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The 3W Podcast: Ryan Harrington
Ever wondered how youth sports shape family dynamics and community bonds? Join us on The 3W Podcast as we welcome my good friend Ryan Harrington to share the hilarious and heartwarming stories while balancing career, community, family and friends in Northwest Arkansas. Hear Ryan's side-splitting story about negotiating with his son Will for a new bat and the friendships that travel sports foster among parents and coaches. This episode is a treasure trove of funny anecdotes and real-life lessons from the ball field to the boardroom.
Balancing a thriving career and a bustling family life is no small feat, but Ryan Harrington makes it look almost effortless. We chat about his globe-trotting business trips to places like New York, Cannes and Las Vegas, and the unique challenges of managing a leadership role at General Mills while prioritizing family. Listen in as Ryan unveils his leadership secrets that promote team autonomy and productivity.
Our discussion takes a thoughtful turn as we explore the importance of community involvement and corporate social responsibility. Ryan shares how General Mills is making a tangible impact in Northwest Arkansas through sustainability and philanthropy initiatives. Plus, get our take on the latest trends in digital marketing, online shopping, and even our favorite breakfast cereals. This episode is packed with stories, laughs, and plenty of wisdom for parents, professionals, and anyone interested in community engagement.
Hey everyone, welcome to the 3W Podcast home of the who, what, where I have my friend Ryan Harrington with me. Ryan, hi, this could go south real fast because Ryan and I have a personal connection, so he could throw me under the bus.
Speaker 3:Probably, I probably will.
Speaker 1:So how do we know each other?
Speaker 3:I met you through baseball, was it?
Speaker 1:three years ago, worst coach ever. Was I bad, awful, the worst. You should see the Twitter feed.
Speaker 3:I coached her son Chase for two years Was it two years?
Speaker 1:Three. Yeah, no, you're right. Then Braden was last year, yes, then we moved on, I guess, if we want to call it that, I moved to Will's team.
Speaker 3:I have four kids right so. I can't spend all my time, no, with just one kid, yeah well, we'll touch on personal here in a minute.
Speaker 1:But yes, you were Chase's coach in baseball at Legacy. So, uh, what? 12u, 13u? And then we had a paid coach 14U, yeah. So yeah, lots of, lots of times I know had, I know lots of lots of times I know had.
Speaker 3:I know Lots of times.
Speaker 1:Lots of times Okay.
Speaker 3:I didn't complain too much. You guys actually really didn't complain to my face at all.
Speaker 1:No, I don't think I really had any complaints about you.
Speaker 3:Okay, that's good.
Speaker 1:I don't think I really had any complaints until you weren't coaching, to be completely honest. Well, that's good, yeah, that's good, yeah. To be completely honest, that's good, chase. And.
Speaker 3:George go. When I coached the 8-year-olds last year, they had plenty of confidence.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of magic on that team. I've only watched one game or a half of a game and there's a lot of magic. So, having gone through this travel baseball thing and we started really late, so we started in 9U and I feel really sick, Isn't in nine?
Speaker 3:you and I feel really crazy that started nine years late it's so late, but you're behind the eight ball.
Speaker 1:Seven, eight you travel ball is where it's at. That is like a money grab and all the things I'm like. You put them on a travel team. You make these parents pay for all these lessons. They will do it, they will show up, they will be in the gear. Yeah, and they're all in. Yeah, so for sure you're burning bridges $400. Bats, all the stuff, yeah for every year the worst swing on the planet.
Speaker 3:I love it. You know, I just did negotiate with Will yesterday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, is he getting a new bat?
Speaker 3:No, so the option was. So, colin, who's my 14 year, or 15old, 15-year-old?
Speaker 1:Oh 15.
Speaker 3:So they moved to high school. They moved to that drop three bat, which is another racket right. Yes, that they have all these different bats that you have for different ages, so he had to get a new bat when we were up in Minnesota, and Will's gotten a lot of hand-me-downs right, of course he's the last child. So he gets hand-me-downs. So he wanted a new bat. He wanted the Hypefire.
Speaker 1:Of course he did Well. They have a new Arctic one.
Speaker 3:I'm sure, and it was $350, $400 or whatever. So I told him we were in Minnesota last week. We had some meetings with Walmart, but I brought the whole family up because I grew up in Minnesota, which I'm sure will be on your questions too, probably um. So we are in shields, which is the best sporting goods store oh, we're going in two weeks or 10 days.
Speaker 1:We need one down here.
Speaker 3:Yes, um, and I got colin a bat, a 400 bat, you know, as expected, and will was with, and will wanted a bat too, of course, but I knew academy down here had the bat and I also knew that it was a a weekend. Oh yes, so it's 20, so it's 20% off.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, that 20% off, yes.
Speaker 3:So I tried to do my homework on stuff like that. So I'm like, hey, let's wait until we get back and then I'll buy you a bat. In Arkansas Took a little bit of convincing, but I got him there, and so we went to Shield or to Academy on Sunday to get his bat.
Speaker 3:To get his bat. They didn't have it but they had other bats. Right, they had other $400 bats that you know he could, he could get. So he picked out the bat and while we were in line, the line was like 15 people. He uh, I said to him, I said, well, you know, we have six versions of this bat. I mean we literally do like 28 drop 10. You know we have. I think we actually had four they don't have plastic on them four versions of this bat I said well, I'll make you a deal.
Speaker 3:I said if you use one of the bats that we have and like these are bats like when, like you said first, my first kid, jordan, was going through it like you buy him everything, everything, gear him out, you get a new bat every you know, six weeks. If one doesn't work, you get rid of that bat, you get a new one.
Speaker 2:This is how it is right we're lucky enough to do that.
Speaker 3:So you know he had the you know 2019 version, or the 2020 version, or whatever it was which it's still a really good bat and still a really good rate of that it probably has very few pings on it.
Speaker 1:Very few, very few. It's still a really good bat and still a really good rate of bat. It probably has very few pings on it.
Speaker 3:Very few, very few. It's probably not even broken yet. So we had a few of those in the bat closet. I have a bat closet with like 40 bats I'm not kidding, because I never sell them once again, you just add the bat closet and throw them in.
Speaker 1:You're like your own playing against sports.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, throw them in. Yeah, exactly, threw him in that closet. So I then I said we're in line. I'm like, hey, here's what I'll do for you Will. If you pick out one of the other bats that we have and don't complain that you didn't get a new bat like you can't complain you didn't get a new bat I will give you $100 in Roblox.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's huge too, especially for an eight or nine year old so he sat there thinking he's like I think I want the bat. I'm like, okay, that's fine, no pressure. No pressure because I knew where he was gonna go. I'm not, it's not your first video, that's not my first right, my first kid. You know we're, you know slowly moving forward in line, like, okay, you're sure you like you want them, like we have these bats those robots?
