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Dunn and Drew
The Jaguars players everyone is sleeping on in 2026

Dunn and Drew

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2026 60:04


A Jacksonville Jaguars podcast. A little Xs and Os, a lot of vibes. Join our Discord Chat ► https://discord.gg/BJmXnbbUDonate $5/mo. to the cause of Dunn and Drew! It helps fight burnout! LOL ► Patreon.com/dunnanddrewMerch Store!! ► https://www.dunnanddrew.com/Join the Sports conversation in our Facebook Group ► https://www.facebook.com/groups/dunnanddrewHOW TO LISTEN TO DUNN AND DREW!!APPLE PODCASTS (Review and Rate us!) ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dunn-and-drew/id1241016673?mt=2SPOTIFY ► https://open.spotify.com/show/1oGGXrtfCE1iaYmlJwXQod?si=LBFhTE5pSrq6aPVg8VLIIg••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••­­­•••••••••••Keep up with us on social media!!TIK TOK: https://vm.tiktok.com/3KggT2/TWITTER: https://twitter.com/dunnanddrewINSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/dunnanddrewFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/dunnanddrew/BUSINESS INQUIRIES: dunnanddrew@gmail.com••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••­­­•••••••••••Personal social media accountsTWITTER:DUNN: https://twitter.com/ericvdunnDREW: https://twitter.com/ndy_willisINSTAGRAM: DUNN: https://instagram.com/ericvdunn_DREW: https://instagram.com/ndywillis••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••­­­•••••••••••PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! DUNN AND DREW BABY!!

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 640 – No Notes

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2026 61:00


  Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 640. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, Hi-Point Firearms, and CMC Triggers. In this show we will be discussing a factory exclusive Derya, Girsan's triple X, Stolen KelTec's, and a LCO   As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, Rob, Rusty   Sponsor #1: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - Ruger SP101 Front Sight   Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   What we did in Firearms:   Announcements: Kat's Rack Defense fund https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund    Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com CMC Triggers - “GGR26” for 10% off SanTan Tactical - “GGR26” for 10% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick XTech Tactical - “GGR” for 10% off   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Product spotlight is sponsored by: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - 1 slot NILE grip panels   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   Main Topic: Product Review or Updates on previous reviews None   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    EAA Girsan Witness 2311 CMX XXX MSRP - $899.00   Derya MAX Factory Exclusive MSRP - $2499.00   Sponsor #3: CMC Triggers    CMC triggers is the creator of the original, drop in cartridge style AR trigger. CMC has been in  aerospace manufacturing for over 30 years. This gives you peace of mind knowing that every trigger is of the utmost quality. Their patented design ensures a crisp, short, trigger pull across their whole line of triggers. With triggers for AR's, AK's, pistols, and bolt guns, CMC can make your firearms trigger great. Proudly made in Texas with strong morals and values, giving you confidence that you are buying one of the best triggers out there. Choose Confidence, choose quality, choose CMC    Our CMC Product of the week is - Gen 5/6 Glock Trigger   Use Code “GGR26” for 10% off at CMCTriggers.com   KelTec KP50 MSRP - $899.00 - $1349.00   Leupold LCO Pro F2 MSRP - $899.99   Sponsor #4: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - 4595 Pistol just waiting to be SBR'd   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com   Listener Feedback Darryl. P.    Please let me know you if you have ever done a review on the Q Silencer line.  I'm looking to purchase a silencer/suppressor for multiple firearms and ran across this product.  It uses a muzzle break for each firearm and a silencer can that is able to move from gun to gun.  It seems like a good idea but I could use some input from the “experts” in the golden age of firearms.  Love the show.    2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, pound for pound, podcast on the network We are out  

Dunn and Drew
Reacting to the Jaguars Rivalry Uniforms + Training Camp Reports

Dunn and Drew

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2026 37:01


A Jacksonville Jaguars podcast. A little Xs and Os, a lot of vibes. Join our Discord Chat ► https://discord.gg/BJmXnbbUDonate $5/mo. to the cause of Dunn and Drew! It helps fight burnout! LOL ► Patreon.com/dunnanddrewMerch Store!! ► https://www.dunnanddrew.com/Join the Sports conversation in our Facebook Group ► https://www.facebook.com/groups/dunnanddrewHOW TO LISTEN TO DUNN AND DREW!!APPLE PODCASTS (Review and Rate us!) ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dunn-and-drew/id1241016673?mt=2SPOTIFY ► https://open.spotify.com/show/1oGGXrtfCE1iaYmlJwXQod?si=LBFhTE5pSrq6aPVg8VLIIg••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••­­­•••••••••••Keep up with us on social media!!TIK TOK: https://vm.tiktok.com/3KggT2/TWITTER: https://twitter.com/dunnanddrewINSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/dunnanddrewFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/dunnanddrew/BUSINESS INQUIRIES: dunnanddrew@gmail.com••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••­­­•••••••••••Personal social media accountsTWITTER:DUNN: https://twitter.com/ericvdunnDREW: https://twitter.com/ndy_willisINSTAGRAM: DUNN: https://instagram.com/ericvdunn_DREW: https://instagram.com/ndywillis••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••­­­•••••••••••PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! DUNN AND DREW BABY!!

X's and Joe's
[65] The Culture Show - Part One

X's and Joe's

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2026 88:14


With the sports calendar finally about to wake back up, Bob and Mike use one last stretch of the offseason to talk about some of the things they spend plenty of time discussing when the microphones aren't usually rolling: movies, music, books, and culture. Using their personal top-10 lists as jumping-off points, they wander through favorites, disagreements, old memories, and plenty of the tangents you'd expect when these two get going. Along the way:The pre-football temperature check: Why IU's newfound place in the college football hierarchy has changed the way other fan bases—and particularly Notre Dame fans—seem to view the Hoosiers. Movies: Bob and Mike compare their favorite films, with everything from Lawrence of Arabia and Casablanca to Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Airplane! and Monty Python opening the door to a much broader conversation about great filmmaking. The directors behind them: Stanley Kubrick and David Lean lead into a discussion of what separates truly great directors—and why certain movies keep revealing something new decades later. Music: The guys turn their attention to favorite songs and performers, which naturally means revisiting some longstanding Bob-and-Mike debates about musical eras and what actually holds up.Books: Their reading lists provide another excuse to bounce between history, fiction, politics, culture, and the works that have stuck with them over the years.The lists behind the lists: Neither Bob nor Mike pretends these rankings are permanent. The fun is less about settling a definitive top 10 than figuring out why certain things have stayed with them—and what their choices say about their tastes.And because it's Xs and Joes, even an episode devoted to culture can veer from classic cinema to 1990s politics to Willie Nelson before somehow finding its way back toward basketball. It's a different kind of episode: less decoding the winning formula in college basketball and more getting the conversations Bob and Mike would probably be having anyway.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 639 – Golden Showers

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2026 79:21


  Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 639. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, Hi-Point Firearms, and CMC Triggers. In this show we will be discussing a bunch of stuff   As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, Rob, Rusty   Sponsor #1: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - Flat Dark Earth DLC bolt carrier group   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   What we did in Firearms:   Announcements: Kat's Rack Defense fund https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund    Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com CMC Triggers - “GGR26” for 10% off SanTan Tactical - “GGR26” for 10% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick XTech Tactical - “GGR” for 10% off   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Product Spotlight is sponsored by: CMC Triggers    CMC triggers is the creator of the original, drop in cartridge style AR trigger. CMC has been in  aerospace manufacturing for over 30 years. This gives you peace of mind knowing that every trigger is of the utmost quality. Their patented design ensures a crisp, short, trigger pull across their whole line of triggers. With triggers for AR's, AK's, pistols, and bolt guns, CMC can make your firearms trigger great. Proudly made in Texas with strong morals and values, giving you confidence that you are buying one of the best triggers out there. Choose Confidence, choose quality, choose CMC    Our CMC Product of the week is - Remington 700 curved adjustable trigger   Use Code “GGR26” for 10% off at CMCTriggers.com   Main Topic: Product Review or Updates on previous reviews None   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    Bass Optic Cover MSRP - $110.00   Emissary Development Plus1 MSRP - $29.00   Emissary Dev NANO Carrier and tool MSRP - $25.00   Timney Henry lever action trigger MSRP - $139.99   Sponsor #3: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - 3895 in .380acp   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com   Without Warning CHAD muzzle brake MSRP - $650.00   Glock Store G19 to .380 Conversion Kit MSRP - $219.99   Mad Science Tactical Grip 001 MSRP - $50.00   Variant One G10 Lancer MSRP - $85.00   Sponsor #4: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - ACRO plate for Taurus 66   Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   Listener Feedback None   2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, pound for pound, podcast on the network We are out

High School Hoops ( Coaching High School Basketball)
Ep 417 What is Your Coaching Why? The Anchor Behind the Architecture

High School Hoops ( Coaching High School Basketball)

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2026 14:14


https://teachhoops.com/ If you track the motivations of an average basketball coach, their "Why" is almost always tied directly to a collection of superficial, transactional trailing indicators. They copy tactical systems because they want to chase a flashier tournament trophy, they stay up until 2:00 AM breaking down tape because they are terrified of a bad scoreboard tally, or they pace the sideline screaming directives because their personal ego is wrapped up in public validation. But when the freezing temperatures of mid-January hit, when your roster is battling extreme physical exhaust, and when you are staring down a tough three-game road skid, an ego-driven "Why" will cause you to fracture. Transactional motivation leaks value when real friction arrives. In this episode, we step directly into the "Truth Room" to answer the most foundational question any leader can face. We strip away the Xs and Os, the multi-ball drills, and the analytical charts to look at the absolute core architecture of why we put on the whistle every single afternoon. Discover how defining a transformational, legacy-driven "Why" shifts your entire perspective—freeing you up from micro-managing scoreboard results so you can focus completely on building unshakeable, lifelong leaders. To accurately audit whether your coaching motivation is built on a short-term transactional leak or a long-term transformational foundation, you must ask yourself this definitive question: "If your program's win-loss record, your personal championship trophies, and all public media validation were completely erased from your legacy, what enduring impact, linguistic standard, and character armor would your former players actively carry into their lives ten years after crossing your baseline?" If your answer is entirely dependent on a championship banner hanging off the rafters, your why is stuck in Level 2 compliance. You are coaching for the scoreboard. But if your why is anchored in forge-testing young athletes to handle adversity with an unyielding frequency, you have unlocked a Level 4 transformational purpose. The absolute best coaches realize that a program's culture operates on a continuum between two distinct motivational frameworks: The Execution: When a coach is driven by a transactional why, their relationship with their players is purely a business arrangement. The athletes are treated like robotic chess pieces used to secure a Tuesday night win. The Fallout: This environment breeds intense emotional hang-time. The second a referee makes a bad call or an opponent hits a heavy run, the ecosystem panics and splits into isolated cliques. The energy is entirely Coach-Fed because the motivation is temporary. The Execution: When your why is transformational, the gym hardwood becomes a laboratory for life. You don't ignore execution—in fact, you pursue it with even greater intensity—but you view tactical errors as character teaching moments. The Blueprint: You hold an unyielding Standard of Tolerance for laziness or poor body language because you know that accepting sub-par effort codes destructive habits into a young person's future. You implement a streamlined language like "Next Play Speed" not just to salvage an offensive Effective Field Goal Percentage (eFG%), but to teach an athlete how to flush a mistake zero seconds after it happens, reset their mind, and face life's heavy challenges with elite resilience. Coach's Note: "Championships are fantastic, and we are going to work our tails off to put ourselves in a position to cut down nets every single season. But if rings are the only reason you are stepping onto the floor, you are missing the entire point of the calling. Your true 'Why' is found in the phone calls you get five, ten, or twenty years down the line from former players who are stepping up to 'Own The Room' as fathers, CEOs, and leaders in their communities because of the standards you held them to through the exhaust of a cold Tuesday afternoon practice. Hold the line. Build people first." Title Ideas: What is Your Coaching Why? (The Ultimate Basketball Culture Test) Why Scoreboard-Only Coaching is Silently Destroying Your Team's Culture How to Find a Transformational Coaching Purpose That Transcends Wins Are You a Transactional Chaser or a Transformational Program Builder? Primary Keywords: What is your coaching why, transformational basketball coaching philosophy, TeachHoops, Coach Collins, basketball team culture development, high school basketball character armor, standard of tolerance. Secondary Keywords: Next play speed resilience, own the room coaching language, active density practice scripts, Types of Coaches (3).pdf, effective field goal percentage focus, player-led team autonomy, coping with coaching exhaust. Description Snippet: "Are you catching yourself burning out from chasing short-term scoreboard tallies, or are you anchored in a purpose that builds lifelong leaders? In this podcast episode, Coach Collins tackles the deepest question in sports: What is your coaching why? Discover the critical operational differences between transactional trophy-chasing and transformational program building, and learn how to use your practice environment to forge unshakeable character armor that lasts long after the final horn blows." Suggested Tags:#BasketballCoaching #TeachHoops #CoachCollins #CoachingPhilosophy #CoachingWhy #TeamCulture #SportsLeadership #HighSchoolBasketball #TransformationalCoaching Are you examining your coaching purpose to help craft your foundational program presentation for an upcoming pre-season parent and player orientation meeting, or are you looking to use this transformational framework to realign a coaching staff that has grown emotionally drained after a highly demanding summer tournament layout? Show NotesThe Diagnostic Question Every Program Builder Must FaceThe Two Pathways of a Coaching Legacy [TRANSACTIONAL WHY] ──────► Scoreboard Hunting ───► Coach-Fed Compliance [TRANSFORMATIONAL WHY] ───► Character Armor ───► Player-Led Autonomy 1. The Transactional Trap (Coaching for the Shield)2. The Transformational Standard (Coaching for the Roster)The Legacy Audit: Transactional Chasing vs. Transformational BuildingCoaching MetricThe Transactional Chaser (Level 2 Leak)The Transformational Builder (Level 4 Standard)Primary MotivationChasing weekend trophies and public community statusForging long-term Resilience Equity within the rosterHandling Player ErrorsPunitive lecturing; screaming from a place of personal egoSocratic corrections; demanding immediate Next Play SpeedPractice PhilosophyLow Rep Density; prioritizing short-term set play executionHigh Activity Density; building independent Decision IQLocker Room DestinationA quiet environment waiting for a coach's directiveA Player-Led powerhouse where peers enforce the standardYouTube SEO Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dunn and Drew
The Jaguars' Biggest Threat in 2026 is...

Dunn and Drew

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2026 91:47


A Jacksonville Jaguars podcast. A little Xs and Os, a lot of vibes. Join our Discord Chat ► https://discord.gg/BJmXnbbUDonate $5/mo. to the cause of Dunn and Drew! It helps fight burnout! LOL ► Patreon.com/dunnanddrewMerch Store!! ► https://www.dunnanddrew.com/Join the Sports conversation in our Facebook Group ► https://www.facebook.com/groups/dunnanddrewHOW TO LISTEN TO DUNN AND DREW!!APPLE PODCASTS (Review and Rate us!) ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dunn-and-drew/id1241016673?mt=2SPOTIFY ► https://open.spotify.com/show/1oGGXrtfCE1iaYmlJwXQod?si=LBFhTE5pSrq6aPVg8VLIIg••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••­­­•••••••••••Keep up with us on social media!!TIK TOK: https://vm.tiktok.com/3KggT2/TWITTER: https://twitter.com/dunnanddrewINSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/dunnanddrewFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/dunnanddrew/BUSINESS INQUIRIES: dunnanddrew@gmail.com••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••­­­•••••••••••Personal social media accountsTWITTER:DUNN: https://twitter.com/ericvdunnDREW: https://twitter.com/ndy_willisINSTAGRAM: DUNN: https://instagram.com/ericvdunn_DREW: https://instagram.com/ndywillis••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••­­­•••••••••••PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! DUNN AND DREW BABY!!

