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Bloomberg Radio New York
"stowe" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Stowe have announced plans to be open today, but tomorrow we'll have limited operations. It's only like 15°. I know. What's the big deal? I mean, I'm going to have to out west next week to skip. It's going to be sunny and warm. I'm going out to a little place with some back bowls out there so that'll be good. But it's just because people are too sensitive these days. They are. I was okay. That's my growing up in New York City. Guess what? In kindergarten when I was 5, I walked to school by myself. Oh, of course she did. You know, now these parents had to walk their kids to like saint davids or Buckley, right? And they can't, you know, they're so afraid. Until they're in 5th grade. Jess brings back the reality. A lot of earnings still out there. What gets your attention today? There's a couple names that I'm keeping a close eye on. And so one of them is Clorox, ticker symbol, CLX, sucks up more than 6% on pace for its best day since March 2020. It did have strong earnings and increased its annual profit outlook, but if you zoom out and look at what's happening more broadly with Staples this year among the worst performers in the S&P 500 with that index, that group in the index down about 2% this year, but then if you look on the flip side of that and looking at what's happening with home builders, that sub industry group, it's down a little bit more than 1% today, but it's up 18% this year and you've been seeing more broadly what's been happening in this home builder stocks, especially because this is a component within the discretionary sector. So that's been on fire this year. And so even though we're seeing that group down a little bit today, still up pretty significantly for the year Paul. Clorox. Clorox. Okay, I get that product. I forgot they were standing in public company, but it's $19 billion in market cap based out in Oakland, California. But they make believe. They make bleach. And what else Katie? They also make kitty litter. This is why I love earnings calls. So you have the Clorox chief financial officer say that really litter was the star of the group. We continue to see very strong category growth. So, I mean, people need to buy bathrooms. Because everybody's buying during a pandemic, everybody got a pet or multiple pets, you're a cat person. I am. And how important is litter kitty litter to? Oh my God, you live and die by whether or not you have let her Clorox it sells this fresh step brand, sure you've seen it. It's like a yellowish box. It has a cat on it. Of course we've seen it. I've avoided the you know what? It's not just a pet house. It's not just for cash. John Tucker uses king litter in his car. He sprinkles it along the back seat, the bench seat. Super vehicle. Why? I think there's a long story. I don't know all the details, but I think he sent his kid to the gas station to get some petrol for the lawnmower or something. And the kid didn't even put the cat back on through it in the backseat and it spilled everywhere. And apparently Tucker says kitty litter is very absorbent when you spill gasoline or oil. There you go. And the best way to soak it up. And you can get it scented as well, so it can smell. I hope you got a scented version. Clorox is calling out kit kitty litter. Good stuff. All right, Jess menton. Katie greifeld Bloomberg news. Bringing us up to date on all things on the markets and on kitty litter and multiple uses of kitty litter. Let's get to the story that we were talking about a little bit last year at one point, anything we had so many shortages of so many products. One of the more serious ones was baby formula. And at the time we spoke to Laura Modi, CEO and founder of baby formula company Bobby. She joins us again today. So Laura, thanks so much for joining us here. Can you give us an update on kind of the baby formula market supply demand availability? Where are we right now? Yeah, good to challenge you guys again. Look, it has been a long year. I mean, you can coin last year's four year gate 2022. The shortage of severe and it really was one of the most serious and shortages we've had in a long time. I would say while the shortage is coming to a close, it's still remains a crisis. Fundamentally, we have not addressed the problem, which is domestic supply domestic manufacturing. So until we bolster our domestic manufacturing practices, we may be in this crisis for a long time. So what does it look like then out there for mothers who need formula? Are they able to get any formula? Is it just, you know, high quality formulas in short supply or what's it look like? Or coming up on a year since the Abbott recall happened in some of the shortage started. And as of last week, nearly a third of households or the baby under one said they still had trouble finding formula. Yeah, some high quality ones and some very sensitive formulas as well. So where are we? It just gave us the sense of kind of domestic production domestic supply, kind of, where are we today? Where should it be in your opinion? Yeah. Look, this is, I believe, the cause of what is being just a concentrated and in many ways the complacency of a concentrated industry, 85% of the market is dominated by two players. And those two players have owned the incongruent market for over 40 years. Very little innovation and no competition, which has resulted in the complacency that we see today. And your company, just to refresh, you guys are direct to consumer talk to us about your company Bobby and kind of how you're playing in this market, which I guess a lot of us who don't have children maybe forget how critical it is for so many families. That's right. Look, interesting formula is an essential good. This is not a typical country product. It's not a granola bar. When you start your baby on formula, you
History Unplugged Podcast
"stowe" Discussed on History Unplugged Podcast
"Were coming and taking our resources, it was very intimidating. And then you had other tribes also that you had to worry about. One of our probably biggest rivals at that time would have been the creek nation. And we had to protect our hunting grounds. So there was so much going on that you just, it would be so overwhelming if we look at it in today's light, it would be like, you know, China coming here in Russia coming here and all of them trying to take what we have, it would be such an intimidating time. Looking at nanya, he's life in one respect, she was an international diplomat because she was leading negotiations between two different states. She has a unique background in that she can move between these different cultures, she marries a white settler, or later on, but this isn't the beginning of her story. And to take a step back, looking at different figures during this pivotal period in the 18th century who are building bridges between white settlers and Americans and different Indian nations are people who live between these different worlds. For example, on the Lewis and Clark expedition, sacajawea or some of the pronounced Chicago is married to a French Canadian fur trapper, so this is how she can serve as a translator. And many of these figures at this time period may have an Indian mother or are multilingual due to many different circumstances of their life. And sometimes we portray these people as who have a smattering of language and they help out explorers and whatnot as if they're rug merchant in Cairo who happens to know a little bit of English and can guide you through this crazy world. But in many ways, they are leading diplomatic negotiations on a very high level. So what is in, he's backgrounds that later qualifies her to really enter the world of politics at the highest level in the 18th century in early America. Non his birth was foretold in the Cherokee culture that a great woman would rise out of the wolf clan and lead her people to greatness and when Nancy was born, it is cultural that your parent or grandparent take you to be bathed, it was very cold winter day. She was born sometime in December of 22 of 1722. So we know it was cold and it was told that it was called and her grandmother sugi took her to the water to bathe her as the tradition stance and as she rose up from the creek after watching the baby, a white wolf appeared above them. So she then knew that she was holding the child of the prophecy. And so I believe she was known among them that this was going to happen. And she was trained from a very young age. O'Connor Stowe, which would have been the war chief of the Cherokee nation right around the time of her birth was married to a lady named Lucy ward. Lucy ward was a cousin to her future husband, Brian ward, Lucy, was a lady in waiting for the wife of king George the second's wife in England and when O'Connor star went to England, he met the beautiful Lucy ward, and they fell in love, and she returned to the United States as his wife. And during that period, not long after they came back a few years after they came back and he was born. And non his father had been killed in battle, protecting the chief. And therefore, the uncles became as fathers in our culture. So Lucy being his wife took a shine to my grandmother. And actually taught her English and, you know, different ways of how the white people thought, you know, differently than what we did. And unfortunately, when nanya, he was approximately 7, 8 years old, Lucy succumbed to smallpox. And O'Connor stoa and also and his son, dragging canoe also develops smallpox. As I said, Lucy, unfortunately, passed away, but O'Connor stoa and dragon canoe did survive. So as we progress forward in time, she was in on, you know, her family was basically, we don't believe in our culture and kings and queens and princes and princes and so on and so forth. But they were considered as such by the white people because that's how they looked at leaders in that time for whatever reason. So we weren't princess, but she was treated as such and her uncles were constantly negotiating. Her other uncle out of kula kula was the peace chief. So she has, you know, two uncles that are chiefs, their grandfathers, the chief. So she was constantly around those things and they knew, of course, the story about how this young child would be born from the wolf plant that would rise to greatness and she'd fit the criteria for that. They understood that when she was born. So therefore, I believe that, you know, just her cultural Ness, what she was around on a day to today basis brought all these things into her life. The French were coming in. The English were coming in so she was constantly exposed to other languages and she learned them. She was an intelligent child. She has an auspicious birth. She comes from a high pedigree among her people, but also what vulture to prominence are the choices that she makes in a battle with the creek or the muscogee people. And this is what earns her the title of beloved woman. Can you tell me what she does? This battle in 1755 and how this leads to her becoming a diplomat. Yes. She was pregnant and was ordered to stay at home and of course being the curious type of person that she was. She was, you know, all about her people, her culture, and she wanted to be there when her husband went into battle. So she went in around about way and joined her husband very close to the battle so he couldn't send her back. And during this fight with the creek Indian, Kingfisher, her first husband, was killed. And at that point, she picked up his war Lance and shouted the battle cry to move forward because they were in a process of retreating. They had been told to retreat. She got angry and went for it. And as she raised the lands and yelled out the battle cry, the other warriors stopped what they were doing. They turned around and they followed her back in the war and fortunately they won that war, had they not won that war who knows what would happen to my grandmother. I mean, I have a pretty good idea. What would happen, but she avenged her husband's death and just became a legend through it. And that's how she got the title gay. You beloved woman when they came home, they recognized her in the great things that she'd done that day. From this point on, she is named a leader of the woman's council of clan representatives. What does this mean? What is she doing when she becomes the ambassador and
The Tech Guy
"stowe" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"What's funny is, according to Stowe explorer, I think he's correct, Samsung makes all the panels, right? That's correct. Samsung makes the QD oled panel. Isn't that funny? But it's like LG, Samsung has two divisions. One is the Samsung electronics, which makes the consumer products that people buy. The other is Samsung display, LG has the same thing. They have LG electronics and LG display. And the LG display or the Samsung display is the company that makes the raw panels. And they'll sell them to whoever wants to buy them. And so Samsung display makes the panel that goes in the Samsung QD oled and also in the Sony QD oled. What distinguishes them, it's the processing. It's the fact that the Sony has supports Dolby vision and Samsung has long decided we're not going to pay the licensing fee for Dolby vision and instead we're going to implement this HDR ten plus. Which is fine, but Dolby vision, there's so much more Adobe vision content. That I want a TV that'll decode it. And deal with it. It's worth that's worth the extra money to me. Oh, well, after you buy this, I'm going to I want to get your thoughts. Oh, yeah. I'm not going to buy it till you do. Once you buy it, I'm very curious. Right. Now I meant to mention I didn't on the air that next Tuesday's podcast will be all about the shootout. Okay. I'm going to have I'm going to have Robert zone on. He's the owner of value electronics and the founder of the shootout. I'm going to have Jason dusty from meridia who was one of the calibrators, and David Mackenzie, who was one of the judges. He's a compression. Who works on creating blurays and Ultra HD blurays. So they've got golden eyes for sure. Yeah. And so we're going to spend an hour talking about the event. And how it was how it was set up, and what happened. So it's going to be a really interesting show, I think. I got a question for you. Sure. Can I use the TV as a center channel? In some cases yes. That would be kind of cool. It would be very cool. Yes and no. Sure, it would be cool. But if the TV speakers audio system is really crappy. Well, then it wouldn't be cool. It's not so cool. That would not be cool. Right. Plus the fact that some TVs have that capability. They will let you in the menu, specify that their sound system is going to be the center channel. Yeah, mine, I don't think that. That's an old Panasonic fiero. But some don't. Yeah. It's pretty old.
