K f I A M six. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. I want to try this again, Robin.
There is no business like show business. There you now, I'm happy.
Now you're alive to me again, Robin. It was it was touch and
go. You're alive to me one more time. Luke Skywalker is being recruited
to help control traffic. Hold on, Mark, don't beat me to the
punchline on this. Malibu is turning to one of its most beloved residents,
according to KTLA, star Wars actor Mark Hamill, and its latest effort to
curb crashes and fatalities on the Pacific Coast Highway. The city is launching a
pr blitz dubbed Cruise Malibu Surf sand Slow, which, as the name applies,
urges drivers to slow down. The campaign involves a new television commercial starring
Hammel and a theme song performed by the Kenny Loggins Band. There's license plate
frames and stickers. How many people? And I don't know, maybe we'll
work in Malibu, maybe it's different, But I just wonder how many people
are going to put a license plate frame on their car that says surf Sam
slow? Am I wrong on that? Am I wrong to assume that people
are not going to get the license plate frames. I'm in the minority because
I would. I don't live in Malibu, but I would because I've got
a dealer frame in my car right now. They're not paying me to advertise
for them. I just assume put the slow down thing. But I'm also
a curmudgeon who hates when people speed. Yeah, I'm the guy you're flipping
off for going the speed limit on the freeway. It's me. Sorry.
So anyway, They've got Mark Hamill involved in this, and I threw this
in with our Hollywood News because you know celebrity. Okay, go ahead,
Mark, give the punchline. I don't have it. Everybody loves Mark Hamil.
I would never gainsay a master of the force. Use the brakes,
Luke. Oh god, come on, I think Robin's a little slow on
the rim shot tonight too. Oh that one was just that was just hanging
out. Now you just get a shrug out of her for that. Nothing,
not a thing. I'm a fan of the Bear. I haven't watched
the new season yet because I haven't had time to sit down and power watch
it. I'm looking forward to it. I will tell you this when it
comes to The Bear. Uh is it? I was watching it on Hulu?
Is it on FX? I see it on Hulu as well. Okay,
when I watched The Bear, I've watched it. First of all,
it's not it's in the comedy category whenever it comes up for the awards and
whatnot, And I hate that because it's not a comedy. It's a drama.
Well maybe it's a dramedy. Yeah, listen, I don't laugh.
I mean, if you're gonna call it a comedy would definitely be very eyebrow.
I guess that you'd have to sort of look for the irony or something
of that sort. But really it's a drama and the oh, it's not
criticism, it's actually it's kind of a backhanded compliment. The very first time
I watched The Bear, the pilot episode, I watched it and I got
done and I had to watch something else. I was exhausted. Yeah exactly,
Yeah, yeah, I mean that as the highest compliment because they pulled
me right back into the kitchen like I was eighteen, working at a restaurant
in the summer again, and it was so stressful to watch. I related
with those characters. I related with the whole thing so closely that I just
found myself getting stressed out when I watched The Bear. I get stressed.
I get so more than most shows. I just find myself exhausted after watching
it. So I haven't had time to sit down, and because I've been
doing the night show this week, so I haven't had time to sit down,
and really, you know, start watching at least one episode at a
time. If an episode is not too stressful, I can watch a couple.
All I know is that when I got done, I think the restaurant
was no the restaurant was on fire in the first season. I think I
don't know, he was stuck in a cooler or something when I the last
time I saw him. So I can't wait to see that. I did
want to bring this up because I heard you make mention of it earlier.
Mark, you said a quiet place Day one is doing really well. Does
that mean it's doing well on day one or that's it? Mads. Is
this a prequel? It's the prequel. It's the third film in the series,
but it's a prequel. It's an origin story. It made seven million
bucks in Thursday previews, and they figured it could make up to fifty million
this weekend in theaters. That's pretty good considering what we've seen in the box
office so far this year, right, I mean we've had some we've had
some openers that have been kind of bummers. Yeah, it's it's taken a
lot to get people off their I mean out of their houses to go to
a theater. Yeah. Yeah, I want to see that, and I
also want to see I don't if you do the Kevin Costner Horizon film.
