Awful Service Number One Hundred and Eighty-Two- Jodie Maruska

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Tip Deck Media, Mark Maron's retiring him.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Welcome back. This is another episode of the Awful Service podcast.
This is a podcast that currently has a daytont that's right,
when one of the co hosts passes, the other one
gets full control of the podcast. Where we're you know,
we're still got we still got some time on this.
I believe we still got to a couple of years.
I mean, I think, I think myself and her and myself,

(00:49):
the the host with the most, Matt Douima has a
little bit of time left to give with Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
And I'm Joe Cocozello.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
I was just all proud and be wearing my grandpa's
a Northeast Airlines hat.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Which Northeast Airlines? I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Jody, our guest remembers Northeast. They were brought out by Delta.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I remember them.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I remember that little logo they.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Had to bring her in on the conversation. Let's introduce
her proper. She's been doing comedy for many years across
the midwestern Minnesota. She's a dear friend of the podcast.
Give it up for Jody Marouska. Avery about it you here?

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Did you tell Joe that this really is an audition
for me, this is not a good time to tell them.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, so I've been actually thinking about this.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh will we making a move?

Speaker 5 (01:39):
Dude?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
This is this isn't so much an episode as an intervention. No,
oh no, I just for your spot.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Like I'm just I'm on coffee right now. That's not
a very good intervention. I'm just like, yeah, guys, what
are we doing?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Bagels? What?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Where's our intervention going to be?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Fun presses a day? We need you to cut it back.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
What the heck did you say at the beginning of
a date?

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Well, there was the yeah, I like, I haven't heard
that one used in a while, and my brain automatically
went to, what's the like the old like death pool
where you've all put your name in the.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Hat, and then well, it's kind of a dayton. Yes,
you didn't have a different name. I think it's well,
the daytime is the idea it was usually it's usually
not a death pool, but the ideas is a group
of people, right, so they all basically the last one
to like be alive gets like the treasure.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
That's a day I thought I had a different name,
but that's very that's a like that's a good podcast.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Dtent is the silliest dtent.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, it's well, like, well, they should have an airline's
dayton like I like for Wims Airline.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Though for the last one standing, surprisingly front tier. It
was front tier no one, no one saw coming.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Spirits it was actually Southwest.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
There was the funny, the funny stuarts and stewardesses that
kept them going.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
I am surprised that Spirit Airlines doesn't have cheerleaders, like
a cheer line, do.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
You know what I mean? Like who's got Spirit? And
it's like, yeah, where are were here?

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Can I share with you guys? And this I know
we're going to talk about jobs and different things. My
fantasy when I was younger was to be a flight attendant,
which now sounds horrifying. I give them great credit for
what they do, but I actually got to like a
second or third round of interviews with it was like
United or Americans, so like big airline, And what other

(03:36):
requirements is was you had to speak a second language.
And I thought, well, you know, I took some Spanish
in high school, and you know I could get by,
so I said I was proficient in Spanish. I may
have said I minor did it, which.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Was a lie.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh and in the middle of the interview they did
the classic whipping out a page of stuff and asked
me to read it and tell them what it meant.
And of course I thank you for your time.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Everybody like you know what, I don't lie the job
you told my blood.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
It would have been hilarious if if Jodie, if you
just started reciting the English version of whatever you had
just done reading.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Just just just throw.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
This, says the Oh, I believe this, says the there's
exits at the sides and at the front and the back.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Are oxygen mask on. Before it was like.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
We gotta click. So what you should have said is
you're proficient in English and passive aggression.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yes, that's I could have mixed it up to like
pigeon Spanish, like no smoking in Albania, like that.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
I have been wanting to learn American sign language for years,
and see.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
You could have. You could have said, you probably could
have got away with a couple of that.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
I I remember, how are you? I can do very big.
I know the alphabet.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I can find as.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Much of the as.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
You need to bring yourself, dude. And by the way,
I was thinking of a tontine.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Oh maybe maybe maybe there's a tontine tontine and maybe
I'm sing up my French.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
That was why, you know what? Why why?

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Because I lied on a Southwest trying to be a stewart,
and I said I spoke French, so.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
It sounds vaguely dirty. I'm just gonna say no, I
think Joe.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
I think Joe has me on this. I speak German.
God damn, I don't speak French, but that's.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
An angry sounding language to me, and maybe would work
if you're a flight attendant.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
You're the podcast for a rarity, Joony, wait why and
my facts are correct?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Like it only takes one in two and eighty three episodes.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
I like usually have correct facts, but like when Matt's
facts are incorrect and my facts are correct, that's a
that's a rarity.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
I feel very honored to be here to witness.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Awful history happened in I.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Literally want to put that netting with the balloons up
above where I record the podcast.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Just so I can pull a little thing into battle.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Bunch of balloons come down like it's it's gonna play celebrate.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Your winner today and then just spend an.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Hour after the podcast, resetting the balloon net for the
next two episodes.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well, to be fair, if you actually were to have
set that up, those balloons would have been to be withered.
Just it's just like a bunch of its just fallen, Joe.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Then it would look like kind of little plastic confetti.
So to work, it would work. It's gonna look a
commons would be hilarious.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Are you selling them with air or just dropping them?

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Like I'm just I'm just thinking of this now. This
is I would just spit forward as we speak, like.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
So smoking his weed and then he's blowing it into
the boat.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh, that would be great. Does that count?

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Like when they come down and Papa and then I
suck them and I'm like it's you get you get
the voice and high at the same time.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
I know no helium. They wouldn't follow.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
That would be great, like the cheese all together, Like
why not?

Speaker 2 (07:37):
There you go?

Speaker 1 (07:38):
I am tell them that what you told me I
could call you last week? Do you remember I don't
remember part of it?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
What can you What can you call? Joe?

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Like I said that she could call me Bobby because
I'm inside A ninety two year old Jewish lady trapped
inside of forty four year old Italian man's body.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
So booby is an acceptable leg.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
I mean you're considering your bagel rants. I would actually
say that's fairly, that's and you do like a good
estate sale.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yes, it's like I'm.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Always cold in the restaurant's so thwifty.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Oh my god, totally me and you. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
I want to know more about the bagel rants because
I love bagels. My friends tell me I don't pronounce
it right, but I love bagels. I could live on them,
live on them.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Why do your friends say that you don't pronounce it correctly?

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Thank you? Bagel?

Speaker 3 (08:42):
They they they they say bagel.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
They say see, I can't even tell you how they
say it, but they're always like bagel. And I'm like bagel, bagel, that's.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
All the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, but I love that.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I do.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
I just good potato. Boggle.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
You say bagel, I say boggle.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
You said, oh my gosh, I would love them right now.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Okay, so have you heard of the Saint Paul bagelry, Yes,
go there they have. Like it's I.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
I have been so close to punching an old lady
because she said have you tried Burgers?

Speaker 3 (09:26):
I like, oh, they do a schmear just because.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Oh my god, I can't go to there because that's
how they say it. They have like their little sixteen
year old kid by it, and then what kind of
schmear would you like? And it's like, no, that's not
how it's said.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
This booby is not going to put up with that.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
I can't. I can't.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's going to be my retirement career.

Speaker 6 (09:51):
I think, oh, you should would give you this that
I would totally go to that Burgers, or that I help.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Dad mouth Burgers completely. I got there's one right by
my house, so I go there because it's easy. You know,
I've been.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Telling a joke about burgers for years. It's like I've tried.
I've gotten to different burgers bagels, and I'm you know,
because like maybe these sixteen year old girls make them different.
I've tried. I've tried all the burgers they stink to
put the part that's a promo.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Not a woman with experience, one that was almost a
flight attendant that they know how it goes. That's the flavor.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
I bet you can get your like, use your ASL
skills to get your second language at burgers.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Like you just need to spell out bagels.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, put an.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Y see, I'm not totally without skills.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Well, this is the Awful Service Podcast. And although we
are pretty close on the on the nose with a
bagels shop and uh, talking about stewardesses and and and
also Matt messing up French.

Speaker 7 (11:04):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
We could talk about these things all episode, and we
probably will.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
I would love when our podcast gets bilingual.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yes, but this is the Awful Service Podcast. It's the
podcast where we talk about different jobs and the stories
there within. The very first segment on the podcast is
one that we lovingly refer to as the resume.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Show usome why should we hire you?

Speaker 8 (11:30):
Have you had a job?

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Right?

Speaker 4 (11:31):
You tell us all about yourself and your place a business.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Come on all my jobs show up?

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Reome again, Jody. The wisume section is kind of where
you get to you get to talk about the jokes.
We're not talking about making up skills so that you
can get jobs. We're talking about jobs and the stories
that you've had for some of the things that you've
done over your life. You don't have to say all
of your jobs, just the ones that you think has

(12:02):
some really interesting stories or might be interesting to us.
And with every whichever one you want to start with.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
You know, jerdy before you start. That would be hilarious, Matt.
If somebody came on and just made up their whole resume.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Why are you giving them? We all know that everyone
listens to we are years. We're like in the number.
We are the number six customer service podcast out there.
Show all right, we know this. We have we have
some weird arbitrary lists that gets sent to us every
year and somehow we're like the top of the pops
when it comes to customer service based podcast how they

(12:37):
only comedic out of ideas? We have the number one
comedic customers that you are. That is the number one
comedic customers. It's like us and like three others but
dannel business podcasts. Yeah it's yes.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
So well, I'm going to just say I'm not looking
for a job, but I am proficient at Microsoft Word.
So if anyone's interested, just word not the whole office,
not the whole no actually, oh no end power point.
There we go. I can ride deck that'll blow your
socks off on making bagels. There we go, My god,

(13:12):
the topic. I will come back and show my spies.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yes, do you want to make a power point for
next time and.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
The next episode?

Speaker 9 (13:19):
Yeah, on a bag of why Bruger's Bagels doesn't stink?
My sister has started making bagels. You guys, I just
wanted to out there, and I'm like, I need to.
She sends me pictures just to make me.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Like, why are you showing me?

