EP 54 | – Michael Cohen on Expanding Your Insurance Book of Business

David DeCelle  09:03

Excellent. So if I'm an advisor, and I'm listening to this so far, I hear New York, New Jersey and the Hawaiian Islands. And I'm like, Okay, well I don't live in any of those states, or I don't have clients in any of those states. Let's say I'm I'm in mass, or I'm in Connecticut, or I'm in where I'm at right now I'm in Florida. Are these the only three states that require them to have short term disability by law? Or are there others as well? Or are there others on the horizon? Like, how is this relevant to me in those states?

 

Michael Cohen  09:39

That's a great question. It's not relevant to you unless you have clients that are in those states. So for example, if you have a friend in Florida is usually because it's basically the second coming of New York so a lot of my Long Island clients that moved down there, they still have clients in Miami and Fort Lauderdale and also in New York City, but they do not need it in Miami Fort Lauderdale. They do need it in New York City, but that uses I get that as an entree to then work with someone in Florida to say, well, Mike, you helped me on that state mandated product in New York. Can you help me with life insurance, long term disability and dental in Florida? So I'll work on the ancillary products in Florida. But the only three states to answer your question that habit are New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, on a private, fully insured basis. California has it Rhode Island have it, but you have to ride it through the state, you can't move it to a private insurance company. But recently, Connecticut and Massachusetts added a paid family leave component, which is what Governor Cuomo implemented in New York over and above the short term disability law. And that's now effective gumming up into New England. So, to give you an example, if you have the corporation in Boston, you've got money coming out of your paycheck right now, for paid family leave, which means you basically, if you want to have paternity, or if your wife wants to have an extended maternity, or if you want to help your father or a grandparent with dementia, you can legally file for mandatory paid leave, and you have guaranteed job protection. So Massachusetts copied New York and Connecticut copy Newton, Massachusetts in New York, and the next two states that are scheduled to have this as Colorado and Oregon. So paid family leave is slowly becoming what looks to be federal across the United States.

 

David DeCelle  11:20

Okay, is that different than the short term just? Well, obviously, it's different than the short term disability. But yeah, that's something that's just fully funded by the company or their products, insurance products that you offer that can help with that paid leave as well.

 

Michael Cohen  11:35

So what we can do is we could remove people from the state insurance fund in Massachusetts and Connecticut and place them with a private insurance company like Guardian, Hartford whoever and save their clients money. I like to be the door opener or like the quote unquote, brokers broker like Jerry Maguire and go in and say, Listen, if you've been having trouble trying to get to medical, where have you been having trouble trying to get the 401k? I don't do any of those. But I can help you get it. Let me teach you how. So I help advisors get in the door by asking the right questions. And I start with something that state mandated by law, which is what my father did 45 years ago.

 

David DeCelle  12:10

Okay. And then you mentioned Colorado and Oregon are on the horizon. Upcoming. Yeah. Yeah. Have you gotten any wind of any other states? Like, do you picture this rolling out through all the states over time, or is that not on the horizon?

 

Michael Cohen  12:26

No, that's a great question. 30 states implemented this in the last election to be implemented on a federal basis, and a majority of those states were blue. Yeah. So the fact that we have a blue government at the moment, leads to believe the next four years is going to be pretty exciting in the paid family leave space. now live in Colorado might say, we offer but it's not commissionable, we don't know. There is commission to brokers in mass, there is commission to brokers in Connecticut. And there is commission to brokers in New York. The one difference in New York is every time you write a short term disability policy, or DBL, in New York City, let's say you're simultaneously getting commissioned on paid family leave. So you're getting paid two times Connecticut, and mass only has leave there is no state mandated, underlining Short Term Disability product, but they're copying what Governor Cuomo implemented in 2017. Okay,

 

