Kristin Demoranville

I just think that that is, this would be apocalyptic, right? We haven't completely focused dead on to how we're going to deal with the supply chain. Yikes. And also we're growing so much food for animals rather than human consumption. And I'm not saying that's bad because we still have to feed animals.

No, I mean, look how the other disasters that have happened, whether it's the train accident or Flint, Michigan. Yep. They still have fallout because priorities shift. This is why it's so important for OT to continually beat the drum of this is a problem. This is where it needs to be fixed. If you aren't willing to fix it, you now have to accept the risk that this could potentially happen.

And by the way, I'm not going to turn around and tell you I told you so. I'm just going to hear your report so you know. Sure. And I'm here if you need me kind of thing. Like, that's it. It's all we can do. But the fact that we have to sit on this type of knowledge all the time and go to sleep at night gets a little frustrating sometimes.

And this is why I think as a community in OT, the fact that we all support each other so well and kind of uplift and kind of have that therapy moment, if I even want to use that term.

um when we're together is so important because i have sat there and listened to tales and i know you have too of just stuff that's going on and obviously that we're being very respectful we don't talk about where it's happening or what's going on to have someone tell me that story and then you could see the weight lift off of them but now it's on you because you now know but like but the fact that like we can come together as a community like that i just wish the rest of the cyber community would do that right let's rally behind each other instead of just being jerks

That would be great. And like I said, I adore this community in general. And I love that we fit so well into the companies and the places that we serve because we're just as geeky as they are for what they do. And like I said, we all love to eat, so it should be a no-brainer there.

I realize that all of us have different relationships with food based on your body and different things in your life, but we all do like to eat and we identify with food from where we're from.

It's part of a cultural experience. We celebrate with cake. We, we say goodbye with cake, right? Cake is kind of the thing. We also have, you know, our favorite food memories. I talk about this on my podcast all the time. What's your favorite food and your favorite food memory? What is your favorite food and your favorite food memory? I,

It's also identifier, right? I mean, you say you're from Texas, so Tex-Mex. We all kind of know what that is in this country. People who live in other countries, because I do have a lot of listeners around the world, you probably had some variation of it in your own country because sometimes other countries do it better than us. Right.

You know, and I've had some of the best curry of my life in Japan, not Japanese curry, but Indian curry because they do it really well. You know, the UK has its own version of curry. I think that it's interesting how much that blends, right? Because my fiance is British. We do curry on Friday nights, just an example. And curry wasn't something that I grew up with. I grew up in New England.

We eat basic, boring food. No offense. If my mom's listening, I love you. But it's one of those things where I wasn't used to that. But now it's blended into my culture and my reality, right? And I love how food brings you together like that. Try something new. experience something different, but also have the nostalgia of things you remember. And I remember family cookouts too.

I mean, we did some weird things with salads and jello and I don't know what was going on. The 80s and the 90s were kind of complicated. Or with like mayonnaise and like, anyways.

Yeah. What was the Cool Whip?

Too much. Yes. But these are brand names that we remember and they're still on the market. You can still get them and they're very clearly there. I mean, I don't know if I'd have it now, but I'm in a different state in my life. But, you know, it's fun for kids, you know.

I mean, you could probably cut open a freshwater fish and try to sashimi yourself into it, but I don't know about that. But I think it's also changed my perspective on food. When you have it in an authentic space, like I've had the privilege of going to Japan several times for work and I can't eat sushi in the States anymore. It's been erected for me. It's sort of like...

I can't drink Guinness in the States. I really only want an Ireland or the UK. Like certain things have changed, but then you wait for that moment and you have it and you're like, yeah, it's like, and it becomes this whole awesome thing.

And if I think about the fact that we have all these issues globally, some of this food that we love and we talk about may not be available to the next generation or the generation after that, because we made bad choices. Yeah. you know? And also the idea that a cyber attack threatened people's lives through food. I can't really think of anything even worse than that. Right.

Honestly, it's an intimate attack. It's not just like, Oh, we're going after finances and dah, dah, dah, dah. No, no, no. That's to destroy people. Like that is, that keeps me up at night. Not every night, but there's some nights where like, Oh my God, like we're just like a hairpin from it sometimes. And it's,

I don't want people to know that because I do have professional and friends that have lost children to E. coli poisoning and other different poisonings. And to tell a parent that their child is passing because of a burger that was contaminated, I mean, that makes me want to burn a house down. Like, that's not the answer. Not that I'm an arsonist because I'm a firefighter family.

However, I will say it does make me very angry. And my anger doesn't matter, right? Because at the end of the day, I can only do what I can do. I want more people to understand that, especially in the OT space, we are doing things that safeguard lives on a whole other level than we expected to in our career. I certainly didn't think this was going to happen in my career. No. No.