WEBVTT - The Stanley Cup 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:14.440 Who's that man joking in my ear? He's rung Burndy. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:19.320 My dearest listeners, how is everyone this week feeling okay? 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.720 If you're listening at home, are you cozy under a blanket? 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.119 You might be in your family's minivan airing out the 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.520 cigar smoke because your parents get back into town. How's 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.960 that going? And here at the studio, Carolina, how you doing? 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:39.160 I'm good? Nick in the booth, you okay? Good? Family 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.159 is good, everybody's good. Thanks, great, and the temperature is 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.400 good in here. Sorry for all the questions. I'm not 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:51.199 trying to be a nosy Carolina. Not nosy Carolina, but 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.840 that's a phrase. Oh well, I just read a great book, Carolina. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.080 You should check it out. It's called How to Win 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.760 Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. It just came out. 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.120 O that book came out like a little over eighty 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:09.920 years and it's growing in popularity. I wanted to give 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.320 it a shout out on the podcast so more people 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.120 could hear about it. Oh, it's actually one of the 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.440 most popular books of all time. I think in it, 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.880 my new friend Dale list six ways to make people 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.560 like you, and it's it's not what you think you 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.720 don't have to bring a you know, a brick of 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.000 cocaine for the next game night. In fact, the first 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:32.160 thing Dale says is you have to become genuinely interested 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:37.119 in other people. Hence my questions today. Okay, is that 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.320 why you asked me if my nose was real when 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:44.320 I walked into I'm just saying, people have been talking, okay, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.720 and we just know it used to be bigger, or 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:53.960 maybe it's the same size. I didn't do anything, so well, 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:58.280 it's still pretty outstanding. You have an outstanding nose. I 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.840 don't know how you mean that anyway. The second thing 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:11.560 Dale tells us to do is smile. Smile, smile, smile, smile, smile, smile. Okay, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:16.919 please see I'm smiling too much. Just close your mouth. 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.960 Talk normally. It marks people love you. I'm gonna pay 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.480 you ten dollars to look normal, and I'll pay you 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:28.440 fifty to do the same. Okay. Thirdly, you have to 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.640 say a person's name a lot to them. It is 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.880 the sweetest and most important sound in any language. That's 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.320 certainly true. I actually fall asleep to a tape of 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:44.280 people saying my name. Different recordings of people at award 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:50.760 shows airport, loudspeakers, lawyers at my deposition hearings. Just get 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:55.480 me relaxed. Oh wow, well, maybe you know what. You 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.640 can use some of these skills to talk to the 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.440 CEO of Fair today. Who the CEO of Fair? A 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.119 representative affair? He's we're having them in for a few questions. 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.760 Oh okay, what's his name? He's walking in? Okay, quickly, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.600 what's his name? Come on, Carolina, he's the money man 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.800 that he's in the room. His name is Scott, Scott Painter. 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.880 He's in the room, Scotty. Please, welcome to the studio. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.440 Scott Painter. Thanks for joining us. Hey, Ron, how are you? 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.040 I'm great, I'm great. Thank you so much for coming in. Yes, 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:30.200 thank you. What a beautiful name, Scott Painter. Glorious to 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:38.160 the lips, Scott, Scotty, Scott, take it easy, ah, Scott, Yes, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.880 Scott Painter. Never forget that name. We want you to 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.800 stop and keep going. Is it what's the origin of Painter? 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:51.720 Is that Dutch? I think it's a German and Scottish. Well, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.520 we learned something new every day and thank you for 0:03:54.520 --> 0:04:01.600 that information. Scott Painter, CEO, founder of Fair. And so 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.320 what what does fair Auto. Do Well, we are a 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.960 way to get a car entirely on your phone. Oh, 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:10.800 that's right, because we've been talking about that. Those are 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.720 the advertisements. Yes, anyway, you get the phone and you 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.680 get a car, you get a car. Well, it really 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.640 comes from just wanting to make the whole process of 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:22.760 getting a car a lot easier. Most people don't even 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.359 want to go into a dealership anymore, not anymore. No, 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.600 the idea of doing everything on your phone, just like 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.680 everything else in modern life, was really where the whole 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:37.680 thing started. A lot of dealerships frankly, they smell, you know, No, 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:42.520 I'm just saying they stink. Really, that's what I've come to. