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Speaker 2: All from L Money.
Speaker 1: Hello, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing good?
Speaker 4: How you doing I'm doing all right?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: What's your name?
Speaker 3: You can call me L Money?
Speaker 1: L Money? What does that mean? Is that a rap name?
Speaker 1: Is that a fake name? Is that your god given
Speaker 1: birth name?
Speaker 3: Well, it depends on who you call God. I suppose.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna what if what if I'm God? Who do I?
Speaker 1: What do I call you?
Speaker 3: Then you can call me anything you want? Chief?
Speaker 1: All right? L money? You said L money?
Speaker 4: Right, that's correct.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: What's your what's happening with you?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Not much, man. You know, I'm just sitting here on
Speaker 3: the couch with my girlfriend. We've been trying to call
Speaker 3: in just I didn't think we'd get through, especially not
Speaker 3: that quick.
Speaker 1: Uh so is there anything in particular that you called
Speaker 1: in you want to talk about?
Speaker 3: Uh? Well, uh, you know, I I have cancer. I
Speaker 3: talked to you quick for the six few seconds when
Speaker 3: you did that.
Speaker 1: What kind of cancer do you have?
Speaker 3: Thyroid? Got that shit taken out?
Speaker 1: I always thought that, you know, when I first heard
Speaker 1: the thyroid cancer, I always thought it was in the thigh.
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was in the neck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I thought in middle school and I heard,
Speaker 3: and then I didn't find out until I was in
Speaker 3: high school, and I made an ask to myself talking
Speaker 3: about it in front of people.
Speaker 1: You made How did you make an ass of yourself
Speaker 1: talking about it in front of people.
Speaker 3: I made some kind of joke about having thigh cancer
Speaker 3: and it's saying thyroid cancer, and somebody called me out
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 1: Do you think cosmically somebody gave you thyroid cancer for
Speaker 1: making fun of thyroid cancer.
Speaker 3: I kind of hope so, because in that case, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have a lot more diseases than I already have.
Speaker 3: I got a long list, Like I go to the
Speaker 3: doctor and they have my medical list, and it's like gastroparesis,
Speaker 3: gird iv as, thyroid cancer, chronic back pain, anxiety, Like
Speaker 3: the list just goes on and on.
Speaker 1: And when you when you say you hope, do you
Speaker 1: mean like you were you can track a time in
Speaker 1: your life in which you dunked on all of those
Speaker 1: diseases to make it so that charmatically you you ended
Speaker 1: up having.
Speaker 3: Them, not specifically, but if I went back far enough
Speaker 3: and like you know, I had a record of every moment,
Speaker 3: I'm sure I could find something.
Speaker 1: What which one of those is the worst?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: I have an undiagnosed stomach issue, that's the worst. I
Speaker 3: wake up every morning and I'm usually having diarrhea and
Speaker 3: or vomiting.
Speaker 1: Okay, with pain Okay, what are you in pain right now?
Speaker 3: No, it's tipical like me in the morning. Right now,
Speaker 3: I'm chilling. I'm a little constipated. But other than that,
Speaker 3: I'm having a good time.
Speaker 1: So you're constant. You have the opposite of diarrhea right now?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it goes back and forth.
Speaker 1: All right, what do you still have the thyroid cancer?
Speaker 1: Or they took out they took out the.
Speaker 3: Thyroid so it metastasized to my links node right now.
Speaker 3: That's just kind of hanging out and hasn't gone anywhere else.
Speaker 3: So they're not super worried about it. Because syroid cancer
Speaker 3: is it's one of those cancers. It's pretty slow.
Speaker 1: Is that good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's real good. I mean I have a prognosis
Speaker 3: of at least another twenty years.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so you got at least whether your
Speaker 1: doctor gave you twenty years to live, yeah, roughly. How
Speaker 1: old are you now, twenty one? Okay, you can do
Speaker 1: a lot in twenty year. How do you feel about that.
Speaker 3: I've guaranteed twenty years. I'm probably gonna have a little
Speaker 3: bit longer.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well it's not really guaranteed twenty years.
Speaker 3: Well, no, nothing's guaranteed.
Speaker 1: There's never There's no such thing as guaranteed twenty this
Speaker 1: just like it's guaranteed fucking week, especially if you get
Speaker 1: no you ever you ever drive drunk?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, always the bloze and cruising.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So I mean you could die any day.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, anyone can die any day. That's that's
Speaker 3: the magical likes. That's why you gotta grab it by
Speaker 3: the you know, the movies, and you gotta live it
Speaker 3: to the fullest.
Speaker 1: You gotta live it to the fullest by getting fucking blasted,
Speaker 1: putting on your favorite song, and cruising down the highway
Speaker 1: as God intended. However you define God as you said
Speaker 1: at the beginning, So what's your favorite what's your favorite
Speaker 1: alcohol to drive drunk?
Speaker 3: You know, I'm a run man, but as long as
Speaker 3: I have a little dad pen with me, it doesn't
Speaker 3: really matter.
Speaker 1: Okay, So your doctor gave you twenty years left to live.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you, like, how long do you think
Speaker 1: you have left to live? Realistically?
Speaker 3: I don't think anyone can judge that realistically unless you
Speaker 3: got terminal stuff going on. I'm gonna confidently say I've
Speaker 3: got a good ten to fifteen years in.
Speaker 1: Me, I want to hear something crazy. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: came up with this lot. Being born is a terminal disease.
Speaker 3: Damn, you just blew my mind.
Speaker 1: That's what I do. That's why, that's why I'm the gecko.
Speaker 1: All right? So what so what do you what's your
Speaker 1: twenty year plan? What do you hope to And it's funny,
Speaker 1: right because you're like, because twenty years left to like
Speaker 1: putting a putting a number on it, a definition on it,
Speaker 1: like that makes puts up, puts some kind of urgency
Speaker 1: on there that wouldn't normally be there, but that or
Speaker 1: but that urgency is always there because life is a
Speaker 1: terminal disease. So what what what's on the map? What
Speaker 1: are you hoping to do with your life?
Speaker 3: I got very broad stress right now. In the plan?
Speaker 3: You know, you gotta get married to this wonderful woman,
Speaker 3: going to have a baby or two, buy a house,
Speaker 3: you know, get it all, not all in that order necessarily.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to make life worth living. Be happy,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1: Okay, how often are we drinking and driving?
Speaker 3: You're not a chop? Are you?
Speaker 1: I'm a gecko.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but sometimes geckos are in the cover, aren't they.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know that insurance guy, he's sneaky.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about that, but okay, you
Speaker 1: want to get a whole you want to have a
Speaker 1: you have a whole family. What's your girlfriend's deal? What's
Speaker 1: her thing? Is she sick too? You guys got? I
Speaker 1: meant stars thing going, yeah, but.
Speaker 3: In a different way. Hers is uh, it's a Oh god,
Speaker 3: I don't even the initials are HS. I can't tell
Speaker 3: you the actual name because I can't pronounce anything.
Speaker 1: What's her? What's her?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: He does have a disease hl? Okay, what is hs H?
Speaker 3: Long story short. She can get infections in her really bad,
Speaker 3: and she can get septic if it goes untreated or unnoticed.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you guys just got Now. Do you think
Speaker 1: she in high school made fun of that disease and
Speaker 1: that's why it was cosmically given to her?
Speaker 4: I hope.
Speaker 3: So, I mean that'd be pretty funny for the both
Speaker 3: of us.
Speaker 1: Do you believe in that shit? Do you believe in
Speaker 1: like determinism and karma and all that.