Speaker 3:yeah, they have these balls they're pretty new, they're pretty good. Um, and he, you know, about four minutes later he's like I'm gonna take the roadblock. Yeah, this is a 400 or bad, or 100 rubles. I'm like are you sure? He's like, yeah, I'm gonna take the roadblocks. I'm like you can't complain.
Speaker 1:It's like I won't complain but what happens if he does complain? You can't take the robux back. Yeah, you can't, that's already it. He's not getting bad.
Speaker 3:So, like you know me, I'm like once you make your decision yeah, we're done okay and we're out y'all enjoy the life exactly so he he took the roblox and now he's got one of the older bats.
Speaker 1:Oh, look at those negotiation skills playing off.
Speaker 3:That's my story of $400 bats.
Speaker 1:I know I just bought a $400 bat a few weeks ago. Yeah, yeah, and a bag and gloves we got one pair for free, so I felt like we had just won the lottery. Yeah, buy a bat, get a pair of $ dollar gloves for free.
Speaker 3:Well, now the gloves are like 100 bucks, oh yeah, but we he doesn't play, for he doesn't use bruce bolts.
Speaker 2:He had one pair and he was like no.
Speaker 1:So he is pretend sponsored by war stick okay so we pay war stick for him to wear it maybe one day that's his, that's his. He gotta have goals right. So, yes, that's how we met is through baseball, and it's been a journey ever since, and then I bullied you into spending money with me, so it's been good.
Speaker 3:But we I mean General Mills through the years has been historical partners with 3W. Yes.
Speaker 1:Really appreciate all the stuff that you've done for us. What is your exact title? Tell us how fancy you are.
Speaker 3:That's a great question.
Speaker 1:Titles are big in the supplier world.
Speaker 3:They're big, but they always say titles are deprived at General Mills.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm a janitor so I don't know if you can top that.
Speaker 3:No, I'm just VP of sales for Walmart. I lead our Walmarting business, so everything. Walmart and Sam's. Which makes you best, friends with the dough boy, which makes me best friends with the Doughboy, which makes me best friends with the Doughboy which we were just up in Minneapolis last week, and Jordan, my 16-year-old, had to get a Doughboy DJ shirt.
Speaker 1:Well, obviously I'm sure you'll see that. Oh, I'll see that soon. Well, nice, is he going to drive himself to school?
Speaker 3:He will drive himself to school Nice, but the nice yeah, but the problem is he won't drive colin to school because is he early start, jordan's early start really jealous about that.
Speaker 1:Early start is not early. No, I don't like this. 9 a 9 am start time. What does an average work day look like?
Speaker 3:uh, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:So recently, I think, I've traveled I think you've been gone a lot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think I've traveled like nine weeks, nine weeks this summer, I mean so like I've been gone at that time this summer um a lot of Minnesota, a lot of you know other stuff, minnesota, which works out well because you're from there, I'm from. I grew up in Minnesota. So, um, I made it a thing every time I go back to Minnesota I have to see my mom. So very important, super important, um and uh, yeah, but other stuff. So we went to New York, florida, that was for fun. Went to France for work.
Speaker 1:You went to France. Yeah, yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was good, so we had some meetings out there.
Speaker 1:Did you hit Paris? No, we went to Cannes. Oh yeah, but it wasn't during the festival, because that already happened in the spring, right yeah?
Speaker 3:it's a Lions, it's a marketing award festival, so we were out there and then just all over, I think, dallas, vegas.
Speaker 1:That's a lot A bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, Minnesota a bunch of times, but a typical day, a lot of meetings, whether it's meetings with Walmart, meetings internally to get aligned.
Speaker 1:What time do you get in? Because?
Speaker 3:I see you in drop-offs or I saw you in drop-offs, yeah. So non-school year I'm usually there between 7 and 7.30, and then school year I usually dropped off my two middle kids at. Fulbright and I just went from there, so it was like 8.
Speaker 1:That's not bad. How's Colin getting to school this year?
Speaker 3:Either bus or we'll drop him off. I don't know. We were talking about that yesterday.
Speaker 1:At least the first day.
Speaker 3:I don't know if they can make the bus and get over to the TAC by 8.45. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Chase's. One thing he has to do tomorrow is ask the coach how early can he be there? Oh interesting, yeah, because I'm like who starts work at 9 am.
Speaker 3:Yeah well, they have to be 8, 45 at the time, 8 45.
Speaker 1:I'm like can we move that up to 8?
Speaker 3:30 like how early is too early because I was actually wondering that too, because jordan's early start, which he won't get there or he'll get there around seven I would love a 7 am start good calling, good calling Right.
Speaker 1:Can he just camp out? Can he do other stuff? Yeah, he can study for his high school classes to guarantee our A's.
Speaker 3:But yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 1:But then you leave. I know that you're very available for the four kids that we'll touch on or we've already touched on. Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 3:Always coming on, yeah, so yeah, always coming and going, yeah, I mean it's in all. It's one of those things too, like we're what general mills has said. You know our policy is work with heart. So you know it's. It's not a dictated. We're not a dictated schedule in the office or or um, you know, in our schedule I do go in the office every day. Most of the team goes into the office every day do you feel?
Speaker 1:more productive. I do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I do. I mean with four kids and three dogs.
Speaker 1:Oh, the dogs you should have brought Pop up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's no chance that I can get anything done. But I work a lot at night too, like it's probably a weird thing. And then even before, sometimes you know, before um, like drop off and stuff like that I take a meeting at seven or something like that and then do drop offs I feel like you're a unicorn, though, in the supplier community, and that you're four kids.
Speaker 1:You're very hands-on. Yeah, I think so is that unicorn?
Speaker 3:It feels normal to me.
Speaker 1:It doesn't feel normal in conversations with me. Really Could be that Like I think that's okay. Let's take my husband, yeah, who you know very well. Yeah, he's not available in the daytime at all. I wouldn't say I'm available in the daytime. Well he's not available in the afternoons until like 7.
Speaker 3:Yeah so.
Speaker 1:I think you're available.
Speaker 3:I manage my schedule well, I think, is what we do, and the other thing, too, is, like you know, we try to be leaders, right? So we try to empower people on our teams to do things, so, like, being over involved in my team's work isn't something that I believe is super good for them yes, we're a remote culture. We can, we can work from anywhere. I take advantage of that when I, when I need to you it's. You know General Mills is a, you know, a family first culture.
Speaker 1:But you know when work comes. You got to get it done. Is this your only job? Is this your only company?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what I was thinking no, it's not. It's actually not. So I came out of school and I worked for a small retailer in Minneapolis, a food company, and then I worked for Super Value and then I worked for Kmart so that was like a three or four-year thing and then I've been with General Mills for 21 years.
