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Guys in field, justin can design on designing new tanks and new quotes for opotential clients. >> and bringing brian in, clients had to get used to the idea that not all questions required justins personal attention. >> i have had a hard time letting the clients know that calling me is the not the best thing to call me or when you have a leak or issue, because you have to call the service person or the 800-hotline number. >> but there are certain calls that justin always handles himself. >> it i...

>> it also meant clients had to get used to the idea that not all questions required justins personal attention. >> ive tried very hard to have my clients understand that calling me is not always the best thing when you have a sick fish or if you have a leak or you have an issue. you have to call the service person or you have to call our 1-800 hotline person. >> but there are still certain calls justin has to handle himself. >> its like being a vet. i am a biologist. my guys are very good but t...

Milk was a bad choice. >> classic scene. when hes strolling down san diego pounding curdled milk. >> yes. >> if youre a foo fighter fan -- >> i like foo fighters. >> -- you should have been in new york. they played at global citizen festival over the weekend. their front man, dave grohl said this might be the last chance for fans to see them for a very long time. early on in their set, he said without making a big deal out of it, we dont have any shows after it. this is it, man. honestly, i dont...

Such wonderful work. so much of today is a dark picture painted of america, who are doing the best diplomacy you could possibly imagine. i went to southwestern china, 3 1/2 hours by air from beijing to the poorest province of china, where these kids are teaching english, but then they do these side projects like glee club, like shakespeare, like the prom, like cooking, whatever it is, and the chinese kids love it, because theyve never met foreigners before. >> so the farthest reaches of china th...

brand-new cnn/orc poll shows cain in a dead heat with mitt romney at the top of the gop field and cains gain is rick perrys loss. the texas governor now a distant third. if you dont believe fortunes change in a heartbeat, take a look at this. just a month ago perry was riding high and cain polled a mere 9%. want to bring in my comrade in politics, paul stein houser, the venetian hotel at casino. hey, paul, can herman cain take these numbers to the bank or should we expect, you know, a ...

catastrophic failure of the justice system. georgia delayed the execution for four hours while the u.s. supreme court considered the case. davis declared his innocence until l the end. he lifted his head from the gournny and told the victims family they had the wrong man. >> and he said to the prison staff, the ones he said who were going to take my life, he said to them, may god have mercy on your souls and his last words were to them, may god bless your souls. then he put his head ba...

>> that strikes me as very important. in america it seems there is no real cost or social stigma to failure. >> i totally agree, yeah. i think the notion of failure is seen differently here in the u.s. than other countries, even countries in europe, for instance. and i was traveling in italy recently and we heard a lot about how do you guys start companies so easily in the u.s. and in japan, too, was the same thing? they all have smart guys working on interesting projects. but they just dont hav...

Start over again and if you fail, the steady job is waiting to pick you up and bring you back to where you could be. >> that strikes me as very important. in america it seems like theres no real cost and no social stigma to failure. do you find in a? >> i totally agree, yeah, and the notion of failure is seen differently here in the u.s. than many countries, even countries in europe, for instance. and, i mean, i was traveling in italy recently and heard a lot like how do you start companies so e...

Again. >> i feel like, you know, even in my career so far, ive been laid off, and i went almost a year without working and worked on some side projects. went to grad school and had another year i didnt do anything and then had another project that failed and, you know, it took us six months to get financing with foursquare and people have said youve had all these successes. we havent had it yet. like were still working towards it. >> what do you think the features or the factors that helped make...

Not only for what hes done for personal computing, also what hes done for animation. remember, he picked up a little animation shop from george lucas that really was doing side projects and turned that into pixar, which revolutionized animation, reinvigorated disney. hes now disneys largest individual shareholder. heres a guy whos shaken up not just personal computing and animation but also telecommunications and hes coming around to do it again with the ipad. so this is a singular individual. >...