Men At Work Podcast - A World Famous Musician, SEPTA Turmoil, & Schools BAN Cell Phones!

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

A world famous musician joins the show to talk about making it out of Siberia and playing the saxophone all around the world, SEPTA supporters school us on the Philadelphia transportation turmoil facing it in the state government, and schools all over the country are banning cell phones so we ask a school administrator about it. About Us: The Men At Work Podcast asks one question: What do you do for a living? After that the conversation flows from there. We've talked to substitute teachers, Bangladeshi t-shirt moguls, a real estate broker tight with LeBron James, and the Governor of Literal Pennsylvania. And we'll record anywhere. Random sidewalks during an eclipse, a furry convention, and more! Whether we like it or not, our jobs are most of our lives - might as well yap about it. If you want us to come to your event email us at: [e-mail] If you want more bonus content check out Office Hours a weekly workplace advice show on Patreon that subscribers submit their questions to and we answer them: https://www.patreon.com/menatworkpod *If you subscribe to the Patreon consider subscribing on a desktop or website or an android device, NOT THROUGH iOS (Apple) APP. Apple takes 30% of every month you're subscribed (yea they suck). Follow Us: The Pod: https://www.tiktok.com/@menatpodcast https://www.instagram.com/menatpod/ Follow Matt: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattpeoplescomedy https://www.instagram.com/mattpeoplescomedy/ Follow Kyle: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylepagancb/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kylepagancb Follow Vito: https://www.instagram.com/vito_visuals/?hl=en

What brings you out to the park today? It seems like you guys have some stuff going on. I came more to support SEPTA. What's going on with SEPTA? What's going on with SEPTA is not enough. And the Republican's argument is, well, doggone, we need to get money for our bridges and highways. What should do? The fact is, they're getting it.

Did anybody tell them? Just give them a quick reminder? Say, hey, guys, you have it. They might just have forgotten. Oh, shit. When you find, like, a deal 20 in your back pocket, they're like, awesome. Oh, my God. In my dresser here, right?

Oh, geez. Sorry, guys. Just got a pretty same, St. Anthony. Yeah, that's all. Yeah, dear St. Anthony, come around. Sethany funding's gone. It can't be found. Welcome back to another episode of Men at Work. I'm Kyle Pagan. As always, joined by Matt Peoples, and we're here in Rittenhouse Square talking to people about what they do for work. If you enjoy the show, hit subscribe, leave a comment on YouTube, leave a review on iTunes for us or Spotify because it helps a ton and let us get more incredible.

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We will shout a box. Shout you out. We will literally say your name over. We'll scream like Adrian, like a rocket did. Matt, we had a busy week this week. People are pissed off that the cost to watch live sports are increasing. Alcohol consumption for the first time ever is down. Yeah.

That lowest it's been since 1939. And people are complaining that the new chat GPT is too mean. Yeah. The new update is too mean. Where should we take it today? Well, I got to talk alcohol. consumption. What the hell is going on, people? It's 100% consumpted in my house. I'm responsible for at least 90% of nationwide consumption. I'm trying to pull my weight. Somebody join me for Christ's

sake. It's down to, I want to say, 54%. Is that right? 54%. We're talking like, back in 74 to 81, we had 70% of America was consuming alcohol. Yeah. Are you just looking at the protest over here? No, I was taking a peek. Seventy-four, sorry, yeah, of course. So back when these people who were protesting over here A lot of olds over here Alcohol consumption was at an all-time high At 70% But that's when you could like drink and drive too

Yeah, that's when you hear about your dad was like Yeah, you just didn't have more than 12 Because then you can't drive home It's like Jesus Christ Did you ever see that famous video Where it was like It was the people who worked at the mail office Back in the 80s

I think it was like Cincinnati or something like that They made a federal law that you couldn't drink and drive And the one USPS office was going absolutely insane They were like what are we going to do next Give our fucking country to Vietnam, give it to China. They'll be those guys over there protesting the No Kings or just be no Miller Lights restrictions. Oh, dude, if they took away my Miller Lights and took away my garage beers, my Bud Lights. That's the thing.

