George Mahe & Matt Pauley- h4

0:00What if the thing you're listening to right now never got interrupted? What if it could play uninterrupted from room to room on sonos? What if you start with two sonos speakers just to see how it feels? What if you really like how it feels and you become a sonos person who can't stop saying to their friends, what if you start with two sonos speakers just to see how it feels? It's not magic, but it's not not magic. Shining like a work of art. Last four or six on Friday here on DGS Dave, as we mentioned, off today, back on Monday doing family weekend. I should say parents weekend in Lawrence Kansas at KU. The rest of us here, George Mayhem is normal Friday spot. What's up George? We'll tell you doing good, man. What a day. What a difference of day. DGS Scooter in. It was too cold to scoot. I was on it this morning and I just went, oh my gosh.

1:05It was 65. It was really quite nice. And I thought, you know, if this was 65 in February, I'd be in a t-shirt. And today I turned around and went back and got long sleeves and long pants. But yeah, you know, but it was kind of nasty and cloudy and windy. And now I'd get on it right now. Matter of fact, I think I will get on it when I leave. So that's funny. Yeah. I never thought that I want that phrase. It's too cold to scoot. I love that. Well, George is just telling me right before we went on the air wheels, he just landed a huge interview that I am very excited about. I did agree to do George's interview. No, it's really cool. No, I've always got stupid jokes. So yeah, Danny Meyer was in town last weekend to, it was really, certainly should feel proud because Danny Meyer hasn't put a book out in 20 years. He's only written one book and it was called Setting the Table. And this book became the Bible for restaurant industry people.

2:09It became required reading for everybody I know had to read this book and should have read this book. It was really, it was, you know, just a life-changing book for restaurant people. It was about hospitality and what he called Enlightened Hospitality and how people should be treated and it starts with him treating his employees the right way. You treat them the right way. They'll treat their customers the right way and then all of a sudden the community starts to warm up to you and then the community starts to love you. And anyway, that's this cycle that starts with what he called Enlightened Hospitality. So this was a big deal and Danny Meyer, you know, he was the former St. Louison that went to New York and introduced this hospitality to New Yorkers and said in my interview, I go, that just sounded like a jerk. Isn't this basically good old Midwestern friendliness? You know, empathy and decency and kindness and treating you how you want to be treated

3:10and you go, you're exactly right. That's all it is. It's like this revelation in New York. It was like, what, who is this guy? What's he talking about? So this book became a very, very big deal and his second book, he is written, he released it last weekend. Ahead of the national release was on Tuesday of this week, but he comes to St. Louis to release his book and I think that's very cool because he was also in town. I said, you're in town for something else. He goes, yeah, it was my reunion, high school reunion at John Burroughs, 50th reunion. I said, well, now I know how old you were and I don't have to ask you that question. So thank you very much. I can surmise in the end. So we started off with that and basically talked about his new book, which is about culture and how you scale culture and how important culture is for restaurants and throughout the book. I haven't read the whole thing, but tons of anecdotes and examples and his more of his

4:14mantras. Anyway, the guy is brilliant and he's the nicest guy in the world. You'd meet him and he'd be your best buddy instantly and he's not for as big a deal as he is. He's a super nice guy. He's not intimidating and everybody loves Danny Meyer and fortunately, I've known him for a while. I've interviewed him a couple of times and he took time out of his whirlwind weekend to talk with me. That's awesome. Did he come down to where you guys record arch eats or? Well, that's a good no. He didn't and you know what? I was just damn glad to have him agree to do it and I said, Danny, can I bring a camera? Is it okay? We were going to meet where he was staying. Oh, there you go. And I said, can I bring, he goes, I don't care. I bring everything you want. So I go, okay, I'm going to bring a camera and I'm thought, okay, I do like a two shot, whether it's just both of us in the same frame and I thought, no, I want to take two cameras. So I brought two cell phones, two tripods, set them up.

5:15Let me choose. You're getting some editing? Well, yeah, I mean, you know, so Danny comes and he goes, oh, he goes to care. I said, yeah, I said, but you know, I said, I got to tell you this, you know, I've never done this before. I said, and I'm using you, Danny Myers. Yeah. One better way to start. That's fine. And so we, you know, I pushed record and, you know, kind of set us up in our two things. Anyway, I've got somebody. We do have an editor who put these, who put these videos together and he did a really good job and it's up on Nessio Meg. There you go. Now, and it just went up this morning, about 32, 33 minutes. And we get into everything from, you know, different chapters in the book to, I wanted to ask him about things like AI and things like, you know, what, you know, what are you doing with influencers, Danny? You know, I really want to know because that's what everybody's question. It's a really good question. So we get into, you know, talking about his book, which is what he was here to talk about,

