Season 3 in Review (Episode 33)

[00:00:00] That's right, that's a big one. Welcome back folks, its about your paycheck, Episode 33, The End of Season 3. We talk about season in review, but before we get that far as always. How you doing sir?

[00:00:32] Man, I'm good. I'm good. Happy July 14th to you man, and I'm good over here man. How about you? What's going on? Well, um We're in different stages of getting sick and getting better up in my house

[00:00:46] So just trying to take care of fam get better when the party hard and we now we're like we went away for a fourth of July and looks like We just brought some sickness back with us. We're hanging in there man. It's all good

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[00:02:21] Just yeah, so what's goodie man? What's what's new? What's been peaking your interest out there in the world today? Man on current events about man. It's been crazy. There's a lot of stuff that's been going on recently here in the news and

[00:02:34] In current events man, Trump. I don't know if you heard what happened. I have not I saw like a clip and I was What? Yeah assassination attempt, man. I guess I shouldn't be I shouldn't be saying that with a smile. No, that's horrible

[00:02:47] Yeah, assassination attempt on on him and there's a picture of him was just bleeding from his ear They're saying that will it graze his ear? Oh dang Yeah, and there was another person who was killed And some other people were injured All over no way

[00:03:03] Yeah, so yeah, oh Over the news man and some people out there are saying that it was staged Yeah, I don't think that somebody died in a stage the temple in the stage Me personally whether you're for

[00:03:18] Whether you lean left middle whatever non political whatever you are like at the end of the day I I take a serious business and something that shouldn't be Joked about when it comes to somebody's life. You know, not at all. Yeah, I'm saying not at all

[00:03:32] Yes, that's not cool. Damn. I had no idea Yeah, what about you anything that's just peaked your interest outside of that? Maybe that's not so dark Unfortunately, I acted actress died this morning that we all love shanondordy

[00:03:46] Oh, not until we know fortunately. Yeah, we see she yeah, she's famously known as you know to 1o, but she's also from charmed We're charmed family And he is Oh, yeah, my wife. He told me she was suffering from cancer though

[00:04:01] Yeah, I know that I've seen that as she's been in and out of hospitals and in out of treatment That I don't like the city is and stuff like that for majority of her career And then she had some drama with some of the other girls from

[00:04:13] Charmed and stuff like that. Yeah, she ended up leaving the show and got replaced and stuff like that But yeah, uh, actually and that's crazy because

[00:04:21] Also Richard Simmons not to be dark and gloom. Well, that's what's in the news around unfortunately when they say death comes in threes, right? Yeah, uh Richard Simmons. I don't know if you old enough to remember Richard Simmons. Yeah passed away

[00:04:33] So r.i.p. Man to the folks out there man. Yeah, man. That's that sucks out to their families, man Yep I've been missing out on news. I just been watching a lot of

[00:04:43] Movies and tv and stuff or not. I was just trying to catch up on work But you watch anything recently that you like No, I just been I'm finishing up mayor kingstown. I'm about oh, that's right

[00:04:56] Okay, the new sea you finish the new season. Yeah, I'm on season seven. It just season three episode seven That ain't that okay. Yeah, it just dropped here recently. So just watching that

[00:05:08] I gotta give it a shot again. Remember I tried it once before because it's the same writer From yellowstone Tyler or something And so I was like, oh, I have to give it a try because yellowstone is great

[00:05:22] The other shows that the other dude is what's his name? yellow stone creator Tyler Taylor Sheridan Taylor Sheridan. Okay, I had to give it a shot But it was slow the first even just now I tried again and I didn't get out of the first episode

[00:05:43] See see that's the thing It happened to me two or three times before too as well I just sit down and watch it only get through the first episode start

[00:05:53] And I start to begin another second one, but I promise you if you make the time and kind of just See it through. Yeah, I'm telling you by the by the third episode

[00:06:02] You're just gonna be like this the actions just gonna keep going and then it just continues on in season two Continues on the season three. It's just yeah, bro

[00:06:10] Okay, no doubt. I'm gonna give it a shot what I did see recently two things actually divorced in the black Tyler Perry I know you say you gotta Well, how come you don't like Tyler Perry movies? No, because none of them

[00:06:24] None of them like when they were like when I was when I watched the first couple of ones like sure Yes, I like some of them and stuff like that, but it's just the drama. It's always the same thing somebody

[00:06:34] Cheating somebody doing this some drama some this or something like that. It's just I don't think give it a shot if you get bored give it a shot because I Feel I get what you're saying. He does

[00:06:48] But see the good thing about Tyler Perry is that I feel like he captures the Culture well, whether you like it or not because this one was a little uncomfortable Because he catches. Yeah, no, he made it really uncomfortable to watch. Oh gosh, but Yeah