Like, these guys, we had, here's what we need to do, and this is what we might finally get it. We need to get our biggest crack scientist together. Yeah. Back in the 40s, it was the atom bomb. Yeah. We need a hangover cure. You know how you have all those hangover cures? It's like, oh, take this blowfish or take this liquid IV, it cures the hangover.

Blowfish. You never had Blowfish? No, what is that? Blowfish was like, that was around for a little bit. You buy that on Amazon, and apparently if you took it before you went to bed or took it before you went out to drink that night, you wouldn't wake up with a hangover. Is that right? It was junk.

And it never worked. It was crap. I buy those hangover things every time I go to the liquor store, and then it's just me having to chug some tiny little five-hour energy style bottle. It's all junk signs. It is. But if there's ever a time that Anheuser-Busch, Molson Coors, all the big Labats, blues and everybody gets together, it's now because if you if you want to because I think it's directly correlated to how bad hangovers are yeah yeah it has to be it has to be I mean I just like I think people are quitting on the booze

I think they're moving to the weed drinks and I think that's no good as somebody who does participate booze right no it's just marijuana weed it makes you high you don't get drunk off of it you just get nervous alone in your apartment and you watch like Mike by yourself that's not fun that's fun for me or for guys I know guys I have heard of like that stuff because I just think about it like when you go back like think of the nice cocktail down the shore watching the sunset or Think about a nice cocktail in a field, a nice Budweiser after you're done mowing the lawn or something like that. Yeah, I know. But there's nothing better than a nice beer after you do something.

Or honestly, just work eight hours a day and just get yelled up by your shit boss the entire day. You go to your shit boss and then you write into office hours on the Patreon, one dollar to your subscribe, please. And then you go home to your mean wife and she's drinking wine. But she tells you if you drink beer, it makes her nervous because her dad did. So then you can't drink beer and she's wine drunk. Then you got to watch Love Island. You're like, babe, I think we watch this episode. And she's like, you just remember because you think the girls are hot.

It's like, shut up. Yeah. Anyway, so that's what beer is like in my life. I am commencing suckdown today to help out. Pause. Yeah, you're going to a suck down event. I'm going to suck down an event. I'm going to Broomette, Jason Kelsey's premiere of his mock movie, I want to say.

Basically blood sport, but he was powered by the consumption of garage beer. Okay. Yeah. Okay, I like that. Good stuff. Not a commercial at all. Very nice. do you think like back to the alcohol consumption thing

I just feel like there I just feel like you couldn't watch a sunset on shrooms I'd be terrified I don't know how people do any of that stuff like looking at nice picturesque things while you're high to me it just reminds me that I'm gonna die one day

Burke Krischer has that all time quote where he's just like I just like to drink here I like to drink there I like to drink like and he just he details it so well and he puts it into like such a perspective on how awesome it is to drink beer. It is. Because, like, the last time that I saw a sunset or a sunrise, it was because of cocaine.

Yeah. Is that right? I haven't seen a sunrise in a decade. And you were inside during this week. You weren't even outside. I was taking the blinds and, like, looking outside, being like, I got to go to sleep. That lady has a bird's chirping.

That's the sickest way to watch. A sunrise is very suspiciously through your blinds while you're smacked off coke. What are those kids doing out there riding on their bikes? They're doing wheelies, and they keep swerving around people. I don't like that at all. It's just like, yeah, I mean, you can't, like, these designer drugs, these kids are getting nowadays, these vapes, like, you can't bring a beer to English class. Yeah, you can't bring a beer. You bring a vape to English class.

Which I don't get, let the kids drink beer. I think kids should be, as long as they're full-time in students. Okay. They should be allowed to have at least three beers today. What age? Fourteen. Okay, so belly, so basically, what is it in Ireland? It's, as long as your belly's to the bar?

