#228: How To Systematically Eyeball All Those Shared Workspace Offerings, ie WeWork, Like Robert De Niro in The Irishman


Law Smith

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Law Smith

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I'll put on my Warby Parker's you're smart now I look smart. I only got him for meetings. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Not even glasses. I knows well,

Eric Readinger

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there's glass but it's not prescription class.

Law Smith

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Well like plastic that you get it comes out of its plastic because I'm clumsy. Yeah. What is it with? Like, we both have younger kids each to each and in what is their obsession with taking your glasses and talking about?

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Oh, I don't know my kids don't really mess with my glasses too much.

Law Smith

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Really? You have sweet kids well

Eric Readinger

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no they mess up other stuff just not like what he says I don't want to name it Look around you came into my house geez places a walking disaster zone

Law Smith

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or make shift. Well, I thought that was your guard dog Paulie. But we're in the makeshift sweat lodge, he started the problem. until we find the new home. I got cocky and thought, you know, we'd be in we work as a new studio office and man, that is, oh, I need to show you how big I'm there. Like you can take videos like I don't need to have the layout. So they just opened in, in downtown Tampa. There's

Eric Readinger

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like a shared office space idea, right? It's

Law Smith

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that they are like the premier co working space now their angle is interesting. And I talked to a lot of people about if they actually so their angle is their big sell is you'll meet a lot of people we have free beer for happy hour. My ad immediately went to Well, I won't ever use that. leave as soon as I'm done. Yeah, that's the last thing I want to do. So that's the ruse right. So it's like, I think maybe in some areas, I think if when it started, it was a lot more startup incubator kind of people. And now it's really like, you know, you might have Microsoft Office that is in your city, and they just need a makeshift one until they have a bigger office or something. Right, right. And so it's more of like, those guys are taking a bigger office, like more legit more established businesses. And the I'm like, I don't think this is gonna now I thought it'd be a good idea to pick off maybe specialists for digital because if they have it, you can rent a desk to rent an office and the but the offices are. It's like I used to work for solace salon studios, which is a Salon Suite concept for this doesn't help all the guys that listen to this episode. Basically, it could be anything it could be any sort of sort of franchise idea. Like you have your own little spot you have when I when I did the studio salon studio system the franchise house with the whole franchise system basically they're like the best at it in their category but they would tell stylists run your own salon will take the overhead out of it and you know you could do it in under 100 square feet and you can so you can get three people in there kind of where you can get for humans and one of those and have a fine salon and not have to have a whole big one reason to hire receptionists all that shit. And so it's like they looked at what solo was doing. I know they probably didn't happen but they basically the reason this this got in my head was when I used to have to do the salon leases, right salon studio leases, you try to sell the one that has the load bearing post in it first. What do you mean because that's the hardest one to get leased like literally in the load bearing like there's gonna be Yeah, there's gonna be one that's going to have like, it's not they're not going to be perfect square.

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Oh, it's gonna be like the shitty spot.

Law Smith

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Yeah, okay. Sell the sell the worst one first. Right? If you have all if you're doing I'm sure you do this with offices like bigger offices or you do this with, there's a version of this in, in like anything that's just brand new and you got it. You got to get people in there. Right? You're trying to get rid of the worst one first. Right? That's the first one she showed me. I was like, why'd you show me this one? Yeah, I know these tricks. Yeah, I might have said that in the room too. I was like, Well, I appreciate you show me one that has like, unusable space.

Eric Readinger

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Anytime I'm getting sold something I'll call him out. I'm like, I know, you're what you're gonna do. So I'm going to show you're gonna tell me why I might need us. I wanna,

Law Smith

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I want to. So there was like, so they have little spaces that are like, you can fit it. They go by desk. It's kind of clever. They go, you can rent one desk to desk kind of unit, which is like they already have desks in there. So it's kind of like, I bet most people are like, I don't wanna, I don't want to I don't need to when I look and it reminded me of being in a dorm In like, you have like your loft you had to like make a loft in your dorm right space to work. Yeah, I walked by like four miserable people in the dark like they could have been doing work or they could have been programmers but they were like, it's two people like back to back to back kind of thing. It's just like it was a bummer. It was like a computer lab in college back in the day, but

Eric Readinger

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it is their permanent area, right? Like you rent it.