[00:07:08] Give us a but again, you know me I'm easily entertained me and walk go back and forth with this because he's like Oh, you think this is good or not? And I'm like my I even tell my son this all the time too. He's all this was trash

[00:07:20] He'll say something was bad or whatever and I'm like, ah, it's entertaining enough You know what I mean? So it's hard for me, but I'm telling you give it a shot. You're gonna be like, oh snap

[00:07:31] I think he I think he's getting better at telling stories. That's what I that's what I'm gonna say I that's what I'm gonna say. I think he's getting better

[00:07:39] So I will say that the last it ended for me because I just kept seeing medias this medias that medias Oh, yeah, no If you're not a media fan, you can't watch it Right and you gotta like and even that you're right because he kind of does

[00:07:53] It's that gets repetitive, but this one is nothing with medias. No medias in this movie But it is it said in Atlanta, right? It has that the southern experience I lived in the south so I get it. I get it. I can connect with it

[00:08:08] Still live in the south, sir Oh Yeah, but it's not the same south as funny you say that because when we first moved down here Wifey was expecting that south experience, but is south florida is not the south

[00:08:22] As we know south. Yes, geographically, it is the most southern part of the united states But You're talking about when you say south you mean like country south Country south like maybe like more georgia georgia is y'all Carolina south carolina area

[00:08:40] That type of southern where southern hospitality where that freeze comes from and you know That experience is The the tyla perry's movie south is that's not south florida Although I hear it is more northern florida. They are so I just talked to somebody

[00:08:59] With saying that their parts are northern florida Tampa's I don't I've been to Tampa. I don't know for you. Yeah. Yeah to me. Yeah, Tampa's more country than not What? Yeah, it's not there's a lot. There's a lot of evening too

[00:09:14] All over all right, but any who I thought that was interesting Yeah, so people give it a shot. Give it a shot, man um What else man? What's going on with you?

[00:09:27] Then in other news I had a I saw a story out there for those of you that use at and t Uh, there was an article out there by routers.com routers routers, thank you sir that um Over 100 million account customer accounts including text and call records from 2022

[00:09:52] Were illegally downloaded in april of this year 2024 so I guess it t&t had records of that stuff and so it was considered a significant data breach And they said that the breach involved the t&t call logs stored on a third party platform

[00:10:12] There we go again, right? It was the third parties. Yep, right It's always something like that like something from third party not doing or not doing something right So it said it led to the arrest of at least one individual Oh, damn

[00:10:26] Yeah, so I said it said it didn't include like any sensitive information um like social security numbers or anything like that, but okay Dead conversations could be some of the incriminating stuff and some text Oh, yep. Yep. That's right. You can try you can blackmail somebody

[00:10:44] Yeah, I wish you were dead Oh, no, that's yeah, no, that's that's threatening. Yeah, that's that's not good Yeah, that's it. Yeah, I said at t&t has since enhanced their Cyber security measures and they're cooperating with law enforcement fbi got involved. I believe

[00:11:02] Yeah, cyber security speleman. Yes. Cyber security is cyber attacks are real folks. We gotta try to protect ourselves I the one I found was And and keep in mind when I go look for these articles specifically For paycheck this show for it's about your paycheck

[00:11:23] I always start with employee because we try to talk to the employees We want to help employees get just a little bit more savvy about around their checks and and pay attention to it and cyber security keeps coming up because

[00:11:35] That's where attack hackers really go at they want our checks folks So you got to be careful like as payroll professionals. We have been we have seen employees Get hacked and re and their checks rerouted

[00:11:50] Okay, they're direct deposits rerouted first did folks we don't talk about this stuff another We are firsthand practitioners. We've seen this so imagine if we've seen one or two And there are millions of companies in the u.s. And in the world

[00:12:04] That's all they need is one or two a day Or one or two a week and they're making millions If not, what was it trillions the number is going to go into the 25 as far as the black market of it all so anyway

[00:12:18] I say that just to qualify folks like when i'm looking for articles. I have employees at mind I want to help I I recently I was just editing one of the shows and I heard myself say yeah, I like talking but I like teaching more

[00:12:31] I like to be helpful to give people nuggets to because I love getting nuggets I love oh man learning little things that are helpful, right? So I like sharing so any who this article it's out by the verge.com

[00:12:44] And they basically and they don't they basically talk about how one of these companies Oh gosh, let me now. I need the name because it's worth talking about here we go The verge and it's a company named steam Right and it's a gaming company though

[00:13:01] Is it a gaming? Yeah, it's a gaming company is a company out there The gaming company and what they're talking about with this gaming company is How little it's a privately held company. They're not publicly traded

[00:13:14] And but they boast in their internal documents about how much more profitable per employee They are then google and microsoft just to as an example because everybody knows google everybody owns microsoft This company i've never even heard of

