The Trade Deadline Lesson
I love baseball. We’re a week from the trade deadline. Teams are texting back and forth, hunting either for the crucial piece that vaults them into the World Series or the unpolished kid who blossoms into a star a few years down the road. My team is the Chicago Cubs.

He Couldn’t Jump. He Could Lead.
The NBA is a league of 7-foot stars and 10-foot egos. This year the championship was won by a team with neither. The New York

Your Scrap Tungsten Carbide Is a National Security Question, Nick Stevens and Joey Marks–EP 268
While his nine-year-old son was fighting stage three cancer, Nick Stevens was driving around buying up scrap tungsten carbide just to keep food on the

Squirrel Talk
Back in the days when Roger Maris crashed 61 homers, college girls did not show off tattoos, and American boys were getting killed in Vietnam,

The Only Classic Car Wiper Business in the World, with Pat Parnell-EP 267
Pat Parnell went to buy a classic car for his wife. He ended up buying a company too. Rain Gear Wiper Systems, the only hidden

Show Me the Tungsten
Graff-Pinkert’s used machine tool business has been challenging for the last couple of years. It has always been a cyclical business that takes grit, creativity,

The Man Who Never Stops Teaching, with Logan McGhan-EP 266
Today’s podcast is about mentorship, finding it, and paying it back. Logan McGhan is an old friend of mine from the used machinery business who

