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Love that SERVICE from Popeyes & The New York State of Mind · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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  SPEAKER_03: You're listening to the WDYM.
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  SPEAKER_03: The What Do You Mean Podcast?
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  SPEAKER_03: Now everyone gather around and listen to one of Apple II's best podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_03: No research to back this up.
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  SPEAKER_03: Your host, Michael Gillespie.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know why Louisiana food is the best food in the world?
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_02: Calls with slow cooking.
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  SPEAKER_00: You heard the man.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Well, slow cooking's about to pay off fast with some deliciously good deals on my amazing Popeye's chicken.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: How good?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking four pieces for only five dollars good.
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  SPEAKER_00: You heard me, four for five dollars good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or ten pieces and all this for twenty good.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking, ooh, now I'm hungry good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Deals like this are why you don't just like Popeyes.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: You love that chicken from Popeye's.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_02: See, no one's ever disagreed with that statement at all.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_02: We all love that chicken from Popeye's.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_02: There's no if, ands, or buts about that.
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  SPEAKER_02: If you are listening to this voice right now, you love Popeye's chicken.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love Popeye's chicken.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_02: You can identify somebody that you know that loves that Popeye chicken.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_02: Now, the prices was pre-COVID.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_02: Those prices ain't real no more.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_02: Don't go there saying you said, Michael, you said I get four pieces of chicken for five.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_02: No, I did not say that.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_02: That's an old commercial.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_02: But the way service is they should be selling chicken for four four pieces for five dollars because, like the man said, because we slow.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_02: Did you not hear that?
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_02: Popeye's service is terrible.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_02: It is so terrible.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's borderline.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sick of it.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sick of it.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't matter where you get Popeye's chicken from.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_02: If you go to the headquarters of Popeye's chicken, you're waiting 15 to 20 minutes.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_02: You go to the Hood to the Hoods version of Popeye's chickens, you're waiting 15 to 20 minutes.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_02: I recently went to a Popeye's in one of the richest cities in the Cincinnati area, Mason.
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  SPEAKER_02: It might have been the worst experience I've ever had at a Popeye's.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, again, the chicken, we're not talking about the bird.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_02: The chicken's great.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_02: The chicken is phenomenal.
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  SPEAKER_02: Remember during the COVID era, we all stuck in the house.
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  SPEAKER_02: We all snuck out to go get that Popeye's chicken sandwich.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_02: Because it was delicious.
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  SPEAKER_02: That thing was massive and delicious.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_02: I remember, this was not too long ago, I went there and got me at least two.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_02: And I waited a half hour for it.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it's always been a manning issue.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_02: It's always been a manning issue.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_02: No matter what Popeyes you get, it this day only had three people: a cook, uh someone in the drive-thru, and someone up front, and maybe a manager, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: You would think that's that's all majority Popeyes got.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a manning issue, right?
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_02: You would think that.
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  SPEAKER_02: This one we went to in Mason, Ohio, had six people.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_02: Six people.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_02: And you're and you're thinking, oh, we're in Mason, Ohio.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's one of the richest cities in Ohio, definitely richest city, one of the richest cities in Cincinnati.
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  SPEAKER_02: You would think six people, they got they stuff together.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_02: No.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, now the general idea is I'm waiting for chicken.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm there to get chicken.
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  SPEAKER_02: So the chicken is never the issue.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_02: It's always the sides, the fries.
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  SPEAKER_02: They mess up something, they overcharge you for something.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's the problem.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's never the chicken.
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  SPEAKER_02: We know that.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I know that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Everybody in the world knows that Popeyes has probably the best fast food chicken.
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  SPEAKER_02: But their service is utter garbage.
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, I went to the one in Mason and they had six people.
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  SPEAKER_02: I counted.
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  SPEAKER_02: Counted all six of them.
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  SPEAKER_02: Two in the back, two on drive-thru, one manager, one person up front, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: So you would think that, yo, I'm gonna get great service.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, mind you, there was maybe two people in front of me, and I looked to the person on my left, he's sitting down, and he had his hand on his head at the table, just like just watching them, right?
