Women in Industry

Today, Doug Pike interviews Alysha Day-Coo about the Women in Industry Conference.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, stop bragging on your word prowess. That was good.
He woke up and looked down after his first guest
and had, well, I'm just jumping right in welcome thanks
for listening. Let me get that out of the way first.
I do appreciate you sharing your lunch hour, and this
won't take long. We'll rolled out four golds in his

(01:08):
first attempt, and then went from there to get the
word in three. I actually had two golds and a
green in my first and foolishly left one of the
one gold I had after my second guess in the
wrong spot like a dope and wasted a turn, and
then got it on the fourth one. It was good.

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It was a that was a that was probably the
quickest both of us have gotten these in a long time.
Oh yeah, I mean this was just like upper like
a new level of expertise.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
I wanted that too.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
You know, there's an opportunity at world to get easier,
I think, or a hint or something like that. They
should also have a button that says make it harder,
because we're just, We're just.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I think that there is a make it harder verse
is really where it doesn't give you what, It never
gives you the it just gives you the letters. Yeah,
I go with that.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Do that. Man, the jumbles, Like I said earlier, I
was talking to you and Eavan, that's that's my wheelhouse, baby,
the jumbling, the be That's the only reason I have
the subscription to the paper. Still. My wife will read
the headlines for about two minutes and then she'll put
it down and go straight to the comics and the
and the jumble. So welcome here, we are welcome. By
the way. The weather courtesy of texas iaq dot net

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really quickly, because cleaner air is healthier air. By the way,
if you need your duckwork cleaned and you haven't had
it done in years. You do need it clean. Even
changing the filters is great, but stuff still gets in there,
and that may be the cause of your itchy eyes
and running nose and sneezes in the afternoon when you
haven't sneezed or had any problems all day long. Got

(02:47):
a fair chance for rain on Saturday, but otherwise really
nice for the next week or more. When you woke
up this morning, if you went outside early to do
whatever you do in the yard, walk the dog, get
the paper. For those of you who still take it,
Holy cow, what a wake up call that was. It was.
It was quite chilly this morning, low forties, I think

(03:08):
it was. It's gonna warm up for the next couple
of days, then take a soft drop again back into
the old highs in the high sixties, maybe low seventies,
and lows in the fifties to sixties, and then we
get a couple of seventy nine's next week for highs.
So but no more rain after Saturday or before Saturday.

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By the way, they took out that chance. I think
it was on Sunday they had a little sliver of
potential for rain, but they've made that all disappear now,
and for this, just this once, I'm gonna trust the
forecast for the next five or six days because I
got stuffed to do early next week and I don't
want to miss any of it. It's all outdoors too

(03:53):
the markets. Thanks to Houston Gold Exchange dot Com in
case you missed it a few minutes ago. The big
four indicators down across the b again today, after regaining
some ground yesterday after a sell off the day before.
Down a chunk, NASDAK down a bigger chunk the Dow
Dell I want to say, five sixty five, which percentage

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wise wasn't as significant as the drop of the Nasdaq
or I think the Rustle might have been down even
more percentage wise than the Dow. Oil also down, which
is good news for those of us who drive a lot.
For a lot of grandparents in the audience. It means
it won't cost you quite so much to go to
your grandchildren's baseball and soccer and softball and volleyball tournaments

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for the next few weeks. Gold still doing its thing
up up I think a little five bucks something like that,
trading at twenty nine to twenty seven about fifteen minutes ago.
Up front, I'm going to go back briefly to the
recent bill that not a single Democrat in Washington voted for,
not a one of them, the one that would have

(04:59):
disallowed men from playing women's sports. I talked about it yesterday,
and it just I can't get off of their hypocrisy
when many of the women on that side of the
aisle last night or two nights ago now were dressed
in pink, supposedly symbolic of support for women and women's rights,

(05:22):
when they voted against the most powerful thing they could
have done to support and protect young women and girls.
There was one newscaster actually, and I kind of agree
with this. The Democrats, according to him, may have colluded
a little bit before the address and decided they did

(05:44):
not want to give President Trump this victory the day
before he spoke to the nation, So they all voted no.
The petty little sign carrying children that they were Tuesday night,
full roster know on keeping boys and men out of
girls and women's sports. How hard is that to figure out?

