Speaker 1: Who's that man joking in my ear? He's rung Burndy.
Speaker 1: My dearest listeners, how is everyone this week feeling okay?
Speaker 1: If you're listening at home, are you cozy under a blanket?
Speaker 1: You might be in your family's minivan airing out the
Speaker 1: cigar smoke because your parents get back into town. How's
Speaker 1: that going? And here at the studio, Carolina, how you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm good? Nick in the booth, you okay? Good? Family
Speaker 1: is good, everybody's good. Thanks, great, and the temperature is
Speaker 1: good in here. Sorry for all the questions. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be a nosy Carolina. Not nosy Carolina, but
Speaker 1: that's a phrase. Oh well, I just read a great book, Carolina.
Speaker 1: You should check it out. It's called How to Win
Speaker 1: Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. It just came out.
Speaker 1: O that book came out like a little over eighty
Speaker 1: years and it's growing in popularity. I wanted to give
Speaker 1: it a shout out on the podcast so more people
Speaker 1: could hear about it. Oh, it's actually one of the
Speaker 1: most popular books of all time. I think in it,
Speaker 1: my new friend Dale list six ways to make people
Speaker 1: like you, and it's it's not what you think you
Speaker 1: don't have to bring a you know, a brick of
Speaker 1: cocaine for the next game night. In fact, the first
Speaker 1: thing Dale says is you have to become genuinely interested
Speaker 1: in other people. Hence my questions today. Okay, is that
Speaker 1: why you asked me if my nose was real when
Speaker 1: I walked into I'm just saying, people have been talking, okay,
Speaker 1: and we just know it used to be bigger, or
Speaker 1: maybe it's the same size. I didn't do anything, so well,
Speaker 1: it's still pretty outstanding. You have an outstanding nose. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you mean that anyway. The second thing
Speaker 1: Dale tells us to do is smile. Smile, smile, smile, smile, smile, smile. Okay,
Speaker 1: please see I'm smiling too much. Just close your mouth.
Speaker 1: Talk normally. It marks people love you. I'm gonna pay
Speaker 1: you ten dollars to look normal, and I'll pay you
Speaker 1: fifty to do the same. Okay. Thirdly, you have to
Speaker 1: say a person's name a lot to them. It is
Speaker 1: the sweetest and most important sound in any language. That's
Speaker 1: certainly true. I actually fall asleep to a tape of
Speaker 1: people saying my name. Different recordings of people at award
Speaker 1: shows airport, loudspeakers, lawyers at my deposition hearings. Just get
Speaker 1: me relaxed. Oh wow, well, maybe you know what. You
Speaker 1: can use some of these skills to talk to the
Speaker 1: CEO of Fair today. Who the CEO of Fair? A
Speaker 1: representative affair? He's we're having them in for a few questions.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, what's his name? He's walking in? Okay, quickly,
Speaker 1: what's his name? Come on, Carolina, he's the money man
Speaker 1: that he's in the room. His name is Scott, Scott Painter.
Speaker 1: He's in the room, Scotty. Please, welcome to the studio.
Speaker 1: Scott Painter. Thanks for joining us. Hey, Ron, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm great, I'm great. Thank you so much for coming in. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you. What a beautiful name, Scott Painter. Glorious to
Speaker 1: the lips, Scott, Scotty, Scott, take it easy, ah, Scott, Yes,
Speaker 1: Scott Painter. Never forget that name. We want you to
Speaker 1: stop and keep going. Is it what's the origin of Painter?
