Men At Work Podcast - Men at the Kensington Derby!

Episode Date: May 15, 2024

Kyle and Matt are participating in the Kensington Derby! But before that they talk to a Data Analyst from the Dept. of Health, a one day horticulturalist, a model, recently fired tech wellness salesman, and a mover who wants to turn the economy back into a bartering system! Shout out to the Blue Collar Babies, Middle Class Mami's, and White Collar Criminals. We love you guys. Filmed on 5/11/24. 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

Where do we walk? Dollar Dogs! Where do we walk? Dollar Dogs! Three, two, one. Bang! We're back here with another episode of Men at Work. I'm here with Matty Peoples.

We've got Vito behind the cameras. We're here at the Kensington Derby. We're actually going down in Dollar Dogs costumes, so hot dog costumes. And you just walk right into a, you drive right into a mud pit. Yeah, and I'm pretty excited, pretty nervous. I'm going to tear something. I'm going to tear multiple things. Nah, down here in Fishtown, you'll be fine. The mud's soft. There's a lot of mud. But before we get started, I wanted to welcome back, you know, the best listeners in the business.

I'm talking about the blue collar babies. The middle class. Mummies. The white collar. I'm talking about the blue-collar babies, the middle-class mommies, the white-collar criminals. And, hey, listen here. If you're the 1% and you're listening, why haven't you invested in the podcast yet? Donate. Venmo. PayPal. Cash app. Whatever.

Subscribe. Put the love of crud. Like the video. Like it. Comment. We've got to start saying that. We've got to actually be real YouTube podcasters because that does do really good for the algorithm. We're hitting the algorithm really well right now.

But if you comment, if you like, if you subscribe and do it all over again and tell your friends, then we'll get to better places than a random parking lot with overgrown grass. With crabgrass. If you guys could help us out and subscribe one time, we could get a lawn mode, and then we could sit on there, dude. I literally have fleas crawling up my legs right now. I have tetanus, but I've had that, so that's okay. What do you do over Mother's Day?

Oh, boy, what am I doing over Mother's Day? I'll be at Helium Comedy Club. This will come out after it happens. You're working on Mother's Day? With my mom. Oh, your mom's coming? So the show is called Your Mom is Funny. And the show is me and my mom on stage doing like a newlywed type of game.

Okay. Pals. And apparently we have to like, she's going to answer questions beforehand that I have to like guess the answer that she gave to. We wrote sets for each other. Me and my mom were doing stand-up with each other. Your mom's doing stand-up? She's doing stand-up tomorrow night. She going to be good?

No. But no, she'll do great. My mom is very funny. My mom is a theater dork, so she's got to be good. Oh, okay. So I think half the battle with stand-up is being able to get on stage. I think so, too, yeah. A lot of jazz hands.

I don't know what she's going to do up there. But, yeah, so tomorrow for Mother's Day, I had to talk my mom into, like, going into a good opportunity for me. I'm just going to brunch. Is that all you're doing? That's all I'm doing. I'm going to brunch. Damn it, I like to go to brunch. Did you know Mother's Day was invented in Philadelphia? Is that true? It's true. Yeah, Mother's Day? Mother's Day was invented in Philadelphia, bro. What happened?

Anna Jarvis. Shout out to Anna Jarvis from West Virginia. Lived in Philadelphia at the time. If you go down to Market right by City Hall, there's a whole, I don't know, there's big blue signs that they have for everything. There's a Mother's Day sign because Mother's Day was invented in 1908 in Philadelphia. No shit. Yeah, yeah. How did that come about? Anna Jarvis just like saying, I've had enough of not being appreciated? Or what's the deal?

It was like that because it was right around the time when women were being able to vote and everything. But it was like she stole the idea basically from her mom. Really? Took it right out from under her legs. What a thing to do to your mom on a Mother's Day, dude. The original idea was, and I have it written down, was mothers to get together for a day of service to help out other mothers who were less fortunate than they were.

So it wasn't like shower your mother with gifts or leave her alone or do a comedy stand-up bit or take her out to brunch. It was like mothers helping mothers. It was like Teachers in Service Day? Kind of. Oh, my God. Kind of. What a douche.

And so you know why? Kind of sad story. They grew up in Appalachia, West Virginia. Anna Jarvis' mom had 13 kids. Guess how many survived to adulthood? Tell me right now. Four. Okay.

What? That's Hall of Fame numbers in the Major League Baseball. Four out of 13 is not bad. That's getting you in the hall. I mean, it is tough to grow up in Appalachia right now. Yeah, I can't imagine. I couldn't imagine back in the 1800s. Thank you, sir.

Appreciate it. Go Owls. Look at that. So when Anna Jarvis was leading the charge to make this about mothers, she wasn't a mother at the time. So she felt dirty. Okay. So she was like, you know what?

I'm going to continue on the support that my mother wanted to have in this holiday, and I'm going to make it about the mothers, because she believed that even poor mothers were rich if they had their kids love but this story doesn't have a happy ending so Anna Jarvis is chillin Mother's Day is awesome Woodrow Wilson signs it into a bill federal holiday that's why we still celebrate today she made it I think it's the second Sunday in May because that's when her mother passed, like May 9th area. So it's always around May 9th.

Even tried to get it rescinded at one point because what happened? They commercialized the fucking hell out of Mother's Day. Yeah, it's kind of their thing. And she hated it. Yeah. So she spent her entire inheritance trying to, I guess, go against the big hallmarks, the big candy, big floral.

And how do we honor Anna Jarvis' legacy today? We still buy from the industrial complex of Hallmark. Shout out Hallmark. M&M's. Shout out Walgreens the day before. So Anna Jarvis ends up deaf, blind, and in the loony bin and broke. And that's how she kicks the bucket. There is a rumor out there that the floral industries,

the candy industries, and the Hallmark card industries paid for her time in hospice, let's say. That's a rumor. It hasn't been proved and everything, but it doesn't help and everything. But shout out to Anna Jarvis. So when you're out there at brunch or anything or you're out there hanging out with your mom. But shout out to Anna Jarvis. So when you're out there at brunch or anything or you're out there hanging out with your mom,

pull one out for Anna Jarvis. Truly, yeah. I mean, Anna Jarvis, embodying basically the entire mom experience. She's buying you shit you don't need and then she goes out of her mind and you got to go visit her in a mental wealth home or whatever it is, you know?

So that's the most mom thing that somebody could do. So she actually really embodied what it takes to be a mother nowadays. Guess how long Father's Day, it took Father's Day to be recognized? What was that? 60 years after. Well, I mean, dads were kind of

doing some other stuff. Yeah, we were fighting wars and shit. Yeah, we were too busy. I think every day was Father's Day. Apparently that's what Prohibition was all about, is just dads were getting blacked out and acting a fucking fool every time they got home.

So they made Prohibition. Yeah, it was guys that would get blacked out at work, they'd get blacked out at home, and then they'd, you know, do bad things at home, do bad things at work. And they were like, we've got to kind of reel this in a little bit. Interesting. A nice Mother's Day fact. Mm-hmm.

What did you get your mom? Brunch tomorrow. Come on, Kyle. I'll get something else. I'll get some flowers and stuff. No, you've got to do something, like, personal to her. What does she like? She likes my company.

Oh, my God. She hates your company, dude. She's sick of it. She's had it for what? 80, what are you, 46? 31 years. Yeah. Yeah, 31 years. She hates your company, dude. She's sick of it. She's had it for what? 80? What are you, 46? 31 years. Yeah, 31 years.

When you put it like that, you're actually not wrong. The funny thing about my mom is everything that she wanted for Mother's Day was for us to leave the house. So we loved Mother's Day because pops would take us to the movies. Pops would take us to mini golf. Pops would take us to go get ice cream. Mother's Day was like a holiday, like an awesome holiday for us. We would get Texas Roadhouse coming home because my mom loved Day was like a holiday, like an awesome holiday for us. We would get Texas Roadhouse coming home

because my mom loved Texas Roadhouse and stuff. Great buns. Not my mom. Texas Roadhouse. Oh. I mean, I'm sure she has great buns,

but Mrs. Pagan, shout out. Yeah, we actively looked for Mother's Day to come around. It was like second Christmas. That's awesome. What's the nicest thing

you've ever done for your mom for Mother's Day? Do you know? This past summer, I guess it wasn't Mother's Day, but this past Christmas we bought her a Tiffany necklace and I'm still financially recovering from that. That was a horrific decision. That'll get you. That's one of the older sisters saying like, what if we spent $4,000?