6:17but also some, you know, current hot buttons, which he doesn't hesitate. And you know, what everything he says, he's just one of these guys that he doesn't arm or, or say, you know, but everything that comes out of his mouth is really, really brilliant. I mean, he's, he's really a, he's a deep thinker and it comes out, you know, some of us like me, stutter and stammer and just try to get, get a sentence out. And he's just brilliant with everything he says. So I was just thankful that he was here and he was, you know, the end, it's like, yeah, I'm shake his hand. Thank you. He was not no, no, pain shake, no, tugs, hugs, hugs. Look at that. So the big, lover school. Yeah. It was just, it was great. And somebody said, how did it go? And I said, it was perfect. And then, you know, at that point, I flew out of town to go to boarding in Kansas City, came back Sunday morning for my grandson's chrysanthemum. So man, you've been busy. Yeah, it was a joy. It took me, but yeah, it's all Tuesday to recover. Yeah, that was one of the joys of my job is getting to do stuff like that. So I've everybody should listen to it because he's, he's quite interesting.

7:20Even if you're not interested in the business, just his thoughts on life and how you treat people, it's, it's good stuff. Well, yeah, that's up at sclmag.com. I cannot wait to listen to that. You're a podcast gal. It's almost like service matters in a service industry. Yeah. How about that? What a concept. I know it's all these common sensical things. You know, consistency. Right. Really? I never, yeah, it's just doing it. It's it's it's it's it's it's doing it every day. It's producing it right and making it happen every day. And and he's you read this book. He spent a lot of time thinking about all this stuff. He just didn't, didn't dream this up. Some of his concepts about leadership and and and you know, there's a couple pages on, on how he's developed his his mantras and his theories about things. He's you know, seems to be just this normal guy, but he's he thinks about it and and and yeah, and Shake Shack. His you know, that's that was his grand slam home run and and there's now I did my homework.

8:24There's over there's seven hundred and ten, I think Shake Shacks and you know, he goes out to you think that's a lot that's a lot of Shake Shacks. Didn't that I said, yeah, he goes until you think about how many McDonald's there are. I'm a star bug. He goes, we're just, you know, we're nice size, but we're nothing like that. But but he's still growing his company and he's got a couple. He's got one thing in the works that I thought might be the next Shake Shack. It's called daily provisions, but we'll see. I don't know that it's got legs like Shake Shack, but but he sure was fun to talk to. I sure could have we had 45 minutes and you know, I said, I could talk to you all day. Anyway, didn't get to do it. He was like, I'm not taking you up on that George. No, he had he had books to sign and places to go. So thank you, Danny Meyer. One more question for you about Danny George. Did you get to talk to him? Like is he friends with any current St. Louis restaurant tours? Like what does he have to say about St. Louis's? Well, and that was one of the questions he's been asked. Danny, this is your hometown. You know, thank you for putting a few Shake Shacks here, but can we get one of your other

9:27cool restaurants? Maybe can you do something in your hometown? He very graciously says, the St. Louis food scene is so strong. He goes, I don't want to compete with it really. Plus a lot of them are his friends. He's very good friends with Mike Emerson and with Quitron. Okay. And a couple guys, you know, there's a handful of guys that are David Choi from Sol Taco. These guys have hung out with them, have gone to events that he's sponsored in New York. And so yeah, he's he gets to town, you know, a couple times a year, you know, his parents lived here. I think his mom died fairly recently, but he would come in all the time. He's a huge cardinal fan. Anyway, he's Danny, whenever you want to come in, you know, I'll hang out with you anytime. And so I want to I want to go meet him. I said, I think we're going to be in New York, you know, over the holiday. He goes, give me a call. Awesome. Yeah. Very cool. Check out that podcast.

10:28All right. See you. Friday. What you're listening to presumably doesn't suck. So neither should your sound system. Sonos lets you listen seamlessly from room to room. Same great sound, expertly tuned, astonishingly clear. It's not magic, but it's not not magic. Which is today, he's out for the next 40 minutes. He'll be back on Monday. Matt Paulie jumping in to join us and obviously we'll be doing the Red Bird rush hour here at the top of the hour. And then you got sports up on lines tonight. How you doing, buddy? I'm good. How are you? Good. What's new? You know, just we made it through the week. Just about we got it. We got a pretty great weekend for our sports guys. You know, you got four more four baseball playoff series kicking off. You've got full, a great college football schedule this weekend, including Mizzou and Florida. The blues start tonight NFL on Sunday. This is going to be pretty great.

