The Tech Bar Ep. 65 Pre ITNC and IT Nation Gives Party

Hey, and I'm ready for the 5k fun run at IT Nation Connect. Where's everyone? Oh man, November 2nd? The fun run is next Thursday, not today?

Well, might as well go to the tech bar and drink. I'll catch some next week. Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for is finally here. The tech bar featuring Super Cousin Danny and this week our white label queen, Alex Boyd.

is back with another episode. Today, we're doing the pre-IT Nation Connect and IT Nation Gifts Party with John Harden, Andrea Burrow, and Matt Topper. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, grab your drinks, and let's get right into the show. Like, on the drive down.

I knew I'd need them. Just hear Ashley just fill it up her wine glass. I'm going to go to the next video. I'm sorry.

and we're back yeah good evening everyone i'm sorry i'm already stuttering even if a couple of drinks are ready um welcome to the tech bar today it's gonna be a good one i promise you that i'm here with alex a much easier person to look at than ray i think everybody would agree on that hey so funny now danny that's not too nice now remember i'm raised redheaded stepchild don't be picking on my dad yeah you are way's favorite that's for sure that's for sure how are you doing i'm doing good danny what are you drinking tonight since you've already had a few sips oh i think we'll get into that but it's some sort of a tequila concoction that i've been drinking it's actually you know i'm back after you drink it a couple more times to kill ya which clearly it's already working over there i'm having a nice red bordeaux it's actually left over from our company retreat so there's a few bottles left so i'm making sure it doesn't go to waste tonight that was a good drinking time last week uh for those who don't know we had a company retreat last week in nashville and it was a blur and it was surprisingly hot i thought it'd be get a little cool weather but we did not get that unfortunately we did not i was kind of looking forward to the cooler weather too but it was quite warm but uh yeah but we're not here to talk about last week we're here to talk about next week which is it nation connect that's right and we have a few guests i like to i like to acronym them as jam that's good on my family's doing it again it's starting to follow me great yeah sorry about that it is what it is it wants to make sure you're the center of attention danny which you like so you know you just get on board i am wearing shorts but i'm in florida so it's okay anyways yeah these are my uh as what we call our dress shorts down here in florida so um we have a few guests that i want to go ahead and introduce we have uh john hardin senior product uh marketing manager at avic what's going on hey i'm happy to be back i like the dress shorts i like the dress shorts they look good i know i know i'm welcome back actually alex why don't you introduce our next two guests while i try to fix this all right well if we're going in acronym order we've got some more female energy at the bar tonight miss andrea borrow what's up how's it going hi welcome welcome thank you thank you i'm i'm honored this is my first time joining tech bar so very popular what welcome yeah we have a lot of fun here so we're happy you're here as well and then last but very not least we have mr matt topper what's going on guys hey welcome to the bar good good glad to be here always enjoyed drinking with this group yeah it's something reminding me before you joined that we had that lovely steak dinner uh a couple years back or i was i think it was last year was that connect was that connect i believe that was secure last year secure yeah that was not long ago i even remember most of it when you do so many shows a year you know they all start to blend together at some point for sure it has nothing to do with libations or anything no no definitely not speaking of libations what is everyone drinking tonight i am starting here okay i guess we're going in jam order by the way i just assumed the jam yeah great that ends up last again is i went on theme here and we'll get on theme here in a little bit but horse soldier bourbon uh for any of those interested it's a great bourbon um that i guess it's whiskey um but it is uh it kind of in membranes of the green berets the original um green beret veterans that went into 9-11 on the horseback um so i went with something a little bit on theme tonight on the evening and you remember from the last show i had to mix it with a little sam pellegrino uh just to make it fit and uh you know you fancy you fancy we both the fact that ray roshini has a a pack of sam pellegrino sitting at his doorstep tonight because i was gonna finally convince him to try it live on stream so that's well i he's i'm i know he said he couldn't be here but family duties called for ray tonight so you guys are stuck with me i'm filling in oh you better that's my praise all right all right i got a i got mango cart tonight so very exciting mango yeah it's refreshing i uh i got home late from the office had to grab something quickly so going with a good old beer why not hey all anything mango is good for me i love mango so what kind of a beer is it then it's like a light lager oh it's a wheat brew mango wheat brew all right yeah nice you know it's perfect for florida i am also i'm in tampa so florida as well um love that you brought out the the dress shorts it is tooled off though so i'm surprised to see that you're still in shorts it was like 60 today warm ladies and gentlemen 50s in georgia it was like 30 degrees this morning when i let the dog out so i'm in uh andrew i'm in i'm in parish i don't know if you know okay yeah the north river ranch my wife and i bought a house here it just finished being built and we're here so um yeah well i found it a little chilly this morning but then again i'm still a miami boy at heart so that's probably why kevin yes thank you i'm excited for that mango habanero fried to nation nice so kevin we talked about i've never had anything you made so i'm really looking forward to this next week his jerky wow so good yeah and what about you matt what do you have in to drink tonight i got two things one is a beer that i bought literally two hours ago just because the can looked cool let's see if i can show it so it is a chocolate vanilla porter that has like a yoda looking thing on the can now a lot of times that kind of fancy artwork turns into a disastrous beer so we'll see what happens but i have high hopes and back up i have a locally made peanut butter whiskey not screwball but kind of in the same vein as screwball i'm not a whiskey person but that sounds pretty good i mean peanut butter anything is good but i'm going to sample this beer and let's see um if it lives up to the artwork i'm guessing it won't but we'll see positivity positivity chocolate vanilla is on your side yeah it's okay it's okay it's not as good as you would think based on the the can Well, John, I know you know because you've been with us before, but for the newbies at the bar tonight, we do have some rules here at the tech bar.

