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A Special Attempted Delivery · United We Scan

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  Now, here are the host of The United, We scan podcast, Hey,
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  welcome back everybody. We have a special edition today.
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  We've got myself and James, and Josh, and Josh, you want to make
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  the introductions of our special guests tonight.
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  I surely, would we have a couple of gentlemen who who are fans of
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  ours? And we are definitely fans of
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  theirs as they said, once that their number one, brand told
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  them that they are awesome at being awful, the extent to
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  deliver some comic relief. Occasion.
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  We have a monopolist and showing Vic and cheats joining us.
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  This evening from the temperature will vary as thank
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  you for having us. You are welcome.
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  Well, I'm going to apologize in advance now, Damien because I
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  don't have any material to fuck with you with.
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  I got a couple things for you. Nice to meet you.
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  Well I apologize or I don't want to say our hose because we all
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  collab. Our are all an equal footing is
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  what I'm told. Push hard person with all of the
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  recording equipment president. Yeah.
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  James, who is our newest addition to the family?
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  I'm the one everybody hates online.
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  So strong A teacher word real quick.
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  Yeah, yes. Dad to Tori unfamiliar familiar
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  with your name. There are not many professions
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  that you can really get away with using your name.
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  From what I heard your previous attempts of using your name in
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  the proper professions. Cost you a lot of money in both
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  refunds and 10% in restitution. It's a good thing, it's not by
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  choice. I'm forced into it.
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  Yeah, that's funny. But I actually considered going
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  by just Shaundi when I first started comedy until Damien was
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  like, your name is Dick and cheats like your name is a punch
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  line. Like, why did you give that up?
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  There's many times are going. Wow, the jokes I could come up
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  with that name. Yeah.
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  The only jokes I have about it or about how I don't have jokes
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  about it because if I did they'd all be plagiarizing
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  eight-year-olds, very you have one, you can use not a punch
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  line, it's the punch line. We are fans of yours and I think
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  you guys definitely do a service, like ours is not like
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  we kind of use a postal theme but it's not a postal podcast
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  per se and I will be of no help to anybody.
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  But you guys, you know, provide a lot of good information and
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  useful advice and we appreciate you jeopardizing that
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  credibility by having us on. Thank you, thank you.
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  And I appreciate you guys coming on because those pretty cool
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  because I Started listening. I think you guys were an episode
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  in the 20s and I had started from the beginning and so it's
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  like about the. How'd you hear about us, just
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  out of curiosity? I think I saw you post on.
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  Maybe it was delivered me on the Facebook page.
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  One of them are both low Maniacs.
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  Okay. Yeah, I've posted in some of
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  those like postal maniacs and postal meme.
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  Meme page is pretty much. Yeah, it was one of those.
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  I was like, oh, let me something else to listen to him.
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  I'm out there and so I did it just like, binged it until I was
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  caught up and then like, every Thursday like is it hot?
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  Because, that's like, first thing appointment.
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  I head out to the route, I hurt. I think I heard someone mention
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  it before and then I think World info had actually posted
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  something with a link to you, guys saying, you guys were
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  really funny and I'm like, all right, let me check it out.
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  Yeah, I told you about it. Josh, would you yesterday and
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  heard about this yesterday? So I decided to start listening
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  today and start at the beginning, and I'm working my
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  way through it. So, awesome, but still
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  interested. A little bit grown for our
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  listeners Damien and Shawn are rural carriers and they decided
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  to go into stand-up and their podcast.
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  Basically attempted delivery is almost from when they first
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  started and their journey through.
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  Am I correct guys? Yeah.
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  Yeah. We started recording some
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  episodes. Like, as we were kind of giving
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  each other the courage to do it. So the first cringe cringe, e
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  episodes are us trying to Get the guts to do it.
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  And then around four episode, five or six, we actually start.
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  And then after that it's just kind of each week talking about
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  how the mics went that week. And then a lot of whining about
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  about bombing on stage, nowhere else to go on stage, just just
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  on stage doing comedy. It's a figure of speech.
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  If that doesn't work out, at least you guys have the podcast,
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  true. Yeah it's definitely one.
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  I like listening to it because sometimes you but you guys, I'm
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  either going. Oh my gosh or I'm just kind of,
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  you know, just that head shake. I roll really the lack of music
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  or movie knowledge from Sean but so if we decided we want to talk
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  about movies, You've actually have watched.
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  I've watched, I've watched plenty of movies.
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  I just apparently none of the classics.
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  I've just have a lot of gaps because I've definitely seen
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  movies. I used to what, you know, I've
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  seen a lot of like and kind of a wide variety.
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  I don't know. Like a lot of like a lot of
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  chick flicks. A lot of like classic horror
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  movies, a lot of like some action movies.
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  Although I'm starting to look like, I'm trying to grow my hair
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  out, and I'm starting to look like Keanu, Reeves and people
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  keep calling me John Wick and I should probably see those so, I
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  know. But yeah, I mean makes you seem
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  but I haven't seen any yet. So I hear they're great, but I
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  have seen The Matrix but it's been so long.
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  I don't remember it about Bill and Ted.
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  Oh yeah, yeah, I have seen now. Yeah, I have seen that but I
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  again I can't remember it, but I think I've seen that.
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  I think I was like ten when I saw that, if I'm wrong if I'm
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  remembering correctly. But yeah, I have to revisit, I
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  have a lot to revisit in your math skills are superb.
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  I just want to say it's a try. Yeah.
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  I was couple weeks ago when you guys were talking about with the
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  with dates and you're right. That was like a thousand years
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  ago I was standing outside and I started banging the back of my
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  head on a brick wall so funny. Let's go to these like me funny
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  unintentionally funny those when you're unintentional.
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  Everybody laughs at the person that slips and Falls.
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  Yeah, it's true. Yeah, I kind of did that this
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  past winter. When the boyfriend took was
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  walking out, the truck going morning and took up steps off
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  the porch feet came out from underneath him and down he went
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  and I'm like, who are you? Okay he you're still concerns
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  but it's hilarious. That's exactly like one of those
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  slow-motion. Comics, right?
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  Yeah, I have seen. Those are you any of you guys
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  like into stand-up at all? Like what Comics do you like to
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  do? Are you into that all?
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  I am. I'm not very Versed and don't
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  watch it as often as I. Wait or listen to it as often as
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  I would like to mmm. I know, John Mulaney dropped his
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  special. Yeah, I got to check that out.
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  Everyone's talking about that way this weekend.
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  If it's his new material last year for the kids birthday, I
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  took them in. Who are their friends to see
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  him? It is all new material, nice.
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  Right right? Yeah, can't wait to see that.
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  I'm a big fan of John mulaney's, so that is definitely on our
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  agenda for this weekend to watch, you know?
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  Like I said, I don't have the time or the energy to watch at
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  the stuff. I have in the DVR like let alone
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  look up anything else, right? Yeah, and for Sirius XM.
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  Right now, I had in my twelve, we're down to one car at the
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  moment because they all book, ARS keep just the starting, the
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  engines want to quit. And so, yeah, I heard you
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  reference that in an episode, that's always fun.
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  Yeah, I'm so I think it's a loose nut behind the steering
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  wheel. So it's some point sooner than
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  later. I definitely need to get, you
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  know, if we replace the I am, the one vehicle that's been
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  sitting in the shop for a few months now and then eventually
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  replace the one that we have. It's working.
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  We got just shy at 250,000 miles on it.
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  Nice. Breaking it in.
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  Yeah, well depends on the car I grew up with you know the
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  old-timers of watching Richard Pryor and Yeah.
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  Carlin probably, they kind of, they kind of get that the other
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  things, they kind of go hand in hand.
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  Yeah, that's the old ones, but again, I'm older than yeah, I'm
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  a huge fan of or was a huge fan of Buddy, Hackett.
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  Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Really getting back there. That's an obscure old yellers.
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  Guys are loves to talk about the member, you know, more more more
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  recent ones I do like Bert Kreischer.
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  And oh God, what's that one? I've been seeing going around
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  Facebook clips of Matt something or another fucking alerts.
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  He does crowd work. That's pretty much.
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  All I know is I was it, is it Matt Rife?
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  Yes yes, yes, a younger, he's younger looking kid.
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  I don't know how old he is but he looks young.
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  He's like a baby face kind of looks like a model or something
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  was like you're not a comic you looks like a feeling like
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  underwear ad he's only I keep my son will be. 24 this year.
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  Yeah, he's a baby. Yeah, girlfriend son will be 24.
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  I was more into the British comedies when I was younger.
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  I already like keeping up appearances and what was that
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  one? Are you being served?
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  All right, and then mr. Bean.
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  Oh, mr. Bean was definitely, no, mr.
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  Bean Rowan Atkinson. Even a stage performances,
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  especially like when he's the school, Teacher or the principal
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  and the names reading the names out of the book or the invisible
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  drum set. I was just about to ask if you
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  had the if you had seen the invisible drum kit.
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  Yeah, that was amazing. That was amazing.
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  And the fact that he's moving with the sound of it just
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  perfect timing on it, right? And I also like Carlin didn't
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  through it'll honest, but it's funny.
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  Hmm. And then I also modern more
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  modern. I like Hostetter.
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  Oh yeah, yeah. He's good to have seen a lot of
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  in his old-line. His ability to handle hecklers
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  on the spot like that. Be able to pop that stuff right
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  out of his head, right. And he's almost like built.
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  He's almost built his thing on on that, too.
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  When he, I bet he can't go to a show without getting heckled now
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  because like it's almost like inviting it at that point.
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  Well, that and I'm sure the people want to see if they can
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  actually Heckle him to where he gets frustrated.
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  Strated to right right? Right.
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  That's more of a challenge too because if you can actually get
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  him frustrated, you one? Yeah.
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  Right. Yeah.
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  You'll lose the room if you if you can't hide.
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  If you get if you get visibly upset at a cat, an audience
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  member have you guys had to deal with hecklers?
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  Not really. There was one and you might
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  catch it in an episode coming up.
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  I think the episode title is yo, shut the fuck up.
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  Oh, yeah, because there was there's one night at an open mic
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  where this guy was just commenting and answering every
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  kind of a lot of comics will kind of open a premise of like a
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  rhetorical question. They might may or may not even
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  want an answer but he was answering as if like he was in a
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  conversation with them and then kind of just like talking over
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  people and making a lot of weird comments and different comic
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  Handled it in a different way and then we finally had one.
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  Go up this guy, Charles baynard, yeah, who's hilarious.
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  And the guy is just starts talking.
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  He just looks over and he goes, yo, shut the fuck up.
