WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.160 How many of you were doing one last one, last 2 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:09.039 trip a little something something for the for the kiddies, 3 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:13.359 are you know, back in the perma school? Although depending 4 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:16.679 I guess if what percent ross do you know what 5 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:20.199 percentage of students in Wake County do the year round 6 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:22.640 thing like you do? Is it a lot or is 7 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:28.320 that a very small minority? Oh? Really so it's a lot. 8 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:30.719 I for some reason I used to think it was 9 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.640 a very small percentage, and then I realized, like half 10 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:37.439 the people I know as kids are on the the 11 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:41.759 year round thing. But for those on the traditional schedule, 12 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:47.359 obviously race Stagic has blessed you with, you know, maybe 13 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:52.960 some beach weather, so take advantage of that. Otherwise we'll 14 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:57.200 keep trucking on because you know, that's what we do 15 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:01.039 around these parts. Coming up on the show the Worst 16 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:07.359 or Best team Building Exercise for the Office, how many 17 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:13.519 of you have had to suffer through one of those? Yes, 18 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:16.799 I said suffer through how many of you have had 19 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:21.599 to suffer through some sort of team building exercise? Right, 20 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:26.920 it's so prevalent, and I don't know, there's some people 21 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:31.719 who like them. Those people concern me that being said, 22 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:36.359 you know, it's just it's part of the It's part 23 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:40.599 of the process, right, and it's so much fun, especially 24 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:42.359 if you're an introvert and you just want to do 25 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:48.640 your damn job. That being said, this one in Colorado, 26 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:55.640 it has me asking some questions like, how does that happen? 27 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.959 How did you think this was going to turn out? 28 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:02.519 Do you have locking security on the office? Is you 29 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:07.040 know where you work there? Because I have a I 30 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:10.560 have a few questions. We'll have to get into those. Also, 31 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:16.000 CNN has a new hit piece, a new hit piece 32 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:23.439 on Trump asking questions. Maybe I don't know they're attributed 33 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:29.159 to him asking questions, asking questions that have offended the 34 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:34.639 Washington elite. I will share with you those questions. We 35 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:38.080 will talk about the viability of these questions. I think 36 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:46.919 it's a wonderful discussion point. And I may go so 37 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:50.639 far as to ask the question again, does that make 38 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:53.439 me dumb and not a you know, not somebody who 39 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:56.159 should be president? I don't know, man, I don't think so. 40 00:02:57.599 --> 00:02:58.360 I gotta tell. 41 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:02.400 You if if you guys elected me president, not that 42 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:07.439 I would run, but if I got elected president, I 43 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:10.360 would have a stupid amount of questions. 44 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:15.360 About a lot of stuff public and private. I mean 45 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:19.639 I'm not saying cause they let you pick which book 46 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:22.599 to you know what you want to be sworn in on? Right, 47 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:25.520 you can do. You can do the Bible? What did 48 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:28.080 Trump you he'd use like Abe Lincoln's Bible, didn't he 49 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:34.000 like Obama did? And then others they've gotten sworn in 50 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:38.919 on the Quran, they've gotten sworn in on. You've had 51 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:41.800 some like rabid atheists who got sworn in on like 52 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:46.560 smart ass books. Has anyone ever gotten sworn in on 53 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:49.199 the Book of Secrets? Do we know? Ross? Do you 54 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:51.840 know is anyone gotten sworn in on the Book of Secrets? 55 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:55.000 Because That's what I'm going with if I had to choose, 56 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:57.560 I understand that you know there's a biblical thing and 57 00:03:57.639 --> 00:03:59.159 something you're going to be mad, but I want that 58 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:02.520 thing immediately available to me. I want to be standing 59 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.960 there with the Chief Justice having just put his right 60 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.000 hand down and starting to turn away, and I'm going 61 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:10.680 to snatch that book and you all are going to 62 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:14.080 sit there while I read it, because you never know 63 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:17.399 when you're gonna get assassinated. Do you want to go 64 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:20.639 ahead and suck up that? Goodness? Man? So let me 65 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:24.759 ask you this question. What's the worst team building activity 66 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:29.120 as we get started. You've ever had to do at 67 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:33.639 your work or another place of work? What's