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Speaker: Everything is everything. Danny, please check. Mike, check, check, check. Hello. How am I sounding over in your pewdie, pewdie, pretty little ears?
Speaker: Loud and clear. Definitely louder than i Fantastic. Do you need me to lower it? Maybe like a smidge. Not that you're super loud, but just I always notice when I'm editing that you're away from time. Ah, ah, ah.
Speaker: Oh yeah, for sure. Sorry, recorded people. I'm going to leave that in. Oh, well, sorry guys. I'm going to leave that in for you all to hear. You get to enjoy that. You can hear all of the uvula moving in the back of Danny's throat. um Yeah, we're about to get started here on the live thing, but i just want to say hello to the recorded listeners. Thank you for For the audio only listeners, I should say thank you for hanging out with us. And yeah, and I apologize.
Speaker: Yeah. Here's a little extra bonus piece of content that the live people aren't going to get. How about now? How am I sounding? You sound great. Good. want to share with you all that. um i had a dog in this house for a couple of weeks. You've probably seen him or heard of him on the other show.
Speaker: Oh, my goodness. And um it's not like a big piece of news, but I just want to say that I think I have found a new joy in being. i love being a kid uncle, and I think I like being a pet uncle. I very much realized that upon having this dog in the house that I think it's lovely and I can see why people love having a dog, but I don't want the other responsibilities of having said dog.
Speaker: um But he was wonderful. He's very well trained, very good dog. I very much enjoyed having him around. But I'm also, you know, I miss him already because I've i gotten used to him being here. But it's also like, hey, cool. And now I don't have to clean up dog shit. Now I don't have to go and, know, that's the big one.
Speaker: Worry about like leaving him alone in the house because I have to schedule my days around like being here um because he has really bad anxiety and doesn't want to stay for too long. um So anyway, yeah. So I just want to share with you all that. um Pet uncle for life, I think. don't think I'm ever going to want another pet for as long as I live.
Speaker: um And it's going to make it real hard to meet a girlfriend. Unless she's a world traveler and just is like, I can't have pets because I spend my money on traveling. And hopefully I'll be her pet and she'll spend her money traveling with me.
Speaker: So if you're looking for a sugar baby out there, I've never tried it. So let me know.
Speaker: I mean, if you're woman. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. so It's true. All right. Shall we kick it off on the live, Danny? Because we have some updates.
Speaker: Little teaser for the audio audience. Little updates on Danny's new job. So... todays Yeah, this is going to be... today's episode We don't even need any questions today, trust me. have one pulled up, just in case.
Speaker: Okay, good. We have a backup, but I don't think we'll need it. And actually... Speaking of behind the scenes information, we were just talking before the show started. And this episode is going to do with a lot of what we were talking about before.
Speaker: Very mental health heavy episode. So is that what this is? Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, no. Oh, yeah. Ready? Yeah, I guess.
Speaker: Hello, party people. Hello. Hello. think we are live. I think I see movement. I see signs of life.
Speaker: You see my movement? i see your movement. I see my movement. Excellent. Looking at, um want to just check the actual stream.
Speaker: see I want to see some signs of life on the real stream.
Speaker: come on, baby. ah there we go all right. us go Just in case, I'm going to send you a couple extra questions in case we need them. You don't have to look at them right now.
Speaker: Or ever. Loud and clear. Perfect. I think we also had a couple extras from last time we didn't use. At least one. At least one. At least one. Yeah. All right. Well, hey, good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, ladies, gentlemen, non-binary folks of Universal Known and Unknown. This is that's our QRTOQ for short, where we take your cues and we just whisper them away to become cute little A's.
Speaker: And, you know, my name is Adam. I don't know if I ever say my name on this show, but if I do, um I don't remember. But if you don't know, that's my name, and I'm joined here with my friend ah and ah brother from a mother named Terry, and that is Danny Guarantee. Yo, what's up? I'm Danny Guarantee, your brother from another Terry.
Speaker: Terry, yeah. Also, shout out to Terry for buying a shirt from the store. Yeah, thanks. I didn't want to say anything in case it was supposed to be like a surprise to show me, but she hasn't said anything, so...
Speaker: Boiler, I know. And thank you, mom. That's awesome. Oh, yeah, I didn't think about that. Maybe she wants to show up and wear like her new shirt for you. and do that Adam immediately showed me because we were just so excited that somebody bought it.
Speaker: We didn't even know it was my mom at first. ah Keep seeing myself freeze on the stream and then like there's like two of me. You also see that?
Speaker: ah Uh, hang on. Let me see. ah keep freezing every so often. Like the funniest little... Yeah, you're like...
Speaker: What is that? why is there a second you? ah you know, maybe that's because we don't have a question and that's just sad me. Hold on. you said I see them freezing lot. There we go. Let's get rid of that.
Speaker: That wasn't there the whole time, was it? I only just noticed it. Am I that crazy? No, it it was apparently I'm watching the stream back apparently there for a while.
Speaker: it also says I see two atoms. OK, great. Well, you know what? you The world can never have too many atoms. It's fine. As long as it's me, me and not other atoms, because I'm obligated to kill them.
Speaker: Oh, actually, I have bad news for you then. That was, in fact, other atom. That's other Adam from a different universe. That's the one I saw when I hurt myself. But he's gone now. We got rid of him. Yeah, he's gone now. He can't hurt us anymore. The other Adam can't hurt you.
Speaker: Yeah. So today, in lieu of a standard question, Danny wanted to update us on just what's going on with his job. And apparently he's about to make us all melancholic and sad and shit. No, no, no, no.
Speaker: well Well, I hope not. It's Friday night and I don't want to be depressed, Daniel. so But you better throw some jokes in there while you're telling us. Okay. gar I will do my best.
Speaker: I'll inject some humor wherever I can. This is a cautionary tale of making sure your mental health is, you know, your top priority. It's very easy to set yourself aside and want to help other people.
Speaker: Or, you know, try and be, ah live up to other people's expectations, make sure that you don't let anybody down.
Speaker: But much like being in a plane as it careens towards the earth, you have to put your own gas mask or oxygen mask on before you help somebody else. You need to take care of yourself before you can really take care of others. Otherwise, you're not really going to be helping anybody.
Speaker: So because of that, no matter what it is, no matter what your situation is, you need to always remember to put your mental health first, because if your mental health isn't good, you can't use it to help anybody else. I don't care if you're a lifesaving doctor.
Speaker: If you're super stressed, burnt out and falling asleep on the job, I don't want you operating on me. So we do care. you're not Thank you for that work. Yeah, appreciate it.
Speaker: I have now you say you you could do the colonoscopy, but that's about it. Yeah, I don't care if you're drunk. Get in there. Yeah, no, it's fine. root Round in there. We'll be together holding hands, me and Adam. so
Speaker: So I started a new job. Yeah, we were all very excited. You may remember in last episode and now we're not excited. I am unemployed again.
Speaker: no you're not. i am. I am back on the market. By my own choice, by my own choice. So I want to preface this by saying that the people at the company I worked for were amazing.
Speaker: The company was amazing. Like this was nobody's fault. OK, this is not was it that on the company. I'll get to it. You calm down over there, mister. I'm getting excited because I feel like I'm about to relate to this because I i may have told a similar story when I. Yes, I mean, anxiety thing.
