Men At Work Podcast - The World's First Herpes Influencer

Episode Date: July 31, 2024

Kyle and Matt are in South Jersey where they discuss turning Kyle's herpes issue into some influencer dollars and empathy they talk to a waitress from the Margaritaville in Atlantic City and read her reviews, a music teacher teaches Matt how to sing, and a retired factory worker talks to us about working on 9/11, the pranks, and his multiple bypass surgery. Thanks to the blue collar babies, middle class mami's, and white collar criminals for tuning in. We love you guys! 00:00 - First Herpes Influencer 11:58 - Margaritaville Server 38:13 - Music Teacher 52:38 - Factory Worker Watch the episode: https://youtu.be/pvIqYkixhOM?si=rxllTMf07ddjPPOe 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:   / 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

Three, two, one. Welcome back to another episode of Men at Work. I'm Kyle Pegg. And as always, joined by Matt Peoples. We are out here in the beautiful suburban New Jersey at the Cooper River Park, I believe is what it's called. Going to talk to some people about what they do for a living. If this is your first time watching the pod, listening to the pod, welcome. We appreciate it.

We just ask people what they do for a living, and then we kind of just go from there. And if you like this content, then you're probably going to love some sweet, sweet bonus content at patreon.com slash men at work. We always want to thank the boys and gals who listen to us, especially the blue collar. Baby. The white collar. Criminals. Criminals. And you've already used that one before. I know that. You've already used the SportsCenter one before.

But I shouldn't call you out. That's on me. I shouldn't call you out after this. I apologize. You shouldn't, dude. All right. And then the middle class. Finish it up.

Mommies, mommies, mommies, mommies, mommies, mommies, mommies. Feel like that? Wow, that was good. Thanks, man. That was good. Where'd you steal that from? Kendrick Lamar is some upstart rapper that's full of shit. I don't know if you've heard of him.

Full of crap, I should say. Sorry, he's not supposed to curse in the first some odd minutes oh is that is that a youtube algorithm it was supposed to be yeah apparently I don't know that's what I've heard that's what the the big ladies at youtube are saying yeah they're in charge dude there's no these rules aren't real they are certainly real dude so you're saying because we don't get a views on a certain episode it's because the youtube algorithm didn't push us enough perhaps that's what's gonna be our excuse for the last one, but, you know, just horsing around in that regard. No, apparently, I've heard, like, the YouTube algorithm

is a lot more thorough than I would have ever thought. Like what? What have you been hearing? Stuff like, you're not supposed to curse in the first minute. If they hear anything about the Schmack Schmien, they dock you for that. It's crazy, dude. Yeah, I mean, it was kind of weird when you would make

a joke on Instagram about the schmack schmien. And then there would be a COVID-19 presser below your thing. Yeah. That was always weird to me. One of my friends had an Instagram story that they just posted, like, got boosted. Which, of course, don't post that. That's corny as hell. But on their story, it had the, you know, whatever they're called, CDC saying, don't even think about thinking other stuff about this schmack schmink at all.

You know what I mean? They were mean to us for a couple of years back in those COVID days, dude. They were mean. We're free. And it's kind of funny now that COVID, it's like, if you get it, I don't even think you know you have it at this point, which is kind of sick. Have you had, you definitely have it right now probably maybe i don't know you think that's cold sore that's that's the code dude i'm it's

the stress it's the stress and the lack of sleep i am i'm dialed up on uh on on the herb right now are you really herb is activated yeah i forgot my little i forgot my little uh my herb sealers yeah where you uh you put it on and it barely looks like it is. It's got some like hydrophilic acid or something like that, that like is supposed to help it and take it away and everything. I forgot one and it actually ruined my entire car ride over here because I, listen, all right, I'm about to set the world record straight on the herpes, okay? It's I have herpes simplex one.

Sure. There's a difference. Okay. Explain to our good friends at home and explain to me before I get too close to you. I drank out of your cup. Oh, rats. Okay. You guys are all going to feel my wrath.

So herpes simplex one is what I've been told, what I've researched to make me feel better is hereditary. It's not like I was, you know, making out with some dirty old broad and stuff. Now, I can pass it through other orifices. Sure. High and low. Yeah. If it is active, it's radioactive right now. Oh, yeah.

So watch yourself. I am. Trust me, I am, dude. I've kept a soft distance from you this entire time. But I just want to set the record straight for everybody out there that has herpes. Now, if you have general herpes, you're a fucking dirty, dirty dude. Okay, you're a dirty dog.

No, I don't have it. But I'll tell you what, there's a couple scares in college where I had to... That's the funniest part about it. Herpes is not bad to get. The bad part is rationalizing why it's not bad to get. You think you might have it in college and you look up stuff and you're like, dude, it doesn't even do anything. It doesn't transmit during, you know, only during outbreaks.

It's a lot of times, it's like a volcano. Yeah. Herpes is like the Mount St. Helena's. Yes. It's dormant for 90% of the time. And then sometimes you have a flare up. Sometimes it sprays a little bit of ash. Yeah.

A puff of smoke comes out, people freak out and everything, but nothing really ever happens. Dude, listen, you did the same research I did in college. We've all been there. Instead of going to get tested and getting real results, you go, I'll diagnose it myself. I have it. It's not a big deal. Everybody has it. Apparently it is, yeah. My grandfather gets these.

My mom gets these. I'll show you. I'll show you, guys. I promise you. I'll show you my grandfather and my mother's charts. What charts do you have on you dude dude nothing hippa um but yeah i mean i just hope i i hope one day this podcast takes off because we have no big um herpy endorsers not yet no in like the country i feel like i could hit a molt who's a herpy endorser like usher well? Well, I mean, it's different because it's like

he's more shooting apparently green liquid out of his dick. Ew, is that what it is? That's apparently what he was sued for. Yeah, it was in the lawsuit. What is it, the nutty professor dick? I don't know if it was real, I don't know if it was fake, but apparently he's got some green splooge coming out of there. I think if you can sing and dance that well, you get

a little bit of green splooge. 100%. Yeah, 100%. If you use some e sploosh. You can put up with a little bit. 100%. If you use some ecto-cooler in your dick, it happens. That comes with the territory. That's got to be a tough one to all the girls. I literally want to be the face for herpes simplex 1. That's one thing on TikTok that I don't think anyone has ever hit. No one has ever influenced the herpes simplex 1 demographic.

Yeah, I think a lot of them keep it to themselves. There's more of us out there. There has to be more of us out there. Well, we should be good. I was going to say, well, Vito's a simplex two guy for sure. He's a simple brain. Oh, okay. You got... Oh.

I think he's full of horse and bologna. I think Vito just admitted to having gay guy AIDS and herpes all at once, dude. So, yeah. So, I think if I can, like, corner the market on the old... I think if I can corner the whole market on the herpes simplex one demo, I think I'd be good. Yeah.

You should run for office on that topic. What would my slogan be? You're so good with slogans. Yeah. I think you just get real forthright with them. Just be like, herpes is not that big of a deal. Chill out. That's your full slogan.

Terrible. That's great. I can't get elected on that. Alright, how about this, dude? Herpes heroes, Kyle Pagan. Make a change. Be the change you wish to see on your pubic hair. Or wherever it goes. Listen. What's up? I don't want you to be passing it around like it's down low. Like, it's not...

Dude, it's not south of the equator. Okay? I promise you. It's all... Unless I, like, suck my own dick yeah when i'm radioactive then we're we're speaking different languages well i mean you know you have a lot of time on your hands without being on the sauce off and on so you might try it out dude but look i'll tell you this regardless we love you either way man and we love you all the same you bumpy bastard uh voutrex sponsor us yeah true for sure voutrex and Canes, dude. Which, by the way, let me do this because he can't handle it in real time.

Kyle Pagan, if you will. What a sweet guy. He says, I'll be on the way. I'm going to stop at a Raising Canes. Now, he was doing promotional stuff for Crossing Broad yesterday, so I figured, okay, he's got to do one or two more song or dances over there. How nice. This guy brings us a full smorgasbord chicken tenders.

French fries. Two combo boxes. That's huge. That's two more than I had before I saw you. Yeah, they gave us a couple gift cards yesterday. Shout out to Raising Cane's. Thank you. For sure, yeah.