the word? 68 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:36.560 I'm trying to think of the weirdest one we've ever 69 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:40.040 done here at the radio station. Radio is a little 70 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:43.920 different because a lot of our team building activities center 71 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:48.839 around promotions that we're doing already, right, So we may 72 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:51.240 have like a private listener concert from one of the 73 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:55.000 music stations in the performance studio. We may have an 74 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:58.879 event that we piggyback on. I'm trying to think if 75 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:01.519 we've ever done Have we ever done one of those 76 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:05.959 pure corporate things in Raleigh that I can think of? Ross, 77 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:09.199 Because you and I have worked basically the same number 78 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.279 of years for iHeart here well over a decade, I 79 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:17.439 don't remember anything other than, hey, we have this event 80 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:20.240 or you know, things that are literal events for the 81 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:24.000 radio station. I guess though, I guess remember the thing 82 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:26.480 we did in Durham where we all where everyone from 83 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:30.480 North Carolina went over. Who was the artist we saw too? 84 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:33.800 She ended up getting somewhat famous. So they did like 85 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:36.600 a little private concert for us, and then they took 86 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:39.040 all of the iHeartRadio hosts and we all met in 87 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:43.120 Durham for something and you know, went over stuff and 88 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:45.560 all the managers from North Carolina were there. It was 89 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:48.560 in I want to say, was it at Lincoln Theater 90 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:52.519 or not Lincoln Theater, uh, the Carolina Theater. I think 91 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:56.360 it might have been at Carolina Theater and some artists. 92 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.480 Who's a pop artist who's actually pretty famous. I can't 93 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.360 remember her name was, but it was when she was 94 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:04.839 just she was all skinny too, and now she's she 95 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:08.360 has a definitively different look. I'm not insulting her. I'm 96 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:11.680 just pointing out that I didn't. Somebody had to convince 97 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:13.839 me that was that, and that was pretty low key. 98 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:19.079 Although radio hosts when they hear that you're doing talk radio, 99 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:20.800 they talk to you weird. 100 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:23.079 Yeah, because you go to these things and it's all 101 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:25.519 focused towards like music radio. I remember where you're sitting there. 102 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:27.439 We're like, this has nothing to do with us, because. 103 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:29.199 You remember the Durham thing, and then we had the 104 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:30.160 concert from the check. 105 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.000 The only thing like team building exercise I can remember 106 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:36.519 before that was when I was working Angie and we 107 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.120 did like our program director was took us to like 108 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:42.040 a cooking thing where we had to like go and 109 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:45.879 cook was Randy. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty good because we 110 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:47.160 got food afterwards. 111 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:51.720 That if you evolve food in any radio team building 112 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:53.399 activity and THENDS to it go better. 113 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:55.360 And also there was free beer at the time too. 114 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:58.759 So before that, the only thing I can really remember 115 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:00.560 doing is they took us this I was working in 116 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:02.759 Salt Lake. They took us to like a military base 117 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:05.240 and we did like obstacle courses and repelling and that 118 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:05.920 kind of stuff. 119 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:08.240 You know, I shouldn't say that, we kind of we 120 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:13.600 did that at Seymour Johnson. They invited us down oh 121 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:17.720 years ago, but it wasn't like a full team building thing. 122 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:20.000 It was just you know, the people on the talk station. 123 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:23.800 So we went down there and that's when we had 124 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:27.199 sweet Chrissy. Of course, you know Chrissy. You never you 125 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:29.959 never well you never worked with Chrissy on this state. 126 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.879 But she went down there and I thought that the 127 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:37.800 girl was going to die because one of the first 128 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:41.120 things they took us to was where they had the 129 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:44.000 military dogs. And don't I don't know if you know 130 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:47.480 the vibe of military dogs. One they're not your pet. 131 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.759 Two they're not even your neighbor service dog, which you 132 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:54.759 question is even a service dog, but is really really sweet. 133 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:58.600 Military dogs are kind of jerks, man, right. 