Bloopers Episode

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Transcript

Phil Collins And Drummer Talk

SPEAKER_05 0:01

Our first call on the board.

SPEAKER_04 0:05

Hello, this is Mike.

SPEAKER_07 0:06

Hey Mike.

SPEAKER_05 0:08

Mike, oh down, Mike Mike go down. Mike oh down, Mike Mike go down. Mike oh down, Mike Mike go down. Mike go down. Hey, Mike go down.

SPEAKER_04 0:23

With the Phil Collins drum worth, yes.

SPEAKER_06 0:25

Oh yes. I actually watched uh the Phil Collins um uh well there's there's a thing on Dromeo. Is it drummeo there's a uh a thing on Amazon Prime. If you go to Amazon Prime and search Phil Collins, it's a drummer, it's there's a a drummer thing. Like it's all about drummers. And it's actually his son doing it, but they uh oh so there's a lot of drumming technique and you know drummer a million different bands that they kind of interview, and they're you know, I mean they're all talking about Phil Collins and stuff, and and they are interviewing him, he's there, but uh yeah, he yeah, it's uh if you're into music, you'll like it.

SPEAKER_04 1:12

Yeah, the um I haven't seen that, but I'll look for that. The um a lot of times with those documentaries, they're they're interviewing peers and yes, contemporaries and and uh you know people in the bus. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:26

It's cool though, you they actually have guys that you would not think like um uh they're they're like rap, you know, pe maybe not rap, but they're uh they're definitely soul type, not pop, not rock. Uh you know, uh there's uh a lot of alternative, a lot of like grunge, like those guys are talking about him and how great he was and that sort of thing. So yeah.

Recording Setup And Weird Acoustics

SPEAKER_04 1:53

Yeah. Um for the purposes of this, should I I'm at my desk, but um You need to be in the bathroom. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 2:03

Actually, we need a very echoey chamber. Yeah, we need an echoey chamber, so you need to be in the bathroom, you need to be uh the door needs to be shut, windows shut, heater on, and you need to be fully naked.

unknown 2:16

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 2:19

Don't ask why that helps.

SPEAKER_04 2:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 2:22

And then when you if you'll just do me a favor, when you get like that, just cough.

SPEAKER_04 2:35

Oh boy. The kitchen is fine, Mike. Okay. I just um my desk is at the front of the house and it overlooks the street, and there might be a truck noise driving. Oh, yeah. No, no, that's okay. I should move move to the back of the house.

SPEAKER_06 2:51

This is a real podcast.

SPEAKER_07 2:53

Yes, give some authenticity.

SPEAKER_06 2:54

Yes. Things happen in here that don't stay in here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:59

Remember your uh your spooky little arm yesterday, the podcast mic arm?

Getting Bumped And Monday Chaos

SPEAKER_06 3:05

Yesterday we're we're recording, and like you can hear that, I'm sure. That's that's me hitting the arm, or that's me hitting the table, right? But yesterday I just moved the arm. I didn't literally touch it, I just literally moved the arm, and it did like a Halloween, like Yeah, it was like a ghost. Never does that. Spooky spooky-ooky. All right, mica down. So listen, yesterday, uh, you got bumped. You were Jimmy Kendall's third guest, and and you uh took offense to it. In fact, I heard that you you threw out an F-bomb. And and here's what you didn't know. While you were doing that, while you were selfishly uh uh uh thinking only of your schedule, your timetable, how important you are, while you were doing that, we were recording a podcast about sound vision culture, and Michelle asked me who is the biggest rock star in the company, and I said, simultaneous to you saying F this, I said Mike O'Dowd. You sure did. That is on record. You will hear it. So yeah, feel bad.

SPEAKER_04 4:37

I do, I do, I yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

I am uh that's ridiculous, and it doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_06 4:43

I said that yesterday, actually, with Eric.

SPEAKER_04 4:48

Oh my gosh. All right, it was um yeah, yesterday is a bit challenging, so I was I know it was it was a Monday. It was it's it was certainly a Monday, and um I was I was keeping my eye on the clock and waiting for somebody to call me and when that didn't happen.

SPEAKER_06 5:02

It wasn't like yeah, I I we apologize about that. I'm I'm obviously being funny.

SPEAKER_04 5:08

I know. No, you're okay. I'm I'm all good.

SPEAKER_06 5:10

I just um I said just tell them to wait in the green room.

SPEAKER_04 5:14

Well, we've we've had an inordinate amount of calls come in. And so basically, three balls in the air I had yesterday were Jesse Knight, oh yeah, JGR, and Tamika at Bridgeford. It's like what?

SPEAKER_06 5:28

Oh my gosh, it's the all-star crew.

SPEAKER_04 5:31

It literally is Paul McGevin. It's like they all fit with old. I know. Let's call now. So, yeah, and um and then my guys, uh my guys, um the the service team of Alan and Ethan were digging up under a sidewalk to get a water where we needed it safe and to um and it was a it's a total go back. We're gonna we're gonna have to take care of that one ourselves, but yeah, we we ran a line and it failed, and the guy called us out on it, and we're like, well, we probably should have run it under the sidewalk, not through a crack.

SPEAKER_06 6:12

Oh, yeah. I've done that a handful of times, and that is brutal.

SPEAKER_04 6:20

And and and Alan, of course, it it it could only get better because there's a sprinkler pipe on each side of the sidewalk. And you know, it's a pathway, it's like it may be 30 inches wide. But they dug down, sprinkler pipe. Dug down the air side, sprinkler pipe, run in parallel to the path. Oh my. Yeah, so they're well it was a rough day for everybody.

SPEAKER_06 6:46

Well, uh I hope everything is is uh at least um in a stable state, especially with those three customers, because they are each and yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:56

Jesse's good, uh, and and they're at um, well, Alan is at JGR this morning. We had to bump a uh a client out a couple hours because they had an input fail. And they, of course, they're having an event today.

SPEAKER_06 7:10

Of course. Of course. All right, so before we get into this, because we do have limited time because we have a sales meeting coming up. Yeah, uh Andrew was looking up your phone number and I rattled off 313-6067, which doesn't sound all that impressive until you realize that I don't even know. I think I know my number and Kristen's number. I don't think I can name another number that doesn't deal with Kristen or I.

SPEAKER_07 7:36

Any anybody else's? I can't say that anymore.

SPEAKER_06 7:40

No, so I what I don't remember about it is why I remember that number. I know it was somebody else's. Was it Kyle Ray's?

SPEAKER_04 7:48

No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. So that number was original to um custom home integrations.

SPEAKER_06 8:00

I told Andrew it was one of the original ones, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 8:02

And it was it was assigned to me um when you gave me um a Nextel Blackberry.

SPEAKER_06 8:12

Well, wait a minute, wait a minute. Those are two different Nextel and Blackberry are different. There was Nextel and there was Blackberry.

