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So good to see you, my fine friend.

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What’s going on, buddy?

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Hey, you know what?

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I think we got a little sunshine today.

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We had a little rain,

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but it’s still a beautiful day.

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It’s Friday.

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We have our show to do.

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We’ve got a special guest.

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It’s all good.

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I’m going to switch things up, Craig.

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You know what it tells me?

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It sounds like it’s time for an audit.

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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to the one and only

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Friday Night Audit,

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the only show on

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hospitality that’s here to

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help you prove that your

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drinking habits are not

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nearly as bad as you thought.

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Look at ours.

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I’m Glenn Hausman.

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That’s Craig Sullivan.

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How you doing there, buddy?

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I’m great, brother.

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How are you?

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How’s beautiful Nashville?

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It is.

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Well, the storm clouds are coming.

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So I think we’re going to

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have some rain this evening.

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But that is OK, because as you know,

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last night I got out to my

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favorite barbecue joint,

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the Peg Leg Porker.

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But, you know,

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we’ll get I’m sure there’ll

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be some hot barbecue talk

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at some point during this this program.

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Absolutely.

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And we had a live three-minute Thursday,

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and you were at that fine establishment.

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So go check that out on

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Instagram after this show.

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I love this.

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Would this be the Friday

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night multiverse that we’re

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talking about here?

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Could be.

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Could be.

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And, you know, once we buy Lucasfilm,

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you know, we can do whatever we want.

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I don’t know what the problem is,

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why we can’t get that deal

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over the deadline.

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I think our mistake was, you know,

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you got to choose the yellow card.

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I mean, the white card, the blue card,

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the green card.

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We should have gone, you know,

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we should have gone with

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the hospitality card or

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something like that and made this happen.

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We should have bought all the cards.

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That’s what we should have done.

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But hey,

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my stock at Disney was up as of

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yesterday.

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So that was a good thing.

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That is awesome.

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That is a good thing.

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All right, Craig.

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We got a great show today.

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We actually got ourselves a

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real hotel here today or

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something like that.

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Second Generation runs one

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of the very finest hotel

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companies here in California.

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Yeah.

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They’ve been friends for a very long time.

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I’m glad you said California

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because for a second I

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thought you were talking

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about the Houseman Resort

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Pool Club and Smokehouse, and I’m like,

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I’m already on the show.

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What about brewery and

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dispensary and shipyard?

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Yes.

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Well,

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we don’t want to break the shipyard

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story yet.

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I know we’re on the landlocked,

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but I’m building a canal

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out to the Long Island

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Sound so I can build ferry boats.

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No, no, no.

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You got your waterfront home

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here in Newport that is

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under construction.

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So your boat is there.

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So, you know,

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it was very generous of you

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to divert some money from

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that new construction

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project to buy Producer

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David a houseboat.

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And it’s been the hit of Newport Harbor.

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You are too much.

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Come on.

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Let’s do this introduction.

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Hey,

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Second Generation Hotelier runs one of

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the very finest hotel

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organizations in California.

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They own and operate

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boutique hotels and soft-branded hotels,

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and they are just the best

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at F&B and hotel operations.

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Glenn and I stay at their Wayfarer Hotel,

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which is part of the Tapestry Collection,

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in downtown Los Angeles for

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events when we’re in L.A.,

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and it’s always the best.

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That’s my favorite album.

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That’s it.

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Hotel Matt, CEO of Pacifica Hotels.

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What’s up, gentlemen?

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I love that we have an

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audience that no one can see.

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It’s awesome.

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I have them all hiding in

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different parts of the,

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mostly bound and gag in the

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closet because they didn’t

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want to have to suffer through this.

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I programmed my brain to be

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able to have that applause

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anytime I do something good.

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I have that going just

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constantly in my own head,

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so that way it reaffirms myself.

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I’m like, all right,

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that was a really bad joke.

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Nobody laughed, but

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I’m laughing in here.

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I’m killing it in here.

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How are you guys?

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How are you doing, Matt?

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Thank you for joining us.

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Real good.

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How are you all?

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Just the best.

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It’s Friday.

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We’ve made it through another week.

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We’ve got a three-day weekend.

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You know,

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I want to go around the room and ask,

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you know,

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what’s everybody doing for this

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President’s Day weekend?

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Glenn, let’s start with you.

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What are you doing?

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Well,

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it’s going to be broken down into

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several components.

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But the first most pressing

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component is what’s going

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to be happening tonight, right?

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I’m here.

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I’m in Music City.

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I’m in Nashville.

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And I don’t like country music.

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So every time I…

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Every time I come here,

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I love old school country music.

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Anything from like before 1990,

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I connect with pretty well,

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but I just don’t connect

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with modern country music.

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So every time I’m here,

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I try to do that because I’d like to,

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because I know I’m a hippie

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jam band boy and my musical

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tastes are very different.

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So I do try.

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I love all types of music

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and I do love live music.

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So one of the things is I

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could just walk a block away,

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and even if I see country

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music that I don’t love,

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I know I’m going to see

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some incredible musicians

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and just have a good old time.

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But, Matt,

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I’m concerned because I don’t

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got any boots.

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I only got my Hoka sneakers.

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Hoka sneakers?

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You know, Hoka’s on the rise.

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You don’t want to get into

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the sneaker talk too early here, Glenn.

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No, we don’t.

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But, you know,

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I feel like I just did their

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new marketing ad.

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There’s no better way to

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make them know you’re an old man.

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Hoka.

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No, there’s one other brand.

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I would say Skechers maybe beats out Hoka.

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But they’ve got Snoop Dogg now.

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Snoop Dogg’s their branding king.

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Yeah, you’re totally right.

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We’ll save the sneaker talk.

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We’ve got to push that off.

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Matt,

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what are you doing for the

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President’s Day weekend?

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President’s Day weekend,

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I’m up here in Utah.

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I’ve got a place up here for a while.

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Love the ski.

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I’m sorry to interrupt you.

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You guys are killing me.

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Killing me, killing me, killing me.

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What you guys should be doing is this.

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That was going to be next, David.

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I saw the prompt.

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I was just following the host.

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Hold on.

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Hold on.

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Hold on.

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I remember last week’s show, Matt.

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I’m sorry to do this live on air.

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But last week’s show,

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I was getting yelled at by

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producer Dave for, like,

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touching buttons and doing things.

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We’re 128 shows deep.

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We had a flow.

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You hit the intro graphic.

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You hit the drink graphic.

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You hit the ending graphic.

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I do everything else.

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I know.

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I thought for a second you

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said you touched Dave’s butt.

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He still won’t let me.

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How am I on?

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Listen, you’ve had 128 dates,

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and I’m still getting

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nowhere with this guy.

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I’m a tough one.

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I’m a tough one.

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Yeah.

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All right, Dave.

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Since I’m in a hotel room,

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I’m going to let you handle

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all of this kind of stuff.

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So I’ve got a problem.

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I’m in a hotel room.

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I’m going to a cocktail party after this.

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It was too complicated for

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me to get a drink.

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So I’m drinking water.

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And Matt,

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I know you’re doing a cool mocktail.

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I’ve got a little Pacifica

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mocktail that my team has

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helped me develop.

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It’s got a little peach.

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It’s got a little lemon.

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It has, let’s see,

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I put a little grape in there too.

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And oh,

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it’s an apple cider today because

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I’m up in Utah.

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I figured, you know, why not?

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Nice.

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There you go.

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Very refreshing.

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Very good.

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I love that you’re doing that.

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Craig, I’m sure you’re drinking the beer.

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What I love is, you know,

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refresh off the dry January.

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But the fact is trends are

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moving in the direction

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that people still want to

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hang out and have great drinks,

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but not necessarily drinks with alcohol.

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And you guys are pioneers of

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the rooftop bar and are

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staying ahead of the trends.

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So how are you seeing this

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like whole mocktail kind of

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thing happening?

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Usually when it comes to mocking people,

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it’s just mocking me.

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So it’s nice to see that

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cocktails are getting mocked.

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Yeah.

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You know, it’s a great question, Glenn.

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And actually,

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as I go to more and more of

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what I would consider the

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more forward-thinking restauranteurs,

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there is on their drink

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menu a whole – it’s

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becoming – it used to be

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like down there with the soft drinks.

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Oh, we got a lemonade.

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Oh, right.

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Now it’s like the Shirley Temple.

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Yeah, exactly.

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A Shirley Temple.

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That was a big one in our

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family growing up.

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But now, you know,

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you have very complicated

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mocktails that are done

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with the same craftsmanship

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that we do our cocktails.

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And it’s really high quality

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and people love it.

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There’s more and more people

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that are not drinking for

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either health reasons or

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whatever reasons there are.

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You know, again,

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we have a lot of people

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walking a lot of different

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paths these days.

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And I think it’s…

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I’m an in-betweener.

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You know,

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the way I’m thinking of

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incorporating it when I see

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them is I’ll start off with a cocktail.

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But if I’m hanging out and

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I’m going to be here for a few hours,

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then maybe I’m going to

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have one without alcohol in it.

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And depending on how I feel socially,

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I’m either confident to

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just drink water or maybe I

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want to have something

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that’s a little bit more fun.

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Maybe I want to engage in

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the experience a little bit

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more and then I could go

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and have another cocktail.

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Because what I see is a

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great mixologist can craft

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an amazing drink and it

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doesn’t have to F you up to

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be a successful experience.

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That’s right.

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That’s right.

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You know, and the other thing too is,

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you know, Matt,

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I’ve been saying this for a long time.

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Nobody does food and

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beverage better than you guys.

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You’ve got an incredible

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food and beverage team and

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you’re focused on so many

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things and bringing that to

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the experience of your hotels.

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What’s that like?

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I mean,

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do you guys sit down once a month

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and go through the menus and

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not only for the cocktails, the mocktails,

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and the food,

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or are you constantly

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experimenting in your

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office as well and trying

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things out at the corporate

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office before you try it

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out at one of the hotels?

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You know,

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I think one of the things that we do, one,

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we have a lot of trust in our team.

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Our F&B leader, Mac, is just phenomenal.

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I mean, he and his team are very,

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very close.

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Doesn’t he fight crime with his partner,

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Cheese?

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Yeah, mac and cheese, absolutely.

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But, you know, I mean,

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he comes from Starwood.

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He did a great job over there.

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He’s done an amazing job for us.

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He is just really thoughtful.

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You know,

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he goes out with some of our team.

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I’ve been trying to get an

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invite out to these little excursions.

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But he’ll go out to Maker’s

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Mark and all these great brands that,

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you know, everyone wants us to pour.

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And he’ll go out and he’ll do his own,

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you know, custom blend.

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And we’ll call that the Pacifica blend.

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And we bring it and you can

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only have that drink at one

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of our restaurants or bars.

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And so we really try and

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bring a unique style to it.

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You know,

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we have infused our own alcohol

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at our bars.

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You know,

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we had big infusers behind the

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bars and we still do.

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We just do a lot of

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thoughtful kind of work in

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the craftsmanship of our cocktails.

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I think, you know,

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it’s always pushing boundaries.

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You know, having, you know, you guys,

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I don’t know if you’ve had

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one of our smoked, you

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It’s just so cool.

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Yeah.

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They really doing a great

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job and they have a lot of fun with it.

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And so trusting our team,

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but also my brothers and I,

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with regard to the food and

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beverage in general,

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we are at our hotels quite a bit,

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especially the ones that

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have the bigger food and

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beverage operations, Wayfair, Salt,

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Beachside,

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some of our other restaurants

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out in Kona.

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And we are always making

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sure that we’re eating at

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our hotels to make sure

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that the quality is what

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we’re looking for.

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Um, you know, in today’s world,

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it’s been tough,

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especially in certain

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markets like downtown LA

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where labor’s tough,

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where restaurants have now been, you know,

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everyone’s open,

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but there’s still a lack of

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kind of that downtown core business.

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And so, you know, we’ve, we’ve seen a lot,

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I mean, it’s been in the headlines,

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it’s been on the news about

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lots of restaurant closures

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of some really iconic

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restaurants in Los Angeles

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that have been forced to

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close for financial reasons.

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And, uh,

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I think there’s a lot of

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trying to still have quality food,

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pushing the envelope for

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culinary and mixology and

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wine and those things,

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but also still maintaining

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a profit margin.

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It’s a balancing act these days.

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It really is.

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And, you know, one of our downtown L.A.

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hotels,

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Glenn and I shared this this article,

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Hotel Figueroa shut down

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all five of its food and beverage outlets,

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which was I mean,

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Glenn and I were there for

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a little bit clearer, Craig.

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They didn’t shut down.

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They were third-party

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operators that shut down.

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That is correct.

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That is correct.

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Yes.

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Thank you, David.

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But, yeah, I was a little shocked.

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I mean,

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Glenn and I were there during the

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Alice conference for one of

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the brand parties,

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and it looked like

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everything was working on all cylinders.

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And then all of a sudden, two weeks later,

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boom, gone.

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It’ll be interesting to see

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who comes in there.

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Now,

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do you guys have any plans of doing

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any freestanding

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restaurants or is

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everything going to be kept

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within the box of your hotels?

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Good question, Craig.

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I don’t know if you got

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loaded with that one or not

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from an inside source.

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I guess I have to say yes.

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There’s nothing pending,

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but we did actually look at

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a standalone restaurant in

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the marina since we had so

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much operations out there

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and we didn’t beverage.

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We did look at one that was

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coming for sale and then

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was a short term on the

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lease and looked at that as

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an opportunity and did an

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underwriting and checked it out.

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decided not to do it

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probably was good

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considering what happened.

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This was pre-pandemic.

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And then, and then we, we, I’ve, we,

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we’ve looked at

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opportunities down in South Orange County,

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Orange County for some food

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and beverage opportunities.

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But right now we have a lot

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on our hands with our hotel

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investments and our family

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office that we haven’t been

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able to carve out the time

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to explore some of those.

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But yeah.

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You know,

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Marina Del Rey makes a lot of

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sense because you are very

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– you dominate that market, okay?

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And that’s always nice.

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Like,

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Tarsadia back in the day dominated

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Mission Valley down in San Diego.

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That’s a great thing,

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and that makes a lot of sense.

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I don’t know.

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Orange County’s tough.

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We’ve got so many great restaurants,

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but we’ve got so many that

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don’t make it because of the competition.

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And, you know, I –

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You know, do something.

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I don’t know if you’ve got a

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larger lot with your hotel

0:15:56.024 –> 0:15:56.625
standing on it.

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You can do a tilt up

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building out the front.

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You know,

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maybe that makes makes more sense.

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But I, you know,

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I encourage everybody to

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stop by a Pacifica hotel,

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not only to stay there,

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but try the food and beverage.

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It is just outstanding.

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It is the best.

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You guys are the industry leaders.

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I’m encouraging Craig to

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make Pacific hotel food and

0:16:15.831 –> 0:16:16.471
beverage offerings.

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The official sponsors of

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click food possible.

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Well, you know, you know,

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we can work that out once

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they’ve got a place that’s

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got enough ballroom space

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for the conference.

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I would be more than happy to do that.

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So we’d love to, we’d love to.

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Yeah.

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That’s pretty, that’s pretty cool.

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Here’s a better question, Matt.

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Are your burgers better than

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in and out burgers?

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Man, In-N-Out makes a good burger.