The Suburban Women Problem
"stowe" Discussed on The Suburban Women Problem
"And stupidly picked the wrong heroes to bam. Everyone was up in arms. There was a universal outrage. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, were all aghast and when those three agree you know you went too far. It sent me on this path. I started looking back through history. And I found, you know, I was like, what's the first book that got banned in America? Like the one that, and again, not on just a singular community level, but on national level. And it was Harriet Beecher Stowe's many historians say Uncle Tom's cabin. And I tell you that to explain this to your answer. Back then, confederates did not like its pro abolitionist arguments..
The Community Cats Podcast
"stowe" Discussed on The Community Cats Podcast
"They range from mild to severe so mild would be. If they're overly excited. You might see a head or you might see them kind of maybe would have like a jump of the skin. Involuntary muscle spasm. Severe would be to the point where they can't move at all. They need a rather extensive care. They might need help going in and out of the litterbox effort is actually categorizes. Moderate stowe he staggers around he be-bop's around the house he does use the litterbox though it might not be very graceful. He does do it so he's kind of falling in the middle of spectrum there on c. h. does not get worse or get better. They do learn muscle memory. So when i adopted different he could not get on the furniture. He couldn't really get around that well but as time went on we did exercise in physical therapy. He he's able to pull himself up on things now so he's a little bit more independent than when he started out but they don't feel any different. They're not suffering. They're not paying. It's not contagious. Get that question. A loss with they. They have a good quality of life. They can live just as long as any other cat. So you said that. They don't have this great muscle control and they look like they're kind of a drunken cat walking around and kind of banging into things or whatever. I mean how to other cats. React to a c. h. cat. Do they get scared of them or do they get intimidated or their personality. Issues or c. h. Cats adaptable with cats. That don't have c h. That's a great question. They are absolutely able to be adopted with other cats. That are ca itcher. Gernon switch in our house we. We have a blended house of misfit toys. Like all it so the cats that i have two of my cats..
Almost 30 Podcast
"stowe" Discussed on Almost 30 Podcast
"I was like i talked to you. I don't like how stripper sit in your lap. And they talk to you. can you in. That was good. You cannot bring up things nine years ago and then say it's applies same. It doesn't apply same at all like also jd hockey. Do you wanna go to the strip club. Honest say joining. He's like no but it's the principle is all about the principle. It is for rising off principle. Sensible at you said i could go and now you're going like this is literally a it's surely their their male cheerleaders. I cared about nothing and also women aren't like they're definitely literally. This is what's going to happen. They're going to. They're going to invite one or two women on stage. They're gonna put her in a chair. They're gonna take off their shirt guys. Do you know they're going to do the body. Roll body roll squally and then unity. It's so predictable. It's like almost it's whatever. Yeah and like the scenarios are show predictable. It's like oh that's too hot and here. We need firefighter Your bells go on fire alarms. We'll start with like. Oh guys everyone. We have a problem. There's a fire in year is like oh it's too hot. There's a fire who's gonna put it out and it's like then they're like they're fireman costumes and then there's going to be flannels okay. So there's going to be firemen flannels. I was reading an this is larry. I was reading an article because they wanted to be sure. There wasn't frontal 'cause. I'm like what i do. But and they said they're like we wanna make it cool to also wear like jeans and a shirt and like habit be sexy which i'm down with actually think that's cool so we're like street clothes. Okay and do what just stand there. No like like clean me. Yeah that'd be. Like i feel like i feel like that the farthest it'll go was like a banana hammock hind legs some thrusts and that's about it will women will be on stage for sure and all man but i don't feel like it's so weird because it's like when women. This is what i perceive but like when women sexualize men it's like klarius like. Oh my god hilarious. Look at her. she's like you know but would men's sexual as women. I'm like jesus christ like what's wrong like you see. I like this is why i could. I've actually never been to a strip club. Is i'm not opposed but i don't think i could because i'm just so much of a feeler right. I was like oh one hundred percent. Yeah needs to ch- yet is actually interesting to think about like. I'm picturing picturing magic. Mike and i'm picturing the woman that's called up on stage and she's like she slaps his ass but i feel like if it was the roles. Were reverse yes. It would be a little uncomfortable. It'd be like oh oh yes certa. Yes. don't touch that's interesting. Yeah not that. I who knows. Yeah keep post. I hope. I hope i hope the person that you're celebrating in vegas gets called onto stage. Oh say me to slow ray. Sloan has such a the she would make it fun. She's the bed. And i think we're gonna see. It says. the thing is when you look at the schedule your like what. Ej do we see like martin garrick stowe chain smokers like and then you schedule a dj and then you go to a pool party. And i don't know how people can be in the pool that grosses me out now mount. There's to my job at. Ut is yeah. There's there's too much happen. Just stay by the edge. Stay by the edge. Anybody we they would. I'm like parched was do what teacher you're gonna see. I think we're going to see. I forget i looked at it odessa. Oh that's a good one. I'm lying actually. Might be lying to naked. Not sad so i should probably look at who it is. I actually just fully lied us. trying to make me okay. Okay chain smokers might be cool if that's an option. We're going to marquee. Obviously oh someone suggested. Dj pauly d. But i think that was a joke. Okay i'll keep you guys posted what we see. But if you guys have the door in vegas let us know. We're going to need some connects to get in as like thirty plus year old woman. Just bandaged dress baby. Don't worry i know. I gotta get my over over line. The lips now just overlying them get your clashes. Guess lashes are balding absolutely no lashes. And i've been looking at up since i got my hormones tested Taking thyroid medicine part of the thyroid medicine side effect is like you literally have like no eyelashes and so i have no eyelashes. Yes reflects wild. Isn't that wild. I've it's actually been really bothering me like it's.
