Construction Brothers

The Buildies: Senior Superlatives for Construction

We might be just a bit late for graduation in some parts of the country, but this week we’re awarding some senior superlatives for the construction industry.

Here are the categories. You’ll need to listen to hear the winners.

Best partner for a zombie apocalypse: We ponder who would be best able to help us survive an onslaught of the undead. We ponder weapons, transportation, and power distribution.

Most likely to do best on Naked and Afraid: We ponder (trying to keep our imaginations in check) whether a roofer, carpenter, HVAC technician, or general laborer would do best in isolation in their birthday suit.

Most likely to be able to build a whole building by themselves: Could anyone do it? We share an opinion

Most likely to have the best hair on a jobsite: Who’s sporting the most impressive locks?

Most likely to have the most entertaining injury story: Who’s going to have us laughing and wincing?

Most likely to ramble on and on about the importance of their jobs: Who will have us rolling our eyes?

Most likely to genuinely impress potential romantic partners with their construction stories: Who’s weaving tales to make them swoon? Will they try to impress with their skill or their bravery?

Biggest prankster: Who’s looking to catch you off-guard?

Most likely to win a Nobel Prize: Who’s heading to Stockholm? (That’s where they award most of the Nobel prizes.)

Most likely to start a sentence with “Well, actually…”: Who’s going to set us straight.

The most creative in-the-moment problem-solver: Who’s the best guy to have around when the crap hits the fan?

Most likely to bring an acoustic guitar to the jobsite: Who’ll serenade the crew? (And how did Tyler not end up as an option on this one?)

Most likely to have a run-in with OSHA: Who’s breaking the rules?

Most likely to develop a work-related ulcer: Who’s sucking down the Pepto Bismol?

Most likely to cause others to develop an ulcer: Who’s sending someone else to the GI specialist?

Valedictorian: Who seems to always come out on top?

Greatest Impact: Who’s really changing things?

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Duration:: 42m
Broadcast on:: 26 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