Speaker 3: I believe if you're a bad person. You're gonna get
Speaker 3: what's coming, whether that's the form of a quote unquote
Speaker 3: act of God like a branch falling on and killing you,
Speaker 3: or whether that's you pissing off the wrong person and
Speaker 3: getting your teeth knocked in. Bad things are gonna come
Speaker 3: to your.
Speaker 1: Bad do you? And you can be honest with me?
Speaker 1: I want you know, that's a complicated question. Do you
Speaker 1: believe that you are a good person or a bad person?
Speaker 3: I believe I try to be a good person, and
Speaker 3: I think that's what matters.
Speaker 1: All right. How often you are you drinking and driving?
Speaker 3: Not as often as I'm smoking and driving.
Speaker 1: All right? What do you do to be a good person?
Speaker 3: I try to stay positive and I try to spread positivity.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I started a new job this last month, and my
Speaker 3: boss has already told me that I'm always smiling and
Speaker 3: that's her favorite thing about me.
Speaker 1: Now having cancer, does that make you look at money differently?
Speaker 1: Are you still contributing to your roth ira, even though
Speaker 1: you're like, I'm not even gonna be around at sixty
Speaker 1: to cash the shit in. Let me just you know,
Speaker 1: blow it all at once.
Speaker 3: Man, I've been living paycheck to paycheck since I was seventeen.
Speaker 3: I don't have ilray. I'll tell you. I mean I've
Speaker 3: been a little more. I can treat myself with a
Speaker 3: coffee hero there kind of thing. But other than that,
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to save money if I can.
Speaker 1: What do you spend money on when you when you.
Speaker 3: Have spended and rent rent's expensive man groceries and stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I hate the an adult.
Speaker 1: What do you do? What do you do for work?
Speaker 3: I do laundry and housekeeping at a hotel.
Speaker 1: Oh it's pretty cool. Is it like one of those
Speaker 1: fancy hotels. It is.
Speaker 3: Actually it's a Hampton, so we are owned by like
Speaker 3: Riz Carlton and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Do you ever steal things from people's room?
Speaker 3: No, I don't go in the rooms. I when I
Speaker 3: do housekeeping, it's actually just house person. So I go
Speaker 3: around cleaning the actual like common areas of the hotel,
Speaker 3: the pool and the workout are real.
Speaker 1: When I was for uh uh, yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: say I want to say fourteen. I once there was
Speaker 1: like a Jewish retreat thing at a hotel that I
Speaker 1: went to with a bunch of like fourteen year old
Speaker 1: Jewish kids. And I once took a glass from the
Speaker 1: hotel and I peed in it and I left it
Speaker 1: in the lobby.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad that wasn't my hotel because I probably
Speaker 3: would have had to clean up that Peace And if
Speaker 3: it wasn't clean, I wouldn't have been.
Speaker 4: Interested in it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm thinking now, I'm probably gonna get cancer.
Speaker 3: Too because of the p incident.
Speaker 1: Because of the p incident.
Speaker 3: Well, if you are, you know, I'm sure we can
Speaker 3: start a support group together or something.
Speaker 1: Do you know what kind of cancer do you like?
Speaker 1: If there was a god that was kind of tracking
Speaker 1: all that stuff and to give me cancer as a
Speaker 1: comeuppance for you creating a hard job for the person
Speaker 1: who to clean up a common room? What kind of
Speaker 1: cancer would they give me? Would they give me like
Speaker 1: some kind of a urinary cancer?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think it would be all in the
Speaker 3: rethra if if you if it's straight from the the incident,
Speaker 3: it's it's in the rec or the balls, even because
Speaker 3: you know Peace Store and the balls.
Speaker 1: But I like the way that you're thinking about it, right,
Speaker 1: because you're like all right, at least I like you.
Speaker 1: You're not like, oh why me right, You're like all right, sure.
Speaker 3: Shit happened? You can't get hung up on everything. I
Speaker 3: like that, and you deal with it, but you move on.
Speaker 1: Where do you want? What do you want them to
Speaker 1: do with your body? When you pass away?
Speaker 3: They can throw me in a dumpster for all I care. Nice,
Speaker 3: I ain't going to be here.
Speaker 4: Nice?
Speaker 1: Do you do you? We've been talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about God. Do you believe in some kind of afterlife or.
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: I try not to think about it, but when I do.
Speaker 3: I just hope that wherever it is, or whatever the
Speaker 3: going on, I don't suffer anymore because life is just
Speaker 3: long suffering, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: What do you what's the worst part of being alive
Speaker 1: for you?
Speaker 3: Oh? Man? My stomach pain?
Speaker 4: M hm?
Speaker 1: Do you can you build anything? Can you eat stuff?
Speaker 1: Or is there? Do you like a restricted diet?
Speaker 5: So I'm medically I'm lackless intolerant, but physically I don't care.
Speaker 5: They told me I was gluten intolerant, but I went
Speaker 5: on that diet for a year and I didn't notice
Speaker 5: anything different. So at this point, you know, I just
Speaker 5: I try to stay away from some stuff if I'm
Speaker 5: feeling particularly acidic that day, But overall, you know, I
Speaker 5: just I try not beat too much, chunk.
Speaker 1: What's is there anything? You said life is suffering and
Speaker 1: I get that. Is there anything throughout the day like
Speaker 1: I or do you get it? Do you have a
Speaker 1: daily treat of some kind? I'm not talking about food,
Speaker 1: but is there anything throughout the day that gives you
Speaker 1: a little bit of solace through your suffering, like a
Speaker 1: you know, a glance at the sky or oh yeah, man.
Speaker 3: It's all about the little things. I mean, you got
Speaker 3: you got pet in the cat, you got kissing your lady,
Speaker 3: you got a nice sunny afternoon, you got a nice
Speaker 3: rainy afternoon, you got all kinds of things. It's all
Speaker 3: about the little things nice.
Speaker 1: I like that. How often are you getting pissed drunk on.
Speaker 4: The run now?
Speaker 3: When you say on the run, do you mean specifically
Speaker 3: running from the cops for while driving?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: On the rum? Not as often as I used to.
Speaker 3: My stomach they can't handle it like I could when
Speaker 3: I was younger.
Speaker 1: Maybe God gave you the stomach issues to prevent you
Speaker 1: from getting drunk and driving all the time.
Speaker 2: And that could be.
Speaker 3: I mean, my parents are are pretty into alcohol, and
Speaker 3: my uncle rank himself into the hospital, so my family's
Speaker 3: got a little bit of a history with it. Sorry,
Speaker 3: do you hear my cat screaming?
Speaker 1: No, that's all right, he's just excited. How did you
Speaker 1: and your girlfriend meet?
Speaker 3: Tinder?
Speaker 1: Tinder? What was your opening line? Was it about having diarrhea?
Speaker 3: No, it was probably something about, you know, wanting to
Speaker 3: smoke and cuddle because I was like sixteen.
Speaker 1: Wow, so it's been six years.
Speaker 3: No, not at all. Actually she ghosted me for like
Speaker 3: four Uh. I just got in there two years ago,
Speaker 3: and I'm staying I'm not leaving.
Speaker 1: She goes to you for four years?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean on and off.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense. So she goes to you
Speaker 1: for four years and then has she just came back in?
Speaker 1: She just sent you a snapchat out of the blue.
Speaker 3: So I was on her snapchat pretty much the entire time,
Speaker 3: but I would get taken on and off Instagram when
Speaker 3: she had a time. But every once in a while,
Speaker 3: I get, you know, one of those mass snapchats, and
Speaker 3: I know I've worked my way in. I keep I
Speaker 3: keep her, I keep myself in her mind.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, you made sure that you were in her
Speaker 1: back pocket at all.