Speaker 1:That's a long time, yeah yeah, so I was just speaking with Julie Barber before you got in here and she's been with them for 20 years and I feel like that's our generation, is longevity. I don't feel like that's the new generation and that's fine too, right. With any hop comes experience, and everybody can value something from experience. But 20 years is a long time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, in general, most has been good to me, right, I mean it's it like you said. You know we have the flexibility to to be able to to put family first, and you know we have the flexibility to be able to put family first. And you know figure out your, you know how to work productively with teams and stuff like that, when you know our leaders and our teams understand that. And I think you know it's the people and the culture what keeps people there right.
Speaker 3:And we get a lot of shit done. We do a lot of great stuff. You do and you have brands that people love and we have brands that people love, and I think our teams are all of our business and I think we're winning. You know, in market, you know whether it's here, whether it's other places too, but I think a culture of accountability and a culture of you know, waiting together is what makes us be able to do it and be able to work a family life you know with it.
Speaker 3:I think you know to be, honest, I think we see a lot of that at Walmart too. Absolutely you know, I think Walmart's done a really nice job of evolving over time.
Speaker 1:Oh, totally, julie, and I just talked about that.
Speaker 3:On hours and how to work and what's the right stuff to work on, and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:I think that was a small blessing from COVID, A little bit yeah, for sure, trying to navigate Maneuverability.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, I think so. Um, you know we always struggle with. You know the questions on is everybody, you know, getting what they need to get done and you know not taking advantage of the rest of the teams to do that, and that's something I think we all talk about. You know, whether it's, you know, behind closed doors or, but I think that's one piece from COVID, too, that we're still trying to figure out, absolutely. But yeah, I think for the most part of being able to figure out your schedule and work on that.
Speaker 1:Well, you mentioned culture, so let's talk about culture, because that's a big deal at General Mills which hopes for retainability, and General Mills has pillars. I think you all coined the term and laid the landscape for Northwest Arkansas with the BACCET committee, which used to stand for Bentonville Area Community Involvement Team. Does it still exist? Yeah, okay, even though you were in Rogers and are still in Rogers, but I always thought it was so funny, like I feel like it was born like 20 years ago or whatever, and you all are winning in market, but I think you're winning in philanthropy. Yeah, I mean, you have a a huge, huge footprint in philanthropy in Northwest Arkansas.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's not just Northwest Arkansas, and it's it's who we are right, it's the core. Our core is G stands for good, right and it, whether it's, you know, in our work or whether it's in our, our actions, our communities. I think that's what the core of us, the core of us, of our team, is, and you know we're working on a ton of stuff for our community involvement, but also sustainability of how do we? You know, we worked with Walmart last year on a joint goal to regenerate over 600,000 acres by 2030, and we're already halfway there. So, like different things like that that we're doing with our business is pretty cool and, yeah, we spend a lot of money.
Speaker 1:I know you do, but you make a big impact.
Speaker 3:In the communities, and that's what we're about, right, how do you make an impact in the communities?
Speaker 1:that you're in.
Speaker 3:Right, I know we talk about like hey, what don't you sponsor?
Speaker 1:Which isn't a bad thing, which isn't a bad thing?
Speaker 2:yeah, and we try to be specific.
Speaker 3:A lot of it's around kids, food, insecurity, healthcare. I'm on a couple boards. My team's all on boards right, your team is very diversified and sometimes the interesting piece is we're on boards that we don't even participate, with General Mills on too. I think there's a really good. Yeah, we try to play in places that are are important to you know, our associates absolutely kind of go from there, but also try to change things in this in the system right we're.
Speaker 3:We're on the Mercy Health Board. Mm-hmm, you know I get pretty wound up in meetings.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3:About. You know, are we doing enough? Are we bringing enough?
Speaker 1:We're not doing enough. No, we're never doing enough, and we have to always strive for more Right.
Speaker 3:Yes, you know, we, you don't have to, you have to often leave for your 15-year-old to seek care, and we don't want that. Right and others you know from a trauma standpoint.
Speaker 1:Your team members have had to move.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and we've known people that have had traumatic events that had to be airlifted to Springfield.
Speaker 1:We're bigger than Springfield. We should be bigger than Springfield Right.
Speaker 2:I totally agree, yes right, I totally agree.
Speaker 3:Yes, um, so yeah, I think we, you know, we owe it to this community as as a, you know, as a work environment, as a supplier community, whatever you want to call it to to, um, you know, increase our, our uh, you know footprint here and and increase our giving here to make the community better. I, I think Walmart does a tremendous job of that.
Speaker 1:Oh, they lead by example, right, and then all we can do is like follow their trajectory.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and there's a ton of Fortune 500 companies that I would challenge to do more. And even I challenge our team.
Speaker 1:Yes, like what can we do more? Where can you plug in more? Yeah?
Speaker 3:And what new events can we create that will then generate something big that we can talk about. But that's the piece. It's everything right. We come from a lot of places that are big cities and big towns that have a lot of choices. We don't have as many choices here. We've got to get some more choices.
Speaker 1:Right. Well, speaking of choices and new events yeah, you single-handedly just kidding no we're here to talk about a new event an inaugural event which we don't have many inaugural events or anymore, so I think it's always amazing when we do yeah, but you sit on the. What a corporate council? Is that what it's referred to?
Speaker 3:that's not in the board, that's not right. The board For the Walton Arts Center, both yeah, the board and the council.
Speaker 1:Yeah For the Walton Arts Center which owns the AMP and you all have developed a new event called AMP Up the Arts.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we did so. It was one of those things that came out of conversations with the team.
Speaker 1:I feel like it's been over in the couple years.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we've been talking about for a while and yeah, I mean you've been talking about it for a while, like um, you know, the challenge that we had is, you know, we have a great venue in fayetteville, but we also have a tremendous supplier community and a great venue here in in bentonville. And how do we um take advantage of that venue that we have and do something up here for the?
Speaker 1:because we have all the concerts and all the things. Great, it's separate. This is completely separate.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so how do we use that venue to create a new event? And something that's differential to us is we. You know I'll go to hammond center or sage or wherever it you know, for whatever event it is you know um this week or next week, but like we have like one of the coolest venues, out there absolutely and it's an intimate personal venue.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's big for us and that's the amp. So the conversation was like how do we do something at the amp and use that venue? I think, from working with Peter and Becky and Kyle at the time was like let's develop something up here, whether it's a charity we have access to, it's our's, a charity we have access to.
Speaker 1:It's our space, so we don't have to pay a rental.
Speaker 3:To the space we have access to artists with Live Nation. Live Nation's a big part of it, Huge partner. Part of the event, too, of how do we.
Speaker 1:And you have local people on that board. Yeah, yeah, here in town. Yeah, exactly, how do we?
Speaker 3:bring something to that space that we have and do something cool for the community, something to give back to the kids. And get arts yeah, and get arts more deep in our culture.
