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Jack Butala: Jack Butala with Jill DeWit
Jill DeWit: Howdy.
Jack Butala: Welcome to our show. Jill is a little bit disgusted.
Jill DeWit: (laughs)
Jack Butala: In this episode, Jill and I talk about how to avoid acquisition to sales bottlenecks. This is another technical show. Sorry, there's so many [we're out 00:00:14]
Jill DeWit: I know.
Jack Butala: Great show today but before we get started, let's share something interesting about what happened to us lately. Jill?
Jill DeWit: Okay. We have a bike problem, Jack. And I need to talk to you about this. So I was wondering if anybody else has something like this. There's bikes ... We can't stop buying bikes. What is this?
Jack Butala: I don't know.
Jill DeWit: It's bikes, bikes, more bikes. Now this bike goes here and that bike goes ... We have so many bicycles in our world. I think because we are now in an environment, well we've always been, and I guess in Arizona though it's too hot sometimes to ride bikes so we don't do them all the time. But here we do.
Jack Butala: Yeah.
Jill DeWit: Everywhere. And that's my point. I want to be where I can ride my bike to my studio ... check. I can ride my bike to the grocery store ... check. My commute, our commute, rocks. Everywhere you and I need to go, we could do it on a bicycle.
Jack Butala: I know.
Jill DeWit: We could actually bicycle to the airport if we had to.
Jack Butala: Right.
Jill DeWit: Because we rode our bikes past the airport.
Jack Butala: Right.
Jill DeWit: So, we could do this. But there's so many bikes. I'm just kind of like ... Well, and equipment. But we kind of got past that. You know? All of our studio equipment.
Jack Butala: Right.
Jill DeWit: So I'm just ... Is it something about us? Does everybody have a thing like this?
Jack Butala: Like everything, it has to come back to something awful that happened in your childhood.
Jill DeWit: Like I never had a bike.
Jack Butala: (laughs)
Jill DeWit: I never had a dog. (laughs)
Jack Butala: Didn't you tell me your dog died on your birthday once?
Jill DeWit: Yes.
Jack Butala: You can't make that stuff up.
Jill DeWit: Oh it did. Oh my gosh I just messed up my headset here. So, yeah, on my sixteenth birthday ...
Jack Butala: It was on your sixteenth birthday, too?
Jill DeWit: Oh my gosh, you want to talk about a sad story.
Jack Butala: I'm sorry.
Jill DeWit: Oh my gosh.
Jack Butala: That's probably why you buy too many bikes.
Jill DeWit: Why I buy too many bikes. It all rooted in this trial, this traumatic childhood event. Yes, it was on my sixteenth birthday that my dog, Cindy, died. And then ...
Jack Butala: Your dogs name is Cindy.
Jill DeWit: Her name was Cindy. Cindy Lou. Love that dog. You know, everybody has that dog growing up that is like ... You get in trouble and you're sent to your room. So I would say, 'Come on, Cindy, let's go.' And she'd follow me. She knew it. It was like we were both in trouble.
Jack Butala: The dog got punished with you.
Jill DeWit: Yeah. You should see us walking down the hall. We both had our heads kind of slumped a little bit as we're going to the bedroom, but I don't know how it got to my dog, but yes there was a traumatic event. So you'd think that ...
Jack Butala: You strike me as a frequently punished young person.
Jill DeWit: Oh I did all kinds of stuff. Oh you better believe it. That was it, man. I got used to it. And thankfully it was usually a swift punishment. So I'm like, okay, over. Let's go.
Jack Butala: Yeah. I grew up in Detroit and we didn't have dogs there.