1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: I started doing a kick line in a Boston bar 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: when I was twenty two years old. They send me 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,959 Speaker 1: in a cab. I was on these cobblestone roads and 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: I barfed mud slide projectile vomit in the West End. 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: I went to go hit the toilet, It hit the wall. 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Welcome Everybody, Calmed Down Podcast. Can I 8 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: just tell you how happy it makes me when I 9 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: go on these Thursday night games and you little cuties 10 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 1: show up with signs that say Calm Down Podcast. It's 11 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: happened a couple of times so far this year, and honestly, 12 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 1: like I throw out, I don't even know who's playing 13 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: in the game. After that, I just get so excited 14 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: that you guys are kind enough, because first of all, 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: I think about this. You had to go to the store. 16 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: You had to get that paper, the the the big 17 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: you know, butcher paper thing. What was it called poster 18 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: board post Jesus, Jesus, my god, how long has it 19 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: been since I've done a class presentation. You gotta get 20 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: the post report. Then you've got to get the sharpie, 21 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: the one that actually shows up because you can't get 22 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: the little one. You gotta get the big ones. You 23 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: can actually see the writing, and it takes a lot 24 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: of effort, And I just want you guys to know, 25 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: for those of you guys that have done it at 26 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: various games, it means a lot. And I get so 27 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: excited and I take a picture and I said it 28 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: to Aaron, and then I get excited. Yeah. So thank 29 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: you guys for even listening, and then thank you for 30 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: going to your local craft store and making us a science. 31 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: It's so sweet. Are michael Is still around? I love 32 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: the Michael's. They give me the shakes. I can't go 33 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: into Michael's. Her home depot are my freak out zones. 34 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: I am not creative. I my mom can thrive in 35 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: a Michael's. I mean, you need a ribbon with a 36 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: little bit of bend in it that stays and the 37 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: bow sticks around. My mom's got it. She knows where 38 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: the glue gun is, she knows where the sticks are. 39 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: How about this nice smelling cinnamon scented thing that you 40 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: just wrap around and you put a little dip and 41 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: dance from. Yeah, it's all like from like Christmas vacation, 42 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: where the guys that can a'll just brings it up. 43 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: Oh no, wait, that was love. Actually, yeah, that's my 44 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: mom's in a nutshall she can crush on Michael's me. 45 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 1: I'm like, I start convulsive. I'm like, am I am? See? 46 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm doing in there. You know 47 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: what bums me out is that I love a Michael's 48 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 1: and I feel like I thrive in the creative space. 49 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: But as I've gotten older, I've gotten lazy with the 50 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: gift giving, where it's like I throw in the bag 51 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 1: and here's some tissue and keep it moving. I'm gonna 52 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: make a concerted effort to bring back my crafting. And 53 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: how about those glue sticks? Though now it's dripping down 54 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: and now we're pushing the little stick into the other 55 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: little stick. That's a whole thing. I think they might 56 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: I hope they've advanced the glue gun. I don't know. 57 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to the bottom of it. They haven't. 58 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: I'm sure that there's a Michael's gift card around here somewhere. 59 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: Do you know that my mom uses a glue gun 60 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: to apply her fabulous handmade bows to every Christmas she 61 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 1: does for us, And it's all with a glue gun. 62 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: It is so our house is like the Magic King 63 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: down on Christmas. When my mom does it up like 64 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: it's it makes me a oceanal. She's like she is 65 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: st nick, like she's insane with her decorations. But yeah, 66 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: she does everything with a glue gun and she's passed 67 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 1: it down to glue it that even like if you 68 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: know we yeah, well yeah she sends because she brings 69 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: Christmas here or like or we'll go to Montana. She 70 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: sends a huge of her box handmade bows that she 71 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: made up. She throws in glue guns, and even Jared 72 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: gets into it. He's like, I need I need the 73 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: blue gun. That's so I really love that. It's like 74 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: you're you're in a Doctor SEUs, like a story that 75 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: they're so fabulous. It's so great. Well, since it is 76 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: now November when this episode airs, we can start getting Christmas. 77 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: I haven't had a Christmas tree for the last few 78 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: years because this has not been a happy home, so 79 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: I have not made the effort to do anything festive. 80 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: But guess who's getting a tree. We're getting there's gonna 81 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: be the hat hat happiest family this song. I'm gonna 82 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: put a tree that big Santa Monica bent Over and 83 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: I'll show you. Yeah, there's going to be a massive 84 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: tree in this house. My mom always used the same 85 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: color wrapping paper, and each year was a different theme 86 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: as far as like we're doing gold this year, we're 87 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: doing silver this year, We're doing red this year. So 88 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: that was what goes on in our house. But I'd 89 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: love to hear your guys holiday traditions because tis the season. 