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

away and then wiped and left. 78 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.779 But I don't feel like I was there long, like 79 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:23.600 that long. And has this ever happened to you guys? 80 00:04:25.779 --> 00:04:30.079 So I can remember two stories where this happened. One 81 00:04:30.139 --> 00:04:33.420 was in a fancy hotel in Vegas and one was 82 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:38.120 in the UK where the stalls are completely closed. The 83 00:04:38.189 --> 00:04:40.939 door goes all the way to the floor and you're 84 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:42.209 in an enclosed room. 85 00:04:43.050 --> 00:04:43.350 Yeah. 86 00:04:43.810 --> 00:04:48.389 And the motion sensors are outside of that stall. So 87 00:04:48.430 --> 00:04:51.329 it's not like a traditional stall where you can wave 88 00:04:51.490 --> 00:04:54.060 or like kick your foot under the door and to 89 00:04:54.129 --> 00:04:58.360 trigger whatever motion sensor, you're just stuck in the dark. 90 00:04:58.980 --> 00:04:59.220 Yeah. 91 00:05:00.019 --> 00:05:03.300 And I'm like, that shouldn't, I shouldn't have to figure 92 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:08.670 out a way to just, just make your timers longer, please. Yeah. 93 00:05:09.149 --> 00:05:15.750 So it, it happened. There was two, two poopers and two, 94 00:05:16.990 --> 00:05:20.800 two urinals in this bathroom. And I was not in 95 00:05:20.810 --> 00:05:23.790 the handicap one. which is, you know, the one that's 96 00:05:23.810 --> 00:05:27.730 typically on the very end, right? And so I was 97 00:05:27.769 --> 00:05:31.769 sitting in the middle there. The one on the handicap side, 98 00:05:31.910 --> 00:05:36.829 like those lights independently shut off, like on that side 99 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:41.000 of the bathroom. And then it wasn't, I don't know, 30, 100 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:45.360 40 seconds later that everything else shut off. And now 101 00:05:46.339 --> 00:05:48.779 there's like mood lighting over by the mirrors a little bit. 102 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:52.500 So it wasn't completely in the dark. So that like 103 00:05:52.779 --> 00:05:55.019 begs the question, like, what is what is the time? 104 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:57.439 Are there two different sensors going on here? What's going 105 00:05:57.480 --> 00:05:59.399 on with the lights not turning off at the same time? 106 00:06:00.290 --> 00:06:04.790 Which obviously, like, I would be all for what a 107 00:06:04.850 --> 00:06:07.769 sensor above each stall. 108 00:06:08.589 --> 00:06:08.850 Right. 109 00:06:09.810 --> 00:06:13.329 And then I don't know. Are they trying to shame 110 00:06:13.410 --> 00:06:15.850 people for taking too long in the bathroom is what 111 00:06:15.870 --> 00:06:21.709 I'm asking. And should I be taking note? Yeah, that 112 00:06:21.750 --> 00:06:24.709 was built for employees. But as it turns out, it 113 00:06:24.949 --> 00:06:27.870 affected you, the customer. And when you said two poopers, 114 00:06:27.910 --> 00:06:30.990 did you mean two people or

two stalls? No, I 115 00:06:30.990 --> 00:06:34.110 was all by myself. Oh, okay. It was a lonely one. 116 00:06:35.470 --> 00:06:36.589 You know, having a friend. 117 00:06:38.149 --> 00:06:40.860 There's certain times like, look, I think all the green 118 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:43.240 initiatives and all that's great. We should do all that. 119 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.019 That's important. There's certain times when it feels like it's 120 00:06:46.060 --> 00:06:50.560 not worth it. And automatic lights in a public bathroom 121 00:06:50.699 --> 00:06:53.459 doesn't feel like the time to worry about being energy efficient. 122 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:56.079 I felt the same way about low flow toilets when 123 00:06:56.100 --> 00:06:58.379 I still don't really care for them. That doesn't feel 124 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.019 like the time and space for us to be economical. 125 00:07:01.180 --> 00:07:02.819 I need it to go. I need it all to 126 00:07:02.870 --> 00:07:05.870 go away and I need to be sure I'm not 127 00:07:05.889 --> 00:07:08.230 going to have any problems with gusto. I need it 128 00:07:08.269 --> 00:07:11.629 to go. I need it. I need it. Yeah. Be 129 00:07:11.670 --> 00:07:15.199 gone out of my sight. Um, I don't need any 130 00:07:15.699 --> 00:07:19.519 drama of like, is this going to do what it's 131 00:07:19.540 --> 00:07:22.899 supposed to do? So I feel like that's one of 132 00:07:22.939 --> 00:07:26.040 those times, like a motion sensor, or it needs to 133 00:07:26.060 --> 00:07:30.610 be on for a real long time, like 30 minutes 134 00:07:30.949 --> 00:07:33.870 or 45 minutes or something, you know, give people plenty 135 00:07:33.930 --> 00:07:36.269 of space. That's, that's, we don't need efficiency there. 136 00:07:36.569 --> 00:07:39.870 Now you're assuming I wasn't pushing 30, 45 minutes. 137 00:07:40.689 --> 00:07:42.910 I try to assume the best in people. You know 138 00:07:42.930 --> 00:07:46.480 what I mean? But I don't think shame was a 139 00:07:46.540 --> 00:07:49.459 part of their motivation, Kendall, so I think you're safe there. 140 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:54.819 I want to believe that Target wasn't like... We have 141 00:07:54.899 --> 00:07:58.009 strong opinions about how long it should take an individual 142 00:07:58.649 --> 00:08:01.509 to go to the bathroom, and this guy has transcended 143 00:08:01.589 --> 00:08:02.310 that number. 144 00:08:02.949 --> 00:08:06.910 I saw a video recently. I want to say it 145 00:08:06.930 --> 00:08:14.170 was Japan, maybe. I don't remember where. Where this individual stalls... 146 00:08:14.790 --> 00:08:18.970 had divers at the top of them on the outside 147 00:08:19.050 --> 00:08:24.100 so as you will how long somebody has been in 148 00:08:24.139 --> 00:08:29.639 there yeah that is a public shaving situation. 149 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:35.480 That is that is wow that's diabolical it is I agree. 150 00:08:35.500 --> 00:08:38.279 I don't think it was about public shaming, but I 151 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.559 do get annoyed that it feels like all of the 152 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:44.659 eco-friendly green initiatives only seem to be about saving the 153 00:08:44.700 --> 00:08:48.090 bottom line and never really seem to be geared towards 154 00:08:48.139 --> 00:08:51.529 not being wasteful in other ways. And so I don't 155 00:08:51.570 --> 00:08:53.730 care for that. But I don't think they were trying 156 00:08:53.769 --> 00:08:55.769 to shame you. I agree. 