From the Middle - Loo Lights, Employment Excursion, and Bang Bang

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From the Middle is proud to be a founding member
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of Odd Pods Media. Hey, everybody, it's Corey. Dylan and
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I are.
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Back after a few trips, and we are so excited
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to get back together with Kendall this week and talk
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about the hard-hitting issues, the stuff that you've missed us.
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Talking about for a week.
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Like, hey, have you ever been in a bathroom stall
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and the lights go out because the motion sensor timer
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went off and now you're stuck in a bathroom stall?
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with the door that goes all the way down to
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the floor and you can't like wave your feet to
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like turn the thing back on. What the heck are
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you supposed to do? And speaking of lighting, it's getting
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darker earlier here in Ohio. Have you ever done the
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thing where like, you feel like somebody ahead of you
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has their brights on, but they actually don't. And they're like,
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if you, these are my brights. Um, what do you
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do when you're in that situation? Do you do the
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passive aggressive thing and just like really let them have it?
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Or do you just like do nothing? And yeah, like
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these are, These are important things to discuss. We also
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talk about some of the food and beverages that we enjoyed.
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We learned a new term that we think we're obsessed
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with and the associated challenge.
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It's called Bang Bang. Are you intrigued? Do you want
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to know what that's all about? Tune in to this
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week's episode and find out.
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We also talk about, hey, it feels like Halloween has
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gotten stupid popular over the last handful of years.
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What holiday do you think is in need of an upgrade?
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You know, could really use some pomp and circumstance like
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what Halloween now seems to have. And then we round
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out the episode by talking about a few of the
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things that we're streaming. Our favorite part of doing this
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show is when you guys interact with us. We have
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a phone number that you can call and leave a
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voicemail or text. We would love for you to weigh
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in comment below this episode on YouTube and Instagram. We
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want to hear from you. That's what makes this fun.
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We want you to weigh in on these subjects. So
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this is your call to action. Let us know what
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you think.
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We love you. Enjoy this week's episode. Bye.
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Oh, for the love.
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Sorry, just clearing my Mountain Dew hole. I got my
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phone hole cleaned today.
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That's where you keep.
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It?
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You're so cerebral and you're so developed and evolved.
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From the middle after dark over here.
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Good evening, friends. Good evening.
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Hey.
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The boys are back.
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The boys are back.
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All three of us. I think we missed a week
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in there somewhere, but it's fine. We missed a week.
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We recorded. The schedule was a little weird and wonky.
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Weird and wonky. AI is taking over the world. Cars
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are flying. What else have we missed?
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All of that has happened. Yeah. You two have been traveling,
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and so I'm excited to hear about that. But I
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have a quick comment. I don't know if there's a
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question in there. I certainly want feedback or your guys' thoughts.
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I was... I have a complaint about the target, the
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new target in new Albany, Ohio. And that is about
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their bathroom lighting situation.
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Okay.
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Um, it, the, the, the lighting in the target in
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an effort to save energy. So kudos to them for that. Um,
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they have motion sensing lights that, um, aren't generous enough
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for some of us. When we find ourselves trapped in
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a stall. And yeah, so I had to wipe in
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the dark is the way that goes. So, I mean,
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some of us like, to be honest, that was my like,
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oh crap, have I been in here that long? And
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so I put my phone away and then wiped and left.
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But I don't feel like I was there long, like
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that long. And has this ever happened to you guys?
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So I can remember two stories where this happened. One
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was in a fancy hotel in Vegas and one was
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in the UK where the stalls are completely closed. The
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door goes all the way to the floor and you're
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in an enclosed room.
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And the motion sensors are outside of that stall. So
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it's not like a traditional stall where you can wave
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or like kick your foot under the door and to
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trigger whatever motion sensor, you're just stuck in the dark.
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Yeah.
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And I'm like, that shouldn't, I shouldn't have to figure
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out a way to just, just make your timers longer, please. Yeah.
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So it, it happened. There was two, two poopers and two,
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two urinals in this bathroom. And I was not in
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the handicap one. which is, you know, the one that's
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typically on the very end, right? And so I was
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sitting in the middle there. The one on the handicap side,
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like those lights independently shut off, like on that side
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of the bathroom. And then it wasn't, I don't know, 30,
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40 seconds later that everything else shut off. And now
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there's like mood lighting over by the mirrors a little bit.
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So it wasn't completely in the dark. So that like
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begs the question, like, what is what is the time?
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Are there two different sensors going on here? What's going
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on with the lights not turning off at the same time?
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Which obviously, like, I would be all for what a
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sensor above each stall.
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Right.
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And then I don't know. Are they trying to shame
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people for taking too long in the bathroom is what
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I'm asking. And should I be taking note? Yeah, that
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was built for employees. But as it turns out, it
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affected you, the customer. And when you said two poopers,
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did you mean two people or two stalls? No, I
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was all by myself. Oh, okay. It was a lonely one.
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You know, having a friend.
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There's certain times like, look, I think all the green
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initiatives and all that's great. We should do all that.
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That's important. There's certain times when it feels like it's
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not worth it. And automatic lights in a public bathroom
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doesn't feel like the time to worry about being energy efficient.
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I felt the same way about low flow toilets when
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I still don't really care for them. That doesn't feel
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like the time and space for us to be economical.
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I need it to go. I need it all to
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go away and I need to be sure I'm not
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going to have any problems with gusto. I need it
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to go. I need it. I need it. Yeah. Be
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gone out of my sight. Um, I don't need any
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drama of like, is this going to do what it's
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supposed to do? So I feel like that's one of
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those times, like a motion sensor, or it needs to
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be on for a real long time, like 30 minutes
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or 45 minutes or something, you know, give people plenty
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of space. That's, that's, we don't need efficiency there.
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Now you're assuming I wasn't pushing 30, 45 minutes.
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I try to assume the best in people. You know
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what I mean? But I don't think shame was a
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part of their motivation, Kendall, so I think you're safe there.
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I want to believe that Target wasn't like... We have
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strong opinions about how long it should take an individual
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to go to the bathroom, and this guy has transcended
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that number.
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I saw a video recently. I want to say it
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was Japan, maybe. I don't remember where. Where this individual stalls...
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had divers at the top of them on the outside
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so as you will how long somebody has been in
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there yeah that is a public shaving situation.
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That is that is wow that's diabolical it is I agree.
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I don't think it was about public shaming, but I
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do get annoyed that it feels like all of the
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eco-friendly green initiatives only seem to be about saving the
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bottom line and never really seem to be geared towards
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not being wasteful in other ways. And so I don't
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care for that. But I don't think they were trying
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to shame you. I agree.
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Cool. Yeah. No, I'm all about being eco-friendly. I feel like,
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by and large, when it comes to lighting, we have
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addressed that with LEDs. It's night and day. However, there's
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a huge part of me that thinks what you said, Dylan,
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is that I try to do my part, right? I
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have changed some of the things that I buy or
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don't buy at a grocery store.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I feel like there's two areas that should be
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utterly unaffected by eco-friendly shenanigans. The healthcare field and bathrooms.
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Leave healthcare and leave bathrooms alone. So that's my two cents.
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Switch to the LEDs. That's great. That's wonderful.
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Speaking of LEDs, do you ever see these memes of
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streetlights and shots of overheads of cities in the 80s
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and 90s before the LED thing and then now? And
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how people... actually complain that the lighting's not warm enough
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like it's like a nostalgic bit of criticism of LEDs
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that like everything's too clear I miss the warm yellowy
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orangey lights of the streets which not that LEDs can't
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do that like you can make them that way But
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that's not a thing that I've ever sat and just
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lamented that's changed. People seem to do it.
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I totally have. And that's why I think the market
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has created warm, amber-ish color LEDs. Our entire house, at
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one point, there was a deal at Meijer that made
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it conducive to buy a whole bunch of warm, antique-looking uh,
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led light bulbs that give a warm yellowish glow. And
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I was like, yes. And I bought a bunch of
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them and replaced every last one in our house.
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Yeah.
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And I guess I don't mean like the cold blue
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medical officey feeling lights inside a house, but like on
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a street light, do you care like down your street?
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That's where I seem to be people like sharing memes
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about it.
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Even like, so on my street right now, we're in
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a situation where I don't know if they're switching over
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or somebody bought the wrong thing, but you can see
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two different colors. They're LEDs still, but two different colors
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of streetlights going down our suburban road. And I do
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prefer the yellower ones.
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Interesting.
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I much prefer the yellow. It would bother me if
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out of every 10, there's one ultra white one. I'd
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be so tempted to just like, please, somebody fix this.
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whatever it is, just make it consistent.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I agree. I think it would bother me more what
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you're saying, like every three are yellow, then one blue
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and then two yellow and then three blue, make them
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all blue. I don't care. That'd be preferable.
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Sure.
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You know, not literally blue, but you know what I mean?
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Like the very, the bluish, very white, uh, Yeah. That
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reminds me of the thing that we've probably all experienced
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and it is now getting, you know, darker an hour
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earlier and deer are on the move.
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So a lot of people drive around with their brights on, uh,
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and some of these halogen lights, even on the low
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beams look like brights. So you make that mistake of
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like flashing somebody who you think has their brights on
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and they're like, Oh no.
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These are the brights. These are the brights.
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And you're like, Oh God, yeah, sorry. I've been offended sometimes.
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In our van, I have noticed specifically in that vehicle
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that people have flashed at the van thinking that our
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brights are on. In my head, I'm having this whole
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conversation like, listen, how new? You can't. Listen, trigger finger flasher, whatever.
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Those were not my brights. I didn't react fast enough
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to show you my brights. It's not like I changed
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the setting on the lights.
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All right.
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This isn't my fault. I just bought a van.
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Okay.
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My mind has that conversation.
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Here's something I don't need to say out loud. I
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once had a vehicle that only semis would flash me.
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So like something about how high above my car, no
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other cars did.
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Yeah.
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It was only vehicles that were higher in profile would
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like flash.
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Well, you realize most vehicles, you can adjust the direction
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of your.
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Headlights, which I don't think most people know. No.
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Okay. A lot of times they can, like, if you
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get flashed a lot, then it could be that you
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need to direct those puppies down.