Speaker 1:What is it? Thursday, September 12th, Is that right? September 12th, okay, and you're bringing in Nellie, we're bringing in Nellie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, country rapper, because it's hot in here, September 12th, it still will be hot in here.
Speaker 1:Don't make me rap. Yeah, exactly, it won't go well.
Speaker 3:So yeah, that'd be fun. I mean, the goal was like, how do we bring something that's fun?
Speaker 1:Right, he's so fun. Kick it off. He was here several years ago, just him, okay.
Speaker 3:And they're, you know, for sponsors there's certain level sponsorships, as normal. There'll be, you know, like a dinner and meet and greet for a level of sponsors, and then we'll have the concert.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, because that was going to lead me to ask of like, what does this evening look like? Not your typical rubber chicken event dinner?
Speaker 3:right, right, exactly, it'll be a dinner with Nlly.
Speaker 1:So, uh, are you doing that on that side it'll be where the land of lakes.
Speaker 3:Okay, yep so that'll be there, um, and then, um, it'll be a meet and greet for for some of those folks as well, and then we'll, we'll do a concert. And what? Not only will they have a corporate portion, we've also opened some seats up to the rest of the community to if they would like to make a donation and be in the seats.
Speaker 1:The goal is to keep it small, to not keep it super big, so so not the traditional 10,000 no, so it's like 3,500.
Speaker 3:So just think of the seats area and in front of it.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't realize that. No lawn, so yeah, we won't do. Oh, wow, this is very intimate, yeah so it will be we still want to create a fun atmosphere right.
Speaker 3:Obviously, a lawn creates a huge atmosphere, but we want to make it a little bit more intimate.
Speaker 1:I love this, so it'll be all. So why, nelly?
Speaker 3:You know we were looking at a lot of you know a lot of options, but I think some of it was like you said, like you want to make it fun kick it off.
Speaker 1:I mean, he's like he, he's a total wow factor. Yeah, how do you do?
Speaker 3:something that will get people up and dancing and having a good time, not that a country artist or a different artist would.
Speaker 1:And maybe we go there next year, but I think it's really random in the best way. I love it yeah.
Speaker 3:And I think there's a lot of, I think, for our age demographic too.
Speaker 1:It's relevant, and it's a little relevant're all big fans of Millie? Yes, yes.
Speaker 3:It's relevant and it's a little relevant younger too? Yes, Right, so I think that was the thing too is how do you find a sweet spot of folks, that that you know and want to participate?
Speaker 1:we just had nelly on the radio last night. No way, yeah, with uh florida, georgia line a little bit, and so chase was like turn it up.
Speaker 3:You like this song and I was like, oh, he'll be here in a couple weeks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there you go yeah, so see, he's very relevant and very fun and brings the energy yeah, and but I like that we're bridging the gap. Of right, the amp is building a bridge down to fayetteville, yeah. Or the Walton Arts Center, which is an amazing asset to the Northwest Arkansas community, right, right, yeah.
Speaker 3:Hamilton. I think we have 49 shows at the amphitheater lot. I think. I don't know when this will come out. I won't. I think there's a couple more.
Speaker 1:I think there's a couple more coming too.
Speaker 3:Oh, this is real soon, like in a week, I think, there'll even be some more shows announced and, like, post Malone was just announced, not too long ago too. Oh, I know yes which is huge, so Brian Crown does just a tremendous job.
Speaker 1:I mean Postie's huge yeah Like huge, just like Taylor Swift. And then it's right, it's real close. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3:I've asked for T Swift. We can't figure that out. That's unfortunate, I know. Maybe one day maybe her boyfriend can help.
Speaker 1:I saw him last week actually I took Chase to see Morgan Wallen last week yeah my mom bought him tickets, so we were a little bit higher than I would normally like to be, and so so it was a different experience but it was interesting. I know, but it was really good it was. He's an amazing performer and Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey brought him out, so we were at the right.
Speaker 3:did you go to the amp concert when Moriwan was here? No, that's good to know.
Speaker 2:I bet it was Because he's like catapulted. He's big now yeah.
Speaker 1:Like from the AMP to a stadium in less than two years. Yeah, that's kind of amazing. Oh, the AMP's a big deal too, it is huge.
Speaker 3:No, it's huge.
Speaker 1:I'm To go from 10,000 to yeah, fill in stadiums. Yeah, that's awesome, but I mean, look at where he started. Yeah, so I think that's a testament to the amp having him here first and that show sold out within seconds.
Speaker 3:I think those tickets went on sale around December. There's several shows that yeah.
Speaker 1:A postie was gone within a second.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Even feel like they sell out before. Yes.
Speaker 1:Well, and then Chapel Rome's coming and everyone wanted those tickets and her tickets went like that. So I'm like, okay, so much stuff, it's amazing, but I like that. It's fitting everyone. Yeah, it's not just country it kind of was country-based for a while and I think unintentionally when it first opened, but I like that they're hitting everyone at this point.
Speaker 3:Marilyn Manson and Five Finger Death Punch tonight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not going to be at that one, but you and Mindy have a super fun time, so I don't think she can wear her hot pink hat. I've told her no, okay, well, let's talk about Mindy, but I do want to circle back to General Mills in a few minutes, okay, so from Minnesota? Yeah, and I just found out you're older than me, which makes me feel amazing.
Speaker 2:Not by much. I told you that I did not believe you.
Speaker 1:And then married to Mindy, who's like a little tiny Barbie, and I love her because she's just got the foulest mouth and funnest personality ever and I know funnest isn't a word but I still like it. Four kids, three boys and a girl.
Speaker 1:Um, boy, boy, girl, boy, the caboose is a firecracker he's awesome, he's amazing and then, but toots which is weird, that she has a real name, lauren yeah, does not fit, it's tootsie, yeah, forever. And then I write like toots in a Tootsie forever. And then I write Toots in a text and it looks like Toots and I'm like, no, that's weird, but that's who she is, so I love it.
Speaker 3:I love her. It's interesting, it's Toots to older folks. It's Lauren to her classmates. It's weird when Mindy said Lauren on a group text.
Speaker 1:Like a full-length group text I was like who's Lauren?
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, it's Tootsie, I know, and we can't call her Lauren.
Speaker 1:We can't call her her.
Speaker 2:God-given name yeah but someday.
Speaker 3:But her friends all call her that and then I ask for an explanation. That never goes over.
Speaker 1:Well, so I don't ask anymore. I feel like the two of you work for Tootsie.
Speaker 3:Probably. Yeah, that's kind of how it is, and she's a firecracker.
Speaker 1:I love that. She has to be strong in that boy household.
Speaker 3:She's strong I love her. We've seen a lot of knockdown drag outs lately. That's the new thing.
Speaker 1:Welcome to purity in junior high right, yeah exactly. So I feel like mindy kind of runs tootsie, don't you think, and you run the boys, kind of schedule wise um, it's just.