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  I'm like, after everyone was kind of like, like kind of
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  either ignored it or kind of skirted around it, or just like
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  made, like a smartass comment back to the guy or that kind of
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  thing. This guy just kind of shut it
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  down and is his pretty funny us. Personally, I, we haven't really
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  been heckled like Personally, as we've mostly just been open
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  mics, I'm sure will experience it more when we get into rooms
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  with, you know, just people there to see comedy, not other
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  Comics. Yeah, they judge a silently.
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  They don't, they don't, they don't typically openly ha ha
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  less idiot. He either gets you right.
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  Right, right. Well thank God the stage.
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  Lies. Don't let you see their eyes.
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  Oh, trust me. Even with the stage lights,
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  those judgy eyes will just come right through.
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  That's what I do. Feel a little one.
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  Yeah, I tell you actually I remember that dude.
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  He was it was weird because he wasn't even like he wasn't
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  heckling necessarily but he was just very not self-aware and
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  just was talking kind of like thinking out loud.
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  There's just like gee it was very distracting.
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  But I kind of a at the at the time, it got her appreciated it
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  because it's all right. Well, I need to get used to this
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  anyway so I might as well have somebody not yelling at me and
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  just yelling for no reason. That's the thing.
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  I actually was able to deal with him a little bit.
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  I had a bit that I was trying out about when I don't know if
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  you guys, do you guys have I know you guys are kind of spread
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  out across the country. Do you guys have like a Cracker
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  Barrel? Yeah, I know I'm from.
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  Yeah, that's the restaurant. I didn't know, I didn't know how
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  Regional that was but it had a I was kind of working on a bit
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  about people kind of losing their mind when they introduced
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  like a plant-based sausage, like they didn't get Rid of anything
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  on the menu, They just added like a plant-based sausage and
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  people are losing their minds saying.
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  It was woke sausage. And how dare they I'm going to
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  boycott like they didn't take away the real such as they just
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  added plant-based. So the the bit was well, okay,
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  now the meat eaters are more annoying than the vegans but and
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  then and then of course, this guy goes I'm vegan, I'm vegan
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  sounds like I guess you proved me wrong.
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  Oh, gosh, it's been almost 20 years ago.
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  I got to meet Brad Sherwood. That was pretty cool.
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  I already. Okay, he would do the on the
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  Whose Line Is It. Anyway, was that is that?
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  Am I thinking of the right guy? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah. He was a playing and Michigan
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  and in Lansing and I went with a friend of mine who manages the
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  hotel he was staying at actually and she's like I got tickets.
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  You want to go with me? I'm like sure.
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  So after the show we were sitting back in her office,
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  drinking a beer and hika walks by and knock knock.
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  Knock and comes in and hangs out with us for a few and throws
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  back a couple. It was pretty cool.
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  Nice nice. That's sweet and in common it's
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  really good. Okay, for sure he's no longer
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  with us but I did get an opportunity to meet Gallagher
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  one time as well and Trevor City, that's really easy.
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  Yeah, agent I've Actually, I've got a picture with him with me
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  and my ex and Gallagher. Yeah, that's awesome.
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  That was, it was him not Gallagher to know.
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  It was him. Yes, it was nice, was not a
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  sports awesome. That's awesome.
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  Yeah, that was, that was a fun night, too.
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  Now, I don't know if any of you are old enough to remember the
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  show, and I think it was Regional to the Philadelphia
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  area. It was called the Great Space
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  Coaster. No, I don't think so.
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  No, okay, Okay. Well you said you've won, you
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  probably weren't old enough and it might not have been.
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  It might have been just a regional show.
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  The premise of the show was the one and I'm using finger quotes
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  here. Main character was a very large
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  man sized puppet with red hair. Okay, A friend of mine, from
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  high school, resembled this character a lot.
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  Poor guy. He got into an argument him and
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  one of the other girls who I was friends with got in an argument
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  one day at lunch and she just turned around and said, well you
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  look like Baxter, which is the name of the character which
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  stuck. I believe we actually got into
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  the actually got into stand-up comedy in the Philadelphia
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  region, from transmission that lady, I guess.
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  So but he actually started, there's a restaurant in the
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  Philadelphia area code tour genes that used to do like once
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  a month a showcase. So he was emceeing and one of
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  his jokes like I said he's a he was like 350 pounds 63 with
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  flaming red hair boy. So one of his jokes was I used
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  to be bulimic but now I'm halfway through recovery.
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  Jerk nice. So, just by chance being my wife
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  happened to go and he was the emcee for the night.
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  Oh, that's so. After the Showcase was over, we
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  sat down with him to have, you know, to have a couple drinks
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  and for the life of me, I cannot remember who the headliner was,
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  but it was someone. It was one of the more popular
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  Comics at the time who had done a lot of appearances on Stern
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  Show. With who, you know.
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  So the you know me and my wife and my buddy and this this
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  gentleman like I said I my wife can't remember what his name was
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  either from the wife of us, you know, can't remember who it is.
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  We're sitting there having drinks just shooting the shit.
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  He's telling us about how you know, how it's like you know
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  what it was like being on the Stern Show and he's you know,
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  and house--for else. Turn is as a person and
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  everything, you know, it was cool, right?
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  And I just wish I can. If, and when I ever remember, I
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  will let you guys know who it was.
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  The biggest I ever met? Was album was Al Franken,
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  really? Really, yeah, I can see that.
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  Yeah. Well, it personally wasn't his
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  fault, but it was his Management's fault.
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  He was when he was plug in the Eric said, this would have been
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  2000 when it was for Clinton. So running for president over,
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  it was reelection or what, but he was doing the Democratic
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  circuit and staying in, I think he was a speaking at a Michigan
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  State University and he walks into the Radisson in downtown
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  Lansing him and his two assistants, it goes to check.
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  And I kind of figured it was coming in because I actually had
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  Saturday Night Live scripts that were getting faxed over to us
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  and how? Wow.
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  Yeah, I know. Right?
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  And the front says, he's crouched has to check in and
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  she's like, I'm not finding a reservation for him, and she's
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  like, look in there. Like, we don't have a
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  reservation and they're like, what?
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  And I just, I look at her because I was working the third
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  night shift and I is, if we were sold out then I said just put
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  him in, just get him, just put him on, just put him in.
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  I'll take care of it later and so she's like, okay so she's
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  like in at this point management hadn't called and given us a
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  credit card. So you know the assistants are
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  all annoyed because now they got to use one of theirs and he's
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  just standing there with this disgruntled.
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  Look on his face and I feel like I have a fax for you.
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  Mr. Frank, and I'll be right back and and then a little bit
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  later management called like, oh my God, we're so sorry, please
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  put it on this card. Yeah.
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  So that's you know, I've met Comedians in my day so far as an
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  Eclectic Bunch too high. Yeah.
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  L Franken, Brad Sherwood and Gallagher I mean all in their
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  own route. Well well I guess we're honored
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  to be added to the mean I guess I wouldn't want to be a comedic
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  relief category. Fair enough.
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  There we go. That's good enough.
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  So so what kind of postal jokes do you have that?
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  You have a bviously done on stage that you can share with
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  us. Hmm, you probably have more of
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  an, I do have a couple. I mean, I do some of my own kind
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  of leaned, a little dark, but not like not crazy.
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  That there's one. I tried the very first time on
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  stage and it didn't really do well.
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  So, I just never really did it again.
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  I might, I might revisit it. So, I was on, I took over this
• 25:36
  route for I became a regular in that I took over none of the
• 25:40
  route, that's not part of the premise of the book because no
• 25:41
  one cares about that. But to set it up is I took a
• 25:45
  route. And I get to a box and all of a
• 25:48
  sudden, some guy comes up the driveway with a cane.
• 25:50
  He's a blind guy, and he comes walking up with a cane.
• 25:53
  So, he's the blind gentleman and I say hi.
• 25:58
  And he says, are you the new regular?
• 25:59
  And I said, yeah. And he said, well, I guess I got
• 26:04
  there earlier than the previous regular because he said, well,
• 26:08
  you're fast, but are you accurate?
• 26:13
  The blind guy was asking me if your bike is questioning
• 26:17
  questioning my accuracy so I don't know.
• 26:21
  So I said we'll see what he won't let.
• 26:24
  So so it didn't really land. I mean it did just as well on
• 26:28
  sages. It just did a minute ago said, I
• 26:32
  don't mind sharing the one I've kind of opened most stuff with
• 26:36
  can I'm not going to do it forever because hopefully come
• 26:38
  up doing this forever. But um, That generally has done
• 26:43
  pretty well just. You know, I on my route I have a
• 26:47
  senior apartment building last week.
• 26:49
  I delivered four books of checks to a woman in her 90s And that
• 26:57
  so like it usually that tends to get a laugh because they kind of
• 27:00
  put the math together that you know right now but you know a
• 27:09
  little a little optimistic, getting four books of checks.
• 27:13
  You know her denture cup is half full that kind of things.
• 27:19
  I don't think people could be that blind Joe coming.
• 27:27
  I think as long as it took me about an hour to get it,
• 27:53
  my math is off by even intervals but I do know what an interval
• 27:56
  is now. I have I have a few.
• 28:00
  I've tried that don't land much. I do have one.
• 28:05
  Well, I've won the like I've packages packages, rip open all
• 28:08
  the time, and I always love when it's like a Victoria Secret bag.
• 28:12
  So I get to deliver that to somebody and get a weird-ass
• 28:14
  look, like, I've been rummaging through there, but they're like,
• 28:19
  like their delegates, which is like, it doesn't get too much,
• 28:24
  but it's difficult to write a to write stuff about, like, postal
• 28:28
  stuff because it's so specific, right?
• 28:32
  Other people who understand Example, her in it would get up
• 28:36
  a people at an open mic. There's only only two of us.
• 28:40
  Well actually there is a third who was, it was a hearing aid.
• 28:42
  He's not working there anymore, you couldn't make it, he's a
• 28:46
  better comedian than he is supposed to work that I do.
• 28:50
  I have one that that works. Sometimes it's a like during the
• 28:53
  pandemic they considered, like they considered postal workers,
• 28:57
  essential workers. They're calling us like he arose
• 29:00
  and stuff. And it's like, all right relax I
• 29:03
  brought you granola bars like this isn't just another heroic
• 29:08
  going on case is Rocky later. Wake package.
• 29:31
  Add pain or personal gratification.
• 29:37
  I do first hit, I tried to convince my manager to let me
• 29:48
  work from home. He wasn't buying it.
• 29:51
  Yeah. They don't have the good drones
• 29:53
  for that yet. I may have long arms but I can't
• 29:58
  reach the boxes from my house. If we were allowed to throw him
• 30:03
  we could but that would be great.