David DeCelle  13:18

so if I'm an advisor, I have clients in the states that you mentioned. So call it New York, New Jersey, Hawaiian Islands, as well, as you know, soon to be potentially Colorado and Oregon. Cali. If I'm the advisor, how do you and I interact? am I calling your office and you're coming out to the appointment with me? Am I given you the information your reach? How does that process work? How do you partner with advisors,

 

Michael Cohen  13:44

so as long as you have a license, you know, you have a health insurance license or a life and health license, basically, you would contact my organization, and we would tell you the information that's needed to save your potential client money. So you might already have the estate planning or the worker's comp or the home in the auto, whatever it is, you have a client or an insured and one of those states and I would basically say listen, have you asked about the paid family leave plans? And they say no, I've heard about it I didn't know about I say, Well, let me tell you the information that's required, which is normally in the form of a census and then we take it from there. And my office does all of the marketing and servicing of the account. We also give all of our brokers free tracking software, so they know when all of their insurance are pending for non pay because if the client doesn't pay Dave, they don't get their commission. So in a way I've shifted post COVID from a glorified wholesale or to a bill collector. Because if I'm I'm basically monitoring my brokers book of retention for free, which let's face it, that's a big deal because persistency is what matters, and especially coming after COVID the goal for me for me right now is to keep my every piece of business that my broker has intact. Too much business went out the door last year for ob reasons, many people close their doors, well, we can't control that. But if they didn't pay their premium, I'm the one that's going to help that broker advisor, get that client to pay.

 

David DeCelle  15:09

Okay? So that's if you know, I already have the client relationship, have some information, and can bring it right if I'm going to someone cold, or if it's a referral, like with the one or two liners, so to speak, to be able to bring up to really capture their attention. Because how I'm seeing this play out is with someone who either they've been struggling to make a client, right, as that business and business owner, it's a great way to say, hey, you're required to do this, you know, let me be your person. And then from there, you establish the relationship you build trust, you follow through on, you know, the promises that you made on the front end. And then you have the opportunity to I love when advisors work with business owners, because there's so many different things that you can help them with their lifetime value. And working together is just so much higher than most individuals. So it's a great door opener to then cross sell your other products and services that you have. But walk me through the one or two liners on how to actually open that door, if you don't already have a pre existing relationship.

 

Michael Cohen  16:14

When was the last time you looked into your state mandated short term disability and paid family leave coverage, because they all know it. And they might say I didn't even I didn't know who's handling that for you. Because it's required by law. All I need is a copy of your recently paid invoice. And let me take a look at something that you have to have by law period. That's it's a warm lead. Because the benefits the benefit, we're not deviating from that we're just coming in almost like Geico and saying, Let's save you an automatic 10 to 15% off of what you're currently paying, it's pretty much that simple. We've got the cloud and the leverage, where if the risk is large enough, we don't necessarily need a tremendous amount of data, because we're using our leverage of our block of premium to get you the best discounted rate as the advisor, right? So we don't make the brokers commission, all of my brokers get paid directly from the insurance carrier, we make an advisory consultant override fee, which has absolutely no bearing on the broker. So their whole they get paid, their name is on the application. And we just service the accounts so they could go out and continue to sell, like you said, the products that they specialize in,

 

David DeCelle  17:21

how often do you find so if it's something that's mandated, right, I imagine that most everyone, at least the folks following the rules that don't want to pay fines, have, you know, actually implemented this through someone else like you? Right? So my question then becomes Michael, how often do you find that you are able to actually save them money is that like, hey, half the time we can do this all the time, you know, rarely we're able to save them money. So my question would be two part, how often do you find that you can save a company money on this product specifically? And second question is, why is it that you're able to help save them money, whereas the other people, you know, came in with a higher price,

 