Speaker 3 (13:33):
This is she local?

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, I haven't had any yet. I need to get
out there and get some.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Let's go surprise her. Let's go surpriser, make bagels wellhorhood delicious.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
She's boiling them. She's doing the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
They take her properly. She's doing them.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Properly, which is amazing to me. I can't tell me
nothing comes out of Newport.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Because so see some of your job my job.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
So let me start with this. I was thinking of
like weird jobs I've had, because when I was younger,
I flew through a ton of jobs, including jobs I
hated and I often lied to like get out of them.
So I was I hate children, but I was a
living nanny for a while. Wow, right, thank you, I
do not like children. The eight year old what the

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bed every night? The three year old who was adorable
a but he grew up to just be a little haughty,
never talked, and then there was a little two year
old to do it. I mean the kids were messed
up because the parents were messed up. The mother was
the social worker. She was always smoking and offering me
muscle relaxanes because she thought I always had my period.

(14:44):
I might have always told her, oh, I'm cramping, and
she's you know, you know, would you like a muscle
relax And she was after. It was in Island Park,
in this big house. I had the third floor. It
was like, you know, being sequestered on the third floor.
They had this huge house. There was no furniture in
the house. I think they sunk all their money into

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the house, okay, And she was always after. I had
a very good friend who went to McAllister because like
we were college age, and he would ride his bike
over and she was always trying to pick him up.
And the husband would be out of town and she
was having affairs. She'd like, be gone all night, whoa
in the morning and just be you know, well.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
She didn't she didn't remember him because she just had
an afternoon lunch of chardonnay and muscle relaxers.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
She had a lunch of shardenay and muscle relaxers exactly.
It was the craziest thing and I hated it. And
my final I only did it for like three months,
I think, And my final thing came. I locked us
out of the house and I had to get a
ladder out of the garage and crawling through an open
window on like the third floor.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Are you looking like a fucking cat burglar?

Speaker 1 (15:50):
I was like a cat burglar going into this big
house in Highland Park, you know. And just I hated it.
She hated it. I also did a babysitting gig sort
of around the same era. This is like my child era.
This is where I decided I didn't want any I
think it was you.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Know, honestly though that that that tracks because you got
to you got that first hand experience.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
I got it.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Out of my system, like I can't do this. Then
I baby sat and it was just should the baby.
But I hated it. Sli Lydon said I had mono
and couldn't do it anymore. And then they called my
mother to express their concern, and the chick was up.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
This was do you like the opposite of mister Belvedere.
He just fucking handed Rosca just hate kids, you fuck
a little bit.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
I locked this out of the house on purpose. And
did you now at the locking out of the house,
the last straw scenario, so you got the ladder out,
did you see that there was like a third floor
like window.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
There was a window open. I'm like, I'm going through
that window. And did you think I was industrious?

Speaker 3 (16:53):
But you know now I'm on the roof and then
shimmy over and then in generaldo directly into the direct
accis and.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Just just going hand over hand to try to swing
your legs in, you.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Know, like I want to like make note that I
was much skinnier than and much more nimble.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
We all are way more nimble back then. Like it's
like I.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Just was like my days are numbered here. I just
muscle relax in society could.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Remember the muscle relaxinges did after.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
I don't remember, but I just remember that I remember
being in the kitchen. She like like, you know those
Kemp's ice cream things, like a slushy drink that was
in the freezer. She was jerries or drink with your
muscle relax.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Got to wash it down with something.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
I'm assume it's either a Tom and Jerry's or.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
A grasshopper or something like that. It was like something
of that nature.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, she was there my friend.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
John, who was a cutie, but she was always like,
you know, on the make for him, so it was
always very interesting.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
My question is what did you tell the cops when
they showed up?

Speaker 6 (18:10):
That's the part I'm that did not happen, saying in
the wind or one of.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
The neighbors like, so you're here in a ritzy neighborhood,
Like they're just like, what is this young lady?

Speaker 1 (18:22):
What's happening over here?

Speaker 4 (18:24):
I am picturing there's like a like like a like
in the old nineteen seventies baseball locker room. There was
like a big thing of greedies. She just had it
out and like a you know.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Just when you said a Kemp's bucket, I'm like, that's
a lot of pills.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
That's yeah, That's what I was like, Why.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Treat we handed these other Halloween this year?

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Not the greatest place to item from children? Just I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Those kids were messed up. And here's every night what
he was in every he couldn't get out of bed.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
He was every single one he went to bed.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
Every single one of these kids have been breast fed
with muscle relaxes, and like mill I had so much
muscle relaxs in it.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, she was bustfeeding them muscle relaxes coursing through her body.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
That should that should have made your job as a
babysitter easier. Though. Hated and they're just like kind of
real chill children.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
No, they were basket cases at that very young age,
with exception of the three year old, who, like I said,
was adorable, but you know, he was too young for me.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
At that point.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
You know, what do you do now? They were messed up.
It was a weird house. Something was weird. It was off.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah, so there's not a lack of furniture.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, there was no for there was a chaise lounge
in the living room. That's all that was there, like
a fainting couch, which kind of makes sense if you
think of the muscle room. That's all that was there.
It was so and a big dining room table in
the dining room. That's the furniture.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
I remember.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, it was weird. It's a fun weird. So that
was my little foray.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
And child care kids.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
I got a kid. I mean.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
That all through like until I started, you know, working,
because my first job was at Sears in Maplewood Mall.
I will say that before that, right, But I did,
like I baby sat, like all you know kind of
teenage girls did, and like a baby sat one little
kid who always ran out of the house naked, screaming,
and I mean they were always nightmare children. I also

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never knew what to do with them. So like one
family I babysat for had a baby and they one
night went out and they were like, you know, the
kids can have macaroni cheese. So I made that and
I put him in his heighthchair with his little spoon
and dish and you know, have at it. And then
he just kind of made a mess. And the next
time my baby sat, the other kid must have told

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on me because the mom was like, you know, you
have to feed them?

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Oh sure, yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
I also let me just say this, states me. I
did a summer babysitting job once for the people next
door to the house I grew up in, and Dyana
microwave and microwaves were new, Like, oh my gosh, they
have a microwave. And I made hot dogs and the
microwave and they exploded. And the next day the mother
took me aside and said, we think you shouldn't use

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the microwave. More so, I was on microwave probation at
that time.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
They were having classes in microwave cookery, so I.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Probably could have stood to benefit from that.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
That's so funny. And now now we got to go back.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
Now we gotta flash forward past babysitting to what department
in Sears did you work?

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yes, I was in the house, like the decorative house.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Decord like you were selling microwaves, know right exactly, that
would have been perfect.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
I was kind of like lamps and the chotch keys,
and I loved it. I was always moving things around
and decorating and I just thought that was the living end.
I loved it. And that ship was so body. And
I remember going into a friend's house and they had
a pitch of lambs from Sears and I was like,
we saw that lap. It's ninety dollars, just like la

(22:23):
la lah, you know, yeah, the lamps. And then eventually
we connected with the towels department, so I worked with
towels and sheets and mergers. I did years. Yeah, all
like my junior and senior years of high school. I
did that. Yeah, retail baby, I've had a lot of

(22:43):
retail jack.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
You're selling chot keys, What was the tears? What was
the number one other you said you use on the lamps?
But were also only were you selling like the like
the precious humbles? Like what I'm trying to you know what?

Speaker 1 (22:54):
To be honest, it's so long ago, I don't even remember.
I don't remember what the little things were. I think
there were picture frames. There were probably a little figurines
of some sort of something.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Some stuff and give a kid for their first communion
sort of shit.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Maybe I could.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
See stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Weirdly enough, we were right, so we were on the
second floor of that store. It was all house fores,
but right across the aisle for me was the like
plus size of women's department, which was shoved in a
little corner and it was just dire, Like I remember that.
It was like all this polyester, you know, moves and
it was just the most hideous stuff you would ever see.

(23:31):
I remember that very vividly.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Still, isn't that great? No?

Speaker 1 (23:36):
It was horrible, horrible, But yeah, but I'm you know what,
I loved that job. I never did fast food, but
I did wait tables. I will say this, I waited tables.
Then going forward, when I was in college, I went
to Augsburg for a while in Minneapolis, and I waited
tables in seven corners in this restaurant called It's Chili Time.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
I mean they served more than chili.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
I don't know. It was chili dogs and malts and
then bottomless cup of coffee. And it was seven corners
in like the year nineteen eighty two. So all the
like Vietnam vets would come in and sit for like
bottomless cups of coffee for a quarter. And then like
we had one guy literally you guys who would have
flashbacks and he would stand up in his seat and

(24:23):
he'd go and then he'd sit back down and continue
drinking coffee. That just happened all the time of fast So.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
First and foremost, I really pity whoever had to clean
the bathrooms at your job. That's chilly, damn, oh poor
thing like that. That's that's what you're front. Oh my god.
He's like, you know what we're gonna do is we're
gonna do. We're gonna put the most high fibrous food
next to a bottomless coffee.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Well, and let me just say, and they did.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
They would they have similar sounds in the bathroom?

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, he probably did.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
I mean it was like I got a.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
So vividly and there was no tipping because they were
having like a quarter cup of coffee for hours. So
you didn't make it. I didn't make any money, but
I got to make myself malts, so I just could
have bottomless malts.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
That was your tipping. You're like, listen, I'm gonna have some.
I'm gonna have a strawbae, I'm.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Gonna have them.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
And every time you would bring an order back to
the kitchen, the men who worked in the kitchen who
were of indeterminate nationality would always ask you out, which
was a hoot. You know, would like to come with Yeah,
And it was.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Like it's still going on in the young waitresses and
the guys from wherever they're from.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
They're like, I'm where to a party?

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Come with me?

