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21. Work Work Work Work (till you die!) · Amigos, Afraid!

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Oi, Mr., is you my dead? Is you ready?
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Is you me dead? Is you me dead?
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Hello guys. We're back.
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We back, we're back. I am one year older since the
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last time you heard me. Brian is old.
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You tell her, put on a year. The grey hairs tell me
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everything I didn't know there. Is none I dyed it like the day
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of my birthday or the day after my birthday I.
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Did you really? I dyed the gate the grey away.
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You, you straight guys? No, I always expected it, you
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know? No, no, no, no, no.
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I dyed the grey away. I prayed the grey away.
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No. I'm of that age, I get grey hair
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and it's I'm not praying. Nope, Nope.
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Praying it away. I'm not praying anything away.
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So you dyed. Your hair.
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I didn't, no, I didn't even notice.
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I do. You don't notice that it's like
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extra black? No, I noticed today when I was
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looking in the mirror that it's a lot darker than like my beard
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hair, but that's fine. It looks the same to me.
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It's the lighting. It's it's the lighting.
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The bathroom lighting makes it more more drastic.
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The studio lighting in here isn't as potent.
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But I had a fantastic birthday weekend.
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I hope you did. I'm glad you did.
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Do you feel older? No.
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No, because every day you get older and then you just, you
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have that, that one day of the year that reminds you that
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you're one year older from that same day to last year.
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But yeah, day-to-day, pretty, pretty similar.
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So tell me about it. What did, What were the events?
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How are you feeling? What went through your head?
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Guys have so many lovely friends and I got to see so many of
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them. For my birthday, I went to a
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brewery and I invited my like a lifelong friends and then
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friends I've met in most more recent years.
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And it was like last year. I also like meshed friend
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groups. We did a San Diego trip, but
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this year it was like so many friends.
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The collab, like so many friends.
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Yes, it was fun. I was nervous going into it, but
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I listen. I pick and choose my friends.
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I know they're all great people and I would not put two people
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in a room together that I don't think would get along.
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And I think everyone had a great time by the end of the night.
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Like people who went to 'cause we had an after party, I'm still
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young enough for after parties. We went out dancing and everyone
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was like having a good time with each other.
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And dance they did. They did dance, I did dance,
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they did, they played. I kissed a girl.
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So I did as as Katy Perry says. You kissed a girl Many.
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You kissed a many girls. And some boys.
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I think I'm not. I think I think you did.
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You're not getting the allegations.
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Right. But that was fine.
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I got to celebrate with friends. Before that I celebrated with my
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family. I did have a work event the day
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of my birthday, but I had dinner with my mom, my brother and my
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stepdad and one of my Tia's and the guys.
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I have a ghost story. Please.
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So phoned in from my mom, Phoned in, not phoned in.
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I don't have something to tell you, but it's from her.
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To say yes. Phoned in so I don't She said
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that this is from years ago. I don't know why she hasn't told
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me before. Like she knows that I grew up
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watching Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures Adventures because
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she would watch it with me. Yeah, we loved those shows, but
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she said a couple years back when she was living with my, my
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brother at the time was living with her and my stepdad and they
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live right now, they live like 2 blocks away from one Mike DS and
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my mom is always there. But during that time they did
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live like a city away, 2 cities away.
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Still not super far. It's like maybe a 15 minute
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drive. But she, we were talking about
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cemeteries and stuff for some reason, and she started talking
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about the Pomona some. I think it's a Pomona cemetery.
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Never been. It's in the middle of a
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neighborhood. Like it's not tucked away
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anywhere. It's not off to the side of the
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city. Like there's housing 360 all
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around it. It's like not far from where my
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mom used to live. Yeah.
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Imagine living. Right there.
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I will, I would love that. You probably got a house real
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cheap. And that's true.
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That's true. And who cares if you like sea
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coastal apparition? Their their home.
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That's where they live. That's where they live rent
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free. They paid upfront.
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True, it's expensive to buy a plotted land to get married in,
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by the way. Anyways, so she said she was
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driving home and they were driving past that direction.
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And at that point it was dark. But my mom said she was just in
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the passenger seat and it was a street that was relatively dark.
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But she saw a guy walking like all like bundled up like in a
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hoodie. My mom's like, it's so it's
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late. Like why are they are they
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walking so late at night with like their hood up?
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Like, uh huh. That's dangerous.
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Like, you're out here alone. You're all like, in black as
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your head covered. And she said while she was
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looking at him, she like, looked him down and she realized he had
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no legs. He was just a torso and loading,
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torso loading. And my mom said, no.
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My stepdad said, did you see that too?
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And my mom said, yeah. And my stepdad said he didn't
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have legs, and mom said she had chills go through her whole
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body, I bet. But the both of them said they
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saw a man walking down the street with no legs.
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You know, just floated. You know what's what's crazy is
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1 scene that experiencing that your body like reacting to that
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because she was driving or or your mom was driving, right?
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No, she's passenger seat. Or passenger seat your stepdad
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was driving. But the like the the fear that
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comes with getting someone's like approval of like, I saw
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that too, like right away. It wasn't like a, oh, I saw it
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first and then you saw now you guys saw it at the same time,
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you guys saw the exact same thing.
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And then you realize we just saw that.
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Like what are your next steps? Yeah, you realize your mind is
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not playing tricks on you because someone else saw the
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exact same thing that you did. A floating torso with a hoodie
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covering its face. Just walking down, floating down
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the street. Wow, you think?
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I had to bring that up. It was too good not to share.
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Also, let it be known, if any of our friends have really good
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ghost stories and they want to tell us, please, we'll happily
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either have you on the podcast. You can send us a voice memo and
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we'll play it. We'll spice it in, or you can
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write it out to us and we'll read it on your behalf.
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Let me backtrack really quick to your birthday weekend.
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I had a conversation with individuals and this is actually
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tied to what you just said right now.
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One experiencing experiencing it, but having someone else also
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like validate you and say, I just saw that too.
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I think it's going to be for sure going to be a future
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episode, like near future because they want the active
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listeners 'cause I appreciate them.
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But when they told me, I'm like, I need this to be heard, like
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you guys need to give this story to the to the public.
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They need to hear this. So I'm I can't say.
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What the heck. I can't say.
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Guys, I don't like this habit of Jerry starting to keep secrets
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from me and surprising me it's. Part of the contract.
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I'm sorry, I don't. Have a heart attack or something
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at some point? It's it's all good.
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I have, I have aspirin. I have the first aid kit ready
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to go. You'll be fine.
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CPR certified you'll be. Fine.
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OK. Well, yeah.
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So it's kind of weird that you're bringing this up because
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you didn't you had no idea what what I what I'd like, you know,
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no gluten and you just said something really similar,
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similar. Can't talk right now.
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That's so cool, friend. Like so is our next.
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Episode similar like a floating. No, Some aspects of your story
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are similar to what I listened, but I what I'm hearing is we're
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going to the Pomona Cemetery. Oh, let's explore.
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I mean, you can't go at night time.
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Most cemeteries close at 6:00 Ava right now.
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Like, I drive past a cemetery on the way home and it is dark when
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I leave work. Yeah, but that would mean I have
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to go alone and I'm. I want to experience something
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supernatural but I I don't know how comfortable I am like going
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out on my own to. Experience it exactly, exactly.
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Yeah, someone you have no one around you like, yeah, corporal
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validation exactly. But physical being dude, like
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experiencing the the freaking cat balls going off on the
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stairs like that was a trip. We didn't we weren't seeing
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anything, but we were seeing supposedly a connection of some
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sort and making the cat balls react and light up.
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I think that's so one of the craziest things I've ever seen
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live multiple times. That's how I felt with the EMF
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reader going off when we were like trying to talk about like
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certain things. Uh huh, that was scary.
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Uh huh, that too. Not scary.
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Exciting. Exciting.
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It was exhilarating. Like it gets your heart rate
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going. It's so cool.
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It's so cool. We need to invest in more ghost
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hunting stuff. I've been bookmarking things
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I've been seeing on Tiktok. I received good feedback on the
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paranormal episodes. Good.
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Good. Keep them coming, guys.
