics and sessions and yeah so if you have some spare time and you you didn’t watch it live you should totally go register and watch some of the content and especially watch the future of platforms and make sure. That you you stay till the end and give it a five star review because former ghost guest and friend of both of ours Rob Smoltz did another presentation and we’re having a friendly competition about who gets better ratings. Scot: [4:17] Yeah can I just skip to the reviews if I can I like that okay. Jason: [4:20] In fact I’d appreciate you should both do that and hit pause right now in the podcast and go give the podcast of five star review on iTunes while we’re talking about reviews. Scot: [4:29] Asking for a friend you think Dave that they would stop a little script from going and doing that a million times. Jason: [4:35] Yeah I think you can only you have to like log in and then you can only vote once. Scot: [4:39] Gosh that’s no fun. Jason: [4:42] Yeah I don’t I so I historically have done well in those ratings. I think the bar must be really low but I. Scot: [4:53] Let’s Rob Schmaltz. Jason: [4:55] I hold the all-time record for an RF event ratings because I did a, a session about mobile usability and my last example I did an evaluation of the mobile rating system for the NRF, so I finished the presentation by having everyone go to their phones and go through the process of giving me five stars I thought, smart yeah yeah I felt very proud of myself. Scot: [5:24] And then you just Savaged it after that you’re like was that the worst experience ever. Jason: [5:27] Exactly yeah but yeah so I tricked enough people in the voting for me that I got a good score. Scot: [5:33] Nice did you get to see Rob session. Jason: [5:35] I did watch Rob session I didn’t get full disclosure I did not watch it live because it was, right before mine and they’d like you to be on in their dream room and and all that sort of stuff so I didn’t get to watch his session live but I watched it later and it was good even though I’m not I’m kind of cynical on the topic so he was talking about Ai and you know he had some interesting use cases and stuff but I’d feel like AI is just so overused that I my guards go up as soon as people start pitching me on AI solution for anything. Scot: [6:13] Yeah I was this is a kind of a wacky sidebar but I’m sure you’ve seen this GPT 3 stuff that’s come out, which is this natural language platform from this open to AI initiative but it’s got kind of a you know but significant like a factor of 30 more words that it’s been fed and that its knowledge so people are feeding it all these past things they’ve done and then it spits out stuff and I was I was gonna talk about this offline but we might as well do it on the podcast here I was thinking we have what 29 now episodes that we could feed this thing and then maybe it could just do the podcast going forward so little little side project for you look at. Jason: [6:54] Yeah it could be vastly better. I’m in a much more narrow scope Adobe has this cool really scary app where you feed it audio samples and then you can get it to say anything you want in that person’s voice and. Scot: [7:07] Yes I think we can marry those together and we can have a Jason bot an ascot bot and then you and I could just go to the beach and retire from this whole thing. Jason: [7:13] Yeah well obviously there’s. Scot: [7:14] They’ll be our Mastermind project for. Jason: [7:17] Way more audio from either of us than you need to train this engine but like think about all the guests we have to Ike we have this beautiful repository we could have a lot of fun in this industry. Scot: [7:25] Yeah all right sounds good what other what other talks did you catch that were interesting. Jason: [7:31] Yeah I tried to catch a bunch of them in and if they were pretty diverse. You know depending on your area of interest you could lean different ways but there. Was one of the original VCS behind Salesforce talking about like investing in the cloud and how. Difficult that was at the time and they were rolling The Rock uphill and obviously that investment worked out pretty well for them so I found that interesting there’s a variety of. Sessions about you know how to deal with the crisis and leadership in the crisis and some of those things. On my day on Tuesday there there was an interesting session about the death of the cookie so several of the browsers have already. Block third-party cookies so Safari and Firefox don’t allow third-party cookies, Chrome is the most popular browser in at least the u.s. right now and they still allow third-party cookies but they’ve announced that they’re going to phase them out over the next two years so. Fundamentally changes a lot of advertising tools that you can use on the internet if third-party cookies don’t exist and so there was an interesting conversation about. What would change and what what and What alternative means people might use and just you know sort of thinking how you prepare for a world in which there’s no third party cookies. Scot: [8:59] Yeah yeah that’s worthy of a deep dive right there. Jason: [9:02] Yeah I mean there’s that’s that’s like the livelihoods of a lot of people so I get that yeah so. Scot: [9:11] But you want basic stuff to work right you want as a user I hate logging in all the time so. Jason: [9:17] Yeah and so part of it is. Scot: [9:18] It’s going to drive me to apps because that’s why I like apps they look keep me logged in and websites now are less frequently keep me logged in. Jason: [9:24] So that’s a again we won’t Deep dive in the platforms but part of my conversation of platforms was, you know what are the priorities right now in picking a platform and one of them is obviously mobile and I talked about the apps versus Naval native mobile web thing quite a bit so there’s there’s interesting. Topic they’re the there was a good session from Dollar Shave Club talking about how, they’re they’re heavy users of split path testing a/b testing and how they do a lot of them behavioral experimentation on the site and so they shared some of their learnings and winnings from that and then I think Spotify was the last session on Wednesday and sort of talking about how voice is the future and podcast like the Jason and Scott show will rule the world. Scot: [10:15] I like that did you talk to them about selling for a hundred million getting some Rogan Rogan money. Jason: [10:21] I’m trying to play hard-to-get so we could surpass Rogan money. Scot: [10:25] Sounds like a good strategy. Jason: [10:26] So I did that by not not approaching them at all I thought that was pretty clever of me. Scot: [10:29] Well it’s better when they when they come to you so will I will keep waiting. Jason: [10:34] Yeah so that was interrupt next that was maybe more time than we allocated for that top. Um but let’s jump into the week’s news. Scot: [10:42] Yes so this week you know I love to say it wouldn’t be a Jason’s got show without some Amazon news but today this time we’re probably going to skip him as on news because we’re really holding it for next week so a week from today when we’re recording this Thursday of next week they are going to have Q2 earnings and everyone’s watching that with with bated breath because there’s a lot of interesting data we’ll talk about the rest of the show that’s got people there’s a camp that feels like you know expectations of Ronald Billet ahead there’s another camp that says no they’re just going to just destroy the numbers that are out there so it’s going to be really there’s really a pretty big split on where the not only Wall Street but other pundits feel like Amazon’s going to come out so we’re not going to cover that this week but there was some pretty interesting news today from Google shopping and, Jason why don’t you walk us through some of the highlights of that. Jason: [11:33] Yeah so before I talk about today’s news I’m going to go back in the Hot Tub Time Machine 2 April and they. We have the highest quality sound effects on the Jason and Scot show. Scot: [11:46] That’s the hot tub fair enough. Jason: [11:48] Exactly I like it I. Scot: [11:50] Oh I could do this too. Jason: [11:55] That was substantially better that some some legitimate fully work right there. Scot: [11:58] Okay okay que me up again go. Jason: [12:03] Let’s jump into the hot tub time machine and go back to April. [12:10] Awesome so back in April Google made an announcement about Google shopping that they would essentially let anyone that wanted to provide a feed have free ads. On the Google shopping platform and so at the time it was there was this it was really unclear whether they that. You would show up in Google shopping for free but that you would still be obligated to share at a crate with. Google if someone acted on that ad and there was a lot of conversation about that and Google was a little vague about their answer so then fast forward to July and today Google made an announcement, that they are discontinuing, taking a commission or a take rate on all of Google shopping so if you have an ad on Google shopping and someone checks out, directly on that that platform you pay no commission to Google so presumably the only way they’re going to monetize Google shopping is with embedded ads that they sell in the Google shopping experience. Scot: [13:15] Yeah it’s it’s interesting because there’s a new so not only do they have a new leader for Google shopping but there’s this one change where. The shopping count of Commerce team in the ads team have been separate and that’s you know allegedly when. Apparently that’s made it hard for the Google Commerce team to gaining traction because you know it’s very easy to look at any Google result I’m sure and say well if you put this thing out there you’re going to lose this many dollars from from the ad platform because ad platforms are robust right so so another change they had made I think earlier this year is there’s one executive that that owns both, and then they made it a yeah priority for him to really accelerate the Commerce said so one reading of this is finally Google there’s all this data we’ve talked about it by a thousand times on the show that shows that that more and more consumers are not going to Google to start their shopping journey and learn about products are going to Amazon you may have some updated stats but for you know for the longest time you know Google was ahead and then Amazon surpassed and and yeah I’m sure that’s still the case I think the last data I saw showed like 65% of people started an Amazon 35% of Google do you have any new data on that Jason. Jason: [14:36] Kind of so I have to debunk the whole thing we the real answer is we don’t know most of that data is published from surveys and originally most of it came from this Bloom reach survey and all these surveys are of 2,000 people. So they asked 2,000 people when you go shopping what website do you go to First and 65% of the 2,000 people said I go to Amazon and so spoiler alert, people are never right when they tell you what they do why give I go look at the data from their browser that’s not what they do and so even if we try to use panel data there’s some big panels out there of millions of users it’s impossible this is to Define what a. [15:19] A a shopping mission is versus some other search mission right so you you you have to come up with some huge definition of what searches constitute a Commerce search versus an informational search and nobody’s just done that satisfactorily so so the real answer is we don’t know what the percentage is if you wanted to have a conversation about a particular product category you could probably do that but. But it’s really hard to know but directionally it’s for sure true that traffic, is going up on Amazon search engine and presumably that is at the expense of Google and we certainly have seen Google do a lot of things that seem like defensive moves against Amazon. Scot: [16:06] Yeah perhaps more importantly the dollars are moving right so to you probably know more about this than I do but you know Channel visor we’ve seen people kind of go through this life cycle of testing a little bit on Amazon ads and then kind of like really ramping it up and then taking a lot out of the the other obviously offline budget spend also you know I think the Google budgets get starved out from that too. Jason: [16:29] Yeah no for sure and and you know Amazon’s collected 10 billion dollars in advertising fees and and presumably that wasn’t all incremental like a bunch of that even very likely came from from Google and Amazon it is ironic we talked about this a little bit offline but. Well Amazon collects 10 billion dollars in advertising fees for the Amazon pep platform they actually pay for 11 billion dollars of Google ads they’re Google’s largest Advertiser and so there is this funny thing they’re like buying eyeballs from Google and then they’re monetizing them on their site and it’s it’s actually a clever Arbitrage because even if they break even if they buy an ad and sell an atom break even that causes all that those eyeballs to fly by all these Amazon products on the Amazon platform that they get to sell to for free basically. Scot: [17:19] Yeah and sign up for Prime and all that good stuff yeah so. Jason: [17:23] I was just gonna one last point on that that’s kind of humorous you you talked about like the old days at Google where the ad team was at odds with some of the product teams, there are all these new products Google has launched that are white clearly you know intended to be direct competitors with Amazon and it has to be awkward that Amazon is their largest customer that they’re trying to compete with. Scot: [17:44] Yeah there’s a lot of interesting stories about the early days where you know Amazon’s pulled products in and out of Google shopping a lot because they there’s this argument of having their products in their actually makes it better to this day they’re pretty limited on what they put in there I haven’t done it a forensic check but they have some Kindle stuff Zappos the Quincy guys we’re still in their last I looked but the whole Amazon catalog is not in Google shopping um yeah and even then early on there was a famous Bezos story where he told you know and it was actually an angel investor in Google I think to so but he told the Amazon team to share No data with them at all and so they would go buy ads but they would never. Like install the pixel or give Google Google analytics or any insight into where it what was going on behind the firewall which I think. Jason: [18:31] Yeah I think there’s a Jeff Bezos quote that they’re in the information collection business not the information dissemination business. Scot: [18:38] So then the big picture is you know so I felt for very long time google has this existential crisis kind of facing with Amazon, you know it’s not gonna be the end of Google but by all accounts. Kind of Commerce related terms is a really big chunk of their revenue some estimates say 30 percent 40 percent 20 percent whatever it’s not immaterial and Amazon has been siphoning that off pretty relentlessly so it is interesting to see them make some news and moves here the other one that you didn’t mention is so the buy on Google program where you actually check out on Google which I think is a better experience for mobile, previously you could only do Google pay so then it ended up being super restricted because you said you know well we’re only going to really show the ads on Android and you have to do Google pay or Android pay or whatever that’s called these days and this that and the other and then suddenly you know and then Merchant has to go through this complicated thing what now in addition to making it free they have opened it up to PayPal and then Shopify as payment platform, well so you know some of these moves kind of make me think Mmm they’re definitely someone at Google has woken up and said we need to do something about this it definitely does feel like you know too little too late and then where I kind of end up. [19:58] Getting to is to really