01:01I'll go through a solid top five.
01:02All right.
01:03I'll present it and see where people stand on it.
01:05We want to know, is this the single best day in all of sports?
01:08And are you acting accordingly?
01:09Is this a day that you are getting off of work?
01:12No, ifs, ands, or buts.
01:14You put the PTO in.
01:15If it gets denied, you're sick.
01:17We want to know your best excuses and your game plan today.
01:20And if you're a boss, what have people tried to get away with to get out of work today?
01:24Yeah, what's the, maybe the worst excuse that you've heard?
01:28And if they are at work, is any work getting done today?
01:32Yeah.
01:33If you're in that office situation where you got the cubicles as a boss, are you walking
01:37around surprising them just to see what's on the screen?
01:42Maybe they got the phone going.
01:44Maybe they got the earbud in.
01:47Single best days in sports.
01:49I got a couple honorable mentions.
01:51The first, college football playoff games if they fall on January 1st.
01:57Okay, I'll just agree with some of your honorable mentions.
02:01I agree.
02:02I am not a golf guy, but Sunday at the Masters.
02:05Honorable mention, I agree.
02:07Especially if you've got a race to the finish.
02:11Honorable mention.
02:12Number five, Thanksgiving Day.
02:16The food and a full slate of football.
02:19I need to write these down.
02:22Five.
02:23I emailed them to you last night.
02:25Number five is Thanksgiving football.
02:27I don't have the up currently.
02:28Okay.
02:29Number four is today or tomorrow, whatever opening day you choose.
02:34But I think today is where the excitement really starts.
02:37So the first day of March Madness.
02:39It's wall-to-wall basketball madness.
02:42It's gluttony.
02:44It's three or four games going at one time.
02:46It's wild finishes.
02:48It's upsets.
02:48Ideally, it involves Cinderella if she's still alive.
02:51Today is number four.
02:54Number three is Tigers opening day.
02:56And that is more about vibes than it is action.
02:58There's more action today.
02:59But on Tigers opening day, the start of baseball season, the start of spring for a lot of people,
03:06big old drunken holiday, and everybody's dreaming about what their baseball team could do.
03:11Number two, Super Bowl Sunday.
03:14It's not number one.
03:15Super Bowl Sunday is number two.
03:17You've got the party.
03:18You've got the food.
03:19We're crowning a champion.
03:20I love football, but it's not number one because number one, the true ball knowers know this.
03:26It's actually championship Sunday where football is the star, not the food or the party.
03:32Football is the star.
03:34You get two games, double dip, punch your ticket to the Super Bowl.
03:37You've got teams playing on their home field, and you've got drama for two football games.
03:43Championship Sunday is the number one day of the sports calendar.
03:46And sometimes that's the day that actually decides, like it was this year, who's going to win the Super Bowl.
03:51That's a great point.
03:52Feedback on the list?
03:55So you and I actually match up on two of the five in terms of where they actually rank.
04:03Now, I'll give mine in just a little bit, but Thanksgiving Day, there's so much that goes into that.
04:12And when we're talking about, hey, what are the excuses for days off, that's a day you don't have to
04:18come up with an excuse for a vast majority of people.
04:21I know that there are some people that have to work on Thanksgiving Day, and that sucks.
04:25But for the most part, you get it off.
04:28And for New Year's, the bowl games, that was an honorable mention one.
04:34Yeah, honorable mention.
04:35Again, most people don't have to ask that one off.
04:38And for what we do, opening day, we get a chance to actually be down there, be a part of
04:46it.
04:46I'm not going to be this year, but I agree.
04:50So I don't have really any issue with your list, because this is going to be one that is very
04:56much specific to the individual.
04:58Your likes, your dislikes.
05:01And so we want to know, you don't have to create a top five, but what are your greatest days
05:07in the sports calendar?
05:08What's your number one?
05:10And if you want to give us a couple, you can give us a couple.
05:12Today may be that day for you.
05:14I know people are making plans for it.
05:16Before I get to mine, you want to talk to Dan?
05:19Let's get to Dan.
05:20Dan, good morning.
05:21Hey, how's it going?
05:23It's going good.
05:24How are you?
05:25Hey, good.
05:26What I want to talk about PTO is I am so grateful for the job that I have now.
05:31It's not the end-all be-all, but I work in auto manufacturing, and our boss literally just says,
05:39give us maybe two to three days head notice, because they can find people to fill up on the assembly
05:50line, no problem.
05:52When I used to work in healthcare, healthcare, you needed minimum, minimum three weeks notice.
