#230: How To Systematically Solve Those Tiny Brain Busting Life Problems Like Henry Cavill in The Witcher
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I've got an orange tinge. There
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we go. Oh,
Law Smith
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I didn't know it's only Episode 229 3232 29 you slept walkthrough
Eric Readinger
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to 29
Law Smith
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you know, they all can't be great. Before we get into the podcast with some good ex Miss. Did you know x means Christ in Greece and the Greek Exodus? That's not I used to look it up. Google that shit. I used to have fights with Christian people that we go. I don't I don't call it ex Miss, because that's blasphemous. And then I googled it when Google was first round when it was had little like three pubes when Google Google like thank you. 98
Eric Readinger
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right and as you found the answer means crazy enough research
Law Smith
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right? Right. Google enough right so I get it right yes right wing websites need extreme right we're already off the tracks sweat equity podcast and streaming show pragmatic entrepreneur advice with Dick Jokes get that dick tie around your neck hosted by me last minute. sitting to my right stage left is Eric rush ginger, hitting the soundboard as well and producing while co hosting multitalented we'll do it live. If you were a resume builder, you'd call them a Swiss Army knife. Hashtag girthy Ri hashtag 69 b2b and hashtag sweat equity when you share this podcast out to the friends that need some pragmatic business advice. And maybe just Sage like wisdom from to 35 year old white males right.
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Thank you. There you see it let's get it out there and get that zip
Law Smith
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Yes, I tried to pick it on the way over here made it worse scab and then it got like Mount Vesuvius on me. Are we ready to get this thing going? Yeah.
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Don't lie, all right.
Law Smith
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It's gonna be hard to have that not be funny.
Eric Readinger
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I know. We were listening to it for fun but yeah show started because
Law Smith
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that manager Lou Brown. Yeah.
Law Smith
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It could be the Roman coke. I don't know. It doesn't matter. You know this we're having fun. Well, we're dressed down today. You know, we're really we're usually in suits, right business casual, you know, the blazer? Well, it's fantasy football championship weekend, everybody
Eric Readinger
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getting the gotta get in the comfortable mood.
Law Smith
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Well, I like to say that when other podcasts are taking a break the big dogs out there. We're still hammering through. We're still
Eric Readinger
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inconveniencing our families. You know, we don't get Kids are waiting on their door this whole time
Law Smith
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Christmas scavenger hunt with the rest of the family. We're like, No, we got to talk about for Monday, cheese and digital marketing.
Eric Readinger
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Yes. Seven Minutes kids. Yeah, your scavenger hunt
Law Smith
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there. You're gonna like walk up there and be like, well, we already did it. Memory is gone. Who cares about Dad? Yeah. Tell me about I like your attitude about having your drink. Yo, he teased it for the incremental, the podcast, you throw a podcast that you don't do. But I bet I like
Eric Readinger
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your radical podcast I have. Yeah,
Law Smith
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yeah. Like I have one called work smarter, not harder that I've yet to do because I can't get around. It's like, to me that first one is like, Listen, listening to the podcast or stand up comedy like, Listen to yourself back like Yeah, no things you have to get over that hump and then then it's fine then you're gravy. But that first couple times is too horrible. Yeah, it's like watching yourself. Fuck, you know, the first couple times on my hidden camera I mean masturbate.
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Well, I want to get better.
Law Smith
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I want to have good form. I don't like that tennis elbow, or get Tommy john surgery one day, perfect practice makes
Eric Readinger
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perfect. Right, right. Well, I was saying, you know, we're like, 36 years old. Now. You're 36 we need to, as a society, figure out what drink you can drink and not get hung over and handle yourself. Because I've been drinking Captain Morgan for you know, 15 years now obvious.
Law Smith
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Nothing but bullshit that it has become like what high schoolers? I don't know if it's high schooler kind of drink everywhere around the country. I didn't know if that was more of a rum
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for the rum and cokes.
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Yeah, kind of bullshit. Yeah,
Eric Readinger
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I mean, I just don't care. For one thing. I'm like, you know, what do you can do? make fun of me? Go for it.