Michael Cohen  18:05

that would be 85% of the time. And if I already don't have the account, what I realized a lot of the times is remember, I own several general agencies, my father started one, he and I acquired another one in 2014. And then I acquired one in 2019. So through three general agency umbrellas, we control the dominant amount of the business. Currently, the New York State Insurance Fund has X number of dollars of premium that they service for this particular benefit. I'm just shy of around 11 and a half percent of that entire book. So we control a dominant amount of corporations. As of the turn of this year, we insure 26,000 insurance policyholders throughout the state that we're in, but mainly in the tri state area. So the likelihood of us having a risk is high. So I'd say if we don't have it, we could easily get it based on decades of experience in growing our book to become how compounded it's becoming like a world of interest, right? So, you know, I could get favors done that no one else would be able to. And that's kind of kudos to me staying in my lane. I mean, I don't want to do other things, because then I'm a jack of all trades and a master of none. I like the fact that I'm able to focus Dave on what we do best and use that as a door opener. So yeah, we really won't lose I mean, we've I can pick up the phone and go to the head underwriter, the president the manager and say, listen, even though this might not be running, well, we really need a favor here. What can you do for me? Because it's, it's not what have you done for me lately? It's really, this is what we do for the carriers all the time, we are considered their preferred partner in this space,

 

David DeCelle  19:37

and just said, so it's a mixture of cloud longevity and you know, the amount of business that you've done through them. It seems like you may have more negotiation wiggle room, then some of the other smaller folks out there that are also working with this product.

 

Michael Cohen  19:54

And it's the service after the sale. I mean, I'll be very honest with you, and I'm not sure people ask me all the time, you know, who was your company? Because you would mentioned there's others like me, well, there really aren't because we either require them or they specialize in major medical, which I don't do. So my 100% might be their 1%, you know, because they're focused heavily on something that I don't do. So there really isn't much overlap. We're still private, we're not publicly backed or owned. So we are able to move and shake very quickly, I give out my software to client brokers for free as an add on so that they endorse over their book to help me track something that quite honestly, they didn't really want to track. I mean, I'm sort of built the business model with my father on becoming like the redheaded stepchild of the insurance business, no offense to any redheaded stepchildren out there. But it's really an afterthought. I mean, people don't think that there's any money in this. And now due to paid family leave, that's certainly changing a lot of people's attitude, because there is money in this. And there's money in it with very little service, you just have to get in and ask the right questions. Too many advisors are well hunting, that's the problem. And they're all going after the same things. And that's not maybe necessarily our motto, because we do very well. And we don't have a very high turnover at our at our staff, either. We've got a tenured intern, a tenured employee here, who's been over 35 years, and the newest employees right around four. So we have a very good track record there too, which just goes to show you how we offer like white glove service to our clients and also to our staff.

 

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David DeCelle  22:16

So before we transition over to you know that a couple bucks, you know that your favorite so for those of you who are listening, if this is the first episode that you're listening to, in our new format, all the guests, I asked what their favorite book is, and Michael submitted to so we'll talk about those here in a second, the whole idea is to promote learning within our industry, I find that, you know, some advisors are complacent. And I believe in the saying you're either green and growing or ripe and rotting. And other advisors, if they are learning, they tend to stay within the confines of our industry specifically. And then obviously there's, you know, some of you listening to this that do consume, you know, other books and podcasts and things like that. But the whole goal here is to promote learning within our industry, because our industry can be slow to adopt new ideas or new technologies. So for learning about those ideas, be it you know, marketing, or tech or you know, client service, whatever it may be from other industries, we can take those nuggets and obviously, you know, implement them here. So before we transition to that, Michael, any information that would be helpful for a financial advisor to understand regarding this opportunity that I may not have already gotten from you based on my questions.

