Early Jobs

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Welcome back to another episode
of a record of my father here.

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Today we're going to talk about
early jobs, right?

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Tell what we're doing.
Yeah, I think so.

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What do you think?
That sounds good.

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Let's do that.
Yeah, I mean, 'cause we were

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talking like we talked about
first jobs and first thing out

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of it and how they affect and
and and we were having a

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conversation about, you know,
where did you learn things in

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your life?
What taught you this lesson or

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that lesson?
And I and I'm a real big

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believer in and early things
that I learned the hard way that

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stuck with me and or I saw them
and how how they applied and how

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later in life that and so many
of those lessons were learned.

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And you know my first early
jobs, I mean I talked about the

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newspaper job and all that kind
of stuff but I never talked

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about my first restaurant job.
I worked for Manny Moon's Pizza

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Run and I mean it was I probably
worked there about two years off

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and on my I think my brother
fired me 3 or 4 *.

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I learned how to work with a
family you know, which was or or

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not work with them.
And also I remember the manager

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kept kept calling me back the
next day saying, well, your

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brother didn't really mean it
and I'm like, yeah, he hates

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that.
So he was the manager, is what

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you're saying?
Well, he was.

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He would be like the head cook
that night and then he would he

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would treat me poorly and I
would respond in an unpositive

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way like I would I would I would
powder the dishes on the floor

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crash.
You know, F you you can't fire

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me.
I quit and then walk out the

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door and then leave them, you
know.

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And it's like I think it taught
both of us a lot because you

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know it's management techniques
were to yell at someone was the

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only one to show up tonight you
got three you're supposed to be

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3 people in the back.
And I was by myself and I was

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doing all the dishes and I was
washing that and I was washing

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the pans and then to on top of
that feed me shit was a bad

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management thing.
And I learned that.

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And then also I realized like
how do you respond, you know,

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how do you respond to that when
people give you a hard time Do

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you do you break property, Which
is what I did, do you, you know?

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And that was it.
I mean and and I would say that

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I was not exclusive.
There were many, many, many

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other people that when they were
upset and they couldn't do

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anything to management that was
yelling at them, they destroyed

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property.
They would break the dishes,

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They would, we would throw the
pizza pans on the roof.

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We would.
I mean, we'd throw stuff into

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the field, 'cause we were just
angry, and there was no recourse

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for that anger.
Where did they that come from?

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Well, the anger came from people
you were working.

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You're working in a in a
kitchen, back, kitchen

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environment.
It's probably 100° back there.

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You you have the radio set for a
certain station and then for

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some reason the cook wants to
listen to a different tune.

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The the, the music sucks.
And he's more senior than you,

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even though they haven't been
there as long as you.

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And they would come back and
switch it and there'd be an

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argument, the Cook's in charge,
blah blah blah.

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And then you're like, screw
that.

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I'm, I've been here a year and
he hasn't been here three

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months.
You know, that kind of silly,

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silly little stuff.
I mean, I was there.

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I was there a little over a
year, and there were all these

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other newer people that were
there like a month or two.

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And I remember my brother coming
back because the lady's bathroom

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was clogged.
And, you know, that was the

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horrible thing to do, was to go
clean it.

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And he comes back with a coat
hanger and he's doing this, hey,

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it's time for you to clean.
I'm like, no, get somebody else

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to do it.
And then then then the way I

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said it was really kind of like
I think I said, F you no stick

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that up your ass.
I mean, I I was very.

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Yeah, personally.
I I was not like, you should

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probably have somebody else with
less than your to do that, which

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would have been the right thing
to say.

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But I didn't say that.
I was like, fuck you, you know,

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'cause it was hot and you're
bothered, and you're 16, and

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every hormone in your body's
exploding at the same time.

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And I said that, and then and
then and then, you know, I I

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forced him into a corner and
then he comes back to me like,

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do it or you're fired.
And that was usually the answer

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to everything.
So this is when you were 16, is

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that about?
Yeah.

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And this just this doesn't that
that management doesn't work for

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a lot of people.
It may work for people that are

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missing the spine, but for me
it's like I I just stuck my face

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right in his face and said fuck
you oh.

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Wow.
You can't fire me because I just

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quit and I walked out the door
and then he's standing there

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with his great management
tactic.

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He's got, he's lost his best
person and he screwed on a

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Friday night and it's like, Oh
my God, now I got two people to

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close on the busiest night of
the week.

