Episode Transcript
All right, Ben is back, Ben Ben all investigative reporter.
Did you get my sandwich? Yeah? Okay? Shop my hell off?
He has not stopped talking in fifteen coffee away. You
don't need coffee, and honestly, you should not be allowed
(00:21):
to have coffee. Okay, Well it was it was busy
down now hold on, let me just let me just
recap here. I shared earlier in the show that there's
a man that works downstairs at the coffee shop at
the Duncan that I thought was leaving, and I thought
he was leaving to be with the woman moving away.
And then a few weeks ago I saw that he returned,
and I did not think that was part of the plan.
(00:42):
I thought he had moved away. He gave me a speech,
he told me goodbye, and then I saw him. And
every morning when I go in there, I look at
him and he looks busy, he looks a little sad.
And I don't want to bring it up because I
I don't want to go there if it's a sad,
bad story. So I said Ben down there to do
it for me.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, first off, I think it's wrong to pry in
people's personal lives, which is why.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I didn't do it, but you did.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
But so they were pretty busy down there. He was
on the cash register and they had a line, so
I didn't get to talk to him because I just
wanted to grab the food, you know, because you placed
it ahead of time. But he was laughing. He had
a big smile on his face. I know exactly who
you're talking about, and he seemed like he was in
a great mood. So I don't know about all the
sadden and stuff, although I don't connect with him on
a level like you do, Ben.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And we sent you down there for a reason. I
gotta be honest.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah your sandwich, I got it.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I gotta be honest with you, Ben. The task is
not complete, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, I don't know what's up with z.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
No no no, I said Ben. I sent you down
there to obtain information, and you were not to come
back until you have the price. Oh this is like
the Chaco Taco thing all over again. Yeah, Kiki, did
you have anything to say about.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I'm upset being you did not complete the mission. So
gen Z come in here and give us thought some
what we're doing. It's wrong to pry into people's life,
first of all, it's second about he was busy, so
I didn't get the answer. No, that's not what we actually.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Do, only specialives who ask us to. Man, I don't
know if you know this, but you don't get to decide.
I love you, but it's called the French Show and
not that we rank around here. But if we were too,
you're at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So that's.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I don't like to put a number on anything, but
if I did, you're at the lowest number. So what
I need you to do is go back down there
and get the information that we need. And if you
need to be a little pushy, you gotta be a
little pushy. But this is this is how you climb,
my friend. This is how Yeah, this is this is it.
This is it. You're exactly right. You watched it in
(02:51):
the first thing he does is give us commentary on
his thoughts of what he was supposed to do, and
then he tells us he didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, I just want to cover myself for the actions
that you guys are asking me to do.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
These kids.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Training guys, I don't want to do more training.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'll be taking something. If Kiggy went down there, it
was about thirty seconds from that we'd have this guy
social security habright, we'd know his blood time, we'd know
his kids' names. We'd even know his passwords and his
password clues. Yeah, but instead, what do we know? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Man, If you won't be hunger anymore, I guess well, he.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Can go very upset, Ben, he can go eat his
Food's right there, so he can. In fact, i'd like it.
Go eat. Go put something in your mouth, something's wrong
with it, Go take it back, Go talk to the
man of the cashier. If you would go back down there, okay,
and get us the answers that we're looking for. Okay.
Can you imagine if you were like an investigative reporter
and you did a dateline episode and at the end
(03:48):
you were life, I don't know, the murder wouldn't tell
me anything. End of episode, Like, I don't know, he
wouldn't say anything, So I just stopped, Okay,
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