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But if that man is out there somewhere, probably

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not one of our listeners, but I hope you're doing

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better, dude. I hope you're not still berating

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17 -year -olds. I hope you got help. Welcome

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to the show, people. Welcome to the show. Eat

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my shorts. So here is to conversation. Tranquility

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base here. Vehicle has landed. Welcome to the

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Cash Exchange. Welcome. How goes it? It's going

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good. I have a stack of supplies on my island

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right now so that I can make a very last -minute

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Halloween costume. Jury is still out as to whether

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or not I will get it finished in time. Ooh, what

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is it? So we'll see. It's Amanda Young from Saw.

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She is the reverse bear trap girl. Is that what

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you're going with? And so I have... all of the

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supplies to make the reverse bear trap right

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now. I think that I can do it in enough time

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to be ready by Halloween, but I don't know. I

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do work for all of the days between now and Halloween,

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so we'll see. What are your Halloween plans?

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So I work in the morning, and I was thinking

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that I could be Billy the Puppet at work because

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I can make that work with my general dress code,

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and then I could be Amanda Young at night. I

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don't have anything specific yet as to what I'm

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going to do because I'm still trying to figure

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out who would be available in that time frame.

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But I would like to go out for Halloween. I've

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heard that Austin is a fun city to be in on Halloween.

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I bet. That's when all the weirdos get to be

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weird. Crazy, since this used to be a city that

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was entirely based on the weird. Is it not anymore?

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And then they neutered our logo. No. Wow. Yeah.

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I'm just copying Dallas. The logo is embarrassing.

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There wasn't more creatives in the city that

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could have come up with something better. I will

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say, though, it's very funny because there is

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a an overpass and on the side of it is written

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in enormous font, the word boner, but it's in

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the new city of Austin logo. You'll be glad to

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know that they recently just had a press conference

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about the yogurt shop murders. In Austin? In

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your general area. Who came out of that? They

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got him. He's dead, but they got him. But then

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they also say that there's no way that one person

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could have done everything that was done in that

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time frame. So he didn't act alone. I don't know

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a ton about the overt shot murders. Huh. I did

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not know this happened at a place called I Can't

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Believe It's Joker. Did not know that. I will

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be watching that documentary sometime soon. I'm

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sure there's a podcast about it I can listen

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to on my way to Dallas. All right. So are you

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ready for your three things today? I sure am.

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What do medical testing, feet pics, and standing

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in line have in common? Two of them are. Are

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pedal adjacent? Sure. Arguably all three. What

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was the first one? There's clinical trials for

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medical testing. Medical testing. I'm sure there's

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clinical trials for foot things. Is it easy ways

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to make money? Close. I had questionable ways

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to make money. You've not. You're not doing the

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best in your life if you are doing clinical trials,

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selling pictures of your feet, or, I mean, standing

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in line for money is a pretty solid side hustle,

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but. Is there a market for man feet? Of course

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there is. I got good ones. Everyone is someone's

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thing. Hmm. Got hobbit feet. How do I get into

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contact with the people that would give me money?

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There are websites for such finding. How do you

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weed out the pervert? I'm not going to plug them

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because they are not sponsoring us. If you are

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going to sell pictures of your feet, I don't

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think that you are going to find anyone who is

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not a pervert. I mean, not yucking anyone's yum.

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I do hate feet, but if that is your thing. and

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it is something that happens amongst consenting

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adults, then do you. Are there professional male

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feet models? There have to be. Is this an untapped

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market that I could get myself into? Imagine

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like Sperry's or... I can't think of like a good

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male -centered type of shoes. I got great ankles

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too. They have to have models. Yeah, you would

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have to have great ankles and probably shaved

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legs. Deal breaker. I mean, you could shave,

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like, up to the tube sock height. It's not like

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they're going full calf. You just got to shave

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a little bit. Can't they just edit it in post?

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I mean, eventually, yeah, but you have to have

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some kind of clout behind yourself before then.

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Got to establish yourself in the foot modeling

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world. Have you ever done a paid trial? Clinical

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or otherwise? I've done some like, we'll send

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you products and you review them kind of things.

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I've done paid surveys. I've done a couple of

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like mystery shops. I don't think I've done any

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like clinical trials. I did a clinical trial,

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actually. I didn't get paid for it, but I did

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participate in a... Like crowdsourced clinical

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trial. Year or two ago. Gotcha. You ever sold

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plasma? I have, unfortunately. I am afraid to

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go back to selling plasma. I'm afraid to ever

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do it again. Yeah. I did for a good bit there.

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Yeah, the last time I did it, it was not a fun

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experience. So I was told, yeah, maybe. Maybe

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don't come back for whatever reason. And I have

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like all of my when I go to like the doctor and

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everything, they run all the tests that they

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do for like your checkup and stuff. All my numbers

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come back fine. But for whatever reason, the

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last two or three times I went to go donate plasma,

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my blood clogged the machine. Oh, like I didn't

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know that was an option. Like multiple times

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they'd come and they'd like massage the bag and

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then it would go for a little bit and then it

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would clog up again. So. It. I think if I remember

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correctly, that happens because of the thing

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that you ate most recently before the. Like the

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donation. I don't have any concept of if that

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is true. It has been a while since I've donated

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plasma. So that might be. I couldn't tell you.

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Pulled out of my butt, but. All I know is that

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the last time I went, I was like, this happened

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last time too. And they were like, yeah, maybe

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this isn't the right avenue for you. I said,

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yeah, okay. That's probably best. Yeah. The last

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time that I donated plasma, I had a phlebotomist

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who I'm fully convinced was new to needles. I

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don't honestly recommend donating plasma if you

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have other avenues. But she stuck the needle

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in my arm incorrectly. And don't get me wrong,

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even with seasoned people, I'm sure they miss

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the vein every once in a while. I've been told

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that I have kind of difficult to find ones. When

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that is the case, you can pull it back a little

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and start over. What you shouldn't do is just

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wiggle it around in there until you find the

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place that it's supposed to be. And I almost

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passed out. And so the moment that that was over,

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I said, I'm never stepping foot in a place like

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this again. And now we're here. Do you have needophobia?

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If there was an onset for it, it would have been

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that exact moment. That would have been your

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evil doctor origin story? Yes. I don't, I mean,

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I don't obviously. dislike needles because I

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really enjoy getting tattoos. So I don't know

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that I could be like anti -needle in any case.

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I am anti whatever phlebotomy training program

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they put the people at BioLite through. The people

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at the Plasma Donation Center are a different

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breed. I mean, they deal with some loony tunes.

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I mean, you just got to give up a little bit

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of your body juices and you get 20 bucks on your

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card or whatever. You get a very obscure amount

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of money. Like it's always an interval of 10.

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But like today you get $40. Tomorrow you could

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get 120 or you could get 10. Who's to say? Why

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is there not consistency? They go with the drug

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dealer approach. and they say, you know, okay,

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okay, you've never done this before? All right,

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tell you what, tell you what. So we'll just take

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a little bit, a little bit, see how you do. But

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tell you what, we'll give you $100 for that.

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Tell you what, you know what, you come in the

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next three months, come, I don't know, what,

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four times the next three months, you can make

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a total of $500. And then you get hooked. You're

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like, damn, this is easy money. I just lay here.

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I'm just playing on my phone. They're taking

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all this stuff I'm not using. I'm not using all

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this life juice, and I get money for it? Sweet.

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And then after that three months is up, you're

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like, oh, yeah, you get 40 bucks. Like, what?

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But before, my blood was worth 150. Well, now

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you're hooked. I don't know what they use plasma

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for, if I'm being fully honest. TVs? I don't

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know. I would be down to donate again if I knew

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that it was going to TVs. Not like expensive

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spas where they do plasma facials. I don't know

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if that's a thing. It sounds like it would be

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a thing. It sounds like it most definitely could

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be a thing. Would you ever work at a plasma donation

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center? Would you ever be a phlebotomist? No.

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I have never had an interest in that. I've never

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had an interest in doing anything in the medical

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field. I've never had an interest in dealing

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with other people's bodily fluids. So no urine

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testing analyzer or analyst? Oh, no. No. You

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remember those little tubes of M &M minis? You

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just pop the top off? You don't like whatever

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is about to happen in this conversation? Well,

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no. I do remember the M &M minis. If you don't

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get one of those big cups, then they give you

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that. And those lids are difficult to put on

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and put off. So you're going to get some splashing.

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And they're just like, yeah, just put it on this

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counter. We'll clean it after you're done. I

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don't think they give the women the M &M tubes.

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Well, they give them. It's a small. It's like

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Luke in the trench. Trying to hit that tiny little

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target. It's ridiculous. That would be a... If

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I were black, would they give me a bigger one?

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Probably not, right? It must be harder for them.

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The hole is the same size. I don't think it's

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proportionate to the thing. I don't know that

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for sure. They don't have a magnum specimen cup?

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Oh, I mean, I've had my fair share. I had a CDL

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at one point. And so companies give you randoms

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all the time. I used to get randoms nonstop.

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They would do like a round of them every two

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months. Every two months, they would pick two

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people. I would always be one of those people.

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And I don't know if it was because they knew

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I was clean and I wouldn't get popped for anything

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or if they were just trying to catch me. Trying

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to find a way to get rid of me. I don't know.

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But I aced every one, so... Aced every one? I'm

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pretty sure that's a pass -fail kind of test.

