Cubicles & Pet Hotels

A college volleyball coach cuts her ENTIRE TEAM, is that even allowed? Whose job is it to write greeting cards? A Hallmark Executive slides into the CORPORATE SUITE with job opportunities in that field; Can you put a front door on your office cubicle to keep people out of your business? The Honorable Victoria Pratt joins the prestigious two-timer club with a hilarious WORST & FIRST. A former pet hotel employee details how these insanely regal (and expensive) places just MIGHT be SCAMS; @Rod4short weighs in on Rapper T-Pain requesting cartoons play in his VIP strip club booth.  James Corden is stepping down from ‘The Late Late Show.’ Replacements?  The team debates.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Comedy Central now, Jacqueline before I read
this one. I don't want you getting all excited and
giggling and ship because I know who you get. What's up? Right?
You're early again. I'm just trying to get a promotion
back to it now. Hiring James Cordon is stepping down

(00:24):
from the Late Late Show on CBS. There are no
decisions yet on who will replace Cordon. Really, any idea
are just putting this paperwork and they've got a year,
so no, no one's gonna come to the internet. James

(00:47):
Cord should be replaced with Royal Wood Jr. All right, now,
that's not what That's not what the article said. That's bad.
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about people. People
don't make a decisions the article. The article named the
number of people. It wasn't just me. And after what
y'all did to give me all hype about Jeopardy and

(01:07):
I actually tried to replace after Strabek and Jeopardy and
got crushed. I'm not letting y'all do that to me again.
I'm not putting my name. Listen, that's what ain't our fault.
I think you could get it myself a steep k
go out for you doing car fool karaoke in an
eighty three cup of spree. My name is Roy, this

(01:52):
is my job. That Happy Wednesday to you. J G.
You are the white blood cells show up here. How
are you doing today? Well? And I just like to
make that I'm like sport facing offices and was going
to put that out there. There are a million decisions
that go into this type of ship, so you know,

(02:17):
would it be cool to be considered? Of course that
would be cool, But I'm not going to sit here
like y'all don't see. I don't think you'll understand Rob.
I don't think he was on when needs motherfucker's set
me up last year when Alex Trebek died and it
was like you could you should call your agent, and
I was like, y'all really think, don't think even though

(02:40):
I'm even though I'm clearly the resident we'd had here, right,
I'd like you to also point out that when he
did go for Jeopardy, you were right there encouraging him
along with me and j G. Am. I right, okay,
I'm good, yeah, right, because he could do it. Yeah,
where the fund is that email? Because I'm gonna reread
it to y'all verbatim because I'm with y'all to feel

(03:00):
the pain and just said nigger police. Oh yeah, here
it is. Here's the statement from Jeopardies producers last year
when I put my name in the hat to replace
that host and was crushed. Quote from this is from

(03:22):
my agent to be quote, Hey, Roy, it's all closed up.
A statements going out soon that the remaining episodes will
go to Ken Jennings and Maim Balik, that I blossom.
The producers decided in the end to not focus on
anyone with comedic backgrounds because they felt it would take

(03:45):
the brand in a direction away from the academia and
serious tone. No, we brought that one up laterally. You
gonna funk up the seriousness of this show with how
do I negotiate a bathroom in my office? Just somebody

(04:05):
tell me that, but go ahead. That's like the old
run functious joke. All cookie, though, is edible. If you
ain't no pussy, that's how you get the bathroom. They
don't give you off the bathroom. You just start pissing

(04:27):
and shipping on the floor to they move and eventually
somebody to get Jack in the bathroom and you'll see
her office. We gotta do something. What I'll say about
the Late Late Show is that you know, Craig Ferguson
was there and then James Gordon. And if we're talking
about following trends, then I need to develop a British accent,
do it. You need to start watching Top Boy, stop

(04:49):
watching Top Boy, and then just memorize everything so periodically
through this episode. I mean, you know, as this podcast
goes along for the next couple of month, because you
never know who's sneaking and listening and sizing me up
and ship right well, or so let's move on Roy
to uh Coody's most outstanding. Yeah, I guess the reason
why I was trying to push past the cord and

(05:10):
ship is that this is actually a very rod. I'm
actually happy you're here for this one, because this one
is complicated. In an unprecedented move, the new volleyball head
coach at Grambling State University cut the entire team. Chelsea

(05:34):
Lucas was hard to guide the team, and less than
two months after starting, she informed all nineteen players that
they can get the hell on and their scholarships have
been rescinded and she is bringing in quality players. Now
there's a lot time package j G. Because on the
education tip, I do not condone taking an education away

(05:56):
from kids. And here's what she also did. Third, Not
only she cut those nineteen players, she told the players
at the previous coach players would already sign a letter
of intent to come to Grambling. She was like, nod,
I don't even want you either. What the fund did
I do? Coach I wasn't even now. Coach Lucas has

(06:21):
also been supported by her athletic department. Grambling State Athletics
communications director Brian Howard said, quote, the decision is her
decision to make, and she's got some quality players coming
on board. So in terms of things, I hate to say,
out with the old and end with the new just
a little bit. It's very unfortunate, Jacqueline. It's a very

(06:43):
unfortunate situation. And the players have said, you know, and
there's a petition going around demanding the reinstatement of the
nineteen players to the roster, as well as the firing
of Lucas and the eighties. The petition sits at about
three thousand signatures right now. The players are arguing that
they were only get from the time the coach came
in and came in to assess the new the existing players.

