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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have condemned photographers they say spent hours watching Archie and Lilibet's school, with police now investigating the incident. According to ITV News and Sky News, two men carrying backpacks were spotted near the school before leaving in a rented van. The Sussexes' spokesperson called the alleged behavior “extraordinarily reckless,” while details of the incident have reportedly been passed to the committee reviewing the family's request for police protection.The incident brings Harry's long-running security battle back into focus just weeks after Archie and Lilibet changed schools. Meanwhile, Harry's potential connection with Jeff Bezos and Amazon is attracting criticism, with The Independent questioning whether an alliance with one of the world's wealthiest businessmen sits comfortably alongside Harry's public advocacy on issues including climate change and burnout.Harry's sustainable travel initiative Travalyst has also reported a small financial loss for 2025, which the organization describes as planned investment, while Meghan's latest As Ever promotional video has received the full parody treatment online.And William and Catherine joined Sir Kevin Sinfield as he completed another stage of his seven-ultramarathons-in-seven-days challenge supporting motor neurone disease charities. Catherine also took time with a nervous young girl during a visit to Headingley Stadium before later turning up on residents' doorsteps to help passengers aboard a community minibus.Questions this episode answers: What happened outside Archie and Lilibet's school? Why are police investigating photographers near the Sussex children? What did Harry and Meghan say about the incident? Could the incident affect Prince Harry's security review? What is Harry's connection to Jeff Bezos and Amazon? Did Travalyst lose money? Why is Meghan's As Ever video being parodied? And what did William and Kate do with Kevin Sinfield?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Nothing is more valuable than having a relationship with Jesus Christ. This week, the Reverend Kahlil Carmichael shows us that Jesus Christ is more valuable than any breakthrough and gift we receive. We begin in Philippians 3 with the message, “Christ Is My Breakthrough.”Live Well, your spiritual family, gathers every Sunday at 10 a.m. at 51 Church Street, Robbinsville, Windsor, NJ. We look forward to welcoming you and sharing this faith journey with you.Thank you for givingpushpay.com/g/itiswellchurchVisit our website at livewellchurch.orgFollow us on Facebook @pastorkahlilFind us on Instagram @livewellwithpastorkahlil

Want to know how to manifest money? Start with a parking spot. Kathleen shows how the same belief shift that manifests small things helped her manifest $21,795, down to the exact dollar.

Connecticut just made history — becoming the first state in over 70 years to make homeschooling harder, despite 98.5% of public testimony opposing the bill. In this episode of Refining Rhetoric, host Robert Bortins talks with Timothy Knotts, director of Classical Conversations' Challenge Development Program, homeschool dad of four, lawyer, and longtime Windsor, CT resident, about what actually happened with that law — and why he decided to do something about it. Tim shares why he's now running for Connecticut's 2nd Senate District on a platform of local control, affordability, parental rights in education, and government transparency. He digs into the culture of waste and corruption in Hartford (including a former state budget official who fled to Greece after a bribery conviction), Connecticut's sky-high tax burden, and why he became the first Republican in over 20 years to qualify for the state's Citizen Election Program in his district. He also gets honest about running as an underdog in one of the bluest districts in the country — and why he's doing it anyway. Whether you're a homeschool family watching your own state's legislature, or just want to see what it looks like when someone decides to stop complaining and actually run, this conversation is a reminder that showing up for what's right matters — win or lose. Tune in, and if you're in Connecticut, find out how you can help.   Tim Knotts for Senate website: https://timknotsforsenate.com/     This episode of Refining Rhetoric is sponsored by Classical Conversations Plus Online Learning Seminars "CC Dads" is a 6-week online seminar exploring how fathers can take an active role, whether or not they are the main homeschool teacher in their home. Facilitated by Joseph Tokar, a homeschool dad who encourages fathers to be present as leaders, supporters, and encouragers in their God-given role, this seminar walks through six sessions grounded in Scripture on encouraging mothers, teaching sons and daughters, and finding a father's place in the classical education his family is already living out. To learn more about the CC Plus Online Learning Seminars or to begin your journey of pursuing your next season of learning, go to https://ccnetwork.app/OnlineLearningSeminars and register today. Courses begin October 1, 2026.

Ari Emanuel has delivered a remarkably blunt answer about Meghan Markle's Hollywood future following the end of her relationship with William Morris Endeavor. Asked about Meghan by The Sunday Times, Emanuel replied, “Here's the great thing: I don't have to think about that anymore.” Meghan signed with WME in 2023, but the agency stopped representing her in 2025.Meanwhile, Meghan is sharing new hosting advice through As Ever, while a separate report claims she wants guests to sign confidentiality agreements before certain dinners where private family or royal matters could be discussed. That NDA claim comes from unnamed sources in Rob Shuter's Naughty But Nice Substack. Photographs of Archie and Lilibet have also reportedly appeared in an Architectural Digest feature on Gloria Steinem's Manhattan home, including an image of Steinem with Archie and a Sussex family Christmas card.Plus, a branding expert estimates that Prince Harry could command as much as one million dollars for an exclusive appearance, while commentator Angela Levin has some very strong opinions about Harry and Meghan remaining in Britain.And away from the Sussexes, Prince Edward is visiting the United States and Canada, while Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, is winning praise after carrying on with a royal tour of Zambia despite her luggage failing to arrive.Questions this episode answers: What did Ari Emanuel say about Meghan Markle? Why did WME stop representing Meghan? Does Meghan Markle require NDAs at private dinners? Were new photographs of Archie and Lilibet revealed? How much could Prince Harry earn for a speaking appearance? What is Prince Edward doing in America? And what happened to Sophie's luggage during her royal tour?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Charles Spencer says he has spoken with both Prince William and Prince Harry since publishing his controversial Princess Diana memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister. Spencer revealed Harry had one particular concern, asking whether the book contained anything that would embarrass him. Spencer says he deliberately kept both brothers out of the project and did not ask either of them to approve the book. He has not revealed what William said about it.Meanwhile, the internet has produced another spectacular royal rumor: claims that King Charles and Queen Camilla are divorcing because of a mysterious “secret dossier.” Snopes investigated the story and found no evidence supporting the allegations, no credible reporting of a divorce and no announcement from Buckingham Palace.There is also a more serious story involving King Charles and his longtime friend, explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes. The Telegraph reports that Charles tried to reach out after friends raised concerns about Fiennes's wellbeing, but his attempt to make contact through Fiennes's wife was unsuccessful.Plus, Princess Anne meets endurance fundraiser Sir Kevin Sinfield, not Jerry Seinfeld, although we briefly got very excited. Princess Beatrice's dinner with Spotify executive Dustee Jenkins sparks speculation about crisis-management advice for the York family, William and Catherine hold separate behind-the-scenes meetings at Windsor Castle, and an English-style pub named the King's Arms is coming to Transylvania in honor of King Charles. Questions this episode answers: What did Prince Harry ask Charles Spencer about his Princess Diana memoir? Has Prince William spoken to Charles Spencer about Swan Song? Did Harry or William approve Charles Spencer's book? Are King Charles and Queen Camilla getting divorced? What is the truth behind the royal “secret dossier” rumor? Why did King Charles try to contact Sir Ranulph Fiennes? Did Princess Anne meet Jerry Seinfeld? And why is a pub in Transylvania being named after King Charles?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Classes went on at a Windsor high school despite a bomb threat, Windsor police say a partnership with nurses and social workers continues to produce results, and Canada pauses for Truth and Reconciliation. All the evening headlines on the go.

Harry and Simon reveal what drives value in today's auction market. Hear how global online bidders, unexpected trends and standout lots from quirky ceramics to an original Charles Mackesy watercolor shape results, plus how auction houses handle charity sales, fraud concerns and the unpredictable stories behind the bids.CONTACTmailto:thegavelandthegabble@gmail.comLinktreeYouTube / @thegavelandthegabbleInstagram @thegavelandthegabbleTwitter @GavelandGabbleTikTok @laughingauctioneerhttp://www.windsorauctions.co.ukhttp://www.lymebayauctions.co.ukABOUT THE PODCASTThe Gavel and The Gabble is a podcast hosted by Harry and Simon who, together, are lucky enough to run two provincial Auction Houses in Windsor, Berkshire and Seaton, Devon.Now we know there are lots of TV shows about buying and selling antiques and collectables but we thought followers of this podcast would like to hear about what goes on behind the scenes of an actual working auction house as we go about our daily business, the characters we meet, the things we find, and the things we wished we had never found.Famed for our slightly different auctioneering style, constant chatting on the rostrum, awful jokes. Stick with us as we bunk off to record anecdotes, interview others in the industry and basically gabble on. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a rating.Music from LemonmusicstudioProduction by David Burd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three candidates for Mayor in Windsor face off in a debate and Prime Minister Mark Carney laughed out loud about the latest comments from U.S. President Trump's inner circle. These stories and more are in your morning news on the go.

The harvest is in. Now what? In episode 2 of our autumn series, we head out into the Tudor village with the best guide I could possibly have found: Thomas Tusser, a former choirboy and court musician who walked away from court, became a Suffolk farmer, and wrote an entire farming manual in rhyme. We crash a harvest home celebration spotted near Windsor by a German traveller in 1598, follow the gleaners into the stubble and the pigs into the woods, and find out why "mast fats up swine, mast kills up kine." Then we spend time with the Tudor farmer's wife, who was winnowing corn, making malt, driving the plough, selling geese at market, and keeping the accounts. And there's a 1523 farming manual that tells husbands and wives to show each other their receipts! This is episode 2 of 4 in our series on how the Tudors got ready for autumn. If you missed Michaelmas, start there. There's a goose in it.

