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School Lunch Lady _ This Past Weekend w_ Theo Von _507(M4A_128K) · Drawn of History

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  Speaker 1: Today's guest is that midday meal maiden. She's that belly-filling
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  Speaker 1: bad girl between breakfast and dinner. A lunch lady, that's right,
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  Speaker 1: out of Cleveland, Ohio. She's been in the game more
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  Speaker 1: than 31 years. We're going to learn about all of it.
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  Speaker 1: The lunch, the children, the lifestyle. We want to thank
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  Speaker 1: all the lunch ladies that reached out and who we
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  Speaker 1: spoke with. And we are so grateful to have one
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  Speaker 1: in studio today. Lunch lady, Melissa Ansel.
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  Speaker 2: Shine that light on me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll sit and tell you my story. Shine on me.
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  Speaker 2: And I will follow.
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  Speaker 1: Lunch lady Melissa, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You feel good?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I flew for the first time today, so.
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  Speaker 1: Did you really? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I've never flown in my life, and I said I'd
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  Speaker 2: never get on a plane, so thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And you changed it all up, huh?
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  Speaker 2: I changed it all up in the last couple days, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I've been feeling like I'm going to pee a lot,
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  Speaker 2: but that's all.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I'm nervous.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, nerves, you think?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just nerves.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know if you meant like because of the
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  Speaker 1: altitude or something.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no. Just because I was nervous because I
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  Speaker 2: was doing something. Oh, yeah? Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Really? So it's been a while?
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  Speaker 2: A while. I've never flew.
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  Speaker 1: What's the highest you've ever been up then? On a
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  Speaker 1: building or something? On a slide? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a slide or, you know, a roller coaster or something.
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  Speaker 1: Gosh. Gosh.
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  Speaker 2: I know, right?
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  Speaker 1: And was it nerve-wracking?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it wasn't as bad, I guess, as what
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  Speaker 2: I thought. But, yeah, you know, I had to take
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  Speaker 2: a pill, just calm myself down. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I popped a couple of pills just to
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  Speaker 1: get through a tough episode of Cops before.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I mean, this is true.
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  Speaker 1: You know? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But thank you for coming in.
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  Speaker 2: No, thank you so much. This was awesome. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're very welcome. And, yeah, we just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody has had lunch ladies in their lives. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, a lot of children, really, it
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  Speaker 1: goes from, like, breastfed to bottle fed to being fed
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  Speaker 1: by a woman, like, kind of vaguely covered in plastic,
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  Speaker 1: you know?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And so... it's kind of like, you know, it's almost
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  Speaker 1: mom's third breast in a way. It's like you're that
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  Speaker 1: next liaison to sustenance for a child. True, true. How
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  Speaker 1: did you get into the game? How did you get
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  Speaker 1: into it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I mean, I kind of fell into it,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I graduated, got pregnant, needed a job, and
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  Speaker 2: there I was. And then it worked out really good, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's just go back. So you graduated from what?
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  Speaker 2: I graduated from high school.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. You graduated from high school. And where are you?
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  Speaker 1: What part of the nation are you in?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm from Cleveland, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So you're from Ohio. And you graduate from high school.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get knocked up by a man.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. You know?
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  Speaker 1: And....
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  Speaker 2: Then I didn't really want the man that much. So
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  Speaker 2: then I moved out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you moved out. So you separated, but how did that,
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  Speaker 1: so how do you go from there? How did somebody
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  Speaker 1: go from getting knocked up by a guy?
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  Speaker 2: I kind of wanted to, uh.
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  Speaker 1: To sit, you know, feed and children. Yeah. I guess actually, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I.
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  Speaker 2: Fell into the job, but when I started to do it,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I really like it. And I had,
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  Speaker 2: and my son, then he started going to school there,
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  Speaker 2: you know?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So he got to stay when I was off, he
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  Speaker 2: was off. So it was so much easier to, To,
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  Speaker 2: you know, follow with them, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's kind of perfect, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was perfect. Oh, yeah. That was awesome. So
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  Speaker 2: we would have the summers off if I wanted to or,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whenever on holidays. I didn't have to look
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  Speaker 2: for a babysitter, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's pretty magical.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And how did you actually, who got you the job there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I just went down to.
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  Speaker 1: Overseeing lunch.
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  Speaker 2: I went down to the Board of Education, looked around,
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  Speaker 2: got some jobs, and then I just slowly, like, moved up.
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  Speaker 2: Cause I've been there so long, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they move you. So there's different, is there different? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There's kind of like different positions. Like you'd start out
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  Speaker 2: like the, the really kind of lunch lady. Then you
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  Speaker 2: like move up to the general prep and the cook,
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  Speaker 2: then the manager, things like that, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Um, okay. So you're in Cleveland, you have a child,
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  Speaker 1: your child. Now you start lunch lady and at the school, uh,
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  Speaker 1: where your child is. And so take me through like
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  Speaker 1: a typical shift of a lunch lady. Like they get there.
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  Speaker 1: Do you walk to school? Do you, do you guys carpool?
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  Speaker 1: How does it work?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I didn't have a car for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: So when I don't have a car, I would walk
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  Speaker 2: or sometimes somebody would pick me up. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I have a car now and we're actually in the,
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  Speaker 2: we're transitioning there. They tore my school down. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: over at a swing site. So it's a little bit further,
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  Speaker 2: not too much further. And I drive there and back.
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  Speaker 2: But once I get the other one, really, I can
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  Speaker 2: kind of walk down there if I had to. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's been perfect since I also have anxiety. I don't
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  Speaker 2: drive as much.
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  Speaker 1: Driving's hard, huh?
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  Speaker 2: I don't like the other people driving. If they could
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  Speaker 2: just stay away from me when I'm on the road,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be cool.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean, here's my thing. I've met a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, right? Something's wrong with them. So all
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  Speaker 1: driving is, is those people are in cars now.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not like they've changed suddenly because they're in
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  Speaker 1: a vehicle. Something's still wrong with them.
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  Speaker 2: I said, just because I'm nervous and don't drive a
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  Speaker 2: lot like that, you know, so them guys, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I live in the lower Cleveland. So let me
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  Speaker 2: just say some of the drivers aren't even supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be in those cars.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Because they sold them. Yeah. Well, about 15 years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I did wake up one morning and my car got
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  Speaker 2: stolen out of my driveway. And I was like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: where's my car? And it really wasn't there. But they
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  Speaker 2: never found it. So they must have, yeah, they probably
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  Speaker 2: took parts off it and had a good time with it.
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  Speaker 2: But I was violated.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of car was it?
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  Speaker 2: It was an old Cutlass.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they wanted to bad in the, you know, how
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  Speaker 2: those doors slam good and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And look, let's say there's definitely brothers love a Cutlass.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody was loving it, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: People's love a Cutlass. My dad had a Delta 88.
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  Speaker 1: And he also had a Cutlass. Bring that up. Bring
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  Speaker 1: up a Cutlass. Let's see the one that got stolen
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  Speaker 1: here from Lunch Lady Melissa. Do you know what year model.
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  Speaker 2: It was, Melissa? Oh, goodness. I don't really remember that much.
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  Speaker 1: But just ballpark it, like 1940, 1990. No, like 1990.
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  Speaker 2: It kind of looked like that white one over there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of like. But the doors just shot good
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  Speaker 2: and everything, but I didn't protect it.
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  Speaker 1: Should have put the club or something on the wheel,
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  Speaker 1: you know?
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  Speaker 2: I got the club on it right now. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: beater in the driveway right now.
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  Speaker 1: Do you?
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  Speaker 2: Heck yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my mom puts it on all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I put it on. I don't care. Because
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  Speaker 2: now that they took it from me, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is it. Now if they could get past all those,
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  Speaker 2: they could have it.
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  Speaker 1: You've earned it, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you earned it. Take it. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, so take me through a typical shift at work.
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  Speaker 1: You show up at what time do you get over there?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I get there at 7.30.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, we turn on all the warmers, oven,
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff, you know, start putting everything out, make
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  Speaker 2: hot breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: You get a breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do a hot breakfast, and we also do
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  Speaker 2: a breakfast cart, so they could choose. So, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if I have a pancake with a sausage in it,
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  Speaker 2: they could choose a hot. you know, their juice and milk,
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  Speaker 2: or they can go over to the cart and I
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  Speaker 2: have like muffins, blueberry muffins, lemon bread, cereal.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe apple.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, all the time. Fruits and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. This
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  Speaker 2: new guy stepping it up with the fruit now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We got a new man that in charge of food
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  Speaker 2: service and yeah. The, some of the kids didn't even
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  Speaker 2: know what a Kiwi and stuff was, but they do now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was interesting. The other day I would cut
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  Speaker 2: them all up and I'm like, Oh, I ain't got
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  Speaker 2: to worry about it, you know? And then I come
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  Speaker 2: over and look, and the kid's like, Miss Melissa, I
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  Speaker 2: ate the whole kiwi. And I'm like, what? Why'd you
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  Speaker 2: eat that fuzz? And I was like, oh, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know you guys didn't know that. So, yeah, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, yeah, the first time you get that kiwi,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know how much to have or how much
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  Speaker 1: not to have, you know?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know I wouldn't eat that outside, though.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. I don't know that. I think it depends on
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  Speaker 1: what you're into.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's true. I mean, it's a fuzzy feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Well, some people like a little bit of, you know, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They like a different environment.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you get in there. You got the warmers on.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a team? Do you guys have a
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  Speaker 1: team meeting or something?
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, I'm like, I'm the manager or whatever. Me
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  Speaker 2: and Shayla Cruz, that's my lady that cooks. We come
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  Speaker 2: in together and we do most of the work.
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  Speaker 1: And that's breakfast work?
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast, everything.
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  Speaker 1: So breakfast comes, some of the kids come. How much
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  Speaker 1: percent of the children come to get breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: You think? Oh, like 460. I'd say we have 600
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  Speaker 2: we feed a day. So we could do about 460 breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of them eat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of them eat, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we would get to school for breakfast if we
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  Speaker 1: got there in enough time. Sometimes our bus, if it
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  Speaker 1: were like six minutes late.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know what? But now, though, we have to
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  Speaker 2: stay open if their buses are late. Yeah, all that stuff, so. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we don't close up. We pretty much, kids come in
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  Speaker 2: sometimes at like one in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Ms.
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  Speaker 2: Melissa, can I get breakfast?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're eating in two minutes, but sure, here's
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  Speaker 3: your breakfast and your lunch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't even care.
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  Speaker 2: I know, they don't care.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know.
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  Speaker 2: As long as they eat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's how they are. Right. Okay. So you guys
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  Speaker 1: got the breakfast done. You shut it down. How do
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  Speaker 1: you start to transition to lunch? Is there an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: if people want to smoke between lunch and break? Like,
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  Speaker 1: what is that? Like you guys get a little break
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  Speaker 1: or anything or do a video game on your phone
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  Speaker 1: or something?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we're really busy. So it all depends
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  Speaker 2: on what we're making that day. Cause if it's something
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  Speaker 2: like hard, like for breakfast, we have to do all that.
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  Speaker 2: If it's just like a pancake, we just heat it
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  Speaker 2: up or something, that's real easy.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? So you got more time.
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  Speaker 2: But if it's something and I'm making sausage, egg, cheese,
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  Speaker 2: I have to put it all on one, wrap it.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: We're swinging right in, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: As the kids are coming through, we're still, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 2: still working.
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast, lunch, whatever, brunch.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I said.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And like when I do the turnover, people are like, wow.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, move the cooler. We're turning over. Breakfast is over.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So really, is there a hard line where it's
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  Speaker 1: just like breakfast is done?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I say that, but I'm lying because whenever they
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  Speaker 2: come in, I also fill in breakfast, even if they
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  Speaker 2: came in later. So I always just tease.
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  Speaker 1: You kind of draw a line in the same way.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there should be a line, yeah, to at least
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  Speaker 2: a limit because I'm about to serve lunch pretty soon.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell them, you know, come on now. But like
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  Speaker 2: I said, we're here to feed them.
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  Speaker 1: And is there like a little bit of a game
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  Speaker 1: plan before lunch? How do you know what lunch y'all
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  Speaker 1: are going to serve? Does it come down like from
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  Speaker 1: like a, I have a menu. Superior, like on a,
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  Speaker 1: when does it, and it comes like, this is what
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  Speaker 1: we're serving today?
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  Speaker 2: I have a menu and then I order from the
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  Speaker 2: menu for the week.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: Like you have a menu?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they say on the menu, okay, say it's a
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  Speaker 2: chicken bowl. So I know I'm going to order that.
