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eluminium · 2 years

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A collection of out of context imp and skizz podcast quotes

this is from the leadership one these two...good god. what the fuck (<- meant on several levels and purposes mostly positive but also confused) --- “You tell me, when you think of a leader, what do you think of?” “Well, I think of you”

--- “I’ve always thought that theres three different approaches to leadership. Theres A, B, and C, and the C is rare and one almost nobody can do. It’s very rare, and those are the real thing. (Leader) A leads through fear [...]. And what happens is, when someone leads through fear, then you have all these people who are supposed to be following you and what they’re really trying to do is stay off your radar. But then you have Leader B who leads through inspiration [...] The second leader (style) makes it so that now they want you to notice them. They want to get on your radar. And when you’re leading people and they wanna be on your radar, you see amazing things happen. And the Leader C is the perfect combination of both. It makes it so they don’t want to upset you but they also don’t want to get off your radar, they want you to notice them but they really don’t want to let you down! [...]” “So, you’re a rare breed? [...] The whole time you were talking I’m like ‘okay, A B C, where did Skizz fall when he was my section leader of drumline in highschool?. [...]’ And I do remember there being a fear, but I also remember being very inspired and wanting to impress you and be on you radar, and have you notice me. But there was also a fear! Because it was a very diciplined thing that we had going on. And I didn’t want to let you down, I wanted you to be impressed with what I could do. And so, looking back, [...] My take is that you fall in the C category.” ---

“That’s a huge compliment!” “Yeah, I hope you can make it out of the door when we leave.” ---

“And I think- eugh- (various skizzleman sighs) I don’t know man- I don’t- It’s- I guess I’m a leader. I guess.” “You’re absolutely a leader!” “Well it’s hard to say it! It’s hard to say! But it feels good, and obviously this is weird because I put you on one heck of a pedestal so to hear you say those things is awesome. So it’s not like it doesn’t feel good or doesn’t give me a good ego boost!” ---

“Maybe I do have some leadership qualities! It just took that moment to realize that it doesn’t have to be a position, it just needs to be a feeling, almost. And finding the right words at the right time to inspire a mass, like you said. Like, I do have something in me! It’s there.” “Theres no question that you do! The fact that you had questioned that is laughable. Theres no question that you have leadership capibilities inside you.” ---

“It put me into a space where I started to hone in on leadership skills and then so, you tell me it’s category C which makes me- It does blow my head up, we’re gonna need to get some butter to get me out the door.” ---

“And then my sunglasses that were hanging on my shirt got sucked off my shirt and went outside. And me, in all my infinate wisdom, ‘oh i’m gonna get my sunglasses!’ And I go running out there, and the wind is brutal! I pick up my sunglasses and as I pick them up I realize a giant tree has been uprooted and is going (skizzleman WOOSH sound in imitation of wind) across the ground in front of me. And I’m all ‘Oh, this is not funny anymore.’. I turn around and you’re all looking at me and your faces are white, you’re inside and you’re like ‘GET IN HERE!’. And I start coming back and it took a LOT to get back into that door and it took like three of us to close the door.” ---

“But dude, I do remember you stepping up and that was actually probably my first week on drumline. That was my first week ever on drumline so probably like the third practice we had together and I was like ‘Wooow, this dudes a leader! I’m going to listen to every word he says and I’m gonna do my best to impress him and I am-...NOT gonna step out of line!’ So you had me, and you had the entire band and you’ve had a leadership skillset since that point, and probably before. And all the way to today you exuberate that in your current job, obviously, if your boss is asking you to do even more with it.“ --- “Cuz I was looking foward, because you brought me in on the third one in. And I was going to do what you did the year before. I was super nervous about it! You were thrusting me into a leadership role and I was super nervous about it. And I’m still too this day curious about what would have happened if that event had gone through.” “I’m gonna tell you exactly what would’ve happened, it’s the reason I brought you in. First of all, as of that moment, that was my event. I was the one running the entire thing. So everyone I was putting on the team was there for a reason, right. And the reason I brought in you to do the job I was doing was because I didn’t think you were gonna do as well as I did it, I knew for a FACT you were gonna raise the bar even higher. I knew you were going to! And for a couple reasons. One, you have incrediable ownership as it is and- this is- don’t go too deep in this but you’re just legitimetly smarter then me. You are. The things you understand from a technical level FAR superceed me. Now, I can take some solice in the fact that you actually are way above average in regards to that so it’s not like I’m an idiot, but...I was really good at it, but I knew as good as I am, he’s gonna be twice as good and he’s gonna elevate this program even more and on top of all that, I knew you were gonna love it. And you were gonna be so proud of it. Cuz I knew when you walked into The Grand Balroom and you saw the backdrop, you saw the animations that you drove, you saw all the stuff YOU made happen. That you drove and your vision became a thing, you were gonna look at it and be like: ‘look what i did!’. Because it really feels good! [...] It’s like this podcast! Like when I’m done editing I’m like ‘look at this! look at what we did!’ [...] I knew you were gonna love it and I knew you were gonna be great at it. Thats what would have happened.” ---

“Yeah, maybe. I was nervous about it, I was super nervous about it cuz I was like ‘I don’t know if I can do this’ you know? So the whole time I was like ‘If this goes through...Am i gonna actually succeed?’ And I never got to find out because- stupid pandemic!

“What’s funny is that I had even said at one point- because you said to me ‘dude I can’t feel your shoes on this’ and I was like ‘yes you can, dude. Trust me. I’ll be right there the whole time but you’re gonna crush it too’ because I knew it was gonna happen.” ---

“The only reason I brought that up was because I was being put in a leadership position and I felt uncomfortable, right? I felt like I wasn’t prepared, I felt impostor syndrome, I felt all these things, and yet you still had 100% faith that I was gonna do just fine and knock it out of the park. So maybe the message there is that you can be uncomfortable as a leader” ---

“I’ve always had a resounding faith in you, I had all my money bet on you just absolutely knocking it out of the park. But more then anything, I wouldn’t have brought you in if I wasn’t so sure that you were gonna love it. I knew you were gonna love it.” ---

“At least it was one more thing you and I got to do together, and work on together. Because we were always looking for ways for you and I to work together in this company. And this was something we finally got a chance to do, or get started on anyway before it went upside down. That’s like- That’s our lives, looking for more ways to do stuff together. [...] Because we know what happens when do!” “It’s magic, man!” “It’s magic! Just like this podcast has been a magical experience, at least for us. I enjoy this every time, every week when we get together. And I look forward to it, like I start setting up all the microphones and stuff and I just start getting jazz’ed! I just can’t wait to sit down and have a conversation with you. Just hang out!” ---

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