Speaker 1: Is that Dutch? I think it's a German and Scottish. Well,
Speaker 1: we learned something new every day and thank you for
Speaker 1: that information. Scott Painter, CEO, founder of Fair. And so
Speaker 1: what what does fair Auto. Do Well, we are a
Speaker 1: way to get a car entirely on your phone. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, because we've been talking about that. Those are
Speaker 1: the advertisements. Yes, anyway, you get the phone and you
Speaker 1: get a car, you get a car. Well, it really
Speaker 1: comes from just wanting to make the whole process of
Speaker 1: getting a car a lot easier. Most people don't even
Speaker 1: want to go into a dealership anymore, not anymore. No,
Speaker 1: the idea of doing everything on your phone, just like
Speaker 1: everything else in modern life, was really where the whole
Speaker 1: thing started. A lot of dealerships frankly, they smell, you know, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying they stink. Really, that's what I've come to.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they smell like new car, which
Speaker 1: for people is usually oh I hate that smell. Oh
Speaker 1: do you? In fact, just the thought of it, okay,
Speaker 1: makes me want to vomit. That seems dramatic. Why don't
Speaker 1: you take a sip of water and Scott Scott paid here,
Speaker 1: he's here with us for just tuning in a lot
Speaker 1: of people just tune into a podcast. Did you know that? Um,
Speaker 1: just for my records? When does my car come? Scott? Well,
Speaker 1: you've just got to get on your phone and pick
Speaker 1: one out. No, no, no, I mean my free car,
Speaker 1: the one I was promised. Who promised you that? Oh? Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's a surprise. That's sweet. Okay, when I get
Speaker 1: my free car, what should I do? Run? I don't
Speaker 1: think that's happening. Okay, it's a surprise, um Scott. The
Speaker 1: question is why do you like working at Fair? I mean,
Speaker 1: you created it, so it's your baby. Well, but where
Speaker 1: where's the satisfaction. I think great companies and great entrepreneurs
Speaker 1: solve a problem, and I think buying and owning a
Speaker 1: car is complicated, time consuming, frustrating, and most modern customers
Speaker 1: just have said they don't want to do it anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean we're all the hassle. Yeah, yeah, the confrontation,
Speaker 1: the commits. So what we created was really a solution
Speaker 1: for that that doesn't require any negotiation, any confrontation or commitment.
Speaker 1: You can take the car for as long as you want,
Speaker 1: and then when you're done with it, you just simply
Speaker 1: let us know and we pick it up. What's the
Speaker 1: shortest amount of time someone has leads to car for
Speaker 1: if you had anyone to just for like five minutes.
Speaker 1: It turns out when humans get a car that they like,
Speaker 1: they sort of move into it. And even though we
Speaker 1: don't have a term to our contract, the average customer
Speaker 1: is keeping the car for almost two years. Wow. Ron
Speaker 1: usually can't afford cars at dealerships, but he loves negotiating.
Speaker 1: I don't know why we need to bring that up.
Speaker 1: You've stayed at that dealership. I love. I love to haggle.
Speaker 1: I love the back and forth, waste salesman's time for
Speaker 1: hours and then says just kidding and leaves. I like
Speaker 1: to go in. Let's say a car is being sold
Speaker 1: for thirty five dollars. I like to go in. I'd
Speaker 1: like to look them in. They they get excited because
Speaker 1: it's round barrigunady of course, Um, and I'll go I've
Speaker 1: got two grand cash and I'll slide it across the desk,
Speaker 1: real slow, in a Manila envelope and they usually kick
Speaker 1: me out. But um, but there's a thrill to that,
Speaker 1: just for me. But you're saying most people, it's intimidating
Speaker 1: to them. For most people, the average car costs about
Speaker 1: a third of their net worth, so the car requires
Speaker 1: financing as well. And the idea of going in and
Speaker 1: you know, sort of negotiating with a dealer is certainly
Speaker 1: something that modern consumers don't like a lot third of
Speaker 1: their net worth. We'd love to have a net worth
Speaker 1: in general. So as a result, most people end up
Speaker 1: taking a car based on what they can afford on
Speaker 1: a monthly basis. All the cars that we've got in
Speaker 1: the app are presented on an all in, month to
Speaker 1: month basis, so the car comes with a warranty, roadside assistance,
Speaker 1: and standard maintenance, so you don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: any of that. And we now also even offer auto insurance,
Speaker 1: so it's truly a single cost of ownership except for fuel.
Speaker 1: Let me ask this question, what if someone has a
Speaker 1: negative reaction to their car and destroys it? Have you
Speaker 1: have you come across that. I mean they just beat
Speaker 1: up the car exactly. They take out a tire iron
Speaker 1: and they just smashed the windshield, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: they tricked me. I never wanted this car. I don't
Speaker 1: think that would be good for anybody. That's not good
Speaker 1: for us. And probably what you'll catch either, right, you'll
Speaker 1: catch them. Ultimately, we will get there. I knew it.
Speaker 1: They're going to get you, So don't do that any
Speaker 1: Herbie fully loaded situations Herbie fully loaded where the car
Speaker 1: goes to life? Oh right right? Was that a Disney movie? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then it was a Lindsay lowhand remake. I want
Speaker 1: to get back to my car that I'm getting my
Speaker 1: gift car? What color is it? Can you guys just
Speaker 1: tell me? So? Is it going to have a ribbon
Speaker 1: on it? I want I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: a conversation for now, and when I I it, can
Speaker 1: I keep the ribbon on it to show off that
Speaker 1: I got a free car. I want you to be
Speaker 1: prepared for there to be no car in what scenario
Speaker 1: and and the scenario of reality. I want you to
Speaker 1: be prepared for a car not to show up today. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put air quotes around that. Um Scott, do
Speaker 1: you miss One of the great things about car dealerships
Speaker 1: are the the you know, the the inflatable floppy man.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. That gets your attention listeners.