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.800 I mean, I think they smell like new car, which 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.719 for people is usually oh I hate that smell. Oh 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.800 do you? In fact, just the thought of it, okay, 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.719 makes me want to vomit. That seems dramatic. Why don't 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:00.320 you take a sip of water and Scott Scott paid here, 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.680 he's here with us for just tuning in a lot 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:09.479 of people just tune into a podcast. Did you know that? Um, 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:13.760 just for my records? When does my car come? Scott? Well, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:15.520 you've just got to get on your phone and pick 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.360 one out. No, no, no, I mean my free car, 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:24.200 the one I was promised. Who promised you that? Oh? Okay, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:29.600 so it's a surprise. That's sweet. Okay, when I get 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.719 my free car, what should I do? Run? I don't 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:37.599 think that's happening. Okay, it's a surprise, um Scott. The 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.880 question is why do you like working at Fair? I mean, 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.120 you created it, so it's your baby. Well, but where 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:47.520 where's the satisfaction. I think great companies and great entrepreneurs 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.120 solve a problem, and I think buying and owning a 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:54.520 car is complicated, time consuming, frustrating, and most modern customers 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.680 just have said they don't want to do it anymore. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.760 I mean we're all the hassle. Yeah, yeah, the confrontation, 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.880 the commits. So what we created was really a solution 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:08.080 for that that doesn't require any negotiation, any confrontation or commitment. 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:09.680 You can take the car for as long as you want, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:11.440 and then when you're done with it, you just simply 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.240 let us know and we pick it up. What's the 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.360 shortest amount of time someone has leads to car for 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.279 if you had anyone to just for like five minutes. 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.880 It turns out when humans get a car that they like, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.440 they sort of move into it. And even though we 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.239 don't have a term to our contract, the average customer 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.279 is keeping the car for almost two years. Wow. Ron 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.760 usually can't afford cars at dealerships, but he loves negotiating. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.320 I don't know why we need to bring that up. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.400 You've stayed at that dealership. I love. I love to haggle. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.080 I love the back and forth, waste salesman's time for 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.400 hours and then says just kidding and leaves. I like 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.000 to go in. Let's say a car is being sold 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.920 for thirty five dollars. I like to go in. I'd 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:54.680 like to look them in. They they get excited because 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:59.080 it's round barrigunady of course, Um, and I'll go I've 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.159 got two grand cash and I'll slide it across the desk, 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:08.200 real slow, in a Manila envelope and they usually kick 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.760 me out. But um, but there's a thrill to that, 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:16.120 just for me. But you're saying most people, it's intimidating 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.960 to them. For most people, the average car costs about 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.440 a third of their net worth, so the car requires 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.240 financing as well. And the idea of going in and 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.800 you know, sort of negotiating with a dealer is certainly 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.360 something that modern consumers don't like a lot third of 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.680 their net worth. We'd love to have a net worth 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.280 in general. So as a result, most people end up 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.200 taking a car based on what they can afford on 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.120 a monthly basis. All the cars that we've got in 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.960 the app are presented on an all in, month to 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:50.280 month basis, so the car comes with a warranty, roadside assistance, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.480 and standard maintenance, so you don't have to worry about 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.680 any of that. And we now also even offer auto insurance, 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.280 so it's truly a single cost of ownership except for fuel. 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:03.560 Let me ask this question, what if someone has a 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:10.200 negative reaction to their car and destroys it? Have you 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.520 have you come across that. I mean they just beat 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.040 up the car exactly. They take out a tire iron 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:19.080 and they just smashed the windshield, and it's like, oh, 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.640 they tricked me. I never wanted this car. I don't 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.400 think that would be good for anybody. That's not good 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.840 for us. And probably what you'll catch either, right, you'll 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.920 catch them. Ultimately, we will get there. I knew it. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.640 They're going to get you, So don't do that any 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:38.360 Herbie fully loaded situations Herbie fully loaded where the car 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:43.480 goes to life? Oh right right? Was that a Disney movie? Yeah? 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.480 And then it was a Lindsay lowhand remake. I want 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.280 to get back to my car that I'm getting my 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.440 gift car? What color is it? Can you guys just 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.400 tell me? So? Is it going to have a ribbon 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.040 on it? I want I don't know if this is 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.440 a conversation for now, and when I I it, can 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.040 I keep the ribbon on it to show off that 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.120 I got a free car. I want you to be 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:09.400 prepared for there to be no car in what scenario 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.640 and and the scenario of reality. I want you to 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.200 be prepared for a car not to show up today. Okay, 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:21.599 I'm gonna put air quotes around that. Um Scott, do 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.000 you miss One of the great things about car dealerships 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.160 are the the you know, the the inflatable floppy man. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.520 You know what I'm talking about. That gets your attention listeners. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.200 You you probably will picture. How would you describe the 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:39.920 inflatable floppy man? Carolina? A body of skin without a 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.920 spine or bones in it? Yes, you see it end 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.600 and that's something or you'll see like an inflatable gorilla 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.240 or something like that. You know at at dealer do 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.960 do you get feedback that people are missing seeing those things? 