Men At Work Podcast - Flight Attendant Tells Us the Real Story Behind the Viral Plane Lady!

Episode Date: July 10, 2024

Matt and Kyle are at a farmers market in Philadelphia where they recap their 4th of July including Kyle's awkward encounter with a fan in the bathroom. They meet a flight attendant in Philadelphia who is in town for a layover. Then they meet an English as a second language teacher who immigrated from Ukraine and a hostess who tells them her pet peeves of the restaurant industry. They finish with an AV Project Manager and a education tech saleswoman who finds rich people to donate to schools. 00:00 - Kyle has an awkward encounter with a fan 7:45 - Flight Attendant 41:00 - ESOL Teacher 48:43 - Restaurant Hostess 58:56 - Drummer and Education Sales #philadelphia #flying #flightattendant Check out our sponsor Thrive Flower! Thrive sells real cannabis products outside of the medical system. They have 9 strains of flower, 6 strains of pre rolled joints, 4 strains of vapes, gummies, and lemonades. They are the first and only company offering same day cannabis delivery within Philly. Order your cannabis at https://thriveflower.com/ and it will be delivered in about an hour. Use code menatwork15 for 15% off orders. Simply choose “same day delivery” during checkout. This applies for Philly residents ONLY. About Us: The Men At Work Podcast asks one question: What do you do for work? After that the conversation flows from there. We’ve met substitute teachers, Bangladeshi t-shirt moguls, a real estate broker tight with LeBron James, and more. And we’ll record anywhere. Random sidewalks during an eclipse, a baseball game, a bar crawl, casino, and more. We like to find out what people do for a living. If you want us to come to your event email us at: [e-mail] If you want more bonus content from every episode check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/menatworkpod 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

I love the girly that was like, um, I'm telling you right now, that mother is not real. Oh my gosh. You want to know what happened? Cause I got the inside story. Three, two, one. Welcome back to another episode of men at work podcast. We're at a farmer's market down by South street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I'm Kyle Pagan.

As always, I'm joined by Matt Peoples. We're back after taking a week off For the 4th of July holiday I just want to say Thank you to the blue collar Baby Ooh Dude

You built that up Over the last week I like that Oh my god I've been working on the pipes What you got for the white collar Criminals You skipped one of our

Baby boys And the middle class I was going back to the middle class Mommies We got Vito behind the camera on the ones and twos Go check that kid out over there A little hungover celebrating his birthday on Monday So throw some happy birthday Cheeto in the comments for us

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Use code MENATWORK15 for 15% off orders. Simply choose same-day delivery during checkout. This applies for Philly residents only. Vito got a taste test. Vito, can we get one word out of you of the taste test of Thrive? Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. It was smooth, and I enjoyed the taste of it,

and I felt pretty good afterwards. And where did you do it? During my dog walk. Bring the dog along, man. What's better than that? And that was one word from Vito on Thrive veto he's a man of few yeah man yeah when he gets the mic dude he's mr superstar i love him and he was telling we were getting live updates as he was on the dog walk pretty detailed updates you'd think you'd just be like i smoked it it's really nice but he was like great high very mellow very relaxed

so veto might be our uh somalia Thrive. Yeah. One of the best dog walks he's ever been on. That's what he said. Gets dog walked a lot. Verbatim. Yeah. The dog wasn't even with him. That's how great he was feeling.

He just pretended. He just held his arm out like that the whole time. Cleaned up his own poop. You should you could probably use a Thrive to cure a hangover honestly. It is true.

A little morning a little wake and bake just take care of that thing. Fill up those pores a little bit. Those pores are sweating. Yep. Speaking of fans I met a fan over the weekend, over the Fourth of July holiday. Yeah, did you really?

They're real. Oh, my God. Our boys are out there. Our boys and girls, of course. Well, I walk into the old bathroom. He's at the urinal. Spots me immediately. Yeah.

Goes, Pig, and how are you, man? Man at work. Man at pod. I'm like, oh, hey, man, how are you? I was all jazzed out because I was like, dude, one of of the first guys i ever met so now we're in this kind of awkward like standoff um he finishes up a little bit i'm about to go walk he goes in for the high five the dap up yeah and this guy's hands just got off his dick which honestly i mean you know it happens it's a urinal i quickly uh regroup go for the pound i'm like all right that is on and you're a pound

guy even uh even outside of clay dudes peeping on their hands. Every time we do it, you guys might never see it, but every time we have a guest come on, I go for a handshake because I'm a dignified colonial man. And this guy's over here, I'll pound you, you know, the China virus, whatever he says. And so I'm kind of excited to hear that that's how we met one of our first listeners in the wild, dude.

Yeah, so I thought I was out of, I thought I was out, you know. I did it. I quickly regrouped, pounded the guy. I was out. Then he keeps going. He's like, dude, one of my favorite episodes was when we were doing the Hellens. State sale? The state sale.

Yeah, so he starts talking about the state sale. So I'm like, damn, this guy's like actually legit. Like I thought maybe he saw a clip and stuff. But he's like, no, I actually watched the state sale. Yeah. So he starts talking about the estate sale. So I'm like, damn, this guy's like actually legit. Like I thought maybe he saw a clip and stuff, but he's like, no, I actually watched the estate sale. Sure.

Comes back with the death. And I already denied the first death. And I don't think you're allowed to deny the second death. No. So I went,

death. And I fucking better have earned a listener for life because I had dick hands the rest of the time that I was peeing. You were like Peter denying Jesus, dude. You'll deny me three

times from the dab. Shout out to that guy. Yeah, man. You're the man. Thanks for listening. Thanks for touching Kyle with your peepee hands. Nothing makes me happier than hearing this guy having to dab up, dude. You're a better man than me because I would panic on the second time and kiss him on the mouth. Truly.

Yeah, but that's what I love. I love that we're meeting people out there and stuff you guys are enjoying the podcast we really appreciate it if you uh you do like this podcast you want some more bonus content go to patreon.com men at work pod if you want us to ever join you at your uh sales office or somewhere else maybe you could mention you're throwing email us at men at podcast at gmail.com um What did you do for the fourth? Well, Kyle went down the shore, and I think I'm finding out that 28 is like the final resting ground of my drinking like a psycho stuff. I tried to keep up throughout the week.

With who? With myself. You know how you said on our last episode that you're trying to impress yourself? I'm trying to do that to my 21-year-old drinking self. I'm like, remember, I could do this too. And he's looking at me like, you little. Like a 33-year-old running back who still thinks he has a second wind. Dude, just dig me out back and shoot me in the head. And I've tried to mix it up too.

I mean, that was probably where I went wrong. We went to wineries, breweries, regular bars, cocktails. And it came along. We were supposed to stay until Saturday. I left Friday morning because I was like, I have to go home and be in my own bed i said the terms be in my own bed you tapped out i'm done i can't do it anymore all that said it was a good time yeah i did see your your grigio flight which i thought was really romantic dude i'll take you to a winery and it'll change your life take you to a winery and drink you under the table yeah dude i love going to a winery i got a a dole i don't know if they could show this they

at the winery we went to i'll have to think of the name but they have this like dole whip sangria okay at one point i like accidentally grabbed the straw with two hands and took a sip out of it and that's when i knew i was done i was done can you try it i did one of these i did like i went to grab it and it slipped a little bit and I grabbed it with the second finger and, and my shoulders, like your shoulders instinctually come up whenever you do that. So I was like, it was, and my girlfriend watched it and I don't think we're ever going to sleep together again. Did you guys talk about it? No, she like didn't bring it up, which made it worse. That made it real. She was like, I won't even address that one. It was quite a nightmare. But how was your fourth dude?

I got on the grill. I was the grill master. I'm't even address that one. It was quite a nightmare. But how was your fourth, dude? I got on the grill. I was the grill master. Were you nice on that? I'm a big grill master now. Really? Yeah. I've kind of perfected the burger. Yeah. I'm a big medium rare, little medium.

Pink's got to be inside it. And people were, I got five stars. Really, dude? I got glowing reviews in it. I didn't make it look like I cared. Yeah. Because, you know, just another day at the office. Very nice.

Act like you've been here. But, dude, inside, I was feeling awesome. Yeah, that's got to be the best. I was feeling awesome. Give the listeners a couple little tidbits about what's the way to cook a burg. Give us the best way to cook a burg. Dark on both sides. I don't know.