(07:06):
They were giving less than three practices to show what
they could do, and the coach called them all in
the office one by one and cut them. And then
there's other people saying that it was five players that
she cut. And then because of the way the other
players reacted to those five being cut, the coach was like, well,
all y'all can get it, and all y'all get the funk.
I love it, I love it, I support this. Really

(07:28):
won't come on. I actually supported all Bear Bryant and
the Junction Boys that Texas and them back in the fifties.
I don't know that. Break it down. Break down. Before
Bear Bryant became the Superstars Super National Championship legendary coach
of the University of Alabama, he got the job at

(07:51):
Texas A and M. And what he did was Texas
was experiencing this heat wave at the time, so he
took the team that was terrible and he took them
all the Junction Texas and had a camp for a
little over a week and said all of the survivors
of the camp would make the team. Everybody had to
earn their fucking place. He had no more room for

(08:14):
losers on the squad, no more room for the old
losing ways. And I feel like this is what this
volleyball coach is doing, and I like that idea. The
team is terrible. They brought in a new coach. You
gotta go all beer par sales. I only want players
on my team that I evaluated and I picked everybody.
Get the funk out, and if you're good enough, you

(08:35):
can come back. And if you're not, and you know,
you get a scholarship to some other HBCU since you're
so damn good. Player who requested anonymity because of her
situation with the team said quote, I don't understand how
she evaluated us. When we were running all the time,
we would start a drill, but if we messed up,
we would running do push ups. It was more punishment
than actual practice. We get to show her. We didn't

(09:00):
get to show her any of our skills. If you
can't run, why would I want to see anything else
you can do? If you can't damn run, now, come on,
I'm with you. They're complaining about that kind of stuff.
Which is what you do when you play college sports.
That's kind of what it is. That she didn't see
the form and all that kind of stuff, crashed the
whole thing and start over. Why not? I mean, make
the kids I agree a ride on this. There's a

(09:22):
lot and and and the kids are soft. I said it,
kids are soft. This woman is a CEO volleyball coach
or not. She has watched the tapes before she walked
through any door. She knows what you're made up before
you walk through any door. She already knew that she
was going to keep a feel of you. But then
the rest of you want to act to food. No,

(09:43):
you gotta go too. I support her wholeheartedly. I will
buy tickets to the game and won't even go, just
to support her exactly. That's why they got a new coach,
because they did that coach. Yeah, they had a losing season.
They had a losing season overall last year at eight
and an end. They had a losing record in the
conference at five and six. I think you're right. She

(10:05):
might have kept some of them, but even the numbers
don't their numbers from last year even bad like she
she had all right to cut them as far as
I'm concerned, that's probably. I believe in education. I truly,
truly do. So go open that portal and move on.
You just learned to listen, always bring your a game.
This ain't like it was back in the day, where
if you transferred from one school to another school you

(10:26):
had the city year. You don't have to do that anymore,
and now you can transfer and instantly play the next year.
So ultimately, if y'all are really that nice, you know,
I'm pretty sure there's some school that I take you
three to one. I'm sorry, Like she remains my CMO,
but I don't agree with cutting everybody, because what does
that say to the new group of players that you're

(10:49):
recruiting in there? It feels irrational, it feels dictatorial, it's controlling,
it's impulsive. But it is also courageous because even if
you don't agree with what she is doing, at no
point has courted Chelsea Lucas cow towed to the opinions

(11:13):
of anybody, not the parents, not the players, not the
fans of Grambling. And if your name is gonna be
on it, then if I'm driving this ship, then goddamn it,
we're gonna crash. It the way I want to crash
it with my players. They're not saying she should have
cut all these players, but for cutting everybody on the

(11:35):
What the fund did the towerboy do to you? To Lucas,
the towerboy ain't done nothing and did it to their
face one by one too much. She didn't fucking just
had a d sent him a slide, a little let
under they're doing. Hey, baby, come on down to the

(11:55):
office court. You want to see you fired them like
NFL hard knocks to them, slip one, none of that
coward ship. Come in my office city and I'm gonna
tell you that you're getting the funk out of this guy.
Then turn in your volleyball shorts. Grambling State University volleyball
coach Chelsea Lucas, Yes, you are Cod's most outstanding employee

(12:19):
of the week. Congratulations, I didn't say clap for and
worst and first time. Now it's been a while since
we didn't had a two time on the show j G.
The two timer, the two time club on the job
Fair is a very illustrious fraternity where we allow people

(12:41):
who dropped so much knowledge the first time that we
had to bring him back to say some motion. It
but money Jones and the two Times Kerry Champion in
the two Times Uncle Derek and the two Times Club.
Not racist Susan, but racist Susan into two Times. We

(13:02):
gotta get dead Buddy sued back on. I want dead
Buddy sue back. I keep we keep bringing that up.
But this this this woman that little little feet, little feet,
little sell. So we had this woman on back when
we was doing Women's History Month, and you know, this

(13:24):
wonderful judge has just taken everything that is wrong with
the criminal justice system and try to slowly just be
a conduit of change. And she has a book that
I want to talk to about. But more importantly, you
know she's got a little worse than first action to
you just can't come in here and talk about your stuff.
You've gotta leave a little bread crumb of job dysfunction
as well. J G. Who do we have as a

(13:46):
newly mented two Time? Today, we welcome back Judge Victoria
Pratt to the show. Her book The Power of Dignity
comes out May Tant. She's here to talk a bit
about her book, which centers a round criminal justice reform.
But first she'll be sharing a scam story that involved

(14:06):
an employee building a makeshift door to her cubicle. Okay,
that sounds like a pretty worst job, judge. Welcome back
to the job fair. Thank you so much for having
me back. Thank you so much for having me back.
So yeah, this story reminds me that as leaders, we
should take a deep breath when things are happening that

(14:27):
make us want to explode. At the courthouse, I was
doing a lot of traffic cases for some reason, and
I kept getting these computer printouts and not the actual tickets.
And it was very frustrating because that meant I knew
the tickets were in the building, but I wasn't disposing
of tickets on the original document that was just now
floating around the courthouse and not being able to be

(14:49):
fined because I'm doing these printouts. So I sent the
court director on the mission go get me these tickets.
I need you to find out why I can't get
these original tickets. And what we found, doubt was that
one of the clerks who was responsible for these tickets
had decided had gone on vacation and had brought from

(15:10):
their house a large cardboard box and created a door
in their cubicle. Now, what's proper I don't. I mean,
I hear what you're saying, judge respectfully, and I respect
what you're doing. You're work in criminal justice and everything.
But why I can't have a door like I have
to put a roof on that then? Because cubicle is

(15:32):
that's not an author You don't get a door. You
don't get it. Are you the homeowners association? Are you
in charge of what mailbox? The boss tells you whether
you get an office or whether you get a cubicle.
And the problem you put the door on your cubicle
is that on top of having the cardboard door, she

(15:53):
will removed to the employees, do not come in here
and touch my stuff. Oh my reality. Nothing that you
have at your job is your stuff. It is. They
would work tickets, and it led me to understand that
they were having this department. But was most interesting was
that the colleagues. Her colleagues were respecting this big hardboard

(16:17):
box as a door as they should have, as they
should have. Does she look like me, yes, but she's
not supposed to that door. You were clearly highly respected.
Corey Booker did the foreword to your book, So I
have to I don't want you to think I'm coming

(16:37):
at you disrespectfully, but there is clearly some level of
employee dispute happening when when a motherfucker bringing when motherfucker
make a door, there's a bigger office culture issue, and
there needed to be a group meeting to go, hey,
why does she feel like she needs to do the door?

