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The Greg McAfee Show
"mcafee" Discussed on The Greg McAfee Show
"Is life without taking some risks? I mean, if you own a business and you want to be an entrepreneurial entrepreneur, uh, you have got to realize there is risk involved. It's not, there's nothing easy about it. And talking about John D Rockefeller again, he said, if you chase money, you'll never catch it. And I've heard Larry Burkett years and years ago, when he was still around, he said, if you're chasing money, you will chase it forever. If you're starting a business just to make more money, go work for someone else. Fact go work for someone else. That is not a good reason only to start a business, starting a business and doing all these things. Typically, if you do them right, the by -product is making more money. And I also have learned and agree totally with, not just learned because when I read it, I go, that's me, that's me. I am motivated. I am not motivated by just making money. Just having money does not motivate me. What motivates me as did John D Rockefeller was just the next deal, winning the next deal, winning the next sale what's next. That's what motivates me. And yes, again, the by -product of that is when you win, you make more money. And that's great, but it's always the next thing. It's always, what can I do next to win? That's what motivates me. And that's what motivates a lot of other entrepreneurs. So that's kind of the reward. So the risk and reward today's risk relate to market and economic trends and finances and technology and new ways to serve customers faster to encourage growth. You have probably mitigated risk and leveraged size and stayed and flexible all those types of things. And you've researched outside of the box options. How can we serve our customers better? How can we serve our team better? You've researched all these things are outside the box. They're not normal. And they're not what the normal small business does. It's different. Again, that's also what motivates me is just being different and just trying new things and it's risk. Everything's a risk when you're in business and you're trying to grow and you're making things happen and you're wanting to be different than everyone else. Everything is a risk. Some pay off well, some don't. Some win, some lose. That's just part of
The Greg McAfee Show
What Is Life Without Taking Some Risks?
"Is life without taking some risks? I mean, if you own a business and you want to be an entrepreneurial entrepreneur, uh, you have got to realize there is risk involved. It's not, there's nothing easy about it. And talking about John D Rockefeller again, he said, if you chase money, you'll never catch it. And I've heard Larry Burkett years and years ago, when he was still around, he said, if you're chasing money, you will chase it forever. If you're starting a business just to make more money, go work for someone else. Fact go work for someone else. That is not a good reason only to start a business, starting a business and doing all these things. Typically, if you do them right, the by -product is making more money. And I also have learned and agree totally with, not just learned because when I read it, I go, that's me, that's me. I am motivated. I am not motivated by just making money. Just having money does not motivate me. What motivates me as did John D Rockefeller was just the next deal, winning the next deal, winning the next sale what's next. That's what motivates me. And yes, again, the by -product of that is when you win, you make more money. And that's great, but it's always the next thing. It's always, what can I do next to win? That's what motivates me. And that's what motivates a lot of other entrepreneurs. So that's kind of the reward. So the risk and reward today's risk relate to market and economic trends and finances and technology and new ways to serve customers faster to encourage growth. You have probably mitigated risk and leveraged size and stayed and flexible all those types of things. And you've researched outside of the box options. How can we serve our customers better? How can we serve our team better? You've researched all these things are outside the box. They're not normal. And they're not what the normal small business does. It's different. Again, that's also what motivates me is just being different and just trying new things and it's risk. Everything's a risk when you're in business and you're trying to grow and you're making things happen and you're wanting to be different than everyone else. Everything is a risk. Some pay off well, some don't. Some win, some lose. That's just part of
The Greg McAfee Show
You Are BETTER Than You THINK!
"Some of the top answers for starting a business are this. Number one, freedom and flexibility. You know, do you have that? Do you have that in your business? If you and a lot of times we take that for granted, for sure. But if you have freedom and flexibility in your business, you are blessed, you're able to manage your time, you're able to manage a lot of times as you get going in business, and you've been going for a while, you're able to manage your income level much more than you could do if you work for someone else, you're able to business, you have the freedom by managing your finances well, to remain flexible. And in your outside the box thinking, so you are better than you think you are. We also, number two, we create something new. Why do you want to start your own business? I worked for other companies, I don't want to be like them. I learned what not to do. I want to create something new. If you've done that, and you've lasted a while, you are in the top 10 to 20 % of all small businesses. So congratulations, you are better than you think. This means you've businesses that are no longer around. They couldn't deal with failure. They couldn't deal with mistakes. They didn't know how to correct them. They didn't know how to, you know, keep chugging along and keep making things happen. You did. That's why you're still here. You've dealt with a lot of change. If you're in that 10 to 20%, you've dealt with a lot of change. You've either created change, you've adapted to change. Sometimes change is not our idea. Change is always great if it is our idea, right? But sometimes change is not our idea. I mean, things change in our industry that we have to adapt to and we have to make it work. In my world, if it's a refrigerant change or a code change, we have to adapt to those things and we have to just keep working through it. And if you can't do that, you're not going to be around long. We also have to create how to improve serving others better. And we started a business. Most of us have started a business from scratch. Either bought a business, took over a business, acquired a business. But many of you have started a business from scratch with nothing. It is now a viable business. It has a heartbeat. It provides many jobs and it serves many people. And a bit like small business, like no other, I mean, the small business today carries America. The majority of our income and finances come from small business. It's an extremely large amount. I don't have the number in front of me, but if I tell you it's something like 88 % small business carries America. So if you've done all those things and you're in that 10 to 20 % group in the United States, you are better than you think. And number three, people start a business for generational wealth. They want better for their family. They want better than from generation to generation. They want better. And I'll stop right there and tell you that I want my next generation to be better than me. I'm okay with that. I'm perfectly okay with that. What does better mean? We could break that down into many different ways. It doesn't necessarily mean having more money, but the byproduct rather of being better probably will create more wealth that that would be a goal. Okay. So if you're considering others over yourself, you will do well generating wealth for future generations. And if you realize there is more to life than material things, and you don't focus on keeping up with other companies, if your eyes aren't always on other companies, what they're doing, how can I do that? And all those types of things. Or if you're not trying to keep up with other people, keep up with the Joneses and have that kind of car and have that kind of house and have those kind of things and do this and do that. If you're not doing that, you'll have more time to focus on the important things. Now, I'm not saying growing your business is not important. It's extremely important. It's the only way you're going to create generational wealth.
SI Media Podcast
A highlight from Andrew Marchand on MNF, McAfee, Swift/Kelce Coverage & More
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It's your journey. Welcome, everyone, to SI Media with Jimmy Traina. Thank you so much for listening. The usual periodic check in with Andrew Marchand from the New York Post this week. He joined the pod to talk about a variety of topics in sports media. We get into the ABC ESPN Monday Night Football staggered star double headers. We get into how ESPN and the ESPN and Pat McAfee marriage is going. Deion Sanders stuff. How the media has handled Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. What's going on with WWE and Monday Night Raw most likely looks like it's going to be on the move. Andrew had some stuff on that. A couple of things about local New York radio. So a bunch of sports media topics with Andrew Marchand on this episode. And then Salicata joins me as he does every week for our train of thought segment. Where we get into some NFL things about the Eagles. Should the NFL ban the Eagles one yard play. Joe Namath and Lou Holtz making headlines. Get into these ridiculous prop bets on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. And Sal has a rough Sunday coming up. So if you're a fan of the train of thought segment, you'll want to hear that. Before we get to the full episode. I want you to make sure you listen to past episodes. If you've missed any and make sure you subscribe to us. I media Jimmy trainer. We've had a great run of guests. Kevin Clark from ESPN was on the show last week. Scott Hansen hosted the NFL Red Zone channel two weeks ago. Julian Edelman three weeks ago. Charles Barkley, Peter Schrager, Chris Russo, all recent guests. So if you missed any of those, give them a listen, download, subscribe to the pod and leave a review on Apple. We'll read it on an upcoming episode. All right. Andrew Marchand from the New York Post, followed by Salicata and train of thought. It's all coming up right now, right here. On S .I. media with Jimmy trainer. All right, training me now. S .I. media podcast regular. This periodic visit from the New York Post. And the March and Iran podcast is Andrew Marchand. Andrew, how are you? I'm good. How you doing, Jimmy? I'm good. I just realized I didn't put my phone on do not disturb. So I'm going to do that as we speak. And I'm going to let you know that I had a reader last week for my mailbag column on S .I. com, send it an email and said, when is Marchand's next appearance? So here we go. You made someone happy. Thank you that person. You made someone happy by coming on today. Let's start with this. A lot of media news to get to. Have you heard anything from ESPN or do you have any intel about how they feel about the last two weeks? How the staggered Monday Night Football doubleheader has gone? Because I've gotten a lot of emails and tweets about it. I'm sure you have as well. Yeah, I haven't talked to anybody specifically about how they feel about it. I mean, it is an NFL decision. ESPN is not in control of how those games are scheduled. Maybe they have some say, but it's the NFL decision. Yeah, I don't like it. Actually, in our podcast with John, it was my who's down this week. And the reason I just feel like I kind of said this on our part, it's too it's like having two quarterbacks and you have none. Right. And now if you have Joe Montana and Steve Young, there are two awesome games. Maybe that'd be better. But I just find my attention split and I don't know. And even at like halftime, I wouldn't recommend you go to the other game. Like I get what they're trying to do there, but it's not the NCAA tournament. And usually it's in like the second quarter, third quarter. So I personally don't think it really works that well. Now, I think they want to avoid I'm not positive, but I think they want to avoid that 10 30 late window. We used to get the Monday night and you get the, you know, crazy crew, either Chris Berman or Golick and Greenberg, you know, some of those crews back in the day. They probably don't want that late night game where, you know, you're losing that East Coast audience if it gets too late. But I don't know. I don't think this necessarily works. See, I like it. And what are the tweet? What are the tweeters say? Most people seem to not like it. Yeah. And why do you like it? The more the merrier. Give me as much football as possible. If I can watch eight games at one o 'clock on Sunday and four or five games at four o 'clock on Sunday, I can handle two games on Monday night. So, you know, I have two TVs. I put one game on each TV and two is better than one for me. That's just how I feel. Yeah, I've been a little running around these last couple of Mondays when this happened. So I may be a little bit, you know, my opinion skewed a little bit by that. It hasn't just been like I'm just chilling and watching, been running around a little bit. So perhaps that's, you know, maybe I could be swayed. I will say, you know, I don't know. This is a whole separate discussion. I would love to know your take on this, but I always feel like it's a little tough sometimes to criticize people in this podcast when I also have to book this podcast. So I try to be careful. Yeah, I notice you're very soft. That's what you're trying to say. Sometimes. So I'm sure this guy will never come on again, but they gotta do better than Chris Fowler on the secondary game. Just not, it's just not working. Chris is not a great play -by -player. Right. He was a great host, studio host. Can I say one thing? Yeah. He's on tremendous tennis. Like I watch the U .S. Open every single day. I think he's great on tennis. It's football where it's just something feels off. Well, tennis is also slower. And like you look at people who do really well at the slower sports. Like, you know, Jim Nantz is better than Chris Fowler, but Nantz is really his best thing