Marketing Trends
"stowe" Discussed on Marketing Trends
"Let's see how this goes and what we found is that we found lifts in place of those conversion rates but then i ali notice around the time of these ads that we will see more writing in us wanting to talk to sales like this. I was. I didn't believe it i actually. I was like sisters. It might just making this move ahead and looking at the numbers like trying to make the numbers look like this is really happening. But then over time we've tracked it and relate. Okay we are seeing the lists around these air and it's been exciting some like we'll keep it. Keep doing this. And now i wanna do worth things like aft because i'm coming our digital marketing background also working for an organization read joe. It have a huge marketing budget. I've always been super careful like okay. Invest this dollar. This is the return. We're going to get on this dollar but now you've as thrown happen able to play worse than playing around more. Unlike won't we are seeing some improvements here so yeah i'm excited to try more activities like that. You think it's one of those things that so the modern marketer and i've talked about this in the past especially the digital marketer. You have a lot of folks. Many folks i've interviewed on this podcast. That are like to the penny. I know exactly what is working. I will kill everything. That's not yet and i will know that i will get doubt in boothby to be like thirty is more art than science at times. Not all the time but at times you're talking about otherwise you wouldn't otherwise sales wouldn't matter right otherwise you would just all convert and just the way but it's like at the end of the day salesperson his still going to be talking to this person and trying to convince them like why. This is the best decision for them right right. It's not just a person right there talking to six people and some people that aren't even talking to those are the folks that are signing the paperwork and so we have to also think about what our brand looks like gray like how do we cut through the clutter. Just know what there isn't friction at that signing face thoroughly. Why are we signing this. Big for Hurt up so that is where marketing plays a big role in that is harder to attribute arrive but it still it's very important piece Think that this idea of waste was something. That was very familiar with marketers. They're right like you're used to waste right because you knew but it's like i'm going to put a bunch of stuff out there that you know tons of people aren't going to like or tower care about or it's gonna just yet fallen deaf ears or it's just not the right target or whatever because most marketing was waist. Now it's like it's very different for us right and not saying that we want to waste dollars but the idea that it's like there is certain elements that you need you like this super bowl ad for bbb company. Everybody says is them. It's like you've seen it work really well for certain people because of like the idea that there is value in doing certain types of things that might be value in a in a way that you didn't necessarily think you were going to get it absolutely and you know just with your partner around the super bowl ad hasn't you have to remember. It's b but you're still marketing a human right and chances are given amount of people that are watching the super bowl. Your term is watching the super bowl. And if you have the budget in a message that resonates to let's say a lot of organizations. Why not do that right because again. You want to be top of mind to these these folks humans when they need to make that decision on your products in like. I think that to your point with the the radio spots that you're talking about right. It's like in that moment. Your sales rep has emailed them three times in a row with no response right. Oh yeah she's sitting there. Like i'm this is i'm losing it like this is the four-time is going to hurt my soul to ask them and it's like you and then that person's listened to a couple ads and they're like oh. I know any to respond to her. But i was at the gym. Oh i know anita responder yes just giving those touches and keeping that person you know engaged in that way especially if they already know who you are or especially if they're like oh i've been meaning to demo the product and i just haven't got time to those type touches are so important right our our good buddy at chained are from. Cmo cooper says paint. This guy's kupa blue and i love. I love that idea right. It's like everywhere you turn. You're seeing your prospects for seeing you somewhere hearing you somewhere and that's like that's how you win exactly you just to chander on best so anything you've done you've been here for five years. You know you could do it in your sleep. Bright your eyes closed. You know you know the demo the numbers. You can do that stuff things that like you know once you get to this point in time and we've had a few other marketers who've kind of get in this mode where especially in start up world or like you grown you grown you grown you grown each challenges a different day and then you kind of wake up one day and you're like okay. I think i kind of know where we're at right now. I feel really good about everything. But i think i need to push myself like i think need to push the organization because we're little too comfortable with whoever at have you had that kind of moment i have. I have to say it's interesting now. In a sense would say the product. He is pushing me. I can't talk about them right now but he has some releases coming out that is changing now at the thinking about some of our marquette. So it's really exciting. Timing's perfect really okay. We don't want to say we've figured out. She never fully figured out. But we've got a place where we like. We think we have a good template for what we need to do. But now there's this new challenge and so it's really exciting. 'cause i'm spending you'd have built a great team with me at issue. Are that can handle some of this current day-to-day nam able to focus more than these newer projects. That were i feel question scare ray. Like like okay. Is this gonna work at. I really resonate with that feeling because they have that five years ago starting with. Hp are like how are we gonna make this work and again not knowing the Lists extremely intimidating. That's i love that you said that those additional you know whether it's released product releases or announcements or those sorts of things and you're like you know how are we going to get this other stuff out as is a great thing that might push you out of the comfort zone. I think curious if you got to this point to where you're like people come to you and you're like hey maybe we should do blank and you're like well. We looked at that two years ago and like it wasn't right. Know whatever and then you catch yourself like that was two years ago. Entire world has changed in the past two years so maybe we should consider the super bowl or maybe we should consider whatever else it is. Because like i probably shouldn't just be saying no to stuff because we haven't considered or because it was two years ago to say earlier talked about celebrity chefs events So it said that to me. Two three years ago. I'd be like crazy. That's fluffy it's not necessary but then types of change right and humans needed something different to do and those have been incredibly successful for us so yeah there in often. Yeah eating my words because you know as a marketer relaxing to be no at all and then someone tells us an idea that's like no you don't marketing and then you think about it. You're like actually. That was a really good idea. So so always kind of a bank in my mind. What seeks adjusted. And and what we can do. I love the adage the marketing adage of when you're sick of hearing your messaging it's starting to reach your your customers.
Marketing Trends
"stowe" Discussed on Marketing Trends
"Stick to those challenges and you know kind of like what i was like is this is going to resonate in a did i was really surprised by that But again it's it's really thinking about like what challenges are your customers having in understanding what those are and leveraging your sales team to say. Hey i'm hearing. This is going on the field marketer. You do something about this. We have a good story to tell here. You figure out how to tell it and that's what we did like okay. Thanks sales team. Thanks for the ear. To the ground for the intel. Okay we solve this problem and we tackled it using content in data to to got leads and customers. Yeah i mean it's an interesting to me. I think people sometime shy away from competitive campaigns. But it's such a funny thing because that's what they're searching right like your prospects are like doing a comparison right. It's like if your problem is is winning the deal. That's one thing if your problem is getting consideration in the first place if you're not even included in the mix like you better be comparing yourself to those other people and i expect it from them too. So it's you know it's fair game out there. Yeah no totally. I mean at the end of the day like you know he needs to position yourself where where your competitors are and if you're not doing you know at at a minimum. I mean your messaging should be doing that stuff anyways if you're not calling them out if you're not calling amount per specifically yeah yeah. Obviously you know you worked on different kinds of campaigns in the past any campaigns that you've worked on in the past that brings some insights of working on the on the more agency side of things or or i don't know say back in the house is that but doing the agency side where it's not quite as as a different experience when when you're the one with the budget and And making the campaign yourself. Kind of sitting in the seat versus can of being on the agency side word like making recommendations on the media side making recommendations. Well one thing i noticed. I'm really a lot more sensitive. Let's say to folks trying to sell in to us versus being the one. That's one difference. I think being on the agency side having been there. I feel like you know. You're very campaign. Focused in on this side. Were very is a different approach. That we're employing. It's more of like multiple campaigns to one prospect versus taking like. Hey here's this wine campaign. Let's look at the results are a did it perform in for our buyer to convert. It takes several Convert elaborate jump lifecycles marketing basically. So there's different tactics. Deploy at every stage of the life cycle. Opt to get someone to that what we call an opportunities sales accepted lead. So there's various campaigns. Were deploying to get them there. So it's kind of different lens. I'm looking at marketing versus. Here's his campaign. How did do because what i'm looking at. Is you know what we invest. In order the programs we invested in to get these prospects to convert. And i really liked to look at the overall picture of lake. This these efforts we put in in this is the pet. We versus getting too granular. Because it's gonna get some leads. Might be in a demo. We have some folks that are in the middle of sales cycle that are participating in a while. So i if the step back and look at the bigger picture because you could have different people in a life cycle participating in a campaign. Yes i mean well so this is this is a great point and it's one that You know when when you talk about the portfolio approach to marketing specifically within bdb where one program is not going to win the deal right like just not going to happen. It's all that its attribution based ray where it's like okay this campaign touch that person. This campaign did this campaign and this campaign did what was the thing that drove them a wall. You could say that. Hey will this webinar after that was when you know the deal closed and it's like you have the last test yeah right. Yeah exactly what last touch so you know. But but i think that that's the thing that you nailed it. I i was kind of searching for there is when you have kind of the agency approach of creating singular campaigns that are achieving one particular result versus the holistic portfolio approach of like. How are we shaping this entire account going forward exactly. I look at like term metrics where we seeing lifts you know. Are we increasing our overall opportunities. So i look at you know big numbers over time and seeing how they kind of impact each other to understand the program affected this because sometimes you might have one. Let's say women are and one person may impact the impacted. That could be six seven. Figure deal right so you could say well your conversion rate was this and it's like no no you have to look at the roi so again you also have to look at different metrics really understand the fruits of your labor. Yeah for sure. Are there any metrics that you particularly focus on that are those like certain pieces of attribution or certain things that you see that you're like okay. That's our gold standard for seeing that than than we're looking good. Yeah i mean sort angle. As i mentioned this opportunities but we on a weekly basis I have a digital marketing specialist. We're constantly looking at just. Conversion rates for the various campaigns. Were running on different digital channels. Because you get a sense of time again. I've been working with each year for five years. I kind of know where conversions that we also are cycled from conversion shoe in a sales long right after step back and be like okay for seeing an ad to be able to explain this. Your ceo and boards like okay. We invested this much here. Were not going to see a return. But hey these numbers are looking good. And here's why i'm seeing you know. Lifted simply look at things like direct hits on our site who's just converting by directly coming to our site and that's a good indicator of brand awareness. And i say that. Yeah i think actually. By this point in time our pipeline should look like this because these kind of indicators early indicators are there any bits that you make that are kind of your five to ten percent year budget or things like that that are like hey if this works great. This is our the experimental budget. Are you of things like that. I just laughing first time this year. We sponsor cairo's doll american public radio. The tech with would. And i. I was like okay. This may just fall on. its face like i just. I don't know we're gonna try this kind of more brand awareness titan ten seconds. Stay what you do why someone would care on the radio that we hope people are listening.
