11 29 2023 Would you take a job as a pet food taster?

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Episode Transcript

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Hello, Killy Nash. Hello,Tomorrow will be Thursday. It's tomorrow show
today on the Morning Rush. Aswe march into December, tomorrow is the
last day of November. That's right. Yeah, Friday is the first.
So yeah, Thursday would be thelast day of the month. Every by
scheduling their family get togethers. Yougot to get your calendar out, make
sure the family calendar is all syncedup. Yeah, it's going to be

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a busy, crazy December for alot of people sitting here looking at things
we can talk about tomorrow, includingthe fact that we have been snubbed in
a big way yet again by walletHub, who loves the Carolinas but hates
Columbia for some of the want todo. But I'm sure that I inspired
this somehow. So if you lookat their new list of best college towns

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and cities in America, the bestis Austin, Texas according to them,
which is not really a stretch.I can see how that would be a
lot of people love visiting Austin.Keep it weird. And ourbor, Michigan
is at number two. Okay,that's pretty cool college. Then you throw
in Orlando, Florida at number three. What is that central is it?
What? What? Orlando, Florida. I don't see that at all.

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That's a great town, you've got. I love Orlanta. I was gonna
say, yeah, I think that'sthe home of Central Florida University. And
you got the South Florida Bowls.They're in Tampa, Florida, and so
they're in at number four, Scottsdale, Arizona at number five. I get
all of these towns right there.Gainesville's at number eight, Raleigh, North
Carolina, number nine, Atlanta,Georgia number ten. So it's not like

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they hate the South. Charleston,South Carolina is the fifteenth best college town
in America? Is that the highestrated South Carolina city? I don't.
I guess. Let's see. Wego Texas, Michigan, Florida, Florida,
Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Idaho, Arizona, Indiana, and then Charleston, then College

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Station, Texas. But anyway,you know, Wilmington, North Carolina's in
there, which is a great littletown. And then you got Athens,
Georgia. Yeah, got it,Greenville, North Carolina. I'm just trying
to Charlotte, North Carolina made it. Then I'm trying to remember. I
think we were. Clemson is atnumber seventy two. Come on, Asheville

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is at number seventy so Asheville Ashville. Yeah, and then which is a
great town. I love going likeCharleston. It's known for a lot of
things. It's not exactly a collegetown. You think about college towns,
you think about College Station, thinkabout Clemson, you think about Gainesville.
Those are college towns, towns thatwere pretty much around the university. Well,

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they're saying like they're just saying thetown that has a college. If
you're a college person you're thinking aboutgoing to a college, where would Columbia,
South Carolina rank? It's way thehell down. Okay, Columbia,
South Carolina. Is it the onehundred and thirty second best town if you

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want to go to college? We'rebelow Newark. For god, we're below
Newark. Yeah, for God's sake, that's hysterical. Yeah, Jacksonville's at
number seventy five. I like jacksonnew Haven, Connecticut number seventy three,
home of Yale. Anyway, there'sthe uh, there's that. I mean,

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if you are going to college atthis age, knowing what you know
now about life, what kind ofa college campus experience would you be looking
for. Would you like the Clemsontype of campus where there's literally nothing else
for fifty miles, and you likeAthens? Athens is dominated by everything Georgia

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dominated by everything Tigers. That's howChapel Hill. Or do you like the
idea of going to a Jacksonville ora or Land, Tampa, or even
like a College of Charleston inside theyou know, Charleston. Yeah, the
University of South Carolina. A lotof people love the fact that the University
of South Carolina is in a city, so that you have a lot of

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access Yale, like I said,I used to be very familiar with that
on the camp in the middle ofnew Haven. Actually built New Haven around
the campus of Yale. Yeah,I think I went into this wrong.
With a college campus or college whatdo they call it? College town towns
and cities? Okay, college townsand cities. I kind of went in
with a like a game day perspective. Okay, it should have just been

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I should have had a more broaderperspective in this going on. Certainly Tampa
be a great place to go toschool. The city's great right there on
the golf, a lot of thingsgoing on. But I was thinking of
it like more of College Station inGeorgia and Clemson where the city itself is
pretty much all wrapped around the universitycamp or like Gainesville where it's just a

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huge belt line around the campus.So what do you think you'd rather do?
Would you rather go to like aNashville that's a good question. No,
I think i'd I think if Iwere going to go, I think
I would just want to stick tolike a college town. Okay, that's
my preference. So you so theClemson experience is a good one. That

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was Look, Clempson is a beautifulplace. Nobody's going if you're a Tiger
fan. That's a little slice ofIt'd be a lot better if they didn't
have those hideous colors. Yeah,could be. What was I will not
wear that. It's not on mycolor chart, and I will not wear
it so well? And have youever picked a college based on the colors?

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That's true, that's a good point. I want there's got to be
somebody who wouldn't go to Wake Forestbecause they're the demon Deacons. Got somebody
said I'm not going There got tobe a couple of girls who said orange
is not on my color chart.Can't I can't wear it. I can't
wear it. Uh, let's see, Jonathan, we've got a Morning Russ
regular who's got a little quandary here. I don't I'm not even really sure

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what we're supposed to do with this, but I know you love the awkwardness,
yes, especially for the holidays.Jonathan Rush is a lover of the
awkwardness, and so we try togive it to him on a daily basis,
whenever possible. This Morning Russ Ruger, I guess the question is,
am I out of line? WasI wrong here? Should I have?