Is that what it is? I think it is. They have just, they measure you? I think they have, like, a certain alcohol law, but, like, you get in, like, those real. country-ass areas, I think once you get a head above the bar, come on, have a pint. Yeah, what's the issue, dude? There's like 11 cops in that town. They can't pull everybody over. Yeah. And the Irish are so happy. Yeah, they are. Well, they're a little mean. They've gotten meaner. Since they got an example of Connor McGregor kicking people's asses,

they've gotten a little bit meaner. I'm speaking of my own people, of course, but some has been going on where there's a lot of shadow boxing infiltrating the Irish community. Hey, how you're doing there, fucker? What you got there? Buddy shot, buddy shot. I was looking at the charts about the alcohol consumption. It's all the whites. It's the whites who are stopping it. But it's the whites who are making less than $40,000 and making more than $100,000. I, in between $40,000 to $99,99, I'm keeping up with the consumption.

So it's down for people in that price range that are making that amount of money? In that tax bracket, yep. And are hwant. So the rich is, the, I don't want to say 1%, but like the rich people who are making like six figures or more. Yeah. It's like down 13% in that bracket. Okay. And then the people who are making 40,000 hours or less, it's down in that bracket.

Which you think if you were, like, poor. Yeah, at least steal. Well, they might be, yeah. They might be stealing it. So you can't record that that's actually being sold. Oh, okay. So it seems like maybe it's, maybe people are stealing more. That could be a nice way to turn this.

Yeah. It's not that alcohol's down. People are stealing more. Well, I mean, also you think about the people who make $40,000 and $900,000, I don't mean to go factual Kyle on you and everything. Okay. But those people are typically in their 20s and 30s where, like, drinking is like a big thing. Yeah.

You know? Where you're going out every night. you're going out like five nights a week and stuff you're going to the bars and everything when you're a hundred thousand dollars usually you're like maybe like a career person or 35 40 years old yeah again back to the hangovers it all goes it all goes back to the hangovers because you take an edible and it's amazing the next day no i don't know oh really i actually was thinking about that recently uh allegedly uh i know somebody who was me that took an edible and the next morning i couldn't have a thought i didn't have a thought till like the afternoon

it's a different kind of hangover you don't feel shitty it just feels like your brain is like it feels like a fuzzy tv screen okay that's how i feel at least the edible hit me, dude. That's what I think when I'm drinking. I'm terrified for my bachelor party. Oh, yeah? I haven't drank like that in months. You have been... Years. You actually, now that you bring that up, you might be part of this reduction in alcohol. I was not been booed for a little bit, but I wasn't

I'm back on the wagon. I know, but you go through these ebbs and these flows. I remember a while ago, you were like, I want to do 30 days clean or some shit like that. I just wanted to do 30 days, yeah, and then I bought a beat machine, or I was thinking about buying a beat machine. And then I was like, I've got to get back on the booze. Yeah, this is where it goes. Dude, the minute you're so looking through eBay for like this beat machine's rated really well for a used machine.

That's when you're like, I had to have a cocktail immediately. It's so bad because like I will say this and it's not going to help the case and everything. But when you stop drinking and you're just surrounded by friends and family who are drinkers, your life becomes the most boring thing in the world. Yeah, that's probably right. You have to replace it with beats and hiking. Yeah, I think you have to like get to know yourself, which sounds awful. I have no interest in that.

Pick up basketball. I think what else I tried to replace it with? Reading. I feel I got a lot more text from you during that time I'm like, what are you up to, dude? And I'm like, having fun. You stay in home in your weird layer. No, I couldn't do it.

I couldn't do it. And I won't do it. It's got a course correct, though, because, like, again, drinking, I hate to harp on drinking, but drinking is, it's fun. It's so much more fun than designer drugs. What do I want to do? Melt in my couch and watch a documentary? Yeah, but that's a nice change of pace.

As I get older, I notice that I don't like being out at the bar that long. But I like coming home with the group that I went there with and then continue drinking at the apartment. What about a daytime drink? I love a daytime drink. Daytime drink is still number one forever. You get a summertime, 7 p.m. daytime drink. Ooh, there's not much better.

Put me at a brewery, although bone to pick with breweries. People, you can bring your kids and you can bring your dog. You don't have to bring your kids and your dog and your kid's dog. What's the problem? Oh, my God, dude. I'm starting to sit there and enjoy a beer that tastes bad. And meanwhile, I have kids running around stepping on my toes, dogs barking, yelling, humping.