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Interesting. Do you feel like the right response to that
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in your situation? Like, do you feel like the plight
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response is to let them know that you understand but
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it also is kind of a little bit the vindictive response,
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which is like, you think that's my bright, like I'm
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going to flash my actual bright. So you know that
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I'm not driving irresponsibly and I'm going to show you,
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you know, well, you just flip it.
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Like if people don't respond at all, are they being
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kind by, by saying, no, no, these aren't the brides
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and I don't want to blind you.
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Or are they just ignoring you?
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So I feel like if you show them, it feels
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like both the right thing to do and the way
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to get back at them a little bit.
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As much as I like to, I would like, I
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would love to be able to say that I'm thinking
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to myself, I'm being kind. That's, that's not, that's not
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what it's, it's very much the vindictive thing in me
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that wants to have flashed them back.
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Oh, you think these are bright. That's the point. That's
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the point that I'm making, though. You get to do both.
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And unless somebody asks you and you feel compelled to
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be honest because you specifically been asked, you get to
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do it because you're like, I'm going to let you know.
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And it's going to scratch that itch for me. I
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think it's like the horn. It's like how long you
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leave the actual brights on. How long do you beat?
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How long do you hold the beep? Is it a
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little too like light screen? You can go now. Or
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is it like a you mother? It's how long you
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leave the brides on.
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Wow. Only our podcast would go to this layer of
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granularity and I love it.
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What a good question, Kendall, that got us off on lighting.
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That's fun. How we want to, we want to break
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up travel stories? What do we want to?
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Yeah, let's do that. I just told you everything that's
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been going on in my mind.
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That's it. That's Kendall's whole last few weeks. Did you
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follow up? I'm so sorry, guys. I didn't listen last week.
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Did you follow up on turkey hunting stories? I mean,
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people want to get any birds, but it was great. Wonderful,
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beautiful time. Like my friends have gorgeous property. Saw a
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lot of deer or tripping over deer. It seemed a
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couple of times we were right next to their watering hole. Um,
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on one of the moments and it was just funny
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to see deer go from confused to like visibly frustrated
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that we were there to like.
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Them whining and running away. Like it was like, it's
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fun to watch nature.
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That's actually, I mean, that's a great way since you
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want to get into deer hunting, that's a great way
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to pick up on their body, like their body language
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and like what they do when they're alerted and, when
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they have.
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No clue that you're there, like that's a good way
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to see the difference. A little bit of a confidence
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builder too. Like we weren't worried about covering up scent
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or anything like that. Like we weren't targeting deer, but
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we were on a couple of different occasions, clearly within
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shotgun range of a deer. So if I go out
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there and I'm worried about, am I going to be
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able to be close enough? The answer is yeah.
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Week after Thanksgiving, Kendall will be there.
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I'm hoping, I'm hoping so.
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That's awesome, man.
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It was wonderful. It was gorgeous. We also heard what
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I believe to be a screaming fox that was getting
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killed by a coyote about probably about 20 yards away
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from us at one point. So that was fun. It's
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fun to hear that.
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Ah, the sounds of nature.
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Yes, the sounds.
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The trickling water from the deer's watering hole and the
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sound of an animal being ripped apart by another.
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Yep. Yeah. Dylan, how are the cornfields of Iowa? You
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were there for like 33 hours, bell to bell. Yeah, yeah.
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It was a last minute quick trip. Yeah, I did
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the math. Touchdown to takeoff. I was in Des Moines
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for 33 hours. And this was a nice trip. My
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company got acquired by a much bigger company. So we
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went to that company's HQ for some meetings and had
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a nice time. Bit of a tale of two Uber drivers.
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Super lovely guy from the airport to the hotel from Burma.
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Heard about him and his family. Lovely Uber driver from
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hotel back to airport. We slow down at some point,
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you know, as we're going down some street. And he's like, hey, sir,
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I got to slow down a lot. They installed cameras.
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These lights people were street racing. I was like, oh,
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no worries. What are we going to do, man? I'm
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thinking I'm, you know, not in a rush. I'm the
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get to the airport two hours early person. That whole
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social media trend of show up 15 minutes before couldn't
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do that. Even if I knew it would work out,
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it would make me uncomfortable. So I'm thinking I got
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tons of time. Des Moines airport's even smaller than Columbus.
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Not going to be a problem to get in and out.
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And then somehow we pivot to every extreme political talking point.
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It's like he jumped right into, I know I probably
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shouldn't say this because I'm going to probably offend you,
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but blah, verbal diarrhea for the rest of the uber
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drive so tale of two uber drivers but had a
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nice time the company hq where i went we got
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an art tour because they have a bunch of art
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that was fun we went to a nice uh dinner
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that was lovely i'd never been to iowa before uh
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so that was really cool because it was kind of
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last minute my boss was like hey just don't worry
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about the normal booking site just book within reason book
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whatever flights you need to don't worry about the cost
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just like Do what you need to do to get
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yourself there for meetings. And so I didn't do first
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class or anything like that, but I did do all
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the upgrades to pick my seat. So I had a
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very nice, easy flight in, easy flight out. I think
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actually the first I went through O'Hare, I think the
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first leg, there was like nothing. seat open between me
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and a person. And then O'Hare to Columbus, whole row
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was open. And so that makes it nice, you know,
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because then you're not, I'm big, I'm big guy. I
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don't want to be, if I'm next to people, I'm
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crossing my arms so that my arms aren't like on
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the armrests. And I'm like, I'm not man spreading. So
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my legs are out in front of me extended. So
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I'm not like taking up half the aisle or whatever.
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So that makes it about as nice of a trip as,
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as you can have. So it was good. It was
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just very last minute, very quick. Uh, came back, uh,
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in time for Halloween trick or treat in our neighborhood. Uh,
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so I was able to get back in time for that,
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which was lovely. Um, and so, yeah, so last week
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was a weird week when you guys were like, Hey,
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we're going to record. I'm like, probably not a good week. Uh,
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it's all good.
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I'm curious, since you didn't mention the name of the company,
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you can answer this question. How, you know, mergers and
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acquisitions is always a funny thing. I've been through like
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three or four of them. I've been acquired. I've been
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the one doing the acquiring, not me, but like my
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company's been the one doing the acquiring. I've even been
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a part of something I didn't know was a term
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in M & A called a spin merge, where you
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spin off a part of your company, merge it with
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another and create a brand new company that didn't yet exist.
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Didn't know that was a thing. It's all people just
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trying to cook the books, I'm sure.
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But what.
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Since you've been acquired, you visited a much bigger company.
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What did that feel like culturally? Like when you got
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to their headquarters and just got to meet their people
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and see how they they operate compared to what you've experienced,
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like this really scrappy startup in the black, like in
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its first year or two, hiring a lot of millennials
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to much bigger company.
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What was that cultural experience?
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Yeah.
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Observation-like. One thing that was interesting about where I've been
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is that people have described it as very Midwest nice.
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So like everyone's super smart that isn't named Dylan, super
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smart people, really hardworking, really flat org with leadership. Like
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you can shoot a message to the CEO and don't
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need to think about any layers of whatever. And so
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I think I've interacted a few times with some folks,
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both in Columbus and now in Iowa. And I think
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that it's very, very much still the Midwest nice thing,
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which is lovely. Like, I think we kind of mesh
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really well there. But, you know, you can't go to
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a much, much, much larger company without feeling some of
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that hierarchy kind of already in place. Not in a
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bad way. I think there's some a little bit of
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that as professionalism. where maybe we were very casual. Some
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of that might be necessary with the size of the
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whole thing. But a very relaxed office, but still a
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very professional, mature office. And so, you know, one thing
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that Corey, you'll appreciate is this is cool. We were
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doing the art tour. There's like five buildings. And so
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we're walking around different buildings, seeing all kinds of art.
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Kind of lost on me, but um, I appreciate the
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effort and time that people put in to like assemble
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this and display it and learn about it and talk
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about it. And so at one point we're in this
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hallway that has really tall four or five foot acrylic
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pieces that have, they've been like etched into, and there's
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lighting and shooting up into them and they're up on
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a wall and it's, You know, most of the hallways
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are normal, like cream, white paint, whatever, with splashes every
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now and then. There's a color wall for company colors.
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And this wall is very dark because of this fixture
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on it that's light. They want you to see whatever
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makes total sense. And so they were talking about how
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when they had this installed, they had to be really
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careful about which hallway they put it in and where.
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Because the company brand guideline says that you can't have
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too many different colored walls in a hallway in certain colors.
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And I went, oh, that's a level of like thought
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that's gone into things that I haven't experienced since probably Apple.
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Apple was very meticulous about, you know, this polished metal
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can't be pushed up against this wood stool because the,
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you know, that's a level of that that I haven't.
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even heard anyone talk about in a long time. And
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so I don't think I wouldn't describe any of the
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people as anything but very nice, very relaxed, easy to
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talk to, but like that kind of stuff that you
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don't think about. Like they have a coffee shop that
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feels like it could be a New York, like Manhattan
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coffee shop on the corner. you know, with all kinds
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of snacks and chairs, like really nice, polished, clean, great looking,
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like just over there. Oh, if you want coffee, go
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grab it from one of the, so that level of
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stuff is not something I've experienced in a long time.
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And I've worked for large companies. I worked for Apple,
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I worked for Bose, but I was never at their HQs.
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So this was a much different experience than I was
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used to. So lovely experience, lovely people. But yeah, a
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different level of maturity than, you know, than I'm used to. Um,
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and it's nice, you know, it's feels grown up, you know,
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there's not being, there's not beanbag chairs sitting around, uh,
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with people in like tennis shoes and, you know, golf pants,
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nobody's sleeping under their mega desk. No one's sleeping under
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mega desk with a pre-pop. Yeah, exactly. So, uh, it
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was lovely. I'm I'll be back in February and then
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I'm going to be going to some more meetings with
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them probably in Florida in the spring. So, I'm looking
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forward to getting to meet more folks, but I think
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that was a guy more travel than you're used to
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travel guy.
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Yeah.
