February 14, 2019 • 22 mins
Valentines Day is upon us! Have you ever gotten fell in love with a co-worker? Justin co-hosts with Jesse on this episode. This week we hear from Mallory! She talks with us about a lovely man she started crushing on at work! Then Ava, Justin and Jesse play a few rounds of Eat, Serve, Toss!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, folks, I'm Jesse Wood and this is the podcast
Stiff from straw Hut Media. This is the podcast that
dies in the difficult aspects of the service industry. And well,
this week, because it's Valentine's Day, let's not be so
difficult and have ourselves a little bit of romance and
fun romance.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, can you put on the appropriate for thank you
for calling?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
This episode is a bit of a palate cleanser from
the nitty gritty subjects we usually tackle. First, we'll hear
a nice romantic story in the workplace and then we'll
just play a silly game. Oh and speaking of romance,
we're both there to.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Romance in the service industry. I'm gonna go ahead and
jump on right now and tell you real.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Quick, I'm what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
What is the hotline number? Good? This week's show, I
am joined by a special guest co host, mister Justin Kaminski.
We start this Valentine's Day episode of the Lovely Little
Story from Mallory and how she and her brand new
fiance came to be. After that, we're going to goof
off with Eva with a round of eat served toss.
So you love birds after the break. In this segment,
(01:12):
we celebrate this holiday with a nice little story from Mallory.
She's getting hitched, and we'll get the skinny on how
it all came together.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It's on twenty and thirteen. There's this guy that came in.
He was super attractive. He was Mexican, and that's exactly
what I'm into.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh you like the mexicalis go on us? Okay, well
she knows the language.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Too, and she was really cute and I did really
like him, but I was in a relationship at the time.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That was awful.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Fast forward to last Saturday. That guy asked me to
marry him and I said, yes, mother, really yeah, So
I met the guy that I at my job.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That's wait yeah, no, no, no, no, no, you need to
go back and give us more.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You really know exactly the time, what year? It was
like three or four years ago. I was serving still
at my job a restaurant, and there's this guy that
came in and he was really attractive. But I was
in a relationship at the time, and you know, I
just you know, and that was that fuss forward a
(02:20):
flash forward a couple did you guys? Well, I mean
it was pleasant but I was in a relationship, Like
I don't really remember much of it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Were you thinking maybe no, and like what was your interactions?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Like, well, I mean it was just his best friend
or his one of his best friends actually worked with me,
so that's why he was there, so we knew of
the same person. So he was sitting there with one
of his friends at the time, and we were all
kind of chatting and shooting the ship and laughing. But
then I wasn't in his server the whole time, so
then I had left, okay, But he like, clearly there's
(02:56):
something about him that stood out to me. He was
just a really kind person. I thought he was attractive,
and he's Mexican. It was just clearly, like what I
I fell in love with. The first guy I was
ever in love with was Ricky Ricardo, and so I
definitely should not joke that, Oh yeah, he was the
first guy that I really really was like wow, because
I love Lucy.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I used to watch that growing up, and I was like,
I love like.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I loved the Spanish music, and I love this guy
and he's you know, telling this person to shut up
in a different language, and I like love it.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So I was like oh, he's super attractive. But lega,
I added out, I was.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
In this is it one of those weird like romantic
comedy moments where like you felt like lightning struck, like
did you know it that moment? This is the guy
I'm going to marry again.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I don't think that that's responsible to say, because I'm
in a relationship and this, and I'm somebody that when
I'm in a relationship, I.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Give respect to that relationship.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You're loyal.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So those things didn't take me to where I'm going
to marry this full because my mind was what am
I doing here?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But I wasn't happy.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It was like an ahaha, lightning moment.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, when I ended my relationship, was he the first
guy that I reached out to? Yes, And it wasn't
so much you don't know what that is. But I
knew that this guy made me laugh. I knew that
I connected with it some way. I knew something about him,
he had some kind of quality about him that I
was interested in clearly. And then we hung out and
then yes, it was like these moments when you're with
(04:26):
somebody like.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I'm just fascinated, Wow, that weird like connectivity that happens
with people where you just meet that person, You're like,
for some reason, we're gonna there is connections, You're a friendship.