Could Queen Camilla secretly reconnect with Sarah Ferguson? Reports claim Camilla is considering meeting her former friend despite alleged opposition from King Charles and royal advisers. Sources claim the two women once shared a close bond and that any reunion would happen privately and on Camilla's terms.Meanwhile, Lizzie Cundy claims Sarah Ferguson wants to tell her story and says there is a “bidding war” surrounding a possible book and interview. Ferguson's spokesperson has denied plans for a tell-all memoir, but Cundy says Sarah has plenty she could discuss, including Princess Diana, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.There are also new claims about tension involving Queen Camilla, Harry and Meghan, while an Instagram photograph has sparked speculation that Meghan could return to Paris Fashion Week. Her attendance has not been announced.And Princess Diana is once again at the center of the William and Harry divide. Reports claim Harry could move ahead with a Diana tribute despite William's objections, while Richard Kay suggests William could eventually restore his mother's HRH style after becoming king. Omid Scobie, meanwhile, challenges the familiar narrative that Catherine could serve as the peacemaker between the brothers. Questions this episode answers: Will Queen Camilla meet Sarah Ferguson again? Were Camilla and Sarah Ferguson once close friends? Is Sarah Ferguson planning a memoir or major television interview? Could Meghan Markle attend Paris Fashion Week? What is Prince Harry planning for the thirtieth anniversary of Princess Diana's death? Does Prince William oppose another Diana documentary? Could William restore Princess Diana's HRH style when he becomes king? And could Catherine really help reconcile Prince William and Prince Harry?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Prince Harry jumped out of a plane near Toronto to keep a promise to 102-year-old Second World War veteran Ed Marshall, then immediately called Meghan Markle after landing safely. Harry says Meghan was “very relieved” to hear he was back on the ground. He also offered a rare update on Archie and Lilibet, saying the children are happy at school following the Sussex family's return to Britain. Meanwhile, Meghan's latest outings are attracting criticism over privacy and security after photographs from another English pub visit appeared online. We also look at Meghan bringing back the “PH 40” baseball cap she created for Harry's fortieth birthday, and the reaction to footage of Harry walking through New York apparently unnoticed by passersby.  Plus, Amazon is reportedly discussing a major sponsorship deal involving the 2027 Invictus Games in Birmingham, with reports claiming Kris Jenner helped make connections involving Meghan and Lauren Sánchez. Invictus organizers dispute suggestions that the Games face a funding shortfall, saying the event already has the funding required for delivery.And could another confrontation with Buckingham Palace be coming? Commentators are questioning whether Harry and Meghan's private engagements increasingly resemble royal tours and what that could mean for their relationship with King Charles and the Royal Family.Questions this episode answers: Why did Prince Harry go skydiving in Canada? What did Meghan Markle say after Harry's skydive? What did Prince Harry say about Archie and Lilibet returning to Britain? Why is Meghan Markle being criticized over her pub appearances? What is Meghan's “PH 40” hat? Is Amazon sponsoring the Invictus Games? Did Kris Jenner help connect Meghan Markle with Amazon? And why are commentators predicting more tension between Harry and Meghan and Buckingham Palace?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Canadian Property Taxes: What Real Estate Investors Are Missing Property taxes might not be the most exciting part of real estate investing, but they can completely change the performance of a rental property. In today's episode of the Canadian Real Estate Investing Morning Show, Wayne and Gabby compare residential property taxes across 20 major Canadian cities and show just how dramatically the numbers can change from one market to another. Using the same $500,000 assessed property value in every market allows for an apples-to-apples comparison. The difference between the lowest and highest cities in the comparison works out to thousands of dollars per year and hundreds of dollars every month. For a real estate investor, that's cash flow. How Property Taxes Actually Work Property taxes aren't structured exactly the same way across Canada. Depending on the province and municipality, your bill can include municipal taxes, provincial education taxes, regional authorities, transit, fire protection, waste collection, school taxes and other local levies. The terminology and assessment systems can also differ between provinces. The important lesson for investors is that looking at a property's purchase price isn't enough. You need to understand the actual assessed value, applicable tax rates and any additional charges specific to that municipality. Why Assessed Value Matters Property taxes are generally calculated using the municipality's assessed value of the property, which isn't necessarily the same as the purchase price or current market value. That distinction becomes especially important when buying a recently renovated property, adding a legal secondary suite, building a garage or completing another improvement that could increase the assessed value. If the municipality hasn't yet incorporated those improvements into the assessment, the existing tax bill may not accurately represent what you'll eventually pay. Vancouver Has the Lowest Rate in the Comparison One of the biggest surprises in today's episode is Vancouver. Using the rates discussed on the show, Vancouver had the lowest combined percentage among the 20 cities compared. On the standardized $500,000 assessed property used throughout the episode, the approximate annual property tax was $1,682, or about $140 per month. Surrey, Kelowna and Victoria were also near the low end of the comparison. Wayne discusses an important reason why percentage rates alone can be misleading. Markets with very high property values can use lower percentage rates while still generating substantial tax revenue because those percentages are being applied against much larger assessed values. Edmonton vs. Calgary Property Taxes The Edmonton-Calgary comparison was particularly interesting. Using the same $500,000 assessed property: Calgary: approximately $3,325/year Edmonton: approximately $5,182/year Difference: approximately $1,857/year That's roughly $155 per month in additional expenses for the Edmonton example. But Wayne stresses that this doesn't automatically make Calgary a better real estate investment. Purchase price, achievable rent, insurance, utilities, cash flow, tenant profile and other operating expenses all have to be considered together. A lower property-tax rate can't compensate for an investment that doesn't otherwise produce the returns you're looking for. Windsor Had the Highest Rate in the Comparison At the other end of the list was Windsor. Using the figures discussed during the episode, a $500,000 assessed property produced an estimated annual property-tax bill of approximately $10,483, or about $873 per month. Compare that with approximately $1,682 annually in Vancouver. That's a difference of roughly $8,801 per year, or about $733 every month. For a rental-property investor, an expense difference of that magnitude can completely change the economics of a deal. Why You Can't Just Compare Mill Rates This episode isn't intended to suggest that investors can simply take a city's headline tax percentage, multiply it by a purchase price and call it done. Assessment systems aren't standardized across Canada. Different jurisdictions can have separate school taxes, regional levies, parcel taxes, waste charges, borough-specific taxes and other fees. Properties can also fall into different classifications. That's why investors need to research the actual property they're considering. Wayne's 5-Step Property Tax Due-Diligence Process When analyzing a new rental property or unfamiliar market: Get the property's actual previous tax bill. Don't rely exclusively on an MLS listing or what the seller tells you. Determine whether the current assessment reflects recent renovations, additions, secondary suites or new construction. Look for separate charges including school taxes, regional levies, parcel taxes, waste fees, stormwater charges and local improvement charges. Verify the property's tax classification and whether your planned use or renovations could change it. Stress test the deal. Don't assume today's property-tax bill will remain unchanged for the next 10 or 20 years. Property Taxes and the 5% Rule This is another reason Wayne emphasizes cash flow. A property that barely works using today's expenses can quickly become a bad investment when property taxes, insurance, maintenance or other costs increase. The 5% Rule™ cash flow test is: (Annual Cash Flow ÷ Down Payment) × 100 5–6% = sufficient 7–9% = strong 10%+ = excellent Cash flow isn't simply money to spend. It's part of the financial buffer that allows an investor to absorb unexpected changes while continuing to hold the property for the long term. Search "The 5% Rule by Wayne Hillier" on Amazon to learn more. REI Masters Mentorship Special Through October 3, 2026, anyone who joins the REI Masters Mentorship Program receives 24 months of mentorship for the price of 12. New members will also be able to attend the upcoming REI Masters Retreat in Edmonton on October 16–17, 2026. Learn more: www.reimasters.ca Canadian Real Estate Investing Morning Show Hosted by Wayne Hillier and Gabby Hillier. Live every weekday at 7:00 AM Mountain Time from Edmonton, Alberta. Sponsors Calvin Realty – Edmonton Investor-Focused Realtor Team www.calvinrealty.ca Finngo Bookkeeping & Tax Specialized bookkeeping and tax services for Canadian real estate investors. www.finngo.com/rei Kirkwood & Brennan Mortgage Group Investor-focused mortgage planning for Canadian real estate investors. www.kbmortgages.ca keaton@kbmortgages.ca  

CSU scored 45 points and piled up 500 yards at UTSA — and somehow lost by two touchdowns. Joel and Mike break down the Rams' wild 59-45 loss, including an impressive first start from K'saan Farrar, an offense that repeatedly fought its way back, and a defense that has now surrendered 100 points and more than 1,100 yards in the last two games. They dig into Jim Mora's visible frustration with the defense and its staff, the troubling run defense and explosive plays, and what changes could be on the table. Then it's on to Homecoming and CSU's first-ever Pac-12 conference game, as Oregon State returns to Canvas Stadium with an explosive passing attack that presents another major test for the struggling Rams defense. This RamNation Radio episode is brought to you by Pedersen Toyota, your Local Toyota Dealer Serving Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor and Timnath for more than 50 years. It is also made possible by Ginger and Baker — our favorite restaurant(s) in all of Fort Collins, and Ram Zone (powered by the CSU Bookstore) — the best place to get all your Ram gear. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The OUA Recap show followed by a rundown of the other three conferences. The boys are here to break down the OUA Slate which saw a Golden 3rd Quarter by Queen's, a Young Mustang LB dominating, and Windsor's excellence at the QB Position.Afterwards they discuss the Carabins/ Rouge et Or match along with the other big matchups across the country.Follow @CFPerspective and @OUASport for more info!

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we look at what being sovereign within a united Canada means for the province on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, explain how Mark Carney's investment summit maple-washed a giant corporate giveaway on THE BREACH SHOW, explore explore polymarket and sports betting on THE END OF SPORT and unpack Sierra Club Canada's new strategic plan on THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA.   This episode is brought to you by the new University of Manitoba Press release Confronting the Resurgent Right, a series of essays exposing the deep roots and new threats of Canada's regressive right edited by Miriam Edelson.  Find it at uofmpress.ca.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, at CJSR 88.5FM in Edmonton, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CJTM 1280AM in Toronto, at CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor, at LOCAL FM in St John, New Brunswick and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.

On June 6, 1993, an armed man robbed the Be-Lo Supermarket in Windsor, North Carolina, before forcing six employees to the back of the store.There, the employees were directed to bind each other before the gunman attacked them with a gun and a butcher knife. Three of the victims died, while three survived.Despite the survivors helping investigators create a composite sketch, more than 33 years later, no one has ever been arrested. The triple homicide remains unsolved, and investigators are still searching for the person, or people, responsible.If you have information about this case, please call the Windsor Police Department (252) 794-3111. A $30,000 reward is available.Editor: Shannon KeirceResearch/Writing: Haley GraySUBMIT A CASE HERE: Cases@DetectivePerspectivePod.com SOCIALInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/detperspective/Twitter: https://twitter.com/detperspectiveFIND DERRICK HERETwitter: https://twitter.com/DerrickLInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/DerrickLevasseurFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerrickVLevasseurCRIME WEEKLY AND COFFEECriminal Coffee Company: https://www.CriminalCoffeeCo.comCrime Weekly:  https://crimeweeklypodcast.com/shopADS:https://www.ForHers.com/Detective - Ready to reach your goals? Get personalized, affordable care at www.ForHers.com/Detective!

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Title: Sarah Ferguson Denies Royal Tell-All Deal, King Charles Jokes About the FutureDescription: Sarah Ferguson's spokesperson denies reports of a seven-figure royal memoir deal, while royal commentators discuss the potential fallout. King Charles jokes about the timescale of Peterhead's energy plans. Kate hosts fellow Three Peaks challengers at Windsor Castle and visits an addiction recovery gardening project, while Prince William visits the Secret Intelligence Service.Questions answered in this episode:- Is Sarah Ferguson writing a tell-all memoir about the Royal Family?- What has Sarah Ferguson's spokesperson said about a reported seven-figure book deal?- What do Andrew Lownie and Jennie Bond think about a possible Fergie memoir?- What did King Charles say about being alive when Peterhead's energy developments are completed?- How old will King Charles be in 2040?- Why did Kate host Three Peaks Challenge participants at Windsor Castle?- How is the Princess of Wales supporting addiction recovery through the Forward Trust?- Where did Prince William carry out his private London engagements?- Which loafers did Kate wear during her Southend visit?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

What does Earl Spencer know about King Charles, and what did he deliberately leave out of his Princess Diana memoir? Spencer says a scandal-focused book about the King would be a “jaw-dropper,” as old accounts resurface about Charles's safety at Diana's funeral and Spencer's warning to Harry before he married Meghan Markle. We also examine the forthcoming Diana Unheard documentary featuring recordings in Diana's own voice, calls to end the decades-old Wales war and claims that Meghan is struggling with work pressure after returning to Britain.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Northern Colorado is booming, but growth doesn't automatically mean spiritual connection. We talk with Jeremy Cleveland, lead pastor of Zeal City Church, about what it looks like to plant a life-giving, gospel-centered church in the NoCo corridor near Fort Collins and Windsor, where hundreds of thousands have little or no relationship with Christ. Along the way, we laugh about the quirks of a fast-growing region, then quickly get honest about the real reason we plant churches: people need Jesus.Jeremy shares the deeply personal story behind his leadership, including his family's early ministry roots, his dad's turnaround through the grace of the gospel, and how a devastating car accident shaped his path toward vocational ministry. We trace the practical steps too: training, early pastoral years in Houston, and the worship-night moment when Jeremy and Brittany sensed a clear call to church planting.Subscribe for more church planting and leadership conversations, share this with a pastor or leader who needs encouragement, and leave a review to help others find the show.Send us Fan MailWe want to help you find your next steps in ministry.Connect here with EXCEL. 

The Christ who sleeps in your storm is the Christ who commands the sea. You're not in peril; you're in His presence!

Which Canadian Cities Are Most Exposed to U.S. Tariffs? Tariffs and the ongoing Canada-U.S. trade dispute are creating another layer of uncertainty for Canadian businesses, workers, landlords and real estate investors. But the impact is not going to be equal across the country. In today's episode, Wayne and Gabby look at which Canadian cities have the greatest exposure to U.S. tariffs, why certain local economies are more vulnerable than others, and what investors should be thinking about when choosing markets and building portfolios that can survive economic disruptions. The Rental Market Is Getting More Competitive Before getting into tariffs, Wayne and Gabby share an update from their own rental portfolio. A new tenant moved in early over the weekend, and Gabby explains why they were particularly happy with the tenant profile, including strong credit, good communication, insurance in place, and rent and security deposit paid ahead of time. They also discuss the changing Edmonton rental market. Tenants currently have more options in certain property categories, which means landlords may have to work harder to attract strong applicants. Wayne and Gabby currently have multiple renovation crews moving between properties, but these aren't simply renovations for the sake of improving a property. They're strategic improvements designed to make their rentals more competitive, reduce vacancy and help achieve stronger rents. When supply increases, being "good enough" may not be enough. Presentation, pricing, tenant experience and property condition become increasingly important. What Happens When a Tenant Moves In Before the Lease Starts? A live viewer asked an important landlord question: If you allow a tenant to move in before the official lease date, does that create additional liability? Gabby walks through three things landlords should consider: • Update the lease commencement date and have the appropriate parties acknowledge the change. • Make sure the tenant's insurance begins on the actual possession date. • Collect the required rent and security deposit before possession is provided. Landlords can also decide whether to charge prorated rent for the additional days. In this particular situation, Wayne and Gabby chose not to charge extra because the property was already vacant and the early possession was only a matter of days. Real Estate Investors Need to Build for the Storm One of the biggest themes of today's episode is that economic disruptions are inevitable. Oil crashes, pandemics, rapidly rising interest rates, flooding, trade disputes and other unexpected events continually test real estate investors. Wayne's argument is that investors shouldn't build portfolios that only work when everything goes right. They should buy properties with enough cash flow and financial cushion to withstand periods when things go wrong. He discusses an example of a mentorship student's property generating approximately $670 per month in cash flow. That cushion gives the investor significantly more room to absorb higher expenses, lower rents or other unexpected changes than a property operating close to break-even. Cash flow isn't spending money. It's a risk mitigator. The 5% Rule and Surviving Economic Disruptions Wayne returns to the cash flow framework from his book, The 5% Rule™: A Real Estate Cash Flow Test for Canadian Investors. The formula is: (Annual Cash Flow ÷ Down Payment) × 100 5–6% = sufficient 7–9% = strong 10%+ = excellent Wayne's position is that investors should be buying properties capable of producing meaningful cash flow without depending on appreciation. The greater the cushion, the better positioned the investor is to deal with vacancies, declining rents, higher financing costs and economic shocks. Search "The 5% Rule by Wayne Hillier" on Amazon to learn more. Which Canadian Cities Are Most Exposed to U.S. Tariffs? The episode then examines Canadian cities whose economies have particularly strong exposure to trade with the United States. The industries highlighted include: • Energy in Alberta and New Brunswick • Automotive and manufacturing in Southern Ontario • Steel in Hamilton • Aluminum, forestry and manufacturing in Quebec Saint John, New Brunswick ranked at the top of the tariff exposure index discussed during the show, followed by Calgary. Calgary's position is particularly interesting for Alberta investors. The city's economy has significant exposure to the corporate and export side of Canada's energy industry, and an enormous percentage of its international merchandise exports are destined for the United States. Southern Ontario also features prominently because of its deeply integrated manufacturing and automotive supply chains. Windsor, Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Brantford and Guelph were among the markets discussed. Hamilton's steel industry creates another form of exposure, while several Quebec communities face risks connected to aluminum, forestry and manufacturing. Lethbridge also appeared among the top 10, although Wayne emphasizes that simply appearing on the list doesn't mean every city faces an equivalent level of exposure. There is a substantial difference between the exposure measurements at the top and bottom of the list. Edmonton vs. Calgary For Wayne, one of the most interesting comparisons is Edmonton versus Calgary. Although both cities are part of an energy-producing province, their economic structures are different. Calgary's economy has greater direct exposure to the corporate and export side of energy. Edmonton still has significant connections to energy, manufacturing and industrial activity, but its economy also includes substantial government, healthcare, education, construction and other sectors. In the ranking discussed during the episode, Edmonton was considerably further down the list at 24th. Wayne explains why economic diversification is one of the fundamentals he considers when choosing a real estate market. No market is immune to economic shocks, but he wants to invest in large markets with strong economies and enough diversification to absorb them. That resilience is one of the reasons Wayne continues to favour Edmonton real estate investing. Don't Wait for Perfect Conditions The takeaway isn't that investors should stop buying real estate because tariffs, interest rates or economic uncertainty exist. There is always another challenge coming. Wayne and Gabby's strategy is to build portfolios that can survive those challenges through strong cash flow, adequate reserves, appropriate tenant profiles, careful market selection and disciplined buying. Waiting for perfect conditions isn't the strategy. Preparing for imperfect conditions is. REI Masters Mentorship Special For a limited time, anyone who joins the REI Masters Mentorship Program before October 3, 2026 receives 24 months of mentorship for the price of 12. You'll also receive entry to the upcoming REI Masters Retreat in Edmonton on October 17–18. Learn more: www.reimasters.ca Canadian Real Estate Investing Morning Show Hosted by Wayne Hillier and Gabby Hillier. Broadcasting live every weekday at 7:00 AM Mountain Time from Edmonton, Alberta. Bring your real estate investing questions and join the conversation live. 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In a world filled with countless voices competing for our attention, what we choose to listen to shapes who we become. The early church devoted themselves to the teachings of Jesus, allowing God's Word to become the foundation of their lives. Scripture draws us closer to God, renews our minds, strengthens us against temptation, and gives us hope when life is difficult. Being devoted to the Word is more than simply reading the Bible—it means allowing the words of Jesus to take root in our hearts and transform the way we think and live. When His Word lives within us, we discover truth, strength, and hope that the many other voices around us can never provide.