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What did you?
Do were.

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You and I just walk home.
It's like 2 mile 2 1/2 miles and

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my anger would settle by the
time I got.

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Home Were you Were you making
the pizzas or were you?

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No.
No, my brother was.

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He was the one that cooked and
he was the one that made the

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pizzas he did.
You were cashier or something?

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No, no.
I was the guy that washed all

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the pots, all the pizza pans,
cleaned all the dishes, I mean

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prepped the cheese, the prep
cook.

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That's a big thing.
You know, we did the prepping.

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I made the meat sauce, I made
the the pizza sauce, I made

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meatballs, made lasagna.
I mean, those are the different

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dishes that were homemade, truly
made there.

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There was ravioli in a can.
I remember somebody came up and

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was like, yeah, I would like
some of that homemade ravioli in

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my My brother holds up the can
and goes, yeah, I'm gonna give

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you some of this homemade
ravioli.

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And the guy just laughed.
I mean, you're paying 495 for

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ravioli.
Come on.

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Oh yeah, it's it.
Ain't homemade.

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The lasagna was we made right
there.

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I mean a lot of.
The stuff we made.

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Right there.
And we had a better cook.

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Pasquale owns a restaurant here
in McLean now and he he was like

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the, you know, when they started
making manicotti and all these

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other like veal dishes that were
a lot more.

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And he went to Maryland, I think
culinary school.

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So he knew a lot about actual
cooking.

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Whereas, you know, we were just
speed, quality, you know, make

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it consistently with good
recipes, good, good ingredients,

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and that made it better.
It's important.

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And and and also I mean I
learned a lot about management.

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I learned how to deal with
people because you had the bus

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girls because they did something
different.

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You had the waitresses and there
was like a whole hierarchy of

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pecking order there.
Like who was in charge of what

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and who could tell you what to
do and how you could tell them

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to EFF off and they could tell
you know and and it's like if

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you got people in the same level
that getting it's just it's

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looking back it it's silly if
you're.

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The manager, What age was he?
I would have made him. 18,

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probably 18. 19 Gotcha.
Well, he's. 16 If I was 16 then

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he was 20.
When I started there I was like

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14 or 14 and a half 15, so I was
probably 15 to 16. 1/2 because

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they, I mean they paid me below
minimum wage.

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They always did.
You know restaurants were real

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that way.
They would give you a $0.25 meal

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ticket every cool hour and that
way they could pay you below

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what the going rate was.
But you wanted it.

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I mean, I also wanted a job
working.

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So I got an idea and I worked
there.

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I work at Chesapeake Bay Seafood
House.

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Worked there for a really short
stint.

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I know where that is, yeah.
Senior in high school, we went

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there after our senior pictures
and we sat there and drank beer

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in the afternoon and I was we
were I was 17, we were all like

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17.
I remember there was like four

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of us.
Peter was I and I the the the

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night manager of course comes in
sees us there goes those guys

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ain't 18 fires.
The waitress which was horrible

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fires us.
We leave we say we would you

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know can we get her job back We
and he's like no she screwed up

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blah, blah blah blah blah.
We left we never thought that we

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could have just said well we're
just going to call the police

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and have your liquor license
ripped.

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We didn't.
We weren't smart enough to do

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that.
But that was that was one of

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those bad lessons that I learned
the and they were.

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That was a horrible place to
work.

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That was much.
That's probably.

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It's crap.
Yeah.

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Well they used to they used to
do stuff like it would take a

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good two.
They would close at 11 and

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they'd clock you out at 12 even
though.

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You were there till 2:30 or
three or something.

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Right.
They'd clock you out and say you

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don't need you guys aren't
working fast enough and you were

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like humping your butt off to
get out of there and they're

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clocking everybody and they're
standing by the clock, holding

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the cards from a lot 1145 on
yelling at you.

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So, so you were never
responsible for your own cart,

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your punching card?
Oh, I know.

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Yeah.
No.

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You had?
It, you punch it in, but they

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would take it off and they would
punch it and you would be like,

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God, what a, what a.
It's kind of illegal.

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Yeah, they.
They do.

