When you work in entertainment, you are in the business of fun. This podcast will focus on the challenges and opportunities associated with helping your customers create memories and special moments. We will talk about sports, theatre, performing arts, and other forms of entertainment, highlighting the best ideas in marketing live experiences, creating long-term customers, and growing revenues.
Tyler Simmons tells me that innovation is built into the DNA of the Bucket Golf product
Hi!
My guest today is Tyler Simmons.
We talk about Bucket Golf.
What a cool product.
Today we discuss:
Creating a product from scratch
Building innovation into the DNA of your business
The importance of community to the growth of the business
Managing a supply chain
And, more.
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27 Apr 2026
Brian Vinson teaches us about using data to build connections, make decisions, and earn more money...
I had a data conversation that I was excited to share with you because Brian Vinson comes at data in a way that made me excited to rethink my take on data.
If you've listened for long, you know that I think people put too much emphasis on looking backward at their data when making decisions.
Brian's POV on data is very much forward looking and it was refreshing to hear this.
In today's episode, we get into a lot of things:
Using wifi to serve customers and get better data
Finding data from guests that don't want to have you know they are there
Making data memorable and useful internally and externally
Why making people feel seen makes your data more powerful
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14 Apr 2026
John Breyault thinks monopolies will monopoly...I agree.
My guest today is John Breyault.
John is with the National Consumers League (https://nclnet.org/about-ncl/leadership/). His work is on consumer protection. Which made a conversation about the Live Nation trial timely.
We cover a lot of ground about Live Nation and tickets including:
The 2010 merger between Live Nation and Ticketmaster
The consent decree that was supposed to reign in some behaviors
Structural v. Behavioral remedies. And, why in this case, structural remedies might make more sense.
Bad actors.
And, more!
I've written too many words about this case, but if you haven't had the chance to read them:
Ticketmaster Won. Everyone Else Lost. That's Why Tickets Are Broken.
David Marcus Replies. (On LinkedIn)
DOJ Settlement
The Fix Was Always In
David Cooper's Guest Post
Even If the States Win, Will It Be Enough?
Must Be Nice Not to Know. Michael Rapino's Testimony.
Lord...far too many words.
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Me + You and 90 minutes of analysis and action items.
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Inside a recent episode
Faisal Hoque tells me AI might steal my job...or, it might not.
Published 1 Apr 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So for example, automation, for example, decision making, predictive modeling, these are all part of algorithmic change that has happened. Last two, three years, why we have so much focus on it is because of the natural language evolution and this whole generative AI movement. And then we're now seeing, you know, the emergence of agent AI, we're going to start seeing AGI, which is, you know, the general artificial intelligence, you know, all of this is just pushing the boundaries to the next level and next level. So for example, you know, he's a simple example. We do it every day now, but we don't pay attention to it. […]
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