Men At Work Podcast - We Got Kicked Out of FDR Park

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

Kyle and Matt go to FDR Park for the Southeast Asian Market where they talk to an unemployed person and an accountant before they're kicked out of the park by security. At their next location they talk to a full-time content creator, a chemist from Nigeria, a guy that works in oil and gas out in Saudi Arabia, an opera singer and cellist duo, flight attendant, and a CFO fractional financial services in agriculture. Recorded on 5/4/24 and 5/7/24. Follow Us: The Pod: https://www.tiktok.com/@menatpodcast https://www.instagram.com/menatpod/ Follow Matt Peoples: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattpeoplescomedy https://www.instagram.com/mattpeoplescomedy/ Follow Kyle Pagan: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylepagancb/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kylepagancb Follow Vito: https://www.instagram.com/vito_visuals/?hl=en

I think the lady's trying to kick us off, but I'm telling her we're just recording audio. I'm not leaving. All right, so we're not at FDR Park. Three, two, one. We're here, Men at Work podcast, episode seven at the Southeastern Asian Market in FDR Park. Yes. Wanting to talk to people about what they do. Yeah.

If you're new listener, it's a pretty easy concept. We just ask people what they do. Yeah. If you're new, listener, it's a pretty easy concept. We just ask people what they do for a living. If you're a returning listener, thank you to the blue-collar babies. Thank you to the middle-class mommies. You like that one? God bless their souls. Middle-class mommies. I love those girls.

Yeah. And then the white-collar criminals. We love you, too. Yep. Love you, Dad. And if you're in the 1%, why the hell are you listening to this podcast? Go make some money. You already made it. Donate. Yeah. Donate to somebody. Donate to this podcast? Go make some money. You already made it.

Donate. Donate to somebody. Donate to this. Hit us up, man. We have loose checking accounts, brother. Get in there. You know how to get in there. So, yeah, before we get into the pod, I don't want the people to think we don't live what we're preached or what we're told.

That's right. Since the last pod, I moved my money into a 5% savings account. Did you? For real? From, was it Joe? Was it John, the wealth manager? Yeah. Mike.

It was big Mike. It was Mike. Big, slippery Mike with his beautiful blended family. Mike convinced the shit out of me to move my money over to a 5% checking account. Oh, my God. You're a better man than me. I mean, shout out to Mike. Yeah, I mean, I followed one of our, I started, I quit my job, and now I stock shelves at Walmart.

So we are all getting stuff from listeners that we need. That guy ruled, dude. I'm going to start painting and shit. I got it all ready to go. That's crazy. You really did it? Yeah, it's very easy. Oh, yeah, it's always very easy.

It's oddly so easy to do. Yeah, it always seems like it's going to be the worst thing to do, and it takes two seconds because they want your money. They want to have it. Who knows? I could have moved my money onto the dark web for all I know. That's crazy. I'm saying, like, 5% checking account.

Let's fucking go. I will say when when he left we should have got his email we should have been like dude hook us up but we i don't know i think together we probably have maybe 44 that he can manage something like that i feel like he would do it in kind for us you would take care of us that's awesome though dude if you come on the podcast you can be have clients you can have people following your lead that's why you come on pod. People think we're doing this for our gain. Absolutely not. We're idiots. That's right. We are recruiting, we are looking for tips to make more money, and we are networking for when this inevitably goes terribly and we have to quit and then go reach out to Mike. But so far, so good. I mean,

this is the most lucrative podcast next to Joe Rogan, so we're doing okay. Before we start, I think we probably have to draw a line in the sand. Yes. Kendrick or Drake? Well, my face and haircut would suggest Drake, and my brain would suggest Kendrick, but my logical being is, like, I can't believe two guys are writing angry poems at each other nonstop. Now, have you caught up? Because yesterday was— Oh, I did. Last night was, like, late can't believe two guys are writing angry poems at each other nonstop. Now, have you caught up? Because yesterday was last night was like late in the night was Drake goes and drops Family Matters.

Kendrick Lamar comes back like 15 minutes later and drops Meet the Grams. I mean, I want to hear your take, but my thing is just Family Matters is an actual bop of a song. It is. And then Kendrick's is like not good, but it's obviously got a lot more dirt in it. But a lot of the dirt is not proven. And our boy Drizzy Drake, Aubrey Graham, one of Aubrey's angels, says, if you're not coming with receipts and paperwork, don't bother lying on me.

Where's the daughter at, you know? It's amazing how much you can lie on the Internet. And I'll believe everything that the Internet says. Yeah, me too. Like Drake has a child. He's got a pedophile on staff. Yeah. Kendrick Lamar beat his wife. Yes. Drake has a child. He's got a pedophile on staff. Yeah. Kendrick Lamar beat his wife.

Yes. He wears a size 7 men's. That's true. And he owes 50% to Top Dog. Yes. And none of that could be true. But because two of some of the most famous rappers in the world said it, I have to believe it.

And the fact that the internet's running with it, I have to believe it. Like, poor Meek Mill just was catching strays with the whole Diddy thing. Unfortunately, I don't want to believe it, but the internet told me I should, so I might have to. That's the kind of time we live in right now. I agree. Like Mike tells me to put money into a 5% checking account. Someone says something about Meek Mill, and I have to believe it.

I have to. Yeah, I mean, you've got to get bamboozled every once in a while. But I'll tell you, I'm going to stick with Aubrey. I think he's going to win this one out. I think he's got a little more dirt for Kendrick. Kendrick's whole thing is just, I've never been a Kendrick guy. I mean, but, you know, that's neither here nor there. I'm still going with Drizzy.

What do you got? I think Kendrick is up right now. I would say so. Yeah. I think pretty indisputably he's up right now. But the first person that does show receipts is good. Someone might have to get shot after this. Well, I will say my last thing that I'll say on this,

and I found a fun little tidbit on the TikTok, the Chinese run app TikTok. Apparently in the video that Drake dropped, he's talking to a guy at the end of the video, and the guy is apparently a fake mole that Kendrick thought that he had under his control. So it's Drake being like, my guy just gave you fake information. You took it and run with it. You don't even know what you're talking about. And the guy that he's talking to in the video is the guy giving out the fake info.

And it's on the internet, so you've got to believe it. Yeah, I mean, the idea of a quadruple agent, I'll believe that immediately. I don't care who will sign him on. But, yeah, we're here at the Southeastern Asian Market in FDR Park. Going to talk to some people. We don't know who we're going to get. But hopefully some people with fun jobs.

It's a cool looking crowd. A lot of interesting folks. You might want to jump on. Yeah. Great smells. Terrific smells. Huge, if you would. Smoke filling the air. A lot of smoke filling the air. Excuse me, sir.

Would you want to come hop on? We just talk about people and their jobs. Okay. 0 for 1. Hey, how are you? Hey, what's up? Do we do a podcast where we just talk to people about what they do for a living? You guys want to hop on for a little bit?

We won't hold you up too long. Five minutes. Who are we here with? Gina. Gina, how are you? What do you do for a living? I used to work at a software startup, but now I'm fun-employed. Fun-employed.

I like that. We took fun-employed generation and we made it fun. Who better than us to make unemployed a cool, fun thing to be? I love it. I'm jealous. What was the startup? What was it? Yeah, it was a returns management company, so we help Shopify merchants.

