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Alter egos and Careers
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Welcome back! After the rigmarole (kids, drivers, people, food); Ron has a superhero alter ego trivia test for us; Chris wonders what we would have done other than Fire and EMS.
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Introduction and Humor
00:00:02
Chris
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Draft Podcast. I'm Chris.
00:00:06
whoneedswork
And I'm Ron. I'm really glad that we don't get paid for this so that we can't say we're professionals because boy, we are not.
00:00:16
Chris
We're professionals of a sort.
00:00:19
whoneedswork
Are we?
00:00:20
Chris
I
Fire Department Academy Dilemma
00:00:21
Chris
don't know. what Speaking of professionals, you'll appreciate this. Someone who's about to start their professional professional career with a fire department.
00:00:33
Chris
calls to ask so this whole two-week academy do i have to be there every day because i want to sign up for my volunteer department some too
00:00:48
whoneedswork
Oh, no. Oh, no.
Lessons in Handling Difficult People
00:00:54
whoneedswork
Oh, sweet summer child.
00:01:00
Chris
ah the yeah
00:01:01
whoneedswork
Yes, you need to come to work. Every day that you're supposed to be at work, you need to be there.
00:01:05
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah That's, that's, that's how a job works.
00:01:09
whoneedswork
It sucks. and This is going to be the... but This sucks, and it's going to be the rest of your life. So you know.
00:01:19
Chris
Uh, what's I had to explain to my youngest the other day. um cause her first interaction with the motor vehicle administration was not pleasant. I said, you're going to have assholes your entire life. I said, you just got deal with it.
00:01:33
Chris
So. When we went back Saturday, it was, oh God, it's the same evaluator. I said, and again, this is life.
00:01:42
whoneedswork
This is how it works.
00:01:43
Chris
Yeah.
Driving Independence and Responsibilities
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Chris
Yeah. Yeah. So luckily made it through licensed driver now. So yeah.
00:01:51
whoneedswork
Jeez, good lord.
00:01:53
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yep.
00:01:54
whoneedswork
Ah!
00:01:55
Chris
Yeah. And immediately, well, can I drive down to ocean city? It's like, let's get a week of local driving in and then we can talk.
00:02:04
whoneedswork
Yeah, you pay for your insurance and gas? Then no.
00:02:07
Chris
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't gotten that bill yet. Yeah. I called the insurance company Monday. I was like, yeah, I gotta add my other daughter. And they're like, okay.
00:02:16
whoneedswork
Cha-ching!
00:02:17
Chris
Yeah. God. How often will she be driving? Oh, not at all. None. None.
00:02:23
whoneedswork
Never. Ever, ever, ever, ever.
00:02:27
Chris
She is so, she's like, kind of like how we were. She got her license. She has been gone
00:02:33
whoneedswork
Oh, yeah.
00:02:34
Chris
I'm going to to so-and-so's house. I'm going to do that. OK. Yeah.
00:02:38
whoneedswork
that that That daughter of yours is is the most ah independent person ever going to live.
00:02:41
Chris
Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. yeah And it's the it's the stupid things.
00:02:47
whoneedswork
If you could...
00:02:49
Chris
It's like the other day. She's like, I'm going to drive over to Starbucks and get a drink.
00:02:56
whoneedswork
If you call me and you're like, my daughter has fled for Europe and I haven't seen her in six months, I can believe that.
00:03:01
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:03:04
whoneedswork
Yeah.
00:03:05
Chris
And you would know which one I was talking about.
00:03:09
whoneedswork
It's not even a question. you also are like, hey, I need you to come over and bury a butter body. My but daughter has killed somebody. I also wouldn't know who did it.
00:03:17
Chris
Yeah. And they're the same person.
00:03:19
whoneedswork
It's the same one.
Humor in Daily Observations
00:03:21
whoneedswork
Oh, speaking of driving, I saw maybe the craziest thing that I've ever seen in my entire life today.
00:03:30
whoneedswork
Coming home from the gym. So, you know, whatever. Stop at the top light. I'm going straight. This person's turning left. I happen to look over and the passenger in this vehicle is eating corn on the cob.
00:03:30
Chris
Yeah.
00:03:46
whoneedswork
A full...
00:03:46
Chris
I'm sorry. What?
00:03:49
whoneedswork
Is there a food that you can eat less cleanly your car than corn on the cob? By the way, it was like 1030 in the morning.
00:03:56
Chris
Maybe picking crabs?
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whoneedswork
see
00:03:59
Chris
God.
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whoneedswork
It's just there. Just eating corn on the cob.
00:04:03
Chris
What?
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whoneedswork
Crazy.
00:04:06
Chris
Who does that? Who's like, hey, gotta take a ride. Hold on. Let me get my car corn.
00:04:10
whoneedswork
I need my car corn. Exactly. and
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Chris
What do you do with a cob when you're done?
00:04:16
whoneedswork
guess you'd probably just throw it out the window, I'm sure.
00:04:19
Chris
Oh, God. Yeah, but I mean... Are they...
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whoneedswork
It blew me away.
00:04:24
Chris
are And were they like raw dog in it? Or were did they have like... Butter? Or it's you know salt? Obey? Anything on it?
00:04:32
whoneedswork
You know, these are a lot of questions I did not engage with the serial killer to ask.
00:04:32
Chris
Yeah.
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Chris
Yeah. Or maybe it was like Mexican street corn and it had that like... Stuff on it?
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whoneedswork
No, no, this was, it looked like full on just regular corn.
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Chris
Okay.
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whoneedswork
like a
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Chris
Okay.
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whoneedswork
And again, it was like 1030 in the morning.
00:04:47
Chris
All right.
00:04:49
whoneedswork
It was not like two in the afternoon. that i Wait, it doesn't matter what time it was.
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Chris
Yeah.
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whoneedswork
There's no appropriate time for reading Corn of the Cob in your car.
00:04:54
Chris
Yeah. yeah God, i was hoping you were going to say it was the same person that we were beside in traffic Saturday because we, I, on a moment of weakness, my wife said, Hey, I'd really like to go down and walk the boardwalk.
00:05:17
Chris
And I said,
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whoneedswork
Oh, the first Saturday in June. would have told their wife negative.
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Chris
I said, that sounds delightful. And then both kids said they wanted to go.
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whoneedswork
Oof.
00:05:27
Chris
So we all load up and we're going down there, but we're hit the traffic.
Bizarre Traffic Tales
00:05:31
Chris
And i hear both the people in the passenger side go, oh my God, that person.
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Chris
I look and there was someone barefoot with their feet up on the dash,
00:05:45
whoneedswork
Oh, God.
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Chris
like knitting with their toes. Like they had a shirt bunched up and were just like kneading it with their toes on the dash.
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whoneedswork
Oh.
00:05:58
Chris
i would wi it Not only you, you know, if you get in an accident, you're going to you know blow out your hips and everything else.
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whoneedswork
Yeah,
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Chris
But why are you taking your nasty ass feet and rubbing this shirt on the dash like this?
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whoneedswork
or why are putting your nastiest feet on the dash of a car at all? Gross. Gross.
00:06:19
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
Unusual Bakery Encounter
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whoneedswork
We also went to the beach this weekend and i saw the most Mr. Bean interaction I've ever seen of a person do.
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whoneedswork
This human being, we went to this, there's this little bakery that we like to go to.
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Chris
Yeah.
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whoneedswork
So we went to the bakery to get our little sandwich after our bike ride.
00:06:40
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:41
whoneedswork
We go in there and this person walks in. We've already ordered. So we're just sitting there waiting. It's hot out. So we're in the air conditioning a little bit. And she walks in, she opens the door. like a person that's important to the story that she opens the door.
00:06:57
Chris
Like a person.
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whoneedswork
And then I watch her just interact with the store. And like, she just walks in front of people. And then she's like, I'm in her hall and looking at, and e could tell the poor girl who's like, they're kind of busy.
00:07:09
whoneedswork
She's like, well,
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Chris
Yeah.
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whoneedswork
what do you want ma'am and she's poppa papa and he she goes and then then she goes to pay and she can't figure out how to pay and the lady's like i just give me your card it's and she's like trying to figure out which card to give her it took forever but then all of that ends and she finally like oh excuse me and she's she goes to go out the door now the door that she had to come in she pushed when she came in
00:07:33
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:07:38
whoneedswork
Right.
00:07:39
Chris
OK.
00:07:39
whoneedswork
So, you know that when you go to go out, you have to pull that door.
00:07:44
Chris
Poll. Yes.
00:07:45
whoneedswork
She, I swear to God, two to three minutes of just trying to push this door. And she looked at me like like a deer in a headlight. And she says, I just can't get this door to work. I said, you have to pull.
00:08:05
whoneedswork
And then she pulled the door open and and walked out. And I just sat there and said, this person votes. This person drives a car. This person has, assumingly has had a job.
00:08:19
Chris
They might have kids.
00:08:21
whoneedswork
I could see like, oh, one, one, you know, I messed up.
00:08:25
Chris
Yeah. Yep.
00:08:27
whoneedswork
Cool. It goes the other way.
00:08:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:08:30
whoneedswork
But I'm telling, it was the longest minute to two minutes of my life watching this person fumble with the door and just try to, and then like messing with the lock, like the door locked for some reason.
00:08:38
Chris
Oh my gosh.