Yeah. I was like, I'll kill myself. Because you do get to that age, I found that too, where it's like you're getting more financially independent, but you're not there yet. Yeah. And then as you get older, you're like, shit, I but you're not there yet. Yeah. And then as you get older, you're like, shit, I've been a pretty shitty son, shitty daughter. I should do something better for my mom. And then you get it.

You love it. You give it to her. She's crying. And then six months later, you're left with the bill, and you're like, she doesn't wear it as much as I wish she would. Yeah, you know, she was actually kind of mean to me when I was a kid now that I think about it. She didn't cry enough, honestly. No, my mom bought her eyes out, which I was pretty excited about. I was just sitting over there.

I was standing over her smiling that she was crying that hard. I was like, yes, you like the gift, don't you? Yes, yes, yes. My meaty paws. How are you, folks? What up, what up? What's up, guys? How are you?

We're a podcast called Men at Work. We just ask people what they do for a living. You want to get the lead out? All right. All right, man. Have fun. Well, I want to get the lead out. You need a lead zeppelin start on.

Yeah, that's pretty good. You got to ocular pat down these people. Oh, yeah. You got to say things that they like based on what they're wearing. Okay. She likes chili peppers. Okay. You want to do heroin underneath the bridge?

We're a podcast. We ask what people do for a living. Want to talk about the chili peppers and your job? Won't hold you up too long. Five minutes. Then you can go. How are you? I'm good.

Okay. Hey, folks, how are you? We do a podcast. We ask people what they do for a living. Five minutes. Oh, later. Thanks. We're not going to be here later.

We've got to be in the derby. Oh, five, sorry. Usually five minutes works. What about three? We'll cut it down to three. We might have to cut it down to three. You're right. Folks, don't worry.

We're doing a podcast where we ask people what they do for a living. Three minutes. Do you want to hop on for a little bit? That guy said no, and you said sure. I love it. Sit on down. Sure, you want to hop on? We were co-workers.

Oh, okay. He'll be on by the end of this. We would love to hear some co-worker romance. Yeah. Yeah, we're real Jim and Pam. Wait, you were co-workers and now you're dating? Yes. Okay.

Was it before or after you left the job? I just left. Did you leave because you wanted this romance and the HR said no? No. No, I just got a promotion. Oh, congratulations. Thank you. Left him in the dust. this romance in nature said no no no I just got a you know promotion so congratulations thank you yeah I'm in the dust one year in and got a promotion I don't know what this guy this guy's got a promotion to power couple that's

awesome what do you do for a living I work for state government so I'm Department of Health oh yeah Wow what do you just would expect everybody to be down in DC but is that more local government or is that? State government. State government. OK, cool, cool, cool. What what is that? What do you do? I'm a data analytics specialist. Got it. So, yeah, lots of saving lives, as you can tell. So I'm just messing with you. Basically organize all of their data points and try to move some of the larger metrics forward. So things like changing the census numbers, you know, stuff that we get from the census, trying to make a better impact in those in different areas that relate to health.

So what can I do on my census next time to make sure that your job's easier? Well, get your make sure that your neighbors are filling it out for sure. Is it illegal not to? Yeah, yeah, it is. Really? Yeah, but are they going to really find you? And if they can't find you to answer it, then... It's fair.

But yeah, it is a mandatory survey that the census does. The decennial census is the 10-year one, and then there's also American Community Survey. And so that has a lot of the data that we use to track some of these broader metrics around health. Wow. How about that? I mean, that's an interesting job. It seems like you're probably pretty busy. How do you find time to find a hunk like this while you're on the job? We haven't had an office romance before, so're kind of curious yeah so that was at the department of labor so i'm a little more familiar with that side of that than my you know one month in job

but uh you know stopping in the break room sneaking out of my office trying to find him on uh on my way to the bathroom on on our walking breaks, things like that. Would you recommend all single women in Philadelphia to get jobs at the Department of Labor to find other hunks? You know, I would, yeah. You could take the train into Harrisburg. Oh, you've got to go to Harrisburg? Yeah, you've got to go to Harrisburg, yeah.

That's a tough selling point. But the train is nice. I mean, it's a good, you know, you can just sit there and sleep or what can you do for us in uh in health obviously you're tracking unemployment and employment numbers and labor what are you tracking more in health are you tracking more like std rates are you tracking more like covid hiv stds like uh infectious diseases uh house pennsylvania doing in that one yeah not great i mean what's the what's the what's the bugaboo what's the big one for us great I mean I don't I haven't looked at all we have a lot of metrics in health compared to like labor it's like oh you got three there are lots of metrics to track health from I mean

employment is actually one that feeds into that as well as you know just kind of your economic health and there's environmental health there's yeah your physical well-being there's palliative care like all sorts of things that go into environmental health like making sure that we have enough woods and trees and well it's not even that it's about like you know do you live next to a toxic waste dump or is there a lead in your housing lead is in the housing over the water so much too much is it just lead and asbestos is that like 90% of what my house is well what how old is your house new construction what are you talking about I live in a warehouse a bird warehouse a

bird warehouse a converted warehouse there was probably a bird warehouse a bird warehouse a converted warehouse yeah I mean depending on if it's been renovated recently they probably had to yeah do some lead remediation so you're probably fine I know my house has lead in the paint like on my windows it's not. And yeah, the windows are needing repair as it is. Would you recommend people work for the government? Yeah, I would. Do you enjoy it? You know, yeah, I would.

I was a non-profit before that, and that is a lot worse in my opinion. There's less job security, more work, less pay, less benefits. And you're doing good work for Pennsylvania, for your community. You can definitely make a lot more money for profit. Some people go that way and that's fine, but you don't always do meaningful work. What can people do to make your job easier wrap it up more don't burn trees like take your own health seriously and get screened for and get vaccinated those are kind of the three things you know all sorts of just from like yeah stds to Just from, like, yeah, STDs to melanoma.

Melanoma. Yeah, yeah. All of your, go see your doctor. That's what I'm trying to say. Make a goddamn appointment, everybody. Just, yeah. See a doc, get a booster, do it all. Do it all.

Yeah. We appreciate you. Yeah, thank you. You made the government very interesting. That's right. Great. I'm going to say, I did not think it was going to be that interesting when you sat down. Why? Thank you you good on you talking crud about government employees you're looking at one

here dude shout out the department of defense yeah why didn't you bring that up uh it's a little different she works for state government for federal i don't know if we exchange the same benefits and also yeah you do you fuel the war industrial complex she actually does good work for people. Not exactly the same thing. Hey, guys, what's up? We just do a podcast where we ask people what they do for a living. If you want to hop on, it's like two or three minutes.

We won't hold you up too long. You want to do it? You do it, and then you do it. Yeah. Let's go. Put the headphones on for us. Oh, yeah. Yeah, welcome. First podcast?

First podcast. Nice, man, nice. What's your name? Alex. Alex. I'm Katie. And Katie, and you guys are dating what do you do for a living I do event planning oh that's a pretty fun job what do you do for a living I'm in sales industry finance financial platforms like investments mutual funds ETFs got it

we've had a couple of you guys I got you I got let's focus on event planning he did say mine was more interesting what do you plan so I plan corporate events I work for an insurance company but I get to do a lot of traveling I just came back from Palmetto Bluff. Where's that? In South Carolina. And it's where Justin Bieber got married. Oh. Oh, my God.

Shout out to Biebs. Biebs is pregnant. Not Biebs is pregnant. He himself is not pregnant. But, yeah, so that came out right after we left. And I was like, damn. Damn. How would that have changed your life if you learned that news in Palmetto versus Philadelphia?

I think dropping the bomb that he got married there would have hit a little harder maybe nice conversation I like it so you make people richer I try to good that's all we can do in life yeah endorsement over. Not even Ty Cobb had 100. You're exactly right. So how long have you been doing that? Two years now, this company. Two years. Okay, so you recently took the test and everything? Yeah, I passed all the tests two years ago.