(16:58):
Ask them see problem with y'all? And that's exactly what
I did. I learned that because aside. I was because
I was trying to figure out why is no one
bringing these tickets? And it was because they were behind
this paper door that was not real, and nobody would
like if you push you didn't have a nod or anything,

(17:20):
it would have just toppled over and I could have
gotten my stuff. She made. She made a hut like
a first year like a first grade of cubical yurk,
Like I need my space, you know. I took the
sheet and the couch becushion real tight, and then you
pulled a sheet to the other side. I mean, they

(17:42):
could have over the top and got my tickets for me.
But nobody would move this cardboard. It was it was immovable,
and it was mental too. It also says a lot
about whether you want to call it the respect or
the fear that these office mates had for this one individual.
If you could have just pushed the door open, she

(18:03):
might have been. I don't know. I personally, I'm always
afraid of in the office. I'm always afraid of the
quiet ones and the little ones. Those are the ones
to do something real crazy. So like to me, she
might have been. You know, somebody might have pushed the
door once and caught her rats and that was enough
for everybody else to be like, hey, don't you go
touching that dough. Don't you gonna touch that dough. If
you make a door in the office, there's something mentally

(18:26):
not connecting. I'm not gonna bother your door either. I
ain't touching it. Yeah, this is way past putting your
name on the food in the fridge, right, And she
had to nerve to put a sign on the door
to like, come on, judge, that's I mean, I think
that you're right. There was a bigger issue of how
people were getting along and we needed to address that
and not so much that there was a door there.

(18:47):
But you gotta address the door to you got the door,
you did, right, I would agree we had to address
the door what happened. We took down the door, I
mean the funk on the door. It's off hard toward box.
If you found the box, because it was just a
flattened box. Moved that. Move that landlord exactly. How I

(19:12):
help when you do, yes, when you change the landlord's
door and or you add something and you didn't ask
for it, because she still weren't there. Yes, yes, and
she understood. But it was this issue that she felt
her privacy was being invaded, and that when she was
on vacation, she was further concern. But there was work there,
so you know, for me, I don't bring anything to

(19:34):
work that I can't put in a small box. If
somebody tells me to go home, a tiny box and
because everything else here belongs to you and you get
to go through it, so I don't ring. Oh, I'm sorry,
you don't do that. I do. I ain't gonna lie.
I make my area real personal. I need like two

(19:55):
good boxes to take myself. I ain't gonna in my
daily show office. I have a bottle. I should say this,
but I have a bottle of Johnny Walker Black from
from when we first premiered in I have a Nintendo
classic video game system for when I'm brainstorming and just
a couple of books. Judge, let's talk about the book

(20:16):
as quick as we can here as well, I would
assume that this story is not one of the stories
that made into the book. The book is the power
of dignity, how transforming justice can heal our communities. We
spoke in the past. If you want to hear the
Judges episode, go back to the Women's Week number four,
Carl we as Women's is the episode, and you know

(20:40):
you talked a lot about how you from the you
chose to go about your job differently and how you
adjudicate it. Uh, defendants, tell us a little bit about
the book and what inspired you to write this. So
the book is about my time at the North Municipal
Court as a judge in the Raymond Court and also
running the Community Court, offering alternative sentencing and having a

(21:02):
staff that could address the issues that people came to
court with and that they come to court throughout the
country with and as I travel globally that they come
through and you see throughout the world as well, which
is this idea that we criminalize social ills like poverty,
being poor cannot be a crime, but it is, And

(21:25):
how the criminal justice system impacts women differently, and it
impacts women differently because women end up being responsible bearing
most of the financial burden, and particularly black poor women
as well, and how people of color, black and brown
people are disproportionately run through the court system. So um,
as a woman whose father is a garbageman, was a

(21:47):
garbageman and mother was a Dominican commutician, I didn't see
the people who came through the court different than myself, right,
they were people whose story. Um I think when one
of my issues is that we we punish people because
we have this ins estimated desire to punish people in

(22:08):
the criminal justice system as opposed to rehabilitating, and we
punish them for making that decisions and most of the
times there aren't any other decisions for them to make. Right.
If you have your men suffering from mental illness and
you can be jailed for being disorderly, well, I'm having
a psychotic break and you've just made that illegal. I'm
just I'm a child, so I'm still in food, yes, yes,

(22:33):
Or I'm eighteen years old, so I'm going to do
things that are silly because I'm eighteen years old or
marijuana is illegal, but you are policing a particular area
of the city that is black greater than any other.
So the chances that you stop people who have marijuana
on you on them in one side. It's not I

(22:53):
don't believe is that that one side makes more marijuana
than the other. I just think that if you stop
enough people who are black in this area. Again, in
north of the unconstitutional stops they found were of black people,
and black people make up of the population. So Peopoth
talks about how you can transform justice by treating people

(23:14):
with dignity and respect and fairly. And while it's a
very simple concept. One of the concepts of this idea
of procedural justice, which says, again, if people believe they're
treated that way, it increases the public's trust in the system.
It increases it increases on people's compliance with the law
as well as satisfaction with the justice system. I also

(23:37):
talk about the importance of seeing people beyond your presumptions
about them, and importance of hearing what people are saying.
And sometimes people can go through an entire court case
and I know you mentioned your experience, and the judge
never looks up at them and how that makes you

(23:59):
feel when you're made eye contact that happened to you
never made eye contact. I made it. I made a
promise to myself that if I was going to send
anyone to jail, if I was going to do anything
that they might see as negative, that I would look
them in the eye. And that's because if you don't
people feel like the judge did me dirty, the judge
is not confident in what your actional and if I

