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March 7, 2025 • 97 mins
Don't want to work? Just keep going to school. This week we have the future President of VISA* Alexa Konchinski. We talk slinging ice cream, spank banks, recycling diapers, and a good cup of coffee.

Awful Service is a customer service based comedy podcast. Hosted by Minnesota based comics and Co-hosts Matt Dooyema and Joe Cocozzello . Featuring Rebecca Wilson. "Awful Theme Song" by Jeff Kantos and "Karen Theme Remix","Show Us Your Resume", "Gee Why Did It Fail", "Awful Conversation Intro", and "Awful Outro" by Mr Rogers and The Make Believe Friends

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Tape Deck Media.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Welcome back. It's another episode of the Awful Service podcast.
This is the podcast that's now selling a new dessert,
Sacred Raisin Cake.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Oh, where are you going with that? Where you going
with that dessert card? I'll bring that back here? You
got some of that?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Can you? Can you back that Sacred Raisin cake up
here for me?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm gonna have to have some a couple of slices
of that.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's all about the glaze. Baby, it's me, the original
Glazer Matt Douimo.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
With the original Glazer fan, Christey Cream is gonna have
is an uproar because of that.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
They're gonna they're kind of they're gonna give us that
cease and desist we've been looking for all Oh, we've.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Just been begging for one. It's and still one of
these days, dude, one of.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
These days, it's it's me. It's it's me Joe Bless
your heart, cocozello.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh, you're starting, you're starting. You're starting. You're starting with
the You're starting with the You're gonna sort of some
Southern idioms now as that is.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I'm throwing some Southern stuff about.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
The only the only way you can do that is
if you start un ironically wearing suspenders, though I think
I think that is the other moves that way. When
you do it, you're like, what is it.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
You got to do both? I think that's I think
we need to know how our guest feels on this.
How do you feel about suspenders on guys with Southern accents?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
I don't have any feelings about uh, Southern accents really,
but I suspenders just like I don't. Yeah, I don't
think it's a good look. I don't really, I don't
have any feelings on this.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, I you know what, I'm going to introduce the
guests and then I'm going to disagree with you.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
A wonderful comedian.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
So happy to have you on the show, Alexeka Chinsky,
Alexa welcome. Also, you're completely wrong about suspenders.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
He's just going I like, I like you, but you're wrong.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's basically for fat men, right, No.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
No, the older gentlemen and you.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Once you hit a certain age and your kids have
left the house and they're all grown up, then it's
suspenders are okay. I have a problem with the suspenders
for socks. Then you're you now reached old man. If
you can't keep your socks up without suspending, without some elasticity.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
And to be fair, Joe, those were the old socks
that didn't have elastic in them. That those that comes
from a depression era where they had to go to
a cobbler to get their shoes fixed, and then while
they were waiting they didn't want their socks to fall fall.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's the same era as the sanitary belt. That's tampons
also used to have suspenders.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Over that shoulder. That's hilarious. Hold on, I gotta change
my tampa.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
I would leave.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
I would love to see the instruction manual that came
with your tampon. Wracking you unfold this map, So my
my whole thing with suspenders. The only suspenders I feel
are okay are the ones with rulers on them.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh, the ruler suspenders.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
If it's a tape measure, they're yellow and they look
like a tape measure and it has the inches marked off.
And so now you could just go, how big is
this piece.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Of wood and it's multifunctional? Threecorders of my suspenders?

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Okay, now you're just you never stop working, You never
are where's my tape measure?

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Because you're fucking wearing it.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't need a yardstick.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
I've got my own, you know what, I'm writing that down.
I'm buying a pair of those. They cannot be that
expensive on the Amazon.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
I can't wait for you to be substitute science teacher.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
I'm not gonna buy them off a TMU because you know,
the measurements would all be off.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yes, this metric and even this is wrong for metrics?

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Is this? These inches are all different?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Even this isn't even a centimeter?

Speaker 3 (04:14):
What the fuck I'm supposed to build a house with
these suspenders?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
How the the house that suspenders build?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
It's like, I'm pretty sure, like norm from this this
old house for them?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh yeah yeah, that definitely was something from the Red
Green Show too. I believe that would be something he
would totally have worn.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yes, So that's why I'm pro suspenders, because I'm pro
Red Green.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Okay and suspenders. And if they don't find you handsome,
at least they find your hand. There we go. That's
that's that's that's some humor that our fathers.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
We need to bring back.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
We need to have a new Red Green Show where
it's like, hey, you know if women don't find you handsome.
Hopefully they still give you a handy.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
No, that's the that's the Yellow Blue Show. Yeah, it's
the Blue that's a big pro.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
We can talk about suspenders, you.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Could talk about we talk about glazed raisin cake. What
was it sacred? It's blessed, it's blessed. Yes, we could
talk about In fact, we might just talk about that
the whole episode, because if anything, the Awful Service Podcast
is a bake sale. Actually, that's gonna be our new
fundraiser when we need to get equipment. It's just gonna
be Joe and I selling Rice Krispy treats outside of

(05:29):
a trick.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
So hold on, you only eat half of that treat,
you're gonna get.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Super Yeah, you're gonna get super holy. These are really
potent rice Krispy treats. Might not want fifty dollars for
a rice Krispy tree. Oh you'll find out.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
You'll find out. Hey, have you ever seen Dexter?

Speaker 2 (05:46):
You want to get closer to it because you're.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Gonna you're about to watch all of it.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
All right, Well again, Alexa, this is the Awful Service Podcast.
This is the podcast we talk about different jobs and
the stories there within. The very first segment of the
podcast is one we lovingly referred to as the resume.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Show us your rhythme, why should we hire?

Speaker 5 (06:10):
Have you ever had a job?

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Right?

Speaker 2 (06:12):
You have been fire?

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Tell us all about yourself and your place of business.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Job's filthy shady politists?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Show what's your resume?

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Is that you guys?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
I wish, I wish we were not musically talented. That
is mister Rogers and the make Believe Friends featuring our
our our dear friends Zach Strange, Allen and uh Devin
Cook there there there we call them the Awful Service
uh Diddy house Band, and then we realized what that
sounded like after last year and now they're just them
Awful Service house Band. We did make them wear all

(06:52):
white ones, so that was that was problematic. We found
them that we apologized. No, So let's at the resume section.
You can you know, you don't have to go through
all of your jobs, but you know, we like do
everything from like your first, your most interesting, to the
ones that were like good. The stories are because everyone
everyone knows comics or storytellers, and every comic has had
to work at least a couple of shit jobs or

(07:13):
jobs or is there some weird shit has happened, So
wherever you want to start, Okay.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
I started working when I was thirteen and I got
a job with the Minneapolis park Board and I was
working at Lake and Nickomas and I was just concessions.
That was it. But that that only lasted. I think
I got paid. I remember I got It was four
dollars and twenty five cents an hour and that was
minimum wage.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Wait was that the thing that burned down? Did you
work in the hut that burned down? Then?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Didn't it burn down?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Didn't it? Sorry, it burned down.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
I'd like, I'm R and D on this show, so
I probably should have looked that up before before you
that's wait for Joe to be like, actually.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
That was the one that burned down, like, and he's
like no, he was asking you instead, like you have
an encyclopedic memory of every building you've been in.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
I didn't know it burned down. I had no idea.
I had nothing to do with that. Of course, it's a.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I was busy that night.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I was busy that day, on.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
The afternoon of and one more thing, and one more thing,
Where were you on the night of.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
So you're you're selling what were they selling? What were
the concessions back then? What were they selling there?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
It was I mean it was mostly ice cream like
that was the big one. God what else? Did we
a candy? Candy and soda?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
So yeah, and I mean, you know, just just now
it was still Lake Calhoun. It was still Lake Bob
Moscow fire that was there was the other.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
The sister hut?

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah was this? Yeah? Well were you guys competing? Like
what was there competition? So this could have been like.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
They had like a word in the back.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, this is like.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Right now, do we have a rivalry?

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Is that what you mean?

Speaker 1 (09:02):
He did we had a rivalry with Lake Harriet?

Speaker 6 (09:05):
Not yeah, actually if it was a rivalry though, yes,
now it's starting to make more sense.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
They never caught who did it, so now it's the rivalries.
It was fucking Lake Harriet kids. They were just doing
a prank. They were just doing some fucking cherry bombs
in the toilet prank and it just went too far.
It dropped one under a stove and then all of
it run slow motion and chanz.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
They're all.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
So there.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
If somebody saw on fire your your parkboard t shirts
on fire, roll, roll around.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Goodness. The park board taught us the stop dropping, roll
the situations. There's just a fellow huts.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
No, so you're you're thirteen, Yeah, work in the hut,
work in the hut.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Now, and so.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Was there any because as as as young teenagers do, uh,
we're working with your friends, I assume I was working.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
With a group of people who are a little bit
older than me. They were all, I think, like uh,
juniors in high school and then a couple in college.
So I was the youngest.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Yeah, they're like, you man, the stand We're all going
to go behind the hut for a minute and.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Then we're gonna come back at.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
What you guys doing.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
They made they made I remember them making like a
lot of sex jokes and I didn't get them, you know,
and then they just stand around and watch my reaction
because I tend to know.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, guys just like that.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah whatever cake.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
I remember one girl said she said something like, oh
my god, I was just into see my guy to collogists,
and uh, he found a bunch he literally found a
bunch of sperm. And I forgot, I forgot, and then
she looked at me.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
I was like Yeah, that happens to you all the time,
right everywhere.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
I'm always leaving sperm somewhere.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
I just I like, I found someone in my soft
draw or the other there it was.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
It was in my purse, Like, it's just everywhere. I'm
just always forget.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
It's always in the last place you look for it too,
you retrace your set through the spunk. Come on, let's
figure this out.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Go back in the other room and sit down and
think about it, and it'll come to you.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
God damn it, thank you, Dured. That's a self thing.
That's a self thing. So you're you're you're you're working
with people who are well beyond your age, and they're
just they're just like, oh, she sees, she sees she's cool.
And then later you're like, oh, this is why I
go to therapy.