Are you just a natural test taker or did they suck? No, they sucked. You've got to put the work in. Explain to people who don't know what those tests are like. Because I've heard the books are like like this yeah there's multiple of them right yeah yeah so you got to go through three exams um different like for different licenses it's kind of like you study for a month and you just take it there's there's harder exams people have to take these ones are kind of just got to do it to to do the job Were you with her when you took it? Yeah, yeah. How was he? I didn't know that.

Yeah. So he must be a good studier. I had no idea. Still saw him the same amount. Don't even remember him passing. What a horrible person. I love that. She had an event planner.

There was no thought to plan an event for a congratulations. Yeah, that would have been a good one. His birthday's coming up, so I always threaten a surprise party. So it's like, be ready. Maybe this is the year. It might happen. Does she keep you on your toes with, like, when's the surprise party going to come? Has she ever thrown you a surprise party?

She threatens it. Never had one. Yeah? What do you got against surprise parties? Nothing. She's the one who won't plan one. It depends on, his birthday's on Flag Day. Some people are out celebrating Flag Day.

Yeah, that's true. She can't coincide with Flag Day. What's your favorite flag? American. Got it. Yeah, yeah. What's your favorite? Probably Chicago. Yeah. She can't coincide with flag day. What's your favorite flag? American. Got it. Yeah. What's your favorite? Probably Chicago.

Chicago. That's a good flag. Maryland's got a great flag. Yeah. Who doesn't have a good flag? Philadelphia. Yeah. Oh my god.

That's the Phillies uniform, right? The Phillies connect. Yeah, the Phillies connect. I feel like when I went to the game, I was saying to him, like, you're so disengaged because you don't recognize the uniform. So you're kind of, you feel no connection. But then you hear the walk-up songs, and it brings you back to when they were doing really well.

And you're an event planner, so you understand the connection. Yeah. That people have to have to events. Yes, but also in general, it has to be a good baseball game to keep me in the loop, and I was kind of in a fugue state. I was also in the 400 level. So so like corporate events for an insurance company. How do you wow people in insurance? It's the most not the most boring job, but it's a very boring. I'm not going to lie. Our events are amazing.

Okay. And I mean. Give us an example. Okay. So what we did in Palmetto Bluff. Okay. So we had an 80s band. That was amazing.

Okay. Because everyone was dancing towards the end. Great. We had cigar rolling stations. Okay. We had a whiskey engraver. Okay. Like they engraved the cups.

I mean the food down there. Yeah. it's kind of like the master's food, like pimento cheese. You like pimento cheese? So I actually went to the master's last year for my event planning job. I would have loved that. I was telling him, I was like, can I curse on here? I was like, this is bullshit. They won't let me bring my phone in. I hate this.

Yeah, they don't. So actually, I went crazy at the gift shop. I brought home a bunch of stuff home. And I brought home a pimento cheese sandwich in my carry-on. Yeah. And he would not eat it. I personally do not like it. It had too many miles on it.

I couldn't eat it. That's an aged. Yeah, aged cheddar. And you know what? I like it. It had too many miles on it. I couldn't eat it. That's an aged cheddar. Yeah, aged cheddar. And you know what? I had it the next day, and it was great. I did love it. Okay. I mean, it's like nothing you couldn't make at home.

True. True. No, 100%. Yeah, you could definitely make it at home. So I've been to the Masters, too. Oh, yeah. How impressive is it? Once I was in there, I was like, I get it now.

It definitely has a Disney World theme without the scary Disney adults but Once I was off my phone I was like this is great. Why do we even have phones? We need to all be on our phones less. That's a that's a very good point what was the most shocking part behind the scenes that you saw like the masters that like really stuck out to you oh my god so um our passes uh if you lose one of the passes it was a hundred thousand dollars and someone lost the pass so they just left i. I would not pay that money. So they are one of our agents that, you know,

we're bringing them to, like, woo them and thank you for everything. So how do you have that conversation? Like, thank you so much for coming. We need $100,000. So luckily they brought the cost down, and I actually don't even remember the end of it. Are you a doffer? Were you upset about that?

I worked. I made out all right because I got all the swag from the gift shop. He sold the guest pass it are you a golfer are you were you yeah i worked i made out all right because i got all the the swag from the gift shop but one day he sold the guest pass yeah yeah walked away with a bunch of grand and two polos remember when pandemic trading was big oh yeah yeah i hit that for like 48 hours i thought i was yeah yeah i thought they were warren buffett yeah yeah and then i was like this is way too much math yeah yeah it was fun until everyone bought the top, and then it started to crumble down a little bit.

So are you pro-meme stocks or are you anti-meme stocks? I'm pro-meme stocks. I think it's a lot of fun. And, I mean, if someone can, like, 10X their money in a couple days, why not? It's all fun. All right. What did you think during COVID? I guess you were working there or maybe not.

Working in the industry, different company. What about the AMC situation? The GameStop situation? What about GameStop? Yeah, yeah. I thought that was so much fun. I thought it was awesome. Yeah, yeah.

It's like retail traders finally get a dub. Institutional, you know, they kind of had to deal with it. Dude, a stock trader for the people? Yeah, yeah. I like this. Common man stock trader. Yeah, hell yeah. I like that. Let's check the portfolio. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Common man stock. Yeah, hell yeah. I like that.

Let's check the portfolio. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. That's true. My friend's in investment banking, and he caught, like, the tail end of, like, not really Wolf of Wall Street-y era, but there were still, like, corporate business accounts that were, like, really awesome, and you could go out. Is that coming back?

Has that kind of gone away? I mean, obviously, you've only been there for a couple years, so. It's changed a lot. A lot of what we do is entertaining clients and stuff. And from what I've heard in the past, the budgets were much larger. You didn't have to show receipts and all that type of stuff. So from what I've heard, it was a lot more fun in the past. Does it make you sad that you don't get to enjoy the expense accounts?

Yeah. There's still some fun things we get to do. But from what I've heard is... What's your favorite thing? Get a go on podcast. We'll still do stuff with clients. I've been to different conferences, traveled a little bit, golfed with clients, but

from what I've heard, it was just a little more extravagant back in the days. Maybe one day. Yeah, we'll get back there. Come to one of my events how are you dude look at you guys just crushing some plants over there and the Carhartt double knees and the car is at. Oh, we got Carhartt? Oh, yeah.

Carhartt double knees are a find. Throw some headphones on. Please, yeah. And there's a mic for you, too, for you. For you to get loosey and goosey. All right. So you just set up a... We'll get Maddie to get some of the shots of the plants and everything.

You just set up a tent, and you're selling plants. Oh, yeah. So I do this every year for the last two years. Usually, the race ends up right over on Norris, the mud pit at Norris and Trenton. Yeah, it changes here, right? Yeah, right. I liked it over there. Me too, especially since I could on my front porch sell all these plants. I grow them every year myself. That's awesome. Do you have a name or anything you go by to shout it out? To let people know where to find you? I've been yelling local plants, although I kept quiet this time because I didn't want to disrupt your activities here.

That's fine. We have some local plants in the background. That's going to just add to the effect of it's better than we were at the art museum last episode. And the fucking bikers just revving their bikes the whole time. I'd rather hear local plants in the background than that. A hundred percent. A million times over. Yeah, absolutely.

So how long have you been doing local plants? Just the last two years. My family has a gardening business up in like the Northeast or the Northwest and I'm able to siphon off little shoots, things that don't sell, stuff like that. I pot them up, make them bigger, get them ready to sell. Go grab your favorite plant. Awesome. Let's get some plants on here. Are those Pokemon? Little Pokemon pot holders? Oh yeah, that's the one Pokemon with the purple hair. Potter? It's Pot-something, right?

Pot-something. Oh, God, I can't think of it. I might buy one. Dude, all right, cool. So we've got some plants here. Oh, yeah. Table dirty. Oh, that's fine.

No, we've had a couple. Two guys, like, sweating all over at the last episode. Yeah, probably. So I would say that this one's my favorite. So what's this? Japanese maples. Wow. Two of them in a pot there.