90 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: Now that Halloween's over, we can get excited. Ho ho ho, 91 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: grab your mug and stay awhile we have stories to tell. 92 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: Anyone ever gets the eight minute Abs? Do they still 93 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: sell that the thigh Master of the eight minute Abs? 94 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: All of those infomercials. I n stole my mom's credit 95 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: card and I went and I bought a Ronko food 96 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: dehydrator because I really wanted the beef jerky like you 97 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: guys remember those, or the magic bullet or the brown 98 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: hand blender. This is the ship I was doing. Happening. 99 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: Kids nowadays are making little talk and they're eleven years 100 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: old and they look like they're thirty with their outfits 101 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: and whatnot. It's like my contour and I'm busy take 102 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: feeling my mom's credit card so I can buy a 103 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: hand blender so I can make smoothies for myself or no. 104 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: But when my mom came home one time and I 105 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 1: was drinking a Bartle and James, remember those like well, 106 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: I can't even say it Bartlon James, Cartlie James or 107 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: my heart Mike's hardy. And I didn't know that Bartle 108 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: and James was alcoholic. So I was sitting on the couch. 109 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: I think I was like eleven, and I was drinking 110 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: this and my mom came home and she was like, Carissa, 111 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,119 Speaker 1: what are you drinking that for? And I was like what, 112 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: what is it? And she's like, there's alcohol in that. 113 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 1: I was like h And thus it became a problem. No, 114 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: I'm kidding, but yeah, that's what I worried about. My 115 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: dad once walked in on me though, making that with 116 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: my boyfriend, and my shirt was off. WHOA, you've told 117 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: this one. I was gonna ask, what was your first 118 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: cocktail you ever tried? Oh, I've dated a senior. I 119 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: dated a senior. His name was Yeah, his name was Jay, 120 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,679 Speaker 1: and he had a cheap and we would leave campus 121 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: together there and like cruise around and make out. And 122 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,919 Speaker 1: I was a sophomore in the Sweet Valley High. I 123 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 1: was actually true Beverly Hills um and then oh and 124 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: then I forged a note pretending that my mom let 125 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: me leave campus, and then I got caught for plagiarism. 126 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:24,119 Speaker 1: Was Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Your Sloan Sloan Peterson fare 127 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: Spieler has been absent nine At times, he's just leading 128 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: you down a primrose path, Mrs s Fieler, wake up 129 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: and smell the roses. Sloan Peterson's father's online one. You 130 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: still want his daytime number? No rose, you pinhead. How 131 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: about when the secretary and she's taking out all the 132 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,359 Speaker 1: pencils from her head. If anyone hasn't seen Ferris Spueler's 133 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: Day Off, or we've lost you in this podcast rented 134 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: But yeah, Jay was a senior and I and I 135 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: drank with him at his house and it was tequila. 136 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: And I think that's why to this day I still 137 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: have an aversion. Took tequila because it was just I 138 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: got sick and it was not good. And you guys 139 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: know the first time you throw up off of any alcohol, 140 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: whether it's Captain Morgan or smearing off ice yank. Going 141 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: back to the well and we cream. That used to 142 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: be my thing. No mudslides, mud slides. I thought it 143 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: was so cool. I got my first job with the 144 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Lightning and I was drinking mud slide. The 145 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: announcers went out and I was like, I have a 146 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: mud slide. I had four. I started doing a kick 147 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: line in a Boston bar when I was twenty two 148 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: years old. They just sent me in a cab. I 149 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: was on these cobblestone roads and I barfed projective vomit 150 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: in the West End. I went to go hit the toilet. 151 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: It hit the wall. And I remember calling my dad 152 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: and being like, I have alcohol poisoning, and he goes, 153 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: you don't. You just had four mud slides. What a 154 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: disgusting person. I never had one of those. A gang 155 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: we can there. Well, they were called white Russians. We 156 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: don't call them that anymore. We call them Ukraine's white 157 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 1: Ukraines to be politically correct. And that was the other 158 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: thing that I would drink too, like with half and 159 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: half in it. Like God, just remember when the Adkins 160 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: thing was such a big deal. Okay, I'll the idea 161 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: because I've tried every fat diet out there, and I 162 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: was on an Atkins diet, and I would drink brevet lattes. 163 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: Bret don't even know what that is as a far barista, 164 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: let me tell you, because it was all the rage 165 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: in Orange County. I made a lot of brevet barista's 166 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: brevery Chaptersna, I'm a broadcast, I'm a broadcaster. Brevet latte's 167 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 1: it's half and half is the milk you drink? Cream? 