Speaker: Yeah. But I had also an instance where like you think you're going to be able to perform at something and then like your brain goes, this is all wrong for you. so So sorry. It was kind of like that. Yeah. OK. So anyway, that the the company, the people, everything was good. i am not bashing the company or the people at all.
Speaker: And this is 100%. It's not you. It's me. I want to preface this with that. So Monday comes around first day. I'm supposed to work drive in and I have to do an orientation.
Speaker: So while we're doing this orientation, I'm in a room with three to five other people working on computers. It's whatever, you know, we're just, we're filling out forms. We're learning about the company.
Speaker: And they take us on a brief tour of the facility.
Speaker: And it's a laboratory building, so there's a lot of, you know, labs, people running around in lab coats and everything. Most of the labs, I would say, all but maybe two of them.
Speaker: And there's a lot of them. We're like 10 people, fairly quiet, you know, they're talking back and forth, but that's about it while they do their jobs.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. And there was one lab that was bigger, but we didn't get to see too much of it. we We ducked in for a second, but that was about it.
Speaker: So we do the orientation. It comes and goes. I'm excited. I'm like, you know, this seems really cool.
Speaker: And Tuesday comes around. First real day at the job. And They tell me today you're going to be basically doing like your new hire ah educational, you know.
Speaker: Here's how we handle sexual so abuse in the workplace. Here's how we, you know, no bullying policy and. I'm like employee handbook shit. Yeah. You know, like the very easy quick and ask, um did you see your where you would be where as you took the tour of the facility, like was one of your offices or one of your, you know, were you in that space?
Speaker: When I went in on Tuesday, I did not know where I was going to be working. Ah, OK, interesting.
Speaker: So. I'm like, OK, you know, going to be at a computer again all day. That's how I live my life. Whatever. Doing the courses. They're boring, but whatever. Turns out my desk is a shared computer in the middle of the big lab with about 100 people running around me at all times.
Speaker: And when I say running around me, I mean they're literally reaching over me to get to certain chemicals or certain like instruments to do their job.
Speaker: It was very...
Speaker: Oh, what would be the good term for it? It was very like assembly. Assembly mill, like everybody had their station and they would run around to get what they need for their station, go do their thing. And so I think a large part of what happened is due to the fact that have always worked in an office setting, you know, maybe with a lot of people, but it's quiet. People are just doing their office job.
Speaker: This was anything but. This was chaos. This was organized chaos to the extreme. And I was right in the middle of it trying to do these ah these these like learnings.
Speaker: Coupled with, I think the pandemic has made me a bit more, i don't even want to say conscious of germs, but more germaphobic.
Speaker: Like, you know, you always knew germs were there. You knew you could get sick. But nowadays, I'm more skeeved out by sick people than I used to be. So knowing that I was sitting at a computer in a lab coat, full leather gloves, because all of the equipment there is technically contaminated with biohazardous material or regular hazardous material.
Speaker: regular hazardous yeah well look one of the things was all about how there's a difference that's so interesting so you're just called regular hazardous is like chemicals like sure if you're dealing with like arsenic or whatever ah whereas biohazardous is disease, you know, as tainted sample or something like that.
Speaker: Right. I just find it very funny. Yeah. It's biohazardous. Of all the technical terms and elements and everything else we have, it's, and that's the regular hazardous stuff. It's just the regular hazardous stuff. Fill it up with the regular hazardous stuff there, sir.
Speaker: funny Sorry, I didn't know you're good. that There's one of those jokes for you. You can take that to the bank. Very funny thing to hear. Sorry, go on. No, you're good. You're good. It was very disconcerting to disconcerting to me to be working within feet of blood tests that people were getting for like COVID, hepatitis, you know, all these other like I had to take a whole course on TB.
Speaker: And all these other really shitty, ah but you know, viruses and and diseases and stuff that you don't want. ah The lab I worked in was also technically underground.
Speaker: I had no cell service, no nothing. And again, not you know, again, not bashing any the company or the people at all.
Speaker: But it was very chaotic. It was very loud. A lot of machines going off at all times. People were running around with these blood samples, urine samples, stool samples, everything.
Speaker: And I'm just sitting in the middle of it all, trying to do these learnings, trying not to get in everybody's way. And I worked 9 to 530. By 2 o'clock, I started feeling a panic attack coming on.
Speaker: I have had One or two before. It's never been that big a deal. You know like. They're bad but. It's only been one or two. I've never had one happen.
Speaker: In a public place like this. But I stuck it out. I held it in. Till I finished at 530. And on the way home. I started to break down. And then when I got home.
Speaker: I finally let it out and I had a full blown panic attack for probably about an hour. Had to take some medicine that my doctor had prescribed me to calm down. Basically knocked me out.
Speaker: And ah I sent them an email that night saying like, I'm sorry. i know this is short notice, but I'm resigning immediately.
Speaker: i realize I'm not doing right by the company or my manager, but The environment here has revealed some mental issues that I did not foresee.
Speaker: So, yeah, I sent the mail. I sent the email. He sent one back the next day saying like, hey, thank you for letting me know early. We wish you all the best. I have a feeling I am not the first person to.
Speaker: Have done this to to realize that this environment is just not. good for them. And I'm sure everybody, you know, that most of the people that work there and there are absolutely people that thrive in a super crazy, chaotic environment like that.
Speaker: It's just not me. I'm used to taking problems slowly. I'm used to, you know, Dan, there's an issue with this Excel sheet. Can you try and figure it out? And I just sit in the quiet and think about it and tinker with it for a while.
Speaker: I am not used to a hundred people running around having to report if like something spills on you or, you know, wash your eyes out for a half hour or 15 minutes if something happens. And I was afraid to touch anything. And, uh, I know somebody else who works there and she was telling me that where she works is like in the same building, but on the other side, and it's a huge building.
Speaker: She said, oh, yeah, my place could get my lab can get pretty busy. But I went to visit your lab and it was a madhouse. Which, again, is not a bad thing. It's not, you know, but it's organized chaos. Like there's a lot going on, but a lot's getting done.
Speaker: It's not like people are just running around with chickens like they're with their heads cut off or anything. Right. um But, yeah, it was a ah lesson I didn't know I needed. about myself and what i can't what circumstances I can work under.
Speaker: You know, it it would be one thing if I just didn't like the job. I've had jobs I don't like before, and I would just stick with it, especially until I found something better. But unfortunately, this was something else. This was mentally unable to deal with the environment the job was asking me to be in. Sure.
Speaker: And I don't think that that's something that's really going to get better with time. I might get more used to it, but i really don't think it was going to get a lot better. And i mean, this was just a while I keep looking job.
Speaker: This wasn't my next career step. So I waited, you know, I didn't make this decision lightly, but I waited out and I decided that night, like,
Speaker: Yeah, I'd be better off if I could devote more of my time looking for something more my speed rather than needing to take like a special Xanax every night. I was wondering, was it earlier today or yesterday when you responded to a text pretty earlier in the day on Discord? I was like, how's he messaging me already? So, yeah.
Speaker: I'm sure I'm honestly, you know, I'm a little perturbed that you didn't tell me sooner. I've been very invested in. i hunt I was going to tell you all about it, but I was like, you know what? I want to save it for TOQ. I was very curious. I want to spoil it.