SPEAKER_04 8:20

We had we had uh we had Blackberries. It was a Sprint Blackberry.

SPEAKER_06 8:24

I oh I a hundred percent remember the Blackberry. I remember both very, very well.

SPEAKER_04 8:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 8:29

Uh and I do remember getting Blackberries.

SPEAKER_04 8:32

I think it had a the button on it. But I could be low.

SPEAKER_06 8:37

You know what? Maybe Sprint did buy. I think Sprint bought both. Andrew, do you know what a Nexttel is?

SPEAKER_07 8:44

I've heard of it.

SPEAKER_06 8:45

Andrew doesn't know what a Nextel is. Do you know what a Blackberry is? Of course, yes. Okay. Have you seen the movie, by the way? The the movie about Blackberry. Uh what's it called? It's great.

SPEAKER_04 8:57

No, I don't think I have. I have not. Oh my gosh. Listen. Actually, I'm gonna try and at some point watch the Tetris movie, but okay.

Nextel Walkie Talkie Culture

SPEAKER_06 9:06

I've seen both of them. The Tetris movie is very, very, very, very good. It is well worth watching. Uh the BlackBerry movie is better. It's funny. It is so funny. It's real, and and I didn't know the entire story. You know, Blackberry basically completely blew it. They had the they were the dominant server. And and uh when Apple, when the original iPhone came out, and they literally said, We're not gonna get rid of the keyboard on the phone. And that was like the the beginning of the end. They had every carrier, they had everything. Uh and they also uh didn't want to outsource their product because it uh the of uh quality control. You you gotta watch the movie. It is fantastic, so good. Okay, got it. Uh and then but Nextel, so how when were you born, Andrew? 97. 97. 97. Okay, so Nextel was very popular in 97. Um, Nextel was a phone company, and Sprint origin Sprint did buy them. You're you're right, Mike. But originally it was the company was called Nextel. And it was a it they were flip phones, but when you closed the phone, well, I guess you could do it with it open too. But they also had a walkie-talkie in them built into them. What? It would go. And what was cool, and so you had two numbers. You had your phone number, which I think you're right, Mike. I think 3136067 was at one time a next hell number.

SPEAKER_04 10:42

Uh yeah, it was. I I kept the account.

SPEAKER_06 10:46

So that worked like a regular phone, you know, flip phone, regular phone. But then you also had a five-digit Nextel number, like 46789. Something like that. Yeah. And that was your Nextel number. Now there was in construction, that is the only way you communicated. You could not be in construction without a Nextel. Like, and what was cool is that it was like instant. So think of like uh verbal texts. So you would, you know, you would uh instead of calling you in a voicemail, like I would just button right on the side, and I would pull up your contact and I'd click it, and it would go to you immediately. And that is the way everybody in construction uh talked.

SPEAKER_07 11:32

Okay, so you press the button and you talk, and does it just go right output to the other person's phone? Yes.

SPEAKER_06 11:37

Yes, and as a matter of fact, I know Mike, you remember what was our code word.

SPEAKER_04 11:44

Oh my gosh. Oh my god. I oh, I don't remember that.

SPEAKER_06 11:51

So so what you found out fairly quickly is it was wide open. There was no there was no way to silence it. You couldn't like put it on you press the button and it's on. Yeah, you press the button and you would talk.

SPEAKER_07 12:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 12:05

And so the the the etiquette was I would press the button and it would, you know, your phone would go and you would see kind of call RD. You'd see who it is, and then you would then initiate the call back. You would talk to me, and then I would talk. Like I wouldn't just click and start talking. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 12:20

So you have to like accept it almost.

SPEAKER_06 12:22

You don't have to. That was just you could click and start talking. Okay, but the etiquette was I would click and then you would basically say yes, I can talk. So I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_04 12:30

Yeah, I basically you're waving in an announcement. Hey, hey, I need to talk to you. And then you pick up the phone and look at it and go, Oh, it's Mark, okay.

SPEAKER_06 12:40

But this became back. Yeah, that's right. And this was so ubiquitous, like very rarely did people actually call on the phone, much like a text. Okay. Yeah. The problem was it was open. So, like, you know, and you're not there, like you're you're a hundred miles away or a thousand miles away, or whatever, or five miles away.

SPEAKER_04 13:00

It was nationwide, it was nationwide coast to coast, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:03

Right. So, like, I don't know who you're standing with. So I'd start talking about you know, the Joneses, and you're standing with the Joneses, right? And that that happened. Uh-huh. So we came up with a code word, and you don't remember what it is, Mike?

SPEAKER_04 13:19

I do not. I do not. I'm I'm I'm thinking I don't remember it.

SPEAKER_06 13:24

Which is embarrassing for Mike because Mike was the project manager for this job, which we for this guy. It was Ryan. Ryan. Because we had Ryan Holmes. Oh. And Mike was the project manager for the production side of our first company. Yes, they were. And and essentially that was Ryan Holmes. I mean, we had a few others, but but basically it was 99% Ryan Holmes.

SPEAKER_04 13:49

Yeah, it was, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:50

So we decided that you would say anything about Ryan, it could be the Ryan Home, the Ryan's. Are you with Ryan? Like any version that you wanted to say where Ryan was in the sentence. That's that was basically like, hey, can we talk in private, or are you in private, or is someone around you that doesn't need to hear this, or whatever? That was our code.

SPEAKER_05 14:12

And so we used that for a couple of years.

SPEAKER_07 14:16

Now that's interesting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 14:22

Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_04 14:24

It was like it was like talking on a yeah, um, on a speakerphone.

unknown 14:27

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:28

Because it just it just blasted out of your speaker. And I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 14:32

Like it was really cool construction. It was far and away its biggest, biggest thing. No, nothing was even close. The other thing that people liked a lot was like for families for like little kids. Because you could get the phone and just have the next hell number, but not a phone number.

SPEAKER_07 14:46

Oh, for like the kids to have that, that right.

SPEAKER_06 14:49

So they would take that and you know, people that didn't want to have their their kids have a phone, they just gave them the next hell. So now they could still communicate with their friends if they all had next hells. Like you just needed the that five-digit number. But that was a good way to you could you do group on that? You could, couldn't you? Like, like multi-person. Mike?

SPEAKER_04 15:13

I think so.

SPEAKER_06 15:14

I think like if you had two kids, yeah, I think you could do that. I don't I don't remember, but I I think you could do that. So that was that was it. But then Sprint bought it, and I you know, I don't exactly know why it just it was like gone. Just disappeared.

SPEAKER_04 15:33

I think it was again the iPhone. I think the iPhone made it so easy to text. Because if you had a flip phone, remember you had you had a page and you had to use A, B, B. Yeah, press one three times for C. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 15:50

I think it was texting that probably killed it.