(24:23):
and I, I had to rethink what it was I
was doing. So this book is about those things and
how there are so many things that we could do
youth court, how we need to create exit ramps for
our young people. Youth courts are restorative justice projects across
in New York, they're very popular, but also in New

(24:43):
where we train high school students to hear cases and
we give officers an opportunity they can do what's called
station house adjustments. People don't know that there's this thing
that an officer can bring a kid in and instead
of processing them through the justice system, they can send
them to a nonprofit where we have a new a
youth court, and these high school students here cases and

(25:04):
they I'm going to say they sentenced them, but they
sentenced them to community service and workshops. But we use
positive peer pressure to change their behavior, because the kids
who are doing well are doing community service with the
same kids who are not doing well. But what's important
is that that same kid who got in trouble for
having marijuana in school, if the school district sends the case,

(25:25):
they accept the punishment that the students sent and they
don't have to continue to suspend them to the point
that they expelled them from school, and it pulls them
out of the justice system. And so we keep shirking
our responsibility. UM police officers learning how to treat people
with dignity and respect, and I talk about this procedural

(25:45):
justice and policing. I am so proud that they use
my TED talk at the police academy and I can
be I've been walking down the street and have an
officer Yeah, oh, I saw your video, and I use
all of those steps out here on the streets, and
I'm like, wow, how awesome it is to teach them
as a foundation treating people with dignity and respect as

(26:08):
opposed to having to go back and inserting it as
a correction. I appreciate what you've written because it exists
in the space of positivity about how things can change.
And there are a lot of essential literature out there
that it's about what is wrong, how we got here,
and who the villains are. But this is how do
we get from there to beyond the horizon. The book

(26:31):
is the power of dignity, how transforming justice can heal
our communities. Judge Victoria Prett, you are always welcome on
the job. Fair. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna
put up a little cardboard door here. Thank you, Thank

(26:55):
you so much. I'm gonna get cornered in the city
about what is the cardboard box? After the break home
in the rodal a k A robber short drive, the
show off the Riels job. That would be bad, and

(27:20):
I do want to see jo Jockery. I think, I think.
Thank you as always to Jude. Victoria Practy, Yes, who's
just here on the program or not give us a
lot of knowledge about her book and criminal justice. Reforming
her journe helped us. We turn our attentions now to

(27:40):
a man who is a hypnotic and grape Solda's number
one customer. He is form adult Track employee and former Marylynch.
In turn, he is also the most liked person by

(28:01):
the Comedy Central Viacom Paramount Legal team. No notes on man,
no notes. Well you can do a study, that's all
you can do. His biggest supporter remains Jacqueline's cousino. All up,

(28:26):
we did? We call him Rod for short? Right? Oh,
real quick, man, We're gonna do another Rod's Relationship Fair.
So let's let's just stop right now, right before we
before we get into topics that you're bringing today to
break the ice um Roy's job fair at gmail dot com.

(28:48):
If you want to be a part of the relationship
Fair for the next one we're gonna do in a
few weeks. We want to hear stories of cheating abroad
in the military. I found out from a military friend
that apparently when truth get deployed, they go overseas and
start banging. But the spouses of troops that are still
here state side baby getting it into Floyd Truth be fucking,

(29:17):
the spouses be fucking, everybody be fucking. And I want
to hear about your stories if you took part in
some of that banging, or you know something that happened
within your unit, will keep you anonymous. Roy's job Fair
at gmail dot com and we'll have Rod breakdown some
of that indecent love in the workplace as we always
do once a quarter. Right, j G, I'm not talking

(29:37):
to you. You defended the volleyball coach for rolling the scholarship.
There goes that office yeah, Jack alone to put you
down in the basement like Milton from Office Space defended hurt.
We bring right on this program to give you the
job fair listening topics you can bring up to your

(29:59):
born at Cowork if you're always talking about the same
wet ship that you don't want to discuss. So right,
I turn it over to you. What can people bring
up this week at the jail? Over right now? Uh?
In Whiteville, USA, the hottest thing in the streets has
been one of the biggest goofs I've ever seen a

(30:22):
company make um. Recently, the good folks at Alta, Beauty Though, Makeup,
Story and Whatnot set out a promotional email asking people
to come hang with Kate Spade, and there was a
huge blowback from their customers and some form employees, citing

(30:47):
the fact that Kate Spade died by suicide from hanging
in two thousand eighteen, and that was absolutely the worst
word choiceing they could have gone with in this situation.
So come experience the new brand of Kate Spade fragrances

(31:08):
at Alta stores is ultimately what they were trying to
say in a more concise way, and then they hang
with Kate Spade. See that's why you don't let twenty
one year old and charge marketing. But go ahead, come
take a stab at there's new O. J. Simpson fragrance.
Hamps are going to fucking roll at that place. They are.

(31:28):
I don't know how they're gonna make up of this,
but the meeting is going to be very severe and
a lot of people are about to get fucking fired.
Our new fragrance by David Carradine will choke you out, respectfully.
Let me just say, we're not making fun of any
of these suicides. We're just making other analogies to the

(31:50):
back that you get what we're trying to do, right,
O Kate Place, don't cancel that think God damn late
late show up? So right? How can ah to make
this right? Um Or is it just one of those
things you just made the gaff and you just got

(32:10):
to eat it. Yeah, it's it's a it's a purely
a majo copal situation. All they can do is apologize,
because there's there's nothing you can say or offer people
that will make up for opening an email and seeing
that outrageous subject matter in headline. It's like Jack want
to say, this is the reason you don't put twenty

(32:32):
one year olds in charge of marketing. There has to
be some oversight like that, somebody has to run this
by a couple of people before they say let's go
with it. And I don't understand how something like this
could just slip through the cracks because the VP of
marketing's niece or nephew was in that position. There are
no checks and balances at this particular company. There's some

(32:56):
mepotism and lack of checks and balances here. One of
the other that is ridiculous and home research. People Google
is for more than finding out your favorite actor's age. Okay,
Jesus Christ, do some research. But then do we have
a generation also that's not made of critical fakers? So

(33:20):
even if they gave the research, Okay, see now you
open another right, let's flip it up real quick. Right, Well,
what's going on? With black people right now is a
story has been going around about how t Pain demands
that are strip clubs turn all TVs to the Cartoon

(33:42):
Network when he enters, and a lot of people had
some things to say about it, including yeah, almost like
like that like and so the story was that every
time t pay goes to the trip Cliff, they have
to turn all the TVs to the cartoon work, and
t Pain chimed in awesome and said, quote in my defense,

(34:07):
if I'm dropping thousands of dollars to see open vaginas
and assholes, I don't really want my background entertainment to
be frigging baseball. Also, I only have them change the
TVs that are in my private section. But whoever wrote
this article thought it would be sound better if they
made it sound like I forced everyone in the club

(34:28):
to watch tid cartoons in an adult setting, which brings
me to my last point. Strip club times are also
adult swim times, so Cartoon Network is just the channel
and adult Swims is the lineup. Hope that clears everything up.
I'm not an ass head. This headline is just another
click baby thing gone viral. End quote. Nobody, nobody quotes him.

