June 30, 2025 • 55 mins
Bruce and Clark explore the psychological toll of work invading our dreams, sharing personal experiences with night terrors about professional stress and the death spiral that follows when we can't escape thoughts of work.
• Work-related nightmares indicate dangerous blurring of work-life boundaries
• The "death spiral" where work stress impacts sleep, preventing proper restoration
• AI anxiety creating additional pressure about job security
• Bruce's Newark Airport travel horror story involving gridlock traffic and power outages
• The compounding delays that make evening flights a nightmare
• Strategic advice to only book morning flights to avoid cascading travel delays
• Declining quality of airline services and customer support
• Using AI bots to fight for refunds when airlines abandon their responsibilities
• The value of human connection in an increasingly AI-driven world
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome back to Cuddle Strategy, the nap time
podcast that you can curl upwith in the cozy spot of your
home.
I'm Bruce and I'm Clark andwe're here to cuddle you.
Find a comfy position, lay backand prepare to drift off into
(00:35):
napland with the corporatestrategists.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Close your eyes and just when you think you're done
thinking about work, I want youto think about more work, but on
a 0.5 speed.
Get ready to go on a journeytogether.
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Clark, recently I've been having dreams about work
and I realized the biggestproblem with all of this is that
I'm not getting paid in mysleep and they are nightmares.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Sometimes I wake up screaming, I don't know why, and
I think they call these nightterrors.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
If one has a night terror about work?
Does one have an opportunity tonet workers' comp?
If you die in your dream?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Could this be classified as working?
Let's throw these out there.
I think so.
I mean, if I'm thinking aboutwork and waking up in the middle
of the night, I think I shouldtake some time off during the
day to make up for the time Iwas working in my night terror
and the psychological damagealone means worker's cop for
(01:54):
sure.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'm real talk, real talk, clark Four out of the five
nights this week I've hadexistential work, terror dreams,
and I have woken up in themiddle of the night screaming
help, help, please help.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You know you and I are both in a bad spot because
over the past week I've had thesame well, not this past week,
but the week before this samethings.
Like I woke up and I was likeshoot, I got like 10 things to
do.
Like I just like it doesn'thappen like this often, but when
things are high tension, highstress, there's a lot going on.
(02:35):
You get so overwhelmed and likejust permeates your
subconscious.
And when it comes out in yourdreams, you know, you know you
are not separating work and life.
It's a dangerous place to be.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Um, yes, and on top of all that, I feel like you end
up in a spiral where you feelbad because you feel bad, and
there's really no way to stopfeeling bad because you feel bad
at work, which impacts yourability to do good work.
(03:07):
Then you get off work, youmight get a little bit of free
time, a little bit of enjoyment.
Those thoughts creep in, though.
You're like, oh damn, thatemail, oh that project.
And then you go to sleep, andthen you feel bad in your sleep,
which should be the restorativepart of your day, and you're
not getting better.
You, you feel bad in your sleep, which should be the
restorative part of your day,and it's.
(03:28):
You're not getting better,you're just getting worse.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's, it's the death spiral.
This is what happens.
You know, there's people how doyou get out of it?
There's people I feel like livein this 24 seven which
terrifies me, like this happensrarely to me, I would say like
there's been points in my careerwhere it's been like maybe a
couple of weeks where, like Ijust can't shake this.
(03:53):
But pretty much every yearthere's been like a time where I
can feel it, but it's not allthe time.
It's like for a night or twoand I have a stressful
conversation or you know,something stressful is coming up
.
Like this stuff happens.
But I'm so happy that my lifeis not this 24 seven because I
bet you, a lot of people's are.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
You know, interestingly, we one of our
friends, actually it's it'sworse than that.
Multiple people I've talked toare now becoming more
increasingly afraid of AI takingover their jobs, especially in
the engineering space, and Iwatched last week's John Oliver.
It was pretty good.
It was all about AI and justbeing in an industry where AI is
(04:43):
top of everything, top of everyconversation.
You have a bad work day, youhave a bad work week and you
have bad work dreams, but thenthere's this like 10-ton balloon
.
It's a balloon, right, it's a10-ton balloon.
Does it hurt?
Or is it hugging you?
Or is it crushing you,asphyxiating you, squeezing the
(05:04):
life out of it?
Like you can't tell becauseit's a balloon, but it still
weighs 10 tons and it's on yourbody and that's ai, and I feel
like I'm just waiting for it topop and somehow, when it pops,
there is no actual relief.
It's just you're crushed by the10 tons of latex which does so.
So there's also that I'mdealing with that too.
(05:26):
This has gotten vibe check hey,I'm doing great.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
How are you?
This has been the best week ofmy life doing so good, my skin's
turning red.
I don't know why your hair islike up right now and you're
scratching on yourself Likeyou're getting hives in the
middle of this podcast.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I am actually getting hives on my neck in the middle
of recording this.
It has been a week Fallingapart Clark, my toes are doing
okay, though.
My toes are finally like reallyhealed.
I can walk on them.
How's your toe, how's your bigtoe doing?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Toes are good.
I feel great.
I went for some runs.
Toes are recovered, so in thataspect, great.
But yeah, I still like I thinkI'm avoiding sleep to avoid the
death nightmare.
That is my work in my dreams.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So just never sleep again.
We just don't need to sleepanymore, so so so I heard you
got no sleep last night.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I did not I got well.
To be fair, I did get like twohours, but it was not a lot,
that's no sleep, not a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
That's useless sleep.
It'd be better if you didn'tsleep at all.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, that's the way I usually look at it, but this
one was.
It was extenuatingcircumstances.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I have a travel horror story to share with you.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Is it worse than a baggage fondler?
It is.
I would say yes, oh, okay, I'mall in.
I mean, well, yours was like.
Personally violating Mine wasnot personally.
I wasn't personally violated byanybody, so I don't feel
harassed, but it was just astressful.
Speaking of stress, this storyis going to stress you out.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I'm ready.
I'm going to take it off myshirt.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, go ahead.
He has an undershirt, guys,don't worry, he's not just going
bare chest on this thing, he'sgot an undershirt on.
All right.
All right, let me set the stagefor you.
Okay, so I was at a conferencethis week, a couple-day
conference, you know.
Leave Monday afternoon-ishthere, tuesday, or no.
(07:30):
Left Tuesday afternoon-ish justthere.
Wednesday, thursday.
I had something today becauseit's Friday today.
So I was like you know whatI'll leave like late on Thursday
.
You know, get in a littlebefore midnight, no big deal.
Back home life will be good.
So getting there, no issues.
Get to the conference, crush itspeak.
We had a lot of goodconnections, had a lot of fun.
It was really inspiring.
(07:50):
It was an awesome conference.
But conferences are tiring.
We've talked about this before.
You end up working your day jobwhile also being at a
conference.
So like you're in the middleresponding to emails, in the
morning doing work and the nightdoing work and work and the
night doing work and so and allthe stuff that happens during
the day, you're just trying tolike, absorb and make sure you
make notes and make sure youfollow up on things that you
talk to people about.
Like it's, it's a lot going toa conference.
(08:12):
So it kind of just takes it outof you.
So yesterday night rolls around,conference is over, it's like
530, flight's at like 850.
And we're in New York.
We're heading to the worstairport in the world, which is
Newark Airport.
Why EWR, dude?
(08:32):
Why?
Why?
I know that's a great question,answer me.
I've flown in and out of Newarkbefore, never had this, I know,
I know, I know.
Well, I usually like JFK isusually like the consistent one,
but I've never had major issues, so I didn't think about it.
I was like timing it works, Ithink I'll be okay.
(08:54):
So what happens is after theconference, some other person
I'm working with is with me.
We basically look at like allthe Uber Lyft rides and it's
like okay, an hour, 10 to getthe airport.
We have three and a half hoursat this point.
It's like we're going to bejust fine, like I'm not worried
about that.
So there's a really good Uber.
I think we got around like fiveor five, 30, and the flight was
(09:18):
until eight, 50.
So we're like three hoursdomestic flight on a Thursday
night.
Like how, how bad could it behours?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
domestic flight on a Thursday night Like how bad
could it be?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
How bad could it be?
And so we see the Uber.
It's like an hour long.
We're like, okay, whatever,we're going to stop on the way
because we have to go throughManhattan.
We're going to stop at a reallygood pizza joint, so we stopped
there literally 15 minutes.
We get out, get the pizza, eata slice, put it in a box, get
another Uber to get to theairport.
It's still like a little overan hour to go from the middle of
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Manhattan.
We're halfway through ourcommute here.
So we're like, okay, we'rehalfway through.
We got plenty of time.
It's maybe 630, 645.
We still got like a little overtwo hours to even figure this
thing out.
So we're like, okay, no bigdeal, get in the Uber.
Dude's a pro Dude, a new yorkdriver, he freaking.
(10:08):
We get in there, have the pizzaboxes, nice car, whatever.
He immediately guns itbackwards in reverse past a
bunch of cars and just skirtsdown this side road and we're
like, we're tip-top shape man,this guy, this guy knows what
he's doing.
Like he's, he is just likeswerving in and out of cars.
He's running over like thelittle pylons, like his car was
in pristine shape, so like hewas taking risks.
And I was like this dude's juston a mission.
I love this guy.
So we thought he knows no bigdeal.
He knows he's done this manytimes before, he knows we're
(10:31):
going to the airport, he knowswhat's going on, so we're going,
we're going, we're going.
We hit gridlock, stop traffic.
You got to take, you got totake a tunnel, a tube to get
over across the bridge, into, uh, into that area where the
airport is.
So we're like, okay, we'restarting to hit gridlock traffic
, but no big deal.
Like Uber, google Maps,everybody says it'd be 40
minutes.
We'll still have like a wholehour left.
(10:52):
Like no big deal, we'll haveplenty of time.
We don't move for another 20minutes.
So we start looking at eachother like this isn't looking
good.
We start seeing cops all aroundus, us just starting to roll in
their vehicles, lights on,flying past everybody, and we're
like, oh no, like this can't begood.
10 more minutes goes by, wedon't move an inch and we're
(11:14):
like we're starting to look atother options.
We're like, okay, we're runningout of time, like we got like
45 minutes to get there and feelcomfortable.
So we check public transporthour and a half to go from where
we are to the airport.
We're like well, we'll miss ourflight just outright If we go.
This option, like this isn't anoption.
Uber's like yeah, all good,you'll be there 30 minutes.
(11:36):
10 more minutes goes by.
We're not moving at this point.
We're looking at other flights.
We're looking at other flightsand we're like, okay, we need
something later because thisain't going to work.
Like, there's no way we'remaking this one.
So we booked something an hourand a half later, like 10 or so
at night, and so we booked thebackup flight, cancel ours.
We got it all going.
We're like okay, do we wait outthe Uber and sit in this
(11:59):
non-moving traffic or do wedecide to just take public
transport?
And you know, by that pointwe'll definitely get there on
time.
I think the tipping point for uswas the lady in the car in
front of us got out of her Uber,went to the Shake Shack, got a
shake, came back, got back intoher Uber in the same exact spot
and was just enjoying her shakein the Uber.
(12:21):
Okay, we got to do publictransport.
So we canceled the Uber.
We hop out.
We're like okay, we got to dopublic transport, so we canceled
the Uber, we hop out.
We're like, okay, we got to dopublic transportation, so get
into the public transportationmode, find the train, take the
train over to another train, endup in Madison Square Garden.
All the trains are delayedPower outage.
Power outage is happening rightthen and we're like, oh my gosh,
(12:42):
like the trains are always ontime.
Everyone's just sitting herelike we're gonna miss our flight
and we still have like an hourand a half, like this is crazy.
And so we're like halfway there.
We're just sitting there like,okay, power outage, are we gonna
get back?
So delay, delay, delay.
Eventually it comes up and itbasically says, okay, you got to
go to this track.
We start heading to that track.
