Men At Work Podcast - Union Workers Strike at a Phillies Game

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

Kyle and Matt are outside the Phillies game where hundreds of union workers are on strike from Aramark. They tell us their pay demands, the controversial business practices Aramark lawyers are using, scabs crossing the picket line, the contentious meetings, and the unethical reasons why workers don't get health insurance. We might break the single pod Men At Work record for the amount of "That's insane!" we said. If you want to learn about why Aramark union workers are striking and don't feel like spending hours researching everything this is the podcast for you. 00:00 - Kyle and Vito Takeover Nola 8:50 - The OG's of the Strike Tell Us All 27:50 - Worker Needs Healthcare for a Kidney 48:30 - He Makes the Best Cheesesteaks in the Stadium 1:00:13 - The Creativity of the Union PR Team #union #strike #phillies 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] APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/men-at-work-podcast/id1373108039 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4XcFWt0I6gFvMotqDp5bsZ?si=2273debc08e5485d If you want more bonus content from every episode check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/menatworkpod Follow Us: The Pod: https://www.tiktok.com/@menatpodcast https://www.instagram.com/menatpod/ Follow Matt: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattpeoplescomedy https://www.instagram.com/mattpeoplescomedy/ Follow Kyle: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylepagancb/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kylepagancb Follow Vito: https://www.instagram.com/vito_visuals/?hl=en

A three, a two, a one. Welcome back to another episode of Men at Work. I'm Kyle Pagan. And as always, I'm joined by Matt Peebles. Matt, where are we today? Kyle, you better believe it, dude. We're men of the people. We're the men at the work.

And we are here with people striking their place of work. We're here at the Aramark strike at the Philly Stadium tonight. We're trying to find out what the hell is going on. Why are we striking? What's the deal? What are we trying to get done? So we're going to try to find some union workers,

some strikers, and find out what the hoot and holler in hell's going on. Yeah, and we'll be totally, completely honest with you. We've already had an intro, and we've had the worst podcast setup of all time.

The batteries are dying. I don't have any other batteries. I brought one camera out and stuff. We somehow didn't record the intro, so we have one battery left. So if this somehow loses in the middle of it and there's no continuity don't blame us whoopsie daisy learning we're just regular guys dude dude we're just out here to strike strike our podcast have you ever struck before

not once i've never i'm uh i see people who do go strike and they are taking the initiative of being like yo i don't even care about my job i'm trying to get something done me on the other hand i'm so scared of everything i could never you would cross the picket line in a second? In a millisecond. Yeah. I would actually go and I would like try to bust them. Not because I want to, not because I'm that type of person. I'm just so goddamn scared. So everybody who watches this episode, I'm on your side, but until I'm not. Then I got to hang out with the big wigs. Yeah. We would never have a union on this podcast. If Vito ever came to me and was like, I should be paid more, I should get more health benefits, I would tell him to go find another job i am the union buster you want

for billion dollar companies like this who are making record profits i'm all for the i'm all for the workers right now then we can talk then we can talk a little bit yeah i agree with that 100 um i've never been a part of a strike because my first job was comcast and they immediately the first day show you a 15 minute video of why strikes or why unions are bad. That's crazy. And I was just so excited to have a 401k that I was like, unions stink. Boo, unions. Unions this.

I'll bust any union I see. Oh, dude. You're worse than I am. You're North Korea. Yeah, dude. You're getting the propaganda every morning and you're like, I love Kim Jong. I love Kim Jong of Comcast. Yeah.

I was an incel. An incel. I was an anti-union incel. Just in my, in my, in my, I don't know. No, dude, you were working for Comcast. You're trying to get incel service. You had no phones. You couldn't make anything done, dude. I don't blame you whatsoever. Dude. Speaking of cell phones, are you getting an alarming amount of spam calls? Non-stop, dude. What is happening? Spam calls. If you're listening, Mr. Spam, leave me alone, dude. Because I keep getting calls. And at some point, your girlfriend goes, hey, this is probably not a spam call. Who is this? Answer the phone in front of me. And then you got to answer the phone and they're like, hello, who is this?

And then you're like, I need you to stop calling me, which is the number one conversation you have with your side piece. 100%. And it's like, I usually get like two to three a day, I would say. I probably got up to seven. I got six today. I've gotten three since we've been on the podcast. Have you really? Yeah, three of them. Sorry about that.

I was trying to get a hold of you. I was trying to see what's up. But dude, it's like 100%. It's like hello. And then no one answers. And then they just hang up. And I'm like, at least like entertain me a little. Put some effort into it.

I agree. Mr. Pegun? Honestly, can you add to the spam calls? Like they answer after you give them some shit. You're like, put me on a do not call list. They call you again and they're like, this is Jessica. I miss you. How have you been? You're like, oh, so stop. That's what you got to do. If you're a spam call, make my girlfriend think that she's being cheated on. I think that's the larger point. Spice it up a little bit too. I would listen to your spam call if you spice it up. It's always the most boring person or someone that I can't even freaking understand

calling me on the spam call. Yeah. Like can we, we've AI now. I'm not trying to take away jobs. Can we just give AI to like,

hey, you know when you, your parents would have a Tom Tom or a Magellan? Hey, put on Austin Powers mode. Dude, get Austin Powers.

I totally agree. Get Austin Powers from Pulp Fiction. I'll listen. Trying to get these motherfucking calls off this motherfucking phone. 100%. If I can do it on my Magellan or my TomTom back in the day, then I want it on the spam calls. But we've got to be careful.

We've got to make sure that these spam people are being paid a livable wage. Because the spam people might have to go on strike. Do you think they're unionized? They have to be. I don't think they are. I think they are. I think they're bottom of the barrel people. Have you ever looked into spam calls and stuff?

Yeah, you watch the call centers over in Bangladesh and you're like, what are we doing? Yeah, dude. But it's crazy, though. The ones that aren't really as scammy, the ones that you might owe a little bit of medical debt and they want you to go out and go collect it for them, the returns on those margins are insane. The only problem is

you have to call a thousand people to get someone to pay their medical debt. Yeah, that's a good point. It's so crazy. It really is. It's like medical debt and then they just trick old people. Yeah. If you're, if you're good at it though, you can make like 50 to 60 to 70% margins on this. You think it's that high? I think it's that high. Cause, cause they will take the medical debt of say like an Aetna and they'll sell it off to this other company and they'll be like, Hey, it's your problem. Go try to find this person. Yeah. They're going off Aetna and they're stealing from an Aetna. I mean, I'm telling you, the old people getting tricked this easily,

which might be a good thing because we always talk about like, oh, the boomers, we got to wait till they die to fix the country. What if we just have people in Indian cities stealing money from the olds? I like that. Nigerian princes, that already happened.

That already happened, Matt. You're exactly right. That's an incredible point. They moved from Africa to Asia. They are the Robin Hoods, dude. They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs and they're taking our grandparents they're eating the cats they're jerking the olds uh by the way did you know that me and matt went uh me and vito went to nola what the hell happened over i saw photos i saw videos and i got a plethora of

questions yeah i'm jealous dude i wanted to be and you guys rub it in most good friends would be like it's okay it's not that fun every text i was like, this is the sickest thing that's ever happened. Dude, you should see this guy, man. You take him out of Pennsylvania. He's just like, he's the kid from Home Alone, just in the big city. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah. It's like, Vito, it's a junkyard. It's a trash fire. Sure. You get those in Delco too. He saw the Superdome. Superdome's like this big dome that looks like a uh that looks like something out of star wars and you would have thought it was the coolest thing there was you know the link in the cinnabank park and all of them they're so much better than this one but you don't like that when you have somebody that's bewildered that you're

walking with i kind of enjoy hearing that excitement i guess so it's like it's like having an alien like you know come from his come from his uh his country and you know um give me the highlights what happened give? Give me a couple. Give me a couple. One of the craziest things was since I guess it's a red state. Yeah. You would have thought

there was no election going on. We didn't watch. We didn't see one political ad down there. Yeah. The entire time. I forgot. I forgot.

And then you come up here and I'm watching the Phillies game. You're like inundated with it like every single break. Every single break is now the elections in like a month and a half. Oh, so because they're down there.

They're like, we already know we're voting for. What do we have to convince you of? Also, I just ran into porn. You have to sign up with an ID down there. Down south, huh? I was doing some investigative journalism. Yeah, you totally didn't want to do it whatsoever.

You had Vito do it for you. You checked the websites. But back to Vito. We went to this restaurant, and it was called Mother's. Really awesome restaurant great breakfast great barbecue apparently we're standing out in line

and everything and once again you take this kid out of Delco he's never really been anywhere outside the Jersey Shore or Delaware or Citizens Bank Park and he's like

we're looking at the menu and everything and there's like this European couple in front of us probably French maybe Spanish they turn around to Vita the whitest guy in the world.

And they ask him what grits are. What is his response? And I'm like, there's a million people in this line that you could ask that grits are. That'll give you a better answer. He was saying shit like corn, oatmeal. He was all over the place. Until I just looked at him. I said, will you shut up?

And then I looked at the people behind me because there are two black people. You tapped them in. And I tapped them in and I said, please, he's way above his, he's fighting above his weight class right now.

Were you nice about it? You got to be nice about it. I was like, because we were all laughing at him. Yeah. Like even, even, even the black people.

Oh, they were a part of it. Oh, they were laughing at him too. They were laughing at him too. And so they explained it perfectly, what grits were, because that's what they know.

I don't ask, I would never ask them to explain what a French onion soup is and how to make it. Yeah, that's fair. That's absolutely fair. I would never tell them, hey, how do you make bangers and mash? They'd look at me like I was crazy.

Yeah. Yeah, chicken fingers? No. Well, yeah, I guess they wouldn't. You got to make a nice trade after that. When they answer it, you got to go over and be like, here's some spices from our land. Just put salt all over their food nonstop.