Law Smith
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Right? Well, you've already been. Yeah, you're, it's just your souls already been
Eric Readinger
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like, what are you gonna hear? Are you I don't even have feelings to hurt. It's just, but I figured out, Captain tastes good to me and Captain makes me not hung over. I know when to dial it back. You know, it's kind of hard for me to get out of control. When I'm drinking captain. It's kind of it hits a plateau and I'm kind of good. And that's different for everybody but figure it out guys.
Law Smith
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Well, and I was even I was even thinking, I wouldn't even think in that way. That's a better way to think about it. I was thinking like, just legit, like, you know, you're walking into a party with your wife and she just knows what to get you. Yes, that's also like, to me that's like, way better than anything, cuz you're not gonna really be the hangover. Yeah, if you if you party right, you know, right, right, well, bro, your whip it's in the parking lot.
Eric Readinger
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I went to a Christmas party recently and I just straight up bring my own little bar. Or it's like 100 people at a party. I have my little Publix bag. I set it out on the patio or on the back. I got my captain you've ever talked about this? I got ice sitting out there only go inside for ice.
Law Smith
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You bring in your own. Yes. And I'm not even thinking party not
Eric Readinger
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like I mean these are like old
Law Smith
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grocery bag. But now I was thinking of plastic.
Eric Readinger
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Like the green ones that are used
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to plastic bag slash cooler. I'm not gonna buy cardboard cruelly still to a briefcase on Monday.
Eric Readinger
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But every day it plays into the like, I'm good. I don't need to worry about my drink. guy who thinks I bring two things my son good.
Law Smith
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Yeah. And then last night I was I went, I took it. I took it out of your keto kind of, you know, playbook. And I'm like, okay, I was about to get some Tito's. And then I was like, Really? You can't Tito ketose to keto? Oh, what's funny is by the way, this is funny in a marketing sense. You know, as soon as a diet becomes quasi popular, you ever seen the chart of, of marketing groups before you have early adopters? You have? You have like, what's it called? Most people are in the laggard area. Right. Think of the iPhone, right. Like when it came out, it was six. Maybe you and I are some of the first like, we're not the first 5% we're not waiting in line. at best. We're but we're the early adopters, right? We might get the second phone, right? Mm hmm. And then that that middle glut of the bell curve is just laggard. That's how they kind of break up marketing groups, right? The keto diet stuffs always funny because I'm walking around a fucking liquor store, which is like, just give up like, Don't What are you doing? Where's your keto section like you can mitigate risk fat risk, I guess by doing the rubbing Diet Coke and Coke Zero. It's just as bad for you though any, any alcohol is gonna be bad for you just you know you're taking a little bit of an L when you've walked through the threshold of the corporate liquor store, there is a way to mitigate it. Yeah, but yeah, yeah. And then what I was thinking was like slimfast has like the shakes that say keto and I'm like, I looked at I was like, man, Eric was ripped through that like, like, go through the back of that packaging and give me those nutrition at all, like, yeah, you could just put keto in anything.
Eric Readinger
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Yeah, yeah. There's been a paleo whenever you I've had a lot of conversations people it's like yeah, mom paleo, I only eat four apples a day.
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Never mind,
Law Smith
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my new thing is laid never. I'm never giving. I'm trying to never give dieting advice or workout advice again, unless someone asks. Yes, that's tough, right? Because someone will have asked you, and then you get into it because you're like, you have to be kind of obsessive about it to really make a change in your life. It shouldn't be more interesting, but every time I get out of that conversation, I feel like a bigger douche than when I came into it. And then I the way I look at both now or just anything physical, is there's definitely not one. Just one rule. Everybody can follow. Right? That's why this that's why this will always be
Eric Readinger
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exactly
Law Smith
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Democrats and Republicans fighting right. Like we need one to bounce out the other kind of thing. I mean, our American system kind of works well I think because it I mean, we could do a lot more. Probably. If we didn't pinches my But at least we have this way of pitching so much that it keeps the other in check in one direction. Okay.
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I think I get it.
