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In this episode, we’re covering topics in multiple categories. We talk about our love for Soda or Pop, but we also talk about integrity in the work place and how important it is to maintain honesty in Real Estate.
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Introduction to 'Thoughts for Rent' Podcast
00:00:20
Irelynn Zurflueh
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Thoughts for Rent, Realtors Keeping It Real. I'm Max Zerflu, and this is my wife. Jenny McKenna. Jenny McKenna of McKenna Property Management fame, the queen of property management. I don't know about that. You are.
00:00:38
Irelynn Zurflueh
You're my queen, and you're the queen of property management. We're going to go a little different direction, throw you a little curveball today. So just so that everybody knows, I have absolutely no idea what we're going to talk about today. She hates that. I do hate that. She has a little bit of a control issue. So we're going to just ask her some questions and start some topics. Oh my gosh. I didn't know I was going to be on the hot seat. don't know if you're on the hot seat. You just don't know what the topics are, but we're going to talk about a couple of different things. I'm actually going to use notes. How do you feel about that? That's different.
00:01:12
Irelynn Zurflueh
We're stepping outside of our comfort zone here today.
Soda Pop Memories and Themes
00:01:15
Irelynn Zurflueh
But the first thing I want to talk about is soda pop. Okay. Because I think soda pop is pretty cool.
00:01:24
Irelynn Zurflueh
And it's a big part of our culture here in America. I like soda pop, but I like ice in my soda pop. Well, we'll get to that. Okay. Before we get too far, this is a podcast where we talk about real estate, life, ourselves, other people, travel, fun things in life, And today our first topic is soda pop.
00:01:46
Irelynn Zurflueh
Now, when I grew up, I grew up in Oregon and we didn't have a lot of soda pop, to be honest with you. I don't remember soda pop until I was about eight, probably.
00:01:59
Irelynn Zurflueh
And just so everybody knows, he's almost 60 years old. That's not important oh this conversation. So when I was eight in Oregon, my parents, they were members at a place called the Pop Shop.
00:02:11
Irelynn Zurflueh
Oh, wow, fun. I don't know if it was fun because you'd go there and they'd give you, they were all in the same size bottle and you'd get a case of them and they were like cola or they were like Sprite. Oh. so they weren't like the real deal. They were generic. So my first relationship with soda was like a generic soda.
00:02:30
Irelynn Zurflueh
Interesting. How about you? What was your? I don't do anything generic. Well, so when you were a kid though, it was Coke. It was Coke. It was. Thank goodness my mom is also a Coke lover.
00:02:42
Irelynn Zurflueh
And I mean soda pop Coke lover.
The History of Dr. Pepper: A Love Story?
00:02:45
Irelynn Zurflueh
So we we had real stuff. We did Diet Coke, regular Coke, Dr. Pepper. We're not a Pepsi family, but no, we didn't do like RC Cola or any knockoffs. We were like the real deal. How about Tab? um No, no, no, no. That is, we do not bring Tab into our household.
00:03:06
Irelynn Zurflueh
Why not? Because that's what lot of the Utah people would do as a like a It was cool. We drank tab. after Well, we did not. After we were done with the bottle shop, we break into tab and Pepsi light.
00:03:20
Irelynn Zurflueh
Yeah. Not our family. Do you remember Pepsi? life I do. Pepsi lights. The song was we put a little lemony taste in and took out half the calories. Oh my gosh. It's kind of a cool. It was a cool jingle, yeah but my true love is what Jennifer, Dr. Pepper, Dr. Pepper. Yep.
00:03:40
Irelynn Zurflueh
What is is it? Three o'clock. 6 o'clock? 10, 3, and 6, or something like that. Yeah. You're supposed to have a Dr. Pepper every three hours. you know what the oldest soda pop in America is?
00:03:52
Irelynn Zurflueh
Wow. um and eight just I'm going to say Dr. Pepper. It is Dr. Pepper. There's a great Paul Harvey broadcast where he tells the story of Dr. Pepper. yeah There was a young man who was living in a city, And he worked in a, uh, what was called? on Like a pharmacy, but they also had like a fountain bar and he was courting the owner's daughter, but, and he really loved her true love. And he, yeah he was going to ask her to marry him. He had big plans for, but one night the girl's father, um, approached him and said, I don't want you to date my daughter.
00:04:40
Irelynn Zurflueh
oh I have higher expectations for her. She should marry a doctor, a lawyer, somebody professional, not someone like you. Wow. So he didn't, I guess back in that day, like if you told a kid that now, he'd be like, I don't care what you want. I'm going to date your daughter.