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I mean you saw this in the
restaurant industry where

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there's quite a few various, you
know, crimes where there's

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labor, where where people stole,
you know, they they underpaid

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you, you know, and I mean I
think the, the, the thing that I

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learned was once I jump, you
know, you're making two, three,

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$3.00 an hour when you're in in
the restaurant business and then

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you got somebody that's got, oh,
he's now like the fry cook and

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he makes 240 an hour and you
were making 2:15 or he makes

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$3.00 an hour.
He makes $0.50 more than you

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were like, wow, wow, wow.
Well, first job I got in

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construction surely was $6.00 an
hour.

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Wow.
It's.

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A big change.
A big change, right?

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So and everybody, well,
construction's a lot harder.

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I'm like, hell no, you work in
the back of a kitchen.

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Oh my God, you make nothing and
you sweat your brains out.

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You work your ass off, I mean, I
guess.

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You could sneak.
Around and do less, but you know

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and you're working in filth and
it's like what's the difference

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between that and construction.
You know construction to me was

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double the pay for maybe a
little bit harder.

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It's harder physically you're.
Outside, I mean, that's a big

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thing.
You're.

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Outside and you're moving and
all that and and the crew's the

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same.
It's it's just they're a dirtier

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grubbier and a little older, you
know, and they're all and you

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know they all like I would say
there was a whole lot of

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drinking going on there when I
was in, When I was at, it was at

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the restaurants there was
drinking but not till the day

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day was done.
When I was at construction.

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People like they, they drink
before they came to work.

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They, you know, they get high,
you know.

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They were smoking that.
Yeah, yeah.

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We had.
When I did, I work for WG

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Construction and they did.
They worked at this place called

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Harry Diamond Laboratories,
which was shooting electricity

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across an open field that was
like this really wild thing and

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we were building a building
there and.

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What were they supposed to
achieve by shooting electricity

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from across the field?
They were.

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They were trying to see if they
could shoot a beam of

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electricity from one point to
the other with how much they

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would, how much it would
dissipate or how much the like

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you shoot a 1000 volts or
whatever it is it owns or

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whatever and then it goes from
one place to the other and does

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it stay together.
So you could you literally shoot

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a beam of electricity from here
to a location on the other side

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of the world, as opposed to, you
know, what do you need a weapon

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for?
And.

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This is like the electronic
beam, you know, You see that

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stuff and and what was it You
see it in James Bond?

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But they were they.
Were actually they were actually

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doing it.
You don't see it you just hear

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it and they tell you don't touch
anything electric or you'll be

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fried I mean metal or you'll be
fried unless you're in a vehicle

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and then you're grounded.
So it's like it's like that and

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you know and I was asking him
like what do you do he's a

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million volts or more and he
goes, well it's not the volts

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that are bad.
It's the Emperor's.

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I'm saying So is it a whole lot
of I mean is an amps and you

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know and and electricity you
know and volts directly

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proportional.
They're like, well, yeah, I

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don't like, OK, whatever, you
know, And you always get that

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argument and it's like, shut.
Up, just flatlining, like a

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little.
Bit, yeah, a little.

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The little bit I knew about
electricity but but but that

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was, that was an interesting
job.

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Paid well.
Physically grueling, Poor

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management.
You know, they were.

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They were always The crew there
was turning over all the time I

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worked.
I worked as a backhoe operator

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for a while when I worked at
Shirley Construction.

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That was fun.
I wasn't really good at it.

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I'd taken a course at Nova and I
was just good enough to be

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called shitty.
So.

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Yeah, it's difficult now.
Yeah, I mean it's not it's it's

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difficult to learn to do it
properly.

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Probably if you sat on a backhoe
and you got to work there for

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say six months or eight months
digging holes all the time you

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would you would get really good
at it.

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But you need that any time to
practice you need the the

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opportunity.
I mean there was a guy there

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that.
I mean, I remember when when I

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went to another place, it when I
worked asphalt, they said, the

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one guy said I could shave you.
I've seen people that like can

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balance 1/4 and flip it on the
end of it.

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I don't know, that's that's
ridiculous.

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But that reminds me too of a
grandpa.

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He was a crane operator and I
always thought operating cranes

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was something that's scary
'cause you what do you have like

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a one ton cable that comes down
from like?

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Five stories and you're moving.
Six stories, six I don't know,

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5-6 straight.
Around, Yeah, he worked in

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Dulles.
He helped put to put up Dulles.

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Yeah, he built Dulles Airport.
All my my uncle, he's dead now.

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He did.
Thanks for clarifying.