Excluding the staged one-twos of the Michael Schumacher/Ferrari era, Baku produced the closest F1 finish since...Jerez, 1986, when Ayrton Senna's Lotus-Renault crossed the line only 0.014 ahead of Nigel Mansell's Williams-Honda. At Baku, 2026, Max Verstappen's Red Bull-RBPT-Ford was only 0.196 behind George Russell's winning Mercedes as they crossed the line, bringing to an end a race of two worlds - a tedious follow-the-leader procession in the first phase followed by a Safety Car-generated, dramatic reboot over the closing 16 laps. Isack Hadjar underpinned an excellent day for Red Bull by finishing a strong third ahead of Charles Leclerc's Ferrari; Kimi Antonelli finished fifth in the other Mercedes (after starting 16th); and Sir Lewis Hamilton placed sixth in the other Ferrari.Peter in this video looks back at the key elements of a spectacular day in Azerbaijan.Become a channel member and enjoy our live race chats through to the end of the season:https://www.youtube.com/@peterwindsor/joinWith thanks to Jetcraft, the world's largest buyer and seller of executive jets: https://jetcraft.comTo TrackNinja, a lap-timer and data app designed to help users improve their on-track car and driver performance through analysis and an innovative Data Garage. A lite version is free; the loaded edition is US$9.99 pcm or $99.99 yearly: https://trackninja.appAnd to REC Watches, whose timepieces are infused with DNA and actual material from famous racing and road cars. Claim your additional 10 per cent discount by adding the codeword PETER:https://recwatches.com/next-projectAlternative race stats courtesy of Aleš Norskŷ:www.GPfactsandnumbers.com Images: Mercedes, Red Bull, Pirelli, AP Archive and Grand Prix Photo:https://www.grandprixphoto.comMusic: Rain over Kyoto Station (The Mini Vandals); Science Montage (Jeremy Blake)Visit our new merchandise store to Make Corners Great Again! https://sl1nk.com/l0uanyxVisit https://alpinestars.com for all your racing apparelVisit: https://fxdworkwear.com for all your purpose-build, technical workwearFollow Peter @peterwindsorBook a Cameo with Peter: https://cameo.com/peterwindsorContact us at: peterwindsoryt@gmail.comWe support the Race Against Dementia:https://raceagainstdementia.comThe Alora dog rescue shelter (Malaga, Spain)https://aloradogrescue.comStephen Gallacher Golf Foundationhttps://sgfoundation.co.ukNick: you're with us always:https://samaritans.orgSupport the showVisit: https://youtube.com/peterwindsor for F1 videos past, present and future

KING CHARLES, EARL SPENCER AND THE FIGHT OVER DIANA: 'GASLIT BY THE KING', A PALACE RULE BROKEN, AND HARRY'S SILENCECharles Spencer's memoir Swan Song: Diana, My Sister landed Tuesday, and Buckingham Palace broke its own rule against commenting on books to answer it — saying the King is mindful that fraternal grief can cloud reason and colour memory. Spencer's reply: it isn't every day you wake up gaslit by the King. Mark Francis unpacks the disputed quotes, why one courtier called it "recollections may vary" on steroids, Piers Morgan's legal action over a checkable error, Harry's conspicuous silence at his own awards, and the split-screen week that put William behind a popcorn till and Kate on a red carpet with Tom Cruise.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Jennie Bond revisits the difficult relationship between King Charles and Prince Philip and how their very different personalities eventually found greater understanding. We also look at why Charles and Queen Camilla often spend weekends at separate country homes, Prince Edward's former school friend recalls a nerve-racking teenage stay with Queen Elizabeth at Sandringham, and a former royal butler reveals what life was really like aboard the Royal Train before it is retired in 2027.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Send us Fan MailIn this interview with  @peterwindsor we discuss George Russell's incredible performance at the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix and the astonishing qualifying lap that put the Mercedes driver on pole position in Baku. Just how good was George Russell's lap, and what made his pace around the Azerbaijan street circuit so impressive?  @peterwindsor   breaks down Russell's performance before looking at the intense final 15 laps between George Russell and Max Verstappen, with the Red Bull driver pushing him all the way before Russell edged it by just one tenth.  @peterwindsor also discusses Kimi Antonelli after a rare blip on his radar and whether the Mercedes youngster is now becoming more risk-adjusted behind the wheel. Attention then turns to Ferrari, Fred Vasseur and the latest situation surrounding Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, before  @peterwindsor   reacts to Christian Horner saying he would go to Ferrari. Could Horner really make the move to Maranello, and what would that mean for Ferrari? We also look at McLaren and the major talking points surrounding the team after Baku, before  @peterwindsor   gives his thoughts on Franco Colapinto and Esteban Ocon as we break down more of the biggest stories to emerge from the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.Timestamps:00:00:00 Introduction00:00:39 Russell Steps Up00:14:54 Russell Vs Verstappen Battle00:24:31 Hadjar Driver Of Day00:41:51 Horner To Ferrari00:56:48 Norris Colapinto Crash Debate01:05:18 Ocon Haas Future01:10:47 Malaysian GP Preview- become a member -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxyxUe_jRskL8xH7n580Ecw/join- where to find me -Twitter: https://twitter.com/CxmeronCcTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cxmeroncc_Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CameronF1TVBusiness Email : cxmeronf1@gmail.com#f1 #formula1 #formulaone #f1news #f12025 #maxverstappen #hamilton #redbull  #ferrari #mercedes