00:04:56
Irelynn Zurflueh
He said, okay, I'm leaving town. And he took off and he left.
Coke vs. Pepsi: The Great Debate
00:05:01
Irelynn Zurflueh
And he left and he went to Waco, Texas. Okay. I see where this is going. Where he developed a little thing called Dr. Pepper. Yep. In Waco, Texas. Yes. But the name, the the father who was the father of the girl, he was a doctor. Yeah. And his last name was Pepper. Pepper.
00:05:19
Irelynn Zurflueh
that's So he dedicated his entire business to kind of say, up yours. I don't know about that. Father that didn't let him marry your daughter. The father was probably like well that guy did pretty good.
00:05:31
Irelynn Zurflueh
You know, yes, but I still think he did Dr. Pepper to say up yours, father, who didn't think I was good enough for your daughter. Okay. You go to a restaurant, Jenny, and you order a Diet Coke.
00:05:43
Irelynn Zurflueh
Yes. And they say, ah we'd have Pepsi products. What do you do? I say, no, thank you. Iced tea. Really? Yep. Can't do Diet Pepsi. I think Diet Pepsi tastes like sugar. I think Pepsi tastes like pure sugar. Wow. You're not a Pepsi fan at all. I am not. How about ginger ale?
00:06:01
Irelynn Zurflueh
I could go for ginger ale. Which kind? Canadian. Canada Dry? Yeah, Canada Dry. Not Schweppes? I think either one's. i'm I prefer Canada Dry. I'm good with either. If it's if it's anything ginger ale, I'm fine. Do you think Mr. Pibb is an acceptable replacement for Dr. Pepper? No.
00:06:22
Irelynn Zurflueh
No. Geez. Absolutely not. Are you a soda snob? Yes, I am. do you know why it's called soda? Oh, no, I don't. It's from the word sodium. Oh, interesting. I'm sure there's more information than that, but that's all I know. It's funny because when I say to clients and friends, I want to order a soda pop, they make fun of me because I guess soda pop is kind of an Eastern, like on the East Coast side, everybody calls it soda pop, but we don't, we call it.
00:06:53
Irelynn Zurflueh
A soda or the brand name you say? Yeah, I think we don't even say soda. I think soda pops like a southern thing. Okay. And I have, you know, my brother married someone from Arkansas and they live in Texas. And it's funny because they when they want to have a soda pop, they kind of call it a cold drink.
00:07:08
Irelynn Zurflueh
A cold drink We're going to have a cold drink. Nice. Do you think peps you think sodas are good for us? Soda is not good for us at all. But we drink so much of it.
00:07:19
Irelynn Zurflueh
Well, I drink one can a day. That's not that much. i meant society. Well, I would say soda pop is better than a beer or wine or hard liquor.
00:07:32
Irelynn Zurflueh
You may get an argument there. Some people might say, I drink a glass of wine every night and it cleanses me or does what's good for me. Maybe people would say a glass of wine is better than a Coke.
00:07:43
Irelynn Zurflueh
I'm not saying that a glass of wine is not good for you. The data is there. I just don't think that you should be going in to enjoy a hard liquor or drap beer or wine during the day where a soda pop you can enjoy in the middle of the day.
00:07:59
Irelynn Zurflueh
Some people enjoy those things you listed during the day too. Not people that I know. You know, you can't at least they don't let you can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning. okay oh How about this so okay Too much soda is probably a bad thing. yes Too much beer, too much wine, too much too much of any substance is a bad thing.
00:08:20
Irelynn Zurflueh
I agree.
Soda's Cultural Impact and Uses
00:08:21
Irelynn Zurflueh
do you remember the test where you they put a piece of chalk in a glass of Coke and it would like eat it up? Well, first of all, I think this is true. I've heard it many reliable places.
00:08:35
Irelynn Zurflueh
But if they want to get blood off of concrete, they actually use coke. Wow. Yeah. So, yeah, we're putting something in our body that that can clean asphalt and concrete. That kind of scares you a little bit. Sounds great. I also remember being in the fifth or sixth grade, and one of the and classmates' father, he was a dentist, and he brought in some extra teeth. And her science experiment was a tooth in Sprite, in Coke, and in water. Ooh, that Coke one for, it was like 20 or 30 days. That tooth was just disgusting. Wow. It wasn't even like a tooth anymore. I've heard that, you know.
00:09:21
Irelynn Zurflueh
I really have. You know, you talked about RC Cola. I had an ant. Every time I wanted her to stay with her, she would get a six pack of RC Cola and some cigarettes. And that was her evening while I was playing with my cousins.
