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SEASON 5 is (almost) HERE!! This is your one week warning... as the KREWE is BACK on Friday, March 8th, 12 noon CST.  Here's a sneak peek & preview of gusts & episodes to come:

- The History & Evolution of Godzilla ft. Dr. William Tsutsui

- Witness Fukushima's Recovery through Educational Tourism ft. William McMichael

- Japanese Self-Study Strategies ft. Walden Perry

- Visit Miyagi Prefecture ft. Ryotaro Sakurai & William Woods

- Japanese Homes, Architecture & Aesthetic ft. Azby Brown

- A Glimpse into the World of Geisha ft. Peter Macintosh

- Japanese Music Scene ft. Patrick St. Michel

- Pioneering Louisiana's Only High School Japanese Program ft. Dr. Tara Sanchez

- Scoping Out Shojo Anime & Manga ft. Taryn of Manga Lela

- as well as some other returning guests like Matt Alt, Rob Dyer, & Kate Kitagawa

Get Hyped! Subscribe today on your favorite podcast app! See you on March 8th!

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In this episode of The Venture-Scale SaaS Operator, we had the opportunity to host Tony Jamous, founder and CEO of a billion dollar HR platform Oyster. Oyster provides tools to help with hiring, onboarding, benefits and salary management for both contractors and full-time remote employees all around the world.

Tony talks about his motivation behind starting Oyster and how he led it to unicorn status. He also shares his thoughts on becoming a better leader, creating a supportive work environment, and his life as a CEO of a billion dollar company.

Tune in to learn more about:

~ How to become a better leader.

~ Best way to lead a fast growth billion-dollar startup.

~ How to create a work environment that helps people to be their true selves.

Timestamps:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:32) - What Oyster is and what problem does it solve?
• (01:04) - Typical customer profile for Oyster.
• (02:05) - How much is OysterHR worth? Its mission and growth details.
• (04:00) - Flexibility and leadership during hyper growth.
• (05:14) - Advice for first-time founders on maintaining flexibility and leadership.
• (07:34) - Tony's motivation for starting another company after Nexmo exit.
• (09:55) - Motivation behind building a mission-driven company.
• (11:58) - How to be intentional about creating an impactful, high-growth business.
• (13:58) - Criteria for selecting early executives for Oyster.
• (16:08) - Creating psychological safety within the company.
• (19:22) - A typical day for the CEO of a billion-dollar company.
• (21:55) - The role of asynchronous communication and video in managing Oyster.
• (25:52) - Outro

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It is no surprise that individuals in the food, farm and beverage industry are masters of their craft. Through this mastery, they are able to differentiate themselves in the marketplace and provide education to consumers about their highly specific goods or services. On this episode of The Tidbit, Kim speaks with oyster sommelier Julie Qui about why she got interested in oysters, what it took to hone her craft and how she eventually went on to co-found the Oyster Master Guild. Julie leads master oyster classes worldwide, teaching people everything they need to know about this sometimes controversial product.

Host: Kim Bryden

Producer: Gabriela Saldivia

Guest:

Julie Qiu: https://instagram.com/inahalfshellist

The Oyster Master Guild: https://www.oystermasterguild.com 

On today's show we're off to Ireland! For the world oyster opening championships. Then, we'll hitch a ride to radical rodeo. After that, we'll meet some mini musicians and their masterful maestros, before learning about an important weather event called El Niño.

Quiz Questions

1. 1.What's the special name for opening an oyster?
2. 2.In which state was the first Australian women's only rodeo held?
3. 3.True or False? Kids who play a musical instrument often do better in maths and english, too.
4. 4.Will El Niño make things hot and dry, or wet and windy?
5. 5.What do adult palm cockatoos pass down to their kids?

Bonus Tricky Question

What colour are the patches on the cheeks of a Palm Cockatoo?

Answers

1. 1.Shucking
2. 2.Queensland
3. 3.True
4. 4.Hot and dry
5. 5.How to shape drumsticks

Bonus Tricky Answer

Red

On this episode we talk to another Armchair Champion and fan of the show Elly Kirlis. Elly talks about her passion in promoting sport, playing it and also talks about her amazing comeback from spinal surgery to get back on the Netball courts.

The panel also hand out the Jordan Awards and the HAF/Derek/Goose Awards for the week.

NRL and AFL is discussed as is the Woman's Soccer World Cup and other sports. 

Welcome to The Oddity Shop, Where the Bizarre is Always on Sale! This week in the Shop, Zach's talking about the wild world of Nature.

Brace yourselves for a wild ride into the fascinating and sometimes spine-chilling world of predatory flora and fungi. We're about to uncover some of nature's most captivating secrets, so prepare for the unexpected! 

In our 45th episode, we're explorations of the strange, the deadly, and the simply mind-blowing abilities of our natural world's plants and fungi.  Prepare to be enthralled by the Zombie Ant Fungus and the Oyster Mushroom, two more parasitic plants that can quite literally turn their hosts into mindless zombies! Lastly, as we delve into the world of strangler fig trees and fig wasps, we're posing a macabre question for you: if a plant had to kill you, which one would you choose? So buckle up, and get ready for this hair-raising journey through nature's oddity shop!