(34:55):
I don't disagree with that. I do think, what would
you watching the strip club right the exit sign? Because
I wouldn't be in the fucking strip club? Very anti
strip clubs, very antiscin. I would not watch it. They

(35:16):
got good wings, right is good. I mean, strip clubs
do have bomb food because they got to keep you
from LAS. But no, I don't. I don't want to
see anything on the TV. I don't want to see
the strip club at all. Honestly, what if I what
if I went the strip club and told them to
put on the daily show start Morality Claws and you're

(35:38):
late late Jacqueline, you'd be more if, Jacqueline. If I
got that show and you work for me, you're more
than free to go to the strip club. Podcast is
Uncle Rod's Story Corner. You can get it wherever you
get this fine podcast, rock Scam of the Week time
Roy's Job Fair at gmail dot com. If you ever

(35:59):
want to be a part of the program. I feel
like I don't mention that enough, but somehow people still
find us. I guess that's that's an honor. Or should
I be creeped out? It's an honor. It's people join us. Yeah,
I mean, but if I don't solicit, and then all
of a sudden, people just randomly just be sending to you.
How you find you're producing a good shell? Hello about

(36:21):
to say that, and then they find all the rest
of us too. So it's crazy that not only you
know they find you, they should find you your college.
You got three specials and someone paramount plus. But the
rest of us, you know what I'm saying, Subjactly got
videos on YouTube. I'm a comic. None of my views
have increased. However, people will find us. People will find us.

(36:45):
Twitter and Facebook, all of that. Man have been finding us.
So they did, they did? Someone sent us coffee because
they said where the People's Podcast, the People's Cup Michael
Rose Street. They sent us coffee. I'll make sure I
share it to everyone. What kind of tough Oh, I
don't know. I didn't open it yet. It's a gift
for all of us. But wait, hang on, this sounds

(37:09):
like good coffee. You said roastery. I did the People's
Cup my road roastery. It's in Starkville, Mississippi. I'll give
it to a a saloon because she's got the coffee grinding
being machine whatever, Like I don't know how to do fresh.
I don't. I don't have the devices for what you're

(37:30):
talking about. I don't even have the devices necessary to
drink that. I'm sure you in third dude, And I'm
happy that they sent it, but you know, asking if
they neil somebody, if the liquor store up the street,
want to send me some whiskey drink in Mississippi. But
go ahead, even better, motherfuckers. Ship that sounds like an upbreak.

(37:54):
Threaten me. J G. I understand that we're talking about animals.
For this scam. Who we have on the phone, we
have Taylor and Taylor resides in the Bay Area and
works for a green tech company. But back in two
thousand seventeen, she worked at a doggy daycare in Santa
Monica that wealthy and celebrity clients paid up to seven

(38:17):
hundred dollars a month to have their dogs a team.
Taylor is going to tell us about some of the
luxury amenities before legged creatures indulged in. Taylor, welcome aboard
the job fair. Congrats on your upgrades Silicon Valley there,
thanks for having me. Sorry, you don't have to scoop

(38:39):
Paris Hilton's Chihuahua's dogs anymore tell my own dogs. What
what is that? Is there anything? Because I'm not gonna
say that pet hotels are a scamp, but here's my question. Third,
how do you know that they're really doing the stuff

(39:01):
that they say that they're going to do for your dog?
You can't ask the dog, you don't give you no video.
So it's very little oversight. Oh uh yeah, very little
oversight in the daycare industry. And like h there's there's
very little laws. Some daycares offer webcam so you can

(39:23):
like peek in them while they're playing at daycare, but
that's you know, that's not seven when they're in there
like rooms for snacks or meals or whatever other nefarious
things are going on in the back. Um, which is
why I you know, as a previous employee for two
years out of the daycare, I would I wouldn't take

(39:44):
my dog, um unless they like were extremely transparent, let
me go through the facility. You know a lot of
uh doggy daycares will ask you to wait upfront while
they assess your dog. Uh, don't do that, it's not
to me. Um. Well, I would say that you should

(40:05):
be allowed to see the back of the facility if
you are hovering over an assessment where like they're trying
to evaluate your pug in an external environment, then it
probably is better for you to like make sure at
least you can't be seen while they're assessing your dog.
But there's nothing wrong with being able to watch them.
Are these pet hotels really doing all of the stuff

(40:26):
that they say they're gonna do? Like, you know, I
dated a person who had a dog and we were
getting ready to leave town, and they every day they
read to them and then they give them a palm
massage and we're gonna feed a maiko diet or whatever
the like. Is any of this any of that whole true?
Like from a diet, let's just go diet. She we

(40:48):
mentioned that the daycare was on the west Side, so
like San Monica Westwood, that area is like where all
the clients are a lot of these people are vegan
and they would like to extend that diet to their
dog to be vegan. It's not my business whatever, but
people would like, especially the celebrity clients who come in.