Speaker 1: You you probably will picture. How would you describe the
Speaker 1: inflatable floppy man? Carolina? A body of skin without a
Speaker 1: spine or bones in it? Yes, you see it end
Speaker 1: and that's something or you'll see like an inflatable gorilla
Speaker 1: or something like that. You know at at dealer do
Speaker 1: do you get feedback that people are missing seeing those things?
Speaker 1: They're still out there, believe it or not. The way
Speaker 1: that our our business works is we rely on dealers
Speaker 1: as partners, but we buy the car from them and
Speaker 1: simultaneously let our users use the vehicles so they don't
Speaker 1: have to go through any of the complication or the
Speaker 1: confrontation with the dealer. We handle all of that. I
Speaker 1: want to get one of those inflatable guerrillas just to
Speaker 1: put out in front of my condo. That I think
Speaker 1: we can do, though, we can arrange for that because
Speaker 1: they're not in demand nearly as much anymore. Okay, So
Speaker 1: if I'm not going to get a free car from
Speaker 1: you guys, free guerrilla would be I mean to have
Speaker 1: that generator blowing throughout the night. Go Go, Go, Go
Speaker 1: Go definite. But I think that I think that's a
Speaker 1: nice trade off to have a fun inflatable guerrilla for
Speaker 1: the whole neighborhood to enjoy. It will be a conversation. So, Scott,
Speaker 1: what what else would you like our listeners to know
Speaker 1: about Fair Auto? You know, I think that the idea
Speaker 1: of going into debt to buy a car, which is
Speaker 1: what we all have to do. Um. The car is,
Speaker 1: for the most part, nine cars are a depreciating asset. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you drive it off the lot, it plummets. It does.
Speaker 1: And almost all the risk in the car business has
Speaker 1: been shifted to consumers over the last hundred years. We
Speaker 1: make them go get a car loan and go into
Speaker 1: debt to cover all that risk. And I think the
Speaker 1: idea of becoming obligated to a car is really going
Speaker 1: to be obsolete. I think the idea of being able
Speaker 1: to get access to mobility on a month to month
Speaker 1: basis just like everything else in modern life. UM. I
Speaker 1: have a sixteen year old son. He went through the
Speaker 1: whole process and he was just like dad before fair
Speaker 1: how did kids get cars? And it makes a ton
Speaker 1: of sense. I mean, he doesn't have a job, he
Speaker 1: didn't have a bank account, he just got his driver's license.
Speaker 1: He goes through all these things and now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he can get access to a car with
Speaker 1: any kind of credit history and he pays month to month.
Speaker 1: It's a great way for him to get a vehicle
Speaker 1: until he gets ready to go to college. Can you
Speaker 1: use PayPal? You can use any form of payment that's
Speaker 1: different Venmo, PayPal, Apple, pay all of It, pokers, anything
Speaker 1: that we can do to get so poker chips from
Speaker 1: a casino. I think ultimately we got to look into
Speaker 1: every public good. Ron has a velvet bag of a
Speaker 1: velvet bag I have. I have a prediction that's going
Speaker 1: to be the currency of the future is poker chips
Speaker 1: from Las Vegas casinos. You had an amazing night in Vegas,
Speaker 1: did and you just forgot to cash your chips. I
Speaker 1: was on such a roll, Scott, Oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: was at the crabs table for eleven hours. You are
Speaker 1: a diaper. I wore a diaper, and oddly enough, this
Speaker 1: is the first time we've met. But I kept screaming
Speaker 1: at the top of my lungs, Scott Pater as I
Speaker 1: threw the dice. Yeah. I don't remember that part, but
Speaker 1: I believe you. Okay, I made that up. I was
Speaker 1: just trying to impress you. But yeah, I made about
Speaker 1: fifty dollars and I keep it in my mattress. And
Speaker 1: you said, no, I have to go. I have to
Speaker 1: take off my diaper as soon as possible. And I said,
Speaker 1: maybe you want to cash out your chick, no should
Speaker 1: go yeah. Well, but with a company like Fair you
Speaker 1: get to keep the fifty yes and then just get
Speaker 1: the car on an as needed basis. So the auto
Speaker 1: industry are they mad at you for what you've created.
Speaker 1: We're actually a sale to a car dealer or to
Speaker 1: the manufacturer, so they're actually quite happy. They don't have
Speaker 1: to pay for advertising, which is usually the largest expense
Speaker 1: in selling a car. So when we buy a car
Speaker 1: from a dealer, it's a sale for them without any
Speaker 1: advertising expense. I remember when I was living down in
Speaker 1: San Diego, I used to record jingles for Phil Everton
Speaker 1: Ford and that was part of their big advertising budget.