is golf. And I think he's an OK NFL play -by -player. And at the end of his college basketball run, he was definitely, I don't know, OK is probably, you know, he was OK there as well. And I think if you look at Fowler and his history, now he's been doing play -by -play for a while now. And he has gotten better. Like when he first started on the number one crew, I mean, if I were covering it then, that would not, I probably would not have been that kind. Because he has gotten better, but it's not really good enough. And he's the rare case, I think with Herb Street, that Herb Street makes him better. Usually it's the play -by -player who makes the analyst better. And yeah, I think you're right. And I also think, you know, in fairness to Fowler, you know, ESPN put that crew together. They replaced Levy there and they had a year or two under their belt together as a team. And, you know, not the full team, but him and Riddick, Levy and Riddick, and then Jadolowski. And I think they kind of don't, they underestimate chemistry. It takes time to build it up. And so I think that hurts. And he just, he's a college guy too. It's hard just to come into the NFL. I know he, you know, he's talked how hard his schedule is with the U .S. Open. And then, you know, doing a game a couple days later. And then doing a college. And so, you know, that's hard. And so, yeah, he's not a tremendous play -by -player. To me, this is just me, it felt like when ESPN gave him that gig, it was more about ESPN trying to impress the NFL. Like, look, we have our number one college game. Like you had said earlier, the secondary Monday night game for years was, you know, Golic and Greenberg and Chris Berman with a cast of character. Rich Ryan did it one year. I think this is ESPN trying to say to the NFL, because now they have a Super Bowl and they have this big contract. And, you know, they brought in Buck and Aikman. Like, we're serious, we're going to take our, regardless of what you think about Fowler, he's their lead college guy. So, I feel like they're like, oh, look at us, we're putting the lead when, you know, that. Yeah, I think they screwed up and I think they know they screwed up. I think that they ended up shifting who was in charge of the NFL. It was Stephanie Drewley. And they moved her off the NFL after, you know, I think that didn't help her cause in terms of staying on the NFL. I think they were satisfied with Levy. He was a good guy, which they value. After they brought in Joe Buck, he was very gracious. You know, Levy's a very good hockey guy, especially studio host. I thought he could have, you know, could have been the pregame show on Monday Night Football. He's in, again, not their, in my opinion, they had other people who are better play -by -players for football, but it was good. Like, so, yeah, I don't think it was to impress the NFL. They got Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. They got the Mannings. I mean, they spend, they're spending 50, 60 million dollars a year on their booths. Like, I don't think the second team booth is gonna, you know. If anything, I think it was, there was a thought before Buck and Aikman that Fallon and Herb Street might get the NFL. Might get Monday Night Football. Might get the potential Super Bowl. And then this is kind of a carrot since they didn't get it. But I'd argue, and I even talked to Chris Fowler about this. So, I don't know if this is the case. I just don't know if, I mean, Chris Fowler does the national championship. He does the biggest college game every week for Disney. I can't, like, I get it. Maybe he wanted to do NFL. But is this really gonna satisfy him because you're doing a second game, which generally aren't that great? I don't, I don't see that long -term, personally. And I think also, strategically, if I'm ESPN, I'm putting a young play -by -player. Now, Joe Buck, we both think it's great. Like, he and Ian Eagle are the best two play -by -players going right now. And, um, but, Joe Buck's contract's up in a couple of years. If I'm ESPN, and I, you know, I think they'll probably re -sign Joe Buck, and they should. That said, he makes a lot of money. And, you know, I would be saying, who can I develop? What young guy can I develop? So when I go into that negotiation, I really have somebody who's on the rise. And I can say, hey, look, you don't want this, you know, the 15 million a year? Then we'll go here, you know? But if you start demanding, I'm not saying this is going to happen, but, demanding even more and more money, I'd want an option. I don't think they've created an option. They've actually put somebody in that spot who they've already said they'd rather spend 15 million dollars on Joe Buck than have Chris Fowler as the lead play -by -player. So, I just think negotiation -wise, and strategically, in terms of saving money, it wasn't a great decision. Yeah. I don't understand the insistence on the three -person booth, either. They had Fowler, Greasy, and Riddick. Excuse me, excuse me. Levy, Riddick, Greasy. Now it's Fowler or Lofsky, Riddick. To me, that, and, Fowler's used to a two -person booth with Herb Street. They have Buck and Aikman, which is a two -person booth. I don't understand the insistence on the three -person booth. It's just, for football, it just, I don't get it, but, that's just my - It complicates, it over -complicates it. Yeah. And like you said, chemistry. I think it's much harder to develop a chemistry with three. I mean, you know, the local Mets situation is different with Gary Cohn, Ron Darl - Is it in baseball, is it football? What three men, can you name - I mean, I guess back in the old Monday Night Football days, there were three men booths that had - Yeah, Collinsworth and Aikman with Buck that one year. Yeah, one year it lasted, you know. So, I don't know. But, there's no more staggered double -headers. The next one is week 14, and both games will start at 8 -15. I think that's the one that's going to piss a lot of people off. But, that's a long way down the road. You got the two TVs. Yeah. I asked you if ESPN, how they feel about Monday Night Football. Anything you've heard about how they feel about their new partnership with Pat McAfee. I mean, it's early, but they're bullish on it. I mean, they've kind of handed the keys to the network to McAfee. I mean, you can't - it's kind of like Stephen A. now. You can't really turn on ESPN almost every day except basically Sunday without seeing Pat. And so, you know, I think initially the ratings weren't that good. I think they got a little better in terms of the TV ratings. I think that kind of makes some sense because if you think about it, he was a YouTube show. Yeah, he's got to play for TV. Yeah, and he's still a YouTube show. Well, it is a play for TV because they think that they had Max in there before. They think that the ratings will be high enough that they'll be able to charge more for the ad rates. I guarantee you the money they'll make off of McAfee on social media and YouTube will be 8 billion times more than the money they made off Max Kellerman on social media. Oh, 100%. No, you're right. No, you're right. There's no doubt about that. And look, they want to get, I will say this, like, does it work? I think a lot of times when companies make big moves, you know, big time moves, a lot of times they make those moves when the person's kind of towards the end, you know, they got McAfee on the rise. Like, you know, we, you know, you and I have been aware of McAfee for years now, but he's really like, you know, here, I don't think he's at the plateau, you know, where most people go up and then they plateau and then they go down. He's at, he's still, I think, going up and then maybe the plateau is on the horizon and you can plateau for 20, 25 years if you have the right attitude and personality and just have the right act. So that's where I think that makes a lot of sense as a bet because it's not, I'll hit one close to home, Rick Riley leaving ESPN. I mean, leaving SI for ESPN where, you know, Rick Riley is one of the great columnist ever, but at that point, you know, whatever, maybe it was the internet, I don't know exactly. It just didn't really work as well at ESPN as it did at SI. And so I just think they've done that and that's kind of, you know, teams do that in sports and I think sometimes networks do that. And so I feel like signing McAfee in his mid -30s is kind of like signing a baseball free agent who's in his mid -20s and I think that's what you want to do as opposed to getting a, signing a 35 -year -old and, you know, thinking they can still play, you know, like, I don't know, like a Josh Donaldson, maybe trading for someone like that, Jimmy. You see what I did there? I don't need reminders of the horrific Yankee season. I just did that on purpose. I don't need that. My head was going, who am I going to say? All right, yeah, Josh Donaldson, but it was a treat. Just a, yeah, you want me to say Brian Cashman should be fired. It's amazing too, they replay that. I didn't know this was going to be the situation going into it, but they replay the show as soon as it's over, I think, on ESPN 2 and then they replay it at night on maybe ESPN News or one of their, what you said about if you're going to put on one of the ESPNs at any point in the day, you're going to see Pat McAfee. Yeah. So that's good for him. Like I, you know, people feel like - But I also think, ESPN has to be, they have Aaron Rodgers on their air every week. It's a news making thing that's on their air every week. They've got Nick, he's got Nick Saban on his show every week. Yeah. That's a news making thing every week. I would think ESPN has to be, forget the numbers because the numbers, I think, will be there. It's still a new thing. You have, the ESPN audience is older, the McAfee audience is younger, it might take some, but I would think ESPN just on the brand and the cachet of that show has to be thrilled. I think so. I mean, but if you talk, like I have, again, I'll probably make some calls here in the near future, but so I haven't talked specifically with anybody about that. But generally speaking, when these things first start, everyone loves it. So then we'll see. Again, I'm not saying, I could see it either way. Like, you know, McAfee has not really stayed at any of these, throughout any of these contracts he's had. So that's something to watch. Maybe this one he does, but that hasn't been the case previously. So that is something. I think the fact that he's on game day has to help the relationship there a little bit with ESPN. Here's the thing about McAfee. If you're managing him, in my opinion, and it's like Casey Jones, the former coach of the Celtics, was known for just throwing out the ball and telling McHale, Parrish, and Bird to go play, Dennis Johnson. At least that's how I remember as a kid. That was his reputation. And I think McAfee is sort of like that. Just give him the ball, let him do his thing. He's not looking to, you know, for some strategy. Let's, you know, triangle offense. He's not looking for that. He's looking for, let me do my thing. I know what I'm doing. And the thing about McAfee is he's very smart. Like, I know he plays this, like, he's not smart thing. It works very hard. He works hard and he's very smart. He's very savvy. He acts as if, like, you know, maybe he's, you know, just a dumb jock. But he understands the media business very well. We need, we need to discuss the Kelsey Taylor Swift thing because I actually think it's a legitimate media story. If Fox is going to get these increase in their demographics of the female audience, the young people, the NFL has gone all in on this thing. I mean, they changed their Twitter header to, like, a Taylor Swift thing. They're putting out Travis Kelsey Swiftiest plays on their social media. He's gained, I guess, a ton of followers, the jersey sale. Let me start with this. How did you think Fox handled it on Sunday when she was in the stadium? Do you think they overdid it? Do you think the fact that they had an unwatchable game takes them off the hook? What was your take on the Chiefs -Bears on Sunday when she was there? I think the second part, and I wouldn't take them off the hook, but I think the second part, you have an unwatchable game that you had to switch most of the country out of because it was so non -competitive, that you have Taylor Swift there, it's a big deal. And, you know, there's a lot of Taylor Swift fans who are football fans, a lot of non -Taylor Swift fans who weren't watching that game, but it was a talking point, right? Like, I saw Taylor Swift in the concert this summer, but that was kind of - Look at you! Yeah, how do you like that? Look at you! You couldn't even get tickets. Big shot. Where'd you get tickets? My daughter's friend just won the lottery. No shenanigans. Oh, really? Tickets were $235 each, which is still a lot of money, but not, like, $1 ,000. And it was just kind of happenstance, how I ended up going. I was going to say, if your daughter's friend got tickets, how did you end up at the era's tour? I mean - Were you, like - It's just a long drive to get to the metal lands, didn't want them driving back. They're older, they can drive, but at, you know, one o 'clock in the morning from Taylor Swift, so - But you were in MetLife and watched the show. Yes. Friendship bracelets? Well, you want to know something funny? This is a good one. So, my daughter's friend said to me, do you want a - do you want a jewel? And I'm like, no, no, no, I'm okay. Thinking she's saying a jewel, like a jewel, smoke. But she was saying, like, to, like, get bedazzled, a little jewel, which I would have taken. So later, I was like, I told my daughter, I said, but your friend, she said she asked me if I wanted a jewel. She's like, no, no, she didn't say you wanted a jewel. She said, do you want a - a jewel to put some ju - you know. Right. I didn't have any bracelets, but I was into - I liked Taylor Swift. I wouldn't go again. I kind of felt bad being there, because there's people who give their left arm to be there. But it was - look, she is an unbelievable performer. I mean, it was - you could - first of all, I liked some of her songs. Secondly, the level of performance. It was just, you know, it was an A+. I mean, that - that - and that is something, even if you didn't like her music, you can appreciate it. And also, I appreciate it if I had to go to the bathroom. Easy pass right in there. No one. Right. No one's leaving their seat except for people like you who aren't in it. Yeah, and especially, yeah, and more skewed women.
