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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Fresh show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is what's trend that someone's actually I love how
Rufio's listing all the stuff he's done. But also is
the one who said, I don't want to incriminate myself,
but I've done crime. Yeah, well, I mean it was
twenty some years ago. The Statute of Limitations.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Is probably all there's oh yeah, there's a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
That person looking for their little hood ornament is probably yeah,
you probably sold that.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Car by now.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, you used to have some nice ones, you know Wick,
you went Jaguar, I mean, Buick was a big brand
back in the day for it.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Oh well, you know, I mean, lord, no, I wasn't
ceiling anything for anybody. Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And then we got caught, I mean well one of
the kids got caught and then read us all out.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh wow, well, sitches get stitches.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Then it was a Catholic school, so we had to
do after school stuff, you know, chalkboards, wash the chalk boards,
and cleaner.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah yeah, we had to do cleaner. Yeah, cleaners. Cleaners
is like we didn't have detention. You had to stay
after school and clean either like a classroom.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, you had to go. It was really bad.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
You to come in on a Saturday and you have
to go and clean like the baseball fields, like pick
up trash.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
What were you doing necessitated you cleaning things? Talking a lot?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
That was like the most like you know, they wanted
you to be silent most of the time. I wasn't
doing crime. You were doing crime. I did you slash
tires with a nice peck?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And why do I just don't remember this story?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Or let's let's talk about all the terrible things we've
Let's have a whole hour long conversation. Let's just talk
about all the horrible things we've done.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You go first read. I'd have to think about it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I don't know. I didn't do crime. I just I didn't.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I didn't do any crime crime. No, I don't know.
I mean again, I think I was detained for doing nothing.
One time that happened. I had a fake ID. I
mean I did have a fake idea. I don't know
what else to tell you. I mean, I'm relatively boring.
I think it's more like moral indiscretions. I think it's
I think it's more being single for basically my entire life. Anything,
(02:00):
I'll be judged for my my the PowerPoint presentation of
my life some day, because there's a certain section of it,
the romantic section will be rather long and it will
take a while to peruse.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
But why did you slash tires? It was just my friend.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
My best friend was a really bad kid, and uh,
he was like, I have an ice pick, Let's go
to the grocery store and slash people's tires. So we
did that, and then someone called the cops, and then
we had to flee. So he went away just for
no reason. Yeah, there was no reason. Let's just be
let's just vandalized. Yeah, they were just vandals. We were
just bored in the suburbs.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
There's nothing to do.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Right, it doesn't just happen like. It doesn't just happened
like I'm bored. Let's just go ruin people's program. No, no, yeah,
we had to matter.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
What's what to do?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Okay, Well, I'm here to say stay out of jail.
I'm here to say no, say no to crime, and
say no to drugs too. And the same grocery store
you ended up getting a job at.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, I worked there at the time. Yeah, I got
to go back to work. It was after my shift
the customer.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, I'm probably the reason that Blockbuster went out
of jail because, of course, as you know, I was
a very young I was a sixteen year old assistant
manager at a Blockbuster. I have no idea how that happened.
I guess it was just that I was somehow deemed
more responsible than the other.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Sixteen year olds, I guess.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
But I had a safe code and bag of money,
and uh I was responded a key to the store
and the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And I gave away a lot of videos. Was like
I got. I didn't give them a like rentals.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I just like hot girls would come in from the
public school, because then I went to the private school,
so the hot girls in the public school would come in.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It was a whole It was like a whole new.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
They're like, you got Titanic and I did, and you know.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I did that double VHS. I had it for you.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Did you ever pull that scheme that you sent me
on TikTok?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
No? No there.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean they were all kinds of I see, all
kinds of different schemes from places that people were growing up.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
It was all but that was stealing money.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Basically. What I didn't do. I also didn't do that
and steal money. I used to grave though, if I'm
telling on myself, I think the statute limitations up on
this too. But like I would just walk by the
like I was working. I just walked by the candy
like grabs you know, I don't know, skittles and just
eat it. Oh you were supposed to buy it, could
take the discount, put the receipt on the item itself,
so that you knew that it was paid for.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Like I'd walk by the cooler and grab a drink. Drink.