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Travel guy. As long as I can keep picking my
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own seat on flights, you can send me wherever you
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want me to go. Uh, but this is like, uh,
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you know, unlike where I've been for a while, this
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is like truly global. Like people casually talking about, Oh yeah.
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Our call center in India and they're building another one
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in this Indy. You're like, Oh, okay. Yeah. Scale much bigger. Uh,
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not stuff that I've thought about recently. Not that I'm
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going to India, but, um, certainly a different scale. So yeah,
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I've not been through the mergers M and a game myself. Uh,
487
00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:21.119
that's not a thing I've, I've spent much time thinking about, but, uh,
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00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:23.839
so far it's been pleasant. It is, it is a
489
00:26:23.859 --> 00:26:26.059
little weird to be like, Hey, keep doing your job
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00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:28.259
you're doing, but also on board for a whole other
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00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:31.160
job while you're doing the job you're doing. Uh, like
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00:26:31.180 --> 00:26:32.960
you need to learn all this other new stuff and
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be in two systems. And so that part's been, been
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interesting to watch, but, overall very nice experience very nice people.
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00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:44.559
But you survived the the the acquisition where you know
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sadly others didn't so we're thankful people are thankful that
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you're still gainfully employed so.
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00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:52.700
Yeah exactly you know there's bound to be some redundancies
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in uh an m & a game so as i'm
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told so uh i'm here and i have a paycheck
501
00:26:58.740 --> 00:27:01.220
and i'm grateful for that and i'm grateful that people
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00:27:01.259 --> 00:27:03.180
seem nice and it won't be the last time i
503
00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:05.240
go to iowa so if i get any more interesting
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00:27:05.329 --> 00:27:07.740
uber driver's I will say we went to a place
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00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:10.049
that was recommended to go for dinner and I'm blanking
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00:27:10.109 --> 00:27:13.410
on the name. One of my colleagues talked me into
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00:27:13.450 --> 00:27:16.130
a burger, which was delicious. You can expect good beef.
508
00:27:16.529 --> 00:27:17.369
And so that was great.
509
00:27:18.009 --> 00:27:19.910
But wait, talk to you into a burger. I don't
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know that you've ever needed.
511
00:27:21.410 --> 00:27:24.589
Well, let me clarify. Yeah, that sounds weird as if
512
00:27:24.650 --> 00:27:27.549
I was going to have a salad. What I mean
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00:27:27.730 --> 00:27:30.670
is I would probably have normally picked in an outing
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00:27:30.710 --> 00:27:33.710
like that, a nicer dish that I wouldn't normally order
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00:27:33.750 --> 00:27:39.230
for myself. Versus, quote, just a burger, which I have
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00:27:39.589 --> 00:27:43.319
good quality anywhere. But it did also sound really good.
517
00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:47.859
And somebody we were kind of doing that. Hey, let's
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00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:51.660
share a bunch of appetizers and whatever. And somebody was
519
00:27:52.299 --> 00:27:54.980
smart and got the cheese curds. I know Iowa is
520
00:27:55.029 --> 00:27:57.849
not known for those. That's more like a Wisconsin thing.
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But they were freaking great. So not mad about fried cheese.
522
00:28:03.970 --> 00:28:07.710
not mad about cheeseburgers. So it was very good. We
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00:28:07.750 --> 00:28:10.779
had a very, very nice meal. There was only time
524
00:28:10.819 --> 00:28:15.319
for the one, the one dinner mixed in with some other,
525
00:28:15.819 --> 00:28:19.000
other snacks and things, but I'm sure I'll have plenty more.
526
00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:20.380
And when I go back next time.
527
00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:27.740
So, you know, when somebody says something that like flickers
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off in your brain and it just like reminds you
529
00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:35.079
of a thing and like, And then you you just
530
00:28:35.140 --> 00:28:38.059
keep thinking about that and it gets funnier in your head.
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Yes.
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00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:43.039
This is all thanks to an English teacher of mine
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when I was in grade school somewhere. And now I'm curious.
534
00:28:49.779 --> 00:28:53.029
So you said a couple of different times with your
535
00:28:53.089 --> 00:28:58.690
plane trips that you were picking your seat. OK. An
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00:28:58.750 --> 00:29:03.009
English teacher once taught our class. You know, you can't
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00:29:03.069 --> 00:29:05.170
pick your seat. Well, you can pick your seat, but
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00:29:05.210 --> 00:29:07.490
then you have to wash your hands later. You may
539
00:29:07.670 --> 00:29:11.380
choose your seat. What's the point? And that has stuck
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00:29:11.430 --> 00:29:14.720
with me now to the point where it's like my
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00:29:14.779 --> 00:29:17.720
brain goes, you know, I just now I'm just like
542
00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:20.640
sitting on an airplane and picking my seat. Like, yeah,
543
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it's funny to me. And then I'm curious, we have
544
00:29:23.819 --> 00:29:26.900
a flight attendant friend and I was wondering if flight attendants,
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00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:32.950
especially for that particular airline, If they snicker to each
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00:29:33.029 --> 00:29:35.589
other and there's this whole inside joke about picking your
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00:29:35.630 --> 00:29:36.410
seat among them.
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00:29:37.690 --> 00:29:41.140
That's some pretty Frazier and Niles level humor. I think
549
00:29:41.259 --> 00:29:43.119
you might be a little up higher up in the
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clouds than the average person. I see what you did there.
551
00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:49.160
Yeah, that was that was good.
552
00:29:49.609 --> 00:29:52.470
Yeah, but you might you might be that might be
553
00:29:52.509 --> 00:29:56.130
a little more elevated than certainly than me or some
554
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of our listeners.
555
00:29:56.930 --> 00:29:59.549
And I don't do I don't do elevated humor whatsoever.
556
00:29:59.569 --> 00:30:03.970
Yeah, that feels like you're setting up a Norm MacDonald,
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00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:08.160
Norm MacDonald joke. Yeah, I know that's probably I just
558
00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:10.359
Google it. I'm like, what are the airline apps? They
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00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:13.839
call it select seat or seat selection. OK, I won't
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00:30:13.980 --> 00:30:19.019
use Norm, pick a seat. but choose a seat uh
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select a seat i picked it you know what blue
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collar roots i picked it real i'm from ohio we
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just pick our seats here you know what i mean
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00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:31.339
do you remember our dad saying that do you remember
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00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:34.660
our dad saying that going growing up oh really well
566
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:37.980
no it would start with he would spot us like
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00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:41.420
just digging at our you know shorts or whatever and
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00:30:41.460 --> 00:30:44.650
it'd be like you going to the movies And we'd
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be like, huh? And he'd go, well, you're picking your seat.
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00:30:47.769 --> 00:30:51.029
Do you remember going to the movies?
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Boom, roasted. All the time, just scratching your bum. And
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00:30:55.289 --> 00:30:56.910
he'd be like, going to the movies? Well, you're picking
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your seat. I don't remember that. It was Dad or
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You know in an effort to uh shame my kids
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against picking their noses in public i tell them that
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they have to eat whatever they find that that's the.
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00:32:25.230 --> 00:32:29.789
Rule has have any of them ever gotten excited when
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you say that not yet okay well that's good it's
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00:32:34.329 --> 00:32:38.250
a fun game Yeah. Uh, Corey, were you traveling during Halloween?
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Did you make it back in time? I made it back.
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I made it back when we, when we, when I
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00:32:42.210 --> 00:32:44.450
was last on, did I just, had I just gotten
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back from, um, uh, from the, the wedding in Colorado
607
00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:50.740
and like great Wolf Lodge.
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00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:52.140
Yeah. Cause I had the ears on. Right.
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00:32:52.220 --> 00:32:52.500
Yeah.
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00:32:53.299 --> 00:32:53.460
Yeah.
611
00:32:53.500 --> 00:32:58.839
So that kicked off what was five trips in four weeks. Uh, that, that,
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00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:03.160
that being the first week. And then it went Seattle, um,
613
00:33:04.210 --> 00:33:08.700
to go to a company's Seattle headquarters. I won't say
614
00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:12.900
the name, but it rhymes with Schmoogle. I don't know
615
00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:16.720
why that got me. Their offices were fun. They have
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00:33:16.779 --> 00:33:19.740
three restaurants inside their cafeteria.
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Area that are all free. They had like a.
618
00:33:21.509 --> 00:33:27.869
Whole gaming area with retro games and pinball machines and
619
00:33:28.190 --> 00:33:30.289
air hockey and pool, and that was crazy.
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00:33:31.089 --> 00:33:33.829
Listen, Seattle guy, Iowa can be fun too, all right?
621
00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:37.000
especially like coffee shops and burgers.
622
00:33:37.460 --> 00:33:39.920
It was weird to be not at, not at an
623
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:42.029
Amazon office and in Seattle, I will say that.
624
00:33:42.789 --> 00:33:43.869
Um, so that was fun.
625
00:33:43.950 --> 00:33:47.349
And then, uh, the next week was, uh, Chicago with
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00:33:47.450 --> 00:33:51.769
loyal listener and friend, uh, Stefan, my German, uh, friend
627
00:33:51.809 --> 00:33:52.410
and colleague.
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00:33:52.430 --> 00:33:55.990
We've talked about him before. I was with him in Chicago, um,
629
00:33:56.049 --> 00:33:58.769
doing some work for a few days and then direct.
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00:33:59.309 --> 00:34:00.579
I've got some stories about Chicago.
631
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:04.130
Uh, Direct from Chicago to Banff to go to that
632
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conference that I've talked about before that I love.
633
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:09.719
Banff is incredible.
634
00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:12.420
And then the week after that was my very first
635
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time in a new state as well. I was in Arkansas.
636
00:34:15.070 --> 00:34:16.570
And I've got some stories about.
637
00:34:18.030 --> 00:34:20.510
Bentonville and Fayetteville, home of Walmart.
638
00:34:20.929 --> 00:34:26.449
Saw the very first Sam Walton Walmart. And it's also home.
639
00:34:27.219 --> 00:34:30.699
Of a very famous coffee spot. But starting with... Let's
640
00:34:30.739 --> 00:34:32.599
just start with Chicago.
641
00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:36.760
So did I tell you guys I was watching The Bear? Yeah.
