#263: How To Ask The Absolute Worst Questions And Get The Most Befuddled Answers
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Wed, 9/23 · 4:29 PM35:05
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Law Smith
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Law Smith
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Law Smith
3:57
I see. Yeah, I see. I see that. Oh, I see. Yeah. So we're, we're live. I'm gonna try to I'm going to try to multitask here. Have you seen this meme? We're getting. A lot of people are getting this text. This is for a business sense. Let's say communications kind of bigger than ever. Do you remember? Like communicate a communications major used to be a joke? Yes. Right. Like I remember there's a Simpsons episode. where like, it's something where like a field goal kicker, like, gets run over on the field or something and can't can't play and they go What? What's your major is like communications. They're like, Nah, shit, like that. That used to be a punch line. And now communications I feel like bigger and more important than ever so prestigious now.
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So what is your point?
Law Smith
4:47
Case in point? I saw this. I saw this as a meme earlier today on Instagram, and a lot of people are getting this text. This one. Hey, it's Rory from working America. COVID is shown CEOs get richer. When when the rest of us are going broke. What do you think the best way? What do you think is the best way to change that?
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First of all, that's not a meme.
Law Smith
5:11
No, I saw what the guy I answered it with guillotines. What? So the guy answered it, what do you think is the best way to change that and a guy entered guillotine? Right? And they response in the meme was, we're gonna remove you from the list. Okay, I'm probably gonna answer that. So yeah. Look, we're all about pragmatic advice and get that guillotine
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Speaker 2
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meme going? I guess we'll think about sounds aggressive.
Law Smith
5:40
Let's let's talk communication a little bit.
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And aren't we always
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talking communicate?
Law Smith
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It's gonna let you drift there.
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Are we communicating right here but hard hitting stuff?
Law Smith
5:56
Like we we have a weird kind of messaging has gotten more detailed and shittier. At the same time.
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You need to elaborate there on Bray?
Law Smith
6:07
Well, why? Why is everybody upset? Looking at his social media creates a lot more anxiety, depending on what rabbit hole you go down, whatever. You're looking up online media wise. A lot of people are getting more anxious. Generally, I would say yes. At the same time. We have more ways to get a detailed answer. You just have to do fucking book report. You know, I'm saying right. The answers are out there. Right. The that's kind of what I'm getting to my my biggest thing with the COVID era, the core, as Tom Papa calls it. What is his loot, please? It's we're seeing crisis communication as worst.
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Speaker 2
6:53
Mm hmm. Yeah. You're just talking about the
Law Smith
6:56
PR, I thought. Growing up, you think PR is kind of a joke a bit. You think it's just a sassy, you know, a sassy assistant gal that's writing shit up, right release. And you're like, now communications and PR is kind of way, way more important than I've ever realized. Let's put for instance, the CDC comes out with new statistics. I hit it. I had it in our slack group. Right?
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Yeah.
Law Smith
7:24
And ablaze with people that don't really understand stats, or really, you just want to it's more about bias. You want the stats to read the way you want them to read. Right? Mm hmm. And so a lot of people were going Hey, only 6% of deaths out of the 160,000 people with Coronavirus in the United States. That was the only the 6% had only COVID. Right, right. And then everybody else had two or three kind of conditions. Yeah. And then COVID was part of it. Uh huh. So, one side goes, Hey, the people that don't want to wear masks in public, and I got I want someone so bad to tell me to wear a mask when I don't need to. Yeah, I get that feeling. No,
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Speaker 2
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I don't go out searching for this. Just like Yeah, exactly.
Law Smith
8:22
I want to actually lose. No, no, I would I wear the mask in public. I had COVID. Or I have it, whatever. Yeah, I'll say it. It's like herpes. I told everybody, I called everybody up. Hey, I may have
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really made a big deal about it.
Law Smith
8:40
Well, at the time, look at me. Yeah, bad for me. I was like, please, please make me a victim. It makes me feel so good. When everybody just like worried about me. No, I, I think was like, but altruistic thing. The thing you should do was, hey, I've got whatever amount of reach I've got on social media. I should tell people just in case. You know, I ran into someone and forgot to tell them hey, I got this in the last week. I'm pretty sure and you know, just in case, you know, you don't know. Right? And what and also, I didn't know where to go. I scrambled around for you know, a day like a whole day trying to like, we're going to go today to get it done on a Sunday. Get a nasal swab. Now I feel like it's a little bit more ominous, ubiquitous, whatever, ominous. Definitely. Whatever. You know, I'm saying like there's more out water. But I'm saying at the time, there's not a lot of information out there.