Speaker 3 (25:42):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
I feel like that's not going to be a good situation.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
You made the right choice. I think I might have
because you know what would happened if you would have
got I would have you would have a house where
you're offering your babysitter's muscle relaxers is what was gonna
have that? She she made something from the chili shack,
and that's why she.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Was proper name.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
It's chili.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Chili time is chilly, chilly, It's silly time.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
And I have to answer that any time where I
came in and asked what time it was.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Excuse me, ma'am, I had the time that ever happened.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
The clock literally just said it's twelve times. It said
chili time time.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
It's just like chilly time.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
It's chili all the time.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
The numbers, it's just a bowl of chili at everything.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
It's chili times.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Every time I drive through Cedar Riverside, I think of that.
Did you have a fun chilly time?

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Did you ever play uniform? Was there a uniform?

Speaker 1 (26:49):
I don't remember the uniform.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Then it must have been about that.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
We had our own clothes and maybe just had apron
like you know a little like great waitress apron.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Or we should make you it's chili time, apron, just wearies.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
You should just have you And I hate chili.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Good please for me going into careers you don't like,
But you know what I got it. You're just like,
you know what, You're just one of those. You have
to test it.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Let's see how much I hate chili. Please tell me
your next job involved children and chili and muscle relax
your mother, Can you tell me about the.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Muscle relax and program? Please? He's interviewing you.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Work to snacks stand at a Little league park, like
chili dogs and children.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Kids love chili dogs, don't they.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Do.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
It's them in John Cougar Mellencamp. That's about it.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
I don't know if kids still like chili dogs. I'll
have to check to see how many likes chili dogs
has on TikTok, we.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Don't have the Tasty Freeze with Dairy Queen, which, by
the way, and I'm not jumping ahead as part of
my Karen story, but anyways, coming back to chili dogs, No,
I can't stand them.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
It depends we're doing the bean and beanless. I mean,
that's the thought.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
I was like, what was the point that was?

Speaker 2 (28:22):
You were about to stand up on your chair and
at that moment right there.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, sometimes it's Perkins just for fun, but you were
having it.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
It's it's chili time. Flash back, flat back exactly weird.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
But I'm just I'm picturing like you're wearing like a
trucker hat that has a clock in it.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Yeah, I was thinking like the goofy hats, like the
little like the little ones said the Hamburger Shack, but
it said it's eighties.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
They were done by the eighties, bro, Yeah they were.
They were into the sheep like they were closer to
the hat you're wearing than they were wearing.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Like. Yeah, I will say this too for my it's
chilli time job. It's the first job I ever got
that I went done and got with a friend because
he and like a friend of mine from the dor
and we both went and got our jobs together. Later on,
probably like a year later, my still dearest oldest friend
and I got jobs together at Triple A on University Avenue,

(29:20):
and it was like the call center. It was just
like a summer job, and they hired us together and
we were roaring with laughter during the interview. So this
is kind of on them. We've always thought they hired
us anyways, and then we get they fired us together
about two weeks later because we were.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Incorrigible, Like you get serious, you guys did the interview
together like we didn't.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Hired us and we were laughing and just you know,
idiotic young people who.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Does this double interview?

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah, did you turn in one resume?

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Well a, they would have done it up to three people.
Probably it is triple a.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
All right, according to uh, according to this you know Spanish?

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, yeah, and Spanish. Oh my god, so I.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Can make a mean chili dog.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
So this is why what year are we joney?

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Oh god? This is in nineteen eighty two eighty three.
There's a time worry of just a few years.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
That I just like, this is pete triple A.

Speaker 6 (30:24):
People are on the side of the road, Yes, calling
hot trip kicks.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
You and your friend yup? I remember trip ticks. I
would take trips with my grandpa and he had triple A.
We'd go get them and then I would sit in
the seat. I would sit in the front seat because
little kids were allowed to sit in the murder chair
exact time exactly, fucking flying their little bodies through the
fucking windshield leg the seatbelt.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Was more of a suggestion than a yeah, I would
do the tragic I used to love.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
It would be so great because you go and then
they'd take out the booklet and then they they didn't
they high like they got out for you. You just
go through the booklet like a fucking game and just okay,
this is where we are, I think.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
And right up ahead.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah yeah, And it was.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Super fun and it was like and then and then
my grandpa's car, the glove box was filled with those
little tripticks, and then like the everything was tripticks everywhere,
and the it was you'd open the middle armrests tripticks
in Maryland.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
And he's not.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Just not getting rid of him at a certain point,
he's like, well.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
You were using this is still like usable.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
That was last year.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
He didn't build that many new roads.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Now it's still probably maneuver around with a D. I
know a triple A still exists, doesn't it? Must you
get like a digital trip tick.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
It's on that stupid app now, yeah, yeah, just stick
it on, which is like a map quest. If you asked,
they still have a few. They have to like blow
the dust up off the fucking yeah here, yeah we can.
Do you want me to highlight it for you? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (32:06):
I found it in an old storage room.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
They were but I will tell you we did it
for about two weeks and we're just you know, we
were just young and we were going out every night.
We didn't want to work.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
There, So it wasn't like an epic firing.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
No, they just I remember them. We still talk about
it to this day and we laugh. We wore like,
remember when we got fired together the Triple A. But
then they hired us together. We were laughing then, So
really that kind of is on them too. We were
stupid young people.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Two things. One they still to this day. I know
this for a fact. There's a call center in Saint
Cloud that still calls people to become members of Triple A. Really,
it was the same place that I worked to sell
postage meters. It's a postage meters in the morning, and
they would do Triple A calls at night to try
to get people to become partis. And there was a
Triple A. So I know this that at least up

(33:03):
until a few years ago, there was a place in
Saint Cloud where it was all college kids who would
just get like too drunk and then have like stumble
in the next day. So these just to let you know,
forty some years later, shit is still the exact same
that it is that it is and Joe was co
pilot in his grandfather's car for many years until he

(33:23):
made a wrong term and they ended up in a
sundown town.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Fine, it's totally fine.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
They don't even like Italians or Catholics there.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
I'm not good with map Quest or Google Maps. I
probably wouldn't have really been good with a trip to
guy there. I'm gonna say it's just not my I
hardly ever used GPS, and I should because it would
help me, but it freaks me out, so I don't.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Do you have one in your vehicle or do you
have to?

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, I can do GPS on my phone and it'll
come to my vehicle.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
Yes, I do think that I have been saying this
for a while now. If China really wants to take
over America, and rarely farcus, all they have to do
is take over the Google Maps and point to us
all river.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
You just point us to a land. You're giving out
the good ideas, Joe, What do we know?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
The Chinese.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Is the number one listener of the Awful Service podcast.
You just gave it away US military.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
We need to protect our Google Maps from the Russians
and the Chinese.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Of course, we're all going to end up in a lake.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
We're all gonna We're all gonna end up in lakes.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Just I didn't even know they had that many leaks.
I know, I didn't think it either.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
I think it's good then that I'm not using it
because I will be immune from their influence.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yes, you're you're like the sol fall for it. Although
I will say this, I still try to use uh
go without if I can these days, if I can
still go to a place about.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
I know people like to use my memory. I do
like that. I don't people.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Drive everywhere. They'll go across town to a place they've
been a dozen fucking times, and they're like, no, no,
I'm just I still put it in.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
I have friends that do that too, and I'm like,
I've been there a billion times. I don't need a GPS.
And they're like, well, maybe it'll help you around traffic.
I'm like, does it really matter? I mean, come on.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
I do.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
I do Google my way to work in my way
home in the morning, because there are because there are
two dip I live in Uptown, and there's it's there's
two different ways to go, and there's two different ways
to go, and one of them is always fucked, and
you don't know which one it is, and it's always different,

(35:42):
and so I have to google to see which one
is more fucked than the other.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Today.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
You know, it would help you when you're driving home
some muscle relaxes.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
I would, Oh my gosh, I know you a little
care I follow. I used to yell. I used to
be like a yeller and with the shaking of the
fist out the window. I was a classic New Yorker.
I would. My My favorite thing is to have.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
The arm out the window and your hand up on
the steering wheel so it's like above the steering wheel,
so the person in front of you can see both hands.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
And then use your elbow to honk, so it's not
even you. It's just like you're not the one being offensive.
And then sometimes you look in your rear view mirror
like it was the guy behind you, Like there's no
knocking to buddy, it's this guy up here, I'm knocking.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Do you're literally gas lighting someone get by their gas pedal.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
That's just hilarious. They're gonna think your special needs with
like a modified steering wheel.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Don't think.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
I don't think they needed that to think needs.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
But but I'm really chill on the lips now.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
It's not like I don't.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
I literally think the person that the shitty driver in
front of us is my mom.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
I always picture my mom driving up there. So I'm like,
I'm not mad.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
It looks like a different job you go after you got.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Okay, I have to share this because we were talking
about airlines and my flight attendant dream job. So I
did once get a job with an airline and it
was Northwest I, you know, precursor to Delta, but get it,
I was. It was one of their feeder airlines. I
think it was actually Massaba was their little commuter airlines.

(37:35):
You both you know me and you see me. I
worked on the tarmac. I wasn't even inside. That's where
I wanted to be, was inside, you know, checking people
in and doing all that that. I was out on
the tarmac and I thought, oh, this will get me
inside eventually. And again it was just part time and

(37:55):
I was loading luggage into those little planes. I was waying.
You had to calculate the luggage and the weight she
made to a pilot, so they knew how much shoel
they have. And I was like, you do not want
to rely on mys like I'm going to kill a
bunch of people going up to himming or something. It's

(38:16):
going to be horrible. And then here was the fun
part that you guys. I got my flight attendant fantasy
because one of the planes that was a gulf Stream
was so small it didn't have a flight attendant. So
I got to go on and do the whole three
flight thing before and then go down and shut the

(38:37):
door and they'd be on their way. So I got
to do it. I loved it. I was wanted to
be like, oh, let me go, we see you up
to mine, not to take care of all these dead
people they're going up there. But here was the fun part.
I got you marshaled in the planes with the sticks,
and let me just say, it's the one time a

(38:58):
pilot does not have control of a place. It's all
up to you. So like when you have them stopped,
which is when they bring those sticks together, it's the
breaks they cannot go anywhere. It's great power that you
marshal them in and wave them in and you know,
do all that. I loved it. It was so fun.
But I always read the jet fuel. I was terrified

(39:19):
that I would make a plane crash or walk into
a propeller because you know you can't see the propeller
is moving. I'm like a hyper mess. I was like,
I'm going to end up squatter it all over this time.
They were gonna they were going to train me to
do d icing, and I was like, I'm out. I'm done.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Like a baker comes home from work smelling like bread,
you came home from the jet fuel.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
It's like, bag ye, I love, Okay, we can we uh?