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And it’s funny,

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I’m not like an In-N-Out

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disciple like other people

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I know in my family.

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But we do have some

0:16:51.967 –> 0:16:53.308
spectacular burgers and

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sometimes they’re not on the menu,

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but all of our outlets do

0:16:57.432 –> 0:16:58.754
make a phenomenal burger.

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So sometimes you just have

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to ask for the secret burger.

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So I think my food and tea,

0:17:04.136 –> 0:17:05.178
my food and beverage team may be,

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you know, dying right now,

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but me saying that.

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Well, you know,

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it always comes in the

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remarks where they’re watching it.

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Yes, exactly.

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It always comes back to the

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burger because that’s the staple.

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That’s the backbone.

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That is the thing that if

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you can’t do it well,

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then how are you supposed

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to do anything else?

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That’s right.

0:17:25.705 –> 0:17:27.906
I had a really interesting

0:17:28.007 –> 0:17:30.586
negative but positive burger experience.

0:17:31.287 –> 0:17:32.647
I was in Toledo a few weeks ago,

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and I went to a neighborhood bar,

0:17:34.847 –> 0:17:36.489
and I got a burger for lunch.

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And the fries were awesome.

0:17:39.148 –> 0:17:40.368
The bun was awesome.

0:17:40.930 –> 0:17:43.109
The lettuce and tomato were fresh.

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And the burger was a frozen

0:17:45.330 –> 0:17:47.050
patty that was overcooked

0:17:47.171 –> 0:17:48.050
and tasted like something

0:17:48.070 –> 0:17:48.851
you got in the bowling

0:17:48.951 –> 0:17:50.791
alley back when you were a kid, right?

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Yeah.

0:17:51.951 –> 0:17:53.192
It just ruined the whole thing.

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It’s just like they put so

0:17:54.353 –> 0:17:55.353
much effort into all those

0:17:55.413 –> 0:17:56.353
other elements and then

0:17:56.373 –> 0:17:57.452
they fell short on the

0:17:57.492 –> 0:17:59.634
burger and then that just ruined it.

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And then I went somewhere

0:18:00.953 –> 0:18:01.834
else for another meal and

0:18:01.993 –> 0:18:03.835
that place was really good.

0:18:03.934 –> 0:18:05.454
Think of our DC trip, Glenn.

0:18:05.634 –> 0:18:07.455
It was a great trip we had, but what is,

0:18:07.476 –> 0:18:08.316
at least for me,

0:18:08.855 –> 0:18:10.436
the most memorable part of that trip?

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It was the freaking burger

0:18:12.676 –> 0:18:15.298
at Xena when Anthony had to

0:18:15.337 –> 0:18:16.518
go run to the kitchen and

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And so a little bit backstory.

0:18:18.839 –> 0:18:20.080
We went to a DC trip years

0:18:20.121 –> 0:18:21.361
ago as part of No Vacancy Live.

0:18:22.681 –> 0:18:24.321
The wonderful people at Hotel Xena,

0:18:24.362 –> 0:18:25.442
great hotel, go check it out.

0:18:26.622 –> 0:18:29.182
The executive chef there put together,

0:18:29.202 –> 0:18:30.663
I don’t know, like a five, six,

0:18:30.682 –> 0:18:32.002
seven course sampler

0:18:32.063 –> 0:18:32.762
platter of all their

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different things for us three.

0:18:35.263 –> 0:18:36.023
And it was all great.

0:18:36.163 –> 0:18:37.845
But something about this burger,

0:18:38.125 –> 0:18:39.144
we all bit into it and we

0:18:39.164 –> 0:18:39.964
just kind of stopped.

0:18:41.205 –> 0:18:41.605
But of course,

0:18:41.665 –> 0:18:43.586
Anthony being Anthony stops

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and then drops his burger,

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gets up and leaves the table.

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And we’re like, what the hell is going on?

0:18:49.890 –> 0:18:50.871
It’s very dramatic.

0:18:52.132 –> 0:18:52.432
You know,

0:18:52.491 –> 0:18:53.731
he walked into the kitchen to

0:18:53.771 –> 0:18:54.752
find the chef because he was like,

0:18:54.813 –> 0:18:56.614
this is the best burger I’ve ever had.

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And that burger is the highlight to me,

0:18:59.394 –> 0:19:00.855
at least of that trip, which was a great,

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you know, three day trip,

0:19:02.056 –> 0:19:03.196
three hotel trip that we did.

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Yeah,

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it was like three and a half years ago.

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And you’re still talking

0:19:05.718 –> 0:19:06.519
about that freaking burger.

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I think what makes a good

0:19:08.411 –> 0:19:10.531
burger is the quality of the meat.

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And for me personally,

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a fair amount of seasoning.

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And it can be, you know,

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however you like to season.

0:19:17.857 –> 0:19:18.778
It could be garlic seasoning.

0:19:18.798 –> 0:19:19.999
It could be Lowry salt.

0:19:20.078 –> 0:19:21.539
It could be Cajun salt.

0:19:21.579 –> 0:19:23.020
I like all three of those.

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Maybe a little bit of steak salt on there.

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And then I like my burger a

0:19:27.324 –> 0:19:29.226
little more on the closer

0:19:29.306 –> 0:19:30.787
to like medium well done.

0:19:30.846 –> 0:19:33.008
I like a good, solid, well done burger.

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I don’t like to see the pink in a burger.

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I like pink pie.

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Most every other meats,

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but not on a burger.

0:19:38.050 –> 0:19:38.851
I want it well done.

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I don’t like it when the

0:19:40.931 –> 0:19:42.711
buns get all juiced out and

0:19:42.730 –> 0:19:43.471
they’re all soggy.

0:19:44.152 –> 0:19:47.392
I like a nice… Anybody had bison before?

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Yes, I have.

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Montana Ted’s or whatever that place is.

0:19:53.733 –> 0:19:54.753
Someone in the comments said

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bison’s the best and

0:19:55.733 –> 0:19:56.753
they’re absolutely right.

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Up here at Stein Erickson Lodge,

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they have a crazy good bison burger.

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I didn’t know you could eat bison.

0:20:06.384 –> 0:20:09.886
Yeah, well, yeah, they’ve done,

0:20:09.926 –> 0:20:10.948
Ted Turner did such a good

0:20:10.988 –> 0:20:12.969
job saving the bison.

0:20:13.009 –> 0:20:13.829
That was good.

0:20:13.849 –> 0:20:14.711
That was good.

0:20:15.131 –> 0:20:16.152
That was good, yeah.

0:20:16.172 –> 0:20:17.152
I must have missed it.

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What happened?

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I said bison tastes just like Buffalo.

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He still doesn’t get it.

0:20:23.416 –> 0:20:24.238
Oh, there it is.

0:20:24.317 –> 0:20:25.479
He’s Googling really quick.

0:20:25.519 –> 0:20:26.159
He’s Googling.

0:20:26.239 –> 0:20:27.160
The hands are up.

0:20:27.180 –> 0:20:27.861
The hands are up.

0:20:27.881 –> 0:20:28.480
The hands are up.

0:20:29.862 –> 0:20:30.462
I’m Googling.

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I am clicking on the Google, I will say,

0:20:32.743 –> 0:20:34.224
but my hands are up right now.

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Oh.

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All right,

0:20:36.111 –> 0:20:37.913
so we need to take a trip to Montana.

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I still want to take a trip,

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and I’ve told Andy this.

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I want to be a tourist in

0:20:43.459 –> 0:20:44.980
one of those small towns

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you see on movies that have

0:20:46.020 –> 0:20:47.803
like 500 people and like

0:20:47.962 –> 0:20:49.223
one stoplight in the middle

0:20:49.263 –> 0:20:51.086
of town and just see what

0:20:51.105 –> 0:20:52.507
that action – like the one

0:20:52.586 –> 0:20:53.769
random saloon where I walk

0:20:53.788 –> 0:20:54.568
in and everyone looks at me

0:20:54.608 –> 0:20:56.250
really angrily and then

0:20:56.371 –> 0:20:57.011
they hear me talk.

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Are you talking about the

0:20:57.992 –> 0:20:58.813
movie Atomic City?

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Yeah.

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Dave,

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you just described where I am right now.

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I’m in Midway, Utah,

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and we’ve got one stoplight in town,

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and most of the time I’m going to the,

0:21:07.560 –> 0:21:10.542
I think it’s a 7-Eleven to

0:21:10.583 –> 0:21:12.345
grab my groceries or snacks.

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Nice.

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That’s when I was in Salt

0:21:14.266 –> 0:21:15.247
Lake City for the first

0:21:15.287 –> 0:21:16.167
time earlier this year.

0:21:16.188 –> 0:21:18.170
I was like, wow, this is a real sleepy,

0:21:18.230 –> 0:21:18.869
quiet town.

0:21:19.170 –> 0:21:19.671
I called Craig.

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I was like, Craig, this place sucks.

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It’s a little more quiet and

0:21:23.996 –> 0:21:26.196
reserved in Utah, Salt Lake,

0:21:26.237 –> 0:21:27.417
compared to other towns you guys cover.

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Well,

0:21:27.538 –> 0:21:28.919
the problem that Dave is having is

0:21:28.939 –> 0:21:30.660
the same problem that I had.

0:21:30.720 –> 0:21:33.300
We grew up in the New York City area,

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and we didn’t understand

0:21:35.162 –> 0:21:36.323
that there are other places

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that are different.

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So when you start to go out

0:21:38.584 –> 0:21:39.565
to other places and you

0:21:39.585 –> 0:21:40.566
draw that comparison,

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everything just feels small

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by comparison.

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And I remember flying into

0:21:44.968 –> 0:21:46.328
Dallas when I was much

0:21:46.368 –> 0:21:47.549
younger for the first time and going,

0:21:47.910 –> 0:21:49.471
Oh, they have eight buildings downtown.

0:21:49.932 –> 0:21:51.094
How cute, you know?

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And so it’s just such a weird,

0:21:53.017 –> 0:21:54.397
it’s such a weird perspective.

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It’s kind of like the

0:21:55.239 –> 0:21:56.901
opposite of like that,

0:21:57.342 –> 0:21:58.542
that cliche about when the

0:21:58.583 –> 0:21:59.545
country boy comes to the

0:21:59.585 –> 0:22:00.965
city and is overwhelmed.

0:22:00.986 –> 0:22:02.387
We have the same thing the other direction,

0:22:02.729 –> 0:22:02.929
you know?

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I started my career in New York,

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and I always tell people when they ask,

0:22:07.031 –> 0:22:08.933
I teach at a few different

0:22:09.013 –> 0:22:11.435
universities in California, and I’ll get,

0:22:11.536 –> 0:22:14.338
well, where should I go for work?

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And I go, if you can get a job in New York,

0:22:16.180 –> 0:22:16.740
even if you can just

0:22:16.780 –> 0:22:18.041
survive there two or three years,

0:22:18.682 –> 0:22:20.084
everything else in life will be easy.

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And it’s the same thing,

0:22:20.763 –> 0:22:21.404
like you were saying,

0:22:21.444 –> 0:22:24.788
with food and beverage, culinary, culture,

0:22:24.807 –> 0:22:25.367
performance art.

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Okay.

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you know,

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other than maybe London or some

0:22:29.704 –> 0:22:31.349
of these other major, you know,

0:22:31.410 –> 0:22:32.413
epicenters of culture,

0:22:32.794 –> 0:22:33.836
you’re really at the,

0:22:34.763 –> 0:22:35.364
at the apex.

0:22:35.404 –> 0:22:35.785
I mean, you’re,

0:22:35.825 –> 0:22:36.806
you’re just at the very top

0:22:36.846 –> 0:22:37.586
of the mountain there in

0:22:37.625 –> 0:22:38.487
New York of getting,

0:22:38.646 –> 0:22:39.567
getting the best of the

0:22:39.627 –> 0:22:40.448
best of everything.

0:22:42.128 –> 0:22:42.990
Welcome across town and

0:22:43.009 –> 0:22:45.192
either go to work or go back to the bus,

0:22:45.491 –> 0:22:48.453
come home and just randomly.

0:22:48.473 –> 0:22:49.414
There’s no rhyme or reason

0:22:49.494 –> 0:22:51.395
why I’ll just happen to be

0:22:51.415 –> 0:22:51.756
looking around.

0:22:51.796 –> 0:22:53.637
Usually my, I’m either facing my phone,

0:22:53.657 –> 0:22:55.098
I’m on a phone call or something crazy,

0:22:55.118 –> 0:22:56.299
but I’ll for every so often,

0:22:56.319 –> 0:22:57.461
I’ll just kind of be like, wait a minute,

0:22:57.500 –> 0:22:59.261
this is kind of cool that

0:22:59.281 –> 0:23:00.061
I’m in Manhattan.

0:23:00.643 –> 0:23:01.663
This is something I take for

0:23:01.703 –> 0:23:02.223
granted because,

0:23:03.554 –> 0:23:05.036
And we’ve never, Glenn,

0:23:05.076 –> 0:23:06.958
ever really had to be able

0:23:06.978 –> 0:23:08.078
to have that experience of

0:23:08.159 –> 0:23:09.381
seeing New York for the first time.

0:23:09.401 –> 0:23:11.502
And it’d be like a lifelong trip.

0:23:11.762 –> 0:23:14.465
And I realize there’s a lot of people,

0:23:14.506 –> 0:23:16.208
but this is their lifelong

0:23:16.307 –> 0:23:17.829
trip that when they come

0:23:17.890 –> 0:23:19.511
off the plane and they see

0:23:19.571 –> 0:23:20.353
the city flying in,

0:23:20.373 –> 0:23:21.173
then they land and there’s

0:23:21.193 –> 0:23:22.194
like that excitement to get

0:23:22.315 –> 0:23:22.914
into Manhattan.

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Yeah.

0:23:23.536 –> 0:23:24.576
and then you finally come

0:23:24.616 –> 0:23:25.877
through one of the bridges or tunnels,

0:23:26.097 –> 0:23:27.038
and it must be

0:23:28.019 –> 0:23:29.780
unbelievably… I’m trying

0:23:29.800 –> 0:23:30.601
to think of where I would

0:23:30.641 –> 0:23:31.882
probably have that experience.

0:23:31.922 –> 0:23:32.702
I don’t even know where.

0:23:32.903 –> 0:23:35.005
I did have that experience, actually.

0:23:35.484 –> 0:23:36.246
Where was it?

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That’s the only place in the

0:23:37.707 –> 0:23:39.428
world that I ever went to that I’m like,

0:23:39.788 –> 0:23:42.288
Whoa, in this particular city sense.

0:23:42.769 –> 0:23:43.730
It’s such a new city.

0:23:44.069 –> 0:23:44.710
Everything’s new.

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Yeah.

0:23:45.730 –> 0:23:47.652
And when I was there in 2014,

0:23:47.652 –> 0:23:48.872
it’s just like there were

0:23:48.932 –> 0:23:50.772
miles of buildings under construction.

0:23:50.913 –> 0:23:54.674
And then this insanely massive downtown,

0:23:54.875 –> 0:23:55.955
all with buildings taller

0:23:56.016 –> 0:23:57.655
than the average building in New York.

0:23:57.715 –> 0:23:58.576
It was phenomenal.

0:23:59.442 –> 0:24:00.763
I was thinking somewhere in Asia.