Speaker 7 (11:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
I had a I had a crush on a guy
who's like, I think he was like twenty three, and
so yeah, I just that's all I tried to do
is I just tried to get like chefs with him.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
That was it.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
It was.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Okay, So have you gone back and uh use the
magic of Facebook to see how he's doing at forty seven?

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (12:12):
He would be fifty seven, and I don't want to know.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
That's a that's a little it's still works. He still
works there, so he's great. He's a manager now, he's like,
it's funny.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's like, I don't want to use I don't want
to use Facebook anymore to look people up because it's
always disappointing because everybody our age looks terrible and it's
not it's not cool anymore. It was fun to do
when you were like in your mid thirties. You're like, oh,
like it, it's so grown up. I don't want to
know what everyone looks like.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
They're all okay, no, I kind of.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
You'll get out of it, and then you'll get back
into it, because there is something morbidly fun about feeling
better about yourself looking at the shitty people you grew
up with.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
And do you have to understand this guy was hot
and he's not.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
There's no way you want to remember twenty three, that's right, I.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Want to remember twenty three.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yeah, you don't want to be just going back to
that image one day and then and then that Facebook
photo of the old man.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
He's still in my spank bank, so I can't I
think I don't want to. I don't want it sullied.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
That's actually a very good point, and you that's something
that I think we need to talk about more as
as a culture, Like, do not go back and look
up your old spank bank people.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
That's a defen it.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
No, no, ruin the bank, it's valley you.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
You have now removed that from the bank because it's
now tarnished.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
You've lowered the value of your account.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yes, never go and look them up, because this was
quite a different time. Did anything ever, Did he ever
flip back or was it just.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
It was just he did he did.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
He started like he's an answire.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
We don't Alexa. The other party is like, oh what
this fucking creepy dude.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Dude, and he now works He's in Trump's cabinet.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
I think the last I heard is that he did
have a family. I was like, you know, whatever, ruin
whatever he did well for himself.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, somebody one of those seen year old girls locked
him down.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
He's fifty seven, she's twenty eight.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
They met a summer later. They waited to marry until
she was eighteen.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Oh yeah, because I can't find a good woman raised one. Yeah,
that's sad because we're all people of a certain age
on this episode, and we all do remember that saying
if you can't find a good woman, I can't find
a good man raised one.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Technically Matt he was her manager, So this was all
part of the training two bells today. That's like I'm using, Yeah,
that's you're usually leaving the pack of this.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
I know, right, what is the criteria for the self dinging?
I'm just wondering.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Just a cringey, just a cringe enough punt, like where
it's like, ah, that's shutting.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
When it's when it's both above and below our standards
at the same time.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
It's kind of the Pavlovian we're trying to train ourselves off.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Of the Yeah, every time it rings, I salivate.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yes, it's.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
So.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Is there any other like things you remember from that job,
like things that you still hold to this day other
than the other than the bank.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
No, it's just mostly There's one very small thing that
I remember from that job is that my dad was
picking me up one night and they asked me what
kind of a car does he drive? And I said
a red one. Because I didn't know about makes it model,
I just said a red one and everybody laughed, and
I was like, I don't get it.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
No, I'm a big kid. It's a red one.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, I was naive, child like very naive, ya, very sheltered.
That was sheltered from like knowledge and not just like
emotionally sheltered. It was stupid.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
But that's the thing that look like we all were
stupid at thirteen.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, were some at that age.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
I wore excel t shirts because I I thought it
made me look bigger. Instead, I just looked like a
fucking like I had like.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Where your hand you're were in hand me down from
a big brother.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's just terrible.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
I like, it's look at me in my stupid Stone
Temple Pilot's shirt and the tiniest, not the big Jinkos,
the littlest Jinkos. They're like just bigger than regular jeans slightly.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
What the fuck am I doing? Like Doc Martins, what
am I doing?

Speaker 2 (16:58):
You just described a look that I mean a lot
of people, a lot.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Of Yeah, because I wanted to fit in in the
Midwest for some reason. I'm just this New Yorker that's like, no, no,
I'm not in New Yorker.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Look, I'm just like one of you guys, I'm wearing
a car hard hat the woods or whatever.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Let's go behind the hut over at Lake Nicomas.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
So where did you go after the after the ice
cream spot?

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Well, I decided I didn't like working. Uh, so I
didn't get a job. I decided to just dedicate my
life to extracurriculars. And so I just did sports for
a while, and I was a gymnast. I did softball,
you know that sort of thing. And then I just, yeah,
I didn't I didn't like working. I decided then I
didn't like working. I knew then working wasn't for me.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
I tried it once.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
No, I tried it once. I didn't like having to
be at a certain place at a certain time. I'm like,
what if I you know, I don't like feeling I
don't feel good. I don't Yeah, so I didn't work again, untell.
I think like high school, My senior year is when
my parents were like, you need to start working. We got.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
You know, the rest of your life involves working, right,
like kind of accustomed to this mildly.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
There's not extracurriculars in your twenties. Well there is, but
you're to pay for them.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, you was there, like like at the dinner table,
questions of like, so, Alexa, have we thought about what
we want to be when we grow up?

Speaker 2 (18:34):
And you're like gymnasts, softball players, top I could do
at the summer Olympics.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
And they're like ah.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
They're like looking at each other awkwardly over meat loaf,
like we gotta others.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
No I said something worse. I said I want to
be a writer, and they're like that's.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Oh, Dad, you just slammed the fucking fork, and y god,
damn it us.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
This one would get you, the one who gave her books.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
You let her quit that fucking ice cream job and
just go play thoughtball. This is I told you that
the was gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Now we got Sinclair Lewis in our fucking house over here.
What are we gonna do?

Speaker 3 (19:18):
And your mother's gonna blame me, She's gonna blame me.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's like all right, so all right, how did that
gave her? I gave her money for one bookmobile And
this is what fucking happened. Elastic book Fair came. She
got thrown to drop her off at the library.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, they and they even were surprised. Because they said, well,
do you want to write like novels?

Speaker 2 (19:41):
And I was like, no, I don't want to write.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Now They're like, what do you want to do? And
I'm like, just something else?

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Even know, I was just writer.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Prose, Mom and dad, do you even know what pros is?

Speaker 3 (19:59):
It's not a novel? Point? I know, it's not a novel. Yeah, so.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
They took it pretty well.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
They're like, okay, so you're gonna you're gonna write novels
and You're like nope, no, no, no, no, not at all.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
No m hm. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
They were trying to be supportive.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
I did.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
I think At one point I said, how about I
do corporate America? Maybe I'll try that, and and my
mom was like, well, what would you What would you
want to do corporate? And I said, well, I don't know,
maybe work for Visa or something, and like I like
to be the president of a company. And they were
both like, you're not gonna ma, So like I like that.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
But now that's now you're seventeen and you're still answering
questions ambiguously what kind of cars your parents read?

Speaker 3 (20:50):
What kind of where do you want to work? Corporate
in America? Like you know a little more like visa.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Like, what do you want to do for visa the president?

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yes, like something. Yeah, this is not a novel.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
I'm gonna write credit card statements.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
I'm a writer.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
You might see my published work in your mailbox.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I am loving this.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Your parents are fucking saints, God bless them. They're doing
the goddamn Lord's work over there.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Like it's yeah, I was a difficult I was growing up.
I was a very difficult kid. I was difficult from
like the jump and are.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
You an only child? Do they have more of you?

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Okay, that's the extra pressure.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah, this is it has this is You've got a
big stamp of only child written all that way. It's
just like, yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Was ambitious, but I didn't there was no direction, uh
I And whatever I wanted to do, I wanted to
be like at the top. So it was like anytime
anybody would talking about anything, I'll be like, sure, I'll
do that if I can be number one. So I
mean it was just entitled and that was that was it.
That was my whole My whole life was my whole
childhood was being entitled love And how are we doing now?

(22:11):
I haven't changed.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
I'm still special. I'm going to be president one day.
Watch Actually, with the current climate with CEOs, maybe you
don't want to be the head of any.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yeah, please tell me, but please tell me. Your next
job was for Visa though, Like this is going to
be great feeling. Next job as a.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Twist, Yeah, I went to college and then I just
got a job at a coffee shop.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
This is like you became the president of coffee. That's amazing.
That's I love that.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
This is like in the forties when people would just
like commit a crime and then go, actually, I'm going
to join the army.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
I'm just gonna do that. Like that's what you did.
They're like, get a job and you're like at college.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Four more years of this all it was.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
It was a placeholder. I was like, I need to
kill some time.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, so your you were a barista, I was Was
it at a corporate shop or was it like a
cool like little.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, it was at Gloria Jeans, which is no longer.
I think it was an East Coast franchise and it
was in the mall. Yeahs yep, as.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
An East Coast Joe. That's a that that would have
been your wheelhouse.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
I was in New York. I forgot to tell you that.
New York. Yeah, because that's the great place to go
when you don't want to work.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, super cheap out there, understand.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah yeah, easy to easy to get along yet.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Wait, so you were wearing a coffee shop in New York?
Was it Central Perk?

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Oh my god, yes, I remember this. They were like
in malls and stuff, right.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yep, yeah, we're I was in the Westchester mall.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Okay, all right, all right, you just spoke sparked twelve
memories for Joe. Right there is one time got a
hand job the girl by the fountain.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Wait, Joe, when when were you? When were you? When
did you move here from New York?

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Nineteen ninety one? So the holle House storm that everybody
talks about.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
But then I.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
I moved back to New York at twenty three, so
like I was there.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Two thousand and three. Yeah it was, yeah, just said yeah,
just two years ago. Back to.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Uh yeah, so I was. I I kind of I
started doing stand up here and then moved back. So
I had a I had a blast. So what were you? Okay,
so you were going to college where were your I was.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
I went to Sunny Purchase, Yes, yeah, yeah, that's right.
I went to I went to school with Regina Specter.
I don't know if you guys know her. Yes, And
I also went to school with Langhorn Slim, So I
went to I went to school with like people who
end up getting famous. Uh and then there you know
so and you know, I didn't. I didn't understand it

(24:54):
until after I graduated, and then kind of felt like, oh, yeah,
it's an art school, you know in New York. Yeah, yeah,
that's well, yeah, of course I thought that.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Was like, so what are you going to be?