[00:13:32] Valve that company's name is actually valve and it says valve is famously secretive company with an enormous influence on the gaming industry Particularly because it runs the massive pc gaming storefront steam s t e a m

[00:13:48] So right just to frame who they are and they compete against ea sports riot games all the all the big names, right? But they fly under the radar and one of the things that it brings another mysterious part to them Is that

[00:14:06] Their headcount is so low as it pertains to their gross revenue They only have 330 employees. They're around 350 to 400 employees. Let's call it 400 Whereas the microsoft and the googles of the world are in the thousands Right, but yet they make more per employee so my

[00:14:29] The what it peaked for me what it says to me is It's a question of it makes me ask a question right? Because you know how we always say oh pay me i'll do more if you pay me more then What's up?

[00:14:45] Just to let you know that microsoft as of june 30th 2023 employees drumroll Over 200 000 people Worldwide. Yeah, and this little 400 person company Has more profit per employee

[00:15:03] Now of course the sheer math of it all but means it means that their their their revenue is crazy, right? I think it uh about peaked with his games payroll spending so Their payroll spending in 2017 was 220 million and this is where a payroll

[00:15:21] Mind helps out figure out the math if they spent 220 million in payroll and we know as payroll professionals that Your payroll expense averages 40 to 50 percent of your gross revenue grossing at least 500 million dollars a year and it says specifically Games payroll spend they have three other departments

[00:15:45] So that's just in gaming and they talk about three other departments here So 500 million so they're in the billions probably in revenue per year at a 400 employee So this is great. Oh wow great news Again, not to bore people to death here

[00:16:02] But think about this because this is what I challenge you and this is this is where I challenge you to think about Because we as an employee We always i'll do more if you pay me more i'll do more if you pay me more

[00:16:14] I challenge you to think about what that how much more can you literally do? And how much more money with that warrant? right You do more because you have to sleep

[00:16:29] Yeah, right are you a person that right because i'm like it's just challenging that complaint of oh, wow Yeah, i'm not doing that. I don't get paid enough. What would be enough for you to do more? Yeah, right because because this company figured it out

[00:16:42] You know what i'm saying? Oh look there there is another note in here too That says that of those employees This is from 2021. There's a that says of those 350 300 400 employees yep just 41 just 41 employees Were paid a gross of more than 17 million Dang

[00:17:07] 10 10 15 percent. So think about that. It's how much of those were the higher earners How much was everybody else getting paid? if and if it's consistent then People are making everybody's making high six figures or mid six figures You know what i mean whatever they're doing

[00:17:31] Again it begs the question how much is enough? So if I multiply that 41 by 17 Right about them being in the billions just at 41 if each one of them made at least 17 million million that's 697 million There you go almost a billion dollars just in 41 employees

[00:17:54] So they're right the game. Yeah Exactly again, they only have 400 employees Again, it begs the question how much Will move the needle for you? How much do you need to actually move the needle on productivity or are you just talking smack?

[00:18:13] Or are you already at your capacity and you just talking smack because let's put your money where your mouth is I wish I could do that to to employees. Well, I do more if I get paid more

[00:18:21] How much more because then I'm ready to pay you more. What's up? How much more you gonna do for me? How much do you need because I bet you you're not ready to answer that question because if I thought about it

[00:18:31] I still need time to spend with my kids and my family Oh, yeah work life can't work 24 7 even if I no matter how much I love what I would do Yeah, right. Yeah, still I have family. I would I like to be with

[00:18:45] Right. So how much time do you need with them? How much time do you need to sleep? Yeah What are you what are you willing to sacrifice? We were just talking about this

[00:18:54] I don't know if I was my brother-in-law in Georgia. We're talking about what people are sacrificed to get to that next level What are you willing to sacrifice? What is it because these folks have figured it out They're like, look, I'm not hiring an army of people

[00:19:09] When all I gotta do is figure out what you need to crank out another few hours of work for me It might just be look a lot of time. Hey, I gotta help. I'm an active member of my household

[00:19:20] Right. We we've in my house. So we've redefined gender roles. So it's not oh, you cook you clean and I do this and I know This is this a new day folks. We have to split roles with the divide, right? It's a partnership

[00:19:32] Right. I got adult other adults in my house. Guess what you live here? You're an adult You're a child you an active member you have to contribute Okay So now I'm mentality. That's right. That's right. There's I tell them all the time you have to progress

[00:19:47] You want to be here in this house is progression You have to constantly be getting trying to trying to constantly be a better version of yourself Yep There's I haven't I don't know where that is

[00:19:59] But it is there is a better version of you every single day and that's what I'm looking for That's what I'm pushing for but but what it right? What is that magic number to me?