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I truly hope that backfire is on every one of them,
count on seeing their voting records on this particular bill
wheeled out during the mid terms, two each and every
one of them who voted no need to be called
out for it. Miniestata, Minnesota State Representative Alicia Koslowski pushed
all her crazy chips into the middle of the table

(06:27):
when she likened that bill, the one that would remove
men from women's sports. Well, she said, that's no different
than state sanctioned bullying and genocide. She actually claimed there
was some invisible paragraph in the legislation too that was
going to strip transgender people of their housing and healthcare. No,

(06:51):
read the bill, get somebody to read it to you.
None of that's true, not a word of it. The
things they say are just they're just absurd, They're unfounded,
but they just keep saying them. How could any rational
person make the leap from no boys in girls sports

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to genocide? One person in Minnesota did, and people voted
her into office. She didn't just walk in and say
I'll take the job. Somebody, a lot of somebody's walked
into a voting booth decided she was the right person
to represent their state. How is that possible? Meanwhile, Peyton McNabb,

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a young woman introduced to the world on Tuesday night
by President Trump during his address Peyton's a girl who
suffered a brain injury when a boy on an opposing
volleyball team spiked a ball so powerfully into Peyton's face
that it knocked her unconscious for about thirty seconds, And

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to this day, her doctor still can't say that she'll
ever make a full recovery. But people like Koslowski see
nothing wrong with what happened to that young girl. Had
her heart set and was looking really good to get
a college scholarship, and now unable to even play at

(08:20):
any level the sport she loves. That is why that
bill needed to be backed by everybody in Congress, and
not nobody. Are we out of time? Will huh? Sorry
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Speaker 1 (10:13):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues, Welcome.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. Certain to
do appreciate it. And we've got all kinds of interviews
coming up next week. And we've got at least one tomorrow,
maybe two, I can't remember. There's gonna be some real
good stuff. You don't want to miss any of that
or any of this, will, I promised you? Because you
said you hadn't heard this story, which means were you

(10:45):
waving at someone? Are you just no?

Speaker 3 (10:47):
I'm readjusting my.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Getting ready to exercise.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
You know.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I saw a really a weird, a weird statistic a
minute ago, and I thought, if you're gonna reveal the
number for one side, you got to reveal the number
for the other side too. And the only thing it
said was that forty three percent of American women had
never lifted a weight in a gym. And I thought,

(11:15):
so what, a lot of women might prefer to go
to a group class somewhere else. A lot of women
might walk in their neighborhoods or jogg in their neighborhoods.
That's it almost seemed like it was trying to demean women,
because that sounds like a low number. But I would

(11:35):
suspect that the number of men who are in that
category for a lot of the same reasons, they just
choose to exercise Otherwise it probably wouldn't be a whole
lot less. Would you agree or disagree or don't care? Will?

Speaker 3 (11:51):
I don't really care.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Okay, we'll move on.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Then.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
A man in North Carolina this is for Will because
he'd never heard this story, and a lot of you have,
and I'm glad you have. Man in North Carolina calls
nine to one one on Monday, claims he's been locked
inside a storage unit for about a week. His girlfriend
locked him inside and it took him that long to

(12:15):
find his cell phone in the dark unit. Girlfriend was
arrested and charged with attempted murder and kidnapping. Surely there's
something else they could throw in with that.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
UM, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
I think that those two things ought to ought to
get her the reward she deserves for doing that. I
can't imagine being that bitter, that angry at somebody that
you would just shut the door on them and presume
that they ultimately would starve to death before anybody found him.
I guess that's what she was counting on, but it
didn't didn't work out so well. Back to this other stuff.