References:

•  https://www.npr.org/2023/01/30/1151868673/the-last-of-us-cordyceps-zombie-fungus-real#:~:text=Ophiocordyceps%20unilateralis%2C%20otherwise%20known%20as,will%20let%20the%20fungus%20reproduce.
•      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnwb-KpPv2M – The Curious Life of Carnivorous Mushrooms
•    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/science/oyster-mushrooms-carnivorous-toxins.html
•     https://owlcation.com/stem/10-Most-Wacky-Plants-of-the-World
•    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcher_plant
•      https://www.britannica.com/plant/pitcher-plant
•   https://www.bonappetit.com/story/figs-and-wasps

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Tony Jamous is the CEO and Co-founder of Oyster, a distributed HR platform that empowers companies to hire, pay, and care for talented teammates regardless of location. Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. 

Oyster has raised to date $225 million, and last year surpassed a $1 billion valuation after closing a $150 million Series C round led by Georgian. 

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Scientists are keeping track of biodiversity in the Pacific to ensure the safety of species, like the giant tree gecko, well into the future. 

In this episode, the Lume Plotters quickly dive into the just launched Rolex models at Watches and Wonders 2023. We discuss the new Yellow Gold GMT and reminisce about Yellow Gold Jubilee bracelets if yore. We tackle the new 40mm Explorer 1, and the mysterious demise of the Milgauss. We revel over the beauty of the new Perpetual 1908, as well as the rough and toughness of the Titanium Yacht Master. We admire the new Platinum Daytona and Rolex’s shift towards open casebacks. We finish by discussing the dial curiosities in both the Oyster Perpetual and the Day Date lines.

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This week Aarón and Zarela are pleased to be joined by Benito Molina to talk about seafood in Ensenada and beyond. Chef Molina is the owner and chef of multiple restaurants in Ensenada, Baja California including Manzanilla, and he was thrilled to represent his people on MasterChef Latino. Working together with his wife Solange, their cuisine stands out for using fresh local seafood and for their focus on sustainability. 

Benito shares how his uncle, who worked in Shrimp farming, inspired him to move to Baja and how working on tuna boats turned out to be a formative experience. Aarón asks Benito how his menu and seafood market availability has changed over the years, and he shares how Ensenada has grown to become an internationally renowned hot spot for seafood.

Plus, Chef Molina makes his ecological case for why you should eat sardines over salmon.

For more recipes from  Zarela and Aarón, visit zarela.com and chefaaronsanchez.com

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Tony was born in Beirut, Lebanon, during a violent civil war, and was lucky enough to travel to France at the age of seventeen to study for a computer sciences degree, then attended the IMD Business School in Switzerland. 

After graduating, Tony founded Nexmo, a pioneer in the Communications Platform as a Service (“CPaaS”) category. Nexmo made it easy for software developers to add essential communications capabilities (like sending messages between ride-sharing drivers and passengers) to their applications, on a global scale. Nexmo went public via a merger with Vonage in 2016.

After the Nexmo exit, Tony took some time off to consider what to do next. He began to invest in “platform models that can change the world”, Tony’s investments include Pento, Truelayer, Dialpad, Hopin, and Claap.

That other talented individual in emerging economies should enjoy similar career opportunities, without the need for geographic displacement, is a persona, passion and the ideological cornerstone of Tony’s career. It is where the idea of Oyster was born.

For most people in emerging economies, career fulfilment means moving to another country. Tony believes this necessity to be in the office sets up unassailable inequalities for many people in emerging economies. Why should they have to move halfway around the world, away from their community and support system, to have a successful career? 

Tony created Oyster to remove the remaining barriers to successful remote work, including hiring, compensating and managing team members who are physically far away from the office.

In this episode, Tony reveals the secrets that helped him scale Oyster to 1$ Billion valuations, as well as his unique journey to success. Simon and Tony also go deep on how to get investment, purpose and Web3.

Topics

• How Tony Became An Entrepreneur
• Getting Investment
• Choosing The Right Investor
• How Tony Came Up With The Idea Of Oyster
• Building Oyster From Scratch
• Connecting World Labour
• Being Purpose-Driven
• Web3
• Are Entrepreneurs Born Or Bred?

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A love letter to Gojira, a post-Cold War parable, a tale of confinement, escape, and approaching catastrophe. Mother Pearl and the Nuclear Disaster is all of these things and more. It is the story of a child born into nuclear winter, a community obsessed with a giant pearl, a president with a woefully short memory, and a world entirely unprepared for the end. "Gather, my neighbours, and rejoice; fear not the night that lasts the day, for Mother Pearl shall be our guiding light, our torch in darkest need!"