Law Smith
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Well, and what and this way? Maybe Maybe I had a sip of rum and coke and I'm drunk, but in this way I look at like diet exercise stuff like in a similar way of. There's so much garbage out there advice wise that you're just gonna have to figure it out. Well, exactly, yeah, you're your own science experiment. It's how I look at it. Yeah,
Eric Readinger
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I mean, there's the side where it's like, there's a lot of people who just want to just tell me what I need to do. Exactly. Tell me exactly where I need to eat. Work it out for me perfectly and I can do that sort of thing. But really, it's like, man, there's, I don't say that, like, everybody should be keto. I like it. I feel better doing it that way. But there's people you know, they feel really shitty and like they don't want to get past that like initial like downtime because you do kind of have like when you get into ketosis at first they have a keto flu. It does happen, you do feel like you're dying, just not. Your body is reacting to not having this fuel that it used to having, right? It goes into the immune system mode. But that's, you know, people are gonna feel differently. There's no, there's no one way to do it. And if you're not taking time to figure it out for yourself, like, dude, that's just, you gotta gotta figure that out. And then you can live your life.
Law Smith
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Well, here's how I think about it. It's all hypothesis, right? Because we're going to get into January and everyone's or
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2020
Law Smith
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at the gym. My vision is 2020. Yeah, and I'm gonna do this, this, this and this and everybody, I think, like, what is it? 90% of people do not carry their new year's resolutions by February or something crazy
Eric Readinger
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like that. No, but it sounds right.
Law Smith
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Yeah, I pretty sure we brought it up on the show last year. Cuz it's like that's such an astounding but real like I believe it yeah stat that's why all gyms if you look at how gym memberships work like that business model, you can't have all the members go there. Oh no,
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right like if they Yeah, exactly it's all it's
Law Smith
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a it's a volume thing right so departments here think Walmart over Tiffany's kind of thing if you're looking at just basic kind of Porter's five factors or whatever, you know you got differentiation or you got you know the same but volume. And like the thing with I love that the gym model is basically like, you guys are going to burn out by March. Right? And we have that's the only way that model was we encourage you to do so because if you didn't,
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we'd be fucked,
Law Smith
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right? Like it literally can't have capacity of all the members they're at even like broken up times if they were there at rush hour times morning in the afternoon time.
Eric Readinger
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I'm sure there's an algorithm that says You know, if your capacity is this it can you can only have
Law Smith
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this so many members, you know, if you're, if they gave a shit to do it I don't think they're doing Moneyball kind of I think they just know human behavior. Yeah.
Eric Readinger
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It'd be interesting, because it's probably in my literature when I should be studying.
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Yeah, well,
Law Smith
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the study is going to be good for you. I think that's it sounds like a slog, because you don't want to do it right now. But it's always good. Pr advice of power business attorney, Stephen fantastic. He's like, he really had to push this into my head the last couple of years is like, have multiple revenue streams have, you know, have multiple things going on, but don't max yourself out? Right, like you're doing a lot of shit for free, that, that you can't put 100% into and that's where you're getting fucked up.
Eric Readinger
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, at the very least, it's a great exercise for my brain. You know, it's a I haven't studied, really for something in a long time. We're Like,
Law Smith
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the most I just sit down and be quiet. That's yes sucks.
Eric Readinger
17:04
Oh, well, I mean, just a new facet to it all. It's like, I can't study at my house. Really? Yeah, if I try and study like, I have to, like, lock myself in a room and say you're not doing laundry. It's not even like I'm like dicking around, it's like, that needs to be cleaned. This needs to be done. I do the same thing. Like,
Law Smith
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I have weird. We're working on getting an office for the new gig I've got and, you know, they're, they're penetrating into the Florida market. So it's kind of so it's kind of like, you know, I want to be a team player. My Don't you know, like, my computer's fine. You don't have to buy that. Like, you know, I don't need a corporate one. That's a waste of money to me, right? Like, I can work from home for a while, but now it's getting to the point where it's like, I was just talking about this before I came over here is like, there's always something to do when you have little kids. Yep. And, you know, I'll spend a lot Like, I think we can both kind of multitask. Not, not meaning. Here's another thing like same with the diet stuff advice. When you hear multitasking, people think you're literally spinning like five plates at once. Yeah.
