1 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: My dad told me, like I think I was like 2 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: probably a baby, that his money was his money, and um, 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,240 Speaker 1: I didn't have any money until I got a job, 4 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: so um, I had to get up out there and 5 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: get like, now, mind you, I don't want to like say, 6 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: my parents didn't like totally like give me everything under 7 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: the sun, similar to you. I like, you know, I 8 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: had everything I wanted, but my dad was like, yeah, 9 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: this is my money, so um, which was aft. So 10 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: I decided to get a job at like fifteen. But 11 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: that was like the best thing he could have ever 12 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: liked taught me. And I try to instill that in 13 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: my kids, but they'd be getting over I'd just be 14 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: behind him everything. Um. But anyway, So at fifteen, I 15 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: went out and got a job at Heart Ease. That 16 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: was my first job, best eating up in town, up 17 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: and down all around. I think that's the slogan. I 18 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: don't know I made that up. So um, they realized 19 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: I was fifteen, like after the first week, they were like, girl, 20 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: you're too young. You can't work here because it was 21 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: like some child labor law. I thought I could. They 22 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: were like your fire And I got fired from my 23 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: first job in like five days. Okay. So um. I 24 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,479 Speaker 1: worked at chest Peake Bay Seafood House, which was like 25 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: all you can eat spot. So it's like they don't 26 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: have these anymore, I don't think, but like you pay 27 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: a certain price and you can get everything on the menu, 28 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: and so like you have the waitress has to like 29 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: run back to the to the kitchen every eight seconds. 30 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: Oh my god. And people used to ask me, like, 31 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: our yoursues comfortable, because you're gonna be running the night 32 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: gairl ore issues comfortable. I said, now I can't do this, 33 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: I quick right long after that was about four days, okay. 34 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: So then I started working for Postal Pizza, which was 35 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: like equivalent to like a Domino. Okay. So I was 36 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: the girl that answered the phone. I was like, hello 37 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: Postal Pizza, can I help you please? And I would 38 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: take their order okay okay, and then the drivers will 39 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: come and get the pizza and drive it out. So 40 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: I would literally have five phones in front of me 41 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: and they would all be ringing at the same time, 42 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: and I was the only girl there to answer, and 43 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: I'd be like, posta Pizza, can you hold on please 44 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: click pust the pizza. What you need post Pizza postal pizza. 45 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: It was a mess. So sometimes my dad would like 46 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: prank me. He would call and he'd be like, gaze, 47 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: he talked real slow, Giselle, your dad. So I've been 48 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: on a hole for thirty five minutes and I don't 49 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: understand why I have to wait this long. Oh my god, Dad, 50 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: leave me, leave me a loan. Yeah. He was like, 51 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: I just wanted to hear you say post to pizza. 52 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: Gn you please. My dad is the worst. Okay. So 53 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: I stayed there like throughout high school. Okay. So then 54 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: my dad was like all right, Giselle. You know he 55 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: thought I was going to be like, um super smart 56 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: and um be like a doctor or something. I don't 57 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: know what do you So he was like, I'm gonna 58 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: get yourself some internships. Okay. So one of the internships 59 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: was when I told you all before I was doing autopsies, yeah, 60 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: on dead bodies, which was insane, Like why am I 61 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,959 Speaker 1: doing this? Like this is this is not even fit. 62 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,959 Speaker 1: I am like a cute girl, Okay, what am I 63 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: doing cutting up bodies? Okay? That was a hot mess. Um, 64 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: So I stopped doing that, and then eventually when I 65 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: got out of college, I worked for the double a 66 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: CP and I started doing their events. So I like you, 67 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: I understand like how you have eight hundred balls in 68 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: the air for events, but they all like have to 69 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: come together and it's not like it's hard, but you 70 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: have to do everything or else the whole thing of 71 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: fall apart. Yeah, it's a lot. And so then that's 72 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: where I got to meet like President Clinton and Hillary Clinton. 73 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: And because we I had to interface with politicians and 74 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: corporations and it was like that was a great job, 75 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: Like I love that job and it was like not 76 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: work for me exactly, so that that was fantastic. And 77 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: in I did pharmaceutical sales, so I was like paid 78 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: drug dealer. Oh and those doctors love to see you 79 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: in the door. There was like zails here is this 80 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: is the thing. All of the pharmaceutical sales reps are 81 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: good looking, like that's I think the criteria. Yes, and 82 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay you well. We got paid well. Like 83 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: our car. Things aren't like they used to be because 84 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: like I used to be able to take my doctor. 85 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 1: Like one I had a doctor. She was like real crazy. 86 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: She was like, let's go to the strip club, right. 87 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: I used to take her to the strip club. I'll 88 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: probably get men there was men dance. I would take 89 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: her to the Ship Club. And at the strip club 90 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: you could get a receipt because I would want to 91 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: get reimbursed. You can get a receipt that's blank, so 92 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: at the top it doesn't say it's it's very generic. 93 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: What the name is like restaurant exactly, and then you 94 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: know that way and because clearly I'm not the only 95 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: person get trying to get and burst and they've done 96 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: this before, they know how to do this, So I 97 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: would ask for the special receipt and um, they knew 98 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: exactly what I was talking about. And I used to 99 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: take doctor. That was her name. I shouldn't make that. 100 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: Shouldn't have said that. It was a lot of doctor. Yeah, 101 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: we would go to strict club. We would have a ball. Okay, 102 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: I'd be like Drake saw me where to strip us that, 103 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: let's get to dollars. Let's make it rain. This is 104 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: before to make it rain. So you're the reason they 105 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: cut back on that, because I know they cut all 106 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 1: that mess back. Oh, they don't do that anymore. Yeah, this. 107 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: I was a pharmaceutical rep in the good old days 108 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: when you could literally like take your doctor anywhere, and 109 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: it was fine, you can, you can just like write 110 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: it off. So they quit that because I I roined 111 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: it for everyone. I had a job running UM like 112 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 1: the meetings, the dinner meetings for pharmaceutical UM company. Yes, 113 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: and they hired they hired this company that I worked 114 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: for for compliance reasons because the reps would be like 115 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: so out of control. So I would be there UM 116 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: just kind of like making sure everything was above board. 117 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: Oh wow, it was like the wild wild West back then. 118 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: If you knew a drug wrap, and let's say you 119 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 1: needed drugs, right, you know, over the counter drugs, you 120 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: would just you would swap out like he had. I 121 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: was orthor McNeil. If you had a five of rap, 122 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: you swap out some drugs. I saw birth control pills. 123 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: Everybody was looking for me because everybody wanted birth control 124 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: pills for their girlfriend. So you know, it was definitely 125 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: wrong what we were doing. But we had fun. Yes, Yeah, 126 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: y'all ruined it. Y'all ruined it for everybody. Y'all ruined it. 127 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: Now they're like so strict, so you cannot you cannot 128 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: do anything. 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