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I don't think you can get an A on... I failed

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every one. Is that what you want to do? No, you

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want to pass it. You fail it, then you got some

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dirty wee -wee. So I passed it, which would be

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acing it. Sure. Right? Okay. Sure. Go with that.

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So you had a had a CDL. Did that ever lead to

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any any crappy jobs? Did you ever have to do

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any anything that fits into our topic for the

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day? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I got furloughed during

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the pandemic and they're like, all right, it's

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got to happen this way. I was in, where was I?

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I was in Miami and I get a call from my boss

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telling me that, hey, Trump's saying now that

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the airports are going to be shut down. I know

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you got a couple more days there. I can go ahead

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and fly. We can change your tickets and fly you

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back home now. Or you can write it out the two

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days, but there's a chance that you would have

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to drive back home because the airports are shut

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down. And I said, no, go ahead. Go ahead and

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change my dick. I don't want to risk it. And

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he's like, this is all up in the air right now.

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We don't know what's going on, but we'll figure

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it out and we'll see where we're going to go

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moving forward. And so I get home and everything's

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fine. I'm working. They don't say anything to

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me. I'm all good. I had a trip planned for Vegas,

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which was going to be the first time that I was

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going to Vegas as an adult. As a legally able

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to participate in Vegas Things adult. And it

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was all going to be paid for by my company. So

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I was stoked. I get a notification saying that

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my ticket was canceled. Uh -oh. And so I call.

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I was told, hey, yeah. So we're going to keep

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you home for now. But on Monday. Uh, you're going

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to go meet up and we're going to discuss everything

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that's going on. So, okay. So I kept chugging

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away, kept working, just, uh, real excited for

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this, this big Vegas trip. And Monday rolls around.

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I go into the office. I get sat down in front

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of a laptop in front of the guy that sent me

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home from Miami early. And he was like, so business

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is going to take a big turn. All this stuff that's

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going on. The pandemic and everything. So we're

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going to have to furlough you for six months.

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And that sucked. It sucked that I got temporarily

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fired from a computer screen. I know that I'm

00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:08.480
not alone. I mean, I'm not. Oh, woe is me. Like,

00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:13.279
things are fine now. But after that, it was crazy

00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:17.859
trying to find work. when all these people were

00:17:17.859 --> 00:17:20.039
getting fired. But one thing I did have was my

00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:24.180
CDL. And after applying all kinds of places,

00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:26.359
I knew that I was probably going to fall into

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construction because I had a background in construction

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and construction didn't stop. It slowed, but

00:17:32.420 --> 00:17:35.859
it didn't stop. And so I finally get a call from

00:17:35.859 --> 00:17:39.940
this company while I was at Walmart. And it was

00:17:39.940 --> 00:17:42.960
like the company that I applied for that I at

00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:45.750
least wanted to work at. And he calls me like,

00:17:45.869 --> 00:17:49.930
hey, this is whatever from wherever. I was like,

00:17:50.009 --> 00:17:53.829
hey, what's up? He was like, we want to hire

00:17:53.829 --> 00:17:56.869
you. Like no interview or anything. Literally

00:17:56.869 --> 00:18:00.210
just what should have been a sign. That definitely

00:18:00.210 --> 00:18:02.509
should have been a sign. But what I ended up

00:18:02.509 --> 00:18:09.390
doing was I was hauling cinder blocks from a

00:18:09.390 --> 00:18:12.430
manufacturer to construction sites all over the

00:18:12.430 --> 00:18:16.539
place. It was crap money, but it was something.

00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:22.180
It was real crazy hours dealing with traffic.

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First time I was ever in a company vehicle that

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had a camera that was pointed out, but also pointed

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in. And it would ding if it sensed that you looked

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away from the road for too long. If you didn't

00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:41.890
have both hands on the wheel. If you break too

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hard, if you whatever, whatever, all that stuff.

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Obviously, construction in Texas, you're going

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to be dealing with a lot of Spanish, which I

00:18:51.390 --> 00:18:54.869
can get by. I can't speak it. I can kind of understand

00:18:54.869 --> 00:18:58.309
what people are saying most of the time. But

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there was no direction for this. They didn't

00:19:00.589 --> 00:19:03.589
tell you, yeah, whenever you get there, go here.

00:19:03.769 --> 00:19:08.109
So you got this big tractor trailer and. You

00:19:08.109 --> 00:19:09.829
just got to find somewhere to park it and go

00:19:09.829 --> 00:19:12.509
find someone to talk to where to put it in, trying

00:19:12.509 --> 00:19:14.589
to weave it into all these tight spaces and everything.

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And overall, the work wasn't too bad. It was

00:19:20.029 --> 00:19:22.309
one of those ones that had the forklift on the

00:19:22.309 --> 00:19:25.829
back. So that was fun to operate until it was

00:19:25.829 --> 00:19:27.750
fun to operate. Once you knew what you were doing,

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I lasted there four months and I was just on

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the. Like, I had just started, like, getting

00:19:36.700 --> 00:19:39.160
used to how everything worked. There was one

00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:43.339
time I put the forks in to one of these pallets

00:19:43.339 --> 00:19:47.000
that was on the bed of the trailer, and I didn't

00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:49.420
realize that I had the one next to it as well.

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Lifted it up, sent an entire pallet of cinder

00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:58.019
blocks tumbling off the other side. Oh, that's

00:19:58.019 --> 00:20:04.819
fun. Yeah, so I had to clean that up. Other than

00:20:04.819 --> 00:20:08.940
that, I got called in one time because the AI

00:20:08.940 --> 00:20:15.240
said I did something. I was listening to a local

00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:19.059
radio station that does like funny bits and stuff

00:20:19.059 --> 00:20:21.920
in the morning. And it could not have caught

00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:26.119
the worst part of this. And they're like, what

00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:30.500
were you listening to? But all in all, it was

00:20:30.500 --> 00:20:32.799
a ticket. I mean, it was a sports station, but

00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:36.680
they. They talk about some risque things in the

00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:39.240
morning. I don't even remember what it was. It

00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:41.059
was probably some character that they were doing.

00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:47.220
But yeah, so was not a fan of that. Wasn't really

00:20:47.220 --> 00:20:50.839
a fan of the job as a whole. And then after that,

00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:52.819
after I'd been there for four months, I got the

00:20:52.819 --> 00:20:57.740
call when I was making a round trip. It was my

00:20:57.740 --> 00:21:01.079
second round trip of the day to Houston. So I

00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:04.019
had started at like two in the morning. I picked

00:21:04.019 --> 00:21:07.200
up the truck in Dallas, drove to Houston, picked

00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:09.720
up a load, came back to Dallas, then had to go

00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:12.900
back to Houston. And I was on my way back to

00:21:12.900 --> 00:21:17.359
Dallas and I got the call and it was my boss.

00:21:17.380 --> 00:21:18.859
And he was like, hey, I think we're ready to

00:21:18.859 --> 00:21:22.440
bring you back. It's like, thank the Lord, because

00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:26.400
this job is the worst. But I mean, it was it

00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:31.119
was with good people. It was just wasn't for

00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:36.779
me. It was a good experience, but other than

00:21:36.779 --> 00:21:42.180
that, it was a pretty crappy job. I don't have

00:21:42.180 --> 00:21:45.720
a ton of good things necessarily to add to this

00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:47.640
conversation, largely because I've been in the

00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:51.559
same industry for most of my time in the workforce.

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And I've been in restaurants for a very long

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time. It's not fun a great deal of the time.

00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:04.559
It is a... mentally and physically exhausting

00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:09.079
job and a lot of people don't see you as people

00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:15.700
which is a bummer uh specifically in the same

00:22:15.700 --> 00:22:17.880
timeline as the story that you just told like

00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:23.079
the serving post -covid was the most dehumanizing

00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:28.559
feeling i've ever experienced because i was yeah

00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:33.250
i was expected to be on top of A million different

00:22:33.250 --> 00:22:36.230
kinds of cleanliness that like I had no control

00:22:36.230 --> 00:22:41.029
over. Yeah. Which was really tough. But I also

00:22:41.029 --> 00:22:44.410
know that there are a thousand other much crappier

00:22:44.410 --> 00:22:47.470
jobs, even in the same kind of industry that

00:22:47.470 --> 00:22:50.450
I work in. Because hospitality has a wide variety

00:22:50.450 --> 00:22:55.650
of awful subsections. I would never want to work

00:22:55.650 --> 00:23:01.890
in like hotel maintenance. I don't think I would

00:23:01.890 --> 00:23:06.170
survive as a housekeeping in like hotel housekeeping.

00:23:06.470 --> 00:23:10.450
Because the amount of things that I personally

00:23:10.450 --> 00:23:14.869
imagine that they have to clean is too much.

00:23:15.589 --> 00:23:20.109
To run the risk of you being the person to find

00:23:20.109 --> 00:23:25.410
someone deceased is something that I'm not willing

00:23:25.410 --> 00:23:27.750
to do. And then once they get the body hauled

00:23:27.750 --> 00:23:30.460
out of there, you got to. clean it up real quick

00:23:30.460 --> 00:23:33.859
so they can rent it out again. I mean, they'd

00:23:33.859 --> 00:23:35.880
have to involve crime scene cleanup people for

00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:38.000
that, right? Since it's a massive biohazard.

00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:42.039
I've heard conflicting stories. I don't know

00:23:42.039 --> 00:23:46.359
if it's always necessary, but I don't know what

00:23:46.359 --> 00:23:50.059
their limitations are. Like if they walk into

00:23:50.059 --> 00:23:52.680
a room, there's no body or anything, but there's

00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:57.119
like blood on something. Do they have special

00:23:57.119 --> 00:23:59.730
protocol? Do they have to call somebody? I don't

00:23:59.730 --> 00:24:02.549
know. I've stayed in enough hotels that I should

00:24:02.549 --> 00:24:06.329
probably have some grasp on it, but I don't know.

