EP 46: Phone Calls In The Age Of Texts

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Transcript

Surprise Calls Vs Text First

SPEAKER_02 0:00

So, so listen, but both of you guys, and and probably the reason we've been doing business for so long is both of you guys are the answer every day, all day, no matter what. Phone up your ass, uh, you know, so it vibrates just in case so you don't miss it. Um so in today's here's my question in today's day, in today's business etiquette world is is calling somebody considered almost like bad manners without a text message before or coordinating a call. You know, so if I get a call out of nowhere, right, it's kind of like, dude, this guy couldn't text me before, he couldn't like kind of set up a call, right? Just calling out of nowhere. So I don't know. That that's I'm starting to see it that way lately. Maybe it's because I'm I'm I'm getting bombarded every single day, all day by calls. Maybe a regular person that you know in the regular world, he doesn't see it that way, but yeah, I'm starting to see it that way.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

I mean, for me, I I you know my preference is a phone call always. Yeah. Uh, and only because I feel like the the issue can be dealt with more quickly and uh with with better nuance, like I I get a sense of of what the other person is is thinking about it.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

Yeah, but you'll always right, but you'll you'll always text me and say, Hey, are you available? Or hey, are you busy?

SPEAKER_00 1:20

That's because I know it's your preference. Um, really?

SPEAKER_02 1:22

So normally you wouldn't.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

Most people I call. Most people I always call. Interesting. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

I just Richard, how about you? Am I am I getting crazy on that or or are you seeing it the same way?

SPEAKER_06 1:32

You know, as a general premise, I hate being contacted, period.

SPEAKER_02 1:38

No matter what type of contact could be a fax, it could be anything.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

I don't like human beings, so if they could just leave me alone.

SPEAKER_06 1:45

Yeah, I I really hate getting calls out of nowhere. Um I got a buddy of mine who who um he does the same shit, bro. He just he wants to fucking call, you know, and it's like I get so aggravated, I don't even pick it up sometimes. I just text him, what's up? You know, like he's calling, I push send it to voicemail, and I'm like, what's up? It's just tell me what you fucking need, bro. Like, I don't need the whole hey, what's up, bro? How are you?

SPEAKER_02 2:13

Well, that's another thing. That's another thing, good the greeting. So, okay, dude, if I'm gonna answer, please let's skip the greeting. Yep, skip the hey, how are we doing? Uh, you know, how's everything? I was you know, dude, just just go get to the point. But I I think it's I it has to be because we are getting called all fucking day. Getting called is just part of our business.

SPEAKER_06 2:35

Yeah, if you don't get phone calls, if you don't get phone calls, you're gonna start wanting them. So I mean, I think it's it's it's like anything else, you know?

SPEAKER_02 2:43

Yeah, so kind of like how do you see it then? So when somebody calls you, you get happy they called you.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

Uh my policy is I always answer my phone. So yeah, I know it's not a matter of my happy about it. It's oftentimes like if you were to call me, I know it's a big deal because I know um right because if I'm getting on a club, I'm calling it it has to be really important.

SPEAKER_02 3:02

I'm calling.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

Yeah, this is this is like you know, come bail me out of jail, kind of. I mean, this is something like I need you on a plane now, yeah, kind of thing. And so um it it it definitely depends upon who it is. And I mean, I I get it to some extent. I I think the reason why in my own mind I don't mind calling is like I'm totally at peace with if somebody can't take the call, just send it the voicemail, send me a text message afterwards. I mean, uh I I feel like it's the more personal way of being in contact with people. Uh, and I think that that's that's actually the place. Like it's harder to replace with AI a phone conversation than it is a text message, right? How do you how do you know who you're talking to?

SPEAKER_02 3:40

We're starting to live life on things that can't be replaced by AI. Well, very much. I mean, I think plumbing, plumbing and phone calls.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

Plumbing and phone calls. I think that you see people are are very uh very much, oh, you did that with AI. Like it's it's automatically you know moved down in the pecking order of what it what the value of it is. Yeah. So uh, I mean, that's not why I've done it, but I I'm finding that to be almost an ancillary benefit of it. Because for me, when I'm making phone calls, typically I'm just trying to let people know, hey, look, I took the deliberate time and effort to remember you and to let you know that you matter, because most people don't do that. And um that's yeah, I'm even starting, I'm even starting to hate emails.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

I'm almost thinking, you know, I'm I'm basically 80% text message now on everything. Right? Richard, how about you? You're you're what what if you had to if you had to get phone call? Okay, let's break it down in a pie of 100%. Phone call, email, text message, like running business shit.