They switch the track.
So now we're sprinting to theother side of the airport
(13:04):
carrying our stuff, which, ifyou've done this, is the most
stressful thing ever, becauseyou're like holding your stuff,
you're kind of missing eachother, you're like we're gonna
lose each other.
We end up getting disconnectedcompletely.
The gentleman I was with goesto the wrong track.
I go to the right track.
I'm like I don't know if hemade it.
I don't have signal.
I have no idea where this guyis.
It's just me on the right track.
So at that point.
(13:24):
Somehow we get reconnected.
He's still on some other train,but he made it to the right
track.
We get to the airport and Idon't know if you know this
about Newark Airport when youget to the train station in the
airport it's still another 30minutes from the train station
to just get to your terminal,and that's not it.
That's not it.
You get all the way to terminalA and then you got to walk 15
(13:48):
to 20 minutes to get to your air, like just the area to check in
.
And so we're like, okay, thisis going to be so tough.
So we get off the train,whatever we hop on, did you
schedule a new flight by thistime?
Yeah, we already had it.
We were checked in.
Well, I was checked in,everything was good.
We got reconnected after theinitial train.
So we're like, okay, we're fine, he attempts to check in,
(14:11):
check-in's failing for him.
I'm checked in, I got myboarding pass.
So we look at each other and wehad that cinematic moment where
it's like am I going to waitwith you or am I going to
abandon you?
The second this thing opens tothe terminal.
And it was that moment likedon't look back, you go, you go
ahead and leave me here.
I'm going to try to check inand make it too.
(14:32):
So the second this terminalgates open.
I've got my baggage in hand.
I am sprinting down the way.
Tons of nice people it's lateat night Tons of nice people are
like, hey, just go ahead, goahead, don't miss your flight.
Get to security.
I got TSA, pre-checking andeverything like that.
So I fly through, get myluggage on the thing, dude the
security, they start scanning mybag.
I'm on the opposite side, I'mall clear.
(14:53):
I'm waiting for my bag to comeout of the tunnel.
So I grab it and run to thefreaking gate.
At this point it's jammed inthe x-ray machine.
The guy is grabbing his tub,he's yanking, he's yanking on,
he's like it's not coming out.
The dude doesn't have longenough arms to like reach in
(15:13):
there, so they call a backuplong arm.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Johnny coming there, are you serious?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
they called someone with longer arms they call over
a dude who's like a foot and ahalf taller and and he sticks
his long arm, johnny sticks hisarm in there, starts shaking
things around, eventually getsthe thing that was lodged loose
out.
It was a tennis racket Jammedsideways.
It was not mine.
Somebody in front of me, yeah,somebody in front of me.
It gets stuck.
(15:38):
But because they had to reverseand forward, and reverse and
forward, they weren't scanninganything in the meantime.
So guess what my bag is rightafter.
And what do they do?
They say sorry, we got to rerunit.
So they take it all the way tothe back behind everybody who
just got in line behind me thatI skipped and they basically
thrown my stuff after them andI'm like this is it?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
This is it.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I got like five minutes Like there's no way this
is going to happen.
The airline calls me.
Luckily I have my watch on,because I don't have my phone or
anything.
It's all going through thetunnel and I was like, okay, got
my watch on.
They called me.
I'm talking, like listen, I'mgoing to be there in like five
minutes.
I just got to grab my suitcaseand sprint and he basically I'm
begging him and he just hangs up.
He's like you're not going tomake it.
(16:22):
Hang, please, hold on.
He's like where are you rightnow?
I'm like I am sprinting downthe escalator trying to get to
you.
I'm sweating at this point I'mfull-on, sprint, out of breath.
I need like a gallon of waterand I'm sprinting down the way.
He's like hey, we're closingdoors right now.
Like I don't see you.
There's no way you're gonnamake it.
Fortunately, I holler, I hootand holler down the whole entire
thing.
Hey, I'm here and he keeps thedoors open and he was pissed
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when I got up there.
He's like you made me late.
We're three minutes behind, geton there.
So I'm sprinting down the thing.
I get to my seat and I made itOnly only to sit on the tarmac
for two hours as the air trafficcontrol team gets all the
routes wrong.
And then we have to go back andrefuel because it's new,
(17:07):
actually gets like yeah, yep, soall that, nothing for nothing.
You stopped for two hours.
What time did you take off?
We took off at like 12 30 andyou didn't get home till I got
home at like four o'clockunbelievable yeah and then at.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
That point.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I'm like my co-worker could have just gotten on this
flight too, because we just saton the tarmac for two hours, did
nothing, and then we had to goagain yeah, they can't reopen
the gate exactly, so I'm like I.
There was no point in rushing.
This is the most ridiculousexperience ever.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So, anyways, I made it, but it was just a nightmare
so I'm at the point now where Ionly fly in the morning, yeah,
yeah.
And if I was in your situationI would have just booked a hotel
, stayed the night, got a 7, 8am flight, got up early, gone.
It is not worth pro tip for anytravelers out there.
(17:59):
It is not worth trying to catcha post 12 pm flight anymore.
The air traffic control is soscrewed up.
The airline industry is soscrewed up.
I guarantee you the.
The compounding delays that areoccurring are going to either
mean that one, you don't gethome till two to four hours
after you plan on getting there,or you're not getting home at
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all.
And also there's, like summer,storms on top of that.
Like most storms happen mid toend of day.
You know the heat of the day,so the sky opens up.
You're not going to get there.
You, you put all this together.
I only fly in the mornings now.
Uh, I'm sure people hate that Ihave to stay at a hotel an
extra night, but it guaranteesthat I don't have to deal with
any of this nonsense and it'sit's actually worked out pretty
well for me.
If you're, if you're delayed anhour in the morning, who who
(18:43):
cares?
Yeah, whatever, you get all day, you got all day.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You're going to be just fine, I get home at 10.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I get home at 11 in the morning.
Terrible, you know like.
Just yeah, I feel for you, dude, I feel for you, but I will
never fly late at night againNever.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It was a movie, it was a movie scene, and shout out
to all the people that werethere.
They were incredibly nice andthey're literally all like
looking at me like dude, youhave the worst luck.
Like they don't want you toleave this city tonight.
Like the tennis racket thing.
The lady's looking at me.
She's like I can't believe thisis happening.
Like someone, just get this manthe bag so he can go.
Like everyone was so nice.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
But it literally was like a movie.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I agree with you.
Like right now, the airlineindustry is just a freaking
nightmare.
Like yes, they couldn't, it wasa mess.
Like even the pilot was likelisten.
Like we've tried four times,they can't figure it out how to
get us a safe flight.
I'm like this is so bad.
How is this still such an issue?
And late at night it's evenworse.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, I have no fear of flying.
I hate flying because it'sincredibly uncomfortable, but I
have no fear of flying and eventhough, statistically, it's
still the safest way to travel,I feel like.
So I don't know.
Did I tell you the last twoflights I've taken out of
orlando, uh, a plane crashedwithin an hour of my flight from
(20:14):
like no, yeah.
So when I, when I landed indenver, I landed an hour after a
plane that landed there wasjust burning on fire, uh.
And then when I left orlando togo to san diego, uh, another
plane that landed there was justburning on fire.
And then, when I left Orlandoto go to San Diego, another
plane that left Orlando to SanDiego crashed.
So or not San Diego, justOrlando, it got crashed on the
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way to Atlanta.
So, just, I have been so closewithin an hour of plane crashes,
and we see more and more planecrashes and we know that Boeing
sucks.
They're just murking the peoplethat are blowing the whistle on
quality.
So you know you work at a greatcompany.
When they kill you for tellingthe truth, it's just not a good
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time to fly.
So I avoided it at all costs.
I don't want to support thisindustry either.
That's the thing I don't wantto give them my money.
That's a reward for poorbehavior.
So I try not to and it seems,I'm sorry.
The sky just opened up rightwhen I was telling the story and
decided to take a ginormouswater dump, just in my field of
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view.
So yeah, don't fly, yeah don'tfly.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
That's my practical advice for everybody and thank
you for listening to my story.
I hope this haunts your dreamsat night and you have night
terrors about your next businesstrip.
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Too late for that.
My dreams are already haunted.
We covered that I can't sleepanymore.
I wake up in fear and I'm notgetting paid.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
This is the solution.
No more sleep.
That's the only thing I canthink of.
Unfortunately, I do agree.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I think that's the only solution.
Well, that was a good episode.
Good job, Clark.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I think we really crushed this one.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I think the vibes were good beginning, middle and
end.
I think people are going toleave this feeling better about
themselves.
I think they really learnedsomething today, so I want to
thank you.
Thank you for this episode.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You're very welcome.
I think we really knocked outof the park.
I think there's a lot ofmaterial there to make people
feel positive about theircontributions.
Yeah, pat yourself on the back.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I'm feeling positive about their contributions.
I'm very painful back.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, and listen.
Corporations continue to makeour lives better and give us so
much opportunity.
I just can't thank them enough.
Thank you for how awesome youare.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oh, and perfect timing.
I think this happened last.
This happened last podcast too.
Oh no, once the thunder starts,a little smudge comes up.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Look at this little guy.
He's scared, he's just scared.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
He hears the thunder and he comes to pop up.
So you know it's scared.
He's just scared.
He hears the thunder and hecomes to pop up, so you know
it's natural.
You know Sarah, who was on thepodcast.
My wife had a very similarexperience to you, where her
plane literally fell out of thesky.
You hinted at this.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I'm like you've got to tell this too, because I've
had a situation like that.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It's so scary got to tell this too, because like,
yeah, yeah, no, situation likethat, it's so scary.
Yes, she was flying tophiladelphia to be with our, our
, our new, our newborn nephewclark, named after you.
Um was going to visit them andon the way to philly, her plane
fell out of the sky.
It was continuing to fall, somuch so that the the pilots were
like you know what?
We're not going to philly.
So they just diverted andlanded in some weird airport in
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new y, not Newark, but New York,not the city, the state.
And she's like I'm just in themiddle of nowhere, I don't know
what to do.
And I said, well, usually whenthis happens, the airline will
comp you a hotel and take careof you.
So she went to the desk andlike, no, we're not comping
anyone.
So they just abandoned herfrontier airlines, by the way,
(23:48):
name drop frontier airlines justabandoned my wife in New York
city, uh, and said, yeah, yournext flight 8am tomorrow morning
.
So you know, you can just hangout at the airport if you'd like
.
But they were already pastsecurity.
So like they're not in the safepart of the airport, they're in
the part of the airport where,like criminals could come and
rob you in the middle of thenight Like thanks, frontier,
(24:10):
name drop again for justabsolutely doing the coolest
thing possible.
So then I like start franticallydoing research, like okay, how
much is an Uber from the airportto a hotel in the middle of
fricking nowhere New York state,where she is?
And it was not cheap to go lessthan a mile it was $30.
The hotel room itself $200.
(24:32):
And I'm just like what weirdplanet do we live on where you
just abandon a human in themiddle of their travels and just
like nah, fend for yourself?
Yeah, man, I'm not going to fly, I'm going gonna avoid flying,
just for the foreseeable future.
You know, I'm done.
I feel like I'm ready.
(24:53):
I'm really ready, clark, tojust drop out of society as a
whole.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I think if I can amass enough money to just live
off grid and eat potatoesgrowing in my yard, I think I'm
ready for that.
I think I'm ready.
I like that.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Unplug me I agree.
I think it's time.
I think it's time.
We need a revolution where weall become potato farmers,
self-sustaining.
I mean, you can get some energyout of some potatoes.
We can figure this out.
We can, we can make this happen.
But yeah, that's a.
That's a nightmare, like to noteven have the decency of like,
hey, no worries, we got a hotel,we got special rates with them.
(25:37):
Like, we're going to shuttleyou guys over there, we're going
to get you guys there safe,we're doing this together and
then we'll get you back here.