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Yep, Keep listening. Keep watching, watching,
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watching. I'm gonna have more visual
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content in the future. By the way, shout out to to
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Brian for putting out these reels because these reels are so
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funny. Like if you if you aren't
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laughing, that's fucked up. Yeah guys that's fucked up.
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Please we we have a TikTok now. It's also the daily BJ podcast.
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Daily BJ? Yeah, please hold while I get
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the exact username. Hopefully TikTok doesn't start
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playing something weird. It didn't.
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We're on TikTok now, the daily BJ.
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Some of our videos have truly popped off.
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Y'all really like the the, the spank stick?
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That one is sitting at like 4000 views.
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Damn. Imagine if we had a visual
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podcast. Would you have done it?
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Would you have let me go? I mean, it's content.
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Yeah, for sure it's content. Shout out to everyone that was
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that got their wrapped of some sort and The Daily Beauty was on
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there as their top podcast. That was pretty cool.
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Shout out to y'all. Guys that made my day.
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The fact that you guys listen to our podcast that regularly, that
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you're like our 1% listeners, I love you.
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I wasn't even a 1% listener. I'm kidding.
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I was OK. I listen to a lot of podcasts.
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I think I was like, it wasn't my top, top 5% of podcasts or
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something. I think it gave me a ranking.
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OK, Now I. Just I that's the only podcast
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I. Because we don't we in the grand
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scheme of things, we don't have that many episodes.
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That's true. That is true.
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Some of the podcasts I listen to have been going at it for years
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so I'm I'm still burning through them.
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Yeah, no, I, I don't believe in any other podcast except ours.
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I don't listen to anything. I like that mentality.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So guys, we we've been teasing
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this episode. Yes, we have.
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We've been wanting to tell you about our crazy work
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experiences. Because we've all had them.
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And Jerry has had more than most people.
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A lot of people, including me, have just gone through some shit
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situations. How?
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Many jobs have you had. That's a good question.
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Paid right? Not like.
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Yeah, paid not like. That was your job.
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You were there for a while. Maybe right under 9, like 10,
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maybe like 978-9789. I'm going to leave it.
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I'm going to cut those numbers there.
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I would not go below that. I've had four jobs OK in my
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life. And when did you start working?
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At like 17 I started in high school I.
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Started at 18 like right after graduation.
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OK. I am going to count 1 of OK,
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we'll, we'll get into that. But I think we are both in the
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same realm of like our first jobs were retail.
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Yes, Yeah, OK. For the longest time my only job
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was retail up until like the last two years.
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Did you ever do food, food industry, fast food?
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I was neither have I, I was too scared.
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Neither have I. I feel like it's that's been a
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conversation of have you worked retail, food business or or
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both? Or like a service.
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And it's never yeah, and it's never both.
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It's like, at least in my immediate circle, I don't know
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anyone that's worked both. It's always one or the other.
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My brother has worked both both. Dang.
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I think I feel like he worked at a restaurant.
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Taco Bell? Yes.
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No way I I'm right. I'm sensing things.
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We had a Taco Bell like a block and a half away and he was
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working there. I'm kidding.
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That's crazy. And getting a vision.
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I see. I might have told him.
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He he's been waiting for this moment.
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He's like one day he's going to ask.
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He's going to quiz me. I was going to say yo que to
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Taco Bell. I wasn't even going to say the
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Taco Bell. I see the I'm getting a name.
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Adrian. I never told you that before.
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Heat work that Taco Bell. My ears are buzzing.
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I'm. Seeing a vision, That's crazy.
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That was a total guess guys, I swear.
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Copay a lottery ticket after this.
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I I never do just say 7 numbers really quick.
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There was a 721 three, 1175, you said seven.
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I'm at 6/6 and. Two, I was going to say 12 for
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the last one, and then you said two.
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OK, we're not. We're not as linked.
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We're not as linked. Anyways, that wins you a lottery
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ticket like money you owe us. You stole Jerry's bid.
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Or one of our listeners will buy a ticket using my numbers and
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then sponsor this podcast. Yeah, you should do that or
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otherwise we're going to sue. Oh, by the way, Michael and
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Peter give me a really good idea.
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We should start, you know, dropping our sponsor names
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really quick. So I just want to like give a
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shout out, thank you to our sponsors of today's episode.
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Brian and and Jerry and Jerry, it's just us.
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Thank you. You guys fund everything that we
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do with this podcast. You guys bought us our mics, the
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programs we used to edit the audio, the voices.
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Yeah. Anyways, Anyways, anyways, yeah,
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that was our ideal all the. Equipment we've ever purchased
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to go ghost hunting. You guys have really dug deep in
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those. Wall, I mean, honestly and and
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we'll keep dropping. We'll keep dropping our shout
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outs to to our. I forgot that word already.
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To. Our sponsors.
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Thank you anyways. So going back, I would love to
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pick your brother's brain because that'd be a cool
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question, but what was your first shop?
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My first shop straight out of high school was retail.
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I got a job at Kmart. OK Kmart, rest in peace.
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I got the job because it was four blocks from my house and I
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had to have, I'd have to walk to work.
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Amazing. No commute?
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Nope, just walk. No money on gas, I use that
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money from there to buy my first car.
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Fuck yeah. The Honda Honda, the 2004 Honda,
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his name was OO my little 2 door Honda.
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Oh the memories I had in that car.
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That car got me through college. That's amazing.
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I I'm not fortunate enough to have like driven inside the car,
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but I've heard a lot of stories. Like I mentioned, that was
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probably one of our first conversations.
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Oh my God. Yeah.
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Talking about cars. Oh, my goodness.
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Yeah, you're right. You're like, let me tell some
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water I'm having vivid. Flashbacks like like stranger
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let me cars yeah I drive a Honda yeah I.
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Drive a Honda. I'm like.
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Fuck, I don't know shit about cars.
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That's so cool man. He's driving me home from a lazy
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dog. A random parking lot.
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A random McDonald's parking lot. Crazy times flies.
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That was two months ago. That was four years ago.
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And how was Kmart? Because Kmart is a fucking
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warehouse. Kmart.
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Think about it of. Everything Kmart was like living
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ATV show where things did not seem real.
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We had I would like we we did have like a a custodial staff.
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So they would like clean early in the morning.
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I never really met them because I would work like late at nights
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because I was so I was part time.
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I went to college. Yeah, but there is times we
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would find needles in the bathroom, crack pipes in the
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bathroom. You're right next to the freeway
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and like a gas station and a Carl's Junior.
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I was there until the store closed like fully.
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They shut business down. They said oh, you guys are all
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losing your jobs, but here's a whole bunch of hours because we
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have to sell everything. So I left making money.
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Yeah, got my first, first time I ever got unemployment.
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It was amazing. I didn't work for like 3 months,
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but I locate I love working there really.
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I miss the friends I've made there because we I would see the
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same group of people everyday the work all the time.
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Our assistant manager, his name was Scott.
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Hope I'm not doxing you Scott, but he was so cool.
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He was so nice. Every other like lead person was
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the devil reincarnated. Oh my God.
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Except for this one lady. Her name was Mitzi.
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She was OK Think of a woman who's like 5 foot.
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She has like, boy, short hair, Gray.
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OK, she has to go take her smoke breaks.
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But she's also the coolest woman you've ever met.
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I feel that that image you just painted, I feel like, I feel
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like her name's it's a mid sea, you know, it's just got to take
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a quick smoke break. People would come and try to
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like cost some shit and little 5 foot woman would look him up,
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look him down and be like you can leave.
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Wow. No, we're not doing business.
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You can go. Yeah, I'm not fighting with you.
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Leave like she was. That bitch.
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That's fucking cool. How older?
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Older. Yeah.
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She must have been like, in her. I mean, not older, maybe 50s.
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Yeah. And she's not taking anyone
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shit. Nope.
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No time. Oh, and then we had our HR
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person, Debbie. She was so sweet.
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Like, how can you hate someone named Debbie?
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True. She had her nails done.
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She had her glasses. She always had candy in her bowl
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at her desk. And she would be like at the
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entrance of the waiting or not of the break room.
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So we'd pass by and she would be like, hi, Brian.
