December 15, 2025 • 22 mins
Host Jeremy Odem is BACK with a brand new episode of the award winning, chart topping, world wide sensation, Laugh with Me Podcast. This week, Jeremy feels the positive energy from a compliment and parlays that into saving a Turkey's life. Also, JO has the cops called on him at work!
In this episode:
-JO receives an amazing compliment
-Saving a turkey's life
-Why the cops were called on me at work
AND SO MUCH MORE
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is laugh
with Me at podcast with Jeremy to buy your home, Ja.
Oh and your boy is back build up with iron today. Yes, Johnny,
(00:55):
I got an infusion of iron. Thank you, Thank you
to the nurses. Well really, I'm just gonna think the
nurses because I didn't see a damn doctor on site.
That's okay. Sometimes you don't want to see the doctors.
Sometimes nurses will get you what you need. These nurses
(01:17):
in particular, super kind. They said I smelled good. I
don't know if they were just wanting to start their
day right with a compliment, but I enjoyed that compliment.
That was very nice. I was wearing Channel Blue. For
those wonder had I showered right before? No, no, I
(01:37):
did not. Actually it was early in the morning. I
got out of bed, freshened up, went right in to
the hospital. Gotta taken care of though. Got that iron,
so I am good for the holiday season. Yeah, or
as my work calls it, filling up the tank. It's
(02:03):
a gas station joke for those that keeping track. But
I don't get the iron for them. I don't get
the iron for work. Okay, this is this is for
the people. This is for you, Okay, this is I
get to do this with the people. I had to
stay alive. Rankly, speaking of staying alive, I would like
(02:24):
to go onto the record as saying, I, Jeremy Odom
saved a turkey. Yes, I saved a turkey, Johnny. And no,
I didn't eat a turkey at Thanksgiving. And that's what
I'm calling saving a turkey. No, no, no, Although I
(02:46):
could see how one would think that because a lot
of times when people are like, I saved a turkey's
life this year, and that just means you didn't eat turkey.
You had like ham or maybe a salad. I don't know.
I don't know what you eat for Thanksgiving. I did
eat turkey at Thanksgiving. This came after Thanksgiving. This was
(03:10):
a real life, actual turkeys. Because when you think about it,
remember I've got a background in the grocery industry. Okay,
you not eating a turkey at Thanksgiving absolutely didn't save shit. Okay,
I just want that to go on record right now.
He said, unless you're unless you're allergic, and then maybe
save your life. But it certainly didn't save a turkey's life.
(03:31):
Because all that all the turkeys that we eat. It's
all been taking care of the year prior. Okay, there's
not gonna be one less turkey butchered taken out just
because you decided not to eat one on Thanksgiving. No,
that's all taking care of your prior turkeys. The turkey's
(03:53):
going to the stores or going to the stores. Okay,
Now this was this was a wild turkey out there
in the streets literally, So let me paint the picture
for you. So it's a six six lane road. Okay,
we got three going one way through the other and
with a big old median in the middle. Right, grass
(04:14):
out doing some holiday shopping. And then you see this
turkey just pacing back and forth wildly in the middle
of the median, just back and forth, back and forth,
back and forth, not sure which way to go. On one side,
you've got a shopping center. Okay, there's a Walmart and
a Target, a home depot. On the other one, there's
like a ditch that leads up to another portal road
(04:37):
and then a school, a neighborhood, some trees, whatnot. I
would assume that's where that's where that turkey was trying
to get to. I wouldn't think the turkey was trying
to go shopping. Although now I think about it as
a time of year. I mean, you just you really
(04:58):
don't know. This turkey was furiously back and forth, back
and forth, back and forth, just a pacing and it
was busy traffic flying middle of the day on a Saturday.
I think it was just flying around. Do a little
bit of shopping. Come out of the turkey, back and forth,
back and forth, get out of the car. So not
(05:21):
just out of the car. I had to park the
car across the street at the portal road is where
I ended up. It was the traffic was too much
to just like pull over. You couldn't really there is
a turning lane. But I mean it's like I said,
it is very busy. It is the shopping time of year.