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.480 They're still out there, believe it or not. The way 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.880 that our our business works is we rely on dealers 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.160 as partners, but we buy the car from them and 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.880 simultaneously let our users use the vehicles so they don't 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.640 have to go through any of the complication or the 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.760 confrontation with the dealer. We handle all of that. I 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.080 want to get one of those inflatable guerrillas just to 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.400 put out in front of my condo. That I think 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.520 we can do, though, we can arrange for that because 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.760 they're not in demand nearly as much anymore. Okay, So 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.400 if I'm not going to get a free car from 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:27.440 you guys, free guerrilla would be I mean to have 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.880 that generator blowing throughout the night. Go Go, Go, Go 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:38.640 Go definite. But I think that I think that's a 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:42.800 nice trade off to have a fun inflatable guerrilla for 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:47.520 the whole neighborhood to enjoy. It will be a conversation. So, Scott, 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.960 what what else would you like our listeners to know 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:55.360 about Fair Auto? You know, I think that the idea 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.520 of going into debt to buy a car, which is 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.680 what we all have to do. Um. The car is, 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:04.320 for the most part, nine cars are a depreciating asset. Absolutely, 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.480 you drive it off the lot, it plummets. It does. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.320 And almost all the risk in the car business has 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.800 been shifted to consumers over the last hundred years. We 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.199 make them go get a car loan and go into 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.120 debt to cover all that risk. And I think the 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.200 idea of becoming obligated to a car is really going 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.760 to be obsolete. I think the idea of being able 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.880 to get access to mobility on a month to month 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.320 basis just like everything else in modern life. UM. I 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.600 have a sixteen year old son. He went through the 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.880 whole process and he was just like dad before fair 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.360 how did kids get cars? And it makes a ton 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.040 of sense. I mean, he doesn't have a job, he 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.320 didn't have a bank account, he just got his driver's license. 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:43.839 He goes through all these things and now all of 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:45.680 a sudden he can get access to a car with 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.720 any kind of credit history and he pays month to month. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.240 It's a great way for him to get a vehicle 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.160 until he gets ready to go to college. Can you 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.240 use PayPal? You can use any form of payment that's 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:01.400 different Venmo, PayPal, Apple, pay all of It, pokers, anything 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.840 that we can do to get so poker chips from 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.760 a casino. I think ultimately we got to look into 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.640 every public good. Ron has a velvet bag of a 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.679 velvet bag I have. I have a prediction that's going 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.320 to be the currency of the future is poker chips 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.920 from Las Vegas casinos. You had an amazing night in Vegas, 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.160 did and you just forgot to cash your chips. I 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.440 was on such a roll, Scott, Oh my gosh, I 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.800 was at the crabs table for eleven hours. You are 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.800 a diaper. I wore a diaper, and oddly enough, this 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.400 is the first time we've met. But I kept screaming 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.560 at the top of my lungs, Scott Pater as I 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.520 threw the dice. Yeah. I don't remember that part, but 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.679 I believe you. Okay, I made that up. I was 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.080 just trying to impress you. But yeah, I made about 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.680 fifty dollars and I keep it in my mattress. And 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.120 you said, no, I have to go. I have to 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.800 take off my diaper as soon as possible. And I said, 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.000 maybe you want to cash out your chick, no should 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.440 go yeah. Well, but with a company like Fair you 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.080 get to keep the fifty yes and then just get 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.959 the car on an as needed basis. So the auto 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.880 industry are they mad at you for what you've created. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.480 We're actually a sale to a car dealer or to 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.480 the manufacturer, so they're actually quite happy. They don't have 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.800 to pay for advertising, which is usually the largest expense 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.760 in selling a car. So when we buy a car 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.440 from a dealer, it's a sale for them without any 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.240 advertising expense. I remember when I was living down in 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:32.320 San Diego, I used to record jingles for Phil Everton 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.959 Ford and that was part of their big advertising budget. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.960 Phil Everton Ford, It's a great day to buy a Ford. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.960 Phil Everton, and this was a career. I just what 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.000 do you mean? It was No, it was augmented my 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:52.400 salary as a broadcaster. Got it. Come on down to 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:56.960 Phil Everton. He won't cheat you. He's honest, Phil. I 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:01.440 love it. Phil Everton. He he's honest. Even though he 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.400 only has one leg. He had he only had one leg, 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.439 and he wanted that in the jingle. Well I improvised 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.080 that one yeah, and I made sure they couldn't erase 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.360 the tapes, and then I said, if you don't use 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.840 this one, I'll sue you. But that's what I had 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:22.720 a lot of juice back then. Yeah. Um, Scott, we 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.640 can't thank you enough for coming in talking to us, 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.880 enlightening us, enlightening us. It's it's it sounds like an 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.480 amazing service, very easy. Can let me ask you this 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.480 final question? What if I were to purchase I guess 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.840 it's technically, Elise, it's it's technically elease or rental depending 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.400 on the state that you live in. Um, but you 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.040 know both are the same thing. You're not buying the car, 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.200 you're paying for the depreciation on a monthly basis. So 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.920 if I if I get my new car, I'm so excited. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.160 And then I opened the trunk and I find a 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.760 couple of kilos of cocaine. Do what happens? Then? Do 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.720 I get? Is that? Is that a problem that's been 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.440 happen It's it's not been a problem yet, Okay, until 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:09.200 we should think about all the possibilities out there that 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:14.360 could happen. Well, Scott Painter, thank you so much. CEO 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:18.440 and founder of Fair Auto with a beautiful name, Scott Painter, 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.040 Scott thank you for coming in and visiting us here 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.160 in person. Ron, thanks for having me and uh. I 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.640 think we could probably work something out on that car 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.200 if you really go into the pick something. Okay, make 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:32.840 a big deal out of that. I think that could 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.480 work out interesting. Well, Oh so Carolina, you're wrong. I 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.240 am getting a free car, maybe for a month or two, 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.800 you know what, something like that. If it's for one hour. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.720 If I can rub it into Carolina's face that I 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.400 got a free car, I would dance a jig. Scott, 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.280 thanks again, thanks for coming in, and we'll be right 0:15:50.280 --> 0:16:04.080 back after this and welcome back to the Ron Burgundy Podcast. Okay, 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:09.320 raise your hands if you like sports. Okay, I see 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.600 some hands. Now, clap your hands if you like trophies. 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:19.840 Any trophy lovers in the house here. So when was 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.680 the last time you want a trophy? Carolina? I don't 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.920 want to say. Oh, come on, just tell you know. 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.680 We're family here. Um at one second place at the 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:37.720 Sarah Lawrence Slam Poetry Contest. Jesus Christ, Okay, forget I asked, well, 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.240 we have such a treat. The Stanley Cup is the 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:47.640 oldest trophy in sports history, still being competed for by 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:51.960 professional athletes and I am literally looking at it right 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.680 now in all of its glory. It's amazing. It's on 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.040 the table right next to me. And of course we 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.520 have with us today Mike Bolt. Mike is the keeper 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.199 of the cup. He is the man in charge, and 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.400 today we get an inside scoop on how he manages 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:13.560 to guard that cup, the Stanley Cup. Mike, thank you 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.520 for joining us here on the podcast. Ron, thanks for 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:21.640 having us The Stanley Cup. Wow. Well, I mean every 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.560 day you wake up, you turn and look at that thing, 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.720 right because you have to be around a twenty four hours. Yeah, 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.840 I sleep with one eye open all night. You're very vigilant. 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.080 I had to guard it every day, Which leads me 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:37.840 to my first question, Um, do you think you're trustworthy? 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.960 Trustworthy enough to guard this? I don't put I guess 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.639 the NHL in the Hall of Fame do because you 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.560 are being trusted with this outstanding I mean, does that 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.880 ever make you kind of, you know, lose your mind slightly? 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.960 Actually it does sometimes, Yes, I mean especially when we're 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.560 traveling and flying around. Uh just the other day we 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.679 couldn't find it in Denver and it was a little stress. 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.639 Oh den Yeah, we were in Denver doing some press 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.760 and bouncing around promoting the playoffs, and uh, I get 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.720 to Denver and waiting for the bag to come out, 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.960 and it's not there. It's not there, and I'm like, okay, 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.159 So I go and start dealing with the airlines and 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.000 they can't tell me where it is. And so luckily 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.240 I have a contact with Air Canada and I picked 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.040 up the phone and they could tell me where it 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:21.760 was and apparently it was in Denver, but it was 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.840 stuck on Wow, the Caver belt. Did you ask the 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.680 officials there the Denver boat to shut the airport down? 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.879 I did, actually, but they didn't didn't listen, okay, because 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.359 that's what I would have run out onto the tarmac 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.919 and tried to stop planes from landing. You know, it's 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:38.720 funny when when we're in the airport, so I do 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.360 open it up, and it's always amazing to see the reaction. 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:43.560 Just actually, when I flying up to come up here 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.919 last night, I was checking in, it was really quiet 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.240 and I took it out for two employees to see it. 