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Welcome to Building Billions with Brandon Dawson. This podcast will be taking you on the journey of exactly what it takes to build a billion dollar business. Brandon Dawson will discuss the strategies, tactics, and mindset that have helped him build multiple successful businesses and ultimately helping grow his current business to $100 million in 4 short years. As Grant Cardone's business partner, Brandon is here to give you the no bull shit guide on how to be create a legacy and become part ...
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Premier Guitar’s world-famous Rig Rundowns take you backstage to explore the live gear used by your favorite guitar and bass players. Whether you’re into shred, country, indie, or classic rock, Rig Rundowns give you the lowdown on the instruments, pedals, and amps powering the biggest acts on the road today—and often we even coax them into demoing their favorite settings. Listen now and pick up new tricks for how to set up your rig!
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San Jose’s Raza community has a rich history and tradition of impactful community organizing that goes back to the 1950s and the founding of the local chapter of The Community Service Organization led by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Blanca Alvarado, and many others. The emergence of United People Arriba and La Confederacion de La Raza Unida led by Ernestina Garcia, Sofia Mendoza, Rachel Silva and Joaquin Brito in the ’60s led to further political and economic empowerment, culminating in tod ...
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In this episode of Building Billions, I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with a true business legend, Happ Klopp, the founder of The North Face. We dive deep into what it really takes to build a brand that not only stands the test of time but also continues to thrive in a rapidly changing world. Happ shares his remarkable journey of creat…
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There’s been a lot of debate about what the relationship should be between videographic criticism and writing. Some have wondered if video essays could function as stand-alone scholarship and break free from having to be framed by text-based explanations such as creator statements or peer reviews. But even if one acknowledges the role of writing in…
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/chris-shiflett-2024 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The last time PG caught up with Chris Shiflett, Chris Kies paid a visit to Foo Fighters headquarters at Studio 606. This time, he meets Shiflett in Cincinnati, onstage at Great American Ballpark ahead of th…
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/elijah Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Philadelphia-raised metal guitarist Xander Raymond Charles has built himself quite a following on YouTube—his subscribers now number over 120,000. But when he’s not YouTubing, he’s playing live, and earlier this year, h…
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/michael-lemmo Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube “It’s a loony bin.” That’s how Michael Lemmo describes Norman’s Rare Guitars, the coveted Los Angeles shop. Lemmo was tapped to join the store and eventually host their popular Guitar of the Day web series after …
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/chris-buck Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube It didn’t take too long for Welsh guitarist Chris Buck to go from making YouTube videos to playing the legendary Royal Albert Hall. Earlier this year, he brought his band Cardinal Black to the U.S. for a short tour …
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/drain Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube We had the good fortune of catching up with California hardcore outfit Drain on their Good Good Tour, a year after the release of their 2023 LP, Living Proof. A few hours before the band ripped Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl,…
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Today's episode features a conversation recorded live in May at The King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence in London. The event featured as the launch of Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship, a new book from Edinburgh University Press by Daniel Chávez Heras, who is a lecturer in the Department of Digi…
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Andy Hurley Drum Rundown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLCiHZl7C4o Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/fall-out-boy-2024 Back in March, Chicago’s Fall Out Boy blasted through Birmingham, Alabama, in the middle of a year-long tour supporting their 2023 release, So Much (for) Stardust. It was their first solo headline t…
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/cage-the-elephant Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Cage the Elephant was formed nearly 20 years ago in Bowling Green by vocalist Matt Shultz, guitarists Brad Shultz and Lincoln Parish, drummer Jared Champion, and bassist Daniel Tichenor. That core lineup has …
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/in-flames Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube If In Flames didn’t invent melodic death metal, they cemented the genre’s arrival with Lunar Strain and Subterranean, and if those were early blueprints to the burgeoning style, the Swedes’ The Jester Race and Whorac…
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/helmet-2024 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube “I could not exist without guitar,” admits Helmet founding lead guitarist and singer Page Hamilton. “I know this to be true because I’m a miserable asshole if I don’t play guitar. When I wake up in the morning, the…
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From movies to television, YouTube to TikTok, it’s a big world of audiovisual media out there. How many videographic works have tried to take them all in? A new installation work has tried to do just that. The Extended Play is a collaboration between artists Anina Müller and Jennifer Merlyn Scherler, which was exhibited at the Austellungsraum Kling…
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Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/donny-benet Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube There’s comical bands (Gwar), there’s parody bands (Steel Panther), and there’s clever combinations of both (Mac Sabbath). The Italian-Australian Donny Benét is none of those and all of those at the same time. H…