642
00:34:37.099 --> 00:34:42.610
Okay, so The Bear is in the show. The main character,
643
00:34:43.409 --> 00:34:47.710
after his brother passes away, gets his brother's Italian beef restaurant.
644
00:34:48.750 --> 00:34:50.949
And that's how the show starts. And he decides to
645
00:34:50.989 --> 00:34:56.719
turn it into a much classier place. But the beef is.
646
00:34:57.260 --> 00:34:58.219
actually.
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00:34:59.579 --> 00:35:03.489
Modeled after or inspired by a place in Chicago called Mr.
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Beef.
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00:35:05.030 --> 00:35:07.869
There are a lot of Italian beef places in Chicago,
650
00:35:08.769 --> 00:35:11.230
but it was the first to really kick things off
651
00:35:11.289 --> 00:35:14.349
in like the 60s or 70s. I didn't realize that
652
00:35:14.369 --> 00:35:17.659
until I was already in Chicago. And I was like, oh,
653
00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:21.500
I gotta go to the original Mr.
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Beef.
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00:35:22.650 --> 00:35:25.030
So I've got some photos or Dylan can pull up
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Google image search of Mr.
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Beef.
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00:35:26.929 --> 00:35:29.949
But Stefan and I had a little bit of a
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break and I said, dude, I'm going to go get
660
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us some Italian beef sandwiches. Now, I didn't know that's
661
00:35:36.219 --> 00:35:39.760
the spot. I didn't know anything about Italian beef. Like,
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I don't even know necessarily what makes Italian beef Italian
663
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beef other than the giardiniera.
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The peppers.
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00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:48.409
You have the option to give her a give her
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a swim.
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00:35:49.510 --> 00:35:49.750
Yep.
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00:35:49.809 --> 00:35:50.539
You can dunk it.
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00:35:51.059 --> 00:35:54.170
If you want it wet, sweet, wet and hot, wet,
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like all the dry and hot, dry and wet, all
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the things.
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00:35:57.769 --> 00:36:06.500
Well, we're family friendly. But I will just say, I'm
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so glad I went.
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I'm so glad that I thought of it. When I
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walked in, it was well after the lunch rush. They
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close at four. It's like an 11 to four place.
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And as soon as I walk in, because I'm the
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00:36:17.769 --> 00:36:19.230
only guy in there, he's like, hey, guy, what do
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00:36:19.250 --> 00:36:19.530
you want?
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What do you want? You want a hot? You want
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00:36:20.690 --> 00:36:23.130
a wet? Hey, what's going on, guy? You freaking guy. Like, hey,
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where are you from, guy? I said, I'm from Columbus.
683
00:36:25.389 --> 00:36:28.429
He goes, Ohio in the house. Like, just that energy
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00:36:28.550 --> 00:36:31.889
that the show depicted so well. It was that guy.
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That was the freaking guy. That was the guy. He's
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00:36:36.260 --> 00:36:39.019
just yelling and he's loud and he's bebopping around. See
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00:36:39.059 --> 00:36:41.260
how he, like, bops when he walks? Like, it was
688
00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:43.059
just like the show. It was so good.
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00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:45.400
He's living his life to a rhythm, man. I love it.
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00:36:46.219 --> 00:36:49.159
Exactly. And he's just he's doing five things at once. Like,
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it was awesome. The sandwich.
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00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:55.539
Oh, I got I got it two different ways. I
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00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:58.079
cut each one in half. So Stefan and I could
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00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:01.610
try it each way. You could also get the combo,
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00:37:01.650 --> 00:37:05.389
which also includes an Italian sausage underneath your Italian beef.
696
00:37:06.780 --> 00:37:09.519
Oh, my gosh. I'm biased because I love the show,
697
00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:10.280
but it was just.
698
00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:14.539
Yeah, dude, just double click on that really, really fast.
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00:37:14.780 --> 00:37:17.639
My wife and I went to the same the same spot.
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Yes.
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And last year when we were there and it was
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after my surgery and I was on a liquid only
703
00:37:24.900 --> 00:37:30.139
diet at the time. But like when we were going
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to Chicago and I was like talking about like I
705
00:37:32.809 --> 00:37:36.780
was so excited to try a Chicago Italian beef. And,
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00:37:37.989 --> 00:37:42.030
and so like, I made my wife go there with
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me so that she could get one.
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And tell you about it slowly.
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And she, she got it dipped so that like, held
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00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:59.400
my mouth under juice out. Then she had, she got
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to eat the rest of it.
712
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:03.460
That's awesome. Dylan, go back to that 19 second video
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that you started with. And pause right at the beginning, please.
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00:38:08.219 --> 00:38:09.079
Pause right at the beginning.
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00:38:09.179 --> 00:38:09.940
Okay, go back.
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00:38:10.460 --> 00:38:14.760
See that bench? That's all grease. That's all the au
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00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:17.889
jus grease and drippings in front. So people, so they
718
00:38:17.909 --> 00:38:20.130
call it the Chicago. That's where Kendall had Amy pour
719
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it out.
720
00:38:20.969 --> 00:38:22.409
No.
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00:38:22.429 --> 00:38:25.809
So they call it the Chicago lean if you get
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00:38:25.869 --> 00:38:28.949
it wet or dipped because it's like, it's just going
723
00:38:28.969 --> 00:38:31.429
to just drip out everywhere. So people just sit on
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00:38:31.469 --> 00:38:32.590
that bench and let it drip.
725
00:38:33.230 --> 00:38:33.449
Yeah.
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00:38:34.530 --> 00:38:35.070
So good.
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00:38:37.010 --> 00:38:37.329
Anyway.
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00:38:38.130 --> 00:38:41.610
Um, okay. Also do a quick Google image search on
729
00:38:41.690 --> 00:38:44.659
Trivoli Tavern. So this was our last night there.
730
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:51.139
Um, Stefan brought his wife, Claudia and their daughter, um, Nina,
731
00:38:51.820 --> 00:38:55.070
and he just stumbled upon this place. There's a, see
732
00:38:55.090 --> 00:38:59.539
if you could do an exterior first, uh, just this
733
00:38:59.619 --> 00:39:02.760
cobblestone streets and it's got Edison lights hanging. And this
734
00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:04.460
was at night when we went and it was like,
735
00:39:04.500 --> 00:39:07.010
we were walking onto a movie set and then you
736
00:39:07.050 --> 00:39:10.309
walk through those red doors and it's just this classy
737
00:39:10.389 --> 00:39:15.110
now interior, just this classy like marble columns. Servers have
738
00:39:15.190 --> 00:39:19.880
red coats on like Sinatra's playing just, and I just,
739
00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:21.360
this was not the first place.
740
00:39:21.380 --> 00:39:23.219
We went to three or four places in just a
741
00:39:23.260 --> 00:39:23.769
couple days.
742
00:39:23.829 --> 00:39:27.570
And I was like, I forgot Chicago's food game is
743
00:39:27.849 --> 00:39:32.030
on point. Like, it's such a melting pot of different
744
00:39:32.070 --> 00:39:35.289
styles and the quality of everything.
745
00:39:35.429 --> 00:39:38.280
Granted, I'm in downtown, you know, Chicago.
746
00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:43.239
And, you know, the Fulton Square Market or Fulton Market
747
00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:44.000
Square or whatever.
748
00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:47.219
And some, like, well-known spots. So it's obviously going to
749
00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:50.650
be good. But, man, it was just... spectacular i mean
750
00:39:50.710 --> 00:39:55.610
isn't chicago widely to believe to be like one of
751
00:39:55.659 --> 00:39:58.820
the top three food cities in the u.s like isn't
752
00:39:58.860 --> 00:40:04.699
it like new york chicago la sure yeah it feels
753
00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:06.739
like it feels like it should be you don't agree
754
00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:09.059
i wish it's not i don't know i just i
755
00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:11.360
don't know i've forgotten is maybe not the right word
756
00:40:11.420 --> 00:40:14.909
but like was reminded of how well how much of
757
00:40:14.969 --> 00:40:16.730
a food town Chicago is.
758
00:40:17.389 --> 00:40:17.650
Yeah.
759
00:40:17.750 --> 00:40:20.929
Chicago. Oh, New Orleans makes sense. I had LA, but
760
00:40:20.989 --> 00:40:24.150
New Orleans, I get it. I wouldn't have picked Houston.
761
00:40:24.300 --> 00:40:27.360
Somebody else can send us some fan mail for that one.
762
00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:31.699
Charleston can vouch might never been to Miami except the
763
00:40:31.739 --> 00:40:33.599
airport San Fran. Okay.
764
00:40:33.619 --> 00:40:35.820
But I think it was just, you know, us and
765
00:40:35.860 --> 00:40:40.610
like our love of pop culture and, entertainment so it
766
00:40:40.630 --> 00:40:43.110
was just really fun to go to the place that
767
00:40:43.309 --> 00:40:44.989
and i don't know if it was filmed there or
768
00:40:45.030 --> 00:40:48.860
just inspired by because it's the interior of the place
769
00:40:48.889 --> 00:40:50.920
in the show is exactly like it was in real
770
00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:52.940
life so i don't i don't know for sure if
771
00:40:52.980 --> 00:40:55.260
they actually filmed or they just replicated it but anyway
772
00:40:55.340 --> 00:40:58.880
pretty pretty spot on um so you got a burger
773
00:41:00.139 --> 00:41:05.260
yeah dude i've i got steak frites there and we
774
00:41:05.300 --> 00:41:06.610
just did a whole bunch of stuff and.
775
00:41:06.590 --> 00:41:08.909
Just smorgasbord boarded it it.