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  Speaker 2: So for five days I order and I'll order everything
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  Speaker 2: for that and everything for the salads we're going to
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  Speaker 2: make for that same day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so all the items that go into those things
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  Speaker 1: you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, because we have a couple different things you choose from.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: So, and just make sure you have enough lunches. Because, man,
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  Speaker 2: when you run out, boy, those kids are ready to
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  Speaker 2: get you. And don't run out on pizza day. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: I was messing around once and I, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: was talking to the kids too much and I started burning. So,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm sorry. So, they didn't like that very well, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you run out on pizza day, I remember. Oh, man. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we went through a couple different types of pizza, I remember.
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  Speaker 1: I remember pizza. there was this round, can you bring
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  Speaker 1: up the different school pizzas that were served? There was
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  Speaker 1: a round pizza that had a great crust on it.
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  Speaker 1: I remember it was really great. And people would like
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  Speaker 1: see each other and be like, Hey, that crust is great.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 1: And people would be like, yeah. And then, then we
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  Speaker 1: got to this other square pizza and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this ain't even barely pizza, dude. And that one, people
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  Speaker 1: didn't really like it as much. And the cheese, I
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  Speaker 1: think tasted different to me, but, Um, yeah, let's look
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  Speaker 1: at a couple of these. That's one right there. I've
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  Speaker 1: definitely had that one. The one you have the cursor
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  Speaker 1: on down right there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have like the one you got the cursor
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  Speaker 2: on that. That's like our breakfast pizza. Oh, we serve
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  Speaker 2: that now for breakfast. They love some breakfast pizza. Oh yeah.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: Breakfast pizza was good.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Um, we used to have a box pizza years and
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: years ago. And I'm talking like 30 years ago, the
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: kids used to really like, but, um, now we're serving
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: a stuffed crust pizza, uh, So the kids are pretty interested, yeah.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: Like I said, pizza day, I hear a lot of compliments.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: I look good on pizza day.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: So there'll be a lot of flirting and stuff on
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: pizza day, huh?
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, pizza day, everybody wants a piece of pizza.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, everybody want a pizza. Oh, yeah. So pizza's
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: the big thing, right? That's the thing everybody loves the most?
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: That's what they love. Well, yeah, there's a couple different things,
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: but following the menu....
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so following the menu, you guys, you have your
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: week of menu. It's already set up in advance. So
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: before the previous week ends, you got the whole week
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: lined up the next week.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Right, because I order right a week ahead.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: So I kind of have it lined up. But things
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: can happen, so it's subject to change.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Especially in 2020, you know, when all that shortage.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, whatever they gave me was what they were. Because,
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: you know, it was constant. Nope, we don't have that
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: no more. Nope, we're short of this. Nope, we don't
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: have that. I'm like, oh, my gosh, when we feed
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: these kids. I'm about to go to the grocery store.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: I need a food stamp card.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to do something.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: You know, I was like, man, these kids need to eat. Yeah. Yeah.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: It's crazy sometimes.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: You're getting the lunches out to them. You got a plan.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Does the government tell you what the children have to
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: eat or you can make it whatever?
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: No, the government kind of tells you what the kids
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: need to have, like. how many servings of lagoon, you
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: know what I mean? There have to be certain things.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Lagoons or whatever?
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like, you know, you have to have beans on
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: there a certain amount of times, you know?
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: So yeah, they kind of tell you, but we flip
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: it around on different things. You know what I mean?
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: If I'm short of that, they're getting that. It is
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: what it is. As long as they eat, I'm happy.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's my attitude too. I can't believe children have
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: a choice where you're at in some of their meals.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, this is started this year. Um, like I said,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: this guy, we make a chicken salad, chef salad, and
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: they love the PB and J still. You may give
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: them a, you know, just a cold lunch and then
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: whatever we're making for hot. So they pick between whichever
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: one they want.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: And are there days where there's a real specialty item?
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: What's one of the special, like, is there a time
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: of year where something like, um, maybe some, um, like
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: a bison meat or something or something unique, you know,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: something rare will come across that you guys give to
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: the kids or like, um, I'll get like, is there
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: a time of year when y'all get the kids get
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: something really rare? Kind of? No.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Um, the, the thing is like, there's the kids are
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: so like picky and there's so many, they can't have this,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: that they don't really go into anything odd with that.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: So no.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: She got to stick to the guns.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Kind of, yes. Just right to it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: There's like not a lot of pork on the menu
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: because kids don't, there's so much, how do you say that?
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Religions and different things that they don't, they don't eat this,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: they don't eat that. So you have to watch.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: And, you know, we're a bilingual school too. We have
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: like so many different backgrounds.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, damn.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: So, yeah. Some kids don't even speak English, so.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Really? Yeah.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: All my ladies that work with me are Spanish.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's cool though. I start, you know, acting like
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I'm high blowing, you know, I'm like, Oh, I got this.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: So I learned a couple of little words and then
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I know what they want. I'm like, Oh, I got it.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Don't worry. She wants a latch.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. It does feel good whenever somebody's speaking Spanish
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: and you, and you, and you get it. Yeah. You
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: get it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's a great feeling, dude.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: It's really cool, yeah. So I'm trying to teach them
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: some English.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: You know? Because I'm like, you just brought me that,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: and I didn't ask for that. I asked for ketchup.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: What did you bring me? A spoon for it.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: So we all just crack a laugh.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people just don't know the difference between, yeah, condiments, silverware. Right, right.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: A lot of people get scared. They had an emu
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the other day that died and ate a woman's car
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: keys somewhere.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So people will eat anything, I feel. Can you
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: bring that up? Let me know if you can find that.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Is there a lot of lesbianism in the cafeteria culture?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I feel like we had a lot of... I'm sorry.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: That was a good one.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Was that crazy? We had a lot of female in,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: not inbreeding or whatever, but inbredding, I guess, basically.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Let's just say there's a little bit of everything.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: We're going to say there's a little bit of everything.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Okay. We had a lot of women love or whatever
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: they called it back in the day in the cafeteria.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: You would see that a lot of people, some of them,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: their husbands had been mean to them and then they
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: would fall in love after that. So it's like male-induced lesbianism.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Right, right, I get it, yeah. He did me wrong.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I'm never being with a man again.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm not. But I'll be with this gal,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Right, that looks like one.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: And make her... I'll be with this gal and make
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: her wear his old clothes. That's weird.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: That's the weird part. We all got a couple of
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: weird things.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: A beloved ostrich at the Topeka Zoo and Conservation Center
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: in Kansas has died after swallowing a staff member's keys. God. What?
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: And you know they.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Were probably looking for the keys for a while, too.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I feel so bad.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Where are the keys? And the ostrich is just like...
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, you poor ostrich! Oh, he ate my keys!
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: He's dead!
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: The ostrich is just over there like....
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: They're like, where's my... I know, right?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Where's those keys at?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, there was just an ostrich standing by me. Nobody
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: else was following me.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: And the ostrich is just... The officer's just leaning on
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: a cage door.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: He's like....
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Different times. Right.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: We got that right.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: The zoo announced in a social media post Friday that
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the five-year-old officer named Karen had reached beyond her exhibit's
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: fence and grabbed and swallowed the employee's keys. Staff consulted
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: with experts around the U.S. to undergo surgical and non-surgical
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: efforts to minimize the impact of the keys. Unfortunately, these
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: efforts were unsuccessful.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: You couldn't pass the key then.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you couldn't. And I guess if you
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: like to heimlich an ostrich, it was just you can't
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: get enough power in there.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: To really get them to blast out. God.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: That's pretty sad. I'm sorry.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Hey, serve it up.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: You got that right. Because I sure serve.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Hey, look. If the kids would eat it, serve it up, man.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: If you'd have told me when I was a child
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: that a cut of ostrich had come through, I think
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: there's some kids would have gone in and tried it.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: But I guess overall, children don't like trying a lot
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: of new stuff, huh?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: No, they're so picky. I mean, back in the day,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I think they ate more. Now it's like, you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: where's my hand? I'm like, I didn't have that today,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: you know? Yeah, kids are picky.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: And mostly, I remember, we would always sometimes get a McNugget,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: which was pretty good.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: They liked the nuggets.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. They still like them, huh?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, they love the chicken. Oh, yeah. Gosh.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: And what else would we get that was really good?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: The pizza I enjoyed. I really did like the pizza
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: until they switched it to that square pizza with no
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: real crust on it. And it just made me just
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: so angry at everybody. What else? That straw in the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: milk bag they used to have. Do they still have that?
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: It was like a bag of milk.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: No, they don't do the bags no more. No. Actually,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: we don't even do straws no more. Really? Yeah, he
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: took away the straws and stuff for, I guess we're
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: going to.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: How do you get the milk out of it into
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: your body?
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know what? I thought there would
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: be more problems, but they take that carton and just
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: open it up and drink it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: And so I haven't had too much of a problem.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: But when it first started, I kind of did think, wow,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot of it. To my amazement, no.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: They just figured it out. For 31 years, they've been
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: popping that straw in there, you know.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: They clogged my sink. You know, we'd be washing the table,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: put it down the sink. And all those straws go
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: in there.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: And it's a bunch of straws. And I'm like, what's
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: in there?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: And we'd pop it out. And all these straws come
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: popping out. I'm like, oh.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: It's those yellow straws, huh? Yeah. Okay. So you guys
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: got the food out to the children. The children start
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: to come in through the line, right? Now, do you guys,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: we had BDLD would come in first. I don't know
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: if they still have it. Behavior Disabled. learning disabled, would
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: come in first or last for lunch? Do you guys
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: still do that or everybody's mixed in?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Everybody's mixed.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Okay. Comes in. So you get the children start coming
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: in and where are you at? Are you stationed at
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a certain point? Like what kind of offense are y'all running?
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I should be down there like Mark
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: and stuff, but I'm the fastest one with serving and stuff.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: So most of the time I'm the server.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: You're on the line.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I like to be on the line because I
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: know how fast I can go. even if I drop stuff,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: you know, I just keep on going.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: You know, just keep on going, just like your lunch lady, Annie.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know about her?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I watched you. And then I was laughing because
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I had carpal tunnel surgery last year, and I was
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: doing the same thing, and we laughed. We watched that
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: because I kept throwing stuff, and I'm like, keep going.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: My hand, my finger would be getting all stuck and
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: looking all crazy.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: And the kids are like, what are you doing?
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: And I'm like this.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: She would do this in her sleep. In her sleep
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: she would be doing this.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I bet.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: She, you know what actually happened to her? She, well,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: she was, we had a couple of good lunch ladies.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: We had this one lady we had named Sarge, actually.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: And she was, I think, a, she loved ladies. I'll
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: say that. And she, she had all these pictures of
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: her dogs on her all the time. And she'd always
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: be like, oh, I got so many dogs. And she
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: would just have all these little buttons and pictures of
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: all these dogs and And then she'd have a bucket.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: She'd keep some of the extra stuff for her dogs in.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: She's like, I'm going to feed my puppies today. Okay.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: You're like, all right.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: All right, you can have it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: It's fine.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: She'd have so many. Sometimes she'd have missing animals.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: As long as you feed me, you can have it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: You can feed whatever you want, lady. As long as
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: you feed the fourth grade, you can feed whatever you want.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: But she would sometimes have a wanted poster, like a missing.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: She would sometimes have a missing poster on her for
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a dog that had gotten lost or whatever. And she's like,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: have y'all seen Bitty or whatever, she would ask us.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: And then who else did we have? We had, oh,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: we had Patty, this lady one time. And she would
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: open up the biggest cans of peas, man. I mean, cans.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: You couldn't even knew that they had a can that big.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't see. When I first started opening those
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: big cans too, I was like, whoa, look at all
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: those peas.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I was amazed. Yeah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And one of the janitors would always come through and
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: be like, nice cans, Patty. Right, right. And he was
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: just a pervert, but still.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, we all like to joke around every once in
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: a while.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: It is what it is.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: And she was pretty good. We had another. Oh, yeah.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: We had this other lady, Miss Moncrief. She'd always be like,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: make sure to get your spedigetti. That's what she called it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Your spedigetti. get your spaghetti. So she would yell at us.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: That's funny.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: She'd be like, get your spaghetti. And instead of saying cake,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: she would say like, this is crazy, but she would
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: kind of say like, like cack. So she'd be like,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: and get your cut of coconut cack over there.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: See, I think we all have to be a little nuts,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: you know, to be over there so long around everybody.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, sure.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: You know, most think I am a little off, but
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: it's okay because I've accepted that, you know, a long
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: time ago.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Get your spaghetti, get your coconut cack. Yeah, she was bananas, dude.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: But she was sweet. And then we had Annie, and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Miss Annie lived across the street from us, and she
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: was always like the carrot cop. She'd come over and
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: be like, Eat your carrots, you know. And then she
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: got murdered, actually.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, by her son. But was a great neighbor before
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: that and great kitchen.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Great lady. And she had been resuscitated a few times.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: They kept her on staff. There wasn't a lot left
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: of her.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: You know, by the last, you know, couple months.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, some people were kind of crawling out after a while.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, some people just keep on serving. As long as
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: this part of them works, it's like the rest of them.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: My ladies has laughed because like I said, last year
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: we forgot the surgery. I was like constantly and I'm like, oh,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: don't worry. I mean, by the time they have to
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: clean up because I.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Threw chicken balls across the room. Everybody was laughing.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, hey, you know what? My hands are
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: messed up. It's okay. Because as you go faster, you
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: don't realize.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you're just like, boom, boom, boom. Things are just
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: starting to move.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's almost like you're one of those
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: blackjack dealers.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. I feel like it. I'm like, what
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: do you want? What do you want, kid?