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Also disturbing from a few days ago, two days ago,
two nights ago was the refusal of Democrats to stand
when the President announced that the ISIS member responsible for
the killing of thirteen US service personnel. That would be
eleven Marines, one soldier and one sailor, and more than

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one hundred and fifty others in a suicide bombing during
our withdrawal from Afghanistan. Well, that guy's been arrested, and
I suspect he is back on American soil. By now,
only a few of those Democrats even applauded little golf
collapse at the news that this monster was in custody.

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How can they even call themselves Americans at the thought
of justice for those dead fighting men and women, that
all the people who were there, these people were serving
all of us. They weren't just serving Democrats or Republicans,
they were serving our entire nation. How can any politician

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be so unfeeling in that moment? That's just so petty
and so childlike. They just can't stand it. They just can't.
There was a sergeant I saw interviewed a guy who
was actually there in cobble and severely injured in that bombing.

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He said he's still looking for answers as to why
he and another team member were not given permission to
neutralize two bad guys that they had identified right then,
right there through photographs. They knew they had the right guys.
They called for permission to take care of business and

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were told no, that that person they were talking to
didn't have the authority. That's when this guy said, okay,
who does, And the same person that had told him
no already told him I don't know, I don't know
who to call. In other words, it that's just tannam
out to green light and what happened afterward. As far

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as I'm concerned, nobody have the chain of command was available,
at least according to that one person that was the
only person they could talk to at the time. And
this sergeant is quite eager to have those superiors forced
to explain why they couldn't do what likely would have
saved more than about one hundred and seventy five lives
that day. And something I titled we all saw this coming.

(15:31):
Remember when we learned at Hunter Biden's precious art collection,
in his estimation to pegged at about millions of dollars,
went up in flame during the Palisades Fire in California. Well,
now he's claiming he can't continue a lawsuit that he
and his legal team filed against a former White House
aid who published bits and pieces from that that now

(15:56):
infamous laptop. Well he can continue to pursue this because
he's out of money. That's according to his legal team.
He doesn't have the resources to continue the litigation.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
So he's just.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
He's politely withdrawing. Really, I got a hunch he's not
out of money. I got a hunch he's And I
heard this morning that he got into art pretty suddenly,
kind of like right after the world learned several years
ago that the art world is a major source of
money laundering. By this painting, by that painting. And I'm

(16:32):
not talking about his stuff. I'm talking about this goes
on every day all around the world. You buy this
this art, and I'll wrap that in quotes, and you
get some influence business politics, environmental justice, whatever. And I'm
not even saying Hunter did any of that. You can
be the judge of that yourself. I'm just saying that

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in some cases, evidence has shown that contemporary art is
sometimes of a bogo deal. You buy this, you get
that free. In any event, Hunter's legal team has filed
to drop that suit because their client, like I said,
doesn't have the resources. And my gut says there's more
to the story than that. Maybe there's not. I don't know,

(17:16):
but it sure seems that's an awkward position to be in.
I don't know how he finds himself there, if even
half of what we think he's made over his career,
as well as whatever he is, you never know.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
You know.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
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fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, segmc breeze starts
right now, Thanks for listening. Certain to appreciate it. Will
and I both appreciate you letting us into your lunch hower.
Nice day out there too. We'll talk in this segment
about something called the Women in Industry Conference, which was

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formed to build confidence in women and girls and inspire
them to take a pretty much take a hammer to
any glass ceiling they encounter in their lives. And to
set the table for this one, I will bring in
Alicia Deku, craft training specialist at PCL Industrial, which has
been a sponsor of this conference for five years. By
the way, welcome Alicia.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Hi, Doug doing all right?

Speaker 4 (20:54):
I'm doing wonderful. How are you?

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well? Let's get to this. Shall we nuts and bolts first?
What is the Women in Industry Conference? Where is it?
And when is it?

Speaker 4 (21:05):
All? Right? So, the Women in Industry Conference is an
annual event pretty much designed to empower and inspire women
interested in pursuing the career for a male dominant industry
such as petrochemical, it and all good in construction. Right.
So it's scheduled for April first, twenty twenty five at
the Moody Gardens Hotel spawn Convention Center in Galveston, Texas.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I know where that's the conference. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
The conference anticipates over one thousand and tendees from women's
of all ages, and I would say take as a
twenty five per person and highly anticipated that it will
sell out within weeks.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
I am I'm guessing Alicia that in my audience today
even there are people who have daughters or granddaughters who
could benefit greatly from this, and that at twenty five bucks.
I'd also bet that the value they're going to get
for that investment is more than the cost of admission. Absolutely,

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So what is going to be discussed? And is it
going to break out into groups? Are they're gonna how
how is the thing set up?