They are just lovely. But the start of the show this year is I had a friend of mine who works at Temple. He runs the 3D printing lab there. Print me out on his home printer a couple of these Oddish Pokemon. Oddish. We were so off. We said Potter. Oddish.

Oddish. Close enough. Yeah, so I'm hoping these will do well this year. I like that. Got a little over 20 of them. Are you really into Japanese? Because this is Japanese maple. This is a Japanese Pokemon.

Yeah, you could say that. Yeah. I think it's a rising tide these days. I agree. So do the Japanese probably, are their plants better than homegrown, made in America plants? No. Okay. Even though I love things like Japanese maples and the such, most plants from Asia tend to be invasive here.

And it's really important to grow native plants. Fuck bamboo. Frick bamboo. What I'm selling here is a lot of indoor stuff and things that I know are fine. So I want to make sure that I'm not putting anything that I don't represent anything bad into the environment. You plant a Japanese maple, that's not one of the invasive plants. If I was selling Tree of Heaven or something like that, that would be immoral. Tree of Heaven? Have you done something like that before?

Have you sold anything that's invasive without really knowing? No. Luckily, because both my parents have degrees in ornamental horticulture, I've grown up with nothing but knowledge, right? So I was able to learn everything I know from them. So what's that look like? So your parents are both horticulturalists. Is that the right word?

One of them, yeah. Just call them gardeners. Call them gardeners. Okay, I'll take that. I like that. I didn't know. Yeah, I like how you. I like the big term.

Pronouns for gardeners. Gardeners need pronouns. That's exactly right. Yeah, I like how you... I like the big term. Pronouns for gardeners. Gardeners need pronouns. That's exactly right. So what's that look like as a childhood? Are you like out in the garden six days a week, or are you kind of just sitting in the background? Were you interested as a kid? Like, is that something that grew on you?

I never was interested, and it's still not something I intend to do. I'm studying architecture. Got it. But I think that anybody who's grown up in a household with a family business kind of knows that you, you can't escape it really. You're always being asked to help with this, or you lend a hand with this. And it's just, um, it's a part of life, right? It's not like there's no separation where there's, well, mom and dad are off at work and that's a separate world. And then they come back, it's all over the house. It's all over the yard, you know.

And whenever you're out, you're talking about it. You hear about plants. You can't go anywhere without seeing the grown environment. It feels like the inverse of the trope you see on TV shows where it's like, hey, dad, I want to be a basketball player. And he's like, you're going to be a real man. You're going to garden with us. We're going to get the job done. It's a cool little dynamic that the family has. It's kind of interesting.

Oh, yeah. I'm really proud of my folks. You should be. That's awesome. That's really cool. Yeah, and they helped me a lot getting set up today. A lot of these things my dad picked up for me or stuff I rescued from some of our jobs, extra. Rescues?

Oh, yeah. Well, often if something isn't put in, it's up for grabs or the client will shove it in like their greenhouse or something and it'll get lost in the works. So anything I can kind of siphon off and sell here. So you can rescue plants? Mm-hmm. Is that something you do covertly or you have to let them know that you're, or is it kind of just an open area? If you find a stray on the road. Everywhere in between. Wow. Okay. Yep. In my personal career, I love trees.

I love putting trees in places. I love getting trees to people. That's why I pulled the Japanese maple as my favorite of the stuff I'm selling. Because, as you might notice here in the sun, Philadelphia is lacking in shade. And I feel like the amount of shade is going down every year. People cut down trees. Just recently on the corner of Norris and Amber, the property owner took down all six street trees that shaded everybody who walked from the Burke Station to this area. It boggles my mind that people can do that and ruin a little part of so many people's every day by taking their shade away.

It's for one Chipotle. Like what is the end goal that you're cutting down all those trees? And the trees make the neighborhood kind of endearing and lively, I think. I'm a big tree guy myself. I'm a big Chipotle guy. I do like both, but I wish they could coexist.

We know such stark battles. We need more trees. More street trees, especially. Honestly, I'm kind of roasting right now. Exactly. I could use a big oak right here. I would love an oak. This would be a perfect place for it.

But you'll notice that when the city put in this roundabout, and the garden they put in the center there is a full sun garden, there could be a large tree in the center of that roundabout. Wow, yeah. Yeah, you're not kidding. Yeah, it would look so nice, too, Drive it around the circle, shade it out. The city doesn't design around trees in the way that they should. Yeah, so urban planning, we're not the coup de gras of Philadelphia? Unfortunately not. Wow. But I think Philly's getting better. I think people are realizing it. We have good programs here. You can get a street tree for free.

If you're a property owner, you just right into the city, there's a department for it. You can find the website. I don't have it off the top of my head right now, but they will send it to you for free. They'll come, they'll plant it. Hey, boom, boom, boom. Government, send me a tree on my block. If you have a big enough plot. Oh, yeah.

Just even like something on the sidewalk in front of your house. The size isn't overly. Any of these businesses right here could apply for a street tree, and they would be accepted. Really? Oh, yeah. Just even like something on the sidewalk in front of your house? Like the size isn't overly... Any of these businesses right here could apply for a street tree and they would be accepted. Really? Oh, yeah. It's easy as that. And there are other programs that will do the process for you as well that are faster than the city. If you go to Philly Tree People, I think is local to Fishtown, and they'll do the permitting process for you.

They'll get you the tree for free and they'll plant it for you. So there is no reason why you shouldn't have a tree on your block. Exactly. Because in addition to that, it also lowers your heating and cooling costs. The shade of the tree, it buffets and protects your house. And you have to pay,

it's especially... I live in a four-story apartment. Wow. Get a big-ass tree. Yeah. Grow it over, dude. Hey, how are you? Hey, guys.

What's up, Papa? Oh, my God, dude. Wow get a big ass tree yeah oh my god dude did you taught us all about the trees all about the trees didn't know what I do it's my Eagle friend holy shit see if they can Eagle can you come here for a second so if you don't have trees our boy the Eagle can't sit in any trees. Yeah, pretty much. We're talking to a guy who's good with trees, and you're an eagle. And you're an eagle. Did you know that Philadelphia has a tree problem?

Not enough? Not enough trees around here. I know, for you to park on. I like trees. He's trying to get more of them for you. We call our nest, we call it an eerie. That costume's a little eerie so it all kind of comes together i see what you did there where can people find your japanese maples and your

oddish plants at the traffic circle um at york trenton and frankfurt they all intersect at the traffic circle that's where the the derby's gonna go through here the vendors start right over there so like where can people do an instagram do you have a website? Do you have, like, anything you want to promote? Oh, no. I do this once a year. Oh. Wow. So, he's a commodity. I love that. He's a commodity.

You got to come find me. Well, how much are you charging for one of these beauts, the Odishes? The Odishes are going to be probably 15 a piece, maybe 10 a piece. It depends on how you smile. Do you take Venmo? Oh, yeah. I'll take one of the Odishes if you don't mind. Hell, yeah.

You can pick from any on the table. Okay. I'll take this guy right here. For whatever reason, this one's speaking to me. If I could grab that one. Are these Prickleys? Nah, they're little fuzzies. Oh. Okay. Alright. Hey, listen, man. Thank you so much. Yeah, dude. Thank you so much for coming on and good luck with everything. Hey, thanks for having me. I love the promotion. Alright, we have to

go to the Derby. So when we come back, we're going to be in completely different costumes. We might be muddy and in a hot dog costume. I don't know. But we are going to the Derby. We got we come back, we're going to be in completely different costumes. We might be muddy and in a hot dog costume. I don't know. But we are going to the Derby. We got to do run around Fishtown and then go into a mud pit. We'll splice the video in right here. See you on the other side. Yeah.

Where do we want? Where do we want? Where do we run? Where do we run? Where do we run? Where do we run? Where do we run? Where do we run? Where do we run?

Where do we run? Where do we run? Where do we run? Where do we run? Where do we run? Finish out the Kensington Derby. Three-fourths of us were amazing shout out to the tripod one leg wait what do you got to say for yourself man it was pretty embarrassing you got booed to oblivion i know people thought it was a bill was actually them going zoom like how fast i was going

so i understand that's a misconception you might have no chance no chance shout out to the dark dogs these balloons are coming through. Let's go. Another Kensington Derby finalist. I'm hoping we win. What would we win?

