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Talkin' Rugby, Tellin' Stories, Rugby PickEm
Rob Kelly (aliases include Jim Bob Kelly) and I played college rugby together at Wake Forest University. Rob played flyhalf, but his best asset wasn't his on field performances. Instead, it was his ability to make all teammates feel welcomed and included in the team fabric.He led from the front on the field and at the post-game socials. Genial, com…
Our guest is Fred Marks, Founder of FMA Direct, member of the FAA sUAS ARC, AMA life member.By sUAS News
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137. Fine Art Drone Prints with Blyde Neser
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Blyde Neser is an Australian drone pilot, who is shooting and creating beautiful prints of the Australian coast. In addition to her fine art drone prints, she's also producing eco friendly yoga mats! She currently pilots the DJI Mavic 2 Pro and Phantom 4 Pro. In addition to drones, she's also taking some of her shots from helicopters, and we get in…
We look at the news and give some views on where the drone industry, including RID UTM, UAM, AAM is at the beginning of 2021.By sUAS News
Welcome back to Rugby PickEm! After a month off (to let things breath), we check back into a year of rugby that's sure to be constantly changing as the MLR games proceed in a month's time. Uncle Johnny, Tommy No Piks, Bt & Reiko in the house (casa de Collins) for a "State of the Rugby Union" ...- MLR Teams report. Overseas players may struggle with…
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136. Drones in Public Safety & High School Education with Brandon Herring
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Brandon Herring is flying drones with two hats. First he's a high school educator, and has developed a 3 year program for students at two schools in the Fort Smith, AK area. Second, he's also flying for public safety, with the local Sheriffs office. His high school drone program has been developed nicely, with specific tasks and learning objectives…
Are we getting closer to better actionable intelegence from FARM DRONES? In this instalment we speak with CEO, Devin Lane, and Austin Heil Sales and Development manager of AgMaps.By sUAS News
Our guest is Jon Damush, CEO of Iris Automation. We'll talk about some of the technology needed for a Detect and Avoid system that will eventually help us get beyond the visual line of sight.By sUAS News
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135. Residential Construction Progress, YouTube Specials, & other Drone Work with Don Wiley
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Don Wiley is a drone pilot from Florida, who has created a very successful niche drone business. Rather than focusing on massive construction progress jobs, he is working on individual residential home builds. In addition to residential construction progress, he's also creating YouTube videos that cover a specific topic (such as golf cart parades f…
In this episode, we learn about Skyfish with CEO Dr. Orest Pilskalns.By sUAS News
This week's guest is Joel Ifill, CEO - founder of DASH Sytems Inc. We're going to talk about airborne package delivery with a twist.By sUAS News
In this installment, we look back on 2020 and talk about some of what might be happening in 2021 for UAS, DAC, UTM, UAM/AAM.By sUAS News
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Rugby PickEm 2020 - The Year That Was
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You guessed it .... we made a 2020 Rugby PickEm mash up. Bt runs back the best moments in a year that was undoubtedly one of the more challenging, and gloomy years that we can remember. We started with a season preview where Kim Jordan graced the studio and the crew ran through each MLR teams' hashtags, mascots and other ridiculous pre-season bante…
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We Made A Highlight Reel - Logan Collins - Project Headband
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Once the 2020 season was cancelled, Tommy No Piks and Bt began the meticulous endeavor of creating a highlight reel for Rugby PickEm star Logan Collins. Spending hours pouring through old footage including:- PRO Rugby and the Denver Stampede- Grainy (and shaky) CSU Ram highlights (which Logan himself produced, so technically he'll begrudgingly get …
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134. Drone Lawyer Q&A with Grant Guillot
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Grant Guillot, a drone lawyer practicing with Adams and Reese LLP in Louisiana, joins us this week for some legal Q&A. Here is the list of questions that we initially went through, and then there are a couple of bonus questions near the end from live attendees: Intellectual Property Related Questions When working with clients how important is it to…