And that's all we have to talk about it. That's all we have to say about it. We're going to break through your emotional walls, dude. Listen, I struggle with empathy. Okay. I struggle a lot with empathy fair uh i should probably see a therapist um there's i've only have like my empathy my my empathy levels are like only i'm only allowed to give empathy to like a certain a certain amount of

people and then i have to i'm fresh out it's like it's like uh the lady of course my lady i talked to my mom today so i guess I used some of my empathy levels there. Moms get empathy here and there. And then, I don't know, maybe some barista who gave me a coffee today, and I said, thank you, miss. You'll give empathy to a barista over me and the Vietster? I'm not saying that I don't pick and choose who I give... Well, I guess I do pick and choose who I give this empathy to. But I only have enough empathy boosters to give out. So you think you need to be boosted?

One to the lady. One to the mom today. Yeah. One to the barista. Yeah. And that's all I have. You're only allowed to have three boosters. That'll certainly make you autistic.

That is actually, you are autistic from that. So that's why I struggle with the thank yous and your welcomes and the general. We'll get there. We'll break through eventually, dude. You got to get good on the thank yous, and we got to get good at the my bads. That's what the two things. My bads. My bads, dude.

You're better at just saying God than me saying my bad. Oh, I know, brother. No, I'm kidding. You're actually pretty good about it. You got to give yourself some credit, dude. I'm like one of those guys with the shells from Mario 64. Oh, the little... Was it Koopas?

Koopa Koopa? Koopa Troopas? No, dude, you're like Shrek. You're an ogre. You have layers that we're peeling back throughout this podcast. No, no, no, no, no. My father was Shrek. I am the human form of shrek

okay you know when he becomes a human form i have gotten that on on social media more times than i can count what that you're why is why is the why is human shrek have a podcast why is human shrek down at the eagles tailgate why is human shrek here why is human shrek there human shrek is a fucking beauty by the way. That's what I'm saying. It's really not the worst thing to get at all. Because Fiona is a babyronian cheese when she's a human. So you get that, too.

One of the hotter gingers in the animated universe, too. Shout out, Fiona. Back to the Raising Cane's. Yeah. Now that they're coming up north and stuff, I think they're coming for the Chick-fil-A chicken title. Chick-fil-A apparently started allowing GMO chicken. And people are starting to get sick from it.

And now I will say this, and I do hate to say this. The spicy chicken sandwich with GMOs has absolutely skyrocketed. It's so much better. The regular sandwich, not as good. So GMOs gives and it takes. But I can see Raising Cane's coming. It's just Raising Cane's. Great chicken.

Well, my guy on the intercom in the drive-thru, he was so nice. Like, overtly nice. Yeah. It wasn't like, you know how the Chick-fil-A guys are big My Pleasure guys? Yeah. He was a big My Friend guy. So I don't know if they're teaching that in the handbook, in the corporate handbook of Raising Cane's.

But I got hit with my friend. Yes, my friend. Happy to do this, my friend. You're welcome, my friend. Like five times in the matter of like two minutes of an order. I order two box combos, dude. That's a good one. They're taking the page out of the Indian liquor store owner thing.

Every time you go to one of those. Yes, my friend. Wow. Yeah. Holy shit. It's dead on, right? That is dead on. Oh, my friend. Yes, of it's dead on right that is dead on oh my friend yes of course oh my god that was so that is so dead on because i actually was like where have i heard my friend

before and now i know indian liquor store owner some of the nicest guys of all time that see some of the most desperate just crashed out people and they just hit you with it my friend of course we're friends and they wouldn't be they hit you with a. My friend. Of course we're friends. Why wouldn't we be? They hit you with a, this is going back to the Raising Cane's guys, they hit you with a little slogan when you first come in now. Like McDonald's is like,

have it your way or welcome to McDonald's, how can I help you? That's Burger King. That's Burger King. Raising Cane's is like, what you picking? The slap slicking chicken

or something like that. And I was like, did you just? The slap-slicking chicken or something like that. Did you just rap at me? I don't know. I don't like that they make them talk as racist characters of black people. That's got to be racist somehow. Guys, how you doing? Hold on. Let's just explain it before you say no. I know

he's very daunting in the Iverson jersey. We ask people what they do for a living. I only need three minutes. Throw the headphones on for me, big dog. We don't have headphones for you. Sorry. Okay. No, that's okay.

That's okay. Just imagine what we sound like. Yeah, next time we get our sponsorship money, we'll get headphones. Yeah. What's your name? My name's Katie. Liam? Liam, yeah.

Cool. Katie, what do you do for a living? So I'm a student at St. Joe's, but over the summer I'm working at Margaritaville in Atlantic City. Oh my God. I love Margaritaville. I've never been, but I'm terrified just hearing it. How about you, brother? I'm a student at Rowan University.

Shout out. Go profs, dude. I don't go there. I look like I'm 45 years old, dude. Come on. If he's on there, call the police. Yeah. Dude, Margaritaville in Atlantic City.

Holy shit. Were you a Buffett fan? Like, not really, not a huge one I obviously knew what it was, I've been to one in Florida before But I'd never been to an Atlantic City So what have they done to like honor Buffett's memory Since he passed? Uh, nothing

Made a lot of Crappy burgers Oh my god, against the good name Of Margaritaville. How about that? I mean, it's a box restaurant. Who wants to really work at a box restaurant slash go to a box restaurant? Yeah, but I think they just count on you being blacked out while you're there. And they're like, they're not going to taste it anyway. A little bit, yeah.

Which I'm not mad about. Is that the one that has like nine different stories? Or is that in New York? No, it's definitely not that. No, is it not? It's on the boardwalk. Oh, okay. Yeah, I can see that. How is the boardwalk? It's on the boardwalk. Oh, okay. Yeah, I can see that.

How is the boardwalk? You must get some creatures that come to and fro. Yeah. So we have like a strip of outdoor seating that is on the actual boardwalk. And a lot of people complain about it smelling like weed. In 2024? Yeah. Dude, grow up.

Could be far worse. Could be far worse. You ever ride the subway? Yeah, the AC boardwalk. That's not really. Seriously, that You ever ride the subway? Yeah, the AC boardwalk. That's not really... Seriously, that's the best thing that could happen on the AC boardwalk. Yeah, yeah. That's what you're complaining about?

The weed smell? That's like perfume over there. It smells like cum from all the homeless people fucking underneath the boardwalk. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, true. That's kind of got a nice aroma. Either way. But anyway, keep going.

Um, I mean, I don't really know what else you want to know. Well, Margaritaville, two and a half stars on Yelp. I would say that's fair. Actually, if you leave a good review and say that I was your server, I get points. Oh, is that true? Yes. Is that something that happens at a lot of restaurants, or is that just specific to there? I think it's specific to that one because we have a lot of bad reviews, and they're trying to get good ones.

So here we go. Here's Laura W. from 13 days ago. jimmy's jam and jambalaya not only was bland but lacked the sausage and spicy sauce i had one big piece decent amount of shrimp and lots of chicken that tasted like it was boiled all day in a pressure cooker oh and don't forget the big piece of fat i almost choked on i wouldn't recommend it what's your favorite thing at Margaritaville? Cajun shrimp dip is good. Okay. I'm not going to lie.

Have you ever eaten at the Ville? I have not ventured down to the Ville. No, you can't make it to the Ville? Okay. You don't visit your sweet baby girl at work? No, not yet. Not yet? What's the holdup, dude? You're running out of time.

Jimmy's jumping, jumping, jop a lie or whatever it's called. I'm going to have stars. I guess they might have to slow it down. You do have an obligation. She's saying if she gets good reviews, she gets points. You don't even have to go. You can just leave a review. I'm on it. The funniest thing would be to go down there

and leave middling reviews. Like a three and a half star. It was slow, but I know they were busy kind of thing. What's the perk if someone leaves a good review? Our managers will tell us whoever gets the most reviews, they'll give like 20 bucks to Fucking corporation food industry isn't there you go, dude

Here's $20 for that person who probably stiffed you on $100 bill anyway, so you're crazy just acting out Anything good about margaritaville the people that work there are all very very nice That's amazing and I do genuinely enjoy going there to see them. I love the people that work there are all very, very nice. That's amazing. And I do genuinely enjoy going there to see them. I love that. But the people that visit there, not so much. Yeah. But that's every food industry job. Is the customer always right?