Speaker 3: Times, exactly. You got to remember boys and girls persistence
Speaker 3: and patience is key.
Speaker 1: You know, you've really you. You know what I like
Speaker 1: about You've created a life for yourself despite several odds
Speaker 1: against you. Right. There's yeah, there's the federal laws against
Speaker 1: drinking and driving. You decided the hell with those. There's
Speaker 1: you know your health has been challenged. There's this this
Speaker 1: girl who you've now built a life with, had a
Speaker 1: boyfriend for a while and you you still managed to
Speaker 1: end up with her. You really, you really clawed your
Speaker 1: own life out of the uh out of the ground here.
Speaker 3: Well, you gotta do what you gotta do. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you weren't making yourself happy, no one.
Speaker 1: Is what's your name again?
Speaker 3: Well, you know you can call me al Money, but
Speaker 3: between you and me, buddy, it's Luke.
Speaker 1: Luke. You know, Luke. I don't I don't envy you,
Speaker 1: but I am inspired by you.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm glad to give a little bit of inspiration.
Speaker 1: Then, dude, is there anything else that you you want
Speaker 1: to say to me or the people of the computer
Speaker 1: before we.
Speaker 4: Go live long and prosper I like it.
Speaker 1: You take care of Luke.
Speaker 3: Have a good one you too, Thanks, Wile.
Speaker 1: I hope Luke lives for as long as is reasonable
Speaker 1: all from mister bel.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hey, this is my first live stream. Oh it's
Speaker 4: like ever ever Yeah, No, I mean I've watched the
Speaker 4: I've watched the recordings, but damn I got through cool
Speaker 4: with a slime Rancher. I listened to a lot of
Speaker 4: you while playing slime Rancher.
Speaker 1: What the hell is slime rancher? Sounds like both sounds
Speaker 1: like we both have being green in common.
Speaker 4: Green. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a green guy. I'm green now.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah. You just farm flimes, like if you
Speaker 4: think of RPG slimes, that's what you farm. What anyway?
Speaker 1: What what is it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, there's no way. What is what is a slime?
Speaker 1: You have explain?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean like like a generic video games line,
Speaker 4: like a blob of color?
Speaker 1: Do you mean like a like a you're fighting blobs?
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, you're not fighting them. You're farming them,
Speaker 4: and you intergreed them and you harvest their products for money.
Speaker 1: So you facilitate slime incest and then take the incest
Speaker 1: baby ship and sell it to people for rupeat.
Speaker 4: No, no, you know what, you know what you know what?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm gonna I'm gonna take all credit
Speaker 1: for for this bad part of the conversation because you
Speaker 1: tried to get away from this topic. You said anyway,
Speaker 1: and I stopped you, and I dugged and I dug
Speaker 1: deeper into the slime thing that didn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: And I take full responsibility for that. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let's go back to the part of the
Speaker 1: conversation where you said anyway, and we'll go from there,
Speaker 1: and I apologize.
Speaker 4: I forgive you no worries, man, So I guess we'll
Speaker 4: talk about my life. So I didn't get no sleep
Speaker 4: last night, and I just sorted through like five thousand
Speaker 4: photos from the past five years. So that's got, you know,
Speaker 4: an effect, you know, just having all that in my
Speaker 4: head right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, so last night you didn't sleep because you were
Speaker 1: scrolling through your phone of photos from your life in
Speaker 1: the past five years.
Speaker 4: No, I couldn't sleep for an unknown reason. And I've
Speaker 4: gone through my entire day today and have ended my
Speaker 4: day doing that.
Speaker 1: Okay, what were the highlights of the five years?
Speaker 4: By highlights, I'm going with like what made me feel
Speaker 4: the strongest and the stuff that made me feel the strongest.
Speaker 2: Bad is.
Speaker 4: Either X's dues or just being embarrassed of myself, which
Speaker 4: is also duh, so not real crazy there, But then
Speaker 4: also you know, the highlight is the fondness. Like I
Speaker 4: I think the main thing that I'm gonna take away
Speaker 4: from it tonight is like I am so lucky to
Speaker 4: have had fun. Like the majority of people who have
Speaker 4: ever lived have not had fun. It wasn't on the list.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true, that's true. I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm so dumb, but I'm thinking of like
Speaker 1: some guy in the year like whatever BC, and he's
Speaker 1: just you know, it's hot, it's really hot, and you
Speaker 1: just got to get sick and die when you're twenty
Speaker 1: eight and shit, and you spend your whole life like
Speaker 1: worried about getting food and water. But maybe there was
Speaker 1: time for fun in between. But no, you're right, you're right,
Speaker 1: yeah fun, Yeah, have fun. So you said you're like
Speaker 1: what you said, you were embarrassed? What were you embarrassed of?
Speaker 1: Just like the way that you.
Speaker 4: Were attitudes that held yeah things I said, Yeah, the
Speaker 4: way I presented myself in certain ways. And it's not
Speaker 4: like and it's not like I'm looking back at another
Speaker 4: person like I'm still trying to keep it continuous and
Speaker 4: trying to have compassion for that, because yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's the best I had. That's the best I could
Speaker 4: do with what I had at the time. So but uh,
Speaker 4: I want to talk about my job a little bit
Speaker 4: if that's cool.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not done with this pictures thing. This is interesting.
Speaker 1: How old are you?
Speaker 4: By the way, keep gone twenty four?
Speaker 1: Twenty four? You know, man, I was, dude, I fucking
Speaker 1: have I did the exact same thing that you did
Speaker 1: recently where I was looking back at my phone, I
Speaker 1: was likeking it stuff from like ten years ago, like
Speaker 1: conversations I had like ten years ago, and I looked
Speaker 1: at them and I was just like, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: embarrassed too. I was like, fuck, I can't believe I
Speaker 1: talked like that or like any of that stuff. And
Speaker 1: but it's funny, man. I I was like taken aback
Speaker 1: for a second. And then I also had some compassion
Speaker 1: for myself where I was like, all right, that was
Speaker 1: your I was like, I can I consider myself stupid
Speaker 1: now ten years later? And so it's like, if I
Speaker 1: consider myself stupid now, I was like you know, uh uh,
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred times is stupid back then, and
Speaker 1: that was the me one hundred times stupider than I
Speaker 1: am right now, You're right, is the best I had
Speaker 1: at that time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but what you know what.
Speaker 1: Really tripped me up was I would like look at
Speaker 1: like it was all it was. It was it was
Speaker 1: an amalgam of things, right, like the way you were saying.
Speaker 1: It was stuff that I was proud of, stuff I
Speaker 1: was embarrassed of, stuff I was really fond of. And
Speaker 1: I looked at myself and I was like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is the this is the complete version of me as
Speaker 1: a person. This is this is all the bad stuff
Speaker 1: and then all the good stuff. And you know, it
Speaker 1: kind of made me see a more complete version of myself,
Speaker 1: which I which might made me have you know, empathy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and like we're crazy, crazy documented, which is also
Speaker 4: something that you know, a mixed bag obviously, but I
Speaker 4: think you know, the fact that we got to do
Speaker 4: that is you know, that hasn't happened before at all.
Speaker 1: So that's awesome, It's true. Yeah, yeah, Uh well tell
Speaker 1: me what else you saw? You said you saw X's
Speaker 1: you saw conversation, What did you what was the best
Speaker 1: What was the best screenshot that you saw?