157 00:08:56.149 --> 00:08:59.149 Cool. Yeah. No, I'm all about being eco-friendly. I feel like, 158 00:08:59.820 --> 00:09:02.299 by and large, when it comes to lighting, we have 159 00:09:02.340 --> 00:09:09.440 addressed that with LEDs. It's night and day. However, there's 160 00:09:09.460 --> 00:09:12.720 a huge part of me that thinks what you said, Dylan, 161 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:15.519 is that I try to do my part, right? I 162 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:17.559 have changed some of the things that I buy or 163 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:18.840 don't buy at a grocery store. 164 00:09:19.299 --> 00:09:19.440 Mm-hmm. 165 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:26.279 And I feel like there's two areas that should be 166 00:09:26.490 --> 00:09:35.289 utterly unaffected by eco-friendly shenanigans. The healthcare field and bathrooms. 167 00:09:37.470 --> 00:09:43.230 Leave healthcare and leave bathrooms alone. So that's my two cents. 168 00:09:43.250 --> 00:09:45.509 Switch to the LEDs. That's great. That's wonderful. 169 00:09:47.429 --> 00:09:51.340 Speaking of LEDs, do you ever see these memes of 170 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:56.220 streetlights and shots of overheads of cities in the 80s 171 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:59.450 and 90s before the LED thing and then now? And 172 00:09:59.490 --> 00:10:02.500 how people... actually complain that the lighting's not warm enough 173 00:10:03.340 --> 00:10:08.500 like it's like a nostalgic bit of criticism of LEDs 174 00:10:08.539 --> 00:10:12.529 that like everything's too clear I miss the warm yellowy 175 00:10:12.870 --> 00:10:16.070 orangey lights of the streets which not that LEDs can't 176 00:10:16.110 --> 00:10:19.399 do that like you can make them that way But 177 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:22.899 that's not a thing that I've ever sat and just 178 00:10:23.139 --> 00:10:26.289 lamented that's changed. People seem to do it. 179 00:10:26.860 --> 00:10:29.700 I totally have. And that's why I think the market 180 00:10:29.740 --> 00:10:38.490 has created warm, amber-ish color LEDs. Our entire house, at 181 00:10:38.610 --> 00:10:42.610 one point, there was a deal at Meijer that made 182 00:10:42.649 --> 00:10:47.049 it conducive to buy a whole bunch of warm, antique-looking uh, 183 00:10:47.230 --> 00:10:50.759 led light bulbs that give a warm yellowish glow. And 184 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.460 I was like, yes. And I bought a bunch of 185 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:55.860 them and replaced every last one in our house. 186 00:10:56.659 -->

00:10:56.860 Yeah. 187 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.679 And I guess I don't mean like the cold blue 188 00:10:59.809 --> 00:11:03.750 medical officey feeling lights inside a house, but like on 189 00:11:03.789 --> 00:11:07.529 a street light, do you care like down your street? 190 00:11:07.629 --> 00:11:10.379 That's where I seem to be people like sharing memes 191 00:11:10.429 --> 00:11:10.820 about it. 192 00:11:11.379 --> 00:11:14.820 Even like, so on my street right now, we're in 193 00:11:14.860 --> 00:11:17.340 a situation where I don't know if they're switching over 194 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:20.149 or somebody bought the wrong thing, but you can see 195 00:11:20.690 --> 00:11:23.490 two different colors. They're LEDs still, but two different colors 196 00:11:23.529 --> 00:11:29.070 of streetlights going down our suburban road. And I do 197 00:11:29.149 --> 00:11:30.289 prefer the yellower ones. 198 00:11:31.289 --> 00:11:31.769 Interesting. 199 00:11:32.889 --> 00:11:34.840 I much prefer the yellow. It would bother me if 200 00:11:35.019 --> 00:11:38.759 out of every 10, there's one ultra white one. I'd 201 00:11:38.779 --> 00:11:41.360 be so tempted to just like, please, somebody fix this. 202 00:11:42.019 --> 00:11:43.960 whatever it is, just make it consistent. 203 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:44.740 Yeah. 204 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:45.259 Yeah. 205 00:11:46.340 --> 00:11:48.799 I agree. I think it would bother me more what 206 00:11:48.820 --> 00:11:52.360 you're saying, like every three are yellow, then one blue 207 00:11:52.419 --> 00:11:54.879 and then two yellow and then three blue, make them 208 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:56.860 all blue. I don't care. That'd be preferable. 209 00:11:57.519 --> 00:11:57.779 Sure. 210 00:11:58.139 --> 00:12:00.159 You know, not literally blue, but you know what I mean? 211 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:05.139 Like the very, the bluish, very white, uh, Yeah. That 212 00:12:05.179 --> 00:12:07.870 reminds me of the thing that we've probably all experienced 213 00:12:07.970 --> 00:12:10.210 and it is now getting, you know, darker an hour 214 00:12:10.350 --> 00:12:12.149 earlier and deer are on the move. 215 00:12:12.210 --> 00:12:16.009 So a lot of people drive around with their brights on, uh, 216 00:12:16.110 --> 00:12:18.509 and some of these halogen lights, even on the low 217 00:12:18.549 --> 00:12:21.129 beams look like brights. So you make that mistake of 218 00:12:21.230 --> 00:12:24.529 like flashing somebody who you think has their brights on 219 00:12:24.570 --> 00:12:25.809 and they're like, Oh no. 220 00:12:25.830 --> 00:12:29.320 These are the brights. These are the brights. 221 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:34.679 And you're like, Oh God, yeah, sorry. I've been offended sometimes. 222 00:12:34.740 --> 00:12:38.440 In our van, I have noticed specifically in that vehicle 223 00:12:38.460 --> 00:12:41.960 that people have flashed at the van thinking that our 224 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:44.960 brights are on. In my