SPEAKER_04 15:52

Texting. Texting SMS took over, I think. Yeah, yeah, that's right. With a with a with a you know a touchpad, you know, screen full, you know, QWERTY keypad on keyboard on your screen. You could just and texting, I think, just took off.

SPEAKER_06 16:10

I I think that's right. I I actually struggle I know we need to start doing this, but I actually struggle with um remembering exactly when texting I I can't actually pinpoint exactly when texting started. I mean it is it is it around 2007, six, I think so.

SPEAKER_07 16:35

Is that about right? Yeah, I think so. That's around when I got like a flip phone. Um and yeah, you did the whole one, two, three, one, two, three.

SPEAKER_06 16:45

It was and then originally it wasn't texting, it was like messaging, right? Wasn't it called it was it called messaging originally?

SPEAKER_04 16:53

Yeah, well, there was eye messaging, but uh or just messaging.

SPEAKER_06 16:56

Oh, there was iMessaging. That's right. There was. But I think before that, like you had remember the the first, well, there was flip phones, and then there was the phone that you would turn like in the landscape mode, yeah, and and the thing would pop up and you'd have the whole keyboard there.

SPEAKER_07 17:12

Oh, that was like a like a Nokia Juper or something.

SPEAKER_06 17:16

Yeah, they remember that they had that for a while. Yeah, and then the Blackberry came out. And the Blackberry had like it was fatter, but it had the screen and the whole keyboard. Yeah, the whole keyboard, yeah. And then oh my god, we had I flipped out when the Blackberry came out. Like everyone had one at the time. The Blackberry was popular, the crackberry is what they were called. And because that was the first time that people started to get addicted to texting, it's it's hard to imagine anybody not being addicted to texting right now in today's world. But the back then, that was like the first time, and not everybody had it. That was the other thing. Yeah, like uh you know, name one person in your life. I actually know one person in my life that I went to high school with that does not have a phone, has never had a phone. Yes, yes, still to this day, still to well, as of a year ago, as of you, yeah. You have to email his wife if you want to get in touch with him, uh, or or his wife on or his daughter on Facebook. Uh but uh you know, back then not everybody had it. So it was kind of like COVID in a way, like it was uh, you know, it like when COVID started, it's it's kind of like, well, okay, yeah, there's some sick people. But not everybody, you know, it didn't touch everybody. It was back then, like you when you texted or or I messaged or messaging or whatever, you're like, well, I mean, that's cool, but I can't text Andrew. He doesn't have a you know, he doesn't have a texting device or whatever. So like, you know, all right, nice, um whatever. Like it's it's kind of a novelty. But then as it sort of that that uh what did they say with COVID when you got uh like so many people it's called uh hurt effect or what's that thing called? They were talking about like when a certain percentage of the population got it, it was um oh, what's it called? I can't remember what the dang term is, but anyways, it was like once there was uh critical mass, you know, sure, then all of a sudden it shifts from not everybody has it to let's just say it's 70% or 80%. Now 80% of people have it, so the other 20% of people have to get it. Right. Because it's so many people because every now you have to communicate that way. As before it was a novelty, it was cool to communicate that way. Now, like what do you mean you don't text? Yeah, what do you mean I can't text you? I'm not gonna call you all right. Yeah, we go off in the maybe it's I go off in these things.

SPEAKER_04 20:00

Well, it's fun to fun to recall these things.

SPEAKER_06 20:03

It is it's very fun to recall these things.

SPEAKER_04 20:05

It's a shared experience, you know. And and us trying, you know, us trying to explain it to Andrew.

SPEAKER_06 20:10

It is amazing that you don't know what Nextel is. Oh, it's not even that long ago.

SPEAKER_04 20:16

Yeah, and it doesn't seem like that long ago to Mark and I. It's just you know four years ago.

Phone Detox And FOMO

SPEAKER_06 20:21

To me, I'm like, what the actually when in our first company, Custom Home Integrations, doing this, that's what we all had. Well, that's where Ryan, the Ryan code went. That's right. That's right. That's what we all had. That's how we all communicated on the job sites and stuff. And yeah, and I've never dealt with that. All right. Um, one little one last little thing that we can with Nextel. I I was uh I was a sales rep at Ryan. I was working in Harbor Cove right on on uh Williamson Road, and I decided that I was too addicted to my phone. And I said, uh, okay, I'm gonna go a month. I'm gonna turn the phone. It was actually Nextel phone. I said, I'm gonna turn the phone off for a month. I'm gonna see if I can live with a month without the phone. So I literally put the phone in the office desk drawer in the model in on in Harbor Cove and I turned the service off. I called him and I was like, Yeah, I want to turn my service off. And once they stopped laughing, uh and I I did. I went 30 days without the phone. And how was it? You know, I it actually um it was now this is let's call this 2008 no, it was before that. It was but probably early 2000s. Uh so it was not as you know, like necessary, yeah. But uh but it was inconvenient uh because of Nextel and stuff. Uh and so I after about a week, it was kind of nice. Like I I really I didn't have any distractions. I didn't have and and at the end of the month when I turned it back on, I wasn't like dying to turn it back on. I I did turn it back on, obviously. But and and for a couple days it was I didn't use it nearly as much and then you know then I'm back into it.

SPEAKER_07 22:05

Nowadays, God, like everything you do is on there.

SPEAKER_06 22:09

You like drop it for five minutes and yeah, can I say and this is me, and I I think it's every well, it's not everybody. I think it's a lot of people. It's definitely me. I can't like leave the room without it. Like if I leave the room and I recognize that I don't have my phone, I walk back and find my phone.

SPEAKER_07 22:29

Yeah, we were just talking about this, and I totally agree. I'm the same way. It's you it's almost like I feel naked. Like, what is it?

SPEAKER_04 22:37

No, it's it's true, because it's it's it's F O M A. It's fear missing out. It's exactly for me, you know, during the day, it's like uh did somebody call? Is one of the guys looking for me? Is you know, is our client looking for me? And then in the evenings, it's like what's on what's on Facebook? What's on WhatsApp? Exactly. Um what's on Instagram?

SPEAKER_06 23:01

You know, I want the stats of the game I'm watching. I want, you know, uh oh my gosh, it just goes on and on and on. And now, now I'm uh like it's almost chat exclusively. I don't care what I'm doing. I mean, uh taking a picture of the cappuccino machine to tell have it tell me how to do it. Uh, you know, um I I'm I'm even thinking about a song or something like what what is that song? And I just hum the stuff into it, and it find it's just crazy the stuff you can do. Crazy. So, all right, let's get into this, Michael Dowd. Okay, okay. So, Andrew set it up.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

What are we tell us what we're gonna do here? So, far enough in, I I do not understand.