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And I'm like, hey, Debbie. I would go in there and complain
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and she was like, she would feed us.
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Wow. She would ask how we're doing.
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A good human resources like staff.
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She really fought for us, like she saw the writing on the wall.
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Luckily, they did transfer over to another store.
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Yeah, she was good at her job, but she she saw, like, all the
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BS that we were dealing with. Yeah, it was this.
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I don't know how much I want to share.
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What? Because no, no name.
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I'm never going to see this person again.
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I won't. I won't give her her name.
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But the closing era was some shit dude dude.
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What? What were the hours like?
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What was the closing hours? It would, I think, be 6 to 10,
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OK. And I think at that point,
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listen, at any job I've ever had, my goal has always been to
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be the best at it. Like, even if I hate the job,
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look at that. And are even if I'm feeling
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lazy, like I'm not going to do a subpar job.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I will always, like, do my
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best with the least effort possible.
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OK, OK. Why would I expend the extra
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effort? But if I know, I can kick some
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ass. Spoken like a true Sagittarius.
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I was also like 1819 at the time.
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Ambitious, full of life. So they're like, you want to do
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the customer service desk? And I was like, yeah, first
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mistake. Oh.
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Man, not a Gray. Hair did.
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He gave me a $0.25 raise to deal with all the people yelling
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about returns, wanting to speak with the manager or that
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cashier. Oh my God.
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We had to learn how to sell lottery tickets for like 3
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months and then literally no one ever came to buy any.
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So we just unplugged the machine and started saying we weren't
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selling lottery tickets anymore. Yeah, like with the machines
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right there. Oh, it doesn't work.
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I'm so sorry. There's a gas station across the
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street. Go there.
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Yeah, jeez. And in that same time I have a
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theory. OK, we got a new manager at that
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time and I'm pretty sure they sent her there knowing that the
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store was going to close and they're going to lay off
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everyone. OK, so they give a fuck.
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She was a terrible person. Of course, of course.
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She was mean. The only person that she like
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showed any kind of grace to that I saw or two people was Debbie.
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The. HR person and then she brought
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an assistant manager from her store over and they would spend
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all their days in their office. Buddy, buddy.
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Just yeah, guys, I'm not a mean person.
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I didn't start this this name, but she had some greasy blunt
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bangs and people started calling her trash bangs.
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I didn't. I personally didn't, but that's
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how I knew her was trash bangs. OK trash bangs mean derogatory
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now. It's in the name.
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It's in the. Yeah, listen.
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Jerry, what did I say? I I try my best to be a good
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worker. Yes, I always try to excel,
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exceed, move on up. Why did this woman at our yearly
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reviews said, Brian, come here, come into my office, we need to
21:37
talk. And I was like, I'm getting a
21:39
raise. This is going to be amazing.
21:41
I've been working so well. We need to talk about your
21:45
attendance. I'm like my perfect attendance.
21:48
Yeah, you're late all the time. And I was like this bitch.
21:54
I was like, what? Actually, yeah, you're late.
21:56
And it's been a lot. We're going to give you a final
21:59
warning, so if you're late again, we're going to have to
22:01
terminate you. I was like, what?
22:03
The out Granted also, at this point I was like 19.
22:06
I had no knowledge of my rights as an employee, as a worker.
22:10
Was it fear? It was.
22:12
Plus I didn't like this lady. Yeah.
22:14
So at that point she got me mad and I are you mad?
22:16
I don't want to talk to you anymore, especially back then,
22:18
so afraid of confrontation. Now I'll fight.
22:20
But yeah, I've seen it. I've seen it first hand.
22:22
Now I'm going to. Tell you, don't talk to me.
22:26
Guys, the amount of times I reference Brian at Target with
22:30
the fucking spectrum people that come up, he's like, hey man,
22:33
what kind of Internet do you have?
22:34
He's like, not interested. No, but I don't want to talk to
22:37
you. The fear and like the he just
22:41
started. He was about to cry.
22:42
No, he was going to fucking cry. Yes, he was.
22:44
He just said Oh well damn. Yeah, I'm not.
22:48
I don't want to waste your time dude.
22:49
Yeah, yeah, I walked away. I strive to be that person.
22:53
I I just. Don't want to talk to that man.
22:55
I already I already have spectrum like I have.
22:57
Spectrum. You're not going to listen to
22:58
me. Anyways, anyway but.
23:00
This was before it came. Into my own.
23:02
For sure. And there I was like, oomph, I
23:05
mean, OK, And I signed a paper saying that I'm on on my final
23:10
strike. Punch in the air right now.
23:12
And I left that place with a a wonderful reviews, references
23:17
like friends, like everyone else was amazing.
23:22
I miss the guys, but I had a good group of like guy friends,
23:26
which did not happen again for like a while.
23:29
But they were all so cool. And now dude, I still follow
23:32
them on social media. So some of them have like kids,
23:35
they're married families and I met them as like I was older
23:39
than them. They were like.
23:40
Still, in high school, they were even smaller than.
23:42
Yes, there were like part time students, like high school
23:44
students. I remember when we did close the
23:48
store that last day, our manager or assistant manager was like
23:53
stay a once they locked once like I saw the keys.
23:56
Like we're going to stay with who?
23:58
Party. That's cool.
23:59
So like all our friends, we smoke and alcohol.
24:04
Yeah. In our lockers.
24:05
Yeah. And at the end of the night,
24:08
once everyone else had left, we just pumped our music in the
24:12
offices, we had food. And then we kind of just looked
24:17
around because at that point, the store was empty.
24:20
Everything is sold. All the fixtures are sold.
24:22
Imagine like you walk into a Walmart, a Walmart now, and
24:25
there's no shelves. The only thing that's there is
24:27
the stuff that's built into the floor, into the walls.
24:31
It's so sad. Did you guys do it like that
24:33
movie scene where it's like a cutscene where everyone was just
24:35
like shoulder to shoulder and like just looking and just
24:38
admiring like the sunset in the back?
24:42
No, it was the moon was out and we were on the roof.
24:44
That's fucking cool. We took the emergency exit up to
24:47
the roof and we were up there. Two guys peed off the side.
24:50
Of the I was about to say that I'm like, did anyone pee off
24:52
the? Side, I regret not participating
24:54
because when I was like, when was I going to have that chance
24:56
again? That's true.
24:59
That's so good, yeah. Wow.
25:03
Oh, there was also like a lead. Her name was Tina.
25:05
I wonder where she's up to. She was cool too.
25:09
A lot of cool people. I still follow a lot of them on
25:11
social media so I see them around, but that's cool.
25:13
That was that was my first job. I was there for like 3 years, so
25:16
from 2. To like 20 if you, in my
25:19
opinion, if you're holding on a job for more than a year as a
25:23
teenager, that's that's cool. Like that was doing, yeah.
25:29
They had me everywhere. I bet.
25:31
I worked at electronics for a hot 2nd and then they got rid of
25:33
the electronics department she and then they put her in
25:36
sporting goods. I'm like what the fuck am I?
25:39
In here. Yep.
25:40
If anyone knows sports, it's it's Brian.
25:43
And the only reason was because they needed men on the floor for
25:48
sure, for all the stuff that came off the truck.
25:50
So even though you live great cashier, I've always been a
25:52
great cashier. They're like, no, we need you on
25:54
the floor. I'll be like, OK.
25:56
Bron Bron and steel or whatever the fuck that saying is.
26:00
Yep. The only thing I never did was
26:03
the fitter room and clothes, which is so funny because my
26:08
second job was only clothes. And you're good as fuck at that.
26:12
Absolutely. Damn.
26:13
I bet. What was your first job?
26:15
You can give a couple because you have, Yeah.
26:17
I might. I'm going to have to double dip
26:19
and like just some key points. So I'm going to count my first
26:23
ever job as a paid internship because I was paid that summer
26:26
accounts. So that was my first job working
26:28
at TJ Maxx. TJ Maxx was AROP like
26:33
partnership with, you know, the high schools and stuff.
26:36
And that summer I forgot what break it was.
26:38
I worked for like a good month there and I was like 1716 1/2
26:43
seventeen. I was, I was still a sophomore
26:45
in in in high school, so. Do you think you have pictures
26:48
from this era? That's what I'm looking for.