Speaker 3:I mean a lot of it runs around baseball. She's done a lot around jordan's our oldest too. She it's probably more of her with jordan and toots and me with colin and well.
Speaker 2:And that's because, I coach those teams. Yeah, the coaching I used to coach Jordan a long time ago.
Speaker 1:And now Jordan drives, so that helps a little bit Right, which is so helpful, which helps a little bit too, and he's going to be 17 in the fall. Yeah, that's so old.
Speaker 3:I know I'm a junior, so that's crazy, yeah, but yeah, I mean junior.
Speaker 1:So that's crazy, yeah, but yeah, I mean it's um, there's so much stuff, there's always something going on always. Are you ever home? No, in the evening are you ever? Home on a friday night. I know that's my question way down probably, um, not really. No, I mean it's, it's, it's almost like take out amp season, which I know you're like pulling in. I'm here loving it. But like a Friday night, do you ever just get to like be a family of six with no chaos aside from the amp?
Speaker 3:and vacation really, because I mean baseball kind of goes all year right. There's a lot of, there's a lot of Friday stuff there, and then basketball in the summer, in the winter, and there's like inevitably somebody on that have practice on Friday night.
Speaker 1:For sure. Yes, I just found out about one this Friday.
Speaker 3:Yeah, with four kids I mean, there's really not a night off that you love your kids.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's why I love spending time with my kids.
Speaker 1:You sat on a panel a couple years ago and you're like I'm weird, I actually love my kids. I love to be around them and. I'm like, oh, I love that, yeah, cause I feel the same way.
Speaker 3:Right and like you keep hearing they drive me nuts and I try to try to listen to. You know all of the people like that have gone through it and be like you don't have that, Like they'll be they'll be gone in no time.
Speaker 1:Jordan's leaving in two years Right.
Speaker 2:Right, I think Jordan will always be around, even though he's a whole bunch.
Speaker 3:Technically, jordan will go to Arkansas, which is beautiful, but he may not, he may make a different choice, but like Jordan's, just awesome, he's just awesome. He prioritizes the family too, which you know. Like yesterday too, there was one of his friends was having an end of summer get-togethers stay over with all the guys, and it was my birthday yesterday and he's like no, I'm not going.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't know that I'm not going Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3:I know right, it's really close right now and it was like go, go, hang out with them.
Speaker 1:For sure, of course you are.
Speaker 3:And he's like no, no, yeah, no. So yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:Well, hold on Pause. Was this a big birthday? No, oh, okay, it's not a big birthday. Okay, was it a monumental number? No, oh, okay, no, no, I just wanted to make sure it didn't miss anything. No, it's not um so uh, you know what I love about jordan? I love jordan and will's relationship. Yeah, it is, oh for sure, the sweetest thing and it makes me cry every time I watch the like tear out he loves jordan more than anybody.
Speaker 1:Like jordan's his favorite I love that because that takes a special kid to always want to be with a real tiny kid and I'm like that's just. You can tell he is like protector of will.
Speaker 3:But will, yeah, like will. Differentially loves jordan too, like, and he'll even tell that, like, like, who's your favorite? Like it won't be mindy, or it's jordan, because the two of you are always running the middle somewhere.
Speaker 1:And so jordan's like, even though I coach all his teams and do all that stuff, it's still j middle somewhere.
Speaker 3:And so jordan's like, even though I coach all his teams and do all that stuff. It doesn't matter, it's still jordan.
Speaker 1:It's still jordan their relationship is special and I love it and I'm jealous. I don't have four to have, I don't think. I don't know if chase is capable of that, but I think it's real sweet.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like my favorite, it's fun. It's fun. But you know back to your main question like I just like spending time with them. You know, like I'm a kid, I love spending time and we're not. I think the good part of it too is and maybe we are but I don't feel like it. It's like we're not like hey, you're spending, only spending time with us, like go, do whatever you want, and maybe that's why I know, that's why it's a little bit.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 3:You know, I'm like oh good, you want to hang out with me. But there's so many events, there's so much stuff.
Speaker 1:There's so many events.
Speaker 3:It's sometimes. I think it's just they're tired of running from place to place. Absolutely, and they have practices, as Jordan and Colin usually went to Will's practice and touched too. You know, and would you know, help out and do different things and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Well, it takes a village to run those little teams.
Speaker 3:They enjoy it. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Lots of magic, lots of corralling.
Speaker 2:That's my favorite. It's a good word.
Speaker 1:You're not real sure where the ball's going to go once someone gets it. So that's when the magic magic happens.
Speaker 3:Just keep running the bases is my opinion and just try to be as positive as you can.
Speaker 1:I love it, even though it's not that easy, it's hilarious, I love it I watch those games with a smile, like this is the best day ever, there's no drama except for the pure joy too, they're so happy.
Speaker 3:They're so happy when they make a catch or hit them, not the parents to sit in the stands of an au game.
Speaker 1:That's magical too, because his dad I think he's I'm not gonna say what position is kid he's like finally I mean, he had said multiple things to him finally he's like, son, you're gonna have to move, you're gonna have to move your body to make something happen. And I was like this is noise.
Speaker 3:Enjoy always how the parents get to into the game so like if they're cheering against hearing, against the other okay, and trying to get an eight-year-old heads because there are several times. I don't do that where other teams and like I tried it with our team, but like they're like literally like trying to play mind games with a seven or eight year old.
Speaker 1:You know me, I'm very positive and hard, hard on my kid yes, like catch the ball, like that's your job in the outfield, like back up first and catch the ball.
Speaker 3:Yeah yes, I'm sure those car conversations, this car ride homes are pretty fun.
Speaker 1:They're really, really enjoyable.
Speaker 2:I think he loves that bonding time.
Speaker 3:I had one of those yesterday with Will after his practice.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:He didn't do that well. You have to focus.
Speaker 3:It wasn't. Yeah, I mean that's what it was right and they've taken there was their first practice back after six or seven weeks. It's just you're paying attention, right For sure. Hey, do you want to do this?
Speaker 1:if you do it like, make sure you pay yeah, that's always the first question, regardless of what has happened in a game this past year. It wasn't the most positive. Did you have fun? Yeah, because the second you say, no, we're done, let's find something else. Yeah, but if you, I'm not saying it was fun to get your brains blown out and there was a carousel around the bases, but are you still enjoying the game? Yeah, exactly, because if not, I'm going to be a lot richer.
Speaker 3:But there's some of it too. We put so much pressure on.
Speaker 1:Because there's pressure everywhere If you nine new baseballs, travel baseballs late, late to the game, so that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2:It game. So that's yeah ridiculous, it is it's.
Speaker 3:It's super ridiculous and, yeah, you want to still make it fun and you want to make it a learning experience. I think that's always the. I think you do.