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Did you expect us?

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Like, hey, what are you going to be? You're like,
I go work for Visa.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
She's like, okakay, cool, Like what so you're going to
college with some of the big biggest movers and shakers
currently in pop music rubbing elbows? Yeah, but then you
and then you're working in a coffee You're in a
mall coffee shop. So that's that has to kill your

(25:35):
soul a little bit.

Speaker 7 (25:37):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
No, No, I was, I was.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
I liked it. Writer's in a coffee shop? That made
perfect sense to me. Yeah, No, I loved it.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
I enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, doesn't actually sit down coffee shop in them all.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay, so it wasn't just a kiosk. It wasn't just
like the little like in the food court where there's
like you're like right next to the what is it
the hot dog on a stick and a and the Tomorrows.
You actually like, oh yeah, there was like little.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
There was like maybe three or four tables in there. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah, you know. They actually they dropped the mall. I
don't know when they dropped the mall. But now it's
just the Westchester. We've got a Navehn Marcus. We're just
just the West Tester.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
Is it still the place where little kids come, like
teenagers come to because oh yeah yeah yeah yeah, but it's.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
They're doing it fancier.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, it's you're a barista. Were you were you doing
more of the register or were you doing the actual
coffee work both? Okay, Yeah, I've been a barista as well,
And like I always say on this podcast, I've been
a bartender and I've been a barista, and I would
be a bartender twenty more times than ever having to
be a barista because coffee people are the most pretentious
ass holy people in the fucking world.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
They are pretentious, and I would outpretend out pretense them.
I don't know what the what is the verb on
that and the.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Pretense that the pretense on outpretentiousness.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
I remember some guy came in and he for caramel
on his whatever drink and I said, it's caramel. I say,
Caramel's mountain.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
All right bound down.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
And he did not tip me. You guys, he did not.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
You didn't see that coming. That was a twist that
you wrote in You couldn't even write that.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, so you're like Americanos don't get caramel.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Sir, like you idiot caramel.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Idiot while you're pumping his caramel.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Like seven dollars an hour.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yeah, yeah, living off that big cup of coffee tip
jar that's in the front.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
I was willing to be rude. I was really to
sacrifice tips to be able to talk like that to people.
So I never got in trouble.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Oh yeah, yeah you were.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
They made like a fucking shrine to you in the back.
We try to live this mantra here we out pretentious
to pretentious.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Oh you mean the golden coinski in the back, dummy,
like you just.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
You're like Archie bunkering these people.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
It's a Dick's last resort of coffee. I got a
coffee for stupid.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
I got a large with with caramel.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
I got a little Dick latte for Bill. I got
Bill Bill. What why aren't you coming to get your latte?
Bill litt Dick lat Bill.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Lante for short bus.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Anyways, that's actually that what you know what we're gonna
edit the part of that's a good business. We're gonna
keep that to ourselves. Although that one you can't quite
be like, uh, dick last resort because you can't throw
the coffee at the.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
People like.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
You want me to stir it around.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
I'm gonna start around with my like it's.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
It's a different kind of stirstick. If you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
That would be great. Like it never opens on time.
It's like ten oh five, like like pulling the pulling
the beginning of clerks, Like it's like where it's like
uh like where he's like opening the video store, like
standing in line like, oh yeah, I bet you can
get my coffee before you get your coffee, Like.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
You remember other than other than telling the guy how
to pronounce caramel, correctly. Any other story anything else you
remember from the from the coffee shop?

Speaker 1 (29:42):
H god, no, not really sorry, that was pretty.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Had at people's Like I like the micro up on
my specific I did.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh I did gain I gained almost twenty pounds from
working there.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yes, yeah, you gain weight at coffee because you get
the free shift drink you get.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
We just got I mean it was like, I mean,
I guess you could have just maybe it was only one,
but I mean we didn't. It was several.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, what do you mean? I want to add caramel
and chocolate. And of course then you're trying like why
I can do everything I want back here and you're
sitting there playing with these syrups that are now like
banned in Europe because it's like colors and and sugars
that you should not be consumed by the human relody.
Oh yeah, no, I gained I gained weight when I worked.
I worked for Caribou for a full year and like, yeah,

(30:31):
you gain weight because they're like, oh, well, frape does
sound good right.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Now, you know yep, And they're like I think they're
I mean, our our pre made drinks were like averaged
eight hundred calories for like a medium, so I don't
know what they I mean, they're probably the same now.
But we also didn't have a bunch of sugar free options,
so yeah, it was like eighteen to twenty pounds. Also,
I'm five foot two, so like twenty pounds on me

(30:56):
is like three sizes. So yeah, yeah it was rough.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
You guys, it's not allowed.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
So that was my second terrible experience working and I
was like, never again.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Okay, So I just.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
I'm on Gloria Jeans Wikipedia and under controversies there's the
sugar and fat content. In two thousand and nine, Gloria
Jeans was criticized for the sugar and fat content of
some of their products. Analysis of a regular Gloria Jeans
Mocha chiller Coco Loco.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Say that again, one more time, one more time, one
more time.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
The Gloria Jeans Mocha Chiller Coco Loco.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Okay Jeans Coco Logo.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Revealed it contained ninety five point five grams three point
three seven ounces of sugar, which is one hundred and
six percent of an adults recommended daily intake. They've also
been criticized for failing to provide nutritional information to their customers.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
What size was that for that? They didn't say, Okay.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
It just maybe there's not a size. Was there a size?
Did you get you ordered a Mocho chiller cocoa loco?

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, it's just it was just large and small.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Okay, so probably probably the last.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
So maybe that's why it wasn't you. It was on
the twenty pounds. This was the secret, not like all
the sugar and fat. That was how many Mocho chiller
cocoa locos did you drink a day?

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Those were good?

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, and then we sold we sold like other things.
There's kind of like Starbucks where we also sold like
some pastries, so it was like those.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Are never those are never a loclorie either. Yeah. No, no,
not at all because sugar and who knew that sugar
and fat was addicting weird fucking food scientists?

Speaker 4 (32:52):
All right, okay, so there was also an underpayment of wages.
Did you get in on that lawsuit?

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Oh? I did not. I missed all that.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, that class action happened in twenty eleven. Probably, I was.
I always love those because like, uh, do you remember
they used to have a don't don't eat this list,
Like they would put out a list every year of
like the most caloric stuff that you'd find in chain restaurants. Ah, yes,
like the meals that have them. Or it would be
like buttercup shake has two thousand calories in it, and

(33:24):
it's like, who's going to that place? Like I want
a healthy milkshake. Like I worked for Famous Staves and
they would always put the big slab as one of
the things you shouldn't eat, because, yeah, you shouldn't eat
a whole rack of ribs of corn bread, muffin, mac
and cheese and mashed potatoes, which was what they would
always base it on. Was also like the most caloric
sides you could get, and we'd get up to three

(33:44):
thousand calories. And I'm like, if you're eating this regularly,
yeah you're gonna die. But like, every once in a while,
eat the fucking calories.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
It's your birthday.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Have a fucking go bananas, Go get a Moco Choco
Laco legends.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Guy, I want to I want to murder somebody. And
we've only said that three times. I cannot even imagine
a full shift at Gloria.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
You have to you have to correct people. It's the
Moco Choco that would be some pretension. They say like,
I'll take the choco.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Yeah, they like stammer out that hole. I'd like a
Gloria Jean's Mogo chiller coco logo. And you're like, I'm sorry, what.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
What size? A large? A large? What? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Say it.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Say it's the only power I have in my life?
What are you talking about? Say it?

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Say the whole fucking thing.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
So so you're you're you're like your your second job,
You're like, this fucking working thing.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Is crushing it. Not doing great with the tips, but
crushing your customers souls. Yeah, well I was.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
I had I had recently started college, and I had
come into a lot of facts and I needed to
weaponize those.

Speaker 7 (35:00):
You know.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
It was a great place to do.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
That, of course, yeah, putting it on the trivia board.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Did we graduate as a write in writing? No? No, no.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
I initially went to I was in a conservatory. I
was in the filmmaking conservatory, and then decided that if
I wanted to be a writer, I should study the classics.
So I switched to European literature and history.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
That cool, go cool, all right, the classics. What were
some of your favorites?

Speaker 1 (35:28):
What were some of my favorite what the classics?

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Did you really lean in? Did you? You're like, all right,
I really.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Dig I'm a big of Homer's honesty.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Well, I think you.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
I took a class on Ulysses and that was, uh,
that was my first foray into misogyny in in academia
because I hadn't I really hadn't like dealt with that much.
And they told me they there weren't very many women
in the class because it was the Ulysses and uh,

(35:59):
and they told that it was a very male text
and that we might not understand it as women.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
WHOA.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
So it was weird when the professor says, your tiny
brain might not be able to comprehend this. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
why don't you go make some sandwiches for the boys
in the back?

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Wow? Yeah, what sounds fun. Uh did you power through? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:23):
I powered through. And at the end we had to
do we kind of had to do like a parody
of Ulysses and I Yeah, he really liked it. He
was like, oh, you you did get it.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Good for you, like one of the end you're one
of You're one of the good ones.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
One of the good ones. That's right.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Yeah, Yeah, this.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Woman clearly has the brain power of a man.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
What yeah, wow, Okay, that's all the rest of the extra.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's extra funny knowing you, by the way that that
story is extra fue knowing you personally.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
And were you guys doing like an improv of ulysses?

Speaker 2 (37:07):
All right, somebody give me a location? Is it crete?

Speaker 3 (37:13):
I shure up? I heard crete?

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah? Yes?

Speaker 1 (37:23):
And why so?

