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I Thought That Was the Starboard!? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: I thought that was the starboard. One more thing, I'm
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  Speaker 1: strong and getty. One more thing, did you say starbursts
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  Speaker 1: starboard as opposed to ports. We will get to my
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  Speaker 1: sailing lessons here in a little bit. It's right, I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking sailing lessons. That's not something I thought I would
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  Speaker 1: ever say in my life. I was going to bring
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  Speaker 1: this up. Joe and I were on a meeting yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: a zoom meeting with a whole bunch of people for
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  Speaker 1: a client, and everybody on there but us was in
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  Speaker 1: their twenties, early thirties. They were pretty young.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the almost everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, Kate, I thought this was interesting and maybe
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  Speaker 1: you can relate to it since you're young. Joe and
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  Speaker 1: I are because of our schedule and everything like that
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  Speaker 1: and our personalities. We both won luckily, very rarely have
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  Speaker 1: to go to meetings to be able to have a
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  Speaker 1: career in life, and go to like one meeting of
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  Speaker 1: year is pretty awesome, and then and then neither one
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  Speaker 1: of us like them to last very long.
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  Speaker 2: Fair.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know anybody who likes a nice long meeting, well,
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 2: And yet most of them turn into that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because it really only takes one person in a
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  Speaker 1: slight position of authority to drag it out anyway. So
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  Speaker 1: we're on the Zoom call yesterday with a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: of twenty somethings, talked about the business we were going
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  Speaker 1: to do. I don't know how many minutes. It was
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  Speaker 1: in very minutes, and then somebody said, is that about it?
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  Speaker 1: Can we wrap it up? And yeah? And it was over.
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  Speaker 1: It was over. And I texted Joe. I said, if
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  Speaker 1: there had been one fifty five year old salesperson on that,
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  Speaker 1: we would still be talking right now. The younger generation
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  Speaker 1: has no interest in just sitting around in a meaning jabberin.
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  Speaker 2: Is it because they're so awkward communicating in person to people?
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  Speaker 1: I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if that's it, I'm encouraging you. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: get that sense from this crowd.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just a they don't They just don't
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  Speaker 1: do the niceties. And maybe that's a bad thing. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but they didn't feel any need. Joe and
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  Speaker 1: I've sensed over the years there's a certain belief, especially
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  Speaker 1: by whoever called the meeting, it can't get over too
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  Speaker 1: quick or that kind of like makes it seem like
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  Speaker 1: we shouldn't have had a meeting, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Or it's not respectful to just come in, take care
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  Speaker 2: of stuff and leave. Now, in some cultures that would
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  Speaker 2: be incredibly disrespectful.
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  Speaker 1: Cultures will do.
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  Speaker 2: No small talk, no chat. No, you would never do that.
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  Speaker 1: Cultures like some of the most successful businesses on earth,
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  Speaker 1: both Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, very famous for barely
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  Speaker 1: having any meetings. And when they have them, they're.
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  Speaker 2: Quick, right, Steve Jobs famously nobody's allowed to sit down.
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  Speaker 1: Or was it we're gonna check the boxes and go.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember if his Musk or Jobs, but it
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  Speaker 1: was always can this be an email when somebody would
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  Speaker 1: talk about a meeting? Yeah, which I've often wondered, how
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  Speaker 1: many meetings have you been to where you thought this
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  Speaker 1: could have been a group email? So easily?
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  Speaker 2: Well, and for what it's worth, just getting back to
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  Speaker 2: that video conference, I emerge from it thinking, boy, those
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  Speaker 2: people are really sharp and good at their jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 2: There was efficient, it was not, and of course, you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting back to our personalities, you know, the one thing
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  Speaker 2: that dawned on me crystal clear early in our careers
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  Speaker 2: where we did have to go to a fair number
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  Speaker 2: of meetings was the great divide between people whose job
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  Speaker 2: is accomplishing something and people whose job is being somewhere
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  Speaker 2: for a set amount of time and maybe they accomplished something,
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  Speaker 2: because you know the nature of our thing is we
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  Speaker 2: just we work until we can't stand to work anymore,
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  Speaker 2: and we try to do a good show and get
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  Speaker 2: rating and blah blah blah. But if you're leaving at five,
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  Speaker 2: no matter how much you've gotten done, or whether you've
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  Speaker 2: worked hard or just coasted or whatever, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: prolong that meeting as long as you possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: It might be the best part of your day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, exactly, sit around chatting with coworkers and laughing
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  Speaker 2: and you're not focused, you're not working or anything.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was always that sort of person who prolonged the meetings. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the salespeople like had to sell to
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  Speaker 2: survive or like, can we get out of here please?