 

Michael Cohen  23:31

I think if anybody is listening right now that is looking to expand their book of business, the best way to do that is on something that's mandated by law. And again, I'll recap the states, you have New York, you have New Jersey, you have Hawaii, you have now Massachusetts and Connecticut. And if you want to give a shameless plug to my website, if they want to look it up, because all the states are listed there as well. They could go to insurance wholesaler, dotnet. Again, that's insurance wholesaler dotnet. And there's a paid family leave section that has a whole map of all the states of where they could go, because let's face it, most advisors I don't care for in Florida or are in Texas, there's businesses that are connected to all of those states. So it's very rare that I find a an advisor that doesn't know someone in the New York metropolitan area or in Hawaii, a lot of people in LA have visits in Hawaii and vice versa on the East Coast with Florida versus, you know, Manhattan. So our tentacles extend, you know, greatly cool.

 

David DeCelle  24:29

So I guess transition over to the books, both of the books that you submitted, I have read in the past, so I'm excited to talk about them. So the first one that you noted was the Steve Jobs bio, tell me a little bit more about why you chose that as one of your favorite books.

 

Michael Cohen  24:45

I was just in Well, first of all, let me throw it out there. I haven't read a good book in a long time because I've got two kids that are coming up on eight and 10. So if I'll get three pages and I'll pass right out I'm not gonna lie, I can't keep my eyes open man, but when I used to read prior to having children, those are the last two that I remember reading and thoroughly enjoying. And I think the Steve Jobs was just because he was such an enigma, I learned a great deal about him in that book that I don't think was really portrayed on those mini series and films that were done with him like Ashton Kutcher tried to portray him and others. And I just felt the book was just phenomenal. And it said that we lost him so soon. I mean, he was truly an amazing pioneer, Ben Franklin of our time, which is sad, because who would have thought he's been through so many trials and tribulations that I also could relate to, personally, professionally. And he was a very resilient man and I have been through a lot in the last 48 months, and sometimes reflect back on it, of course, it's a much bigger scale of what he was doing, but sort of that never give up and keep pushing. And I just remember when he would speak to people that he might have been at odds with the simple gesture of having a walk with them around the apple campus. I always did that. I always always enjoyed walking with people and getting to know them. If there's ever a problem with my staff. I don't like it in my office with a closed door, as long as it's not raining in Long Island. So let's go outside and just casually chat, because you're humanizing somebody that way. You know what I mean? And, and I think a lot of that tactic resonated with me too, because of my stand up and having that good gut reaction of what people feel they want, which I know we're getting off on a little bit of a tangent is why I really am not a huge fan of doing zoom calls all the time. I really, truly missed that face to face interaction. I'll tell you, these zoom calls, people feel like they get right into it. And it's very corporately structured, right, right. But if I was to meet you, I guarantee you off the cuff, we talked about five or 10 minutes about things that were something we probably would not have mentioned over laptop,

 

David DeCelle  26:47

totally agree, because

 

Michael Cohen  26:48

I missed that. And coming from the entertainment side of things, I really missed that because people feel or tend to be more of who they truly are, when they're not behind a camera,

 

David DeCelle  27:00

I will give you some kudos. So on our first call, we just did the audio. So we weren't able to actually see each other. But I want to say it was at least 10 minutes or so of us just shooting the breeze back and forth. And it was primarily you driving that portion of the conversation, which when I hung up, I was like, Ah, that's refreshing to do that. So I feel like on zoom calls like this, there at least has to be one person who's open to prodding a little bit and getting that other person to open up for relationship building purposes, which I think was it was super helpful for me to be on the receiving end of that. And, you know, it was fun to have that conversation. So even though you may not like it, I would say that you're doing a good job, at least from my experience and make night seem as if it's in person. So good work there. Now the Yeah, of course, the 48 Laws of Power. That's one of my favorite books. I feel like all those books. So it was it the 48 Laws of Power, the art of seduction. I think there's one more Yep. It's slipping me right now. But I feel like in the right hands, it's an amazing skill set to have, I think in the wrong hands. I'm really do some bad with it. But I feel like it did a good job of dissecting different components of a human's life and psyche and scenarios that they may come across. And it was a very, no pun intended based on the title, but there's very powerful book that I consume. What What were your takeaways from what

 