You're like, we're gonna be connected for a long time,
and it almost seems immediate. It's weird.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's why I said, even if something in my subconscious
kind of took a hole that I wasn't consciously aware of,
Like chemistry, you don't have to be able to exactly
explain it. It's something scientific in a way that you
don't no. But I was drawn to this person.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Almost, and that is scientific. It's almost like it like
it's imagine not I agree with you on that super
natural where you're just like, yeah, you can't connected to you.
I agree with you, get it. That's I'm fascinated by it.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I'm not sure to discount or anything.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
No, I know you're not.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Congrats on the number.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
When you said a date, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I don't know. I feel like I just need to.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Be in this moment right now and then we'll live
in it.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Don't rush it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But that is the that is in the service industry,
the most beautiful thing that could have happened is meeting
somebody and then and then it taking a hold of
what it was.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
So the guy tips you and then gives you a ring.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, I didn't even get tip that night, so.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I wanted a two for.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But he did give me a ring with my grandma's
nineteen sixty six Mustang.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
He thinks that for me, that's nice to come up
to come up.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I came up with him, for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I came up.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Good job, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And maybe say his name.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Adrian Torres.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
That's a very Mexican. I almost want to bang him.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, he probably like that. I sometimes I want so attractive?
Is it attractive?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Man?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Because it's I.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Don't know, Well, you get to roll your rs in
this first name and his last name.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I don't know how to rollo. I'm not good at it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I'm sorry, that's that's desirable.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
In my book, I'm not good at I'm white.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I'm white and horribly bad at accents.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I sound like, I'm like, we'll go with that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's the nice one.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
In this segment, we're joined by Aba to play a
couple of rounds of the game that is Sweeping the
Service Industry EAT serves.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
It's is an actual game.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, okay, you're familiar to eat Pretty Love or eat
Shitty Book in movie No Mary fuck kill. Oh yeah,
this is this is the server version of it called
Eat Serve Toss, Eat serves. All right, well I'm going
(07:25):
to start here, Eat Served, Toss round one. It goes
to justin. Oh yeah, I'm getting my game show guy
on right now.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
It's fine, Thank god.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Okay, no, so eat serve or toss seafood veal or
pork rinds.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Mm hmm. I'm going to eat the pork grinds. Who
is a man of the people, A man of the people.
I'm going to get straight for pork grinds. Those things,
once they get in your mouth, it's just like a
one way ticket.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You can't stop snackling. No, yeah, it's just like my.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Chase buds are ecstatic at that point. All right, so
I'm actually doing my chaste buds, you know, a favor
a service. Yeah. So, anytime you see pork grinds and
I'm in the vicinitye please do.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And I'm sure if there's like a little bit of
booze involved, but it's going to up that game.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I will push little kids out of the way for
pork grinds.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
They're asking for it. Got in your way there the way,
it's their.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Faulted my book grounds.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Wrong place, rung time. Sorry children, all right, seafood and
veal still on the proverbial table.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Seafood or veal? Was it serve and so you're gonna eat?
Now you gotta serve and or toss. I'm going to
serve that seafood.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Serve the seafood.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Serve the seafood.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You know.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
What greater pleasure is there?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
What to give her?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I don't know, maybe like sexual contact with a human
that's into it.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Like feating her shrimp. No, we'll make it like how
about beef in two?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Typically?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
You know, I was gonna go with the oyster afrodisiac
because then I have the potential of maybe getting with
the person.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
So keep flying them a little bit. I get it.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I'm going with that. So I guess I'm gonna have
to toss the veal.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And why are you tossing the veal?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I mean, as controversial as veal is, I guess it
just should be tossed. Although I don't think it's.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You don't think of trouble with it, like on a
weird like level, like it's tortured baby cow.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It is.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It kind of hurts my soul when I understand every
other food we eat is a living thing.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
It is, but you never have a chance.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
No, it didn't.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And you know I do have a heart, as you
two were saying, and just like that process is pretty
fucked up.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It's pretty rough, pretty rough, all right, Okay, here's your three. Ready,
go to the liquid side. Yes, oh yeah, oh yeah, vodka? Oh, beer, tequila?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Man, why did you pick whiskey.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I don't want to to even have the I love
beer too, but I'm just saying.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Vodka, beer, and tequila. Okay, I will drink the tequila.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh you're cap in tequila? Yeah, your Mexican again.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
It's actually I like it. It's more because it's fun
to mix with stuff, so you can actually play with
the flavors.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Faldcon beer a little more tricky.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
See tequila. I don't like to mix with stuff. I
think it's just margarita or like a paloma. But I
find there's more fun with like say, like a mescal.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I like my.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's less sweet, I like that smoky, like that little again,
I like whiskey. I like harsh flavors. I'm a smoker.
