WEBVTT - REWIND: Eric Fixes The Grocery Stores 0:00:02.029 --> 0:00:29.910 It's J.O. and Johnny. Palermo with you here for a 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:35.740 special Rewind edition of the Laugh With Me podcast. We're 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.019 going to get into what this episode is, what this 0:00:39.060 --> 0:00:42.080 Rewind is. But before we get to that, I got 0:00:42.100 --> 0:00:45.220 to tell you about this drink I'm having right now. 0:00:46.540 --> 0:00:51.060 Angry Orchard. It's a seasonal hard cider. It's the Caramel 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:58.410 Apple Curse. Now, I don't know if you guys remember, 0:00:58.510 --> 0:01:02.330 but it was a few years back. So this is, 0:01:02.350 --> 0:01:08.650 there's zero chance anybody remembers me saying this, but it 0:01:08.690 --> 0:01:13.350 was when the Fireball, Fireball made their first like second flavor. 0:01:13.510 --> 0:01:17.010 So it was, I think it was caramel apple. Okay. 0:01:17.230 --> 0:01:18.870 And I did the shot and I talked about it 0:01:18.930 --> 0:01:23.890 on the pod and it reminded me of what a 0:01:23.970 --> 0:01:27.520 caramel apple candle. would smell like. That's what the taste 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.120 was like. That's what it reminded me of, okay? I 0:01:31.140 --> 0:01:33.679 don't even think, I think I finished whatever couple shots 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.310 I bought of those, and I didn't go back. Now, 0:01:36.370 --> 0:01:40.770 I did try the new vanilla fireball shots. I'm going 0:01:40.790 --> 0:01:42.390 to tell you right now, I kind of liked them, Johnny. 0:01:43.730 --> 0:01:48.920 It wasn't that bad. Had it at, well, in the 0:01:49.060 --> 0:01:54.100 shadows of Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. WTL was doing pre-games. 0:01:55.380 --> 0:01:58.040 for the Maryland game a couple weeks back. And did 0:01:58.060 --> 0:02:02.320 that shot before the game. I liked it. So I'm 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.890 not a hater completely of the alternative flavors of the 0:02:06.950 --> 0:02:09.690 Fireball brand. Let me throw that out there right now. 0:02:09.750 --> 0:02:11.590 So Fireball, if you want to come calling, hey baby, 0:02:11.650 --> 0:02:17.429 I'm ready. But back to this angry order drink. First drink. 0:02:17.450 --> 0:02:22.280 I'm going to be honest, it kind of reminded me 0:02:22.740 --> 0:02:26.730 of that fireball shot, that feeling of the candle. Okay. 0:02:27.650 --> 0:02:30.950 That's what it reminded me of. But as I've started 0:02:30.990 --> 0:02:33.530 to have a couple more drinks, especially that second drink, 0:02:34.070 --> 0:02:37.680 that second drink was huge. Once I had that second drink, 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.350 like it, I could really taste the caramel apples. Like I, 0:02:40.780 --> 0:02:43.720 I'm a guy you might be saying, Oh, do you 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.910 even like caramel apples? First of all, don't come at 0:02:46.940 --> 0:02:47.390 me like that. 0:02:47.470 --> 0:02:47.770 Okay. 0:02:51.270 --> 0:02:55.290 Second of all, When I was in high school, and 0:02:55.310 --> 0:02:57.710 this is back when kids had lockers and used their lockers, 0:02:59.710 --> 0:03:01.830 I would always have a bag of caramel apple suckers 0:03:01.889 --> 0:03:05.109 in my locker. So, you know, when I'd go to 0:03:05.130 --> 0:03:07.549 my locker, my friends or, you know, people would come 0:03:07.590 --> 0:03:09.630 by and I'd be like, oh, I have a sucker. Like, 0:03:09.660 --> 0:03:14.500 it's just a nice guy. I also had a picture. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.360 I also had a picture in my locker of Larry King. 0:03:23.690 --> 0:03:27.250 With a red goatee. Now, he never had a red goatee. 0:03:28.350 --> 0:03:36.150 But I drew one on. I had a cool locker. 0:03:36.210 --> 0:03:39.930 I don't know what to tell you. But people would 0:03:39.970 --> 0:03:41.630 swing by. It was like, hey, you go to J.O. 0:03:41.630 --> 0:03:42.030 's locker? 0:03:42.070 --> 0:03:42.950 Yeah, I'll see you there. 0:03:43.410 --> 0:03:47.130 Like, it was a cool place to hang. But anyways. 0:03:47.730 --> 0:03:50.170 This Angry Orchard. It's the seasonal stuff. It's the Angry 0:03:50.210 --> 0:03:53.700 Orchard hard cider. This Caramel Apple Curse. Pretty freaking good. 