Speaker 2 (37:27):
So you're studying? So where did you go after the
coffee shop? After after school? Where was there some of
the first jobs after that?

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Well, I I went back to Minnesota and I wasn't
gonna I wasn't.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah, how was your retransition?

Speaker 1 (37:43):
It was you know, I had planned on only being
here for a couple of years, so I was like,
I kind of got into the mindset that I'll be
back out there, and uh so I came back and
I got like internships, I got like I worked for
the Minnesota Women's Press. I love how you're laughing at this.
This is great.

Speaker 7 (38:04):
With you.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Yes, it's it's like, oh, I get I totally get
the like, yeah, you know what your parents are like you,
we should buy you a bed, and You're like yeah, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm not gonna be here for that long. Yeah, not
long enough to have us. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
And then and then I ended up working like I couldn't.
I mean, I was interning, and I was I was
doing freelance writing, but I couldn't get an inn anywhere,
so I couldn't like get a full time journalism job,
and so I just decided. So I ended up like
honestly babysitting and dog walking for a very long time
because I was like, I was literally out of ideas.

(38:41):
I was like, it was just writing. I didn't have
anything else, so and I was like, well, I don't
want to do retail. I'm clearly not.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
Good at that.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
And uh so that's what I did. I did like
high school kid jobs.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Stuff. You were just doing it in a different order.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
I could imagine you working at like you took like
a coffee shop job here that lasted less than an
hour because you called somebody a dummy and they're like, oh,
I'm sorry, all right, Alex.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Can we can we talk in the back? Can we?

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Caribou don't don't do that. Yeah, it's you said.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
I heard what you said about caramel and caramel we're
actually gonna need that smock. It's we You're not gonna.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
We don't offer.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
We don't do that at this bag.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Oh my god, I did work at Burgers.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
I got okay.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
I do have a funny story from Brugers.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Go for it, Go for it.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
I was I was making somebody sandwich and I totally
cut myself, I mean deep, and I bled all over this.
I was bleeding all over the sandwich. And I just said,
do you want me to start over? Because I was
in shock. I didn't know what to do. It was like,
I know I'm bleeding, but.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
It's a little bit of blood on your asiago. You're fine.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Oh, I got most of it with the rag I got.
I caught most of it. Do you want me to
start over?

Speaker 4 (40:07):
And and and I'm actually kind of surprised because most
Minnesotans are so passive aggressive that.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
It's okay.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
That's why I got some fins in the car. We'll
be fair.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
And then and then he would have waited until you
went in the back and then walked over to your manager,
like you gotta fucking remake this ship there all over
my sandwich.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
But I couldn't tell her. She's a dormble And she
looked like she was gonna pass out.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
She had a I don't want this. I ordered my
sandwich without HEPSI.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
And that's why they all wear gloves at Bruger's now like.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
The gloves now that Shane Mail gloves is like we
called that the Kinski rule. Yeah, they have a name
for it.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
The story just keeps getting bigger. She cut her whole
fucking thumb off. It was insane, and then she put
it in the sandwich and left it.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
She forgot it in the sandwich.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
It was like a little alive on top gets bigger
every year. Yeah, she cut off her whole arm.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
The guy drove away with it. They had to chase
him down in the parking lot. It was crazy.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
So you're bouncing around, you're doing the you're doing your
your dog walking and babysitting. Which at what age? What
age were you doing this?

Speaker 1 (41:28):
It's fucking until Holy shit, I want to admit this.
I think I was doing this until like twenty eight.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Yeah, it's okay. There's professional dog walkers in their forties
in New York.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Don't the babysitting a dog walker.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
It wasn't like a cool guy who had like, you know,
twenty dogs and they would all sit down at the
same time. I mean, this wasn't you know, it wasn't
a well oiled operation.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
You're just getting drug around a park by a great Dane.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Were you a baby? Were you babysitting a thirteen year
old boy who fell in love with you? Continues that is.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Not going in the podcast, no comments.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
So you're doing this in your twenties like that, that
has to be kind of a humbling experience. You're like,
this is this is what fucking teenagers do. And then
I was like, oh no, I guess I'm a teenager.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
So I decided to go back to school because I didn't.
I was like, I can't keep working.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
You'll you know that. That's that's the cheek code is
just to get done with it.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
I'm going to be a doctor.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
I went back to school for a degree and for
a Bachelor of Science. That's what I went back to
school for. So I was studying. I went back to
the University of Minnesota for a degree in environmental science
and policy because I was going to be yeah I
was going to write policy or it was going to
be a litigator. I was like one of the two.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah, yes, yeah, your mental science, Like were you she
just watched Aaron Brockovich.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Yeah, were you a specific did you have a specific
environmental thing that you're like, I'm a fucking fix She's
gonna be litigative, funk out of the Parks Department, Joe.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
She's gonna get president. She's gonna be the president of nature.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Uh. Yes, I'm gonna be doing a thing in nature,
doing writing.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Writing, what not novels. Okay, So what's your title gonna
be for that?

Speaker 3 (43:28):
I don't know. I had something to do with Visa
tweet Wood second Visa. That's what I'm.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
You're What was the questions you asked me specifically what
I wanted to solve?

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (43:41):
Was there was there a particular were you was the umbrella?
Were you still vague? And just the environment the world?
I watched a lot of Captain Planet. I'm gonna do
a thing with with four friends and rings.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yeah, I mean it was pretty all these other thirteen
year old kids and I are going to try to
fix the environment, and we're gonna have and sometimes when
we put on here together, they like they they get
this blue guy that kind of he's kind of creepy.
Don't get the man, but he will help fix the problem.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
But don't get don't go with him, don't go to
near him.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Yeah, it's he's hot, but he's creepy.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
He's gonna give me a lecture on he will give you.
He's gonna give you a lecture on ulysses.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Hey, kids, shut the fuck up, Captain, get the funk away.
You can't be just don't be alone with Captain planet
like you. Just everybody stick together.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Hey, Captain, we told you to stay out of school zones.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
He wants to get some pizza after this.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Alexa, No, I didn't have I didn't have a specific
thing that I wanted to study. I was just I
was concerned with global warming and that guy's pretty Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
So that was still that's still an issu. You're just
not like nature.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
It's Alexa Thurnberg where you were like gonna change yourself
to some ship and like it's how dare you? How
dare you?

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Your dummy Senators, it's still that coffee shop attitude.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Though it's called the O zone, real idiots.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Yeah, it's called global climate change, not global warming, yeah.

Speaker 8 (45:31):
Senator short bus, but just really, Congress, So you went
back to school, did you?

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Did you graduate with a degree in that?

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Then I almost did. I was thirteen credits shy, and
then they financial aid said, we have loan you so
much money, we cannot in good conscience loan you anymore.
And so I tried to get scholarships, but it was
like this was last minute, so like usually you need
to do scholarships six to twelve months in advance, and

(46:08):
I didn't know. I was running out of money. So
I just had to leave. I couldn't graduate, so I
had literally I had three more classes or former classes,
left three three in like a one credit class. That
was it, and I would have been done, and then
I would have gotten my master's immediately afterwards because I
still didn't want to work.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
So just like you were going to be a professional academic.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
Amazing.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Yeah, well, you know what A little bit like.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
So I have a half sister and she did not
grow up with me. My mom gave her up for
adoption and she ended up doing that, so I didn't
know her until we were adults.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
But like she, so we had in the same class.
You were the two oldest people in the same class.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
You both like, excuse me, wait a second, here are
you doing the same thing I'm doing? Wait? Is your
mother named Martha Martha.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
No, no, he was doing he was doing.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
I'm sorry, mister s in Batman.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Al So that's the other there's as a subtext joke,
I'm gonna dig myself. There we go, all right, selting selting.
So after after you decided to give up your dreams
of being a professional academic, where did you go?

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Mhmm. I went back to New York.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
I love this, it's it's you, just Trivi. It's New
York school school, New York.

Speaker 9 (47:41):
I had no imagination and I couldn't think of anything
outside of that, and like, I just thought I had
friends in New York obviously, and like so I was like,
I'm gonna go stay with my friends and their families
and I'll get a job.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
And uh so I ended up doing. I ended up
doing like personal care attendance stuff in New York. But
it Yeah, so I was on Long Island. I was
actually not in the city.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
You were ping in Long Island?

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Yes, where in Long Island?

Speaker 1 (48:08):
I was in Miller Place. So that's like the north
Will you know the North Shore?

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Oh that's okay, it's a little yea.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
So did any of these people work did any of
them work in waste management.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Did any of them work in waste management?

Speaker 2 (48:23):
That's it's it's a it's a it's a mafia.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
So I was gonna say, I like I was getting ready, like,
oh ship, you were a PCA on Long Island, this
is gonna be these stories are going to be great,
and like you were gonna have some fucking wackados. No,
you were in a rich area, so it was yeah,
you you were wiping the butts of the very very
fancy poops.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Yeah, these people were. These people were doing fine. Yeah,
and personal care attendant when you're working for rich people
is a little bit more like, uh, hand me that thing,
you know. I mean, it wasn't I wasn't wiping anything,
you know.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
Yeah, yeah, okay, it was nice. That's some high class
you like. I only do the ones that wipe themselves.
That's uh yeah. But Alex say, we've got this guy
he has no arms. Nope, I'm out.

Speaker 7 (49:22):
My thing.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
Yeah. I was very picky. I was like, yeah, I'll
only work with the best.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Yeah. Do you have any clients you remember specifically from that? No?