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:54.159 Within literally twenty seconds, there was about people around. They 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.159 just got just it's such a yeah, it's such a 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.679 it's a magnet. I mean, it just attracts people. And 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:01.280 I been doing this for twenty years, I kind of 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.640 know better, but I just laugh. I'm like, oops, that's 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.480 my mistake. I mean, when you brought this beautiful trophy 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:11.719 into our recording studio here, I squealed like a fourteen 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:15.840 year old girl. It was weird. It was like I 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.920 thought you had stepped on something. You thought I'd seen 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.720 a ghost, because that's how I react if I ever 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.280 see a go I see a lot of ghosts. Yes, 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:28.080 and that's with you that one time. That's what usually. Um. 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.520 Have you heard of an ice jackal before? By the way, No, 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.800 I haven't. Okay, well let's just leave it at that. UM, 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:36.760 now correct me if I'm wrong. But I've heard that 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:43.680 this trophy is so revered, revered, revered, revered by NHL 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:48.119 players that many who have not won it they refused 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.680 to be in its presence. Is that is that accurate? 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:52.920 Pretty true? I mean there are players that come around 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:57.919 it but won't touch it. Um, quick story. Scott had 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.600 won three Stanley Cup Scott need Amer, he loves the 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.760 podcast Go Ahead, O excellent and his brother Rob when 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.840 they won together and oh seven, we were up at 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.240 their their summer house up in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.480 Rob kept telling people I love it up there by 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:14.280 the absolutely gorgeous. Is that cottage country? Is that the 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.439 same as a cottage country? That's God's country? Okay, alright, 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:21.120 have you ever been to yellow Knife? I have? Okay, continue, Yeah, 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:25.600 I got a time share and yellow great, Um, Carolina, 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.800 you would love yellow Knife. They're flat and cold and flat, 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:32.560 yeah exactly, but it's it's a cool place. That's my 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:36.840 body type, flat and cold. Nothing. But Rob is telling 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.600 everybody they'd never touched the cup, and when his brother 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:41.680 brought it back and I said, well that's not true. Rob, 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:43.439 you kept kind of rubbing up against it, maybe not 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.119 on purpose, and you know, so the superstition of touching it, 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.000 you know, didn't really affect you because you obviously wanted No. Seven. 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:52.240 But there are players that definitely will not touch it 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.920 until they win it, and guys that have retired still 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:57.959 feel weird about being around it. Meaning the players who 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.359 were retired who didn't didn't win, they're like, yeah, Wendell 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:05.080 Clarke played for Toronto, great player. UM when he first retired, 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:06.480 didn't want to do a picture with it. He says 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:08.440 he'll do pictures, but he will still not touch because 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.600 I never want it. I will never touch the Stanley Cup. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.199 For the female listeners out here, I feel like we 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.280 should follow any hockey player's name with single or in 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:20.399 a relationship, okay, because you find them dreamy, don't you? 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.320 Who is the dreaming this guy in the NHL Carolina 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.360 frequently goes to King's games and she loves blowing kisses 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:30.680 at the players on the ice. There's a rugged handsomeness 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:33.600 to hockey players. They look like they could build you 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:37.840 a house and and get into an unprovoked fight for you. 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:40.639 Now it knows you have you have white gloves on. 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:45.040 You have to handle the cup with white gloves. Yes, 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:49.520 it's part of the prestige, the respect for it, the protocol. Yeah, 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:51.199 I I didn't win it. I just look after it. 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:52.960 And you don't You want to make sure that people 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:56.080 when you're carrying it outside of the buildings and you 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.320 know in the public, people know that it's you're the keeper, 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.040 not the guy that wanted and the white gloves. You 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.840 mentioned protocol. But I also read somewhere in my research 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:08.040 that it's because, uh, once someone was eating peanut butter 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:11.479 out of a jar and they were like, oh dude, 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:13.359 look it's a standy cup and they grabbed it and 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:15.920 they got peanut butter all over it. Is that I've 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:18.000 heard that story, but that's get a lot of stuff 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:19.920 all over it. I mean ice cream Sundays are eating 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:22.040 out of it. So there's been some close calls. Oh yeah, 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:23.800 a lot of ice cream in the summer, a lot 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:25.960 of cereal out of it, and a lot of adult 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:29.960 beverages from Margarita's beer, champagne wine spritters have been made 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:33.600 in it. I'm thinking right now, a Scotch chips and 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:38.040 guacamole fill that ramful of guacamole. Lobster bisc has been 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:45.800 in there. Uh, putine, which is French fries, sushi babies, 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:49.520 A couple of babies have been baptized in it. That's adorable. 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:52.760 That we had a penguin in there once, a little 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:56.479