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Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The Food Stamps have been cooking onstage behind the redheaded songwriter pretty much since he left Appalachia and began touring as a full unit. These loyal road dogs have worn the rubber off the tires touring with Mr. Childers. First, they were strictly a live band enlisted to recreate an…
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/erra Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Before ERRA’s headlining show at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl in support of their latest album, Cure, cofounding member Jesse Cash and newcomer Clint Tustin—a pair of proficient guitar-playing pyrotechnicians—invited PG’s Ch…
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/loathe Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Loathe is a challenging listen. In 10 years, they’ve released three dissimilar albums, a pair of pulverizing EPs, and a couple reinventive, collaborative covers (with Sleep Token and Teenage Wrist) of their own material…
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Today's episode is the first in a series of conversations on videos created as part of the project, Doing Women’s (Global) (Horror) Film History (DWGHFH), a year-long video essay mentoring and training program that culminated in a videographic special issue of MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture. Led by Alison Peirse, DWGHFH features the work of thirty …
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/dixie-dregs Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Steve Morse and Andy West are legendary players. In addition to co-founding the Dixie Dregs together in Augusta, Georgia, in 1970, both virtuosos have colorful personal resumes. Guitar giant Morse’s is more high-pr…
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Knocked Loose Drum Rundown: https://youtu.be/3WOPb983Pss Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/knocked-loose-2024 If hell had a guitar tone, it’d be what Knocked Loose’s Isaac Hale and Nicko Calderon conjure up from their Ibanez 7-string beasts. The band’s mission since day one has been to pummel listeners with the most-ex…
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Today's episode is the fourth in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded b…
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Follow Grace Bowers: https://lnk.to/tellmewhyudothat Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/grace-bowers Guitarist Grace Bowers is a 17-year old California transplant tearing it up in Nashville. Currently working on her first album with producer John Osborne of the Brothers Osborne, Bowers invited John Bohlinger and the PG …
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/black-pumas Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube In just seven years since meeting based on a recommendation, Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada formed the Black Pumas, released two albums, and have already been nominated for seven Grammys. However, this fruitful fri…
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/extreme Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Nearly 40 years ago, Nuno Bettencourt walked into Mouradian Guitars Co in Boston where Pat Badger was working and they formed a bond that would change their worlds. In March of 2024, Pat Badger and Nuno Bettencourt, of…
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Today's episode features a conversation with filmmaker Christopher Jason Bell, who joins the show to discuss Miss Me Yet, his ten-part found footage series on the presidency of George W. Bush and rehabilitation of Bush's image in recent years. The series is available to stream for free via Means TV. Also, check out an essay on Miss Me Yet written b…
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Ever wonder how relentless determination shapes not just careers, but lives and legacies? Welcome back to Building Billions, I'm Brandon Dawson and today I have with me NFL legend Ray Lewis! In this episode, you'll hear the untold story of his journey from adversity to greatness. This isn't just a tale of sports triumph; it's a masterclass in culti…
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Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/adrian-vandenberg Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Adrian Vandenberg is a Dutch rock guitarist, best known for his tenure as one of the guitarists in Whitesnake during their successful late 1980s period, and also with the band Vandenberg, which he started …
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Today's episode is the third in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded by…
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Full Crosses' Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/crosses Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube What if Deftones’ lead singer Chino Moreno fully leaned into his love for the Cure and Depeche Mode—think “Digital Bath,” “Teenager,” “Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event,” and “Cherry Waves?” The short answ…
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Today's episode features a conversation with Alison Peirse, a horror film scholar and professor at the University of Leeds. Alison led the project Doing Women’s (Global) (Horror) Film History (DWGHFH), a year-long video essay mentoring and training program that culminated in a videographic special issue of MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture. DWGHFH fea…
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Welcome back to another episode of Building Billions! Today, I have a very special guest who I've known for over 15 years. We met when he was running a small business in a small town, just like every other entrepreneur with a big dream. Today, he's the founder and CEO of Zoom Info, a publicly traded company helping businesses identify their next be…
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Sammy Boller on Randy Rhoads: https://youtu.be/Ym-LXU-3nd4 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube “I grew up wanting to be Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads, but over time I’ve found my own dark and aggressive style. These days, my dream as a musician is to make people feel as connected to the cosmos as I feel when I play the gu…