Speaker 1: Phil Everton Ford, It's a great day to buy a Ford.
Speaker 1: Phil Everton, and this was a career. I just what
Speaker 1: do you mean? It was No, it was augmented my
Speaker 1: salary as a broadcaster. Got it. Come on down to
Speaker 1: Phil Everton. He won't cheat you. He's honest, Phil. I
Speaker 1: love it. Phil Everton. He he's honest. Even though he
Speaker 1: only has one leg. He had he only had one leg,
Speaker 1: and he wanted that in the jingle. Well I improvised
Speaker 1: that one yeah, and I made sure they couldn't erase
Speaker 1: the tapes, and then I said, if you don't use
Speaker 1: this one, I'll sue you. But that's what I had
Speaker 1: a lot of juice back then. Yeah. Um, Scott, we
Speaker 1: can't thank you enough for coming in talking to us,
Speaker 1: enlightening us, enlightening us. It's it's it sounds like an
Speaker 1: amazing service, very easy. Can let me ask you this
Speaker 1: final question? What if I were to purchase I guess
Speaker 1: it's technically, Elise, it's it's technically elease or rental depending
Speaker 1: on the state that you live in. Um, but you
Speaker 1: know both are the same thing. You're not buying the car,
Speaker 1: you're paying for the depreciation on a monthly basis. So
Speaker 1: if I if I get my new car, I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: And then I opened the trunk and I find a
Speaker 1: couple of kilos of cocaine. Do what happens? Then? Do
Speaker 1: I get? Is that? Is that a problem that's been
Speaker 1: happen It's it's not been a problem yet, Okay, until
Speaker 1: we should think about all the possibilities out there that
Speaker 1: could happen. Well, Scott Painter, thank you so much. CEO
Speaker 1: and founder of Fair Auto with a beautiful name, Scott Painter,
Speaker 1: Scott thank you for coming in and visiting us here
Speaker 1: in person. Ron, thanks for having me and uh. I
Speaker 1: think we could probably work something out on that car
Speaker 1: if you really go into the pick something. Okay, make
Speaker 1: a big deal out of that. I think that could
Speaker 1: work out interesting. Well, Oh so Carolina, you're wrong. I
Speaker 1: am getting a free car, maybe for a month or two,
Speaker 1: you know what, something like that. If it's for one hour.
Speaker 1: If I can rub it into Carolina's face that I
Speaker 1: got a free car, I would dance a jig. Scott,
Speaker 1: thanks again, thanks for coming in, and we'll be right
Speaker 1: back after this and welcome back to the Ron Burgundy Podcast. Okay,
Speaker 1: raise your hands if you like sports. Okay, I see
Speaker 1: some hands. Now, clap your hands if you like trophies.
Speaker 1: Any trophy lovers in the house here. So when was
Speaker 1: the last time you want a trophy? Carolina? I don't
Speaker 1: want to say. Oh, come on, just tell you know.
Speaker 1: We're family here. Um at one second place at the
Speaker 1: Sarah Lawrence Slam Poetry Contest. Jesus Christ, Okay, forget I asked, well,
Speaker 1: we have such a treat. The Stanley Cup is the
Speaker 1: oldest trophy in sports history, still being competed for by
Speaker 1: professional athletes and I am literally looking at it right
Speaker 1: now in all of its glory. It's amazing. It's on
Speaker 1: the table right next to me. And of course we
Speaker 1: have with us today Mike Bolt. Mike is the keeper
Speaker 1: of the cup. He is the man in charge, and
Speaker 1: today we get an inside scoop on how he manages
Speaker 1: to guard that cup, the Stanley Cup. Mike, thank you
Speaker 1: for joining us here on the podcast. Ron, thanks for
Speaker 1: having us The Stanley Cup. Wow. Well, I mean every
Speaker 1: day you wake up, you turn and look at that thing,
Speaker 1: right because you have to be around a twenty four hours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I sleep with one eye open all night. You're very vigilant.
Speaker 1: I had to guard it every day, Which leads me
Speaker 1: to my first question, Um, do you think you're trustworthy?
Speaker 1: Trustworthy enough to guard this? I don't put I guess
Speaker 1: the NHL in the Hall of Fame do because you
Speaker 1: are being trusted with this outstanding I mean, does that
Speaker 1: ever make you kind of, you know, lose your mind slightly?
Speaker 1: Actually it does sometimes, Yes, I mean especially when we're
Speaker 1: traveling and flying around. Uh just the other day we
Speaker 1: couldn't find it in Denver and it was a little stress.