Got it. For returns and stuff? Yeah. Well what do you what do you want to do? It's very difficult. I think in our generation we realize we have to figure out outside passions and then also work passions. I think my passion at work is trying to help people and businesses thrive. But that's also, in a way... Impossible in today's world? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not aligned with most businesses nowadays. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, I can agree with that. Did you go to school for it or anything like that? Or was it just kind of something you kind of fell into? My family, they're small business owners so that's also I think where the entrepreneur spirit is but going to school I did go to school for marketing and management but it was more just like okay try to do something I'm like okay ish good at and don't completely fail at you know yeah was the startup the first and only job or you had something before or was it you just kind of it was my first like

professional job yeah what else have you done um previously I worked at like just um Kate Spade and just like small type of jobs. So like retail stuff? Yeah. How's the fashion industry right now? How's it working in the retail space back in the day? I would say I'm more focused on like e-commerce side. So I think within e-commerce, I think it's getting more difficult because there is such large like Timu coming out and there's

so so much more competition went for the small ecommerce merchants that used to be there and they used to do pretty well but right now it's really competitive sure have you bought something on Timu I've never I've only heard about Timu what is Timu my mom bought and this is a true story, my mom bought a customized blanket off of Timu that was a picture of her and I. I swear I got off to get it for the podcast. They zoomed in too much and it's just below the

neck to her torso. It's literally a blanket of me and my mom's torso standing next to each other. So Timu might not be the big competitor we're all thinking it may be. It might not be a go-to one. I can see that yeah but they definitely have hit some stores pretty bad yeah with just easy access to certain like cheap products and is it like an amazon um some somewhat like they're trying to get there i

think but it's uh i think it's not all there yet for sure. Yeah. But the smaller brands, I think they're having a difficult time where logistics, it's already pretty expensive. So now they've got much more competition where, okay, I have a lot cheaper products, and people are sometimes willing to wait longer shipping times just for the cheaper products. I mean, I have a ton, or used to have a ton of jerseys off of Alibaba or Aliexpress. Like, I don't want to spend $200 on a jersey.

I'll go and wait two months for kind of the same quality in a way. Pretty similar. for $25 yeah Timo's like supposedly somewhat faster like two weeks ish or like not as long as yeah check out the moo I mean might be the next move I'm just saying me my mom got a brutal blanket off team but I'm just saying me my mom would love a refund yeah the funny thing is you're a Sixers fan, but you keep going back to them. I think you're going to go back to T-Mobile. Do you do anything right now while you're looking for work? So I'm kind of helping my grandparents with caretaking

and doing, like, certificates to get more up-to-date on certain skills. Got it. So anyone out there, Gina is a nurturer. Nurturer. She is a well-spoken driven individual getting certificates and everything has experience in the field so if you're in software sales or anything in technology or anything else that you'd like to promote please get in touch with us we'll find you no one better no one actually don't come to the

southeastern Asian market I'm sleeping in. I don't know what that place is, but I'll be there. I love it. That's awesome. Well, it was really great meeting you guys. Thank you so much for coming on. You were a lot of fun. Yeah, I'm going to go eat my sausage now. Please do.

Sausage is going to get rained on a little bit. We appreciate it. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah, the T-Mu thing is, I mean, ever since the Super Bowl, it's just been in the zeitgeist. Yeah, they had, what, like 10 ads during the Super Bowl? And I knew people were going nuts about it and stuff.

So I've seen kind of this T-Mu, this revelation of T-Mu and stuff. I've got to find out, who owns that? It's going to be one of those things where the parent company is McDonald's. And you're going to be like, how does that keep happening? Every branch of ownership traces back to one of those. Do you remember when GE owned NBC? They're like an appliance company. I didn't know that. They hadc they had like a financial arm they used to be one of the biggest companies

in the world general electric of course but they had their hands in everything and then comcast bought nbc from ge and it's just like it's crazy to think about so why the fuck is an electric appliance company also in content well they're all yeah it's all like they have their fingers in the grossest stuff. I mean, McDonald's apparently is a real estate company. Yes. Like their entire business model. I don't know if you watched that movie with whatever... Oh. What's his name? Michael Keaton? Michael Keaton. Great movie. Mikey Keats.

By the way, give Michael Keaton his goddamn flowers. He's too nice at acting. But the whole idea that they just like, they sell you the property to build the franchise on and you pay them rent. It's unbelievable. Really is. It's brilliant. Still pretty yucky though. Pretty yucky to do. You want to come on for a little bit? Cheers. you the property to build the franchise on and you pay them rent really is it's brilliant still pretty yucky though pretty yucky to do yeah you got a lot excuses sorry I should see if I can get rid of this guy by being me I struggle

with that I see through the bullshit I watched back that clip we had of our last episode you and that green dress girl. I thought that was going to come to fisticuffs for a second. She's a teacher, by the way. I don't know if you know that. You should guess for a half hour about it. What's up, brother? How you doing?

We just talk to people about their jobs, what they do for a living, and then we kind of just go from there. Even if you're unemployed? Yeah. How are you? I'm good. What's up, guys? How's it going? What's your name?

I'm Rob Catalano. Nice to meet you guys. I love when they go first and last. I love when they go full government. What's up guys? How's it going? What's your name? I'm Rob Catalano. Nice to meet you guys. I love when they go first and last. I love when they go full government. You know, you can call me Rob Katz.

That's not Katz. Bobby Katz. Not Bobby. We do it with Robby Katz. Robby Katz. Excuse me. I'm Robby Katz. You know, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's,

there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's, bit of a rivalry like do you like my dad was Bob I don't have a rivalry it's just more of like one of my friends when I grew up was always Bob so I was always Rob you know that's how I look at it right now it's pretty much my first year out of like an intro to finance type of job I'm operations so you know a lot of back-ends and emails do some audits and

Excel stuff like that titles advisory account associate so it's a little boring but it's you know it's a starting position you know more like a start here type of thing like it's not super fulfilling. It's a little boring. But it's, you know, the company's great. So, and the people are great. So, that makes it. Did you go to school for it? Yeah, yeah.

I have a degree in finance. Finance bro's right here. Yeah. I got the face and the haircut. You and I both did. Yeah, he studied finance. Look at him now. This could be you one day, sitting in the rain at a good market. So, yeah. So so you're in accounting.

You kind of hit it with the most boring job in the world. So I'm kind of trying to hit some questions that I'm really thinking of. I mean, are you ever cooking books? Do you have to get a little dirty with your sales sheets? Yeah, you good at gap principles? It's literally just some audits and making sure if there's, like, a break in an account, I fix it. Yeah. What type of auditing are we doing for like what kind of industries?

It's like an advisory accounts. So financial advisor pretty much opens an account for someone and they do all the trading and all. And I'm just the person there to make sure if like a trade error occurs or something like that, it gets handled or something like that i don't even do it i just kind of like the intermediary to get everyone to talk and do it and let me let me put it to you this way because i understand it's tough to talk about our jobs my job's boring too yeah you're on a first date with the hottest girl you could possibly picture and you have to there she is and the girlfriend's right there you guys are

on your first date and you gotta sell yourself a little bit goes, oh, what do you do for a living? Like, what's your job? Like, how are you telling her? Pretend I'm this beautiful lady. Sell us. That's hard since it's such a bland job, but I guess I would just. You've got to talk it up. Let me hear you talk it up as much as you can.

Was she with you before the job? Pretty much, yeah. Yeah, pretty much. We've known each other for a long time. But anyway, sell us. I think i would just talk about like how the company is is so good uh they really value everybody over there like i it's my first job and i already have like 20 days of pto which is amazing so i'd probably talk it up like on that on that aspect of it like oh it's a great company there's so much to move up i could do trading i could become a financial advisor yada yada you know i am not the man i am today i'm the man i

am tomorrow just wait until i finally sit down and take those security exams that i'm procrastinating on every day i love that selling your job with like there's a lot of days i don't have to be there and they pay me to be there yeah it's like's like, nice, dude. So you're going to be home on Xbox? Very cool. I work from home two days a week. Come on. That's nice. So you're in the office a couple days a week?

Yeah. I feel like you've got to go hybrid. Like, if I was home for the whole week, I think I'd go crazy. Really? It'd be like a COVID throwback. But you were in college during COVID, or you were working? I was my sophomore year of college. Okay, gotcha. How was that, being in college but um like it sucked I went to go take my I

think final exam for macroeconomics I come back and everyone's packing up freaking out I'm like what's going on and then I was stuck home at summer with the parents and all and it was like the first second year first year out of the house so it was just like hard being home but then I moved back to campus sophomore years like still kind of peak kovat but campus was dead and all and it's crazy the difference between fall to spring spring it was like complete 180 like everything was back open people were all out like it's crazy but crazy looking back on it now what are these like security exams like it's

it's hard I've only read like the fifth chapter and it's like two or twenty chapters or something like that but um security equity harry potter security equity exams there's the first one is like they're called the sie it's like a baseline one and then you take like 66 i think seven all these other ones that make it so you can trade other securities so you start with the sie you take like the seven and then you can get a trading job which is better than what i do so i had a buddy who rushed sie but the trading stuff, so you have to get a certain licensing in order to get into trading certain securities, or it's just you get that licensing and you're pretty good generally? I think the SIE is what you need at baseline, and then they might

place you in different positions depending on what ones you have, but I haven't looked into it too much. I just know you have to take them and you can get the training job. They're on a higher floor than me So they're more important, I guess Yeah, I I was good at math in high school and then I got to college it was like I'm not good at math I'm still pretty good like I'm not like dumb but it's gotta I think I graduated Summa Cum Laude dumb but it's gotta I think I graduated summa cum laude so but it's finance I'm like I'm not like my girlfriend did statistics and that's like yeah that's a good one yeah I think I have to use that she's over at Prudential so how's Philadelphia for the Philadelphia area for counting is it a good joint

yeah I actually went to school in New Jersey because I needed like I'm from South Philly so I need a little bit change of pace Rowan so so so I gotta tell you the dorms now we had to go mim in Edgewood my sophomore year. It was hate on. Edgewood is fire. Edgewood rules, dude. I mean. It's the best one. You're right by the fields that you don't ever use. The gym.

