Speaker 1: 0:14

we were having a combo and you said, come to my trim. So I, uh, I started the recording so what I would say?

Speaker 2: 0:21

and I don't, please don't take this the wrong way.

Speaker 1: 0:23

It's been a long day for me I'm about to take this the wrong way. I can tell.

Speaker 2: 0:28

Yeah, it's that classic, isn't it? Someone's teeing themselves up.

Speaker 1: 0:33

Respectfully about to say the least respectful stuff in the world.

Speaker 2: 0:36

That's it. Have you seen a button mushroom? Because that's kind of what the vibe is at the moment and I was surprised that your hair's grown. It's growing on top of your head, so the sides are still very, very short, but the kind of sides and the top bit, like the top kind of, you know, like the ledge where before, where the top bit of your hair transitions to the side, it's that that top bit has become an overhang and it kind of looks like a, a mushroom head yeah, I did.

Speaker 1: 1:12

I did go through a phase, uh, a lockdown post, just post lockdown, because I was one of the ones that I didn't shave my like for men. In during lockdown, people went through two options, didn't they? It was either shave your head or grow your hair out. And I went through the grow your hair out option, um, and then I got, you know once, once things started opening, so just growing it and growing it, I went to get a perm and, uh, I got.

Speaker 1: 1:42

I just I was, uh, I was living in, you know, student accommodation, I was poor, I was trying to save money. I just found the cheapest place that would do perms I think it was like half the price of everywhere else and it was the worst perm ever, like. It didn't properly curl my hair, it just made it look like a massive sort of like uh shelf over the front of my head, um. So, yeah, I got scarred by that. I just shaved it, shaved it off, basically went to the sort of um phil foden type line on your head. But now, you know, now I'm willing to sort of experiment, uh, with growing it a bit longer I don't know if you should.

Speaker 1: 2:25

To be honest, the bit, the bit I was waving how have your fringe not got any longer?

Speaker 1: 2:33

but your hair is so weird yeah it's sort of yeah, it's sort of kind of like ballooned out a little bit, I think, to be fair. To be fair, it's sort of I do need to go for a trim. This is like the longest I've gone for a trim in a while. I'm trying to, yeah, I'm trying to, um, I'm trying to grow it a bit longer, I'm trying to wait, wait and sort of get the most out of my money. But when it what? You know? You know I've moved, I've cheated on my old barber, I've moved to a different town, so I can't go to my old barber. The new woman just just decides what I have. So I go to her and say I say, can I have this and this? And she goes no, you don't want that, you want this Like, oh, okay.

Speaker 2: 3:19

That's called roulette, isn't it? You give them your head yeah, um, you give them the head and then it's. It's a bit of roulette as to what you're going to get out of it, you know, will it, will it be trimmed? Will it be patchy?

Speaker 1: 3:32

short, back and sides skin fade what you're getting yeah, yeah so don't be afraid to ask your barber for that yeah, there's a new haircut that's becoming into fashion at the moment. It's called the Brazilian. You should definitely go and ask your barber for a Brazilian.

Speaker 2: 3:54

It's just a well-known term. Is it the Brazilian nut?

Speaker 1: 4:00

I don't know. I think that's a variant of it.

Speaker 2: 4:04

Yeah, because.

Speaker 1: 4:04

I'm sure you can ask. Ask a barber for.

Speaker 2: 4:07

Brazilian nut.

Speaker 1: 4:10

Yeah, yeah, maybe that'll work.

Speaker 2: 4:16

Yeah, but definitely go to a barber shop on the weekend, man I need to.

Speaker 1: 4:19

Nah, I don't like going on the weekend. I'm an anti-weekender.

Speaker 2: 4:24

Yeah, you're a classic like let's just go between two meetings at work and then just apologise for being late later.

Speaker 1: 4:34

No, I think it's worth it to go during the week. Maybe, like a Wednesday, wednesday or Thursday is a good day, in my opinion, because they're getting warmed up. They're just, they're getting warmed up, you know, they're getting warmed up for the big Friday and Saturday, when they're the busiest, but they're not tired yet. Yeah, it's just like. It's like uh, you know, they've, they've just finished the warm-up, they've, you know, they've done a couple of dodgy haircuts. They've got those out the way. Now they're ready to smash it out the park. I mean, it hasn't worked for me, but I'm hoping. I'm hoping one day.