776
00:41:08.909 --> 00:41:12.349
Was awesome um Banff was great I've talked about Banff
777
00:41:12.369 --> 00:41:15.150
before in that conference it was probably my last year
778
00:41:15.230 --> 00:41:17.110
going for a while so we really made the most
779
00:41:17.150 --> 00:41:19.070
of it Sherry joined me we had a good time
780
00:41:19.090 --> 00:41:22.699
um it's beautiful we didn't get to do the sightseeing
781
00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:24.780
this time it was pretty much just do the conference
782
00:41:24.820 --> 00:41:26.800
and out since I had been in Chicago for the
783
00:41:26.840 --> 00:41:30.079
first half of the week but last trip real quick
784
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:34.409
went to Arkansas got I can say who the client
785
00:41:34.429 --> 00:41:36.750
was this time I normally cannot I got to work
786
00:41:36.849 --> 00:41:41.960
with the University of Arkansas and their entrepreneurship students. And
787
00:41:42.019 --> 00:41:45.039
they were having a summit that was inspired by inspired
788
00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:50.599
hosted by this group called Enactus. And Enactus basically works
789
00:41:50.659 --> 00:41:56.719
with business students and entrepreneurial minded students, academic leaders and
790
00:41:56.760 --> 00:42:00.690
local business leaders to help teach entrepreneurship to kids. and
791
00:42:00.730 --> 00:42:04.070
college students. And this can be undergrad or graduate. And
792
00:42:04.090 --> 00:42:06.710
they do not have to be in business majors. They
793
00:42:06.750 --> 00:42:09.900
could be an art major who just is entrepreneurial minded.
794
00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:13.699
And this group works with them. And there was 50
795
00:42:13.699 --> 00:42:16.559
students from a bunch of different universities that came to
796
00:42:16.619 --> 00:42:20.300
the University of Arkansas. I was invited by my friend
797
00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:26.139
and former colleague, Chris, when Sherry told her friend, Kara,
798
00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:30.920
that I was going to Arkansas. Kara lived there for
799
00:42:30.980 --> 00:42:33.119
a while. So she's like, Corey's got to go to
800
00:42:33.159 --> 00:42:36.179
this place called Onyx. I was like, I don't know
801
00:42:36.219 --> 00:42:37.800
anything about Onyx. Sounds good.
802
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.920
She's like, it's a coffee shop, but it's like crazy good.
803
00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:41.780
And I get there.
804
00:42:42.849 --> 00:42:45.349
Oh, by the way, the graduate hotels by Hilton are fun.
805
00:42:45.389 --> 00:42:49.010
They're in college town. They're like really uniquely designed and
806
00:42:49.050 --> 00:42:52.829
they're all the like all about the university or the
807
00:42:52.869 --> 00:42:56.039
mascot or the college. So it's all Razorback stuff everywhere
808
00:42:56.079 --> 00:42:58.960
at my hotel. And two blocks away is this place
809
00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:03.320
called Onyx. Kendall, it was named the number one coffee
810
00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:07.900
shop in the world for 2026 by the world's 100
811
00:43:07.900 --> 00:43:12.250
best coffee shops, marking the first time a U.S.-based brand
812
00:43:12.289 --> 00:43:20.920
has taken the top spot. 15,000 coffee shops are nominated today. globally, annually,
813
00:43:21.059 --> 00:43:23.619
and it just got best coffee shop in the world.
814
00:43:24.219 --> 00:43:24.599
Wow.
815
00:43:24.860 --> 00:43:25.840
In Arkansas.
816
00:43:26.500 --> 00:43:29.619
In Arkansas, right? So this is where they started.
817
00:43:31.219 --> 00:43:34.030
Maybe, Dylan, if you want to do another just quick Onyx,
818
00:43:34.210 --> 00:43:39.449
O-N-Y-X interior coffee shop. Onyx Coffee Labs, they had a
819
00:43:39.489 --> 00:43:46.349
few locations, one of which is on the current campus
820
00:43:47.670 --> 00:43:51.480
of the Walmart facility. So this is the one on
821
00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:59.929
the square that I visited. Um, the, yeah, it's just stellar,
822
00:43:59.989 --> 00:44:02.630
but then do Onyx coffee lab, Walmart campus.
823
00:44:04.190 --> 00:44:05.570
This one looks like it's straight.
824
00:44:05.869 --> 00:44:12.570
It looks like the fricking, um, uh, cantina in tattooing
825
00:44:12.730 --> 00:44:13.469
in star Wars.
826
00:44:13.690 --> 00:44:21.110
This place inside, it's like stucco, all curves, uh, Yeah,
827
00:44:21.150 --> 00:44:22.389
that's it from the outside.
828
00:44:22.730 --> 00:44:25.829
If you're from Ohio, it looks like the Neil Armstrong
829
00:44:25.949 --> 00:44:28.230
National Air and Space Museum. But then if you can
830
00:44:28.269 --> 00:44:29.949
get a shot of the bar on the inside, it's
831
00:44:29.969 --> 00:44:34.440
this wild, tattooing, sand-colored looking.
832
00:44:36.059 --> 00:44:42.519
Yeah. You get the gist. Wild. Very cool place. Incredible coffee.
833
00:44:44.510 --> 00:44:47.150
I don't know enough to know or appreciate, probably to
834
00:44:47.190 --> 00:44:48.829
the degree that some would, but I was.
835
00:44:48.750 --> 00:44:53.449
Like, this tastes really good. Yeah. Pretty darn good vanilla latte.
836
00:44:53.469 --> 00:44:54.849
So that was pretty cool.
837
00:44:54.909 --> 00:44:58.530
And then Bentonville and Fayetteville is just like this adorable
838
00:44:58.570 --> 00:45:01.730
little college town. And then you realize how much of
839
00:45:01.769 --> 00:45:05.369
this all ultimately ties back to like Sam Walton and Walmart.
840
00:45:05.610 --> 00:45:11.119
And the Walmart foundation is what inspired the entrepreneurship summit
841
00:45:11.139 --> 00:45:13.579
that I was at a lot of people. And so
842
00:45:13.619 --> 00:45:15.940
I was asking like, what's the view of Walmart here?
843
00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:22.449
Is it like viewed like big, big, big brother, death star, Amazon,
844
00:45:22.489 --> 00:45:26.130
like people, how people talk about Amazon, local business. And
845
00:45:26.170 --> 00:45:28.969
he's like, no people like view Walmart with like a
846
00:45:29.010 --> 00:45:32.469
lot of respect and love. And they've done so much
847
00:45:32.510 --> 00:45:33.969
for the town and for the community.
848
00:45:34.030 --> 00:45:36.300
I'm like, okay. So like who shops there?
849
00:45:36.380 --> 00:45:38.360
Cause depending on what part of the U S you're from,
850
00:45:38.739 --> 00:45:42.360
Walmart can be like only certain types of people go there.
851
00:45:42.460 --> 00:45:45.960
Check out your, you know, favorite, uh, people of walmart.com,
852
00:45:47.219 --> 00:45:50.079
you know, thread. And he's like, no, this is everybody
853
00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:54.030
of all classes. Like Walmart is the place. There is
854
00:45:54.090 --> 00:45:57.530
no Target because this is Walmart country. Not just this
855
00:45:57.610 --> 00:46:01.429
is where the first Walmart was, but like their campus.
856
00:46:01.670 --> 00:46:04.070
When we parked in the parking garage on the campus,
857
00:46:04.090 --> 00:46:06.610
he's like, as far as you can see, all these buildings,
858
00:46:06.670 --> 00:46:12.369
he's like, everything here is Walmart. It's just huge facilities, buildings, five,
859
00:46:12.429 --> 00:46:18.579
six stories, structures, daycares. cycle shops, coffee shops, like all
860
00:46:18.599 --> 00:46:22.119
of this is just, just Walmart country. Like this, it's
861
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:27.170
basically a city within Bentonville Fayetteville. And, um, it was
862
00:46:27.210 --> 00:46:31.070
really cool, but so going to the university of Arkansas
863
00:46:31.090 --> 00:46:34.449
campus was cool. Working with a bunch of bright entrepreneurship
864
00:46:34.469 --> 00:46:37.309
students was cool. And then the little tour visiting like
865
00:46:37.869 --> 00:46:41.400
Walmart stomping grounds, where it all started, where it currently resides.
866
00:46:41.460 --> 00:46:45.940
And then this pleasant treat was this globally recognized coffee
867
00:46:45.980 --> 00:46:49.320
shop that like who to thunk is right there in
868
00:46:49.340 --> 00:46:50.289
the middle of Arkansas.
869
00:46:50.329 --> 00:46:55.250
So, um, pretty cool. Important question. Was the coffee at
870
00:46:55.349 --> 00:46:58.869
Onyx still cheaper than Starbucks? About the same.
871
00:46:59.869 --> 00:47:00.070
Yeah.
872
00:47:00.630 --> 00:47:02.809
Greatest coffee in the world. Starbucks prices.
873
00:47:03.389 --> 00:47:06.079
I mean, the level of care that they took, not
874
00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:08.559
in just the interior and the design and whatever, but
875
00:47:08.579 --> 00:47:10.139
like the baristas.
876
00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:15.289
Were like, it was like effortless, uh, But like you
877
00:47:15.329 --> 00:47:17.349
could tell they knew what they were doing and it
878
00:47:17.389 --> 00:47:20.469
was very intentional and thoughtful. Like when you see a
879
00:47:20.510 --> 00:47:25.840
master craftsman doing anything, woodworking, hunting, whatever. I was like,
880
00:47:26.380 --> 00:47:28.460
but also like I do it all the time, but
881
00:47:28.539 --> 00:47:30.219
not with any less care for each.
882
00:47:30.900 --> 00:47:31.320
Yeah.
883
00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:32.559
For each drink.
884
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:35.039
Like there's a level of elegance.
885
00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:35.900
Yeah.
886
00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:37.219
Decision.
887
00:47:37.989 --> 00:47:41.349
And you're just like, even the little leaf in your latte,
888
00:47:41.369 --> 00:47:47.960
you're just like, oh man, that was... Impressive. Satisfying to watch. Sorry, Kendall.
889
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:53.420
I know you love Starbucks. Just had to ask. Okay.
890
00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:56.739
Something you guys will love. Let's pivot off of my travel.
891
00:47:56.880 --> 00:48:00.619
So I was with Chris and he said something that
892
00:48:00.739 --> 00:48:03.059
I thought I cannot wait to take this back to
893
00:48:03.079 --> 00:48:06.739
the podcast. He says when he goes out with his friends,
894
00:48:07.219 --> 00:48:09.420
it'll be like just a boy's night out and they
895
00:48:09.460 --> 00:48:12.900
do a dinner somewhere. They'll have their full dinner and
896
00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:18.210
not every time. But sometimes one of them will say, bang, bang.
