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Speaker 1: Today. All right, let's get into the episode.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 3: Hi, no fucking way.
Speaker 1: Fucking way, dude, it's me. What's going on?
Speaker 3: Oh dude, not much man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just got off work fucking chilling with my fiance.
Speaker 4: I have nine cats, I don't know if I talked
Speaker 4: to the screener or whatever earlier, but uh, what's up
Speaker 4: with you? Man?
Speaker 1: You have nine cats?
Speaker 4: Dude?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 4: It started with three and then my girlfriend, well my fiance,
Speaker 4: she moved in. She has a munchkin cat. And yeah,
Speaker 4: from there, my best friend Taylor, he called me up
Speaker 4: and was like, hey, dude, I found these fucking kittens
Speaker 4: in my project car. And I was like, all right, well,
Speaker 4: we'll come check them out.
Speaker 3: And then when we got there, we were like, wait,
Speaker 3: I want.
Speaker 2: You to put a pin in the start your your
Speaker 2: friend found kittens in his car.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So he like does like work on cars and stuff
Speaker 4: like that with my other buddy, And apparently there was
Speaker 4: like a cat in the area that had some kittens
Speaker 4: and just like left it in the car.
Speaker 1: So he bought a car without knowing that there were
Speaker 1: kittens in it.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no no. He was working on the
Speaker 4: car in a garage and.
Speaker 3: He like got there after work one day.
Speaker 4: Oh once it check, yeah, and he found like, okay.
Speaker 1: They've found themselves in there.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I still can't believe I'm on the line with you
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: That's fucking insane.
Speaker 1: Wait, so and so you just took all of them.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what so you just took all these cats?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So the initial the initial idea was like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna take care of him and then foster a map.
Speaker 4: But then it kind of devolved into this situation of
Speaker 4: I guess I'm a crazy cat person because, uh, I
Speaker 4: fucking like every day during my lunch break at work,
Speaker 4: I work as an administrative assistant at this law firm
Speaker 4: and every day I go and uh, i'd have to
Speaker 4: bottle feed them and stuff like that. And my girlfriend, well,
Speaker 4: my fiance, she's a she's a nurse. So together we
Speaker 4: make we make a decent salary so we can afford it.
Speaker 5: It's just like when.
Speaker 4: I tell people I have nine cats, they're like, oh
Speaker 4: my god, this guy's fucking crazy. But realistically, I you know,
Speaker 4: they're they're well, they're well capped.
Speaker 1: Do you have Okay, which one? And look, here's the thing.
Speaker 2: You can be honest about this because cats don't understand English,
Speaker 2: so you can feel.
Speaker 5: Free you say that.
Speaker 1: Which one is your which one is your favorite?
Speaker 3: That's fucked up, man, They.
Speaker 1: Were not They're not gonna know, dude, which one is
Speaker 1: your favorite.
Speaker 4: I don't know that I could rank them, dude, Okay,
Speaker 4: I put like, okay, ummm, my absolute favorite one is
Speaker 4: this Siamese cat who's like sixteen pounds.
Speaker 3: He was the second cat I ever got. He Uh
Speaker 3: he's a little special, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Uh, I don't know if I could say that, But
Speaker 4: take from.
Speaker 3: That what you will, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Uh, but he's very loyal. He acts almost like a dog.
Speaker 1: Dogs kind of are just dumb cats.
Speaker 4: You know, they say dogs are smarter than cats, But
Speaker 4: I don't know that I believe that because you know,
Speaker 4: cats know how to use the bathroom correctly when they're
Speaker 4: like fucking the size of your hands?
Speaker 5: Do they really?
Speaker 2: I feel like, uh, well don't they if they knew
Speaker 2: how to use a dog, if they knew how to
Speaker 2: use a bathroom correctly, why would they?
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I see where you're going with this.
Speaker 3: Okay, So why would they need a litter box? They
Speaker 3: use the litter box correctly.
Speaker 4: But I do know people who have trained their cats.
Speaker 7: To you is a toilet?
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 3: That's that is factually accurate?
Speaker 1: Well, what's your name again?
Speaker 4: So I didn't even say that my name is Corey
Speaker 4: Corey Corey.
Speaker 2: Well, Corey, let me ask you a question. Is there
Speaker 2: anything in particular that you wanted to talk about. We
Speaker 2: can still we can keep talking about cats if you
Speaker 2: want to turk cats.
Speaker 1: Oh, let me ask you this. Let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Are you planning on having
Speaker 1: a child a little and will the child the cats?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Okay, so that's a that's a good one. Me and
Speaker 4: my fiance are not really into the idea of kids,
Speaker 4: so I mean, that's just not an option for us.
Speaker 3: I guess you could say so, like.
Speaker 4: I guess, you know, at some point, maybe the idea
Speaker 4: of adoption would be on the table, but I don't
Speaker 4: see that kids would ever be on the equation.
Speaker 3: So when we got offered these.
Speaker 4: Cats, we were like, well, we're not gonna have kids,
Speaker 4: so you know.
Speaker 3: Fuck it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's a perfect equation for this,
Speaker 2: but I feel like nine cats is like pretty much
Speaker 2: it's pretty much equal to one kid, maybe even maybe
Speaker 2: even more than one kid.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, If anything, it's it's cost you know,
Speaker 4: because I've done the math.
Speaker 3: It's it's way cheaper than a kid, Like at least
Speaker 3: half off.
Speaker 1: How much okay, how much money per cat? Are we talking?
Speaker 1: How much money per cat per per month? Are we talking?
Speaker 4: Oh that's tough.
Speaker 3: What would you say, man? Yeah, maybe like per cat? Yeah,
Speaker 3: fifty per cat.
Speaker 4: I'd probably fifty to sixty per cat. All right, It's like,
Speaker 4: come on, bro, I'm a fucking political science major.
Speaker 3: Don't ask me math question.
Speaker 2: Oh when you said, oh come on, bro, I thought
Speaker 2: you were getting upset with me for not knowing that.
Speaker 2: And I was about to be I was about to say.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 2: I was about to agree with you. I was about
Speaker 2: agree with you. I should know what five times nine is.
Speaker 2: I was about agree with you. I got to thank
Speaker 2: you for putting me in my place for not knowing math,
Speaker 2: because you know, I'm an adult.
Speaker 1: I should know what five times nine is.
Speaker 5: Dude, I'm right there with you anyway.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, okay, so back to what you want. You
Speaker 2: said you was there anything you wanted to talk about
Speaker 2: in particular besides cats?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I guess the question would be, what
Speaker 4: did you do before this?
Speaker 1: What did I do before this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I'm just curious because I kind of came across your
Speaker 4: your entire thing by accident, you know, like I've had
Speaker 4: friends who watched it, you know, since the beginning of
Speaker 4: when you started all this, and I'm just curious how
Speaker 4: you kind of got into the whole, you know, Dick,
Speaker 4: because I mean, honestly, it's impressive.
Speaker 3: It's random, and.
Speaker 4: It's like, I'm just curious how you came into that,
Speaker 4: and like what you did.