So we'll let, there we go. Who wants to read them for us? I mean, we got to go Andrea, right? Topper, you've been on here before.

All right. I'm up for it. The bartenders are always right. All right.

I agree with that one. No politics or religion at the bar. If you hear these phrases you drink, namaste, mute, off the rails. Sports are on 24-7.

I like that one, 100% agree. What happens at the bar stays at the bar. Is that a good one? And if the bartender is wrong, see rule number one.

And as always, you guys are our guests. You guys are honorary bartenders. That applies to you guys as well. Perfect.

Except John. Gotta get my sports hot takes in then. Yeah. So we typically do an additional word.

So usually have you guys come up with one based on, I don't know, what we may be talking about shortly. Maybe we want to do something around that. But any word you'd like to add as a drinking word? Is it too much if we add dog?

Oh, Jerry. I might. Oh, boy. Is that crazy?

Not at all. You might need another beer. I'm new here. I don't know.

We can do a refill. I'll be back. I'm glad I got my extra bottle. All right.

dog it is really good faster just wow so we've got a coach guys so for our first before our first step we're gonna say a little toast we'll let uh matt why don't you say it this time since you were last every other time now i get to be first all right um so out with the old in with the new cheers to the future and all that we do. Cheers, everyone. Cheers, guys. Cheers, guys.

So since of our special word, we have a special thing happening next week. And Andrea, would you like to tell us a little bit about what's going on in 19H and Connect? I would love to. Thank you so much.

So for those of you who don't know, every year at IT Nation Connect, we actually do a philanthropic initiative called IT Nation Gives. And we select a single charity or organization that we would like to work with and support through that IT Nation Gives initiative. Last year, some of you may be familiar with the Beard Shaves. I think there was quite a few folks on there who you might be familiar with.

But we were able to raise just, I think, just about $250,000 through the beard shave. Pretty incredible feat. And I continue to be amazed at how this community just comes together for good causes. So we're continuing to do that this year.

Nobody's getting shaved. So that's probably for the best. If anybody was witness to what happened last year, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing full bearded faces. But this year, we actually decided to figure out an organization that we could support throughout the entire event, not just have a one-day initiative.

And we actually chose an organization called Canines for Warriors Now this is an organization that supports veterans by pairing them with shelter puppies and they go through very very extensive training the the warriors themselves go through a training with their puppy and at the end of their training program the warrior goes home with their newfound hero or friend and that's essentially their emotion their support uh support animal um moving forward so it's a pretty incredible organization uh they save the animal and the i'm going to say the dog saves the warrior all right drink to that oh yeah and i heard there's gonna be some pretty fun events going on around that as well you guys got some fun things plan.