Speaker 1 (49:34):
No, I didn't work there for very long. I ended
up getting a job as I was a writer for
an environmental website. So like I was, I just did
like content stuff and then I would do videos for them,
So I did that. I actually ended up doing that,
so I really was only a PCA for like maybe
two or three months.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Yeah, okay, I.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
Will say you did. You did make one mistake.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
It's you were pc A ing for some rich people
on the north shore of Long Island, and you were
you were getting the ones that could wipe themselves, so
you were already high class. This was your chance, and
you were white, so this was your chance to get
into their will. You could have and then you could
have never fucking worked again.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Taken care of.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Yeah, isn't it's not quite Martha's vineyard because I wasn't
in the Hampton's.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
There was money.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
That's still money up there.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah, there's still taking care for the rest of your life.
We're just saying, getting those calls taken care of.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
You get in a couple of wills and you're good
to go. Multiple Yeah, it's a three wheel scamp. It's
a long time. You would have had to do it
for more than a few more than a few months.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
So now you're writing for now, Now you've got you're
right you're in the field of the degree that you
almost got.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
Yeah, and is that how you were to get the job?
You're like, I almost got a degree in this.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
Yeah, I just lied and said I had the degree. Like,
I'm not gonna Why would I tell the truth. That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
No, no, no one tells the truth.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yeah, we have to we have to call Minnesota to
figure this out.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
No. Yeah, even is the University of Minnesota even a
real college?

Speaker 2 (51:21):
We don't know who who man the phones? They're polar bears.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
I don't know. I don't know about it. But I
did watch Flargo.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, I think it's I think William H.
Macy's was movie.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
So what are we?

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (51:40):
What are we reporting on? What are we making videos on? Like?

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Is this are we?

Speaker 3 (51:43):
Are we doing some like uh you gotta do like
the the the the birds on the beach covered in oil?

Speaker 1 (51:52):
I mean not really like that was that was kind
of like stuff that was like the nineties, Like that
was sort of the face of endarnment. Science is like yeah,
the dove, the dove commercials washing off the ducks. But
like no, I mean I was just covering like different
things like uh, like waste, Like what was waste and
how did like okay, so like different, I would say this,

(52:14):
like alternative energy was kind of like my thing, so
solar energy. So I would report on things that, you know,
I mean, nothing exciting or interesting. How to make recycled diapers,
like you know, it's just.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
What you said. That's so cavalier as if Joe and I, oh, yeah,
of course recycled diapers.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
Yes, let's talk about recycled diapers.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
I was really I thought, uh, for a while, I
thought the clock diapers were going to make a comeback
where you like they were.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Yeah they should, they should. I watch a bag of
cloth used clod diapers for a.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Week's Joe, Joe, that's what Brody did during Yes.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
It's it doesn't this, but I thought it was going
to be popular. So what does this make your own?

Speaker 4 (53:04):
Is this like all right, take the roll from some
toilet paper and and you glue seven of these together and.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Then just mcgivering diapers somewhere.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Well, it's like it's like a company in Japan that
would take diapers dirty, you know, and then and then
they would kind of like recompress them and like just
recreate just because diapers accounted for like two percent of
the landfill waste. Yes, that was you know, it's insane,
Yeah it is.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
But now, like that was what I read.

Speaker 4 (53:38):
I don't have kids, but I read an article that
was like, hey, uh, diapers don't break down and we
have a ton of children and if you do the maths,
like and I was like, okay, that's a staggering amount yeah,
of diapers.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
Like, all I know about infants is that they ship
a lot. They shouldn't pissed constantly, you're just going on
a regular.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
But here's the thing that I compressed the environmental chairs
and then sold them. They they so it's like it's
like a way that they would reheat them and then
literally reuse them and recreate a diaper. So it was like,
you know, it was it was just it was money.
It was gimmicky. That was the thing about environmental policy
and science, especially in like the two thousands, is like

(54:23):
it was all just a bunch of gimmicks and ways
to like and and by the way, nobody was ever
on board, Like people were never going to be willing
to downgrade their lifestyle to actually save the environment. No
one ever in America was willing to do that on
any level. And they did not give a shit. So
anybody who's here who says they're a liberal, they're left leaning,

(54:44):
blah blah blah. No, if you actually had to make
any real sacrifices to save the environment, you wouldn't do it,
because everybody, by the way, had to do it in
twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, and everyone bitched about it.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, this is yeah. This podcast
took a turn. It got real real, real fast, and hey,
and no one get it.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Three the three of us are part of the problem though,
because none of us had kids.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
I don't know if I don't know if I could
give my kid a Japanese recycled diaper. I don't know
if I can put a Japanese recycled diaper on my child.
And I know some random kid pissed and ship in
this before and it just went to Japan and got
recompressed somehow, you.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Know when you see that Lexus symbol on that diaper. Though,
I don't know what.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
I don't know what, but I'm pretty sure I just
get diapers, yeah, and just I'm just a like it's
I do not trust the ones though that have the
where it's like, hey, when your kid pease, it turns
it like Mickey Mouse shows up on it, and it's like,
what cancer is that giving my child?

Speaker 3 (55:55):
I kind of fucking it's I'll buy the dipe.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
If you turn diapers into into fucking coffee tables, I'll
buy that. But I'm not putting a fucking recycled Japanese
diaper on a child. Can't do it, not yet. The
science is too new.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
No. I like that. I like how you were like,
we could just solve this with cloth diapers, and you
totally could.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
You couldn't. We just need more people that were willing
to work shitty jobs. But no one wants to do that.
Everybody wants to work from home.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
You can't be working from home with the ship diaper
that doesn't work. There's no h hilarious.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
But we all just went back to college. We should
just all go back to college. As a country, we
just we're all in college now, we're just doing college.
We're all sassy coffee Barista's a country. Yeah, we're just
going back there.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
That would actually say I'm moving to New York. You
say that in jest, Joe, but honestly, there's like a
good segment of the population that could really fucking use that. Like,
let's yes, let's reset.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
It's caramel dick.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
That's a Is there any other jobs you want to
talk about, like anything that comes to mind, any stories
from anything.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
I think trying to think if there was any other jobs,
But I think I think we we covered it. I
mean for the most part. Yeah, yeah, we covered it.
I mean I had writing jobs, but those were pretty dry,
pretty boring, and those were mostly work from home, so
business communications stuff. So that's yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
A lot of writers on the podcast lately though.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
Yeah, who else besides Elizabeth we've.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
Had, We've had plenty. Actually, we actually have a lot
of people like written books and ship too, but they
actually wanted to write novels.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
So fucking losers.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
No, you should be writing dissertations about fucking ulysses, you
fucking poser.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
Speaking of during this time, have you ever written a
non novel?

Speaker 1 (58:04):
What do you mean a non novel?

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Well? Literally, pros.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
Did write.

Speaker 4 (58:11):
Yeah, besides besides environmental website stuff and like, have you
ever like, look, ma, it's a fucking book.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
I did it.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
No, I was writing, I was writing stuff. I was
I was getting on Twitter. That was like Twitter was new,
but like I was getting on it around twenty twelve
and I went viral with you guys, might you might
have heard this phrase before. Maybe maybe you haven't heard
it before, but uh, you know, like Richard Okay, Richard

(58:42):
Lewis has like the blank from Hell. Yes, I I
came up with resting bitch face. I went viral with that.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
You created you. I coined the term.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
And here's the thing in the tweet that I did.
In the tweet that I did, I resting bitch face
was the joke. That was me trying to describe my
own face and why people didn't find me approachable. And
that was part of the joke. I don't remember what
the joke was, but that like took off and it
continued to take off, and then other people were just

(59:15):
using that term in their tweets.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
This is insane. So I, now, did this? Were you
able to show mom like, God, look at this, mom,
Like it's I'm technically a writer. Do you see how
many licenses?

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Look at mom? I wrote a sentence.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
Oh look she was.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
So that was it.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
That was like I was doing tweets. I was I
was trying to get into like McSweeney's. So that's what
I was doing. And I was writing short stories, and
I was kind of getting published sometimes, and you know,
I mean I was hit or miss, you know, like
anything else. So I was doing Yeah, I was doing
my own creative stuff on the side, and I was
doing business communications as like my job job, and you know,

(59:58):
I mean I was just humming along. That's all I
is doing. And then I got sick, so then I
couldn't work for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
So yeah, what was your handle? I'm just kinding. I'm
trying to find this.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
Uh, wouldn't slurpy is the It might be the Wooden
slot at the Wooden Slurpy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Or I'm off I'm off a Twitter. They don't give
them my business anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:00:20):
But okay, this is that is have now has there
ever been like other people that are like I coined
the term resting bitch face and now you're like having
a fight on on the internet.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
Actually, if you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
Go back to my fucking tweet, it would be such
an audacious lie that nobody would think to lie about it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
I think I was just listening to a podcast where
two dudes fought over who was the one that was
the originator of truck nuts, the the thing that hangs
on the bumper of your.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
That's something to be proud of, Joe.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
Come on, did they fought over it for like five
years on the internet.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
It was the most amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
So I'm surprised that someone hasn't like tried to buy
the origin. You know, you should. You should check it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
You should sky check the internet to see if there's
other people claiming I actually was the one that created
resting bitch face.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
And it's like, oh, actually, bitch, you were not.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
It's I'm the original bitch.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
I'm the original. Look at this face, the original face.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
So I RBF is something we talk about in the
restaurant industry of lots, that's where my specialty is. And
we have like servers who just like naturally have RBF,
but we call it focused face.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
M that's nice. That's a nice way to put it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
That's not coinable.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
You're not going that's not going viral on XL's never
going to Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
How is this not on your Now you got to
put it on your handle like it's like on the
about part of your likes.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
Are you trying to are you trying to get her
to be like it's like the original pancake. It's gonna
be like the original Resting Bitch Face.

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
Like the it's it's like it's like, uh, like how
the five the five A Club and Matt's are like
arguing over who created.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
And it would be decided on man versus resting bitch Face.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
Look, she's been making t shirts for years, you got it?
Like it's.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
Well, I only I only went viral with that. I
did also do Uh, I didn't really, I mean my
tweets did okay, you know, but like I never I
never had that kind of success ever.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
Again, So did you throw what was some other spaghetti
you threw against the wall?

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
You're like, eh, like, are we.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
Trying to coin some other stuff that didn't quite hit
that we could chat about it?

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
I'm sure, I'm sure I tried to come up with
a lot of things, but like, yeah, nothing worked. I
was on one hit wonder.

Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
Yeah, like what do you think about this? Twitter?

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
No, we're going.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
Wooden wooden straw Lady? What was your slurpe? She got
the idea for that when she was working in a
shack at thirteen years old.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
She's like, listen, that's what the twenty three year old
was like, Hey, you want touch my wooden slurby.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
And You're like, yeah, oh you guys, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
That's just in this podcast. Can we get to the
overviews so I can fucking go?

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
Well, Alexa, we don't just exist on this podcast to
talk about who came up with resting pitch face, uh,
being a novelist or not a novelist, or telling correcting
people on the pronunciation of caramel no. On the Awful
Service podcast, we also exist to battle the scourge that
is known as Karen's. But before we go into our
next segment, we always like to ask our guests, Alexa

(01:03:56):
gon Chinski, how would you define a Karen?

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
How would I define a Karen? Well, first of all,
it's sexist. I would define it as a sexist term
I have. I guess, I guess a Karen to me
is usually an entitled white woman, even though it can
be men. That's why it makes it sexist. It's not
just white women who is I guess bigoted and and

(01:04:24):
and they're complaining about something small, so their bigotry comes
through their tiny little complaints, so it looks it just
makes them look completely tone deaf. And uh, yeah, that
would be my definition, And.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
I agree with you in that Karen is sexist. But
there are the men Karen's and the and Carls and
the chads and chads. But I believe the origin of
Karen came from like the cunt fucking walked out of
the water, like got legs and like walked on like

(01:04:57):
like she evolved. I think it was it was very
much a lady that started that sparked this wildfire.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
The first fish to get legs?

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
Yes, yes, are we talking about did this?

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Did this originate with the woman in Central Park?

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
Who? No, that was Karens existed before before the dog lady.
We're telling you the dog the Yeah, yeah, yeah, But
so actually the origins of Karens. I can tell you
as a as a restaurant employee, I've known when a
Karen is since like twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, and then
in the customer service realm, we used to call them
see you next Tuesdays. But they figured out what the

(01:05:32):
acronym meant.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
Yeah, well it's yeah, it's an acronym. I think we're
all pretty familiar with resting.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
But people started to figure out what that meant, Like, well,
I got a real see you next Tuesday over in
Booth five. You know, people who started to get up,
so it became a Karen. I think it actually, honestly,
I really think it came from a goodfellas Karen, what
do you do? No? But for real, like it was
just it was just an acronym to explain, like again,
entitle entitlement and things like that. And yes, it was

(01:05:59):
a tribute as a white ladies we on the podcast
we don't We just anybody can be a Karen, guys, gals,
Oh no, you guys. Everybody can be a Karen. What's that?
Oh god?

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:06:13):
So Robin Queen, professor of linguistics, English Language and Literature,
and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan,
did a deep dive into the Karen Right. So, as
far as the meme of Karen goes, they two distinct threads.
First thread comes this one I'm totally fine with. Twenty eighteen,

(01:06:34):
when the black community posted memes of white women who
use their privilege to falsely report criminal activity, usually involving
people of color.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
These memes bore.

Speaker 4 (01:06:42):
Hashtags with some of the first monikers for this type
of behavior. Hashtag barbecue Becky, hashtag permit Patty, hashtag golf
cart Gael, and hashtag Cornerstone Caroline.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
The second thread is this causes me much pain and
as soon as you The second threat originates much earlier,
and surprisingly from the once popular stand up comedian Dane.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
Cook, Oh for Real.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
In two thousand and five, Cook wrote and performed a
comedy bit about Karen being the friend that no one
in the friend group actually likes. This threat is less
about the racial or bigoted implications of how the now
popular Karen meme Queen cites it is one of the
first or as one of the origins of why that
name became and has been so.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Lambasted fucking Dane Cook. Dane Cook.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
Yeah, I don't want to give him any credit, so
I'll just give it all the black community. I like,
I think we need to bring back Cornerstone Connie, or
like barbecue Becky.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
Barbecue that that was the Barbarkue Becky was the one
that was doing when there was the gal who's like,
they don't have a permit to be on barbecuing here
at this place, and they like the conflict they on
a fucking real that's at the park because you know,
like one of those parks that had the actual grill
built into it, like what do you what do you
want us to do? And then she's like crying because
they filmed her. That was where Barbecue Becky came from.

(01:08:09):
I remember that. I watched that one on repeat because
the cops told her how wrong she was and that
made me happy. But anyway, I digress.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
I don't mean derail.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
We've been doing this for six years, and that's the
first time either I know that. Yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
Dame Cook.

Speaker 4 (01:08:28):
Yeah that that that's that's the last time we mentioned
that name on the podcast until oh god, you guys
reading the paper Dane Cook died.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
It's sixty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
On our next guest on the podcast, I remember him
from Sweet and say it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
Is Dane Cook.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
That's like, I don't even know what he sounds like.
It's like, hey, remember when Doug Stanhope stole that joke
from me? All right, Well, each each and every week
we look at different Yelp reviews, Google reviews, Facebook reviews,
sometimes their tweets or handwritten notes that it's a segment

(01:09:06):
we call the Karen of the Week.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
This is Karen, I'm your boss.

Speaker 5 (01:09:11):
Oh my god, Oh my god, Karen, I'm oh my god, Karen.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
Each and every week, tell a contributor, former Third Mic
and general Saint of a human being, comedian Rebecca Wilson
dramatically re enacts one of these complaints. And here's Rebecca
with the Karen of the week. As I Joe knows
and as I've alluded to with you, Alex, I've been
going through a lot of personal ships, so like it's
been tough for me to get some ship into people.
Uh So this one, I'm just going to read and

(01:09:57):
then we'll just say the reaction till afterward. There's a
two star review from Mike Martin. Okay, we did walk
in on a Monday night. It was super crowded, which
I understand because of season. But everyone had a reservation.
So being a local, they can try to remember me
when it's slow because I will not be showing back up,

(01:10:19):
they can stuff the reservation. So they replied back, we
used to go at least four times a month to
support you on the slow season. Literally six tables were full.
That's why a lot of restaurants do not have reservations,
so those customers that come to you quite often getting in. Fact,
on the way out, we happened to meet a couple

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they said they were there are at least there's a
lot of misspelling in the Shit Times a week. We're
disappointed when I told him and his wife, if you
don't have a reservation, you're not getting in. I would
not recommend Enrico's two Stars.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
Geez geez, boy, they don't remember remember when it was
slow and I was coming here? I made you in Rico.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
It was Mike, he was he was keeping that restaurant alive.
It's me, Ka pasa listen, don't don't you remember when
it was slow. I was the guy who was hitting
on you and tip in ten percent? You remember that, right,
and Rico's and Rico's with apostrophe s. I uh like

(01:11:27):
to complain that that place is requiring reservations during the
busy season and then not like, well you still have
my table, right if you came here all the time,
you should know, right, there's you know, there's there's some
restaurants that you that are good and and you're gonna
have to kind of wait your turn. You like, hey,
do you know who I am?

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
I know you're not fucking I know you're not Dennis Hopper.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
Oh that Mike Martin.

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
Yeah, you go look at you big time.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
Oh eminem Uh, I am a writer for Visa, honestly, No, no,
this person obviously is not a writer. They put in
in punctuation not so great, a lot of mispunctuation. That's
why I literally don't.

Speaker 3 (01:12:18):
You know who I am. I wrote I coined the
term sacred raisin cake on X fucking viral.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
This guy's a pain in the sacred raisin you.

Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
How many flowers I have? I will, I will fucking
ruin you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
Enrico your piece of ship.

Speaker 3 (01:12:36):
You take your sucked in in Rico like you're just
losing his ship in Enrico's. Everybody else is like, don't
look at him, don't don't fucking.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
Look, don't don't pay him at any attention, Just just
let him be. Mark always gets like this, all right?
Uh so, Enrico's the only one with an apostrophe. Yes,
is an Italian dining spot in Frankfurt. Ill noy. I
don't know if that's right. There's no I take that back.
There's a few different ones here. We gotta find Matt
doesn't do the R and D.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
I got to come in with facts.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
I know, but although there's two, because there's an Enrico's
restaurante and bar, and that's in Charlotte, North Carolina, that
would make a little bit more sense busy season during
the summer. Okay, there's also in Young Harris, Georgia.

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
Is this a franchise now? I'm opening it up.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
It's just one of those places like where it's like
lose yeah, or like Giovanni's like that's a.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
I hope they're all mad at each other, like I
was the first Fuco.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
I was the original Enrico.

Speaker 4 (01:13:39):
Yeah, that's how they like pizza places in New York
where it's like number one Gary's number one pizza.

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
It's like, all right, get like it's there's like seven
different Gary's pizzas.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
It's oh, dude. Globally there's just Enrico Italian restaurants across
the fucking globe.

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
Dude. He's he's like pulling a chee cheese. He's fucking
going in and he's like.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
He's giving people hepatitis. What are you talking about? I'm
en Rico. It's Dick and Rika. It's actually the same
guy who does them exercise equipment. I guess it's just
more the idea of like this guy probably knows that, yeah,
there's busy season and sometimes you need reservations and like
that's how tables work. And you know what if you
if you are a local, if you're a guy that
that they know, then you you just call ahead and like, hey,

(01:14:23):
it's it's my come in, I want We'll give you
the usual table. It's fine, come on in.

Speaker 4 (01:14:29):
Yeah, it's actual good customers know how to be good customers, right,
it's and this guy it's.

Speaker 3 (01:14:36):
No clapback though, no.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
Clapback on it's just signed in rico like fuck yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
Like the fuck yourself, And.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
Like I get not all they don't always have clap ACKs.
I wish they did. I wish every do you know?
There's this thing in the ELP reviews and Google reviews
Alexa where like the owners are clapping back at these
people who are giving them batter and it's it's a thing.

Speaker 3 (01:14:58):
It's a new thing, and we fucking love it here
on the podcast, like I almost we should almost. You know,
for the ones that don't have clap backs, you might
have to like reach out to these a few in
ricos and be like, are you.