Outdoor brewery or indoor brewery? A lot of the indoors are letting them indoors these days. I say leave the dog at the car, roll the windows up. No, I'm kidding. But, you know, it's just too much. It's too much going on. Then you've got drunk moms running around. It's just allowed.

Breweries are really kind of, if you ask me, they're on a down slope. Interesting. Yeah, I'm not happy with breweries. I used to be a big brewery head. And I think because everyone's trying to make the new cool beer, they all just are starting to kind of taste bad. A lot of hazy is very hazy right now. Which I enjoy in this hazy IPA because they're a little lower.

Yeah. I had a dogfish 60 minutes the other day. Shout the dogfish, one of the greatest beers of my young generation. But, like, it doesn't hit like it used to. The IPAs, it just, like, drives my mouth out. It's like, my taste buds are just changing. But I also, I don't like the, even just what you said, like the names, now that they sound like a quarterback doing like a fucking snap count. True.

Double dog day, A, high SPA. Yeah. I don't like that. Wide right trips. Wide right trips. IPA. Jason Kelsey, garage beer. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't like it. It's tough. But we do like garage beer. So you think it's the breweries? You think the breweries have something to do with the lower alcohol consumption? Yeah, I think people are, that's like some of their earlier exposures to drinking at a place, and they're realizing it kind of stinks on ice.

Yeah? At least that's what I think. Maybe we can ask ChatGPT, who apparently is way too mean to people right now. They don't like their tone. They don't like the new ChatGPT's update. They don't like Sam Waltman's tone that he put it on his little robot. What is it, what does it say? Apparently, it's not nice.

Really? It's not being nice to people. It's condescending? It said it's condescending. Yeah, they said the tone is a little off. Did you pull any up? Like any reason? I didn't pull any up, but people, but that were the reviews when Chad GPT5 came out that

Sam Waltman was, his little, uh, his little too feisty for people's liking, which is such a 2025 headline. It's insane. Oh my God. We're tone policing AI now. This is the craziest thing I've ever heard. What is that even, although I can't even say that because if chat GPT was snarky to me, that would really make me upset.

Every time I thought the chat GBT He's like, holy shit, dude How have you been? That's a great question, actually. No, you cannot get too high and die. You should be fine, man. That is pretty funny, though, like, actually, like, if the chat GBT, I actually kind of agree

with the reviews is, the chat GBT wants to win. Like, Sam Alman's out there saying that, like, we're going to have one day more conversations a day with AI than we are with other humans, which I think that's probably already happening. Yeah. The tone has to be nice. You have to be nice, robot AI.

Depends. I think it depends on the person. I don't think you would like a friendly AI. You're a very get-stuffed-done type of guy. Yeah. I think you want the no-nonsense. Yeah. I need to be like, hey, Matt, how is your day?

Yeah. You look good today. There's new Birkenstocks? Yeah, that's right. Oh, by the way, you're asking you about if you can get too high and die? No. No, man, you'd be fine. Me?

You, you like, this is a chatty-bitty. Weisenhogan. I want my chat chivity to be a strong, mean Asian man. Is that right? I want mine to be a direct, a direct to, there's an Asian man sitting across. Yeah, I got fun with this one. I want my, I want my, I want my, I want my, I want my chat GPT to be like a father, an Asian father whose kid just brought him a B in science. Oh, okay.

So most disappointing. Maybe without the corporal disfutishment, but like the, you've dishonored your family. Is that what it is? But we're going to cut it right to the chase. You don't want I'm mad. I'm disappointed. Yeah. You want, but Asian disappointed.

Well, I'm not mad on disappointing as more like Italian Irish father. Sure. I want more like, you do it again. Oh, is that right? I'm going to dump chucks out. I'm going to super coup. Yeah, your dad's going to kill himself. If you bring this one out to this family.

By the way, quick sidebar. What a great parenting strategy is if you're mad at your kids that they're doing bad stuff, tell them, hey, if you don't knock this off, daddy's going to kill himself. That's actually so sick, dude. Hey, you're talking about you got another excessive talking in class. I promise you. shoot myself in the mouth in front of you and your sister. Is that okay?