fight Amazon someone’s gonna have to step up and build a lot of fulfillment centers because you know if you really started the customer experience that you have to match Amazon’s customer experience there’s no way around that. And this is a huge challenge with all these these other experiences right Collins Sebastian who’s a Wall Street analyst who’s been on our show he was talking about in a either a note or a tweet he ordered something from instacart Instagram for the first time and you know the shipping was like it gave this window of, two weeks from now or six weeks from now was kind of like the window is like a three-week window two weeks away it felt like. 1999 kind of shipping levels so so it’s good to see Google chip away at this but I think the got to get like yeah someone needs to go out and start spending in 10 billion dollar chunks if they really want to counteract the Amazon customer experience. Jason: [20:56] Yeah no I agree and it does so you alluded to this but Google hired this guy Bill ready to be the president of Commerce at Google and he was formally like the CEO at PayPal so an experience Commerce guy he the the memo that it was now free to list your products on Google shopping in April came from Bill ready and then the memo that we there were no longer charging a commission to be on Google shopping, today was from Bill ready so he obviously has his fingerprints on on these moves and you look at them together and you say oh man. [21:34] Google is doing everything they can to get people to list their products in Google shopping they’re making it easier to list their making it less costly to last because per your point, they’re trying to make that that platform attractive enough and useful enough to Consumers to compete with Amazon. The in addition to those two big moves they’ve done some other interesting things so one very subtle thing they did is, you can now send your Amazon feed in the Amazon merchant center format to Google for listing on Google shopping so they’ve, reduce the friction to list your products if your listing on Amazon you already have a fee that you could choose to send to Google so at the very least I feel like, they’ve made Channel advisor job easier which I know we always want want that to be the case. You mentioned they’re accepting PayPal and Shopify they also will let you Syndicate your product straight from Shopify on to Google shopping so there’s this interesting thing, and let’s keep talking about o Shopify is the potential competitor to Amazon, and I hate that narrative I don’t think that’s true I think Amazon Shopify are super complimentary and don’t really compete with each other and you know part of the reason is because. [22:53] Shopify doesn’t have in his likely never going to have a multi-vendor Marketplace experience but almost by default. Google could potentially become the multi-vendor version of Shopify right like that if it’s. Completely frictionless to Syndicate your products if Shopify encourages it because Shopify will actually make money on everyone that buys from Google shopping because, they’ll use that that Shopify payment system and Shopify you know a lot of their revenue comes from having their own own payment processor now so. [23:28] Roll that up and it’s it’s kind of interesting to watch I totally agree with you the Achilles heel of all these plans is. That shipping experience that there’s some new features and Instagram that came out this week as well they’re not that interesting so we weren’t going to cover them but but. In a nutshell. Instagram has elevated shopping to a button on the homepage now so there now is a shopping tab on the homepage of Instagram that’s rolling out as we speak and some some journalists were asking me if I thought that was going to make a big difference and and I had the same thing, experience is Colin I pointed out Target with like 3,000 products on Instagram shopping that you can buy and so I looked at a candle on target side and that same candle on Shopify site and it’s the same price. I said shop if I meant on Instagram site it’s the same price but if you buy the candle from Target it comes with free one-day shipping and if you buy it from Instagram it will ship sometime in the next two weeks. Scot: [24:26] Yeah yes we are click on our stand like it’s going to be injecting in the same system so I don’t know. Jason: [24:32] I just don’t I don’t think they have a live OMS so I think they just have this like you I suspect if I ordered that candle from Instagram I’d get it in two days from Target but I think they just don’t have a way to give real time shipping information. Scot: [24:45] Or goes to someone they print it out it passes through six people’s hands. Jason: [24:51] Fax it to the store. Scot: [24:52] Data they fax it to a store someone data entered is it a trained pigeon uses the keyboard to data enter it and then your two weeks are up and now you get your package in a day. Jason: [25:02] You could be a product designer for publicist that was pretty good. Scot: [25:04] The things we’ve seen in this world of e-commerce Jason those are actually not that crazy, so we’ll be watching that really closely one thing you know to shopify’s crack I know you hate this this analogy so I’m just going to use it a lot they are compete with Amazon because they are the only people that have kind of the guts to go build a fulfillment center right so they’ve got this what they call it a dick fulfill by Shopify. Yeah and it’s best I know they’ve actually built a fulfillment center so and you know since they’re Canadian. Tape I have to imagine that one in candidate and one here I don’t know do you know. Jason: [25:44] I don’t I thought there was speculation that it was more than one like I think they are it’s complicated because I the speculation I’ve seen is that it’s Blended like that they have some 3pl partners that they’re relying on help fulfill but they own more than one of their own facilities and they did by a robotic picking company so like they have some of their own technology. Scot: [26:07] Another thing that was interesting that got a lot of noise on Twitter was a Goldman had any report and this was interesting because a lot of these Wall Street analyst they’ll have a retail analyst and Amazon analyst a online offline us and then just kind of thing and this is for the first time Goldman really comprehensively got all their teams together globally and the the. Impetus for this was to understand the covid-19 impact on everything and it was pretty interesting so so lets you know let’s cover the us first so the way they formatted this was they said here’s kind of like the old kind of thinking and here’s our updated, post pandemic kind of so pre-pandemic post so let’s look at 2020 so in the u.s. pre-pandemic they were thinking e-commerce and then I know we’d like to be really specific this excludes travel and others so but it would include tickets and events of those kinds of things but no autos and no travel so so they had the u.s. growing at 14 percent year-over-year of from 19 to 24 13 point 6. Jason: [27:23] Ecommerce growing at fourteen point six. Scot: [27:26] Ecommerce and then 20-22 2021 kind of flat 14.4 and then 20 twenty one to twenty twenty two fourteen percent so they’re now saying covid has effectively doubled the growth rate so they’re expecting, 29% from 2019 to 2020, then you know what’s really interesting is there’s this big debate amongst folks in the e-commerce landscape imagine if you had been physically at a in RF event this would have been the the kind of the the back alley, the hallway talk you know everyone’s in the online world is excited we’ve gotten the surge of activity the big question is how much is going to stick well they kind of took a shot at this which is kind of interesting so they’re saying we’ve got the Surge from unexpected 15.6 to 29 percent and then I should also say they, they go out they grab all the data we talked about on the show so they take the Commerce data the comscore data the emarketer data. [28:24] I think they have