Speaker: I had a couple of moments. throughout the week where I was going to like, cause you were being very elusive hu about the job as we were inquired.
Speaker: And I was like, I feel like he would have more news and like, we haven't gotten a whole lot. So it's like, I'm wondering if things went South or, or if you just ended up not liking it or if you're just considering, i didn't think you quit, but I was curious if you're just like, you're just like contemplating like, I don't want talk about it. Cause I'm like planning on leaving or something like that. yeah And you can,
Speaker: like When I went on lunch, I was finally able to get some some messages on my phone. And if you were to look at my wife's phone, you would see like she asked me, oh, how's the job? How are you doing? And I was like, oh, you know, it's it's cool. It's no remote job where it's nice and quiet, but it's not too bad.
Speaker: That was at the start of my half-hour lunch. And it was really, it was talking to Mbaluga. for whatever reason that triggered this. I was okay in the morning.
Speaker: Not great, but I was okay. But talking to Mbeluga, I guess, just opened my my vulnerability a little bit more. And by the end of my half-hour lunch, I sent her another message saying, like, I have to go back in I think I hate it here.
Speaker: Oh, man. Wow. Wow. wow So yeah, ah moral of the story is take care of yourself. There is no shame in you know removing yourself from a position that you are not fit for.
Speaker: Not every person is right for every job. Just like there are some people that can't sit and stare at an Excel sheet for three hours thinking of a solution for this thing.
Speaker: There are some people that cannot... Yeah, honestly, you were my first thought is like, I bet you Adam would be much better here than I am because there were just so many people around all talking to each other. You would have no problem like jumping into conversations. And I feel like all that excitement and energy around you would have energized you.
Speaker: Yeah. Whereas it just overwhelmed me. Yeah. And if it makes you like if I don't know if I've told you this story directly or not, like I'll try to give a brief version, but that has happened to me.
Speaker: in my 20s when I had a my first and as far as I know only bout with a panic attack, which was like I worked at a bank in my early 20s and it was really starting to make me feel awful working there.
Speaker: And so I had my state farm agent offer me a job because I had such a good relationship with them that I saw they had. I just emailed them one day out of the blue and I said, hey, you guys don't happen to like just be like hiring, are you?
Speaker: And then they got back and they said, actually, yes, we're trying to do like an apprentice thing. we're thinking like, you know, even if you don't have the credentials, like we'll train you to get your license to sell insurance.
Speaker: And so I was like, fucking great. When do I start? And I, and it was just right across the street from the bank I worked at. So it was pretty much the same commute. And so, uh,
Speaker: I went over there and immediately they gave me my like it's a very small outfit. There's like four people in the office, myself included. um And the only two bigger offices, because the the two gals worked out front and they were in cubes, but they gave me the biggest bigger than the guy whose name was on the building. They gave me the biggest office in the room, in the building and a phone, a desk, a computer. I'd never had anything like that before. Like I worked at the bank and had a computer, obviously, but never my own office.
Speaker: big, nice Oak desk, all the things. Um, and my job was to learn how to call people and get their insurance changed or upgrade or whatever it is that you do learn all these laws and stuff. And the first couple of days were like, okay.
Speaker: But after about like three days, I kept having like these weird moments where I would just like stare like into my computer and like lose track of time without knowing what I was doing.
Speaker: And I started having moments where like I always kept having like open and close my hands a lot. And I was like, I don't know. Then one day I just felt like my heart started to like pound really hard in my chest. And I just like rested my head on the edge of the desk and just stared at the floor.
Speaker: And then I couldn't like talk anymore. I could like just put a whisper. And so I tried to type a message to the gals out front on this little teams. It felt weird because there was only four of us in the whole building.
Speaker: Like it was just like a couple of rooms all connected. It was not a huge place. but like they still use teams to talk to each other about stuff from like, or any other room, like we could just talk. And that felt really weird and impersonal.
Speaker: And so ultimately, like I had to press the, the guy's name was Bo. And so I pressed Bo's like extension on my phone and pulled the phone close to the edge of the desk. And I said, Oh, I think I'm, I think I'm having a panic tag right now.
Speaker: And the only reason I identified that's what it was was because when I had gotten let go from the bank because of some stupid shenanigans, and it was another guy named Adam who I worked with who only stayed there because I worked there.
Speaker: And I convinced him in revenge to he for him to quit and abandon the girl who got me fired at the bank by herself as penance. yeah um It was a very dastardly thing that hatched into place, but I knew I'd be successful.
Speaker: But I had recognized it because when we realized things were kind of going south, He, I had him taken to the hospital and I rode with him because he sat and stared off in space. Similarly, this is before I'd ever experienced it. The only reason I knew what was happening was because later through this whole process, I learned he was having developing like a very almost comatosis, like.
Speaker: Anxiety attack where like he didn't cry. he just got real clammy and cold and his heart was racing. but he was breathing very shallowly and he was just staring. And like, he wasn't reacting to anything. He wouldn't feel pain if I tried to pinch him to wake up.
Speaker: And so we had a gurney come in and take them. They ran all these tests. They couldn't find anything. um And so like I did my own little kind of Googling on the side and stuff. when he started to experience it a second time, i was like, I think you're having anxiety. And the reason we found out was because When we got in the car, I called a buddy of mine who lived near the hospital. He came and picked us up because I rode the ambulance with him.
Speaker: um His buddies unknowingly did not know he was in the hospital. Adam's friends had left a voicemail on his phone that said, hi, this is Dr. So-and-so from such-and-such hospital. Your blood test came back and turns out you have HIV.
Speaker: Oh my God. They were just crank calling him. And it just fell all in like, just, it was just a shit storm of coincidence that like he immediately went into without a word. I didn't know this until after I had seen him do it. Cause i looked in the back seat.
Speaker: He went and zoned out again. And like, I grabbed him and he was clammy. And I was like, Adam, what the fuck is going on with you? And I picked up his phone and replayed the voicemail. was like, Jesus Christ. So I called those guys back and i was like, you better be lying. And they're like, and it was buddy. It was his buddy, Jason. He goes, no, no, we were just fucking with him. Like what's going on i was like, we literally just got out the hospital. He had blood work done and we're waiting for results on it. And they were like, oh my fucking God. I was like, Adam, your friends are crank calling you. And immediately he snapped out of it.
Speaker: So that's when we determined like, oh, we think you just had multiple panic attacks. You didn't have anything else wrong with you. Um, that's why the doctors were like, all your tests so far came back clean. We don't have, we don't have anything that seems to be going on. elevated heart rate, but we can't determine why.
Speaker: And so the only reason I was able to survive my incident was because I recognized what it was because he didn't know what it was at the time, nor did I. So I think that was making him worse because he was like, oh, no, because now you don't know what's going on. Yeah, I think I would have been in a similar state had I not known that already. Like literally this happened like two weeks prior.
Speaker: So I was feeling that and I whispered to Bo on the phone. I was like, I think I'm having i'm pay a panic attack right now. Uh, and so I came back to work the next day and I started and I said, I don't really know what's going on about like you right, like right where you were saying, like right around lunch break time, I just started feeling it again. And I was just like, like something's wrong. I don't know what I, I was puzzled all the night before. i was like, why am I having this? Why am I feeling this?