Just here's some spices. Just bring them nothing. Something from the caucus for our friends here yeah absolutely um so then we're still sitting in line and everything we're reading the menu because it's it's a line i mean it's a it's a famous place in in new orleans and uh he starts reading the menu and he goes what's creole what's what's creole no creole creole creole i was like i think it's a crayon company and and the and the black woman again sitting right there goes it's creole it's a spice and everything i just i my mouth was just on the

floor being like you're embarrassing me in front of my cool friends yeah my cool friends yeah they're my coolest friends hey before we get longer in the episode we want to talk about our sponsor thrive flower thrive sells real cannabis products outside of the medical system they have nine strains of flour six strains of pre-roll joints, four strains of vapes, gummies, and lemonades. I can personally endorse this product. The Delta 9 10 milligram gummies are superb. Superb.

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My name is Osborne Hart. Okay, nice. Carlton Epps. Got it. That sounds like an awesome buddy cop movie, by the way. Great buddy cop movie. Osborne Hart and Carlton Epps. Yeah, dude.

What are you guys doing striking? You should be in Hollywood right now. Truly. Working on Bad Boys 5. I might get discovered while I'm out here. There you go. Today's the day. I supported the actors.

I mean, you got nothing else to do. I write in the center city one day. Yeah? Sure. Sweet, sweet, sweet. So you're a career-long striker? I'm a union guy. Got it.

I've been in the Teamsters. I was in the UTU. That's the railroad before they merged. So I support unions, man, and it's been my life, man, since Vietnam. Nice. Yeah. You should thank a union member. Yeah.

Yeah. Come on. Is that okay? I'm at Unite here at 274 at the Sheridan Hotel. Our contract is up and doing negotiations and whatnot. So this is, well, he'll tell you, this is a big, important local. So you came from the

Sheridan Hotel all the way down here just to support your brethren? That's right, man. Solidarity is very important. I didn't know that. Huh. Yeah, no. So you're not part of this actual strike. You're just a adjacent strike. Or you're not part of Aramark. Well, I'm part of Unite here at 274, 4,000 members. Yeah, same union. Okay.

Organize the hotels, the Warwick, Sheridan, Canopy, and other venues. This is very important. One of the biggest unions in the city. As a matter of fact, it is probably. Sure. So you're in the meetings. Yes. Okay.

So bare bones, what are you guys striking for? Sustainable wages, healthcare, respect. In fact, when I say respect, it really bothered me. We had a coworker get up and speak in the negotiations about workers in this building here that have been sick with no healthcare. Yeah. A couple of them passed away. Aramark's lawyer said, so what? Oh, I saw you on the video. That was me. Yeah, okay. He said, so what?

And then we sat down the next negotiations. I was getting ready to just let him know because one of those ladies passed away since he said, so what? And I wasn't looking at him because I didn't want him to think I was directly talking to him. I'm looking away.

And I started saying, I want to give you all an update. Oh, let me cut you off. I know what you're getting ready to say. I didn't say that. If he had been man enough and apologized, I might have been okay. Now, last time he walked past me in the hallway, I said, liar. Oh, so they're getting contentious right now. Yeah. I mean, they're so disrespectful. They came to negotiations one time, one sheet of paper for us to pass around to everybody on our side of the table to look at. One sheet.

Instead of, you know, common courtesy. Give everybody. When we came in with our 51-page proposal, we made a copy for every person on their side of the table. So this is how petty they get with us. Sure. So is there a specific hourly wage you guys have in mind? It varies by position. Okay.

But we want something sustainable we actually speak like that we have a we have workers in this building here over 20 years don't make 20 an hour damn yeah yeah that's what these 10 they want to keep giving these 10 cents an hour wages you'll never get out is that what they're doing the increases like 10 cents every year they're trying to do 10 cent didn't they hit you recently with a uh you guys wanted, you guys had a number and they came back with just 50 cents raises or something like that? Yeah. What happened there? 50 cents still ain't enough.

So what's like the normal wage that a lot of you guys would say you make? Like you could ballpark a number. Well, you're talking about in our field of work that we do? Like most of the people who are striking right now, what would they be making? Some people 15, some 10. Well, I'm in a premium position, so I make like $10 an hour. But I'm a tip worker, so I'm okay. I'm not arguing about that.

But it's the workers that, these other non-tip workers that don't make no money. And what do non-tip workers be making? Concession workers. They might make 15 an hour. You can't live on 15 an hour in this world nowadays. So do they not see, they just see the fact that you guys are seasonal workers for the season and the fact that you're only working for an allotted amount of time a day? Is their argument just

you're not technically full-time workers? What does that sound like? I work all three buildings. Right. Oh, there you go. Which is another topic that's brought up. You guys work in three different buildings and for people who might not be from around Philadelphia, it's the Philly Stadium, it's the Sixers and Flyers Stadium, and then it's the link where the Eagles play.

They're all in basically a triangle, not even two blocks away from each other. And if you guys, and correct me if I say anything wrong, if you guys work at all three stadiums and you technically work 40 hours or more a week, you have separate paychecks and you still don't get full-time benefits, correct? Because they keep everything. They want each contract separate. That's how they're trying to keep us down. Got it.

That's crazy to me. Yeah. The entire operation just seems insane. Not being able to pay. And we watched the mini documentary that I can't remember the news post that did it, but talked about the fact that beers are $18 now and you guys are making whatever the wage is, a lower wage as of now. I mean, watching that.

What's that? Less than what the beer costs. Less than what the beer costs. The Eagles have the most expensive beer in the NFL. Most expensive beer in the NFL. And didn't Aramark just have record profits? Yes. Don't get me on that one because I got a mouth on me.

Okay. You can go off camera here. I was told that Aramark made 1.6 billion profit the last year that was fine last fiscal year so i would say that every time in negotiation they're talking about they're broke they ain't got no money i'm 1.6 after a couple sessions the lawyer got tired he said carlton i'm tired of you saying that i feel it's disrespectful because that was a bad year for us we averaged four billion a year profit oh my god he's bragging while he's trying

to make his point. That is billionaire behavior, man. That's unbelievable. And you're telling us no. The same person said so about workers being, the same lawyer said so about the workers being sick and no health coverage. He says, so what? I told him, I said that I work all three buildings. How does he feel about the citizens of Pennsylvania subsidizing my healthcare? Could you put the microphone a little closer to you if you don't mind? So he said, when I he feel about the citizens of Pennsylvania subsidizing my health care? Could you put the microphone a little closer to you? So he said, when I asked him about me working all three buildings, how does he feel about the citizens of Pennsylvania subsidizing my health care? He says so. You want to say something? Well, I just want to say something. I'm a busser. Actually, they're doing a job combination,

sharing all of them, you know, and they're crying the blues about, oh, we did coming out of COVID hospitality. They're watching this closely. And that's why I'm in solidarity. I'm a busser. I make $13 now. Well, you make tips. Well, but those tips, some nights I just got $8 a tip.

Yeah. Yeah. I was a bartender. Some days you make $250. Some days you make $100. So what we talk about on the job is we want to live in wage, you know? In Europe, those are full-time workers. They're in unions, and they make a living wage,

and that's what we need to fight for. And like him, like I said, they bounce around. And, you know, the seasonal thing now, you know, I may be laid off come December because the big conventions and whatnot are there. And the question of solidarity, you probably notice across the country, Unite here, L.A. last year, of the 65 hotels, they won contracts in 41 of them. We checked the news on the facts on that. So the question of solidarity and what's happening in this whole industry. Aramark's trying to monopolize around the country.

This is not, not I mean they're they're working all the major stadiums yeah it feels like a little bit like Ticketmaster and Live Nation right now how they kind of

put in local and low we need some trust busters that's really what it seems comes back to have you guys seen any pushback

like anything like I know you said like they gave you guys like one piece of paper and you came with all your papers have you seen like weird like the Phillies

or the Aramark meandering in some things that aren't normal anymore maybe not the Phillies but we're on Striker Wells Fargo also they locked the port-a-potties up

over there they locked the port-a-potties up what the fuck that seems that's the stuff they do and that's Comcast

so Comcast it seems like they're working with them. Yeah. I mean, I was out of town, but I saw the pictures of the people locking them up. I know when we struck over there before, they locked some of those port-a-potties up. Yeah, yeah. Are they striking at the Eagle's facility yet or now?

We're going to strike all three buildings. Strike all three buildings. Who is working right now? Yeah. There are some workers at Cross. Managers are in here working. Why are the managers working? Because they can't get enough workers and their salary i i imagine they're kind of like a a higher salary so they're like we can't lose this job they ain't got nothing going on in their building

they can they sending them over here got it and they make enough where they can kind of like not to ignore the problem but they can at least be like i can't fuck up what i have now is that they're kind of pitting you against each other. There's also some contract. I just know from some people in the hotel, there's some contract operators going in and they're bringing in some cooks. Tim workers.

Non-union. How has the Philly fans, how have they been? I think the Philly fans, a lot of them have been very supportive. Yeah. Because it's Uniontown. Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

A lot of them, they're walking by when I'm standing over there, raising their bags up with their food. Let me see it. You know, and we've had fans in here that have gone in with our signs and showed them. A couple months ago, it was a healthcare group that was here, and they had a sign, pay the workers airmark or something. Everybody had, like, each of them had a sign-up, pay-to-workers airmark or something. Everybody had, like, each of them had a letter.

Oh, wow. And I wasn't here that day. And they didn't show it on TV. Of course. Yeah, of course. A little guerrilla marketing. Yesterday, I came walking. I know some guys on the railroad in SEPTA.

They came and walked the picket line. Yeah, just like the strike of Coca-Cola a year and a half ago. Oh. Yeah, it's a union town in South. And that's, you know, we've been catching hell over the last few years. All the money, COVID, all these corporations crying the blues when they're squeezing us and squeezing us. And we're at a point, and when I say we, I'm talking about the broader union movement. You see what's going on around the country.