CW: reference to violence and birth defects from radiation

Stories from the Hearth is an experimental storytelling podcast, a free artistic space in the style of a painter's studio or writer's diary. It is a place for you to lose yourself in truly original short stories and their immersive soundscapes, written, narrated, and produced by Scottish poet Cal Bannerman.

Stories from the Hearth will be back later this year, whilst Cal takes some time to prepare the next batch of stories. In the meantime, you can support the podcast by spreading the word and joining the community on Patreon:

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Original Artwork by Anna Ferrara
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Thank you for listening. Please consider following, subscribing to, and sharing this episode, and please do tell your friends all about Stories from the Hearth.

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Jenny Kaufman at the time of this interview was the Head of Digital Strategy at Terrorbird Media, a boutique music marketing firm with offices in Brooklyn, Los Angeles and Sacramento. (She is now Head of Streaming and Sales  at Crush Music). All through this conversation Jenny emphasizes a creative and authentic approach to digital promotion, facilitating meaningful positioning and support from online partners and digital storefronts. The conversation looks at Spotify, playlisting strategies, converting listeners to fans and positioning. Over the last couple of decades, when it comes to music, some things have changed but a lot has stayed the same.  Playlists are perhaps the biggest new shift and opportunity. Jenny will discuss which platforms are best and to  always remember to encourage fan engagement. Jenny even touches on TikTok, Twitch and advice on user-generated playlists. 

During her time at Terrorbird, Jenny facilitated campaigns for Toro y Moi (Carpark Records), Jay Som (Polyvinyl Records), Cloud Nothings (Carpark Records), and Hatchie (Double Double Whammy) among others. When she isn’t nerding-out about the ever-evolving digital landscape, Jenny is recharging with her three-legged tuxedo cat, Scooter.

“...I interned at The Fader for a while. I was at Beggars Group, at XL Recordings for a while. I think that breaking into the music industry just doesn't always come easy. It required a lot of tenacity and having the mentors that I'd had along the way to help me, you know, push my career forward." 

#HowWeListen Live: In Conversation

2:30 - Baby’s All Right

4:20 - Glassnote Records, Maggie Rogers

5:07 - Save Our Stages Act

9:00 - XL Recordings

14:10 - CD Baby

18:28 - DSP

29:34 - Virgin Megastore in Times Square

33:42 - Lorem Playlist

36:26 - Oyster Playlist

38:46 - Arlo Parks

40:53 - Paramour

41:08 - New Music Friday

44:19 - Get Out, Redbone

46:07 - Good 4 U - by Olivia Rodrigo

50:56 - Hi Fi Audio

1:00: - YouTube Music

1:07 - DistroKid

1:09 - Byta.com

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Evan Causey is a TikTok content creator and stand-up comedian. Evan joins Get Intimate to talk about how he finds success on TikTok by making food review videos and rapidly grows his account, gaining over 300K followers within a year. Oliver lets Evan taste authentic Taiwanese-style oyster omelette, a.k.a. Orh Jian, which Evan fervently loves. Evan and Oliver talk about American fast-food restaurants–Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Burger King, Red Robin, and more–and Oliver shares why McDonald’s is considered a fancy fast food restaurant in Taiwan. Then Evan and Oliver talk about the importance of using social media as a stand-up comedian/content creator, and how TikTok is becoming a crucial tool to gain success and visibility, even providing opportunities for socially disadvantaged individuals who don’t get recognized in real life. Evan and Oliver also touch on weight loss management, vegetarianism, the TikTok algorithm, My Octopus Teacher, and the fact that every pet has a social media account. This episode is full of saliva-stimulating conversations about food, so get your plate ready. It’s gonna be a feast!

• Evan Causey’s TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@eatwithevan?lang=en
• Evan Causey’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatwithevan/
• Oliver Wong's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@oliverwongcomedy?lang=en
• Oliver Wong's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oliverwongcomedy/
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 Are cryptocurrencies and Stablecoins a currency or a security? Are they the digital gold some people say they are, or will they go the way of VHS and Betamax? Join Oyster Consulting’s Jeff Gearhart and Buddy Doyle as they continue their conversation in our series "Cryptocurrencies and Digital Assets: The Wheels Are Turning - Are You Up To Date?" 

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This week on Meat and Three we’re diving beneath the waves for an episode all about oceans. We visit underwater farms to learn about the current oyster boom and the benefits of growing kelp. Then, we climb on deck to understand how lobsters and fishermen are being impacted by the changing climate and travel back in time aboard British naval ships to sip on a game-changing cocktail. 

Further reading and listening:

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Read more from Dr. Emily Rivest about the American lobster and its changing environment, ocean acidification and oysters, health in oyster hatcheries, and the global impacts of climate change, 

Research for the grog story came predominantly from a book by Tom Standange. To learn about grog and even more about beverage histories check out his book, “A History of the World in 6 Glasses”. 

Listen to episode 353 of The Farm Report for the full conversation with Josh Rogers about Maine’s seaweed farming boom. Subscribe to The Farm Report on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode!  (Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS).

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