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Kim Komando Today

Feeding a remote Alaskan town during the pandemic

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Kim brings you the story of a man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship. Toshua Parker went from a quarter-million dollars in debt to the owner of a successful grocery story that's keeping Gustavus, Alaska stocked during the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, meet Jonathan Bass, Head of Marketing and Communications at Wing, a subsidiary of Alphabet. Wing has built an autonomous fleet of small, lightweight delivery drones that can transport small packages to homes in minutes.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Commando on Demand Insider, your fast-paced weekly update straight from Kim's desk to your ears.

0:07.0

I'm Mike James, and in just a bit, the amazing success story of Toshua Parker, who went from a failed Phoenix real estate investor in 2008, to a very successful grocery store owner in his hometown of Gistavis, Alaska, and how he went from a quarter

0:23.5

million dollars in depth to using a small airplane to supply his grocery store. Some call it

0:29.8

Tashko. And this great story is coming up, as well as we've all heard the stories of drones

0:34.3

eventually being everywhere from delivery drones to drones that actually

0:38.0

clean up sports stadiums with antiseptic. Well, Kim's going to be talking to Jonathan Bass. He's the

0:44.0

head of marketing and communications with Wing, which is a subsidiary of Alphabet, Google's

0:49.6

parent company, which has built an autonomous fleet of small lightweight delivery drones that can transport

0:56.2

small packages directly to homes in minutes. Wing has conducted more than 100,000 flight tests,

1:02.7

and we're going to see how that's going in today's edition of Commando on Demand. And a real

1:07.0

quick reminder, this is not the Kim Commando show. Every week, Kim gives you the very latest in tech news, tips, DIYs, and we take the questions on the Kim Commando show.

1:17.4

And that is available as a podcast.

1:19.8

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1:21.6

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1:25.0

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1:26.9

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1:33.2

After that, $4.99 a month. Successful entrepreneur, Toshua Parker, is next.

2:02.6

If you think it's tough for you to get milk and eggs and disinfectant wipes, paper towels, toilet paper, imagine if you lived in Gistavis, Alaska, 48-Aremiles west of Alaska's state capital, Juneau, in southeast Alaska. Now, imagine this, because Stavis is completely surrounded by the distant mountains and the ice fields of Glacier

2:08.1

Bay National Park on three sides. So it's all enclosed. The fourth side is the ocean, so it's

2:15.2

very isolated. And when I ran about Tasha Parker, I knew that you would

2:19.9

want to know more about him too, because Tosh says the local store at the time, when he started

2:25.4

thinking about making some changes in his life, was charging about $12 for a gallon of milk,

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