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  Speaker 2: The good ones.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, I remember being in a meeting this had to
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  Speaker 3: have been like twelve years ago, and one of the
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  Speaker 3: guys who I was talking to, and when I'm saying
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  Speaker 3: a meeting, I was the youngest person in this room
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  Speaker 3: by like twenty five years. Everybody in there was probably
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  Speaker 3: fifty five or above, and it was being run by
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  Speaker 3: somebody in their seventies.
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  Speaker 2: And I was talking to the guy and.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, I think these people are still back
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  Speaker 3: in the day where we couldn't just like text somebody
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  Speaker 3: or email somebody your question after the meeting, so everybody
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  Speaker 3: felt like they had to get it out right then.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that was kind of an interesting element,
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  Speaker 3: because yeah, a lot of us it's like, okay, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I'll ask Like if I have a question, I'll just
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  Speaker 3: ask him later.
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  Speaker 1: I used to always say, and I still believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I've been to like two meetings in my life that needed
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  Speaker 1: to happen. It couldn't have been a phone call or
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  Speaker 1: an email. No, oh boy, do you think there's a
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  Speaker 1: go ahead? I was just gonna say, I.
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  Speaker 2: Try to be honest about what is what seems to
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  Speaker 2: me to be right or good or better, just because
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  Speaker 2: of being something of an introvert. And I don't like
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  Speaker 2: small talk. I don't like pretending to be chummy with
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  Speaker 2: people apparently you know, and other people are not made
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  Speaker 2: that way. Like you know, we have friends, I'll keep
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  Speaker 2: it vake who are like way down the road of
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  Speaker 2: being individualists who don't need like any associations and friends
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  Speaker 2: and support and whatever. And it's a blind spot because
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  Speaker 2: they don't understand. No, like eighty five percent of the
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  Speaker 2: population is not made that way, So the way you
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  Speaker 2: see the world is never going to work. And I
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  Speaker 2: try to be you know, fair about that, because there
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  Speaker 2: are people who are energized and given joy by being
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  Speaker 2: in a meeting for a longer time because they're with
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  Speaker 2: other people.
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  Speaker 1: That explains that part of it. But does it explain
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  Speaker 1: why a company that's is to make a certain amount
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  Speaker 1: of money and then make more of the next quarter
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  Speaker 1: allows that do that in your own time? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in your social life.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's because most people are introverts and introvert
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, are extroverts and extroverts think their normal and
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  Speaker 2: introverts are weird.
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  Speaker 1: Before we move on to Port and Starboard, Katie is
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  Speaker 1: the youngest person there. Does it make any sense to
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  Speaker 1: you our idea that if there had been one older
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  Speaker 1: person there it would have lasted twice as long.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want to say it, but yeah, probably, yep.
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  Speaker 1: I think the young crowds like we're done.
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  Speaker 4: It's always the old guy when they say does anybody
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  Speaker 4: have any questions that decides to stand up and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I have a question, And then everybody looks at him
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  Speaker 4: and says.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my favorite thing in any meeting, my favorite
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  Speaker 1: thing of all is the person that comes in late
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  Speaker 1: and then asks skoshed about something that was already covered,
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  Speaker 1: and then they covered again for everybody else that's already
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  Speaker 1: heard it.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Everybody kind of looks around awkwardly for a minute,
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  Speaker 2: then bunches into it again. Have the confidence, America humanity
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  Speaker 2: to say we covered that before you got there. We
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  Speaker 2: can talk after the amount of time that doesn't effing happen.
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  Speaker 2: It makes me insane, It makes me militant. They are
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  Speaker 2: like crimes against humanity that pissed me off less than
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  Speaker 2: when the moderator of a meeting just looks around like, well,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing else I can do but waste everybody else's
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  Speaker 2: time by repeating all this.
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  Speaker 1: So here we go.
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  Speaker 2: God, I want to assault people.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I'll keep this brief. Since the last the
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  Speaker 1: lessons actually didn't happen, So I signed up for these
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  Speaker 1: sailing lessons and I was all excited.
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  Speaker 2: Three things rum sodomy and the lash, the worst moose
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  Speaker 2: are the three things that kept order in the British Navy.
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  Speaker 2: And if they're good enough for the Great British Navy,
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  Speaker 2: they're good enough for your sailboat.
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  Speaker 1: Jack. The disappointing thing was, even though the teacher didn't
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  Speaker 1: show up, I still got scurvy. I thought I could
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  Speaker 1: avoid it, and I got buggered.