I mean, I don't know that I was a thief.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I guess yes, But I also I think was working
for like six dollars an hour and with child labor basically,
so be it. If the worst thing I ever did
was take a coke oh yeah, from the cooler and
didn't come come fly, I guess I'll pay interest. I'll
give you a I give Blockbuster a twenty dollars bill
if you can find whoever owns Blockbuster now and and
we'll call it even, And that would probably be more
(04:43):
than enough with interest.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Take what's yours? I just hot chicken when I worked at.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Jewel Wow, you just take the chicken.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yes, they had like a hot chicken bar. That's where
I was going for my lunch break. Could I pay
for it? Perhaps not? Perhaps, that's yeah, I mean did
I pay for the coke? Perhaps? Perhaps not. I don't
remember anymore. I don't recall me neither.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Kiki. You you were, yeah, I mean you were in Yeah,
you were a gang leader. Yes, when he were like twelve, Yes, yeah,
gang leader. And then you would occasionally like eat something
at CAFC you didn't pay.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
For well, yeah, but I was the manager.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
I was sixteen the boat and I was the manager,
and I took that job very serious, like I meant business.
I was worried about my labor costs, you know. I'm like, hey,
you need to clock down and take a break because
you're running my labor costs.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, I said that food costs very important.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
So if I caught you with that skintle bag, you
would have been sitting home, sir, and I wouldn't need
a refund for or we need my money back for
you stealing.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I just think at the time they were making so
much money and the place was I think the entire
company was being essentially operated by teenagers. The whole company,
and then there was there was printing money. I just
don't think they had any control.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I mean it just it was just thousands of dollars cash.
A lot of it was cash still too. It was
a wild, so wild time I'd be working at Blockbuster
Video in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I wish I still had my gear, like my manager's
shirt though, because man I could rock that, like you know,
retro man.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
People would be where'd you get that? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I wonder if I could get one on eBay? Let
me see, Wow, what difference? Oh yeah, Blockbuster.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Video kind rewind.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But just the stuff that we used to do in
the store, like just I mean just not working. I
mean it was just wild like it to me, it's
just wild, Like now that I'm older to look back,
if I walked into a store and people were doing
the stuff that we were doing, like you know how
they had all the TVs on the ceiling that would
like show like the trailers. It was like a produced
video every month, and we'd it would like repeat the
(06:45):
same thing all day. We used to take one of
the rental PlayStations, hook it up to that and then
just stand there on a Friday night. There was a
line of people and play PlayStation across all the TV's
in the store.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Oh my god, it was just.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Like people just waiting in line, like thirty people. Why
nobody ever called the one hundred number, Like, hey, these
guys are idiots.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I remember.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
One of the way I became a manager is because
I was working at another store and on like a
Tuesday in the summer and that somebody calls and goes, hey,
I met whatever store down the street, because you know,
there was one in every corner. It was like in
the same district, right down the street. It was one
o'clock in the afternoon, hadn't the store hadn't opened yet,
and the store opened at ten, and they were like, hey,
like nobody showed up to open the store today on
like a Tuesday. And they're like, do you have and
(07:25):
we have a key. I'm like, yeah, I have a key.
They're like, okay, go open the store. So I just went, like,
you know, four hours later, opened the Blockbuster store and
that you're a manager now because you know how to
do it.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'm okay.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I mean, just like, does this something happen and every
day I don't know I have no idea. I guess,
so home on a second Blockbuster BBV.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We used to go that one shirt, didn't they? Oh yeah,
your shirt.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Shirt Blockbuster Managers, the one with the collar, the collar,
Oh yeah shirt. Yeah, well, seventy five bucks for one
of them Management Team Polo.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Seventy five dollars.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Hey bad if it's if there's not that many vintage.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, I mean what size is this? I don't know.
Seventy five dollars. My god. Well here's another one. I
had this shirt, one hundred and twenty dollars. This is
the one that had like the gold collar.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Oh my, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That when I was I had like fifty of those.