The gym is nice. That's the old gym, though. Yeah. The new gym used to have to drive over there. I lived in Crossings my senior and junior year. Okay, yeah. I lived in the Crossings. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I lived on Franklin Street for junior and senior year. So, yeah, it was so much fun it was a good time yeah I worked at the gym too now we're talking about it so really yeah what do you guys do there I always wondered what the actual job was just staring at it's caught up yoga pants no I did not want to stare at anybody get in trouble for that I'm kidding i'm kidding it was uh um what is the title again finance uh getting my jobs confused fitness area assistant so pretty much okay i tell people to put clips on their nice the benches and i wipe things down i don't blame it dude i needed the dark i got the the fanny pack on and all, walkie-talkie.

Oh, my God. That guy's squatting 165. He doesn't have clips on. Clips. Having a dude walk up to you in a fanny pack when you're midway through your pitiful bench is the worst thing. I'd wait. What was your favorite job ever? Probably this one now because I make the most money. Yeah, that'll do it.

Yeah. And it's like, it low-key feels like the least amount of work too like believe me it's like boggles your brain sometimes but that or like you know being super bored like at the gym or i had like a restaurant job before that and it's like you're working so hard to make chump change because you're like a busboy so you know yeah definitely where I am now. It's good you landed in the best job. Yeah.

Keep progressing. Only up. We'll see you when you're a multimillionaire. Hopefully you invest in the pot. Back in this exact same spot. We'll be here, man. You'll be here in five years. You're staring down the barrel.

I'm going to be in that seat. Awesome, man. Well, we appreciate you coming on. All right. Great to meet you guys. And have a great rest of your day guys yeah thanks again yeah so i think i think the lady's trying to kick us off but i'm telling her we're just recording audio i'm not leaving who's this veto explain

to the people what happened uh you might have to retract your statement because we had to leave uh because we don't have permission to shoot here these are vendors that pay to be here they're not we're not selling we didn't agree to be there their stances they didn't agree to this they don't then you know some of them are uncomfortable with it potentially basically the staff said though they're here every weekend and if you email them they would be glad to give us like a permission to do this but it was unexpected and I guess they just aren't ready for us to be here all Alright so we're not at FDR Park. We're here at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Let's see FDR try to climb these steps. I mean getting kicked out of there was pretty nuts. It was cool seeing the dynamic of like somebody came up and the girl was very pretty cordial. I think she was nice. She was nice enough but we did a little good cop bad cop doing it where you were like why and I was like I'll leave right now and give you $400. I think she was nice. She was nice enough. But we did a little good cop, bad cop during it where you were like, why? And I was like, I'll leave right now and give you $400. I'm so scared. You can tell who the vet and the rookie is in this whole interviewing the public.

But we got the email. We got the email address for him. So we'll email him. Yeah. And we'll go back to FDR Park. Our time at FDR is not done. No. We're not going to let the Southeastern Asian Festival get won over on us without coming back.

Harder. But I guess we're going to get some interviews here. See what we got here at Philadelphia Museum of Art. Yeah. I'm excited to get some phone. What did I ask her? Hey, fellas. You guys want to come sit on the pod, talk about your job for a little bit?

Yeah. Yeah, just talk about your job, what you do for a living. That's okay. That's perfect. That's perfect. We never talked to a German before. We've talked to someone from Bangladesh and someone from Singapore. We've never talked to a German.

Yeah. You can leave as soon as you're over. We won't hold you up. Five minutes. Tops. Even in metric system, five minutes is five minutes. Five meters of time. What do you do for a living?

Aircraft seats. You develop aircraft seats? Exactly. Really? For which airline? It doesn't matter. What do you do for a living? Aircraft seats. You develop aircraft seats? Exactly. Really? For which airline? It doesn't matter. It's like OEM, it's like Airbus, Boeing, or for the airline specific.

Got it. Okay. You guys are hot in the news right now. Who? Boeing. Boeing? Good, I'm not working for Boeing, so. You're the manufacturer who makes?

For Boeing or Airbus. Got it. We are supplier, exactly. Can you make them more comfortable? We can. For taller guys like us, we've been struggling for years. How about a little bit of leg room, man? Just take it back to the R&D. Look at these knees! That's true, true, but we need a lot of seats in those airplanes, right? Now, real quick, we've heard the new thing about standing room in airplanes. That's kind of a small movement. What do you think about that? It's just a concept. You don't think it could ever happen? No, no. Why do that? Because it's difficult to develop and with the requirements, you know?

And because you'd be out of a job. Oh no, you need to develop those as well, those standing seats. Yeah, they're like jetpack-y kind of looking things, like they have the straps over you and everything. Exactly, exactly. Okay. So guys, thank you very much. Alright, thank you.

Have a nice day. Alright, good luck. Yeah, you too. Yeah, of course. I feel like we got all we needed out of that guy. That's actually something I've been wondering about quite a bit. I would love to stand on an airplane. No. Why not?

No, I would take a Spirit Airline flight over standing on an airplane. What if it's like less than two hours? That's as far as I would go, two hours. Like a nice little trip down to Nashville, a little trip down to Florida. Yeah. Yeah, that's as far as I'd go. It's kind of funny that I said that, and then I thought about standing on a plane for two hours, and I wouldn't even do that.

Because flying sucks enough. Yeah, of course. And it's not like they're going to decrease the prices. Yeah. It's not even – yeah, true. That's their whole angle is they're like, it'll be cheaper, we can get more people on the plane. It's like, wow, who's ever lied to us? A CEO?

No way, dude. Those guys only care about us. Have you ever sat first class? Kyle, look at everything about me. No, I've never sat first class, dude. I haven't either. You haven't? I flew private once.

Jesus, molasses, for what? My uncle had a jet. Were you on a certain island? We were going to Florida. We were going to Florida. And it wasn't Key West. Yeah, I flew private. It's tough to Florida, and it wasn't Key West. Yeah, I flew private. It's tough to say, flew private, one time, and it was when I was 15,

and obviously, like, you don't appreciate anything when you're that age because you're still just, you know, growing. Cerebral context isn't really fully formed at that spot. I hear you. Ask me how many times I've flown private since. Let me hear, dude. Zero. Okay.

Yeah, I peaked. I mean, that's kind of the worst time to go private. Like, the cocaine barely hits you when you're 15. You can't even enjoy the – how far did you fly? How long was it? Just to Florida. Two hours. Two hours.

Up, down. Up, down, yeah. But it was cool. So cool. Driving up to the plane, no security. Oh, my God. Throw the bags in there, load up, and let's go. Is Big Unk – is he loaded?

Yeah, he does well for himself. Does well for himself. Yeah. Absolutely. Private plane, Jesus. Yeah, he does well for himself. Does well for himself. Yeah. Absolutely. Private planes, Jesus. Yeah, private planes are nuts. That's a kind of different wealth that I don't think I will ever completely understand. Your uncle is Taylor Swift.

Yeah, yeah. Check her out. Yeah. Carbon footprint sucks. Yeah, dude. What about this guy? A little photographer guy? Bro, you want to come on?