Tell us about that. True. You heard correctly. Yeah.

So, so we are, uh, we are collecting monetary donations. So if you're looking for ways to support prior to the event, or maybe if you can't make it to connect, we, we will happily help, uh, support KNN for warriors through monetary donations. Um, but if you are going to be on site, um, we have several different activities, uh, planned kicking it off on Wednesday with some dog treat making. Oh, I said it again.

and that one was not intentional goodness goodness i will definitely be uh the dog treat making that sounds like so much fun and i've never made a dog treat so i'm super curious what's going to go into them i don't have a dog but i've got friends and family with dogs so i'm going to be bringing home gifts we might have to change the word i don't know Three for one. We'll round out. We'll round out. All right.

All right. I actually just saw a question come in about the treats. Are they human edible? And they actually are.

So we are making treats that have peanut butter. So please be aware if you have a nut allergy, we will have open peanut butter containers. but in addition to the peanut butter we have some oats and honey and then we mix it all up roll them in little balls and we're good to go so if there's anybody who wants to test them out do our qa check uh i invite you to do so but yeah it should be a good time get your hands messy we do have gloves if you're like not into the stickiness of the peanut butter sometimes it's kind of weird but i have to make sure i go put my treats back in my room after i make them so that after i'm drunk and I have the munchies.

I don't eat my gifts. You can't QA check every single one. Check them immediately. Our goal is actually to make 500 treats and they are all going to be donated to the shelter for Canines for Warriors.

If you do happen to slip one into your bag to take it back to your room, I totally understand. but the majority of them will be going to those shelter pups to help support canines. I love that. That's great.

I'll try not to eat the donations. All right. Good stuff. So next up on our activity list is our 5K fun run.

So you saw a little preview of that i think uh on the intro um but yeah i i gotta leave it to john and matt here they're the two that really i would say led the charge on on organizing a 5k and making everybody get up really really early to go exercise so you have them to thank for this one i tried out for the community day and right after the community day you better be there with a whistle making sure no one drinks too much the night before it's it's not a don't keep saying you just have to show up so we'll have vomit bags around and ready to go you're bringing them okay did you get them branded we could find a sponsor for the vomit bags that'd be great yeah we figured we just pick people up still that are out and bring them to the run yeah oh that's actually really smart yeah i think i feel like i heard about someone that did that last year so you're on to something yeah i think somebody did i know that last time i was on the stream with that legel was giving me a hard time on this so he's out there we gotta get we gotta get everybody out there running um but you're the one that organizes all this where did it start again where was the the first one i did was just i mean i i always go for a run at every conference and i think the first one we tried to really organize was secure this year and for for some like this turned into a real thing it started from just like an off-handed com conversation between me and slagle and said uh let's add it to the agenda and see if we can get it to happen and all of a sudden it's It's like quasi catching on.

Not that I'm claiming any responsibility for, you know, starting fitness in the channel, but the idea of it being organized, I think we played some small part in. Yeah, we've got, I mean, now it's organized though, right? We have a 5K. It's legit now.

It is very organized now. Yes. If you want to do the disorganized one, I'll be coming, going out, you know, every day that I'm there. So Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, whatever, you can come hang out with me.

I'll be out there and probably nobody else will be but you're all welcome Thursday, Thursday's the one to be at, that's the important one yes so I think what on Thursday morning we'll be out there what time is it 7.30 oh it's 7 7 a.m 7.30 for those who want to catch the other half of it really fast knock it out we have a block from 7 to 8 So you just get that distance in however you can.

Yeah. Absolutely. But getting out there, it'd be a good way to wake up. You know, honestly, when I did it out at Secure with Matt Topper, it was really fun to get out there and network differently.

Behind the scenes, we were talking about ways to get engaged. And, like, you're running with people. You're in your gym clothes running. You're not just buttoned up.

You don't have your lanyard hanging around backwards. You're actually out there getting engaged with folks. I highly encourage it. It's a great way to start the day, especially if you regretted your decisions from the evening.

So it's fun run though. It's a distance, not a pace. You don't have to run it. It could be a walk and a lot of people walk.