• 30:05
  So just witchcraft some become a clerk and be order to be
• 30:08
  authorized with Rome. Exactly.
• 30:12
  You always loved that when people's package, I loved the we
• 30:15
  have to be the face of the operation who delivers all
• 30:18
  fucked up packages. It's like listen, I didn't throw
• 30:22
  it but it was thrown plenty of times before I got it.
• 30:26
  Don't get me started. Scram a longer distance.
• 30:32
  I think they were going for who could make the longest shot.
• 30:37
  Exactly. Yeah, I did.
• 30:40
  There was another one I've tried and it works.
• 30:42
  It works. Sometimes it's a like I usually
• 30:45
  put butted up against like that granola bar.
• 30:47
  One like, well, listen, I'm not. There's nothing heroic about me
• 30:50
  last time. It snowed I started sliding into
• 30:53
  a mailbox and I put my arm out to stop it.
• 31:00
  I guess not. Like that's stupid.
• 31:02
  I thought I was going to stop a 2,000 pound vehicle with my arm
• 31:05
  against a mailbox. That one Air Bud troweling.
• 31:10
  Yeah, but the break my arm jumped in with us tonight.
• 31:20
  How you all doing tonight on Damian?
• 31:23
  This is Ben, he's one of our not so vocal accomplices.
• 31:31
  Didn't recognize The Voice once in a great while.
• 31:35
  Yeah, yeah, me even your podcast as RCA's,
• 31:52
  we accept RCA's arcs, ETFs regular carriers, even accept,
• 31:58
  what he's paying. None dues-paying members.
• 32:03
  Well I've heard Bills take on that so yeah he had some family
• 32:10
  stuff going on tonight otherwise he probably would have been a
• 32:12
  great addition to this group, okay.
• 32:17
  Hey you're right he reminds me of Al Franken that's funny.
• 32:19
  You're talking about that. I wanted to ask him if I wanted
• 32:27
  to ask him if putting if you If if you crack a postal inspectors
• 32:31
  head open, do you put that on the 4240 or green card or are we
• 32:39
  filling out of 1767? I'm glad I don't know what form
• 32:47
  that is safety form form. You fill that out for a safety
• 32:54
  hazard. Do Kraken.
• 32:56
  Kraken, postal inspectors heads open is a safety forum for the
• 32:59
  pulse. This pressure.
• 33:02
  He probably the onions. They should have hired him on
• 33:07
  the spot. Yeah, he keeps the mail safe.
• 33:16
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 33:17
  So it's called an overachiever I remember in high school, we
• 33:23
  called them try-hards in phys. Ed A few of those I called them
• 33:36
  once it went to class. Yeah well yeah well yeah I
• 33:44
  didn't know what that's where my math skills came from.
• 33:51
  We noticed you're gonna buy it.
• 34:15
  Yeah, yeah. Well with renting, you don't
• 34:19
  have to pay for Anything that goes wrong, you're buying a
• 34:22
  house, you have to fix everything that's wrong with it.
• 34:24
  So you got to set aside more than what you're putting into
• 34:26
  your mortgage for repairs. That's true.
• 34:28
  I also question. They also can't be, they can't
• 34:31
  be charging much for water up there and Michigan.
• 34:35
  No, I'm on a well so I don't get charged for water.
• 34:39
  He's got the good stuff. I'm nowhere near Flint, we're
• 34:41
  good. He's got off of Detroit's water
• 34:49
  that they had. The problem figure that one out,
• 34:54
  right? They decided to go from
• 34:57
  Detroit's water, which somehow apparently was good water and
• 35:00
  switched over a Flint River water.
• 35:02
  If you've ever been on the Flint River, you'd look down at it and
• 35:05
  go. Yeah, I ain't drinking that even
• 35:09
  though we're in central Pennsylvania.
• 35:13
  So we have the Susquehanna. So we got a little bit of that.
• 35:18
  We just have a nuclear power plant.
• 35:20
  The road drink the water. Yeah, yeah, go on Netflix.
• 35:26
  It's called Three Mile Island and we're drinking that shit
• 35:31
  will now. We will know the effects of that
• 35:33
  for about 15 years yet better than automatic on the river in
• 35:42
  the Delaware on the other. So you get the best of both.
• 35:47
  Oh yeah. But not only did you get the
• 35:49
  chemicals, y'all? They had the bodies floating by
• 35:51
  yeah, from New Jersey. Yeah.
• 35:57
  People keep saying, you know, down here with a, a steak
• 36:01
  sandwich. You can't get it on my own.
• 36:03
  First of all, you can't get the holes, right?
• 36:05
  Because you ain't got the Schuylkill Schuylkill River
• 36:08
  water running through those rusted, copper pipes.
• 36:11
  Yeah, it'll never be as good. Remember writing that water.
• 36:20
  In a Philly cheese steak without rust.
• 36:23
  Yeah. Hey, that's your iron content
• 36:27
  for the day. Oh yes, I am deficient so that
• 36:31
  works better than that. Might not find you up like iron
• 36:40
  supplements do know. But of yeah the stake in the
• 36:46
  role will and And a quarter pound of cheese on it.
• 36:53
  So, question, what's the biggest audience you've done a stand-up
• 36:56
  comedy for roughly? Well, I guess that would have
• 36:58
  been the. We did have a little while ago
• 37:00
  we had I guess it's been over like I don't like maybe two
• 37:04
  months ago because there's March 10th.
• 37:06
  Okay. Yeah, they did a showcase a
• 37:08
  beginner's luck showcase, they did for us kind of like kind of
• 37:12
  got together like basically almost a Moksha and not a
• 37:15
  Moksha, I shouldn't say that but I show a small show just to like
• 37:18
  kind of get a lot of the People there's a few new newcomers to
• 37:22
  the same that like are the regular Mike that we go to on
• 37:25
  Monday nights and they they kind of got together a show.
• 37:28
  Just to kind of give us a little taste of like a real comedy
• 37:32
  show. Feels like and I mean, I don't
• 37:34
  know how many, I don't know exactly what the turnout was,
• 37:37
  because it was still a sparring for the best at this, at the
• 37:39
  time. But yeah, but I don't think they
• 37:41
  even knew because if they didn't take tickets or anything, so it
• 37:43
  was still, they didn't have a count, but it was it.
• 37:46
  I mean, I'm trying to think the room was fool.
• 37:49
  Yeah, it's pretty. A full house.
• 37:50
  I mean I mean it might have been having 50 people.
• 37:53
  At least I was going to say at least 50 years.
• 37:55
  Okay. Glad we're on the same page.
• 37:56
  They must have probably right. I'm glad your math matches up
• 37:59
  with mine is Gonna Save that. They forgot to tell you showing
• 38:04
  that you were supposed to count. Yeah.
• 38:06
  You're not real. Not realizing your Superior
• 38:09
  counting's. I don't know.
• 38:12
  It's like a, it's like 200. Like 1,000 people.
• 38:17
  This is like a football stadium, right?
• 38:23
  It can't be as until it can't be no.
• 38:27
  Where's intimidating? Is standing up at National
• 38:30
  Convention at the podium because you're running know, I can make
• 38:34
  a thousand people with the light shining in your face.
• 38:40
  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Depends depends on the room
• 38:44
  because it was. I mean cuz it was me it was like
• 38:47
  a bunch of people there to actually Enjoy a comedy show as
• 38:51
  opposed to just Comics, like, trying out their own material
• 38:55
  and not necessarily, you know, like not criticizing you but
• 38:58
  like not analyzing everything because they're also comedians.
• 39:01
  So they're, you know, they're trying, they're thinking about
• 39:03
  their own said, and if they are listening to you, they're like
• 39:06
  probably tearing it down like, oh, how do you write this joke?
• 39:09
  Yeah. That was lazy.
• 39:10
  Like, or even if they think even if they think it's funny, they
• 39:14
  may have, like, heard it four or five times.
• 39:16
  And in their head, they might be like, that's what he told it
• 39:18
  better this time, but it's not an automatic Evil laughter.
• 39:20
  Like we can't hear that on stage even if they approve of it,
• 39:23
  they're not. Yeah audibly laughing because
• 39:26
  they've heard it four or five times even if it does work in
• 39:28
  the yeah. Comedians often talk about like
• 39:33
  we kind of appreciate jokes a little bit differently and I've
• 39:36
  been guilty of it too. Especially once we started
• 39:39
  thinking about our own jokes like you hear a joke and you
• 39:42
  don't laugh you just think oh it's a great joke.
• 39:44
  Yeah, it's like, oh wait I should be laughing that's what
• 39:47
  they want. Like that that the the point is
• 39:49
  Is to is to get laughter. And I'm sitting here just like
• 39:53
  silent thinking. Wow, that's a really good joke.
• 39:56
  I was. But that was probably.
• 39:58
  Yeah, exactly, right. Exactly, right.
• 40:00
  But that was probably the biggest show that we've done and
• 40:04
  it was, it was funny because somebody told us, one of our
• 40:07
  friends Andrew Brooks, we had him on the podcast before he's
• 40:10
  been doing it a little bit longer than us.
• 40:12
  He's but he's a little bit ahead of the game because he's been
• 40:15
  doing improv for years prior. But when he would hate you
• 40:18
  bringing that up, I do. I love it.
• 40:20
  I'd bring it up, anytime I can because I love bringing up that
• 40:22
  he did improv, but he he said, they like I remember like during
• 40:29
  that night I remember thinking about what he told us like,
• 40:33
  maybe six months before that he's like you guys are doing,
• 40:36
  all right? And you're going to love how
• 40:38
  easy a real show is because people are actually there's a
• 40:41
  it's a real audience. People actually want to laugh so
• 40:44
  they're just they're all on board with everything you're
• 40:46
  saying. So it is funny.
• 40:47
  How much easier it is to perform in.
• 40:49
  A lot of people that like don't also do comedy, right?
• 40:53
  Right. Yeah, it's much as 50 people's.
• 40:55
  I honestly much easier than like three people.
• 40:57
  Yeah. 1000%. Because three people just feels
• 41:00
  like, all right. I guess.
• 41:01
  I'm just practicing my stage Presence at this point because
• 41:05
  they're not gonna laugh. Yeah, we're all depressed with
• 41:09
  your bad math. Windows, three people, be 50
• 41:11
  people. You're right.
• 41:14
  This is true, I'm bad at math. I'm not drunk.
• 41:19
  Don't see double vision. It is not plus, 50 is like
• 41:23
  20,000, so it's all relative listen.
• 41:27
  The statue of David was built a thousand years ago.
• 41:39
  I will have to say I was I was laughing at the talking about
• 41:44
  the bands from yesterday's episode.
