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334 | Vsimple: Buddy Bockweg on Why 99% of Companies Need to Retool Their Operations Before AI Can Deliver Real Value
99% of companies were built before AI became commercially available in 2023. Now every one of them must transform their operations or watch post-AI competitors do the same work with a fraction of the…
Mission Critical | The Urban Mine Nobody's Processing: Matt Bedingfield of Mint Innovation on Recovering Critical Minerals from E-Waste
The U.S. generates 8 million metric tons of e-waste annually, yet ships nearly 100% of its valuable circuit boards overseas for processing. Export bans and tariffs won't solve that—they'd just create…
333 | Due Gooder: How Nate Royal Built an AI App That Onboarded 23K Students in January
A 21-year-old who failed all his classes freshman year just onboarded 23,000 students in a single month—and he built the company that did it.In this episode, Nate Royal joins us to share how he went…
Mission Critical | TVA Is Turning a Coal Plant into a Fusion Reactor: Tony Williams on the Infinity Project
A decommissioned coal plant in Clinton, Tennessee is on track to become the site of America's first commercial stellarator fusion reactor.In this episode, Tony Williams — Executive Sponsor of the…
332 | AI, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth in America: Logan & Evan on Building with AI, the OpenClaw Moment, and Why the American Dream Has to Survive This
A senior developer walks into a startup refusing to use AI coding tools. Three months later, he's compressing months of work into a single weekend—and says he'd never go back.In this episode, Middle…
Mission Critical | Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes: Inside America's Plan to Break China's Critical Minerals Grip
Upwards of 80% of critical minerals are processed in China - even when they're mined elsewhere. If a global conflict broke out tomorrow, America likely couldn't supply its own defense industrial…
S9E4 331 | Proximity Parking: Turning Parking Into Economic Development Tool: How Grant Murray Raised $1.5M to Fix Parking
Most people see parking as a necessary evil—a frustrating obstacle between you and wherever you're going. Grant Murray saw an opportunity to turn it into something cities, businesses, and consumers…
Introducing Mission Critical: Logan Jones & Alex Mercer on Energy, Manufacturing, and America's Most Critical Industries
What started as some experimental episodes last season has now turned into it's own series.In this episode, Logan Jones and Alex Mercer introduce Mission Critical, a new show exploring how artificial…
S9E2 330 | Immersive Hearing Technologies: Shingles Took His Hearing at 40 - Now Jeff Cummins is Fixing How Hearing Aids Are Sold
Two weeks before his 40th birthday, Jeff Cummins contracted shingles - and it took most of the hearing in his right ear. With young daughters at home whose voices he could no longer hear, he became a…
S9E1 329 | Season 9 Kickoff: Logan Joins Valent, Reflections on 2025, and What's Next for Middle Tech
Building a company isn't glamorous - it's brutal, uncertain, and rarely as fast as the headlines suggest. But it's also where real growth happens.In this Season 9 kickoff, Logan and Evan sit down to…
328 | Atomic Ambition: Inside the Texas Nuclear Model & What Kentucky Can Learn w/ Will Howard of Elementl
In February 2021, Winter Storm Uri plunged Texas into darkness, exposing the fragility of the modern American grid. For Will Howard, it was a call to action.In this episode, Will joins us to discuss…
327 | Modernizing the Bourbon Barrel Market: Chris Wiedmar of Hogshead
A new digital marketplace is modernizing how bourbon barrels are bought, sold, and valued across Kentucky’s signature industry.In this episode, Hogshead co-founder and CEO Chris Wiedmar joins us to…
326 | Bourbon Meets Biotech: How Brandon Corace and Meridian Biotech Turn Stillage into Sustainable Products
A $40 million partnership with Buffalo Trace is giving new life to one of bourbon’s biggest byproducts: stillage.In this episode, Meridian Biotech founder Brandon Corace joins us to share how his…
325 | Paducah’s Nuclear Revival: Global Laser Enrichment CEO Steve Long on America’s Energy Future
Steve Long is the CEO of Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) - a company bringing a multi-billion-dollar nuclear fuel facility to Paducah, Kentucky, marking one of the most significant energy investments…
324 | ElectraMet: How University Research Launched a Hard-Tech Startup to Remove Metals from Wastewater
In this episode, we sit down with Cameron Lippert, co-founder of ElectraMet, and Chris Young, President of Bluegrass Angels, to explore how a hard-tech startup spun out of university research is…
323 | Nuclear Energy In Action: Inside TVA's Sequoyah Nuclear Plant with Chief Nuclear Officer Tim Rausch
Tim Rausch is the soon-to-be-retired Chief Nuclear Officer for the Tennessee Valley Authority - the utility responsible for providing power to homes and businesses across the Tennessee Valley. In…
322 | Parasight Systems: Eric Hauck on Building Biotech Hardware to Fight Parasites in Pets & Livestock
In this episode, we sit down with Eric Hauck, founder and CEO of Parasight Systems, to explore how a biotech hardware startup based in Lexington is solving one of veterinary medicine’s most…
321 | Invest Blue: How Raechele Smalls and Eric Hartman are Building a Mission-Driven Angel Community for Kentucky Startups
In this episode, we sit down with Raechele Smalls, Director of Invest Blue, and Eric Hartman, Senior Associate Director at UK Innovate, to explore how Invest Blue is building a mission-driven…
320 | TVA’s Nuclear Milestone: Justin Maierhofer on Advancing the Nation’s First SMR Construction Permit
Justin Maierhofer is the Senior Vice President of Government Relations at the Tennessee Valley Authority and serves as TVA’s representative on the newly formed Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development…
319 | Lexington AI Meetup Live: The Story of AlphaFold with Founding Member Steve Crossan
In this special live recording from our Lexington AI Meetup, we sit down with Steve Crossan, a founding member of Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold team and former Google product leader. Steve helped…
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