00:24:08.230 --> 00:24:12.170
I would think that they would probably err on

00:24:12.170 --> 00:24:15.930
the side of get it cleaned up and pretend like

00:24:15.930 --> 00:24:19.809
it never happened. Yeah. But maybe that's just

00:24:19.809 --> 00:24:23.630
my pessimism. I don't know. I would like to think

00:24:23.630 --> 00:24:26.410
that. The people that need to be involved are

00:24:26.410 --> 00:24:28.910
involved in every scenario, but I know that's

00:24:28.910 --> 00:24:32.009
not the case. I think we talked about it in one

00:24:32.009 --> 00:24:35.490
of our like really early episodes of like how

00:24:35.490 --> 00:24:40.170
haunted hotels would be. And it's something that

00:24:40.170 --> 00:24:44.630
like I think about now in the context of like,

00:24:44.690 --> 00:24:46.910
I don't know the last time that I was at a hotel,

00:24:47.009 --> 00:24:48.910
but I think about it when I think about hotels

00:24:48.910 --> 00:24:52.569
and it's that. A lot more people die in hotels

00:24:52.569 --> 00:24:55.130
than you think. And a lot of the times it's because

00:24:55.130 --> 00:24:57.250
when you're on vacation, the last thing you think

00:24:57.250 --> 00:25:01.809
of is your medication, which is insane to me.

00:25:01.990 --> 00:25:08.470
I get it. But like, if you think about like older

00:25:08.470 --> 00:25:12.650
people, say you have a, you have a heart condition

00:25:12.650 --> 00:25:16.230
and you have medication that you have to take

00:25:16.230 --> 00:25:18.220
every single day. When you're in your regular

00:25:18.220 --> 00:25:20.079
life and your regular routine, you're going to

00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:22.039
take that medication every single day. It's a

00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:26.940
part of your day. When you're on vacation, you

00:25:26.940 --> 00:25:28.680
think you can let go of your normal routine,

00:25:28.900 --> 00:25:32.039
including the life -saving heart medication.

00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:36.680
It just slips by the wayside. That's not a thing

00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:38.640
you're allowed to do. So a lot of people die

00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:40.700
in hotels because they don't take their meds.

00:25:41.380 --> 00:25:46.400
Huh. Maybe we didn't talk about that. I don't

00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:48.359
know. I think it's really interesting. Very sad.

00:25:48.619 --> 00:25:57.400
To my knowledge, I can't think of a time where

00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:01.480
there has been an ambulance that pulled up to

00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:05.740
a hotel that I've been staying in. Lots of fire

00:26:05.740 --> 00:26:09.339
alarms. Yeah. There was one time Emily and I

00:26:09.339 --> 00:26:16.500
were in a casino and we were on the like 14th

00:26:16.500 --> 00:26:21.259
of 16 floors and the fire alarm goes off. And

00:26:21.259 --> 00:26:24.180
of course you can't use the elevators when the

00:26:24.180 --> 00:26:26.880
fire alarms are going off. Uh, they deactivate

00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:29.259
them. They like drop them off at the closest

00:26:29.259 --> 00:26:35.819
floor and then stop moving. And we ended up having

00:26:35.819 --> 00:26:40.839
to take all of our stuff, throw it into the suitcase

00:26:40.839 --> 00:26:45.160
that we brought and Go down 14 flights with it.

00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:49.640
When we get down to the lobby, we go and say,

00:26:49.700 --> 00:26:52.579
hey, what's going on? Like our fire alarm was

00:26:52.579 --> 00:26:58.319
going on off. Is there a fire? Do we need to

00:26:58.319 --> 00:27:04.240
do something? And the clerk at the desk just

00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:06.640
looked at us like we were crazy. And then they

00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:09.400
were like, oh, no. Yeah, there's just a false

00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:14.339
alarm on like the. 12th through 14th floor. So

00:27:14.339 --> 00:27:17.119
it should be all good. I was like, it should

00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:22.920
be or it is? What is it? Uh, no, no, I'm pretty

00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:26.299
sure it's good. Yeah, you're good. Go back to

00:27:26.299 --> 00:27:30.000
your room, find out. Okay, thanks. So we ended

00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:32.299
up taking the elevator back up and everything

00:27:32.299 --> 00:27:36.720
was fine as far as we could tell. A couple months

00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:40.859
later at that same casino. The fire alarm goes

00:27:40.859 --> 00:27:43.980
off and we're on like the casino floor. Nobody

00:27:43.980 --> 00:27:47.279
cares. Not a single person could be bothered

00:27:47.279 --> 00:27:49.779
to care that the fire alarm is going off. And

00:27:49.779 --> 00:27:53.220
then people like people working at the casino

00:27:53.220 --> 00:27:54.839
would be walking by and like, hey, should we

00:27:54.839 --> 00:27:57.619
be worried about this? And then they're just

00:27:57.619 --> 00:28:01.099
like, no, no, you're fine. And then just like

00:28:01.099 --> 00:28:06.640
run off in the other direction. So it's reassuring.

00:28:07.019 --> 00:28:09.779
I will say that those two experiences have made

00:28:09.779 --> 00:28:13.099
me a little jaded to fire alarms a lot more than

00:28:13.099 --> 00:28:16.779
I should be. Because after that, there were a

00:28:16.779 --> 00:28:19.140
couple of times when I was in, I was traveling

00:28:19.140 --> 00:28:20.900
for work and I was in the hotel by myself and

00:28:20.900 --> 00:28:22.599
the fire alarm would go off and I just be like,

00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:25.900
eh, we'll be fine. If I don't hear like people

00:28:25.900 --> 00:28:27.960
making a mad dash down the hall, then I just

00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:30.460
don't even bother. But then what if everyone

00:28:30.460 --> 00:28:33.859
is going by the same logic and then everyone

00:28:33.859 --> 00:28:35.960
just burns to death? I don't know. You're all

00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:38.500
just waiting for chicken little. Yeah. The sky

00:28:38.500 --> 00:28:44.099
is falling. Yep. So if I die in a fiery inferno,

00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:47.759
you'll know why. I got really used to the sound

00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:50.900
of fire alarms because there was a while where

00:28:50.900 --> 00:28:54.339
the apartment complex or maybe the parking garage

00:28:54.339 --> 00:28:57.839
across the street from my apartment would go

00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:01.660
off every like couple days. I don't know why.

00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:04.619
I don't know if people were. Like if there was

00:29:04.619 --> 00:29:07.759
just extreme testing happening in just this one

00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:10.519
parking garage. I don't know if someone was just

00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:14.119
lighting mini fires just to start things every

00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:16.380
couple of days. Keep it interesting. I don't

00:29:16.380 --> 00:29:22.940
know. It was awful. I had someone come down from

00:29:22.940 --> 00:29:33.779
Baltimore and I was training him to work. In

00:29:33.779 --> 00:29:39.119
my field. And we were out and about one day.

00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:46.539
It was a Wednesday at noon. If you are in Texas,

00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:53.299
Oklahoma, probably Kansas. If you're in Tornado

00:29:53.299 --> 00:29:57.180
Alley, you know what happens Wednesdays at noon.

00:29:57.660 --> 00:30:00.759
They make sure that the tornado sirens are working.

00:30:03.579 --> 00:30:08.920
And it goes off. Guy freaks out. Loses his mind.

00:30:09.619 --> 00:30:11.779
He's like, what's that? I was like, oh, no, man,

00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:16.259
it's just a tornado siren. What? What? Do we

00:30:16.259 --> 00:30:24.160
need to get out of here? No. No, I realized that

00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:27.819
I never said that it was a test, but it was a

00:30:27.819 --> 00:30:30.900
bright, sunny day. So what does this idiot think?

00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:34.339
tornado is going to come out of nowhere. No.

00:30:34.900 --> 00:30:38.700
So I, part of it was on me cause I didn't specify

00:30:38.700 --> 00:30:42.019
that it was a test, but also this guy's kind

00:30:42.019 --> 00:30:46.599
of a dumb, dumb. So I, I, I went with it. It's

00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:48.740
like, nah, man, we're good. We're good. No, I

00:30:48.740 --> 00:30:52.420
think maybe, I don't know. We hear them all the

00:30:52.420 --> 00:30:55.839
time. They're usually nothing. But did you hear

00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:58.920
about the one that happened in more? Oh boy.

00:30:59.980 --> 00:31:08.440
Yeah. And so. So, I mean, I. If it is not Wednesday

00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:14.740
at noon and I hear it, I am. Aware of it. But

00:31:14.740 --> 00:31:19.220
I also don't heed much. Much warning from it.