Speaker 4 (22:12):
All right? So pretty much we get high schools and
from all different areas. What happened is there is three sections.
One of it will be in exhibit hall, and then
we have panels and discussions also, and then you also
have your big area where are big sponsors will come

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in and speak and have all the good, good, good
things about construction. Pretty much, these kids will learn, network
and pretty much just be inspired all the way around
with this event.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
What age I guess it's mostly high school girls then?
Who are coming through this?

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Actually no, this platform is designed for women of all ages,
high school kids, college students, any any woman that's pretty
much considering a career transition as well.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Just yeah, if you want to learn more about that industry,
and that industry is pretty big. I looked up PCL
and you guys, you guys tackle some pretty dog on
big projects around the world, don't you. We sure do,
like refineries and stuff. Yeah, yeah, I was just coming
back actually I had to take my wife to Beaumont

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last weekend. It's a long story, it doesn't matter. But
on the way there and back, I just I'm marvel
at those at those just expansive. I don't know how
many miles are in in one of those areas up
there on I ten miles of pipe are there, but
it's got to be hundreds, I would think, and just
a lot, just one little refinery. It just it boggles

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the mind.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
To me, it really does, and especially me being in
the industry, seeing from moving around from companies, you know,
from maintenance into new construction. It is a whole new
world out here that especially women and young girls that
don't realize that they play a big part in it
as well, and there is room for them here.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
All they have to do is study the right things
in school. And like you said, it goes for any
woman of any age really who wants to who wants
to get into this and is willing to dedicate the
time and effort it takes to learn it, They're going
to be more than welcome because the job market's not
going to get any smaller for these things.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
I wouldn't think, oh, absolutely not. It's just going to
get bigger and bigger for sure.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
So let's go back to the basics for a minute
and talk about what type of courses a young woman
would need to take to qualify to do what PCL does.
And there's I know, there's a million different job descriptions there,
but generally what are they looking at?

Speaker 4 (24:45):
So typically, more or less we are right now in
the market, we're kind of looking for anyone with construction management.
But also, you know, you also don't have to have
a degree to get into this workforce, you know, but again,
career management or sorry, construction management is more or less

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kind of what we're focused on right now.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Okay, I saw that you're Alicia Deakou by the way
here from PCL on fifty plus. I saw that you're
going to be there at the at the conference name
tag or no name tag? Where you are?

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Name tag?

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Good? So they can look you up personally, just say
where is Alisha, and somebody will know how to and
you can you can guide them. There's going to be
I don't know that anybody's going to get hired there,
but there are job opportunities offered.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
There is that correct, That is correct, and there is
some could be a possibility that someone is hired right
then and there or wanted to come in for an interview.
This happens from everyone out there, there is a million opportunities.
I will be in the exhibit hall with our PCL
booth informing children and or sorry everyone about pretty much

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what PCL is, what we're looking for, and just pretty
much how to get into the dust, and that it's
open to everyone.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
For someone who is a little older, let's look at
this audience, call it thirty five plus women, because I
know I have a lot of children of older parents
who listen on their behalf. What would you tell them
if they're thinking to themselves, you know, it's just too
late for me to get started and something different. I
don't know if I should go to that. What would
you tell them?

Speaker 4 (26:21):
I would tell them to get on their best outfit
and show up to Moody Gardens on April first.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Well that doesn't sound like hard duty.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
At all, So no, it is open to They need
to sign up and they need to come out.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Here and to just kind of put a little whipped
cream on top of this. This job market, like I
mentioned earlier, where do you see it? Ten or fifteen
years from now. It's not like all these positions are
going to go away, is it.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Oh no, And they're.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Pretty high paying positions some aren't.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
They Absolutely, we need people every day. You know, you
have everyone that you know wants to retire, you know,
move on, and we PCL is big on career development,
you know, getting the new generation in here, you know,
to give us the ideas and things like that. Again,
that's that is kind of directed towards the younger women.

