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Your favorite people spend most of their interview time talking about work: offering up professional insights, sharing the latest thinking on topics of choice, and discussing their latest projects. But there's SO much more to unpack! When you punch out of work, you refocus on your personal passions and side interests. That's exactly what my "Punching Out" co-host, Katie Robbert, and I want to explore. On Punch Out With Katie and Kerry, you'll get to hear about people's fun hobbies, weird collections, and side hustles. For Episode 1 of Season 1, Katie and I cover what we do for fun. Other Season 1 episodes will feature well known personalities including Chris Brogan, Mark Schaefer, Christopher Penn, and Katie Martell! In this inaugural episode, we cover: Why people should tune in to the Punching Out Podcast Why dad jokes are the best - and not told exclusively by dads What activities fall into hobbies, interests and side hustles Bad student films and good movies KenTacoHut This episode of Punch Out With Katie and Kerry is sponsored by Trust Insights. Are you feeling less than confident in your marketing metrics, looking for some help automating your tasks, or wondering what topics are most important to your audience? Using machine learning and artificial intelligence, Trust Insights will help you light up your dark data. Visit trustinsights.ai/punchingout for more information. Punch Out With Katie and Kerry (#PunchOut) is the show that dives deeper into topics you care about. We don't ask the questions everyone else does. We get to the real insights (and the weird hobbies, the guilty pleasures, the secret side hustles...the good stuff)! We find out what really makes your favorite people tick. Punch out with Katie and Kerry! Have a cool hobby or side interest you want to talk about on the show? Let us know: Web: www.punchoutwithus.comEmail: punchoutwithus@gmail.com Hosts: Kerry O'Shea Gorgone (@KerryGorgone) & Katie Robbert (@katierobbert) Transcript: Kerry Gorgone 0:00 Katie, Do you know any dad jokes? Katie Robbert 0:00 As a matter of fact, I do. Did you hear the one about the restaurant on the moon? No great food, no atmosphere. INTRO: Sometimes you just want to talk about something other than work. Katie Roberto and Kerry O'Shea are going get to the weird hobbies guilty pleasures and secret side hustlers. The good stuff about all your favorite people. Punch Out with Katie and Kerry. Kerry Gorgone 0:29 Hi everyone. Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Punching Out Podcast with me, Kerry O'Shea Gorgone and Katie Robbert from Trust Insights. Hey, Katie big first episode you excited. Katie Robbert 0:32 I am beyond excited. This is something I've always wanted to be able to do. Like on my own terms, not for a company, not for anyone else's agenda. And I'm so excited that we finally get to do something like this. Kerry Gorgone 0:52 I have been talking about marketing on the marketing smarts podcast for Marketingprofs for about five years. And I love it. I still love it. But I was ready to talk about something else. I kind of felt like with every guest, they would bring something up. And I would think I'd be so interesting to find out more about that. But it was like a hobby, or a side hustle or a cause they supported or something and didn't really have a place in a business discussion about marketing. So now we can talk about all those things. Katie Katie Robbert 1:16 well, and it's you know, it's something that I think is also so important because especially at trust insights, we really challenge our employees to be well rounded, and not just work 15, 16, 20 hours a day. You know, we want people to have outside hobbies and have other passions outside of marketing. It's just a really healthy way to live. And so I think that this is the perfect complement to what you and I both do. Kerry Gorgone 1:41 It's like the movie "The Firm" with Tom Cruise when he goes to join that law firm. And they're like, the firm encourages children firm doesn't forbid wives from working. You guys are like "The Firm". Katie Robbert 1:51 So, so similar, but not we do not enforce children. Thank goodness, we strongly suggest we don't enforce Kerry Gorgone 2:03 children are not a hobby. Anyway, they're more of a side hustle. But I would say it's like your full time gig. No matter what is going on Katie Robbert 2:11 It's kind of like the show "diners, drive ins and dives." They try to fit everything into one of those three categories. So we fit kids into a side hustle because we have hobbies, interests, and side hustles. So it's like the same thing. Hobbies, Kerry Gorgone 2:25 You're into dad jokes. Katie Robbert 2:27 I loved that job. You Unknown 2:28 don't have good Did your dad joke? No. Katie Robbert 2:31 I want you know, I blame my own dad for it. He taught me some of the worst jokes that I've ever learned. including some really bad sea shanties and limericks Kerry Gorgone Oh. Like pG 13. Kerry Gorgone Yeah, yes. And no. Kerry Gorgone 2:48 Telling me a dad joke, Katie. Katie Robbert Okay. Kerry Gorgone Something you learned by the