00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:23.220
And that's not good. I think that most Southerners

00:31:23.220 --> 00:31:27.430
are. very cavalier when it comes to the idea,

00:31:27.630 --> 00:31:29.609
or at least not necessarily Southerners, but

00:31:29.609 --> 00:31:33.430
yeah, like Tornado Alley people. I think that

00:31:33.430 --> 00:31:35.670
they're all just very cavalier about the concept

00:31:35.670 --> 00:31:38.970
of a tornado. I think that there's probably a

00:31:38.970 --> 00:31:41.410
massive concentration of storm chasers that are

00:31:41.410 --> 00:31:45.589
just in this little subsection of America. I

00:31:45.589 --> 00:31:49.650
think it blows people's minds that whenever we

00:31:49.650 --> 00:31:54.140
hear a tornado siren, most of us, Don't hunker

00:31:54.140 --> 00:32:01.019
down. We're out seeing if we can spot it. And

00:32:01.019 --> 00:32:04.980
they're not anything to mess around with. That's

00:32:04.980 --> 00:32:07.559
not something you want to get caught in. But

00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:11.440
it is a rite of passage and a badge of honor

00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:14.900
if you're in this area and you can say that you've

00:32:14.900 --> 00:32:21.230
seen a tornado with your own two eyes. I don't

00:32:21.230 --> 00:32:24.930
think I would ever want to be near a tornado.

00:32:26.710 --> 00:32:29.029
I'm fairly certain I've seen one in my lifetime.

00:32:30.549 --> 00:32:35.250
Yeah. But like, I'm good. I don't need that badge

00:32:35.250 --> 00:32:39.430
of honor. I need to actively seek out the tornadoes.

00:32:39.869 --> 00:32:43.230
In the seventh grade, we were learning. I mean,

00:32:43.250 --> 00:32:45.869
it wasn't like a new concept or anything like

00:32:45.869 --> 00:32:51.000
we knew what tornadoes were, but we. had watched

00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:53.640
a video about a famous tornado that happened

00:32:53.640 --> 00:33:01.579
in Fort Worth. And it destroyed a very, like

00:33:01.579 --> 00:33:05.980
a piece of the Fort Worth landscape or skyline

00:33:05.980 --> 00:33:09.900
in downtown. And it just so happened to be the

00:33:09.900 --> 00:33:12.700
same building that our mother worked in. And

00:33:12.700 --> 00:33:16.240
I told her, hey, guess what? The building that

00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:19.299
you were just at all day today? at one point,

00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:23.519
was completely ravaged by a tornado. And she

00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:26.000
did not appreciate that information. I thought

00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:28.900
it was interesting, but she did not find it as

00:33:28.900 --> 00:33:32.119
interesting as I did. I mean, you ask me, what'd

00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:34.559
you learn at school today? I tell you, and then

00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:38.160
you bite my head off, like, not cool, man. You

00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:39.380
either want to know or you don't want to know.

00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:41.319
It's fine. Tornadoes don't strike the same place

00:33:41.319 --> 00:33:44.900
twice, right? That's what I heard. Yeah. And

00:33:44.900 --> 00:33:46.599
then if you're real lucky, you get to see twin

00:33:46.599 --> 00:33:49.029
lightning. Twisters was a great movie. Is that

00:33:49.029 --> 00:33:53.509
a Twisters? Okay. Yes. I have not seen it. We

00:33:53.509 --> 00:33:57.509
got twins! That was a good movie. A little Philip

00:33:57.509 --> 00:34:01.890
Hamilton and the human Capybara. And it has nothing

00:34:01.890 --> 00:34:04.730
to do with my love for Glenn Powell. Hamilton

00:34:04.730 --> 00:34:09.750
or Glenn Powell. Yeah. So, I mean, what was your

00:34:09.750 --> 00:34:12.929
first job? That probably wasn't a fun one. It

00:34:12.929 --> 00:34:15.969
was a Marco's Pizza. I've still been in food

00:34:15.969 --> 00:34:18.730
for... All of the time I've been working. Oh,

00:34:18.829 --> 00:34:21.530
yeah, that's right. And you were on your way

00:34:21.530 --> 00:34:24.809
to manager. What happened? Is it because anyone

00:34:24.809 --> 00:34:26.949
with a pulse can be a manager of Marco's Pizza?

00:34:28.630 --> 00:34:32.329
I was shockingly offered a better opportunity.

00:34:32.829 --> 00:34:34.849
Didn't know there were better opportunities than

00:34:34.849 --> 00:34:37.849
Marco's Pizza. But, you know, that was how I

00:34:37.849 --> 00:34:39.929
got into. I could have been Chef Marco. Because

00:34:39.929 --> 00:34:42.329
you left there to go to serve, right? I did,

00:34:42.409 --> 00:34:45.559
yeah. Be a server. I left there for my first

00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:49.519
serving job. Yeah. And that was also short -lived

00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:54.099
because the post -church crowd are some of the

00:34:54.099 --> 00:34:58.840
worst people I've met in my entire life. The

00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:01.519
Sunday morning crowd is some of the worst I've

00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:04.139
met in my entire life. They're very particular.

00:35:06.820 --> 00:35:15.269
They are incredibly mean. Very needy. And I don't

00:35:15.269 --> 00:35:18.170
I don't mean this in a like religious people

00:35:18.170 --> 00:35:22.409
sense. It is post church in the sense of like

00:35:22.409 --> 00:35:27.210
that time frame. So the like 11 a .m. to like

00:35:27.210 --> 00:35:30.389
1 p .m. on a Sunday. Anyone who comes to a restaurant

00:35:30.389 --> 00:35:33.150
and that. Yes. Brunch people. Absolute nightmares.

00:35:34.349 --> 00:35:37.369
Generalization. Sure. But I've worked in the

00:35:37.369 --> 00:35:39.989
industry for long enough. I feel able to make

00:35:39.989 --> 00:35:45.280
that generalization. And it usually is the case

00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:55.739
that they gave all their monies to Jesus and

00:35:55.739 --> 00:36:03.679
left you the scraps. I used to get a lot of the

00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:06.360
little Jesus loves you pamphlets and the fake

00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:11.320
$100 bills. And there is quite honestly nothing.

00:36:12.390 --> 00:36:16.409
More sadistic than you not tipping your server,

00:36:16.570 --> 00:36:19.349
but instead leaving them a fake hundred dollar

00:36:19.349 --> 00:36:22.289
bill. And if you unfold it, it tells you how

00:36:22.289 --> 00:36:26.929
to get into heaven. I mean, what would you rather?

00:36:27.269 --> 00:36:31.550
Ten bucks now or eternal salvation? Ten bucks

00:36:31.550 --> 00:36:38.889
right now. Oh, OK. Wow. Well, I guess I'm confident

00:36:38.889 --> 00:36:41.679
in the salvation of my soul. Pay me. I'll look

00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:46.139
down and say, hey, miss you. I mean, we both

00:36:46.139 --> 00:36:50.360
missed the rapture a couple weeks ago. Were you

00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:54.440
on that side of TikTok? No. The newest religious

00:36:54.440 --> 00:37:00.260
psychosis? I got all the post -rapture. Oh, man,

00:37:00.420 --> 00:37:02.420
you mean it didn't happen? I got all that side.

00:37:02.780 --> 00:37:10.639
But I didn't get the time is nigh mess. I don't

00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:13.539
think I got any of them directly necessarily.

00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:16.659
I think I only ever saw videos that were like

00:37:16.659 --> 00:37:20.960
stitched with people who were selling all of

00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:27.519
their earthly belongings. For cheap? And for

00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:33.940
decently cheap, yeah. For MSRP? I did. It was

00:37:33.940 --> 00:37:37.130
a weird thing to watch. Both because it was incredibly

00:37:37.130 --> 00:37:40.670
sad if you think about it too hard. And because

00:37:40.670 --> 00:37:45.650
why would you worry about selling things if you

00:37:45.650 --> 00:37:47.389
think you're getting raptured? Wouldn't you just

00:37:47.389 --> 00:37:50.989
like give them away? You don't need them. And

00:37:50.989 --> 00:37:54.789
you also don't need the money that you make off

00:37:54.789 --> 00:38:00.190
of selling them. It shows a lack of faith. It

00:38:00.190 --> 00:38:04.980
does. You can't take it when you die. Why not

00:38:04.980 --> 00:38:09.639
just give your earthly belongings to someone

00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:14.599
who maybe isn't going to have eternal happiness

00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:20.320
and live on a street paved in gold? That is true.

00:38:20.420 --> 00:38:25.300
Let us people that aren't going to be saved have

00:38:25.300 --> 00:38:29.519
a little bit more fun. The left below. I can

00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:32.260
never remember which one is like the actual.

00:38:32.940 --> 00:38:36.219
and which one is the Simpsons version? There's

00:38:36.219 --> 00:38:40.400
Left Behind and then there's Left Below. Left

00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:43.679
Behind is the real one. Left Below is the Simpsons

00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:49.679
one. Okay. I am 90 % sure. But they did such

00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:53.119
a great job parodying it that I can't tell the

00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:59.420
difference. I've never seen either. Or I've never

00:38:59.420 --> 00:39:04.299
seen the actual one. My experience with serving

00:39:04.299 --> 00:39:09.519
was neutral. I mean, there were good things about

00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:10.840
it. There were bad things about it. It was good

00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:14.980
that you were getting daily money, but then you

00:39:14.980 --> 00:39:18.840
were also being shafted, uh, by, by managers

00:39:18.840 --> 00:39:23.400
with your two 13 an hour. And you'd be there

00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:26.360
for a hundred hours in a week. And they're going

00:39:26.360 --> 00:39:28.940
to say, uh, no, no, I'm pretty sure you were,

00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:31.300
you were here for like 20. All right. You're

00:39:31.300 --> 00:39:36.900
20 hours. Right? Yeah. The people, I mean, it

00:39:36.900 --> 00:39:41.099
wasn't highfalutin, so you got what you got.

