Bridging the Generation Gap with Trivia and Slang
Ready for a test of wits and nostalgia? Brace yourselves as Steve and Brad, embark on a hilarious game of Mind the Gap on our latest episode of Blue Collar BS.
It's trivia time as Steve tests Brad's knowledge about TV shows, films, pop culture, unique headlines, and slang through the generations. With topics ranging from Wayne and Garth to Rocky, we’ve got all the bases covered.
Ever felt like an idiot while scouring Google or asking Siri for answers you believe you should know? Well, we’re cracking that nut wide open. We delve into the merits and downsides of relying on technology for answers versus having the information at our fingertips. As we discuss this interesting conundrum, feel free to reach out to us with your thoughts or questions. After all, not all wisdom comes from Google. Sometimes, it takes a good old conversation to enlighten us. Tune in and join us in this journey of discovery and fun!
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Steve Doyle:
Brad Herda:
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::[Brad Herda]: Welcome back to Blue Collar BS
with Brad and Steve. I am Brad.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Hey and I'm Steve!
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::[Brad Herda]: All right. This has been a diversion
for us to be able for Steve and I to get back
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::[Brad Herda]: into conversations and get into
some other things between our guest episodes.
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::[Brad Herda]: And so Steve, what do you got
for us today to entertain our listening audience?
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::[Steve Doyle]: All right, so today, one of my
clients actually hooked me up with a gift,
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::[Steve Doyle]: and that gift was a board game.
It's kind
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::[Brad Herda]: Oh
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::[Steve Doyle]: of
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::[Brad Herda]: good.
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::[Steve Doyle]: like...
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::[Brad Herda]: I wasn't sure where that was gonna
go so I'm
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah,
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::[Brad Herda]: glad.
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::[Steve Doyle]: exactly, right? I mean, some
of my clients, we... Yeah, well, anyways. Anyways,
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::[Steve Doyle]: we're gonna keep this on the
PC side. So, excuse me, I was gifted with a
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::[Steve Doyle]: board game called Mind the Gap.
And what it is, is it's a trivial game, or
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::[Steve Doyle]: a trivia game. for the generation.
So it
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::[Brad Herda]: Might
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::[Steve Doyle]: covers,
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::[Brad Herda]: be true.
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::[Steve Doyle]: yeah, right? So it covers the
generations that we talk about on the show,
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::[Steve Doyle]: the Boomers, the Ginex, Millennials,
and Gen Zs. So, you know, I thought, hey, let's
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::[Steve Doyle]: kind of challenge each other,
AKA I'll challenge Brad to see what generation
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::[Steve Doyle]: does this Boomer actually in?
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::[Brad Herda]: Hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm not in
that generation. I might know a lot about that
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::[Brad Herda]: generation, but I'm not in that
generation, you millennial.
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::[Steve Doyle]: No. So we're kind of going to
play a little game with stuff today, just around
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::[Steve Doyle]: some pop culture things.
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::[Brad Herda]: Oh, great. Pop culture.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Pop culture.
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::[Brad Herda]: Not my
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::[Steve Doyle]: So
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::[Brad Herda]: strong.
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::[Steve Doyle]: yeah, we're just going to kind
of go here with some topics. So we've got five
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::[Steve Doyle]: topics across the generations.
So we've got several questions we're going
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::[Steve Doyle]: to ask you, Brad.
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::[Brad Herda]: Okay.
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::[Steve Doyle]: So. We're going to cover some
questions in TV and film.
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::[Brad Herda]: Alright.
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::[Steve Doyle]: We're going to cover pop culture,
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::[Brad Herda]: Okay.
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::[Steve Doyle]: music.
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::[Brad Herda]: Pop culture. There's a song called
Pop Culture.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah, there is a song. I wouldn't
know it. I'm not that old. All
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::[Brad Herda]: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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::[Steve Doyle]: right, then we're going to talk
some unique headlines that have happened. And
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::[Steve Doyle]: then we're going to follow up
with slang.
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::[Brad Herda]: Oh good.
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::[Steve Doyle]: thing. So. I'm going to go ahead
and turn this off. I'm going to
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::[Brad Herda]: WTF
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::[Steve Doyle]: go ahead and
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::[Brad Herda]: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. It's
about as far as mine goes.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah, so, you know. But, so,
of those categories, Brad, where do you wanna
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::[Steve Doyle]: start with first?