0:24:00.844 –> 0:24:02.365
I just don’t know where it would be,

0:24:02.404 –> 0:24:03.346
but I’m sure there is one.

0:24:03.365 –> 0:24:04.105
Maybe Tokyo.

0:24:04.145 –> 0:24:05.708
I could see Tokyo possibly doing that.

0:24:05.948 –> 0:24:06.768
You wouldn’t know, though, Glenn,

0:24:06.788 –> 0:24:07.729
because you can’t get there.

0:24:07.749 –> 0:24:08.930
Yeah, he can’t get there.

0:24:08.950 –> 0:24:11.451
Don’t bring that up.

0:24:12.352 –> 0:24:13.933
Although one of my sons is

0:24:14.413 –> 0:24:15.074
thinking of doing a

0:24:15.094 –> 0:24:16.675
semester abroad there next spring,

0:24:16.776 –> 0:24:18.916
so maybe that’ll force the issue.

0:24:18.957 –> 0:24:20.077
In the summer of 2020,

0:24:20.077 –> 0:24:21.638
my family was planning a trip to Japan,

0:24:22.279 –> 0:24:24.201
and that did not work out,

0:24:24.421 –> 0:24:25.842
and the universe has not

0:24:25.862 –> 0:24:27.623
conspired to help us get there since.

0:24:27.682 –> 0:24:28.243
Yeah, we didn’t.

0:24:30.134 –> 0:24:31.715
I’m still trying to get to Australia.

0:24:31.895 –> 0:24:32.436
Same issue.

0:24:32.856 –> 0:24:33.758
Yeah, I’ll get there.

0:24:33.778 –> 0:24:34.499
I’ll get there one day,

0:24:34.538 –> 0:24:36.560
but that’s on the after retirement plan,

0:24:36.601 –> 0:24:37.082
I think, for me.

0:24:37.162 –> 0:24:38.482
Well, then, Matt,

0:24:38.583 –> 0:24:41.185
where should I go to tour my sleepy,

0:24:41.266 –> 0:24:42.567
small, little, tiny town?

0:24:44.566 –> 0:24:46.186
uh shoot um you know I mean

0:24:46.307 –> 0:24:47.406
utah’s got plenty of them

0:24:48.127 –> 0:24:49.827
uh I i you know like you

0:24:49.887 –> 0:24:51.868
dave I have this thought

0:24:51.949 –> 0:24:52.849
that you know maybe when

0:24:52.910 –> 0:24:54.049
I’m a little slowed down I

0:24:54.089 –> 0:24:54.690
don’t know if you ever

0:24:54.750 –> 0:24:56.711
retire from you know this

0:24:56.750 –> 0:24:58.011
kind of business but you

0:24:58.031 –> 0:24:59.551
know when I’m not managing

0:24:59.612 –> 0:25:01.432
stuff day to day I you know

0:25:01.452 –> 0:25:02.713
I picked up motorcy as soon

0:25:02.753 –> 0:25:04.594
as my uh my my kids were

0:25:04.653 –> 0:25:06.595
grown I kind of you know

0:25:06.654 –> 0:25:08.115
said hey okay you know I I’ve

0:25:08.655 –> 0:25:09.476
done my part now.

0:25:09.536 –> 0:25:10.636
I can do some things for me.

0:25:11.217 –> 0:25:12.096
I got a motorcycle for the

0:25:12.116 –> 0:25:12.916
first time in my life.

0:25:13.517 –> 0:25:14.537
I ride a Triumph.

0:25:14.876 –> 0:25:15.998
I have always dreamed of

0:25:16.218 –> 0:25:19.518
going through the deep

0:25:19.597 –> 0:25:20.638
south and go through those

0:25:20.699 –> 0:25:22.578
little tiny southern towns

0:25:22.598 –> 0:25:23.378
where they have the one

0:25:23.999 –> 0:25:25.700
cafe that everyone eats at

0:25:25.720 –> 0:25:26.859
and spend a night there.

0:25:27.180 –> 0:25:28.740
Even just travel with one

0:25:28.799 –> 0:25:29.560
change of clothes.

0:25:29.601 –> 0:25:30.820
Just be the hobo guy.

0:25:30.861 –> 0:25:31.961
Just wandering around.

0:25:32.300 –> 0:25:33.721
Do a little podcast.

0:25:33.842 –> 0:25:35.561
In the 70s, you’d be a rambling man.

0:25:36.321 –> 0:25:37.282
There you go.

0:25:37.502 –> 0:25:38.144
It sounds great.

0:25:38.384 –> 0:25:39.505
I’m sure after four days,

0:25:39.565 –> 0:25:40.665
I’d be catching a flight

0:25:40.705 –> 0:25:41.925
home or something and

0:25:41.965 –> 0:25:42.886
paying a friend to ride my

0:25:42.906 –> 0:25:43.827
motorcycle back.

0:25:43.887 –> 0:25:45.868
I’m shipping the bike back.

0:25:46.349 –> 0:25:47.309
What kind of bike is it?

0:25:47.349 –> 0:25:48.790
Is it a 650 Bonneville?

0:25:49.172 –> 0:25:50.932
No, I’ve actually got some really cool.

0:25:50.972 –> 0:25:51.673
I’ve got two bikes.

0:25:51.713 –> 0:25:52.493
I’ve got one in California

0:25:52.513 –> 0:25:53.375
and one here in Utah.

0:25:53.634 –> 0:25:55.096
The one in Utah was my first one.

0:25:55.155 –> 0:25:56.497
It’s the Triumph XC1200 Scrambler.

0:25:56.757 –> 0:25:56.978
Okay.

0:25:59.179 –> 0:26:00.141
but it’s steve mcqueen

0:26:00.181 –> 0:26:01.281
edition so it’s a special

0:26:01.342 –> 0:26:03.546
edition bike like 650 made

0:26:03.945 –> 0:26:05.568
and then my one out in uh

0:26:05.808 –> 0:26:06.971
california which I’m really

0:26:07.010 –> 0:26:08.353
debating on right now they

0:26:08.373 –> 0:26:09.253
just stopped production of

0:26:09.273 –> 0:26:10.695
them it’s it’s uh the

0:26:10.756 –> 0:26:12.719
triumph uh I’m losing the

0:26:12.759 –> 0:26:14.121
name right now it’s the it’s the uh

0:26:15.208 –> 0:26:16.189
Okay, I lost it.

0:26:16.608 –> 0:26:18.730
But it’s basically the old Cafe Racer.

0:26:19.911 –> 0:26:20.392
Thruxton.

0:26:20.771 –> 0:26:23.212
And I have the Thruxton TFC, which is from,

0:26:23.594 –> 0:26:26.256
TFC stands for Triumph Factory Custom.

0:26:26.536 –> 0:26:29.136
So it’s another 650 numbered bike.

0:26:29.178 –> 0:26:31.338
And now they’re not making

0:26:31.459 –> 0:26:32.880
that line anymore.

0:26:32.960 –> 0:26:35.122
So it’s even more collectible.

0:26:35.541 –> 0:26:37.242
Yeah, you might have to hang on to that.

0:26:37.563 –> 0:26:38.144
Yeah, there it is.

0:26:38.163 –> 0:26:39.423
There’s the Thruxton right there.

0:26:39.443 –> 0:26:39.825
That’s beautiful.

0:26:40.664 –> 0:26:41.266
They’re beautiful,

0:26:42.247 –> 0:26:43.146
and they’re a lot of fun.

0:26:43.166 –> 0:26:44.788
The problem is you notice that bike,

0:26:44.828 –> 0:26:46.490
it has those kind of a

0:26:46.529 –> 0:26:47.750
little more aggressive stance.

0:26:47.830 –> 0:26:49.813
As I’m getting older now,

0:26:49.873 –> 0:26:52.255
the more upright stance of

0:26:52.315 –> 0:26:54.676
the Scrambler is much easier to ride,

0:26:54.696 –> 0:26:55.938
and you’re higher up.

0:26:56.157 –> 0:26:57.239
You don’t feel like you’re

0:26:57.259 –> 0:26:59.200
going to get maybe killed as easily.

0:27:00.300 –> 0:27:01.221
The lower back’s not

0:27:01.261 –> 0:27:01.903
bothering you as much.

0:27:02.103 –> 0:27:04.044
Probably the same solution

0:27:04.064 –> 0:27:06.105
if you get hit by a car.

0:27:06.125 –> 0:27:07.846
I think it was my second or

0:27:07.886 –> 0:27:09.669
third bike was a 650 Bonneville.

0:27:10.169 –> 0:27:10.990
Oh, very cool.

0:27:11.089 –> 0:27:11.810
Love that bike.

0:27:11.871 –> 0:27:12.551
Great bikes.

0:27:12.571 –> 0:27:13.532
They’ll go forever too.

0:27:14.054 –> 0:27:14.954
I’d want like a,

0:27:15.134 –> 0:27:16.217
an old school bike with a

0:27:16.277 –> 0:27:18.459
sidecar so I could wear those goggles.

0:27:18.779 –> 0:27:19.861
Yeah.

0:27:21.123 –> 0:27:22.144
I think Dave has to be

0:27:22.243 –> 0:27:23.625
sending an email to triumph

0:27:23.665 –> 0:27:24.507
right now saying, Hey,

0:27:24.547 –> 0:27:25.007
we need a little

0:27:25.047 –> 0:27:26.308
sponsorship for this episode.

0:27:27.490 –> 0:27:29.571
there we go craig bikes not

0:27:29.612 –> 0:27:31.292
me so yeah I’ve never I’ve

0:27:31.313 –> 0:27:32.452
never ridden a motorcycle

0:27:32.492 –> 0:27:33.673
my mom would never let me

0:27:33.854 –> 0:27:35.335
and that’s my mom my mom

0:27:35.355 –> 0:27:39.258
was the same way it’s

0:27:39.278 –> 0:27:40.038
probably a good idea

0:27:40.097 –> 0:27:41.318
because I’m not like good

0:27:41.358 –> 0:27:44.621
with things it was it’s

0:27:44.721 –> 0:27:46.102
funny matt before my son

0:27:46.142 –> 0:27:47.663
was born he’s now 42 okay

0:27:47.682 –> 0:27:52.205
um I had a harley and

0:27:52.711 –> 0:27:54.432
My dad made me promise that

0:27:54.471 –> 0:27:55.551
I would not ride

0:27:55.632 –> 0:27:59.253
motorcycles until my son was 18.

0:27:59.253 –> 0:28:02.035
So I did, sold the bike.

0:28:02.775 –> 0:28:05.175
And on my son’s 18th birthday,

0:28:05.195 –> 0:28:05.816
I’m getting a bunch of

0:28:06.096 –> 0:28:07.156
calls from a bunch of friends.

0:28:07.176 –> 0:28:07.517
I’m like, well,

0:28:07.537 –> 0:28:08.777
you going to go get another bike?

0:28:08.797 –> 0:28:09.698
You going to go get another bike?

0:28:09.718 –> 0:28:11.218
I said, no, I’m too old now.

0:28:11.258 –> 0:28:11.998
I don’t bounce.

0:28:12.078 –> 0:28:12.459
I break.

0:28:12.479 –> 0:28:13.219
Yeah.

0:28:15.369 –> 0:28:15.809
It’s true.

0:28:15.869 –> 0:28:16.391
It’s true.

0:28:16.830 –> 0:28:17.290
Yeah.

0:28:17.411 –> 0:28:18.811
I don’t ride a ton,

0:28:18.852 –> 0:28:20.212
but I did learn how to ride

0:28:20.252 –> 0:28:21.354
when I was a kid off road.

0:28:21.413 –> 0:28:23.535
And so I do have pretty good riding skills,

0:28:23.575 –> 0:28:24.454
but I enjoy it.

0:28:24.494 –> 0:28:25.516
I enjoy going out.

0:28:25.556 –> 0:28:26.596
I try and keep to the roads

0:28:26.616 –> 0:28:27.797
that don’t have a lot of traffic on it.

0:28:27.997 –> 0:28:30.138
Yeah.

0:28:30.179 –> 0:28:31.219
And I can find all kinds of

0:28:31.740 –> 0:28:33.079
deep roads that I don’t see

0:28:33.119 –> 0:28:33.901
anyone for miles.

0:28:33.961 –> 0:28:35.422
And you really want to,

0:28:35.442 –> 0:28:36.582
you really want to test your skills.

0:28:36.602 –> 0:28:38.423
You really want to be dangerous, you know?

0:28:38.463 –> 0:28:38.544
Yeah.

0:28:39.384 –> 0:28:40.325
Don’t be a chump like that.

0:28:40.565 –> 0:28:40.964
One car.

0:28:41.065 –> 0:28:43.507
I, I, I did the, I call the rides up here.

0:28:44.067 –> 0:28:44.728
BQE.

0:28:44.827 –> 0:28:45.808
Come on the turnpike.

0:28:47.910 –> 0:28:49.832
I had to ride my,

0:28:50.071 –> 0:28:52.993
my Thruxton back from about 40 miles.

0:28:53.273 –> 0:28:54.474
And most of it was freeway

0:28:54.494 –> 0:28:57.678
miles in rush hour in orange County.

0:28:58.117 –> 0:28:59.959
Yeah.

0:28:59.979 –> 0:29:00.720
I’ve ever done.

0:29:00.779 –> 0:29:02.520
And it was, it’s like 95 degrees too.

0:29:02.580 –> 0:29:03.501
I was all in leathers.

0:29:03.561 –> 0:29:04.422
It was just sweating.

0:29:04.442 –> 0:29:06.723
You basically walking the car.

0:29:06.983 –> 0:29:07.224
Yeah.

0:29:09.625 –> 0:29:11.146
It’s funny.

0:29:11.186 –> 0:29:12.107
You go over to my son’s

0:29:12.127 –> 0:29:12.848
house and he’s got all

0:29:12.888 –> 0:29:14.049
these motorcycles and he’s

0:29:14.089 –> 0:29:16.391
got… I can’t remember the manufacturer,

0:29:16.451 –> 0:29:18.492
but it’s a bike that’s good

0:29:18.512 –> 0:29:20.835
for both roads and off-road.

0:29:21.394 –> 0:29:22.276
Because him and a bunch of

0:29:22.336 –> 0:29:23.236
his buddies were going to

0:29:23.276 –> 0:29:25.038
go into Mexico and take

0:29:25.077 –> 0:29:26.999
some of the old trails all

0:29:27.019 –> 0:29:29.300
the way up to Canada.

0:29:29.961 –> 0:29:30.201
So…

0:29:31.299 –> 0:29:32.401
He’s got all these motorcycles.

0:29:32.421 –> 0:29:34.382
My grandson’s seven and he’s

0:29:34.422 –> 0:29:36.202
got a little electric motorcycle.

0:29:36.262 –> 0:29:40.006
It’s got a governor on it so

0:29:40.026 –> 0:29:43.728
my son can set the speed.

0:29:44.969 –> 0:29:46.029
We need to learn how to ride

0:29:46.069 –> 0:29:47.411
a motorcycle because

0:29:47.451 –> 0:29:48.471
otherwise we can’t afford

0:29:48.491 –> 0:29:49.592
to drive into the city anymore.

0:29:49.612 –> 0:29:49.652
So…

0:29:56.598 –> 0:29:58.240
That’s not a good situation

0:29:58.260 –> 0:29:59.821
with this congestion pricing in the city.