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Yeah, appreciate the Parkway, I.
Was thinking I was wondering.

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Ridge Parkway, I mean he was and
he ran and he, when he started

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it was a steam shovel he did in
the old timey big giant things.

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And I remember I went there and
saw him when I was a kid in the

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60s and he was moving boulders
off.

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And he said we wake up in the we
come out to the job site and we

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would see mountain lions.
They'd be in our camp, you know?

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I don't know.
It would be a little scared.

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Well, no.
Think about this is done in the

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60s.
That was just all wild land that

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was that was mountainous and
there was nothing there.

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And they put a road through the
middle of it.

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It's got this beautiful Rd., but
it totally disturbed all of the

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wildlife there, you know, with
all the heavy equipment to build

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all that stuff for.
The sake of American ingenuity,

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yeah.
Yeah, it's beautiful and

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everything, but it it.
You know that.

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And then I think about like all
my management techniques.

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Did I ever tell the story about
the asphalt when we were?

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I don't think so.
Oh, that's.

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I don't think we did that one
yet.

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Oh the it's it's I worked
asphalt.

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We we we had this thing called a
rotomill which grind which I

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drive or I drive the AV loader
which is pick up the asphalt we

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grind up the road like in the
corners.

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So when you laid the asphalt the
next time it would be even with

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the gutters.
So if you go out and you and yet

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you were in a in any road the
asphalt when you lay on a new

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layer of asphalt that over it
goes over the gutters and then

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the water doesn't leave
properly.

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So what we would do is we would
grind down the sides of each Rd.

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by an inch or two inches
whatever asphalt you're going to

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put on there usually an inch and
a half something like that and

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that was what and that was the
rotor mill.

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But we would go out there every
day we we would show up at, we'd

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show up at the site at six or at
the at the firm.

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It was.
I forget what it was.

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What was the name of it?
Newton Asphalt show there every

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day at like 7:00.
Then we go to the job site.

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On the way we get coffee.
We'd stop at 711 and everybody

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run in and we get coffee and we
do this every day.

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And then we had the manager,
John, who said we're not going

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to get coffee today, we're going
right to the side because it's

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important that we get started
quick.

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So he says this and and
everybody's like, well, we were

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in one truck, he was in another
truck and he was running late

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and he said you guys go directly
there.

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So when I get there we can start
right away.

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I don't want you piddling around
at the coffee store and all that

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stuff.
So we go to the, we go to the

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site and one of the guys jumps
out of the out of the truck,

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runs over to the rotor mill,
pulls the distributor cap off,

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pulls the rotor which is what
makes connects the the

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electricity to the thing to
actually make the engine run,

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puts the cap back on and turns
around and throws the rotor as

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far as he can, which is to the
edge of the parking lot and

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bounces and all that.
And then we go back and you

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know, I just, I didn't know what
he did because I didn't know

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anything about cars at the time
or I mean about vehicles or

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engines or anything that comes
over.

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John gets to the site, tries to
start it up, nothing works.

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So we're down and he's looking
at everything and no one can

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figure out what's wrong with it.
We're sitting over there like,

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you know, whatever.
So then he calls maintenance,

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maintenance, sends the truck
out, mechanic, mechanic comes

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out to the site to see what
we're doing and see what the

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problem is because the machine's
broken.

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So John sends us to the store to
get coffee.

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So we go to the store and we get
our coffee and we come back and

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it's like an hour and a half
because we're way the hell out

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there.
And the and the and the

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mechanics.
Always going from side to side

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to side, picking up and cleaning
stuff.

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Mechanic walks, pulls in his
truck, jumps out, walks over,

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looks at the engine on from the
side, doesn't even open

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anything, doesn't touch
anything, doesn't do anything,

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and he just turns around.
He does like a 360 and starts

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doing this left right look in
the parking lot and he looks

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like this and he's standing.
And he looks over here and he

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walks off to the corner and he
starts walking around the edge

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of the parking lot and about 30
yards of walking.

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He stops, he sees the rotor, he
picks it up, he walks right to

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the engine, he pops the
distributor, he puts it.

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Then he puts it back on.
He hits the start button, he

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turns around, he looks at John,
he says you better fucking stop

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for coffee and he just yells at
him.

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And we were like.
Oh well, did he get fired or no?

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No.
No.

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No, no, but.
But it wasn't his fault.

