Ron and Carolina welcome the NHL’s Stanley Cup to the studio and find out what it takes to be the trophy’s handler.
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Who's that man joking in my ear? He's rung Burndy. My dearest listeners, how is everyone this week feeling okay? If you're listening at home, are you cozy under a blanket? You might be in your family's minivan airing out the cigar smoke because your parents get back into town. How's that going? And here at the studio, Carolina, how you doing? I'm good? Nick in the booth, you okay? Good? Family is good, everybody's good. Thanks, great, and the temperature is good in here. Sorry for all the questions. I'm not trying to be a nosy Carolina. Not nosy Carolina, but that's a phrase. Oh well, I just read a great book, Carolina. You should check it out. It's called How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. It just came out. O that book came out like a little over eighty years and it's growing in popularity. I wanted to give it a shout out on the podcast so more people could hear about it. Oh, it's actually one of the most popular books of all time. I think in it, my new friend Dale list six ways to make people like you, and it's it's not what you think you don't have to bring a you know, a brick of cocaine for the next game night. In fact, the first thing Dale says is you have to become genuinely interested in other people. Hence my questions today. Okay, is that why you asked me if my nose was real when I walked into I'm just saying, people have been talking, okay, and we just know it used to be bigger, or maybe it's the same size. I didn't do anything, so well, it's still pretty outstanding. You have an outstanding nose. I don't know how you mean that anyway. The second thing Dale tells us to do is smile. Smile, smile, smile, smile, smile, smile. Okay, please see I'm smiling too much. Just close your mouth. Talk normally. It marks people love you. I'm gonna pay you ten dollars to look normal, and I'll pay you fifty to do the same. Okay. Thirdly, you have to say a person's name a lot to them. It is the sweetest and most important sound in any language. That's certainly true. I actually fall asleep to a tape of people saying my name. Different recordings of people at award shows airport, loudspeakers, lawyers at my deposition hearings. Just get me relaxed. Oh wow, well, maybe you know what. You can use some of these skills to talk to the CEO of Fair today. Who the CEO of Fair? A representative affair? He's we're having them in for a few questions. Oh okay, what's his name? He's walking in? Okay, quickly, what's his name? Come on, Carolina, he's the money man that he's in the room. His name is Scott, Scott Painter. He's in the room, Scotty. Please, welcome to the studio. Scott Painter. Thanks for joining us. Hey, Ron, how are you? I'm great, I'm great. Thank you so much for coming in. Yes, thank you. What a beautiful name, Scott Painter. Glorious to the lips, Scott, Scotty, Scott, take it easy, ah, Scott, Yes, Scott Painter. Never forget that name. We want you to stop and keep going. Is it what's the origin of Painter? Is that Dutch? I think it's a German and Scottish. Well, we learned something new every day and thank you for that information. Scott Painter, CEO, founder of Fair. And so what what does fair Auto. Do Well, we are a way to get a car entirely on your phone. Oh, that's right, because we've been talking about that. Those are the advertisements. Yes, anyway, you get the phone and you get a car, you get a car. Well, it really comes from just wanting to make the whole process of getting a car a lot easier. Most people don't even want to go into a dealership anymore, not anymore. No, the idea of doing everything on your phone, just like everything else in modern life, was really where the whole thing started. A lot of dealerships frankly, they smell, you know, No, I'm just saying they stink. Really, that's what I've come to. I mean, I think they smell like new car, which for people is usually oh I hate that smell. Oh do you? In fact, just the thought of it, okay, makes me want to vomit. That seems dramatic. Why don't you take a sip of water and Scott Scott paid here, he's here with us for just tuning in a lot of people just tune into a podcast. Did you know that? Um, just for my records? When does my car come? Scott? Well, you've just got to get on your phone and pick one out. No, no, no, I mean my free car, the one I was promised. Who promised you that? Oh? Okay, so it's a surprise. That's sweet. Okay, when I get my free car, what should I do? Run? I don't think that's happening. Okay, it's a surprise, um Scott. The