You know, 6 am, we'll leave thehotel for your 8 am flight.
Cool, sounds like a plan.
It's like typically what happensin these situations, especially
Frontier Spirit name, droppingthem left and right.
They're just like, yeah,flight's canceled, that's it,
(25:59):
that's all I tell you.
And it's like oh, so like whatdo I do?
And so like, what do I do?
And they're just like, yeah,you got to figure it out.
And they're like so is therelike another flight?
I'm like, yeah, we can book youon the 8 am if you'd like.
It's like you didn'tautomatically book me on the
next available flight.
No, no, no, we'll take yourmoney, but we're not going to
help you unless you ask for it.
It's just the most ridiculousthing ever.
(26:19):
It's like refund or somethinglater to be like you guys should
have paid for my hotel.
You got to wait on hold forthree hours just to get dropped
off of hold and then have torestart the whole process again
and maybe you'll talk tosomebody.
But you have to do it right.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Like you have to do it, you have to hold them
accountable.
You cannot let this companytake your money and get away
with this kind of behavior.
And then, like, I feel like wewere at that point in our
society where it's like it's.
It's so much easier for us tobe like whatever, yeah, just
give up the 200 bucks.
I don't, I can't do this.
But like, no, don't do that.
Fight, get your money.
(26:56):
Don't let them win, hurt them,because you know there's going
to come a time.
I'm just saying like it doesfeel like if I just lick my
finger and stick it up in thestormy wind, it feels like we're
(27:18):
moving in a direction wherethings might get worse.
And when things get worse,things get worse for everybody.
That's all I'm going to say.
That's all I'm going to say.
I'm just going to say like ifyou look at what's happening in
the world around us right now,let's just say a certain Mario
character might have imitators.
(27:40):
You know, there might be aWaluigi Just saying, just
throwing it out there.
When one domino falls usuallyothers fall with them.
Continue, what were you goingto say?
No, they fall together.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I agree with you, but I wanted to give the people,
because we have to give a traveltip.
We're known for travel tips.
People love our travel tips andCorporate Strategy the travel
blog.
People eat that up, so in orderto get affiliations for those
travel reward points that we get.
I'm going to put in a plugright here.
There are apps, ai apps thatwill make calls on your behalf
(28:18):
and act as your AI agent.
Use those against thesecompanies.
Use them.
That's the one.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
AI use case I fully endorse and support.
Please use them.
That's that's the one AI usecase I fully endorse and support
Please use them.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Make the robots sit on their three hour hold and
fight to get you a refund ofsome kind.
There are plenty of apps thatare doing it right now
completely free.
You can just spam that companywith AI bots who are not human,
that sound like humans, and getyour refund, so you don't have
to even lift a finger in orderto get it.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I love it.
You need to do like a how-tovid.
I do For the Corporate StrategyYouTube channel.
Yeah, that exists.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
It does exist.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Put it on there.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Oh, I love it.
You know what's hilarious?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
How I deal with Frontier Airline Refund Hotel.
We're going to get a millionviews.
It's literally going to keepthe podcast ad-free.
You know what I just realized?
The podcast has been ad-freemuch longer than a year.
I need to turn ads back on.
Papa needs to recoup somepennies.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, this is all out of your bank account.
We're bankrupting you with thispodcast.
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Thank you.
It doesn't matter.
Money's not going to matter in10 years anyway.
Might as well spend it now.
Enjoy, enjoy your Fiat Lux,your Fiat Lux, while you can.
None of this is going to matter.
It's all going to burn.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
This, none of this.
You know this is.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
This is getting it's actually we haven't gotten to
anything yet and 29 minutes weain't getting to anything.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
And you know what's pretty funny about this, like
what I'm about.
The topic we had for today isjust too on the nose for this.
We're just going to be like,yeah, I don't know if I can
seriously bring up this topic.
I was ready for you to, so Icould tear it apart, because the
first line that I say for this,after everything we just said,
(30:14):
they're going to be like.
You just told me not to do allthese things and now you're
telling me to do it, and theanswer is yes.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yes, yeah, I think I think we shelved today's topic
for fear of we burn 30 minutesof pot Talking about just the
absolute sludge that is liferight now.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Oh my gosh, I'm dying .
You know what I said this week.
You know what I said this weekat work Wait, wait, wait, hold
on Before you say anything.
Is all this your fault?
You probably started the weeksaying, guys, this is going to
be the best week ever.
You just screwed all of us.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
No, I said, I said not my job that's the way you
started it.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
That's what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
A week, like you know what, not my job.
And this is the punishment Itold you last episode never say
that.
And I made the cardinal sin.
I was like you know, I'mfeeling spicy.
I'm feeling like a spicyburrito.
I'm gonna say not my job andthis is what happened.
All of this is my fault I agreethe world, the world, literally
(31:25):
.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
It said to you it's like oh yeah, you just made a
whole entire podcast while neversaying it, and then you just
said it.
You hypocrite, we're taking itout on everybody.
That's the way it works um,weird shout outs.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
but there's this movie.
I don't know if it's still intheaters right now.
It's called Life of Chuck.
It's based on a Stephen Kingstory.
I don't know why, but if youenjoy this episode, I feel like
you'll enjoy that movie.
Just shoutouts, shoutouts.
Life of Chuck, good movie, goodmovie.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Enjoyable Great people.
Why not yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Why not?
This is a shoutout spot.
You got any shout-outs you'regoing to make Clark?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah, we can use a shout-out.
We got to name this one like.
This is the filler episode ofCorporate Strategy, where there
literally is nothing but us justrambling with each other.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
This might be the only one.
If anyone goes in trains for 20episodes, we're allowed to do
one of these.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
We're allowed to do one in 169 nice episodes?
Uh, we're allowed, dude.
That's the reason I stoppedwatching that show, I'll be
honest, because it's like 30episodes in, you're still
watching him train.
It's like goku man, I need youto hit fast forward, like hit
fast forward to where you get alittle muscle mass on you.
That's.
I don't want see the processanymore.
I've seen 20 episodes of theprocess and you're not getting
any better.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
When I was a boy, a young scrub I remember I would
get up really early in themorning this is like I'm five
years old and I would get up atsix and turn on the TV and they
always had weird anime on andone of them was Samurai Pizza
Cats, highly underrated.
The other was Dragon Ball Z andI remember Goku running on the
back I think it's Shen Long thedragon, and you know he's
(33:11):
running on the back of thedragon cause he's dead and he
has to get to the other side.
And by the time that arcfinished I was in college.
Just, you know, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
That's insane, yeah, it's crazy.
That's insane, yeah, mygoodness.
Yeah, no exaggeration, that's,that's crazy.
I do have a shout out.
You made it, let's hear it.
You were talking about like tvback then.
I took I flew on jet blue, notsponsored, last night.
Uh, jet out, jetblue, shout out.
(33:43):
Thanks for sitting on thetarmac for two hours.
Their technology, theirtechnology is so crappy.
Yeah, how crappy is it?
I couldn't believe it.
We're sitting there and theyhave like direct TV.
They have these like three inchby three inch screens.
(34:03):
I'm not kidding, three-inch bythree-inch screens.
And they got a little.
The UX of this, the userexperience of this, is so bad.
It's built into the armrest,right?
Yeah, it's built into thearmrest.
So you put your arm down, youchange the channel and you're
like gosh, dang it.
So then you have to positionyour arm perfectly.
I'm'm for this little tinyscreen that's got static half
the time.
I'm like who thought of this?
(34:25):
There's no headphone jack,there's no audio.
No, is this what it was in the90s when I wasn't flying?
Is this?
Is this how people lived?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
well, no, I remember.
I remember when I was a again ayoung scrup around like five,
uh, the shen long the.
We would be on planes going tovisit my grandparents, and it
was.
You had a tv built into the topof the plane and you would
(34:56):
watch a tv like you.
It would again.
It was a three inch by threeinch screen, but you'd be six
rows back and you'd be like Ithink that's macaulay culkin, I
think this is home alone, butyou couldn't hear it.
It was just like if you had theprivilege to sit in a seat
close enough to the tv, youcould watch home alone, but uh,
(35:16):
no I I thought it was a crazyperson because I was looking
around I was like where's theheadphone jack?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
like they've got movies, they have a movie
section.
There's no headphone jack.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
This is crazy.
You know what grinds myabsolute gears without flying
today.
This is, this is the thing thatI truly, truly don't understand
, and it's it's not consistent,but I almost, I almost feel like
it needs to be a law, like arule when do you keep your
(35:48):
ticket?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Hmm, where do you keep your ticket?
I mean, now I think I've got itall on my phone.
Okay, that's the right answer.
I rarely get paper.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
We probably see, when you're in the gate waiting to
get on the plane, like mostpeople will whip out their phone
and they're scanning the phoneRight.
Yep, it's logical, it's easy,it's convenient.
Most people have cell phones,most people, some people still
do the paper ticket.
Then why, in the ever lovingaerial blue blazes, is it that
(36:21):
only like 50% of the planes orless have power ports for
charging, like usb power, likemost planes I get on?
I think delta has it and unitedhas it?
Yeah, you do not have any meansof charging your phone.
So you could find yourself on adelayed plane where you land,
(36:43):
need to get on a layover andyour phone is dead, like D E, a
D dead.
Because even if you put thatthing in airplane mode which,
like you, should, not becausethe airline tells you to, but
because it'll save some of yourbattery juice, like it still
drains looking for signal in thesky.
I don't know why.
I don't know why, but like thatthat was last night my wife and
(37:06):
she ended up having to buy a 50phone charger in the airport
just to charge her phone so shecan get an uber and go to the
hotel.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, oh my gosh that's crazy yeah, I that's
exactly what happened to me.
Like last night, phone was onfive percent when I got to the
gate.
I'm like please do not die onme right now.
Double click for the face, scanit, I'm in.
I would have been dead, I wouldhave been dead in the water, I
would have had to print it outand they would have been like
dude, we're closing these doors.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
And I'm guessing on JetBlue, there was no charger,
there was no place to chargeyour phone.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Yeah, Texted my wife and phone died and I was like
okay.
So then I didn't want to annoythe people next to me because I
was already right on my way.
But when we actually, aftersitting on tarmac for two hours
thanks a lot, JetBlue I went togo get my bag, you know how I
charged my phone.
I'd get my laptop out, plug myphone in in order to charge it.
So I killed my laptop.
I sacrificed my laptop batteryto charge my phone.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yep, it's, I mean it.
It is wild, it is a while to meyeah, oh, but the shout out
that I had.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I had to digress a little bit.
The shout out that I had was onmy three inch by three inch tv
that had static running throughand I couldn't hear anything.
I watched an awesome espndocumentary about a, the 1997
stanley cup between the detroitWings and Colorado Avalanche,
and they just beat the snot outof each other.
Every single game.
Like blood everywhere, likeactually fight Full out brawls.
(38:31):
Yeah, every single game, it wasnonstop.
There was literally like 30fights throughout the series.
There were riots in the streetLike there were.
It was insane.
So I had no idea what anybodysaid in that whole entire thing,
because it was three inch bythree inch and I had no audio
but it was super entertaining towatch.
Yeah, it literally was justthem brawling.
You know, riots in the street,people just punching each other.
(38:52):
I'm like this is superentertaining.
So now I got to actually watchthe whole thing.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
You know, shout outs, shout out sports documentaries.
I hate sports, can't watch them, can Hate sports, can't watch
them, can't stan them.
And even still I can watch asports documentary any day, all
day, every day.
They're so well put together,they capture all the good parts
and cut out all the stuff I hateabout sports.
So it's ooh a little narrativepackage with none of the fluff,
(39:17):
great Shoutouts.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Shoutouts Last.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Dance.
Last Dance is awesome Shoutouts, fab Five.
You probably watched that oneLast Dance.
Yeah, last Dance is awesome.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Great Shout-outs.