I mean, what is going on? I could be making
a side hustle right now.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
The one in the one that's still open in is
it Bend Oregon? Yeah, sells the Blockbuster Polo for sixty bucks.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Oh yeah, no, I had several of those that still
open fire. You could get a fit off with that. Yeah,
I mean it is you know, did you have a job,
did you? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Yeah, Manny.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And then I also worked retail.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Okay, yeah, I did the retail end of things, which
was equally as annoying.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I feel like my.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Sister had a job in high school because we're seven
and a half years apart.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
At like a I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It's like a health like a healthy restaurant, Like it
was like a kind of before it's time, and my
parents hated it because they would have to go there
like once a week to visit her, and they don't
like the food, and then they would tip her like
one hundred bucks, you know or whatever. And it's like
basically they got that she had to get the job
so they didn't have to give her money, but then
they went to visit her and they had to tip
her like that and give her money. So it was
like what's the point of this, which I think is
(09:16):
a lot of parents listening now will probably feel that
way about any fundraiser or like any like girl Scout
cookies or whatever. It's like, I can't remember the last
time a girl Scout sold me a Girl Scout cookie.
It was the parent of the girl Scout that sold
me a girl Scout.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Also, when there were big events in town, I would
get one of those car markers and I would offer
to take people, you know, to the event if they
had to park far away.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So I did that as a side hut, like.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
There was a big golf tournament, I think, and my
friend and I got in my car and we wrote, like,
you know, rides to the golf course.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You really you started? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
I don't want to step on any tokyo.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Actually, yeah, no kidding. You thought you invented avocado toast
and uber Oh no, no, no avocado. Taylor did that
her marker.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Yeah, you the car markers when you were a senior,
you know, like.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
The okay and look at us all. Now it's just
functioning adults. I became a manager at McDonald's eight this
attacks at eighteen or nineteen, had to manage teens.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We had a chicken nugget problem because everyone kept taking
though he just opened the walk.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Now, there used to be like a Blockbuster. There used
to be a coupon they had. It was like guaranteed
in stock or it's free on new releases. So if
you came in on like a Friday night and all
the new like the new release you wanted was gone,
we gave you this little thing and then you can
come back the next day or whatever and it was free. Well,
what we did was we just memorized the code on there,
and that's how we would get people free movies when
(10:46):
we wanted to.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We would just use that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And I remember we had to have a meeting because
the manager was like, we had one hundred and fifty
visitors yesterday and we had four hundred uses of that coupon,
So can someone explain to me?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And somehow the store still made money.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So I don't, but the managers like can, like how
and by the way, you're supposed to supposed to be
physical coupon for every time it was used, Like there
are four coupons in the drawer, Like where are the
other three hundred and ninety six of them? And nobody
could explain. Apple in What's Trending this morning have unveiled
new communication features. I always eighteen. You're excited about the
(11:20):
Apple update. The focus of the features is more ways
to express thoughts, to organize them, and they announce all
this at the Worldwide Developers Conference. You'll be able to
schedule a message ahead in the iPhone. Now, why what
are we gonna do with that?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Jason is going to use it? Oh, I'm going to
use that every day.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I do it in my email every single day, say
day Yeah, nice schedule.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
How is that helpful to to send a text message
ahead of time?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, because like we have.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Weird hours, right, So like if I wake up at
three thirty in the morning and I want to text
someone something, I don't want to send it at three thirty,
but I'm gonna forget because I have the worst memory
in the history of America. So I would schedule it
to go out at like nine, when people are actually
awaken on their phones.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Okay, like someone's birthday, Like, oh, it's someone's birthday tomorrow,
write the message now so it'll be said.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
That's what you gotta do, Like just just sit down
like for an hour at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I just schedule all your birthday if he had a
beef with them by the time birthday.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I once heard of this thing again not related to
Apple whatsoever. You could still you could still do this.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Though.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Somebody gave me a book when I was a kid.
It was like about sales techniques or business techniques or something.