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And I, I don't have time it's two things.
Law Smith
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If but if you really look at how to spin plates, here's how you do it. Here we go. Have you ever seen a guy do it?
Eric Readinger
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Yes.
Law Smith
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What does he do? I don't know. I stopped or stupid or like a Harlem Globetrotter guy. Okay, now we're spinning balls. Yes. On the fingers. Right. You had me at balls. Colorful balls. And so leathery balls. Yeah, I'll come manscaped we can't get a manscape podcast sponsorship. They're sponsoring everybody but us. Yeah, we really haven't tried. It's like an attack. So you ever if you ever see someone spin plates or or Harlem Globetrotters spin a bunch of basketballs eat off a plate. He starts one right. Good to go. Yes, then he'll go to the second one. He doesn't do two hands simultaneously. And then does it by two. Right, right. Yeah, that's multitasking to me is started this started. I'm gonna go to two things, but I'm gonna go to the third one. I'm going to come back to one, make sure that's good dogshit on the floor, and then eventually, eventually I've got a system, then I can throw a fourth thing in there. And that's kind of how I see the work day. But people like go, they'd like to tell you just like the diet shit where they go. You got to do it this way. Well, right or, or you don't know. Like, are you can't multitask. Like, no one can truly multitask. And you're like, we got to break that fucking definition down. Yeah.
Eric Readinger
19:44
You know, it's an efficiency thing. Lots of times. Like there's lots of times where it's like it's a good thing to walk away from something. Do something else.
Law Smith
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Yeah, they say bill, like read a book. At the same time. He could be in a conversation with you as I get a blowjob. Yeah but that's like okay there you go That works too right another one that like I don't get like guys are like Yeah you did road head and you're like no no that would be I never even asked for it like that seems like two things that I'm not no that's too much going on driving if you're driving you need kind of all all your faculties I don't even want to sneeze while I'm driving right let alone have something like that now given road head to yourself that's jacking off while driving money okay
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Did you come in with this
Eric Readinger
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more than I've ever hit it before but
Law Smith
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I'm saying like you know I'm saying though like it's one of those things where it's like, that's too much that you've probably got dad issues or something if you're like super into that. There's something there's some void you're fulfilling the pilot you know, like pilots are a lot of pilots are alcoholics and shit, right? A lot of like badass attorneys are too Because they need that this thrill seeking gene kind of high functioning, but thrill seeking,
Eric Readinger
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I guess I mean,
Law Smith
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like, I just Robin Koch, and you're popping off how's your fantasy squad doing? i? All I could do is think about I talked to a friend that left our fantasy league. He got demoted, there's a there's a secondary League
Eric Readinger
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of all the flaky European soccer teams exactly how to get in,
Law Smith
21:29
they formed it themselves. It's not our system. It just kind of organically happened where everyone's like, fuck those guys in that league, because you get hated on pretty bad bars. And I go, was it better? Is it like, how is it was he bigger than me? And he's right. And he's like, I was like, Man, you know what? I I spend way I don't want to know how much time I spend. Like on fantasy football. Yeah, and you I bet you get something out of it. Probably not always the time, like you're probably thinking analytically. And you're probably thinking statistically, because it really is a stats nerd game if you break it down.
Eric Readinger
22:09
Yeah, well, I mean, fantasy baseball is where it gets really nerdy. Well, and that's why I like it more.
Law Smith
22:14
But same to nerd out. Football, right? You're just dealing with a different sample size. So you're, you're doing makes it less mathematical. But if you play both, you're going well, yeah. And no, because you're you're also trying to triangulate a bunch of data to fulfill the the games played kind of thing. Yeah,
Eric Readinger
22:33
yes. But you would agree that football is going to be much more random on a week to week basis through baseball, because the sample size Yeah. So that's what works itself out.