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Can we go?

Speaker 4 (39:51):
Could you go on Amazon and get those sticks and
then can we do a sketch where we just put
you in front of a green screen and have you
just improv I like, oh yeah, cmear pilot stop stop stop,
go go stop.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
No.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
No, I've watched them now when I'm like what on
a plane, or if I'm sitting and waiting for a plane,
I love watching the people because I'm always like what
you're doing. So he was just sitting the.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
One exactly like you.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
You had him break far too early.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
You were you were learning swear words on the sticks.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
It was a trip.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
It was so fun.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
I have no real stories other than just what I did,
and that's kind of amaze. They hired me to do that.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
You did it.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
I think the fact that you don't have stories it's
probably a good thing.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Well, and I'm terrible at math.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
I was.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
I was like, these are the people calculating the weight
of this plane? Like that just felt a little off
to me. I'm not gonna lie. I think that's why
Mastaba is no longer with us. But it was weird.
It was me, like, I do.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
It math, so just topping off.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
But just like you're just like your Spanish on your resume,
you're like, no majored in math. Math.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
I don't right, Well I did lie and say I
was a you know, nuclear physicist, just looking for something
fun on the side. So yeah, challenge. I'm not used
to man annual labor. Well really I wasn't. I mean
it was a really physical job. Like now there would
be oh my god, there's no way you know, I

(41:34):
hates replaced. I can't do that. Now.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
You hated children, I did hated Uh the second one.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
You hated chili dogs like you hated math.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
You hated so like what what what next did you
hate that you moved to?

Speaker 2 (41:53):
What was your next bit of hatred?

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Jobs that were like things I loved, Like I loved clothes,
and I worked for a big clothing company for a
few years and worked retail for them and loved it.
But here's here's what I hated was when the children
came in, so there we go, because they would run
around the store, and we made these tables that were
like at eye height. And like one day a woman

(42:17):
was in trying a bunch of clothes and her snotty
little kid was running around this store and I said
to her, you may want to slow your kid's role
because they're going to get hurt. Oh, he's fine, And
sure enough, he ran into a table and in a
big gash. She had to take him to the hospital.
And she said to me, joking like, don't worry, I
won't sue you. And I thought mm hm. And like

(42:40):
a month later, you know, my legal department, the legal
department was calling me saying, oh we are you know,
we have this hospital bill for this kid and blah blah,
and I was like, ugh, you know, so stuff like
that happened all the time. It was really annoying, you know,
brought me.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
Bat to say that she put her clothes on hold,
like I'll come back for this, Well.

Speaker 9 (43:01):
That could have happened about it in the emergency room.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, she had to believe and go to the er.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Ironically enough, that kid did slip on some chili as
he was running through.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
That's why it's chili time doesn't exist anymore, she sued it.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Chimed, get that kid the malt. Shut him up.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Now you say which retails did they still exist?

Speaker 1 (43:28):
They do not still exist. It was a little claiborn. Oh,
well that's it. I mean, I did love it. I
always loved I was going to like go into fashion
merchandising after after high school and I didn't. I loved
all of that. I mean I still do, but it's
obviously it's different now and I have no desire to

(43:48):
work retail at this point. I mean with Brooks Brothers.
With Brooks Brothers, I was one of the group that
opened the Brooks Brothers store in the Crystal Court in
the Idea Center. And we had such a good time.
We all got we became really good friends. We all
like lived together, dated, went out. We're out like every night,

(44:09):
closing bars, going to work the next day. I know,
we just were like we were young, and it was
just so fun and we had like everyone came in,
like Prince came in, Harry Anderson came in to remember
Harry and came in in his pajamas and his slippers.
I will never forget that. It was such a trip.
The guy that played Gopher on the Love Boat, who

(44:31):
was a congressman, he came in like all these weird
like the celebrities, but Prince, because you know Prince Love
loved a good suit. Yeah, Prince came in. But then
we also had things because like we were downtown, we
were at eighths and Marquette, and like some guy came
in and like ship on the floor in the mintsuit

(44:51):
department once. I mean, all sorts of weird stuff used
to happen. You know, you've done.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Person that was the person that shipped in the suit department,
Fred Grandy, it was I was out from Love Boat.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
It was Lauren Two's. Yeah that's terrible.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Now before they had just been eating a chili rest
and had limited a coffee.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Okay, somebody had too much chili dog that day.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
I think.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
When the coffee got to him.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
But oh my gosh. But that like people would would
come in and drop like loads of money and this
was like we looked at second.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
One second.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
I have to interrupt you for one second, because when
you said they came in and dropped immediately, people.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
Like, oh wow, how many after the first introduction to
the store.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
I'm just like, wait, what.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
They spent money? And uh, what was I gonna say?
And we would spend our time, you know, like this
is before like there were no computers. This is digital,
Like everyone's credit card numbers were on Mike Graffiche and
we would look up famous people like Andy Warhol and
like all the people that had Brooke Brothers credit cards.

(46:09):
We'd look them up and they'd be their address. And
we were always just like super nosy and poking a rock.
So it was fun. I mean, it was actually really fun.
I loved that job. Loved I'm still friends with some
of the people I worked with.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
So that job actually like the second time that Jody
put a ladder up to a third story building where
there was an open window, she found out where they lived.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
I found out and this is where Andy Warhol lives
and help checking them out. Maybe I can score a
lithograph or something.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Relations I know, right, I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Yeah, we had some Oh my goodness, but Yeah, No,
I had a lot of jobs like that, and I
did retell. I worked for Saint Kat's for like eight
years in the registrar's office. Loved that job, loved it.
It's just it's like crazy and like I was over
they were at Saint Mary's over on Riverside, and like one,

(47:05):
you know, people would wander in that like broke out
of the psych ward and they'd like wander into our
office for some reason in their hospital gowns. And we
always had, you know, stuff like that happening. It was
just an experience. It was fun. But I loved it.
I loved the job. I loved like working with students
and it was cool.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
We lost another one, that's about it.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
And I had a co worker his name is Jane.
We were really great. He was just a hoot and
like that would we'd be like you and I welways
behind this encounter. Someone would wander into the hospital. Now
did he immediately just duck like like this is yours?
Like it's yours, jny, And I was always like, god, damn,
you got.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
The short end of the stick on that.

Speaker 4 (47:47):
Yeah, he was just like he was doing the fake
stairs behind the counter.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
I'm going down grab something from the basement, just like.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Oh my god, no, but we laughed. We had so
much fun. We just yeah, I was a little more
stable than I wasn't in another jobs. I worked there
like eight years, and then that's when I started doing comedy.
Was when I was at Saint Kat's and I left
there because I thought, I'm going to do comedy full time.
And I did for a while, but I started temping
because I wasn't always on the road, you know, so

(48:21):
I'm like, I've got to do something when I'm home,
and I started temping, and then they offered me a
job and I took it, and I've been kind of
corporate America ever since too.

Speaker 10 (48:30):
So yeah, isn't that like, isn't that one of those
things where you're like, ah, they offered me the permanent job,
and so, yeah, comedy's hard to pull off a full
time I'm going to go into the corporate world.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
They suck you back in, Jodie, they do.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
They sucked me back in with benefits and what I
thought was a ton of money, which of course, now
in retrospect, was not. But I still loved that job.
I got to travel a lot, and you know, I
wasn't a flight attendant, but I got to travel off.
You know, I yet Corporate America ever.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Since every flight you flew on you you pulled the
travel the flight.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
And it can't start, like I can't do it?

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Can I do it? Can I do that?

Speaker 2 (49:14):
Somebody need tag somebody in.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
I'm right there, I'm right here.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
I'd defend from high school who was a flight attendant
and he got to the point because he was Northwest
and then Dalton.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
I think he's retired now. I don't know for sure,
but he got his scheduled until he just worked one
European flight a week. You know, he'd go across staff
day and come back and that was his schedule, and
I always thought that would be fun.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
You know, did did they give out wings? I would
always ask for my wings?

Speaker 1 (49:50):
I wonder if I didn't. I never remember doing it,
but they could have had.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Whenever I fly.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
I haven't flown in since COVID, but like whenever I fly,
I would get wings.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
I'm a train I'm a train guy, Jody.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
I took the train. The train. I lived in Chicago
for a while and I took the train all the time.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
Are the best?

Speaker 1 (50:09):
Yeah, it's really fun. They are super fun. And you
can living like a bottle of wine with you on
a train. Yeah you can't.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
So wonderful.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Yeah, it's so nice.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
You know, I take my shoes off when I want
to take my shoes off. Yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
Although you don't have to take your shoes off to
fly anymore, apparently one of the new roles. I'm like, well, okay,
you know, but you still love to fall all the
thought of it makes me a little more nervous now.
I went to I was in Texas in April, and
it was the first time I'd flown in like a year,
and it was kind of like, okay, okay, to.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Many planes would ship falling off.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Shift falling off, and like having to do a big
evasive movement.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Yeah, like that.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
I just read an article about how there having problems
hiring new air traffic controllers and I'm like.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Didn't that's the other problem.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
They fired them all, I think, which is like horrible, Ye,
get rid of the people we need.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
It's the it's the I believe on the list of
stressful jobs that it is the most stressful job in America.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
It's like that.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
And being a waiter.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
I think it's no, no, no, it's that deep sea mining.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Probably yeah, yeah, yeah that and yet no, I'm going
to say being a mother.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Right, So, does any other like stories or anything from
like your past careers, the kind of stick out anything
that really like jumps out at you. Story, wis anything?