Speaker 4 (01:15:12):
The Ricos from the Yelp review that this dick here
said this, Oh yeah that's me. Yeah, we have a
couple of clapbags for you. Can I email them over
one yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
Yeah. One is just really simple, let's go fund yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
I love the idea of restaurants canceling customers. I do.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
Here's what here's my take on this guy. I think
he's just a guy who thought, because this is an
Italian restaurant that since he was like a regular when
you know, during COVID or whatever, is that what he's implying, like.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
During the slow season, he's just like during like like
they have times where the busy maybe it's a place
that's like in a vacation town.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
Has a big patio and a tiny Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
Yeah, I think he thought that he was going to
be the guy were they always saved a table for him,
and I think.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
That's you know, you can't have that, that's Mike's table.

Speaker 3 (01:16:06):
Yeah. Well he might have.

Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
Actually he might have been like on a date and
he pulls some ship where he was like I'm kind
of big time over Leo, where you know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
We're gonna go to dinner. You want to go to
dinner bed bye. We could go, but it's busy season.
I'm busy season, Mark, I'm never gonna get a table.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
I'm a big dick ed Enrico's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
Say, but shouldn't we call for residents.

Speaker 4 (01:16:28):
I'm I'm fucking know me. They know me, and Rico
knows me personally. I was the fucking I know the owner.
I'm the godfather of his kid. I fucking baptized this
fucking child. I was at the baptism of his fucking kid.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
If that was the case, it would have been Michael, yeah,
oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
Oh my god, this is great.

Speaker 4 (01:16:48):
Like we should start clap helping the restaurants with their clapbacks, the.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Ones that they don't have. We should just start that,
just doing clapbacks because you can respond as like people
on these reviews Just Service Awful Service podcast at gmail
dot com. We should go and do that and just start.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
Being a real life hero on help Help. It's like
helping the helpers.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
Help.

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
We should start help help. You can say whatever you
want about anything on here, rank it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
That's the help help help dot thomas us where we
get to review the customers. Oh yeah, Mike, he gets
he's a one star customer piece of ship. Grab the
waitresses ass one star.

Speaker 3 (01:17:34):
It's yeah, yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Like a cumulative uber review, like you get rated from
like all the places that you like frequent. That would
be amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
Look, if you give me your credit card, I'm using
your full name on this bitch.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
It's He didn't even say moco choco latte, Yeah, yah,
mocha chiller. Just to me, it's just the lyrics from
Lady Marmalade. I don't know, uh, like, I just and

(01:18:13):
it makes sense to me. It works and much like
misunderstanding the lyrics to Lady Marmalade and also expecting a
table during the busy season.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
Sometimes, did you just say marmal Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
Yeah, prepare to get Sometimes we have to ask ourselves, gee,
why did it fail?

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
Everything?

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
Everything? I thought I was here to stay?

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
I thought I'm here to stay. Now I have to
figure out what do you?

Speaker 3 (01:18:43):
Why did it?

Speaker 5 (01:18:47):
Gee?

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
Why did it fail? As a segment we do every
week where we look at different restaurants, menu items, just
different different ideas and a lot of times since we
especially since we've switched over to the innerwebs, we look
at commercial Now this one it's very I think it's
very appropriate by the way that we talked about coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:19:06):
Have we graduated?

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
Oh no, there's no Bendito, thank god. There On other
days it was.

Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
An older commercial about the Freeto Bandito and it was
very racist, and I am so sick of it, and
I was just I'm hoping that we've moved on, and
we have.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
I've moved on. Well I'm not saying we moved to
something better, but we have moved on. So it's very
appropriate that we talked about coffee because remember in the
nineteen sixties and fifties and sixties, a good cup of
coffee is what kept America going.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Right, Oh, I got did Gloria Jean pull a Paula Deane?
Now we're gonna looking Yeah, that was good, thank you,
thank you. So Folgers whoa, Yeah, what was racist about Folgers?

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
It's not. This isn't a racist commercial, but it is
a commercial that didn't age well from our our friends
over at Folgers with the instant coffee, uh, and definitely talking.
We really like to look at ones that didn't age well,
ones that aren't They're maybe not the best, they may
might not be the best idea and and even even
back then they may have been a little but you
know some ad exacts like John shut up Toots and

(01:20:22):
go make me a sandwich. You know, then we're gonna
talk about ulysses.

Speaker 8 (01:20:26):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
I'm gonna keep going back to that because that's so funny.
But no, So it's it's this this comp this is
a commercial. It's a it's a merried couple. They're talking
about coffee and the folders.

Speaker 4 (01:20:37):
And they are they trying to go against like because
they're going against that Jan Valdez coffee back in the
day that was like the Colombian guy with the donkey.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
Yep, so are they like the same? This is it's
actually the coffee bandito. It's like yes, like I'm wondering
where No, no, it's this is gonna go a different way.
Just just let it play out. And this is a
commercial from nineteen sixty, so back when commercials were a
it long, So just just bear with it. It's this
week's gee, why did it fail?

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
Harvey?

Speaker 7 (01:21:06):
Want anything special for your birthday?

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
Just a decent cup of coffee? You're kidding, I'm serious, honey.

Speaker 7 (01:21:12):
Your coffee's undrinkable, pretty harsh.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
Well, so's your coffee?

Speaker 1 (01:21:18):
You know, the girls down at the office make better
coffee on their hot plates.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
Whoa, well, see you later.

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
And he didn't even kiss me goodbye.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
So so to set it up married couple at the
breakfast table. What the fuck he's gonna go into the office.

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
The girls at the office that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
There's there's some definite implications there. But what's happening in
that office space? They can really make a hot cup.

Speaker 3 (01:21:45):
Always buy their hot plates, he says, their hot plates
are pretty. He never talks about my hot plate.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
He number wants extra cream and sugar with me.

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
He said my coffee was trash right to my face.

Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
Susan, Well, now she's now. She's just confiding in her
friend and how to how to win her husband back
home with the coffee.

Speaker 1 (01:22:05):
You know, if I could just.

Speaker 7 (01:22:06):
Make a decent cup of coffee.

Speaker 1 (01:22:08):
I could relax, So relax.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
Why don't you try instant soldiers taste good.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
As fresh, perked, good as fresh.

Speaker 7 (01:22:15):
Purk Ah surprised Harvey for his birthday tonight. Hey, great coffee,
it's instant folders, doesn't it taste good as fresh, perked?

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
Better as girls make it the all?

Speaker 3 (01:22:30):
Why what she's like getting abused?

Speaker 4 (01:22:32):
She's getting verbally abused, and and and now she's like
she's letting a Harvey in on his on her secret.

Speaker 3 (01:22:40):
Yeah, I didn't even less. I didn't even do anything.
I just made hot water and poured the crystals in.
She should be like, oh, I fucking I learned from
a French girl how to give a blow A blowjob,
I mean a make a good cup of coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
That's kind of the implication of this whole thing, isn't
it The way we.

Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
Pause it, it looks like she's hrking them off under
the table.

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
By the way, there's definitely band stuff going on.

Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
Can we go back a little bit, because I'm pretty
sure she was saying she was questioning how the girls
in the office make, how they're called, how this Folgers
instant compares to the hot plate girls in the office.

Speaker 3 (01:23:15):
Thank you, karenaginal rejuvenation.

Speaker 7 (01:23:19):
Hey, great coffee, it's instant Folgers. Doesn't it taste good
as fresh, perked? Better better than those girls make at
the office.

Speaker 3 (01:23:29):
Honey, their coffee can't hold a candle to yours.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
Instant Folgers taste good as fresh, perked. Try it like
they're totally going to push the best suck those bitches
in the office, right, you're a great wife, folgers.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
Hey, dummy, it's it's caramel.

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
Hey, great coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
Can you pause it here? Look at it? She's like,
all right, so I make a shit cup of coffee. Harvey,
Shut the fuck up. You see how long it took
me to make this fucking cake my hand.

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
Very well, it's a nice looking cake.

Speaker 3 (01:24:06):
You didn't even say anything about that, Harvey, did you?
And he's got to blow the candle out first and
then go oh the girls at the office don't hold
a candle. See what I did there? See what I did?
You're so funny, money, You're so funny. I can't even
make coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
Am I gonna get some sacred raisin punk cake tonight? Uh?
I'm working late at the office, drinking coffee late at
the office tonight, Honey. I don't think I'm gonna be home.
They're perked up there.

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
Oh gosh, these commercials, and but have they gotten any better?

Speaker 1 (01:24:41):
Dude?

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
Have they gotten much better?

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
At least at least it's a married couple instead of
a brother and sister that had a weird implication that
they might be banging. That was the other foll dress coming.

Speaker 4 (01:24:52):
Now, it's like now every oh yeah, but now every
foldress commercial is like everybody having a wonderful morning with
a cup of fucking coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
The best part of waking up.

Speaker 4 (01:25:04):
It's like, oh, hey, you know, if you if you
had Wan Valdan's coffee, you need so many antidepressants.

Speaker 3 (01:25:10):
It's like, these are how many antidepressants you need to
get out of bed with? With the other brand folders
with eighty percent of your morning is eighty percent more better?

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
Right? Alexa, what's what's your take on this on this
nineteen fifties trope.

Speaker 1 (01:25:29):
I'm not offended by it at all. I feel like
it's very like the sexism is so blatant that they're
not trying to hide anything. I feel like it's kind
of like it's very much of its time. I do.
I kind of like that it is. It's it's I
feel like I'm watching a sitcom that isn't funny, but
I actually it feels very leave it to Beaver. There's

(01:25:51):
something very wholesome about it, even though like.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
Push the beds together that night.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
You know, it's like any has anybody watched The Big
Bang Theory out the laugh track?

Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
Oh yeah, that's kind of this, it's that's painful.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
Actually, you know what, I bet you I would like
to see this this commercial with a laugh track.

Speaker 2 (01:26:15):
And the and the audience oh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
Yeah yeah, and then every time he said something terrible,
you go oh boo. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
Actually, this is the nineteen fifties, he would have been
applauded because he's a man.