SPEAKER_06 24:44

Well, I mean, I I'm just I could say I do not understand dot dot dot, and then we could just end it. But if you wanted to get specific not that specific, um I don't understand why I guess you have to have that kind of money to even people that like have so much um I don't even know if this is probably not even analogous, but like I've always thought the reason there's this huge drug problem in like uh music or and or like athletics is because you give these people in a lot of cases that don't really have any kind of education, you know, they have an extreme talent, but they have no education. You give them like a ton of money that that they they actually can spend all of and do. They do, yeah. But they but they don't think they can. And and you know, you buy a car or 10, and then you buy a house or four or ten, and then you still have money left over, and what do you do? So you find something that is really expensive that you have to keep buying. Like drugs, the the you know, the thing about them is you they're expensive. Well, I actually don't even know what they're expecting. Expensive and addictive. And addictive, and they run out, and then you gotta buy them again and again and again and again. And so I don't so I think there's all kinds of like way too much money spent on stuff. But but now if you get these guys, it's primarily guys, although that the his what I don't what was she? What is she? She's not his girlfriend, he's kind of his vice president, whatever. You get these people that have so much money that they I like where do you start? When do you go, you know, and you and you talk about like young kids, like where does that come in?

SPEAKER_07 26:46

Well, you know, they say this happens a lot with like child actors too. It's again people without a lot of education or life experience, you're throwing all this money at them, inviting them to all these parties, like now you're like in the group, you know, and that's I feel like where it becomes a trap when you start getting in that party scene, because with parties comes favors.

SPEAKER_06 27:08

I'm not naive that I don't agree with that, but I I I don't know where the young I I just don't understand.

SPEAKER_07 27:19

I don't know why are you doing drugs?

SPEAKER_06 27:23

And the whole I'm I'm hung up on the young kid part. Like I'm very hung up on that because I mean I'm I it I just don't understand. I don't understand. Misguidance, trying to fit in, be cool. Oh no, I'm not talking about the kids. I'm talking about the adult. I'm talking about Jeffrey Epstein. Oh I'm talking about like the the adults, the people in that world that own islands and and whatnot, and they and I mean he's you know incredibly successful and he and and what has everything in the world that he but what is it about the whole you know young um people thing that is like it's attracting them? Yes. Well why when do you go? I mean, it's just sick to even think about. Like, when do you go? Oh well, you know, here you know, I don't I don't like the 30-year-old woman or man or whatever. Like I I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 28:28

Well, it's awful. I feel like with that too, it's like the whole power dynamic, too, of feeding off the the weak younger kids who are a little naive, show them a good time, then all of a sudden they're yours. You've trapped them. Or they've got them totally addicted to drugs, and now they are like under their spell.

Good And Evil Warehouse Story

SPEAKER_06 28:48

It is, man, there is there is definitely a devil in the world. Oh yes. There's definitely a devil in the world. Uh Man Oh man, oh, it's yeah, it's awful. It is awful. I there is a there was a um there was an audio video company. They're they're no longer around. Um they sold, so they were they they did fun. But they had like uh five or six locations, and they had their shipping location was right outside of Raleigh's in Durham. And they had a warehouse and a you know, office space. Yeah. And they would they would get uh like a tractor trailer uh a week or well, no, actually, probably a little more. This is when TVs were huge and big boxes and stuff, and so they'd be and the buyer, uh, old friend of mine, he he said, he told me the story one time. He goes, Well, he goes, Let me tell you, um talking about um, and he was Jewish, and and he goes, but talking about like good and evil in the world, uh so we have a um a strip mall that um that we own and we rent out you know, like our stores in one of the things, then we rent out the rest of it. Yeah. And one of the places was a Christian bookstore. And he said the Christian bookstore would come on January 1st and pay their rent in cash for the year every year. Oh cash? That's weird. Yeah, that is weird. But even okay, so there's the cash thing, or you're gonna pay taxes. I get that. But uh, but just the if you just stay with the they have enough money to pay the whole year on January 1st, right? And he said, and the other where so they're in this, uh they were in like an industrial place like uh like this, but just bigger building. And he goes, the uh the other warehouse in this building uh is Adam and Eve. Oh, like now this is like there's no signage. This is just like like coming in here. Like there's no so Adam and Eve. So to give you an idea, we get like one or two semis a week for our product to service, you know, the oh no, it was a day. It was a day. We get one to two semis a day to service our six stores. They get 10 to 12 a day. Adam and Eve a day. And and he goes, Wow, and and again, this is back in the 90s. So he was like, now imagine like we have huge TVs, big box TVs. So you'd imagine what a semi- now that's not the only thing they have, but they have a lot of boxes, it's the same stuff we get. Yeah, so a lot of boxes. They don't have real big boxes. No, those little tiny undies and the handcuffs don't take a lot of 10 to 12 a day every day. Wow. Yeah, so you said, yeah, that's the there's the good and evil in the world, anyways. Adam and Eve. Probably shouldn't add this to any of the bloopers.

SPEAKER_07 31:51

Um okay, where are we going, Andrew?

SPEAKER_06 31:54

Glasses are on, I'm ready to go.

SPEAKER_07 31:56

Do you want to start with the 15 years of sound vision?

SPEAKER_06 32:01

Yes. Talk just like you were talking to me a second ago. Like exactly the same way. Just do that. Because this will be good. This is a good back and forth. All right, let's do it. All right. We're gonna try to follow this. Um, I need you to kind of I I can't I try to look at that, but it's I can't really see it great. So, I mean, I could probably do watch it. I'll do a stopwatch on here just so we're we're watching it. Michelle was okay with the website on Monday.

SPEAKER_07 32:34

So I did just talk to her.

SPEAKER_06 32:36

I know, I did too.

SPEAKER_07 32:38

So we're gonna try uh either the end of the day, Friday, because she said the morning she's gonna have a lot of meetings on Fridays and catching up. Um, and if not Monday, we'll go because we have to get the domain transfer and there's a lot of like just important.

SPEAKER_06 32:53

Password reset. Yeah. She told me, she said we'll be in on Friday, so we're gonna do it on Friday. Okay, cool. All right, so I'm gonna be watching as well. All right, let's so there's gonna be back and forth, Andrew. All right, not just a back, there's a back and a fourth.

SPEAKER_07 33:08

Alright. Okay. Fifteen years of sound vision. What an incredible No, I don't like that, no.

SPEAKER_06 33:22

That was actually pretty good.

unknown 33:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 33:25

All right, I'm gonna go to stop and reset and start.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

All right, my three and three buddy is in here today. That's ridiculous, and it doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_07 34:48

Yeah.

unknown 34:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:50

Um Houston saved me from being in the bottom of the barrel by myself.

SPEAKER_06 34:55

So uh I actually I only I I did watch the Panthers game, and then I watched parts of the other games. I think I saw the end well, I definitely saw the end of the Buffalo game. I definitely saw the end of the Philly San Francisco game. Uh I did not see one second of the Patriot uh uh game, which was awesome because it sucked.