• 41:48
  Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned flee.
• 41:54
  And I'm like, I've seen Red Hot Chili Peppers who doesn't know
• 41:57
  flee. But yeah, I know.
• 42:03
  Know the replacement arm for the Def Leppard's drummer that I
• 42:11
  actually had to stop it. And actually laugh afore, I
• 42:14
  could continue to us in the mail along the highway today.
• 42:19
  Awesome. Hope you have a very rural route
• 42:22
  and that's not a federal crime. You're talking a little County
• 42:27
  highway so it's not a big deal because I I envisioned it.
• 42:34
  Let's put it that way. You dirty.
• 42:40
  You said you were on 23? No, I was on f41.
• 42:43
  Wasn't a 2000, okay, I could tell you guys work together,
• 42:46
  that's always fun when you mentioned Numbers and people
• 42:48
  like what the fuck, are they talking about?
• 42:50
  We're in the same state. So, okay, we know our roads will
• 42:56
  be well, that would be the state of confusion, right?
• 42:59
  Yeah, exactly, confusion. I know that one very well, been
• 43:09
  on that road, plenty of times. I actually wanted to ask you
• 43:17
  guys Something and get your opinion on something.
• 43:20
  I went to the PA state convention a few years ago.
• 43:25
  Okay? There was a resolution that was
• 43:27
  proposed actually from our local that made it to the state and it
• 43:32
  got shot down. And so I wanted to get your
• 43:34
  guy's opinion on it. The I don't remember the exact
• 43:36
  wording, but the gist of it, was the person who proposed it,
• 43:40
  essentially wanted anybody any carrier who is going into a PDI
• 43:46
  receiving? Action should have the right to
• 43:49
  be present during the process. Does that make sense
• 43:53
  essentially? Like sometimes you'll file a
• 43:55
  grievance, and then Stewart or whatever will meet with
• 43:57
  management and kind of represent you and the general consensus
• 44:03
  and why it got shot down? A lot of them were like, well,
• 44:07
  there's a lot of idiot carriers, who don't know, when to keep
• 44:10
  their mouths shut and it's, you know, it's not in their best
• 44:13
  interest and they may say something that will jeopardize
• 44:16
  what the sewers doing. For them it and I do get that.
• 44:20
  I mean, there's are a lot of idiots, I fancy myself, one
• 44:23
  occasionally, but it also at the same time, I think at the time I
• 44:28
  was, I had recently had a situation where I had put in for
• 44:32
  something and they kinda sorta half went to bat for me and I
• 44:37
  feel like it should have been, you know, something that should
• 44:39
  have been retroactive but it wasn't and I but I don't know
• 44:45
  that I was fairly represented in that meeting.
• 44:48
  So, I get both sides of it. So I was kind of curious, your
• 44:50
  guy's opinion on that, you know, I understand that.
• 44:54
  Yes. Oftentimes, like, Harry's will
• 44:56
  sit well, like, say something that doesn't help their case in
• 44:59
  that situation. But should a carrier have a
• 45:02
  right to be present in that situation.
• 45:04
  That's a good one, because I don't know I've ever heard a
• 45:07
  resolution like that before. I mean, I definitely see where
• 45:11
  it got shot down recognized. Yeah, me too.
• 45:14
  You know, I see that as well, but In a way, it would almost be
• 45:19
  similar to, you know, what, a grievance doesn't get settled
• 45:23
  and it gets set up the chain then that local Steward is left
• 45:28
  hanging on to it until they hear something.
• 45:31
  Gotcha. Stewards, don't even get to
• 45:35
  follow it on up the chain and I mean, be kind of cool to sit in
• 45:39
  and see what's going on. I definitely agree.
• 45:41
  I mean, you know, you get told when you go in for a PD, I've
• 45:45
  had a couple pdi's. I know My old office why I was
• 45:51
  Steward. There you haven't had a PDI.
• 45:53
  You're probably not doing it right, right?
• 45:56
  Actually what you are told, usually by your Steward.
• 46:07
  It's just yes or no. Or I don't know for answers
• 46:11
  because you don't want to incriminate yourself.
• 46:14
  And you do have carriers that I could see during a step one
• 46:18
  meeting between a steward and management and they're trying to
• 46:22
  defend themselves even further when they should completely not
• 46:28
  even open their mouth. Right.
• 46:30
  Right. You see it?
• 46:32
  You see it even in investigative interviews and things like that,
• 46:37
  you know, if you have The best advice I ever got, was from a
• 46:42
  lawyer, it was no matter what you say, no matter what you do,
• 46:49
  anything you say, will be misconstrued, misinterpreted,
• 46:53
  and misapplied to be used against you.
• 46:58
  And that advice, that advice has stuck with me ever since it's
• 47:04
  the same, whether you're dealing with cops, it's the same,
• 47:08
  whether you're dealing with management.
• 47:09
  Aunt. It's the same whether you're
• 47:11
  dealing with your friends or supposed friends.
• 47:15
  I should say real friends won't do that to you.
• 47:18
  Yeah but he'll help parents. I remember being a teenager.
• 47:27
  The key to the key to it is the know this isn't Steward advice.
• 47:35
  I'm not acting any storage capacity in the situation, of
• 47:39
  course. But what should happen is that
• 47:44
  Steward should do their darndest to defend that carrier as if
• 47:49
  it's themselves in that grievance, as if that grievance,
• 47:53
  is there on their supposed to own that grievance, as if they
• 47:58
  put it forth themselves in turn around and fight for that
• 48:01
  carrier, as if it is their own grievance.
• 48:04
  And then, once they're done with that, they need to come back to
• 48:06
  that carrier and explain to them exactly.
• 48:09
  What happened, everything as much detail as you possibly can,
• 48:14
  because that carrier took the risk of filing that grievance.
• 48:19
  And I call it a risk because you can say, you can say it,
• 48:23
  however, you want but no matter what every time you do something
• 48:28
  that angers management or anger, somebody else that puts a Target
• 48:32
  on your back. Absolutely, yeah, yeah.
• 48:38
  You just have to no matter what when it's something when it's
• 48:42
  disciplinary and that's even going into an investigative
• 48:45
  interview. And again, I am not acting in.
• 48:49
  Our capacity. I'm not giving Stewart advice
• 48:53
  that the burden of proof for disciplinary action lies on
• 48:59
  management, right? Right.
• 49:01
  So if you've got that, that carrier can't keep his mouth
• 49:05
  shut and he's just a rattling away.
• 49:10
  Well, now, you're building that burden of proof of more and more
• 49:13
  with management because, yeah, great great channel on.
• 49:19
  Tube the DUI guy, great lawyer, he says it best, every test you
• 49:25
  do for them builds the case against you doing those tests is
• 49:29
  not clear. You of the problem, it just adds
• 49:32
  more to the list of things they can put against you in court.
• 49:35
  They've already chosen, they're going to arrest you.
• 49:37
  They just want more to put on top of it.
• 49:40
  Yep. Right.
• 49:42
  Yeah. So yep, that's pretty much why.
• 49:46
  The K on that one real quick. Right, right.
• 49:53
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure.
• 49:55
  I mean I yeah, I totally understand that and have to
• 49:57
  check with a baseball bat singing.
• 50:06
  Someone, Nice. Are those friends.
• 50:21
  Good friend will fight with you, your best friend will be sitting
• 50:24
  next to you in jail. Saying let's do that again.
• 50:41
  Yes, the safe is all before cuz you drank the fifth, I gotta
• 50:54
  walk the correct four blocks because if I walk three blocks
• 50:58
  the other way I end up in Lake Huron so you know, you don't
• 51:05
  want to walk anywhere. Okay.
• 51:16
  I was just, I'm far enough away that I can walk.
• 51:18
  I can walk at night without a flashlight.
• 51:20
  So I was just right downtown. For a Tattoo Expo.
• 51:34
  Oh nice. That sounds fun.
• 51:36
  It was, it's always fun. It's an annual event for me.
• 51:41
  I'm actually taking my daughter in July down to Ohio to the ink
• 51:46
  car serration festival at the Mansfield penet.
• 51:49
  Oh cool. Yeah.
• 51:51
  How'd she is that sounds cool. Three days of heavy metal and
• 51:55
  Tattoos. I've already got my session
• 51:57
  booked but hell yeah, it's did. You get a perm?
• 52:02
  Proved for that leave. I did I did because it was
• 52:07
  prepaid and I put it in outside of the 60 days with my receipt
• 52:12
  and said, yeah, I'm going by yeah.
• 52:32
  And nobody likes to talk about because their podcast get banned
• 52:43
  for it. We never had a real going served
• 52:47
  in my office. I wish I could say that.
• 52:52
  Do you five routes or that's? Not too bad.
• 52:58
  That's pretty big. Never seen that before.
• 53:06
  How many Rush do you guys have in your office?
• 53:09
  Hell, I don't know. Over 50 is it that many?
• 53:14
  Yes. 30 and West and like around 20 and then plus aux routes that
• 53:18
  they just did insist on making. Yes, somewhere between 50 and 60
• 53:22
  nice and split between two buildings like East and West, so
• 53:27
  a nice little office. Okay.
• 53:31
  Cody. Yeah, that's just roar alive.
• 53:33
  I don't know if City. There's might be like, 100 about
• 53:36
  the same and it was just same. I don't.
• 53:38
  It seems like a lot more. Yeah.
• 53:39
  There might be more, I don't know.
• 53:41
  Yeah. Don't ask us about a guy you're
• 53:46
  supposed to know. They can't math, right?
• 53:53
  Yeah, I can read, I can read addresses.
• 53:55
  That's all. That's all I know.
• 53:56
  I can count the number of times. I've had my accident, Actual
• 53:59
  like just scheduled K day because that's 0, are you a
• 54:07
  regular or formula? I don't have Saturday off cozy
• 54:22
  office, don't you? Oh, yeah.
• 54:24
  It's little teeny tiny thing in my station.
• 54:29
  Or 18 wool 4730 in my office of the holders. 230, 230, and 260
• 54:41
  World walks with between 9 of 15 stations.
• 54:48
  Wow then station three different separate like locations.
• 54:52
  Yes different delivery units that all fall under one
• 54:56
  postmaster. Wow, that's early Master must
• 55:00
  make a billion dollars a year. My postmasters office is on the
• 55:09
  second floor of the plant. Wow, that's crazy.
• 55:13
  Some carriers probably never know.
• 55:16
  No, they don't. My station is the closest to the
• 55:21
  plant. He was there this week because
• 55:23
  we had a bunch of big with, you know, there was a dog and pony
• 55:26
  show going on big boss in the building.