Wait three minutes. I thought you had, like, a cool tactic. No. You're the grill master, dude. No, really. This is a lot of, like, cause and effect. This is a lot of, like, addition by subtraction. Like, I've burnt a lot of cause and effect. There's a lot of addition by subtraction. I've burnt a lot of burgers in my time.

And burgers are very easy, but I feel like when you get on the grill for your first couple of times, it's like an alpha thing. Because you know people will tell you if it sucks. One thing about people is it doesn't matter if you know them or not. If your grill work sucks, they're very boisterous about it. Yeah, they feel entitled. Like, this is the one thing I can finally give my real opinion on. Yeah. Like, I did on Father's Day because I was the only one there that wasn't a father.

Like, if I would have ruined my fiance's dad's Father's Day, could you imagine? The stakes have never been higher. Give him food poisoning? Yeah. Like, dude, anxiety. Yeah. I can't imagine. I'd be so terrified.

You'd be dead. You'd be done. I got asked to grill at a work event two weeks ago. And I was like, are you guys, let me ask you this. Are you guys the dumbest people I've ever met? I'm wearing Birkenstocks right now. I didn't do it. I said, heck no, dude.

Oh, really? I just sat there with my legs crossed and I said, I'll wait for my burger like the rest of us. You waved your right. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not one of those. Well, now that I know you can do it, next time we're at a cookout, brother, I'm going to have you invite me to your cookout.

Invite Kyle to your cookout. We'll do a podcast at your cookout. No black cookouts, though. I don't season the burgers. I was going to say, we need context immediately after you said that. I don't season the burgers well. I don't think that would be good. I just hope they're pre-seasoned. Well, if we are, we won't cook there,

but we would like to come to your cookout. We'd love to come to your cookout. Yeah, come hang out. I know a couple old R&B songs. Yeah, you don't want me on the grill at your cookout. Nah, yeah. I think this woman wants to come on. You want to hop on?

You look curious. Yeah, dude, come hang out. How are you? Great choice. Okay, sweet, dude. Pick up the mic. Have some fun. Yeah, what's up?

Oh, nothing. Just I'm on a layover right now 20 hours are you a flight attendant i am wow i do yeah i am i thought it'd be nice to kind of wake up see what's going on around so i saw that there was um a farmer's market yeah and it gets pretty busy over here so i was like okay let's see where you from from albuquerque new mexico they don't have farmers markets over there huh don't have farmers markets over there well they do but it's nice to see what like local farmers market markets have to offer i think that you meet a lot of cool people and i like i like talking to people i think that a lot of individuals have good advice to offer you know sure yeah so how long you in philly for i'm in philly for another let's see what time it is it is 12 33 i have to be downstairs in my van at 2 30

got it oh my god you're on borrowed time here dude you're not anxious at all that's a quick not at all wow good for you more hours yeah i do have two more hours it's honestly i got i got my time down to a t and like i I already got ready for my trip. So we're good to go, but I'm a little. Your trip being your job. Yeah. My trip, but back to my job. Well, yeah. Are you, are you going back to work or are you just being like, Hey, they got to fly

you back? No, they're going to fly me back to base. So yesterday we went from Miami to Dallas and then Dallas to Philly, lay over Philly for 12 hours. And then, uh, we go back to Miami, Florida. That's where I'm based at. So it's a really big difference. You know, whenever I started with the airline, I I'm 22 now I started at the airline at 20. So I was pretty much the youngest one in my class. And, um, they asked me like why I wanted to be a flight attendant. I was like, honestly,

I just need a one 80. They, the, what were you running from? Not on the plane though. You want a 180 in life. 180 in life. And, and this job has brought me like that 180 that I needed definitely because, um, it taught me like how big the world is, but small, like it, it, it's so weird. I love my job so much and, and what it's taught me. And and honestly the patience that I've gained from it because we all see nowadays that like there's so much like crazy people on the plane but it's honestly magnified like the negativity but really there are more positive things that happen on the airline or on the aircraft than what the media actually shows us like yes how do you mean taking off and landing that's pretty nice i do appreciate

the landing part it's pretty sick yeah well whenever we have a bad landing we're always like that was definitely an arrival um landing is really nice and smooth which we joke about but yeah definitely what are some of the positive things that the that the mainstream media fake news isn't telling us yeah what's going on there like feel so bad. I love the girly that was like, I'm telling you right now, that motherfucker is not real. Oh, my gosh. And there was, like, these guys in Charlotte that was like, do it for the girls, Shelby and Dolly. You know, which we make memes about, like, us flight attendants. So don't blow it up or anything.

But, like, I don't know those are just like some of the negatives that like happen and then obviously like you have people that are anxious about flying and they get anxiety about flying and then they end up like freaking out on the plane and then people only capture like this small part of like the situation and then they just get these people that freak out they get negativity and they get hate but it's it's honestly like i just feel bad for people because whenever you're traveling you just have anxiety as it is yeah you know and you guys as flight attendants should be allowed to give out xanax you should have some kind of medical license just a couple out of you see a

couple rowdy passengers like you know how like you're allowed to like do whatever you want in international waters like you should be able to do whatever you want at 30,000 feet in the air. Why not? Like, you should be able to open drug markets. Well, the way that I look at it is whenever you're up in the air, you're just like your own little country, you know? Yeah. Yeah. 100%.

You know what? Here's vodka for you. And for you. And here's a bourbon for you. Yeah, dude. And you know what people don't realize is whenever you're up at like 38,000 feet, your blood to oxygen ratio is totally off. So like

they're taking shots like nobody's business. But then I look back 10 minutes later and they're absolutely can we cuss on this podcast? I'm like, they are fucked up. They're just like looking at like the cabin like I don't know, they're seeing Jesus. I'm like, you're not seeing Jesus. You're fucked up right now. That that was that woman that woman was seeing something that wasn't

supposed to be on that plane no you want to know what happened actually well because i got the inside story i listened break some news yeah so i guess that the guy that was sitting next to her was actually like taunting her and and he was like he was like i'm not real this is all fake and he and he had like some satanic shit on his arms right so i think and from what i read she's a pretty like uh christian woman so she totally freaked out and yeah and he he's the one who is antagonizing her but i mean you you had to be there do we know whatever happened with him did anybody like go after him or nothing he he went on to to i think they were going to orlando they're inbound to orlando and he lived the rest of his life happily ever after oh my but you know why

you know what's kind of kind of pisses me off as a flight attendant is that i mean just the situation like looking at it like from like afar not at a magnifying glass if somebody says that plane's not gonna make it to his destination which i don't know if you saw the video but she in the video she's like this plane's not gonna make it you know she says that i don't think the plane should go at all personally if somebody claims that the plane's not gonna make it somewhere you should not let that plane go. They should deplane everybody and get a new aircraft. And that aircraft should be swapped by or like just sweeps.

Yeah. Wait, if a passenger says, I don't think this plane is going to make it. Is that what you're saying? If she says, because in the video, she like she states, she says, this plane is not going to make it. Now, I don't disagree with you. If she says that this plane is not going to make it. Now, I don't disagree with you. If she says that, as a passenger and on flight attendant, I would be like, get me the fuck off of this plane now. But now you got to think about it. Now the YouTube pranksters get involved.

They're shouting like, this plane's not going to make it. Everyone's getting the plane. Then we're sweeping the plane. And then no one's getting to any of their destinations. That flight would never happen. There's always got to be one person. There would never be another flight in the history of America. When you're here, I guess you're Ubering around everywhere for the most part?

Or is it you stay within walking distance? Well, I was going to walk here because it's only like a mile away from the hotel. But whenever I tell you it's hotter than five fat bitches in a Honda out here in Philadelphia, I am sweating my ass off. And I got a full face of makeup on. Like, I'm sweating it off too, you know? You're doing the Lord's work. But I, yeah, right. I'm far from the Lord's work right now.

No, I won't hold you up. I'll ask you one more question. Talk to me. So in Ubers all the time, I've always thought since how prevalent Ubers are, we should have like a flight attendant for an Uber. Like you sitting in the back seat with like a couple of Biscoffs,

a couple of vodka sodas. Just in case like, you know, you pick a guy who has a little hammer. If I was hammered in an Uber and somebody from the backseat was like, these are for you. He brought out the Biscoff comment. Oh my gosh. We run on Biscoff. We love the Biscoff podcast.