I don't know why. It was like somebody was the
mentor friend of the family. You should read this, kid,
like this will help you. There was one thing I
will never forget. It was so brilliant. It was this
salesman and he would go and like to conferences and
he would go door to door like I had an
office to office and sell people stuff and like you know,
develop relationships whatever. And he carried with him anniversary and
(12:41):
birthday cards like on the road with him smart So
he'd go in there and somebody would you know, he
would like mind for information to get to know people,
like about his customers. He'd be like, well, my birthdays this,
or I'm a this sign or whatever, my anniversary is this,
or my kid's birthdays this, And he would immediately go
back to the hotel, fill out the card wow for
the birthday address him, put a stamp on him, and
then put it like in a little folder for the month.
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And then at the beginning of that month he would
just take everything in that folder and mail it. He
didn't even know what it was anymore. But then like
some random person that he was calling on for whatever,
we'd get a birthday card from the salesperson from like
three months ago.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
How did he remember that? And then that was like
the lead.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Then they call him and go thanks for the birthday
card or whatever, and it was like, how did he
do that? How did he remember? Well, he didn't. He
just did it right there at that very minute. I'm
so smart. I've actually never done that, but it was
a very It's a great it's a great tip that
I could have used to be more successful.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Let me see what else that this iPhone's going to
do for you now, more ways to express how you
feel in text, including emoji reactions and formatted text. You
could ask Siri for help with remembering the photo or
text that you're looking for, and then you'll be able
to text even when you don't have service. I guess
I thought you could do that now with Wi Fi,
but I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
He was just phone calls the satellite Oh, but now
it'll be satellite text message.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh okay, nice guys. This is crazy news. That is
it's rocking the competitive eating world this morning. Guys, this
is actually headline news. It's on basically every website looked.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
At it this morning.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Literally, National eating champion Joyed chess Thup will miss the
annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating competition in New York for
the first time in more than fifteen years because he
violated his agreement with the company by signing up to
represent a company that makes vegan hot dogs.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
He's so smart. It's a smart move for Joey Chestnut.
Oh wow, we're analyzing the move now. Chestnut is the
biggest name in competitive eating, and he's won the Nathan's
Event every year since twenty sixteen. Nathan's has said that
they are done bending over backwards for his demands because
he's finally gone too far by signing up to endorse
the meatless hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
He's gone too far. Guys produced by Impossible Foods. The
organization which is the whole organization that I guess oversees this,
the mL the Major League Eating organization. This is real
on this sounds like an Onion article, but it's not. Overseas.
The Nathan's Event noted that they have made a number
of concessions suggests that to ensure that he attends their
(15:01):
event in New York, including allowing him to film a
Netflix special based on a non Nathan's Contest paid him
a fee of two hundred grand to attend last year,
even offered one point four million dollars to sponsor him
for four years. And sorry, he's not. He's the biggest draw.
And if you're not gonna pay the man, it's going
to go somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Guys, he's moving on.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It's the same reason why the other guy, Kobyashi, he
wanted to do other competitions.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
That's why they banned him too. How do you come
for Major League Eating MLLE? Can't do it, guys, you
can't go for EMLA. Everyone knows that. And a traveler
at Orlando International Airport tried to get around paying for
a checked bag by putting all of his belongings into
a pillowcase and then claiming that it was nothing more
than a pillow. This has also made national news today,
(15:48):
so this was shared on TikTok. The police got involved
after airport staff gave the guy a chance to check
his items. He waited all the way up until they
closed the doors to agree to pay for it. According
to the witnesses, the guy tried to push himself onto
the plane and they were like, bro back away. We
gave you your chance, you didn't pay for it. The
TikTok user out of the ended up calling the police
and the guy, who was then escorted out. But that
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won't work on Spirit or any other airline for that banner.