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Speaker 2
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Yeah, it just really it just makes me just close my eyes and go to a different place. I'm just like, wow, okay. Yeah, I guess I believe that now what what do we When do we decide what's right? With the truth statistics on things? Art sucks, right? Nobody has like, there's no frame of reference anymore. I consider myself where did you get that story? Is that a credible source? Who knows? You're just playing on Facebook little
Law Smith
10:18
time, you know, I'm trying to share this, share this with the people who care for us at all. I mean, it's one of those things where you and I've talked about it for months that, you know, hey, maybe, maybe be a little proactive, if you can, if you can, with sharing the thing that no, here's another communication thing. The other thing no one wants to talk about in a big media way, because they don't want to lose advertisers. They don't want to lose subscribers. on a bigger scale is you know, our country is not in shape. For the most part, what the obese stats are anywhere from like I've seen, I see 40 to 60% of the country. Yeah, not good. Now, I know BMI is not the best. Here's where it gets down. stats, right? BMI is not really great. It's okay. Right. You know, but it's not.
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Speaker 2
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Yeah, it's not running backs in the NFL with 8% body fat or obese by BMI standard sometimes. Right? Right. It's so heavy.
Law Smith
11:21
Same with I got a fat ass. I'm, I'm 511 and big old booty. And I'm probably considered obese by those standards. If your ass is for this, ask it don't quit. But I'm saying just in that situation right there. We just tried to break down like two statistics that there's a decision tree for options now. And now you have permutations of how you're going to take that right. That point of view. Yeah.
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And that's what causes me to shut right on down.
Law Smith
11:51
I know, you. We both got fatigue. Like it's, it's and that's we're like, what do you do? What can you do? Right? Can you do anything? Yeah.
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Speaker 2
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Not really. No, I mean, what are you gonna do? Be on the wrong side of history? The person is, I don't know, or the masks like, dude. You know, it's not that big a deal to where it really? I don't
Law Smith
12:11
know that that argument of the wrong side of history. I've heard from people that I'm like, I think she's on the wrong side.
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Speaker 2
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But But my point is, like, you don't know. Right? You don't know. I mean, we're all gonna like jackasses later on. I mean, I doubt it. But really, you know, this has happened before. You know, what was it? 1915? Something
Law Smith
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San Francisco. What the last pandemic? Well, just 1969 really, but
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Speaker 2
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a situation where the community all had to wear masks and the general good of everybody. You know, it's not the first time
Law Smith
12:46
No, no, no, definitely no, no, with this has been someone was saying if you if you been through a pandemic in your lifetime, you really live like this used to be a regular thing. In medieval times is like, yeah, like, just can purge everything. Everybody's gonna go, you know,
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Speaker 2
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yeah, I think the shutdown just comes from people feeling like, they don't know if this is some kind of political ploy. It wouldn't be crazy, you know, down the road to find out this whole thing was orchestrated. And there,
Law Smith
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it's man made. That's already come out.
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Speaker 2
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I'm not saying I think it was orchestrated, but like, when you see the the Postal Service trying to get shut down and shut down voting places, and it's like, well, wait a second. That kind of adds up to restricted voting rights, and then it gets crazy. I don't want to think that's what's happening. Yeah, God, but like, dude, the way things have been going, who knows?
Law Smith
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I saw another good meme that said, Do you know if you're worried about or it was like, Hey, why don't you take $500 in cash, and mail it to yourself? And then if if you're worried that's not going to get back to you, then maybe don't do a mailing vote. And I was like, that's fair. I don't agree with it. But I kind of liked his when he ordered that. The idea that that like, a lot of people are like saying the speaking of communications in like, the Postal Service stuff, like they're saying that a lot of there's gonna be a lot of mail fraud with votes, like people are already pre pissed. You know, you walk into a situation you're like, I'm already pissed off. Right? Yeah, I know what's gonna happen? Yeah.
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Speaker 2
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Like, we're both eyes are pretty rolled in the back of Allah.