Well, I'm the Biscoff dealer. Are you? Yeah. I told you. So what's your name? What's your phone number? I got you. We got the plug, dude.

The cookie plug. I got you. Biscoff is easily the best cookie, the best in-flight uh food that you can give out easily so if if you guys ever fly on the airline don't be scared to ask for Biscoffs because we love giving out Biscoffs really the first four months of working on the job my meal was Biscoffs and coffee Yeah. It is the best combo that this guy, that God has ever put on this earth. Thank you, Lord.

Amen. To the big dog. I was pointing your plan up there. It's Landix. Oh, yeah. There's my plan right there. I was going to say my name and my company, but I probably shouldn't do that. Oh, I know who it is.

If you're selling the Biscoff cookie, they're number one in my heart. Oh, shit. I gave it away. Damn it. Well, they're taking away the Biscoff cookie in a lot number one in my heart. Oh, shit, I gave it away. Damn it. Well, they're taking away the Biscoff cookie in a lot of the airlines. No, they're not. Yes, they are in a lot of the airlines. They are. There's only one prominent airline that does the Biscoff cookies regularly.

Who? I think it used to be Delta or it is Delta. Is it? I think American used to be big on the Biscoff, but I think they've recently taken away Southwest to be big on the Biscoff, but now they do the pretzels, which are actually not that bad. The flavor is pretty good on the pretzels and stuff, but I prefer the Biscoff, but I think they've recently taken away Southwest to be big on the Biscoff, but now they do the pretzels, which are actually not that bad. The flavor is pretty good on the pretzels and stuff, but I prefer the Biscoff cookie. If we say that we only have pretzels, that's a lie. Okay.

We definitely have Biscoffs in the back somewhere. Tell us some more secrets in the airline industry up top for 38,000 feet in the air. The Mile High Club is not real, and if it's real, you're a nasty son of a bitch. Yeah, that's gross. That's disgusting. and you know what i i think i don't know if i should get offended by this but whenever i do like meet people they always ask me one of their main questions is like have you joined the mile high club i'm like are you dumb yeah while you're working that's one of the first questions they ask you it's i don't know what's i don't know if i should be insulted or not like

should i i would be a little insulted. You know? It's my life, my work. Do I look like a whore? You know? Like, that's what comes to my head. I think you're talking to people with bad conversation skills. I think they panic

and they just jump on the first name and think of it. You're going to get off Tinder and hinge. I don't even have Tinder and hinge. I've never had it before. Wait, you're the only flight attendant that's never had Tinder. I'm a little scared.

I like to be people naturally. I just feel like one day, like, my knight in shining armor is going to walk up on the plane and be like, marry me. But that's totally not going to happen. You're sitting in A32. Like, okay, buddy. That's nice. I mean, some flight attendants like to work, like, first class because, you know, that's where more of the wealthy people sit. Which I didn't know, like, some of there are people sit which i didn't know like some of their are

more elite members like with the airline if you earn a certain status like they're millionaires which i didn't even know about so some flight attendants look at their status um on like our on our um apps that they give us and um they they can see who they are and they'll look up their names on google find out what they do. And then they'll like slip maybe a little phone number in their pocket. Good move. I've never done that before. It's good customer service.

Yeah. You know, you want to know your clients. It is. Yeah. It is good to know your clients. I agree. I think you're right. Client intel.

Yeah. I would like totally say like, oh, here you go, Mr. Johnson. But half of the names, I don't even, I don't even, I can't even read, honestly. I mean, I'm a flight attendant. I'm pretty illiterate. Like, I went to college for maybe a year. And I was like, okay, buddy. Flight attendants.

Jobs for the illiterate. So you're not the one who's doing like the, you're not doing the demonstration in the beginning because you're never reading the initial package. Listen, the plane goes, the plane goes into the river. You're supposed to pull the thing down on your face at some point i know that happens sorry i gotta do it yourself before you save your child your offspring is that a rule it is yeah you know because how are you supposed to help how are you supposed to help your kiddos or whoever it is if you can't help yourself first that's fair have you ever had pure oxygen though like no like you feel like you're on like adderall or something you know like if you have like pure oxygen you're ready to go yeah ready to run a mile hey everybody hey guys you

guys ever had pure oxygen not on that bus you're huffing fumes up there gas yeah literally so how what is uh what's the work day like like how many uh hours are you crushing typically say that again how many hours are you crushing typically? Say that again? How many hours are you crushing typically in a workday? You want to know what's crazy right now? Okay, so I'm on reserve. So basically that means that they can pretty much call me any time on the shift that they give me. If you're on reserve, they pay you a minimum of 75 hours unless you work more than 75 more than 75 and they can't count you the rest that you that you work but let's say like you can sit on reserve all month and i can be doing this

and waiting for like a phone call for them to call me and never be on a plane because they don't need extra flight attendants because everybody is showing up to work um i would be getting paid yeah they'll be yeah they'll still pay me but the thing about it is we only get paid and you probably know this is whenever that door is closed so every we're whenever we're doing boarding process the de-planning process whenever we're waiting in the airports between flights if we have like a another flight we have to work we're not getting paid for any of it so it we call it like the hurry up and wait time we're hurrying up to the next flight and then it's like oh shit it's delayed all right we have to wait but we're not getting paid for any of it. So we call it like the hurry up and wait time. We're hurrying up to the next flight and then it's like, oh shit, it's delayed. All right, we have to wait. But we're not getting paid for any of that.

Wow. Which is like actually pretty unfair. And I think that the boarding process, not getting paid for that is honestly really, really unfair. Because that's whenever we're actually pretty much one-on-one with passengers. And literally the worst part for you guys. Because you're watching some dude hammer his backpack into the the top right and you're like sir it's full yeah i think it's so funny whenever on the p.m like hello welcome aboard blah blah blah um yeah so if the overhead bin is closed that means that it's definitely full and then i see somebody down the

aisle i'm like you fucking idiot i'm like do not touch that overhead yeah it's infuriating please yeah please yeah why is it a ten thousand dollar fine if you guys open the door after the door is closed it feels like an aggressive fine yeah expand that well isn't it like don't they say like uh isn't that like the big thing when someone's like acting up or something like that or it's like uh when someone's late to their flight i feel like that's the big thing when someone's like acting up or something like that? Or it's like when someone's late to their flight, I feel like that's a big thing in movies, maybe where it's like, hey, once the doors close, we can't open it back up. It feels like it's just kind of like a button and the button goes up and you probably could. I didn't even know that there was a fine, but it makes sense because time is money. And for that for that aircraft to be parked at the gate, it's actually costing more money.

Right. Because we right because we're using we're taking up space exactly because the airports are not owned by the airlines they're owned by the city so we're basically renting out like the spots on the tarmac like where the jet bridge is like um yeah and same with the baggage claim so like one time we got diverted to like to West Palm Beach or something and they didn't send the passengers bags down because we had a deep plane. We had to stay the night and then the next morning we were going back out because we timed out. Well, they didn't send the passengers bags down to the baggage claim so they can have their bags. They kept it on the plane until the next day. So all these passengers went home without their bags or to the hotels without their bags and they showed up the next day and the bags were still on the plane i guess that

like the bags are there i guess but still they didn't want to put it down where the baggage claim is because it costs money to rent out those those carousels wow no shit yes so to answer your question time is money that that's the best that's the best answer that I can give you. One more thing before we get you out of here. What's one thing you want people to know about being an airline attendant that maybe they don't know? We don't get paid enough. Which camera are we on? Anyone that feels natural.

That one's probably 4K. Because it seems like you guys know. You can feel like you seem like good people like these you guys know like you can feel like you seem like good people that will not cause problems on a flight yeah true well come on down i'll hook you up whatever you want where are we headed to 30 yeah okay i will tell you one thing is that flight attendants don't get paid enough and if a flight attendant ever shares like their pay with you um it might seem like a lot but for the hours we actually do get paid is very minimal if you want to fly from here to Miami or

wherever it's two hours and 30 minutes we're getting two hours and 30 minutes of pay it's not like a regular day we're like we're clocking in 12 hours okay so just have patience with us. We are people. We are not robots. So don't expect the minimal, but don't expect us to go absolutely above and beyond and want to pick up your bags. Because since we're not getting paid for boarding, we don't get paid for workers' comp if we do get hurt. So please just do not ask us to pick up your bags. And just be patient and give us smiles. And also, also. Give us smiles. I like that not ask us to or pick up your bags and just be patient and give us smiles. And also, also smiles. I like that. Give us smiles. Give us smiles. Because we have well, we don't have to smile, but I like to smile at people, you know, like just for example.