The Annie Frey Show Podcast
Do female athletes have a chip on their shoulder? (Hour 3)

The Annie Frey Show Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2026 40:12


This question comes up during Xs and Ys, prompting a fierce discussion. Plus, Ethan's Sports and Local gives us a major minor to revel in for the PGA fans out there.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 638 – 6arc Short

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2026 67:43


  Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 638. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, Hi-Point Firearms, and CMC Triggers. In this show there is a 6arc upper review. We talk about a new 6arc bolt gun, an optic that might work great for 6arc, a 22lr FRS rifle, and a red dot that would work great on it.   As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, Rusty   Sponsor #1: CMC Triggers    CMC triggers is the creator of the original, drop in cartridge style AR trigger. CMC has been in  aerospace manufacturing for over 30 years. This gives you peace of mind knowing that every trigger is of the utmost quality. Their patented design ensures a crisp, short, trigger pull across their whole line of triggers. With triggers for AR's, AK's, pistols, and bolt guns, CMC can make your firearms trigger great. Proudly made in Texas with strong morals and values, giving you confidence that you are buying one of the best triggers out there. Choose Confidence, choose quality, choose CMC    Our CMC Product of the week is - SanTan Tactical 7.5” pistol in Multicam Tropic   Use Code “GGR26” for 10% off at CMCTriggers.com   What we did in Firearms:   Announcements: Kat's Rack Defense fund https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund    Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com CMC Triggers - “GGR26” for 10% off SanTan Tactical - “GGR26” for 10% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick XTech Tactical - “GGR” for 10% off   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Main Topic is sponsored by: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - HP-15 Desert Storm   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com   Main Topic: Product Review Chad - PWS 6 ARC upper   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    LINE49 SuperShort Precision Pistol 6 ARC MSRP - $2149.99   Primary Arms PLxC 4.5-36x56 - FFP ACSS Neptune Reticle MSRP - $2499.99   Sponsor #3: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - Walther magazine extensions   Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   One Horse 12″ .22LR Express Pistol MSRP - $1299.99   XRD Solar Max w/free magnifier MSRP - $249.99   Sponsor #4: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - NERO 556   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   Listener Feedback None   2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, pound for pound, podcast on the network We are out

Xs and Argos Podcast
Pregame Walkthrough – Week 11: Argos at Edmonton

Xs and Argos Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2026 53:53


Fresh off a wild 33-30 victory over Calgary at BMO Field, the 4-4 Toronto Argonauts head west to take on the 6-3 Edmonton Elks in a rare Saturday mid-afternoon matchup. Ben Grant and JB get you set for a fascinating test against one of the CFL's best teams. This week, the guys start with the latest transactions as Toronto makes a couple of moves involving major NCAA programs, bringing former USC defensive back Akili Arnold back into the fold while moving on from former Florida State offensive lineman Darius Washington. Then it's time for a deep dive into late-game clock management. Toronto's final drive against Calgary ended with the win, but did the Argos leave the Stampeders far too much time? Ben breaks down the difference between Clock Preservation Mode and Last Possession Mode, explains when an offence should make the transition, and introduces his formula for determining how much time you should leave on the clock as you move into scoring territory. The guys also tackle one of the biggest questions surrounding the Argos through eight games. Chad Kelly's aggressive style has produced spectacular results, but also plenty of interceptions. This week's Pick Six asks whether Toronto should try to rein him in or accept the turnovers as the price of having one of the CFL's most dangerous quarterbacks. Then it's on to Edmonton. Ben and JB break down the matchup, including how the Argos can prevent Justin Rankin from taking over the game and how Edmonton can use its running backs to put Toronto's defence in conflict. On the other side of the ball, Ben explains why Toronto's receiving corps is perfectly suited for an option-based passing attack and why mesh could be the concept to watch on Saturday. Plus: The latest Injury Report OCDC One Thing Put Me Down for 20 Challenge Flag The Argos are back to .500 and sitting second in the East. Now comes another opportunity to show that the team that emerged from that brutal opening road trip is ready to make some noise in the second half of the season. It's Toronto and Edmonton, Saturday at 3:00 p.m. ET, and the Xs and Argos Pregame Walkthrough has everything you need to get ready.

Dunn and Drew
Jaguars 2026 Season Prediction

Dunn and Drew

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 158:31


A Jacksonville Jaguars podcast. A little Xs and Os, a lot of vibes. Join our Discord Chat ► https://discord.gg/BJmXnbbUDonate $5/mo. to the cause of Dunn and Drew! It helps fight burnout! LOL ► Patreon.com/dunnanddrewMerch Store!! ► https://www.dunnanddrew.com/Join the Sports conversation in our Facebook Group ► https://www.facebook.com/groups/dunnanddrewHOW TO LISTEN TO DUNN AND DREW!!APPLE PODCASTS (Review and Rate us!) ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dunn-and-drew/id1241016673?mt=2SPOTIFY ► https://open.spotify.com/show/1oGGXrtfCE1iaYmlJwXQod?si=LBFhTE5pSrq6aPVg8VLIIg••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••­­­•••••••••••Keep up with us on social media!!TIK TOK: https://vm.tiktok.com/3KggT2/TWITTER: https://twitter.com/dunnanddrewINSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/dunnanddrewFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/dunnanddrew/BUSINESS INQUIRIES: dunnanddrew@gmail.com••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••­­­•••••••••••Personal social media accountsTWITTER:DUNN: https://twitter.com/ericvdunnDREW: https://twitter.com/ndy_willisINSTAGRAM: DUNN: https://instagram.com/ericvdunn_DREW: https://instagram.com/ndywillis••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••­­­•••••••••••PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! DUNN AND DREW BABY!!

The Annie Frey Show Podcast
The Uterus, or the Uter-you, or the Uteron in us all (Hour 3)

The Annie Frey Show Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 39:53


We're asking gender questions today, both for Xs and Ys and generally as Massachusetts passes abortion on demand all the way up to birth.

X's and Joe's
[64] IU Basketball After Peru — What We Learned

X's and Joe's

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 86:03


Indiana's summer trip to Peru is in the books, which means Bob Moats and Mike Wiemuth finally have some actual basketball to dissect. But how much can you really learn from summer exhibitions against overmatched competition? As usual, the answer is somewhere between “nothing” and “everything.”Bob and Mike dig beneath the scores and individual stat lines to focus on the things that might actually carry over once the games start counting:What IU's trip revealed about Darren DeVries' preferred style of play and the versatility of this rebuilt roster.The offensive concepts that stood out—and why having more players who can both shoot and attack could change the equation.Encouraging early signs from Prince Alexander-Moody, Vaughn Karvala, and Indiana's young players.How Sam Alexis' return changes the rotation math and gives DeVries significantly more flexibility up front.The intriguing possibilities created by Aiden Sherrell, Trent Sisley, and IU's collection of very different frontcourt pieces.Why roster depth could become especially valuable on nights when Indiana's perimeter shooters aren't connecting.What Indiana's October exhibitions against Butler, North Carolina, and Western Kentucky might tell us that Peru couldn't.Plus, Bob and Mike detour into the latest IU-vs.-SEC football discourse before closing with a tribute to beloved Indiana television personality Janie Hodge.Xs and Joes is presented by Homefield Apparel.

Sunday Arts Magazine
Danny Delahunty – August 9th, 2026

Sunday Arts Magazine

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2026 13:06


Creative Director and acting CEO of Melbourne Fringe, Danny Delahunty leads the 2026 festival running from 29 September to 18 October. This year's program encourages audiences to “Turn Towards the Heat,” spotlighting experimental works across Deadly Fringe, Radical Access, Passport, XS, and Design Fringe, which marks its 40th year. The Opening Night Gala at the Capitol Theatre sets the tone with high‑energy performances and a preview of the season ahead. Festival hubs at Trades Hall and Meat Market will once again anchor the citywide celebration, with additional installations and regional programming expanding the festival's reach. https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/ https://scenestr.com.au/arts/melbourne-fringe-2026-programme-20260807 Turn Towards the Heat – Melbourne Fringe Festival reveals 2026 Program The post Danny Delahunty – August 9th, 2026 appeared first on Sunday Arts Magazine.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 637 – GOALS 26

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2026 65:37


  Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 637. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, Hi-Point Firearms, and CMC Triggers. In this show we will be discussing ported Dusks, Carbine SBR's, weird charging handles, a G Shot, and a new micro prism   As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, Rob   Sponsor #1: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - Yeet Cannon 380   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com   What we did in Firearms:   Goals ARPC Randevous    Announcements: Kat's Rack Defense fund https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund    Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com CMC Triggers - “GGR26” for 10% off SanTan Tactical - “GGR26” for 10% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick XTech Tactical - “GGR” for 10$ off   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Product Spotlight is sponsored by: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - R3D 2.0 Tritium Night Sights for Glock   Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   Main Topic: Product Review or Updates on previous reviews None   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    Lone Wolf Dusk 19 Ported Slide MSRP - $459.95   Haga Defense Top Notch charging handle MSRP - $150.00   SightMark G Shot  MSRP - $249.97   Sponsor #3: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - Flat Dark Earth DLC bolt carrier group   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   Auto-Ordnance M1 Carbine SBR MSRP - $1870.00   Atibal Sport 1x Micro Prism MSRP - $149.99 currently $99.99   Sponsor #4: CMC Triggers    CMC triggers is the creator of the original, drop in cartridge style AR trigger. CMC has been in  aerospace manufacturing for over 30 years. This gives you peace of mind knowing that every trigger is of the utmost quality. Their patented design ensures a crisp, short, trigger pull across their whole line of triggers. With triggers for AR's, AK's, pistols, and bolt guns, CMC can make your firearms trigger great. Proudly made in Texas with strong morals and values, giving you confidence that you are buying one of the best triggers out there. Choose Confidence, choose quality, choose CMC    Our CMC Product of the week is - AR-15/10 Single Stage Curved Pink trigger   Use Code “GGR26” for 10% off at CMCTriggers.com   Listener Feedback None   2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, pound for pound, podcast on the network We are out

Behind the Steel Curtain: for Pittsburgh Steelers fans
Steelers Chalk Talk: A deep dive on Mike McCarthy's favorite run play -- Outside Zone

Behind the Steel Curtain: for Pittsburgh Steelers fans

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2026 29:26


The Pittsburgh Steelers are in the thick of their 2026 training camp, and we continue our deep dive into Mike McCarthy's offense. In particular, his favorite run play...outside zone. That's the topic on this weeks' Steelers Chalk Talk podcast. Join host Coach Kevin Smith as he dives into the Xs and Os on the latest Steelers Chalk Talk podcast. This podcast is a part of the Steel Curtain Network, a proud member of the Fans First Sports Network. Check out Meinelschmidt Distillery at meineldistillery.com and use the code KICKOFF2026 to save 10% at checkout! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Point
Why women's clothing sizes are so confusing

On Point

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2026 38:20


How can you wear an XS shirt in one fabric, brand or style -- but an XL in another? *** Thank you for listening. Help power On Point by making a donation here: wbur.org/giveonpoint

Xs and Argos Podcast
Pregame Walkthrough – Week 9: Home Opener vs. Calgary

Xs and Argos Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2026 54:48


After seven straight games on the road, the Toronto Argonauts are finally coming home. Ben Grant and JB get you set for Toronto's long-awaited home opener as the Double Blue welcome the Calgary Stampeders to a newly renovated BMO Field. Is this the game that marks the true beginning of the Argos' season? The guys explain why Thursday night feels like one of the biggest turning points of the year. This week's show begins with the latest roster news, including Toronto's trade for veteran centre Chris Kolankowski as the Argos continue to improve their roster as opportunities arise. Ben and JB also discuss linebacker James Neal joining the active roster and what the latest moves say about where this team is heading. One of the most fascinating conversations of the episode centers around a newly published peer-reviewed study examining travel in the CFL. The research found that teams travelling west for evening games consistently perform worse than those travelling east, raising an intriguing question: just how impressive was Toronto's 3-4 start after opening the season with seven consecutive road games? Ben breaks down the study and why it could change the way we think about scheduling in the CFL. Also on this week's episode: Home Suite Home, as the final winners are announced Pick Six, featuring a discussion on whether the Argos should be expected to play better now that they're finally home A full game preview of Thursday night's matchup with Calgary The latest injury report An in-depth Xs-and-Os breakdown of how each team can attack the other One Thing, Put Me Down for 20, and Challenge Flag Will the energy of the home crowd provide the spark the Argos have been waiting for? Can Chad Kelly and the offence keep Calgary's dangerous pass rush at bay? And after spending nearly two months living out of suitcases, are the Double Blue finally ready to show what this team is really capable of? Ben Grant and JB break it all down on this week's Xs and Argos Pregame Walkthrough.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 636 – No Gunz Just Planez

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2026 70:17


  Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 636. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, Hi-Point Firearms, and CMC Triggers. In this show we will be discussing backpacks, Axe SBR's, Another prism, a 22 FRT, and a mini-14 chassis   As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, Rob   Sponsor #1: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - Smith & Wesson M&P magazine extensions   Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   What we did in Firearms:   XTECH mag funnel - Flip Tony off at GOALS, send picture somehow   Announcements: Kat's Rack Defense fund https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund    Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com CMC Triggers - “GGR26” for 10% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off XTech Tactical - “GGR10” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick XTech Tactical - “GGR” for 10% off   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Main Topic is sponsored by: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - 2 slot NILE grip panels   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   Main Topic: Product Review Chad - Mission First EDC Backpack   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    Smith & Wesson M&P Axe SBR MSRP - $1499.00   Sight Mark Strikon FMP 1x Prism MSRP - $299.97   Sponsor #3: CMC Triggers    CMC triggers is the creator of the original, drop in cartridge style AR trigger. CMC has been in  aerospace manufacturing for over 30 years. This gives you peace of mind knowing that every trigger is of the utmost quality. Their patented design ensures a crisp, short, trigger pull across their whole line of triggers. With triggers for AR's, AK's, pistols, and bolt guns, CMC can make your firearms trigger great. Proudly made in Texas with strong morals and values, giving you confidence that you are buying one of the best triggers out there. Choose Confidence, choose quality, choose CMC    Our CMC Product of the week is - AR15 two stage flat trigger   Use Code “GGR26” for 10% off at CMCTriggers.com   Tippmann Arms M4-22 MICRO ELITE FRT Pistol MSRP - $1578.00   Samson SAS-14 chassis MSRP - $650.00+   Sponsor #4: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - White Camo 1095's   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com   Listener Feedback None   2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, pound for pound, podcast on the network We are out

Composites Weekly
From Stealth Aircraft to Space Transportation: The Evolution of Aerospace Composites

Composites Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2026 31:41


On this episode, Martin McLaughlin joins the show to discuss his 39-year career at Northrop Grumman during the development of the B-2 bomber, the F-20 and F/A-18 fighters, and the YF-23 fighter. Martin also managed the DARPA experimental spaceplane XS-1 program and numerous internal Northrop Grumman studies for air-launched to orbit rocketplanes. He continues his […] The post From Stealth Aircraft to Space Transportation: The Evolution of Aerospace Composites first appeared on Composites Weekly. The post From Stealth Aircraft to Space Transportation: The Evolution of Aerospace Composites appeared first on Composites Weekly.