26:50
Right now, absolutely not. If I did it, it might have been
26:53
on my phone at the time, but that phone is like maybe at my
26:56
parents, maybe that's the phone that I used.
27:00
I I traded for my bass guitar when I was in fucking high
27:02
school. Idiot.
27:03
Anyways, Anyways. Oh my God, I found videos from
27:06
that party that no, I'll show you.
27:08
OK, we got, we got to put some of these up.
27:09
I know, I know, I don't have these people per permission.
27:12
It's not videos of me. That's true.
27:14
That's true. We don't want to get.
27:15
Sued. I might have a lot on Snapchat.
27:16
I need to watch those I'll. Show you after.
27:20
I have no videos, but it was, it was interesting because I was
27:26
like the youngest person there and and they only offered it to
27:29
like 223 people. What year?
27:31
What grade were you in? I was a sophomore.
27:32
In high school. Oh my God, so you were like 15?
27:34
Yeah, I had just transferred to this, to the high school and I
27:38
was put in a class with a bunch of seniors and and like kids
27:41
from the Learning Center that would take this ROP class.
27:45
But anyways, through that ROP class, like they offered
27:47
internships, like summer paid internships and shit.
27:49
That's how I got my first shot. I was like, fuck it, I'm not
27:51
doing shit. Whatever.
27:52
Yeah. So, TJ.
27:53
Maxx, make your money. Huge, right?
27:54
It was right at the at the outlets in San Ysidro, so it's
27:57
right by the border. It's a hella pack like the on my
28:00
first day, someone stole fucking purses which are right next to
28:04
the fucking entrance. Like God, it doesn't matter how
28:06
many sensors there they came in, they just grab the whole fucking
28:09
stack ran out and like, Yep, that happens.
28:13
It's like the it's what? It's what the major losses every
28:15
year. Was the purses the purses?
28:17
We might have to do a Part 2 because I would.
28:20
We're going to be here for hours talking about all the crazy
28:22
situations. I'm only going to, yeah, I'm
28:24
only going to like skim through like just the main points, The
28:26
main points. I'm going to talk about those,
28:28
not the detail, but it was fun. I mean, it was only for like a
28:31
month, month or two. So that summer I had some money
28:34
for the first time. My checks were good.
28:36
I think I was paying like 18 an hour or something or 7/17 an
28:39
hour. 17 as a. 15 year old. It was an RP program, like it
28:42
was like they're just they want to get you the experience for
28:44
your resume and they're paying really good for like a month or
28:47
two. So it wasn't too crazy.
28:48
When I started my job, I think my wage was $14.00.
28:53
And I might be lying then, this was 20.
28:55
I was, yeah, it was like 2016 and I think I was making like
29:01
$15 maybe. OK, I might be lying.
29:03
I'll I'll find a pay stub or something.
29:06
I won't find a pay stub. But it was really high.
29:08
It was really good at like paid. It was above minimum wage and
29:10
everything. But anyways, what I was getting
29:12
used to was waking up early. I'm chronically late.
29:15
I'm fucking like it's, it's always been in my blood.
29:17
It was what I was taught as a kid.
29:18
With my friend, but he is not punctual.
29:20
Oh man I fucking suck. Like I I'll wake up early I'll
29:23
I'll hate my life. My contact just moved.
29:26
I'll hate my fucking life. I hate waking up early.
29:29
But anyways, that was my first experience was that late almost
29:33
everyday. Yeah, did they care?
29:35
Was IA joy to have around? Yep, Absol fucking lutely.
29:38
Lift up the vibes. The manager, I forget his name.
29:41
So I'm like, you know, maybe like 30s, late early 40s Mexican
29:46
dude. Super cool.
29:47
He we would always talk sports 'cause he was a big football fan
29:50
and I was playing football at the time.
29:51
So like he was like, oh, that's so cool.
29:53
And like I just got to know him. He was super cool.
29:56
They wouldn't have me on go backs.
29:57
They would have me at like just fixing all the guys and stuff,
30:00
the toys, the sales, but they would rotate us.
30:02
Never did cashier 'cause we were too young.
30:04
Yeah, but I remember after that internship, he said apply like I
30:08
will give you a job. And I remember, I remember being
30:12
like in the clearance section in the back corner, like
30:14
organizing, thinking I was organizing.
30:16
I was putting clearance shit in the wrong place.
30:18
I was. And then I would like put my
30:19
head down 'cause it was like early as fuck.
30:20
I, I opened every morning with a whole group.
30:24
I put my head down and I would like fall asleep.
30:26
Oh my God, I would just lean on a, on a, on a rack and I would
30:28
just be like, oh, let me just like close my eyes.
30:30
I swear I'd be falling asleep. It was, it was so funny.
30:34
Like I just looked back at it. I'm like, I wonder if they're
30:36
looking at me through the cameras, but like, look.
30:37
At this kid three years again. Look at Needle falling asleep on
30:40
a rack like. 15 years old. Yeah.
30:43
And then, yeah, that was kind of weird.
30:46
Then I ended and I was like, no, I'm not.
30:48
I don't want to work. Fuck that.
30:50
So when did you have your second job?
30:52
After high school my first like official job was a part time
30:55
job, but it was at the mall working for lids.
30:58
That was my that my. So Lids was the first night of
31:01
high school. That was my first experience
31:02
working like out of high school, college, minimum wage, part
31:08
time, just fucking just your regular teenage job.
31:11
You know the first one you get. But I was obsessed with hats at
31:14
the time. So it was like fuck yeah.
31:16
Like when I get a discount, I did get AI got a fat discount
31:18
and and best believe I had a whole stack of hats in the back.
31:21
That's when I owned the most hats.
31:22
At one point I had like over 40 hats.
31:25
Oh my God. Yep.
31:26
And when I wear all of them, no. Some of them are just possessed,
31:28
prized possessions. They're for display only.
31:33
That was my first experience of A having a shitty ass fucking
31:37
manager B. Like the pressures of people
31:41
wanting to take advantage of you because you're a kid and then
31:44
working at the mall. I think working at the mall's
31:46
fun, but it's just, it's also like, Dan, I got to drive home
31:49
now. I got to drive back to the mall.
31:50
Like it's not you. You lose the whimsy of the mall
31:52
because you're just like, man, fuck this place, you know?
31:55
I think we're also the last generation of mall culture.
31:57
Probably. Because after that I don't think
32:01
I did mall activity. Mall as an activity past
32:06
college, maybe In college, Yeah, I stopped going to the mall.
32:09
Yeah for what? To see the same shit I see
32:11
everyday? Like fuck that, like.
32:15
So you didn't have like a romanticized like mall job or
32:18
like all your friends are going to meet at like right after your
32:21
shift and you're going to go shop the stores.
32:23
Nope. Because because I was part time,
32:26
I felt like I would just give in like the random schedules for
32:28
the weekend. So I would, I would work Friday,
32:30
Saturday or Sunday of course. And they would always give it to
32:33
me. I would either because you're
32:34
the new guy, because I'm the new guy, I'm the youngest guy.
32:37
And then you would I would work closing.
32:39
So I would be there from like the ball close like at 7 or
32:42
something. That's not bad.
32:44
But I'd be there from like. 4:00 to 8:00.
32:47
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like 3 to 7, four to seven, whatever,
32:50
whatever it was. But dude, like my first hints of
32:54
a shitty manager was when he was like 1, I found out he didn't
32:57
drive and he was he, he like he brought up the conversation
33:00
super weird dude, by the way, just when I, when I look back at
33:03
the conversations, he was like a big sneaker head.
33:06
He would like buy double pairs of everything because he said he
33:09
would always, I respect the culture, you know, do what you
33:11
got to do. But he was like, no, I always
33:13
buy 2 pairs of shoes. I put one in my closet to just
33:16
hold and I didn't understand that at the time.
33:17
I'm like, that's interesting. And then we were talking about
33:20
shoes and he's like, oh, yeah, also like, yeah, I don't drive.
33:23
I live like, you know, maybe like 10 minutes from here.
33:25
But I get I get picked up and I'm like, oh, like, that's cool.