You know, crazy turbulence, fun, extra adrenaline. You said and also it seemed like you wanted to finish on an also. Oh, and also, if we say good morning to you, please, or goodbye, please say good morning back or goodbye. Or I would jump off this plane. I'm telling you right now. Because I think it's so awkward whenever I'm saying hi, good morning, welcome aboard, good morning, and somebody, motherfucker, just walks by, looks you dead ass in the eyes with a good morning,

and they don't say it back. They just keep walking down the aisle. I'm like, get out. That's fair. Captain, can you please get her out of the plane right now? Yeah. That's pretty fair. Okay.

That's totally reasonable. Yeah. So just please say good morning, if anything else. Okay. Do you guys ever get tips for Christmas presents or anything? Actually, I just got a $25 tip yesterday. Nice. Because I was like, I was.

Oh, so you guys are paid enough then. Can I show you something? That's an hour of work probably. I posted this on my Instagram because, you know, people tend to stare, but children stare back. I mean, that was a meme. That would freak me out. And then a children's like just staring

at me down the aisle oh I don't like that well it was because I was playing with her kiddo like literally the whole flight but it was really fun the kiddo was really nice do you think we could ever

make a kid section on a plane? a kid section? that would be absolutely amazing like a quiet room when you went to church? yeah or you put all the little kids you already know

that my parents put me in that quiet room yeah I was in that quiet room yeah I'm right there with you there's the little kids in. You already know that my parents put me in that quiet room. Yeah, I was in that quiet room. Yeah, I'm right there with you. There's an island called Yap, and I belong on that island because I'm Yap Island. Yeah. I'm a yapper. Yeah.

Maybe they made me a flight attendant because I can talk to a wall practically. Sorry for the best. Yeah. Worthwhile skill. Probably for the best. And you can just find podcasts in random Philadelphia where you have lighters. That's pretty awesome, honestly. We had a flight attendant on a little while ago. Not as fun as you are this that guy with all due respect stunk

out loud every question would be like so what's the craziest thing you ever seen on a flight and he was like one time a guy pooped like that was that was the best we would get the craziest thing i've ever seen is a dead body proceed okay let me look at this time okay i got time okay so we had this individual um we're gonna call her miss judith okay because she was oh yes yes she actually rest in peace it broke my heart this is actually like well as the story goes on it's like it's funny because like i have to make it okay in my head instead of actually being like somber and sad about it, you know. But in the moment it was sad and I was freaked out a lot. OK, so Miss Judith, 85 years old.

She we were going from Miami to St. Martin and her husband comes up to us. OK, I'm in the front with my coworker. There's two flight attendants in the back. OK, we're on a 737 aircraft. He comes up to the other flight attendants in the back and he's like, hey, my wife is in the bathroom. She hasn't come back to receive. And keep in mind that the pilot has already told flight attendants prepare for landing. So we're pretty much below 10 000 feet

okay that's not a lot of time okay so we can we can physically open up the bathrooms like manually open up the bathrooms for these situations well i guess that the flight attendants in the back opened up the bathroom and she was gone like laying against like the toilet, like wide as a ghost. And so we say code, code something, code something, which means the person is unconscious and not breathing. Well, I'm the closest one to the AED and like the face mask that we use to resuscitate people. I run. I mean, I'm talking like lineback. Wait, what is a person that runs fast on the football field? Wide receiver running

back streaker i'm the streaker um i knew exactly where you're going with this okay i streaker right back to the to the back of the plane and these guys are staring at her like jaw drops open okay i hand this stuff to them. I get in the lavatory. I pick her up. I don't think, I didn't know that I was actually this strong. I pick her up. Poor thing.

She was indecent. And I put her down in the aisle and we start chest compressions and all that stuff. She actually comes back. Whoa. Oh, wow. She was dead. Miss Judith. Holy shit.

And whenever I tell you, it was so odd to see somebody so pale and then come back and she gets pink in the face again and her eyes open it was the best feeling i've ever experienced before she lived now did you do the cpr i did not do the mouth did you talk to the person into the mouth what did it smell like balls? No, we weren't supposed to do mouth-to-mouth, but we... Okay, I didn't realize what you were saying. That's fucked up. I always want to know when an old person's breath smells like when you have to do CPR.

I think they tell you pretty regularly. They'll come up and talk pretty closely. That's true. Oh my gosh, that's so bad. No, it's true. It's true. Facts. A lot of old people's breath smells like shit.

And by the way, that should go on your guys' resume of like, we can resurrect people on the plane. Sure. I can resurrect people

on the plane. That's unbelievable. I'm pretty sure St. Martin also has a oddly large voodoo population down there too. Are you serious? She might have just been like a...

I thought that was only New Orleans. Yeah, somebody put a couple safety pins in her and then took them out just in time for whoever gave her mouth to mouth. That's unbelievable. So do you guys have to land as soon as you, you said you gave a code specifically for somebody that's like unresponsive.

Do you have to land as soon as you give that code? Yeah. So as soon as we give that code, the lead flight attendant is the person that is going to stay up front. The lead flight attendant should not leave their galley because they're the person that's protecting the flight deck if anybody tries to breach the flight deck, right? So the number one will communicate with the captain basically what's going on. And we have like different roles. So we have like a runner, which is a person. I was the runner, clearly the streaker.

Maybe it's not the runner. Maybe it's just the streaker. I call the person the streaker. I like that. The streaker that goes to the back. We have a person that actually finds the individual. And then we have like an assist, basically. And that makes like the team.

So do you get a Congressional Medal of Freedom? Do you get a Purple Heart? Like what happens when you shake someone in the air? Yeah, you guys should get like something for that. Like a nice honor or something. I was going to say that. I'm like, I wish that we could have gotten a raise. No, actually.

But the captain was so, like he was being such a dick about this whole entire situation because I go up to him after the flight's done. And keep in mind, whenever we open up the door, it's like this like wall of humidity in St. Martin. So I go into the flight deck, which is really nice. It's like an ice box up there. They keep it real cool. Yeah.

And I sit down and I'm just like kind of taking a load off after like the event that just happened. And he and the captain's like, I'm so sick and tired of these emergencies. And I'm just like, you're sick and tired of people dying on the plane. I'm like, maybe you had a clean record. I didn't want to see his record

expunged. I'm like, sir, let's have some like some good condolences here. I don't know. Let's have a heart. Isn't St. Martin one of the hardest airports to land to because it's very small? Actually, yeah. It goes right over a beach. You know so much about this.

Nah. You do have pilot face, dude. You do have big time pilot face. No, you have the pilot hair. It's like the touch of gray. Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate it.

With the gingy right next to you. The gingy. How do you feel about like the stereotype of gingies? I feel pretty good. What's the stereotype? Cool guys that are tall and handsome? No, I'm not going to say it. If you know, you know.

What's the stereotype? Actually, I don't know. I don't see it there. What are they? I'm so curious to hear about the stereotypes. I've heard people say that gingies have no soul. There's rumors that swirl. I don't know.

I went to Catholic school my entire life and I tried to get one and I don't know if I ended up with one. Dude's got no original sin. No original sin. Yeah, no. You There's rumors that swirl. I don't know. I went to Catholic school my entire life, and I tried to get one, and I don't know if I ended up with one. Dude's got no original sin. No original sin. Yeah, no. You made your confirmation and everything? That's exactly right. They let him.

Yeah, dude. Eucharist confirmation and other stuff. Yeah. We actually have two gingers on the pod. We got right there. I did see that. He's an Italian ginger, though. He doesn't really count.

Just surrounded by a bunch of people with no souls. Yeah, dude. Yep. It's gingeroni. Actually, the funny thing is... I just want to know where it comes from. Like, where does this... South Park.

Or no, that... Being ginger or the stereotype? It was that one YouTube video. But actually, like, South Park actually ruined, like, everybody on this pod's life because we have two gingers with no souls and my name's Kyle. And everyone just goes, Yeah, we're screwed, dude. We've just...