No. Yes, thank you. I like how we're like in this day and age, we're like starting to be like, well, the customer kind of sucks. Customer's pretty awful. Even as a customer, I feel like I'm bothering them. Every time I order food, I'm like, I'm sorry I have to do this this but i mean no i'm sorry that you have to do your job that i'm technically paying for you and gonna leave a tip for but i'm the same way i'm like yeah when you

get a moment you give me what when you get a moment yeah i have no backbone like if you were my waitress and you were if you came over and you're like what's up pussy boy you idiot i would still tip you 35 just out of pure fear because then i'd be like i would be so scared that you'd blast me on social media being like look at this pussy kyle pig and can't tip 20 percent yeah which i think is fair someone stiffs you or someone if someone like we should actually like be more team uh servers i think like if someone blasts someone wants to blast someone for giving a shitty tip on social media they should it's all about bullying bullying works in 2020 works you should be when you get that that little kiosk and if turned in, instead of it being different types of tip,

it should be 20% tip or you have to give them your home address. Those are the two options. What's your first name again? Katie. Katie. Let's see if Katie's got any reviews. Oh, God. Uh-oh.

You can vamp while we... So Rowan University, you're going there right now? Yep. What are we studying? Law. Law? Oh, really? Dude, he's literally taking your life. Taking my life? What does that mean? What, you're going there right now? Yep. What are we studying? Law. Law? Oh, really? Dude, he's literally taking your life.

Taking my life? What does that mean? What, are you going to be a law guy? Yeah, I was going to go to law school. You'll grow out of it. It's okay. I've been there. We might.

We'll see. So what year are you? Going into my senior year. Okay. So have you started applying to the law schools and shit? No, because I'm going to take a gap year. Really? Try to build my resume a little bit.

Yeah. And apply. Is it internships? What are you doing a gap year? Is it just like drinking? Internships really probably that too. Yeah. Working too.

I want to save money because Walsh was kind of tough to work like your first year. So we'll see. I always wonder like what college is like in the TikTok era. Like if you're out at like a party or something, is there people recording themselves doing the dances at parties? Does that happen? Not if you're at a good party. Yeah, I mean...

Okay. Oh, but it does happen? Yeah, like at the bar. Like, I don't know. I don't think anyone's pulling out their TikTok at a bar and stuff. Yeah. I don't know.

These kids are wild now. It seems like it, dude. But even just like the use of phones, like if someone does something stupid, like I'd be... Like, I graduated in 2015. Fuck, I'm like 10 years ago. Okay.

Where like we had Snapchat, so it disappeared. Okay. And we had videos, and we had social media and Okay. Where like we had Snapchat, so it disappeared. Okay. And we had videos and we had social media and stuff, but like, you know, nobody was really, there were influencers,

but influencers weren't big. And I feel like with you guys now, like there's always like that one or two influencer in your college that's like got an insane amount of followers and stuff. Yeah.

You see those guys. Is there any big like influencer that's known at Rowan right now? Anybody that everybody sees and they're like, oh my God, it's them. Because we used to have Tiff Bannister. No way. She didn't go to Rowan, but that was, like, in the zeitgeist of, you know.

Fucking legend. You know who Tiff Bannister is? No. Just Google her when you get home. Yeah. All right. To be honest, I don't know. There might be some.

I feel like there is a couple, but, like, they're just not really, like, that big a deal. I feel like Rowan's not that huge. And you're also, like, I mean, it's not, like, who cares? Yeah. Of course, yeah. Day in the life at rowan yeah true get ready with me as i'm going to 10 million views get ready with me to take a gap year today i woke up at 11 30. how about st joe's any any big time influencers not currently but the one big one acquired style i don't know if you ever ever heard of her on TikTok. But she's pretty big. I think she's around like a million followers.

She's an alum. Got it. And she like recently came back. It was in like February or something. She came back for a day and everybody like saw her posting about it and everyone was like freaking out, like looking around for her. But I don't know if anyone came up with the sighting. The local celebrity thing is always fun.

So I found some reviews for Katie, but you haven't been working for five years, have you? No. Yeah, so this is over four or five years ago. But you got a lot to live up to. Katie was really good. Great service. A couple five-star reviews. She probably got that $20 gift card.

She did, yeah. Back to Margaritaville. That's crazy, dude. $20. Is it a gift card back to the place or is it just $20? That would be insane. That's probably tax deductible. True.

That would be a re-gift. Yeah, absolutely. Here, Mom. Yeah, but what looks worse? Getting a gift card to the place that you work at or giving a gift card from the place you work at to somebody else? Yeah. Both are pretty shitty. It's pretty bad, yeah. You probably got a 10% discount on the card that you got.

My girlfriend works at a bar around here and this is a true story. Two Christmases ago, my roommate was trying to be nice and he bought her a gift card to the bar that she works at.

And he was like, I think she's going to, like he was genuine about it. He really thought she was going to love it. That was a tough one to watch her receive. Well, they didn't know

each other that well yet so I had to watch her be like, oh my God, were you? And then him being like, yeah, I know, it's kind of sick i feel like flexing you afterwards like yeah i knew it was gonna be a good thing i did we were drinking like that weekend i was like you know you're a fucking idiot right you're aware of this yeah poor guy good guy shout out zach dude any interest in going on the

margaritaville cruise ship on the what oh the cruise ship yeah all i know is that we keep little like uh oh i don't even know what the word is, little pop-up thing. It goes on every table. That's the only thing I've seen about it. I don't know anything else about it. Like I said, summer job, actually. So I'm very much only dipping my toes into the Margaritaville culture.

So sorry, I don't have much to provide. It's kind of a cult, honestly. Margaritaville? Oh, my God. People don't have much to provide. It's kind of a cult, honestly. Margaritaville? Oh my god, people go nuts for bucket of parrots. Do you ever have parrots come in? Yeah. Those are his people. Yeah, dude, he's better than Paradise. Yeah.

Do you have a summer job right now? Yeah, I work at a school. Middle school, high school? What are you doing over there? I'm like a? Yeah, I work at a school. What school? Oh, not school. What middle school, high school? What are you doing over there? Middle school. I'm like a TA, so stay in the classroom, help them with work. Summer school is pretty chill, so it's not like... So you got out of school to then go back to school for summer?

Yeah, pretty much. Damn. That's tough sledding, bro. It's a good job. You got air conditioning. Yeah. What is this, 1982? You got air conditioning there.

That's a lot worse jobs, dude. My summer school jobs, they consisted of being a janitor in a school, so not a TA. Okay, yeah. I staples stock boy, mowing lawns, and I think that's it. Camp counselor. That's the best one you could do. I don't know. I don't think I would like camp counselor.

You'd like it more than you think, dude. You did it? I do a... Sorry. No, you're the guest. You did it? I do a... Sorry. No, you're the guest. Okay, thanks. No, please go ahead. I do a running camp for only one week.

I probably would never be able to do it for the whole summer. Not that outdoorsy. But for a week, it's fun. It's good. You do it for like eight, nine weeks. Everybody you work with shows up to... If your kid's going to a summer camp, they are probably not that safe, dude. Some of the people I worked with would smoke in their car before they got out.

Not I. I would not do it. I'd be terrified. But just the stories I see, some of my coworkers, I'm like, how are you going to look at nine children for an entire day? But they did. Field trips are the best, though. Field trips are the best.

Field trips? I've been on some cool field trips at the school. Clemonton Park? I went to Clemonton Park. Clemonton Park. I've been on a field trip, too. That park Clemington Park? I went to Clemington Park. Clemington Park. I've been there on a field trip, too. That park's going to fall down. Yeah, that thing's...

But that adds to the allure. Yeah, you don't feel good about that. Yeah, dude, you go on the wooden roller coaster, it's creaking the whole time. But it's sick, dude. I believe it. See a couple of screws rattle in the middle. Exactly. You see them falling out.