Michael Cohen  28:37

No, I agree with you on all of those fronts. That book actually was handed to me by my dad when I was in like high school. And that's why was one that came to mind to tell you about because I think what he was trying to do is prepare me for life and, you know, use the words to do so I mean, that's a great word that is truly what it is how to charm people, not really deceive people, but charm them. And I think that was one of the rules is keep your friends close, but your enemies closer to an extent. And my father was very good at that, like the Mao Zedong ideology, you know, and my father, coincidentally enough when he went to Hawaii really resonated with the culture and the Japanese tradition of how they handle business too. So that was one of the reasons why he had recommended that I read those books, because he would say it's all how you handle it to your point. If it's in the right hands or wrong, it could make you a better friend, a better lover or a better person. But it could also completely do the reverse if it's in the wrong hands. But I think it's a great game of how to socially master kind of what we're doing now. Really, I mean, I'm sure that's had some influence into you doing this podcast to some degree, you know?

 

David DeCelle  29:45

Yeah, I agree. That's one of the books that I've gone back periodically and either listen to certain excerpts of it, or you know, I've listened to it a couple times through it's a pretty dense, I want to say it's like 20 something hours long on audio. Yeah, it's definitely A dense book, but I feel like the format is pretty good where I like talks about the law, specifically, it shares an example from my back, you know, way back when and shares a more like present example. So it's a nice kind of flow that you can get used to, to really understand or really get a good understanding. It's almost like when you learn a word for the first time, they're like, use it in the sentence, right? And you kind of like, hear it in a bunch of different ways. I think that book does a good job of, you know, really ingraining that information into your brain the way that they share it.

 

Michael Cohen  30:32

And how to conceal your emotions. You see, I remember that one as well. That's a big thing. And see that to me, is comedy there. So he made me read it. And now I'm thinking subliminally, I read it before I did stand up. You know, it's funny, I'm not that I'm into an astrologer at all. But I had seen one at a party once I'll never forget this individual said, You do a lot of things that are similar, you know, as they're reading my cards or what have you. And I said, I don't understand what you mean. And the individual said, You're an only child, you ran track, which I was fairly good at your it's you in the lane against everybody else, you're doing stand up comedy, which is your back against the wall, and you do sales, which is also a lonely, independent type of position. But all of those things helped me realize how I could prove myself to be trustworthy with other individuals. And I, I'll never forget that because all of those compliments into becoming who I am today, which now that I think about it. Maybe that book took me to that next level of connecting all those dots and making me who I am. So I think it's very powerful. If anyone hadn't read it, I think they should give it to people in school, I think.

 

David DeCelle  31:36

Yeah, I can't recommend that one enough. It's It's really good. And that whole series of books is outstanding. Correct. So awesome. Well, Michael, I appreciate you joining the show. You had mentioned your website. Can you mention that one more time? And then as well as any other ways that people can touch base with you? if they have any questions or, you know, want to collaborate with you at all? How can they get in touch?

 

Michael Cohen  31:58

Sure. So the website, again, is insurance wholesaler, dotnet, they can live chat with anybody on the website, there's a contact us section two, which has everybody's email mine is there, I'll give it out. Anyway, it's Michael Cohen, at DBL center.com, Michael Cohen, a DBL, C, E and T er, and again, the websites insurance wholesaler, dotnet. And yeah, we've got around the clock 24 seven service, so

 