What was that?
Fab Five, Fab Five.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
You probably watched that one maybe I didn't see that
one.
It was the Michael Jordan one.
Okay, what was the MichaelJordan one?
Maybe it was Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
There's, I mean there's a few, I can't remember.
We just watched like a bunch ofthese two years ago.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
It was on netflix shout outs f1 drive to survive.
Oh, was that good, I gotta.
Oh, it's so good, I mean, itcontinues to be good.
Uh, just shout out sports.
Shout out sports sports.
I might have been wrong aboutyou.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Well, michael jordan is the last dance, but you were
thinking of?
Were you thinking of the lebronjames one?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
oh no, I was thinking of the dream team.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Last dance, michael jordan dream team for the Dream.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Team.
Last dance by Jordan Dream Teamfor the US Olympics basketball.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yes, shoutouts, that was really good Shoutout.
Yeah, I agree, got any more.
No, that's it.
Okay, I think I got them all.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Great podcast.
You can get all the good sportsdocumentaries.
There's no other ones that areworth watching.
Just watch those, and watchthem on a 3x3 screen with no
sound.
Love it?
That's your tip, take it.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
We're 40 minutes.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Do you think 40 minutes is enough for a filler
episode?
This is all pod too.
We literally started with anintro.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I mean, how long can we fill?
We fill.
I mean, we could just walk, wecould walk away at this point.
Just let it keep running andwe'll come back.
Like after dinner, I'll textyou?
Speaker 1 (40:54):
yeah, well, you want to.
You want me to pay the chargefor the overage on the hours we
upload.
Is that what's happening here?
This is why we get our ads backon.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
We can't even afford our overage.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I'm gonna call this episode filler episode.
Do not listen.
And I'm gonna turn on ads.
I'm gonna set every like 15seconds to run an ad on this
because, you said do not listen.
Everyone's gonna listen.
Everyone's gonna listen.
They're gonna be like what theheck is wrong with these boys.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
You know what this is .
This is a viral scheme thatwe're pulling at the last ditch
effort.
This could be the last episodeof CorporateStrategybiz.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Oh, I like this.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
This is the series finale.
This is a series finale ever.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Screw your topics, that you put effort into Clark
Screw, that.
I think this is actually agreat place to end the show.
I've I've wanted to end itforever.
I've wanted to, wanted to killthis show.
I mean take it up on the oldyeller Shout outs.
Old yeller Make you cry.
Shout out, Shout out.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Shout outs.
You know it's a great number toend on too 169.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
169 169, nice, nice, shout out.
Shout out to podcasts.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
You know what Podcasting underrated Puts me
asleep on planes?
Every time.
Every time I start a podcast ona plane, I'm asleep.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
You just start hearing those, those dulcet
tones of.
And he took her out back with ahatchet and she was never seen
again, except for the skin ofher left pinky.
Like I'm snoozing, I'm sleepinghard.
Ooh, that true crime does putme to sleep.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
As he flayed her into pieces.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
They were unable to find anything except the crowns
that once remained in her teeth.
And like people like, oh yeah,this is great, this happened to
a real person.
I love this Number one categoryon Apple podcasts.
Let's be entertained bypeople's death.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
You know, I hope this is the episode that just pushes
over the top, goes viral, shoutout to True viral Shout out to
True.
Crime.
Shout out to.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Really helps to sleep .
Yeah, this is the episode.
Clark, this is the one.
This is the episode.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
This is the one that I think pushes us over the top,
and from here on out, we'll getthousands of listens at Epstead.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
This is the one that Apple features Like they're
really breaking ground over here.
They're really doing somethingdifferent on corporate strategy.
I don't know what it is, but itsure is different.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
In the age of AI, we thought nobody could be smarter
than the LLMs that control ourlives.
But corporate strategybiz theybroke the mold.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
They're doing it different.
That's kind of a brilliantpoint.
Like we're, we're entering anage of such slop that even this
garbage be it, is still betterthan the slop you might get from
anything like.
There's gonna come a time wheneven this, this very
conversation, is gonna be lookedback upon as art.
Wow, they really talked tothemselves back then.
(44:00):
They really communicated Me.
I just talked to my AIgirlfriend all day and she gives
me everything I need.
They had to converse.
They had disagreements Me.
My AI girlfriend does whateverI want.
I never leave the house.
I sit here and she recites truecrime podcasts to me.
(44:22):
This is the future we're movingtowards.
Clark, I hope you're ready.
They're going to look back.
I hope you've buckled yourseatbelt and you're ready.
Wally.
No, they got it totally wrong.
It's going to be a bunch of AIgirlfriends just everywhere,
everywhere.
Take a step outside.
Oh no, the AI girlfriends arecoming for me.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
They won't stop.
I don't have one.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
They're trying to attach themselves to you.
You have to look out they'reparasitic, they're parasitic.
They run on human energy.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
That's what people forget, Like they feed off your
energy.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
It's exactly why we partnered with Better Nutrients
Heavy Supplements.
If you're not taking these, youcould be attacked by an AI
girlfriend.
It's a very real threat, butthe amount of magnesium sulfate
ironate that we had put intothis nutrient supplement
combination ensures that theycannot latch on to your brain
(45:20):
frequencies.
This will keep you alive.
This will stop you from turninginto one of those cave dwellers
by now, while we I meansupplies are, I don't know.
Clark, you see the backgroundright.
You see the tubs of nutrients.
I've got back there.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
We're running low, we're running real low.
By now, by now, please.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Please, by now, we care about you before it's too
late.
Oh no, we have one left back.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
People are going to look back at this moment in time
and say this episode 169 ofcorporate strategy, this was
peak of human ingenuity.
Yeah, you've got, you've gotthe pyramids, you've got the
last dance documentary, and thenyou've got corporate strategy.
You got corporate strategy, yougot corporate strategy.
Yeah, this was it.
Like they're going to look backin the history books and be
(46:10):
like that was it?
Like that was the end of humaningenuity, I mean it does really
feel like it to me.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Should we wrap this up 45 minutes?
I mean we could go.
We haven't even talked aboutPepsi.
We probably shouldn't.
We should probably save thatfor the next one.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Our listeners always crave For the regular Pepsi
update.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
You know what I've seen In our Discord.
We have a Discord.
By the way, if you want to join, open the oh shoot, oh my gosh,
the show notes.
You know what else?
What's that?
If you join our Discord, youget to play all kinds of fun
games, including what Do you,meme Woo?
(47:03):
You ready to play Clark?
Let's do it.
Alright, open up the what Doyou Meme channel?
Speaker 2 (47:09):
I'm in there and I see something that is disgusting
to me.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
I need you to describe what's going on with
your mouth.
Parts for the game.
What Do you Meme?
Which is in our Discord channel.
Join the Linktree show notes.
What's in there?
What's the meme?
Speaker 2 (47:24):
There's two, I think I've got to explain them both.
You have to explain both.
Should I do the easy one first?
Speaker 1 (47:30):
No, you must do the first one first.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
So you guys know you guys listen to every episode.
You're waiting on bated breath,just on the edge of your seat,
for our episodes to go live andevery single week you hear about
our toes.
It's been like four weeks oftoe updates and I can't believe
we succumbed to this audience toit.
We're in the what Do you Memechannel.
There's a spicy meme.
What you see is a long yellow,maybe recently shaved stick leg.
(48:03):
It's not shaved.
It is not shaved it is notshaved Clark do you need glasses
?
No, no, I see like stubble andthen the actual tip is not, but
the actual thigh it starts off.
You know well, well, man, Okay,maybe not.
Okay, it's getting worse.
So what happens in this Up andto the left?
(48:24):
You see the sock.
You see a sock.
You see a sock.
You see it on this little stickleg and you see this yellow
body just peeling up the sock toexpose a foot and as it zooms
in to bring more detail, it isthe most disgusting ingrown
toenails I've ever seen in mylife.
Even worse than Bruce's,believe it or not?
(48:45):
Even worse than Bruce's.
Those are gross, Like themakers of SpongeBob, I don't
understand.
Like the stuff I've seen onthat show.
Like you've got to be some sortof messed up to build stuff.
You're young enough.
You watched SpongeBob, right, Idid.
It was good back in the day, itwas demographic, you question.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Yeah, I mean it was.
I mean shout outs, shout outs,shout outs.
Noodle on YouTube who puttogether a fantastic 20 minute
documentary about SpongeBob.
That blew my mind on how it wasinfluenced by the band Ween,
but interesting, like, reallyinteresting, the creator of
(49:30):
spongebob super into nauticalenvironments, fish, also super
into the band ween and and likeyou can see how those two things
put together creates aspongebob.
But also like it's really renand stampy.
To like the rent and stampysure really was the boilerplate
for, yeah, a gross, the gross upclose-up of just the most
(49:54):
heinous, hideous things you everseen animated for children yeah
, and like there were all,there's so many cartoons
actually, human ingenuity.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Peak of human ingenuity Ren and Stimpy
Pyramids.
The Last Dance.
Documentary, corporateStrategybiz, episode 169.
Nice, yep, nice, yeah, nice, oh, I got a second one.
All right, second one, secondone.
You know, I look at this and itjust brought me back to the 90s
.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
Maybe it's like the UI of it, you know, like just
the radio buttons on this onejust like make me feel like I'm
taking a survey in the earlyinternet.
I mean, the source of this isclearly dated.
Yes, what do you see there?
(50:40):
This is in response to theSpongeBob foot pic.
Yep.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
So you guys know, as we started to get more
recommendations, ai isfulfilling our life in.
You get all these opportunitiesto give feedback to the engines
that are giving theseadvertisements.
These recommendations say isthis good or is this bad?
And this one in particular sayswhat's going on.
And you got some options A, b,c, D they're all radio buttons,
(51:06):
but that makes it easy.
A it's annoying or notinteresting, okay.
B I'm in this photo and I don'tlike it.
Bruce, remember that one.
C I think it shouldn't be onFacebook.
And D it's spam.
So when someone tags you inyour yellow, long leg,
disgusting, ingrown toenailsmeme, bruce decided to choose
(51:29):
number B he's in this photo andhe doesn't like it.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
I didn't submit this.
Bruce didn't do this.
This was our bourgeoisiecorrespondent, Monsieur Alex
Restrepo, who posted this.
I mean, I'm in the photo and Ido like it, you know, is this
real?
Is this a real report?
Like does it actually say I'min this photo and I don't like
(51:56):
it.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
I think so Because I think you can get tagged on
things, because I remember thishappened to spam accounts for a
while and if you get tagged insomething, you can't just remove
yourself, you have to report it.
And I remember this likehappened to spam accounts for a
while and like if you get taggedin something, you can't just
like remove yourself, you haveto report it.
And I remember this would comeup and it would say, like why
are you reporting this as likespam or harassment or whatever?
And this was one of the thingsI'm in this photo and I don't
(52:19):
like it.
That is it's just.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
It's just.
It's a funny way to say, likeremove this photo, I don't want
my picture.
Like, like, I'm in this photoand I don't like it, like, okay,
all right, princess, we'll getthat down for you, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
Don't worry, we got you, yeah I know you're like
yeah, it's the balance of likeyou can't take someone else's
photo down and you can't like Iget that.
I think you can untag yourself,but you have to somehow be able
to report it and like this islike a serious one.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
You have to take it.
I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Yeah, they're in it and they don't like it.
You got to take it down.
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
No, sir, I don't like it.
Speaking of I don't like it thehorse you don't know, the Ren
and Stimpy horse.
No, sir, I don't like it.
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Hey, as always, I'm Bruce, and it was fun, guys, I'm
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Speaker 1 (54:00):
Clark Been a great run.
I'm really going to miss you.
You're on mute.
Everyone else I would say we'dsee you next week, but this is
it.
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Yeah, episode 169.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
Nice.
Welcome back to Cuddle Strategy, the nap time
podcast that you can curl upwith in the cozy spot of your
home.
