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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

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

History, Society & Culture

4.940.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Dan McMurtrie, a venture capitalist and lifelong entrepreneur, discusses how a fluke injury ended his promising baseball career and sent him on a mission to save mom-and-pop restaurateurs. 

Transcript

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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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