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Marvel FATWS is RAW! Recasting T'Challa and Managing at Chipotle : / · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: And this is episode two.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Episode two is talk we're talking about Marvel, uh, mainly the Black Panther and the Falcon and Winter Soldier.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: And the main topic of today is my life and times at Chipotle Mexican restaurant.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, could you imagine that?
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: That is going to be something that I hope you enjoy as I talk about that stuff.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: But without further ado, let's go ahead and get into it.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: What the hell's going on?
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: What the hell is going on at Marvel?
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: Marvel just finished the first season of the Falcon and Winter Soldier.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Six episodes long, and uh more can I say other than it was just over-the-top, impressive, and great.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: And uh it was about basically the story of Sam Wilson after uh Avengers Endgame, where uh Steve Rogers gave him Old Man Steve or Old Man Cap decided to give him the shield and him be the next the successor to him and be the Captain America.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: And as the show went on, it basically broke down everything that is basically racist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or basically our real world.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: And it was funny to see it this way because you don't think of it like that, you know, you don't think like these things actually happen in the real world, but it showed it clearly as clearly as the sun coming out in the afternoon.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: But like episode each episode had a little thing that brought up the racism in America, so to speak.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like episode one, where he's like, hey, this is too much for me.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give the shit up to the Smithsonian where Captain America's at.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: Without as soon as you blink your eye, they're giving it to the new Captain America, which was B John Walker.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: And now in the in the comic books, this is exactly what happened in some short, some sort of fashion.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: He did take over the mantle, not in the ways that the show did, but John Walker was nevertheless Captain America.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: And it's it's funny though almost each episode brought a little hint of racism.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: First one was like, hey, Steve's, or I'm sorry, Sam's gonna be like, hey, I can't take the shield, it's too much for me.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give it up.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: Instead of giving it to Bucky, you know, uh Steve Rogers' partner, he gave it up to the Smithsonian.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that was I think that in my mind, I think it got under Bucky when he's like, hey man, you know, you ain't gonna give me the shield.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's kind of messed up.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: But either way, he gave it up, gave it to John Walker.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: Episode two, it was even funnier, because next thing you know, he has a black best friend.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, okay, I mean, that's not that's not out of the norm.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: People, you know, white people, you know, people have black best friends.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: That happens.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's that's the real thing.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Then he's at a they're celebrating the new Captain America, and it looked like at a HBCU campus.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, you know, okay, okay, you know, maybe we're all excited to have a Captain America.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: There's nothing wrong with that.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: Then they bring out his wife, his wife is black too.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm like, okay, I mean, maybe, you know, he likes him some brown sugar too.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not hating.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not I'm not hating at all.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just simply saying that, you know, all these things that are historically for black people are given to John Walker.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: No problem.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not, I'm not, I'm not tripping.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: Even though it shows that way, I I'm not tripping.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: Then episode three, or we learn more about what really happened during the time with uh an actual black Captain America with Isaiah Bradley.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this was exciting for me because I'm more of a Patriot fan, which is Eli Bradley, his grandson.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: And if you read tomorrow, if you actually read the comic books, you know he had a blood transfusion.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: So therefore, that's how he got his powers.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: So we also learned that hey, he was according to the according to the show, uh Isaiah Bradley, he was locked up.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: He locked up for saving his people and stealing the costume of Captain America, locked up for 30 years, and then come to find out that they're experimented on him by taking his blood samples trying to to replicate the serum that was given to Steve Rogers.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: How messed up is that?
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: You in jail already, and they gonna come in and take it.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: And then that's the thing that I was wondering.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you have the super serum in your body, that means you are basically a superhuman.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: Why are you letting these people put needles in you and just let you just gonna take my blood?
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm gonna beat your ass.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: Don't you come up in here trying to take my blood, bro?
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: I I thought that was funny.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you're gonna let them.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm pretty sure you're strong enough to actually get your butt out of jail.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: Why are you in jail?
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, I understand, you know, as a veteran of America that you want to serve your country, but you're not gonna lock me up for 30 years.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: No, not when I got the super serious super serum soldier in my blood, yo, I'm gonna be doing jumping jacks and jump straight out the top of the building.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm out.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: You're not keeping me 30 years in jail.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: So that happened.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: And then also, the thing about the new John Walker, aka Captain America, he was just trying to flex on everybody.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Captain America.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know who I am?
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: This, that, and the other.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: It was one point where the Black Panthers guard, the Dormalaji or Jay, whatever, they came in one episode, and John Walker, aka Captain America, was like, Hey guys, I'm Captain America, put down your pointy sticks.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: And it's like, oh, is that like a African like side joke or something?