Speaker 2: 5:08

One day it will, it will come to fruition negotiation rears has dropped by about five percent, maybe even ten percent, with your current hair, like if I, if I was negotiating a contract with you and you walked in had that mushroom top on your head, I'll be, I'll be mugging you right off with the pricing. Alright, I see what's happening here sorry, my connection went yeah, no worries. I don't know why you seem very blurry today. I don't know if it's me or you, but it's. It's making the haircut even better yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 5:49

I mean I'm not gonna I'm not gonna kind of deny that it needs some improvement, and urgently, but I'm just I'm hibernating in the pub this weekend, so I'll be willing to just yeah, just keep. Maybe I'll be willing to just yeah, just just keep, maybe I'll go.

Speaker 2: 6:07

I'll go next weekend you're joining society, aren't you? Yeah, making some more friends.

Speaker 1: 6:14

I'm very proud of you. Maybe I'll find some. I'll find some barbers in there yeah anyway, we're not here to talk about trims, are we feels?

Speaker 2: 6:24

like we are. I feel like we're a here to talk about trims, are we? It feels like we are for a haircut podcast we, we should be.

Speaker 1: 6:29

Is that a thing?

Speaker 2: 6:30

haircut podcast I don't know, it's quite hard to discuss, like actually, what's harder to talk about, you know, mendelo's matrix, or just describing a trim yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1: 6:43

It doesn't really work for for haircut. Haircut is always a visual thing, really, isn't it?

Speaker 2: 6:49

yeah, but we did struggle to differentiate and describe the y-axis and x-axis. Yeah, yeah, and what box went where? So I feel like you know maybe just uh, describe that, describe the sides, then we'll move on to the back and then we'll go up top yeah, but I'm keen to to move you through another part of the podcast today.

Speaker 1: 7:18

So hello and welcome to. Let's Talk Procurement, the only show you need to master the art of procurement, let's go. So welcome again today, guys, now we're in the kind of we've got all the chat out of the way. We're going to be efficient, we're going to be on it, we're going to be professional. So we'll move swiftly on to the bulletin. Have I got anything for the bulletin?

Speaker 1: 7:52

yes, I have yep I've got two things for the bulletin. Um, I wanted to uh apologize for the last week's episode, um, which isn't last week's episode. Um, which isn't last week's episode Now you're listening to. Well, isn't last week's episode for us, but it is for you or other way around, I don't know. It's two weeks ago as episode for you. Um, I, I had, uh, uh, a significant cold. So, yeah, I mean, if you, if you like, I had a significant cold. So, yeah, I mean, if you like that sort of thing, if you like that sort of listening experience, then it's a great episode. However, if you don't, then that's my apology. And second thing, the bulletin.

Speaker 1: 8:38

In the last episode that we did on Results Day, which is what today's episode is, I said thanks for 5k downloads. Um, because that's been sat in our, in our bank for so long. We've now surpassed 6k downloads by quite a lot. Um, so yeah, now, now I'm going to say thanks for 6k downloads and by the time this goes out, we'll probably be saying thanks for a million downloads, because we'll have, we'll have done something cancelable and everyone will be uh investigating our past. So, thanks for thanks for 50k downloads. I'm going to say I reckon we'll get to 50k by the time this one goes out. We appreciate you all and we wanted to say that you're not as good as the first 5K, but you're better than the first 100K.

Speaker 2: 9:39

You've invested slightly early, so well done. I mean, yeah, we appreciate that. Hopefully, some of you are return listeners, though Some of you from the first 5K are listeners returning, it's just 6,000 different people. That would be amazing. I mean, while we're on that topic, we have got some new locations to shout out. Are you ready?

Speaker 1: 9:58

I am Wait, hold on, hold on. I need to compose myself.

Speaker 2: 10:02

We have now got Frankfurt am Main Barnet in the UK.

Speaker 1: 10:10

Two shocking places, Two yeah.

Speaker 2: 10:14

Idaho Moscow, a place called Moscow in Idaho, arecibo in Puerto Rico.

Speaker 1: 10:23

Yes, love it. Island life, strasbourg. Yeah, what country is that? Austria? You say Germany. You're wrong, is it?