33:28
Maybe he just doesn't have a car.
33:29
No, he just said he doesn't want to drive.
33:31
And what do I do as a kid? Hey, you need a ride.
33:34
To your manager. Come on, fucking manager.
33:37
And he'd be like, yeah, sure. He was like 30 something.
33:41
That's strange. And he's like, yeah, sure.
33:43
And then he'd he's yeah. So I would give a ride and then
33:48
he did he would just start being fucking like like we would do
33:51
like these. We would sell access passes,
33:54
which is like the membership when we had them at the time.
33:56
Like the physical memberships are 5 bucks but then you'd get
33:58
like a 15% off that same day which would pay off the card and
34:02
like the next purchase whatever it was worth it if you didn't
34:07
hit your goal. At the end of like the bi weekly
34:10
weekly thing there would be a sheet with all the numbers of
34:13
how many you sold, what your total transactions were, blah
34:15
blah blah. All your metrics.
34:16
All the metrics and then at the bottom he would write everyone's
34:19
name like a shout out, hey, you got to do better and what are
34:24
you doing? And he would fucking like target
34:26
those that were like in that bottom percentile.
34:28
And this is public to. Everyone no public to our like
34:30
little no no but. Yes.
34:32
Everyone. And he would always say some
34:34
fucking dumb slice shit to me, tell he'd be like, like, Jerry,
34:39
you got to step it up. Like, are you even clocking in
34:42
or like, what are you showing up to do?
34:44
Like just always jabbing. And I'm like, at first I was
34:46
like, ha, ha, ha, ha. But then I was like, dude, like,
34:48
I don't, I don't, I get it. It's not that serious, dude.
34:50
Like, chill. Yeah, I'm not.
34:52
Going to give you a ride anymore.
34:53
Yeah. So no, after a while I was just
34:54
like, dude, fuck you, I don't want to give you a ride.
34:56
You're a fucking weirdo. And he would always be weird.
34:58
Like he, he like wouldn't schedule me with certain people.
35:02
There was like 2 girls, but like I, I don't fucking like I was
35:05
out at work, you know? And but he specifically told
35:07
them, oh, I don't want you to work with him because he's going
35:09
to distract you and he would like schedule himself with.
35:12
With them, No. He.
35:13
Wasn't creep. Yeah, he's a fucking weirdo
35:15
dude. So after I started like giving
35:17
him rides and like just being cool with him, I was like he
35:20
started being a Dick like he would just stop scheduling me.
35:23
He would call me out for being late, but I was working at 3,
35:25
like I was there early, so I was here and then I was kind of
35:28
late, but Nah, not that serious. And then, yeah, we just, we, we
35:35
kept getting new guys. And then the new guys would be
35:37
like, like, oh, oh, you're Jerry.
35:40
And I'll be like, yeah, like, what the fuck does that mean,
35:43
you know? What are you hearing and.
35:45
Man, like this. Like the stories I heard after I
35:48
did work with one of my older brother's friends.
35:50
Well, not friends, but he knew him.
35:52
He was cool, but he would he would be like, yeah, and I, he
35:54
doesn't. He doesn't like you.
35:55
I'm like, why? Like what did I do him rights.
35:58
Like what did I do? Like what the fuck?
35:59
That's so weird. Jealousy, man, you were the
36:01
alpha. I, I had to, I ended up fucking
36:03
quitting. I'm like, fuck you, dude, you're
36:04
weird. Fuck this place.
36:06
He would, he would, he would call me out because people would
36:08
come in like Gary, what's up? And I'd talk to them, but they
36:11
did buy shit. Or, or if not, I'd be, I'd talk
36:13
to them for like a minute or two and he'd call me.
36:16
I'd be like, hey, can I talk to you?
36:17
Be like, hey, you can't do that. I'm like do what customer
36:20
service? Like ha ha, no, I'm serious.
36:23
Like you're like distracting other people and like it looks
36:26
like you're just having fun. I'm like, well, isn't that the
36:28
whole point to have fun at my job?
36:30
Like it just just weird man. Like.
36:32
Sounds miserable and like he doesn't have friends and his
36:34
social life was going to work. Yeah, and fucking trying to
36:37
bully 18 year olds. 1718 year olds.
36:39
Like how old was he? Like he was like 30 something
36:41
for sure. He had a family, he had kids.
36:43
Oh my God, that was a signor. He yeah, he is jealous, dude.
36:46
Yeah, probably jealous of all the young people.
36:49
Mm hmm. I wanted to fraternize with all
36:52
the young girls. I quit, I gave him my letter.
36:57
I'm like, hey, I'm resigning. I give him a two weeks and I, I
37:01
forget what I asked him like I was like, I'm not expecting like
37:04
a, a, a like a referral or like a letter of recommendation.
37:07
He's like, Oh no, I'm I'm not. I'm like, I know, like I'm, I'm,
37:11
I don't expect anything like that's it.
37:13
Thank you, but I, I, I did bring it up as like a baby a hope,
37:17
like, hey, you know, if I fucking can I put you down as a
37:19
reference? But he was like, no, I'm like,
37:21
cool. He did not like you.
37:23
No, dude, he didn't, he didn't do that.
37:25
And and I remember like talking about these, these interactions
37:29
with with let's say, or like, yeah, she'd be like, it's just
37:32
fuck this guy. I'm like, yeah, fucking weirdo.
37:35
That was my first one. That was my first one but.
37:37
Damn, I'm glad you quit. How long were?
37:39
You there for? I was there for like less than a
37:41
year. Good.
37:42
Yeah, after the first couple months I was like, yeah, this
37:45
place kind of sucks. Those vibes are not great here.
37:48
I don't get that. Man's a bully.
37:50
Like you get it. Yeah.
37:52
And once again, I think I would do like you.
37:54
I would try to overachieve. I'd be like, when I'm here, like
37:56
I'm going to try to have fun. I'm going to be super talkative.
37:59
I I got the. It was a seasonal position,
38:01
which I then they kept you. They kept me.
38:03
Yeah. So I was like, I was doing
38:05
something right downhill from there.
38:07
Shit. Yeah.
38:08
They said now that we have downtime, I can bully you.
38:10
Yeah. Now that we're not super busy,
38:12
yeah. But just try to be a good
38:14
person. Yeah.
38:15
So yeah, that was the first one, retail man.
38:20
Was that your last retail job or do you have more?
38:23
I think that might have been it because after that I started
38:25
working in schools as a coach, which was super fun.
38:30
Works with Mariano as a soccer coach for a while.
38:33
Oh, cute. With a manager who was
38:35
eventually our friend because she was super cool.
38:39
That was like my first taste of like working at schools and like
38:42
coaching and like doing all that stuff, which is really fun.
38:45
Did that for a couple years and then for when I was in Community
38:48
College and then when I transferred up to university,
38:53
that's when I got the security gig and I did that for I think
38:56
the longest. This was the era I met Jerry.
38:57
Yeah, I was. I was being told who Jerry was.
39:00
I was like, Oh yeah, he, he does security out in LA somewhere.
39:04
Like I was like, OK. And then, not long after, he had
39:06
another job. Yep, Yep, I did do that for, I
39:09
want to say over 2 years and then COVID hit, which then like
39:13
there's no one, there's nothing to do.
39:15
But I did have a lot of fun, man.
39:16
I I worked the other night and then like a lot of his friends
39:19
ended up joining a couple of mine ended up picking up a
39:22
couple gigs. Security was fun.
39:24
It had its moments. I also feel like it was like,
39:29
you're working with a bunch of like old grown men.
39:31
You're like those people that think they're fucking cops.
39:33
Oh. My God I can I can just imagine
39:36
their mindset. Yeah, I had AI had a couple like
39:39
altercations with like just older dudes who just didn't like
39:42
being told what to do. Because eventually I did get
39:43
like a supervisory position as like a 20 year old, 21 year old
39:48
to, to some guys that are like in their 30s, forties, 50s, like
39:51
they don't like being told what to do by younger people.
39:54
So that's what that's where it got interesting.
39:56
And then obviously some celebrities had really good
39:58
interactions with them, others not so much.