Law Smith
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We're both one of the five buccaneers fans and that really liked the team. And you get pretty pissed that we're gonna blow a couple games. Okay. Yeah.
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You know, example? Yes.
Law Smith
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Because we had tendency to do that for years and this last year. And so, what what is this all about? I'd say communications just gotten itself polarizing. Right? It's, it's shittier. And better at the same time. Yeah, you've more access on one end, but the access creates the situation where not everybody's voice should be heard. I was like, maybe we should, maybe you should be 30 years old to vote.
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Speaker 2
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It's, I think it's like, an amplification problem. Sure, let everybody have their voice be heard. But make that voice equal. If that makes it you know, like, one jackass who wants to have some racist shit to say, let him say it, and then you know who the racist asshole is. And then he deals with that in his life, where it's like,
Law Smith
15:41
a racist joke set up
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Speaker 2
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well, like no, just like a racist. Like, who posts something and then it gets picked up by a news outlet. And they're like, This man said this. And then Bala. And it's like, dude, like, that's where it gets. For me. I think it's the problem where it's the amplification of just stupid ideas.
Law Smith
15:57
Yeah. And what how do you fact check? We used to do three sources make an article. And that's the rule, I kind of copy and paste. Well, there's a rule I kind of apply before. Like, I would share something with y'all in slack or anybody, right? Like, it's a new story that just came out. And like, you got to remember like, Oh, this is salacious. And this is something we've been talking about. I want to send this to a bunch of people. But wait, I don't know. If it's correct, you know, like, let time kind of settle down and really look, it's a lot of the fringe fringes of the country. It's not right and that somebody says the word or it's like that's what gets you know, attention. That's, ah, let's answer people are not on that far end. either side. let's answer some business questions. I just think just generally, it's something to think about. It's something I've been thinking about a lot just in this crisis communication PR kind of area where you know, Trump is look I give him credit I don't like them but I give him credit as he's a master at PR
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Yes, the definitely knows how to play the game. They kind
Law Smith
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of manipulate it better than any bit is crazy. I'm not saying I like it. I just I respect that. I know he knows what he's doing there.
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Speaker 2
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It makes me sad that I feel like Veep on HBO is more accurate than we want to get like the way they you know, just gratuitously like, talk about votes and like what's happening? And now it's all a game. It's like, Oh, no, that could be closer to truth. And we want
Law Smith
17:39
Well, the book The worst thing about politicians as being a it can't be it shouldn't be a career. That's bullshit.
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Speaker 2
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Yeah. And yeah, term limits for Congress. That's the easiest fix right now. You can do you spend
Law Smith
17:53
saying half of your term get out of campaigning for your next thing? Right? How the fuck are we getting anything done?
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Speaker 2
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Yeah. Plus, you're just taking all that time building these relationships with people. You're
Law Smith
18:04
going to cc's pizza for the buffet, and filling yourself on breadsticks? What the fuck are you doing?
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Speaker 2
18:09
That's not a good metaphor, but
Law Smith
18:13
I just wanted to bring cc's pizza. Why? No, no, remember, cc pizza? Oh, you're hungry? I am. Really? Here we go. Uh, I'm a fitness coach in studio owner. what's what's difficult about maintaining an exercise routine? And I this was kind of thrown out there as to one of the online quizzes a business question,
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because from the business you're talking about as somebody who runs a business Yeah,
Law Smith
18:40
if you're if you're running some kind of yoga studio, maybe or Spin Spin classes is tough because like I've seen people try to move the bikes outside. And you're like, Well, good luck in Florida. Because if those are all like, peloton, nice, you're gonna have to run back inside every 20 minutes. Plus, it's hot as shit outside. Oh,
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Speaker 2
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you don't want to do outside. Like don't set yourself up for failure.
Law Smith
19:03
By the way speaking of spin class brands that ever tell you about soulcycle Yeah, and then at the end of it, they put it on the only guy in the class when I went six months ago, and they bring my sister and my niece and at the end of it, you're gonna love it. I think you'll go just for this part of the spin class teacher has a candle it's all dark in there and she goes around the room to the music's like way lower now. blaring like a car alarm and your hair right yours the whole time. And then puts it down in the chairs are like a fake. It's a fake candle Simon real candle. It's one of those like a little electric looking thing. And she's going around this is a candle for all you guys like some kind of weird like you guys are really cycled I started laughing so much, dude, that's just like Shut up.