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: Either way, the the Dora Malaji did not play with him and beat his tail, and he was so distraught about it.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like they weren't even super soldiers.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_00: So basically, and that was only what four or five episodes.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you haven't checked out The Falcon and Winter Soldier, please do.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: It was really good.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: If you like the Marvel Summonac universe, and I'm telling you, who doesn't?
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: You that's worth that's worth it.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: Actually, the both shows, the WandaVision and the Falcon and Winter Soldier, both have been great.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: So if you ever get a chance to go on Disney Plus, please do.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: So that's topic number one.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: Topic number two is this whole Black Panther thing.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_00: And okay, look, we all understand that Chadwick Bozeman played the character like 1000% correct.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: He basically is the Black Panther, and it was great to see him in all the multiple movies, and it was even better to see, like, you know, what he did for the role.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_00: And it's like when you see the Black Panther, and I'm saying this specifically as an African-American or Black American, whatever you want to say, was that when you see someone on here at such prestige, and you're not seeing, you know, a typical Hollywood black acting, lead acting movie, it's different.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's different because like he wasn't treated as royalty.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: So when you see Chadwick Bozem play to play T'Challa and you see it done so well, it's like wow.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like he does deserve all the accolades of being the Black Panther.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I get it.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to say, you know, downplay what he did.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: I get it.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: However, I still think they should recast.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: Now what Kevin Feige said during the what reveal for four phase four, phase five, etc.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: etc.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: is that they're not going to recast T'Challa for the Black Panther 2.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: Don't quote me on that.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's a paraphrase of what he said now.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't say like it's what about Black Panther 3.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: However, I have a problem with that.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: I have a problem with that because how many Batmans have we had?
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: How many Supermans have we had?
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: I think Joker's been re- reiterated three or four times.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: Spider-Man, three times.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Hell, even one of the characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, uh Roadie, twice and I can only get one to Challa.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: I mean that to me that does not make sense at all.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: How I under I I get it.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: I understand that Chadwick Bozem played a role perfectly.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: And it's a difficult topic.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's a difficult topic for any fan to talk about.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: But we all watch Black Panther for T'Challa and what T'Challa does.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: And now they're gonna say, yo, I we're not gonna even recast or anything like that.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: It seems foul to me.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: Because we all love the characters.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: We come to watch the characters, we don't come watch the actors, but I get it, I get it.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: But I feel like T'Challa story is just starting.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I always felt at the end of the at the end at the end of Endgame and spoiler if you haven't seen that, but where the hell have you been?
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like Iron Man died, Captain America's old.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm thinking that hey, Black Panther's gonna be the next in next in line to lead the Avengers in the next phase four, phase five, phase six, and etc.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: And now because of this untimely death, that I understand, why do we have to put the character on a shelf?
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and even if you think about it, you could write a Black Panther 2 without T'Challa.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: Because remember, if you haven't seen any game, he was blipped, so he was gone for five years.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: What happened to Wakanda those five years?
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: You could have a new king, and that new king brought peace or had a conflict with somebody.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: And then bang, you bring T'Cala back for Black Panther 3 and have that story.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't I just have a problem with that.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: So that that to me always boils down to what's going on over there.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: But but I think they should recast, and I think they should recast with John David Washington.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_00: I think he's probably the best actor to fulfill that role.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: But Marvel's always hit the hit the hit it out of the ballpark when it comes to casting their actors.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I have faith in them except this one, except this one decision where they're I think they're wrong for that.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: So with that being said, that brings what's going on to an end.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna hinge you up with this quick PSA about that soap because I really love the soap.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_00: Check it out, listen to me, and then buy the daggone soap.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: Man, it's time to stop visiting the soap section in all your grocery stores.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: That may sound gross, but guess what?
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: Those bars and liquid soaps are gross.
• 12:14
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• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: Dr.Squash.com offers you a natural soap that makes you, your skin, smell and feel great.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: I've been doing it for a couple months now.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: I got three bars of soap that I typically mess with bay rum, spearment basil, and alpine sage.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I will never go back to liquid soaps or bar soaps again.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: Go to drsquash.com, fill out a survey to find out what what bars of soap work for you, and thank me later.
• 12:41
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• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: Feel like a man, smell like a champion.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Secretly, I am super proud of that because I did 30 takes on that just to get that right.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, Dr.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: Squash, go get the soap.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: I guarantee you you will love it.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: I promise you that.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: All right, on to the main topic of today.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: The main topic of today is my time at Chipotle, Mexican Grill.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: Now, uh, during my time there, I came on as a manager.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: I just graduated uh culinary school, bachelor's degree, and I'm out there looking for a job.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I just put it out there on Facebook and say, hey, look, who's looking for, you know, a chef or something like that?
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: And then one of my friends trying to say, Yo, why don't you work at Chipotle?
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, Chipotle, are you kidding me?
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: I just got this degree and you want me to work at Chipotle?
