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Better YetUsing Technology To Expose Blind Spots In The Parcel Shipping IndustryIn the latest episode of Better Yet, Better Trucks’ fireside chat series that showcases innovators and visionaries in the parcel shipping space, host Dan Ptak sat down with Jorie Ramsaur, the VP of Strategic Accounts at Intelligent Audit, and Josh Fredman, SVP Operations at Better Trucks to talk about blind spots in the parcel industry and how shippers can add visibility to mitigate the negative impacts of them.Check the video here, and don't forget to hit subscribe to receive top tr...2023-10-2335 minBetter YetShifting Tides in Parcel Delivery: An Exploration Of The Multi-Carrier MovementIn the latest installment of Better Yet, Better Trucks’ fireside chat series, host Dan Ptak talked with Nate Skiver, the Founder of LPF Spend Management, and Josh Fredman, Better Trucks' SVP of Growth and Operations about the ways parcel shipping has evolved over the past several years and what current events in the industry like labor strike threats at UPS and restructuring at FedEx mean for shippers in the here and now.Check the video here, and don't forget to hit subscribe to receive to...2023-09-2240 min
Adventures with Dead JewsAgreeable JewsHolocaust education has proliferated in the United States, along with a nationwide emphasis on anti-bias education. But recent years have also seen an undeniable rise in antisemitism. How did we get here?To find out, host Dara Horn rewinds back to the stunning success of Gentlemen’s Agreement, a 1947 Oscar-winning Hollywood blockbuster in which Gregory Peck plays a journalist who poses as a Jew in order to expose American antisemitism. The movie’s premise is hilariously blunt: People shouldn’t hate Jews, because Jews are Just Like Us! Of course, this premise contains an unspoke...2021-10-1555 minAdventures with Dead JewsUnsinkable JewsThe Jewish community of Charlotte, North Carolina has been embarrassed by their city’s monument honoring Judah Benjamin, the Confederacy’s Jewish Secretary of State, ever since they were cajoled into paying for it back in 1948… and the 2020 racial justice protests finally accelerated their decades-long attempt to get rid of it. But Benjamin-- a brilliant lawyer, one of the first Jewish senators, a Supreme Court nominee, the “Brains of the Confederacy,” Caribbean-born, openly Jewish, and not-openly gay-- made people uncomfortable during his own lifetime. Even back then, he was impossible to get rid of. Benjamin’s...2021-10-0855 minAdventures with Dead JewsTime-Traveling JewsOur stories so far have explored relationships between Jews and non-Jewish societies that have ranged from awkward to, well, murderous. But in this case, the social snubbing of Jews actually worked to everyone’s advantage, resulting in the biggest historical discovery in the history of the world. Here, two genius Scottish identical twins match wits with one half of a pair of genius Hasidic Romanian identical twins in order to track down some of the oldest existing manuscripts of the bible. They embark on an Indiana-Jones style adventure in 1890s Egypt, and wind up wit...2021-10-0153 minAdventures with Dead JewsDisposable JewsIn this episode, we explore the marvelous and terrifying life of the massively renowned Soviet Yiddish actor Solomon Mikhoels: international star of stage and screen, director of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, and leader of the Soviet Union’s Jewish Antifascist Committee during World War Two… and later, in a rather less desirable role, the leading man in the Soviet Jewish nightmare that came to be known as the “Night of the Murdered Poets,” a group of world-class Jewish artists and leaders executed by Stalin one night in 1952. Mikhoels wasn’t one of those Murdered Po...2021-09-2355 minAdventures with Dead JewsShooting JewsIn this episode, Dara Horn revisits Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Holocaust movie Schindler’s List, along with Spielberg’s blockbuster dinosaur movie Jurassic Park-- which he worked on simultaneously, returning from the brutal Polish concentration camp set each evening to edit brutal velociraptor footage. Together these movies reveal many aspects of what we expect from Hollywood storytelling. What’s the cost of applying that narrative arc to a story about the Holocaust? And what might be the moral motivations of a Tyrannosaurus Rex?Horn takes us through Spielberg’s elaborate process (which involved building an entire...2021-09-1747 minAdventures with Dead JewsFrozen JewsIn this episode, Dara Horn explores the bizarre afterlife of a chance encounter that later caused an entire empire to lose its mind. In 1904, the American Jewish financier Jacob Schiff randomly met a Japanese banker at a dinner in London and decided to give Japan a $200 million loan in order to help ensure its victory in the Russo-Japanese War.A generation later, when Japanese military officers were first exposed to an antisemitic conspiracy theory, they assumed, based on their country’s experience with Schiff, that it must be true-- and convinced their government to ta...2021-09-1053 minAdventures with Dead JewsWhy Do People Love Dead Jews?In the first episode of this new limited-release series, Dara Horn ponders a prickly question: Why are so many people so moved by the memory of dead Jews, yet so disinclined to truly embrace the ones who are very much alive?The question first presented itself to Horn when she was a teenager, sent by a teen magazine to cover the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She filed a moving report, but an elderly acquaintance, a Holocaust survivor, was having none of it, challenging Horn to rethink the way she approached memory, history, and...2021-09-0225 min
The Air Force Starts HereThe Air Force Starts Here - Ep 54 - CDC ModernizationOn this edition of the pod, Dan Hawkins from the AETC public affairs team sits down virtually to talk modernization with Ms. Lindsey Fredman and Chief Master Sgt. Jennifer Bye from the Air Force Career Development Academy, along with Master Sgts. Nikita Gunter, Steffan Gray and Dylan Peterson to discuss AFCDA's on-going effort to reimagine the service's Career Development Courses (CDCs) design and delivery model to Airmen in order to bring it into the 21st Century learning environment.2021-07-1500 min
A Word on PlaysEdinburgh Fringe RecapMaren Commendant and I went to Edinburgh Fringe Festival, camped in the city's fairgrounds, and saw 11 plays together! So here's a bonus episode that tries to break down the whirlwind of the show.
The Sister's of Castleknock House by Niall Carmody presented by Tiger's eye Theatre Company: Nialhttps://www.facebook.com/tigerseye17/
The Squirrel Plays by Mia McCullough presented by Part of the Main: https://www.partofthemain.com/
Lights Over A Tesco Carpark by Poltergeist Theatre: https://www.poltergeisttheatre.com/
Bloominauschwitz by Richard Fredman presented by Menagerie: http://www.menagerie.uk.com/
The Island by Athol Fugard presented by: Chris...2018-11-1349 min
LA DrinksDan Fredman- Wine Sales and Wine StoriesDan Fredman is a guy who likes wine and he describes how collecting wine is like collecting music, a narrative unfolding. Although a trained musician and seasoned A + R man, he kept his toe in the wine retail pool throughout the years. In doing so, he amassed a great knowledge and understanding about wine and about the L A wine market. Eventually he was able to parlay his experience into a boutique public relations firm helping wineries and wine-related businesses get their message out.In this conversation, we talk about the L A wine market as he provides a historical...2018-07-241h 11