SPEAKER_02 35:18

Yes, and then except for one sack was absolutely amazing. The guy came right through the middle, wrapped up Herbert, nobody was around, wrapped up, slammed him to the ground. Like it was it was a pinnacle sack. That was the best point of that game.

SPEAKER_06 35:34

Throwing him around like a ragdoll. Yes, Rocky Four reference. Um yeah, so I like the last night. The I I I was watching the hurricanes, and then after before going to bed, I was watching a whole football game. It was not even like a game. I mean, the Steelers suck. They're terrible. I mean, I thought the Panthers are Panthers are terrible. No offense, Panthers. But the but uh like we're mildly they're just not maybe they're good, but not competitive with Houston, because it was embarrassing.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

The only reason Houston won was their defense. Their offense did absolutely nothing last night.

SPEAKER_06 36:11

Well, and we were so so we watch so I watch the all the Keynes games, and we have a group chat with about six or seven of us, and one of us, one of the guys is a buddy of mine from high school, college, and he's just a humongous football fan. Also a huge cage fan. So, like during the the Keynes chat, he goes, by the way, football update. And he says, I'm sorry, uh, it's shit. I just forgot his name. Who's the quarterback for Houston?

SPEAKER_02 36:38

For Houston is um oh god, the guy we were supposed to draft.

SPEAKER_06 36:41

Yeah. Uh Michael Pennick, I know he's in Atlanta.

SPEAKER_02 36:45

I'm trying to think of um Sh uh sh no, not Schau.

SPEAKER_06 36:49

From Ohio State.

SPEAKER_02 36:51

Whatever his name is, doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_06 36:52

Good matter. He's like uh he's uh he's fumbled four times, he's lost two of them, he's throwing an interception. I'm like, wow! Well, at least it's exciting.

SPEAKER_02 37:03

They're his center was throwing the ball willy-nilly. Like a lot of the fumbles were not him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What are those? At one point he was standing there and the ball came winging past his head. He wasn't even like doing a count. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_06 37:17

Anyways, yes. That's not what we're in here for, uh, Andrew. You need to you need to take control, big dog. Not let us just go willy-nilly. Throwing him around like a ragdoll.

SPEAKER_07 37:30

You're having fun.

SPEAKER_06 37:31

Have you seen Rocky Four? You've never seen Rocky Four? No. Would is it? It probably was not no, no, no. It's that I'm gonna say something, and I know I'm wrong when I say it. It is not the movie that brought into basically a movie is just a uh music video. Because there was a lot of 80s movies, Breakfast Club and stuff like that, where the music is not only integral, it was like almost like you were watching a video during the movie. It's the montage. It's the montage, yes. Yes, but I think Rocky IV took it to like a completely different level because I can't remember another movie before it that it was essentially like 70 to 80 percent of the movie is played behind music that you know makes it feel like it's a video. Is that fair?

SPEAKER_02 38:24

I'm trying to remember which one four is.

SPEAKER_06 38:26

Uh Ivan Drago, I must be. That's four? Yeah, that's four.

SPEAKER_02 38:30

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly that was the greatest montage in the history of 80s movies.

SPEAKER_06 38:35

And if you and that is a workout scene, at least worth seeing. Man, I don't you know what's funny about that movie, and since you haven't seen this, Andrew, and you're looking like you're so interested in me about to tell you this. In that movie, one of the one of the the sort of the things, it was very political, and one of the things was Avendrago, um, Dolph Lundgren is Russian. And behind the scenes, the it's like he's taking steroids, but like they're saying he's all natural and everything, right? And then there's this one scene where they have like a needle and it's going into his arm, you know, like the needle steroid thing. And I'm thinking, that's hilarious because Stallone's been on steroids for like 65 years. Talk about hypocritical. So, and another little one aside that we gotta move on. But um, in that movie, one thing that did happen, I don't know if you know this. Uh Dolph Lundgren actually knocked out Stallone. He had to go to the hospital, was in the hospital for like a week or two or something.

SPEAKER_02 39:33

I did know that, yep. He hit him so hard.

SPEAKER_05 39:36

He hit him so hard, he literally knocked him out. Damn.

SPEAKER_02 39:41

Okay.

unknown 39:43

Damn.

SPEAKER_06 39:44

Get control of this train, Andrew.

SPEAKER_02 39:46

I feel like there's like two people in this company you can get control of, Mark, and you're not one of them.

Lighting Control Vs Lighting Design

SPEAKER_06 39:53

That is not true. Which one are we doing first?

SPEAKER_07 39:57

Uh let's start with lighting control and lighting design.

SPEAKER_06 40:00

Andrew sounds way excited right now. Yes.

SPEAKER_07 40:04

Yes, can't you tell?

unknown 40:06

I can.

SPEAKER_07 40:10

Um, okay.

SPEAKER_02 40:12

This seems like a rushed endeavor.

SPEAKER_06 40:16

A rushed endeavor.

SPEAKER_02 40:18

Because I was brought into this this morning, and then 15 minutes ago, Michelle didn't like the content. So it just it to me, it just seems like this is a not ready situation if I've ever seen one.

SPEAKER_06 40:30

Oh, we're just gonna do one. We'll just do one, see how it goes. Okay. We're just in the boys' club room right now. Dog pound.

SPEAKER_05 40:46

Metro Bistro.

SPEAKER_07 40:48

Oh god. Okay, so we're gonna discuss today the difference between lighting control and lighting design. Um, some key points. We have so basically it's focusing on um fixtures.

SPEAKER_05 41:09

Yeah, no, no, we got it. We're good. Just let us roll.

SPEAKER_07 41:13

Let's talk lighting then, guys.

SPEAKER_06 42:44

Most women do this. Um, they like to put on lotion. It's a lotion thing. And you know, that could be hand lotion, that could be like in Chris's case, when we we have this joke about my legs are ashy.

SPEAKER_03 42:59

That's a thing. Yeah, that's a thing.

SPEAKER_06 43:02

So she she puts lotion on her legs, and I I don't know why. Like, I didn't mean to do this, but in a closed space, like a car, and you're putting lotion on, I literally get an instant headache. And I don't get headaches very often at all. Um, truth, I mean, God, thank you. Uh I don't get headaches, but man, it like it's a scented lotion? This was uh this was uh the the most recent one, yes, but the most recent one was um uh uh not not suntan lotion, um sunscreen. Even that smell gives you a headache? Not usually. I actually like that smell, but yeah, oh my god, and she gets so well it no, it not not a headache. Let's see by the end of the podcast. Oh my god, yeah. If we get if we get real short. But the like uh she gets mad. Well, she literally gets mad at me for getting headed. Oh no. The dramatics. Dude drama. We call it dude drama.