Yeah. You get what I'm saying? I mean, what do you want? I mean, like, you want your chat GPT to be like into renewable energy. That's your chat GPT. Yeah, that's what I want. Like liberal dad who reads like Newsweek. Yeah, he just tells you it's beautifully tried.

That's what I'm saying. Just give me a great question. And then respond to the obviously bad question that I asked. Your chat GPT has chicken soup for the soul in his bathroom so that I can read about facts and poems and soliloquies. Yeah. I want to go, I don't want to read about facts. I want to go read about feelings.

Now, my chat GPT, he's got Young Su's The Art of War. I know I just fucked that artist's name up. I think your chat GPT's name is Young Su. Sun Tzu. Sun Tzu's art of war. That's my chat. That's my chat GPD. That's my time since we have spoken.

Your question is almost dishonorable. You come home with another bee? That's it for today. So I'll have the chat GBT, but get a little nicer, dude. I'm going to lose a little bit nicer. I just want more direct questions. Like, when I ask Chat Chb-T, I'm just like, yeah, what's the big news today? Bro, by the way, they frame it, like, them being like you're going to talk to chat

GPT more than you talk to other people. Dude, it's just a Google search. It's just, I, like, that's basically you saying, like, you're going to use the Internet a lot during your life. It's like, okay, yeah, no shit. Of course, I'm going to ask things to learn more knowledge. I'm not having a direct conversation. Now, there are people, like we talked about it last time, like the AI girlfriends

and all that shit, I don't know how I feel about that. Well, you're the one talking to him. Yeah, I'm just checking in on naughty girl, for God's sake, God forbid. Good, yeah, the girlfriend didn't love that pitch. Not to go. A little just, you know, I'm actually banging down syndrome, I don't have to worry about her, dude. Hand him from them back. All right, that's getting cut.

That's not getting cut. That was fucking hilarious. Nottie girl. And then what was the other one, general thinker or something like that? Master arguer. See, Master arguer, that's your, that's chat. That's chat to BT5. That's the master debate. Yeah. Shout out Carmen. Shout out South Park. Yeah. No, of course, dude.

By the way, so we, I guess we can touch on it briefly. D.C. is now a police state, and it seems like we got folks trying to make that not happen here. Yeah, we got a No Kings protest actually to our right. I would love to talk to a cop to see see if like a Philly cop God, what a fucking mind

melter that would be in. That would be a night. fun with that, dude. If Trump was like, by the way, we're taking over Philadelphia, and, like, you, and the National Guard comes in and takes over, like, your, you're, like, duty. Yeah, he's running your beat. I cannot, I cannot fathom. Like, go ahead, dickhead. You do it. Yeah, see how easy it is.

He's fast as hell. Go catch him. These fucking guys are fast as hell in Philly. They see, they move like snails over there, but over here, they're sprinters. Cause. That would be the crazy. This interaction, dude. A poor Coast Guard guy who's like,

I signed up because I thought I'd never have to do anything ever. He's like, wait, I'm the police in D.C. now? What the fuck? I was hoping to be called in like every five years when there was a riot. Now I actually have to work 24 hours a day. Fuck this, dude. It's not even the coast, dude. I'm not even guarding the coast.

It's in the name. What am I doing out here? What am I guarding the potomic, potomac, whatever the fuck that thing is called? guarding capital cupcakes or whatever that place is called on Georgetown's campus? We could have used the National Guard on January 6th. Dude, we should have stormed a cupcake place. Where was Trump then? He didn't call the boys in then.

He was tweeting that Mike Pence is gay, dude. He was fucking busy that day. God, what a psychopath, dude. What a crazy thing. Dude. It's all, it's doing all this because someone called him a pedophile. He's like, that's it. The Coast Guard's our police now.

That's it. You guys want to call me Petit File? That's it. I'm spazzed. I'm going nuts. What if the Epstein files in the files that says you have to make the Coast Guard the police? That's him releasing the early files, dude. Also, as can't stand up, obviously, but an all-time quote, in the middle of his speech announcing that D.C. is now a military-run police state.