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: So hear me out, come do an interview, and uh we'll see how it goes.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, what do I got to lose?
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: I just got out of tech, I just got out of uh culinary school.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go for it.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: So the first the first restaurant I went to was in Kings Island or close to King's Island.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: And uh there I did an interview and uh and I should have known that things would be different at Chipotle.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm doing an interview with the guy who I went to high school with.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um doing an interview, and then the first thing he asked me was like, Well, um, how much you want to get paid?
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I always had a problem with this because I always, you know, I always give somebody a discount because I'm thinking I'm gonna make like a whole bunch of money through raises and all that stuff.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: So I always scale myself down.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know why.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: This is like I guess a homegrown discount, whatever what may, but this is what I this is what I've always done.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: I don't understand why.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: So my first asking price was I later said here, let me get this amount.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: He looks at me like, are you sure?
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I think so.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I think this is an adequate and um adequate or adequate amount of money for this type of work.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: And he looks at me like, okay, now pause right there.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: I should have I should have like, hold on, let me go use the restroom and then look it up.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: I don't look up what a bachelor's a bachelor's degree equivalent, something, something, something.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I didn't change it.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: I just took it.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, okay.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: So he got the daggone Michael discount, whatever.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm working at King's Island.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: He introduced me to my manager, Sam.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: Now, Sam, that that dude, shoot, Sam was cool.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: Sam was a real cool guy, and I love working with him.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: So basically he said, All right, look, this is what you're gonna do, Mike.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: He said, You're gonna study the book, work occasionally, but I want you to finish on this book.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like, all right, the manager's book.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: So I learned, you know, Chipotle, this, that, and the other.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, whatever.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: So the first couple weeks, that's all I'm doing, right?
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Just throwing on the book, studying to be a manager.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't last long.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: The thing about Chipotle, at least when I was there, is that people, like, especially at Kings Island, they would line up 1045.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: I've never seen someone line up for fast food at 1045, 15 minutes before we open.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at these people like, what's going on?
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I don't understand.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I literally don't understand.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: This is still a fast food restaurant.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm I'm I'm making Chipotle parallel to McDonald's or Burger King or stuff.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: Like, nobody lines up for Burger King or Taco Bell.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: These people are lining up.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like, oh my god, what did I sign myself up for?
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just looking at them outside the window and they just all sitting here on their phones like, oh my god, it's just Chipotle.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: Come to find out that Chipotle is crazy busy.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: Peaks, peak period, peak periods, all that stuff.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: And then they want me to work.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, fine.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: So I start working it when we need we start getting busy and stuff.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: Turns out we're busy all the time.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: I did not know this.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: I did not know this about Chipotle.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: I've never been to a Chipotle prior to me working there, right?
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: So as a couple months go in, I'm there at Chipotle, I'm there at King's Island, I'm talking to Sam.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: Cool cat.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: Loved it.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: It was, it was, it was it was out of the seven other, like, okay, let me rewind a little bit.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: I start at King's Island, right?
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: Then I move to six other restaurants, which makes a grand total of seven different Chipotle.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Out of the seven different Chipotle's, King's Island is probably the second best one.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: So saying that, so what I got from there was like everything is focused on precision and tricks and all that stuff.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: So basically, you're saving money for the company, you're not ordering as much food for the next week and all that stuff.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: They teach you all the tricks and all that good stuff.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: And Sam was doing that.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: We were cool.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: So as I grew, my manager, the guy who hired me, was like, Where you at on your book?
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be honest with you.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's like he's like, Alright, I ain't been doing my book.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Well, why ain't you been doing your book?
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, we've been busy.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: He said, All right, hold on.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: He would run to the back, go talk to Sam, close the door, and I'm like, Oh shit, I got Sam, I got Sam in trouble.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: So uh he would leave.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: All right, Mike, I'll talk to you later.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: I said, all right, cool.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I'll go back and talk to Sam.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: What'd he say?
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Yeah, um, we need to get back on that book.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: So, back on the book, it lasts a week.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: Guess what?
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: Back on the line, back on the register, back on helping.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's just at this station, at this restaurant, we were too busy for me to just focus on the book.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: So, this brings me to so he so Joe comes in, he's like, hey, all right, man, I feel like I made a mistake here.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go ahead and uh move you to a different location that is not as busy.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, all right, cool, let's do it.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: So we move to the Norwood location.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: Now, Norwood has two locations, one inside the mall, one on the outside of the mall, and one on the outside of the mall.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is the main thing about Norwood.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: I go go to Norwood, meet the manager, say, hi, my name's Erica, and this is how she greets me.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: She says, Hi, my name's Erica, I'm a lesbian.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, I mean that's that's that's cool.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't care.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna judge you.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm here to learn this manager's job so I get paid and be a manager, be have my own store, be a you know, super manager and all that stuff.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's like okay, cool.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm working at Norwood, I'm like, I'm meeting all the people, all the uh people that work there, and uh, you know, I'm just talking to them.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, how you doing?