SPEAKER_03 44:12

That would be a good that'd be a good channel to listen to.

SPEAKER_06 44:17

Dude drama. You know, sports, for example. Again, that that is not being chauvinistic. I know there's plenty of women that that in fact you may be one that that are very um invested in sports. But in general, in general speaking, uh, or let me not say in general speaking, in my family speaking, the the the average woman is not um the only interest they have in sports is the fact that they can go shopping um and we're for New Jersey. Well, no, no, no, not for the sport, not for the sport. They can go shopping because we'll we're watching sports, and so they're like, we can get away. It's like it's like a release. That's the only care they have. But when we're watching uh sports, um yeah, she'll she'll say, Man, yeah, that's dude drama. Because again, I understand it's not everybody, but in our family it is. And they're like, Man, it'd be nice if you were passionate about other stuff. Anyway, so we're back to the getting on the fight of the uh of the lotion. Yeah, the lotion. And she always does that too, if you haven't seen Silence of the Lambs. He rubs the lotion on I don't think I've seen that one. You've never seen Silence of the Lambs?

SPEAKER_03 45:30

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_07 45:31

Holy You've seen Silence of the Lambs. Many, many years ago.

SPEAKER_06 45:35

Oh, I thought you were gonna say many times. No, it's your favorite movie. That actually is one of Chris's favorite movies. And the dude Yeah, and the dude that is um uh Buffalo Bob. Uh that guy was the I'm dating myself. Do you know who Monk? Do you know the show Monk? You never saw Tony Shaloub?

unknown 45:56

No.

SPEAKER_08 45:56

No, the name sounds familiar.

SPEAKER_06 45:58

It's a cool little detective. It's funny, and it's like murder mystery kind of, but funny. And the the guy that's the uh um Buffalo Bob is the uh is the police chief in the show.

SPEAKER_07 46:08

No one there.

SPEAKER_06 46:09

So yeah, anyway, so we're way off topic already.

SPEAKER_03 46:13

It's okay. We're does this scent is it too strong?

SPEAKER_06 46:16

I what I what happened, Andrew, so that you're no you know you're in on the the secret or the joke, is I came in yesterday. Nobody was here. I I came in, it was either first or maybe somebody was in the back. I know the answer. And I noticed that I was like, wow, this place just smells like perfume. And so when Sydney came up, by the way.

SPEAKER_05 46:38

Hello, Sydney!

SPEAKER_03 46:40

How you're gonna open up the podcast?

SPEAKER_06 46:42

Oh, 100%. In fact, it should be a button, like like Eric's button.

SPEAKER_01 46:47

That's ridiculous, and it doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_06 46:50

Yeah, he has his own button. Got his own button. Uh Sydney came up to the conference room and we were talking, and I was like, it it's either, in fact, ironic. It's either you, your perfume, or Eric's. I'm not sure which one, but it's not either.

SPEAKER_03 47:09

This place is new air fresheners. Are there really new air fresheners? Yes. Oh, wait. There's one sitting here and there's one up front.

SPEAKER_07 47:17

The tall ones, yes. And they are nice and strong.

SPEAKER_03 47:20

It is not strong.

SPEAKER_07 47:23

They're nice and strong.

SPEAKER_03 47:24

It's neither of us. It is the new air.

SPEAKER_07 47:27

Who got the air fresheners?

SPEAKER_03 47:28

I have no idea. I think Michelle.

SPEAKER_07 47:29

She always refills those.

SPEAKER_06 47:32

Do you know that when Michelle, when we first hired Michelle, Michelle had worked for two other integrators before. Okay. And the last one that she worked for, both both dudes are um are a little off. Now, I mean, we're all a little off, let's be honest, but uh they're they're a little there's some stories. Anyways, uh they care about she she asked if she could buy if I need if if I needed to approve her buying um uh sundries, uh like bathroom products. Oh toilet paper, you know, bathroom products.

SPEAKER_08 48:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 48:11

And I was like, what? Why are you gonna ask you? You asked just do it. And because she because she got in trouble uh previously for for purchasing uh bathroom products.

SPEAKER_07 48:24

Supplies for the team to utilize robotically function.

SPEAKER_06 48:27

Yeah, now now I don't know if it's I don't remember if it was toilet paper. I think it was more like well, it was just bathroom products in general. So tablets. I'm like, look, man, we we gotta do that. We gotta go over that. Like we we got different problems.

SPEAKER_07 48:39

We got a problem.

SPEAKER_06 48:41

So, anyways. All right, so you're already in, you got it. So the couple couple things. No, I don't talk close enough. Yeah, you want to get so like this? You want to be inside of that? Okay, and you hear how it sounds right now?

SPEAKER_03 48:54

Yep.

unknown 48:54

And you hear how it sounds right now?

SPEAKER_03 48:56

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 48:56

That's why you want to be here? Because that's how it sounds on the radio, or you know, whatever they call that, wherever people are streaming. Or now podcasts.

SPEAKER_03 49:05

There's no more radio, it's just podcasts. No, there's no more radio.

SPEAKER_07 49:08

It's I so I listen to the radio, but I don't listen to the radio. I listen to their podcast once they post it after the show is done.

SPEAKER_03 49:15

There you go.

SPEAKER_07 49:16

Do you really? All the radio stations do that now. What? Yeah, like they'll post their show after it's uh over.

SPEAKER_03 49:26

Like a serious XM type deal?

SPEAKER_06 49:28

Or no, like a like a Mix 107.5 or whatever tier in 10, 99.7 the Fox or something.

unknown 49:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 49:35

They why do they even do that? Um, so if you miss the show or want to catch up with anything, you can find it. And you know, okay, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 49:44

Yeah, we'll have conversations that you may want to go back and listen to, or not or and it's a moneymaker on a separate end.

SPEAKER_06 49:52

Exactly. I 100% agree. I I don't know how it's a moneymaker exactly, unless you just bringing yeah, more views, listens, and then that can then translate into social media ratings, and then you get dollars from social media, yeah. I I guess. But but you could argue that if you're listening to the rebroadcast, you're not listening to the live broadcast. Correct. Because you can only listen to one thing, once live broadcast. So, yeah, that's all right. Well, that's that's crazy. Okay, so we're we've got our where we're gonna talk. Yeah, um, you also notice that all the noises pick up. Yeah, and it happens pretty regularly, usually by me. Uh, but uh you want to just try to minimize that as much as possible. Just sit on my hands and don't touch anything. Uh and then the other thing is when you screw up, because we all screw up.

SPEAKER_03 50:46

Yep. I had to take pauses last time we did this. I was like, pause, I need to regroup myself.

SPEAKER_06 50:50

Yep, just pregnant pause it and make it a little uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_03 50:54

Pregnant pause.

SPEAKER_06 50:55

Pregnant pause, yeah, like more than a second, less than five, so that Andrew, it's easier to edit. Chop.