(05:43):
I mean there was just hundreds of cars flying through
here every couple of minutes. So you have to go
across the street, go to the portal road, then get
through the ditch, and then fight through the traffic to
get across the street onto the media on foot to
try to get this turkey. Now, as I'm walking over
(06:03):
to the road before crossing it, there's this truck that
comes by and he hops onto the median. So now
we got a truck on the media, and this turkey
is just going back and forth, back and forth, back
and forth, doesn't know what's going on. I thought, all right,
these good Samaritans here, I don't have to do it.
These guys will do it. No, they had just come
(06:24):
from the home depot, and I think they were just
strapping down their wood or something. I don't know. I
usually just pull my pants up for that, have I right, Johnny?
But no, they weren't gonna help those turkeys out at all,
or that turkey out at all. So so I push forward,
run across the street. Sure enough, I'll throw my gloves
(06:50):
the turkey back and forth, back and forth, back and forth,
seize me. I start to approach the turkey because my
thought was, I got these gloves on. What I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna swoop up the turkey, carry the
turkey across the street, drop the turkey. Everybody's happy. But
what I didn't anticipate was how big this motherfucker was.
(07:13):
I didn't I. When you're driving by, You're like, oh,
there's a turkey. That's a big that's a big boy
right there. But then when you walk up to it,
I mean, the turkeys are bag It was quite the
animal here, and uh. I started to think, Yeah, I'm
not swooping up this turkey, because what will happen is
(07:34):
with its long ass neck, it's just gonna start pecking
at me or something. But as I got closer, the
turkey could obviously see I was trying to help, saw
which direction I came from. I started to move toward
the turkey at an angle that it would go towards
the side of the road that was away from the
(07:54):
shopping center. And immediately the turkey just took off running
just as they're there's no cars. I looked both I
looked both ways for both of us, and there was
no cars coming. Boom. I chased the turkey across the street.
We both get over safely. That turkey couldn't have been
more appreciative. I'm just gonna tell you that right now, Johnny,
that turkey was very happy to be back on the
(08:19):
right side of the road. And I just want to say,
I'm I'm not calling myself a hero. Okay, that's not me.
I'm not doing that, but people are doing that. People
are calling me a hero. And I like to think
(08:40):
once this episode comes out, that that's that's really all
people are gonna talking about IVY press releases. I don't know.
I don't know, Johnny, but I do know when you
were in the op, when you have the opportunity and
you're in the position to do the right thing, you
should do the right thing. And in this instance, I
feel like I did the right thing. I chased that
(09:02):
turkey across the road. And I'll tell you what, I
do it again too, Okay, I'd do it again in
a heartbeat. I would help that turkey across the road.
So for those of you that are like, oh, I
did not eat turkey this Thanksgiving, I saved a turkey's life,
(09:23):
I say that some bullshit. I don't think you saved anything.
I in fact save the turkeys left, Okay. And I
like to think that turkey is out there right now
in Omaha, just telling its story to its other animal friends.
(09:45):
I did see any other turkeys, okay. So I don't
know if this turkey lives amongst other turkeys, or if
this turkey lives amongst squirrels and feral cats, some dogs,
maybe some raccoon. I see raccoons everywhere these days. Skunks.
(10:12):
Side note when people say, man, I see raccoons everywhere
these days, do you do you? What do you? What
does that mean? Like, I'll tell you what I meant.
I've driving around, I have seen raccoons either running across
the road early early, early in the morning, or I've
seen them dead from getting hit by cars or whatever.