00:09:36
Irelynn Zurflueh
Things have changed a little bit, huh? I bet if I took a RC Cola to her right now, she'd probably throw it back at me. Well, that kind of concludes our soda segment of the podcast today. glad I was able to participate in that. Well, we'd love that you participated. We'd also love to hear what you think about sodas. Are you a Pepsi person, Coke person?
00:09:58
Irelynn Zurflueh
Do you drink soda? So give us a comment, send us a note, tell us what you think. You know what I'm upset about? Are you still talking about soda? Well, I don't know why the halftime has to be the Pepsi halftime.
00:10:10
Irelynn Zurflueh
hate that. It's not always it. oh you oh it is. Super Bowl halftime show? Super Bowl halftime show, for as long as I can remember, is sponsored by Pepsi. And I've always been just a little aggravated boy about that. What about someone who likes Pepsi? I bet they're not aggravated by it at I have never met anyone who likes Pepsi over Coke.
00:10:29
Irelynn Zurflueh
There's got to be Pepsi people there. hey, max threw it out there. They're company. They're a big company. If you're a Pepsi lover, we want to hear about it. Because to my knowledge, no one that I am affiliated with or associated with likes Pepsi over Coke.
00:10:43
Irelynn Zurflueh
You do know that if I order a Diet Coke when we're having a meal and the lady or the gentleman says we do Pepsi products, is a Diet Pepsi okay? You say yes. I'm not saying people won't drink it if it's offered to them. I'm just saying Coke or Pepsi. I don't know anybody that picks Pepsi over Coke. Well, okay. That's just my thought. Hey, I hope you send in some of your information and let us know.
00:11:12
Irelynn Zurflueh
mean, it's huge company and some people might just to say you might not know anybody, but hey. All right. We're moving on to our next topic. Maybe it's like when you and I, oh when we go to places and we see like a shop and we're like, how does that shop stay in business? And you always say they're drug it that they're selling drugs on the back door by the back door. Maybe Pepsi's that's that that way too.
00:11:37
Irelynn Zurflueh
Do know she gets upset when we go to a hotel or a resort and it says Pepsi products sold here? Sometimes she won't go to a resort. If we're online going, hey, where should we go? Oh, this place is Pepsi. Forget it. We're not going. I also don't like it when we go see... Any sporting event, and we walk in, and it's a Pepsi stadium. That always pisses me off. Because you don't have an opportunity of an iced tea. You don't have ah any other choice. You have to go with, like, Sprite, which isn't Pepsi's version. Pepsi's version of Sprite.
00:12:10
Irelynn Zurflueh
Which Mist, maybe. Sierra Mist. Yes. yeah I was going to say, LeBron James does the... Sprite. He does Sprite. Oh, he does? think. Okay. I don't know. Yeah, but Sierra Mist is right. We're almost, we're more than halfway I'm sorry, we should probably move on. We've out-talked pop soda. o We're going to jump from soda to a question about honesty and integrity in the workplace.
Honesty and Integrity in Real Estate
00:12:32
Irelynn Zurflueh
Oh, God. You really want to open up a can of worms. We have a third topic if we get through this one soon. ah Okay, so start it off. Well, my question is on this topic of integrity and honesty in the workplace. Yes. I think that I've heard people say before, you've said it, as long as you never lie, you never have to wonder what you told somebody. I think that's grateful a great philosophy.
00:12:59
Irelynn Zurflueh
a Great way of life. Yeah, i mean and we're in real estate. And there probably are some maybe professionals in our industry that aren't always as honest or truthful as they should be when it comes to either disclosing stuff to your client, disclosing stuff about a property that you know about, because in the end people want to get paid.
00:13:23
Irelynn Zurflueh
So what usually happens is you go, if I tell the truth here and be totally honest and transparent, it might mess up my deal. Yeah. So what do you do?
00:13:33
Irelynn Zurflueh
I like to take the approach of just tell everybody everything, let it all out there. So you're not going to later on wonder if you're, you know, going to get in trouble or you you weren't, you know, honest. I think the bottom line is you sleep better when you tell the truth, period.
00:13:51
Irelynn Zurflueh
That's true. And if you lose a deal, you lose a client, you lose a friendship, whatever. I think that at the end of the day, you're going to sleep better knowing that you were honest. Now,
00:14:02
Irelynn Zurflueh
I do want to put a ca caveat. Yes. Caveat alert. Yes. When I brought up a friend and even a client, you don't have to be brutally honest.