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast thinks that yelling “PIZZA!” and “FRENCH FRY!” at a 2-year-old superman straightlining down a green slope is a highly effective ski instruction technique. If you agree, please sign up for my newsletter:WhoBrian Bensch, founder of Snow SchoolersDate recordedSeptember 24, 2026About Snow SchoolersSnow Schoolers, per its website, is an “independent ski school program” that teaches lessons “at any mountain where we've established a revenue-sharing partnership with the ski area.” Skiers sign up for lessons on their Pet Rectangles, like this:Why I interviewed himThat sounds pretty neat, right? Let me go see if Snow Schoolers teaches at my favorite mountain. Snow Schoolers probably does not teach at your favorite mountain. Unless your favorite mountain is 222-vertical-foot Granlibakken, which is about five feet away from 6,000-acre Palisades Tahoe, or 100 vertical-foot Frisco Adventure Park, tucked off highway 9, after 1.5 million-ish skiers exit I-70 on their way to nearby Breckenridge.That is not an indictment of small ski areas, which I love, or Snow Schoolers' business model, which I also love. Rather, it's my way of saying that the only way to sign up for ski school at Palisades Tahoe or Breckenridge is through Palisades Tahoe or Breckenridge. With the strange, grandfathered-in exception of the strange, cobbled-together ski bazaar that is Summit at Snoqualmie in Washington, all major American ski areas (so far as I know) operate with a monopoly over ski school operations on their property. In ways subtle and aggressive, they police and ban rogue instructors who would offer discounted lessons on resort property.There are probably ways to break this system, either through the courts or legislative amendment of the Forest Service leases that 125 U.S. ski areas operate on. Such change sounds radical only in an American context - most European ski areas already operate with multiple independent competing ski schools onsite. Over the past 20 years, technology has challenged monopolies across American commerce. Sports and concert tickets and taxi rides offer two prime examples of power shifting from one central operator to many operators, with benefits and drawbacks for the consumer. Perhaps we will get there with ski school. For now, I see a more practical path for an asset-light, app-based, independent ski school like Snow Schoolers - as the costs of labor, utilities, infrastructure, and insurance pile up, perhaps outsourcing the operation of a ski school is more practical for many smaller, independent ski areas than establishing and maintaining one of their own. That is what you get at Granlibakken and Frisco: Snow Schoolers pays the ski areas a share of each lesson, essentially as rent for the right to operate a ski school on their property. And Granlibakken and Friso don't have to worry about hiring instructors and organizing lessons. There are probably 100 under-resourced ski areas in America where this model could work tomorrow. Brian and I discuss why Snow Schoolers works where it does, and why the model has been slow to spread.TranscriptsThere are two transcripts. Both are generated by robots. Both are helpful and defective in their own unique ways. I do not proofread either of them.Transcript 1: Click the “transcript” button at the top of this article. You can only see this transcript on a computer. Because I don't know why exactly but everything is getting better and dumber all at once it seems. Anyway, this is the transcript that the robots create when I upload the podcast to the internet. The cool thing about it is that you can click on any block of text and the audio will teleport there instantly. The uncool thing about this transcript is that it does not indicate who is talking at any given moment.Transcript 2: You can read this below. This is the transcript that Zoom creates as we record the podcast. The cool thing about this transcript is that it indicates who is talking at any given moment. The uncool thing about this transcript is that the timestamps do not match the audio. Also, you cannot click on this text to move to the associated point in the audio.ZoomStuart Winchester: My guest today founded Snowschoolers in 2014 with the mission to make skiing and riding affordable and accessible for average Americans.00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:11.000Stuart Winchester: and to pay snow sports pros a sustainable living wage.00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:19.000Stuart Winchester: Today, Snowschoolers operates at Grand Lebakken in Lake Tahoe, and Frisco Adventure Park in Colorado, two small ski areas.00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:36.000Stuart Winchester: Last year, Snow Schoolers hosted approximately 6,000 students. He is a good friend of the Storm. He is Brian Bench. Brian, welcome to the Storm. You reached out to me very shortly after I launched in 2019 or 20, and we've been talking for years, and you've helped me out a lot.00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.000Stuart Winchester: With the…00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:45.000Stuart Winchester: digital side of things, which I'm not so good at, so it's awesome to finally get you on and talk some snow schoolers. How you doing today?00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:48.000Brian Bensch: Doing lovely. Can't complain. Always busy, never bored.00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:52.000Stuart Winchester: And that is… yeah, that is a picture out your window of Tahoe, right?00:16:51.000 --> 00:17:00.000Brian Bensch: Yes, that is a, it's called Maggie's Peak, but that's looking at the little lake just next to Emerald Bay.00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:05.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, which would be sort of north side of the lake, so you'd be looking…00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.000Brian Bensch: Oh.00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:08.000Brian Bensch: South Tahoe, kind of on the other side of the corner, like, across from Heavenly.00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:18.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, south, right? I was… I was backwards. So… so on the… up the left side, there would be Homewood, and then up the right side would be Heavenly and Diamond Peak, and at the top is, like.00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:10.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:15.000Brian Bensch: Correct.00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:19.000Brian Bensch: Mostly correct.00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:26.000Stuart Winchester: Or North Star? North Star, Northwood. Okay, alright, uh, before I hurt myself, let's just get into this. So, so Brian.00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:28.000Brian Bensch: Well, we'll get you out to Tahoe soon enough, and then your Tahoe geography will get.00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:31.000Stuart Winchester: It's been a minute. So…00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:40.000Stuart Winchester: What is broken about American ski schools, and how did you try to fix it with snow schoolers?00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:45.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. So I would say similar to, you know.00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.000Brian Bensch: The the general diatribe about, you know.00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:55.000Brian Bensch: The ski industry being kind of broken with lift tickets too expensive and climate change is gonna end the world.00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:07.000Brian Bensch: Not everything is broken, but particularly the most front and center in your face resorts that you know everyone hears about, and you know, makes the quote unquote mainstream news has been broken for a while.00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:15.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, the gist is, if you roll up to, you know, a Tier 1 destination resort.00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:16.000Brian Bensch: Brooke, uh…00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:32.000Brian Bensch: Not only is lift ticket price what it is, but if you are looking for a group lesson, you're looking at a couple 100 bucks. And if you're looking for a private lesson, you're lucky if you can find anything that is under 1000 today. When we started Snow Schoolers, I remember telling people like, you know, a private lesson is $700 or $800.00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:35.000Brian Bensch: Well, now it's roughly double that.00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:51.000Brian Bensch: And I started teaching skiing back in college at the Dartmouth Skiway shout out to Mark and the team there, and you know I thought it was the best job ever making 12 bucks an hour in college, but it is still a minimum wage hourly job.00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:55.000Brian Bensch: Despite the high margins that resorts take.00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:59.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, wait, wait, let's, let's pause right there. So over a thousand a day for a lesson.00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:07.000Stuart Winchester: patrollers are making… I think at the Tier 1 resorts, they're probably making more than minimum wage. I think it's probably more in… at least in the 20s.00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, the, the, go ahead.00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:09.000Stuart Winchester: Plus tips, but, but.00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:19.000Stuart Winchester: Still, right, so you figure it's $1,200 a day for a lesson, and the instructor's getting, you know, $150 of that, or something. What… why…00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:23.000Stuart Winchester: Why does that model even exist? Like, who would even do that?00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.000Brian Bensch: Out.00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.000Brian Bensch: Because…00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:31.000Stuart Winchester: Like, who would work for that? Like, when you, right? Like, why not just give your own lessons?00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:44.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, well, and there's two sides… two sides of the mark, and I, uh… outside of my passions for skiing, I consider myself sort of a marketplace, you know, guru of sorts. And, you know, on the supply side, or, like, the staffing side.00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:52.000Brian Bensch: could ever imagine, and there's a reason why people love to teach skiing.00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:55.000Brian Bensch: One of the, I would say.00:19:54.000 --> 00:20:03.000Stuart Winchester: Hey, Brian, I'm sorry, you froze there for probably about, like, 5 seconds. Um, I don't know if you're on a hard line, or you have good Wi-Fi, or…00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:00.000Brian Bensch: Okay.00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:11.000Brian Bensch: It's Tahoe Wi-Fi. But it's generally fine, unless it goes out and flickers, but…00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.000Stuart Winchester: Is it?00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.000Stuart Winchester: It's Tahoe Wi-Fi.00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:13.000Stuart Winchester: you…00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:19.000Brian Bensch: I can close a couple tabs, that might help. Or we can just… I don't want you to… I know editing is tough.00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:17.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I think so.00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:22.000Stuart Winchester: No, no, no, you, you, uh, can you plug in, possibly?00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.000Brian Bensch: I don't have an Ethernet.00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:31.000Stuart Winchester: You know, okay, alright. Um, yeah, let's just, yeah, try to close some stuff, and we'll keep going, and at worst case, you can, uh, go off screen.00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:29.000Brian Bensch: Yep.00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:32.000Brian Bensch: Sure.00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:38.000Brian Bensch: To pick back up the… the kind of…00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:54.000Brian Bensch: Why is it, you know, possible for a lesson to cost $1,200 and the instructor only keeps 20% of that? There's two components to it. The first is that, you know, historically there was a glut of ski instructors going back into the 60s, 70s, 80s.00:20:54.000 --> 00:21:10.000Brian Bensch: Uh, you know, the, the quintessential ski bum, uh, is and was a great job, particularly for people that, you know, get the addiction that I know we both have. Um, and so, you know, lessons didn't used to be this expensive, um, just like lift tickets didn't used to be this expensive.00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:29.000Brian Bensch: Um, and so just like being a lifty, being a ski instructor was, you know, maybe a slight step above, you know, requires more training, but it has always been the sort of an entry-level hourly position. Um, and it's certainly not the federal minimum wage at most resorts. Uh, when Vail came out, uh, post-COVID with the $20 an hour kind of cross-board raise.00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:41.000Brian Bensch: Uh, that was great for the industry, not just, you know, Vail Resorts staff. Um, and… but the prevailing wage for, you know, first-year ski instructor is certainly in that $20 an hour range today.00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, we try to do things differently.00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:49.000Stuart Winchester: Right, but okay, so, but fundamentally to get at the…00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:55.000Stuart Winchester: at this dynamic. I'm a ski instructor. Let's say I'm a great ski instructor, right? And everybody loves me.00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:57.000Stuart Winchester: And I… I can see that…00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:07.000Stuart Winchester: you know, Northstar is charging $1,000 for a lesson, and they're paying me $25 an hour. I don't know what Northstar pays, so feel free to correct me, Northstar, but…00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:10.000Stuart Winchester: Why don't I as an instructor?00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:25.000Stuart Winchester: just say, well, I'm just gonna go on Facebook and advertise my services, and say, meet me at the Lyft at Northstar, and I'll give you a lesson for $200 for the day, because then I'm making more, and… and we're just… and the consumer's getting a better deal.00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:34.000Stuart Winchester: And then we established this one-on-one relationship. Why doesn't that marketplace exist? Why do ski areas exist?00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:42.000Stuart Winchester: How are they able to do this weird market dynamic, which sounds fundamentally unfair to the instructor?00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:57.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. Well, that question is certainly more or less exactly what I pondered 10 years ago. And how I got into this fun little project called Snowschoolers.00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:03.000Brian Bensch: was the realization that, oh my god, like, why does this exist? Um, and, you know, and…00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:08.000Brian Bensch: 10 years ago, Uber and Airbnb had just become kind of a mainstream thing.00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.000Brian Bensch: Um, and so I was like, oh.00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:28.000Brian Bensch: I wonder if we could just connect instructors to students directly and have a little marketplace for ski school. At the time, I knew nothing about, you know, special use permits from the Forest Service and the ski industry broadly. You know, I'd grown up skiing, but I was just a lay consumer skier. The reality is, and very similar to.00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:36.000Brian Bensch: you know a lot of the work you've done this summer going into Forest Service kind of history. The special use permit system.00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:54.000Brian Bensch: effectively grants the resort, at least on Federal lands, where the special use permit exists, a micro monopoly over all business activity at their mountain. And it doesn't have to be that way. If you do go over to Europe, it is a much more laissez-faire free market.00:23:54.000 --> 00:24:07.000Brian Bensch: Um, and most major resorts in Europe have at least four to six, you know, uh, ski schools that operate and compete, and, you know, the average lesson prices are roughly a third, and instructors keep, you know, 50 to 60% of lessons.00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:19.000Brian Bensch: And so it doesn't have to be the way it is. But at at the core it is. It is because resorts have the legal right to be the only ski school of record. And.00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:30.000Stuart Winchester: Right, so just to get ahead of the people who like to point out details, so North Star was a weird example for me to use because it's on private land, it's not on Forest Service land. However, it's owned by Vail Resorts, and I think what you're saying is.00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:44.000Stuart Winchester: even though not every U.S. skier is on U.S. Forest Service land, 125 of them are, it… the fact that that encompasses the majority of our ski terrain has normalized the culture of one mountain, one ski school. Is that fair?00:24:44.000 --> 00:25:01.000Brian Bensch: Correct. And there is maybe a dirty little secret of capitalism that monopolies are great businesses. So Northstar does not want six other ski schools competing and driving the price down because ski school is very, very lucrative to the at least traditional big resort ski model.00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:50.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:09.000Stuart Winchester: So, disruptor Brian comes out and says, alright guys, get out of the way, I am gonna change the world with.00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:19.000Stuart Winchester: snow schoolers and my Uber for skiing app, which I know you don't want to call it anymore, but nonetheless, since you brought up the analogy, let's go back to 2014.00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:22.000Stuart Winchester: Take us into it. What did you do and what happened?00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:32.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. In short, I would say, did a little bit of experimenting with that idea. And, you know, by the end of the first season.00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:43.000Brian Bensch: Learned pretty quickly that the ski resort management does not like the idea. And if you want to be able to ski at places that you love to ski.00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:55.000Brian Bensch: it's probably a good idea to not, uh, not poke the bear too much, so to speak. Um, and so, uh, that first kind of pilot program very much led me into the, uh.00:25:55.000 --> 00:26:14.000Brian Bensch: and and this it was always a snooze. This has been a side project of mine for a while. It's a I would call it a thriving small business. That 1st year I I pretended it was a startup, or I called it a startup, but never took funding and you know that 1st pilot program helped me realize that the only way, if I was going to turn this into real business.00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:07.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:27.000Brian Bensch: was to find a way that was mutually beneficial for both resorts and instructors, uh, and obviously the students. Um, and that led me to, you know, how can I create a revenue share model.00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:41.000Brian Bensch: Uh, where by bringing more new skiers to the mountain, everyone benefits. Um, the resort gets to share the revenue, uh, the student gets a cheaper lesson, and the instructor gets higher pay. Um, and, uh…00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:54.000Brian Bensch: you know, by the time 2016 rolled around I was ready to quit my corporate job and give it a role, and so moved to Tahoe. And you know, without the.00:26:54.000 --> 00:27:04.000Brian Bensch: A gentleman named Brian Schilling out in Homewood. Without him taking sort of a chance on me, snow schoolers would not exist. But Homewood was coming off.00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:22.000Brian Bensch: we'll say a typical bad snow year, and had to let go a lot of their ski school staff the year prior, because I think they were open for, like, 40 days that season, and hiring was a huge priority. Like, they were rebuilding a ski school from scratch, and the reality was the pitch that resonated with Homewood.00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:37.000Brian Bensch: was much less about, can we, like, you know, offer more affordable lessons and increase gear visits that way, but we need, like, we don't know how to hire instructors, we need a bunch of instructors, and this Uber model of.00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:52.000Brian Bensch: uh, pseudo-freelance instructors was attractive to them. Um, and, you know, I told them that, like, I had put up a couple ads and had, you know, 20 people apply within a few weeks, and they're like, ah, that's interesting. Um, and so that led to our first season, uh, which I would say was.00:27:52.000 --> 00:28:06.000Brian Bensch: uh, not a hands-down success at Homewood, um, but I skied nearly 100 days, and it ended up being, uh, Tahoe's second best winter of at least my young adulthood, um, and, you know, you know, no regrets at all.00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:17.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I mean, Homo's a serious mountain. I mean, right on the lake, it's dramatic, it has pretty nice chair lifts. But that didn't end up being the future, right?00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:23.000Stuart Winchester: How did Homewood break down, and how did you…00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.000Stuart Winchester: reassemble…00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:35.000Stuart Winchester: like, sort of rethink the business, uh, on a different scale, and I mean both, like, going smaller to get bigger, if that makes sense.00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:44.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. So the core hypothesis of snow schoolers was always kind of twofold. If you make lessons.00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:52.000Brian Bensch: more interest or demand and potential customers when lessons are affordable.00:28:52.000 --> 00:29:09.000Brian Bensch: I think the same thing is true of lift tickets, and that's why, you know, the places that are still offering $700 lift tickets are thriving. But affordable lessons drives an outsized increase in, you know, lesson visits. And if you pay instructors well, there's no shortage of instructors you can find if you're willing to pay them well.00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:25.000Brian Bensch: What we didn't get right in that 1st year at Homewood was the affordable lesson side of things. We were able to teach lessons at Homewood, but we were offering the normal prices from the year before, which were more or less, I would say, 10% below what Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows up the road was charging.00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:41.000Brian Bensch: Um, and we were not… yeah, we taught a total of, I think, 50 lessons that season, um, which was, you know, better than zero, but certainly not enough to get me too, too excited. Um, and the kind of going smaller to get bigger.00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.000Brian Bensch: Uh, it was a function of, uh…00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:57.000Brian Bensch: my my tiny little hill in the woods called Grand Lebakken, that, as someone who'd grown up skiing Tahoe, I had literally never heard of. I think I'd probably skied in Tahoe 500 days at that point.00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:59.000Brian Bensch: Um, but, uh…00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:02.000Stuart Winchester: And it's right by Palisades, right? It's, like, right across the street, basically.00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:17.000Brian Bensch: Not quite across the street. It is two minutes from the lake, but you can't see the lake from Grand Labaquin. So it's literally like tucked in the way, tucked kind of behind a hill. It is between Alpine Meadows and Homewood, if you look at the map. And it's roughly like 10 minutes from both of them.00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:05.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:23.000Brian Bensch: Um, and as I was winding down that first season with Homewood, I challenged myself, um.00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:39.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, tried to put it on social media, but no one really cared to do a March Madness Sweet 16 circuit, because there, at the time, were 16 unique mountains in Tahoe, and Grand Lebakken was one of the last stops on that circuit, and I forget who told me it existed.00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:44.000Brian Bensch: Um, but, you know, Grand Lubakken is not a ski resort. Grand Lubakken is a ski.00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:51.000Brian Bensch: Kind of known for its lodging and accommodations business.00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:54.000Stuart Winchester: Hey, Brian, you, uh, you just froze again, but you said Grand Lebakken is a ski…00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:55.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:57.000Stuart Winchester: So just start over from Grand Lebakken is a ski.00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:13.000Brian Bensch: Sure. Grand Labaca is not a ski resort. It is a ski hill or a ski area, as Stuart likes to say. It is two surface lifts. It is roughly 20 acres from the bottom of the hill of Grand Labaca. You can see the entire hill, the entire mountain. What you see is what you get.00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:30.000Brian Bensch: It is not, I would say, exclusively for beginners. The Poma that goes to the top, and it's, I think, roughly 225 feet. I would put it at a solid, you know, a Jackson Hole blue. It is at least a 25 to 30 degree slope.00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:46.000Brian Bensch: and I have seen 12 year olds straight line it and almost die. So it is. It is certainly like there's enough terrain that you could do ski race like training on it, and we do a little bit of that in the winter on weekdays. But it is a ski hill.00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:57.000Brian Bensch: Um, not at all, sort of, no bells and whistles, no high-speed quads, um, just a bunny lift, uh, rope toe, and a, you know, slightly more advanced poma that goes to the top.00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:09.000Brian Bensch: And, uh, spent a good afternoon with, uh, the Parson family back in spring 2017, and I was like, this price is pretty cool, this is cute, and told them about my ideas for ski school.00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.000Stuart Winchester: And who are they?00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:25.000Brian Bensch: Chris Parson and Ron Parson. Ron is Chris's father, and has owned the mountain for quite a while, and what Grand Lombachman is known for is, it is more of an accommodations center. It's a lodge and conference center.00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:42.000Brian Bensch: Uh, with roughly, I think, 150-ish units. Um, and the ski hill is an amenity, uh, along with their pool, along with their spa, along with, like, you know, their, you know, uh, dining areas and so forth. Um, and they've operated the ski area and sled hill, um, for…00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:29.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:55.000Brian Bensch: I think Ron is — the Parson family is going on maybe 30 years. I hope to convince him that he should come on the pod at some point. But he is —.00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:47.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:55.000 --> 00:33:12.000Brian Bensch: Their family, you know, is the quintessential mom and pop ski hill ski area sort of operators. When I met them, ski school was run mostly with Chris, who had sort of two group lesson slots a day and a piece of paper for people to sign up in the morning.00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:28.000Brian Bensch: And they were like, you know, we could probably be more organized with this. And I was like, yeah, I think I can help you a little bit. And then the season ended and I went home, had made no money. So, you know, my day job has been in marketing.00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:40.000Brian Bensch: for big and small tech companies for a while. Um, and so I went and had to get a big boy tech job again to, you know, pay for rent. Um, and my Tahoe ski lease was up for the season. So, I went back home.00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:39.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:47.000Brian Bensch: you know, wasn't sure if Snow Solutions was going to continue, kind of just assumed it was a one-year thing, and, you know.00:33:47.000 --> 00:34:03.000Brian Bensch: you know, hadn't talked a ton with Homewood, but I knew, like we weren't gonna you know the business wasn't great. But fast forward October 1st roughly, this time of year the Gm. Gives me a call out of the blue, and I pick up. I'm now at my new day job, and I just play it cool. And I'm like, Oh, yeah.00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:19.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, no, we'll run your ski school this winter. Grant Lebakken did, yeah. So the GM of Grant Lebakken picked up and said, hey, you know, we love meeting you in the spring, and you know, winter's around the corner. Let's talk about, you know, what needs to be done for you guys to run ski school for us this year.00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.000Stuart Winchester: Grand Labaquin?00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, okay.00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:11.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:14.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:20.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm. Right.00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:23.000Brian Bensch: Um, and I remember going home that night being like, huh.00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:33.000Brian Bensch: This is not going to be easy because I'm working 40 to 50 hours a week now at my new job. But skiing in this space is what I love to do.00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:25.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:51.000Brian Bensch: You know, at one point, a quote on the website was the Confucius quote, “If you find a job you love, you'll never work another day.” And, you know, I said, yes, you know, porque no las dos, let's do both. Didn't tell my employer at the time.00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:49.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:51.000 --> 00:35:06.000Brian Bensch: Because, you know, don't want to give them reason to question how much time you're putting in. But basically worked, you know, spent many nights, and I was a bad developer at the time. So everything snow schoolers is kind of built in-house from a code perspective.00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:55.000Stuart Winchester: Been there?00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:03.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:23.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, I just, every evening from 6 p.m. to midnight, I'd be plugging away to build the Grand Le Bacon kind of new system that we built that first year. And it worked. You know, year two, we taught.00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:38.000Brian Bensch: I think 300 plus lessons, and we did five times more revenue than year one at Homewood. And again, I was, you know, I only taught probably 2% of lessons because I had my full-time job. Christmas was a fun disaster where.00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:47.000Brian Bensch: all of a sudden, we were sold out every single day, and I was like, uh, I guess I need to figure out how to stop selling lessons, uh, because I hadn't really built that into the model the first year, because we were never sold out.00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:48.000Stuart Winchester: Ah, okay, okay.00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:56.000Brian Bensch: But, you know, we made it work and lots of families had amazing, you know, first experiences learning to slide on snow.00:35:55.000 --> 00:36:06.000Stuart Winchester: So let me zoom out and just tell you why I think this makes sense from my point of view, and then you can color that in with with how Graham Lebakken actually achieved it. I look at…00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:13.000Stuart Winchester: something like the Icon Pass, and they have a partnership with Jackson Hole.00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:22.000Stuart Winchester: but Altera doesn't have to own or operate Jackson Hole, and if a lift breaks, it's not Altera's problem, but they get the benefit of Jackson Hole.00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.000Stuart Winchester: on their IconPass. Uh…00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:36.000Stuart Winchester: this model that Grand Lebakken has, there used to be hundreds of ski areas like this, just attached to resorts all across. In this part of the country, there were a ton of them, in the Catskills and the Poconos, and…00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.000Brian Bensch: Okay.00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:42.000Stuart Winchester: most of them, I mean, they frankly weren't super interesting hills, but they…00:36:42.000 --> 00:37:02.000Stuart Winchester: Those resorts found that as God running a ski hill became more complex, it wasn't worth keeping all those pieces and parts as an amenity. So in the case of, of Grand Le Bacon, I, I imagine, you know, you have a couple Pomas, so your market is probably like people who wanted to come to Tahoe in the winter, but aren't necessarily skiers, but maybe want to try it.00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:18.000Stuart Winchester: Right? Because no one's like, hmm, should I go to Palisades or Grand Lebakken today, right? Like it's, it's a very unique place. So, but Grand Lebakken, I mean, if they're going to have a hill, that means they also have to have, you know, a rental shop and they have to have a ski school and instructors. This basically.00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:21.000Stuart Winchester: Takes the whole ski school, all that labor.00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:23.000Stuart Winchester: all the infrastructure.00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:25.000Stuart Winchester: out of it, and I'd imagine you just…00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:41.000Stuart Winchester: Pay, you know, you just write them a check like a lease, basically like a forest service lease where a skier operates and they, they pay based on what they make to the government. So it, it seems to me like ski areas would love that. And I, and I could think of 100 small ski areas in the country where that would work. That's how I'm understanding this is that.00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:44.000Stuart Winchester: Is that fair? And…00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:47.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, I I would say you more or less hit the nail on the head.00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:47.