David DeCelle  32:22

someone will get back to you. Awesome. Appreciate that, for everyone listening, appreciate you joining for this show, we're gonna enter into the after hours portion here in a second. But as always, two main asks of anyone listening, if you found some value in today's show, and you think some of your peers and colleagues would find similar value, just hit that share button and shoot it over to them. That way they can get some of this value as well. In addition to that, one thing that would really help us as a relates to overall visibility for this podcast would be to leave us a review on iTunes. So if you would be so kind as to leave us a review, little short write up and actually just shoot me a text message with a screenshot of that, you can text me at 978-228-2338. And if you shoot me that text, you will be entered into a drawing to get access to our digital component of our coaching, which is the accelerator program. So just do me a favor and shoot me that text and then just write Michael Cohen in it as well. So I know which episode you are referencing, and you'll be entered into a drawing to get access to the accelerator program. With that being said, again, Michael, thank you. We're going to be heading into the after hours portion now, where we're going to take off the insurance have put on the comedian hat and hopefully have some laughs Oh. All right. You got it, buddy. You're welcome. Thanks. Awesome. So what do you think the majority of states are going to adopt this over time? It seems like you're kind of alluding to that.

 

Michael Cohen  34:06

Yeah. Oh, without a doubt. Yeah. I think it's the natural scale, you know, and thankfully, you know, I'm behind that. So I've got sort of like those wind beneath my sails. You know what I mean, to help educate people on that. And that's what it really is, is education and consulting. So people that normally would not maybe have come to me in the past, because they figure all this go direct to the carrier or direct to this law attorney. They're coming to me. So I'm completely in the driver's seat right now. And I'm just trying to stay ahead of that curve. So right now I'm focused primarily on Connecticut at the moment. And Massachusetts. I recently opened an office since we last spoke actually April 5 in Connecticut. Oh, also apart. We now have Trumbull Connecticut.

 

David DeCelle  34:45

Oh, yeah. So one of my first speaking gigs was actually in Trumbull, Connecticut. In Ameriprise where one of my college friends worked.

 

Michael Cohen  34:53

Oh, nice. Yeah, I mean, it's super accessible from Long Island to because you could take the Bridgeport ferry to Long Island, you know, and so now we've got Like boots on the ground to expand halfway from Hartford to Boston and back to New York. So I'm excited.

 

David DeCelle  35:05

Love it. So I got a bunch of, would you rather questions that I'm going to bring you through. But before we do that, I kind of want to put you on the spot and see what you got. Do you have any bits that you can share?

 

Michael Cohen  35:20

Well, I can tell you a true story. So my father thought he was like the Don Rickles of you know, the insurance business. So he was all about those quick, you know, one liners. And that was kind of probably where he, you know, came from and his his background era, I literally would tell real stories. So like, remember now, I'm 41 my first gig and I don't even know if I mentioned this to you. I started writing for black Entertainment Television, coincidentally enough as a writer, so if you couldn't tell, right? So it was really funny, because I was when I went there to work. They assumed because I was like, the token white Jewish guy that I was gonna be like their CPA. And I'm like, I'm like, No, I'm like, legitimately here to like, work with you guys on the videos and the production. And then they found out a red track. And they would, you know, nickname meetings, and I thought it was hilarious. They will call me like, super Jew. And I thought it was hilarious. So I would start doing stand up. And I would tell people that, you know, I worked for bt, but I was only black from the waist up. And I would just kind of zoom right into what I did for them. And, and then remember now to like, back in 2004, like internet dating was new man, like they didn't have any of these apps. So match.com was like a really big deal. And like j date was a big deal. So I had a lot of, obviously African American friends that would say, Listen, man, I want you to take men some of those j dates. And I'm like, but you're not Jewish, like Sammy Davis was. So we would go out and use match calm and Jay bass to like, go and hang. And I incorporated that into some of my bits. So it was really all more like True Stories was fun. That's awesome.

 

David DeCelle  37:01

Well, when they're true stories, too, it's probably makes it easier to regurgitate them over and over, as opposed to like trying to recall, you know, some made up thing. So it means that you've lived a funny life. And now you're just sharing the stories along the way.