[00:20:09] That would make me want to give because I think about it. I'm not trying I don't want to sacrifice time that I spend with my family. I love spending my love cooking for the fam I love because look connect and barbecue

[00:20:23] Look some things are priceless too, right? There's no there's no amount of money that can qualify The value of those things you're you've spent in time with your with role for a little bit Is something a little bit different

[00:20:36] In terms of spending time with me as a friend, right? It's you value it But you spend the time with your daughter has a more significant value to you exactly. Yep, right Right. That's right. It's a bigger ROI Because that's my investment in her future Right, but still

[00:20:58] Having a beer with you watching the game is still something that of value to me that I wouldn't want to sacrifice for not all the money, but I just I just force us to think about that combat that reading this article really

[00:21:13] It's it sparked that question. Damn. How much is enough because something that I could What I would like is if you take away my cleaning burden in my house Yeah, that would be great You know what I'm saying

[00:21:29] Yes food prep exactly because I still like cooking so I would still want to cook Some days maybe maybe not all that maybe I leave my cooking to the weekend So maybe it's hey cover my meals

[00:21:40] Cover my cleaning all the time not just oh every now and then I'll send one a person to you know Regular cleaning covered then this is everybody's struggle laundry You do my laundry my cleaning my laundry, right?

[00:21:54] You prep my food so that I'm ready and if I want to cook it I can if not It's maybe there's a few options during the week or it's a big drag on Productivity believe it or not as counterproductive, but it's true when people worry about money

[00:22:08] Yeah, and they worry about their financial Right. So now hey, maybe I may give me a consolidation loan so I can clear off all my debt And I just pay my employer back Right because you can't you're not gonna find a good

[00:22:24] Consolidation loan pays every everybody's predatory when it comes to credit and Exactly, bro. Exactly 200% annual. Yeah, come on. You know what I mean? But shoot get charge me 5% and not the 25 percent that my credit card's charging me

[00:22:40] Well the 30 percent that this freaking loan home equity loan and the re renovation loan and come on now I like I'm right with this Yeah, because it because it makes it puts into focus so many different things, bro

[00:22:53] So many different things from the from us as a human standpoint. Yes, it's human then yeah the employee and even the employer How can I make this more attractive for maybe to your point like you just spoke about

[00:23:05] Maybe if I help my employee pay off their debt, they be more indebted to me Yep, they be more what's that committed or more to me as an employer because I hope to get your life together

[00:23:16] That's right. That's right. Absolutely. I would and I shoot I bet I would sign it and I'm sure most people would if hey I'll lend you all clear We'll work out a debt refinancing below clearer for your dad blah blah blah

[00:23:29] And if you either you stay with me for x amount of years so that I could get my return on investment But if you leave then it reverts to a little higher rate

[00:23:38] So that I'm making money and you got to pay us back still and you can leave I think I can't shackle you to this job But I am going to shackle to the repayment of this loan

[00:23:47] So it's either years of service or I'm going to charge you a competitive rate if you leave So shoot that great and it's funny because they're not funny but interesting because I talked to a leader recently and They were and you could tell how genuine

[00:24:07] And this leader's I don't know if the sentiment was about their employees being and them their employees being happy This leader literally wanted to was like I wish I could figure out a way to help my people buy their first home Wow

[00:24:25] Because it wasn't that they couldn't afford the mortgage But in a lot of the popular areas of the world post pandemic everything is expensive now Right and a million dollar home is no longer the anything that's common and But hey, I may be able to afford the mortgage

[00:24:43] But I can't afford the down payment on a million dollar loan on a million dollar home 700,000 dollar houses 800 that that's common in a in most of these expensive neighborhoods now So yeah, I can afford the mortgage But it's gonna take me five years to save up

[00:25:00] 100,000 dollars to buy the dag on house Yep So It's those things right? Yep. And and it makes me think this company crack the code It's like that company back in the day not back in the day

[00:25:12] It was like I don't but it was a long enough time ago the ceo paid everybody 70 grand a year even like Yes, yes, lowest level position David price. I know his last name was price and you remember his name

[00:25:24] What was like I need a new boss. I saw it. I was just like man, that is awesome That's awesome. And especially and it was hey no reflection on today's bosses because the article is old and the story is old but

[00:25:36] Like that type of mentality and again, the article just made me Really ask that question. How much do you need? Because then okay, let me go back to my example here So I need cooking. I need cooking help cleaning solve for debt consolidation like finance

[00:25:54] Reconfiguration right? I need some of that and then hey my wife would need to stay home Because if I'm working more My wife needs to stay home. So guess what you got to cover that salary that I'm missing. Yep So now

[00:26:08] We're talking a whole different story there bro. Look look Especially if the company is it's a win for the company Look, the company is going to be eating Just like valve or in this whatever company steam whatever it was and the employees can eat