shanty? Katie Robbert 2:56 Well, here's here's a good dad joke. This is very typical of something that might dad would tell me how many apples grow on a tree? Kerry Gorgone How many Katie Robbert all of them. Kerry Gorgone 3:07 And that is the reaction you're going for. Katie Robbert 3:09 I don't have what, like an Alexa or Google Home. But I've been told that if you do have one, you can actually install a program that you can say, Alexa, tell me a dad joke. And chills. Just start telling you bad jokes. And if I were to invest in like a Google Home, and Alexa. That would be the only reason why. it's just have someone tell me bad jokes all day long. Kerry Gorgone 3:30 But why dad jokes in particular, I mean, moms can tell terrible joke. I tell a ton of mom jokes. By the way. Katie Robbert 3:35 I think it's just the what is always been called. I don't think it's actually necessarily has to be told by a dad. Like, I'm not a dad that I know of. So I think it's just called a dad joke. Because that's what people understand them to be. But I mean, anyone can tell a bad joke. A lot of people tell bad jokes. I think the difference is, anyone can tell them bad joke, but it's considered a dad joke If you kind of get that eye roll and groan, of like, "Oh my god, that's so dumb. It's funny." And I guess that's the difference. Kerry Gorgone 4:10 This is the best. Like, what do you call an elephant that doesn't matter? An irrelevant. Katie Robbert 4:20 I'm gonna have to save that one. Kerry Gorgone 4:22 So dad jokes as a hobby. Just break that out. When you guys have company or what? Katie Robbert 4:25 I don't even need company. I'll just, I mean if my husband is sitting even somewhere within like, 10 feet of me. I'll just start you know, telling jokes. Kerry Gorgone Adam. Sure. You really like that. Katie Robbert There's a reason he married me. He actually really does and the worst the better and then he'll take them to work with him and then start telling them Kerry Gorgone 4:47 how did the dogs like him because you have dogs, right. Katie Robbert 4:50 I do, I have two Newfoundland's one is just under 200 pounds. And the other one is a little hundred-pound bruiser. They tell their own jokes they think it's funny to pull pranks the other day they pretended, like, so I had gotten up a little bit later than I normally do. And they pretended they hadn't eaten so they got two breakfasts so you know so they pulled a prank and my husband rolled into the room he's like oh so they didn't tell you that they've already and I was like "Oh guys you got me" Kerry Gorgone 5:19 you're going to have like morbidly obese already giant Katie Robbert 5:25 no, they eat a normal diet that was that was only one out of you know, the five years that we've been doing this that they've pulled that prank Kerry Gorgone 5:32 Well, normally will be talking to other people about their weird collections and fun hobbies and side hustlers and causes that they support but, you know, we thought for this first episode of The Punching Out Podcast that we would find out about the weird things that you do Katie Robbert 5:44 well, and you Kerry Kerry Gorgone 5:46 and me but you know, I don't have anything as exotic as dad jokes and enormous dogs that I overfeed. I don't even have a goldfish. I just have children and they make an effort not to overfeed them. Although I can say that that always goes on according to plan. Katie Robbert 6:00 Well, we have established that children are a side hustle. Do you have any interesting hobbies? Or do you collect anything? Kerry Gorgone 6:08 I think kids are like tiny thugs to take over your whole life. That's pretty much so I mean, side hustle, I would hesitate to categorize them as but before I had kids, I was at the movies every weekend. You know how they used to tell jokes or they'd have trivia at the beginning of every movie. And you know while they were well before the movie started I got to the point where I knew what the next revolution was going to be before the before it came up. I just been to so many movies anymore as like yes not that they actually give you prizes for that or anything but I felt like every crap movie that came out between 1990 and now Katie Robbert 6:44 what were some of your favorites Kerry Gorgone 6:46 Um, I don't even know why I went to see Titanic because I was like everybody knows how it ends I will say that the lower my expectations the better my reaction when it is not terrible and so I was like oh man that was a amazing like the effects there is a way that the another one along the same lines with Varsity Blues expected to be god awful and when it wasn't that bad I was so thrilled that it wasn't that bad Don't ask me why I think I had run through all the good movies that's what happens right because movies stay out for a while and I was down to like the seeds and stuff as they say in certain the circles and so he went to see "Varsity Blues", fully expecting it to be awful. And it was all right. I tend to like horror movies a lot. And so fairly recently I took my mom to see the first purge Katie Robbert wow Kerry Gorgone I know! that was another season says it's