And you get, you know, check some of the other cities, the rail workers, you know. What did the UAW do? UAW, yeah, you're right. What they did. Langhorne, there was a big picket out there. Yeah. And the beer companies were picketing a couple years ago. Yeah.

I remember that. It's solidary. SEPTA, they always cry the blues. SEPTA is a major mass transit, major city in the country. It's been in the black for the last 10 years. New York and them, they're all red. But yet they keep squeezing stuff every time. Oh, and they try to divide us.

I'm for workers making as much as they can. But it's solidarity to fight, you know. So is there a backup plan where if they don't meet the needs that you're looking for, you just go, I'm out? Or do you go, I have to, you know, deal with the cards I'm dealt? We haven't started thinking about that yet. Not yet? Yeah. I'm in it for the tilling.

How many days are you in so far? Picketing, striking? I was out of town this week. Okay, but how many days are they... This is the third day. Third day. Okay, so we're early. Yeah.

Now, I know people that might be watching this are going to be like, well, just go get another job. Why can't you just go get another job? Why should we have to with a company that makes $4 billion a year profit? Yeah.

Yes, sir. Not net or whatever. It's $4 billion profit. Yeah. Why should I have to go get another job? Yeah. I've been at Lincoln Financial since the first day that stadium opened. Oh, shit.

I was Jeffrey Lurie's bartender for the first 15 years in that stadium. Wow. Why should I have to go get another job and start over? What's Jeffrey Lurie's drink of choice? Water. Water? Oh, my God. Is he tipping on the over? What's Jeffrey Lurie's drink of choice? Water. Water? Oh my God. Is he tipping on the water?

Yeah, dude. They took care of me. All right. I was his suite attendant bartender so it was like I was okay in there. They always treat us

like, oh, you can go get another job. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Would that ruin a pension or do you guys have do you have a pension

or this is not a pension? No, it's not a pension. That's another thing. Over the last 20 years they go up theKs, oh, you can make money. Well, look at the stock market. What did it lose today? And you look at my wife. We used to work for the airlines.

Got it. And they were bought out by Delta. And they came, Delta came. It used to be Northwest. Oh, okay, you better get a lawyer because we're Delta now. That pension. So, boom. 15, 20 years she worked and the pension went.

Oh, no. Go get a lawyer. Yeah, right. Made it work. You listen? Hey, cheers. Thanks for listening, dude. Thanks for listening, dude. No, solidarity is an important thing and we've seen it more and more around the country in all the industries.

Why should we have to go get another job? Not normally a union guy. The aggregate hours thing is a real thing. You guys should get that, absolutely. Good man, 100%. They should count your hours together for health insurance. Thank you. There you go.

I love this guy. I appreciate you. Support you guys. I'm going to surfside outside so I don't have to do it inside. I love this guy. Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Support the good fight. Support the good fight. So there's kind of like we were talking about earlier, like almost like a B team is filling in to take care of the concessions while you guys are out striking.

Is there any idea of like the power of Yelp? Like you guys might go inside and just leave bad reviews for the replacement team as if to just be like, look, we're kind of irreplaceable because you are to begin with. Of course, I'm sure you have regulars that come to the stadiums that you deal with. I mean, is there anything about going on Yelp and just saying like, ah, these guys weren't as good tonight? The Chickies and Peace lines are awful right now. I don't know if I can authorize anything like that, but we have had guests going up like

at Wells Fargo in here. Guests are regular guests going. They send us pictures, tell us things like Wells Fargo in here, our regular guests going. They send us pictures, tell us things like Wells Fargo when we struck over there. They were telling me that the bartenders couldn't speak English. Nothing against Spanish people because my grandchildren are half Mexican. Now you're walking a tightrope. But they couldn't speak English. Yeah, sure, sure.

And it's like they're bringing these temp workers in. The service was terrible. I heard Wells Fargo smelled like burnt popcorn. Yeah. Because they didn't know how to clean the popcorn machine, you know. And I'm sure the quality of the food is not going to be the same if you've got temp cooks. They don't know the recipes by heart. Now, are you afraid there ever could be automation?

Or does your union protect that? We fight against it. Yeah. We do fight against it. What have the Phillies or Aramark talked to you? Have they talked about any automation or anything in the next years? I haven't heard anything here at the Phillies. I know Wells Fargo's done a little with automation.

What have they done? Like kiosks with club box servers when they redid the club boxes over there, club level. It took out personal touch between the servers and the guests because they do it at a kiosk. And now you can order from your phone on your seat now. Yes, but then

all that work, so that made that server more so just like a food runner, a delivery person. So that personal, so therefore, of course your tips are going to go down with situations like that. I mean, we've hit all the negative points. I mean, you've worked at your jobs, respectively, for, you know, decades. Do you have any kind of a go-to story

that you tell somebody with where you've worked for, like, you know, you've worked bartending at stadiums, you've worked in hotels. Do you have any go-to stories about, here's the wildest shit I ever had? I can't say. Nothing? I can't.

Well, look. Tell us about somebody else you know who was a bartender. Yeah, well, I can tell you about the time when some Temple students got caught having sex in the bathroom at the link. That doesn't sound like us. That sounds exactly like you, dude. He's sitting right in front of you. Can I say it on this?

Yes, absolutely. The reason they got caught was because they were in the bathroom and a cleaning lady went in and she heard the girl say, no, I don't swallow. I love that. T for Temple U, baby. And that's why they got caught. But it was, and we were joking, like, don't, if she had a swallow, she wouldn't have got caught. Yep.

Ladies, you learn that, ladies. Swallow, you don't get in trouble. If you swallow, you're not going to get in trouble. 100%. But it was because, and then they got reported, because they were in a Temple suite that was sponsored by Temple. Oh, you can't. So whoever was the host of that suite, they had to call her parents.

Yeah. Called the parents. God damn. His father probably was like, my boy. My boy. But her parents was like, oh. Yeah. Sure.

Hey, if you can mix dollar dog in that contract, too, to bring that back, just let me. That's our one little thing we're throwing in if we could. What is? We'll tip on the Dollar Dog. We promise. We'll tip on the Dollar Dog. Scott's on it. Come on.

Anyway. Thank you, folks. I really appreciate you. Thank you guys so much. We appreciate it. Appreciate it. What podcast is it? It's called Senate Work.

That was good. Those guys are great, man. I mean, it's exciting to have guys who, like, especially as young workers, every time people say, like, enjoy the next 60 years, it doesn't really register. But if you see, too, like, kind of some OGs that are like, dude, you got to tell people to stop being mean at your job or nothing's going to happen. You kind of need these guys. Dude, we've literally seen it all. And we don't want it for the next generation.

And that's kind of sick because a lot of times the olds, the olds don't love the next generation. But you know what? These union guys, these union guys do love the next generation. you know what these union guys these union guys do love the next generation that's what i love about these union guys yeah man and the older uh should we keep going yeah i think we'll uh keep me guys something though the older what well i'm just curious i mean you see these guys who are older guys like you're saying like they really have no bone in the fight they got to take care of the next like two three four years of their career and then they're probably out anyway they're setting it up for the next gen oh my dude to kind of have a decent living yeah it's pretty sweet they're saying they're the next jesus christ

dude oh they're dying for our sins i love that yeah yeah you like that one they're dying for our crab fries they're dying for our sea fries i need to be able to get blacked out in a stadium at an affordable rate and i need to know that the people that are taking my order while i can't make eye contact because it's cross-eyed that they're making a good livable rate. That's all I wanted. And getting health minutes for the love of God. Aaron Mark, if someone's working 40 hours, stop being a piece of shit. That's crazy. $10 an hour is crazy.

Ridiculous. I can't even afford baby oil at that rate. There's a premium on it after P. Dids. You know what he did, dude. He thought it was COVID again, taking care of the toilet paper. He's out there getting baby oil. Dude, could you imagine a hedge fund manager

who shorted baby oil? And he's out there just buying cargo planes of it. I can't believe it, dude. I'm telling you, I've got a good hot tip that baby oil was going to be no one was buying any baby oil. Yeah. Freak off.

Dude, it might be the... right, this one might get cut, but it might be the kids working for Diddy might unionize. They're like, if they're going to keep doing this, we need to at least make a livable wage. Could you imagine outside the freakoffs they're unionizing? Diddy's hair's on fire in there. He's trying to get the baby oil. He's trying to get the cameras.

Yeah. And he's trying to get the security team, and they're all just unionizing, picketing outside. What would the chant be? The chant would be, kids deserve the most. Stop treating us like toast. Because they're getting buttered. That's pretty good.

Come on now. Give me that, dude. Come on now. They're trying to make some bread. They're sick of toast. They want bread. That's nice, dude. Hey, hey.

Ho, ho. Diddy's in there sucking toast. Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Diddy's in there sucking toast. All right hey. Dee Dee's in there sucking toes. All right, I think it's good to get the next person on. We're really taking this union stuff seriously. You ready to go?

Oh, you too. Please. Sweet. Hop on. How we doing? Tag team. What's up, team? We don't have headphones for you.

Have a seat, pop a squat, get comfortable. We don't have headphones for you because we wanted to make it kind of a personal experience. That's right. You're just getting fucked outside and inside of Susan's Bank Park. So that's why you don't have evidence for you because we wanted to make it kind of a personal experience. That's right. You're just getting fucked outside and inside of Susan's Bank Park. So that's why you don't have evidence. You, on the other hand, you're the manager who's working in there. You're in charge. Yeah.

You're the scab. The air marksman. The scab? Non-scab. No. What's your first name? Kirsten. Kirsten.

I'm Taylor. Taylor. Nice to meet you. I'm Kyle. I'm Matt. Nice to meet you guys. Nice to meet you guys. What do you do inside?