Speaker 4: The best screenshot, best screenshot. So the best way to
Speaker 4: translate it in this format would be something that's like text.
Speaker 3: Pass.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't have all those photos in
Speaker 4: my head. I just moved all of them off my
Speaker 4: Google drive.
Speaker 1: Okay, sorry, sor right. You sound nervous, by the way,
Speaker 1: and I want you to know, like, you don't have
Speaker 1: to be nervous. Okay, this is just excited.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, like yeah, like, uh, nervous and excitement
Speaker 4: is the same thing. Just matters whether you perceive it
Speaker 4: as positive or negative.
Speaker 1: It's god, you know what, that's goddamn true. I think
Speaker 1: that's saying. I think that's same thing. I really do
Speaker 1: think exactly what you just said. It all depends on
Speaker 1: how you label it. What what were you all?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: You wanted to talk about your job? What's your job?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 4: So I started my job at the beginning of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two at a group home a few months after
Speaker 4: I finished my bachelor's So it's a group home for
Speaker 4: kids and foster care, and I'm a youth counselor and
Speaker 4: a case manager. And I mean, the best way I
Speaker 4: can describe it overall is something that I learned in
Speaker 4: a positive psychology class is like we're having kids, like
Speaker 4: you know, as people love to say, and they are
Speaker 4: like kids are a massive drain on your finances, time
Speaker 4: and opportunities. However, they provide you an abundance of meaning
Speaker 4: and if oh yeah, I mean, dude, you could fucking
Speaker 4: get w hold gobs of that, put it on pallets.
Speaker 4: It's great, lost my train thought. But yeah, so like
Speaker 4: it's it's fucking hard, but it's really fulfilling. And you know,
Speaker 4: I think it's a matter of picking your poison. I
Speaker 4: would rather work hard and be underpaid, and you know,
Speaker 4: on the day I die, like, I think I did
Speaker 4: the right thing. But I don't want to get like
Speaker 4: too much holier than now about it. But there's a
Speaker 4: lot of interesting stuff to talk about there.
Speaker 1: I was. I was at an amusement park yesterday and
Speaker 1: I put my hand on a hand railing while I
Speaker 1: was waiting in line for a ride. And then I
Speaker 1: remembered that, you know, when I was like a little
Speaker 1: kid and I was at amusement parks, I would like
Speaker 1: pick my nose and like shove my hand up my
Speaker 1: ass and like wipe it all over the handrails and stuff.
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, full if I was doing that,
Speaker 1: there's probably that tradition I'm sure lives on in the
Speaker 1: youth of today, and so I'm probably my hand is
Speaker 1: probably interacting with the boogers and shit of like you know,
Speaker 1: the kids of twenty twenty three. And so I took
Speaker 1: my hand off the railing and it was it was.
Speaker 1: It was a bittersweet moment because at one point I
Speaker 1: was like, ah, man, it's kind of gross. But then
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'm glad that there's
Speaker 1: like certain huge things of human nature that uh, you know,
Speaker 1: persist across time. And that was yeah, like.
Speaker 4: How people have always drawn penises like that goes way back. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: find not all over the place.
Speaker 1: At one time, did I have a friend who when
Speaker 1: he was a kid, he would like spread his ass
Speaker 1: cheeks open and like put shove the ends of tables
Speaker 1: in his ass. Do you know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm trying to how do I describe spread? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he would spread his ass cheeks open and like sit
Speaker 1: on the edge of tables.
Speaker 4: This kid's eating the furniture with his ass.
Speaker 1: Yes, he was eating That's I was trying to think
Speaker 1: of how to say it. He was eating the furniture
Speaker 1: with his ass.
Speaker 4: It's not okay.
Speaker 1: If you if you saw one of the you, if
Speaker 1: you saw one of the children you work with doing that,
Speaker 1: what would you tell them?
Speaker 4: H how old are they? Ah?
Speaker 1: God? How old are the kids you work with?
Speaker 4: Seven to seventeen? All right?
Speaker 1: If you saw a seventeen year old kid doing that,
Speaker 1: would you say?
Speaker 4: Okay? I feel like I have, you know, some freedom there,
Speaker 4: you know, because like if it's a little kid, it's
Speaker 4: like maybe they just don't get it. But if it's
Speaker 4: like a seventeen year old, I can come by and
Speaker 4: I can be like, oh hey, Bobby, what are you
Speaker 4: eating the dinner table with your ass? And we'd have
Speaker 4: a laugh and then we would figure out why he
Speaker 4: was doing that.
Speaker 1: Man, I wish, I wish I had fucking counselors like
Speaker 1: you when I was seventeen and eating tables with my ass.
Speaker 1: That sounds like you sound. You sound like you're a
Speaker 1: very you sound like you're a very understanding guy. You
Speaker 1: sound like you're a sweet guy. You know, because a
Speaker 1: lot of people they wouldn't react like that they would
Speaker 1: have beaten the ship out of the kid.
Speaker 4: And I mean, I see like gyrating on it? Is
Speaker 4: he like backwards something the table with his ass.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest with you. I I I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: really have a vivid, vivid picture of it in my mind.
Speaker 4: If you want us try to answer. But yeah, no, I
Speaker 4: get along great with the kids. And it's because I'm
Speaker 4: twenty four. Like, uh, you know, kids are playing roadblocks
Speaker 4: right now and I can walk up to them and
Speaker 4: say like, hey, bro, I was on that ship in
Speaker 4: two thousand and eight. Bro, shit was crazy. He missed it.
Speaker 1: Do you do you actually talk like that to the kids?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, okay, no he did make fun of you. No, well,
Speaker 1: our kids mean our kids mean? Like, are are our
Speaker 1: kids mean to each other?
Speaker 3: Still?
Speaker 1: These are people? Are the kids mean?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah? I mean they're fucking brutal to each other.
Speaker 4: Not so much to me, just because my strategy is
Speaker 4: to build enough for port with them where they don't
Speaker 4: want to disappoint me. But there was this one kid
Speaker 4: I was walking around with and he was like, mister
Speaker 4: al he is the fattest guy in the world, and
Speaker 4: I said, I said, well, at least I'm the best
Speaker 4: at something, and that like utterly confused him. He is like,
Speaker 4: what are you what?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's the that's that's that's that they call that
Speaker 1: agree and amplify yes and yeah, yes, And the kid
Speaker 1: was taking a bath. He thought the kids thought that
Speaker 1: he could hurt you, but instead you went along with
Speaker 1: what he was saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I don't care. I know I'm not the
Speaker 4: fattest guy in the world, but oh uh, we all
Speaker 4: have how.
Speaker 1: Much time we we we can keep? How How fat
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 4: Uh chubby? I'm not fat. I'm like, I'm like, uh
Speaker 4: five ten two twenty, but I have a stocky build.
Speaker 1: Five ten two Okay, I feel like I'm around you
Speaker 1: sound like the five to ten version of me. I'm
Speaker 1: five six, man, I'm five six and a half. I
Speaker 1: used to tell people. I used to some five six
Speaker 1: and a half. I used to tell people I was
Speaker 1: five seven now and and that was fucked up. Now
Speaker 1: I just write and I round down. I tell people
Speaker 1: I'm five six. I'm five six. I think that's brave
Speaker 1: and thank you, thank you for saying that I'm five
Speaker 1: to six and I'm I know, I'm at least two
Speaker 1: hundred pounds, so I'm probably it sounds like I'm as fair.
Speaker 1: It sounds like weird similar fat levels.
Speaker 4: I've seen your belly loud.