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: He wants a bun. No, no bun for him. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So you got the kids coming through the line. Um,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: how does that, what's the energy there as they start
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: to come through? Are you usually, does that, is that
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: exciting moment for the lunch ladies? Or is that kind
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: of like, oh, you know, now we got to work.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: It depends who you are. I'm going to say it
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: like that. Like, you know, a lot of, how do
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: I say it? I think the younger, new generation stuff,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: they're a little bit more slow and late, you know,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: it is kind of like, but I get them pumped.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: We're like, we're like, let's go. You're like hot diggity dog. And, and,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: and we got little ones that come through the line and,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: I go, what do you say? And she's like, if
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: you touch it, you take it. I'm like, you got it, girl.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: So no, we kind of boost them and get them laughing.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: I like to wear like, I play around with them,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: like put different wigs on.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: You know, I like to switch it up and I
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: don't wear a lot of makeup most times. So I
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: put makeup on and all of them be like, whoa,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: you know, just make it different. Yeah. I mean, we
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: like to try to do something different just so the
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: kids are like, wow, you know.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun to play with them, especially
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: the little ones because they're They are?
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Like what age are still kids really enjoyable at?
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say the little ones up to, I
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: don't know, about 10 before they start getting a little
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: mouthy and then they want to do their own thing.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Then there are some of them are like too cool
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: for me. They've been in school for like ever and
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: now they're too cool for me. They hugged me every
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: day when they were little. Yeah. And now they're like, okay.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I live in the neighborhood, so I see them all.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, so you see a lot of them.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: I see a lot of them, yeah.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: And do a lot of the children, when they come through,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: so they're pretty excited, and then you only have one
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: person on y'all's line, or how many people's on y'all's line?
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Well, I do it either by myself or somebody will
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: help me sometimes if it's something really a big meal.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: And because most of the kids, some of the items
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: they pick off the line themselves. They don't have to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: actually be handed.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the fruit. The vegetable stuff we do on the
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: other side, and they can pick all that up themselves.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I do like the main hot food for them. And
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: so those are items like what?
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Spaghetti. What else?
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: We have pasta and meatballs. We have a chicken bowl
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: where they have the mashed potatoes, the chicken, corn.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, like a chicken pot pie kind of?
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a Polish girl now. It's like a
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: turkey sausage kind of thing, and you put the Sweet
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: potato fries and some slaw and some barbecue sauce on
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: that sucker. It's good. I like it that day.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: That sounds great.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: So I'm saying, I mean, I've been eating the food
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: all these years, but I think they're getting better.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: They're getting a lot better because when I first started,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: we just heated up microwave dinners. I'll tell you. Really? Oh, yeah.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: We heated them up in the thing. You couldn't cook
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: food that was open. So it looked like you cook
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: like five fries. Five fries are all stuck in the
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: bottom and- I mean, the quality, like I said, and
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: then you make a hamburger with a bun already on
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: it and heat it up in a plastic.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: What is it?
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: So now we're doing like, we'll do the burger and
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: we cook it and really cook it. And the fries
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: go in the oven and they get crispy, you know?
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's nice.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I, like I said, I've seen a big change.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Really? And how long has that change period been over you?
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Well, it's been about, I'm going to say about eight
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: years of them slowly changing it, but This year has
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: been the top because, like, the kids get cantaloupe, watermelon, whatever.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I cut it up.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I'm like going to Hawaii or something.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, the big kids, I have to slow them down.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: I'm like, man, that's too many portions because, I mean,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: they'll take the whole thing, you know. But, yeah, they
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: probably didn't get all that good food. And now we
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: get tangerines instead of oranges, which is really cool because
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: you can. Those little cuties, you can peel those in
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: a second. So I don't even have to cut up those.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: I know. Those cuties, it's almost like having a little
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: date almost.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, they are. But I have to stop. The
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: kids like them so much. They're in their pockets. They
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: got to remember, how many cuties you got?
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't care. Okay, so you got the line.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Y'all got it going pretty good. What types of ages
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: are coming through your line or have come through your
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: line over the years? Because how many years have you
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: been in the game, basically? 31 years.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm finishing my 31, yeah.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Wow, you're like Glover Teixeira. Right, right. He's a famous
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: UFC fighter. You are like, yeah. He's beloved and been
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: in it for a while. That's him right there. But
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: he is a very sweet man who has stood the
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: test of time in his industry.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Awesome.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, so what kind of kids are coming through the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: lawn there, you know? And what's some of the interaction
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: like with them?
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Well, like the preschool, and it's like, come here, baby.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: They come first?
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, so the littlest kids come first.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: The littlest kids come first.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we get the little ones, and then we move
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: on up. And then the last period is 6th, 7th, 8th.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Those are the big ones. Yeah. So we start out
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: with these babies, you know? And, you know, they're all cute,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: little babies. Then we go to these big, huge kids,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: which I don't know what they're feeding them anymore because.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: you know, they're getting big.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I got some big boys. Miss Melissa, hook
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: me up. And I'm like, okay. You know, but yeah,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: we start out, but the little ones there, they come
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: anywhere from four years old. And I think to about 14.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Unless they, unless they, you know, failed a bunch of
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: times and then they might be a little. Oh yeah.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we had a guy.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He finally comes to one of you
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: to hand him a, um, uh, What's a thing you
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: fill out to work? Application? Yeah, you just hand them
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: a work application.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, right, right. You might as well. You're going
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: to be 18 in a minute.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: That happens a lot. I bet. So what are some
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: of the kiddos that have come through, some of the
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: little buckaroodies that have come through there? Like any unique,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: like anybody bringing anything with, like any stories they bring
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: with them, or what's going on with the kiddos?
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, there are so many kids. I see
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: them everywhere now, like... The lady that's at the pharmacy,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: she's a pharmacist. She was one of my kids. I
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: go to restaurants. We go on a canoe ride, and
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I started laughing. I was nowhere near Cleveland, and they're like,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Miss Melissa. And everywhere I go, I run into stuff.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a lot of years, and they're grown.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: So they'll look at me, and I'm like giving them
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: my money, and they're like, are you Miss Melissa? I'm like, yeah.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: They're like, I was like you were one of my kids.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: But it's cool.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yep. Yeah, there's a connection. Well, especially because you're
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: feeding the children, you know. There's always a connection with
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: somebody that's feeding you.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm nice to the kids, too, yeah.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: And I'm funny and, you know.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: They like being around you?
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: They like seeing you. Oh, yeah.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. And do some of the kids ever bring
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: anything with them? Do they ever, like, are they, like,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: what do?
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Well, we had some come through the line and one
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: had a snake. in his book bag.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: And the little girl brought her cat in the book bag. Yeah,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: you never know what they're going to bring.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Really? They brought a cat?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: But we have security that checks their bags, so I
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: bet they've seen s'mores or something. Yeah. Like, is that
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: cat meowing? I mean, that book bag meowing over there?
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Is that the new style? Did she press a button?
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: And then when she come through the line asking me
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: for cat food, I was like, what? I don't serve that.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: But what did they ask you to do? Just put
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: something in their bag for the cat? Like, how'd you know?
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: No, I just, they heard them and stuff. And them guys,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: you know, like I said, they have to come through
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: the detector.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, they have a metal detector? Oh, yeah.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: We got metal detectors in high school.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, so you're in the trenches over there.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm in the lower, lower west side.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Y'all are in there.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Wow. Oh, yeah.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you have some children will bring a cat
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: or even a snake through. And do you think it's
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: just because they don't want to be alone from their pet?
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably just wanting to see their pets and stuff
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: like that. Their parents probably didn't even know they snuck
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: them out half the time. You know what I mean? So,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, if they could, sometimes the kids would let
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: a dog in if they could, so we could run around.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know who you're laughing to? People will tell
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: you that your laugh reminds me of, do they have
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the lady from the Adam Sandler thing, if you can
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: find it? A little bit. Yours is way more charming.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Her laugh is.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's too funny. I never thought of that.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I do sound like her. Just her laugh, though. You're
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: way prettier than her.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's funny.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: She's pretty, too. But is it tough to see some
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: of the kids, like, grow and leave sometimes? Are there
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: some kids you're like, man, that kid's going to, like,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: we really wish they could stay?
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I, like, wonder what happened to some of them
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: that you really liked that you don't see that much
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: no more. And some you see in, well, they're not
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: really doing as well because they're in the neighborhood. But
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: I see so much bad, good, you know. And then
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: I love it when they come back and they're like,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: oh I just got in college or I'm doing this
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: or I'm about to go to nursing school or I
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: did I then I'm very excited that you know because
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: where we're at yeah so like my son he couldn't
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: wait to get out of Cleveland he got married and
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: just moved.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Away he was gone He was gone as soon as
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: he left.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: And then I had to get a dog named Mo
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: because he was named Joe. And I lost him.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: He left. Oh, you got to get a dog that
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: rhymes with your son's name.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Right. So I replaced him with my dog, Mo.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: That's fair. Yeah. And where did you– is there a
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: lot of, like, dating– like, do a lot of janitors
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: come by the lunch area trying to holler and trying to,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: like– Because that's what I felt like when I was
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: a kid. Sometimes you would see some of the janitors
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: over there trying to– You know, just like spend a
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: little bit extra time or something like that.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Mine's real cool.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: You only got one janitor?
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sort of. I mean, because, well, they say they're custodians.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: They don't like to be called a janitor.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Sorry. Yeah, I respect both of them. Yeah.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: The last one was a lady and me and her
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: was real good friends. And she owned a lake house
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: and I used to go with her all the time
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: down there to New York. So that was awesome. And
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: my other one, he just left. Yeah, I hang out
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: with all the people that are retired too that just left.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: So I've worked.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: With them for so long. It's like we know each other.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: We grew up in family, you know.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Was it sad to see your son graduate, like get
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: out of this, like was when he left your school?
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was very, yeah, because I got to keep
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: a very close eye on him. Then he thought he
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: was going to get away with something, but I told
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: him I was transfer.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: I'll follow you, boy. And he's like, no, mom, no.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: So he did better. But then when I would go
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: to parent conference and I would start talking, the teachers
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: would look like, no wonder that's where he gets it.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Listen to her. I'm all hyper and talking to him.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: I'm like, how's my kid doing? And they're like, well,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: he's great, I guess. Mom, like you, I guess.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Like, we're going to put you in detention.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Hey, when I first started working
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: at school, I thought, man, did I get called to
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: the office? I thought I was going to detention.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: And I was really working there.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: And they would call you down there? Yeah. Just to
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: tone it down?
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. She jokes all the time and says that I'm
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: going to have to go outside if I laugh too hard.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Because during testing, you know, you're supposed to be quiet.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Sometimes she's just like, I heard you. I'm like, sorry.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: But they all like me, so it's cool. Sometimes you
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: hear a helper, so I'll be just like, ah! And
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: it's all the way upstairs calling and I don't realize.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: It goes around the school. But they know it's me. Yeah.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: That's it, huh? Yeah. It's like a bird almost that
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: you hear, you know. Right. Do you see like at
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: certain holidays, what's that like at school? Like around Valentine's
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: or some kids seem kind of lonely or anything. Does
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: that ever happen?
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: A little bit, but they give those little hearts out
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: and they give candy and the bigger kids will give flour.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: You know, it's just. Yeah, they make a big– and
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: we have dances and stuff.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: And the dances are in the cafeteria sometimes?
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, most of the cafeteria is like where we have
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: all our dances and everything. And I'm right there, so
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I like to dance with the kids.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Really? Oh, yeah.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: I go and enjoy them, yeah. Oh, wow.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: You should work for Nickelodeon.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. We've had a lot of fun, yeah.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: So they let you guys dance with the children at
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: the dances? Sure.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's cool.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember one time we had a guy named Mr.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: John– And his wife, I think, was a teacher. I
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: don't know if she was a teacher. She just, like, was, like,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: the smartest person in our area, and she would hang
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: out at the school. But she– I got to dance
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: with her one time at a dance. Aw. That's pretty cool.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: My principals were great with a lot of things that
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: she does, and we have a mother-son dance and things
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: like that. So I had some buddies a long time ago,
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: and they didn't have a mom. So I went to
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: the dance room, danced with them.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's sweet.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: And everything. Yeah, they were my buddies because we do
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: like a buddy breakfast thing.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, you all do?