So I'm in the Hall of Fame. I'm a concessions worker here in the ballpark. And at the link, I work at Beer Portable. Okay. Do you think they should have a Hall of Fame for concession workers? So we are technically considered concession workers. We're just a premium. No, no, technically, no, no.

Should they have a Hall of Fame? Like the baseball has a Hall of Fame? The NFL has a Hall of Fame? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, totally. That'd be cool. Yeah. Just go in there Hall of Fame? Like the baseball has a Hall of Fame? The NFL has a Hall of Fame? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, totally. That'd be cool. Yeah. Just go in there.

Get a plaque on the wall for how much you guys have done. Smells like Cracker Jacks. I wish we had a Hall of Fame for us. Look, as a guy who knows nothing about... Wow, wow, wow, wow. Maybe for the people that have been here for 25 years plus. Let's go. Yeah.

I bet you... We also thought Carson Wentz was going to be a Hall of Famer one day. Why don't you relax a little bit? Big ups. Rest in peace. What do you do? I work in a Hall of Famer one day. Why don't you relax a little bit? Big ups. Rest in peace. What do you do? I work in the Hall of Fame as a runner. Okay.

So basically what I do is I take cases of beer, water, any supplies that the stands would need in the Hall of Fame, and I take it to them, make sure they have their transfer sheets and stuff like that. She runs everything to the stands that I work at. Oh, really? How many water cases, personal record? That I've lifted?

At one time. About three. Nice. Three at once? Oh, my God. I could never. I could never. I get tired carrying a big bottle of Pepsi.

I got to take a break and fan myself down. You get a two liter from the pizza man. Carrying my mom's groceries in my entire life. I was like, if I see a big bag of Utz pretzels i'm done i got nothing yeah i can't do it god wow three i think my record is three personal yeah sure yeah that's impressive that's impressive well i carry a lot of things to the stains we have carts and stuff to use but i'd rather carry it and not use the cart i love it it's easier to get through to fans you know yeah but so kirsten is the one giving you those those waters no so she works in a bistro.

Okay. So she's like, I need more. I'm selling the waters. You're selling the waters. Okay. Got it. Do you ever get impressed by her cargo load? I mean, she comes over all the time.

And I'm like, why don't you use a damn cart? Like, they literally give you a cart and you don't use it. Sure. And then it's all the grown men, like, pushing a cart. Yeah. That's just young person arrogance, though, right? It's her personal. Basically, yeah. I used to move kegs around. I'd be like, I don't need any. I don't use it. Sure. And then it's all the grown men like pushing a cart. Yeah. That's just young person arrogance though, right? It's her personal.

Basically, yeah. I used to move kegs around. I'd be like, I don't need any, I don't need any, I don't need any, I don't need any help from you. Yeah, but I was carrying a big keg.

I'm trying to get hurt the entire time. Workman's comp, baby. Let it rip. Yeah. I'm wondering why my lower back is now shit. Yeah, I hear you.

Can we ask, have you, how has this been affecting you personally or how has your work life been affected personally from Aramark being employee of it? So my personal experience, my son actually got sick in last February. He is, he's right now without a kidney. Oh, sorry to hear that.

He's going through a kidney, retinal kidney disease um so since february like i feel like wells fargo has just they're just they were just waiting for me to go on the 90-day leave like they didn't care like would they pay you for that or no no so i wouldn't have gotten paid so i had to fill out like the fmla form for a family leave yeah and i got the note back uh saying that i was not accepted because quote unquote on the piece of paper said I only worked 120 hours in the last 12 months yeah I worked in all three buildings oh my god it's because the contracts are separate yeah so this building has this contract and this building has this contract and this building has this contract here we're we're allowed five call-outs. Wells Fargo, 14.

15th is you're terminated. The link, I believe, is five as well. I'm not really sure. But on top of that, people call out, and they don't even realize that they're supposed to be given a warning. They don't even give out warnings. Wow. So, like, you're on your 13th call-out.

You don't even know you're about to be terminated. Right. So going back to the FMLA thing, so you were denied. Would that have paid you would that so yes so every every um every day that i would need it to take off they would have given me four hours worth of pay got it and the fact that even though could you do you know how much you ballparked like in a year how many hours you worked i mean i mean at least i mean the ball, there's what, 100 and some games? 81 games a year.

Yeah, 81 games a year. There's the Wells Fargo is the link. I'm sorry, is the Flyers and the Sixers. So I was doing all those games, plus the concerts. Oh, my God. And so who was it that said you only worked 120 hours? So I had to had to like put my paperwork in to through aramark through the headquarters through hr wow that's some scumbag

i mean just go like you're going to your manager and you're explaining the horrific situation you're in sorry go ahead so because there's three separate contracts right i'm contracted to one building they only look at those hours yeah Since there's only eight games at the link, I did only work 120 hours. So they're right technically, but they don't combine it all together. Even though it's the same exact company. I get one paycheck. They sign one paycheck. I don't get three separate paychecks.

So if you would apply for FMLA when you worked at the Wells Fargo Center. So if my home component would have been the ballpark or Wells Fargo. they give you guys components? Yes. We're stuck to a home component. So if there's three events going on, we have to go to

our home component. We can't even pick and choose where we want to go. Wow. Yes. Shit. That's fucking awful. It's a dictatorship.

I almost have crab fries and Campo's cheese sticks. What the fuck? They give us one check, sign that, and we work three different buildings, and everything's on one solid check. They don't want to give us one contract. They want three separate ones.

But is there ever any level of humanity that people you're going to that you explain the situation you're dealing with, and the person that you're talking to is just like, my hands are tied, there's nothing I can do? Is that really what it is? Or they don't even talk to you face to face well the negotiation meeting like i don't even work at wells fargo anymore because of all this crap they put me through like yeah i'm not even over there anymore do you have any examples that you can share um so when i was at the um one

of the negotiation meetings me and two of my friends that work in the same exact stand mind you it's a twosome chocolate emporium stand in wells fargo it's the only emporium stand outside of um orlando florida they make those fancy milkshakes that's what i was doing at wells fargo i love that concession stand yeah yeah not anymore wow not anymore yeah and um so the milkshakes what twenty dollars a piece yeah brings everybody to the yard we were making the milkshakes are more than my hourly rate damn like and so we went to negotiate me we're like we want to be recategorized we're not stand workers we cut cakes pipe cakes make all these fancy milkshakes the only thing we weren't doing was baking everything right they

were buying they were outsourcing the products and making us cut brownies, cut cakes, pipe cakes. We wanted to be called pastry chefs. Yeah. Pastry chefs. Cake bosses. We wanted our job line, the categories under that. They were like, the lawyer had to phone a friend and go, the twosome stand? What's that? What's that?

Yeah. He's looking behind him at all HR. Yeah. I was like, not the phone a friend like you don't even know what you're talking about the goddamn shoes how do you how do you not throw hands there's gotta be the i mean we're all from philly and south jersey over the table like it's like disrespect yeah like can we go back to the component thing how do they decide the component so wherever you're hired so if you go online, you fill out a form, whatever, to apply for Wells Fargo, then that's your home component.

So it's basically, and if you, basically wherever you clock in first, your first badge is your home component. Is what I was told. Why did you want to, did you want to work for the link or? So when I was hired, I actually was hired through a temp agency and I transferred over to Aramark because of the milkshake situation. But yeah, so when I was with the agency, I clocked in my badge as an Aramark employee because I was still getting paid by Aramark. I wasn't getting paid by JMAC, the temp agency. I had a clock and a badge and because I was there first, they made that. And I did my orientation at the link and all that as well.

Got it. Wow. So wherever you do orientation i mean i'm sure you didn't even like i mean you don't even realize it you don't get you don't even so you're like day to day you don't really realize half the stuff you right that comes i hear you yes yeah well i'm sorry that we kind of froze you out a little bit is there anybody you want to fight anybody want to fist fight to death or anything i mean i've been dealing with a lot of stuff here i got hired hired down in, which is now CP Ranking Club.

I ended up going up to the Hall of Fame last year to help out my days off. And then I ended up just staying up there. But then I worked at Wells Fargo helping them out. And again, they kept telling me, we're bringing you back. We're bringing you back. And then when I did the internal application, which is how you go to the new like stadiums they told me oh we have to be 85 home component we can't bring you back wow so then i have a three-year-old at home i mean my parents are elderly and stuff like that there's a lot of things personally going on but at the end of the day you're promising me money

you're promising to bring me back you're telling me how i'm such a good worker and then you turn around and basically as you guys freeze me out yeah not you guys but you know i didn't freeze you i was on your side what the fuck dude that was a good callback that was really good you should fuck aaron mark you should get a podcast i got nervous for a second she said like you guys i'm like no on your side i was putting it on your side seriously if you're the negotiation table i might give you everything you two should be at the nose you guys have a very strong energy I might give you everything. You two should be at the news. You guys have a very strong energy that makes me nervous deep down. I was actually pulled by the union to walk around in the stadium as like a, not a union rep because I wasn't getting the benefits of it,

but running around just a word of mouth because that's what the union is. The strike is coming. The strike is coming. The strike is coming one by land to buy strike they pull us in and it's all word of mouth like the Union just got to be one yeah we just got to fight together and it's really sad that all these people just cross the picket line like and they're the ones that complain the most about everything so what do you think about these people like you see these people you work with that are like crossing the picket line you gotta be like them anymore like you see me like my best friends like so it's like it's like yeah it's like something like you work next to this

person for 80 some games like you'll be like you talk to them more than you talk to your family yeah exactly like i'm here more than i'm at home Like, I'm here more than I'm at home. Like, I'm here more than I'm at the hospital with my son. Right. Wow. My eight-year-old son, like, going through it. Dang. And to say I only work 120 hours within 12 months is a slap in the face. So, I mean, you guys are obviously, you're protesting, you're trying to get something done.