We're doing a podcast. We just ask people what they do for a living. All right. So we're sitting here with Louis? Yeah, Louis. And what do you do for a living? I am a full sitting here with Lewis yeah Lewis and we do for a living I am a full-time photographer content creator yeah full-time yeah yeah yeah you'll find a lot of full-time content creators nowadays yeah I know a lot of people are going back to like nine to fives because they realize it's we could say that we could definitely say that quitters yeah I'm definitely i'm about to do a graduation

shoot right now actually yeah so it's grad season we're out here just enjoying the weather finally here in philly how did you become a full-time content creator um i got into photography when like college i was a graphic designer first and then i picked up photography as a side gig and i realized people weren't taking pictures of their like artwork so then that's like that was my lane but now i love shoes fashion and then that's what like really cultivated everything for me here yeah that's so sick i actually have my own podcast too we talk about yeah it's uh the niche talk niche talk yeah right here in philly local you say niche i say niche oh you say niche i don't touch the word at all i don't know where it's going it's too too many unique. Yeah, it's tricky. It's definitely tricky for sure.

Got it. No, the Niche Podcast. Yeah, the Niche Talk Podcast. We talk about entrepreneurship, fashion, sneakers, anime, like me and my homie. Shout out to Jerome, 2 and 5 Shooter. Yeah. I'm Ilvibe. That's my content creation name.

Ilvibe. It's on Instagram and all your socials. Yeah, yeah. I'm Ilvibe, all on social. And and yeah you could see just the stuff that I create all right well vibe I've been getting a lot of crud about these for almost a year and a half now oh let's see it let's see it are these okay to have oh those are great to have those are great to have no why not he's gonna be looks like he's about to turn water into wine I mean what's wrong with that I have a christ-like damage you don't yeah he's about to he's about to take this bread

and make it at 70 loaves. At the end of the day, you're comfortable, right? Yeah. That's all that matters. So what are your thoughts on the Berks? Are you a Berk guy? I like the Berks. I don't personally have a pair of my own.

My only Berk I have is when I go on vacation, the open-toe ones, you know, get my feet wet in the sand and just... True. That's the only time you're going to see the Berks because you can't be giving toes out here for free anymore. Yay! You can't. That's an entrepreneur. That's an entrepreneur you can't put the toes out for free oh this is actually my model

right here hello you up top oh where are you at I'm down like under the trees under the trees okay bet I'm at this table randomly doing a podcast. You'll see us. Yeah, you can meet me right at the bottom. It's a black table. You'll see us. Okay. All right, perfect.

Yeah, we're all wearing Birkenstocks. Bye. We are definitely not wearing Birkenstocks. So what'd you do before? Before, I was a graphic designer, and I did every bullshit job imaginable until I got my big break. Then I was bullshit jobs. I love bullshit jobs. Bullshit jobs.

I was working at Staples. Oh, Staples. Yeah, Staples. Yeah, I was at the print marketing center. Oh, I wasn't there. Yeah, but I was able to make some money on the side. Oh, there's my model right there. Hello.

Hi. Hi, how are you? But yeah, working all my bullshit jobs until I couldn't anymore. And then I got my big break at a sneaker industry store as a photographer. And then from there, it's just been all she wrote. Now I'm full time and just living life how I want. Isn't it awesome? I mean, it's kind of like a lot of pressure, but it's also kind of awesome.

Oh, yeah, a lot of pressure, but it's definitely beautiful to just be able to create my own energy and create my own time when I want to do things. And like working with big brands with no limitations. Got it. Shout out any of the brands you've worked with? Shout out to Foot Locker. Shout out to Nike. Shout out to Quest Nutrition. I've been working with them.

So yeah. Thank you guys for having me. She's going to sweat her ass off in that suit. So let me get to this. What was the name of your podcast? Men at Work Podcast. Men at Work Podcast. Bet.

I'll check y'all out. Shout out to all our new followers. We appreciate it if you're listening to this. We did have, I guess, that union TikTok. Shout out to Evan Blow Up last episode. I think it's almost up to like a million views on TikTok. It's crazy. People love the union.

And people also hate the union. That's the real draw is that there's like 90% love it and there's 10% that are like, look at XYZ's taking our jobs. But the union guys ruled. People love discourse in this city. People love opinions, and we found that out. So maybe we should just drop the hottest takes ever on this podcast, and then that's how we'll just garner enough attention to one day go full-time like our guy.

What's up, folks? Hey, guys. We do a podcast where we just ask people what they do for a living. It'll only take five minutes for you. Yeah. What else are you gonna do run up run up a set of stairs a couple quick questions we won't hold you you can jump on too if you want we got another mic please take a seat hang out for a little bit how are you who we here with uh just him i'm visiting from uh saudi arabia oh my god dude we are crushing the middle east um and i mean that in a way that we've had multiple middle east people on our podcast you might want to be careful with that.

If you want to pick up the... We love the Middle East here. Absolutely. So what's your name? My name is Sofian. Sofian? Sofian. Nice. What's your name? Idris. Pick up the mic for me. Can you hear me now? Idris.

Idris? Yeah. And you're from Saudi Arabia? No, I'm actually from India. I work there. Okay, you work in Saudi Arabia. And then, are you from here? No, from Nigeria. Nigeria? Yeah.

Sweet. When did you come over here? 2014 or so. Yeah. How are you liking it so far? 10 years in? Yeah, so far so good. Yeah, I'm here.

Cool. And what do you do for a living over in Saudi Arabia? Like you'd guess. I didn't guess. Yeah. I guess that's the. What do you do for a living over in Saudi Arabia? Like you guess I didn't guess Is everybody the bit that I guess that's like the major thing to do over there is everyone you see like unless you're king Or Prince. Yeah, I guess you're an oil and gas and they're even an oil guess. Mm-hmm So now they're getting a lot into business actually They're trying to push the tourism just like the way in UAE Were you over there when this are when the floods were happening? Yep. I was there like last week. That was crazy. I had a 4x4, it wasn't too bad for me.

I saw a couple of fellas, they got the jet skis out and they're flipping in there. Did you take the 4x4 through? Yeah, the water was coming up to here, like if you have a small sedan, it was just coming in. It would be stupid for you if you have a small car and you're just like... Did you see the floods? No, not really. You didn't see the floods? You didn't check on your boy? No. I know he'll be fine.

You didn't check on the homie? It's a Superman. What do you do for a living? I'm a scientist. Proceed. Yeah, I work on materials for TVs, you know, trying to... What kind of material? Like the plastic or more of like the frame? No, the material that makes the color for TV.

Wow. Yeah. What's the material called? Are you familiar with organic LED OLED TVs? No. Yeah. So, yeah, no. It's just like organic compounds, basically.

You make it sound like it's like no big deal, but like. It's going to be so complicated. Yeah. It is. It is super complicated. Yeah. You do... It is, it is too complicated, yeah. You do that here in Philadelphia? Delaware. Delaware?

Yeah. Okay. You don't work for DuPont, do you? No, no, not really, yeah. Everybody works for DuPont, right? Yeah, you think of Delaware, you think of DuPont. Exactly. Of course.

Yeah. So how do you guys meet? How do you guys meet each other? Oh, we went to USC together. USC? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're from USC, you work in Saudi How did you guys meet each other? Oh, we went to USC together. USC? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're from USC, you work in Saudi Arabia, you're from Nigeria. How does that all come together in Philadelphia?

Yeah, so I was in USC, I was doing a master's, and just like him, I have a lot of other friends. After we graduated, we all spread out everywhere, yeah? And he's the only one, no, he's two of the other friends who came to the East Coast. Got it. So he's like my friend to go to. If I go to the East Coast, I go see him. You come here between May and October when it's warm,

and you let the winter months just kind of chill out? Yeah. I don't blame you. So at USC, were you guys friends the entire time, or just meet earlier on, or what was the deal? I think so, yeah, since the very first week I went there that's where I met him graduation season so we're trying to give the viewers some potential majors would you guys go to school I went for a master's in reservoir engineering that's soil and

gas as well okay he was he has a program he did PhD yeah chemistry do you hate electric cars not Not really. I mean, eventually I know that's where we're heading, but I don't think we're solving the pollution problem with electric cars. Why so? Because the construction of batteries itself is very polluting. Got it. We're just, like, we're shifting all the CO2 emission to other countries, like Africa.

Like, if you see the, just go on YouTube and see how they do the mining for the lithium. I've seen it. Yeah, it's not very clean. No, it's not. The must doesn't tell you that. Yeah, it doesn't seem like the jobs are that fun either. Yeah, I mean at this stage, yeah, right, like, unless we come up with alternative materials, right?