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm like, okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then another person that had a family.
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  SPEAKER_02: So, okay, so I figure I'm waiting 10 to 15 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_02: They it should be because the way the idea is that they're pumping the chicken out.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_02: They're pumping the chicken out, so therefore they have five, six people.
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  SPEAKER_02: There should be no problems when it comes to getting this Popeyes chicken.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I go there and uh, you know, I order my order my food, and so again, the chicken's not the issue.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_02: So say, hey, you know, ordering for my daughter, ordering for my other daughter, order for my wife, order for myself.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_02: We all get different things.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's probably where I started the whole problem at where we started ordering different things because all our orders were jacked up.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_02: But I digress, let's keep going.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sign number one, where uh I should have known to just walk out and go somewhere else, was I said, hey, you know, we're all getting a three-piece, two three pieces, one chicken sandwich, and I got me a four-piece.
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  SPEAKER_02: And all of them was sweet tea.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_02: The guy says, sweet tea ain't working.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_02: I said, wait a minute, let me look at the front of this logo and see if I'm at McDonald's and if I accidentally ordered a milkshake.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: Because how can you, how can the how can you not have sweet tea?
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_02: That is a Popeye staple.
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  SPEAKER_02: You get the chicken and you get the sweet tea.
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  SPEAKER_02: Those go hand in hand with Popeyes and the biscuit.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_02: And the biscuit.
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  SPEAKER_02: But you get first the chicken, then the sweet tea.
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  SPEAKER_02: The biscuit is optional, you know.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_02: They do have some nice uh Cajun mashed potatoes, those are delicious.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_02: So once he said um we ain't got no tea, as that should have been my first time.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_02: I said, you know what, Michael, you need to go somewhere else.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_02: This is not a good idea, you know.
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  SPEAKER_02: Move on.
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  SPEAKER_02: But I'm determined to have Popeye's chicken because the chicken is delicious.
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  SPEAKER_02: Guys, come on.
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  SPEAKER_02: The chicken is delicious.
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  SPEAKER_02: We all know that.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know that, you know somebody that knows that.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_02: If you mention Popeye's chicken, they're gonna get excited, right?
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_02: Popeye's chicken is very good.
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  SPEAKER_02: We know that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, the tea isn't out of order, the drink station's out of order.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_02: And then come to find out the drink station's out of order.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it's like, you know what?
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_02: That's sign number two.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_02: They don't have no sweet tea, and the drink station's out of order.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, oh, that's Michael, you need to go somewhere else.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_02: But I'm like, determined to get the chicken.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_02: Cause guys, this don't miss.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_02: The chicken don't miss.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_04: That don't miss.
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  SPEAKER_04: The chicken doesn't miss.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_04: In the heat of battle, he don't miss.
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  SPEAKER_04: Right.
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  SPEAKER_04: In the heat of controversy, he don't miss.
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  SPEAKER_04: No.
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  SPEAKER_02: The chicken don't miss.
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  SPEAKER_02: The chicken's delicious.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_02: So that was my sign number two.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then as the time goes by, I always make, you know, my wife would text me and say, Hey, did you get lost?
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, she's making jokes and stuff.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_02: No, I didn't get lost.
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  SPEAKER_02: I had to go actually help him in the back, hunt the chicken down, and teach him how to cook it because it's over 20 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I've already gone to the gas station that's across the way to get drinks.
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  SPEAKER_02: And this chicken is still not done.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it's a service, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a service that's bad.
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  SPEAKER_02: Needless to say, I finally got my order.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_02: I leave.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_02: Get back to the hotel where we're staying at, and all the orders are messed up.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_02: But we got the chicken.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_02: We all got the chicken or the chicken sandwiches and the three-piece and the four-piece.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_02: But I didn't get my side.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_02: I got nothing but chicken and biscuit.