Both of those look pretty entertaining. Is that the one that he funded?
It is? And I want to support that because that takes some nerve.
Yeah, so the guy stops doing If I remember this correctly and feel free
to jump in, Mark, the guy said I'm out for Yellowstone because he
wanted to focus on his own Western epic. Basically, he wants to make
how many films are the three five? I think it's four, okay,
whatever it is. So he was dropping thirty million of his own money or
something like that. I love that he's saying, I'm all in. I
believe in myself, I believe in my vision, and this is what I
want to spend my money on. That's awesome. I applaud him. It's
so great. Yeah, I admire that. And it's the same thing that
Coppola is doing with his Megalopolis movie. He put his own his butt on
the line. Nice. Yeah, I love it. I love it.
I'm with you. I want to support it. And let's face it,
Cosner's good at westerns. He's I mean, he's good at westerns. Whether
you like him or don't like him. I mean his westerns have been Yellowstone
Great Dances with Wolves, no doubt that man directed the heck out of that.
I mean, was the one thing you got to be worn for it.
So look, guy knows how to do westerns. So I'm kind of
looking forward to that this quiet place, though, let's get back to this
for a moment as we talk about the Hollywood news here, I don't know
if I want an origin story for this. Is that bad to say?
Because one of the things that I thought made the first one a little eerie
for me as an audience members and I didn't know why. And now normally
you wouldn't want to keep your audience in the dark on something that is kind
of the main point, But it worked that very first quiet place. It
worked. We just knew that they were being hunted. We didn't know what
it was, and then we were tipped off that if they made any noise,
that was it. Again, we didn't really know why, we just
were It was a story of survival. The circumstances around that were secondary to
the human condition that we were witnessing on the screen, based on the environment
that they were in. I don't know that I necessarily want to see the
origin story. However, we'll say this qualifying this, I suppose, because
I don't want to back myself into a corner. If it's good, I'm
all for it. Sure, Sure, But I think you're really hitting on
one of the dumbest trends in Hollywood right now, which is making a full
movie and filling out every reference in every franchise and ruining the mystique of things
that are just mentioned. Yeah. Right. The poster child of this,
to me was the terrible Solo movie that gives you a pon Solo's origin and
completely makes it ordinary and dull. But we're getting a lot of that in
a lot of different franchises. It's funny you went with Star Wars because I
think that if you are Gen X and older, the Star Wars original trilogy
was fine. It didn't need the prequels, it didn't need the sequels.
It was fine, don't touch it. And obviously that first prequel comes out
and everybody's like, what the world was this? Jar jar binks nonsense?
And I know there were books. I get all that stuff, right,
But for those of us that only saw the films, we didn't need the
other stuff to fill it out. And then, as you pointed out,
they had to go back and do the solo part of the what they call
that a Star Wars saga. I mean there was another Star Wars reference to
it, right, Yeah, there were a couple of movies in there that
were sold as US Star Wars saga or something like that, when they weren't
part of the continuity of the what the original nine I guess there are right
now? Yeah, the original nine. But I like the original three episodes,
four, five, and six. What's the Boba Fet one? I
haven't I haven't seen any of that. Oh, the Book of Boba Fet.
That's a mini series. So people love it. It's not as good
as the Mandalorian. I mean, if you're a Star Wars net, you're
gonna want to see it just because it's part of that. But it's not
that great. But the Mandalorian can't. It is different than the Boba Fett
book. The Mandalorian is much better, much better. But that's a mini
series too, writer or some sort of a series. Well, it's ongoing.
I think it's what it's said, two or three seasons, and it's
just terrifically well. The Baby Yoda one is the Mandalorian. And what's great
about that is that they're kind of written like spaghetti westerns, and the Mandalorian
is kind of like your Man with No Name, the quiet, laconic gunslinger
with with more nerve than anyone alive. They're really good. They're well made.