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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/aj-ghent Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube AJ Ghent’s uniquely inspired Singing Guitar has its roots in the Sacred Steel musical style and African-American gospel traditions that developed out of a group of Pentecostal churches across the South. Ghent comes fr…
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Welcome back to Building Billions, I'm Brandon Dawson! Today, I have a special guest, my buddy Alvaro Nunez. We're diving into the mindset behind achieving personal, professional, and financial success. Alvaro's journey from Madrid to Miami is an inspiring tale of resilience and innovation. His approach is centered on elevating oneself in every are…
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Welcome back to another episode of Building Billions with Brandon Dawson! Today, I am thrilled to share the inspiring story of my friend Daniel Chavez, a remarkable entrepreneur who has achieved incredible success at just 25 years old. Daniel joins me to discuss his journey from running a $3.5 million landscaping business to scaling it to nearly $1…
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Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/erin-coburn Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Erin Coburn grew up on blues and classic rock. That background has afforded her a spotlight onstage for over half her life, including opening slots ahead of Marcus King and Blackberry Smoke. She released her fir…
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Watch Charlie's Drum Rundown: https://youtu.be/Gz-suX8VSqM Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/pantera Original Cowboy from Hell bassist Rex Brown has gone through so much gear. He’s lost amps and donated basses to charity. He’s fostered many fruitful friendships with companies that’s resulted signature wares for war.…
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“Will the next Tool album take more than 10,000 days?” That was an ongoing (and agonizing) joke for Tool fans that awaited the band’s fifth album following the release of 2006’s 10,000 Days. (A cruel clairvoyance of a title.) For those counting, when Fear Inoculum was finally delivered on August 30, 2019, it was just 4,868 days from their previous …
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Buffalo Nichols believes in the power of acoustic country blues. He also believes it’s not a fossil, trapped in amber, but a living, breathing musical genre. Which is why he blends elements of the tradition—slide guitar, resonator, open tunings, themes of loss, redemption, and struggle—with loops, samples, drum machines, myriad effects, and modern-…
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Today's episode is the second in an ongoing collaboration between The Video Essay Podcast and "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," a three-year research project on video essays led by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema at USI University of Lugano, with Johannes Binotto and Evelyn Kreutzer, and funded b…
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Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundowns/wolfmother Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube When we walked into Nashville’s Eastside Bowl for this Rig Rundown with Wolfmother’s alpha canine, Andrew Stockdale, it sounded like he was playing his SG through a Marshall stack at head-ripping volume. Nope! S…
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The Menzingers’ albums are storied time capsules. Starting in 2007 with teen angst and rebellion, they’ve refined and reshaped their narratives into self-reflective numbers that continue to balance melody and might. Their most-recent installment—2023’s Some of It Was True—was their eighth chapter that stares down aging with acceptance rather than a…
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Robert’s Western World on Nashville’s Lower Broadway was home to the Don Kelley Band for as long as anyone can remember. Kelley’s band was an institution in Nashville, serving as a stepping stone for super-pickers like Guthrie Trapp, Brent Mason, Johnny Hiland, Daniel Donato, JD Simo, and more. “Slick” Joe Fick and Luke McQueary also came up throug…
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On today's episode, Will talks with filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho about his new film, Pictures of Ghosts. Set in the director's home city of Recife, in the Pernambuco state of Brazil, the film is a self-described "multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking." Kleber talks about the film's origins, the art of voiceove…
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Jason Isbell’s last Rundown was in 2019. The guitarist and songwriter, who we’ve called “Americana’s poet laureate,” is a huge gearhead though—and his collection is truly the stuff of dreams—so a lot can happen in a few years. Currently touring with his acclaimed 400 Unit band in support of the highly acclaimed Weathervanes album, he rolls with a s…
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Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundowns/kingfish-2024 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube Christone "Kingfish" Ingram’s 2019 debut album, Kingfish, hit No. 1 on the Billboard blues album chart and remained on it for an astonishing 91 weeks. From then on, he’s been roaring around the world, bringin…
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In this episode of Building Billions with Brandon Dawson, I sat down with my long-time friend, the remarkably successful Greg Bolt, as we dive headfirst into the thrilling launch of our new venture, "10X Roofing." Buckle up for an engaging conversation where the two of us share our journey spanning over 30 years of friendship and business collabora…
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Full Rig Details: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundowns/mssv-2024 Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTube The trio mssv is an underground supergroup. They’re not playing the local enormodome, but each musician has a storied career and the ability to leap musical conventions in a single bound, even while rocking like …
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Universe: “Super Fuzz or Big Muff?” Mudhoney: “Both!” What else would you expect from a band that titled their mischievously visceral ’88 debut EP after both pedals (Superfuzz Bigmuff)? Formed in the late ’80s by guitarists Mark Arm and Steve Turner after the dissolution of their band Green River (which included future Mother Love Bone and Pearl Ja…
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