I burned down my palates like big flavors. To communicate
to me, one.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Of Justin's favorite drinks is a last word. And at
my work we made mescal olive oil wash. It was
so delicious, so I made him a last word with that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
That was one of the if not the best, in.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
The room. That's just happened.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
I have a friend to who used to say tequila
makes him fuck or fight, So that's a whole other thing.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, could relate to that. I fought on tequila at
the same time.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
That's a weird night. Weird night.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Tequila's for me is a liquor that like, and I
grew up in San Diego. It's like I'm in like
Tequila Central.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I've never once drinking tequila. And the next morning when
like the Dale's sport quality decisions, no one shot too many,
maybe just one shot too many? All right, Well on
the next one beer beer in vodka.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
That's that's really hard. They're so opposite. Also very much
so serve beer because I feel like I could serve
more of those without getting my customers messed up.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
To Okay, smart and then slow burn.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Yeah, exactly, And there's a lot of different fun flavors
and all that. But I'll toss the vodka not because
I want to, but because it's the only option.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Lott, Justin and I worked at this one place that
bragged or having over one hundred and fifty types of vodka.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Not that they all tastes like alcohol.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
In the world, vodka means water mm hmm. And the
better of ooka is the more it tastes like nothing.
I hate that math. In fact, we actually carried a
Murlo vodka. Did you try it? Did you try it?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I don't think I tried.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Remember Kyle when we first got it and me and
Kyle had to try it, had a morbid curiosity and
both of our fears were answered immediately. It is a
stupid idea, and it was awful.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
I love a good vodka soda with lemon I I
Chris refreshing.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I get that.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yeah, like I have no problem with it, but there's
not really much you can get out of.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It, and carrying over one hundred and fifty is just silly.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It is.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
It's a gimmick.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Don't get me started on the flavored vodkash marshmallow, cotton
cats and jelly us. Do you want?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
How would you like your diabetes?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
That's awful?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah all right, justin all right, I got another trio
for you. Drunk bridesmaid, drunk old guy, drunk frat guy.
Oh so what do I do? The real choice on
this one eat serve or also mark? It works both
(14:29):
ways on this one that.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
You're drunk brides made drunk frat boy.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You pretty much have to this side. Who you want
to deal with?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I don't have to eat him?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Who you would like to give? Really confused person? Who
you'd like to like shovel off to, like the next guy?
Like you take him?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You and the guy that you kick out drunk bridesmaid,
drunk old guy, drunk frack.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
So it was the guy I kick out?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Mm hmm, that's the toss, the guy you passed to
the next person, and then the.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Guy you have to deal with, the guy I gotta
deal with. I would probably pass the frat guy, like
I can't you just shuffle?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You wouldn't kick him out? You just you deal with
them there like your other bartender. You deal with them, You.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Deal with them, all right?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
You?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I think there's going to be entertainment to be had there,
and I would like to see somebody else have to
deal so you get side stories. Yeah what I just saw, Yeah, exactly.
I can't see that reason definitely. You know, it adds
to the evening and completely screws over somebody else. Maybe
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's true to him. Yeah, there's a little revenge just
waiting for that drunk frat guy. Screw here he is.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
And then.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Old guy or that I would have to deal with,
or and what was the other one? Get rid of them,
get rid of them. Bridesmaid out.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Oh my gosh, they like every I need the old guy.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I knew that they feel.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
The bridesmaids crying the whole time. It's either trying or happy.