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"But we also have our field marketing team who works with our regional partners and oftentimes like we haven't event with snowflake in the field that's happening In the second half this year will be doing a seminar series because our products are kind of like one can't live without the other basically babied as to feed their data warehouse rate or ray their data platform with google cloud or aws. They all need technology that can get data. They're so their customers. Many of their customers. Were like okay. We're on doing a digital transformation in if you should have like okay bring it or in the cloud. We want folks to run analysis on it. And then they're like well. How would they get the data there and then. How fast do we need to get a state of there. And then also we pulling the data from an acl released solves a lotta those questions that folks have in why we work with them in really are tool is really made for the enterprise. Because you'll probably hear there's a lot of data integration tools on the market. Were we stand out. Is the fact that one we can move these high volumes of data we can do it from systems like sap and then also we're able to do it in a very secure way with how we wrote the data as you probably know. Data in the cloud is another concern as well. So of course you know able to do that. Really security with encryption the way our architecture kennedy over good friends at snowflake preteen gray marketers amazing story too. I really admire what they do. It's great so yeah when you when you think about those type of partnerships you know where you have something you know or or just even from channel perspective or those sorts of things especially like take it. Take a snowflake or google cloud or somebody like that some of these folks that that have a bigger audience than than you do and have that base of customers you know. There's a clear kind of need there. You mentioned obviously events being a part of that events. Got a little crazy over the last year. So those didn't those didn't doesn't change as much. is there specific type of of messaging. That you're looking for in in that partner marketing or is it kinda like pretty straightforward michael. You said you know they're they're going to choose. Some vendor to work with their customers are gonna choose some vendor like why not us right so we do market to them. Bright three market with them to arbitrate prospects also have to market chew them they have here sales teams and we have to say then. Yeah like we need them to think of us when they're in a project rate Around to like someone bike still be considering different providers what is their model is a consumption based model so it is a really nice very for them for working with someone like us because we're the one delivering those data by into their thought farm. Yes that's a great point so getting everybody on the sales team he now fired up about h h. Vr is a great thing right. Exactly exactly any no. Also they wanna make their customers. Happy as we wanna make ours and our function artois also includes like a compare functionality. So you can compare this data so we're talking about you've ever received a marketing email. Where like recently received. One of my name was kevin. Yeah everything is with. Our product is a utah when you're moving millions of data. I'm sure many. I'm a call. I've had emerged excel sheets nearly great. This row is off so it's kind of a similar thinking with our technology were just merging billions of rows over but they need to make sure that this merge everything seat correctly and we have a function in our tool that enables. That's you can check your data and that's really key like if you're going to have great we can move the data but then the fact we can make sure it's correct is a huge value. Add the marketers nightmare of every cell. Being one off right. I cringe what happens then. I'm like i understand. You know it happens all of us. We have those moments we do. We do the what is it the. Hbo maximo that just went out to everybody. Yeah oh gosh ellen. After another one by doctor's office sent out an email or the doctors company. I won't say it is saved enough suffrage but they be stay. Cc'd everyone on the email she just like. Oh my gosh. I mean hurt. Draw for them. Because i'm like oh this is. I can only imagine how much you're sweating on the other end. I know you can't go super deep into those campaigns. Let a lot a lot of secret stuff. Going on at are a lot of cool stuff particular campaigns that that have stood out to you and it could be in your car roll or or and past roles that particularly you enjoyed or learned from. That is a great question you know. I had to say one of our most accessible ones. Which kinda surprised me was a campaign. b did targeting a competitor with data. That's available out there You can find out what technologies your prospects have what they're searching on. What their need is the talking about content To say okay. What are the challenges. People might have with this product right in. We were able to target them in.
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"Talk about some of the things that that you are doing. you know. you're looking at podcast. Which we love videos white papers customer stories all that stuff. How do you think about content. Well people always say contents. King that i would say absolutely part of it is if you look at the buyer's journey you know often people stay map your marketing the buyer's journey and especially in enterprise. Really if you think about us. Humans like how we buy. We want to hawaii. We wanna research before. I buy something online. I like to see what the reviews have to say. you wanna make sure it's the right fit does have what i need your busy right. You don't want someone to waste your time. You don't want to be on a bunch of calls trying to figure out if this is gonna be the right fit so content is serves as the guide four prospects so they can stay okay before i make my move and say a wanna talk to sales and learn more. Is this really what i need. And that's what we're trying to answer but as you mentioned like there's also an education about who we are and also what we do that's different because with our technology. The way it was used in the past has changed. So we've also had do education about howard. Technology is used today what those use cases are so it's yacht. Content is a strong part of our strategy. I don't see that changing but like you mentioned finding new channels new ways to do. It is the exciting part around contacts. It is one of the questions right of like you know how many different pieces of content i it kind of seems never ending at times of what you wanna create right. Oh my gosh. Rico is always like what you don't have enough. I'm like no sales this and we have this idea for this and this is coming out. We need this. It's just what it is but it's so important because again that's how near making our connection with a prospect right. We want to be part of that. Journeys Mean we'll say you know. Creating a piece of content can be challenging. Gotta get the the kind of the idea behind it. You need the editing. The design but it's so worth it. I think it pays off. A lot of that. Is evergreen like something that we was relevant. Two years ago in our space is still relevant today. So it's a very worthwhile best. Met you know it is funny to think about. We're talk about personalization. Right like well if i could create a very personalized piece of content like it was just a webinar. Icke said you're selling like that for one prospect and that prospects lifetime value is will just one hundred thousand bucks and creating that content. You know cost us twenty five thousand bucks you'd like that's the best investment is of course you do that right like any any day of the week but you know we very rarely personalize piece of content like that for one account but if you look at some of the way these massive companies with their executive briefing centers. You know things like that were how much work goes into disclosing one massive deal. It's probably wait worth way more than it would've been to create that perfect case study for that one persona mer prospect exactly exactly data obviously being your business data very important to marketers has being around a company like yours the like h. Vr has that kind of shifted. How you think about data and marketing absolutely you either as mentioning i went to grad school for marketing. And you know we had a class on database analytics had a mynatt. How understand it never gonna use this. But now i see the impact. Data has on large organizations. We were with under armour for example What are their use. Cases is around that fitness tracker apps. They have their customer database They also have their stores either inventory. They want one view of all this data and they're able to leverage say. Hey you know what our customers over here. They're buying running close raid or maybe they're seeing from this app. They're running wars. Maybe we need a stock. Our stores here of more clues that are running related versus biking related. We also work with one eight hundred flowers. They have a bazillion different brands. So i don't know if you've heard of wasserman's there. They make great english muffins. Great thing if you can't make it home to mom send wolfer English muffins Token so basically you know. They have their floral brand which we all know about early in the states know about in the end they have chocolate brands or whatnot. And what they want to do is create a unified experience for their customer. In your like course that's easy but it's not easy because you this data from various different properties if they have or silo people in our space talk about data silos. And how how'd you get that to one place to that customer calls in in. Let's say they just ordered the buffets for mom in silvino flowers from someone else. That's the same customer. And if you didn't know that then they may not have such a great experience but also by knowing they are and who they're ordering which of your properties you're ordering from that also opens up opportunities for up selling but then there's also the retention Action which we all know that silky and marketing is is having that one someone that's gonna promote your brand and then choose to stay with their brand. The data is just so valuable in what it enables us to know and understand about our customers and prospects in for my perspective. I'm always wanting war right like in looking at our database and how we leverage it. I just wanna be able to understand. War and i'm like how can i dig into these numbers more so that we can be more effective in our market because i am seeing what our customers are doing. Their data will yana. And i'm curious. I mean how many marketers are involved in that sales process for your product because it seems like so many marketers are touching the stuff but a lot of times that data's you know falls under this you've paid off sir. Vp analytics or whoever it is and yet at the end of the day it's the marketer who needs access to it the most exactly you know. It's a big challenge for us because we market to the it person. Sure of they're the ones that have the budget They're the ones that are implementing the program there are also again. We're talking about a technical product. They're really understand why. This product versus another data over product might be more beneficial however for my perspective is our company grows. They definitely want to sell more in shoe. Let's say folks that manage the supply chain because real time data as you can imagine giving even the under armor example supply chain is understanding. What's happening in the moments. You can fix a problem or identify opportunities important but also to marketers new. Do they know that. There's a tool out there. That can get them their data faster. They don't have to today. Because you just want to get your job down your report. Someone's probably leading for your report. You just want to get that information. So the fact that reduce the time to getting that information's key too many an organization. It really is. And i think you know having stuff at your fingertips marketer. I mean for certain. Come that you'll be it's like in real time is maybe not as important you know for for shoe company or something when you know you can have a shoe launched that drops. The people are waiting. They have an army abott's waiting to try to get all the shoes or people camped out on the street or stuff like that. Where literally seconds go by. And you're doing you know hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales nights like that. Data's is so important. In that moment it is so important in neto. It's data's important. The al one because you can understand your customer better but also because if there's a disaster happening the longer you have to wait to know there's a disaster the more money you're losing right so there's a lot of benefits having data at your fingertips so you have a bunch of different partner organizations You use do you think about partner marketing at all is that is that in your mix absolutely in fact i have a team member. That's responsible for it..