Speaker 1:I always told you I there's a teammate of chase and Collins, and he's funny, hilarious, and you all had a very special relation, a very special banter back and forth that his dad would die at knowing, and I'm like to watch the two of you was hilarious, so you did always bring the fun.
Speaker 2:You tried. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I think, you did a good job and tried it.
Speaker 1:We're still friends, so it's obviously worked out really well for you For me, I mean we're still friends, so it's obviously worked out really well for you. So you didn't read my mind and bring in the coveted Kelsey cereal yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 3:I really want it. You want it right here. Yes for those. Yeah, let's talk about.
Speaker 1:General Mills brands. And yeah, retail changes and brand changes. But then I also want to know, like, what's your favorite product, my favorite General Mills product, literally on-the-shelf product.
Speaker 3:My favorite General Mills product I need to work on because you can't get it at Walmart. Oh no, so I have to order it special to go into the office.
Speaker 1:Okay, so more negotiation skills to be had.
Speaker 3:Exactly, it's raspberry Pillsbury toaster strudel, so not.
Speaker 2:I mean it's.
Speaker 1:Okay we have toaster strudels. Yeah, we have toaster strudel.
Speaker 3:Raspberry is a different flavor right, okay. So not the number one in everybody's mind, but I think it should be there. No, not at all, but mine, but I think it should be there um. But I grew up in Minnesota for some reason, like I think, raspberries big.
Speaker 1:I'm like, are y'all big razzy people out?
Speaker 3:there, right? So that's that, that was my one, like I have sold, like raspberry yoplait, which is another one that when people usually say that, and then like my more traditional and I've given you, yeah, what's on the shelf. My more traditional uh one would be cinnamon toast crunch. Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:What's your favorite? I?
Speaker 3:don't know. Come on Cinnamon rolls. You like Pillsbury cinnamon rolls? I love me some cinnamon rolls. The pumpkin spice one. Oh, my husband's dying to try them.
Speaker 2:He thinks it's a brand new product, which I think is hilarious.
Speaker 1:You might have to order them. I can't seem to find them because they're off the shelf so fast, so I guess I'm probably a Pillsbury fan first and foremost Like baked goods.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But I'm a salty person too, so I don't know. Yeah, you are salty A little bit. No, I'm probably not very sweet, am I? What, um, what changes have you seen post-covid in retail that has affected your brands?
Speaker 3:yeah, I mean, I think the biggest thing for us is especially from walmart is the transition from going to a store, in-store, to delivery and pickup.
Speaker 1:We do a large, has that been hard?
Speaker 3:No, it's good we do a higher index of products online and delivery than but what about the impulse, like the in-cash, those are a big deal right. They're a big deal and I feel major FOMO when I haven't gone into the store because I am so dependent on delivery and pickup but do you see like the same thing from a delivery perspective of like a banner ad that you can click through, so that'd be like a oh yes, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's your end cap, okay and you know from an online version so I'm probably not as dialed.
Speaker 1:Probably are you just like taking your list and I kind of like send the same stuff all the time and not adding too much stuff. I don't add too much because I but I'm also like a marketer's dream person in store. Okay, I'm not as visual on the computer as I am in store. I'm like, show me something grand.
Speaker 3:So do you spend less if you're online? Online? Probably Do so. Would you spend less if you're online Online? Probably we need you to spend more. I know I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:You're getting me in store, though you put some in-caps or pallets together of all the things, with things moving and signage.
Speaker 3:Recipe solutions. I'm all in. All that stuff you like. I'm all in, like bake centers, different things like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love all of it. Yeah, this is the best ever. I could just stand there. It's so great I'm an easy sell.
Speaker 3:That's been the biggest transition, though. During COVID. There's a lot more people that have come to online shopping, and how do you target them? How do you find the right people for your brands? How do you tell your story of your brand out there to people that are now shopping online? Walmart's done a really nice job with their retail media network that we participate with.
Speaker 3:That has been a change versus pre-COVID. So, yeah, there's a lot of things that are changing, but I think the biggest change is just the move digitally. And then how do we keep up with that customer and how do we keep up with the consumer that way?
Speaker 1:I'm old school too, I think I'm very old, I mean I don't know, but you're shopping online.
Speaker 3:If you're doing jewelry too, but I I'm also just clicking right in your list and clicking it off yes, so I do think I'm very old when it comes? How do you look? How do you find new stuff? You're not in the store. Do you like social media? Do you do?
Speaker 1:recipes, or do you? Yes, yes, all the above okay. And then I do like banner ads, but I'm not, unfortunately I'm not dialed into them on a specific website.
Speaker 3:It's probably more social driven than anything yeah, I mean, that's been a big phenomenon too, like tiktok recipes, oh huge. How do you, how do you um, you know, keep up with that?
Speaker 1:betty crocker and pillsbury are two of the biggest websites out there you can take all your cake mixes and make them into cookies now, which we learned during COVID and then you can eat the cookie dough.
Speaker 3:Oh yes, now it's like you can eat it raw.
Speaker 1:Thank you for that so I think it was in the past year. The pumpkin cookies I found them hidden in a cruise room. Interesting, I know it's so nice. He's like well, it's safe to eat.
Speaker 2:I'm like well, not after it's sat out for four days.
Speaker 1:As you're like, you don't have a pocket refrigerator up in your room, but that tells you how often I don't walk up the stairs. So, solid parenting I only have two Crushing it. Solid parenting I only have two crushing it. But yeah, I think, wherever I can find be influenced, I'm an easy sell, 100% all the time. It's just like this cereal. That's not sitting there, that I want to point to, but I follow the new heights podcast.
Speaker 1:Um favorite player is Travis Kelsey. We're big here, that I want to point to. But I follow the New Heights podcast Crew's favorite player is Travis Kelsey. We're big Chiefs fans and so I'm like this is so great, why do we not have it here? But Jason was in town a few weeks ago and I was blowing you up over it. Part of me feels like you were lying to me that he was in town for you.
Speaker 3:No, we have. Obviously you'll see Kelsey mix. You'll see the Kelseys and a lot of General Mills stuff going for it.
Speaker 1:It's Lucky Charms, your favorite Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Reese's Puffs.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:We tried a lot of different combinations and a lot of different things. I'm not a big peanut butter guy, so like that's the one okay, so that's lacking for you over there.
Speaker 1:It's an interesting combination it is.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I love the fact that they're doing combinations because, like a lot of people do that, you just never know right, like um some people you know, I know I used to do checks and cheerios, so, like cinnamon Chex, were you the originator of Chex. Mix.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:No, but it's like old school. Like people are talking about Chex cereal, like that's one of my favorites too, like cinnamon Chex.
Speaker 1:You like, literally eat Chex cereal as cereal.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and sometimes mixed with Cheerios. Okay.
Speaker 1:See no.
Speaker 3:I'm like no, it's Chex Mix, it's. It's meant to be baked with butter and the W sauce. Great, I love that, you love that but see, that's another marketing thing.