Speaker 2: Before, Well, thanks man, I appreciate that. I I mean
Speaker 2: before this. I let's see what. I started doing this
Speaker 2: in the summer of twenty twenty and like, shit, I
Speaker 2: mean six, I started doing this like six months after
Speaker 2: I got out of college.
Speaker 1: Pretty much.
Speaker 2: I used to, like, I mean, I used to have
Speaker 2: been doing stand up comedy and fucking making movies and
Speaker 2: shit since I was.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 4: Okay, so when you say you did stand up, you know,
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people want that platform to
Speaker 4: be able to express themselves and like give their own
Speaker 4: kind of take on it. But I feel like a
Speaker 4: lot of people try to like imitate the style of
Speaker 4: other people instead of just express it themselves in a
Speaker 4: way that's kind of like, and I guess I can
Speaker 4: tie into a lot like everything, Like the idea of
Speaker 4: being unique is inherently you know complex. So how did you, like,
Speaker 4: I guess, for lack of a better phrase, get the
Speaker 4: balls to do that.
Speaker 2: Well, it's funny you say that, because why, I started
Speaker 2: doing stand up when I was in high school. So
Speaker 2: I started when I was like sixteen, and I quit
Speaker 2: when I was like twenty two. And for the first
Speaker 2: half of my time doing stand up, I was just
Speaker 2: I was pretty much imitating Hannibal Buriss. And then the
Speaker 2: second half of me doing stand up, I was imitating
Speaker 2: Norm McDonald.
Speaker 5: So yeah, man, well you were right.
Speaker 1: I mean I was pretty much I was. I was
Speaker 1: just doing, you.
Speaker 2: Know, rip off Norm McDonald's shit. So, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's funny. I won't shut the fuck up about going
Speaker 2: on this tour, but it's funny because I had quit
Speaker 2: doing stand up comedy.
Speaker 1: It's so funny I had. So I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2: I was in college and I was like at a
Speaker 2: I was at this comedy show and like I wasn't
Speaker 2: on the show, but like I was there just to
Speaker 2: hang out, and I met that I saw this other
Speaker 2: comedian there who I knew, who was also just there
Speaker 2: hanging out but not on the show.
Speaker 1: And I said to him, I was like.
Speaker 2: Man, isn't it nice to just like hang out and
Speaker 2: enjoy the evening and not have to go on stage
Speaker 2: and like perform. And he looked at me like I
Speaker 2: was crazy. This comedian who wasn't on the show. He
Speaker 2: looked at me and he was like, what are you
Speaker 2: talking about?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 2: You're a com as. I always want to be on stage.
Speaker 2: Why do you think I'm doing this? I always want
Speaker 2: to be on stage telling jokes every night that I can.
Speaker 2: And that's when I realized that I couldn't do it
Speaker 2: because I was like, how old was he? He was
Speaker 2: a little bit older than me, but anyway, I was like,
Speaker 2: I was just like, oh, if I don't feel like
Speaker 2: that the way that this guy does, then I'm not gonna,
Speaker 2: you know, make it.
Speaker 1: And I should.
Speaker 2: Honestly, if I don't feel that way about this, why
Speaker 2: am I even doing it? If you know, if I'm
Speaker 2: not like, oh, I always want to.
Speaker 5: You know, that's really good.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people, a lot of people,
Speaker 4: you know, they get told this idea of like, if
Speaker 4: you're not passionate about it, or you're not doing something
Speaker 4: you enjoy, why are you doing it?
Speaker 3: And if you're not gonna be the best at what
Speaker 3: you're doing, then why why do it?
Speaker 4: And I think that ties into like, you know, the
Speaker 4: whole capitalistic and great and imbumement and within the education system.
Speaker 2: But all right, now you're getting all right now, now
Speaker 2: you're now, you're now, you're going all over the place.
Speaker 2: But but but anyway, I I I wouldn't, I don't.
Speaker 1: This story has nothing to do with capitalism. This is
Speaker 1: just a story of my whatever.
Speaker 2: But I but I remember I walked home that night
Speaker 2: just fucking depressed because my whole entire fucking life was
Speaker 2: about like trying to do stand up and all my
Speaker 2: friends were from stand up and everything, and I was like, well, shit,
Speaker 2: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm gonna what I'm gonna do anymore.
Speaker 2: I'd like giving up, giving up, And now I'm doing
Speaker 2: these fucking live shows, which is like insane. It's a
Speaker 2: weird roundabout way back to it. But anyway, yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean I was, I was in college.
Speaker 4: School, okay, Yeah, No, I was just curious how you
Speaker 4: kind of came into it. I think that's, you know,
Speaker 4: kind of it's kind of informative really that you know,
Speaker 4: you felt that way. I think a lot of people
Speaker 4: go through something similar in terms of, you know, the
Speaker 4: whole fuck this, So I'm just gonna give up.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: I felt that way about, like, you know, law school
Speaker 4: before I just was like, fuck this, I'm just gonna
Speaker 4: work at at law firms instead of getting all.
Speaker 3: His debt, you know.
Speaker 4: So I came back into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's weird. It's very weird. I was thinking about it.
Speaker 4: The part that interests me the most morse because it's like,
Speaker 4: I do think it's cool that you did stand up,
Speaker 4: but I think that probably gives you like a background
Speaker 4: and you know, appealing to the different ways of framing
Speaker 4: a conversation with people. But like, how did you come
Speaker 4: how'd you come about like the idea of this streaming?
Speaker 4: Like I heard you say one time, You're like, I'm
Speaker 4: Green Oprah, and I was like, oh my god, this
Speaker 4: guy's a fucking genius.
Speaker 2: Oh well I said that. I hope, Oh god, I
Speaker 2: said that in jest. I hope I'm not Green Oprah.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be Green Oprah.
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm sure you don't. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: How do I I just fucking around.
Speaker 2: I don't have like a cool story, Honestly, I just
Speaker 2: it's really just kind of fucking around, uh, fucking around
Speaker 2: on Reddit.
Speaker 3: Oh dude, that's even better.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I wish I.
Speaker 1: Had a cool story.
Speaker 2: I wish I I sometimes as I tell people that
Speaker 2: a gecko visited me in a burning bush.
Speaker 1: But that's some story.
Speaker 3: Dream right there.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but no, the story of me has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with the story of me being a gecko. It
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with with capitalism or with you know,
Speaker 2: the the you know, whatever is going on in uh,
Speaker 2: you know, between Israel and Palestine.
Speaker 1: It's a fully insular thing.
Speaker 4: What were you saying, So, if you had to choose
Speaker 4: a spirit animal, would you say it is the ge.
Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna ask me if I had
Speaker 2: to choose a side between Israel and Palestine.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you didn't because I don't have an answer.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I never do I have.
Speaker 1: A spirit animal.
Speaker 2: I mean, I like the you know again, all my
Speaker 2: all my realizations about this whole thing have come after
Speaker 2: the fact. They weren't like, oh, I you know, like
Speaker 2: talking to people, or I like trying to be funny
Speaker 2: or any of that stuff. It all came after the
Speaker 2: fact that I was like, oh yeah, this thing that
Speaker 2: I fell into makes sense looking backwards, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: I like, like, I feel like I'm a sloth. I
Speaker 2: feel very slothy.