40:01
Name drop Who'd you meet? Dude, don't tell me if it's good
40:03
or bad, but just who, who who who'd you meet?
40:05
I used to have, I used to have a list like I, I was like, I have
40:08
to, I have to put a list together.
40:10
I worked a couple red carpets where like Tom Hanks for like
40:12
the the premiere for like Toy Story.
40:16
What's his name? The guy that plays Buzz
40:18
Lightyear, Woody Allen, him, we saw a Doja Cat perform in a
40:23
small ass little bar. We saw Caliucci's perform in a
40:26
small little bit. Yeah, we worked.
40:30
What's that? Stagecoach?
40:32
So I met like, a lot of like, sons of this rapper and then
40:37
this, whatever. I had a picture with a
40:40
basketball player running. I ran into him in like the
40:42
restroom and like, can I get a picture?
40:44
And then I took a picture, lost it, lost that phone.
40:46
No trace. Wow.
40:50
Yeah, security was cool. I made a lot of money to like
40:52
just the gigs where you you have the opportunity to make money.
40:56
If you're smart enough, you can totally get in to do extra shit.
40:59
Damn, you were hustling. It was, it was really fun.
41:01
It had a really good era that that year, those years COVID
41:05
hit, declined. Gone.
41:06
Nothing. And then after that, I just kind
41:08
of focus on working in the realm of like where I wanted to study,
41:12
where I wanted to get to and stuff.
41:14
But I'm a pause here to let you go because that was like back
41:17
to. Back-to-back at this same era is
41:19
when I got my second job because I was working through, I think I
41:29
had just finished school. No, no, I was still in school
41:34
because I had this job before COVID.
41:36
I went from my old job to unemployment for a couple months
41:42
because I'm like, what the heck, I get to make money and not have
41:47
to work and I just have to apply.
41:50
And unfortunately I only got unemployment for like 2 months
41:53
because I did get a call back in an interview for a, for a
41:56
clothing store. OK, I don't want to say what
41:59
clothing store because I still have a lot of colleagues, OK,
42:02
who work in that, in that field and in that chain.
42:05
But I would say that 80% of it was a good job, OK, 20% of it
42:13
was bad, and when it was bad, it was terrible.
42:16
Fuck. Started off as just like a
42:19
regular cashier and going from a huge like department store to a
42:27
small like kind of outdoor mall store where it's only clothing.
42:30
Yeah, night and day difference. I bet it was so easy and the
42:36
expectations, or maybe it was just the management team in
42:39
general, was way more uplifting, way more positive and really
42:42
wanted you to grow. Because every, like, manager
42:46
that I met and talked with, like had a long history with the
42:49
company and would say, hey, if you like work really hard and
42:53
you're motivated to try new things, you'll move up.
42:56
I was a cashier for like maybe 6-7 months before.
42:58
They're like, oh, we need a lead, are you interested?
43:01
And I was like, yeah, put me in coach.
43:04
Yeah, yeah. This is also where I think I've
43:08
finessed my customer service skills, which have led me to
43:11
like where I'm at now because now I'm my field of job is 2/3
43:16
worlds away from from retail, but still customer service is
43:19
still needed important. I had to like the thing that
43:24
they were hardest on was selling credit cards.
43:27
All they cared about was how much money they made at the end
43:29
of the day and how many credit cards are made.
43:31
That was one of my biggest stressors, everyone's stressors.
43:35
That quota. And unfortunately I was pretty
43:38
good at it. OK, like I was really good at
43:40
it, like top performer until I became a manager and then the
43:44
nation. No, for like our like the
43:46
district, like the whole group of stories.
43:49
That's technically the nation. So they were like, oh, you're
43:52
really good, let's make you instead of a lead, we have a, it
43:57
was like an in between position of like a lead and a manager
44:00
because you're part of the management team, you're in all
44:02
the management meetings and your title was not manager.
44:05
OK. And I was found myself in charge
44:08
of our truck deliveries. OK.
44:11
For like a $2.00 raise and I said give it to me two.
44:13
Dollars. I'll do it.
44:14
I'll become a trucker. No, Jerry, during the holiday
44:18
season, I'd have to start my shifts at 4:00 in the morning.
44:21
Have some horseshit? Waiting for the truck to get
44:24
there because sometimes the truck would be late.
44:25
Why are we there at 4:00? And they were doing this whole
44:28
like restructuring of our operation for how we unload
44:31
trucks, how we get products on the floor.
44:33
And we were part of like the pilot program.
44:36
So they'd be like, oh, Brian, there's a meeting at the out of
44:40
store all the way in Orange County and you need to be there
44:42
at 6:00 AM. So there I am on a day I'm not
44:46
doing truck, waking up at 4:00 in the morning so I can get
44:49
ready and drive all the way down to like deep Orange County.
44:52
Like deep. To then to know what's even
44:55
further, to then still come back and receive the truck.
44:58
No, no, no, no, no. We would watch them do their
45:00
truck because some of them had slightly different.
45:02
Oh, I see what you mean. I see.
45:03
I think they had different schedules.
45:04
Got it, got it. So you'd be there to see their
45:06
operation. To see how they're doing because
45:07
they'd be like, can we they're like, we needed to push this
45:10
many units per hour while we do truck because that's how you're
45:14
getting allocated for your for your team.
45:19
Like that's how I would I would know how many people I need to
45:21
schedule because we get an invoice of all the items we're
45:25
getting on the truck that day. I'd have to coordinate with the
45:28
department heads like women's lead, men's lead, kids lead and
45:32
be like, hey, this product is new This product is new.
45:36
I don't see it in the flow plant.
45:38
This, this part was cool, which I really liked was like the
45:41
structure of the of the store, OK And moving stuff around and
45:45
doing layout changes like that was so fun.
45:48
Yeah, I wasn't the greatest at it to begin with.
45:53
And ultimately it wasn't my job. So I would go to the other
45:55
people and be like, hey, you're getting 100 new jackets of the
45:58
style where they go. And she'd be like follow me and
46:03
she'd like like puzzle pieces. All of a sudden she has a bunch
46:07
of empty hooks and arms and shelves.
46:10
She like it's going to go there crazy.
46:12
So then I would then have it all written out.
46:16
I'd have printed copies of our guidebook and be like, hey, so
46:21
and so you have to, you're going to be in charge of women's,
46:25
you're unboxing all of women's active and all of women's active
46:28
is going to go on these shelves. And I would have to like run my
46:32
circles, make sure everyone's on time, see that someone is
46:35
struggling, have to go in and help them.
46:37
And then they'll be like, oh, hey, this is new, but it's not
46:40
on the flow plan. What do we do?
46:44
And that's where I'm like, I'm so sorry, lady.
46:48
I, I but I'm going to mess your shelves up right now.
46:51
Yeah. So there I am, restructuring
46:53
shelves, trying to put stuff together.
46:54
Yeah, I was one way skinnier than I am now and two were
46:59
really strong. OK, 'cause shit was heavy.
47:01
Yeah, I bet. Dude, those boxes are fucked.
47:03
close. Yeah, they're packed.
47:05
Moving mannequins around the wooden shelves that everything
47:08
is on. Those were like 25 lbs.
47:10
These are the questions as like a a consumer when you're
47:12
walking, you're like, oh wow, they changed the layout.
47:14
Like I wonder when they did it We were.
47:15
There at 4:00 in the morning Fucking.
47:17
Crazy. I can't.
47:18
Or were there late at night the night before.
47:20
Yeah, but I had really good Co workers.
47:25
I made great friends like where it evolved past coworkers.
47:29
Yeah, I love that job when it was great and it was terrible.
47:37
Like the holiday season is been ultimately like what led me to
47:43
quit because I got promoted again, didn't have to do truck
47:45
no more. And then I became the manager of
47:47
like all operation stuff, so like scheduling and I don't even
47:53
remember what he did anymore. It's like so it's a blur to me.
47:57
I think it's called trauma. Yes, if there was any issues,
48:01
anyone wanted to fight any of the cashiers, I'd have to go out
48:03
there. I have to be vigilant in case
48:05
someone is trying to steal constantly.
48:07
We did have a lot of like crazy experiences, people threatening
48:13
because one, we're not I I also stand by this.