head, I'm having this whole 225 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:53.429 conversation like, listen, how new? You can't. Listen, trigger finger flasher, whatever. 226 00:12:55.190 --> 00:12:57.750 Those were not my brights. I didn't react fast enough 227 00:12:57.789 --> 00:13:00.840 to show you my brights. It's not like I changed 228 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:02.100 the setting on the lights. 229 00:13:02.460 --> 00:13:02.779 All right. 230 00:13:02.850 --> 00:13:05.549 This isn't my fault. I just bought a van. 231 00:13:06.049 --> 00:13:06.389 Okay. 232 00:13:07.750 --> 00:13:09.590 My mind has that conversation. 233 00:13:09.610 --> 00:13:15.490 Here's something I don't need to say out loud. I 234 00:13:15.610 --> 00:13:19.889 once had a vehicle that only semis would flash me. 235 00:13:20.789 --> 00:13:24.909 So like something about how high above my car, no 236 00:13:24.990 --> 00:13:25.750 other cars did. 237 00:13:26.409 --> 00:13:26.600 Yeah. 238 00:13:26.970 --> 00:13:29.570 It was only vehicles that were higher in profile would 239 00:13:29.610 --> 00:13:30.830 like flash. 240 00:13:31.190 --> 00:13:34.350 Well, you realize most vehicles, you can adjust the direction 241 00:13:34.389 --> 00:13:34.769 of your. 242 00:13:34.669 --> 00:13:38.429 Headlights, which I don't think most people know. No. 243 00:13:38.629 --> 00:13:41.450 Okay. A lot of times they can, like, if you 244 00:13:41.470 --> 00:13:44.269 get flashed a lot, then it could be that you 245 00:13:44.309 --> 00:13:47.710 need to direct those puppies down. 246 00:13:47.970 --> 00:13:50.809 Interesting. Do you feel like the right response to that 247 00:13:50.970 --> 00:13:54.169 in your situation? Like, do you feel like the plight 248 00:13:54.230 --> 00:13:57.320 response is to let them know that you understand but 249 00:13:57.379 --> 00:13:59.899 it also is kind of a little bit the vindictive response, 250 00:13:59.940 --> 00:14:02.360 which is like, you think that's my bright, like I'm 251 00:14:02.379 --> 00:14:04.659 going to flash my actual bright. So you know that 252 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:08.629 I'm not driving irresponsibly and I'm going to show you, 253 00:14:09.330 --> 00:14:11.230 you know, well, you just flip it. 254 00:14:11.250 --> 00:14:13.629 Like if people don't respond at all, are they being 255 00:14:13.730 --> 00:14:18.250 kind by, by saying, no, no, these aren't the brides 256 00:14:18.309 --> 00:14:19.669 and I don't want to blind you. 257 00:14:19.789 --> 00:14:21.169 Or are they just ignoring you? 258 00:14:21.889 --> 00:14:22.200 Right. 259 00:14:22.340 --> 00:14:25.440 So I feel like if you show them, it feels 260 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:27.360 like both the right thing to do and the way 261 00:14:27.379 --> 00:14:28.639 to get back at them a little bit. 262 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.519 As much as I like to, I would like, I 263 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:34.740 would love to be able to say that I'm thinking 264 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:38.559 to myself, I'm being kind. That's, that's not, that's not 265 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:41.059 what it's, it's very much the vindictive thing in me 266 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:44.200 that wants to have flashed them back. 267 00:14:45.129 --> 00:14:47.690 Oh, you think these are bright. That's the point. That's 268 00:14:47.710 --> 00:14:50.009 the point that I'm making, though. You get to do both. 269 00:14:50.509 --> 00:14:53.230 And unless somebody asks you and you feel compelled to 270 00:14:53.269 --> 00:14:56.610 be honest because you specifically been asked, you get to 271 00:14:56.649 --> 00:14:59.759 do it because you're like, I'm going to let you know. 272 00:15:00.220 --> 00:15:02.320 And it's going to scratch that itch for me. I 273 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:04.620 think it's like the horn. It's like how long you 274 00:15:04.659 --> 00:15:08.000 leave the actual brights on. How long do you beat? 275 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:09.580 How long do you hold the beep? Is it a 276 00:15:09.899 --> 00:15:13.850 little too like light screen? You can go now. Or 277 00:15:13.889 --> 00:15:19.149 is it like a you mother? It's how long you 278 00:15:19.169 --> 00:15:20.049 leave the brides on. 279 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:20.980 Yeah. 280 00:15:21.139 --> 00:15:25.679 Wow. Only our podcast would go to this layer of 281 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:27.129 granularity and I love it. 282 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:28.299 Yeah. 283 00:15:28.340 --> 00:15:31.799 What a good question, Kendall, that got us off on lighting. 284 00:15:33.990 --> 00:15:38.009 That's fun. How we want to, we want to break 285 00:15:38.070 --> 00:15:39.759 up travel stories? What do we want to? 286 00:15:39.769 --> 00:15:42.269 Yeah, let's do that. I just told you everything that's 287 00:15:42.309 --> 00:15:43.269 been going on in my mind. 288 00:15:44.899 --> 00:15:47.259 That's it. That's Kendall's whole last few weeks. Did you 289 00:15:47.299 --> 00:15:50.200 follow up? I'm so sorry, guys. I didn't listen last week. 290 00:15:50.220 --> 00:15:53.090 Did you follow up on turkey hunting stories? I mean, 291 00:15:53.409 --> 00:15:57.690 people want to get any birds, but it was great. Wonderful, 292 00:15:57.750 --> 00:16:05.389 beautiful time. Like my friends have gorgeous property. Saw a 293 00:16:05.529 --> 00:16:09.149 lot of deer or tripping over deer. It seemed a 294 00:16:09.169 --> 00:16:13.059 couple of times we were right next to their watering hole. Um, 295 00:16:13.620 --> 00:16:15.539 on one of the moments and it was just funny 296 00:16:15.620 --> 00:16:21.059 to see deer go from confused to like visibly frustrated 297 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:23.720 that we were there to like. 298 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:27.370 Them whining and running away. Like it was like, it's 299 00:16:27.429 --> 00:16:28.809 fun to watch nature. 300 00:16:28.830 --> 00:16:31.570 That's actually, I mean, that's a great way since you 301 00:16:31.590 --> 00:16:33.529 want to get into deer hunting, that's a great way 302 00:16:33.549

--> 00:16:35.919 to pick up on their body, like their body language 303 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:38.429 and like what they do when they're alerted and, when 304 00:16:38.450 --> 00:16:38.970 they have. 305 00:16:38.889 --> 00:16:40.769 No clue that you're there, like that's a good way 306 00:16:40.809 --> 00:16:42.850 to see the difference. A little bit of a confidence 307 00:16:42.870 --> 00:16:45.149 builder too. Like we weren't worried about covering up scent 308 00:16:45.210 --> 00:16:48.830 or anything like that. Like we weren't targeting deer, but 309 00:16:48.929 --> 00:16:53.480 we were on a couple of different occasions, clearly within 310 00:16:53.899 --> 00:16:57.740 shotgun range of a deer. So if I go out 311 00:16:57.779 --> 00:16:59.980 there and I'm worried about, am I going to be 312 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:01.720 able to be close enough? The answer is yeah. 313 00:17:02.220 --> 00:17:04.240 Week after Thanksgiving, Kendall will be there. 