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So disrespectful?
Law Smith
20:08
No, no, she was just like, she was just nervous. They're gonna hear us. And then what? You know, he was asking people out there what's difficult about maintaining an exercise routine, which is really like, if you're on the business side of this, you're trying to figure out how to get that, that, that subscription, that that member that's coming back and this time, right? Uh huh. I think he was trying to do some kind of market research really well asking that, ah, really think about it.
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Speaker 2
20:43
So they're not this person that asking for themselves are saying in general, what is your barriers to maintaining a fitness routine? I think the so a great question. You pigs.
Law Smith
20:56
All right. You're a fitness coach. You're a gym owner. Right. And you're, you're asking people out there just in a forum, just as a general matter, people, what's difficult about you're asking them to give you the problems they have. Ah, okay. Now go market that.
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Yes. Right. Marker research.
Law Smith
21:16
So, you know, I think that's a weird way of going about it, I
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Speaker 2
21:20
guess. Do you understand how dumb it is that you picked this question? When the question itself is meant for the ideas that you ask many people, right? Literally, you could have picked any other question on there. And it would have made sense.
Law Smith
21:37
I liked it.
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Speaker 2
21:38
But you want to suffer some reasons why me? A question that matters. You're in
Law Smith
21:44
the health very little health kind of conscious area. You're, you know that area a lot better than I do. Uh huh. But I'm saying why would that person ask that question? They're getting, they're gonna get a weird answer. They're not gonna get the market research they want back. I'm saying if you're in that guy's position, and we'll give this another two seconds. Yeah, if you're in that guy's position asking that question, you're asking the wrong question.
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Okay.
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I think you hate the wrong question. the wrong question. That
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Next question. I mean,
Law Smith
22:18
what I want my legacy to be helping reduce mental health issues and suicide in men. What are some business ideas to work towards achieving this? rage rooms?
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Speaker 2
22:32
All right, you get a bunch of old electronics. This is already stolen from the show deal. Okay with john. JOHN, what's his name? and nice Dad, you can get baseball bats and then just, you know, charge time it's a I think New York City has at least one. But that's a great start. Just you could build your own rage room in your own house. Chances are you know you've got the space even in your yard just put a fence around it won't people seeing you do that? And just go ahead, man, whatever you got that you're not supposed to smash with something. Smash it.
Law Smith
23:10
So mental health. Is this this problem that
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not anything?
Law Smith
23:14
What is it? Yeah,
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inanimate objects.
Law Smith
23:19
I think that's animal. I think that's like a that's a temporary solution. I think that was good.
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I was ready for the next question. What are you talking about?
Law Smith
23:28
We answered it. I think that's kind of like ejaculating. Like, you're like, good. I go to sleep now, tonight. I think that's its moment. It doesn't solve the problem necessarily. The project, but I'm saying mental health What? It is an issue that every city is dealing with. I when I lived in LA, I thought it was just an LA like absurdity. And now it's kind of just everywhere. And it's not a homeless issue. It's a mental health issue a lot of time.
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Speaker 2
24:01
Yeah. So do you start with the biggest kind of swath of where you can help right there? Or where do you go well, with suicide when they have mental health issues and suicide in there that does that, for me does not imply homeless, you know, it's like,
Law Smith
24:17
I'm like, I'm going mental health. I equals homeless nowadays.
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Speaker 2
24:21
Yeah. That just for me, it goes to like people who have a more normal situation, you know, I don't know why. Maybe that's just me.
Law Smith
24:30
Yes. Yeah. I
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Speaker 2
24:32
don't see a lot of hobos hanging themselves under an overpass you know? Yeah. They still love life.
