WEBVTT - #101 Stop Cheating On Us! 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:10.319 Start up, start Up Brooklyn. By start Up Brooklyn buys data, 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:18.120 they make it noise data dot up. Episode one one, 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.640 one on one. It's a palindrome. It is. It's like 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:27.760 it's like a college course, like math. One on one. Yeah, basics, 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.960 back to the basics, Brooklyn boys. It's the it's the 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:36.320 next century of of episodes. Yeah, with our second hundred. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:39.280 I'm so excited that big party we threw for episode 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.120 one hundred, the live broadcast slices that were there, Lady 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.640 Dagas showing up, I mean that was crazy, could not imagine. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.200 And they gave everyone free dessert and a hundred dollar bill. Amazing, 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.800 I mean, to give it out, they're just passing out 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.040 free money. If you couldn't have been there with us, 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.279 sorry you missed the party, but it was we had 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.480 like what four hundred slices for I have to showed 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.360 up on now. Okay, we still don't know which listener 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:06.120 sent the strippers. Yeah, if that was you, Yeah, we 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.679 tweet us let us know. Thank you. Yeah, we appreciate 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.319 and I'm sorry you couldn't make it because obviously if 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:12.440 you were there, you would have said, hey, I said 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.240 the strippers. But yeah, I think maybe the card got lost. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.959 A great party, Thank you guys. I still have a 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.039 hangover from it. I don't know about you. Wow, you 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.520 saw me pounding the diet CoA like no one's business 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:30.240 and then somehow, uh a case of grape soda ended 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.520 up in your car right we go trunk. It said 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.920 we're good. On it said we were good, were good. 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:40.600 Oh man, man, what a day. So um, we got 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:44.800 some texts coming in saying looking forward to my uh 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.160 my trip home on the turnpike from B and S 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.200 slash S and B. The last few fifteen minute morning 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.360 shows were really tough on scary, so I hope he 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.920 gets a little reprief Today that's s Marrio code two 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.920 oh one, interesting, tough on skier. Today's was tough on 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:02.760 you to now you tried to throw all of us 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.120 under the bus and you got busted for it. I 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.680 feel like we all do a little bit of what 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.000 we were talking about on that. Okay, so we had 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.240 someone from corporate in. Okay, we've all done this in life. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.079 Don't even tell me you didn't hold on you. If 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.120 you want listening to our podcast slices, you can pause 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.880 this go listen to the fifteen minute morning show from 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.560 today and then come back. I like that we won't 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.079 get credit for a double listening right unless you redo 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.760 the podcast the next day, and that because it's once 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.240 per day that we can get a listen for. However, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.400 the gist of it is, and it was really funny, 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.519 definitely listen to the fifty miute morning show today. The 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.600 gist of it is, we had someone from corporate here 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.280 with a clipboard that we're asking a lot of questions 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.040 about what we need to improve in the computer system 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:49.480 and the phone system. But straight and eight from our show, 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.360 our other executive producer, he thought they were um an 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.440 efficiency expert because they were here asking a lot of 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.079 questions like who can we fire? Who can we cut? 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:00.880 Which I don't even know this in how he got 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.200 that in his brain because because I was given an 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.079 email and said, no, this person just wants to learn 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.480 the systems and originally and they just want to make 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.600 things better for it. But they never tell you it's 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.480 an efficiency expert. It's like secret shoppers and restaurants. They 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.800 never tell you the secret shoppers. So you're you mean 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.160 to tell me there are companies out there that send 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:25.000 efficiency experts disguised as Hey, so I want to make 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.840 your life easier. We're gonna be updating all these computer 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.640 systems we have in place. And they are like people 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.160 who like go into restaurants and their food critics. Same 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.240 thing when I used to manage a Starbucks back in 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.560 the day. So they have ulterior motives. These people. There 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.320 were secret shoppers that were hired by our company to 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.680 come in. You'd get wind of it, like because so 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.000 you get wind of it, and what you would do 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.120 is you would like trying to figure out who the 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.280 secret shopper wasn't be extra nice even though you were 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.640 trying to be extras to everybody. And then we found 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.440 out that the corporate people used to tell us that, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.000 so it would be on our toes and there was 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:00.680 never anybody there. My favorite example, it's like wait for Guffman, No, 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.120 it's undercover Boss, it's uncovered Balls, waiting for the movie, 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.040 Waiting for Guffman because they thought a famous Broadway critic 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.720 was coming to review their play and then he's never coming, 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.440 you know. Uh. Several years ago we had an event. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.159 It was one of our famous meat markets and it 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.960 was at Webster Hall and uh, this kid worked in 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:26.799 our promotions team. And great story, guys, he uh, because 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.040 you just this is a job was to give out samples, 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:35.600 samples of toothpaste and hey, hey, here's a little tooth 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.919 like the little trial size in the men's bathroom. And 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:39.840 with any job, if you've ever had a job as 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.520 a kid, handing out flyers for a rap album or 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.920 for a neighborhood something, you hand off flyers. But when 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.560 you work in the radio hold you hand off flyers. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:49.960 Though there were people that would throw them all in 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.560 a dumpster because you had to give them all out. Right. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.360 But here's here's the worst part of this. He was 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.719 told to get rid of the samples. But it was 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.080 in a bathroom. You want to talk about out you 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.160 really really um like paying your dues in this industry, right, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.320 You're normally these radio promotions people, they go out there 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:14.320 outside the stadium, concert store, even a shopping mall, whatever, 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.479 the boardwalk by a beach, ye hanging out. But this, 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.800 this task was for this one guy to stand in 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.560 the men's bath at a morning show event at our 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:28.920 meat market. I say I said it before and just 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:33.279 pass out toothpaste. Sam. It was like awkward fresh or something, 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.200 and it doesn't matter. Whatever it was, it wasn't. It 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.600 was told to empty the bin and get get rid 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:43.040 of them. Now between the stink of a men's bathroom 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.320 and you're missing the freaking party and the drinking outside, 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.240 this guy's like, fuck this, I'm gonna try and like 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.320 give out as much as I can. So some guy 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.599 comes out of the bathroom stall to expect taking a dump, 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.520 and he walks over to the kid and he goes, hey, 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.320 what you got there? I said, Oh, these are Aquafresh samples. 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.120 I just have to hand out all this ship right now, 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.440 I was saying Aquafresh because it's not the brand, but 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.400 have to hand out Yeah, I don't know. I just gotta, 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:09.880 I gotta, I don't know, I gotta get rid of 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.960 this ship. And he goes, oh really, and he hands 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:17.320 them the entire like handful of as many twos and 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.919 he's called referred to it as ship because you have 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.760 to sit here sticking smell in his bathroom, and then 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.840 the guy walks out. Wouldn't you know that guy was 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.600 the CEO of Aquafresh, right, but I wouldn't you know what? 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.000 That kid was fired two days later. The next note 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.200 the next day, well, whatever the day was. Yeah, Like 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.720 it was like instant firing, right, you want to be 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.880 you want to talk about putting your foot in your mouth? 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.640 Like what the fund did? I just do? I just 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.880 keep in mind Aquafresh had paid a lot of money 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.640 to be again, it wasn't Aqua Fresh, so we can 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.279 get Aqua Fresh had paid a lot of money to 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.800 be included in the event. Right, So the CEO went 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.400 under trusted us to do a good job handing out there. 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.200 But I was slick of the CEO to you all 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:04.480 undercover boss, like hey there, now this is like fifteen 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.120 years ago, but we know the guy, we've seen him recently, 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.760 and he tells the story differently. There's a guy or not. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:12.680 I don't know why it was five no idea, but 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.000 if we know why he was fired, because everybody who's 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.920 involved knows what he said. So yeah, don't do that. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.080 Yeah no, no, that that would be bad, That would 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.800 be awful. My point was we were talking about you 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.000 never know who you're dealing with. You should go through 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.920 life doing your best job doing and you got ripped 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.280 because you're overdoing it in front of this person. Well, 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:32.960 because I didn't know who I was dealing with at 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.920 this point. At this point, I'm like, maybe these people 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.680 are taking notes to see who they can cut from 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.760 around here, but it's not gonna be because you do it. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:40.960 Don't do anything. At ten minutes to the show being over, 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.040 I know, but a lot. Let's face it. You know, 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:44.920 we've had a lot of people leave over the last 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.880 couple of years. By the way, none of those were 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.640 because of financial cuts. There were people who were leaving 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.200 because they wanted to leave. Listen, our company went public recently. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:53.880 You don't know if there's a beam count. And since 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.440 counter sitting there to being like, you know what, we 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.440 need to trim the fat a little bit more, right, 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.520 tim a fact, but that's not gonna happen. This show 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.080 is successful, the shows, but I was worried at that night. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.600 It's a fight or flight. You think a clipboard woman 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.000 is gonna recommend a fire, you don't know. So on 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.480 the second half of Brodian series, I started, fuck you 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.040 So I started I started pressing buttons. I started getting 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.880 in there like yeah, yeah, you look like you're doing research. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.360 I'm wiping the sweat off. I was writing jokes to nobody. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.200 The show was over. I was pressing all these buttons. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.240 I was. I was rocking the reels, as they say, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.560 I was doing that thing with the route to try 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.440 and pretend like I had to cue something up when 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.600 I really didn't. But the point is I had to 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.400 get in there. So I talked about this on the 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.160 fifteen Minute Morning Show podcast and then they railed me. Yeah, 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.000 and then your defense was Elvis does it too. Then 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.040 Elvis walked in and he ripped you. I used the 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:52.160 example of the teacher being observed by the principle. Let's 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.440 let's take it back to when we were we know, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.679 in elementary school wherever we were. You remember those days 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.400 where the principle would come in with a notebook it's 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.760 in the back of the room and observed the lesson plan. 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.800 That was the only time the teacher had a formal 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:10.600 lesson play with real structure, super engaged to the class. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.920 They were nice, extra nice. So we all do it 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.880 in life. I'm sure you have a job that that 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.840 that you do that at and you've impressed somebody else. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.480 So uh. There was a guy, his name is Kevin. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.280 That's why it doesn't matter. His last name was. The 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.720 real name is Kevin, And I used to work at 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.360 Old Navy Um the big store in Chelsea, which when 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.280 I worked there was the biggest store in GAP Inc. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.680 Because Gap owns Old Navy ban Republican Gap. It was 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.480 the busiest store in the entire company, so it made 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.240 more money than any Gap, any Old Navy. It was 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.880 constantly scrutinized, constantly scrutinized, so I was there when it opened. 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.040 I was part of the opening management team. So the 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.079 corporate types, the regional vice presidents, the regional people were 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.000 always there. Well Kevin. I liked Kevin. I got along 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:55.520 with him. Everyone was scared of Kevin. You know me. 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.760 I talked to everybody. I'm like, hey, what's up Kevin. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:02.320 People like hello, hello, Mrs and so, And I'm like, 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:03.960 you just want to talk to him, Yeah, because he's 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.120 a guy with a job. It's it. I never was 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:11.400 intimidated by upper management. But people would like, say, hey, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.480 Kevin's coming to visit tomorrow, so we would stay like 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.480 three hours later the night before, making sure the store 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.560 is perfect. Or if we knew he was coming in 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:22.240 the afternoon, they would put extra people on right for 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.480 to make sure the store look good, but then send 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.240 them all home so he wouldn't think we were blowing payroll, 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.760 and so then we would like send people home after 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.320 they get the store looking good. They would do everything 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.600 to make sure when Kevin walked in, and I'm gonna 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.560 tell you, I would say sixty percent of the time 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.839 at least Kevin never showed up. He knew if the 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.400 rumor was that Kevin was showing up, that was enough. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.320 Like our general manager, the regional manager, there we go. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.599 You know, Kevin's gonna be in town this weekend, and 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.480 he's gonna be and he wouldn't come, but they would 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.160 tell you he's coming, and you'd bust your ass to 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.760 get the store in shape. We probably wasted tens of 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.640 thousands of dollars on labor. Not me. It wasn't my decision, uh, 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.240 to have people come in stay late to make sure 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.679 the store was perfect. You know what the store is, man, 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.400 it's a factory. You're selling stuff old Navy. It's a 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.760 discount gap. I mean, I'm generalizing. It is what it is. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.079 It's it's a I'm not gonna explain the differences, but 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.280 there are very obvious differences in capital Navy clothing, UH, 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.960 in terms of the sewing and the difference in sizes. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.480 Did you know that, I'll give you that much. So 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.040 when you go to GAP and you buy a size 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.320 dirty four pant and you go to another size thirty 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.480 four pant, there's usually very little difference. But an Old 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.880 Navy there's more of a difference because the quality control 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.040 is not the same. The stitching is and it's not 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.840 double stitched, single stitched. The the T shirts are little 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.439 thinner than the T shirts a GAP. Old Navy T 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.560 shirts are a little thicker. I'm sorry, you've been at 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.720 a Republic. So it's it's a quality thing, right, So 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:47.680 when you got Old Navy, you expect, I'm going to 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.400 a less expensive version of the GAP. The tables will 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.240 be a little messier, right, the genes won't be folded 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.720 as perfectly. But we were running a store that had 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.520 to look like a Republic even though it was an 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.840 Old Navy, and said, why the spotlight was on. Corporate 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:05.040 was there, celebrities were shopping there. This is mid nineties, 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.000 it's a long time ago, but it was a big deal. 