Speaker 1: What's your fucking.
Speaker 3: Dude, that's tough.
Speaker 4: I'd say either the raccoon or the fucking or the
Speaker 4: sloth man.
Speaker 1: Either the raccoon or the sloth.
Speaker 3: Maybe a mixture of boat mhm.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: Well, I feel like I I feel like you learned
Speaker 2: about me, which you got me to talk about myself.
Speaker 2: I try to avoid talking about Yeah.
Speaker 4: I've never seen that happen. Actually, that was kind of
Speaker 4: the goal, to be honest.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You have this inviting, stoner energy that that caused me
Speaker 2: to share.
Speaker 4: Well, i'll give you that. I'll give you that I
Speaker 4: am baked as a cake.
Speaker 1: My god, Oh you didn't have to tell me.
Speaker 3: That's fucked up. Everyone's like, dude, you saw I crushed
Speaker 3: the turtle man.
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 2: You know? What is a genre of TikTok video that
Speaker 2: I've been really enjoying that's been coming up is people
Speaker 2: go to the Turtle Talk attraction at at at at
Speaker 2: Disney World, which is like where you can like they
Speaker 2: have like an animated like like an animated kind of
Speaker 2: digital puppet of of of crush the turtle and like
Speaker 2: it'll talk back to you, and like kids will talk
Speaker 2: to it and ship and it has really good responses
Speaker 2: for things.
Speaker 4: Have you ever seen like it's like a parrot almost,
Speaker 4: but it's a turtle.
Speaker 2: You are very stoned right now. Yes, what the hell
Speaker 2: was I gonna say?
Speaker 1: What the hell is I gonna? What is your name?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Corey?
Speaker 1: Corey? Did I learn anything about you?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: And I did? I learned that you have nine cats?
Speaker 1: And you learned that I have?
Speaker 3: You know that you know I have nine cats? And Uh?
Speaker 3: That's about man?
Speaker 2: Is there anything else that you want to know about
Speaker 2: me or that you want to tell me about you?
Speaker 1: Before we go?
Speaker 3: I guess how often do you smell?
Speaker 2: Lee? I mean for me, it's.
Speaker 3: Every day everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm at a point where I'm never high,
Speaker 2: like like like.
Speaker 1: If you're like you have never seen me high? Like
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get stoned and go on streat.
Speaker 4: No way, dude, There's been like two or three episodes
Speaker 4: on YouTube where you look roasted as fucking can be.
Speaker 2: You sounds so fucking funny, man, I no, I You've
Speaker 2: never seen me high before. I don't get high befo
Speaker 2: before I go on stream or stage or out to
Speaker 2: do interviews or any that stuff.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't be able to function
Speaker 1: as a person.
Speaker 3: No, I understand that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I also.
Speaker 2: Probably I mean I'm a I'm a I'm a pretty
Speaker 2: big stoner, right, I get high. I probably also get
Speaker 2: high every day, which I don't know if I should
Speaker 2: do that, but uh, it's hard to like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's I always forget with weed. But like, you know
Speaker 2: how they there was a big campaign against you know,
Speaker 2: people have been campaigning against cigarettes, like that they're bad
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: The other day I was like, honestly, like, if you're
Speaker 4: going to take an evil corporation to work for, go
Speaker 4: work at Big Tobacco. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 4: I mean, there's so much money in it, dude, And like,
Speaker 4: if you're at least donating to like these fucks.
Speaker 3: This sounds so evil.
Speaker 4: I sound like an evil character fucking lobbying for like
Speaker 4: the generation to like whatever you have to.
Speaker 2: You have to balance out your anti capitalist rant with
Speaker 2: some nice.
Speaker 4: Well, well it wasn't anti capitalist. What I was getting
Speaker 4: at by that. My man was you didn't feel the
Speaker 4: same level of desire as that guy.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just joking.
Speaker 3: I know you're bout you're both.
Speaker 1: What is your name, Corey? Corey?
Speaker 2: Okay to answer your question, I am, but I forgot that,
Speaker 2: Like I mean, smoking is bad for you, no matter
Speaker 2: what you're smoking. It's like people will try to adamantly
Speaker 2: defend it and like I don't and I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I I smoke weed every day, but I
Speaker 1: just it's.
Speaker 3: Here's the real fucking question.
Speaker 4: If you love sugar, why the funk aren't you just
Speaker 4: on the edibles.
Speaker 1: I don't like edibles because I can't.
Speaker 3: I haven't got some fire, dude. I'm telling you. They
Speaker 3: got some ship out there that feels.
Speaker 4: Almost like a migrant as of mushrooms when you eat
Speaker 4: that ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't like that. I don't like that, well,
Speaker 1: it's too powerful for me. And also I don't like
Speaker 1: that you kind.
Speaker 2: Of buy the ticket and you take a riot with
Speaker 2: with like actually with like a vapor or a joint
Speaker 2: or something like you can kind of portion it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's like it's like play as you go, yeah.
Speaker 1: Play as you go exactly. But I'm I'm trying to smoke.
Speaker 2: I'm not actively trying, but it would be nice if
Speaker 2: I didn't smoke weed every day.
Speaker 1: I've had a couple of makes don't make it. I
Speaker 1: don't make it a point to smoke weed every day,
Speaker 1: but it just kind.
Speaker 4: Of you ever likeke cigarettes and stuff like that before, like.
Speaker 1: Uh, ev no, I'm not. I do.
Speaker 2: I do a very annoying thing every once in a while.
Speaker 2: If I'm with somebody who's smoking a cigarette.
Speaker 5: You'll what no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: I will this is worse. I will ask them for
Speaker 2: a hit of their cigarette. That's that's all I want.
Speaker 4: I don't you know you say you say that it's
Speaker 4: super top. How old are you?
Speaker 1: I'm twenty five?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, that's about Yeah, that's that's pretty common. I'd
Speaker 4: say behavior for around that edge.
Speaker 1: What just smoking a hit of someone's cigarette?
Speaker 3: Dude?
Speaker 4: My friends used to be like that all the time,
Speaker 4: and they'd steal my fucking lighters.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Any chance they got.
Speaker 1: How old are you?
Speaker 5: Twenty nine?
Speaker 1: Dude?
Speaker 3: But I look like I'm like nineteen.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Well, look state State. Oh my god, I suck. I
Speaker 1: forgot your name. It's Corey.
Speaker 2: Corey.
Speaker 5: Stay young, all right, dude, forever young.
Speaker 2: B guy, is there anything else you want to say
Speaker 2: to the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 3: Buy Malady NFTs?
Speaker 1: Buy? What are malady NFTs?
Speaker 4: Oh? Dude? Put them on game Therapy, Geca Muladi's Remelia
Speaker 4: and fucking Schizo posters.
Speaker 2: Dude, do you are the absolute last person I thought
Speaker 2: would end the call by talking about NFTs.
Speaker 4: I like to mix it up, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Hopefully we get to have another another meeting, my guy.
Speaker 2: I respect that. I respect you know what. I love
Speaker 2: any person where you don't. Some people you can kind
Speaker 2: of predict how they're gonna feel about certain things or
Speaker 2: what they're going to say next.