like Forrester data in the mix and then they also have access to a lot of data um you know from these credit card receipts and all these things and all that they say in the note was kind of inputted into this this model which is interesting so it’s this amalgam of all these things that they look at but then what they’re saying is it actually is going to stay pretty elevated not at this 29 percent growth rate but you know next year for example instead of the 14.4 they were thinking pre-pandemic they’re going to they’re saying it will grow 17 percent your year, that’s really impressive coming off of a 29% year a lot of people were like wow I thought it would be more, the kind of unit is going down your ear but no it’s actually to do Seventeen percent on top of 29 is pretty impressive most times if you had this blip you would actually go negative the next year because you know you would you would effectively. [29:17] Be comping against this really really big previous year number so that was interesting and I thought yeah it was pretty. I hadn’t seen anyone really take a shot at it so I, I thought I was cut thought provoking the think through how much of this is going to stick and be sustained and build new habit sources kind of receding to previous habits. What insights did you gather. Jason: [29:40] Yeah I mean well so it’s super interesting in my biggest takeaway is, we don’t know and smart people disagree you’re right because I consume this as soon as it came out and then two days later emarketer published what they call there 20/20 us category level forecast so they had they had previously published an updated covid forecast for the top line numbers. And and this week they published this much deeper dive that like they forecast what they think is going to happen in e-commerce in the u.s. category by category. And so, it’s a very similar methodology like they say in the front of the report we have a hundred and seventy-nine data sources which include all the same ones you mentioned and so we consume over 10,000 individual metrics we synthesize all those to build this like complicated forecast model and in some ways directionally similar but in some ways, meaningfully different so the the top line from emarketer is. And and what what makes this hard to be perfect apples-to-apples is of course emarketer and golden and don’t have the same definition of retailgeek. [30:58] Um so by the strictest definition of retailing comscore which excludes food restaurant tickets Auto and gas. Um they’re they’re saying that e-commerce will grow 18 percent this year versus last year which was I want to say their previous forecast was like 12 or 13 percent so, um a meaningful uptick they unlike Goldman they also forecast retail and they actually forecast brick-and-mortar retail would be down 14% which is. Historic drop and so that all Nets out to us retail online and offline will be down a little over ten percent for the year so that’s the Debbie. Debbie Downer top-line what’s interesting to me is. [31:47] The shape of their forecast is also different than the golden one so they’re basically saying. They give three forecast they give the strict definition of retail that excludes food and gas and they can see that that’s, when you’re talking about e-commerce that’s not really fair because. You know people are buying a meaningful amount of food online now right gasps their argument is no one buys gas online and so that’s why you would exclude that but they say like if you want to take cars and and gas out, we’ll give you this this bigger number and if you want to take car’s gas food and beverage out will give you an even bigger number so the one that’s most similar to Goldman is the excluding cars and gas so that’s going to be, twenty percent growth in 2020 and then they’re predicting 20.7 percent growth in 20 21 and 22 percent growth in 2022 so they’re actually. [32:46] Intuitively the Goldwyn Moon one makes more sense right that you’d see a big spike this year when the brick-and-mortar stores are closed for a long time, presuming that’s not going to be the case next year you would expect some of that to come back but the the E marketer forecast has them growing every year which is. Interesting and and they do have a pretty granular forecast that makes it more credible so they do show like food having that same shape that Goldman’s predicting where it went way up and then it goes down, but they show other things like apparel, is way down this year online and in-store and it starts to creep back up online in the next year’s and intuitively. That kind of makes sense so they aggregate all those categories together and they get this this different snapshot what’s interesting to me is, just looking at those sales as a percentage of total retail since they’re estimating brick and mortar you can you can see how big a chunk e-commerce is and again by the strictest definition of retail 20/20. 14% of all 14.5 percent of all sales are online to put that in perspective, 20:19 was 11% by that definition so that’s a big jump. If you pull the car and gas out twenty percent of all sales are online and just for fun if you pull grocery cars and gas out 29 percent of all retail sales are online this year so that’s. Scot: [34:15] Say a u.s. number or that’s Global Jessica. Jason: [34:19] Yeah. Scot: [34:20] Because Goldman has eighteen percent this year and they don’t have gas her Autos but they do have grocery so I guess it would be higher if you took grocery out and then because that’s a small. Yep it’s had a huge growth but is still under index compared to like electronic or something obviously but then you know last year they had fourteen point eight so you do see this like huge step function where we’re kind of like ticking along at 1% and then we just like surge 4% and then they show it going to 21% 2427 by 2023 the other thing I like is they have a table that has all the different countries and you kind of think well what’s are you know what’s the high water mark can you look down this chart and you see South Korea 45% you’re like wow you know that’s that’s pretty crazy and then, they have China at 36 percent I was thought China would be higher than that but. Jason: [35:13] Yeah I’ve seen Pre-K covid that and again everybody has a different definition so it’s really hard and data from China, is harder but the numbers I see tend to be that e-commerce in China pretty covid-19 38 and now it’s in the 40s. Scot: [35:29] The just a super I Louisville thought a framework I found useful in we employed this the in the last episode in a way we do this every year with our prediction show when you have these different opinions. Instead of arguing in the timeframe of now I found it is I have historically found it this is true for, my own companies and stuff it’s interesting to make predictions track those and then learn from that experience of oh gee I was really wrong why was I wrong what was I looking at it was wrong what did this other opinion look up so so it’s kind of cool to have the gold mini-com in marketer kind of off a little bit so then we can kind of see you know which of these is a better you know predictor and what can we learn from those predictions that we can feed back into our models of how we think about these things. Jason: [36:16] Yeah for sure and and both are super thorough methodology so these are not like you know just just throw away forecast that people whipped up right like. Scot: [36:31] Then they had the last one last little tidbit on the Goldman I wanted to highlight as they do have some Trend data, they look at kind of how did things do kind of pre-pandemic and then post pain to me so the categories that over-index to do the pandemic our furniture and appliances that’s kind of that nesting or cocooning thing going on, cpg which you know you follow closely is largely people switching their grocery habits Home and Garden is interesting so a lot of people are because they’re Sheltering in place or like you know I could use some fresh paint in here with or you know fixed that thing