Speaker 1 (52:00):
So I have, like something that's creepy. We want a
creepy story. It's a funny story. It's like a really
intense story. So one of my jobs I used to
I have two of them, two of them. So I
also when I worked at Saint Kate's, I also for
a while had a part time job. I just I've
had a zillion jobs. I'm becoming very aware of that.

(52:23):
I worked part time at what was at the time
a hospital in the Phillips neighborhood. It was fair View
Deaconess and it no longer exists. They've torn the building
up as a part of Fairview, and they had an
urgent care, but the hospital itself was impatient kemt up
in mental health for kids, for adolescents, but the urgent
care was like you know, anyone would come into urgent care.

(52:45):
And I worked there part time doing admitting, and I
would work in the evening and on the weekends, I
mean the evening, it would just be it staffed by
the admitting person, me, a nurse, a lab tech, and
a doctor. That's all you would have on so before people.
One night it was and we were open to like
eleven o'clock. And one night it was like ten thirty,

(53:07):
and these two guys come in the door and they're
carrying a woman by like her armpits on her knees
and they just drop her on the floor and they
they dropped the girl. Yeah, they carried her in like
by her armpits and elbows, just like a rug and
just dropped her. So they had a crash cart and
I called my job was like I called nine one
one because we needed an ambulance to come. But they

(53:30):
had a crash cart. So they were working on her
and they intubated her. She for all intents, we had
a little like debrief afterwards. For all intents and purposes,
she was dead when they brought her in, Like she
was a color I have never seen a person before.
It was so intense. And by the time the ambulance came,
like they got her and she was trying to pull
the two bouts. So she definitely kind of quickly came back.

(53:54):
And so when we debriefed afterwards, and I was like,
I remember being so freaked out, Like I think I
was almost in tears, because it was like usually people
were coming in with like strap throat, you know, it's like.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
To deal with like this basic stitches.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Stitches. Well, actually the first person.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
Ran into an eye level shelf and Claybourne.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Yes, exactly exactly or get this the very first person
I admitted when I asked Ry they needed to be seen.
She said she thought she had been stabbed in the
back of the party party the night before, but she
wasn't sure. So there was that, but that was like
she was upright and talking and like, I don't know,
I think I got stabbed. I was wanted, but you

(54:36):
just don't know.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
If I just need you look for some I don't
have a roommate.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
Can you guys just check for some particular croatiation, a
puncture wound in the back. I didn't know two mirrors
in her house right exactly. I don't feeling she wasn't
that coordinated, but I had a drug, the director said.
I remember the doctor saying that person was in this
window of time where they had like a minute and

(55:03):
had they he was like, had they brought her in
like a minute later, that she probably wouldn't have survived,
which was like so like I was just like, this
is just a little boatdo job. I was so freaked
out by it. But it was fun. I mean it
was fascinating.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
And that woman turned out to be Sarah Palin.

Speaker 7 (55:24):
Yeah she was weather that's from our house.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Yeah, that's why she care.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
That she was on the air with jennylu Russo.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Yeah, she was without oxygen for way too long es.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
That I listened to your episode with her. That was
so fun to listen to. It was very who knew
she was like a news cast?

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
Okay, some people do have weird jobs. But here's the
second creepy story from when I did that job. And
I did it sometimes I would work over at the
bigger hospital over at Riverside, Like they would like send
me around to different spots. So I was just like
at like a big information desk one day and I
was way up high, so I would look down and

(56:14):
like people would walk in and I could direct them,
And this woman came in and just kind of walked
up to me. And she was like, she was very
like she didn't really know what she wanted. And I
was trying, like, you know, can I help you? Do
you need help with something? And she finally said something
like I think I might be having a miscarriage. She's

(56:35):
just really you know, out of it. And I said,
do you need a wheelchair? And she just kind of
like yeah. So I came down from my little perch
to get a wheelchair and she was in a makeown,
which I didn't realized, and it was just hemorrhaging. She
was hemorrhaging. I mean, it was like Carrie, you know,

(56:56):
and it was so horrible and oh my god, it's
this horrible emergency. And you know, so I got into
a wheelchair rudder to the ear. But you know, it's
like those weird moments of someone having this horrible thing
happened to them and you're just kind of, you know,
I was just a stupid young person, kind of like
can I help you kind of thing, and yeah, the

(57:18):
severity sometimes relate hit me and that was one of
those moments. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
But on a lighter note, I do think that we
do need job more American jobs where the employee the
employed person is up in a perch and put in
a perch desk where you have to walk up and
it's eye level and you have to like look up
at them to like ask them, because they wait, there's

(57:45):
no power when you're on the level right here.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
Now, somebody has to walk up and there's.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
A lot more You get a lot more excuse me,
and a lot more polite people when you're perched up
like that.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Yep, you do.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
I work from home and I want a big perch
from here.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
You need to perch out at aloft.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
That's all I want to be at a loft.

Speaker 4 (58:10):
You just need to lower your you need to put
your your zoom camera lower so they have to look
up at you like you just like perched out like yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Oh my god. Yeah, So I remember that my memory.
I was way up high on that desk. But I
think it was because all remembers seeing like her head.
I couldn't see that she was essentially bleeding to dusk
in front of me.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Yeah. Really, I was going to say, the reason those
two guys brought that gun to Urgent Care not the
e RS. They were worried about the deductible, you know
what I mean. They're like to be really expected. Weren't
your care soil covered? It's this was the day.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
Yeah, here's what I learned in that job too, because
we had a lot of people who are on medical assistance,
which is what it was at the time, and at
the end of the month, when people were running out
of money, essentially they would go to urging care because
they really didn't have anything to do, and they might
be able to get like some coffee or you know,

(59:10):
obvious medication if they felt like they needed a vacation.
But it was like we were always really busy at
the end of the month, and then it would be
really quiet for a while after the first of the month.
So it was just a very interesting, you know, dynamic.
I worked in the Phillips neighborhood as well doing cut.
I had all these jobs. I was a counselor at
a summer program just down the street from there at

(59:31):
our stage now with George. Yeah, with children, but just
trying to I was better. But we had we'd like
incorrigible like these were kids from like really scary homes
and scary situations and this is meant to sort of
get them off the street for the summer. But we

(59:51):
had one kid and the other reason I remember him
as his name was Michael Jackson, and he was like twelve,
right exactly. He was well and he used to come
in like I'm sure he got abused at home. He'd
come in with cigarette burns on the shelf when he
trashed like our whole area. One day he got in
trouble for something and he couldn't go like to the
Science Museum with us or something, and he just trashed

(01:00:14):
our space. And yeah, it was always like really interesting
and I was gonna be I was a social work
major for a while, so all of that was kind
of like right up my alley. And then, you know,
comedy took me away from all of it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
So you know, you're still doing You're still doing that
social work here hanging out to be.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
Different, you know, a different format, you know. Yeah, So yeah,
that's I mean, there's some other weirdness and all the
shop stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
Yeah, I going back to the kids.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
I just go back to the kids a lot, didn't I.
I loved the job at that summer program. I loved
all the other you know, counselors that I worked with,
and you know, that was fun. We all got along.
I dated one of the guys a little bit, and.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
You know, I was going to joke it. I was
gonna make a joke that's like, yeah, you guys went out,
we did partied, we.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
Did totally did it. And then you know, the summer
ended and we all went back to school and that
was the end of it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
So oh.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
I Also, here's one thing I did when I was
at Augsford. I covered for one of my dorm friends
worked at like the groul and like the student center,
and she on Sunday wanted to do something, so she
was like, would you cover for me? It's really easy.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
I was like, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
I was like, I had a big way this one
of the remember those big gallon, big gallow wine jugs.
I was like, oh, I'm gonna She's like, you could
take that down and fill it with soda and bring
it back afterwards. I'm like, oh, great, I'll do it
for that diet coke something.

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
And I get down there and I remember I'm back
and it's like a grill, like with grease and fires
and burger things, the big grill thing and pop and
and I'm like, okay, this will be interesting. I have
no idea. What's going on, and somebody opened the curtain thing.
It was like five o'clock on a Sunday and there
was a sea of hungry college students just waiting for

(01:02:24):
their bowers and fries and me having no idea what
I was doing, and I don't remember. I'm probably blocked it.
I was probably like Lucy Enothel in the chocolate.

Speaker 4 (01:02:33):
You probably you probably had to block it out because
you pleased Augsburg children.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
Student, Yeah, students at Augsburg that I asked for a burger,
but all they're serving are chili dogs. What's happening?

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
What's going on? I asked for burger and all she
did I just fill my coffee cup that was almost.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
Coming Like this, she's gone.

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
She ran out and climbed a ladder to the third
floor of the dorms. She's like getting that out of here.
So yeah, if you.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
Just had your airline sticks, you could have controlled that crowd.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Everyone go way stop stop right where you are. Yeah, so,
oh gosh, I just flashed on that little moment. That
was one I wasn't a job, but that was one
moment that was John. That moment worked a nightmare.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Joe Joe on his first episode of Like episode seven,
he listed for the one day he was a dishwasher,
So I think that funds.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
That's my version of it. I totally get it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Yes, did you have your own Katie balloons? No, that's
a long running joke.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Long running joke on.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
This you have to be really know that one cookie lady. Yes,
we're still waiting for that cease and desist. Well, Jody,
this has been great, but you know, we don't just
exist on this spot has to talk about hating kids,
chili dogs, breaking into enterings, or finding out where Prince lives.
Uh No, on this podcast, it's it's chili tam. We

(01:04:11):
exist to battle the scourge that is known as Karen's.
But before we continue into our next segment, Jenny Maruska,
how would you define a Karen?