(upbeat music) This episode is brought to you by Bluebeam. You know what software you could pry out of my cold, dead lifeless hands? What's that, Bluebeam? (laughs) It's made this simple thing simple. It was built for people in construction, so I quit asking, why doesn't this software do this? It has made the everyday easier. I am so glad that it was my idea to install the software. You are a dang liar, sir. - It wasn't my idea. - No, it was my idea to install Bluebeam first. This is a great mystery in our company, and I guess we'll never know. - I have proof, I know for a fact it was me, but guys, it doesn't have to be a mystery for you, 'cause all you gotta do is you go to Bluebeam.com/bros and you can download a free trial today, and then you've got that marker in the sand that says, "Guess what?" I was the one that had the idea to install Bluebeam. Now you want it. - Yeah, Bluebeam.com/bros. - We're gonna recognize those lucky folks who are gonna get their superlative. Best companion for a zombie apocalypse. (laughs) It looks likely to do best on naked and afraid. (laughs) Most likely to start a sentence with, well, actually-- - We both know. - Most likely to have a run leading us. - Are you leading us to a cancel? Like, are we gonna get canceled? - No, I'm not saying this. - There is actually, wait, hold on, I think there's a fifth option here. So then we got roofer, demolition worker, welder, laborer, and Tyler as well. (laughing) (upbeat music) - Do you think we have any audience left after the bracket episode or-- - I don't know if we do. I think we probably have fended half of the construction industry, if not all of it. But you know, hey, we're back for more. So we're glutton for punishment. - Cook. - Yeah. - What was, what word did you get when you graduated? - I don't know. - I wanna bring one story at lunch and now-- - Yeah, no, I'm bringing this out, man, this is-- - And now it's on blast. - Yes, it is. - Well, there's only one negative superlative, at least in my high school, okay? And that's teacher's pet. I happen to get that superlative when I graduated my class of 600. So there's a lot of options, but I was the one chosen. - This is, it's not a negative, but I mean, I think it can be passed off as a superlative 'cause for the record, that does have to be a positive thing. - Yeah, that's a, I mean, it's a positive thing. It's funny, you said it and I went, yeah, that tracks. Yep, that makes sense. - Oh, it totally makes sense. - No, it doesn't mean suck up. - Nothing like that. - Nothing. - No. (both laughing) - All right, so what are we doing today? - I made y'all sit down because there is something, after the bracket episode, there seems to be a little bit of looming. We gotta decide on these superlatives, okay? - It's gonna be recognized. - We're gonna recognize those lucky folks who are gonna get there, just like me, who are gonna get there superlative. - As the teacher's pet, I'm here to bestow the honors upon the construction industry. So we're gonna start where it all begins, which is best companion for a zombie apocalypse. (both laughing) - Often's being, what are the options are? Carpenter, electrician, plumber, and mason. - I don't necessarily think a plumber would be a good companion, you know what I mean? - Like, seems like a pretty crappy companion. (both laughing) I'm sorry, anyway. Mason, potentially, I'm gonna come back to that one because I can think of a couple reasons why you might need that. Electrician, potentially. I'm gonna take carpenter out of here because I just don't, I don't think, I don't feel like that would be the right pick here, right? - I'm going with the carpenter. - Thank you. - You're going with the carpenter? - Thank you. - Absolutely. Why are you going with the carpenter? - No gun. - That's a good point. - No gun, that's a good point. If the carpenter has a no gun, that's gonna come in handy for a zombie apocalypse. - What phase is a zombie apocalypse are we in? - Here's what I'm thinking. It's, we're sitting here, we get a text on our phone. - Yeah. - Uh oh, zombies, we discovered them in the United States 24 hours ago. They're in every major airport, every medium to large size city. And you see, you have foul four buddies next to you. You got the plumber, your friend Mason, electrician, and carpenter. - Can you do me some quick research here? - Go. - Okay, who makes the most money at all these guys? Is it the plumber, who's, yeah, electrician? That's my pick, got it. You know why? Nice truck. That would be one, but also enough money to buy guns and ammo. Yeah, so you can go out and actually prep. So I might pick electrician on this one. Also, it could be very handy to figure out power distribution, different things like that later on in the apocalypse. I feel like that could be nice. - I didn't even see a list there. I just saw buttons and you read the first thing. (laughs) - Electrician, oh, electrician, electrician. - The electrician, of course it is, obviously. Well, I mean, yeah. - Plumbers make pretty good money, too. - No, I'm not saying the plumbers don't make good money, but I'm just saying, like, electrician. - So who are you gonna buy? - The most guns and ammo, you go with that and-- - Pretty much, yeah. - That's what I'm gonna-- - That's what I'm gonna go with. - Electrician. - There you go. - Zombie apocalypse partner. - That's your congratulations. - Congratulations, electrician. - That's electrician, didn't it? You made it. - You've graduated. - All right, but that's enough of that one because it was likely to do best on naked and afraid. (laughs) We need to have the important answers here, guys. - Okay. - And here are your nominees. We have number one, roofer, number two carpenter, then laborer, and an H-back technician. - So it's just like general laborer, you