Xs and Argos Podcast
Bye Week Podcast - Midseason Report Cards and Second-Half Outlook

Xs and Argos Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2026 70:37


The Argos have finally reached their second bye week, bringing an end to an unprecedented seven-game road trip to open the 2026 season. With Toronto sitting at 3-4, Ben Grant and JB take a step back to evaluate where the team stands, what they've accomplished, and what needs to improve as the stretch drive begins. The guys revisit each game from the opening half of the season - from the frustrating missed opportunities in Montreal and Hamilton to statement wins over Ottawa, Saskatchewan, and BC - and discuss why the Argos may be in a better position than their record suggests. With six of the final eleven games at home, Ben and JB explain why a strong second half should put Toronto in position to host a playoff game. The centerpiece of this week's episode is the Xs and Argos Midseason Report Card. Every positional group receives a grade as the guys evaluate what's gone right, what's gone wrong, and which units need to improve down the stretch. Also on this week's episode: Home Suite Home, with one final opportunity to win box tickets to Toronto's home opener Ben and JB's True CFL Power Rankings Pick Six, featuring the question: Which player on another CFL roster would make the biggest difference if he were an Argo? Put Me Down for 20 Challenge Flag The road trip is finally behind them. Now comes the opportunity. Ben Grant and JB break down why the Argos still have a legitimate path to finishing near the top of the East Division, and what they'll have to do over the final 11 games to get there.

The Pivot Podcast
DeSean Jackson, Michael Vick, Chennis Berry, Trei Oliver, Ted White, Damon Wilson talk among top MEAC conference leaders on 2026 College football season and how experiences shape their coaching

The Pivot Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2026 70:34


Showing our brother's love by highlighting their commitment to young people on and off the field using their own life experiences to make an impact. In a special partnership with the NFL and the MEAC Football Conference- Ryan Clark, Channing Crowder and Fred Taylor sit with star head coaches DeSean Jackson, Michael Vick, Chennis Berry, Trei Oliver, Ted White, Damon Wilson and more to preview the upcoming 2026 college football season. Everything from Xs and Os, to expectations on how these coach's are mentoring and preparing young athletes for next level. This was filmed and recorded by ESPN for distribution on multiple platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 635 – 1791 Rant

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2026 82:05


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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast — CodeGen, Agents, Computer Vision, Data Science, AI UX and all things Software 3.0