If everything worked out in your favor, what would that look like? What's that outcome sound like? What's it look like? I mean, we dropped down three dollars for the negotiation so it's like we would be it would be a raise but it's still like what was the come down i'm not really sure of the numbers but that's fine i know that it did drop down because they're not budging so like what do you do right then they throw 10 cents on the table do you guys get paid or do you have like an unemployment for like coming out here because i heard there was a rumor you guys get paid i'm not really sure at the end of the day um i know i'm just out here to be out here because

i'm here for not only me but everybody else that's crossing the picket line and it's really sad that like we're out here fighting and they're gonna also get the raise as well so there's people who cross the picket line we're only carrying one water that's going to also get the raise as well. So there's people who crossed the picket line. We're only carrying one water. That's one water, one water case. They weren't carrying anything. They're the type of people that don't,

they let everyone else carry, you know, stuff on their backs. But at the end of the day, like up in the hall of fame, we were a family. Like we were an entire family. We had a meal together.

We would sit down and conversate and everything else together. And I understand it. Like you need the money, had a meal together we would sit down and conversate and everything else together and i understand it like you need the money but why take the money now instead of taking that break now and then having that money for the rest of the season we have playoffs coming up what do you want more money during the playoffs sure of course especially considering it's like a huge part of the phillies and it's a really busy time so I feel like taking the pay cut now and being out here and helping, you know, people with her story or one of our friends that they let go earlier this

season because they didn't understand her struggles. Like I feel like doing that is more important than having that money right now. And at the end of the day, the only thing I want is I want people to be able to have healthcare to take care of their sick kids or their sick selves or other things, or be able to go to a grocery store and say, hey, we're getting this and that instead of, hey, we can only get this. We'll get that next time. Yeah, that's got to be terrible.

Yeah, I can't imagine. I need health benefits. Like, I need health care. Like, I'm so my son, he has a kidney disease, and I'm hoping and praying that I'm a match and I can donate my kidney to him. So come the end of November, if I don't have health insurance, I'm going to have a hefty bill to pay. Sure. Thank God he has health insurance. Cause I don't know what I would do. But like, yeah, like I'm just being faced with that decision regardless. It's just the fact that you're in that position. I don't want to put anybody else in that position if they don't

have health care. Like, I don't like, I'd rather just do it myself and it'd be, let's bring it to you. Don't want to fight for other people who don't have to put anybody else in that position if they don't have health care. I'd rather just do it myself. Let's speak of you. Let's speak of you. You don't want to fight for other people who don't have to go through the situations that you're going through and everything. Wow. I hate these guys, too. Everybody's posting on Facebook, like, take a day, walk in my shoes, walk in my shoes. I don't need to. The funny thing is, and I know everyone has a different situation and everything, and it's like, okay, you do might have to go make money.

But if you really wanted a negotiation when you think about it it wouldn't the playoffs be the perfect time to be like you know go fuck yourselves no one's coming in like because it's going to be such a crazy environment there's gonna be so many people it would it would make a great impact the only issue is during playoffs we make so much money that a lot of people more than who have already crossed are not going to be willing to be able to give that amount of money off right the problem is is that we make so much money in tips yeah that no one's willing to lose that got it so why did you guys strike earlier it's because the air mark was always prepared with temps explain that more sorry so like if they catch wind that we're going to strike,

they'll call up all their temp agencies and have people here to do the work. Where if we do it on the fly, they have less time to call people to do our job. So it was a bad organization? Yeah. I mean, yes and no. I'm thinking, like, right now, and obviously it's made head waves through the city of Philadelphia. Everybody knows that you guys are striking everything. But it just seems like it would be greater for your guys case

and it would be to like strike around like game you know 24 to 30 rather than right before the playoffs when the hottest team in the city is about to go for a world series title no it totally makes sense it's just getting the people to actually vote yes and then actually yeah be out here because it's so you have to so they have to have a uh what is it like 85 percent yeah they have a certain percentage of the whole entire stadium to strike in order to even finally got it so we finally got that 85 in all three stadiums or whatever the percentage all three stadiums all three stadiums or whatever the percent is. Oh, it's all three stadiums. All three stadiums are on strike. 85%.

I believe. Something but a high number. A high number. Yeah, yeah. I believe it's more than 70-something. Sure. More than 75. Yeah, it was high up.

A lot of people stayed home instead of coming out and being out here or going in. Some people just stayed home and said, hey, we're going to take the days off. We're still striking. Yeah. So they just stayed at home in order to support us out here. Got it. Why do you think you guys finally got the strike? What changed?

Because I know, because obviously around the playoffs. I just think everybody was so antsy. Like, we were ready to just walk out the building. Sure. Like, it was at a point where, like, if the union doesn't call the strike, the building is going to call the strike. Right, got it. And why'd you guys, why'd it take so long to get so much answer?

Because I know the Wells Fargo Center struck in around June-ish. Right, so because the contract wasn't up. The contract wasn't up. So the contract, so every, so because they have three different contracts, all the contracts are signed at a different time in the year. Oh, that's definitely intentional, too. That's so fucked up, dude.

That's crazy. Because this is the best part. Yeah, it wasn't on, the. That's so fucked up. That's crazy. The contract wasn't up yet. When did this contract? I believe the contract for Wells Fargo was like... I think December. I think it was last December. And then ours was in April.

I think ours was April 1st. And then the link, I believe, just went on strike. I think their contract just went up. I'm not really sure of the dates. But, yeah, there was three different contracts with three separate dates. So they usually do this closer to the beginning of the season. And then it takes you guys so long to maybe get together and be like, all right, we're striking that by the time the playoffs come around.

It's a bunch of, like, word of mouth when you have to strike. Because you don't want anybody to catch wind. So when you have to strike. Because you don't want anybody to catch wind. Oh. So you can grab... Because you're Paul Revere. So it's harder to like... You are Paul Revere, yeah.

Yes. I would get these... It's hard to get word of mouth because you can't post it anywhere because then Aramark sees it. A supervisor sees it. You're friends with the old... Someone who just started

working here. Yeah. They don't even realize that there's bugs on your Facebook and they're going back and telling. Are there rats? Yes. Oh, yeah. People are definitely going back to supervisors.

So you're running around, you know, we're striking at dawn. Wait, what are they saying first? Striking at dawn. Before that. Yeah, they were striking at dawn. Yeah, they were striking. Yeah. We don't want anybody to catch Wait, what are they saying first? Striking at dawn. Before that. Yeah, they were striking at dawn. Yeah, they were striking. Yeah. No, no, no.

Yeah, we don't want anybody to catch wind about this, but we're thinking about striking because the wages are fucking dickhead wages. No, for real. I'm telling you, I'm on your side, dude. I will start throwing ass for an Aramark worker, get him on my side, and get this deal done. We're all Aramark. We're all together.

We're all supposed to be doing a job. We're a union. We're supposed to be united. Supposed to be split united. And I feel like it's not united anymore. I feel like people that are Aramark but not unionized, they're separating us. And the people that cross the picket

line, they're separating us. We're looked at as the bad guys while we're out here fighting for everyone. We're being called all types of names. We're being told how we're basically the scum of the earth and everything else. But at the end of the the day we're the ones that had the big enough balls to come out here to stand our ground to try to win for everyone because again we're a family we're united all right yeah wow that was awesome that was great before we let you go yep i want you to

take a look at the guy in the blue hat um He's been known to work here once or twice. I love him. He was a runner downstairs when I was a busser. He was a jogger. He wasn't moving that quick. I've seen him in his monkey suit before. He brought me dogs before. I did appreciate dogs.

He moved pretty slowly. Off the books. Does he look like a scab? No. He's out here with us. Well, he's getting paid for this. He was on the picket line with us. he's getting paid for this but he was on the picket line with us

where were you at the picket line yeah he wasn't but he's still out here supporting us he's doing more than some people are he's a mini scab he's a blister we're picking him off ladies thank you so much for

we wish your son the best and everything yeah seriously and we hope that you can get what you need before you said november yes okay okay listen if there's anyone out there i mean that can also match this woman's son's kidney that she doesn't have to get up a kidney for real yeah seriously i don't know i mean the power of the internet literally appreciate it yeah absolutely absolutely yeah 100 well good luck thank you much. It was great meeting you guys. Good luck with everything. Hey, keep carrying the waters, all right? Yeah.

Who's going to carry the waters? I'll try not to break my back. Who's going to carry the waters? Carry the waters. Supervisor's got to do it now. Yeah, good. You got to figure that out when they're in. Good.

Make them do it. Have fun with that. They'll be like, all right, we got to get those motherfuckers back in there right now. I can't carry three cases. One of the runners actually struck on Monday, went in on Tuesday, and came back out today. I love it. Because he was over it. I love it.

And he does the same job as me. Yeah. Probably can't carry as much water as you can, though. Can't handle it. Can't do three packs at once. I love it. That dainty little bitch. All right.

Thank you, guys. Thanks again, guys. Appreciate it. What's up, dude? What's up, dude? How are you? How are you? Get those headphones on.

Get that mic in your hand. Please. Get comfy, dude. And let's fucking get as comfy as possible please as comfy as you can get right now dude the comfier the better yeah i wasn't going bald i'd take my hat off i'm right there with you brother that's all good not all of us can have not all of us can have a maserati on top of their hood yeah it's infuriating um so we actually a little uh behind the scenes here you were doing a pretty good chant. Oh, cool.

What was the chant for the people at home? Well, it was like, Aramark, Aramark, you're no good, treat your workers as you should. Nice. You know, the usual Google stuff. Nice.

Were you practicing that in the mirror? No, they had like papers. Oh, somebody else wrote it? No, somebody else wrote it. You have a ghostwriter? Who are you, Drake? Yeah, you might be Aubrey Graham, dude. I'm pretty sure like four or five people,

like five strikes ago wrote it. Damn. When you're reading that, are you kind of like, kind of weak? Like you probably could come up with something better. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. Could you workshop something right now that you think would be like a little more like driving the point across? This is your test, dude.