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Well, at a very basic level, it's kind of a bit,
isn't it. That's where I go. It's just someone losing
their ship over something that they would be better not
losing their shit over. A's that and I say that
knowing I have my own Karen story.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
Teasing this. So this is you, this is your chance,
and it's.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
Probably still pretty mild. But to me, I mean, I
think I'm a pretty nice person. I you know, I'm
pretty low key and even keel most of the time.
But one I had a meltdown no pen intended in
a Dairy Queen drive through, which right exactly like, don't
mess with my Dairy Queen people. I was driving up North,

(01:05:12):
I was like going to the luth or something, and
I went to Dairy Queen I think it was in
North Branch in the window and I got a malt.
And so I got this malt and I pulled out
from the you know, the drive through it and I
start drinking. It is horrible. It's like it tastes metallic
and chemically and it's just really bad. And I'm like

(01:05:34):
and I'm I was with I think my niece, and
I'm like, oh this, I'm going back, like this is horrible.
There's something wrong with their machine or their ice cream.
Like it's really bad. So we get back in line
in the drive through and I get up to the
window and I tell the kid, I'm like, oh my god,
this malt's horrible, and I like, I was like, it's
super metallic, like there's something wrong with your ice cream.

(01:05:56):
And I'm going on and then I taste it. Taste
it because he was looking at me like I was crazy,
and I was like, this seems pretty reasonable to me.
Taste it. So he gets a spoon and taste it
and he's like it's fine to me, and I'm like, no,
it's horrible. And I do it again and I'm like no,
it's like it's horrible, and I was just kind of like,

(01:06:17):
I don't know. I think I was in a mood
and I was in a place and I just kind
of went on and on. So finally they're like, what
can we do for you? And I just I think
I got like a dilly bar or something because I
was like I didn't want any more of the ice cream,
because I was like, there's something wrong with which we
leave and I was just like I thoroughly kind of
raised the stick, something I never do. I will add,

(01:06:38):
I am like, very nice, but this was dairy queen
and I really wanted that malt. I was pissed, but
you know, dat aside anyways, So it's like an hour
later we got where we were going. It must not
have been to Louth. I don't remember where we were going.
And I went into my purse and I had this
new lip gloss and I put on some of the
lip gloss and I kind of tasted it, and it

(01:07:03):
dawned on me that it was the lip gloss. And
I must have had some on the straw in such
a way that I was sort of getting it with
the ice cream, had nothing to do with the laper.
Don't know. I totally messed it up. It was like
it was my lip gloss and we died laughing. I
remember that I was like, oh my god, I have blots.

(01:07:27):
But I just was like, it was just one of
those moments that I thought, I think that's like most
people that are karens Now it's exception. There are just
bad people that do really horrible things in the spaces
and are horrible to people.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
But it's why there's Karen's and then there's Karen behavior.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Yes, yes, I had little Karen moment to Karen behavior moment.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
Why you're in them?

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
Oh, and why that wasn't even a Karen moment is
because you understood later you still you, and then you
realized and then we all had a good laugh about it.
For the deary Queen employee, he said it was nuts.
He tasted it and it was one like.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
Do I is there something wrong with my task.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Here? Again, it's just.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
He's just like trying to ice cream. No, it tastes fine,
it tastes fine.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
There's something wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
Is so mean about it? You know? I felt mean?
Maybe there you made a good point it with some
Karen behavior. I'm not a Karen. I think I'm a
very nice person. I hope that I would speak out
against Karen, like a really horrible Karen in the public space.
I would hope someone who was doing.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
Something you did.

Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
You did your part today, and like by being on
this podcast doing the Karen of the week, we're about
to get into a real, a real dark Karen.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Oh, make you to make your little moment there not
even a careen moment to make.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
And also and also the fact that you had the
wherewithal to afterward go oh, I was in the wrong.
That's what. That's how we're not a Karen. A Karen
Karen would be going on on the fucking on their
their Google site and being like and then the malt
tasted like metal, and that kid was full of ship,
like that's some one star, like that's car behor and

(01:09:25):
then you know when you're hitting them up on trip Advisor,
because that's how far down the rabbit hole of anger
and vitriol. That's some Karen. You were just in the
wrong place, wrong time, wrong loss.

Speaker 4 (01:09:38):
Well, I hope you don't use that gloss, that limb
closs anymore, because there's something wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
There's something wrong with that. The machine that's making that web.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Gloss flip gloss was Yeah, that was a while. It
was a few years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
So it's them. That loss was called industrial Future.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
Maybe it was that line urban decay and a decayed
titanium sure to make it was meant to give me
puffy lips, but it gave me really swollen lips.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Ancient.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
Every week we look at different Google reviews, Yelp reviews,
Facebook reviews, sometimes their tweets or handwritten notes, and it's
a segment we call the Karen of the week. This
is Karen, I'm your boss.

Speaker 8 (01:10:27):
Oh my god, Karen, Oh my god, Karen, I'm far

(01:10:50):
Oh my god, Karen this week.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
Sometimes we know when restaurants are busy. Sometimes you and
they're busy. You know you're gonna have to go, You're
gonna have to go on a bit of a weight.
And most of the time they tried to get the
best estimate that you could have. But this person, they
did a little bit of a problem with it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
You see.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
It's a one star review saying we showed up and
waited a good two hours to sit and another three
hours to eat. The music was completely annoying and inappropriate,
and when I left my ears were bleeding. The waitress

(01:11:30):
was a little smelly, and when I asked her to
put the Yankees game on, she said she would, but
never did. Oh the food was cold and the beer
was warm. The only thing I pleased was the condiments. Thanks,
and don't go here. Oh my god, this is why

(01:11:55):
we read these verbatim. The food was cold and beer
was warm, and the only thing that I pleased was
the condiments.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
Pleased them? He did he get over a ketchup? Yes,
he figured some mustard.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
He made.

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
Oh my god, he took relish and all of that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:22):
It's like it's did he he created Jonas.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
Jonas? I love DJ's By the ways, was that a thing?

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
Is that singing?

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
I think? Yeah, it's mustards.

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
I mean, do make it at home, yes, just make
it a home could be fair.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
I would be mad too if I had to wait
five hours wait five hours, though, wait hours for the food.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
I wouldn't wait that long for food at the time,
or a pizza.

Speaker 3 (01:12:59):
Have you figured out what this restaurant is?

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Where this is one that that that I found that
was blocked out, but you know why?

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
Maybe it was a hospital.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Yes, so you know why I picture this is my favorite.

Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
This is like my favorite part of yelp now is
and Matt picks these out because he knows that I.

Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
Love them, and I think I know he loves them too.
This is I love this ship. This is this is new.
They like only this recently the last few years have
we started to get these. But it's it don't don't
you're wrong, but it's an owner clap bag.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
It's an owner clap back.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
Yes, I love owner clap bags.

Speaker 4 (01:13:36):
We need we need an owner clap back teaser like
owner clapa.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
But he's been doing hip hop so he doesn't have
to go. But so yes, So it's this new phenomenon
where the owners they come back and they like to
correct the record. It used to be but it would
just be like, oh, we're so sorry you had this experience.
Please reach out to our offices and we can get
something worked out.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
It gets certificate.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
But I love that these owners are being like, you
know what, that's your record, sit a fuck down.

Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
I remember who you were.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
Yep, we remember your nightmare.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
This is the clapback of the bleak. Yes you didn't
wait two hours. Our wait is never more than thirty
five minutes, and you never waited three hours for your food.
Our ticket times are around twenty to twenty five minutes.
We have eleven tables. It is virtually impossible to be

(01:14:35):
inside this pub for five hours. How Irish session music
is inappropriate in an Irish plub makes you sound even
more idiotic than you already do. Our server wasn't smelly,
and who wants to watch the Yankees when they're ten

(01:14:56):
and a half games out of first Also one single
piece of this review that is legitimate. We feel sad
for SAPs like you who need to result to emotional
and irrational reviews to express some type of dissatisfaction. Maybe
you can pony up someday, ask for a manager, and

(01:15:19):
be an adult who interacts with human beings. Customer rating
zero point two five stars for being a moron. U
to the Google name because yes you are a.

Speaker 7 (01:15:31):
Bitch like draw Wow, I've We've been talking about customers
getting star reviews, and that's what was just perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
And this is the first star review from a clapback
that we've gotten.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
That's amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
They should be able to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
The fact that they were complaining about traditional Irish folk
music playing.

Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
Can you put the Yankees game on? Exactly like it's
there are that that is a red Sox bar. That's
I'm wondering if this is even in Boston.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
I hope that the Yankees don't reach out and do
their own meal review after the clock back. Actually, I'm
good your class.

Speaker 11 (01:16:28):
This is George Steinbrenner's son, and we actually were only
seven and a half games back, and we were getting
We had a third baseman that's tour at a cl
so we were waiting for the kid to come up
from Triple A.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
So just give us some time. We were gonna go.

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
We're run rock.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
It's not the postseason.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
Awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
I love that. I love yes, like it's can.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
You put any Yankees game?

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
She said she was gonna be did she never did?

Speaker 3 (01:17:04):
The smelly waitress of ours.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
Smelly, smelly, forgetful waitress.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Close way to the waitress.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Oh my god, I didn't even think about that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
Hey, can I take your order?

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Yeah? I would live Manzrella's.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
Leaning in.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
You know, to be fair, it was a small pup.
It was a small pub.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
Eleven eleven, eleven tables and the water tables.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
Five hours, Like the fuck out of here. That's basically
what we could surmise what that owner was saying. Get
the fuck out of here? What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
I love that they clapped back. People have to clap back.
They had the right of way for so long.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
More owners eighty to clap back and be need to
do like this owner and give you a custom a review,
make it a thing, yes, give them a story.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Got always right? I mean, isn't that? That's what I
grew up with. The customer is always right? And you
know that's kind of bullshit. The customer is not always right.
Let's just say it and having a flashback of some sorty.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
I know this very very specifically because that was written
by Henry Gordon Selfridge in nineteen oh eight. London, England
is where that phrase was coined. But historians, I'll tell
us we got it wrong because it was not the
customer is always right. They cut off. It's like you
know when you cut off that little bit of sentence

(01:18:37):
and then there's because it was supposed to be the
customer is always right in terms of taste, So what
does that mean? That just means if you want to
go in and buy one of those nineteen eighties big
Lady Moon moves that look hideous on you, the clerk
is not going to be like, yeah, you look fucking stupid.
Who all that fucking saying meant? And then now one

(01:19:00):
hundred years later, we have to go to a fucking
holiday inn because some yachts doesn't understand how to do
online checking while he's online checking, while he's screaming at
some poor eighteen year old behind me, and he has
and he's not gonna be the asshole, because what the.