134 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:02.240 I know Chrissy when she became an intern over once 135 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:04.519 again on g christ Hall. Yeah, so I knew her, 136 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:06.279 like way back before you knew her. She was like, 137 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:08.759 she weighs like two pounds. 138 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:11.680 Yeah, and she wanted to immediately she saw these you know, 139 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:17.120 these German shepherds and various other we'll just say, military 140 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.240 style breeds and she starts, she starts like booking it 141 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:23.439 over to pet them, and the airman's like, yeah, you 142 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.800 don't want to do that, and she's like she and 143 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:30.319 you could see in her mind that there being doggies 144 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:34.679 that she couldn't pet was really problematic for her. And 145 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:37.399 then they put her on an M sixty laying down 146 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.720 and she she destroyed the interior range. So that was 147 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:43.360 it was a good day. We had fun with that. 148 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:46.200 Let's see, let us go out. Let me play with 149 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.759 an M four for a while. Even got to pop 150 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:52.519 some some of those chocloads out of the grenade launcher. 151 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:56.000 It was a good day. You know. If that builds 152 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:02.600 team fine, this story, yeah not so much. Well, uh, 153 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:06.559 we'll get into this. Do you know, you just know 154 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:11.240 this dude's ruminating in the woods making a list. But 155 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:15.519 we'll explain. Let's see, we got CNN acting stupid. You 156 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:18.720 can't Was it Demi Levado? No, it wasn't Demi Levade? 157 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:20.879 What is the chick's name? I you know? Only thing 158 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:23.120 I remember about her and it was actually impressed is 159 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:28.720 she wrote she wrote the song Monster for eminem That's 160 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:33.519 how she got famous, uh, with Rihanna, and I think 161 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:37.120 she wanted to record it, but she she silent the 162 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:40.960 company she wrote that song and then and then her 163 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:43.320 her career took out. She was good, Look, if people, 164 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:45.679 here's the thing. We don't do music radio, but if 165 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:50.360 you're musically talented, I'm impressed. I love music man, all right, 166 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:53.799 So yeah, we got the team building stuff. We'll we'll 167 00:09:53.799 --> 00:09:56.840 hear your horror stories if you want. And U and 168 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:01.159 it was if it was? Was it DEI stuff? But 169 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:05.919 I can't tell you how much I want and simultaneously 170 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:10.320 don't want that episode of the Office with the flash 171 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:15.480 cards on the forehead that take place. Does that Does 172 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.720 that sound wrong? Right? Because I don't want to go 173 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:22.200 to those things anyway, But if I did have to go, 174 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.720 I wanted to be like that episode of the Office 175 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:29.399 with mister mister Black or mister Brown, the guy they 176 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:32.360 brought in and Michael Hijackson to makes them right, like 177 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:36.759 you know, like you're playing heads up poker or whatever 178 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:38.879 that game is, you put the cards on your forehead. 179 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:43.159 Except it was what a great episode of The Office. 180 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:44.960 Ross you guys have seen that. That's like one of 181 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:45.480 the first two. 182 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:49.360 I think it's like the season yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 183 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:55.360 So like he's Boss of the Year world, right, He's 184 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:55.720 got all. 185 00:10:55.679 --> 00:11:00.360 The awards, a cup in the trophy. Come on, Roz 186 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:02.879 has awards taped to his window. They're not spelled right 187 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.440 for some reason. But yeah, I'm self a little ward 188 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:09.399 tapes are right up there, and that's all Michael Scott 189 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:12.840 was trying to do, all right, So that was this 190 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:17.600 was not that Tucker Carlson doing the big troll job 191 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:26.200 and Matt Lower's daughter criminal genius lots to get to 192 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:29.360 six eighteen hang out anyway. So she was the same, 193 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:31.440 and I took comfort in the fact that this is 194 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:35.360 when she was first starting out. And you know, one 195 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:37.200 of the things you got to do early on in 196 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:39.879 your career is you go around and you're not just 197 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:43.799 doing music tours, but you're doing press stuff, and so 198 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:46.240 that means a lot of early mornings. That means going 199 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:49.960 in and sitting in on morning shows after you just 200 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:53.080 did a concert till one in the morning. It's a grind. 