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: So I picked them as my buddy. Yeah.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, just students? Yeah.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: You kind of get close if you see somebody, and
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: they'll say, you want to be my buddy? And then
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: you're kind of like their friend they could talk to
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: if they're having a hard day where they hug you
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: every day. So it's pretty cool.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's important.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Yep. And then a couple times a year we eat
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: with them, talk about it, give them a present.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: That's cool.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Really cool, yeah.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, what are some other moments like? Have you
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: had some unique interactions?
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Like Halloween, I like to dress up in
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: different stuff. And then I run through the crowd. And
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: the little kids this year, I was– this blow up
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: and it blew up big too. It was cool. So
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: I run out and everything, but then they kept kind
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: of squeeze me and I'm like, I'm going to pop,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: you know? So I'm trying to get them away, but
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: I can't cause it keeps blowing up. So we do
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: funny stuff like that. And, um, I, I, a couple
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: of times, uh, we would, I would tutor with the kids,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: you know, help the little ones with math or something. Um,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Like whatever she asked, like we tried to do, you know,
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: I think we're like a mixture, you know, when they're
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: away from their home, we could be their mom, their grandma, whatever.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: They're crying. You want to go over, make sure they're
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: all right. See what they want. You have kids that'll
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: chase you and hug you every day. Sometimes you got
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: to run.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Ooh, I run. Sometimes I have to shut the door.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: I'm like, here she comes. And everybody laughs because she's
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: so beautiful and sweet, but she drives us crazy. She
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: won't leave me alone.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Someone get a little bit of– they get just
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: kind of.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Really click, yeah.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: They hug you too much. Yeah. They'll hug you. They'll
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: lick you even.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. You're right about that.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I've seen a child just start licking. You're just like,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: what is going on with this child? Dude, my friend
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: told me that if you look at anything, anything, you
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: know what it would feel like on your tongue because
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: as a kid you licked everything and checked everything out.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Probably, I'm sure, yeah.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: And at first I thought that was crazy, but then
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: if I look at anything.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: You're probably thinking, if I lick that.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: He said, because when you're a kid, you just put
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: everything in your mouth. Right, in your mouth. You don't
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: even think about it. True, true. And you develop, like,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: this memory from it.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Well, there's nothing I wouldn't try. That's why I said
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: kids don't try anything nowadays. There's nothing I, you know.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, look.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, is that a chocolate grub for Christmas?
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Let's eat that. Let's try it.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Is there anything you guys will make BTS? Like, be
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: honest with me. Is there some BTS food that you
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: guys will make at the lunch area that's just for
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: you guys? Like, do you ever brew something up just
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: for the gang, but it's not for the students? Well...
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I won't tell anybody. No, no.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: We eat the lunches there, you know. But no, like,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: I can't wait. Like, they're all Spanish, so I want
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: them to bring me some rice and beans and stuff.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: So I want their food.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: So they bring me food all the time. And then
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, this is how you get to
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: your boss. You know, this is good. I just had
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: some yesterday. Oh, yeah?
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they got a lot of good food, man.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I love it. So the ladies come in
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: and they make me food. I'm like, that's the way.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's beautiful. And now when is the day kind
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: of shut down? So after lunch, what happens? How do
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: you guys shut it down? Like the last person leaves
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: and then what?
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: After the last kid gets fed, we make sure everybody's fed.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: And then. It's time them ladies clean up, count everything
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: because I got to count everything, like all the milk,
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: everything gets counted for the day. Oh, really? Yeah, I
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: do paperwork and everything has a count. And then it's
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: got to go on the computer and go down to
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: them of how many kids we fed, just switching it
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: back around, moving the coolers back for breakfast for the
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: next day. You know, everything goes back to, you know,
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: It's like you flip a switch. You know what I mean?
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: We go for breakfast, lunch, lunch, breakfast.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Like a transformer.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: I always said that. I said, see how we just
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: did that? I said it was like transformers. I'm like,
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: we just transformed the kitchen. Now, bam. And people will
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: come out and they'll be like, dang, Melissa, you just
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: had breakfast. Now it's like lunch. Because I'll be like, phew,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: throw it together. And I'm like, we can't play. We
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: ain't got time.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Somebody's got to do it. We don't have time.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Somebody's got to do it.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: And I'm one of those people that are always ready
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: to go. Yeah. Yeah, I run around like a chicken
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: with my head cut off because I'm a little nutty,
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: you know, but it's okay.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: The more I move, you know, I just like to go.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: That's important.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: And it is. And I'm getting old, so I have to.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: You got to keep busy.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Heck yeah.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: And what's it like, like, do you have time for
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: dating stuff? You guys have to get up pretty early, huh?
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: What's the love life like of someone in the lunch industry?
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, I've been married 30 years.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Oh, you got married to the, not the pregnant,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: not the.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, not the baby dad.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: I got married to somebody else.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, nice. Yeah. Where'd you meet your husband at?
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: In the yard.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Really? Yeah. Not like a prison thing, huh? Well. No judgment.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Half my family's been incarcerated.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah. I mean, he, yeah, he just got out.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Hey, babes, you look good. Welcome back.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Welcome back.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He didn't do it.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: Well, make me a breakdown.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Ah! You should guys get, Oh, I guess he probably
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: is not allowed over at the school then. No, no.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: This was so long ago. He's, he's good now.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: We won't talk about that.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: We'll keep that out. Um, so that's nice then. So
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: you got to love, you have, you have a love
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: in your life. You have one child. That's your only child.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: I was one and done. Yeah. Oh yeah.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: What made you not want more?
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess that was the whole experience. I mean,
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: what the heck? I don't, women just keep popping them out.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Are they crazy?
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: It's unreal.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: All that stuff we had to do. And I told that,
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: doctor or whoever I told him, this was all too
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: much for me. Then he came out with college. And
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what the heck? I watched kids for years
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: and they never acted like that. Then I have my own.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, everybody kept saying, you're going to have
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: another one. I'm like, nope.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Nope. So when he was 10, I got my tube size.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: I said, nope, I'm making sure.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: That was it. Shut down.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Shut that all down. The lunch line was over. I
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: got 600 kids a day.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: I don't even need it.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: You got to open it up for breakfast every.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Now and then. Yeah, but see, I don't have to
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: have it. That doesn't make it easy now.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Wow. Let me get into the financial stuff. Do children
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: pay for school lunch a little bit?
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: A long time ago when I started.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say about 20 years ago, they did.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: We had X and Y tickets. X was full paid
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: and Y was free lunch or partial pay.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: They had the full... Power show and free.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, dude, I remember. So I would get to school. God, dude,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: it was the most, this was like one of the skit.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: This was like one of the tougher things. I think
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: when you're a kid, like, yeah, you would get there and, um,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: see if you can bring up the, yeah, the school
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: on tickets. Keep looking for mine. Looked a little bit different.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: Uh, no, my goodness.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: No, keep looking to see if you find some other ones. Um,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, no, right there. The red and blue, the
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: whole mix of all of them. Like the game tickets.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Those are the ones right there. Yeah. And so you
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: get up to the lady, right? There'd be the lunch lady.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Cause they didn't allow men to do it. Cause I
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: don't believe men should do it.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: We got a couple of men in the system now.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that some other time.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Times have changed. But we would get in there and
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: you had to go up to her and you had
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: to tell her if you were, if you paid, you
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: had to just buy the ticket from her. And if
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: you were free, you had to tell her you were free.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: And I was just, it always felt so embarrassing. Cause
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: I'd always be like another kid right behind you or
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: in front of you. She'd always say it like, I'm free.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: And if the bus got there early, you could get breakfast.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: That was the thing. Right. So based on how Ms.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Hazel was doing, and bless her heart or whatever, she's
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: alive or not. Hopefully she's alive, but she might not be.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: But she was awesome. But sometimes she would lollygag. Sometimes
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: she would stop or drive slow and smoke. And so
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: we would get there a few minutes late and we
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: would miss breakfast. Oh, man. And then you were just
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: beside yourself. You didn't even, you know, cause you had
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: to get all the way to like 1140.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Right, right. That's what they, right.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: And you would just keep going to the water fountain
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: and just drink as much water as you could. And, um, yeah.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: And I remember even one of my teachers was like,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: go get you some of that breakfast water out there.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Breakfast water.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: That's what they used to say. Miss Smith would always
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: say that. But anyway, yeah. And then at lunch, I
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: don't know if we got our tickets in advance for
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: the week or if you had to go and do
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: the same thing at lunch. Um, But you would always
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: try to sneakily say, yeah, free lunch or whatever. You know,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: I'll take a Y one or just something like that.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Or I would try to pretend like I was giving
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: him money. It was like I was a magician just
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: because I didn't want other kids to see because, you know,
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: kids get so embarrassed.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: No, they do. Yeah.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: But then once you got the ticket, yeah. And you
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: were free to the line. Usually you would get a
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: tray or like a little carton, like a little plastic
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: kind of little carton. And then you would go to
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: like to the milk or beverage area first. Get that.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Then you would go into the room where the actual
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: kitchen was and you would have the line there. You
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: would get your line items, come out, and then that
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: was it. You was free to go sit down and eat.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: It was awesome. Yeah, that was like the best thing ever, dude.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: What is the funnest thing to serve to the kids?
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Is there something you really enjoy?
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: I like to serve the pizza because it's one piece.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Because I can throw the pizza. But when I got like,
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Mashed potatoes, corn, chicken, a raw.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Now I'm like.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: It's too much, huh?
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: And everybody, yeah, everybody's picky. So they don't want gravy.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Some want gravy. You know, it's like.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: And now they're like allowed to pick what they want. Yeah.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: We used to give them all of it, so.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, they used to, yeah. That's crazy. You get to
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: pick what you want. We would have to get whatever.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Sometimes they give you a bunch of junk. You're like,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: some of this, it wasn't even, I don't even think
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: some of it was food or whatever. And you would
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: just have to take it back to your table, you know.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I seen so much waste back in the day.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: We'd have like a bean burrito. All these kids would just,
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Just throw it away.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Just throw it away. You just cooked all those just
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: to be in the garbage. You're like, dang.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: The apple, I feel like, would always get thrown away.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Sometimes, yeah.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you would be like, I don't know if I'm
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: eating this.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know?
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: That would always be a tough one.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: I've ordered less apples now.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because the other ones are more popular that we
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: have now that they're trying different, you know, watermelon.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, shit.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: If it's gone, I'm watermelon, man. I have to, we'll
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: be cutting 10 watermelons. We'll be cutting those watermelons.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: And what type of cutter are you using back there?
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Do you guys have a sanctioned knife that you have
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: to use or something?
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: We have a couple knives. Yeah, like that. We got
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: a couple knives we use for those, which we just
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: started this year. Sometimes it was hard.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Especially with my hands hurting all the time. I was like, man,
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: these watermelons, it's crazy. But then we got this one
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: that you put like the orange or the apple thing in.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: You could go, shh.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, really? It's fancy?
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: And it comes out. I like that one. Yeah. I
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: could do that all day.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's nothing.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess if you get that fancy one, it's
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: really nice. I'm trying to think of what we had. Oh,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: they would do baked potatoes. Do y'all still do those sometimes?
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: No, we haven't did a baked potato for a long time,
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: but I remember a long time ago we did have
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: a baked potato. They seemed like it.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was nice because they had sour cream with it. Oh, yeah.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: And get you a little bit of bacon bit or whatever. Mm-hmm.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Because they didn't let you use bacon bits in our
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: community if you was a child, first of all.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: That was an adult thing.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Bacon, yeah.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: So then they get to school when you pull up
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: and they got a damn, you got access to bacon bits.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: You're like, yeah.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Let's ride.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: Hey, they're excited now. We give croutons.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, is that a big thing for the kids now?
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we never gave croutons with a salad. We're poor
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: over there. We give croutons.
• 55:14
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  Speaker 1: my life, watching porno and everything and watching porno was
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, man, that was so much fun, man.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: Going to lunch. It was just like a, it was like,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: it was kind of the best part of the day
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: because it was, that was your break, right? And then
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: do they go into recess after lunch? Yep. Yeah.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Before and after we give them switch, like we got, uh,
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: 20 minutes to 20 minutes, like some of them are outside,
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: then they'll come on in and those ones will go outside.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: So we're just keep going like that.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Tell me about, take me down some of the
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: tough moments. Like has there ever been like a food
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: recall or something that happened where there was just a
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: food people got sick from that day? Was there ever
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: just a flu that went around?