Law Smith

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You got a mailing address. Okay, so you can go you can go in whenever you want it I asked about for if we were to use it for this show, it gets a little tricky, because it's like, you and I would have a pass and then it's like anybody else's. It'd be kind of a pain to ass I think.

Eric Readinger

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So like just bringing new people into the building

Law Smith

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to like, give access. So if we had john paul come in and produce a lot, it's like, we'd have to figure out like almost you ever do this when you're younger? When you went to the movies, you had a bunch of buddies to go see Mortal Kombat or something. So good or whatever mean You know, whatever, Titanic and you you two guys buy tickets and then you, you go back out, get the two star bring a buddy and then you just keep doing like

Eric Readinger

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wristbands to concert sort of thing. Yeah

Law Smith

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but yeah almost like a daisy chain of just sneaking your friends in Yeah. And so we would have to kind of do something like that if we had you can't fit that

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Speaker 2

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special we don't get special treatment though you can't just get no treat is special. Okay,

Law Smith

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well, no they're they're treating me special because they were they got the I think the toric I got the image that wasn't an attorney or like you know, super professional.

Eric Readinger

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Got that image.

Law Smith

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Maybe you know what I did? I asked they I never do this usually but you know, when you go into a meeting and they're like, do you have any coffee or water? I took the water shouldn't have done that or move? No, I shouldn't have done it. Why you never take it

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out. You always take it.

Law Smith

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I thought you never take it. We've got a problem here to look that up. They're wrong. They're meeting.

Eric Readinger

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Coffee. Maybe it's when you're being held hostage. You always take the food or water to show them you're not scared.

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Oh, okay. That but really is that

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any different? Slightly different?

Law Smith

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i? I was scared there. Yeah. I mean we were we were pretty high up there were like 18 for some. Oh, I didn't realize it's a it's an ice scraper. It's in a reefer building and you drop me off right there. Oh, that was the building. Yeah. Yeah, it's a it's an order building that that they basically Well, I think got a good deal on it. I pictured like a

Eric Readinger

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Yeah, like an old port building. So

Law Smith

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that's the lower light they what they did in Chicago when I first heard about him like maybe 10 years ago, and they have a mural of that Jordan poster, but it's like a cool artsy one. It's, I'll find that too, but it's

Eric Readinger

10:50

exactly what you're talking about a painting that I did. based off of that.

Law Smith

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Oh, really? Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. So what's it called? But it's like They can get away with the hipster kind of ish you know the the non any or Yeah, like they can get away with being in a bad building right reefer like the parts they have are good but and then there was like parkings like we don't really have it oh yeah can't parkins like I could walk but it was still like if anybody was going to come over oh no yeah so

Eric Readinger

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that so it was a pain in the ass down in Ebor.

Law Smith

11:29

Yeah, I would run outlet people which is like our little bar area of Tampa and that's overgrown and in the four years that I had the office there and you know, there's some other options we've got around town there's there's a lot of CO working spaces and I and if you're in you're most people are not in the Tampa Bay area. There's a bunch of options now if you're in any kind of city.

Eric Readinger

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Yeah, it's definitely like a thing. Might not be we work but right. It's hard to like

Law Smith

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I'm gonna show you a video of the room that they're like you can take video of it. I'm like, there's no way I'm getting at this price, but I want you to guess how much this cost per month. All right, this is good. It's good podcast. It's

Eric Readinger

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real quick. It's a real video. Okay. That is about a 20 by 20 room tops. Not even 10 bucks. Okay, that I'm going to guess it's a forum. You're asking me because it's something outrageous, so I'm gonna guess it's higher. Okay. 3200 a month.

Law Smith

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Oh, you went prices right? too low, but you'd win. That's for free 45 for a four desk as they call it, and then it's like,

Eric Readinger

12:45

I wonder what that that office space is going to be next when they go out of business.

