Location: Not Your Average Joe’s – Medford - at Station Landing at Wellington Circle – 501 Fellsway, Medford, MA

Connect with Not Your Average Joe’s via Twitter (@NYAJoes).

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Menu

• Mike ordered the Lamb Kabob.
• Jeff went off the rails and ordered a Cobb Salad. He was eating lighter because he had demolished all of Joe’s Ahi Tuna Wontons earlier in the evening…. DELICIOUS!
• We also ordered some lighter, summer beers to accompany the meal. Krunkin’ in the afternoon. Yes, Jeff had the Blueberry!
• And we were honored to get a pop-in from Rob Mondavi of Folio Wines. He stopped by to taste Jeff’s beer and talk about wine, conversation and friends. Look for Mike and Jeff in Napa, California SOON!

Conversation Topics

1. Restaurants and Technology- How the places we go to most are doing things right – and wrong – when it comes to using technology. Reaching out to customers is just the tip of the iceberg, how about ordering via iPad or taking a satisfaction survey on an iPod Touch? Having a Twitter account is far different from using that account to engage customers. And what about Textaurant and other firms that are giving customers better ways to connect with the places they like to dine at most? There’s a lot to talk about and learn when using technology to run a restaurant!
2. When is Lunch NOT Lunch? - Mike is freaked out by the concept of having breakfast food for dinner. But it doesn’t stop there. He’s also against mixing designated foods at the wrong meal time. Jeff was too astonished to bring up Lupper or Brunch, but had the wherewithall to share his love of breakfast at any time of day or night. Also mentioned was the time-honored practice of going to Denny’s or iHop at 3AM to have breakfast after a night of boozing.
3. RANT! LITTER - Mike went off again on the madness of people throwing trash out of their windows and how the world’s biggest litter producer is probably Dunkin Donuts. Mike believes that Dunkin Donuts is responsible for the downfall of society and the non-beautification of the globe because their cups are all over the place. Jeff contended that if Dunk’s wasn’t so successful, there’d be less of their litter around. Catch 22!

During this Episode NomX3 Ate With…You should join us for lunch soon!)

• Gretchen Kinder
• Kelley Kassa
• Ellen Rossano
• Derek Wilmot
• Jim Storer
• Karen Rubin
• Jennifer Scott
• Gradon Tripp
• Mike Troiano
• Oprah Winfrey

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Location: Manuel’s Austin -310 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX

Connect with Manuel’s via Twitter (@ManuelsAustin).

Menu

Mike Langford, Jeff Cutler, Molly Wood and Tom Merritt feasted on an amazing chef’s choice of appetizers and entrees. These included Ceviche – Yellowfin Tuna marinated in lime juice and served with salsa fresca; Baja Taquitos de Callo de Hacha – lightly battered and fried, wild-caught bay scallops served with shredded cabbage and chipotle crema; and some other amazing stuff that the chef whipped up special. We also let the bartender create some masterpieces and each of us left with a grin on our face and possibly some lime juice dribbling down our chin. Tropical, Mexican goodness.

Here’s that Drink Menu

Conversation Topics

1. MisoHungry!- Shout out to our coordinator on the ground in Austin, Jenny Chen MisoHungry on Twitter who made our shows rocktastic. She helped organize the venues for us and for that we’re eternally grateful.
2. Firewire Vanishing – Why? – With our guests, both Tom and Molly, so accomplished in the tech and entertainment industry, we wanted to find out why anyone would do away with the standard that allows people to stream video right from their HD camera. We solved the problem with an informal conversation about how Steve Jobs should improve his method for looking ahead.
3. Who can you trust with your children? - A lively discussion with the parents in the group – Mike and Molly – about how you might not want to let just anyone play babysitter to your children. We got sidetracked by the drinks (MMMMmmmmm), but this was a talk you’ll love.
4. We Can End This- Shout out to our friends at We Can End This who put on a major grassroots campaign during the entire SXSW Festival to get people thinking about hunger in the United States. We paused to think about those going hungry during our meal at Manuel’s. And during every show we like to discuss how social channels can further causes.
5. RANT! Apple and iPhone App Strongarming - Molly is known to steam a bit about poor customer service, bad gadgets, inept organizations, hamfisted folks, and probably about 79 other themes. Today she and Tom got to share their thoughts on how a locked-down service like the Apple App Store is a FAIL.

During this Episode NomX3 Ate With a huge list of people. We still haven’t fully updated the list on our Twitter list but you can see the list of attendees here.

We are also very grateful to Brian Schwartz our fantastic editor. Without Brian we wouldn’t look half as good as we do. If you have video that needs editing or other rich media needs you’ll find no better than Brian.

Gary Vaynerchuk joins us for a special episode of NomX3.

To celebrate his new book “Crush It” hitting the shelves we host Gary for a live show, on stage, with 150 or so of our closest friends in the audience.

Location: The Estate – 1 Boyston Place (The Alley), Boston, MA 02116

Food and wine provided by: Sweetwater Cafe – 3 Boyston Place, Boston, MA 02116

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Menu

• Wines: Mad Fish Pinot Noir and Vicolo Pinot Grigio
• Appetizer Platter

Conversation Topics

1. Reinvention (Following Your Passion) – Life is too short to not be doing something you love.

2. Getting It All Done – How do you stay focused on what matters?

3. WLTV Change and Smurfs – Early WLTV shows were not as exciting as Gary is now. And what’s up with Smurfs?

4. Douchebags, Haters and Whiners – How do you handle the negative stuff that comes via social media?

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Big Thanks to Friends of NomX3. The follow people donated their time, energy and expertise to make the evening go off without a hitch:

• Ellen Rossano – Ellen is a logistical genius! Tickets, name badges, double sided tape you name it, it all happened with us needing to think about it.
• Emmi Sorokin – Emmi took the usually disheveled Jeff Cutler and made him look like a million bucks on stage. Our show is on camera Jeff!
• Mike Schneider – AKA SchneiderMike AKA @BelchingMonkey was our producer for the evening. Mike made sure the show flowed and we didn’t run too long.
• Gretchen Kinder – Clown Face added another component of calm in a frenetic and exciting evening. With stints at the check-in table, drink-ticket station and break-down, her help was much appreciated.