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.079 So when you knew a corporate guy was coming, yeah, 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.840 we we definitely like stepped it up. But I'm telling you, 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.800 most of the time they don't shop, they don't. Did 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.080 Kevin ever reprimand you for doing something wrong? You're always 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.280 the role model employee? Um no, I uh, I got 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.120 reprimanded for being too hot headed sometimes really like we 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:30.520 were the first store and Gap and you'd bust people around. Yeah, 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:32.920 I can't see that. So I can't see that. I 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.000 don't see that quality in you. Okay, So you know 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.360 those headsets they wear. The walkie talking is the headsets 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.520 when the microphone it comes on your mouth. We were 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.040 the first team of managers in Gap Inc. To ever 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:47.560 use those, probably the first retail store to ever use. Yeah, 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.360 so you would walkie talkie stuff and we're like, hey 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.839 I need a size thirty two thirty whatever from the 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.240 stock room, or like hey I need somebody over and denhim. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.520 So did you ever have code words for people? Oh, 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.040 for crooks? Yeah, he would say, I just think someone 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:04.400 think that's gone on the floor over by the so 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.920 and so the light bulb is out, light bulb is 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:11.360 out or chewing gum. Was like, hey, we gotta despicious situation. 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.280 But anyway, I didn't get in trouble with yelling at 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.160 people necessarily. I did yell at somebody once, I was like, 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.439 I said something like this. I yelled, like, but somebody 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.959 better goddamn answ on the something like that, you know, 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.800 because you can't get in the nineties. Yeah, you please 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.559 to do whatever you want the nineties. Come on. No, 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:33.800 But I did I tell you why I did get 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.440 in trouble. I would make jokes. I would make that's 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:42.000 what she said, kind of jokes. Would you know inappropriate 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.880 that that could be a workplace harassment if you think 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.439 about it, Yeah, it could be inappropriate like sexual Like 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.280 you hear one of the other managers going, I'm pulling 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.320 two of the two of the girls out of jeans, 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.640 and they go, oh, I gotta see that, you know, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.240 like that's like that, But that's what that's right, deck Like, 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.240 I would make jokes and are like they were, like, David, 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.880 that's what I would here from Like the GM if 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.040 the general manager was working that shift, I would make 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:10.080 a joke and I, uh, David, that meant like, stop 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.640 making the jokes. I would get in trouble because this 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.720 is who I am. But if I did it in 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.600 a real job. I told the story about that as 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.200 a manager of a story, I have to tell you 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:24.160 I'm a really good manager. I'm really good at my staff. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:28.120 I train people really well. I'm great with customers. I 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:33.800 make them laugh, maintaining I'm very polite. Um, I'm I'm articulate. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.800 I'd like to think I'm really good at hand at 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.880 solving customer problems because I'm the king of customer problems. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.160 If I mean, you don't correct customer grammar and that 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:46.120 doesn't know. But uh, I tend to try to infuse 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:50.720 humor and at the time it's appropriate and ten percent 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:52.800 at the time it is not. But I still do 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.359 it because that's why I don't work in retail anymore restaurants. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.360 But yeah, you have to find your niche. Man, sometimes 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.120 your niches obvious that the nitch is not your niche. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.440 So I made money, I got promoted, I got good jobs. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.320 I got you know, being a manager in the biggest 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.760 store in the company was a big deal. But I 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:13.200 still want to make jokes on the headset over there. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.520 I don't put I'm pretending to the efficiency experts. Experts, Okay, 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.120 I told, okay, let me just go down the menu 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:20.800 of a couple of things that we want to today, 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:22.240 and then you can get mad when we don't get 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.640 to everything perfect. I wanted to update a little bit 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.520 on the Monopoly game we got. If you listen, of 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.360 course you listen to that episode. I'm still blown away 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.280 by that. So we showed everyone in the morning show 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.760 today kind of in a braggadocious way. Hey, look at 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.960 the game we got from our listeners. Anybody here get 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:41.280 a game for their podcast? Know? Okay? A bed bath 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.960 and beyond fight on iTunes review. I have a problem 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:48.320 with two iTunes reviews. I got a bone to pick 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.360 with you, scary what else is new? When do you 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.440 