This episode is episode 103 in this relevant podcast, here in Orlando I'm your host Cameron

Langley from Loverland, Virginia, it's Jesse Kerry. Hello, hello from Nashville, Tennessee, our managing editor downtown Emily Brown. Hey, y'all and an L.A. Derek's out again today, so he gets the moniker artist producer mogul from social club misfits. It's Marty.

Remember that guys. No, no. You're still trying to find more like intro. I'm trying to find my thing. And that's not it. And try some different. Yeah, I need to find his intro. He's to find his

greeting. That's not it. I appreciate the workshop. And hey, I'm going to jump right in here because I have I have a situation that I want some feedback on because, you know, as Cameron knows, I'm I had a home situation. I'm still trying to, you know, get renovated. And I was looking at my wife went to a floor store. Okay. And even if you're not in the home renovation game, I think people can relate to be in this situation.

She goes to the floor store or Brian, like what we've landed on is like a vinyl type of material, long story short, that you can buy them at different level of thicknesses. And that thicknesses determines sort of the price of the square footage. Right. And so she's looking at a couple samples. The samples come in like four millimeter or like seven millimeter in this big price difference in between. So my wife asked the guy who she said was a pretty young guy. Can you tell me the primary benefits?

Of having the thicker one, which we're talking three millimeters here. And he said she said the guy without even flinching said, well, some people like the way the thicker one feels on their feet.

Which is very odd because I don't see how that would make it feel any different. And she and my wife goes, well, what do you mean? Like, how does it feel different? He goes, well, the thicker is warmer.

Okay. And so my wife says, how does that work? He goes, well, it's not as far from the ground. Just with a supreme confidence. Okay. And she's like, I'm sorry, but I still, so I'm paying the extra cost because it's going to keep my feet warmer walking on it because it's further from the ground. And she said, the guy just look right there. He goes, I'm sorry, that's not true. And I don't know why I said that's a good salesman right there. I love that.

Okay. So my wife is way nicer than me because I would have, oh, man, that would have been, that would have been the start of a very long conversation with this guy. So then she says then she asked the guy, she just ignores it and lets it go. She doesn't like awkwardness. I do. Okay. Like, she caught the guy just trying to wing it. And to be fair, the guy almost had her. She was like, I mean, I guess, but it doesn't really part across space. Anyway. And plus how does three millimeters hold in, you know, let extra heat

really, it makes no sense. So anyway, the guy would just totally making it up. So then she's like, well, what would you recommend for a home? And she described our home. And the guy goes, who? Well, you have any kids. And she's like, yeah, I have to. And again, we're trying to figure out where this is going here. Like, why is he? And he's like, how old are they? She's like, uh, they're 10 and seven. He goes, hmm, okay, 10 and seven. I mean, it's a lot of time at school. And then let me guess they spent

a lot of time in their bedrooms, which won't have this flooring, meaning it won't get as much wear and tear. She's like, no, there's never spent time in their rooms. They're in the living room all the time. Like, why would you just assume they're in the bedroom? She's like, well, I was going to recommend the thicker given the kid's situation. And she was like, you know what? I think I'm good without assistance here. Now let me ask you this, okay? Because this guy's out here trying to hustle. He's out here trying to sell floor. He's trying to upsell. He's trying to upsell to the thicker.

Even though he clearly has no idea what the benefits are or what the use cases for either of these flooring samples. All right. Do you appreciate this guy's hustle? Are you aghast by it? Because what she came by? I was like, I got to go and meet this guy. And I'm going to ask him all kinds of technical flooring questions. And he clearly is in no way equipped to answer just to see how casually he answers it. Because I appreciate the hustle. No, hearing that story. What does your guys take on this guy? He shouldn't be working there.

I do appreciate the hustle. I mean, who among us hasn't been in a situation where we had to lie and pretend like we were an expert on something.

Fake it till you make it. And he couldn't make it. And he owned up to that. So I got to respect that that he knows he's dead. His falling. Um, he definitely needs a new career though. Like this is not going to last long.

I disagree. Put him at Dunder Mifflin. Let him sell paper. Let him sell whatever. Like if I think it was just that his lie made no sense.

Like if he had just thought through some lies, that would like, and because honestly, I might have believed him. But I would have come home and be like,

we got to get the warmer one.

I can say so many things that honestly are straight up lies. But I say confidently, people believe me. That's the key.

He was, he was a human, he was a human version of an uninformed person on Twitter, stating like a passionate political opinion.

Well, you know, 67% of immigrants actually, you know what I mean? Like, you have zero idea what you're talking about.

He's my, he's my on Facebook telling everybody that Trump is still president right now and that the election 1977 six something.

I'm like, I'm like, no one's tracking you. You work at old, maybe, you know, like what's going on here with the, you know, that.

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