Speaker 5 (01:19:18):
US always right?

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
Fucking Henry Selfridge.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
Henry Gordon. Oh, I have I have a bit that
if I could, if I own a time machine, I
would take I would go back to nineteen oh out
of England and I would force him back into my
time machine. And then we're just gonna go to a
Walmart in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. This is what you've done.
This is and I'm not gonna hurt him because just
you know, he's gonna see that butterfly effect and then
everything from then on is better.

Speaker 3 (01:19:45):
Yeah, he's gonna he's gonna go back to his time
and open a like just a hot dog stand because
it's called it's chili time.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
He's gonna ti and much like the customer thinking they're
always much like a customer thinking they're always right, we
sometimes have to ask ourselves, Gee, why did it fail?

Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
Everything was goed away? Everything? I have to figure out,
what do you why?

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
Edit to edited failed Jodi is a segment we do
where we look at different restaurants, we look at different
menu items, we look at different training videos and commercials.
But Joe and I we were going to possibly save
this for an awful conversation, but this is just too

(01:20:43):
prescient for us to not talk about on the podcast.
It's it's too, It's it's it's too. Just came up
and we were literally about to message each other about this,
that's how psyched we were about it. But it is
going to be this week's g this week's G. Whyle

(01:21:04):
they fail? It's a news article. We all we all
know favorite little corporate mascots. We all remember our favorite
what's your favorite guy's name is Charles Entertainment Cheese for Entertainment. Yes,
and he also had his own birthday. That's why he
likes other people's birthdays so much.

Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
Does he really not have his own birthday?

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Yes, that is law. Someone wrote that into the lore
of Charles Entertainment Cheese.

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
Well I think that's why this happened.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
Yes, Well, you know he's he's a he's a guy
without a birthday. And you know he never had that
move compass to grow up lost. I hate to be
the one, but if you're if you're just hearing about
this on the podcast from our podcast Breaking News, Chuck
Che's mascot busted for debit card theft in Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Have you seen this video, Jody, I have not. Okay,
here we.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
Go, so well, we'll we will go into a little
bit of the segment before we're gonna we're gonna read.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
Can I sturt saying I did not know they were
still around?

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
Although still and now opening up a chain of adult
Chucky cheeses called Chuck's Place. This is a true style
and it is going to be an adult only version
of Chuck E Cheese with retro video games.

Speaker 3 (01:22:31):
Whoa okay cool, so okay.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
Cool, but we don't you know, we were wondering how
they got the funding for it, and I think we
figured it out. A Chuck E Cheese mascot has been
arrested in Florida after a customer rated on him out
as an alleged thief. Police saying a worker dressed in
a Chucky Cheese costume at one of the kid friendly
pizza chain's Tallahassee, Florida locations was taken into custody Wednesday

(01:23:00):
night on larceny charges, who rolled out of the restaurant
in handcuffs as children looked on. According to police and
images of the incident that had emerged on social media, Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
It's like, how how hilariously sad is this?

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
That's hilarious. It's a big fall from grace for Chuck
E Cheese. Obviously did he was he impersonating Chuck E Cheese?
You know he was.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
He was Chuck E Cheese.

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
He was the mascot.

Speaker 4 (01:23:34):
He was doing his his shift and they came in
and took him away.

Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
But they didn't even take him out of costume.

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
They just kept him in his Chuck E Chees and arrested.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
Him in his costume. Yes, in front of chills even
doing it on that a yes, which.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
I found a little bit of pleasure in.

Speaker 8 (01:23:55):
Bye.

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
Yeah, you ain't kidding so much. Yeah, it's like you
were the one calling in.

Speaker 2 (01:24:06):
She was ratting on the rat rat.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
This is my ultimate careen moment right here.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
The suspect, forty one year old Jammel Gerar Jones of Tallahassee,
was dressed head to toe in a Chuck E Cheese
costume when police confronted him around seven thirty pm local
time at Chuck E Cheese in northwest Tallahassee, according to
the rest report from the Tallahassee Police Department. Okay, it's
making a little bit more sense because if I am

(01:24:36):
forty one years old, and if I also had to
be Chuck E Cheese, I would think that credit card
fraud sounds like a good idea.

Speaker 1 (01:24:44):
Yeah, yeah, seems a little depressing.

Speaker 4 (01:24:46):
Please tell me the police put him in the in
the group jail cell.

Speaker 2 (01:24:50):
In the costume stick, that's what I'm picturing.

Speaker 1 (01:24:54):
That's clothes underneath the costume that could be a factor.
There suddenly was underwear and yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:01):
And he has to wear the costume. There's nothing else
to wear.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
Some guy coming down from a bad drug trip, just
screaming in the corner.

Speaker 3 (01:25:09):
Chucky Cheese, you fucking I fancying you here?

Speaker 1 (01:25:13):
Yeah, debit cards from the customers, or was totally removed from.

Speaker 3 (01:25:19):
The as Chucky Cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
I grabbed his right arm while giving the verbal instructions,
Chucky comp with me, Chucky, but the cops. The cop
called him by Chuck.

Speaker 3 (01:25:33):
E oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. This guy's gonna get off
on technicality. They didn't read them. They read him his
rights as Chucky. They didn't use his fucking three names.

Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
You know, attorney's gonna totally call that happened. That's the lurdious.
It's really Bob Jones.

Speaker 2 (01:25:57):
This is Bortko's alleged that the man in the mask
got costume initially persisted arrest.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
Oh no, no he didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
He couldn't go fun.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
Didn't you tase them? Did they chase them?

Speaker 1 (01:26:12):
Too much enthusiasm.

Speaker 2 (01:26:14):
They whipped up, They whipped out their batons and just
started beating him, like can you.

Speaker 3 (01:26:18):
Chase a mascot? Can you taste someone through a mascot's costume?

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
I don't know he's.

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
Got a gun.

Speaker 1 (01:26:32):
It's just a picture of PEPSI. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
Jones immediately started tensing up, locking both of his arms
forward in front of his chest, attempting to pull away
on my grip on this right arm. The officer said
in the report, I gave verbal commands to stop resisting.
You are being detained. Who's in a backup officer reportedly
asked the mass employee to not make a scene. Well,

(01:27:00):
resting too right? Rout a mast and I'm so big
in these fucking things. You're they are meant to be.
You're even larger than light.

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
God? They are you able to cuff around the mascot?

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
Oh you didn't think wrists.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
They're pretty big recently? Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:27:20):
Oh man? This is I love?

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
No, there's more, There's still more, okay. The officer said
that they exerted minor physical effort, placing Jones's arm behind
his bag. Jes Joan, still in full mouse garb, was
placed in a double locked handcuff and escorted out of

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the restaurant to a margin patrol vehicle, while police removed
his oversized chuck E cheesehead and allegedly found his pants
pocket a debit card that was reported stolen from a
customer girl June twenty eighth, child party at the restaurant.
According to the report.

Speaker 3 (01:28:02):
Dude, he was stealing him ass chucky, I think he was. Yeah,
and access just come up to the table, card went. Yeah,
stealing cards is like all card.

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
Police alleged that Jones racked up charges in the stolen
credit card. Okay, what do you think he went to?

Speaker 4 (01:28:24):
Oh, please tell me he just got pizzas and a
bunch of played games tickets to pay with.

Speaker 3 (01:28:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:31):
No, no, he didn't spend it in house, but he
did go to a purchased items at a smoke shop,
meat market.

Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
Yeah, you got himself a burger? Yeah, lord, Yeah he was.

Speaker 2 (01:28:47):
He was a humble guy. He wasn't He wasn't going.

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
He wasn't going to the mall.

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
He wasn't going to go try to put up. He
wasn't going to go try to buy some some chots
keys over at sears, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
What I mean? Like, he was not that fancy, not
dead fancy.

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
Jones could not be reached for comment. He denied stealing
the card when questioned by police, and claimed the cards
in his pocket because he had just found it. Yeah,
and it was about to turn it into the lost
and found.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Funny how that works? Funny, how that works.

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
We are aware of the incident involving our part time
employee or I staid at the Tallahassee location on Wednesday,
July twenty third. We have taken appropriate action concerning the
subject employee. The police have not reached out to us
about this. Please contact the Tallahassee Police Department for any questions.
A Chuck E Cheese company spokesman, which, by the way,
I hope, by the way, he just that. That's what

(01:29:41):
the spokesman looked like, just in that outfit, just reading
it was just another It's another person in the Charles
Entertainment cheese.

Speaker 1 (01:29:52):
I just I love that. I now know that that
he stands for entertainment.

Speaker 3 (01:29:57):
I you know, I just happened to find that credit card.

Speaker 2 (01:30:01):
I just happened to find it, as one does.

Speaker 1 (01:30:05):
I know it's all ronic.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
Just smell the smoke shop and get some bape juice.
I got some jerky at the meat shop.

Speaker 1 (01:30:14):
I really thought it was my card. I didn't even
notice it in someone else's name on it. Real life,
it was not my bank or.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
Anything belonging to me.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
This sort of shit happens to me all the time.
When I was younger, I was working at a dairy
queen and this woman kept telling me the ice cream
tasted metallic.

Speaker 3 (01:30:35):
Yeah, I've had I've had a problem with trusting my intuition.

Speaker 1 (01:30:44):
For some reason. Now, I've not been to Tallahassee, and
I'm sure parts of very lovely. This just feels like
it would happen in Tallahassee.