And I own this place and I'm going to do
ask for everything that it's very rare.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I have a tiara, I'm a sash. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yeah, so get out of here. And the old guy,
the old fu. Yeah, they got stories to tell, that's true.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Some ship.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
They've been through a lot. And I you know, one
of the things I do like about our profession, her industry,
or whatever you want to call it, is talking to
people and just listening to what they've been through and
everybody's got a different story to tell. You know, it's
really it's a cool part of the job and I
love listening to it and you know, kind of internalize it.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It's a few places I feel that, like you have
an excuse to make a connection with a stranger like you.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I get weird looks opening a door for somebody to
look at me like I'm a raveist something. I'm just
being polite or you know whatever. You have this now
like venue to be like, oh, I can tell you
about me, you can tell me about you, and it's
on the up and up, and neither of us are
sketchy and we're just making human connections interactions. It's nice.
I like that aspect of it too. You're not off
(17:33):
the hook. Okay, I got one for you here. And
this is actually interesting because it coincides what we talked
about earlier. So eat serve toash proud yelper, oh critic
or guy who generally wants you to know what he
really thinks?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Does this have to do with the uh? I generally
wants you I'm going to marry you?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And oh no, well he definitely let her know what
he thinks. He was very clear. He's very cular about that.
I don't think generally should be in that sentence. He
knows what he thinks.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I'm a question to asker. So I'm always like, Okay,
so is the critic, like who does he work for?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You know?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Is he you know?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
No? But that's part of the fun of the game.
Shoot what I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
It's like you have a yelper, No, I'm kicking the
helper out, and then you have a critic, like a
professional critic that knows his business, and then you just
got a guy that just wants to know, like he
wants you to know what he thinks.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I have friends who are avid yelpers and food Remember
this word that was popular for like the words like foodies.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
I actually when I hear that word, like, I'm cringing
right now, I'm cringing.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Does it? Does it make me a beery?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
It's so weird, Like, but that's a label that they
put on themselves, right, That's a label that nobody is like,
Oh my god, are you a foodie?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Are you totally someone asked me that I would cringe
and want to backhand. Yeah, are you a foody because
I am right, no, I like that like something.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I just say I love food, and then if like
a chef offers me, I'm giving my coworkers a hint,
like you know, some snacks or something and just start
like yelping and enjoy like physically, not on the internet,
but just like yes, sure, no, I'm going to kick
the yelper out because honestly, you need to find something
better to do with your time.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Too much time?
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Who why don't you go learn how to make this
food and then tell me how you feel about it
or these drinks you know. Definitely I'm all about like,
if you're going to judge somebody hard, you need to
you need to have an idea of what what you're
actually have to have a yeah, not that you like flavors,
like you don't even know what flavors you like. Genuinely,
you haven't gone to like a class, you're not a
(20:00):
small a like come on, right, and then it's hard.
I actually okay, I would choose to serve personally the
guy who wants to tell me what he really thinks,
because I love genuine conversations. That's why I'm about podcasts
and stuff like that the critic I would just put
off because he just wants a good experience. He wants
a good food experience. He's not there to have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
He's getting a little fluff too, ownership for.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Which I can handle exactly. Like, I have no problem
doing that and making sure he has a great experience
from beginning to end and gets all of it in
the little extra But I'd rather have a genuine conversation
with someone who wants to let me know even if
they you know, say I didn't like this food, or
you could have done a little bit better, how can
we correct exactly?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, what's wrong? The critic? Cluff is always funny when
you're working, Like, all right, he sat down, he sat down,
he's looking at the menu right, like his classes, he
just cleans his classes look out like they watch every
little thing. He's like, So do I have to suck
him off?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Or yeah, how does the last time? It's on you?
This time it's your turn?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Who's up?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
No, I'd rather serve the guy who wants to genuinely
tell me how it is nice.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That's a good that was a nice little round. That
was fun, nice little it's a fun game. Thanks to
Justin for being my co pilot this week. Congratulations to
Malory on the engagement, and a special thanks to Ava
for being such a good sport. Looking forward to seeing
you all real soon. Well that about wraps it up
for us this week, but before we go, do you
have any horse stories from the service industry, Write me
(21:40):
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(22:02):
to see you next week.
