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Orcas Don’t Write the Providers Playbook; They Live It (Podcast) · The Providers Playbook Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, my beautiful providers.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's Saturday, podcast time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turn me up or turn me off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's fucking go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Orcas are magnificent creatures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even great white sharks don't mess with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to know something else?
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  SPEAKER_00: They have something in common with humans.
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  SPEAKER_00: Obviously,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're both mammals,
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  SPEAKER_00: but But one really important thing I want to talk about today,
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  SPEAKER_00: as in orca pods,
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  SPEAKER_00: the older generations remain involved with the younger orcas and teaching them,
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  SPEAKER_00: sharing knowledge, like in lean years, where to find fish, where to hunt.
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  SPEAKER_00: So very important components in orca pods.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too bad today,
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  SPEAKER_00: Those bonds with our older generations,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, our grandmas and grandpas, are more difficult.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's to distance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes there's, you know, failed connections.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we have something to learn from orcas.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's strange if you think about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ability to connect is so much easier via social media, planes, automobiles.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can close distances, but we have less connections.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should have more of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm blessed,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm lucky and blessed that I have my in-laws,
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  SPEAKER_00: so the grandparents of my kids are nearby and they're very involved,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you about my father-in-law.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were in the car driving one day.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had moved here.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'd been here for almost 11 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Early on, he said something to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I respect this tremendously.
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  SPEAKER_00: Troy, what are your thoughts about teaching the kids, getting involved in things?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I paused and I thought, you know what, I appreciate he even asked before doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my response is today, as it was 10 years ago, this is a village.
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  SPEAKER_00: It takes a village and I appreciate what you offer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's a wise man, a very successful man.
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  SPEAKER_00: So got the permission and then Every once in a while would chime in with some things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you know what I've noticed over the years is the kids love his stories.
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  SPEAKER_00: The crazy stories that he says and they're funny too, but they love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they ask about it and they want to learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's a valuable connection.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm lucky to have it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that brings me to my own grandpa.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a divorced family,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not whining about my life,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I had kind of one grandma and grandpa that I hung out with on my dad's side.
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  SPEAKER_00: My God, this guy,
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  SPEAKER_00: everybody,
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  SPEAKER_00: all of his peers went to work at the paper mill and did some sort of manual labor.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, no, I'm not doing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was way back in the 40s.
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  SPEAKER_00: He decided to become an entrepreneur.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was an artist.
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  SPEAKER_00: He would paint signs and he would fix things.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was always just sort of entrepreneurial, but he's a couple things he said to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: You guys read my post, you know, your work is your signature.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love it to this day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another one,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: if we're all working too hard,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know what, boys, it's time to put the shovel down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on in, have some lemonade.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grandma made some lemonade.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or my favorite, and I'm going to have to say it verbatim, but you know what, Troy?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't care if you sell apples.
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  SPEAKER_00: You be the best goddamn apple seller that city knows, and you will never be out of work.
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  SPEAKER_00: My favorite, my favorite one.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in that sort of vein, it's 2026, folks, and he's been gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love the guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope you're doing well, Gramps.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm still talking about him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Passed away in the early 90s.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my wife and I have started some traditions as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: A couple of them I'll mention here that come to mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Manners.
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  SPEAKER_00: My goodness.
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  SPEAKER_00: I always tell my kids the bar is low.
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  SPEAKER_00: Very low today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So please, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Excuse me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, ma'am.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we do live in Texas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sunday we have is family day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kids didn't like it very often.
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  SPEAKER_00: But boy, some of those stories and bonds we've had.
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  SPEAKER_00: So check out my substack.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's some more there.
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  SPEAKER_00: But hey, I've been writing...
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  SPEAKER_00: For almost a year, since early January, I've just, this is my second podcast episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's some themes coming out of the Providers Playbook around traditions,
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  SPEAKER_00: legacy, a fearlessness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to keep sending out both.
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  SPEAKER_00: But do you guys have any grandpa or grandma stories?
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  SPEAKER_00: Put them in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Put them in the comments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or what legacy or traditions are you looking to establish?
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  SPEAKER_00: Check them out and put them in the comments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, my favorite part, get after your weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm going to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Laugh, really laugh and spend time with those you love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get outside, get your vitamin D and exercise and do everything with vigor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go.