(10:35):
I can imagine people would be like, I see raccoons
everywhere these days, and they're like, I got one in
the basement. I saw raccoon rob Us seven eleven the
other day. It's because he wears the mask, you know,
he's got the thighs, the stripes. Yeah, that's that's what
(10:58):
I meant by it. And this turkey, who's he? Who's
he living with? Who's this turkey like socializing with eating,
with having a drink of rain water with? I don't know,
but I do know that when the stories are told
by this turkey, it's gonna be pretty simple. When this
(11:21):
turkey is saying, hey, here's what happened to me this week,
this turkey is gonna say a nobble gobble. And as
if it wasn't exciting enough that I've had to save
turkey's life recently on the flip side, I had the
(11:46):
cops called on me at h at work the other day.
And you might be thinking, well, this has got to
be a silly situation where a customer, you know, was
mad about something. Well, the price is wrong, I'm to
call the cops on you. You're ripping us off. No,
that's not what happened, and no I'm not. No, this
(12:08):
was actually one of my employees. You decide if that's
worse or not, the customer or one of your people
calling the cops on you. Here's my story, Here's what
I know. Okay, here are the facts laid out in
front of you. It's a Saturday, Okay. I was off
(12:29):
that particular Saturday. In fact, I wasn't even supposed to
be in town. I was supposed to go out of
town for a family Christmas event. But the weather, the
weather changed that there was some snow in Iowa. I
didn't quite make it over, stayed home. But I'm getting calls.
I'm getting text all day. Oh so and so sick,
blah blah blah. People are calling out. Next thing you know,
(12:51):
Jayo's got a jump in action and go work on
a Saturday night. We're not supposed to be off, And
that's what that happens, right, do the right thing, go
to work, help the people. So I'm like, all right,
I'll go in. I gotta go help close this kitchen down. Now,
it wasn't gonna just be me. It was gonna be
me working the latest, but there was gonna be somebody
(13:13):
there for two hours working with me to help me
make all these pizzas. A lot of pizza orders coming in. Now,
this particular guy thought it would be funny that when
I showed up, the first thing he does is come
up to me and start laughing that I had to
(13:36):
come into work on my day off. First of all, no,
that's not funny. It was pretty frustrated in fact, because
they know all these people calling out there, no one
would come into work, so I gotta come in. I'm off.
What would have happened had I been out, like still
out of town for the family event like that? Well
(13:56):
then what wena shut the whole place down? This guy
he's over there, oh, and I'm like, oh, that's funny. Huh,
that's hilarious. So we have some back and forth. You know,
I'm the boss. I'm just like, get up. If you
think you can do this. I'm just gonna go home
and enjoy my day. You can finish this. So then
(14:17):
he's coming back at me. Then maybe he'll just go
home now because suddenly he doesn't like the way I'm
talking to him. That's fine. Get out of here, dude,
get gone. So now he's mad, right now, he's mad,
and there's a lot going on. So I'm like running
around trying to get things done, orders for people, cleaning
(14:40):
up plays, some mess. Not happy, right, not happy boss,
very frustrated. He decides this is the time. He's now
going to go into the store like manager's office. He
goes into my office and he is just taking down
phone numbers left and right because he he is not
happy with how I talked to him. That's fine, I'm
(15:06):
totally cool with it. I'm the one that had to
come in on my day. Oh I'm not this fella.
Close the door, opened the door, and I'm like, dude,
just go like just go, like get out of the office,
just go if you're not gonna work, if you're gonna work,
we got stuff to do. Dude. He's like, I call
the police, What do you mean for? What did something happen. Yeah,
(15:29):
you you happened. I don't like the way you're talking
to me. I'm like, you realize that does not constitute
an emergency. There is literally nothing here that constitutes calling
the police. I called him that's cool, So I'm like,
you gotta go outside, then you gotta go, like just leave.
(15:50):
He's like, I'm not going outside, and it was pretty cold,
so I didn't really, you know, make him go outside.
He's like, what are you gonna do about it? Like, well,
I'm not gonna do anything. You already call the cops.