I think people's award we might have a chance for because we were getting people fired up. People loved us. You better fucking give us the reward.

And it's so easy. It's just Diner Dogs. How could you not support? I just hope the judges saw it. Remember, there was a lot of bravado we had.

Nobody else had bravado. That's true. Nobody else chanted like we did. Unless like some like little kid is like really adorable and like does some cute costume. Like I can see us losing to like a fucking kid. But outside of that, I think we're good. We were the most passionate. All right.

That's the Kensington Derby. We're back, baby. What'd you think? How are you feeling? I think I did a great job. I think everybody was cool with my performance and nobody was upset with it at all. What do you think? Dude, you got booed. I actually joined great job. I think everybody was cool with my performance, and nobody was upset with it at all. What do you think? Dude, you got booed.

I actually joined in the booing. It was so good. What's up, brother? How are you doing? Good. Dude, the booing was so good. It was a very good boo, too. Yeah, it was a strong boo.

I didn't realize it was happening. When you hear the initial roars of a boo, it sounds like cheers. So I went through, and I was like, oh, my God, they love me. The boo settled in, and I was like, I'm such a loser. Dude, describe to the people what happened. You got down there. We were going fast. We were moving.

And you had a flat tire on the front. Right, and we were moving, and I saw you put your left leg out, which you don't want to talk about at all. Oh, you're just passing the blame. You're just passing the buck. And then I was like, I'll put my leg out. Now that slows me down a little bit. I kind of clicked the brakes a little bit.

I'll say that. And I think they got wind of that, and they just ate me alive. It was a lot of fun. The people really enjoyed it. Let's go, dogs. Go, dogs, guys. I'm a mustard and ketchup guy. Oh, well, I don't come to your place of business and yell at you.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Jesus Christ. I'll tell you what. Something about people going to the festival and having 30 beers makes them a lot more loose on the way back. It does. I mean, we were having a lot of trouble getting people to come on when they were going towards the festival.

People are absolutely loving it coming out of the festival. Now, the people we got before, of course, they were great. You know, we don't want to spurt that. Oh, we love them. Great people. People were saying no left and right. Upright and center. But, man, shout out to the Kensington Derby.

Maybe we'll do it again next year. They really did a good job, I thought, with the whole entire route, the whole entire derby. It was a good time. And then apparently this is one of the biggest they've ever done. It felt like it. I mean, it was packed up. It was crazy to see.

It was. I got a little nervous when we went out there. I don't get nervous a lot in front of crowds, but I actually was. The heart was pumping a little bit. I thought you seemed loose as a goose. People were – well, once you get a couple dogs in your hand and you get to throw cheap meat to people,

and you have something that you're proud of, a purpose. Sure. Hopefully this wasn't it, but I understand what you're talking about. Yeah. So, yeah. Yo, you guys want to come on pod? Yeah, come on, guys. We asked you what they do for a living.

All right, cool. Take a seat, man. Take a seat, guys. Thank you for coming on, man. We asked you what they do for a living. All right, cool. Take a seat, man. Take a seat, guys. Welcome. Thank you for coming on, man. Appreciate that shit. Squeeze on in. Let's be boys.

Let's be boys. Let's get into it. All right. I like this guy. This guy's not getting into it now. All right, let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

Your name? EJ. EJ? EJ. Larry. What do you do for a living? So right now, I'm modeling. Dan.

I got adopted. So the family that adopted me, we own car dealerships. I do real estate with them too. Sweet. Jack of all trades. So you model and you also sell cars? Yeah. Nice. Larry, what do you do? I'm a visual artist under the name Ashie Art. So I do painting. I do graphic design, creative direction, all that. You feel me? Nice. You guys boys? Yeah. Is he good at what he does? graphic design, creative direction, all that. You feel me? Nice. You guys boys?

Yeah. Is he good at what he does? Amazing, bro. I hang a lot of you. Just be on the lookout for his art. Is he good at what he does? Of course. You already got to ask. How many cars he sold you?

Me? Yeah. Not yet. Not that good. Keep it a whole bean, though, bro. That car shit's something else, but I mainly do this modeling shit. I like that stuff. Tell us about the modeling. Mod modeling recently actually i just uh did a

runway show for my boy kenny you got tapping with kenny also crazy pieces make clothes makes clothes hello talents where's he where was it at uh temple actually at the tyler art uh department so i'm like that i forget the name of it tyler school yeah um besides that, I've just been doing a lot of shoots and shit around. Just trying to get tapped into it in general. Because I'm, like, fairly new, but it's been paying deep enough to where I can be like, I want to pursue this. Right. Cars to help with the pay, but modeling is what the dream is.

Yep. Modeling is what the dream is. How did you get into modeling? Did someone discover you, or you just, like... Bro, I'm going to keep it a beam, bro. It was, like, one day that, like, kind of, I kind of like made me kind of like really want to start pursuing it I was like helping my friend on move in and his sister was like you really gotta start modeling and I was like You know what like fuck I'm gonna do it and it was like a model in the agency like five minutes away from where I live

I just did it shot through your friend's sister. Seriously. Shout out to my friend's sister. I think it's hot as fuck. It's fucking hot, dude. Shout out to my friend's sister. Hot dogs. Hot dogs. So I got a question for you guys. So, like, what made you want to start doing this? What was, like, the inspiration behind just the random podcast in general? I do stand-up, and a lot of times I do stand-up.

I'll do, like, crowd work with people. Oh, for real? That's the most interesting part of doing stand-up is you're talking to the audience, and you find out they're more interesting, they have a better story than anything you wrote, so you can just go off of that and just learn from them. And so our whole thing is that we ask people what they do for a living,

but it's also a comedy podcast, because I think it's, like, it lets people let their guard down because we have something to talk about, and then you just kind of go from there. You know what I mean? So what's, like, something like the inspiration beyond some of your sets uh i just talk about like family myself and stuff i mean most stand-up comics the number one inspiration is narcissism we just we need people to look at us and listen to us and that's

like the number one our days are ruined when they don't live it's it's the worst day it'll shut down my week very honestly so what makes like a good set and what makes the best set i like this guy he's interviewing you no i don't we want to get to know you no no these are the best guests no yeah it's very nice i appreciate it but uh yeah it's just like uh what'd you ask me uh what makes a good set and what makes a bad set the longer you do it you kind of find out what killing is and what killing is not so when you get on stage and the entire time you're up there for like 15 20 30 minutes and you're just like murdering, you can feel it when you're honest with yourself about it. You can feel like, did the audience like it?

Did I relate to them? And then the biggest part is when you get done, comedy is the coolest thing because you're not like in your own little world. They're going to come up to you and be like, that was funny. I like that. Or people come up to me and be like, yo, that was really bad and hard to watch. And I'm like, all right, cool. Yep, back to the drawing board.

Do you know when you crush a walk? Yeah, sure I'm not gonna lie to you cuz it's like Even though like you're never supposed to like break eye contact with like you just staring at like a deep dark abyss of nothing I got it But like you can kind of like tell whenever somebody's like really acknowledging each like your piece This item by item so to say or like the most recent one I did The nigga like had made on my bag into like a congo set also and um i could kind of tell like people like what the and then like the person on the mic like you could kind of tell whenever they're really messing

with like your fit so to say right and it's kind of like you just kind of feed off of that like that's like the that really like helps you like throughout the walk because like you're just not walking like three seconds and like you're back like you're that really like Helps you like throughout the walk Cause like you're just not walking Like three seconds And like you're back Like bro you're walking for like 30, 40 seconds there And then probably back Yeah does it feel like a lifetime?

Bro yes Does the set feel like a lifetime? Uh sometimes Sometimes Yeah What about you? How can you tell when people Like kinda fuck with what you're doing?

By likes? Nah honestly Cheers Nah but real rap like Honestly I just let the people decide Like um I had my friends come in Like my friends Like Kenny who um Made the clothes That he walked, I had my friends come in, like my friends, like Kenny,

who made the clothes that he walked in. I had them come in, you feel me, like, see what's up. They'll tell me, like, oh, yeah, this is hard. Like, oh, nah, you should put this here. You should do this here. I think, like, those personal opinions, they really help me, you know, decide, okay, this is tough, that's weak, you know. Okay.