48:18
If someone is stealing stuff and they're running out your door,
48:20
do not chase them. Do not.
48:23
Above your pay Agree. Dude, yeah, do not get involved
48:25
because your safety and your life is more important than that
48:28
clothes, than those clothes and those losses.
48:30
And if some LP person is going to yell at you for that, be
48:34
like, I'm so sorry, but my life is worth so much more than these
48:37
clothes. My safety.
48:38
I if you think that's not the case, bye.
48:42
Bye. Yeah, fuck you, fuck off mate.
48:47
Downside of being in management means you are also responsible
48:50
for any kind of like emergency or any crazy scenario.
48:55
And I we had bathrooms open to the public.
48:59
I had to clean shit. Shit like full on people are
49:02
pooping on the floor, on the sides of the toilet, on the wall
49:08
like 3 times in the time I live there or work there.
49:11
The third time was like in the rush of like right before the
49:15
holiday season and I had already been thinking about like wanting
49:18
to move somewhere else because I don't want to do retail forever.
49:22
I already graduated. I got my degree in cinema and
49:25
film or cinema and TV was not working on that at that point,
49:29
had no plans in working that. But I'm like I need to, I need
49:33
to do something new. I cannot do retail forever.
49:34
It's stressing me out. Yeah, I went into the office, on
49:39
my office, literally the office computer, and I opened a board
49:43
and I said I am resigning. I was so dramatic about it too.
49:49
But honestly at that point I had like 3 or 4 months of just just
49:54
being miserable about it. So much stuff at that point had
49:57
just like added on. I was stressed about like, not
50:00
being where I wanted to be career wise.
50:02
Yeah, feeling like my talents could be used somewhere else and
50:07
they're not being as much as at that point I've been promoted
50:10
twice. But what I realized the only
50:12
thing coming after that was a manager and their lives are
50:16
their job and that will never be me.
50:20
I can give you my 9:00 to 5:00 and a little bit more than that,
50:23
but I can't be 10:30 PM everyday thinking.
50:27
Did we make sales? Like how are we with credit
50:29
cards? How are we for the quarter?
50:32
I thought you're not living your life.
50:35
So at that point I'm like, there's nowhere else for me to
50:38
go. I'm going to I'm going to out
50:40
the door. I'm quitting.
50:41
I have nothing lined up, but I'm quitting.
50:42
I wrote my resignation like, hey, this has been too much low
50:46
key miserable the last couple weeks, last months.
50:48
Yeah. So not a you thing because I
50:50
gave my final notice to the person to I miss her who was
50:56
manager at the time because we had a great management team, so
50:59
great that they were pulling them to different areas.
51:01
Of course, that's what they do. So by the end of it, it was just
51:04
a whole like mismatch of people in management.
51:07
Not that I had issues with any of them, like all on their own.
51:10
They're all great except one. Don't talk to her.
51:15
The rest of them were great, were great.
51:17
So to be like, hey lady, yeah, like this is not a you like I've
51:23
like you helped make this like a fun place to be.
51:24
And we're so like motivated to to do more.
51:27
This is too much. And I gave them a three-week
51:31
notice. More than you should have.
51:33
And then by this point, COVID had happened.
51:36
Yeah. I was making so much money with
51:39
disability or unemployment when I wasn't working for four
51:41
months. Yeah.
51:42
For some reason they decided we were a what's the name for
51:46
businesses that they let them come back to work like?
51:53
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Something that was allowed to be
51:56
open. Not like a like a fundamental,
51:58
but it was like a. Something along those lines.
52:00
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They said, oh, no, you you
52:03
should be selling clothes right now.
52:04
You definitely everyone at home, but you should be selling
52:06
clothes. So they made us come back to
52:07
work really early and weird and never, I had never got COVID.
52:13
Essential workers. Essential workers, yes.
52:16
Oh, you're so smart. Yeah, I knew I had the word
52:17
fundamentals really close to the word I'm looking for anyways.
52:20
So we were essential workers, but it was Thanksgiving time and
52:27
like I said, I I was good at the job.
52:30
I wasn't going to leave them high and dry.
52:32
So I said here is a three-week notice because like I said, I
52:36
had nothing lined up. I'll help you work through the
52:42
week before Black Friday because I was not going to work another
52:45
holiday week for retail. That's a miserable it's terrible
52:51
I got COVID. But Brian?
52:54
So I worked. I turned to my notice like 5
52:57
days later I got COVID. Yeah, I think it was over
52:59
Halloween. Yeah, remember the Halloween?
53:02
I remember all of this. No, I remember all of this,
53:04
friend. Like I, I was going to butt in
53:05
and say I remember when all of this was happening through like
53:09
in like a third party, like information wheel because I
53:13
didn't really talk to you at the time.
53:14
No, this is when I was living in Pomona, Yeah.
53:16
Uh huh. So I would hear the stories and
53:18
I would be there like, Dang, wow, that sucks.
53:21
Yeah. Shit, yeah.
53:23
And then you got COVID. I got COVID.
53:24
But the amazing thing is I got COVID pay.
53:30
I got my final check. Another reason why I quit it was
53:34
it was so hard to take time off as management because there's
53:37
only like so many other people that can cover you, so you got
53:40
time off. I had like 100 hours of vacation
53:42
time. That's fucking crazy.
53:43
I left that job with thousands of dollars, thousands.
53:46
My final paycheck. Yeah, I didn't work for like 3
53:49
months after that dude. As you should have.
53:52
As you should have. It was hard to find jobs.
53:54
That was mostly the reason. That too.
53:57
Yeah, post COVID but that's so wild.
54:02
It unfortunately led to the most stressful job I've ever had in
54:06
my life. But I will let you continue
54:11
wherever you left off. We don't have to do a Part 2
54:13
because. I was going to say I'm like
54:15
Brian. I don't think I've scratched the
54:17
surface, but like, I don't even think I've like.
54:20
Jerry's next jobs are the ones I'm most excited for.
54:23
The next ones are like if they just like if they were bad, they
54:26
just go to worse and then we're back up we're.
54:29
Back up. We're back up especially.
54:31
Yeah, love Brian. I think we might have to do a
54:34
Part 2 to this because yeah, it's actually going to help me
54:38
remember things because I I started remembering things from
54:40
like the first job and I'm like, I should have said that.
54:42
Irrelevant. This next one, I'm going to like
54:45
put some stuff together because it's so interesting.
54:48
It's just like it's life and we're only we're in our late
54:51
20s, we're. In our late 20s and we've lived
54:53
lifetimes. You know, whereas like, you
54:55
know, some other generations in the past would would have been
54:58
like, suck it up. That's what you got to do.
55:00
Stay in your job for 10-15 years.
55:02
Hate it, but hey, you got to do it.
55:03
Make it work. Suck.
55:04
Yeah, suck it up. So that was a mentality that I
55:09
did not want to replicate and never want to do.
55:13
So I think we might need a Part 2 guys.
55:15
Yeah, Holy shit. You're saying that and I'm
55:17
thinking now like in the time I've known my parents because
55:21
like you're only conscience from like maybe the ages of five and
55:24
up. That a little older for some of
55:26
us. Some of those are are barely
55:29
experiencing it now. In our late 20s.
55:32
My dad had this same job literally until he stopped
55:35
working. Yeah, and same with my mom.
55:38
As long as I've been aware of them having jobs, it was the
55:41
same job. That's like 20 + 30 + 20 plus at
55:48
least minimum. Yeah, I think my dad worked like
55:50
15 years at his job, but. I would say that's like what,
55:53
40% of your life if you have more.
55:54
Giving to one company? That's crazy.
55:57
No, but I think the difference is when you go to college, they
56:00
also kind of give you that mentality of like build your
56:03
resume, move on. Build your resume, move on.
56:07
If there is a cap, you shouldn't be there.
56:09
Yeah, exactly. And you know that right away,
56:12
like, it doesn't take too long to be like, OK, I can see myself
56:15
growing here or I'm just, you know, stifled.
56:17
And I'm not going anywhere. And they're going to keep taking
56:20
advantage of us. Crazy.
56:21
Also, at the end of the day, your job does not define you as
56:24
a person. No.