They're I'm gonna have that movie like they're they're gonna
remove you, which ended up being true because just a
few minutes later, cop rolls up and he's just like,
(16:10):
you're the manager. Yeah, sorry, you're having to deal with this.
This is not an emergency and he goes, no, it's not.
He's like, I am not your HR department. I'm like,
I totally get it, dude. So I apologize to him
for wasting his time, Like why did we call the police?
Why do people today you just call the police. I
(16:32):
saw on Facebook the other day somebody had walked into
a into subway and didn't see an employee, any employees,
so they called the police. Well, the employees were in
the back. I mean, you could probably have yelled or
made a loud noise or something and somebody's gonna come
out and help you, or you could just leave and
(16:54):
go to a different subway. Either way, the police are
not your HR department. But this fellow ended up. He
did leave a very colorful message on the HR departments
mess uh voicemail though, and yeah, that person no longer
(17:15):
works for us, which isn't funny because he did. He
did some good things. But this was a wild one.
Why why would you ever think that you could just
run them up, leaving all these voice smails, just yelling,
and then call the police, all because you didn't agree
(17:38):
with the way somebody was talking to you. And honestly,
the person who at the very beginning, who wouldn't, who
shouldn't have been happy with the way somebody was talking
to him? It was him to me. But I didn't
call the police, nor did I think that that was
an option. Now better you know what's an option? I mean,
(18:00):
who knows for next time? It's wild. I was actually
I just got off of a guest appearance on the
Black guy who Tips podcast, Rod and Karen awesome podcasts.
They're like the OG's of podcasting. The True Story. You
gotta check them out. You can find them in the
iHeart Network. I was just on their show and we
(18:23):
were just talking about how things have changed since twenty
twenty since COVID, Like the world shuts down and then
people start to get out a little bit and they
just lose their minds. And it's so true. It's like everybody,
it's the culture out there right now. I don't know
what to do how to change it, Like, I just
don't know how we can get back to being respectful
(18:44):
people and thinking and listening. But I'll tell you what,
we are not there right now. In twenty twenty five,
we're about to hit twenty six, and it just feels
like we're ramping up even more. So, Yeah, that's my story.
Cops called on me. I save the Turkey, and I
(19:10):
will say I not only got rid of that situation,
like we got rid, we got through that situation. Okay,
I cleaned the kitchen, I serve all those made all
those orders, got those orders out in excellent customer service.
Excellent customer service. So I don't know some people would
(19:31):
say that I'm you know, I'm doing I'm doing God's
work this week. I'm and I'm on reck. I'm not
saying that I'm not some people. Some people are saying, no,
that's not a joke, Johnny. Some people are actually psych
it's a little worked up about it. Yeah, like I
(19:54):
was saying, I just guessed it on the Black Eye
Who Tis podcast with Rod and Karen. They were fantastic
and they are actually going to be joining us on
Laugh with Me here this month still, so we've got
that to look forward to. That's exciting. And I don't
know if I've talked too much about WTL Where's the Line?
(20:16):
The sports betting podcast that I also coost with Andy Klausen.
If you haven't gotten in on that, please take give
a listen. It's not just sports bet very entertaining show.
It's a lot of fun. Give it a go. WTL.
Where's the line? You can find that anywhere that you
listen to your favorite podcast. There you go, Johnny. I
(20:41):
don't know if you've had a week like mine. I
know you didn't save any turkeys. You sure as shit
didn't have any cops called after you. And for what
I mean the last time, Johnny, the last time you
had the cops call on you because you were threatening
to beat them up. I didn't do that threaten I
beat anybody up. In fact, I don't know how many
(21:02):
people I could beat up with this condition. I just
I just got filled up with that iron. You know that. Man.
When I don't got that iron in me, oh, I
get tired, I get damn tired. I get grouchy. I
don't get to I don't get my naps. I don't
know if I'm rapidly turning into a very old senior
(21:25):
citizen or if I'm turning into a toddler like I
don't know which one I'm turning into faster, But I'll
tell you what. I don't get a nap. I get grouchy.
