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The Need to Know Morning ShowShankapotami, Stolen Land, and the El Paso Lockdown (2-11-26)In this high-energy mid-week edition, Jay Thomas (filling in for a vacationing Kevin Flynn) and Alex Taylor navigate a bizarre news cycle that spans from local tragedies to international mysteries. The show kicks off with a "Shankapotamus" golf injury and a rant about Fargo's worst drivers, but the levity quickly shifts to the chilling developments in the Nancy Guthrie case, including a temporary 10-day shutdown of the El Paso International Airport that has experts scratching their heads. The team also tackles the controversial "stolen land" protests at Davies High School, the crackdown on non-English driving exams in Florida, and the...
2026-02-122h 04
Community Bank Value™ PlaybookHow to Find Your Bank’s Blind Spots (Before It’s Too Late)If you’ve stayed through fourteen episodes, you understand the big ideas:The Leverage MatrixThe eight value driversTiming, valuation, structure, talent, legacyBut most CEOs hit the same wall right here:“Where do I start?”This episode is the bridge from understanding to action.Kurt shows how everything in Season One collapses into two questions:Where do you stand?How much time do you really have?When you can answer those, you stop guessing, stop trying to fix everything, and start focusing on what a...
2026-01-1105 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookWhy Smart Bank CEOs Stay Stuck: The 3 Beliefs That Destroy ValueIf you’ve ever said:“We’re not for sale.”“We’ll deal with that when the time comes.”“The market will do what it does.”…you probably thought you were taking a clear strategic position.In reality, those phrases are escape hatches. They shut down conversations your board needs to have — and they quietly undermine readiness, leverage, and fiduciary responsibility.In this episode, Kurt breaks down the three beliefs that keep smart, experienced community bank CEOs stuck — and shows you what to say instead so you can lead with clarity without...
2026-01-1008 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookThe Question You Can’t AnswerAt some point, every community bank CEO gets asked a question that stops them cold:“Should we be thinking about our strategic options?”It might come from a board member. A shareholder. A spouse. Or from your own internal voice late at night.And if you don’t have a framework — you deflect.You reach for phrases like: “Multiples aren’t there.” “We’re not for sale.” “We’ll figure it out when the time comes.”They end the conversation… but the question doesn’t go away.
2026-01-0907 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookCash vs. Stock: How Deal Structure Controls Your Influence After ClosingEvery community bank CEO wants to protect their people — and their legacy. But very few understand the single structural decision that determines how much influence they’ll have after closing:Cash… or stock.Most CEOs assume this is a tax discussion. It’s not. Deal structure determines whether you have voice after closing — or whether you’re watching from the outside.In this episode of the Community Bank Value™ Playbook, Kurt breaks down the three deal structures, the real trade-off between certainty and influence, and why the “be...
2026-01-0808 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookWhat You Can (and Can’t) Protect When Selling Your BankEvery community bank CEO who starts thinking strategically hits the same wall:How do I protect what we’ve built?Not the price. Not the structure. The culture. The people. The trust you spent decades earning.And for most CEOs, the hardest part is this:You can’t talk to anyone about it — not your board, not your team, not even your spouse. So you carry it alone.In this episode of the Community Bank Value™ Playbook, Kurt Knutson breaks down what you can pro...
2026-01-0709 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookProtecting Your Legacy: What Truly Carries ForwardThere’s a question community bank CEOs carry more than they admit — and it rarely gets asked directly:What happens to our people? Our customers? Our community… if something changes?Underneath that is something deeper: A fear that one decision — even the right one — could undo decades of goodwill you never wanted credit for, but always felt responsible to protect.In this episode of the Community Bank Value™ Playbook, Kurt Knutson names the emotional weight CEOs carry, explains the hard truth about what contracts can and cannot protect, and reframes...