Speaker 1: We're are okay, and I'm not the fattest. I'm not
Speaker 1: the fattest guy in the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, imagine that kid said that to you,
Speaker 4: the same thing he's saying it to the same dude
Speaker 4: pretty much.
Speaker 1: Was the kid now was the kid fat?
Speaker 4: Oh? No, man, bone boy, that would have hurt my feelings. Well,
Speaker 4: you know that's why we don't let the kids into
Speaker 4: all our meetings.
Speaker 1: Do you get in your training? In your training, do
Speaker 1: they teach you how to deal with children's insults?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but not in depth. My supervisor has a bag
Speaker 4: of Q tips taped to door with like uh like, uh,
Speaker 4: Q tip, quit taking it personally. That's as far as
Speaker 4: it goes. But you know, we get.
Speaker 1: Q tip taking it personally.
Speaker 4: Quit Q taking to it. I p personally Q tip
Speaker 4: And she was and she would give Q tips to
Speaker 4: people if if they were getting you know, razzed. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they're like, hey, here's your little reminder.
Speaker 1: But it's like wait, wait, and that's kind of wait,
Speaker 1: that's kind of that's kind of hilarious. Like if a
Speaker 1: kid is getting roasted and they're pissed off, somebody just
Speaker 1: hands them a Q tip.
Speaker 4: No, No, that's for the staff. That's for the staff.
Speaker 4: Is like, hey, they're kids, so they kind of expect
Speaker 4: us to like already go into that. But it's like
Speaker 4: a reminder. But I don't see why, like you have
Speaker 4: to go and get the Q tip. You can just say, like, hey, man,
Speaker 4: that's a child too, Like, I don't know, she's weird,
Speaker 4: she's old school. She prints everything out so big al?
Speaker 1: Wait is it big al or mister L? Don't them
Speaker 1: never call you big L?
Speaker 4: My coworkers sometimes yeah.
Speaker 1: Do what's the meanest thing you've heard a kid say
Speaker 1: to another kid?
Speaker 2: Hmmm?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't think that death threats are
Speaker 4: like mean, they're pretty agreed to someone that mean, you know.
Speaker 4: I don't know. It's like, you know, like the seven
Speaker 4: and twelve year old is gonna be stupid. It's like
Speaker 4: the way that they clap back at each other. Like
Speaker 4: the only example I have is nonverbal, but it's exactly
Speaker 4: the same way verbally. I was walking through the house
Speaker 4: and I'm pass this kid wearing a hat. I'm like, cool,
Speaker 4: nice hat, And then I see him make eye contact
Speaker 4: with another kid from across the room and then he
Speaker 4: takes his hat off, throws it on the ground and
Speaker 4: stomps on it. And that kid immediately jumps over, like
Speaker 4: out of the couch, over another couch to attack and
Speaker 4: mouse's hat. That you know.
Speaker 1: We lost over this regard. Are kids setting each other.
Speaker 1: Kids are saying death threats to each other.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, face to face when they're really mad.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's not like always crazy.
Speaker 1: So like I said, like you've heard a twelve year
Speaker 1: old say to a twelve year old, I will find
Speaker 1: out where you live and kill you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean yeah, no, it goes pretty deep and dark.
Speaker 1: Do you what's the what's the like, what's the darkest
Speaker 1: thing you've heard a kid say to it? If you
Speaker 1: can even say it, what.
Speaker 4: Is the darkest thing? See? Because like I have the
Speaker 4: kind of report where they don't want to disappoint me.
Speaker 4: I don't hear that stuff, but you know, I would
Speaker 4: say the worst meanest thing that I've seen kids do
Speaker 4: to each other is kids mocking a kid who attempted suicide. Wow,
Speaker 4: really non specific? Uh in general, didn't just see it
Speaker 4: at this job, but I think that's one of the
Speaker 4: most brutal things that a kid could do. And like, man,
Speaker 4: the stuff that came back from that, like, oh he
Speaker 4: forgot his parashute fuck off?
Speaker 1: Whoaal Wait, So when you said when you say non specific,
Speaker 1: like so you haven't personally seen that before, but like
Speaker 1: where did you what where does that come from? Where
Speaker 1: did you hear about it?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 4: Uh? Well, when I was younger and it happened, it
Speaker 4: was just hearing people talk through here.
Speaker 1: Oh this is like this is just you hearing about it,
Speaker 1: like when you were a kid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I never witnessed it directly, but I but
Speaker 4: I saw it. I saw it affect people. I think
Speaker 4: that's like an incredibly cool thing to do because like,
Speaker 4: how how much farther can you punch down? Like they
Speaker 4: are already don't want to be here, man, Like what
Speaker 4: the fuck? And yeah, like it's it's uh, it's really
Speaker 4: easy to get Jaden. It's a lot of absurd, horrible people.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of people I don't know how they exist,
Speaker 4: like their angels.
Speaker 1: So see, here's let me ask you a question. Like
Speaker 1: when you like, like, let's say you hear like a
Speaker 1: thirteen year old like making fun of some kid who
Speaker 1: like threatened to kill himself. Like how do you what
Speaker 1: do you make of that thirteen year old? Because like
Speaker 1: I look at like because I don't know, like it's
Speaker 1: hard to judge the character of a child, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, like like a thirteen year Like like
Speaker 1: if like if a thirteen year old is doing that
Speaker 1: like something something like you know that there's like some
Speaker 1: lesson or empathy or whatever the fuck that like they
Speaker 1: haven't learned. Like I'm sure I said horrible show when
Speaker 1: I was thirteen, you know, I like, yeah, yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: of course, But like what how do you look at
Speaker 1: a kid like that? Like what do you think is
Speaker 1: up with them?
Speaker 4: I mean, all that I know in that moment is
Speaker 4: that he's doing it, and at the base level, saying
Speaker 4: that kind of ship is insanely stupid. And you know,
Speaker 4: it's either it's whether it's a matter of they just
Speaker 4: don't know and they need to be educated, or if
Speaker 4: they're being malicious. But you know, like, uh, like I've
Speaker 4: had to reader at kids for like rape jokes and bombs,
Speaker 4: and I'm just like, hey, I'm not going to hear
Speaker 4: that and this is why and that's it.
Speaker 1: Do you think do you think like have you ever
Speaker 1: have you ever seen a kid like be evil?
Speaker 4: Oh fuck yeah yeah yeah like like vindictively violent, yeah.
Speaker 1: Like like intentionally malicious.
Speaker 4: Intentionally malicious? Yeah, Like yeah, what.
Speaker 1: Do you think? What do you think about like evil?
Speaker 1: And like if like where do you think that evil
Speaker 1: comes from? Do you think it's always the parents or
Speaker 1: do you think that evil can like just sprout somehow well?
Speaker 4: I mean you hear about like, uh, like certain serial
Speaker 4: killers coming from perfect homes, so you know you can't
Speaker 4: say that it's all nurture for sure. And then you
Speaker 4: know there are people who undergo the worst of things
Speaker 4: ever and they don't kill anybody. So you know, it's
Speaker 4: it's like a mix of the two.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: I know this is like a really like cliche opinion,
Speaker 4: but you know, like I'm into the finality of evil
Speaker 4: that it's not like a big scary force. It's just uh, fear, pain, incompetence, circumstance.
Speaker 1: Like you know, when I was I don't do stand
Speaker 1: up anymore, but back when I did, I used to
Speaker 1: do this bit where I was like I went to
Speaker 1: private school. I went to a Jewish private school for
Speaker 1: like the first few years of grade school, and you know,
Speaker 1: I got bullied there, Like I forget what the fuck.