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:58.339 So I'm going to be enjoying that as we gear 0:04:00.300 --> 0:04:05.310 up for this Rewind episode. Which, before we even get 0:04:05.350 --> 0:04:07.110 to that, because I am not ready yet. I'm not 0:04:07.170 --> 0:04:12.840 done talking. Next week, October 21st. This is going to 0:04:12.850 --> 0:04:20.740 become one of those milestone event dates in podcasting history. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:21.120 Okay? 0:04:21.140 --> 0:04:26.530 Okay. Thank you, Johnny. You want to know how I 0:04:26.570 --> 0:04:28.090 know this is going to be big? Johnny and I 0:04:28.110 --> 0:04:34.170 are on the same page right now, okay? Releasing on 0:04:34.230 --> 0:04:45.630 October 21st is horror. Horror comes to podcasting. It's going 0:04:45.650 --> 0:04:48.640 to be scary as fuck. And I'm here to give 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:52.890 you a small preview, okay? We're going to give you 0:04:52.910 --> 0:04:58.810 a small preview of this horror comes to laugh with 0:04:58.870 --> 0:05:01.410 me experience. It's going to be a lot of fun. 0:05:01.430 --> 0:05:03.670 It's also going to be scary. So if you're too 0:05:03.730 --> 0:05:09.429 scared of shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark 0:05:09.490 --> 0:05:12.450 or Goosebumps or anything like that, well then this is 0:05:12.510 --> 0:05:15.130 probably going to be too much for you. But if 0:05:15.190 --> 0:05:20.150 you're into Terrifier and Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday 0:05:20.190 --> 0:05:22.840 the 13th, well then this is right up your alley, 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.400 because this is going to be awesome, okay? So get 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.720 locked in with that one. You're going to want headphones. 0:05:29.180 --> 0:05:31.800 You're going to want to be as close as possible 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.700 to the sound and sitting in the dark. Well, that's 0:05:35.810 --> 0:05:40.430 all right. Let's not. We may want to just reel 0:05:40.490 --> 0:05:42.350 it back a little bit. Johnny wrote that down for me. 0:05:42.750 --> 0:05:44.370 Let's reel it back just a little bit. We don't 0:05:44.390 --> 0:05:48.050 want to overhype and underdeliver. But I am telling you 0:05:48.070 --> 0:05:51.080 right now, it's going to be a monster event for us. 0:05:51.950 --> 0:05:57.220 And we're all actually very excited to the extent that 0:05:57.260 --> 0:06:00.820 I believe iHeartRadio is going to be promoting this very 0:06:00.860 --> 0:06:05.070 episode for us. So it's going to be a big one. 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:06.750 It's very special to me. So look out for that 0:06:06.850 --> 0:06:15.050 one Wednesday, October 21st. Horror comes to laugh with me. 0:06:15.589 --> 0:06:17.570 And we're going to give you a sneak peek of 0:06:17.690 --> 0:06:22.050 that episode today. Uh, let's, let's do that right now. 0:06:22.070 --> 0:06:33.150 Laugh with me. Laugh with me. Laugh with me. Laugh 0:06:33.190 --> 0:06:33.770 with me. 0:06:33.790 --> 0:06:36.680 Laugh with me. 0:06:36.710 --> 0:06:38.859 Laugh with me. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:44.620 Laugh with me. Laugh with me. 0:06:44.660 --> 0:06:45.500 Laugh with me. 0:06:45.900 --> 0:06:48.539 That's just a taste. That's just a taste, Johnny. Okay? 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:48.780 Okay. 0:06:49.190 --> 0:06:53.270 Don't get all worked up. That's just a taste of 0:06:53.290 --> 0:06:58.589 what's to come October 21st. But for you today, we 0:06:58.630 --> 0:07:01.230 have a very special Rewind episode. This is actually one 0:07:01.270 --> 0:07:04.310 of my favorite ones. So Eric is actually going to 0:07:04.390 --> 0:07:06.910 be in our horror episode on October 21st. We're going 0:07:06.930 --> 0:07:09.830 to give you a little taste of Eric Larson here. 0:07:10.170 --> 0:07:15.190 This is from back in January. And this was in 0:07:15.370 --> 0:07:21.730 season 6. Okay, well over 50 episodes ago. And he 0:07:21.790 --> 0:07:23.530 had an idea on how he was going to fix 0:07:23.570 --> 0:07:28.160 grocery stores. Okay, so we kind of ran with the 0:07:28.220 --> 0:07:33.420 idea and workshopped it just a little bit. It's a 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:39.120 fun episode. So enjoy. Laugh with me. Eric fixes the 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:55.680 grocery stores. One thing you did come to the table with, 0:07:55.840 --> 0:08:00.020 and I know because you texted Kyle and I, that 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:05.850 Kyle famously works in the grocery industry. I used to. 0:08:06.590 --> 0:08:11.530 And you've decided to revolutionize the grocery industry as we 0:08:11.570 --> 0:08:12.070 know it today. 