I'm Bruce and I'm Clark andwe're here to cuddle you.
Find a comfy position, lay backand prepare to drift off into
(00:35):
napland with the corporatestrategists.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Close your eyes and just when you think you're done
thinking about work, I want youto think about more work, but on
a 0.5 speed.
Get ready to go on a journeytogether.
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Clark, recently I've been having dreams about work
and I realized the biggestproblem with all of this is that
I'm not getting paid in mysleep and they are nightmares.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Sometimes I wake up screaming, I don't know why, and
I think they call these nightterrors.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
If one has a night terror about work?
Does one have an opportunity tonet workers' comp?
If you die in your dream?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Could this be classified as working?
Let's throw these out there.
I think so.
I mean, if I'm thinking aboutwork and waking up in the middle
of the night, I think I shouldtake some time off during the
day to make up for the time Iwas working in my night terror
and the psychological damagealone means worker's cop for
(01:54):
sure.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'm real talk, real talk, clark Four out of the five
nights this week I've hadexistential work, terror dreams,
and I have woken up in themiddle of the night screaming
help, help, please help.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You know you and I are both in a bad spot because
over the past week I've had thesame well, not this past week,
but the week before this samethings.
Like I woke up and I was likeshoot, I got like 10 things to
do.
Like I just like it doesn'thappen like this often, but when
things are high tension, highstress, there's a lot going on.
(02:35):
You get so overwhelmed and likejust permeates your
subconscious.
And when it comes out in yourdreams, you know, you know you
are not separating work and life.
It's a dangerous place to be.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Um, yes, and on top of all that, I feel like you end
up in a spiral where you feelbad because you feel bad, and
there's really no way to stopfeeling bad because you feel bad
at work, which impacts yourability to do good work.
(03:07):
Then you get off work, youmight get a little bit of free
time, a little bit of enjoyment.
Those thoughts creep in, though.
You're like, oh damn, thatemail, oh that project.
And then you go to sleep, andthen you feel bad in your sleep,
which should be the restorativepart of your day, and you're
not getting better.
You, you feel bad in your sleep, which should be the
restorative part of your day,and it's.
(03:28):
You're not getting better,you're just getting worse.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's, it's the death spiral.
This is what happens.
You know, there's people how doyou get out of it?
There's people I feel like livein this 24 seven which
terrifies me, like this happensrarely to me, I would say like
there's been points in my careerwhere it's been like maybe a
couple of weeks where, like Ijust can't shake this.
(03:53):
But pretty much every yearthere's been like a time where I
can feel it, but it's not allthe time.
It's like for a night or twoand I have a stressful
conversation or you know,something stressful is coming up
.
Like this stuff happens.
But I'm so happy that my lifeis not this 24 seven because I
bet you, a lot of people's are.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
You know, interestingly, we one of our
friends, actually it's it'sworse than that.
Multiple people I've talked toare now becoming more
increasingly afraid of AI takingover their jobs, especially in
the engineering space, and Iwatched last week's John Oliver.
It was pretty good.
It was all about AI and justbeing in an industry where AI is
(04:43):
top of everything, top of everyconversation.
You have a bad work day, youhave a bad work week and you
have bad work dreams, but thenthere's this like 10-ton balloon
.
It's a balloon, right, it's a10-ton balloon.
Does it hurt?
Or is it hugging you?
Or is it crushing you,asphyxiating you, squeezing the
(05:04):
life out of it?
Like you can't tell becauseit's a balloon, but it still
weighs 10 tons and it's on yourbody and that's ai, and I feel
like I'm just waiting for it topop and somehow, when it pops,
there is no actual relief.
It's just you're crushed by the10 tons of latex which does so.
So there's also that I'mdealing with that too.
(05:26):
This has gotten vibe check hey,I'm doing great.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
How are you?
This has been the best week ofmy life doing so good, my skin's
turning red.
I don't know why your hair islike up right now and you're
scratching on yourself Likeyou're getting hives in the
middle of this podcast.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I am actually getting hives on my neck in the middle
of recording this.
It has been a week Fallingapart Clark, my toes are doing
okay, though.
My toes are finally like reallyhealed.
I can walk on them.
How's your toe, how's your bigtoe doing?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Toes are good.
I feel great.
I went for some runs.
Toes are recovered, so in thataspect, great.
But yeah, I still like I thinkI'm avoiding sleep to avoid the
death nightmare.
That is my work in my dreams.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So just never sleep again.
We just don't need to sleepanymore, so so so I heard you
got no sleep last night.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I did not I got well.
To be fair, I did get like twohours, but it was not a lot,
that's no sleep, not a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
That's useless sleep.
It'd be better if you didn'tsleep at all.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, that's the way I usually look at it, but this
one was.
It was extenuatingcircumstances.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I have a travel horror story to share with you.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Is it worse than a baggage fondler?
It is.
I would say yes, oh, okay, I'mall in.
I mean, well, yours was like.
Personally violating Mine wasnot personally.
I wasn't personally violated byanybody, so I don't feel
harassed, but it was just astressful.
Speaking of stress, this storyis going to stress you out.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I'm ready.
I'm going to take it off myshirt.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, go ahead.
He has an undershirt, guys,don't worry, he's not just going
bare chest on this thing, he'sgot an undershirt on.
All right.
All right, let me set the stagefor you.
Okay, so I was at a conferencethis week, a couple-day
conference, you know.
Leave Monday afternoon-ishthere, tuesday, or no.
(07:30):
Left Tuesday afternoon-ish justthere.
Wednesday, thursday.
I had something today becauseit's Friday today.
So I was like you know whatI'll leave like late on Thursday
.
You know, get in a littlebefore midnight, no big deal.
Back home life will be good.
So getting there, no issues.
Get to the conference, crush itspeak.
We had a lot of goodconnections, had a lot of fun.
It was really inspiring.
(07:50):
It was an awesome conference.
But conferences are tiring.
We've talked about this before.
You end up working your day jobwhile also being at a
conference.
So like you're in the middleresponding to emails, in the
morning doing work and the nightdoing work and work and the
night doing work and so and allthe stuff that happens during
the day, you're just trying tolike, absorb and make sure you
make notes and make sure youfollow up on things that you
talk to people about.
Like it's, it's a lot going toa conference.
(08:12):
So it kind of just takes it outof you.
So yesterday night rolls around,conference is over, it's like
530, flight's at like 850.
And we're in New York.
We're heading to the worstairport in the world, which is
Newark Airport.
Why EWR, dude?
(08:32):
Why?
Why?
I know that's a great question,answer me.
I've flown in and out of Newarkbefore, never had this, I know,
I know, I know.
Well, I usually like JFK isusually like the consistent one,
but I've never had major issues, so I didn't think about it.
I was like timing it works, Ithink I'll be okay.
(08:54):
So what happens is after theconference, some other person
I'm working with is with me.
We basically look at like allthe Uber Lyft rides and it's
like okay, an hour, 10 to getthe airport.
We have three and a half hoursat this point.
It's like we're going to bejust fine, like I'm not worried
about that.
So there's a really good Uber.
I think we got around like fiveor five, 30, and the flight was
(09:18):
until eight, 50.
So we're like three hoursdomestic flight on a Thursday
night.
Like how, how bad could it behours?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
domestic flight on a Thursday night Like how bad
could it be?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
How bad could it be?
And so we see the Uber.
It's like an hour long.
We're like, okay, whatever,we're going to stop on the way
because we have to go throughManhattan.
We're going to stop at a reallygood pizza joint, so we stopped
there literally 15 minutes.
We get out, get the pizza, eata slice, put it in a box, get
another Uber to get to theairport.
It's still like a little overan hour to go from the middle of
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Manhattan.
We're halfway through ourcommute here.
So we're like, okay, we'rehalfway through.
We got plenty of time.
It's maybe 630, 645.
We still got like a little overtwo hours to even figure this
thing out.
So we're like, okay, no bigdeal, get in the Uber.
Dude's a pro Dude, a new yorkdriver, he freaking.
(10:08):
We get in there, have the pizzaboxes, nice car, whatever.
He immediately guns itbackwards in reverse past a
bunch of cars and just skirtsdown this side road and we're
like, we're tip-top shape man,this guy, this guy knows what
he's doing.
Like he's, he is just likeswerving in and out of cars.
He's running over like thelittle pylons, like his car was
in pristine shape, so like hewas taking risks.
And I was like this dude's juston a mission.
I love this guy.
So we thought he knows no bigdeal.
He knows he's done this manytimes before, he knows we're
(10:31):
going to the airport, he knowswhat's going on, so we're going,
we're going, we're going.
We hit gridlock, stop traffic.
You got to take, you got totake a tunnel, a tube to get
over across the bridge, into, uh, into that area where the
airport is.
So we're like, okay, we'restarting to hit gridlock traffic
, but no big deal.
Like Uber, google Maps,everybody says it'd be 40
minutes.
We'll still have like a wholehour left.
(10:52):
Like no big deal, we'll haveplenty of time.
We don't move for another 20minutes.
So we start looking at eachother like this isn't looking
good.
We start seeing cops all aroundus, us just starting to roll in
their vehicles, lights on,flying past everybody, and we're
like, oh no, like this can't begood.
10 more minutes goes by, wedon't move an inch and we're
(11:14):
like we're starting to look atother options.
We're like, okay, we're runningout of time, like we got like
45 minutes to get there and feelcomfortable.
So we check public transporthour and a half to go from where
we are to the airport.
We're like well, we'll miss ourflight just outright If we go.
This option, like this isn't anoption.
Uber's like yeah, all good,you'll be there 30 minutes.
(11:36):
10 more minutes goes by.
We're not moving at this point.
We're looking at other flights.
We're looking at other flightsand we're like, okay, we need
something later because thisain't going to work.
Like, there's no way we'remaking this one.
So we booked something an hourand a half later, like 10 or so
at night, and so we booked thebackup flight, cancel ours.
We got it all going.
We're like okay, do we wait outthe Uber and sit in this
(11:59):
non-moving traffic or do wedecide to just take public
transport?
And you know, by that pointwe'll definitely get there on
time.
I think the tipping point for uswas the lady in the car in
front of us got out of her Uber,went to the Shake Shack, got a
shake, came back, got back intoher Uber in the same exact spot
and was just enjoying her shakein the Uber.
(12:21):
Okay, we got to do publictransport.
So we canceled the Uber.
We hop out.
We're like okay, we got to dopublic transport, so we canceled
the Uber, we hop out.
We're like, okay, we got to dopublic transportation, so get
into the public transportationmode, find the train, take the
train over to another train, endup in Madison Square Garden.
All the trains are delayedPower outage.
Power outage is happening rightthen and we're like, oh my gosh,
(12:42):
like the trains are always ontime.
Everyone's just sitting herelike we're gonna miss our flight
and we still have like an hourand a half, like this is crazy.
And so we're like halfway there.
We're just sitting there like,okay, power outage, are we gonna
get back?
So delay, delay, delay.
Eventually it comes up and itbasically says, okay, you got to
go to this track.
We start heading to that track.
They switch the track.
So now we're sprinting to theother side of the airport
(13:04):
carrying our stuff, which, ifyou've done this, is the most
stressful thing ever, becauseyou're like holding your stuff,
you're kind of missing eachother, you're like we're gonna
lose each other.
We end up getting disconnectedcompletely.
The gentleman I was with goesto the wrong track.
I go to the right track.
I'm like I don't know if hemade it.
I don't have signal.
I have no idea where this guyis.
It's just me on the right track.
So at that point.
(13:24):
Somehow we get reconnected.
He's still on some other train,but he made it to the right
track.
We get to the airport and Idon't know if you know this
about Newark Airport when youget to the train station in the
airport it's still another 30minutes from the train station
to just get to your terminal,and that's not it.
That's not it.