The Greg McAfee Show
"mcafee" Discussed on The Greg McAfee Show
"That always cracks me up when I hear that. And I, and I just heard it the other day, which what brought to my attention, I just heard it the other day, someone went in to a radio station said, I've not advertised much, but I want to be like McAfee. What do I need to do? Okay. And then last here, you know, how to, how to, how to fail in business is to lack a vision. So lack of vision. Without vision, your business will be hard to direct. It'll be hard to strategize. It'll be hard to grow. Where there is no vision, there will be lack of direction. The Bible says where there is no vision, the people perish. They die where there is no vision in business. There is lack of direction. There is little to no growth. There's indecision. There's costly delays and there's death. They perish. Okay. A strong vision of where you want to be and attainable goals to help you get there are essential to success. So if you want to fail, have lack of vision, it won't take long with no vision, you will perish. Okay. The focus should be on quality, not quantity. Growing too fast. When you have a lack of vision, you don't have strategy. You don't have control. You don't have direction. So you could have a tendency to grow too fast. In other words, taking on jobs that you shouldn't take on. And I've said before, growing too fast without a plan will take you under faster than lack of capital. So when you have lack of vision, you could grow too fast, which will lead to loss of revenue and cuts and failure. And a clear vision will help keep you focused on what works, allowing you to have the freedom to reject or trim or... You know what? I'll tell you what, that's a great word, freedom. Because when you're doing well in business and you're making a good profit and you're paying your people well and you're paying your bills on time and you're just making things happen for the community and all those types of things, you have the freedom to make decisions based on what you want to do and not what you have to do. In other words, if I'm going up against someone right now on a job, if we're going up against a job, another company today, and for some reason, they're trying to take the job away from us and let's just pretend their regular price on a system is, let's just say it's 13,000. And so we know about where they come in and they come in on this one at 11,500. If I want to, I can sell this job for 10,500 and take that job from them and it will not affect my company at all. It will not affect me at all. Now, I wouldn't want to do too many like that, but I can do quite a few if I want to. See, there's a difference between if I want to lower the price versus I thinking I have to lower the price to get a job to pay my bills or I have to lower the price to get this sale. No, you don't. You might have to lower the price to pay some bills to think you can get a sale, but to just lower a price to get the sale, you're thinking wrong. Okay. A clear vision will keep you focused on what works, allowing you the freedom to reject or trim anything that doesn't contribute towards your business strategy. So, if it's not in your business strategy, you don't have to do it. And that's freedom. Now, lack of vision can also take your eyes off your profit. And a few things happen here. You spend more than you make. When your eyes are off your profit, you spend more than you make and your debt increases. You also come in the rears of paying your suppliers. So, you get behind on paying your suppliers and eventually they cut you off. I've seen other companies in my area where they're on COD, cash on delivery of picking up their equipment, because they have no credit. That would be rough. And you are challenged to pay employees on time when you can't and their checks are bouncing. You know, I've heard of those things too. I'm blessed to never experienced that, but I've heard of that before. And no matter how much is brought in in a day, it's never enough. And I experienced that before I started McAfee, I worked for another company and I was running service and I brought in a really good amount for that day in that time period. And I brought in a really good amount and I was really proud of myself and I was really happy and I couldn't wait to bring it in. And the office manager asked me, how much did you bring in today? That was the day before everybody could see on your software, how much you were doing live, you know, per job. And I told her the amount, I think it was like 2,500 at the time. I think that's not enough. Well, it wasn't enough because she was paying bills and she needed more money to pay bills or maybe make payroll. I don't know, but it made me feel like crap. And she doesn't even realize it. She, I mean, she didn't even realize it at the time. So no matter how much is brought in in a day is not enough. And that's sad. And then eventually from all this, you are history. You become one of the seven out of 10 companies that go out of business within five years, eight out of 10 within 10 years. So it doesn't take long for all this to add up, for all this to add up, where you stop having a growth mindset, you stopped wanting it, you stopped advertising, and you stopped having a vision. Everybody has a vision when they first start. They just want to succeed. They want to make it work. But when you stop, you stop these things. It doesn't end well, folks. It doesn't end well. And everything we've talked about today, what not to do, if you do the opposite, it not a guarantee by any means, but you will grow and you will be strong. You will be a healthy company. Company's just like a person. It ages like a person and it can be strong and healthy like a person. I like a good, strong, healthy company. It helps me sleep good at night, which I talk about often here. So hope this helps. If you're watching on YouTube, don't forget to like and subscribe below. You can also support this podcast by rating and reviewing on iTunes or your preferred listening platform. Keep listening. I'll do my best to keep challenging you. And don't forget to follow us on Instagram or Facebook at the Greg McAfee Show. No spaces, no underscores. Be sure to tune in next week. I do have some exciting things coming up. I've got some, you know, I don't interview many people. Travis, my son, has been by far the most that have ever been on my show because it's a solo podcast and I try to do my best to challenge you. But I've had the opportunity to interview a few people and it's going to be good. You're going to get a lot from this. It's some of the best people in the industry and have run successful companies that I've mentioned in here a few times before. I'll let you know who they are here soon. But thanks for listening. God bless and carry on and have a great day.
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"mcafee" Discussed on The Greg McAfee Show
"The Bible says where there is no vision, the people perish. They die where there is no vision in business. There is lack of direction. There is little to no growth. There's indecision. There's costly delays and there's death. They perish. Okay. A strong vision of where you want to be and attainable goals to help you get there are essential to success. So if you want to fail, have lack of vision, it won't take long with no vision, you will perish. Okay. The focus should be on quality, not quantity. Growing too fast. When you have a lack of vision, you don't have strategy. You don't have control. You don't have direction. So you could have a tendency to grow too fast. In other words, taking on jobs that you shouldn't take on. And I've said before, growing too fast without a plan will take you under faster than lack of capital. So when you have lack of vision, you could grow too fast, which will lead to loss of revenue and cuts and failure. And a clear vision will help keep you focused on what works, allowing you to have the freedom to or reject trim or... You know what? I'll tell you what, that's a great word, freedom. Because when you're doing well in business and you're making a good profit and you're paying your people well and you're paying your bills on time and you're just making things happen for the community and all those types of things, you have the freedom to make decisions based on what you want to do and not what you have to do. In other words, if I'm going up against someone right now on a job, if we're going up against a job, another company today, and for some reason, they're trying to take the job away from us and let's just pretend their regular price on a system is, let's just say it's 13 ,000. And so we know about where they come in and they come in on this one at 11 ,500. If I want to, I can sell this job for 10 ,500 and take that job from them and it will not affect my company at all. It will not affect me at all. Now, I wouldn't want to do too many like that, but I can do quite a few if I want to. See, there's a difference between if I want to lower the price versus I thinking I have to lower the price to get a job to pay my bills or I have to lower the price to get this sale. No, you don't. You might have to lower the price to pay some bills to think you can get a sale, but to just lower a price to get the sale, you're thinking wrong. Okay. A clear vision will keep you focused on what works, allowing you the freedom to reject or trim anything that doesn't contribute towards your business strategy. So, if it's not in your business strategy, you don't have to do it.
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Lack of Vision: A Death Sentence for Business Success
"The Bible says where there is no vision, the people perish. They die where there is no vision in business. There is lack of direction. There is little to no growth. There's indecision. There's costly delays and there's death. They perish. Okay. A strong vision of where you want to be and attainable goals to help you get there are essential to success. So if you want to fail, have lack of vision, it won't take long with no vision, you will perish. Okay. The focus should be on quality, not quantity. Growing too fast. When you have a lack of vision, you don't have strategy. You don't have control. You don't have direction. So you could have a tendency to grow too fast. In other words, taking on jobs that you shouldn't take on. And I've said before, growing too fast without a plan will take you under faster than lack of capital. So when you have lack of vision, you could grow too fast, which will lead to loss of revenue and cuts and failure. And a clear vision will help keep you focused on what works, allowing you to have the freedom to or reject trim or... You know what? I'll tell you what, that's a great word, freedom. Because when you're doing well in business and you're making a good profit and you're paying your people well and you're paying your bills on time and you're just making things happen for the community and all those types of things, you have the freedom to make decisions based on what you want to do and not what you have to do. In other words, if I'm going up against someone right now on a job, if we're going up against a job, another company today, and for some reason, they're trying to take the job away from us and let's just pretend their regular price on a system is, let's just say it's 13 ,000. And so we know about where they come in and they come in on this one at 11 ,500. If I want to, I can sell this job for 10 ,500 and take that job from them and it will not affect my company at all. It will not affect me at all. Now, I wouldn't want to do too many like that, but I can do quite a few if I want to. See, there's a difference between if I want to lower the price versus I thinking I have to lower the price to get a job to pay my bills or I have to lower the price to get this sale. No, you don't. You might have to lower the price to pay some bills to think you can get a sale, but to just lower a price to get the sale, you're thinking wrong. Okay. A clear vision will keep you focused on what works, allowing you the freedom to reject or trim anything that doesn't contribute towards your business strategy. So, if it's not in your business strategy, you don't have to do it.
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3 Things You Must Do for a Growth Mindset
"Are a few things that we must do to have a growth mindset. And number one is set aside time to work on growth. If you're going to have a growth mindset, set aside some time for growth. So you've got to identify new opportunities. You've got to identify new thoughts and how to implement them and then how to thrive once you implement them. So you've got to set aside some time for growth. What does that look like? It looks different for every one of us. I'm a morning person, so if I need to set aside some time, I'm probably going to be in my office about five a .m. because I know that things don't start happening around here till between seven and seven thirty ish. And I've got a couple hours of my time. So that's me. But yours could be in the middle of the day. You could take off somewhere and go park and stare at a lake. You could go to a restaurant and just drink coffee and and write think. And you could do it at night when the kids are in bed. And, you know, you could just start it. It's different for everyone. So don't get stuck on. I don't have time for that. Well, we all have the same amount of time in a day. What we do with it is extremely important and how you manage it is extremely important. So set aside some time to work on your growth. Number two is stay up to date on your industry trends and developments. You've got to know what's going on in your industry. You've got to know what's happening. Are are the efficiencies changing? Are the is the refrigerant changing again for no reason? It are, you know, what's going on in your industry. But you've got to stay up to date on that. Number three, you've got to think about winning. So that's why I talk about, you know, thinking wrong, thinking right. You've got to think about winning, not just how to compete, but how to win. Because it's not just about competition. It's not telling a customer that, well, we have some, you know, we're part of some good competition out there. I would never consider saying that at all. Or I don't even say we don't say rather, we have competitive pricing because we don't. Our pricing's typically higher than most. And the only reason other companies won't increase their prices is because they don't know how. And I'm not saying they don't know how to raise their price. I'm saying they don't know how to explain an increased price. They don't know how to show value. We do.