• 55:29
  I think, wife, I think the vice president of retail Center other
• 55:34
  within was in town with her cronies.
• 55:37
  So he, you know, he came through with them or that the last time
• 55:44
  he was in the office was months ago.
• 55:48
  A buddy of mine at a different station.
• 55:50
  In the last time, I talked to him, he couldn't even tell it.
• 55:53
  You know, I don't think the postmasters I was a ever been to
• 55:56
  that location. Wow, that's crazy.
• 55:58
  At least the current postmaster. Yeah, I don't know food matter
• 56:03
  because we had a postmaster retire reasonably.
• 56:07
  So I don't mind talking shit because he he retired, but he
• 56:10
  out of our 50 plus routes just just to building.
• 56:13
  So nowhere, even near the scope of what your postmaster has to
• 56:16
  manage. He Goes up to this carrier and
• 56:19
  is like, oh, are you the new RCA?
• 56:21
  She's like, I've been here 14 years.
• 56:28
  So yeah, he's retired. So luckily we don't have to deal
• 56:34
  with that. Yeah.
• 56:36
  A fucking function, big offices, like that.
• 56:39
  That's that's so crazy. How many myself in your got four
• 56:46
  routes plus an ox So we're really, really small.
• 56:49
  Yeah but-but-but. Burp, like, 120 miles for the
• 56:54
  routes plus. So what works for World?
• 56:58
  Okay, nice. Now, use your own hospice or do
• 57:00
  you have an APO or where we have an Olympian where the main, huh?
• 57:05
  Well, what are the main office? And we got two other hubs, I
• 57:08
  guess you could say through our mpos under your Apple Orange
• 57:11
  Peel. Yep.
• 57:12
  So your postmaster covers all three locations.
• 57:15
  Well, oh, I see does now postmaster.
• 57:17
  ER, he's been out since December 16th.
• 57:20
  So, yeah. Okay.
• 57:22
  But wow, that's a roll. Yeah, we gotta are always named
• 57:26
  the best she can. Yeah, dude doing pretty good job
• 57:29
  or what she is? Doing a pretty good job.
• 57:32
  Yeah, we've only got six rural routes and or not and you guys
• 57:36
  are your Standalone office. We have to rmp offices, but the
• 57:41
  three routes for those offices are under our roof.
• 57:44
  So, in this, it's in the same building.
• 57:47
  Yeah. So three different zip codes,
• 57:49
  yes? Okay, all right, James, are you,
• 57:53
  are you, do you have arm pios or is you all in one office and
• 57:57
  alone, one office p.m. and have supervisor?
• 58:00
  And I'm supposed to have, we're supposed to have five clerks but
• 58:03
  we're down to two poses. They hired a new one.
• 58:06
  Hopefully here soon I'll show us but one of our, one of our Cas
• 58:10
  has been doing the clerk work in the morning to get ours.
• 58:14
  We just we have a good compliment a sub.
• 58:16
  So he's doing the clerk. Work to get more hours.
• 58:18
  The clerk's that are there now will only do 40 hours, they
• 58:21
  don't want any OT. So they aren't gonna file a
• 58:23
  grievance against them cattle. And so what they just finally,
• 58:26
  they moved Amazon out of our off.
• 58:29
  We were actually The Hub office for three offices in the area
• 58:32
  and they pulled the Amazon out because we didn't have the court
• 58:36
  moved it to other offices. So now we're back to Six-Day
• 58:38
  delivery. Out of our office.
• 58:40
  How nice which sucks for me? Because I have a 28 mile route
• 58:44
  and I have to feel my truck twice a week and most It skips
• 58:48
  the sub. So I feel my truck twice a week.
• 58:50
  Now, instead of getting it filled on Sunday for Amazon, you
• 58:58
  poor thing, sometimes it ends up that I have to fill it up when I
• 59:03
  leave to go. Start my day on Monday.
• 59:09
  You got to fill it up on Saturday.
• 59:12
  Yeah. Bring it back.
• 59:24
  And what's that? What's that?
• 59:28
  What's that mean? And it seems that typically And
• 59:48
  they, you know, if I don't Thursday which is the day I've
• 59:51
  been taking, it needs ends up all without fail, but on
• 59:56
  Thursday, it needs gears. And if I put take one of the
• 59:59
  tags and fold it in half and right need scares and slip it on
• 1:00:03
  my key ring. When I put it on the hook, they
• 1:00:06
  don't use my truck. We had a thing in our office
• 1:00:16
  where they had to have a meeting.
• 1:00:17
  Thing that people had to hang up their keys and not hide them
• 1:00:20
  because people were hiding their keys on Saturday.
• 1:00:21
  Evenings from whenever manage whatever management, you know
• 1:00:29
  pisses me off. I just fill up with premium, you
• 1:00:33
  guys had that talk to. Well, yeah, you got caught doing
• 1:00:38
  that. They had to talk to you about.
• 1:00:40
  It wasn't? It was an accident.
• 1:00:42
  That's just where I got the bit from.
• 1:00:43
  Yeah, is there. I've done that is this Yeah,
• 1:00:48
  it's all right. Is there something going on with
• 1:00:50
  mattresses because they just pulled three from our office
• 1:00:53
  there? John.
• 1:00:53
  Yeah, well, I knew that. But is there like a mass recall
• 1:00:57
  in them or something? Nothing because they gave us
• 1:01:01
  all. Hello Vis.
• 1:01:02
  Instead, they're given a room. Has the rumor is they're blowing
• 1:01:07
  engines, why not? That's crazy.
• 1:01:09
  Number one, they're supposed to be ran on premium gas and then,
• 1:01:13
  and they told everybody to put regular in them.
• 1:01:16
  Yep. You can't do that.
• 1:01:21
  These mattresses are turbocharged engines.
• 1:01:24
  Yep. You put regular gas and then
• 1:01:27
  it's going to put more fuel into the cylinder and it's actually
• 1:01:30
  causing an over pressure in the cylinder.
• 1:01:32
  Blowing out the head gaskets most likely to cause, but always
• 1:01:35
  being chirping cost-conscious, I mean, a couple bucks in gas is
• 1:01:39
  surely more cost-effective than just buying new engines and it's
• 1:01:43
  being the cusp. What if we put Rock fuel in it,
• 1:01:46
  what would that do to it? That's will be better for it
• 1:01:49
  because the ethanol in regular gas actually has a higher
• 1:01:55
  pressure rate than unleaded fuel.
• 1:01:59
  Yeah, a lot of stations around here with Rec fuel.
• 1:02:02
  That's I was like, hmm. What can we do?
• 1:02:08
  It's all good. Yeah, I took yeah, actually we
• 1:02:11
  had a that's like the one of the fan mails we got from somebody
• 1:02:14
  in the room that I II. I took I was I was running
• 1:02:20
  Express and packages one day bird just for over 240 T and I
• 1:02:25
  just happened to take one of the metrics has unknowingly.
• 1:02:29
  I'm not certified with one of the mattresses and I guess I
• 1:02:34
  didn't ask management first. So I ended up driving a metres
• 1:02:37
  for for a few packages and I guess I wasn't supposed to do
• 1:02:42
  that. You put your collar up and you
• 1:02:50
  said, I'm driving a Mercedes. I didn't put my collar up but I
• 1:02:54
  definitely sped a little bit. I don't know why they made them
• 1:02:57
  so fast, but the and I drive a Mustang, one of the not working
• 1:03:03
  and I'm like, damn, this ain't too bad.
• 1:03:05
  Honestly, they were built with Rex specifications, 47 miles an
• 1:03:13
  hour ago, 47 miles an hour between boxes.
• 1:03:17
  That's what they're for. Or a point, nine point two
• 1:03:21
  minutes per mile. 47 miles an hour.
• 1:03:29
  Is it smooth? Because my truck shakes a little
• 1:03:31
  bit around like 90 95. Yeah, right.
• 1:03:33
  I know you didn't come 99 llv myself or said 65.
• 1:03:38
  I don't think that was said I was doing 85, but when I checked
• 1:03:48
  on the GPS, I was doing 20 As I drove in one where as soon as
• 1:04:02
  you get up over 35 miles an hour, then needle starts
• 1:04:06
  bouncing between 30 and 60 and it just started bouncing down.
• 1:04:16
  As you say, if I'm going 35, it says 2245 back and forth and
• 1:04:21
  back and forth. So, I had my first, my first K
• 1:04:27
  day off Over this last Thursday, and I go in the office and I'm
• 1:04:33
  like, what are the plans for my, you know, for this next week,
• 1:04:37
  Thursday. They're like, when do the same
• 1:04:39
  thing. We did the previous Thursday,
• 1:04:42
  we're going to bring in two subs, to do your route, because
• 1:04:44
  not one of them can fit. I don't know what it is, but one
• 1:04:48
  of them can't can't do it and they always miss a truck.
• 1:04:51
  Sadly. Oh, geez.
• 1:04:53
  Yeah, but been killed, kiss it because he was only an RCA for
• 1:04:57
  what just over a year. Oh, geez.
• 1:05:00
  I don't want to hear any complaints from you there.
• 1:05:04
  I can say that on this episode. Well, you know, I just get so
• 1:05:09
  pissed off because they only let me train with them for one
• 1:05:12
  fucking day like, like, obviously, what was the end
• 1:05:16
  result you're going to say? He's never going to make truck.
• 1:05:19
  You only does it once a week train.
• 1:05:21
  What I mean that usually is. That's exactly what.
• 1:05:29
  Straining. I got for my third fourth, fifth
• 1:05:32
  sixth 12/20 left that I learned. Wait wait yeah no but son and
• 1:05:52
  Damian how long have you guys been with the post office need
• 1:05:56
  since 2015? Yeah I was around the same time.
• 1:06:01
  Yeah, a little bit after babies there for longer, what's it?
• 1:06:05
  I'd say that's when I went regular.
• 1:06:07
  Oh well yeah yes, yeah I was RCA for a year PTF for a year and
• 1:06:11
  then became regular some only two years being a subset.
• 1:06:15
  Sorry. Sorry just started everyone
• 1:06:17
  else. Well I was born tracked for
• 1:06:21
  years to go regular and then FSS.
• 1:06:26
  Hey and that put a big boy Put two machines in the Greensboro
• 1:06:30
  district. And with the 50-mile rule for
• 1:06:33
  holding routes in case of xi's regulars.
• 1:06:39
  One street on one route in the city of Charlotte fell into that
• 1:06:44
  50-mile radius, just one street, which one street on one route
• 1:06:50
  and our northernmost station on the northernmost.
• 1:06:54
  Route fell into that 50 mile circle so they froze they froze
• 1:06:58
  completely. Version for two years.