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Oh, this is the the guy that
came in.

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OK, sorry.
Yeah, this is the manager guy

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that wouldn't let us get coffee.
And it was the line guy that

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threw it and he.
Yelled.

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He knew why that was happening.
Because he knew why?

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Because he'd probably He'd been
a mechanic for 25 years, for

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that firm, for for Newton.
So he knew what people what line

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guys do.
When you piss.

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Them off.
Because when you're pissed off,

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what are you going to do?
You going to beat up John?

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No, you're going to.
You're going to damage the

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equipment.
That's going to slow down the

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job.
So you get a break.

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That's what people do, you know.
And you can say that's wrong all

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you want, but that don't change
the fact that that's what people

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do.
If you don't give me a way to

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vent myself, I'll figure one
out.

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And what does that mean?
And they made their own HR

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department, you know?
Yeah, but when I saw that, I

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mean, that to me was like this
major management lesson that

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said like, wow, that's that's
really wild.

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You know that that that that
that guy knows.

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And he knew it was it was so
weird to watch him get out of

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his truck and walk over and he
had a Snooty look on his face

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when he walked in and he was he
was a friendly friendly guy and

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he just looked mad because he he
already knew what was happening

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and and and just you know and it
was just so cool to watch it

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take place.
And it's like he knew that

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somebody pulled something there
and turned around and didn't

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even like step around the side
or anything and just threw it in

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one of these three directions.
Because he was like would they

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throw it left, right if they're
right-handed or you know because

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it was so weird the way he just
scanned it like that.

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He just, like, looked around the
the perimeter.

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This huge parking lot and then
just started walking in a semi

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circle and boom, finds it and
you're just like, my gosh.

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And it was just sort of like it
was just an amazing little

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thing.
But anyway, you know no.

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No.
But I've seen that.

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I've seen that over and over and
over when people get angry.

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I mean, when we got, we were
supposed to get paid WG, we were

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supposed to.
What was it?

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We were working there as
laborers, and I worked every

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summer, and I would quit on.
I would leave on a Friday and I

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would start school on a Monday.
I would actually take my My

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mother would loan me her car, or
I had my car at that time.

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I would rent a U-Haul, I would
load up my bed and a few other

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things, and I would drive to
Norfolk that Friday night.

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I would look for housing on
Saturday, I would try to find

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housing on Saturday or Sunday
and then I would move in Monday

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morning because usually my
classes were afternoon classes.

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So you would move every weekend,
Is that what you're?

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Saying no, I would move from
Northern Virginia, where I

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lived, at home to work, to go
back to school over the weekend,

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and then I would start school on
Monday or usually like

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Wednesday.
But you would do this every

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weekend, no?
I would do it once a year.

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When the job was over, I was
like, what do you oh, when it

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was over the way you were saying
it?

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Yeah, the way.
The job was.

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When the summer job was coming
to an end and the the reason I

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was saying this is 'cause I had
to work the 20 weeks or 18 weeks

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to get enough money.
There we go.

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Survive.
There's the explanation I.

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Goes and he whacked us like 3
weeks early.

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Blind's not.
And he didn't.

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And he didn't.
And it was sort of like, you

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know, working fast enough.
And you're like, what?

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What do you mean?
You never even told us anything

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at all.
Seems like a common thread.

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Yeah, seems like a common
thread.

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Mentioning that, well, The thing
is, is that they had a contract

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with the government that if they
had too much worker turnover

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that they got extensions on the
job.

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It's always something.
So it wasn't the worker.

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So that's why he kept hiring
people and I kept wondering why

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he just kept firing people.
Like, you know, he would bring

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in new new work crews all the
time and they would last 6 to 8

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weeks and then you get rid of
them for whatever reason and

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then they would get shitty.
Well, he did that to us.

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We took everything that we could
possibly find and we buried it

448
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,120
under the pier pad that was
being laid the next day.

449
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,880
You know, like the, like the the
concrete where it's poured.

450
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,520
The.
Pad and we the transit.

451
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,120
I mean, freaking everything.
I wonder if statute of

452
00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:41,440
limitations has gone out on
that.

453
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,920
But we were so angry about it.
You know, we broke.

454
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,080
We broke all the shovels, all
the handles.

455
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:48,960
Of all the shovels, oh, because
you guys got fired early.

456
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,240
Is that why?
Yeah, they fired us.