Once I'm filled up, man, I can go. I can
go a little bit. That's the show. We'll get your
(21:47):
next dime. Thanks for listening.
Welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is laugh
with Me at podcast with Jeremy to buy your home, Ja.
Oh and your boy is back build up with iron today. Yes, Johnny,
(00:55):
I got an infusion of iron. Thank you, Thank you
to the nurses. Well really, I'm just gonna think the
nurses because I didn't see a damn doctor on site.
That's okay. Sometimes you don't want to see the doctors.
Sometimes nurses will get you what you need. These nurses
(01:17):
in particular, super kind. They said I smelled good. I
don't know if they were just wanting to start their
day right with a compliment, but I enjoyed that compliment.
That was very nice. I was wearing Channel Blue. For
those wonder had I showered right before? No, no, I
(01:37):
did not. Actually it was early in the morning. I
got out of bed, freshened up, went right in to
the hospital. Gotta taken care of though. Got that iron,
so I am good for the holiday season. Yeah, or
as my work calls it, filling up the tank. It's
(02:03):
a gas station joke for those that keeping track. But
I don't get the iron for them. I don't get
the iron for work. Okay, this is this is for
the people. This is for you, Okay, this is I
get to do this with the people. I had to
stay alive. Rankly, speaking of staying alive, I would like
(02:24):
to go onto the record as saying, I, Jeremy Odom
saved a turkey. Yes, I saved a turkey, Johnny. And no,
I didn't eat a turkey at Thanksgiving. And that's what
I'm calling saving a turkey. No, no, no, Although I
(02:46):
could see how one would think that because a lot
of times when people are like, I saved a turkey's
life this year, and that just means you didn't eat turkey.
You had like ham or maybe a salad. I don't know.
I don't know what you eat for Thanksgiving. I did
eat turkey at Thanksgiving. This came after Thanksgiving. This was
(03:10):
a real life, actual turkeys. Because when you think about it,
remember I've got a background in the grocery industry. Okay,
you not eating a turkey at Thanksgiving absolutely didn't save shit. Okay,
I just want that to go on record right now.
He said, unless you're unless you're allergic, and then maybe
save your life. But it certainly didn't save a turkey's life.
(03:31):
Because all that all the turkeys that we eat. It's
all been taking care of the year prior. Okay, there's
not gonna be one less turkey butchered taken out just
because you decided not to eat one on Thanksgiving. No,
that's all taking care of your prior turkeys. The turkey's
(03:53):
going to the stores or going to the stores. Okay,
Now this was this was a wild turkey out there
in the streets literally, So let me paint the picture
for you. So it's a six six lane road. Okay,
we got three going one way through the other and
with a big old median in the middle. Right, grass
(04:14):
out doing some holiday shopping. And then you see this
turkey just pacing back and forth wildly in the middle
of the median, just back and forth, back and forth,
back and forth, not sure which way to go. On one side,
you've got a shopping center. Okay, there's a Walmart and
a Target, a home depot. On the other one, there's
like a ditch that leads up to another portal road
(04:37):
and then a school, a neighborhood, some trees, whatnot. I
would assume that's where that's where that turkey was trying
to get to. I wouldn't think the turkey was trying
to go shopping. Although now I think about it as
a time of year. I mean, you just you really
(04:58):
don't know. This turkey was furiously back and forth, back
and forth, back and forth, just a pacing and it
was busy traffic flying middle of the day on a Saturday.
I think it was just flying around. Do a little
bit of shopping. Come out of the turkey, back and forth,
back and forth, get out of the car. So not
(05:21):
just out of the car. I had to park the
car across the street at the portal road is where
I ended up. It was the traffic was too much
to just like pull over. You couldn't really there is
a turning lane. But I mean it's like I said,
it is very busy. It is the shopping time of year.