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  SPEAKER_02: Mind you, I don't complain because that works for me.
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  SPEAKER_02: But at least need some jelly.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_02: We all know that biscuit is dry as the desert.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right?
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  SPEAKER_02: So we're eating this biscuit.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm definitely something to drink.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_02: But I got the chicken and the biscuit.
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  SPEAKER_02: The fries were cold.
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  SPEAKER_02: It just doesn't make sense.
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  SPEAKER_02: They need to pay they people more.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we could all love that chicken from Popeye's and the sides.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_02: That's what that's what I'm that's what we're trying to do.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_02: You run your risk of getting just getting chicken from Popeye's.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_02: But that is a story.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_02: They needed to get it together.
• 8:27
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• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: So today's main topic is called the New York State of Mind.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_02: And I know you're like, well, what do you what do you mean, Michael?
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_02: Which is the whole point of the show.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_02: What do you mean?
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_02: Well, a couple weeks ago, I get I get a text message from nephew.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_02: Nephew hits me up and said, yo, guess what?
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, yo, you know, what's up, man?
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_02: What's up?
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, Yeah, are you busy right now?
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_02: I need to talk to you.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, normally it's a text message conversation is all we need, right?
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_02: Cool.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_02: Just text me, send me something.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_02: He says, No, we need to talk.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_02: I said, All right, um, give me a minute and uh I will call you.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_02: Well, safe to say a couple minutes go by and I don't get, I don't get the I don't get the phone call.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_02: He texts me, he says, guess what, bro?
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_02: I said, what?
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, Grandma, my mom, is getting sued.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_02: I said, I said, what?
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_02: I said, what?
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_02: Somebody is suing my mom.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_02: So immediately I go into rage mode.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like, who has the audacity to sue my mom who wouldn't even hurt a fly?
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_02: Like, wouldn't deliberately hurt a fly.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_02: A cockroach, on the other hand, yes, she will stomp the crap out of a cockroach.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_02: But to sue my mom, there has to be a misunderstanding.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody that knows my mom loves my mom.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_02: There's no way somebody is suing her seriously.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm like, who?
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_02: Who is suing my mom?
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_02: Her sister is suing her mom.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_02: I said, you got to be kidding me.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_02: You got to be kidding me.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_02: My aunt is suing my mom.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_02: So a little quick background to this.
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  SPEAKER_02: Way back in the 1970s, my grandmother, my mom's mom, just in case, she passed away.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_02: And she left the house that they lived in to all seven siblings.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_02: All seven siblings have a right to this house.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_02: But only one controls the house, controls the bills, does it does everything for the house.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_02: And now she's suing my mom.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm I am heated.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm like, okay, all right, let me talk to my mom.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_02: Let me find out what's going on.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_02: Let's let's get this together.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_02: So I go to my mom, said, Hey, what's going on?
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_02: She said, I don't know.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_02: I just got these papers today, and you know, I'm being sued.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_02: I said, Wow.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_02: So how much are you being sued for?
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_02: She said, over, I think,$4,000.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_02: I said, oh my God.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_02: My mom is on Social Security.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_02: There's no way she can afford this.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_02: So now I'm the raise level is now up to a two.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_02: I am almost Super Saiyan right now.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_02: I'm so pissed.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_02: Like, why would my why would my aunt do this?
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_02: So I go on.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_02: She got summoned.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_02: She got her summoning papers on the 10th.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_02: With the next day, the next day is the trial.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_02: I said, what?
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_02: So again, I'm at Super Saiyan 2 right now, ready to explode, and now we got trial tomorrow.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_02: And my mom has no evidence, has nothing, is unaware of this.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_02: We are completely, we're completely blindsided by this.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm reading the documents, and out of the seven si well, the six other siblings, she got two listed.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_02: One other sister and my mom.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, wait a minute.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_02: If you're gonna sue, why aren't you suing the whole family?
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_02: And then come to find out, she's like, I know where your mom is, and I know where you know the other sisters at.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, that's kind of shady.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_02: And mind you, that my aunt lives in New York, right?