We've been ruined by... We can't get anything done. It's unbelievable. I didn't even get to grab his name. What's your name? Okay, Kyle. Matt. Matt. Kyle and Matt. Ashley. Ashley. Yeah, we're screwed, dude. We've been ruined by... We can't get anything done. It's unbelievable. I didn't even get to grab his names. What's your name? Okay, Kyle. Matt. Matt.

Kyle and Matt. Ashley. Ashley. Yeah, Ashley. Shout out to you. Man, I could have made up like... I could have said that my name was Shalanda. Sure.

Yeah, whatever you want to... I mean, you want to redo it. The power of editing. You could be whoever you want on this pod. Reverse. What's your name? Shakisha. Shakisha, no!

Wow, what a throwback. Do you know that... This girl will never leave. She's going to miss her play. She's going to miss her play. Just tag out. Let me see. No, I'm doing okay.

This is actually really fun. Have you seen... Have you... I guess we are kind of naturals. Just complimenting ourselves. Have you seen the Put It In Reverse, Terry? Of course.

Am I American? Are you? Yeah, baby. That's right baby that's right that's right damn right america fuck yeah okay this is a fever dream dude yeah dude these last 10 what's the best city to lay over i love san diego okay yeah i love san diego they're Diego everybody is so genuine out there from what I've experienced in my opinion and honestly there's like countless things to do

you can go and do dune buggies you can go snowboarding from what I've heard from I don't know okay maybe not I don't think those two things have ever coincided maybe I just had a dream about telling about somebody telling me I could do that she's actually never been to San Diego.

It's not a real place. What other than San Diego, like places you've actually been on a layover, is your favorite? I love going to Nashville. Sure. Okay. 22-year-old in Nashville. Yeah, it makes sense. Where are you originally from?

New Mexico. Yeah. Yes. Nuevo Mexico. Albuquerque. I don't speak Spanish, though. Really? Kind of.

That was all Spanish. I don't know if you got this? Kind of. That was all Spanish. I don't know if you got this. Did Breaking Bad change New Mexico? That's a good question. That is a great question. Yeah, it did. There's like, well, I don't know. I guess it's a yes, no.

There's a lot of like tour bus that, you know, go around the neighborhoods from where I am. Because I'm like a block away from the actual house that's in Breaking Bad. I've never watched Breaking Bad because I refuse to being a local of New Mexico. Why not? I don't know. I'm just kind of weird like that.

I had that with Jersey Shore. I hear you. I refuse to watch that show. You live in New Jersey. But you get it, right? Of course. Just because it was in New Jersey. She gets it. They're putting smut. Well, that's hurtful, but I hear you. I hear where? Just because it was in New Jersey. I get it, dude. The chinchy gets it. They're putting

smut. Well, that's hurtful, but I hear you. I see where you're coming from, Sister Sledge. I couldn't watch Always Sunny because, you know, it was just derogatory towards my people. What are you guys talking about? Yeah, well, look, dude, you wouldn't get it, man. Just, you can't watch your local area be put to darn smut on

TV. That's what we're saying. That's all. Yeah, but it did change Albuquerque. Got it. For the better? Well, I guess so. Actually, it did bring a lot of tourists in, which is nice because obviously the state's making more money. So I guess if you look at it in the long run, yeah. Chronically, not acutely, more chronically.

That's all right. Yeah. From macro, not a micro lens. Yeah, macro, not micro. Cool. Protein. I hate to kick you off, but we do have to interview other people. It can't just be an hour review. I apologize.

That's totally fine. It was great though. Thanks for hopping on. Maybe you can get this old man over here to talk about. Yeah, if you want to go recruit people for us. You want to hop on the mic? We just ask people what they do for a living. That guy seemed way more interesting than me. No, this was a lot of fun. Yeah. No no this is a lot of fun yeah no this is a lot of

fun i think you hit it out of the park this was a great uh good luck really time yeah absolutely i felt like it was like topics that just like never got an ending to them which is what i do it's a podcast about nothing yeah you just keep on wondering our listeners just our listeners just turn their brains off and they listen it It's great. It's honestly exactly how a podcast should be. Thank you so much for having me. It was an absolute honor, and you guys should get a medal. Okay. Okay.

I appreciate it. All right. If you want to send some Biscoff cookies, you can talk to Vito. Yeah. Yeah. Come and get your cookies at Shalonda's Cookie House. Sharkeesha. Sharkeesha.

I mean, Sharkeesha. All right, guys. See you later. Thank youisian. I mean, Sarkisian. All right, guys. See you later. Thank you so much. Good luck. So you came back from New Jersey, as we were talking about. Have people become worse drivers? Oh, my God.

This is the talking point of the pod. I've been talking to my girlfriend about this. I can't believe what I'm seeing on the road now. Okay. All right. I didn't know if I was the only one. I almost died the other day. Legit almost died.

Some dude. What happened? Some dude in a Nissan Altima. Of course, it's a Nissan Altima. I've never seen someone swerve lanes like this guy swerved lanes. He literally, like, I was probably right here. I'm trying to do this as best I can for the cameras. And the car next to me, I was on 76.

It was right here. He literally took probably a six inch gap between us and got in, car in front of me, swerves out of that way. You ever seen like when like the Kia boys, they like steal the cars and they run down the side? Like that dude was like swerving the car back and forth, back and forth. I could not believe it. I was like, that was the most insane driving

I've ever seen. And then last night I got to, you know, just a lot of just dumb ass people driving lately. Yeah. That's what it's, it's dumb and it's inconsiderate. I don't know what happened. I think it's a COVID thing. I think people weren't driving when we all had to stay inside and then they just forgot over the course of a year. I truly, that's my theory, dude. Cause I think I see it in like driving and residentials. There was always issues on the highway, things like that. But driving in residentials, we were in Cape May, Cape May, New Jersey. Beautiful Cape May, New Jersey.

Holy hell, is everybody drunk driving there. That's what I hope it is. Because what I saw, this guy, we were driving behind a dude, and he just started to pull into a spot, but he wanted to go on the other angle of the road. So the way that the cars were driving this way, he wanted to park his car facing away. So the guy in front of us...

So the spot was angled like this, and he tries to do an entire... He goes into the other curb, backs up sideways. This is all while I'm just watching him do this. Middle of several cars behind me, and then does a full K-turn into a spot, and then looks at me and gives me a wave.

And I was like, dude, I'll kill your family. And it's all the time. All the time. They just forgot. And I was like, dude, I'll kill your family. And it's all the time. All the time. They just forgot how to drive during COVID, dude. It's an epidemic. I'm like legitimately scared to like drive right now. Yeah. Because it's just been so bad.

It's insane. Also, another thing that grinds my darn gears, motorcyclists. Why do you, not even motorcyclists. Oh, this is my other one. And then I'll get off the subject because I might explode. Every road you drive on that says share the road with bicyclists. It's not sharing the road if I have to wait for you because you're going far slower than I am and just roll while you're in kind of the side of the road. And then I can finally go around you when I have a little bit of room. Put some pep in your step. That's not sharing the road, dude. I'm just waiting on you.

You're in charge of the road. Dude, pump that bicycle pedal. Like if you're in front of me on a bike, pump that bicycle pedal or I should be allowed to kind of give you a brake check or like a little hip check in the back of the tire. Yeah. That's the equivalent of like guy who crosses crosswalk yeah and just takes a sweet ass time oh no dude we need we need knees and chests okay high knees high knees knees and chest let's go we got places to be and by the way if you're on a bicycle i know you can be in the road get on the fucking sidewalk oh no i'm not a sidewalk bicycle guy i it it i i get so angry when bicyclists are

on the sidewalk they'reists are on the sidewalk. They're assholes on the sidewalk. No, stay in your lane. Your lane is on the street, okay? But sometimes there's no actual discernible lane. They're just like, ah, we share the road. So they just go willy-nilly wherever. They're weaving and bobbing.

Some of the kids are hitting wheelies. Why are kids hitting wheelies so often? Everything drives me nuts about bikes. Man, we are old. We are old as hell, dude. Just yelling at clouds. But yeah, bicyclists, man, they suck. And Philadelphia's gotten so much worse with catering to bicyclists.