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"Joined by special guest meredith. How're you doing has to come out you in great data talk marketing Great data have you on the show. We're gonna get into all things h vr and your background. So let's get started. How'd you get started marketing. Well take you back a little bit. Actually so i've always worked in marketing or some realm of marketing throughout my whole career. Right out of college. I got a job activity so her standard partners for those of you. That don't know they were the ones that came up with the got milk campaign. I did not get to work on anything. Cool as that. But i did get to work on each key plus branding campaign and visits. I was too young to really understand what was going on. This is a really critical time for each. They were going through their proxy merger with compact and in. I was responsible for doing media. But why i'm talking about. This is because we were doing a media planning and i remember that point in time digital with kind of an afterthought we had maybe five percent of our budget allocated for digital and i remember reading reps from fast company and whatnot and they were all trying to sell us this Digital like i don't know and it didn't make it on the plan but fast forward today digital is takes up probably it next to events probably the second most on budgeted. He's of a marketing plan. So after good be i actually went into digital ad sales and after several years not i decided. I am not a good salesperson. I've made my number. But in terms of i really enjoyed putting the proposal together gathering the data saying. Hey this is how we can help you reach your target. Because we were selling into actually video game companies and i was like this is what i really love like kind of getting into the numbers commit with the programs to sell to them so i went to get my masters in marketing at nyu. It's a really great program. And i really got to learn more about digital but also about the financial more analytical side of marketing and from says then That has led me to our day working in marketing for basically beat be marketing for an enterprise organization that sells into the enterprise. Yes who in for listeners. Who don't tell us little bit about each vr. absolutely so. i'm gonna try to talk about this. Without getting too technical each vr review. Real time data replication. What is that. you're probably like okay. And if you think about it. Oftentimes as marketers were trying to get data between our tech stack right like you might use outreach. I owe you might use tub sought salesforce beanie that data to seek if you think about. Hp are were doing that at a larger scale. Enterprise organizations. they're gathering data from point of sale data from customer profiles. Data from your salesforce. Maybe our sap systems into an analytical system typically in the cloud like a snowflake and that's where teams are able to run analytics on their data. We actually what makes us unique is how we move the data the fact we can do it in real time so for those that don't know oftentimes data will large items of data would take maybe a day. I'm two days to get into that system for analysis with hp are able to deliver that real time and so knows you kinda came into this role in the enterprise. How did you kind of think about you know coming into this as a slightly different kind of mode for your career. Think part of it is. It was up for the challenge right. There's a lot of principles that you can apply from even marketing downbeat abi marketing most of my career but then learning how to understand what data replication is was definitely an uphill challenge for me and even new folks. I hire onto a marketing team. Many of them aren't from this space. We're lucky is that. I have fantastic teenage that. I work with our ceo or vp of product. All of us have been with these year for over five years and we really respect each other right. They respect my knowledge marketing. I respect what they know about the product and we collaborate together in developing content. You know i'm not sprayed to say hey You help me understand this a little bit better. I don't really get what you know. Initial loaded with. What's the significance of that door. Do now but in the beginning these are all foreign terms and it's been really fortunate to work with colleagues who understand kate marketings important to the business. Would i is important to the business. How can we marry that you so that we can get the word about out about what we're doing in you know this. We always talk about kind of like this. You know the the partnership with sales and marketing or the partnership with product. And it kind of being this ever evolving thing the highly technical product. One that you might not necessarily have known off jumps tree. How much time did you spend just like diving into how it works in all that granularity and still spending time into it honestly. It's an ever evolving process. A lot of it has to do with reading right so i might work with our ceo. Say okay we want to talk about this in even in the beginning what we wanted to deliver value to our target. Now when i worked to this year we had very few inbound leads and so we just had to figure out what is our story would if they wanna know to learn about each vr. In through that process. I learned a lot about the product. Howard different. how it matters it. Even as we've grown the company be brought in new employees. It's also talking to them like where did you see on the product. That's different would you see that you need. How can we bring that to market. And then i find myself all the time does learning more and more about what makes a product different and then as their customer base has grown. There's another way to learn about the product right. How is it actually being used in the market in. What is the benefits of that. So i could see with this technical product. It's always learning warm. Where about it. It's a never ending journey. I feel and it seems like you all are are also on a never ending journey to educate your prospects and customers you will create a bunch of content in your marketing. Can you.
Startups For the Rest of Us
"stowe" Discussed on Startups For the Rest of Us
"We have a lot of companies coming in that. Don't have them Comes back to that. People product market fit and and price sensitivity plus plus the other stuff. Grungy go schaal says in terms of uk companies. We can use strip out list to have a us entity question mark. Yes and if necessary headquarters based in north america. You don't need a headquarters. Based in north america. We have several folks who have no no headquarters based here so we have some. We have some folded questions. These ones that we want to get to it. The ones that i wanted to get. Okay cool things easier. Great devin patrick. What if we have product fit for one segment of the market. Small medium says businesses or snb's but are going marketed. Enterprise and haven't closed one of those deals yet. What do you think about that. I feel like that's worth application. Definitely especially if you have product market fit for market that that's awesome. That's sterling that. You have needed that market. A lot of people joined any seed primarily selling to small businesses and they move into doing enterprise wide. Get the advice and help them. But not from tennessee eight. So that's awesome did says. Do you accept sas marketplaces or is it. Only sas companies. We've done around four million in sales in three years on our platform now looking for help ticket to a new level so we accept. We're originally launched. We said subscription software and we have absolutely talked to marketplace's what we don't do is talk to marketplace's who have four hundred dollars in revenue or marketplace's who have not only one side of the marketplace marketplace is very hard to do but if you've done four million in sales across it i would then ask so. What was your revenue on that. Because if you're revenue zero then you need to get to the point where you have some revenue. You just have to prove that there is a willingness to pay for it but It is not a nonstarter. It is a starter for us if you know what i mean. It's yeah if you like the application what our next stowe is a good question behind says if you'd like the application what are the next steps. Yeah so yeah. Interest obligations to lead through the platform. We start reviewing the it just opened up yesterday. We're going to start reviewing like fully reviewing next week I wanna say is that you're going to get a response from us so if it's not a good fit for tiny seed in your Sorry if you haven't gone response prompting seat. It's still means you are in the process of being reviewed You will get an email saying you're not a good fit at some point. We're not gonna go see you re toiling respond to everything. Obligation comes in If you are fit than the the first step is having a cost me. I i called. I calls like application part two. So i ask more questions that are kind of like basic questions like. How did you get started with the company. What kind of led to the idea. What leads you you. Starting this product What else i ask. What our marketing..
Relentless Geekery
"stowe" Discussed on Relentless Geekery
"And now I know that even if I let it sit on the shelf for a while because I bought the two packet, I don't eat so much peanut butter that I'm going to go through it alone, but now it doesn't turn into this circus. Stunt of trying to get into the peanut butter. I got a cool plunger either 5,000, you know what I mean? So that's funny because dead. I like peanut butter. I like paper sandwiches. I gotta watch it cuz the bread and stuff is not good for me anymore. Really, I think it's gotten worse over the last couple of years but so I buy this natural organic peanut butter. You know, there's nothing in it but like peanuts. Yeah, I put my name on it because the kids will make three sandwiches in a day and age go on instead of you having it. Yeah. You're not eating my $7 peanut butter. Sorry. But the funny thing is my sister works at Stowe schools in the cafeteria kitchen and they get peanut butter in bulk. They get these big cases with like five pound jugs of peanut butter over, fifty cents a piece. So man cuz it really sucks. Nuts are a commodity be that? It's that expensive, okay, we gave her like five bucks and got this huge case of peanut butter. The kids are still working through and I'm like, yeah, you eat the cheap crap. I'm eating this month. It's for my health. That's what. Yeah, right, it's funny those things. I just talked about where you kind of tied together because my favorite snack helpful snack is I caught up a couple apples and cheese. Dip them in a little bit of that peanut butter, then just talked about. And, so I'm getting, you know, all the fiber, a little bit of protein, a little bit of fat, but not, you know, not too many carbs, if you will, even the fructose is not that bad. And like on a hot summer day, I'd rather have that for dinner than almost anything else, you know to apples and peanut butter is enough to fill me up and it's like those pretty healthy actually..