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, that is so funny you said that. So years ago,
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: and it was quite a while, I don't know, maybe
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: 18 years ago, we did have this problem. and there
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: was flu going around and everything and a couple kids
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: came in lunch room and they threw up well that
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: started uh the other kids looking at them doing it
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: next thing i know they call they got buses and
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: they got everybody pulling my food doing it and i'm
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: like tripping i'm like what And they're like, it's her friend!
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: She's my desk guest!
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Really? Like you were witch? Yes. Like the Salem witchcraft.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: I had parents saying, don't eat the food! And I'm like,
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: oh my God, yes. And then the, what was that?
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: One guy, he was trying to come from the, and
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: I was running with my hoodie on because I was like,
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: I've never.
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  Speaker 1: Yes! No.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I swear. I was tripping.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: What'd you do?
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: That's what it is. And they wrote this article and then,
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know, a couple weeks later when they realized
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: it was, they wrote this little thing like it wasn't
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: the food, they were sick, it was over. But they
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: made me like, look, They didn't care. And then downtown
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: would be like, and Melissa, tell them about that. You know,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: when the kids got off. And I'm like, what? How?
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: Who's got a green break at the stop?
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Like you were Hester Prynne or something, huh?
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so glad that those kids are probably long
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: gone out of it by now.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: Because that stuck with me for a little while.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. A little PTSD from that.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: I'd be walking down the street. Yeah. And all of
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: a sudden they'll be like.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: There she is.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh my God, I did the pizza.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: Oh my God. I start tripping. We had the bad macaroni.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: They did, yes.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: Do you remember the bad macaroni of 2001?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Where were you? Where were you when people ate bad macaroni?
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I ate it and I'm okay.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: You're like, I survived. You should have made t-shirts that said,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: I survived the macaroni of 2001. I know.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: That would have been a good one. That would have been.
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  Speaker 1: People forget that there's a marketing possibility even within famine
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: and disease.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And edible diseases.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: People forget that all the time. Yeah, because we would have,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: people would get, we'd have bad milk come through or
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: bad cattle would come through town.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they're, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And you get spoiled milk.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And you had no idea why. It could have been
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: that the truck was parked overnight next to like something
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: that was heating it up. You just never know. Too
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: much time in the sun on the way there. Something.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: There was something.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: And everybody would just be having bad milk, you know.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: Well, the kids will let me know if they trust me.
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  Speaker 2: They'll let me know if they have something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, a couple times we got milk and
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: there was like the cartons, they didn't fill it up.
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  Speaker 2: I kept saying, why does all these kids want another milk?
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: Until I figured out it wasn't really getting theirs. I'm like, oh, shit.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: I'm telling them no.
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  Speaker 1: Damn.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, now I got to get all this milk.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: But that's it. Look, that's how it is out in
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: some of the, you know, that's how it is.
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  Speaker 2: You just never know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: That's life, too. You don't ever know. You always don't
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: know the milk that you're going to get. That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Any food fights? Kids always say we're going to do
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: a food fight. It never happens. That's what I feel like.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: There's always the rumor of a food fight. And then
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: never ends up going down.
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  Speaker 2: At my school, not as much. But I did sub
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: at a school that's closed now a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: And the kid said food fight. I went with mashed
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: potatoes in my hair. I had stuff hanging off me.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: So they decided they really was going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And they did it.
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  Speaker 2: And they did it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, praise God.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, all right, man. I wasn't too upset
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: with it. It was kind of cool, you know?
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Well, that was like the big thing. I don't know
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: if kids care about that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't. I mean, they might throw like peelings.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, they might throw those little things, but they're
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: not like getting up having the big, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not like it's like a big organized thing.
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  Speaker 1: Because there's always like this thing like kids are going
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: to organize it. We're going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And then it comes down to it.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: And it never happened. I think it was more of.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Wasn't there a movie that there was a food fight in?
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: Can you look that up? What was that movie that
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: had a food fight in it? It was a nineties movie. Uh,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: the great race Matilda. Oh, hook hook had a great
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: food fight in it. Like at the, uh, bangerang scene.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: That was very big. Oh, animal house. Ah, that was it.
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  Speaker 1: I think animal house had a huge one. So that's,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's so funny. A lot of times you
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: take something right back to like, um, um, popular movie
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: or tv show and that's where it started um do
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: you remember your lunch ladies from being uh.
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  Speaker 2: Um not very many i don't think they were very
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: nice then really and one thing that i always said
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  Speaker 2: after i got in there was that i'm not going
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: to be like that because you know we get a
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: rap you know like really yeah because some people are
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: you know They act like that mean little lunch lady.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: You can only have one ketchup. And I always thought
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be like the cool one, you know?
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: So then I am. So then I think it works
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: out because I don't remember too many, you know, really
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  Speaker 2: good ones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I remember a couple of times they had, I mean,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: also for a lot of young men, it's, you know,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: like you think that lunch lady is pretty cute because
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  Speaker 1: it's the first woman you kind of get to talk to. Right.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: that's like kind of not like a teacher or your
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: mom it's like the first person you're like well who
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: is this person you know and they smile at you
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: or whatever you ever have a student try to like
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: get your number or do like try to.
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  Speaker 2: No they they might flirt a little bit like trying
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: to get some extra chicken balls or something but i'm
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: like yeah all right you know get a cowboy yeah Yeah.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: They're trying to pull up on them yams.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they think so. So I'm old enough to be
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: your great grandma. You better roll.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to shut them down early.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, you got to.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: What about fights? Any fights they have at school? Are
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: you guys allowed to get involved in that? What's that
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: like at school if that happens?
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: Well, there's fights, but we you're supposed to get security.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't wait. Sometimes I will try. But
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: now with big kids, no way. Those guys are huge.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: They'll swing me across the floor somewhere. I'm like, nope.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: So I'll just go over and try to find one. Security,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: go on. And then they'll try. But other people in
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: there are teachers and stuff. I won't get involved. You
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: won't get involved. Not the big kids, no.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Do the teachers– is there a good relationship with teachers
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: and lunch women or lunch women and now men because
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: men are attacking the industry? But is there a lot
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: of good– Are they arch nemesis of each other? What's
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: the energy like between lunch people and teachers? I never
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: thought about that.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: At different schools, it'd be different. But for me, I've
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: got along with most of them and stuff like that.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: And I have a good relationship with them. Because everybody
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: wants a milk every once in a while. It's not mine.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: I guess it depends on who it is.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: That's a powerful statement. Everybody wants a milk.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: You know, because I do. I always think when they
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: walk in, and if they're acting mean to me, I'll
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: be thinking, you'll want to milk for me one day.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. See if I give it to you.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You'll need me.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: You'll pull up on this udder.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. You want me to order those bag
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: lunches for you, don't you?
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah. Oh, for field trips.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: That's what I said. So some, yeah, if you'll have
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: a couple, but not very many, but if they act
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: a little too, you know, it's fine because, you know,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: they got to come to me for something.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: You got to come through. Yeah. You know? That's true, Mom.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: I might be the little one down there.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: You're like the government.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, the food is— You still got to
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: pay your taxes.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: Food is government. It really is.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: It really is government. In a lot of cultures, it is. Yeah. Well, yeah,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: it's like if you're even in a village, when somebody
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: comes back with the food, that person is the government
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: that day. They have the food. They determine how everything's
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: going to go.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: Well, I always tell my ladies, I'm like, man, sometimes
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: I walk through the hall and I think they're looking
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: at me like a chicken leg or something, you know?
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: So, yeah.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Who are you talking about? Some of the janitors or whatever?
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: The kids, the staff, you know, it depends what they smell.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: Like they have loaded nacho day, you know. It's like
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: everybody's looking like Melissa's got nachos. And I just could
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: see everybody, hi, Melissa. I'm like, uh.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They know.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: So they know. Yeah. They know it would be nice to.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: People know where their bread is buttered.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: That's what it is, you know. Just like me. I
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: know I need the custodian. So you got to be
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: nice to me. I need toilet paper and stuff. So,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: you know, you learn who you have to be good with.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: When little Ricky pukes.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: You know, you're going to need to call.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, you know it.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. What's a field trip day like? So how does
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: that break down?
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: Well, the field trips and stuff, they order like bag
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: lunches and.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: And what goes into the bag lunch?
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: When I make it, it's like a sandwich, a PB
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: and J sandwich on crustable. Yeah. They love those. And
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: I get strawberry and grape and I kind of like
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: them too. So if I'm.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: Y'all will make those yourselves?
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: No, they come.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: You order from Uncrustables?
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: No, we order those, yeah.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's nice.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, those things are pretty good. But then I'll make
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: a bag with those and some goldfish crackers, a string cheese, applesauce,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: and some carrots. Bam, there's our lunch.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: Damn.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: And they're out.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: We got, I remember, meat sandwich with mustard. Yep. And
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: sometimes you got extra mustard somehow for no reason.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: You're like, first of all, I'm a child.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: I don't eat mustard the first time.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: I'm a child.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: And now I get a lot of mustard.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Mustard is for polis adults. Let's be honest. So there's
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: no reason I should have to eat it. And then
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: you gave me more mustard. So that would be scary.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: You'd always see that one kid that would end up
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: being an alcoholic and he'd be over there just eating
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: the mustard.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, you know what? We got him with the hot sauce.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: Y'all got hot sauce?
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Now we give hot sauce and the kids
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: love hot sauce. But I catch the little ones over
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: there with the packs.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: Just eating it? Yeah.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what is it?
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: It's so hot.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: Or they're keeping it in the pack. I'm going to
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: take this home to my dad for some hot sauce.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: For Christmas or whatever?
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: That's crazy. Hey, you know, they ain't got no sauce.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, man. But so you pack those, you send them
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: out on the field trip. When do you pack those?
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: The night before you pack them? Then the morning of
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: the field trip?
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: I get everything ready except for the sandwich. And then
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: in the morning, I just throw the milk in a cooler.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: How many of you ever was going? And then put
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: the sandwich in there and it falls through the day
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: so they could eat it by lunchtime. Because you don't
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: want to leave those out too long because... One thing
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: is nasty is like the next day, you know, it
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: gets like hard or the jelly starts to go seeping through.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: So that very first day when it first just thaws,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: it's the best.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: So you guys will put the, you mean for the lunchable,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: you mean for the crust? Yeah.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: For, I use those for the bag lunches.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: For the bag lunches. Right. The PB and J's. And
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: do they get a meat option in there? No meat option.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: They used to, but I haven't had one in a while.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: Um, What's some of the best things about the job?
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: Time goes really fast because I'm always busy. I don't
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  Speaker 2: feel like it's a job job, even though I'm getting paid,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm having fun. I try to make my work fun.
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  Speaker 2: And I make the ladies dance. I'll tell them, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're getting too serious. Stop. Put some music on. Start
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  Speaker 2: to get the groove for a minute. We all start laughing,
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  Speaker 2: doing dishes, just joking. I told them, I want this
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  Speaker 2: to feel comfortable. I want us not to Feel like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just because we're working doesn't mean you can't
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  Speaker 2: have fun, you know. So in my kitchen, it's about
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  Speaker 2: having fun. Do your job and let's have fun, you know,
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  Speaker 2: while we're doing it. And then I like to act
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  Speaker 2: crazy around, you know, the principal or anybody because they
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: all know me. And they're like, there's Melissa, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So I do some crazy stuff. Like I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how to swim. And I went on a– and she
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  Speaker 2: took me on a trip with her. And her son
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  Speaker 2: was like– I said, I always wanted to jump in
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  Speaker 2: the deep water, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Here he goes. He gives me his mama's life jacket.
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  Speaker 2: I put that sucker on last summer and I was
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  Speaker 2: diving off the diving board with little kids. I was
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  Speaker 2: so excited.
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  Speaker 1: First time ever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was like, yeah. And all the kids was
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  Speaker 2: there waiting. The older people were kind of like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't really know what she's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Make a wish.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, right? Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And you just got right out in there in the water? Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Just got right in and dove right off the diving
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  Speaker 2: board in it. But once I know that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was safe. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Had you ever tried swimming before?
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  Speaker 2: I've tried. I'm not that great at it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like you're not good at it, but
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  Speaker 1: have you ever tried before? Because, yeah, I was bad
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  Speaker 1: at swimming for a while.
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  Speaker 2: I could back float, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: What is back floating? I've never even heard of that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you'd be like.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I'm going to do it to save my life.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's called waiting for rescue, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I could wait for rescue for a while, but
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  Speaker 2: I can't do this too long. And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how you guys are staying in there just standing there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's magic. I know.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll call the cops, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Right? Some things are just, yeah, beyond me.