You can't put all your stuff in a pillowcase and
then claim that it's a pillow I guess that won't
have it you. Also, I don't recommend wearing like eight
or nine layers of clothing at one time.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
You don't have to check out out. I can't even
sit down. Yeah right, sweating bullets on it. It's like,
oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And it's National Loving Day today, which commemorates the anniversary
of the day the Supreme Court struck down all laws
banning interracial marriage. So National Loving Day today, guys, there
you go. Yes,
It's the Fresh show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is what's trend that someone's actually I love how
Rufio's listing all the stuff he's done. But also is
the one who said, I don't want to incriminate myself,
but I've done crime. Yeah, well, I mean it was
twenty some years ago. The Statute of Limitations.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Is probably all there's oh yeah, there's a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
That person looking for their little hood ornament is probably yeah,
you probably sold that.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Car by now.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, you used to have some nice ones, you know Wick,
you went Jaguar, I mean, Buick was a big brand
back in the day for it.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Oh well, you know, I mean, lord, no, I wasn't
ceiling anything for anybody. Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And then we got caught, I mean well one of
the kids got caught and then read us all out.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh wow, well, sitches get stitches.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Then it was a Catholic school, so we had to
do after school stuff, you know, chalkboards, wash the chalk boards,
and cleaner.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah yeah, we had to do cleaner. Yeah, cleaners. Cleaners
is like we didn't have detention. You had to stay
after school and clean either like a classroom.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, you had to go. It was really bad.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
You to come in on a Saturday and you have
to go and clean like the baseball fields, like pick
up trash.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
What were you doing necessitated you cleaning things? Talking a lot?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
That was like the most like you know, they wanted
you to be silent most of the time. I wasn't
doing crime. You were doing crime. I did you slash
tires with a nice peck?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And why do I just don't remember this story?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Or let's let's talk about all the terrible things we've
Let's have a whole hour long conversation. Let's just talk
about all the horrible things we've done.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You go first read. I'd have to think about it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I don't know. I didn't do crime. I just I didn't.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I didn't do any crime crime. No, I don't know.
I mean again, I think I was detained for doing nothing.
One time that happened. I had a fake ID. I
mean I did have a fake idea. I don't know
what else to tell you. I mean, I'm relatively boring.
I think it's more like moral indiscretions. I think it's
I think it's more being single for basically my entire life. Anything,
(02:00):
I'll be judged for my my the PowerPoint presentation of
my life some day, because there's a certain section of it,
the romantic section will be rather long and it will
take a while to peruse.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
But why did you slash tires? It was just my friend.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
My best friend was a really bad kid, and uh,
he was like, I have an ice pick, Let's go
to the grocery store and slash people's tires. So we
did that, and then someone called the cops, and then
we had to flee. So he went away just for
no reason. Yeah, there was no reason. Let's just be
let's just vandalized. Yeah, they were just vandals. We were
just bored in the suburbs.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
There's nothing to do.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Right, it doesn't just happen like. It doesn't just happened
like I'm bored. Let's just go ruin people's program. No, no, yeah,
we had to matter.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
What's what to do?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Okay, Well, I'm here to say stay out of jail.
I'm here to say no, say no to crime, and
say no to drugs too. And the same grocery store
you ended up getting a job at.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, I worked there at the time. Yeah, I got
to go back to work. It was after my shift
the customer.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, I'm probably the reason that Blockbuster went out
of jail because, of course, as you know, I was
a very young I was a sixteen year old assistant
manager at a Blockbuster. I have no idea how that happened.
I guess it was just that I was somehow deemed
more responsible than the other.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Sixteen year olds, I guess.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
But I had a safe code and bag of money,
and uh I was responded a key to the store
and the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And I gave away a lot of videos. Was like
I got. I didn't give them a like rentals.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I just like hot girls would come in from the
public school, because then I went to the private school,
so the hot girls in the public school would come in.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It was a whole It was like a whole new.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
They're like, you got Titanic and I did, and you know.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I did that double VHS. I had it for you.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Did you ever pull that scheme that you sent me
on TikTok?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
No? No there.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean they were all kinds of I see, all
kinds of different schemes from places that people were growing up.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
It was all but that was stealing money.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Basically. What I didn't do. I also didn't do that
and steal money. I used to grave though, if I'm
telling on myself, I think the statute limitations up on
this too. But like I would just walk by the
like I was working. I just walked by the candy
like grabs you know, I don't know, skittles and just
eat it. Oh you were supposed to buy it, could
take the discount, put the receipt on the item itself,
so that you knew that it was paid for.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Like I'd walk by the cooler and grab a drink. Drink.