not have a bone to pick with me? You and 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:53.960 I both have a bone to pick with people who 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.840 are cheating on our morning show. Cheating? How do you 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.280 want to get to that now? Kind of a kind 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.480 of cheating? All right, well, listen, it's no secret that 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.000 Greg t left Elvi Strand in the Morning show and 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.520 is now doing a morning show down the hall. We 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:12.440 love him. We want nothing but success for him. But 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.800 more than that, we want nothing but success for ourselves. Right, 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.200 and so this is this is becoming a problem in 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.160 the mind. Now again, you don't have to go run 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:22.840 back and tell anybody, because we this is you're going 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.120 to miss the point if you do that. The point is, 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.400 as much as we want him to succeed, which we do, 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:32.640 the Jersey kid, I'd rather him suck. Well. I know, 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.280 as listeners, you want like, Okay, let's say you're a 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.400 fan of the Yankees. Right, I'm not, but let's see 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.760 you a fan of the Yankees. When a guy gets traded, 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.120 you may still be a fan of his and the 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.560 Yankees may still be friends with that guy, but the 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.360 Yankees are not going to root for that other team 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.880 to beat them, right, Right, you can go beat other people. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.880 I like the girlfriend boyfriend analogy right really really drives 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.800 it home to the point. Okay, if your girlfriend breaks 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.240 up with you and you wanted to do well in life, 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.360 you don't. You don't hate her, but you don't want 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.680 people telling you, hey, I saw with a hot guy today. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:07.920 Hey I saw she's with a better looking guy than you, 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.040 or she seems like she's really happy now that she 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:14.200 broke up with you. We're married and I'm I'm sucking 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.800 this woman right over here, and she's almost as good 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.399 as you. But right, So the point being people analogies 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.480 to the same people are texting us like, hey, I'm 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:29.080 listening to Greg t he sounds great. Well again, how 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.439 would you know that if you unless you're cheating on us, like, 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.760 oh I flipped over doing commercial. I don't know that. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.200 I don't know that you came back in time. Maybe 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.479 you missed the first minute or two coming back. So again, 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.520 we aren't scary, and eye are not saying don't go 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.960 listen because you should's great. We want him to succeed, 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.200 as call host Caroline is a friend, she's on our show. 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.520 We want them to do really well. But I don't 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:54.640 think this morning show wants updates on everything he's doing, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.479 because we got a show to do. For that reason 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.639 and for we don't want to know that you're cheating 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.040 on us. Right, someone text great, he's killing it, Like, okay, 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.440 that's cool. I'm happy. I listened to his podcast afterwards 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.199 because they put the whole show up on a on 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.520 my heart. I listened to it yesterday. I thought he 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.840 sounded great, not as good as us the Elvia Strand 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.480 Morning Jump, but fantastic. Oh no, listen. So my point 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.399 is it's weird when people text. The whole point of 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.240 this was it's weird when you go, hey, we're cheating 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.200 on you and letting you know we like what we're 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.359 hearing when we're cheating on you. Hey, I slept with 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.640 this other girl. I gotta tell you, honey, she's good 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.159 at something. She's good. Yeah, my wife wouldn't want to 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.240 know that. Hey, she does the thing with her tongue. 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.199 Do you don't do? She's great? We go. We got 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:40.280 a text Brooklyn Boys recording with seven question marks. What up? 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.440 It's Marissia from Connecticut and I'm working right now. Can't 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.080 wait to hear this week's episode. Looking forward to it. 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:51.520 It's Aria code six. Oh, who's this? This is Miguel. Hey, Miguel, 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:56.000 where are you? What part of Pennsylvania? Philly? I'm pump Philly, 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:57.960 but I live in Punksy. You guys gave me a 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.560 shoutout for my birthday before. Oh look how lucky you 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:02.120 are we and that we shouted you out and you're 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.359 calling right now. We're calling you. Yeah, we're calling you 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.719 because we're bringing back the birthday list. Don't We are not? 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:08.960 All these episodes? We are not. That was what we 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.280 wanted to announce today. Not going to do it. Episode 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.439 one on one will be a new beginning for the 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:18.360 Brooken Boys as the Scary Jones birthday list. Every every 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.360 not gonna happen. So, so what are you doing today 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.080 besides texting us? I'm at work. I'm on light duty. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.560 I'm an MT, but I'm on light duty because I 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.239 hurt myself, So I'm doing desk work. Hey minute, Why 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:31.600 would I trust you as an e m T if 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:35.200 you hurt yourself and you can't go to work when 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:36.760 I hurt myself? Oh so did you have to call 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:41.200