Law Smith
22:43
But that's why it's harder for frustrated. That's why it's harder to project. But that's why a lot of better see more opportunity in football a lot of the time especially college. Yeah. That's why those daily fantasy things are kind of the evil, most evil things of all, because what you're doing The stock market, at least from the perspective of what I used to work at a mutual fund company, is they're all about finding the undervalued companies throwing them together 5000 stocks if undervalued companies right? and calling it micro, you know, small micro fund, they were the riskiest of all mutual funds, right. With the daily fantasy. It's kind of like that on a very, very, very micro scale. But it's like, I'm trying to find the under Greg Ward, Jr. Yeah, for the Eagles. That guy wasn't even playing like three weeks ago. They don't know about him, but that's what makes it fun. What's his price? Right? Right. But it's
Eric Readinger
23:35
not even just the price. It's like, you got to think about how many people might because if you want to go for that big that number one spot, like you got to have a weird, you got to see something that nobody else saw. Because there's so many when there's 100,000 entries, and the chances are gonna be splitting it.
Law Smith
23:51
That's like a fallacy of like, delusions of grandeur, right? Like you're gonna figure this out over.
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as smart as me, right. That's, that's the Great about it you care how many supercomputers you have calculating these things. So
Law Smith
24:03
maybe fantasy football does have some kind of like it does keep you in check because you're gonna lose 11 out of your 12 people in your league are gonna lose. So, so maybe it does go you're not, you know, right and you're not going to win every year either if you're in a good League, yeah, our shit No, I don't think anybody's won back to back in 15 years. Wow.
Eric Readinger
24:24
Yeah. Arts we had a woman went four years in a row.
24:28
Well, that's your first problem.
Eric Readinger
24:30
Dude, there's nothing we could do.
Law Smith
24:33
They're smarter than us. Right? Everything under
Eric Readinger
24:36
total luck.
Law Smith
24:38
Total luck. By the way, pragmatic advice. I put it in the episode post on Facebook. But I forgot. If I forget to do this because it is Christmas. And it's the 22nd as we record this, this is this is good for future this could be for birthday gifts. This could be for Valentine's Day. If you want to know what to get your Your ladies for Christmas as a gift, go to their Pinterest, go on their profile and look on their Pinterest boards. What is Pinterest? You say? It's a vision board of all the shit you want? Yes. It's pretty simple. I thought I felt like I was Don Draper when I figured that out. I was like, I am Don Draper and walked out of the room with my dork out.
Eric Readinger
25:24
Like, what was the big revelation
Law Smith
25:28
that you can basically figure out what your woman wants for Christmas without having to ask them without having to do a lot of heavy lifting.
Eric Readinger
25:36
Sure, okay. Yeah,
Law Smith
25:38
I'm, I used to be really good at keeping like Christmas gift ideas throughout the year and Evernote less. Once I got really unorganized this last year, that kind of those kind of things fall by the wayside. However, it reminded me when you're you're in a need to scramble like most guys do. It's a 22nd right now. Guaranteed someone's gonna listen to this is like, Oh, yes. Oh, no is to really give me a good gift giver is like you're doing that, that test you're taking. It's like you get to sit down and really be thoughtful and go okay, right. What are all the conversations we've had? Thanks, stupid. I had to do that for my mom yesterday. I gotta get her something good. And it's like, all right, I had to like turn everything off and sit at my table for like, 10 minutes like, I got it. She has pictures of all her grandkids when they're one. She doesn't have one of my daughter. She doesn't have one of my my nephew. Silver pewter frame. I'll go get that done. Eric and Photoshop. My nephew. If we didn't, he didn't get a professional one when he was a baby. We'll figure it out. Or I'll get on Fiverr and get someone to help me with Photoshop or something. But we'll get them all done. It'll be a hero.
Eric Readinger
26:53
That's the first thing you should think of.
Law Smith
26:55
Nobody you have to I had to like imagine they're the Java that's what parents Expect
Eric Readinger
27:00
at our age at this point. All right, the pictures are coming. We know that's coming. What is the thoughtful thing he's going to give thought?