(41:10):
Their dog probably lives at the daycare more than they
live at their house. And it's a lot of times
it's those dogs where they're like, oh you should. We're
just trying this new food. Can you make sure you
implement it into their meal? And this dog will not
eat that ship Like it's not happening. M You'll keep trying,
You'll keep trying, and it's like, well, I'm not going

(41:32):
to not feed this dog that's here twenty days out
of the month, like while you're boarding. So we're going
to make sure your dog eats. Uh. And that's not
to say, you know, it's your dog. If you want
to have a vegan diet, maybe just make sure you're
there to like be the one monitoring it. Because typical
doggie daycare there's like there can be ninety dogs in

(41:54):
a facility in one day, so ninety times seven d
And Okay, I'm doing some math. So if the company
is making good money, how much of the employees making
Taylor minimum wage? That ain't right what you thought, Jacqueline.
I mean, you want me to care for this dog appropriately,

(42:18):
So I need to be cared for appropriately as well
as an employee. But it's a celebrity dog too, so
like that, only do you want me to take care
of the dog? I don't know. I used to live
out in Santa Monica. Yo, like people people who have
a bit roll in a porn and talk to you
hella crazy about their dog. Like there are like clients

(42:39):
that we'll bring their dogs in for an assessment, and
if we fail their dogs, they get, you know, upset,
Like there's some I demand to let my dog be
admitted to this daycare when like, you know, we tried
your dog and they're very aggressive and probably not the
best fit. What constitutes a dog failing the assessment he

(43:00):
nips at another dog he doesn't doesn't. It could also
be like the dog is just too scared. Um. When
I when I did assessments, I would fail those dogs.
Like I don't want a dog that's like terrified in
the corner all day, but it can't be comfortable for
your dog and being I've also worked like on the

(43:20):
yard as an attendant those dogs. It's like it's very
sad um no so and it's also overwhelming. Um, just
on one dog side, there's like forty dogs on on
the busiest day, forty dogs one dog handler. Is this legal?
Like you can't have more than ten kids per two adults,
Like the ratio is like fucking bananas, But okay, go

(43:44):
ahead and our highest capacity. So what about your beach
days and the high schedules for these dogs? How is
that supposed to work out? Or how did that? Yes, yeah,
so we had a we had a dog taxi. Um
l a is such another word. So I would you know?

(44:09):
I would be the first one at the daycare in
the morning. That's not like a dog attendant. You grab
the keys, you see, like who's on your list for
pickups that day? And then I'll spend my morning like
driving through Santa Monica and the Palisades, like picking up
very high profile dogs. Um. And then sometimes sometimes the
dogs get taxied to daycare. Sometimes they get taxi to

(44:34):
the beach and they'll spend like two hours because they
have to be like good awfully, No, I'm gonna say,
did you have to take care of the dogs social
too when you were doing all this? Like do you
have to make sure they got good shots for the
Graham if they were like at the beach or something
like that? You did? You know? This blows my mind?
Hold away, And so you mean to tell me like

(44:55):
some of your celebrity dogs that like they on Instagram
and Twitter and snapchat. Well, so I didn't manage. There's
social media, but like that's other things you're at as
at the daycare, you're supposed to provide report cards, um.
And then they like encourage employees to get really cute
pictures that are used on the daycarees Instagram, which are

(45:16):
also shared with celebrities who often have their own Instagram
for their dog. Um. I can think of a famous
food networkschef um who's got an Instagram account for her pets.
That's you know, she would use a lot of those pictures.
Down South Georgia, girl, get on that right now, start
with pot Malaschman can work you away from them. We're
going to find this person before the end of this episode. Taylor,

(45:40):
thank you so much for coming on the show and
sharing this and thank you for being a win job
bringing it home. Now. I had a had a friend

(46:04):
like you know, when I get excited on the show.
Third is when we have a job, when we have
someone to explain a job that you don't think about
every day and then you go, oh, wait, yeah, that
is a job. Somebody has to do that. You have
to hire somebody to do that job. At a friend
in college who got hired from a career fair. He
was a poet and he got hired to write greeting cards.

(46:29):
You know. Yeah, But then when you think about it,
somebody got to write it. It's got to be somebody
that's good with words. What's it called j. J prose
is that the official literary is that the words. It's
not like a job. A white person would go to
school for it, like their parents are get upset over
like Dad, I want to write greeting cards. Ye, but see,

(46:51):
greeting cards have gotten so much more specific and so
much more culturally unique so that they are more effectual
to the people that are reading them. JJ. Who do
we have on the phone? We welcome Alexis cur to
the show and she is the vice president of Mahogany
Brand at Hallmark. Mahogany has been deepening the emotional connection

(47:15):
among black families, friends and loved ones for over thirty
years through their inclusive greeting cards. And I want to
add Roy that in her role, Alexis is responsible for
elevating how consumers see and experience the brand, as well
as expanding it into digital spaces and even television. Later

(47:38):
this year, this gracious Alexis welcome to the job. Fan
and vice president. That's the corporate week, Corporate thank you
so much for coming on the job. Fair. Now, your
job is something there is a bit of a social

(48:02):
responsibility to do. There's a lot to it. I think
before I started here at Hallmark, UM, I spent uh
twenty years. I don't look that way, but I spent
over twenty years and Automotive Um I started selling cars
um to. My last role was heading multicultural marketing at Cadillac.
So I have the opportunity to travel the world, um

(48:25):
create customer experiences. In the Middle East. Um. Yes, I
sold a lot of Escalates, specifically to black and brown people.
You said you so escalated to the Middle East. Oh yeah, um,
Saudi Arabia. It's been seventy years in in the Middle East,
GMC like that brand has been around forever. So I

(48:48):
love personally iconic brands, Hallmarks over a hundred years and
when you go from that high end, the Escalator cards
or Hallmark cards. Um. So. I've loved leveraging the power
of words, making sure I can touch community and connect,
especially during a time like COVID. It has just been incredible.
Who would have known, like you said, Ray, who knows

(49:10):
that there's a job for a vice president to lead
an iconic brand, but more importantly, like the ways in
which we're engaged in community. That's what's exciting, that's what's dope,
and that's you know, which really keeps me encouraged. And
that's where I want to start this conversation because when
we talk about you know, my mother is a Hallmark person.
She only gets her cars from Hallmark. She gets the

(49:32):
little seals that you all include. Is that what it's
gonna say. I didn't even know the official name. I
just called it the envelope sticking. I go to Hallmark,
She'll see me back. It's the mark. So that's the mark,
that's the seal, that crown is the mark. So you
would know back in the day that it was a

(49:53):
Hallmark car because of that marker, that seal, that gold seal.
I know, I know as you need because I tried
to sneak and just buy some ship at Wallgreens and
my mom was like, mbare you got to go back
to the You got to go get the official from
the Hallmark store. Yes, now there's Hallmark in Wallgreens, so
you just may have skipped over the set. No, I
was on the supply asl. I was just by that.