0:08:12.870 --> 0:08:16.450 Well, and just this is a tough audience. It's tough 0:08:16.490 --> 0:08:20.740 presenting ideas to you guys because you guys have poo-pooed 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.290 so many of my ideas. Like, these are guaranteed hits, 0:08:24.930 --> 0:08:26.990 and you guys do nothing with it. 0:08:27.490 --> 0:08:32.030 Well, usually it's like, hey, the front doors at this 0:08:32.110 --> 0:08:36.200 location are just bad. And that location has nothing to 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.500 do with us, so there's nothing we can even do 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.540 about that. Not to mention, whenever you're going to, like, 0:08:44.059 --> 0:08:46.679 tear down a wall of any type, that's like a 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:47.360 million dollars. 0:08:48.580 --> 0:08:51.100 Oh, so you've got to sell some more bananas. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.179 Like, what– It's a lot of bananas. 0:08:54.500 --> 0:08:55.880 Like, I don't see what the big deal is. 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.380 Speaking of bananas, though, before we forget about bananas, there 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.209 was another podcast. And they were like, you won't believe this. 0:09:04.290 --> 0:09:07.750 What do you think is the number one selling item 0:09:07.809 --> 0:09:10.390 at Walmart for an entire year? What do you think 0:09:10.410 --> 0:09:14.030 that item is? And I instantly was like, oh, it's bananas. 0:09:14.570 --> 0:09:16.770 And they're like, well, it's got to be like Mountain 0:09:16.790 --> 0:09:22.720 Dew or probably toilet paper. And we're like, nope. bananas 0:09:22.790 --> 0:09:24.719 and it like blew their mind and i'm like what 0:09:25.179 --> 0:09:28.560 you really gotta think about this because anytime you have 0:09:28.580 --> 0:09:30.860 an item like that that's rung up by the pound 0:09:31.340 --> 0:09:35.700 i mean that stuff adds up fairly quickly and bananas 0:09:36.460 --> 0:09:38.560 i mean everybody buys bananas whether they eat them or 0:09:38.620 --> 0:09:41.559 not they gotta bundle bananas on their counter you know 0:09:41.820 --> 0:09:42.500 it still does. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.059 Annoy me anytime that i don't get around eating the 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:46.860 banana do you. 0:09:46.820 --> 0:09:49.459 Make banana bread i i don't know how to make 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:59.470 it okay uh You don't know how to make banana bread. 0:09:59.790 --> 0:10:00.390 I do not. 0:10:00.850 --> 0:10:02.820 You don't know how to use Google either, it sounds like. 0:10:02.910 --> 0:10:05.340 Yeah, well, I mean, who has the time? 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.540 One thing, so baking and cooking and whatnot used to 0:10:11.580 --> 0:10:14.100 be fairly easy around here until I started getting involved 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.440 and I started adding halves to everything. And then now 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:17.960 it's like the ingredients are a mess. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:24.189 No, but it's... Callback. That was a good callback. 0:10:24.210 --> 0:10:25.290 That was good, yeah. 0:10:26.110 --> 0:10:29.530 No, so, you know, the banana, when they're still on 0:10:29.570 --> 0:10:32.949 the counter, but they're all like brown and spotty and stuff, 0:10:33.210 --> 0:10:34.380 it's just like, I'm not eating that. 0:10:35.050 --> 0:10:35.720 That bothers you? 0:10:35.740 --> 0:10:40.240 It bothers me because, you know, my brain then doesn't 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.800 register with the fact that when I was at the register, 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:48.010 that six bananas was like $ 1. 30. Oh, right, yeah. You know? Yeah, yeah. 0:10:48.790 --> 0:10:51.750 Yeah, it's really not that much. And people get worked 0:10:51.850 --> 0:10:55.230 up when it jumps. It goes up a couple pennies. 0:10:55.630 --> 0:10:58.130 It's amazing when they talk about, like, when the tariffs 0:10:58.150 --> 0:11:00.819 were a big thing last year at this time, there's, like, 0:11:00.910 --> 0:11:04.000 a country that it's, like, 90% of their trade is, like, bananas. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.100 And it's just, like, how many bananas do you, like, 0:11:06.340 --> 0:11:07.219 what's your margin? 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:08.060 Right. 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.900 Like, you know, you make two cents a pound, and 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:12.880 that runs the entire country, apparently. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.510 Well, yeah, because you're putting out so many pounds. That 0:11:15.910 --> 0:11:18.730 would make sense. It's no different than gasoline. You know, 0:11:18.750 --> 0:11:23.569 when you really think about it, gasoline is a penny business. And, 0:11:24.030 --> 0:11:28.850 you know, every level of distribution is selling and making 0:11:28.970 --> 0:11:30.550 something off of the gasoline. 0:11:30.870 --> 0:11:31.110 Right. 0:11:31.330 --> 0:11:34.150 It's literally the same deal, penny business. But you're selling 0:11:34.309 --> 0:11:38.070 so many gallons that it just adds up. Gosh. There 0:11:38.090 --> 0:11:39.250 you go. You learned something today. 0:11:39.530 --> 0:11:40.610 I did. I did. 0:11:41.290 --> 0:11:44.380 So anyway, grocery idea. You have this grocery idea. Yeah. 0:11:44.740 --> 0:11:47.860 So... I sent this to you guys. You guys hardly 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.839 said anything about it, which I took as a little 0:11:50.860 --> 0:11:55.000 bit of an insult to begin with because I identified 0:11:55.220 --> 0:12:01.710 a problem and I identified a solution. So the problem was, 0:12:01.809 --> 0:12:06.730 is there too many olds and children in the store? 0:12:07.270 --> 0:12:07.550 Okay. 0:12:08.270 --> 0:12:12.800 And so my solution was just no olds and no children. 0:12:13.700 --> 0:12:16.760 Now, Kyle did respond. Because he said, well, then where 0:12:16.780 --> 0:12:19.839 will you guys shop? I think referring to us as 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:20.380 being old. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.719 Oh, I thought he was calling us children. 0:12:23.059 --> 0:12:23.319 No. 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.380 Well, either way, he's... He was wrong. 0:12:26.420 --> 0:12:28.829 He was, you know, coming at us with something. So 0:12:30.630 --> 0:12:35.710 that's interesting because... Is it? Where do you find yourself 0:12:35.790 --> 0:12:38.300 in that mix? Like, what's the range? I mean, I. 0:12:38.290 --> 0:12:38.349 So. 0:12:40.530 --> 0:12:44.230 I took that information. I took his response. I internalized it. 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:45.550 I thought a little bit more about it. 0:12:45.700 --> 0:12:45.980 Okay. 0:12:46.140 --> 0:12:47.540 And I was just like, all right, so when I 0:12:47.580 --> 0:12:51.780 say olds and children, I'm not really defining which is 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.929 which or how to come to those measurements. 0:12:55.250 --> 0:12:55.550 Okay. 0:12:56.190 --> 0:12:58.069 So I thought of a better idea. 0:12:58.850 --> 0:13:00.830 Better idea. Is it completely different? 0:13:01.510 --> 0:13:04.150 So it's just a way for us to determine in 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.380 a fair way who gets in the grocery store and 0:13:06.420 --> 0:13:11.520 who doesn't. Okay. So- My idea is that there's one 0:13:11.940 --> 0:13:13.400 entry point to the store. 0:13:14.140 --> 0:13:14.900 Yep, there already is. 0:13:15.420 --> 0:13:18.740 And so at this entry point, you build a 20 0:13:18.740 --> 0:13:23.160 foot by 10 foot room. So like a long hallway, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:24.750 10 foot wide, 20 foot long. 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:25.970 It's like a vestibule. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:31.670 Yes. Okay. And then in the dead center of that room, 0:13:33.670 --> 0:13:36.819 you put an X in there. And you have a 0:13:36.860 --> 0:13:42.020 store employee that stands right there. Now, people, when they 0:13:42.070 --> 0:13:45.189 want to come in the store, only one person can 0:13:45.250 --> 0:13:46.770 be in that vestibule at any time. 0:13:49.190 --> 0:13:50.830 So you're going one person at a time. 0:13:50.929 --> 0:13:51.810 One person at a time. 0:13:51.970 --> 0:13:54.650 What if, like, you and I roll up to grab 0:13:54.670 --> 0:13:55.250 a six-pack of beer? 0:13:55.340 --> 0:13:56.960 One of us would have to say, hey, I'll go first. 