Whatever you got. It's only got to be two lines. Two lines. Like you had right now. So we got Aramark is, we'll do the first one. What was the first one again? It goes Aramark, Aramark, you're no good. Treat your workers as you should.

Nice. All right. But my personal one would be like Aramark, Aramark, you can't hide. We can see your greedy side. Nice. That's nice. Dude, you're leaving money on the table right now. Yeah.

Dude, you got to negotiate. You should be the ghostwriter. You probably should do that. That's all of the ones that could do it for me, man. That's what we're doing. That's what we're here to do. We dragged that creativity out. Okay, fine.

Him and I are more of like Amigo's ad-lib type guy. We'll be your earmark. We'll take your wages. We are. There we go. We're going to make no difference, right? Seriously. There you go.

And you can write all the chants. And we'll get about $17 an hour, and you'll probably be looking at about $10. Yeah. Sounds about right. Sounds about right. Sounds like the same status quo. Jeez, man. There was another thing that you were chanting.

You were saying, support the Phillies, but not Aramark. Aramark. Yeah. There's a big difference. I was going to say, do you feel like people should, you think people who are striking right now are not mad at the Phillies? They're strictly mad at Aramark? Because I'll be honest with you, I thought you'd be mad at both.

Because maybe this is the nihilist thinking. Yeah, but coming from me me dude like i was born and raised here yeah philadelphia so like i've been here 26 years and like i'm i love the phillies yeah like my heart is here and uh i've never had a job i've enjoyed more than working here so that's one of the reasons why like i just don't go and find another job you know what i mean yeah not only do i like working here but like i talk to a lot of management, and I know a lot of people who, like, they tell me, you know, I can understand where you're coming from, and it's not a personal thing. So they know in there that, like, they don't want to lose a lot of us.

A lot of the workers that are out here are some of the best workers. I would assume so. You probably care about your job if you're out here striking on, what, a Wednesday? Sure. Yeah, it's got to mean a lot to you. It's kind of annoying out right now. It an october training temple but i'll be in the parking lot striking got it man that's sick it's got to be tough too like i've noticed that the past couple of years like the phillies have been great in the postseason so you keep saying

stuff about red october red october and it's like you guys are technically the backbone of the fact that that's successful all those drunk fans that are having a good time getting nuts yeah all the Karens. You guys are the ones supplying and making sure they have a good time. Where are you guys from? New Jersey and Philadelphia now. You're from Cross and Broad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know you. Thank you. You guys know that we haven't always been the best team. No, not at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's picked up. It was like, what, 13 years, 10 years, 11 years? Yeah, but that's a benefit that comes with working here.

So like a lot of people that have been working here, me personally, I've only been here about three years. Got it. And what's your position? I'm a cook upstairs. Cook, okay, yeah. I make the best cheesesteaks in the state. Shout out the concession.

Shout out section 319. All right. 319, all right. They say don't get a mistake, get a Marco steak. This guy's too nice, dude. He's too nice. Leaving money on the table. You're leaving money on the table. Come on, bro. If I ever see you after this, I'll make sure you get's too nice, dude. He's too nice. Leaving money on the table. You're leaving money on the table.

Come on, bro. If I ever see you after this, I'll make sure you get a Marco's steak, bro. Yeah, 319? You should start selling out here and start selling cheese strikes. Yo, they were saying that. Everybody was walking past with their own food. Like, yo, we should just sell burgers for a dollar just so that they don't buy air marks. But I don't understand that it's a bigger picture.

Yeah, of course. It's more so like I have I'm not going to name them, but it's about two or three co-workers that I work with who were very much for the strike. And then the day came and everybody was like, no. Which I understand. We all have bills to pay. And there's people who are like, I can't afford to not get a paycheck.

Yeah. And I think that they look at it as like if i could afford to sure sure sure it's a bigger picture but the fact that that that actually might lend itself to your grander point is that there's literally people in there that cannot afford to miss a shift because their wages don't support their life so the people even that are like not striking because they're like look i have to pay my electric this month that kind of lends itself to your point of like, you're not paying us enough that we can't even take a day off. Yeah. You know what I mean?

It's okay. It's okay if they're not seeing it now because in a month or two, when we finally do get our raise, they're going to be like, yo, thank you guys. True. They're going to support the union. They already support the union because they don't really have a choice. Yeah. You get hired as a union worker, then you're part of the team no matter what got it like a lot of people are being real nasty to the workers that

are still going in like who oh oh b oh being nasty to the workers are still going in yeah people who are crossing the picket line and saying we're not gonna strike we're still gonna go to work and get our paychecks yeah understandable everyone's got different situation yeah 100 but like when we do get what we're fighting for, hopefully people see why we're getting it. You know what I mean? I've noticed a lot of stadiums around here especially. A lot of people that work at the stadiums are almost like

retirees that are just looking to fill some time. Are you seeing that at all with like co-workers that are just like, look, I don't really even need this money? Are they still on your side or is it kind of like they're like, we're not worried about it? People have been like, I was fighting that fight 10 years ago okay yeah i'm not gonna do it again it's a waste of time and it's not not even that it's a waste of time but it's like some people just don't have that much energy to put in which is understandable but my point you know to them is just like

think about the next generation yeah even if it's not that just like what if it was your kid or your grandkid and you were getting them a job here at the stadium? Wouldn't you want them to have those benefits? Sure. Do you feel like a lot of young people are working at the stadium still? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

And recently, a lot more young people. Really? Yeah, there was like programs going on where they're getting these high school kids in. Yeah. And getting them to work, you know, on the weatherized. Well, I feel like it's cool as shit. Like, you're working at the Phillies Stadium. Like, you can kind of watch the game while you're also working.

Or you're working at the Wells Fargo Center. You're working at the Lincoln stuff. Like, that's pretty sick. Yeah, and people are like, I'm working all three stadiums. You just talk to the mic a little closer. Sorry. You just hold it closer to you. Is it on?

Yeah. Oh, I hear it now. Yeah. So, like, people are saying how, like, they work all three stadiums. And I get that. I work all three stadiums, too. I also work Penn. I work more for Aramark.

Every single one of my positions is not unionized, which it starts to get real complicated. Yeah. You know what I mean? Sure. But for these benefits that they're offering us, and I've been here over two years. I still haven't gotten an annual raise because we're in negotiations. For that long? Since March, I've been owed 40 cents an hour.

So when you're negotiating, your pay grade stays static. They don't even give you the... That's crazy. Yeah, it is. It's insane, actually, if you think about it. It's more than crazy. It's more so like until we figure out what we're going to do with this situation, we're going to just put you on hold.

Yeah. And it's kind of like a slap in the face too because these people got the nerve to tell me how much they appreciate me and like how much they love when I come into work and then, you know, also see me on the other side of the fence and not give a shit. Excuse my language. No, you're good. No, you're good, please.

They don't care, bro. Yeah. I guess, I mean, this is kind of like, how old are you? I just turned 27 in August. 27, okay. Now, this is kind of

just like a human question. Yeah. You had a coworker. She's very hot. Okay. How hot would she have to be for you to cross the picket line? Is there any level

of how attractive a woman could be that she's like, eh, it's not a big deal. Just come pick up the shift. We'll hang out during it. We'll hang out. Basically, what you're asking me is, like, is anyone hot enough for me to, like, forget about my morals or my ethics?

Or anyone? And everybody's not like that. Yeah. I'm not, personally. I don't think. Sydney Sweeney joins Aramark. And she's wearing a low-cut T-shirt. Yeah.

After work is after work, too. I mean, like, let's be real, bro. She's going to be low-cut t-shirt. Yeah. After work is after work, too. You know what I mean? It's true. She's going to be at the same stadium. It's true. But now she smells like cheese fries. Ooh. Cheese fries.

I smell that all day, bro. But on Sidney Sweens, though. Yeah. I appreciate you having this. You have a point, bro. You have a very valid point. You have a very valid point. I have a point just thinking about her.

Yeah, of course. Yeah. But I personally, my morals are very important to me. Yeah. I think it's the right answer. I don't have much that I fight for nowadays. And that one thing I do fight for is like, you know, I just want to be noticed sometimes. Sure.

You know what I mean? It's heavy. I like that. That's really nice. A lot of people here, I spend a lot of time. Some people even say that they wasted their time you know like pursuing other like certifications and you know um different kinds of schooling and just to get like a better job and i'm here yeah what does that say yeah would you ever leave this job for another job

of course yeah if if the opportunity presented itself but like could I say that I'd enjoy myself anywhere else? I can't honestly say that I would. So it's big. Obviously, you want to get paid. You want health benefits. But it's that you love what you do. I love what I do. And that's pretty sick. That's awesome.

Because a lot of people despise what they do. Yeah, a lot of times you hear that and it's bullshit, bro. A lot of times people are like, oh, I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. Dude, like, I'm sitting here. I cook 900 cheesesteaks on opening day. Damn. Jesus. They're charging $15 a cheesesteak.

You can't pay me $16. It's not worth it for me. Right. You know what I mean? And then there are too many workers here who, like, I'm sure you could ask anybody and they say, oh, I do the most work out of anyone on my team. A lot of people will say that and It's easy to feel that way when Excuse me. I'm sorry. I'm shivering. I've been striking says like when it rained it like good for you, man

Good for you. That's like a lot of people will say that and then They don't show it. Yeah, yeah, I mean and All the workers you see out here, they're the best ones. Yeah. I promise you, I don't know half of these people from a can of paint other than seeing them around the stadium. But every time I see every single one of the people that are out here with me, these are the important people. Nice. And the people that actually matter are out here.