Speaker: And, but then I relaxed i was playing games and was shooting a breeze I was having fun. I was doing the things my roommates. Everything was great. Then I went back to work and on the way ah to the car or on the way to the business, I could feel my hands getting clammy and sweaty.
Speaker: And I was like, huh. And it took until about my lunch break where I could just pause and not think about what I was doing, where I was having that same element of my, you know, this recurring heart palpitation and things. And I was like, so I called Bo right away. was like, oh, I'm sorry, dude. But like, I think I have to go home. Like something's wrong.
Speaker: um You know, something's happening again, like from yesterday and I don't know what's going on with it. So they sent me home. And just like you, when I realized what was happening, I sent him an email and said, hey, dude, thanks for taking a chance on me.
Speaker: Thank you for believing I could do this. You know, you guys didn't do anything wrong, but like, I think that it is this place that is causing it to me. And I think I'm realizing this is not the environment for me. Yeah. And I mean, saying saying there's no shade at that. Like that, that's not,
Speaker: A knock on anybody. No, every environment works for everyone. No, sitting in a quiet office alone, not seeing any other people unless I went to their office, being in a place where not people were people weren't really talking, even though they were in the same room.
Speaker: People seem to like this kind of quiet space. I really struggle being in a place. I would I would absolutely love that. that right i dream Right. Which is why I wanted to share because like it's the it's the same same incident, but like different environment that like really sent me reeling to be like the and I realized and um you know, you might already be having this to like recognizing certain environments and the germs and everything.
Speaker: I realized for me that like most of my life, I remember in sixth grade, i had a teacher named Mr. B who said, you want to work with your brain. It'll last you longer working with your body. You'll break your body. And I know there's all sorts of ways to approach that now. But as a kid, I believed I need to get a desk job. That's working with my brain.
Speaker: That's saving my body, all this exertion and all this pain and working in the mines or chopping down trees or whatever the fuck is mechanics do. You know, like I was taught, like he says, you know, use your mind, Adam. Like you got to, You got to find a job that will let you use your mind and not your body.
Speaker: Total – you need a mix of both nowadays. he was I was going to say like working just your mind isn't any better for your body. because your body decays. But like as a boy, that's what I thought. And I grew up into my 20s thinking the goal is to get a desk job. The goal is to – I know I'm moving up in the world when I'm making more money and I have my own office.
Speaker: you know So when they offered me this position, I was like, I got it. like This is what I was supposed to do because I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up anymore. So like I was like, well, this must mean and I'm successful. you know Anytime you see someone successful, they have an office, they have a desk, they have clients. you know And I had all those things. And I think that was like the reckoning that I was struggling with was like, how can it be that this thing that I got that I'm told I'm supposed to have, that I knew I was supposed to have is the thing that I don't fucking want.
Speaker: you know And I really had this internal battle that I didn't realize I was thinking. like But I think that was this internal dissonance that was happening was like, Adam, you don't like the thing that you thought you're supposed to have. So what do you do?
Speaker: And it was because of that, Danny, that led me into dance. Oh, really? because Yes, because when I gave myself time to recover, and like really kind of look at myself. I was like, if I don't know what the fuck I want to be when I grow up, then what does it matter what I apply to? It doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker: So one of the first one I applied to well over 30 jobs that night before I went to bed and on like most of the, at the time I was applying heavily on Craigslist, believe it or not. And so like, that was how one of the first Craigslist ads I saw that said no experience necessary dance teacher,
Speaker: at Arthur Murray. And so i was like, I don't know what the fuck Arthur Murray is. I thought it was like a hip hop studio. I didn't know it was a ballroom dance. And I had applied, ah but it said no experience necessary. And I was like, you know what? I don't know what I want to be. I have no experience. Literally. I was like, Hey, that's me. And so I wrote them a really funny email. I didn't take it very seriously, but that was the one that called me back was the one that I was really just lackadaisical and silly about.
Speaker: And I said, tell us about yourself. And I said, man my name's Adam. I'm 25 years old. I love Batman. And I dance like the whitest person on the planet. And then I hit send. And they called me back.
Speaker: So like sometimes you just you hit these walls of like You know, now I know what I don't want. I tried it like that could inform a lot moving forward, you know? So, oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah. But that's why I asked in the beginning of your story, because I was like, I feel like I know exactly what you're going to say. But like, yeah, here's here's a curveball for you.
Speaker: ah i found out two days later that I absolutely made the right decision. Oh, there's more. There is a little bit more. Now, this has, again, nothing to do with the company. This one is just me.
Speaker: But I'm going to tell you a little bit about myself, a little something about Danny that even Adam didn't know. When I was growing up, when I was a kid, I used to get these very painful blisters on my hands and feet, on the palms of my hands and feet.
Speaker: Never knew what caused them. But, man, they they could, like, come in clusters and just leave, like, a big swath of dead skin and just big holes in my hands and feet. You're Jesus.
Speaker: I'm Jesus. We figured it out. I later found out it was called Dishidriot... Boy. <unk> Dishidriotic Eczema.
Speaker: Or Dishidrosis. So it's a type of eczema, and... certain triggers can cause these itchy dead skin blisters on your hands and feet.
Speaker: It can come from allergens, which is where I think I was getting it when I was younger. They have gone down a lot since I got older, but two of the things that cause them are moisture and stress.
Speaker: And you know what causes a lot of moisture? wearing rubber gloves all day. That must be awkward to do that. I was going to ask about that. You had to use a computer while wearing rubber gloves. Yes, it was awful.
Speaker: That sounds terrible. And every time I went to get up to go to the bathroom or anything, I had to take the gloves off, throw them out, take my coat off, hang it up, go through a certain door, go to the bathroom, come back, lab coat on, glove up.
Speaker: But Again, didn't even think about it at the time. they hadn't come I haven't had like any symptoms of this in a long time.
Speaker: Sure enough, I noticed like yesterday that my hands had like a bunch of little blisters all over them. Probably from the stress, but also from all the sweat of wearing those gloves all day.
Speaker: And you know what you really, really don't want in a lab? is open wounds on your hand.
Speaker: So I realized, you know, two days after I left that it was a really good call because ah that could have gone real bad. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. Also shout out to all my friends or all my homies with dishebratic eczema. I I'm sorry. I know it sucks. You dis-androtic bros unite. My dis-androtic bros, only dis-androtic.
Speaker: Yeah. um Yeah, I i remember like when I worked at this recovery house for a little while, that that was something that I got... more nervous about was a lot of people would come in from the off the street, uh, or register to be there. And a lot of them had a lot of open wounds on their hands, but also would sneak in like needles and things into their bags and storming lockers.
Speaker: And one time I got jabbed by someone's bag when I was supposed to clean out a locker, I had thick rubber gloves on, but I still felt like the jab. And i was like, fuck, I can't, like, I don't see a mark on my hand, but I felt like it hurt.
Speaker: And so I was really paranoid that like, I got, poked with a dirty needle and that was something I hadn't really considered happening to me before um but thankfully it poked through it it it when I say poked through the bag I felt it through the bag but it didn't come out from the bag so from the bag fabric and the gloves fabric I think like it didn't actually touch me didn't actually pierce right yeah but it still fucking hurt and it scared the shit out of me because I was like holy crap you know like these cleaning rubber cleaning gloves might not have been enough if this was like just a bare needle. So like I think about shit like that, too, where like if if you're like I've been trying to look um I've been a little bit more into first aid lately.