00:39:41.300 --> 00:39:43.880
Sometimes you'd get good ones, sometimes you'd

00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:47.539
get bad ones. It was the first time that I, as

00:39:47.539 --> 00:39:49.880
a male, had been told, you should smile more.

00:39:50.739 --> 00:39:55.039
How did that make you feel? Did it make you smile

00:39:55.039 --> 00:40:01.389
more? No. No. I mean, they're like, you just

00:40:01.389 --> 00:40:03.630
look so angry. I was like, I don't look angry.

00:40:04.090 --> 00:40:08.070
I look neutral. Like, am I doing my job correctly?

00:40:08.510 --> 00:40:11.730
Then that should be it. But no, I definitely

00:40:11.730 --> 00:40:16.269
feel for the women that are told that they should

00:40:16.269 --> 00:40:19.789
smile more. Like, is this person doing their

00:40:19.789 --> 00:40:24.090
job, doing what they were hired on to do and

00:40:24.090 --> 00:40:27.269
being paid to do? Are they doing it appropriately

00:40:27.269 --> 00:40:31.329
and adequately? Leave them alone. There was a

00:40:31.329 --> 00:40:35.289
shift in my first serving job, and I was 16 at

00:40:35.289 --> 00:40:40.730
the time, 17 at the time. I was new to serving

00:40:40.730 --> 00:40:46.809
and was still learning things. I had a guest

00:40:46.809 --> 00:40:49.489
right on the back of his sign slip after he didn't

00:40:49.489 --> 00:40:52.449
tip me. Actually, right on both sides of his

00:40:52.449 --> 00:40:55.369
sign slip in essentially like 12 -point font

00:40:55.369 --> 00:40:58.110
all of the things that were wrong with me. Oh.

00:40:58.670 --> 00:41:03.130
And genuine question for anyone willing to answer

00:41:03.130 --> 00:41:07.190
me. What has to go wrong in your life for you

00:41:07.190 --> 00:41:13.190
to write a dissertation on how your 17 year old

00:41:13.190 --> 00:41:16.989
server ruined your life? I don't remember a single

00:41:16.989 --> 00:41:19.690
thing that was wrong with me or my service in

00:41:19.690 --> 00:41:23.230
that situation. But like, who hurt you? Do you

00:41:23.230 --> 00:41:26.250
don't remember any of the notes? I don't. Any

00:41:26.250 --> 00:41:27.750
of the tips? I have repressed it, thankfully.

00:41:28.630 --> 00:41:33.110
This dude, I don't remember any of the content,

00:41:33.230 --> 00:41:38.130
but he was mean. And I was also like 17. So I

00:41:38.130 --> 00:41:43.110
was already emotional by nature. And this dude

00:41:43.110 --> 00:41:46.369
just like ripped me to shreds at a job that I

00:41:46.369 --> 00:41:48.590
had been doing for at that point, maybe like

00:41:48.590 --> 00:41:52.550
two months. Did it make you stronger? Did it

00:41:52.550 --> 00:41:55.570
make you better? You know, I don't remember any

00:41:55.570 --> 00:41:57.590
of his feedback, so the world may never know.

00:41:58.190 --> 00:42:01.889
Are you a better server now? I am. Yeah. Hmm.

00:42:02.190 --> 00:42:08.829
Interesting. So prior to being chastised by this

00:42:08.829 --> 00:42:12.210
random person, you were not as good as you are

00:42:12.210 --> 00:42:18.010
now post chastisement. So one could argue that

00:42:18.010 --> 00:42:25.190
perhaps, maybe, just maybe. Yeah, I mean, maybe.

00:42:25.510 --> 00:42:27.829
I'm actually, I'm good at my job in spite of

00:42:27.829 --> 00:42:33.010
him, I believe. Oh, oh, okay. I learned, I have

00:42:33.010 --> 00:42:38.050
dedicated my entire life, the entire back half

00:42:38.050 --> 00:42:41.829
of my teen years and thus far all of my 20s to

00:42:41.829 --> 00:42:48.289
just being better because of Batman. Yeah? Well,

00:42:48.349 --> 00:42:52.889
hey, everyone has to have their motivator. Yeah.

00:42:52.889 --> 00:42:56.550
If your motivator is to prove this man wrong

00:42:56.550 --> 00:43:00.210
for the rest of your life, then at least you'll

00:43:00.210 --> 00:43:03.190
be better for it when it's all said and done.

00:43:04.909 --> 00:43:08.050
But if if that man is is out there somewhere,

00:43:08.230 --> 00:43:10.949
probably not one of our listeners, but I hope

00:43:10.949 --> 00:43:14.110
you're doing better, dude. I hope you're not

00:43:14.110 --> 00:43:17.329
still berating 17 year olds. Hope you got help.

00:43:18.050 --> 00:43:22.260
I hope you got help. I've done. A little bit

00:43:22.260 --> 00:43:28.599
of everything. I worked in construction, talking

00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:32.460
to myself because no one else spoke English.

00:43:34.539 --> 00:43:43.519
I've worked in a kitchen, washing dishes. I have

00:43:43.519 --> 00:43:52.170
worked in an arcade, ran laser tag. Fixed games?

00:43:53.170 --> 00:43:57.090
What else have I done? I worked at Walmart for

00:43:57.090 --> 00:44:02.969
a hot minute. That one was a bad one. I started

00:44:02.969 --> 00:44:10.530
overnights, and I was maybe three weeks in, and

00:44:10.530 --> 00:44:16.530
that was when our grandmother passed away. I

00:44:16.530 --> 00:44:18.909
mean, we knew it was coming. We didn't think

00:44:18.909 --> 00:44:22.329
it was going to be this. quick but obviously

00:44:22.329 --> 00:44:25.489
I had to drop everything I was doing and go to

00:44:25.489 --> 00:44:31.889
Oklahoma and I made sure to call and do all the

00:44:31.889 --> 00:44:34.230
steps they told me I needed to do if I wasn't

00:44:34.230 --> 00:44:35.989
going to be able to work a shift or whatever

00:44:35.989 --> 00:44:42.769
and I did that I let the proper people know through

00:44:42.769 --> 00:44:46.869
the proper channels and after we took care of

00:44:46.869 --> 00:44:50.769
all that I Come in for the next shift that I

00:44:50.769 --> 00:44:55.690
was available. And the manager walks up to me

00:44:55.690 --> 00:45:02.230
and says, hey, I noticed you called out for a

00:45:02.230 --> 00:45:06.090
couple shifts earlier this week. Just want to

00:45:06.090 --> 00:45:10.630
let you know that you are on a probationary period

00:45:10.630 --> 00:45:13.210
and you're not allowed to call out for the first

00:45:13.210 --> 00:45:17.710
three months. I was like, oh, OK. I'll go tell

00:45:17.710 --> 00:45:21.110
my grandma. Good to know. Um, yeah, my grandma

00:45:21.110 --> 00:45:24.730
died, but, uh, yeah, sorry I wasn't here to throw

00:45:24.730 --> 00:45:29.389
this dog food on the shelf. And then, and then,

00:45:29.489 --> 00:45:34.110
uh, after that, I had spoken to some people and

00:45:34.110 --> 00:45:36.489
that's when I got on to the construction crew

00:45:36.489 --> 00:45:40.670
and I go in and I did what I thought was right.

00:45:41.349 --> 00:45:45.349
Instead of just, uh, rolling up in there, flipping

00:45:45.349 --> 00:45:47.909
the double bird and say, I'm out of here. Uh,

00:45:48.090 --> 00:45:51.530
I wrote a letter to the same manager said, Hey,

00:45:51.550 --> 00:45:53.929
thanks for the opportunity. Uh, just want to

00:45:53.929 --> 00:45:58.849
let you know that due to circumstances, uh, I

00:45:58.849 --> 00:46:02.889
have to 10 year my resignation. So it wasn't

00:46:02.889 --> 00:46:06.409
a two weeks notice or anything. Uh, I go in there

00:46:06.409 --> 00:46:10.409
and I'm not scheduled to work, but I hand him

00:46:10.409 --> 00:46:15.130
this letter. He reads it. Oh, what you're leaving

00:46:15.130 --> 00:46:19.400
us. Yeah. Oh, I was really hoping that you'd

00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:22.880
stick around. That's what they all say. Well,

00:46:22.900 --> 00:46:29.480
I'm not. So thanks. Bye. And I got out of there.

00:46:29.579 --> 00:46:33.139
And I don't know. I don't assume that's every

00:46:33.139 --> 00:46:37.400
person that works at Walmart's experience. I'm

00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:39.599
sure everyone's dealt with a little bit of that.

00:46:40.019 --> 00:46:45.920
But it was just like the. The stereotypical like.

00:46:47.230 --> 00:46:49.510
we're going to treat you like you have no other

00:46:49.510 --> 00:46:53.289
option so we can just do whatever we want. And

00:46:53.289 --> 00:46:56.170
it definitely rubbed me the wrong way. I stopped

00:46:56.170 --> 00:46:58.309
going to Walmart for a long time after that.

00:46:58.889 --> 00:47:04.849
Was not a fan. Every time I'm in that Walmart,

00:47:05.150 --> 00:47:10.369
I always get an itchy feeling. I can see that.

