Unpaid Lunch : A Podcast About Work
Everyone hates work, but almost all of us have to do it. Join Heavy D with a new guest each week, asking the dumbest questions about their job we can come up with.
Basically just people talking about how much they don't want to work. That's all.
We try to stay under your lunch time so you have time to cry before clocking back in. usually a guest stops by to tell us a story about their crappy job.
Remember that nobody is stopping you from quitting your job, But you.
Unpaid Lunch : A Podcast About Work
Golf Course Groundskeeper (Do not operate heavy machinery while under the influence)
Ready for a trip down memory lane with a hilarious twist? Buckle up for a rollicking ride as fan-favorite guest, Wes, and I, your host, indulge in a hearty banter, reminiscing about local festivals, past jobs, and some unforgettable golf course incidents. Willie, with his tales from his electrician days, is sure to tickle your funny bone, while I provide a unique perspective on the demanding yet comical duties of a golf course groundskeeper.
This episode is a laughter riot as Willie and I relive our rookie years, sharing our own fair share of fiascos, from rolling tires and weed-eating patrols to encountering copperheads and deer on the golf course! And, of course, who can forget the chaos caused by a member's dog on the green? Amidst the laughter, we don't shy away from the less rosy aspects of our job history, diving into candid discussions about our worst job experiences and the trials of dealing with challenging coworkers.
But the hilarity doesn't end there! We also share our strategies for dealing with paperwork, the stresses of factory work, and the trials of maintaining political correctness at work. And let's not forget the reality of working in a sawmill - it's tough! As we wrap up, we talk about our upcoming guests and express our appreciation for our listeners. So, sit back, relax, and get ready for a hilarious exploration of our diverse job experiences and the life lessons we've gained along the way.
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On your break today. Wes is in studio talking about his time as a groundskeeper on a golf course and one of our favorite hustlers, willie, stops by Just being him in studio to talk about his time as an electrician. All right time to clock out for lunch. Welcome enough, paid lunch and thanks for spending your break with us. I'm heavy. D Rhino is out tonight. Heart goes out to him. He's got some stuff going on with some family members. We hate, but he's not gonna be here tonight. Wes and Monroe are both here, so how does the hustlers fellas hey, how are you?
Speaker 3:I got a shit.
Speaker 1:You just realized you got a shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, isn't here forever.
Speaker 1:Well, it just hit me you made a policy and go shit.
Speaker 3:No, I'm good, I push through it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sure, that's the whole point. Push through it. Yeah, so we, we, uh, we got some cool guests coming up that I wanted to talk about, mainly so I can make them lock in and actually show up. Cory's supposed to be here, um, cory Harris that plays music. Okay, cory, yeah, I think so him a little bit. Yeah, he's supposed to, he's supposed to come on. I'm gonna talk to him. At the local, the fair, the festival. Jeff funded the mountain heritage with no.
Speaker 1:You know, I know you don't have a good time. You don't like crowds.
Speaker 3:I don't like crowds, but my kids had a good time, so that that's all that matters.
Speaker 1:I mean they had a good time. I didn't go this year. There's a crowd that's good. I went so many times. Was we just went? We went Thursday just to be there, and then Was it Thursday. No, she took the kids Thursday. You know what? I don't remember.
Speaker 3:I seen your kids, I was there a bunch.
Speaker 1:My kids were there every day. I took them, we took them and picked them up every day.
Speaker 3:The boys were there every day but Friday. But Lucas wrote the it's a local festival.
Speaker 1:That's like Every town has one. It's like a apple festival or a Pumpkin pie festival or anything like that, but it's mountain heritage and it's with. This is the first year we've had it. Since the, the, the sky turned into water.
Speaker 2:It's your everyday hometown festival.
Speaker 1:Yeah it's exactly what you think. If you, you could Exactly name what's there and who's there and what rides are there and what boots are there.
Speaker 3:It's a carnival and a farmer's market.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a carnival market. It's just it's so much money though, like. But there's like, when we had, we had a, we had a blooming onion and Wife's Church both did Apple dumplings. Yeah, man, it was like just a huge baked apple dumpling with ice cream and caramel sauce and chocolate sauce. And no, it was caramel sauce and Cinnamon. Cinnamon got the call. He got me caramel sauce and cinnamon sauce and a scoop of ice cream.