You get a dorney and just feel safe. No, I want to go to Clemington and get a rush. Dude, I went there... That's true. You're going to get a rush of heroin. That's more of what you're going to get. That's fine. No, I went there, and I was a young camper myself,

and I was with a girl that I had a crush on. I was probably like nine years old, and we went on one of those slides where it's a big water slide, and it just does like a small drop, bigger drop, then a big drop at the end. So we were a bunch of rabble-rousers, me and my pals, and we decided on every single one of the big drops, we'd like pull up because you kind of hit a little bit of air and then you, you know, sleep

into it. So me and the girl were going next to each other. So every time we'd pull up, we'd do the thing and look at each other and kind of laugh. And the very last one, I pulled up too hard and I just missed the like a curvature part. And I just went full belly smack onto the ground. And you know, when you get the wind knocked out of you, I looked at the girl, I had a crush on her. I was like, and then we didn't hang out for the rest of the day. My mom was a nurse and I'd go to the nurse and hang out with her. Could have been the one.

Could have been the one. I wonder what she's up to. I am, yeah, at seven. Good luck. Do you ever get paid in chips? Like casino chips? So they have like comps. You swipe their card and

go through this whole process i guess it is 2024 you don't need chips anymore really true yeah it's the the chip equivalent the digital chip got it okay how long you been there a month and a half okay yeah grilled yeah literally just i'm really interested in margaritaville i really wish i could provide you more. I'm not going. We should go to the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Yeah, that's a good idea. Oh, you definitely should.

It's unfortunately a very good idea, yeah. Anyone that works in any of those casinos has at least a million stories for you, I can guarantee. It's crazy stuff. Yeah, we've had a couple of dealers that have sat on before. They're interesting people. Yeah. You guys aren't like 24-7, are you?

No. Oh, God. Could you imagine that? Yeah. they're interesting people yeah um you guys you guys aren't like 24 7 are you no okay could you imagine that yeah it's like 11 to 12 but yeah most of the casinos they'll be there all day basically you regulars not really a regular at a margaritaville things have gone terribly wrong that is awesome they've taken a lot of gap years, too. Yeah, they're all in one big one right now. All right, we'll let you continue your walk. Yeah, thank you so much for coming on. It was a lot of fun. What younger people are comfortable joking about nowadays,

I feel I've noticed it. I liked them. They were, but there's small things that I think that, and I think it's because, you know, the younger generation gets more and more empathetic. Yeah. I just said the word heroin, and I could tell they're like, ugh, that's like something people struggle with wow yeah who do you think who do

you think lives in a constant fear of cancellation more suburban white dads or children because it's it's definitely it's definitely night and day because you're like your suburban white dad is just waiting for like the washington post to cancel him when it's like never going to happen all he does is just sit on his recliner and go to his union job yeah but i feel with kids with all their phones nowadays and stuff they're just scared like 24 7 of being like is someone gonna come through my door or someone gonna find something from four years ago that i might have done slightly racist yeah there's i think it's gotta be younger kids i would guess because i do get what you're saying like older white dads are like they are the guy yelling at the cloud like you, you know what? Cancel me. I don't think a guy should get married in front of me.

It's like, well, that never happens to you, dude. So don't even, you know, man, cancel me. I'm not going to become a woman. I'm staying a man. Okay, dad. Short. Very brave of you, dad. But the kids, though, I mean, it's the stuff that you can get in trouble for is nuts.

There's a girl that went to my college who got uh obviously a young white lady took like snapchats of her like saying the n-word and got kicked out okay and it's like yeah dude you're probably gonna get kicked out you can't which i will say my only thing in her defense and not to come to her defense was like that's an insane thing to say but i'm looking forward to if the if the who's the guy a or hard r uh i think she was like i hit a couple hard rs i think just can't you got three strikes you're out right there just leave it just leave it inside the walls of your toyota camera if you're tweeting song lyrics i don't think it's right i don't think it's cancelable though because there was always those athletes whenever they would get drafted

yeah and people would go back and look at their tweets and everything obviously we had everything like mitch trubisky, I love kissing titties. Yeah. But then we also had Josh Hader at like 14 years old who's like, he's a closer in the MLB.

He had a couple tweets where he was like, obviously doing a rap lyric, but did have the end written out. Yeah. Which I don't agree with. Yeah, I think that's a little,

that's where it gets a little bit of... A little gray area. But I will say, going back to that point, if she would have made the Snapchat and it would have ended, if it would have faded to

black and said directed by whatever that guy was who directed Django Unchained, she'd be fine. She'd be an artist. Is that not insane? So if it said Quentin Tarantino presents N-word girl, it's okay? I think so. It's good. It's tangible proof.

Hey ladies, you coming on? Okay. sorry. Do you want to come on the podcast? We just ask people what they do for a living. We just ask people what they do for a living, for work, and then we just talk about a job. Okay. How are you? I'm good.

Good. What's your first name? Lisa. And what do you do for a living? Nursing. Nursing? Oh, thank you for being a nurse. Thank you for your service.

How's it going? It's great. Yeah, where are you a nurse at? All over. All over? Traveling. So big bucks over here. Yeah.

I wish I was getting the big bucks anymore. I'll come see you later then. Thank you. If I fall down, Lisa, I'll come over to you. I'm glad you like that. She was Django Unchained. I'm talking about the Snapchat girl. I'm talking about the Snapchat girl I'm talking about the Snapchat girl I'm talking about the Snapchat

I was going back to the first fucking thing we were fucking talking about alright that's what I was talking about wow dude I hope you just saw the face of bewilderment I couldn't believe what just happened there for a split second oh my god that was something different You just saw the face of bewilderment. I couldn't believe what just happened there for a split second.

Oh, my God. That was something different. I was like, are you out of your fucking mind? Oh, my God, dude. That was so funny. Oh. That's probably the hardest thing I've ever learned. Oh my God, that was awesome. Wow, I don't even... Ladies, how are you? How we doing, guys?

We do a podcast where we ask you what they do for a living. I only need three minutes of your time. Please, I need to feed my kids. All right, thank you guys. Everybody in New Jersey has such weird tattoos all over their different parts of their bodies. Yes. That's insane.

Yeah. It's a lot of like, and they're post-30 tattoos. Yeah. My mom is a big culprit of post-30 tattoos. How many tattoos is your mom rocking? My mom's probably got 15, maybe? What? 13, 14, 15.

And they're all been after she was the age of like maybe 28. And you went to Catholic school? Yeah. Yeah, dude. My mom came out the mud dude from camden dude 15 tattoos on a mom is insane post 28 post you being born or post your sister being born i think she just uh she had kids young and then had to deal with me and my sister being obnoxious and she was like i'm gonna go be a young adult now and god i'm more power to her i have seen that uh a lot on tiktok lately like the the post um the post 30 year olds uh moms the ones who like got pregnant real early yeah and stuff and now they like want to live their 30s kind of like they don't have kids yeah like there's

this one mom she like promotes this like shotgun um thing it's actually a really cool product that she promotes but it's her just basically shotgunning beers on TikTok every single day while her kids are eating dino nuggets and stuff in the kitchen. That's the one you got to be careful. You can't become a beer mom. My mom relived her younger years,

but she relived younger years of being a mom. So she was 36, but she was like, I'll be a 28-year-old mom now. Still a mom. She still mommed it up hard. But she just got a couple tats started drinking some wine my mom never drank my entire childhood did you get were you embarrassed when your mom got tattoos no you thought it was cool shit i it was pretty didn't care that much because i feel like i'd be embarrassed when i was younger but i think if i as i grew out of it like i would be like uh this is cool shit like when i thought when my mom would like smoke in the house when we were younger, I was like, that's embarrassing.

Now, I think back on it, I was like, that was fucking rock star. That's baller as hell. That's baller as hell. That's actually a great point. I smelled like smoke all the time. Didn't love it. But you know what? Looking back on it, my mom's a fucking rock star.

Yeah, for the love of God. Just think about it. Now that you're probably your mom's age while she was doing that, think about having to deal with a small you. Two small yous. It's just been a complete nightmare, dude. Oh, my sister was even worse. Yeah, so just, I mean i mean for the love of god let her take the edge off yeah dude imagine me the golden child the guy sitting at a park doing a podcast right now i'm the golden

child um so yeah so sticky icky that is just like rock star living i love that that's great yeah my mom she started drinking wine. Any bad tattoos? Look, I'm the arbiter. I'm the arbiter of bad tattoos. There you go. I'll say they are exactly the ones that she wanted. Every tattoo she picked out, they gave her the exact same one. I'll say that.