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A highlight from 43: Week 2 Recap
"Welcome to the Ultraflex Football Podcast. Move over Pat McAfee. There's no denying that we are here to spice up your life and never forget about the good times. I'm your host, Anthony Sutton. With me, as always, is Rob Green. Man, I wasn't prepared for that change. What's up? What's going on? And Viva Forever, Ryan Wheeler. I feel so much pressure. Now we got to be better than Pat McAfee. All right. Oh, we got the... Go ahead. No, he's actually like swearing on ESPN now, and he's got like Mike Greenberg, he swore on ESPN now because of McAfee. He's actually... A little more laid back now, huh? Yeah, he wears a tank top. He's very good for ESPN, in my opinion. Go ahead. He's spicing up Disney, huh? I think I saw, didn't they have to put him on like an extra delay versus normal? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. He has to cut out the F words a little bit, I heard. Someone's got to tell him to stop the cursing. No. Why? That's what makes it fun. I'm like eight song titles through my album here, so. Oh, he's like, damn, you're doing song titles already? Yeah, I thought you had to say him first. Holy moly. All right, well, we're about to find out what your song titles were. So Tony messed up two weeks ago. He didn't get all the song titles in, so now he has an album to himself, but because this is a team sport, a team podcast, Rob and I now have to split apart, or a album between ourselves. So Rob and I have Good Charlotte, The Young and the Hopeless. My songs are A New Beginning, Lifestyle of the Rich and the Famous, Wondering, The Story of My Old Man, Girls and Boys, and My Bloody Valentine. Rob? I don't know, man. I'm not feeling good about this week. This is a lot. Seven songs and a half hour show. All right, I got Hold On, Riot Girl, Say Anything, The Day That I Die, The Young and the Hopeless, Emotionless, and Movin' On. Tony, we're all wondering, what do you have? You have the Spice Girls, my man. And I already, I've gotten already into the pod. I've already gotten Spice Up Your Life, Stop, Never Give Up on Good Times, Move Over, Denying, and Viva Forever. I still need to get in Too Much, Saturday Night Divas, Do It, and The Lady is a Vamp, which will probably be a difficult one. Hold on, can you say that one more time? What was that? The Lady is a Vamp. Like a vampire, assuming? What's a vamp? It's a vampire. And that's from the Spice World album. 1997 made me feel old AF. 97, wow. I remember watching the Spice World movie, the Spice Girls movie. I do not remember. Oh, you guys didn't have older sisters, that's why. No. All right, anyway. Movin' On. All right, speaking of Movin' On, the NFL schedule moved on. We are now in week two, so let's get to Football Talk. And I guess technically we're in week three, so we're going to recap week two. As always, we're going to start with the Bills game, go to the Titans game, and then kind of what else is going on. So, Rob, you were at the Bills Raiders game. What were your biggest takeaways? It was a fun home opener. The Bills got back to their winning ways with a nice, easy, I'd even want to say I was worried at the beginning. It was a little annoying that they fell behind 7 -0, but I was confident they would still pull it out. They did. Josh Allen ended up AFC Offensive Player of the Week, I think the 11th time in his career now, which is pretty impressive. Wow, the franchise record. Oh, I didn't know that. Nice stat. You beat Jim Kelly, it was 10 times. Well, pretty nice. Feels like a new beginning for the Bills, for sure. Nice, Ryan. Where was I going with that? I told you guys a stat yesterday, actually, that surprised me, but Josh Allen is number one in completion percentage so far this year. I know it's only two games in, but fun little tidbit there. It's crazy how much can change week by week in the NFL, and it's going to happen again this week. If the Bills were to lose to Washington and go 1 -2, then it almost feels like the game, I know it wouldn't be a must -win, but it feels like the game against the Dolphins the following week would feel like a must -win. That way, they're not 1 -3 and that far behind the Dolphins, but yeah, it's crazy how much can change in one week in the NFL. Oh, show. My biggest takeaway, and I said it last week, kind of a similar takeaway for me was last year it felt like we never got pressure on the quarterback. This year, it feels like we're constantly getting the opposing quarterback pressure, and it feels like our offensive line is playing well, so big task, which is we're physical, we can run the ball, we can block, we can get pressure. It's a good change of pace. I don't know, honestly, I'm not smart enough to tell you if McDermott's play calling is a factor in that, or if it's just Leonard Floyd, hopefully his ankle's okay, is better, and Ed Oliver's having a better year, so on and so forth. Yes, I saw his average depth of tackle is negative yards right now, which is impressive. So his average tackle is a tackle for a loss. That's awesome. That's literally the definition of blowing up a play. So yeah, it's exciting. Obviously, this win means something, but it doesn't really if you go and lose to Washington, so got to two and one. Two and one, by the way. Oh, yeah. I think everyone does the thing where you kind of... Did we just lose our host? It kind of looks like a frozen face there. Okay. Hey, frozen face. Oh, Rob, it's you and I. Let's do this thing. All right. So I didn't get to talk about the Titans at all. Can we say anything now, because he's gone? Yeah, we can say anything. Say anything, say anything. Sorry, I can't sneak any of these. Good Charlotte. Anywho, girls and boys, my takeaway is that the Titans are who I thought they were. The team that... I guess who a lot of Titans fans thought they were. The team that's probably... You are who we thought you were. Welcome back, Anthony. Thanks. They're the team that's going to beat the good teams and lose to the teams they should beat. And that's how it feels like the Titans have always been. They keep every game close. They have a shot. They have a chance in every game. So they're not quite the young and the hopeless, but they're just maybe like the mediocre. No, they're not the young and the hopeless. Oh, I thought that was one of my song titles. That's the... Oh, no. Oh, no. Clearly. Well, okay. I guess I can cross that one off my list then. Anywho, you know who else I was impressed with was the Falcons. They play a certain brand of football. It's the NFC Titans. I think I have to be a fan of the Falcons now. But just ground and pound, they came back. They were able to pull that one out in Green Bay. So... Yeah. The Falcons. To your point, there's not many teams, I feel like, in the NFL that have an identity, like a true identity. The Falcons are one that you know exactly what you're getting every week. And that could be really good or it could be really bad. Oh, for sure. One of my week two takeaways is prior to the season, it was always... And I was the one on this podcast kind of leading the charge is how good the AFC is gonna be. And then if like through two weeks, which is, again, a small sample size, it feels like the 49ers, Eagles, and Cowboys are playing just as well as anybody. And they're all in the NFC. Now, the NFC doesn't have much else to offer, but those three teams are gonna be very formidable to whoever comes out of the AFC come Super Bowl time. Yeah. At this point, their high -end talent almost seems better than the AFC with a lot of the top teams in the AFC struggling. So... Do you guys think that three of the top five teams in the NFL are NFC teams? Maybe even three of the top four teams in the NFL? I think that's fair right now. Yeah. That's crazy, isn't it? Because before the season, it was like, the AFC is so strong, so good. They have all the good quarterbacks and two weeks is a pretty small sample size, but I think... I think at this point, yeah, it's safe to say those three teams are top five. I don't even know who you would put... I mean, I guess the Dolphins are probably the best team in the AFC at the moment. I mean, the Chiefs scored 17 points against the Jaguars. And I mean, the Bills looked very good last week, but you can't ignore how poorly they looked the first week on offense. So... And then obviously, the Bengals Chargers being 0 -2 hurts the AFC's, I guess, power rankings or however you want to look at it. And then Rogers being hurt. Those are three teams that I thought were going to have a very good season. They still might. Maybe not the Jets, but the Chargers and the Bengals.
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Are You a Disruptor or a Disruptee in Your Market?
"You want to make your competitors more jealous of you be disruptive in your industry, it will drive them nuts. They won't know what to do. Um, I talk about in the book of characteristics of disruptees and characteristics of disruptors and, you know, a disruptee, they fail to appreciate changes in the market. So they just keep doing status quo. Um, they're invested heavily in status quo. Um, they, their old product designs are just too cumbersome to move quickly without starting over. So they just continue to do the same old thing over and over that, that the whole company's been doing forever. They never make any changes. Um, that's why they're so easy to beat. They don't have the needed expertise for desire changes. Why change sacred cows and old biases flourish in these companies affecting even the best of intentions to change. And then the disruptors, man, they're the complete opposite. They recognize possibilities and they refuse to become slaves to the past and they deal with, um, how to be, how to regain quickness and be faster than anyone else. And they're fully committed to their initiatives. And they, um, they're, they critically, they are either new companies or they're willing to find a way to recapture their entrepreneurial heritage. So in other words, they don't have to be a new company, but a lot of times the new company does come in with new ideas and, and they, uh, like me, I worked for someone and I learned what not to do instead of what really, what to do. I, I, I kept saying things like, I will, if I ever have my own company, I will not do this. And, uh, so sure enough, when I started my own company, I did not do those things. So, um, the disruption mindset is where entrepreneurs should be spending most of their time. And, um, you know, just so you know, disruptions are a way of life today and many businesses have had their doors closed because of them. Okay. So when you are disruptive, um, they have a very hard time keeping up with you. You're disrupting the standard quo or status quo, rather of the industry you're in, you know, maybe your industry has been doing a certain thing for a certain way forever. And all of a sudden you come in and you go, we're not going to do that anymore. And you change everything. You change the way you market. You change the way you brand, you know, you change the way you advertise. You change the way you serve people. You change the way you sell, change the way you close a sale, change the way you train.
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Becoming #1 Puts a Target on Your Back
"Know, there's something about success, there's something about winning that drives some people nuts. They get extremely jealous, they get extremely envy, they're just uncomfortable around winners. Personally, I can't get my head around it. I try, but I can't get my head around it. Personally, when I'm around winners, I'm a sponge. I want to know how to win too. I want to learn from these people. Then I want to implement a few things in my life or my business. And sometimes I want to even do it better than they did. But sometimes when people see someone else achieving their goals and making great strides in personal life, in business, in sports, it brings like feelings of inadequacy or jealousy or envy. And unfortunately not everyone is able to set those feelings aside and genuinely celebrate someone's success. Again, I can't get my head around this. That's why I'm extremely passionate about talking about it today. Let's face it. Sometimes people hate winners because of their envy and the dislike for the good fortune of others. It's hard to even find much information online about this. When I was trying to Google, when you're number one, you're a moving target. I kept finding things like the number one reason you have a business you hate or hating your job intensely is not a business plan or running a business you hate. It's not what I was talking about. It's not what I was talking about. How to work with someone you hate. What do you do when you hate your boss? So Google couldn't even figure out what I was trying to do. And I tried many different formats and I never could get enough information on when you're number one, you're a moving target. We worked our way from the bottom. 546 heating and air conditioning companies somewhere around there in the Dayton area. When I first came in, I was number 547. And we gradually worked our way to the top to number one stayed number one for years. And it's we're a moving target. I mean, we've got people shooting arrows at us from the front, the side, the back angled from the tops. I mean, it's unreal. So, you know, maybe we can't find stuff like this on Google because our society in general, that's either it's either getting soft or we are jealous of others and we just admit it or I have no idea. I just really I have no idea. Okay, so competition is always going to be amongst us and we're going to have competition in business. Even though I told you I don't like competition, it doesn't really. You know why I don't like competition? Because I don't have any good competition. I don't I don't have any really good, solid competition. Well, you know, they say that we always have competition, but we just we just personally at McAfee, we just aim to be the best at what we do and take care of people and other companies just kind of get in our way because they don't get it. That might sound arrogant to you. It probably does, but I'm just telling the truth. We just take care of people better than we try to do it better than anyone else. And we strive to be the best. That's what we
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"mcafee" Discussed on The Greg McAfee Show
"Try it sometime. Boy, I mean, if you're a positive-negative talker, I know where your life's going, because same thing happens. You know, I believe it was Henry Ford who said, whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. Because what you tell yourself is very important. If I tell myself I can't do it, then I don't be disappointed. I shouldn't be disappointed. Okay. And then the next one is break a sweat. And this is a tougher one for me. I just had I just had stem cell therapy done on my right knee. I wanted to try that. It's bone to bone there. Lost a lot of cartilage over the years. Number one, carrying too much weight. Number two, being in the Marine Corps and carrying too much weight and jumping out of things and sports in right knee first. I just had it done last week. It could take anywhere from eight to 12 weeks before we know if it actually take the stem cells out of my took my own stem cells out of my hip and put it in my knee. And then they take my blood plasma and put it in my knee as well. And that helps the stem cells grow and start building cartilage again. So I hope it works. It's a pretty good chance that it will. But this break a sweat is hard for me because I can walk a little ways, but I can't run anymore. I can do elliptical and that definitely helps me. It's a lot less pressure on my knees. I can do elliptical and I can break a sweat. I need to do it more often because according to Harvard Business Review, studies have directly linked mental performance to physical activity. So the more physical activity we do, the more we are apt to perform better mentally. And also regular exercise has been showed to affect our mood, improve our mood, and have more mental firepower. Okay, so talk about remembering things like we used to. You ever do that? Wish I could remember things like I used to. Well, try exercising more. You know, try sweating more. Break a sweat. That's what it's called. Break a sweat. By the way, I received this information that I'm talking about today from a group called Refresh Leadership. And it's just a little bit about their content. And I'm using some of their highlights and then, you know, talking about how it affects us and how we can learn from it. So 15 to 30 minutes of exercise each day will make a big difference mentally. And when we're good mentally, we probably will have a better chance of getting out of our own way. Lastly, I want to talk about asking for help. Now honestly, guys, I have a lot of challenges. I have a lot of problems. I do things, you know, some things I do wrong. I'm OCD about a lot of things. But one thing I don't have any problem doing is asking for help. I mean, I just don't, I don't, I realize I don't know it all. I realize I don't have an S on this chest. If I did, it would stand for struggler. I struggle in things. I don't have all the answers. Uh, God has blessed me to do what I do and we've been very successful at it. Um, but I have gotten this far because of him and because of, uh, good business people who are a lot smarter than me and good advice from my wife. So swallow your pride. I don't think there's any S on your chest. Um, and I've, I don't know of any water walkers other than Jesus. Um, you know, I know, I know Peter got out of the boat and walked a few steps, but then he got, got his eyes off Jesus and he, uh, went down into the water and Jesus had to lift him out. There's another story there. Keeping your eyes on Jesus will, will get you a lot farther. But anyway, um, there's no water walkers. By the way, in our old building, we had a pond right next to it. My old building actually is, is just, um, south of my present building and I built it. And I told the story about it last week, about it falling down when we got the walls up and all that stuff, but there was a nice little pond on it. And I used to tell people in, uh, in our boot camps that, uh, you see that pond over there. The only time I've ever walked across it is when it was five below here in Dayton with windchill factor of 20. And it was a couple inches thick of ice. And I walked across that, but I don't walk on water and, uh, I, and neither do you. Um, so we don't have all the answers. And if we pretend to have all the answers, that really throws a mixed message to our team. It really does. And then they're afraid to challenge you. See, and when you realize, when you admit that you don't have all the answers, then your team are your team is free to challenge you and ask questions in an appropriate way, of course, but they're free to do that because they know you're not going to get your feelings hurt, or you're not going to get mad if they challenge you a little bit and ask a question. Okay. There's been many times where Greg wanted to go this way. And my leadership team said, hold on a minute. If we go this way, can we do this, this, and this still? No. Okay. You're right. We shouldn't go this way. Um, but I laugh. You know what? I thought it was a great idea. I just didn't think it through all the way. You know what I mean? Um, ready, fire, aim. Again, that comes back to haunt me sometimes. Um, but we must learn to set our pride aside. We must learn that we do own our businesses. Well, I've said, God owns it. I manage it. But we do own our businesses, but we don't have all the answers. And like Steve Jobs said, we hire smarter people than us, not to tell them what to do, but so they can tell us what to do. And when you have that attitude and you have that mindset and you have that strategic plan, I don't know, look where it got Steve pretty far. So there's always different perspectives. There's always different answers and there's always a better way. And, uh, so the best way to get out of your way is to take some of this advice, think differently, get some exercise, swallow your pride, um, ask for help for sure. Um, meet with your team often, um, not your whole team. I mean, meet with your leadership team often, even if you just have another manager, meet with them often, um, discuss ideas, share things. Um, you'll be much further ahead by doing that. And then also meet with your team, whether it's once a month or once a quarter or twice a year, but meet with your team. So they know what road you are on and they know where things are going. Um, that, that always helps them as well. So get out of your own way. I hope this helps have a great day.
