Haircut Commentary

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 .

Let's Talk Procurement Introduction

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

Podcast Bulletin and Listener Locations

Speaker 1 8:59

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

Global Strategic Supply Chain Management

Speaker 1 12:30

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

Results Day Reveal

Speaker 1 24:10

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

Celebrations and Future Plans

Speaker 1 33:54

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 .