168 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 1: Oh god, I know? And that is that where people 169 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: were putting butter in it too, and the cream it 170 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: would make you like crap your pants. That was about 171 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: coffee caffey. It not on the toilet. Yep, yep, yep, yep. 172 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: So that was exciting. Um, so yeah, tequila's not my friend. 173 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: And mudslides aren't yours? Was that a t G I 174 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: Friday mixed and they patent that I feel like it 175 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: was and sold her birthday from all of us to you. Gosh, 176 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 1: I was a real I was a real cool girl 177 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: in the day. Let me tell you, how about when 178 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 1: you are working at cheesecake factory or anyone that's ever 179 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: worked at a restaurant and you have to sing and 180 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: you have to try to recruit the other waiters in 181 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 1: the restaurant be like, fuck, there's a birthday at table twelve, 182 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: and then it's like do I have the lighter? I 183 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: forgot to bring my lighter? Can I borrow your lighter? 184 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,719 Speaker 1: And then the candles extinguished by the time you get 185 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: to table twenty, and then you're at the table and 186 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: it's the awkward singing, Oh how many items are on 187 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: a cheesecake factory menu? And did you have to be 188 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: familiar with all of that? Yes? You did. And I 189 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: lied to get the job because I had no waitress Um, 190 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: I had no waitress experience. There's a theme here that 191 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: I lied to get all my jobs to human resources 192 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: is uh wait wait yep, tanning beds, which was really 193 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: a drug cover up I found out later. I mean no, 194 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 1: it was these are facts. Okay, I don't know. I 195 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: don't work for the d e A. They just showed 196 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: up one day. Okay is that a rhyme? Wow, I 197 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 1: don't work for the d A. They just showed up 198 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: one day, so nice I said it twice anyway, So 199 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,679 Speaker 1: working at cheesecake Factory, I had to lie to get 200 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: the job. Because here's the thing, this is what I 201 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: don't understand about jobs. They the job says you need experience, 202 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: But how am I supposed to get experience if if 203 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: you won't give me the job, I can't get experienced 204 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: waiting table money and nobody will help me me tonight 205 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: dinner tonight at cheesecake Factory. Yeah. No, So I had 206 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: to lie to get and I knew that I would 207 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: be good at it because I had had hostess x 208 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: host its, hostess sing experience. My god, I cannot speak 209 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: fired me now you Fin was a hostess, so I 210 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: had that experience. I had been a bartender, so I 211 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: had that experience, but I had never waited tables. But 212 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: I knew I wanted to work at Cheesecake actor because 213 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: she made a lot of money there. The aforementioned menu, 214 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: a lot of items, more items, higher price point, We're flipping, 215 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: tables were moving, We're shaken, okay. So I didn't want 216 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: to have to tell the lie on the Cheesecake Factory resumes. 217 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: They never are dear, they never are dear. Really wanted 218 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 1: to work there, and so again I said mom, because 219 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: my mom had been a waitress one of her seven 220 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: hundred jobs she had because she was so amazing, and 221 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: like wanted to make sure she could put all of 222 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: us through our like extracurricular activities. So I was like, Mom, 223 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 1: I had money so hot, so said Mom, I'm gonna 224 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,079 Speaker 1: have to put you down as my reference, and I'm 225 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: gonna have to use your the restaurant that you work 226 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: at as as the place where I also worked at. 227 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: So I don't think Cathy. My mom always said the 228 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: lie is worse than the act itself. But I was 229 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: truthful with her about what I was doing, so she 230 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 1: endorsed it. And she also endorsed the fact that I 231 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: was getting my ass out there and getting other jobs. 232 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,439 Speaker 1: So she's like, fine, I'll be your fake reference. Did 233 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: they ever call her? No, they did it. And my 234 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: first night as a waitress, I'm so excited. Terrible outfit, 235 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: the white jeans, the case Swiss. All white on anyone 236 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: is not a good look unless you're a hundred pounds 237 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: so all white. I get my apron, had to learn 238 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: how to tie a tie. It's the whole deal. I'm 239 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: all excited. I'm all excited for my job, and I'm 240 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: so friendly, freend so and then I'm cutting the bananas 241 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: back there for the kids at the kid's table. Okay, fine, 242 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: all the things are working until I get my first 243 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: they sign out, I go and I pick up the bill, 244 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: and I'm so excited and like my first tip zero dollars. 