You get all the way to terminalA and then you got to walk 15
(13:48):
to 20 minutes to get to your air, like just the area to check in
.
And so we're like, okay, thisis going to be so tough.
So we get off the train,whatever we hop on, did you
schedule a new flight by thistime?
Yeah, we already had it.
We were checked in.
Well, I was checked in,everything was good.
We got reconnected after theinitial train.
So we're like, okay, we're fine, he attempts to check in,
(14:11):
check-in's failing for him.
I'm checked in, I got myboarding pass.
So we look at each other and wehad that cinematic moment where
it's like am I going to waitwith you or am I going to
abandon you?
The second this thing opens tothe terminal.
And it was that moment likedon't look back, you go, you go
ahead and leave me here.
I'm going to try to check inand make it too.
(14:32):
So the second this terminalgates open.
I've got my baggage in hand.
I am sprinting down the way.
Tons of nice people it's lateat night Tons of nice people are
like, hey, just go ahead, goahead, don't miss your flight.
Get to security.
I got TSA, pre-checking andeverything like that.
So I fly through, get myluggage on the thing, dude the
security, they start scanning mybag.
I'm on the opposite side, I'mall clear.
(14:53):
I'm waiting for my bag to comeout of the tunnel.
So I grab it and run to thefreaking gate.
At this point it's jammed inthe x-ray machine.
The guy is grabbing his tub,he's yanking, he's yanking on,
he's like it's not coming out.
The dude doesn't have longenough arms to like reach in
(15:13):
there, so they call a backuplong arm.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Johnny coming there, are you serious?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
they called someone with longer arms they call over
a dude who's like a foot and ahalf taller and and he sticks
his long arm, johnny sticks hisarm in there, starts shaking
things around, eventually getsthe thing that was lodged loose
out.
It was a tennis racket Jammedsideways.
It was not mine.
Somebody in front of me, yeah,somebody in front of me.
It gets stuck.
(15:38):
But because they had to reverseand forward, and reverse and
forward, they weren't scanninganything in the meantime.
So guess what my bag is rightafter.
And what do they do?
They say sorry, we got to rerunit.
So they take it all the way tothe back behind everybody who
just got in line behind me thatI skipped and they basically
thrown my stuff after them andI'm like this is it?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
This is it.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I got like five minutes Like there's no way this
is going to happen.
The airline calls me.
Luckily I have my watch on,because I don't have my phone or
anything.
It's all going through thetunnel and I was like, okay, got
my watch on.
They called me.
I'm talking, like listen, I'mgoing to be there in like five
minutes.
I just got to grab my suitcaseand sprint and he basically I'm
begging him and he just hangs up.
He's like you're not going tomake it.
(16:22):
Hang, please, hold on.
He's like where are you rightnow?
I'm like I am sprinting downthe escalator trying to get to
you.
I'm sweating at this point I'mfull-on, sprint, out of breath.
I need like a gallon of waterand I'm sprinting down the way.
He's like hey, we're closingdoors right now.
Like I don't see you.
There's no way you're gonnamake it.
Fortunately, I holler, I hootand holler down the whole entire
thing.
Hey, I'm here and he keeps thedoors open and he was pissed
(16:45):
when I got up there.
He's like you made me late.
We're three minutes behind, geton there.
So I'm sprinting down the thing.
I get to my seat and I made itOnly only to sit on the tarmac
for two hours as the air trafficcontrol team gets all the
routes wrong.
And then we have to go back andrefuel because it's new,
(17:07):
actually gets like yeah, yep, soall that, nothing for nothing.
You stopped for two hours.
What time did you take off?
We took off at like 12 30 andyou didn't get home till I got
home at like four o'clockunbelievable yeah and then at.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
That point.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I'm like my co-worker could have just gotten on this
flight too, because we just saton the tarmac for two hours, did
nothing, and then we had to goagain yeah, they can't reopen
the gate exactly, so I'm like I.
There was no point in rushing.
This is the most ridiculousexperience ever.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So, anyways, I made it, but it was just a nightmare
so I'm at the point now where Ionly fly in the morning, yeah,
yeah.
And if I was in your situationI would have just booked a hotel
, stayed the night, got a 7, 8am flight, got up early, gone.
It is not worth pro tip for anytravelers out there.
(17:59):
It is not worth trying to catcha post 12 pm flight anymore.
The air traffic control is soscrewed up.
The airline industry is soscrewed up.
I guarantee you the.
The compounding delays that areoccurring are going to either
mean that one, you don't gethome till two to four hours
after you plan on getting there,or you're not getting home at
(18:20):
all.
And also there's, like summer,storms on top of that.
Like most storms happen mid toend of day.
You know the heat of the day,so the sky opens up.
You're not going to get there.
You, you put all this together.
I only fly in the mornings now.
Uh, I'm sure people hate that Ihave to stay at a hotel an
extra night, but it guaranteesthat I don't have to deal with
any of this nonsense and it'sit's actually worked out pretty
well for me.
If you're, if you're delayed anhour in the morning, who who
(18:43):
cares?
Yeah, whatever, you get all day, you got all day.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You're going to be just fine, I get home at 10.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I get home at 11 in the morning.
Terrible, you know like.
Just yeah, I feel for you, dude, I feel for you, but I will
never fly late at night againNever.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It was a movie, it was a movie scene, and shout out
to all the people that werethere.
They were incredibly nice andthey're literally all like
looking at me like dude, youhave the worst luck.
Like they don't want you toleave this city tonight.
Like the tennis racket thing.
The lady's looking at me.
She's like I can't believe thisis happening.
Like someone, just get this manthe bag so he can go.
Like everyone was so nice.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
But it literally was like a movie.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I agree with you.
Like right now, the airlineindustry is just a freaking
nightmare.
Like yes, they couldn't, it wasa mess.
Like even the pilot was likelisten.
Like we've tried four times,they can't figure it out how to
get us a safe flight.
I'm like this is so bad.
How is this still such an issue?
And late at night it's evenworse.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, I have no fear of flying.
I hate flying because it'sincredibly uncomfortable, but I
have no fear of flying and eventhough, statistically, it's
still the safest way to travel,I feel like.
So I don't know.
Did I tell you the last twoflights I've taken out of
orlando, uh, a plane crashedwithin an hour of my flight from
(20:14):
like no, yeah.
So when I, when I landed indenver, I landed an hour after a
plane that landed there wasjust burning on fire, uh.
And then when I left orlando togo to san diego, uh, another
plane that landed there was justburning on fire.
And then, when I left Orlandoto go to San Diego, another
plane that left Orlando to SanDiego crashed.
So or not San Diego, justOrlando, it got crashed on the
(20:36):
way to Atlanta.
So, just, I have been so closewithin an hour of plane crashes,
and we see more and more planecrashes and we know that Boeing
sucks.
They're just murking the peoplethat are blowing the whistle on
quality.
So you know you work at a greatcompany.
When they kill you for tellingthe truth, it's just not a good
(20:59):
time to fly.
So I avoided it at all costs.
I don't want to support thisindustry either.
That's the thing I don't wantto give them my money.
That's a reward for poorbehavior.
So I try not to and it seems,I'm sorry.
The sky just opened up rightwhen I was telling the story and
decided to take a ginormouswater dump, just in my field of
(21:21):
view.
So yeah, don't fly, yeah don'tfly.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
That's my practical advice for everybody and thank
you for listening to my story.
I hope this haunts your dreamsat night and you have night
terrors about your next businesstrip.
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Too late for that.
My dreams are already haunted.
We covered that I can't sleepanymore.
I wake up in fear and I'm notgetting paid.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
This is the solution.
No more sleep.
That's the only thing I canthink of.
Unfortunately, I do agree.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I think that's the only solution.
Well, that was a good episode.
Good job, Clark.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I think we really crushed this one.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I think the vibes were good beginning, middle and
end.
I think people are going toleave this feeling better about
themselves.
I think they really learnedsomething today, so I want to
thank you.
Thank you for this episode.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You're very welcome.
I think we really knocked outof the park.
I think there's a lot ofmaterial there to make people
feel positive about theircontributions.
Yeah, pat yourself on the back.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I'm feeling positive about their contributions.
I'm very painful back.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, and listen.
Corporations continue to makeour lives better and give us so
much opportunity.
I just can't thank them enough.
Thank you for how awesome youare.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oh, and perfect timing.
I think this happened last.
This happened last podcast too.
Oh no, once the thunder starts,a little smudge comes up.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Look at this little guy.
He's scared, he's just scared.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
He hears the thunder and he comes to pop up.
So you know it's scared.
He's just scared.
He hears the thunder and hecomes to pop up, so you know
it's natural.
You know Sarah, who was on thepodcast.
My wife had a very similarexperience to you, where her
plane literally fell out of thesky.
You hinted at this.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I'm like you've got to tell this too, because I've
had a situation like that.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It's so scary got to tell this too, because like,
yeah, yeah, no, situation likethat, it's so scary.
Yes, she was flying tophiladelphia to be with our, our
, our new, our newborn nephewclark, named after you.
Um was going to visit them andon the way to philly, her plane
fell out of the sky.
It was continuing to fall, somuch so that the the pilots were
like you know what?
We're not going to philly.
So they just diverted andlanded in some weird airport in
(23:27):
new y, not Newark, but New York,not the city, the state.
And she's like I'm just in themiddle of nowhere, I don't know
what to do.
And I said, well, usually whenthis happens, the airline will
comp you a hotel and take careof you.
So she went to the desk andlike, no, we're not comping
anyone.
So they just abandoned herfrontier airlines, by the way,
(23:48):
name drop frontier airlines justabandoned my wife in New York
city, uh, and said, yeah, yournext flight 8am tomorrow morning
.
So you know, you can just hangout at the airport if you'd like
.
But they were already pastsecurity.
So like they're not in the safepart of the airport, they're in
the part of the airport where,like criminals could come and
rob you in the middle of thenight Like thanks, frontier,
(24:10):
name drop again for justabsolutely doing the coolest
thing possible.
So then I like start franticallydoing research, like okay, how
much is an Uber from the airportto a hotel in the middle of
fricking nowhere New York state,where she is?
And it was not cheap to go lessthan a mile it was $30.
The hotel room itself $200.
(24:32):
And I'm just like what weirdplanet do we live on where you
just abandon a human in themiddle of their travels and just
like nah, fend for yourself?
Yeah, man, I'm not going to fly, I'm going gonna avoid flying,
just for the foreseeable future.
You know, I'm done.
I feel like I'm ready.
(24:53):
I'm really ready, clark, tojust drop out of society as a
whole.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I think if I can amass enough money to just live
off grid and eat potatoesgrowing in my yard, I think I'm
ready for that.
I think I'm ready.
I like that.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Unplug me I agree.
I think it's time.
I think it's time.
We need a revolution where weall become potato farmers,
self-sustaining.
I mean, you can get some energyout of some potatoes.
We can figure this out.
We can, we can make this happen.
But yeah, that's a.
That's a nightmare, like to noteven have the decency of like,
hey, no worries, we got a hotel,we got special rates with them.
(25:37):
Like, we're going to shuttleyou guys over there, we're going
to get you guys there safe,we're doing this together and
then we'll get you back here.
You know, 6 am, we'll leave thehotel for your 8 am flight.
Cool, sounds like a plan.
It's like typically what happensin these situations, especially
Frontier Spirit name, droppingthem left and right.
They're just like, yeah,flight's canceled, that's it,
(25:59):
that's all I tell you.
And it's like oh, so like whatdo I do?
And so like, what do I do?
And they're just like, yeah,you got to figure it out.
And they're like so is therelike another flight?
I'm like, yeah, we can book youon the 8 am if you'd like.
It's like you didn'tautomatically book me on the
next available flight.
No, no, no, we'll take yourmoney, but we're not going to
help you unless you ask for it.
It's just the most ridiculousthing ever.
(26:19):
It's like refund or somethinglater to be like you guys should
have paid for my hotel.
