Ed McCaffrey
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65 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
Ed McCaffrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Sure, we weren't going to prevent him from playing if that's what they wanted to do. And as soon as Christian saw Max playing, he couldn't get enough of it. And then his little brothers followed.
Every parent I talk to, you've got a son, you've got a daughter. It doesn't matter what sport it is. It doesn't matter if they're singers or actors. You want them to succeed so well, more than you've ever wanted it for yourself. And that's the blessing of being a parent. It's also one of the most challenging things because you can't do anything about it. It's hard, yeah.
Win, lose, or draw, we're here for you. We love you. I'm not on the field. I can't make a play for you. One of the reasons my kids loved lacrosse. because I didn't play lacrosse.
Yeah. They're like, all right.
I'm just a dad. You don't even know what you're talking about. So then I started studying up, and I tried to give them one tip. I'm like, you got to bend your knees and keep your arms straight when you're scooping. They're like, shut up.
No, it's not a rival. It's a completely different category. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah. And there's some, you know, obviously Heinz is by far the number one ketchup on the planet.
Hunts can get out of here. Well, yeah, some competitors jumped up and produced... ketchup without corn syrup because of health concerns. So then Heinz copied them and did the same thing because you have to follow the trends and you want to be health conscious. But there's I mean, think about it. There's so many I'm not going to name the names.
There's so many very popular mustard brands that are in every grocery store on the planet. Right. But what we've been able to do is, one, create a phenomenal product like our spicy brown mustard. I would put next to any mustard on the planet. There's not a better spicy brown mustard on the planet Earth than what we produce. So it's absolutely delicious.
You can't beat it, which is why it's still sold after 25 years. But we've also been able to create a little bit of a niche in our business because the bigger brands don't always want to experiment with new flavors and new products. So we've created a Chipotle mustard. You don't find a lot of Chipotle mustards. We have a Sriracha. We have a squeeze bottle with horseradish sauce.
It tastes delicious. We came out with a smoky horseradish, slightly different flavor. The bigger companies are making so much money and have so much success with their main brands, they don't need the branch off into different categories. So we can be nimble and quick, which is what we have to do. We can provide
Our main retailer is King Soopers in Colorado, which is owned by Kroger and City Markets. So when they want to come up with a new product because of the changing demographics or for any other reason, we can work really quickly. So we're more like a speedboat than an aircraft carrier. And so that's been a very efficient and successful thing for us to do.
So over the years when they've needed honey mustard, we create a honey mustard. Dijon, we created Dijon. And we'll continue to do that. And I think that's where we fit in. It's tough to stand toe to toe with billion dollar corporations. We're a mom and pop, small company. Make healthy food, make good tasting food.
You're a great guy, very relaxed.
I am now. But, you know, as a parent, look, we're just talking parents.
You love your kid. You want him to succeed. there's probably going to be a time throughout their childhood where you're more relaxed and you're, you're saying and doing the right things and you're there for them. You're not making it about you. And then there's probably a time for whatever reason where you get too intense.
And I've gone through that. There was a time where I was sitting up in the stands and my wife's like, I'm not even going to sit next to you. Of course. And you know what? In those moments, I realized me having any kind of anxiety, it's not helping them, but it's also pushing me away from my wife who I love and maybe my other kids. I'm like, it's, It's challenging to be a parent. I respect parents.
The number one thing you can do is love them and support them. They just want to know you're there for them no matter what happens. And one of the challenges for me, because I coached all my kids, is knowing when to take the coach's cap off.
They don't need it on the right arm.
They don't need it at the dinner table. You know, if they ask me questions, now I'm at the point where if they ask me, I'll volunteer advice. But if they do not ask me, I will not volunteer advice. Right.
You know what? I don't have. Only recently have I wanted to buy Lombardi trophies and put them up in my house. And I've never displayed my rings because going back to what we said earlier, I never wanted them to feel the pressure of having to be a Super Bowl champion. to be successful. So even to this day, I don't have my rings.
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