that’s been. I don’t know what else do you have a lot of categories there are kind of neutral to- like we’ve talked a lot about apparel and accessories, biggest losers event tickets and then toys and this was weird because I’ve seen all these other articles that, toy sales are surging so I couldn’t reconcile the toy when do you have a point of view on toys. Jason: [37:25] I don’t the emarketer showed toys were one of the fastest gainers online so they said 36 percent of toys is were sold online pretty covid so this is February 2020 their estimate was 36% and may 2020 they said 47% of all toys were sold online so that’s one of the biggest jumps. Scot: [37:46] Goldman’s shows toys going from kind of a in line growth of six percent before the pandemic to a 45 percent decline so that that is where I think they probably differ the most and where I would kind of circle this one’s and say hmm, that smells a little weird you know I’ve read all these you know like Hasbro I think he was Hasbro was saying they just haven’t been able to keep up for the demand of coming direct to their website and target has been sung through toys at a pretty good clip so that makes more sense to me if your kids are I don’t have toys age kids but you certainly do and I imagine you’re buying toys at a frenetic Pace to keep your son occupied. Jason: [38:25] I don’t because Uncle Scott just keep sending him new Star Wars stuff so that’s actually. Scot: [38:29] One of us yeah yeah between the two of us we do yeah. Jason: [38:33] He’s very appreciative you and he are very aligned on interest which either means he’s very mature for his age or there’s another hypothesis that I won’t share. Scot: [38:42] He is super mature young man unlike his father. Jason: [38:44] Exactly yeah the bar. Scot: [38:47] Cool unfortunately another news item was another bankruptcy and you know you keep a slide that has been following these bankruptcies in that is a very full slot. Jason: [38:59] Yeah my designer is pissed because like every time they redesign it I’m like can you squeeze everything together a little bit more to throw a scene on there and yeah that’s rough. Scot: [39:10] Yeah so Cena file Chapter 11 and remind us what all them. Jason: [39:16] Yeah so a Cena is a big house of Brands and Taylor would be one of their big Brands Catherine’s dressbarn is a brand they actually closed a little earlier this year but that was one of their big brands they also Own Lane Bryant which is a plus-size brand so yeah and they probably have 30 brands in the portfolio and they’re mostly Mall based apparel, and they were significantly distressed before covid and so that it had been a family-run business the jaffrey’s like grants the son of the founder of dressbarn was the CEO for a long time and he stepped down earlier this year and so they were trying to do a turn around you know facing a lot of head winds as a mall based apparel retailer and then you know covid just made that impossible so so they had to declare bankruptcy they expect to do a reorganization they’re definitely going to you know Coulson Brands and Cole some stores and and try to reopen and we’ll see how that goes. Scot: [40:25] So I saw another report that we are year-to-date at 7432 foreclosures which is more than half of last year which I guess we’re at half of the year last year was twelve thousand three hundred and seventy so we’re pacing it prior to the 20%. Jason: [40:43] And if you just count flags that went bankrupt like we’ve had 25 this year we had 20 all of last year so there’s more more brands that closed as well her bankruptcy. Scot: [40:55] Yeah and a lot of times these beasts or had the sequence of the bankruptcy there’s a period of time where they have to go through a process that’s also down due to covid and then they closed the store so this is the store number should lag the bankruptcy number Out imagine unless they don’t start counting those upon announcement they wait for the actual date in a store to come in I think that has to be kind of a you know a known thing. Jason: [41:20] And of course retailgeek tin or ma get in or whatever you want to call it is bigger than just those bankruptcies so a lot of healthy retailers are taking the opportunity to dramatically close stores right so Nordstrom is closing 17 Mainline stores there’s what I’ll call some hidden bankruptcies Microsoft had a hundred stores and they’re closing all of them they’re getting out of brick and mortar retail right and so that’s not a bankruptcy because, the rest of Microsoft is pretty vibrant but but there’s a awful lot of stores closing. One that is bankrupt that had a big announcement today was Neiman Marcus so they’re in bankruptcy we knew they were going to close some stores but the and one that was speculated to be on that list and was confirmed today is they’re closing what their newest flagship store in Hudson yard that literally just open Grand opened a year ago. Scot: [42:12] Yeah that’s that’s crazy that’s like a big anchor like the whole thing is designed around that. Jason: [42:17] Yeah it’s the top floor of this entire mall so it’s a huge deal to Hudson yard and now is an awesome time to find a new tenant. But unlike the cost to open that strike they can’t they couldn’t have come close to recovering the cost to open that store and sort of close it is just like it’s, it’s crushingly heartbreaking and then here like a a slight little bitter irony as all these doors were closing in miles before covid the big play of you are a mall owner was let’s get more mixed use let’s open condos but most, of all let’s open gyms and restaurants so guess what the only two categories to do worse than retail is in. Scot: [43:06] Yeah Jim’s and. Jason: [43:07] Exactly so it’s pretty pretty rough. Scot: [43:10] Yeah tough times one thing I wanted to ask you about in this topic of Mulligan is one of the mall operators Simon properties is buying a lot of these these kind of chapter 11 retailers who are essentially their customers their kind of buying their customers and the thing that kind of as an e-commerce guy that blows my mind is there’s a his cap physicality here that is much more complicated right so let’s say you end up with three or four of these retail these fashion brands the effectively compete with each other so how do you reconcile that and then also now don’t you own properties and other malls who are your competitors and you’re paying rent to your competitors what’s your what’s your thought on that whole incestuous mix. Jason: [43:54] Yeah so my perception and I’m far from a real estate expert is these are not strategic Investments on the part of Mal operators that say like oh man, Eros ball could be super profitable and and we want to own it and turn it around and run it at a huge profit there, protecting their rent and they’re protecting their tenant agreements with other other tenants like one of the problems is when vain vacancy start opening up and particularly when anchor start opening up a lot of these other tenants have these Co tenancy agreement so you’re paying expensive rent and all kinds of extra fees to a mall because there’s a ton of traffic in the mall right and when the Apple Store we use them all there’s way less traffic and everyone makes less money and so a lot of the we Siz have Clauses that when the the anchor stores closed or when two men are too much of them all is vacant that they don’t have to pay rent or have to pay less rent or can break their ridiculous 10-year lease and. [44:59] I think it’s less like Simon saying like man this is a super Strategic investment and we’re buying it because we think we know how to run retail and more that some of these retailers that have a big footprint in their moms they need to keep those those stores occupied even if they’re not. Operated profitably so this this first one back in 2016 Simon got together with Brookfield then they said hey together we have most of the are spot I always say it wrong do you. Aeropostale sorry. Scot: [45:35] Aeropostale e. Jason: [45:37] Yeah it’s a bad news when you’re when