You got to wait on hold forthree hours just to get dropped
off of hold and then have torestart the whole process again
and maybe you'll talk tosomebody.
But you have to do it right.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Like you have to do it, you have to hold them
accountable.
You cannot let this companytake your money and get away
with this kind of behavior.
And then, like, I feel like wewere at that point in our
society where it's like it's.
It's so much easier for us tobe like whatever, yeah, just
give up the 200 bucks.
I don't, I can't do this.
But like, no, don't do that.
Fight, get your money.
(26:56):
Don't let them win, hurt them,because you know there's going
to come a time.
I'm just saying like it doesfeel like if I just lick my
finger and stick it up in thestormy wind, it feels like we're
(27:18):
moving in a direction wherethings might get worse.
And when things get worse,things get worse for everybody.
That's all I'm going to say.
That's all I'm going to say.
I'm just going to say like ifyou look at what's happening in
the world around us right now,let's just say a certain Mario
character might have imitators.
(27:40):
You know, there might be aWaluigi Just saying, just
throwing it out there.
When one domino falls usuallyothers fall with them.
Continue, what were you goingto say?
No, they fall together.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I agree with you, but I wanted to give the people,
because we have to give a traveltip.
We're known for travel tips.
People love our travel tips andCorporate Strategy the travel
blog.
People eat that up, so in orderto get affiliations for those
travel reward points that we get.
I'm going to put in a plugright here.
There are apps, ai apps thatwill make calls on your behalf
(28:18):
and act as your AI agent.
Use those against thesecompanies.
Use them.
That's the one.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
AI use case I fully endorse and support.
Please use them.
That's that's the one AI usecase I fully endorse and support
Please use them.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Make the robots sit on their three hour hold and
fight to get you a refund ofsome kind.
There are plenty of apps thatare doing it right now
completely free.
You can just spam that companywith AI bots who are not human,
that sound like humans, and getyour refund, so you don't have
to even lift a finger in orderto get it.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I love it.
You need to do like a how-tovid.
I do For the Corporate StrategyYouTube channel.
Yeah, that exists.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
It does exist.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Put it on there.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Oh, I love it.
You know what's hilarious?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
How I deal with Frontier Airline Refund Hotel.
We're going to get a millionviews.
It's literally going to keepthe podcast ad-free.
You know what I just realized?
The podcast has been ad-freemuch longer than a year.
I need to turn ads back on.
Papa needs to recoup somepennies.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, this is all out of your bank account.
We're bankrupting you with thispodcast.
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Thank you.
It doesn't matter.
Money's not going to matter in10 years anyway.
Might as well spend it now.
Enjoy, enjoy your Fiat Lux,your Fiat Lux, while you can.
None of this is going to matter.
It's all going to burn.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
This, none of this.
You know this is.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
This is getting it's actually we haven't gotten to
anything yet and 29 minutes weain't getting to anything.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
And you know what's pretty funny about this, like
what I'm about.
The topic we had for today isjust too on the nose for this.
We're just going to be like,yeah, I don't know if I can
seriously bring up this topic.
I was ready for you to, so Icould tear it apart, because the
first line that I say for this,after everything we just said,
(30:14):
they're going to be like.
You just told me not to do allthese things and now you're
telling me to do it, and theanswer is yes.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yes, yeah, I think I think we shelved today's topic
for fear of we burn 30 minutesof pot Talking about just the
absolute sludge that is liferight now.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Oh my gosh, I'm dying .
You know what I said this week.
You know what I said this weekat work Wait, wait, wait, hold
on Before you say anything.
Is all this your fault?
You probably started the weeksaying, guys, this is going to
be the best week ever.
You just screwed all of us.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
No, I said, I said not my job that's the way you
started it.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
That's what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
A week, like you know what, not my job.
And this is the punishment Itold you last episode never say
that.
And I made the cardinal sin.
I was like you know, I'mfeeling spicy.
I'm feeling like a spicyburrito.
I'm gonna say not my job andthis is what happened.
All of this is my fault I agreethe world, the world, literally
(31:25):
.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
It said to you it's like oh yeah, you just made a
whole entire podcast while neversaying it, and then you just
said it.
You hypocrite, we're taking itout on everybody.
That's the way it works um,weird shout outs.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
but there's this movie.
I don't know if it's still intheaters right now.
It's called Life of Chuck.
It's based on a Stephen Kingstory.
I don't know why, but if youenjoy this episode, I feel like
you'll enjoy that movie.
Just shoutouts, shoutouts.
Life of Chuck, good movie, goodmovie.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Enjoyable Great people.
Why not yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Why not?
This is a shoutout spot.
You got any shout-outs you'regoing to make Clark?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah, we can use a shout-out.
We got to name this one like.
This is the filler episode ofCorporate Strategy, where there
literally is nothing but us justrambling with each other.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
This might be the only one.
If anyone goes in trains for 20episodes, we're allowed to do
one of these.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
We're allowed to do one in 169 nice episodes?
Uh, we're allowed, dude.
That's the reason I stoppedwatching that show, I'll be
honest, because it's like 30episodes in, you're still
watching him train.
It's like goku man, I need youto hit fast forward, like hit
fast forward to where you get alittle muscle mass on you.
That's.
I don't want see the processanymore.
I've seen 20 episodes of theprocess and you're not getting
any better.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
When I was a boy, a young scrub I remember I would
get up really early in themorning this is like I'm five
years old and I would get up atsix and turn on the TV and they
always had weird anime on andone of them was Samurai Pizza
Cats, highly underrated.
The other was Dragon Ball Z andI remember Goku running on the
back I think it's Shen Long thedragon, and you know he's
(33:11):
running on the back of thedragon cause he's dead and he
has to get to the other side.
And by the time that arcfinished I was in college.
Just, you know, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
That's insane, yeah, it's crazy.
That's insane, yeah, mygoodness.
Yeah, no exaggeration, that's,that's crazy.
I do have a shout out.
You made it, let's hear it.
You were talking about like tvback then.
I took I flew on jet blue, notsponsored, last night.
Uh, jet out, jetblue, shout out.
(33:43):
Thanks for sitting on thetarmac for two hours.
Their technology, theirtechnology is so crappy.
Yeah, how crappy is it?
I couldn't believe it.
We're sitting there and theyhave like direct TV.
They have these like three inchby three inch screens.
(34:03):
I'm not kidding, three-inch bythree-inch screens.
And they got a little.
The UX of this, the userexperience of this, is so bad.
It's built into the armrest,right?
Yeah, it's built into thearmrest.
So you put your arm down, youchange the channel and you're
like gosh, dang it.
So then you have to positionyour arm perfectly.
I'm'm for this little tinyscreen that's got static half
the time.
I'm like who thought of this?
(34:25):
There's no headphone jack,there's no audio.
No, is this what it was in the90s when I wasn't flying?
Is this?
Is this how people lived?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
well, no, I remember.
I remember when I was a again ayoung scrup around like five,
uh, the shen long the.
We would be on planes going tovisit my grandparents, and it
was.
You had a tv built into the topof the plane and you would
(34:56):
watch a tv like you.
It would again.
It was a three inch by threeinch screen, but you'd be six
rows back and you'd be like Ithink that's macaulay culkin, I
think this is home alone, butyou couldn't hear it.
It was just like if you had theprivilege to sit in a seat
close enough to the tv, youcould watch home alone, but uh,
(35:16):
no I I thought it was a crazyperson because I was looking
around I was like where's theheadphone jack?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
like they've got movies, they have a movie
section.
There's no headphone jack.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
This is crazy.
You know what grinds myabsolute gears without flying
today.
This is, this is the thing thatI truly, truly don't understand
, and it's it's not consistent,but I almost, I almost feel like
it needs to be a law, like arule when do you keep your
(35:48):
ticket?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Hmm, where do you keep your ticket?
I mean, now I think I've got itall on my phone.
Okay, that's the right answer.
I rarely get paper.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
We probably see, when you're in the gate waiting to
get on the plane, like mostpeople will whip out their phone
and they're scanning the phoneRight.
Yep, it's logical, it's easy,it's convenient.
Most people have cell phones,most people, some people still
do the paper ticket.
Then why, in the ever lovingaerial blue blazes, is it that
(36:21):
only like 50% of the planes orless have power ports for
charging, like usb power, likemost planes I get on?
I think delta has it and unitedhas it?
Yeah, you do not have any meansof charging your phone.
So you could find yourself on adelayed plane where you land,
(36:43):
need to get on a layover andyour phone is dead, like D E, a
D dead.
Because even if you put thatthing in airplane mode which,
like you, should, not becausethe airline tells you to, but
because it'll save some of yourbattery juice, like it still
drains looking for signal in thesky.
I don't know why.
I don't know why, but like thatthat was last night my wife and
(37:06):
she ended up having to buy a 50phone charger in the airport
just to charge her phone so shecan get an uber and go to the
hotel.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, oh my gosh that's crazy yeah, I that's
exactly what happened to me.
Like last night, phone was onfive percent when I got to the
gate.
I'm like please do not die onme right now.
Double click for the face, scanit, I'm in.
I would have been dead, I wouldhave been dead in the water, I
would have had to print it outand they would have been like
dude, we're closing these doors.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
And I'm guessing on JetBlue, there was no charger,
there was no place to chargeyour phone.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Yeah, Texted my wife and phone died and I was like
okay.
So then I didn't want to annoythe people next to me because I
was already right on my way.
But when we actually, aftersitting on tarmac for two hours
thanks a lot, JetBlue I went togo get my bag, you know how I
charged my phone.
I'd get my laptop out, plug myphone in in order to charge it.
So I killed my laptop.
I sacrificed my laptop batteryto charge my phone.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yep, it's, I mean it.
It is wild, it is a while to meyeah, oh, but the shout out
that I had.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I had to digress a little bit.
The shout out that I had was onmy three inch by three inch tv
that had static running throughand I couldn't hear anything.
I watched an awesome espndocumentary about a, the 1997
stanley cup between the detroitWings and Colorado Avalanche,
and they just beat the snot outof each other.
Every single game.
Like blood everywhere, likeactually fight Full out brawls.
(38:31):
Yeah, every single game, it wasnonstop.
There was literally like 30fights throughout the series.
There were riots in the streetLike there were.
It was insane.
So I had no idea what anybodysaid in that whole entire thing,
because it was three inch bythree inch and I had no audio
but it was super entertaining towatch.
Yeah, it literally was justthem brawling.
You know, riots in the street,people just punching each other.
(38:52):
I'm like this is superentertaining.
So now I got to actually watchthe whole thing.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
You know, shout outs, shout out sports documentaries.
I hate sports, can't watch them, can Hate sports, can't watch
them, can't stan them.
And even still I can watch asports documentary any day, all
day, every day.
They're so well put together,they capture all the good parts
and cut out all the stuff I hateabout sports.
So it's ooh a little narrativepackage with none of the fluff,
(39:17):
great Shoutouts.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Shoutouts Last.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Dance.
Last Dance is awesome Shoutouts, fab Five.
You probably watched that oneLast Dance.
Yeah, last Dance is awesome.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Great Shout-outs.
What was that?
Fab Five, Fab Five.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
You probably watched that one maybe I didn't see that
one.
It was the Michael Jordan one.
Okay, what was the MichaelJordan one?
Maybe it was Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
There's, I mean there's a few, I can't remember.
We just watched like a bunch ofthese two years ago.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
It was on netflix shout outs f1 drive to survive.
Oh, was that good, I gotta.
Oh, it's so good, I mean, itcontinues to be good.
Uh, just shout out sports.
Shout out sports sports.
I might have been wrong aboutyou.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Well, michael jordan is the last dance, but you were
thinking of?
Were you thinking of the lebronjames one?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
oh no, I was thinking of the dream team.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Last dance, michael jordan dream team for the Dream.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Team.
