The host (JC) greets the audience, mentions the Cadre Sphere, and recommends Ted Lasso as a good show. This short intro sets a friendly tone and explains the context for the forthcoming example.
The host (JC) greets the audience, mentions the Cadre Sphere, and recommends Ted Lasso as a good show. This short intro sets a friendly tone and explains the context for the forthcoming example.
The host summarizes season 4, episode 5 where Ted compares coaching to barbecuing — poking at meat ruins its tenderness and 'low and slow' preserves it. He explains how the analogy applies to coaching a team and preserving their specialness.
JC shares his own similar saying about you can't cook a turkey faster than time allows and notes he enjoys seeing parallel ideas in different contexts. He reflects on how people often arrive at similar truths within their own words and experiences.
The host draws a clear lesson: meaningful growth takes time — 'low and slow' — and warns against quick fixes that remove tenderness. He invites viewers to apply patience with themselves and others, then wraps up with a short musical check and goodbye.
Happy Sunday, everybody. Right here in the Cadre Sphere. A little Mumford and Sons. Sons? Sons? Does Mumford have more than one son? I don't know. But Marcus Mumford solo released the theme song to Ted Lasso. If you would ever watch that show, I recommend it. It's a good watch. It's a good thinker, a good feeler. It's funny, it's fresh, all those things. It's well made. There's nothing like a British accent to take you on a free trip to the other side of the pond. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here.
I know the things I know and I care about you. My name's JC. Thanks for spending a few minutes with me right now. Right here in the Cadre Sphere where we remind you that there's lots of ways to be well. Ted Lasso. In this week's episode, season 4, episode 5, Ted uses an analogy about BBQ and how the first handful of times he made BBQ, he kept like poking at it. Like he wouldn't, he'd keep, you know, checking on the BBQ and poking at it and flipping it and doing all the things. And And he said like doing so like removed its tenderness, right?
Low and slow. like the whole like smoky, how you make barbecue, it takes a million years, yada, yada, and then it remains tender. And you get that really special thing. And he was speaking to his assistant coach who is a new assistant coach to him. And he's coaching his coach, saying, hey, coach, you're trying to get the get the team to cook faster than maybe we want them to. Because if they're being coached the way that you're coaching them, if you're cooking them the way you're cooking them, they're going to lose their tenderness.
They're going to lose their specialness. I always have said this, so it made me smile. I say this, well, you can't cook a turkey faster than you can cook a turkey. m. on Thanksgiving morning, if you want turkey at 6, Turning the oven up to 1000 degrees ain't going to do nothing other than give you a burnt on the outside, frozen on the inside turkey. So whenever I hear Ted Lasso say something that kind of resembles what I say, it kind of makes me happy. Not because all of a sudden I'm worthy of a TV show, but because it reminds me that humans all kind of arrive at similar places within our own context, within our own words and character.
But Ted's on to something, and I think I am too. If you're attempting to influence people, giving them really simple sounding truths that actually aren't true and actually aren't simple don't get us very far. It takes time. It takes time to make the things that are special and to allow those things to remain what they are, tender and malleable and specific and nuanced and all those things. So my invitation for you today, and this goes for yourself and for others that you influence, Low and slow, y'all.
You can't cook a turkey fast, you can cook a turkey. And if you're poking at your BBQ, you're going to end up with some non-tender BBQ. Who in the heck wants that? Let me see if I go to the last like 20 seconds here of the Ted Lasso theme to see if it's actually the theme. It's got a cool ending. Have a good one. Okay, that's it.