And you would think, like, the fact that you're a cook. Obviously, everybody deserves the same treatment that you guys are looking for. But, like, if I'm at a game, I want my cook to care about what he's making. That can make me sick. That can fuck me up. The fact that you're back there and you're like, I love this job. I care about the job. You would think you'd be somebody they really deeply want to retain.

Yeah, you would think. Pay the cooks the most, in my opinion. I pay them everything. You guys should make $300,000 a year. And the bartenders. And the bartenders, true. All of the props and all of the love I get from the fans and everything means so much to me but it doesn't mean as much as me being valued yeah you understand what i'm saying like i could sit in here and cook all day but if i'm not getting paid for it what

am i doing right well hey thank you so much for anything else you want to say before you get off the people uh no not much other than like you know support your unions and everybody needs to understand the bigger picture that's all understand the big picture i love it man marco fair appreciate never get a mistake get a marco steak don't get a mistake get a marco get a marco steak that's joe's quote get a cheese strike grab a cheese strike good luck man hopefully you guys get what you deserve definitely once they're back and i go to another game i'm going to section 319 and get a Marco steak. I'm getting a cheesesteak,

and I'm going to start chanting his name while it happens. People will be worried about the Phillies game or whatever game's going on. I'm chanting Marco's name. It's like there's no Marco in the lineup today. I'm like, dude. You sure about that? The guy from 319, all right?

He's out there totally whizzing it up. He's more vital than Bryce Harper ever was. Look, honestly, that's actually a grander point. Well, that's crazy. That's the craziest thing. I'm kidding. Some guys on that team, though. Yeah, well, not Garrett Stubbs, the boy. Not Garrett Stubbs, dude.

Shout out G Stubbs, dude. What'd you see? Did you see the video? Yeah, I saw the... Let me tee it up. Yeah, go ahead. So, me and Matt were doing a video for my full-time job, Crossing Broad. Garrett Stubbs came out. It was a field day video. We competed in five events. We in um three-legged race we competed in the balloon stomp we competed in javelin we competed in beer mile and we competed in ski ball yeah kyle posted the video dude it's a great video he did a great job he was telling us he's busting his hump he's

out there like my tits in editing he was in his breasts in editing dude he was he deserves a race that's why this episode is late. Yeah, by the way, sorry about that. We love you guys. Oops. But look, Kyle posted it up and I thought it was great.

He sends a video and I say, oh, that's kind of funny. The opening scene has me who is an indecent-shaped guy. 100%. My shirt lifts up and there's a bit

of a rotund angle and I go, okay, look. Bad angle. And by the way, Kyle, good dude. He warned me about it. He said, hey, look, I found a, I found a video of you pregnant. I'm posting it for all to see. And I said, sounds terrific. Uh, the only issue was Kyle posted it 44 more times

on all social medias that I care about and follow. I looked at it and I saw, Oh, he goes, and by the way, he goes, he sends a group text. He sends the video out there and it's me and my dumb fat belly. And he goes, sorry. And then I see it on our podcast, our podcast, mine and his big fat belly, him throwing right after me. Oh, stop it. It's banana and cheese, dude. And then he posted on Crossing Broad. Heard of it? And it's just me looking thick as a goddamn dumpster.

I had to text my girlfriend. I said, hey, whatever that looks like, that's not real. And she goes, oh, what a crazy angle. Wrong answer. She's got to go. No, you look great. I didn't even notice anything wrong with it. She goes, oh, my God, why would he post that angle? Dude, that was three weeks ago. Yeah, I'm different now, dude. I'm actually jacked. And yeah, that was pretty brutal. Like I said, I just couldn't stop posting it. It was such a post it nine times. First time I saw it. Boy, that's funny. Second time I go, that's funny. The follow-up is funny. Third one, ooh, that's a nice funny angle. Fourth one, I go, okay.

Fifth one, I was like, all right, can we kind of reel it in a little bit? Sixth one, I start, I for real. Fucking shit, sixth one. Well, I hope you're happy. I didn't eat lunch today, dude. Good. I'm famished. I'm eating Pure Zins.

Monday motivation right here. Yeah, well, it hurt. Yeah, so go out and watch that video it was a great video because I spent two weeks editing it because I'm not a fucking video editor

and it sucked ass no he did a great job check it out go do that and check it out it's on the Crossing Broad Sports YouTube page yeah there's a bunch of us in it

and Garrett Stubbs Garrett Stubbs Garrett Stubbs might be the bro-est bro of all time that guy rules rules he's the sickest dude with the greatest job in the world

the sickest job he plays like 60 games a year oh. Rules. He's the sickest dude. With the greatest job in the world. The sickest job. He plays like 60 games a year. Oh my God, it's got to be so nice, dude. Almost a million dollars. Yeah. Plus gets endorsement deals. Endorsement, crazy endorsement deals.

I mean, but like- And then you see him, sorry, I keep cutting you off. Go ahead, no please. No. And then you see him, he's just pouring beers on himself and pouring beers on like some of the most famous athletes in the world. Yeah. And the cameras can't get off of him after the celebration. It's amazing. It's so cool. Have you ever been like a pour a beer on yourself type

guy you seem like that they'll smash the beer against the head a little bit back in my heyday by yourself in your apartment yeah the girlfriend's out for the night yeah dude i i uh i'm a big like champagne to the face guy really yeah like i love doing the little pop and then for what what do you celebrate eagle Eagle Super Bowl. Nice. That's a good move. That's probably it. Yeah, I would make a mimosa.

I would put my pinky up and have a mimosa with you. Yeah, you know how I get, dude. You guys would be parading down Haddon Ave. I will say, the one thing, my last thought, by the way, it's great, Avidu. My last thought I'll give about Garrett Stubbs, and I hope he doesn't take any offense to this. Famous guys are hot. Why is Garrett Stubbs that hot, dude? I was like getting,

I would go up to talk to him and I'd get like for real nervous. I'd be like, so you like baseball? And he's like, yeah, I guess. I was like,

god damn it, dude. He's such a handsome guy. You just Chris Follied him. I totally Chris Follied him. I was ruining my own life every conversation I had with him because I just wanted him

to like me. What was your favorite feature? Well, look, he's not a tall guy and he doesn't have a fat ass and i checked you would think like a pitch oh i really shouldn't say this much but you would think a catcher would have a big tuchus he just has kind eyes yeah garrett stubbs kind eyes kind facial hair kind facial hair yeah yeah yeah so shout out g stubs man you're the dude he's got this cool vein i was watching because i added i probably watched more footage about Garrett Stubbs than anybody of all time.

And he has this cool vein on his arm, the strong guy vein. When you're really hitting the gym, hitting the wrist curls and everything. Sure. He's getting after it, man. After the thing, I told him that I do stand-up comedy and he was like, where do you do it at? I was like, Helium Comedy Club. Before he left, the guy's a man of people. He was like,

Helium Comedy Club, I'll see you there. And I was like... Geeium Comedy Club. Before he left, the guy's a man of people. He was like, Helium Comedy Club. I'll see you there. And I was like, gee stubs, dude. If you're watching this, you're the bro. I love you, dude. He's the man. Thank you so much, Garry Stubbs, for coming on. And thank you to Merrill Light for sponsoring that video and everything. For sure. Okay. Let's get another one on. You ready to go? What's up, Dave? Put these on? Yeah, put those on. So what's your deal with all this?

So I work for the union that represents the workers inside. So I do communications. I deal with the press. I make leaflets. I make stickers. Take photo, video. So there's a union that represents the union. So they're in the union.

So we're Unite Here, and then there's locals in every like city or state it's like so you're not working in the so i'm not in the stadiums but i'm like helping them get their word out and all that like i'm in there so they're unite here local 274 i'm unite here like international so like i come and help out when they need it like whatever place so i could go gotta go yeah so you're working with i guess like kind of a pr kind of angle so that's just like part of it i do like social media type thing yeah i do social media picture video press it's just like big tick tock not yet i don't know if i can handle it come on get auto out here dancing the ccp dude like tick tock no i mean that'd be kind of sick too

if you get like on the social medias it seems like a lot of these like bigger companies are going nuts on social media to just draw stuff in

yeah you might want to go like totally just like tantric dances to like draw attention if they allow it I'll do it

but they gotta keep tight ships sure sure sure gotta keep the message strong right of course and normal

I'll make a side account maybe yeah definitely yeah just get ready with me as I do my strike chance domestic strong right of course and normal i'll make a side account maybe yeah definitely yeah just uh get ready with me as i do my strike chance exactly asmr strike chance yeah of course yeah um so are you the guy who's in charge of the chance no i'm not that clever but uh they actually are the ones who like think boom and they get on the bullhorn like i said i'll send you guys some like pictures and videos i'll them doing it later.

They got some funny chants. I don't know if anyone told you, like my favorite one's my neck, my back, my paycheck is whack. That's cool. I like that. But they sing it like how it's supposed to be sung,

but they get that little twist at the end. See, I will listen to your message if you're creative about it. Oh, yeah, I agree. 100%. They're good with that. Yeah, easily.

If you can take one of the 90s classics, my neck, my back, and make it into a strike strike message you've got me hooked yeah i mean there's some bad chants that are just like it's like what did kendrick lamar write this but there's good chance that you're like this must have been drake type of thing 100 his ghostwriter of course of course yeah yeah do you guys ever need ghostwriters for your chance honestly it sounds like you guys might help us out we'll let you know yeah we know. What's your best one you got off the top of your head? Best chant. Hey, hey.

Ho, ho. I already gave away one earlier in the time. Okay, true. Yeah, you're right. What's your best? I'll put you on the spot. I have a gun.

Pay me. Is that good? That's a good demand. That's a good demand. Look, that's not you saying that. That's me. That's me.

I haven't ever thought of one. Yeah. I think my purchase would just be bullhorn screaming towards the entrance aggressively until the boss is like, shut up, just take the money. That's probably what I'll go for. But that's probably why I'm not in charge of that.