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_02: She doesn't come to Ohio unless there's some type of business uh associated with it.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_02: And rightfully so.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I'm not mad at that.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_02: But the point is that she's she has clearly profited from being the majority owner, majority person over the house, charging rent, not not sharing the rent, none of that.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_02: None of that, none of that, none of that.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_02: She didn't share that.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm like, oh god.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_02: So I immediately call my boss.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_02: Look, Nate, I can't come to work today.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_02: Mom's getting sued.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_02: He's cool.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yo, do what you gotta do.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_02: Chill.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_02: Cool.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_02: So, all right.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm trying to think of something we could say.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_02: Because I have no time to look up documentation, anything.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, oh my God, we're gonna get, we're gonna get, we're in so much trouble.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm calling around, asking all my legal friends, like, what can I do?
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_02: What can what can I do?
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_02: Is there something?
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_02: So they said, hey, ask for a continuation.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_02: You know, you were some you got papers one day one, the next day you have trial.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_02: There's no way a judge will be like, okay, we're gonna continue this trial and move on and you know, present a verdict.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, okay, cool.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm like, okay, so the next day we go, I get dressed up and go, and um, we're in front of the judge.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_02: So the the bailiff comes out and says, Hey, look, you know, this ain't what you see on TV.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_02: You guys ain't gonna be going back and forth.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_02: He's gonna say his story, she's gonna say her story, and then that's it.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_02: It's okay, don't be doing this.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_02: Ain't Judge Mathis, don't do that.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_02: I said, you know, chill out, bailiff.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_02: We we got this.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_02: We ain't, we ain't, you know, we ain't country, you know, we ain't ghetto, we know we're gonna we gonna handle this.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm like, okay.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_02: He he points to me, he's like, who are you?
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_02: I said, I am Michael, this is my mom, and uh, I'm here to you know help my mom out and all that stuff.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_02: It's like, are you a witness?
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, um, technically, no, but you know, maybe I should be.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_02: Again, this is all new information.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know how to react.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if I am a witness or not.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_02: I don't want to damage the case and all that stuff.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_02: So we go into the courtroom.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_02: Now, mind you, this lady is still my aunt, right?
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_02: Blood is always thicker than water.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_02: That's what they say.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_02: So as we come to the courtroom, I open the door for her.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_02: She's like, gone, Michael Carlos.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_02: I said, I said, excuse me?
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_02: She said, gone.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_02: I don't need you to open the door for me.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_02: I said, You sure about that?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_02: She said, Yeah.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_02: I am literally blown away by her reaction.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_02: She don't want me to hold the door for her.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_02: But you're still my aunt.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_02: At the end of the day, you're still blood.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_02: You would open, I'm opening a door for you because I serve this c I serve this country.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_02: I have that core value in me.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_02: I will always do what's right.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_02: Integrity first.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna open the door for you.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_02: You're an elderly woman with a cane.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_02: Open the door.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_02: She's like, no, Michael Carlos, gone.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: I said, okay, fine.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_02: Stinking.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_02: So we get in the courtroom, and I get up, and I said, I'm not gonna be a witness.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_02: I should have been a witness.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_02: Because the bailiff says, Okay, you're not gonna be a witness, so I'm gonna need you to not say a word.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_02: I said, No problem.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_02: So if you got something to say to your mom, write it down on a piece of paper and have her say it.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_02: So, okay, no problem.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_02: So we're sitting in the courtroom, and my aunt's going, you know, this is this, going on and on.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_02: She owes this, she's never paid this.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: And rightfully so.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_02: She's right.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_02: She's right.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_02: So, okay.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_02: Alright.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: So it's our turn to talk.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_02: And I said, I started I start scribbling on a piece of paper.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_02: I said, uh, I said, Mom, this is the first thing you do.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: I said, you ask for a continuation because we're not ready.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: We just got summons one day prior to today.
