January 24, 2024 • 54 mins
Ever wondered how taking time off work compares across different industries? Our latest episode is a deep dive into the world of leaves of absence, where the academic and military structures allow for sabbaticals and structured breaks. We contrast this with the stark reality of the medical field, sharing stories of those who navigate their roles under extreme conditions with little support. It's a candid conversation about the shift towards recognizing personal worth and the quest for work-life balance that extends beyond clocking in and out.
The discussion heats up as we share a personal tale of job transitions and their impacts on family dynamics and financial health. My brother's leap from a full-time hospital role to the lucrative world of travel nursing serves as a case study, providing insights into alternative career paths that may offer the respite many healthcare professionals desperately seek. Join us as we tackle the pressures of employment, financial obligations, and the relentless pursuit of balance, questioning whether stepping off the conventional path could be the key to a more fulfilling life.
Rounding out the conversation, we don't shy away from the tough topics. We examine the influence of celebrities on politics and public opinion, sharing our frustrations with the misallocation of government resources, especially in rural communities. Listen as we extend a raw invitation to Governor Andy Beshear to experience the treacherous commutes faced by the locals of Eastern Kentucky. This episode is an invitation to consider the broader implications of our work lives, the leaders we follow, and the voices we amplify.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On your break.
Today we finish up the supershow.
You get to hear the end of thechaos from last week.
Time to clock out for lunch.
Hey, we're back, Back.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh my God, we're back again.
Yeah, that's what we were goingwith that Um yeah, everybody
had it in there, do you?
Guys.
Do you guys hear that thesilence?
Yeah, he's in here.
Wait for it, Wait for it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Wait here in just a second Everybody get their words
out before it happens.
Everybody say everything theywant to say real quick Uh, when
I was in Korea.
Oh, we're gonna fight you.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Fuck, sorry Um leave a absence.
Really, I think we're over that.
Yeah, I feel like that topichas came and gone.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
The concept took a leave of absence.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I think that we can generally work.
It seems like in the civiliansector.
Fuck, okay, that doesn't workthere.
It seems to me that in yourworld it doesn't really happen.
What?
And this leave of absence?
Oh, right.
Like maybe in the academicworld you can get a sabbatical.
In the civilian world, like theworkforce it sounds like it
just doesn't, it's not a thing,and the army you can get.
(01:28):
Okay, let's talk about medical.
Can you get a medical leave ofabsence?
Let's say you get it, so thatthat's FMLA, so it sounds like
you do get them in the same waythat most people would.
It's just classified differentways.
Leave of absence is a veryspecific term that I would
imagine only applies to likeexecutives.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
It hinges on employers.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So like and obviously the higher up the ladder you go
in terms of employment, thebetter that part benefits going
to be.
So it all really just kind ofcomes down to who you're
employed through, what theirfinancial stake is and things
like that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Well, I can't take shit off and the hospital drags
their nuts across our face atevery chance they can.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, if you request PTO, they can veto, even if
you're entitled to it.
You can't really take like FMLA, like you guys are saying.
You can apply for it but youget canceled like 40% more of
the time than like other jobswould.
It's stupid.
You can't do anything, can'tplan a vacation.
Is it because you're necessary?
Yeah, it's because of thestaffing.
(02:31):
Everybody is so short staffed.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Man it sucks to be short staffed by design, though.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I would say, a big portion of it is.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So something I see the hospitals do and it's like,
because my wife's a nursing, I'ma fucking everybody.
We've talked about this, jesus.
What I see them do is like seeif they can make it with three
nurses.
Yeah, and they're like oh yeah,they're drowning, but we don't
give a fuck, they're making itwith three nurses, people ain't
dying.
Yeah, they're not dying.
They're just like.
I will just let it be withthree nurses.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, we're basically the corp's keepers.
Yeah, it's bad.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
As long as you can keep them alive.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, I don't think I could ever do that, it's not
for me.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Could I just say shut the fuck up, keep making money
so I can live the life that I'mused to.
Absolutely All right.
I work, I live with a hospitalexecutive.
So, y'all need to stop bitch,trying to get back to work.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Get back on the line.
I love the maims.
The car is completely coveredby snow and all you see is the
antenna and someone's standingover top of it.
It's like you're going to makeit into that.
You're going to get there, ohno.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
They used to close the mountain down in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I worked at Verizon and they'd be like you, coming
in.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
No you got a helicopter.
No, Well, here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
I love that.
No, when I worked at Litch it'sgood right there.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
When I worked at Sykes, they were like we'll pay
for your hotel room if you don'twant to go home, and I was like
, no, I'm going home, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Hospital, yeah, I take that shit Hospital one.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'm going to get a room here sleeping there, yeah
Well, where I worked at thehospital that's next door but
like it's not even the medicaljobs, it transcends down to
school, like when I was innursing school.
There's a girl that wrecked andkilled a man Because she hit
him right.
This man died.
She was there with him thewhole time and they wouldn't let
her miss three days of schoolfor it and they made her bring
(04:17):
an actual cop in an actual copand say yeah, it was this person
rather than just the policereport name.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It would be fair.
If you want to be a nurse,learn to deal with death.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, but look, I need a day off.
No, you're fine, come on.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well, in case everyone forgot, or if this is
your first time listening to theshow, follow and share.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Like give a heart all that bullshit.
I paid lunch on TikTok.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Back your head go.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
This is.
This is the Eric King podcast.
No, um, stop it.
Keep going.
We want you to take a leave ofabsence from your job whenever
you want to.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Because people are working for yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
People, yeah, people, just uh, it's so fucking like
heavy lately about just whatlife, like what you're doing and
why you're doing it, thatyou're just working that Well
that's to go to work.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, to live to the next day.
Shift from that it is.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And that's what we've been talking about lately is
how shit is shifting away fromthat and how people are like
realizing their worth.
Kind of as cliche as it sounds,People are like well, I'm worth
being able to do this shit withmy friends.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We go the worker has value.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Yeah, that's, that's my thing.
Right, it's like not everybodycan do the same thing and
everybody shouldn't beself-employed.
Right, we need nurses and weneed fucking McDonald's
employees and shit.
We need nurses.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I can stitch you, but the work should be good.
Like, you should get paid.
Good, you should be able to geta house.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yada, yada, yada.
It can't just be like.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I got hate.
I need $80.
Cut that from it I hate thoselike people that are like you
should just quit Just trying tohave whole other conversations.
You can't, though you thinkyou're.
Mike is picking up you and him.
I'm being a big Mac.
Right, it's picking up him.
Yeah, Not you.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
You were you were talking about, like the don't
want to get socialistic andthings like that and we feel
like things are getting a wholelot better for the employee to
some degree Shit.
30 days ago I had to tell mywhole entire team that they no
longer get paid holidays.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Shit, I mean.
I mean like it's so same.
I don't think.
I don't think that's it'sturned.
Yet I think people arerealizing it needs to people are
realizing it needs to God.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I'm going to say something like the balance is
just so off though you know it'sso hard.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It would be so hard to balance it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Multi-million dollar.
Take it, what are they called?
You shouldn't be a big CEOCEO's, you know.
I'm saying if, if you aremaking more millions than you
have employees yeah maybe take aprice reduction.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Or if you have employees on welfare and you're
making millions, do you think?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, and and like, do you think I'm an?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
eyes and a cap it at a cabinet.
You can.
You can make 10 million perhundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
At what level?
At what level of working oflike the corporate ladder does?
Does that attitude change?
Like you know, like employee,like ground level employees are,
like you know, fuck the man.
You know kind of not everybody,but you know that's how it is.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
The key of solving the debt.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
One million dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I was just saying one thousand, I'd say a million,
like people realizing Onehundred thousand doesn't get you
shit.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Nowadays, no Corporate profits are possible.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We're talking about different worlds here because
pipeline guys or rig guys aremaking way more money than we're
talking about sell out points.
All right, you got dudesworking pipelines making one
hundred and fifty two hundredthousand dollars a year, and
then I have to sell out for shit.
They just got to suck for a bit.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Well, you got to be away from home and shit.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, it sucks, but I went away from my family for a
long time and I wanted to.
Yeah, I had a lot more fun thanthose days did.
But live in line, you can livethat.
You can live away from yourfamily for a long time.
Let's say I spent six months ofthe year out on a rig and make
(08:22):
two hundred thousand dollars ayear.
That's way better than suckingit through the corporate ladder
with my master's degree.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Yeah, but what?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
are we talking about?
Why do we need that much money?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
because a loaf of bread costs seven dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
No, because we need that much money.
I know we're having the samething Everybody's done for
fucking.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
you got to build community and shit you got to
realize that it's possible forall these companies to pay you
exactly what you're worth.
But that's it's a case of greed, like they make.
X number of money and theydon't want to make X minus
whatever, but they're going tobe back in the profit regardless
.
They just want a bigger one.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It's a misplaced sense of value, because I can.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Now we're on our shoes.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Here's the conversation that people will
have.
We'll say why does a CEO makefour hundred and fifty million
when the cashier makes seven,fifty an hour?
And you go.
Well, the CEO is in charge ofthe whole company.
Right, I get that, but thewhole company is run through a
(09:29):
lot of different divisions.
You're telling me that, withoutthis one guy, that you have to
pay more than all of yourminimum wage employees together.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Who came forward to house and food.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
This company would fall apart.
The truth is that dude couldvanish.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
What is the plot to Willy Wonka?
Speaker 5 (09:47):
It's also a musical.
People were shocked.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I know it was like Charlie the fucking robot took
his job.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I've been to McDonald's.
They don't sing.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Shit, yeah, dude, it's like you shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
What is the Rato's management standpoint?
You know what I mean Got, I'msorry.
Got your that tangent?
Or was I Got his managementstandpoint?
I think we got a like.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
the corporate problem is we've placed our value Well,
there's so many corporate jobslike I work, I just want to eat
chips and and there's a lot ofwatch movie, watch sports and
like why did we?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
have this dude that just came in once a week and
played on his laptop and thenwas like y'all ain't selling
cell phones.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
It's just like there's a lot of bullshit jobs
in corporate world that they'repaying a lot of money, so here
you go.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I'll put us on a tangent here.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Put us on a tangent right Travel travel health field
positions.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You have a lot of hospitals.
You have a lot of just medicalconglomerates right now that are
battling this.
It's like, okay, do we pay ourown people that work here more
fucking money?
Yeah, established and to keeppeople that are living here and
keep the money in the community,or do I pay someone five hours
(11:00):
away to come in and jack uptheir pay by almost quadruple
the amount, like a mercenary forhire?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Well, that's the thing is it goes back to the
greed that Nick was talkingabout.
Right, you've got, you've gotpeople making, like Mike said,
what 400 million a year, andthen you got their employees on
food stamps.
How much sense does that make?
Can you tell me how that makessense, that your company's
making record profits yet youhave so many people on welfare
(11:28):
and it's like.
I'm not against welfare, I'vebenefited from welfare before.
You know, I lost my job acouple of times, like I do
contract work a lot, even beforeI worked for myself, and it's
like there was one time I lost acontract job.
Right, the contract was up.
It wasn't like I lost my job orhe thinks, just the contract
was up.
I lost my insurance, eventhough there wasn't a lapse in
(11:50):
my employment.
I left Friday, started workingon Monday somewhere else.
I didn't have insurance.
I hurt myself and couldn't goto the doctor because I didn't
have insurance.
Can you tell me what sense thatmakes?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
No.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Somebody's like well, you should have a job.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I've had a lot of time insurance.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Is there a possible?
What is swing this mic aroundto Monroe?
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Yeah, he's a health, because I'm still, I'm on this
party found I'm on this tangent.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
So you two, Nick Monroe, do you guys feel
threatened by traveling?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
No, I welcome my travel overlords.
Everything I've ever learnedabout being a nurse I've learned
from a traveler.
Because hospitals areincentivized to hire the newest
nurses they can, because it'lltake the lowest pay rates with
the lowest sign on bonuses.
Yeah you sure?
So when you get experiencednurses, they either cycle out to
traveling or move to citieswhere they're going to make
slightly less money but havebetter working conditions and
always have staffing Same withyou.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, that's how it is Solid.
We got one of our doctors atthe hospital in Pfeiffer, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
ARH is just the same.
Well, the reason.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I bring it up so right now.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I hate that.
I don't know if he's okay withthis, but I'm going to use him,
don't use names.