I mean, I don't know that I was a thief.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I guess yes, But I also I think was working
for like six dollars an hour and with child labor basically,
so be it. If the worst thing I ever did
was take a coke oh yeah, from the cooler and
didn't come come fly, I guess I'll pay interest. I'll
give you a I give Blockbuster a twenty dollars bill
if you can find whoever owns Blockbuster now and and
we'll call it even, And that would probably be more
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than enough with interest.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Take what's yours? I just hot chicken when I worked at.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Jewel Wow, you just take the chicken.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yes, they had like a hot chicken bar. That's where
I was going for my lunch break. Could I pay
for it? Perhaps not? Perhaps, that's yeah, I mean did
I pay for the coke? Perhaps? Perhaps not. I don't
remember anymore. I don't recall me neither.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Kiki. You you were, yeah, I mean you were in Yeah,
you were a gang leader. Yes, when he were like twelve, Yes, yeah,
gang leader. And then you would occasionally like eat something
at CAFC you didn't pay.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
For well, yeah, but I was the manager.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
I was sixteen the boat and I was the manager,
and I took that job very serious, like I meant business.
I was worried about my labor costs, you know. I'm like, hey,
you need to clock down and take a break because
you're running my labor costs.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, I said that food costs very important.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
So if I caught you with that skintle bag, you
would have been sitting home, sir, and I wouldn't need
a refund for or we need my money back for
you stealing.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I just think at the time they were making so
much money and the place was I think the entire
company was being essentially operated by teenagers. The whole company,
and then there was there was printing money. I just
don't think they had any control.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I mean it just it was just thousands of dollars cash.
A lot of it was cash still too. It was
a wild, so wild time I'd be working at Blockbuster
Video in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I wish I still had my gear, like my manager's
shirt though, because man I could rock that, like you know,
retro man.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
People would be where'd you get that? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I wonder if I could get one on eBay? Let
me see, Wow, what difference? Oh yeah, Blockbuster.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Video kind rewind.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But just the stuff that we used to do in
the store, like just I mean just not working. I
mean it was just wild like it to me, it's
just wild, Like now that I'm older to look back,
if I walked into a store and people were doing
the stuff that we were doing, like you know how
they had all the TVs on the ceiling that would
like show like the trailers. It was like a produced
video every month, and we'd it would like repeat the
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same thing all day. We used to take one of
the rental PlayStations, hook it up to that and then
just stand there on a Friday night. There was a
line of people and play PlayStation across all the TV's
in the store.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Oh my god, it was just.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Like people just waiting in line, like thirty people. Why
nobody ever called the one hundred number, Like, hey, these
guys are idiots.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I remember.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
One of the way I became a manager is because
I was working at another store and on like a
Tuesday in the summer and that somebody calls and goes, hey,
I met whatever store down the street, because you know,
there was one in every corner. It was like in
the same district, right down the street. It was one
o'clock in the afternoon, hadn't the store hadn't opened yet,
and the store opened at ten, and they were like, hey,
like nobody showed up to open the store today on
like a Tuesday. And they're like, do you have and
(07:25):
we have a key. I'm like, yeah, I have a key.
They're like, okay, go open the store. So I just went, like,
you know, four hours later, opened the Blockbuster store and
that you're a manager now because you know how to
do it.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'm okay.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I mean, just like, does this something happen and every
day I don't know I have no idea. I guess,
so home on a second Blockbuster BBV.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We used to go that one shirt, didn't they? Oh yeah,
your shirt.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Shirt Blockbuster Managers, the one with the collar, the collar,
Oh yeah shirt. Yeah, well, seventy five bucks for one
of them Management Team Polo.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Seventy five dollars.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Hey bad if it's if there's not that many vintage.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, I mean what size is this? I don't know.
Seventy five dollars. My god. Well here's another one. I
had this shirt, one hundred and twenty dollars. This is
the one that had like the gold collar.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Oh my, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That when I was I had like fifty of those.