Last dance by Jordan Dream Teamfor the US Olympics basketball.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yes, shoutouts, that was really good Shoutout.
Yeah, I agree, got any more.
No, that's it.
Okay, I think I got them all.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Great podcast.
You can get all the good sportsdocumentaries.
There's no other ones that areworth watching.
Just watch those, and watchthem on a 3x3 screen with no
sound.
Love it?
That's your tip, take it.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
We're 40 minutes.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Do you think 40 minutes is enough for a filler
episode?
This is all pod too.
We literally started with anintro.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I mean, how long can we fill?
We fill.
I mean, we could just walk, wecould walk away at this point.
Just let it keep running andwe'll come back.
Like after dinner, I'll textyou?
Speaker 1 (40:54):
yeah, well, you want to.
You want me to pay the chargefor the overage on the hours we
upload.
Is that what's happening here?
This is why we get our ads backon.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
We can't even afford our overage.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I'm gonna call this episode filler episode.
Do not listen.
And I'm gonna turn on ads.
I'm gonna set every like 15seconds to run an ad on this
because, you said do not listen.
Everyone's gonna listen.
Everyone's gonna listen.
They're gonna be like what theheck is wrong with these boys.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
You know what this is .
This is a viral scheme thatwe're pulling at the last ditch
effort.
This could be the last episodeof CorporateStrategybiz.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Oh, I like this.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
This is the series finale.
This is a series finale ever.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Screw your topics, that you put effort into Clark
Screw, that.
I think this is actually agreat place to end the show.
I've I've wanted to end itforever.
I've wanted to, wanted to killthis show.
I mean take it up on the oldyeller Shout outs.
Old yeller Make you cry.
Shout out, Shout out.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Shout outs.
You know it's a great number toend on too 169.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
169 169, nice, nice, shout out.
Shout out to podcasts.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
You know what Podcasting underrated Puts me
asleep on planes?
Every time.
Every time I start a podcast ona plane, I'm asleep.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
You just start hearing those, those dulcet
tones of.
And he took her out back with ahatchet and she was never seen
again, except for the skin ofher left pinky.
Like I'm snoozing, I'm sleepinghard.
Ooh, that true crime does putme to sleep.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
As he flayed her into pieces.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
They were unable to find anything except the crowns
that once remained in her teeth.
And like people like, oh yeah,this is great, this happened to
a real person.
I love this Number one categoryon Apple podcasts.
Let's be entertained bypeople's death.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
You know, I hope this is the episode that just pushes
over the top, goes viral, shoutout to True viral Shout out to
True.
Crime.
Shout out to.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Really helps to sleep .
Yeah, this is the episode.
Clark, this is the one.
This is the episode.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
This is the one that I think pushes us over the top,
and from here on out, we'll getthousands of listens at Epstead.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
This is the one that Apple features Like they're
really breaking ground over here.
They're really doing somethingdifferent on corporate strategy.
I don't know what it is, but itsure is different.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
In the age of AI, we thought nobody could be smarter
than the LLMs that control ourlives.
But corporate strategybiz theybroke the mold.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
They're doing it different.
That's kind of a brilliantpoint.
Like we're, we're entering anage of such slop that even this
garbage be it, is still betterthan the slop you might get from
anything like.
There's gonna come a time wheneven this, this very
conversation, is gonna be lookedback upon as art.
Wow, they really talked tothemselves back then.
(44:00):
They really communicated Me.
I just talked to my AIgirlfriend all day and she gives
me everything I need.
They had to converse.
They had disagreements Me.
My AI girlfriend does whateverI want.
I never leave the house.
I sit here and she recites truecrime podcasts to me.
(44:22):
This is the future we're movingtowards.
Clark, I hope you're ready.
They're going to look back.
I hope you've buckled yourseatbelt and you're ready.
Wally.
No, they got it totally wrong.
It's going to be a bunch of AIgirlfriends just everywhere,
everywhere.
Take a step outside.
Oh no, the AI girlfriends arecoming for me.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
They won't stop.
I don't have one.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
They're trying to attach themselves to you.
You have to look out they'reparasitic, they're parasitic.
They run on human energy.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
That's what people forget, Like they feed off your
energy.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
It's exactly why we partnered with Better Nutrients
Heavy Supplements.
If you're not taking these, youcould be attacked by an AI
girlfriend.
It's a very real threat, butthe amount of magnesium sulfate
ironate that we had put intothis nutrient supplement
combination ensures that theycannot latch on to your brain
(45:20):
frequencies.
This will keep you alive.
This will stop you from turninginto one of those cave dwellers
by now, while we I meansupplies are, I don't know.
Clark, you see the backgroundright.
You see the tubs of nutrients.
I've got back there.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
We're running low, we're running real low.
By now, by now, please.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Please, by now, we care about you before it's too
late.
Oh no, we have one left back.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
People are going to look back at this moment in time
and say this episode 169 ofcorporate strategy, this was
peak of human ingenuity.
Yeah, you've got, you've gotthe pyramids, you've got the
last dance documentary, and thenyou've got corporate strategy.
You got corporate strategy, yougot corporate strategy.
Yeah, this was it.
Like they're going to look backin the history books and be
(46:10):
like that was it?
Like that was the end of humaningenuity, I mean it does really
feel like it to me.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Should we wrap this up 45 minutes?
I mean we could go.
We haven't even talked aboutPepsi.
We probably shouldn't.
We should probably save thatfor the next one.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Our listeners always crave For the regular Pepsi
update.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
You know what I've seen In our Discord.
We have a Discord.
By the way, if you want to join, open the oh shoot, oh my gosh,
the show notes.
You know what else?
What's that?
If you join our Discord, youget to play all kinds of fun
games, including what Do you,meme Woo?
(47:03):
You ready to play Clark?
Let's do it.
Alright, open up the what Doyou Meme channel?
Speaker 2 (47:09):
I'm in there and I see something that is disgusting
to me.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
I need you to describe what's going on with
your mouth.
Parts for the game.
What Do you Meme?
Which is in our Discord channel.
Join the Linktree show notes.
What's in there?
What's the meme?
Speaker 2 (47:24):
There's two, I think I've got to explain them both.
You have to explain both.
Should I do the easy one first?
Speaker 1 (47:30):
No, you must do the first one first.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
So you guys know you guys listen to every episode.
You're waiting on bated breath,just on the edge of your seat,
for our episodes to go live andevery single week you hear about
our toes.
It's been like four weeks oftoe updates and I can't believe
we succumbed to this audience toit.
We're in the what Do you Memechannel.
There's a spicy meme.
What you see is a long yellow,maybe recently shaved stick leg.
(48:03):
It's not shaved.
It is not shaved it is notshaved Clark do you need glasses
?
No, no, I see like stubble andthen the actual tip is not, but
the actual thigh it starts off.
You know well, well, man, Okay,maybe not.
Okay, it's getting worse.
So what happens in this Up andto the left?
(48:24):
You see the sock.
You see a sock.
You see a sock.
You see it on this little stickleg and you see this yellow
body just peeling up the sock toexpose a foot and as it zooms
in to bring more detail, it isthe most disgusting ingrown
toenails I've ever seen in mylife.
Even worse than Bruce's,believe it or not?
(48:45):
Even worse than Bruce's.
Those are gross, Like themakers of SpongeBob, I don't
understand.
Like the stuff I've seen onthat show.
Like you've got to be some sortof messed up to build stuff.
You're young enough.
You watched SpongeBob, right, Idid.
It was good back in the day, itwas demographic, you question.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Yeah, I mean it was.
I mean shout outs, shout outs,shout outs.
Noodle on YouTube who puttogether a fantastic 20 minute
documentary about SpongeBob.
That blew my mind on how it wasinfluenced by the band Ween,
but interesting, like, reallyinteresting, the creator of
(49:30):
spongebob super into nauticalenvironments, fish, also super
into the band ween and and likeyou can see how those two things
put together creates aspongebob.
But also like it's really renand stampy.
To like the rent and stampysure really was the boilerplate
for, yeah, a gross, the gross upclose-up of just the most
(49:54):
heinous, hideous things you everseen animated for children yeah
, and like there were all,there's so many cartoons
actually, human ingenuity.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Peak of human ingenuity Ren and Stimpy
Pyramids.
The Last Dance.
Documentary, corporateStrategybiz, episode 169.
Nice, yep, nice, yeah, nice, oh, I got a second one.
All right, second one, secondone.
You know, I look at this and itjust brought me back to the 90s
.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
Maybe it's like the UI of it, you know, like just
the radio buttons on this onejust like make me feel like I'm
taking a survey in the earlyinternet.
I mean, the source of this isclearly dated.
Yes, what do you see there?
(50:40):
This is in response to theSpongeBob foot pic.
Yep.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
So you guys know, as we started to get more
recommendations, ai isfulfilling our life in.
You get all these opportunitiesto give feedback to the engines
that are giving theseadvertisements.
These recommendations say isthis good or is this bad?
And this one in particular sayswhat's going on.
And you got some options A, b,c, D they're all radio buttons,
(51:06):
but that makes it easy.
A it's annoying or notinteresting, okay.
B I'm in this photo and I don'tlike it.
Bruce, remember that one.
C I think it shouldn't be onFacebook.
And D it's spam.
So when someone tags you inyour yellow, long leg,
disgusting, ingrown toenailsmeme, bruce decided to choose
(51:29):
number B he's in this photo andhe doesn't like it.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
I didn't submit this.
Bruce didn't do this.
This was our bourgeoisiecorrespondent, Monsieur Alex
Restrepo, who posted this.
I mean, I'm in the photo and Ido like it, you know, is this
real?
Is this a real report?
Like does it actually say I'min this photo and I don't like
(51:56):
it.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
I think so Because I think you can get tagged on
things, because I remember thishappened to spam accounts for a
while and if you get tagged insomething, you can't just remove
yourself, you have to report it.
And I remember this likehappened to spam accounts for a
while and like if you get taggedin something, you can't just
like remove yourself, you haveto report it.
And I remember this would comeup and it would say, like why
are you reporting this as likespam or harassment or whatever?
And this was one of the thingsI'm in this photo and I don't
(52:19):
like it.
That is it's just.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
It's just.
It's a funny way to say, likeremove this photo, I don't want
my picture.
Like, like, I'm in this photoand I don't like it, like, okay,
all right, princess, we'll getthat down for you, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
Don't worry, we got you, yeah I know you're like
yeah, it's the balance of likeyou can't take someone else's
photo down and you can't like Iget that.
I think you can untag yourself,but you have to somehow be able
to report it and like this islike a serious one.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
You have to take it.
I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Yeah, they're in it and they don't like it.
You got to take it down.
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
No, sir, I don't like it.
Speaking of I don't like it thehorse you don't know, the Ren
and Stimpy horse.
No, sir, I don't like it.
53 minutes, look at that.
I just got you closer to anhour of ad-endorsed corporate
strategy action.
You're welcome.
Never say we don't respect yourtime.
(53:22):
If you want to play, what Doyou Meme?
Join the Discord.
You already know how.
I'm not saying it again.
You can buy Corporate Strategyswag.
You can share this with yourfriends.
You can sell bootleg CorporateStrategy copies of Episode 169
on Burn Disc on the internet$5.99.
Ebay Check your local listings.
It might be cheaper.
You can do so much with thispodcast, but the one thing you
(53:45):
can't do is unsubscribe and theone thing you can't do is quit
listening Corporate strategyforever.
We're never going to stop.
This is the last episode.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Hey, as always, I'm Bruce, and it was fun, guys, I'm
.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
Clark Been a great run.
I'm really going to miss you.
You're on mute.
Everyone else I would say we'dsee you next week, but this is
it.
We won't.
This is it.
This is it.
Speaker 2 (54:11):
The final episode End .
It Remember us 2075.
Remember the good things wecontributed to the world.
Yeah, episode 169.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
Nice.
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