Law Smith

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No, I bet I bet this I bet people take it

Eric Readinger

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for like lawyers and stuff.

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No, no, no. I mean, I don't know what else who's gonna be thrown around that

Eric Readinger

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kind of money into Doesn't have their own place.

Law Smith

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Seems high, I think contingency, I think when you're like a huge conglomerate kind of company that, like, they just need something temporary, but this, or they need to look a little bit more prestigious than they might be to Yeah, or international businesses to when they need office. Yeah. But I mean, don't people know that it's like a shared space sort of thing. And but you get access to the other weworks around the country. So if you were, if you were a group that is in a lot of cities and needs to post up, that is a huge advantage. I would say, when I was traveling a lot, like when I was doing stand up and working and having to go the road for both. That would have been awesome, where I could get out of the shitty hotel staying in, excuse me motel. And wherever I was getting booked for stand up, or the bad hotel I was put in for work, whatever it was, and then be able to have a space to go to Yeah, that's kind

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of cool. I guess that

Law Smith

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would be advantageous. I I'd say if you're if you're traveling like that, and you work for small business for this though, it's like, there's no way I mean, it's just an interesting model. I bet they I bet they fill it up. And look, if they have to do what we did was so that you just you can lower the price that first year get occupied, and you'll pretty much do you can just raise it

Eric Readinger

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over time. What's gonna happen?

Law Smith

14:24

There's already there's a whole other set of offices. That was one half there's already a whole other set that are full. I was gonna

Eric Readinger

14:29

say there were people already in there. Yeah.

Law Smith

14:32

So fun time, people that desperate. You know, it just seems like how is it easier to do that than just go look for your own little tiny office? Um, industrial park? Well, I mean, great. Again, the cell is that you're gonna be around a lot of movers and shakers, you know? Yeah. I guess. I don't know. It just seems like a place for lonely people. That that's what they're selling. I mean, that look, that's why podcasts are intriguing. We are we kind of offset the frame here. Yes,

Eric Readinger

15:01

we are like that the whole time. You can see it very clearly.

Law Smith

15:06

Okay. Well you know, I'm, I'm vampiric. So I'm vamp and I'm sharing this on Facebook. So we have a watch party going. Okay, if anybody's had to do any video Yeah, get away from me a little bit. Sorry. I just

Eric Readinger

15:20

I was trying to trying to go what I was trying to do. I was playing that 90s r&b before you got here. What's up with that making you trying to baby herself? It was just the

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next thing that we had on our Sonos the playlist that I had was a 90s playlist going was that for you and the missus

Eric Readinger

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for the whole family baby. Everybody loves it

Law Smith

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together I like the breakdown the breakdown in between the Boys to Men song I forgot about that. Yeah, but that should just doesn't fly anymore. They don't do that anymore. I don't know why. So anyways, what are your What are you doing is I'm sure I'm sharing this. No Man, this isn't a show where you come in and you go, hey, let's look at two guys doing Facebook. Well, what like, I'm sharing it as we go. And I'm telling the story. Don't get all radio. We're about a little radio silent.

Eric Readinger

16:14

I'll just sit here quietly then see how

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that goes.

Law Smith

16:16

I Well, I want to make fun of the Irishman. Because we haven't gotten to, to make fun of that yet. And just how bad of a movie that is. Well, I mean, I go back and forth here. And here's something that kind of, you can extrapolate into kind of the business world a little bit. We're, you know, when you have an opinion on something, is it really your opinion? Dig so I know what you're gonna say. So it's like, Alright, so I did. I didn't love it. I thought it was a B, B minus moving the same way. It wasn't like, oh, man, it was amazing. Part of me gets derailed though, because like it was immediately like anybody had told except for you really everybody I told was like, Either you're a hater. Like, because there was already that out there, right? Because it's easy to hate was something big like that's out there. Or like, but maybe I'd like to because the nostalgia of me liking Scorsese movies and all those actors. Sure.

Eric Readinger

17:17

I mean, I think Mr. kator when you bring evidence of why it sucks, like Robert De Niro puttering around like he's this badass.