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  Speaker 1: A long time ago, they used to think that gay
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  Speaker 1: people would sink in the water and straight people would float.
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  Speaker 1: Like back in the witchcraft days. Isn't that crazy?
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  Speaker 2: Bring that up.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that. Sinking gays or whatever. Sinking.
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  Speaker 2: Sinking gays.
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  Speaker 1: Or, yeah, sinking, gays, and witchcraft, if you put that
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: in there, too. There was a lot of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they had a thing. If you sank or float,
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  Speaker 1: it would determine something. Oh. You know? And they would
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  Speaker 1: then sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, should I sink? So what's that mean? What are you.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to say? I'm not saying anything, man.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I took a wrong turn in life.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows, Melissa? I know, right? So what's the social
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  Speaker 1: life like when you're outside of work? What do you
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  Speaker 1: like to do for fun, personally? What keeps you busy,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: you know? Obviously, you really find a lot of joy
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  Speaker 1: in your work, and that's awesome, you know? Yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: it's important to notice that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they notice I was Employee of the Year at school, too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah? In 2009.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the mayor... Mayor's brother gave me an award. I
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, junkie.
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  Speaker 1: His brother? What's his brother doing?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. He was there. Anyway, but they gave
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  Speaker 2: me a party and a gift card and all this.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, Richie, give me $ 100 to a steakhouse.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I'm going to get the biggest steak,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And I felt cool, but I was a
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  Speaker 2: little excited, you know.
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  Speaker 1: How did you know you won? Was there a finalist
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  Speaker 1: or what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was employee of the month, like all of us,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: like the total. And then they said, we're going to
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: pick one. So I was waiting. I was like this,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: waiting to eat. You know, I was looking at the
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: food like, man, that looks good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you were all at the banquet? Hurry up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I was thinking, hurry up.
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  Speaker 1: And did you dress up for it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I dressed up a little bit, but I looked
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  Speaker 2: a little crazy. I always change, you know, and I
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: did the smile. And it's like, you can see my
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: whole tonsils in my mouth because I smile too big
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: because I laugh a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they put that picture big downtown. So now you
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: walk in and you see me. And everybody's like, is
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: that Melissa? And I'm like, yes, that's me. So that's
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: the picture they picked. I guess you can see everything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, there's me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But it was cool. It was really cool, though. Just
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  Speaker 2: for being funny and trying to, you know. Because everybody's
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: so serious sometimes.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then the big boss come out and everybody's so scared.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: And they're so like. And we're all there to do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing, you know? I just make them laugh
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  Speaker 2: and tell them, let's just, you know, let's just be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I have a lot of fond memories of
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: going into the lunchroom and sometimes you would get the
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: silverware and you would get a fork that was all
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  Speaker 1: banged up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What happened?
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I've seen some and they look
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: like all of them are mushed to the paper towel
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  Speaker 2: thing or something.
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  Speaker 1: Or you'll see just the fingers of the fork will
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  Speaker 1: be like, You know, one of them will be way
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  Speaker 1: out like that. And you're just like, what happened?
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  Speaker 2: What happened? Like, sorry, you can't have another fork. You're
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: going to have to eat with your finger today, bro.
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  Speaker 2: We're in a crisis. Budget cuts.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: You're like, what happened? That's what I'm saying. What would
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: you change about school lunches?
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  Speaker 2: One of the biggest things I think I would change,
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  Speaker 2: because like I said, they're getting better, but everybody eats
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  Speaker 2: the same portions. I would give the bigger kids more portions.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I think like, instead of that one chicken leg that
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: everybody's getting besides, you know, the other stuff that they
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: could get on the side, I'd give them two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that the bigger kids are big. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we got some big boys, I mean, big girls, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and they're gotta be hungry. That's just not enough. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think, you know, but I mean, we do have
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  Speaker 2: a salad bar. They can fill up with that, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, they want the.
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  Speaker 1: They want the real deal. Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 2: They want a McNugget. That's what I'm saying. They want
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: more of those. So when I hook them up, they'll
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: be like, I'll give them a couple more nuggets. They're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you're my girl. And I'm like, I know. I got you.
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  Speaker 1: That feels good.
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  Speaker 2: It does feel good. It feels good when I see
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  Speaker 2: kids that I go places like to a wedding or something,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: and I see all these kids are at the wedding
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: because I had family friends. I've had all the nieces
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: and nephews. I've had everybody go through school. So they'll
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: be like, I remember when you gave me that other, ah,
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  Speaker 2: she was cool. I'm like, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: It feels good to just McNugget up a child.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Oh, it does. You want some more fries, boy?
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  Speaker 2: Here you go.
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  Speaker 1: Fucking put a McNugget into a child.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be talking about me. They'll be like, ma'am, look
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  Speaker 2: at me up with this plate.
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  Speaker 1: I got some nephew children. I'll damn McNugget them bastards up. Oh, yeah. God,
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  Speaker 1: it feels good. It does. Makes you rest easier.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it does. It really does. I know that's why
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  Speaker 2: I said some of the kids, you know, they're hungry. Yeah.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: Or they'll tell me that they haven't ate, you know.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: And do y'all play any music in there?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Spanish music. Yeah. A lot of, we put, we,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: in our kitchen, we play some, cause like I said,
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  Speaker 2: all my ladies are Spanish.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of Latino coworkers.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Employees.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Amazing what they could do with a broom.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: Oh my God. Did they scrub that place with a broom?
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. They're wonderful cleaners.
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  Speaker 1: But, um. Very true. Uh, I have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: friends and, um, my grandmother was a house cleaner and
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: my mom was too.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: And then, um, a lot of my, uh, Friends, parents,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: growing up, we're in the house cleaning and stuff. And
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: some of my Latino friends, their parents still clean houses.
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  Speaker 2: I tried it for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Did you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so you tried a different business.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. In the summertime, if I didn't work down
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: at school, I did other jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So what are some of the summer jobs? Nobody ever
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: thinks about that. What do freaking lunch ladies do during
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: the summer? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I, I, well, the last, the year before, cause
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: I got surgery last summer. So I was down with
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  Speaker 2: my stupid carpal tunnel. My trigger finger stuck like this.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: And why'd you have to get surgery? Be honest. It's
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: just too much scooping.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. They said, um, repetitious movements. So now my back,
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  Speaker 2: you know, things cause you do them so long. Sometimes
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: it'd be burned.
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  Speaker 1: Like, ah, yeah. How much scoops can one wrist do overall?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I don't know. I just keep them rolling. Really?
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, some people are like, man, look at her.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll be sweating. But I'm getting older now, though,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: so I may have sweated. That's what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like. You might have tore that.
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  Speaker 2: But don't ask me to do nothing with my hands
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  Speaker 2: when I get home.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, look.
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  Speaker 2: Am I bruised or hurt?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, look. No wonder your guy went to prison. You
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  Speaker 1: got to do what you got to do.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what I'm saying. I know. I'm sorry. I
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: just got that.
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  Speaker 1: I've served all I'm serving, honey. That's it. No more seconds.
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  Speaker 1: No more firsts. Right?
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  Speaker 2: But no, I just try to go fast because I've
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: watched people and they'll be like, we got 600 kids.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, you got to move, right? You keep growing.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: But people say it's not fast.
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  Speaker 1: What is a kid that comes in that's kind of heartbroken?
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  Speaker 1: You ever notice a kid that's having a tough time?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever had like a moment?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I run right over. Oh, gosh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And what is some of that? Are you ever able
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  Speaker 1: to like over time, do you be able to pinpoint
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  Speaker 1: some of the commonalities of what some of those moments
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: are like?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of it is like another kid don't like them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They're getting picked on or they want to be friends
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  Speaker 2: with this child and they don't want to be friends
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  Speaker 2: with them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, isn't that so big to kids?
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  Speaker 2: It's very, yeah. And I'm like looking, but then to
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: them it's so big.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I always tell them, you know, if they don't
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  Speaker 2: want it, it's okay. You know, don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be liking you tomorrow. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: This and that. Just try to make them feel better
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: and they get over it. And then you see them
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: talking to their, they'll be best friends tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they just need help getting through that moment.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: They just need to get through. And it is. And they're, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So whenever we do see one down, I immediately want
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: to go over to that one and see why. Especially
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: since we got a lot of kids that are smiley
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: like me and bubbly when I see them. So if
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: they're not bubbly, just like they do the same thing
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: to me. If I come to work and I'm not
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: feeling it that day, like there's just something wrong, they
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: can feel it.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, they'll lift you up?
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, they come in and they're like, Miss Melissa, you're right.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: Because they know that I'm not laughing. Don't hear that big,
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: loud laugh everywhere. Then there's something wrong with Melissa that day.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't hear her laugh too much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's interesting. We're the keys to each other's locks.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: That's what my buddy always says.
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  Speaker 2: He always says that. Oh, yeah, they do. They can
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: pick up on it.
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  Speaker 1: What are some of the other summer jobs you've had? God,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe I never knew that, that those beautiful
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: women were wandering off into our town and doing other employment.
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  Speaker 2: I was a secretary, which sitting down isn't my strong word.
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  Speaker 1: It's not your thing, huh?
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  Speaker 2: No, I was like, man, let me clean this place.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be a secretary. Okay, girl, you
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: got to get up. Yeah, I can't just sit. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: That's too much for me. I've worked at Dave's grocery store, cashier,
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  Speaker 2: and I like that.
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  Speaker 1: I was a cashier for a bit.
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  Speaker 2: I liked it. All these people coming through and I'm like.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: What's up? Yeah. It is pretty fun. Cashier was fun.
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  Speaker 1: Stocking was fun. I didn't love getting the carts a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't like to get the carts and putting the
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: stuff back.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes they were wet. And you're like, well, it
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: hadn't even been raining. Why is this cart all wet?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you wonder what you're touching.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just people are gross.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: I'm doing take-backs, and I think they're peeling. They're opening.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: I'm like, ah.
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  Speaker 1: It would be very hectic, a lot of you.
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  Speaker 2: You never know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. It just felt insane. It was like a
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: lot of eustachian fluid or something. I don't know. I
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: don't even know. But, yeah, a lot of times it's
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: very confusing.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: Then I cleaned some houses. And that one was kind
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: of fun. Unless her house was really dirty. Yeah, some
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: people have houses. And these were some richy people. And
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah. But one time this old lady made
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: me a sandwich and let me go in her pool.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: That was really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-uh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Was it your birthday or something? No.
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  Speaker 2: She just must have liked me because we started talking,
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  Speaker 2: you know? And sometimes I'll just make a friend. I
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: get invited to a party.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Heck yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Real easy?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get around somebody else, and their friend is like, hey,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: you want to come? I'm like, yeah, all right. You know,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: I could be sitting at home doing nothing, having nothing,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: then bam, I'm at a party eating shrimp and drinking
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: a limo. So I'm like, this is insane. Yeah, so
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: you never know what's going to happen. Your day could change.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, your day can change. That's a great point. Yeah, rich, fancy. Yeah,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: fancy people love shrimp, I feel like.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do. And they like me.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: So I like it. So where's your son at now?
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: Is he?
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: My son, he's a cable man in Massillon. And he
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: told me to tell you because he's a big fan.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: All them guys watch you.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, praise me.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I told myself, what's up?
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: What's his name?
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: Joe.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: Joe, that's what's up. Joe Ansel?
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: Joe Rocca.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: Joe Rocca. Yeah.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: It sounds like he should be in prison. It's that name.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: Joe Rocca.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah. And I don't mean that. Don't go to prison, Joe. No.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: We want you out here. But hey, if you go away, bro.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: I'll send you commissary.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: Free Joey.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: I got your mother. That's a good one.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: Free Joey, dude.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And he's married. I got a great teacher. Daughter-in-law.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, she's a teacher?
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: No way.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: Great teacher after I've been around. Nope. She's in Massillon.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: I'm in Cleveland. Wow. Yeah. She's from the better part
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: and I'm from the ghetto. So we like share our stories. Yeah.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: We watch her little kids like, and then you go
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: to mine, you know, and you got it. It's two different, very.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: Different universes.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: Different universes. And I've been to both of them. So
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: it's really funny to see.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, you have?
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I went to places because I got grandkids.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, so you've worked at other schools and they're your own?
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: No, I've subbed, but I've went to other schools with her. Oh,
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: To see what it's like.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, to see what it was like.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: So lunch ladies will sub at another school?
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: Back in the day they did, but there was a
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: point when I just stopped. Yeah. Because I have a
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: home plate and I didn't have to do it no more.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: That was for the other people. So they still send
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: subs and stuff around, but I quit subbing.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: And do you get, at a certain point, do you
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: get a pension? Do lunch ladies get a pension?