Speaker 2: 10:35

Austria, isn't it? Yeah, boxburg, I've never heard of that Boxburg. No, in Gauteng Boxburg. Have you heard of that? Where's Gauteng Mateburg? Have you heard of that?

Speaker 1: 10:44

where's Gauteng?

Speaker 2: 10:46

mate, I have no idea. I'm just looking around thinking that is awesome. Bear in mind, if someone was looking at this and it was the UK and they see, like Rotherham, they're going to be just as impressed as we are seeing Boxburg. Germany okay, we're big in Germany, then Lawrenceville, georgia, germany. Okay, we're big in Germany, then Lawrenceville, georgia, riga. You've been to Riga, haven't you? I have indeed Two more the Isle of man, two more Giza.

Speaker 1: 11:25

Is that where the pyramids are? I don't know mate someone's listening to us while climbing the pyramids.

Speaker 2: 11:32

Tag, tag tag Villaran in Bohol, nice. Shout out to the listener in tag Villaran that's my favourite listener.

Speaker 1: 11:43

Sorry to all the others, erm to the listener in Tagpillaran. That's my favourite listener.

Speaker 2: 11:47

Sorry to all the others, and that's it really, some of the new listener locations and Solihull as well, oh well, bring us back down to Earth then, fine, yeah, sorry, I had to end it on a sour note.

Speaker 1: 12:01

Yeah, yeah, nice. Well, those new listeners get to listen along with all of the rest of us to today's module three, which is global strategic supply chain management. How do you feel about that excited?

Speaker 2: 12:35

say that again. What strategic management global strategic supply chain management oh yes, a bunch of, a bunch of buzzwords. Yeah, very nice 100%.

Speaker 1: 12:48

What did you have to do so? I had to evaluate the global strategic impacts of globalization and impacts of supply chain management on corporate performance.

Speaker 2: 13:16

What do you do if you're unemployed or you're a domestic only company? How do you answer that? A domestic only company? How do you answer?

Speaker 1: 13:24

that I'm not sure about. If you're unemployed, the whole point of this assignment route is that you apply it back to your company. I think if you've worked somewhere in the last two years so say, for example, I work in a if now I work in an, an sme that only buys from the uk you know, two years ago I used to work for megacorp limited industries, which you know is a global procurement organization if that's in the last two years, I can talk about that. Um yeah, however, I don't know if you're unemployed. If you couldn't, I suppose they'd say that when you sign up to the course, wouldn't they? They'd say either you can or you can't, maybe you could make it up. I don't know, in those, in those sort of extreme examples, you might be able to make it up, okay.

Speaker 1: 14:22

So how many words, was it? It was three thousand, same as the first, first two. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of words, um, however, this one's three thousand. As we said, you get the results after the well, you do the classroom learning and then you get the results for the previous one. So I've done the classroom learning for the next module, which is 6000 words. Um, which is great because it means I've only got 6,000 words to go left to right this next assignment, um, so, yeah, it feels good. I mean, to be honest, not to sound like it, not sound like a bit of a prick, but I you've got the smile.

Speaker 2: 15:12

I feel like when I said it, it's like yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 15:17

I'm about to sound like an absolute pro, yeah, no. So basically, um, I haven't really found it difficult to write enough words. I found it more difficult not to write too much.

Speaker 2: 15:33

That makes sense you're good at waffling, so exactly yeah, the challenge is to actually put some useful content on the paper.

Speaker 1: 15:39

Yeah, not just waffle I don't know if it will be the same for the 6 000 word one, um, I think I think the hardest part is is starting um. But, as I've said for the first two modules, what this one was quite good at probably less good at though, to be honest was the sort of bullet points they give you, um, so the four I named earlier. Under each one of those four is at least two other bullet points about what you should include in that section, um, so that's what helped me with the first two assignments. They were really clear about you should include this, you should include that. You know, include a model of. It basically says like include porters, but without saying porters, it says something like I don't know, include a model which has five forces. Oh, what am I going to pick? Oh, porters for five forces.

Speaker 1: 16:33

Yeah, um, this one was a little bit less like that. It was a bit more, you know, it gave you a sort of rough bullet point, but then you had to come up with some more stuff. And then the fourth one, which will probably do an ep on, was even less like that. Um, it was sort of just kind of like oh yeah, this relates to this learning outcome in the kind of powerpoint or whatever, yeah, so, so they are getting harder. Uh, I would say I think my, my, uh, this is me preparing to fail again. Um, my content that I wrote for this one was less good than the previous one not to uh, not to flex on them. But I one was less good than the previous one Not to not to flex on them, but I did get a merit for the previous. You did, yeah, one didn't I. I would like to think it's in between the first one and this one, the first one.