2026-01-0607 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookThe Advisor Team: The 3 Experts Every Bank CEO NeedsYou get the call. A strategic buyer wants a conversation.Now what?Who do you call first — legal counsel, an investment banker, your accountant, your board… or do you try to handle it yourself?Most CEOs think they have a plan. But as Mike Tyson put it: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.”In this episode of the Community Bank Value™ Playbook, Kurt Knutson explains why the banks that maintain leverage don’t build their advisor teams after interest shows up — they bui...
2026-01-0508 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookThe Talent Paradox: Why Your Best People Create Both Value and RiskMany community bank CEOs carry a quiet fear:“If we start building succession, documenting systems, and developing leadership independence… our best people will assume we’re selling — and they’ll leave.”But the paradox is this:The very dependency you’re trying to “protect” is exactly what kills value — and actually puts your people at greater risk.In this episode of the Community Bank Value™ Playbook, Kurt Knutson breaks down what buyers really see when a bank depends on one or two key people, why leadership independenc...
2026-01-0409 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookHow to Respond to an Unsolicited Offer (Without Losing Control)Strategic conversations rarely start in the boardroom.They start at conferences. Over lunch. Through “deal-maker” introductions. And by the time a CEO realizes what’s happening, control is already gone.In this episode of the Community Bank Value™ Playbook, Kurt Knutson explains why uncoordinated strategic conversations destroy value — and how boards protect shareholders by establishing a clear governance framework before unsolicited interest arrives.This isn’t about deciding to sell. It’s about fiduciary responsibility and controlling the conversation — so the bank doesn’t get controlled by it.What Yo...
2026-01-0308 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookBank Valuation Myths: Why Multiples Mislead CEOsMost community bank CEOs have never sold a bank. So when valuation comes up, they default to the question everyone asks:“What multiples are banks getting right now?”Here’s the problem: multiples are a terrible way to understand value. They’re backward-looking, distorted by capital policy, and tell you almost nothing about what your bank is actually worth.In this episode of the Community Bank Value™ Playbook, Kurt Knutson explains how buyers really value banks — and why CEOs who rely on multiples quietly lose leverage.This is...
2026-01-0205 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookThe Golden Window: The 18-Month Cycle That Creates—or Kills—LeverageTiming doesn’t just affect leverage.It can cost — or save — shareholders seven figures without changing a single deal term.In this episode, Kurt Knutson introduces the Golden Window — a specific, measurable 18-month cycle where regulatory timing and core contract structure align to dramatically increase leverage.This episode builds directly on the Strategic Window and shows how tactical timing decisions quietly determine outcomes long before any strategic conversation begins.What You’ll LearnWhat the Golden Window is — and why it’s different from...
2026-01-0105 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookThe Strategic Window: Why Timing Determines Your ValuationThere are moments in every community bank’s lifecycle when the CEO has maximum control, maximum leverage, and maximum optionality.Kurt Knutson calls this the Strategic Window.In this episode of the Community Bank Value™ Playbook, Kurt explains how timing — not just performance — determines leverage, and how understanding where you are in the Strategic Window changes how you lead, whether you ever sell or not.This is not about urgency or transactions. It’s about recognizing when your leverage is strongest so you can make better...
2025-12-3108 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookThe 8 Value Drivers Every Community Bank CEO Must UnderstandMost community bank CEOs think about value the same way everyone else does: call report metrics, peer comparisons, ROA, and efficiency ratios.Strategic buyers don’t.In this episode of the Community Bank Value™ Playbook, Kurt Knutson breaks down the eight value drivers buyers actually use to evaluate a bank — and why understanding them changes how you lead, whether you ever sell or not.You’ll learn the difference between:Baseline value that gets you into the conversationStrategic differentiators that create premiums and leverage...
2025-12-3008 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookHow Buyers Really Evaluate Your Bank (Not What You Think)Most CEOs assume value is about what they’ve built.Strategic buyers care about what they can become because of it.In this episode, Kurt Knutson explains how strategic value is actually created — why the right combination of banks can turn “two plus two into five,” and how understanding this perspective changes how you think about your own institution.Using real-world experience from both sides of the table, this episode shows how strategic fit, not size or headline metrics, drives exceptional outcomes.What You’ll LearnWhy...