you’re turning to the guy from North Carolina for pronunciation help. Scot: [45:43] Aeropostale Aero pistol. Jason: [45:47] Arrow pistol yeah you guys turn everything into a gun there that’s crazy. Scot: [45:51] Sur La Table. Jason: [45:52] Exactly also bankrupt yeah. So I think they bought them to sort of protect that that we stand I haven’t seen a lot of data that they’ve like dramatically turned it around or change the operational model and so then this year. Forever 21 like is an anchor for a bunch of these malls and so there was a lot of speculation and and it seems like they made an investment to try to keep some of the Forever 21’s open but I feel pretty your point, the more they they do that that the returns become diminishing right like you know, if they’re not profitable and you own it it’s a anchor on on your overall Enterprise profits, and you’re you’re buying these properties that are you know potentially competing with each other right and so it’s now the big thing whenever a big mall brand is at risk of closing. The rumor is that the mall owner is going to invest in it because there they have. The most interest in keeping it as a growing concern and so that’s a ongoing rumor about JC Penney stores that are closing or if JC Penney is enable the to reorganize out of their bankruptcy. [47:05] It also comes up a lot I’ve lost track of the names of all the entities but you know there was this big fight about, the Victoria’s Secret Brands and when a bunch of them were going to close their actually like the second largest tenant in most of the malls in the US and so that would be a big hit so there were rumors about that, but the economic analyst I have read, I feel like they’re not going to make a lot more of these Investments because it’s going to be increasingly challenging for them and their point was there’s no way they could absorb JCPenney like it UI. It just it just wouldn’t work so well. Scot: [47:44] I find it interesting though that they’ve got a much better balance sheet than than any of their customers so I don’t know how the mall operators escaped this Hina kind of high leverage kind of thing but the apparently they did but the Retailer’s didn’t so. Jason: [47:58] My my original retail Mentor Wayne huizenga was a big fan of buying something once and renting it forever turns out to be a pretty profitable model. Scot: [48:07] Yeah sounds good then was at Blockbuster. Jason: [48:10] That was yeah so you buy a movie for for 30 bucks and you rent it 30 times for 3 bucks it turns out that’s a good business. Scot: [48:17] And then you get late fees. Jason: [48:18] Yeah we don’t have. Scot: [48:19] And then you ignore Netflix and they crushing. Jason: [48:22] Nope okay so now I gotta defend Blockbuster we. We started, seven years later we sold it to Viacom for 9 billion dollars in 1994 which would be 15 billion dollars today Netflix wasn’t worth close to 15 billion dollars in there for seven years of operation so, started the company hugely monetized it got the heck out and some much later owner-operators screwed the pooch on Netflix but like to be clear the entrepreneur that started Blockbuster was brilliant and did quite well. Scot: [48:59] Okay the other big news that we want to cover is Bigcommerce so they release their s-1 so they’re going. Jason: [49:06] I see what you did there with the big big by the way. Scot: [49:08] I’m not going to get into the debate over Netflix and Blockbuster that’s we’ll save that one you can you can rest that Blockbuster one the. Jason: [49:24] You can see how large I’m living on my Blockbuster money. Scot: [49:26] Yeah this this probably has some DVDs in Price Hill and return the, the good news is no one’s there to collect late fees the so the Bigcommerce s-1 dropped and that’s ones as you know one of my weird Hobbies is I love to read these things and this was a good one the shame here is become urse appears to be a great company when you read through it and if they had gone public in the in a world where Shopify didn’t exist then it would be much easier for them but everyone’s comparing them to Shopify and you know, not only that they’re comparing them to Shopify today when they’re really should be compared to Shopify like 2014 so I pre-ipo Shopify because you know when you go public it really, can add a lot of fuel to the fire because you’ve got this access to Capital that’s a lot you know. [50:21] Bigger deeper than kind of private Capital so, so just some highlights so Bigcommerce is doing annualized a hundred twelve million. Growing 22 percent year-over-year this is all 2019 numbers and then you know what you have to do in a in an s-1 is keep updating out with amended numbers I’ll get to those in a second. One one Stand Out is their gross margin is 76% Shopify 2014 was 59 percent gross margins and then now those have actually gone down to 55 percent which is kind of interesting but it kind of indicates maybe there is a yeah so I think payments the more payments you do the lower your gross margins because you’re kind of skimming so you’re running like 3% through but your cogs is like 2.5 so that can put a lot of pressure on the gross margins things like that so but anyway it feels like much more of a SAS business at some kind of 76 percent gross margins they are still losing money but you know they’re clearly on this path to profitability just like Shopify was in 2014 and ultimately got there and it’s been quite profitable so the the most private most interesting thing is everyone’s using it as a re to the Shopify. [51:37] So for example you know because they’re not public yet and they have to update their s-1 we have this view into March April and May which is very it was very curious about how Shopify did in those we know March but we don’t know April May so it’s a view into Q2 and March they again they’re they’re kind of prepayment growth rate was 22% a Bigcommerce March it bumped up to 33% April a hundred and six percent May 86 percent so a lot of people are taking that you’ve probably noticed shopify’s stock has gone on a bit of a run it’s kind of ironic because I think a lot of people are using this s-1 and they’re reading in and saying well if. [52:20] Big Commerce did a hundred and 686 for April and May let’s say June was a step down at 75% that’s like 90%, growth analyzed that would just like blow people’s minds so so it’s gonna be interesting to see what kind of happens shopify’s growth rate is about 54 percent so so a lot of people are kind of reading into the Bigcommerce s-1 that Shopify is going to have a quarter where they effectively double their growth rate and so that’s going to be really interesting to watch and see what happens as that plays out are they over reading that or not so then a couple other the other thing I would mention to folks is it’s really good to read these things because the, the way to read an s-1 is unless you’re a financial like a Warren Buffett he always starts at the back. [53:09] The boring Financial disclosures and the audit and then Works forward I like to read the Management’s discussion and Analysis called the md&a section so unfortunately the way. The way the lawyers want you to write an S one is kind of what I would call it poop sandwich so you have to start out and you essentially say, in a very boring way his or her business and then you kind of almost have to say here’s kind of like why it sucks and then you did you have to say but here’s some good little pieces to think about and then again you have to kind of come and then this is the risk factors and you have to kind of say yeah and again it kind of sucks and what you’re doing there is your you’re protecting yourself from making any forward-looking statements or anything that an investor could see you for down the road so you have to kind of like. [53:52] Reading these things can be very boring if you start at the front because you’re going to the kind of the, cover your butt side of it so getting to that md&a is really good and I was like to hear. [54:03] Because actually you know haven’t been one of