Speaker 2: 17:32

Maybe it's not worse than the first one.

Speaker 1: 17:34

Yeah, it was, was 51%, with a pass mark of 50%. So yeah, I hope it's not the hope it's not worse than the first one, but I don't think it was as good as the second one okay, interesting, let's see, then let's.

Speaker 2: 17:52

Uh, do you wanna? You've got to share your screen, haven't you? And I'll have a look what I was while you, while you're getting that up, I was thinking, perhaps, if a listener wants to reach out to us, if they give us a buzzword like a code word to use in one of your assignments, and then your challenge is to get that word in in your future assignment.

Speaker 1: 18:10

What if it's just like badger?

Speaker 2: 18:12

That's it, yeah, and then you've just got to use an example of like badger limited or something like that. Or you use an example of like badger limited or something like that. Or you know, like at my company we sell badger fur coats yeah, yeah, um, would you be up for that?

Speaker 1: 18:27

what can I do? I have the ability to veto the word well, it depends how many we get in.

Speaker 2: 18:31

If we only get one, one listener coming in with a word, no, um. If we get two or three of you know, multiple them. Yes, we can.

Speaker 1: 18:39

We can pick the best I get to choose between the word okay yeah, so I'll pick a handful. Then you can do a wild card one as well and if the listeners want to send the word in or contact us or follow us for more information, how can they do that?

Speaker 2: 18:56

well, you can shoot up the DMs on IG aka Instagram. That is let's underscore talk, underscore procurement. You can hit us up on our web sizzle aka website, which is found in the link below, but it's wwwletstalkprocurementcouk. And then, best of all, is our Gmail address, which is 2lukes1sip at gmailcom. And that is because I've got one sip. Luke's got no sip. Together, there's two lukes and there's one sip. So, yeah, we did have it pointed out that that is similar to a. Would you call it a TV show?

Speaker 1: 19:41

I wouldn't no.

Speaker 2: 19:45

An episode that was published previously, but I don't quite see the similarities myself, so that's twolukesonesip at gmailcom.

Speaker 1: 19:54

Yeah, and don't forget, it's the number two, luke's plural, the number one.

Speaker 2: 20:03

Yes, and also, if you look on, if you look on like spotify, whatever platform you're on, the authors of this podcast are two luke's, one sip. There's not two luke's, it's two luke's, one sip. Technically an author is that aaron?

Speaker 1: 20:16

yeah nice, have we? Have we gone through the content of assignment three? Enough, do you reckon?

Speaker 2: 20:22

absolutely not. You've not said anything about it other than four topics uh, what else should I say about it? I would ask you a question. Okay, go on what does globalization have to do with our supply chain? Why is that? Why is it? Why is it a good thing?

Speaker 1: 20:43

give me a reason it's a good thing and a reason it's a bad thing I'm slightly wishing that we recorded this before, because I can't remember at all what I wrote in my assignment doesn't have to be a new assignment, but come on one, one positive, of globalisation, one negative.

Speaker 1: 21:07

Positive is that we can access more resource. So for us who live in quite an expensive country, we could, in theory, buy resource from a cheaper country, saving a company money. However, that does come with a negative of uh, certain things like we've got to make sure that the workers in that cheaper country aren't being exploited, uh. Or, for example, if we wanted to do something about auditing, might be more difficult to do that because they're in a different country okay, yeah, I like that that's.

Speaker 2: 21:41

Is that the sort of thing you spoke about in the I did.

Speaker 1: 21:44

I did, which, which reminds me, um, about something that I did in my assignment that I'm a little bit worried about. So they say that they say that text in images, so like a table, for example, um, or sort of diagram, doesn't count towards the word count. However, I think I went a bit overboard. I'm going to show you on my screen, because I did have it on my screen. Uh, how overboard I went. So that's a diagram. It's got tons of text in, so that, in theory, this stuff doesn't count towards my word count. And also, another example is this table Does it do that as well?