201 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:55.399 I can respect that. And the only thing I took 202 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:58.080 comfort in is MS Rexa, who came to do like 203 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.720 a three song concert. She came to Durham for a 204 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:05.559 room of maybe fifty radio people and do a little 205 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:07.759 mini concert for us, and she was good. I didn't 206 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:10.759 know who she was, but also I could tell she 207 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:16.840 wanted to be there less than we did, so I like, 208 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.360 all right, I get that. Whatever. So anyway, that's the 209 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:22.840 biggest team building event that I can remember, other than 210 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:26.720 kind of the meetings. It's interesting some people are see 211 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:28.440 this one. There's a couple of you who sent me 212 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.600 this version of it, and I feel like this goes 213 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:35.799 sideways quick. My company took us for paintball. It was 214 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:39.919 pretty fun. Shooting your coworkers is cool with paintballs. Of course, 215 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:44.879 I don't want to get canceled. That sounds like fun 216 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:52.120 to some people who are not thinking the thing through 217 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:56.840 the amount of politics. I think you could drum up 218 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:59.840 because right inevitably, if you work with ten people, there's 219 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:04.399 a really petty person in there, right, And so you 220 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:08.519 go to do this team building thing, and you know, 221 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:10.679 let's say the one you know, there's one woman or 222 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:14.679 one dude in there who just has ninety percent more 223 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:18.440 paintball shots on their body, They're going to start questioning 224 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:23.039 how everyone feels about them. I mean, let's let's face it, 225 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:29.320 if you had to make a list of your coworkers, 226 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.600 there's one you would really like to shoot with a 227 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.360 paintball gun. With that more so than others, maybe you 228 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.159 want to maybe you want to hit them all and 229 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:39.360 paint Here's the problem. Here's where paintball things go sideways. 230 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:42.120 So when I was in Minnesota, they did we did 231 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:47.320 a they built this huge, huge paintball business right with 232 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:51.519 courses they had like it looked like professional FBI shoots 233 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:55.559 cities right or you got. You know, it was really 234 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:57.720 well done and they and they had done a big 235 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:00.720 promotion with some of our stations, and as part of it, 236 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.679 I guess the company probably did some trade. So we 237 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:06.519 did a promotion out there and they had all the 238 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:11.480 radio people come out and they had one of like 239 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:15.840 the number two or number three nationally ranked paintball team 240 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:18.799 was there, right, So I guess if you're into paintball, 241 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:21.519 these guys are some big deals. And they were nice enough. 242 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:24.279 We were talking, but then somebody say, all right, so 243 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:29.840 we'll have the radio people versus the runner up world 244 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.840 champions and it didn't go well for us. But where 245 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:39.039 it went even worse is we're using like ghetto paint guns. Right, 246 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:42.360 Like these things they're the ones that if you show 247 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:44.919 over the course with nothing. Now granted they were new 248 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:49.200 because the place was new, but professional paintballers, the speed 249 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:51.480 that those things are coming at you is very different. 250 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:54.879 In fact, it's so different. I remember I got I go, 251 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.720 was behind a bus and a dude kind of crawled 252 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:00.279 up from under and got me. Whatever I did kill 253 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:01.840 a guy. I just want to brag on that we 254 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:05.799 got another one of these themed Kamala Harris live streams. 255 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:10.919 This time it's not white dudes or black women. It's chefs, 256 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:18.480 celebrity chefs. Let's see here, Okay, so more than one 257 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:21.799 hundred folks be part of it, sixty notable chefs and 258 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:26.360 food world personalities, including I don't know a bunch. I 259 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:29.000 guess I recognize some of these folks. I think one 260 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:34.639 of them's on chopped that Padma Lakshmi or whatever, I 261 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:36.960 don't know how to say her name. And then Joel 262 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:40.360 McHale's hosting it, so I guess a bunch of leftists 263 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.360 chefs are going to do it. Did you see yesterday 264 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:47.000 when they were fawning over Kamala Harris being able to 265 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:50.279 crack an egg with one hand? Is that not how 266 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.840 you crack