He's talking about everybody's trans. Everything trans now. They're all trans. It's like, what the fuck are you talking about? Did you see that? It's because everything's trans. They're all trans. really but these guys they're all becoming girls this is crazy my guy and these

these police are transitioning to Coast Guard just like these trans women in our in our military it's just called the Coast Guard boys just called our great our beautiful our best police forces everything they're gonna be the fucking Coast Guard they're gonna have them run Washington DC the Coast Guard they're gay we all know we all know we all say look the guys in the Marines they tell me that they say these guys are gay mr. President they say, sir. He always starts when people address him. He always mentions that they call him, sir. He tries to be nuts. Dude, he tries to be nuts, dude. The guy said, sir, he said,

the most military we've ever had in music, can you believe it? He's just spazzing in the group chat right now. Dude, he's got to be getting... Your voice is like, like, everybody has a group chat, and, like, sometimes the group chat turns on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes, it's going through it. It's sometimes it's your day. You know, it's never fun. But you know what? You got to take it like a champ. Yeah. You can't be, well, at least my mom's not dead. You can't say that. You can't say that. Like, like, if someone's, like, if someone's

gonna roast you you're getting roasted you got a lot of be roast and he's getting roasted right now and he's telling his best friend he's like well at least my mom still alive yeah he's like DC you're now mine what a wonderful equivalency that alligator Alcatraz now you're mine dude

holy shit he just went in yeah he's going he's losing his he's losing his marvels dude he's just like he's telling his other best friend is like well at least I didn't lose my job after six months it's like Jesus Donnie it's like we gotta get Donnie out of the group chat he's too powerful still sending Joey B you uptext, though, the entire time.

I miss you, Joe. God. Joe, we miss you. I hate, I mean, just, dude, imagine. Dude. I've been caught a pedophile. We're in my group chat. Like, we just let, we just let shit fly.

Like, it's like, if you subpoenaed people's group chats, none of us would ever be able to go outside ever again. Yeah, no, I totally agree with that. You get, he's caught a pet file. I was getting caught a bedfile and spaszing, dude. D. Dude, honestly, I kind of, I don't want to say I respect it, but I would have a similar reaction if these amenities were

afforded to be. I would enact the police state if somebody had pressing evidence that I was a pedophile. Do you think he just like wakes up? He's like wait, wait, I can do that? Yeah. He's just wait someone days. His entire life is like, God, I wish I could arrest citizens

with the military and they're like, uh, this page and this fucking bullshit document actually says you can. Nice, let's do that. They'll never call me a pedophile again. Don't ever fucking call me a photofoil. There was another thing that he did. It's like, everything's just like so funny. It's like, yeah, it's like, hey, but everybody, look over here. Look over here. It's all

look over here. It's all look over here. It's a lot of him, yeah, distracting. Oh, that's the best. What what do? He was, like, doing, like, there was one that was fucking hilarious the other day. It was like a couple weeks ago. It was like when the Epstein finals were going hot in the streets. Well, he got him on the city suini stuff. That was what it was. Yeah, it was like, he's like Sydney Sweeney. Yes, Melania. Go sue Hunter Biden for one billion dollars. That's crazy, dude. That's another. That's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, It really is. It goes in that laundry list of, like, somebody goes to a pedophile.

You're like, I'm fucking suing the ex-president son. I'm an acting at police state. I'm talking about Sidney's Tids. I'm losing. I'm losing me. I'm not doing good. He's the friend that's sending you, like, 11 TikToks. You know, like, I've watched a single one.

Your girl's like, what's wrong today? He's like, nothing, not knowing that you're just getting smoked in the group chat right now. Yeah, she has no idea the battle you're fighting. He little kiss spas. You ever like, when you were like, Kevin Hart has a great bit about this when it's like, you're going to send me to my room, bitch. Oh, yeah. Yeah, when you go in your room and you silent scream as a kid.

Oh, yeah, Joe. Just screaming to his pillow 24-7. It's the best. If you ever wondered if it was like, hey, I wish I could watch the most powerful man in the world crash out literally right in front of me. Like, I wish I knew what presidents were like when it was like really going bad behind the scenes. And we're just watching it all play out. We're going to see it. It's amazing to watch.