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Get Out of Your Own Way: The Power of Asking for Help
"I want to talk about asking for help. Now honestly, guys, I have a lot of challenges. I have a lot of problems. I do things, you know, some things I do wrong. I'm OCD about a lot of things. But one thing I don't have any problem doing is asking for help. I mean, I just don't, I don't, I realize I don't know it all. I realize I don't have an S on this chest. If I did, it would stand for struggler. I struggle in things. I don't have all the answers. Uh, God has blessed me to do what I do and we've been very successful at it. Um, but I have gotten this far because of him and because of, uh, good business people who are a lot smarter than me and good advice from my wife. So swallow your pride. I don't think there's any S on your chest. Um, and I've, I don't know of any water walkers other than Jesus. Um, you know, I know, I know Peter got out of the boat and walked a few steps, but then he got, got his eyes off Jesus and he, uh, went down into the water and Jesus had to lift him out. There's another story there. Keeping your eyes on Jesus will, will get you a lot farther. But anyway, um, there's no water walkers. By the way, in our old building, we had a pond right next to it. My old building actually is, is just, um, south of my present building and I built it. And I told the story about it last week, about it falling down when we got the walls up and all that stuff, but there was a nice little pond on it. And I used to tell people in, uh, in our boot camps that, uh, you see that pond over there. The only time I've ever walked across it is when it was five below here in Dayton with windchill factor of 20. And it was a couple inches thick of ice. And I walked across that, but I don't walk on water and, uh, I, and neither do you. Um, so we don't have all the answers. And if we pretend to have all the answers, that really throws a mixed message to our team. It really does. And then they're afraid to challenge you. See, and when you realize, when you admit that you don't have all the answers, then your team are your team is free to challenge you and ask questions in an appropriate way, of course, but they're free to do that because they know you're not going to get your feelings hurt, or you're not going to get mad if they challenge you a little bit and ask a question. Okay. There's been many times where Greg wanted to go this way. And my leadership team said, hold on a minute. If we go this way, can we do this, this, and this still? Okay. No. You're right. We shouldn't go this way. Um, but I laugh. You know what? I thought it was a great idea. I just didn't think it through all the way. You know what I mean? Um, ready, fire, aim. Again, that comes back to haunt me sometimes. Um, but we must learn to set our pride aside. We must learn that we do own our businesses. Well, I've said, God owns it. I manage it. But we do own our businesses, but we don't have all the answers. And like Steve Jobs said, we hire smarter people than us, not to tell them what to do, but so they can tell us what to do. And when you have that attitude and you have that mindset and you have that strategic plan, I don't know, look where it got Steve pretty far. So there's always different perspectives. There's always different answers and there's always a better way.
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"mcafee" Discussed on The Greg McAfee Show
"It in perspective. You know, sometimes when the going gets tough, we completely lose touch. We completely lose touch. Um, and we can't, we can't, the going's going to get tough guys. It's like I said, last week, it's not easy or everyone would be doing it. The going's going to get tough. If you own your own business, there's nothing simple about it. That's why I said last week, there are times where I recommend someone not starting a business, but then I think about it and think that's kind of stupid. Um, if they're going to start their own business, let them start their own business. They've got gung ho. They've got motivation to do that. That would be stupid, but I want to tell them not to. I think, you know what I mean? So here's a couple of questions you can ask yourself on putting it in perspective. Why are you doing this? That's a great question. Why are you doing this? You run this business. Why? I get different answers every time I ask. The answer could be, um, I, you know, I mean, my answer is I enjoy serving people. Um, I enjoy hitting goals and I had a calling to start this business. I really did. I look at it as a calling. It was a calling to start this business. Other answers, you know, could be, I was just expected to, I'm the second or third generation. And my parents just expected us to come into the business. Wasn't necessarily what we wanted. It was just expected of us. That's a tough spot to be in. So why are you doing this? Who are you doing it for? Who are you doing it for? That's a great question. And what are the consequences if you decide not to do it? Some good questions, deep, deep questions to ask yourself. You know, they say, I mean, now they say now's a great time to sell business. It's a seller's market. If you're miserable doing it and you don't want to do it anymore, now's the best time to sell. But you have to ask yourself, what are the consequences and who are you doing it for? I just want to prove I can do this. Well, that's the wrong reason. My mom and dad would be very disappointed if I didn't continue this on. Or uncle John would be very disappointed if I didn't continue this on. That's the wrong reason. So we get in our own way. Remember the topic. And I want to help us get out of our own way. You know, you could be in a situation where you just don't want to do it anymore, but you're a big enough company where you can hire someone to run the darn thing. And you can play another part. People do it all the time.
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Why Are You Doing This? Deep Questions to Put Your Business in Perspective
"It in perspective. You know, sometimes when the going gets tough, we completely lose touch. We completely lose touch. Um, and we can't, we can't, the going's going to get tough guys. It's like I said, last week, it's not easy or everyone would be doing it. The going's going to get tough. If you own your own business, there's nothing simple about it. That's why I said last week, there are times where I recommend someone not starting a business, but then I think about it and think that's kind of stupid. Um, if they're going to start their own business, let them start their own business. They've got gung ho. They've got motivation to do that. That would be stupid, but I want to tell them not to. I think, you know what I mean? So here's a couple of questions you can ask yourself on putting it in perspective. Why are you doing this? That's a great question. Why are you doing this? You run this business. Why? I get different answers every time I ask. The answer could be, um, I, you know, I mean, my answer is I enjoy serving people. Um, I enjoy hitting goals and I had a calling to start this business. I really did. I look at it as a calling. It was a calling to start this business. Other answers, you know, could be, I was just expected to, I'm the second or third generation. And my parents just expected us to come into the business. Wasn't necessarily what we wanted. It was just expected of us. That's a tough spot to be in. So why are you doing this? Who are you doing it for? Who are you doing it for? That's a great question. And what are the consequences if you decide not to do it? Some good questions, deep, deep questions to ask yourself. You know, they say, I mean, now they say now's a great time to sell business. It's a seller's market. If you're miserable doing it and you don't want to do it anymore, now's the best time to sell. But you have to ask yourself, what are the consequences and who are you doing it for? I just want to prove I can do this. Well, that's the wrong reason. My mom and dad would be very disappointed if I didn't continue this on. Or uncle John would be very disappointed if I didn't continue this on. That's the wrong reason. So we get in our own way. Remember the topic. And I want to help us get out of our own way. You know, you could be in a situation where you just don't want to do it anymore, but you're a big enough company where you can hire someone to run the darn thing. And you can play another part. People do it all the time.
The Greg McAfee Show
Going From Good to Great: Improving Discipline in Your Workforce
"Right, so we're gonna start off with how to improve discipline in your people. And number one is responsibility. Give your team, give every individual on your team responsibility. And then see how they handle it, see what they do with it. I mean, it starts with, I'm gonna give you a job and your start time is 8 AM. So there's the first test. Out of the first 30 days, how good are they at showing up at 8 AM? And then how good, if they work till from 8 to 4, how good are they at staying busy all the way through 4 o 'clock? That's test number one. Have deadlines and actions. I talk about this often that small businesses do not have enough deadlines, and they do not have enough action plans. And an action plan is stating, we just talked about this, and now the action plan is to make it happen by this day with this team, go. That's the action plan. If you have any issues or concerns, let's meet, send a text or an email, and let's meet back if we need to. But if not, we expect it done by this date, we'll meet and discuss on that date, okay? We're a pro -profit business. We are not an adult daycare. And we are not gonna hold people's hands. Now, the initial training period, we will hold your hand and walk you through it and show you how to do it and let you know what we expect. But there comes a certain point where we're not gonna hold your hand anymore and you're responsible to do it. So we're also expecting persistence in a person. We train the team to have personal goals at work and at home. So they should have their own personal goals. And we're gonna talk about that a little bit later. But writing them down almost like on a to do list is a great way to persist in making things happen. So we train the team to have personal goals at work and at home. But if I am responsible at home in my duties and a to do list and my action plans and my accountability to myself or my accountability to my family, then more than likely I'm gonna be very responsible at work on the job. So that's another great question you can ask someone during an interview is tell us a little bit about the responsibility you have at home. And we started asking another question. You'll have to put it your way and some will say, is that legal or not? But the way we ask it is perfectly legal. So someone has, we first find out, tell us a little bit about you and your family and we find out, do they have kids? And if they have kids, then a great question is, tell us how you manage your children. Give us an example of managing children. And more than likely, if they are responsible and they are disciplined, then they will discipline in some form or fashion their children, and we wanna know about that. Tell us more about that. What results do you get? How does that work for you? All those types of things.
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"mcafee" Discussed on The Greg McAfee Show
"So, I was reading Good to Great the other day, skimming through it again. I've read it several times, one of my favorite books. And I decided, you know what, this podcast, I'm going to talk about what Good to Great looks like from a small business point of view. And so I'm going to title this the mindset of small business going from good to great. The mindset of a small business going from good to great. And Jim Collins wrote the book Good to Great. And in the book, it says that all the research that he and his team performed, they learned a couple of things. They learned that the CEO compensation, the technology the company was in, the level of technology the company had, the mergers and acquisitions that the company had performed or done, and the change management initiatives, here's what they found out. They had relatively minor roles in moving from good to great. So all those things that a lot of people would think had to do with going from good to great really didn't. Instead, Jim Collins found that success resulted from three main factors. So this is going to be the three factors, the three bullet points we talk about today. And it's going to be disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action. And we're going to talk about this today and how you can apply it to your small business. So for the most part, there's many viewers, but for the most part, a high percentage of you guys are in the home service business. So I've tried to narrow it down, funnel it down to that. But if you're in another kind of business, it will definitely apply to you as well. So don't shut this off yet. Okay.
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"Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is ending a lawsuit against sportscaster pat McAfee after McAfee publicly apologized Thursday for his previous on air statements that Favre had been, quote, stealing from poor people in Mississippi. In a welfare miss spending case. Favre and McAfee both announced the settlement, McAfee, a former NFL punter, apologized during the pat McAfee show on YouTube and said he did not have to make a payment to Favre to settle the suit. Farb still has defamation lawsuits pending against former NFL player Shannon Sharpe and Mississippi auditor SHAD white. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
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Aaron Rodgers Emerges From the Darkness
"Who's been a top contender for Friday's finest for the last few weeks. Has been the mercurial quarterback of the Green Bay Packers. Aaron Rodgers. Now, deciding that he did not want to retire under the same year Tom Brady did, and he wanted to continue to play. He's following that great packer tradition of leaving the Green Bay Packers and going to New York. It looks like if things can get everything settled. I mean, is there ever, I mean, this is almost like the Howard Hughes of football. I mean, just this reclusive, I'm going to sit in the dark for two weeks and then come back out and talk. And then when he actually came back out this week and said it on the pat McAfee show, well, I'm going to play and I intend to play with the jets. Well, I loved the I don't know if I'm going to try to I think it's a direct one. He said, I came out of the darkness and something was a little bit off. Like, yeah. Okay. The real world, buddy. You know, I just, I feel like every fan of every other team in the NFC north wants to hold a press conference to thank God for getting Aaron Rodgers out of their division. But realistically, it's something that bothers me. I think this is, this goes for pretty much anything. This is not, we don't even have to keep this to just sports, but the idea that he knew that he knows that he has enough power to a if they want to get rid of him, he can take as much time as he wants. If he really wanted to stay and cause a stink and their organization, he could do that as well. But now he gets to make demands to the team that's looking to get him. Think about all the power that that one man has because he can throw a football 60 yards without blinking.