Speaker 3:Also shout out to the wife for Correcting you the correction. Yeah, you know, I skipped all that and I just went straight for the killin, bought a Friday in bologna sandwich.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, that I seen.
Speaker 3:I seen them doing that Uh it was the baseball booth, so I was gonna support it yeah they were calling them Pac-Man sandwiches.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we cut the, cut a V out of them, so they can. So the bologna doesn't roll up. Yeah physics, bologna frying physics who knew? No, I had that, we had that, and ribbon fries with chili and cheese on them.
Speaker 2:I'm about some favorite man.
Speaker 1:We had. We had all kinds of stuff, but the lines were just huge, though, and you guys stand in line forever.
Speaker 3:Well see, that's the thing. You got to wait till Saturday, when Kentucky's playing and everybody just leaves.
Speaker 1:For an hour. There's nobody there. Get that before four o'clock.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you get everything to yourself.
Speaker 1:And we drop the kids off that morning or after the parade, and it was just like y'all go hang out Go go do it, spin no money I was like. I was like you don't get any more money, we spend only Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I seen your boy Denner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um West wanted to talk about. We wanted to go into Some of the past job that you had. That was pretty cool that you did, forever was. The groundskeeper at the golf course.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's the best.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think you had the best time just because that's when you were drinking and you were drunk most of the time.
Speaker 2:Get drunk text at like 1130 on the golf course, though.
Speaker 1:It is you. There's supposed you have to be there anyway like 1130. I get drunk text from like at work.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, I Mean so with those like anytime you did a tournament you know the tournaments usually they provided beer or alcohol, or the players, and they always had us like set up which holes were gonna have the coolers on people like oh, here's a cooler full beer. Let's take it a whole number 14. Yeah, yeah it's stop so yeah, we took it there but you know, half the beer was gone by the time we walked away from it.
Speaker 1:It's like a how many? How many cases we get Six? I thought there was ten, nope, they're. They're six. There's six, the, the. The purchase order is incorrect. I never one of them are like stumbling their way up there, mm-hmm. Well, how'd you do it there?
Speaker 3:You name it, I did it. I Mean stuff that I was supposed to do, stuff I wasn't supposed to and stuff.
Speaker 1:He's what was your job?
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, so I was ground skipper. Basically I ran all the equipment up there, all the mowers, back hose, anything that had a diesel motor in it.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Basically, you get up before daylight and you work to what? Two or three?
Speaker 1:Yeah, cuz golfers get up early. So you're gonna get up earlier than golfers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, dude, it was insane. Like we be rounded the first nine, we cut the first nine and all of a sudden we'd look out, there Be already people there, the Sun just barely coming up, seven o'clock sharp.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you think it's just like Cutting the grass and cutting the weeds and but it's like much more complex, like the shit you have to do Right all the time divots, and like there's algebra.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like Trigonometry in it, like you have to cut the grass at a certain angle, a certain degree. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, every day, and if you don't, you have to like, post you to like, let them know right.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like, hey, the fairway is long today.
Speaker 3:Yeah, or like you have to roll them, which is basically like you take this big I Don't know what, what it is.
Speaker 1:We just have a steamroller.
Speaker 3:It's like a steamroller, but it's smaller and that would make the greens faster or slower sure I say it's faster, slower, that means you're you're basically compressed in the ground. Yeah so that when you hit your ball, yeah, it's gonna slip right down.
Speaker 2:Oh math math.
Speaker 1:This is the angles, the game, the, the meme, with like the numbers and stuff over the guy's head, say west on the golf course.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you about.
Speaker 1:Thinking about how fast that greens gotta be.
Speaker 3:You like change the holes out and stuff too right, you did all that shit like and yeah, there's a lot of times you would see me like standing like overgreen looking at it and they're thinking I'm like, oh, he's, you know, looking at his work, or he's trying to know it's me trying to figure out which way I needed to cut it, because I forgot, from one hole to the next, which angle I was cutting. So, yeah, yeah, cuz I'm like, which way did I do this? I don't remember. Did I go up and down, left and right, or side to side, or yeah, it's um.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Man, I feel like people don't Think about that job.
Speaker 2:People don't think about it's technical.
Speaker 1:Yeah, people don't think about how hard that is like keeping and this is, I mean it's 18 holes. I mean it's a big golf, big-ass golf course, and Like not the easiest to keep to racks. It's like on to like. Holes are on the side of mountains and boy.