SPEAKER_06 4:38

No, I mean, email for me is by far the the most used, whether it's on the phone or really yeah, because I'm you know you're an attorney, it's different, yeah. Yeah, I mean I I I have to prepare things, I have to write things, you know, attach attach things. Yeah, typing something long on a text message. I don't like it. I'm not good at dictating. I I I never do that. Um, I don't like dictating to text or anything like that. One

Skip The Greeting Get To It

SPEAKER_06 5:05

thing that really drives me crazy, and you're the number one perpetrator of this, is the texting me my name. Like, I fucking hate that, bro. Like Monica. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you text me, you're like Richard.

SPEAKER_02 5:19

And I'm like, I mean, listen, I know, I know, I know that pisses you off, is why I do it. I mean, there's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_06 5:25

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

I just want to make sure you're clear when I do that, it's it's uh, you know what he really hates, though. You know what I do that? So let's say he owes me something, right? So let's say he has to get me a document by Wednesday, right? He's already getting he's already getting lit up here. So and I know that if I if I just communicate if I ask him about the document, he'll fucking go off the handle, right? So I'll just ask him how his day is doing that day, right? So so he's breathing hard already. So it's like, hey man, how's your day? I hope you have a wonderful and productive day, or you know, I'll I'll do something like that where it reminds him I'm alive, but I don't really remind him of the document that I'm waiting for, or whatever. So that's that's actually my favorite.

SPEAKER_06 6:10

People in my office do that to me too. They're like, Richie, and I'm like, oh my god, just unload the fucking bad news, bro. The problem is that it the problem is that in in my business, people are always calling with a problem. Like nobody's ever really calling with fucking good news, bro. You know, so it's like if you're not being contacted, bro, like there's not no one needs you to fix anything. That's why, like, some some chat messages are so much, you know, groups are so much better than others. You know, it's like my wife put it perfectly one time. She's like, you know why your old friends are my favorite? And I'm like, why is that? And she goes, because they don't want anything from you, you know. It's like it's like everyone else, bro, it's like want something, need something, bro. Like, what do I gotta do? Like, what problems do I have to fucking fix for you? Yeah, it's just it's just brush the worst, bro.

SPEAKER_02 7:01

But yeah, well, I mean, if if that's I mean it's literally your job, it's to solve people's problems. I mean, you can't fucking complain. That's it, but you signed up for it.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

No, I can complain because I didn't know that was not disclosed, and yeah, as we know in real estate, disclosure is important.

SPEAKER_06 7:20

Yeah, it was supposed to be bro, sexy shit and soup and uh cache, you know, things like that, bro.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

But um the one poor poor poor Janelle, and there's also people that that if a text message comes in, um I'm already thinking it's bad news, like poor Janelle. You know what I mean? So like it's it's it's like oh immediate. I'm like, fuck. Oh, here's another thing. How about this? I got mad at Mirela the other day for this, right? So she calls me with like really bad news on a Friday at 5:30. Screw up your weekend. I mean, I got super pissed. I'm like, hey man, like fucking seriously, you know I can't do anything about this till Monday, two, two, whatever. Why would you fucking call me? Why would you tell me this today instead of just how about 6 a.m. on Monday? How about that? So when I wake up, it's there. I mean, uh that's another, you know what I mean? Like, can we have a little bit of uh I don't know, risk not respect, but like uh consideration for people's uh I don't know, man, lifespan in this business. No, I I she no, she thought that she heard it right there and she didn't want she wanted to tell me right away, you know, that type of stuff. But I'm like, I got like legitimately upset. I'm like, dude, seriously like all fucking around aside, like you there's no logical reason for you having to tell me this now. You know what I mean? Like there's just really no reason. There's no so you know that's another one. Communication, uh, business, business ethics. Tobar, can you can you can you uh put that down? I'm sorry. I know I'm interfering with your uh I'm in your space, but there's literally nowhere else I can go.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

Yeah, some some business business tact, you know, like yeah. I I think the one that actually crushes my soul are the people that send 16 text messages to take and send one message, you know. Oh, do you mean like instead of a paragraph? Yeah, but like in in in in pieces. Uh there's there's one guy in particular I know it's like 14 text messages to take and say like one one little thing.