Speaker 1:You started selling seasoning packets now on the end. Cat, or what a right. Yes, well, they're free.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm sorry yeah, I'm not making that up, am I? Well, they're free. Well, I'm sorry. Yeah, not selling, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:Added value Gift with purchase type thing. I was like this is so great, I don't have to measure, I can just pour yeah.
Speaker 3:Right, I love stuff like that. And then the recipes are on the back of the box, especially during the holidays.
Speaker 1:Even more convenient. So if you make, I just buy them in the bag.
Speaker 3:People call them puppy chows.
Speaker 1:I just buy them in your bags.
Speaker 3:They're already ready for me. Yeah, that works too. It's less time for me, and I only.
Speaker 1:I don't have any time because I only have two. You have four. Okay, let's talk about. Let's talk about Northwest Arkansas. Let's make it fluffy and fun. What is your favorite? Do you have a favorite restaurant? You're always on the go, that's a great question.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's funny. So there's two things that we are on the go, but Mindy and I have done so, like I've had a weird goal last year. So last year my goal was to average 10,000 steps a day.
Speaker 1:Okay, yes, I've seen you clock in your steps multiple times.
Speaker 3:So this year it was to get at least 10,000 a day.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:So um this year was to get at least 10 000 a day, okay, so like no matter what. So mindy and I lately, when in town we'll do she calls it her cityscapes walk. She's probably told you or she may have mentioned that no, she hasn't, so we actually told her yesterday we will go to bettenville and we'll walk back, so we'll go downtown. So instead of like walking our neighbor, we used to walk our neighbor it got boring it yes.
Speaker 3:We'll walk that and they'll see what's all changed. We'll do that a few times a week or whatever, so like. So, from a restaurant standpoint, like I usually lean, lean there. I lean rights Cause I'd love.
Speaker 1:I know you love rights, I love rights yeah.
Speaker 3:Barbecue. Um, if like more of said pizza, I, I think it's cause I've always said I've had so many pizzas with you for the years.
Speaker 1:I like peddlers and oven and tap both. Oh, we're getting a new peddlers or they're closed, moving across the street or something like that?
Speaker 3:Okay, uh, I did not know that. Yeah, um, yeah, we do a lot of pizza. Yeah, I do like your pizza dough on the grill. Okay, have you done that? No, I don't have time to cook like we don't.
Speaker 1:that's the problem but aren't you the cooker between the two?
Speaker 3:between the two. But we don't cook a ton just because I mean a couple nights a week, but there's just so much going on so much yes, and it all starts this week to me. Yeah, it's usually take out yeah, somewhere don't you?
Speaker 1:yeah, but that's exhausting it is, it is but I'm real tired of all the food.
Speaker 3:But you know to to your point about family time. Or you know, trying to get work in and doing stuff too, like the hour to cook a meal, yeah and a half, we don't have that I don.
Speaker 1:No, and then to clean it up.
Speaker 3:So yes, Well, how do you? You know, how do you make sure that you kind of.
Speaker 1:But your pizza crust is real fast. You just unroll pop it, throw it on the grill. It's real fast yeah.
Speaker 3:And then sometimes we'll have to have cereal for dinner and make it really fast.
Speaker 2:Well, I know your kids love cereal, and then they take a sugar thing, and they take a sugar thing and they dump sugar on it.
Speaker 3:It's my favorite. Okay, do you have a favorite dessert? You like sweets? I do, I love sweets. I'm a big ice cream guy. I like ice cream.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right, colin is a big ice cream kid. Every night, right Every night. And not a small bowl, no, a bowl as big as him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and he needs it.
Speaker 2:no a bowl as big as him yeah, and he needs it and he's, he does need it and he is uh authorized to have it.
Speaker 3:I know I love that, which is great.
Speaker 2:So, like the endocrinologist, says whatever, more the more butter and ice cream you need unfortunately or fortunately you need calories and we need to figure out how to get you calories I love that lucky him yeah, do you?
Speaker 1:have a favorite ice cream around here and that favorite ice cream place.
Speaker 3:Yeah, um no, I mean, like it usually goes around, collins, sketch, it's more fast food. Ice cream collars, dairy queens stuff like that that's what I would say. Shakes like those.
Speaker 1:Those three are probably in the locations. Did you go up with broms? No oh okay, it's a midwest we grew up with bridgeman's.
Speaker 3:I never heard of it. Yeah, yeah, no, I grew up with broms in oh okay, it's a Midwest thing.
Speaker 1:I think we grew up with Bridgeman's I never heard of it, yeah. Yeah, no, I grew up with Brahms in Oklahoma, so that's a, that's a go-to. Um, what's your favorite flavor?
Speaker 3:Cookie dough, oh no kidding.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you didn't grow up with cookie dough because that didn't exist back then. Vanilla, oh, vanilla. Okay, yeah, you're kind of vanilla. I am Super vanilla. Okay, yeah, you're kind of vanilla. Oh, I want to give you credit because I just remember. I don't know why vanilla reminded me of that. I do want to give you credit because on this podcast I've talked about you but I've never used your name. Okay, but you spoke um well, at the panel a few years ago where you talked about loving your kids so much.
Speaker 1:You said I'm an extrovert, introvert, and I've coined it and stolen it I do give you credit, I just don't use your name because, I wasn't ever sure but, I'm like it's everyone agrees with me on this. I'm like you are an introvert by nature I think I'm like I am and I'm not but we have to be. You are so extrovert I know, but I love to be at home and be quiet. Yes, yes, but I'm like you and mindy mindy is a true introvert and I think I've broken through that um.
Speaker 3:I'm in her circle, but yeah I think we change over time too and we evolve um and, like you said, like the extrovert, introvert is, they turn it on when you have to, but I prefer to I mean people be like you're an extrovert no, I'm not like I don't get pleasure, yeah I don't get I don't get energy from, from you know being out there and being in front of people like speaking engagement, stuff like that.
Speaker 1:I know it's your favorite I know you're super excited for this. It's funny I got this is fine, I don't mind.
Speaker 3:I don't mind the one-on-one stuff. I don't like the big group stuff.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, I know. No, I love a microphone though too. I mean, Okay, Right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean you're out there on the charity ball like drumming up business it sends. Clark into a panic every year, but I love it.
Speaker 1:That's I do love a microphone. I don't have anything good, nothing good's coming out, but I love a microphone. So, yeah, so you get credit for being an extrovert. Introvert, and more people are like that than I think we realize. I agree with that, and everyone has loved it that I have brought it to their attention too, so thank you.
Speaker 3:Hey, thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 1:Look at you, you and your vanilla. Yeah, exactly. Look at you, you and your vanilla. Yeah, okay, back to fluffy and fun, and then we'll close it out.
Speaker 3:What's your favorite time of day? Oh yeah, weird question.