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'My intention is to play ... and play for the Jets'
"Of green. I made it clear that my intention was to play and my intention was to play for the New York Jets. On the pat McAfee show on YouTube and SiriusXM, the four time NFL MVP says there are no hard feelings. My side love and appreciation gratitude for everything that Green Bay is done for me. Love so much love and gratitude and just hard open for the pack of fans. And what it meant to be their quarterback. The 39 year old Rogers says Green Bay is holding up a trade with the jets, the packers appear ready to move ahead with 2020 first round pick Jordan love at
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"mcafee" Discussed on The Pat McAfee Show 2.0
"Fucking early for you to say that but i'll say the carson wentz deserves none of the hate that he's going to potentially get for his performance this past weekend and the colts not winning. He was getting his ass. Beat and i'm very thankful that he's a nine foot tall fix this. He could be out again. Let's hopefully yeah. Let's hope that the colts offense alarm comeback together. They're going to have to figure it out. Left tackle damn import on how the hell. That's i mean. Who knows how that's gonna go moving forward. We only got the rams next week on. What's downer on under floyd. That's okay jalen figuring out jalen ramsey last night love with their. He's everywhere he yeah. He is fucking everywhere. He's like blue. Point he i mean he was everywhere in. I love speaking of jalen ramsey. I loved how the rest called the taunton. Like i appreciate. how the rest taunting the one call with jenson. On thursday night they called it ended up being offset and penalties. Let's just move along with an app near ramsey clearly. Had what they were calling taunting call mike. How he went onto the bench onto zone sideline walked guy down and was saying things mcveigh comes. Spring mcvay grabs him. Came over and said hey odd supposed to fucking call this right now and ribs. It turned real quick. Was going the other way. I like that the rest you know kind of like a understood that there's a little bit of a gamesmanship in there jalen ramsey. If he's gonna play football like that all season in matthew stafford's going to be able to do exactly what we now everybody's banging the drum that they on the matthews average which is interesting. I'm assuming everybody was yeah. Okay sounds good. But the matthew stafford. La rams offense is going to be electrifying. We expected it to be. We thought it was going to be an extra. Because if you hadn't watched detroit lions game all you did was look at the lion stats for so long in the reconciliation team fucking stints in normally in the when a team stinks you point right. It's quarterback because the quarterback has somehow claimed ownership over a win loss that even though it's an entire team sport that's just the way we live so matthew stafford. I don't think i ever got the respect. That he deserved in detroit. Strictly because detroit. Lions fucking stunk. When he was there now people won't talk about the potential curse of calvin johnson being forced to give money back tom and barry sanders being forced to give his money back. Maybe they need. Take some sage in the training. Room like a fc richmond around but matthew stafford. If you watched the lines never wanted you say this. Is that dice. While this guy's lose their they're losing because of this guy right here. I got a chance to see it live. He was now they did lose. Andrew luck had a last second drive to win. That whole thing actually did a little matthew stafford to mattie staff but it was an awesome thing but if you ever watch the lines you clearly thought yourself. All this guy's unbelievable but nobody watches the lines except for thanksgiving day. Nobody saw the lines because lines stink. Nobody would go out of their way and say. Hey i only have one or two. Tv's i'm gonna use my red zone or my sunday. Ticket are my sunday ticket. And i'm gonna use one of these. Tv's for a fucking lions. Nobody ever said that ever so nobody's got to see matthew stafford then obviously the bleacher report. Comedians come out and say all you know pat staff for all. This guy cares about everything like that. If you watch lines games like i was forced to do because we have foxy in here. It was very evident. Like oh this some bitches careers maybe getting wasted up here and then whenever it came out this weekend and he was maybe going to be in indianapolis colton. Then he's potentially going to be a carolina panther like if you're a carolina panthers fan although sam donald got a big win over the jets and christian. Mccaffrey fucking animal. Hey he's gonna take it easy look out. Hey he's picks up forty yards in any seeking content. I think matt roy needs christian. Mccaffrey hey man listen. You're one of the most explosive electrifying exciting football players that this league has right now but what you need to do after pick twenty five thirty just fucking slide like a quarterback or go out of bounds crystal caverns going say running back. I don't do that and matt roseman. Go listen i'm old school. I don't like when people do that but we need you. He takes some massive shots. And it's after matt. He is so good at the football so good at the football and he is reckless and careless out there. I mean by reckless and careless. I mean this in a good way is good. He hits a whole go two hundred miles an hour. I mean he is gone out there. But i watch i think to myself carolina. Panthers got to be thinking of themselves. Hey i hope that. This guy survives this season. He is so fucking good football by teddy bridgewater with carolina last year. If he has christian mccaffrey probably now. He's in denver during teddy bridgewater. Stuff get wins shouted denver by the way. Von miller ate a little bit. I mean it's nice to see them get a win. Nice to see. Teddy bridgewater do well but alleged with the carolina panthers matthew stafford into the rams made this last minute jump for them in. Just the thought of sean. Mcveigh's offense with sean jackson. Eight last night he was playing. I mean sean. Jags cooper cops all the way back that squad with that defense. I think they zoomed. In on jalen ramsey after touchdown bomb that touchdown bond from matthew stafford and he was yelling very loud. And i almost wanted to grab the video and say What he was thinking here in his head is we gotta fucking again. That is what that entire team is thinking. We gotta fucking not. The goth wasn't okay golf. Golf is a but whatever stafford place i mean. He used his parking any swaggie lonzo. I mean it's just like that is going to be so much fun to watch. And they got fucking it was closest. We've watch out. They mcvay maybe put stafford down on the bench. We don't fuck them up too much. Maybe that's something you need to do. Pretty awesome no that gough had a nice tribute to stafford yesterday by throwing for three fifty three touchdowns pick six in stafford fashion in fourth quarter in the fourth quarter. Thank you goff. Hey go thank you. Thank you for paying tribute to nine golf. At what forty nine or fifty attempts over fifty seven or seven mc dc. I thought were run. A ball didn't give swift iraq here score. They didn't got down so fast. Early offense blind. Actually like really good and sue looked great at left tackle who had to switch over because deckers on..
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"mcafee" Discussed on The Pat McAfee Show 2.0
"So we'll just say actual since the carl wentz news. He's worth half a point to modest. So the pats and seahawks cover the spread of two and a half both teams. Then you gotta wear the jersey and if the colts win or cover our mcafee cultures. Yeah but like what. I've realizes mcafee coach jersey isn't necessarily just coached jersey. I've seen a lot of fans of other teams were in culture to let them know. I appreciate the hell out of them. In the punters the only position that i got booed gone on field at home in cheered going on a field away maybe wear car wins a call jersey back there in the city by the. I don't know how we would get one of those. What is tape it on. I would change my jersey until carson wentz table. One call carr winters. Oh no he's number two. Yes so we'll just put them what he's not eleven nano pitman's will microsoft. Judy ever heard of him talking. Touchdown scored adler respect right artist morning. Good morning football four touchdowns diop de'andre hawkins k. That's fantasy advice. You can't get anywhere else. Having more touchdowns than de'andre i believe which we are fans of case so i don't wanna i did. It wasn't mike. Bob woodson it. I don't think it was mike robinson. Now which by the way unbelievable they do have a segment called hammer time. Though is that right. I feel good. Friday what's it called to hammer time hammer time time. They've got a guy with a beard on their paul. Don't fuck it start with this shitty. Hey your artificial guy survive. That's right. I got the digital anti bodies. That was not actually gonna be eight. That was not a company. I thought that was real deep. Fake company and it's nice to not fake company did survive coverage true board hammer time over good segment time. What do start yelling awesome. That'd be so cool. We didn't create data by the way. I mean hammered. Swinging the hammer ray. Here it's broken through a lot. And i remember when you broke that sad day back might actually change to. I change that day too but we take it up and we got show lately. Don't have that thing to your desk. You'll fucking breaking into what if we watch good morning football and they're like chalet like a big djilali out there sceptre potentially no anger on by the way survived off taunting. Didn't it i mean pretty much. You run over five. People make it on a cow. Brant's anger on segment which is beautiful segment pilot. Love actually love every day. This is not bullshit but a lot of that our you not gonna flex on the fourth guy that you run out in the russell. Is that one. Take back. All of the george take them. All though we're doing let's see how that's policed. I guess yeah hopefully better than target now that the world's opening backup so many new thrills or on the horizon okay and whether you've been in a relationship for years or just get started or excited to get back out there and meet new people when the moment comes come to quit. That is not what they had in there that they're going in a different direction. So let's go back Censor to okay when you when the moment comes you wanna be ready with rum and you can get a free online evaluation. An ongoing care erectile dysfunction all from the comfort privacy of your home you take care of that roman swipes then guess what last long time. Yeah lonzo at the all homerun derrick diggers big. Ill population you do. Roman ready equals confidence. The confidence that you know you can rise to the occasion in the moment. We're looking at the summer of love. Twenty twenty one version in rome and wants to make sure you can participate in your way whether that be a single person or a couple..
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Jacksonville to Host New Orleans Saints' Opener Against Green Bay Packers
"Green bay packers new orleans saints opening game will be played in jacksonville due to hurricane coming through new orleans. We hope everybody is okay. Obviously on a quick recovery. The sounds like an absolute nightmare Saints play down. There was asked about it. He said he was informed. This morning that the week one will be in jacksonville. I don't think we had a whole lot of say in. This says curse could self awareness instance would've loved to have it here. An extra game obviously would have been fantastic and said there in jacksonville thought was maybe in dallas then maybe in houston approximate tcu. They'll play in jacksonville. Obviously making a do however they
Darknet Diaries
Is FBI's Magic Lantern the Ultimate Keylogger?
"This malware called magic lantern. And i find it fascinating. It usually infects a computer through an email attachment. You get email which says to open the attachment and when you do zane. Your computer is infected. And what magic lantern does. Is it record your key strokes and sends everything you type back to a central system so the hackers can see everything you type now of course with a key stroke logger like this. It can pick up any message. You send the people private chats and of course your passwords to who's the shady hacking group that uses magic lantern the f. b. i. In two thousand one someone issued a freedom of information request and got back information. The fbi uses this magic lantern malware to capture key strokes on target computers. No i'm under the impression that the fbi would need to get permission to use the software like a search warrant or something so this would classify magic lantern to be a lawful intercept mechanism meaning. They had permission to basically wiretaps on one. But this sparked a debate in the security community. The question was if the fbi has legal permission to eavesdrop on someone by using magic lantern should antivirus and security companies detect and report on this activity. Of course the fbi would like to go unnoticed in any kind of stealth mission and would rather antivirus companies not alert when they see this but on the other hand. That's the whole point of antivirus software to alert. When something is going on and shouldn't be happening. F secure antivirus company based in finland said right away that they would absolutely report on this but they're in finland the fbi is in the us. Mcafee an american antivirus tools said they would not alert the user if the tool saw magic lantern trigger and that it would ignore it later. They denied saying they're saying they do. In fact alert when magic lantern is detected on a computer but this opens a door to a strange world of allies and enemies. And it's hard to know who to trust when the software you buy might be lying to you or when the fbi is busy infecting people with malware to spy on them.