And as a chemist, I think it's possible, you know, we can definitely come up with alternative materials like sodium, for example, there are researches on that. Yeah. And, you know, sodium, we have it everywhere, you know. So, salt can solve a lot of problems? Yeah. Why? I mean, not salt, but the element sodium, you know.

I was like, we do have a lot of salt. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you can get, yeah, you can get sodium from salt, definitely, and could be an alternative later in the future. Well, now it's not maybe the ideal solution. As you said, definitely lithium is not ideal. Not only lithium, you have other things like putting the cobalt, you know. Those are like really, really difficult to mine. And, you know, ultimately, like you call it, their environment.

But, you know, that's how research starts, right? like you start with the worst and then you get better and better so if you had to explain how sodium could be the alternative to like a couple of dumb business majors that's the most like layman's terms that you could kind of just quickly run through how that could be an alternative yeah so the problem with sodium now does is weight right lithium is like the first row you can pick up if you think of periodic table and it's very like very small tiny right uh sodium is much bigger right like almost what maybe 20 times bigger right if you put in your car you know electric cars now like super heavy imagine putting something even more big much bigger like 20 times bigger right

okay then you won't be able to drive your car. Like, it's just going to be way too heavy. So, like, it's not viable right now. But, you know, as scientists, we always find our ways. So, going forward, I'm very sure that that could be solved. Okay. Yeah. Damn. Way forward, I mean.

Yeah. I don't think we're going to last with oil and gas very long. Do you guys just have, like, the most intelligent conversations at all time, or do you talk about, like, sports and, you know, movies and stuff? Yeah, we do. Yeah time or do you talk about like sports and you know movies and stuff? Yeah, we do. We both love movies. We watch a lot of movies, right? Not anymore, but like definitely sports. He's into soccer. Soccer? I would assume so. Yeah, you know coming from overseas the soccer's not as huge here as it is over there.

Yeah, soccer's pretty big. Have you seen Ronaldo play yet? I have, in Saudi Arabia I have. Yeah, how's he doing? I think it's easy for him. Yeah? Yeah. When he's getting paid enough, it better be easy for him.

Yeah? Well, how much is he earning in like a week? Yeah, it's his retirement plan, right? Yeah, right. What are you guys, what are you doing when you're here? In US in general or here? Yeah, like when you were in Philly. It's the first time I've been here.

It's my first day, actually. Sorry, I've flown to New York. What's the big dog got planned for you? Yeah, I just came to see the Rocky, and then, I don't know, man. Tell me. Yeah, we plan to go see Santa City. Santa City?

Yeah. I don't know about the Liberty Bell. Probably might be too late now to go. Don't go to the Liberty Bell. Don't go. There's a glass. Go look at the Liberty Bell through the glass. It's the same exact thing. Yeah.

What do you guys recommend other than that? I would recommend, do you guys drink? No. No? Okay. That's going to be a tough one. That's a tough one. That eliminates about 87% of the things. Yeah. What do you like to do? I just like, I don't know, history. History?

Yeah. Maybe you should get a Liberty Bell then. Are you guys comedy fans at all? Are you guys into comedy? I just came from a comedy show in New York, Comedy Central. Nice. Yeah. I've heard of them. Well, there's a comedy club.

There's Helium Comedy Club, Punchline. If you want to catch a show, just sit there. And if they're not funny, at least you get to judge them and watch them. That's one of the best parts. I agree. Yeah. All right. Good meeting you guys.

Good meeting you. Enjoy your time in Philly. I appreciate you guys sitting down. Thank you so much. Yeah. Cheers. All right. Good meeting you guys. Good meeting you. Enjoy your time in Philly. I appreciate you guys sitting down. Thank you so much. Yeah. Cheers. Good luck. Yeah.

God, we've been getting a lot of deeply intelligent people. Yeah. What the fuck? I was trying to catch somebody and be like, do you guys like boobs? Yes. Okay, cool. Do you drink? Sweet.

Yeah. We've seen a couple of those too, just like people who don't drink. And I'm like, I don't know how much we could. That's a thing nowadays. Not drinking? Poison. That's because everybody says, oh, who don't drink and i'm like i don't know how much we could that's a thing nowadays not drinking it's poison that's because everybody everybody says oh i don't drink and then they're high out of their minds at all times hey fellas how are you we have a podcast where we just uh talk to people about what they do for a living you can come on shirtless come on sure it's five minutes you've got you. You're our first two shirtless guys we ever had on. Thanks for having us.

Thank you for coming on. I appreciate it. You've got a Philly accent. Yes, I do. I'm guessing that you're... Are you not from here? No, I'm from California. Sweet. I'm Australian. Australian. We live in Brewery Town now. I don't hear it.

I've been in the States 10 years. It doesn't come out very much. I hear you. So what do you guys do? I'm a singer, a classical singer. It doesn't come out very much. I hear you. So what do you guys do? I'm a singer, a classical singer, an operatic tenor. And I'm a cellist. Wow. He plays the cello.

We play in a musical duo together. Dude, isn't it awesome what kind of jobs are around here? Wow. We're a bit of a musical duo ourselves here. We just haven't made anything good at all. So you're a musical duo. Have you guys performed anywhere in the city? Any cool places?

Any cool stories? No. Actually, we've never played in Philly. You've never played in Philly? No. We've toured internationally, but we've never played in Philly. Where are we touring at? We need to fix that.

We just came back from four weeks doing the rural Midwest. Oh, sorry. Sorry to hear that. Yeah. That was a lot. It was an experience. Listen. But I'm going to Australia on Friday, and then we're playing Carnegie Hall.

We're making our Carnegie Hall debut in October. In New York? God, congratulations. That's incredible. What's the band's name? We're called Brandon and James. Dude, I love it. They're our names.

It's so creative, right? It's incredible. So Brandon and James, so you guys are based out of Philadelphia. You tour all over. You're obviously doing great. Refuse to play in Philadelphia, too. Honestly, I would stick with that. I would just never play here.

Just make them want you in the band. Actually, yeah. It's not a bad move. One day we'll make it happen. So Carnegie Hall, how are you feeling about that? That's got to be nerve-wracking. Yeah, a little equal parts nervous and excited, I would say. Yeah.

Yeah, so tell me about your podcast since we just sat down here randomly. Yeah, so we just – There's's a good we are just a podcast that asked people what they do for a living that's honestly what what we do and then we meet awesome people like you two is a cellist and a classically trained singer oh that's cool rookie steps like basic pitches yeah so do you just kind of travel around wherever? We travel around Philadelphia more unlike you guys. We do love to play in Philadelphia. We're not. But we like to make our way over to Carnegie Hall one time. You haven't already done that? No, no, yeah. It's

weird. It's hard to get in there. You got to start somewhere. You know a guy? You could bring your podcast to our show. I'd love to bring the podcast to your show. Honestly, I got like we would love to just do like random shit. Like I know we've we've reached out to a rodeo place and stuff. I want to interview the clowns. I want to interview the horses. I want to interview the people on the back of the horses and stuff. I would absolutely do it. If you guys want us, we will be there.

In a heartbeat, even. You have to ask them. Yes, yes, yes. I don't know if they... We'll have to find out if they allow that. I bet you they won't. They do have a lot of rules. A lot of rules.

Yeah. So is it a full weekend or is it just a one-nighter? Like, what's it look like? It's a one-nighter. It's just a one-nighter. Us with another female vocalist friend of ours who just did this Midwest tour with us. And, yeah, a small little orchestra. So what's it, like the day of a show, you know, we perform different plays and do stuff like that,

but nothing that's actually talented so like when you have to do you take a full day is it like throat coat tea and is it like not i'm impressed that you even know about throat coat tea oh okay that's good that you know that sure yeah i get vocal i try to not talk the day of a performance like really until around two or three o'clock yeah yes that involves a lot of clicking and a lot of uh talk to text, which is thrilling. We're husbands and we're married and we work together. Oh, my God.

That's a lot. Oh, wow. There's another element now to it. There's so many layers. So many layers. And it's my chance to be silent for a little bit. That's nice. You never knew you were going to fucking love it.

Have some alone time. Except that I'm really not a very patient person. And so that comes out to play a lot So married in such a Talented industry where like you need the other to be on their a-game for you to work like The fights must be epic. We don't fight too much really. No, we're lucky. We're lucky I don't know what mutual respect and friendship think, is the basis of our relationship anyway. Got it. So more Hall & Oates until recently and less Simon and Garfunkel. I like that.