Speaker 1: But I not you. You're a wild card and I appreciate.
Speaker 3: That about Oh dude, you got no idea? Man, it
Speaker 3: was pleasure talking to you, my guy.
Speaker 1: Hey, you two, you take care you too, Buzz.
Speaker 2: NFTs, Big Tobacco and cats.
Speaker 1: We're really doing it.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, who is this?
Speaker 6: My name is Janessa.
Speaker 4: How are you.
Speaker 1: H I'm okay? How are you Genessa?
Speaker 6: I'm doing kod I just funnest say, I've been watching
Speaker 6: you since the twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: Okay, you remind me a lot with my brother.
Speaker 6: Actually that's why I think I watch you a lot.
Speaker 1: Uh what's your what's your brother like?
Speaker 6: Well, you have more of his personality. He's a mechanic.
Speaker 6: He's working on bass though. Yeah, he's in mechanic. He
Speaker 6: plays video games a lot. He collects machetes and knives,
Speaker 6: not in a weird way, but more of a.
Speaker 1: Yeah in your opinion.
Speaker 2: In your opinion, what differentiates collecting machetes and knives in
Speaker 2: a weird way versus just regular collecting them? Is it
Speaker 2: the intent?
Speaker 1: I suppose?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Are you collecting the machetes and knives to kill bores?
Speaker 2: And if you are, is it because you're a hunter
Speaker 2: and you genuinely need to kill the bores for you know,
Speaker 2: sustenance or just because you know, I don't know you
Speaker 2: you like killing bores?
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 2: That was a complicated question. Let's talk more about you, okay, Genessa. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what's your life like?
Speaker 1: Janessa?
Speaker 6: I was pretty mellow. I like at Walmart, I live
Speaker 6: with my boyfriend. I don't do much.
Speaker 2: Now I want to know more about working at Walmart.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've talked to anyone on the stream
Speaker 2: as far as I know who's worked at Walmart. And
Speaker 2: I have my idea of what can I ask you?
Speaker 1: What state you're in? Is that too much personal information?
Speaker 6: No, I'm in Newtah. I was the one who asked
Speaker 6: if you if you've been to Utah before, and you
Speaker 6: said you have?
Speaker 2: But oh, yes, you asked me. I was just while
Speaker 2: I was just in Utah. I was just in Salt
Speaker 2: Lake City. A lot of Mormons there did are you?
Speaker 2: Are you a Mormon?
Speaker 6: Ok?
Speaker 1: So you work at a Walmart in Utah? Is Utah?
Speaker 1: What is Utah? What is a Walmart in Utah? Like
Speaker 1: the paint, the paint the scene for me, I'm curious.
Speaker 6: Well, there's very different kinds. Some are nice, somewhat a
Speaker 6: little trashy. I want to say the one I work
Speaker 6: in it's pretty decent. It's in a nice place where
Speaker 6: there's nice people. It really just depends on where you
Speaker 6: live at I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 1: Okay, how long have you been working at this Walmart for?
Speaker 6: We're about seven eight months now. I transferred from the
Speaker 6: West Valley one. That one was okay. It was a
Speaker 6: neighborhood Walmart, so it wasn't too bad. But people there suck.
Speaker 1: Why did the people at the West Valley Walmart suck?
Speaker 6: Very sassy with the attitude and always picking on you
Speaker 6: if they didn't like you, talking round your back blah
Speaker 6: blah blahs. There's a little drama that I didn't necessarily enjoy,
Speaker 6: so secluded myself out of it.
Speaker 2: Wait, so what did you transfer specifically because of all
Speaker 2: the drama going on?
Speaker 6: No? Actually, I lived with a with my best friend.
Speaker 6: She was pregnant, and she asked me to move in
Speaker 6: with theory to help her around, along with her mom
Speaker 6: and her boyfriend. And when I got there and I
Speaker 6: got my job, they told me that was going to
Speaker 6: be nine hundred bucks for a one bedroom in the bathroom,
Speaker 6: and they said it included groceries. But I didn't really
Speaker 6: eat this kind of food they ate.
Speaker 1: So I was wait a minute, you got whit?
Speaker 2: So was nine hundred bucks to live with your friends
Speaker 2: in in in one of the bedrooms?
Speaker 1: M h not a one bedroom?
Speaker 5: Yes, okay?
Speaker 1: That trip me, tiny little room okay.
Speaker 2: And and they and they were making and they said,
Speaker 2: you chipped in for groceries and everyone kind of fed
Speaker 2: off the same groceries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's not a bad deal.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, it was pretty nice. But two of the
Speaker 6: people were only paying four hundred. So I I want
Speaker 6: to say and that you as fair because I felt
Speaker 6: like I was being taken advantage of a little bit.
Speaker 6: And I you know, I feel bad, but I'm striving now,
Speaker 6: paying off my credit card. I paid off the loan
Speaker 6: a while ago.
Speaker 2: And so so do you did you make more money
Speaker 2: at the new Walmart than at the at the West
Speaker 2: Valley one?
Speaker 6: So I need more of the West Valley because I
Speaker 6: was doing overnights so at like ten am to seven
Speaker 6: or eight am.
Speaker 1: I wannesday Oh so ten pm am?
Speaker 2: Yes, man, I have to I really I want to
Speaker 2: know more about the vibe of a Walmart in suburban.
Speaker 1: Utah at three o'clock in the morning. Who is there?
Speaker 6: Well, I work with my boyfriend's sister and half of
Speaker 6: his family, so.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't really talk to many people. I just do
Speaker 6: what I do.
Speaker 3: There was a drama.
Speaker 6: There's one lady that causes you a lot of drama them.
Speaker 1: I will say that was it a patron or somebody.
Speaker 6: Working there, someone who works there?
Speaker 2: Why was what kind of drama was she causing? If
Speaker 2: you if you don't want to, if you don't mind sharing, no,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 6: Yeah. So she's been complaining about doing her work. She's
Speaker 6: a Mexican lady, not to be in any type of
Speaker 6: you know, like I want to say it, okay, now, yeah,
Speaker 6: mid fifties, always complaining about her work, talking bad about
Speaker 6: people and just not really trying to be a team
Speaker 6: player and instead of being the glama queensicuess I guess.
Speaker 1: I want to know.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this lady seems to have a negative attitude
Speaker 2: about just you know, uh wherever she's at. What was
Speaker 2: your attitude about uh working at Walmart? Like, how did
Speaker 2: you feel every day in general?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 6: I do stalking, So usually every day it's different because
Speaker 6: they'll need to do candy or in the back and
Speaker 6: pull some palette out or do price verification, which is
Speaker 6: my job. It's not hard, but I do it four
Speaker 6: days a week and then on Thursdays I get the
Speaker 6: top sucked down and that's usually make three day where
Speaker 6: I can actually stretch my ladies and walk around.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 2: So you were not in a patron facing roles you
Speaker 2: didn't have, Like you didn't have to deal with whoever
Speaker 2: the hell is going to Walmart at three o'clock in
Speaker 2: the morning. Spoiler alert, it's me getting candy. But I
Speaker 2: don't know who else.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I don't live in.