00:08:42
whoneedswork
No, the door's not locked.
00:08:45
Chris
They've
Home Depot Grill Mix-up
00:08:46
Chris
locked me in. What can I do?
00:08:47
whoneedswork
It was crazy. And I was just like, oh my God, I was blown away.
00:08:51
Chris
uh
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whoneedswork
it was crazy.
00:08:54
Chris
oh my god i thought you were gonna say like full mr bean like she would just walk around like wow hmm
00:09:04
whoneedswork
If she'd put the suit on, think you would have said, that's Mr. Bean. I was looking around to see if there were cameras. Because it was crazy.
00:09:16
whoneedswork
Then she got in a car and drove away. This person drove a car on the roads.
00:09:20
Chris
Nice.
00:09:21
whoneedswork
Why, we hope the roads.
00:09:22
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I, yeah, yeah. It's, it's boggling sometimes.
00:09:29
whoneedswork
It's... it's
00:09:30
Chris
It's, yeah.
00:09:32
whoneedswork
boggled my mind it blew me away i was just i was i was flabbergasted with the like what she literally looked at me and said i don't know how to work the door
00:09:35
Chris
Yeah.
00:09:40
Chris
Yeah, that's.
00:09:47
Chris
Oh my gosh, that's.
00:09:49
whoneedswork
and then i was like are the she didn't i don't know she really even paid attention until like i pointed out afterwards like it was like the weirdest interaction in my life and my wife's like it was a little weird i'm like a little weird
00:09:49
Chris
what did your What did your wife say?
00:10:03
whoneedswork
This person didn't know how to work a door. a door that she came in. And it's not like it was... Side tangent this. Why do all of these places have two doors if one door is always locked?
00:10:17
Chris
Yeah, that's true.
00:10:18
whoneedswork
Every time you go to go out a door, it's the locked one.
00:10:18
Chris
Yeah.
00:10:22
Chris
yeah yeah yeah just like painted over or something yeah exactly yeah
00:10:23
whoneedswork
Why? Why have two doors? Just don't have the two doors. Is it a... fun
00:10:30
whoneedswork
Is it a fire code thing? Because then i believe it should be open.
00:10:35
whoneedswork
Yeah. Everywhere you go, there's two doors. one of them is always locked closed.
00:10:40
Chris
yeah yeah but the fact that yeah the person there's like people going around her
00:10:41
whoneedswork
Craziness. Yeah. That lady would have spent the rest of her life. If that was a... There would have been people going around her and she would have spent the rest of her life trying to go out that door.
00:10:56
Chris
Now was it like most of those doors that it's clearly a handle to pull?
00:11:00
whoneedswork
Oh, yeah, it was just a handle door. You just pull the door and you just pull it.
00:11:04
Chris
Aww.
00:11:04
whoneedswork
not no Not like ah you had to turn the handle.
00:11:05
Chris
Okay.
00:11:07
whoneedswork
You still had to turn the handle, but it was a turn the handle and pull.
00:11:07
Chris
Oh my
00:11:10
whoneedswork
who was It's not like some French European door. It was ah a normal American door. And she could not operate it.
00:11:21
Chris
It's like you said. She votes. She could procreate. she
00:11:25
whoneedswork
She was older, so she might have already.
00:11:27
Chris
Yeah.
00:11:27
whoneedswork
She's passed those jeans on to somebody, possibly.
00:11:29
Chris
Oh, my God. There's some kid pushing the milk carton down.
00:11:38
whoneedswork
But it freaked me out because I was like, am I going to become that person? Like, is there a time where I'm going to be like, I don't know how to work a door?
00:11:48
whoneedswork
And how long is that time from now? I'm not getting younger. It's very worrisome.
00:11:54
Chris
that's the other. Yeah. Yeah.
00:11:56
whoneedswork
Like, that lady was closer to my age than I am to a 20-year-old probably.
00:12:07
Chris
Yeah, people. what's we Sunday, we yeah we took a lovely little trip to Home Depot. we We got our floors redone. So was like, you know, we need to redo the vent covers.
00:12:22
Chris
Mike's like, okay. And we get to Home Depot. I'm like, here are the options. And my wife just... was like, what? She's like, This is a huge decision in our lives.
00:12:37
Chris
I was like, no.
00:12:41
whoneedswork
There's like two kinds.
00:12:44
Chris
yeah I was like, there's the standard contractor grade that we have. That's, you know, got a little rust on it. I mean, they're 17 years old or whatever. And yet then they have to kind of have like a little grill pattern. I said, those are your options.
00:12:58
Chris
She was, what about all of these? was like, no, no, no. We have to stick with the ones that are four 12. okay i said so you have these we came home with four of them so we could see which one fits the decor the best
00:13:14
Chris
yeah and we tried out one in the office and it was evening so it's a little dark in there she's like
Trivia Night and Superhero Identities
00:13:23
Chris
you can't really see it in the light i was like what the ceiling fades she's like can you turn a flashlight on
00:13:31
Chris
I don't think you... so ah People don't pay attention to these, babe.
00:13:35
whoneedswork
I don't think that's a thing.
00:13:35
Chris
it
00:13:36
whoneedswork
People are like, oh my god, they got those fan covers? Oh, man.
00:13:42
Chris
To the point... She sent me a picture this morning. She was like, this is hideous in the sunlight. Okay.
00:13:50
whoneedswork
What color did you get?
00:13:52
Chris
It's...
00:13:52
whoneedswork
White?
00:13:52
Chris
I don't know.
00:13:53
whoneedswork
Or gray?
00:13:53
Chris
No!
00:13:54
whoneedswork
don't know.
00:13:55
Chris
it's yeah It's like, I don't know, bronze? Like that
00:13:58
whoneedswork
Or the other, I guess there's the bronzy brass ones, but...
00:14:01
Chris
Yeah, it was like dark, like weathered bronze. where I thought it looked fine. it like it looks black to me.
00:14:08
whoneedswork
Sure.
00:14:08
Chris
Evidently, there's a color to it. I don't know. yeah, she was just... And well, we went to Home Depot for that. And she was like, well, while we're here, was like, oh, here we go.
00:14:20
Chris
She's like, why don't we look for a new grill? was like, oh, okay. Because my grill, the bottom is rusting it. Like where the the the propane tank is now sitting on the ground because the bottom part is rusted out.
00:14:29
whoneedswork
Sure, sure, yeah.
00:14:31
Chris
and I looked at it if I got all the replacement parts, I'm buying a new grill anyway. So, so we look and we're looking around. was like, yeah, this I look at this one. was like, wow, this is a steel.
00:14:42
Chris
There's a Weber grill, like four burners, nice cabinet and everything. Like, all right. I look at the tag and it was on sale for 499. I was like, okay, this, this, I like this deal. So I finally find one of the young men that works there.
00:15:00
Chris
I said, Hey, do you have this in a box on a simple because I'm in my wife's car. It's going to a pain to get it in there. It's like, oh yeah, I'm sure we can, you know, scans it. Oh yeah. Yeah. Let me go get it. I'll meet you at the counter.
00:15:11
Chris
Meets us at the counter. They scan it to ring it up 900 and some dollars. I said, no, no. The tag clearly said 499. He's like, yeah, I did see that tag. Let me go back and get the tag. So he gets a tag and the girl's like, yeah, okay.
00:15:28
Chris
And she's like, oh, Well, this box is damaged, but we've got another one. Look, you're getting, you know, it's over $200. two hundred dollars So you get free delivery. you want to just ship it to your house? i was like, sure, fine, whatever.
00:15:43
Chris
So we get the four different registers to compare at home. um Come home and I get a text later. don't like an hour and a half later.
00:15:54
Chris
Your grill, or well, first I get a phone call from my father-in-law. So my irrigation's turned on and I can't turn it off. do you have any ideas? i said, turn the valve off.
00:16:05
Chris
Yeah, I can't.
00:16:05
whoneedswork
You turn the mic off.
00:16:06
Chris
I can't figure that out. He's like, hey, it's not labeled. I just unplugged the thing from the wall and it's still going. like I was like, did you have it serviced? Well, I haven't used it in five years. I figured just turn it on. I'm like, oh my God.
00:16:22
Chris
So I spent an hour crawling underneath their house trying to find a valve. Finally i got that squared away. Come home and I get this text. Your grill has been delivered. It's like, my grill is still here.
00:16:32
Chris
I we look out front and there's a guy closing the hatchback to his car, driving away. And there is this tiny little like one burner grill.
00:16:44
Chris
I said, well, that's not right. Sarah walks out. She's like, that's not what we got. was like, huh. So I look it up. And yeah. The grill they delivered is a 499 grill or whatever.
00:16:58
Chris
Some jackhole had moved the tags around at Home Depot.
00:17:03
whoneedswork
Oh, no.
00:17:04
Chris
Yeah. so she was like, I said, I don't want to keep this. I don't, this isn't, she was like, no, this isn't the grill we wanted. I was like, oh, we could go back to Home Depot. i was like, I've already changed because I crawled underneath that house. I was like, I have homeless clothes on now. She's like, you're fine. i had like shorts that were literally like ripped up all the way and yeah, just,
00:17:23
Chris
like, whatever. So she's like, do you think we can get it in the car? I said, he got it in his Honda Civic. Yes. So we load it up and we get it up there. And Blay was like, I don't know what you want me to do.