Law Smith

17:26

Well, the shopkeeper scene where he horrible

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How did they let that fly?

Eric Readinger

17:32

So no, but how many people are working on this movie that somebody like he wasn't even close?

Law Smith

17:36

Could he use an edit? It's three and a half hours long, maybe? maybe a half second edit one. Alright, so people if you haven't seen it, it's not going to spoil it because you're going to see it and you're probably gonna be like, did that. Was this just morphing for a minute, please. But is he supposed to be hurting him or threatening him with what could happen? It looked like 90s wrestling the way that fight scene. The bashing scene. Right, De Niro's like daughter gets scolded or gets reprimanded by her shopkeeper, employer. She's like a little girl like 12 or something. And so he's like, What? What? And he's, and he takes her down there and pulls the guy out. And then it's supposed to be him up. But De Niro's he's a little long in the tooth in real life. He's like, 72 Yeah, and he's not moving so well. Like he's supposed to be 45 I think something like that.

Eric Readinger

18:31

When he's going to throw get rid of the guns, and he tries to throw them into the river. He can't even like, throw He can't even lift his arm up above. It's like, it was just like, oh, he's like, barely getting those off.

Law Smith

18:42

Well, I feel like a lot of old Italian guys, I think of Lou from college game day. Lou brown Know what? God damn it was old guy in college game day.

Eric Readinger

18:57

Oh, poo Holtz

Law Smith

18:58

No, no, no, no. He's not on there anymore. He was the mercy

Eric Readinger

19:03

no there was any other lose

Law Smith

19:05

game day. Maybe it's not Lou. I got my brains not working. I got a migraine. What? Cool sinesses thanks a lot or God I'm gonna put it in college. Maybe it'll come up. So a leak horsa That's what I meant. Oh, so I noticed he's like an old Italian guy that doesn't know how to wave to people. He waves like this. Yes, I've seen it. There's like there's like an old Italian like it's not a feminist but it's like

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liberals don't know how to do this new age waving bullshit,

Law Smith

19:40

right and I feel like when you throw in the guns and he's doing it like, like he's shucking from the hip a little bit like, without moving his elbows, it's all risk.

Eric Readinger

19:48

He was doing it like somebody who ate some food that they didn't want to eat and was just trying to get rid of it real quick to the dog. Just like this little like underhanded flip that was just like, I think that's all he's got. I don't think he's got anything left on the table. So in a gaff,

Law Smith

20:01

so in that shopkeeper scene He's like, clearly like his face is supposed to stop on this guy. It looks like 80s wrestling like 1980s wrestling where they're so far away from them wasn't even close or the first rocky if you watch the fight scenes are really bad. They're like they're so far away from the person that they're supposed to be hitting into my How did this get through? It's

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crazy and it's a three and a half hour long 260 million dollars.

Eric Readinger

20:25

I don't understand what Scorsese gets with the three plus it's like to me that's a negative like you're doing the Superman there he had these all these long drawn out super slow mo

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that's it Yeah,

Law Smith

20:40

he's that's his style. It's a

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sure but there was a lot of it that was just like,

Law Smith

20:45

good like the good that good fellas from outside to inside when they're bringing the table and that, you know, there's the kitchen like those long walk, no cut.

Eric Readinger

20:55

Yeah, that's different. But this is not long. This is not actors doing an amazing job in a scene. This is just people where they're actually only filming two seconds and they're going at 9000 frames per second and then they can take maybe 30 seconds. Yeah,

Law Smith

21:09

nothing happening. Everybody liked a demure Apache. I don't like it. I don't like a reserved patchy. I think look, I think that acting was better. Here. He looked like the he looked like an old lady to me, right?

Eric Readinger

21:25

Yeah, whatever. glasses,

Law Smith

21:27

the glasses. He looked like the Old Navy lady from the Old Navy commercials in the 90s remember that? Oh, man, I'm pull that up here and be like, wow. But yeah, he looked like kind of an old. Yeah,

Eric Readinger

21:39

well, I kept being like, Wait, is that old person makeup? Is that what they look like? Actually now? Are they trying to make a mold? Young? What is happening?