Speaker 3 (01:26:29):
Well, Tim's.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
H but it just it was it's more about the
like like to me, it's the subtext of like the
you know, why why get it at the office when
you can get it at home?

Speaker 3 (01:26:42):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
Yeah, very much.

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
Bolgers love it one. Folgers helping helping men not have
affair since nineteen sixty two?

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
Is that a ring on your coffee mug?

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
No, I'm just happy to see you.

Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
Is that someone else's coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
Whose lipstick stain is on my mum?

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
Oh honey, yeah, it's yeah, it's just a hot plate
at the office.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
I also love that this is just a nice little
meal at home. And they're dressed like they're going to
to you know that restaurant that Mike.

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
Hated birthday, We're gonna go to Enrico's.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
No, I'm just rather to have some cake and coffee. Well,
maybe not your bullshit coffee at home, but we'll have
some cake.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
Harvey will never get in.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
We don't have reservations.

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
Oh, they know me down at Enrique, know me that
that dirty wop will let me in any time I want.
What do you have? We're gonna put on the old,
the old forty five and make sure the kids go
to bed. We're we're gonna have some of the some
pills together.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
Also, it's really hard to tell how old they are,
Like he looks young, but she looks like she could
be either twenty five or fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
Yeah, true if the hair never changed. Yeah, just got bluer.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
Yeah, he does have kind of that. Yeah, he definitely.
He looks like he just got back from his madman job,
you know, like him and him and Don Draper are
drinking brandy old fashions in the office. There's that there's
that smug looking for it. It's better than those fucking
bitches at the office, isn't it, Frank or whatever his
name of that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
I see I missed Back in the date. She she
had like a cake serving.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
Oh yeah, the little serving.

Speaker 4 (01:28:27):
Yeah, they like they had they had everything for everything
in the kitchen. Now, I'm like, you don't have anything.
You're just using like a fucking spatula for everything.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
It's you're lucky, we're serving you cake. Yeah, but that
that that devilish look between each other. Oh, we're gonna
gonna make another child. Sure. So that was this week's
gee I did it fail? This has been a great
episode of like at the time, we eighty six the podcast.
But before we go, we do have one last segment

(01:29:00):
and it's called human Mail Reviews. That's for you, our guests,
Alexican Chinski. You get to review the podcast. You use
a five star metric or as many stars as you'd like.
You can either review the podcast as a whole or
Joe and I individually and whenever you'd like to start, Well,
was there?

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
It was.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
It was a really good podcast, except I mean, I
don't I feel like I was upstaged and outshined and
out funny the whole time. So I would I'd like
to give you guys five stars, and we give myself
two because I think I kind of contributed a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:29:35):
Yeah, I think you totally contribute. You need to take
a second, give yourself a couple more stars.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
Don't don't, don't, don't put yourself down to Mike's level.

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
Yeah, you guys were awesome. Yeah, yeah, I have nothing,
I have nothing bad to say.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
Yeah, it's fair, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
So again, this was a ton of fun. We're glad
that you came on. I am sorry that I aged you.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:30:03):
You can't help it. You're just you're just naturally.

Speaker 3 (01:30:07):
It's something I'm working on, trying to be less upstaging.

Speaker 2 (01:30:12):
You out in New York to Joe, and then she
just felt like, oh, well he's from there originally.

Speaker 5 (01:30:20):
You guys, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:21):
I really appreciate you guys having me on. I had
a great time.

Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
This is a blast.

Speaker 4 (01:30:25):
You'll have to send us the links to some environmental articles.
We'd love to read your work. It's like we love
to pass that around for our listeners, like it's go
go read on how to be a better read. I
would actually love to read about recycled Japanese diapers. I'm
totally curious. I need to know the process. Is it microwaves?
What is the lasers?

Speaker 1 (01:30:46):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
What are they doing over there? The Japanese are yearly
light years ahead of us in the recycled diapers department.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
They are very clean people, Joe, They are very clean people,
Alex And how people follow you?

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
Sorry, what was up?

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
How do our listeners follow you?

Speaker 1 (01:31:03):
Oh? Uh, Instagram wouldn't slurp with uh the why and
not an I E And uh that's it. I'm really nowhere.
I'm not really on Twitter anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
So that's fair. Yeah, all right, anything you want to
promote coming up?

Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
The screenshot, the viral, the viral one right, Like you're like, no,
I didn't, Oh we got gotta I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
I didn't know it was going to be viral. I didn't.
It wasn't that good of a tweet.

Speaker 3 (01:31:29):
You were like, just like you didn't. When did you
realize it when viral? You were at a restaurant and
somebody said, oh, you just got that resting bitch face,
and you're like, holy shit, that's me.

Speaker 7 (01:31:37):
That was me.

Speaker 3 (01:31:38):
I did that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:40):
It was like it was just just on Twitter. It
just went big on I mean, I got good numbers
on Twitter, and that didn't think well it was viral
Twitter viral. I didn't think culturally it was going to
be viral, Like I think that wasn't until like a
couple of years after I wrote it, and then I
started here. It started popping up.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
Basically, you started. You were the spark that started the wildfire.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:32:01):
I think I think you need Yeah, I think you
need to write.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
About yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
You should write this article about yourself and then submitted
to the New York Times.

Speaker 4 (01:32:12):
This is a New York Times, but this is it.
This is I want to see this on all the
major newspapers. I didn't realize, but I did a thing.

Speaker 2 (01:32:23):
That the trajectory of the man find from there on in.

Speaker 4 (01:32:29):
You're like, I wonder who are Who's some people that
have been called that have the resting bitch face in
like celebrities with resting bitch face, and it's like you were.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
They're like, you did this. I was just an angry
lady until you did this.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
Now you have to be someone from like a nineties
sitcom for sure. Uh, Joe, how do people follow.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
You on Instagram?

Speaker 1 (01:32:56):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:32:56):
The word photographizing, that's the word photograph I z I
n G. Because I thought when Instagram started that was
how I was gonna be genius. It's the art of
taking a picture that's photographied and it's gonna be great
like it's and now there's videos and it doesn't make
any sense.

Speaker 3 (01:33:11):
And it's it's been too long. I can't change it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:15):
So it's doing a bunch of shows. It's like, uh,
I never promote my shows. If you want to find me,
you'll fucking find me. It's it's easy. It's there every
it's it's.

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
I'm out there, uh doing things.

Speaker 3 (01:33:27):
I'm doing things.

Speaker 4 (01:33:28):
I'm out about, making some cartoons, fucking around, get back
into acting. Look out, buckle up, buttercups.

Speaker 2 (01:33:35):
This is gonna she's gonna win the Best Actor at
North Dakota.

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
Now, yeah, it's I got South Dakota.

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
Like it's and I want the whole mask just started Dakota's. Yeah,
it's like I'm collecting commemorative spoons.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
How come I've never been on a show with you, Joe,
I don't do We've not cross paths.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
We have not cross paths. That will change. And like
it's I worked the road a lot, so it's.

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
More I don't need to deal with this fucking the
Minneapolis scene drama. There's not enough comedy and there's way
too much drama.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
Actually it's pronounced a drama.

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, you dummy, fucking.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
Little tick Bill. We're still waiting on your latte. It's
getting cold. It's gonna be iced latte, and then it's
gonna be even smaller.

Speaker 3 (01:34:25):
It's getting cold, kind of like what you say when
people see you did for the first time.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
Bill. As for me, you can follow me on Matt
douim on Facebook and Instagram. I am at that, Matt
Douma on Blue Sky and on TikTok not on Twitter.
Gave it up. We don't do it anymore, doesn't don't
need to. I didn't like it for like the last decade. Anyway.
Well I'll probably like the last four or five years.

(01:34:50):
But anyway. As for me, I'm just gonna promote. Every
Wednesday evening in the basement of the Red Cart MT Nightclub,
I host the Keller Comedy Open Mike, one of the
longest run non comedy club open mics in the state
of Minnesota. We're about to hit nine years, everybody, nine
years of telling jokes in a basement. Lots of fun.
Beyond that, every Saturday evening, I produced the Beaver Island

(01:35:14):
Comedy series Damn Fine Comedy. We have different awesome shows
every Saturday night. Doors for that at seven point thirty.
The show starts at eight. Only twenty bucks for some
of the best comics in Minnesota, in the Midwest. You
can't you can't miss it. The only thing I'm gonna
promote is on March twenty ninth, myself and mister Cocozello
are going to the Midgey, Minnesota with the young Stalwarts

(01:35:36):
Billy Seefeld because he's gonna drive.

Speaker 4 (01:35:38):
Now you're driving, dude, I am definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
I don't just Billy either, No, but we were gonna
be up there. We're gonna be causing some trouble up
in the up in beaver Town or whatever they call
it up there. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
You're not gonna want to miss us. Follow the podcast
at all of Service Podcast across all platforms. Go to
our website w ww dot awful Service podcast dot weeblee
dot com. Also find us at Awful Service Podcast at

(01:36:06):
gmail dot com. Tell us your resting bitch face stories.
We want to hear it. Alexi, you have been a
very fun guest. Thank you so much for coming on.

Speaker 1 (01:36:17):
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
And uh, as always what you're thirteen credits short.

Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
Let's get you those credits so you don't have to
lie about and now you can have the degree. Let's
get let's get like, let's start a go fundme to
get Alexa her fucking environmental studies degree.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
Actually, we were gonna call the website go fund yourself,
but that fuck us out. Go fund yourself ding bong
dot bing bong bing bong dot, Go fuck yourself dot
com and have a good night.

Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
It's time to count till, sweep.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
The floors and mopus spills, say good night, dispose of
the trash, and turn out the light. Tell me why
I try to so damping. It's also I'll take my
tips my services have earned me this may.

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
I will find a way out for now on count.

Speaker 5 (01:37:22):
My tip.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
And lock the door.

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
This has been a tape Deck Media production.

Speaker 3 (01:37:44):
Thank you for listening.
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