314 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:06.420 I'm hoping, I'm hoping so. 315 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:07.450 That's awesome, man. 316 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:11.079 It was wonderful. It was gorgeous. We also heard what 317 00:17:11.099 --> 00:17:13.559 I believe to be a screaming fox that was getting 318 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:16.660 killed by a coyote about probably about 20 yards away 319 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:19.599 from us at one point. So that was fun. It's 320 00:17:19.619 --> 00:17:20.299 fun to hear that. 321 00:17:21.779 --> 00:17:23.160 Ah, the sounds of nature. 322 00:17:23.460 --> 00:17:24.380 Yes, the sounds. 323 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:27.500 The trickling water from the deer's watering hole and the 324 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:30.539 sound of an animal being ripped apart by another. 325 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:36.490 Yep. Yeah. Dylan, how are the cornfields of Iowa? You 326 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:40.759 were there for like 33 hours, bell to bell. Yeah, yeah. 327 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:44.000 It was a last minute quick trip. Yeah, I did 328 00:17:44.019 --> 00:17:46.940 the math. Touchdown to takeoff. I was in Des Moines 329 00:17:46.980 --> 00:17:52.529 for 33 hours. And this was a nice trip. My 330 00:17:52.609 --> 00:17:55.269 company got acquired by a much bigger company. So we 331 00:17:55.289 --> 00:17:59.720 went to that company's HQ for some meetings and had 332 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.890 a nice time. Bit of a tale of two Uber drivers. 333 00:18:03.369 --> 00:18:08.250 Super lovely guy from the airport to the hotel from Burma. 334 00:18:08.710 --> 00:18:14.170 Heard about him and his family. Lovely Uber driver from 335 00:18:14.269 --> 00:18:18.549 hotel back to airport. We slow down at some point, 336 00:18:19.329 --> 00:18:21.759 you know, as we're going down some street. And he's like, hey, sir, 337 00:18:21.779 --> 00:18:23.819 I got to slow down a lot. They installed cameras. 338 00:18:24.420 --> 00:18:26.400 These lights people were street racing. I was like, oh, 339 00:18:26.460 --> 00:18:28.200 no worries. What are we going to do, man? I'm 340 00:18:28.220 --> 00:18:30.240 thinking I'm, you know, not in a rush. I'm the 341 00:18:30.259 --> 00:18:33.240 get to the airport two hours early person. That whole 342 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:35.980 social media trend of show up 15 minutes before couldn't 343 00:18:36.019 --> 00:18:38.160 do that. Even if I knew it would work out, 344 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:40.759 it would make me uncomfortable. So I'm thinking I got 345 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:43.960 tons of time. Des Moines airport's even smaller than Columbus. 346 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:45.660 Not going to be a problem to get in and out. 347 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:51.460 And then somehow we pivot to every extreme political talking point. 348 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:55.869 It's like he jumped right into, I know I probably 349 00:18:55.900 --> 00:18:58.269 shouldn't say this because I'm going to probably offend you, 350 00:18:58.369 --> 00:19:02.329 but blah, verbal diarrhea for the rest of the uber 351 00:19:02.349 --> 00:19:05.269 drive so tale of two uber drivers but had a 352 00:19:05.309 --> 00:19:09.250 nice time the company hq where i went we got 353 00:19:09.289 --> 00:19:10.970 an art tour because they have a bunch of art 354 00:19:11.009 --> 00:19:14.150 that was fun we went to a nice uh dinner 355 00:19:14.289 --> 00:19:17.950 that was lovely i'd never been to iowa before uh 356 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:20.240 so that was really cool because it was kind of 357 00:19:20.259 --> 00:19:23.819 last minute my boss was like hey just don't worry 358 00:19:23.859 --> 00:19:27.279 about the normal booking site just book within reason book 359 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:29.500 whatever flights you need to don't worry about the cost 360 00:19:29.539 --> 00:19:31.240 just like Do what you need to do to get 361 00:19:31.259 --> 00:19:35.819 yourself there for meetings. And so I didn't do first 362 00:19:35.859 --> 00:19:37.920 class or anything like that, but I did do all 363 00:19:37.940 --> 00:19:41.349 the upgrades to pick my seat. So I had a 364 00:19:41.369 --> 00:19:45.289 very nice, easy flight in, easy flight out. I think 365 00:19:45.390 --> 00:19:47.529 actually the first I went through O'Hare, I think the 366 00:19:47.609 --> 00:19:51.490 first leg, there was like nothing. seat open between me 367 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.319 and a person. And then O'Hare to Columbus, whole row 368 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:58.180 was open. And so that makes it nice, you know, 369 00:19:58.279 --> 00:20:00.619 because then you're not, I'm big, I'm big guy. I 370 00:20:00.619 --> 00:20:02.859 don't want to be, if I'm next to people, I'm 371 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:05.440 crossing my arms so that my arms aren't like on 372 00:20:05.460 --> 00:20:08.680 the armrests. And I'm like, I'm not man spreading. So 373 00:20:08.700 --> 00:20:11.359 my legs are out in front of me extended. So 374 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:13.559 I'm not like taking up half the aisle

or whatever. 375 00:20:13.619 --> 00:20:16.599 So that makes it about as nice of a trip as, 376 00:20:16.940 --> 00:20:19.059 as you can have. So it was good. It was 377 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:22.250 just very last minute, very quick. Uh, came back, uh, 378 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.710 in time for Halloween trick or treat in our neighborhood. Uh, 379 00:20:25.829 --> 00:20:27.309 so I was able to get back in time for that, 380 00:20:27.390 --> 00:20:30.630 which was lovely. Um, and so, yeah, so last week 381 00:20:30.650 --> 00:20:31.990 was a weird week when you guys were like, Hey, 382 00:20:32.009 --> 00:20:35.400 we're going to record. I'm like, probably not a good week. Uh, 383 00:20:35.410 --> 00:20:35.869 it's all good. 384 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:39.359 I'm curious, since you didn't mention the name of the company, 385 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:43.279 you can answer this question. How, you know, mergers and 386 00:20:43.339 --> 00:20:45.980 acquisitions is always a funny thing. I've been through like 387 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:48.839 three or four of them. I've been acquired. I've been 388 00:20:48.859 --> 00:20:50.940 the one doing the acquiring, not me, but like my 389 00:20:50.980 --> 00:20:53.650 company's been the one doing the acquiring. I've even been 390 00:20:53.670 --> 00:20:55.769 a part of something I didn't know was a term 391 00:20:55.789 --> 00:20:58.470 in M & A called a spin merge, where you 392 00:20:58.529 --> 00:21:00.750 spin off a part of your company, merge it with 393 00:21:00.809 --> 00:21:04.069 another and create a brand new company that didn't yet exist. 