Speaker 2: 22:34

Yeah, genuinely a Sips textbook.

Speaker 1: 22:36

Oh, that makes me feel better.

Speaker 2: 22:38

They literally do everything in in tables and graphs and stuff to make the books look prettier and then they do like a three page case study example and then they just get back into the graphs. Half of my note taking was literally bubbles. You know the maps where you put it in a cloud in the middle and then you just do like arms out and then you put little clouds in and then you've got tiny clouds and then, if you keep going, eventually you've got a whole sky yeah, yeah, yeah, I see my map, my maps.

Speaker 1: 23:11

Yeah, okay, okay. Well, I've got no excuse now then yeah, I.

Speaker 2: 23:17

I Look you've answered the questions. Hopefully, it's just whether you've done it right or not, isn't it?

Speaker 1: 23:22

Yeah, whether I've gone on a tangent or not.

Speaker 2: 23:26

Do you have a look? Are you ready to reveal? I know I kept you waiting longer than you probably.

Speaker 1: 23:31

I need to give you access, don't I?

Speaker 2: 23:34

You do. Yeah, Log in and then give me control of your screen. I'll submit your notice into your employer and then I'll give you a result, right?

Speaker 1: 23:46

okay, I'm now not looking at the screen, but you have to give me control first. Yeah, wait, don't you have to request it there's a mate.

Speaker 2: 23:52

There's such a weird like feeling about this, like having control over someone else's computer alone is like enough, like powerful enough. But let like then reading out your results live I always feel good about.

Speaker 1: 24:05

I'm like, yeah, this is such a great idea. I don't really mind reading results live until it gets to this point I mean it's shocking, isn't it? Yeah, I told my, my mum, that my results were today and she asked me about them. I said no, I haven't opened them yet because I'm going to do it live on the podcast and she was like oh, are you sure that's a wise?

Speaker 1: 24:31

idea. Hold on. Have you just seen that? No, I haven't seen anything. What have you done? Hold on. I don't think it's going to let you go into the feedback document, if that's what you're trying to do?

Speaker 2: 24:41

Yeah, you've got some protection on. Okay, wait, close your eyes.

Speaker 1: 24:46

My eyes are closed.

Speaker 2: 24:47

Shit okay.

Speaker 1: 24:52

Oh no, I've got to do this again. I'm not sure if I like that laugh.

Speaker 2: 24:54

Oh my God, you sure you want to do this. Live, fuck. I don't want to jinx it, but I don't think you'd have that expression if I'd failed.

Speaker 1: 25:07

Hey, I think you should stop recording.

Speaker 2: 25:09

I look, yet I failed you as a master. Yeah, you can look. Yeah, yeah, it's just the access code oh, do you want me Wait?

Speaker 1: 25:16

are you sending the code?

Speaker 2: 25:18

No, no, it's fine, I'll just, oh, yeah, send the code. Yeah, oh my God, if you add, right, if you add the two numbers in your score together, the number is less than 10.

Speaker 1: 25:31

Wait, oh no, that could be good. Wait, so I've got 81.

Speaker 2: 25:36

Oh, mate, I feel for you.

Speaker 1: 25:38

This is rough right, I'm gonna click wait, you can click verify, and then I'll look away from the screen talking through your prediction. I'd like to think I've passed because I've done three of these. Well, this is the third one. Uh, and I do. I think it was well. As I said, I think it was worse than the second one, but, yeah, I don't know where it stands in relation to the first one again, which was 51% sorry, I've got a.

Speaker 2: 26:12

I've got one of those mice that you can scroll fast through documents, and now it's just going wild just building the drama alright areas for improvement wait, haven't you skipped the?

Speaker 2: 26:25

uh, you skipped the good, your good bits right no, no, just none straight in um structure and presentation. Strengthening executive summary and conclusions. Take care to use the different terms to refer to your organisation consistently throughout aka full name or abbreviated name, rather than switching between both Knowledge and approach. Refer to more course models. Include more primary data and internal research within your report, aka KPIs. Apply more secondary and primary research to present a range of relevant evidence to support your analysis. Apply more of the course models with the relevant sections of your report, eg Porter's five forces and Elkington's triple bottom line Evaluation. Benchmark your findings against other organisations. Deeper evaluation in places.

Speaker 1: 27:21

Probably fair as well.