56:25
I had a friend that a while ago that was going through like,
56:29
their master's program. And, like, when I would meet his
56:33
friends, I felt like a very type of way because they were all,
56:39
like, Business School students. And this is when I was working
56:42
in retail. And I was like, I was making my
56:43
good money as like a manager. Like I was set when I would
56:48
mention like, oh, are you part of the program?
56:50
No. Oh, what do you do?
56:52
I'm like working in retail. Oh, OK.
56:53
Turns away, walks away, not interested in me because I can't
56:57
help them in any way in moving on up in their career.
57:00
Yeah, that's that's too far. Yeah.
57:02
I don't want to rub elbows with those people.
57:10
Life, life, this, this, this wasn't a he ha ha episode, but
57:15
like, it's, it's good to talk about it, you know, it's just, I
57:18
feel like we've all been through something like that so.
57:20
Do you guys have terrible jobs or have you had them?
57:22
Please tell us. I want to know.
57:25
Or do you love your job? That's true.
57:27
Have you had the opposite? Where you just like every
57:29
fucking job I've worked at has been awesome.
57:31
Or I've been at the same job for like years and I love it.
57:34
And if so, that's fucking cool and I envy you, but I'm happy
57:38
for you. Described.
57:43
Yeah, it's we're all just raindrops on a windshield.
57:48
True. And we all have different areas
57:52
of our lives, even like you said, we're in our late 20s.
57:54
I feel like I've lived four different versions of myself in
57:58
my 20s. Yeah, the updates have been
57:59
real. Yeah, the, the, the system
58:02
updates. It's fucking cool.
58:04
It's cool. But like I said, I like where
58:06
we're at now. OK, it's the next next episode
58:11
will not be work because we already have the next one
58:13
planned and you guys have homework.
58:14
True, true. Tell them.
58:17
Have you guys started heated rivalry on HBO slash Craig?
58:24
Because if not you have homework because we are coming at you and
58:27
next week haven't watched up to episode 4.
58:30
You got 4 episodes. It is an 18 plus show.
58:32
Do not watch with your parents. Don't watch in the privacy of
58:35
your own home. Don't even look it up.
58:37
Just start episode 1. It's.
58:39
A family friendly show. You can watch it with your
58:40
parents and family. Teaches you exactly how to try
58:43
to make a family. Yeah, if you can watch it like
58:45
in public out loud, do it. I recommend it.
58:47
Nope. Headphones on in your phone,
58:49
under the covers, hand in your pants.
58:52
Be be be mindful of those around you.
58:56
But yeah, just no fucks giving. Just watch it.
58:59
All you need to know is hockey. Are you a hockey fan?
59:04
I am now, I am now love the ducks.
59:09
Quack. They're right here in Anaheim.
59:12
Yes, they are. Let's go to game.
59:14
Let's go. OK, next week we're talking all
59:15
about sports. Sports we've played, sports
59:17
Jerry's played and the TV show we're watching.
59:21
And I'm going to give Jerry a quiz.
59:23
It's all going to be live at the Honda Center on the ice.
59:27
We're going to be playing an actual game miked up with
59:30
Oculus. Oh my God, we have cameras
59:36
strapped to work for. Fucking cameras are going to be
59:38
destroyed within the 1st 30 seconds.
59:39
Let me eat so much shit. And hey, if we end up having a
59:42
different idea by then, you can't blame us.
59:44
But that's the plan. You guys have your homework, you
59:46
need to watch that. This might be the first time we
59:48
let them know what's going to what's coming.
59:50
Literally. Yeah, the next episode.
59:52
Why these are so spoiled? OK, anyways, it's music time,
59:58
baby. It's music time what you got for
1:00:03
us. I have one right away.
1:00:04
I've been listening. I've been hooked.
1:00:06
So I've I've just been I've been circling through my dragon phase
1:00:09
again. Fucking love Dragons.
1:00:11
And by the way, Lucy got me this art piece from some sort of like
1:00:14
little fair thing that she went to over the weekend.
1:00:17
It's like this black dragon and she texted me randomly.
1:00:20
I told you Brian, but she texted me randomly.
1:00:22
We were playing Fortnite. She said pick a dragon colour
1:00:24
go. I said Obsidian because I'm
1:00:27
thinking Dragons loving Obsidian Dragon doesn't answer, leaves me
1:00:33
on red and I'm like, did I win? And then like maybe 30 minutes
1:00:36
later she was like, yes. And then she gets home and then
1:00:39
she whips out this beautiful print of a dragon.
1:00:44
It's a black dragon. Got no, like no specific
1:00:47
Obsidian, but it's a black dragon and there's birds like
1:00:52
he's holding a bird with his finger.
1:00:53
There's a bird, there's an owl on the bottom.
1:00:55
It's a beautiful picture of a dragon.
1:00:57
But anyways, I've been listening to Dio as I do every week.
1:01:02
DODIO he has an album called Killing the Dragon and a song
1:01:06
called Killing the dragon. I just want I want Oh, I'm
1:01:10
playing it. My bad.
1:01:11
I want everyone to my phone has been acting.
1:01:14
Look at that. Look at that art like just not.
1:01:18
The never ending breath of fire. I think my phone's about to die.
1:01:21
I think that's why it's oh Yep, it's dead.
1:01:22
My phone died killing the dragon by DIO.
1:01:25
It is my new obsession this week.
1:01:28
That's cool, that's cooler than my suggestion.
1:01:30
This is a song that I started listening to very recently.
1:01:34
It came up on my Spotify DJ which honestly when it
1:01:37
recommends new stuff to me it's mostly miss rather than hits.
1:01:41
Hey, Brian, it's me. Your boy X.
1:01:45
Your boy. XI usually skip through.
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I'm like I listen to the first like 30 seconds and pass and
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pass and pass. However this one got me.
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I don't listen to a lot of male performers.
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I I listen to maybe like 2, which is Omar Apollo and like
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Bad Bunny, that's it. But this one is by an A singer
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called Omar Rudberg, know nothing about him, don't know
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what he's about, but he has a song called Malandro MALANDRO
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and it's really good. Is it like?
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Is it like Latin pop? I think.
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So it's in English, but I think no parts of it are in Spanish.
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OK, but it's really good. It's like a little dark and a
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little vibey and dancy. I like that vibe.
1:02:35
Is did you play for me already? I don't think so no, because
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this this is like a recent like just showed up in my things and
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he's not super duper popular. No, he only has 400,000
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listeners. That's that's a lot, Yeah.
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Oh, true true, true in the in the scope.
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Of in the scope of the world, that's not a.
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Lot. That's a lot, right?
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No, that's a different story. Yes, if you had a car.
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Oh, and he's handsome. He looks like a moral.
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I know, I know. That is the same person
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different. Font.
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I have a type I don't know. Yeah, I don't know where he's
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from. It doesn't say on the in the
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description. No, it says nothing.
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It says I'm not Omar Apollo. No, you know how normally
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they'll have like an about? Yeah, like, who is this person?
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They're that low key. He's got an Instagram.
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What's Instagram say, Malandro? There's nothing.
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There's literally nothing there. Oh, followed by Omar Apollo.
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Oh my God. He has a picture with Who is
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this? Zara Larsson?
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Oh he he rolls with LGBT. Anyways, that's all we have.
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What? Was his last name Rudberg?
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Rudberg Sounds. Familiar.
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I don't know. One of these captions is in like
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Turkish. Whoa, maybe Turkish?
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He's from Iceland. Oh, he opened up for Sarah
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Larson. Oh, he knows the old.
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The rest of his music is probably super pop.
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The yo lads, sorry. Oh, he.
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Definitely knows about the Yo lads or not.
1:04:14
No, no. Maybe because he was just
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touring there that he wrote in that language.
1:04:19
That's cool. Wow.
1:04:20
Well, thank you for listening, guys.
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This was a chill episode. I think I'm ready for a nap.
1:04:27
I am too. I need some coffee.
1:04:29
I don't. Coffee.
1:04:31
No. Coffee.
1:04:33
No coffee. Fine, yes.
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Alright guys, bye. Before he changes the.
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Line bye, bye.