Nice. She came in and she said, I want that tattoo. And they said, we'll put it on you forever. What's your favorite tattoo of your mom's? She's got a nice one. I think she had one pre 31 and it's like for me and my sister and it's, it's nice. What'd you go with? It's like a nice like sun and a moon

kind of blended on her ankle. It looks honestly not great, but I think I just have like a nostalgic attachment to it. Has she gone back to get them retouched? No, she keeps them as they are, dude. She said, look, they're going down with the shit. I like that. Yeah. You and my mom would get along. You're a couple tough bitches Well, it's different, man

My uncle, he went a different route He didn't really have tattoos Until he went to prison And then he got a bunch of tattoos down his arms and stuff And you know how they used to do them in the prison? What's that? They used to take a pencil And they used to stick a staple in the pencil

And they would just poke you until you got the tattoos. Some of his tattoos are fucking sick too. Whoa. Yeah, but that's how they did them. Just a weed charge.

Oh, jeez. Just selling drugs. Free my mans. Maybe in a couple years. A couple years? Sorry, I don't know if my Uncle Art listens to this,

but sorry to put your business out there, Uncle Art. Shout out, you're the man though. Dude, he actually came back reformed. Yeah. Hasn't drank in like 30-some years. That's sick.

Like, that's what the prison system is supposed to do. I hope he's still smoking. I hope he's smoking freely. Well, he might not be smoking anymore. Actually, he discovered medical marijuana when he moved down to Florida. Yeah. Done wonders for the guy. Really? Oh, my God. He's the happiest guy in the world.

Dude, smoking weed down in Florida after getting out of jail has got to be the closest to an orgasm you can get. When you went to jail for exactly what's legal now. That's what I'm saying. It's got to be like the end of Planet of the Apes where they go to the beach and they see that it's like the Statue of Liberty there collapsed and they're like, oh my God. Yeah. That made sense

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Yeah. Thrive Flower. They'll leave as soon as you're done buying it. One time at Temple, we had a Comcast guy come through who just, like just like knocks on doors and everything and i live with a couple reefer heads and um i think they just got to talk i think my one my one uh roommate let him in while we were all at class and stuff i come in this guy's just like high as fuck on our uh on our couch watching um workaholics yeah and he sat there for six straight episodes of workaholics and just smoked with my two roommates oh what a nightmare just getting absolutely blitzed it was

honestly like as divided as the country is nowadays yeah i look back on days like that and i'm like you know what that's when we were real Americans. Our most united. We were the most united. Me, my three roommates, and the Comcast guy blitzed out of his mind watching six straight episodes of Workaholics until one of us just got out of the stupor and was like, yo, I got to go make dinner or go to my night class or something like that. No one said a word for like two hours. Yeah. You're like the founding fathers, dude. Apparently the country was largely founded in like beer halls where they just get hammered and be like, yo, we got to change this up. That's you guys sitting there. Yeah, it's not the Nazi party.

It was a family. Well, your words are not mine, brother. But I hear where you're coming from. I know. I've been there. That is pretty insane. The founding fathers. That is true that a lot of those dudes were just like 18 to like 25 year old dudes that would get hammered in bars and be like yo what are we doing dude dude not much has changed in 250 years not at all which

is awesome that's why it's like every time you're hammered with your boys at a bar and you're like we should start a business just know you could literally that pursue dude pursue the idea i i had an awesome just stupid guy conversation this weekend with my buddy. We were talking about the Open, the British Open. And we just got to talking about it and stuff. And then I was, somehow the conversation morphed into that he couldn't name 80 golfers on the PGA Tour. He's a real golf head. He's a dimple head. Yeah.

Dimple head. And then obviously, we had a couple pops and everything. So we're going back and forth. He's like, you can't name 80 golfers. And for the next two hours, we just sat there while I was in my notes app writing down 80 golfers that he named. He only got to 72. 80 of all time or 80 current?

80 current. That's insane. I couldn't name four of them all the time. No, but he's a Dumbbellhead. Yeah, like me and you couldn't name probably 15 together. For real, I don't think I can get six. Yes, you could. Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods.

Right now. Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods. Right now. Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Rory McIntyre, Rory McIlroy, uh, Fowler. No idea who that is.

You wanna know who, like, Scotty Shuffler is? No. You wanna know who Scotty Shuffler is? Dude, I'm too busy getting pussy

and drinking beer. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? I'm getting pussy from one woman for the rest of my life. And you're drinking, like, three beers.

True. And then I got to go to bed because my tummy hurts. Sorry, honey. You got to go to bed. But yeah, I mean, this is what I just assumed that like when they were drawing out the Constitution that they were just, you know, doing naming their form of like 80 golfers. True. Speaking of, if you're listening, no cheating, dude.

Go in the comment section. Write as many golfers as you can think of. I kind of want to get an idea of what this looks like. Don't cheat, dude. No cheating. Wink, wink. Yeah. Yo, what's up, guys?

What's up, guys? We just need three minutes of your time. Yeah, we just ask you what to do for a living. Come on down. Talk about jobs, horse around a little bit, and then... You can hang over there. You can hang right here. Wherever you're most comfortable, yeah.

First name? Mark. Mark. Percy. Percy? Yeah. Oh, sweet. Yeah. Whoa, you're like a teacher. I'm a music teacher in the city of Camden. Got it. No kidding. I'm just a student. Really? Yeah,

I'm still in high school. So I'm entering like my last year, actually. Sweet. Is this your former music teacher? Nah, this is actually one of my mom's really good friends. Oh, sweet. If you don't mind sliding in a little bit more. Oh, yeah, for sure. Thanks, buddy. We appreciate it. Wait, you used to be roommates? Yeah. Yep.

So you... Oh. How's that work? Well, I was roommates with his mom. Got it. And this is his mom's son. Son, yeah. Yeah.

Exactly. Sick. How was he as a roommate? Cool, man. Cool. Yeah. That's why we're hanging out a couple years later. I like that.

I like that. So Camden music teacher? Yeah. Grade school, high school, middle school? Grade school, high school? Grade school, middle school. Grade school, middle school. How's that? How's the Sopranos? Well they won't classify them until they're in high school. Oh. But usually I like working with the treble voices we call them. Trebles okay. So is that more of a deeper voice? More of a higher voice?

The higher voices. The treble's better. Well, because it's easy to work with, because all the boys and the girls have the same voice type. Once they get middle school, the boys, sometimes they just drop like a rock. And you have to teach them how to reuse their voice from scratch, because it's a brand new voice to them. I'm glad we have you here, honestly.

We start every episode where I sing in the beginning. Could you give me a real read on how my voice sounds? Yeah, go ahead. Lot of vibrato in that. There is. Lot of vibrato. Let's talk about your posture a little bit. Don't. Oh, okay.

Push your chair back. You gonna make me fall like a fool? Push your chair back. Push it back like the whole chair? Yeah, get rid of it a little bit. Might be you want some game, man. Yes. And then yeah, you're already intuitively doing it. Okay, you got back like the whole chair? Get rid of it a little bit. You want some game, man. Yes. And then, yeah, you're already intuitively doing it.

Okay. You got your tripod. One, two, three. Yes. And then you got your chest high. Looks great. Do that again. And I... A little bit?

That's 100% better. Let's talk about breath support. Put your fingers right below your sternum, like where it gets off there. Uh-huh. I like that. All right. It's all rock hard down here. I just want to lay it down a little bit.

Yeah. Okay. Say, you're going to yell. Okay. Yeah. Say, uh, show. Show. Yeah.

Okay. Now. I'll get the mic for you. Did you feel, did you feel the, uh, the tension and pressure from that muscle there? Yes. All right. If you keep it tight there all the time, when you're like, imagine like a bagpipe is you're squeezing with that and you're supporting it like that. Okay. And then you can go your falsetto again. Big breath. Okay.

There's more power there. Okay. You'll have to work on the control. Okay. I got a control. I've always said I need a little more control. That was actually way better though, for sure. Wow. Thanks, dude. Are you a singer? He never taught you how to sing? You guys are roommates? He never asked. Actually, low-key, I'm also kind of into fashion too. Yeah?