897
00:48:19.130 --> 00:48:22.809
And bang, bang means let's go to another restaurant and
898
00:48:22.849 --> 00:48:27.800
have a whole nother dinner. Not like let's go for
899
00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:32.260
dessert somewhere or let's just go get apps. We've been
900
00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:35.900
socializing and enjoying this meal. Somebody says bang, bang, and
901
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:39.219
then the rest go yay or nay. And not once,
902
00:48:39.460 --> 00:48:43.510
not twice. Regularly, they'll just go to another place. And
903
00:48:43.550 --> 00:48:47.239
have a whole nother dinner and start completely over. And
904
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:48.840
I was like, I kind.
905
00:48:48.559 --> 00:48:52.099
Of love Bang Bang. And I go, wait, do you?
906
00:48:52.260 --> 00:48:53.360
This was an important question.
907
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:57.440
I say, do you have a hypothesis that somebody might
908
00:48:57.579 --> 00:49:00.059
say it that night and then eat less at your
909
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:04.590
first spot? And he goes, no, it is like we
910
00:49:04.710 --> 00:49:09.039
are doing the normal thing. It can't be like hinted at.
911
00:49:09.690 --> 00:49:11.150
That's what makes Bang Bang fun.
912
00:49:11.329 --> 00:49:14.000
You do what you would normally do, and you all
913
00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:16.679
think you're going home, and then somebody goes, Bang Bang?
914
00:49:17.670 --> 00:49:18.230
It happens.
915
00:49:20.019 --> 00:49:24.860
Questions uh does this have to be unanimous like does
916
00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:28.539
everyone have to agree or if if if it is
917
00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:31.139
if it's not unanimous let's say there's six of them
918
00:49:31.559 --> 00:49:33.960
If four say yes and two say no, do the
919
00:49:34.019 --> 00:49:36.440
two that say no go home or are they obligated
920
00:49:36.539 --> 00:49:37.000
to go?
921
00:49:37.659 --> 00:49:39.619
I didn't ask that. My guess was that the four
922
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:41.980
just go. The four just go and the other two
923
00:49:42.039 --> 00:49:43.980
bow out. Or maybe they go and they just don't
924
00:49:44.139 --> 00:49:46.989
eat a whole nother meal. They just hang out with
925
00:49:47.030 --> 00:49:50.070
the guys. But I kind of like this. I think
926
00:49:50.110 --> 00:49:51.110
I would like to try this.
927
00:49:51.650 --> 00:49:53.349
I feel like it would be more fun if there's
928
00:49:53.389 --> 00:49:54.730
a sense of obligation there.
929
00:49:55.130 --> 00:49:59.469
Yeah. You'd ask Chris. It's like the needs of the
930
00:49:59.530 --> 00:50:02.010
many outweigh the needs of the few if If this
931
00:50:02.090 --> 00:50:06.110
is a majority vote, yes, then you guys are coming
932
00:50:06.389 --> 00:50:08.070
and this is going to happen.
933
00:50:08.269 --> 00:50:11.250
You know, my favorite thing that I see my comedian,
934
00:50:11.909 --> 00:50:14.449
the people comedians I follow do on their podcast is
935
00:50:14.489 --> 00:50:17.320
when they call somebody live. We're going to see if
936
00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:19.179
we can get Chris on the phone to talk about it.
937
00:50:19.639 --> 00:50:22.820
Yeah. We need answers. And also.
938
00:50:23.260 --> 00:50:23.699
Yeah, go ahead.
939
00:50:24.179 --> 00:50:26.719
Is there. Do they have like sort of like, hey,
940
00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:30.800
this is like. This is like the United Nations calling
941
00:50:30.860 --> 00:50:33.920
an emergency powers vote. Like, this has got to be
942
00:50:33.960 --> 00:50:36.420
kind of rare. This can't happen every third time we
943
00:50:36.460 --> 00:50:38.179
go out, you know?
944
00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:40.309
Well, maybe every third time is about right.
945
00:50:40.329 --> 00:50:42.510
Well, it depends on how often.
946
00:50:42.530 --> 00:50:43.809
Because it can get shot down, right?
947
00:50:43.829 --> 00:50:45.250
Well, I don't know.
948
00:50:45.269 --> 00:50:47.730
You can try to bang-bang and it can get shot down.
949
00:50:48.449 --> 00:50:49.110
Presumably.
950
00:50:50.090 --> 00:50:50.409
Yeah.
951
00:50:50.889 --> 00:50:52.210
He might be in bed. I kind of wore him
952
00:50:52.250 --> 00:50:52.849
out last week.
953
00:50:54.769 --> 00:50:57.179
I feel it. Just say bang-bang and see what he says.
954
00:50:59.420 --> 00:51:02.639
Hey, dude, tell them what you just said.
955
00:51:02.659 --> 00:51:05.239
Bang, bang. Bang, bang.
956
00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:09.269
Okay, Chris, you're live on my podcast. Oh, my God.
957
00:51:09.289 --> 00:51:11.670
Why would you do that to me? Because you know
958
00:51:11.690 --> 00:51:14.969
you love it. Okay, we just have a quick question.
959
00:51:15.869 --> 00:51:16.030
Yep.
960
00:51:16.289 --> 00:51:19.110
I'm telling the guys about bang, bang, and we're in.
961
00:51:19.150 --> 00:51:19.989
We love the idea.
962
00:51:22.030 --> 00:51:24.690
But the question, Dylan had the question. My brother had
963
00:51:24.710 --> 00:51:27.679
the question. Let's say you're out with six guys and
964
00:51:27.719 --> 00:51:30.800
two decline. Does the four go or is there like
965
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:33.570
a sense of obligation? Like, no, no, you have to
966
00:51:33.610 --> 00:51:35.130
come or we all have to be in or it
967
00:51:35.170 --> 00:51:35.710
doesn't happen.
968
00:51:35.750 --> 00:51:37.630
What are the rules? No, no.
969
00:51:37.789 --> 00:51:40.489
The four go and the two follow because they don't
970
00:51:40.510 --> 00:51:42.989
want to be alone and they don't want to just bang.
971
00:51:43.010 --> 00:51:45.630
They're going to bang, bang. I mean, that's the whole
972
00:51:45.690 --> 00:51:49.380
rules of the game. We're all in, all musketeers, all
973
00:51:49.420 --> 00:51:52.239
at once. Three, four, five, six, it doesn't matter.
974
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:53.059
We're going.
975
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:55.739
And do they just sit there like idiots and watch
976
00:51:55.780 --> 00:51:57.559
you guys eat or is it like, no, you have
977
00:51:57.579 --> 00:51:58.460
to eat a meal?
978
00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:02.039
They sit there like idiots and watch us eat until
979
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:05.599
they go, nah, that actually looks pretty good, and then
980
00:52:05.619 --> 00:52:06.360
dig right in.
981
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:10.280
I love this.
982
00:52:10.460 --> 00:52:16.260
How frequent? How frequent is someone pulling the bang-bang? That's tough.
983
00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:19.000
As you get older, you have to do.
984
00:52:18.860 --> 00:52:21.219
A little bit of slide rule math on how many
985
00:52:21.260 --> 00:52:23.960
bang-bangs you can actually do month over month over month.
986
00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:28.119
I would say we're probably two to one ratio now.
987
00:52:28.239 --> 00:52:31.469
Every other month when we get together, we're probably pulling
988
00:52:31.510 --> 00:52:31.949
a bang-bang.
989
00:52:33.789 --> 00:52:35.329
And I love, I think I asked you when we
990
00:52:35.349 --> 00:52:37.829
were in person, I love that like if it's even
991
00:52:37.909 --> 00:52:40.190
sniffed at that it might happen, it kind of takes
992
00:52:40.230 --> 00:52:42.550
the fun out of it. Because then you would change
993
00:52:42.570 --> 00:52:45.389
your order for the first place thinking there's probably going
994
00:52:45.409 --> 00:52:47.269
to be a bang-bang.
995
00:52:48.150 --> 00:52:50.769
And then I'm going to have to eat again. Yeah.
996
00:52:50.809 --> 00:52:52.369
It's a complete audible.
997
00:52:52.610 --> 00:52:52.989
Yeah.
998
00:52:53.210 --> 00:52:56.010
Every time it's a complete audible year, you go out,
999
00:52:56.190 --> 00:52:59.010
you know, friendly, nice dinner, you know, maybe a couple
1000
00:52:59.030 --> 00:53:01.420
of adult beverages, all that kind of good stuff. And
1001
00:53:01.460 --> 00:53:05.179
then somebody calls it, but it's not all the time.
1002
00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:06.980
You can do it consistently. Yeah.
1003
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:10.059
It can be expected. I love it. Exactly.
1004
00:53:10.860 --> 00:53:13.789
Wait, what you just described sounds like somebody calls it
1005
00:53:13.989 --> 00:53:17.489
and then like everybody is, is, is on board or
1006
00:53:17.550 --> 00:53:18.550
does it get shot down?
1007
00:53:20.230 --> 00:53:21.449
It never gets shot down.
1008
00:53:21.730 --> 00:53:23.650
The rules are, if you call it.
1009
00:53:23.690 --> 00:53:24.130
You're in.
1010
00:53:24.309 --> 00:53:27.179
We're not shooting anything down. Oh, got it.
1011
00:53:27.269 --> 00:53:27.789
I love this.
1012
00:53:28.230 --> 00:53:28.469
Okay.
1013
00:53:28.489 --> 00:53:30.659
You've really given us something to think about and you've
1014
00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:33.719
inspired us in a way. So I'm excited to try
1015
00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:35.699
this the next time I'm with a group of guy buddies.
1016
00:53:35.739 --> 00:53:38.059
Thank you for, uh, thank you for letting me call
1017
00:53:38.099 --> 00:53:40.880
you last minute and putting you live on, you know,
1018
00:53:40.920 --> 00:53:43.519
only like three, only three people listen to this thing.
1019
00:53:43.559 --> 00:53:47.150
So it's not a big deal. Well, okay.