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But anyone with the experience and the knowledge of everyone,
not just PCO, is more than willing to have that
opportunity to get them in here.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Well, and what I think I would I think you
would agree that your industry, like any other really these days,
needs people who can think independently and think outside the
box and bring innovation to the table as well. Right, yeah, absolutely, yeah,
it'd be good. And maybe someday you get to retire too.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Huh yeah, maybe one day.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Boy, I'm looking for mine. But I've got a seventeen
year old right now, so i still got a ways
to go. And that's all right. Alicia Decou, thank you
so much. So this is April first at Moody Gardens
and where do they go to side up?

Speaker 4 (28:02):
So honestly, they can just look up Women in Industry
Conference in Galveston, Texas. I have a link, but it
is it is a pretty long link, but yeah, just
look up women and Women in Industry Conference in Galveston,
Texas and it will be all there for you.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
I found it at event bright b R I t
e event bright dot com and you can search for
it that way to Women in Industry Conference and it
popped up there as well. Best twenty five bucks. Pretty
much any woman who goes to it's going to ever
spend on, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
I will have to agree, all right, they don't want
to miss.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
What then we'll just tell them to go bye. Gosh,
we just did that.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Thank you, Alicia absolutely does.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
All right, I see you later, bye bye. All right,
we got to take a little break here. We will
be back to wrapper. Holy cow, it just goes so
fast sometimes. I think the segment three interview throws me
a curve. Will I always feel like I I've got
a lot of time for all this stuff I still
have in front of me here, and yet I don't.
We'll come back, We'll figure it out. We'll have some

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good things to talk about when we do get back.
More fifty plus on AM nine fifty kprc.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
Oh, I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
All.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Welcome back. Fourth and final segment of the program starts
right now. Thank you for listening, Thank you all for listening.
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take this into account. Spring Cleaning poll found that thirty
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My wife would agree that probably actually more of what

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I own isn't used very often. But here's the deal.
Fishing lures, depending on where I'm going, can sit idle
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That includes nothing in my garage and other people's stuff
we somehow ended up with. I'm not that way, don't.
I don't borrow things and not return them. I rarely
borrow anything anymore. I've been around long enough to have
what I need pretty much. And then thirteen percent is
actual junk that includes some sentimental stuff that we're going

(30:43):
to hang on to. Well, do you do you have
a much stuff accumulated yet as a young man? Yes? Oh,
do you really? What is your guilty collection? Pleasure? Oh?
I buy a lot of books. Do you really like books? Yes?
What particular kind? I read a lot of the fiction. Really,
we may have some stuff at the house. My wife

(31:04):
was an English major in college at A and M
and has a bunch of books. And I'm so you're
looking for literary fiction. Oh, okay, let me see what
I can find. She because we've we've really been thinking
about downsizing, and every book on the shelf that on
her bookshelf at least she's read at least two or

(31:27):
three times probably, So that's just she loves to read,
she really does. Moving on some good news, Verizon, you
know who Verizon is, has erased ten million dollars in debt,
not for you or me, but for sixty five hundred

(31:47):
account holders in North Carolina residents who were impacted by
Hurricane Helene. So who's next? Who's next? Giant corporation world.
Those people didn't get squat from our government after that storm,
and they slid entirely out of the news cycle once

(32:08):
California caught fire. Shamefully they did. The federal government back
then just abandoned them, just abandon them, and shame on
them for doing it too. I was really disappointed when
all of that kind of unfolded. Will I'm going to
turn to you meeting hangovers privacy please or sticky situation

(32:32):
meeting hangovers? How many meetings do you have to go
to around here? Many? Or not here? Probably none?