I like the drip, dude. Yeah, thank you. Some good drip. Yeah, thank you. So, I mean, to be honest, like I don't know if I want to become like more like an action model. I mean, I'm kind of really into everything. Yeah.

Yeah. What are the hottest brands right now for the youth? Hottest brands? Chrome Hearts. Chrome Hearts. Is that a Chrome Hearts shirt or that similar logo? Dream, man. Okay.

For sure. For sure. I like that. You wanted to make sure you knew that. Yeah, dude. Well, look, when I make it singing, I'll buy as many Chrome Hearts as you need, dude. Absolutely. Totally.

Totally. I'm not on the hook for that one. What? I'm a good singer. But yeah. You get the right. I'd say like Chrome Hearts. Damn.

What else do you have? You kind of have like more like the designer brand. Yeah. And obviously like you obviously can't go wrong with Nike. Of course. Obviously. What's the hot fashion in the music teacher? I was going to say he's got the right shade of leopard or whatever that is for your sunglasses

to be a singer. Definitely. This singer. Definitely. Look, I bought these the other day and I was immediately met with the response from my girlfriend, you got to stop buying girl glasses. Those are girl glasses. They're dude, they're cool guy glasses.

They are girl glasses. Now I will say my only contention and my only point is that people got to stop calling them leopard ones. They're not leopard. It's just some cool amalgamation of colors and such. That looks like a leopard. That looks like a leopard. It looks great, but you really wouldn't know

those girl glasses. The shape in them is good. It's good. Okay. I can live with that now. You wouldn't know if they were girl glasses if you looked directly at you from 200 yards away. Dude, I'm telling you. I think ever since I saw the dynamic has changed between you and I. If they were prescription glasses

and you looked in the mirror, then you could tell that. Yeah. I don't, I guess. When you're, when, when kids are younger, is it, is it like say like nine, nine years old and, um, they sing in front of you as like a parent. Is it, if, is it important that you, um, support them when they sing? Like if they want to be, if they sing to you when you're nine years old um and you're a dad or something like that is it important to support your child at that point oh i'm not a parent uh but just like you have to strike a blend i mean if you're if you're a parent you're late say you're

a lay person i'd say just 100 be supportive 100 you're not in a in a condition to be to to give pointers you just if you might in your side you might say oh that sounds like shit yeah probably he probably did that yeah no yeah you're allowed to say that yes but he probably did but as a lay person what would you be able to tell your child to improve it maybe you would just say oh he loves to sing yeah he's sounding great let's get you into some music lessons okay that's why you can actually really support them so where did your dad go wrong in that exercise? I sang for real in front of my dad when I was nine years old at Christmas time. And he looked me off and just said nasally and then just walked away.

What song did you sing? Some Carry Under. Whatever that Carry Under song that was big. I dug my key. I sang that. At nine years old you sang that? Yeah, I was vengeful. A lot of kids at that age do put the nasal on. We're doing a summer camp right now. And I told the kid who I had last year, like, she knows who I am. I know who she is.

And we get along great, but I had to tell her, you're putting it on your nose. And then she's like, oh, oh, oh. And everyone's laughing. But it's like, you know what to say at the right time in the environment. You're not trying to put them down. Like, you know when to push and when to back off. Unless you're Matt's dad. Yeah, unless you're my dad. A dick move and it affected you to this day.

At Christmas time, too. It's funny that the weirdest little things in life that can be, frankly, traumatic. Look at him now. He's got to do a podcast in the middle of a park. He could have been selling out the Wells Fargo Center. We've got to sit around and bother actually talented people, and that's where I've turned out.

What can you do? All because his dad told him he's a little nasally when he's nine years old. Well, my opinion, you've made it. Because if you weren't here, we used to be walking and not having this interesting conversation. That's actually an incredible point. It's a little self-congratulatory, but it's still a good point nonetheless. Yeah, if you never sang in front of your dad, you would have never met me. Sick.

I like that. That's awesome. Do you have to go to college to be a music teacher? No, but if you want to be certified, like in public schools, yeah, you have to pass a test and have at least a 40-year degree. No, two 40-year degree. I don't know. What was your process of it?

Where did you go to school and everything for it? I went to Rutgers for music. I was playing piano. I like to sing a little bit. No, I joined the high school choir because of a girl and that kind of like melded. I was like, okay. And at the end of high school, I was still playing piano, getting pretty good. I said, let me, let me go to school for this. Still didn't know I want to be a teacher. I had this dream of like being like my my piano teacher having private studio because like what you know is what you want to be like your role model yeah but then after being in school they're like oh here go to teaching track this will

be good for you I said oh actually I like this a lot yeah classroom teaching is good we ever get the private studio you think I've had it I've dropped it because it's like a little annoying to keep up. I'm sure. Time commitments is like already working. I've considered doing it again this summer, but it never took off for various reasons. Did you ever do musicals? Yeah, back in high school I did musicals.

I always wonder, like you watch the chemistry that a lot of these like leads have to have. Like between a guy and a girl, a lot of times it's like, you know, some kind of love story story how do you not fall in love every time i wouldn't know it wasn't the lead okay sorry about that dude they would date they would often they would date yeah yes well it's like it's like hollywood right now like you always hear about those people that are on the set and everything an a-list actor is banging an a-list actor they got wife and kid at home and stuff because it's just like how can you not when it's a romantic human? Human nature is human nature. Just because you're rich and famous doesn't mean you're not a regular guy.

Yeah, perfect. A regular girl. I hear you. That does hurt my feelings. I did date a girl who did musical theater in college and she had to do a couple kissing scenes in a play that I had to go watch

with another dude. Did she cheat on you? No, she didn't. Okay. No. That's good. No, no. That's good.

Quite the contrary. So you want to be a fashion model? Maybe a fashion... Maybe, yeah, man. Maybe. What are you doing right now? You got any like... You could do some self-promotion. You got any Instagram or TikTok? um uh so you want to be fat you want to be a fashion model maybe a fashion uh maybe yeah man maybe what are you doing right now you got any like uh you could do some self-promotion you got any instagram or tiktok yeah like low-key i kind of just been like taking pictures but i mean i kind of been like inconsistent i feel like i feel like that's kind of like my biggest problem right now because i could have been like just like slightly bigger but i mean i mean i kind of got

to get on like that grind you got time yeah dude you're all good you have a ton of time nice it's cool you know you want to do it, too. You said you're a senior? Yeah. So you're going into your senior year. What are you going to do after? Are you going to go to college? Are you going to try to go to a fashion school?

Man, to be honest, because I honestly feel like my major could kind of change at any point in time. So, I mean, I kind of don't want to give a certain answer. I like that. It's just one of like my like ideas what do you what what advice do you give to someone in that situation yeah so i i was really against this when i was coming out of high school um i probably wouldn't do it now if i was in that position but like two years of community college is like not the worst thing in the world especially if like you're undecided like don't spend all that money to go to like i went to temple um don't spend all that money just to go to temple and take you know bs classes and stuff you could always transfer a lot

of times you could transfer in um better like after going to like two years of community college like i had a buddy who went to camden community i think he went to penn like after and stuff so it's like you know sometimes that's that's the move um i asked him what he wanted to do and he said work outside. I was like, you should be a podcaster. They go outside a lot. Yeah, I was like, and I actually really could be, too. Yeah, dude.

Yeah, like, I mean, I really could. Because to be honest, like, I just don't like being inside. I feel like, I honestly feel like there's, like, nothing to really do inside. Well, here's the thing. Don't want to work outside because at some point you do get to, like, your 30s and 40s. Yeah. And your body quits on you a lot of those jobs and stuff so just take your fashion pop-ups put them outside and that's how you can get your vitamin day a lot of festivals yeah love jack fashion

flannels and jeans yeah what um what's in right now for a couple old guys like us that we should be uh we should be looking at to be hip and cooler and get more views i mean like birkenstocks 501 jeans and like vintage philly shirts dude birkenstock to be honest though i mean like that's kind of like the old money wave you feel me i mean i mean it kind of all kind of goes down to like what type of style that like you're looking for it um personally like i'm more kind of like the alternative like grudgy style kind of so like you know like i kind of wear grudgy's in right now yeah oh yeah like those shirts that go down to your shoulders now i feel like three years ago shirts were like always up here yeah showed the bicep a little bit yeah i'll tell you baggy shirts being coming back in

baggy jeans and stuff and just having like that like 90s era it's like early 2000 genre style we going back to the 2003 nba draft class when LeBron had the Janko suits. Oh, my God. The oversized suits that went down to your thigh. Yeah, man. It's crazy. Oh, my God. And it's kind of good to see all of that kind of come back into style now.