Yeah, I would have to walk if I did. If I'm doing a run, there's gonna be no conversation or engaging. I'm gonna be like a dog panting, like, like it's not gonna be good. So yeah, there's a drink.

There you go. i already have to refill my drink guys oh my goodness i don't think anyone is like all out running this you know except john and i are going to try and do sub 20 of course you know ray last time at secure mate uh gosh he made me feel so miserable that next morning before i made it I committed that was tough though it was real tough I think it's kind of nice in a way that it prevents me from going way too overboard at night that's a good point unless you're somebody who just stays up you can only do that once so if you do that once we only have one time I just committed to running every day that week you did that awesome so matt we know you like to run what what other kind of hobbies do you guys have so huge huge sports fan um hopefully nobody hears a dolphins fan because i'm a big time jets fan um mets jets all the bad new york sports teams i grew up down there I don't like any of the Buffalo teams.

Other than that, I spend a lot of time just doing tech stuff. I'm still an engineer at heart, even though I'm one of those engineers that likes going out and talking to people. So I'm still really a tech. That's my hobby.

Sports, tech, running. All right. Those are good hobbies. And they all kind of intertwine.

I'm very surprised with the Jets. I got to give them credit. Because you're a Dolphins fan, right? That's Miami Dolphins, correct?

I'm not a sports person. Right. Yeah. So he likes the Jets.

I like the Dolphins. I'm sorry, I got to speak slowly for Alex. Look, look, I'm not on the sports. He calls it sports football.

Yeah, sports ball. Go sports ball. Woo! So here's the thing, though.

With, yes, they're doing okay. But I can't help but think this whole time, man, this team with Rodgers would be like, like a legit contender. So that's the bad part of them doing okay. I get it.

But then again, you haven't played us yet. So you got to keep playing. True. True.

And John, I heard that we might have some similar interests over there. You like some music? So EDM music? Is that what I heard?

Yeah. yeah absolutely yeah i love myself some good EDM music i should never have given Simon this video by the way i heard you've even been to Ibiza i haven't even been there yet tell me about it wow oh i did go to Ibiza for a week a handful of years he even says it right that's how you know there is a very good story that i will tell if you come to the run on telling it on the recorded screen all right you know you know john that might get me to that 5k we'll see if i'm still up or not yeah what happens at the bar does not stay at the bar when it's recorded so that's that's for next that's a good point fair enough fair enough oh man and andrea what about you oh man i um this year i've i've been really on the live music concert train i am I think I'm at 30 for the year so far.

Wow. Okay. That's a lot. It is.

It's been really, really keeping me busy. So I actually bought what they call a lawn pass to the amphitheater here in Tampa. And you get to go to shows from May until November. So I've pretty much taken advantage of whatever is coming.

I'll go see it. Why not? Check it out. Not everything is right up my alley.

but uh you know that's about so how many shows you've been to 30 how many did you it was that all of them you went to all of them or how many um i think there's like 35 included in the past wow listen we were my husband and i really were getting our roi on that path for sure y'all did that was great i i love live live music live really any type of uh live events and just um You know, getting involved in the community in general is always great to get out there and get involved in your community.

With that, why don't you tell us a little bit about how we can get more involved with what IT Nation is doing with the canine support? Yeah, for sure. So I know if you're not into running, we do have some other activities you can do on site while at Connect. This is actually very, very cool and special.

We're going to have four warriors who have been supported by Canines for Warriors on site on Thursday, and they're going to be giving a speaking session in the Marketplace Theater. That's happening at 1145 on Thursday. They're actually going to share their experiences, kind of talk through their journey of what they've gone through and how canines has truly made an impact for them. So I can probably guarantee I will be crying.

So please bring tissues for extra ones for me. You're probably going to want some, but it, it's just so, so I would say, gosh, I, I, I don't know if privilege is the right way to say it, but just, we're honored to be able to have an opportunity to talk to these people and, and, and have them at our event to share their story. And absolutely. Yeah.

I'm a crier too. So I'm going to be right there with you. We can do it together. Yes.