Speaker 2: Utah, But I mean did you did you walk out
Speaker 2: on the floor or were you mainly in the back?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I walk out on the floor. I'm in all
Speaker 6: the departments. So what price favorcation is is? I had
Speaker 6: to scan the tags, all of them on the shelves
Speaker 6: to make sure they're right to write great price and
Speaker 6: if they're not, then and I had to reprint them
Speaker 6: and put them out and then log it, write all
Speaker 6: the numbers down and which one was the prices and.
Speaker 1: Who's why?
Speaker 2: But I want to know, Like you know, you've talked
Speaker 2: a little bit about your co workers.
Speaker 1: There's the fifty year old lady who hates her life.
Speaker 2: Who's Who's who's hanging out in this Walmart at three am?
Speaker 1: What are the people that what are they usually there
Speaker 1: to get?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 6: Uh, I don't believe we open at three We're not
Speaker 6: a twenty four hour walmart.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, you're there. You're in the back stock,
Speaker 2: and they're not. There's not folks walking in there at
Speaker 2: three am.
Speaker 6: You know, I do dacious now, So okay, yeah, what
Speaker 6: kinds of people are are hanging around the walmart? Usually
Speaker 6: old people, A lot of old people, some kids when
Speaker 6: school gets out or on the weekend.
Speaker 1: Do you do you ever talk to the old.
Speaker 6: People sometimes when they need help, I'll let them know
Speaker 6: they need anything, to let me know, and they have
Speaker 6: something good, I'll mention. It'd be like, oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: When they have something good, tell me about the last
Speaker 2: thing an old person mentions to you that was good
Speaker 2: that you said was awesome.
Speaker 6: So it was with Peeps. We were selling Easter candy
Speaker 6: and he asks me which one was better because he
Speaker 6: had a watermelon one and a doctor Pepper one. I
Speaker 6: was like, well, my boyfriend likes adptor pepper one. The
Speaker 6: flavor is very I mean, you can tell it's doctor
Speaker 6: Peppe by ha slavor. So I let him know and
Speaker 6: then he's like, oh, maybe i'll tape that one buy myself.
Speaker 2: Then you know, what's funny to me is that these
Speaker 2: people are asking you about the products in the Walmart
Speaker 2: as if you have samples every product in the Walmart
Speaker 2: and then they were correct. You had sampled both the
Speaker 2: both the watermelon and the doctor Pepper.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm not the watermelon, just the doctor Pepper one.
Speaker 1: How were they because a doctor Pepper peeps are like
Speaker 1: absolutely the kind of thing that I would have.
Speaker 6: You're pretty good. I'm not a peep fan. My boyfriend is.
Speaker 6: I bought him like three he has some of the
Speaker 6: pantry right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, so.
Speaker 2: You were able to give good advice to an old
Speaker 2: person about doctor Pepper peeps.
Speaker 1: But you know what you know how you know how
Speaker 1: people are?
Speaker 2: Like, Man, when I reach like eighty, I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: do Heroin because fuck it.
Speaker 1: Like that's how I think. That's how I feel about
Speaker 1: doctor Pepper peeps.
Speaker 2: Is when I'm eighty, that's going to be my entire
Speaker 2: diet is doctor Pepper peeps, and I'll have died doing
Speaker 2: what I love, which is.
Speaker 1: Eating crazy things.
Speaker 2: Tell me, I want to I want to know more
Speaker 2: about you. What's your goal in life? What is your
Speaker 2: Do you have a do you have an aspiration of
Speaker 2: some kind? Do you have hopes and dreams?
Speaker 6: It's a good question. I don't think about that often. Actually,
Speaker 6: I've just been focusing on work. I don't know what
Speaker 6: I want to do. I had plans when I was
Speaker 6: in high school, but that was about four or three
Speaker 6: years ago. So I'm I'm just working trying to find
Speaker 6: my path, and hopefully I'll find it soon because me
Speaker 6: and I both been there getting her own partner, and
Speaker 6: hopefully I can figure out then.
Speaker 2: What what were your hopes and dreams when you were
Speaker 2: in high school?
Speaker 6: I wanted to join the military. I went to a
Speaker 6: military school and everything, and then I wanted to be
Speaker 6: a nurse in the military. And then once people are
Speaker 6: telling me that it was so hard, Oh, I don't
Speaker 6: know if it would be a good fit, I kind
Speaker 6: of just dripped it away and started focusing on myself.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Do you do you still have desire to join the
Speaker 2: military or are you you know, I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: working at Walmart at three o'clock in the morning sounds
Speaker 2: more like the military than the military.
Speaker 6: I mean, I do think about it sometimes every now
Speaker 6: and then I don't know what to do by the
Speaker 6: time I'm like twenty five, maybe, But other than that,
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: What do you Aside from do you have spiritual goals.
Speaker 2: Do you have emotional goals?
Speaker 1: Do you have?
Speaker 4: I guess what are they?
Speaker 6: I don't know? Okay, I do, but starting to explain it.
Speaker 6: I just like keeping my brow and clean. That's a
Speaker 6: goal that makes me feel relief for getting more out
Speaker 6: is a work that's also releast, it gives me pleasure
Speaker 6: what I feel accomplished, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm inspired by this, by the way, because I'm
Speaker 2: out here like egging you on for some weird spacey
Speaker 2: ayahuasca inspired answer, and you gave me something that's grounded,
Speaker 2: and I'm inspired by that because I'm like, you know,
Speaker 2: I feel like I could ground my thinking a bit
Speaker 2: better and you know, clean my own fucking room and
Speaker 2: have that be my uh my goal.
Speaker 1: So you've you've inspired me with this, are you?
Speaker 7: Are you?
Speaker 6: Though?
Speaker 1: Am I inspired?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 1: I'm not just fucking with you. Do you think I'm
Speaker 1: fucking with you?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: I just I don't know you could.
Speaker 5: I don't know, No, I am? I am.
Speaker 1: What did you clean your room today?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 6: I did I cleanly? I did thetis.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm actually I'm streaming at my house right now.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: You can if I literally you can see in the
Speaker 2: frame all of the trash that's lying around. That's how
Speaker 2: much I've been not cleaning my room. Is that I
Speaker 2: didn't even tidy up for this fucking street. I usually
Speaker 2: am in the sky or the clouds, but now I'm
Speaker 2: breaking the illusion and I'm in. Let's see what kind
Speaker 2: of trash is lying around. There's a fucking plastic bags
Speaker 2: everywhere that used to have ah.
Speaker 1: Fucking weed in them and stuff. Anyway, No, you have
Speaker 1: inspired me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna throw out those plastic bags and
Speaker 2: that'll be my first step toward enlightenment.
Speaker 6: There you go. Trash is always sister steps to cleaning
Speaker 6: your room.
Speaker 1: What is your name again?
Speaker 6: My name is.
Speaker 2: Janessa, Janessa Jenessa. Is there anything else you want to
Speaker 2: say to the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 6: Ah, you know what, this is my first time being on.
Speaker 6: I was very nervous. My legs got a little shaky
Speaker 6: and weak. I was almost I'm walking around now I'm
Speaker 6: pacing and I'm so excited and I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, and you have a good night.