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:37:48.000 --> 00:38:03.000Brian Bensch: The and and the models the operating model that we've sort of developed, that we are sort of most in favor of is, we do ski school. We take full responsibility for ski school and nothing else.00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:14.000Brian Bensch: we've we've we're not obligated, or we don't have to stick with that model entirely. And at our Frisco location, Colorado. We also do all of rentals.00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:20.000Brian Bensch: And but ski school is what sort of what we love, what we care about.00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:34.000Brian Bensch: And you know, in in other past smaller partnerships we've done. We were responsible for even more of operations, grooming and parking and snow removal is.00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:40.000Brian Bensch: like very underappreciated. How time consuming, expensive those can be.00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:40.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:50.000Brian Bensch: And so I I am very thankful that Gran Lebakken and our partners at Frisco take responsibility for for grooming, and particularly grooming snowmaking.00:38:50.000 --> 00:39:00.000Brian Bensch: um, and sort of the general operations, uh, lift operations and so forth, are… are never gonna be our sweet spot. Um, and we would happily run the, like.00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:57.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:06.000Brian Bensch: like ski school is often the biggest human part of the organization, because you have a bunch of instructors.00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:22.000Brian Bensch: Uh, and you have to, like, you know, herding cats doesn't happen without effort. Um, and scheduling does not happen, uh, without good software, and a human to supervise the software. Um, and so, yeah, that's been our sweet spot. Um, I likewise, uh, think that there are at least.00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:11.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:16.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:35.000Brian Bensch: a few dozen, if not hundreds, of other small ski areas, whether they're surface lift only, or just small with, like, a single fixed grip lift, that, um, that want to do a better ski school program, and we would love to talk to them.00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:53.000Stuart Winchester: So, so Grand Labakin you've been with ever since, so I'm assuming they've been pretty happy with it. Let's jump across the country to another really weird ski area that probably people don't know exists, that we've been talking about, which is Frisco, which is… you pass by it on the way to Breckenridge, but you won't even see it. It's so small, like.00:39:53.000 --> 00:40:09.000Stuart Winchester: You have to drive around this weird road and it's, you know, underneath a hill. And I've not skied there, but I stopped by after they were closed, uh, a couple years ago. So, so that is not attached to a resort. That's, I think, a city park. So you have a completely different demo there.00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:19.000Stuart Winchester: So who is Frisco trying to serve, and how did you meet that need? And it seems like you've had a long-term relationship with them as well.00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:29.000Brian Bensch: Yes. So we're now going to our fifth season with the town of Frisco. And so, yes, it is a municipally managed ski area and tubing park.00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:42.000Brian Bensch: You can't miss the tubing element when you're driving from getting off I-70 and heading to Breckenridge, but very few people will know that there's beginner ski and snowboarding there as well. I've been to Colorado a good handful of times.00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:48.000Brian Bensch: definitely drove by it once and didn't know they were skiing there. And you know a mutual acquaintance.00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:45.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:40:48.000 --> 00:41:01.000Brian Bensch: post-COVID, when I was talking about, you know what, you know, the world's going remote, maybe I can just, you know, expand snow schoolers without me physically being there all the time. Um, and I was like, huh, have you heard of Frisco? I was like, no, what.00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:58.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:07.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, that was probably two months before our first successful season with Frisco.00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:22.000Brian Bensch: Um, the audience they're serving, to your question, is not nearly as local as you might expect for being, like, a town-run hill. Uh, we certainly have some local programs, but their audience is Summit County visitors.00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:15.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm.00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:35.000Brian Bensch: Who primarily are either not skiers yet, not skiers and swimmers yet, or are brand new and want to get their sort of their ski legs on because someone invited them on a trip to Breck or trip to Copper.00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:52.000Brian Bensch: and they're like, well, I've never skied before. You know a lifting. It's expensive, less expensive. B like, can I get my legs like, you know, get my footing somewhere, and we are smack dab in the middle of, you know, 4 major resorts. In addition to Copper Breck, you've got a base and and.00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:52.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:59.000Brian Bensch: and Keystone around the corner, and we are the affordable alternative for Summit County visitors.00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:03.000Stuart Winchester: It's expensive for a rope tail, by the way, it's like $40 for a lift ticket.00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:01.000Brian Bensch: Um, and the town…00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:07.000Brian Bensch: Sure. Expenses is very relative. That is fair.00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:07.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:08.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, okay.00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, okay, so, so…00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:21.000Stuart Winchester: you established… that's funny, that's not at all what I expected. I thought it would be, like, bust loads of kids, but I guess they probably have deals with Breckenridge or something. So you've had success.00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:35.000Stuart Winchester: at Frisco and at Grand Labaca, and you've had a couple others that you've been in and out of other than Homewood. Tell us about those, and what did work, and ultimately what didn't work about them.00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:46.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. Let's go with — let's stick with the Colorado trend first, and then we'll come back to Tahoe. There's an awesome little mountain.00:42:46.000 --> 00:43:01.000Brian Bensch: that, I think you know, and and didn't. As you think about your the last ski resorts to open or ski areas to open. I actually think Hoedown Hill is the most recently opened new ski area in the country. It's about an hour north of Denver.00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:06.000Brian Bensch: in Windsor, Colorado, and we worked with them for their 1st 2 seasons.00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:15.000Brian Bensch: Um, and we did not work with them last year. Um, still in touch with them, um, but they are a brand new ski area that is, I would say, a…00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.000Brian Bensch: a privately…00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:26.000Brian Bensch: run like you. You could say there's similarities to the Grand Lebakken business model, but on a whole other level of, I would say.00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:40.000Brian Bensch: affluence and like target demo. The Hoedown Hill facility is attached to the Raindance National Golf Course, which I'm not a golfer, but I hear it's a tier one destination golf course.00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:49.000Brian Bensch: They want to build, you know, 4 seasons esque hotel there, and it is a we'll say a bourgeois experience that they're going for with some, you know.00:43:49.000 --> 00:44:06.000Brian Bensch: you know, a good culture vibe there. And I think so long as the management team remains committed, it will continue to grow. They are at the IndyPass, so shout out there, like, it's worth a quick visit if you're flying into Denver with your IndyPass.00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.000Stuart Winchester: Yep.00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:07.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:10.000Brian Bensch: Um, and in our first two seasons there, um.00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:12.000Brian Bensch: We did, we did.00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:19.000Brian Bensch: we did okay. But we weren't able to draw the numbers that we saw in Summit County, or anywhere close to them.00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm. Okay.00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.000Brian Bensch: And my conclusion.00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:26.000Brian Bensch: or one of my conclusions is that.00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:39.000Brian Bensch: It is much, much harder to influence the macro kind of tide of skier movements than it is to siphon off.00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:55.000Brian Bensch: not to capture demand in an underserved market in Northern Colorado. You know, it's great that they have Hodown Hill, but there weren't a thousand people looking for affordable lessons in Northern Colorado before Hodown Hill existed.00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:45.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:55.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm. Okay.00:44:55.000 --> 00:45:11.000Brian Bensch: Uh, whereas there's, you know, thousands of Summit County visitors who want more affordable lessons and just don't take lessons today. Um, and so, like, it was… and same thing in Tahoe. Uh, it was much easier, like, we open up for business and, like, we don't have to do much marketing for.00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:04.000Stuart Winchester: You know.00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:25.000Brian Bensch: for the wave of customers to come in, whereas every customer we earned in, uh, in Windsor and Fort Collins area, sort of, we had to hustle to get. There weren't people, like, already looking for affordable skiing there, because it's… it's a suburb of Denver.00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:21.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, that's true.00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:28.000Stuart Winchester: That's so interesting because I.00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:39.000Stuart Winchester: wrote up, and I talked to the folks at Hood on Hill, and they were opening it. And the way I thought… the way they pitched it to me was more of making skiing accessible for locals at an entry level.00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:49.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, they didn't… I mean, I understood that it was attached to this other resort, but my understanding is it was kind of a low-cost thing for the community. I think one mistake they made, and…00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:53.000Stuart Winchester: Maybe you don't want to criticize them, but I think having four carpets.00:45:53.000 --> 00:46:02.000Stuart Winchester: I think they should have had at least one rope tower or T-bar, like, something to serve the terrain park that wasn't so slow. I think that would have gotten them more…00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:04.000Stuart Winchester: Energy on site.00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:18.000Stuart Winchester: And… and had a multiplier effect. I just didn't… I didn't like the four carpets model. I liked the model of putting a ski area there, because otherwise the closest place is, what, like Eldora, and a lift ticket's 180 bucks?00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:30.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, so… so there wasn't… or you go up to Echo, I guess, but that's a pain to get to. So… so I… I don't know, that… that was my… that's my impression of Hoedown so far, is it was, like, a good idea with bad execution.00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:24.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:35.000Brian Bensch: I I think that there's some fairness to that.00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:48.000Brian Bensch: They did a great job with the terrain park, given the resources available. And yes, like, a rope tower right next to the park is always, like, I think, a good idea. And it's something that the town of Frisco invested in, I think.00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:38.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:44.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:46:48.000 --> 00:47:05.000Brian Bensch: 3 years ago, maybe 2 years ago, and it has been wildly popular. And you know, rope toes, you know you don't need to convince me. But I'm I'm with you on the rope toes are the most affordable, accessible way for a ski area to like increase uphill uphill capacity.00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:06.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:17.000Brian Bensch: Um, I think the biggest challenge for Hoedown was… and you'd call this bad luck, um, I would say bad luck more than bad execution, but it is at, you know, 6,000 feet, and uh…00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:24.000Brian Bensch: Natural snowfall in an hour north of Denver is not the most plentiful.00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:28.000Brian Bensch: And they invested heavily in snowmaking, but you can't fight temps.00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:40.000Brian Bensch: And so, in both of our first two seasons at Hoedown, we opened between January 2nd and January 7th, but we missed Christmas both of those years, and it's really hard to, sort of.00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:57.000Brian Bensch: generate momentum for a ski area when you miss Christmas. Um, and, you know, Mother Nature is the biggest determiner of that. Uh, I'm not positive, but I don't think they got open for Christmas last year, and last year was obviously the worst of the three past seasons. So, um, hoping Mother Nature cooperates better for them this year.00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:44.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:55.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:00.000Stuart Winchester: All right, Brian, so you can keep hunting rope toes.00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:16.000Stuart Winchester: You know, I was having this debate with someone yesterday. A lot of the stats you hear when you point back in time, oh, there was 1,200 ski areas and now there's only 500. It's like, well, a lot of them were little rope toes. Like, most of the lost ski areas in Colorado were just little rope toes that existed. The reason they went away…00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:22.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, is, is not because there, there was some catastrophe in, uh.00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:34.000Stuart Winchester: anywhere other than the fact that there just was better ski areas built, and they're kind of boring. Like, when you just… you get over that pretty quick. Like, 100 vertical foot, wide open run, with a rope tow, unless it has some park features.00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:31.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:47.000Stuart Winchester: you're gonna get over it. And almost all of them, they still exist. And I've been to a lot of them across America, and they're mostly in New England and Midwest, and kind of sprinkled throughout the West, especially in the Pacific Northwest. They're almost all…00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:56.000Stuart Winchester: None of them are actual businesses, almost. Like, they're almost all subsidized, they're a city park, they're owned by a school, they're attached to a resort.00:48:56.000 --> 00:49:01.000Stuart Winchester: My point is, this is not a growth area long term.00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:02.000Stuart Winchester: And…00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:17.000Stuart Winchester: you know, the big ski areas mostly do have really good beginner centers, and they're getting better all the time, right? You see places like Jackson and Big Sky building mid-mountain beginner centers to put people more up in the alpine experience and away from.00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:22.000Stuart Winchester: the chaos of the base. So what I'm getting at here is.00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.000Stuart Winchester: Eventually…00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:28.000Stuart Winchester: It seems like you have to get…00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:41.000Stuart Winchester: into a ski area where there's somewhere else to go after the beginner hill's done, right? Or else you're just gonna be teaching pizza French fry forever, and… and I don't think that even the most passionate ski instructor wants to do that, so…00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:49.000Stuart Winchester: And it's funny, because you started at Homewood, and it's like, how do you get back to Homewood is almost the question I'm asking.00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:51.000Stuart Winchester: But I…00:49:51.000 --> 00:50:02.000Stuart Winchester: How do you… First of all, do you agree with that or am I totally missing the point? And second, if you do want to eventually get into bigger operations, what…00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:07.000Stuart Winchester: What are the obstacles to doing so other than the obvious permitting issue we just talked about?00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:20.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, so I would say I 80% agree with you. The 20% carve out would be that Grand Lavaca is still a business and Ron runs it like a business.00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:13.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:18.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:27.000Brian Bensch: And the town of Frisco, even if it's town-operated, is a business that, like, reports its P&L, and they're both, like, pretty thriving.00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:33.000Brian Bensch: medium sized businesses. Snow schoolers is a small business. They're they're certainly, you know, 5 to 10 x bigger.00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:42.000Brian Bensch: And and I think that just like, you know, grade school education is a business.00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:41.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:46.000Brian Bensch: There is a steady stream of families.00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:47.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:50:46.000 --> 00:51:01.000Brian Bensch: You know, kids that, you know, will hopefully have the opportunity to learn to ski. And, you know, I think there's a world for, you know, bump hills, so to speak, to remain thriving in existence without having, you know.00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:13.000Brian Bensch: the Jackson Hole Palisades terrain to keep people forever. As far as you know, snow schoolers and kind of the the lesson ecosystem.00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:06.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:07.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:22.000Brian Bensch: I would say vehemently believe there is an underserved market for intermediate and advanced lessons.00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:37.000Brian Bensch: at, you know, quote-unquote, real resorts. Um, I'd somewhat be lying if I said I had the answer, uh, to how to break into that, because I probably would have done so already, uh, even if this is my part-time endeavor. Um, but the… in a similar manner to.00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:29.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:44.000Brian Bensch: Uh, you know, how to… you know, we've… we struggled to create demand at Hoedown Hill. Hoedown Hill? Um…00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:43.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:59.000Brian Bensch: It is a completely new endeavor to create demand for that, you know, lifelong skier who skis, you know, 5 to 15 days a year, or maybe even like 10 to 50 days a year, and doesn't think that they need a lesson.00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:01.000Brian Bensch: Um, that is a much sort of.00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:14.000Brian Bensch: harder marketing challenge. But I can guarantee you, unless they are in the top 1% of like wealth. They're not going to pay $1,000. And so that's the like. How do you? How do you like? Come up with the right product?00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:15.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:26.000Brian Bensch: And, you know, when I talk to people on chairlifts, you know, fun skiing, I'll often ask, like, you know, hey, when's the last time you took a lesson now? Yeah, when I was a kid. What would you be willing to pay?00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:42.000Brian Bensch: Uh, you know, to get 20% better at your skiing riding today. It's like, yeah, maybe 50 bucks, maybe 40 bucks, 60 bucks, like, you know. Uh, and there's no mountain that offers that, particularly for, like, the one or two hour segment. Um, and, you know.00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:49.000Brian Bensch: I think there's a lot of experimentation that the bigger mountains could do with ski school to serve that sort of.00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:52.000Brian Bensch: Latent market, or latent demand, uh…00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:55.000Brian Bensch: I'd love to help, but I'd be lying if I think that.00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:58.000Brian Bensch: Ask a 3rd party to do it for them.00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:59.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:13.000Brian Bensch: And but you know, in the the only thing I think that I am a believer of Einstein's definition of insanity, and and if you do the same thing over over and over again, and expect different results like that's insane.00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:28.000Brian Bensch: Um, and I'd love to see more experimentation with, like, you know, better serving sort of lessons for people that already know how to ski. Um, because that's what… that's what got me addicted. Uh, becoming an instructor made me realize how much more.00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:23.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I'm.00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:26.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah. Okay.00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:37.000Brian Bensch: fun I could have and how much more like I still I want to learn to be a better skier this year uh and like everyone that sort of.00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:34.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I think so.00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:47.000Brian Bensch: really gets sort of addicted to ski instruction. They do it because, like there, it's a lifelong pursuit of learning to like, get better. And most.00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:50.000Brian Bensch: lace gears like don't have that sort of.00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:54.000Brian Bensch: have that spark that I'd love to spread.00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:52.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:53:53.000 --> 00:54:08.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I guess the cynic in me thinks you're never gonna get the robots to ski. Like, there's too much ego in American skiing, especially among the sort of core demographic of males. But what I… I think what I meant more was, like, okay.00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:24.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, Grand Le Bacon's kind of a novelty, and I get that it's a business, uh, that's attached to it. I, how about like Tahoe Donner, right? So it's, it's, it's not a big resort. It's, you know, right next to Sugar Bowl. It's got 500 vertical feet, like five double.00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:31.000Stuart Winchester: Maybe they don't need the hassle of running a ski school, and the…00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:41.000Stuart Winchester: they have locals, right? Because that's a mountain with interesting terrain, even though it's short vert, where parents would want to go and, like, put their kids in ski school while they go off and ski, even if you don't.00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:57.000Stuart Winchester: get the parents. Is there… do you see opportunity in that? Because there's… there's lots of hills like that, which are not, you know, down the Frisco level, but, you know, if you want to go Summit County, so you have Frisco, and you have, like, Keystone Basin.00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:07.000Stuart Winchester: uh, Breck, but then you also have Granby Ranch, and you have Ski Cooper, and it's like, okay, may… or you have Echo Mountain, maybe those places are sort of the logical next.00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:18.000Stuart Winchester: I don't even know if it's possible to get the really big ones, but, you know, do you see any growth in that? Just tiering up, not to destinations necessarily, but sort of like.00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:21.000Stuart Winchester: ski areas that families actually want to ski a whole season at.00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:23.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, um…00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:28.000Brian Bensch: A few things to come back to your earlier question. Not all of ski school is broken.00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:28.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:30.000Brian Bensch: I visited Granby Ranch.00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:37.000Brian Bensch: last spring, I believe? Maybe it was 2 springs ago. Um, and I've been to Tahoe Donner many a times. Both of those, uh…00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:36.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:42.000Brian Bensch: mountains have pretty phenomenal ski schools. Like, they don't need our help.00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:50.000Brian Bensch: You know, maybe, you know, maybe there's some cool software things that we're doing that they could, you know, borrow and replicate, but they are thriving.00:55:50.000 --> 00:56:00.000Brian Bensch: learning area programs. And I think there's a like for for the listeners that have, you know, you know.00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:03.000Brian Bensch: young kids that are thinking about when to start in ski school.00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:22.000Brian Bensch: That, I would say, tier of mountain is today, like, if it's not on your radar, it should be, because the affordability, like, they're not gouging people nearly as much as the Tier 1 Icon Epic Resorts are, and every time I've visited them, on a weekend at least.00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:30.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, their fault. They're thriving. And so I don't think that at least the class of the Tahoe Donners and Granbys of the world. I don't think they're broken.00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:38.000Brian Bensch: Other than, you know, yeah, more staff, like, how do you keep scaling? But they are thriving pretty well from what I've seen.00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:36.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, I'm.00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:50.000Stuart Winchester: I could still see some operator… you know, I was talking to the guy who revitalized Steeplechase, and he was saying, you know, we don't have a ski school, and I think I may have even connected you guys, but it's like, you sort of have a ski school in a box you could offer them.00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:51.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:57.000Stuart Winchester: Alright, one more ski school question, and then you can make fun of my charts. Um, so… so, Summit at Snoqualmie.00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:11.000Stuart Winchester: and I'm sure you know this, for some reason, because of, like, it's grandfathered in, because it used to be, like, 92 different ski areas, and now it's… it's one. They have competing ski schools there. It's one of the few… might be the only place in America.00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:16.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, that I'm aware of, at least the only major, you know, it's owned by Boeing. And I've asked Boe.00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:25.000Stuart Winchester: I don't know, we don't really want to have that war. You know, it works. But but what do you think of Summit at Snoqualmie?00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:27.000Stuart Winchester: And is it just?00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:40.000Stuart Winchester: a fringe case, and it doesn't tell us anything useful about how we could maybe change American ski school structure. Any thoughts on that? That's right outside of Seattle, by the way, for folks who don't know.00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:40.000Brian Bensch: Yeah, yeah, uh…00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:43.000Brian Bensch: Now, fun, fun fact.00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.000Brian Bensch: You know, in my 1st year of.00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:52.000Brian Bensch: researching this space and figuring out what I was gonna do. Uh, the Pacific Northwest, and Snoqualmie in particular, was sort of.00:57:52.000 --> 00:58:08.000Brian Bensch: Number one, I'm like, I need to get up there and figure out, like, what they're doing, why, how they made it work, and how do we do that in Tahoe? That was my, like, year one thesis. I finally got up there just before the world shut down with COVID.00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:03.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:11.000Brian Bensch: Knocked on doors, had some good conversations.00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:23.000Brian Bensch: And and you're correct like there are at least 6 or 7, maybe even more independent ski schools. They all have their own little lodge building. They're all primarily seasonal programs.00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:33.000Brian Bensch: And they do. They still do a good deal of the sort of transportation coordination. You know that whole market is, you know, Seattle and Seattle suburbs, you know, coming up.00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:36.000Stuart Winchester: Right off the interstate. Yeah.00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:45.000Brian Bensch: to the mountains right off the interstate. It's it's as sort of like convenient as you could imagine. And more or less the answer I got was, we've done it this way.00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:40.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:48.000Brian Bensch: Uh, but we're not looking to make it more this way.00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:51.000Brian Bensch: And you know they.00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.000Stuart Winchester: That was the answer from Boyne or from the ski schools?00:58:52.000 --> 00:59:08.000Brian Bensch: Uh, it was… I would say both. There was a, uh, like, the first party unoperated, like, Snoqualmie Ski School manager, like, told me that. And there was a person who coordinated, basically, was the Boyne representative for the seven other independents.00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:11.000Brian Bensch: And it was like, yeah, we're not, you know, we're not inviting new people.00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:18.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, and in case anyone from the ski schools at Summit is listening to this, don't run to Guy Lawrence or Steven Kirchner and be like.00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:13.000Brian Bensch: Um, okay.00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:33.000Stuart Winchester: Stu Winchester said that you said this. I'm paraphrasing, and that's my take, is that they don't want that war. What they said was probably something like, our ski schools do a great job, and we're so happy to work with them. So don't run that back to them. This is just my take on it.00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:23.000Brian Bensch: Yeah.00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:31.000Brian Bensch: Yep.00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:37.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, that they don't want to fight you, and I think they're smart not to.00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:43.000Brian Bensch: Yeah. The thing I would probably acknowledge is when a…00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:47.000Brian Bensch: Sierra is running a…00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:54.000Brian Bensch: a well executed, operationally efficient ski school.00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:54.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:59:54.000 --> 01:00:00.000Brian Bensch: They don't necessarily need third parties to come in and, like, try to do it better.01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.000Brian Bensch: Okay.01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:06.000Brian Bensch: However, there is a short term sort of.01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:09.000Brian Bensch: financially motivated incentive.01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:15.000Brian Bensch: to run a, I would say, less at scale, more profitable ski area over time.01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:19.000Brian Bensch: And you know that is sort of.01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:22.000Brian Bensch: what I would attribute to, like, you know, the…01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:37.000Brian Bensch: the non-snow summit at Snoqualmie Mountains that have one ski school and their list prices are $279 for group lesson or $1,299 for private lesson.01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:50.000Brian Bensch: they've decided that it's better for their business to, you know, maximize, like, short-term financials over long-term bringing skiers in the market. Um, and the history of Snoqualmie was, you know.01:00:50.000 --> 01:01:05.000Brian Bensch: Because it was like this, and because the ski schools were busing kids, you know, from school to the mountain afternoon, and, like, handling the very messy logistics and operations, that, like, they saw that as valuable and let them keep doing that.01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:12.000Brian Bensch: But from a business perspective, it's just more profitable, at least in the short term, to teach fewer lessons at higher margin.01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:17.000Stuart Winchester: So to end on this thought on ski lessons.01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:27.000Stuart Winchester: I think they're…