Okay, all right, So see that's what this is why I had
to qualify it, like if it's good, I mean, but I mean,
I think we agree. Not all of them are. No, that's
that's a little rough for me, a little rough, all right. From
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Let's face it, we all got to eat right. Oh, it's
been a long time since we've had good news. Oh, prices are going
up. They're going crazy now. By now, I'm sure that you've heard
about the price wars. All of a sudden, the fast food places,
especially McDonald's gouse. A lot of people are complaining about our prices. So
we thought we'd better do something. Do you think, So, let's face
it, here's what's going on. We've seen the prices. McDonald's is the
worst offender their average. Many prices went up one hundred percent in the last
ten years. Inflation's gone up thirty percent since twenty fourteen, they've gone up
almost three times as fast. And so what they were doing is they were
testing to see where the tipping point was, Where is the point where our
customers will not pay it. We know that if the price goes up a
little bit, some customers will fall off. But will the customers that fall
off, will you lose money? Right? So you raise it a little
bit more and a few more customers fall off, but you still are selling
billions and billions served. And he raise it a little bit more and a
few more customers fall off. At what point, where's the tipping point where
you lose so many customers? Now you've raised the price too high? Right?
This is part of figuring out their supply and demand equation. Well,
one thing we know in today's society is that it takes a little time.
So while they may be raising prices and some people are paying for it,
eventually we start to note notice the first time, but then we start to
notice. We start going through the drive through and we went, wait a
minute, I got a number one. That's a big mac meal, Right,
what'd you get? I'll get the quarter pounder and cheese. Why is
there bill twenty five dollars for two meals a McDonald's. And then what do
they do? They don't just stop going new new new new new, new
new new new. They start rolling the camera on their phones and they say
twenty five dollars for a big mac and a quarter pounder and cheese and McDonald's
And they say, this is crazy. Is anybody else saying this? Click
the lily blow and subscribe to my TikTok And then they all were like,
let's TikTok this out and let's hashtag it fast food rip off and starts to
go viral. And then things start to spiral very quickly. So all the
fast food places got caught up in some news stories as things started to go
viral, and then they all went, oh, we got a problem.
And then what happens is they all try to overcorrect and they start competing with
discount meals. Yes, we are into the back to the competition of value
menu phase. Granted it's not real good, it's not great. The McDonald's
value value meal is basically a happy meal. You can have something that used
to be on the dollar menu, and they're all now three dollars, which
is like a McChicken or mcdouble. You get a small fry and a small
drink for five dollars. Listen, let's I get a hamburglar bibblehead to go
with that. It's not worth it, but I'll tell you what is worth
it. Taco Bell. Cool. Taco Bell used to have a five dollar
box and it was good. Prices started going up and I think the last
time only threw it was like nine dollars. It's crazy. So Taco Bell
actually came out with the five dollars Discovery Box that ran last month April and
May, and that was a crunchy taco, Dorito's, Locos, Taco Cantina,
Chicken, crispy taco in a medium drink that was five dollars. Good
Taco Bell leading the charge. Remember when you go fill up at Taco Bell
and it costs you like three bucks, it was great. They're finally getting
back to that. Now they've come out with a seven dollars bucks. But
I'm in for this. I know it's more than your small fry small drink
at McDonald's, but I'm in for this, and here's why McDonald's is part
of their value menu war that all the fast food places are doing now.
For seven bucks, Shiloupa Supreme five layer burrito, a double stack taco and
chips and nacho cheese sauce. Grand total one four hundred calories for seven dollars.
Yeah, that's enough calories for most of the day, all in one
city. Listen, you don't have to loosen up your belt by not eating
Taco Bell like this. You do this because you're an American eating Mexican food
that you will not find in Mexico. God bless America, and thank god
we're finally getting back to our senses and we're bringing down the cost of American
Mexican food. Don't call it Mexican American food. That implies that Mexicans endorsed
Taco Bell. Don't do that. I endorse Taco Bell not actually they don't
pay me, but I like it. I'm one hundred percent. You know.
Now the bad news. You are familiar with another restaurant that is uh,
you can easily throw two thousand calories on in one sitting. It's known
as the Olive Garden, which, as any Italian will tell you is authentic
Italian food. If you take an Italian person to the Olive Guard and they
will say show but uh uh more perfect. I don't know Italian at all.