know. - Then just, yeah, he's working. - Just working, just working, just working. (laughs) - So for naked and afraid, it's survival in the wilderness, yes, and you're completely naked. - Correct. - Okay, I'm not saying naked. It's naked around this part. - Really? - Yeah, naked, naked and afraid. - Put 'em out there with no clothes. - Huh? - It's just like-- - You've never seen this? - I don't wanna look it up. - You don't know that this is a show. - I know of the name of the show. - This is a TV show called-- - But have I watched it naked and afraid. - I wouldn't have known if that was kind of like, hey, there's some naked people. - Nope. - Look, on the screen. - No. (laughs) - We got roofer because they're exposed to elements all the time and they're on the sun a lot. - Yeah, the sun a lot. - Yeah. - And it ought to be like ready to go if it comes to like getting stranded in a desert or something. - You know, I feel like it kind of depends on the environment, right? - So if we're like in the jungle and it's super, super humid and stuff, I feel like the HVAC person might be very helpful. - You know what I mean? - And trapped in a bunch of attics or something. - Yeah, right? Like it's been in a jungle in the heat, that would be, but if we were in the desert or something like that, then yeah, it might go with roofer. - Okay. - But I feel like most of the time they come out in the jungle, right? Like are they over in the-- - They do it everywhere. - They go everywhere? - Yeah. - So it could be like an island or something like that, see? - I don't know. At that point, you need to find the person that's most, you know, hardy, we'll say. - Hardy. (laughing) Roofers are pretty spry and hardy. I'll go with it. - Carpenters. - I mean, carpenters are handy. They can do anything. - That's fair. - Carpenters do all kinds of stuff. - Yeah, but they don't want anything in the brackets or anything like that. - Yeah, they don't have a hammer though, right? - You know how he won? He won teachers. - Yeah. - Because a group of people got behind him and forced him into that position, man. (laughing) 'Cause they all wanted the whole world to know. Let's keep behind the carpenters here. - The carpenters? - Yeah. - Carpenters. - Shelter. - Shelter, yes. - Okay, all right, yeah, shelter. I can hear that. I can hear that. You know, it's still kind of expensive. I feel like there's best boats, right? - All right, yeah. - Let's go carpenters. - I'm there for that. - Yeah, shelter's getting-- - You're doing the best. - Shelter's good because-- - Congratulations on the carpenter. - Congratulations. - Congratulations. - Looks like we're done. - We're so, so proud of you. - Yeah, so proud of you. - Make it in a frayed. - All right. - But here's the important one here. Most capable of building an entire building by themselves, Jack of all trades here. Well, let's see. - Is it? - We have general contractor. - No. - We have carpenters. - Sorry, guys. - No. - We have electrician and we have plumber. - Yeah, I'm gonna be a carpenter on that one too, man. - 'Cause we just got two. - Yeah, you got it. - All right, all right. - 'Cause you had me feelin' bad and now you just took two. - That's a fact. - That's a fact. - Carpenter. - Carpenter. - Congratulations. - It won't be lit or anything and it won't be plumbed very well, but I mean, we can figure most of that. - Get a lot of that stuff, though. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Most of them are doing that crap at home anyway. - All right. - Just for fun. - Here we go. - Not definitely not GCN. - Quick and easy, guys. - Most likely to have best hair on site. (laughing) - We have just kidding, we have a-- - Oh, even better. - Interior designer. - Yep. Architect. Plasterer. - No. - And Tyler. - No, no, no, no. - I like to play on words with the plasterer. - Thank you. - I also like to-- - I appreciate what you've done there. - Thank you. - Also the Tyler. (laughing) - I had to put that one in there anyway. I'm looking at you, bud. All right. Okay, interior designer. - In architecture. - Yeah, those are the two for sure. - One interior designer. - They for a living care about aesthetics. - And soda architects, though. - Soda architects. - They do. - They do. - It depends on the architect. - I just, I feel like you're a little bit-- - No, no, no, no. - Yeah, okay, no. - I'm gonna go tear it with you on this. I'll go with you on this. 'Cause I'm thinking back to some of the architects. - This episode is brought to you by Quickbase. - Tyler, you know what I'm the world's worst at? - Other than literally everything. - Spreadsheets. - Yeah. - I make them for everything. - You do. - It's your crotch, man. - They are tools and I like them a whole lot, but they're not very customizable and you don't share them very well a lot of times. - That's where I'm learning about Quickbase is really cool. You can take material tracking, personal management, equipment maintenance, bidding, estimates, and what's best about it is that much like a spreadsheet, only better, you can actually customize the app. And you can do that to make it how you want to see it. - And you can share it out with people. It doesn't have to just sit on your machine somewhere in isolation where nobody can get to it. And that's my main beef with your spreadsheets there. - Yeah, and then you're not chasing spreadsheets around, you're actually getting more work done. And guess what, I hear that even a moron like you can build an app in Quickbase. - Thanks. - And it integrates with apps that you're already using. Things like Procore, for example, which I hear a lot of people are using now. So guys, don't be like any, go to Quickbase.com and start your 30-day free trial today. - That I've met and a lot of them just have very unkemptare. - Oh, they