In recent months, the open vs closed, and US vs China discussions on model ownership and sovereign/local AI have heated up to a fever pitch. So it is very very good news that Poolside AI are finally emerging with new models, like Laguna S 2.1, that are beating Thinking Machines' recent release nearly 10 times their size.Poolside's recent tech report got a lot of praise due to their level of detail, and Vibhu first covered Laguna's recent technical report on our paper club:From spending $12 million building language models for code before the world cared to creating a Model Factory that can take a model from pre-training to release in eight weeks, Eiso Kant has spent more than a decade betting that code is the path to AGI. In this episode, the Poolside co-founder joins swyx and Vibhu to explain why ChatGPT felt like vindication, why Poolside embraced open weights and open research, and why he would rather live in a world with 100 foundation model companies than five even if Poolside were one of the five.We go deep on Poolside's Model Factory: the engineering systems behind 10,000–20,000 experiments per month, streaming data directly into training, reproducible experimentation, low-precision compute, and agents that increasingly write code, launch jobs, evaluate results, and modify the pipelines used to train future models. Eiso also unpacks their recent launch Laguna S, why persistence, verification, and backtracking may matter more than raw intelligence, how much capability remains inside smaller models, why reinforcement learning will move earlier into pre-training, and why next-token prediction is still extracting too little from the web.We also discuss model-harness co-design, Poolside's path from coding agents to AGI, why Eiso thinks MCP and traditional tool calls are “stupid,” the real economics behind frontier-model training, Poolside's $500 million raise, open-source AI, regulation, NVIDIA and TSMC's influence, engineering productivity in the agent era, high-agency teams, and hiring at Poolside.We discuss:* How Andrej Karpathy's RNN work inspired Eiso to start building language models for code in 2015* Why Eiso spent four years and $12 million pursuing an idea before the market cared* Why ChatGPT felt like vindication and brought Poolside back to open source* Why Eiso would prefer 100 foundation model companies over an oligopoly of five* The difference between releasing open weights and publishing genuinely open research* Why Poolside deliberately built a global research organization outside the Bay Area talent war* Why model building is ultimately 90% engineering* The Model Factory: Poolside's end-to-end system for rapidly training and improving models* How fewer than 70 researchers run roughly 10,000–20,000 experiments each month* How Poolside moved from six-month model cycles to five- and eight-week launches* Why streaming data directly into training unlocked faster experimentation* How immutable data, versioned code, and reproducibility enable rigorous model research* Why Eiso wants capable researchers to leave their labs and become Poolside's competitors* Why 95% of model building can be reduced to better data or compute efficiency* Laguna S and why persistence, verification, and backtracking can outperform raw intelligence* Why smaller models may handle far more knowledge work than previously expected* Why reinforcement learning will move earlier into pre-training* Why next-token prediction is still failing to extract enough knowledge from the web* Why distillation and environments have become the AI industry's favorite “drugs”* Why mid-training is really an early form of curriculum design* Low-precision training, networking bottlenecks, and the next gains in compute efficiency* Laguna S: 118 billion total parameters, 8 billion active, and eight weeks from training to launch* Why model builders can often evaluate a new checkpoint within its first 30 minutes* Model versus harness: where agent capabilities actually come from* Why Poolside sees coding and long-horizon software tasks as a path to AGI* Why Eiso thinks MCP and traditional tool calls are “stupid”* Why future agents will write scripts instead of choosing from dozens of predefined tools* The case for minimal harnesses, containers, and model freedom* Why Poolside is prioritizing vision but does not expect to work on audio soon* Why language may be the most compute-efficient modality for encoding knowledge and reasoning* The real cost of model development and why the final training run is anticlimactic* The story behind the Poolside name and why it represents refusing to lower ambitions* How Poolside raised $500 million while investors still questioned whether AGI was real* Why intelligence could become the world's most demanded and commoditized resource* When open models may become too capable to release without restrictions* Why unilateral AI safety does not work in a globally competitive environment* How regulation could accidentally lock in an oligopoly of two or three AI companies* NVIDIA, TSMC, and the hardware systems underpinning foundation-model progress* Why reinforcement-learning wall-clock time is one of Poolside's biggest bottlenecks* Why Poolside trains models from scratch instead of simply distilling larger models* How AI changes the way companies should measure engineering productivity* Why agency may become the most important quality for employees in the AI era* How leaders align high-agency people through shared goals and clear constraints* Hiring across research, post-training, pre-training, architecture, evals, and engineering at PoolsideEiso KantLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eisokantX: https://x.com/eisokantPoolside: https://poolside.aiTimestamps00:00:00 Introduction00:00:54 Karpathy, RNNs, and Building Code Models Before Transformers00:02:26 The $12M Failure and ChatGPT Vindication00:03:39 Open Source and the Case for 100 Foundation Model Companies00:09:22 Open Weights, Open Research, and Poolside's Global Team00:16:04 The Model Factory: Why Model Building Is 90% Engineering00:20:19 Agents, Automated Experiments, and Early Signs of RSI00:24:04 Streaming Data, Reproducibility, and Scientific Rigor00:30:35 Creating More Foundation Model Companies00:36:07 Laguna S: Persistence vs. Raw Intelligence00:43:01 Reinventing Pre-Training, RL, and Curriculum Design00:52:33 Low-Precision Training and Squeezing More From Smaller Models00:58:37 Model Harnesses, Coding Agents, and the Path to AGI01:09:26 Why MCP and Traditional Tool Calls Are “Stupid”01:13:04 Vision, Multimodality, and Why Language Still Matters01:18:15 Scaling Models and the Real Economics of Training01:20:40 Why Poolside Is Called Poolside and Raising $500M01:27:37 Open Models, AI Safety, and the Risk of an Oligopoly01:33:53 NVIDIA, TSMC, and the Reinforcement-Learning Bottleneck01:41:52 Smaller Models, Distillation, Engineering Productivity, and HiringTranscriptIntroduction: Eiso Kant, Poolside, and Open ModelsSwyx [00:00:00]: All right, we're here in the studio with Eiso Kant from Poolside, together with Vibhu. Welcome.Eiso Kant [00:00:08]: Thanks. Thanks for having me, guys. Good to be here.Swyx [00:00:10]: Yeah, fresh on the plane. You texted me, you were like, “Hey, I'm on my way to SF.” I was like, “You're on a plane right now, right?” Like, hey.Eiso Kant [00:00:16]: I know. After I texted you, I realized that probably coming in with major jet lag was gonna offer some fun experiences today, but let's do it.Swyx [00:00:23]: I mean, I think the thing I would tell guests is that they don't have to prepare that much because if you're truly working on this every single day, then even, like, what you hazily remember is going to be new for a lot of the audience that don't live in your world every day, right? so 10 years ago, you did a talk at Google Slush, talking about the democratization of AI. and, now here you are, like, open sourcing an incredible new model that we're gonna talk about. But I guess, like, what got you into democratization of AI? Like, it's not obvious from your LinkedIn or something.From Karpathy's RNN Post to SourcedEiso Kant [00:00:57]: No, it's not at all. I don't think it's obvious how I got in this space. I owe getting into this space to Andrej Karpathy.Eiso Kant [00:01:05]: In 2015, he wrote an article called “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Nets.”Swyx [00:01:10]: Neural Nets, yep.Eiso Kant [00:01:11]: And that article, I read it, and I pivoted my startup at the time overnight to working on RNNs, and later LSTMs and Transformer models to be able to write code. If you go to this article and you scroll down, you can start seeing, like, this was the precursor to what ended up becoming language models. So, at least when he was character-level language models that were starting to predict letters, he has an example out here. There's a little Paul Graham generator, and you can read it, and the text makes sense, but it doesn't. and there's a little-- There's an example of code a little bit further down. Yeah, so Shakespeare.Swyx [00:01:47]: Shakespeare.Swyx [00:01:49]: CoolEiso Kant [00:01:49]: And for some reason, I read this, and I went down the rabbit hole of learning everything I could about RNNs and LSTMs, right? This is Transformer paper. And I had built a completely unreasonable belief, that neural nets should be able to generalize to anything and everything, and that language should be able to generalize, to a lot of things that are intelligent and the ability to write code. And so I started building Sourced, which was a fully open source company trying to build, what we used to call machine learning on code, language models on code. And we spent about four or five years on this, till the end of 2019. And that sounds really cool today, but back then, no one cared.Eiso Kant [00:02:29]: Right? Like, no one cared. We were in the dark. Like, we did things along the way. We tried applying convolutional neural nets to, like, the structure of code. We were. when attention came out, we were applying it to LSTMs, and then the Transformer paper came out. And it - it wasn't obvious, and what we missed throughout that entire journey, that we were on the right track, but we should have just kept scaling up. And today, to all of us, the scaling laws and scaling up seems like the most obvious thing. But having spent four or five years of my life on working on language models on code, it wasn't obvious. So I have a lot of respect to folks at Google and OpenAI and others who took that confidence and kept going. we failed ultimately at the time, and it was, like, biggest failure of my career, right? You blew $12 million of investors' money, which was a lot back then.Swyx [00:03:18]: Yep.Eiso Kant [00:03:19]: You spent, still a lot, but, And you spent years with, like, a group of 40 people just obsessing over this problem. And life took a different turn, And it was, and family became a focus, and I kept my heads down and really, didn't really look at language models for the following two years. big mistake considering Following years are gonna be really interesting. And then ChatGPT came out And it was like a vindication. It's like people started texting me. I found, like, my old, work decks and these old talks. And throughout that whole journey, we,ChatGPT, Vindication, and Returning to Open SourceEiso Kant [00:03:56]: We really had a strong point of view at the time that, like, as you're building more capable intelligence, it should be open and open source.Eiso Kant [00:04:04]: When we started Poolside, that wasn't the case at all, and I wanna be very open about it. When we started Poolside, we were like, there was a premise of two things. One is this technology is not gonna stop compounding in capabilities. I think to most people obvious today, but three-plus years ago when we started, most people were still arguing if these were stochastic parrots or not.Eiso Kant [00:04:23]: And the second was that reinforcement learning was gonna be the biggest driver for LLM capabilities. Today, very obvious. Three years ago, was not an opinion held or direction held at either OpenAI or Google or Anthropic or others. And so people looked down on us a little bit. They were like, “ is this really gonna work?” And so we just started working the problem, and we never really thought about open source again. We just kept our heads down and we built our, like, knowledge, understanding from scratch, right? We didn't roll out of an existing lab. So we picked up the papers and started writing code and figuring things out.Eiso Kant [00:04:59]: And it wasn't until the beginning of this year that me and my founder, Jason, picked up the open source conversation again.Eiso Kant [00:05:07]: And if you go back to some of the early things on our website, it was very straightforward. It was we wanna get to AGI, we wanna support a world of abundance, and we wanna be the first company that gets there.Eiso Kant [00:05:20]: But we started talking at the beginning of this year because it became obvious that the world was going in a direction that was starting to like, pick at us a little bit. Like, it didn't, this didn't happen overnight. It was, like, a little bit we were seeing this and we're like, “Okay, The world's going down a path.” And Throughout this journey, there was something that I used as a, as an analogy or thing. So I said well, if I go back to back in those days, 2015 or 2016, we're working on this, and I picked up a fi book off the shelf, and I was reading the book about 2035. AGI is achieved, and the story would be over the following, decades. And it would have that first chapter where everyone's trying to figure things out. You'd get the chapter of ChatGPT coming out And then you would get to the chapter where the world was at a fork in the road, and the one that it picked was one where three or four or a handful of companies were going to create all of intelligence moving forward.Eiso Kant [00:06:21]: And when I thought about that story, it felt like a dystopian fi book, not a utopian fi book. And the reality is, I'm a utopian fi guy. Like, and so We took a step back and said, “Hey, can we play a role here?” Now it was easy for us to do so because we were not at the frontier.Eiso Kant [00:06:41]: If we were at the frontier, I don't think we could have changed our mind. and I don't mean this like it's when the moment there's too much capital involved, too much expectations, you've built up things, right? We're a small team, just improving and improving. And so we knew that we could make that decision now, but it would be a lot harder to make as we got closer and closer to the frontier and caught up to others. And did a lot of soul-searching and a lot of conversations, and said, “No, this makes sense,” Even if there's big unanswered questions, like how the hell do you build a business model with foundation models about open source? Big open-ended question that we do not fully have the answer to yet, right? At what point do you no longer wanna release open source models because misuse of models has, real potential risks associated with it? how is the government gonna respond to open source? but I think it all just came down to one thing, and I'll stop the monologue, is the fact that I rather live in a world that has 100 foundation model companies than a world that has five, even if I was one of the five. And the smallest and most meaningful contribution we can make for 100 to exist is to open up our research and open up, like, our weights right now and figure out along the way how we can, like, do more.Neo-Labs, Model Choice, and the Token EconomySwyx [00:08:01]: Yeah. I think if anything, over the past three years, that has become a bit more true. you are one of a cohort of Neo labsEiso Kant [00:08:10]: YeahSwyx [00:08:10]: That people are now calling that. And, we're, we're doing this on the day that Thinky launched their, new model and you are outperforming them on their, on some benchmarks that they released, right? Like, they just don't have it yet. so it goes to show that I think, like, this is one of those things where, like, there is room for multiple players, and you are seeing a little bit more of the future. Maybe more like 20, not 100, but, like, you are one of the 20.Eiso Kant [00:08:36]: I really hope so, right? I think we I'm, I'm excited about their release, and I'm excited about everyone releasing because, like, ultimately, like, choice competition is both gonna drive progress in the right direction. But the fact that like, we create models and while we all, drink out of the same well of data effectively, we do introduce very different behaviors and biases in our models. Some are intended biases, some are completely unintended biases.Swyx [00:09:03]: Yeah.Eiso Kant [00:09:03]: And if we shape up in an ecosystem in the world where open models are gonna be a part of the token economy, like, I don't think there's any question about it anymore Then we want to be able to live in a world where companies, countries, people can choose and say, “Hey, I am most aligned and I trust most this provider for these things.”Swyx [00:09:25]: Yeah.Vibhu [00:09:26]: I think more than just one of the 20 Neo labs, up until recently, most of open source innovation was coming from the Chinese labs, right? So there's the DeepSeek of the West. Is it today? Okay, maybe it's thinking machines reflection, but there aren't many, right? So, one of the things you guys started in France, Europe, but very much now you're taking that American standpoint and more than just that, the point is the Chinese models that we see, they're not super open research. the work you put out is, I think, some of the best. So every few months you get not only frontier models, but also here's a breakdown blog, paper, technical report of here's everything for state of the art to build, frontier intelligence and you're filling that gap too, right? So not just only open weight, not just Western, but also pretty open research.Open Weights vs. Open ResearchEiso Kant [00:10:20]: No, I appreciate it. Look, I think it's, I think it's the most meaningful contribution, right? Weights are a binary. Let's call them what they are. Yes, we can modify them, we can change them, but, like, giving someone the weights does not allow them ultimately to recreate what you're doing, right? And so now there's challenges around releasing data sets, challenges around like releasing certain things, but being able to share your research, like, right, how do we do it? What are the lessons we learned that we spent, tens of thousands of experiments of compute on? I think very much so. One correction though, Vibhu, and I say this because it's been haunting us for quite a few years. We from day zero were an American company.Swyx [00:10:55]: Yeah. They movedPoolside's Global Team and American Company StorySwyx [00:10:56]: To France.Eiso Kant [00:10:56]: So the story once and for all is very. We start as an American company. We have always been an American company, and early on we made a very conscious decision. We said, “We're not gonna hire any researchers in the Bay Area. We're gonna look for talent everywhere else in the world.” and that is everything from Middle Americas, Seattle to, Serbia, and to Taiwan and Singapore and other places. And it was because we took a view that this was gonna become a talent war for this, and I think it has over the years now. Three years ago, that wasn't fully obvious yet. I think today it very much is. And we also realized that, like, some of the world's most capable people with, like, the most interesting, innovative ideas were not just gonna be here. And so it led us to create like a fully remote company. and we ended up opening an office in Paris and London and different places and we have a lot of the team in the US and a lot of team outside. But we always took this view of like, we're an American company, but if we want the best of the best to work with us, we need to take a global view. Now we do also have people here in Silicon Valley, like the company's grown and others, but I think one of the things that, it slowed us down at the beginning, but it has sped us up now, and it's why you're seeing like the progress, I think, on our models and the cadence at which we release, is because we didn't roll out of an existing lab. Right? we didn't, we didn't have a lot of the information that's freely flowing around here at the time. We just took this point of view as like, “Okay, well, let's just work the problem. Let's just go and, like, read the few papers that are out there, and let's just figure this stuff out.” And we made some hilarious mistakes in model training because of that over the yearsEiso Kant [00:12:35]: Like especially in the first 12 months. there's a few that I think still haunt me and scare me. We can talk about them later. but it created a, like, a resiliency and persistency in the team, right? with extremely few people have left us over the years, that, like, told us, “Okay, we can do this.” When we first wrote our first training code base completely from scratch, it wasn't a fork of any open source. It was just like, “Okay, let's build it from scratch.” I remember we had this one moment where we spent three weeks working out an optimizer bug. Like, it was like training just couldn't get stable. We, like, obsessed over it, and we thought, like, maybe we were wrong. Maybe we should have just forked this repo, or we should have. But then when we solved it, I still remember at the time we were like five people in the company. when we solved it, we were like, “Oh, we can do things,” like if we're just willing to work hard. and I think that culture with a very strong engineering bias has helped us, like, get to where we were. And so there's this notion of open source and talent and these things. I think we, We just took different decisions from a different starting point. and I think we are lucky. I do want to definitely call it lucky. And there was a lot of hard work at the team that now, like, that's starting to show up in results.Swyx [00:13:52]: Just ‘cause we probably won't revisit this again, but, and this is a fun recruiting challenge if someone knows the answer. What was the bug? And then we won't tell the solution, but we'An Optimizer Bug and the Value of Building From ScratchEiso Kant [00:14:01]: So the - This - You're gonna test my memory here,Swyx [00:14:04]: Oh, okayEiso Kant [00:14:04]: So but I thinkSwyx [00:14:05]: DirectlyEiso Kant [00:14:05]: I think I can recall. So if you, so if you look at, So if you take like Adam as an optimizer, you have epsilonSwyx [00:14:12]: YeahEiso Kant [00:14:13]: Which is, right, like in the denominatorSwyx [00:14:14]: Momentum and weights. YeahEiso Kant [00:14:15]: Is exactly, in the denominator. And at the time, if I recall, you looked at like the early Llama papers and things like that. People were juicing epsilon, like, quite a bit. Like, they were, like, adding, I don't know if it was E minus four or whatever, like a high value for epsilon.Eiso Kant [00:14:31]: And if you think about this during training, it's like a bit weird and counterintuitive that we're adding noise to our optimizer by just adding effectively, like, a random number in the denominator, right? Like behind the decimal point. And I don't recall the exact bug, but it had - What I remember is once we solved it, we no longer had to juice epsilon as much as, like, was happening in the Llama paper and other places. and it was like one of those fundamental moments where we had trusted this paper that was out there, and we're like, “Oh, no, it has to be this way. It has to have this high value of epsilon.” But it made no sense to us intuitively. Like, why do you have to have this so high? Like, if you're just trying to avoid division by zero, why can't the value be extremely small? and that was like one of those moments where you realize like, okay, finding things out from scratch yourself builds a better intuition. Because the one thing you learn very quickly with model building is that your intuitions that you start with are gonna get beaten up so hard.Eiso Kant [00:15:33]: Right? Like - It's such an experimental science, that the things that seem obvious, you very quickly get to learn, like, you were wrong, and hopefully you figure out why, and sometimes you don't even.Swyx [00:15:45]: Yeah. yeah, so, one of the reasons that you, when you released your new models, Vibhu got really excited. I mean, everyone got really excited. But Vibhu led our paper club on it, and you guys sawEiso Kant [00:15:58]: YeahSwyx [00:15:58]: Obviously. maybe talk through some lessons learned in that, whatever you can disclose. we can focus on the model factory stuff, whatever you think is a good starting point.Model Building as EngineeringEiso Kant [00:16:08]: So I would say that our view from very early on in the company was that model building is ultimately 90% engineering.Eiso Kant [00:16:18]: And I think we all know it in the industry because if you look at where's every researcher spending their time, they're spending their time writing code, right? Looking at data and writing code. And so we said, okay, The state at the moment, like three years ago, was bash scripts and Slurm and spaghetti code bases for training and, like, data pipelines that were patched together. And we looked at this and said, “Well, ultimately, model building is a process.” You're going from raw data, right? Like training raw material, the web, et cetera. you're doing a whole bunch of filtering, cleaning up, transformations, analyzing. These days, that's, far more complex than it was three years ago. then you're training a model, which is effectively a large distributed systems problem, right? Across hardware that has still-- It's become a lot more reliable. It was extremely flaky back then. and now with every new generation, we get our new sets of challenges. And then you go into the next stages, right? There was no training back then, but, like, you got, your post-training and then your reinforcement learning. And so we looked at this and we said, “Well, this looks like an industrialized process. This looks like an end process, that every single part of it has its machinery,” right? If it's your big data pipelines, if it's your crawling ingestion of the web, if it's your, large-scale distributed training, and then you've got your reliability. And we said, “Well, why don't we take some of the world's smartest distributed systems engineers that we knew and make them part of the process of research from day zero?” Not retrofitting it later on, but, like, really from the beginning. And that became our model factory. And so our model factory started with a handful of components. Today, it's thousands of components, and I try to equate it to, if you think about, like, someone who was at the very early days of Foxconn, if they had been there for the following, decade, they would be able to rebuild Foxconn because they saw every decision that led to building that system and all the complexity. If you and I walk into Foxconn today, no chance.The Model Factory and Experiment VelocityEiso Kant [00:18:18]: Right? Because we don't have the lineage and history of decisions that led to that. And so we built early on from the beginning- with a team that really understood that, well, the metric that we are optimizing for is the speed of an idea from a researcher to an experimental result that we can trust to then being part of the next model training.Eiso Kant [00:18:42]: And in the. And because it's such an experimental science, ultimately, in the beginning when it wasn't that complex, you could patch your way around it, right? But now, at any foundation model company, you are running. I mean, we're a small team, right? We're less than 70 researchers, another 35 engineers. and we are running, I haven't checked the latest count, but far more than 10,000, maybe 10 to 20,000 experiments a month that we cut. And so if you look at that scale of every model run that is, like it's ultimately it's, it's you need to be able to trust it as an infra problem. And so what we have now done over the years is gotten really good at that, and just by working it and improving it and obsessing over those end decisions. So now what that means is that you looked up Laguna XS 2 that we launched. It was five weeks from the beginning of training to launch. The model that we're gonna talk about today was eight weeks from start of training, to launch. We started the next model literally yesterday because we now finished the post-training required for the model we're launching, next week or by the time this comes out today. and we move that compute to the much larger Laguna M model that we're now training. And so the model should be an artifact of someone's process. It shouldn't be really a thing in itself. Like, and we treat this like the way you would look at like a SpaceX factory where, yes, the first rocket, really hard to build, but the much harder challenge was building the factory. And now they're rolling off, and no one is really thinking about the next launch anymore. So it's just another launch, it's another launch, another rocket comes off. And that's what we're trying to do with model building.Eiso Kant [00:20:22]: And what has been, which was not planned from day zero, it was in the back of our mind like this will happen one day, is that when you build a really good end model factory with really good APIs and really good engineering systems, Well, what is it perfect for? It's perfect for agents.Agents Inside the Model FactoryEiso Kant [00:20:40]: Because agents are now starting to take over more and more work in our model factory.Vibhu [00:20:43]: Yeah.Eiso Kant [00:20:44]: So I look at the screens when I walk, like when we're, we come together, in our monthly, we do monthly onsites, and I walk behind people's screens and I stop by and I talk to our researchers. And the default is all of these different agents running on their screen that are writing the code. They're launching the jobs. They're evaluating the results that are coming back from the model runs. They are, making the changes. And we're still in the driver's seat. We're still coming up with the ideas. We're still helping with the debugging. But more and more, and this is right now very profound on the data side of our pipelines in both pre and post and the synthetic data pipelines, it's starting to become more on the architecture side as well. You're starting to see these twinklings of what RSI is gonna look like.Eiso Kant [00:21:27]: And that's. So when we talk about, like to your question about our models, every talk about the model factory, And my coolest example of these things is always that when we kick off a new run, doesn't matter if it's a training like big run or if it's now a post, like one of 10 post-training versions we do for like release or many experiments, is that at any given moment, the changes that somebody made that they had experimental results from the day before make it into that run.Eiso Kant [00:21:57]: So there's not like a cutoff 90 days before. Like no, it's like literally from that moment because we can now trust the machine enough. And then you also have to invest in the reliability. So one of my favorite metrics about like Laguna S is that there was no call events, Right? Like completely zero. And we haven't had a meaningful call event, like something to wake up for, as far as I recall this entire year. now there is one asterisk to that. In usually the first six hours of launching a new model run, something breaks because you set a config wrong, you made a small mistake, et cetera. So that's usually there's a little bit of intervention, but that's always within like call periods, right? Not on call. And I think that's starting to now compound. So the model we're releasing now, I love it. It's amazing, but we're already onto the next one. and I think that's the way it should be.Laguna, Five-Week Builds, and Zero On-Call EventsVibhu [00:22:50]: Hey, I also just wanna point out, so for context, this was like a month ago. we found it in the tech report, so we just came in with, “Okay, new model's dropped. Haven't heard about it.” We wereEiso Kant [00:23:02]: Yeah, we're very used to doing this every few months.Vibhu [00:23:03]: We're, we're very much like, “ okay, look, it's like, on par with Kimi, DeepSeek, whatnot, the small ones, Gemma level. Oh, it's a very cool paper on