• 1:07:01
  I wish I could hold the prized towards the end of those two
• 1:07:05
  years. They realized they don't need to
• 1:07:08
  machines up there. So they held a bigger, shut one
• 1:07:13
  down, disassembled it shipped it down to Charlotte reassembled it
• 1:07:17
  and extended the freeze for another two years.
• 1:07:21
  So you had the two years initially the one year for the
• 1:07:24
  transport and then the two years for when we first got it in
• 1:07:28
  case, We lost any route and they leave.
• 1:07:34
  So that was five years. That there was a freeze on
• 1:07:38
  converting RCA's to regulars, that's wild.
• 1:07:44
  Meanwhile, I started in December of 14 and I'm still an RCA but
• 1:07:51
  you're still an RCA, eight years, four months.
• 1:07:59
  In days so far. Counting for Preston.
• 1:08:02
  Let's be fair though. How long have you been at your
• 1:08:04
  office? I did transfer.
• 1:08:06
  Is she? You did transfer which started
• 1:08:09
  the time over? So, yeah.
• 1:08:11
  Yeah, I was second in line in my old office when I transferred,
• 1:08:15
  hey, it'll be 5 years, September when I transferred I have you
• 1:08:19
  ever thought about moving to central Pennsylvania, three
• 1:08:24
  people that were below me in my old office of Aragon regular.
• 1:08:29
  He here they're going regular less than a year almost.
• 1:08:31
  I think a couple of them swing going quick.
• 1:08:34
  I will be going regular by the end of September.
• 1:08:37
  Finally, ha sighs. Congratulations finally in 2017
• 1:08:46
  and I went, I started in April of 2017.
• 1:08:51
  I went regular November or 2020? Oh wow, that's not a bad run.
• 1:08:56
  No, I when I when I got My office.
• 1:08:59
  I was a thin line and set 2017 through people quitting leaving.
• 1:09:05
  I watched one RCA decide to leave an entire car to packages
• 1:09:09
  in the office. Before she quit.
• 1:09:12
  She could have kept their job during during Christmas.
• 1:09:15
  I know she did a few did Christmas.
• 1:09:20
  We had one who said, she had to go out to her car and grabbed
• 1:09:23
  her purse and she never came back.
• 1:09:28
  Both of those and we here and RCA chased.
• 1:09:32
  Hope downloaded up, went out on the street decided, this is not
• 1:09:36
  the job for him called his buddy.
• 1:09:39
  Lock the keys in the truck, and just left it on the street.
• 1:09:43
  Oh nice. Yeah, we are seeing at least
• 1:09:54
  that quit that I was talking about with number one sub.
• 1:09:58
  Number one, sub, two months after she quit, the guy below
• 1:10:02
  her, who had been there? 17 years to hurry teen went
• 1:10:05
  regular She could have been regular.
• 1:10:09
  We just stuck it out, but yeah, she decided to quit instead and
• 1:10:14
  17 years for him. The guy below him was 15 years.
• 1:10:17
  The guy below him was five and then me at three and a half G's
• 1:10:22
  all in all six months. Wow, yes.
• 1:10:27
  She really should have stuck that out.
• 1:10:29
  Yeah, we had a girl dead. Uh, she, she was a sub with me.
• 1:10:34
  Guess you're ahead of me. So you were a sub, like, I don't
• 1:10:36
  know, maybe a year, maybe less before.
• 1:10:38
  Or me, right? And she was like right after me
• 1:10:41
  and she went regular and her first day as a regular, she no
• 1:10:45
  call. No showed.
• 1:10:46
  And we never saw her again. Yeah, she just said, she cries
• 1:10:52
  like a gangster. Yeah.
• 1:10:54
  So it was so gangster. She was just like, no, I'm out.
• 1:11:00
  Well, they called like, they could wheat.
• 1:11:02
  They called a missing persons report.
• 1:11:05
  Lisa actually went to her house and she was like, oh no.
• 1:11:08
  I just Yeah, they did she didn't even text anybody people were
• 1:11:11
  texting her calling her. She just ghosted.
• 1:11:13
  Everyone that's the way to do it.
• 1:11:21
  I'm gonna make him worry about me.
• 1:11:24
  We actually had an RCA do the shadow day and then go to
• 1:11:27
  academy and left Academy sick. The second day and never
• 1:11:30
  returned. Yeah.
• 1:11:35
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:11:38
  Man we had we had one come in for a shadow day and told the
• 1:11:43
  carrier to just let him out of the truck, middle of the route
• 1:11:46
  to walk back. I she was, she was starting a
• 1:12:10
  car sick and she's like, okay, just let me out here.
• 1:12:13
  And I have a there was like a school, an elementary school.
• 1:12:15
  So it worked out of my God, I'll let her here and she called
• 1:12:18
  management. And they took they told her just
• 1:12:21
  wait for me to finish the route. You guys couldn't come and pick
• 1:12:28
  her up and this poor thing is like hitting sick of the back of
• 1:12:31
  the car. You couldn't just let come get
• 1:12:35
  her, nothing wrong. Nothing wrong with Adult just
• 1:12:38
  hanging out outside of an elementary school.
• 1:12:40
  Nothing. Nothing weird about that.
• 1:12:42
  All the mail comes first.
• 1:13:02
  Well, they had a telecom to go to apparently forbid.
• 1:13:07
  They leave their Yeah. They got they got listener
• 1:13:11
  managers complain about City carriers when they're in a fully
• 1:13:14
  real office. Yeah.
• 1:13:15
  Yeah. I think what was best was when I
• 1:13:20
  was doing was I doing the Rex mapping facilitator training and
• 1:13:25
  I looked down on the postmasters desk.
• 1:13:29
  And that literally, she had used one of those label makers and
• 1:13:34
  printed out her script, including her name on how to
• 1:13:37
  answer the A phone and stuck it to the desk right underneath the
• 1:13:42
  phone. Like she doesn't know how to
• 1:13:48
  answer the phone. What you don't want to
• 1:13:53
  accidentally? Say Burger King.
• 1:13:55
  Yeah, you know, like Eucharist and you don't want to say thank
• 1:14:00
  you for calling the Radisson. I'm going to leave that one
• 1:14:10
  alone don't normally, I would make a joke there about you
• 1:14:13
  working to Hotel. So I'll leave that one alone.
• 1:14:22
  She's proud of her. Oh wait, that's just in Detroit.
• 1:14:38
  With that having that many offices and routes can any RCA
• 1:14:42
  be put on any of the like be sent to any of those offices?
• 1:14:46
  And can any like, one bid on a route in any of them?
• 1:14:50
  Or is it, are they all kind of individual?
• 1:14:52
  Oh really? Yes actually actually wires.
• 1:14:56
  Well, when we first went formula, they had a wool
• 1:15:00
  coordinator. So each individual station was
• 1:15:03
  supposed to make up their schedule with what they had for
• 1:15:07
  RCA's and June, what rent and then fill in saying on like this
• 1:15:12
  particular route on this day need coverage and submit that to
• 1:15:16
  the coordinator and then he made a master schedule for the
• 1:15:21
  upcoming week and sent it out to all the stations saying what
• 1:15:26
  RCA, you know, of the RCA's where they were skate like which
• 1:15:29
  station and Route, they were scheduled to work on each day as
• 1:15:34
  you step, then they you know, He's that original person step
• 1:15:41
  down from doing it because it was just a detail at that moment
• 1:15:45
  and the next person was kind of keeping up with it but not as
• 1:15:50
  much and then when that person when the third person got it she
• 1:15:54
  was keeping all the RCA's and scheduling them in her station
• 1:15:59
  and pretty much told everyone else fend for yourself.
• 1:16:04
  So now we actually have they actually have A bull manager
• 1:16:09
  that just got the position, a couple months ago.
• 1:16:13
  Allegedly, she supposed to be getting us back to actually
• 1:16:18
  scheduling that and wakey. Even to the point when I submit
• 1:16:22
  leave my supervisor is once they receive it has to send it to
• 1:16:27
  her. And she has the master calendar
• 1:16:30
  for the whole city, for the whole office, and approves, and
• 1:16:34
  denies accordingly allegedly. What would they merge?
• 1:16:39
  All these offices into the PD and sees?
• 1:16:42
  Yeah, I don't know what's going on with that.
• 1:16:44
  I know I heard I keep hearing that we're supposed were
• 1:16:47
  supposedly in faith. Going to be in Phase 2 of that.
• 1:16:50
  The guy, the supervisor or manager in charge of the Otis
• 1:16:55
  testing it for our area was actually in my office and I met
• 1:16:59
  him you. When I first started, when he
• 1:17:01
  was just a regular old, just tougher, he said he was out of
• 1:17:04
  the office at the time when they've had Right.
• 1:17:10
  Is he saying at least I guess from a management perspective of
• 1:17:13
  Atlanta, It's a success. Yeah.
• 1:17:16
  Browz individual routes of more mileage on it but everything's
• 1:17:20
  right there already for them. So he always says it's working
• 1:17:24
  out. You don't have, you know,
• 1:17:26
  multiple trucks coming from multiple locations shipping to
• 1:17:30
  all these different places Louise's, everything's right
• 1:17:34
  there. When you come in, everything is,
• 1:17:36
  you know, should In theory is right there.
• 1:17:39
  Ready for you to go. Wow!
• 1:17:42
  I mean it seems oh, I just see it seems interesting.
• 1:17:46
  I mean it seems like definitely got promising.
• 1:17:48
  I guess it's kind of crazy though.
• 1:17:52
  Seems like a good plan but when you have vehicles that their
• 1:17:55
  frames alone him over 400,000 miles on them.
• 1:18:00
  That's a good deal and beware on their fourth or fifth engine and
• 1:18:04
  seventh transmission, third rear differential.
• 1:18:08
  One. Front-end second body.
• 1:18:10
  You're putting even more wear and tear on them.
• 1:18:12
  And on top of that, carriers got to do 50 miles an hour from that
• 1:18:16
  P, D and C to the route in order to stay inside their evaluation.
• 1:18:19
  Because anything over a mile is nine point two minutes per mile
• 1:18:24
  which is like I said, 47 mph. So these Caterers are trying to
• 1:18:28
  do 55 miles an hour in a truck, that doesn't even want to do 40.
• 1:18:33
  Yeah. Yeah, no.
• 1:18:34
  They're sticking their leg up. The door kicking around trying
• 1:18:39
  to get it to go faster Fred Flintstone hopefully by then
• 1:18:46
  we'll start seeing some of these new vehicles on the road in the
• 1:18:53
  city carriers first, they get the new stuff so that way they
• 1:18:56
  can drive around and look good, but the marshals.