Yes. Or more Sonny and Cher. Sonny and Cher. There you go. You can be Cher. All right. I'll look better. Ooh, the tension already. He's going to ask about that later on. Well, no, he'll survive a nuclear holocaust, just like cockroaches and Cher in him. My grandmother did turn 100.

Your grandmother turned 100? Yeah, a couple weeks ago, so I guess I got good genes. Happy birthday to? Vivian. To Grandma? Grandma Vivian, yeah. Shout out to Grandma Vivian. Look at him sweating all over your table.

We've had a lot worse people here doing what they did. the grandma Vivian so like I'm sweating all over your table so how did you guys like how do you get into the cello how do you get into classical music where'd you go I said the conservatory music in San Francisco got it I grew up in California I studied in Adelaide in South Australia and then did my masters in Cal State Long Beach. Which is kind of where we met, at least in Southern California, and then we started performing together.

Was it a grind to get to be like, obviously finding each other, becoming a band, traveling and touring, like, what was the grind like? I mean, it had to be. Yeah, we started playing in a piano bar, taking requests. Here? In Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Santa Fe, they don't play in Philly, we like yeah we drag people into our shows and they were free at the time it was a grind but we made it happen you see the vision? I do, and I don't think it's going to go the same way. People are going to pay you to be on your podcast. Well, hopefully. You'll get a Netflix sponsorship or something soon. We did have a guy give us a quarter one time. Oh, good. Shout out to him. Two quarters.

Wow, 50 cents. 50 cents, yeah. So we are in the black. How'd you get the first billing? Well, my name is Brandon James. Got it. And that's my professional name. And before I met him, I was just called Brandon James.

And then his name is James Clark. Alright, so you got lucky. I got lucky. We just put an ampersand right in between and then kept going. I love it. Yeah, the auditions for a husband who could play the cello and called James was fairly rigorous. Were you recruiting? Were you on a date of recruiting? I had no choice. All right.

All right, all right. Where else are you guys touring? Where are we going after Australia, James? That's all the June stuff. So, Boston, then Chicago, Indianapolis. Maine. I'll go and quit Maine. Plymouth, Massachusetts.

A bunch of cruising in the middle. We do about 12 cruises a year how you like that we like it for the most part yeah we spend most of our summers in Europe cool kind of cruising around the Mediterranean cool I just got I just got back from a cruise Oh on which line Royal Caribbean oh yeah nice are you guys like above that or do water slides we don't do our music isn't for kids so we never see kids on board, which is no offense. Wait, you do go cruises?

Yeah. Oh, you guys have it made, man. We do a lot of the high-end, like, super fancy... Like MSC? You've done that one? We have not done that. We've done Silversea, Crystal, Regent, Seabourn. We're about to do the Ritz-Carlton.

You guys live the life, man. You just come run shirtless at the art museum and then go tour and go on cruises and shit. I just want to remind you, we just did 24 dates in rural Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Kansas. There's a kid watching this right now who's living off of ramen noodles trying to make it to cellist, being like, shut the hell up, James. I'm sorry. I feel like I just ate ramen noodles for the last four weeks. Do you have a theme song for your podcast?

We do. Like Men at Work? Isn't that the line? No, Men at Work is the band. I just ate ramen noodles for the last four weeks. Do you have a theme song for your podcast? We don't. Like a Men at Work, isn't that why? No, Men at Work is the band, but The Land Down Under is the song. Oh, it's an Australian song, that's right. Yeah, I mean, if we didn't want to pay the Men at Work crew probably $100,000 to get it cleared for the podcast. Yeah, we could do a cover of it with cello and opera. There you go.

Genuinely incredible. I mean, guess who's getting a DM tonight? We can't wait for it. It'll be the best thing to slide into our DMs all day. Probably. All right, cool, cool, cool. We are so boring. Yeah, I mean, but this is what we're doing.

We're at the onslaught, the beginning of it. We're going to end up as Brennan and James, dude. We're going to get married. We're going to have a beautiful gay relationship and become talented. I don't think we could handle each other. Yeah, I think you'd get sick of me pretty quick. I mean, one time you took forever to park and I got angry at you. Yeah, I know.

Could you imagine you not doing the dishes or something like that? That's what I'm saying. We'd be done in a month. I know, but I'd get at you in another way. I'm on edge. I'd have some tricks and trades. Yeah? I'd come up and say, Kyle, and I'd put my hands on your hips and I'd blow on the back of your head. Oh, wow. Right on the nape? Right on the nape, dude. The nape or the nipple,icks and trades, dude. I come up and say, Kyle, and I put my hands on your hips, and I blow on the back of your ears.

Oh, wow. Right on the nape? Right on the nape, dude. The nape or the nipple, you call it, dude. Just don't call me late for dinner. I'm taking advantage of you. In a good way, consensually, because that's what we do. We have a very open bedroom.

Anyway, all right. That's okay. You're going. Yeah, I don't know. You're a spitball in there. I mean, I can't believe we just had those. I bet you we're going to go on Instagram. Those guys are going to be like 3 million followers.

3 million followers, yeah. We're like, so, you played a good job. They probably just hung out in like Nice, France. Yeah, absolutely. Great dudes, too. Yeah. Great guys. That's awesome.

Dude, I wish I had the confidence to run shirtless. Yeah, it would be pretty upsetting to see me running shirtless. My body looks like a bag of milk right now. Yeah, I look like yogurt held together by styrofoam. It's not. It's not bad. I got the bag of milk right now. Yeah, I look like yogurt held together by styrofoam. It's not. It's not bad. I got the shoulders of a goddamn champion. Oh, I like my shoulders too.

Just everything else is... Yeah, sure, of course. We're trying to put it together. It's cool, man. Brandon and James. Brandon and James with an E. Is it with an E? Okay, I'm glad you paid attention to that.

I forgot. This audio might suck, though, honestly. So if it does suck and I go back and edit this, I apologize. We apologize to people. We're sorry. We're going to figure this I go back and edit this, I apologize. We apologize to people. We're sorry. We're going to figure this out. We've got to get new mics. We're great mics.

We have two great mics here, but we've got to get, like, four great mics. Because when you put the one thing on, you know, then it just gets all the background noise. But at least the mics are working. Yeah, but you've got to give us a little space, man. We're out here on the scene. Nobody else is doing this. Nobody else is out in the elements trying to record, have good audio, have good conversation. You've got to give us a little leeway, if you will.

Thank you. You know? But also, to our new followers, we'll do whatever you want. I will fist fight my mom to make you guys happy, dude. Is the city too loud? The city might be the loudest place of all time. What a phone. A city of, what, 3 million, 4 million?

I mean, what are we doing? Jesus Christ, I hate that stuff. When they go under an overpass just to have the echo happen. What's up, man? How are you? Doing a podcast where we ask people what they do for a living. We do a podcast where we ask people what they do for work.. We do a podcast where we ask people what they do for work. Let's fucking go. Get on here.

Yeah. Throw those headphones on for me. Throw the microphone up to the old mouth and we'll get ready to go. Ready? Ready? Ready. Let me hear it. All right. Who are we here with?

This is Rob right here. Rob right here. Yeah. All right. And what do you do for work? I'm a flight attendant. Damn. That's pretty sick.

What do you guys do for work? Well, a lot of odd jobs. Yeah? I don't deal with asshole Karens for a living, I'll tell you that. How's it been since the pandemic? Have the people gotten better or have they gotten worse? You know, it just depends on the flight and how people are feeling, what's going on. You know, I mean, everyone has different opinions of what's going on. Also depends if there's delays, you know, people get upset about delays and that kind of stuff.

But I mean, I haven't had any problems with anyone. So I mean, I can't complain. That's incredibly well-trained corporate speaking. And look, we're here to let you can vent to us. What state is the worst to fly out of because of the people? I wouldn't say there's a there's a worst state. Just it all depends on how people are feeling. Like I said, you know, it can change very easily, just like delays. You know, there's not like a worse state.

You know, people aren't just like mad for no reason, you know. There's a reason for it. So, you know, some people like. I disagree with that one. People wake up just angry. They do. No, no, no. I definitely agree with that.