might be kind of like the crazy, the crazy mad scientist. - Why are you sort of saying? - But every interior designer I've met is just like, just impeccable hair, impeccable. - Best hair on site, interior design. - Interior design. - Graduation, interior design. - All right, sweet, all right. - Next up, most likely to have the most entertaining injury story on deck, we have the welder, the roofer, the demolition worker, and the crane operator. - I want to throw an extra one in here, is the superintendent. - 'Cause I think we all know. I think that that would be the overall winner of this bracket. - I was gonna ask if we do that, it's being done. - It's being done, isn't it? - Can we add it? - This is your podcast. - We're doing exactly what you wanted to. - 'Cause I'm gonna agree more. - Yeah, like the soups see it all, man. They see all the different trades, all the different crap. - Best stories, best stories. - And they also have the ability to chuckle at things. And, you know, yeah. Nothing surprises these people anymore. The soups, like, they, yeah. Everybody comes to like, somebody going out of their way to rob the site. - Yeah. - They, you name it. - But yeah, best entertaining injury story. - No, this is going to the soup. - It's going to stay every day. Like I'm not saying that welder is roofers, demolition workers, or crane operators don't have. - Good stories, I'm just saying soup has more of them. - Always. - Well done, bringing somebody from outside of the four. - Listen, it's right. - I'm here to make sure that this is the most accurate superlative list. - Oh no. - Superlicious list. - Oh no. - Superlicious list. - It's happening. - The superfluous list. All right, moving on. - Oh no, we're gonna get real dicey here, guys, because right now we have most likely to ramble on and on about the importance of their job. (laughing) It's all positive, this is a parallel though. This is a good thing. - This is a good thing. - This is a good thing. (laughing) That is a good thing. We have architects. We have engineers, sorry. We have project managers. - You made the freaking list. - No, you're not sorry. Don't even with me. I'm sorry we have to put them on blast like this. And fourth, we have the safety inspector. - It's a good thing. - Like you said. - No. - This is a good thing. - This is a good thing. This is a bad thing. - We're not putting anybody on blast. - If we go on positive. - Yes. - It's a safety guy. That guy's job, he's gotta tell everybody how important he is so he can convince them not to go cowboy and do stupid things. - That's fair. That's fair. - It's not a good idea to stand on top of the bucket lift without your harness on. - Yeah, it's bad. - Project manager listens to the people who ramble on and on about the importance of their job. - Yes. - That's a fact. Engineer kind of also in that vein. I think it is between the architect and the safety inspector. - Safety inspector's gotta be it. 'Cause he's gotta make the play. - They're getting people to believe it. - That's fair because yeah, they have to ramble on and on and try to convince somebody. Whereas the architect just assumes that you know that they're the most important. - That's, yes. - They just assume that they're the most important. - I'm with you. - In the room. - That, yeah. Okay. Safety inspector. - Safety inspector. - Safety inspector. - Totally too much. - Well done. Congratulations on all of your success. All right. - Moving to the next very important award, we have most likely to genuinely impress potential romantic partners with their construction stories. (laughing) - On the docket. - Real question. - Real question here. - How much AI was used in generating this list? (laughing) - Zero AI. Thank you, Chachi. BT, zero AI. (laughing) - Anything I'll just list. - Fair enough. Okay. - All right. - How I got through to college, everybody. Okay. - I got through to college. (laughing) - I just heard you full time. - What do you think? Not for my film degree. Okay. So most likely to genuinely, okay, here we go. So we got the architects. We have crane operator, steel worker and carpenter. - I'm not going architect. I'm not going crane operator on this one. I might be going carpenter again. I'm sorry. - Do tell. - Okay. So you remember in meet the fuckers. Actually, no, meet the parents. Meet the parents. Sorry. Meet the parents. Owen Wilson's character. He's like, oh, yeah, I'm a carpenter. - Oh, wow. - Is that sort of thing? Like, 'cause Jesus was a carpenter. - Yeah, right. - And so he made this little, a little hopper. - Yeah. Whatever. (laughing) Play the tape. Anyway, it's, whatever it's called. He makes this little thing and it's really pretty and all that stuff. And I remember the girl walks in and she's like, "Oh my gosh, it's so beautiful." - Oh, yeah. - Yeah, right. - Impressed to work. - Impressed with the work. Yeah. Steel worker. I was just thinking like, that could just be like, "Oh, you check these out." You know, that sort of thing. I was going like. - I was feeling like that actually works across the board though, but like the sensitivity that it could take of like a carpenter and the finesse of that. That could work. That could work. - I was hearing that steel worker could be most likely to scare a romantic partner. - That's fair. Yes. - They scare me a lot of times. - I'm surprised the architect doesn't get a little bit more of an honorable mention in here if you're going for sensitivity. - Okay, I'm going to need you to censor this one, but I'm just going to drop some straight facts here to my brother, all right. Architects come across as most of the time. (laughing) Am I wrong? (laughing) Am I wrong? - I think that is a stereotype of the industry. - It is a stereotype, but I would vote them most likely to be left