Law Smith

21:46

Yeah, you don't remember this lady?

Eric Readinger

21:48

Yeah, yes. Who does look like Yes.

Law Smith

21:51

What What is her name? Carrie. Donna's gonna No, no, I think she was like an old celebrity. Yeah, they brought back But yeah, it was one of those things were the other. Sebastian Maniscalco is the best thing in the movie. Yeah. Crazy Joe Gallo. Yes. His name. Yeah. And, and Don Rickles played by Jim Norton. Both that he fucking nailed it

Eric Readinger

22:16

did not even pay attention to that being Jim Norton. You didn't know that I wasn't paying attention.

Law Smith

22:20

Yeah, that's rickles he's, and he was like a, like riggles was like his mentor in a way I think. Or like, he had like some weird connection with him.

Eric Readinger

22:29

Oh, with Norton. Yeah, well, yeah, they're fuckin ultimate ball busters. gnarliest

Law Smith

22:34

my dad's generation my dad saw wrinkles in Vegas using like that, guys. It's amazing. How many of you just riffing off but I thought that was done so well. I think it overshadowed me with the rest of the movie. Yeah,

Eric Readinger

22:48

I had special mask alko parts definitely partner just He's the perfect guy for that part. It was

Law Smith

22:55

it was a lot of drawn out shit with not a lot of payoff.

Eric Readinger

22:58

Well, yeah, I was gonna say at the same time. I liked it. But could they have just pulled all that out? I think they probably could have used a lot of stuff or think you're just doing it to make it a big thing.

Law Smith

23:09

My overall criticisms like True Detective season two, in that it's not as good as the first season. But it's still better than almost 99% of what's out there. I don't know. Season Two was bad. It's three good. I haven't watched one. But, but I'm saying like, it's still good, but it's so close to season one. And they've rushed it. You could tell.

Eric Readinger

23:36

I mean, Vince Vaughn, that whole thing. I love Vince Vaughn. I know, but I didn't. I thought it was just the worst. He wasn't believable. Like he was supposed to be a badass and it was just like

Law Smith

23:49

I think yeah, I think it was ruined it for I think the editing with his whole storyline was rush if so I felt like maybe but the season two was I'm saying but it's still pattern. Like almost everything I watch, I say, there's so much good shit out there though there is but Netflix, I mean, they put out a lot of dogshit to, Oh, for sure. They're like, what are people interested in? And this is when you go, and this is kind of business meets creative where you go, do we give the people what they want? Or we tell or do we push what we think is good, right? And Netflix is totally kind of, at one point cater to, just like almost idiocracy basic demand, like, neat, like, wants. It's like, I saw like a documentary about puppies. It's just literally just like puppy. I wouldn't call it puppy porn, because that would be you know, I'm saying like, it's just like, it's just like, it's not even. I put it on. I was like, I'm gonna see what this is about. Yeah, it's just like,

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Speaker 2

24:46

they put a lot of bad British stuff on there that we will watch and take. Well, they do have the accent. So

Law Smith

24:52

right. We have low self esteem. So that's playing to that, like, we're like, well, they're better than us. So but you know, I think

Eric Readinger

24:59

precisely Why's the British shit is there's much worse Virtus TV than there is American TV? Well, yeah, ratios wise. I mean, volume wise, you know, America puts out a ton of it. So there's that but

Law Smith

25:13

I'm in Bali wave Hollywood has the highest percentage because they still dance after every movie, right? You know that every movie I've ever seen that would throw me off. Yeah, everything's a musical. No, thanks. Now, premium movies, that's where you're gonna really hardcore, like, dark. Oh, yeah. If you ever watch any like human centipede? Is that Korean? I think that's the Swedish. I want to say. I mean, I don't know. Either watch the original old boy. Well, that one is worth watching this but one of the best revenge movies of probably the best revenge movie of all time, and it's still really fucked up

Eric Readinger

25:53

like Korean has

Law Smith

25:54

English subtitles. Yeah, but you don't need it now that much reading it. No, it's a lot of the one fight scene with a hammer is like this guy like

Eric Readinger

26:04

fighting with a hammer. I'm sold.