• 18:52
  unknown: Okay, write that.
• 18:53
  unknown: Okay.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_02: So I wrote that down on a piece of paper and handed it to my mom.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_02: I said, Mom, I said, Mom, read that.
• 18:59
  unknown: And uh don't deviate from this.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_02: She's like, okay, I got you, baby.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_02: I said, okay, all right, all right, so I actually she's like, yes, Your Honor, this is not fair.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_02: I said, uh tapping.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, mom, mom.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_02: I said, uh, you're not going on script because I need you to read what's on the paper.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_02: You know, that's my mom.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_02: I can't I can't raise my voice on my mama.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_02: This is this is very important.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm just whispering.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_02: I said, Mom, you need to read what's on the paper.
• 19:26
  unknown: Please.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like, uh-uh, this ain't fair.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know why she ain't she ain't never shared any of the rent, any of the rent money.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_02: She ain't shared nothing.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_02: Now all of a sudden she's coming after me.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think it's fair.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, oh mom, you're gonna mess up because you're not reading what's on the paper.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: I just specifically asked you to ask for a continuation because we just got summoned.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm like, all right, you just gonna go on your own thing and do your own thing?
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_02: I should have sworn in at the very beginning and talked for my mom.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_02: Because I would not have gone any further till the continuation was acknowledged.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_02: The judge just was, whatever you said, you this is what the judge said.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, Well, um, you should sell the property.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, Yeah, you're right, we should sell the property.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_02: Because again, to get six other people to agree on what's going on with this property is darn near impossible.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_02: That's what I'm finding out now.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_02: So my mom goes off script, and safe to say, we lose the court case.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: We lose the court case.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_02: So now I'm mad.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_02: I'm even I'm even angrier, and I want to beat my I want to beat my aunt up.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_02: I really want to knock her out, but you know, integrity first, service of herself, excellence all due.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_02: That's the Air Force, that's the Air Force motto, right?
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_02: That's what we swore by.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_02: That's what that's what we that's what we go by.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_02: So I get her on the phone and I said, I cannot believe you would sue your own family.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_02: I cannot believe you would take my mama to court for the whole amount when there's six other siblings that you haven't gone after, and because you can't find them, you want to take it out on my mom with a little knowledge and all that stuff.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_02: I am yelling through the phone.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_02: I don't listen, if you know me, I'm calm, cool, collective 90% of the time.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_02: I don't feed into that Gillespie rage and anger that the siblings and the family is known for.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_02: Some of them, not all of them, some of them, that you know, that they that is fed.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_02: I don't do that.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_02: I don't do anger.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_02: I figure I always think there's a better way to solve things other than going through anger and frustration.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_02: Don't do that.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_02: So I but I'm I'm going off.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_02: I said, I cannot believe.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm yelling, I'm banging on the table because I'm so angry.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_02: I've never been this angry in a very long time.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_02: And I said, and I told her, and this is what I said I said, any disagreement you have with family, we don't go to court and sue our family.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_02: I'd rather go and get into a fist fight after the fist fight, you're all right, I'm good, I'm glad you lost.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: But hey, you're gonna pay up.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe that's not the right course of things to do, but we don't sue.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_02: We don't go to court for something like this.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_02: Now, if you would have been fair through the whole process and like distributed money and all that stuff, it's like if my mom made a profit off of it, then I would understand.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_02: But she's never made a profit.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_02: She has hogged the whole profit.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_02: She, my aunt has gotten to a point where she's trying to get everybody else to sell her their share of the property.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_02: So something is up, right?
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know the whole story, but something is up.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_02: Well, she's trying to get all the property for herself.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, at this point, I'm not discussing it with her, and you know, I'm just not.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I'm not gonna feed into it.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna fight this.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_02: The next couple days after we lost, I'm like, all right, mom, we're gonna do our research.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna get some information, we're gonna get some property information, we're gonna find out what's going on with the deed, doing all this background stuff.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_02: And mind you, that I just got out of my dad's case.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: So I get my dad, I get, I do my dad's case for four years, get out of that, and immediately jump to my mom's case.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, yo, can I get a break, please?