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::[Brad Herda]: Let's start with I'll take TV
for 200 Steve.
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::[Steve Doyle]: TV for $200. Alright.
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::[Brad Herda]: Fill the CD for 200.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Alright, so the first question
we got for you.
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::[Brad Herda]: Are you gonna tell me what generation
it's from at least so I get an
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::[Steve Doyle]: No,
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::[Brad Herda]: idea? No?
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::[Steve Doyle]: no,
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::[Brad Herda]: We're
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::[Steve Doyle]: no,
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::[Brad Herda]: gonna play random, okay?
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::[Steve Doyle]: random, random generator, all
right? All right, so what did the letters in
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::[Steve Doyle]: Wall-E name represent? Bra-l-l,
bra-l-l.
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::[Brad Herda]: It wasn't very bizarre. It was
not necessarily one of my favorites. Something
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::[Brad Herda]: something e-waste something waste.
I don't know. I don't remember.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Okay.
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::[Brad Herda]: I
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::[Steve Doyle]: All
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::[Brad Herda]: don't know what it's good for
but I thought it was waste
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::[Steve Doyle]: right.
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::[Brad Herda]: and energy or something.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Okay, well, I mean, you got one
word right. We'll sort of kind of give it to
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::[Steve Doyle]: you. So it's waste allocation
load lifter, earth.
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::[Brad Herda]: Gotcha.
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::[Steve Doyle]: So that is what WALL-E stands
for. All right, so the next.
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::[Brad Herda]: So that would have been Gen Z,
correct?
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::[Steve Doyle]: That would have been Gen Z, yes,
correct. All right, so we'll kind of keep with
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::[Steve Doyle]: TV and film here, but next generation,
won't tell you which one this is. So what sports
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::[Steve Doyle]: movie set in Philadelphia won
Best Picture Academy Award in:85
::[Brad Herda]: Philadelphia. Yeah.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah.
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::[Brad Herda]: What picture of Philadelphia?
Not Bull Durham. I'm not sure.
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::[Steve Doyle]: What sports movie set in Philadelphia
won the Best Picture Academy Award?
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::[Brad Herda]: Longest yard?
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::[Steve Doyle]: I'm done. I'm done.
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::[Brad Herda]: I don't know where the prison
was.
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::[Steve Doyle]: No, no, that movie was made way
after:93
::[Brad Herda]: No, no, the original one wasn't,
because that was Burt Reynolds.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Oh my god, now you're dating
yourself? Well, you definitely don't fit into
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::[Steve Doyle]: this category because it was
rocky.
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::[Brad Herda]: Okay, Philadelphia Rocky, okay.
I wasn't
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::[Steve Doyle]: All
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::[Brad Herda]: a big Rocky
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::[Brad Herda]: fan
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::[Steve Doyle]: All right. So what celebrity
anel game show debuted in the:102
::[Steve Doyle]: people attempting to determine
which contestant story was authentic and who
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::[Steve Doyle]: was lying?
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::[Brad Herda]: Oh, whose line any whose line
is it anyway or whose whose line is it or something
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::[Brad Herda]: like that?
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::[Steve Doyle]: Was that made in the 50s?
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::[Brad Herda]: Did that, what, is that what the
card said?
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah, it says debuted in the
50s.
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::[Brad Herda]: Is it whose
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::[Steve Doyle]: I mean, you
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::[Brad Herda]: line?
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::[Steve Doyle]: were around then. You should
know.
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::[Brad Herda]: Is it whose line is it? What is
it?
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::[Steve Doyle]: It's called To Tell the Truth.
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::[Brad Herda]: Tell the truth. Gotcha.
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::[Steve Doyle]: I mean, so far you're fitting
in with Gen Z's. I don't, I mean, what's going
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::[Steve Doyle]: on here? What's going on here?
All
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::[Brad Herda]: That's
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::[Steve Doyle]: right,
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::[Brad Herda]: maybe
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::[Steve Doyle]: so
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::[Brad Herda]: why
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::[Steve Doyle]: you,
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::[Brad Herda]: I'm really good service to my
clients at times, you know,
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::[Steve Doyle]: right?