It's the saddest but most entertaining reality show I've ever, unfortunately, but a part of, dude. It's a Dallas Cowboys, except the Dallas Cowboys are being running the fucking world. This is hard knocks, dude. It's behind the scenes. You can see that there's a lot of turmoil in the locker room. We need a hard-knock style for the presidency. We're getting it for Christ's sake, dude. Him and Putin behind it.

They don't hide anything. Dude, say what you want about him. What? Flying a B-2 bomber over Putin's head when he got there. Yeah. That's obviously sick, but obviously sick. I cannot argue that. We've spoken about it before that a plane flying over, boy do I do.

Ra, cacao! Whatever an eagle sounds like. Cacall? It's got. But, yeah, I don't know. I had a point. It's the most American thing you can do It is

It truly, although I heard Fox News reported That Putin steamrolled Trump Quote steamrolled Yeah Are they jealous of CBS Now that he's in bed with CBS Now they're just reporting

They're saying he stinks They're saying he got lit up Wow Putin lit Trump up Damn Evidently so Can't wait to watch it on hard knocks On Tuesday

Don't mess with Texas This lady's lost Sir is that a violin Saxophone You want to talk about for five minutes We'd love to hear about it. What do you do for a living? Let's talk about it for five minutes.

What's your first name? My name is Valentin. Valentin. So what brings you to the park today? And what are your names? Kyle? Yeah, I guess we should do that too. I'm Matt.

Yeah. I'm Matt. Sorry. We're Americans. We're not the most, we don't, we don't. We kind of, if there's a spectrum of sexy names, Valentine's over here, and Kyle and Matt. Like when your name sounds like a sound effect, it's tough to really compete with Valentine's. Like the Batman in 1977.

Like the Batman, 976, I was like, pow! Your name. is the sound of two things hitting one another, yeah. And what do you do for a living? I play saxophone for a living. Wow. An band and an orchestra? It's like as a soloist.

I actually play classical saxophone, so like classical music, so a bunch of other crossover styles. Wow. Do you live in the city or are you visiting the... Yeah, I actually live right by the Rittenhouse Square. So it's a nice place. It's got to be a nice place. That saxophone's working overtime. If you're going to afford a place in Renthouse, it's good for you, dude.

Yeah, I'll try my best You're touring? Yeah Yeah, touring sometimes I just came from like From Asian countries I was there for like almost a month Yeah, Asia likes a saxophone

For sure I mean anywhere like saxophone I feel like anywhere like saxophone We're getting a saxophone for our wedding Are you really We're getting a band A little bit of a DJ hybrid And then we made sure we're getting a saxophone

Oh yeah Yeah Saxophone's great. Of course, yeah. It's the instrument of, I don't know, love. It's the most romantic instrument that you can imagine. Totally unbiased. It's also hearing somebody say that with their shirt, half a button in chest hair.

It kind of adds to the allure. I look like this every day. I was going to say, this feels like this part of the uniform for a saxophone guy. It's got to have a nice lit-in shirt. Always ready to play or to film a short video on Instagram. Okay. So is that how you promote for the most part? You just do Instagram stuff?

I like it. I do Instagram stuff also. I'm trying to be very active because, I mean, that's the best way to, like, promote ourselves. Sure. And it's a free tool that all of us can use, you know. Yeah. But it's tough, having to do the front-facing videos and re-record over it over again. Yeah, I mean, you get used to it for sure.

I mean, when I started off, like, playing saxophone, I could never imagine that that would be like my profession. Yeah. And plus, doing the social media, I mean, definitely it takes another set of skills to be able to do this kind of job. Yeah, we kind of run into that, too, with the podcast. You want to just do a podcast, but you also have to be a marketing guy for... Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's like you have to learn all of the aspects of the business, not just to play saxophone. Because playing the instrument, like, once you mastered it, like, you already stop practicing.