00:17:36
Chris
I said, well, I want you to take this back. I don't want it. She's like, so do you want the $900 grill? I was like, no, ma'am. I said, I want you to take this back and I will figure something out.
00:17:48
Chris
So you don't want this grill? No. And you don't want the other one. Correct. So which grill do you want?
00:17:58
whoneedswork
Oh,
00:17:58
Chris
Neither? Oh, it was just like, oh my God. And then later, Sunday night.
00:18:08
Chris
Knock, knock, knock on the door. Like, who the hell is this? I opened the door and it was the delivery man from earlier, which evidently he works for DoorDash. Evidently you can DoorDash things from Home Depot.
00:18:20
whoneedswork
interesting.
00:18:21
Chris
He has, it looks like the little drip pan. He said, yeah in broken English, he seemed like a very nice Haitian gentleman. He's like, this this you? No. He's like, I deliver grill. This you?
00:18:35
Chris
was like, I took that back to Home Depot. And he looks at it and then looks at me as the and then hands it out again, like a little kid with the porridge. I'm like, you gotta take that back to home depot or something pal i i don't have the grill i don't know what to tell you he's like but you was like no but you and close the door uh seriously like who was that i was like i was a man with a drip pan shit what i was like just just never mind yeah yeah
00:19:04
whoneedswork
Whoa.
00:19:07
whoneedswork
That is rough.
00:19:10
Chris
so
00:19:10
whoneedswork
we yeah We had a delivery incident the other day. we were feeling lazy after coming home from the beach. So we ordered food. And, you know you know, hey, your food got delayed or something. Then we get a ah notice. Oh, your food's been delivered. I'm like, cool. It's God's son.
00:19:26
whoneedswork
no No food. Wife opened up the thing. And it's got a picture of a house. And I said, it's not my house. It's not my door. This food's been delivered to somebody else's house.
00:19:40
Chris
Was it like your next door neighbor or anything?
00:19:42
whoneedswork
No, no, no, no, no.
00:19:43
Chris
no okay
00:19:43
whoneedswork
didn't even look like it was in my neighborhood.
00:19:48
whoneedswork
Yeah.
00:19:49
Chris
They just pick a random house. Done.
00:19:51
whoneedswork
I guess.
00:19:53
Chris
Oh my gosh.
00:19:54
whoneedswork
Yeah, I did not. I don't know. It's never got my food.
00:20:00
Chris
You never did.
00:20:02
whoneedswork
No, no, never got it.
00:20:03
Chris
oh that's awful.
00:20:04
whoneedswork
yeah They're like, well, you can reorder it and we'll have it signed. I'm like, nah, just cancel it and we'll go out somewhere. I had to go out and put pants on like an asshole.
00:20:13
Chris
Pants.
00:20:14
whoneedswork
Yeah, well, I mean, shorts. Come on.
00:20:16
Chris
but Okay. That's about to say.
00:20:18
whoneedswork
Come on.
00:20:20
Chris
Yeah. Well, side tangent to food. i Gluten free. Why is everything gluten free so damn expensive? It is lacking gluten. It should be cheaper.
00:20:33
whoneedswork
I think because it has to use different things.
00:20:36
Chris
Yeah, but it's stupid. But no so we were in, like I said, grabbed lunch while we were out in Ocean City Saturday.
00:20:37
whoneedswork
Sorghum's not cheap.
00:20:46
Chris
It was a seven dollar upcharge to get a gluten free bun.
00:20:52
whoneedswork
That's a lot. That's a little ridiculous.
00:20:55
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. And Mike from Bulgaria, that was fun ordering from.
00:21:03
Chris
we want this with gluten free. So you want the gluten? No, you can keep the gluten. Don't eat it. Okay. And then I got a burger and it comes with chips. I was like, can I upgrade that to fries? Oh no, no do that.
00:21:20
Chris
Really?
00:21:21
whoneedswork
Okay.
00:21:21
Chris
Can I get a, can I get a side of fries? Yes. Okay. All right, Mike.
00:21:29
whoneedswork
Wow.
00:21:30
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:32
whoneedswork
That's why don't like going out.
00:21:34
Chris
Yeah, i know. Yeah. It's so much easier at home.
00:21:35
whoneedswork
I don't like... It's just so much easier at home. I just eat the same food every day. Just
00:21:40
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Or just, yeah. Give me a pellet.
00:21:43
whoneedswork
give me a pellet and make sure that pellet tells me exactly what I'm supposed to eat per day. um And go...
00:21:49
Chris
Yep.
00:21:51
whoneedswork
Yeah.
00:21:52
Chris
Yep. Let my little app scan to see what I need. Drop the pellet out done.
00:21:55
whoneedswork
That's all I want.
00:22:01
Chris
We should be there by now.
00:22:01
whoneedswork
Feed me like a hamster.
00:22:02
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:05
Chris
I mean, look at your dogs eat the same brown pellets every day of their life.
00:22:10
whoneedswork
Oh, not my dog.
00:22:12
Chris
Oh,
00:22:12
whoneedswork
Let me tell you, this dog is living her best life since the other one is gone.
00:22:16
Chris
oh.
00:22:16
whoneedswork
She's eating blueberries and carrots and pumpkin and just living the dream. Damn doggy's better than I do.
00:22:26
Chris
Well, she's such a cute monkey face. Yeah.
00:22:30
whoneedswork
That's fair. But also, know, spoiling her.
00:22:34
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
Obscure Superhero Trivia
00:22:39
Chris
Well, are you ready for topic one?
00:22:41
whoneedswork
I am ready for topic one, and this one is all for you.
00:22:45
Chris
Oh.
00:22:46
whoneedswork
And it's based off of my trivia that you're proud of me from last night. So went to trivia because we we can go out trivia.
00:22:52
Chris
Nice.
00:22:53
whoneedswork
And the first round was fantasy questions, which I got nine out of.
00:23:00
Chris
OK.
00:23:01
whoneedswork
One of them was like, name this author. no, I only got eight of them because I didn't know the Harry Potter bullcrap.
00:23:07
Chris
Oh, yeah, that's.
00:23:08
whoneedswork
It was like, name this author's series. was like, I haven't even heard of that author. Whatever. The toughest question round, which we'll see if you get. In the movie Labyrinth, what is the name of the baby?
00:23:22
Chris
Oh, gosh.
00:23:30
Chris
Is it Joe?
00:23:31
whoneedswork
No.
00:23:32
Chris
No.
00:23:32
whoneedswork
No.
00:23:33
Chris
It's something weird. Probably like William.
00:23:35
whoneedswork
It's like William. Probably one of the most common names.
00:23:42
Chris
I don't know why that came to my
00:23:45
whoneedswork
Boy, your name's William? I've never heard anybody name William before.
00:23:51
whoneedswork
Wow.
00:23:54
whoneedswork
It's Toby.
00:23:56
Chris
Toby.
00:23:57
whoneedswork
It's Toby, and I pulled that out of nowhere and got that one right.
00:23:58
Chris
wow wow that's good for you yeah toby was the town drunk in sharptown
00:24:01
whoneedswork
Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:06
whoneedswork
He slept in the jail.
00:24:08
Chris
no we didn't have a we didn't have a jail he was the one that kept falling off his bicycle so we got him a tricycle so he wouldn't fall yep yeah no
00:24:08
whoneedswork
The sheriff will let him out every day.
00:24:16
whoneedswork
That's smart. that's You know, don't fix his drinking problem. Just fix his other problems. so But the next round is what it inspired the question.
00:24:27
whoneedswork
The next round was she handed out a sheet and it had 10 superheroes on there and said, now look. I have, I have, I have, I take homage. I'm angry at this question.
00:24:39
Chris
Hmm.
00:24:40
whoneedswork
Said, here's the pictures of 10 superheroes. I said, give us their real names. Okay. So first one is Iron Man.
00:24:52
whoneedswork
Tony Stark.
00:24:52
Chris
So Tony's, yeah. um Wait, real name?
00:24:53
whoneedswork
Tony Stark, right?
00:24:55
Chris
I mean, Iron Man is his real name.
00:24:57
whoneedswork
then and and No, no, no. The guy in the suit is Tony Stark.
00:24:59
Chris
Like his alias or whatever. Yeah, yeah okay.
00:25:02
whoneedswork
The guy in suit is Tony Stark.
00:25:03
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:25:04
whoneedswork
The next one is Deadpool. Wade Wilson.
00:25:07
Chris
Wade Wilson.
00:25:08
whoneedswork
The next one is Green Lantern. And...
00:25:13
Chris
Which one?
00:25:14
whoneedswork
That's what I said, but I went with Hal Jordan, which was what they were looking for.
00:25:17
Chris
OK.
00:25:19
whoneedswork
so that's a pretty.
00:25:19
Chris
OK. All right.
00:25:20
whoneedswork
It did kind of look like the Hal Jordan of you know old.
00:25:23
Chris
OK. All right.
00:25:24
whoneedswork
Then it was the new Johnny Storm. or Well, Mr. Torch, which is Johnny Storm.
00:25:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:25:30
whoneedswork
The Human Torch. um
00:25:32
Chris
Okay.
00:25:34
whoneedswork
Who else was it? Oh, it was Nightwing.
00:25:37
Chris
Dick Grayson.