394 00:21:04.650 --> 00:21:07.220 Didn't know that was a thing. It's all people just 395 00:21:07.269 --> 00:21:08.509 trying to cook the books, I'm sure. 396 00:21:08.990 --> 00:21:09.690 But what. 397 00:21:11.309 --> 00:21:13.829 Since you've been acquired, you visited a much bigger company. 398 00:21:13.910 --> 00:21:16.750 What did that feel like culturally? Like when you got 399 00:21:17.049 --> 00:21:20.880 to their headquarters and just got to meet their people 400 00:21:20.980 --> 00:21:24.440 and see how they they operate compared to what you've experienced, 401 00:21:24.500 --> 00:21:27.559 like this really scrappy startup in the black, like in 402 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:29.880 its first year or two, hiring a lot of millennials 403 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:32.130 to much bigger company. 404 00:21:32.230 --> 00:21:33.990 What was that cultural experience? 405 00:21:35.089 --> 00:21:35.420 Yeah. 406 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:42.069 Observation-like. One thing that was interesting about where I've been 407 00:21:42.089 --> 00:21:45.490 is that people have described it as very Midwest nice. 408 00:21:47.630 --> 00:21:52.779 So like everyone's super smart that isn't named Dylan, super 409 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:59.960 smart people, really hardworking, really flat org with leadership. Like 410 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:02.180 you can shoot a message to the CEO and don't 411 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:06.470 need to think about any layers of whatever. And so 412 00:22:06.650 --> 00:22:10.230 I think I've interacted a few times with some folks, 413 00:22:10.309 --> 00:22:13.730 both in Columbus and now in Iowa. And I think 414 00:22:13.769 --> 00:22:16.849 that it's very, very much still the Midwest nice thing, 415 00:22:16.990 --> 00:22:19.089 which is lovely. Like, I think we kind of mesh 416 00:22:19.329 --> 00:22:22.470 really well there. But, you know, you can't go to 417 00:22:22.490 --> 00:22:26.400 a much, much, much larger company without feeling some of 418 00:22:26.460 --> 00:22:30.859 that hierarchy kind of already in place. Not in a 419 00:22:30.900 --> 00:22:32.920 bad way. I think there's some a little bit of 420 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:37.220 that as professionalism. where maybe we were very casual. Some 421 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:40.359 of that might be necessary with the size of the 422 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:45.400 whole thing. But a very relaxed office, but still a 423 00:22:45.420 --> 00:22:53.009 very professional, mature office. And so, you know, one thing 424 00:22:53.029 --> 00:22:55.329 that Corey, you'll appreciate is this is cool. We were 425 00:22:55.369 --> 00:22:57.690 doing the art tour. There's like five buildings. And so 426 00:22:57.710 --> 00:23:00.069 we're walking around different buildings, seeing all kinds of art. 427 00:23:00.970 --> 00:23:04.579 Kind of lost on me, but um, I appreciate the 428 00:23:04.740 --> 00:23:07.779 effort and time that people put in to like assemble 429 00:23:07.819 --> 00:23:10.000 this and display it and learn about it and talk 430 00:23:10.019 --> 00:23:13.000 about it. And so at one point we're in this 431 00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:17.769 hallway that has really tall four or five foot acrylic 432 00:23:17.890 --> 00:23:20.589 pieces that have, they've been like etched into, and there's 433 00:23:20.670 --> 00:23:23.490 lighting and shooting up into them and they're up on 434 00:23:23.529 --> 00:23:25.859 a wall and it's, You know, most of the hallways 435 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:29.799 are normal, like cream, white paint, whatever, with splashes every 436 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:32.460 now and then. There's a color wall for company colors. 437 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:36.279 And this wall is very dark because of this fixture 438 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:39.000 on it that's light. They want you to see whatever 439 00:23:39.079 --> 00:23:42.960 makes total sense. And so they were talking about how 440 00:23:43.029 --> 00:23:46.049 when they had this installed, they had to be really 441 00:23:46.089 --> 00:23:49.109 careful about which hallway they put it in and where. 442 00:23:49.859 --> 00:23:53.259 Because the company brand guideline says that you can't have 443 00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:57.799 too many different colored walls in a hallway in certain colors. 444 00:23:57.880 --> 00:24:02.720 And I went, oh, that's a level of like thought 445 00:24:02.769

--> 00:24:08.289 that's gone into things that I haven't experienced since probably Apple. 446 00:24:08.509 --> 00:24:12.690 Apple was very meticulous about, you know, this polished metal 447 00:24:12.789 --> 00:24:16.180 can't be pushed up against this wood stool because the, 448 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:18.920 you know, that's a level of that that I haven't. 449 00:24:19.309 --> 00:24:21.779 even heard anyone talk about in a long time. And 450 00:24:21.859 --> 00:24:24.559 so I don't think I wouldn't describe any of the 451 00:24:24.619 --> 00:24:29.559 people as anything but very nice, very relaxed, easy to 452 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:31.559 talk to, but like that kind of stuff that you 453 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:33.859 don't think about. Like they have a coffee shop that 454 00:24:33.900 --> 00:24:38.460 feels like it could be a New York, like Manhattan 455 00:24:38.539 --> 00:24:41.809 coffee shop on the corner. you know, with all kinds 456 00:24:41.849 --> 00:24:45.769 of snacks and chairs, like really nice, polished, clean, great looking, 457 00:24:45.890 --> 00:24:48.259 like just over there. Oh, if you want coffee, go 458 00:24:48.299 --> 00:24:50.619 grab it from one of the, so that level of 459 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:53.079 stuff is not