So once the tears have stopped, you will have an opportunity to chat with them. Afterwards, they'll have what we're calling our Warrior Lounge set up on Thursday and Friday. And then Friday, I promise the only tears you will have are tears of joy because we will have puppies who are going through training on site. So the organization Canines for Warriors brings in shelter dogs and they go through very expensive training.

So we're going to have, I don't know the amount yet, but they will be on site going through their training sessions. We get to play, touch, pet? We get to play, touch, interact, get some cuddles. Absolutely.

Absolutely. So you know some of their training you know they really need to get involved in being in public places and getting their warrior comfortable going out in public and interacting with other people So having them on site at a big event like this is absolutely right up their alley and what they need to start training for That's so awesome. I know everyone is going to be attending that one. Who doesn't love to be able to play and pet the puppies?

I see in the banners over here, everyone's asking about seeing I have a naked baby. It's no first. It's a little bit different when you when you pet my baby. so he just hopped up on my lap so everyone wants to see him so i'm gonna put him in the screen so here's my baby i've got a naked kitty his name is raw after the egyptian sun god and um he likes to harass me and jump up on my desk and knock all my things over yes that is raw for everyone asking that is my naked my naked baby very cute yeah i'd bring my dog but i know she's not with my wife right now but i'm happening so uh one of the things we do here is the lightning round i ask a series of questions if you will uh quick answers and possibly why your answer is your answer so andrea this is your first time so we're gonna go with you first I'm not going to do my favorite question If you guys know, I'm not doing that question Because we all know Pineapple on pizza is important And it's a month So, I will ask you this What was the last song you listened to?

The last song I listened to Oh It's It was on the radio on my way home in the car and it's like my boo thing i think that's what it was yeah but it's yeah that was the thing yeah okay same for you matt what was it last song i listened to well i was just driving for six hours so there were a lot of songs listened to but what was the last song in that last one i think right i think it was gamma ray i think it was landed the free was on gamma ray oh any metalheads here um that probably not probably not i can't i can't say that's me matt sorry i will qualify all right john i know what it is what's swiss tell her swiss song i know i'm not a swissy i'm not well don't get me wrong i'm not getting careful what you say not against they'll come for you then those switches will come for you so i have the advantage of doing this twice so i went straight to my spotify to look it up falling back by drake apparently is the last song that i listened to okay you can't get wrong with drake okay it was wrong alex um i mean look technically the last song we all listened to was the intro for tech bar that our amazing film made for us that's true true you know that is absolutely correct that is the best kind of correct all right so let's go with the same order next question all right favorite childhood tv show the sentence i mean that took me into adulthood too it's a lifetime tv show i guess yeah no that's a good one i mean it's still going so it's not about i mean i would like hole up in my room and close my door and turn it on because i wasn't technically allowed to watch it Oh, same, same.

My mom would let me watch it either. Yeah. And I don't know if that's maybe what really, I was like, yeah. My only issue is that Bart should be like 35 now, right?

Well. They're in a time loop. What about you, Matt? What about you, Matt?

Oh. Favorite TV show, favorite childhood TV show. not really childhood i can't remember what i watched when i was a kid i mean when i was like teenager fraser number one number one favorite show i've seen a couple episodes of that one that's a good one and how about you john as a kid i guess he said teens he said teens okay yeah no that's fair that's still you know childhood I mean, mine was what I thought you watched when you were a child. I was watching Dragon Ball Z.

That was a good joke. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Fair.

And anything on Nick at Night at that point, right? So Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the whole line. Yeah. Nick at Night was always good, for sure.

For sure. Alex? I was a big Scooby-Doo fan. Me and all my siblings were big into Scooby-Doo.

And it's pretty on theme for our canines and dogs. We're just going to go ahead and say it. Everyone drinks. Tim Gold was asking if there's going to be Scooby Snacks, so that may have put it in my head too.

So there's the Scooby. If you're there, Tim, there's your Scooby Snacks. I think Tim's bringing them. Thanks, Tim.