00:25:38
whoneedswork
Dick Grayson. That one took me a couple extra seconds. It was the Scarlet Witch. which is Wanda Maximoff, right?
00:25:46
Chris
Maximoff.
00:25:48
whoneedswork
That took us a couple extra seconds.
00:25:49
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
00:25:52
whoneedswork
Here are the two I have problems with. Wonder Woman.
00:26:00
Chris
Oh, Diana something.
00:26:03
whoneedswork
They wanted Diana Prince, but that's not her correct name.
00:26:05
Chris
Oh, no.
00:26:08
whoneedswork
Her correct name is Diana, Princess of the Italians or whatever the hell.
00:26:11
Chris
Yeah.
00:26:12
whoneedswork
Yeah, she is not...
00:26:13
Chris
Yeah, she doesn't have a less name.
00:26:15
whoneedswork
Right, Diana Prince is the name she uses when she's out in the public.
00:26:18
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:26:19
whoneedswork
Bullshit.
00:26:20
Chris
Yeah.
00:26:20
whoneedswork
And here's the one I really had a problem with.
00:26:24
whoneedswork
Supergirl. Well,
00:26:27
Chris
What did they say?
00:26:29
whoneedswork
what do you think the right answer for Supergirl is?
00:26:31
Chris
um should be Kara Zor-El.
00:26:34
whoneedswork
Oh, Kara Zor-El, a Kryptonian name.
00:26:36
Chris
yeah
00:26:37
whoneedswork
No, the answer they correct took was Kara Danvers. This is my problem with the question. Her name is not, her real name is not Cardavers.
00:26:48
whoneedswork
That's her Earth name. Just like Clark Kent. because We had a whole argument. They were like, well, Superman would be Clark Kent. I said, no
00:26:54
Chris
no he wouldn't yeah yeah yeah yes yeah
00:26:55
whoneedswork
Clark Kent is his fake Earth name. His name is Corel, son of Jarrell. ah I was very angry. So then I figured, well, those are all basic. So you should know, you would know all of those.
00:27:12
whoneedswork
So we're going to go with some harder ones for you.
00:27:13
Chris
Oh, God.
00:27:15
whoneedswork
Oh, Daredevil was on there too. that was the other And the other was The Flash.
00:27:18
Chris
Matt Murdock.
00:27:22
Chris
Barry Allen.
00:27:22
whoneedswork
well with barr allen Which was the correct answer.
00:27:24
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, they didn't want Wally West.
00:27:27
whoneedswork
They did not want Wally Wallace. So, I'm going to give you some ones. Let's see what you get.
00:27:34
Chris
Oh.
00:27:35
whoneedswork
Green Arrow.
00:27:40
Chris
Oh, my God. I can see him. um
00:27:45
Chris
oh god why can't why is this always the thing when somebody asks you a question your mind just goes yeah i can my god why can't i think of his name i can see him now yeah i know yeah it's um oliver queen yeah yes yeah all i think it was ollie i was like what is ollie short for
00:27:49
whoneedswork
Right.
00:27:56
whoneedswork
Give me a hint. He's royalty.
00:28:05
whoneedswork
it is Oliver Queen. good Good job. Good job.
00:28:14
whoneedswork
ah I didn't know how to call Molly. The Green Hornet. I don't think you probably even read The Green Hornet.
00:28:19
Chris
Oh, no, no. William.
00:28:24
whoneedswork
It's Brit Reid.
00:28:26
Chris
Brit Reed.
00:28:27
whoneedswork
Here's what I didn't know. Well, I didn't know a lot of these. Judge a real name.
00:28:36
Chris
he's got a real name, doesn't he?
00:28:38
whoneedswork
Judge is not his first name.
00:28:39
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Max.
00:28:42
whoneedswork
It's Joe.
00:28:43
Chris
Joe.
00:28:44
whoneedswork
Yeah.
00:28:45
Chris
Joe Dredd.
00:28:47
whoneedswork
Joe Dredd.
00:28:47
Chris
Man, you're setting your kid up for something when you name him Joe Dredd.
00:28:50
whoneedswork
that's That's true. That's true. ah Spawn.
00:29:00
Chris
God, what is his name? was in the military.
00:29:07
whoneedswork
This is the CIA. He's not the military.
00:29:11
Chris
God, what was his name? He was played by Michael Jai White.
00:29:18
whoneedswork
Yes, not his correct name.
00:29:19
Chris
Yeah, I know. Yeah.
00:29:22
whoneedswork
Hint would be...
00:29:22
Chris
Oh, it's something weird. It's like something. It's like Bill Simmons or something.
00:29:27
whoneedswork
He has the same... Oh, you are so close. It's Al Simmons.
00:29:31
Chris
Al Simmons.
00:29:33
whoneedswork
Yeah, you're so close. Storm. Storm.
00:29:40
Chris
Oh, God. um
00:29:47
Chris
What? right It's kind of like a Diana Prince thing because Aurora Monroe is what she goes by, you know, like here, but she's Aurora or whatever.
00:29:51
whoneedswork
It's true.
00:29:59
Chris
I can't, uh, cause she's, she's Wakandan, isn't she?
00:30:03
whoneedswork
I'm accepting Aurora Monroe as a correct answer.
00:30:05
Chris
Yeah. yeah so
00:30:07
whoneedswork
This list has this one, which I don't even know who this is. This says Wolverine. And I know him as Logan, but this is a different name.
00:30:14
Chris
Oh, no. James Howlett.
00:30:16
whoneedswork
James Howlett, I've never heard that.
00:30:18
Chris
Yep. Yeah.
00:30:20
whoneedswork
ah Colossus.
00:30:22
Chris
Oh, Peter or Piotr. um Oh, God. Rasputin.
00:30:30
whoneedswork
It is Rasputin.
00:30:31
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because his sister, Magic, is Ileana Rasputin.
00:30:35
whoneedswork
Yes. Yes. ah Let's see. I had a bunch of those. Now here's ah here's going to be a very contentious Marvel.
00:30:47
Chris
Hmm.
00:30:47
whoneedswork
Captain Marvel.
00:30:52
Chris
Hmm. Well, most recently, I guess it was Carol Danvers.
00:30:57
whoneedswork
Sure.
00:30:58
Chris
But before that, it was.
00:31:05
Chris
are Are you talking about um from DC? You could go with Billy. Oh, I think it was Billy Bounds and that's not definitely not it.
00:31:14
whoneedswork
That's not it. Not it.
00:31:17
Chris
Yeah, Billy, Billy. I can't think of Billy's last name.
00:31:21
whoneedswork
It's Batson. Billy Batson.
00:31:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:25
whoneedswork
Or Mar-Vell would be also be correct.
00:31:25
Chris
Yeah. Or Mar-Vell. Yeah.
00:31:28
whoneedswork
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:28
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:32
whoneedswork
Let's see. Some of these characters I've ever even heard of. Like Claberella.
00:31:38
Chris
What?
00:31:39
whoneedswork
Yeah, I've never heard of.
00:31:40
Chris
sounds like some knockoff DJ.
00:31:44
whoneedswork
That's fair. ah The Crimson Avenger. Never heard of.
00:31:49
Chris
Crimson Avenger. Hmm.
00:31:50
whoneedswork
Yeah. Never heard of him. That's Lee Travis.
00:31:54
Chris
Oh, oh, good old Lee.
00:31:58
whoneedswork
And they have like Captain America 1 through 13. Yeah,
00:32:04
whoneedswork
yeah which I could name three of them.
00:32:05
Chris
I mean, you get. Yeah, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson.
00:32:10
whoneedswork
Yeah.
00:32:13
whoneedswork
Not even... a This has Samantha Wilson?
00:32:18
Chris
Oh. OK.
00:32:22
Chris
Does it have America Chavez?
00:32:26
whoneedswork
No.
00:32:30
whoneedswork
It has Steve Rogers, is Bucky Barnes, Carol Danvers, Isaiah Bradley,
00:32:31
Chris
Bucky Barnes.
00:32:35
Chris
Really?
00:32:38
Chris
Oh, Isaiah Bradley, yeah.
00:32:39
whoneedswork
Daniel Cage, Danielle Cage, Peggy Carter, obviously, Joe Gomez, Ariel Abeghani.
00:32:44
Chris
Oh, Peggy.
00:32:49
Chris
Joe Gomez.
00:32:50
whoneedswork
don't know.
00:32:50
Chris
What the hell?
00:32:52
whoneedswork
Aaron Fisher, Nichelle Wright. This is a bunch of random people.
00:32:55
Chris
Oh, okay.
00:32:57
whoneedswork
Yeah. ah as
00:32:58
Chris
Joe Gomez. I can see where he went by Captain America.
00:33:04
whoneedswork
Very true. um The other ones I saw that you might know, but I was interested in knowing. Oh, The Moon Knight.
00:33:16
Chris
Mark Spector.
00:33:19
Chris
Yeah. But he has his alternate personality, which is, oh God, I can't believe his alternate personality.
00:33:27
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mark Spector. Yeah.
00:33:33
whoneedswork
And my wife, by the way, when I got done this trivia quiz, she's like, i don't understand how you know all this nerd stuff. I'm like, well, read the comic books. She's like, I don't watch the Marvel movies. I'm like, I read the comic books.