0:30:00.383 –> 0:30:00.722
By the way,

0:30:00.742 –> 0:30:02.085
that was some of my arguments

0:30:02.164 –> 0:30:03.986
was that in the case of an emergency,

0:30:04.026 –> 0:30:05.327
and it was true,

0:30:05.347 –> 0:30:06.888
when we had the big fires

0:30:07.349 –> 0:30:08.310
in Santa Barbara,

0:30:08.371 –> 0:30:09.471
people that had these

0:30:09.991 –> 0:30:11.354
motorcycles that Craig is talking about,

0:30:11.374 –> 0:30:12.755
a lot of them are KTMs or

0:30:13.395 –> 0:30:15.238
what’s called an enduro that goes off.

0:30:15.698 –> 0:30:16.679
often on road,

0:30:17.098 –> 0:30:19.119
they could get by the police

0:30:19.200 –> 0:30:20.421
stops to get up to their

0:30:20.461 –> 0:30:21.981
houses to try and save

0:30:22.001 –> 0:30:23.583
their houses when the fire came.

0:30:23.923 –> 0:30:25.344
I’m not saying I’m advocating that.

0:30:25.364 –> 0:30:26.344
That’s a dangerous thing to do.

0:30:26.384 –> 0:30:27.424
But I do know of people that

0:30:27.664 –> 0:30:28.846
did save their homes that way.

0:30:29.205 –> 0:30:29.526
Wow.

0:30:30.426 –> 0:30:30.727
Wow.

0:30:31.126 –> 0:30:31.768
That’s pretty amazing.

0:30:31.788 –> 0:30:33.648
So let’s talk about

0:30:33.669 –> 0:30:34.528
condenser pricing for a

0:30:34.568 –> 0:30:35.369
second because it’s coming

0:30:35.390 –> 0:30:35.930
to New York soon,

0:30:35.950 –> 0:30:36.911
whether people like it or not.

0:30:38.056 –> 0:30:39.217
I sent you guys the article

0:30:39.277 –> 0:30:41.097
that showed that someone in

0:30:41.157 –> 0:30:42.378
Boston is trying to get it to happen.

0:30:42.419 –> 0:30:43.259
It’s obviously years and

0:30:43.279 –> 0:30:44.200
years and years away from

0:30:44.280 –> 0:30:45.401
that actually taking place.

0:30:46.801 –> 0:30:48.663
But do you guys feel that

0:30:48.943 –> 0:30:50.505
New York congestion pricing

0:30:50.565 –> 0:30:52.125
is going to expand?

0:30:53.227 –> 0:30:56.169
And what’s the next few cities?

0:30:56.229 –> 0:30:56.648
I mean, Craig,

0:30:56.669 –> 0:30:58.029
it’s obviously you guys over in L.A.

0:30:58.049 –> 0:30:58.990
would be a great, you know,

0:30:59.070 –> 0:31:00.692
an obvious candidate for that to happen.

0:31:02.113 –> 0:31:03.554
But what are you guys seeing?

0:31:03.594 –> 0:31:04.374
What are you expecting to

0:31:04.394 –> 0:31:05.115
see with this congestion

0:31:05.134 –> 0:31:06.375
pricing along the country?

0:31:06.885 –> 0:31:07.165
You know,

0:31:07.306 –> 0:31:10.288
my comment on this is you guys

0:31:10.348 –> 0:31:12.030
start all this shit in New York.

0:31:12.171 –> 0:31:14.373
That’s why we’ve got $20 movie theaters,

0:31:14.532 –> 0:31:15.575
okay, tickets now.

0:31:15.615 –> 0:31:17.135
It all starts in Manhattan.

0:31:17.636 –> 0:31:18.817
I’m tired of this shit.

0:31:19.690 –> 0:31:22.992
Yeah, likely so, bro.

0:31:23.292 –> 0:31:24.193
Likely so.

0:31:24.294 –> 0:31:27.896
As a New Yorker, I really can’t stand it.

0:31:27.936 –> 0:31:28.297
First of all,

0:31:28.317 –> 0:31:29.077
I’m very against these

0:31:29.157 –> 0:31:30.459
regressive taxes that hit

0:31:30.479 –> 0:31:32.160
poorer people more.

0:31:32.461 –> 0:31:33.582
That’s extremely unfair,

0:31:33.701 –> 0:31:34.521
particularly if they’re

0:31:34.561 –> 0:31:35.983
trying to come in and work

0:31:36.044 –> 0:31:37.164
for a living in the city.

0:31:37.585 –> 0:31:38.085
Worse yet,

0:31:38.265 –> 0:31:39.205
to try to come in and spend

0:31:39.266 –> 0:31:40.267
money in your city and help

0:31:40.287 –> 0:31:41.448
generate tax dollars and

0:31:41.468 –> 0:31:42.429
all of that kind of stuff.

0:31:43.088 –> 0:31:44.711
A city shouldn’t do that.

0:31:45.131 –> 0:31:46.752
if they haven’t made it easy

0:31:46.833 –> 0:31:49.056
for people to get around in other ways.

0:31:49.155 –> 0:31:49.676
And we still have

0:31:49.717 –> 0:31:50.958
significant transportation

0:31:50.998 –> 0:31:52.700
problems coming from all

0:31:52.720 –> 0:31:55.002
the places outside of the

0:31:55.022 –> 0:31:56.704
New York city subway system.

0:31:56.865 –> 0:31:59.448
So you can’t have it both ways.

0:31:59.788 –> 0:31:59.969
Yeah.

0:32:00.028 –> 0:32:00.829
problem is the reason this

0:32:00.849 –> 0:32:01.450
is even happening is

0:32:01.470 –> 0:32:02.210
because they can’t get

0:32:02.269 –> 0:32:03.971
people to pay to ride the subway.

0:32:03.991 –> 0:32:04.872
They can’t figure out how to

0:32:04.892 –> 0:32:05.952
get people to actually pay

0:32:06.272 –> 0:32:07.153
to be on the subway or to

0:32:07.193 –> 0:32:09.674
be on the buses.

0:32:10.375 –> 0:32:11.316
That’s why they’re charging

0:32:11.336 –> 0:32:12.817
people from Jersey and

0:32:13.778 –> 0:32:15.138
Westchester and the island

0:32:15.618 –> 0:32:16.640
and Connecticut because

0:32:17.180 –> 0:32:18.740
they don’t want to have the

0:32:18.780 –> 0:32:20.321
problem of their

0:32:20.362 –> 0:32:21.383
constituents being pissed

0:32:21.423 –> 0:32:21.923
off they have to start

0:32:21.962 –> 0:32:22.903
paying for their money.

0:32:23.104 –> 0:32:25.625
It sounds just like a hotel occupancy tax.

0:32:25.726 –> 0:32:26.625
Let’s just keep raising it

0:32:26.746 –> 0:32:27.866
on the suckers coming in to

0:32:27.967 –> 0:32:28.748
spend money on that.

0:32:28.788 –> 0:32:29.028
Yeah.

0:32:29.928 –> 0:32:30.969
Capitalism at work.

0:32:31.369 –> 0:32:32.351
Let’s kill the goose that

0:32:32.371 –> 0:32:33.192
laid the golden egg.

0:32:33.231 –> 0:32:33.432
Well,

0:32:33.451 –> 0:32:35.252
Matt can attest to this as well as I can.

0:32:35.773 –> 0:32:36.013
You know,

0:32:36.054 –> 0:32:37.295
we’ve had a problem in Orange

0:32:37.355 –> 0:32:41.640
County because of housing where day labor,

0:32:42.019 –> 0:32:44.843
okay, your maids, your engineers,

0:32:45.063 –> 0:32:47.845
your groundskeepers, your gardeners,

0:32:47.924 –> 0:32:48.405
everybody,

0:32:48.486 –> 0:32:51.107
even teachers and nurses can’t

0:32:51.189 –> 0:32:53.671
afford to live in Orange County or L.A.

0:32:54.251 –> 0:32:55.912
So they’ve either gone down

0:32:56.011 –> 0:32:57.853
to North County, San Diego,

0:32:58.232 –> 0:33:00.453
which is an unbearable drive up to, say,

0:33:00.874 –> 0:33:01.554
Santa Ana,

0:33:02.134 –> 0:33:04.074
or they’re out the west end of

0:33:04.494 –> 0:33:07.474
San Bernardino, the upland Ontario area,

0:33:07.555 –> 0:33:08.675
Rancho Cucamonga,

0:33:09.215 –> 0:33:11.175
and try driving into L.A.

0:33:11.715 –> 0:33:13.457
or into Orange County,

0:33:13.537 –> 0:33:15.156
and that’s miserable as well.

0:33:16.017 –> 0:33:18.038
And our transit system…

0:33:19.332 –> 0:33:20.972
lack of a better word sucks,

0:33:21.653 –> 0:33:23.074
but they are working on it.

0:33:23.674 –> 0:33:24.795
And, you know, I mean,

0:33:24.815 –> 0:33:26.536
I don’t know if Matt remembers this,

0:33:26.615 –> 0:33:30.378
but way back when we had the red car and,

0:33:30.950 –> 0:33:33.251
that came across LA into

0:33:33.311 –> 0:33:35.933
Orange County into what was

0:33:35.993 –> 0:33:37.295
Pacific city then,

0:33:37.375 –> 0:33:38.155
and then turned into

0:33:38.215 –> 0:33:40.137
Huntington beach because

0:33:41.057 –> 0:33:42.058
the Huntington family owned

0:33:42.078 –> 0:33:42.940
the red car and they

0:33:42.960 –> 0:33:43.861
brought it all the way down

0:33:43.881 –> 0:33:45.162
to the Newport peninsula.

0:33:45.281 –> 0:33:45.781
I saw that.

0:33:46.001 –> 0:33:47.022
I saw that documentary.

0:33:47.042 –> 0:33:47.443
What was it?

0:33:47.483 –> 0:33:48.483
Who’s framed Roger rabbit

0:33:48.845 –> 0:33:49.404
about what happened?

0:33:49.424 –> 0:33:49.846
That was it.

0:33:49.925 –> 0:33:50.546
That was it.

0:33:50.586 –> 0:33:51.186
Yeah.

0:33:51.267 –> 0:33:51.767
Yeah.

0:33:52.047 –> 0:33:52.748
Oh, and you know what?

0:33:52.807 –> 0:33:54.328
You were told not to talk

0:33:54.368 –> 0:33:55.470
about that because once we

0:33:55.549 –> 0:33:57.711
acquire Lucasfilm, we’re doing Roger too.

0:33:57.832 –> 0:33:58.752
So be quiet.

0:33:58.792 –> 0:33:58.893
Yeah.

0:33:59.073 –> 0:34:00.733
I can see Greg trying to get

0:34:00.773 –> 0:34:02.654
the persona of George Lucas already.

0:34:02.875 –> 0:34:03.835
If I squint my eyes,

0:34:03.914 –> 0:34:05.076
I can almost see George.

0:34:05.536 –> 0:34:09.157
But you talk about this mass

0:34:09.197 –> 0:34:11.018
transportation issue.

0:34:11.318 –> 0:34:11.978
I think it was just

0:34:12.039 –> 0:34:12.719
announced a little while

0:34:12.760 –> 0:34:13.880
ago that they’re still

0:34:13.920 –> 0:34:17.581
moving on that speed train to Vegas.

0:34:18.001 –> 0:34:18.802
That would be huge.

0:34:18.943 –> 0:34:21.284
Construction in Vegas right now, yeah.

0:34:21.344 –> 0:34:22.284
We could drive, what is it?

0:34:22.644 –> 0:34:23.184
I don’t know where the

0:34:23.224 –> 0:34:23.905
station’s going to be.

0:34:23.945 –> 0:34:25.385
It’s just like over in kind

0:34:25.425 –> 0:34:26.927
of the Inland Empire a little bit.

0:34:27.327 –> 0:34:28.608
Yeah, I think Ontario.

0:34:29.007 –> 0:34:31.050
So you drive out from Orange County,

0:34:31.090 –> 0:34:32.351
maybe 30, 40 minutes,

0:34:32.391 –> 0:34:34.012
depending on traffic, maybe an hour,

0:34:34.632 –> 0:34:36.213
and you catch a train.

0:34:36.253 –> 0:34:37.333
I think the train is only

0:34:37.373 –> 0:34:38.574
like two hours to Vegas or

0:34:38.614 –> 0:34:39.815
something like that, or two and a half.

0:34:40.135 –> 0:34:40.335
I mean,

0:34:40.376 –> 0:34:41.717
you’re cutting down time and you

0:34:41.777 –> 0:34:42.478
don’t have to deal with

0:34:42.498 –> 0:34:44.018
your car in Vegas and all that stuff.

0:34:44.278 –> 0:34:45.059
It’s kind of interesting.

0:34:45.539 –> 0:34:46.561
Especially considering all

0:34:46.601 –> 0:34:47.701
the hotels are charging for

0:34:47.740 –> 0:34:49.161
parking now in Vegas and-

0:34:51.791 –> 0:34:53.773
I look at driving in Vegas on the weekend,

0:34:53.793 –> 0:34:54.652
like driving in San

0:34:54.693 –> 0:34:55.954
Francisco on the weekend.

0:34:56.034 –> 0:34:56.634
No, thank you.

0:34:56.893 –> 0:34:58.514
And I, I love both cities,

0:34:58.635 –> 0:34:59.675
but I don’t want to drive.

0:34:59.934 –> 0:35:02.635
It’s just like, I go up to LA so much.

0:35:02.695 –> 0:35:04.137
And if they had a kind of a

0:35:04.697 –> 0:35:05.818
easy way for me to go

0:35:05.898 –> 0:35:06.978
somewhere in South Orange

0:35:07.018 –> 0:35:08.838
County to catch a train that doesn’t take,

0:35:09.219 –> 0:35:09.918
you know, an hour,

0:35:10.059 –> 0:35:11.539
two hours to get to LA and,

0:35:11.940 –> 0:35:13.059
And, you know, I could get there,

0:35:13.079 –> 0:35:14.481
take an Uber where I’m going.

0:35:14.880 –> 0:35:15.561
When I’m in L.A.,

0:35:15.860 –> 0:35:16.961
I don’t mess around with parking.

0:35:17.001 –> 0:35:19.143
It’s more expensive to use parking,

0:35:19.182 –> 0:35:19.362
you know,

0:35:19.402 –> 0:35:21.063
parking structures than to go in Uber.

0:35:21.422 –> 0:35:22.364
That’s why Craig took an

0:35:22.403 –> 0:35:23.943
Uber from his house to your hotel.

0:35:24.063 –> 0:35:25.485
Yeah.

0:35:25.525 –> 0:35:26.605
Two years for Alice.

0:35:26.704 –> 0:35:28.206
I’ve Ubered up to your hotel.

0:35:28.266 –> 0:35:28.646
It’s cheap.

0:35:28.726 –> 0:35:29.365
Absolutely.

0:35:29.385 –> 0:35:30.887
And I and I’ve still got my

0:35:30.927 –> 0:35:32.266
sanity or what’s left of it.

0:35:32.367 –> 0:35:33.648
You know, by the time I get there.

0:35:34.347 –> 0:35:36.289
I did my first Uber to LA

0:35:36.329 –> 0:35:37.989
from Orange County just out of necessity.

0:35:38.010 –> 0:35:38.951
I was meeting someone.