(05:43):
I mean there was just hundreds of cars flying through
here every couple of minutes. So you have to go
across the street, go to the portal road, then get
through the ditch, and then fight through the traffic to
get across the street onto the media on foot to
try to get this turkey. Now, as I'm walking over
(06:03):
to the road before crossing it, there's this truck that
comes by and he hops onto the median. So now
we got a truck on the media, and this turkey
is just going back and forth, back and forth, back
and forth, doesn't know what's going on. I thought, all right,
these good Samaritans here, I don't have to do it.
These guys will do it. No, they had just come
(06:24):
from the home depot, and I think they were just
strapping down their wood or something. I don't know. I
usually just pull my pants up for that, have I right, Johnny?
But no, they weren't gonna help those turkeys out at all,
or that turkey out at all. So so I push forward,
run across the street. Sure enough, I'll throw my gloves
(06:50):
the turkey back and forth, back and forth, back and forth,
seize me. I start to approach the turkey because my
thought was, I got these gloves on. What I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna swoop up the turkey, carry the
turkey across the street, drop the turkey. Everybody's happy. But
what I didn't anticipate was how big this motherfucker was.
(07:13):
I didn't I. When you're driving by, You're like, oh,
there's a turkey. That's a big that's a big boy
right there. But then when you walk up to it,
I mean, the turkeys are bag It was quite the
animal here, and uh. I started to think, Yeah, I'm
not swooping up this turkey, because what will happen is
(07:34):
with its long ass neck, it's just gonna start pecking
at me or something. But as I got closer, the
turkey could obviously see I was trying to help, saw
which direction I came from. I started to move toward
the turkey at an angle that it would go towards
the side of the road that was away from the
(07:54):
shopping center. And immediately the turkey just took off running
just as they're there's no cars. I looked both I
looked both ways for both of us, and there was
no cars coming. Boom. I chased the turkey across the street.
We both get over safely. That turkey couldn't have been
more appreciative. I'm just gonna tell you that right now, Johnny,
that turkey was very happy to be back on the
(08:19):
right side of the road. And I just want to say,
I'm I'm not calling myself a hero. Okay, that's not me.
I'm not doing that, but people are doing that. People
are calling me a hero. And I like to think
(08:40):
once this episode comes out, that that's that's really all
people are gonna talking about IVY press releases. I don't know.
I don't know, Johnny, but I do know when you
were in the op, when you have the opportunity and
you're in the position to do the right thing, you
should do the right thing. And in this instance, I
feel like I did the right thing. I chased that
(09:02):
turkey across the road. And I'll tell you what, I
do it again too, Okay, I'd do it again in
a heartbeat. I would help that turkey across the road.
So for those of you that are like, oh, I
did not eat turkey this Thanksgiving, I saved a turkey's life,
(09:23):
I say that some bullshit. I don't think you saved anything.
I in fact save the turkeys left, Okay. And I
like to think that turkey is out there right now
in Omaha, just telling its story to its other animal friends.
(09:45):
I did see any other turkeys, okay. So I don't
know if this turkey lives amongst other turkeys, or if
this turkey lives amongst squirrels and feral cats, some dogs,
maybe some raccoon. I see raccoons everywhere these days. Skunks.
(10:12):
Side note when people say, man, I see raccoons everywhere
these days, do you do you? What do you? What
does that mean? Like, I'll tell you what I meant.
I've driving around, I have seen raccoons either running across
the road early early, early in the morning, or I've
seen them dead from getting hit by cars or whatever.
(10:35):
I can imagine people would be like, I see raccoons
everywhere these days, and they're like, I got one in
the basement. I saw raccoon rob Us seven eleven the
other day. It's because he wears the mask, you know,
he's got the thighs, the stripes. Yeah, that's that's what
(10:58):
I meant by it. And this turkey, who's he? Who's
he living with? Who's this turkey like socializing with eating,
with having a drink of rain water with? I don't know,
but I do know that when the stories are told
by this turkey, it's gonna be pretty simple. When this
(11:21):
turkey is saying, hey, here's what happened to me this week,
this turkey is gonna say a nobble gobble. And as
if it wasn't exciting enough that I've had to save
turkey's life recently on the flip side, I had the
(11:46):
cops called on me at h at work the other day.