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"stowe" Discussed on The RIFT Radio Podcast Network
"All right. How's everybody sorry. No oh my god so good it was so thank you rene like god. Thank you for the blue. Yeah she's awesome thank you. What do you think of our green room. Lisa isn't it great. Oh pretty all. Are you on your hair all are. Are you feeling good. He says yep yes. Yes all right. Okay we're alley. Tell us all about your paranormal experiences. Because you said you you go on investigations or do you just go to locations and try to pick up. Oh i used to. I used to do that a lot. Stowe's fines and I was in paranormal groups or my mom had become with me. I i did do something. Was it last week or yeah that that was interesting. That was interesting. I won't go into much detail ten bucks you tell us..
Harvard Classics
"stowe" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Come with me. And i'll lead you out into the great world and present you in the dockyard but keep close to me so that no one may tread on you and take care of the cats and so they came into the dockyards. There was a terrible riots. Going on in that fall to families were quarrelling about an ils head and the cats got it after all. See that's how it goes in. The world said the mother duck and she wetted her beak for she to wanted the heels head. Only use your legs. she said. See that you can bustle about and bow your heads before the old dock yonder. She's the grandest of all here. She's spanish blood. That's why she's so fat and you see. She has a red rag round her leg. That's something particularly fine. And the greatest distinction adult can enjoy it signifies that one does not want to lose her and that she's to be known by the animals and by men to shake yourself. Don't turn in your toes. A well-brought-up duck turns it. Stowe's quite tout just like father and mother. So now benjamin next and say and they did so but the other decks roundabout looked at them and said quite boldly. Look there now. We're to have these hanging on as if there were not enough of us already. And fi duckling yonder looks. We won't stand that and one duck through appetites and beat it in the neck let it alone said the mother. He does no harm to anyone. Yes but it's too l'argent peculiar say the duck who had beaten it and therefore it must be put down. Those are pretty children that the mother has that said the old dock with the ride round her leg. They are all pretty but that one that was rather unlucky. I wish she could bear it over again. That can be done..
Catch my Killer
"stowe" Discussed on Catch my Killer
"Of eighty two. They went and we're gonna his brothers down there and play pool boys in our home around midnight. I got a phone call. That he'd been shot he Was standing in the doorway. In the way. I understood it was there was a disgruntled guy. The bar and i throw him out and when he went out in the parking lot he just turned around and shot and hit danny and It it was just devastating. And i was twenty five. I believe he was twenty eight. And i didn't know what to do. It was just gathered that into everybody years. Go on getting the best. I could at raising two boys on my own. I had a job at home depot working nights and weekends. That had to stop. Because i didn't have anybody take care of him. I had to quit that job. And you know we got social security and we made it somehow raising the two boys and then as time went on we moved out of the house that we lived in there and moved into a house in jackson georgia. It was rural and i just thought it was better and then danny and tommy went on and graduated high school. When all danny joined the army tommy went to college and then in about two thousand. You know tommy and i talked about it I he had come in contact with former policeman that he knew and discuss the case and we started emailing email in email in trying to get find out what was going on and it was pretty much at that point. We realized nothing going on. They they weren't doing anything we always tell they had. They thought well he shouldn't have been there. That happens all the time. i'll do. It happened here in atlanta. That's neither here nor there. It did happen then. We i had a job with the state of georgia where i did freedom of information act request so i decided i admit a request. I want to see the file. I want to know what you've done and they told me no. You can't have it. Open case. I thought and thought and thought and said it's an open case. It might be open sixty years from now but it's mine it involves my family member and i want it. It took months going to the attorney. General of georgia and back and forth finally got to file. Well i got what i got as i went through there. We discovered easy. The only evidence that they obtained that e that night was fingerprints off of a glass that the guy was drinking or lost the only evidence. They lost it in the record. It claimed that it says they would send the prints to the fbi in washington. Never says they did. It said they would so. I submitted a request them behind wasn't they don't have them. I truly believe they would've lost within a day or two also right around the time danny died. They arrested wayne williams for the chow murderers in atlanta. Everybody dropped everything. Worked on lane william and nothing done over the years. We've just gone back and go with. We had met with detective. We've had over thirteen different. Detectives we've talked to the past fifteen years because they leave they retired. They won't even to this day. They just tell me what without the prance. We just can't do any. We don't have anything and just a few weeks ago. The detective told me. Princeton evidence gets lost all the time. And i said well. That's just pretty fast. Easy well this year. We've had more murders in atlanta than we've ever had and we disbanded cold case squad so we can all work on the they. Just tell me things that. Make absolutely no sense to me. Because it's not their family member. It's mine danny. Hit we refer to them as big. Danny 'cause my son's name. Danny danny has missed weddings granddaughters. High school graduation. That'd meaning thing these people all it is a piece of paper a file and we're just at a loss of what to do next because nobody cares except us. And i just don't know what to do. I just don't know what to do this point in time. You're probably not going to get much out of the police. I mean losing the. That's every la that's all there was and even the bullet i know find and i understand. Find the bullet. That killed danny is really no good unless you have gone. That's what they told me. If we had the gun we could say well. This person owned the gun and this matches the bullet that killed daddy was gone to bullet even if the gun. They can't and i've got the paper where it was sent. Gb out of fulton county da's office in february of two thousand seven. They can't to every day. It seems like it's an the only saving grace we have today. I mean every week. It's something different. Tommy has i don't how he contacts these people but he has a a retired from taylor. County georgia that is extremely interested because the owner on the strip club with a man named eli gawltney as the years have gone on. We have racer a lot gawltney. And he was there a lot of the strip clubs and the whole godly family originated in paler county so this retired share is familiar with everything with the whole family so he can confirm how they were. The godly family was really bad news. And they're all they're not that they would provide an information anyway. But that sarah has contact. With danny i'd have to look but he he does a clown show on tv and and he's interested in it because he is a retired homicide detective from atlanta. Who remembers the case when it happened and he also has a son who is the current homicide detective. So they're all extant helping out during the course of the investigation in probably the mid eighties. There was in the file that i got was a piece of paper. It was a memo from mobile caveat. Alabama saying i don't remember said we think we have or we have the person responsible for the killing at the proponents of in atlanta. Never followed up on.
Catch my Killer
"stowe" Discussed on Catch my Killer
"Day of my life of always wanted to did it twenty six years after the murder and tommy stone. His mother still have no answer to that question for the first time tummy has come to the place where it happened more than two decades ago. Scrapie been here the honest with weird to see you know exactly where my dad worked and where blast place. He was alive and the energy to raise. Tucson's is now. The energy lou and holder is using to help her son tummy. Find the man who murdered danny show on february twenty. Sixth nineteen eighty two was very rough raising children on my own. I just said well. Let's work on ourselves. We we can do this but they aren't the only ones on the job. So is the fulton county cold. Gay squad our hope is to close this case to give them closure and it's a tough one at the purple onion nightclub on stewart avenue. Then he still was working part. Time job is the doorman. He was collecting the cover charge from patriots. A disgruntled customer got into it with the bartender. He got into a verbal disagreement with the bartender and was asked to leave. He turned and fired. One shot a handgun back door and hid danny stone chest. Killing police say the purple onion was crowded that night it was february evening very icy but the bar was packed. Eyewitness were able to give police a description of the man's unusual clothing as well as his car. He was described as a black male six feet to six feet one inches tall and weighed about one. Hundred and seventy pounds. He was wearing a beige derby hat and a three quarter length brown leather jacket. He had a wide silver bracelet about three inches wide on his arm and a gold ring that nearly covered an entire finger. The car might have looked something like this. A nineteen sixties nova lack on top orange body. The purple onion was a strip club throughout its history. It had a notorious reputation when it closed in the nineteen nineties. The liquor license was granted to michael child's. who would later become a key figure. In the downfall of former mayor bill campbell child reopened the club as nikki's but after numerous lease rates and license revocations nikki's close to the building is currently empty. Danny still was twenty eight years old. He was a truck driver by trade and worked the door of the club. Part time he was actually filling in the ninety was murdered. Police believe there were patriots perhaps even dancers then who were too afraid to come forward if they were there they know. The person are hurting. Talked about it years later. They'll.