SPEAKER_03 51:01

I've never heard that saying before.

SPEAKER_06 51:04

You've never heard of pregnant pause?

SPEAKER_03 51:06

No.

SPEAKER_06 51:07

God, how young are you? You have never heard of pregnant pause?

SPEAKER_03 51:12

I've never heard someone say that. Yeah, that's we'd make sense.

SPEAKER_06 51:15

It's just awkward, like it's it's just you know, long enough to be awkward.

SPEAKER_03 51:20

Just the loading.

SPEAKER_06 51:22

Yeah. So that's it. Okay, cool. All right. I probably should read this.

SPEAKER_07 51:29

Maybe. Yeah, just going over kind of introducing Sydney, get a little bit of her background, how she got here, what she does here.

unknown 51:38

And yeah.

SPEAKER_06 51:39

Uh oh, one uh uh just so you know, because we'll we'll be talking, and so naturally we would kind of look at each other while we're talking, but you're gonna be talking and I'm gonna be doing this. Okay. So just act like it's there's no video.

SPEAKER_03 51:52

They don't know that I'm doing that. They don't know we're not staring at each other in the channel. That's exactly right.

SPEAKER_06 51:57

So don't don't feel that it's weird.

SPEAKER_03 51:59

It's like a little script.

unknown 52:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:02

I like wrote all my answers now. I feel like I was filling out. I saw that. Just some chicken scratch.

SPEAKER_06 52:08

Anything you do want to talk about, anything you don't want to talk about?

SPEAKER_03 52:13

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_06 52:15

Like literally nothing's off limit. I can talk to you about your dad and because I want to hear about that. Yeah. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_03 52:20

You should have seen them last night. Did you watch the game last night? The Tech Auburn game? Georgia Tech Auburn baseball.

SPEAKER_06 52:27

No, why no, why would I be watching Georgia Tech and Auburn baseball? It's a great. Hurricanes were on. There we go.

SPEAKER_03 52:35

Um, do you have YouTube TV? There's split screen. I I do. I do, and I like the split screen. See?

SPEAKER_06 52:40

Could have been it too. But uh okay, here's the obvious question. I thought he coached Georgia. Why would I be watching Georgia Tech?

SPEAKER_03 52:49

So he did coach at Georgia. He was let go about three years ago.

SPEAKER_06 52:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 52:54

And now he well, he took a year off because he was still on contract.

SPEAKER_06 52:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 52:59

He's still on contract as of this year, and now he's an assistant baseball coach at Georgia Tech. Oh, the scandal. The drama.

SPEAKER_06 53:08

The dude drama.

SPEAKER_03 53:09

Dude drama. There it is. Oh, but he was having a ball last night. They whooped Auburn's butt.

SPEAKER_06 53:15

Gotcha. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 53:17

Run ruled him.

SPEAKER_06 53:18

As an assistant. There's a run rule in college?

SPEAKER_03 53:21

Oh, yeah. You get 11 runs. Really? You're up by 11. You have to agree to- There's a mercy rule. You have to agree to it before the game starts.

unknown 53:29

You have to agree.

SPEAKER_03 53:30

You have to agree. You would be like, are we going to play run rule? Yes or no? It is a big thing.

SPEAKER_06 53:36

Why would any okay? Here's dude drama. Also, why would any? I mean, we're talking about Division I college. We're not talking about like, they're not playing Sacred Heart. They're playing Auburn. Why would any Division I men's, maybe women's too. I only know men's. Why would any Division I men's sports team playing another Division I men's sports team look each other in the eye and go, yeah, you might beat us 11-0. So we're going to do the mercy rule.

SPEAKER_03 54:04

All the time. Way more than you'd ever think.

SPEAKER_06 54:07

Well, maybe it happens, but I wouldn't agree to it. I'd want to get beat 40 to nothing because I'd want those guys to go, yeah, um, we probably need to practice.

SPEAKER_03 54:16

Well, the reason that's put in place is because there are typically flights booked far in advance, and they're like, Well, we got to get to our flight. The game has to end at a certain time. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 54:26

All right.

SPEAKER_03 54:26

So that's that's one reason.

SPEAKER_07 54:28

The behind the scenes T.

SPEAKER_06 54:30

Yep. Man, oh man, oh man. Interesting.

Scream 7 Review And Pop Culture

SPEAKER_07 54:33

All right.

SPEAKER_06 54:34

All right, Sydney. Do you want to do it? Yours was good no, no, no, yours was good.

SPEAKER_03 54:40

I can't, I can't do it. Hello, Sydney. That's so scary.

SPEAKER_06 54:44

That is so good. By the way, I told Sydney we uh we went and watched Scream 7. Was it good? Let me tell you. Let me just tell you. Whoever you heard mixed reviews from, Zory Idiots. Let me just tell you that if well, I will say it this way. Like, I'm not really a horror or a slasher type person. And and if you're not a slasher person, there are some scenes that are I mean, they're way over the top, but but yeah, they they extend gore to another level. There's slash, and you know, like if you're good with that, entertaining as hell. Was it really good? We we we're in the in the movie theater, just laughing and having it's not, I wouldn't call it scary at all. I I can't even remember a scene that's scary. Yeah, you feel like they're too scary.

SPEAKER_03 55:36

That's like edge of your seat type ones.

SPEAKER_06 55:38

No, there's a there's a couple, you know, there's a couple of jump scares, but the it's so easy to tell. Yeah, when it's building up. There might be one scene that's scary. I there's slash, but I wouldn't call it scary.

SPEAKER_03 55:51

Yeah. Uh predictable.

SPEAKER_06 55:54

But the the I mean the writing is really good, like the way they intertwine stuff, and it's just entertaining. Again, slash, but but yeah, it's really good.

SPEAKER_07 56:06

Sydney was back to protect her daughter. That's correct. Okay, because they always do it. They leave kind of like on some kind of open-endedness at the end. Was there any kind of cliffhangers? Or do they tie it up for eight? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:20

Um is this the last one?

SPEAKER_06 56:23

You know, you claim it's the last, it's never the last. Uh, it depends on how it does in the theaters. That's true. If it makes money, it's not the last. Uh I would say that it could be sure. Because of the I mean, not because of the way it ends or because they do anything, but yeah, because of like who it is. By the way, good who done it. Couple couple twists. You you could get it. I was gonna say, did you predict who it was? I don't want to give anything away. Oh so uh it it it's it's got a couple of cool twists.

SPEAKER_07 56:57

I mean, not like you know, revolutionary a little surprising, but you're like, oh, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 57:03

Yeah, it's it's really it's just well done. I mean it's well done. I'm hooked you sold it. And I will tell you that you know, they have the fact you haven't seen any of the screen movies?