question is why do you like working at Fair? I mean, you created it, so it's your baby. Well, but where where's the satisfaction. I think great companies and great entrepreneurs solve a problem, and I think buying and owning a car is complicated, time consuming, frustrating, and most modern customers just have said they don't want to do it anymore. I mean we're all the hassle. Yeah, yeah, the confrontation, the commits. So what we created was really a solution for that that doesn't require any negotiation, any confrontation or commitment. You can take the car for as long as you want, and then when you're done with it, you just simply let us know and we pick it up. What's the shortest amount of time someone has leads to car for if you had anyone to just for like five minutes. It turns out when humans get a car that they like, they sort of move into it. And even though we don't have a term to our contract, the average customer is keeping the car for almost two years. Wow. Ron usually can't afford cars at dealerships, but he loves negotiating. I don't know why we need to bring that up. You've stayed at that dealership. I love. I love to haggle. I love the back and forth, waste salesman's time for hours and then says just kidding and leaves. I like to go in. Let's say a car is being sold for thirty five dollars. I like to go in. I'd like to look them in. They they get excited because it's round barrigunady of course, Um, and I'll go I've got two grand cash and I'll slide it across the desk, real slow, in a Manila envelope and they usually kick me out. But um, but there's a thrill to that, just for me. But you're saying most people, it's intimidating to them. For most people, the average car costs about a third of their net worth, so the car requires financing as well. And the idea of going in and you know, sort of negotiating with a dealer is certainly something that modern consumers don't like a lot third of their net worth. We'd love to have a net worth in general. So as a result, most people end up taking a car based on what they can afford on a monthly basis. All the cars that we've got in the app are presented on an all in, month to month basis, so the car comes with a warranty, roadside assistance, and standard maintenance, so you don't have to worry about any of that. And we now also even offer auto insurance, so it's truly a single cost of ownership except for fuel. Let me ask this question, what if someone has a negative reaction to their car and destroys it? Have you have you come across that. I mean they just beat up the car exactly. They take out a tire iron and they just smashed the windshield, and it's like, oh, they tricked me. I never wanted this car. I don't think that would be good for anybody. That's not good for us. And probably what you'll catch either, right, you'll catch them. Ultimately, we will get there. I knew it. They're going to get you, So don't do that any Herbie fully loaded situations Herbie fully loaded where the car goes to life? Oh right right? Was that a Disney movie? Yeah? And then it was a Lindsay lowhand remake. I want to get back to my car that I'm getting my gift car? What color is it? Can you guys just tell me? So? Is it going to have a ribbon on it? I want I don't know if this is a conversation for now, and when I I it, can I keep the ribbon on it to show off that I got a free car. I want you to be prepared for there to be no car in what scenario and and the scenario of reality. I want you to be prepared for a car not to show up today. Okay, I'm gonna put air quotes around that. Um Scott, do you miss One of the great things about car dealerships are the the you know, the the inflatable floppy man. You know what I'm talking about. That gets your attention listeners. You you probably will picture. How would you describe the inflatable floppy man? Carolina? A body of skin without a spine or bones in it? Yes, you see it end and that's something or you'll see like an inflatable gorilla or something like that. You know at at dealer do do you get feedback that people are missing seeing those things? They're still out there, believe it or not. The way that our our business works is we rely on dealers as partners, but we buy the car from them and simultaneously let our users use the vehicles so they don't have to go through any of the complication or the confrontation with the dealer. We handle all of that. I want to get one of those inflatable guerrillas just to put out in front of my condo. That I think we can do, though, we can arrange for that because they're not in demand nearly as much anymore. Okay, So if I'm not going to get a free car from you guys, free