Speaker 2: 27:23

That's your review. Okay, I lied to you your combination of numbers, right? So the two numbers that make up your score actually equal 10.

Speaker 1: 27:33

19%, no go on board and guess when. I'll tell you 19% no, go on more.

Speaker 2: 27:42

Guess when I'll tell you 91% for god's sake, man get real look at that those areas for improvement, you think you've got 94% yeah, true, I'm gonna go with 55 on the money. Third time lucky.

Speaker 1: 28:00

Well done mate wait, I just passed, yeah you passed mate. Well done. I need to verify 100% so I know if I trust you. Oh, pass on everything on there hang on.

Speaker 2: 28:12

You just said you don't know if you trust me, despite giving me access to your computer while you look away yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1: 28:21

No, no, that's uh. Well, obviously I'm happy I passed, get in um lovely, but that's, yeah, I think that's maybe what I expected is lower than lower than the previous one but higher than the first one higher than the first one. Um yeah, so god, we'll see, we'll see about, we'll see about the fourth one. But you know, now it's time to celebrate, it's time to celebrate the um the third assignment. Does that mean that means I'm over halfway towards msips?

Speaker 2: 28:53

I believe it does three out of five. Don't take this personally, but I don't. Would you say you're 50% smarter as a result of the work you've done? You know?

Speaker 1: 29:08

I don't know if I've done 50% of the effort that it takes to get to MCIPS, because the last two are the longest ones okay the last.

Speaker 2: 29:18

The last one is 10k words, so that's everything I've done so far so I've seen, I have seen, I genuinely I've seen improvements in your, your, your vocabulary and your knowledge in in the um, in the area. Yeah, I think, reflective of your, of your scores, if you're, if you put more effort in, you probably do a bit better. But other than that, mate, you're a rising star in the game of the world.

Speaker 1: 29:46

I'm a Job Bellingham.

Speaker 2: 29:48

Job, yeah, yeah, job. Yeah, I'm glad you said Job. I didn't want to have to shoot you down, you know, just after giving you such a nice result. Yeah, yeah, you're an Ethan Mbappe.

Speaker 1: 30:01

Well, this one, if you can remember back to our last episode on the modules, I didn't actually attend the classroom day for the third module, so that's probably reflected in my my I don't know if it'd be understanding of the of the content or maybe, yeah, the sort of when they talk about models. It's probably fair that I didn't include that many models because I wasn't at the classroom day, you know but if I'm being honest, ships want everything in a very small word limit and I think do you.

Speaker 2: 30:40

if you, if you did put two or three models in, they would turn around and say, yes, but give me more depth. So it's almost like you can't win. They're just setting you up to be difficult, unless you need to just do like one liners.

Speaker 1: 30:54

Yeah, I think this sort of feedback document is going to be like that, though, isn't it? Because it's going to focus on what you need to do to improve. It's not going to say oh yeah, your full strengths were great.

Speaker 2: 31:09

You did have a full page of strengths. I just skipped them because the listeners don't care. Yeah, strengths, you have a great trim.

Speaker 1: 31:22

Yeah, that's how you know. It was a few months ago that I submitted this. Yeah, maybe I should submit it with a little selfie at the end oh my god, yeah, when you, when it says you want more models yeah, oh good, good spot. Yeah, exactly exactly. Well. Well, to be fair, it didn't say supermodels, so on that sour note yeah, well, no, okay, no, I want to uh.

Speaker 1: 31:50

I just want to give a little acceptance speech. I want to say thank you to uh, to a lot of people, um, thank you you to all my family and friends for getting me to this point. There's still work to do, but I'm pleased to have got here so far. The team behind the scenes we're working really hard every day to keep grinding out these results, and I've got to say thank you to them. He's got his head in his hands. I just want to appreciate. Also, I want to take a moment to thank the fans that have come down. Your travelling support really means a lot to me and I'm happy to do you proud. Today, with a 55%, we got the job done. It wasn't the prettiest of performances, but we did get there in the end and we're through to the next round. So on to the judges' houses like that, like that speech.

Speaker 2: 32:46

It's almost like you actually had that prepared, like you forgot what was on the bulletin, but you had your award speech ready. Nothing like thanking your mentor. You know the person who's been there, been there with you through thick and thin, you know or your mum?

Speaker 1: 32:59

Who do you think is part of the team behind the scenes?