I'm going to use a name it's mybrother.
It's my brother.
So my brother was employedthrough ARH as a working in HRA,
working in CT.
He'd been there for, I'd say,probably three years.
They were continuallyunderstaffed when not hire
(13:16):
someone else in the departmentto allow him to come down.
At one point they're like, okay, we got someone else brought in
, we'll get them trained up,we're going to get you off this
12 to nine shift so you canactually see your kids play
sports and do things that youwant to be involved.
He was on that for a couplemonths.
That person quit to go totravel, so they left.
They worked their bare minimumI guess to you know, cut their
(13:38):
chops on that and then leave andthey're like, well, we ain't
got nobody, we're not going tohire anybody right now You're
back on your 12 to nine.
So he done that for a littlebit of time and all of a sudden,
boom, someone hit him with thetravel opportunity and he went
from making probably I'm justballparking numbers like 13,
$1400, $1500 every two weeks,maybe like more, like 16, 17
hundred every two, to makinglike $2300 every week.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Every week and it's not even like he's traveling
that far.
He's like in Ashland.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I know a girl who made $11,000 a week in New York
when COVID first.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Oh yeah, New York wasn't like a cash cow, Well no
something you just said is likehe wants to get off so he can be
with his family and stuff.
It's like at what point is itlike okay, yeah, I get that we
have to have jobs.
Right, I work every day.
I wake up, I tend to my animals, I bake food and drive around
and sell it, working and shit.
But at what point is it likeenough, right, he's got kids and
(14:34):
a wife, right, you can't beworking 12 hour shifts and be
like present.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
What you just said.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
It's like really hard because you got to sleep,
because like hey, you're tired,you just pulled a 12 hour shift.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, well, hey, sleep, fuck, sleep, you should
be able to is the thing right.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
You should be able to go to work, have your kids and
your wife.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Me and him, me and him.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
But here's the thing, though no, your brother's
working as hard as hell, rightHard as hell, and he's still
stressed about bills.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well, that's things now.
Now he's gone.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Unless he's like bad at managing money.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
No, they're perfect If he went in a bunch of dead
and shit, but like yeah, but see, here's the whole thing, though
right Like.
This argument from yourperspective, though, is like
single dude, no kids.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Right?
No, I'm not saying that, I'msaying you just like I can give
you his mindset.
You should be home with yourkids.
You should make an.
If you work 40 hours a week,you should be able to go to
wrestling tournaments and not belike I'm so tired and wore out
and I'm worried about paying myelectric bill.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Well, here's his mindset.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I would love to have kids, this for sure.
It's not a differentopportunity.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Hold on, hold on.
Yeah, his mindset shifted right.
Yeah, so his thought processwas I'm not been, I'm not able
to see my kids at all.
Yeah, I'm not able to go and doany of this stuff.
To now, he is flat out havingto leave his family three or
four days at a time.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Yeah, right, but probably gets more time.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
He's getting more time with him now and before he
was okay with making smalleramount of money and living a
substantial life and having timewith his family, and now it's
all of a sudden his mindsetshift to shit.
I'm paying off a whole lot ofdebt.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yep, for sure, and the more money and I'm getting
more time with my family and theless debt that you can shave
off like it does give you morefreedom.
Like all that debt is ananxiety shackle Really.
It just ties you to worry and Ihave travel nursing.
Freeze you from that, and I'msure travel, respiratory therapy
and everything else is the sameway, I have zero debt and I
just fuck off all day.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
My wife almost did.
She almost did travel.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
That's frustrating.
With all that, it's like likeeveryone's talking about, like
they weren't going to do travel,nursing and go do all these
different things.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
But everybody can.
Everybody can't be a travel?
No, not everybody can.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
But, like what opened up for him was the opportunity,
he only had to go like twotravelers, me and Mike, can't be
travel nurses we decided hisstage.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I think you guys are all idiots, yeah.
You should get shot a couple oftimes.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Retire and marry up or get given a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, that's what I did.
I'll take a double tap anddon't even worry about the rest
of it.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Well the thing is is like I think a lot of people get
fucked up when you talk to likeno one wants to work anymore.
Let me tell you something.
I know many people that don'twork right and like.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I don't want to be, you did, though I know a shit
ton of people.
What do you mean?
I can tell you did that rightnow, and it's like my thing, is
is right, I don't care where youwere.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
My dad, your dad my brother, your brother.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I need your position right.
I want a quarter pounder ofgray soccer big man.
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
So if you work 40 hours at fucking McDonald's, so
if you work 40 hours at fuckingMcDonald's, Put it to me name
Mike C Stewart you should get ahouse.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You should get a car to drive the word.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
You should get a fucking parent.
You should get a fucking parent.
No, that's a call back fromSuper Bowl party.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
The.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Thing is, I was talking to somebody and they
were like well, they need to getmore skills to make more money,
and it's like hey dude, do youlike Big?
Macs and he was like yeah, andI was like okay cool, Okay but
tell him about hold on.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
No, I'm not saying a lavish lie.
We're going to talk the Big Macthing.
Could I at least get some ofthe fucking food I ordered in
the bag If?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
they actually paid.
I don't know how many times.
I don't know how many timesI've talked about this on this
podcast but my we ordered aHappy Meal for my kid Four piece
chicken nugget.
It came with a grilled lump oftartar sauce.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Now on the chicken nugget.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
It was a chicken nugget container with a grilled
lump of tartar sauce, and whereare we complaining about it
Today?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I ordered it.
You're getting paid pennies forthe dollar and it's like who
cares.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I ordered one of the grilled tartar sauce.
I ordered a chicken nuggetHappy Meal.
I got a plain cheeseburger.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I ate more than they gave you no we eat pussy what
they give you.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
But you just counteracted your whole entire
argument.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
No, pay them more than they might make you food
better.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I guarantee methanella is not going to make
you food better.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I'm going to tell you I ain't had a fucked up order
at McDonald's in a long time Allright when was the last time
you went.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Well, you got to order certain things, I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Probably orders a plain cheeseburger.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
No, I ordered a number two.
Dress like a big man.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
So kind of coming back, fucking.
Coming back to the lead.
Leave, Leave leave, leave,leave, leave.
Eric Cush coming back to leave.
So we were talking about, youknow, the travel nursing all
these other different thingsright, and I'm probably going to
get fired for this, but here wego.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
No one gives a shit about what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I'm done.
Y'all go ahead, no right.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Well, what's?
I want to ask you a questionabout that.
It's like because I work callcenters right, and it was
frustrating because they be likeoh, you got to work
Thanksgiving, you wouldn't getno one would get a call, and
it's like you're losing moneyfor all of us being here, so can
we just they're not losingmoney.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So we touched, we touched on it before, like about
that shit, about you having todo that?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
And it sucks dude like and it makes you look like
a bad guy in the scenario, rightlike hey, you don't get holiday
pay anymore.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I'm, so that's part of my job.
Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm anymanagement position.
If you think you're moreimportant than what you are,
you're not yeah you're adesignated file.
Oh, that's what I was all mypositions are you're a
designated file.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Oh well, no, what I was saying about, like when I
worked, when I sold cell phonesand stuff right.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I loved our district manager.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
He was a.
He was a nice guy, yeah, but hewould be like you're not
selling phones, right?
And he'd be like, okay, can youshow me how to sell a phone?
He couldn't sell a phone, yeah.
So it's like they haveexpectations.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
It's like hey, dude.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
I just sold fucking a hundred Don't tell me how to
sell a phone.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I managed so many different types of different
Deliriations of the product thatwe support.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, I don't know, yeah right, it don't mean which,
it doesn't matter to youactually.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah, the what's makes me good at my job is that.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
It doesn't matter to you, right.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
I'm good at networking, yeah.
So like I'm good at buildingrelationships out with other
people and say, for instance,I've got a guy that needs help
with this type of escalation, wedon't have an escalation
pipeline or a point of contactthat he can work with.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I'm really good at building out that relationship.
It says, hey, here's a need,here we're in a black hole, we
can't get this resolved for thiscustomer.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
We need X, y and Z to be rolled into it Well, no, but
Ryan want to say is like you'rea good person.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's so much.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
You're a good manager , right, I'm saying like you're
not out there, saying like youknow this stuff, but a lot of my
know a lot of managers arebeing like.
Well, I know how to do this.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I'm not doing that.
I don't know never took.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Well, that's a good man, I know.
No, that's a good manager.
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Is like you know, man , just his life, and I'm
impressed with that.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
I don't, it's I don't know how.
You're a nurse dude, like it,really like I think about being
a nurse, and it's like you're oncall and you're like you can't
smoke weed, and it's likethere's all this stuff, you know
, and like well, not even that,like I'm an empathetic person, I
can take care of people.
That's not the thing.
It's just like I don't want todeal with it, with the bullshit
of.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Nick, you with us.
No, you're good, I was safe.
You saw that fucking Rubik'sCube yet, or not?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
No, but I was studying it hard and I came.
I got three on each side.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh yeah, I know the code.
Yeah, it's not a normal Rubik'sCube, though, so it's extra
fucked if it were.
Yeah, I feel like now we'retalking about Rubik's cubes, but
but that was I want to ask Ryana question.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, so, ryan, do you think what we just talked
about?
Right, you got to take holidaydays away, right?
So would you not argue thatthat's like a bigger problem of
the thing is like, why areholidays even like a discussion
of like taking away?
You know what I'm saying.
It's like and I'm not sayinglike we can't.
Here's the thing.
I made the joke earlier and wewere all talking and I don't
(22:16):
think you may hear it.
I'm an Eisenhower Republican.
You know Eisenhower had a 90,some.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yo hey, we don't talk about any politics on this show
.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
No, it's not.
It's not, it's not politics,it's just saying like they
really helped the workers in.
Right, you had like hey, whatwe're talking about the CEO,
ceos didn't make CEOs Hapt in aprice.
And it's like, hey, you madethree million dollars.
Everything over that is coming.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Perfect example I've got one employee I've brought
her before she will message meand she'll say, hey, I've got
four hours of pto, I need totake two hours off the end of my
shift today.
I'm like, okay, why?
Well, she does spark.
She used to do door dash, butthere's nothing called spark
where they actually go toWalmart at home.
D Pell that stuff.
Yeah one day in three hours shemade $680.
(23:05):
So she's like I can work theselast two hours in my shift here
and make $34.
Yeah, well, I can go there.
I'm like go get that money byyou, should pto, go get go.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Well, no, it was talking about what I said
earlier.
When I took, I took leave rightand during COVID, and then when
they called me back to work,dude, I was making more money
and I wasn't even ripping peopleoff Like I was going and buying
shit and it would sell for 50bucks.
I'd sell it for 20 bucks.
I was making more money than Iwas selling cell phones.
So it's like.
It's like why would I come back, dude?
I can make two pans of brownies, make a hundred bucks in an
(23:38):
hour.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
That's kind of what we're kind of.
What we're talking about islike everybody and what we, what
we, what we believe in, andit's like, and that's why we've
had multiple people on the showwho live in this scenario, where
they were able to self sustainand like do even, even if it's
not like, even if it's not likedoing what you, what, what like
(23:58):
Mike does, which is which is,you know.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Take that uncle sugar money yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Or what Eric does.
No, no, no, listen what I'mtalking about.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yes, I mean, but we, yeah, we both are farm-ish.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Yeah, farm-ish right Shouldn't have to self sustain
is what I'm saying.
You should be able to go workat where you work and buy shit,
okay.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
but what I'm saying is, even if everybody else Like,
if you're doing something thatyou want to do like, you know
what I mean If you fucking opena shop and that's what you want
to do if you like, if you liveminimally and and Nothing like
you and you're just a merchant,if you're a fucking kajit,
uh-huh, and you know they theyhave.
(24:41):
You know kajit has wares, whatelse they have?
They have nothing.
That's great.
They probably live fine.
Right, they got that littletent and they're the fucking
family in the tent and shit,they're good.
Yeah, right, if that's what youwant to fucking do and you're
okay with just being the hippiein the back of the bus and you
really enjoy that Well, I thinkyou're discounting I don't think
everybody has those goals.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I think some people just want to work.
Listen, hey, some people justwant to work.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
If you have a dream and you're chasing and it's
successful for one month andthen it fails, who gives a fuck?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
for one month, you were successful chasing.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
You preach it, baby.
No, I agree.
I know I'm talking to aspecific person.
