Transcript of a Chris Collins-hosted YouTube episode featuring co-host Christian and an announced interview with Kyle Friedel from Interstate Batteries. The hosts introduce the upcoming interview about batteries and discuss industry topics, then segue into a reflective conversation prompted by the Will Smith–Chris Rock Oscars incident, humor, and a planned tequila toast honoring an industry figure.
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Welcome, everybody, to the big show. We have a great event planned for you. We could call it an event. I'm Chris Collins. This is Christian.
Hello, everyone.
We have an interview from Kyle Friedel, who is part of the strategy team at Interstate Battery that we're going to play for you. Christian actually wasn't here for that, so you're going to see it for the first time. But incredible interview. We talk about batteries. We. Very interesting subject and crucial to our success. And I even asked him about, you know, batteries and Teslas, that sort of thing. So fascinating. Also, I want to talk about the Will Smith Chris Rock thing in the spirit of how does that apply to the service drive? And I think it does. I have a take on it. It also made me think, like, what if I could smack you every time you told a joke that I didn't like?
That's so funny. I was thinking about that after that happened. I'm like, man, I gotta tell you, like, every time I tell a joke, I would offend at least one group of people. Like, man, there's no way I don't have black and blue cheeks all day long.
Then I came up with a new thing that we're gonna do that is a toast. It's a toast to somebody who has made an impact in our industry. So we're gonna do a shot at tequila. I know a lot of you that have come for boot camps or events will always ask, like, what's that tequila that we had again? So we're gonna. We're gonna toast that tequila here early in the morning. Christian doesn't drink also, so I kind of came up with this as a way to torture him. A little day drinking. But we're gonna do a shot of tequila as a tribute to somebody that we will. We will talk about coming up.
It's for a good cause, ultimately, so I'm. I'm willing to take one for the team. But, you know, it kind of got me to thinking a little bit. Like, I mean, I'm in my mid-40s right now, and you start to reflect on your life a little bit. And, you know, it's really interesting. In whatever, the 46 years I've been on this earth, never once have I used essential oils. It makes me wonder, are they really essential?
So welcome, everybody. Did you. Did you watch the Will Smith Chris Rock thing?
Not live, but I saw it afterwards.
Yeah, I didn't either. I have no interest in that show.
Oscars are not my cup of tea.
It's like a beauty pageant, basically. Fixed. Seems like it's fake. So it's interesting, in the office, when we talked about it, most everybody kind of felt like it was staged, like it was fake. A lot of people feel like it was made up.
Yeah, I never thought that once, but I think.
I personally think it's more fun if we pretend like it wasn't. Like we don't know, right? Yeah, I don't know that we'll ever know, but it might be more fun just to pretend like it isn't and think about it from. From that perspective. So what was. What was your thought on it? Like, what was your reaction or your take?
Wow. So I think the big thing is that.
What I did is first, I was in a little bit of shock that the whole thing happened. And then the second is, like, trying to think about, like, what would somebody have to do to make me hit somebody?
Like, how far would they have to go?
Yeah. Like, what is that thing that would hit that button that says, okay, throw all logic out the window and you get up and you smack somebody?
Do you. Do you feel like at times like the subject of kids or wife or girlfriend or whatever are off limits to a certain point?
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah. That's an interesting take. Yeah, I think.
I think most people's initial reaction, too, is to punch back. Right. So, like, if somebody hits you, your initial reaction is to fight back.
Yeah. Almost like when people do that thing where you put your hand up and you start to push on them and they push back. It's a natural reaction.
Yeah, it really is. So I think that.
The interesting thing about it and how it applies to us is what impressed me about the whole thing. Like, if you put aside, like, whether it should have happened or if he was right to do it or whatever, and you. You just kind of put that aside and you just think about Chris Rock's reaction. The thing that blew me away and really impressed me is when Will hits him, there's this kind of instant empathy in the sense that he. He was, like, trying to understand what was happening, but he was seeing Will more as the. The outcome of something else. He wasn't reacting to the. To the. The violence. He was, to me, trying to understand what had caused it and why is this person affected so much. And, yeah, I was just blown away by. By what a gentleman and how well he handled it in that sense. And after. So he. He was quiet after, didn't say anything bad about Will, didn't want him arrested. Like, he just was.