guerrilla would be I mean to have that generator blowing throughout the night. Go Go, Go, Go Go definite. But I think that I think that's a nice trade off to have a fun inflatable guerrilla for the whole neighborhood to enjoy. It will be a conversation. So, Scott, what what else would you like our listeners to know about Fair Auto? You know, I think that the idea of going into debt to buy a car, which is what we all have to do. Um. The car is, for the most part, nine cars are a depreciating asset. Absolutely, you drive it off the lot, it plummets. It does. And almost all the risk in the car business has been shifted to consumers over the last hundred years. We make them go get a car loan and go into debt to cover all that risk. And I think the idea of becoming obligated to a car is really going to be obsolete. I think the idea of being able to get access to mobility on a month to month basis just like everything else in modern life. UM. I have a sixteen year old son. He went through the whole process and he was just like dad before fair how did kids get cars? And it makes a ton of sense. I mean, he doesn't have a job, he didn't have a bank account, he just got his driver's license. He goes through all these things and now all of a sudden he can get access to a car with any kind of credit history and he pays month to month. It's a great way for him to get a vehicle until he gets ready to go to college. Can you use PayPal? You can use any form of payment that's different Venmo, PayPal, Apple, pay all of It, pokers, anything that we can do to get so poker chips from a casino. I think ultimately we got to look into every public good. Ron has a velvet bag of a velvet bag I have. I have a prediction that's going to be the currency of the future is poker chips from Las Vegas casinos. You had an amazing night in Vegas, did and you just forgot to cash your chips. I was on such a roll, Scott, Oh my gosh, I was at the crabs table for eleven hours. You are a diaper. I wore a diaper, and oddly enough, this is the first time we've met. But I kept screaming at the top of my lungs, Scott Pater as I threw the dice. Yeah. I don't remember that part, but I believe you. Okay, I made that up. I was just trying to impress you. But yeah, I made about fifty dollars and I keep it in my mattress. And you said, no, I have to go. I have to take off my diaper as soon as possible. And I said, maybe you want to cash out your chick, no should go yeah. Well, but with a company like Fair you get to keep the fifty yes and then just get the car on an as needed basis. So the auto industry are they mad at you for what you've created. We're actually a sale to a car dealer or to the manufacturer, so they're actually quite happy. They don't have to pay for advertising, which is usually the largest expense in selling a car. So when we buy a car from a dealer, it's a sale for them without any advertising expense. I remember when I was living down in San Diego, I used to record jingles for Phil Everton Ford and that was part of their big advertising budget. Phil Everton Ford, It's a great day to buy a Ford. Phil Everton, and this was a career. I just what do you mean? It was No, it was augmented my salary as a broadcaster. Got it. Come on down to Phil Everton. He won't cheat you. He's honest, Phil. I love it. Phil Everton. He he's honest. Even though he only has one leg. He had he only had one leg, and he wanted that in the jingle. Well I improvised that one yeah, and I made sure they couldn't erase the tapes, and then I said, if you don't use this one, I'll sue you. But that's what I had a lot of juice back then. Yeah. Um, Scott, we can't thank you enough for coming in talking to us, enlightening us, enlightening us. It's it's it sounds like an amazing service, very easy. Can let me ask you this final question? What if I were to purchase I guess it's technically, Elise, it's it's technically elease or rental depending on the state that you live in. Um, but you know both are the same thing. You're not buying the car, you're paying for the depreciation on a monthly basis. So if I if I get my new car, I'm so excited. And then I opened the trunk and I find a couple of kilos of cocaine. Do what happens? Then? Do I get? Is that? Is that a problem that's been happen It's it's not been a problem yet, Okay, until we should think about all the possibilities out there that could happen. Well, Scott Painter, thank you so much. CEO and founder of Fair Auto with a beautiful name, Scott Painter, Scott thank you for coming in and visiting us here in person. Ron, thanks for having me and uh. I think we could probably work something out on that car