Speaker 1: I probably deserved it. I was probably also a bully,
Speaker 1: but I used to do this bit about how like
Speaker 1: it sucks getting bullied in private school because like, like
Speaker 1: the private school bullies, like they have good lives at home,
Speaker 1: so you know that they're just doing they're doing it there.
Speaker 1: Do you know they're doing it maliciously?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, and you know, but I.
Speaker 1: Was also a private school bully, so I guess I
Speaker 1: also I was doing it maliciously.
Speaker 4: I mean the first thing I thought, it's like, well, fuck,
Speaker 4: I mean, can they expel people they're paying?
Speaker 1: No, Oh, I think I think it's way more. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know how that worked. Like if you get
Speaker 1: expelled from public school and they send you to where
Speaker 1: do they send you they got to event like how
Speaker 1: many and then and then if you get expelled by
Speaker 1: like whatever special school they got to send you to
Speaker 1: after you get expelled, and then if you get expelled
Speaker 1: from there, like how many times can you get expelled
Speaker 1: before They're.
Speaker 4: Just like I'm not sure that there's gotta be a
Speaker 4: case study on that, like at least one person has
Speaker 4: had that experience and had it documented. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know. It's probably like a massive fucking mess
Speaker 4: of bureaucracy to sift through to find that out. But
Speaker 4: that's also of the job.
Speaker 1: So mister al, Wait, does that mean is your is
Speaker 1: your name al? Or is your last name?
Speaker 4: Yeah? My name is al? Yeah, Okay, so you.
Speaker 1: Look like me. You were going through your phone and
Speaker 1: you were depressed. Are you still depressed this morning? Or wait? No,
Speaker 1: you were looking to you, you were looking for your phone.
Speaker 1: It didn't make you depressed. It made you feel a
Speaker 1: lot of things.
Speaker 3: Made me feel a lot of things.
Speaker 4: But I also feel it garbage because I didn't sleep,
Speaker 4: and it's also been a hell of a fucking month,
Speaker 4: a lot of loss, So I actually am depressed. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm grieving.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Two weeks ago, my grandma died Thursday night and my
Speaker 4: oldest cat got put down Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to hear that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, And like we also had a coworker
Speaker 4: die at work.
Speaker 1: Oh what the fuck? What happens?
Speaker 4: The other week? It was just a massive heart attack,
Speaker 4: really just in bed, so like it was that, and
Speaker 4: then my grandma and then my cat and I don't know,
Speaker 4: it's crazy. That's a whole lot of ways.
Speaker 1: Wait, your coworker died of a heart attack. Bet how
Speaker 1: old was he?
Speaker 4: He was? Young man? He was like mid fifties.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, it's was he was he in? Hell? What
Speaker 1: kind of shape was he in?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't think that he was the
Speaker 4: healthiest man, but he was happy.
Speaker 1: Did any kid? No kid called him the fattest guy
Speaker 1: in the world. Did they?
Speaker 4: Oh? No, No, he's he's not as nice as I am.
Speaker 1: He wasn't. Wait so is Wait? So would being nice
Speaker 1: make it less likely that a kid would call you that?
Speaker 4: I feel like if you have a reputation for being
Speaker 4: nice and invites kids to test your limits, and that's
Speaker 4: where I just yes and and build rapport.
Speaker 1: Okay I feel that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 1: Whole Somebody in the chat said that I should stop
Speaker 1: eating candy. It's you know, I always Oh god, yeah,
Speaker 1: I probably should stop eating candy. What about all right,
Speaker 1: we're similar builds. What's your do you eat healthy?
Speaker 4: I'm in off?
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 4: The twitch topic.
Speaker 1: Oh you don't want to talk about candy. That's fine.
Speaker 4: Well, I like my sweets too, I'll say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well hit me, what do you got? What's what's
Speaker 1: your thing?
Speaker 4: All right, let's bond over this ship.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: You were talking about the fast break bar earlier. I
Speaker 4: had one of those for the first time. I was
Speaker 4: fucking big. What other candy have I had recently? Sour straws,
Speaker 4: sour ropes, sour any shape it? I don't give a fuck. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know what have you been eating right now?
Speaker 1: I went to Universal Studio. That's what the I was
Speaker 1: at Universal Studios. That's the place where I I mentioned
Speaker 1: that I was h leaning on a handrail that I
Speaker 1: was pretty sure was covered in diarrhea and boogers, and
Speaker 1: I got I got butter I got a butter beer.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I haven't one of those. It's good man.
Speaker 1: You should go where do you what? There was? What
Speaker 1: city are you in?
Speaker 4: Uh? Like north of Daytona Beach, Florida.
Speaker 1: North of Man. So you're working with Florida kids. Florida.
Speaker 1: There's the meme of the Florida man.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I'm one of them.
Speaker 1: Anytime there's like this thing on TikTok and it's cool,
Speaker 1: Like it's cool to like be a jerk on TikTok
Speaker 1: and ship. You've seen this kind of thing. I sound
Speaker 1: like I sound like I'm very old. But anytime I say,
Speaker 1: like a group of kids like fucking around being like
Speaker 1: a dick, to like some guy working at Walmart on TikTok,
Speaker 1: it's always in Florida. Yeah, the kids are always wearing
Speaker 1: crocs and like shorts and have like some Florida sports shit.
Speaker 4: On any gas station you walk into, there's at least
Speaker 4: one lost child wearing slides.
Speaker 1: Any gas station, well, one lost child.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just like you know, by the coolers or something.
Speaker 4: They're all over the place.
Speaker 1: You know how it is here, big Al. This has
Speaker 1: been a nice conversation, big Al. Did you how do
Speaker 1: you I know you're feeling nervous after late earlier. How
Speaker 1: do you feel now?
Speaker 4: Uh? Super fucking grateful because I hear about all these
Speaker 4: people that have to call in four hundred times that
Speaker 4: I got on in my first time. And you know what,
Speaker 4: I'll say, God's got God's plan. That was God's plan.
Speaker 1: Hopefully God has been. If God is watching this ship
Speaker 1: right now, he is ignoring the prayers of millions and
Speaker 1: millions of people who need him a lot more than
Speaker 1: we do. I I hope he did not have anything
Speaker 1: to do with this, because he has he has better
Speaker 1: prayers to answer.
Speaker 4: As soon as I see God, I'm gonna rock his
Speaker 4: ship kiss him.
Speaker 1: Well, all right, thank you very much for calling, Al.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4: I hope. Yeah. Take care man, take care of man. Hi.
Speaker 2: Who is this Isabella? I'm the one with the McDonald story.
Speaker 1: You're the one with the McDonald's stories. What kind of
Speaker 1: McDonald's story?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got trapped in the freezer?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well I don't know. Well, we haven't talked before,
Speaker 1: but we're talking now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think you've like mentioned it, like you were
Speaker 2: like you're saying like, oh, like these people have stories.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, yes, So Isabella, what inspired you?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: What when were you working at McDonald's.
Speaker 2: I started working there during the pandemic when I was
Speaker 2: in high school. So that was like my first ever job.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, And what was your experience?
Speaker 2: Like it was hell?
Speaker 1: Why was it?
Speaker 4: Hell?