SPEAKER_04 9:29

And I I don't know blocking.

SPEAKER_06 9:33

Not only that, but these guys that type in in bursts like that, they also they're slow because you see the bubbles and it's like bo, hit send.

SPEAKER_00 9:41

Go, go, go, I'm watching, waiting for this to come, and yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:49

It's interesting. Remember when uh when uh remember when when we were busting Hugo's balls, uh Hugo was uh Richard's old partner, um, because he wrote a letter uh on uh uh and it said uh um hope his correspondence finds you doing well. He started the fucking paragraph with that, right? I mean it's like dude, that that that was used when your fucking shit was sent on a horse somewhere, you know what I mean? And and by the time it got there, you're hoping they're still doing well. Right now it's a fucking text message, they're doing exactly they were a fucking second ago. You know what I mean? But it's it's crazy how long um, you know, how how how far we've gone with the with the with the communications,

From Letters To Instant Complaints

SPEAKER_02 10:30

you know. Like before it was a letter.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

I mean, if you were sending a letter to California, dude, take one I'll give you one from last night. I I I'm watching, and I knew this was true, but I was watching something uh there's a um a series on Netflix on the guys that uh that basically were the front famous frontiersmen in the U.S. that that pushed this along. And it it's really well done. I I've enjoyed it. It's it's it's like good historical stuff. And um they're talking about Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans. And the thing that was crazy about the Battle of New Orleans is it happened three weeks after the war was over because while they had signed the treaty over in Europe, news of it hadn't gotten to the actual troops. So they fought this entire battle. There were these thousands of guys that killed. It was actually an amazing thing. They had like 15,000 British against 4,500 Americans, and the Americans cleaned their clock. It's what put Andrew Jackson on the national scene, what all that fun stuff. But the the crazy thing is, the actual battle occurred three weeks after the war was over because communication took so long.

SPEAKER_02 11:36

Oh, because they didn't even know it was over.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

They didn't even know it was over.

SPEAKER_02 11:39

So what's it's like that Japanese guy that lived like 20 years inside a cave after the after the it was hilarious?

SPEAKER_00 11:46

I I want you to realize how absolutely first world our problems are. We can communicate instantly with anyone anywhere in the world, and we're complaining about how they do it with us at this point.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

You've seen the Louis CK uh uh uh uh he has a whole series, like a whole skit on on that on communication, where it's like you know, he's like, dude, I'm sitting on a plane with a guy, and he's sending a text message on a fucking plane, and he's upset because the message didn't go through yet. He's and he go he actually goes back to the sky, yeah. You're in the sky, and then he talks about these these uh settlers back in the days. He's like, dude, those guys would leave today, and it would take three years to get somewhere. By the time you got there, everything was different. You fucking died, somebody else was fucking your wife and having kids. You know what I mean? Like the whole thing by the time you got to the other side, everybody was it was everything was just completely different.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

It's crazy. Oh man, I mean, you read Marco Polo stuff, I mean, like, you know, guys gone for 20 years.

SPEAKER_02 12:48

You mean the guy with in the pool with the game in the pool?

SPEAKER_00 12:51

Yeah, that's the that's that's the point where the game came. Yeah, it's from from him. But I mean, he went from from Venice, he was Venetian, all the way to the to China. And so a lot of the stuff that we have on uh Kubla Khan and uh all that stuff is from his his tellings of that guy. You know, they they were the original people with paper money, he was a traitor and he went all the way over there, but it was like 20 years he was gone uh and came back, and like everybody thought he was dead, like it was it was crazy, like they moved on from him kind of thing. It's uh yeah, and okay.

SPEAKER_02 13:23

They moved on, right? Yeah, and and now you get send a text message, you know. Like again, I I was I was upset a little while ago because I was outside trying to get trying to get signal on my whatever an iPad is is a is what what is an iPad really? It's a uh a TV a screen that in the air and it's supposed to be getting signal. I was upset because I tried different areas of the garden outside that I am in in Virginia and you guys are in Miami. You know, it's it's crazy how spoiled we get with stuff, but and and and and what it's gonna be. How you know what here's

How AI Changes What We Ask

SPEAKER_02 14:00

another thing, man. Like I don't even ask anybody shit anymore, I just ask AI. Yep, that that has to make your job easier, Richard, right? Or or or harder. People are not calling you for regular shit anymore because I mean it's like you can literally ask it it's harder, bro.