Speaker 2: 33:02

I'd presume that was Aaron. I don't know why. He's just a bit of a behind the scenes kind of guy, isn't he?

Speaker 1: 33:08

He's a man behind. He's behind it all behind the scenes.

Speaker 2: 33:15

He's often lurker. Is that what you're saying? He's a dirty lurker, like you. Just you never know. You know what I mean. Like you. Just look over your shoulder. What's that? It's Aaron it's Aaron yeah, I guess that's what happens, isn't it?

Speaker 1: 33:27

when you're an editor, that's kind of your job for those who for that, we should say that, yeah, we should say that Aaron is our, he's our editor and he makes us sound bearable. You're goddamn right, which is a really tough job.

Speaker 2: 33:43

He barely gets thanked and he gets insulted on the pod quite a lot to be fair to him. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 33:49

He did have a good quote which, if you want to check out his quote, there's a page on letstalkprocurementcouk which talks about the authors of the pod, and is that the about page?

Speaker 2: 34:07

It's the contributors, I think.

Speaker 1: 34:11

Contributors page. There we go. Aaron's got a good quote on there, so check that out Again if you like the episode. Uh, drop us a five-star review, subscribe or follow or stalk or whatever it is nowadays on these bloody social media platforms. Follow us on Instagram, drop us an email, drop us a text. You can actually do that by pressing one link, so don't be lazy. You wanted to say something.

Speaker 2: 34:42

I was going to say, well, maybe we should set up a TikTok and do TikTok dances for the different models.

Speaker 1: 34:46

So, like you know you, just you know those interpretive dance things where it's like a wacky beat and it's like if Mendelo's Matrix was a dance move, it would be this yeah, that would be a good way to sort of like see other procurement people in the wild, right, you know, if you're in a club and someone's like someone's, you know, putting like together a window and they're saying they're doing the arm across the top right, they want to be in the top right quadrant, they want to move from the bottom left arm goes down to the left, up to the top right.

Speaker 1: 35:19

Yes, and they're just. You know we could do that idea or a squad.

Speaker 2: 35:25

A squad of people just form the letters s-t-e-e-p-l-e in the middle of the dance floor and then do a little mexican wave yeah, yeah, maybe that could be a good, good costume.

Speaker 1: 35:37

I'm going to the Darts, the Premier League of Darts, in a couple of weeks and I mean there's only four of us. What could we no? Yeah, four of us. What acronym could we do with that?

Speaker 2: 35:49

I think you should go into a microphone and just have LTP on it.

Speaker 1: 35:54

Yes, yeah.

Speaker 2: 35:55

See you on the TV with a pint in both hands just trying an LTP.

Speaker 1: 36:01

Yeah, Like like sort of number jacks. Did you ever watch number jacks? Are you too old? You're too old for that.

Speaker 2: 36:06

I'm way too old for that, mate. Wow, didn't have TV until I was about 30.

Speaker 1: 36:13

Yeah, tv by the time TV got invented, your eyes were too bad to see it. Tv by the time TV got invented, your eyes were too bad to see it. Not wrong, nice, well, I like to have insulted you. I'm going to stop sharing before you click something dodgy on my computer yeah, I've seen those soft state browsers.

Speaker 2: 36:35

Well, well done, mate. You take a well earned break on the over the weekend. I think by the time this airs, it'll probably be christmas 2029 or something, but congratulations and um, yeah, one step closer yeah, yeah, and I probably should.

Speaker 1: 36:49

I mean, you said, take a break, but I have got this, uh, other assignment to write, so I'm just just like a hard working guy. Aka, I'm probably not gonna do it.

Speaker 2: 37:00

Yeah, you're gonna probably not gonna do any work on it go out for the weekend and then cram it all in last minute, a couple of days before it's due yeah, no, give me a chance, at least a week before it's due.

Speaker 1: 37:13

Give me some, give me some faith. Yeah, I like anyway.

Speaker 2: 37:17

Well, give me some faith.

Speaker 1: 37:18

Yeah, alright. Anyway, thanks for being part of it. Listeners.

Speaker 2: 37:21

Thank you, we'll see you in the next one. And, yeah, the only show. You need to master the art of procurement, let's fucking go. Come on, lads and ladettes and them and those. See you later, see you later, see you later.