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::[Brad Herda]: I understand.
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::[Steve Doyle]: So if there was, right, so the
last one here. So if only there had been more
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::[Steve Doyle]: room on the floating door, this
movie's lead character could have been saved.
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::[Brad Herda]: Titanic.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Man,
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::[Brad Herda]: Never saw that
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::[Steve Doyle]: that's
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::[Brad Herda]: movie,
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::[Steve Doyle]: it.
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::[Brad Herda]: but worst movie ever, probably
was whatever. Never saw
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::[Steve Doyle]: All right.
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::[Brad Herda]: it, never watched it.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Wow. So,
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::[Brad Herda]: That's
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::[Steve Doyle]: so
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::[Brad Herda]: a millennial
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::[Steve Doyle]: you're really,
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::[Brad Herda]: movie. That was a
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::[Steve Doyle]: that
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::[Brad Herda]: millennial
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::[Steve Doyle]: is
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::[Brad Herda]: movie,
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::[Steve Doyle]: a millennial
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::[Brad Herda]: right?
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::[Steve Doyle]: movie. Yeah. Man, you're, you're
jamming the millennials here. All right.
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::[Brad Herda]: See, I'm
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::[Steve Doyle]: All
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::[Brad Herda]: younger
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::[Steve Doyle]: right.
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::[Brad Herda]: than you think.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Right. All right. So which, which
other category you want? Let's pick two more.
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::[Brad Herda]: Oh, let's go with what the hell
I think I think we'll go with slang. We'll
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::[Brad Herda]: see what that
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yes!
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::[Brad Herda]: can do.
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::[Steve Doyle]: All right. So, slang for 100.
What did Wayne and Garth encourage people to
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::[Steve Doyle]: do?
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::[Brad Herda]: Yeah.
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::[Brad Herda]: YAH!
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::[Steve Doyle]: Alright, awesome.
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::[Brad Herda]: was Gen X right?
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::[Steve Doyle]: That is Gen X.
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::[Brad Herda]: All right, good. I remember some
of my own stuff.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Alright, so what did the acronym
TLDR mean?
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::[Brad Herda]: TLDR.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Uh-uh.
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::[Brad Herda]: I have no
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::[Steve Doyle]: Too long
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::[Brad Herda]: idea.
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::[Steve Doyle]: didn't read, too long didn't
read.
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::[Brad Herda]: Ah, okay.
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::[Steve Doyle]: I'm using it,
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::[Brad Herda]: I like that. I
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::[Steve Doyle]: right?
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::[Brad Herda]: like that. I should use that back
to my wife when she sends me some...
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::[Steve Doyle]: No
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::[Brad Herda]: ..examples.
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::[Brad Herda]: She's not a listener to the show,
so I can say that.
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::[Steve Doyle]: You can say
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::[Brad Herda]: I should probably take a note
on that. TLDR,
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::[Steve Doyle]: that,
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::[Brad Herda]: okay.
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::[Steve Doyle]: all right. We should... ELDR,
yeah, absolutely. All right, so what exactly
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::[Steve Doyle]: was a mirror warmer?
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::[Brad Herda]: What?
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::[Steve Doyle]: What? Hahahaha Yeah!
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::[Brad Herda]: A mirror warmer?
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::[Brad Herda]: This
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::[Steve Doyle]: I'm
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::[Brad Herda]: has got
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::[Steve Doyle]: sorry.
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::[Brad Herda]: to be your generation, that millennial
generation. Cause I have no... TLDR was Gen
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::[Brad Herda]: Z, I'm assuming.
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::[Steve Doyle]: No, it was not. That was millennial.
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::[Brad Herda]: That was millennial. Mere warmer.
This is boomer category. Mere warm.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah, Mirror Warmer.
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::[Brad Herda]: Slang, mirror warmer, slang. Mustache.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Nope, someone who spends too
much time standing in front of the mirror.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah, I mean they were pretty
lame.
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::[Brad Herda]: I've not ever heard that one.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Oh.
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::[Brad Herda]: We got the last one here.
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::[Steve Doyle]: All right, so the last one is,
name the term for pretending on the internet
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::[Steve Doyle]: to be someone or something you're
not, to gain
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::[Brad Herda]: That's
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::[Steve Doyle]: friends'
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::[Brad Herda]: it.