Yeah. There used to be an awesome street, 2nd Street. I live in Fishtown, so I'd catch 2nd Street going down to 95, get right on 95, and get the fuck out of Philadelphia. Yeah. And now they just put a bike lane on it. They took it from two lanes to one lane. So now we're all just,

we're backed up traffic. And we used to fly down that street going to 95. And now we're just all backed up. The whole thing is dude. I've never seen a bicycle on that street either. Really? Yeah. I hope there's someone out there that,

that shares my pain. If somebody can just in the comments, talk about hating bicyclists, sir. Sir, we do a podcast. We ask people what they do for a living. Three minutes. Video, audio, but it's a good time.

Three minutes, you can hop off as soon as you're ready to leave. You're like a smiley fella. Awesome. What'd you buy in there? Just some potato pierogies. Nice. You going to have a nice little dinner tonight? Maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They're frozen, so they're good for a minute. Yeah, they're good. Wait, My Mom's Kitchen just did the hers. They just did the hers flavors. Oh, you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you see those hers flavors? No.

Hers, like the potato chip company? Yeah, they do a collab every year with three different flavors. Oh flavors that are okay no based yeah yeah mama's pierogies were oh okay no i haven't i haven't heard of it nice um so what's your name uh slav slav yeah nice it's a slavic name uh yeah eastern european got it okay what do you do for a living um i'm a uh what's called an esau program specialist tell me. If you ever heard of ESOL, English Speaking of Other Languages. Got it. So I like work in a couple different schools in the district and I work with students who were English as their second language. Got it. Okay. So what parts of the area? I work at a school in Fishtown and I work at a school like closer to

Northeast Philly. Got it. Is there a lot of schools that need uh english as a second language yeah some do some do yeah i mean you know like usually the urban cities there's a lot of uh students that you know come from somewhere else is it just latin america is there other no i work with kids from like all different languages like v Vietnamese, French, Hispanic, Chinese. How long have you been doing it? For a minute, actually. Almost 15 years now. Wow, no kidding. I've always wondered, when you're teaching somebody a new language,

how do you have a baseline to explain to them what you're about to explain to them? Like, I imagine if they don't know any English, how do you communicate to them, okay, today's lesson, even something as simple as that? I mean, it's not really like that. You kind of, um, you know, cause if you work with all different levels, it depends on their level too. But if they're just like brand new, you know, to the language, it's, um, you know, they're just, you just immerse them, you know, into, it's like if you went to a new country and stuff and you had to live there, you know, you would just start just trying to learn, you know, what you can,

just start picking up words. Where do we start? Yeah. Where do you start? Start with water. Dialect just like totally throw these guys off. Yeah. You don't really have a Philly accent. Um, yeah, yeah. Um, I mean, you just start wherever, you know, I mean, cause I work K to eight. So, you know, if like, you know, if you're, if I'm working with an eighth grader that just came to this country, um, you know, they're just starting with, you know, just the basics. Hey, you know, can I have this, you know? Yeah. What's the first one? It looks like a, you know, like how, like when you type it's, uh,

the, the, the quick Brown Fox jumps over the lazy dog. Like what's the first thing you start when you're like, when you're doing English as a second language? Is there a phrase? No, no. It's just, you're not, because I'm not like, I'm not like an English teacher, you know? So it's not like they have like, believe it or not, like in Philadelphia school district,

they're not like having like, like if an eighth grader is coming in, they're not having like English lessons, you know, because you can't just like, there's just not enough time to do that. Like my job is to make sure, you know, they're getting like support and they feel like they have somebody on their side to like kind of help them because it's, it's, it's super difficult. They're going to be, you know, struggling, but at least, you know, they just know like my job is to just make sure that there's somebody on their side to like help them you know whatever they may need like get resources for them and like and things like that you know help teachers out

you know make sure they have the resources but it's yeah it's it's immersion that's really what it comes down to sure yeah that's pretty interesting so you're from the ukraine yeah you teach in northeast philly, you said? Yeah, yeah. There's a fish town. At fish town and north, I worked at two different schools. Okay. So I almost split my time between two schools.

Well, I've heard, and I lived in northeast Philly for a little bit, a lot of eastern Europeans. Yeah. A big base over there. Northeast Philly has a lot of huge Ukrainian-Russian population there. Yeah. I'm surprised you got pierogies down here in south Philly i mean because i just live a couple blocks from here so it's convenient can't go to the source yeah why why is that the case why did all the eastern euros flock over to the great i mean because communities have been built up here for you know a while

we emigrated you know in the early 90s and, it just just came. That's just a place for a lot of people to come. There's a lot of stores here, you know, churches, you know, people, they know that there's, you know, huge, you know, Ukrainian population there. So why did your parents immigrate, if you don't mind us asking? I mean, same reason that most people immigrate is just for a better life. It's really what it comes down to. In the early 90s, Ukraine was never just Ukraine. It was part of the Soviet Union until they got their independence in the early 90s.

So just a better life. You hear a lot of things about America that you can do whatever you want to here. Is it true? What's the truth? In my opinion, it is. Yeah. Oh, nice. All right.

You always hear about the American dream. And I wonder, I'm like, where the hell is that? We don't really have the greatest nationalistic principles nowadays. So it's good to know someone from somebody not from here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Appreciates us a little bit. Now in Northeast Philly,

is there any weird tension between the Eastern European communities or any kind of, or is it kind of i don't feel it um yeah we don't really feel it but um like you know uh could be but not that i'm aware of there's no there's no turf wars yeah nobody's holding out the floor not that i'm aware of the outsiders of the russians and ukraine that's good that's good no that's good what grade did you accept that every teacher is going to somehow pronounce your name wrong? When did you go, look, when she reads it out loud, it's going to be my name? Yeah, no, it's, they usually did. Yeah. So you go by Slav, but I'm guessing you have a longer name?

Well, my birth name is Yaroslav, like Yaroslav. There's no chance. There's no chance some lady from the Northeast could pronounce that. But it's like you got a Skyrim. Yeah. I mean, in my opinion, you pronounce it the way it looks. Y-A-R-O-S-L-A-V. Sure.

Y-A-R-O-S-L-A-V. Yaroslav. It's pretty straightforward. It's like Yugo, but Yara. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Why, and I wonder if you interface with this a lot,

why is the American citizenship test so hard? You think it's hard? Yeah, unfortunately. You think it's hard? It is. You think that's easy? Well, I actually have never taken it. I didn't take it because once my parents took it, I automatically become naturalized. Gotcha. So I'm not sure. But I had a friend take it he seemed he thought it was pretty easy

you talked to your pops about it um about the i did i mean it's been a while since they've taken it and i thought they said it wasn't too bad oh boy all right i think the same thing i was actually just kidding around man of course i thought it was easy how did both your mom and dad ever take it or as long as one of them no they both they... No, they both took it. Yeah. Yeah. How about that? Damn. Yeah. All right.

I'm going to go practice it tonight, then. I'm going to figure it out. We'll do that for the Patreon. We'll make you take the... Okay. Happily so. We'll both take the citizenship test. Oh, God. I'm going to run.

Please don't run into us, lady. Yeah, careful. Hey, there you go. We love you. All right. Slav, man. Thanks for coming on, man. No problem.

Appreciate it, man. No problem. Enjoy the breweries tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it, guys. Yeah, man. Thanks for coming on, man. No problem. Appreciate it, man. No problem. Enjoy the breweries tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it, guys. Yeah, man. How are you?

Watch out for that car. Oh, careful. We do a podcast where we ask people what they do for a living. Sorry, what? We do a podcast where we ask people what they do for a living. Oh, cool. We'd love to have you on. Yeah.

Three minutes. Three minutes. Talk about what you do. How are you? Good. How are you guys? What's your name? Juliana. Juliana. How are you? I'm Kyle. Matt. Nice to meet you. What do you do for a living?

I'm a student currently at Temple and then I also host part-time at Bridget Foy's. Oh, Bridget Foy's. How is Bridget Foy's? Good. Good. We do a really good brunch, really good dinner. How's the hosting life? Kind of miserable. Oh, tell me more. I'm just not really loving the restaurant industry, honestly. I mean, my job is pretty easy. I sit there and I bring people to their tables. But I kind of want to finish school and get into grad school and be done with the restaurant industry. Okay, so I did the restaurant industry up until about three years after college. I also went to Temple.