And so me, I didn't answer the last one, so I'll go ahead and answer the last question. so me it was actually flag post sitta harvey danger love that song such a such a jam and then uh me teenage mutant ninja turtles i mean come on oh yeah yeah original come on added it um all right so let's go with one more and we'll go back to the little music go to karaoke song uh it's like getting getting jiggy with it by will smith yes yes i like it yeah anytime i'm gonna go with american idiot is my favorite song to karaoke too oh that's a good one actually the whole album really not just that whole that was dookie right that was dookie wasn't it no way later than that um that's a good one too yeah okay that's a good song regardless i'm bringing indiana home here little garth brooks friends in low places yes good dude crowd pleaser it's easy i uh when we were at um in vegas for uh channel con i did neon moon so we'll brooks and done for you there but that is not my go-to my go-to is always going to be wannabe by spice girls i'm a 90s baby mine is uh staying outside you could ask ray i could rock that song it's so easy very simple okay that's why i like it All right.

Well, I think we're going to take a quick break here, Simon. Is that correct? I think he's got something prepared for us, a little show. No, he's got his finger up.

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I think Simon's got another little show prepped for us, a little surprise. might have some dogs involved i'll go ahead and intro this one i'm trying to get us drunk tonight guys i can tell there you there you go um since since we are talking about it nation and we were talking about our furry companions uh we did ask the members of the mmn discord to submit their best dog pictures or cat pictures or fish or whatever pet they have um so we did compile about the Tech Bar's pet show, which I'm going to be showing.

And then you guys are going to get to see our fairy friends. So this is Phoenix, which is Nikki. And she's in the chat right now. She's death punk.

I love dogs. Very cute dog. What a cute dog. She's so cute.

We have Sam. She not only has a dog, but she has a cat and she has a snake. So she has everything. Wow.

Cool. then we have katherine which she's somebody to have a sweater bra has a full wardrobe guys i was gonna ask does he get chili he does no because he has a wardrobe Sandwich. Sandwich. Sandwich.

Sandwich. Oh, no, no, no. Such a good name. We also have Chanson Kiwi, which is Phil.

So he's our producer and multimedia editor here at MMN. So this is Chanson Kiwi. Oh, so cute. Look at that little puppy.

Babelie and Ernie. We have Sheba, which is, this is from Brandon Martinez at ETOF. So he submitted that in the Discord. We have Lily.

Lily with her OIT swag. Nice. That's good. Lily has as many clothes as raw.

Zelda. Then we have Bella. And then we have Michelle's cats. Oh, that's Lila.

There's your baby. Yep. With her mommy right now. Guaranteed.

And then we have Ra. Ra. hey yeah gold chains and disco balls i love it has you ever you ever call him like and go like raw raw raw like like lady gaga yeah you should do it i i do like raw i feel like raw has better style than 90 of people that they know i'm just saying that definitely better than me i'm here with dress shorts here yeah ross got a vibe going though that's not what's uh his or her name so the the black and white one is winnie and the all black one is sammy and uh winnie is sammy's kitten whatever the right term is for that you were a mother and kitten pair that we adopted that's awesome and then the last but not least we have coming soon john yeah soliciting names we have a few in the that's coming up just december one we have a few names in the in the mix but i want to see if anybody in the audience has as well.

We have Marvin Harold, H-A-I-R-O-L-D, and we have Raymond. But we need some good names. We're still on mute. I have a great suggestion right now.

Go for it. Great suggestion. Bourbon. Bourbon.

Yeah, my brother-in-law said we'll name him Woodford. And that got trumped real quick. I don't know. That's a good one.

I actually like Woodford. I actually kind of like Woodford. that's a legit name john yeah i think you should fight fight him for it i didn't trump it and i know i asked you john i because i i believe you sent it earlier but i i honestly didn't see the response what breed is that oh it says a yeah mini gold doodle so it gets like 25 pounds tops so he's got all the energy of the gold but none of the hair of the gold which we will have an an energy ball on our hands, I have no doubt.

Oh, for sure, yeah. Oh so cute Well you have to update us and send us progress pics once he starts growing up and you actually have him I voting for Woodford though I think Woodford is where it at Yeah, Woodford is at. And I see some contender. Yeah, I see some votes in the chat for Woodford, too.