00:47:11.010 --> 00:47:15.210
So that was one of the more crappier jobs that

00:47:15.210 --> 00:47:19.739
I've had. And then after that, after construction,

00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:24.079
I went into where I'm a different company, but

00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:26.659
where I'm at now. And then from there, I moved

00:47:26.659 --> 00:47:29.900
into the current company and been doing this

00:47:29.900 --> 00:47:33.179
for me. My son, we're just talking about it this

00:47:33.179 --> 00:47:40.900
morning going on 13 years now. Oh, wow. So that's

00:47:40.900 --> 00:47:44.519
impressive. You're about to get your picture

00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:48.940
on the wall. If only it was 13 years with the

00:47:48.940 --> 00:47:54.639
same company. Oh, nevermind. I've got, uh, I'm

00:47:54.639 --> 00:48:00.800
going into seven, I think, or going into eight

00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:07.659
here. So we'll, uh, we'll see. I did, I did get

00:48:07.659 --> 00:48:12.260
my extra week of vacation though. So. Okay. Nice.

00:48:13.019 --> 00:48:16.010
Look at you go. I think after 10, you get like

00:48:16.010 --> 00:48:18.829
a full year or not a full year, a full month.

00:48:19.590 --> 00:48:22.449
You get a full month. You get four weeks. After

00:48:22.449 --> 00:48:28.269
10 years, you get to take the 11th off. Wouldn't

00:48:28.269 --> 00:48:34.230
that be something? What is a, what would be like

00:48:34.230 --> 00:48:39.170
the worst job for you personally? Like I, I was

00:48:39.170 --> 00:48:41.630
thinking about it and I think. One of the worst

00:48:41.630 --> 00:48:44.510
jobs that I could ever have would be like a celebrity's

00:48:44.510 --> 00:48:47.949
personal assistant. I think that would be absolutely

00:48:47.949 --> 00:48:51.590
miserable. You get a lot of runoff, though. You

00:48:51.590 --> 00:48:54.889
make good connections. You could be the next

00:48:54.889 --> 00:49:00.449
Kim Kardashian. Hard pass. Well, I mean, wouldn't

00:49:00.449 --> 00:49:03.369
you like to be able to admit that you have no

00:49:03.369 --> 00:49:07.650
concept of how much a gallon of milk costs? No.

00:49:09.929 --> 00:49:12.949
As it stands, would never be comfortable admitting

00:49:12.949 --> 00:49:19.889
on the internet that I don't know what a gallon

00:49:19.889 --> 00:49:25.789
of milk costs. I think it would be maybe a decent

00:49:25.789 --> 00:49:29.469
place to be financially, but I don't want to

00:49:29.469 --> 00:49:34.409
be so out of touch with reality that I don't

00:49:34.409 --> 00:49:36.530
get to do my own grocery shopping every now and

00:49:36.530 --> 00:49:41.500
again. I mean, you could. You could go the Michael

00:49:41.500 --> 00:49:46.940
Jackson route and send people beforehand, yeah,

00:49:46.980 --> 00:49:49.019
to empty it out. And then you can go just so

00:49:49.019 --> 00:49:52.019
you can remember what it's like to go pick up

00:49:52.019 --> 00:49:55.719
your Twinkies and Ho -Hos on your own. That sounds

00:49:55.719 --> 00:50:01.179
awful. To be the only person that's not an employee

00:50:01.179 --> 00:50:06.590
in that store. All of these people outside because

00:50:06.590 --> 00:50:08.989
they know that something big is happening. That's

00:50:08.989 --> 00:50:11.869
why they got booted out of the grocery store.

00:50:12.369 --> 00:50:16.090
And then for every employee to just be like trying

00:50:16.090 --> 00:50:18.590
to sneak a peek or like get a picture of you.

00:50:19.349 --> 00:50:23.349
Awful. No, thank you. I mean, there's got to

00:50:23.349 --> 00:50:28.889
be some perks to it. Yeah. The runoff you get.

00:50:30.289 --> 00:50:35.280
Your celebrity uses a Prada bag. to walk from

00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:41.340
the store to the car just so they can get some

00:50:41.340 --> 00:50:44.719
money from Prada. And then that bag goes in a

00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:47.440
pile. Like, hey, can I have this? And they're

00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:51.400
like, yeah, I guess. It's garbage, but sure,

00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:53.139
you can have it. And then you got yourself a

00:50:53.139 --> 00:50:55.900
brand new Prada bag. Don't you want that runoff?

00:50:57.179 --> 00:51:03.809
I don't. I don't think so. My... purse is a backpack

00:51:03.809 --> 00:51:06.769
from ross and that's kind of the the quality

00:51:06.769 --> 00:51:12.070
that i i tend to stick with david schwimmer yes

00:51:12.070 --> 00:51:14.829
it's got dinosaurs on it let's see what would

00:51:14.829 --> 00:51:20.829
my least favorite job be i've been in the vicinity

00:51:20.829 --> 00:51:23.949
when uh the porta potty cleaner guy comes out

00:51:23.949 --> 00:51:26.510
i don't think you could pay me enough to do that

00:51:26.510 --> 00:51:30.210
is it just like a vacuum it is a vacuum yeah

00:51:30.889 --> 00:51:33.309
And they just they route it around in there and

00:51:33.309 --> 00:51:36.590
then take it from point A to point B and then

00:51:36.590 --> 00:51:41.750
got to go dump it all. I learned in looking up

00:51:41.750 --> 00:51:43.989
some stuff for this episode what a honey wagon

00:51:43.989 --> 00:51:50.130
was. I have no clue what that is. Honey wagon

00:51:50.130 --> 00:51:58.230
is a large truck whose entire purpose is to transport.

00:51:59.490 --> 00:52:04.570
septic tank contents. That is a very deceptive

00:52:04.570 --> 00:52:09.909
name for a pretty gross thing. I know that septic

00:52:09.909 --> 00:52:14.750
tank emptying is incredibly important. But I

00:52:14.750 --> 00:52:16.449
didn't want to know that they were called honey

00:52:16.449 --> 00:52:19.949
wagons. Why are they called honey wagons? What

00:52:19.949 --> 00:52:24.969
are you going to call it? A shit truck? Yes.

00:52:26.010 --> 00:52:33.489
The poo pickup? yes i would like poo patrol to

00:52:33.489 --> 00:52:39.070
empty my septic the crap caravan i mean it's

00:52:39.070 --> 00:52:43.869
like it's uh it's like when uh a morbidly obese

00:52:43.869 --> 00:52:47.329
person is named tiny that's like what you can't

00:52:47.329 --> 00:52:51.389
call him fatty mcfat fat so you just call him

00:52:51.389 --> 00:52:56.409
tiny and it's just as insulting So you can't

00:52:56.409 --> 00:53:03.969
call it the crap wagon. So you just have to call

00:53:03.969 --> 00:53:07.969
it the honey wagon. And everyone gets the joke

00:53:07.969 --> 00:53:11.369
and everyone feels a little better. Oh, honey,

00:53:11.530 --> 00:53:14.210
I got to get up at four. I'm driving the honey

00:53:14.210 --> 00:53:16.849
wagon. Sounds a lot better than I got to get

00:53:16.849 --> 00:53:21.349
up at four and haul people's shit from one place

00:53:21.349 --> 00:53:27.820
to the next. So. I'm all for that name. I do

00:53:27.820 --> 00:53:34.539
support the port -a -potty imp years as the worst

00:53:34.539 --> 00:53:38.420
job because I am genuinely terrified of port

00:53:38.420 --> 00:53:45.719
-a -potties. There was a time where I was...

00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:53.760
I didn't have direction in my life. I wasn't

00:53:53.760 --> 00:53:58.400
sure that I wanted to go to school and get a

00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:04.159
degree. I wasn't sure that I wanted to find a

00:54:04.159 --> 00:54:12.699
trade and go that route. But in my decision making

00:54:12.699 --> 00:54:17.360
process, one thing I did know that I did not

00:54:17.360 --> 00:54:25.099
want to do was deal with other people's. Yeah.

00:54:25.099 --> 00:54:32.699
Whether it be blood or. Et cetera. Et cetera.

00:54:32.780 --> 00:54:38.199
Yes. And so that immediately took plumbing out

00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:44.360
of the equation. I would much rather have been

00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:53.150
electrocuted with 300 kilovolts. than to get

00:54:53.150 --> 00:54:59.110
someone else's mess on me. Fair. Plumbers make

00:54:59.110 --> 00:55:03.610
great money. They know what they're doing. Electricians

00:55:03.610 --> 00:55:09.469
make great money. I would think that electricians'

00:55:09.469 --> 00:55:13.329
work is a lot more dangerous, but you're also,

00:55:13.429 --> 00:55:19.329
your chances of getting some OPP, other people's

00:55:19.329 --> 00:55:26.440
poop, on you. It's far less with being an electrician

00:55:26.440 --> 00:55:29.920
than it would be a plumber. In any of the jobs

00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:31.559
that we talk about, though, the odds are never

00:55:31.559 --> 00:55:35.139
zero. They're never zero. The job I'm doing now,

00:55:35.159 --> 00:55:43.079
I have run into situations where I have been

00:55:43.079 --> 00:55:49.619
in proximity to other adult humans' leavings.

00:55:50.219 --> 00:55:53.099
And I'm not a fan of it. I do not appreciate

00:55:53.099 --> 00:56:00.139
it. And so even with the best laid plans, still

00:56:00.139 --> 00:56:02.880
the one thing I said I didn't want to happen,

00:56:02.940 --> 00:56:06.260
I still run into it. Yeah. I've heard some horror

00:56:06.260 --> 00:56:08.739
stories about the industry that I'm in. None

00:56:08.739 --> 00:56:12.320
that I care to share because they are very gross.