At some point they will tell you just how how much it is,
exactly like mamma's cooking back home. That's what the Italians will say about Olive
Garden. I've never met one that would say otherwise. So anyway, Olive
Garden is running into a little bit of a sales slump. So while you've
got the fast food places the low end that are getting into a price war,
evident least some of those mid range restaurants not doing so swell. Olive
Garden says they're going to raise prices because they had a drop in sales last
quarter. So see they're finding the tipping point, but it's the math is
not working out for them. So now they're saying, we're going to have
to shed some of our customers, so we're not going to come in because
things are getting more expensive, but we're hoping we can make up for it
by those that continue to come in. And it's not just Olive Guard Garden
restaurants owns Olive Garden. They also own Longhorn Steakhouse, Yardhouse, Ruths Chris,
which is very difficult for me to say for some reason, Ruths Chris,
Ruths Chris Steakhouse, Cheddars, Scratch Kitchen. I've been to that,
the Capitol Grill, have been to that season's fifty two fresh grill, codmit
to that, Eddie V's Prime Seafood drove by one once, and a Bahama
Breeze Island Grill I think the cname of a drink I had. Anyway,
I think they say that they're going to raise prices two to three percent company
wide over the next year. Olive Garden has already seen a one percent increase
in menu prices, and now they say they're going to see a one to
two percent growth in sales they expect next year. Honestly, do you notice
a one percent growth in price? I don't think you. Do you notice
two or three percent year over year? Probably not, because that's basically what
our rate of inflation is right now. So I don't know how much you
notice that. What you do notice, and this is where I get hunt
up. I notice when they bring the bill and if I went to Olive
Garden with my wife before and accepting wine like no wine boll You know,
Let's say our bill was forty five bucks. They we've got an advertiser,
and let's say it's forty five dollars between the two of us. And then
they bring the bill out the next time and it's fifty two dollars. That's
when I start to notice it's not what I'm looking at the menu price.
It's after the fact that I start to notice it feels like it was more
than last time. So I don't think i'd noticed one or two early on,
but I probably would after they get to that two or three percent when
the bill comes. I'm a little late to the game. It's the wait
works, all right. I've told you before if you were listening earlier in
the program. I set up today's show specifically because of my friend Mark Ronner,
and so I've got a segment for him that is right in his wheelhouse.
We'll talk sports next. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty. All right, Mark, this is for you.
I know how much you like talking about sports. What did I ever
do to you? How about the only real sports story? The rest of
it. I think you're actually gonna dig. The only real sports story I
have is this Bronni James going to the Lakers. It was a story yesterday.
I know that, but we kind of have the debate going on yesterday.
So there you know. Lebron's gonna play with his kid. That'll be
nice. Great. He used up a second round draft pick on him.
They have a coach that's never coached in the NBA before, perfectly capable,
but inexperienced. And I don't have a whole lot of hope for the Lakers
this year. I would love it if they surprised me. It's heartwarming.
You and your dad have trucks together, and they have the NBA together.
Yeah. He's got the new one, it's only seven years old, and
I've got the old one. Yeah, so that's it. Yeah. Anyway,
I hope they do really well. I think it'll be a great story.
Should sell some tickets because of it. But beyond that, I got
to tell you, I think that the what do they call that? That
the burn time on this is gonna be pretty short. Before all of a
sudden, we're like, okay, enough of that, all right, here
there you go. I'm gonna say the words NFL, but I'm not going
to talk about any of the players. In fact, Ronner, I would
even say, this is an entertainment story, but I already had an entertainment
story, so I threw it into a sports story. So the NFL lost
a big lawsuit. Now maybe you heard about this again, happened yesterday.
There were some other things going on. The NFL lost this massive lawsuit.