if you really go into the pick something. Okay, make a big deal out of that. I think that could work out interesting. Well, Oh so Carolina, you're wrong. I am getting a free car, maybe for a month or two, you know what, something like that. If it's for one hour. If I can rub it into Carolina's face that I got a free car, I would dance a jig. Scott, thanks again, thanks for coming in, and we'll be right back after this and welcome back to the Ron Burgundy Podcast. Okay, raise your hands if you like sports. Okay, I see some hands. Now, clap your hands if you like trophies. Any trophy lovers in the house here. So when was the last time you want a trophy? Carolina? I don't want to say. Oh, come on, just tell you know. We're family here. Um at one second place at the Sarah Lawrence Slam Poetry Contest. Jesus Christ, Okay, forget I asked, well, we have such a treat. The Stanley Cup is the oldest trophy in sports history, still being competed for by professional athletes and I am literally looking at it right now in all of its glory. It's amazing. It's on the table right next to me. And of course we have with us today Mike Bolt. Mike is the keeper of the cup. He is the man in charge, and today we get an inside scoop on how he manages to guard that cup, the Stanley Cup. Mike, thank you for joining us here on the podcast. Ron, thanks for having us The Stanley Cup. Wow. Well, I mean every day you wake up, you turn and look at that thing, right because you have to be around a twenty four hours. Yeah, I sleep with one eye open all night. You're very vigilant. I had to guard it every day, Which leads me to my first question, Um, do you think you're trustworthy? Trustworthy enough to guard this? I don't put I guess the NHL in the Hall of Fame do because you are being trusted with this outstanding I mean, does that ever make you kind of, you know, lose your mind slightly? Actually it does sometimes, Yes, I mean especially when we're traveling and flying around. Uh just the other day we couldn't find it in Denver and it was a little stress. Oh den Yeah, we were in Denver doing some press and bouncing around promoting the playoffs, and uh, I get to Denver and waiting for the bag to come out, and it's not there. It's not there, and I'm like, okay, So I go and start dealing with the airlines and they can't tell me where it is. And so luckily I have a contact with Air Canada and I picked up the phone and they could tell me where it was and apparently it was in Denver, but it was stuck on Wow, the Caver belt. Did you ask the officials there the Denver boat to shut the airport down? I did, actually, but they didn't didn't listen, okay, because that's what I would have run out onto the tarmac and tried to stop planes from landing. You know, it's funny when when we're in the airport, so I do open it up, and it's always amazing to see the reaction. Just actually, when I flying up to come up here last night, I was checking in, it was really quiet and I took it out for two employees to see it. Within literally twenty seconds, there was about people around. They just got just it's such a yeah, it's such a it's a magnet. I mean, it just attracts people. And I been doing this for twenty years, I kind of know better, but I just laugh. I'm like, oops, that's my mistake. I mean, when you brought this beautiful trophy into our recording studio here, I squealed like a fourteen year old girl. It was weird. It was like I thought you had stepped on something. You thought I'd seen a ghost, because that's how I react if I ever see a go I see a lot of ghosts. Yes, and that's with you that one time. That's what usually. Um. Have you heard of an ice jackal before? By the way, No, I haven't. Okay, well let's just leave it at that. UM, now correct me if I'm wrong. But I've heard that this trophy is so revered, revered, revered, revered by NHL players that many who have not won it they refused to be in its presence. Is that is that accurate? Pretty true? I mean there are players that come around it but won't touch it. Um, quick story. Scott had won three Stanley Cup Scott need Amer, he loves the podcast Go Ahead, O excellent and his brother Rob when they won together and oh seven, we were up at their their summer house up in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and Rob kept telling people I love it up there by the absolutely gorgeous. Is that cottage country? Is that the same as a cottage country? That's God's country? Okay, alright, have you ever been to yellow Knife? I have? Okay, continue, Yeah, I got a time share and yellow great, Um, Carolina, you would love yellow Knife. They're flat and cold and flat, yeah exactly, but