 

Michael Cohen  37:15

Well, you got a thick skin. I mean, to be honest with you, Dave. That's why I decided I think my father convinced me get into the insurance business. Like, I don't know, a lot of people that, like people might say they're funny, but they never would like, go on stage and actually do it. Like there's a big difference there. And, you know, I made sure I had it memorized to a tee because I had done standard with folks that would go out with like, notes. And I'm like, No, like, you don't want to do that you don't want you look weak, right, you know, so when I would do an enrollment meeting with my pop, like, I didn't know all the answers. So he'd throw me to the wolves. So there was a guy like a broker and I'm like, 24, and I'm doing stand up at night. And he would go me in his send me into the room and he leave. And I'm like, Oh, great. Where's my dad going probably sees this cute receptionist, he's leaving me alone. And this old CFO is sitting there all angry goes. So let me ask you something, kid. Oh, my God, here we go. What do you think is the difference between the pre existing condition between STD and Ltd? If there was an occupation period? I submit I had no idea what you just said. But I'm performing Friday night at governors in Levittown. If you want, I got two tickets. And the guy was like, that's crazy, man. You know, I play guitar. And I started to like, open people up with making them feel comfortable. Because I truly didn't know. And it helped me because I was being transparent with my honesty. I don't know the answer to that. So I get back in the car, and I I'm not happy and I'm like sweating. And my father goes, You figured it out. And I went, I don't know you're talking about he goes, you made people like you, you'll always learn. But the toughest part is making people like you and you did it. And I ended up getting that guy's business. And still to this day, I know the guy. So I ended up writing a blog before it was popular like 16 years ago on how I took my passion to help increase my profits and how I use comedy as a door opener.

 

David DeCelle  39:10

Love that. If you have that blog handy, I'd love for you to send it over to me. I'd like to read it.

 

Michael Cohen  39:16

I got to find out. That was one of my first ones I've run and made it renovated my website so many times since then. I'm very happy with what it's come out to be. But yeah, I mean, that was sort of like what I would do and I'd love to get back into it again, especially now having children and I'm just gonna throw this out there. My wife was born in Poland and I only tell you this because she's way smarter than me and I thought they were supposed to be dumb. But she she went to Cornell because a goddamn genius. My wife. She's a physician's assistant. She's like Sumo come loud. He was like the first in her class valedictorian. I was in any of those things. That's fine.

 

David DeCelle  39:50

So a few Would you rather questions to round this out and you can't make any exceptions? You just have to answer it as is. So put your spot Would you rather kids play by the way. Listen, we're having some fun. We're doing some kids stuff. Would you rather have eyes that can film everything or ears that can record everything?

 

Michael Cohen  40:11

Oh, that's a tough one. I'd have to go with yours. Yeah, yeah. I get Yeah, cuz I'm a big proponent of listening and being a good listener, which helps me in my job, even though I can't shut up on the show. In the right circumstances, and a meeting professionally, I absorb a lot.

 

David DeCelle  40:30

Well, and for everyone who's listening and can't see the video, Michael has two miles in one ear. So that's why that is. Would you rather have to wear wet socks every day or only be allowed to wash your hair once a year? And for those listening, he does have hair just so you know.

 

Michael Cohen  40:50

Wow. No, I'm gonna go with the man. I'm gonna go with the hair thing, man. I'm gonna go. I'm hedging my bed. Because I think that would be less. Yeah, I think that would smell worse over time than the hair thing. Yeah. And finally, I never find out. But

 

David DeCelle  41:06

finally, would you rather have chapped lips that you can never get rid of? Or dandruff? You can never get rid of

 

Michael Cohen  41:12

dandruff all day long man that we're in a people come on. Look at you and I were too vain for the chapped lips. We can't deal with that.

 

David DeCelle  41:19

I literally it's I can't do that I even chapstick, bro, look at you. Look, look, look. There you go, brother. That's hilarious, man. So well. Michael, I appreciate your time today. I appreciate getting to know you. For those of you who stuck around for the after hours portion. Hopefully you found a couple laughs here. And when Michael gets back on the stand up circuit, we'll be sure to let you know. So Michael, thank you for your time. Awesome, man. Thanks a lot, brother. Take care. Take care.