Speaker: And I keep thinking, you know, one of the things they say is like, if you can put gloves on, great, but you're not always going to be able to. say prepare for These things. It's like I think about that a lot because like, you know, you You know, sometimes just like, oh if you cut your fingernails too deep or like if you, you know, cut around your cuticle or something like that's enough to get something in there, you know, when you're. All it takes is a tiny paper cut, man. It doesn't take much. It's like I cut my hands all the time. i was like Fuck. um So, yeah, I think about those kind of things, too. So, yeah, it sounds like that would be pretty stressful. But.
Speaker: Well, I'm glad you made it out alive. ah You know, I'm glad that you least tried it. I am curious. Because you had applied for other positions there. Yeah. um Are they all like is the accounting department also where all the labs are? Or is that like a whole separate?
Speaker: That was a full remote job. And I'm very sad I didn't get that one. oh I was going to say, I don't email the guy back and like, hey, if you have even more accounting positions open, please let me know. I did. And they never answer they they answered me and said,
Speaker: We'll talk tomorrow. And then I never heard from them again. yeah Sorry about that, buddy. It's okay. You know, like I said, it was a life experience. I learned a lot about myself, what I mentally can and can't handle.
Speaker: I never thought in a million years that this would be me. I've I'm fine with high stress situations. Usually it doesn't even bother me.
Speaker: I think the problem was
Speaker: I think it was a combination of the chaos around me, the underlying fear of like getting hit by something, splashed with something.
Speaker: um it was just... And it was a madhouse all the way from 9am to 5.30. They work in full three out three shift, 24 hours.
Speaker: This place never closes. So no matter what time you're working, it may get a little bit better, but... I was right in the middle of the day, workday schedule, right when it's busiest. And it was just.
Speaker: Yeah, that's a lot. no Like I I don't even know if I would thrive in that if they're as busy as you say they are, because like I need a lot. I don't do well in like production jobs either. Like when I was heavy on the job market my 20s, I used a lot of temp agencies or staffing agencies and a lot of what they offered was production. And I did not do well at that either. So like.
Speaker: having people around is one thing, but if it's like a constant grind, like i just I struggle to do that as well. um So, yeah, I think you would have been all right because it was a constant grind. But like there would be three or four people on one table working on like the same thing, just talking to each other the whole time.
Speaker: Yeah, maybe just about whatever. um I find it very interesting that like your computer is like in the middle of the room. Like what would you have? Well, it was it it was a shared computer. It was just one of the lab computers that they just threw me on. Like I didn't have my own spot. They were just like, why don't you just sit at this computer? So that probably wasn't your permanent workspace. That was just where they were sitting you to do. No, I don't have a workspace.
Speaker: That was so the the way my job was going to work. I get a locker to put my like lunchbox and everything. And i was going to do inventory control. So when labs needed equipment, they would fill out a sheet.
Speaker: I would get that sheet on one of the lab computers. I would fill it out. I would submit it. And then when the equipment got delivered to the lab, it would be my job to unpack it all, scan it, to say we got it, and put it on the racks where it needs to go.
Speaker: But that only my supervisor was telling me, like, there's one big batch that comes like every day that you'll have to do. The rest of them work on three day increments. So you'll only, you know, as long as there's not like a big influx out of nowhere.
Speaker: You'll be stocking these maybe every other day or something. And the rest of the time, the other seven hours, you're going to be in the lab helping the lab. Doing the lab work.
Speaker: Do you think that would have been less stressful than like the training part? Like because you'd actually have been up moving around as opposed to. i do. i i did think about that. And I do think that like.
Speaker: I think if the job had more of that, I would have been more OK. And I do think that part of what gave me the panic attack was the fact that. What I had to do that day required me to concentrate all day, and I couldn't with all the crap going on around me.
Speaker: Yeah, I definitely would have been like, hey, I need a quieter spot. But i also, i knew it wasn't a good idea when I was having my panic attack at Mbeluga.
Speaker: And I told her, I've hated going to work, but I've never been scared to go to work and I am scared to go in tomorrow. And when I heard myself say that, that was kind of the moment I was like, this is just not for me. Even if it does get a little bit better and it's not quite so bad that I have a panic attack again, maybe I'm not going to like it. It's not going to be like from zero to a hundred, you know, it's, it's,
Speaker: It's going to be like, oh, thank God I get to stock the shelves for a little bit and be alone for two seconds. Thank God.
Speaker: ah But yeah, like i said, I've hated going to work before and I've still done it. No problem. Like it sucks, but you do what you got to do. I've never been afraid to go back to an office. Yeah, that fear factor seems to be a pretty heavy yeah of it. I was afraid to go back.
Speaker: And again, i really want to drill this home. People. Great. The company. It's great. What they're doing is great. And I'm sure that there are people that thrive in that environment and would love to go there.
Speaker: It's just not me. It's not for me. And not every job is for everyone. And i know I'm saying, like, you know, you got to take care of yourself. You got to do what you got to do.
Speaker: So I want to also say that there is a limit to that, right? You can't just quit a job because you don't like it with nothing up with no no backup or anything. You can't just be like, well, you know, there's a lot of work I got to do. And it's like, you know, it's stressful and and it makes me, you know, i just don't like the job. That's not what I'm talking about. Right.
Speaker: If your job mentally destroys you, you know, to the point where you're having anxiety, panic attacks or depression, like actual tangible depression and, you know, ah terrible things like that, then, yeah, you got to take care of yourself. You got to bite that bullet. Maybe it's kind of a case by case, but don't use it as an excuse to just leave any old job that you don't like.
Speaker: But yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. So I'm back on the market. I actually got a call. from a recruiter the next day interesting um on Wednesday saying like, Hey, I was just looking at your resume and I found a job. That's almost exactly like what you just left. Like not, not the lab, the one, my actual job before that, except they want to pay you more. i was like, well, shocks. All right.
Speaker: So hopefully that'll bite. I'll hear something back from that. Been doing a bunch of voice acting stuff. uh, happy human, uh, human only voices today on Instagram.
Speaker: Uh, you could check me out at Danny guarantee there. I read smart books.
Speaker: Um, but yeah, that's, that's my story. Yeah. i Look less than an hour, but long enough for an episode. It's been 46 minutes.
Speaker: Hey, you know what? I'm, uh, I got no issue with ah just an Adam and Danny chatted up episode. um You know, ah you know, if it helps, I do. I found another question. It's real quick. If you want to answer a quickie. Sure. Why not?
Speaker: Especially if it's silly. And this on a high This one just says from Pie Temporary 9628. Why do people like milk? Genuinely why? I don't understand. Danny, why do people like milk?
Speaker: It does the body good. That was the commercials back in the day. don't I don't know. Do you remember those? I do. Do you remember like the evolution of strong bones? Yeah. Milk filled strong bones and teeth. And then there's milk does the body good. I always love those commercials. Remember like how they had the whole campaign where everybody had the milk mustaches. That was like the advertisement for the longest time. And then got milk was like got milk.
Speaker: I don't remember if that was before or after milk does the body good. I felt like they were advertising. Huh? I feel like that was before like because go milk is old. But like, do you ever think about that? well Like it was never a company.