Yeah, style's cyclical, man. Of course. Except for bell bottoms. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Bell bottoms never came back. They tried. It failed.

Yeah, they tried. It failed. It's very true. Anything else? No, man. Good luck with everything, and it was great meeting you, dude. This was awesome. This was a lot of fun. Our pleasure. We appreciate you, brother. Enjoy your walk. Thank you, man. How'd you feel? Did you think you got some

good teachings? I feel validated. I feel like I knew I had kind of like an un... I'm like a... I'm like the 28th pick in the NBA draft. There's a lot of there to mold. There's not a lot of actual, you know, production. But you're going to get more chances than a second rounder. Yes, yes, absolutely.

And I'll be worthwhile. You're going to go tell your dad? Yeah, I'm going to give him a call. And he's going to be like, dude, you have to stop fucking calling me. For Christ's sake, I don't care about the singing thing. I met this music teacher and he told me you were not supportive of me. I'll tell you what, though. Your parents,

they don't, as a comedian, they don't really understand, like, hey, I'm hosting at Helium this weekend or I'm hosting for this big name and they're like, oh, what are they paying you? It's like $50.

All right, dude. The TV thing is the one thing that's resonated with the family. When you went on Fox 29, was that big time? They were like, whoa. Nuh-uh. He's actually doing it.

That's hilarious. Yeah. Shane Gillis actually had a really good point about that on Rogan that he was like, my parents didn't understand that I was doing theaters and stuff, but I got SNL and they were like, holy shit, this is actually working. He says the same thing. He was like, I'd have to drive seven hours to Ohio to feature somewhere. They're like, what are you paying?

It's like 100 bucks. They're like, what are you doing? Which I totally, fully understand. No, 100%. I get it with the content creation stuff too it's like people were like okay this this that but like yeah going on like fox 29 or going on like you know uh nbc sports and people are like holy shit dude yeah they also it's really just they like it's got to be either tv or i got to be put up in a hotel for free when i told them we did oceans and they put us at a hotel they're like man this guy's knocking it out of the park, dude.

Could be worse. We could be living at home. Yeah, true. Speaking of Oceans, have us back. That was awesome. Loved that place, dude. That was fun. Absolute blast.

No, the funniest thing about Oceans was it was like the second episode we ever recorded. It sucked. The sound was terrible. The guests were actually pretty good. And Vito, we take Vito to a steakhouse because they comped us like a meal and stuff. Vito turns to me as he's one bottle of wine in. He's eating this eight-ounce filet mignon. He's got all the sides in the world.

He's got the biggest smile on his face. He goes, did this always happen? And I was like, absolutely not, dude. No. And look at us since, dude. Do not get used to this, Vito. A lot of times it's raising canes on a fold-out table. Still pretty sick, though, I'm not going to lie to you.

And getting sunburned on my neck. Getting absolutely cooked. How are you? We do a podcast where we talk to people about what they do for a living. What's your first name? Bert. Nice to meet you, man. I'm Kyle. This is Matt. How are you? And you are retired? And then what did you used to do?

I used to work in vacuum farming machines. So you work in a factory. If you don't mind, put this up to you. Yeah, working in a factory, running vacuum farming machines. Vacuum pharma? Vacuum farming machines. Oh, like vacuum sealed stuff? Yeah.

Oh, wow. What was a vacuum seal? All kinds of packages packages and and uh displayed cases and because i also we also did lighting and we did um and the other side did the uh plastic for the big displays that go in the stores sure what's now what's the benefit of a vacuum seal? Is that just like the freshness? Cause I see stuff that's not- No, no, not that kind of vacuum seal. Okay.

Not like food or stuff. Oh, like seal wrap kind of stuff? No, no, no. We'll figure this out. Like a Dyson? This has a mold. Okay. And you form plastic into that form.

Like it could be- Oh, like action figures, the way that they're on something like that? Yeah, or... Ah. What do you mean? Or just, you know, regular, like, everyday household things. Yeah, remember, like, you get, like, an action figure, and it's, like, a cardboard back, and then it'll be, like, the guy moving, and then they'll mold that plastic around, like, his body.

Oh. You know what I mean? That kind of thing. Oh, like... Yeah. Like, part of the action figure. Yeah, you... No, not the actual action figure. The thing that they hold the action figure in. the cardboard in the back and the plastic that plastic

oh and they mold it around there okay you make the you make the the you form the uh what they call the mold yeah and you put the plastic and it's in rolls and you bring it down and it would suck it down into that mold yeah and it would form to that special interesting just whatever it's going to be what's the cool sorry no no you go what's the coolest thing you ever did the vacuum seal on anything that you were like working on you're like what the hell is this not really because it was all basic but i mean it was stuff that you would normally see yeah the the most that i've done is probably making um you know like the water guns and stuff yeah oh how about that there you go yeah yeah it's because it's made of plastic so you know basically can, and we used to make the, by hand, we would make the mold of salt. We didn't send out for it.

How long did that last until what year? I worked there from 89 to 2001. Okay. And then they started going automation a little bit more? Yeah. And plus I moved from New york because i was in new york got it moved to jersey yeah and then i went to doing light fixtures out here so in 2001 you were in new york were you around during uh 9-11 at all is that were you really i was working in

the factory when it happened where was the factory located in deer park long island okay so you're a little bit off the off the main main strip but could you see it from the factory? No, because I was inside. Did they make you keep working? Yeah, what happened? Yeah, I kept working. Wow. Were you worried at all?

Was there any panic going around the factory? I mean, I'm sure family members... We didn't have radios in there because it was a small place. There was only like 10 of us. Okay. But by the time they told us, it was already over. Yeah. And they sent us they told us it was already over yeah and they sent us home but it was already over and done wow i can't i can't imagine having to be in a factory at my job because we were i think i was five or six when it happened so i always get fascinated hearing about like

somebody that's actually cognizant watching it happen but just to keep working is a very baller move yeah but when i got home i watched it on the news yeah gotta be desperate you didn't have any i mean was there any like a lot of like long island families affected by that because i feel like yeah there was a couple of neighbors that they they were firemen and they went all the way from deer park all the way out there okay to try to help yeah you probably didn't see them for for a while now since they were all out there trying three weeks yeah they were all just there trying to... About three weeks. Yeah. They were all just out

to ground zero for about a month out there. Man, that's crazy. That's... I mean, so you... Let me ask you to lighten it up a little bit. Did you live in Long Island

or on Long Island? Is there a difference? I always hear this difference. The people that don't live... Apparently, you live on Long Island. You don't live in Long Island. Is that true? Is there any truth to that?

Well, you live on Long Island. Technically, yeah. But apparently you live on manhattan i hear they check you they'll check you they'll say i don't live in long island i live on long island is that a thing i guess maybe not dude i don't maybe i gotta start stop smoking to me i i live wherever wherever because when i was a kid i used to come up here to Jersey. That's how I know Jersey. Yeah. Because my uncles had farmland. So working in factories, I guess you're around. Predominantly, I assume it's a lot of men working in the factories.

Well, the one in the light fixture one, there was a lot of ladies. Really? Yeah. I can see that. And I mean, we had them from every country that you could think of. Really? In there. Wow.

Huh. Did you like it? Yeah. Really? In there. Wow. Huh. Did you like it? Yeah, it was all right. Yeah? But then they made me retire in 2010. They made you? Oh, damn. So you've been retired for a long time.

Yeah. Why'd they make you retire? Triple bypass. Oh, my gosh. And then in 2012, second one. Holy shit. But I'm still here. You're a six-time bypass survivor?

Well, the second one was just one. You took it easy the second time. I had a couple of stints. Got it. You might want to add a third title to that t-shirt. Seriously. Just undefeated. Cyborg.

Yeah. Are you filled with metal or stuff? Yeah. Because that's all i know is i i really never worked in anything else yeah but factories and most of it was vacuum forming or running some kind of machinery okay what got you into factories back in my day that's pretty much that that that's the only thing that was open for people that didn't go to college or whatever. Okay. Was it affordable?