SPEAKER_06 14:15

It's not, it's like yeah, people think that they learned because or that they know because they got the answer, and I'm sorry, it's just not like that, bro. It's it's just it's just not like that, bro.

SPEAKER_00 14:25

Yeah, it's made them more certain of their stupidity.

SPEAKER_06 14:29

Just watch a video, bro, on how to perform fucking heart surgery and then just go and do the surgery, bro.

SPEAKER_02 14:34

Okay, right. But like uh three months ago, three months ago, I was doing one AI search a week. Now I might be doing five, six a day, seven, ten, even depending on what day it is. I mean, how about you guys?

SPEAKER_00 14:53

Oh, yeah, yeah. A day, I use it for more things. I I think I told you guys when my I my trip to Iceland, I planned the entire thing with AI, including it told me what kind of clothes to wear, how to layer them, uh, you know, what to buy. Yeah, well, I mean, like, you know Was it wrong?

SPEAKER_02 15:07

Was it wrong on anything?

SPEAKER_00 15:08

No, man. I mean, what's crazy is my wife always runs cold. She was never cold the entire trip. We always had the right amount of like, you know, because you're always trying to take and like get your temperature just right based upon, you know, the how how much wind there is, whatever. And so between the layers that it gave us and opening and unzipping and whatever, you were able to take and find that that good place, no matter how cold it was, that you were okay. It was, it was good. And waterfalls, so you're getting wet, right? And these clothes, I mean, they dried instantly and all this kind of stuff. It was it was really good. Because as a person that lives southeast Florida, what the hell do I know about you know, freezing cold waterfall conditions in a freaking Iceland? And so it was it was really uh it was really, really good. Plus, it told me, you know, where to stop and everything. It was it was it was excellent. It was it was the travel agent that I didn't know that I needed. Hmm. Yeah, it's crazy, man.

SPEAKER_02 15:59

Like I I'll I'll ask it, just regular anything, and and and and it's just amazing. It's it's a thing, like you know, Richard mentioned it on the last podcast. It's it's a thing that it's a window into like everything, like every single thing. There's not one little like aspect of life that you can't just and at least get an idea. And now the another one that I'm using all the time is the picture one, not just to fuck around and make funny fucking pictures of Richard and shit, making them, you know, like like like dressed like this or that. I mean, it's it's also you know, like, oh, uh, give me what should go in this corner, or how would this wall look a different color? Gemini.

SPEAKER_04 16:39

Yeah, like you could just like you couldn't have a lot of people.

Always Answering And Night Boundaries

SPEAKER_00 18:12

And and see this takes us full circle. That's the reason why I always answer my phone in case it's that phone call. That that that for me is actually something, yeah, that's you know, like can I can't I take the the punishment of the the daily grind to make sure that when when it is that phone call, I'm there. It's uh I I something I think about. And I what about at night? Do you you keep your phone on at night? Uh yeah. I mean, the only benefit thing that I have going for me is if I put it on this charging stand and it turns sideways, it goes into that kind of like do not disturb unless it's an emergency kind of thing. But yeah, uh, I do. I mean, if I if I get a phone call at two o'clock in the morning, I'm gonna be pissed, but I'm gonna answer. Well, I mean, who's gonna call me at 2 a.m.? I mean, if there's a likelihood of a bad thing happening to somebody you care about, two o'clock in the morning would be when it's, you know.

SPEAKER_04 19:01

And so I don't get that.

SPEAKER_06 19:19

I used to have it on not well, I mean, it's it's always on, but I mean I used to have the noise, you know, uh not on do not disturb all the time. And I realized, bro, a few years ago, I'm like, who's in my house right now? My wife and my daughter. Everyone else, bro, if they die overnight, I'll do that. I'll find out in the morning, bro. Go fuck yourself. I'm I'm I'm doing it, bro. What am I? A fucking what what am I, 911? There's nothing I can do. I think in the fucking morning. Get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

No, uh there's there's there's enough people outside my house that I would I would go to bath for that that for me I think it's a little bit more.