As the night ran long on the historical Rugby PickEm Awards (better known colloquially as the RPA's), the lads sat around the mic (some didn't even realize it was on), and began reminiscing and dream about a time when the entire USA rugby landscape wasn't shut down due to a Pandemic. Little known fact, but Uncle Johnny used to LIVE at his old club …
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2020 Voicemail Extravaganza (the Callers Make The Show)
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Paddy From Providence - 0:35Hey boys, Patty from Providence. Hey was scrolling through the old Instagram the other day and right between Hannah Palmer and Jenna Frumes. You know who I'm talking about. So I saw a little post about the Hartford Harpooners. Look, Providence and Harford have a have a long standing rivalry as "New England's Second City"…
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2020 Rugby PickEm Awards (The RPA's)
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What a year 2020 has been. Would anyone have ever thought an entire rugby season would be cancelled, postponed or altered over something that we knew could happen ... but just never thought it WOULD? Strange times. While the majority of the North American rugby season was cancelled, the rugby media industrial complex (bloggers and podcasters with n…
Happy Holidays Rugby PickEm Family!This has been an astoundingly crazy year. Lives were turned upside down, and the game of rugby will forever be changed in some way shape or form. We hope more than anything that players can return to playing the game they love, and that rugby returns in the US in a safe and timely fashion.It's been nearly 40 days …
In this episode, we get an update from Jason and Tony White at Galaxy Unmanned Systems. The White brothers have been in the UAS business for a long time and have made many unmanned industry firsts.By sUAS News
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133. Spraying Drones for Agriculture & Covid-19 Response in Botswana with Fanie Kooij
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Fanie Kooij is a drone pilot from Botswana, who brings an extensive agricultural background to drones. He recently acquired a DJI Agras T16 aerial application (spraying) drone, and has been utilizing it in agriculture. Listen in as he describes how he plans his missions, chemical considerations, water transport, solar charging, and more! In additio…
Our guest is Loc8 (Locate) CEO, Anthony Lockly. We will dicuss what this image analysis software can do to assist the Search And Rescue comunity. Loc8 is a software development firm focused on creating a suite of applications to post-process digital images. All of the applications are based on Loc8’s patent-pending core algorithms designed to syste…
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132. Pro Video Production and Drones with Joe Serkoch
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Joe is a two time Emmy award-winning Producer and Founder of Orionvega, Pittsburgh video production company. He has produced highly-visible projects for a variety of clients including Dove, Calvin Klein, Olympic Paints, and AOL. Networks that have featured Joe’s work include ChannelNews Asia, PBS, SPIKE, HGTV, DISCOVERY, and Comedy Central. Over th…
In this installment, we speak with Tom Walker, CEO, and founder of DroneUp. DroneUp has been in the news lately, and we’ll hear some of Tom’s perspectives on success in the current business climate.By sUAS News
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131. Journalism and Commercial Flight with The Drone Girl, Sally French
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Sally French has been a drone journalist and commercial drone pilot for 7 years, and shares her industry insight and more in this week's chat! We cover off how drones got into journalism, what works and what doesn't work, as well as her non journalism related commercial drone flight! Where to find Sally: The Drone Girl (website) Twitter Instagram F…
We continue our conversation from the last episode with Brock Gibson, Air Force combat veteran, and a retired VP at Insitu. The conversation will center on aviation technology, innovation, regulation, supply chain, and the ultimate effects on the warfighter and commercial end-user for land, sea, air, and space applications.…
In this informative and compelling installment, we speak with Brock Gibson, Air Force combat veteran, and a retired VP at Insitu. The conversation will center on aviation technology, innovation, regulation, supply chain, and the ultimate effects on the warfighter and commercial end-user for land, sea, air, and space applications.…
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130. Drone Search & Rescue, Training, Mapping, NASCAR and more with Michael Hill