2025-12-3007 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookThe Leverage Matrix: Understanding Your Bank’s True Strategic PositionMost community bank CEOs believe they’re in control — until a strategic question lands unexpectedly.In this episode, Kurt Knutson introduces The Leverage Matrix, a practical framework that helps CEOs understand where real control comes from — and where it quietly erodes.This episode sets the foundation for the entire series.What This Episode CoversWhy leverage isn’t about size, price, or intentHow preparedness changes the power dynamicThe difference between operational control and strategic controlWhy clarity — not avoidance — creates optionalityThis conversation isn’t about selling your bank. It’...
2025-12-2908 minCommunity Bank Value™ PlaybookWould You Know What to Say?If your board asked tomorrow, “Should we be thinking about our strategic options?” — would you know how to answer?Most community bank CEOs can run the bank.Very few feel prepared for the strategic conversation that matters most — the one nobody talks about openly.In this trailer, Kurt Knutson introduces Community Bank Value™ Playbook and explains who the show is for, what it is — and just as importantly, what it isn’t.This series isn’t about selling your bank.It’s about understanding your strategic position so you can lead wi...
2025-12-2801 min
The Community Bank PodcastThe Art of Selling Your Bank with Kurt KnutsonToday we sit down with former bank CEO, Kurt Knutson. We discuss his book The Art of Selling Your Bank, where most M&A deals go wrong, how to merge 2 different cultures, and how to increase your bank's value — whether you plan to sell or remain independent. GET THE FIRST SECTION OF KURT'S BOOK FOR FREE HERE The views, information, or opinions expressed during this show are solely those of the participants involved and do not necessarily represent those of SouthState Bank and its employees. SouthState Bank, N.A. - Member FDIC
2024-05-2055 min
Mosaic ChurchLove Letters | Part 2: A Higher Love | Kurt KnutsonLove Letters | Part 2: A Higher Love | Kurt Knutson by Mosaic Church
2024-01-2739 min
Mosaic ChurchOut with the Old | Part 1: New Year’s Resolution | Kurt KnutsonIn with the new with our new series Out with the Old! We start the New Year off with a BANG as we make a New Year’s resolution together going through Mark 2:18-22. But instead of making the usual to-do list of goals, today we begin the year by changing our perspective. Why do we want to change something about ourselves every year? And why is this impulse shared by everyone? Join Kurt as he brings us our message this Sunday.
2024-01-0532 min
Mosaic ChurchSeven Words to the Church Today | Part 7: To the Church of Laodicea | Kurt KnutsonThis week, as we continue our series Seven Words to the Church Today, we visit the Church of Laodicea and Jesus’ letter to them in the book of Revelation. This church had a problem being pleasing to Jesus, and it has everything to do with their connection to Him. Is this a problem that we have today? Find out as we look at this letter together…
2023-11-1629 minMosaic ChurchSeven Words to the Church Today | Part 4: To the Church of Thyatira | Kurt KnutsonAs we continue on our journey through the Seven Letters to the Church in Revelation, we come across a church that struggled with tolerating an idolatrous, false teacher to influence them away from Jesus: The Church of Thyatira. In this sermon, Kurt will discuss the problem of tolerating false teaching and how to avoid false teaching in our lives
2023-10-2736 min
Mosaic ChurchSearching for God | Part 4:The Meaning of Life | Kurt KnutsonThe meaning of life is a question that many people have spent their lives trying to answer. All sorts of answers to that question are at the tips of our fingers in the information age. But this poses a problem: What is the real answer.
This Sunday, we explore the answer that God has given us in Scripture. What does God's meaning for all of man? For the Church? For me?