• 1:18:58
  Yep, so yeah. Yeah.
• 1:19:01
  Drive for five miles a day, huh? Yeah, that is crazy.
• 1:19:08
  If you have a breakdown, I mean, how long is it going to take for
• 1:19:11
  them to get out? There takes them to an hour to
• 1:19:13
  get out to us and they're in York.
• 1:19:15
  So like what happens if they're 50 miles out and that's the
• 1:19:20
  that's whoever won the bidding process for the like the Fleet
• 1:19:23
  Maintenance like for us it's an hour anyway and we're in our own
• 1:19:29
  office for them to come and do whatever.
• 1:19:32
  Like the one day I got stuck against the mailbox, you talked
• 1:19:35
  about putting your arm up, stop it.
• 1:19:36
  I did one of those back. I was smart.
• 1:19:39
  I did not stick my arm out to stop myself.
• 1:19:42
  All right, let's take it out the mailbox.
• 1:19:43
  It's taken out the mailbox but no, just set right up against
• 1:19:46
  it, couldn't open the door. Nothing.
• 1:19:48
  I had to climb out, NASCAR style and the wait.
• 1:19:53
  Now for the record to get there and he had to actually pull me
• 1:19:56
  sideways across the ground, luckily, it was completely slick
• 1:19:59
  out. So he just literally pulled me
• 1:20:01
  back up onto the crown of the road from the side of the truck,
• 1:20:04
  and I continued on my way, but in ours about Wait for them, to
• 1:20:08
  get out to me, even now because the contract with they have for
• 1:20:12
  our area is right by. The PTC is where they are.
• 1:20:17
  You have been children were on the mailbox over?
• 1:20:23
  Yeah. No, it was so perfectly.
• 1:20:26
  I was not going to run it. It did not move that mailbox.
• 1:20:30
  It just leaned against it. That's a few years back.
• 1:20:36
  I had, you know, we had from snow and ice coming down the
• 1:20:40
  road, you know, it was a curve or a downhill and that was a
• 1:20:45
  shady spot, so it was still pretty slick.
• 1:20:48
  I ended up slamming into park and pulling the ebrake and
• 1:20:52
  truckstop like two inches from the pose, the post nice.
• 1:20:58
  I just called back to the station and I said, look, I am
• 1:21:01
  not moving this truck because if I try, it's taken out the box,
• 1:21:06
  I'm gonna lie. Cause you're in North Carolina,
• 1:21:15
  I'm thinking of dusting because I've had to go out with 18
• 1:21:22
  inches that fell the night before and try and deliver no in
• 1:21:26
  a POV. We had 12 inches of a couple
• 1:21:42
  years back. We had 12 inches of snow.
• 1:21:44
  If I could find the picture, I would show you guys 48 hours
• 1:21:48
  later. The only only thing that was
• 1:21:51
  left was a little tiny white patch on my neighbor's yard
• 1:21:54
  because they have the shade in their front yard.
• 1:21:59
  Most of the afternoon, you know, most of the day you guys closed
• 1:22:02
  down for a week though, until it was all gone.
• 1:22:10
  The post office know your power grid.
• 1:22:13
  Go down like Texas. No surprisingly, no.
• 1:22:20
  Yeah, they talk about snow and everything closes down down here
• 1:22:23
  but also offers still open. I think in the what?
• 1:22:26
  15 17, 18, whatever number of years, I've been with the post
• 1:22:30
  office two times. They've cancelled delivery on
• 1:22:34
  us. Tina.
• 1:22:35
  Post office. You want.
• 1:22:37
  I'll post office. Only once in 17 and that was
• 1:22:41
  because of the trucks wouldn't start because it was negative,
• 1:22:45
  35 out literally went to crank the truck anyway.
• 1:22:54
  My old office we actually had the block warmers on all Alviso.
• 1:23:01
  We just had to remember to plug them in at night during the
• 1:23:03
  winter. Yeah, we don't have them but
• 1:23:07
  we're not that lucky far north, I was feel like but then again,
• 1:23:11
  tuck with Texas, Lov have four-wheel drive.
• 1:23:14
  Yeah, that don't make sense. But really, yeah, yeah, there's
• 1:23:19
  a few of them down there in Texas than a four-wheel-drive.
• 1:23:21
  Texas trucks don't have four-wheel drive as I say, I
• 1:23:25
  know some FF these are all wheel drive, but Mmm.
• 1:23:29
  Yeah, I love the mattresses. It's like oh we're going to make
• 1:23:31
  it rear-wheel drive again. Like okay, thank you.
• 1:23:34
  Thanks. And we're stories about those in
• 1:23:36
  the winter. Yeah we are.
• 1:23:38
  I will finally have cars and she said the first year that the
• 1:23:41
  first winter, they had the measures the snow got packed in,
• 1:23:45
  so thick in the wheel. Well it froze, the wheel went
• 1:23:50
  and I mean, I didn't even take that much, it's a minivan.
• 1:23:55
  Yeah, that's it. Go everywhere dryer.
• 1:23:59
  Yeah. We have a route that's half.
• 1:24:03
  Got a dirt road on. It that doesn't get plowed.
• 1:24:06
  They took the mattress out on that Flat Road, nothing but snow
• 1:24:10
  and ice on it. Go to hit the gas and it
• 1:24:12
  wouldn't go anywhere. The traction control kick
• 1:24:15
  traction control, kick in it. Would stop the van, it won't go
• 1:24:18
  anywhere. All right, guys, we're gonna
• 1:24:23
  kind of wind it down since we're getting a little bit late here,
• 1:24:28
  two hours flowers. No Bobby can fill full episode.
• 1:24:37
  And a half. But with this whole Rex Fiasco,
• 1:24:39
  bullshit. How did your guys's office fair?
• 1:24:41
  By the way? With that?
• 1:24:44
  Not too bad. Yeah, actually, I haven't heard
• 1:24:47
  any horror stories. I stayed the same.
• 1:24:50
  I went up. Yeah.
• 1:24:52
  And I haven't heard anybody like besides maybe going down like an
• 1:24:57
  hour or two. It wasn't really that bad.
• 1:24:59
  I don't know if it was, I don't know if they were harder on us
• 1:25:02
  for the scans if we just did. Better with that.
• 1:25:05
  Or if it was we got more fair of account, I don't know because
• 1:25:09
  they say, it didn't, it's possible because we definitely
• 1:25:13
  had no shortage of there was a couple like, light day, like
• 1:25:17
  disrespectfully, light days, but during the main email service,
• 1:25:22
  but we did have plenty of days with him mine with the survey
• 1:25:26
  that was only four percent. Yeah.
• 1:25:29
  That's what they said serger. Yes.
• 1:25:32
  And that was only the mail that you were getting.
• 1:25:34
  From the clerk's that the clothes worked and sorted.
• 1:25:38
  Yes. So the only way that would have
• 1:25:42
  made a difference is if you were like on the cusp of let's say a
• 1:25:46
  43 or 44 show that might have been just enough to put you up
• 1:25:51
  to the 44 that make sense. Yeah.
• 1:25:54
  Yeah. It's what you've been doing for
• 1:25:56
  the last year. Yeah.
• 1:25:59
  And what you've been entering in the scanner and the volume of
• 1:26:04
  mail and Packages. You've had is with any
• 1:26:08
  difference. Yeah and I know in West York,
• 1:26:11
  they were big getting hammered with packages because Amazon
• 1:26:14
  doesn't help as much for some of those routes.
• 1:26:17
  They have a little bit more rural routes, so I guess Amazon
• 1:26:20
  just doesn't help them. But we've gotten Amazon help and
• 1:26:24
  we still didn't have too many. We didn't really have much of a
• 1:26:27
  fiasco or anything in East York. So so it's definitely I mean I'm
• 1:26:32
  I appreciate it and I was I was definitely doing I was doing my
• 1:26:37
  scans like I could but I definitely was maybe like a
• 1:26:41
  little bit of camping out, you know.
• 1:26:44
  I don't know what I had a when the red plums were really thick
• 1:26:47
  I had about 700 unscannable Parcels barrier.
• 1:26:52
  That's carrier discretion. That is carry this.
• 1:27:19
  That's a lot of lost. Now, the carrier, the carrier
• 1:27:30
  that did that. She stay went through my
• 1:27:33
  training, I Put on a unpaid unsanctioned Rex training with
• 1:27:39
  my carriers in my office, to help them with the scans, and
• 1:27:43
  that didn't help them at all. I had for Carrier show up out of
• 1:27:47
  the twelve twelve routes than six, Subs, that we had to the
• 1:27:52
  routes aurochs routes. So but the one talks about went
• 1:27:56
  up two hours, it was a two hour a day route under average, so
• 1:28:02
  but it went up to three and a half hours.
• 1:28:04
  Hours a day and my route, my route stayed the same.
• 1:28:08
  My route was the only one that stayed the same.
• 1:28:10
  Everybody else in my office lost another.
• 1:28:13
  Another carrier in my office said, said to me when I was
• 1:28:17
  telling him that I was putting on the training said, I was told
• 1:28:19
  only to do the six gansbaai management.
• 1:28:21
  I'm only paid for the six can. So I'm only going to do the six
• 1:28:24
  cans. The only thing that saved his
• 1:28:27
  route from becoming an H route. Was the fact that his primary
• 1:28:32
  sub went to my training and Is overly zealous with her input
• 1:28:37
  the scans yeah for him. Wow he was he doesn't know it,
• 1:28:45
  he doesn't know what he doesn't like his sub for any folk really
• 1:28:48
  but his sub is the only reason his route then go to an 8th
• 1:28:52
  route because if a no other inputs other than hers were on
• 1:28:56
  his 4241. So you know we don't we don't
• 1:29:01
  give out advice on here like we're Union.
• 1:29:04
  Sewers, we give advice. Like where's the carrier?
• 1:29:06
  In the end the cubicle next to you or in the case next to you
• 1:29:10
  talking to you, you know you're getting your advice from your
• 1:29:13
  Case-Mate. That's how we do it.
• 1:29:15
  And that's all we want to do is give you advice like like your
• 1:29:20
  neighbor would do in your office.
• 1:29:22
  Even that sometimes, you know, your neighbor sometimes don't
• 1:29:25
  have the right advice, sometimes we get the information wrong.
• 1:29:29
  And that the biggest thing, Link for wrong.
• 1:29:35
  Take a drink. Every time you hear, if I'm
• 1:29:38
  wrong, take a drink. Just like when we say carrier
• 1:29:40
  discretion or supposedly, don't drink on the job, I thought I'm
• 1:29:47
  gonna die while you're listening to it.