Law Smith
27:07
thoughtfulness is tough. That's what makes people good gift givers, though. I mean, that's you really have to sit down. It's almost like a prayer. You have to sit down and just think about that person in situation, right? Mm hmm. So that's why like I told you when I do the to do list in the morning, like putting the gratitude top three, I just make a random top three of like, I'm happy. I can breeze without issues, you know, like, even shit like that. It makes you think about it throughout the day. Yeah, we're not
Eric Readinger
27:34
bad days. When that's the top.
Law Smith
27:36
Yeah, no, I lose the brief. I tried to do like a Rorschach test. Like, what's the top three that come in your head? Not like what's the most important because then I'll never finish
Eric Readinger
27:46
the things like what do you see? Yeah, big vagina vagina every time to say no, that's answer
Law Smith
27:51
vagina all by the way talk or our friend of the program. Also locos saying, I talked to their friend of the program Fergus you We'll come on at some point, hopefully, but he was saying, cuz he's got that VR surgery stuff. Yeah. And it's in Tampa too, which is like, this feels like it should be in Boston, like near MIT, you know? And like, I put him on and I was like, holy shit. It was like it was too much. I was passed out, but what's it called? What I'm saying is he, I would go. I told him that theory. I was like, we came up with it on the podcast. I think that all logos are dicks are for Dinah's. And he was like, yeah, and then we're at this place hotel bar. And hotel is like on the shaft. It dude bars written on the walls.
Eric Readinger
28:36
All right, my Forest Hills dental shirt on but I was like, thank you that's got three dicks in it.
Law Smith
28:40
Everything and I go show me a vagina. Show me the VR is called mercy attack or something like that. Immerse tech. And it's like, it looks like a Venn diagram. I go, that's that's a vagina. That's vagina, obviously. Yeah, could be three.
Eric Readinger
28:54
Go ahead. Hi, everyone. Wow, look at the next logo you'll look at and see if it's got a digger vagina, Airbnb. That's both Remember that? Oh yeah,
Law Smith
29:03
that's the best of both right. That's the best time you pay more for that and Thailand but it's what's the other one the college football playoff one is is they try to make a college football. Right a trophy but it just looks like China. Yeah, and obviously there's a lot more dick ones out there than anything right? We that's how we design things. Look at these microphones. I know total thing they don't the snowboard have to be like this. It doesn't it really doesn't.
Eric Readinger
29:31
It should be vagina shaped like a big cone around our heads.
Law Smith
29:34
They're better listeners.
Eric Readinger
29:37
Things aren't even lit these things on.
Law Smith
29:39
Yeah, we're just talking to the ham radios. Kim
Eric Readinger
29:41
comes back at us.
Law Smith
29:43
Um, what else? You got anything else? I think we're right.
Eric Readinger
29:47
Now we're getting there. Okay.
Law Smith
29:51
I've got some about what you've got Elf on the Shelf. Fun this. Oh, well, I had
Eric Readinger
29:56
a situation with the Elf on the Shelf where Polly The dog ate his face off. And we had to
Law Smith
30:05
act. He's the hundred and 20 pound golden retriever sitting in between us early
Eric Readinger
30:09
farting between us.
Law Smith
30:11
Yeah, yeah, boy though. Yeah, I had to
Eric Readinger
30:14
I, I got home and he ate. He ate the elf. And then I had to go around looking for that around the house looking for elf face fragments to make sure that kids aren't traumatized by that. So thinking on my feet I put a little letter dear. That was pretty sure.
Law Smith
30:32
I was impressed. I had to go back to the North Pole Ba ba ba put it on like parchment paper.
30:38
printer paper pirates. I did I rolled it up.
30:41
Yeah, you may have been around
Eric Readinger
30:42
so that they you know it looks
Law Smith
30:44
like when you make a pirate map. You crumple it up and then you
Eric Readinger
30:47
Yes, you burn it a little bit.