And on the face of it, it looks like the NFL lost a lawsuit
worth almost five billion dollars four point eight billion in a judgment against them,
But it could be way more than that. And here's why. They were
basically found guilty of colluding with Direct TV according to the report, and this
was in the La Times, but here it is. It took nearly a
decade for the case to want to wind its way through the legal system,
beginning in twenty fifteen when a pubet in San Francisco called the Mucky Duck.
Fuck the mucky Duck. That sounds like something that autocompletes responsible for exactly what
I was thinking. Yep, that's exactly where I was going with it.
See this is you and I are simpatico. My friend anyway, the Mucky
Duck, if that's their real name, file to complain about the hand about
how the NFL handles its out of market broadcast. It's a class action suit
filed on behalf of more than two and a half a two point four million
residential subscribers, so almost two and a half nine and almost fifty thousand restaurants,
bars, and other commercial establishments that show the NFL. It's centered on
the Sunday ticket package, which is now on YouTube. It used to be
on direct TV. So that allows you to see all the games, except
I think for your in market games. You can see all the out of
market games. But if if the Rams are playing in town and it's on
CBS or Fox or what I guess would be Fox, you wouldn't be able
to watch that. If the Chargers are in town to be on CBS,
you wouldn't be able to watch that. But all the out of market games
you would be able to watch, all right, So what they did is
they said, wait a minute, we're paying for a premium product, but
it's not a premium product. It's the same exact broadcast that you have going
somewhere else. So if the Rams were playing the Bears in Chicago, and
they want to show the Bears game the Rams game, right, they got
to pay for this Sunday ticket, which is about four hundred and fifty bucks.
Now, granted, your local station might be showing the Rams anyway,
so maybe that's a maybe that's a mischaracterization. Let's say that Mark wanted to
watch his Seahawks play the Bears, okay rematch of a Super Bowl about almost
twenty years ago. So let's say he wanted to watch the Seahawks play the
Bears, but he's living in Los Angeles and he goes, wait a minute,
if I lived in Seattle, I can watch this for free on the
over the air broadcast. Why do I have to pay four hundred and fifty
dollars for it? And the NFL says, well, listen, we give
it away free up there, but this is special because you're elsewhere and you
got to be here. And what the jury decided is that the NFL,
yeah, maybe you can charge for out of market games, but the amount
you were charging was exorbitant. It was out of control, it was too
much, and so this fell under an anti trust case. They said this
was collusion. This has to do with the NFL and that broadcast partner.
Nobody else was involved, There was no other competition going on. This is
its collusion, bad deal. The NFL, of course disagrees and want to
appeal. Blah blah blah. Now I mentioned that the lawsuit, the jury
said four point eight billion dollars. And if there is a league that can
handle four point eight billion dollars, it's this one. I mean, this
league is doing quite well for itself, but it could be a whole lot
more because in federal laws, under anti trust cases, they could be liable
up to fourteen point one billion dollars because some of the federal laws triple the
amount one when it's an anti trust case. Even though the jury said four
point eight billion, just by the mere fact that it is in an anti
trust case that falls under this purview, it triples the price. Now,
listen, I expect there's probably gonna be some lobbyists that are going to try
to change this and then not so this in future, and the Supreme Court
will be like, oh groovy to us, do it, But for right
now, fourteen billion dollars. Now, I don't care who you are.
I don't care if you are the NFL, and you're raking in the dough.
Fourteen billion is going to hurt the bottom line. I don't care if
you're exon. If you take fourteen billion out of the profits one year,
that's gonna hurt. And finally, how about a win for the little guy?
Again sports related, but this is really more about business. The La
City Council's effort to crack down on the brok ring of tee time reservations on
municipal courses. The County Board of Supervisors takes similar steps this week to require
non refundable reservation deposits and charging cancelation fees. So what's happening uni course near
you? You want to go golfing? You pull up the website that allows
you to reserve your tea time, already been reserved, nothing's available, and
you go, man, I never remember this course being that popular. Why
is everything gone all of a sudden. What's happening is there are tee time
brokers that are just simply going in and reserving every tea time. They're going
in and they're snagging them up. We'll get every tea time. And then
they start their own website that says, do you want to play on this
muni course, you could play. We've got a tea time open at seven
eighteen am and they want to cut, so they're gonna you're you're getting the
tea time. The tea time is going to cost you when you go there,
and you got to pay. You got to pay the fees to golf
anyway, but now you have to pay somebody else because they reserve the tea
time. And the municipal courses, by definition, are being run by the
same the county, whatever it is, is being run by a local government
entity because it's supposed to be available for anybody that wants to do it and
pay the fees. So not only are their greens fees like you normally have
to pay when you go golfing, now you have to pay some reservation broker.