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: My name's Mike, came up from Kings Island, working to Sam.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: Sam taught me a little bit.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: All right, cool, cool, cool.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: My name's Deborah, and I'm a lesbian.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh okay.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm not judging.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was whatever.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not I'm not there to judge people, I'm there to work.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm there to work, serve burritos, serve bowls, get people in, get people out.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care about your sexual orientation.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: You do whatever you do outside of work.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I mean somebody else.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, my name's Lashonda.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: Guess what she said?
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a lesbian.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, okay.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: We got a whole roster for lesbians.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's cool.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not here to judge you.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: Here to work eight hours, or in this case, manager 10 hours, serve these bowls, serve these burritos, get people in, get people out.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I'm here for.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: So imagine that.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now again, I'm not judging these people.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: It was whatever.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: However, this whatever turns into stories.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: These stories have me in my feelings because some of these people, let me just, let me just let me tell one story.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: So one day I'm chopping onions, getting ready for making guacamole and all that stuff.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: Lashonda, I said earlier, comes in and she's like, Yeah, man, what's up, y'all?
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, hey, full of full energy.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I like I like people with energy, you know, because with the energy they give in, they give right back.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: So she comes in and says, Hey guys, what's up?
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Hey, Lashonda, what's going on?
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're we're a group, we're a we're a functioning group so far.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, guess what, y'all?
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: I said, What's up?
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, I got laid.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, this is a little uncomfortable because, you know, she's saying she's going on, you know, and then and if you're in the restaurant world or you work in the restaurant business, this this happens, okay.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: What I wasn't expecting is that she went into detail.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm over here chopping my onion, and then she's going into detail about what she did.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, Yeah, I made her bleed.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, and then I'm like, hold on.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I looked at her back to my thoughts.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: I looked at her.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, well, how'd you do that?
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: How'd you how'd you make her bleed?
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: Come to find out, she's they use they use weap, they use said weapons, they use toys.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: I said, okay, that's cool, but why would you go as far as to make her bleed?
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: I don't I mean, I don't even I don't do that.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's like weird cut off stuff that she's talking about.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, okay.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever the case may be, so be it.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: And that was one of the first conversations we had.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: And it eventually got to a point where I had to leave there.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: I left there again, same situation.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: Too busy.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: I can't focus on my book.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: And the actual manager was never actually there.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: I think she got fired actually, too, now that I think about it.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: So then I moved to Hyde Park.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: Now the thing about Hyde Park is that a lot of celebrities live there.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, cool, this is great.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: Work on my book some more.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: No problem.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh now this was when was this?
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: Well, two or three years ago.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: And uh this is when FC Cincinnati was playing, started playing soccer here.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: And uh you would notice some of them come in, like, wait a minute, dude.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: I I know you.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: And then I've known uh his name was oh my god, I'm gonna mess up his name.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: Omar Mohammed or Omar Mohammed.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: It was one of the first players.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I know you.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: When I went to an FCC game, I pointed him out, I know you.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: Omar Mohammed or Muhammad Omar.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: Boy, that's gonna sound bad.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: I might have to edit that one out.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, I met him, I was like, oh, I know you, you're an FCC player, and then a lot of them, because the thing about Chipotle as a manager is that you're allowed to give away free food.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: They don't tell you that, but then you know, I go ahead and get free ball and just knock it off to the game because you're you're creating business, so to speak, by hey, you know, hey, I came in.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: I manager gave me free ball get positive vibes, so to speak.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: So Omar came in.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Hey yo, Omar, what's up, man?
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: How you doing?
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: Blah blah blah blah.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: I said, yo, on the house.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: Bang.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: So then another FCC player came in.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Now I don't remember this guy's name.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: Oh well, you know.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: Then finally, the goalkeeper.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: Now, everybody knows Mitch Hildebrand.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody who watches FCC knows who Mitch Hildebrand is.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: Mitch was a goalkeeper.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: And then we love Mitch back when he was playing with FCC.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: He came in.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, dude, looking at him like, you ain't you ain't that tall to be a goalkeeper.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I'm like 5'5 and a half.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I take my half.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, you ain't that much taller than me.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: But either way, gave him free bowl.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: So it was cool that the FCC players were coming in and people recognize him.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: To my surprise, Andy Dalton came in.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: Andy Dalton was the former starting quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: He came in with his wife.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, looking at him, like, dude, you look because he looks so familiar.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: I know who he was, but I ain't gonna I ain't gonna let him know.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: I ain't gonna geek out over Andy Dalton.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: I ain't gonna do it.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, yo, like you look familiar.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, I get that a lot.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: No, you don't.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody knows who you are, punk.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, yo, I'm gonna charge you his.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: I charge his ass his bowl$650.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, seriously?