Law Smith
24:37
Yeah. Okay. I would break those two. Yeah, I would break up every day and doing their thing. Yeah. And and we're probably getting this in a more of a white color II kind of area, I would guess. Yes. So let's let's go in that area. I would say one thing is better help. There's there's online therapy. If you don't, if you can't pay for therapy. There's free therapy options almost in every city through a bunch of colleges. A lot. A lot of education like us and say like secondary, not secondary school. What? Well, higher higher education. Yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 2
25:16
just in general, like it's not even just that like a lot of things like, you know, a dental school or any sort of medical journal, like they all have. Yeah, exactly. They have these people that are draining, you know, if it's, and they're typically
Law Smith
25:27
looking for a lot of the time, they can't get enough people. Yeah. So that's an option. I've heard a lot. Throughout the years, I've done better help myself, that helped me kind of jumpstart going to a therapist in person. I didn't have suicidal thoughts or anything, but definitely was depressed. That so I think there's there's things. So those are disrupter models, essentially, like betterhelp created a marketplace to put therapists and people that needed together. Yeah, in a covert way,
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Speaker 2
26:04
there's definitely more access now. That the business idea of working towards this sort of thing,
Law Smith
26:13
this idea does have to it, you don't need to make your own business, you just need to
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Speaker 2
26:16
know, I know, I'm just saying like, there's, you're right, the like telemedicine thing. I think, especially for mental health stuff, where it's like you don't have to get physically examined is a huge step towards like, really, you can go online, not tell anybody that you're going you you don't have to leave your house right to see a therapist. And obviously, it's all HIPAA protected, there's no way there's no way and also, I don't think it's as big a negative anymore. Going to see a therapist. I think a lot of people are, you know, seeing that as a normal thing.
Law Smith
26:51
Yeah. And not all of them are good. I think a lot of people do that to do yeah, I went I went and it didn't write it like it's finding a good ones like dating, you got to like really kind of filter them out. Yeah,
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I mean,
Law Smith
27:06
I needed someone that was kind of disciplinary and that was like, I'm not gonna let you just fucking just diarrhea, verbally, diarrhea everywhere, or physically diarrhea everywhere and in his office.
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Speaker 2
27:18
Well, yeah, you got to remember that the business do you know they don't want to say hey, you cured
27:23
Yeah, what you to come back?
Law Smith
27:24
Well, there is that weird thing, but he actually was like, I don't want you.
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You know, you're done. You're cute. You're revealed.
Law Smith
27:35
No, he was like, I don't think there's anything wrong, but I will do a evaluation.
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Speaker 2
27:39
Anyway. Let's, uh, didn't even consult me like I disagree.
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So I've got my notes. I'll I'll fax them over.
Law Smith
27:49
Homeless we're part time. Minimum wage job. We're keeping the homeless same homeless with part time minimum wage job. What are the next steps to make a business? Where are you?
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Speaker 2
28:03
Dude, this? I don't know. I mean, how about step one? You're gonna need a home address for paperwork.
Law Smith
28:12
Good. So okay, that's good. See, this is good question.
28:15
Yeah. How?
Law Smith
28:16
Yes. How do you go from homeless to
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Speaker 2
28:20
Well, I mean, you know, entrepreneur straight up I mean, he's got you're gonna have to get a home address somebody that you may be no, till at least
28:31
put your name on some paperwork.
Law Smith
28:33
Well, that's another thing with the mental health stuff is a lot of persons crazy. Obviously.
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Speaker 2
28:37
They think they're gonna go to business owner before they get you know,
Law Smith
28:42
well then a car like that's the thing with the entrepreneurial stuff these days is almost getting to that celebrity area, where you think you can be like a celebrity. You know, like a lot of entrepreneur. A lot of people think about it in that way now, because,
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Speaker 2
28:58
yeah, it's starting to blend together because I'm going to teach you the secrets to make millions of dollars by selling videos about making millions of dollars.
Law Smith
29:07
Yeah, and it a lot of stuff seems really easy. Just like a lot of like, a lot of people wanted to be an actor, you know, in the 90s probably right? Because it goes it's like we're looking at that as the job is like, it seemed too fucking hard.
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In the 20s,
Law Smith
29:23
so the 20s but now we have more things where there's YouTube celebrities and there's people that make you know, there's influencers and there's all these things that look I don't think they're the the most grading job. I don't think they're the most difficult to do those but most of those people are like obsessed with that show. I we were talking about it non stop.
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Speaker 2
29:46
Earlier, we're talking about the people my kids watch on YouTube, it's like, hey, as stupid, or dorky as it might seem to watch the guys or at least On top of, like unsubscribe and marketing themselves and and getting all that shit and like producing a ton of content, like, they get it for sure and it's effort to it's not just like you don't just, you know, roll out of bed and walk into this like they're working. We both we don't agree
Law Smith
30:18
with it we both hate Ryan's family or whatever that YouTube channel soil
30:21
review.
