I'm with My Dad, and I'm Podcasting... But Dad Won't Watch Elf!

01:23 - Introduction
We start out today with a short roundtable chat about Mom dressing Tyler. And cussing. And Gallagher.

03:20 - Movies
We list some of our favorite movies–Christmas ones and Schwarzenegger ones. Dad thinks most Hallmark movies should just move on down the road. But then he goes on to talk about the one he watched with Mom. We learn that Pierce Brosnan has lost all of Dad’s respect.

When it comes to Christmas movies, Eddie shares that Christmas Vacation is one of his favorites. Dad hasn’t seen it. He is a fan of Scrooged, though–especially Bobcat.

Tyler shares a vote for Daddy’s Home. Dad shares that he doesn’t want to have anything to do with Elf.

10:50 - ABSI and Trauma
Tyler executes one of the oddest segues we’ve seen, but that does get us around to a conversation we wanted to have the last time Dad joined us.

Dad was working on a project in Florida. Dad’s team won the bid, but he believes they got it because the owners knew they could push his team around. Then came the RFIs. Then came the atrium–with fiber optic stars. Dad played multiple roles on this project, and he saw his schedule slipping and slipping because of work not done in the design stage.

Long story short, he decided it was time to move on from that company and start ABSI.

25:50 -  Birth of BIM and our first exposure to Tekla
Eddie shares about the first times he was exposed to these new terms and software packages. Dad reminisces about the earliest computerized drawings he did. 

30:47 - Lessons Learned
Eddie airs some grievances about where the industry is compared to where it should be. It’s the whole Jetsons flying-car thing. We speculate about why we haven’t come further. Dad talks about critical paths and faxes and crickets chirping as he sought to drum up business. Eddie thinks it’s largely obstinance and risk-aversion.

The rest of this conversation will be in next week’s episode.

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