457
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,080
And The thing is, is I think
Klaus was his name.

458
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,000
He was going back to school too,
and we were counting on that

459
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,880
money, those last three weeks
and he can't go get a job for

460
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,280
three weeks, I mean.
No.

461
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:08,280
Yeah, So payback's a bitch.
So we, we did what I'd seen done

462
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,640
over and over and over.
We and then they came back the

463
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:16,560
next day and there was there was
no equipment to do any work and

464
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:18,840
they looked for it for about
half the day and they I wonder.

465
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,400
If there's a story about.
Somewhere and they couldn't find

466
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:22,680
it somebody.
'S still telling about that

467
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,680
other than you know.
They couldn't find it.

468
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,920
Gosh and it.
Was gotta be a story in that,

469
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:29,960
yeah.
Well, and then they.

470
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,120
Had to go out and they were like
they didn't know what was there

471
00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:34,440
and what wasn't because they
didn't have.

472
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,800
It wasn't really well organized.
It was usually always in the

473
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,960
back of the trucks.
It was nothing in the trucks

474
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,120
anymore.
It's like, what do we need?

475
00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:42,120
Well, we need shovels.
Well, how many do we need?

476
00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:43,800
Well, we need Rakes.
We need this.

477
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,480
We need to transit.
We need this.

478
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,840
I mean we need levels.
Nobody has levels.

479
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:48,640
What the hell?
What?

480
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,520
Where is everything, you know
and you don't know what you

481
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,560
need.
Well, I mean, it's like the

482
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,120
every homeowner is goes to do a
little project and they start

483
00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:00,600
and they're like, oh, I need a
hammer, a nail and a drill.

484
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,480
And it's like, well, I need
these screws.

485
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,000
Well, I need drill bits well,
and each time you need something

486
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,320
else.
And that's what they were

487
00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:08,280
finding out.
It was a couple days, 'cause I

488
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,880
had somebody that was still
working there that was laughing,

489
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:12,600
'cause he said, yeah, we pretty
much got the day off.

490
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,280
We kind of screwed off the whole
day doing nothing.

491
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:18,200
Looking around for stuff that
you guys buried, you know, it's

492
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,200
like, well, I mean.
But they never came back and

493
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,440
prosecuted anybody.
There wasn't any.

494
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,280
There wasn't any proof.
You know, and I would deny this.

495
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:28,880
This is just a story, so.
You know, Yeah.

496
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,080
It's just a story.
I didn't.

497
00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:31,000
Yeah.
I mean.

498
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,040
You know, we all do things, but
it was like it it it was a one,

499
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,520
it was another one of those
things that you learn from from

500
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,160
you.
You you see what happens when

501
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,560
senior management comes to you.
And that taught me when I

502
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:48,160
started companies to treat the
people at the bottom as good or

503
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,120
better as the people that I
treated across the desk.

504
00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:51,040
For me.
Always.

505
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,560
Never and and like you learn and
I just said The thing is I

506
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,320
always did that I always treated
people that way but when it but

507
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,760
when you did it the other way
and you did it back I I was not

508
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:07,440
a I'm not someone that you want
to you want to treat unfairly is

509
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,960
what I would say no and and and
when I see that you treat other

510
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,360
people unfairly that's actually
worse.

511
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,760
Exactly 'cause.
I feel like I can take it, but

512
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,400
when people treat other
subordinates horribly.

513
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,200
Something about justice, I
think.

514
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,400
Yeah, I I don't know what that
is, but that that justice thing

515
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,040
always.
I've always had that as well.

516
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,160
The sense of unfairness, I think
well.

517
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:33,920
What did you, I mean your what
was your job?

518
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,840
My job.
Well, it's funny, 'cause I don't

519
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,440
think you were ever a teenager
if you didn't work at a pizza

520
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:40,680
place.
I worked at a pizza place when I

521
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,920
was 1819 called.
It was a small pizza joint.

522
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,080
It's called Papa John's.
Yeah, that.

523
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:47,640
That's a really tiny one, isn't
it?

524
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,320
I didn't hear that.
It's microscopic.

525
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,800
And that was actually a fun
time.

526
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,240
That was a good time.
It was easing.