And I have to tell you there are obviously the reservation brokers are saying,
oh, this is bad for us, but also to the golfers.
I hope that for those of you that are at businesses that like to buy
things up and resell them, you recognize the irony. If you were working
for ticketmaster or a ticket scalper, a ticket resler, that's a legitimate American
business. Yeah, we bought up all the Taylor Swift tickets and now we're
reselling them on seat geek or to find your bleacher dot com or cushion yourtushion
dot com. If you want to see Taylor Swift, We've got your tickets
right here, face value two hundred and twenty five dollars now yours for just
thirty two hundred. That's considered legitimate business. But when you do it to
the Muni course, all of a sudden, the same people that are doing
it in resales to everyone else are like, all right, that's unfair.
Wait a minute, We're not supposed to be the victims of our own system.
That's not how we set it up. Yeah, there is distinct irony
going on when it comes to the whole golfers having to go through a ticket
broker and screaming foul. Who I feel bad for is the working class people
who like to go golfing on the weekend are not participating in these sorts of
businesses, and all of a sudden can't because they just got priced out by
a ticket broker who ironically is selling it to somebody who can't afford it,
likely because they're in the markup business in some other aspect of commerce. So
anyway, thanks to the La City Council, Thanks to the Board of Supervisors,
Thanks for cracking down on people taking advantage of people. Gotta do it
man, all right, how about punch clock buddies? You've heard of work
wives? What about work BFFs. If you don't have one, buddy up
quick, you don't want to be the last one standing. That's next.
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI Am six forty.
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this week listen to Anytime on demand of the iHeartRadio app. Oh man,
what a week listen. We had debates, we had Supreme Court things,
we had of course, then life going on. The busiest traffic season we've
seen in years. In fact, some airports were reporting that they had the
most traffic they've ever seen. And we're just now getting into the holiday weekend.
It's a crazy time. It's good. There's a lot of good stuff
going on, good stuff going on. Hopefully things are going all right for
you at work, and chances are if you are at work and you're having
a good time. It's because you like the people you work with. During
the last break, I've been spending time here talking to people and saying,
listen, I appreciate Matthews. In tonight Toalah had the night off. First
time I've worked with Matthew. Toalla said, this guy's ready to go his
shark and boy, Matthew, you are locked in, buddy, Thank you
so so much. I'm impressed so good. Foush one of the best in
the business. And I am unemployable, which means I've done filling work all
over the country and Foush absolutely one of the absolute best in the business.
And Mark Ronner. I get up in the morning because I think I get
to work with Mark tonight. I just love working with you and I have
for a long time. I feel a connection. You're a good guy,
all of it. Maybe someday some of th already figure will give us a
show together. What did I just say, unemployable? All right, so
it won't be here. Maybe a podcast. Maybe we could join the podcast
ranks. Wouldn't that be thrilling for nobody? Well, it's just what the
world needs is another podcast. That's what I'm saying, this is exactly what
I'm saying. My god, one hundred thousand. We haven't even we haven't
even scratched the surface yet. Was reading an article the Wall Street Journal was
talking about how important it is to have work friends. In fact, they
go so far as to say, everyone seems to be talking Rob, and
I haven't forgotten about you. Just wait until the end of the second.
These days, everyone seems to be talking about all the value of a work
best friend. On Instagram and on TikTok it's the hashtag work bestie. Gallup
data repeatedly showing that employees with work best friends feel more invested and productive in
their jobs. Would you like advice on how to get a workplace best friend?