sitting at the table on a first date. - So before we get any deeper into this and get decided by half the industry, I don't know if some people may love you for that one. - I think a lot of people are going to love you more than hate me for saying that, but for the record, that gets censored because I do not want that on there. Anyway, - Mom's listening. - Mom's listening. Our kids are listening to- - Just galvanizing my seat is best, son. (laughing) - I'm just saying, that's how I feel about that. I feel like carpenters are safe. - Why don't we keep going to carpenter though? We might need to come back and reevaluate a couple of these. - We can, can we come back and kick it in again? - We could go back to the first, because that felt like that was just kind of a throw something at us. - It was kind of a warm up sort of thing. We didn't realize how crazy this was going to get. - Okay, carpenter, I feel solid on that. - Kind of boring to say that again. - Congratulations. - I do feel congratulations. - Thank you. - But you know- - Look at a kid that got the valedictorian, but they get all of the other awards too, and nobody really gives a crap anymore. - I did get all of the awards, 'cause that was homeschooled. Anyway, moving on. What's the next one? - Biggest prankster. - Biggest prankster. - Biggest prankster, I got you. - That looks good. - Yeah, that's good. - We have the painter. We have the laborer. We have the dry waller and the plumber. - Geez, I don't want the plumber to be in the prankster. That's for freaking sure. - I'm going plumber. - You think so? - Yep. - I'm going plumber. - There's experience behind this. I can feel it. - No, I just, I feel like you need somebody that is like in the trades. Like somebody's doing like one of the core trades. - Yeah. There's a lot of antics that go on there. - And the reason for that, I think you might be right. - Yeah. - It's the mentorship that brings about the pranks, right? So that's why like laborer, there's not really like that mentor mentee thing going on, but like a plumber or an electrician that's out there and they're like teaching junior and junior's like two weeks on the job. That's the guy that gets sent for, you know, the hose stretcher and the sky hook, the whatever you're thinking, is that plumbers dealing with what they deal with need to have somewhat of a sense of humor. - Oh, absolutely. - If you don't have a sense of humor about life, you're probably not going to survive very long as a plumber. You know, like there's got to be a little bit of like, can you believe what in the world we found in this, you know? - Yeah. - I think, I think I'm, I can get down with that. - Okay. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Prankster, plumber, sense of humor. I'll go with that. - Makes sense to me. Congratulations plumbers. - Most likely to win a Nobel Prize. We have the engineer, we have the architect, we have the sustainability consultant and the urban planner. - Can we say it together? - Urban planner. - Oh, I'm going urban planner. - Really? - Yeah. - Did you, did you? - I was thinking sustainability consultant. - No. - Not a consultant. (laughs) - Not a consultant. - Not a consultant, anything but a consultant. (laughs) - I think that was such disgust. (laughs) - Fair. - I'm going, oh, you totally know that. - Salted. - Salted. (laughs) - I'll leave. - Okay, urban planner. - I was thinking of like against, like urban planner. - Urban planner or guru or something. Like, I'm just planning. - Urban planner, you're just a consultant. - Back it up, why, why? - Because you could plan some city of tomorrow that has all of sustainability and everything baked in that just completely changes how we live and interact and work. And like, that could be significant enough to human life that it is seen as a net positive for humanity and therefore would be meritorious of a Nobel prize. - Fair enough, but there's my mind. - I would also argue that an engineer has that capability as well. To come up with some sort of innovative new approach that reduces the carbon footprint of, I don't know, TC bolts. - So, really, you know what I mean? - You know what, you thought that we were gonna be unanimous on that. - Like, I was thinking of the one-- - I was kind of like, I was kind of going to engineers. - Sustainability, consultment, now that you've kind of talked through it a little bit more, I'm starting to kind of reconsider here because engineer might be, might be my vote. Engineer might be my vote. - An engineer. - Well, how many engineers have won a Nobel prize, right? That's what I want to know. Our physicists, like kind of in that same genre. - I think just shifting a little bit there. - I'm just making a statement about, there's some definite intelligence to be able to win a Nobel prize. Okay, as an engineer-- - Do you call it a Nobel prize? - A Nobel prize. Do you even know what this is? (laughing) - Yeah, wait, back up the trip a second. Do you know what a Nobel prize is? - You didn't know what a superlative was. - Therefore, it's a worthy question. Do you know what a Nobel prize is? - That guy looked really happy about a Nobel prize. - He is very happy. Okay, so 10 engineers who-- - We have several and at least 10 is the answers that I have. - 10, I mean, okay. - I don't know. - Have any urban planners won a Nobel prize? - Construction engineers. - You're talking about construction engineers? - Yes, somebody who is a civil engineer for a living or a mechanical engineer for a living. - I'm just saying, there's definitely things that you can innovate within that. - Yeah, absolutely. I'm not taking that away from things that you can innovate. - No Nobel prize worthy. - I'm going with no on the urban planner. - No. - Boom, facts. - Why? - Have any architects? I'm sorry, like