And you might be thinking, well, this has got to
be a silly situation where a customer, you know, was
mad about something. Well, the price is wrong, I'm to
call the cops on you. You're ripping us off. No,
that's not what happened, and no I'm not. No, this
(12:08):
was actually one of my employees. You decide if that's
worse or not, the customer or one of your people
calling the cops on you. Here's my story, Here's what
I know. Okay, here are the facts laid out in
front of you. It's a Saturday, Okay. I was off
(12:29):
that particular Saturday. In fact, I wasn't even supposed to
be in town. I was supposed to go out of
town for a family Christmas event. But the weather, the
weather changed that there was some snow in Iowa. I
didn't quite make it over, stayed home. But I'm getting calls.
I'm getting text all day. Oh so and so sick,
blah blah blah. People are calling out. Next thing you know,
(12:51):
Jayo's got a jump in action and go work on
a Saturday night. We're not supposed to be off, And
that's what that happens, right, do the right thing, go
to work, help the people. So I'm like, all right,
I'll go in. I gotta go help close this kitchen down. Now,
it wasn't gonna just be me. It was gonna be
me working the latest, but there was gonna be somebody
(13:13):
there for two hours working with me to help me
make all these pizzas. A lot of pizza orders coming in. Now,
this particular guy thought it would be funny that when
I showed up, the first thing he does is come
up to me and start laughing that I had to
(13:36):
come into work on my day off. First of all, no,
that's not funny. It was pretty frustrated in fact, because
they know all these people calling out there, no one
would come into work, so I gotta come in. I'm off.
What would have happened had I been out, like still
out of town for the family event like that? Well
(13:56):
then what wena shut the whole place down? This guy
he's over there, oh, and I'm like, oh, that's funny. Huh,
that's hilarious. So we have some back and forth. You know,
I'm the boss. I'm just like, get up. If you
think you can do this. I'm just gonna go home
and enjoy my day. You can finish this. So then
(14:17):
he's coming back at me. Then maybe he'll just go
home now because suddenly he doesn't like the way I'm
talking to him. That's fine. Get out of here, dude,
get gone. So now he's mad, right now, he's mad,
and there's a lot going on. So I'm like running
around trying to get things done, orders for people, cleaning
(14:40):
up plays, some mess. Not happy, right, not happy boss,
very frustrated. He decides this is the time. He's now
going to go into the store like manager's office. He
goes into my office and he is just taking down
phone numbers left and right because he he is not
happy with how I talked to him. That's fine, I'm
(15:06):
totally cool with it. I'm the one that had to
come in on my day. Oh I'm not this fella.
Close the door, opened the door, and I'm like, dude,
just go like just go, like get out of the office,
just go if you're not gonna work, if you're gonna work,
we got stuff to do. Dude. He's like, I call
the police, What do you mean for? What did something happen. Yeah,
(15:29):
you you happened. I don't like the way you're talking
to me. I'm like, you realize that does not constitute
an emergency. There is literally nothing here that constitutes calling
the police. I called him that's cool, So I'm like,
you gotta go outside, then you gotta go, like just leave.
(15:50):
He's like, I'm not going outside, and it was pretty cold,
so I didn't really, you know, make him go outside.
He's like, what are you gonna do about it? Like, well,
I'm not gonna do anything. You already call the cops.
They're I'm gonna have that movie like they're they're gonna
remove you, which ended up being true because just a
few minutes later, cop rolls up and he's just like,
(16:10):
you're the manager. Yeah, sorry, you're having to deal with this.
This is not an emergency and he goes, no, it's not.