All Things Considered
How Spanish Flu Pandemic Changed Home Heat Radiators
"The northern Us, you might have had a steam radiator. That was way too hot, like so hot that you would actually throw your window wide open in the dead of winter, and it might have made a noise like this. Oh, so familiar. As it turns out radiators that worked too well are partly a result of the 1918 flu pandemic. You see, there was once something called the fresh Air movement called for people to be outside more and for there to be plenty of ventilation indoors. The fresh air movement had some prominent backers, says Dan Holla Han, He's author of the Lost Art of Steam Heating. Harriet Beecher Stowe teamed up with Louis leads who was running the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. And they had this traveling show where they talked about the national poison, which was the vitiated air and closed rooms where there's people breathing and And they're saying that you know, you've got to have a lot of fresh air. So people took this to heart and opened their windows Not so good during the winter, so heating specialists said to themselves. We need to size the radiators and the boilers to eat the building on the coldest day of the year with the Windows open. That might mean a room is too hot at one end and too cold near the window. At that point, they moved the radiator from the interior wall to under the window to heat that areas is coming in. This design philosophy took off after the 1918 flu pandemic and its threat of airborne viruses. So these radiators were designed to heat a room on the coldest day of the year with the window wide open. And then these radiators got even hotter as people switched from cold. Other fuels See oil and natural gas can be burned in smaller boilers. But often technicians ignored that. The person doing the replacement rather than properly size, it is usually going toe look at the size that's there and give you the same thing, which is crazy. Suddenly you have a super powered steam heater, which is one reason they earned a bad reputation, says Dan Holla Han. He knows that some city dwellers still open their windows during the winter. I could tell you in Manhattan by standing across the street and looking at the windows. Of an apartment building. What kind of heat it has. I could tell that from the outside just by looking at the pattern of open windows mate seem wasteful today, but steam radiators were a response to a respiratory pandemic. Just like the one that we're in right now.
Pray the Word with David Platt
Help Us to Obey (Ezekiel 23:49)
"Ezekiel Chapter Twenty Three Verse Forty Nine And they shall return your. Lewdness. Upon you. And you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry. And you shall know that I am the Lord God. So, this is the last verse in a long chapter. The depicts God's people as two women. One Who represents Samaria? The capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel among God's people. And the other who represents Jerusalem the capital of the southern Kingdom of Judah. God's people there. And the whole chapter describes how. God showed his judgment how God showed his judgment on the northern Kingdom of Israel Samaria. By delivering them over to the Assyrians. And then how God showed his judgment among the southern kingdom, his people in Judah specifically that capital Jerusalem by delivering them over to the Babylonians. and. Then you get to the very end of the chapter and Gajah says very clearly. Very plainly after forty eight verses of this depiction of women who have committed adultery who have committed idolatry as God's people. At the very end God says, you shall bear the penalty for your central. Trie. A. You shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry as you hear that phrase. I just think this is a simple principle. I think about going into details a a discipline conversation that heather and I were having our children recently. And we've had this conversation up million times. It seems like with different children I when you disobey. There will be consequences like it is not good to disobey. Is Good to obey that leads to good things when you disobey that leads to bad things and that's The Clear simple principle that God is saying over and over again in the book of Ezekiel. And he says it right here you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry idolatry. Is, not, good, it does not lead to good. Immorality disobedience is not good at does not lead to good. This seems so basic yet how often? Do. We need to be reminded of this. As we are tempted every day to disobey in different ways. And God says to us in his word by his spirit over and over and over again, it is good to obey it is not good to disobey. So in a fresh way today Oh God, we pray. Help us. To choose that which is good. Today. Or, if we're listen this is we're gonna bed and night stowe wake up in the morning remembering that it's good to obey listening this at the very beginning of our day or somewhere else like as always we have time left in this day God, help us to choose that which is good. Help us to obey you help us to trust you help us to worship you alone. God please keep us from idolatry immorality disobedience and all that flows from it. Today and tomorrow in the next day to choose obedience. In every second in every moment and every decision every word and everything we do by Your Grace Oh God help us to choose obedience and to experience your goodness. And God, even as we pray this. We we. Know Our tendency to disobey. And we are so thankful. Jesus. We praise you. All timidly for bearing the penalty do our sinful idolatry. help us never to get over this. That you Jesus have paid. The price endured the penalty the judgment that we deserve four, our sin on the cross. All Glory be to your name that we don't have to be afraid. Of the judgment, we will experience all ultimately in eternity because you have paid that price for us. All Glory to your name. So all the more help us to live in obedience today. Elvis to experience your goodness today as those who've been forgiven of sin free from sins power help us to walk in Worship Review in obedience to you in love for you in all that we do help us to choose obedience life love for you and everything we do today and tomorrow and the next the next day please in every moment we pray in Jesus name in the name of the one who is paid the penalty of sin for us in his name we pray.
5 Minutes in Church History
Scriptorium: John Bunyan & Persecution
"Welcome back to another episode five minutes in Church history on this episode. We're wrapping up our great time here at the Van encamping collection and the script Him here in Orlando Florida and we are standing in a jail cell while it's a replica of jail cell and and it is a jail cell for someone who is very crucial one of those towering figures in church history. None other than John Bunyan and here in this room that this may be like bunions jail cell complete with a very primitive bed or a number of artifacts and books related to John Bunyan. I there is an early edition of Pilgrim's progress with an engraving. It's interesting that these early editions of Pilgrim's progress progress were so read. They were just literally devoured by people as they passed from hand to hand and so copies. Just don't exist. They we're literally read out of existence as people just gobbled up this beautiful taxed that so well portrays vividly portrays the the pilgrimage of the Christian life. Well so here there's a would fragment from the L.. Stowe house there is a key to the Bedford furred prison and actual key from the Bedford. Prison reminds me of that scene in. Pilgrim's progress where Christian is just so despondent despondent and they're in the castle of giant despair. And they're locked deep deep down in dungeon and they're just absolutely despondent and then all of a sudden Christian remembers that he is a key and he reaches into the folds of his cloak and he pulls out the key of promise anti he with a shaking hand tries it in the lock and it opens the door and they come to another lock and opens that lock in another gate and it opens that lock and they escape and what a beautiful portrayal is of the promise. That is God's word and that's quite a key. Maybe bunion had that particular key in mind. When he wrote his text? You know Bunyan wrote other books. Right beyond the pilgrim's progress and one of them in true bunion scholars. Say that they. I think it's a better book than Pilgrim's progress. It's the Holy War and here too is a copy of the Holy War from sixteen eighty. Two and Bunion also knew a thing or two about suffering. Didn't he lost his first wife is oldest daughter was born blind and also he himself himself suffered in prison and saw the death of friends and also just personally suffered so in sixteen eighty four. He published advice to sufferers. And here. In this bunion room there is a copy of that as well. So all of these testament to the author John Bunyan and his wonderful classic. The pilgrim's progress all of that is here and the script Oria in Orlando well continuing our journey through bibles and texts related to the reformation. There is Fox's acts and monuments since I'm looking at a fifteen ninety six edition of course this book. Chronicles the MARTYRDOMS. Most of them happening under bloody Mary. Harry but Fox begins his story actually back. In the days of the apostles as the New Testament was coming to a close and Fox records forged the many centuries of martyrdoms and especially those martyrdoms related to the British reformation and next to it is a Bible. That is a stirring testament to one of those martyrdoms. It's in that great English tradition of Bible translations ends than that line from wickliffe. All the way up to King James. It's a Matthew's Bible at dates to fifteen thirty seven. It is opened the two pages and John and the reason it's open to pages and John is that they're on those pages. There's actually the blood stains means of a martyr of the British
Kingpins
Billionaire Boss: Dawood Ibrahim
"It was a cool October afternoon in Mumbai. India twenty-four-year-old Daoud Abraham and his twenty five year. Old Brother. Shebbeare cosker left a police station. After being questioned about a recent attempted murder the year was one thousand nine hundred eighty and the brothers were being escorted by their friend and mentor collared con back to their headquarters. They were only a few few minutes out from the station. When Daoud saw the man with the gun he recognized the shooter it was Amir's Zodda a high ranking member of his rival gang? The tone dowd reached for his own gun forgetting that he wasn't armed. He looked up up frozen like a deer in headlights. As Ammar Saadeh and his cousin alums Abe approached the car with guns raised Collared Com acted quickly and push dow out of the way. Just as Mirsada an alums ZIP opened fire. Daoud felt the blood from colleagues arm trickle onto his face college was unfazed stowe. He drew his own weapon. Returned fire forcing the would be assassins to flee. The scene Dole would Ibrahim had faced death but came out with barely a scratch. It was in this moment. He became a legend invincible. Instable and unstoppable
Aviation Week's Check 6 Podcast
An Interview With John McKenna, Chairman of Recreational Aviation Foundation