we're really dragging this one out, but we've got to make sure it's right. - I don't see an architect would win one. - Is that fun now? - I don't know, maybe. Pull a Pritzker prize? - Nobel of architecture. So there's-- - No, that's just comparing him. - They're just comparing him. - That didn't count. That didn't count. - They won the best architect award. - All right, engineer, he was-- - No. - Just make it stop. - That's like a freaking participation trophy. - Yeah, let's, what, what? - Wait, what are you saying? - Engineer, done. - Engineer, engineer. - So I'm still delivered. - Nice, let's move on. - Let's move on. Boom, moving on to the most important award of this entire thing. - This, this, this, this, yeah. - I think we both know. - Most likely to start a sentence with, well, actually-- - We both know. - Engineers, architects. - This episode is brought to you by Bluebeam. - You know what software you could pry out of my cold, dead lifeless hands? What's that, Bluebeam? It's made the simple things simple. It was built for people in construction, so I quit asking, why doesn't this software do this? It has made the everyday easier. I am so glad that it was my idea to install the software. - You are a dang liar, sir. - It was my idea. - No, it was my idea to install Bluebeam first. - This is a great mystery in our company, and I guess we'll never know. - I have, I have, I have proof. I know for a fact it was me. But, guys, it doesn't have to be a mystery for you, 'cause all you gotta do is go to bluebeam.com/bros, and you can download a free trial today. And then you've got that marker in the sand that says, "Guess what? "I was the one that had the idea to install Bluebeam." - No, you won't. - Yeah, bluebeam.com/bros. (calm music) - Building inspectors and project managers. - And for the record, this is a positive thing. - This is a positive thing. - No. - It's not a positive thing. - It's definitely- - It looks teacher-pet. - Oh, okay. (laughing) - Just gotta put on blast. - I love it. - Okay. - Well, actually, do we want to give a... - Can you be brief? - No, I can't, but like, I mean, are we talking about Oscar in the office? - Oscar in the office always, like when he knows something more than somebody else, he says, "Well, actually." - Well, actually. - Well, actually. - Well, actually. - Okay. - So that's where this comes from. - Yeah. So I think we give our answer in three, two, one. - Engineer. - Yeah. - Wow. Here we go. - I'm with you on that one. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - That's a fact. - All right, engineers, y'all are getting a lot of these awards. - Props to you, 'cause there's definitely- - 'Cause there's definitely some awards. - That was definitely positive. - That was not influenced by any past interactions, whatsoever. - Or hurt. - Or hurt. (laughing) - I didn't feel much love. - You dumb, much love, guys. - Much, much love, we love you. - This is- - With all the love in the world. - With all the love in the world. - This next award is going to the most creative in-the-moment problem solver, a genuinely pretty positive award, just like the other ones. - In-the-moment. - We have carpenter, electrician, plumber, and HVAC technician. (grunting) All right, I'm leaning into electrician or plumber here. In-the-moment problem solver. 'Cause when the crap hits the fan, who's gonna be there trying to figure out how to put the crap back in the pipe. (laughing) - I hear that. - That's fair, right? - In-the-moment, I gotta get creative here. - All right, we just try to make it stop. - We gotta make it stop. - Right. - And this sounds terrible. I don't want to just throw this out, like that's all that plumbers do. No, that's not all you do. - That's all you do. - You've talked about plumbers doing this playing. - I just want to clarify that I know that they do more than that, but it's an obvious one that we can point at. Like, come on, anyway. - In-the-moment problem solver, I feel plumber, it'd be pretty clutch, you know? Like, they have to be-- - They have to be clutch. - They have to be clutch. Everybody is counting on them. An electrician, I think there's some clutch-ness about it. - Power goes out in a storm. - Yeah, power goes out in a storm. But like, that is not as much in the moment, 'cause like, power goes out for 30 minutes, it's not too bad. Something goes wrong with your piping in your house. I need that solved yesterday, right? Like, in the moment, we got to stop this thing. - You got to stop the water. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think plumber. - I think you have plumber. - I think plumber. - I think it's a solid answer. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Moving on to an award that I personally love, most likely to bring an acoustic guitar to the job site. We have the plumber, we have the carpenter, we have the painter, and we have the roofer. - Painter. - Definitely the painter. - I'm going painter. - And I don't think they're bringing a guitar, I think they're bringing a liar. (laughing) Yeah, yeah, I think they're bringing a liar. You know, they're going renaissance because they've been painting this 15 chapel in somebody's home. I realized that that's not all painters, but it's just the visual of that I have. - That's what you get when you're doing it. - Yeah, painter easily wins that one, what can you do? - Yeah, yeah. - Okay, so this is my favorite of all of them. I know I've probably said that four times now. - These feel less positive all the time. - This is most likely to have a run in with ocean. - Are you leading us to a cancel? Like, are we going to get canceled? - No, I will say, there is actually, wait, hold on, I think there's a fifth option here. So then we got roofer, demolition worker, welder, laborer, and tylers, you know? (laughing) - Fair enough, fair enough, I'm going laborer on that, 'cause I can't go with myself, you know, for obvious reasons, or you actually, 'cause you're also Tyler, you didn't specify. - Or Williams. - It could be Tyler Williams as well. That I could see, Tyler Williams having a run in with ocean. Now I'm just kidding, he's totally safe all the time, 100% of the time. Anyway, I think laborer personally, I think that's the most common person to have a run in with ocean. - I watched them roof my house, fair, and it made me highly uncomfortable. (laughing) - 'Cause the level of tie off, that's, that is fair. - Was not nearly what it should have been. - That is fair, that is fair. So that, that may could be an argument for the roofer. - Demo, demolition fails, yeah, there's, okay. Yeah, I hear some of this too. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, fair enough, fair enough. Demolition is definitely an option here. - And when you blow something up and it goes wrong? - Yeah. - But I mean, a run in with Hosha, there's checks on checks. - That's just a going run. - We can cancel welder. I don't think that one's as prevalent. - Okay, so we're done there. - We're done there. - Laborer, I think they're just victims of circumstance. - I'm showing up. - Like just trying to stay out of trouble here. - Just trying to stay. - But the dimmer guy, yeah, I could see it. Roofer, I could definitely see it. - I don't, ugh, I don't know. Where are they paying the most attention though? Like Hosha, that would be my question. Like are they paying more attention to roofers or demolition? - Of course. - I would think probably demo. - Yeah, they're probably picking on them a little bit. - I would think so. - Who's got the chip on there? Shall we have a run in with Hosha? Like who's the one's coming back at the Hosha guy? Like, you can tell me what to do. - Demo. - Mr. Osha. - Demo. - Demo guy? - Demo. - Well, here's the thing too, is I was thinking about this, I was walking down the street here and I saw some guys out there with a saw going at the concrete and I'm sitting there going like, oh my gosh, I really hope Hosha doesn't come by. So demo. Yeah, you see a lot of stupid stuff. - There you go. - You're gonna die, like please, please. Yeah, and they're gonna get frustrated when you say something. - Yeah. - Yeah, demo all the way. - Okay, yeah. - There it is. - 'Cause you're getting job done. You know what I mean? - Congratulations Tyler too, by the way. - Whoever, whichever. - Right, whichever title they survived this one, it's still a positive award. - Still positive, still positive award. - Nothing but love. - Don't worry about it. - Nothing but love. - This is actually the thing that you got this award. - That's right. - 'Cause this is superlative and that's what it means. - So now we have an award that and nobody wants to get, but we're giving it out anyways. Most likely to develop an ulcer due to work-related stress. - Listen, I have like an all of construction everywhere that we could just award all of the awards. - Could that just be all of the, but yeah. I mean, SAT doesn't, that's right. - We could just bring that in. - What are our options? - What are our options now? - Options here are project managers, site supervisors, engineers, and safety officers. Engineers have been on here a few times. - Mm, PMs, I feel could definitely get this award. You know what I mean? - I can feel that. - I heard in a lot of cats. - I can feel the PM thing. - Yeah. - They get that scheduling pressure. - Yeah. - And the stress of like, when it all goes bad, dealing with the owner, dealing with the architect. - Just staring the money in the face. - And they're staring the risk and liability in the face. And that's the thing that makes the deal feel like, oh, junk. - All I know. - It's gonna go bad. - 'Cause I watched you play like legit PM flying around, you know, going everywhere there for a month or two. - Yeah. - And I watched the light in your eyes definitely fade just a little bit. And so I felt an ulcer was near. I think PMs, man. I think project managers. That's gonna be the, I'll support that. But again, this is, all ulcers are positive. This is a positive thing. - This is a positive thing. - You want this. - Yeah, this is project manager/headie. (laughing) You see, tweaked it. - There you go, all right. - Hey, you know what? Yeah, I haven't gotten one yet. - I'm in the trenches. (laughing) - So now we have the secondary award. This is like one A, one B. Most likely to cause others to develop in ulcer. - I feel an option five coming on this one. - I do too. - Go ahead, please. - So we have a site supervisor project manager. - There's one more. - There's only one more. - There's only one more. - Engineer, and... - Come on. - Tyler! - What? (laughing) (laughing) - Oh, yeah. I don't understand. - I wanna know what you were gonna say, really. - I do. - I was gonna say architects, but you know, and I've been the people that I've been on live. - First of all, this time too. - Campbell. - Yeah, thanks. - Campbell. - I think I probably have done that in time too. I'm not gonna even lie about it. - I totally just broke our, no tapping, slapping. - You just got it. You just completely broke down in our break. - I broke the heck out of it. - Wow. How dare you? Okay. - We having fun in here now. - Woo! - Most likely to cause others to develop in ulcer. I mean, yes, fine. Give it to me. - Here. - Building inspector. - It's a positive thing, so I'm okay with taking this. (laughing) You know, like, you're welcome, person who I gave an ulcer to. - You are welcome. - Which shows you true work right there. - Okay, we're just going with it. - No, I'm gonna go with it because. - I mean, I got one. - I can pick on myself here. All right? - I got