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"mcafee" Discussed on The Pat McAfee Show 2.0
"Would accidentally said peacock wrong. That was kind of let that slip there. When i said i can't say i mean i figured that was just a slip by forty and slept the a lot of you mentioned you know. The the big boss not vince. But the other big boss and the company Yeah you you you sit up a lot no those. You're calculating cerebral. You know what i mean. Cerebral calculate the peacock one was just a fatal air deserve that. I appreciate you so much. Enjoy your time off here today. can't wait to watch money tonight. Obviously san diego can't wait to see you on smackdown boss on you'll be there. Where are we little rock. Arkansas nice whooping solely bill clinton but yeah he was governor there for a while so i'll stop by the stop by the library. Of course after. I actually i actually spent six weeks in little rock In one thousand nine hundred ninety two as part of the transition after clinton won the election. So what did you guys were born at. That point probably is five very relaxed distinguish. Okay please let's talk. So why are we. So what is what. You're supposed to fly in early one trip so we can hang out a little bit. But you guys. Well i mean tulsa seems like the right time to do it. Sure does it. Totally little riles was last week. Little rock tulsa was great spots a little rock in the morning so that doesn't work so so we'll get on your schedule. Listen we'll it on your schedule. Still work there go member. He stopped showing up. You nothing now. I miss you pal. Hey you're new. York jets might actually have a quarterback. Now okay you just jinxed it thank you michael call and thank you enough.
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Fiesta Bowl, Caesars Entertainment Announce Sports Betting Partnership
"The fiesta bowl being sponsored by caesars. And this leads me to this. Everybody's going to get into the sports book game because there's actually trillions of dollars at stake here in the long run with sports gambling and everything like that so shot to the fiesta bowl. Aj he played in it three times. You said yup three times. Great game right. I think you and i enjoyed it whenever we experience. It's amazing out there. Yeah i enjoyed it a lot at that. Point i should have said is pretty good place. I think i was drunk for most of the week. So i try and drink. I saw at that point. So i don't think i enjoyed it is fantastic. Caesar's getting involved there
Malicious Life
"mcafee" Discussed on Malicious Life
"That's it for this episode. Thank you for listening a week or so ago. I tweeted the following. Twit quote. Serious question many professions have symbols law blind lady with skills medicine. A serpent etcetera. Cyber security is here to stay what should be. Its symbol your think and quote the idea for the question came to me like most of my ideas actually while i was jogging in. Dc's national mall. The mall is packed with monuments and sculptures and naturally symbols of all sorts. Which got me thinking. We don't have an official symbol for the cybersecurity proficient as far as i'm aware of anyway so let's think of one i mean. Even bobbers have their own professional symbol. The striped helix you can often see hanging about the barber shops so why not cybersecurity professionals in response nick bowen wrote quote. That's really interesting. Thought something different from the usual padlock. Who the guy and the guy fawkes mask would be good. The trouble is that it's a very diverse field and finding something that covers all of it is a challenge and well. I got a lot of interesting responses. Some of them serious but most not so much. I mean sarah. For example replied with a of a man holding a pillow to his face and wrote quote. Security professional screaming into a pillow would be appropriate and quote screaming. Pencil press suggested a large cup of coffee replied that i think that symbol might be already reserved for software development in general and screaming tweeted that he can't think of a good symbol for under-funding user from imc had an interesting suggestion a triangle surrounded by an oral boroughs. A serpent with. It's still in. it's mouth. He wrote quote triangle to represent. How many things such as cia are triad in info. Sick or a bose to present. How anything you do wrong. Don't do or don't do right will come around to bite you in the but later and quote mega tron from spoken in washington replied with a gift of kong fury on skateboard interesting. That you chose that one kylie was sure you post a picture of hacker. Man hogan ob suggested a glass of scotch or some other dark alcohol and scared of the dark net from pennsylvania replied with the drawing of the white spy and beck spy from the spy-versus-spy comicstrip trying to stab each other surrounded with the words trust. No one very fitting i think. Lastly your cue m- aggressor suggested quote back and white chest nights as they are predictable and unpredictable at the same time and quote my own suggestion by the way was an esque version of the famous skull and bones pirate flag. I think it was kind of fun coming up with different symbols for cybersecurity. So i'll post the same question again on twitter this week and if you have any other fun and interesting ideas reply to that tweet. Now describe the best ideas on our next episode militias. Life is produced by ti media. Nick nielsen is a senior producer. Minoa hibari does the sound design a website these malicious dot life. And you can follow us on at malicious life or me at at ran levy. That's r. a. n. l. e. v. I thanks to siberian funder. Riley the podcast lend more cyber.
Malicious Life
"mcafee" Discussed on Malicious Life
"But naturally a man such as john mcafee wouldn't let death interfere with his own narrative. Wouldn't he in november twenty nine thousand nine hundred two years before his death. Mcafee tweeted quote getting sold messages from. Us officials saying in effect. Where coming for you mcafee. We're going to kill yourself. I got a tattoo today. Just in case if i suicide myself i didn't. I was wacked. Check my right arm and quote. This refers to the word dollar signed wacked which he tattooed on his right bicep. This tweet started rumor about a mcafee. Deadman's switch thirty one terabytes of incriminating data about corrupt officials and the governments. Which will all be released on the internet upon his untimely death so far no such incriminating. True of data has surfaced. Oh so if you hours. After his death someone posted a letter. Q on mcafee's instagram account. Supposedly referring to that mythical q. Leader of q non. It was taking down a few hours later. Mcafee's wife denise said that in his post mortem identification. She was only shown his head and that the rest of his body was covered with a sheet. This prompted more murder allegations amongst the self pointed detectives of the internet. So what do you get when you take a hybrid sexual drug enthusiast gun tooting paranoid and add some serious money to the mix. This is what you get a life so bizarre so unbelievably extreme. That people will tell it story. Even after your long gone in fact several hollywood producers to make bio pic of mcafee's life based on davis wires article. It's working title king of the jungle. It is rumored that johnny depp and michael. Keaton are interested in playing mcafee. It's tempting to see. John mcafee's life as proof that he not present culture. If you have enough money you can do whatever the heck you want. Murder rape tax evasion. You can get away with practically anything if you have enough cash in the bank and bill empathy and regard for consequences. But i think that would be the wrong conclusion. Sure john mcafee's wealth allowed him to indulge his thrill seeking personality to the absolute limit is charm name money and good looks continually opened career doors and border crossings for him but in the end it turns out. That mcafee didn't have cue money after all if we define q money as the amount of money required in order to be able to do anything without facing repercussions. The mcafee simply didn't have enough money to do just that. There's little doubt that john mcafee knew how to manipulate the media. He was insanely smart full of charm and charisma and he knew how to take advantage of the public's curiosity in order to make even more money but in the end he couldn't escape from the law. In spite of all his money and charisma he ended his life in prison cell. Waiting for trial that in all probability would ended in a long jail sentence. And think this says something good about our society. It's good to know that even people as rich as mcafee aren't above the law sure might take the law longtime to get them. And maybe some of them like jeffrey epstein and mcafee will choose to take their own lives so as to not face the consequences of their actions but in the end they weren't above the law after all which raises an interesting question. Is there such a thing as real money..
Malicious Life
"mcafee" Discussed on Malicious Life
"Will be given financial freedom and if i had to pick a watershed moment in mcafee's public life some demarcation of the beginning of the end it might be his tweet from december twenty one two thousand seventeen quote beginning. Tomorrow i will each day talk about unique out coin. Most of the two thousand coins are trash or camps. I've read every white paper. The few i'm connected to. I will tell you the rest. I have no positioning. These coins.
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"mcafee" Discussed on Malicious Life
"Before they had reserve your spot today at saba reason dot com slash thac sin shortly after the. Jesus you raid. Make a packed up his merry harem and militia and move back to the island of amber gives k the gin of neighbors and tourists alike armed guards teenage girls and eleven barking. Dogs aren't good for business on a tropical island. One of mcafee's more vocal opponents. There was his next door neighbor. Gregory faull fall was a fifty two year old contractor and bar owner from florida who moved to belize to retire and flip rental homes in the showtime documentary falls. Father tells that his son went to mcafee and ask him to do something about the dogs. Which mcafee let loose on the beach. According to fall senior mcafee got shotgun cycled it and told his son to get off his property. A few days later mcafee dogs were poisoned and a day. After the poisoning gregory faull was found dead in his living room face up with single gunshot to the back of his head. According to police he also had remarks all over his body at around that time. Make a fees. Property manager says he was asked to pass an envelope which he later found out contained five thousand dollars to a known violent gang member and sometimes employees of mcafee eddie. Mack suspicion was immediately laid on mcafee rather than agreeing to taking for questioning by the police. He decided to flee in a phone interview with davis from his place of hiding. Mcafee claimed to have escaped. Police capture by hiding for eighteen hours in a sandpit covered by a cardboard box after three days of moving around friends as houses in belize mcafee illegally crossed the border to ramallah on a boat. Three weeks later. He was caught by local police in a five star hotel in guatemala city after a photographer from vice magazine which came to interview him at his hideout accidentally. Posted a photo of mcafee taken with an iphone with the geo location. Made it at her. Still attached mcafee later posted on his blog who is mcafee dot com that he is terminating his relationship with vice magazine believing that his whereabouts were leaked on purpose quote due to information just received. It is no longer clear to mr mcafee that the quote unquote accidental release of his coordinates due to vice magazine's editorial departments failure to remove location data from there now. Notorious photo was indeed an accident. This incident led directly to mr mcafee's arrest. The reason possibly was that vice wanted exclusive access to mr mcafee's arrest which they infect obtained and broadcast and quote after his request for political asylum in guatemala was denied make a feet was put in detention center awaiting deportation to believes forever. Fan of theatrics mcafee faked a heart attack and was taken to a hospital for treatment with that by buying more time for his lawyer to file a series of bills that ultimately prevented his deportation to belize thus hastening the decision to send him back to the united states. A florida court found make fee liable for the wrongful death of gregory fall and ordered him to pay twenty five million dollars to the fall estate on his first day. Back in miami beach propositioned by prostitute. Named jimmy's dyson. Thirty eight years. His junior she later became his third wife. This was also the year. He sold the rights to his life. Story to impact media after settling with his new wife. In portland oregon. He founded or joined as tech consultant. Several sabir security and crypto currency companies in september. Two thousand fifteen feet announced his candidacy for the two thousand sixteen presidential race. He decided to start his own party. The cyber-party whose aim was to bring back online privacy and fix government the cyber illiteracy he was quoted saying to cnn money quote. We are losing privacy. At an alarming rate. We have none left with given up so much for the illusion of security and our government is simply dysfunctional and quote. Mcafee said the desire to respond to terrorist. Attacks had opened citizens up to excessive surveillance. He added that the us government quote lex and understanding of the basic technology. That won the world end quote realizing after a few months that establishing a new party is expensive and time consuming endeavor. he decided to run for the libertarian. Party's nomination. He came in third of three candidates. Ever the privacy evangelist mcafee ran again for president in two thousand twenty this time on a platform. Serving the crypto community as he stated in an article for the coin river website quote crypto-currencies free individual from the yoke of currency controlled by governments. Which control us and our lives. Governments will not be able to collect texas when everyone is using privacy coins. Governments will disappear as we know them because they will not be able to fund their access. It's a good thing. For the first diamond human history it.