(50:19):
We all do that when we talk about speaking to
a particular culture through the written word. There's something sincere
about seeing where it's on paper. It does not hit
like a text, it does not hit like an email.
There's something about the tactile, the tangible nous of that.
What specifically, what is it that you believe makes a

(50:41):
greeting card black or what is it that specifically makes
this something that is unique to the to the black
experience versus another greeting card in another section of the
card of the card. Yeah, so so great question. First
of all, the cool thing is like there's a Hispanic line,
as a Jewish line, there's an Asian line, and then

(51:02):
there's Mahogany. So there are other lines for other cultural ideas,
ideas or identities. So that's exciting. But there's a number
of things that make a Hallmark Mahogany card. So the
first thing is people think of mahogany as the words
and the essence, and all of that is true. But
those deep words that are not just placating off cultures,
not just slang. It is not slang, it's vernacular that

(51:26):
resonates with you, but really that keeps you. So it's
not you know, saying just random um in culture, folk culture,
placating culture words. They're really ones that that reminisce mama,
So you know that other than mother and mom, mama

(51:48):
is what we say, grandma, some of those type of
words that really connect with our community. So the biggest
thing is words. The second is really the art. So
it's really that editorial piece that puts the words to
other with the art. So when you see the card,
you see you, you know that's the biggest piece. It's
not I see a reflection of me, I see what

(52:08):
could have been me. A lot of these cards started
because black and brown people were like coloring in cards
to make the people on the cover black or brown
or look like them a red But that's how we started,
and then the words started to resonate not just what
black people like. If if if you saw some of
these Valentine's Day cards, I mean, they are exciting and

(52:30):
it's not just black and brown people that are buying
them that those love cards. That sentiment is grabbing you.
It's spicy, a little bit on the edge, a little
bit of tantalizing, but we're not giving the whole thing away.
So that like is what makes a mahogany card. There's
nuance in the design of the cards. Just for an
example here, thank you down South Georgia girl for these

(52:52):
two links. Like you know, if you were getting your
wife a card. Third and normally pre mahogany, you would
just you go to the wife app in the card
aisle and just pick running them wife cards. But then
the mahogany card is for my wife to love a
black woman, and it's a black woman with a crown,
and then inside it's whatever whatever. Then they have one

(53:13):
thank God for Grandmama, and it's some wonderful words and
prose written in there. But the little nuance they have
Grandma holding a church fan with the little ice cream
stick stapler with the white church at So it's like
that is what a black grandmama looked like. A black
grandmama got the fan with the funeral home ad on

(53:34):
the back side. Yeah, if this next year, this year,
the second year of my leadership, we really want to
move into those new spaces. So we were at versus
last year. This year we want to be at much
bigger spaces where black and brown women are at We
want that energy that Jacqueline has, and we want that newer,
younger generation. So that way we can kind of tarry

(53:57):
with you. You know, the consumers that we today, our boomers,
they've been with us for thirty years since they were
our age, and now we're looking for their children and
grandchildren to love and know and be accustomed to the brand.
So we're coming out with new products. They are toad bags,
they're just more a fanny pack. Um, we're working with
black and brown. Um. Small business owner is Melissa, but

(54:20):
let the left bar so we can come up with, Hey,
here's a new Mahogany collection. Hoark got some Jordan's coming out,
maybe some air I was. I was. I was on
that as you was telling me what you was like.
You was just leading out. You was rolling me right
down the paths. I was like. With Mahogany, necessarily make cards,
for example, to celebrate the day that somebody might get
the illegalization card in a state that's legal, like for

(54:44):
black people. So there's enough generic cards with messages that
you could um. And I was just on the phone
with some of the creators. What we're doing with our
cards are not making specific messages for birthday, for graduation,
for whatever you want to celebrate. Third, we have cards
that have this generic message on the outside, still resonating

(55:06):
with the community. On an inside you can talk about
whatever that outside looks good the words, and we're leaving
a blank inside so you can celebrate all of those
moments because because those are real moments. Third, for our community,
they don't all look like I graduated from college, I
did this, I mates. Maybe it's I'm seven months sober,
I'm a year sober, I'm a year y. I mean,

(55:29):
those are the real things that are impacting our community. Now.
The next thing we need, we need to expand to
is the white ally Mahogany line for white people with
black friends, and even like you are my black friends.
It doesn't exactly say that, but I will say you
would be surprised, like how many non black people over
you know, thirty percent of our clientele who buy Mahogany

(55:51):
cards are not black people. So his agent because because
what you have to remember is that black culture leads culture.
And that voice in which I want to talk to you,
that's real, that's relevant, that's resonant, that voice that speaking
to Jacqueline Roy, you the Third, that's the same voice
that speaks to Emily where she's like, oh, those words resonate.

(56:13):
So we have a large population about consumers that are
not African American? So what goes into the portfolio? Though, Okay,
we're just saying with all of that, you're right because
if you're black, you can write to a lot of
different cultures. Because even if you aren't a one a
black woman, you've had a black brother, you've had a
black sister, you had a black grandmama, so you could

(56:35):
kind of figure out what the how to put the
words together. So if I'm submitting the portfolio to Mahogany
dot com to try and get one of these positions
you're talking about, what are you looking for? So I
think that's probably three good things that are in the recipe.
One is a track record of really being able to
write and write doesn't mean just being a poet. Right

(56:56):
is a card is written has to be written from
a perspective of ten thousand people have to take a
card and be able to I have to have the
sentiment in the card um that has to make sense
for you, roy as I give it to you, and
you have to read it and say oh this made
sense coming. So it has to be shared by at
least ten thousand people going both ways. So that's first.