I mean, what is going on? I could be making
a side hustle right now.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
The one in the one that's still open in is
it Bend Oregon? Yeah, sells the Blockbuster Polo for sixty bucks.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Oh yeah, no, I had several of those that still
open fire. You could get a fit off with that. Yeah,
I mean it is you know, did you have a job,
did you? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Yeah, Manny.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And then I also worked retail.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Okay, yeah, I did the retail end of things, which
was equally as annoying.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I feel like my.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Sister had a job in high school because we're seven
and a half years apart.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
At like a I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It's like a health like a healthy restaurant, Like it
was like a kind of before it's time, and my
parents hated it because they would have to go there
like once a week to visit her, and they don't
like the food, and then they would tip her like
one hundred bucks, you know or whatever. And it's like
basically they got that she had to get the job
so they didn't have to give her money, but then
they went to visit her and they had to tip
her like that and give her money. So it was
like what's the point of this, which I think is
(09:16):
a lot of parents listening now will probably feel that
way about any fundraiser or like any like girl Scout
cookies or whatever. It's like, I can't remember the last
time a girl Scout sold me a Girl Scout cookie.
It was the parent of the girl Scout that sold
me a girl Scout.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Also, when there were big events in town, I would
get one of those car markers and I would offer
to take people, you know, to the event if they
had to park far away.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So I did that as a side hut, like.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
There was a big golf tournament, I think, and my
friend and I got in my car and we wrote, like,
you know, rides to the golf course.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You really you started? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
I don't want to step on any tokyo.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Actually, yeah, no kidding. You thought you invented avocado toast
and uber Oh no, no, no avocado. Taylor did that
her marker.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Yeah, you the car markers when you were a senior,
you know, like.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
The okay and look at us all. Now it's just
functioning adults. I became a manager at McDonald's eight this
attacks at eighteen or nineteen, had to manage teens.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We had a chicken nugget problem because everyone kept taking
though he just opened the walk.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Now, there used to be like a Blockbuster. There used
to be a coupon they had. It was like guaranteed
in stock or it's free on new releases. So if
you came in on like a Friday night and all
the new like the new release you wanted was gone,
we gave you this little thing and then you can
come back the next day or whatever and it was free. Well,
what we did was we just memorized the code on there,
and that's how we would get people free movies when
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we wanted to.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We would just use that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And I remember we had to have a meeting because
the manager was like, we had one hundred and fifty
visitors yesterday and we had four hundred uses of that coupon,
So can someone explain to me?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And somehow the store still made money.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So I don't, but the managers like can, like how
and by the way, you're supposed to supposed to be
physical coupon for every time it was used, Like there
are four coupons in the drawer, Like where are the
other three hundred and ninety six of them? And nobody
could explain. Apple in What's Trending this morning have unveiled
new communication features. I always eighteen. You're excited about the
(11:20):
Apple update. The focus of the features is more ways
to express thoughts, to organize them, and they announce all
this at the Worldwide Developers Conference. You'll be able to
schedule a message ahead in the iPhone. Now, why what
are we gonna do with that?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Jason is going to use it? Oh, I'm going to
use that every day.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I do it in my email every single day, say
day Yeah, nice schedule.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
How is that helpful to to send a text message
ahead of time?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, because like we have.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Weird hours, right, So like if I wake up at
three thirty in the morning and I want to text
someone something, I don't want to send it at three thirty,
but I'm gonna forget because I have the worst memory
in the history of America. So I would schedule it
to go out at like nine, when people are actually
awaken on their phones.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Okay, like someone's birthday, Like, oh, it's someone's birthday tomorrow,
write the message now so it'll be said.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
That's what you gotta do, Like just just sit down
like for an hour at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I just schedule all your birthday if he had a
beef with them by the time birthday.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I once heard of this thing again not related to
Apple whatsoever. You could still you could still do this.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Though.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Somebody gave me a book when I was a kid.
It was like about sales techniques or business techniques or something.