But, like, there hasn't been like a place, like a certain state that I flew to where people are like, you know what, I'm just mad today. Yeah. You know? Fine. What's the best state? Well, I mean, I'm from Pittsburgh, and then I moved to Colorado, and everyone there is great, you know. I like it there. Shocking.

The people who are all sedated on gummies and weed. Yeah, that's all true. So, as a flight attendant, like, what's your go-to move to try to calm somebody down if they're getting a little ornery? Do you kind of take a firmer stance or are you a little more like, let me coax them, let me eat? It depends on the situation. It depends how, like, you just got to read the person, go from there with it. You know, I mean, people are pretty easygoing as long as you're honest with them, you know. Don't sugarcoat it.

Don't make up some lie and be like, you know what, I don't know what to tell you this is just how it's gonna be and just let know what can we do besides execution killings to deal with the people who run to the front of the plane as it lands and we're waiting to get and we just got back to the gate you got me i don't know couldn't tell you i just worked execution style sorry that's all we can do i mean there is there is nothing worse than that does it piss off um flight attendants as much as it pisses off regular people who are sitting in their seats waiting for everyone else to get their stuff and go most definitely yeah most definitely okay so you guys would say that

in the flight industry you guys notice that and say it makes no sense, it doesn't help anybody, it makes things worse. That's, it's well known within the industry itself that that's a ridiculous thing to do. All right, yeah, definitely, definitely. I kind of just needed to hear that. That's going to help me on every plane. I didn't need it to be fixed. I just needed to know that the smarter people that are more aware of it agreed with me on it. That makes me feel a little bit better. Yeah, yeah. I could live with that. How long have you been a flight attendant? About a year and a half, a little bit over that. So you're pretty new. Yeah, pretty new to it. Domestic, international? Well, domestic out of Denver. So yeah. How do you get into something like that? You can't go to

like flight attendant school, can you? You do. That's what you do. You go to training for it. So my previous job I worked at, I worked at a winery for a good bit. And the owner of the winery, he's actually a pilot. So he's the one that was like, hey, try it out, see if you like it, go from there with it. And now I plan on taking like my Discovery flight, which is you go up in like a little two-seater plane, see if you like it, and then you go from there with it and see if you want to pursue, like, flying. Oh. Oh, to become a pilot.

Right. So being a pilot is on the table. Is that a normal, like, track for you start as a flight attendant, then you try to move towards a pilot? For some people, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's a good amount of people that do do it, but there's also plenty of people that go to be a flight attendant,

stay as a flight attendant. They just like that lifestyle. I mean, I mainly went into it to be a flight attendant to just get the lifestyle, see if I like it, and now go from there with it. Because to be a flight attendant doesn't cost you really much money to go to training for it. But to be a pilot, that's six figures. So, I mean, it's a big commitment.

You just go straight into it, and you're like, ah, I don't even know if I like this lifestyle yet. So I get to travel around as a flight attendant, and I see the lifestyle, so now I like it, so now I want to take the next step towards it What's your go-to move when you're going to a new city? Depends I mean yeah, I just I mean I just got I just went to the gym right now and now I'm here and one day passes

It depends on the place. Yeah, I mean people do for one day passes Some places let you in for free. I mean, you just say, hey, I'm a flight attendant just in town for the day. Some people do that, but it depends. That should be a universal thing, man. What else does flight attendants deal with? Show your flight plan. You have a free damn gym pass. Yeah, that's awesome.

So, obviously, like, Boeing's in the news a lot. I know nothing about Boeing. I mean, like, I'm not affiliated with it whatsoever. Well, I know you're not affiliated whatsoever, but I'm just saying, like, Boeing's in the news a lot. I know nothing about Boeing. I mean, like, I'm not affiliated with it whatsoever. Well, I know you're not affiliated whatsoever, but I'm just saying, like, I'm kind of scared to fly. So am I. Rightfully so. I mean, I mean. All right, that makes me feel worse.

The flight attendant saying rightfully so is the worst thing. I mean, hey, the news doesn't lie whenever it comes to, like, pieces are, like, falling off the plane, stuff like that. But, I mean, I haven't had anything happen to any of my planes that I've been flying on. So, I mean, I got nothing to worry about yet. So, nothing's happened to me. So, I mean, I'm okay with it. But until something does happen like that to me, then I'll be worried about it, you know? Oh, I've always had, this is another question that I've always wondered about flight attendants.

Like, obviously, you have people that are drinking before the flight, and they could come on kind of hammered, and then if it's a longer flight you guys serve alcohol what does it look like trying to police like hey that person in you know a28 he's done like is it something that you keep an eye on or is it something that it only really happens when it's over the top and it's in your face you keep an eye on it yeah you'll see'll see what happens. Typically, if someone's intoxicated before they enter the aircraft, they'll usually get pulled off or if they're significantly over the influence of alcohol. Okay. But I haven't had to deal with that once again, so I mean, I haven't had a really big problem with it. But yeah, I mean, I haven't dealt with it. That makes sense.

Yeah. That's fair. Do you guys do the Biscoff cookies on your flight? No, not anymore. We did before. What food do you give people? Just pretzels, chocolate. I'm not telling you what.

I know. You can't say the employer. The pretzels are great. The pretzels are amazing. So good job with the pretzels, chocolate. You're f***ed. I'm not telling you what I know. I can't say the employer. The pretzels are great. The pretzels are amazing. So good job with the pretzels. But I'd bring back the Biscoff cookie. The Biscoff cookie is... Not too long ago, I bought a full pack of Biscoff from a convenience store. I came home and I had a certain substance and mixed it with ice cream.

Gee golly, was that the greatest thing I've ever done, dude. Do people complain that the Biscoff cookie has gone away? No, no, I haven't had any complaints about it. No? No, if they poll you, just tell them the people like the Biscoff cookie. Okay, we'll do, yeah. If I have a say in it, I'll be like, hey, you got to bring them back. But I want to thank you guys for having me on this.

I'm going to go check this out a little bit, and I'm going to go get some food. Yeah, go have fun. Yeah, yeah. Appreciate it. Great meeting you, man. Good luck. Let's do one more. I think we absolutely should do one more.

Hi, how are you? How you doing? We're going to do a podcast where we just ask people what they do for a living. We haven't had a woman on yet today. What's your podcast called? It's called Men at Work, and we just ask people what they do for a living. Five minutes. Five minutes?

Yes. Awesome. Why don't you hit them with five minutes? the interview goes 15 minutes they're like what the fuck did i go just kidding five minutes five minutes just just put that on what's your name katie katie nice to meet you i'm kyle this is matt nice to meet you guys what do you do for work uh i guess i'm a fractional cfo for clients, either in farming or agribusiness and services. A fractional CFO for agricultural services? Yeah.

Explain that. Yeah, please. In agriculture in general, there's just a need for, I guess, financial services. It's not the most sexy industry, so not a lot of finance professionals go. I thought you said fractional. Fractional? Did you say fractional? oh yeah okay okay so meaning like i'm not like like i help about piecemeal like i'm not a full-time cfo at one specific farm yeah right now i have two farms um two farms well i guess three companies two farms and then one agri

service processor and you're a cfo i guess i don't know what else to call it except for fractional CFO. Like, I guess, like, finance professional. I don't know how else to describe it, yeah. That's cool. We haven't heard of it. We're not going to fucking fact-check this. You can tell us whatever. Like, oh, okay, yeah,

we're not going to find your LinkedIn. So what's the day-to-day look like for something like that? Is it, like, are you remote? Are you going to the farms? How does that look? Yes, I was just in Wisconsin for six weeks at client of mine he just bought a meat processing facility and so I was helping them set up pretty much

their back-end finance like they're quick books yeah nice so think about like I don't call it other fractional Cfo but it's like it's not like you need like a huge fortune 500 cfo for a lot of these you know producers so big clients small clients what are we doing in like right now small clients small clients yeah yeah yeah so i guess you can't get into it too much but it seems like there's a lot of stuff going on with like the way that animals and things like that are treated on these farms is that something that you have to be constantly considerate about how these farms operate, or is that out of your scope completely? Well, it's not really my, I guess, responsibility.