something I've experienced in a long time. 460 00:24:53.140 --> 00:24:55.059 And I've worked for large companies. I worked for Apple, 461 00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:57.799 I worked for Bose, but I was never at their HQs. 462 00:24:58.099 --> 00:25:00.900 So this was a much different experience than I was 463 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:06.450 used to. So lovely experience, lovely people. But yeah, a 464 00:25:06.509 --> 00:25:10.920 different level of maturity than, you know, than I'm used to. Um, 465 00:25:11.380 --> 00:25:15.279 and it's nice, you know, it's feels grown up, you know, 466 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:19.400 there's not being, there's not beanbag chairs sitting around, uh, 467 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:23.400 with people in like tennis shoes and, you know, golf pants, 468 00:25:23.750 --> 00:25:26.789 nobody's sleeping under their mega desk. No one's sleeping under 469 00:25:26.809 --> 00:25:31.390 mega desk with a pre-pop. Yeah, exactly. So, uh, it 470 00:25:31.430 --> 00:25:33.970 was lovely. I'm I'll be back in February and then 471 00:25:34.269 --> 00:25:35.809 I'm going to be going to some more meetings with 472 00:25:35.859 --> 00:25:38.890 them probably in Florida in the spring. So, I'm looking 473 00:25:38.930 --> 00:25:40.569 forward to getting to meet more folks, but I think 474 00:25:40.589 --> 00:25:42.950 that was a guy more travel than you're used to 475 00:25:43.029 --> 00:25:43.710 travel guy. 476 00:25:43.730 --> 00:25:44.430 Yeah. 477 00:25:44.829 --> 00:25:47.029 Travel guy. As long as I can keep picking my 478 00:25:47.089 --> 00:25:49.119 own seat on flights, you can send me wherever you 479 00:25:49.130 --> 00:25:52.619 want me to go. Uh, but this is like, uh, 480 00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:54.619 you know, unlike where I've been for a while, this 481 00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:58.819 is like truly global. Like people casually talking about, Oh yeah. 482 00:25:58.839 --> 00:26:01.200 Our call center in India and they're building another one 483 00:26:01.259 --> 00:26:05.500 in this Indy. You're like, Oh, okay. Yeah. Scale much bigger. Uh, 484 00:26:06.819 --> 00:26:08.759 not stuff that I've thought about recently. Not that I'm 485 00:26:08.779 --> 00:26:13.380 going to India, but, um, certainly a different scale. So yeah, 486 00:26:13.460 --> 00:26:17.500 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, 488 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 490 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:28.259 you're doing, but also on board for a whole other 491 00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:31.160 job while you're doing the job you're doing. Uh, like 492 00:26:31.180 --> 00:26:32.960 you need to learn all this other new stuff and 493 00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:35.640 be in two systems. And so that part's been, been 494 00:26:35.660 --> 00:26:39.660 interesting to watch, but, overall very nice experience very nice people. 495 00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:44.559 But you survived the the the acquisition where you know 496 00:26:44.660 --> 00:26:48.059 sadly others didn't so we're thankful people are thankful that 497 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:49.920 you're still gainfully employed so. 498 00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:52.700 Yeah exactly you know there's bound to be some redundancies 499 00:26:53.099 --> 00:26:55.500 in uh an m & a game so as i'm 500 00:26:55.539 --> 00:26:58.660 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 502 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 504 00:27:05.329 --> 00:27:07.740 uber driver's I will say we went to a place 505 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:10.049 that was recommended to go for dinner and I'm blanking 506 00:27:10.109 --> 00:27:13.410 on the name. One of my colleagues talked me into 507 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 510 00:27:19.930 --> 00:27:20.970 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 513 00:27:27.730 --> 00:27:30.670 is I would probably have normally picked in an outing 514 00:27:30.710 --> 00:27:33.710 like that, a nicer dish that I wouldn't normally order 515 00:27:33.750 --> 00:27:39.230 for

myself. Versus, quote, just a burger, which I have 516 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 518 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. 521 00:27:58.230 --> 00:28:03.029 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 523 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 528 00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:30.259 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. 531 00:28:38.940 --> 00:28:40.059 Yes. 532 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:43.039 This is all thanks to an English teacher of mine 533 00:28:43.319 --> 00:28:46.420 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 536 00:28:58.750 --> 00:29:03.009 English teacher once taught our class. You know, you can't 537 00:29:03.069 --> 00:29:05.170 pick your seat. Well, you can pick your seat, but 538 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 540 00:29:11.430 --> 00:29:14.720 with me now to the point where it's like my 541 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 00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:23.779 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, 545 00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:32.950 especially for that particular airline, If they snicker to each 546 00:29:33.029 --> 00:29:35.589 other and there's this whole inside joke about picking your 547 00:29:35.630 --> 00:29:36.410 seat among them. 548 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 550 00:29:43.160 --> 00:29:46.640 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 00:29:56.170 --> 00:29:56.890 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, 557 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 559 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:13.839 call it select seat or seat selection. OK, I won't 560 00:30:13.980 --> 00:30:19.019 use Norm, pick a seat. but choose a seat uh 561 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:23.000 select a seat i picked it you know what blue 562 00:30:23.019 --> 00:30:25.480 collar roots i picked it real i'm from ohio we 563 00:30:25.500 --> 00:30:27.740 just pick our seats here you know what i mean 564 00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:31.339 do you remember our dad saying that do you remember 565 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 567 00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:41.420 just digging at our you know shorts or whatever and 568 00:30:41.460 --> 00:30:44.650 it'd be like you going to the movies And we'd 569 00:30:44.670 --> 00:30:47.069 be like, huh? And he'd go, well, you're picking your seat. 570 00:30:47.769 --> 00:30:51.029 Do you remember going to the movies? 