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: I said, yeah, man, it's a business, bro.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: I can't, I can't, I can't.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: I gave away my audible.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: I can give it out in one day.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna charge you$650.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: $750 with a steak.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't see the steak.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: Charge his ass.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: So that was the cool part about Hyde Park.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: Hyde Park, again, it was it was, I don't even know why I moved from Hyde Park, but I moved from Hyde Park.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see, why did I move from Hyde Park?
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, we had a new manager, and he's like, Yeah, I'll move you to Tri-County.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: So I moved to my fourth store, Tri-County.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_00: Now, Tri-County was a brand new Dipole, and it was run by Miguel.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: Miguel was one of these managers that was a golden goose.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: Now, uh, dang, I messed this whole story up.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, hold on.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: Rewinding to the whole thing, uh, when you when you was at King, when I was at Kings Island, they always say, you want to be like, you want to be like Victor.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: Victor was like the first golden goose in this in this area.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, yeah, if you do good as Victor, Victor, you get a car, they give you payments, they give you extra money.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: So you want to be like a manager like Victor.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, oh, snap.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like, where can I meet Victor?
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: And this is when I was at Kings Island.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: Sam's like, man, forget Victor, man.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what do you mean forget Victor?
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, man, I could do that.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: I could do that, no problem.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: I could be Golden Goose or Chipotle.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: And they had a name for it, but I don't remember the name.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: Where if you were a supreme manager, whatever, whatnot, you you were given all these perks.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: So Victor was one of them.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, oh, like that's what you want.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: You want to be like Victor.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: That's the thing.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: You want to be like Mike?
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: No, you want to be like Victor.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: Victor was the man.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: So um going back to Tri-County, I didn't literally, I did nothing there.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: I went there, did the book.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: It was slow.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like really slow, because new store, I got time to do the book.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: So when I finished the book, I'm a manager.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: Bang! So I finally make, you know, manager or assistant manager, officially assistant manager.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: Still was making assistant manager pay the whole time, but whatever.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: My title, not apprentice anymore.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a I'm an assistant manager.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: They send me to Finnytown Chipotle.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm on store five.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm at my fifth store.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm getting tired of this stuff.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm driving further and further away from home, but I'm trying to get this out because I'm I'm an assistant manager.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm about I'm I'm slowly creeping up doing this thing, and you know, it's easy work, but it's Chipotle, and there's more stories.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: Finnytown is the most ghetto Chipotle I've ever worked at.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: And yes, and I say that ever worked at because I ain't going back to Chipotle ever again.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_00: I worked at Finnytown, and it was ghetto.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_00: Everything about the store felt ghetto.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: The way it was built, the way it was ran, it was ghetto.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: And it was terrible.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was terrible because this store was notorious for people coming in at 9.59.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you work at Chipotle, you close at 10, you lock the doors at 10, you don't lock up one minute sooner.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: There's cameras everywhere.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, Why you lock up at 9.58?
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: You just two minutes and six million people could have came in at those two minutes.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: It was terrible.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_00: With that being said, people fought.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: I literally mean like almost fist to cuffs fought over stuff.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: Let me give you the example.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_00: Guy comes in at 9.59.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: Right when I'm heading to the doors, a guy comes in at 9.59.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: He goes, Oh, hey, uh, y'all still open?
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: Why do people ask that question at 9.59?
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_00: Your butt has already come into the store.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we're still open.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: So he's like, Oh, cool, cool, cool.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: Let me get three bowls.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: Now, why?
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: Or better yet, what do you mean you want three bowls?
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_00: There's one of you.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_00: But I digress.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_00: He gets near the store.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, yo, let me get um, yeah, let me get one steak bowl, one carnitas bowl, and one chicken bowl.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: Now, at the time, there's no chicken in that, there's no chicken in that in that third in that third pan.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: There's no chicken in there.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yo, you're gonna and then the guy who's cooking is like, yo, you're gonna have to get something else.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, nah, man, I came in for the chicken bowl.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna get me a chicken bowl.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh bro, I can see this going the wrong direction.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, Cook's like, yo, you ain't getting a chicken bowl.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: So, yo, I'm gonna get a mother chicken bowl or else.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: And they're like, oh, you wanna go outside?
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh my god, we getting mad over no chicken in a chicken bowl.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: They they really about to go.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, all right, all right.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: Let me step in, like, hey, hey, you want some more chicken in that chicken bowl?
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to tell Cook over here, he ain't listening.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_00: He's a DA.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_00: DA.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to cuss.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all can put the words together.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: Say, okay, okay, relax.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: Bruh, go in the back, start closing.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'll make this dude some chicken.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I grabbed two pieces of chicken, cooked them from raw to done, cut them up, served it, and then he's like, yo, can I get these on the house?