[00:26:25] Somewhere it's a no-brainer. It's a win. It's a way you're we're guaranteed that you're going to be a multi-millionaire If you take this job Because think about it The math here is they said their gross per employee Is 15 million or profit per employee something whatever the ratio was

[00:26:44] 15 million per employee Yep You don't If yeah, here it is right here. Let me see when it file lawsuit Yeah per employee profit was around 15 million per year Even if that 15 million number isn't exactly right Valve and its public employee handbook says that their

[00:27:18] profitability per employer is higher than that of google or amazon or microsoft So think about that if each employee Represented a 15 million dollar profit You could easily pay That employee a million dollars a year Keep doing what you're doing Because you represent

[00:27:46] 15 million dollars of profit for the company. So please keep doing what you're doing and think about that if It's to your point that payroll is like 40 50 percent of the company expenses. So how much is the company making? Exactly right

[00:28:02] So they can think think about it so for they could pay there if they paid every employee a million bucks And we already know that some of them makes Upwards of 15 million bucks That's only 400 million a year if everybody made a million Yeah

[00:28:18] You had a you had a billion a year If that with the not even with the yeah with the set with the 15 percent of the 41 employees at 15 million Each so that would you say that was 600 million? Yes, another 400 you had a billion a year

[00:28:35] And and in revenue you making two billion three billion dollars a year easy Yep When it's enough Right. This is leadership that understood how to leverage their people That's I guess my biggest that's another key takeaway here. This is leadership that understood how to incentivize

[00:28:56] And that is that's a tough cookie to crack Hey, we might have to edit this one out here, but I just went on there. I just went on their site What kind of jobs salary range now? This is just based salary that i'm seeing

[00:29:09] On val valve right so I went on it. See how much they would pay an accounting professional and the salary range is between 150k to 200k look at that That's just the base range. So you don't know what they pay in bonuses

[00:29:24] You don't know what type of incentive stocks options. They could have employee stock options You don't know what else because that's just base salary Because that's how you do it right you give them a good base, but then you incentivize the rest

[00:29:37] That's why I said they figured out how to incentivize Yes Right because that's a good base 150 to 200. That's a great base to start with Yes, you know what I mean? So Very interesting

[00:29:52] Things right and to talk about yeah. Thanks folks for entertaining us and listening to the convo I hope you took something away from it because how much is enough? What do you need? What's your number? What's your number my number?

[00:30:09] Probably be like a half. I'm a good 500k a year Yeah, you know what i'm saying like honestly where if I honestly If I had to say if it was to the point where I had to sacrifice some things for some

[00:30:21] Time with my family time with this just yeah, so I can build for the future. I would say That would be the minimum the minimum that's why I said modestly That's just a base for me. I'm talking other incentives too

[00:30:35] I want to be able to have remote options like our hybrids saying I still want to be able to have a good pto plan All those different things in place I think the bare minimum would be the same around that same number for me

[00:30:49] Yeah, take care of my mom's make sure my mom is good make sure the family's good Again, my wife that's wifey not working People people people have like half a mil is not a lot of money No, it's not It's not It really isn't not today Not today

[00:31:07] But yeah, yeah This is it's about here Yeah, man Yeah, let's get into it man. We look we are season three of this show Excited man. It really makes me think again what I started to think about what is it that we need to concentrate on delivering

[00:31:22] Right. Yeah, and I think we have to be more intentional about Yeah, we talk we've talked a lot about we look back at the season three And we I think we revisited our origin story and we're talking about a lot of topics important

[00:31:39] What should be important to employees we think Right, hopefully we dropped a lot of our lost tapes to a lot of up but still topics that were important to employees, right? So that's all I said Yep. Yep. Tell a good ones. What should we have

[00:31:56] Friends at work and code switching and how you speak at work working multiple jobs Multiple jobs. Yes. That was more recent to our memory. That was a good one Having comrades candy conversations mergers what you go through with your company mergers. So these are all relevant things

[00:32:14] But if it's about your paycheck Then I think we got to get back to a little bit about that initial Goal of how we said like we would teach folks What's relevant in their state as far as paycheck laws and things that are protected

[00:32:32] For instance, like some states you're not allowed to deduct tuition. I'm not tuition What's the word? I'm looking for uniform expense Right, some states don't allow you to do that because they're like no you need this person to work

[00:32:43] You got to give them a uniform. Yeah charge this person. You're forcing them for the uniform Yes, deductions in general are important like there's something in general There's some states that if your employer makes the mistake and overpays you

[00:32:58] Yep, they just can't automatically go in and pull it back Adjust your check. That's right. That's right. That's right. And that's a big one Listen repeat that again. What do you just say again, please?