571 00:30:51.529 --> 00:30:55.269 Boom, roasted. All the time, just scratching your bum. And 572 00:30:55.289 --> 00:30:56.910 he'd be like, going to the movies? Well, you're picking 573 00:30:56.930 --> 00:31:01.079 your seat. I don't remember that. It was Dad or 574 00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:04.619 Kevin or both. If you want humor like that, check 575 00:31:04.660 --> 00:31:07.539 out our podcast friends. They're going to tell you all 576 00:31:07.579 --> 00:31:10.839 about their show. They're a part of Odd Pods Media Network, 577 00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:12.460 just like we are. And they're going to tell you 578 00:31:12.500 --> 00:31:13.240 more about it right now. 579 00:31:13.869 --> 00:31:15.849 Is your popcorn ready? Then pull up a chair and 580 00:31:15.890 --> 00:31:19.450 join me, Robert Yanis Jr., at Crooked Table Productions, where 581 00:31:19.470 --> 00:31:22.009 we discuss the world of film from a fresh angle 582 00:31:22.190 --> 00:31:24.880 on two exciting shows. 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New episodes release every Thursday through your favorite 594 00:31:59.210 --> 00:32:04.410 podcast player or bfytwpod.com. We're also a founding member of 595 00:32:04.430 --> 00:32:07.049 the Odd Pods Media Network and would love for you 596 00:32:07.069 --> 00:32:08.190 to join us for some laughs. 597 00:32:16.539 --> 00:32:20.660 You know in an effort to uh shame my kids 598 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.180 against picking their noses in public i tell them that 599 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:25.269 they have to eat whatever they find that that's the. 600 00:32:25.230 --> 00:32:29.789 Rule has have any of them ever gotten excited when 601 00:32:29.809 --> 00:32:34.289 you say that not yet okay well that's good it's 602 00:32:34.329 --> 00:32:38.250 a fun game Yeah. Uh, Corey, were you traveling during Halloween? 603 00:32:38.470 --> 00:32:40.130 Did you make it back in time? I made it back. 604 00:32:40.230 --> 00:32:42.170 I made it back when we, when we, when I 605 00:32:42.210 --> 00:32:44.450 was last on, did I just, had I just gotten 606 00:32:44.490 --> 00:32:49.460 back from, um, uh, from the, the wedding in Colorado 607 00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:50.740 and like great Wolf Lodge. 608 00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:52.140 Yeah. Cause I had the ears on. Right. 609 00:32:52.220 --> 00:32:52.500 Yeah. 610 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, 612 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 616 00:33:16.779 --> 00:33:19.740 three restaurants inside their cafeteria. 617 00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:21.500 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. 620 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 626 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. 628 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. 630 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 00:34:04.230 --> 00:34:07.180 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 00:34:12.460 --> 00:34:15.010 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. 647 00:34:59.579 --> 00:35:03.489 Modeled after or inspired by a place in Chicago called Mr. 648 00:35:03.530 --> 00:35:03.829 Beef. 649 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. 654 00:35:21.539 --> 00:35:21.719 Beef. 655 00:35:22.650 --> 00:35:25.030 So I've got some photos or Dylan can pull up 656 00:35:25.230 --> 00:35:26.590 Google image search of Mr. 657 00:35:26.630 --> 00:35:26.869 Beef. 658 00:35:26.929 --> 00:35:29.949 But Stefan and I had a little bit of a 659 00:35:29.989 --> 00:35:32.360 break and I said, dude, I'm going to go get 660 00:35:32.389 --> 00:35:36.139 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, 662 00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:43.139 I don't even know necessarily

what makes Italian beef Italian 663 00:35:43.159 --> 00:35:45.519 beef other than the giardiniera. 664 00:35:45.820 --> 00:35:46.400 The peppers. 665 00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:48.409 You have the option to give her a give her 666 00:35:48.429 --> 00:35:48.869 a swim. 667 00:35:49.510 --> 00:35:49.750 Yep. 668 00:35:49.809 --> 00:35:50.539 You can dunk it. 669 00:35:51.059 --> 00:35:54.170 If you want it wet, sweet, wet and hot, wet, 670 00:35:54.389 --> 00:35:57.269 like all the dry and hot, dry and wet, all 671 00:35:57.289 --> 00:35:57.690 the things. 672 00:35:57.769 --> 00:36:06.500 Well, we're family friendly. But I will just say, I'm 673 00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:07.420 so glad I went. 674 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:09.280 I'm so glad that I thought of it. When I 675 00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:12.340 walked in, it was well after the lunch rush. They 676 00:36:12.389 --> 00:36:14.869 close at four. It's like an 11 to four place. 677 00:36:15.969 --> 00:36:17.730 And as soon as I walk in, because I'm the 678 00:36:17.769 --> 00:36:19.230 only guy in there, he's like, hey, guy, what do 679 00:36:19.250 --> 00:36:19.530 you want? 680 00:36:19.550 --> 00:36:20.650 What do you want? You want a hot? You want 681 00:36:20.690 --> 00:36:23.130 a wet? Hey, what's going on, guy? You freaking guy. Like, hey, 682 00:36:23.690 --> 00:36:25.349 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 684 00:36:28.550 --> 00:36:31.889 that the show depicted so well. It was that guy. 685 00:36:31.969 --> 00:36:36.219 That was the freaking guy. That was the guy. He's 686 00:36:36.260 --> 00:36:39.019 just yelling and he's loud and he's bebopping around. See 687 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. 689 00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:45.400 He's living his life to a rhythm, man. I love it. 690 00:36:46.219 --> 00:36:49.159 Exactly. And he's just he's doing five things at once. Like, 691 00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:51.860 it was awesome. The sandwich. 692 00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:55.539 Oh, I got I got it two different ways. I 693 00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:58.079 cut each one in half. So Stefan and I could 694 00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:01.610 try it each way. You could also get the combo, 695 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. 