He's like, I am not your HR department. I'm like,
I totally get it, dude. So I apologize to him
for wasting his time, Like why did we call the police?
Why do people today you just call the police. I
(16:32):
saw on Facebook the other day somebody had walked into
a into subway and didn't see an employee, any employees,
so they called the police. Well, the employees were in
the back. I mean, you could probably have yelled or
made a loud noise or something and somebody's gonna come
out and help you, or you could just leave and
(16:54):
go to a different subway. Either way, the police are
not your HR department. But this fellow ended up. He
did leave a very colorful message on the HR departments
mess uh voicemail though, and yeah, that person no longer
(17:15):
works for us, which isn't funny because he did. He
did some good things. But this was a wild one.
Why why would you ever think that you could just
run them up, leaving all these voice smails, just yelling,
and then call the police, all because you didn't agree
(17:38):
with the way somebody was talking to you. And honestly,
the person who at the very beginning, who wouldn't, who
shouldn't have been happy with the way somebody was talking
to him? It was him to me. But I didn't
call the police, nor did I think that that was
an option. Now better you know what's an option? I mean,
(18:00):
who knows for next time? It's wild. I was actually
I just got off of a guest appearance on the
Black guy who Tips podcast, Rod and Karen awesome podcasts.
They're like the OG's of podcasting. The True Story. You
gotta check them out. You can find them in the
iHeart Network. I was just on their show and we
(18:23):
were just talking about how things have changed since twenty
twenty since COVID, Like the world shuts down and then
people start to get out a little bit and they
just lose their minds. And it's so true. It's like everybody,
it's the culture out there right now. I don't know
what to do how to change it, Like, I just
don't know how we can get back to being respectful
(18:44):
people and thinking and listening. But I'll tell you what,
we are not there right now. In twenty twenty five,
we're about to hit twenty six, and it just feels
like we're ramping up even more. So, Yeah, that's my story.
Cops called on me. I save the Turkey, and I
(19:10):
will say I not only got rid of that situation,
like we got rid, we got through that situation. Okay,
I cleaned the kitchen, I serve all those made all
those orders, got those orders out in excellent customer service.
Excellent customer service. So I don't know some people would
(19:31):
say that I'm you know, I'm doing I'm doing God's
work this week. I'm and I'm on reck. I'm not
saying that I'm not some people. Some people are saying, no,
that's not a joke, Johnny. Some people are actually psych
it's a little worked up about it. Yeah, like I
(19:54):
was saying, I just guessed it on the Black Eye
Who Tis podcast with Rod and Karen. They were fantastic
and they are actually going to be joining us on
Laugh with Me here this month still, so we've got
that to look forward to. That's exciting. And I don't
know if I've talked too much about WTL Where's the Line?
(20:16):
The sports betting podcast that I also coost with Andy Klausen.
If you haven't gotten in on that, please take give
a listen. It's not just sports bet very entertaining show.
It's a lot of fun. Give it a go. WTL.
Where's the line? You can find that anywhere that you
listen to your favorite podcast. There you go, Johnny. I
(20:41):
don't know if you've had a week like mine. I
know you didn't save any turkeys. You sure as shit
didn't have any cops called after you. And for what
I mean the last time, Johnny, the last time you
had the cops call on you because you were threatening
to beat them up. I didn't do that threaten I
beat anybody up. In fact, I don't know how many
(21:02):
people I could beat up with this condition. I just
I just got filled up with that iron. You know that. Man.
When I don't got that iron in me, oh, I
get tired, I get damn tired. I get grouchy. I
don't get to I don't get my naps. I don't
know if I'm rapidly turning into a very old senior
(21:25):
citizen or if I'm turning into a toddler like I
don't know which one I'm turning into faster, But I'll
tell you what. I don't get a nap. I get grouchy.
Once I'm filled up, man, I can go. I can
go a little bit. That's the show. We'll get your
(21:47):
next dime. Thanks for listening.
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