it's it's a cool place. That's my body type, flat and cold. Nothing. But Rob is telling everybody they'd never touched the cup, and when his brother brought it back and I said, well that's not true. Rob, you kept kind of rubbing up against it, maybe not on purpose, and you know, so the superstition of touching it, you know, didn't really affect you because you obviously wanted No. Seven. But there are players that definitely will not touch it until they win it, and guys that have retired still feel weird about being around it. Meaning the players who were retired who didn't didn't win, they're like, yeah, Wendell Clarke played for Toronto, great player. UM when he first retired, didn't want to do a picture with it. He says he'll do pictures, but he will still not touch because I never want it. I will never touch the Stanley Cup. For the female listeners out here, I feel like we should follow any hockey player's name with single or in a relationship, okay, because you find them dreamy, don't you? Who is the dreaming this guy in the NHL Carolina frequently goes to King's games and she loves blowing kisses at the players on the ice. There's a rugged handsomeness to hockey players. They look like they could build you a house and and get into an unprovoked fight for you. Now it knows you have you have white gloves on. You have to handle the cup with white gloves. Yes, it's part of the prestige, the respect for it, the protocol. Yeah, I I didn't win it. I just look after it. And you don't You want to make sure that people when you're carrying it outside of the buildings and you know in the public, people know that it's you're the keeper, not the guy that wanted and the white gloves. You mentioned protocol. But I also read somewhere in my research that it's because, uh, once someone was eating peanut butter out of a jar and they were like, oh dude, look it's a standy cup and they grabbed it and they got peanut butter all over it. Is that I've heard that story, but that's get a lot of stuff all over it. I mean ice cream Sundays are eating out of it. So there's been some close calls. Oh yeah, a lot of ice cream in the summer, a lot of cereal out of it, and a lot of adult beverages from Margarita's beer, champagne wine spritters have been made in it. I'm thinking right now, a Scotch chips and guacamole fill that ramful of guacamole. Lobster bisc has been in there. Uh, putine, which is French fries, sushi babies, A couple of babies have been baptized in it. That's adorable. That we had a penguin in there once, a little baby peng Did someone steal a baby penguin? We went to a zoo, Yeah, we did, the Pittsburgh Zoo. Actually, you guys told it. They brought it over to it. They got back with his mommy. Well that's what they told you. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire any connection? No good question. That is a good question. Actually, But you do you do like Harry Potter though, I mean you can't say you don't. J K Rally. I mean she had a dollar to her name and she created a whole world. I mean, if you say anything about j K, you're gonna hear about it. Goblet of Fire, great one. Have you ever gone to the supermarket, picked up a few things, come home and then realized you left the Stanley cup in an apple barrel? You can be honest because we can addit to what we actually have taken it to the supermarket a couple of times. I did it. Once with Doug Waite in uh Long Island. The White family wanted to reenact the picture of Angeelie Jolie doing they get through something on the tabloids, and they wanted to reenact the shopping cart thing with the cup in it, and so we did that, and then with Billy Aaron, who was an assistant GM with Pittsburgh, brought it to the supermarket to pick up some beer for his parties. We had the cup in the middle of the cart and loaded all the beer around the cup along with a couple of bags of chips and then getting the reaction when you're going shopping with the Stanley. The cup was pretty cool, but he's got to turn a few heads. Yeah, but we didn't leave it in the apple sections. Billy Garran's party too. I forgot. They were bobbing for apples out of the cup to Billy. Typical Billy Garran. You know, Billy has the craziest party, he really does. I've never been invited, but they are good parties. Why why is it called Stanley? Why not Seymour or Ralphie. It's called Stanley because of Lord Stanley was a gentleman who bought the trophy in eighteen forty dollars and sixty seven cents. Was he a real lord or would you Jesus call himself Lord Stanley? Lord? And now he was a he was a real lord. Uh. He was from Preston, England. His actual family seal is on the cup. He