I always wonder this because my father, he worked at this place called Banknote. They used to make currency and stuff. And he made a pretty good living. He made like six figures and he didn't have a college degree or anything. They moved to Texas. He didn't want to move with them. So then, you know, obviously there was that kind of shift around, I want to say probably around 2001, 2002, where it was like if you didn't have a college degree, you kind of were sol if you weren't already grandfathered into a company

well i started working in the factories in 1977 what was your first factory um making uh wood displays like uh yeah um there's displays that went into the hardware stores where they separate the bolts and you could go in and look in the drawer. Oh. It's amazing what you can make that can make you an insane amount of money. Yeah. Just certain things like pulling a drawer open at Home Depot. Yeah, tiny trinkets you never think about.

I guess that was my calling because I didn't like doing anything else. Yeah. What did you like about the factory that you stayed there for like 40 years? I don't know. I guess because after you've been at a certain factory so long, I keep telling people this. You can goof off,

but don't make it where everybody sees you. I mean, I did my share of goofing off, but I got the job done. Got your job done. And that's all that matters. Nice.

Don't goof off if you didn't get the job done. Yeah, would the fellows play a little bit of hijinks, little pranks over there in factories? Yeah, they've... One day,

somebody hit my bicycle and I had to walk home. What? They told you where it was? They were like, all right, dude, it's over there. I found it like three days later.

They probably said, oh, I forgot. That kind of sounds like a dick. Yeah, fuck that guy. I hope that guy had 17 bypass surgeries. I can't really say he was my best friend. Seems pretty fair, dude.

I don't think he's our friend either. Damn. What other kind of pranks did the boys pull on each other? Because you had to get through the day, man. You can't just be doing the monotonous, taking the thing over to the ladies, ladies giving it back. They'd all go out to the bar.

Yeah. And they'd be drinking, and then they'd be go out to the bar yeah and they don't they'd be drinking and then they'd be like oh i forgot my money and all this and then all of a sudden after you pay the bill they all pull out money oh my god these creatures shit what was your most fun memory from there if you don't mind us asking when they used to hook me up with a woman before I got married. Okay. Because I was the youngest out of the bunch of them. Yeah. You know, so.

So all these guys are married and they're like, hey, go talk to our brother over there. He hasn't fallen yet. Something to that effect. He's got a nice bicycle. I used it last week. He's got a Schwinn over there that he can take you home on. Did you ever drive? Yeah.

Okay. But not anymore because after the home trip. Yeah, yeah, yeah you home. Did you ever drive? Yeah. Okay. But not anymore because after the home trip. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Do you ever miss it? Sometimes. Mm-hmm. But I'm having too much fun.

I got 15 grandkids and they got me playing on PlayStation. Nice. They got me playing all kinds of games. Dude, what do you think about the PlayStation?

Because you had, like, what, Atari growing up or something like that? That's probably the first one. You had the one where the... Genesis. Pong? do you think about the PlayStation? Because you had, like, what, Atari growing up or something like that? That's probably the first one. You had the one where the... Genesis. Pong? What was the Pong?

Yeah, you probably Pong. Yeah, ColecoVision. Does it ever just blow your mind about the graphics and stuff, like what kids are playing on now? Yeah, but they play on 5, and I don't like 5. You don't like 5? What was your favorite PlayStation? 4.

4 was a good one. I still got it. Yeah, really? Do you really? Do you play a lot on your own, it yeah really do you really do you play a lot on your own it sounds like or what do you play i like role-playing games okay really because i don't need anybody to help me yeah true so what's like the go-to role-playing game like a skyrim or like a no i got this game called um

black desert okay you're gonna play red dead redemption no i think you'd like red you would Black Desert. Okay. You ever play Red Dead Redemption? No. I think you'd like Red Dead Redemption. You would like... I would give that a try. Just taking an ocular pat down of yourself, I think you'd like some Red Dead Redemption, too. I like some Mad Dog sometimes. Hello.

Okay, now we're talking. What's your favorite Mad Dog flavor? Apple. Apple, okay. I've never had a Mad Dog. It hurts. It burns. But it gets the job done. What do you like about Mad Dog? I don't know. It used to be cheap. I don never had a Mad Dog. It hurts. It burns. But it gets the job done.

What do you like about Mad Dog? I don't know. It used to be cheap. I don't know about it anymore. I wonder if it is cheap anymore. It still is. Yeah? Yeah.

I haven't bought it in a while. I've had it at my other liquor's. Yeah. But when I went out, it was Southern Comfort Straight. Is that what you guys used to drink? Soco and lime or just Soco straight? Straight. Yeah, man.

What was it about the soco that you guys love because my mom was the same way she loved soco growing up oh it's just i guess it was just a thing yeah i mean if it works it works what about a bud light you a bud light fan i'm not a big beer drinker not a beer drinker i was gonna give you one for the road but if you don't want it yeah or a nice bottle of brandy or something. Got it. So you're still able to drink, which is pretty sick. Yeah, well, not a lot.

Yeah, not as much anymore. And I got to make sure when I take my pills, I wait. And then. That's a matter of time. Yeah. Do you think the Mad Dog contributed to the bypass? Good. I like that.

I like that. I think my wife did. Yes. Yeah. I 100%. 100%. The true Mad Dog. Yeah. The true Mad Dog. Maybe if I drank more Mad Dog, it. I think my wife did. Yes. Yeah. I 100%. 100%. The true Mad Dog. Yeah.

The true Mad Dog. Maybe if I drank more Mad Dog, it would stop bliss at the heart. Oh, man. I like you. What was your name again? Bert. Bert.

Bert. Bert. That's the kind of guy I want working in my factory. Yes, sir. Please, yeah. You guys are the foundation of the country. Yeah, we really appreciate it, Bert. There's not too many factories nowadays.

No. Get outsourced and all that and i tell people back in my day you go to a factory or any job you got two strong hands they're willing to give you a shot not nowadays yeah you got to have something that other than that for them to even i think you have to be a robot now yeah i think it's just being a robot i think if you let elon musk put a neural link in your in your head then you're allowed to work in a factory now so you might be good you got just being a robot. I think if you let Elon Musk put a Neuralink in your head, then you're allowed to work at a factory now.

So you might be good. You got a lot of hardware in there. You might be the robots they've been looking for. Yeah. Go to a factory and be like, dude, I am automated. Yeah.

Heart's pumping like a beast right now. Absolutely. Yeah, but I don't think they'd be able to pay me enough. I like that. Yeah, not to get out of retirement.

Definitely not. That's true. That's true. Enjoy it. But by the time you guys do it, there might not be anything left for you to do. Well, stop wasting it all, Bert. Stop spending our money out there, Bert. Stop spending all of my Social Security.

I wish they would give me a little more. That's fair. That's totally fair. You know, we'll come to the common ground. That's fair. Yeah, that's absolutely. So, hey, Bert, thanks so much for coming on, man. Yeah, Bert, thank you very much.

That was great. Get back to your walk. We really appreciate that. Good luck with everything. All right, well, that's the podcast. Appreciate everybody coming on today. Appreciate you, the listener, listening or watching. We got to go do a beer mile.

The beer mile will be on the Patreon. Patreon.com slash men at work pod. How you feeling? Bad, dude. I'm going to yak hard. I found out you yak the last one. I've never done i'm a beer mile virgin so i went up the art museum steps i went oh my god that was that sucked so i i'm gonna kill you um when's the last time you ran a mile huh when's the last time you ran a mile uh i used to i got in a weird uh thing where i wanted

to see how fast i could do a mile on a treadmill seven minutes 15 seconds not bad how long ago three four months ago okay i i ran sunday i I'm going to dust you. God damn it. Yeah, so four beers within four times around the track, or they kick us off. Anyway, so this is the podcast. We appreciate everybody for listening. Anything you want to say on the way out? Keep commenting. Seriously, we haven't seen in a little bit.

Get the comments back about telling us where you want to see us. Give us ideas. We're getting lazy about thinking of ideas, so we're counting on you guys. Hook the boys up, but please keep listening. We love you guys. We do appreciate everything that you do for me and my dad. Alright, we'll talk to you next episode. Peace.