Speaker 3 (32:39):
I mean sometimes with their few and far between and brief.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Mom.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Sometimes let's just let's.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Move on from our personal experiences with meetings, says here,
did you do you ever have meeting hangovers? Twenty eight
percent of work meetings leave employees feeling less focused, less motivated,
and less productive, and ninety percent of the people surveyed

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said that happens to them.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
So, Mom, I have hangovers every day. Let's just let's just.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Run that into the big boss's office.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
I have work hangovers every day. Really yeah, every day
I'm leaving working shripping and stumbling. I don't know where
I am half the time, I'm disoriented, honestly, and I'm
not just saying this. I'm not buttering anybody up. But
our meetings are usually pretty concise. Every now and then
they get a little bit long winded, but they're typically

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concise and beneficial.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Those are the two words I would use to describe
our meetings. Money for nothing, hey, big spender or fake news?
Uh okay, I knew you wouldn't go there. Gen Z
will gen Z's total income because there's a lot of
me out there, one point one trillion dollars still not

(34:04):
anything like my generation. But that's okay, And that includes
earnings from both primary jobs and side hustles. And I
kept reading and I found that says despite higher earnings,
financial independence remains elusive for many gen Zers. Forty two
percent of gen Z adults eighteen and older still live

(34:26):
with their parents, and rising home prices, inflation, and student
loan debt contribute to their financial anxiety. And one more
sentence here somewhat worthy. Only twenty eight percent seek financial
advice from traditional financial institutions or professional advisors. And this

(34:48):
is the part that scares me a little bit. For
gen Z, relying instead on family, friends, and social media influencers.
If you think if you're getting your investment advice from
a social media influencer, know that they got paid handsomely
to tell you where to put your money, but may

(35:10):
not have any not even a dime of their money
in that institution. Just saying no, that one's not a
big deal. Oh Spring, daylight saving time comes back Saturday
night and into Sunday morning. Hallelujah, Finally I can finish

(35:31):
eighteen holes after work again. I'm looking forward to that,
or at least have that extra hour to go out
there and do a little practice and maybe do a
little fishing now that I've seen, I've actually seen that
the cormorants didn't need every bass in the lakes, So
that's good news. Missed it by that much? Will? Do

(35:53):
you know the TV reference from that phrase?

Speaker 3 (35:58):
No, yeah, what show missed it by that much? I
don't know, get hurt of it?

Speaker 2 (36:04):
It's called get smart.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Okay, And it was a about a I saw the
Steve Carrell movie.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yeah, a bungling, a bungling secret agent kind of thing,
A nerdy or no, not a nerdy, just a totally
inept James Bond type of a character. Escaped from toys
r US fake news or what?

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Now?

Speaker 2 (36:29):
How much time do we have? Why does this thing
go away? I don't know prematurely. By the way, what
what do I have now?

Speaker 4 (36:36):
Uh me?

Speaker 3 (36:36):
You have a minute and nine?

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Okay, I'm just gonna go straight to fake news because
I find this ridiculous. This I don't know who came
up with this. It says the best workplace culture. The
best place is with great workplace culture? Are you ready?

Speaker 4 (36:54):
Will?

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Yeah? Washington, d C? New York, which is a mud
hole and not the New Yorker's faults. Uh, Illinois, New
Jersey and Massachusetts. That boy, aren't they just all right there?
Little peas in a pod and they're supposed to all
have the best workplace culture? I would I would contest

(37:15):
that on many levels. Conversely, the worst cultures are Idaho, Wyoming, Wyaming,
oh my god, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico. I'm
not buying that either. New Mexico, I would bet is
not a horrible place to work and find a good culture.
Who does these things?

Speaker 4 (37:35):
Will?

Speaker 2 (37:36):
People who want to get notoriety. I guessed somebody to
read their garbage?

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Really so, just because it disagrees with your worldview. Huh,
well no.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
I'd just like to see more information on where they
get their information.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Well, then you got to click the links, Doug, I
don't have that. Yeah, that's the problem. We got ten seconds.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Saying I disagree with that. Ten seconds. This is all
I need to say goodbye and let everybody know we
will be back tomorrow. So happy that you listened. Thanks
for letting us in. We'll see you. Audios.