00:56:12.420 --> 00:56:17.139
But there's a lot of incidents in the restaurant

00:56:17.139 --> 00:56:21.809
industry. that happen with people's various bodily

00:56:21.809 --> 00:56:26.329
fluids or solids. Like leaving a streak on a

00:56:26.329 --> 00:56:29.070
booth? What are we talking about? There was a

00:56:29.070 --> 00:56:31.789
specific instance. I had a manager that was telling

00:56:31.789 --> 00:56:35.110
me about a time that he was bartending at Chili's.

00:56:35.409 --> 00:56:40.150
And there was a nice, pretty old man who was

00:56:40.150 --> 00:56:44.429
a regular there. And there was a point when he

00:56:44.429 --> 00:56:48.380
was just hanging out that... The rest of the

00:56:48.380 --> 00:56:50.500
people around him started to notice a smell.

00:56:50.800 --> 00:56:54.300
He he hangs out there for a while longer and

00:56:54.300 --> 00:56:57.619
he gets up and goes to the bathroom. And as he

00:56:57.619 --> 00:57:00.920
goes to the bathroom or like goes to leave, he

00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:04.239
leaves a trail behind him. It's like breadcrumbs

00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:06.679
to find his way back to the table. I believe

00:57:06.679 --> 00:57:10.519
so. Yes. And so he just left the trail of waste

00:57:10.519 --> 00:57:13.920
behind him that he was not because he was just

00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:17.380
like chilling. So he was not aware of. any of

00:57:17.380 --> 00:57:21.800
this. Was he inebriated? Was this an alcohol

00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:25.079
-induced situation? From what I understand, from

00:57:25.079 --> 00:57:27.039
the way the story was told to me, he was just

00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:31.659
old and not aware of what he was doing. And this

00:57:31.659 --> 00:57:33.900
was at a Chili's. Because this is Applebee's

00:57:33.900 --> 00:57:38.440
behavior. This is not Chili's behavior. I mean,

00:57:38.519 --> 00:57:41.159
it could have been tolerated at the Chili's at

00:57:41.159 --> 00:57:44.099
a certain point in time. Chili's has been elevated

00:57:44.099 --> 00:57:47.840
in recent times. There was one time, and I was

00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:49.639
going to say no offense, but definitely offense,

00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:51.719
because this is the worst city I've been to.

00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:54.179
And I don't care if you're from there. Your place

00:57:54.179 --> 00:57:58.239
sucked. Oakland, San Francisco. Awful. God awful

00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:02.900
place to be. Alcatraz is cool. Golden Gate is

00:58:02.900 --> 00:58:06.960
eh. But everything else just straight up sucks.

00:58:07.900 --> 00:58:11.019
Emily and I were there. We were at an Applebee's.

00:58:11.619 --> 00:58:16.710
And there was a fella who... just walked, casually

00:58:16.710 --> 00:58:22.809
walked in with a handle of gin and was just taking

00:58:22.809 --> 00:58:27.070
swigs from the bottle. And no one said a word

00:58:27.070 --> 00:58:30.469
to him. Not a single person. He sits at a table

00:58:30.469 --> 00:58:33.969
in the bar area. The server comes up to him.

00:58:34.030 --> 00:58:36.829
He's got this handle and he's just taking swigs

00:58:36.829 --> 00:58:40.150
of it, orders his food like nothing's up. 15

00:58:40.150 --> 00:58:43.199
minutes in, he starts getting antsy. And just

00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:45.900
starts like doing laps around the bar with his

00:58:45.900 --> 00:58:48.920
bottle of gin and then goes outside for a little

00:58:48.920 --> 00:58:51.579
bit and then comes back in. His food gets delivered.

00:58:51.780 --> 00:58:55.320
He's not there. He's off in wherever. No one

00:58:55.320 --> 00:58:59.099
says a damn thing to him. And I can't think of

00:58:59.099 --> 00:59:01.619
an Applebee's anymore without thinking of that

00:59:01.619 --> 00:59:04.000
incident and how I never want to step foot in

00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:06.599
an Applebee's again. I don't know if it's a California

00:59:06.599 --> 00:59:10.820
thing. I know their customs are a little different.

00:59:12.699 --> 00:59:18.099
But holy moly, I just, I don't get it. The last

00:59:18.099 --> 00:59:20.619
time that I went to an Applebee's, which was

00:59:20.619 --> 00:59:22.639
a long time ago, but not long enough for this

00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:25.699
to make sense, there was a smoking section. And

00:59:25.699 --> 00:59:27.880
I think that is the only thing that you could

00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:30.980
possibly need to give you a measure of quality

00:59:30.980 --> 00:59:35.260
for Applebee's. Was that in Texas? Yeah, it was

00:59:35.260 --> 00:59:40.380
in DFW, in Burleson, I believe. An active smoking

00:59:40.380 --> 00:59:42.519
section? They had an active smoking section.

00:59:42.619 --> 00:59:45.900
Like people just lighting up? There was a person

00:59:45.900 --> 00:59:49.079
smoking, but it was like it was labeled as the

00:59:49.079 --> 00:59:51.500
smoking section. And I remember at that point

00:59:51.500 --> 00:59:54.199
being just taken aback because what do you mean

00:59:54.199 --> 00:59:59.260
there's a smoking section? I think it would blow

00:59:59.260 --> 01:00:03.760
the kids' minds if we went somewhere and there

01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:07.340
was a smoking section. Like I remember there's

01:00:07.340 --> 01:00:12.849
a Denny's that we went to. as kids around here

01:00:12.849 --> 01:00:17.570
that would have the restaurant and then there's

01:00:17.570 --> 01:00:21.429
this door you can go through and then it's just

01:00:21.429 --> 01:00:25.610
covered like wall -to -wall windows and just

01:00:25.610 --> 01:00:31.050
a hazy hazy picture of all these people eating

01:00:31.050 --> 01:00:34.909
their eggs over my hammy with a virginia slim

01:00:34.909 --> 01:00:39.150
and i can still vividly remember it and thinking

01:00:39.150 --> 01:00:45.610
about how Gross, that is, and just how bananas

01:00:45.610 --> 01:00:49.269
it is that you can't be away from your cigarettes

01:00:49.269 --> 01:00:52.489
for long enough to just have a meal and then

01:00:52.489 --> 01:00:57.670
step outside and go partake in your cancerous

01:00:57.670 --> 01:01:00.889
endeavors. I don't think I don't understand why

01:01:00.889 --> 01:01:03.070
that would be enjoyable. I don't either. Having

01:01:03.070 --> 01:01:06.920
to do your activities together like. It doesn't

01:01:06.920 --> 01:01:10.199
feel like there should be overlap in that situation.

01:01:10.519 --> 01:01:13.280
Are you in a rush? Could you not smoke on the

01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:19.119
commute to wherever you're headed next? Oh, I

01:01:19.119 --> 01:01:23.900
will say that there was a time where it was novel

01:01:23.900 --> 01:01:29.159
to us. And so we tried it out and it's not fun.

01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:35.900
It's not. Everything tastes gross. Whenever you're

01:01:35.900 --> 01:01:39.940
not partaking and everyone else is, it just it's

01:01:39.940 --> 01:01:45.360
nasty. And so I just I'm glad that that is a

01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:48.960
thing of the past. And even now, like we were

01:01:48.960 --> 01:01:53.880
we went to a trunk or treat this last weekend

01:01:53.880 --> 01:01:59.199
and we were walking back to the car and a dude

01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:02.679
in front of us just lights up a cigarette and.

01:02:03.389 --> 01:02:07.409
the kids like gagged like, you don't know what

01:02:07.409 --> 01:02:09.809
trunk or treat is. No, I was asking if this was

01:02:09.809 --> 01:02:12.550
at the trunk or treat. Uh, I mean, it was, uh,

01:02:12.849 --> 01:02:15.769
like he was around the children smoking a cigarette.

01:02:15.869 --> 01:02:18.590
Uh, kind of. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was, um,

01:02:18.670 --> 01:02:20.530
we were kind of in a different section. Like

01:02:20.530 --> 01:02:21.989
there was a trunk or treat over here and then

01:02:21.989 --> 01:02:23.630
there was some other stuff to do over here. We

01:02:23.630 --> 01:02:25.329
were walking back towards the trunk or treat

01:02:25.329 --> 01:02:28.230
area, but yeah, it just lights up a cigarette

01:02:28.230 --> 01:02:32.699
and we're downwind of them. And the, uh, The

01:02:32.699 --> 01:02:35.539
kids have no chill when it comes to that. Like,

01:02:35.599 --> 01:02:41.920
oh, what's that smell? Oh, yeah, that's that's

01:02:41.920 --> 01:02:45.400
my kids. You shame him. You shame him. You save

01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:49.519
his life. And yeah, I mean, like you're just

01:02:49.519 --> 01:02:53.719
it's it's not like a relaxing thing. It's you

01:02:53.719 --> 01:02:57.019
are actively doing something like you're getting

01:02:57.019 --> 01:02:59.360
in cardio. So you're getting your heart going,

01:02:59.639 --> 01:03:02.659
your lungs going. And then at the same time,

01:03:02.679 --> 01:03:05.300
you are also destroying your lungs. So you're

01:03:05.300 --> 01:03:08.599
sending your body some real mixed signals. Smoking's

01:03:08.599 --> 01:03:12.380
bad, kids. Don't do it. Not even once. Vaping

01:03:12.380 --> 01:03:15.039
is just as bad, if not worse. Don't do that either.