"We're speaking with john. Mckenna who is the chairman in one of six co founders of the recreational aviation foundation or simply r._a._f. Korea created during a backwoods campfire discussion in two thousand three the r._i._f. Has developed into an organization that stretches from the pacific to the atlantic and beyond what exactly is the purpose of the r._i._f. I think our mission statement says it pretty well. It's to preserve protect and to maintain and creates recreational opportunities rare scripts for people across the united states komo early for recreational opportunities so we're talking about remote airstrips when i have in my mind is grass gris drips in the woods. Is that what we're talking about. That could be certainly what you might see or think of if you were to do the poster but they r._a._f. Has really taken to the fact that where people can go and enjoy themselves with their plane or have a fun time they also count and <hes> so we might sort of break it into two kinds of airports one which would be known as backcountry airport which might somewhat fit that descript or that you just suggested and the other is <hes> perhaps same front entry airport that isn't necessarily buried in the in the back woods or in bottom of a deep canyon if might frankly c._b._s. Not on the lakefront edger <hes> on the edge of town. I think of some in oregon that are on the beach people can frankly fly into their bonanza go for a hike or go set up their tent and bring their children or their grandchildren or friends and <hes> for a bike ride or whatever the case may be so the stereotype might be as you described. We'd like to think that it's expanding recreational use and preserving the fun places for people to go with an airplane. So how many airports like that are you counting and are they endanger of closure well. There are certainly some that are very definitely in danger and when i say danger there are activists that perhaps don't share the same interest in aviation that we all do and they would just assume that airplanes in any way shape or form place would go away and they candidly work at making that take place so there's certainly people who are actively taking to close certain airstrips in certain parts of the country then there are frankly ones where might go but at the other end of the spectrum they've just been forgotten about and there's some use but not a lot so people fly by and they asked the question. I wonder could you land there. Can i land there and our first filter is does it have some recreational value or some interest to it that people might enjoy once they get on the ground bill today. Today i find myself standing in stover mont and we spent a great day yesterday exploring some of this area with some friends many of which you would know touching down on grass airstrips all up and down the shores of lake champlain up near mount marcy and in the mountains of vermont bond and you may not think of that as that country flying but it was a landing in some spectacular places with spectacular views and lots of things extraju yeah actually i've been there and it's a beautiful part of the world i know you're from the west the news the taller mountains than they have in the east but that can be pretty rugged around stowe vermont well isn't that the fun part about airplanes and that is that we get the opportunity to see things that maybe aren't in our backyard and and yes. You're absolutely right. I might have been one of those previously biased people who thought that all the mountains in the west but i can assure you they're not <hes> <hes> somebody left behind right here in vermont and they they go up to some tall elevations and i'm convinced we don't have the corner on the market working out in the west funny so the r._a._f. Is sixteen years in to its existence into its program. How would you evaluate your record so apar- astonishing i think it would candidly i'm both at times stunned and more often humbled when you start out with six people who literally have an idea and sort of parked himselves around a campfire and you find yourself involved with an organization fifteen almost seventeen years later that has some ten thousand plus members scattered all across all fifty states in twelve or fourteen eighteen different foreign countries and you know bill. One of the most interesting things is the foreign members that we have is the r._a._f. Who i every once in a while get a chance is to engage with and their reason for belonging is they want to preserve what we've talked about here because it's probably already been lost in the place they live and they're willing to support it here just on the off chance that they may get a chance to come and do it themselves or they think that we should be pretty vigilant about this because we live in a very special spot that has some are unique freedom attached to it. What are the greatest challenges or obstacles to the r._i._f. Fulfilling its mission. It's probably not much different than most of our businesses or anything else and it's the people and the challenges we are nearly one hundred percent volunteer organization. Asian people are all volunteers. They all do this because they love it. It's surely always the <hes> the challenge to keep the right kind of leadership and people who <hes> have the time to devote to it to that end. We are blessed with a great deal of folks. That are are just passionate about this stuff so i may be you. Don't worry about the same things that others do but yet at the same time i do worry about the interest in aviation. I was just asked yesterday as a matter of fact what do you think of the drone industry and how will that affect what you're doing and we're about the places whereabouts saving the places and maybe my children or grandchildren will help them up way be he delivered to some of these special places in some sort of a vehicle that i don't quite understand yet today but if the place doesn't exist then perhaps they won't make any difference. I feel like we're on the right track. We're basically land conservation group that plies airplanes and probably not bad place to be not a bad place at all and you're at a very very good place right now up in sto- in thank you for your time and good luck with the program. Thank you so much. We appreciate all you do. We've been speaking with john mckenna the chairman and co-founder of the recreational aviation foundation this william garvey editor of business in commercial aviation magazine. Thank you for your time and
NPR's Business Story of the Day
U.S. Farmers Hit With Bad Weather And Trade Disputes
"Support for this podcast and the following message come from American pest as the leading provider of safe, sustainable pest control solutions across the DMV. Let American past help you to take back your home or business. From menacing pests visit them today at American pest dot net in this country. The forecast calls for more rain in Oklahoma and Arkansas this week. That's not what people were hoping for in states already facing flooding. What's the flooding mean for farmers NPR's? Nathan rod takes a trip across their underwater landscape Robert Stowe boss, steps out of his mud spattered red Chevy pickup and gives a nod. Was that? Copper rod with us across his voter. Still buzz been driving around his fields normally planted with soybeans rice and corn. Now, they're flooded as are the narrow dirt roads through his fields. We'll watch this and see how the gets. Gets good numbers on this because I've never seen it before still buzz land sits near the Arkansas river in the central part of the state. But right now, it's in the Arkansas river, Jonathan Trafford. The director of the Conway county office of emergency services is sitting in the front seat. You know, look, basically the water in the river now it's got a it's got a more reddish tend to. That alarm going off is because the water is now up to the trucks wheel wins. Feeling comfortable going any further. Still Bob puts the truck in reverse and backs out to a dry section of road outside, he gestures to a flooded field as an Osprey source overhead this is just one little spot right here that we're looking at east of here. It's thousand tens of thousands of acres are under water up and down the Arkansas river. The Missouri river the Mississippi and their tributaries many, many fields are flooded. Like this worse, the weeks of rain and prevented many farmers from even planting the US department of agriculture says at this point last year. Ninety percent of the corn crop was planted in the corn belt this year. It's just over half add to that the ongoing trade dispute with China and other potential for a new one with Mexico and stow boss says the situation is grim, we have a very slim chance of, of eking out, anything that resembles what we typically, you know, are blessed to do Jared heartbeat and agronomist with the. University of Arkansas's division of agriculture says it's not just happening here. I think everybody's had a pretty rough go, but basically from Ohio to the west everyone's in a pretty good state of alarm as to where we go from here. The Trump administration announced a sixteen billion dollar package to try to help farmers affected by the trade dispute with China, but in new squabble with Mexico over immigration could hurt. Farmers more to Scott Irwin, an agricultural economist at the university of Illinois. Mexico's a very important buyer, one of our most important buyers of agricultural products that are produced here in the midwest. But or when says there could also be some good news here for growers prices for corn, and other crops have been low, because of surpluses and other factors with the weather and flooding. Those prices could go up by their nature has basically provided the clearing the decks of our surplus supplies that we needed to get. Higher prices that doesn't take away the sting of the moment, though. Irwin says farmers want to farm and many have already lost money in their flooded out fields and now waterlogged equipment back in central Arkansas. Robert Stowe bought can't help point out the irony of the big irrigation system, sitting in the middle of one of his flooded fields, tears of joy in tears the sanitizer. Same color. So if you don't laugh a little bit along with this stuff you just about go crazy. So for now he'll try to keep cracking jokes. Nathan rob NPR news at kipnes Arkansas. Support for this podcast and the following message. Come from NC TA, the internet and television association, whose members are building the ten g network of the future that aims to deliver residential internet speeds of ten gigabits per second. More at ten g platform dot org.
Rush Limbaugh
Jahi McMath, California teen at center of brain-death controversy, has died
"To the list cabinet ministers will outline ottawa's financial support for canadian steel and aluminum companies impacted by washington's tariffs the canadian measures go into effect on sunday that stan carpenter reporting this is npr news a teenager at the center of a heated medical and religious debate over brain death has died npr's catch our reports on the controversy jihai mcmath became the center of a debate over brain death in two thousand thirteen she had surgery on her tonsils after complications are doctors said she had irreversible brain damage a coroner even issued a death certificate that mcmath family didn't agree she was dead her mother nihilo wingfield brought the fight over whether her daughter was dead to court wingfield cited religious beliefs and the fact that mcmath stowe's and fingers still wiggled a judge extended life support eventually wingfield moved her daughter to new jersey a state that accommodates religions that don't recognize brain death on of the family's ongoing lawsuits now would rescind the twenty thirteen death certificate an issue a new certificate with the day the family says she really died june twenty second catch oh npr news washington the board overseeing puerto rico's finances says it plans to eliminate a twenty five million dollars scholarship fund for the us commonwealth's largest public university that's part of the new austerity measures of financially distressed island is adopting today the board said it would also do away with a fifty million dollar annual fund for towns and cities and beginning the next fiscal year no christmas bonuses for government workers puerto rico had long been confronted with severe financial troubles but the.