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
Nothing else. It feels. It feels like a Florida story.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
Definitely feels Floridian.

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
Yes, yes, this is this is it's not it's you know,
this is a story where it's not about the heat,
it's the humidity.

Speaker 4 (01:31:09):
You know, before we went into this, I thought you
were gonna whoa for me before you went into this about.

Speaker 3 (01:31:16):
The chucky cheese. I can't wait to watch the video now.
But like I thought you were going to talk about
the why did it fail of Elon Musk's Tesla diner.

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
Oh, that's spoilers a diner. We're going to talk about
it another Okay, that's okay, Well, but that's fine. So yeah,
this one is just but like, could you imagine those
kids are just like for the rest of their lives,
they're gonna be like I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
They are going to remember and be haunted by this
to be able to.

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
Go any therapists.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
It's the competition to Chuck E Cheese?

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
Is there another not really mascot? There's no think this
is the Busters is their biggest competition, and there's not
like a giant, there's not as around there.

Speaker 3 (01:32:07):
They need a mascot, and they needed to be like,
our mascot will never be arrested.

Speaker 1 (01:32:12):
Ever would they be like would it be a Disney World?
Would they ever walk in and arrest.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
Because the restaurant that I worked for for many years
space was a competition for Chuck E Cheese. There's one
in Albertville and it's like one of like three that
are left in the country.

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
I always wondered what that was.

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
It's it's it's it's a it's a kid casino with
like a full bar.

Speaker 1 (01:32:43):
What ap.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
The worst nineteen fifties alien sci fi you've ever seen?

Speaker 1 (01:32:52):
That's when it's fun CHAMPI.

Speaker 2 (01:32:56):
Those kids, though, could you pick for the rest of
their lives? Like, I can't be around anybody and I
can't I can't enjoy a Milwaukee Brewers game.

Speaker 3 (01:33:06):
Halloween's just to trigger out.

Speaker 1 (01:33:08):
Yeah, it's going to be a triggering event always. Well,
it's so hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
There's much of kids sitting outside the prison doing a
hunger strike for Charles Entertainment. She is like, we'll wait
for you, Chucky.

Speaker 3 (01:33:27):
How many tickets do I need to bail Chucky out?
I've got two hundred tickets. They're like collecting tickets to
bail Chucky out in jail.

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Chucking you. Now, if he was sitting in that jail cell.

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
In the I think that's what we have to imagine.

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
So all right, so all right, we have a video.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
I can't find that. This is just the te it
had the video, but then because it's been a couple
of days, it's some other ship on there now.

Speaker 1 (01:33:57):
So they've moved on. This is old now.

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
But the video is amazing, Jody, if you have time
to doog this, Yes, anyone that's listening, check this out.

Speaker 1 (01:34:11):
Oh but a baby dolphin was rescued I see as well,
which is a heartwarming.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
We need more of that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:19):
Ironically had some debit cards that weren't his eyes.

Speaker 3 (01:34:25):
He was rescued, but then he was arrested because he
had some cards.

Speaker 1 (01:34:35):
It's it's an amazingly weird world out there.

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
I know, for every like for every political article I read,
I need three rescue dolphin videos.

Speaker 1 (01:34:47):
Yeah you do at this point, and you don't you
work with animals?

Speaker 3 (01:34:51):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 1 (01:34:52):
I think that's so cool, that's like lovely.

Speaker 3 (01:34:55):
But oh yeah, it's any time you want to come volunteer.

Speaker 2 (01:34:58):
I have always I found the video.

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
Yep. They said they got him out.

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
They did, took the head off.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
They kept him in the gloves in mouth.

Speaker 4 (01:35:13):
He's got the shoes, He's got the big shoes on
and the big gloves.

Speaker 1 (01:35:17):
That so funny.

Speaker 2 (01:35:19):
Please tell me they packed all packed the hat up.

Speaker 3 (01:35:22):
That's evidence. Whoa Jamale Jones.

Speaker 1 (01:35:27):
That's he's just a little stunned by the activity going on.

Speaker 3 (01:35:32):
Yeah well it's I mean he was all sweaty from
having the head on.

Speaker 1 (01:35:36):
Yeah. Probably it is not pleasant. I'm gonna say, not fun.

Speaker 3 (01:35:41):
Well throw the walkout. I saw some some video of
the walkout.

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
Uh, the head on the walkout.

Speaker 3 (01:35:50):
I felt like there was some body cam footage out there.

Speaker 4 (01:35:53):
We need more body camp for I think that, like
I would love to wear a body cam, like justin
do you know what I mean, just to document my
day of like shit that happens, so that I have
like a receipt, a video receipt of like now you
were the one that fucked up.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
Look hold on, let me pull up my body came footage.

Speaker 1 (01:36:13):
I can prove this is what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
Yeah, it's like those restaurants that are starting to make
their servers wear them.

Speaker 1 (01:36:19):
So like ive those metallic in your malt sauce. I
had my body cam on it Amazon. It was listening.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
If your body came on, you know what he would
have been able to be Like listen, look at your lips.
Look at them. They're they're shiny. That's what it is,
shiny lips.

Speaker 1 (01:36:38):
Mercury. Yeah, man, I think you've got some on that's
basoning you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
This has been a great episode, Jody, but I think
it's time we eighty six the podcast. But before we go,
we have one last segment. It is called human Yelp
Reviews Joey Mariuska. You get to review the podcast. You
can either review myself and joe Into visually or the
podcast as a whole. You can use a five star
metric or as many stars as you like, and whenever

(01:37:07):
you like to start.

Speaker 1 (01:37:08):
Well, I'm going to give you. You know, listen, this
is where my nice side comes out again. I'm going
to give you guys five stars. That's the top Yelp
review you can do. Five stars. You guys rock. I'm
not even gonna try to be funny about it. It's
so fun and lighthearted. I think you should call it
Booby and Matt though. It'd be fun for me, but otherwise, no,

(01:37:32):
I think you guys going to refer to us as
podcast and that Booby Entertainment and Matt or now happy
you get to we need to get to eat in
there like Chuck e Cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:37:46):
Booby Entertainment, Cocozello, I believe. I think that's still you
still have to go Cocozello.

Speaker 1 (01:37:52):
But you guys are fabulous. I'm so, you know, honored
you asked me to be on I really I love you.

Speaker 3 (01:37:58):
You're awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:37:59):
You guys are awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:38:02):
How do people follow you, Jody?

Speaker 12 (01:38:04):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
Right now just on Facebook. I'm in the process of
getting a website together, but it's not up yet. But
right now I'm on Facebook, Google Me, friend me. I
post all my shows out there, and that's the that's
the best way I think at the moment. See how
technically savvy. I am.

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
Yeah, that's all right.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
So but thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
Joe. How do people follow you?

Speaker 4 (01:38:32):
I'm on Instagram as the word photograph I zimg that's
photographizing August ninth.

Speaker 3 (01:38:39):
There's still a couple of tickets left.

Speaker 4 (01:38:41):
My Animal Rescue is is doing.

Speaker 3 (01:38:44):
A comedy show. All the ticket sales and we'll go
to the dogs and cats. It's as Sisyphis August ninth, eightpm,
doors at seven thirty shows and eight.

Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
Matt's on the show. The lineup is legends. It's going
to be so much fun. A couple of tickets left
for if you want to bring your dog, I go,
uh go check it out on the Midwest Animal Rescue
and Services webpage or Facebook and then yeah, this is yeah, Chody,
you have been into like Matt, what do you?

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
What do you got? What are you got coming up?

Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
You can follow me. I met him on Facebook and Instagram.
I am at batmant Douima on Blue Sky and TikTok
as for me a couple of things. Obviously, I'm doing
the August ninth show. I got a lot of stuff
coming up. Just just follow my socials. I got a
cold calendar shit coming through here. It's gonna be fund
me on the Bong Show coming up next month. Got
all four of things on the Monday Night Comedy Show,

(01:39:38):
and some of the some of the plea could come
and see me some places. We'll figure it out altogether.
But what I do want to promote is in the
basement of the Red Carpet Nightclub, and every Wednesday evening
in the basement there in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, I host
the Keller Comedy Open Mic, one of Minnesota's longest running
stand up comedy open mics. The doors open at eightish
and the show starts around ninish. We have thirty two

(01:39:59):
ounces of your pictures for only six bucks. Come and
see some of the best developing talent and people who
would like to consider themselves the best developing talent in Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (01:40:11):
Finally someone said it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:13):
That's that was That was kind. What I just said
was kind. I've been doing this for five years. I've
seen some ship I'm gonna stand up and just go.

Speaker 1 (01:40:24):
Yeah, way as that.

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
And then starting August thirtieth, we're going to be starting
our backup on weekly shows at the Beaver Island Comedy
Series in Saint Cloud Minnesota. Got some great headliners coming
through in November. We do have Jody coming up in December.
We are going to be doing a very cocazelo Christmas.
So if you've ever wanted to celebrate Christmas with your
drunk Italian uncle, this is this is it.

Speaker 3 (01:40:52):
Hey, Bookie, heavn buoy over Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
He's coming for Christmas. You guys. Follow the podcast at
allf of the service podcast all platforms. Email us your
favorite stories of gas lighting kids at a dairy queen
at at Awful Service podcast at gmail dot com. This
has been a delight, Jodie, thank you so much for
doing the podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:41:17):
Thank you for asking me.

Speaker 2 (01:41:18):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (01:41:18):
It was just fabulous. I really enjoyed it. Thank you.
Nice way to start the week.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
And as always, let's up make America gay again. Go
for it and have a good night. It's time to.

Speaker 12 (01:41:32):
Count the till, sweep the flaws and massas Stills say,
come hi, just pose up the trash and turn out
the light. Tell me why I try to so damping
as Eliza.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
I'll take my tips.

Speaker 12 (01:41:52):
My services have earned me this, my I will find
Apple from now.

Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
Account my stand by.

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
This has been a tape deck media production. Thank you
for listening.

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