Hey, folks, I'm Jesse Wood and this is the podcast
Stiff from straw Hut Media. This is the podcast that
dies in the difficult aspects of the service industry. And well,
this week, because it's Valentine's Day, let's not be so
difficult and have ourselves a little bit of romance and
fun romance.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, can you put on the appropriate for thank you
for calling?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
This episode is a bit of a palate cleanser from
the nitty gritty subjects we usually tackle. First, we'll hear
a nice romantic story in the workplace and then we'll
just play a silly game. Oh and speaking of romance,
we're both there to.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Romance in the service industry. I'm gonna go ahead and
jump on right now and tell you real.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Quick, I'm what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
What is the hotline number? Good? This week's show, I
am joined by a special guest co host, mister Justin Kaminski.
We start this Valentine's Day episode of the Lovely Little
Story from Mallory and how she and her brand new
fiance came to be. After that, we're going to goof
off with Eva with a round of eat served toss.
So you love birds after the break. In this segment,
(01:12):
we celebrate this holiday with a nice little story from Mallory.
She's getting hitched, and we'll get the skinny on how
it all came together.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It's on twenty and thirteen. There's this guy that came in.
He was super attractive. He was Mexican, and that's exactly
what I'm into.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh you like the mexicalis go on us? Okay, well
she knows the language.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Too, and she was really cute and I did really
like him, but I was in a relationship at the time.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That was awful.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Fast forward to last Saturday. That guy asked me to
marry him and I said, yes, mother, really yeah, So
I met the guy that I at my job.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That's wait yeah, no, no, no, no, no, you need to
go back and give us more.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You really know exactly the time, what year? It was
like three or four years ago. I was serving still
at my job a restaurant, and there's this guy that
came in and he was really attractive. But I was
in a relationship at the time, and you know, I
just you know, and that was that fuss forward a
(02:20):
flash forward a couple did you guys? Well, I mean
it was pleasant but I was in a relationship, Like
I don't really remember much of it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Were you thinking maybe no, and like what was your interactions?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Like, well, I mean it was just his best friend
or his one of his best friends actually worked with me,
so that's why he was there, so we knew of
the same person. So he was sitting there with one
of his friends at the time, and we were all
kind of chatting and shooting the ship and laughing. But
then I wasn't in his server the whole time, so
then I had left, okay, But he like, clearly there's
(02:56):
something about him that stood out to me. He was
just a really kind person. I thought he was attractive,
and he's Mexican. It was just clearly, like what I
I fell in love with. The first guy I was
ever in love with was Ricky Ricardo, and so I
definitely should not joke that, Oh yeah, he was the
first guy that I really really was like wow, because
I love Lucy.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I used to watch that growing up, and I was like,
I love like.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I loved the Spanish music, and I love this guy
and he's you know, telling this person to shut up
in a different language, and I like love it.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So I was like oh, he's super attractive. But lega,
I added out, I was.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
In this is it one of those weird like romantic
comedy moments where like you felt like lightning struck, like
did you know it that moment? This is the guy
I'm going to marry again.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I don't think that that's responsible to say, because I'm
in a relationship and this, and I'm somebody that when
I'm in a relationship, I.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Give respect to that relationship.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You're loyal.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So those things didn't take me to where I'm going
to marry this full because my mind was what am
I doing here?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But I wasn't happy.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It was like an ahaha, lightning moment.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, when I ended my relationship, was he the first
guy that I reached out to? Yes, And it wasn't
so much you don't know what that is. But I
knew that this guy made me laugh. I knew that
I connected with it some way. I knew something about him,
he had some kind of quality about him that I
was interested in clearly. And then we hung out and
then yes, it was like these moments when you're with
(04:26):
somebody like.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I'm just fascinated, Wow, that weird like connectivity that happens
with people where you just meet that person, You're like,
for some reason, we're gonna there is connections, You're a friendship.
You're like, we're gonna be connected for a long time,
and it almost seems immediate. It's weird.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's why I said, even if something in my subconscious
kind of took a hole that I wasn't consciously aware of,
Like chemistry, you don't have to be able to exactly
explain it. It's something scientific in a way that you
don't no. But I was drawn to this person.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Almost, and that is scientific. It's almost like it like
it's imagine not I agree with you on that super
natural where you're just like, yeah, you can't connected to you.