06:00You could never plan, you know, like you could never have, you know, plans for a trip, even like a
06:06short trip.
06:06You know, who plans like three weeks in advance, you know?
06:09And most of the time, you know, it would be the same thing.
06:12Yeah, it's like, yeah, we, somebody else already took that time off.
06:19So it makes it hard.
06:20Yeah, it does.
06:21And I would argue, I think there's a lot of people that plan well in advance.
06:25Maybe not for the tourney, but for family vacations.
06:30If it's an impromptu, right, I get that.
06:32Yeah.
06:33No, I mean, like for you, like for a normal vacation, how much notice do you give typically?
06:37Um, I try to give at least three months, if not six months, because, and here's the, the
06:46complication and Heather, you'll fall into this and just a little bit with, with school
06:49and kids activities.
06:50Like you need to plan in advance, well in advance.
06:55Um, and sometimes you don't know because you don't know what the game schedules are going
06:59to be, practice schedules, all that stuff, especially when you get into high school.
07:02Um, but at that point, sometimes it's, Hey, we're going and you've got practice.
07:06So you're staying, you said three months and Heather immediately kind of recoiled.
07:10Um, I'm like, uh, a month is good.
07:13Sometimes at least two weeks.
07:16We're last minute planners.
07:18Uh, see, my wife is a big time planner and I don't know if you've noticed, we take trips
07:22around the same time every year.
07:23We'll do one in February post football season.
07:25We'll do something in the summer and then we'll do something at the end of the year on
07:29the holiday.
07:30Yeah.
07:30We'll take time off around the holiday.
07:31Sure.
07:32So I'm, I'm with you, John, I'm several months ahead on this stuff.
07:35Yeah, we are, I mean, famously, I've, you know, asked for this 4th of July, uh, even
07:41before last 4th of July.
07:43Yeah.
07:43I think you guys went off a year and a half in advance.
07:45Yeah.
07:46So it's, it's, it's one of those things where, especially if, and I know Doug has talked
07:51about this, uh, when they're going on some of their trips, like they're very detailed
07:56in how they're going to go from point A to point B to point C, what parks, national parks,
08:01all that stuff they're going to see because you've got to get those reservations.
08:04That's a good point too.
08:05Six months, sometimes a year in advance.
08:07And we technically do, do like, we are pretty scheduled.
08:11We do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do that.
08:18Walked you into that one.
08:20We do, do that.
08:24But I feel like I don't request the time off until like, you need at least two weeks
08:28notice.
08:29Oh yeah.
08:29I think a month is, is fine.
08:31I think a month is, I mean, if you're taking like a two week trip, you need to have that
08:34schedule.
08:34Oh yeah.
08:34That's more of a six months or a year.
08:36Yeah.
08:36If you're taking a long weekend.
08:37Oh yeah.
08:38Two weeks is fine.
08:39I'm going to miss Friday.
08:40Yeah.
08:40I think you can give people a couple of weeks heads up.
08:42But you also have to understand if you're going to, if you want to take a Friday and
08:45impromptu trip, you put in time and you have to be prepared for boss to say, sorry, it's
08:53too late.
08:54Well, that's why mine's more of a demand as you've noticed, because it's so well in
08:57advance.
08:58Like you had Tom puts out the schedule every month.
09:00If you've got three months or six months notice, like you'd be able to accommodate.
09:05Right.
09:05It's not what is because we, we happen to have one of the bosses here and you're the one
09:11that manages the calendar and the staffing.
09:15What's the best or worst excuse that you've heard for somebody for a time off?
09:21Not naming names.
09:26Probably a nice 70 degree day early in the spring, even before spring.
09:30Yeah.
09:31And it's coming off a weekend and somebody's significant other had something flare up.
09:41So it's not them, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's the significant other.
09:45I got to take care of them.
09:45Yeah.
09:46Oh.
09:46And, and so I, I'm, I'm guessing too.
09:48You never really get any details.
09:50Some of it's track record though.
09:52Something flared up?
09:52Yikes.
09:53Right.
09:53But some of it's track record, right?
09:55And, and, and, and so like if, if there's an emergency, right.
09:58And it's, but it can't be an emergency the same time of year or the same type of day
10:02every time.
10:03I'll tell you this.
10:03You do notice what coworkers are conveniently sick on Fridays in the summer.
10:07Yes.
10:07People around you notice this stuff.
10:09We'll read some texts, take your calls, talk tournament and days off excuses.
10:1397 one.
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