We explore the traditions behind British royal baby names, from Prince George and Princess Charlotte to Archie, Lilibet and the Brooksbank children, including why some names may now be effectively off-limits. Plus, inside the surprising rules of royal air travel, including William and Kate flying commercial, undercover security teams and Queen Elizabeth's in-flight preferences. And Princess Anne proves she may be the Royal Family's ultimate sustainable dresser, still wearing outfits first seen more than fifty years ago.How do British royals choose their children's names, what surnames do George, Charlotte, Louis, Archie and Lilibet use, and did Queen Elizabeth have approval power? We explain the traditions behind royal baby names, reveal when William and Kate fly commercially—and why they may travel under fake names—and explore how Princess Anne still wears outfits she first owned more than 50 years ago.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Charles, 32, marries Lady Diana Spencer, 19, at St. Paul's Cathedral in a ceremony watched by 750 million people worldwide. It's the fairy tale of the century. But as Diana walks down the aisle, Charles's heart belongs to another woman. "Whatever 'in love' means," he tells reporters. The marriage is doomed before it begins. Camilla watches from the congregation, knowing she'll always be part of this triangle.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

SPONSORS: 1) MARS MEN: For a limited time, our listeners get 50% off for life plus Free Shipping AND 3 Free Gifts at MenGoToMars.com for 50% Off AND 3 Free Gifts when you checkout. 2) HEXCLAD: For a limited time only, our listeners get 10% off your order with our exclusive link hexclad.com/JULIAN. JOIN PATREON FOR EARLY UNCENSORED EPISODE RELEASES: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey CLIPPERS DISCORD: https://discord.gg/8QmWEKJ3BT NEWSLETTER: https://juliandoreypodcast.beehiiv.com/get-julians-top-10-books (***TIMESTAMPS in Description Below) ~ Andrew Lownie is a British historian and author. He has written books about the royal family. ANDREW'S LINKS: - YT: https://www.youtube.com/@UC2KJT8XOmZu2yNTTeeT8ROQ - SUBSTACK: https://andrewlownie.substack.com/ - X: https://x.com/andrewlownie?lang=en - PRINCE ANDREW BOOK: https://a.co/d/02NOdKAq FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY IG: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://x.com/juliandorey JULIAN YT CHANNELS - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Clips YT: https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Daily YT: https://www.youtube.com/@JulianDoreyDaily - SUBSCRIBE to Best of JDP: https://www.youtube.com/@bestofJDP ****TIMESTAMPS**** 0:00 - Andrew Lownie, the Book Prince Andrew KILLED 12:02 - The Sovereign Grant TRIPLED, Nobody Discussed It 25:28 - Bonfires of Records, Wood Farm Secrets 39:05 - The Duke of Windsor's Nazi Ties 49:56 - What Harper Collins Made Him CUT 1:01:00 - Melania: "The Vulnerability for Trump" 1:14:56 - Churchill, Queen Victoria & John Brown 1:28:28 - The Dieppe Raid Bombshell 1:46:42 - Royal Mistresses & Succession's Blurry Line 2:00:03 - The Royal Family Wasn't Always British 2:07:50 - Did Diana Love Charles, or the Idea? 2:21:39 - Prince Edward Was Talking to Epstein in '96 2:32:10 - Diana's Rushed Embalming & the Ritz Paris 2:42:12 - The Al Yamama Arms Deal 2:51:00 - Sex Was the Compromat, Not the Point 3:01:29 - Why Lownie STILL Supports the Monarchy 3:11:00 - How Accurate Was "The Crown"? 3:13:03 - Andrew's Work CREDITS: - Host, Editor & Producer: Julian Dorey - COO, Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@UCyLKzv5fKxGmVQg3cMJJzyQ - In-Studio Producer: Joey Deef Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 480 - Andrew Lownie Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, we flash back to the strange story of June Field, a Scottish spiritual medium who claims she's spent years privately advising royal clients, exchanging messages with them, and even helping them connect with loved ones who have died. So how does someone become a psychic to royalty - and what happens when you almost reveal too much?SHOW NOTESOriginally aired on Patreon: 11/12/25Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/scared-all-the-time--7084296/support.Get the latest episodes of our bonus show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED -- and a whole lot more! -- by supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaredAllTheTime

Are British fashion brands choosing Princess Catherine over Meghan Markle? An unnamed industry source claims one company stopped plans to send Meghan products because it feared jeopardizing its relationship with Kate. We examine that report alongside claims that Harry and Meghan are absent from Lady Amelia Windsor's wedding guest list.Will Kate invite Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to her Christmas carol service? Could family invitations become the next flashpoint between the Waleses and Sussexes—and will Princess Diana's 30th anniversary deepen the divide between Prince William and Prince Harry?Meanwhile, Meghan's As Ever website recorded an estimated 44 percent increase in visits in August. Did the Sussexes' UK return boost interest in her business, and can that attention translate into sales? We also look at their television projects in development and a PR executive's bleak assessment of their Hollywood prospects.Plus, Beach Boys singer Bruce Johnston tells Harry to make amends, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor faces a process that could remove his Freedom of the City of London, and former palace press secretary Dickie Arbiter recalls the day he hung up on Andrew.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Who is “Princess Arielly,” and does Prince George really have a secret older sister? The viral claim is an AI-generated hoax, but disinformation experts warn that invented royal scandals can confuse audiences, weaken trust and raise false questions about George's place in the line of succession. We also examine why Prince Harry wants Archie and Lilibet to embrace their British heritage, whether Harry and Meghan could fit into the Cotswolds' exclusive social scene, and what their prospective neighbor Michael Whitehall thinks of them.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

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This week on the BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire and Berkshire podcast, Dave meets Double Yellow Lines - "a throbbing expulsion of mariachi rock, psychedelic-doom metal and Balkan Jazz" - to hear about their debut EP 'Is There Anything Further?'.Plus, Alex catches up with Nick from Riverwolf and The Bobo after her gig at Other Space Arts in Windsor.Here's this week's track list: • Mac Adams - Sunrise V.I.C - Zombie Niki Kini - Hate About Me Harvey Lodge - Cigarette Papers Garfield & Nico - The Pine Folly Oh Yes - All That I Have Shaolin Cowboy - Next Time Around P.S. Finn - This Is 30 Shiny Brain Crayons - Cutie Piece Drawing Room - Only You Finlay C & Caitlyn Scarlett - Beyond The Stars Tyler Lewis - yesterday Double Yellow Lines - King Laugh prodbear - You Gotta Work Nicole Allan - Tomorrow Comes LMNL - Venus Return Logan Cannon - The City Ricky Ensku - Just Feel the Heat Oversize - Separate porcelain angel - andromeda Rebecca Poole - In Another Life Ralph Clayton - Tenebrous (feat. Francesca Payne and Antonia Pagulatos) darqwud - No Sound Left Unturned (Vocal Mix) The Bobo - Nonsense • If you're making music in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, send us your tunes with the BBC Introducing Uploader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing/uploader

How well did Earl Spencer's Princess Diana memoir sell on its first morning, and why is Piers Morgan threatening legal action? Swan Song: Diana, My Sister launched to quiet scenes and a 50 percent discount at major London bookshops, while Spencer admitted that the book wrongly connected Morgan to the publication of Diana's secretly taken gym photographs. We examine Spencer's apology, Morgan's demand that copies be withdrawn, the disputed claims about King Charles, Queen Camilla's reported call for restraint and the debate over whether the memoir honors Diana or exploits memories she cannot challenge.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

What did Kate Middleton wear to the Digger premiere with Prince William and Tom Cruise, and why was Prince Harry's New York appearance overshadowed? The Princess of Wales wore Princess Diana's pearl-drop earrings and the Queen Mother's Amethyst Sautoir necklace as William went from fumbling with a cinema cash register to walking the Leicester Square red carpet. Meanwhile, Harry warned the Clinton Global Initiative that artificial intelligence is learning to form emotional attachments with children, only for his speech to be interrupted by a faulty teleprompter. We also examine Meghan Markle's evolving British social circle and the privacy dispute surrounding her school-parent WhatsApp group.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Steve Doty and Jason Lindell from Shady Oak Brewing join Herlinda Heras and Daedalus Howell on Brew Ha Ha. They have been on the show before, the last time was when Jason was on this episode last year before the same event. Shady Oak has two events this weekend. The Smash Burger Battle, also known as the Smash Bash II, is this Saturday. Then they are holding another edition of their record sale, on Sunday. The doors open at noon on Saturday for the Smash Burger Battle. They will have people’s choice and also judging. The live band “The Love Handles” will perform. Admission is free, all ages, pet friendly. You can call it a battle, or just a fest, depending on your appetite for competition. +++++Visit Russian River Brewing Co. in Santa Rosa on 4th St. and at their big Windsor location. Check out their website and socials for up-to-date hours, menus, beers and more.+++++ Then on Sunday, there are thousands of records for sale, along with used gear, band shirts, live DJs, a live broadcast, an outside flea market and Micheladas. *****Visit our sponsor Pro Chiller online for all the info about their new CO2-based Pro Green Solutions.***** Spontaneous Beer Steve and Jason have brought three beers, all of them in un-labled growlers. One of the beers is called Hella Citra, a west coast IPA with Citra hops. Hella is just the west coast and rocky mountain slang term, not the beer style. It just has a lot of Citra hops. In the ‘80s they might have called it “Rilly Citra” but they didn’t have good beer back then yet. One of their beers is a "spontaneous beer" which is one that is 100% fermented by yeast that is in the environment, none added. It takes a dedicated and skillful brew master to pull this off. 