these you actually write that and yet goes to refinement but you really kind of need to write it because no one else can write that for you so it’s really the management team really putting down on paper they’re words how they’re they’re doing the business and I thought the Bigcommerce one was was very good the other thing that I love to do is, you know when Enron and play ODed it caused all this new regulations to come out one of those is regulation FD which is full disclosure so ever since then everyone’s Roadshow actually gets published out there in a video um now this is weird because I find most people don’t know about this and they don’t they don’t know to watch these the the thing that’s tricky though is the video has to be out there while you’re on your road show and then most companies take it down because you don’t really want that artifact so there’s this window of usually, a week sometimes two weeks sometimes three days where that road show is up and I’ve been watching every day for Bigcommerce it usually will start to we’ll update this one with some new data and then start I imagine next week or the week after I’ll let I’ll try to bring it up on the podcast but I’ll definitely tweet when it goes up. And it’s at this really Arcane website called retail Roadshow where you can go watch these things so so I’m eager to watch this one because it’s going to be kind of interesting to see some people do kind of a like the Uber one was really good it was kind of like hyper if I like a Super Bowl. Jason: [55:25] Some have very high production. Scot: [55:27] Yeah yeah some have high production and then some you know most of the ones in the e-commerce category are super low production where you know they’re they’re almost like, Shark Tank VC level pitch which I, I prefer because you kind of get to the meat and potatoes so I’m going to watch for that and and see how they present on that and see what that looks like so so that was my takeaway is did you have anything from becoming she wanted to. Jason: [55:52] A few other equipments first of all I feel like Warren Buffett probably starts at the end because he’s a very old man and he doesn’t know how much more time he has. Scot: [56:00] Who could be. Jason: [56:01] It’s just a theory and I also like to read them but I’m weirder than you I like to start at the risk factors because I feel like there’s just so much positivity in my life right now that. Scot: [56:11] You’re such an Eeyore. Jason: [56:14] Yeah that I just I just need to bring it down and. You tell me if I’m wrong but unlike the the the sections that like each each entrepreneur clearly does write for themselves I’m pretty sure the risk factors are a popular boilerplate item. Because they tend to have like all ten plagues in them for example. Scot: [56:33] Yeah you’ve got to talk about cybersecurity you can have an internet outage you’ve got a lot of competitors you’re not profitable. Jason: [56:40] And then nowadays they’re just one one bullet called like Amazon right. Scot: [56:44] Yes you got to have an Amazon bullet in there. Jason: [56:46] Exactly so a couple of things are interesting to me and looking through the s-1 so like, you didn’t mention it but so they are tiny compared Shopify today they’re like 117th the size of Shopify but, their business is more different than Shopify than people might realize so one thing the revenue per account is much higher so there’s a. You know a common narrative that they’re there, more mid-tier Brands tend to use Bigcommerce and there are little closer to Enterprise and Shopify tends to be along like the long tail and a lot of startups. And the this s-1 kind of bears bears that out like the there they have far fewer clients they’re making more Revenue per, client but also the mix of the revenue is quite a bit different you alluded to it a little bit in the payments but what’s interesting is. [57:45] There’s there’s recurring Revenue which are the fees they collect for hosting right like that the fundamental charge is you have for using their platform and then there are these variable fees which are, not guaranteed to be recurring but for things like fulfillment in the payment fees when you you shopify’s echo system and the overwhelming majority of shopify’s Revenue come from fees not recurring so, the despite the fact that there are SAS company their recurring revenue is a menorah T of there, their revenue and that’s way less true on Shopify shop the bulk of shopify’s Revenue is coming from. Scot: [58:26] You mean bad Converse. Jason: [58:26] I’m sorry yeah the opposite strip Bigcommerce the bulk of their revenue is coming from charging rent for this platform SAS platform that you’re getting and they seem to be making a lot less from, from supplement they think they have much less supplemental services so that’s that’s interesting the thing we always we never know about Shopify that were always really eager to tell and the Bigcommerce doesn’t give us any insight is like what’s the churn, like they have all these clients but you know how many of them are are economically meaningful and how many are still active, but in some ways the Bigcommerce model feels so although much smaller safer because they have these clients that are more locked in and it’s a you know more more material to their to their business. Um Scot: [59:17] You know you know you just did a talk on this and I don’t want to do any spoilers we’re going to Deep dive but Magento just really doesn’t come up in the conversation where it’s like they just fell off the face of the earth I don’t know if that’s just me or have they have these hosted platforms just really displace them. Jason: [59:31] Yes and no they still come up a lot with me like so they’re owned by Adobe and so you know you’re starting to hear people say Adobe instead of Magento the analyst. So Forrester just published their wave and and adobe’s a weed or in the wave which is Magento, and Gardner is about to publish their wave and I can’t confirm or deny that I’ve seen it but you’ll probably see them in that too. The I would definitely say like. [1:00:06] A lot of Magento is at the moment feels to me like our past their Prime like they they were the long tail solution before Shopify, and nobody’s successfully moved a bunch of those, those clients up Market or to newer products and so it does feel like they’re losing momentum in that regard Adobe has a lot of juice so maybe you know Adobe will be able to turn them around what we’ll have to see but for sure the future is. Cloud native platforms and I’m saying Cloud native as distinct from like just putting your product on the cloud. So Magento is an example of adobe and others have put Magento on the cloud. By just you know running a private instance of Magento on a on a virtual server instead of a an on-premise server. It’s not really service-based and it’s it has a lot of problems whereas Bigcommerce Shopify, and and Salesforce are our Cloud native Solutions and a lot of the newer platforms that are in the market are all Cloud native nothing everything is service-based and. I feel like there I wouldn’t if magenta where step is stock I would not be buying. Scot: [1:01:17] Yeah alright anything else on become worse. Jason: [1:01:22] Nope nope I think that’s going to be a good place to wrap we have used up more of our time given that we have two shows this week then I had expected to but as always if there’s something that piques your interest let us know on Twitter or Facebook. Please please please jump on iTunes and give us that five star review. Scot: [1:01:42] Thanks everyone and… Jason: [1:01:45] Until next time happy commerce.

Typing skills, resume building, and yes....a better sex education class! It's a Tully family discussion on all of the things we wish we were taught back in high school, but weren't. My step-dad John, Uncle Scott, and my brother Pat join the pod. What do you wish you learned back then? Find me - Find me on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Watch the video version of this episode on my YouTube Channel.