Speaker: It was never like by Turner's milk, by this company's milk. It's just drink milk. Yeah. Like lobbying from big milk. Yeah. Like that was the only advertisement that I can think of that didn't have a brand attached to it. It was just drink of milk.
Speaker: yeah and there's whole Chocolate milk, chocolate milk's the goat. We're good with chocolate milk. Regular milk? i don't I don't know. I don't know. like I used to drink a cup of milk here and there, and I would only get very gassy afterwards.
Speaker: Never stomach issue bad. Yeah. It does. Yeah, I would use So I think I was like a little lactose intolerant. Not real bad, but like is there definitely was a touch of it.
Speaker: Well, it's almost like it's from a different animal. ah Yeah, like and not made for humans. Like I've I always tell myself like, oh this time chocolate milk will be different. And the taste is always great. But my body always hates me after. Yes. Like worth. And like, yeah. And like, you know how they say drink chocolate milk after you work out. Like there's not a whole really difference between chocolate milk and regular milk if you must drink milk. Just a chocolate milk is easier to put down.
Speaker: That's why people drink it because it's like less alarming to drink than plain white milk. but I will say, i mean, i still fuck with like oat milks, almond milks, chocolate. Yeah. ummon milk We're an oak milk family.
Speaker: Chocolate almond milk, too, especially. oh It's ah some good shit. Well, that's just Nutella. Essentially. Yeah, I love it. I don't have a whole carton myself. I wouldn't drink a straight oat milk, but.
Speaker: When I have a cup of coffee, I my i love oat milk in it. Oat milk and cereal? Much better than normal milk. Oat milk plus Rice Krispies? Oh, that sounds good. Oh, it's good. It's meant we love Rice Krispies again. I don't know why, but that combination is really, really good. Oat milk and hot chocolate is really, really good.
Speaker: I've done that. Yeah, that's pretty solid. That's a really good one, too. Hitch is a big Chalky Milk fan, as you've seen in the chat. They love it. Chalky Milk is the goat. It's there's some the way to go.
Speaker: There's some Chalky Milks that they absolutely hate, though. um but But that's like... Well, you don't mean like... What is it? a quick Quick mix? Nesquik? Nesquik. Because that's just water.
Speaker: That's just chocolate water. Hell yeah, it is. Oh, no. But no, you also put it in milk. You just put you took you put the chocolate stuff into milk. and then Oh, I meant like the cans.
Speaker: There's cans? So it's not Nesquik, I'm thinking. that what you do? There's like cans of... Yes. Yoohoo. That's it. Yoohoo came in a glass jar, but I forgot they have cans and pouches. They had cans. Yeah. Right. And that was just chocolate water. that's That is for for sure.
Speaker: yeah They can't even call it milk on the. They were the first to never call it milk. Like it literally says chocolate milk product or chocolate drink. Chocolate drink. I think it was.
Speaker: It has strong opinions on certain brands of chocolate milk. Yeah. So we've learned that there's a few brands that just like a dog shit chocolate milk. But that's my little treat. If I know that Hitch is having a bad day or having an extra good day and I'm like, I'm at a store and I know they have the stuff they like, I'll grab them little jug of chocolate milk.
Speaker: They'll take like a week to drink it. Like, you know, there's like little mini jugs. i don't know what those things are like pints or what the fuck they are. I think it's my roommate like a whole goddamn month to drink one of those. It's fucking, I don't know like, how do you nurse that much chocolate milk?
Speaker: Man, that thing's gone in a fucking 20 minute span if I have it. um But, ah but why do people like milk, Danny? Why do you like I have no idea. Because, because it was drilled into us from a young age to drink it for strong bones. It's true. It really was.
Speaker: Why were there so many milk commercials? Are you doing a quick Google? There was Can somebody explain like a final?
Speaker: Was there another Reddit thread about it? A brief history of milk ads reveals Big Dairy has always struggled. Big Dairy?
Speaker: Big Dairy. Now this is from sentientmedia.org.
Speaker: We love sentient media around here. It's called AI. Have you? Okay.
Speaker: I'm sorry. The very first sentence of this article is, have you ever looked at a tree and thought, can I drink this?
Speaker: Sometimes. So begins the dairy industry's most recent recent advertising campaign, wood milk. which aims to satirize the popularity of plant-based milk alternatives and reinstate dairy milk as the truly hip and healthy beverage option for American consumers.
Speaker: huh Oh my God, man. I remember the the commercial I remember the most was the guy, he has like his big tapestry on his wall of like some old war, like,
Speaker: I don't know, like seventeen hundreds America. And he's listening to this radio station and he's eating like a peanut butter sandwich. And the radio station says, oh, the next caller to call in to say who shot Alexander Hamilton and blah, blah, blah. And he looks up and he sees it says Aaron Burr underneath it. And he happens to have that same tapestry on his wall that shows Aaron Burr shooting him in a duel.
Speaker: Oh, God. And so he grabs his phone and dials in. He goes, all right, caller, you made it. What's the answer? And he's like trying to talk, but his mouth is full of peanut butter. And so he's like, I remember that. I remember that. And he's very mouthy. He's like, and so he runs to the fridge and grabs the milk jug and it's empty.
Speaker: And then it goes, got milk? Yeah. I do remember that one. And again, i don't understand it because like there's no there's no brand that says like, go buy it. So like, I don't know who's lobbying this shit. But like, so there's there's a mystery there. Like, why why was this such a big push? through the ninety early ah By the early 1990s, Americans were still only drinking about point seven, eight cups of milk a day.
Speaker: Desperate to boost sales, the California Milk Processing Board, or CMPB, enlisted the help of San Francisco-based advertising firm Goodbye, Silverstein & Partners, and the legendary Got Milk campaign was born.
Speaker: Incredible. It really was big milk. But it was it was just some board in California. It wasn't even like, hey, buy this brand. It was just drink. it was well, because it was the milk processing board. They didn't care which brand you drank.
Speaker: They just cared that you drank it so that they could process more of it. inc Wow. Cause Oh my God, you couldn't literally every commercial after every TV show or in the middle of every break was just got milk. Like they had so many, like, I remember magazines at like doctor's offices. if like famous celebrities with the milk mustache, like on the cover of a magazine or something like,
Speaker: It was everywhere. Like it absolutely mind boggling as a kid to just and like, but but it was normal because you saw it everywhere. But I never it wasn't in adulthood that I was like, ah look at the stream because you're talking about it right now. A brand.
Speaker: Huh? But look at the stream because you're you're literally talking about it right now. But here is. Some of the celebrities from one of the covers.
Speaker: Yeah. In the article. I only see half of the head right now. I know. I'm working on it. Hitch says a lot of times it's state agriculture agencies.
Speaker: I could see that. Yeah, like, but that's it. It's literally just like famous celebrities with the milk mustache. And I mean, let's be real. they It looks like they just either Photoshop that on.
Speaker: Or they put something in the milk to make it like stick to their. I wonder if they really said, hey, Beyonce, because that's who we're looking at for the listeners at home. If you say so. I don't know who that is next to her. I don't know who that person is.
Speaker: um But like if they just said, hey, Beyonce, I know you just did. We just did your hair, makeup and your lipstick. Hey, could you put your mouth in this cup of milk for a couple seconds? yeah Like, like get it let it get all drippy.