His last name could be Bourbon. Yeah, Woodford Bourbon. Middle name, Cask Straight. Nice.

oh all right well i think that simon has prepared a fun game for us which also involves dogs yeah so this might help you get some ideas of what you should name your dog which that's two drinks guys uh so we're gonna be playing who let the dogs out now this game um very simple basically uh i'm gonna give you guys a name of a dog and then the breed of the dog and then you're gonna have to guess which celebrity owns the dog so the first one is oprah and she's a schnauzer andrew you can go first i feel like that's drake's dog okay we have drake and we want the chat to participate so i'm thinking drake too i don't know i went with drake on this it was in my head matt i think it's 50 cent just just to be different honestly matt i was with you and kind of thinking that too but schnauzers are like kind of feminine dogs and i feel like drake is really emotional so i could totally see where that is but i'm gonna i'm gonna go with you and say 50 cent because I think he's funny too so yeah I'm gonna go with all the single ladies that is not my go-to karaoke that's the last thing I just heard so there you go okay we have Glenn saying 50 cent Dean Dr.

Zoeyberg saying 50 cent so this is actually 50 cents dog. Nice. Okay. On to round two.

We have Sake. And it's a Pomeranian. Now, is it Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, or Brad Pitt? I feel like it's Paris Hilton.

Yeah, I feel like Paris Hilton too. Yeah. Unanimous, Paris Hilton. It means you're all wrong for sure.

I feel like I can just feel like hear her saying like sake. Yeah. And like tearing it around. Hello, hello, hello.

Sake. Sake. Yeah. She gets it.

Sake. Yeah, sake. Okay. So this is actually, we have Jack saying Paris Hilton.

And then we have Dr. Zoiber saying Kimmy. Glenn saying Kimmy. so this is actually kim kardashian's dog no all right all right i mean that's still the same way i mean she could still say okay they're friends yeah yeah all right and these are dogs that you're gonna see at it nation can confirm or nor deny gary the golden golden retriever lebron james jimmy fallon or jeff bezos andrew first choice I think I'm going Jimmy Fallon he seems like he would name his dog Gary I agree okay I'm going Jeff I'm going elimination I don't think it's LeBron's dog Jeff Bezos I feel like has more of an austere puppy so I'm left with Jimmy yeah i think it's also jimmy fallon i think here we have dr zoebergh saying jimmy jack jimmy the chad saying jimmy it is jimmy fallon so it is gary we did pretty good guys you see the only thing that tell me held back because i know he lives in manhattan to have a dog that big in manhattan but then i realized oh you know so and so go walk my dog so that kind of makes Okay, for round four, we have Fluffy, a pint-sized terrier.

We have Will Smith, Tom Brady, or Miley Cyrus. I wanted to be Tom Brady. You ready? Me too.

I'm going Miley. Yeah, I think you're right. I'd pick the same one. Yeah, we're sticking together.

Miley, what does it just mean? I want it to be Tom. I'm going Tom. We all want it to be.

We want it to be. The goat has a fluffy. The goat has a fluffy. If it's Tom, he inherited it from Giselle.

You know Tom's kid probably named it if it is his dog. Oh, true, though. True. You got to take the kids into consideration.

Okay. danny you said your your pick oh yeah no no the goat has fluffy all right so this is tom brady's mom oh man it had to have been the kids it had to have been the kids yeah so is it tom brady's dog post-divorce i think that's the question that is the real question there I heard that they like I heard that she bought a house like across the not street, water off Star Island from him That is passive So worst case, they just hop in their boat drive the boat on over drop off the dog All good Alright And then for the last round we have pee pee Jennifer Lawrence pee pee pee pee pee pee pee like pee longsogging and I'm the one that's not drinking this is Jennifer Lawrence with dogs for sure yeah jennifer lawrence yeah i think her glenn is saying adele jack is saying jennifer john uh what do you say i'm jennifer for sure well not for sure but my guess i don't know i feel like i feel like jennifer too pippi's like pippi longstockings you know I don't really see maybe Jim Gary, but I don't know.

I'm going to go with Jennifer too. I'm following the crowd here. Kenny, what do you say? Okay, for me, I see Pippi and I think like British.

So I'm going with Adele. I'm like, oh, Pippi. Okay, okay. That makes sense.