Law Smith

26:07

He basically the first the beginning of the movies like he's in a weird jail prison like, but it's in an apartment that he's trapped in. And he just he just, it's like a montage of him working out over the years. And like, you know, just teaching himself how to fight right every day. So just basically think about yourself like

Eric Readinger

26:29

I've seen rocky for

Law Smith

26:30

I know what it looks like. No, it's thinking about, like, I think we all have that fantasy. I think we're all interested in the Castaway, kind of or you're stuck in a cabin by yourself. I'll call it a fantasy, but it's not like something that's super fun.

Eric Readinger

26:46

You don't even know how hard I'm working. I would like come back and burst down to the scenes and whip your ass

Law Smith

26:50

but like what would you do if you're stuck in an apartment a small apartment for years and oh, and you get gassed every now and again. You can't help it. We come in in new gas and we pass out and they clean the place up and like

Eric Readinger

27:05

not like getting tired gassed.

Law Smith

27:08

Yeah, like knockout gas.

27:10

Yes, but different terminology. Yeah,

Law Smith

27:13

but what I'm saying is poisonous gas. I this all comes back to kind of working because I'm going to dovetail this work does have that feature. I've been a guest I've been on a good work tear like the last 72 hours have been kind of going ham in a lot of it's in the organizational area like Alright, I've been putting off trying to sync contacts from iCloud. My Gmail and outlook. That is a fucking huge pain. Yes. I didn't realize it. Yeah. Because it's all different people. Yeah. And then they all don't talk to each other really well. And then and then I added a fourth dimension which if you go to LinkedIn, here's kind of pragmatic advice for people You can export all your contacts if you sync everything. So if you do the integration where you can go, Hey, have access to my Gmail. So you can pull in all my contacts, you know, you can do that with Facebook too. They kind of asked you a billion times, hey, do you want to add your contacts so you can find more friends? You know, so we can keep more of your information. Exactly. So it's another integration other thing. But if I'm when I'm, I'm in the mode where I'm in a b2b kind of sales list area where I'm trying to make like look at all all the cans have had over the last four years and then all the people I've talked to that have been interested in getting some marketing help from me, us, you know, the new company and with and it's one of those things where it's like, Okay, I'm trying to I got, we're, you see me freak out, walk in the office. I'm like, going bonkers. Where I made this too big of fucking deal, right? Instead of just chipping away at it, right? Yeah, cuz I'm like, I gotta make one big fucking master list and I got like,

Eric Readinger

29:07

huge thing,

Law Smith

29:08

but this will be, but this will be more accurate and this will be this will ultimately save time if I figure this out sure

Eric Readinger

29:14

it would the end product is a big thing that goes into it. It's a little tiny work but

Law Smith

29:20

it would have to be and it gets me to plane brain where like if I sat on a plane from Tampa to LA for five, five hour flight five half hour flight and there's no Wi Fi right? I would probably I might be able to hammer out that whole thing. Yeah. Like, but for whatever reason. I i and a lot of people have this. It's it's hard. I don't know why that is such an obstacle to go. I'm going to turn everything off. I'm working from home until we get in office. That's distracting shit for me. Yeah, because I'm like, Well, I need a little laundry here because the dishes yeah thing, you know, I'll take a break and do those. And then

Eric Readinger

30:03

when you're a grown up, you have a never ending list of things that you could be doing. But

Law Smith

30:07

if I if you locked me in a room like oldboy for the whole day, I would have done that. And I would have been way further ahead. Instead, it's been like, it's been a month and be just like, God, fuck what, and then you're trying to figure out, do you? Do you figure that out? Like, what's the road to go down? Because you're behind on both ways now. Yeah. So it is a weird thing to be and then we turn it off. And then we got pipedrive CRM too. So I'm trying to get this already for a CRM. That's what makes it a little difficult to and when there's no like, we're also writing our internal playbook in our CRM, like how what information do you want on everybody? Yeah. I will tell you the best thing about being in a b2b area because I think tilting as we're going through a lot of podcast episodes in the near futures me trying to figure out Got a strategy that works. And then kind of showing you what I got, at the end of it to see if we can kind of open source it or or like white, label it for the show,