30:49
Right. Oh, good, you know, but uh,
Eric Readinger
30:53
but you know, Arby's got it got us where we need to be so because it's easier to get another on the shelf, so if that happens, you guys, I can send you the
Law Smith
31:03
the doc. Doc. I think one thing we can't put on our LinkedIn profile or resume or whatever is that we were amazing at tricking kids. Oh, yeah, that too with my white van with that windows that says free candy on the side. No, it's that thing of you think on the fly. We had to think on the fly so much that you get, like just really good at it. Right? Like, yeah, it's, it is a fire out like contingency planning, like instinctually almost because you've had to do it so much. Yeah. And I think people don't look at that as like a real valuable skill.
Eric Readinger
31:43
Yeah, you know better because that's most of the that's gonna come up. So anything.
Law Smith
31:48
It's like you gotta have a contingency for everything like improv and conversations kind of like that's like, that's like a clear example, right? Like doing this podcast pinging back and forth. We have to listen to each other and play off of each other, but actually make it a conversation that's worth listening to as well. But like, you know, if, if one were not like this, this subjects is getting boring. Let's go to the next one. Like, we're not doing it like that, right? We know when it's gonna kind of, Okay, great. We have on to the next thing. That's your that's your contingency planning. Right? That helps. That helps. That's passive aggressive, but it helps. Pretty obvious. I'll leave on we'll leave this episode on this because I thought it was really funny. I don't think I brought it up last episode. I'm walking my dogs around my buildings. We got like, 1000 people that live in my building. There's a huge dog park across the street. Right there. I didn't bring this up. I don't think so. No. And you know how like, you move into a neighborhood and you wait too long to get people's names. Right? Yeah. And you're just like, I know that person can ask now
Eric Readinger
32:55
too late now. Right.
Law Smith
32:56
But I like I've had more conversations with him than like Most of my good friends this year Sure, you know, the same people at the gym, right? That guy? Yeah, with the milk jug of whatever blue liquid he drinks, antifreeze or something. Yeah. You're like, that guy's awesome. What's that guy's name? I have no idea.
Eric Readinger
33:14
No clue I create stories about
Law Smith
33:17
this guy does viroids is all I know. I'm not going in the locker room when he's there because I feel like my wiener should be not that big. And so what's it called? So, this girl that's in my building? She has a dog that's similar to one of my dogs. And then we're talking about and we talked about this. It's a huge dog park cross street. What if the city did it? It's under underpass, which I think is a great use of land like props to the city of Tampa for doing that. Yeah. Where they failed so many times about planning the city because we have like 18th the population from Metropolis and like top five and traffic, okay, you just made it nice, but no big deal. But well, it's like laid out by coke heads from the 70s and 80s the way the city is printed out so
34:03
yeah, don't worry about the three waist. Yeah, just never seen that shit before. No, no, we're
Law Smith
34:07
just we'll do what Chicago did. We'll just put fucking high rise interstates on top of streets, right, that'll work. We're not even that congested, but we're gonna do it anyway. So anyway, I were talking about it. She's like, Oh, yeah, I don't even let I'm like, Yeah, I let my dogs run in there when there's no other dogs. Like, if I'm up early 5am there's no dogs out there. I'll let them run around by themselves or really late at night, you know, midnight or something. There's no one out there. And she's like, Oh, I don't even take my dogs out there my dog out there anymore because my dog got sick from it. I was like, What happened? Like, don't get HPV.
34:44
I was like, what, what dogs can get what dogs can get that what?
Law Smith
34:50
And this is my point about spatial awareness like the Southwest flight attendants that have asked is too big to go down the aisle. She's not spatially aware at this moment. Look down. This is like a woody allen movie like, she's telling me like, yeah, my dog get HPV like, Can you believe that? And I looked down and my dogs are like licking the shit out of her dog's face, like making out as much as two dogs can make out with one dog's face. Did you? My dogs are like you knew you had this information before? I did. Why did you let these dogs do this? Yeah, we are friends. Because I was leaving. I was like, whatever your name is like, lady.
35:31
Lady with big shoulders Lady for
35:35
that was a
Law Smith
35:36
Yeah, that was like, God damn it. Some people just are not aware.
Eric Readinger
35:41
I will walk up you're drinking from
Law Smith
35:51
the biggest sauce So what is
