Is that how it happened?
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<p>Have you ever wanted to know more about who someone really is, what really happened, how that came to be, or who was really the man or woman behind that thing? This is where you will find.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sit back with us, and hear the FACTS about different Leaders, Educators, Doctors, Lawyers and Entrepreneurs. They will tell you "How it Happened". </p>
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June 6, 2026
Still here! The story of three great friendships over a lifetime
<p>Three women who have known each other since before life got complicated are finally sitting down to tell the whole story. From their earliest days together through marriages, children, careers, loss, reinvention, and now grandchildren -- they have been witnesses to each other's entire lives. That kind of friendship does not happen by accident. It happens by choice, over and over again, across forty years of showing up.</p><p>This episode is a conversation. Honest, warm, and sometimes funny in the way that only people who have known each other forever can be. They talk about who they were, who they became, and what it cost to get here. They talk about the moments that changed everything and the ordinary Tuesday afternoons that somehow mattered just as much.</p><p>Still Here is for anyone who has ever held onto a friendship long enough to know what it is really worth.</p><p> Subscribe now and be part of the conversation from the very beginning.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2489834/support">Support the show</a></p>
May 4, 2026
Mike McGhee Lives His Life by the Three F's — And What a Life This Legend Has Had
<p>Some people collect titles. Mike McGhee, Senior Vice President at eplus, collects relationships — and after four decades in the technology channel, the return on that investment speaks for itself.</p><p>In this episode, Van sits down with one of the people who helped shape his own career in technology, a Richmond, Virginia native who has been attending the same church since 1971, still golfs with his high school crew from Freeman, and will tell you without hesitation that faith, family, and friends come before everything else — including the job.</p><p>But don't let the warmth fool you. This is a guy who helped build Slate Technology into a powerhouse Mid-Atlantic VAR, navigated a Cisco layoff on the eve of 9/11 from a hotel room in San Diego, guided the acquisition of Slate by eplus, and is now overseeing multiple regions — from Southern Virginia deep into Texas — with the same philosophy he's carried his whole career: surround yourself with people smarter than you, never burn a bridge, and always leave it better than you found it.</p><p>Mike and Van go deep on what it actually means to build a career on relationships rather than resumes, why "who you know" gets you the seat at the table to show "what you know," and how the lesson of a father's dinner bell echoing across a Richmond neighborhood still shapes how Mike thinks about presence, accountability, and showing up.</p><p>They also get into where AI is really landing with customers right now — and why the honest answer is "all over the map" — before wrapping with the story of a first date involving stuffed grape leaves that Mike's wife has apparently never forgiven him for.</p><p>If you work in technology sales, if you're early in your career and trying to figure out how the game is actually played, or if you just want to spend 45 minutes with someone who has genuinely lived what he preaches, this one is for you.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2489834/support">Support the show</a></p>
April 30, 2026
Your GPUs are waiting. And every second they wait, you're burning money
<p>Welcome to Is That How It Happened? -- the podcast where we dig into the real architecture behind the technology headlines. I'm your host, The Vanimal, and today we're talking about one of the most expensive and least-discussed problems in AI infrastructure: the storage wall.</p><p>As AI models push into the trillions of parameters, the bottleneck isn't compute anymore -- it's data delivery. Traditional TCP/IP networks are choking your pipelines, exhausting your CPUs, and leaving your H100 clusters idle while they wait on checkpoints and training data to load. That is not a networking inconvenience. That is a structural failure at scale.</p><p>In this episode, we break down how Remote Direct Memory Access -- RDMA -- tears that wall down entirely. We're talking zero-copy data movement, direct paths from storage to GPU memory with the CPU completely out of the loop, and real-world throughput numbers that will reframe how you think about AI infrastructure design.</p><p>We cover the TCP/IP bottleneck, the RoCEv2 versus InfiniBand debate, NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage, and how DeepSeek's 3FS architecture is hitting 6.6 terabytes per second of aggregate read bandwidth across 180 storage nodes.</p><p>If you're building, buying, or advising on AI infrastructure, this is not optional listening.</p><p>Let's get into it.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2489834/support">Support the show</a></p>
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<p>Have you ever wanted to know more about who someone really is, what really happened, how that came to be, or who was really the man or woman behind that thing? This is where you will find.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sit back with us, and hear the FACTS about different Leaders, Educators, Doctors, Lawyers and Entrepreneurs. They will tell you "How it Happened". </p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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