RIP

President George Herbert Walker Bush
Barbara Bush
John McCain
Charles Krauthammer
Marty Allen, comedian
Penny Marshall
Stephen Hillenburg, Creator SpongeBob Squarepants, ALS, 57
Roy Clark
Stan Lee
Paul Allen
Burt Reynolds
Neil Simon
Robin Leach
David Ogden Stiers, M*A*S*H
Aretha Franklin
Charlotte Rae (Edna Garret, The Facts of Life)
Adrian Cronauer, 79, American airman, radio show was inspiration for Good Morning, Vietnam
Joe Jackson, patriarch of Jackson family, 89
Anthony Bourdain, 61
Kate Spade, 55
Dwight Clark, The Catch, ALS, 61
Jerry Maren, 98, last surviving munchkin from The Wizard of OZ
Verne Troyer, Mini-Me in Austin Powers, 49
Tom Wolfe, 87
Margot Kidder
Larry Harvey, Founder of Burning Man Festival, 70
Harry Anderson, Night Court, 65
R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket drill sergeant, 74
Linda Brown, center of US Supreme Court Case ended segregation, 75
Stephen Hawking, 76
Bill Graham, 99
John Mahoney, Frazier, played the father, 77
Jerry Van Dyke, 86
John Young, Astronaut, walk on moon, first space shuttle flight, 87
Ken Berry
Richard Harrison, The Old Man on Pawn Stars, 77, Parkinson’s

TSOE Shows in 2018

Out of 50 live shows in 2018, we had guests on 23 of them (46%). Big shout out to our show runner, Thomas Casey, for arranging most of the wonderful guests we had on, and thank you to all the wonderful guests for appearing on the show.

Ron’s Five Favorite Shows of 2018

Bad Medicine, Episode #178
Laws of Systems Thinking, Episode #175
The Subscription Business Model, Parts I & II, Episodes #217 and #221
Top Ten Pricing Lessons, Episode #196
The Value Guarantee, Episode #179

Ed’s Data-driver Top Shows according to YOU

Top 3 interview shows

George Gilder, Episode #207, Life After Google
Stephan Liozu, Episode #203
Russ Roberts, Episode #213

Pull-quotes from our Guests

Mentors and Economists

Ron’s 37-year mentor, George Gilder, Episode #207, Life After Google

“We have to act in the darkness of time”
“Faith precedes knowledge, faith precedes action, faith precedes meaning”
“You can’t have any logical, rational system without faith”

Ed’s long time mentor, Peter Block, Episode #183

“Liberty is the absence of coercion; freedom is a choice, a commitment”
Ed sang to Peter!
Eisenhower asked computer, “Is there a God?” “There is now.”

Thomas Hazlitt, Episode #184, The Political Spectrum

The story of naming the SS Minnow from Gilligan’s Island
The iPhone wouldn’t have been allowed with net neutrality

Don Boudreaux, Episode #187

Public Choice is “Politics without romance.”
If mass transit is going to be measured by the number of jobs it creates, then we should have publicly funded Rickshaws, since there is a 1:1 of jobs and passengers

Michael Munger, Episode #190, Tomorrow 3.0

Uber is not threat to taxis, but to Amazon (Sears was first Amazon)
Triangulation, Transfer, Trust
To the customer, all costs are transaction costs

Russ Roberts, Episode #213

From Russ’s recent podcast, a Chinese proverb: “No food, one problem. Lots of food, many problems.”

Walter Williams, Episode #216

Referring to minimum wage laws: “They don’t even pass the sniff test.”

Other notable guests: a journalist, a former Thunderbird(!), authors, entrepreneurs, etc.

Mark Skousen, Episode #205

John Stossel, Episode #204

Chris “Elroy” Stricklin, Episode #214

Jeffrey Tucker, Episode #201, Right-Wing Collectivism

Barry Melancon, Episode #177, President of the American Institute of CPAs

Blair Enns, Episode #188, Pricing Creativity

Phil Rosenzweig, Episode #191, The Halo Effect

“Whenever someone says ‘We have the right strategy, we just need to execute better,’ I make sure to take an extra-close look at the strategy.”

Mary Ruwart, Episode #192, Death by Regulation

Ed: “Your book is more horrific than a Stephen King novel, because it’s real.”
“At least one-half of Americans who died lost at least a decade off their lives because of the 1962 FDA Amendments”

Reginald Lee, Episode #200, Strategic Cost Transformation, VeraSage Senior Fellow

Warren Myer, Episode #218, Coyote Blog, and Climate-Skeptic

Ron Quaranta and Erik Asgeirsson, Episode #212, Erik is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CPA.com, and Ron is the Founder and Chairman of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance.

Stephan Liozu, Episode #203, Chief Value Officer of Thales Group, Professional Pricing Society Faculty, author

David Meikle, Episode #206, How to Buy a Gorilla

Ryan Lazanis, Episode #210, Founder of Xen Accounting

Alessandra Lezama, Episode #195, AbacusNext CEO

Jeff Kanter, Episode #197, Co-founder of HealthExcellencePlus.com