SPEAKER_06 19:57

I in fact it it's happened to me. I woke up a couple years, you know, I don't know, two, three years ago now, six in the morning or five thirty. I wake up to go to the gym, I look at my phone, and there's a text from my brother Oscar saying that another brother of mine had died. Oh wow, yeah, yeah. So it's like, you know, by then, and I'm glad I missed it because by then all the unpleasantries, like the go to the scene and find him in the room and the whole fucking thing, and watch like all that had passed, bro. Had I been awake, I would have gone to all that.

SPEAKER_05 20:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 20:29

So I was like, Oh, you did all the heavy lifting, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

It's just uh over thing.

SPEAKER_06 21:01

Is he breaking up?

SPEAKER_00 21:16

I I wanna wait before you before you respond, Barrister, I just want to note it for the record that he waited for you to be drinking as he did it. You could work in restaurants with skills like that, you know that when you you go to take a bite and they always ask you how the food is, right? If you take a bite of food, it was it was a sense of timing that was was amazing there. I'm not gonna respond. This is one of the times where it's painful to be in the middle. Um, I mean, I think there was actually something interesting, a couple of interesting things

Gen Z Brings Back In Store Shopping

SPEAKER_00 21:55

that I saw. Uh and I don't know if any of it uh is exciting to you guys, but the one that I saw that was What's pretty interesting was that the uh retail sales in person retail sales are actually doing quite well. And the reason why is overwhelmingly Generation Z, more so than anyone wants to shop in person. And so 52% of people shop in person, uh, or 52% of purchases were made in person by society in general. Gen Z is at 62%. So they're actually going to stores, going to I like one.

unknown 22:30

I like them.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

I just don't think I'm with me, which I I think we're at the end of X. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:45

Yeah, I'm nice. Do um not, I mean, it depends. For for some things, yeah, but not. I mean, I don't shop that much, let's start with that. But when I do, um I buy some shit on Amazon and um yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:16

Oh yeah. No, I I I would tell you I shop, and when I shop, I shop online. I I don't go to stores as as much as I can. The idea ninety I mean jeans and maybe shirts I I'll go to the store to get because I can't get them online, the ones that I like, but that's about it.

SPEAKER_06 23:38

Yeah, I'm like I'm kind of like an instant gratification type of person. So if I can if I can get it, I'd rather do that. Um but I mean, even nowadays, bro, like Apple products, you can order it now. I can order it right now, it'll be here this afternoon. So it's like in that sense, I know what I want. Why the fuck would I get up and drive across town and deal with parking and traffic and shit like that?

SPEAKER_04 24:03

Oh, restaurants, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 24:15

It's okay, it's too hot.

Steaks Bread And Restaurant Debates

SPEAKER_00 28:03

Because obviously, when I'm I'm speaking, my uh my food is a is a pass-through to the people that book me, and I don't like to take in front of a big bill so I can get a steak, but it's not you know, steakhouse kind of price. The one that I go to now, if I have the twist between Longhorn and this one, Texas Roadhouse. And the reason why is that freaking bread, man, that freaking fresh bread that they come out with super hot, the butter, they're like a little honey or something like that. Yeah, man. Yeah, it's you know, and the problem is they bring you out one cup of butter with like five rolls, and you're like, what do I look like? I need one of these exact I'm gonna be mainlining this right now. So can you go ahead and just bring it back out? But yeah, the the steak is good, the chili is it, which I'm not usually a chili fan, but that's uh one of their sides is really good. Yeah, I don't know. Medium rare guy. Medium rare, bro. Yeah, medium rare. If you go if you go to France, if you go to France in Paris, they will serve it to you rare unless you ask for it differently. In Paris, it's the only way to take any like when you ask for anything else, they give you the snooty like side eye a little bit. I'll tell you my my mom, if you my mom, if you took a hairdryer over it, she's ready to go. I mean, it's yeah, no, uh and I got a Ger German customer too, he wants it blue, is what they call it.

SPEAKER_04 31:19

The rote something like that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:38

Yep. Have you have you have you ever watched the barbecue competition that they have the show on Netflix of those guys that like the barbecue pitmaster, I think is what it's called. It's actually a pretty cool show. And and actually, Argentina is the the trip I'm hoping to do next year that AI is helping me to plan. Um by the way. I like I know one of the places I love to go whenever I can find them is a Rudy's, uh, the beef brisket place.