Speaker 1:I'm all over the place on that one. What time do you get up?
Speaker 3:uh, 6, 36, well during the school year 5, 5.30, 6.00, outside Like a weekend's, like a 6.30 type of thing. God, what time do you go to bed? 11. Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, I was probably used to be more of a night person. Now I'm probably more transitioning. Earlier I didn't. I don't know, I couldn't tell you. I don't either. I don't have a favorite time of day Because I'm real productive in the morning, but I don't want to get up. Yeah, I can be productive in the afternoon too, like after lunch oh like 3 o'clock, I want to take a nap. Oh, mm-hmm, like religiously and it's funny because of like all the stuff, like I don't have time not to be productive.
Speaker 3:No right, it's a weird part. So like that's when you talk about, hey, when are you most productive? It's just like when.
Speaker 1:I have a free hour.
Speaker 3:Yes, or like something in my schedule I passed you yesterday morning.
Speaker 1:So you have a Tesla. There are multiple Teslas that look like yours. So I never know it's you until, like, you're behind, you've already like passed me that. Um, I passed you leaving the high school parking lot. I was like, and you'll sit up and drive like this, like looking, and so I'm like, oh, there he goes. Yeah, and I was like, oh, hi, haven't seen you in forever. I'll see you tomorrow. I was rushing because I'm like, god, 8 am, let's go, drop off, go and figure out where I need to be for something. Yeah, so I don't have a favorite time of day either. Yeah, it's tough. What's one vice you wish you could give up?
Speaker 3:One vice I wish I could give up. That's a great question.
Speaker 1:It's a hard one. I don't have one. I know what one would be.
Speaker 3:What's yours?
Speaker 1:I need to clean up my mouth.
Speaker 3:I like that though.
Speaker 1:I can see that I don't want to get that up Because Mindy has a dirty mouth too, and I'm like I have a dirty mouth but I don't want to be.
Speaker 3:But I just can't help it.
Speaker 1:I trust people more if they have a dirty mouth. But I don't want to be, but I just can't help it. I trust people more if they have a dirty mouth. I can see that just do I don't know it could be too transparent. Do colin and jordan have dirty mouths?
Speaker 3:uh, no, not in front of me, but I'm sure. Okay, chase does and I'm like clean it up like I'm your mom yeah, in front of me, I think he's just trying to be cool.
Speaker 1:I think that's a cool factor and I'm like stop.
Speaker 3:That's not cool. No, yeah, he's trying, really hard.
Speaker 1:Do you have a hidden talent? No, not at all.
Speaker 3:I don't have any talents.
Speaker 2:Sarcasm.
Speaker 3:Sarcasm.
Speaker 1:Vanilla ice cream. Yeah, see, I'm vanilla. See, that's. That's, yeah, nothing hidden. What song could you listen to on repeat, or do you have a favorite? Do you have a go-to karaoke song?
Speaker 3:that's what I need to change my question to no, that is a good question, I would say I don't see you as a karaoke, not a karaoke person but like my old school go-to karaoke artist was Vanilla Ice. Oh, I know that whole song.
Speaker 2:That's my karaoke song, because. I knew it right yeah.
Speaker 3:That would be your karaoke song, because I knew it Ice, ice Baby. That's my karaoke song, and you don't have to be a good singer, right. No, that's not like a singing song right so like it's one of those things like you're gonna get laughed off the stage if you're singing something right with that, like you can.
Speaker 2:It's super flexible.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm just gonna, you know, wrap it up talking about whatever, so like you can look, like you're okay.
Speaker 2:Brand new edition something yes that's mine, so it's easy, right, yeah, like I would say that would be my. We have in common.
Speaker 3:Exactly so. It's easy right. Yeah so like I would say that would be my go-to carrier. But it's real, like the introvert thing, really hard to get me out of.
Speaker 2:Incredibly hard, and I'm not a drinker too, so it's not like All the Coke, all the Coke, all day long for you.
Speaker 1:I stopped drinking Coke.
Speaker 3:You stopped drinking Coke. You stopped drinking Coke. Yeah, it's been over a year. What are you drinking?
Speaker 1:Water? No, yeah, really yeah. Oh, I guess I'm so self-indulged that I don't even notice that you've stopped drinking Coke.
Speaker 3:So that was a vice. That was a vice. I gave up.
Speaker 1:So no caffeine period.
Speaker 3:No, I drink coffee, so no caffeine period. No, I drink coffee, that's my problem, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Lattes.
Speaker 3:So I've replaced the calories 100%, but I'm not drinking six Cokes a day.
Speaker 1:Oh bless, that's a lot of soda At least. Oh my gosh, no, I couldn't do that. Okay, and coffee, and then just water.
Speaker 3:Coffee and water. Oh, okay, I know.
Speaker 1:Very lame. Okay, at 13 or growing up. We'll end on this one. What did you want to do up?
Speaker 2:in Minnesota.
Speaker 1:Besides, stay warm some businessman were you like Colin, I just want to go make some money, yeah, okay it's all entrepreneurial type talent.
Speaker 3:I never did that. Obviously I work working for big company.
Speaker 1:But I think you wanted to be an entrepreneur, probably.
Speaker 3:Yeah, back then yeah.
Speaker 1:Not work for the man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I mean we've had a great career, it's been a good run.
Speaker 1:So what did you major in in college? Business.
Speaker 3:Yeah, marketing, marketing, business. Yeah, okay, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:From day one.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Okay, all business, that was me too.
Speaker 3:I know, but yeah, it's one of those things like, hey, when you retire, would you ever like I'd love to start something with the kids? Like and have a legacy, yeah that's what I would really like to do good luck getting the four of them to agree on something well, it doesn't have to be four, we can start with one you have multiple to choose from.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, they could pitch it to you like Shark Tank.
Speaker 3:Exactly. We could do that, that would be perfect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what you should do. That won't cause any animosity in the family.
Speaker 3:They already don't think I favor other ones.
Speaker 2:I don't think you favor her. Do they think you?
Speaker 3:favor her Toots does.
Speaker 1:She's the girl, that's her job to bring the drama Right. Yeah, I mean drama right. Yeah, I mean I'm an only child, so I get it and she's kind of like one because she's the only girl. Yeah, yeah, I love it. I hope she puts together a 75 page uh powerpoint presentation for christmas this year.
Speaker 3:She did it last year. Well, it was under 75, it was under 70, so I really hope she brings it this year, a girl after my own heart I. I'm excited for that. I love it.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, I've bored you enough, I'm sure.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Thank you. You were very kind to me. You did not throw me under too many buses, I know right I know You're super easy on me, I appreciate it, I'll get you back I know you will. Well, thank you for joining us. If you stuck around this long, I so appreciate it. I say that every time. But keep following 3W, keep inspiring a culture of giving, and thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Bye, thanks.