Dude, I like that. The crazy guy. That's pretty good. 100%, dude. If there's a homeless guy just yelling outside, I'll be like, yeah, dude, alright. Give him a sandwich. I'm going to get a sandwich. Drew, you might want to recruit homeless guys for a chance. They have some crazy chances. Honestly, anyone's welcome to join our strike line, man.

Holy shit. That's what I'm saying. These guys have been doing it for years. Freelancing. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Freelancing. Perhaps.

Well, you guys have to go to every SEPTA station in the tri-state area. Just take notes. Yeah. Just observe the master. Well, no. Bring them. Bring them over. Yeah. How long have master. Well, no, bring them. Bring them over. Yeah.

How long have you been doing this? Two years now. I used to work in the casinos and then the casinos went on strike in Atlantic City. So I'm from AC. Got it. And I helped out that contract fight

and I just kind of kept helping with the stuff and then kind of just stuck and kept doing it. Now I kind of travel around like this area, help out. So in AC ac were you working for the unions for the casinos or you were working actually at the time i was no i wasn't working like for the casino like our job i was technically not union but we would have loved to get unionized because we got treated like shit there you go so ideally one of that then covid

happened they fired all of us we had no protection because we weren't union and like i have family that's in the casino union and they let out they needed help for the uh contract fight in like 2022 so like i'll come out and help for it like fuck yeah so i went and they like kept going so nice you grew up you grew up on the union yeah yeah basically so we keep hearing about like getting fired during covid what does that sound like how do they because i imagine they have to dress it up where it doesn't sound as brutal and awful as it is. Like, how do they relay that to you? I was like low-key stoked, honestly, because I didn't like my job that I was doing and I had an excuse. Like I didn't want to quit. I needed money. So, but to like my coworkers, which sucked, they were like people with families

and stuff. I was like young at that point. And I was just like, I was teaching surf lessons at the same time. So I was like, I'd rather did give me hard surfer vibes true you get the rip curl you got fired you're like this is not tubular whatsoever it's like bomber so i was stoked i like doing that more so i was like all right cool whatever but then when summer ended i was like oh shit like i need a job again but like i was saying like i felt bad for my co-workers their families though but they had no protection. So they just got left. They were upset.

They needed to find new jobs. Of course. They didn't have anything to fall back on. So are you handling the entire complex right now on Strike or just one place? So I've mainly been hanging out. This is like the headquarters since it's been a lot of Citizen Bank Park games. But, like, I was also over at the charlie xdx thing because that's like big right now so we made like some uh specialized stickers and stuff for that that

was like our album cover but it said like no food no drink oh shit like so people were getting stoked on this over there they're like putting them on like the fans oh wow like they were even bringing their own signs so it's pretty cool over there like yeah and as well as here they're bringing we were like tweeting out like bring your own food which, which I never knew, which I would have always done. Oh, you never knew that? I don't know that either. Me either. I've been going to Philly's my whole life.

Oh, you never knew that? I had no idea. Dude, I had a Sunday plan. I used to go get a hoagie and like a huge water before games all the time. I would have been doing that my whole life. Because the prices are insane. Yeah. Even before striking and even before like the last four years that they've gone up like

all this time. Yeah. The prices are so bad. But as long as you have it in a plastic bag, you can bring as much shit as you want. Honestly, this is not beers.

I had no clue. God damn. As long as it's wrapped up and as long as it's not open. Well, if you're here tonight, make sure you bring your own food. Don't be paying.

It was cool. A lot of people were walking by as we were out there with like clear bags. It was sick. It's a union town. It's a union town. So, I mean,

we were definitely going to be in support of you guys over, you know, at a mark. Definitely. And that's our message too.'re like go like we want the phillies eagles sixers flyers like we want the best room saying go in cheer for them but just

don't buy anything in there that's like the main message have you guys like had relayed like profits and stuff like have they been down have the margins been down i mean do you guys even know that it's only three days in um i keep hearing from people inside this isn't like for me saying this just like from what i hear but like people are like showing pictures of legit no lines at a lot of the concession stands and stuff like people are like eating before getting drunk before we had one guy that's pretty pretty funny walks up like guessing straight from xfinity he's like i'm eight beers in i think it's gonna last me all game i'm not buying a thing just random fan we're like hell yeah dude like true if i'm eight beers in i'm joining every union of all time it's horseshit dude like thanks It's going to last me all game. I'm not buying a thing. Just ran a fan. We were like, hell yeah, dude. True.

If I'm eight beers in, I'm joining every union of all time. I'm like, this is horseshit, dude. You're like, thanks for the support. Don't take the steps, man. Dude, it's like when you went to college and you would get drunk and then go over to the club fair and you're like, I'm joining this club. I'm joining this club. This club.

French club. Can you speak a little bit? Skiing club? For sure. For sure, dude. I mean, the Charlie XCS concert. Did you notice any kind of striking over there? We have people over there too.

Usually our line is huge. During Sixers playoffs, we were just all consolidated there. It was big. We've been turning trucks around because a lot of the truck drivers are union. Legally, they don't have to pay us the picket line. It's been pretty sick. A lot of beer

turned around. Frying oil turned around, which I don't know like teams like a lot of beer like turned around like frying oil turned around which i don't i don't know what's going on in there since they turned around but uh uh yeah gps so are you guys blocking it or no not at all so we're just standing to the side of it yeah and if they're uh driving like they're in a union driving a truck for the union they're legally allowed to turn around not serve it so they see us and they're like oh shit this union's saying like don't go in they just turn around yeah we just chill on the side and basically let them know like if they go in are they technically crossing kind of a picket line yeah big time wow but that's only yeah that's so like but they're

told they're fully allowed not to and there's no reason for them to do it do you see most of them probably won't turn around oh yeah they've been yeah they've been so charlie xcs or x whatever it is she's crossing the picket line tonight. No, so technically not. That's the point. That'd be like saying the Phils are. So they're not. But if they go grab a cheesesteak after the game,

that's an issue. Well, she's got an opportunity of a lifetime. Is anybody monitoring that? I don't like getting in there, dude. Let's keep an eye on Charlie, dude. Dude, you snap a picture of Bryce Harper being the union buster, you'd probably have a contract on the table by going i can't get them both get charlie and bryce harper and just be like ah this cheese steak's rotten right to the core or whatever that was so good thanks it honestly we need you on the chance it was tubular

oh my god um so are you going to be a part of the negotiations or have a – No, no. So I'm, like – I go in there for it. So, like, I'll listen once in a while. But like I said, I'm based in Atlantic City. So, like, I come up and stay once we're doing, like, set things like this, like a strike. And then maybe I'll come up for some negotiations. But they, like, stop negotiations.

Are you a Sixers fan? Yeah, I'm huge, yeah. Okay. Can you might, like, yell out negotiations third round playoff appearance? I think finals. Knee willing. Let's be. Knees willing.

Knees willing. Knees willing. Let's be. Knees willing. Let's take the first step to the third round. I'm on board. I'm already sold. Knees willing.

That bench is crazy. Add Tony Roten back in. Caleb Martin is for sure a union guy. He's got to be. I think the whole team. Yeah. Kelly, maybe not. He's too sexy.

I think if you get to a certain level of sexy, you don't look at anything at all. That's true. He does. Stay off the BMX bike. I do think Kelly Oubre lives in some domain. He lives in a Joe Rogan. Oh, well, him and McCain are going to be TikTok famous by the end of the season. Yeah. Dude, that's what you guys should do. You should and McCain are going to be TikTok famous by the end of the season.

Dude, that's what you guys should do. You should hire McCain to do some TikTok dances out here. John McCain. Yeah. Dude, you hire McCain out here, you'll have a bunch of like 14 to 18-year-olds picketing the next day. That's not a bad idea. That's what the Charlie XCX concert looked like. That's where Chair McCain is, right?

Go over to Wells Fargo. That's happening. Dude, that'd be awesome. You guys, how like the dnc and the rnc had like influencers and stuff coming to the convention stuff you guys got to get you guys gotta get strike influencers i can be bought easily i actually was going to come down here because i i work for a company called crossing broad and we do a lot of sports stuff i'm pretty sure you guys covered one of our articles yeah yeah uh our boy santiago wrote one today, but I wanted to come down and just, because I don't love the Philly suits and stuff. I've gone toe-to-toe with them on Dollar Dog Night a lot.

So I wanted to come down and just do a, I wanted to come down and just do like a Dollar Dog sign or something like that and just picket with you guys. Because I love, I've never been in a picket, but I've been around an odd amount. It's fun. Yeah. Like one time I was just walking around the art museum

and they were picketing there and I was like, this is cool shit. I stopped by and I watched five minutes of it and those students were very creative, artsy people and stuff. Yeah, definitely. So I feel like I've never been in one and you always like, you know, people have bucket lists

and maybe a bucket list for me being a picket. Strike the podcast. So if I came down with like a sign and stuff, would that be cool? 100%. Okay. Yeah, the only bummer is we're not allowed to do alcohol on the picket lines but you can step off to the side do what you need to do that's cool get on you got anything else no this was great yeah this is

awesome this is really fun i like this we've covered so much from this union like different things people's stories you working for the union on the union unite here and stuff so it i'll be honest with you for being a union town i didn't know dick about the union yeah so i'm happy that only thing only union i knew was the foot off the union they lose in the in the championship round yeah they should be striking yeah they should yeah definitely that owner stinks they should be striking um all right well hey man i really appreciate it thanks so much yeah uh if you go to any of the events in uh the wells fargo lincoln financial or the uh citizens bank go in cheer the on, but don't buy any food or drink. Love it.

Sounds like a deal. Love it. Appreciate you guys. Awesome. I'll get down with that. Thank you so much, brother. Appreciate it. We'll negotiate a third round.

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