SPEAKER_06 33:20

Uh look look look, check out call something called Outlaw. There's a barrel smoker that's really badass. Outlaw. Yeah, Outlaw. Yeah, I cook with different woods too. Um, and I go to Grazianos and buy what's called the Quebracho, it's called axe breaker. It's a very, very hard red wood and it's the best. Quebracho or axe breaker. Yeah, it's hard to get it hot. It takes a minute to get it hot, but the flavor is second to none. I don't have a firebox, I have um like a Texas de Brazil style with a bottom that you just heat slowly. Dude, that table got hit by lightning. Yeah, split it right in half. Yeah, it was I had it for a long time. Yeah, it was a huge butcher block, but bro, it we made like a thousand pounds too, bro. Yeah, yeah, they were heavy short. So what I'm I'm I won't be I won't be cooking for a couple

AI Trip Planning And Germany Prep

SPEAKER_06 36:33

weeks. I'm leaving to Germany Friday. Yeah. What are you doing there, bud? Say it again. Pleasure. Yeah, my long my my longest trip ever.

SPEAKER_00 36:51

Oh man. I know. I I was there, I was there two years ago. It's it's a very cool place. Make sure to uh get the properst. I can't wait. I'm looking forward to it. I have a customer that used to so I did a short sale for this guy. Uh he was a buyer on a short sale in a building that he loved. He'd sold his unit there uh when the housing crisis came, like 2010, he comes, and it's a short sale. I said to him, Look, I'll put you onto the buyer of this property. I understand it's gonna take a long time, but you know, we'll get you a good deal if if you stick with it. Because you know how it was with the short sales, you know, you just you hope the buyer is still there at the end. If not, you're looking at scavenging for a new buyer to take and replace the OR. So this guy stuck with me and I got him a very good deal. In fact, I got him several units in the same building. Um, but after that deal, like we were lifelong friends, we were united by real estate. So he would smuggle Bratwurst into the US for me and grill it at his house like four times a year when he would come. Oh man, and these things ever heard of Bratwurst? Really?

SPEAKER_01 37:51

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 37:53

It is a sausage, it's a German sausage, but man, when they grill it and he's got this low and central his wife. If she worked, honestly, if she worked for the cocaine cartels, they would never get busted the way she wrapped this stuff, man. I mean, it was plastic wrapped, and she had this like entire way of doing it. Because the thing is they owned a house here, so they never had any clothes or anything they were bringing with them. They only brought with them like empty bags, largely, and some stuff that they wanted while they were here, because there's stuff here you can't get there, and stuff there you can't get here. And so when they would go back, they'd bring all stuff from here that you can't get there that people would ask them for. So like cool whip, ranch dressing, these things do not exist over there. So they would have they would bring them, bring them over, but um I think it's I think it's the opposite between the two of us.

SPEAKER_06 38:49

Yeah. No, out switch is in Poland, but we are going to Daco.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

Yeah. I mean, if you haven't done it, this is the this is the prompt I've been using, Rich, and it's really worth doing. And the more that you you you use it, the better it gets. Take and tell uh AI where you're going and say, I'm going here. What are the things I need to see? And just have it give you a list and you say, Oh, I don't like like for me, I'm not a big wine drinker. So, like, when it tell me, I'll go on this wine to like I don't drink. So now it knows. Like, I didn't even recommend that. But I mean, I was going, I was planning a trip to Italy, and I was like, hey, I'm gonna be here. I was like, I said to her, how long do I need to be to tell you the length of time I should stay? I was like, what if I should extend it a day? What what would I miss if I what would I miss if I didn't extend it that day? Oh well, you're gonna be right near the Ferrari plant. You can go in and do the Ferrari tour, and Lamborghini is right down there, and they have a tour. I'm like, I'm staying in the extra day, like I wouldn't even have known that kind of thing. And so, like, it's really good if you just put in there, like what I'm gonna be here, what's the things I need to see? It'll give you a laundry list and it'll start to develop your personality of how you like to travel, and it makes it really easy to plan trips after that. Oh no, no, no. There's as far as pork, like they're really big on pork.