00:33:43
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:46
whoneedswork
re Knowing who Mark Burnock was has nothing to do with watching the show.
00:33:50
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:52
whoneedswork
I never watched the show, so it didn't help me. And the movie was so abomination.
00:33:56
Chris
Oh, God. Poor Ben Affleck.
00:33:58
whoneedswork
Poor Ben Affleck.
00:34:00
Chris
But luckily, we got that awesome follow-up to it, Elektra.
00:34:06
whoneedswork
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot. there's
00:34:14
Chris
Yeah.
00:34:15
whoneedswork
I'm at 570 here.
00:34:17
Chris
Oof.
00:34:17
whoneedswork
Miss Marvel. Kamala Kan or Khan?
00:34:20
Chris
Kamala Khan. Yeah.
00:34:21
whoneedswork
No, don't know Oh, i' probably my favorite Marvel character.
00:34:23
Chris
Yeah.
00:34:28
whoneedswork
Gotta be Nightcrawler.
00:34:30
Chris
Oh yeah. um
00:34:35
Chris
Kurt Wagner.
00:34:36
whoneedswork
Kurt Wagner. That's correct. You could be on my trivia team today.
00:34:48
whoneedswork
Radioactive man.
00:34:50
Chris
Like from the Simpsons.
00:34:52
whoneedswork
oh
00:34:53
Chris
Oh gosh, I don't know what his name real name was.
00:34:57
whoneedswork
Claude Cain III.
00:35:05
whoneedswork
The Red Beetle?
00:35:05
Chris
Was it Radioactive Man and...
00:35:08
whoneedswork
Uh, I Stab Boy.
00:35:10
Chris
Isotope Boy, yeah.
00:35:12
whoneedswork
Right?
00:35:12
Chris
Yeah, I think that's right, yeah.
00:35:15
whoneedswork
Uh, the Red Beetle? Mm.
00:35:17
Chris
The Red Beetle? I don't know.
00:35:20
whoneedswork
The Red Beetle was Sarah butler Butters. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
00:35:23
Chris
Oh, okay.
00:35:26
whoneedswork
It just has, for Rogue, it just has X-Men. But Rogue has a name.
00:35:32
Chris
Yeah, it's...
00:35:32
whoneedswork
I don't know what it is.
00:35:33
Chris
a
00:35:33
whoneedswork
What
00:35:34
Chris
Oh no, it's, um, yeah. What is Rogue's real name?
00:35:43
whoneedswork
do you know?
00:35:47
whoneedswork
What is Rogue?
00:35:48
Chris
Anna Marie.
00:35:50
whoneedswork
There you go.
00:35:51
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:54
whoneedswork
Uh...
00:35:54
Chris
Cause she eventually marries Gambit, who is Remy LeBou.
00:35:59
whoneedswork
It's fair. The She-Hulk?
00:36:11
Chris
I can't think of her name. can see
00:36:13
whoneedswork
jen Jennifer?
00:36:14
Chris
Jen Walters.
00:36:15
whoneedswork
That is correct.
00:36:17
Chris
Yep.
00:36:23
whoneedswork
There's all... Let's see. There's nine Spider-Mans on this.
00:36:27
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:36:30
Chris
Peter Parker, Miles Morales. You got, oh, God, all the people from the clone.
00:36:40
Chris
name but he's still in it oh yeah he's 20 spider-man 2099 yeah
00:36:43
whoneedswork
There's Miguel O'Hara.
00:36:49
whoneedswork
Pat Vatir Prabakari.
00:36:52
Chris
yeah he's indian spider-man she has like she has like a ah spider mech ben yes yes uh yeah
00:36:55
whoneedswork
Takuya Yamashiro.
00:37:03
whoneedswork
Ben Parker. Apparently, ah Hobie Brown is Spider Punk.
00:37:09
Chris
Yep. Spider-punk.
00:37:13
whoneedswork
Peter Park Car is Spider Mobile.
00:37:18
whoneedswork
Peter... Peter Porker. Peter Petarker is Spider Rex.
00:37:18
Chris
Peter porker is spider ham.
00:37:25
Chris
Hmm.
00:37:27
whoneedswork
Spider UK is Billy Braddock.
00:37:29
Chris
Okay.
00:37:32
whoneedswork
Yeah, I'm going to... There's a lot of Spicers i didn't know about.
00:37:35
Chris
Hmm.
00:37:35
whoneedswork
Yeah.
00:37:39
Chris
Captain Britain. Betsy Braddock.
00:37:43
whoneedswork
This has Supergirl as Linda Lee or Linda Danvers.
00:37:46
Chris
What?
00:37:49
Chris
Linda?
00:37:50
whoneedswork
Yeah.
00:37:52
whoneedswork
Oh.
00:37:56
whoneedswork
The Super Soldier. They have the Super Soldier as Clark Kent.
00:38:01
Chris
What?
00:38:01
whoneedswork
I don't know if I trust this list now.
00:38:04
Chris
Yeah, that's, yeah.
00:38:06
whoneedswork
Superwoman.
00:38:07
Chris
Oh. Super girl, Kara Zor-El, biological cousin of Superman on earth. She frequently uses a secret civilian name, Kara Danvers or Linda Lee Danvers in different comic book eras.
00:38:22
whoneedswork
There you go. But again, her name is not Linda Danvers or Cara Danvers.
00:38:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:38:26
Chris
Yeah. No, it's, it's Kara Zor-El.
00:38:29
whoneedswork
It's Cara Zor-El.
00:38:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:38:31
whoneedswork
that's That's her name. I was going to fight to death on that.
00:38:33
Chris
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:38:37
whoneedswork
Let's see.
00:38:42
whoneedswork
lot of people I've never heard of or never will hear. Toro. Never heard of Toro.
00:38:46
Chris
Good old Toro.
00:38:51
whoneedswork
And... Vision. didn't know Vision had a name.
00:38:55
Chris
Vision has a name?
00:38:56
whoneedswork
Apparently there's two names for Vision.
00:38:58
Chris
Really?
00:38:59
whoneedswork
Mm-hmm.
00:38:59
Chris
Oh, I don't know.
00:39:02
whoneedswork
Arrakis? Arrakis?
00:39:03
Chris
Arrak? Oh, OK.
00:39:05
whoneedswork
And then Victor Shade.
00:39:08
Chris
Isn't Arrakis something from Dune?
00:39:10
whoneedswork
Well, that's the planet.
00:39:12
Chris
See? know things.
00:39:13
whoneedswork
Yep.
00:39:19
whoneedswork
Now this hat... It's James Logan Howlett. There you go.
00:39:26
whoneedswork
Gwen Howlett. There's a spider Gwen where she's Wolverine?
00:39:30
Chris
What? Man, I think it's so weird with some of those crawl servers and stuff.
00:39:38
whoneedswork
Yeah.
00:39:40
Chris
Venom, Eddie Brock.
00:39:42
whoneedswork
Eddie Brock. Didn't even make the list. Where Phenoms not even on here? What the crap?
00:39:46
Chris
Carnage, Cletus Kasady.
00:39:49
whoneedswork
I didn't know that.
00:39:50
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:39:51
whoneedswork
ah Well, that was my cool topic because I just was like, oh, look, I had this for trivia last night.
00:39:54
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:57
whoneedswork
I was so proud of myself.
00:39:57
Chris
That's pretty neat.
00:39:58
whoneedswork
I got nine of them. My wife was like, you're a nerd. like
00:40:03
Chris
You know what? You got your team points.
00:40:05
whoneedswork
We came in second place.
00:40:07
Chris
See if it wasn't for,
00:40:07
whoneedswork
She let us down because of the freaking music round.
00:40:12
whoneedswork
Yeah.
00:40:13
Chris
see, why didn't she know her music?
00:40:15
whoneedswork
It was all... look
00:40:19
whoneedswork
the the The girl who runs the trivia is like, Oh, I always put a One Direction song in there. I don't know, you guys didn't get that. I'm like, who?
00:40:26
Chris
Oh, what?
00:40:26
whoneedswork
Who's One Direction? What's what's a One Direction?
00:40:28
Chris
Oh, isn't that, wasn't that that like British boy band or something?
00:40:32
whoneedswork
Apparently.
00:40:33
Chris
Hmm.
00:40:34
whoneedswork
Couldn't tell you a single song I have.
00:40:35
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:37
whoneedswork
But that's, you know. I have a
00:40:39
Chris
Oh, I, I, you don't, I think, yeah.
00:40:43
whoneedswork
very limited knowledge of music, and One Direction's not on my list.
00:40:44
Chris
Yeah. yeah No, no, no, you should add it to the rotation.
00:40:48
whoneedswork
No. I'm not gonna.
00:40:51
Chris
Yeah. Put that in your old Pandora.
00:40:53
whoneedswork
Nah. I'm good.
00:40:56
whoneedswork
ye I listen to the same like eight songs.
00:41:02
whoneedswork
Well, on to topic two. Before it starts to look like it's gonna thunderstorm its ass off here.
00:41:04
Chris
Yeah. Topic two. Yeah. I got a notification that we're getting rain. Uh, yeah. I think side tangent, my computer's turning into an old man. He says rain coming in about two hours.
00:41:20
whoneedswork
Oh, and about.
00:41:22
Chris
Yeah.
00:41:23
whoneedswork
It starts making computers feel it in its knees.
