Stavvy's World - Bonus #118 - Dan Carney [PATREON PREVIEW]

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

Patreon preview. Unlock full episodes at https://www.patreon.com/c/stavvysworld Dan Carney joins the pod to discuss his bootstrapping days as a janitor at a Chick-fil-A in Times Square, coming from the infamous town of Brandon, FL, exploiting himself for Uber rides and low-level opportunities, and much more. Stav and Dan help callers including an overeducated woman who loves her hometown but is unimpressed by her dating prospects, and a stay-at-home mom who feels judged by her friend for not circumcising her son. Watch Dan Carney's series Run Club: https://www.youtube.com/@RunClubTheShow    Follow Dan Carney on social media:  https://www.instagram.com/danmancarney/ https://twitter.com/DanManCarney 🎟️ See Stavvy live on the Dreamboat Tour 🛥️💕!!! https://stavvy.biz/ for tickets 🎥 Rent or buy LET'S START A CULT at https://stavvy.biz/movie ‼️ Bonus episodes every week! Unlock exclusive, Patreon-only episodes at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld ☎️ Wanna be part of the show? Call 904-800-STAV and leave a voicemail to get advice!

My first job here, I was pretty much like a janitor at Chick-fil-A at Times Square. Like literally, I was mopping floors, cleaning up. We had a guy overdose on our bathroom. I cleaned up his vomit. And the first half of the day, I had like white windows. They'd be like, dude, it was like in 40 hours a week I was doing this. Do you think maybe I could fry the chicken? They're like, hey, hey, hey, let's take it easy. You're afraid. with that pretty smile Wow how much you have to say did you say my pleasure a lot or dude? Oh, yeah

Yeah, so like I like when I first moved here I like I like hooked up with this girl who like worked at chick-fil-a corporate Literally the fucking for every hookup. You fucked... My son is fucking for a janitorial... He's processing himself for Ubers. And the fucking privilege to wipe down... Bum diarrhea from fucking Chick-fil-A. My son is a whore.

With no concept of the market value of his own asshole. Holy shit. Yeah, man. I was voted back for anybody, dude. So you fucked this girl at Chick-fil-A corporate? Just like one time, the craziest thing I saw was like, after the lunch rush, you know,

everyone's just kind of trying to catch their breath. You know, there's a big, huge window. You can see like the street on 37th Street in Manhattan. And like I was like at the front of the door, we'd have like little iPads to kind of catch people as they come in to like be more efficient. So I'm taking this guy's order, right? It's like just me and him in the store. It's like after lunch rush.

And then as I'm taking his order, this like fire, a truck associated with the fire department comes and like a few guys get out, not a fire truck, but like, you know, whatever. Yeah, like a SUV with the emblem on it. Yes, and it says like fire department in New York. And these guys get out, they lift up this manhole and one of the guys climbs in and within seconds fire exploded from this manhole. The circumference of the manhole, like 20 feet in the air. And I'm watching it happen with the guy whose order I'm taking and he is like, like he just saw a ghost. I'm like exhausted. You know, like I'm more work and dude this guy is like, you should do something. I can't believe 9-11-2 is happening. He was like, you should call 911.

And I'm like, would you like to make that a meal? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, why you call 911, guy? I'm on the clock. What do you think? I'm a public servant? Yes, now I do everything. Oh, I'm sorry.

And I just jump through the window and save this guy. And so this guy was horrified. He told, I remember like talking to The people like at the front desk these like pointing and they don't give a fuck of course everyone there was on food stamps Yeah, and like they're like fuck you. What are you? minimum wage yeah, it was 15 an hour And that's only because you're in New York. Yes anywhere else It would have been so much less pennies and like so we got one free meal Florida minimum wage

It's just I was I was rich compared to it And so we get one free meal and then like one meal is 50% off that we couldn't take home with us We had to eat it there But yeah, and then so the explosion thing happened the two other guys like peered into the manhole And then got back in the truck and left the guy. Yeah, that was that was that was what I saw. I don't know what happened. But like that was the full arc of the story. They put the manhole cover back on and just fucking drove off, dude.

I mean, hopefully that guy got out somewhere else. You would hope. You would hope. Maybe they looked down like, OK, we're all good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was like, you know, it was weird. It was like cartoonish, you know. know yeah those guys didn't seem troubled did they or did they were like what was that yeah curious curious would be all right be the would be the expression that they had on their face so that was like obviously the craziest day and then like the like the way you know I ended up

quitting that job the last thing that I ever- Quickly or how long? Two months you said or no? I think like two months. And then like, I remember like a month after I quit, there was like this dude that I was like, became like friendly with or whatever at Chick-fil-A. He was like one of the cooks and you know, he'd hook it up for me sometimes.

Like, and he like DM'd me on Instagram. He was like, hey bro, how's it going? Whatever. And we're just kind of chopping it up. And he's like, hey, look man, I got to bail my boy out. Can I get $20 from you? Oh my God. Yeah. He like hit me up like get 20 bucks. For $20? Yeah. And you hadn't talked to him? I hadn't talked to him like over a month. Yeah. Damn dude. So that was the last I heard from that Chick-fil-A. Yeah. Damn. I've been, it's a good Chick-fil-A, you know? It's great. It's great. I still eat Chick-fil-A.

That's how good Chick-fil-A is. Yeah Yeah, I did all that and I still enjoy their dishes 22 months those like that's that's so it's such a funny menial labor ass job Yes, it was definitely I think the most menial labor job that I had