(57:18):
So I have a track record for writing for a
broad audience with a unique message that will resonate again
and again and again and again. So that's the one piece.
Two for artists, that piece artists I'm using visual artists, painters, creators,
um just the portfolio of the work that they've done.
Some people saying the portfolio of the work that they've

(57:40):
done with other brands. We most recently, maybe a month ago,
we hired somebody to be one of our visual artists
who works on everything social. So they may not know
how to write, but they are they can do editorial copy,
so they can put together editorial copy with mantras when
you see on social um uh keep your head up,
so would have you That's not something we would have,

(58:02):
but something like that, but it would have a track
record of other things that they've done in and around
the field. And I think three then it's really just
how do you articulate and communicate using some of the
language that UM we leverage in the business. I think
that piece is one of the most underlook piece understanding
the culture of the company, UM and presenting that back

(58:24):
in your interview. So again, it's the portfolio of whatever
the work you've done over expand of working for a
company and or doing some freestyle and kind of um
out of the box type work, but putting it all
in a really good portfolio. I can't stress a really
good portfolio. But the bigger piece to me is being
able to articulate that into in an interview, understanding the

(58:46):
Hallmark culture. How should you frame up your conversation when
you're talking? What seems aggressive? What's gonna come across? Are
you articulating your artistic side? Are you leveraging the power
of words in your interviews that I know that you
can write. What type of vernacular are you using? How

(59:06):
are you showing up and showing up? I think those
are the things that a lot of people don't talk about,
but those things are really important in general when you're
thinking about getting a job. Is the culture is the
biggest piece of filling in a lot of the blank.
That's that Kamala talk right there. I see, hey man,
she is the VP Mahogany dot com is the website

(59:28):
Hallmark dot com as well. I'm gonna read off as
we let you go, Alexis, Um, I got three three
things in my portfolio I just put together. I'm gonna
trying real quick to see if I got what it
takes to be a Mahogany card writer for your real
quick and I'm gonna just give you a couple of
lines of these cards. I have not finished these thoughts yet,

(59:51):
but I just want you to tell me whether or
not I'm going in the right direction and whether or
not my portfolio will be considered for being you know,
moving on to the next round, until the next round. Okay,
to the next round? It red alright, first card, damn, baby,
you show is looking good. Your booty came in the

(01:00:12):
room before you did. Okay, no, no, no, no, thank you.
So we we don't want to talk about any of
her personal physical attributes. We don't want to start off

(01:00:33):
with the damn. We don't want to do that because
remember ten thousand people got to feel that way. Um Now,
what you could do is that might be what you
right on the inside of them and maybe side of
the card is um, I can feel your presence. Yeah,

(01:00:53):
now we're cooking. Okay, second card, second one in my portfolio.
Hey baby, let me borrow your car for a couple
of days. Okay, so now you're getting some more neutral
there could that felt fair? That's making a request. So
maybe the outside of the card says something generic. What

(01:01:16):
do you think in generic? Roy, Let's push it. I
can't wait to see you. But dot dot dot and
then you open it your car. Can I borrow your
car to come see you? Yeah? Again? This same message too,
can be handwritten and only your handwriting picture. You can

(01:01:37):
upload it in the card and get it sent off
the price. Right. You say that the Mahogany brand is
all about the culture of blackness across the diaspora, I've
been very specific to say black non African Americans, blackness
from the Caribbean up to England, on a cross to Africa,
coming home back to South Carolina. Now, if there's one

(01:02:00):
issue that I think extends across the diasporas is next.
When you say you gotta hit ten thousand people, I
know this is my last one for my portfolio. And
appreciate Grandmama. You can't cook. Please stop cooking. We don't
want you to cook the dressing this year. Ever since
Granddaddy died, your dressin has been trash because because this

(01:02:23):
is serious, some grandmama's can't cook in the family. Don't
know how to tell them. This is a car that
I've cultivated for you to tell your grandmother they got
all of them. Wow, this one is getting closer to home.
The reason why I say, because maybe the outside says
you can't eat everybody's potato salad and been on the

(01:02:46):
end dot dot dot dot dot, and on the inside
you put that and you know what, thinking about the
generation Roy, this maybe something you want to whisper in
nana's ear. Yes, ain't that you want to put it right?
You have to think of a card is something that
Nana's gonna put on top of sit somewhere. It's a

(01:03:07):
problem the fireplace. Steve Harvey pictures that that's personal. You
want to whisper that on that end. When you pulled
up a hundred dollar bill and you tuck it in there,
you squeeze it tight and say, Grandma, we might want
to pass on the potato salad. Yeah. I like the
way you think because of that old school generation. You

(01:03:30):
don't want to leave them and kind of written evidence
because that old school every time you come over with
the house. She's gonna have that hand extended for you, Like,
remember what you wrote in that card? Remember right here,
you remember what you wrote in that car, right, don't
come over here and talk about you hungry. That made
me the last memory. She has a bet you don't
want that room. It's not my fault. She died after
cooking some wet as dressing. My fault. Look. The website

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is dot com, dot com and and and Instagram. I
need you all to follow me on Instagram. She is
the vice president of My Hockey Friends at Hallmark Collexis.
Thank you so so much for coming on the job.
I enjoyed it. Thank you all. That's the show. Royce
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Productions in the County Central. We did it man. Next week,
we're gonna do a special Mother's Day episode. But go
round up a couple of some of the best mothers
who have come on the show. And I think somewhere
now I might try and do a Mother's Day theme song.
You know, I might trying to write something. I'm gonna go, Yeah,
We're gonna do it. I'm gonna do a Mother's Day
song next week. Y'all already had my daddy. Ain't give

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my mama here, man, My mama's vicious. I can't deal
with that. Whatever we're gonna play old guests. It's like,
because there's a couple of people that I want to
highlight to amplified. Okay, getting my mom on this podcast.
It's a heavy lesson. But you can't have two mamas.
They joyce in the same place. For two black mamas,
they joyce in the same place ain't gonna work well.

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But either one of them. We have to focus on
them now for Family Week in December into the year,
we need to start buttering them up. Yeah, family, so
it'll be fun. Man, so much to I guess I'm
gonna go brush up on my portfolio, j G. I
thought that you would have supported me and one of
those three cards that I wrote, but as usually to
be hanging no no, no, no no. To note that

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Alexis is a senior VP of vice president because she
did not deflate you. She encouraged you and corrected. That's
why she holds that position. We had an uplifting and
powered out black providence. We got a card for that.
I like that this has been a Comedy Central podcast