0:35:38.971 –> 0:35:40.351
We didn’t want to have two cars up there.

0:35:40.831 –> 0:35:42.652
And I’ll tell you, I was like, man,

0:35:43.114 –> 0:35:44.855
if I could rationalize this somehow,

0:35:44.974 –> 0:35:46.014
I would do this more where

0:35:46.034 –> 0:35:47.556
I didn’t have to do that drive.

0:35:47.596 –> 0:35:48.817
It’s just such a pain.

0:35:48.856 –> 0:35:50.498
I can get more done on my, you know,

0:35:50.797 –> 0:35:52.039
my devices in the car,

0:35:52.059 –> 0:35:52.960
all that kind of stuff.

0:35:53.460 –> 0:35:54.981
It just is less wasted time.

0:35:55.717 –> 0:35:57.777
Tim Edgar over at Hotel Investors.

0:35:59.137 –> 0:36:01.318
He’s a centurion, graduated from SC,

0:36:01.338 –> 0:36:02.179
the whole nine yards.

0:36:02.639 –> 0:36:05.059
He does not miss an SC

0:36:05.219 –> 0:36:06.601
football game at home.

0:36:07.521 –> 0:36:09.302
And he’s been Ubering up and

0:36:09.362 –> 0:36:10.621
home to those games for the

0:36:10.661 –> 0:36:11.742
past three years now.

0:36:11.862 –> 0:36:12.322
He goes, Craig,

0:36:12.342 –> 0:36:13.302
it’s the best thing in the world.

0:36:13.643 –> 0:36:13.983
He says,

0:36:14.304 –> 0:36:15.704
I don’t have to deal with anything.

0:36:15.784 –> 0:36:17.565
I can preset it.

0:36:18.085 –> 0:36:19.846
I know exactly where I want

0:36:19.865 –> 0:36:20.646
them to pick me up,

0:36:20.706 –> 0:36:22.085
where it’s not too bad on

0:36:22.106 –> 0:36:23.086
them getting to me.

0:36:24.047 –> 0:36:25.407
And he goes, yeah, he goes,

0:36:25.827 –> 0:36:27.528
I’m up in LA at least once a week,

0:36:27.688 –> 0:36:29.329
if not two or three times a week.

0:36:29.389 –> 0:36:30.710
And if there was an easy way

0:36:30.730 –> 0:36:31.690
to get back and forth,

0:36:31.751 –> 0:36:32.731
I would go back and forth.

0:36:32.751 –> 0:36:34.351
But for the most part, I, you know,

0:36:34.391 –> 0:36:35.632
I’ll stay a night or two in LA.

0:36:35.731 –> 0:36:36.773
It’s just easier.

0:36:37.572 –> 0:36:38.494
It is because you can

0:36:38.514 –> 0:36:39.454
schedule those meetings

0:36:39.514 –> 0:36:40.634
over two days instead of

0:36:40.675 –> 0:36:42.315
trying to jam everything into one.

0:36:42.594 –> 0:36:44.215
And yeah, I do the same thing.

0:36:44.335 –> 0:36:45.737
It’s either I’m up there for

0:36:45.777 –> 0:36:46.677
two days or a day and a

0:36:46.697 –> 0:36:49.117
half minimum before I come back.

0:36:49.237 –> 0:36:49.938
So, yeah.

0:36:53.552 –> 0:36:54.873
I get stuck on a particular

0:36:54.974 –> 0:36:56.675
issue in hospitality.

0:36:56.695 –> 0:36:58.315
Certain things really.

0:36:58.476 –> 0:36:58.715
Yeah.

0:36:58.777 –> 0:37:00.657
So I decided I want to see

0:37:00.697 –> 0:37:01.798
some more innovation around.

0:37:01.838 –> 0:37:03.400
Do not disturb signs now.

0:37:03.860 –> 0:37:04.139
Right.

0:37:04.340 –> 0:37:05.380
I think we got to we got to

0:37:05.420 –> 0:37:06.521
focus on this issue.

0:37:06.541 –> 0:37:07.601
We were completely left.

0:37:07.722 –> 0:37:08.563
OK, let’s do it.

0:37:08.583 –> 0:37:08.822
All right.

0:37:09.083 –> 0:37:09.523
Just no.

0:37:09.704 –> 0:37:10.184
Seriously,

0:37:10.423 –> 0:37:12.105
because this is the third hotel in a row.

0:37:12.184 –> 0:37:12.965
It’s happened to me.

0:37:13.206 –> 0:37:14.987
And God bless the hotel owners.

0:37:15.106 –> 0:37:15.847
Every time, you know,

0:37:15.867 –> 0:37:17.188
you try to close the freaking door.

0:37:17.509 –> 0:37:19.210
The do not disturb thing goes flying.

0:37:19.489 –> 0:37:19.650
Right.

0:37:19.690 –> 0:37:20.090
Same thing.

0:37:20.110 –> 0:37:21.431
I have the same issue, Glenn.

0:37:21.992 –> 0:37:22.612
All the time.

0:37:22.932 –> 0:37:23.253
With that.

0:37:23.813 –> 0:37:24.034
Right.

0:37:24.213 –> 0:37:25.394
Can’t we figure out

0:37:25.775 –> 0:37:29.320
something there to make it work?

0:37:30.141 –> 0:37:30.882
They have the lights.

0:37:31.021 –> 0:37:31.742
I like the lights.

0:37:31.842 –> 0:37:34.346
I’ve seen those.

0:37:34.565 –> 0:37:36.648
It just isn’t aesthetic.

0:37:36.708 –> 0:37:38.590
It looks too… A lot of

0:37:38.610 –> 0:37:39.672
people don’t even notice it

0:37:39.692 –> 0:37:40.652
if they’re staying in the room,

0:37:40.952 –> 0:37:41.894
I would guess.

0:37:43.052 –> 0:37:45.115
So there’s a very simple solution, right?

0:37:46.358 –> 0:37:49.762
You add some kind of little hook,

0:37:50.342 –> 0:37:53.166
a little tab, a little thing,

0:37:53.367 –> 0:37:54.369
maybe on the back of the door,

0:37:54.409 –> 0:37:55.610
but up by the peephole to

0:37:56.510 –> 0:37:57.813
the left of the doorframe

0:37:57.893 –> 0:37:59.996
so that it’s not on the doorframe side.

0:38:00.737 –> 0:38:02.036
Put it on the wall to the side.

0:38:02.056 –> 0:38:03.117
It needs more weight.

0:38:03.398 –> 0:38:03.818
That’s all.

0:38:04.157 –> 0:38:05.518
I’ve got the solution, guys.

0:38:05.557 –> 0:38:06.257
This is what I do.

0:38:06.378 –> 0:38:07.358
All right.

0:38:07.597 –> 0:38:09.878
So lock makers out there,

0:38:10.498 –> 0:38:12.579
put a little red and green

0:38:12.639 –> 0:38:13.820
light on the locks.

0:38:14.179 –> 0:38:15.920
You already have all the system stuff.

0:38:16.300 –> 0:38:17.360
You have a little do not

0:38:17.400 –> 0:38:20.501
disturb thing on the guest

0:38:20.521 –> 0:38:22.521
side of the locking mechanism.

0:38:22.842 –> 0:38:23.961
And there’s your do not disturb.

0:38:23.981 –> 0:38:26.722
Make it charge an extra 50 bucks a lock.

0:38:27.043 –> 0:38:27.742
And we don’t have to deal

0:38:27.782 –> 0:38:28.603
with all that other stuff.

0:38:31.304 –> 0:38:33.684
Put an LED in the, in the, in the handle,

0:38:34.164 –> 0:38:35.005
you know, green,

0:38:35.045 –> 0:38:35.925
come on in and clean the

0:38:35.985 –> 0:38:37.867
room red to stay the hell out.

0:38:38.126 –> 0:38:41.088
So there you go.

0:38:41.407 –> 0:38:41.668
Yeah.

0:38:41.708 –> 0:38:44.090
Because it’s in the lock,

0:38:44.809 –> 0:38:45.869
then it’s connected to the

0:38:45.909 –> 0:38:47.510
property management system

0:38:48.050 –> 0:38:50.032
and you can use it.

0:38:50.052 –> 0:38:51.112
You don’t even have to go to.

0:38:51.612 –> 0:38:53.574
There you go.

0:38:54.940 –> 0:38:56.161
crowd went wild for that.

0:38:57.641 –> 0:38:57.900
Right.

0:38:57.940 –> 0:38:58.342
Thank you.

0:38:58.362 –> 0:38:59.442
I just, I appreciate it.

0:38:59.461 –> 0:38:59.661
All right.

0:38:59.702 –> 0:39:03.204
Now that we’ve been there, all right,

0:39:03.284 –> 0:39:04.143
let’s get back to that hot

0:39:04.184 –> 0:39:05.485
sneaker talk that we were

0:39:05.525 –> 0:39:07.865
talking about before.

0:39:09.126 –> 0:39:12.827
Last year, my, my mom’s husband,

0:39:13.068 –> 0:39:15.010
not my dad passed away.

0:39:15.050 –> 0:39:16.570
And I was up here in Utah

0:39:16.610 –> 0:39:18.911
where they live with my mom

0:39:18.951 –> 0:39:20.791
for almost three, three and a half weeks.

0:39:21.413 –> 0:39:22.072
And during that time,

0:39:22.092 –> 0:39:23.833
I had a lot of time I was working remote.

0:39:23.853 –> 0:39:24.333
So, you know,

0:39:24.614 –> 0:39:25.753
never as efficient as when you’re,

0:39:25.914 –> 0:39:27.215
you know, able to do your thing.

0:39:27.715 –> 0:39:28.875
So I had some extra time.

0:39:28.914 –> 0:39:30.115
So I was looking for things to do.

0:39:30.135 –> 0:39:32.076
I, I’ve always loved,

0:39:32.195 –> 0:39:33.436
I played basketball since I

0:39:33.456 –> 0:39:34.376
was five years old.

0:39:34.396 –> 0:39:35.036
You know, our,

0:39:35.677 –> 0:39:37.498
our family and company was

0:39:37.518 –> 0:39:39.057
the original franchisee of

0:39:39.077 –> 0:39:41.438
the new Orleans jazz, moved them to Utah.

0:39:41.458 –> 0:39:43.039
We have all this great basketball history,

0:39:43.059 –> 0:39:44.900
grew up a basketball fan, grew up,

0:39:45.340 –> 0:39:46.780
Getting to meet players when I was a kid,

0:39:46.820 –> 0:39:48.922
definitely a silver spoon

0:39:48.963 –> 0:39:50.244
kind of a situation there.

0:39:50.684 –> 0:39:51.885
By the way,

0:39:51.945 –> 0:39:55.246
highly underrated sitcom from 1982.

0:39:55.246 –> 0:39:56.248
What was that, Glenn?

0:39:56.327 –> 0:39:58.050
I said highly underrated sitcom from 1982.

0:39:58.050 –> 0:40:00.771
We’re digging deep into the

0:40:00.811 –> 0:40:01.952
Jason Bateman catalog.

0:40:02.293 –> 0:40:03.313
Yeah, well,

0:40:03.393 –> 0:40:04.173
Jason Bateman is one of my

0:40:04.193 –> 0:40:04.713
favorite actors.

0:40:07.161 –> 0:40:09.762
for a while uh but uh and we

0:40:09.782 –> 0:40:11.043
all know who that is um but

0:40:11.262 –> 0:40:13.784
uh so so you know I just I

0:40:13.864 –> 0:40:15.023
i feel like there’s uh

0:40:15.083 –> 0:40:16.123
there I felt like I needed

0:40:16.143 –> 0:40:16.804
to find something

0:40:16.824 –> 0:40:17.744
constructive to do the

0:40:17.784 –> 0:40:19.905
other thing is is um just

0:40:19.925 –> 0:40:20.806
with some of my estate

0:40:20.865 –> 0:40:22.666
planning I’ve got uh kind

0:40:22.706 –> 0:40:23.967
of a trust that I’m never

0:40:24.047 –> 0:40:25.887
going to touch um that goes

0:40:25.967 –> 0:40:28.628
to you know did you start

0:40:28.648 –> 0:40:30.208
around the time you bought the motorcycle

0:40:30.748 –> 0:40:31.250
No, no, no.

0:40:31.309 –> 0:40:32.451
The motorcycle is not the trust.

0:40:32.692 –> 0:40:34.454
But I decided, I said, you know, I,

0:40:34.634 –> 0:40:36.295
you know,

0:40:36.476 –> 0:40:38.137
having a lot of good experience

0:40:38.177 –> 0:40:39.599
in finance and Wall Street

0:40:39.659 –> 0:40:40.320
and those kind of things.

0:40:40.360 –> 0:40:41.702
And I listened to a lot of

0:40:41.742 –> 0:40:43.023
podcasts like Acquired and

0:40:43.083 –> 0:40:44.126
Founders and those kind of

0:40:44.166 –> 0:40:45.427
things that teach you a lot

0:40:45.447 –> 0:40:46.628
about business and investing.

0:40:46.748 –> 0:40:48.510
And so I do fairly well in investing.

0:40:49.831 –> 0:40:50.793
I like hotel business,

0:40:50.813 –> 0:40:52.793
but you got to spread it around.

0:40:52.833 –> 0:40:54.134
You got to diversify.

0:40:54.554 –> 0:40:56.273
So I wanted to challenge myself.

0:40:56.293 –> 0:40:57.914
So I said, I want to do some collectibles.

0:40:58.034 –> 0:40:59.835
So I take a little bit of a

0:41:00.536 –> 0:41:02.936
small percentage of my income, like 5%,

0:41:02.936 –> 0:41:05.336
10% out of this one entity that I have.

0:41:05.697 –> 0:41:06.478
And I invested in

0:41:06.557 –> 0:41:08.597
collectibles like sports memorabilia,

0:41:09.679 –> 0:41:12.478
watches, potentially cars down the road.

0:41:12.498 –> 0:41:13.579
But sneakers became one of

0:41:13.599 –> 0:41:14.420
those allocations.

0:41:14.460 –> 0:41:15.820
I put all my kids’ college

0:41:15.880 –> 0:41:16.940
money into Beanie Babies.

0:41:17.536 –> 0:41:17.797
Yes.

0:41:18.697 –> 0:41:19.978
Had you done it early on,

0:41:19.998 –> 0:41:22.380
you would have done better

0:41:22.400 –> 0:41:23.701
than the S&P probably.

0:41:23.920 –> 0:41:25.061
Probably, yeah,

0:41:25.181 –> 0:41:27.603
but I was not that smart back then.

0:41:27.903 –> 0:41:28.324
It’s fun.

0:41:28.344 –> 0:41:30.585
It gives me a fun hobby.

0:41:30.646 –> 0:41:31.545
It’s constructive.

0:41:32.666 –> 0:41:33.827
I really get into it.

0:41:34.507 –> 0:41:37.690
I drive my brothers crazy at work.

0:41:37.791 –> 0:41:39.572
My office now looks like a footlocker.

0:41:39.652 –> 0:41:40.913
It’s just ridiculous.

0:41:41.632 –> 0:41:44.375
My office here up in Utah,

0:41:44.735 –> 0:41:46.076
there’s sneakers everywhere in my life.

0:41:46.255 –> 0:41:47.416
It’s kind of ridiculous.