Kathleen shares a three day manifestation reset to help you shift your reality. Learn how self awareness, changing limiting beliefs, and embodying the version of yourself who already has what you desire can change what you manifest. Ready to apply manifestation to your business growth? Discover Modern Mentor and learn how to integrate manifestation and business to expand your results: https://kathleencameronofficial.com/modern-mentor/ Your expansion starts here: https://hubs.ly/Q03NXHlV0 I built a $50M business and you can too → https://kathleencameronofficial.com/liveevent Manifest your first MILLION now → https://kathleencameronofficial.com/millionaire/   Subscribe To The Manifested Podcast With Kathleen Cameron: Apple Podcast | YouTube | Spotify Connect With The Kathleen Cameron: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | TikTok | Kathleencameronofficial.com     Unlock Your Dreams with House of Manifestation A community where you take control of your destiny, manifest your desires, and create a life filled with abundance and purpose? Look no further than the House of Manifestation, where your transformation begins: https://houseofmanifestation.com/     About Kathleen Cameron: Kathleen Cameron, Chief Wealth Creator, 8-figure entrepreneur, and record-breaking author. In just 2 years, she built a 20 million-dollar business and continues to share her knowledge and expertise with all of whom she connects with.  With her determination, unwavering faith, and powers of manifestation, she has helped over 100,000 people attract more love, money, and success into their lives. Her innovative approaches to Manifestation and utilizing the Laws of Attraction have led to the creation of one of the top global success networks, Diamond Academy Coaching. Thousands of students have been able to experience quantum growth. The force behind her magnetic field has catapulted many students into a life beyond their wildest dreams and she is just getting started. Kathleen helps others step into their true potential and become the best version of themselves with their goals met. Kathleen graduated with two undergraduate degrees from the University of Windsor and the University of Toronto with a master's degree in nursing leadership. Her book, "Becoming The One", published by Hasmark Publishing, launched in August 2021 became an International Best Seller in five countries on the first day.    This Podcast Is Produced, Engineered & Edited By: Simplified Impact

Is Prince Harry making a documentary about Princess Diana, and could he leave Britain if his police protection is denied? Harry is exploring an Archewell production for the 30th anniversary of Diana's death and has reportedly approached her friends and relatives, including Earl Spencer, although no project has been confirmed. We also examine why Harry became emotional at the WellChild Awards, what he revealed about Archie and Lilibet, why the Sussexes changed their children's school and how Britain's security review could determine whether the family remains in the UK.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Was Meghan Markle's swan emoji a coded show of support for Earl Spencer, or simply a decorative symbol promoting her As Ever products? We examine the viral theory, Meghan's Cotswolds lunch with Ellen DeGeneres and a surprise radio offer for the Sussexes. Meanwhile, Piers Morgan says he is taking legal action over claims in Spencer's Diana memoir, Harry and Meghan reportedly feel vindicated by the book, and King Charles is adopting a more assertive strategy for challenging damaging royal narratives.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

It's his sixth stop running an NHL bench. For Peter DeBoer, the New York Islanders will offer a challenge different from others faced previously. Since taking over for Patrick Roy in April, there's been minimal personnel turnover and an offense and power play among the lowest tanked in the NHL.Still, there's a solid defense core led by Calder Trophy winner Matthew Schaefer and an elite-level goaltender in Ilya Sorokin.DeBoer will share his thoughts on his team amidst a very competitive Metropolitan Division.IN THIS EPISODE:[01:52] - N.Y. Islanders head coach Peter DeBoer is welcomed to the show and takes a trip down memory lane with Neil to his days in junior with Windsor of the OHL and some of the future NHL personnel he played with or was coached by.[06:03] - As the discussion moves to coaching, Neil and Peter talk about the humility of the coaching profession.[07:28] - By getting in late in the last season, DeBoer has now spent every season since 2008-09 behind an NHL bench. Still, he credits the break for most of 2025-26 for giving him the itch to get back in.[08:50] - Neil and Pete take a look back on DeBoer's coaching days in Kitchener, where he enjoyed success with two OHL championships and a Memorial Cup in 2003.[10:46] - DeBoer's Muhammad Ali story.[13:01] - And had DeBoer not gone on to coaching hockey, he likely would have been quite the lawyer.[15:33] - Now in his sixth NHL stop, the jury is still out for DeBoer as to whether this Islander team has any of the signatures of the Panthers, Devils, Sharks, Golden Knights or Stars teams he's led.[18:23] - The significance of the four games at the end of 2025-26 that helped ease the transition for the new season.[20:03] - Thoughts on the shorter training camp - one which another NHL head coach would like to see even shorter.[21:37] - DeBoer has enjoyed particular success in the first seasons at all of his previous NHL stops, similar to the current head coach in LA, Peter Laviolette. Is there a secret sauce?[23:55] - The comeback of Semyon Varlamov. After not having played for 662 days, there is a strong possibility he could start the season as Ilya Sorokin's backup.[26:30] - Matt Barzal update.[27:34] - With an team that has been offensively challenged for the past couple of seasons, DeBoer shares the priorities of where the team needs to get to in order to produce enough to compete for a playoff spot.[29:28] - Part of that offensive struggle has been a woeful power play. Is it simply a matter of good and bad coaching with the man advantage that decides success?[31:27] - The anticipation of working with Calder Trophy winner Matthew Schaefer.[33:34] - Putting a wrap on the discussion with Pete DeBoer[36:12] - Other league news including holdouts, contracts, injuries and retirements.X: https://twitter.com/NHLWraparoundNeil Smith: https://twitter.com/NYCNeilVic Morren: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vic-morren-7038737/NHL Wraparound Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nhlwraparound/#NHLWraparound #NHLWraparound.com #ShortShifts #NYCentric #CelebritySeries #HallofFameEdition #StanleyCupdate #SummerCoolers #Smith'sPix #NeilSmith #VicMorren #NHL #BZZR #UBS #PeterDeBoer #PatrickRoy #SpencerCarbery #RodBrind'Amour #JeffBlashill #AndrewBrunette #JohnHynes #AdamGraves #BobBoughner #PaulMaurice #DarrylShannon #DarrinShannon #GlenFeatherstone #PatJablonski #PeterIng #JimRutherford #TomWebster #MarioLemieux #AlainLemieux #JackCapuano #MarkCrawford #RonWilson #MikeRichards #DerekRoy #NazemKadri #BrentSutter #SidneyCrosby #PatriceBergeon #RyanGetzlaf #CoreyPerry #SheaWeber #DionPhaneuf #MuhammadAli #ScottyBowman #PatDucharme #BobProbert #JoeNieuwendyk #GaryRoberts #NathanHorton #JayBouwmeester #ZachParise #IlyaKovalchuk #PeterLaviolette #KenHolland #MathewBarzal #SemyonVarlamov #VitekVanecek #IlyaSorokin #MathieuDarche #AndersLee #KylePalmieri #BoHorvat #MatthewSchaeffer #AlexanderRomanov #BraydenSchenn #MatiasMaccelli #CalumRitchie #SimonHolmstrom #RogerNeilson #JohnTortorella #BraydenPoint #NikitaKucherov #StevenStamkos #BrianLeetch #SergeiZubov #JonCooper #BrianBurke #SheldonKeefe #MikeSullivan #ConnorHellebuyck #DylanLarkin #JordanStaal #MarkStone #RyanLeonard #JustinSordif #DrakeBatherson #NoahOstlund #CutterGauthier #LeoCarlsson #DanVladar #JasonZucker #ElvisMerzlikins #CamTalbot #JetGreaves #NickBjugstad #AdamSykora #KevinHayes #RyanReaves #JamieBenn #RyanO'Reilly #ZachBogosian #CraigMacTavish #AndyBrown #CraigButton #TSN #QuinnHughes #KirillKaprizov #AnaheimDucks #BostonBruins #BuffaloSabres #CalgaryFlames #CarolinaHurricanes #ChicagoBlackhawks #ColoradoAvalanche #ColumbusBlueJackets #DallasStars #DetroitRedWings #EdmontonOilers #FloridaPanthers #LosAngelesKings #MinnesotaWild #MontrealCanadiens #NashvillePredators #NewJerseyDevils #NewYorkIslanders #NewYorkRangers #OttawaSenators #PhiladelphiaFlyers #PittsburghPenguins #StLouisBlues #SanJoseSharks #SeattleKraken #TampaBayLightning #TorontoMapleLeafs #UtahMammoth #VancouverCanucks #VegasGoldenKnights #WashingtonCapitals #WinnipegJets #WindsorSpitfires #OHL #TorontoMarlies #KHL #KitchenerRangers #MemorialCup #JoeLouisArena #HockeyCanada #CalderTrophy #ConnSmytheTrophy

Episode 383 features Madison "Madi" Windsor of Another F*cking Podcast. She's also a radio DJ at Ocean 98 in Ocean City, Maryland. I wanted to get her on the show because she's doing great work helping promote a lot of local artists in the area, and she's had many former guests from this podcast on her show. It was a fun conversation that covered her backstory, how she landed a job in Ocean City, Maryland, and some behind-the-scenes stories from the radio and podcast world. You can find her show on most podcast streaming services. Thanks for listening and supporting local artists.     Brett Buehler is the host of this podcast as well as the singer and guitarist of the Hollow Truths based in Maryland.  — Please follow, rate, or review the podcast wherever you are streaming if you'd like to help us out. — Part-Time Rockstar Productions is available in the DMV for music videos and live filming.    

What happens after you get your miracle or the breakthrough you've been praying for? This week, the Reverend Kahlil Carmichael shows us how to live differently after a miracle or a breakthrough happens. We begin in 2 Chronicles 15 with the message, “Live Well's 17th Anniversary.”Live Well, your spiritual family, gathers every Sunday at 10 a.m. at 51 Church Street, Robbinsville, Windsor, NJ. We look forward to welcoming you and sharing this faith journey with you.Thank you for givingpushpay.com/g/itiswellchurchVisit our website at livewellchurch.orgFollow us on Facebook @pastorkahlilFind us on Instagram @livewellwithpastorkahlil

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was described by friends as effectively “living in limbo” while Thames Valley Police continued investigating allegations tied to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his former role as a British trade envoy. Andrew had moved from Royal Lodge to Marsh Farm on the Sandringham Estate after his February 2026 arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Although he had not been charged and faced no formal travel restrictions, friends said he had been advised to keep a low profile and had barely ventured beyond Sandringham. Investigators were examining claims that Andrew may have shared confidential information with Epstein, including details related to diplomatic and trade activity, while also pursuing broader questions about his relationship with Epstein and allegations involving women connected to Epstein's network.Despite the uncertainty, friends said Andrew was trying to “make the most” of his new life in Norfolk and even felt some relief at being removed from the Windsor royal bubble. At the same time, the investigation had left him unable to return to anything resembling his former life, with associates saying he could not realistically travel or resume normal public activity while the case remained unresolved. The police inquiry was expected to continue for months, in part because investigators were seeking original documents and other material from U.S. authorities. Andrew continued to deny wrongdoing, but the prolonged investigation meant his future remained uncertain, leaving him isolated at Sandringham while detectives continued examining his dealings with Epstein.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16145093/Andrew-living-limbo-Epstein-investigation-new-life-Sandringham.html

What does Prince Harry think of Earl Spencer's new Princess Diana memoir, and how did Prince William and Diana's sisters react? Charles Spencer says Harry is “completely fine” with Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, but admits Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes were hurt that he kept the book secret. He also addresses William's privacy, his estrangement from King Charles, Diana's funeral, Mohamed Al Fayed, conspiracy theories about her death and the claim that Charles had an unusually close relationship with his former aide Michael Fawcett.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

Why are Prince William and Kate Middleton appearing with Tom Cruise, and why has Prince Harry returned to the United States? The Prince and Princess of Wales are attending the world premiere of Digger in London, while Harry travels to New York for the Clinton Global Initiative—his first known US visit since moving back to Britain. This royal news roundup also explains what Harry knew about Earl Spencer's Diana memoir, why Meghan Markle missed the Invictus Spirit Awards and whether Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel's new book could contain revelations about the Sussexes.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/palace-intrigue-harry-meghan-the-crown-royal-family-news-and-gossip--4522904/support.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.