what goes into building.” And then we hit this page, right? Like literally page two of tech report is, “This process allowed us to build the small model from scratch to delivery within five weeks applying the lessons”. And then I'm like, oh, this paper is not about here's a tech report of benchmarks and here's how many tokens it was trained on. Like for people that wanna dive more from what we're not gonna discuss on the podcast, it's all laid out here, right? FromEiso Kant [00:23:38]: YeahVibhu [00:23:39]: Custom software that agents can use to interface with training code, training data.Eiso Kant [00:23:45]: Yeah. Well, link the paper correctly, so yeah.Vibhu [00:23:47]: Yeah. All that stuff. read the paper here, but,Technical Report Principles and Streaming Training DataEiso Kant [00:23:50]: But I would like to. I love principles, and I think that is a good starting off point for maybe telling some stories. Maybe we can go one by one past the principles. I'll just call out that Dagster just got bought by a Prefect.Vibhu [00:24:01]: Yeah.Eiso Kant [00:24:01]: Isn't it fun? But yes, I'm very familiar with Dagster. just anything where like they trigger some story.Vibhu [00:24:07]: So, well, I would say, well, experiments code's obvious, but I think one of my favorite things is, I don't know where it is in here, but early on, and I still think this is the case a lot of foundation model companies, people prepare their training data sets, they get packaged up, then they get copied over to a training cluster distributed across all of the nodes, and then training starts.Vibhu [00:24:30]: And we looked at this like three years ago and we were like That makes no senseEiso Kant [00:24:36]: You lose so much time because the moment you have to rematerialize the data set, you have to make a change, you have to fix something, et cetera, you've got all this time of like repackaging it, right? Toca- tokenizing it, repacking it, moving it over to a cluster, then distributing it across the nodes. The bigger your clusters are, you start using fancy like torrent-like algorithms to like distribute your data. So why aren't we streaming data into training? Right? Something that's very common and like just basicVibhu [00:25:00]: Like just in timeEiso Kant [00:25:01]: Just in time, like good computer science like principle. And that was one of the first things that I think unlocked - the model factory. Because the moment you start thinking about, well, a training job, it doesn't matter if it's a big hero run or a small like, post-training experiment, consumes a certain number of tokens per second, right? And it's not a lot, right? From a like a data, moving data perspective. So we said, well, we have our training cluster, and then we've got like our AWS kinda setup where we can build these amazing big data pipelines. We can set things up. We use Spark underneath the hood, like all these things.Vibhu [00:25:36]: But when you say AWS, it's not actual AWS, it's your internal AWS.Eiso Kant [00:25:39]: It's our internal-- No, it's our internal like just running like our infrastructureVibhu [00:25:42]: Site web servicesEiso Kant [00:25:43]: Exactly. Our stuff running on like an AWS account or on like any hardware, right?Vibhu [00:25:47]: Yeah.Eiso Kant [00:25:48]: And so once we made that shift into I can stream data into training, all of a sudden you realize a lot of things unlock. Because now you don't have to wait for the whole data set to materialize.Immutable Data, Experiments as Code, and Scientific RigorEiso Kant [00:26:00]: You now all of a sudden when you're running data experiments about mixing data, it's a config. Because you've got these data sources that are coming in, and you just - we have this service called Blender that's in the report, where we then say, “Okay, for this run, I want 20% of this source, 10% of this source. I want this much, so many epochs of repetition. I want this to be, shuffled in a certain way,” and your training job can start while the rest of the data is even still materializing. also what it does is because all of this underneath-- So for us, we treated the data layer underneath as like an immutable data layer, and that was really important. Like experiments as code, immutable data layer means that you can always go back and understand literally down to the single token at which cursor it went in on which version of the code.Vibhu [00:26:47]: Yeah.Eiso Kant [00:26:48]: And it took us a I have to admit, like the first year of Poolside, we understood that engineering had to get great, But we didn't understand yet, that this is ultimately in support of like a good rigorous scientific progress. We were quite a - We were a very small number of people, so a lot of it was YOLO ideas and YOLO runs.Vibhu [00:27:08]: Yeah.Eiso Kant [00:27:09]: And we built great infra for the YOLO runs. But once we realized that we treated data as immutable and code as always versioned, and you could always track and trace every experiment end to end perfectly, you could repeat everything perfectly, right? You have perfect reproducibility. I can still reproduce runs from two years ago if I wanted to, right? It enables the scientific progress, like the scientific process, and I think that took us probably about a year and a half into the company to figure out. We also had some great hires, like our head of applied research, Nikolai, who joined us from Yandex, who'd been working on language models since like the early 2020s, I think brought that into the company of like, “Hey, we wanna have even more rigor.” And then once we kinda had the combination of like increasingly more capable platform that allowed people to do more, but had this immutability, we were able to start “Okay, every experiment is truly an ablation. We truly need to understand it.” And I think we became much more scientifically rigorous in the last couple of years, and the infra underneath enabled it. and then there's just fun stuff like, andVibhu [00:28:16]: Yeah, a lot of it's fun, like even just the, one, you share all the ablations, two, picking the data sets, right? There's like a random small paragraph in here where it's just like, “Oh yeah, training data, we have some, we have an auto mixer.” it trains eight small models, scales them up, picks the training data set. We don't even need to look at it. I'm like, “Wow, a lot of engineering rigor there.” And there's just, there's just a lot in here.Publishing Research and Giving BackEiso Kant [00:28:40]: Yeah, and it'- and look, and we wanna put out more. Like we, We treat writing papers as something that we haven't earned the right for yet for a long time. So you earn the right to spend time, publishing research once you're at the frontier, because until then, you're catching up, and every minute and hour in this industry matters. Like I obsess over it, not just the wall clock time from idea to result, but just general like time every day that we, waste is one that doesn't allow us to catch up. But in this case, we said, “Okay, we're gonna give ourselves.” I think we gave the team like three or four days while still doing their work, like give everything in there. And to your point earlier, if your stuff, it's easy to like put it out. And so there's so many more things that we wanna talk about over time, and we will definitely start doing. And as we earn more of the right, but also now have like added to our mission that we want more foundation model companies to exist, you'll see us like be way more proactive, and just trying to keep dropping some of those like things that we've learned along the way that can help others like speed up.Vibhu [00:29:40]: Which is the other cool side of this, right? It's, it's not like, back to your point, it's not just here's the benchmarks of our training. If you want to replicate, here's experiments of optimizers, data sets, post-training. you lay out a lot of it here alongside here's your system for how to do it? So it's, it's really like promotingEiso Kant [00:29:59]: No, thank youVibhu [00:29:59]: Other people can do the same.Eiso Kant [00:30:00]: And by the way, I also wanna make clear, right, we have been incredible-- Like we've taken a lot of advantage of the fact of all the open research that others have published, Right? And you mentioned, the Chinese labs, and we I think it's important that there's, from every country and every culture and background, including like Western companies like us, there's different models that come out that people can choose to trust. But I think we do have to give credit where credit's due, right? The incredible Chinese lab have done an amazing job at sharing their research, and we have definitely like been on the receiving end of taking advantage of that. So when you're on the receiving end of something coming to you, I think it's, you also have an obligation to give back.Swyx [00:30:39]: Do you have a favorite or underrated Chinese lab that you wanna shout out? Everyone shout outs DeepSeek.Chinese Labs, Zhipu, and PersistenceEiso Kant [00:30:44]: That's a good question.Swyx [00:30:45]: Moaan obviously for Therapsi. Yeah.Eiso Kant [00:30:48]: Yeah, look, I think, I think obviously everyone's been talking about Zhipu lately, with 5.2. I think what most people don't realize is when they started.Swyx [00:30:59]: Yeah.Eiso Kant [00:30:59]: Right? They started years before ChatGPT.Swyx [00:31:02]: They just rebranded. YeahEiso Kant [00:31:03]: And so, I've like, I remember how hard it was to work on these things Before the rest of the world got excited about it. And so I have an immense amount of respect for people, who were working on improving models when it wasn't the sexy thing to do, when believing in LLMs, was gonna get you ridiculed. I remember like back in 2016 when we were doing what we'd call, machine learning on code with some of these models. we would-- people would just laugh at us, like they'd be like, “This makes no sense. Like why are you wasting all these, like, millions of dollars on trying to figure this out?” And so I would say they're probably the one that, I think deserves a shout-out, not just because their latest model is very good, but because they fought to get here. And I think, I think every foundation model company it takes time to get here, right? It took us three years to get to the model that we're, that we're now gonna be releasing. and now the time in between the models is coming, is counted in weeks. It's no longer counted in months or years. But this stuff's hard. and if we can make it a little bit easier for the next person, like we should all do so. Because if we don't do so, we're, we've got a small window before models are really impacting recursive self-improvement to a level where catching up otherwise might become unfeasible. And we should try to, in that window, encourage as many labs or however we wanna call them, like to start. And so one of my currentEiso Kant [00:32:36]: Mission, but qualm is like I wanna encourage whoever is a researcher right now who thinks they can tackle this to go and leave and become my competitor.Eiso Kant [00:32:45]: Like start another foundation model company because I think we need it. I think otherwise we're not gonna be in the world where, I don't want to just be the fifth or the sixth company that wins. I wanna look at a world where there's lots of choice.Starting a Foundation Model CompanyVibhu [00:32:57]: What else do people not see in starting a foundation model? it's, there's a lot of compute, there's a lot of capital required, a lot of compute. You lay out model factory and how to do the training, but there's a lot there, right? That's,Eiso Kant [00:33:10]: Well, look, it's, I in turn-- this is an oversimplification, and I always asterisk it with that because it can land a little bit the wrong way in people's minds. But I think you can sum down, And I saw it, 95% of model building to just doing, you're just doing two things. You're improving data or you're improving compute efficiency. And I know that feels like an oversimplification for the incredible, like, Gifted and skilled work people do. But if you really look at it, like what are we doing? We are looking at data, we're generating new data, we're improving data. and the only way to do that is to look at the data, right? That's a big part of foundation model building. And on the other hand, we come up with these incredible breakthroughs in inference, in architecture, and new attention mechanisms. But what are they really doing? They're bringing compute efficiency. Now, we have definitely had some breakthroughs over the years that allow for more model capabilities. But at the limit, if you could train a large enough model, right, like, and you had infinite compute, we probably-- if you had infinite compute, you'd be at AGI probably already tomorrow.Eiso Kant [00:34:12]: Right? Like it's not. And so, and let me say that infinite compute with infinite ability of much faster networking because networking ends up being more of the bottleneck than compute. But, so I do think that's, those are the main things. And to just realize that this is engineering. I think it's become more obvious, but I think for quite a few years, people have held foundation model companies and researchers and others on this pedestal of like you're doing incredible magic or rocket science, or only like, Nobel laureate physicists can do this. And don't get me wrong, there are some really hard problems that need to be solved, but a lot of the work that all of us are doing on a day Is not sitting down trying to solve a math theorem. A lot of the work that we're doing is just really doing the basics right, writing good code, looking at data, improving it, running experiments, looking at plots, trying to see like, hey, trying to shape our intuitions. And a lot more people could be highly capable researchers. and I think that's, it feels far for people to do so. But I've seen in our own company, we've seen engineers become researchers because the model factory allowed them to be, have a much lower hurdle of running experiments and trying things. And one of the guys on our team who started as an engineer building our agents is a legit reinforcement learning researcher now, making real progress. and that happened in the span of like six months. that would've not been what I think most people assumed was possible, a couple of years ago.Swyx [00:35:46]: Yeah. I think one of the interesting moments is when you can self-host, like, if in a programming language, like if you can compile the language in the language, the equivalent is can you use your own tools, right? You have the pool CLI, you have your own models. presumably you're not only using your own models. There's no way. But like, what's that percentage over time?Laguna S, Persistence, and Behavioral GainsEiso Kant [00:36:10]: This is the first model that we're releasing that is starting to meaningfully contribute to our own work. It's not a it's not state-art model yet. Fable and other, they're, they're very capable models, but Laguna S Is really interesting. I'm gonna pull up the quote. Peng Ming, one of our heads of applied research, said something, last week as the model came out about 10 days ago, much better than we had hoped for or expected. And he said, I have the feeling that a lot of the gains in Laguna S come not from more intelligence, but more from different behavior, more verification, less taking things for granted, not declaring victory early, and being way more persistent. And to be honest, those are more predictive than raw intelligence for success in human also to some degree. And this was, he wrote me this on 5th of July on a Sunday, and it's been burned in my brain ever since because the Laguna S model, as you'll see it and why it does so well on benchmarks and why it does so well in using it on a day basis, is that it's just incredibly persistent. It reasons a lot. I do call that out. We have work to do on making it more efficient. We have to work to do on offering different reasoning modes. But this is the model that has been able to do things that I never thought it could do. A hundred eighteen billion 8B active model, which is not that large. It fits on a DGX Spark and still runs at, thirty, forty tokens a second on a Spark, is able to solve Erdős 397 independently. It's able to do complex programming tasks. It's able to. I asked it this morning to make me a Fi scanner without using any external libraries on my Mac, and it's, like, figuring out, like, the core WLAN API by really persistently trying to understand it without access to the internet. And more, I love vibe checking. I've probably spent eight to ten hours a day with this model for the last ten days.Eiso Kant [00:38:05]: I'm not exaggerating. I was on my eleven-hour flight yesterday. I spent ten hours reading trajectories and traces and, like, of the model.Eiso Kant [00:38:12]: And what I take away from it is exactly what Peng Ming said. We are gonna be able to squeeze so much more out of smaller models than I think we had imagined in the industry because, yes, there's intelligence and larger models are more intelligent. Like, no doubt about it. We should continue to scale up. but the behaviors of being really persistent, of being able to backtrack when you're wrong, of, like, understanding how to interact with your environment show us that we can get a lot more out of it. And this, for me, has created a bit of a Question in my mind the last couple of days. If you think about where we're using models today, right? We are using models, say, for knowledge work. Represents twenty-five percent of the global economy, twenty-five trillion dollars of work.Eiso Kant [00:39:00]: As we scale up models and they become more intelligent, we are excited about using them more and more for pushing the frontier of science.Small Models, Knowledge Work, and CommoditizationEiso Kant [00:39:08]: And if you look at the frontier of science, like true breakthroughs in science, they have been linked, they are linked to more intelligence in many places. Einstein figuring out general relativity is able to bring ideas together that other people would have not brought together. And I think one of the many dimensions of intelligence is the ability to do that, and it's something we clearly see that as models get larger and more capable, they're able to pull more ideas and threads together that a smaller model wouldn't be able to.Eiso Kant [00:39:36]: And we're starting to see examples of that in medicine and, like, in bio and other things. But if you think about the majority of knowledge work that we do, and it includes building software. I'm a software developer at heart first and foremost probably, although I probably can't say it that much anymore as I don't write production code in years, is that what makes us good is our persistence. It's our ability to encounter a problem and backtrack and say, “I need to go figure out this bug. I need to go research this. I need to go look at the documentation. I need to, like, try different, five different ways to see, like, if I can solve it.” But it is not necessarily bringing three ideas together from radically different fields. And so if we are now seeing, and I think Laguna S is an example, that we are able to make a relatively small model much more capable than I had definitely predicted or any previous, like, benchmarks had shown for any model remotely this size or even larger, At least on coding tasks, that it's because of the behaviors. And so now the question I have, and I don't have an answer, it is I know at the limit, so infinite model size, right, extremely large model, and the cost of that model is gonna be very expensive to run. We know this, right? So larger model ROI.Eiso Kant [00:40:52]: So I know that at the very limit, I'm not gonna use the world's largest model one day, quadrillion parameter, whatever crazy, like, scale we scale up, to do a basic coding task. Already today, I'm starting to size down for certain tasks.Eiso Kant [00:41:07]: So it means that there is an optimal. It means there's some curve that goes as we go up to model size for knowledge work, at some point we're at the peak, and after that, the return on investment of using a bigger model, just doesn't make sense.Eiso Kant [00:41:22]: Now, I think the question is, before I would have thought that peak was extremely very far away.Eiso Kant [00:41:30]: This model for me is the first sign that Maybe that peak is At a trillion, five trillion, ten trillion. Maybe we can just squeeze way more out of these models. I'm no longer thinking that we need two or three orders of magnitude on the largest models to be able to, solve knowledge work, the accounting, the legal, the code that we write. And so if that holds true, It is an argument for the commoditization of models. It's an argument that open source can win and, like, succeed in this world. And now it's of course a self-serving argument and it's a hopeful argument, but theoretically at the limit it works. We just have to go discover in the next couple of years of how much more we can squeeze out. Now, I do want to put a big asterisk. This does not mean I'm against scaling models. I think we ultimately only succeed if we scale our models as large as our competition. I do not like. I think we should not put our head in the sand and say we're gonna be king of open source small models. I think that's, It's a out. It's trying to be king of your own kingdom, but not realizing what the rest of the world's doing. All of us rather use a smarter, faster, more model. It's a sign of hope. And so I don't wanna overly state this is a good model. We have a long way to go to get to the state-art. But what hopefully people take away when they use this model is that the behaviors inside of it are what push it to be far more capable, less than necessarily the number of parameters.Pre-Training, Mid-Training, and RL Moving EarlierVibhu [00:43:03]: Is that mostly post-training? LikeEiso Kant [00:43:05]: YesVibhu [00:43:05]: Right.Eiso Kant [00:43:06]: It's entirely post-training.Vibhu [00:43:08]: Are we done improving anything on training? Is, like, training done?Eiso Kant [00:43:12]: No.Vibhu [00:43:12]: Okay.Eiso Kant [00:43:13]: SoVibhu [00:43:13]: I just wanted to cover training, and then we go post-trainingEiso Kant [00:43:15]: Training is not done. I mean, look, there's a part of training of just dealing with skill, right? Every new order of magnitude of model skill, you are going to get new things you gotta solve for. That'- but those are ultimately, engineering challenges.Eiso Kant [00:43:31]: I have a, I would say, a not commonly held opinion that reinforcement learning Will move earlier and earlier into training.Vibhu [00:43:42]: Yeah, training.Eiso Kant [00:43:44]: Not even training. Like training today, right, is, like if you look at - So we've been working on this for years already. and I think the best-- I think the first time we saw it out in public was the DeepSeek Zero paper. this is a year and a half ago, I think, if I recall correctly. where, you can Very early on in a model as it starts capable of being able to use language, et cetera, induce reasoning. and so the question that I have is like, we have this- we have the dataset that's the web. and the web, I think we could arguably say probably has The totality of humanity's knowledge somewhere encoded in different places. It's a huge variance degree of quality, from garbage data, and like once you look at training data, you really get humbled of like what the web is, to like, the most greatest scientific papers and best blog posts and like, best transcripts and whatnot.Eiso Kant [00:44:39]: And so now What we are trying to figure out, and have been doing a lot of work on, and it's a place where maybe not as open as we're on other things, but we will become more over time. we've been spending a couple of years really doing research on how can we turn the web into not just next token prediction, but into a way to teach the model to think earlier in its training. and I think there's a huge amount of gold to be found there. I think we are right now in, we've got some drugs in the industry. One of the drugs is distillation. Another drug is, more environments. Like, and they're great, and they make us feel good, and they make the models better, and like we're all addicted to them, and we'll use them, right? in various different ways. and but ultimately, I think we are still barely squeezing out of the web what we should be getting out of the web.Eiso Kant [00:45:33]: I think just next token prediction during training is not enough.Eiso Kant [00:45:36]: AndVibhu [00:45:38]: YeahEiso Kant [00:45:38]: I think we'll see some very interesting things still happen. and that RL in post-training to induce behaviors, to improve things, like I think - the whole world knows how to do this now. I think we're, we're scaling it up. Everyone is. But I wonder if we need to go as far as we're going today with environments. I'm not sure yetVibhu [00:46:01]: You mean we're going too far?Eiso Kant [00:46:02]: I'm, I'm not sure if the path to AGI is justVibhu [00:46:06]: Is more environmentEiso Kant [00:46:07]: More environments.Vibhu [00:46:08]: It seems like a never-ending, “Okay, I want instruction manual for this table, right? Am I gonna environment out building furniture? Or are we just gonna tail end like we need some general solution?”Eiso Kant [00:46:19]: I think there is, I think there's an ability to generalize more from the web. but I also am very encouraged, like when I look at Laguna S and, which is post-training is, well, is the big impact there. and I see like, oh, wait a second, just by making some of these behaviors much better, we're able to get so much more out of it. It just changes a little bit the way you think about intelligence.Vibhu [00:46:40]: Yeah. The analogy people draw often is the RL phase is where you don't learn as much new knowledge. You shiftEiso Kant [00:46:46]: Yeah.Vibhu [00:46:46]: Yeah. So, you shift distribution, and you can have it reason towards what you want. on your point about training, a lot of training is still just continue training in a domain, say medicine, then you do RL. So still justEiso Kant [00:47:00]: It's just better data, right? Like, I mean, training, ooh, I like how we invented this word. Like it's effectively just like,Vibhu [00:47:06]: Second phaseEiso Kant [00:47:07]: It's the second phase of training With like a really dumb way to do a curriculum. But like ultimately, what you'd want is a curriculum from token zero to token 30 whatever or 40 trillion tokens that really truly is the optimal curriculum for the model to learn. But training is essentially a stage curriculum on the web because we do not have to compute, And, effectively to try to ablate the perfect curriculum, right? And so I'm pretty sure that you'll start to see people talking soon about some other term, and there's two or - ‘cause now we do this, right? We talk stage two and stage three and stage four training and like. But ultimately, all we're doing is we're trying to assign a curriculum to the web data that we have to allow the model to learn better. I think at some point, as things get compute, as models get cheaper to run, as the next generations of compute, this will become more of a continuous spectrum. I also think the reason, by the way, you have training and like stage two and stage three is organizational, Right? It'- this is, I think, a thing where-- that we really try to avoid with the model factory is like Training exists because there's a training team now, right? There's people, or like people in training decide to focus on like a training effort. but what you really want is engineering and scale of experiments that allows for a much more continuous spectrum that you don't, you have infinite stages. Now, we're not there. Compute's not there. Organization design is not there for it yet. but I think we'll get there. we'll look back on a couple of years and be like, “Oh my God, it was so cute that we did our training data like this in such a like naïve way. Like we barely ordered it. We didn't really do a good job at likeCurriculum, Auto Research, and New ObjectivesVibhu [00:48:48]: The building that curriculum will get you that in the industry.Eiso Kant [00:48:51]: And I'll confirm that, when I talk to some researchers that this is a lot of the focus now is like how does training change and what is the next objective other than, next token prediction. I assume you don't have the answers, but you have some ideas.Vibhu [00:49:02]: We have some ideas. We're not ready to talk about it yet.Eiso Kant [00:49:05]: Yeah.Vibhu [00:49:05]: We've been working on them for years, and I think that's the one thing that's also like you asked earlier about, like what's not obvious about building a foundation model company is that you are constantly balancing the table stakes work, the recipe worksEiso Kant [00:49:19]: Yeah.Vibhu [00:49:19]: Versus like your, my crazyEiso Kant [00:49:22]: Pure researchVibhu [00:49:22]: Breakthrough.Eiso Kant [00:49:22]: Yeah.Vibhu [00:49:22]: Pure research and finding that balance and adjusting the percentage to it based on where you are in the race is really important.Eiso Kant [00:49:31]: I mean, so like, this is a nice way. I was gonna bring up auto research at some pointVibhu [00:49:35]: YesEiso Kant [00:49:35]: As another Andrej invention, or coinage, which is like, I honestly, like how many objective functions can there be, right? Like just try 1,000 of them, set it running, whatever.Vibhu [00:49:47]: Man, it's alsoEiso Kant [00:49:48]: Like what you're looking for. You're looking for loss curves like that, likeVibhu [00:49:51]: It's also a thing people take bets on, right? When you say more Neo labs, you're doing a version of we'll do foundation models, scale them up, next token predictors. A lot of other Neo labs that we see want to take a completely different approach, right? At some level, you're right. It's all, compute efficiency, and that's the net objective. But some are okay, different architecture, like vastly different amounts of compute spend. So some are different. They're not justEiso Kant [00:50:19]: YeahVibhu [00:50:19]: They're like, 99% not balancing, here's the vanilla and scale up. They're 99% on, here's novel research that'll change everything.Eiso Kant [00:50:27]: And I think, Luke, I think you. It depends when you started as well, right?Pure Research vs. Table StakesVibhu [00:50:30]: Yeah.Eiso Kant [00:50:30]: When we started, like the novel thing we did was reinforcement learning on code. No long- that's no longer novel by far, but we were like, - that's where we obsessed over when no one believed in RL. So you have to when you start the company, you have to have your own idea. You have to have something that's different that allows you to speed up, right? For us, it was RL to LLMs that later became common, like, Knowledge. But in the beginning, it wasn'tVibhu [00:50:53]: It's cool. this was like your original 2023 blogEiso Kant [00:50:57]: YeahVibhu [00:50:57]: Of purpose.Eiso Kant [00:50:58]: Yeah.Vibhu [00:50:59]: And like you do lay it all out here.Eiso Kant [00:51:01]: We laidVibhu [00:51:01]: The blog is pretty underrated, right? The whole RL on code was very early on.Eiso Kant [00:51:06]: Very early. And even we had to argue with people, like we say here things like to push beyond current capability, to train your own foundation model. We had to argue with people that it mattered that you had your own like, base model. you can fine-tune your way to success, right? major capabilities emerge from training a base model made accurate and useful during fine-tuning.Vibhu [00:51:23]: Which like, for perspective at the time, we knew closed models, OpenAI, Anthropic were huge. The open models we had were like Mistral 7B, a 30B, a 70B.Eiso Kant [00:51:35]: When weVibhu [00:51:35]: YeahEiso Kant [00:51:36]: The date on this thing is wrong. When we published this, it was April 2023. I think this was justVibhu [00:51:42]: YeahEiso Kant [00:51:42]: Happened on a migration, probably found it on archive.org.Vibhu [00:51:45]: Mistral.Eiso Kant [00:51:46]: Mistral had started, we started on the same month, right?Vibhu [00:51:49]: Yeah.Eiso Kant [00:51:49]: So this wasn't even, there was only, I think, Llama out at the timeVibhu [00:51:52]: SnellEiso Kant [00:51:52]: And that's it, right? And so, but I agree. I think we wan