0:41:47.918 –> 0:41:49.581
Is there a particular brand

0:41:50.023 –> 0:41:51.927
that you collect more than any others?

0:41:51.947 –> 0:41:53.711
Yeah, here we go.

0:41:53.751 –> 0:41:53.972
Yeah.

0:41:58.603 –> 0:42:03.567
Like any investment vehicle,

0:42:03.827 –> 0:42:05.648
timing is everything.

0:42:05.829 –> 0:42:06.670
And actually right now it’s

0:42:06.690 –> 0:42:07.530
a good time to collect

0:42:07.811 –> 0:42:08.931
sneakers because sneaker

0:42:08.972 –> 0:42:10.552
prices are actually historically low.

0:42:10.893 –> 0:42:12.155
And there’s an app,

0:42:12.235 –> 0:42:13.695
it’s actually run by an

0:42:13.876 –> 0:42:15.277
acquaintance of mine, Scott Cutler,

0:42:15.336 –> 0:42:17.398
who is CEO of StockX.

0:42:18.179 –> 0:42:19.601
I actually met him for the

0:42:19.641 –> 0:42:20.742
first time out in New York

0:42:20.782 –> 0:42:21.762
when he was working for the

0:42:21.782 –> 0:42:22.684
New York Stock Exchange.

0:42:23.003 –> 0:42:24.264
So he’s modeled this whole

0:42:24.445 –> 0:42:25.766
platform that he has after

0:42:25.806 –> 0:42:27.405
the stock market bids and asks.

0:42:27.827 –> 0:42:28.686
So it’s interesting to

0:42:28.726 –> 0:42:30.367
follow trends just like any

0:42:30.447 –> 0:42:31.108
other investment.

0:42:31.148 –> 0:42:33.269
So there’s that aspect that entices me.

0:42:33.349 –> 0:42:34.030
I love sneakers.

0:42:34.050 –> 0:42:35.931
I’ve always collected, you know, ones,

0:42:36.190 –> 0:42:36.590
one offs.

0:42:36.630 –> 0:42:38.231
Like I, you know, buy two or like every,

0:42:38.291 –> 0:42:39.152
any, you know,

0:42:39.213 –> 0:42:40.653
person that grew up playing

0:42:40.693 –> 0:42:42.134
sports or something, you love sneakers.

0:42:42.153 –> 0:42:43.894
You know, you buy two or three a year.

0:42:43.914 –> 0:42:45.175
I think last year,

0:42:45.195 –> 0:42:47.277
I better be careful about who hears this,

0:42:47.336 –> 0:42:48.617
but I think I bought,

0:42:49.057 –> 0:42:50.679
let’s just say 100 sneakers.

0:42:51.059 –> 0:42:53.181
last year.

0:42:53.240 –> 0:42:54.240
My collection is probably

0:42:54.240 –> 0:42:55.722
$200 to $250 now.

0:42:57.003 –> 0:42:57.963
Are they mainly in your

0:42:58.083 –> 0:42:59.844
office or do you have them

0:43:00.005 –> 0:43:01.965
at your residence and your office?

0:43:02.106 –> 0:43:03.047
I have them all over.

0:43:03.067 –> 0:43:05.688
I have an intense security

0:43:05.748 –> 0:43:08.630
system now in my office to

0:43:08.831 –> 0:43:11.353
take care of the security of my sneakers.

0:43:11.893 –> 0:43:13.253
I love that idea because

0:43:13.273 –> 0:43:14.795
then nobody knows how many

0:43:14.855 –> 0:43:16.096
you truly have.

0:43:16.436 –> 0:43:17.817
You can rotate them around.

0:43:17.836 –> 0:43:18.677
Including myself.

0:43:22.059 –> 0:43:23.581
I bet you got that all down

0:43:23.760 –> 0:43:25.643
on a spreadsheet.

0:43:25.943 –> 0:43:26.824
I’ve decided I’m going to

0:43:26.844 –> 0:43:28.045
have to hire an intern at

0:43:28.125 –> 0:43:30.226
some point just to manage

0:43:30.246 –> 0:43:31.568
my sneakers and get it organized.

0:43:31.708 –> 0:43:34.929
Plenty of young people

0:43:34.989 –> 0:43:36.190
asking if I have internships.

0:43:36.231 –> 0:43:36.472
In fact,

0:43:36.492 –> 0:43:38.132
I got a breakfast tomorrow morning.

0:43:38.152 –> 0:43:38.672
I might say, yeah,

0:43:38.713 –> 0:43:39.534
I might have something for

0:43:39.554 –> 0:43:40.074
you this summer.

0:43:42.016 –> 0:43:43.858
Are your sneakers all different brands?

0:43:44.358 –> 0:43:44.757
Yeah, you know,

0:43:44.797 –> 0:43:47.179
I started with Jordans and Nikes,

0:43:47.320 –> 0:43:48.641
and now I’m very agnostic.

0:43:48.701 –> 0:43:50.981
I kind of go where the heat is.

0:43:51.262 –> 0:43:53.264
One of the things I really love right now,

0:43:53.304 –> 0:43:54.425
and it’s very current,

0:43:55.085 –> 0:43:56.445
he’s one of the great young

0:43:56.485 –> 0:43:57.427
players in the NBA,

0:43:57.547 –> 0:43:58.606
Anthony Edwards from the

0:43:58.646 –> 0:43:59.788
Minnesota Timberwolves.

0:44:00.668 –> 0:44:01.789
He is a phenomenal

0:44:01.929 –> 0:44:03.731
Jordan-esque type of player.

0:44:04.130 –> 0:44:05.891
He just came out with a new sneaker.

0:44:05.911 –> 0:44:06.672
It is fantastic.

0:44:07.233 –> 0:44:08.693
probably hands down one of

0:44:08.713 –> 0:44:10.994
the better playing basketball sneakers.

0:44:11.373 –> 0:44:12.793
And because it’s so hot as a

0:44:12.873 –> 0:44:14.594
player shoe and it’s got

0:44:14.675 –> 0:44:15.614
good designs and

0:44:15.755 –> 0:44:17.556
interesting colorways that

0:44:17.735 –> 0:44:21.117
it is now becoming a casual fit sneaker.

0:44:21.257 –> 0:44:22.257
And people are wearing these

0:44:22.297 –> 0:44:23.456
high performance basketball

0:44:23.476 –> 0:44:25.418
shoes out to clubs and he’s

0:44:25.458 –> 0:44:26.518
coming out with different colorways.

0:44:26.858 –> 0:44:27.659
He just came out with an

0:44:27.699 –> 0:44:28.938
all-star game colorway,

0:44:28.978 –> 0:44:29.800
which is something that

0:44:29.840 –> 0:44:31.641
most of the shoe lines do.

0:44:32.181 –> 0:44:33.942
And it’s this eggplant kind

0:44:33.961 –> 0:44:36.184
of purple that it’s kind of iridescent.

0:44:36.204 –> 0:44:37.224
So if you look at it a different way,

0:44:37.244 –> 0:44:38.224
it goes dark green.

0:44:38.664 –> 0:44:39.364
And it’s got, you know,

0:44:39.385 –> 0:44:40.445
it’s got a sock liner.

0:44:40.485 –> 0:44:41.786
It’s got the Yeezy Boost in

0:44:41.867 –> 0:44:42.806
it or something like that.

0:44:42.847 –> 0:44:43.748
So it’s phenomenal.

0:44:44.208 –> 0:44:45.208
Yeah, great sneaker.

0:44:47.074 –> 0:44:48.434
I don’t know if this still holds true,

0:44:48.534 –> 0:44:51.237
but it used to be that Puma

0:44:51.438 –> 0:44:53.039
did no advertising.

0:44:53.119 –> 0:44:56.882
They only did print ads, game day.

0:44:58.384 –> 0:45:02.027
When Marcus Allen was their biggest star,

0:45:03.088 –> 0:45:05.150
it was in the NFL magazine at the show.

0:45:05.170 –> 0:45:06.411
It was in the LA Times,

0:45:06.451 –> 0:45:08.652
in the sports section, things like that.

0:45:09.032 –> 0:45:10.114
Are they still…

0:45:11.311 –> 0:45:12.351
Like not doing any

0:45:12.471 –> 0:45:14.851
advertising or are they

0:45:15.411 –> 0:45:17.052
signing athletes anymore?

0:45:17.132 –> 0:45:18.713
What’s going on?

0:45:18.793 –> 0:45:19.452
They’re interesting.

0:45:19.512 –> 0:45:20.052
Puma,

0:45:20.393 –> 0:45:21.574
they’re one of the brands that I

0:45:21.614 –> 0:45:22.594
think is one of the big

0:45:22.713 –> 0:45:24.135
sleeper brands and one that

0:45:24.215 –> 0:45:25.375
could really break out.

0:45:26.375 –> 0:45:26.574
You know,

0:45:26.614 –> 0:45:28.076
they’re a big name in basketball.

0:45:28.096 –> 0:45:29.175
And basketball kind of

0:45:29.215 –> 0:45:30.615
drives the sneaker world

0:45:30.655 –> 0:45:31.996
unless you’re getting maybe

0:45:32.036 –> 0:45:33.197
a celebrity or something.

0:45:33.597 –> 0:45:35.858
But I wear sneakers every day.

0:45:36.498 –> 0:45:39.239
I wear sneakers now formally.

0:45:39.318 –> 0:45:40.739
I have a formal set of sneakers.

0:45:40.759 –> 0:45:41.918
Glenn and I do as well.

0:45:42.298 –> 0:45:43.300
Yeah.

0:45:43.480 –> 0:45:46.280
But Puma actually has Lomelo Ball,

0:45:46.340 –> 0:45:47.521
who’s one of the great young,

0:45:47.581 –> 0:45:50.021
exciting players in the NBA.

0:45:50.360 –> 0:45:52.521
And he actually has a phenomenal shoe.

0:45:52.541 –> 0:45:54.782
I have a couple of his shoes,

0:45:55.282 –> 0:45:56.282
one that I just ordered

0:45:56.322 –> 0:45:58.063
today that dropped last

0:45:58.143 –> 0:45:59.003
night in the middle of the night.

0:45:59.023 –> 0:45:59.902
And that’s what’s crazy is

0:45:59.922 –> 0:46:00.903
you have to set your alarm

0:46:00.923 –> 0:46:01.903
to get some of these shoes.

0:46:02.503 –> 0:46:04.804
Um, he, he dropped his all-star game shoe,

0:46:04.844 –> 0:46:05.425
I believe.

0:46:05.485 –> 0:46:06.666
And it’s, it’s Cheetos.

0:46:07.085 –> 0:46:08.206
He has a Cheetos shoe.

0:46:08.246 –> 0:46:11.507
So it’s, it’s, I like the goofier, weirder,

0:46:11.547 –> 0:46:12.347
the shoe, the better.

0:46:12.427 –> 0:46:13.409
I have these things called

0:46:13.429 –> 0:46:14.469
the flea twos that

0:46:14.869 –> 0:46:16.090
literally are like huge.

0:46:16.150 –> 0:46:17.230
I have ones called super

0:46:17.269 –> 0:46:18.891
babies that look like baby shoes,

0:46:18.971 –> 0:46:19.911
like baby sneakers.

0:46:20.271 –> 0:46:21.672
And then our faces widen

0:46:21.692 –> 0:46:22.472
that you look like a big

0:46:22.512 –> 0:46:23.353
baby when you wear them,

0:46:23.373 –> 0:46:25.574
which my brother’s thinking very funny.

0:46:26.173 –> 0:46:27.894
Um, so, so, uh, you know,

0:46:28.114 –> 0:46:29.135
I like those on stage.

0:46:30.478 –> 0:46:31.358
Yeah.

0:46:31.418 –> 0:46:32.460
I’ve got one pair.

0:46:32.659 –> 0:46:34.340
I’m a guy who does some of the classics,

0:46:34.400 –> 0:46:34.681
you know.

0:46:35.141 –> 0:46:35.682
Yeah.

0:46:35.722 –> 0:46:37.764
Mark Daniels got a trivia question.

0:46:38.025 –> 0:46:38.264
Yeah.

0:46:38.664 –> 0:46:40.867
What shoe size does Shaq wear?

0:46:41.547 –> 0:46:43.128
Ooh, I’ve heard this before.

0:46:43.168 –> 0:46:43.809
I’m going to say,

0:46:43.989 –> 0:46:44.690
I want to say it’s like a

0:46:44.690 –> 0:46:45.811
24 or something.

0:46:45.871 –> 0:46:48.554
Yeah, 24, 25, E, E, E, E, E,

0:46:48.693 –> 0:46:49.514
E or something.

0:46:49.795 –> 0:46:50.615
You’re all wrong.

0:46:50.655 –> 0:46:52.016
If you were on The Price is Right,

0:46:52.157 –> 0:46:53.757
you would have all buzzered

0:46:53.858 –> 0:46:55.818
out size is 22.

0:46:55.818 –> 0:46:56.039
22, okay.

0:46:57.360 –> 0:47:01.222
I have one of Carl’s game-worn shoes,

0:47:01.742 –> 0:47:04.543
and it is a size 22.

0:47:04.543 –> 0:47:05.224
So, you know,

0:47:05.463 –> 0:47:07.023
and I have another one that’s

0:47:07.103 –> 0:47:09.045
one of Paul George’s Hot Wheels shoes.

0:47:09.144 –> 0:47:10.646
It’s not his personal shoe,

0:47:10.666 –> 0:47:12.226
but the other ones are Carl’s,

0:47:12.606 –> 0:47:14.088
and it’s size 18 that I

0:47:14.128 –> 0:47:14.947
picked up at retail,

0:47:14.987 –> 0:47:16.048
and I figured one of these days,

0:47:16.108 –> 0:47:17.188
one of my NBA friends is

0:47:17.228 –> 0:47:18.130
going to want a Hot Wheels

0:47:18.550 –> 0:47:19.530
Paul George shoe,

0:47:19.590 –> 0:47:21.030
so I’m waiting to see who’s

0:47:21.050 –> 0:47:22.532
going to pay the most for that one, so…

0:47:23.371 –> 0:47:24.692
I just bought a Fox

0:47:26.213 –> 0:47:27.492
Lightning McQueen Crocs,

0:47:27.952 –> 0:47:29.373
which he’s been very excited about.

0:47:29.393 –> 0:47:30.414
When, Craig, by the way,

0:47:31.074 –> 0:47:32.014
the one-year anniversary of

0:47:32.074 –> 0:47:33.434
our trip to California just passed,

0:47:33.454 –> 0:47:34.994
me and Fox’s, believe it or not.

0:47:35.394 –> 0:47:35.534
Wow.

0:47:35.554 –> 0:47:36.255
And he would have been

0:47:36.675 –> 0:47:39.275
perfect to have his McQueen

0:47:39.356 –> 0:47:40.755
Crocs when we were stomping

0:47:40.775 –> 0:47:41.956
around Disneyland at Cars

0:47:41.976 –> 0:47:43.657
Land the entire day for 14

0:47:43.657 –> 0:47:45.577
hours that day or whatever it was.

0:47:45.597 –> 0:47:47.016
Bring up Glenn’s Crocs,

0:47:47.137 –> 0:47:49.077
and then we can show them what happened.

0:47:49.117 –> 0:47:50.177
Glenn, do you got Crocs on?

0:47:50.197 –> 0:47:50.318
Yeah.