And yes, I will give it to you. And here's what you
should do. According to the experts. You should this is listen. If
you have to get a checklist and learn how to make friends, you're in
trouble, but here's your checklist. You should engage in virtual water cooler talk,
so if you're not actually in house, you should use zoom, Slack
and other digital tools to start casual conversations. That's always yep, always always
personal. Hey, how is divorce going yep, people love that, it
says, share personal tidbits and common interest to build rapport, just as you
would in physical office, Be genuine and authentic. Authenticity goes a long way
in building trust. You know how you get to be authentic. This is
what I learned. Here's a little trip. Here's what I learned. You
just complain. That's it. You complain, and you tell people why you're
complaining. That's authenticity today. If we're being real about it, it goes.
This is what frustrates me because people relate to frustration, and here's why
it frustrates me. And then they're like, yeah, me too. Oh
and because of this, that's it. That's how you're authentic. Done.
There are you connected? You're welcome leverage company events, participate in company organize
social events, even if they seem forced. Like Mark on the company softball
team. These events can be great to meet colleagues outside your immediate team and
find potential allies. Unless your Mark on the softball team, and then we
don't want to have to play you in the game, but HR says we
do. You should seek common ground. Look for colleagues with similar working styles,
interests, or professional goals or total slackers like yourself, and you should
offer constructive feedback like Chris. Shut up, quit insulting Mark, be willing
to give and receive honest feedback. People love it when you tell them that
they're doing something wrong. Do that more, that's sarca. Don't do that.
Here's what they say, are the don'ts all right? Are you listening?
I want you to be great at work. I want you to go
to work and find your work bestie. Don't rush the relationship. Boy,
This is so true, not just in work relationships but in everything. Yeah.
Are you sure this is specifically for work? Or yeah? Well with
this it's It reminds me of the great philosopher thirty eight special. Hold on
loosely, but don't let go. If you cling too tightly, you're going
to lose it. You're going to lose control. They say, building a
meaningful work relationship takes time, and moving too quickly or being overly eager as
it can overwhelm the other person and backfire. So don't do that. No,
don't don't try to get past second base with somebody at work. It's
not recommended, thank you. Yeah, don't do that anyway. No,
they say, don't crap where you eat. Yeah, don't do that.
I don't overshare too soon. This is one of my favorites to make people
feel awkward. Do you ever do this? I love this. While openness
is important, be mindful of boundaries, especially in the early stages. Avoid
sharing overly personal or sensitive information. I love to do this. Got it.
You send me a photo of yourself with this seatpap thing on your face.
Yeah, I don't think. I go, oh, I look like
a monster. I look like, what did I tell you? I looked
like an elephant or something with my seatpap And you go, no, you
don't. I'm like, here's my picture. Yep. No, I love
this too. You see somebody in the elevator, you know, casually,
you might remember their first name. You couldn't pick them out of a lineup
otherwise, And they're like, how are you doing it? You go,
oh, man, my wife is upset at me again. And they're just
like, oh god, no, don't go into this. And then I
just love to spin a tail. I love it. I love to put
them on the because the people that get the joke, now you got an
office buddy for life. The ones that don't. Yeah, I dismissed them.
Well, people bond over complaints about the old ball and chain, right,
yeah, yeah, I love that. Like, oh god, well,
my wife is going through a crisis. She dyed her hair again.
It's back to purple. I don't know why people do this, and they
look at you like, why are you telling me this? Those are my
favorites? Huh? Ignore power dynamic or don't ignore power dynamics. In other
words, don't try to buddy up to your boss, and don't try to
buddy up to somebody below you, and then don't engage in negative talk.
That's how you build friendships at work, and that makes work more rewarding.
Robin, are you listening. This is why I want to be good friends
with Robin. Who's been in there with Foush all night. I work with
Robin on the weekends. She's dynamite, Robin. Thank you so much,
because behind the scenes, Robin's been helping Exults some things as well. You
are the best and I love you all. Thank you so much for letting
me be a part of your world. I can't wait until the next time
I'm back on Sunday. Look forward to talking to you that it's Chris Merrill
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