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Jack Butala: Jack and Jill here.
Jill DeWit: Hi.
Jack Butala: Welcome to the Jack Jill Show, I'm Jack Butala.
Jill DeWit: And I am Jill DeWit. Broadcasting this week from sunny Southern California where everyone seems to have an Emmy on their mantle. Have you noticed that?
Jack Butala: Oh my gosh, you're right. Or some kind of award.
Jill DeWit: It's so funny.
Jack Butala: Everyone's got award here.
Jill DeWit: Oh, and I was blown away the other day. We were ... Jack and I were looking at some office space, very close to our home. And it's in an interesting environment where you have lots of different sizes of office space. And it looked like ... We were sitting on this ... We were up on a deck, overlooking the ocean view, because of course this office space happens to have an ocean view, and beautiful deck, it's just gorgeous.
And I look behind me and it's clearly someone's private office. And I can kinda see over above the line where the windows are kinda clouded, they have a shelf.
Jack Butala: You see a silhouette.
Jill DeWit: And it was not one Emmy, or Oscar, or Grammy, but like 10.
Jack Butala: It was like thirty. Yeah.
Jill DeWit: Or more. I'm like, it was just rows of them. I'm like, "Whose office is that?"
Jack Butala: So, I didn't realize it but ... I didn't realize it until we got ... Spent a lot of time here that there's video and audio production companies that win all kinds of awards. It's not the ones that you see on Saturday night on these award show, but they're given by their peers. Issued by their peers.
And so, every time you see a piece of audio, or a piece of video, I mean. You know, in that television or movie format, or sports and stuff ... There's a huge production company behind it.
It's a lot of work.
Jill DeWit: Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Jack Butala: Like a ton of work. And people get awards for that.
Jill DeWit: Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Jack Butala: It's cool.
Jill DeWit: Exactly.
Jack Butala: We all sit here around and think about actors, and directors, and stuff, but there's so much other stuff going on.
Jill DeWit: That's really what I was talking about. Actors and directors, because there's a lot of that too.
Jack Butala: You know what I noticed about that office?
Jill DeWit: Huh?
Jack Butala: I noticed about that office is that, the lights are turned off and everything was locked.
Jill DeWit: Nobody was there.
Jack Butala: Yeah.
Jill DeWit: Just a place to store their stuff.
Jack Butala: I had a ... I was an auditor a long time ago. You know, not a tax auditor, but an accounting auditor. And we used to go into these huge manufacturing buildings, and facilities in the Midwest, and audit their financial statements, and the owner was never there. There's always, like, you know, picture an industrial building that's a mess. Right?
And then there's a little office over there, it's all decorated, his wife's decorated his ... And he's never there.
Jill DeWit: I want a company just like that.
Jack Butala: I do too. That's what I mean. It's like, you know what? As if to say, "You know, I uh, I got something better to do today."
Jill DeWit: Yeah,