Speaker 1: Oh den Yeah, we were in Denver doing some press
Speaker 1: and bouncing around promoting the playoffs, and uh, I get
Speaker 1: to Denver and waiting for the bag to come out,
Speaker 1: and it's not there. It's not there, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: So I go and start dealing with the airlines and
Speaker 1: they can't tell me where it is. And so luckily
Speaker 1: I have a contact with Air Canada and I picked
Speaker 1: up the phone and they could tell me where it
Speaker 1: was and apparently it was in Denver, but it was
Speaker 1: stuck on Wow, the Caver belt. Did you ask the
Speaker 1: officials there the Denver boat to shut the airport down?
Speaker 1: I did, actually, but they didn't didn't listen, okay, because
Speaker 1: that's what I would have run out onto the tarmac
Speaker 1: and tried to stop planes from landing. You know, it's
Speaker 1: funny when when we're in the airport, so I do
Speaker 1: open it up, and it's always amazing to see the reaction.
Speaker 1: Just actually, when I flying up to come up here
Speaker 1: last night, I was checking in, it was really quiet
Speaker 1: and I took it out for two employees to see it.
Speaker 1: Within literally twenty seconds, there was about people around. They
Speaker 1: just got just it's such a yeah, it's such a
Speaker 1: it's a magnet. I mean, it just attracts people. And
Speaker 1: I been doing this for twenty years, I kind of
Speaker 1: know better, but I just laugh. I'm like, oops, that's
Speaker 1: my mistake. I mean, when you brought this beautiful trophy
Speaker 1: into our recording studio here, I squealed like a fourteen
Speaker 1: year old girl. It was weird. It was like I
Speaker 1: thought you had stepped on something. You thought I'd seen
Speaker 1: a ghost, because that's how I react if I ever
Speaker 1: see a go I see a lot of ghosts. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that's with you that one time. That's what usually. Um.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of an ice jackal before? By the way, No,
Speaker 1: I haven't. Okay, well let's just leave it at that. UM,
Speaker 1: now correct me if I'm wrong. But I've heard that
Speaker 1: this trophy is so revered, revered, revered, revered by NHL
Speaker 1: players that many who have not won it they refused
Speaker 1: to be in its presence. Is that is that accurate?
Speaker 1: Pretty true? I mean there are players that come around
Speaker 1: it but won't touch it. Um, quick story. Scott had
Speaker 1: won three Stanley Cup Scott need Amer, he loves the
Speaker 1: podcast Go Ahead, O excellent and his brother Rob when
Speaker 1: they won together and oh seven, we were up at
Speaker 1: their their summer house up in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and
Speaker 1: Rob kept telling people I love it up there by
Speaker 1: the absolutely gorgeous. Is that cottage country? Is that the
Speaker 1: same as a cottage country? That's God's country? Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: have you ever been to yellow Knife? I have? Okay, continue, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a time share and yellow great, Um, Carolina,
Speaker 1: you would love yellow Knife. They're flat and cold and flat,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly, but it's it's a cool place. That's my
Speaker 1: body type, flat and cold. Nothing. But Rob is telling
Speaker 1: everybody they'd never touched the cup, and when his brother
Speaker 1: brought it back and I said, well that's not true. Rob,
Speaker 1: you kept kind of rubbing up against it, maybe not
Speaker 1: on purpose, and you know, so the superstition of touching it,
Speaker 1: you know, didn't really affect you because you obviously wanted No. Seven.
Speaker 1: But there are players that definitely will not touch it
Speaker 1: until they win it, and guys that have retired still
Speaker 1: feel weird about being around it. Meaning the players who
Speaker 1: were retired who didn't didn't win, they're like, yeah, Wendell
Speaker 1: Clarke played for Toronto, great player. UM when he first retired,
Speaker 1: didn't want to do a picture with it. He says
Speaker 1: he'll do pictures, but he will still not touch because
Speaker 1: I never want it. I will never touch the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1: For the female listeners out here, I feel like we
Speaker 1: should follow any hockey player's name with single or in
Speaker 1: a relationship, okay, because you find them dreamy, don't you?
Speaker 1: Who is the dreaming this guy in the NHL Carolina
Speaker 1: frequently goes to King's games and she loves blowing kisses
Speaker 1: at the players on the ice. There's a rugged handsomeness
Speaker 1: to hockey players. They look like they could build you
Speaker 1: a house and and get into an unprovoked fight for you.
Speaker 1: Now it knows you have you have white gloves on.
Speaker 1: You have to handle the cup with white gloves. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's part of the prestige, the respect for it, the protocol. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I didn't win it. I just look after it.