00:41:27
whoneedswork
That old trick knee.
00:41:29
Chris
Yeah. Um, yeah.
Career Reflections in Fire and EMS
00:41:34
Chris
So it's kind of apropos. I was thinking today while I was in the gym,
00:41:42
Chris
if you hadn't gone into fire and EMS, what would you have done and how different would your life be?
00:41:45
whoneedswork
Okay.
00:41:53
whoneedswork
Oh, probably been homeless. My life. will be quick I don't, you know, ah it's it's weird. I was having this conversation with my, with my wife today because my cousin is lost when it comes to having a career. And I've i've been trying to push her to get her EMT card. and I'm like, just try it.
00:42:18
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:19
whoneedswork
And she's like, well, she's so worried about, you know, it's, I'm going see terrible things. I'm like, well, look, you can go work transport and see nothing, you know, just go try. And don't know.
00:42:33
whoneedswork
My life is so far from like, cause well, let's face reality, right? I'm two years from retirement and I'm going to have to get a real job.
00:42:41
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:42:42
whoneedswork
Probably.
00:42:45
whoneedswork
don't know that I have the temperament for those jobs.
00:42:50
whoneedswork
Because before I worked for the fire department, I was teaching web design classes for the University Delaware.
00:42:57
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:57
whoneedswork
Basically, that was what I was doing.
00:42:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:59
whoneedswork
That doesn't even exist anymore. Right? That's not a thing you can do. can't teach web design.
00:43:04
Chris
I guess, yeah.
00:43:06
whoneedswork
It's all pre-generated websites now. I used to teach you know code and stuff.
00:43:11
Chris
Yeah, they just
00:43:13
whoneedswork
That doesn't exist.
00:43:13
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah. They just ask chat GPT how to do it. Yeah.
00:43:18
whoneedswork
Right. I probably would have ended up working some mid-tier IT job.
00:43:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:43:25
whoneedswork
um I wouldn't have met my wife.
00:43:28
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:29
whoneedswork
For sure. For better or worse. have a friend.
00:43:31
Chris
ye yeah
00:43:34
whoneedswork
i was i always have i have a friend It's not very close to me, but we used to hang out and play board games together. And he was a bachelor into his ory probably. He's a little older than me.
00:43:47
Chris
Okay.
00:43:47
whoneedswork
And he lived in a very nice townhouse. And his just whole house was filled with books and board games.
00:43:53
Chris
Yeah.
00:43:53
whoneedswork
And i was I always think if I had met my wife, that's what my life would have been.
00:43:57
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:59
whoneedswork
you know Books and board games, and I'm living in a sad little bachelor bed.
00:44:03
Chris
I, but I, he's probably not sad. Yeah.
00:44:07
whoneedswork
Probably not. I don't know know. I'm just judging what I would have felt that situation.
00:44:10
Chris
Yeah. yeah
00:44:12
whoneedswork
um
00:44:12
Chris
Right.
00:44:13
whoneedswork
But what I would have done...
00:44:16
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:17
whoneedswork
I mean, I had always aspired to be a lawyer. It was always an aspiration.
00:44:19
Chris
Ooh.
00:44:22
whoneedswork
then I realized that I didn't want to do it more.
00:44:22
Chris
Wow, OK.
00:44:24
Chris
Like criminal law or civil law
00:44:27
whoneedswork
Probably would do criminal law. Yeah, probably would have done criminal law.
00:44:29
Chris
Hmm.
00:44:32
whoneedswork
Yeah.
00:44:32
Chris
Prosecution?
00:44:34
whoneedswork
I don't know. Maybe defense at this point in my life.
00:44:35
Chris
Well, hmm.
00:44:38
whoneedswork
But that would have been on the list.
00:44:40
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:43
whoneedswork
That was kind of what I was working towards with my degree because I didn't want to teach.
00:44:48
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:44:48
whoneedswork
I had no desire to be a teacher.
00:44:49
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:44:51
whoneedswork
and i am If I had to pay the bills, I probably wouldn't end up teaching. you know And I would be a miserable son of a bitch.
00:44:56
Chris
yeah yeah yeah that's like i look back i was like yeah i could i could see myself teaching
00:45:06
whoneedswork
Yeah. I ah really have...
00:45:10
Chris
but again yeah like i mean without this job one yeah i think about all the days i would have had to have worked
00:45:18
whoneedswork
Right. Right.
00:45:19
Chris
Throughout the last 20 some years.
00:45:22
whoneedswork
Well, that's why I don't... I respect you and your rank and your position. I couldn't do your job. Right. I don't have the temperament, I think, especially now to sit in an office all day.
00:45:37
Chris
yes i Yeah. i I walk laps. I get out.
00:45:41
whoneedswork
Sure. But like, if you made me,
00:45:42
Chris
i will I walk laps so I don't snap.
00:45:44
whoneedswork
if you made me go work a job, because my job is not task-based for the most part, right?
00:45:50
Chris
Yeah, right.
00:45:51
whoneedswork
My job is, response-based. So something comes in, I do it.
00:45:53
Chris
Yeah.
00:45:55
whoneedswork
But if you made me work a job, like I think i have a friend who he has a job where basically he just reads medical reports all day and he has to read so many medical reports and he does it for eight hours a day, every day.
00:46:06
whoneedswork
i don't know that I wouldn't jump off a building, but then like,
00:46:08
Chris
Whew, yeah.
00:46:12
whoneedswork
is that me saying that because I'm 20 plus years into the fire service going, I've worked this career, I worked this, you know, if that was all you knew, you know, but I just can't even imagine what my life would be like if I had to work an office job.
00:46:20
Chris
Yeah. yeah
00:46:28
whoneedswork
Right.
00:46:28
Chris
Yeah.
00:46:29
whoneedswork
Cause I,
00:46:29
Chris
Yeah. That's like the other day yeah text my wife. i was like, I, I could never be an accountant. I have to be one today for work. And it sucks because the stupid city wanted to figure out how much money we spent on special events and coverage and stuff like that. And I was like, oh, okay, we'll give them a roundabout number. They're like, no, we want the exact amount.
00:46:48
Chris
So I had to like find who worked it and then what their pay code was at the time and then what I was like, oh my God, this sucks. Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:57
whoneedswork
Yeah, I couldn't imagine that kind of job.
00:47:01
Chris
Right.
00:47:04
whoneedswork
I don't want to disrespect people's careers.
00:47:06
Chris
Oh yeah. I mean, everybody's got their niche.
00:47:07
whoneedswork
like But some jobs feel like they're just made for people to make up stuff to do.
00:47:14
Chris
Yes.
00:47:15
whoneedswork
right like
00:47:16
Chris
Yes.
00:47:17
whoneedswork
I feel like there are definitely some people who work for the city of Salisbury who their jobs are just there to make up work for other people to do.
00:47:24
Chris
Yes.
00:47:25
whoneedswork
right they
00:47:25
Chris
Yes. Yeah.
00:47:27
whoneedswork
Your job's a bullshit job, right? like you not let Let's be honest here.
00:47:29
Chris
Right.
00:47:30
whoneedswork
like
00:47:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:47:31
whoneedswork
Because if you didn't exist in the in the grand scheme of things as a job, everything still would happen.
00:47:33
Chris
Yeah. yeah Yeah. There is nobody that would be like, but but I can't whatever.
00:47:41
whoneedswork
Right, yeah.
00:47:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:47:42
whoneedswork
I couldn't do that job, right?
00:47:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:47:45
whoneedswork
And i I struggle now because I feel like the futility of our job weighs on me heavily.
00:47:54
whoneedswork
but I couldn't imagine a job where I have no impact. I mean, inside baseball, right? How much of our response, we go to what?
00:48:05
whoneedswork
16,000 calls a year in Salisbury.
00:48:06
Chris
yeah
00:48:08
whoneedswork
How many of those calls do you think are really impactful?
Impact of Emergency Services Careers
00:48:13
Chris
like fifteen thousand nine hundred and ninety nine
00:48:19
whoneedswork
I would say less than 50, right?
00:48:21
Chris
yeah
00:48:23
whoneedswork
right
00:48:23
Chris
I'd say more than that, but yeah, i mean, it isn't the vast majority.
00:48:28
whoneedswork
Do you think thousand? I don't think it's a thousand. Right. I mean, of the fire calls we go to...
00:48:36
Chris
Yeah.
00:48:37
whoneedswork
I could not show up on almost all of those calls. And the the end result would be the same, right?
00:48:41
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:48:45
whoneedswork
One call, and like legitimately for our lifetimes, it's like handfuls of calls where you as a firefighter on just the fire side of it, make a real difference, right?
00:48:56
Chris
yeah yeah yeah
00:48:58
whoneedswork
Handful calls. yeah EMS side,
00:49:05
whoneedswork
30% of your calls? I don't even know if it's that high.
00:49:09
Chris
well i think it's it depends on how how deep you want to go with made an impact
00:49:16
whoneedswork
Sure. Right. It was like as a paramedic, I always felt like the respiratory distress that was going to get exasperated and that person was going to die if we didn't step in, right?
00:49:28
Chris
Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah.
00:49:30
whoneedswork
that Those are the calls. like
00:49:32
Chris
Right.
00:49:33
whoneedswork
I didn't live for cardiac arrest because for the most part, those people didn't really need our services either way, right?