699 00:37:14.780 --> 00:37:17.639 My wife and I went to the same the same spot. 700 00:37:17.980 --> 00:37:18.280 Yes. 701 00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:21.480 And last year when we were there and it was 702 00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:24.840 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 704 00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:32.750 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, 706 00:37:37.989 --> 00:37:42.030 and so like, I made my wife go there with 707 00:37:42.130 --> 00:37:44.269 me so that she could get one. 708 00:37:46.530 --> 00:37:48.030 And tell you about it slowly. 709 00:37:48.369 --> 00:37:53.159 And she, she got it dipped so that like, held 710 00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:59.400 my mouth under juice out. Then she had, she got 711 00:37:59.420 --> 00:38:00.300 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 713 00:38:03.480 --> 00:38:06.579 that you started with. And pause right at the beginning, please. 714 00:38:08.219 --> 00:38:09.079 Pause right at the beginning. 715 00:38:09.179 --> 00:38:09.940 Okay, go back. 716 00:38:10.460 --> 00:38:14.760 See that bench? That's all grease. That's all the au 717 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 00:38:20.170 --> 00:38:20.429 it out. 720 00:38:20.969 --> 00:38:22.409 No. 721 00:38:22.429 --> 00:38:25.809 So they call it the Chicago lean if you get 722 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 724 00:38:31.469 --> 00:38:32.590 that bench and let it drip. 725 00:38:33.230 --> 00:38:33.449 Yeah. 726 00:38:34.530 --> 00:38:35.070 So good. 727 00:38:37.010 --> 00:38:37.329 Anyway. 728 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 1208 01:03:34.619 --> 01:03:36.300 it could be the u.s or the world doesn't matter 1209 01:03:36.360 --> 01:03:39.000 i think that'd be fun uh my other choice would 1210 01:03:39.039 --> 01:03:41.480 be like if america could really get on board with 1211 01:03:41.519 --> 01:03:44.980 cinco de mayo and then there's like taco and burrito 1212 01:03:45.019 --> 01:03:48.340 food trucks everywhere and people are just like people are 1213 01:03:48.380 --> 01:03:52.260 decorating decorating like it's a you know whatever we're just 1214 01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:54.980 a big fiesta uh that'd be great i'd be on 1215 01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:55.679 board with that. 1216 01:03:55.539 --> 01:04:00.480 Too to to rip go continue with the hispanic culture 1217 01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:02.739 dia de los muertos always looks really fun and i'm 1218 01:04:02.780 --> 01:04:04.860 kind of like a little jealous that we don't get 1219 01:04:04.900 --> 01:04:09.219 to celebrate our deceased loved ones uh with kalaka masks 1220 01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:13.329 and or kalaka masks and uh stuff like that uh 1221 01:04:13.929 --> 01:04:15.989 i do like the idea though of bringing some

like 1222 01:04:16.090 --> 01:04:20.690 more social fun interactive engagement to the ones that don't 1223 01:04:20.789 --> 01:04:24.269 currently have it like on purpose Thanksgiving is like, go 1224 01:04:24.289 --> 01:04:26.510 be with your family in one of y'all's houses, have 1225 01:04:26.530 --> 01:04:28.789 a crap ton of food and watch football. But it'd 1226 01:04:28.809 --> 01:04:31.610 be fun if there was some more like communal, like 1227 01:04:31.690 --> 01:04:34.940 social aspects of Thanksgiving that aren't, that I don't feel 1228 01:04:34.980 --> 01:04:36.619 like are there other than watching the parade. 1229 01:04:36.699 --> 01:04:39.980 Like what could we do? Maybe like a community football 1230 01:04:40.019 --> 01:04:43.119 game instead of just like a family football game on 1231 01:04:43.179 --> 01:04:45.940 Thanksgiving morning or something like that. But yeah, I'm going 1232 01:04:45.960 --> 01:04:47.000 to have to think on that. I kind of like 1233 01:04:47.019 --> 01:04:47.900 you guys' answers. 1234 01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:50.309 I just want to make sure. How about like a 1235 01:04:50.349 --> 01:04:52.190 communal football tournament? 1236 01:04:53.610 --> 01:04:54.510 Family on family. 1237 01:04:55.110 --> 01:05:00.449 Family on family. Championship Day is Thanksgiving. It's Thanksgiving Day 1238 01:05:00.829 --> 01:05:02.380 somewhere at a local park. 1239 01:05:03.489 --> 01:05:04.500 Like that, like that. 1240 01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:07.039 Everybody shows up and they do a chili cook-off. 1241 01:05:08.639 --> 01:05:10.440 Love it. Stuff to think about, Middlers. 1242 01:05:10.480 --> 01:05:12.719 We'd love to hear from you on any or all 1243 01:05:12.739 --> 01:05:15.280 of the subjects that we've covered tonight. Have you ever 1244 01:05:15.300 --> 01:05:17.320 been in a bathroom so long that the lights shut off? 1245 01:05:18.110 --> 01:05:20.610 What's the last place you visited that had good coffee 1246 01:05:20.670 --> 01:05:23.550 or good food? And what holiday do you think needs 1247 01:05:23.590 --> 01:05:24.130 an upgrade? 1248 01:05:24.530 --> 01:05:25.489 We need to hear from you. 1249 01:05:25.989 --> 01:05:28.789 Interaction is the favorite part of doing this silly podcast. 1250 01:05:29.250 --> 01:05:31.219 So please reach out. There's a ton of ways that 1251 01:05:31.260 --> 01:05:34.159 you can do that. This is your official call to action. 1252 01:05:34.840 --> 01:05:36.019 Go on social media. 1253 01:05:36.280 --> 01:05:39.679 Leave a comment underneath the YouTube video or underneath the 1254 01:05:39.780 --> 01:05:43.280 Instagram post once we post it. Uh, there's a phone 1255 01:05:43.340 --> 01:05:46.019 number that you can reach out. You can call, you 1256 01:05:46.039 --> 01:05:48.179 can text, you can leave a voicemail, you can weigh in, 1257 01:05:48.460 --> 01:05:51.340 or you can go to our Facebook group. Yes, we 1258 01:05:51.380 --> 01:05:54.969 still use Facebook along with your great aunt. Um, and 1259 01:05:55.010 --> 01:05:57.269 you can go to our Facebook group. It is called 1260 01:05:57.510 --> 01:05:58.690 from the middle for the middlers. 1261 01:05:58.730 --> 01:05:59.630 There's usually a. 1262 01:05:59.630 --> 01:06:02.250 Fair amount of engagement going on over there, which is 1263 01:06:02.289 --> 01:06:05.650 really fun. We would appreciate it because you are the favorite, 1264 01:06:06.150 --> 01:06:06.969 our favorite part. 1265 01:06:06.809 --> 01:06:09.380 Of doing this. Um, guys, anything else? 1266 01:06:10.280 --> 01:06:10.940 Yes, sir. 1267 01:06:11.929 --> 01:06:14.769 All right, we'll see you all next week on From 1268 01:06:14.809 --> 01:06:15.650 the Middle, probably.