No, no, no, I agree, but whatI'm saying?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You chased your fucking dream and was it worth
it?
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
No, here's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Hey, you get your rest of the fuck out of it.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
No, but what I'm saying is like not everybody has
these dreams of doing what wedo, right?
Like some people just want togo to fucking work and pay their
bills, and it's like reallyhard to do that, right, when
you're not getting paid enoughto pay your bills, right, I
think like, yeah,entrepreneurship is great if
that's something you'reinterested in.
Me personally, I've always been.
(25:49):
I've always done shit like that, right.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
The only people that dream about doing what I did was
our little children andRepublicans.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Yeah, and it's like not everybody has those dreams.
So it's like if Nick wants tobe a nurse, he should be able to
make as much money he should beable to buy a house in a car
what Nick's a doctor.
No.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
But that's what I'm saying.
He's a doctor right now On TV.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
He should be able to go to Disneyland anytime he
wants to Dude if you work atMcDonald's, you should be able
to go to Florida.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
You know what I mean.
I'm trying to make sense, likeand it's like I'm like- I'm.
I'm gonna say something that'scontroversial.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I didn't give up cheeseburger.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
No such thing as unskilled labor.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Right, you couldn't wait tables like I can, right,
and it's like.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Nobody waits tables, no, no.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
I think that you should be able to meet the
minimum employee standards forDisney.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Then we're just talking about not wanting to
make more money.
Yeah, it was for.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Disney I did, it was for your pain, and if you suck
you get fired.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah well, no, not us , because we were basically free
, because we lived in theirhousing oh you were.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
It's a scam.
It was an intern, you were, oh,you were a character.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
No, I worked in attractions.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Similar, it's way worse we won't leave.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
They just stay there and bitch until it's fixed.
I mean attractions.
They just dog you down.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
But like I'm not saying that a fucking, if you
work at McDonald's you shouldmake a million dollars.
I'm just saying, like youshould have a house, you should
absolutely not make a milliondollars.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
My hot take is that I think your wage entitles you to
meet your basic needs and havea little extra income.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yes just keep it with inflation.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
But I also think that people increase their lifestyle
as their salary increases andthey get into a cycle of debt.
That's their own fault.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Well, let's say get debt-free, dude.
If you're debt-free, you canfuck off.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Get debt-free dude.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
No, you can fuck off.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
What's gonna happen if I don't make?
Speaker 5 (27:39):
money next month.
I ain't got no bills.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
The biggest crisis with our minimum wage employees
is excessive lifestyle.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Well, no, like rents $1,500 too.
Where?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
in Letcher County is rent $1,500.
Okay, there's a few.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
That's excessive lifestyle.
That's the definition ofexcessive lifestyle.
Now, with the cheapest house.
You can get 800 bucks whenyou're making 1200 bucks a month
.
I've seen a whole lot less thanthat.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
As a minimum wage employee you don't need Disney
Plus, a brand new iPhone and I'mnot saying that Subscriptions,
but you need a cell phone.
And you can homey there a lot.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
No, I'm not discounting that, but I'm just
saying the current place thatthose?
They can't afford.
You can't get to work becauseyou ain't got a car, and hey,
get a used car.
But then it turns out to bemore expensive about a used car
than a new car.
And that's from personalexperience, that's not from just
(28:36):
talking shit.
I live very poor.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I know I live very poor too.
I spent 500 bucks a month andyou just got to live within your
means, that's.
I mean that's.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Nick have you lived poor?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I chose to live under a bridge one time because my
partner was Ivy Heroin addictsand I wanted to be their support
.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Stop that, so you left the heroin addict to go
under a bridge.
No, no, no, I went with theheroin addict.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Okay, hold on, Stop it.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Hey, hey, hey, Mike was like wait girl stand up,
because there are a lot of oh,we've been stood up, stand up.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
We've been stood up.
We've been stood up.
All right, we're together forsix years.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You're acting like Bella oh Moon right, you just
laid down in the woods.
I'm tired of you doing heroin.
I'm off to go.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I did, I've been rid of us.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah, that didn't make sense.
Okay, yeah, no, we're good.
That's a I mean bad choice.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
But better than be swarming off angrily to under a
bridge.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I didn't like.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
We're there.
We fought those demons as fine.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
We fought those demons buried them.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
they're good, those are gone.
We're good through that.
They have seven noon feelings.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Nick has like been over here in the background,
just kind of listening toeverything, and then when he
does come in, that's like a lamphook for my elbow.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
No, we done an hour and a half of fun shit and we
came back and it got heavy.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Oh well, that's what I just told us.
We actually wanted to do a workrelated episode.
So the second part that we justcame back from we just make
this the normal episode.
And then he's like then youtake the other one, say, guys,
you want to see some fuckingchaos.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
No, can I talk about work real quick and I know it's
going to sound repetitive.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Why you got to fucking ask Stop it dude.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Well, I went Korea was a work trip.
Okay, don't look at me rightnow.
Get the when, when.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
There, no, there there, the land hornet, the land
hornet, there there.
So you win the big prize.
You said Korea 10 times.
Korea was a work trip, right 12.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
No it was a work trip .
I want you to play this wholeepisode.
I think the first hour and ahalf was fucking gold.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I'm gonna play the whole episode, Otherwise Korea
is not 12 times.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
No, I'm saying like no so.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Don't even know about Korea if we don't.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
No, no no, no, I'm gonna just go hold on, but how
will they know?
Stop, stop, no, stop, stop, no,stop, no.
I'm trying to say no.
We're talking about like, doingyour own shit and stuff.
I went to Korea and it was paid.
Shut the fuck up.
I swear I need to.
I'm a lot of men thought uphere to men, you goddamn bastard
.
You, goddamn bastard.
(30:46):
No, like, here's the thing.
Okay, I enjoy farming.
Right, I was born into farming.
I was adopted by an old man andmy like I lived with my mom.
We all lived in the same house,but I was adopted by an old man
.
I lived in the same place asyour Mexican.
I'm Puerto Rican.
(31:07):
All right, it's like there's adifference, but one's in the
Caribbean and one's in NorthAmerica.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Cancel.
Work.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
But so like, I enjoy it.
So you got to like, so like.
But the thing is is like okay,I enjoy farming.
What's he talking about?
Dude if you fucking, let metalk, I'd get there.
All right, it takes 19.
No, it doesn't take 19 minutes.
Like I'm not.
I'm not arguing Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Time out.
Time out Recent, recent, recent.
You went to Korea for work, Forwork, right.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
So so we're talking about, like you got a does, he
said, entrepreneur.
Everybody can't be anentrepreneur, right?
I'm in the privileged placethat I was given a farm, right?
I'm also knowledgeable offarming.
I've won awards for farming, Iknow all that shit and I use
that Dude.
All the money I spent in Korea,all from my personal phone, was
(32:02):
$100.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Something like that.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
The rest of it was because I was at work.
I was visiting farms.
I was learning how they didtheir stuff.
They're coming here in July andNovember.
That's cool.
I'm on a fist fight.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Really cool.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
No, but what I'm saying is like you can do those
things right.
I think people should beentrepreneurs If that's what
they want to do.
If Dusty wants to open a gamestore and let Travis Sturge run
into the ground, he can do that.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Oh fuck, okay, he can do that.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Oh, if he wants to, right, and then he could not
have a game store and do someother shit.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Okay, so, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
It's not for everybody.
He went to work.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
He should be able to buy a fucking house.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Y'all got me fucked up, he's got to walk a little
late.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Y'all got me fucked up.
I'm just saying I don't knowwhat I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
I just got to burn, just fucking going.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Super show Air horn, air horn, Air horn, air horn.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
If you want to win but if you want to work at
McDonald's, I support youbecause I like a number two
dress like a Big Mac.
I'll support you when you startputting fucking cheese on the
cheeseburger Paylemore, and Idon't care if they're on drugs.
If you ain't got a good workhand on drugs I.
I let this man build a chickencoop for me.
He had it up in an air and hewent hey, baby, you take me over
(33:21):
to get on the rod and fuck?
Yes, I will hey, fuck, yeah, sowill you, but he built me a
chicken.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
He's talking about.
I didn't take him up therelisten.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
I don't go to love spraig cuz they ain't no love
there.
All right, I got me fucked upum, unpaid lunch is now on
YouTube.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
We just got on on YouTube.
It's now, it's the it's, it's.
Don't get super fucking pumped.
It's not videos.
It's static of the picture ofthe episode, but it's.
But it is on there so you canlisten like YouTube.
Minimize it while you're atwork I know that's what
everybody else does cuz it'sready to.
Just minimize that at minimizethat while you're at work.
(34:00):
I just want to let everybodyknow it's on there before I can
plug it.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Can we hang out longer please?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
we're here.
What the fuck you're doingfucking?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
podcast sorry.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Hey, this is what you do when you get old friends in
a room y'all, just like we allused to go to.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Me stretch that and fucking.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
I used to live up the road, motherfucker, I was up
here all the time.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
I had a panic attack on his porch during the flood.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
You would not make it at my dad's Christmas party.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I Was in too big of a hurry.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Basically latches on to me.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
He knows I have chest hair.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Let go of it he rips my chest hair out, oh in public.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
he doesn't get handsy with me, he just maintains
physical Between me and he'scoming on the show, he knows the
show exists, right, he saysthat show we've been saying this
for months.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
He doesn't know what it's on.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
He doesn't know what format it's on.
He doesn't understand it.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Can we have two guests for this?
Can we get him?
And?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Okay, that is a feed okay, I think you're gonna do a
neon's characters episode.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Okay, I don't think great podcasting is get a deaf
dude on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
His name is hey, he does good yo yo tricks All right
, yeah, you're got in the fridgeright now.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Back in his truck.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
I watched a dollar store employee cry one day
because he wanted a specifictype of mountain doing a 12 pack
.
They had stopped carried it forsix weeks and he would come in
and just berate them with sounds.
They're like.
We told you we don't have it.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
No, hey, I want to talk about work, since we're on
a work podcast and no dude,we're hanging out.
This is a Joe Rogan eight hourpodcast, it is.
So what do you think about?
Like no, this sounds bullshit.
Now stop it.
What the fuck?
No, but like working here,right, like I think living here
(36:48):
and working here you can fuckoff a little bit more than other
places, but can you?
Shit, still expensive.
Stop it.
I can't handle you.
I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I'm trying to talk about your father, she did you
close.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
I'm just sitting here .
What happened?
Can I talk about Korea?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
What the fuck is going on.
I have the best pork, god, mike.
We can't close yet, cuz Mike ispissing.
I think.
No, let's hang out.
We're fucking, we've been hang,we're here, we've hanging out.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
Hang out longer.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
We're recording, let's keep recording.
Okay, we can keep recording.
Okay, hey babe.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
We keep recording.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
It's calm, but 95% of the people in the room have to
go home.
That's.
That's where everybodyeverybody's.
We've been here, we've we'reyou want.
Do you want to talk about hey?
Speaker 4 (37:43):
before we go where my walk Danny K's looking really
good.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Listen you, that's just some self-massacist.
I just.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I have admittedly not Looked at the patrons.
You got patreon followers have,admittedly, not looked, because
I Expected them all to bail onus, right, which which I would
expect it like not in the way.
Like you motherfuckers bail.
I just mean like, exactly, Iget it.
(38:13):
We don't make content for amonth, right, so I would expect
you to bail on us.
So if you stuck with us, youget some.
Yeah, you're gonna get somespecial content this week.
All right, the fucking likefour hours.
We cut from this episode withEric.
We cut Korea.
We said Korea 46 times.
We cut 84 of them.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Hey, y'all cut your content and then start counting
until 20 minutes ago, I know.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Hey, we talk about work.
You said you want to talk aboutwork.
It's work.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I just like to personally insult all of your at
least most of your patriots andsay I know, I know what kind of
low-life slopes people are.
Yeah, and fuck you.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yeah, Are you still paying?
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:01):
it's, I don't know, you also fuck them yeah it's
wonderful.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
You're doing around.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Thank, you for sticking with us and For being
so amazing and sticking with usthrough, through that, through
this and over the hub.
This fucking episode, you gotthis episode.
You waited that long and thisis what, and it was.
It was worth the wait.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Okay, you got as a paying subscriber, I'd like to
go ahead and launch the firstcomplaint this garbage review
dumpster shit.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Okay, last thing we're gonna do.
All right, we're gonna go allthe way around.