Speaker 2: Well, it was my first job and it kind of
Speaker 2: became like two days of training and they just kind
Speaker 2: of like pushed me off. And since it was like
Speaker 2: the peak of the pandemic, Like you know, we had
Speaker 2: no dining and everybody was like going through the drive
Speaker 2: through and I kind of just had to like multitask,
Speaker 2: so I was taking orders through the headphones. And yes,
Speaker 2: we can like hear everyone if you whisper sometimes like
Speaker 2: like you know, like if they're asking people like we've
Speaker 2: here purple arguing all the time. I worked there during
Speaker 2: the Travis Scott meal, So that was a hassle, especially
Speaker 2: since I still have the shirt. I still and I
Speaker 2: think it's like I think it could be sold for
Speaker 2: like five hundred dollars right now.
Speaker 1: Do you experience PTSD every time you hear sicko mode?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes I do. And I since I got chopped
Speaker 2: in the freezer, I actually can't be in your freezer
Speaker 2: in the in the supermarket.
Speaker 1: There was a trend for those who don't know when
Speaker 1: she's talking about the Travis Scott thing, there was a
Speaker 1: trend on TikTok where kids would roll up to the
Speaker 1: drive through and it's like when the when the worker
Speaker 1: would ask what they wanted to order, they would just
Speaker 1: blast sickle. What would they what was it? They said,
Speaker 1: like what was it? What was the bit? They it would.
Speaker 2: Literally be like the first time I like, I specifically
Speaker 2: remember the first time that happened to me was this.
Speaker 2: I can hear this twelve year old kid because I
Speaker 2: saw him pass out of the window. You know, he's with
Speaker 2: his dad and he's like he's blasting this song. He goes,
Speaker 2: you know what I want in his like like Pip
Speaker 2: squeak voice, and I said, oh, you want a ten
Speaker 2: piece meal, even though I was like, you know, a sandwich,
Speaker 2: and she goes and he got mad. He goes, no,
Speaker 2: I wanted the Travis Scott meal. And I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I'm only my first month.
Speaker 4: Here and I'm done.
Speaker 1: Many so he so did he blast sickle mode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was doing that too. He was like, you
Speaker 2: know what I want? And you know, like everybody knows
Speaker 2: that it's like the sandwich and sprite and everything like.
Speaker 3: That, it's still like it's.
Speaker 1: Doing.
Speaker 2: I think the dad just looked really done well. I
Speaker 2: was there and I just kind of gave him like
Speaker 2: the change and everything, and like then I like somebody
Speaker 2: had to I had to cover for somebody, so that
Speaker 2: I ended up going back to the second window and
Speaker 2: giving him the meal. But the dad was just like,
Speaker 2: I just want my coke. Like he goes done.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's kind of cool. You got like a window
Speaker 1: into how shitty that dad's life was. And then he
Speaker 1: drove away and you were done with that child forever.
Speaker 1: But he had to deal with them for the rest
Speaker 1: of his life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had like, oh okay, So I would tell
Speaker 2: people this because I was the whole conversation in my
Speaker 2: chemistry class. But so there's a first fridge where they
Speaker 2: keep all the like you know, the milks and the drinks,
Speaker 2: like like the chocolate milks and juices and whatever, and
Speaker 2: then there's the second there's like another door that leads
Speaker 2: to the freezer with the fries and the meat patties
Speaker 2: and the nuggets. And they asked me, like, can you
Speaker 2: get like more fries we needed for the air like
Speaker 2: for the fryer, and I go and I'm like I
Speaker 2: needed to grab a bag. And when I went to go,
Speaker 2: like I opened the door. When I went to go
Speaker 2: grab a bag, the door closes on me. And when
Speaker 2: I it's like this weird plastic knob it looked like
Speaker 2: a gear. I turned it and it fell like it
Speaker 2: like it loosens and it's in my hand. Not connected
Speaker 2: to the door, and I started banging on the door
Speaker 2: like well, I started like trying to twist it back on,
Speaker 2: and it was not working because I said, like, just
Speaker 2: twist it, because I said, like, oh, you think you're
Speaker 2: like I think that was even a sign that I said, oh,
Speaker 2: don't do not fret, you're not locked in. But when
Speaker 2: I try to twist the nod back on, like it
Speaker 2: was not like you know, opening the door, and I
Speaker 2: started banging on it and I started screaming, and like
Speaker 2: I managed to finally get out after like ten minutes,
Speaker 2: and luckily, like I had a hoodie on and I
Speaker 2: did have my phone, but I was just like I
Speaker 2: would not call until some like somebody opened. But when
Speaker 2: I opened the door and I went there, everybody started
Speaker 2: laughing at me, and like I kind of just gave
Speaker 2: him like the fries and I just kind of like left.
Speaker 1: Hmm, okay, so you're only in there for ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But it was just like, you know, they didn't
Speaker 2: explain to me how the doors work, so it was
Speaker 2: just like, you know, oh, by the way, like the
Speaker 2: nove will fall off or you know, if you think
Speaker 2: you're stuck in there, you know, I was just like
Speaker 2: kind of banging on the door. Everybody heard me, and
Speaker 2: everybody was laughing, you know.
Speaker 1: So I was just like, oh wait, they heard you. Huh.
Speaker 1: So they heard you banging on the door trying to
Speaker 1: get out of the freezer, and then they didn't let
Speaker 1: you out.
Speaker 3: Yeah they didn't.
Speaker 2: They It was like the Okay, half of them are
Speaker 2: like older Hispanic people that are like cooking because I
Speaker 2: live in a small town, so like the like the
Speaker 2: people that are the cooks, they are majority of older
Speaker 2: spanning people, and like the people that work like the
Speaker 2: register and like the drive through are like younger teens.
Speaker 2: Like my manager actually went to like went to high
Speaker 2: school and he was only like maybe a couple of
Speaker 2: years older.
Speaker 1: So, by the way, as is this loss, can we
Speaker 1: lawsuit this? Can we get some some McDonald's money right here?
Speaker 2: I don't even know. I think it was like this
Speaker 2: was a whole discussion in my chemistry because like I
Speaker 2: had this teacher that like understood like what happened. He
Speaker 2: was like should we Like this was the whole conversation,
Speaker 2: like can we see McDonald's? And I think it was
Speaker 2: like I don't know if I could have ever because
Speaker 2: you know, since I wasn't physically like trapped differ at
Speaker 2: least a certain amount of time, but I would definitely
Speaker 2: see for like emotional damages.
Speaker 3: But it was.
Speaker 2: Definitely like years ago. So who knows if they even
Speaker 2: deleted the footage because McDonald's like to be clean, quote unquote,
Speaker 2: and if everyone does ask though, like do they clean
Speaker 2: the ice cream machines or if the ice cream machine
Speaker 2: is broken? Our ice cream machine never broke down. Actually
Speaker 2: it was expresso machine.
Speaker 1: Uh so where do you still work there? Now?
Speaker 2: No? I when I left, I'm actually like I work
Speaker 2: at Build right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, And well they don't have freezers there, do they?
Speaker 2: No? But I was like I was like sixteen when
Speaker 2: I started working in the I started working at McDonald's,
Speaker 2: which was like in twenty twenty. I was like working
Speaker 2: there like in May or like May in June and
Speaker 2: the peak of the pandemic. And then I left like
Speaker 2: when I was a junior in likings.
Speaker 1: And is Buildebar significantly better than McDonald's.
Speaker 2: I just said it. There were like I started working
Speaker 2: there a couple of weeks ago, but honestly, yes, because
Speaker 2: I'm not dealing with fast food or like adults, because
Speaker 2: there are. At the time, there were adults who would
Speaker 2: throw fits because they were not allowed to use the
Speaker 2: bathroom because it was the peak of the pandemic, so
Speaker 2: the bathrooms were closed off and there was no indoor seating. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so they were. There was this like heavy set man
Speaker 2: who like like was threatening me because he said that
Speaker 2: because you couldn't use the bathroom, that's like an American, right,
Speaker 2: And I was like, Okay, have a good day. And
Speaker 2: I've had like somebody throw a whole like like drink
Speaker 2: on me because I gave him the quote unquote wrong drink.