01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:20.099
Yeah. Oh, man. Vapors. Good Lord. That was something

01:03:20.099 --> 01:03:23.300
that we did encounter, like at the trunk retreat

01:03:23.300 --> 01:03:26.599
itself, was a woman walking with her kid, just

01:03:26.599 --> 01:03:30.219
reaches. threw her collar into her bra and pulls

01:03:30.219 --> 01:03:32.500
out one of those, I don't know what they're,

01:03:32.500 --> 01:03:36.519
the vape things. The geek bars, probably. Yeah.

01:03:36.579 --> 01:03:39.699
I mean, back in my day, you had to go to a place

01:03:39.699 --> 01:03:43.760
to get the fluid and then you doused your little

01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:48.059
cotton doohickey. You built a very cool modded

01:03:48.059 --> 01:03:51.380
rig. Yeah. That's how you got your vape. Not

01:03:51.380 --> 01:03:54.260
this pre -made stuff you buy at the gas station.

01:03:55.019 --> 01:03:58.199
Disposables. We're such a... consumerist society.

01:03:58.880 --> 01:04:02.500
Even when it comes to our nicotine. Now, a lot

01:04:02.500 --> 01:04:06.940
of people have moved on to the nicotine pouches.

01:04:07.139 --> 01:04:09.920
And I, again, from the standpoint of a server,

01:04:10.039 --> 01:04:13.000
hate them. They leave them all over the place?

01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:15.300
They leave them everywhere. They get stuck to

01:04:15.300 --> 01:04:17.360
the bottom of tables, the bottom of chairs. They

01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:20.000
get stuck to plates, and by the time your spit

01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:22.679
dries, it is glued to the plate that it's on.

01:04:24.599 --> 01:04:27.559
They are discarded all over the ground in the

01:04:27.559 --> 01:04:30.300
restaurant where I have to usually by hand pick

01:04:30.300 --> 01:04:32.980
them up at the end of the night. The reason,

01:04:33.179 --> 01:04:36.119
like there's a lot of reasons that that frustrates

01:04:36.119 --> 01:04:38.300
the hell out of me. But the number one is that

01:04:38.300 --> 01:04:41.099
I know because Nate uses the little nicotine

01:04:41.099 --> 01:04:43.679
pouches. I know for a fact that those things

01:04:43.679 --> 01:04:46.079
come with a little holder for all of your discards

01:04:46.079 --> 01:04:49.039
at the top of the container. You are choosing

01:04:49.039 --> 01:04:58.969
to do this. Why? There was a day that I had a

01:04:58.969 --> 01:05:03.809
like big party and it was on a like patio. And

01:05:03.809 --> 01:05:07.570
so it was on like gravel. All of these tables

01:05:07.570 --> 01:05:11.050
were set up on gravel and it was all like 20

01:05:11.050 --> 01:05:14.309
something dudes. And I think the perfect target,

01:05:14.429 --> 01:05:17.130
like the perfect encapsulation of the demographic

01:05:17.130 --> 01:05:19.489
for those little pouches is 20 something dudes.

01:05:19.690 --> 01:05:22.429
The Shane Gillis crowd. The Shane Gillis crowd.

01:05:22.530 --> 01:05:25.929
Yes. By the time they left, there was basically

01:05:25.929 --> 01:05:28.829
just like a blanket under the table of the little

01:05:28.829 --> 01:05:32.030
Zens. And I had to pick them up by hand because

01:05:32.030 --> 01:05:34.769
it was a gravel patio. Did you at least have

01:05:34.769 --> 01:05:37.889
gloves? I did, yeah. But that doesn't, that's

01:05:37.889 --> 01:05:40.989
not the point. Every one of those containers

01:05:40.989 --> 01:05:44.469
that those little pouches came out of had a discard

01:05:44.469 --> 01:05:49.070
bin. Did they at least tip well? There was not

01:05:49.070 --> 01:05:51.690
a crap. They didn't have to. Be that as it may.

01:05:52.300 --> 01:05:54.559
But did they do the classy thing and tip on top

01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:59.940
of it? They did not. Oh, dang. Just silliness.

01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:02.920
It is silly. I'm sorry you had to deal with that.

01:06:03.260 --> 01:06:05.739
Why would you stick it to your chair or your

01:06:05.739 --> 01:06:09.519
plate or your table? I don't understand. I didn't

01:06:09.519 --> 01:06:11.699
understand when people did it with gum. I really

01:06:11.699 --> 01:06:13.360
don't understand it when people do it with their

01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:16.760
little nicotine pouches. Yeah. I don't know,

01:06:16.780 --> 01:06:19.599
man. Nobody cares about nobody else. That's true.

01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:23.650
But you talked about your... the job that you

01:06:23.650 --> 01:06:26.449
would least want, what is the job that you would

01:06:26.449 --> 01:06:31.570
most want? I would want to be a professional

01:06:31.570 --> 01:06:34.030
animator. I would want to do something in the

01:06:34.030 --> 01:06:39.989
arts. Have you thought of moving to Korea? I

01:06:39.989 --> 01:06:43.849
have, actually. Yeah? I don't know how hard it

01:06:43.849 --> 01:06:47.070
is to get a visa there, but I think that it would

01:06:47.070 --> 01:06:50.039
be very cool to live in South Korea. I mean,

01:06:50.059 --> 01:06:52.099
I can't imagine it's any harder than like Discover

01:06:52.099 --> 01:06:54.760
or MasterCard. You just got to fill out the application.

01:06:56.380 --> 01:06:59.019
Run your credit score. I think Visa is actually

01:06:59.019 --> 01:07:03.320
one of the easier ones to get. Are they different

01:07:03.320 --> 01:07:06.699
in Korea? Maybe. I don't know. Are they called

01:07:06.699 --> 01:07:16.780
resus? Stop it. I love Koreans. Some of my...

01:07:17.420 --> 01:07:21.719
people i've known have been korean so some of

01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:25.559
your people you've known i've known koreans okay

01:07:25.559 --> 01:07:30.179
proud of you yeah at least i think they were

01:07:30.179 --> 01:07:34.360
korean oh god what is what is your dream job

01:07:34.360 --> 01:07:38.159
what would you want to do in an ideal world um

01:07:38.159 --> 01:07:46.760
i love this podcasting stuff If I could clock

01:07:46.760 --> 01:07:52.119
in and do the talkie talks and then everyone

01:07:52.119 --> 01:07:57.599
else does all the other parts, that'd be a nice,

01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:02.500
that would be a dream come true. That would be

01:08:02.500 --> 01:08:05.000
cool. I think in that case, you might want to

01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:09.219
look into being a radio personality first. Getting

01:08:09.219 --> 01:08:12.679
good with like iHeartMedia. Oh, I think I already

01:08:12.679 --> 01:08:18.350
have an in. With iHeartMedia. Really? What end

01:08:18.350 --> 01:08:21.670
do you have with iHeartMedia? Adjacent. Use those

01:08:21.670 --> 01:08:27.050
connections, man. Yeah? Get on the big boys streaming

01:08:27.050 --> 01:08:30.869
podcast streamers. Yeah? I could be the next

01:08:30.869 --> 01:08:35.649
Rogan? Yeah. I could be the next... Do you want

01:08:35.649 --> 01:08:39.470
to be the next Rogan? Corolla? I think Corolla's

01:08:39.470 --> 01:08:44.079
more my speed than Rogan. Yeah? I could see that.

01:08:44.159 --> 01:08:47.060
I've never listened to Corolla's podcast, but.

01:08:47.920 --> 01:08:55.159
All right. So. We've talked about our. Crappy

01:08:55.159 --> 01:08:59.300
jobs. We've talked about what we think are the

01:08:59.300 --> 01:09:01.300
crappiest jobs we could ever have. We've talked

01:09:01.300 --> 01:09:04.300
about the jobs that maybe the future holds in

01:09:04.300 --> 01:09:10.119
store for us. What do you have to say? To people

01:09:10.119 --> 01:09:15.880
who are maybe. Lost in the shuffle. Trying to

01:09:15.880 --> 01:09:22.420
find their way to the best job. What's the best

01:09:22.420 --> 01:09:28.420
way to avoid a crappy job? I think I'm the wrong

01:09:28.420 --> 01:09:32.000
person to ask that question to. I am pretty pessimistic

01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:35.699
when it comes to the job market these days. I

01:09:35.699 --> 01:09:39.760
think that what has transpired has been just

01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:44.329
a bunch of silliness. A lot of the jobs that

01:09:44.329 --> 01:09:46.569
were entry level at one point are being overtaken

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by AI. And the jobs that, like, I've had a degree

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for four years now, and I applied to things from

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my junior year of college. And the longer I spent

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on that process, the more I realized that there

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weren't actual people seeing any of my applications.

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So it didn't matter if I was qualified for the

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job. It didn't matter if I was the right personality,

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the right skill set, the right tenacity for the

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position. I was never going to get in front of

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an actual person. Because it is all run through

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applicant tracking systems before it gets to

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an HR person, maybe. And then it's just, it's

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a, I don't think there's a whole lot of dodging

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the crappy jobs at the moment. My suggestion

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to whoever needs to hear this would be no matter

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what the job is, do your best, make the best

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of it. Things will fall in line how they're supposed

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to. Maybe just got to ride it out. Maybe you

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got to vacuum out porta potties for a hot minute

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before you get that dream job. Just make the

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best of it and keep on keeping on. And then if

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you do everything you're supposed to, then things

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will fall in line for you. Don't lose hope. Wise.

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wise words thanks all right and on that we'll

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see you peace out girl scouts