I want everybody to bitch aboutone thing.
Tell me one thing in your lifeyou hate right now, because I
want to start this year off withhate.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Hey, hey, hey, hey tell me your heart right now.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Right, what's the one ?
Speaker 4 (39:56):
thing I'm going to be sports related.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, the shift no.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
All right, real quick rant.
We have a what many wouldconsider a generational talent
at quarterback, getting ready toprepare for the NFL draft, who
is already trying to hold an NFLfranchise hostage.
Yeah, like I saw earlier todaywhere a player said a player in
his camp, yeah, I'm likemotherfucker, you're not even in
the league yet.
I don't want to hear about yourentourage.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
He's fucking entourage yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Trying to Eli Manning .
The fuck out of the ChicagoBears, yep.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Dead.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Bears.
So I'm just like Dead Bears.
That's been my pet peeve momentof the day.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
And probably the thing that's pissed me off the
most so far this yearnon-wrestling related.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Non-wrestling related .
Speaker 4 (40:38):
That's what we're fucking at.
Non-wrestling I ain't goinginto that.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
We don't have no fucking time for me and you and
my brothers start talking aboutwrestling.
We ain't got no time.
I'm not even talking about WWE.
Yeah, oh yeah, you're not.
You're right.
That's good.
That too.
You have one thing.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yeah, I got a pretty controversial one, uh-oh.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Preach it One that will draw a lot of attention.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
And I'll preface this by saying I think she's a
beautiful woman, she'smulti-talented, she's a Grammy
winner, she's she has met, shemight have an Emmy.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I'm not really sure what she has.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
But we're talking about T Swayze, big Taylor Swift
oh.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Love her, love her, respect her.
Not really, but she has toomuch impact.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Um, you can't be able to just drop a tweet and change
entire voting districts.
You can't be able to drop atweet and increase somebody's
Jersey sales by 380%.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
So no joke, Listen, listen, listen no joke.
No joke, listen.
That type of influence isalmost like so we were going to
hate on Trump for for havingthat kind of influence we can't
hate on.
We can't not hate on her, Idon't know, because she no Hold
on.
What I mean is like, whatyou're saying is like a fucking
(41:47):
joke really, but not really, butnot really.
If she was like everybody,everybody vote this, everybody
would fucking do it, she couldbe the biggest impact.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
People spend billions of dollars on advertising for
for their she also made TravisKelsey bad yeah.
Well, I don't know about thatBad.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah, he's not good this year.
I don't know about that, but Iknow that one of one tweet from
her is worth a billion dollarsin marketing budget, and that's
too big of a deal, yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
To be involved in politics.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
I agree she shouldn't be able to tweet anything.
Political route.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
So I think he'll make all these celebrities Slammed,
unable to tweet about politics.
K Monroe, do you all want one?
Nick can pass you a mic, let'sjust grab a speech Hold on no
stop.
First amendment.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Before you break something.
There's one of these that movereal easy.
How about going break?
Speaker 5 (42:30):
You'd.
Last time you did spill a drinkand I grabbed it and was going
to.
I'm a swiftie.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Look at that Easy.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
I agree with you Easy move the attitudes of my
children there's these like mostpreaching, most cities.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
No, she's got funny kids.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Oh my gosh, shut up Restricting, I think she has her
voice is too Whatever.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
Well, you got to think when you go, when you
start talking about how you havefinancial impact for like I'm
not trying to get back intosports and shit, but like, since
, say like, for instance,cincinnati, you have the Bengals
or the Reds, that's one oftheir biggest ways to drive
financial relations into theircity she comes to town and the
Cincinnati Reds had to movetheir game up by six hours
(43:15):
because they were concernedabout what type of gridlock she
would call us to the city.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
I want to say this I think her fault, the thing with
her fault.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
The thing with amplifying voices that are just
based on popularity Is he get asituation.
I'm going to talk politics thatare current right now.
All right, currently, theHouthi rebels are blocking and
attacking shipping lanes in theRed Sea right.
I was following your, andwhether or not you support
(43:43):
Israel Should be irrelevant.
What we're talking about ispeople are celebrating the
Houthi rebels For attacking andstanding against Israel, but
what we're talking about issupporting a regime that uses
child soldiers.
Reinstated slavery.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
So yeah, it seems they're.
They're pretty bad, we're toodeep.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
And is and is blindly attacking Shipping.
But what we see in the popularmedia is people jumping on.
You know, yemen is being thehero, standing against Israel,
no matter where you stand on theIsrael conflict, standing with
slavers yeah, is bad things.
(44:21):
But what you have is innocentwell meaning people will make
Ignorance statements and have anaudience that will immediately
go.
Let's say, a celebrity like her, with her reach, doesn't
actually follow the conflict.
Because these people arestanding against Israel's
(44:41):
occupation of Gaza and I alsostand with people against that
occupation I'm going to amplifywhat they say.
Well, now you've got a megacelebrity supporting literal
slave traders and it's not.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
she's not getting cancelled Right.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
I'm not saying her name associated with this,
because I think that she is adelightful person.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
All right, I'm a big Swifty, I love that.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
But when we have glorified celebrities to this
point where they can literallychange cities.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
We've changed our culture to a bad place, because
you can lose the narrative veryquickly with good intentions and
from one tweet supporting theHouthi rebels fighting Israel A
noble cause, if you want to viewit that way you end up with
(45:40):
millions of American teenagegirls supporting people that
would put them in burkas, stonedthem to death for being gay, or
sell them into or sell theminto slavery.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
Yeah Well, it's just people who are just uninformed.
I don't think, I just do that.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
No I don't think she is at all.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
What she just said definitely has an impact.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Amplified ignorant voices and the big thing, too,
is people like celebritiestweeting content that is surface
level, Like if you were to lookat it at a bank, like just a
quick Google and read a coupleof articles.
You know it seems like, oh,this person knows what they're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
But if you dig, any bit deeper, it falls apart.
It's the things you've got tosay.
That's why community notes arethe greatest thing on the planet
.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
Scream 7 has been canceled.
Scream 7.
I don't know if you guys haveseen this.
What was?
Speaker 5 (46:26):
the question Dusty asked everybody.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
I don't know we're going to get to it.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
What when the fuck was Scream 6?
Scream 6 came out like a yearand a half ago.
It was very successful.
I stopped in two.
Speaker 5 (46:37):
Nick would know.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Over $100 million made a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
Listen to me Scream 7 .
Sorry, I've ever held yourconversation.
You didn't Scream.
7.
I got political.
I canceled because MelissaBrera.
Speaker 5 (46:50):
Who's that?
Who's?
Melissa Brera Ryan?
Who's?
Speaker 4 (46:53):
Melissa Brera.
Speaker 5 (46:54):
I'm sorry.
I read your review and I didn'tmean to.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Melissa Brera was the main star from Screams 5 and 6.
It was supposed to be comingback for Scream 7.
It was going to have arecurring role.
It was fired because she madeone tweet stating that basically
, there's a whole bunch of shitgoing on in Israel, israel doing
this, this and this in Gaza,spyglass Studios, on the spot,
(47:19):
without even looking at anythingelse, completely fired her and
removed her from the wholeentire mass.
Speaker 5 (47:24):
Geno-Retega quit too.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
So Geno-Retega quit in support of Melissa Brera.
So that kind of ties intoalmost exactly what you're
saying.
One tweet from a celebritycould have went one way, being
one celebrity but a differentcelebrity.
All of a sudden, boom, you'rebasically canceled.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Well, the other side of that, don't support the Jews
and you're safe.
Speaker 5 (47:45):
No, no, no.
Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (47:46):
If you're going to, be, she wasn't, I can say it,
she was standing for Gaza.
Speaker 5 (47:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which is what you're saying?
Yeah, yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
She shouldn't do that .
They're the bad guys.
Speaker 5 (47:56):
We're stopping this conversation.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
What Hamas are fucking terror.
Speaker 4 (47:59):
No, no, I'm not I'm just talking about that.
This is not so much theterrorist part she was talking
about, like the camps and stuff.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
I'm sorry I did that.
No, I did get put in the car.
Hey, fuck terrorist.
They shot me, fuck them.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
On a lighter note, Keisha's what's your question?
Keisha's hate of the day is herkids' attitudes.
Speaker 5 (48:20):
Oh God, and what's yours, monroe?
What's your hate of the day?
What?
Let your hate and your heartout, monroe.
What is it?
He ain't got no hate.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Um what's yours.
I don't Monroe's all love.
Speaker 5 (48:32):
Bubby, I'm going to tell you something.
I think hate is a.
I watched American History Xrecently and hate just weighs
you down.
I'm just trying to like I toldyou that Cat Williams interview
which we can't get into becausethat's another two hours to talk
about but he said some wildshit.
But he said some shit that madeyou think right, like I know
(48:54):
it's cheesy when you say, or youhear people say like oh, you
should go to bed every eveningand like you're dying or live
every day like you're dying,that sounds like some bullshit,
corny-ass shit.
But Cat Williams, like he said,he said he was like hey man, he
said I'm hanging out every day.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
That shit was real, the Cat Williams shit he dropped
.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
He did.
He was fucking crazy.
I see the wig shit.
Speaker 5 (49:16):
But the thing 19 inches, run your gnarled fingers
through it.
But the thing I'm saying is hedescribed it in a less corny way
.
He was like hey, man, I'm goingto bed every night with the
things I have to have and I'llwake up tomorrow with them.
And I've really been trying tothink that is like hey, I'm
going to bed and I've got allthree of my dogs, I've got all
(49:39):
my chickens, I made enchiladas,I made the best salsa ever.
I'm going to bed.
It's fine If I don't wake uptomorrow.
Guess what?
Today fucked.
You know what I mean.
So it don't fucking matter.
So I don't want to keep hatingmy heart, you know.
Speaker 1 (49:56):
I mean, I hate.
All right, Mike, what do youhate then?
Everything.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
I have plenty of this here.
Do you want me to give a shortlist, or just like one specific
thing, a specific one?
I hate state government.
Okay, let's get that one.
So I think that one of the mostridiculous things is that our
excise taxes go to fund.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Taxation staff might be nothing else.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Taxation is absolutely that.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
Absolutely nothing else.
All of our excise taxes.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
We make a lot of money here with coal.
All of the excise taxes go tofund programs in Louisville,
lexington and out west.
We see very little of theexcise tax.
You can watch our roads falloff the fucking mountain.
You can see our bridges getrebuilt for the absolute.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Paul Michael, facebook for the longer post.
Speaker 2 (50:41):
The bridge at the dollar store got rebuilt back
exactly to the same dimensionsthat it was built originally.
So stupid Back in the 1950s.
Bring that fucking governordown here and make him drive it
at 7.30 in the morning.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
Yeah, you go through it.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
How many times have you gone by there and somebody's
driven into the guardrailbecause they didn't want to get
hit by a?
Speaker 5 (51:00):
coal truck.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
Have them drive across Pine Mountain or turn to
go to Kingdom Come.
Go to Arleigh Boggs, runthrough, just get on four school
buses Don't go to Arleigh Boggs.
Speaker 4 (51:13):
He'll get put over the hill on a school bus.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
Andy Beshear, come to fucking Letcher County and get
on four school buses, stay herefour mornings or two days, right
, a morning and an afternoon.
A morning and an afternoon.
And just see what we take achance putting our fucking kids
on every single day.
Ride from Fleming Neon MiddleSchool to Martha Jane Potter
(51:36):
Elementary School.
Drive over where the road iscontinually falling out from
under us, where you literallyfeel you dip down and all they
do is pile more fucking fakeroad on it.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
You feel the road give underneath you on a school
bus full of you preachin baby,you preachin.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
Tell those motherfuckers to come down here
and try that.
My local hate is forpoliticians that flew above us
in helicopters, landed where weset up for them to get out and
said we care about you, we'regoing to take care of you.
Didn't bother with the factthat we don't have bridges, we
don't have roads.
We still don't have bridgesPreaching.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
Preaching.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
They fucking flew over here in a helicopter and
told us they're going to be herefor us, and then, two months
later, they were gone.
We still don't have bridges, westill don't have roads, and the
roads that they gave us arefalling off the fucking mountain
.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
Mike bringing the truth at the end of the Super
Show.
Mike bringing the truth.
My hate.
You guys want to know what myhate is.
My hate is this fucking episode.
Follow us on Twitter.