527
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,280
It's incredibly easy.
Learned a lot about different

528
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,440
people's experiences and worked
there with a couple of people

529
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,760
that I knew from elementary
school and then later like saw

530
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,400
eight.
I guess it was what, 10 years

531
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,960
after that.
So that was really cool to see

532
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,960
all these people grown up.
And I had a great time there,

533
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,760
delivered a lot of pizzas.
I remember there was a guy there

534
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,720
that could just pick up the the
pizza pan from the oven with

535
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,320
just his bare hand.
I remember seeing that and he'll

536
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,120
just pick it up and look at you
and he was crazy.

537
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,280
It's a crazy man.
What is that?

538
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,680
That's like 1000°.
It's got to be 900 to 1000°.

539
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,000
And I remember seeing him do
that a bunch.

540
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,520
And then there's a couple other
people, a couple other delivery

541
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:39,840
drivers that were just hilarious
old men there in like their 70s,

542
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,840
talking to one who was from a
rock, who was a doctor, and then

543
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,960
he was a delivery driver then.
Wow, were you fitting?

544
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:47,360
Sad.
It was very, very sad.

545
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,760
You were delivering in McClain,
which was one of the richest zip

546
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,520
codes anywhere.
How did that affect you?

547
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:56,920
I mean, were you getting
$1,000,000 tips?

548
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,920
Or what I mean, I noticed you
didn't.

549
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,320
Say how it works for high.
School.

550
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,360
I think tips are worse from
people that have never

551
00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:06,160
experienced a a blue collar job
like that.

552
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,640
Or maybe they have this sense of
yo, I earned it so you need to

553
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,280
earn it too.
I don't know, but I remember

554
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,400
$300.00 orders and getting
tipped like $0.50 to like round

555
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,960
down like the dollar and it's
just like, wow, wow, I don't

556
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:19,840
know.
It's it's something, there's

557
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,120
something about it.
There's something about the

558
00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:25,520
disrespect that delivery drivers
get, which I think is I have

559
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,480
some animosity.
What about the one?

560
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,800
Was it Instagram?
What?

561
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,960
What do you you?
Called me when somebody

562
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,880
delivered a pizza to our house.
Yeah, I did.

563
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,360
I did.
What was that?

564
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,800
Oh yeah.
I remember there was a group

565
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,880
chat on Snapchat, I think, at
the time, and my my friend said,

566
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,680
oh, I got a $20 tip and I was
like, oh, what was the house?

567
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,720
And it was our house, yeah.
And I thought that was, that was

568
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:55,720
great.
Yeah.

569
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,080
Yeah.
Well, I just The thing is I

570
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,320
remembered that you used to talk
about how people, how shittily

571
00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:02,840
people.
They stiff you all the.

572
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,520
Time.
And I'm going like, well, I'm

573
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,640
gonna make this guy's day.
And no, exactly.

574
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,200
Yeah, and he just like he tried
to give it back to me.

575
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,160
Yeah.
Which I thought was funny.

576
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,560
I thought that was so like well
this is you sure This seems like

577
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,080
this is you sure I was.
Like, it almost feels wrong,

578
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:21,440
right?
You know, I think it yeah.

579
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:23,920
Because you're you're never
treated like a human being.

580
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,000
And when you're treated like a
human being, you're surprised.

581
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:27,200
You don't know how to deal with
it.

582
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,280
Yeah, know that it's true.
Always overkill, but whatever,

583
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:34,080
you know and and I'm that kind
of person that I'm always doing

584
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:35,880
things.
Sometimes a little too much.

585
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,840
But hey, that's one of my many
weaknesses.

586
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,720
Well, yes, I think that all
people should be treated as

587
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,000
humans in their in their job.
I think about all that.

588
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,880
Of the job, I mean.
I talked about asphalt.

589
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:56,920
I talked about, oh, concrete.
That was physically crazy.

590
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:02,880
Hardest I've ever had.
Probably best physical shape I

591
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,000
was ever in.
Those one were pouring

592
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,920
foundations for houses well.
Yeah, we did.

593
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,560
We did houses.
We did a community called

594
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,040
Montclair.
We did a lot of the house, the

595
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:13,200
walls there.
Let's see.

596
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:14,440
Somebody that lived there
actually.

597
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,800
And we did Burke, we did a a a
number of little developments

598
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,440
within Burke.
We did a number of I think a few

599
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:26,280
in Springfield.
But I was a footer foreman and I

600
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,600
for about.
I did it for about two years.

601
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,160
You know, I did it for a summer
and the money was incredible.