I agree with you, get it. That's I'm fascinated by it.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I'm not sure to discount or anything.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
No, I know you're not.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Congrats on the number.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
When you said a date, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I don't know. I feel like I just need to.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Be in this moment right now and then we'll live
in it.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Don't rush it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But that is the that is in the service industry,
the most beautiful thing that could have happened is meeting
somebody and then and then it taking a hold of
what it was.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
So the guy tips you and then gives you a ring.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, I didn't even get tip that night, so.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I wanted a two for.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But he did give me a ring with my grandma's
nineteen sixty six Mustang.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
He thinks that for me, that's nice to come up
to come up.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I came up with him, for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I came up.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Good job, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And maybe say his name.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Adrian Torres.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
That's a very Mexican. I almost want to bang him.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, he probably like that. I sometimes I want so attractive?
Is it attractive?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Man?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Because it's I.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Don't know, Well, you get to roll your rs in
this first name and his last name.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I don't know how to rollo. I'm not good at it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I'm sorry, that's that's desirable.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
In my book, I'm not good at I'm white.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I'm white and horribly bad at accents.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I sound like, I'm like, we'll go with that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's the nice one.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
In this segment, we're joined by Aba to play a
couple of rounds of the game that is Sweeping the
Service Industry EAT serves.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
It's is an actual game.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, okay, you're familiar to eat Pretty Love or eat
Shitty Book in movie No Mary fuck kill. Oh yeah,
this is this is the server version of it called
Eat Serve Toss, Eat serves. All right, well I'm going
(07:25):
to start here, Eat Served, Toss round one. It goes
to justin. Oh yeah, I'm getting my game show guy
on right now.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
It's fine, Thank god.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Okay, no, so eat serve or toss seafood veal or
pork rinds.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Mm hmm. I'm going to eat the pork grinds. Who
is a man of the people, A man of the people.
I'm going to get straight for pork grinds. Those things,
once they get in your mouth, it's just like a
one way ticket.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You can't stop snackling. No, yeah, it's just like my.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Chase buds are ecstatic at that point. All right, so
I'm actually doing my chaste buds, you know, a favor
a service. Yeah. So, anytime you see pork grinds and
I'm in the vicinitye please do.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And I'm sure if there's like a little bit of
booze involved, but it's going to up that game.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I will push little kids out of the way for
pork grinds.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
They're asking for it. Got in your way there the way,
it's their.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Faulted my book grounds.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Wrong place, rung time. Sorry children, all right, seafood and
veal still on the proverbial table.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Seafood or veal? Was it serve and so you're gonna eat?
Now you gotta serve and or toss. I'm going to
serve that seafood.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Serve the seafood.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Serve the seafood.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You know.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
What greater pleasure is there?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
What to give her?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I don't know, maybe like sexual contact with a human
that's into it.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Like feating her shrimp. No, we'll make it like how
about beef in two?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Typically?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
You know, I was gonna go with the oyster afrodisiac
because then I have the potential of maybe getting with
the person.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
So keep flying them a little bit. I get it.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I'm going with that. So I guess I'm gonna have
to toss the veal.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And why are you tossing the veal?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I mean, as controversial as veal is, I guess it
just should be tossed. Although I don't think it's.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You don't think of trouble with it, like on a
weird like level, like it's tortured baby cow.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It is.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It kind of hurts my soul when I understand every
other food we eat is a living thing.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
It is, but you never have a chance.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
No, it didn't.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
And you know I do have a heart, as you
two were saying, and just like that process is pretty
fucked up.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It's pretty rough, pretty rough, all right, Okay, here's your three. Ready,
go to the liquid side. Yes, oh yeah, oh yeah, vodka? Oh, beer, tequila?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Man, why did you pick whiskey.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I don't want to to even have the I love
beer too, but I'm just saying.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Vodka, beer, and tequila. Okay, I will drink the tequila.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh you're cap in tequila? Yeah, your Mexican again.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
It's actually I like it. It's more because it's fun
to mix with stuff, so you can actually play with
the flavors.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Faldcon beer a little more tricky.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
See tequila. I don't like to mix with stuff. I
think it's just margarita or like a paloma. But I
find there's more fun with like say, like a mescal.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I like my.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's less sweet, I like that smoky, like that little again,
I like whiskey. I like harsh flavors. I'm a smoker.