Speaker 1: And you don't You want to make sure that people
Speaker 1: when you're carrying it outside of the buildings and you
Speaker 1: know in the public, people know that it's you're the keeper,
Speaker 1: not the guy that wanted and the white gloves. You
Speaker 1: mentioned protocol. But I also read somewhere in my research
Speaker 1: that it's because, uh, once someone was eating peanut butter
Speaker 1: out of a jar and they were like, oh dude,
Speaker 1: look it's a standy cup and they grabbed it and
Speaker 1: they got peanut butter all over it. Is that I've
Speaker 1: heard that story, but that's get a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: all over it. I mean ice cream Sundays are eating
Speaker 1: out of it. So there's been some close calls. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of ice cream in the summer, a lot
Speaker 1: of cereal out of it, and a lot of adult
Speaker 1: beverages from Margarita's beer, champagne wine spritters have been made
Speaker 1: in it. I'm thinking right now, a Scotch chips and
Speaker 1: guacamole fill that ramful of guacamole. Lobster bisc has been
Speaker 1: in there. Uh, putine, which is French fries, sushi babies,
Speaker 1: A couple of babies have been baptized in it. That's adorable.
Speaker 1: That we had a penguin in there once, a little
Speaker 1: baby peng Did someone steal a baby penguin? We went
Speaker 1: to a zoo, Yeah, we did, the Pittsburgh Zoo. Actually,
Speaker 1: you guys told it. They brought it over to it.
Speaker 1: They got back with his mommy. Well that's what they
Speaker 1: told you. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire any connection?
Speaker 1: No good question. That is a good question. Actually, But
Speaker 1: you do you do like Harry Potter though, I mean
Speaker 1: you can't say you don't. J K Rally. I mean
Speaker 1: she had a dollar to her name and she created
Speaker 1: a whole world. I mean, if you say anything about
Speaker 1: j K, you're gonna hear about it. Goblet of Fire,
Speaker 1: great one. Have you ever gone to the supermarket, picked
Speaker 1: up a few things, come home and then realized you
Speaker 1: left the Stanley cup in an apple barrel? You can
Speaker 1: be honest because we can addit to what we actually
Speaker 1: have taken it to the supermarket a couple of times.
Speaker 1: I did it. Once with Doug Waite in uh Long Island.
Speaker 1: The White family wanted to reenact the picture of Angeelie
Speaker 1: Jolie doing they get through something on the tabloids, and
Speaker 1: they wanted to reenact the shopping cart thing with the
Speaker 1: cup in it, and so we did that, and then
Speaker 1: with Billy Aaron, who was an assistant GM with Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: brought it to the supermarket to pick up some beer
Speaker 1: for his parties. We had the cup in the middle
Speaker 1: of the cart and loaded all the beer around the
Speaker 1: cup along with a couple of bags of chips and
Speaker 1: then getting the reaction when you're going shopping with the Stanley.
Speaker 1: The cup was pretty cool, but he's got to turn
Speaker 1: a few heads. Yeah, but we didn't leave it in
Speaker 1: the apple sections. Billy Garran's party too. I forgot. They
Speaker 1: were bobbing for apples out of the cup to Billy.
Speaker 1: Typical Billy Garran. You know, Billy has the craziest party,
Speaker 1: he really does. I've never been invited, but they are
Speaker 1: good parties. Why why is it called Stanley? Why not
Speaker 1: Seymour or Ralphie. It's called Stanley because of Lord Stanley
Speaker 1: was a gentleman who bought the trophy in eighteen forty
Speaker 1: dollars and sixty seven cents. Was he a real lord
Speaker 1: or would you Jesus call himself Lord Stanley? Lord? And
Speaker 1: now he was a he was a real lord. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was from Preston, England. His actual family seal is
Speaker 1: on the cup. He was a Governor General of Canada
Speaker 1: back in the late eighteen hundreds. And it was his
Speaker 1: children actually that convinced their dad to buy the trophy
Speaker 1: for the Amateur Hockey Association. And another little trivia effect
Speaker 1: that no one really because he hated hockey himself. He
Speaker 1: really didn't know it. But his kids grew up playing
Speaker 1: the game in Canada, coming over from England. The kids
Speaker 1: loved the game and then their their father kind of
Speaker 1: got liked it. And Lord Sanders like, this game will
Speaker 1: never survive, I declare it. He actually never saw the
Speaker 1: trophy even presented in He was always back, he went
Speaker 1: back to he was already back in England doing whatever
Speaker 1: he did, his Lord's stuff back in Anger Night people.