1020
00:53:47.230 --> 00:53:47.369
Okay.
1021
00:53:49.420 --> 00:53:50.260
Hey, I'll tell you later.
1022
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:52.179
Thanks, buddy.
1023
00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:53.559
OK, there you go.
1024
00:53:54.059 --> 00:53:58.119
Yeah. You might want to explain things like before you
1025
00:53:58.139 --> 00:54:01.599
just like look at your your dude friends be like, hey, hey, guys, bang, bang, bang.
1026
00:54:01.699 --> 00:54:04.199
All right.
1027
00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:05.420
I love that.
1028
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:08.320
I feel like I feel like Corey is a bang
1029
00:54:08.340 --> 00:54:11.699
bang guy would would be a bang bang guy more
1030
00:54:11.840 --> 00:54:15.610
more often and readily than either Dylan or I would be.
1031
00:54:16.409 --> 00:54:18.670
where there's a good chance that Dylan or I, like
1032
00:54:18.730 --> 00:54:21.219
by the end of a dinner, like we're excited that
1033
00:54:21.239 --> 00:54:22.019
we get to go home.
1034
00:54:22.039 --> 00:54:24.840
I was going to say, this feels like my heart
1035
00:54:24.900 --> 00:54:28.219
is willing, but my body isn't able. The spirit is weak.
1036
00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:31.199
The spirit is weak. Yeah. I feel like I would
1037
00:54:31.219 --> 00:54:34.500
also be curious to know what's been the best one,
1038
00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:38.059
two punch bang bang. Well, it's like the best meal
1039
00:54:38.099 --> 00:54:40.719
they ever had. And then they went out and had
1040
00:54:40.780 --> 00:54:42.860
another like phenomenal meal.
1041
00:54:43.050 --> 00:54:47.679
Like does Korean barbecue follow up? seafood pretty darn well
1042
00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:50.840
like if you can kind of like make some draw
1043
00:54:50.860 --> 00:54:53.579
some lines there that'd be interesting and.
1044
00:54:53.500 --> 00:54:56.000
Then can the can the second meal ever be like
1045
00:54:56.039 --> 00:54:58.380
gosh we got really nice steakhouse and then we hit
1046
00:54:58.420 --> 00:55:00.389
taco bell on the way home or does it need
1047
00:55:00.409 --> 00:55:04.730
to be like a comparable quality restaurant it can't be
1048
00:55:04.769 --> 00:55:07.710
he said pretty nice place with like adult.
1049
00:55:07.449 --> 00:55:10.130
Food a form we're probably overthinking it but i will
1050
00:55:10.710 --> 00:55:12.570
i will absolutely follow up and.
1051
00:55:12.289 --> 00:55:14.980
Get back yeah yeah i gotta i gotta know this
1052
00:55:15.019 --> 00:55:17.860
is interesting This would be tricky for you, Dylan, if
1053
00:55:17.909 --> 00:55:20.269
you get your food shutters. Because I don't know if
1054
00:55:20.309 --> 00:55:23.530
you've divulged on the podcast, when Dylan's body is full,
1055
00:55:24.429 --> 00:55:30.309
he shutters without intention. What do they call that? Involuntarily? Yeah.
1056
00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:33.059
People say I shudder at the thought. I can literally
1057
00:55:33.139 --> 00:55:35.679
shudder at the bite. Like, I can get to a
1058
00:55:35.739 --> 00:55:38.380
point where I'm so full that my body will literally, like,
1059
00:55:38.599 --> 00:55:41.320
try to shiver the food out of my mouth. And
1060
00:55:41.400 --> 00:55:43.079
it's like, no, no, no.
1061
00:55:43.300 --> 00:55:43.739
You know?
1062
00:55:43.780 --> 00:55:44.760
Like, it wants it gone.
1063
00:55:45.010 --> 00:55:45.139
So.
1064
00:55:45.639 --> 00:55:47.599
I don't know. But I also feel like there's a
1065
00:55:47.659 --> 00:55:52.039
world where, you know, sometimes you try to make a
1066
00:55:52.519 --> 00:55:55.900
relatively modest decision for dinner. It's not like I'm going
1067
00:55:55.920 --> 00:55:59.679
to get a triple thick bacon burger and double fries
1068
00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:02.659
and for dinner. Sometimes somebody might make a kind of
1069
00:56:02.760 --> 00:56:06.659
modest call and, you know, get like a chicken salad
1070
00:56:06.699 --> 00:56:09.019
or something, you know, like a pasta. It's not a
1071
00:56:09.039 --> 00:56:11.599
lot of pasta. But then if you sat there for
1072
00:56:11.639 --> 00:56:14.760
two or three hours talking, I could see myself being
1073
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:17.780
hungry again. If you really did just like sit for
1074
00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:20.659
a while, like you were chatting before you had dinner,
1075
00:56:21.360 --> 00:56:24.170
somebody got dessert, you're sitting there for two hours. I
1076
00:56:24.210 --> 00:56:26.590
could see being hungry again. If I didn't, you know,
1077
00:56:26.690 --> 00:56:30.869
have a big portion. Yeah, I could see that.
1078
00:56:31.050 --> 00:56:33.150
Sure. Yeah.
1079
00:56:33.829 --> 00:56:35.820
I love that he answered the phone with bang, bang.
1080
00:56:36.559 --> 00:56:39.840
Right after we were talking about. It's perfect. All right, boys,
1081
00:56:39.900 --> 00:56:42.119
that's all I got. Do you want to touch on
1082
00:56:42.159 --> 00:56:47.590
streaming real quick? Gosh, I can go real quick and
1083
00:56:47.610 --> 00:56:50.309
just throw out some stuff. We're doing Apple TV Plus
1084
00:56:50.389 --> 00:56:54.070
right now. So just watch the newest seasons of Shrinking, Trying,
1085
00:56:54.130 --> 00:56:57.090
Ted Lasso, all worth watching. If you've got Apple TV
1086
00:56:57.110 --> 00:57:00.050
Plus right now, whether you watch the whole shows or,
1087
00:57:00.869 --> 00:57:03.070
you know, or the entire series so far, I never
1088
00:57:03.130 --> 00:57:05.690
watched them. All of them are worth watching. Vision Quest
1089
00:57:05.750 --> 00:57:07.849
on Disney Plus is great. That's kind of like part
1090
00:57:07.909 --> 00:57:12.480
three of the WandaVision, Agatha all along, and Vision Quest
1091
00:57:12.519 --> 00:57:16.440
kind of collectively make one big story as three different series.
1092
00:57:16.599 --> 00:57:21.559
Also very good. I think that's the main stuff I've
1093
00:57:21.599 --> 00:57:24.980
been watching. Yeah, that's what I got for now.
1094
00:57:26.699 --> 00:57:31.150
Right on. For me, it's sports. That's what I watch.
1095
00:57:31.869 --> 00:57:36.349
But Two things. The NFL is going on right now,
1096
00:57:36.449 --> 00:57:39.250
and that's been so far a fascinating season. I think
1097
00:57:39.269 --> 00:57:41.889
we're starting to see it's one of those years where
1098
00:57:41.909 --> 00:57:46.130
you're watching the evolution of different football teams where the
1099
00:57:46.369 --> 00:57:48.269
good are now bad and the bad are now good.
1100
00:57:48.329 --> 00:57:50.650
And you're telling yourself 10 years ago, I would not
1101
00:57:50.690 --> 00:57:53.409
have believed you. Kind of season is what we're having
1102
00:57:53.449 --> 00:57:56.949
in the NFL. And then in college football, man, I
1103
00:57:57.730 --> 00:58:00.050
think Dylan and I touched on it, but NIL is
1104
00:58:00.110 --> 00:58:03.849
taking its full effect this year. It's been fascinating. to
1105
00:58:03.909 --> 00:58:08.550
watch college football top 30 teams it is so much
1106
00:58:08.610 --> 00:58:12.489
like the nfl now anybody can beat anybody this is
1107
00:58:12.550 --> 00:58:16.909
the year that parody is becoming fruition in the world
1108
00:58:16.929 --> 00:58:19.469
of ncaa football yeah.
1109
00:58:19.369 --> 00:58:21.489
I think was it the the number two team lost
1110
00:58:21.510 --> 00:58:25.139
like four weeks in a row there was countless upsets
1111
00:58:25.199 --> 00:58:28.380
of the top 10 Just like rankings are just churning
1112
00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:29.539
week over week.
1113
00:58:29.760 --> 00:58:33.400
And it's unranked teams that are half the time doing
1114
00:58:33.420 --> 00:58:37.780
the ones with the upsetting with like top 10 teams regularly.
1115
00:58:37.929 --> 00:58:40.469
You had one week where it was like seven out
1116
00:58:40.530 --> 00:58:44.289
of top 10 teams lost in the same week.
1117
00:58:46.090 --> 00:58:48.750
Yeah, it's been crazy and very fun to watch. Not
1118
00:58:48.789 --> 00:58:50.010
so much when your team loses.
1119
00:58:50.170 --> 00:58:52.610
Yeah, not when it happens to you and another team
1120
00:58:53.369 --> 00:58:53.789
beats you.
1121
00:58:53.809 --> 00:58:58.170
But yeah, other than that. Yeah. Agreed on college football.
1122
00:58:58.269 --> 00:59:00.739
It's been a ton of fun to watch this season. Well,
1123
00:59:00.780 --> 00:59:02.719
you guys had two notes on Halloween and I don't
1124
00:59:02.739 --> 00:59:04.780
want to skip past it since that just happened. Trick
1125
00:59:04.800 --> 00:59:08.179
or treat beers. And Oh, was that covered last week?
1126
00:59:08.539 --> 00:59:12.079
No, it wasn't the trick or treat beers. So we
1127
00:59:12.099 --> 00:59:14.139
went trick or treating and me for the first time
1128
00:59:14.260 --> 00:59:17.090
experienced going up to somebody's house. And I'm sure this
1129
00:59:17.130 --> 00:59:19.809
happens in neighborhoods all over the country on a regular basis.
