Ladies and gentlemen, people of the world, welcome to another episode of the TMG podcast.

Let's just start by saying, I'm very late today, and we should all thank Alec for being so

patient with my lateness. It is an unfortunate side effect of working with me sometimes.

I am on, I'm fundamentally in a different time zone. You're on island time. I am on island time fundamentally in a different time zone you're on island time I am

on island time I just remember that you know you came back this is back when like when you first met

and you said I did a sabbatical leadership retreat to margaritaville yeah and since then you kind of came

back and you had a lot of opinions about, like, parrot heads.

Oh, you know, I mean.

You know, a lot of opinions.

You kept saying, like, we got to keep them in the country.

When you rebuild sort of your inner character at a Margaritaville, because you have a lot to kind of look at and I don't ruminate on, it's all those colors and it's all those parrots and they start saying stuff back to you.

That's what people don't know about Margaritaville is they put parrots in there.

People shit on Margaritaville as some kitschy suburban, you know, touristy trap.

And it's not.

You know what it is?

You go in there, you get hammered, right? And you start saying the deeper parts

of what you really believe, the real you comes out. And what are you doing this in front of? Parrots.

Now, what do parrots do? Alex, I mean, you let them know. What do parrots do? So what

these parrots do specifically, it's similar to like a bohemian growth

at this leadership retreat. This is again from what you told me. I might be shot down by,

by Guy Fieri, if for speaking too deeply on this. No, no, no. I let the Clintons know you're good.

Okay, thank God. But it's similar to that where a lot of the elder members will wear their big parrot heads along with a large Osiris visor and they will

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