0:47:50.753 –> 0:47:52.014
Not currently,

0:47:52.155 –> 0:47:53.577
although I do have my fish

0:47:53.617 –> 0:47:55.257
crocs around here somewhere

0:47:55.297 –> 0:47:55.679
in this hotel.

0:47:55.778 –> 0:47:56.960
I have a friend that only

0:47:57.000 –> 0:47:58.400
wears crocs everywhere.

0:47:58.420 –> 0:47:59.342
Oh, yeah?

0:47:59.643 –> 0:48:01.384
He has like 300 pairs of crocs.

0:48:01.443 –> 0:48:02.184
It’s ridiculous.

0:48:02.766 –> 0:48:03.626
That’s hysterical.

0:48:04.007 –> 0:48:05.507
I got this cool pair.

0:48:06.208 –> 0:48:06.730
They’re called…

0:48:08.123 –> 0:48:11.784
Nike SB Dunk Low Grateful Dead ones.

0:48:11.844 –> 0:48:12.726
And they’ve got like green

0:48:12.846 –> 0:48:14.585
fur on them and the dead logo.

0:48:15.126 –> 0:48:15.347
Yeah.

0:48:15.806 –> 0:48:17.086
I’ve been trying to buy a pair of those.

0:48:17.126 –> 0:48:18.208
I thought I had one and then

0:48:18.288 –> 0:48:19.807
the seller canceled on me.

0:48:19.867 –> 0:48:22.128
But you do know those are really valuable,

0:48:22.188 –> 0:48:22.429
right?

0:48:22.768 –> 0:48:23.108
Yeah.

0:48:23.128 –> 0:48:24.190
Somebody sent it to me as a

0:48:24.409 –> 0:48:25.809
gift very much.

0:48:26.030 –> 0:48:26.510
What’s that?

0:48:26.530 –> 0:48:27.150
Have you worn them?

0:48:27.170 –> 0:48:27.210
No.

0:48:31.023 –> 0:48:31.804
So if you wear them,

0:48:31.824 –> 0:48:33.965
you lose 30% to 40% of the value.

0:48:34.005 –> 0:48:34.505
No, no, no.

0:48:34.545 –> 0:48:36.947
Those are not sneakers to wear.

0:48:37.047 –> 0:48:38.327
Are they the yellow ones?

0:48:38.648 –> 0:48:39.389
There’s a couple.

0:48:39.449 –> 0:48:40.409
I got the green ones.

0:48:40.608 –> 0:48:41.650
Okay, the green ones.

0:48:41.690 –> 0:48:42.289
That’s a nice pair.

0:48:42.309 –> 0:48:43.391
I think those are around

0:48:44.291 –> 0:48:45.211
maybe like $1,000.

0:48:45.211 –> 0:48:47.713
Yeah, it’s awesome.

0:48:48.773 –> 0:48:51.155
My hobby is selling off my comic book.

0:48:51.175 –> 0:48:51.695
There they are.

0:48:52.195 –> 0:48:52.496
Yeah.

0:48:52.956 –> 0:48:54.076
That’s not right.

0:48:55.056 –> 0:48:55.657
So, you know,

0:48:55.697 –> 0:48:56.557
I know all about keeping

0:48:56.577 –> 0:48:58.099
things in mint condition.

0:48:58.619 –> 0:48:58.739
Yeah.

0:48:58.759 –> 0:48:58.858
Yeah.

0:48:59.724 –> 0:49:00.585
That one doesn’t look right.

0:49:00.605 –> 0:49:01.646
Not according to your wife.

0:49:01.706 –> 0:49:02.847
She says you’re nowhere near

0:49:02.867 –> 0:49:03.628
mint condition.

0:49:03.949 –> 0:49:05.411
It’s I keep myself in mint condition.

0:49:06.914 –> 0:49:07.454
That’s true.

0:49:07.994 –> 0:49:08.815
I’m the exception.

0:49:11.018 –> 0:49:12.900
I had a buddy growing up that we, you know,

0:49:12.940 –> 0:49:14.161
we had all this Star Trek

0:49:14.221 –> 0:49:16.101
and Planet of the Apes and Star Wars.

0:49:16.682 –> 0:49:18.063
He was the kid that we’d all,

0:49:18.184 –> 0:49:19.284
he’d unbox them.

0:49:19.865 –> 0:49:20.626
We’d play with them.

0:49:21.027 –> 0:49:22.987
He’d re-box them after we

0:49:23.007 –> 0:49:23.509
played with them.

0:49:23.628 –> 0:49:24.128
And then they,

0:49:24.989 –> 0:49:26.291
I called him one day and I go, hey,

0:49:26.311 –> 0:49:27.692
do you still have all your old toys?

0:49:27.711 –> 0:49:28.753
Because those things have got to be,

0:49:28.992 –> 0:49:30.835
you probably buy a house with that stuff.

0:49:30.855 –> 0:49:32.797
And he goes, they burned in a fire.

0:49:34.577 –> 0:49:36.940
After he’d taken so much

0:49:36.980 –> 0:49:37.740
good care of them.

0:49:38.128 –> 0:49:40.552
My original collection of

0:49:40.612 –> 0:49:42.355
Star Wars figures, you know,

0:49:42.375 –> 0:49:44.338
because I was seven when

0:49:44.378 –> 0:49:45.400
that movie came out.

0:49:45.480 –> 0:49:47.822
So my original collection, I had them all.

0:49:47.923 –> 0:49:48.905
I loved them so much.

0:49:49.525 –> 0:49:50.367
And they were in my parents’

0:49:50.407 –> 0:49:51.528
car that got stolen.

0:49:52.170 –> 0:49:52.751
Oh, wow.

0:49:54.251 –> 0:49:56.333
So one of my favorite parts

0:49:56.373 –> 0:49:57.893
of my collection is a Star

0:49:57.934 –> 0:50:00.295
Wars-themed shoe collection

0:50:00.315 –> 0:50:01.034
that I’ve started.

0:50:01.054 –> 0:50:02.815
And I have, like, C-3PO.

0:50:02.835 –> 0:50:03.536
The best ones,

0:50:03.556 –> 0:50:05.317
I should have brought them down.

0:50:05.336 –> 0:50:06.797
I have the C-3PO ones here.

0:50:07.157 –> 0:50:08.418
But there’s Chewbacca shoes,

0:50:08.458 –> 0:50:09.597
and it looks like Chewbacca.

0:50:09.617 –> 0:50:10.599
It’s got the bandolier.

0:50:10.679 –> 0:50:11.878
It’s got a Millennium Falcon

0:50:11.938 –> 0:50:12.880
hanging off it.

0:50:13.119 –> 0:50:13.320
Love it.

0:50:13.340 –> 0:50:14.119
They’re phenomenal.

0:50:14.139 –> 0:50:14.739
They’re hairy.

0:50:14.760 –> 0:50:16.021
I was going to say,

0:50:16.041 –> 0:50:17.601
you’ve got to have fur on them, right?

0:50:17.742 –> 0:50:18.641
Oh, it’s phenomenal.

0:50:19.282 –> 0:50:20.862
The sneaker companies are really creative.

0:50:20.882 –> 0:50:20.963
Wow.

0:50:21.822 –> 0:50:22.603
It’s really cool that it’s

0:50:22.623 –> 0:50:23.824
really become an artistic

0:50:23.885 –> 0:50:25.965
medium that’s grown out of

0:50:26.266 –> 0:50:27.967
like a need and they can

0:50:27.987 –> 0:50:29.268
serve both purposes or just

0:50:29.307 –> 0:50:31.130
go extremely the artistry side.

0:50:31.170 –> 0:50:32.170
It’s really awesome.

0:50:32.590 –> 0:50:34.092
And I’m looking, you know, again,

0:50:34.771 –> 0:50:35.713
with all my passions,

0:50:35.753 –> 0:50:37.153
I look to integrate them.

0:50:37.454 –> 0:50:38.715
That’s the cool thing about

0:50:38.795 –> 0:50:39.976
hospitality is you can

0:50:40.016 –> 0:50:41.177
almost take any kind of

0:50:41.197 –> 0:50:42.898
passion and figure out a

0:50:42.958 –> 0:50:44.759
way to weave it into a

0:50:44.858 –> 0:50:46.059
property or something

0:50:46.079 –> 0:50:47.240
you’re doing at a property.

0:50:48.382 –> 0:50:49.322
I was telling you guys as we

0:50:49.342 –> 0:50:50.143
were getting ready for this,

0:50:50.943 –> 0:50:52.324
We own the vintage up in Portland,

0:50:52.344 –> 0:50:55.626
the vintage Kempton and Kempton Vintage.

0:50:56.186 –> 0:50:58.047
It’s the hotel that Michael

0:50:58.088 –> 0:50:58.969
Jordan used to stay in at

0:50:59.009 –> 0:51:00.230
times when he’d come up to Portland.

0:51:00.630 –> 0:51:01.690
There was a Michael Jordan

0:51:01.731 –> 0:51:02.791
suite that has oversized

0:51:02.831 –> 0:51:03.972
furniture for his comfort

0:51:04.271 –> 0:51:05.753
and it’s still there.

0:51:05.773 –> 0:51:07.173
I thought that when we get

0:51:07.233 –> 0:51:08.514
ready to redo those rooms

0:51:08.554 –> 0:51:09.315
that we need to do

0:51:09.396 –> 0:51:10.956
something Jordan in that room.

0:51:11.577 –> 0:51:12.737
I would love to do a collab

0:51:12.777 –> 0:51:13.496
with Jordan Brand.

0:51:13.516 –> 0:51:14.297
So if you’re if you’re

0:51:14.338 –> 0:51:16.197
listening to Friday Night Audit right now,

0:51:16.217 –> 0:51:17.077
reach out to me.

0:51:17.697 –> 0:51:19.057
Otherwise, I’ll be reaching out to you,

0:51:19.077 –> 0:51:20.199
see if we can get something done.

0:51:20.278 –> 0:51:21.259
But I think it would be a

0:51:21.318 –> 0:51:24.119
phenomenal hotel experience

0:51:24.179 –> 0:51:25.500
for someone who is a big.

0:51:25.760 –> 0:51:26.960
And again, you know,

0:51:27.739 –> 0:51:29.179
Beaverton and Portland are

0:51:29.320 –> 0:51:30.900
the it’s Sneaker City.

0:51:31.360 –> 0:51:32.900
And so being able to have

0:51:32.940 –> 0:51:34.141
that kind of experience, you know,

0:51:34.181 –> 0:51:35.141
you know that there will be

0:51:35.202 –> 0:51:36.202
people that will be seeking

0:51:36.262 –> 0:51:37.461
out that kind of opportunity.

0:51:37.481 –> 0:51:37.561
Yeah.

0:51:37.762 –> 0:51:38.621
It sounds all great,

0:51:38.762 –> 0:51:40.083
but as long as you have

0:51:40.103 –> 0:51:42.563
something taken care of

0:51:42.702 –> 0:51:45.344
with that do not disturb.

0:51:45.364 –> 0:51:45.643
Yeah.

0:51:45.704 –> 0:51:48.364
You all expressed your very

0:51:48.443 –> 0:51:50.545
in-depth knowledge of

0:51:51.045 –> 0:51:52.844
stinkers and valuations and whatnot.

0:51:52.905 –> 0:51:54.626
But now before the show wraps up,

0:51:54.666 –> 0:51:55.925
let’s turn to the more

0:51:56.706 –> 0:51:57.965
important one and let’s see

0:51:58.005 –> 0:52:00.706
how you guys do with handbags.

0:52:00.967 –> 0:52:01.067
Yeah.

0:52:03.086 –> 0:52:03.246
Oh,

0:52:03.947 –> 0:52:05.688
tell us about your knowledge of the

0:52:05.788 –> 0:52:06.447
handbag.

0:52:06.748 –> 0:52:08.148
Well, you know what?

0:52:08.469 –> 0:52:10.650
I’m not horrible at that since I just,

0:52:11.389 –> 0:52:13.190
I literally just finished.

0:52:13.791 –> 0:52:14.931
I just finished watching

0:52:15.972 –> 0:52:19.112
Acquired’s podcast of Louis Vuitton.

0:52:19.632 –> 0:52:20.193
And I’ll tell you,

0:52:20.233 –> 0:52:22.054
if anyone ever wants to be

0:52:22.094 –> 0:52:23.373
entertained for four hours,

0:52:23.434 –> 0:52:25.554
that podcast is riveting on

0:52:25.614 –> 0:52:28.635
how Arnaud has collected

0:52:28.695 –> 0:52:29.835
this luxury brand.

0:52:30.155 –> 0:52:31.237
And it was based on

0:52:32.016 –> 0:52:33.358
Louis Vuitton he didn’t

0:52:33.420 –> 0:52:34.460
create any of those brands

0:52:34.501 –> 0:52:35.523
but he has assembled the

0:52:35.603 –> 0:52:37.186
greatest collection of

0:52:37.266 –> 0:52:38.708
luxury brands in the world

0:52:39.108 –> 0:52:40.632
and for doing that he’s the

0:52:40.672 –> 0:52:41.733
richest man in the world right now

0:52:42.246 –> 0:52:42.467
Wow.

0:52:42.887 –> 0:52:44.108
Glenn will be watching that

0:52:44.188 –> 0:52:45.507
or listening to that tonight.

0:52:45.568 –> 0:52:46.847
Forget how much money he has.

0:52:46.867 –> 0:52:47.929
I feel like I’m the richest

0:52:47.969 –> 0:52:48.809
man in the world because I

0:52:49.028 –> 0:52:49.889
get to do this show with

0:52:49.929 –> 0:52:51.530
you dumb fuckers every single week.

0:52:52.949 –> 0:52:54.630
That does make you very rich, Glenn.

0:52:54.650 –> 0:52:55.471
All the knowledge that we

0:52:55.510 –> 0:52:59.072
are imparting on you and the viewers,

0:52:59.152 –> 0:53:00.932
it’s invaluable to the

0:53:00.992 –> 0:53:02.012
education of the world.

0:53:03.311 –> 0:53:04.992
The rainstorm’s coming inside.

0:53:05.032 –> 0:53:06.253
Look how dark and depressing

0:53:06.293 –> 0:53:07.454
it’s getting in this house.

0:53:07.514 –> 0:53:09.115
Hey, you just got very dark.

0:53:09.155 –> 0:53:13.119
I can hear the thunder going.

0:53:13.920 –> 0:53:14.460
Oh, man,

0:53:14.500 –> 0:53:15.981
I’m going to have a damn country night.

0:53:16.822 –> 0:53:17.063
Well,

0:53:17.603 –> 0:53:19.605
that’s a great time then to bring up

0:53:19.744 –> 0:53:19.925
this.

0:53:19.945 –> 0:53:20.626
As you guys can hear,

0:53:21.085 –> 0:53:22.186
Fox’s switch got a lot

0:53:22.246 –> 0:53:23.068
louder because he’s being

0:53:23.188 –> 0:53:24.309
very difficult right now,

0:53:24.329 –> 0:53:25.929
not doing anything, listening.

0:53:26.349 –> 0:53:27.251
But he is giving me a reason

0:53:27.271 –> 0:53:28.632
to stall so I can find this.

0:53:29.492 –> 0:53:30.293
No, not that one.

0:53:30.313 –> 0:53:30.393
Whoa!