1130
00:59:20.469 --> 00:59:22.570
But they had adult beverages in a cooler for the
1131
00:59:22.610 --> 00:59:25.719
adults to walk around with. And I just so happened
1132
00:59:25.820 --> 00:59:28.469
to like have a koozie with me because I brought,
1133
00:59:28.610 --> 00:59:30.869
you know, a Dr. Pepper Zero Sugar with me that
1134
00:59:30.909 --> 00:59:33.869
I had finished and I threw in their recycling. I
1135
00:59:33.969 --> 00:59:37.110
asked them first and grabbed a beer, put in my koozie,
1136
00:59:37.449 --> 00:59:39.829
continued walking around with my kids. It was fun.
1137
00:59:40.550 --> 00:59:40.849
Nice.
1138
00:59:41.130 --> 00:59:42.789
That I'm going to bring my own beer next time.
1139
00:59:42.989 --> 00:59:46.079
I might even give some out. Sounds illegal, but it's Halloween.
1140
00:59:46.239 --> 00:59:47.440
I don't think anybody's going to care.
1141
00:59:48.340 --> 00:59:50.280
It was a beautiful night this year. There was a
1142
00:59:50.320 --> 00:59:54.380
lot of adults doing that. A lot of coffee cups
1143
00:59:54.420 --> 00:59:57.920
walking around. One family down the road, they always hand
1144
00:59:57.960 --> 01:00:02.570
out jello shots, which was a lot of candy and
1145
01:00:02.610 --> 01:00:05.130
things that look like kids could eat it out tonight.
1146
01:00:05.170 --> 01:00:07.869
Maybe you want to make it a little clearer what's what.
1147
01:00:07.909 --> 01:00:09.849
But that was that was fun. I love that for
1148
01:00:09.889 --> 01:00:12.570
you that you got to experience that. When you said
1149
01:00:12.590 --> 01:00:15.059
you had a koozie with you, I'm like this everyday
1150
01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:19.539
carry is getting out of hand. You cannot be traveling
1151
01:00:19.579 --> 01:00:21.219
with a koozie everywhere you go.
1152
01:00:21.239 --> 01:00:24.619
This is I don't, but I will never go trick
1153
01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:26.539
or treating with my kids without a koozie again.
1154
01:00:26.559 --> 01:00:30.820
Yeah, apparently. Gosh, I think I alluded to this a
1155
01:00:30.860 --> 01:00:33.159
little bit. It's like we covered first part of this
1156
01:00:33.199 --> 01:00:36.420
question that I had jotted down, like Halloween becomes like
1157
01:00:36.579 --> 01:00:40.059
seems like it's increasingly like Popular people are decorating, kind
1158
01:00:40.079 --> 01:00:41.900
of going, this isn't like a pumpkin at the front
1159
01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:45.760
door anymore, you know, for the night. And it feels
1160
01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:49.019
like it's continuing to escalate. So we talked a little
1161
01:00:49.039 --> 01:00:51.880
bit about that. But one of the questions that I
1162
01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:54.309
was going to ask, if you had to pick a
1163
01:00:54.409 --> 01:00:59.130
different holiday that would have that level of engagement of
1164
01:00:59.170 --> 01:01:03.659
like Christmas and Halloween and decorating, you could make one up.
1165
01:01:04.329 --> 01:01:07.210
Or you could pick another holiday that exists that would
1166
01:01:07.349 --> 01:01:10.730
rise to that level of engagement. Is there one you
1167
01:01:10.769 --> 01:01:13.849
would pick? Would you make a holiday or would you
1168
01:01:13.869 --> 01:01:16.690
pick an existing holiday for people to go that all out?
1169
01:01:18.289 --> 01:01:21.679
I've got two answers. One is I would pick like
1170
01:01:21.699 --> 01:01:25.980
an absolute underdog of a holiday, like Flag Day or
1171
01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:30.179
something like that. And just do everybody does the heck
1172
01:01:30.260 --> 01:01:34.940
out of Flag Day. Something like that. Another thought that
1173
01:01:34.980 --> 01:01:37.599
crosses my mind because of the week that we're in
1174
01:01:38.500 --> 01:01:41.219
is hearkening back to the days of old with election
1175
01:01:41.239 --> 01:01:46.530
day and making a giant, big hoopla, less political, um,
1176
01:01:47.300 --> 01:01:50.030
arguing more of a joyous occasion. Look at what we
1177
01:01:50.070 --> 01:01:54.190
get to do kind of situation, um, for election day,
1178
01:01:54.610 --> 01:01:57.809
like spend a whole month, not talking about candidates so much,
1179
01:01:58.090 --> 01:02:01.789
just talking about the process and being excited to be
1180
01:02:02.380 --> 01:02:06.099
Americans taking part in this process. I think we've talked
1181
01:02:06.139 --> 01:02:09.730
about before about historically, like people used to like bake
1182
01:02:09.809 --> 01:02:12.070
cakes and, and like you would vote and they get
1183
01:02:12.110 --> 01:02:14.969
your piece of cake and people did this whole celebratory
1184
01:02:15.650 --> 01:02:20.409
atmosphere around the idea of voting, bring election day back
1185
01:02:20.449 --> 01:02:24.179
to those days, make it a day off for everybody,
1186
01:02:24.360 --> 01:02:28.820
federal holiday and, uh, and people decorate and everything. Let's
1187
01:02:28.840 --> 01:02:31.969
do like another 4th of July situation, uh, on the
1188
01:02:32.010 --> 01:02:33.150
first Tuesday in November.
1189
01:02:33.710 --> 01:02:36.849
Make Election Day great again. I am all for it.
1190
01:02:37.050 --> 01:02:40.489
And really, I'm just all for not getting these spam texts.
1191
01:02:41.210 --> 01:02:41.849
Absolutely.
1192
01:02:42.170 --> 01:02:44.769
It is exhausting. How are they allowed to do that?
1193
01:02:44.889 --> 01:02:48.449
It's a crime. That's what I was most excited about Iowa.
1194
01:02:48.489 --> 01:02:50.429
My mail wasn't going to be full for a week
1195
01:02:50.469 --> 01:02:52.309
with junk that I was going to throw away. And
1196
01:02:52.349 --> 01:02:56.349
then I got the Uber driver. We were talking about
1197
01:02:56.409 --> 01:02:59.369
something kind of similar at work. And I thought Super
1198
01:02:59.409 --> 01:03:03.590
Bowl Monday after. It's going to be like American sports heritage.
1199
01:03:04.050 --> 01:03:07.010
And like a week before, let people like all their
1200
01:03:07.139 --> 01:03:11.820
everyone's wearing jerseys everywhere. Everyone's got sports flags for all
1201
01:03:11.880 --> 01:03:15.539
seasons of all sports. They're playing all the sports documentaries
1202
01:03:15.579 --> 01:03:18.980
and sports movies on TV for a week. You know,
1203
01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:22.139
all the best 30 for 30s around any whatever they
1204
01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:23.940
want to play. Like there's a whole like week or
1205
01:03:24.000 --> 01:03:27.480
two build up of like it's socially acceptable for everyone
1206
01:03:27.519 --> 01:03:31.619
to just banners and car stickers and magnets and jerseys
1207
01:03:31.659 --> 01:03:34.139
and everyone's just repping their favorite teams from all over
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01:03:34.619 --> 01:03:36.300
it could be the u.s or the world doesn't matter
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i think that'd be fun uh my other choice would
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be like if america could really get on board with
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cinco de mayo and then there's like taco and burrito
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food trucks everywhere and people are just like people are
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decorating decorating like it's a you know whatever we're just
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a big fiesta uh that'd be great i'd be on
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board with that.
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Too to to rip go continue with the hispanic culture
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dia de los muertos always looks really fun and i'm
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kind of like a little jealous that we don't get
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to celebrate our deceased loved ones uh with kalaka masks
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and or kalaka masks and uh stuff like that uh
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i do like the idea though of bringing some like
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more social fun interactive engagement to the ones that don't
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currently have it like on purpose Thanksgiving is like, go
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be with your family in one of y'all's houses, have
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a crap ton of food and watch football. But it'd
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be fun if there was some more like communal, like
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social aspects of Thanksgiving that aren't, that I don't feel
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like are there other than watching the parade.
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Like what could we do? Maybe like a community football
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game instead of just like a family football game on
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Thanksgiving morning or something like that. But yeah, I'm going
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to have to think on that. I kind of like
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you guys' answers.
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I just want to make sure. How about like a
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communal football tournament?
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Family on family.
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Family on family. Championship Day is Thanksgiving. It's Thanksgiving Day
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somewhere at a local park.
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Like that, like that.
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Everybody shows up and they do a chili cook-off.
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Love it. Stuff to think about, Middlers.
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We'd love to hear from you on any or all
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of the subjects that we've covered tonight. Have you ever
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01:05:15.300 --> 01:05:17.320
been in a bathroom so long that the lights shut off?
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01:05:18.110 --> 01:05:20.610
What's the last place you visited that had good coffee
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or good food? And what holiday do you think needs
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an upgrade?
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We need to hear from you.
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01:05:25.989 --> 01:05:28.789
Interaction is the favorite part of doing this silly podcast.
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01:05:29.250 --> 01:05:31.219
So please reach out. There's a ton of ways that
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01:05:31.260 --> 01:05:34.159
you can do that. This is your official call to action.
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01:05:34.840 --> 01:05:36.019
Go on social media.
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01:05:36.280 --> 01:05:39.679
Leave a comment underneath the YouTube video or underneath the
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01:05:39.780 --> 01:05:43.280
Instagram post once we post it. Uh, there's a phone
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01:05:43.340 --> 01:05:46.019
number that you can reach out. You can call, you
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01:05:46.039 --> 01:05:48.179
can text, you can leave a voicemail, you can weigh in,
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or you can go to our Facebook group. Yes, we
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01:05:51.380 --> 01:05:54.969
still use Facebook along with your great aunt. Um, and
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you can go to our Facebook group. It is called
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from the middle for the middlers.
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There's usually a.
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Fair amount of engagement going on over there, which is
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really fun. We would appreciate it because you are the favorite,
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our favorite part.
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Of doing this. Um, guys, anything else?
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Yes, sir.
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All right, we'll see you all next week on From
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the Middle, probably.