Speaker: The rise of got milk. Now that I'm looking at that, knowing how pervy the Internet is, like, I don't know how that stayed as long as it did. Like, I don't know if that would. How did nobody be like, oh, look, come on. Like, I don't know. how Like, that would never work. I would never work now.
Speaker: No. um That's yeah. But that's literally it was everywhere and around plant based alternatives. Absolutely wild to me. um So, yeah, there you go, listeners and watchers.
Speaker: You know, Big milk was added all along. Big, big lactose. video Yeah. The lactose intolerance um
Speaker: was rule in the ninety s It was everywhere. Milk for health. Good teeth, vitality, endurance, and strong bones. i just It's so crazy to me that there was no brand attached to it. I don't know if I've ever seen anything since that was just, hey, do a thing.
Speaker: and This is very like. Fallout looking. Yeah, the one we're looking at now looks like an old school, like what, 50s, 40s. Yeah. You know, like graphics. Oh, here's another one.
Speaker: What was that? What was the guy's name? Explodey man. Nuclear man. What's the guy from? Fall out boy. It's just fall out. The little guy going like this.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, fall out boy. That's not what he's called, is it? Yeah. yeah. Is that Aubrey Plaza with a milk mustache? It is. What the fuck? They're still doing that?
Speaker: This is the new one where they're trying to make fun of wood milk. Incredible. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Who wow who are we talking to? But somebody... we were talking to somebody and they just like cut off mid-conversation and looked at Mbeluga and were like, i don't know if you know who it is, but you look like a lot like Audrey Plaza. Yeah.
Speaker: And then he looks at me, he's like, doesn't she? I was like, yeah. And I I'm fine with that. I love that. Yeah. Incredible. ah Yeah. It's just wood milk, wood milk.
Speaker: The ad, which premiered only a week after 18,000 cows were killed in a massive explosion at Texas dairy farm, received immediate backlash from critics calling both the campaign and Plaza herself desperate, tone deaf and out of touch.
Speaker: Wood Milk has since turned off comments on the original YouTube video, which has nearly 6 million views. What? Wood Milk? I'm going have to look this. I've never heard of this. Neither have Then what didn't they did a good job? work When was this funded by the Washington, D.C.-based advertising agency Milk Pep?
Speaker: The campaign is partially a response to the FDA's draft guidelines, giving plant-based alternatives permission to call themselves Milk. so long as their nutritional differences are clearly marked on the label.
Speaker: Oh, I do remember there was some discourse a few years back about how like an almond, like they have to call them like milk product or something. They can't call themselves milk.
Speaker: Or there was like something about that, which I get the fuck over it. I never looked at a tree and thought, can I drink this? Oh, this sounds like a very sassy article. When was it written?
Speaker: say the Tuesday, 2023. You say, oh, hold on. Hold on. Yeah, you can't say it. ah But it was it was Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023. So just a couple of years ago, relatively recent, all things considered.
Speaker: Yeah. Wow. Well. Big dairy. Big Dairy, there you go. It's just booing. I don't know why they're booing. Because Big Dairy is disgusting lobbying for the milk mustache.
Speaker: I mean, look at that. That is not a milk mustache. They put they put like crazy glue on this person's lip.
Speaker: Put crazy glue on their lip? Look at them. That's not what milk looks like when it sticks to your lip.
Speaker: No, you're right. It doesn't. It looks like somebody just took quick crazy glue and went. It's probably more of a cream. i bet you they make it. like Yeah, it's probably just like whipped cream or something like that. Yeah, it's probably more of that. So it have you like speaking of, have you ever seen like how they take commercial pictures of food for like McDonald's and stuff?
Speaker: Oh, yeah. I mean, it's not real food most of the time. No, it's not at all. It's like a rubber or it's like a burger, but they hammered it in place or like the cheese is just like actual.
Speaker: Just like colored paper or something like that. You know what I never got in those commercials was why does everything always have to fall? Like I never understood that either. I think that's like started by Coke when they used to pour it and you would see like the condensation. Yeah. You see like the, the, the, brow everything has to be like disgusting. And I'm like, why are you dropping it? Like, just leave it the way Or like, why does everything have to be dripping?
Speaker: Right. Like, leave it alone. Like, no one's doing that. Or like, I used to get in trouble because as a kid, you know, you ever watch those like face wash commercials and the pretty girls in the videos would just yeah just throw it in their face so they could have the big water effect or whatever.
Speaker: I was like, that's not how you wash your face. knew exactly where that going. Yeah. you do it once or twice. My parents like, dude, what the fuck are you doing? What are you doing? Fucking idiot.
Speaker: Like, uh, good times. Oh my God. You don't, now I see things like some of them. I forget what it was a commercial for, but they were pouring chocolate syrup on something and they're missing the food. Like they're going too far as they go across. Yeah.
Speaker: And I'm like, If somebody served this to me and then did the chocolate and like missed most of the time, i would be asking for like another one or something. Or I'd be like, what is wrong with you? Yeah, like, what are you doing?
Speaker: This doesn't make me want one. This makes me want to like punch who's ever pouring this chocolate and wasting it. Yeah, just like just the amount of...
Speaker: weird advertising that it's just like, like, it's just so. i don't know. I think like those drug commercials where the ad is very rarely about the drug and it's mostly just like, hi, I'm a soccer player and I can soccer because of this drug. And it's just like it shows them doing all of these things. And I'm like, these actors are told to just look like you enjoy each other as a family while we put like some guy talking really fast in the background about how the drug will give you every other disease.
Speaker: There was one commercial. that Mbeluga and I were seeing way too often on Hulu. It was some kind of little kid, like, pro like food, nutritional thing.
Speaker: And they would have the kids reading off the ingredients. And I mean, like, kids that could barely talk. So they're like, heylexi and is bawi gear And I'm like, I can barely understand what you're saying, but they're all saying this.
Speaker: And there's just this creepy ass woman hanging out at the park. Like, do you know how asparagus? I did know that. Very good. And at first you're like, okay, that's her kids maybe.
Speaker: But then clearly different kids start saying the next lines. And she's just sitting with the mom like, wow, that's really good to know. i'm like, does the mom even know who you are? Because she just like walks up to the mom and is like, you're really smart. Like, oh, my God, it's such a weird commercial. I still don't know what the last ingredient is because I cannot understand the kid. It's hatred. It's pure hatred.
Speaker: I know this commercial and I hate this. Yeah, hate you. I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm glad at least you know what Danny's talking about. Oh, dude, it's so bad. Yeah, I have ad blocker on and i so it still works on Hulu. So when I watch it, Hulu is awful for that stuff.
Speaker: You know, I would just like to say, as my old man opinion, that if I'm going to pay a subscription to a streaming service, I shouldn't have commercials. Hey, ah commercial agencies, I got a really cool money idea for you.
Speaker: All right. Here's the next thing you can lobby lobby that they can only have ah max 30 second commercials. I don't need to know the lady's life story about how she found out she had acid reflux before telling me about the pill. Just be like, do you have acid reflux?
Speaker: Take this to get rid of it. Do you need a new house? Use this website to find your house. that's all i need let me know the product exists you really think i give a fuck about the lady that's like this is jim jim just bought a new house and this is jane jane just bought a new house one has health abc insurance the other one doesn't yeah i don't give a fuck just tell me like i get really annoyed so campaign for that and you guys can fit more commercials they're only 30 seconds long so people don't get like
Speaker: so burned out on the stupid bullshit and the fucking, oh, the worst commercial or ever always gets stuck in my head was the stupid fucking cars for kids commercial.