kinda weekend. But you know what, she actually liked it too, because there's a lot of action and stuff so and you don't really need to have seen the rest of them because it is supposed to be the origin story. And if you're familiar with the purge movies, like they locked down the city and everyone's allowed to do whatever they want. Including kill people for like, 12 hours or 24, I forget, maybe 12 Katie Robbert 7:59 I haven't seen but I do love an origin story. So are they are without giving anything away. So if you're in your house, our people love to break into your house. Like Are there any rules with the purge? Or is it just, everything goes? Kerry Gorgone 8:15 everything's legal, everything. Yeah. And so that's the thing. So they'll obviously to be targeting certain people. But their idea, I think, is that the kind of like, the lower classes would just kill each other, this terrible evil, horrible thing, right? And you get to see the beginnings of it, like, how it unfolded and how it actually whatever. But so I was surprised by that movie, too. I mean, that's not none of these are like the best movies that I've seen. Terrible that I was, I was one of those nerds. It was like at the midnight showings for the Lord of the Rings movies, when they came out like it did all of that all the superhero movies, all the horror movies, the really good ones, there were some that were disappointing. I've seen some critically acclaimed movies that turned out to be in my opinion, awful like the "Witch" Katie Robbert 8:56 is that the one where the W looks like two V's? Kerry Gorgone 8:59 I don't remember. I don't remember it. Seeing on Rotten Tomatoes. It had like this ridiculously high score, you know, that movie ratings website and I thought, you know, give it a whirl and they turned up for it. And it was it was just terrible, really slow moving and depressing as hell. And I was like, I want two and a half hours of my life back so angry. Katie Robbert 9:17 I think I see that one pop up on Netflix because I also watch a lot of horror movies and I've watched a lot of bad ones. I think one of the worst ones I watched was on a flight back from San Francisco to Boston and it was "the pretty thing that lives in the walls" Kerry Gorgone I haven't seen that Katie Robbert and just in general like the title sounds like oh that'll be really interesting and the preview was really interesting but there was almost no dialogue and it was like a single shot on the actress the whole time and it just was so slow and so terrible and I was really disappointed because I was really hoping to watch you know a really exciting horror movie so instead I switched over to Stephen King's thinner which was way better yeah and on a plane when other people are trying to figure out what you're doing like the guy next to me was horrified Kerry Gorgone 10:04 I bet well even the made for TV Stephen King movies are going to be better than some of the stuff that's out there I like the ones that they release it seems like in Paris like to similar movies with a similar story like Armageddon and Deep Impact right and then you're like Armageddon was so much better way better Yes Are there was deep blue sea and then there was a deep rising or something and one was about smart sharks for the other was about but anyway so I like those kinds of barriers you know comparing which was better and stuff you know i'm a movie buff and it's partly about the experience I kind of like getting out and going to the theater Katie Robbert 10:37 so I don't know if you know this Kerry but I actually have a film degree no way I studied film at Fitchburg state it was college back them now it's University Kerry Gorgone 10:49 it matriculated Katie Robbert 10:51 so I to have made a bad student film in my day. And because I also love horror movies. That was the genre that I kept trying to make. But what would happen was we would the team and I would set out to make this horror movie and it would turn into a comedy. So we just rolled with it. And we ended up making this one called quiet hours. Because you know, when you're in college, you have no budget, you have to kind of have to work with like the surroundings that you have. So we came up with this plot where there is this one, like sort of psychopathic kid who was trying to study during finals. And during finals, you have the quiet hour. So like every floor, every dorm has to be like no music, no parties, that kind of a thing. Kerry Gorgone 11:32 I was a Resident Assistant, I enforce this. Katie Robbert 11:35 And so you know, and so basically what would happen was he was he started murdering all of the people who were violating quiet hours. Who hasn't wanted to do that. So you had someone who was singing in the shower, so there was a shower murder scene. And of course, he was singing that Maxwell's "I always feel like somebody's watching me" Kerry Gorgone 11:54 of course you've got clearance for that. Katie Robbert 11:56 I mean, yes, of course. There was a kid who was that was this was back in the day when they were actual phones tethered to w…
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