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Did I do this wrong? Shetook the Thanksgiving holiday because that's when the
family was all gathered and explain tothem, I just bought a new house.
I've got other expenses that I hadn'tanticipated that I'm building up. So
with all that in mind, Iam suggesting, Well, first off,

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I am announcing that I will notbe able to buy Christmas presents for anyone
this year. I encourage you allto not exchange gifts, but don't expect
anything from me. I would Ithink it'd be great. If the family
just took care of your own businessthis year and didn't exchange gifts with everybody,
it gets very expensive. We've gotlike eight kids in the family.

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Everybody's got to buy for like twelvepeople. Grandkids are now getting involved.
I'm a Christmas like a crank withouta cruise exactly. And apparently that did
not go over well with some ofthe siblings who are like, didn't sit
well, did it? Yeah?They're like, bump you. You don't
get to tell us how to spendour money. And if we want to

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give gifts, we're giving it.We're giving gifts. Well, I think
she would have been okay if shejust said, look, I'm not going
to be participating this year because I'vehad a lot of expenses ice bought a
house and cash poor right now,so I'm a house poor. I'm the
definition of house poor. So I'mnot going to be buying gifts, and
I don't want you to buy meanything. I want you to know that

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I'm going to be giving small,very small gifts, like coupons twenty percent
of Campbell's soup, that kind ofthing. Okay, But she stepped in
and told the family, you can'tdo it now. That made it awkward.
Well, she said, I'd bemore comfortable if you don't. Okay
then, like the one sister who'sarguing with her about it, Yeah,

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she's like, you're the one whocomplains, literally every time I see you,
that you're broke, that you have, that you're way deep in credit
card debt, and you're the onewho wants to spend all this money now
for Christmas. And she's been herattitude as a stat of my business.
You're ruin it for everyone. Iguess you can't complain that you're poor or
broke if you want to go aheadand blow a lot of money on Christmas.

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Yeah, I love it. Wewill embrace it tomorrow. What else
we got for you, Jonathan?How about? Speaking of money, there's
this list that was being compiled onReddit from people surprisingly well paying jobs.
The one that surprised me the mostis an air traffic controller. I did

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not know that you don't need acollege degree to be an air traffic controller.
Really, And he says, Imake about two hundred thousand dollars a
year, make a lot of money, but it's a high stress job.
Plus I have a pension at fiftyso I can retire. Then, Oh
so you only got to work tillyour fifty and then you're done. I
think it's so stressful that when youhit fifty they realize that you're in a

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heart attack zone every day. Theydon't need to drop a dead on the
job. You know what, though, is that not a great exchange of
your youth? You use your youth, sure, use it up two hundred
thousand, and then hopefully you savedsome of their money as well. Then
you have the pension. So Idid fifty, you're able to just knock

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out thirty years, forty years ofyou time, whatever you wanted to.
The first twenty or thirty year aremiserable every day, I'm in this high
stress environment. But the last thirtyor forty years it's just kickback and relaxed
time. I don't have any financialproblems. That's a pretty good paying gig.
This is what I never even considered. All right, pet food company.

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They have to hire a staff ofhumans to taste all of the pet
food for consistency purposes. You're kiddingme. This job pays pretty well.
Not the job i'd want. Anold neighbor of mine was a picture hanging
specialist who worked for museums in thearea. He made one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars a year as a professionalpicture hanger. That will be a great

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job. You're always working inside.It's always cool in the museum. But
you don't think that there's stress.Oh if that thing drops, you're not
only that, but you're the we'repaying you. We're paying you five thousand
dollars to get this thing. AndI came over and go, well,
it's not quite right now. Whatespecially now if you put a hole in

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the wall and we're gonna lower it, now, you're gonna have to repaint
the wall. Just tilt your headto the left. Oh, is that
what you do? I like thatjob. Master flavorist. My father made
artificial flavors for candy, beverages andother things. We had two homes and
he drove a Mercedes. A bet. He's a chemist. You got to

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have a degree for that. Imake teeth on a computer. I make
cad cam. I don't know whatthat is, program to design crowns and
bridges for dental laboratories. I doit all for my home. That's cool.
My sister in law is the noseat Yankee candle. She's one of

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the women who smells every vat ofscented wax to see if it's right.
Wow, you just come on steel, sniff it right. You got to
a great job. So if youever had a job that surprisingly paid,
maybe a job that we had neverconsidered, like the pet food taster and
the you want to talk to himA Yeah, we have a pet food

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company out there in West Columbia.Oh yeah, we got more in a
couple. Yeah, maybe there.Maybe we got somebody out there doing that.
That's good. Do we have anyYeah, do you know anybody works
there? Or if you weren't there, are you a pet food taster?
Do you have a staff out there? I want the thought of these guys.
That is a weird job. Isit better warm? That's so good?
That's good. Okay, Hey Westmaking Christmas awkward at your house this

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year? Oh let's get into somemore awkwardness. Reach out to us.
Let us know at Rush at ninetyseven five w COS dot common, Dash
at ninety seven w COS dot com, and tomorrow we start talking. You
start talking at nine eight nights,two six seven in the morning. Rush