Flavored physics at the TeV scale

Despite the outstanding performance of the LHC we have yet to see definitive signs of physics beyond the Standard Model.  In this talk I will discuss how some of our assumptions about flavor physics bias our searches for new physics.  I will then show how two classes of theories which don’t rely on normal flavor assumptions, Aligned and Spontaneous Flavor Violation, can lead to wildly different flavor possibilities at the weak scale.  I will give examples of radiatively stable theories, which have new light resonances that can couple to the light generations of quarks preferentially.