I don't know why. It was like somebody was the
mentor friend of the family. You should read this, kid,
like this will help you. There was one thing I
will never forget. It was so brilliant. It was this
salesman and he would go and like to conferences and
he would go door to door like I had an
office to office and sell people stuff and like you know,
develop relationships whatever. And he carried with him anniversary and
(12:41):
birthday cards like on the road with him smart So
he'd go in there and somebody would you know, he
would like mind for information to get to know people,
like about his customers. He'd be like, well, my birthdays this,
or I'm a this sign or whatever, my anniversary is this,
or my kid's birthdays this, And he would immediately go
back to the hotel, fill out the card wow for
the birthday address him, put a stamp on him, and
then put it like in a little folder for the month.
(13:03):
And then at the beginning of that month he would
just take everything in that folder and mail it. He
didn't even know what it was anymore. But then like
some random person that he was calling on for whatever,
we'd get a birthday card from the salesperson from like
three months ago.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
How did he remember that? And then that was like
the lead.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Then they call him and go thanks for the birthday
card or whatever, and it was like, how did he
do that? How did he remember? Well, he didn't. He
just did it right there at that very minute. I'm
so smart. I've actually never done that, but it was
a very It's a great it's a great tip that
I could have used to be more successful.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Let me see what else that this iPhone's going to
do for you now, more ways to express how you
feel in text, including emoji reactions and formatted text. You
could ask Siri for help with remembering the photo or
text that you're looking for, and then you'll be able
to text even when you don't have service. I guess
I thought you could do that now with Wi Fi,
but I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
He was just phone calls the satellite Oh, but now
it'll be satellite text message.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh okay, nice guys. This is crazy news. That is
it's rocking the competitive eating world this morning. Guys, this
is actually headline news. It's on basically every website looked.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
At it this morning.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Literally, National eating champion Joyed chess Thup will miss the
annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating competition in New York for
the first time in more than fifteen years because he
violated his agreement with the company by signing up to
represent a company that makes vegan hot dogs.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
He's so smart. It's a smart move for Joey Chestnut.
Oh wow, we're analyzing the move now. Chestnut is the
biggest name in competitive eating, and he's won the Nathan's
Event every year since twenty sixteen. Nathan's has said that
they are done bending over backwards for his demands because
he's finally gone too far by signing up to endorse
the meatless hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
He's gone too far. Guys produced by Impossible Foods. The
organization which is the whole organization that I guess oversees this,
the mL the Major League Eating organization. This is real
on this sounds like an Onion article, but it's not. Overseas.
The Nathan's Event noted that they have made a number
of concessions suggests that to ensure that he attends their
(15:01):
event in New York, including allowing him to film a
Netflix special based on a non Nathan's Contest paid him
a fee of two hundred grand to attend last year,
even offered one point four million dollars to sponsor him
for four years. And sorry, he's not. He's the biggest draw.
And if you're not gonna pay the man, it's going
to go somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Guys, he's moving on.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It's the same reason why the other guy, Kobyashi, he
wanted to do other competitions.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
That's why they banned him too. How do you come
for Major League Eating MLLE? Can't do it, guys, you
can't go for EMLA. Everyone knows that. And a traveler
at Orlando International Airport tried to get around paying for
a checked bag by putting all of his belongings into
a pillowcase and then claiming that it was nothing more
than a pillow. This has also made national news today,
(15:48):
so this was shared on TikTok. The police got involved
after airport staff gave the guy a chance to check
his items. He waited all the way up until they
closed the doors to agree to pay for it. According
to the witnesses, the guy tried to push himself onto
the plane and they were like, bro back away. We
gave you your chance, you didn't pay for it. The
TikTok user out of the ended up calling the police
and the guy, who was then escorted out. But that
(16:10):
won't work on Spirit or any other airline for that banner.
You can't put all your stuff in a pillowcase and
then claim that it's a pillow I guess that won't
have it you. Also, I don't recommend wearing like eight
or nine layers of clothing at one time.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
You don't have to check out out. I can't even
sit down. Yeah right, sweating bullets on it. It's like,
oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And it's National Loving Day today, which commemorates the anniversary
of the day the Supreme Court struck down all laws
banning interracial marriage. So National Loving Day today, guys, there
you go. Yes,
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