was a Governor General of Canada back in the late eighteen hundreds. And it was his children actually that convinced their dad to buy the trophy for the Amateur Hockey Association. And another little trivia effect that no one really because he hated hockey himself. He really didn't know it. But his kids grew up playing the game in Canada, coming over from England. The kids loved the game and then their their father kind of got liked it. And Lord Sanders like, this game will never survive, I declare it. He actually never saw the trophy even presented in He was always back, he went back to he was already back in England doing whatever he did, his Lord's stuff back in Anger Night people. He never saw the cup presented ever. And he's the only member of the Hockey All of Fame that had nothing to do with hockey other than donating the trophy. Wow, Lord Stanley, well, I'm sure he's smiling down on the cup right now. We actually took it over to England and oh six and put a plaque on the building and no one came and visited, right. Actually was pretty crazy. All the press was there and and stuff like that, and we had a lot of the hockey fans and this tour bus was going by and after Phil and I, my boss Phil Pritchard, had done some press, we stuck back and this tour bus went by and somebody goes, what's going on, and Phil goes Prince Williams in buying a ring or something like that. This is way before he got married, and so he started the big stir that thinking Prince william was getting engaged. Prince I was not invited to the royal wedding, tried to sneak in, Mike, what is your favorite part of a hockey game? For me, I'll just say mine's the music. I love the Oregan music. Don't Done Done? Yeah, don't ye wine would be uh favorite part of a game. I mean in playoffs, it's overtime for sure. Overtime hockey, sudden death for those of you who don't adine the adrenaline. Yeah, yeah, we get five minutes of in the regular season and then we have sudden death right to I mean a couple of nights ago we had two overtime periods. Um, that's a lot of hockey. That's a lot of hockey. I mean we played normally sixty minutes. Some guys sometimes we can play a hundred twenty minutes of hockey and one night and then the guys, I don't know how they do, they gotta play the next night. A lot of times. Yeah, it's uh it's a lot of wear and tear on their bodies. I remember one time one of the guys in Chicago is telling me, when they're flying back from a game they're they're playing, look like an emergency room with all the I V s and ice pack slash guys getting stitched on the plane. I mean, there was blood gauzes everywhere, and one guy had his gallbladder taken out right Peter Forsberg the black market and they and they didn't have enough surgeons, so a lot of the players operated on each other. That's what I read. Oh my god, they are tough, tough ombreise. So Mike, what I mean, what do you say to those dreamers out there who are listening and they want to travel the world with Stanley one day? Come come to the hockey allow fan, We'll get a job and maybe I'll be fortunate enough to be one of there's a training program, there's a apprenticeship. It's huge. You know, this job took me all three minutes to get. Okay, the people know my boss called well, my now, boss, I was in the office. You got a minute, And I was like sure. I went into his office side down and said, you think you'd be good as a cupkeeper. You're interested? Sure? Okay, that was it? Pretty much a couple of little things. Yeah, that was it. So to our listeners out there, it's pretty easy, pretty easy apparently. Yeah. Well, has the cup ever spoken to you? I'm looking at it right now, just when we're alone. Yeah, I'm sure. Does it have a deep voice or more of a high pitched nasal. It's kind of an old man kind of voice. Yeah. H seven years old, that makes sense, and twenty seven years old. We should all be so lucky. Yeah. Well, with modern science and technology, we'll probably get there. I mean, as I always say, the couple looks pretty good for hundred twenty seven years old and parties harder than Keith Richards. So have they have they? Any of the Rolling Stones ever partied with the Standley Cup? But we have party with a bunch of bands over the years, from Rush to uh Rat not Rat bon Jovi, Wayne Newton, Yeah, Wayne, we actually real Yeah yeah, Wayne. We were with Wayne in Vegas last year. Was an awesome guy and we actually had the cup in a convertible for him and he drove down the strip and everything like that and waving on all the people, and people would see the cup first and then they go, oh my god, it's Wayne Newton. Canada's way Newton. Yeah, that was pretty cool. Um, I don't think he's from Leans. From Canada. She's seen the Cup of Futures. What did she think of the cup? She was? She was she's a big Montreal fan, um. And her husband's a big hockey fan too. And their friends with Pierre Lacroix, who was the former general manager of the Colorado Avalanche. So uh, they were. The nickname for the Canadians is the habs exactly? The habitants. The habitants has its short form. Yeah, that's French. It's a French thing. Yeah. I don't really much more than that. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. That kind of grounded everything doing old, didn't it. Yeah, Well, none of us speak French. That's Ron for a while told us he spoke flu in French and it was gibberish, old, a little insulting, consulting to my intelligence and your in your beat poetry second place. Well, Mike, I don't know what to say. I'm still staring at the glory of Lord Stanley right here. He was an honor to meet you, honor to be in the presence of the Cup. Uh, please keep in touch. And I don't mean in the distant future. I mean, let us know what you're doing tonight, getting on a red eye. You want to come? Where are you going? Going to Raley, North Carolina Fest tomorrow? Oh? Beer fest? Yes, let me see. Carolina booked me on that same flight. We have to record tomorrow. Oh okay, well we can postpone it. I got I mean, look the look at the choice you're presenting me. Stay here in the smelly studio and record a podcast versus get on a red eye to Raleigh for a beer fest with the Stanley Cup. Do your job or go to a party. Yes, okay, we'll discuss. We'll discuss later. Mike Michael, keeper of the Cup, thank you for spending a wonderful amount of time with us here. And I just I'm surprised you don't have armed security with you. I just dropped the white gloves the third problem. Okay, very good. We won't touch the We're not going to. By the way, I'm not even gonna look at it because I didn't win it. I understand, ladies and gentlemen. We'll be right back with the Ron Burgundy Podcast right after these messages, and we're back on the Ron Burgundy Podcast with some final thoughts. I am a leader. Everyone has said that to me at one point or another. Once at McDonald's I was in line for a mc rib and someone tapped me on the shoulder and said, you're a leader. And I said, thank you, sir, I know that. Then you can gave me some pamphlets. Turns out he wanted me to join his cult. Long story short, I did end up joining it, and it was a very tough summer for me and my family. Anyway, Wait, where was I You're a leader? Yes? While reading How to Win Friends and Influence People, my new favorite book next to Harry Potter, they gave me some tips on how to be a leader, one of which was to praise every improvement. Oh I like that. That's actually a great management. I think so too. For instance, I love how you didn't slur your words there, Carolina, And look at your clothes. There's barely any crumbs of lunch on them. Perhaps some improvement there. Okay, I see what's happening. The book also says to ask questions instead of giving direct orders, So maybe you guys, um, what do you think of ending the episode now? And maybe we get a steak for Ron with a Guinness in a cold glass. I don't know, suggestions. Maybe after that, someone pulls my new car around so I can check it out. That's not we I can't tell you enough that you're not getting a free car today, okay, but I am getting a free blow up gorilla. Scott Painter told me that, yeah, I know, okay, we'll get your new girl great. And I also need the generator, you know. Oh, and I'm going to need uh let's see, I'm going to need a couple of hundred cans of gasoline to run the gas generator. So Fair Auto is gonna have to chip in on that too. I'll need a constant supply of of I don't know. All you could do is ask, right, folks, come on by my condo anytime you want. Can take a photo with my blow up gorilla. H My house is located on two to with a ten in the four oh five Meat Great. Thanks, catch you next time on the Ron Burgundy Podcast. The Ron Burgundy Podcast is a production of I Heart Radio at Funnier Die. I'm Ron Burgundy, the host, writer, and executive producer. Carolina Barlow is my co host, writer and producer. Our producers are Jack O'Brien, Nick Stuff, Miles Gray, and Whitney O. Day. Our executive producer is Mike Ferrett. Our consulting producer is Andrew Steele. Our coordinating producer makes Colin mcdooker. Our associate producers are Anna Hosnier and Sophie Licht. Our writer is Jake Foblemised. Our production coordinator is Hannah Jacobson. This episode was engineered, mixed, and edited by Nick Stuff. Until next I'm this is ron bergm