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_02: I don't like all this legal matter.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_02: Because we wind back to the trial.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: He's asking me, like, who are you?
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_02: I say, sir, my name is um um um, and this is the problem that I have.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_02: That black robe of the judge intimidates me.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_02: I'm looking up at the judge and I don't do well.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_02: This is the second time I've been in front of a judge in the past month and a half, and it makes me nervous to be in front of him.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't do nothing wrong.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_02: But his point is, he's like, uh, what's state your name, sir?
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, uh, uh, uh, what's oh yeah.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_02: Um I'm Michael Gillespie.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_02: He says, spell your last name.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_02: I say, uh shoot.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_02: Uh G um G I um, whoo, Gillespie.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, okay, uh, what do you want to say?
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_02: I said, uh, uh and then eventually I get it out.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, I hear what my aunt is asking for, but she has she has been the sole provider of this property.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_02: She hasn't shared nothing.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_02: Da-da-da-da.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_02: Why is she coming with my mom now?
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_02: Da-da-da-da-da.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_02: And he's like, Yeah, well, guess what?
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_02: You still lose.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, all right, so fine.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_02: So the next couple days, my aunt puts the water bill in my mom's mailbox.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_02: I said, You dirty mother lover.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_02: I cannot believe you're doing it.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_02: She puts the water bill in there.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_02: It's like, you're gonna pay for that.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_02: I said, okay, so we're gonna do tit for tat.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna dispute the claim, write a letter while we're disputing the claim, submit it to the judge.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_02: The judge has it right now.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_02: So he's in the you know, litigation trying to figure out what to do.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_02: Because that was the first thing we said.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_02: I said, Mom, you gotta read, you gotta follow the notes saying you want a continuation.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_02: And she didn't follow.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_02: Kinda.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_02: So, um, so that's where that is.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_02: So she dropped off the um water bill.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_02: We sent it back.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_02: We sent it back with a signed letter saying, hey, yeah, we ain't doing that because we asked for continuation.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_02: But the bottom line is we don't sue our family.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_02: You can have a disagreement with your family, you don't even have to talk to your family sometimes because of the disagreement.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_02: The disagreement can be so so big.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_02: But I would never, ever, ever take food off my siblings plate.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_02: Never, never, never, never.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_02: I could disagree and be angry all I want, but I would never take food off your plate.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_02: And apparently, being in the New York state of mind that she's in, it doesn't matter.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't matter that my mom's on your social security, it doesn't matter that she cannot pay these court costs and payments.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_02: She just wants to go after the weak.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_02: And that's what that's what boils boils my blood.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_02: It just makes me so mad that this person is doing that.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_02: So in the end, uh in the end of it, in the end of it, we take care of our family, period.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_02: We take care of our own blood because that's the only thing we got, right?
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_02: So be stay tuned for the sequel, because there will be a sequel once the judge writes back and figure out what he wants to say.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_02: But the bottom line of this thing is, and the bottom line of this podcast is take care of your family, take care of your family, and do right by them so you don't have to have these disagreements and stuff later on in life.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_02: That's what I'm saying.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_02: Stay true to who you are and your family, so you don't have to be in the courtroom acting a god blessed monkey.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_02: With that being said, that's the New York state of mind.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_02: And Popeye's chicken.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_02: We love that chicken from Popeye's, but God bless it.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_02: Get the daggone service together, please.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_02: Can I get a two-piece with actual size and chicken?
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_02: I never thought it was that hard.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_02: Also, get you some Dr.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_02: Squash, man.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_02: Quit stanking and banking.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_02: Code S F R H 9BW.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_02: 10 bucks off your purchase of Dr.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_02: Squash.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_02: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie of the WDYM.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you guys for listening.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_02: I will talk to you soon.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_02: Peace out, Girl Scout.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_02: Peace.