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get SERS. It's like a retirement plan.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: So, S-E-R-S.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: And how long does that take to build up? I
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: don't know anything about it.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: Well, like, I've got 31, but my age. So, like,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: when I'm 57, I'll have 35 years. And I can
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: retire with the full benefits and cheaper insurance and all that.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: But my age is still there. You know what I mean?
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be 65, so I couldn't get
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: Medicaid and all that. So there's a little, because I
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: started too early. But hopefully I could, as long as
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: I'm healthy and running, I want to keep running.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: You can keep working.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. I don't want to sit at home. What
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: am I going to do at home? Eat bomb bombs
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: and get fat?
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you just sit at home.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: There's nothing to do. No, my brain won't quit talking.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: It's like, I got to go.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: It's much better to talk to people than myself all
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: the time. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: Did you ever try to go into your own business
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: at any point or do you like working with a group? No.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: I like the group. I've never really tried.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. I just didn't know if that was something
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: that different people think about or not or sometimes do.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: Or don't think about. Well, if I could have thought
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: of something, you know, but I didn't know what else
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: I would be good at.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure I could have probably did something else,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean, I'm smart and I liked other jobs,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: but you know, this is where I've been.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: I think it makes me more happy too, to be
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: around so many people.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking. Cause doing your own thing
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: can definitely be the other side of the tracks. You know,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: you just really, you can isolate a lot.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: Right, right, right.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: Um, any parents ever confront the lunch staff about anything?
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: Does that ever happen?
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Um, a couple of times through the years.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think a lot of principals stuff wouldn't like
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: let them, you know, but I've had fathers or something
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: ask me something, you know.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: Like angry about a soup or angry about a porridge
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: or something?
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: My kid said that he didn't like that and something,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: you know, and it's like.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: Y'all serving bad lamb or something.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: You know, and I'm like. But not too many with me.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, I even talk to a lot of the
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: parents because I've seen the kids so long.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: So I try to be friendly with all of them,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: explain if they ask me something. But I don't try
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: to get into too much riffraff because, you know, I
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: live in the neighborhood.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: Right. So you want to keep things PC. That's right.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: You want to be seeing me up at the grocery
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: store with some parents like, yeah, there she is.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: Gosh, you're kind of like the Don Corleone.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: Right. I didn't even know.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: I noticed in nature, a lot of animals will kind
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: of like fatten up for winter or whatever. Does that
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: happen with children too, do you think?
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I do. I think that they
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: eat and they get more in them for it. In
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: the summertime, they're Like wanting to run around so much
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: out there, I see that they eat less. And I
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: see their lunch, the garbage is heavier.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: In the summer than it is in the winter. I
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: made a comment once and I'm like, wow, I noticed that. Huh. Yeah,
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: because they want to run outside, I think.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: So you're thinking in the summer they're throwing more stuff away.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: Whereas in the winter they're eating it. Yeah, because they
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: want to, yeah, I do. Because they're sitting there and
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: there's nothing else to do. They're not going outside. But
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: when they're raring to go and it's beautiful out, Like you,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: you'd be like, oh, forget it. I don't want to
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: finish this, you know?
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, not me. I'm going to eat it real
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: fast and then go. But, you know.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: That's a good point. Some kids are like, oh, it's
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: too much fun out there. Right.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: That's what I mean.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: When you can feel your body want to go play
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: like hide and go seek or something. Oh, yeah. Oh,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: it's the worst for a kid. Right. It's like, God,
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be eating right now. I could
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: be having fun.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: What are the kids? Do they interact when they're at
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: the table together and stuff? Like, what do kids do?
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: Or they just kind of eat their lunch?
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: No, they they talk. Yeah, they interact with each other
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: and stuff through the whole lunch period and stuff like that.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: I can't really. I'm like dumb for a minute.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: I've been dumb for so long here. Take a minute.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: All right. Yeah. Do you ever see like milk come
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: out of a kid's nose? People always say that.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, I saw that a couple of times. Oh, yeah.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: And the other day, it was just funny. Just the
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: other day. They're coming through the lunch line and they
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: were playing outside too hard and the little boy just
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: thrown up right in my legs. Oh, yeah. And I'm like, okay,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: I'm going to look up. And everybody's like, Melissa, I
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 2: can't look. And I'm like, well, come on, guys. Let's
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: hurry up. Let's do this. Get them out of here.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: And I'm telling the little ones, quit looking. They're like.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: But, yeah, when stuff starts coming out of their nose
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: because they're laughing or, yeah, they probably think of other
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: things that they're going to do, you know. And you
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: got to tell them, don't take that food because it's
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: going to get warm and then you'll get sick. Yeah.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, kids, I think they're just so energetic at
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: the time. They'll vomit for no reason a lot of times.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: like somebody just pats him on the back. I know.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: That's what I was saying.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: I said, yeah, the same one.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: He better quit playing. I would like to him to
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: eat first before it goes.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: And then let's put a diaper. Um, Are kids allowed
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: to bring phones in school these days? Yes. No way. Yeah.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: They're supposed to not use this and that.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: So some of them have phones out during the day?
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: I see kids with phones.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: No way. I cannot even imagine that. Yeah.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: I never had a phone back then. Yeah.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: Right. That was such a better vibe, I feel like. Yeah.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: Me too. I think there's too much on the phones. Yeah. What?
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: Would you change about the lunches that we serve to kids? Anything?
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: Or do you feel pretty good about them?
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: Right now, I'm feeling a little bit better about them,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: like I said, this year. Because he's bringing out more
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: different things that I think the kids would like. We
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: do a General Tso's and rice.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: They'll do a General Tso's chicken?
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's good. I love it. I'd be messing it
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: up on General Tso's day. Yeah? Yeah. There are certain
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: days that I get excited, you know? Because I'm like, oh,
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: I'm going to eat that. No, no, no.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: So... And will y'all save a little bit of the
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: better side of things for yourselves?
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, I might have a little bit more sauce
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: on mine. Hey, you know, I made it.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: I think that's fair.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I think that we, I do really believe
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: that this year, I think is like one of the
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: best with it's coming with lunches and stuff for the
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: variety of different things that we have. So he's, he's
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: moving up. Like I said, I'm, I'm interested to see
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: more of what he does. The new guy that's the
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 2: new food guy. Yeah.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: Because he's the order? He's the boss?
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: He's the boss of, like, changing all that. And I've
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: worked for about four different ones so far. Each one
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: brings something different to the table. But right now, I'm
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: liking what he's bringing. You know what I mean?
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: What was one of the craziest things you guys ever
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: served over the years?
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: The hot dog that used to be in the beans,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: and it would turn colors. And I had parents and
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: aunts and people old to this day still ask me
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: about those green hot dogs with beans.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but hot dogs. But it did, it would like
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: turn some color because it was stuck.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: In the beans.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: Well, that's nature.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: I know. That's what I said. I was like, it's
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: probably preservatives or something in it. I don't know.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, some of that's just natural preservatives.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, we had this egg roll that
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: was rolled. Yeah, there's been a couple items that I
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: would have been like, no. And I eat everything. I'm
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: like Mikey. And there's nothing I wouldn't eat.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: They had an egg roll too for a while?
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The kids didn't really care for that egg roll.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: So bizarre.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: I remember the bread they used to have. So the
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: bread was always made in one big pan, right? It
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: was like a whole pan full of rolls. And ours
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: always had this dust on them. And people would be like,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: that's flour. And I'd be like. It doesn't seem like flour.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: It just seems like dust.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's true.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: So, so we were wrapping our rolls and some of
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: them will come like that, you know, with a whole
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: bunch of, and I said to him, what is it?
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: I'm like, just flour. That's a lot of flour on there.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: And the kids will see it. And I'm like, they're
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: not going to believe it's flour. I said, it looks gross.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: I don't want to stir that one. It's just flour.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: We didn't believe. That's exactly, that's terrible.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: I was just kind of like, I'm trying to think
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: of the ones. Oh, we had a couple of these
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: different ones. That one, can you look up dusty school
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: lunch rolls? Is that what he's looking up? Dusty school
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: lunch rolls?
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: Dusty school lunch rolls.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: Lunch rolls. Yeah, maybe soft red rolls.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: But, you know, I've had the kids tell me, let's
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: look what's on this. And I'm like, it's flour because
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: that's what they tell.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: Me to do.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: It's flour. I mean, it is flour.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like flour. It seems like science dust
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: or something. Yeah.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe yeasty dust. I don't know.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be some powder or something. Sometimes I
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: thought it would be like a powdered butter or something.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: But I could never figure it out. And they were never,
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: they never got the rolls really that good. I didn't
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: feel like.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We get different rolls like and bread. We order
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: from different departments at different times. We had Swables once.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: We had this. So.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: The bread's not too bad, but you always find some
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: that comes in, like you just said, with a whole
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: pile of dust. I'd be like, what is it? A
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: hamburger bun. It's covered.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it was too.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: I would be like, look, all this white.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: It was the hamburger buns a lot of times.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: I think when they make them, they must just throw
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: that flour at them after they pack them. It was crazy.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: But it does look funny because people don't want to
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: eat that because, you know. Yeah. And kids do make
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: those comments. They notice anything on the food. Anything. If
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: it looks... just a little strange or something, they're going
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: to make a comment on it, you know? So, but
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: I hate to be like one of those, you know,
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: just flower.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: Cause everybody's like, it's not, I know, but I'm like,
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Is it, do you guys ever serve
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: sloppy Joe's ever?
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: We did. We haven't this year or whatever, but there
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: was years we did. Some of the kids liked it. Um,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: we had a teacher there years ago and he did
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: a little skit with me on this sloppy Joe's.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, about Adam Sandler?
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I wore the white. When I first started,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: they gave me that white dress and all that, and
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: you had to look funny.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, you had to dress a certain way?
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but thank goodness that didn't last long for me.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: Pull up that outfit, brother.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: We switch, yeah, go on with that white dress. And
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: I'm young now, and I'm like, what do I look
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: like with these loafers?
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, you had to wear the white shoes? Yeah.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: I remember those.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: And I sort of laughed.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: They were like K-Swisses or something sneakers.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Right there.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's nice.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: That's what they gave me. One of those white, white.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: And so we did a little skit or whatever. It's
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: around there somewhere on YouTube, somewhere. Who knows where it's at?
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: But I put a mole on and all that.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, and we did a lunch like do Sloppy Joes? Yeah.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: So it was fun.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: But they never serve them anymore, huh?
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: No, they haven't served sloppy toast for a long time,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: and the kids seemed to like it.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was the only place you could get
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: it at was school.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: And it was such a bizarre thing. You were like,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what it is.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: It's like a— It's magic meat. Like, you know, it's
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: what it really is.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: It's like it's not a hamburger.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: Are you sure? We name them different things, but we
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: just change a little.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: Well, you could always kind of tell. Is there stuff
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: that if there's leftovers from the first day, then you'll
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: use it in different recipes throughout the week? Yeah, huh?
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: Because you don't want to waste stuff.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: All hot food's got to be thrown. Oh, really?
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: This is why, like, if you're the manager, you have
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: to know not to overcook too much because they don't
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: want to throw in there. Right? But they like pasta
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: and meatballs.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, those meatballs, boy.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: They're hard to deal with?
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for my hands. They seem to want to just throw.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: Then I start singing to the kids and I drop
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: my poor meatball and hit me rolling.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, from that song, remember? Yeah. What was it? That
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: was a book, wasn't it?
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: It was a song for Meatball.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: I dropped my poor Meatball.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: What was that? When somebody sneezed and rolled off the table,
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: not to the floor, then my Morton Meatball was out
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: the door.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: I remember that.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 2: We like to tease them and joke.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: On top of spaghetti, that was it.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there it is.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: Spaghetti.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: Spaghetti.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: This coconut cake.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: And they love the mac and cheese.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: Never mind. They love the mac and cheese?
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. They love the mac and cheese.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. God, who doesn't though? Right.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: I was just going to say who don't like cheese,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: you know? Anything you got to put cheese on is good.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's really the thing that everybody loves. How
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: big is your school these days? You're at the side
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: school now.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm at the side school, but we're doing 600.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: But when we go back to this new one that
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: they're building down the road for me, it's going to
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: be huge. And then they're going to take and knock
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: down the school down the road and put two schools
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 2: to one. So I should have over 1,000 by then.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: But hopefully I get more help, you know. Yeah, huh?
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: The short staff ain't what you want to hear all
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: the time.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: That's true. And you've already had carpal tunnel. You've already,
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: That's what I said. I'll just keep going. Yeah.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: I'll figure it out. You're like the Aaron Rodgers of
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: the Lunch Lady industry.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, right? That's good. I like it.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: You really are. Right. But we need you back out there.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: What happened during the time off with the surgery?