• 1:29:49
  Keep a little counter bowing your head when you get home.
• 1:29:51
  That's how many shots you got to take and no drinking our podcast
• 1:29:57
  because if you're drinking, when we say something wrong, you're
• 1:30:00
  going to die a violent alcoholic poisoning and I usually Listen
• 1:30:04
  to him on the route so I really couldn't do that.
• 1:30:07
  Anyway, so we're that God has for your own safety, and lots of
• 1:30:20
  Consciousness. Supposedly guys, speaking of
• 1:30:29
  your podcast, where can we find you?
• 1:30:33
  All the, all the major places where podcasts are Apple podcast
• 1:30:38
  Spotify Amazon, Stitcher. Google podcasts.
• 1:30:43
  Yep. Pretty much anywhere.
• 1:30:44
  And then we do, we have an Instagram and add attempted
• 1:30:48
  delivery, where we, I usually post a lot of like, the memes we
• 1:30:53
  make memes between we kind of waffle between postal related
• 1:30:57
  memes and comedy related memes for the moment until we finally
• 1:31:01
  were eventually going to go to video.
• 1:31:03
  And then we'll post Clips on there, but for lack of anything
• 1:31:07
  else, we just make things that we think are funny and post it
• 1:31:10
  on, post it on Instagram, which we need to start posting to
• 1:31:13
  Facebook because it seems like we get a little bit more traffic
• 1:31:15
  on there but you can cry, but yeah, just on.
• 1:31:19
  Yes. Yeah, I gotta figure.
• 1:31:20
  They don't learn how I do. I'm the worst Millennial ever.
• 1:31:26
  I don't know how to use social media but his girlfriend has a
• 1:31:30
  Facebook account. Imagine, imagine that imagine
• 1:31:35
  It's more than just my space now, you know, right?
• 1:31:38
  Yeah. That would be I've that was my
• 1:31:40
  last social media website before for Instagram was my space.
• 1:31:47
  I missed him. We can't wait until you put your
• 1:31:50
  first actual performance. Here on stage performance on
• 1:31:54
  online for us to see that would actually yeah well you have got
• 1:31:58
  to get around to that. We got to get some some topical
• 1:32:01
  material that way we feel comfortable.
• 1:32:03
  Comfortable burning it because we need all the material we can
• 1:32:07
  get. So, what would you guys do?
• 1:32:10
  If you were like, invited to be the entertainment for like a
• 1:32:14
  State Convention banquet or something?
• 1:32:17
  Ha ha ha. We might do.
• 1:32:18
  Well there because I'm, we can do some real, real real postal
• 1:32:23
  jokes that only you guys would like, or just would be fired II.
• 1:32:28
  I mention that because my state Secretary, it was really cool as
• 1:32:31
  hell and She was talking about wanting to do you know finding
• 1:32:35
  some sort of entertainment and she's like maybe some comedian
• 1:32:39
  or something. I was like no, who?
• 1:32:44
  Well we're going to start writing material.
• 1:32:48
  Now if they need if they need us to will find a way to work clean
• 1:33:00
  and I would say yeah, yeah, I think we could And it is that
• 1:33:03
  although no cuss words are smut but gave me a my talk about
• 1:33:06
  death, not only regular carriers but there's also retired people
• 1:33:18
  in there as well not for long. If they did the full term at the
• 1:33:30
  post office. They're not going to last too
• 1:33:32
  long ago. Good, probably happier.
• 1:33:37
  Now, they got to be if they're not there, mentally ill.
• 1:33:42
  So they just saw the vacation together at National Convention
• 1:33:45
  vacation. Yeah.
• 1:33:52
  Well, thank you again for having us and I didn't want to forget
• 1:33:55
  to say this, you guys are really doing like in a it's impressive,
• 1:33:58
  the information you're getting out there and I'm definitely
• 1:34:02
  avenge. It will have listened to all of
• 1:34:05
  your episodes because I you can't get better information
• 1:34:08
  than what you guys are providing out there.
• 1:34:10
  For sure, you guys are providing a real service, that we are not
• 1:34:14
  indeed. If you include this episode, as
• 1:34:22
  soon as we get off, if you press play, it number one, by the time
• 1:34:27
  you go back to work on Monday, you probably will be caught up.
• 1:34:34
  You say that like, I get Saturday's off.
• 1:34:36
  I don't know what that means, but we only care about giving
• 1:34:45
  information to our fellow craft mates.
• 1:34:48
  Like you would if it was your best friend or your neighbor, if
• 1:34:51
  your case neighbor or something like that, you know, and we knew
• 1:34:55
  that coming into this that it wasn't.
• 1:34:58
  It information wasn't flowing freely through a lot of the
• 1:35:02
  channels and Wanted to give a central location for everybody
• 1:35:06
  to hear. What is most likely, the current
• 1:35:09
  topic of the day. We're not Union stewards for the
• 1:35:12
  people that are listening to us. We're not Union Representatives.
• 1:35:17
  Nothing we say here, can be construed as coming from the
• 1:35:20
  union, or an opinion of the Union.
• 1:35:23
  Nor is it an opinion or idea from the United States, Postal
• 1:35:26
  Service, but, from what we've seen in available documents that
• 1:35:31
  are public to Union and non-union members.
• 1:35:35
  This is the information that we've gathered, that's what we
• 1:35:38
  do and take what we say with a grain of salt.
• 1:35:41
  And sometimes that grain of salt can be on your margarita glass.
• 1:35:47
  Breaking your shots of drinks from our carrier discretion,
• 1:35:53
  really? Supposedly shot glasses made for
• 1:35:55
  that but you know, we're available.
• 1:36:03
  And every platform out there from Spotify to YouTube so
• 1:36:09
  anybody can find us there. United rescan, pretty simple,
• 1:36:13
  easy to find. We're on Facebook, both a page
• 1:36:16
  and a group, you can actually ask questions in the group and
• 1:36:19
  if your question seems like something we could talk about,
• 1:36:23
  we'll put it on the air, same for you guys.
• 1:36:24
  If you have a question get it to us.
• 1:36:26
  We'll see if we can put it on the air.
• 1:36:28
  Awesome. Absolutely.
• 1:36:30
  You might take you up on that. So we'll see.
• 1:36:32
  What? We'll see you in September.
• 1:36:34
  If I go down I'm gonna have more questions.
• 1:36:40
  I'm gonna be like this route would have 12:45, I was so happy
• 1:36:44
  to get that. What's a 40?
• 1:36:46
  What that's gonna be. Well, you're the RCA.
• 1:36:50
  So that's your fault. You know, I'll be going on
• 1:36:55
  killer with after the snakes, many mail survey.
• 1:36:57
  That's the problem. That's the one that I'm the one
• 1:37:02
  that gave out all the Mason everybody in the office and
• 1:37:07
  Teresa postmaster. Yes and supervisors.
• 1:37:12
  Yeah, now it's been fun, guys. And for everybody who wants to
• 1:37:19
  get off of out of the seriousness, go listen to
• 1:37:23
  attempt to deliver it because you'll get Giggles.
• 1:37:25
  I do we hope so. I did, I roll my eyes.
• 1:37:38
  Episode. Right.
• 1:37:40
  True. Yeah, that's when.
• 1:37:50
  Do you guys for Alban your new listeners?
• 1:37:54
  When do your episodes come out? We dropped them Thursday
• 1:37:57
  mornings at 7:45, which is our start time.
• 1:38:03
  The other side. So I figured keep it keep it
• 1:38:05
  consistent. You have to right now that may
• 1:38:07
  change but hopefully I will not write.
• 1:38:10
  So we'll see. It might change to Friday
• 1:38:12
  because of like a conflict of an open mic conflict soon but we'll
• 1:38:16
  see. Hopefully it'll keep the same.
• 1:38:19
  What we move to video. We might need more than just 24
• 1:38:22
  hours to get the episode out. Well, that's what happens with
• 1:38:27
  our YouTube. Yes, exactly.
• 1:38:30
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I Would you say Christian that
• 1:38:34
  you uploaded everything Sunday night and it didn't actually
• 1:38:37
  drop onto YouTube until yesterday?
• 1:38:40
  Yeah, I finally got it uploaded to YouTube yesterday.
• 1:38:42
  Oh, you forgot you forgot to upload it.
• 1:38:45
  Forget to adjust for the last three days, trying to train the
• 1:38:52
  new guy and today. Come on now.
• 1:39:03
  The podcast is just the recording.
• 1:39:04
  What we say. Hmm.
• 1:39:08
  Yeah. We need, we all need producers
• 1:39:10
  for these things. We need to make it so that we
• 1:39:12
  can just pay people to do this for us.
• 1:39:15
  I actually have another carrier. Oklahoma who messaged me and
• 1:39:21
  said, hey because he he's done podcasting in the past and it's
• 1:39:24
  just restarted his. He's like I can do editing and
• 1:39:28
  whatnot for you like, oh my God, I love you.
• 1:39:30
  Thank you. Because when I'm open till
• 1:39:35
  midnight, trying to get this and I can't even see straight and
• 1:39:38
  I'm just like, no Mike I gotta run to roads tomorrow.
• 1:39:44
  That's how to fix an editing happen.
• 1:39:48
  Yeah, you're not supposed to be the drinking game, you're on the
• 1:39:50
  podcast. Play who passes out first will
• 1:40:14
  probably be me because I haven't touched a drink in 10 years
• 1:40:20
  that's gonna change, you know but thanks guys for actually
• 1:40:26
  coming on with us and spending this time with us.
• 1:40:28
  We really appreciate it and taking us off the serious note
• 1:40:31
  that we usually have Have thank you for having us.
• 1:40:35
  Yeah, we appreciate it. Holding our Horizons.
• 1:40:39
  Hey, you know, that's what if it gets too much for you.
• 1:40:45
  I'm sure there's an open mic comedy, somewhere near you and
• 1:40:48
  you can try that. Don't worry.
• 1:40:52
  It's not good for your, for your more out for knows what I can
• 1:41:01
  tell. I can't do.
• 1:41:03
  I can't do math. I can talk, though, aren't
• 1:41:07
  those? The type of mushrooms you can
• 1:41:09
  moral. It was it's not safe.
• 1:41:25
  All right guys, we're gonna rip it up tonight.
• 1:41:27
  Thanks for coming on again and everybody go check out attempt
• 1:41:30
  to delivery. Give them some likes and What
• 1:41:33
  had I'm sure they would appreciate it.
• 1:41:36
  And we would will see, Mike and Sean Jack and cheats and Damien
• 1:41:47
  a palace for joining us tonight. You guys have a good one.
• 1:41:50
  Thank you, you too. All right, all right.