In this brief, humorous conversation Sam Parr and a co‑speaker riff on made‑up corporate slang and hiring metaphors. They coin phrases like “crash the boards” to describe aggressive sales follow‑up, critique the use of the militaristic term “Blitzkrieg,” introduce “landsliding” as pre‑meeting politicking to win support, and present the “boiling eggs vs. potatoes” analogy to evaluate new hires’ adaptability—favoring employees who start soft and harden under pressure (eggs) over those who start hard and soften (potatoes). The dialogue is light‑hearted, playful, and aims to illustrate how colorful language can shape corporate behavior.
Corporate slang that doesn't exist, but it should. So it's when you're emailing people, but you're not following up hard enough. You could tell your sales team, be like, hey, we really got to crash the boards here, fellas. And they know, oh, that means we got to really just follow up strong.
I used to use the word Blitzkrieg when referring to that. And then I realized that referencing World War I, World War II, Germany and their military tactics probably wasn't the best thing.
You're a little too blonde hair, blue eyed to be using that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you know how when you have a meeting, oftentimes even if it's a good idea, it turns into a vote where it's like, look, not everyone thinks that's a good idea, so we're not going to go with it. What you do is you try to like be political and get people on your side before the meeting. We're going to call that landsliding. Look, we're going to have a meeting, but we got to landslide this in advance.
This is when you got an employee, you got somebody new, and you need to really figure out what they're made of. Are we boiling eggs or potatoes here? A potato starts out really hard, but if you boil it, it gets soft. But an egg starts out soft, but if you apply some heat, it gets hard. You want eggs, you don't want potatoes in your company.