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like, nah, bruh, no, bruh.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: You ain't getting these on the house.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I charged him the bowls, went on his merry way.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: That was unbelievable.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's not, it was$9.59, three bowls, and he just, and then if he would have took, and here's the thing: if he would have took the bowls, uh, the steak bowl, the carnitas bowl, and got him another steak bowl, I would have given it to him for free.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yo, why are you tripping?
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'll just give it to you for free.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: I have, I can give away as much bowls as I want.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: But no, he was like, Yeah, uh, I need it, he needed that chicken, obviously.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_00: And that's why I charged his ass.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: After that incident, and then I couldn't be there.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I said, look, man, either I'm gonna quit.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I told the manager, like, I'm gonna quit because we got people fighting at for chicken at 1002, or you're gonna have to make me gonna have to move me.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: This is this and this is gonna be the last move.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like, alright, all right, I'm gonna move you.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: So he moved me to Evendale, and now Evendale, I get there and it's like, yo, Victor's here.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Victor's here.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: I said, what?
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_00: Victor's here.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh my lord, I'm like, oh, this is great.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_00: The golden goose is here.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to work with Victor.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Victor's here.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Yeah, I'm gonna run you over.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Victor's here.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: I was excited.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: I just about to be the golden goose manager, I'm about to be the manager.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_00: So I get there, Evendale, and Victor's like, yo, what's up, man?
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: I heard about you.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: I said, You heard about me?
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: I heard about you.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be great because Victor's here.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: I said, This is gonna be great.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_00: He said, All you gotta do is just follow me, listen to me.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_00: You already did the book, the book's out the way.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: Let's just go ahead and get this Evendale store to be um, I forget what the heck you call it, but a good store.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: I say, uh, Victor's here.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I kept saying.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like, Victor is here.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be, listen.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: I am excited.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: I get to work with Victor.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: So, me and him together, we started getting the store in shape.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: But let me tell you, let me take a quick pause to tell you how bad it is at Halloween.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm pretty sure you know by now, Chipotle has this hey, if you dress up, you get a free burrito or burrito, buy one, get one free.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever the thing is, that is the worst day to work at Chipotle.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_00: I will, there's certain days to avoid.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: The day after Thanksgiving, people come into Chipotle.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: Halloween, people coming to Chipotle.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: I remember one time someone brought a, he was a pirate.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: I had a freaking monkey on the shoulder with a diaper on.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: No, not in a restaurant.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, that happened, that actually happened.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: But those are the two days, the day after Thanksgiving and Halloween that comes off the top of my head.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: It was terrible.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: I've never, I think that was the one day I didn't even blink to blink.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't even sit down.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: I worked from the moment I came in to them till 9.59 when people still coming in past that.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, those are the two days you want to vote.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm working at Evendale, I'm learning, we're getting the store in shape.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: Then Victor disappears.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: Gone.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, well, what happened?
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like, did he get transferred?
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: To this day, I don't know.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: And it is what it is.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_00: So it's just me and the assistant manager.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, okay, okay, this is no problem.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: I learned from the best, I learned from the golden goose.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_00: This ain't gonna be nothing.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_00: I got this.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: I learned from Victor.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_00: Victor's the man.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, all right, cool.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_00: So I started doing it, getting people in, started hiring people, started firing people.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like you ain't, you ain't, you ain't Chipotle worthy.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: Get out.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: And then the thing about Chipotle, they always asking for help.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we need help on it, help on it.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: I had enough people.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: I brought in my people.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, okay, we're doing good.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: We started shaping up.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_00: Then an assistant manager came in.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_00: I said, okay, I'm not gonna hate.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna do this the right way because we're gonna get this together.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: The young lady's name was Stephanie.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_00: Stephanie was coming back from a pregnancy leave.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_00: She just had a baby.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna work together.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, cool.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_00: No problems.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: So the thing between me and Stephanie that we first let me rewind a little bit.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: We got along just fine.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: We were cool at first until the days that I was off.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: When I was off, it was a completely different story.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_00: When I I lead very different than most managers, because not everybody's meant to lead.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: Let me say that one more time.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: Not everybody is meant to lead.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: What I mean by that is that I lead with compassion, understanding, but yet I'm still stern with my people.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna be like, you're gonna do this, you're gonna do that.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_00: Point fingers, and not help.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's not who I am.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: I was trained by the best in the military to learn how to lead.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: So I know how to lead.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: I lead by leading from the front.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: I always say that.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_00: Leaders lead from the front by example.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_00: Stephanie wasn't like that.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_00: And that's cool.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's how she leads.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: I lead very different people.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_00: So when I was off, people like, oh my God, Stephanie lost her SHI.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, what do you mean?