Xs and Argos Podcast
Pregame Walkthrough – Week 8: Argos at Lions

Xs and Argos Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2026 55:14


The Toronto Argonauts have reached a crossroads. After nearly two months on the road, the Double Blue head to Vancouver for what might be the most important game of the season. A win over the BC Lions sends Toronto into its bye week with momentum and in a good position in the standings before finally returning home. A loss would mean three straight defeats to backup quarterbacks and plenty of questions heading into the second half of the season. This week, Ben Grant and JB break down Toronto's latest roster moves, including the return of two familiar faces. Veteran pass-rusher Shawn Lemon is back for a third stint with the Argonauts, bringing 103 career sacks and three Grey Cup rings to a defensive line in need of reinforcements. DeWayne Hendrix also returns just one week after being released, as Toronto continues to shuffle its roster amid a growing list of injuries. The guys also congratulate Jack Cassar on being selected for induction into the Carleton Ravens Hall of Fame, recognizing one of the most accomplished defensive careers in program history and the outstanding CFL career he's continued to build with the Argonauts. Also on this week's episode: Home Suite Home, with another chance to win box tickets to Toronto's home opener Pick Six, featuring a listener question about what's changed with the Argos' defence over the past three weeks The latest injury report as Toronto limps toward a much-needed bye week A full game preview and detailed Xs-and-Os breakdown of Argonauts vs. Lions One Thing, Put Me Down for 20, and Challenge Flag Can the Argos finally put together a complete performance? Will Chad Kelly and the offence find the right balance against one of the CFL's best defensive fronts? And can Toronto avoid a third straight loss to a backup quarterback? Ben and JB break it all down as the Argonauts prepare for what could be the defining game of their season.

Xs and Argos Podcast
Postgame Reaction – Tiger-Cats 24, Argonauts 23

Xs and Argos Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2026 38:53


The Toronto Argonauts suffered a heartbreaking 24-23 loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday night, and while the lasting image will be Lirim Hajrullahu's missed 31-yard field goal as time expired, Ben Grant and JB explain why the game was lost long before the final kick. Yes, Hajrullahu missed the game-winning field goal. Yes, he also missed an extra point earlier in the contest. But football is the ultimate team game, and this defeat belonged to all three phases. On offence, the CFL's highest-scoring unit got off to a dream start, marching down the field for a touchdown on its opening possession. From there, however, Toronto managed just three points over the next three quarters before mounting a furious fourth-quarter comeback that ultimately came up one point short. Chad Kelly finished with over 320 passing yards, but the Argos simply waited too long to find their rhythm. Defensively, the numbers tell one story, but the film tells another. Holding Hamilton to 24 points should be enough to win most nights, but the Tiger-Cats did all of their scoring through the first three quarters. By the fourth, Hamilton was without both starting offensive tackles and had a fullback playing guard on an all-Canadian offensive line. The Argos finally took control defensively, but earlier in the game they struggled to contain Tre Ford, repeatedly taking poor pursuit angles and allowing him to escape what should have been drive-ending sacks. On this week's Postgame Reaction, Ben and JB dig into every turning point, every missed opportunity, and why it's far too simplistic to pin the loss on one player or one kick. They also highlight the bright spots, including the resilience Toronto showed in battling back to give itself a chance in the final seconds. The easy takeaway is that one missed field goal cost Toronto the game. The correct takeaway is that a collection of mistakes over four quarters left the Argos badly needing that kick. Ben Grant and JB break it all down on this week's Xs and Argos Postgame Reaction.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 634 – Spitfire

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2026 80:04


    Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 634. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, Hi-Point Firearms, and CMC Triggers. In this show I have another 1x prism review. We talk about a comped HD P4x, some NDEX sights, a Light - weight, and a Spitfire   As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, Rob, Rusty   Sponsor #1: CMC Triggers    CMC triggers is the creator of the original, drop in cartridge style AR trigger. CMC has been in  aerospace manufacturing for over 30 years. This gives you peace of mind knowing that every trigger is of the utmost quality. Their patented design ensures a crisp, short, trigger pull across their whole line of triggers. With triggers for AR's, AK's, pistols, and bolt guns, CMC can make your firearms trigger great. Proudly made in Texas with strong morals and values, giving you confidence that you are buying one of the best triggers out there. Choose Confidence, choose quality, choose CMC    Our CMC Product of the week is - AK-47 Flat Single Stage Trigger Group 2.0   Use Code “GGR26” for 10% off at CMCTriggers.com   What we did in Firearms:   Announcements: Kat's Rack Defense fund https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund    Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com CMC Triggers - “GGR26” for 10% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off XTech Tactical - “GGR10” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Main Topic is sponsored by: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - Full Forge Gear Torrent double rifle case   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com   Main Topic: Product Review  Chad - Primary Arms SLx MicroPrism T   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    Staccato HD P4X MSRP - $3599.00   Saberdyne NDEX sights MSRP - $139.00 - 149.00   Sponsor #3: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - R3D 2.0 Night Sights for PSA Dagger Micro   Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   Herrington Arms V2 Anchor Light Weight MSRP - $79.99   Kizer Spitfire Supermarine Edition MSRP - $180.00   Sponsor #4: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - Blem Titanium Bolt Carrier Group   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   Listener Feedback None   2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, pound for pound, podcast on the network We are out

ATHLETE 1 PODCAST
Blue-Collar Blueprint for Baseball Players

ATHLETE 1 PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2026 33:41 Transcription Available


Send us Fan MailDivision I baseball isn't just "more intense"—it's a daily war of attrition where a single bad day can cost your players an entire week of progress. On this episode of Baseball Coaches Unplugged, two-way standout Keegan Holmstrom pulls back the curtain on the brutal daily discipline required to survive and dominate at the collegiate level.Keegan breaks down the exact blue-collar routine he uses to balance elite lifting, nutrition, and skill work. He also shares raw insight into navigating the chaos of the modern transfer portal era, dealing with sudden coaching changes, gray-shirting, and grinding through the mental hurdles of elbow surgery.For the coaches looking for a tactical edge, we dive deep into the Xs and Os. Keegan walks us through Wright State's exact game-week routine, their approach to pitch-shape simulation, and why executing the bunt remains a devastating offensive weapon. This is a masterclass in building a "why not us" culture that allows mid-majors to roll into Power Five stadiums and expect a sweep.Coaches, pass this one along to your roster. Inside this episode, we unpack:The Two-Way Blueprint: The scheduling reality your high school recruits aren't prepared for.Portal & Culture Realities: Managing players through coaching transitions, gray-shirting, and roster battles.Locker Room Chemistry: How to foster fierce internal competition without letting ego poison team culture.The Wright State Routine: A breakdown of their early hitting, film nights, and game-week prep.In-Game Adjustments: Tactical breathwork, heart-rate control, and flush-it mentalities after bad at-bats.Hit Subscribe, leave a review with your biggest takeaway, and share this episode with a coach or player who needs to elevate their standard.Support the showFollow:  X | @BCUPod / IG @baseballcoachesunplugged Website - https://www.athlete1.netSponsor: The Netting Professionalshttps://www.nettingpros.com

Xs and Argos Podcast
Pregame Walkthrough – Week 7: Argos vs. Tiger-Cats

Xs and Argos Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2026 63:15


After five straight games away from BMO Field, the Toronto Argonauts finally get something close to a home game as they head to Hamilton to face the Tiger-Cats in a pivotal East Division showdown. Ben Grant and JB get you set for a matchup that feels like a must-win for both clubs. This week, the guys break down a busy stretch of transactions, including Toronto's release of defensive tackle Dewayne Hendrix and offensive lineman Anim Dankwah, a trade for a former All-SEC player for Alabama, and the signing of standout Windsor kicker Brady Lidster. The conversation then turns to Chad Kelly, whose candid comments about Toronto's unprecedented road-heavy start to the season made headlines well beyond the CFL. Ben and JB discuss whether Kelly's frustrations are justified, how much the constant travel has affected the Argos, and why finally getting closer to home could make a difference over the second half of the season. Also on this week's episode: Home Suite Home, with another chance to win box tickets to Toronto's home opener Another surprise visit to practice from a former Argo Pick Six, featuring a listener question about the Hamilton seating controversy Injury Report OCDC One Thing Put Me Down for 20 Challenge Flag With Bo Levi Mitchell sidelined, the Tiger-Cats enter the week searching for answers at quarterback, while Toronto has an opportunity to get back above .500. It's another packed edition of the Xs and Argos Pregame Walkthrough, getting you ready for one of the biggest games of Toronto's season so far.