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  Speaker 2: Another day, another buggery.
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  Speaker 1: So I live next to this little man made lake
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  Speaker 1: and they people sail on it, and they were doing lessons,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought one I've always kind of wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do that. I'm not really into boats, but I've always
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  Speaker 1: liked the idea of sailing, just because it's so ancient
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  Speaker 1: and the way human beings, you know, got out of
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  Speaker 1: their continents and traveled the world. AnyWho, I thought it
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  Speaker 1: tacked these little sailing lessons, and I thought maybe because
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  Speaker 1: they got the boats there. We live right next to
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  Speaker 1: the little lake, they got the boats there. If I
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  Speaker 1: learned how to do this, maybe Henry and I could
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  Speaker 1: go out and start doing that. Maybe good bah bah
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  Speaker 1: bah love it another thing for a kid to learn
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  Speaker 1: how to do. Unfortunately, somehow they missed my email or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody else signed up for the class. So the
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  Speaker 1: instructor didn't think there was anybody for the class. So
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  Speaker 1: I wear it around for a while. The instructor didn't
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  Speaker 1: show up, But in two weeks I'm going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: What I find funny is it's a two hour class,
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  Speaker 1: two days in a row, so Saturday and Sunday noon
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  Speaker 1: to two, and then they give you a certificate. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how the certificate is gonna certificate of what
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  Speaker 1: a certificate of? You have completed the four our class
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  Speaker 1: with this person at this little lake, with this boat.
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  Speaker 2: Say for the ocean. Well, now you can present that
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  Speaker 2: certificate at the security card for the ocean. Tell no,
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  Speaker 2: this is fine, I'm certified.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly who do I show this certificate too? And in
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  Speaker 1: what circumstance?
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  Speaker 3: Sail around the world and then show them your certificate?
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  Speaker 2: Jack, you got a frame? Yo yo, yo, yo yo.
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  Speaker 2: You you can't just walk in this marina and grab
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  Speaker 2: a boat at oh oh, you have the certificate. I'm sorry, sir,
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  Speaker 2: help yourself, yes, sir, or.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps I get some of those Somali pirates. I'm the coptain.
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  Speaker 1: Now I just show them my certificate and.
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  Speaker 2: It's beautiful. Now you famously refuse to don short pants
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  Speaker 2: and you're always wearing Okay, I'm swim gear because that's
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  Speaker 2: a special.
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  Speaker 1: Jeans that you swim. Oh, like we're in Florida. I
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  Speaker 1: got swim trunks and a swim shirt and something to
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  Speaker 1: cover my head because if I'm out there for two hours, man,
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  Speaker 1: their opportunity to get burnt really exists.
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  Speaker 2: Are they jorts?
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  Speaker 1: They're not jeorts?
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  Speaker 2: But and do you have rubber sold cowboy boots since
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  Speaker 2: you usually wear cowboy boats address I do, otherwise you'll
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  Speaker 2: slip and crack your head open.
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  Speaker 1: Well. I was there the other day lifting weights and
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  Speaker 1: I saw one of the I saw some kids out
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  Speaker 1: there on one of the sailboats and it flipped over
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  Speaker 1: in the water, and so I went into the office.
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  Speaker 1: I said, Hey, the sailboat just flipped over it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Is that something to be worried about it?
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  Speaker 1: And they said, no, they teach you in that in
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  Speaker 1: the class, you flip over the sailboat on purpose to
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  Speaker 1: show you how to get it back upright again and
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  Speaker 1: everything like that. I thought, okay, so I will be
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  Speaker 1: getting wet, I guess. But of course, because of the
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  Speaker 1: way I am, having not even taken the classes, yet
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  Speaker 1: I'm on Facebook marketplace shopping for sailboats and planning giant
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  Speaker 1: excursions and all this sort of seah exactly having not
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  Speaker 1: even gotten on this twelve foot sail boat in a
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  Speaker 1: man made lake with no wind. Well, there's a guy.
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  Speaker 2: Who went on a long screen about the evils of
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  Speaker 2: TV and how he should give it up, then showed
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  Speaker 2: up with the biggest TV I've ever seen in my life.
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  Speaker 2: Two days later, I could see you like buying one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty foot still boat. Yeah, I'll be announcing you.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be back in six weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I'll start wearing the hat all the time Paris. That's
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  Speaker 1: a must.
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  Speaker 4: You can always go pirate, eye patch, peg leg hook
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  Speaker 4: for a hand. Probably the eye patch is the easiest.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's it. I would say it is