an egg? I just have a question. Is 267 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:57.720 that not a skill that people have to be able 268 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:01.639 to crack an egg with one hand? I'm just asking 269 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.320 because I'm not bragging here. It's just literally how I 270 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:06.919 was taught to crack an egg. Hold it in one hand, 271 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:09.919 basically put your thumb and you're pinky up under each end, 272 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:12.679 crack it and then just flip it up anyway. So 273 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:19.240 she's doing that, and I what was amusing is the optics, 274 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:24.000 as many people picked up on, because you're like, hey, 275 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:26.559 this is going to be the first woman president. No, no, 276 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.399 this time, we mean it. Watch how good she is 277 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:33.600 in the kitchen, which I don't know. I thought that 278 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:37.279 was funny. But also she's just cracking an egg. It's okay. 279 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:40.399 That's why you're run for the presidency, so you never 280 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:45.840 have to crack an egg again. No white house chefs man, Yeah, 281 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:47.240 I wonder if that's what it is. A bunch of 282 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:49.759 these cats just want to be white house chef. Yeah. 283 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:56.159 I don't recognize most of these names. Gail Simmons, Tom Kleikio, Glicio, 284 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:59.399 I don't know. But anyway, that's the theme thing tonight. 285 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:04.720 All right, back to back to this insanity. We were 286 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:10.599 talking about team building events. I laughed, I did laugh here, 287 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:14.079 but also it made me just a little nervous. So 288 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:25.599 in Colorado, specifically in Chafey County, a group in this case, 289 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:28.519 let's see, I'm trying to figure out what is the 290 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:33.960 Does it say what the company is? It doesn't say 291 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:40.279 what the I'd be very curious what their business is like. 292 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:42.400 Is it an outdoor business where he might have had 293 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:45.680 some skills? Is it a I don't know, a candle maker? 294 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:50.359 I don't know. But a injured Colorado man weathered to 295 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:53.880 storm and survived a night alone on a mountain after 296 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:59.440 his coworkers left him behind during an office team building retreat. 297 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.880 The mayor was part of fifteen coworkers who had set 298 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:11.519 off to summit Mount Chevano. This will tell me a 299 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:17.599 lot here, hold on Mount Schevano elevation because summoning, you know, 300 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:25.720 sometimes summoning is just I'm like Jesus. And then it 301 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:29.640 showed me. Yeah, yeah, obviously when I search for Mount Shavano, 302 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:34.559 I want Mount Everesfects. All right, Mount Shavano. Oh you 303 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:39.279 know what, I know exactly where this is. I have 304 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:42.920 driven Okay, so it's it. It's yes, all right. So 305 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:45.920 Chavano is a very long, it's a very high mound. 306 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:48.920 It's fourteen thousand foot peak, but it doesn't have much 307 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:52.960 of an elevation change, and it's a it's actually other 308 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:56.160 than the oxygen part, which can get a little troubling 309 00:18:56.200 --> 00:19:00.279 for people once you hit tree line. Yeah, okay, so 310 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:02.640 i'd call it an intermediate thing. You're not using a 311 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:05.440 bunch of ropes and stuff. So anyway, that's what they 312 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:07.319 were going to do. That's a hell of an office thing. 313 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:09.920 That's you know, that's got Colorado written all over it. 314 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:13.279 But for whatever reason, they went up there with all 315 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:17.039 fifteen of the people. They reached the summit at around 316 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:24.359 eleven thirty in the morning and on their way down, folks, 317 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:27.920 he's kind of wandered off, because again it can you 318 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:30.599 can get very disoriented and you don't think it is 319 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:34.000 even though you feel comfortable like minutes later at that elevation. 320 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:38.519 For some people, it just doesn't work. So anyway, so 321 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:43.559 he's dragging behind, he's not feeling well, and they kind 322 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:46.440 of left him on the summit, I know, he say, 323 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:48.000 I'm going to get some pictures. I'll be down in 324 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:50.319 a minute, but they didn't wait, and by the time 325 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:54.799 he started walking down, they had come by and picked 326 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:57.160 up the party. Because again, you can drive quite a 327 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:01.640 ways up this thing, and they just left him, and 328 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:03.680 so he trying to figure out because now he can't 329 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:06.240 see where the pickup point is. He's just he's in 330 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:08.799 a big boulder field. When you when you're up that high, 331 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:11.200 it's just rocks for as far as you can see. 332 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.000 It's I understand why it would be a little dishorienting. 