298: Dan McMurtrie—Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fryer
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This would be episode number 298 of the way I heard it. |
| 0:08.5 | And when I say would, what I mean is is. |
| 0:10.8 | Is. |
| 0:11.9 | It's happening, Chuck. |
| 0:15.1 | This is not some future prospect. |
| 0:17.0 | It's actually happening in real time. |
| 0:19.5 | Yes, indeed it is. |
| 0:20.6 | And if it had a title, and it does, it would be, and it is. |
| 0:28.2 | Out of the frying pan and into the friar. |
| 0:32.1 | Did you mean to say fire, Mike? |
| 0:33.9 | Nope, nope. |
| 0:34.7 | I meant to be incredibly clever while quoting our guest directly, who is a friend of |
| 0:41.1 | my name, Dan McMurtry. He says in the course of this fascinating interview, out of the frying |
| 0:47.5 | pan and into the friar. And what he's referring to is the chasm in his life, the giant career shift that happened when he abandoned his dream |
| 0:59.5 | to play Major League Baseball and decided instead to be an entrepreneur and then eventually |
| 1:05.9 | created a tool, which I want to talk to him about, that he believes, and now I believe, |
| 1:13.8 | can save the restaurant industry. |
| 1:16.6 | When we changed the format of the podcast, I thought for a while I wanted to change the name |
| 1:21.7 | and call it people you should know. |
| 1:23.9 | Right. |
| 1:24.3 | Because by and large, that's what most of our guests are. |
| 1:26.8 | And this is a guy who I know, who I want to introduce the world to, because if he pulls this off, Chuck, and you've met him. Chuck joined me for Thanksgiving dinner this year and a couple years, I guess, before that at this guy's place. He lives not too far from me here in Northern California. And you probably |
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