[00:33:11] There are some states if the employer makes the mistake and overpays you and it's not a fault of your own They cannot go in legally. They cannot go in and adjust or reduce your check

[00:33:25] Just without letting you know or even if they let you know you have the right to refuse to pay that back That's right. They need your permission and they need your written permission

[00:33:34] So let's try remember that 36 minutes because that should be the sound bite you start with this episode You know what I mean for real That's a that's a great nugget for us and little it's things like that that that's the things that we need to

[00:33:48] Even if we only drop one per episode Hey, this is what you're good to your one takeaway from this episode is You have rights as far as deductions in your paycheck But you can't your employee can't just bully. Oh, I'm taking that back

[00:34:03] No, the hell you not look here. Honestly, I know we have three different questions here But you actually touched on the first three All in that one little segment here just that five minutes two minute segment that you just hey what we would like to revisit

[00:34:19] What what you just said about the employees like Being more targeted in what we're saying like those targeted topics You know, like what do what do you wish we touched on more the same thing? Hey

[00:34:31] Being more targeted on that stuff like speaking to the employees about educating them on that stuff and doing it in a way that is also Captivating to them and entertaining to them so they can have fun while they're learning

[00:34:44] Yep. Yeah, a lot of people don't want to sit and just be in class and just being class. Yeah Yeah, that's right. That's right Is the edutainment piece of it? Yeah, um, yeah, no you're right. I'm looking at the questions now one cup but look that's

[00:35:02] It that's exactly right We need to be more intentional about giving folks those nuggets and that's the homework right prepping for this show should be about What's that one thing I want an employee to learn

[00:35:13] About their paycheck the one thing we could because we could talk about me you could talk about anything forever right We sit here talk about tally perry movies for the rest of the show easy Football's coming. We're gonna be talking about football a lot, right? Yeah

[00:35:27] It's that one thing that we want folks to learn about their paycheck And that's what I want to take away from all of this. You're right. What stood out for us

[00:35:36] What would we like to revisit? What do we wish that we want to touch on more? What's next? We covered it just right there. What's next? Giving you giving the listeners that one little nugget about their paycheck. They did it. They may not have known

[00:35:51] Yep, and then we worked our way in gold. You know what I mean? Yeah Yeah That was short and sweet man. Oh sweet. Yeah. What are you so we had a little question Oh, yeah, that's great. This or that

[00:36:04] So but this time brine and I haven't really done it So I got three questions. Well, I don't have I don't have any this or that But go ahead if you got one for you got something for me. I got something for you. So

[00:36:13] Okay, it's so good. I like it. Go for it. All right. I got three questions first. Go for it. Rosie Perez Or jello Oh tough Oh, you sucker They both ported reekin from new york. So that's that's uh, I rep my boric was my new yorekins

[00:36:32] But it okay. It's an easy one for me there because I've been a jello fan Okay forever. I watch anything she makes wifey be like, yo, this is trash and I'm like, I don't care She just had a new one god forget the name of it

[00:36:48] I haven't finished it yet, but I've watched it is so she dropped a new one on netflix And I was like whatever because she does no wrong to me Okay, but go ahead. I was for sure that you were gonna say rosy Perez, but

[00:36:59] You surprised you made it tough. I got mad love for rosy Perez, but it's jello or rosy Perez. No jello all day Okay next one Eli Manning Or Phil Sims Dang bro, you went in bro

[00:37:20] All right, I have an answer though. Yeah, it's Eli Manning for me because Okay, only because I saw him First of all we beat Tom Brady Yes One of the greatest

[00:37:36] Teens in all sports right hands down and all the greatest athletes in all of course did it twice Yep. Look i'm getting the chills So I saw that Phil Sims was definitely a part of my childhood and my Why I fell in love with the giants

[00:37:52] But Eli is why I stood in love with them Because he just he was that underdog that just stepped up when he had to Yeah, good one. Okay my last one. Oh man. All right. All right. Wu Tang Or

[00:38:08] Run DMC. I think that was a late moral lamp for you. No it isn't actually Okay, no it isn't dude Run DMC run the season queens right From hollas bro They were like in my backyard in hollas. Oh wow and it's funny because

[00:38:30] I saw I was just thinking of my Experience with hip-hop. I'm a I love hip-hop with my boy was nausea. Oh, he's not in this picture here But I have This is my 50th anniversary version of the Hennessy bot not 50 years of hip-hop Nauseas on this bottle, right?