245 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: You're the worst waitress we've ever had. That's what they 246 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: wrote on the bill, zero dollars, and that I was 247 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: the worst waitress they had ever had. Well, guess what, buddy, 248 00:12:53,440 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: jokes on you. I'm not a waitress, So jokes on you. 249 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 1: Who's got the last laugh? This gal? No problem, buddy, 250 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: And guess what. It's all uphill from here. Zero tips, 251 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: first table. By the time I left that place, they 252 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: were begging me to stay. They were asking if I 253 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: wanted to be promoted to bartender. No, I gotta go 254 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 1: back to school. I went with a lot of you 255 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: don't have any alcohol behind this bar because I drank 256 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: it all on my lunch break. Shout out to the 257 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: publics in Brandon, Florida that didn't hire me to be 258 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: a cashier. I was qualified. See you didn't have experience, 259 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: you didn't You got a lie to get it. See 260 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:36,839 Speaker 1: this is we're setting up the system all wrong. You're 261 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: you guys are putting us in a position to have 262 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: to not tell the truth. And I don't like it 263 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: is that what they said that you weren't experienced. Well, 264 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: I think, if truth to be told, all my friends 265 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: worked in the bakery and the hot boys were bagging groceries, 266 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: and I wanted to be there too, and I applied 267 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: to do all of those things, and they never hired me. 268 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: I wasn't qualified. I apparently wasn't great enough. Publics. You 269 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: make great subs, but you're shitty at hiring people. Just kidding, 270 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: you're not, You're not. I probably didn't deserve it. I've 271 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 1: heard a lot about these public subs. Steve said the 272 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: other days that I'm craving a public sub. It's a thing. 273 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: It's so good, Tampa. This is what a public sub. No, 274 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: I'm marching you tell me exactly offline which public isn't. 275 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: I'm marching my ass back in there, and I'm saying that, 276 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: how do you like them apples? And I'm gonna hold 277 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: up your head shot, say you didn't hire this girl. 278 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: I'll do it. All I wanted to do is work 279 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: in the bakery with everyone, or be by with like 280 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: the guys that were bagging the groceries. That's all I 281 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: wanted to do. Paper or plastic. I mean imagine having Yeah, yeah, 282 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back there. That's all my to do list. 283 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: But yeah, she wants off all the money. I think 284 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: everyone should be working in the service industry at some 285 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: point in their life. Um, I think of jobs for 286 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: these young kids out there are very important work ethic 287 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: no substitute for worth work ethic work, so there's no 288 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: stuf to for And look where it's got me today. 289 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: I'm a broadcast who kind of talk. Maybe look at this. 290 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: Maybe it's this coffee I see so sweet ordered me coffee, 291 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: ordered me the wrong coffee, but I didn't have the 292 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: heart to tell him it's the wrong coffee. Is he 293 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: in here? So what is this? What is this? What 294 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: is this pappuccino? There's so much whip crew in here. 295 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: I just wanted an iced coffee with a slight little 296 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: thing of foam. This is crazy out You had me 297 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: it did we spooned? No, we did it, which is 298 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: probably which is probably why I need to make more 299 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: of an effort. Okay, you know what I mean. I'm 300 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: perfect on the people next to me. Anyways, it's pretty outside, 301 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: is it. I know, maybe should get out there and 302 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: do something with my life. I have workout clothes on? Um, 303 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: how about that move though where it's like the put 304 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: are you this person that wakes up and workout clothes on? 305 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: I do too, because as the days progresses, which is there, 306 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: it's on right now and I haven't worked out I 307 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: think to myself, you lazy person. You put this thing 308 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: on in the morning and now it's four o'clock and 309 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: if you have to take these off and then go 310 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: put more pajamazon or whatever we're putting onto the night, 311 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: you should be ashamed of yourself. Exact well, I think 312 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: we've covered everything in this episode. We've covered the holidays, 313 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: We've covered watching the holiday love Cameron. As we know, 314 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 1: we've covered our first jobs you guys for next week's 315 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 1: post post game. Whoa, that's a new segment post game 316 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: for next week's pre game. I want to hear all 317 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 1: the fun jobs that you've had or holiday traditions. That's 318 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: going to be my thame for questions. Not that I'm 319 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: going to tell you guys what to ask, ask whatever 320 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: you want, but I just want to hear the first jobs. 321 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: I also want to hear all the places that didn't 322 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: hire you, and you'd like to show your apples, like public, 323 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: not the bagger or in the bakery shoot I would 324 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: have even done. I don't know what I would have done. 325 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: I would have cleaned off the cards just when the 326 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: boys were there. I wouldn't have worked in the mead section. 327 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: I don't know about that that meat where you're like 328 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: then having to shave, No, that would have been and 329 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: you've got to clean it out. I would have been 330 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: a problem. But anyways, we'd love to hear your stories. 331 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,040 Speaker 1: You guys are the best. Thank you for listening and 332 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: showing up with your sns. I saw the sun and 333 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: it opened up my eyes. I saw the sun I 334 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:07,959 Speaker 1: really love in that song where she gets really like 335 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: the sun. Yeah, yeah, and it opened up my eyes 336 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: and I am happy now living with that. 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