2023-09-2936 min
Mosaic ChurchThe Heavens Declare | Praising the Creator | Kurt KnutsonThe Heavens Declare | Praising the Creator | Kurt Knutson by Mosaic Church
2023-09-0632 min
Mosaic ChurchTen Words | Part 8: The 8th Commandment - You Shall Not Steal | Kurt KnutsonThe popularity of heist movies shows the glorification of theft in our society. This is in stark contrast to God's insistence that we do not steal in the 8th commandment. But does this commandment effect most of us in society? Not only that, but is God satisfied in us merely not taking from others or is there a higher bar for those of us now in Christ?
2023-07-2934 min
Hvordan ble du sånn?Hvordan ble du sånn, Venke KnutsonPå begynnelsen av 2000-tallet herjet hun på Norske hitlister med bl.a låten Panic, Jealous cause i love you og selvsagt duetten When the stars go blue med Kurt Nilsen. Deretter ble det stille. Lenge. Venke Knutson er 43 år gammel, kommer fra den lille bygda Birkeland utenfor Kristiansand og er et arbeidsjern av de sjeldne. I tillegg til å drive musikkskole tar hun på sin egen måte også et oppgjør med ensomheten gjennom konseptet “skravlekopp”.
2021-10-221h 13
All '90s Action, All The Time!Bonus Episode - The Three Musketeers (1993)Well before we go off for a couple of weeks we have a bonus episode for you! As always the bonus episode is connected to the main season. How is Disney's Three Musketeers connected to 90s Kurt Russell movies you say? Well, glad you asked so this episode connections are a) Rebecca De Mornay starred alongside Russell in "Backdraft" and b) Oliver Platt starred alongside him in "Executive Decision."
This is special episode too as our special guest Caleb Knutson completes what we are calling the "Caleb trilogy" as Caleb was previously on both the "Backdraft" and " E...
2021-10-122h 19All '90s Action, All The Time!90s Kurt Russell - Executive Decision (1996) (Ft. Caleb Knutson from Caleb Watches Movies)
Caleb is back! Yes, YouTuber and friend of the show Caleb Knutson returns to talk about another one of his childhood favourite Kurt Russell flicks. Which is surprising as this movie is one that there is little nostalgia out there for. Not that it is bad movie. No, as Caleb and your regular hosts Scott and Craig discuss, it is actually a rather good film. It is just that it may be the most middle of the road action of the movie of the '90s. A film that positively screams THREE STARS. Something that we...
2021-09-152h 00All '90s Action, All The Time!'90s Kurt Russell - Backdraft (1991) (Ft. Caleb Knutson from Caleb Watches Movies)"You go, we go!" - Stephen McCafferty (Kurt Russell)
And we're back again! This time around on Season 3 we breakdown the '90s films of Kurt Russell (an action star who is both iconic and yet still , we think, oddly underappreciated.) Kicking off the season Scott and Special Guest Caleb Knutson (check out his YouTube Channel Caleb Watches Movies) look at the 1991 Ron Howard *ahem* "classic" "Backdraft."
Ok, ok so we admit this movie is daft as a brush, has way too many subplots and a number of characters who have no r...
2021-08-252h 08
Música de segunda mano“When the Stars Go Blue”, Ryan Adams 140214MUSICADESEGUNDAMANO“When The Stars Go Blue” la compuso y la grabó por primera vez Ryan Adams, solista y también miembro de The Cardinals. El tema lo han versionado numerosos artistas. La banda de música celta The Corrs con Bono, líder de U2, irlandeses todos. La ha interpretado el cantante de country Tim McGraw. También los noruegos Venke Knutson y Kurt Nilsen a dúo.
2021-06-0838 min
True Stories That MatterWait! Can you really tell a story in only 99 seconds?THEME: Friends & FamilyFeature GRIT storytellers- Stephanie Rogers- Jeremy Kredlo- Andrew Shelffo- Katie Knutson- Daniel Boyd- Zach Stewart- Sharon EisnerKURT's ClassSEAN's Class99-Second Story SLAMSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/grit/donations
2021-02-0415 min