Okay. Okay, so Andrew was correct. It was Jennifer Lawrence. Okay.

and that's that uh john do you like any of these names could you name your dog a baby better than woodford maybe you should go gary gary the golden or you could probably go with simon's pronunciation his name and pp maybe that's a great name for that would not it is a male dog that's like five drinks now danny chill yeah my wife's watching this and i got not funny woodford is not it as a text immediately after that's good so whitford cass barrel strength bourbon is not happening i mean it's a legit good name the wife always trumps the final say all right guys well it has been a fun time at the bar tonight with all of you guys.

Do you have any closing remarks that you want to tell us about everything that we're going to be doing on IT Nation with the Canine Warriors Charity? Yeah. So anything you can do to help support this organization, we would absolutely appreciate it. Monetary donations, coming on site and participating in the various activities that we have.

The organization truly is impactful in every little bit of support that they receive. goes directly to them to make a difference in the lives of our veterans. And just thank you to everybody for having me on and listening to all the kind of exciting things we have going on with this organization. And remember, guys, the treats are for the dogs.

Don't eat them. They are. They are. I'll leave with kind of a serious note, right?

Like, I know we're having a lot of fun here tonight, but I mean, we've done lots of, sorry, Matt, you got to follow it. John. We've done a lot of streams at this point, and we've talked about this a lot, and it will move you if you take the moment to listen to these veterans. I mean, you hear stories of a dog's paw stepping on the arm of a veteran who's reaching for the side table to grab a pistol out of the side table.

and the dogs are trained to be able to stop that behavior and the dogs are trained to be able to be there for the actual veteran to support them and we've had veterans on we've had trainers on we've done a lot of movement it's sorry to get serious i don't have a lot of fun but it is such a good cause this organization every dollar makes a difference we've been on stream here i pulled it up i think we're about to crack a thousand bucks which a thousand bucks is a huge a huge momentum them uh for this and and and every little bit helps guys even if it's a dollar five dollars ten dollars whatever you can give every little bit helps so whatever you're able to donate definitely go take the time click the link yeah donate what you can so i just had to get us a little bit serious that we've had such an amazing cast of people that have helped tell their story so sorry matt that you're gonna have to you have to bring us back up to the positive energy um but it's such a good cause there there is no positive energy anymore did i take it all out sorry never what what i'll say is it's really not about the run like that's what i talk about because that's my thing i'd be doing that anyway this is a super good cause and like john and adria alluded to it's really just an amazing organization about as i have learned about them through through this experience and through this organization, the donations really do go for a worthwhile charity, worthwhile organization.

So it's very much appreciated. And thank you to everyone who comes out with me. And big, big credit to anyone who wakes up that early, especially anyone who joins me on the non-Thursday runs. That's big, big credit.

Absolutely. And what a great way to give back to those veterans that have given so much for us of their time and their lives and their families, you know, so that we can, you know, enjoy freedom here in the USA. So what a great way to give back to them and really, you know, take our time to show our support to them. Absolutely.

All right. I think Simon's going to pop back in now and tell us what else we have coming up. Yeah, so we have several events coming up, which one of them is actually featuring Matt Topper tomorrow. So we're going to be doing MSP Community Live at 11am.

So make sure you tune in on that. We also have the Pitch It 2023 MMN Final Showdown. So this is before the grand finale, which is also going to be at IT Nation Connect. We have NodeWare, VCIO Toolbox, and Thread facing off tomorrow at 1pm.

That's hosted by Sean Lardo and Ray Arsini. And then we have at 5 p.m. 30 at 38 episode 18 with Dexter Williams.

And then don't forget, we have MSP Dispatch every Tuesday and Friday at 10 a.m. So make sure you tune in on that. Excellent.

Well, guys, thank you for everyone joining today. I can't wait to see all of you next week. We'll also be doing a TechBar as well. Some sort of a TechBar video log type of thing that we're going to do.

So yeah, thank you for joining us. Alex, anything you want to say? Yeah, I'm just really excited to see everyone in person. So everyone have a great night.

Get your rest because once we're there, we're not going to be getting much of it. at least at least no one was put on mute because ray wasn't here tonight so we got to hear everyone last toast guys thanks so much for joining us at the bar and we'll see you soon thanks everybody This has been a broadcast of the MSP Media Network.