So I did it my junior year. And then I went. I was bartending. I was bar backing and then bartending. It's a lot better than hosting. Hosting sucks. Hosting is like, I don't know, compare it to something where it's like,

you never get the glory. You're important, but you never get the glory. And you get a lot of the shit too. Yeah, I mean, everyone is mad at you all the time. You're like the school secretary. Pretty much. Where like you do technically kind of control the area. Sure.

But you're usually the least paid and you definitely get the amount of shit exactly and you also know all the dirty little secrets oh yeah everyone gives me the gossip which i love but everyone's always mad at me yeah if there's something like going wrong in the restaurant it's usually perceived to be my fault as the host oh Oh my god, sounds like being my parents' kid. I get the gossip and everybody's mad at me. Some good gossip now right now going on? Summertime good gossip? Not really. You know, it's been kind of quiet. A little disappointing because I need some more drama

to make it interesting. Yeah, sure. 100%. I mean, what else are you going to do? Sit people at their table? Exactly. Give them a crayon for their kids? Yeah. Now, if a server is giving you a hard time are you able to control how many tables they're getting do you ever exact revenge in that way no and i wish i could because we do um a shared front of house tip pool so got it they've been doing that a lot lately it used to be now what does that mean i don't know so everybody

gets their tips at the end of the day and then they kind of divvy them up equally is it making that right it used to be like if you know if if tracy was working today and and kyle was working today tracy did better than kyle because she got a 10 top you know that's kind of just how it was it's beautiful it's kind of like socialistic a little bit yeah it's it sucks when you're like working like you know the the the 1 p.m football shift yeah right and then someone's coming in for the eight o'clock shift and obviously it's not doing as well. And you're kind of like, well, I busted my ass, and you did barely anything. Yeah, that makes sense.

So it's a little bit. But we usually tiff by hourly, and that's how we kind of got it. If a guy worked eight hours, he would get more than the guy who worked six hours. It wasn't like everybody got an equal amount of share. There's a whole math and science behind it. It's kind of boring. Wow. I did not know about all that.

I didn't know it was this complicated. Yeah, dude. I thought we'd just give people rum and Cokes and cheeseburgers. That's pretty sick, dude. So what's the hosting? What's the restaurant industry like? Is this your first job? No, I've worked in the restaurant industry for a couple years now, probably around four or five.

So I've kind of flitted around a little bit, but I've been with Bridget Boys for around two years now. Your dreams of going to be a server or a bartender or anything? No, I'm really comfortable where I'm at because I don't have to do any work or any side work. And I can sit there and read for most of the time. Nice. The side work. So I don't really want to move up. Explain to Maddie here what the side work is.

I have no restaurant experience. I'm kind of curious. It's like cleaning, like rolling napkins, setting up the restaurant, taking down the restaurant at the end of the night. It's basically the final boss of getting out of there and getting on with your life. And it's always the worst thing. Fair, fair. So sometimes you'll see some bartenders cleaning up maybe like an hour before, you know, service is over, you know, in case if the bar is a little dead.

Yeah. That's because they want you to fuck out of there and they want to get the fuck out of there too before it hits two in the morning. Oh, I thought they were just making it more comfortable for me. I had no idea. I thought they were just being very nice. You were in the industry during the pandemic.

Yeah. What's kind of changed since then? Good or bad? Well, you know, you don't have to wear masks anymore, which I kind of miss wearing the masks in an odd way. Why so? Because when people do stupid things, I could kind of give them a look and they wouldn't know.

Right. Oh, okay. But now people can see my entire face and I really have to control my facial expressions when I think someone's being an idiot. True. What's one thing that grinds your gears as a hostess? Um, oh my gosh. When people come in with their children and ask if they can

have a table for like three and a half people, like their child, their like five-year-old child is half a person. Oh God, are they doing this as a joke or are they being sincere? No, they're so serious. Sometimes people joke, but most of the time people will call or they'll come in and seriously ask for like 3.5 people, which is kind of whack. Yeah, that's kind of corny. Has your child done a full person to you? That's insane.

So that's what I'm big on, like no children at bars. Yes, me too. I don't care if it's brunch. I don't care if it's dinner. I don't think children should ever be at bars. And we always had that. People in Philadelphia and I'm sure other big cities don't know how to control their children at bars.

It's just never worked out it's a different kind of living it's not like you're going to like a tj friday's on the main line or you're going to like in montgomery county it's just they let them run all around yeah they let them jump on the on the uh on the boost and everything they stick an ipad in their face that's all it is i hate it i hate it i hate it as a hostess you should be like running around the restaurant like screaming getting in the way of things. People who bring their kids to happy hour. Crazy.

Why? Yeah. Oh, I've had dudes who sat with the Bjorn, which I actually like this. Dudes sitting with their baby at the Bjorn just crushing a couple. That does rule. A couple drinks. I'm okay with that. Once your kid can talk, not allowed at the bar.

Yeah. That's good. I think that's a totally reasonable thing. You should say like hi to the baby. he says hi back you're like yeah exactly yeah like like we get id'd before we go into bars like they the say your abcs you say your abcs bye-bye sit up front your parents get in here dude yeah i think as a host you have a little more power than maybe we're leading on you could just do some like subtle hints to get rid of the kids where like you go you two and then him too? Give little weird ways of pointing out the

kid. You don't have to fully say you can't come in. Just be like, oh, if he wants, if you guys want to bring him in, whatever. That half thing? Sorry. Your child has to be a full person to come to the bar. I like that. You should. No 3.5 situation in here. I think you get the measuring stick

they have on Wildwood Rides and be like, oh. Have customers gotten worse or better since the pandemic? I think honestly worse. I think people are a little bit more entitled. How? I don't know. It's interesting. I think people were a little bit more nice before the pandemic and now people kind of forgot how to act or forgot how to be like polite so they're a little more demanding really i think yeah oh it could go back to your point of we all got to wear masks for like two years and we got to mouth fuck you to people underneath of a mask and now we can't so now we're just generally angrier true colors are coming out we don't

have that outlet anymore maybe that could be part of it i think we should bring them back you know yeah why not just mask everybody exactly exactly i just walk in with a hannibal lecter mask sorry yeah we can get a little fun with it too is my right oh kakashi from naruto yeah yeah i like that all right so people are more entitled huh yeah i can see that unfortunately yeah and it probably is from kovid i think that makes sense i always wondered this. When we walk into a restaurant and we say, how long is the wait? How do you determine the wait? It really depends.

It's mostly based on how slammed a server is and how slammed the different sections are. Or if we actually have a table for the amount of people that you're looking for um but it's mostly we don't want to overwhelm our servers we don't want to overbook the restaurant so you can kind of gauge a time limit based on where the other tables are at but i guess so it goes back to like how do you even gauge that time limit is it like it's obviously it's a guess but like what is it enjoy their dessert and like just you know sit around and chat for a little bit. Usually, our restaurant, we allot a 1.5-hour time for you to enjoy your full meal. And we kind of estimate time limits based on where people are in the meal. If people are on entrees, we usually think that they are going to take 30 to 45 more minutes,

depending if they get desserts, drinks, whatever. People are on desserts usually maybe 45 more minutes, depending if they get desserts, drinks, whatever. People are on desserts usually like maybe 15 more minutes. So we kind of just look at it where someone is during the course of the meal. Okay, so you give the restaurant an ocular pat down. You understand where, who's on what. Wow. Yes.

Two top, four tops, or six tops? What is your favorite top? Two top because it's the least amount of work for me. Got it. Sick. All right. We'll leave you on that. I found this out.

My girlfriend who's a bartender told me that a lot of times when they, depending on how the POS system works, they'll just describe what you're like as a person at the bar to keep your tab. Yep. That is horrifying. Every time, I'm sure. Gingy, hot, hot, cool guy, funny guy, muscles. That's sometimes.

We were a big number. I was a big numbers guy. How so? So if we had 20 seats at the bar, we each had a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, up to 20. So you could count. That wouldn't trip you out at all, not keeping track of the seats? I wouldn't. No, because 1 starts on the left side, and then 20 starts on the right side.

So you just go 20, 19, 18, or 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. And you just, hey, some guy's sitting at 16, you got a Bud Light, and let's go to work. Yeah, but 16 seems like the hardest number to keep track of. One, I can visualize. It's at the very top.