Follow us on Instagram oh Xright, it's your best.
Facebook.
Follow us, literally.
Youtube.
Now we're on YouTube, we talkedabout that, so follow us all
(52:54):
those fucking places.
You can check out all of it.
All episodes up 41 of them,even the controversial ones,
right near the beginning.
So go back and listen to those.
Anybody else got anything.
All right, man, I mean, I gotlike a small percentage of this
room.
Let's bring that back.
All right, boys.
Ain't nobody stopping fromquitting your job, but you don't
(53:16):
though At least you got abackup plan.
God fucking do it.
I hate the government.
Speaker 5 (53:49):
I hate the government .
On your break.
Today we finish up the supershow.
You get to hear the end of thechaos from last week.
Time to clock out for lunch.
Hey, we're back, Back.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh my God, we're back again.
Yeah, that's what we were goingwith that Um yeah, everybody
had it in there, do you?
Guys.
Do you guys hear that thesilence?
Yeah, he's in here.
Wait for it, Wait for it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Wait here in just a second Everybody get their words
out before it happens.
Everybody say everything theywant to say real quick Uh, when
I was in Korea.
Oh, we're gonna fight you.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Fuck, sorry Um leave a absence.
Really, I think we're over that.
Yeah, I feel like that topichas came and gone.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
The concept took a leave of absence.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I think that we can generally work.
It seems like in the civiliansector.
Fuck, okay, that doesn't workthere.
It seems to me that in yourworld it doesn't really happen.
What?
And this leave of absence?
Oh, right.
Like maybe in the academicworld you can get a sabbatical.
In the civilian world, like theworkforce it sounds like it
just doesn't, it's not a thing,and the army you can get.
(01:28):
Okay, let's talk about medical.
Can you get a medical leave ofabsence?
Let's say you get it, so thatthat's FMLA, so it sounds like
you do get them in the same waythat most people would.
It's just classified differentways.
Leave of absence is a veryspecific term that I would
imagine only applies to likeexecutives.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
It hinges on employers.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So like and obviously the higher up the ladder you go
in terms of employment, thebetter that part benefits going
to be.
So it all really just kind ofcomes down to who you're
employed through, what theirfinancial stake is and things
like that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Well, I can't take shit off and the hospital drags
their nuts across our face atevery chance they can.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, if you request PTO, they can veto, even if
you're entitled to it.
You can't really take like FMLA, like you guys are saying.
You can apply for it but youget canceled like 40% more of
the time than like other jobswould.
It's stupid.
You can't do anything, can'tplan a vacation.
Is it because you're necessary?
Yeah, it's because of thestaffing.
(02:31):
Everybody is so short staffed.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Man it sucks to be short staffed by design, though.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I would say, a big portion of it is.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So something I see the hospitals do and it's like,
because my wife's a nursing, I'ma fucking everybody.
We've talked about this, jesus.
What I see them do is like seeif they can make it with three
nurses.
Yeah, and they're like oh yeah,they're drowning, but we don't
give a fuck, they're making itwith three nurses, people ain't
dying.
Yeah, they're not dying.
They're just like.
I will just let it be withthree nurses.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, we're basically the corp's keepers.
Yeah, it's bad.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
As long as you can keep them alive.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, I don't think I could ever do that, it's not
for me.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Could I just say shut the fuck up, keep making money
so I can live the life that I'mused to.
Absolutely All right.
I work, I live with a hospitalexecutive.
So, y'all need to stop bitch,trying to get back to work.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Get back on the line.
I love the maims.
The car is completely coveredby snow and all you see is the
antenna and someone's standingover top of it.
It's like you're going to makeit into that.
You're going to get there, ohno.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
They used to close the mountain down in Virginia.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I worked at Verizon and they'd be like you, coming
in.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
No you got a helicopter.
No, Well, here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
I love that.
No, when I worked at Litch it'sgood right there.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
When I worked at Sykes, they were like we'll pay
for your hotel room if you don'twant to go home, and I was like
, no, I'm going home, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Hospital, yeah, I take that shit Hospital one.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'm going to get a room here sleeping there, yeah
Well, where I worked at thehospital that's next door but
like it's not even the medicaljobs, it transcends down to
school, like when I was innursing school.
There's a girl that wrecked andkilled a man Because she hit
him right.
This man died.
She was there with him thewhole time and they wouldn't let
her miss three days of schoolfor it and they made her bring
(04:17):
an actual cop in an actual copand say yeah, it was this person
rather than just the policereport name.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It would be fair.
If you want to be a nurse,learn to deal with death.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, but look, I need a day off.
No, you're fine, come on.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well, in case everyone forgot, or if this is
your first time listening to theshow, follow and share.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Like give a heart all that bullshit.
I paid lunch on TikTok.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Back your head go.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
This is.
This is the Eric King podcast.
No, um, stop it.
Keep going.
We want you to take a leave ofabsence from your job whenever
you want to.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Because people are working for yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
People, yeah, people, just uh, it's so fucking like
heavy lately about just whatlife, like what you're doing and
why you're doing it, thatyou're just working that Well
that's to go to work.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, to live to the next day.
Shift from that it is.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And that's what we've been talking about lately is
how shit is shifting away fromthat and how people are like
realizing their worth.
Kind of as cliche as it sounds,People are like well, I'm worth
being able to do this shit withmy friends.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We go the worker has value.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Yeah, that's, that's my thing.
Right, it's like not everybodycan do the same thing and
everybody shouldn't beself-employed.
Right, we need nurses and weneed fucking McDonald's
employees and shit.
We need nurses.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I can stitch you, but the work should be good.
Like, you should get paid.
Good, you should be able to geta house.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yada, yada, yada.
It can't just be like.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I got hate.
I need $80.
Cut that from it I hate thoselike people that are like you
should just quit Just trying tohave whole other conversations.
You can't, though you thinkyou're.
Mike is picking up you and him.
I'm being a big Mac.
Right, it's picking up him.
Yeah, Not you.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
You were you were talking about, like the don't
want to get socialistic andthings like that and we feel
like things are getting a wholelot better for the employee to
some degree Shit.
30 days ago I had to tell mywhole entire team that they no
longer get paid holidays.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Shit, I mean.
I mean like it's so same.
I don't think.
I don't think that's it'sturned.
Yet I think people arerealizing it needs to people are
realizing it needs to God.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I'm going to say something like the balance is
just so off though you know it'sso hard.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It would be so hard to balance it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Multi-million dollar.
Take it, what are they called?
You shouldn't be a big CEOCEO's, you know.
I'm saying if, if you aremaking more millions than you
have employees yeah maybe take aprice reduction.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Or if you have employees on welfare and you're
making millions, do you think?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, and and like, do you think I'm an?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
eyes and a cap it at a cabinet.
You can.
You can make 10 million perhundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
At what level?
At what level of working oflike the corporate ladder does?
Does that attitude change?
Like you know, like employee,like ground level employees are,
like you know, fuck the man.
You know kind of not everybody,but you know that's how it is.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
The key of solving the debt.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
One million dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I was just saying one thousand, I'd say a million,
like people realizing Onehundred thousand doesn't get you
shit.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Nowadays, no Corporate profits are possible.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We're talking about different worlds here because
pipeline guys or rig guys aremaking way more money than we're
talking about sell out points.
All right, you got dudesworking pipelines making one
hundred and fifty two hundredthousand dollars a year, and
then I have to sell out for shit.
They just got to suck for a bit.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Well, you got to be away from home and shit.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, it sucks, but I went away from my family for a
long time and I wanted to.
Yeah, I had a lot more fun thanthose days did.
But live in line, you can livethat.
You can live away from yourfamily for a long time.
Let's say I spent six months ofthe year out on a rig and make
(08:22):
two hundred thousand dollars ayear.
That's way better than suckingit through the corporate ladder
with my master's degree.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Yeah, but what?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
are we talking about?
Why do we need that much money?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
because a loaf of bread costs seven dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
No, because we need that much money.
I know we're having the samething Everybody's done for
fucking.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
you got to build community and shit you got to
realize that it's possible forall these companies to pay you
exactly what you're worth.
But that's it's a case of greed, like they make.
X number of money and theydon't want to make X minus
whatever, but they're going tobe back in the profit regardless
.
They just want a bigger one.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It's a misplaced sense of value, because I can.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Now we're on our shoes.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Here's the conversation that people will
have.
We'll say why does a CEO makefour hundred and fifty million
when the cashier makes seven,fifty an hour?
And you go.
Well, the CEO is in charge ofthe whole company.
Right, I get that, but thewhole company is run through a
(09:29):
lot of different divisions.
You're telling me that, withoutthis one guy, that you have to
pay more than all of yourminimum wage employees together.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Who came forward to house and food.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
This company would fall apart.
The truth is that dude couldvanish.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
What is the plot to Willy Wonka?
Speaker 5 (09:47):
It's also a musical.
People were shocked.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I know it was like Charlie the fucking robot took
his job.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I've been to McDonald's.
They don't sing.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Shit, yeah, dude, it's like you shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
What is the Rato's management standpoint?
You know what I mean Got, I'msorry.
Got your that tangent?
Or was I Got his managementstandpoint?
I think we got a like.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
the corporate problem is we've placed our value Well,
there's so many corporate jobslike I work, I just want to eat
chips and and there's a lot ofwatch movie, watch sports and
like why did we?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
have this dude that just came in once a week and
played on his laptop and thenwas like y'all ain't selling
cell phones.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
It's just like there's a lot of bullshit jobs
in corporate world that they'repaying a lot of money, so here
you go.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
I'll put us on a tangent here.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Put us on a tangent right Travel travel health field
positions.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You have a lot of hospitals.
You have a lot of just medicalconglomerates right now that are
battling this.
It's like, okay, do we pay ourown people that work here more
fucking money?
Yeah, established and to keeppeople that are living here and
keep the money in the community,or do I pay someone five hours
(11:00):
away to come in and jack uptheir pay by almost quadruple
the amount, like a mercenary forhire?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Well, that's the thing is it goes back to the
greed that Nick was talkingabout.
Right, you've got, you've gotpeople making, like Mike said,
what 400 million a year, andthen you got their employees on
food stamps.
How much sense does that make?
Can you tell me how that makessense, that your company's
making record profits yet youhave so many people on welfare
(11:28):
and it's like.
I'm not against welfare, I'vebenefited from welfare before.
You know, I lost my job acouple of times, like I do
contract work a lot, even beforeI worked for myself, and it's
like there was one time I lost acontract job.
Right, the contract was up.
It wasn't like I lost my job orhe thinks, just the contract
was up.
I lost my insurance, eventhough there wasn't a lapse in
(11:50):
my employment.
I left Friday, started workingon Monday somewhere else.
I didn't have insurance.
I hurt myself and couldn't goto the doctor because I didn't
have insurance.
Can you tell me what sense thatmakes?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
No.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Somebody's like well, you should have a job.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I've had a lot of time insurance.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Is there a possible?
What is swing this mic aroundto Monroe?
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Yeah, he's a health, because I'm still, I'm on this
party found I'm on this tangent.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
So you two, Nick Monroe, do you guys feel
threatened by traveling?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
No, I welcome my travel overlords.
Everything I've ever learnedabout being a nurse I've learned
from a traveler.
Because hospitals areincentivized to hire the newest
nurses they can, because it'lltake the lowest pay rates with
the lowest sign on bonuses.
Yeah you sure?
So when you get experiencednurses, they either cycle out to
traveling or move to citieswhere they're going to make
slightly less money but havebetter working conditions and
always have staffing Same withyou.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, that's how it is Solid.
We got one of our doctors atthe hospital in Pfeiffer, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
ARH is just the same.
Well, the reason.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I bring it up so right now.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I hate that.
I don't know if he's okay withthis, but I'm going to use him,
don't use names.
I'm going to use a name it's mybrother.
It's my brother.
So my brother was employedthrough ARH as a working in HRA,
working in CT.
He'd been there for, I'd say,probably three years.
They were continuallyunderstaffed when not hire
(13:16):
someone else in the departmentto allow him to come down.
At one point they're like, okay, we got someone else brought in
, we'll get them trained up,we're going to get you off this
12 to nine shift so you canactually see your kids play
sports and do things that youwant to be involved.
He was on that for a couplemonths.
That person quit to go totravel, so they left.
They worked their bare minimumI guess to you know, cut their
(13:38):
chops on that and then leave andthey're like, well, we ain't
got nobody, we're not going tohire anybody right now You're
back on your 12 to nine.