Speaker 2: And you've inspired me to both clean my room and
Speaker 2: once I clean my room, I am going to.
Speaker 1: Reward myself with some doctor Pepper peeps. Yes, if I
Speaker 1: can find them, and can.
Speaker 6: I say one we're see?
Speaker 1: Of course you can.
Speaker 6: I would love to give a shout out to my
Speaker 6: brother Popeye. He's the one I looked up to the
Speaker 6: most who gives me that inspiration every day, and I
Speaker 6: don't know what.
Speaker 1: I would do with that in it's his name really Popeye.
Speaker 6: His name Benjamin, but pop Oh, don't.
Speaker 1: Say, don't lie to me. Tell me his name is
Speaker 1: really Popeye?
Speaker 6: All right, Popeye?
Speaker 5: W are good?
Speaker 1: That is exactly what I wanted. Well why did they
Speaker 1: call him Popeye? Just I'm curious.
Speaker 6: Well, when he was a baby, he was really tunky
Speaker 6: and the rolls on his arm made it look like
Speaker 6: he had muscles, so it would call him Popeye.
Speaker 2: Well I'm honored that I remind you of somebody named Popeye.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool, all right, Jenness, So you have a
Speaker 2: the rest of the night.
Speaker 1: Thank you for calling.
Speaker 6: All right, Thank you you too.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I look like spinach.
Speaker 5: Hey, Hey, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm okay, how are you?
Speaker 5: I'm doing great? Well?
Speaker 1: What is your name, sir?
Speaker 5: I'm Quincon Quentin Quenton like the director.
Speaker 7: But my dad says, like the prison like San Quenton
Speaker 7: in California.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a Quentin prison in California.
Speaker 5: Yes, San Quentson.
Speaker 1: Is that a famous prison?
Speaker 7: It is a famous prison. I think a bunch of
Speaker 7: criminals have been sent to San Quentin.
Speaker 1: Who are there?
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 1: Like famous criminals?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 7: Like none that I can name off the top of
Speaker 7: my head. But I know it's like got a lot
Speaker 7: of death throat inmates. I'm not actually named after San Quentin,
Speaker 7: but my dad just jokes around and said, what I'm
Speaker 7: named after San Quentin. It's actually a middle name.
Speaker 1: But wait, su san Quentin is a song by Nickelback. Actually,
Speaker 1: do you know this?
Speaker 7: I did not know that. That's funny.
Speaker 2: San Quentin Prison. I'm looking this up. I don't usually
Speaker 2: look things up, and I'm looking this up. San Quentin. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's California's oldest prison. It's the oldest prison in California.
Speaker 2: Let's see a current notable inmates. Wayne adam Ford, convicted
Speaker 2: of murder and sentenced to death in two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: Oh, he didn't even He's not even dead yet.
Speaker 5: They just he's just hanging out roa he's.
Speaker 1: Just hanging out anyway, what are you doing? What's going on?
Speaker 5: I get you. I just wanted to call in.
Speaker 3: And share.
Speaker 7: I guess kind of an unusual story that you might
Speaker 7: find interesting.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm a fan of the unusual.
Speaker 7: Okay, So I guess I'll just start the beginning of
Speaker 7: a story and I'll try to fill in any gaps
Speaker 7: that I might miss. So I went to college up
Speaker 7: in Burlington, Vermont, so way way way up by like
Speaker 7: the Canadian border, in like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, and
Speaker 7: like really quickly started to hate it. I like fell him,
Speaker 7: kind of fell in to the wrong crowd, was doing
Speaker 7: the wrong things, wasn't really paying attention in school. I
Speaker 7: was doing a terrible job in school. And then I
Speaker 7: met this girl who was like in the room below me,
Speaker 7: and we got together. We really fell in love, We
Speaker 7: really cared for each other. We got together like right
Speaker 7: at the end of her freshman year and going into
Speaker 7: our sophomore year, we were like, this school is kind
Speaker 7: of a.
Speaker 5: Scam, some money stuck. We don't want to be here.
Speaker 7: Anymore, don't want this to be dropped out. And we
Speaker 7: were just hanging out in Burlington Vermont without going to school,
Speaker 7: and we're just kind of hanging out.
Speaker 5: It's just a terrible thing to do.
Speaker 1: So so you so you meet this girl what in
Speaker 1: the dorms? You said?
Speaker 5: Yeah, she was literally like the room right below me.
Speaker 2: Okay, And so you guys are just you drop out?
Speaker 2: Do you drop out after a freshman year?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Like the summer after a freshman year.
Speaker 1: All right, and you're hanging out in Burlington, Vermont.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And then we get jobs working in kitchens. So she's
Speaker 7: working as like a dishwasher somewhere. I'm working at a
Speaker 7: dishwashers another spot, and we like work our way up
Speaker 7: as like prep cooks. So we're like prep cooks at
Speaker 7: different kitchens. And over the summer, we like fall in
Speaker 7: love with food. We really fall in love with cooking.
Speaker 7: And we're like kind of falling falling more in love
Speaker 7: with each other over the summer, and like as the
Speaker 7: winter comes, and I don't know if you've ever been
Speaker 7: to Burlington, but the winter in Burlington it's terrible. Doesn't
Speaker 7: matter like how many layers you have on or how
Speaker 7: many blankets you have over you, you're going to be cold.
Speaker 7: It's terrible up there.
Speaker 2: I've been to Burlington coat factory and now and now
Speaker 2: that you mention it, I now I get why somebody
Speaker 2: was inspired to make a coat factory there because they were, like,
Speaker 2: it's so cold here, people are gonna need coats.
Speaker 5: Terrible.
Speaker 3: It's a terrible place to live.
Speaker 7: But anyway, so.
Speaker 5: We decided to get married in the winter of twenty twenty.
Speaker 7: So it was excuse me, before the pandemic. We decided
Speaker 7: to get married New Year's Eve twenty twenty. So it
Speaker 7: makes our anti very super super easy, really easy to count.
Speaker 7: And it was just like five of our friends, our pets,
Speaker 7: and we just like went to the courthouse and got
Speaker 7: it signed.
Speaker 5: Your parents, what.
Speaker 1: You what about your pets were at your wedding.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we didn't have like cats and dogs. We just
Speaker 7: had one big ball python. So like we had the
Speaker 7: python like around our necks while we were like reading
Speaker 7: our vows and signing the papers and everything.
Speaker 1: You read your vows with a python around your neck.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but not at like a real wedding ceremony. It
Speaker 7: was in our living room with like four of our friends.
Speaker 5: That's got who was the officiant for this, our friend.
Speaker 7: Who we ordained on their car ride up there, you
Speaker 7: can just like get ordained online.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, do you do you have photos of this?
Speaker 1: This sounds kind of rad.
Speaker 7: Oh, we we got a bunch of photos.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And then my actual favorite part is you can see
Speaker 7: the progression. So you see everybody walking up the driveway,
Speaker 7: getting into the house, us doing the ceremony, and then
Speaker 7: everybody going out to the porch and smoking a shit
Speaker 7: ton of weed right after.