Law Smith
30:22
Yeah, so if you don't have kids, you probably haven't seen this, but it's like, it's a mom, dad and this, this kind of pudgy kid Ryan and it that kid makes like, fucking bank. And he's like, 12 and I think that things like opportunistic, like, I think they put it out there. And it like, kind of kind of caught fire. I feel like twitches that way. Like I kind of don't get it. But hey, more power to you. Like
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definitely a momentum thing.
Law Smith
30:52
Right? You know, you never know, like, Look unboxing videos, would that ever be a thing? ASMR is that was like the the
31:04
face talking to me. Right? Yeah, that's, you know, that's one way to bagel.
Law Smith
31:10
Yeah, people. Yeah, they get soft boners to that. So gross. There's there's all these lanes now there's all these segmentations that I think a lot of people just are putting content out there and just opportunistic about it. So homeless guy. That's your fastest route.
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Speaker 2
31:29
Homeless YouTube channel could be fucking awesome, actually. I mean, give it to a straight straight from the streets.
Law Smith
31:35
And honestly, there's jobs out there right now. It's it's really interesting to see that I see a lot more in the white collar and blue collar areas. Just generally, there's jobs that are being posted where you don't think they are.
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Speaker 2
31:47
Yeah. Well, I mean, there's a lot of people not wanting to be in a place working with other people because of Coronavirus. And there's a lot more openings than there actually normally are for random stuff.
Law Smith
32:00
They're thinking more because a lot of people in the lower jobs are better off on unemployment, then
2
Speaker 2
32:08
that will lead to worse. Some of them are Yeah, you know, that's that sucks. But,
Law Smith
32:14
you know, it's the case, hey, you pay into it. Look, if you pay into it, I'm fine with it. If you take advantage of it, it kind of sucks. But it is what it is like this is unprecedented times we don't know. You know, I mean? Yeah,
2
Speaker 2
32:28
it's Listen, we're getting screwed over by the government. Now I saw. I'm not saying doing anything illegal now.
Law Smith
32:34
Do we need to call Tripoli?
2
Speaker 2
32:36
No, I'm just Well, you know, I'm saying like, Hey, you have your bureaucracy, keeping track of all this stuff. And if they're sending you the checks, and don't feel that bad about Wouldn't
Law Smith
32:48
you love if your taxes
32:51
take it all back?
Law Smith
32:52
If you've got where all that the percentages actually went?
32:58
Yeah, they should do that'd be different.
Law Smith
33:00
Oh, yeah. Wouldn't that be amazing? Yeah. I thought the internet would get this that nine 111
33:05
hundred
33:07
of a tank.
Law Smith
33:08
But it goes here's your tax money. Here's what every line item. Yeah, it goes. We have to do it.
33:16
Right. Yeah, that's true. No, weird. Yeah. It is fucked up
33:19
that you have to do your own taxes.
Law Smith
33:21
No, but I mean, like
33:22
you guys, tell me what I owe you. Like we talked about? I have
Law Smith
33:25
no way.
33:27
But I'm saying you prove it.
Law Smith
33:29
They do.
33:31
They do. If you think if they think you didn't prove it,
Law Smith
33:34
right, though, you've never read that. macro economics professionals. I did read that. It was like the tax return. There's us getting the taxes in by April 15 is like giving a loan, essentially. Because then you have the tax return come back for a lot of people. So it's like, it's like they know already. If they want to know what you're supposed to be paying. Yeah, so it's almost like, okay, yeah, it's almost like a bait car. Yeah,
34:07
no, let's see if you do the right thing here. Not exactly. Okay.
2
Speaker 2
34:11
Yeah. That's why I'm saying like, why do we have to do that stupid exercise already?
Law Smith
34:17
Because we've been doing it No. And the incentive is to not change it because there's a lot of accountants that benefit off of it. Yeah. And the people we're gonna change it will accountant or private accounting lobby of some sort.
34:29
Oh, that's a bummer.
Law Smith
34:31
God damn CPAs Hey, shout out to my accountant. I love Michael Mussina. MPM, Pa. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Business CPA about my sweat.