one. - I just want that to be on, like, so everybody knows that I enjoy self-deprecating humor. I'm completely fine picking on myself here. - Anybody who has listened to this show for more than one episode. - They know. (laughing) - I can dish it. I can take it. - It's at the forefront of all we do here. - It's all good. - It's all good. It's good stuff. Open season. Uh-oh. - Okay. - So here's what we're gonna do. This is the end of our superlative, so congratulations to all our winners. - Hey! Congrats. - We're gonna lock in because there's two final awards that I think can go to anybody, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on them. First is the valedictorian. - Okay. - Second is gonna be student of the year. - Ooh. - Mm, this is tough. - Starting with valedictorian. - What is the criteria for valedictorian? - Really great scores, you know. - Good grades. - You know. - Good grades. - Who gets teachers pet? - No, that doesn't really matter. You just gotta get good grades. - I don't know. I don't know. I think there's definitely some butt kissing that has to happen there, too. - Just good grades. That's all it's measured on. - Oh, isn't it? - It's just good grades. - Dude, you just graduated, Cook. Like, tell me, what is this? - It is good grades. - Valedictorian is the highest UBA. - Told you of any student. - Good grades, okay. - All right, so good grades. - Yeah. - Good grades. - You can be a who gets the best grade out of all the construction industry. - Mm-hmm. - Consistently. - Consistently. - Okay, are we judging this on the basis of like, like, here's the best shape in the, like, of all of the trades, of all the things we do in the construction industry. Like, we feel like this is the segment of our industry that's kind of in the best shape, right? - They kind of, they kind of locked it down. - They kind of got it together and they're really doing well. - Let me maybe put it like this. - I don't. (laughing) - This is the hardest question that has ever been asked. - I just want the history of our podcast. - Just exploded a little bit. - I think it did, because it's just a lot to consider. - Like, who messes up the least? I think that's kind of... - Who does the least? - I got it. - Okay. - I got it. Thought leaders. (laughing) - Yeah? - Thought leaders. - They always win, nothing ever goes wrong. It's always perfect, and you should always do what they tell you to do. Perfect scores across the board, because they've never actually done anything. - I want, I want to just hit the pause button, just a sec here. - Yes. - Because, do you realize what you've done? (laughing) - Yes. - Yes, I did. - Yes, you're doing that thing. - I'm doing it. - You're doing that thing. - I'm doing it. - Thought leaders. - Well? - All right. (laughing) - This is a positive thing. - Takes one to know one. - Yeah. (laughing) - I hear you. (laughing) - Whatever. - Okay, fine. (laughing) - Sorry about that. - Thought leaders. - Thought leaders. - Question mark? - Student of the year. - Student of the year. - What student, what construction part of the industry had the most impact, has the most impact? - The most impact. - Yes. - Positive impact. - Positive impact. - Yes. - My head goes to data center constructors, because, I mean, they're just running away with this massive amount of our industry right now. And, it is also a little bit tongue and cheek, as have been all of the previous superlatives, because I'm not entirely sure. (laughing) How great it is for all of the things happening. Student of the year, that's like projects of the year. You know what I mean? - Student of the year. - AI. (laughing) - That's fair. AI is that. - That's fair. - Student of the year in construction industry is the non-person. - That is fair. - That is fair. Yes. - Yeah, AI. - We're going with AI. - Back at all. - I'm just saying. - Which could totally actually tie in with thought leadership. You know? - 'Cause it's actually leading our thoughts to exactly what it was. - Exactly. - What it was to think. - As is evidenced by the fact that this entire freaking list was generated by AI. (laughing) - Which influenced the entire construction industry, right? - Right, yes. - Was it all? Or was it some? - Eh! - He's not ever known. - Yeah, maybe. - He's not saying. - Yeah, I was totally generated by jumping. (laughing) - No wonder it happened so fast. - Oh my gosh. - We just thought you were like a really fast typist. Boys, what have we learned today? - I don't know yet again. - I like, I keep trying to land this in some like nice way. - This is just for fun, man. - Is it? - We did land it last time on like a tip of the cap and an appreciation. - A salute. - A salute. - A salute to the trades. We can be there again. - Yeah, okay. All right, a salute to superlative winners. - I mean, I do salute everybody who just won one of the superlatives. - Well, you would be saluting me. - So, thank you. - 'Cause I am. - You would be saluting me, sir. - Because I did win one as well. - Did you? - Yeah. - Which one did you? - I was a tragic man. - I was a tragic man. - You are, yeah, you are the ulcer. - No, no, I'm not the ulcer. I'm the one that got it. - You develop an ulcer. - Yeah. So you're the ones that give it and I'm the one that got it. - I don't know how to appropriate it. Why did I put that together? Why did I not put that together? I don't know. Okay. - You are my ulcer, sir. - Yeah. - Yeah, there you go. - Okay. - I like how this wrapped up. - Well, on that disappointment, you guys go build something awesome. (upbeat music) - This episode is brought to you by Bluebeam. You know what software you could pry out of my cold, dead lifeless hands? What's that? Bluebeam. (laughs) It's made this simple thing simple. 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