10, I can visualize. 16, I'd be like, where's that one at? You're thinking too much. I am absolutely thinking too much. You literally just count the chairs down. They should start putting the, instead of describing you,

get to know you as a person and then put the description. Be like, dude who clearly has an issue with his dad. No, you don't want that. You're getting in a lot of trouble someone then takes one in the wrong way i would get some mean ones it's nasty you get potentially on the spectrum and then your night is just ruined yeah yeah guy who thinks he's cuter than he is yeah loud mouth loud mouth dude i keep it quiet at a bar yeah hey how are you we do a podcast where we ask you what they do for a living. I only need three minutes of your time.

Nice and easy. It's a fun time. You guys can both come on. There we go. Let's go. Love your shirt, too. What's your name? I'm Dan. Dan? Amelia. Dan, what do you do for a living?

I am a project manager for a commercial AV company. AV? Is it like aviation or audiovisual? Audiovisual. What do you manager for a commercial AV company. AV as in like aviation or audio visual? Audio visual. Okay. What do you do for a living? I'm an account executive for an ed tech software company. What's that entail typically? I'm in sales.

Sales. Yeah. How do you like that? I like it. Yeah. Yeah. I just started doing it like a little bit ago. On the road a lot or mostly just smiling, dialing?

No, not on the road because I'm a growth account executive. So I focus on accounts that we already have and like growing those accounts. Oh, nice. You put like cool shit on the on the on those whiteboards that are like really high tech. No, because I work at home. So I don't have one. No, but I mean, is your software. Sorry.

Is your software putting that cool shit on the. Oh, no. So our software is in the donor and fundraising space. So we help schools with their like donor, like growing their donor population. Oh, so like private schools more so than public public? Yeah, they're all private schools. You just find rich guys for a living. Rich girls. Rich people. Well, I don't do it. They do. Not even find them. They already have them.

That's funny. My high school is, their donor thing is like, we'll send out a newsletter and talk about who became a lawyer. And that's basically the whole thing. Tell me who your high school is and maybe we can help them out. We can talk shop at this. Alright, yeah. Mine is Temple University emailing me saying, please, we know this is the seventh time in six months, but please, can you give us at least like $25 a month? Keep giving us money. Absolutely not.

So what would a commercial audio visualist entail? So let's say you're just like a corporation. You're building a new building and you are like, all right, we have six new conference rooms and we want this to be a team's room. This is a room and we want, you know, a 30 foot video wall hooked up for, you know, in the lobby, hooked up to all the digital signage. So my job is basically designing all of that, putting it together, spreadsheets, and then talking with the client, and then having our installers scheduling a date and kind of going through, and then after the fact, troubleshooting with service. Oh, there's always troubleshooting.

Yeah, always. Which I wonder if that's a factor of, and I don't know if it's how they're built. Now, how come Zoom works and Teams doesn't work at all, no matter what? Because Zoom's is a better company. I hate Teams. I hate Teams.

Good Lord, is Teams the worst yeah oh my god i'm not even corporate america anymore and we still use teams like yeah you can't stand yeah do you know why that is is there anything just the company's better you said i think since covid they got like they were like the main platform for both conferencing like with their like zoom rooms platform but also just like if you wanted to do, you know, Friday drink with 10 of your friends, you know, whatever. So they got like a probably like a bunch more money and just started like implementing like better practices and better features.

And then within the audio visual space, a lot of other companies started like integrating with Zoom. So like if you're doing, you know, some audio digital signal processing and stuff, they started, Zoom started offering plugins for all of these other companies. So people just started using it like even more within a commercial space. And then I guess Bill Gates came in, undercut all Zoom people and were like, Hey, I'll just give it to you for like 20% less. I'll make the money. Sweet. Is there any new ones coming up that we should be aware of? Like that's going to even replace Zoom or is Zoom kind of at the forefront?

Zoom, I think, is the forefront in conferencing. A lot of people have been shifting to kind of like bring your own meeting stuff where they'll just plug their laptop in. platform it'll be like you know if you use teams there's a thing called blue jeans i've never heard of it or used it um or like google and basically you just like bring your laptop and plug it in but as far as like conferencing software i think zoom is still on top do you have a certain year do you think uh so i've been playing music since i was like six. So that was like one of the biggest kind of factors. Like my brother has a recording studio. So always kind of tuned into like the audio space. And I was like, all right, it's way easier, easier to find a job in like AV than being like, can I intern at this recording studio? So with the crossover, that kind of like, you know, made me kind of go down this, uh, this path a little bit. But when

it comes to like doing audio stuff, you know, there's people who I guess don't come from a music background that work with it. And I'm like, Hey, this room, like, sounds like crap. Like, yeah, we're going to need to do this, this. And they're like, Oh, I didn't even know. Like it sounded like that. Now this is not directed at you, but I do want to ask, why are the audiovisual guys always so greasy probably because they don't shower they're the greasiest they're the greasiest grease balls in in all the world love them they do a great job they do what we need for them to do they're great at what they do but man are they grease balls a lot of them come from like tech

backgrounds like we had an employee who went to school for uh a temple for like computer programming and stuff greaseball and then yeah just yeah shout out the house yeah well you guys said that your jobs are the least interesting things about you what's one cool thing about each of you yeah what's one cool thing about you really i've flown an airplane before oh wow oh my god my dad is a pilot sweet and he named me after amelia erhart oh that's awesome i wasn't gonna make the joke but i'm glad i'm glad it would have actually hit home. Sure, you get it all the time. This is always my fun fact, is that because he's a pilot and has been for like 40, 50 years.

I've flown an airplane with him. What's one fun fact about you? I play drums in like a bunch of bands. Okay, tell us more. Name a band. The main band, they're a local Philly band called the Tisbury's. Okay. Originally from Maniunk.

Sweet. Two of the guys grew up in like Scranton, started it, and then moved to Maniunk. Nice. Yeah, we've played like XPN Fest. Sweet. Went on like a little tour, playing a lot locally. Like we played Johnny Brenda's. Sweet.

Ardmore Music Hall, all that stuff. We have a record coming out, Shameless's it yeah let's hear um but yeah we have a record coming out uh i don't know if there's a title but should be out like early next year i guess uh so yeah now a record is that one song or is that multiple songs right so that's gonna be i think we have a total of like 12 songs. Wow. Yeah. How do you write more than one song? I've never understood that. No idea.

Like, I don't know how a song, like musicians, like I think I could write a number one hit, but writing, I could never put the composition and the music together. Yeah. Very collaborative. Like there's this one guy called Zach Bryan. You might've heard of him. He's the greatest country star of all time. Right? Go ahead. What was the question? Anyway, he just put out a 19 song album over the fourth. And I just don't understand how a different

chord, a different drum beat, you can make 19 different songs that sound differently. Yeah. Yeah. It still blows my mind. And I've been playing music for 20 something years. I've always wondered in a band, like when you when I don't know who predominantly writes the lyrics, is that one person or you all do it together or is it like a. It depends on the project. So with the Tisbury's, my like kind of main band, it's all our lead singer. I don't know where the inspiration comes from, if it's just's just like you know some people have that bug where they're constantly just working and working right um so he'll like you know basically just demo the songs he's like a little home studio setup mic amp little interface so we'll kind of just record like really really rough um you know

tracks of just like just tweaking the song yeah And then, you know, we'll bring it to practice or he'll send us like the audio file and be like, come up with ideas. And then we get into a room and kind of just go over it. And that's where like the like collaborative kind of creative thing kind of starts to happen. Oh, that's sick. And then when that happens, it's cool because it's like we all have like very different like influences.

So we all put like our little own like, you know, unique influence thing on it, which makes it sound pretty cool. Was Ringo underappreciated? Yes. Wow. It feels biased, but. Yes. When I just had this conversation recently, when I was a younger drummer, I was like, this guy sucks. He's not even playing cool stuff. And then as I got older, I was like, oh, they didn't record to click tracks or anything.

He's right on beat. But yeah, he's a killer. Wow. Okay. Okay. All right. Justice for Ringo. Yeah. All right. I think that's how we're going to finish this. Yeah. I think that's pretty fair. Amelia, thank you so much. Your name again? Dan. Dan. Okay. Awesome. Amelia and Dan. Thank you so much for joining us. Shout out to the Tisbears. All right. I think we're going to wrap it up. The farmer's market is dying. It is over. It is complete. It is shut. But thank you to everybody

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