00:49:38
Chris
the Yeah.
00:49:41
whoneedswork
Diabetics, we we helped them, but again, they're not really making an impact. we're just It was those very rare respiratory distresses or delivering a baby.
00:49:53
whoneedswork
Those calls were impactful and that's probably 30% of your calls.
00:49:56
Chris
Yeah. yeah yeah i can give you that
00:49:59
whoneedswork
But if I was like a guy who's greeting people at Home Depot, that's zero impact.
00:50:02
Chris
yeah yeah yeah but there's a part of me that because i was at a conference or something and somebody's like people always joke you know what are you gonna do after you know retire from the fire department people yeah i'm gonna be the you know the greeter at walmart you can't do that firefighters are cut different i was like
00:50:03
whoneedswork
Like...
00:50:07
whoneedswork
Like...
00:50:24
Chris
There's part of me that after 25 years of this madness, maybe some mundane idiocy isn't, you know, now, yeah, I don't think I could do it five days a week, eight hours a day, but yeah.
00:50:35
whoneedswork
Right.
00:50:37
whoneedswork
I always think like I could just go be a bartender at a brewery or something.
00:50:42
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:50:42
whoneedswork
Or like there's just no such thing as a stressful day.
00:50:46
Chris
Yeah.
00:50:47
whoneedswork
like How stressful can your day possibly be?
00:50:48
Chris
Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna go be the, you know, the cart guy at a golf course.
00:50:56
whoneedswork
And I thought like think about this a lot with our jobs. We are trained or developed in our careers this crazy ability to just make decisions.
00:51:10
Chris
Yeah.
00:51:11
whoneedswork
Right?
00:51:11
Chris
Yep.
00:51:11
whoneedswork
Like, when my wife and I were talking about was like for paramedics. Like, paramedics just make decisions.
00:51:17
Chris
Yeah.
00:51:17
whoneedswork
Firefighters just make decisions. With, like, almost no information, no oversight, we just make decisions. Right?
00:51:24
Chris
Unless the decision is, where are we going for lunch?
00:51:28
whoneedswork
that or what we're gonna have for dinner those two decisions but i think it was some weirdly way that is tied into this right like you just get burnt out on making decisions right you as a paramedic the most stressful thing of your job is that you wake up at two o'clock in the morning you have no idea where you're at and in 30 seconds from that moment you're making life and death decisions
00:51:30
Chris
Yeah.
00:51:37
Chris
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:51:54
Chris
Yeah.
00:51:54
whoneedswork
right and you're like gotta give them this drug you and you're you're you just make decisions and we are trained and experienced to make decisions could you imagine going to work a job where they expect you to like fill out paperwork and justify your decisions you're like no that i don't hammy i don't listen to you this had to get done i got it done shut up right
00:52:18
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Damn it, William.
00:52:21
whoneedswork
You said, damn it, William, with your weird name? Like... but we we've We just make decisions. we've we've that's like I always say like the the secret to our job is that when everything is going to hell, we make it look like the ship is still going forward.
00:52:37
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:52:38
whoneedswork
It might be a duck drowning underneath of the under the water, but above water it looks like we're making something happen.
00:52:45
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yep.
00:52:47
whoneedswork
I don't think that translates to, from what I see from other people, to real world.
00:52:51
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, no, it doesn't.
00:52:54
whoneedswork
like If you were working at you know my wife's job and you just made unilateral decisions people would be you're fired but you can't make decisions what are you talking about the the rookie right the the brand new paramedic in the salisbury fire department makes decisions with nobody there's nobody saying nope that's our own decision or hey you have to run this by me they just make decisions
00:53:00
Chris
Yeah.
00:53:03
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. yeah
00:53:10
Chris
yeah
00:53:21
Chris
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
00:53:22
whoneedswork
You don't do that other jobs, right?
00:53:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:53:24
whoneedswork
Like, and I don't know that we're trained or ability. So part of my brain, I always tell my wife, was like I was I just want to make it go to a job where i don't have to make any decisions, right?
00:53:33
Chris
Yeah. So
00:53:34
whoneedswork
Oh, you want me to pour this handle? Cool. Here you go. Like, I don't want to have to think.
00:53:38
Chris
he comes up, so what beer you suggest? Ah, read the sign.
00:53:47
whoneedswork
right yeah the there are eight there are eight beers you pick the one you want i'll give you that one i'm not making any decisions for you yeah i i it's a it's it's weird because we're you and i are at this point our careers like where we have these thoughts i feel like you wouldn't have thought about this 20 years ago right because we i have the greatest job in the world why would i even consider another job
00:53:49
Chris
No questions.
00:53:57
Chris
yeah yeah
00:54:08
Chris
no no yeah exactly yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah no
00:54:15
whoneedswork
We're bulletproof. nothing Nothing can go wrong. This is going the greatest job. but We're going work here for 40 years.
00:54:21
Chris
yeah nope
00:54:24
whoneedswork
But now you're on the other side going, what am I going to do?
00:54:27
Chris
yeah yeah
00:54:29
whoneedswork
ah Even your job, like could you imagine a real world job where you you just you just make decisions? You send emails out and make decisions.
00:54:36
Chris
yeah right yeah yeah we needed something done it's now done move on
00:54:37
whoneedswork
and That's the the world? You won't be able to deal with Tammy saying, no, no, no, no bud. and put this in a NIST font and send me this other report. and That's not how this works.
00:54:53
whoneedswork
Right.
00:54:55
Chris
It's like the yeah the with the Ron Swanson effect.
00:55:01
whoneedswork
Yeah, it just has to happen.
00:55:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:55:03
whoneedswork
right we just but and like
00:55:03
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:05
whoneedswork
Firefighters, will mo well we will screw up everything.
00:55:09
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:55:09
whoneedswork
We will break everything.
00:55:11
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:55:11
whoneedswork
But 30 seconds later with duct tape and a dowel rod and we had a part sitting around the shop for the last 45 years, it's working again.
00:55:18
Chris
Yep. Yeah.
00:55:19
whoneedswork
And some chief's going to walk in there why does this shit look like ants? But it works.
00:55:24
Chris
Exactly. Yep.
00:55:25
whoneedswork
You know.
00:55:26
Chris
yeah yeah ah yeah
00:55:28
whoneedswork
Why did you guys zip tie the hose bundles together? Well, chief, it was falling out and we had zip ties and old Willie Pete said like back in the 40s he saw this. You know. We just, that's how we operate. That's how we do things. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to handle working for other people.
00:55:48
Chris
yeah and i mean that's if you bring that up i mean that's yeah that we joke about it but that's the reason why the people call the fire department because We fix it. We don't, we don't take no for an answer.
00:56:02
whoneedswork
we will We will beat our heads against a wall before we let something beat us.
00:56:03
Chris
I mean, I, yeah.
00:56:08
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Which, and my wife gets very frustrated at that with me sometimes. Cause I'm like, no, dammit, but this is going to get done. just just Just let it go. I tell you, that is one of the hardest things with my job is not finishing things saying,
00:56:18
whoneedswork
Yeah.
00:56:26
whoneedswork
Sure.
00:56:26
Chris
I worked on a couple hours today. I'll finish it tomorrow.
00:56:30
whoneedswork
Right.
00:56:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:56:33
whoneedswork
i This is not what we do.
00:56:34
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:35
whoneedswork
you
00:56:35
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:56:37
whoneedswork
We don't leave things for the next shift to do or, you know.
00:56:38
Chris
Mm-hmm. yeah yeah
00:56:43
whoneedswork
yeah It was because we just did this the gym project at station one, you know, finishing up. And i like we got busy and it got to be like nine o'clock. And I was like, I just can't go over there and keep working.
00:56:56
whoneedswork
I'm just going to have and that felt weird to be like, we're going have to let out the next shift handle it.
00:56:56
Chris
Yeah.
00:57:00
whoneedswork
You know.
00:57:00
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:57:02
whoneedswork
But it's just. But we would never do that on a call. Like ah a we would we would do everything in our power.
00:57:05
Chris
No. No.
00:57:08
Chris
Right.
00:57:08
whoneedswork
And people call us for crazy stuff. where I'm like, i don't. Why are you calling me?
00:57:14
Chris
Yeah.
00:57:15
whoneedswork
Like, lady, I feel like a 12-year-old most days.
00:57:15
Chris
Yeah.
00:57:18
whoneedswork
I don't think I need an adult in almost every situation. Don't ask.
00:57:22
Chris
Yeah. Well, and that's like,
00:57:24
whoneedswork
But then I can't.
00:57:25
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Just yeah. Here, here you go. Fix it.
00:57:29
whoneedswork
And we...
00:57:30
Chris
But ah yeah the whole thing about not wanting to stop, I mean, we run into that all the time. You got yeah a deep seated fire or something. Guys are in there just doing it.
00:57:41
Chris
And it's like, I don't want to back out. I still have this to do. Yeah. Bring me another bottle. Let me keep stay right here.
00:57:49
whoneedswork
and unfortunately it's what gets a lot of us hurt you know you know and we cannot accept it's like we're almost hardwired not to accept that we have to walk away
00:57:53
Chris
Yeah. yeah
00:58:06
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:58:07
whoneedswork
Right? Like one of the biggest changes in our career, you and i was terminating a resuscitation in the field.