So he done that for a littlebit of time and all of a sudden,
boom, someone hit him with thetravel opportunity and he went
from making probably I'm justballparking numbers like 13,
$1400, $1500 every two weeks,maybe like more, like 16, 17
hundred every two, to makinglike $2300 every week.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Every week and it's not even like he's traveling
that far.
He's like in Ashland.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I know a girl who made $11,000 a week in New York
when COVID first.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Oh yeah, New York wasn't like a cash cow, Well no
something you just said is likehe wants to get off so he can be
with his family and stuff.
It's like at what point is itlike okay, yeah, I get that we
have to have jobs.
Right, I work every day.
I wake up, I tend to my animals, I bake food and drive around
and sell it, working and shit.
But at what point is it likeenough, right, he's got kids and
(14:34):
a wife, right, you can't beworking 12 hour shifts and be
like present.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
What you just said.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
It's like really hard because you got to sleep,
because like hey, you're tired,you just pulled a 12 hour shift.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, well, hey, sleep, fuck, sleep, you should
be able to is the thing right.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
You should be able to go to work, have your kids and
your wife.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Me and him, me and him.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
But here's the thing, though no, your brother's
working as hard as hell, rightHard as hell, and he's still
stressed about bills.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well, that's things now.
Now he's gone.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Unless he's like bad at managing money.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
No, they're perfect If he went in a bunch of dead
and shit, but like yeah, but see, here's the whole thing, though
right Like.
This argument from yourperspective, though, is like
single dude, no kids.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Right?
No, I'm not saying that, I'msaying you just like I can give
you his mindset.
You should be home with yourkids.
You should make an.
If you work 40 hours a week,you should be able to go to
wrestling tournaments and not belike I'm so tired and wore out
and I'm worried about paying myelectric bill.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Well, here's his mindset.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I would love to have kids, this for sure.
It's not a differentopportunity.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Hold on, hold on.
Yeah, his mindset shifted right.
Yeah, so his thought processwas I'm not been, I'm not able
to see my kids at all.
Yeah, I'm not able to go and doany of this stuff.
To now, he is flat out havingto leave his family three or
four days at a time.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Yeah, right, but probably gets more time.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
He's getting more time with him now and before he
was okay with making smalleramount of money and living a
substantial life and having timewith his family, and now it's
all of a sudden his mindsetshift to shit.
I'm paying off a whole lot ofdebt.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yep, for sure, and the more money and I'm getting
more time with my family and theless debt that you can shave
off like it does give you morefreedom.
Like all that debt is ananxiety shackle Really.
It just ties you to worry and Ihave travel nursing.
Freeze you from that, and I'msure travel, respiratory therapy
and everything else is the sameway, I have zero debt and I
just fuck off all day.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
My wife almost did.
She almost did travel.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
That's frustrating.
With all that, it's like likeeveryone's talking about, like
they weren't going to do travel,nursing and go do all these
different things.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
But everybody can.
Everybody can't be a travel?
No, not everybody can.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
But, like what opened up for him was the opportunity,
he only had to go like twotravelers, me and Mike, can't be
travel nurses we decided hisstage.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I think you guys are all idiots, yeah.
You should get shot a couple oftimes.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Retire and marry up or get given a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, that's what I did.
I'll take a double tap anddon't even worry about the rest
of it.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Well the thing is is like I think a lot of people get
fucked up when you talk to likeno one wants to work anymore.
Let me tell you something.
I know many people that don'twork right and like.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I don't want to be, you did, though I know a shit
ton of people.
What do you mean?
I can tell you did that rightnow, and it's like my thing, is
is right, I don't care where youwere.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
My dad, your dad my brother, your brother.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I need your position right.
I want a quarter pounder ofgray soccer big man.
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
So if you work 40 hours at fucking McDonald's, so
if you work 40 hours at fuckingMcDonald's, Put it to me name
Mike C Stewart you should get ahouse.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You should get a car to drive the word.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
You should get a fucking parent.
You should get a fucking parent.
No, that's a call back fromSuper Bowl party.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
The.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Thing is, I was talking to somebody and they
were like well, they need to getmore skills to make more money,
and it's like hey dude, do youlike Big?
Macs and he was like yeah, andI was like okay cool, Okay but
tell him about hold on.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
No, I'm not saying a lavish lie.
We're going to talk the Big Macthing.
Could I at least get some ofthe fucking food I ordered in
the bag If?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
they actually paid.
I don't know how many times.
I don't know how many timesI've talked about this on this
podcast but my we ordered aHappy Meal for my kid Four piece
chicken nugget.
It came with a grilled lump oftartar sauce.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Now on the chicken nugget.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
It was a chicken nugget container with a grilled
lump of tartar sauce, and whereare we complaining about it
Today?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I ordered it.
You're getting paid pennies forthe dollar and it's like who
cares.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I ordered one of the grilled tartar sauce.
I ordered a chicken nuggetHappy Meal.
I got a plain cheeseburger.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I ate more than they gave you no we eat pussy what
they give you.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
But you just counteracted your whole entire
argument.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
No, pay them more than they might make you food
better.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I guarantee methanella is not going to make
you food better.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I'm going to tell you I ain't had a fucked up order
at McDonald's in a long time Allright when was the last time
you went.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Well, you got to order certain things, I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Probably orders a plain cheeseburger.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
No, I ordered a number two.
Dress like a big man.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
So kind of coming back, fucking.
Coming back to the lead.
Leave, Leave leave, leave,leave, leave.
Eric Cush coming back to leave.
So we were talking about, youknow, the travel nursing all
these other different thingsright, and I'm probably going to
get fired for this, but here wego.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
No one gives a shit about what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I'm done.
Y'all go ahead, no right.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Well, what's?
I want to ask you a questionabout that.
It's like because I work callcenters right, and it was
frustrating because they be likeoh, you got to work
Thanksgiving, you wouldn't getno one would get a call, and
it's like you're losing moneyfor all of us being here, so can
we just they're not losingmoney.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So we touched, we touched on it before, like about
that shit, about you having todo that?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
And it sucks dude like and it makes you look like
a bad guy in the scenario, rightlike hey, you don't get holiday
pay anymore.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I'm, so that's part of my job.
Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm anymanagement position.
If you think you're moreimportant than what you are,
you're not yeah you're adesignated file.
Oh, that's what I was all mypositions are you're a
designated file.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Oh well, no, what I was saying about, like when I
worked, when I sold cell phonesand stuff right.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I loved our district manager.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
He was a.
He was a nice guy, yeah, but hewould be like you're not
selling phones, right?
And he'd be like, okay, can youshow me how to sell a phone?
He couldn't sell a phone, yeah.
So it's like they haveexpectations.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
It's like hey, dude.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
I just sold fucking a hundred Don't tell me how to
sell a phone.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I managed so many different types of different
Deliriations of the product thatwe support.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, I don't know, yeah right, it don't mean which,
it doesn't matter to youactually.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah, the what's makes me good at my job is that.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
It doesn't matter to you, right.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
I'm good at networking, yeah.
So like I'm good at buildingrelationships out with other
people and say, for instance,I've got a guy that needs help
with this type of escalation, wedon't have an escalation
pipeline or a point of contactthat he can work with.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I'm really good at building out that relationship.
It says, hey, here's a need,here we're in a black hole, we
can't get this resolved for thiscustomer.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
We need X, y and Z to be rolled into it Well, no, but
Ryan want to say is like you'rea good person.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's so much.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
You're a good manager , right, I'm saying like you're
not out there, saying like youknow this stuff, but a lot of my
know a lot of managers arebeing like.
Well, I know how to do this.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I'm not doing that.
I don't know never took.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Well, that's a good man, I know.
No, that's a good manager.
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Is like you know, man , just his life, and I'm
impressed with that.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
I don't, it's I don't know how.
You're a nurse dude, like it,really like I think about being
a nurse, and it's like you're oncall and you're like you can't
smoke weed, and it's likethere's all this stuff, you know
, and like well, not even that,like I'm an empathetic person, I
can take care of people.
That's not the thing.
It's just like I don't want todeal with it, with the bullshit
of.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Nick, you with us.
No, you're good, I was safe.
You saw that fucking Rubik'sCube yet, or not?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
No, but I was studying it hard and I came.
I got three on each side.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh yeah, I know the code.
Yeah, it's not a normal Rubik'sCube, though, so it's extra
fucked if it were.
Yeah, I feel like now we'retalking about Rubik's cubes, but
but that was I want to ask Ryana question.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, so, ryan, do you think what we just talked
about?
Right, you got to take holidaydays away, right?
So would you not argue thatthat's like a bigger problem of
the thing is like, why areholidays even like a discussion
of like taking away?
You know what I'm saying.
It's like and I'm not sayinglike we can't.
Here's the thing.
I made the joke earlier and wewere all talking and I don't
(22:16):
think you may hear it.
I'm an Eisenhower Republican.
You know Eisenhower had a 90,some.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yo hey, we don't talk about any politics on this show
.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
No, it's not.
It's not, it's not politics,it's just saying like they
really helped the workers in.
Right, you had like hey, whatwe're talking about the CEO,
ceos didn't make CEOs Hapt in aprice.
And it's like, hey, you madethree million dollars.
Everything over that is coming.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Perfect example I've got one employee I've brought
her before she will message meand she'll say, hey, I've got
four hours of pto, I need totake two hours off the end of my
shift today.
I'm like, okay, why?
Well, she does spark.
She used to do door dash, butthere's nothing called spark
where they actually go toWalmart at home.
D Pell that stuff.
Yeah one day in three hours shemade $680.
(23:05):
So she's like I can work theselast two hours in my shift here
and make $34.
Yeah, well, I can go there.
I'm like go get that money byyou, should pto, go get go.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Well, no, it was talking about what I said
earlier.
When I took, I took leave rightand during COVID, and then when
they called me back to work,dude, I was making more money
and I wasn't even ripping peopleoff Like I was going and buying
shit and it would sell for 50bucks.
I'd sell it for 20 bucks.
I was making more money than Iwas selling cell phones.
So it's like.
It's like why would I come back, dude?
I can make two pans of brownies, make a hundred bucks in an
(23:38):
hour.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
That's kind of what we're kind of.
What we're talking about islike everybody and what we, what
we, what we believe in, andit's like, and that's why we've
had multiple people on the showwho live in this scenario, where
they were able to self sustainand like do even, even if it's
not like, even if it's not likedoing what you, what, what like
(23:58):
Mike does, which is which is,you know.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Take that uncle sugar money yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Or what Eric does.
No, no, no, listen what I'mtalking about.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yes, I mean, but we, yeah, we both are farm-ish.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Yeah, farm-ish right Shouldn't have to self sustain
is what I'm saying.
You should be able to go workat where you work and buy shit,
okay.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
but what I'm saying is, even if everybody else Like,
if you're doing something thatyou want to do like, you know
what I mean If you fucking opena shop and that's what you want
to do if you like, if you liveminimally and and Nothing like
you and you're just a merchant,if you're a fucking kajit,
uh-huh, and you know they theyhave.
(24:41):
You know kajit has wares, whatelse they have?
They have nothing.
That's great.
They probably live fine.
Right, they got that littletent and they're the fucking
family in the tent and shit,they're good.
Yeah, right, if that's what youwant to fucking do and you're
okay with just being the hippiein the back of the bus and you
really enjoy that Well, I thinkyou're discounting I don't think
everybody has those goals.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I think some people just want to work.
Listen, hey, some people justwant to work.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
If you have a dream and you're chasing and it's
successful for one month andthen it fails, who gives a fuck?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
for one month, you were successful chasing.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
You preach it, baby.
No, I agree.
I know I'm talking to aspecific person.
No, no, no, I agree, but whatI'm saying?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You chased your fucking dream and was it worth
it?
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
No, here's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Hey, you get your rest of the fuck out of it.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
No, but what I'm saying is like not everybody has
these dreams of doing what wedo, right?
Like some people just want togo to fucking work and pay their
bills, and it's like reallyhard to do that, right, when
you're not getting paid enoughto pay your bills, right, I
think like, yeah,entrepreneurship is great if
that's something you'reinterested in.
Me personally, I've always been.
(25:49):
I've always done shit like that, right.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
The only people that dream about doing what I did was
our little children andRepublicans.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Yeah, and it's like not everybody has those dreams.