[00:38:51] I had my hat to get my mom's to get it from me because it wasn't in south florida But it was in the liquor store right across from her house and flushing During 50 years of hip-hop like I am hip-hop, right? That's it's part of who I am and

[00:39:08] Okay, so this is a part of who you who you know, it's gotta be run DMC Oh It's hollas. It's queens is is hollas man. It's hollas queens and it's big both Oh, I could do both. Oh, that's right. So it's both It's both for that one. Yeah

[00:39:27] Because then Wu Tang became It's like the errors of it, right? It was like You tell me that you watch this the show too that documentary that they had Yeah Oh, not only the most recent and then there should be one more season coming out

[00:39:43] Not only that but when the reunion was it the reunion album? I don't know if it was calling reunion the double LP. I forget the name. I should be ashamed of myself. I forget the name Me and my boy took off of work that day

[00:39:58] When that album dropped We were at the store even this is back when cds were a thing streaming had not yet become a thing because that album dropped in the early 2000s

[00:40:10] And again, we took off the day of work. We planned the whole day and just listened to the album And was it there wasn't 36 chambers? No, 36 chambers is the first one Wu Tang forever Wu Tang forever. Yeah, they only dropped two albums together as like Wu Tang

[00:40:29] everything else is some Like Ray Kwan's album has all a Wu on it, but it's not a Wu album That's Ray Kwan's album, you know what I'm saying? That's part of the mystery and allure of Wu Tang Is that they really only dropped those two albums?

[00:40:45] There's another album out there That somebody sold like Ray Kwan Ray sold not Ray Kwan. Jizzah Rizza sold to auctioned it off at Sutherby's or some shit and one person bought it. Nobody else has heard it. There's a big controversy out there

[00:41:03] Go look at watch the documentary of mice and men or something of mics. I'm sorry of mics and men And they talk about how They kind of got tricked into doing that album They didn't realize. Yeah, they didn't realize what was going on

[00:41:19] When that when they were laying verses for it and just sending it to this producer Well, they didn't really get or they claim anyway that they didn't know What was happening with that album? And it's an album that's not on streaming

[00:41:33] It's the only the only people that have heard it are the people who made it and bought it or not even made it because they the Other Wu members said they don't even they didn't even hear it. That's the only other album

[00:41:44] That is like a Wu Tang album But there's a lot of controversy behind that one. So really is it is really only 36 chambers and Wu Tang forever That's really it. Those are the only two official albums

[00:41:57] And everything else is just collabs on other people's albums and things like that. That's part of the whole Allure Wu they have both for sure. Damn. Come on. I get you good. I gotta get you good. I wasn't expecting that

[00:42:10] I was like, you know what? Let me ask him some something. I looked up some stars You're from new york. Let me ask my boys some good questions I just want to come with some lazy stuff like exhales or google sheets

[00:42:20] I wanted to come up with something good that was going to cause you No, that yes, it's really good when you personalize them and do that. That's what so oh, thanks I'm mad. I don't I don't have anything for you but next time

[00:42:31] You got me next time. Heck yeah, I'm gonna get you next time I'm mad So for our safe talk question before we Exit here safe talk question Are american employees too distracted to focus on learning more about their pay

[00:42:54] So that's a really good question. I think we I think americans are too distracted period to focus anything about anything helpful I said it No, I agree with you All right We did it

[00:43:04] We did a show that we had some stat that we looked up about the attention span and how yes decreased Right How the eight seconds it used to be like almost yeah, I think 20 seconds and now eight seconds

[00:43:15] The attention span is a very shortening if you don't catch people's attention right away Think about it on tiktok how many videos I could speak for myself in videos you see somebody and they start talking You just click any scrolls in the next

[00:43:28] Yep, you're gonna watch the whole video. You're nice. You click like I don't even click like I don't click like I don't like Not on everything but the things that you like okay. This oh that looks like some good food

[00:43:39] I don't even watch them cook the whole thing just fair fair. I might yeah If the plate is nice, I might click like and keep going because I know how to make it I'm not on one of your recipes. I was nearly so so I agree with you

[00:43:51] We are very distracted. We are we are we are caught up so much social media Internet so we have so much more access To stuff like then 20 years ago Or access now then we did 10 years ago

[00:44:07] So many more apps so many more so many more capabilities out there for us as Content. Yes content. Yes What did they say there's too many shows to just stick to one show that like we're watching four shows at the same time

[00:44:23] Let's watch this and bounce over here and bounce that oh my god There's this new show coming out that I want to watch in this neck I argue with my daughter sometimes she'll be like, oh, let's watch this and then she's on her phone playing something

[00:44:33] And I'm like wait, are we watching or are we on our phone? What are we doing here? Yep, and you know what she's telling me I'm doing both Wow I'm doing both and that's where our that's the kid the kids right now. Oh my gosh their brains are

[00:44:49] They could definitely function at a faster level of things The media the content and all is it good or is it bad? bro, it might be I remember back in the day We didn't have all that the dial-up modems like you