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::[Steve Doyle]: attention. Yeah. Wow, you're
really nailing this Gen Z category here. Man,
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::[Steve Doyle]: huh?
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::[Brad Herda]: So understanding generations allow
you to become a much better leader at times,
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::[Steve Doyle]: Absolutely,
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::[Brad Herda]: right?
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::[Steve Doyle]: more relatable to them. Make
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::[Brad Herda]: And you
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::[Steve Doyle]: connections
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::[Brad Herda]: can.
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::[Steve Doyle]: quicker. All right, last category.
Let's pick one here. You got pop culture, music,
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::[Steve Doyle]: and headlines left.
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::[Brad Herda]: Go with headlines. Let's go with
headlines.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Headlines, all right.
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::[Brad Herda]: I like history.
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::[Steve Doyle]: All right, you like history.
Perfect. So between:228
::[Steve Doyle]: NBA seasons, this team combined
for three championships, due in part to the
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::[Steve Doyle]: Splash Brothers. Name them.
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::[Brad Herda]: Flash Brothers.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Name the Splash Brothers.
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::[Brad Herda]: I have no idea, cause I'm not
an NBA guy.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Oh, sorry Stephen Curry and Klay
Thompson.
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::[Brad Herda]: Nope, not an
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::[Steve Doyle]: Alright.
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::[Brad Herda]: NBA player. Sorry, man. Wouldn't
have guessed that.
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::[Steve Doyle]: All right, so in 2008, what market
collapsed, contributing significantly to the
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::[Steve Doyle]: Great Recession?
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::[Brad Herda]: the financial markets
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::[Steve Doyle]: OOOH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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::[Brad Herda]: that was the fact well it was
the financial markets that caused the housing
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::[Brad Herda]: market to crash
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::[Steve Doyle]: Well,
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::[Brad Herda]: let's
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::[Steve Doyle]: there's
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::[Brad Herda]: be
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::[Steve Doyle]: that.
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::[Brad Herda]: at see let's see we're getting
the revisionist history and other things right
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::[Brad Herda]: it was the financial
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::[Steve Doyle]: Oh, I thought we were getting
into politics. Ha ha ha ha
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::[Brad Herda]: I
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::[Steve Doyle]: ha
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::[Brad Herda]: know
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::[Steve Doyle]: ha ha.
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::[Brad Herda]: well but let's it wasn't the housing
crash that caused that it was the financial
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::[Brad Herda]: aspect that caused the housing
crash this is a
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::[Steve Doyle]: Correct.
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::[Brad Herda]: this is a you know
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::[Steve Doyle]: Uh-huh.
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::[Brad Herda]: symptom or cause scenario.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Right?
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::[Brad Herda]: In fact, I just had this conversation
with somebody last week about you know they're
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::[Brad Herda]: concerned over what's happening
now in:264
::[Brad Herda]: again and like yeah, you used
to be able to breathe on a piece of paper get
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::[Brad Herda]: a $500,000 loan not happening
anymore,
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::[Steve Doyle]: No
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::[Brad Herda]: right?
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::[Steve Doyle]: more. Nope.
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::[Brad Herda]: So all right, what's next?
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::[Steve Doyle]: All right, next question. So
in:271
::[Steve Doyle]: members Ronnie Van Zandt and
Steve Gaines?
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::[Brad Herda]: man that wasn't the crash I was
thinking of I don't remember what Ronnie Vansant
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::[Brad Herda]: was part of as soon as you say
it I'm gonna know but
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::[Steve Doyle]: Oh yeah, you will know.
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::[Brad Herda]: I don't know.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Leonard Skinnerd.
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::[Brad Herda]: Okay. Yeah, I know that band.
I know the name. I know the songs.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yep.
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::[Brad Herda]: Don't know the members.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yep, all right, so last question.
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::[Brad Herda]: I'm just I'm just a bad, bad person,
apparently.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah, apparently. I mean, you're
only relatable to the younger generation, so
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::[Steve Doyle]: you just can't relate to those
old guys.
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::[Brad Herda]: Yeah.