We're back with our second drop of the week, and we brought in reinforcements once again - this time in the form of our Uncle Scott (aka Sean Collard). This week we cover the final chapter in the Nike vs. Kawhi saga, a sneaker cleaning horror story out of China, and settle an eternal barbecue debate. Then we get to play 21 Guestions with Sean, and learn about his history with Jumpman, and where his undying passion stems from. He also gives us an in-depth review of his new mini basketball hoop, and drops many other gems on us along the way.  As always - stay safe, stay home, and wash your hands.  Follow our guest at: @SCollard23 @OGSupportGroup Follow us at: @CanadaGotSole @MisterQMart @Jo_Doooney @LDoggyStyles  www.CanadaGotSole.caFacebook.com/groups/CGS.TALK

In this episode the dynamic duo of Michelle and Erin are back to discuss breaking bread on “Friendsgiving”. Should we try Aunt Jenny’s tuna casserole? Or is Uncle Scott’s “World Famous Oyster Stuffing” really that famous? Or is the shellfish/gluten combo going to send us running…straight for the medicine cabinet? Or have you been tasked with the hosting assignment this year and don’t know where to begin? (And we’re not talking about the difficult table-scaping decisions J) This yummy hour addresses the difference between an allergen vs an intolerance, common food allergy families are mapped out, and resources on where to go to learn more are offered. Don’t worry, by the end we might just have the perfect stuffing recommendations and have resolved which set of china to use too!

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The high desert of New Mexico, March 25, 1948 early morning a rancher leaves his house to let his goats out of the corral. There is a loud noise that draws his eyes to the sky where he sees a silver flying saucer wobbling as if in distress. The saucer scrapes along a rock cliff causing sparks. It then heads north and lands on a mesa. There a group of witnesses gather to examine the craft including ranchers, oil field workers, police, a county commissioner and preacher. Be sure to tune in to hear what happened next in this true story recovering two dead aliens. Scott Ramsey is he foremost researcher into the Aztec Incident, having worked on the story since 1987, discovering archives and pursuing interviews throughout the U.S. His entire career has been in the electrical industry. Specializing in magnetic fields and electrical wire, he has worked for Fortune 500 companies, and currently is vice president of sales and marketing for Express Wire Services in Charlotte, NC. He is married to Suzanne Ramsey, whom he met in the Four Corners Area of New Mexico while doing research. The Ramseys reside on their North Carolina farm, practicing permaculture and sustainable farming. After the couple’s successful 2012 Aztec book, their research continues. Suzanne (Ninos) Ramsey discovered the Aztec Incident after her mother read Frank Scully’s 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers. Having grown up in the mid-west, the Ninos Family moved to live in the Four Corners area where Suzanne owned a small business and pursued media writing and hosting a radio show. She met and married Scott Ramsey after he appeared on her show to discuss his research. Suzanne has traveled extensively interviewing and pursing research at university and USAF archives. She is the CEO of Carolina Country Provisions, whose main product is Uncle Scott’s All Natural Root Beer. The Ramseys live in Mooresville, NC where their Aztec research continues. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

This week on True to Size we were blessed with the presence of Montreal royalty. To us he’s Uncle Scott; to the rest of the world he’s better known as Sean Collard. Sean is a living embodiment of growing up and wanting to be like MJ. He shares so many incredible stories about growing up and watching Michael Jordan play his entire career. We were in awe the entire time. We don’t even know why you’re still reading this. Just go. Listen. Now. Please? It’s incredible. You can find our special guest at: @SCollard23, @OGSupportGroup and @TheSneakerPodcast Find us at:@MisterQMart@Jo_Doooney@LDoggyStyles@_Spoonr CanadaGotSole.caFacebook.com/groups/CGS.TALK

Uncle Scott is back from his familial duties, and GOOD THING because we've got a cake to win! Panama. We're really sorry, we get loopy if we wait too long between recording sessions.... Writing partners Shannon & Scott tempt the salad spinner of fate as they write a short song about a random topic in a random style of music. Follow us on Twitter @songsaladcast, check out our website, songsaladpodcast.com, and visit our Patreon page, patreon.com/songsalad Streaming on StrangeLabel.com every Wednesday at 3pm EST. Art by Kayla Wasil (@kaylamwasil)

The high desert of New Mexico, March 25, 1948 early morning a rancher leaves his house to let his goats out of the corral. There is a loud noise that draws his eyes to the sky where he sees a silver flying saucer wobbling as if in distress. The saucer scrapes along a rock cliff causing sparks. It then heads north and lands on a mesa. There a group of witnesses gather to examine the craft including ranchers, oil field workers, police, a county commissioner and preacher. Be sure to tune in to hear what happened next in this true story recovering two dead aliens. Scott Ramsey is he foremost researcher into the Aztec Incident, having worked on the story since 1987, discovering archives and pursuing interviews throughout the U.S. His entire career has been in the electrical industry. Specializing in magnetic fields and electrical wire, he has worked for Fortune 500 companies, and currently is vice president of sales and marketing for Express Wire Services in Charlotte, NC. He is married to Suzanne Ramsey, whom he met in the Four Corners Area of New Mexico while doing research. The Ramseys reside on their North Carolina farm, practicing permaculture and sustainable farming. After the couple’s successful 2012 Aztec book, their research continues. Suzanne (Ninos) Ramsey discovered the Aztec Incident after her mother read Frank Scully’s 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers. Having grown up in the mid-west, the Ninos Family moved to live in the Four Corners area where Suzanne owned a small business and pursued media writing and hosting a radio show. She met and married Scott Ramsey after he appeared on her show to discuss his research. Suzanne has traveled extensively interviewing and pursing research at university and USAF archives. She is the CEO of Carolina Country Provisions, whose main product is Uncle Scott’s All Natural Root Beer. The Ramseys live in Mooresville, NC where their Aztec research continues. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to www.provocativeenlightenment.com

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Uncle Scott's debut show! His guest is author Liam Scheff.

(NSFW!!)  It gets real ugly in the basement.  Mommy, Daddy, Uncle Scott and Aunt Derek fight! New heavy Metal Movie. Hugo Weaving is probably yer Red Skull. Green Lantern hires Jango Fett.  Classic Planet of the Apes sequel?! Whats on TV? Pork based advancements. “The Demon in Footie Jammies” directed by Roman Polanski. Iron Man … Continue reading "0095 – Fart – The Movie"

(NSFW!!)  It gets real ugly in the basement.  Mommy, Daddy, Uncle Scott and Aunt Derek fight! New heavy Metal Movie. Hugo Weaving is probably yer Red Skull. Green Lantern hires Jango Fett.  Classic Planet of the Apes sequel?! Whats on TV? Pork based advancements. “The Demon in Footie Jammies” directed by Roman Polanski. Iron Man … Continue reading "0095 – Fart – The Movie"