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like she dictates, tell people what to do, and then not be not be around.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, well, where would she go?
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, yeah, she's just sitting in the office chilling, watching people on camera.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: You can do that technically, but you know, as a leader, you lead from the front.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_00: So as time goes on and all that stuff, I'm still a technically assistant manager.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_00: She's still technically assistant manager.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: So the job came up as one of you guys is going to be the manager of the place.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm fine with that.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_00: Because I know how I lead.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_00: I know that I'm pretty a pretty good candidate for this job.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: And she's a good candidate for the job too.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: She just leads very differently.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_00: So the day of the decision, this district manager comes in and he's like, comes in, everybody says, Hi.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: Let's just call him Xavier.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_00: Xavier's been the back watching her.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, everyone's like, hi, Xavier.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody got a smile, say hi to Xavier.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody roll your sleeves down and all that stuff.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like, okay.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_00: So he comes in, he sits in the back, he's talking to my to my manager while people start coming in.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_00: So me and Stephanie cock cocked this plan.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I think when this plan happened, she knew what she was doing.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: We're like, okay, I'm a man the floor.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_00: Mike, you run the state, the uh service, run service.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_00: I thought that'd be more impressive.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_00: If I'm working the line, you know, being over shoulder to shoulder, running chicken, running this, running that, that that'll be more impressive than someone running the floor.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_00: So people coming in, I'm we're running the floor, we're running smoothly, got cheese, we got chicken, we never run out of fruit.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_00: I look up, watch uh with Xavier and Xavier Stephanie talking, laughing, talking, hand contacting.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, uh-oh.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, he he sees me doing all this work.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_00: He sees me doing all this work.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_00: There's no way he can't doesn't see me doing all this work.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, all right, so by the end of the shift, 2230, I finally get to talk to Xavier.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: We talk a little bit, hey, how you doing?
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I've been here, this, this, that, and the other.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I took over for Victor.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_00: I put Victor, I put Victor's name in it.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, I took over for Victor.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: Thought that'll, you know, thought that'll oh, if you work with Victor, I mean you must be good.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_00: So the next day we had this thing called what's in your burrito?
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's basically say, hey, if you're a manager, this is your salary, this is their your plan.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: So we're having this conversation.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yo, I got I got the manager job here at Evendale.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, oh my God.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: I even told my wife, I was like, hey, guess who's now manager at Chipotle?
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_00: Because I thought I was doing the right thing.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: I thought I was leading this way, leading Chipotle the way it should be led here at in Eventale.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh-uh.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_00: Didn't happen.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_00: So my manager comes in Sunday, so yeah, Mike.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_00: Do this.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_00: And when you do that, you know it's bad news.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, Mike.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_00: When the doctor does that, hey, Mike, you know you're about to get some bad news.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_00: So he goes, Yeah, Mike, we're gonna uh we're gonna transfer you to Union Center.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Union Center.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Yeah.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_00: This is room to grow.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: There's this, you know, there's another guy named there.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: Let's call him Daniel.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: Daniel's golden goose, too.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: But this is my seventh store.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_00: You really gonna transfer me to my seventh store?
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, yeah, but dude, the opportunity here is great.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: It will look good on you and all the managers and all that stuff.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, okay.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_00: Seventh store, Union Center.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_00: Let's do it.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a gung-ho type guy.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna be like, yo, screw that stuff.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_00: I went, no problem.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_00: So I go.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: It is hell on earth there at Union Center.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking around like, oh my goodness, these people are doing whatever.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like people just eating chicken off the line, like just throwing a scoop in there eating a chicken, which is allowed because you're, you know, trying to make sure that hay is still good, still fresh, da da da.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_00: But the same guy did it like eight times.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: So where's the manager at?
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_00: The manager's washing dishes because we don't have a dishwasher.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_00: And the thing, I'm glad I brought that up.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_00: The thing about Chipotle is that there's no automatic dishwasher in the bag.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_00: There's three sinks and we're washing all those by hands.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: That oh my I mean, there was times when I come in at work and there was dishes piled to the roof.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_00: Not kidding.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_00: Because nobody did dishes.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that was one of the things.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_00: So anyway, I come to find out that Union Center is the worst store in the tri-state.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_00: Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: The worst store in the tri-state.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_00: Why are they sending me here?
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_00: You just don't want me to work here no more, do you?
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_00: So I buckle up.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna do this.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I started teaching the fundamentals of the cooks because they weren't doing the rice right, they weren't doing the marinating right, they weren't doing the salt.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was literally a pain to work there.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: This is what what broke the camel's back was when this one guy, he was a cook and he was in his mid-20s.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_00: He was chopping chicken looking out.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm right beside him looking out too.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, what?