Gill Athletics: Track and Field Connections
#371: James Randall-Warsaw Community (IN) HS | Coaching, Fatherhood & Raising a Division I High Jumper

Gill Athletics: Track and Field Connections

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2026 144:58


There are coaching journeys—and then there are life journeys that shape how you coach.In this episode, we sit down with James Randall of Warsaw Community High School in Indiana, a coach whose path didn't follow the traditional route. From trade school to the sidelines, James built his coaching career through curiosity, mentorship, and a deep commitment to doing things the right way.But this conversation goes deeper than Xs and Os.James opens up about the influence of strong mentors, the lessons that shaped his leadership style, and how his perspective on coaching changed when he became a father. His son is now one of the top high jumpers in the country—recently signing to compete at University of Georgia—and that journey adds a powerful layer to what it means to coach with purpose.This is a conversation about balance, legacy, and understanding that coaching isn't just about developing athletes—it's about developing people.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 633 – 380 BC

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2026 62:06


  Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 633. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, Hi-Point Firearms, and CMC Triggers. In this show we will be discussing a prism review and discuss a Colt red dot, a new ported double stack, an Esee folder, and something interesting and probably terrible from Bear Creek   As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, Rob, Rusty   Sponsor #1: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - YC 380   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com   What we did in Firearms:   Announcements: Kat's Rack Defense fund https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund    Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com CMC Triggers - “GGR26” for 10% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off XTech Tactical - “GGR10” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Main Topic is sponsored by: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - The brand new Smith & Wesson Fiber Optic Revolver Sights   Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   Main Topic: Product Review Chad - ZeroTech Thrive HD 1x Micro Prism   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    Colt Optics MRS-1 Red Dot MSRP - $428.000   Military Armament Corporation Cerberus Ported MSRP - $899.00   Sponsor #3: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - Flat Dark Earth DLC Bolt Carrier Group   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   Bear Creek Grizzly compact 380 MSRP - $349.99   Esee Knives Expat Medellin II Retail - $69.99   Sponsor #4: CMC Triggers    CMC triggers is the creator of the original, drop in cartridge style AR trigger. CMC has been in  aerospace manufacturing for over 30 years. This gives you peace of mind knowing that every trigger is of the utmost quality. Their patented design ensures a crisp, short, trigger pull across their whole line of triggers. With triggers for AR's, AK's, pistols, and bolt guns, CMC can make your firearms trigger great. Proudly made in Texas with strong morals and values, giving you confidence that you are buying one of the best triggers out there. Choose Confidence, choose quality, choose CMC    Our CMC Product of the week is - AR-15/10 Single Stage Curved Component Trigger   Use Code “GGR26” for 10% off at CMCTriggers.com   Listener Feedback None   2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, pound for pound, podcast on the network We are out

Xs and Argos Podcast
Pregame Walkthrough – Week 6: Argos at Blue Bombers

Xs and Argos Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2026 58:01


The Toronto Argonauts continue their season-opening road trip with one of the toughest assignments in the CFL - a Friday night showdown in Winnipeg. Ben Grant and JB get you set for a pivotal Week 6 matchup as the 2-2 Argos look to climb the East Division standings and prove they're not the team some Power Rankings would have you believe. On this week's episode: Toronto's latest roster moves, including the exciting addition of Bubba Bolden Home Suite Home, with another chance to win box tickets to Toronto's home opener Pick Six, featuring a question about how the Argos prepare defensively without knowing Winnipeg's starting QB The latest injury report, including the impact of Dakota Shepley's return to practice and Cameron Judge's absence A full game preview and Xs-and-Os breakdown of both teams One Thing, Put Me Down for 20, and Challenge Flag Can the Argos slow down Brady Oliveira? Will Chad Kelly continue his strong start to the season? Ben Grant and JB break it all down on this week's Xs and Argos Pregame Walkthrough.

Let's Talk Supply Chain
552: Expand Your Visibility and Achieve Asset Tracking at Scale, with Samsara

Let's Talk Supply Chain

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2026 26:23


David Gal of Samsara talks about their new Tracking Label; shipment visibility; cargo theft, building a tiered tracking strategy; and becoming proactive. IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:   [01.13] An introduction to David and his role at Samsara. "We digitize everything that's not a vehicle!" [02.03] What visibility into a shipment's journey typically looks like, the biggest barriers to accurate visibility, the solutions currently on the market – and why they don't solve the problem. "For consumers, tracking can be frustrating. But, for businesses, it's a real challenge… The most you're getting is barcode-based scans on the package… And to call that breadcrumbs is generous." [05.25] How the Samsara Tracking Label works, how it evolved from the Asset Tag, and what makes it different from existing shipment tracking approaches, and why the Samsara network is key to success. "Everyone is familiar with the concept of Bluetooth tracking but it didn't exist in the world of physical operations until we built it… In consumer it works with mobile phones, but that's not enterprise-grade and it doesn't scale." [09.28] Real-world use cases for Samsara's range of tagging solutions, and which you should choose for your challenge or asset. [12.09] The big issue of cargo theft, and how the Samsara Tracking Label helps tackle it. [15.04] How customers are thinking about building a tiered tracking strategy, and creating a hybrid approach with Samsara's GPS-powered device, Bluetooth tag and new ultra-compact XS. [18.20] How real-time visibility shifts teams from reactive to proactive and what that means for incident prevention and recovery timelines. "This shifts the game from reactive to proactive... The key is to detect anomalies as they're happening." [20.30] How Samsara's vision of a fully digitized job site could help businesses thrive in a complex landscape. "This is a complicated ecosystem. There's a lot that goes into every shipment… so you need to identify risks sooner." RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED:   Head over to Samsara's website now to find out more and discover how they could help you too. You can also connect with Samsara and keep up to date with the latest over on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and X (Twitter), or you can connect with David on LinkedIn. If you enjoyed this episode and want to hear more from Samsara, check out 524: Increase the Safety, Efficiency and Sustainability of Your operations, with Samsara or 529: Empower The People Who Power The World, with Samsara. Check out our other podcasts HERE.

Jake's Take with Jacob Elyachar
Jake's AGT Take – The Season 21 Halfway Point

Jake's Take with Jacob Elyachar

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2026 13:33 Transcription Available


America's Got Talent (AGT): Season 21 Judges' Auditions returned after its Fourth of July celebration!Since the Judges' Auditions began, the entire on-air team (Host Terry Crews, Judges Howie Mandel, Mel B, Sofia Vergara & show creator Simon Cowell) has raced each other to award acts the Golden Buzzer, which entitled the recipients a spot in the Season 21 Live Shows.  Before the episode aired, Simon, Howie, and Mel B pressed both of their Golden Buzzers, leaving only Terry and Sofia with one, respectively. Did Terry or Sofia use their Golden Buzzer tonight? If yes, who was the lucky recipient? Did any act receive any Xs? Listen on to find out!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/jake-s-take-with-jacob-elyachar--4112003/support.

X's and Joe's
[62] The Twilight of the NCAA (with Galen Clavio)

X's and Joe's

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2026 75:39


In this episode of Xs and Joes, Bob Moats and Mike Wiemuth welcome Galen Clavio for a wide-ranging discussion about the NCAA's uncertain future. From tournament expansion to NIL, governance, and amateurism, the conversation explores some of the biggest questions facing college athletics—and why there may not be easy answers.Catching Up on the SummerBefore diving into the main topic, the guys touch on a few offseason storylines.Updates on IU football and basketball as summer rolls alongWhat to watch for in the coming weeksA few thoughts on where the Back Home Network is headed this fallIs the NCAA Still Built for Today's Game?The heart of the episode centers on a simple but fascinating question: what exactly is the NCAA supposed to be in 2026?Why the organization's original mission looks very different todayA look back at how college athletics arrived at this momentWhether the NCAA can still govern the modern landscapeAn entertaining historical comparison you probably won't see comingTournament Expansion and the Bigger PictureThe recent talk of expanding the NCAA Tournament sparks one of the episode's most interesting conversations.Is expansion solving the right problem?What questions should be asked before adding more teams?How expansion fits into the NCAA's larger challengesA spirited debate that goes beyond simple "for" or "against" argumentsWhere Does College Sports Go From Here?The discussion closes by looking ahead.How NIL and the transfer portal continue changing the coaching professionWhether college sports needs an entirely new governance modelWhat today's environment means for coaches, schools, and fansA few predictions about where things could be headed next See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 632 – Murica

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2026 56:49


  Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 632. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, Hi-Point Firearms, and CMC Triggers. In this show we will be discussing a western bb pistol, the Donner party, the pony express, and an American Raider.   As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, Rob   Sponsor #1: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - Springfield Armory Notch & Post Tritium Night Sights    Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   What we did in Firearms:   Announcements: Brigid is the winner and donated the rifle back to Kat Kat's Rack Defense  https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund  Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off Lone Wolf Arms US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off XTech Tactical - “GGR10” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off BattleHawk Armory Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com CMC Triggers - “GGR26” for 10% off   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Product Spotlight is sponsored by: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - 2 slot NILE grip panels   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   Main Topic: Product Review or Updates on previous reviews None   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    Winchester Air Western .177 CO2 BB/Pellet Revolver MSRP - $129.90   Dauntless Donner Party Hiker MSRP - $425.00   Sponsor #3: CMC Triggers    CMC triggers is the creator of the original, drop in cartridge style AR trigger. CMC has been in  aerospace manufacturing for over 30 years. This gives you peace of mind knowing that every trigger is of the utmost quality. Their patented design ensures a crisp, short, trigger pull across their whole line of triggers. With triggers for AR's, AK's, pistols, and bolt guns, CMC can make your firearms trigger great. Proudly made in Texas with strong morals and values, giving you confidence that you are buying one of the best triggers out there. Choose Confidence, choose quality, choose CMC    Our CMC Product of the week is - Drop-In Glock Gen 6 trigger   Use Code “GGR26” for 10% off at CMCTriggers.com   One Horse Express MSRP - $999.99   Orthos Raider America 250 Elite MSRP - $1799.99   Sponsor #4: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - GOA 995 TS   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com   Happy 250th INDEPENDENCE DAY!    Listener Feedback None   2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, pound for pound, podcast on the network We are out  

The Annie Frey Show Podcast
How to advance your career by trading in your friends for better ones (Hour 3)

The Annie Frey Show Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2026 39:31


This is great advice we're giving you. Trade in your friends for more attractive ones and it could benefit you greatly. It's all about achievement and advancement, and it's dog eat dog out here in hotland. This occurs during Xs and Ys, when we answer gender questions.

Beyond Coaching
Coaching Athletes Who Are Over-Pressured and Under-Prepared With David Durand

Beyond Coaching

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2026 37:37


In this episode of Beyond Coaching, Rob talks with David Durand about what is actually limiting today's athletes and why it is rarely talent.David explains how modern athletes are dealing with more pressure and less preparation, largely driven by social media and unrealistic expectations. That combination shows up in performance when athletes get stuck in their head and struggle to carry practice into games.The conversation centers on a simple framework. Athletes operate in three modes called connection, action, and shutdown. What often looks like laziness or poor attitude is usually dysregulation. When coaches understand these states, they can respond more effectively instead of making the situation worse.They also walk through practical tools using the BET method, which focuses on breath, eyes, and touch. These give coaches a way to help athletes regain control of their brain and body in real time.A consistent theme is self awareness. Coaches are not just managing athletes. They are managing themselves. If they do not address their own pressure and identity, it shows up in how they lead.This episode is a straightforward look at how coaching has changed and what actually works now.Key Topics Why athletes struggle mentally more than ever The three modes of connection, action, and shutdown Misreading effort, attitude, and body language Simple tools to regulate performance Coaching beyond Xs and OsResources Bet On It A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond (available on Amazon) Website: realdevelopment.org david@realdevelopment.orgSubstack: https://daviddurand.substack.com/About the Impactful Coaching ProjectThe Impactful Coaching Project exists to help coaches win while developing the whole athlete. It is built on the foundation of competence, care, and consistency and provides practical tools and frameworks for coaching in today's environment.You can find more at impactfulcoachingproject.com. You can receive a free weekly newsletter by signing up at impactfulcoachingproject.substack.com where we share weekly insights, tools, and ideas for coaches who want to lead at a higher level.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 631 – G Con

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2026 86:03


  Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 631. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, Hi-Point Firearms, and CMC Triggers. In this show there's a weaponlight review, we talk about: FRT BCG's, Gideon's LR, a Balikli, and a under $200 22lr suppressor   As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, Rob, Rusty   Sponsor #1: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - NERO 9   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   What we did in Firearms: GunCon, Match   Announcements: Kat's Rack Defense fund and giveaway closes Sunday https://www.firearmsinsider.tv/giveaway  https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund  https://www.facebook.com/share/1DoL2dpmoK/    Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off Lone Wolf Arms US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off XTech Tactical - “GGR10” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off BattleHawk Armory Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com CMC Triggers - “GGR26” for 10% off   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Main Topic is sponsored by: CMC Triggers    CMC triggers is the creator of the original, drop in cartridge style AR trigger. CMC has been in  aerospace manufacturing for over 30 years. This gives you peace of mind knowing that every trigger is of the utmost quality. Their patented design ensures a crisp, short, trigger pull across their whole line of triggers. With triggers for AR's, AK's, pistols, and bolt guns, CMC can make your firearms trigger great. Proudly made in Texas with strong morals and values, giving you confidence that you are buying one of the best triggers out there. Choose Confidence, choose quality, choose CMC    Our CMC Product of the week is - Flat Remington 700 adjustable trigger   Use Code “GGR26” for 10% off at CMCTriggers.com   Main Topic: Product Review Chad - Inforce ARC 650   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    KAK DBC Down Vent, Dual Ejector bolt carrier MSRP - $224.95   Gideon Guardian LR 5-25×56 MSRP - $599.99 code GGR for 10% off   Sponsor #3: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - HP-15 300 blk Pistol in Gold (see cool new brace)   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com   EAA Balikli BLK MSRP - $669.00   Warrior Systems Legionary 22 Suppressor MSRP - $189.99   Sponsor #4: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - Magazine extensions for Walther   Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   Listener Feedback None   2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, pound for pound, podcast on the network We will see you next week We are OUT!  

