4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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We're staying six feet apart, gas is cheap and the middle seat on airplanes may be empty for a while yet. But what about our businesses and our future? Kim talks with analyst Steph Smith about which trends are worth watching to make sense of the complicated world. Plus, meet Nate Walowitz, regional coordinator and creator of Project THOR. After getting fed up with slow satellite internet options, Colorado residents took matters into their own hands to build their own solution.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Commando on Demand, your fast-paced weekly update straight from Kim's desk to your ears. |
0:05.2 | I'm Mike James, and in the last couple, several weeks, close to 30 million people have lost their jobs. |
0:10.4 | Oil prices have crashed. |
0:12.2 | Restaurants and airlines are shutting down, and the coverage is noisy and difficult to digest. |
0:19.2 | And that's why Kim is bringing in Trends Senior Analyst, Steph Smith, to digest. And that's why Kim is bringing in trends senior analyst |
0:22.9 | Steph Smith to brief us on which trends are worth watching and to make sense of all the |
0:29.6 | complicated things that we're seeing right now. You're going to learn which industries have |
0:33.4 | been hit the hardest, what second and third effects that you can expect to see next, |
0:39.3 | which industries are surging and getting investments, and how behaviors are, of course, |
0:45.4 | changing. |
0:46.4 | Later on, Kim checks in with the creator of something that's called Project Thor, |
0:51.2 | which is an effort to bring high-speed Internet to rural areas of Colorado. It's the story behind Project Thor, which is an effort to bring high-speed internet to rural areas of Colorado. |
0:56.3 | It's the story behind Project Thor and why it's important to the region. |
1:01.4 | It's really a fascinating story. |
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1:11.7 | As a matter of fact, right now, |
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1:21.3 | at noon Pacific time, 3 o'clock Eastern time, |
1:25.2 | and it's a lot of fun. |
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