Speaker: That song will never leave my head. You know, I'm getting passionate about, you that song doesn't leave my head. If you say baby shark, i'm going to slap you through the computer. No, I was going to say the song that doesn't end on from lamb chop.
Speaker: Well, that's fair. That song. no I mean, it's not stuck in your head. You're still just singing it It's just not done yet. Yeah. I haven't got done. Once I heard it when I was a boy, I still hear it now. It still hasn't ended, but I've learned must be a Mandela thing.
Speaker: It's not the song that never ends. It's a song that doesn't end. And it's. Oh, really? good mine Yeah. It's a song that doesn't end. Not the song that never ends. Oh, that's not how I learned it. I i know it's upsetting me that I have learned it wrong all these years. But what's that? The Mandela effect.
Speaker: Yeah, it's this. I looked it up and it's a song that doesn't end, not the song that never ends. And it's really upsetting that I. Yeah. Hitch says, I've seen the the commercial with the little kids on Tubi.
Speaker: A woman practically pops out of a trash can to talk about vegetables to kids who can't talk. Yeah, that's weird. If that were a man, it'd be a different thing. i need to. I need to send this to you. You need to see this easily. Don't poison my brain. oh yes um anyway hey folks let's round on this um we hope that you all enjoyed listening to danny's adventure and my adventure and understand better about how to listen to your your body and your mental health when you're uh
Speaker: you know, going on a new journey and recognizing when it's just like a little anxiety about change and when it's just you recognizing that this is just not for you.
Speaker: i still believe firmly life happens outside of your comfort zone, but like sometimes a comfort zone, you know, you can go. There is a such thing. as You can go too far. You can absolutely go too far outside of your comfort zone and recognize that just you're not equipped for certain spaces. Yeah.
Speaker: Um, you know, and it's okay to just be like, Hey, you know what? I'm not equipped for this. Uh, you know, so don't, I'm not going to do it, but, uh, but at least give it a try just like Danny and I did.
Speaker: Um, and yeah, Hey, also, you know, we got, we got some new merchandise on the store. We got our days of the week store, on the store. We got our bucket shirt for, um, on the store.
Speaker: i had a lot of people ask me to put that shirt up, but no one's purchased it yet. So if you don't like that, how it be I'm going to take it down. People like Kitty Poop and I worked very little on that song. And now I worked really hard to get Bucket up and no one's buying it. So.
Speaker: I'm going to get rid of it if no one's going to appreciate I'll take a bucket shirt. um And ah but also some of you have who are listeners, and I appreciate you very much for doing that.
Speaker: Um, we've sold five days of the week shirts, um, and one, what color is this shirt, which is pretty exciting. I love that. I love that. That's the case. Thank you. Thank you, uh, to our, um, to our listener Dixon. Cause you are the one who, uh, who purchased five shirts from us.
Speaker: Um, those are going to be shipped. Well, by the time you listen to this, they should have been shipped already, but as of this recording there, they're supposed to ship in a couple of days. Um, so just like the production's a bit backed up, but.
Speaker: Thank you for that. We have, so those are the main ones right now. We have days of the week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday shirts ah ah in seven different colors. So you can have seven different colored shirts and pick and choose whatever colors you like.
Speaker: You know, some people want a white Monday shirt. Some people want a black Monday shirt. You can do whatever you like. Um, there's only three colors for bucket. Cause I just didn't think it's only coming through colors.
Speaker: Well, the shirt doesn't look as good with bucket. Like, like some of the colors they give you just doesn't look well with the illustrations. i was like, i'm not going to force it on other colors just to, you know, just cause, um, so,
Speaker: Anyway, it's on there. I think that's all the ones we have for now, but we're going to be making some bookmarks and some bookmarks, but some greeting cards on there. it just worked very hard on this for Bucket. Absolutely. Bucket. I think everyone should be wearing a Bucket shirt with no context. Don't even tell people just wear it.
Speaker: And they're like, hey, what's up with Bucket? You go, nothing, man. What's up with you? You just keep going. You know, sometimes you just wake up and you just think Bucket.
Speaker: Bucket. And yeah, and of course, you know, thank you for listening. Thank you for prescribing and subscribing and Danny's on the interwebs doing voices and stuff. Danny, you want to tell them all about that again, buddy?
Speaker: Yeah, sure. So you could find me on ah Instagram and there Danny guarantee where I work with the creative mafia. ah Today is human only voices day. So that's June. Happy human only voices day. ah You can go on. We just,
Speaker: put out a whole bunch of shorts from MJ hollows book defiance and is the first book of a series for them. So we're very excited to get started on that. I'm a asshole motorcycle gang member, ah the son of the president. And i think love interest of the main character there or something.
Speaker: But yeah, ah very excited to be working on that. It is a little raunchy, so, you know, if you're into that sort of thing.
Speaker: Anything else? does yeah I got other stuff on the pipeline, but nothing nothing you guys need to concern yourself with yet. Yeah, don't concern yourself with it. Don't worry about it. just And if you're looking looking to, if you're looking to ah you know,
Speaker: support the show further. um We got a Ko-Fi. Go check that out. Fun and Sellers Network on Ko-Fi. Fun and Sellers is ah the only thing on the internet that has that name. So if you type it anywhere in Google, it'll say you'll see everything.
Speaker: ah Literally everything. Nothing else will come up remotely competitive with Fun and Sellers. We've got that shit down. So if you want to see any and all things that we've ever done on the internet since it was incarnated in like 2012,
Speaker: you'll see it just type in fun and sellers and it'll come up youtube channel website podcasts uh you know fucking what else did we do um c and d d and d stuff fucking products we did voice acting video game stuff yeah we did there there's there's such a want to go back and live down memory lane i have a ton of stuff on youtube under fun and sellers go look at that You can email fun installers right now on Gmail and I'll answer it. Like there's just literally fun installers everywhere.
Speaker: So if you want to reach out, there's tons of ways to do it. Please say hi. Please support us. We really appreciate it. And in the meantime, let's wrap this puppy right the fuck up. ah Real quick, Hitch, do you remember what that product was called? Oh, God, no.
Speaker: Hitch, don't help them. Don't help them. We don't need to. You know what? were don't We don't want to advertise for them. this Oh, no, don't worry. I'm just showing this to you. don't know. You're not paying. Everybody else can find their own crap.
Speaker: Well, while Danny's looking to torture me with an ad, ah everybody, please take care of your mind, take care of your heart. Most importantly, take care of each other and we'll see you all next time. Please be good to yourselves.
Speaker: And um hey, you know. If you need anything, give us a call sometime. Or don't. That's fine. As long as you don't be a piece of shit this year.
Speaker: That's true. Definitely don't do that. Because if you if you're a dick, then we probably can't be friends. So just don't, okay? I do tend not to be friends with dicks. It's true. Don't be a dick and try not to be a piece of shit this year.
Speaker: Danny, can you sing us out? Sing out that that lyric for us? use your use your use Use your beautiful singing voice and sing tell people to not be a piece of shit this year. Ah, okay.
Speaker: And so please try to be a good person and not a piece of shit this year.
Speaker: You heard the guy.