602
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,080
I mean, the money was
incredible, but the work was you

603
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,600
got there at six and you worked
6:00 to 6:00 Monday through

604
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,440
Friday, and Saturday was a short
day.

605
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,000
So if you got off by three,
you'd you'd usually get out by

606
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,280
2:30 or 3:00.
And it was just like, wow.

607
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:50,920
And then I had a part time job
on Sunday.

608
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,680
I worked as a gardener, of all
things.

609
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,840
Oh yeah, yeah, I was working.
Seven days a week.

610
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,480
And then that's when I got the
DWI and I remember going in

611
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,760
front of the guy and he said you
gotta you, you, you, you gotta

612
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,520
tell us when you're not working.
I said well I work Monday

613
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,680
through Saturday here that works
Sunday here and he goes, no, no,

614
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,920
you got to, you got to give us a
day you can't worry going to say

615
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:09,840
that you're not going to be
working.

616
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,520
I said but, but I got two jobs
and I'm working all the time and

617
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:17,240
he goes take a day.
And I said OK Sunday, you know,

618
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:23,160
I drove anyway, but I never got
caught, so I didn't care.

619
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,960
It was like, yeah, I was like,
well, I was like 6 months of

620
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,760
'cause I was stupid, you know, I
mean you, you, you when you

621
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,360
drive hammered you it.
It isn't about the risk to

622
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,560
yourself.
I mean, I mean the general.

623
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,520
I can never, I can never say
it's good.

624
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:36,760
It's like it was about the.
Risk.

625
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,960
It's a terrible thing.
It's other people, you know?

626
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,240
I would hurt people and I.
And to this day, I gotta say,

627
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,520
I'm the luckiest man in the
world.

628
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,440
I mean, we should do an episode
on the on the stupid things that

629
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,160
you do when you're hammered.
That might be next episode that

630
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:52,000
sounds like.
I mean, yeah.

631
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,200
That's a little revealing and a
little scary.

632
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,760
And I mean the stories, you
know, the Georgetown Bridge

633
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:03,400
story, the the phone book story,
the Oh my God, they go on and on

634
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:04,440
and.
On we'll censor.

635
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:05,760
We'll censor some of those
stories.

636
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,360
That story I did.
Before I went out I I did my SA

637
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,560
TS.
I mean before then, I mean the

638
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,560
night before Oh my gosh.
I remember I was trying to put

639
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:18,840
my keys into the dash and I was
panging them on the dash and

640
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,400
they were the the keyhole was on
the column of the thing and a

641
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:29,360
buddy walks up and goes you you
can't drive.

642
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,800
And I was like and then he goes
move over and he moved over and

643
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,600
he drove me home.
Saved your life, yeah.

644
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,080
I mean, he drove me home and it
was like 20 miles.

645
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,160
He drove me to my house but he
needed a ride.

646
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,360
But then he ended up walking
from my house to his house and

647
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,960
he put the keys on on the thing.
So the next morning at like

648
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,880
7:00, so I had to go take.
I was taking SAT's 'cause I want

649
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,400
to get in school and I busted
1000, so.

650
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,000
Wow, that's shocking.
I was.

651
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,040
I was just like the most
hungover rat and I still busted

652
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:00,080
1000.
And this is what?

653
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,680
Yeah.
Well on that note, I think that

654
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,720
we're gonna close out here.
We're we're coming up on our

655
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,800
time and as always thank you for
listening and I hope that you've

656
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,720
been enjoying our consistency
this year more so than last.

657
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,560
We're getting we're getting
better, we're getting better at

658
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,440
it, I think and hopefully my mic
didn't got here, my headphones

659
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:25,160
went quiet, but I might have
gone to my computer microphone.

660
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,560
Let's hope not.
But otherwise, do you have any

661
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,960
final words to say to close this
out here?

662
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:36,800
I would say leave comments and
Zach will give you $5 via Venmo.

663
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:46,640
$5 per comment and that's.
With a maximum of 235551 per

664
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,000
person.
One per person.

665
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,120
All right, everybody, we're.
Going to pay for it, man.

666
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,280
We'll see you next week on a
record of my.

667
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,480
Father and we've invited Joe
Rogan, but he doesn't seem to

668
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,360
want to show up.
One day he will.

669
00:32:58,680 --> 00:32:58,960
Yeah, he.