Speaker 2: He wanted a bottled water instead of cuffed water, so
Speaker 2: he threw his drink at me.
Speaker 1: M man, it's like you're like in the army and
Speaker 1: the McDonald's pretty much having to deal with the ship.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: My brother was like, I want to work there because
Speaker 2: I can get free food. I said, no, you're gonna,
Speaker 2: like you're gonna you're gonna regret ever getting a job if.
Speaker 3: You if you work there.
Speaker 1: So do you like build a bear? Bet? Like, what
Speaker 1: do you like about build a bear?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I I I like it because I I have a
Speaker 2: lot of like stuffed animals. So I just started working there,
Speaker 2: and I'm planning on getting one with my friend because
Speaker 2: she's moving away, Like sorry, she she moved away, but
Speaker 2: she's coming back for a break. So we're trying to
Speaker 2: get like matching ones with each other's like favorite songs.
Speaker 2: So there's that, and it's like yeah, and it's a
Speaker 2: Kiosk one, so it's not as busy.
Speaker 1: M hm, Oh, it's a Kiosk one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the manager has been begging to get like
Speaker 2: the actual store. But I'm like okay with the Kiosk
Speaker 2: because it's not you have to memorize the whole handbook. Mmmm.
Speaker 1: Just to memorize the handbook. What's hand could there possibly
Speaker 1: really be in that handbook?
Speaker 2: It's like like okay, they have actually strict of rules,
Speaker 2: like you can't wear like boots, you can't wear clogs,
Speaker 2: like you can't wear certain chooes except like slip on sneakers.
Speaker 2: Like I wore these like little boots and they said, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can't wear that. I wore like black slick pants
Speaker 2: and I couldn't wear them because they had pockets on
Speaker 2: the side. I can't wear like a regular gray long slea.
Speaker 2: Sure it has to be like all of them have
Speaker 2: to be like collared. I have a tattoo behind my
Speaker 2: ear and I have to keep my hair down because
Speaker 2: my tattoos can't be visible.
Speaker 1: Mmm. Don't they sell fucking bears tattoos?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I guess because it's like a majority of
Speaker 2: small kids they sell.
Speaker 1: I've seen them sell Like fuck it. Here's my thing
Speaker 1: is with the dress code at Build a Bear. Anything
Speaker 1: that the bears have, you should be able to have
Speaker 1: to Like if the bear has my bear. When I
Speaker 1: used to go to build a Bear, have like a
Speaker 1: skateboard and more like cool skater clothes, you should be
Speaker 1: able to wear that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that should be a thing like make us look
Speaker 2: more creative, but we have to look professional. Like that's
Speaker 2: like their thing. Like I have to still buy a
Speaker 2: whole pack of polish roots because I have I have
Speaker 2: to use my dad. So I actually have an interesting
Speaker 2: story from McDonald's. Sure he used to smoke leads with
Speaker 2: my manager, okay, and like we would we would build
Speaker 2: the McDonald's at like at ten at night because they
Speaker 2: did not care.
Speaker 3: I would.
Speaker 2: They did not care. I was sixteen and had school
Speaker 2: at like seven in the morning.
Speaker 3: Next day, I would be there until a.
Speaker 2: Twelve o'clock shift, and I would be outside and I
Speaker 2: was like smoking, and one time, like I see a
Speaker 2: white car and I realized that it was my dad.
Speaker 2: So I did have the boat inside and they luckily
Speaker 2: had like sprays in me too, because my like my
Speaker 2: I knew I was going to take my dad's order,
Speaker 2: but my like my manager was like, you know what,
Speaker 2: like give him a bunch of free food and he
Speaker 2: won't notice. So we ended up giving him like a
Speaker 2: twenty pat, like a twenty like nugget, like a couple
Speaker 2: of drinks and stuff. So my dad was like, oh,
Speaker 2: your friends are nice, and they he did all those
Speaker 2: to this day that I was like, uh smoking, mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Well I it was not that bad being high.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it made the it made them experience like it
Speaker 2: made times pass by. I don't know are her jobs,
Speaker 2: but no one, no one to this day still works there.
Speaker 2: I think like only one manager who's in her forties,
Speaker 2: like she still works there, but everybody I almost decided
Speaker 2: to release.
Speaker 1: I almost smoked weed with high schoolers outside of McDonald's
Speaker 1: a few months ago. I was I was in the
Speaker 1: drive through line and these this kid like comes and
Speaker 1: knocks on my window and it's like, hey, man, can
Speaker 1: I pay you to buy me food? Because they didn't
Speaker 1: have cars, so they were like, can I pay you
Speaker 1: to buy me food? And I said sure, and I
Speaker 1: bought the kid food. I bought him like a big
Speaker 1: mac meal and he went to give me like a
Speaker 1: few bucks for it, and I told him, you know,
Speaker 1: he could just have it, because I remember a time
Speaker 1: when I was crazy that I tried to walk through
Speaker 1: McDonald's drive through line on foot and uh, nobody fucking
Speaker 1: would take my order. And I tried to do the
Speaker 1: same thing with that that kid was doing, where I
Speaker 1: like would ask a fucking stranger to get me if
Speaker 1: I could pay them, and none nobody would open their
Speaker 1: window for me. And I remembered that, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay it forward to this kid. And so
Speaker 1: I get the kid his meal, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: go and park in the driveway and I'm like eating
Speaker 1: my food or whatever, parked, and then the kid knocks
Speaker 1: on my window again and he's like, yo, if you want,
Speaker 1: we have a blunt that you could take a hit of.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I really thought about it. I really
Speaker 1: thought about it. But then I would be that guy
Speaker 1: smoking weed with teenagers and the McDonald's parking lot and
Speaker 1: that would be a whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I had to do that once. Like I had
Speaker 2: another manager who was like, I was like seventeen and
Speaker 2: he was no, he was like, yeah, I was like
Speaker 2: around I almost came seventeen, and it was like he
Speaker 2: was like he he had fired. But at the time,
Speaker 2: like I remember, like he used to sell and my
Speaker 2: cousins and I needed it for Halloween. So I ended
Speaker 2: up like hanging out with him just to like we
Speaker 2: had a smoke before him, and then he just gave
Speaker 2: me like a whole bunch of like free like a
Speaker 2: free stash, and I was like really happy. But that's
Speaker 2: like the last time I talked to him.
Speaker 1: Hell, listen, Isabelle, thanks for sharing all this stuff. Man,
Speaker 1: is there anything else you want to say to the
Speaker 1: people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 2: Really? Uh, this I'm actually the building was actually my
Speaker 2: seventh dog.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, was you said it was your seventh job?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That beautiful. Yeah, thanks for calling Isabella.
Speaker 2: No prom And if you have a po box, I
Speaker 2: don't know if you do. I just started listening to you.
Speaker 2: But I could always send like a gecko or like
Speaker 2: Lizard of Build a Bear.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I gotta get one. I don't. I still
Speaker 1: need to get a a po box, but I'll let
Speaker 1: you know what I get one. Thank you, Isabelle. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, have a good night.
Speaker 1: Gack bless you. I don't know you can make geckos
Speaker 1: over there. All right, I gotta go to build a bear.
Speaker 1: Goes on the line thanking your phone calls.
Speaker 2: Every night, everything goes.
Speaker 1: He's teaching your life.