0:13:56.980 --> 0:13:57.680 Okay. 0:13:57.820 --> 0:13:59.240 And then the other one would have to follow. 0:13:59.300 --> 0:14:00.520 It's like an elevator. Yeah. 0:14:01.300 --> 0:14:04.660 So you enter at the one end of the hallway. 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.980 Okay. How long is the hallway? 20 feet? 0:14:06.980 --> 0:14:07.880 20 foot. 20 foot. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:09.000 My. Okay. 0:14:09.620 --> 0:14:12.520 And so what you have to do is you have 0:14:12.570 --> 0:14:16.170 to get by the store employee without them punching you 0:14:16.210 --> 0:14:21.470 in the face. Hmm. And like, I'm not talking like 0:14:21.730 --> 0:14:23.910 smacking on the side of the head or that they're 0:14:23.950 --> 0:14:26.830 going to do anything fancy. If they can basically square 0:14:27.010 --> 0:14:30.610 up and punch you in the eye. Yeah. You can't 0:14:30.630 --> 0:14:31.220 come in the store. 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.100 So you're, so are you assuming, so when you were 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:39.080 eliminating olds and children in You're just assuming this store 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.000 employee can take down olds and children. 0:14:42.100 --> 0:14:44.700 Well, just that they're not going to have the reflexes, 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.140 the motor ability. Because I've seen some of these people 0:14:47.180 --> 0:14:52.380 push carts. Okay. And they've got, you know, they need 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:53.880 to go to the olds store. 0:14:53.900 --> 0:14:56.270 Right. So there's going to be a whole separate store 0:14:56.310 --> 0:14:56.890 for the olds. 0:14:57.470 --> 0:14:59.090 I assume they'll figure it out. 0:14:59.250 --> 0:15:01.170 And then like maybe like a store. I don't know. 0:15:01.190 --> 0:15:02.890 I'm just spitballing. Toys R Us. We'll call it Toys 0:15:03.010 --> 0:15:03.970 R Us for the children. 0:15:04.190 --> 0:15:08.850 Yeah. So basically, if you go in. You know, person 0:15:08.870 --> 0:15:11.310 squares up. They punch you in the eye. Okay. You 0:15:11.330 --> 0:15:15.010 turn around. You leave. Yep. Next person comes in. You know, 0:15:15.050 --> 0:15:17.970 I mean, children at a certain age, they get kind 0:15:18.010 --> 0:15:20.330 of clever and agile. Yeah. And it's going to be 0:15:20.350 --> 0:15:22.630 really tough to pin them down. That's fine. I'm not 0:15:22.670 --> 0:15:25.220 worried about running them over. But like a toddler, a 0:15:25.940 --> 0:15:27.800 toddler isn't going to– they're not going to be smart. 0:15:27.900 --> 0:15:30.340 They're probably going to walk up to the person and 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:31.480 they're going to get punched in the eye. 0:15:31.580 --> 0:15:34.600 They're still getting punched. They're not getting like pushed aside. Yeah. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:35.180 Yeah. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.030 What's the liability for– Punching people in the face. 0:15:39.470 --> 0:15:40.830 For a place that they want to get in? 0:15:40.850 --> 0:15:43.470 Yeah. 0:15:43.790 --> 0:15:45.750 I mean, I feel like people would learn pretty quick. 0:15:46.650 --> 0:15:49.300 Let's circle back. We'll come back to the punching in 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.920 the face. What's your problem with the olds? 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.860 They're just slow, and they kind of clog everything up. 0:15:54.940 --> 0:15:55.640 Okay, that's fair. 0:15:55.660 --> 0:15:57.160 It doesn't seem like they know what they want or 0:15:57.180 --> 0:15:57.880 where they're going. 0:15:57.900 --> 0:15:59.140 Okay. 0:15:59.220 --> 0:16:00.200 And they're probably retired. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.460 Yeah, they're filling up their day. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.810 Yeah, they have a lot of time, so it's just like, oh, well, 0:16:05.790 --> 0:16:08.210 let me look at this. packet of rice like oh 0:16:08.250 --> 0:16:09.610 it's mesquite. 0:16:09.570 --> 0:16:13.030 Yeah you'd have a an older clientele hanging out in 0:16:13.050 --> 0:16:15.540 the grocery store from very early in the morning. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.560 Yeah they they slow me out they slow. 0:16:17.380 --> 0:16:20.300 Me down sometimes i'm buying anything yeah they're hanging out 0:16:20.340 --> 0:16:23.540 chatting might as well be the pokemon kids the pokemon 0:16:23.580 --> 0:16:26.020 kids you remember those pokemon kids i do back in 0:16:26.060 --> 0:16:28.660 the day when pokemon was i mean i guess it's 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.920 still a big deal but it was it was different 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.380 big deal back then like kids actually played the game 0:16:33.540 --> 0:16:36.500 well you had no way to share So you had 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.000 to physically have people in the same spot as you 0:16:39.220 --> 0:16:42.020 to show off your goods. That's a good point. We 0:16:42.060 --> 0:16:45.180 didn't have the smartphones like we do today. So they 0:16:45.220 --> 0:16:49.950 would go to the cafeteria area of the grocery store 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.950 and just play Pokemon on a Tuesday night. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.810 Carrying a big Pokemon binder? Probably going to slow you up. 0:16:56.990 --> 0:16:58.190 Going to make it a little bit tougher to get 0:16:58.210 --> 0:17:00.910 by that guy. Poor gal. 0:17:01.290 --> 0:17:04.510 So the olds slow you down. The children slow you down. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.619 How quickly are you wanting to get in and out 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:08.320 of the grocery store? 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.380 I mean, I want to set a new record every 0:17:11.420 --> 0:17:13.850 single time I go in there. Like, I know what 0:17:13.900 --> 0:17:14.330 I want. 0:17:14.420 --> 0:17:15.490 So it's competition for you? 0:17:16.430 --> 0:17:20.150 Well, I mean, against myself. Like, I want to constantly 0:17:20.170 --> 0:17:20.770 be improving. 0:17:21.869 --> 0:17:26.960 So since you're limiting who's in, and I'm assuming you 0:17:26.980 --> 0:17:30.410 want like-minded people... going into the grocery store and getting 0:17:30.450 --> 0:17:32.859 past the guy that punches you. Are you challenging the 0:17:32.990 --> 0:17:35.180 store employee and you're just saying, oh, I'm going to 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:36.440 get past this guy punching people? 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:38.230 Oh, 100% I get by him. 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.379 Okay, so you also are getting challenged. Like, everybody's getting challenged. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:42.500 Oh, yeah, every single person. 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.580 So then you get through the employee standing on the X, 0:17:45.780 --> 0:17:47.420 doesn't punch you in the face. What if he does 0:17:47.460 --> 0:17:49.399 punch you in the face, but you just, it doesn't 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:50.400 bother you, you keep going? 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:51.600 No, no, you got to leave. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.119 Okay, so if you get punched, you're out. Yeah. It's 0:17:54.140 --> 0:17:54.639 like tag. 0:17:54.740 --> 0:17:54.980 Yeah. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:55.480 Okay. 0:17:55.660 --> 0:18:00.220 So you just leave. You leave, you Probably. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:01.560 It's like a dodgeball situation. 0:18:01.859 --> 0:18:04.479 Yeah. Maybe there's a stand outside that just sells like 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.520 frozen peas. You know, something to push against your eye 0:18:07.540 --> 0:18:09.440 so it doesn't get as black. 0:18:09.540 --> 0:18:10.080 Well, that's nice. 0:18:10.580 --> 0:18:10.900 You know. 0:18:10.940 --> 0:18:11.460 So you're not like. 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.280 It was like a little side hustle maybe. Yeah. 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.200 So you had somebody separate selling frozen peas out front. 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.459 I don't buy peas. So I don't really care how 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:20.740 long the line is to get those. 0:18:21.859 --> 0:18:24.520 Did you have like a bag of frozen peas in 0:18:24.540 --> 0:18:27.380 your freezer right now just specifically for situations like this? 0:18:27.420 --> 0:18:28.900 I'm not afraid of getting punched in the face. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:30.370 Okay. All right. 0:18:30.770 --> 0:18:31.050 Okay. 0:18:31.810 --> 0:18:36.760 So the grocery store with no olds and no children 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.660 and just people zipping through as fast as they can. 0:18:41.100 --> 0:18:43.280 I mean, is it the same setup as you see 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:44.980 today with all the departments? 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:46.879 Yeah, I mean, it would just be the only thing 0:18:46.900 --> 0:18:48.980 you have to change of the store is just building 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.500 the entryway. Otherwise, you can leave everything about the store 0:18:52.540 --> 0:18:52.840 the same. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.119 So all these years that you've been complaining about the 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.369 front doors of this specific grocery store, Was the problem 0:18:58.390 --> 0:19:00.190 there was nobody standing in the middle of a long 0:19:00.210 --> 0:19:01.310 hallway punching people? 0:19:02.230 --> 0:19:03.189 Well, checking people. 0:19:03.750 --> 0:19:04.570 Checking people for what? 0:19:04.590 --> 0:19:06.510 Checking people to make sure that they're not going to 0:19:06.550 --> 0:19:07.810 get in my way. All right. 0:19:07.869 --> 0:19:11.770 This is wild. So you– this is going to impact 0:19:12.290 --> 0:19:14.890 a lot of things at the store. I mean they're 0:19:14.910 --> 0:19:20.930 going to sell nearly as many things. You're asking– so 0:19:20.970 --> 0:19:23.590 the staff– I mean the staff is going to be 0:19:23.670 --> 0:19:26.260 running around like wild trying to keep up with all 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.109 the people running around fast. Through the store to fill, 0:19:29.130 --> 0:19:29.390 you know. 0:19:30.310 --> 0:19:31.810 Well, so, no, no. 0:19:31.850 --> 0:19:33.709 How's this work? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay. 0:19:34.140 --> 0:19:36.440 So, I mean, you have the extra employee that's sitting 0:19:36.460 --> 0:19:39.560 there punching people in the face, but you don't need 0:19:39.619 --> 0:19:41.700 any extra staff. I mean, that's the thing about it. 0:19:41.700 --> 0:19:45.330 It's like I'm a very responsible shopper. Like, I'm not intentionally, like, 0:19:45.470 --> 0:19:48.669 messing stuff up. I don't have, like, old limp hands 0:19:48.710 --> 0:19:49.969 that are just going to knock stuff over. 0:19:50.340 --> 0:19:51.060 Old limp hands. 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:53.340 I'm not like a little kid that's just, you know, 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.560 licking everything that's within the two foot of the floor. 0:19:56.580 --> 0:19:58.540 No, I will say I've never seen a child in 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.280 a grocery store just licking stuff. Yeah. 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.620 Well, who knows what they do? It's disgusting. 0:20:03.869 --> 0:20:08.660 What? What? This is wild. So you want a store 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:10.570 that caters 100% to you. 0:20:11.270 --> 0:20:11.550 Yes. 0:20:12.730 --> 0:20:15.170 And eliminates the people that you do not like. 0:20:15.609 --> 0:20:15.850 Yes. 0:20:16.970 --> 0:20:19.169 Okay. We're getting to the bottom of this. So it's 0:20:19.190 --> 0:20:22.670 not really so much a suggestion for the grocery industry 0:20:23.300 --> 0:20:27.120 as much as they don't cater enough to your wild dreams. 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:29.340 Well, so, but I feel like there'd be a lot 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:30.820 of appeal out there. I feel like a lot of 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:32.240 people want to shop like me. 0:20:32.940 --> 0:20:34.520 All right. There is a lot of people who want 0:20:34.540 --> 0:20:36.530 to get in and out quickly. So to your point, 0:20:36.619 --> 0:20:39.110 that's true. 0:20:39.190 --> 0:20:42.930 They could put all self-checkouts. They wouldn't even have to have, like, 0:20:43.050 --> 0:20:44.670 they just need, like, two people up front. 0:20:44.770 --> 0:20:46.470 No, you can't do that. You can't do that anymore. 0:20:46.490 --> 0:20:47.389 What do you mean you can't do that? 0:20:47.410 --> 0:20:51.890 Stores were doing that. It became a problem, twofold. Number one, 0:20:52.369 --> 0:20:55.550