SPEAKER_03 57:12

You haven't seen any? I've seen the first one. Oh, I mean the first one.

SPEAKER_07 57:15

Okay, that's the classic, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 57:16

And so you know the the opening scene with Drew Barrymore. Oh, yes. And so they so they it's kind of uh what I call it is the James Bond scene. It's you know, if you if you watch the James Bond, they always have that little like they hook you immediately. They did the ultra-action. It doesn't really have much necessarily to do with the movie, it's just sort of that scene that they put at the beginning. And Scream does the same thing, right? It's that scene, it kind of has to do with the movie, but not really. It's just that scene that started in one. Well, the one that's in, they have one in seven, and the one in seven is the girl from um Landman, uh who actually kind of reminds me a little of you. She's the daughter? The daughter. Yeah, the no no no, not the mom. It's like I'm out. Wait a minute. No, the the cheerleader daughter that's oh that makes sense. Yeah, the cheerleader daughter. You know who I'm talking about do you know who I'm talking about?

SPEAKER_03 58:09

No, I don't know her name, but yes, I've seen it. Actually, she's from South Carolina.

SPEAKER_06 58:14

Uh and and you'll have to look her up. You watch you obviously don't watch Landman. And and I actually, Kristen does. I I literally just because Kristen's watching it. You see it on. And and I kind of got into it because it's it's pretty good. It is pretty good. And she is um uh um pardon the phrase. She's the eye candy of the of the show for for the younger generation. She's definitely the hook for the younger guys.

SPEAKER_03 58:42

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_06 58:43

And she uh she plays this kind of um Ditzy Blonde?

SPEAKER_03 58:47

Yeah, yeah. She's she's a typical Ditzy Blonde cheerleader girl.

SPEAKER_06 58:51

Yeah. And she's not always the well, she was. I know she's the cheerleader in college, but was she before? I don't I don't know if she was. She's cheerleader type. Yeah, yeah, that's her. That's her.

SPEAKER_03 59:03

Not before TCU.

SPEAKER_06 59:05

So she is the um she is the uh uh loss leader in Scream 7.

SPEAKER_07 59:12

Uh she's got that that role in this opening scene.

SPEAKER_06 59:15

She's got the Drew Barrymore role, which is and it's actually pretty good.

SPEAKER_07 59:18

Yeah, I mean, they're known for that. They do it like everyone. I love it. It's pretty good.

SPEAKER_06 59:22

The way they do it is is it's it's ma'am. Okay, we gotta move up. It's really good though. I I thought it was it was great. And you're not ditzy, by the way. Let's just be thank you. You it was literally just appearance-wise only. I think you're shorter than her, too. Yeah, definitely. But, anyways, okay. So ready to jump in? Well, I should read this. No, I'm just so you're more comfortable now?

SPEAKER_03 59:49

I think so.

SPEAKER_06 59:49

Because we've been recording the whole time.

SPEAKER_03 59:53

Oh, yeah, man. April Fools. Exactly. No April Fools. I was really scared to come into the office this morning, I'm not gonna lie. Really? I didn't know what kind of pranksters everyone was.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:03

Oh, yeah, yeah. We're not real prankers.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:05

So I opened the door and I like looked above my head and I like checked my chair before I sat down. I was really scared. I was like, I'm too new. This is so easy to be done.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:13

Yeah, we're probably just lame and don't do that anymore.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:16

I forgot about it until I was like half an hour in, and then I was like, oh, damn, I should have done something. Yeah. Too far gone. It's all good.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:23

Safe and sound.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:24

All right. All right, cool. All right, ready to rock and roll.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:29

You're gonna do it though. Yeah, because I like yours. Yours is good.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:34

All right. I'm gonna do my first little intro, then we'll get into that.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:38

All right, cool.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:15

Wait, I didn't know that that was coming up. Sorry. Oh, is there anything else you got?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:19

I've I I I got it. Come on, think on your feet.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:21

I'm not good at that. I need to like have a thought in my head.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:24

We can talk about panelized versus wireless, how it declutters the walls, and that's that's the thing that really sort of we're just sort of chit-chatting right now. Yeah. That's the thing that sort of engages a lot of customers, um, because we can see it as an aesthetics point of view. Yeah, we can use Zach's term. It's honestly it can be viewed as sexist, so I don't know if you want to use it, but saying lots of times the husband the husband and wife will come in and the husband's all down for all of this stuff, and the wife just doesn't care. But then if you start talking about, you know, um wall clutter and stuff like that, then the wife's all of a sudden like, oh, wait a minute. Yeah, yeah. Oh, now we're talking design.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:06

So education.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:08

Yes. So how do you bring that up without it being like a sexist? Well, the guy, it's just technology, he doesn't care about design, and only the woman cares about design.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:19

I don't think we have to talk about it in that way necessarily, but like something we've gotten really awesome feedback on is panelized lighting or scene control within a house. And then Perfect. That's gonna be a perfect segue to what that means.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:37

Right. I keep moving my head. You can we can sort of roll into that by I forgot what your actual question was.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:45

Um Yeah, where was that question?

SPEAKER_07 1:02:48

Oh, it's all there in the back. I'm jumping all over the place. That's my bad.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:50

I was I was like, wait, I was not prepared for that question.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:53

Um what do you what should homeowners know about before choosing the lighting in their home?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:02

I have an idea of talking about lighting design, about not everything has to be symmetrical, not everything is four cans in a fan. And this extends to the light switches and keypads as well. Most people just think I have to have a hundred switches in my house, but I don't. I can have 10. Yeah. You know, so we can roll into it that way. Um, and then that brings in the whole design aspect, which tends to get designers to the table, like interior designers to the table. Customers really start to open up to that, like, oh, I didn't realize this was going to be, it wasn't just about tech, it's about I can make my walls look nice.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:43

And I think that that's almost that's an education point too. It's like, okay, you have a switch for your your cans, a switch for your pen, and a switch for your lamps. All of that can be taken away. We can give you one button and it controls all of them together. Because some people want it, they might not know what that means.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:00

Okay, so let's start.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:01

Maybe this will be a good segue.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:04

So I'm getting nervous. Don't worry.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:26

I told you that happens to me all the time. I start you have a thought, and then you're like, oh my god, it slowly faded away.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:32

Your brain is going faster than your mouth is.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:35

Yes, okay, cut all that out.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:37

Not all, but I thought it was good. I was gonna I was gonna come in after that and talk about the engravings.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:42

Oh, that would be good.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:44

So the entertainment.

unknown 1:04:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:54

You were talking about the welcome scene, how it created a pathway from the garage into the house. That's good, and then you started to lose yourself.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:01

Okay. What do you want? What should I go back into entertain and list another example?

SPEAKER_07 1:05:06

Or maybe just reiterate that you can create different uh different scenes um for different types, different times of day, different areas of the uh room, all different kinds of things.