333 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:18.119 So he then tried to descend on his own, went 334 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:22.240 off the wrong side, which is very steep, and eventually 335 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:26.400 he basically said, all right, I guess I'm I guess 336 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:31.440 I'm sleeping on the mountain, and he did, Let's see. 337 00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:33.440 Can you can you imagine, like you know, your your 338 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:35.599 company takes you up there, like you said, you probably 339 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:37.319 don't want to be there anyway, and all day you're 340 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:40.279 sitting there and your managers are like, and what's important 341 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:43.559 is the team and the team we are a team, 342 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:44.759 and we need to wear. 343 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:47.160 Us at this mountain together as a team. 344 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:48.799 And they're yelling at you the whole time. You're going 345 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:50.839 up as stupid bout it and we're a team. We'll 346 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:55.920 go team woo, synergy and production, yeah yeah, yeah yeah. 347 00:20:56.119 --> 00:20:57.480 And then at the end of the day they're like, 348 00:20:57.480 --> 00:20:59.279 get on the bus and they're like, where's Bob And 349 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:00.119 they're like, screw. 350 00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:05.839 The list, go yeah, Bob's nobody likes botot Bob stares 351 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:08.440 at the interns or you know what what, I don't 352 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:09.079 know what their objection. 353 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:11.160 So they had to fail the event, right there has 354 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:12.200 to be the ultimate failure. 355 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:14.480 Well that's so this is where this is the kind 356 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:18.880 of a roundabout way where we're going here, what is okay? 357 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:21.480 So one would argue, if it's a team building event, 358 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:24.279 abandoning your team member at the top of a mountain. 359 00:21:24.039 --> 00:21:26.480 Right, leaving a coworker to die in a mountain, try. 360 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:30.799 With okay, however, but but what are team building events 361 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:34.960 expected to produce? What is the what is the reason 362 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:36.640 for doing it? Other than to annoy me? 363 00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:38.519 Corpses on the side of a mountain? 364 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:42.440 Okay, what else are they? That's a that's you could 365 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:45.720 call that a side effect. What's the main what's the 366 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:55.839 main reason for doing team building? Efficiency? Right? Operates more efficiently, 367 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:59.720 is more harmonious. And if you got a guy nobody 368 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:01.400 likes and they're willing to ditch on the top of 369 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:05.000 a mountain, maybe that's why your production is not what 370 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:06.920 it should be, right, because you got to deal with 371 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:10.480 Bob because Bob's Bob's an a hole, right right, you're 372 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:12.880 saying it was a purpose they hated Bob. I'm just 373 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:14.960 and I don't know if it's Bob, but we're going 374 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.720 with Bob. What if Bob's would you know? How there's 375 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:21.400 people and that you've worked with over the year, not 376 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:24.000 just I'm not just talking to Ross, but everybody. You know, 377 00:22:24.039 --> 00:22:26.200 there's people you've worked with over the years that you 378 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:29.440 realize that them being involved in your project will make 379 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:34.599 your project harder to do. Yeah, you remember this in school? 380 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:36.880 Remember in school where they'd have you break up in groups? 381 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:39.359 How there was some kids that you they clearly were 382 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:40.960 not contributed. 383 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:41.920 I mean, or it could be the other way. He 384 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:44.079 could be the quiet guy who always gets his job done, 385 00:22:44.119 --> 00:22:46.400 that keeps his head down right, and then they're just 386 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:47.680 they forget about him. 387 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:50.680 He could be like, he's not making him look bad 388 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:52.119 because he's actually working. 389 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:55.119 Possibly maybe he minds his own business and he's like 390 00:22:55.880 --> 00:22:59.400 they just forgot this personally. No, I'm just trying to 391 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:00.680 look at it for all sides. 392 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:03.119 Yeah, no, that's fair. Look, it could be any of 393 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:03.680 these things. 394 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:05.640 But because the go to thing is though they must 395 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:07.759 have hated the dude, or maybe he just you know, 396 00:23:07.960 --> 00:23:09.640 was a quiet dude who mind his own business. 397 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:12.559 Maybe he hates his coworkers so much he's like, I'm 398 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:13.559 gonna die on the mountain. 399 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:16.000 That'll be better, right, It could have been great something 400 00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:16.240 like that. 401 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:18.000