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I did the summer. I didn't take off because
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: I don't like to really miss work. So I didn't
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 2: take off. I just went and had the surgery right
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: after– We got out of school, but then it wasn't
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: really healing as good. I think I messed it up
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 2: a little bit as I went back earlier, you know.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: Did you?
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's our, you know, it's hard not to
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: use your hands. I mean, it's hard. I mean, if
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: I try, if you put a hand, it's too hard.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 2: So this one, I just got a shot.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: Roosters do it or like chickens kind of do it. Right.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if I could be like a chicken.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say they're dumb. I don't know
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of them.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 2: Some of them are.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, what are they just doing? I don't want
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: them to hear me say it.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: I know, right? We see chickens all the time. And
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: I watch them cross the street and then come back. Yeah,
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: people got chickens everywhere.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: Really, by you? Yeah. Huh, wonder why.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know, for the eggs, I think. Probably sell
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: the eggs. Maybe they're going to get a golden egg.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my sister has some chickens in her home, I think.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: Or she did anyway. Some of them might have gotten out.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: What else? Anything in the news? Let me think. It
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: was something I was going to ask you about.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: I'm still looking for floating gay witches.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, were you looking at gay?
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: Floating gay witches.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: You know what? Yes. Anything on that sinking gay um witchcraft.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: I found not the gay part but the witch part
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: you're spot on.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: About he said not the gay part bring it up
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: the ordeal usually involved the tying of a sus of
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: a suspect's wrist to their ankles and then throwing the
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: individual into a body of water with ropes attached wow
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: Contrary to popular belief, if the suspect sank, they were
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: presumed innocent and hauled up. It was not common for
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: them to perish unless they did so accidentally. Should they float, however,
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: this was taken as confirmation of their alliance with the devil.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: So you had to sink. So if you didn't know
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: how to sink, the premise of this ordeal was that
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: it provoked direct intervention from God in determining the guilt
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: or innocence of the accused, and the result was therefore
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: seen as a revelation of God's judgment.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: And you had to put something in your... Make sure
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: you're sinking.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: You better eat a heavy lunch.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: You know, something. Well, I'm not a swim, so I'm sinking.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: You better eat a heavy lunch.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: Anything else we need to know about the trade, about
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: the lunch trade, about the industry, anything? You said there
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: was men infiltrating the business. Is that it?
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: There's a couple men, yeah, that's working in the kitchens now.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: And is that new? Is that?
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: I think they've been there for a minute. I've only
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: worked with like one person.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: And are these bisexual men or is it all types
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: of men, you think?
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: All types. Yep. Yeah, all types.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: Everybody loves lunch, baby.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, they do.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. I love it. I don't care
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: if I loved men or women. I would still make
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: lunch for myself and others.
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, me too. I don't care who it is.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, same here. You got to eat.
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: Everybody's got to eat. That's what I tell them. You
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: got to eat.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: That's how I feel.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: I don't care what you look like.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just trying to think of anything else we
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: want to learn about the industry. We've learned that the
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: kids come in. We've learned that sometimes you have to
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: step over and give them a hug if they're having
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: a tough time. We learned sometimes they bring cats and
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: snakes through just because that's what's going on. The food plan.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: What about, I know, didn't they have Michelle Obama had
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: a program a few years back?
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got quite a few things dropped off and stuff.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: And she gave a lot of stuff out to parents.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: It was called Get Right. What was that program called?
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act changed nutrition standards for
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: the National School Lunch Program by requiring that schools serve
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free and or low-fat
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: milk more frequently and less starchy vegetables or foods high
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: in sodium and trans fats. Um, did that take effect?
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: Did you actually see that happen in the school system?
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: Cause a lot of things that politicians and, you know.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, that she, they really did that. And they came
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: out and gave boxes of the whole entire, like, uh,
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: meals to parents and stuff and told him how to
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: do it with the spices, everything.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 2: And also they give them, um, a bag of fruit
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 2: each week to take home. Um, um, They have a
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 2: lot of free fruit and vegetable program. And then once
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: a month we have a free like produce and everything outside.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 2: So parents, everybody comes and gets it. Oh, wow.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of stuff from y'all's school that's
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: available for the community. A lot. That you guys don't
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: use at school.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: Nothing to do with you.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's amazing.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 2: Like I said, there's always trucks dropping off the, They
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: put stuff in the kids' book bags for them to
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: take them for a meal for the weekend. So, yeah.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: Your mom ever come over to the school and get
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: a meal from you?
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I had a stepmom.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, you did? Oh, she passed away?
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I didn't like her food anyway.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: You didn't?
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 2: No. Or her much, but it's cool. We'll talk about that.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: Hey, look, it's tough. Stepmoms are hard to read.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: I have my real mom, but. She's never came to school.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: She hasn't.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, she should come get a meal. She's still alive. Yeah.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And where does she live in Illinois?
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 2: No wrong corner for me.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, she does. You guys just aren't super close.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 2: Um, we see each other.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: She just doesn't come to the school. Yeah.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, don't they have parents day or
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: something at the school where parents come?
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: Parents.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: They come in, they see stuff, but miss my principal
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: and stuff feeds them. Like it, they don't eat like
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: our school's food. So I have other food brought in
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 2: for them and they'll eat.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: Can a kid have an older brother or a family
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: member come and have lunch with them at school one
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: day or no? Oh, yeah.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Sure.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: That happens a lot.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool. Yeah, that's fun.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: We got a lot of– yeah, and you got a
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: lot of siblings. You'll have like five related in the.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: In the school system.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: In the school, yeah.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 2: So there's nothing for that.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: Do you guys ever do like pep rallies and stuff
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: like that ever? What's that energy like?
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they– Well, they'll just start, yeah, because they can
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: have high energy, you know, because we get rowdy. And
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 2: then when I hear them, I get rowdy. So then
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: I go running through the thing, you know, and make
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: them clap. And then the teacher's like, there's Melissa again,
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: you know. So most of them kind of know that
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: I'm going to do it. Oh, yeah. You know, or
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 2: like when they have dance, they're like, here she comes, watch.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 2: Because you get antsy, you know. I'm like, I'm hearing it.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 2: How am I supposed to just stand here and work
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 2: when I got to go over there, you know.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 2: So.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think. Do you still feel like you're
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: in school a little bit? Is there. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm like 15. I still feel like like I've
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 2: never got out of school. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 2: It is kind of. Yeah. It's like. And then it's
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: funny because I talk to people and I'm like, yeah,
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: I got to go to school. But really, I'm going
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: to work. But they probably are thinking, man, she's the
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: longest in school. Yeah. I never seen somebody in school
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 2: so long. Yeah. Because I never say work.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: I just say I'm going to school. You're like, God,
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: you think that she'd graduate?
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 2: They're probably thinking, dang, she's still in school.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: Do you think some kids probably mostly eat at school
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: and don't eat at home in your area?
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 2: Yes. Really? A lot of them. Yeah, we have children
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 2: you wouldn't know that are homeless and from everywhere, and
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: they go to school.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: No way.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: Is there homeless in your area? Yes. Oh, wow.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: A lot.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: Wow. Mm-hmm. That's crazy, huh?
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Yeah, it's got different over the neighborhood too,
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 2: Lower and lower, yeah.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're seeing a lot of homeless. With
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: homelessness on the rise, the Supreme Court weighs ban on
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: sleeping outdoors.
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: What is that going to do? I love how they
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: rephrase it to being sleeping outdoors. Pull this up a
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: little bit more. The Supreme Court wrestled with major questions
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: about the growing issue of homelessness. What? So... The case
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: started in the rural Oregon town of Grants Pass, which
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: began fining people $ 295. Now they can't even pay for it.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: They're homeless. They don't even have nowhere to go.
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: For sleeping outside as the cost of housing escalated and
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: tents sprung up in the city's public parks. That's unbelievable. Because, yeah,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: you're like, where are people supposed to go?
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: Well, they make a lot of spots over there, like
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 2: Tent City and stuff.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 2: So there's places that you see a lot of homeless.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: But I wonder if they would also have to, is
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: that considered sleeping outside?
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I couldn't see how, how are you
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: going to give them a fine?
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: If you have a tent, I feel like you're, because
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: if people don't have a place to go and they
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: make a tent.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: Then they're trying to, they're.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: Trying to make a home. Yeah. Right. Somebody's making a house, right?
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah. And some rent is so expensive. Like, what
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: do you expect someone to do?
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: You know, especially if people get caught up on, you know,
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: People get caught up in drugs pretty easily.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of that going now, yeah.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: Well, especially when we advertise drugs on television in this
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: country like it's a new toy.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 2: Right, right, right.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: You know, every single one. So you can't be shocked
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: when people end up on drugs. Right. And then now
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: they're stuck outside. And, yeah, we don't have a place
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  Speaker 1: for them. Gosh, that's unbelievable. Yeah, imagine getting a ticket.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. I'd be laughing at him. Like, what do
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  Speaker 2: you want me to do with this? I use it
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 2: for wipe, you know, because I don't even have a home.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even have a job. Where are you going
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  Speaker 2: to get $ 2.
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  Speaker 1: 95 from me? I'd be like, hey, give me a
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  Speaker 1: whole roll of tickets.
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  Speaker 2: Right, could you give me some more tickets, right?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, give me the soft ones too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what are they going to do? Put me
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: in jail for a minute, then I'll have a home
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  Speaker 2: and I can go to the bathroom and get a meal.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if that's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: How rude.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Or they'll probably make them start. They'll make schools
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: start feeding the people. Maybe. Did you ever try a,
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: like a homeless feeding program at your school? Yes. Really? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And as a matter of fact, in 2020, when all
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: of them was at home, I was out there with
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 2: N95 mask and we made, my custodian made me this
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: drive through the door. Cause it was close off.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: Your custodian made it for you?
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was really cool when I come in.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so I could just was like, but anybody come
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 2: at the door and we would give them food. So
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 2: I gave a lot of food away around those couple months, yeah.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: Students and homeless people?
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 2: Students, homeless people.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody and everybody. Dang. Yeah. You saw some crazy stuff.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: Did you?
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, you know. But, hey, at least it
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 2: was free food. You wasn't hungry because there was lots
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: of places to get free food from.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, people got to eat.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: You know? I feel like if I put my glasses on,
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: we look a little bit the same. You're a lot cuter, though.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: A little bit. I'm half Polish.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 2: Are you?
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah?
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Holub. Yeah.
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: Holub? Holub. Holub.
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: Holub.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: We them boys. I know, right? What are some things
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: you've ever heard kids say that have been funny? Anything
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: funny that comes out of your head over the years?
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: Anything interesting or like? Because you're right there on the eavesdropping.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 2: I know. It's just like it's so hard to think
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 2: of things at the time. I mean, I eavesdrop all
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: the time. Don't get me wrong.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Because I hear stuff I'm not supposed to hear. I
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 2: just try not to even, you know.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking they did what and they're only what.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, kids making out or whatever.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 2: Different things that they talk through the line. And I'm like, oh, man,
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 2: I don't even want to hear all that now.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: They fast.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 2: So I try to act like I'm not listening.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 2: But like- Some will talk sometimes like long time ago,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 2: maybe about their parents or you get a little bit
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: more scoop than you should know.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: Things going on.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 2: And things going on.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: You probably shouldn't know.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. People smoking this or that. Yeah.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, their clothes smell like when they come in.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 3: So you kind of knew their mom and dad did.
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: Anything on those sunken gays, man?
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 2: Bring it.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: You got an image on it at least?
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: Absolutely nothing.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: Just show me the first image. It comes up if
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: you do it sunken gays or witchcraft. There we go.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: There we go. Oh, my gosh.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: Hey, look.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, boy.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: And just go to Google, too, and let me see
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: what they have for it if you put it in there. Okay,
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: sinking gay men and put backslash witchcraft. I'm serious, man.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: This was a big thing when I was growing up.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: And go to images, see what we get. Right there. What?
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: Bring that picture up. Oh, so we get a picture
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: of the Navy. Yeah, see, this is, well, I.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 2: Don't think that's what.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: Right? I don't think that's what we're talking about. Melissa Ansel,
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: I want to thank you so much for your service, literally,
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: for being a smile that people can see when they
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: cross through the middle of their day. You know, you're
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: kind of like the meridian in the ocean, you know,
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: where like the time zone kind of changes when you
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: cross it. And I think that that's special. I know
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: that that's important for a lot of kids. just to
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: have somebody in the middle of the day to offer
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: them a big smile. You know, that goes a long way,
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: I think, just in the universe. And, yeah, thank you
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: for coming and spending time with us and helping us
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: reminisce a little bit about what it was like to
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: go to lunch and have a lovely lady stand there
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: and help us out, help us get through it.
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Thank you.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And thank you so much for coming.
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: piece of mind I found. I can feel it in
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: my bones.