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Michael Hill is a drone pilot from Dallas, TX, who is working in a wide range of industries with his drone. He's working in search and rescue, wind turbine and cell tower inspections, NASCAR, education, training, consultancy and more. Listen in as we dig into SAR missions, including planning and search techniques, as well as infrared technology uti…
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A User's Guide to Helping Your Rugby Community
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Most people know that the pandemic has (and will continue to) take a grave toll on rugby in the states. The nature of losing a season will have devastating consequences on ALL forms of rugby from grassroots programs, to men's clubs and even to lost revenue that MLR teams had budgeted for.At some point in the future, it will be safe to return to the…
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Thumbs Up on World Tens Series (ft. Logan Collins)
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After a month of exciting games, the SX-10 raise the trophy on the final day of the Bermuda 10's, defeating the Ohio Aviators at the death. The tournament was a success, hats off to the organizers and the Bermudans for making it all happen. The rugby world awaits future tournaments like this in the future.The Aviators played hard and showed the wor…
In this episode we speak with Jessica Chosid, CEO of Reign Maker. Reign Maker, a data and information collection firm, and operates and builds custom UAS (drones) and other robotic devices for the civil engineering, telecom and utility sector.By sUAS News
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129. Selling Stock Drone Footage via Getty Images, Shutterstock, and more with Steve Diddle
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Steve Diddle has been flying drones for 10 years now, and was one of the early drone ambassadors for the Parrot Bebop. Over the years he has been contributing stock footage to companies such as Getty Images, Shutterstock, and more. In this episode, Steve shares with us what works and what doesn't in the stock footage game. You're going to hear ever…
We speak with Jamey D. Jacob, PhD, PE John Hendrix Chair and Professor of Aerospace Engineering Director, Unmanned Systems Research Institute School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Oklahoma State UniversityBy sUAS News
After speaking with Rugby PickEm friend Taylor Howden (the next Eddie Jones in the making) and he confirmed he was coaching the (throwback) Ohio Aviator side in Bermuda 10's, my mind began racing with questions about business side of things...Who are the financial backers and what are their end game?Is Bermuda 10's the beginning of a year-round 10'…
Our favorite curmudgeon HARPO was back in Denver, and there was a sighting. Just stopping by on his long windy road to nowhere.... Who Cares, Who Knows, Why Bother?Southern Hemisphere - Bledisloe and The Rugby ChampionshipAfter many weeks of negotiations and squabbles, Rugby Australia and the NZRU have agreed to two Bledisloe games in New Zealand, …
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127. Drones in Real Estate and YouTube Success with OriginaldoBo (Ken Dono)
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You probably know Ken Dono as OriginaldoBo, right? Ken joins us on this week's episode to discuss drones in real estate, and his successful YouTube channel. The real estate discussion doesn't just stop with drones, as Ken also gives us insight into how he shoots interiors and exteriors with his ground based cameras. Yep, we get into aperture, ISO a…
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Hosting A RWC In The States - Operation 2031
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Mike from Chicago"Hey this is Mike from Chicago, an old rugger. You probably heard that the rich rugby folks in the US are trying to put together an investment group in order to position the US to bid of either the 2027 or 2031 Rugby World Cup. I got two questions...Isn't USA Rugby broke and in bankruptcy? Where would the World Cup final be held? R…
The MLR is bacc. Well, in 6 months. Commish Killebrew announced an exciting return to rugby in March of 2021. 16 games, Semis, Finals. Simple.Jodi from San Diego"What's up, my Rugby PickEm baes. It's Jody from San Diego. And I just heard the news that the MLR is back. I'm fired up for my Legion this year not because of the high-profile signings lik…
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126. Coastal Shoreline Mapping with Benjamin Ritt
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Benjamin Ritt is a drone pilot from Texas, who has been utilizing a variety of drone technology to survey beaches and coastlines. During our chat, Benjamin offered up a dataset for us to download and try our hand at coastal mapping. If you’d like to download that dataset for free, simply drop your name and email below, and we’ll send it to you ASAP…