The Buckeye Weekly Podcast
BONUS: How Matt Patricia Mixes Looks In Cover 2

The Buckeye Weekly Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2026 12:31 Transcription Available


This is a recent episode of Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning featuring host Tom Orr and Michael Pettit, who is one of the Xs and Os insiders at BuckeyeInsiders.com. Subscribe to the show if you have not yet done so!----Defensive schemes are about more than just covering the opposing players. They're also about confusing the opposing quarterback and coaching staff, while keeping things simple enough that your players can execute the plan. And while mixing different coverage schemes is certainly one way to do it, there are also ways to show different looks within the same basic coverage. In this episode of the Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning podcast, Michael Pettit, one of the Xs and Os insiders at BuckeyeInsiders.com, joins host Tom Orr to look at how Ohio State defensive coordinator Matt Patricia is able to take a Cover 2 scheme and put a very different spin on things. Today's show is presented by Jeff Ruby's Columbus, the award-winning upscale steakhouse in downtown Columbus, named one of the top-50 steakhouses in America by Food Network. Just go to JeffRuby.com/Columbus to check out the menu and make a reservation today.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 630 – Omega

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2026 67:51


  Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 630. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, Hi-Point Firearms, and CMC Triggers. In this show, Rusty has some mag reviews, we discuss the new Hawke HD 1-8, a new bi-pod, F'd Rost Martins, and the new Montana   As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, Rob, Rusty   Sponsor #1: CMC Triggers    CMC triggers is the creator of the original, drop in cartridge style AR trigger. CMC has been in  aerospace manufacturing for over 30 years. This gives you peace of mind knowing that every trigger is of the utmost quality. Their patented design ensures a crisp, short, trigger pull across their whole line of triggers. With triggers for AR's, AK's, pistols, and bolt guns, CMC can make your firearms trigger great. Proudly made in Texas with strong morals and values, giving you confidence that you are buying one of the best triggers out there. Choose Confidence, choose quality, choose CMC    Our CMC Product of the week is - AR15/10 - Flat single stage purple    Use Code “GGR26” for 10% off at CMCTriggers.com   What we did in Firearms:   Announcements: Kat's Rack Defense fund and giveaway https://www.firearmsinsider.tv/giveaway  https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund  https://www.facebook.com/share/1DoL2dpmoK/    Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off Lone Wolf Arms US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off XTech Tactical - “GGR10” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off BattleHawk Armory Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com CMC Triggers - “GGR26” for 10% off   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Main Topic is sponsored by: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - 1095 EDGE   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com   Main Topic: Product Review or Updates on previous reviews Rusty - ETS Omega Magazines   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    Hawke Vantage HD 30 1-8x24 5.56 BDC reticle MSRP - $469.00                                                                                Spartan Javelin Lite TL MSRP - $170.00   Sponsor #3: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - Plus 5 mag extension for Smith & Wesson M&P   Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   Rost Martin RM1F MSRP - $469.00   Montana Knife Company - The Montana MSRP - $390.00   Sponsor #4: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - NILE OD Green grip panels   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   Listener Feedback None   2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, Costco sized podcast on the network We are out  

Dear Hank & John
457: Big Ball Curators

Dear Hank & John

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2026 51:02


How do I best support someone trying to quit smoking? Why do migraines create such strange symptoms? Why are dead people and animals in cartoons often depicted with Xs for eyes? What do I do with a headstone in my backyard that is from the 1800s? How should I display all my nerdfighter memorabilia? Do ducks have ears? …Hank and John Green have answers!If you're in need of dubious advice, email us at hankandjohn@gmail.comJoin us for monthly livestreams at patreon.com/dearhankandjohnProduced for Hank and John Green by ComplexlySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Annie Frey Show Podcast
Is chivalry dead? Or are we blind to it? (Hour 3)

The Annie Frey Show Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2026 43:16


There are very particular ways men still honor women, but are they "chivalrous?" We discuss, and then take up Xs and Ys questions between the genders, including how hot Ryan Gosling is or is not, and the same for Rachel McAdams.

Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning
Ohio State Football: How Matt Patricia Mixes Looks In Cover 2

Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2026 11:30 Transcription Available


Defensive schemes are about more than just covering the opposing players. They're also about confusing the opposing quarterback and coaching staff, while keeping things simple enough that your players can execute the plan. And while mixing different coverage schemes is certainly one way to do it, there are also ways to show different looks within the same basic coverage. In this episode of the Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning podcast, Michael Pettit, one of the Xs and Os insiders at BuckeyeInsiders.com, joins host Tom Orr to look at how Ohio State defensive coordinator Matt Patricia is able to take a Cover 2 scheme and put a very different spin on things. Today's show is presented by Jeff Ruby's Columbus, the award-winning upscale steakhouse in downtown Columbus, named one of the top-50 steakhouses in America by Food Network. Just go to JeffRuby.com/Columbus to check out the menu and make a reservation today.

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 629 – Rimfire Radio

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2026 89:06


  Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 629. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, Hi-Point Firearms, and CMC Triggers. In this show there's a MAC IX review. We talk with Rimfire Radio about Odin's Trail, a FPC 22, and a competition 22 trigger.   As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, AR-Drew and The Gat Lab    Sponsor #1: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - JXP 10   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com    What we did in Firearms:   Announcements: Kat's Rack Defense fund and giveaway https://www.firearmsinsider.tv/giveaway  https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund  https://www.facebook.com/share/1DoL2dpmoK/    Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off Lone Wolf Arms US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off XTech Tactical - “GGR10” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off BattleHawk Armory Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com CMC Triggers - “GGR26” for 10% off   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Main Topic is sponsored by: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - Minimalist Revolver Night Sights for Smith & Wesson 629   Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   Main Topic: Product Review   Chad - MAC IX   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    Rimfire Radio crap https://firearmsradio.net/category/podcasts/rimfire-radio-show/ https://www.instagram.com/rimfireradio/ https://rimfireradio.com/   Odin Works Trail 22 MSRP - $299.00   Sponsor #3: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - NERO 9   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   Timney Competition 10/22 trigger MSRP - $299.99   Smith & Wesson M&P FPC 22lr MSRP - $549.00   Sponsor #4: CMC Triggers    CMC triggers is the creator of the original, drop in cartridge style AR trigger. CMC has been in  aerospace manufacturing for over 30 years. This gives you peace of mind knowing that every trigger is of the utmost quality. Their patented design ensures a crisp, short, trigger pull across their whole line of triggers. With triggers for AR's, AK's, pistols, and bolt guns, CMC can make your firearms trigger great. Proudly made in Texas with strong morals and values, giving you confidence that you are buying one of the best triggers out there. Choose Confidence, choose quality, choose CMC    Our CMC Product of the week is - Flat Single Stage drop in for the M&P 15/22   Use Code “GGR26” for 10% off at CMCTriggers.com   Listener Feedback None   2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, pound for pound, podcast on the network We are out  

Productive Conversations with Matt Brown
The Knicks Are One Win Away

Productive Conversations with Matt Brown

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2026 71:19


The New York Knicks are one game away from their first NBA Championship since 1973. After being down 29 points in the third quarter — the largest deficit ever overcome in NBA Finals history — the Knicks won Game 4 107-106 on an OG Anunoby tip-in with just over a second left. Matt and Ryan sit down to talk about the feeling of this moment, not the Xs and Os. What does it mean? What does the city feel? And how does a franchise and a fanbase process being this close?Series: Knicks lead 3-1. Game 5 is Saturday in San Antonio.Tap into Episode 758 of  the Productive Conversations Podcast—available now on all podcast platforms and YouTubeWhat Happened in Game 4!?! (6:35)OG Anunoby- Play of a Lifetime (20:15)Spurs Chocked- Let's Just Say It (36:05)Charles Barkley: "Dumbest Basketball Team in the History of Civilization" (46:35)How fans are reacting on the streets (49:30)Celebrities at the game (1:00:05)Nuclear Opinion (1:05:15Best way to contact our host is by emailing him at productiveconversationspodcast@gmail.com or mbrown3212@gmail.com Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/productive-conversations-with-matt-brown/id1535871441 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7qCsxuzYYoeqALrWu4x4Kb YouTube: @Productive_Conversations  Linktree:https://linktr.ee/productiveconversations

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 628 – Cocaine STD’s

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2026 67:14


  Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 628. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, and Hi-Point. In this show Rusty reviews his STD. We talk about the Pak out, P90 chassis', Echelon Alpha's, and a little fixed blade   As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, Rob, Rusty   Sponsor #1: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - Notch & Post Tritium Night Sights for Springfield Armory   Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   What we did in Firearms:   Announcements: Kat's Rack Defense fund and giveaway https://www.firearmsinsider.tv/giveaway  https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund  https://www.facebook.com/share/1DoL2dpmoK/    Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off Lone Wolf Arms US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off XTech Tactical - “GGR10” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off BattleHawk Armory Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Main Topic is sponsored by: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - 2 slot NILE grip panels   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   Main Topic: Product Review Rusty - Atibal Solar Tactical Dot   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    Rock Island PK-12 Pak-Out - long MSRP - $650.00   Strike Modular Chassis for FN PS90 MSRP - $249.95   Sponsor #3: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - 995 Flag carbines   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com    Springfield Armory Echelon Alpha MSRP - $599.00   Tenable Loki Fixed Blade MSRP - $39.89 - $89.89   Listener Feedback None   2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, pound for pound, podcast on the network We are out  

Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning
Ross Fulton Analysis: How Matt Patricia Combines Complex Looks & Simple Systems

Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2026 15:09 Transcription Available


In this episode of the Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning podcast, Ross Fulton, the Xs and Os guru at BuckeyeInsiders.com, joins host Tom Orr to discuss a fascinating recent article from Cody Alexander of MatchQuarters.com. You can read that article here: https://www.matchquarters.com/p/af414b32-2870-4ea1-bbf3-b6bd2e0c467fToday's episode takes a deep dive into some of the concepts discussed there, including the Penny Front, Passive Pressure, and a breakdown of why the core concepts Patricia relied on in the NFL were not the same ones he used the most with the Buckeyes in 2025.The Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning podcast is sponsored by Jeff Ruby's of Columbus, the award-winning, upscale steakhouse in downtown Columbus, named one of the top-50 steakhouses in America by Food Network. Check out the menu and make a reservation today at JeffRuby.com/Columbus

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)
Gun & Gear Review 627 – Aliens and Optics

Firearms Radio Network (All Shows)

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2026 91:28


  Welcome to the Firearms Insider Gun & Gear Review Podcast episode 627. This episode is brought to you by Walker Defense, XS Sights, and Hi-Point. In this show we have a Premier LPVO review. We talk about the BullWark, Ripley, Magpuls LCP max, and an inexpensive RMSc red dot.    As you may know, we showcase guns, gear, and anything else you might be interested in. We do our best to evaluate products from an unbiased and honest perspective.   I'm Chad Wallace, host of the most dedicated firearms podcast around With me tonight are: Tony, Rusty, and Dave   Sponsor #1: Walker Defense Research   Walker Defense provides shooters with the finest, most innovative, quality, tactical accessories and firearm components around. From their NILE grip panels to their NERO muzzle brakes, no details are ever left behind. Only top quality materials are used in the manufacturing process. Together, all of this gives you some of the best firearm performance around. Everything they have to offer is proudly made in the USA. Walker Defense, where American ingenuity meets bleeding edge technology.   Our Walker Defense Product of the week is - Blem Nickel Boron Bolt Carrier Group   Use code “INSIDER15” FOR 15% OFF everything at walkerdr.com   What we did in Firearms:   Announcements: Kat's Rack Defense fund and giveaway https://www.firearmsinsider.tv/giveaway  https://www.givesendgo.com/Katsrackdefensefund  https://www.facebook.com/share/1DoL2dpmoK/    Bandwidth sponsor Patriot Patch Co.  And their Patch of the Month Club! Check out the Pew.Report T-shirts are available through our FRN site, or click the “Merch” tab on Firearmsinsider.tv   AFFILIATES / DISCOUNTS: Walker Defense Research - enter “INSIDER15” for 15% off XS Sights - “GGR20” for 20% off Primary Arms VZ Grips  Brownells Gun Guys Garage discount code - “FRN15OFF” Atibal Optics - enter “FIREARMSINSIDER20” for 20% off 5.11 Tactical PowerTac Lights - enter “GGR” for a real good discount Modern Spartan Systems - “GGR15” for 15% off Global Ordnance Infinite Defense (Infinity Targets) - “PEW15” for 15% off Guns.com Magpul Palmetto State Armory Unique ARs - “GunGearReview” for 10% off CobraTec Knives - “GGR10” for 10% off Nutrient Survival - “GGR10” for 10% off Gideon Optics - “GGR” or “INSIDER” for 10% off Lone Wolf Arms US Optics - “INSIDER15” for 15% off Camorado - “FIREARMSINSIDER” for 5% off Optics Planet Midway USA Strike Industries North Forest Arms - “GGR” for 10% off Kini SafeAlert - “GGR” for 20% off FoxTrot Mike - “GGR” for 10% off XTech Tactical - “GGR10” for 10% off Die Free Co ZeroTech Optics - “GGR” for 20% off BattleHawk Armory Goliath Defense - “GGR” for 10% off holsters Classic Firearms  True Shot Ammo  Next Level Armament NightStick Hi-Point - “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com   ROB - Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual co-hosts and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Firearms Radio Network and/or their employers. This is NOT legal advice, nor should it be considered as such. Viewer discretion is advised.   Main Topic is sponsored by: Hi-Point     Hi-Point firearms has been crafting American made firearms for over 30 years. If you are looking for your first firearm, or just want something fun for the range, Hi-Point has you covered with models including handguns, pistol caliber carbines, and AR15's. They even have a new suppressor line. Hi-Point firearms can be found at extremely affordable prices, making them available for anyone that wants to protect themselves and/or their families. Every Hi-Point also comes with a lifetime warranty and most of their products are 50 state legal. Hi-Point Firearms, made by the American working man for the American working man.   Our Hi-Point Product of the week is - HP-15 Desert Storm in 5.56   Visit hi-pointfirearms.com and check out their line of products Use code “GGR” FOR $20 off a Hi-Point firearm at ShootAmmo.com    Main Topic: Product Review Chad - Primary Arms PLx 1-8x24 RDB   Product Spotlight and Discussion:    Wilson Combat BullWark MSRP - $1899.00   Manticore Arms Ripley Rail MSRP - 495.00   Sponsor #3: XS Sights   For over 25 years, XS Sights has helped you get on target faster. Offering tritium sights in all different types and styles, low light is no longer an obstacle. Most options come with a brightly colored photoluminescent ring around the tritium. That colored ring makes them work great in the daylight also. XS Sights has sight styles for everyone: Big Dot's, Ghost Rings, Standard Notch and Post, Minimalist, Suppressor Height, all offering tritium options. Available for a plethora of firearms types, from shotguns to handguns, XS sights has you covered for all your low light sighting needs.   Our XS Sights Product of the week is - Tritium standard dot front sight for the Ruger SP101   Use Code “GGR20” for 20% off of almost everything at xssights.com   Ruger LCP Max MSRP - $449.00   Primary Arms CLx Enclosed Reflex Sight MSRP - $179.99   Listener Feedback None   2nd is for Everyone Diversity Shoot Events simonsaystrain on instagram 2nd is for Everyone Facebook 2A4E Web Page   Wrap up: Send questions, comments, or feedback to - gungearreview@gmail.com Remember to Subscribe and Leave us an iTunes Review Be sure to visit the Firearms Insider at www.firearmsinsider.tv Check us out on Facebook, X, and InstaGram @firearmsinsider  Subscribe to our Rumble channel  Please check out all our great sponsors Thank you for listening to the “LARGEST”, pound for pound, podcast on the network We are out