Speaker 1: He never saw the cup presented ever. And he's the
Speaker 1: only member of the Hockey All of Fame that had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with hockey other than donating the trophy. Wow,
Speaker 1: Lord Stanley, well, I'm sure he's smiling down on the
Speaker 1: cup right now. We actually took it over to England
Speaker 1: and oh six and put a plaque on the building
Speaker 1: and no one came and visited, right. Actually was pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: All the press was there and and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and we had a lot of the hockey fans and
Speaker 1: this tour bus was going by and after Phil and I,
Speaker 1: my boss Phil Pritchard, had done some press, we stuck
Speaker 1: back and this tour bus went by and somebody goes,
Speaker 1: what's going on, and Phil goes Prince Williams in buying
Speaker 1: a ring or something like that. This is way before
Speaker 1: he got married, and so he started the big stir
Speaker 1: that thinking Prince william was getting engaged. Prince I was
Speaker 1: not invited to the royal wedding, tried to sneak in, Mike,
Speaker 1: what is your favorite part of a hockey game? For me,
Speaker 1: I'll just say mine's the music. I love the Oregan music.
Speaker 1: Don't Done Done? Yeah, don't ye wine would be uh
Speaker 1: favorite part of a game. I mean in playoffs, it's
Speaker 1: overtime for sure. Overtime hockey, sudden death for those of
Speaker 1: you who don't adine the adrenaline. Yeah, yeah, we get
Speaker 1: five minutes of in the regular season and then we
Speaker 1: have sudden death right to I mean a couple of
Speaker 1: nights ago we had two overtime periods. Um, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of hockey. That's a lot of hockey. I mean
Speaker 1: we played normally sixty minutes. Some guys sometimes we can
Speaker 1: play a hundred twenty minutes of hockey and one night
Speaker 1: and then the guys, I don't know how they do,
Speaker 1: they gotta play the next night. A lot of times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh it's a lot of wear and tear on
Speaker 1: their bodies. I remember one time one of the guys
Speaker 1: in Chicago is telling me, when they're flying back from
Speaker 1: a game they're they're playing, look like an emergency room
Speaker 1: with all the I V s and ice pack slash
Speaker 1: guys getting stitched on the plane. I mean, there was
Speaker 1: blood gauzes everywhere, and one guy had his gallbladder taken
Speaker 1: out right Peter Forsberg the black market and they and
Speaker 1: they didn't have enough surgeons, so a lot of the
Speaker 1: players operated on each other. That's what I read. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, they are tough, tough ombreise. So Mike, what
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you say to those dreamers out
Speaker 1: there who are listening and they want to travel the
Speaker 1: world with Stanley one day? Come come to the hockey
Speaker 1: allow fan, We'll get a job and maybe I'll be
Speaker 1: fortunate enough to be one of there's a training program,
Speaker 1: there's a apprenticeship. It's huge. You know, this job took
Speaker 1: me all three minutes to get. Okay, the people know
Speaker 1: my boss called well, my now, boss, I was in
Speaker 1: the office. You got a minute, And I was like sure.
Speaker 1: I went into his office side down and said, you
Speaker 1: think you'd be good as a cupkeeper. You're interested? Sure? Okay,
Speaker 1: that was it? Pretty much a couple of little things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was it. So to our listeners out there, it's
Speaker 1: pretty easy, pretty easy apparently. Yeah. Well, has the cup
Speaker 1: ever spoken to you? I'm looking at it right now,
Speaker 1: just when we're alone. Yeah, I'm sure. Does it have
Speaker 1: a deep voice or more of a high pitched nasal.
Speaker 1: It's kind of an old man kind of voice. Yeah.
Speaker 1: H seven years old, that makes sense, and twenty seven
Speaker 1: years old. We should all be so lucky. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: with modern science and technology, we'll probably get there. I mean,
Speaker 1: as I always say, the couple looks pretty good for
Speaker 1: hundred twenty seven years old and parties harder than Keith Richards.
Speaker 1: So have they have they? Any of the Rolling Stones
Speaker 1: ever partied with the Standley Cup? But we have party
Speaker 1: with a bunch of bands over the years, from Rush
Speaker 1: to uh Rat not Rat bon Jovi, Wayne Newton, Yeah, Wayne,
Speaker 1: we actually real Yeah yeah, Wayne. We were with Wayne
Speaker 1: in Vegas last year. Was an awesome guy and we
Speaker 1: actually had the cup in a convertible for him and
Speaker 1: he drove down the strip and everything like that and
Speaker 1: waving on all the people, and people would see the
Speaker 1: cup first and then they go, oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: Wayne Newton. Canada's way Newton. Yeah, that was pretty cool. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's from Leans. From Canada. She's seen
Speaker 1: the Cup of Futures. What did she think of the cup?