[00:45:06] By the time you had to wait for the dial-up mode and to go through it's like, you know what I'm going outside I'm gonna throw something. Yep Dude, first of all, I'm from an era where Atari. Yes

[00:45:15] I did grow up with video games in a video game era, right? But my Atari was the when the ball was going back and forth with thing Yeah, thing Gallagher. Yep. Yep. That was my first game like our games were mad basic

[00:45:30] My cousin got a computer. She was like building a hot air balloon I remember it was so boring to watch her do this and I was like, I'm not This is whack. You got a computer. That computer's whack

[00:45:44] But I didn't know what I was looking at the game you had to play back then was dunky kong on Atari We had to jump over the little barrels and save the little princess and make it up the thing

[00:45:53] Yep, that's it. It was real basic stuff. And yeah, no, I was way more interested in going outside You know what I mean video games for me then was like rainy day Ain't nobody out yet

[00:46:06] You know, it was not a it was an alternative. It wasn't the preference My parents my parents didn't play that you can't you couldn't have it No, we had the video games come you couldn't sit there and play games all day in your room

[00:46:20] Exactly. I didn't want to I love being in the street You kidding me? I was when I was like 12 13 My brothers had to look all over town for me because I was on a bike somewhere. I'm serious. They used to get mad as hell

[00:46:31] My parents would be mad as hell. Go look for brian again He hasn't been home all day and they find me on the other side of town on my bike Oh my god Yep, yep. Yo, we doing over here road my Road we out

[00:46:46] Different lives man. This is like a different life. It is no it definitely is man. Definitely. So what do you think you agree? Oh Absolutely We're like not just americas. I think the whole world could could just distract me. Let's distract it

[00:47:00] Yeah, I don't know about the whole world. I feel like they're still parts of the world that are not as Underdeveloped Yeah a little underdeveloped so and anywhere in the world where they got a smartphone and that's normal Yeah, the distraction is real

[00:47:14] Yeah, because I think there's still parts of the world that either Don't want it or still appreciate other things But yeah Are americans are american employees too distracted to focus on learning more about their pay?

[00:47:27] I think american employees are too distracted a period to learn about anything meaningful It is serious and we have to be like It's it's intention. You got to be intentionally looking to learn about things and And look that's why we do the show

[00:47:44] Right, it's why we birth this show for sure. It's about payroll show That's that one's easy because we talk about payroll to payroll people You only listen to that show if you want to learn about if you're a payroll professional

[00:47:55] That does some hand in payroll and you want to learn more about your job. That's the show This is the show because a friend of ours of the show from it's about payroll jarrod hall Was like there's no employee education How do you do that?

[00:48:09] He challenged us right? He I took it as a challenge. He was like, how did we do that? And that's what birthed this show was like, dang, right man How do we do that? Because there is nothing out there like that if folks are scared

[00:48:21] I think a little bit but look It's good content, man. It's good and it'll catch on at some point. We'll continue to do it just like we did that show We'll continue to beat the drum and continue to stand on our soap box and our podcast mic

[00:48:36] And keep talking about things that are helpful And then we'll get there man. We'll get there as a country. But yeah, man Dope, bro. I agree man. Another good episode Another good episode ran way over the time of my thoughts

[00:48:51] We always like oh, it's gonna be quick. Don't worry. No, it's never quick No, we were there. It was the articles man. It was the news articles and stuff we talked about that Yeah, that's the intention attention yeah, yeah, yeah It's all good. Hey, we'll keep getting better

[00:49:09] And look if drink champs could be three hours long Our show could be an hour long It takes me days to listen to a drink champ episode bro Day, no, I know. Yeah, but they're killing it. They're killing it. I love them. I love them

[00:49:25] All right, man. Oh, I was gonna see this is how I was speaking of distraction TikTok got me on an app It's called podcast FM No, I'm sorry. Let me that's not what it is pocket FM

[00:49:41] Pocket FM and it's literally turned into audiobook. They hook you with a video on tiktok Right and it's some how we were just talking about all people love dramas. Uh, yeah Caught me with a scene bro. I was hooked for two days listen to this one show

[00:50:00] Yep, and they and I still haven't gotten through the one show because Somewhere in the hook Oh Now oh you've listened to your free trial version is over and you got to pay this money to keep going and I was like

[00:50:14] Oh, and I paid money. I pay got me for 10 bucks and I was like, all right And then it stopped again and was like you've exhausted your 10 bucks. I was like, what? Oh hell no at this rate

[00:50:24] I'll be broke by the end of the week. I was like, no, I'm good. Yeah, so I'll come back I got to see if they have a subscription version or do the trick with a free trial

[00:50:33] Sign up for a month and then cancel it so I could listen to this one show But that my point is how easily we get distracted And stuff like that man. Yep. No, you're right. But anyway, yeah All right, bro Thanks for the time

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