Don't put on nothing weak, you feel me? Don't put on nothing weak. Another major thing though especially with like what both of us are doing it's kind of hard to like determine your work sometimes though because like you don't want to go off of like the public eye because now are you making shit for like people or are you making what you're making or doing what you're doing yeah bro that's kind of like content and stand up in a way where it's like are we making something that people have done before like i don't know many people out there that are going on the street

and asking people what they do for a living. Like, I've seen podcasts that are outside, but as long as you can kind of tweak it and feel it and stuff, you're the same way. Like, if you bite someone's, you know, graphic design art or their art in general, or you, you know, one of your fashion designers bites something from, you know, like a Kanye or like a Gucci or something like that, like, people are going to know that. People are going to call out that bullshit. Like, people love authenticity. But honestly, it's like a final line, though, because like everything like it just isn't like inspired from something else or like you at least get like died

They'll have doing something from like something you see in like earlier on in life Yeah, it might not be exactly it but like just little hints or like just something that like, you know, kick-started But it's still you I mean like that's the whole thing Rick Rubin, right the producer He wrote either an interview in a book that he said that he considers the audience last because he said the minute that you consider the audience you're totally abandoning what you want the direction you want so he said the last thing the worst thing you can do is think about what other people are thinking you gotta find that balance yeah that's like one thing I like I've been really happy on because I've been

writing on the short film recently and that's like the one because i like direction like it's very easy to like go off a direction if you're rushing or if you're kind of catering to audience that isn't truly like your cell phone to say so it's kind of like just trying to um stay authentic so how do you stay authentic with like the podcast shit the guests help i would say um like i've never once again never met a model um we just turned more guest focused the whole podcast is just like we kind of pepper and stuff but we just let people get the spotlight because there's tons of interesting people that have stuff to talk about so we just kind of let that happen yeah you know yeah that's cool as hell bro how do you how do you like because like music's

so interesting to me and and fashion is so interesting to me because like clothes have been around for millions of years music have been around for millions of years, music's been around for millions of years, and there's still people who come out and do something different. Like, I heard a folk rap song the other day, and I was like, I actually kind of fuck with this. Like, especially with fashion, too, I feel like it's for, like, a lot of things. It can get very gimmicky very easily.

Yeah, that's the worst part. Even for art or, like, with, like, the podcast shit or music, it can get very, I feel like, gimmicky or just, like, not natural, so to say. Like, what do they call it? Like, industry plants, so to say. Industry plants. I like that. We'd be industry plants.

I mean, that's. I'll take Bobby on top right now, dude. They get some checks. They get some checks, bro. They get checks. Okay, like, smash or pass Bobby? Look, I love my girlfriend more than anything. That's a pretty hard smash for me there, folks.

Smash or pass Bobby. uh look i love my girlfriend more than anything that's a pretty hard smash for me there folks uh she's like the taylor swift of podcasting in my eyes in terms of like i just don't find her attractive really you're out of your mind you'd never know if the sex was good you'd be like what do you think she was like my girl bobby though bro yeah i mean i don't know bro what are you smashing what is it shameful shameful smash what oh what you don't tell the boys about are you, smash or pass? Shameful smash. What is it? Shameful smash. A shameful smash. What? Oh, one you don't tell the boys about? Or you tell them the boys? I don't tell the boys, bro, but I'm not excited.

I didn't just fuck Beyonce or some notable person that is worth bringing up. I'm not going to lie, bro. You're telling me that I'm going to clown you, bro. For real. Really? You're a big Bobby guy? No, I'm not talking about Bobby. No. Dollar dogs. Maybe they know you. Go on Congress. bro for real like really you're a big bobby bobby guy no i'm talking about bobby no

maybe they know congress uh bobby bobby you're passed on that i think me and you were passing shameful smash and sounds like a smash uh yeah it depends who you ask but yes you're yelling it from the mountaintops honestly i'm belting a little bit yeah I can see that Oh man Shit Well what So people can find you On the gram People can find you Walking around the city In the gram too On the gram

Yeah can you shout out The gram Yeah it's Vane.ej Got it V-A-I-N I like that Vane.ej

We kind of joke about How like this is called Men at work Like we're working right now But we're not fucking working Right now We're hanging ten Two guys in a fucking Hot dog cup I've had three beers guys called men at work like we're working right now But we're not fucking working. Yeah, like this is hanging ten guys Three beers guys. What are you talking about? I'm working right now Listen if y'all dig his own follow. Thank you so much

We fucking y'all Well, not us, but maybe they will get in your cars. We will send your credit. We don't fuck your credit We media. He's looking at our haircuts thinking we can fuck people's credit up. Fuck your credit up. Take a house loan out. That's awesome. Thank you, guys.

That's awesome. Thank you so much, man. Have a good day. We really appreciate it. You guys are great. What's up, dudes? We do a podcast where we just ask people what they do for a living. I only need like three minutes.

You look interested. I'm an Uber driver. No, dude. We've never talked to an Uber driver. Three minutes. Three minutes. Tops.. You look interested. No, dude, we've never talked to an Uber driver. Three minutes. We'll start counting. No, dude, come on. We need you. One star. One star. What's up, Brian? I'm Kyle. You better be an Uber driver. This is Matt. Are you an Uber driver? Okay. Okay. Well, I guess we'll take the second best roll. Can you throw these on, please? What's your name? My name is Chris. Chris. Chris, how are you, take the second best roll. Can you throw these on, please? What's your name? My name is Chris.

Chris. Chris, how are you, man? I'm doing pretty good. How are you guys? Did you find the festival? We did. I saw you guys won an honorable mention. What?

We didn't win? You won something. We didn't get any money? No, no. I think a high five. Wait, honorable mention? That's like first loser. Well, there was like seven of them.

You guys were one of them. But I thought... Dude, fuck Chris. The best one. Spray Chris the heck if he was me. Hey, shit. Sorry to curse of them. You guys were one of them. But I thought. Dude, fuck Chris. The best one. Spray Chris the heck. Hey, shit. Sorry to curse like that. We love hot dogs, though.

That's why I stopped over. Dude, honestly, the Phillies probably were on the judging. Yeah, they didn't want to see greatness. These guys are hemorrhaging money. Stifling us. Dude, buy one, get one free is bullshit. Dude, BOGO is bogus. That's what we're screaming.

It is. It's bullshit. It's honestly bullshit. Dude, honorable mention. It hurts. I might not come back next year. That's the best thing I've ever had in my life. What are you talking about? That's unbelievable. We've lost the plot. We apologize, Chris.

Sorry. What do you do for work? Unemployed. Sick. You're a second unemployed person. Are you unemployed or are you fun-employed? Fun-employed. You might want to be an Uber driver. And you're not an Uber driver? No.

I'm still getting look into it there. I'm still getting paid from my last employer. Enjoy it. Living life. Getting married. I worked for a tech wellness company. It's always the startups. Yeah.

It's always the startups. That'll do it. Are we in a tech bubble right now? I think so. Yeah. You hear Peloton. I've heard of everyone. 25% of people. You're Peloton? No. Oh were you peloton no oh okay um what were you tech wellness like i guess uh what were you

selling or what were you doing for the tech wellness company selling health and wellness selling health and wellness were we doing um more hardware more software uh hardware yeah hardware yeah physical devices. Okay. In people's homes or in businesses? No, no, like a business. Got it. Like right over here. Yeah, literally right down the street.

Is that Tough Market? I feel like there's not a lot of, I mean, other than Peloton, what's other hardware stuff that you can think of? Like that mirror on the wall? No. Something like a massage device. Got it. Like a Theragun?

Maybe. Okay. We can bleep Theragun out. Can't say that. Yeah. Legally not allowed to say that. Dude. But maybe. If it was.

Dude. I don't know why, but every time I think of Theragun, I think of some sexual, sexual shit. Trust me. A lot of people. Like the Shake Weight and the Theragun. Go toe-to-toe and be like, I can fuck with that. We're fucking with that. We had to have a meeting about that.

Yeah, I'm sure. A lot of people thinking that there's fucking going on with these devices. Why not make it part of the branding? Oh, no. No, you don't think about that. Well, it goes against God's credence, but, you know, I mean, what can you do with that? I mean, I'm just saying. So that was never part of, like, the, look, we just accept it and say it's part of the branding?