Speaker 2: This sounds like of trippy wedding if I was stoned
Speaker 2: and I was seeing like two people getting married with
Speaker 2: a fucking python. So to the python is long enough?
Speaker 2: Is the python long enough that it goes around both
Speaker 2: of you guys's necks?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, he could definitely do that.
Speaker 1: That sounds like some.
Speaker 2: Kind of like ancient ceremonial thing of like if you
Speaker 2: have a python, bind both of you guys together, it
Speaker 2: like makes your love everlasting or some shit. Is that
Speaker 2: where you got that from?
Speaker 5: Or are you just crazy?
Speaker 7: I think so, yeah, we're we were pretty out there
Speaker 7: people when we were living there, eating a lot of mushrooms,
Speaker 7: doing a good amount of acid. Uh yeah, definitely in
Speaker 7: that headspace.
Speaker 2: So what happened that you guys were By the way,
Speaker 2: I know your buddy went and paid the ten dollars
Speaker 2: at the Universal Life Church to get ordained. But I
Speaker 2: think the python was the true officiant of that ceremony.
Speaker 7: I would agree with that. I would absolutely agree with that,
Speaker 7: and I think the photos served that justice as well.
Speaker 1: So what happened after that? How's the marriage?
Speaker 7: So after that excellent? So we moved out of Burlington
Speaker 7: because we really couldn't like keep going there and we
Speaker 7: didn't really know where we're going to go. So we
Speaker 7: came back to where my parents are, which is on
Speaker 7: like the way east coast of Massachusetts, like below Boston.
Speaker 7: Not to like super specifically geolocate myself, but that's where
Speaker 7: we just wound up. And we were living with my
Speaker 7: parents for like a year and a half, and my
Speaker 7: dad owns like the strip mall and it's kind of
Speaker 7: a rundown strip mall, and he had this one empty
Speaker 7: space in it for a while, and he saw how
Speaker 7: much my wife and I love to cook, and he
Speaker 7: really pushed for us to put something into space. So
Speaker 7: over like a year and a half, we suited it
Speaker 7: out to be like this breakfast sandwich spot kind of deal.
Speaker 7: So now every day we get up at four in
Speaker 7: the morning and we go make bacon, egg and cheeses
Speaker 7: all day.
Speaker 1: So you your dad gave you a spot in the
Speaker 1: mall to make bacon, egg.
Speaker 5: And cheeses pretty much, Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: Where in the mall is this?
Speaker 7: So it's it's not like a mall, it's.
Speaker 5: Like a strip mall.
Speaker 7: So it's like four storefronts in like one building. So
Speaker 7: it's like the last storefront on the way right.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So so uh he gave you like a
Speaker 2: wole you have a whole ass location of making these bacon,
Speaker 2: egg and cheese sandwiches.
Speaker 1: What's what's it called?
Speaker 4: Do you have?
Speaker 1: What do you have a name for this business?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's called the Black Cat?
Speaker 1: The Black Cat?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why is that? All you guys do is make the bacon,
Speaker 1: egg and cheeses.
Speaker 5: So we have like full.
Speaker 7: Breakfast so you can come and like hang out at
Speaker 7: the counter and we've got like cartoons on the TV,
Speaker 7: and we've got like music playing over the speaker and
Speaker 7: you can get like bacon, pancakes, eggs, whatever, and then
Speaker 7: we make all the bread in house, so we make
Speaker 7: all the like English muffins, sandwich bread, everything, all the
Speaker 7: like doughnuts, cookies, muffins, all that stuff. We make it there.
Speaker 7: And we've got just like really really really good egg sandwiches.
Speaker 7: So we've got like a huge many of the sandwiches.
Speaker 2: Is it you and your wife every day making them
Speaker 2: or do you guys have like employees and stuff.
Speaker 5: We have like three employees on the weekend, but the
Speaker 5: rest of the week it's just us.
Speaker 1: And how's business.
Speaker 5: Business is good.
Speaker 7: Business is really good, but managing it's a lot.
Speaker 4: Fow.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you dropped out of school, and so you
Speaker 2: dropped out of school, and so your dad was like,
Speaker 2: all right, well, if you're not going to school, come
Speaker 2: make bacon, egg and cheeses at my strip.
Speaker 7: Mall pretty much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of you know, that sounds like a
Speaker 1: fucking good gig.
Speaker 7: It is a good gig. I feel very blessed for
Speaker 7: the gig that I was given.
Speaker 2: Do you have a picture hanging up on the wall
Speaker 2: of the of the black Cats of the Python Wedding?
Speaker 5: No, we don't.
Speaker 7: We just have a lot of pictures of like art
Speaker 7: and our black cat because we have black cats. I've
Speaker 7: always grown up with black cats, and we struggled coming
Speaker 7: up with a name and so my mom literally just
Speaker 7: threw it out one day and we all just thought
Speaker 7: that it's fit. So we just have a bunch of
Speaker 7: pictures of our like black cats cats.
Speaker 2: But no, I'm mildly, you know, I'm mildly disappointed that
Speaker 2: the cat got the name of the of the fucking
Speaker 2: sandwich place, because I feel like the python was putting
Speaker 2: in a lot of work to bless your guys's marriage, and.
Speaker 1: He should have. I mean, the pie. Here's the thing, the.
Speaker 2: The scary Python doesn't sound like a good name for
Speaker 2: a breakfast place, but if it maybe if you guys
Speaker 2: were like, if you were running a bar, the python
Speaker 2: would have gotten.
Speaker 7: That's true. That's definitely yeah, maybe we'll open a bar next.
Speaker 1: So so is there any more to the story.
Speaker 3: That's pretty much it.
Speaker 7: I was just because there was a I'm very proud
Speaker 7: of the story because there was a period of time
Speaker 7: in between me dropping out and us opening this restaurant
Speaker 7: where everybody saw that I dropped out of school and
Speaker 7: I wasn't working and I was just living at my parents,
Speaker 7: and they were like, I don't know what this kid's doing.
Speaker 7: I don't know where he's going. I'm worried about him.
Speaker 7: I was smoking an insane amount of weed. I wasn't
Speaker 7: doing anything, but now I'm doing this.
Speaker 1: So are you are? Are you still smoking an insane
Speaker 1: amount of weed?
Speaker 7: I'm smoking insane amount of hash. So I've you know, diverted,
Speaker 7: but I'm productive.
Speaker 5: I'm productive.
Speaker 1: Sounds that sounds worse than smoking an insane amount of weed.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, it's much better.
Speaker 7: Trust me, Trust me, Trust me.
Speaker 1: Trust What's what? What even is hash? I don't really understand,
Speaker 1: so I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't want to like dominate the whole rest of
Speaker 7: your stream and get into the uh you know, itty
Speaker 7: bitty like details of it.
Speaker 1: But it's what we can do. We can do the
Speaker 1: hash minute.
Speaker 7: Okay, the hash minute is they like take the plant,
Speaker 7: they wash all of the like special stuff off the plant,
Speaker 7: and then they press it. And what they press you
Speaker 7: can dab. I don't know if you've heard of dabbing.
Speaker 7: Some people are like really opposed to dabbing. Some people
Speaker 7: are like diving's crazy. But I've got my my dabbing
Speaker 7: style dialed in.