Malicious Life
"mcafee" Discussed on Malicious Life
"She said that during the time she spent on the compound he behaved. Irrationally was upset with the slow pace of the research process. And at some point informed her that they are being watched by spies from pharmaceutical giants. Such as glasgow and buyer which were hiding in the jungle across the river. From the compound denise us friends had to extract her from the compound and hide her until her flight back to the. Us davis the wire journalist. I mentioned earlier was working on a series of interviews with mcafee and visited the compound several times. He later admitted in an interview with. Abc news that he was afraid for his life. While on the compound described mcafee as being heavily armed all the time and suffering from random breaks from reality quote with the gun. Still to his head he starts pulling the trigger incessantly. I can do this all day long. He says the sound of the hammer clicking. I can do this a thousand times ten thousand times. Nothing will ever happen. Why because you have missed something. You are operating on an assumption about reality that he's wrong and quote mcafee ever the media prankster tweeted about his meetings with davies quote. Joshua was the most gullible and naive men. I had ever met and quote the compound. According to davis was run by armed bodyguards and harem of at least five teenage girls at time mcafee confessed to having hours and sometimes day long sex sessions with after inhaling so-called bath salts Synthetic drug similar to cocaine. Bath salts are known for promoting erratic and sometimes violent behavior loose nations paranoia panic attacks delusions and increased sexual drive mcafee called it is quote unquote super. Perv powder. People usually swallow snort smoke or inject bath salts mcafee which was suspected of manufacturing the drug preferred rectal insertion at some point in his four year stint in belize mcafee beside to read the neighboring town of karma leader population. One thousand six hundred of the local drug cartel which his girlfriend convinced him rent. Seneca melita was too small to have its own police station. Mcafee took it upon himself to arm the neighboring towns police force with m16's new uniforms pepper spray batons and stun guns. After realizing this was not enough he also trained twenty-three ex-felons to serve as the comedy dust security force which he became head of the people of common leader said he walked around john wayne style with a gun strapped to his chest demanding small-time criminals to reform orioles he also instituted and eight. Pm curfew On monday april thirteenth. Two thousand twelve at four fifteen am while mcafee was in bed with his teenage girlfriend. Dozens of men wearing camouflage uniforms and armed with submachine guns stormed his compound forcing everybody out of their bungalows. That was the gs you gang suppression. Unit and lead belgian police force in charge of dismantling crime organizations. According to davis mcafee was slammed against the wall and handcuffed after being told he was detained on suspicion of producing meth amphetamine to that make a and answered quote. That's a startling hypotheses sir. Because i haven't sold drugs since nineteen eighty three and quote after hours of searching the compound for meth manufacturing facilities and legal firearms mcafee who claims he was left. Handcuffed for fourteen hours in the sun was taken to jail for one night and later released without charge. According to mcafee the real reason behind the raid was his lack of enthusiasm in paying bribes to local politicians quote. I was there for a year and v. Local politician sent a representative and ask for two million dollars for a campaign donation. I said no two weeks later they raided my compound and in a subsequent video which he posted on youtube. He also refers to the jess you as quote the death squad and its members as quote uneducated idiots. Hell bent on executing gang members instead of arresting them and quote.
The Common Cents Show
"mcafee" Discussed on The Common Cents Show
"Low human rose limbless you are in a opium hayes of such proposing the you don't know whether yourself or your wife but how many are in that state home fifty percent of the people we win poles but leaned it show when we came up with the bitcoin thing so today i know the to something totally ridiculous. 'cause win the debt. You bought a hundred counseling piece. Our unity folks. To come in. I that what i said god outside of our communities in times of london everywhere yes mac is mcafee again and what's his bitcoin thing like all right so now it's a window. We had to do something to get out so by one adviser. Said you're gonna have to make a truly ridiculous. People will think she was trying to comfort these making fifty dallas nagano. There i promise you. One out of one hundred jackson to make it a hundred dollars one thousand that because nobody who can buy realize it all of the world could not be set value. Then we're okay million dollars right. Hello people actually did not think beyond there need to be led by the nose to the trough leading numbers you tricks to the trough by those you will find it on own because if this industry of crypto cryptocurrency on the blockchain is to free of and it can and will if. I have any love to do that. We do lead you to be led by the nose especially on me of all people..
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Seahawks Make Jamal Adams Highest-Paid Safety With 4-Year Extension
"Breaking news more out of the nfl world. Hey defensive player just jot terry. Jamal adams who was in contract negotiations with the seattle seahawks. The reason he is on the seattle seahawks because he was in contract negotiations with the jets. An absolute stud has now come to terms at the seattle seahawks on a four year. Seventy million dollar deal. They'll make him the league's highest-paid safety. I'm told says. Ian rapoport at rap sheet thirty eight million guaranteed breaking the stalemate a long time coming and well deserved. It was reported this morning that jamal wanted. Forty million guaranteed in only thirty. Eight million was offered and guarantees from the seahawks. This seattle times had reported that this
The Pat McAfee Show 2.0
"mcafee" Discussed on The Pat McAfee Show 2.0
"A row now accused on believable human being a jay hawk. Three days dude. Three days man congrats keep. Let's keep track. Oh wow main tomorrow. You're going to be in studio here. Have you thought about that yet. What show's going gonna look like sound like i'll be with you probably facetime in the first hour so maybe iron half or whatever you know. I'm i'm for it but this is your show. Everybody knows what's going to be about tomorrow. Any big any big conversation pieces on the horizon. We're going to have to see what happens tonight. I'm sure some stuff will break before you'll be upset because i'm not in studio for one day and course the biggest news breaks. I'm not there you'll probably get upset and then we'll talk about on the show make it fun bengo carson. Wentz gets the first day. I was gone supposed to call in and then all of a sudden something massive happens. The wife loved it right in the middle of vacation absolutely loved it. That was You know that got me some points. Obviously that was awesome but yeah errands going to end. Probably gonna decide what he's going to do tomorrow. I guess i will let everybody know your plan. You know when you're out to dinner and you're waiting for the food to come of course and then somebody gets up. Go to the bathroom. And then the food comes in. I'm doing that right now. I'm doing every i'm leaving. I'm going down to houston to be a part of the. I live in front of fans smack down for the wwe and like a year and a half or something like that. I mean it's going to be awesome. But more importantly since i'm doing that something massive is gonna break in our world since it is aj. I'll be able to facetime into your show while you're trying to absolutely fuck up everything i have your around me and we'll be able to talk about big news. Is that is that. What's going to happen pal. I think you pretty much laid out with the next twenty four hours. Look like should be so aaron's breaking news tomorrow is that what you're saying. Ooh i would guess no but hey you never know between now and then watching this open at all or what. Have you been up to over there. Sports was i haven't really. I was gonna turn on and have it on the background here but like you. I have a hard time not getting distracted by that and just steering admitting forget. I'm doing a show with us. So i don't know what you're talking about you. You don't like me talk okay. I've learned through my life. i am anomaly. There was a situation. When the west virginia basketball team was playing on the same tv at the same exact spot. Yeah while we were interviewing somebody in a dagger was had right into wvu season and like ten thousand dollars out of my as it was live on air. Still consider the compensation. Though which i thought was pretty impressive. Never really gets talked about. Everybody just saw my soul leave my body speaking of so leaving bodies. Did you hear us. Talk to the soloist. Chris tina i actually saw the. I saw a couple of minutes and yet he said that's his nickname. Right sola sola say. I wanna prove everybody have so in the cage cage. Lambert pretty good. I mean you can call yourself like sociopaths psychopaths. Either but solis think feels it feels about right. I don't think those are hand in hand. What you just did you just a couple of things together there in psychopaths. You can tie those together a little bit. You know what. I think the issues that you can. You're right you're correction was correct. I i would like to acknowledge that but you know what is there a little bit of jealousy coming from this particular jaw. Yeah particular face is there. Were jealous green hair to well. That's why asterisk come on the noon hour. I because i know you know how go with your to forces being next to each other. A man who only missed one game is entire career. After tearing his pack his groin his calf his bicycle and his ass and at one point obliterating tooth in his mouth because he doesn't wear mouthpiece because he thinks it's bad for you. Actually any obliterates tooth zero documented concussions. Said i don't know if it's good for you. I never said it was bad for you. I mean you did come down one to lift up another in that situation. Ten dislocated fingers. And then we're talking to this matina guy as if he's the walk and talk and toughest guy on earth because he ate two hundred punches. Is there a little bit of an issue. You have with me calling him. Just maybe the toughest species we've ever had but absolutely not. I've never claimed to be a tough person. And i could never. I couldn't handle. Probably one of sean o'malley punches. If he landed clean on me so more credit to those guys. They'd use things that. I would never dream of doing such a baby from here to talked to you. I may fighters and i just can't believe what they do. But if you were forced to fight you know let's go back. I would like to go back in time. Who who's going to force me to lodges was really pissed off. Pistol hawks say listen h opera with gets involved as well. They all get involved. They say our family is going to be wiped off of this earth. If you don't walk into that cage invite that person in in the same way that you handled you know born the ring or oklahoma drills where you said and this is your quote not ours if the only way to survive this is by killing everybody i guess i have to kill everybody. I think if you were forced to have that mindset. I still think you'd be an incredible fighter. I think we potentially missed out. Maybe heavyweight of all time. I think under those circumstances a lot of people would be forced to become good fighters so maybe maybe in a different world. Maybe but those people. Aren't you know blowing their neck into their back like a like these and their face on. Somebody's just need in the nfl smashing a tooth and to dust and spitting in just getting back up and getting back out there. you one of our greatest jaws. I just think chris mateen's potentially right up there with you..
The Pat McAfee Show 2.0
"mcafee" Discussed on The Pat McAfee Show 2.0
"The wind on the field is different than the wind. In the sky in the wind in the sky is different than the wind on the uprights. So those little things you see the flags. I mean they matter for sure because you're going to find out what's going to happen at the very end but man. They could tell very different story than what's going on. Like just ten yards in front of that fifteen yards in front of that and if if a stadium is whenever they reflect each other perfectly concave no parallel no parallel running next to each other. Perpendicular is not whenever something mir's itself though but when it's called something that is called something when you're it's like a drum that's their docs is a satire. But a sentence. I know the word. Okay what is it. It is something anyways when a when a stadium is perfectly matched on both sides slanting now that that is something something is that is. Is that what it is fake. So so whenever stadium is symmetrical case when it's the same on this side as it is on this ad. What's happening on the bottom. It's going to happen the opposite on top. Okay so it's and crossfield on the bottom at the top it's blowing the other direction right. So that's like a quick little but if it has a non symmetrical stadium as symmetrical. Obviously right for those. That don't understand a can be substitute with non in the latin form so the as symmetrical stadium whenever there's like an open end that completely changes everything daniel. It's a guessing game for instance soil stadium. You know story just came out from andrew. Brandt adam voluntarily was going to be a packer in then he signed with the quotes because the quotes had a dome right and everybody calls us a dome team dumb team in putting kicking game it is a little bit of a slider. Whatever still got a bomb balls though but it's still a little bit of a slight the rca dome which is what vinnie think. Signed up for whenever he became a coat that thing was like a hockey arena a nice tied in their dead air. Now with that being said you don't have any wendy back either at anytime which never calculated into anything. There was some stadiums you get to. It's like okay for at least two quarters here. I'm gonna hit a kick off into the stands. Now there's other two quarters are going to be tough. I am going to get a little bit of a boost. Everybody's a little bit negative in that thing. But whenever lucas stadium. Whenever you know jim irsay just hits the button into window comes down and then he takes his rag ragtop off the top. That thing just comes as bowl in warmups. Punters and kickers will come over immediately We opened today. We're keeping it causes like we have no say in this and by the way they might do it. Four minutes before the game starts who have no idea and like odor punters. a back. younger guys are scared to ask. Because i think they don't think anybody who answer but like older guys will ask. And i'll definitely want to go this way but there's a chance that that thing's to be coming different ways and at halftime against the guy who had to play in there. He was like This is the most confusing of all time. And i'm like yeah because we have these big. You know there's Afc finalist banners hanging at the top. Those things are just blowing where the window is and then on the ground. You're feeling it just like hitting you in the face somewhere and it's like you just have to play a guessing game. That's what happened with that. Lamar jackson past okay. He's seen south west wind six miles an hour or whatever that's on the ground pal. How about where he's throwing. Sammy walk at six six foot. Four feet knee in the air there pal absolutely but if this is the ball they're posting i mean what are his other throws looking like. Hey the internet did say that. That must be the first play of the otas by the way. That's the first play one hundred other opportunities that they could've put up there. This what they chose put up there. Lamar's all the way back. Sammy watkins as a weapon. Hollywood brown but it does feel like the ravens social media team. Set lamar up for a little bit of negative conversation around his throat. That's i just assumed it was some do for some social media to tell me they didn't have rep look better than that away. Great great comment there. And let's talk about doofus. Okay oh yeah we should. Let's talk about five which you're saying that social media guide. Do we do not say this. I cannot stress this enough. Pat mcafee did not say what we are about to say conor. Nope i did not say what we're about to say. Todd i did not say what we're about to say zita. I did not say it. Nick did not say whereabouts Jay said i didn't say it. We hired the biggest do first of all time to be our head. Coach put it in quotes. Who said it that. He's next motorcity dan. Campbell had an electrifying press conference this morning where he showed up wearing a.