11:30Baseball really should be more. It's weird that they are willing to be completely inflexible in some areas, but then completely flexible. There's like, they had no problem waiting to tell the braves what time their game was going to be until the Padres game ended at one o'clock in the morning. But God forbid that if you have some games in two games that you start the next series today, right? Right. There's no baseball being played today on a day where there is no, oh, well, I should say this. There's no televised college or pro football of note. Right. There are some college games, but they're not big games. It is the Friday night lights is the big high school football night throughout the country. But I mean, that's not really your competition of your baseball. No, you should, you should be able to start divisional series on the Fridays. But TV partners do not like that deal with it because they do not like that, though. They wanted to have the programming set. They can, they didn't have the programming set for yesterday. No, completely dependent. Like that's the, that's the point that I'm trying to make. In sometimes, they're completely okay being on the fly. They were totally fine having no clue

12:34what time games were going to start for yesterday's game until literally one o'clock in the morning. Right. Yesterday. Right. Yet they, and you can be pretty sure that there's going to be a sweep or two in the wild card round. There's always, there's always sweeps. So you can set aside some time on Friday. And if, if there ends up being four three game series in the wild card round, then adjust to that. Yeah. One of the things that's going to kill me, I know this is going to happen. Won't kill me dead. It'll just kill me psychologically. It will be what happens when there is an upset in one of these three divisional series. And when people start going, oh, the layoff did him in. I've already heard it. The layoff did him in. It's like, no, no, that's not a thing. It's not, they're just like analytics didn't do in the red sucks because the analytics were used by the Yankees and never to use by everybody that's still playing the if the layoff was a thing, then it would always be a thing and not just occasionally randomly be a thing in a minority of division series. Yeah. Go look at the percentage of the teams that got the buy that advanced to

13:41the championship series out of the divisional series. And it is a, it's like 70 80%. Yeah. Guess what? The, the highest rated team in NFL football doesn't advance each week in the playoffs. No. And they don't have a lay, like the layoff thing is crazy. The baseball, what they do if you're in the top scene, the NFL, because you get a whole buy week. You do. Yeah. But I mean, that's the equivalent of one game. But still you, the point that I'm trying to make is in no other sport, if you have a 25% success rate of a lower seed advancing, do you ever try to make that something? But in baseball, you do because there just happened to be a layoff. I know. It's just nonsense. Yeah. And I find it to be just like fascinating how narratives take over even though there's nothing really to back them. Like, I forget, I figured it was. I think it was Mike Petriello. It might have been Tom Tango who does great analytics work. He's one of the,

14:41like, Godfathers of putting like stat cast together and things like that. They were making the point that like in the regular season, the best teams on the planet only win 65% of their games. Okay. Like that's an elite team. That's the Dodgers. You know, that's, that's the best of the best. They win 65%. But against other elite teams, it's basically a 500 record. So when you're against teams at your level, you're basically a coin flip for whether you win or lose. And that's if you're the best teams in baseball. So of course you get into a playoff series against other playoff teams and there's going to be some randomness to it. Yeah. And actually the point proves that the layoff helps the teams more than it hurts them. I mean, I would rather have the rested team set up exactly the way that I want it. Yeah. Then have played two or three games in the previous few days. And you can stay sharp. The Dodgers had an inner squad game yesterday where did you see they put up the reds as being the team? Yeah. I don't know. Was that just who they played to finish that the season? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. I think so. So they didn't want to change the traffic. I think that was what it was. Yeah. I think that's just simply what it was. All right.

15:42Let's talk real quick. Mizzou and Florida. What's your expectation? I mean, I am surprised that the points, breads only five and a half still. And it's been that way for the whole week. Yeah. I mean, Mizzou's at home. That's that's the thing that they need is homecoming. Yeah. I Jeremy McLean on sports. Yeah. Yeah. And I have to be specific. I'm like, it does just homecoming mean anything to the players like, ah, no, it does to the crowd. It does it to the players. It's just a game. So I don't know if that plays into anything. The fact that they're at home, I think you always give a home team in a conference game more than a puncher's chance. Usually it's a field goal to start with. And then it's plus or minus from there. So I guess you could say if they're favored by five and a half, really, they're only getting two and a half more than you would expect against a team that's been pretty good. I think Florida's better than Missouri, but that doesn't mean Florida's going to beat Missouri. Yeah. And it may not. It doesn't mean they're going to beat them by five and a half either. I will see. All right. More coming up on Redbird Rush hour. See you, buddy. Yep. Well, the power's gone. Blossom, I was already where I was.

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