I burned down my palates like big flavors. To communicate
to me, one.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Of Justin's favorite drinks is a last word. And at
my work we made mescal olive oil wash. It was
so delicious, so I made him a last word with that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
That was one of the if not the best, in.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
The room. That's just happened.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
I have a friend to who used to say tequila
makes him fuck or fight, So that's a whole other thing.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, could relate to that. I fought on tequila at
the same time.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
That's a weird night. Weird night.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Tequila's for me is a liquor that like, and I
grew up in San Diego. It's like I'm in like
Tequila Central.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I've never once drinking tequila. And the next morning when
like the Dale's sport quality decisions, no one shot too many,
maybe just one shot too many? All right, Well on
the next one beer beer in vodka.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
That's that's really hard. They're so opposite. Also very much
so serve beer because I feel like I could serve
more of those without getting my customers messed up.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
To Okay, smart and then slow burn.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Yeah, exactly, And there's a lot of different fun flavors
and all that. But I'll toss the vodka not because
I want to, but because it's the only option.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Lott, Justin and I worked at this one place that
bragged or having over one hundred and fifty types of vodka.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Not that they all tastes like alcohol.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
In the world, vodka means water mm hmm. And the
better of ooka is the more it tastes like nothing.
I hate that math. In fact, we actually carried a
Murlo vodka. Did you try it? Did you try it?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I don't think I tried.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Remember Kyle when we first got it and me and
Kyle had to try it, had a morbid curiosity and
both of our fears were answered immediately. It is a
stupid idea, and it was awful.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
I love a good vodka soda with lemon I I
Chris refreshing.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I get that.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yeah, like I have no problem with it, but there's
not really much you can get out of.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It, and carrying over one hundred and fifty is just silly.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It is.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
It's a gimmick.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Don't get me started on the flavored vodkash marshmallow, cotton
cats and jelly us. Do you want?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
How would you like your diabetes?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
That's awful?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah all right, justin all right, I got another trio
for you. Drunk bridesmaid, drunk old guy, drunk frat guy.
Oh so what do I do? The real choice on
this one eat serve or also mark? It works both
(14:29):
ways on this one that.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
You're drunk brides made drunk frat boy.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You pretty much have to this side. Who you want
to deal with?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I don't have to eat him?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Who you would like to give? Really confused person? Who
you'd like to like shovel off to, like the next guy?
Like you take him?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You and the guy that you kick out drunk bridesmaid,
drunk old guy, drunk frack.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
So it was the guy I kick out?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Mm hmm, that's the toss, the guy you passed to
the next person, and then the.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Guy you have to deal with, the guy I gotta
deal with. I would probably pass the frat guy, like
I can't you just shuffle?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You wouldn't kick him out? You just you deal with
them there like your other bartender. You deal with them, You.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Deal with them, all right?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
You?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I think there's going to be entertainment to be had there,
and I would like to see somebody else have to
deal so you get side stories. Yeah what I just saw, Yeah, exactly.
I can't see that reason definitely. You know, it adds
to the evening and completely screws over somebody else. Maybe
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's true to him. Yeah, there's a little revenge just
waiting for that drunk frat guy. Screw here he is.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
And then.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Old guy or that I would have to deal with,
or and what was the other one? Get rid of them,
get rid of them. Bridesmaid out.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Oh my gosh, they like every I need the old guy.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I knew that they feel.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
The bridesmaids crying the whole time. It's either trying or happy.