00:14:15
Irelynn Zurflueh
You just have to be honest. A friend. Yeah. Like, so if a friend says to me, do I look okay before we go out? And I don't think she looks okay. That's totally my opinion. That's not, it's not gospel. It's not a fact. Okay. So,
00:14:32
Irelynn Zurflueh
In my mind, I might be like, well, no, you shouldn't wear those super tight pants that make your butt look big. But I'm not going to say that. I don't have to be brutally honest. You're going to tell a little white lie. I'm just going to say, hey, you look good to go out.
00:14:48
Irelynn Zurflueh
Okay. That's you and your friend. Yeah. Let's say a wife says to their husband, hey, do these pants make my butt look big? What does the wife want to hear? Can the husband dare to be honest if he thinks it makes her butt look big? By the way, your butt never looks too big.
00:15:06
Irelynn Zurflueh
Perfect butt. What does a wife want?
00:15:11
Irelynn Zurflueh
I don't think we want the honesty. You don't? I don't. Oh, my God. Because this is the thing. You've gotten ready. You've already put it in your brain, what you're going to be wearing, wherever you're going. Really what you want is you just want your husband to make you feel Oh, you look great.
00:15:28
Irelynn Zurflueh
You look great, babe. Even though I might know that he's telling a little white lie, it just sets the mood. Because if you were to say, well, your butt looks good, I'm probably not going to go change my clothes. Or if I do go change my clothes. What if I said your butt looks big I might go changing my clothes, which then means I'm really pissed off. I'm late.
00:15:48
Irelynn Zurflueh
I'm not feeling like what I thought I was going to do. So I would say, stay away. if the white expects the husband to just say, oh, you look great. Now, when the husband says that, sometimes it's, oh, you didn't even look or, oh, are you sure? You know, when Princess and the Bride, when the guy poisons the one drink and says, no, you don't know if I switched or you switched, it creates a bit of an issue.
00:16:08
Irelynn Zurflueh
I think that As a husband, you should just know to always compliment your wife. Period. I think it's party period in this story it's part of your of marriage duty. This segment was brought to you by diet Coke.
00:16:26
Irelynn Zurflueh
But I will say that when you're talking to, at least for me, when I talk to my clients who are owners of property and they say something like, um,
00:16:38
Irelynn Zurflueh
you know, I think this really this green wall looks really good. What do you think, Jenny? I avoid the, what do I think? I go directly to, well, I can show to you that a property that is neutral in color is going to rent faster than something that has multiple color walls. So I'm, again, not going to give them the honest truth of my opinion, i am going to frame it to where I don't get into trouble. So maybe the husband should just frame it to where he tells his wife something that's not going to get him into trouble.
00:17:13
Irelynn Zurflueh
Like, hey, those pants do make your butt look really voluptuous. So let's go, honey. Go to the party, I mean. Yeah. Remember the last time she said, just tell her she looks good. Let's stick with that boy. Don't try to mess with it. She just went off the ranch a little bit. I'll put crazy on the shelf.
00:17:37
Irelynn Zurflueh
Also with pricing of a house, yes presentation of a house, you know a realtor doesn't want to upset their client. but if i was I like to say this. If I'm talking to a client, I'm acting like I'm talking to one of my to my brother.
00:17:52
Irelynn Zurflueh
Because I would tell him the honest truth and I'd say, this is, your house does not present well. And if you don't fix it up, it's not going to sell for more than this. You're going have a hard time getting showings. I even like to tell people, is it okay if I talk to you as if you're my brother or my mom?
00:18:08
Irelynn Zurflueh
Yeah. Okay. That's a great way to set that up. I think if you didn't set it up with that, you could sound a little too harsh. You might turn somebody
Challenges of Honesty in Business
00:18:18
Irelynn Zurflueh
off. Let's jump over to the workplace, like an office, like your company.
00:18:22
Irelynn Zurflueh
Yeah. Do you think that honesty and integrity rule the day in your office? Maybe not. Let's not narrow down to your office. But do you think workers, staff, employees are pretty apt to bend the truth if it's going to make them look a little bit better? Yes, and that's frustrating. But i also understand why they do it because i do have team members that are very blunt, very honest. They'll tell you exactly what their opinion is or what they did um when you ask them. And in doing so, they have rubbed other team members the wrong way. So it is it's a tricky tightrope because I don't want to be lied to, but I also, i just think that sometimes you can really even turn me off when we're in a conversation if you're being completely blunt and not taking... feelings and emotions into consideration. Yeah.
00:19:23
Irelynn Zurflueh
i yeah I think I agree with that, but I'm also thinking about task related items. I think if you tell somebody, this is what I want you to do. And then you see, it hasn't gotten done yet.