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what you look?
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_00: Daryl, I mean, Daryl, wait, what you looking at, play?
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_00: What you I don't see anything.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you see that you see that little girl right there?
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_00: See that see that girl right there?
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_00: I said, yeah.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_00: So she waves at both of us.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, I wave back.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know this person.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yay, hey.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, she waves.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's like she's waving at who, you or me?
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I don't know this person.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, go, go, go talk to her.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh, okay.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_00: So I go up there and say, hi, my name's my name's Sasha.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm making up names, people.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to put people out there like that.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_00: So name, my name's Sasha.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_00: I work here, I'm just getting a bowl from me and my dad.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm oh okay.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she's like, Are you the new manager?
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Yeah.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_00: All right, Sasha.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'll uh see you when I see you.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_00: So I go to my office and I look up, you know, look up the roster because I've never seen her before.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_00: And there she's works specific hours.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, well, that's that's a little weird.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why does she work like just uh four to eight?
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_00: Or something like that.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_00: Turns out the girl's in school, the girl's still in high school.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, I put two and two together.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_00: This dude's looking at a high school girl who is a minor, and you're not a minor.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I drag him to the office the next day, like, yo, player, like you, you, you can't, you can't be licking your lips at this young girl like that.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_00: You can't do this.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: I said, look, dude, I better not catch you two together.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then it's funny when I say this because this dude's like six foot two, and I'm five, five and a half.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_00: Don't forget that half.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm five, five and a half.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm dead ass serious.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I will fight this dude.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_00: I ain't losing.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_00: I don't lose.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm two and oh, I've never lost a fight.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm like, look, dude, I said, I better not catch you two together.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, not like that.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_00: You can work together, be civil, work your eight and go home.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I always say.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_00: Work your eight and go home.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_00: But I bet not catch y'all together.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_00: With no more than like a week, they both work in the weekends.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I looked the schedule, they're both working.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like, okay, where are they?
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, I'm asking the people around, I'm looking at asking the other co-workers because I'm I think me and the other managers in the back washing dishes.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, where are these two at?
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_00: Where are they at?
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, and then you know that when people know something, they don't know if they start smirking, like, oh no where they at.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yo, where are they at?
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm turning into like a hulk.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_00: Where's that?
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I go to the bathroom, beat the door, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: So, yo, y'all better not be in there.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_00: So Dora flies up.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_00: She runs out the fast and he's smirking.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_00: I said, No, Lord Jesus, this did not just happen.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_00: It just happened.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I like little.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_00: I called HR, called my manager, officially put my two weeks in.
• 43:55
  SPEAKER_00: I said, yo, I am not.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_00: I told him, I am not gonna be part of this.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_00: I literally told HR what happened.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yo, I cannot be a part of this.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna be part of some kind of weird Chipotle.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_00: No, mm-mm.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_00: Chipotle had enough stories going on at that time.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna have no rape, rape anything on me on me.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: I did my part.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_00: I told my manager, I told HR what happened?
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_00: Not a damn thing.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_00: At that point, I said, yo, I'm done.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_00: I can't work at Chipotle.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_00: And then I left.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_00: That was it.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_00: Went on to a greener pastures, went on to do different things.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_00: But that was it, man.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm telling you, the thing about Chipotle is that while yes, working there was a story within itself, the people that you work with, the people that come in, they make it fun, so to speak, you know, they make it a little more entertaining.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like, uh I remember so many people came in like, and you get free food.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_00: And then when they when you give a free bowl away, they like it break it makes their day, and I think that's why we were allowed to do that.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_00: And that was the fun part about working there.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, was allowed to give away free food and stuff like that.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_00: But I mean, would I ever go back when I ever go back there?
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely not.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_00: As much fun as I had at Chipotle, I cannot work there ever again.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_00: I can't even go in there right now.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_00: Whenever I go in there, my stomach be hurting.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know if that's just me.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_00: Do y'all stomach be hurting?
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I don't know, man.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_00: But that's it, man.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_00: Chipotle was a monster all within itself, man.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_00: I would never go back there.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_00: And that is basically episode two of the WD episode.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_00: So what do you mean you ain't gonna work at Chipotle?
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_00: Would you would you work at Chipotle after hearing this story?
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_00: Hell, I don't even want to go in there, let alone work there again and all that stuff.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_00: But I met some good people, and that's what I take with me.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_00: I met some really good people working there, and I do appreciate the the opportunity to work there, but never again.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_00: Never again, my boy.
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_00: So that basically brings this episode to an end of the WDYM.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_00: I talked about a lot of things, especially the Marvel situation, but Chipotle is an whole nother monster within itself.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_00: With that being said, we're bringing this episode to an end.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_00: This is episode two.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_00: Let's hear it.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie, Emil.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_00: Have a good night.