00:58:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:58:12
whoneedswork
And you remember how hard that is.
00:58:13
Chris
Oh, my gosh.
00:58:13
whoneedswork
And still, people still have problems with it.
00:58:14
Chris
Yeah.
00:58:16
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:17
whoneedswork
Right? Because we that's not how we operate.
00:58:18
Chris
yeah
00:58:19
whoneedswork
we
00:58:20
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:58:21
whoneedswork
We're working that person to the hospital.
00:58:22
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:58:23
whoneedswork
Very, very rarely 10 years ago did you call anybody in the field.
00:58:25
Chris
Yeah.
00:58:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:58:29
whoneedswork
Right?
00:58:30
Chris
Yeah. What medication in the bag haven't we tried?
00:58:32
whoneedswork
Right.
00:58:32
Chris
Can't we try it? Shouldn't we try it?
00:58:35
whoneedswork
We're just going to keep throwing medications at somebody, you know, and the biggest change in our career, I would say there's two big changes in our career that have made everything better. Terminator resuscitation and automatic stretchers.
00:58:49
Chris
Yeah.
00:58:52
whoneedswork
Right. Like, oh, my God, I can't remember.
00:58:52
Chris
Come on, this old man and a half stretchers were great.
00:58:59
whoneedswork
who it was. it might have been Fruitland. They were in like their backup ambulance and they came to a call and they didn't have a power stretcher and i was what animals are you?
00:59:11
whoneedswork
but but or is This it
00:59:14
Chris
Did guys just get done filming a rescue emergency?
00:59:19
whoneedswork
is a vintage ambulance? What's going on here? You got this for a classic car show? This is a joke, right?
00:59:26
Chris
God, do you remember when we went from the aluminum stretchers to the
00:59:26
whoneedswork
But
EMS Career Evolution
00:59:29
Chris
striker stretchers?
00:59:30
whoneedswork
yeah those things were heavy we used to take them in the houses i remember yes i was gonna say i remember bouncing the wheels off stairs with those stupid stretchers why why ah
00:59:31
Chris
Oh my God.
00:59:34
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah!
00:59:39
Chris
you Do you remember bouncing the wheels?
00:59:45
Chris
yes yes why why did we do that but it was literally one of those things it was like we picked the patient up and you would pull that release and just go on um down the whole thing i guess if you slipped it would lock i so you all went down in a heap
00:59:51
whoneedswork
i don't know i the
01:00:01
whoneedswork
mm-hmm we right so you all die don't know we we used to never put people in stair chairs right like we would just carry people out
01:00:08
Chris
yes
01:00:15
Chris
I can't. That was a right. Yeah, that was like one of those flags that I can't do my job.
01:00:20
whoneedswork
right yeah and yeah and now i look at people go i'm not lifting anybody what are you talking about
01:00:20
Chris
what What do you mean used the stair chair?
01:00:27
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:29
whoneedswork
You know, I used to, when I worked in the city for that short period, people were like, yeah, ABC, ambulate before carry.
01:00:35
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:35
whoneedswork
And that was like our our world. They were right.
01:00:39
Chris
yeah
01:00:40
whoneedswork
Think of how much back injuries we've done to ourselves over for the years, being Superman, picking people up and carrying them everywhere for no good reason.
01:00:44
Chris
Oh yeah.
01:00:47
Chris
Oh yeah. oh Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:50
whoneedswork
Yeah.
01:00:53
whoneedswork
Yeah. But I really don't know that I would have, I i think I would have worked in the fire department come hell or high water.
01:01:01
Chris
yeah
01:01:03
whoneedswork
I don't look back on my career and go, I wish I did something else.
01:01:08
whoneedswork
I think I look back on my career and say, i wish it wasn't ending this way.
01:01:13
Chris
yeah yeah yeah it is yeah no i agree yeah yeah
01:01:15
whoneedswork
And that's just the fire service is different than it was when I started. you know good many good things some things I don't agree with but it's just it's different fire servers but I don't ever look back and say I wish I didn't do it you know boy I just wish about I took more naps
01:01:39
Chris
yeah
01:01:40
whoneedswork
yeah thanks yeah
01:01:40
Chris
that's I mean, you're still the maniac that schedules a haircut for nine o'clock.
01:01:46
whoneedswork
yeahp ye And I'm 22 years on the job doing that stupid shit.
01:01:50
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:51
whoneedswork
hu i I did it literally three days ago.
01:02:00
whoneedswork
Okay, so you're smarter than me because I can tell you you're smarter than me. oh My friend comes up to me says, hey, I'm off July 3rd. I said, oh, I work evens next month. I'm also off July 3rd. We can go do something.
01:02:14
whoneedswork
Right? He says, cool, we're ah we'll leave your house early and we'll get out and we're going to play disc golf. Every year we do like a we go breweries and play disc golf.
01:02:24
whoneedswork
It's a big little event.
01:02:25
Chris
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
01:02:28
whoneedswork
And i said, yeah, that sounds great. I said, I don't work until the 6th. So, yeah, I'm good. if i don't If I work the 6th, my friend,
01:02:39
Chris
That means you work the second.
01:02:39
whoneedswork
what day do I work before that?
01:02:42
Chris
Yeah, the second.
01:02:43
whoneedswork
The second, what what morning do I get off?
01:02:46
Chris
The third.
01:02:47
whoneedswork
The third. i literally did it again.
01:02:51
Chris
third.
01:02:53
whoneedswork
i had to go to my friend yesterday and say, I'm an idiot. I won't be home until 10 o'clock and then we can go.
01:03:00
Chris
yeah yeah
01:03:01
whoneedswork
But just so you know, I'm an idiot and I work the fucking night before. can't, I don't know what's wrong with me.
01:03:09
Chris
yeah but she probably yeah she probably has mastery over her agenda and calendar and everything yeah it's one or the other ron yeah
01:03:09
whoneedswork
I'm the like the lady who can't open doors.
01:03:21
whoneedswork
I mean it's think I gotta take the doors at this point because usually the only people that know that I'm an idiot when it comes to my calendar are you and my wife so it's not as big of the oh and all of the people I tell them on the internet other than that but
01:03:30
Chris
Yeah.
01:03:39
Chris
Yeah. Well, and that's, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or all the people at work that can see my calendar.
01:03:45
whoneedswork
I'm such an idiot. I don't, I complained by my mother not understanding my my schedule, which I have worked for 20 years because I've worked D shift work for 21 years, 21, you know, and i still can't get a date.
01:03:56
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:04:03
Chris
yeah it's
01:04:07
whoneedswork
Tell, tell get old.
01:04:09
Chris
yeah yeah beats the alternative though no see i yeah i couldn't work at a coffee shop yeah i think you got ready to brewery yeah yeah get smacked
01:04:11
whoneedswork
It does beat the alternative.
01:04:20
whoneedswork
it's It's a coffee shop. way too high stress. Yeah. Because people will be in there yelling. No one ever goes into a bar and yells at the bartender. But people definitely yell.
01:04:31
whoneedswork
You get smacked. You definitely go see people get like, need my coffee now. It's taking so long. I'm like, yo. But I'm going to tell you of all the emergencies in the world, your coffee is the... I would be fired.
01:04:44
whoneedswork
I might not know you get my first shift.
01:04:46
Chris
Yeah.
01:04:47
whoneedswork
I would be fired.
01:04:47
Chris
Yeah. Cause I would be the type that I need my coffee. Well, sir, you're not drinking coffee. Your frou frou makawaka is not coffee.
01:04:52
whoneedswork
Or, let me tell you, buddy, your coffee is not my emergency. Then they'll be like, ah that's not the attitude we need here at Starbucks Incorporated.
01:05:05
whoneedswork
Yeah.
01:05:09
Chris
Yeah.
01:05:10
whoneedswork
Nice chill job. but daytime I don't want to be the nighttime bartender. I want be like the daytime bartender at a brewery.
01:05:15
Chris
Yes.
01:05:15
whoneedswork
I see like four people total.
01:05:15
Chris
Yep. yeah yeah Yeah, like 11 4.35 o'clock.
01:05:18
whoneedswork
Yeah.
01:05:23
whoneedswork
Yep, yep, yep. Let me sleep in By the way, we're going closed from like one o'clock to like two, so I can take a nap.
01:05:31
Chris
You got prepped for the evening rush.
01:05:33
whoneedswork
Right, and then, you know, and I'm out of there by 4.30.
01:05:35
Chris
Yeah.
01:05:36
whoneedswork
Yeah, that sounds great.
01:05:37
Chris
Yeah. It does. Yeah.
01:05:43
whoneedswork
Well,
01:05:44
Chris
Yeah. On that note...
01:05:46
whoneedswork
on that note, my storm is literally rolling in on my house.
01:05:49
Chris
oh yeah uh that's that summertime hot humid always chance for a thunderstorm i guess
01:05:57
whoneedswork
Apparently it's supposed to rain tomorrow and Friday. Maybe I can stop getting updates from work about how you guys have no water.
01:06:03
Chris
hmm yeah folks uh take care conserve your water if you have to
01:06:07
whoneedswork
So.
01:06:14
whoneedswork
Conserve water. It's not an emergency, folks. Unless it really is emergency. Then you call the fire department.
01:06:22
Chris
Otherwise, take a breath and see what you can do.
01:06:25
whoneedswork
Yeah.