Or it's like we got to find a way to get away with it? No, no, it was part of it. We weren't allowed to say that. Yeah. But it was. It was the same thing. They were like, oh, yeah, this doesn't look like you're jacking something off. But it's like, yes, it does.

We'll take all the good clicks. All news is good news. Yeah, but that gives no pleasure. Shake Weight? No, it doesn't. But no, actually, I mean, you ever done a Shake Weight? Yeah, dude. Dude, the tries.

You tell me, dude. Get you pumped up. Dude, the tries get you going. It will. Get you to lose your breath, break a sweat. It's our podcast modifier. Shout out, man. Dude, is tech wellness like a very competitive?

I thought Theragun was doing great. They are. They're doing great. You're in the eights. 25% of their workforce. They're just rolling in money. Everybody's cutting workforce right now. Actually, you know what?

After they let me go, I bought five. No, no. This guy still works. Oh, really? Whoops. Okay, you know what? After they let me go, I bought five. No, no. This guy still works. Oh, really? Whoops. Okay, never mind. I was his boss when they fired me. You were his boss?

Yeah. So that's funny. I lived with my boss at Comcast, and then Comcast fired me during the pandemic. And I live with my boss, and my boss is literally upstairs. He didn't fire me because he was too close to me. But he's upstairs as I'm getting fired in my living room with HR. No way. All the time.

Dude, I used to work at the Comcast. Did you really? Shout out to you. I did too. And I got fired during the pandemic. During the pandemic. What did you do for them? I worked at the physical therapy.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys are like one of the first to go. They were like, get these guys. I was with some of their, I can't say their names, maybe their CEO or whatever, during the time they laid everyone off. I actually really liked your guys' stuff in the new building. It was really dumb. Wait, were you in the gym?

I was on floor three of the old building, the OG building. Oh, dude, I never went to that gym. No one did. Okay. Yeah, no. That's why they let us all go. Oh, shit. Yeah, I remember that place.

That place was, yeah, I wouldn't even know because I never went. It was very slow, yeah. Damn, so you think like, hey, Chris, maybe tech wellness isn't for you. Maybe wellness just isn't in the cards. I got a job working in beer. Way better. The exact opposite of tech wellness. You have a pendulum of swung, fellas.

I like to make people happy here. Beer makes people happy. Do you feel like you could sell beer better than tech wellness? Dude, everyone wants beer. Yeah, of course. No kidding. That is true. Philadelphia zone.

Victory. Shout out to victory. Oh, my God. Are you bartending sales? What are you doing? Sales, yeah. Sweet. How's that? I just started. Nice. All right. Well, all right well hey good luck man shit i hope they don't let me go

not here not after this promotion uh south jersey oh so right over the bridge too that's it nice man so just what what is like because i was a bartender for a little bit in the city uh for about eight years really enjoyed it but i never was i was a bartender i wasn't a general manager what's like uh what's like a beer salesman like what's your day-to-day like literally going to liquor stores and telling people try this beer got it good got it and that's it you don't walk into any bars or anything you'll carry this stuff sometimes yeah like literally just going like bars say hey we have these nine things try these let me know and that's it do you have to carry the kegs i roll them you roll them yeah

i thought the same donkey kong i'm not trying to carry this they're pretty heavy when they're full they just roll them down the street that's it no i like that i i like that you stared wellness in the face and you're like it wasn't for me and now i'm going i'm doing beer i'm gonna fuck people up yeah now which do you prefer what's the what's the better one to go with i mean obviously there was a tougher time with the one prior but wellness pays way more yeah i'll take i'll take that yeah it's true but the victory perks don't make up for it no like a little uh like half off yeah oh wow okay like maybe but i got free i got free stuff from the other device nice true yeah yeah there was pretty sick free free shit yeah free shit is good free shit is good free shit is good well Free shit is good. Free shit is good. Free shit is good.

Wow. What do you want to do in the future? I'm thinking stay-at-home dad. Oh, my God. The best job of all time. That does not get enough credit amongst us fellas. Are you with somebody, I'm assuming? Yeah, getting married in 13 days.

Oh, my God. Congratulations, man. Fuck Theragun. That's from me saying that, not from Chris. No, don't say my name. From Jim. Jim with Thera buddies. gun that's incredible so where's the wedding at New Jersey New Jersey middle nowhere New Jersey I saw some beer before the debt for the wedding I mean you're in the territory I start selling beer at the way there you go I like that it's um yeah all my friends and family yeah I always like beer sales and beer

salesman out of the best because they come in and they spend a lot of money and they tip you good. Yeah. Because they usually have the company credit card. Yeah. Literally, they're like, dude, you can drink as much as you want. Just don't get too drunk. If you can't drive a car, that's where we draw the line. I'm like, all right, that's fair.

I can understand that. It's a pretty obscure rule, though. I think some people will take some liberties about, I could probably drive now. They didn't say legally. They just said physically. Yeah. It's the same thing. You can't say legally. They just said physically. Yeah. It's the same thing.

You can't drink and then have to worry about driving to Peloton home. I think you're in a better business now, dude. I think you're in good shape. Yeah. I like it. Only rules. Sell me a Theragun. No.

Sell me a beer. Yeah, sell me a beer. Dude, you ever been drunk before? Yeah, shit rules. All right, I'm in. Cool. Nice. That's sick.

Dude, thank you so much, man. We really appreciate it. You're been drunk before yeah shit rules Gone fishing outfitters something like that. Do you know talk about my god? Who's the real comedian here? Dude, hook, line, and sinker. Oh, we have it. She definitely got picked up. Dude, hook, line, and sinker she had you. I thought we had our first audience member tonight. You're getting crushed today. I'm getting leveled like a goddamn new, like Fishtown is. That's my wife. I'm sorry. No, she's great.

She's better than me. Please can you take my spot? That was amazing. Hey, how are you? He needs us. We do a podcast where we ask you what they do for a living. I only need you for three minutes. You're our last one. We're fun guys. I mean, you stopped already, so I feel like you? He needs us. We do a podcast where we ask people what they do for a living. I only need you for three minutes. You're our last one. We're fun guys.

I mean, you stopped already, so I feel like you want to come on. Your name is? Gabe. Gabe. Welcome, and what do you do for a living? Well, right now, I'm a mover. Dude. Crazy.

I can't imagine. You're such a hardy shop. Dude, I would quit. I'd quit. It's wild. Is it? Do you enjoy it? Actually, yeah, I fucking love it.

Really? Yeah. So, like, you don't have a boss, basically, through most of the day because you're just hanging out with, like, the guys you caught the day with. You fucking move heavy shit. There's a clear goal at the end of the day. You just got to move stuff from one side to another. There is a clear goal.

Mm-hmm. Like, you feel like you're not really thinking much while you're doing it you're just doing it so how many days a week is uh is uh moving is it like a five-day thing or is it kind of just whenever they need you they just it's whenever they need me i'm like on the i'm on like the low end of the spectrum absolutely what's the craziest thing you've like had to move through a house or anything insane that people have been like look i need it i need to move to the next place. Bro, everybody's got a pedal ton. I don't know why.

It's like during COVID, everybody just went out and bought one of those things. It's so fucking annoying to me. Are they really? Yeah, they're so heavy. Really? It's just straight iron. They're that heavy? I would have thought they'd been kind of light.

You think they would have a thing where they're just collapsible? No, no. The funniest thing to me has been just, first of all, predicting what people are going to have in their house based on, like, their personalities and what they're like. Man, people are so predictable. You can totally judge a book by its cover. What do I have in my house? Hmm. I would say you probably have a TV.

Okay. Shoot from the hip here, are you? This guy's fucking good. Was I right or was I right was that right a couple of them actually you got a computer you have i'll carry the laptop out myself i don't need your help um i'm gonna guess you have some meat what are you moving me what are you you're jumping in my freezer and you're moving my meat i i just have a feeling you might be into hot dogs. I don't know why. It's just like an intuition, you know, like an ESP thing.