Speaker 1: She was? She was she's a big Montreal fan, um.
Speaker 1: And her husband's a big hockey fan too. And their
Speaker 1: friends with Pierre Lacroix, who was the former general manager
Speaker 1: of the Colorado Avalanche. So uh, they were. The nickname
Speaker 1: for the Canadians is the habs exactly? The habitants. The
Speaker 1: habitants has its short form. Yeah, that's French. It's a
Speaker 1: French thing. Yeah. I don't really much more than that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah. That kind of grounded everything doing old,
Speaker 1: didn't it. Yeah, Well, none of us speak French. That's
Speaker 1: Ron for a while told us he spoke flu in
Speaker 1: French and it was gibberish, old, a little insulting, consulting
Speaker 1: to my intelligence and your in your beat poetry second place. Well, Mike,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. I'm still staring at
Speaker 1: the glory of Lord Stanley right here. He was an
Speaker 1: honor to meet you, honor to be in the presence
Speaker 1: of the Cup. Uh, please keep in touch. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean in the distant future. I mean, let us
Speaker 1: know what you're doing tonight, getting on a red eye.
Speaker 1: You want to come? Where are you going? Going to Raley,
Speaker 1: North Carolina Fest tomorrow? Oh? Beer fest? Yes, let me see.
Speaker 1: Carolina booked me on that same flight. We have to
Speaker 1: record tomorrow. Oh okay, well we can postpone it. I
Speaker 1: got I mean, look the look at the choice you're
Speaker 1: presenting me. Stay here in the smelly studio and record
Speaker 1: a podcast versus get on a red eye to Raleigh
Speaker 1: for a beer fest with the Stanley Cup. Do your
Speaker 1: job or go to a party. Yes, okay, we'll discuss.
Speaker 1: We'll discuss later. Mike Michael, keeper of the Cup, thank
Speaker 1: you for spending a wonderful amount of time with us here.
Speaker 1: And I just I'm surprised you don't have armed security
Speaker 1: with you. I just dropped the white gloves the third problem. Okay,
Speaker 1: very good. We won't touch the We're not going to.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm not even gonna look at it
Speaker 1: because I didn't win it. I understand, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with the Ron Burgundy Podcast right
Speaker 1: after these messages, and we're back on the Ron Burgundy
Speaker 1: Podcast with some final thoughts. I am a leader. Everyone
Speaker 1: has said that to me at one point or another.
Speaker 1: Once at McDonald's I was in line for a mc
Speaker 1: rib and someone tapped me on the shoulder and said,
Speaker 1: you're a leader. And I said, thank you, sir, I
Speaker 1: know that. Then you can gave me some pamphlets. Turns
Speaker 1: out he wanted me to join his cult. Long story short,
Speaker 1: I did end up joining it, and it was a
Speaker 1: very tough summer for me and my family. Anyway, Wait,
Speaker 1: where was I You're a leader? Yes? While reading How
Speaker 1: to Win Friends and Influence People, my new favorite book
Speaker 1: next to Harry Potter, they gave me some tips on
Speaker 1: how to be a leader, one of which was to
Speaker 1: praise every improvement. Oh I like that. That's actually a
Speaker 1: great management. I think so too. For instance, I love
Speaker 1: how you didn't slur your words there, Carolina, And look
Speaker 1: at your clothes. There's barely any crumbs of lunch on them.
Speaker 1: Perhaps some improvement there. Okay, I see what's happening. The
Speaker 1: book also says to ask questions instead of giving direct orders,
Speaker 1: So maybe you guys, um, what do you think of
Speaker 1: ending the episode now? And maybe we get a steak
Speaker 1: for Ron with a Guinness in a cold glass. I
Speaker 1: don't know, suggestions. Maybe after that, someone pulls my new
Speaker 1: car around so I can check it out. That's not
Speaker 1: we I can't tell you enough that you're not getting
Speaker 1: a free car today, okay, but I am getting a
Speaker 1: free blow up gorilla. Scott Painter told me that, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, okay, we'll get your new girl great. And
Speaker 1: I also need the generator, you know. Oh, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to need uh let's see, I'm going to need
Speaker 1: a couple of hundred cans of gasoline to run the
Speaker 1: gas generator. So Fair Auto is gonna have to chip
Speaker 1: in on that too. I'll need a constant supply of
Speaker 1: of I don't know. All you could do is ask, right, folks,
Speaker 1: come on by my condo anytime you want. Can take
Speaker 1: a photo with my blow up gorilla. H My house
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