Off The Dome Radio

Episode 90: Burger King's Creative Ad Campaign, Streaming Wars Heating Up, Homebuyer Email Fraud, Dreamers vs. Doers, Handling Uncertainty, and How to Block Out Distractions

Episode  |  October 8th, 2019  |  52 mins 12 secs

advertising, amazon, aubrey marcus, balance, batman, burger king, cross-training, dark knight, disney, dream, email fraud, google, heath ledger, joker movie, laura r wallker, marketing, meditation, mexico city, resiliency, steve jobs, streaming wars, tim ferriss, tribe of mentors, uncertainty, yoga, youtube

In today's current events, we highlight Burger King's creative advertising campaign involving food comas. We also discuss the streaming wars, and how competition is heating up between Amazon, Google, and Disney after a couple of branding disputes. We end the segment by talking about email fraud and how a homebuyer from Texas was a victim of a business email compromise scam.

In the real life experience section, Slager gets into what separates dreamers from doers, as well as the importance or cross-training. Tim describes the lessons he learned after experiencing debit card fraud this past weekend.

For book talk, Tim expands on some advice about handling uncertainty from Laura R. Walker in Tim Ferriss' book "Tribe of Mentors." Slager discusses what it means to do the hard tasks and black out distractions, analyzing parts of Aubrey Marcus' "Own the Day, Own Your Life."

Episode 66: Product Liability Issues for Amazon, More Competition for Netflix, PaveGen and Smart Sidewalks, The Perfect Product, and Developing Patience with Communication

Episode  |  July 9th, 2019  |  49 mins 20 secs

amazon, at&t, careers, colorado, denver, disney, ecommerce, estes park, ford, holidays, lake, nbc, netflix, parenting, pavegen, product liability, streaming, tattoos

In today's current events, we discuss Amazon's new product liability hurdles to overcome following an appeals court ruling in Pennsylvania. We also get into the rising competition in the streaming space for Netflix, and how it will be losing some of its programs in the near future thanks to other streaming services. Lastly, we highlight a new company called PaveGen, which is providing a new way of energy involving kinetic energy from footsteps.

For Real Life Experience, Tim reflects on his Colorado trip and Slager reflects on an uplifting conversation he had with his parents in regards to his career situation.

For book talk, Tim discusses an article from Harvard Business Review featuring the Ford CEO, and Slager highlights an important conversation tip from "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff"

Episode 43: Disney Streaming Service, Walmart and Robots, Student Organization Harassment at Texas State, Uber Not Profitable, Groupthink, and Practicing Humility

Episode  |  April 16th, 2019  |  58 mins 54 secs

adam grant, amazon prime, artificial intelligence, creativity, disney, ego, groupthink, heart, honesty, hulu, humility, longevity, netflix, oregon, originals, profitability, streaming, student politics, texas sate, turning point usa, uber, walmart, workforce

In today's current events discussion, we talk about a lady who lived 99 years with organs on the wrong side of her body. Yes, that happened. We also get into a student organization harassment issue at Texas State, Disney's new streaming service Disney+, Uber's surprising IPO warning about its profitability, and Walmart's new robotic workforce.

We end show talking about life lessons we have learned about humility. We also discuss the concept of groupthink and how it is killing creativity in today's meeting setting, as well as the concept of practicing humility and sharing your ideas and accomplishments from your heart.