I think, obviously, in agriculture, there's always, like, no, I don't think so. Are the bills paid? Are my services being paid? Well, I think that everyone, like, I don't know. I think that farmers sometimes get a bad rap but like peppers really care what their animals it's not like they're you know so I'm sure that's the norm and it's just you hear about the bad guys every once in a while but for the most part I'd imagine that these farmers are great

great people so can you can you eat meat since you started this job or vegetarian like I was gonna become a vegetarian and then I was like helping out this meat processing plant and so you have to try the product a lot yeah well like yeah yeah yeah so how long you been doing it well this client about six weeks into it how much you doing the job about two years so I started out with our own farm about a year and a half ago. Prior to that I worked in venture capital and I worked in a tech startup. Then I came back to agriculture. So it's kind of been a nonlinear career path here. I started somewhere sexy and ended up not so sexy. I don't know. That's very cool. So how does that track? How do you go from one to the next? Or is it just the normal kind of like i've had my time in this job i'm looking for my next opportunity or is there

do they bleed into each other kind of um well i'm i'm at this particular farmer because i think he's a fantastic entrepreneur and i think that we kind of see a little bit of an opportunity what we're working in nice um what i find super super fascinating is like high growth businesses and so that's kind of where how i see it is like, you know, pick up a job where I think there's potential for a bigger opportunity. And then, you know, I want to validate the opportunity that I go full in on the opportunity. Why do you think the opportunities are good? Because it's so funny because agriculture has been around since like Mesopotamia times, like millions of years ago. Because it's so unsexy.

It's so, so unsexy that no one's looking at it so like i can name you six seven eight low-hanging fruit businesses that i think if someone just puts some time in and some effort and some focus they can make like a huge 100 million 200 million business give us one i think a fractional hr service there's agriculture in general is just missing hr as a service oh you're talking about hr oh so like someone who goes because farms if you have farms like they're they have so many balls that they're juggling like you take a grain farm they got to be commodity traders they got to do the logistics the real like understanding the soil science they got to understand data they got to understand the weather

they got to medicate their risks they're doing so many things that they just don't have time like they're just dropping balls and then margins on farms and the scale that farms are operating at you know aren't that great so they can't just like pay you know someone amazing to do their HR they got to do that so they got to hire they got a fire like they're pretty much like a start-up because they haven't reached that critical point you know where they can have a whole entire army of people working for them and that's kind of the majority of farms right right now I'm just doing freelance work like kind of word-of-mouth that people have just recommended me or I connected with this entrepreneur down in

this thing called T pap which is like a I don't know what to call it except for like an executive like MBA program for producers it was cool you had like all the top you know producers in north america and canada well us and canada they're producers as in like farmers farmers different types of farms all things so six weeks in wisconsin how much do you have to drink to live through that six oh my gosh it's hilarious that you say that because i like i lived in in Miami, and Miami people party in Miami. Don't get me wrong. Of course.

But not going to lie, I think Wisconsin beats Miami in the party scene. I mean, there's not much else to do. Yeah. What part of Wisconsin? I was close to Eau Claire and in between Bloomer and Tilden, like really close to Eau Claire. I've never heard of that. Where's Madison in Milwaukee?

Madison was three hours. Okay, so you're in the booties. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah oh yeah yeah yeah but you know what the people are really good the other thing i think about is into agriculture which i like i worked in finance and venture capital and i was quite arrogant coming back into agriculture but i come back to agriculture and these farmers are so humble but they're freaking executors like we were at this fish fry party and like blue we're in the middle of you know about fucking nowhere wisconsin and like sit and talk to this farmer and you know i'm like oh what do you do yeah i'm a cattle farmer i got some corn and some cattle all right cool like what else he's like no i run a little bit of an export business too wow okay cool like

where do you export a couple countries here and there I talked to my buddy who I'm working for. Turns out this guy's doing, like, $200, $250 million in export sales. And you talk to him, and you just never know. And they won't tell you, like. The guy probably wears, like, what, dungarees and, like, you know, Carhartt sweatshirts? Yeah. I don't know what any of that is, but it was plaid. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, so. So you were in Miami. Were you doing the same thing in miami or was this this was a different uh no i reached i'm originally from canada um winnipeg canada well never built canada jets hell yeah um are you familiar with v-man have you ever heard of a guy named v-man he's vancouver no sorry i just had to check in v-man is like the lore of this podcast we had him on one time and we don't believe he's a real person okay i'll have to google it i'm not 100 sure i know who florida man is yeah this is another

thing yeah so i'm originally from canada and then i went down to florida international university on a beach volleyball scholarship so i played down there yeah and then i was there for six years like i did my scholarship and then i did the BC thing, and then... How does somebody get a beach volleyball scholarship from Canada when it's, like, cold eight months out of the year? Well, the ticket was in normal volleyball, so that's how I got down there, and then I kind of talked my way onto the beach.

But, like, you played summer, so I got a solid, you know, two months to play beach volleyball in the summer, and that was good. Living a Baywatch life. Well, I mean mean in summer we played in like hockey rinks filled with sand so i can't say it was like the the sweetest thing up there in winnipeg but sick hockey rinks filled with sands like you're on a little beach yeah yeah i'd prefer an ocean but yeah yeah i guess so yeah was this d1 was there any olympic hopes

or anything like that um you know i'm a type of person that gets really into what I do, and I think by the time college hit, it was, like, awesome. It took me to FIU, but I kind of wasn't really, yeah, it wasn't really my passion anymore. Sure. But I do have, actually, it's really sweet. So FIU is quite international in general, so a lot of our teammates were from different countries,

and my close friends, they're Austrian, and their names darina and ronja clinger you should look them up on instagram and they're i think 22nd or 21st in the world they'll be in france pardon me are they gonna be in france this summer so they're making a run for it so they have to be top 18 to make a run for it so they got a couple more tournaments to like try to you know finagle their way into the 18th space shout out to who uh darina and ronja clinger they're sisters all right that's i will root for them unless they're playing the americans okay

shout out to the sisters or the canadians or the canadians yeah yeah yep yep yep yep yeah oh my god so like any anything else like what the future holds in terms of like you know it's agriculture today what's tomorrow well i'm gonna stay in the industry i don't i'm not 100 sure i think there's there's three kind of opportunities i'm a little bullish on i'm not sure which one i'm gonna go for yet but anything i'm gonna do i'm gonna say one of them agriculture industry um yeah i guess with this like no not at all i like it ask me ask me ask me in like a year from now keep the trade secrets keep my uh contact and then all right that's been a year from now. Keep the trade secrets. Keep in contact. Shout out to you, man. You talk to the farmers and you're like, I'm screaming poor.

Every farmer I've ever talked to is like, oh, you know, the rains and the winds weren't good this summer. Yeah, they're loaded. I accidentally bought a Walmart. Yeah, he's fucking exporting to, you know, Saudi Arabia. It's like, you're making $250 million and you're wearing, you know, car parts and stuff.

Yeah, dude. We're in the wrong industry. Well, it's industry. It's interesting just because there is a big spectrum. So don't get me wrong. There are, like, you got two tails on it. So there. Yeah.

All right. Yeah. Well, I appreciate you sitting down for more than five minutes. Thank you so much. This was awesome. Great talking to you guys. See, that's what we do. We loop you in with the five minutes and then the conversation is so good and you're here

10, 15 minutes later and we just ruin your time at the at the rocket statue yeah it's okay do you mind me asking if you guys like what so what's your podcast or what do you so uh this is called men at work podcast we started it we're about episode seven i believe um we just go around most of philadelphia a little bit of jersey and stuff but um just go around asking people what they do for a living because kind of people identify with their jobs that's cool so yeah you're just interested in hearing people in their jobs yeah we're secretly recruiting networking okay yeah we're recruiting in this goes belly up guess who we're calling well hey I'll get you a pitchfork you guys want to

come on the farm it's true there you go the way I've been here about these farmers now I'm gonna get to the farming industry I could use an internship one cow well I'm telling you and there there's an untapped market in the content creation space there in agriculture so if you guys want to focus on that there you go there's our jobs we'll start working on the Wisconsin plane tickets today yeah that's a flight to Oshkosh? Where the hell you were at? It's awesome. $400? Whenever we're paying it. I'll buy it.

I'm bringing these guys. All right, we got to get out of here because these goddamn motorcycle people are killing us. Oh, my God, yeah. Yeah. You're our last guest. All right, well, thank you guys. Thanks so much for coming on. Cheers.

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