Clint Joffrion was born and raised on the bayou in South Louisiana. He’s the youngest of two boys
and a Certified Nuclear Medicine Technologist with 9 years of clinical experience.
“Joff” & I met at Nicholls State University, where we were college teammates & roommates. He’s one of the few guys I’ve met in my life that I knew the instant I met him we were going to be lifelong friends.
“Fado Baby” (he’s got a few nicknames) was a #1 Rep selling Radiotherapeutics, but is currently furloughed due to COVID-19.
In this episode, we reminisce on our time living together, discuss how much technology has changed the way we communicate, and laugh more than any other episode.
Clint also shares the emotional impact that working at MD Anderson had on him.
Other topics discussed:
- Beepers / pagers
- Investing time in a book
- How to Read a Book
- Ozark (on Netflix)
- Extreme Ownership
- Joff’s support of US Military
- The value of clichés
- Seal tactics applicable to business
- How to Win Friends
- What is a disciplined person?
- Getting up early
- Testosterone levels & sleep
- Subjective pain scale
- Lessons learned from baseball
- Learning from failure
- “Master the boredom of repetition”
- “If you’re not 5 minutes early, you’re late”
- Joff dressed as Bradley for Halloween
- Having big families
- People having fewer kids nowadays
- “Be kind, rewind”
- Chopping sh*t, shooting sh*t
- When anxiety is real
His Career in Oncology:
- How working at MD Anderson changed him
- Emotional toll of losing patients
- “The Big Cajun”
- Fresh boudin & jambalaya
- Learning to compartmentalize
- Transitioning into sales in 2014
- Finding a job on Instagram
- Getting furloughed
- working from home thru pandemic
Social Media & Technology
- Video games are a movie
- The Last Dance (Michael Jordan docuseries)
- Your baseball stats live forever on the Internet
- Using a pager (143 = I love you)
- Not cool to text with dudes when we were in college
- Facetime is living like the Jetsons
- Simulation Theory
- Living through a technology boom
- Investing in Netflix (NFLX)
- Joff uses a Peloton
- Starting meditation
- “Likes” on Instagram
- Getting Instagram followers
- Moms on social media
- Is TikTok Chinese spyware?
- Tips for using Twitter
- Our favorite apps
- Internet rabbit holes
- Going to “Facebook jail”
- Turning 40 years old in quarantine
- Highs & lows of having kids
- Happiness vs. meaning
Personal Finance & Investing
- An important conversation we had about money
- Text message Joff sent to Brad when furloughed
- % of income they were saving prior to being furloughed
- Financial adjustments they’ve had to make since furlough
Questions Asked:
- Do you have a favorite book that you’ve read recently?
- Do you agree with Jocko Willink on what makes a disciplined person?
- How do you think baseball helped you to be successful in life?
- What prompted you to want to dress as me for Halloween?
- One of the reasons you stopped working at MD Anderson Cancer Center is because of what you had to witness every day…can you talk about that a little?
- Did that experience [working at MD Anderson] make you feel like you were more likely to get cancer yourself?
- From there you transition into sales, correct?
- Where are you in the Jordan documentary [The Last Dance]?
- Do you think we’ll [humans] look back at this time and say we were so materially-obsessed that we decided not to have more kids? And people will think we’re stupid (like in Idiocracy)?
- We’re more prosperous than our parents, but do you think we’re more happy?
- So are you are living on one income now [your wife Melanie’s]?
- Has there been a reduction in spending in your household?
- What percentage of your income were you saving prior to being furloughed?
Fun Questions:
- What is the coolest gift you’ve ever received?
- When is the last time you drank a guy’s piss?
- If you could replace all the grass in the world with something else, what would it be?
- If someone dropped $1 million dollars in your lap tomorrow, what would you do with it?
- If you won a trip to the moon, meaning you don’t have to pay for it, but you have to be gone for 4 months, would you go?
- Who do you think Joe Biden will choose as his VP?
- What has been your favorite part of this podcast?
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Enjoyed this conversation. I’m sure there are many people that can relate to Clint as it pertains to life during quarantine, me being one of them. FYI, I would never go to Mars. I have a strong regard for oxygen.
Thanks, Matt. We’ll put you down for Uranus.