Eric Readinger

31:12

or at least just show people what we've tried. Well, it helps. So

Law Smith

31:15

what's cool what's cool about b2b in a real small to medium business sector. So I say that with, you know, small to medium to a lot of people mean they think they open a pizza shop on the corner, and that's a small business, technically you are, but like, if you're really going by like, Business School, Harvard Business Review or so, you know, like real business stuff, a small business, you're getting about five to 10 million in revenue a year, I would consider that pizza shop a local business, or micro nano, or startup. Yeah. And so the last four years have been a lot of that group micro nano, local startup, right. So what's good about that is you can kind of go, here's all the things I know, check it out. Right? It's a lot of cool shit. You can tell them. Yeah, they don't know yet. Yeah, and that there's something that's, uh, satisfying about that. On the b2b level. Now I'm kind of going back to a thing where I have to call a lot of people and what here's what I'm doing now, I'm with this firm, and if you need anything, and I'm like, Oh, yeah, what's great about is like, you can do this, versus now. Well, you can be more blunt. It's like, I got resources, for sure. That's great. And it's one of the things though, that's why when I'm doing these discovery meetings, it's like, what, how many? What's your revenue? And it's not like a weird conversation where a lot of people don't want to open up their books in a small level. Yeah, you know, I can figure this shit out. Right? Yeah. goes into practice. Yeah, I could probably figure out a way in hell. Yeah. That's close to what you're doing. Without you telling me exactly. And then it's like thing of like, how many employees do you have and like, just being able to have that conversation that sometimes it was like this would never tell you and you're like, but you're not trying to help you, right? You're not, you're not going to, you're not going to do this strategy correctly. And then you're going to employ us to do something you don't know how to manage. So it's one of those things where that's been really nice, where it's a lot more. Let's get to work. And that's what the b2b sector is always better on.

Eric Readinger

33:21

Yeah, I could see it being like, they're past the like, do I need this? Can I do this by myself? Can I do you know, like,

Law Smith

33:27

even entertaining, just just someone coming out or what? Like, they're not offended if you're talking to them about Hey, do you need help with this? Well, they're grown.

Eric Readinger

33:36

They're like the

Law Smith

33:38

child businesses, and then you've got more mature because that's what's so refreshing about it. It's like, Oh, I don't have to like, this isn't daycare like, trying to pull it out of them? Yeah. So more on that we got a narcissism test I want to talk about later on. We got some other shoes. Oh, wait, before we go. Do you see the beat from documentary became Netflix

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Speaker 3

34:00

and we started we I just saw the preview and I was like oh yeah this is our right up our alley. It's so cool. Yeah, yeah.

Law Smith

34:09

Yeah raping a lot of people okay, I didn't know he

Eric Readinger

34:11

was doing without permission but

Law Smith

34:13

um, yeah, yoga is a weird thing where it's if you're an atheist probably it really into it right you're an atheist. It's into it. That becomes your religion. That was kind of my takeaway. Oh, before I forget Irishman I didn't know a big deal. What's his nose? patina is playing Jimmy Hoffa? Uh huh. I didn't know he was a big deal and be my other theory is Andrew Yang is doing a Jimmy Hoffa like move as President. He's going after the drivers to get votes. You know what the number one occupation in the country is truck drivers. It's truck drivers. And then you know, you can count in the rideshare people that do it part time. Now you've got now I'm giving you universal basic income $1,000 a month. month, which by the way, no one's told me how that doesn't devalue our dollar. But okay.

35:07

Just throw that out there right before we're done. Yeah.

Law Smith

35:09

All right. I'm not gonna explain it to someone explain that the micro macroeconomics of that to me.

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Speaker 3

35:14

The devaluation of the dollar is coming from them printing too much of it, not from handing it out.

Law Smith

35:19

Who's handing last word I got

35:20

the last word.

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