Do you feel that like husbands or boyfriends, they kind of look at you with like a side eye a little bit because you're more of a man than they are because they can't move out themselves? I would hope not. I don't think of myself as more of a man than they are because they can't move out themselves? I would hope not. I don't think of myself as more of a man than anybody. I think you're more of a man than I am. True. Agreed.

Well, that's debatable. But I will say I've done some breakup moves, and those can get spicy for sure. Really? Give us something. Let me hear. Yeah, like just there's one I did where it's like where the dude was helping us move. And the whole time I didn't really realize what the vibe was. And then during the middle of the day, he sort of just left and like didn't say anything.

And then the girl started just shit talking him, like airing out all the secrets. What? I'm not going to tell her your secrets. I'm not going to trace back to the secrets. He was like a skater dude or something, and she just started telling me how much of a deadbeat he was. That was pretty funny. How do you handle that?

Do you, like, go back and forth with it or just kind of, like, listen and just let it happen? I'm an asshole, so I kind of egg it on. I mean, and your tip is probably based off of that, so I don't blame you. I would have done the same thing. I was like, you're right. He is a dickhead. He is a deadbeat. I want to hear all the secrets.

I want to hear the worst part about that dude. All right. He was a nice guy, you know? Of course. But, I mean, you know, from what you know, you can only know so much. It's true. Of course. She's got the real insight.

Of course. I can imagine it's pretty tough to listen to that. I think he kind of dodged a bullet. If you break up with someone and then she's just going to, like, shit on you, shit talk to you. To the movers who she just met? To the movers, right. To the dude she met she met like five

minutes ago yeah yeah she might have some trespasses herself yeah right with that right who's the the craziest guy you guys have interviewed huh i mean v-man v-man's probably number one v-man has become podcast lord who's v-man this canadian guy that i'm still not sure is a real human being oh no, no. He's a wrestling fan that has met legitimately everybody you've ever cared about. Any celebrity, anything. And he's got the thick Canadian accent so every story is so goddamn funny.

It's just him being like, yeah, I actually was hanging with Will Smith last weekend and he was a cool guy, man. I was just smoking a doobie with him. Is he a wrestler or is he just a big fan? He's a wrestling manager in Vancouver. That's gotta be a good gig. He's one of those guys that are just non-threatening's a wrestling manager in Vancouver. That's got to be a good gig. He's one of those guys that are just non-threatening, so he finds himself in the funniest positions.

Dude, I know people like that. They just say yes to everything, and everybody just invites them. A great guy is the man. He rules. I'm sure he is. I don't know if he watches this still, but shout out to V-Man. He DM'd us and was in the Library of Congress. He's like, yeah, only 1,500 people have a library of congress card or something like that like we just like yessed our way into it and stuff it's something weird like he just lives an

awesome life where he'll just come down to he came down for wrestlemania yeah and he stayed for like an extra week and just went around new york dc and just smoking doobies with sandman uh the wwe wrestler like yeah he's just he was on the he was on Fox News during the eclipse, on CNN, NBC 10 and stuff. He's an animal, but everyone knows those kind of guys. Shout out V-Man. Please, if you're watching, dude, we miss you. We love you, V-Man. Yeah.

That's our craziest guy, man. Do people still have armoires? Oh, yeah. Some really heavy oak furniture. Those things suck. Also, just like big mattresses suck. When somebody like like if you're just doing this freelance, like one of your pals are moving or like a girl, you know, is moving. And she's like, if you come over, I'll pay in pizza and beer.

How infuriating is that that they're that they're trying to take advantage of your skill for a poor compensation? Some people do get pissed off about that shit. I know, yeah. I think that's your own problem. Those are things that we deal with as people in general. You have to move. You either hire movers professionally or you move it yourself with whoever you're with. I do not want to be paid pizza and beer. It literally ends my life.

Okay, so here's the thing. I'm sort of a raging socialist, right? And I've been talking to a lot of anarchists lately. And, you know, one of the, one of the big things that they talk about is that, like, if we didn't use money to exchange goods, we would have sort of a barter based economy where, like, you know, I do you a favor and then, like, or i owe you one you know and that kind of shit can work to it to a point like i think i think it's important to um to have as much of that as possible um because it's a much more uh personable way to um get shit done instead of just constantly being transactional i'm like like that kind of transactional in a way if you're bartering then it's kind of like an iou system but it's not like exact it's not like i'm gonna

give you 253 dollars for a service it's more like there's more goodwill involved like there's trust involved there's how do you level out services because like if i'm moving you i'm i'm one up on you and then someone comes back and they're like oh i bought you a candy bar from the grocery store like it doesn't really equal out that way. So, like, and kind of you need a little bit of a, not necessarily a monetary, but you need a number. Like, you need maybe a scale. Like, hey, this is a seven on the. Yeah, I mean, it's all got to be skill-based bartering where it's kind of just like,

it's easy to have somebody move in your house, but it's like, hey, my computer shut down. I have a virus I don't know how to solve. And you can't just ask Joe Schmo. So, you can have specialized bartering. I don't hate the barter system. I just think it would get a little messy because we can't put a numerical value. Yeah, I mean, on some level, you'd always probably have to have a currency

for certain things that can't be bartered because it's not like that can work for everything. But I think if you were to ask me to come help you with a move, I would do it and I would be fine with it because I know that that's goodwill that I'm extending to you. And then if I ever need something, I'm sure you'd want to help me back. What's an equal return? Oh, shit, maybe you can hook me up with the WWE dude

and we can go watch Sandman or some shit. Snuck doobies with Sandman? Right. I like that. Hey, listen. That's pretty one-to-one. It is, isn't it? Credit to your bartering idea, you kind of, as a person, decide what is a one-one transactional

relationship, too. Exactly. Yeah. So I wouldn't exactly say Smoke and Doobies with Sandman is one-to-one with moving someone out for four hours, but you know what? To his their own. Right, right. I love that.

I would say it is. I would say it's a great experience for a great experience. Dude, Gabe, thanks so much for coming on, man. Yeah, man, this has been great. I'm glad I stopped. I'm glad you stopped. Cool, cool. Thanks, man.

You're our last one. Yeah, thanks so much. I appreciate it. Thanks, guys. Have a good one. Have a great one, man. Take it easy, man. All right, so hey, that's the pod for today.

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Yeah. Oh, I'm not happy about an honorable mention. Yeah, we need a little bit more. I thought we worked the crowd beautifully. People said we were their favorites. We threw dogs out and stuff. I mean, would you, like, show up to a golf tournament that you never played in before and then get mad if you didn't win right away? Yeah.

Well, I'm sorry, buddy. But you guys came. You brought it. And that's great. You brought a lot of attitude. You could put a little more into your execution. You could go a little further with the costumes. I agree with that.

Maybe fire a couple more hot dogs off. I mean, we've only got two hands. We brought eight dogs. You did good. I had eight more dogs than were there before. Who came in first? Well, there's not a first. There's best costume, best design.

What was it? We were really gunning for the people's choice. Oh, yeah. So people's choice this year was by, like, crowd yelling. You saw that. And the fellow that built, like, a squid with, like, a submarine. You're going to lose to the squid every year. No, you're not going to lose to the squid.

The dollar dogs brought props. They got the crowd going. You've got to say the crowd was where we won the loudest. I like the populist message. That's for sure. Of course, yes. Yeah, being about the dollar dogs. There was an undertone of, yeah. That's a for sure. Of course, yes. Yeah, being about the dollar dogs.

That's a cause we can all support, honestly. Okay. I like that your theme was consistent throughout. You're all wearing hot dogs. None of us were confused about what team you're on. And I like your energy. But you can take it further. Okay.

So we know for next year. Dude, we can always get better. Yeah, so add to your bike, make it a little weirder. You know, maybe find some flair to add to your vehicle. Maybe, you know, put different size wheels on there so it moves all funny. I mean, he had a flat tire. Does that kind of add to the allure? Yeah, I think so. He also didn't get through the mud, though.

That's okay. I mean, the point about the mud is to try, like, full send, basically. If you full send, you did it right, whether you'd make it through or not. Didn't full send. Okay. There we go. And that's why we lost the popular vote. All right through or not. Didn't full send. Okay, there we go. And that's why we lost the popular vote. All right.

See you next year. Good luck in your work. Defend our title. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right.