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::[Steve Doyle]: All right, last question. What
British female was featured on the cover of
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::[Steve Doyle]: Vogue in 1967, heralding her
apparel, or rival, as one of the first international
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::[Steve Doyle]: supermodels in the face of the
modern era?
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::[Brad Herda]: British.
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::[Steve Doyle]: What
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::[Brad Herda]: home.
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::[Steve Doyle]: British female was featured on
the cover of Vogue?
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::[Brad Herda]: It wasn't Marilyn because she
was born in the U.S. You said what year, 57?
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::[Brad Herda]: 67.
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::[Brad Herda]: Raquel.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Twiggy!
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::[Brad Herda]: Wait, what?
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::[Steve Doyle]: Twiggy! Hey, I don't know, I'm
definitely not in that category. I'm not
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::[Brad Herda]: Wow.
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::[Steve Doyle]: a boober.
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::[Brad Herda]: Okay. Wow.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah.
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::[Brad Herda]: All right.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah.
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::[Brad Herda]: This just goes to show you that
it's very, I'm trying to understand where people
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::[Brad Herda]: have come from to have their reference
points is very important, right?
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah, absolutely.
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::[Brad Herda]: And it might be because I relate
to those, cause my kids are Gen Z. So I had
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::[Brad Herda]: to live through some of those
things and explain it and make those things
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::[Brad Herda]: happen. Versus, you know, when
I probably worked, probably had more awareness
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::[Brad Herda]: of what was going on, you know,
for those older than me, cause when I was working,
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::[Brad Herda]: with them more side by side to
catch those references and that history and
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::[Steve Doyle]: Right. Absolutely. So, you know,
I totally would actually encourage people to
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::[Steve Doyle]: check out this game called The
Mind Gap, and bring it into the workplace and
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::[Steve Doyle]: start conversations by playing
this game. Because clearly you can see just
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::[Steve Doyle]: by, you know, some of the sample
questions we've read here, you know, it shows
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::[Steve Doyle]: how we can actually change and
be more relatable to our target audience because
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::[Steve Doyle]: we are trying to hire younger
generation into our workforce.
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::[Brad Herda]: And I think it's also important
that the older generations, the, the X, even
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::[Brad Herda]: some of the boomers or the older
millennial group like yourself, um, find some
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::[Brad Herda]: of those, some of those younger
employees to help with those things, to stay
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::[Brad Herda]: current, you be part of that,
to have conversations, to talk about what you
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::[Brad Herda]: do on the weekend versus not,
um, you know, what do you do today for, for
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::[Brad Herda]: fun versus what you used to do
for the day, right? When you used to be able
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::[Brad Herda]: to
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah,
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::[Brad Herda]: go.
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::[Steve Doyle]: absolutely.
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::[Brad Herda]: You went to the garage and you
worked on your car all weekend and then you
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::[Brad Herda]: went to the to the movie theater
drive-in Well, that's
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::[Brad Herda]: not that's not happening today.
There's no reference point for kids today to
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::[Brad Herda]: know that by the same token The
boomer has no reference point for Being and
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::[Brad Herda]: playing, you know Minecraft all
day all night Ten right. So it's just a gap
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::[Brad Herda]: that's there as to what's going
on
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::[Steve Doyle]: Mm-hmm, absolutely.
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::[Brad Herda]: Well, you've made me feel completely
insecure of my knowledge there, Mr. Doyle.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yeah! Mission
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::[Brad Herda]: Yeah,
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::[Steve Doyle]: accomplished!
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::[Brad Herda]: it proves that Google is important
or Siri is important to go find out information.
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::[Brad Herda]: So
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::[Steve Doyle]: Yep.
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::[Brad Herda]: you know, as you take this into
your office and you put those challenges together,
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::[Brad Herda]: how many people know the answers
off their head from wisdom versus going to
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::[Brad Herda]: get the answer for knowledge?
And that's the difference here.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Absolutely.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Absolutely.
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::[Brad Herda]: alright. Thanks for making me
feel like a complete idiot. I appreciate
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::[Steve Doyle]: Thanks,
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::[Brad Herda]: it.
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::[Steve Doyle]: no problem, that's what I'm here
for, that's what we do.
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::[Brad Herda]: All right, we will talk to you
soon. Thanks, bye.
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::[Steve Doyle]: Alright, sounds great, thanks
Brad.