So it's like if Nick wants tobe a nurse, he should be able to
make as much money he should beable to buy a house in a car
what Nick's a doctor.
No.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
But that's what I'm saying.
He's a doctor right now On TV.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
He should be able to go to Disneyland anytime he
wants to Dude if you work atMcDonald's, you should be able
to go to Florida.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
You know what I mean.
I'm trying to make sense, likeand it's like I'm like- I'm.
I'm gonna say something that'scontroversial.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I didn't give up cheeseburger.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
No such thing as unskilled labor.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Right, you couldn't wait tables like I can, right,
and it's like.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Nobody waits tables, no, no.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
I think that you should be able to meet the
minimum employee standards forDisney.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Then we're just talking about not wanting to
make more money.
Yeah, it was for.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Disney I did, it was for your pain, and if you suck
you get fired.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah well, no, not us , because we were basically free
, because we lived in theirhousing oh you were.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
It's a scam.
It was an intern, you were, oh,you were a character.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
No, I worked in attractions.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Similar, it's way worse we won't leave.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
They just stay there and bitch until it's fixed.
I mean attractions.
They just dog you down.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
But like I'm not saying that a fucking, if you
work at McDonald's you shouldmake a million dollars.
I'm just saying, like youshould have a house, you should
absolutely not make a milliondollars.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
My hot take is that I think your wage entitles you to
meet your basic needs and havea little extra income.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yes just keep it with inflation.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
But I also think that people increase their lifestyle
as their salary increases andthey get into a cycle of debt.
That's their own fault.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Well, let's say get debt-free, dude.
If you're debt-free, you canfuck off.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Get debt-free dude.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
No, you can fuck off.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
What's gonna happen if I don't make?
Speaker 5 (27:39):
money next month.
I ain't got no bills.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
The biggest crisis with our minimum wage employees
is excessive lifestyle.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Well, no, like rents $1,500 too.
Where?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
in Letcher County is rent $1,500.
Okay, there's a few.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
That's excessive lifestyle.
That's the definition ofexcessive lifestyle.
Now, with the cheapest house.
You can get 800 bucks whenyou're making 1200 bucks a month
.
I've seen a whole lot less thanthat.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
As a minimum wage employee you don't need Disney
Plus, a brand new iPhone and I'mnot saying that Subscriptions,
but you need a cell phone.
And you can homey there a lot.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
No, I'm not discounting that, but I'm just
saying the current place thatthose?
They can't afford.
You can't get to work becauseyou ain't got a car, and hey,
get a used car.
But then it turns out to bemore expensive about a used car
than a new car.
And that's from personalexperience, that's not from just
(28:36):
talking shit.
I live very poor.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I know I live very poor too.
I spent 500 bucks a month andyou just got to live within your
means, that's.
I mean that's.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Nick have you lived poor?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I chose to live under a bridge one time because my
partner was Ivy Heroin addictsand I wanted to be their support
.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Stop that, so you left the heroin addict to go
under a bridge.
No, no, no, I went with theheroin addict.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Okay, hold on, Stop it.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Hey, hey, hey, Mike was like wait girl stand up,
because there are a lot of oh,we've been stood up, stand up.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
We've been stood up.
We've been stood up.
All right, we're together forsix years.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You're acting like Bella oh Moon right, you just
laid down in the woods.
I'm tired of you doing heroin.
I'm off to go.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I did, I've been rid of us.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah, that didn't make sense.
Okay, yeah, no, we're good.
That's a I mean bad choice.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
But better than be swarming off angrily to under a
bridge.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I didn't like.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
We're there.
We fought those demons as fine.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
We fought those demons buried them.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
they're good, those are gone.
We're good through that.
They have seven noon feelings.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Nick has like been over here in the background,
just kind of listening toeverything, and then when he
does come in, that's like a lamphook for my elbow.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
No, we done an hour and a half of fun shit and we
came back and it got heavy.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Oh well, that's what I just told us.
We actually wanted to do a workrelated episode.
So the second part that we justcame back from we just make
this the normal episode.
And then he's like then youtake the other one, say, guys,
you want to see some fuckingchaos.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
No, can I talk about work real quick and I know it's
going to sound repetitive.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Why you got to fucking ask Stop it dude.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Well, I went Korea was a work trip.
Okay, don't look at me rightnow.
Get the when, when.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
There, no, there there, the land hornet, the land
hornet, there there.
So you win the big prize.
You said Korea 10 times.
Korea was a work trip, right 12.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
No it was a work trip .
I want you to play this wholeepisode.
I think the first hour and ahalf was fucking gold.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I'm gonna play the whole episode, Otherwise Korea
is not 12 times.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
No, I'm saying like no so.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Don't even know about Korea if we don't.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
No, no no, no, I'm gonna just go hold on, but how
will they know?
Stop, stop, no, stop, stop, no,stop, no.
I'm trying to say no.
We're talking about like, doingyour own shit and stuff.
I went to Korea and it was paid.
Shut the fuck up.
I swear I need to.
I'm a lot of men thought uphere to men, you goddamn bastard
.
You, goddamn bastard.
(30:46):
No, like, here's the thing.
Okay, I enjoy farming.
Right, I was born into farming.
I was adopted by an old man andmy like I lived with my mom.
We all lived in the same house,but I was adopted by an old man
.
I lived in the same place asyour Mexican.
I'm Puerto Rican.
(31:07):
All right, it's like there's adifference, but one's in the
Caribbean and one's in NorthAmerica.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Cancel.
Work.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
But so like, I enjoy it.
So you got to like, so like.
But the thing is is like okay,I enjoy farming.
What's he talking about?
Dude if you fucking, let metalk, I'd get there.
All right, it takes 19.
No, it doesn't take 19 minutes.
Like I'm not.
I'm not arguing Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Time out.
Time out Recent, recent, recent.
You went to Korea for work, Forwork, right.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
So so we're talking about, like you got a does, he
said, entrepreneur.
Everybody can't be anentrepreneur, right?
I'm in the privileged placethat I was given a farm, right?
I'm also knowledgeable offarming.
I've won awards for farming, Iknow all that shit and I use
that Dude.
All the money I spent in Korea,all from my personal phone, was
(32:02):
$100.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Something like that.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
The rest of it was because I was at work.
I was visiting farms.
I was learning how they didtheir stuff.
They're coming here in July andNovember.
That's cool.
I'm on a fist fight.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Really cool.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
No, but what I'm saying is like you can do those
things right.
I think people should beentrepreneurs If that's what
they want to do.
If Dusty wants to open a gamestore and let Travis Sturge run
into the ground, he can do that.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Oh fuck, okay, he can do that.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Oh, if he wants to, right, and then he could not
have a game store and do someother shit.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Okay, so, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
It's not for everybody.
He went to work.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
He should be able to buy a fucking house.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Y'all got me fucked up, he's got to walk a little
late.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Y'all got me fucked up.
I'm just saying I don't knowwhat I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
I just got to burn, just fucking going.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Super show Air horn, air horn, Air horn, air horn.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
If you want to win but if you want to work at
McDonald's, I support youbecause I like a number two
dress like a Big Mac.
I'll support you when you startputting fucking cheese on the
cheeseburger Paylemore, and Idon't care if they're on drugs.
If you ain't got a good workhand on drugs I.
I let this man build a chickencoop for me.
He had it up in an air and hewent hey, baby, you take me over
(33:21):
to get on the rod and fuck?
Yes, I will hey, fuck, yeah, sowill you, but he built me a
chicken.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
He's talking about.
I didn't take him up therelisten.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
I don't go to love spraig cuz they ain't no love
there.
All right, I got me fucked upum, unpaid lunch is now on
YouTube.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
We just got on on YouTube.
It's now, it's the it's, it's.
Don't get super fucking pumped.
It's not videos.
It's static of the picture ofthe episode, but it's.
But it is on there so you canlisten like YouTube.
Minimize it while you're atwork I know that's what
everybody else does cuz it'sready to.
Just minimize that at minimizethat while you're at work.
(34:00):
I just want to let everybodyknow it's on there before I can
plug it.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Can we hang out longer please?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
we're here.
What the fuck you're doingfucking?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
podcast sorry.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Hey, this is what you do when you get old friends in
a room y'all, just like we allused to go to.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Me stretch that and fucking.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
I used to live up the road, motherfucker, I was up
here all the time.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
I had a panic attack on his porch during the flood.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
You would not make it at my dad's Christmas party.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I Was in too big of a hurry.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Basically latches on to me.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
He knows I have chest hair.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Let go of it he rips my chest hair out, oh in public.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
he doesn't get handsy with me, he just maintains
physical Between me and he'scoming on the show, he knows the
show exists, right, he saysthat show we've been saying this
for months.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
He doesn't know what it's on.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
He doesn't know what format it's on.
He doesn't understand it.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Can we have two guests for this?
Can we get him?
And?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Okay, that is a feed okay, I think you're gonna do a
neon's characters episode.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Okay, I don't think great podcasting is get a deaf
dude on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
His name is hey, he does good yo yo tricks All right
, yeah, you're got in the fridgeright now.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Back in his truck.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
I watched a dollar store employee cry one day
because he wanted a specifictype of mountain doing a 12 pack
.
They had stopped carried it forsix weeks and he would come in
and just berate them with sounds.
They're like.
We told you we don't have it.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
No, hey, I want to talk about work, since we're on
a work podcast and no dude,we're hanging out.
This is a Joe Rogan eight hourpodcast, it is.
So what do you think about?
Like no, this sounds bullshit.
Now stop it.
What the fuck?
No, but like working here,right, like I think living here
(36:48):
and working here you can fuckoff a little bit more than other
places, but can you?
Shit, still expensive.
Stop it.
I can't handle you.
I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I'm trying to talk about your father, she did you
close.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
I'm just sitting here .
What happened?
Can I talk about Korea?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
What the fuck is going on.
I have the best pork, god, mike.
We can't close yet, cuz Mike ispissing.
I think.
No, let's hang out.
We're fucking, we've been hang,we're here, we've hanging out.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
Hang out longer.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
We're recording, let's keep recording.
Okay, we can keep recording.
Okay, hey babe.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
We keep recording.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
It's calm, but 95% of the people in the room have to
go home.
That's.
That's where everybodyeverybody's.
We've been here, we've we'reyou want.
Do you want to talk about hey?
Speaker 4 (37:43):
before we go where my walk Danny K's looking really
good.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Listen you, that's just some self-massacist.
I just.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I have admittedly not Looked at the patrons.
You got patreon followers have,admittedly, not looked, because
I Expected them all to bail onus, right, which which I would
expect it like not in the way.
Like you motherfuckers bail.
I just mean like, exactly, Iget it.
(38:13):
We don't make content for amonth, right, so I would expect
you to bail on us.
So if you stuck with us, youget some.
Yeah, you're gonna get somespecial content this week.
All right, the fucking likefour hours.
We cut from this episode withEric.
We cut Korea.
We said Korea 46 times.
We cut 84 of them.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Hey, y'all cut your content and then start counting
until 20 minutes ago, I know.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Hey, we talk about work.
You said you want to talk aboutwork.
It's work.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I just like to personally insult all of your at
least most of your patriots andsay I know, I know what kind of
low-life slopes people are.
Yeah, and fuck you.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yeah, Are you still paying?
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:01):
it's, I don't know, you also fuck them yeah it's
wonderful.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
You're doing around.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Thank, you for sticking with us and For being
so amazing and sticking with usthrough, through that, through
this and over the hub.
This fucking episode, you gotthis episode.
You waited that long and thisis what, and it was.
It was worth the wait.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Okay, you got as a paying subscriber, I'd like to
go ahead and launch the firstcomplaint this garbage review
dumpster shit.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Okay, last thing we're gonna do.
All right, we're gonna go allthe way around.
I want everybody to bitch aboutone thing.
Tell me one thing in your lifeyou hate right now, because I
want to start this year off withhate.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Hey, hey, hey, hey tell me your heart right now.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Right, what's the one ?
Speaker 4 (39:56):
thing I'm going to be sports related.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, the shift no.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
All right, real quick rant.
We have a what many wouldconsider a generational talent
at quarterback, getting ready toprepare for the NFL draft, who
is already trying to hold an NFLfranchise hostage.
Yeah, like I saw earlier todaywhere a player said a player in
his camp, yeah, I'm likemotherfucker, you're not even in
the league yet.