SPEAKER_06 40:05

Yeah, I I thought I thought that too, and and I've been like watching videos getting ready, and apparently they're a lot of great food. I'm looking forward to it. Oh, the schnitzel, the pork muckle.

SPEAKER_04 40:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 40:39

Yeah, a lot of schnitzel, um, a lot of uh sauerkraut, pork knuckle. Um, you know, things like that.

SPEAKER_00 40:49

A lot of pork. Um, so like a lot of the like the um what you get at a Puerto Rican restaurant, the pork like that with the the crispy skin and all that kind of stuff, they'll have that there. Um they'll have a lot of baked products. Um bread is very good. They have like, you know, apple strudel and stuff like this. These are actually traditional German, uh German desserts. So I mean it's not like it's not like Paris or or or or Italy, or I say I should say France or Italy, where you're gonna have like they're known for cuisine, but the stuff they do have is pretty stinking good.

SPEAKER_04 44:20

Oh, hysterical, bro. The comments are amazing. There are some funny people.

SPEAKER_06 44:41

A really good one that's not not racial, so you might not like it or political. But uh Henry Cavill, you know who that is? It's the guy that played Superman, like the most fucking beautiful man ever in the world. The guy's fucking no, not the recent, the one before him. And um he he's no man, no. Henry Cavill, just look it up. And um the guy's, you know, he's world famous, heartthrob, and they interview him, you know, about like girls, and he's like, No, you know, I find that if you like a girl, you just ask her out, it always works for me. And then and then the people start tweeting, people start tweeting it, and and the comments are so great, it's like, if you die, just resurrect Jesus. And then it's like just paint Picasso. There's so many good ones, bro.

SPEAKER_04 45:43

All right, well, it's one hour, I gotta jump.

SPEAKER_01 45:50

No, we're we're forty-five minutes.

SPEAKER_06 46:02

Yeah, and by all means, I'll be getting it done from Germany next week, so awesome, man. What choice do I have?

SPEAKER_00 46:12

Yeah. You asked me to take and make sure it happened, so I did what I could to set the precedent. Yep.

SPEAKER_06 46:24

All right, ladies.

SPEAKER_00 46:25

Please, please make sure to let us know next time how your wife is doing. Um,

Flights Seats And 747 Trivia

SPEAKER_00 47:03

nice.

SPEAKER_04 47:04

There you go.

SPEAKER_06 47:07

Rich, who you flying out on, bud? I don't have the first damn clue. My wife, the cruise director, has handled everything. Spirit.

SPEAKER_00 47:18

Yeah, no, I'm I'm sorry. You're talking to a guy super persnickety about, you know, my my flights and my seats and all that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_06 47:24

So literally, I didn't I didn't even know where I was going fully until like yesterday when somebody asked me for the 15th time and she sent me the itinerary.

SPEAKER_00 47:30

So Ah, nice. All right, so you that that's something you delegate.

SPEAKER_01 47:34

Good stuff, man.

SPEAKER_04 47:45

Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_06 47:52

I'm not looking forward to the flights.

SPEAKER_00 47:54

You see, I I I do the the flight to Iceland, I had Delta one the entire way there and back, so my seat went flat. I mean, I it was.

SPEAKER_06 48:05

I like Delta. I I flew it recently and I I found out it was much better, but like I said, I don't do the booking.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

Yeah, you got you got people for that. Well, I mean, if he's smart, what he could do is he could take Lufthansa directly from Miami because they have a direct on a 747 that goes, one of the last 747 still flying, actually, uh, that goes to uh to Frankfurt. That's where we're going, Miami to Frankfurt. If you're flying a direct, then that that is the Lufthansa flight. I believe that's the only one.

SPEAKER_06 48:37

No, they have I don't need to run it, they have it for me.

SPEAKER_00 48:40

So if if you got business class, you're gonna have the choice to be downstairs or upstairs. The the Germans, my German folks have said upstairs is the place to be. It's only two and two on each side. It's good. First class, interestingly enough, on a 747, you're in the very front nose of the plane, which the pilots are above you on a 747. They were originally built for cargo and not for passengers. I didn't know that up until very recently. But if you take one A or one, I think it's J, the windows are actually slightly on an angle. So you can actually almost kind of see forward a little bit from your seat uh in first class. So there's some useless facts for you guys. I like airplanes. All right, guys, till next time. Take care. Wait, wait, wait.