You're just like maybe take maybe 5% of your time is just for practice. And then the rest of the time is just like social, social part, networking and, like, reaching out to different people. So I noticed you're here with, was that your wife or your girl? Yeah, it's my wife and my daughter here. So anytime you guys get in a flight, is it so easy to diffuse by just starting to play the saxophone? Like, if she's upset with it, you just say we're like a b'am-b-la-l-l-l-l-lose whisper? I mean, sometimes actually on the flights I carry this like a plastic travel-sized saxophone. Really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you can, like, plug it in. It's like a cool device is like you can just plug in your headphones and just practice. Suddenly? Okay. Sidentally, yeah. With all due respect. If you didn't, before you said headphones, if you would have brought a travel-sized fucking sacks on the airplane,

I would have opened the hatch and jumped down my stuff. I thought you were openly playing the sacks. One of those videos that I hate is when, like, people are, like, they're delayed and then, like, the Christian music band or, like, one of the bands that are on the flight, then they start just playing all their music on the flight while they're doing. No. No. We're in this misery together. No one wants to hear your music.

I'm sitting shoulder, shoulder, with two fat dudes, brutally hungover. The minute I hear any music start being played, I'm called the cops. So have you played in like any big venues in Philly? Like what's, in Philly? Yeah, we do sometimes performances like in the old town, in an old city, like in the Independence Hall. So, yeah, just always make concerts like in a Trinity church on the 22nd Street or this church and the Holy Trinity. Where's your favorite spot to perform? Like anywhere.

Anywhere? Yeah. Well, I just played in the largest hole in Taiwan like a few weeks ago. And it was with the largest organ of all Asia, and so I got to play with it. It was very cool. Yeah. You can imagine a combination of saxophone, which is one of the youngest instruments, and then organ, which is one of the oldest instruments.

So sax is a young instrument? It's very young. When was it invented? It's like 1846. So compared to any other instruments, it's like one of the youngest instruments, you can imagine. Triangle was probably like Mesopotamia. Yeah, yeah. I mean, all of the percussion instruments is definitely like one of the oldest.

ones. Do you ever think about didgeridoo? Sorry? You ever think about didgeridoo? What does it mean? Did you do? It's an Australian one, right? African. Those ones. I mean, I'm always fascinated with those, like, folk instruments. I mean, they don't get to, like, be performed as often as saxophone, but it's very, very fun, and you can always get lots of inspiration from those sounds. How'd you get into sax, unbearable parents that want you to get into an instrument? No, not at all, actually, the other way around. You were unbearable. And they're like, it's going to He's got so much ADHD, we have to give him something to do. He's pulling out the mini saxophone again.

It was just, like, you know, like, from exposure. Okay. Like, I saw a saxophone play at the cafe, and I was, like, so fascinated. So I was, like, immediately sparked on. Where was that cafe located? It was, like, in Siberia, where I'm from. So you're from Siberia. Yeah, so you could probably tell by Mike's in that I'm from not from here.

I couldn't put a... Yeah, I just thought you were from, like, Illinois or something. I didn't know. I thought you were in right now, so. Yeah. Siberia. for like past five years but yeah I'm from Siberia yeah and so I was growing up there Siberian orchestra like is that basically your guys like Rolling Stones I mean lots of

musical styles and like you can imagine that there's so many some actually so many people live in Siberia like despite all of the beliefs that there's just just snow and trees and bears but yeah it's like all developed huge cities all of the bears play saxophones. He's getting comfortable now. There's a couple bears at Woody's that play saxophone too. I mean, here on the streets, you have, like, Elma bands. I've seen a couple of weeks ago, like, a person dressed up as a cat playing a violin.

You know, people are always creative. Yeah, that was our producer. He was here a freeway afternoon. He's got a Spider-Man right there. Yeah, Spider-Man playing the saxophone. Hope he doesn't take that job. To Siberia, do you guys have any superheroes? Superheroes in Siberia.

Yeah. It's all just circus bears. Iceman? Yeah, true. Circus bears, yeah. Traveling gypsies. I cannot think of like Superman's for sure, but like some characters, definitely. Yeah.

I was curious of any like. What's Siberia like? Because, again, how you described it is how us Americans think about it. I mean, when you are growing up in those areas, you cannot imagine that life could be better. Oh, God. That's called Stockholm. syndrome I mean when you're born and like in those harsh conditions you just look around and everyone else just live the same life right with you so you understand

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