I don't want to hear about yourentourage.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
He's fucking entourage yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Trying to Eli Manning .
The fuck out of the ChicagoBears, yep.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Dead.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Bears.
So I'm just like Dead Bears.
That's been my pet peeve momentof the day.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
And probably the thing that's pissed me off the
most so far this yearnon-wrestling related.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Non-wrestling related .
Speaker 4 (40:38):
That's what we're fucking at.
Non-wrestling I ain't goinginto that.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
We don't have no fucking time for me and you and
my brothers start talking aboutwrestling.
We ain't got no time.
I'm not even talking about WWE.
Yeah, oh yeah, you're not.
You're right.
That's good.
That too.
You have one thing.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yeah, I got a pretty controversial one, uh-oh.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Preach it One that will draw a lot of attention.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
And I'll preface this by saying I think she's a
beautiful woman, she'smulti-talented, she's a Grammy
winner, she's she has met, shemight have an Emmy.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I'm not really sure what she has.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
But we're talking about T Swayze, big Taylor Swift
oh.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Love her, love her, respect her.
Not really, but she has toomuch impact.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Um, you can't be able to just drop a tweet and change
entire voting districts.
You can't be able to drop atweet and increase somebody's
Jersey sales by 380%.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
So no joke, Listen, listen, listen no joke.
No joke, listen.
That type of influence isalmost like so we were going to
hate on Trump for for havingthat kind of influence we can't
hate on.
We can't not hate on her, Idon't know, because she no Hold
on.
What I mean is like, whatyou're saying is like a fucking
(41:47):
joke really, but not really, butnot really.
If she was like everybody,everybody vote this, everybody
would fucking do it, she couldbe the biggest impact.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
People spend billions of dollars on advertising for
for their she also made TravisKelsey bad yeah.
Well, I don't know about thatBad.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah, he's not good this year.
I don't know about that, but Iknow that one of one tweet from
her is worth a billion dollarsin marketing budget, and that's
too big of a deal, yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
To be involved in politics.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
I agree she shouldn't be able to tweet anything.
Political route.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
So I think he'll make all these celebrities Slammed,
unable to tweet about politics.
K Monroe, do you all want one?
Nick can pass you a mic, let'sjust grab a speech Hold on no
stop.
First amendment.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Before you break something.
There's one of these that movereal easy.
How about going break?
Speaker 5 (42:30):
You'd.
Last time you did spill a drinkand I grabbed it and was going
to.
I'm a swiftie.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Look at that Easy.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
I agree with you Easy move the attitudes of my
children there's these like mostpreaching, most cities.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
No, she's got funny kids.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Oh my gosh, shut up Restricting, I think she has her
voice is too Whatever.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
Well, you got to think when you go, when you
start talking about how you havefinancial impact for like I'm
not trying to get back intosports and shit, but like, since
, say like, for instance,cincinnati, you have the Bengals
or the Reds, that's one oftheir biggest ways to drive
financial relations into theircity she comes to town and the
Cincinnati Reds had to movetheir game up by six hours
(43:15):
because they were concernedabout what type of gridlock she
would call us to the city.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
I want to say this I think her fault, the thing with
her fault.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
The thing with amplifying voices that are just
based on popularity Is he get asituation.
I'm going to talk politics thatare current right now.
All right, currently, theHouthi rebels are blocking and
attacking shipping lanes in theRed Sea right.
I was following your, andwhether or not you support
(43:43):
Israel Should be irrelevant.
What we're talking about ispeople are celebrating the
Houthi rebels For attacking andstanding against Israel, but
what we're talking about issupporting a regime that uses
child soldiers.
Reinstated slavery.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
So yeah, it seems they're.
They're pretty bad, we're toodeep.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
And is and is blindly attacking Shipping.
But what we see in the popularmedia is people jumping on.
You know, yemen is being thehero, standing against Israel,
no matter where you stand on theIsrael conflict, standing with
slavers yeah, is bad things.
(44:21):
But what you have is innocentwell meaning people will make
Ignorance statements and have anaudience that will immediately
go.
Let's say, a celebrity like her, with her reach, doesn't
actually follow the conflict.
Because these people arestanding against Israel's
(44:41):
occupation of Gaza and I alsostand with people against that
occupation I'm going to amplifywhat they say.
Well, now you've got a megacelebrity supporting literal
slave traders and it's not.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
she's not getting cancelled Right.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
I'm not saying her name associated with this,
because I think that she is adelightful person.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
All right, I'm a big Swifty, I love that.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
But when we have glorified celebrities to this
point where they can literallychange cities.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
We've changed our culture to a bad place, because
you can lose the narrative veryquickly with good intentions and
from one tweet supporting theHouthi rebels fighting Israel A
noble cause, if you want to viewit that way you end up with
(45:40):
millions of American teenagegirls supporting people that
would put them in burkas, stonedthem to death for being gay, or
sell them into or sell theminto slavery.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
Yeah Well, it's just people who are just uninformed.
I don't think, I just do that.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
No I don't think she is at all.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
What she just said definitely has an impact.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Amplified ignorant voices and the big thing, too,
is people like celebritiestweeting content that is surface
level, Like if you were to lookat it at a bank, like just a
quick Google and read a coupleof articles.
You know it seems like, oh,this person knows what they're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
But if you dig, any bit deeper, it falls apart.
It's the things you've got tosay.
That's why community notes arethe greatest thing on the planet
.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
Scream 7 has been canceled.
Scream 7.
I don't know if you guys haveseen this.
What was?
Speaker 5 (46:26):
the question Dusty asked everybody.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
I don't know we're going to get to it.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
What when the fuck was Scream 6?
Scream 6 came out like a yearand a half ago.
It was very successful.
I stopped in two.
Speaker 5 (46:37):
Nick would know.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Over $100 million made a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
Listen to me Scream 7 .
Sorry, I've ever held yourconversation.
You didn't Scream.
7.
I got political.
I canceled because MelissaBrera.
Speaker 5 (46:50):
Who's that?
Who's?
Melissa Brera Ryan?
Who's?
Speaker 4 (46:53):
Melissa Brera.
Speaker 5 (46:54):
I'm sorry.
I read your review and I didn'tmean to.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Melissa Brera was the main star from Screams 5 and 6.
It was supposed to be comingback for Scream 7.
It was going to have arecurring role.
It was fired because she madeone tweet stating that basically
, there's a whole bunch of shitgoing on in Israel, israel doing
this, this and this in Gaza,spyglass Studios, on the spot,
(47:19):
without even looking at anythingelse, completely fired her and
removed her from the wholeentire mass.
Speaker 5 (47:24):
Geno-Retega quit too.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
So Geno-Retega quit in support of Melissa Brera.
So that kind of ties intoalmost exactly what you're
saying.
One tweet from a celebritycould have went one way, being
one celebrity but a differentcelebrity.
All of a sudden, boom, you'rebasically canceled.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Well, the other side of that, don't support the Jews
and you're safe.
Speaker 5 (47:45):
No, no, no.
Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (47:46):
If you're going to, be, she wasn't, I can say it,
she was standing for Gaza.
Speaker 5 (47:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which is what you're saying?
Yeah, yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
She shouldn't do that .
They're the bad guys.
Speaker 5 (47:56):
We're stopping this conversation.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
What Hamas are fucking terror.
Speaker 4 (47:59):
No, no, I'm not I'm just talking about that.
This is not so much theterrorist part she was talking
about, like the camps and stuff.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
I'm sorry I did that.
No, I did get put in the car.
Hey, fuck terrorist.
They shot me, fuck them.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
On a lighter note, Keisha's what's your question?
Keisha's hate of the day is herkids' attitudes.
Speaker 5 (48:20):
Oh God, and what's yours, monroe?
What's your hate of the day?
What?
Let your hate and your heartout, monroe.
What is it?
He ain't got no hate.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Um what's yours.
I don't Monroe's all love.
Speaker 5 (48:32):
Bubby, I'm going to tell you something.
I think hate is a.
I watched American History Xrecently and hate just weighs
you down.
I'm just trying to like I toldyou that Cat Williams interview
which we can't get into becausethat's another two hours to talk
about but he said some wildshit.
But he said some shit that madeyou think right, like I know
(48:54):
it's cheesy when you say, or youhear people say like oh, you
should go to bed every eveningand like you're dying or live
every day like you're dying,that sounds like some bullshit,
corny-ass shit.
But Cat Williams, like he said,he said he was like hey man, he
said I'm hanging out every day.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
That shit was real, the Cat Williams shit he dropped
.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
He did.
He was fucking crazy.
I see the wig shit.
Speaker 5 (49:16):
But the thing 19 inches, run your gnarled fingers
through it.
But the thing I'm saying is hedescribed it in a less corny way
.
He was like hey, man, I'm goingto bed every night with the
things I have to have and I'llwake up tomorrow with them.
And I've really been trying tothink that is like hey, I'm
going to bed and I've got allthree of my dogs, I've got all
(49:39):
my chickens, I made enchiladas,I made the best salsa ever.
I'm going to bed.
It's fine If I don't wake uptomorrow.
Guess what?
Today fucked.
You know what I mean.
So it don't fucking matter.
So I don't want to keep hatingmy heart, you know.
Speaker 1 (49:56):
I mean, I hate.
All right, Mike, what do youhate then?
Everything.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
I have plenty of this here.
Do you want me to give a shortlist, or just like one specific
thing, a specific one?
I hate state government.
Okay, let's get that one.
So I think that one of the mostridiculous things is that our
excise taxes go to fund.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Taxation staff might be nothing else.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Taxation is absolutely that.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
Absolutely nothing else.
All of our excise taxes.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
We make a lot of money here with coal.
All of the excise taxes go tofund programs in Louisville,
lexington and out west.
We see very little of theexcise tax.
You can watch our roads falloff the fucking mountain.
You can see our bridges getrebuilt for the absolute.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Paul Michael, facebook for the longer post.
Speaker 2 (50:41):
The bridge at the dollar store got rebuilt back
exactly to the same dimensionsthat it was built originally.
So stupid Back in the 1950s.
Bring that fucking governordown here and make him drive it
at 7.30 in the morning.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
Yeah, you go through it.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
How many times have you gone by there and somebody's
driven into the guardrailbecause they didn't want to get
hit by a?
Speaker 5 (51:00):
coal truck.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
Have them drive across Pine Mountain or turn to
go to Kingdom Come.
Go to Arleigh Boggs, runthrough, just get on four school
buses Don't go to Arleigh Boggs.
Speaker 4 (51:13):
He'll get put over the hill on a school bus.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
Andy Beshear, come to fucking Letcher County and get
on four school buses, stay herefour mornings or two days, right
, a morning and an afternoon.
A morning and an afternoon.
And just see what we take achance putting our fucking kids
on every single day.
Ride from Fleming Neon MiddleSchool to Martha Jane Potter
(51:36):
Elementary School.
Drive over where the road iscontinually falling out from
under us, where you literallyfeel you dip down and all they
do is pile more fucking fakeroad on it.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
You feel the road give underneath you on a school
bus full of you preachin baby,you preachin.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
Tell those motherfuckers to come down here
and try that.
My local hate is forpoliticians that flew above us
in helicopters, landed where weset up for them to get out and
said we care about you, we'regoing to take care of you.
Didn't bother with the factthat we don't have bridges, we
don't have roads.
We still don't have bridgesPreaching.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
Preaching.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
They fucking flew over here in a helicopter and
told us they're going to be herefor us, and then, two months
later, they were gone.
We still don't have bridges, westill don't have roads, and the
roads that they gave us arefalling off the fucking mountain
.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
Mike bringing the truth at the end of the Super
Show.
Mike bringing the truth.
My hate.
You guys want to know what myhate is.
My hate is this fucking episode.
Follow us on Twitter.
Follow us on Instagram oh Xright, it's your best.
Facebook.
Follow us, literally.
Youtube.
Now we're on YouTube, we talkedabout that, so follow us all
(52:54):
those fucking places.
You can check out all of it.
All episodes up 41 of them,even the controversial ones,
right near the beginning.
So go back and listen to those.
Anybody else got anything.
All right, man, I mean, I gotlike a small percentage of this
room.
Let's bring that back.
All right, boys.
Ain't nobody stopping fromquitting your job, but you don't
(53:16):
though At least you got abackup plan.
God fucking do it.
I hate the government.
Speaker 5 (53:49):
I hate the government .
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