00:19:36
Irelynn Zurflueh
And then you say, Hey, did that get done? And they say, yes. And then they quick do it. i know like cat hate that You know, or, you know, they also you can say well I was gonna do that but then this other person told me they were gonna do it or they said they were gonna get involved and they just have different ways to create I guess falsehoods so that they don't look bad right I think it ultimately in anybody's situation when they start to lie about what they're accomplishing or doing it's because they don't want themselves to look bad yeah I agree I think it's survival you want to always be important you want the person that you're that's speaking to you to feel like, you know, you're they're worthy, that you're
Discussing Children's Dishonesty
00:20:20
Irelynn Zurflueh
worthy to them. And so they decide to go falsehoods.
00:20:24
Irelynn Zurflueh
Now, children, your children. Oh, my gosh. Everything you were that comes out of their mouth is false. Not everything. No, seriously. As you were saying that about wanting them to be seen in a good light, I i thought about children. Yes.
00:20:40
Irelynn Zurflueh
I think if ah if there's a parent out there who has children, They have to assume they're being lied to. yeah I would say that from the age of 11 all the way until they move out of your home, anything that if the lips are moving, you can anticipate 90% of it is not true. lips are move yeah That's sad. Well, i again, I think it comes right down to they don't want the parents to think less of them. They want to have their parents feel proud They might've said they were going to take out the garbage and then they honestly forgot. They don't want the repercussions. So they try and lie or as you said, have falsehoods about it. It's just, it's kind of the way of life. And it sort of sucks because that way of life goes right into the business world. And i don't, if there's a a magic potion, procedure, something, it would be great to know.
00:21:41
Irelynn Zurflueh
It would be great to know. what's ah What I find interesting about parents, because we were we are parents, yes by the way. do you know that? But we're empty nesters, which is nice. But when we found out our children were lying to us, we were appalled. Appalled. How could they possibly not be totally honest with us? Because I feel like we... Hang on there, bud. What people forget is they were youth ones, too. Yeah.
00:22:08
Irelynn Zurflueh
And so even me, I'm like, how could you lie to me? And I go, well, crap, I lied to my parents left and right. hate when you say that. Is it true? I hate it. it true? First of all.
00:22:18
Irelynn Zurflueh
Is it true? It's two different compartments. You're growing up, you're experiencing things, you do what you do. Stop comparing that to being a parent. When you're a parent, you better buck up and do it right. You said everybody. If you're children from 11, when they move out, everybody. Is that that just this current generation? I think you can stop the comment to your kids that say, oh, I remember when I lied to my parents. No, stop. Those are fun. those are fun don't Don't share too much. As a parent, don't share all your grown-up tales, growing-up
The Art of Skilled Communication
00:22:57
Irelynn Zurflueh
tales. Well, I think we can sum up honesty by it's a good thing in business and in a relationship.
00:23:06
Irelynn Zurflueh
The more honest you can be, the better. My mother is a good example of that. She will hold back nothing. And sometimes you go, my gosh, I can't believe you said that.
00:23:16
Irelynn Zurflueh
But then you go, well, the truth will set you free. The truth will set you free. do you know what else I want to share everyone? get in trouble too sometimes. go ahead. I think that, yes, you should always tell the truth.
00:23:30
Irelynn Zurflueh
Yes, you should have integrity. it should be top of your character list. I also think that by being a skilled communicator, you can Skate the truth?
00:23:43
Irelynn Zurflueh
No, you can, by being a skilled communicator, you can tell the truth without hurting people's feelings. Oh, sure. Because honestly, I think that's why people lie or tell falsehoods anyways. So get to the root of it. Be a better communicator. True that. Don't want to hurt people's feelings. There you That's a good call, Jenny. Thank you. That's why we keep her around, folks.
00:24:05
Irelynn Zurflueh
The host with the most. Hostess with the mostess. And I drink a little Diet Coke since it's not Pepsi.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
00:24:12
Irelynn Zurflueh
That's why we keep her around for this podcast.
00:24:16
Irelynn Zurflueh
Realtors keeping it real thoughts for rent. We are glad you joined us. We didn't have time for our third topic, so maybe we'll address that later. Have a Coke, have a Dr. Pepper. Don't have a Pepsi and be honest, tell the truth and you will have a great life.
00:24:36
Irelynn Zurflueh
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00:24:48
Irelynn Zurflueh
We do. We do. Now, this is when Jenny leans forward to stop the recording. We're highly technical here at Thoughts for Rent. Have a great day.