0:53:37.429 –> 0:53:37.708
Hey,

0:53:37.748 –> 0:53:38.931
thanks so much for watching the best

0:53:38.971 –> 0:53:39.411
part of the show.

0:53:39.431 –> 0:53:39.711
Of course,

0:53:39.771 –> 0:53:41.172
it’s time for the plug of Palooza.

0:53:41.193 –> 0:53:42.974
The moment you all tune in

0:53:43.014 –> 0:53:44.277
where we shamelessly plug,

0:53:44.336 –> 0:53:45.358
I’d like to start off by

0:53:45.918 –> 0:53:46.998
asking you for an umbrella

0:53:47.380 –> 0:53:48.021
because I’m going to

0:53:48.041 –> 0:53:49.862
probably have to go out over there,

0:53:49.882 –> 0:53:50.603
which is not going to be

0:53:50.643 –> 0:53:51.885
delightful at all.

0:53:51.925 –> 0:53:53.626
But Matt, you’re our guest.

0:53:53.666 –> 0:53:55.648
Tell us a little bit about Pacifica,

0:53:55.668 –> 0:53:56.650
why people would want to

0:53:56.710 –> 0:53:58.090
stay there and plug the hell out of it,

0:53:58.110 –> 0:53:58.311
buddy.

0:53:59.152 –> 0:53:59.552
I’ll tell you,

0:53:59.693 –> 0:54:00.853
Pacifica Hotels has been

0:54:00.893 –> 0:54:01.954
such a great experience for

0:54:01.974 –> 0:54:03.875
me over the last, I think, 27 years,

0:54:03.934 –> 0:54:04.775
now 26 years.

0:54:05.876 –> 0:54:06.177
You know,

0:54:06.737 –> 0:54:08.777
it was just an infant when I joined.

0:54:09.597 –> 0:54:11.039
My dad and I had partners.

0:54:11.099 –> 0:54:13.500
We’re now completely family owned.

0:54:13.679 –> 0:54:14.601
It’s actually now in the

0:54:14.661 –> 0:54:16.121
sibling generation only.

0:54:16.762 –> 0:54:19.422
And we are super excited as

0:54:19.463 –> 0:54:20.543
a family to continue this

0:54:20.583 –> 0:54:22.005
tradition of offering what

0:54:22.025 –> 0:54:22.885
we think is some of the

0:54:22.925 –> 0:54:24.106
best hotel experiences.

0:54:24.485 –> 0:54:25.405
You know, we do,

0:54:25.545 –> 0:54:28.807
like what I was saying earlier, we’re…

0:54:29.280 –> 0:54:30.983
we’re really kind of a

0:54:31.083 –> 0:54:34.146
magnet for a lot of industries, hotels.

0:54:34.706 –> 0:54:36.668
And I gave a TED Talk once

0:54:36.768 –> 0:54:37.889
about how hotels are

0:54:37.949 –> 0:54:39.472
actually the backdrops for

0:54:39.572 –> 0:54:41.333
so many people’s important

0:54:41.414 –> 0:54:42.315
experiences in life,

0:54:42.655 –> 0:54:45.778
whether it’s anniversaries, birthdays,

0:54:45.818 –> 0:54:46.059
you know,

0:54:47.639 –> 0:54:49.481
trying to repair relationships,

0:54:50.201 –> 0:54:51.702
trying to meet people for the first time.

0:54:51.722 –> 0:54:52.621
Maybe you’re going away for

0:54:52.641 –> 0:54:53.661
the first time with someone.

0:54:54.581 –> 0:54:55.762
And then even like, you know,

0:54:55.922 –> 0:54:57.882
I’ve had experiences where people,

0:54:58.304 –> 0:54:59.443
you know, were losing someone.

0:54:59.503 –> 0:55:00.443
It was the last time they

0:55:00.463 –> 0:55:00.903
were going to be with

0:55:00.943 –> 0:55:02.025
grandma or grandpa or great

0:55:02.045 –> 0:55:02.644
grandma or grandpa.

0:55:03.085 –> 0:55:04.847
So we really want to just

0:55:04.887 –> 0:55:06.228
provide the best backdrop

0:55:06.367 –> 0:55:07.608
and the best service

0:55:07.668 –> 0:55:08.650
experience that people can

0:55:08.690 –> 0:55:10.471
have during these important times.

0:55:10.590 –> 0:55:11.592
And I think our team,

0:55:11.972 –> 0:55:13.373
we invest a lot in our

0:55:13.454 –> 0:55:14.574
training department and in

0:55:14.675 –> 0:55:17.637
our culture at our properties to really,

0:55:17.737 –> 0:55:20.259
really push to have our employees.

0:55:20.278 –> 0:55:21.760
And I get feedback all the

0:55:21.800 –> 0:55:23.501
time from people like you

0:55:23.521 –> 0:55:24.983
guys that stay at our hotels and they say,

0:55:25.023 –> 0:55:26.403
your staff is wonderful.

0:55:27.385 –> 0:55:29.106
Your staff is wonderful at the Wayfarer.

0:55:29.186 –> 0:55:30.708
Every interaction we had was fantastic.

0:55:31.068 –> 0:55:31.728
Phenomenal.

0:55:32.028 –> 0:55:32.409
Thank you.

0:55:32.489 –> 0:55:32.750
Thank you.

0:55:32.789 –> 0:55:35.211
And it really is, you know, hospitality,

0:55:35.452 –> 0:55:38.474
design, food and beverage, you know,

0:55:38.675 –> 0:55:39.976
our comfort of our beds,

0:55:40.096 –> 0:55:40.695
all those things.

0:55:40.735 –> 0:55:42.378
We look at every aspect of that,

0:55:42.677 –> 0:55:43.559
but it really comes down to

0:55:43.579 –> 0:55:44.719
the people in the interactions.

0:55:44.900 –> 0:55:46.702
And we really have have

0:55:46.922 –> 0:55:47.802
striven to do that.

0:55:48.563 –> 0:55:50.744
Real quick story during the mudslides,

0:55:50.824 –> 0:55:52.186
the tragic mudslides in

0:55:52.226 –> 0:55:53.608
Montecito and Santa Barbara.

0:55:53.947 –> 0:55:54.989
We had a lot of people come

0:55:55.028 –> 0:55:56.090
to the Wayfair at the time.

0:55:56.730 –> 0:55:57.251
Um, and,

0:55:57.411 –> 0:55:58.731
and stay long-term because they

0:55:58.751 –> 0:55:59.954
were displaced out of their houses.

0:56:00.353 –> 0:56:02.076
We had a person visiting

0:56:02.096 –> 0:56:03.657
from back East and that

0:56:03.757 –> 0:56:05.719
lady was so touched by, um,

0:56:05.860 –> 0:56:06.940
people coming and coming

0:56:06.960 –> 0:56:08.282
together as kind of a community.

0:56:08.722 –> 0:56:08.902
She,

0:56:09.182 –> 0:56:11.405
she extended for three to four weeks

0:56:11.905 –> 0:56:13.128
and cooked people in our

0:56:13.168 –> 0:56:14.949
communal kitchen breakfast

0:56:15.050 –> 0:56:16.090
and lunch and dinner.

0:56:16.590 –> 0:56:19.251
on her own dime and cared

0:56:19.271 –> 0:56:20.251
with these families and

0:56:20.552 –> 0:56:21.211
mourned with them.

0:56:21.271 –> 0:56:22.472
Some of them had lost pets

0:56:22.552 –> 0:56:24.432
and even family members and houses.

0:56:24.934 –> 0:56:26.693
And that’s, to me,

0:56:26.893 –> 0:56:29.175
the ultimate experience of

0:56:29.255 –> 0:56:30.554
hospitality is really

0:56:30.994 –> 0:56:32.436
trying to make it as family

0:56:32.496 –> 0:56:33.755
and home as possible while

0:56:33.795 –> 0:56:35.916
still giving it that edge of, you know,

0:56:35.936 –> 0:56:36.637
we all like to go to a

0:56:36.677 –> 0:56:39.097
hotel because it’s just a little edgy.

0:56:39.137 –> 0:56:40.018
It’s a little more fun.

0:56:40.057 –> 0:56:40.577
It’s like, you know,

0:56:40.597 –> 0:56:41.157
we can kind of let

0:56:41.177 –> 0:56:43.039
ourselves let loose a little bit.

0:56:43.099 –> 0:56:43.478
And I think

0:56:43.978 –> 0:56:45.358
There’s a fine balance

0:56:45.378 –> 0:56:46.260
between all those things,

0:56:46.340 –> 0:56:47.559
and getting that chemistry

0:56:47.659 –> 0:56:49.280
right is super important.

0:56:49.320 –> 0:56:51.641
We really try and do that at Pacifica.

0:56:51.681 –> 0:56:53.141
We take great attention.

0:56:53.161 –> 0:56:53.981
My brother Adam is

0:56:54.402 –> 0:56:55.581
phenomenal at the attention

0:56:55.641 –> 0:56:57.601
to detail in the design and

0:56:57.922 –> 0:56:59.362
how we maintain our properties.

0:56:59.742 –> 0:57:02.784
Our ops team, led by John Pedlow, is just,

0:57:03.083 –> 0:57:03.264
you know,

0:57:03.284 –> 0:57:04.923
they always are trying to figure

0:57:04.983 –> 0:57:05.923
out how can we make it a

0:57:05.963 –> 0:57:07.144
better experience for our guests.

0:57:08.304 –> 0:57:08.565
Awesome.

0:57:09.005 –> 0:57:10.826
Check them out, PacificaHotels.com,

0:57:10.846 –> 0:57:12.346
PacificaHotels.com.

0:57:13.117 –> 0:57:15.557
Dave’s got nothing to promote, you know.

0:57:15.737 –> 0:57:17.737
So, Craig, I’m excited.

0:57:17.978 –> 0:57:18.898
We’re getting close now.

0:57:19.498 –> 0:57:21.139
It’s feeling real.

0:57:21.519 –> 0:57:22.980
We’re getting really close.

0:57:23.199 –> 0:57:25.260
Seventh annual California

0:57:25.300 –> 0:57:26.981
Lodging Investment Conference,

0:57:27.461 –> 0:57:29.742
March 6th and 7th at the

0:57:29.762 –> 0:57:31.483
West and South Coast Plaza Hotel.

0:57:31.882 –> 0:57:33.864
And John Pedlow from

0:57:33.903 –> 0:57:35.684
Pacifica Hotels is on a panel.

0:57:36.003 –> 0:57:36.423
He is.

0:57:36.483 –> 0:57:38.025
He’s really excited about it, too.

0:57:38.284 –> 0:57:39.844
Can’t wait to have him there.

0:57:39.985 –> 0:57:41.846
I want to thank Matt and the

0:57:41.885 –> 0:57:43.945
entire team at Pacifica for

0:57:44.025 –> 0:57:45.507
being a sponsor this year.

0:57:46.806 –> 0:57:48.887
You know, we’ve got three great panels.

0:57:48.947 –> 0:57:50.088
We’ve got two keynotes.

0:57:50.568 –> 0:57:52.628
It’s owners, it’s management companies,

0:57:52.809 –> 0:57:53.248
brands,

0:57:53.449 –> 0:57:56.130
lenders still making loans on hotels,

0:57:56.210 –> 0:57:57.670
including construction.

0:57:58.030 –> 0:57:58.690
What?

0:57:59.030 –> 0:58:00.411
Insurance carriers,

0:58:00.990 –> 0:58:02.672
our trade associations.

0:58:03.052 –> 0:58:04.612
Jason Reederer from H&LA

0:58:04.693 –> 0:58:05.773
will be bringing us up to

0:58:05.833 –> 0:58:07.614
date on legislative matters

0:58:07.655 –> 0:58:08.414
in California.

0:58:09.561 –> 0:58:10.402
If you’re in the California

0:58:10.422 –> 0:58:12.463
hotel market or want to be,

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this is the event you should attend,

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and you can register at

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cliconference.com.

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We’ve got some new Click

0:58:19.306 –> 0:58:20.949
Connect episodes coming out.

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We’ve got Chris Green.

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We’ve got a few other people,

0:58:24.670 –> 0:58:25.851
some big names.

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We’re going to get Matt on

0:58:26.851 –> 0:58:27.632
the show as well.

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Join us.

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So thank you all.

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Matt, thank you for being here today.

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It’s great hanging out with

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you guys this Friday night.

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Real fun.

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Sure.

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So since you mentioned Chris Green,

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I was just stretching over

0:58:39.327 –> 0:58:40.190
there to go get his book.

0:58:41.400 –> 0:58:43.420
River Guide to Leadership.

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And this is No Vacancy Approved.

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I’m on the back cover over

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there saying nice things

0:58:48.242 –> 0:58:49.423
about him because he deserves it.

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He’s an awesome guy.

0:58:50.463 –> 0:58:52.364
River Guide to Leadership.

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Get it at Amazon right now.

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It was the number one book

0:58:55.306 –> 0:58:56.646
in leadership last I saw.

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Also,

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thanks to the good people at

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Remington Hospitality.

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I’ll be hosting their event

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the last week of February in Fort Worth.

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So if you call the Remington family,

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see you there.

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And it’s on to the Hunter

0:59:06.291 –> 0:59:07.391
Hotel Investment Conference,

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where I’ll be doing a panel

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with some of the top

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development folks out there.

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Also,

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we’re going to be – we already talked

0:59:13.896 –> 0:59:14.876
about Craig’s conference.

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After that,

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I’ll be at AHOA on the official

0:59:17.057 –> 0:59:17.697
– No Vacancies,

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the official podcast of the

0:59:19.278 –> 0:59:21.440
Asian Hotel – the Asian

0:59:21.481 –> 0:59:22.360
American Hotel Owners

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Association Conference down in Orlando.

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I also want to thank the

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folks at PM Hospitality for

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booking me for a keynote

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speech on April 29th at

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their leadership forum.

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And –

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You’ll see me in a city near you,

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assuming I survive this

0:59:37.452 –> 0:59:39.516
rainstorm here in Nashville.

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Thanks, everybody.

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I’ll also be speaking at Hunter.

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And just a little last plug

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that maybe next time you guys come on,

0:59:47.688 –> 0:59:48.628
we can talk about the

0:59:48.789 –> 0:59:50.532
Broadway show that I’m co-producing.

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No way.

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Yes.

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Just a little teaser for next time, guys.

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You buried the lead on that one, man.

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Right?

0:59:57.869 –> 1:00:00.170
I want to come hang out with

1:00:00.190 –> 1:00:00.710
you guys again.

1:00:00.730 –> 1:00:01.831
This was real fun.

1:00:01.891 –> 1:00:02.690
This was great.

1:00:03.032 –> 1:00:04.592
And Matt,

1:00:04.771 –> 1:00:06.273
stick around after we go up there.

1:00:06.592 –> 1:00:07.733
Let’s do a video together if

1:00:07.753 –> 1:00:08.735
you’re at the Hunter Conference.

1:00:08.755 –> 1:00:09.914
All right, Dave, you want to take us out?

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All right, guys.

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Well, have a wonderful Friday night.

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Enjoy your weekend.

1:00:14.858 –> 1:00:16.619
Glenn, don’t float away.

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We will see you next week.

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I’m not touching anything.

1:00:20.329 –> 1:00:21.554
Don’t talk over the credits.

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Glenn gets upset.