And I own this place and I'm going to do
ask for everything that it's very rare.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I have a tiara, I'm a sash. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yeah, so get out of here. And the old guy,
the old fu. Yeah, they got stories to tell, that's true.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Some ship.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
They've been through a lot. And I you know, one
of the things I do like about our profession, her industry,
or whatever you want to call it, is talking to
people and just listening to what they've been through and
everybody's got a different story to tell. You know, it's
really it's a cool part of the job and I
love listening to it and you know, kind of internalize it.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It's a few places I feel that, like you have
an excuse to make a connection with a stranger like you.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I get weird looks opening a door for somebody to
look at me like I'm a raveist something. I'm just
being polite or you know whatever. You have this now
like venue to be like, oh, I can tell you
about me, you can tell me about you, and it's
on the up and up, and neither of us are
sketchy and we're just making human connections interactions. It's nice.
I like that aspect of it too. You're not off
(17:33):
the hook. Okay, I got one for you here. And
this is actually interesting because it coincides what we talked
about earlier. So eat serve toash proud yelper, oh critic
or guy who generally wants you to know what he
really thinks?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Does this have to do with the uh? I generally
wants you I'm going to marry you?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And oh no, well he definitely let her know what
he thinks. He was very clear. He's very cular about that.
I don't think generally should be in that sentence. He
knows what he thinks.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I'm a question to asker. So I'm always like, Okay,
so is the critic, like who does he work for?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You know?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Is he you know?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
No? But that's part of the fun of the game.
Shoot what I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
It's like you have a yelper, No, I'm kicking the
helper out, and then you have a critic, like a
professional critic that knows his business, and then you just
got a guy that just wants to know, like he
wants you to know what he thinks.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I have friends who are avid yelpers and food Remember
this word that was popular for like the words like foodies.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
I actually when I hear that word, like, I'm cringing
right now, I'm cringing.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Does it? Does it make me a beery?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
It's so weird, Like, but that's a label that they
put on themselves, right, That's a label that nobody is like,
Oh my god, are you a foodie?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Are you totally someone asked me that I would cringe
and want to backhand. Yeah, are you a foody because
I am right, no, I like that like something.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I just say I love food, and then if like
a chef offers me, I'm giving my coworkers a hint,
like you know, some snacks or something and just start
like yelping and enjoy like physically, not on the internet,
but just like yes, sure, no, I'm going to kick
the yelper out because honestly, you need to find something
better to do with your time.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Too much time?
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Who why don't you go learn how to make this
food and then tell me how you feel about it
or these drinks you know. Definitely I'm all about like,
if you're going to judge somebody hard, you need to
you need to have an idea of what what you're
actually have to have a yeah, not that you like flavors,
like you don't even know what flavors you like. Genuinely,
you haven't gone to like a class, you're not a
(20:00):
small a like come on, right, and then it's hard.
I actually okay, I would choose to serve personally the
guy who wants to tell me what he really thinks,
because I love genuine conversations. That's why I'm about podcasts
and stuff like that the critic I would just put
off because he just wants a good experience. He wants
a good food experience. He's not there to have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
He's getting a little fluff too, ownership for.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Which I can handle exactly. Like, I have no problem
doing that and making sure he has a great experience
from beginning to end and gets all of it in
the little extra But I'd rather have a genuine conversation
with someone who wants to let me know even if
they you know, say I didn't like this food, or
you could have done a little bit better, how can
we correct exactly?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, what's wrong? The critic? Cluff is always funny when
you're working, Like, all right, he sat down, he sat down,
he's looking at the menu right, like his classes, he
just cleans his classes look out like they watch every
little thing. He's like, So do I have to suck
him off?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Or yeah, how does the last time? It's on you?
This time it's your turn?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Who's up?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
No, I'd rather serve the guy who wants to genuinely
tell me how it is nice.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That's a good that was a nice little round. That
was fun, nice little it's a fun game. Thanks to
Justin for being my co pilot this week. Congratulations to
Malory on the engagement, and a special thanks to Ava
for being such a good sport. Looking forward to seeing
you all real soon. Well that about wraps it up
for us this week, but before we go, do you
have any horse stories from the service industry, Write me
(21:40):
at Jesse at stiffpod dot com or call us and
leave a boy smell at eight three three four one
one four s h m SO, which of course is
short for straw Hut Media. I have been your host,
Jesse would and this has been stiffed, even though some
of us are big softies. Be sure to follow the
show on social media at stiff pod. Please listen, rate
and review. It really does make a huge impact. Thanks
(22:02):
to see you next week.
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