Speaker 2: Do you want to tell us like where this restaurant
Speaker 2: is or does that put you on blast? Do you
Speaker 2: want to if you want to if you want to,
Speaker 2: I mean, people will come from this podcast.
Speaker 7: I I know what I'll do is I'll put our
Speaker 7: Instagram and then everything from our instagram like you can
Speaker 7: get to you can.
Speaker 5: Okay, So like all you need about.
Speaker 1: Us from Wait, what's what state are you in?
Speaker 5: We're in Massachusetts?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, sure, you plug the Instagram. Maybe where are
Speaker 1: you near Boston at all?
Speaker 7: I'm twenty miles south of Boston. And what's actually really
Speaker 7: cool is I'm like right, I'm like literally right on
Speaker 7: a state highway south of Boston. So if you leave
Speaker 7: Boston and go south, I'm like exactly like thirty five
Speaker 7: minutes out.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, uh plug plug your Instagram. Let me know
Speaker 2: if anyone comes to Uh. I don't think I've done
Speaker 2: something like this where people have like plugged a physical location,
Speaker 2: but let me know. Let me know how many people
Speaker 2: if you go to this restaurant or this this this bacon,
Speaker 2: egg and cheese place, tell them, tell them.
Speaker 1: The gecko said you, I want to see how many
Speaker 1: people come where.
Speaker 7: We might get too busy.
Speaker 5: All right, it's black cat cohacid.
Speaker 1: Say oh okay, you gotta say that again.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, let me let me get it up
Speaker 7: so I can make sense spelling it right. I was
Speaker 7: born and raised in coh has it, and I don't
Speaker 7: even know how to spell it.
Speaker 5: Every time paper ala co.
Speaker 1: Hat, black cat, cohasset.
Speaker 2: Let me.
Speaker 1: Let me let me look that up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's black cat and then co has.
Speaker 7: Its CEO h a ss e.
Speaker 1: T uhh. There we go. Okay, I found it.
Speaker 2: Family Runs Specialty breakfast sandwich shop closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Wait,
Speaker 2: okay on these Oh wait, these apple pie pop tarts
Speaker 2: actually look pretty fucking good.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Wait, some of the ship all you guys have on
Speaker 1: your instagram looks really good.
Speaker 5: Damn thank you.
Speaker 7: We make all of it ourselves, like, it's literally just
Speaker 7: my wife and I. Nobody else thinks any of it.
Speaker 1: Oh, here's the here's the cat. Well, this is nice.
Speaker 2: Oh you guys make crimber laise. No, no, those are
Speaker 2: those aren't cumber lays. So I got I got excited.
Speaker 1: Well ship. Somebody in the chat just said any anything
Speaker 1: Family run.
Speaker 2: Is ship, which is hilarious. They're just like, if it's
Speaker 2: not Starbucks, I'm not into it.
Speaker 7: Nah, they got to come check us out. We have
Speaker 7: really good coffee. I'm really proud of our coffee.
Speaker 2: Well, what's what what's next for you in life? Do
Speaker 2: you want do you hope to make a chain of it?
Speaker 5: Sounds like you're there, like I'm at the restaurant.
Speaker 1: No, Like you're just you're just where you're meant to be.
Speaker 8: Oh oh oh like universally, universally, you're you're you're tied
Speaker 8: eternally to a human being via the power of a snake,
Speaker 8: and you sell.
Speaker 1: Cookies.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I will say.
Speaker 7: The only downside is I'm a very artistic, in creative person,
Speaker 7: and running this business has taken a lot of energy
Speaker 7: from that.
Speaker 1: House.
Speaker 2: I feel like there's a lot of opportunities for you
Speaker 2: to get creative, right, Like what like can you host
Speaker 2: like poetry nights there or some shit like that?
Speaker 7: We could definitely do that. I'm like, I really like
Speaker 7: glass blowing. I blow glass in my uh parents' garage,
Speaker 7: and like that's my specific like art of choice and
Speaker 7: just that specifically I haven't been able.
Speaker 5: You like to make bongs, I like to make bonds.
Speaker 5: You saw that quick?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. When people say they're into and maybe this is
Speaker 2: insulting to the glass blowing community, but when people say
Speaker 2: they're into glass blowing, I just like you can. You
Speaker 2: either make from my uninformed opinion, if you're into glass blowing,
Speaker 2: you either sell vases to rich people or Rick and
Speaker 2: Morty bongs to like Stoner sixteen roads now.
Speaker 7: But the bonds that I'm into, they're bonds getting sold
Speaker 7: to other rich people. They're like bonds for rich people.
Speaker 1: You make bonds for what isn't a bong for rich people?
Speaker 3: I don't make bonds for rich people.
Speaker 7: But like the type of glass blowing I do. The
Speaker 7: like best artists of the glass blowing I do, they
Speaker 7: make like one hundred and twenty five thousand dollar bocks.
Speaker 1: One hundred and twenty five thousand dollars bongs. Yeah, you should,
Speaker 1: you should.
Speaker 2: You should make the black Cat. I feel like you
Speaker 2: could make the black Cat a breakfast, make it like
Speaker 2: a wake and bake sort of fucking You sell your
Speaker 2: like a head shop, but you also sell cheese sandwiches.
Speaker 7: We're playing The Grateful Dead twenty four to seven in
Speaker 7: the restaurant.
Speaker 2: I don't know who, but somebody is gonna come to
Speaker 2: this place and get stoned and and order one of
Speaker 2: your cookies.
Speaker 7: What is the cat dug at the restaurant.
Speaker 1: Cohasset. What does it say one more time before we go?
Speaker 5: Black Cat Cohasset, black Cat Cohasset.
Speaker 2: Well, you're living the dream, my friend. I'm I'm jealous
Speaker 2: of you. You sound like you sound happy.
Speaker 7: Well, sometimes I'm jealous of you, Lyle, So I know.
Speaker 7: I just want to say, maybe the grass is always greener?
Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2: By the way, I fully, one hundred percent believe so strongly,
Speaker 2: so deeply that the grass is always greener because we're
Speaker 2: sitting here jealous of each other. We both have great lives,
Speaker 2: and yet we I don't know the grass. The grass
Speaker 2: is always greener?
Speaker 5: So what's your what you got? I'm Quentin, Quentin?
Speaker 2: Uh, well, Quentin, good luck. I'm glad that your parents.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that your dad just inside of your mom
Speaker 2: and now you own a cookie store in his strip mall.
Speaker 5: And I mean that, thanks Lyle.
Speaker 7: That really means the world to me.
Speaker 5: Hey, you have a good night, man, Thanks Lyle, you too.
Speaker 2: And if you guys go to this fucking coffee shop,
Speaker 2: let me know how it is. Tell them I sent you.
Speaker 1: I want to know.
Speaker 2: I want to know how many people end up going.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many listeners we have in Cohasset.
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 2: Cohassets, Massachusetts? Coesis. Rewind the tape. You'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Quentin goes on the line, taking your phone
Speaker 1: calls every night. Goes, he's teaching you a loud in
Speaker 1: your life.