Speaker 3:It's all a reclaim strip job. Yeah, so hard-paying like yeah, so it's not just like a normal golf course when it's all flat, no man and you got to do like the water you to take care of the fucking water. Oh, that's fun. That was fun because, like every golf course has like its little tricks. Yeah but I feel like our golf course had so many like rigged up tricks that you had to do To it to get things to go in.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely Like it was better to just get an old new system then work through all that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you know, we just worked through all that like yeah. Each. So it was day-to-day to you know, a top nine and a bottom nine. Everybody calls it that, but Literally the top nine was up on top of a mountain the bottom nine was on the bottom.
Speaker 1:It's in the valley.
Speaker 3:Yeah, in the valley. So when you get to the Basically, when you get to where you have to water the bottom line, you go, go. You got to go to the breaker box, kick it on, but instead of it being like a normal breaker box, when you kick it on you have to sit there and let it build pressure for 25 minutes and basically just, it seems alright now.
Speaker 3:Then you have to drive all the way up to the top number which bottom line? So it would have been hold 10. Drive all the back up to hold 10 and take a little key and turn all the sprinkler hits on by hand. And then all of a sudden you have to wait to see if the pressure came up. Pressure didn't come up. You're like, oh, I blew something.
Speaker 1:Nope, some trap. Yeah, it just seems exactly the dysfunction we expect.
Speaker 3:Or you know, we just had a lot of stuff like that happen. We had a big Mower which was to cut the roughs. But, like anytime we told somebody get on, we're like, whatever you do, don't stall it out, don't turn it off, don't get up off the seat they're like why? I'm like it'll die. We can't get it back up. It died every day if it wasn't me right in it. Then we basically have to pull something else down to boost it off and then like and it's not like a Incorporate like.
Speaker 1:It's not like the golf course, isn't like a big corporation or anything.
Speaker 3:So it wasn't like you can get like new.
Speaker 1:You couldn't get new shit ever.
Speaker 3:It's all we ever got anything new.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything's always gonna be just the old shit, and get it fixed back only thing we ever got new was like new New golf carts.
Speaker 3:Yeah but with that being said, those golf carts, they were fucked by the first six weeks true, um, I played that course when you played it with me.
Speaker 1:There was no golf carts and it was nine holes. Yes and you walked it, yeah, like and uh, it was wild. That was the old course too. Yeah, it was the old course.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was only the feet, was only from, not the first nine holes or I think it was the back nine, or it was a mix of those, yeah, so you know, there was actually a guy, I think he's a member there. He's still a member there, you know, with, like, the golf team.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:They, they. When they practice the high school middle school golf teams, they have to walk the top nine.
Speaker 1:They do. But, that's it.
Speaker 3:They just have to walk the top number when they determine they have to walk the top nine. But in between holes they can be shuttled. Yeah just like PJ. But now there's this guy. He's probably in his fifties now. Ever since I worked up there I worked up there since I was like 15, worked there for about 15 years that dude would always show up and he would never get a cart and he would walk all 18.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Every day I walked the exercise. It's all the extra, as you need that, basically why I did it. But he and he would shoot under parry every time. I was like aren't you killed out? He's like yeah, but I love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I mean, I guess, if you're gonna, if you're gonna work out anyway, like if he's gonna work out anyway, go play golf and you can walk. All those you can walk, what is it? I mean, I guess that, how many miles? That is? That's 18 holes.
Speaker 3:All over there. That's a lot. Yeah, I mean especially going up and down the incline. Yeah, and I've always said it, though I was like you know, I love baseball, everything else, but If you really want to look at athletes that are in shape, 80% of athletes are golfers that are in the most peak.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, it's like a bit of a top of it, you don't?
Speaker 3:know it by looking at them. Yeah, they're always like dressed up for free athletes.
Speaker 1:Yeah they're all freak athletes. Yeah they could done. They could have done any sport they wanted to.
Speaker 3:Exactly. It's crazy to think about. What do you think like Tigers back gets messed up so much?
Speaker 1:right, because he's working out constantly. Yeah, he's constantly trying to get. I was trying to get that swing back anyway.
Speaker 3:Well, I tell you what he needs to quit changing the swing then true, how many pieces of equipment did you crash? Crash wreck, I mean, I guess not crash Of them 90% of them, I'm trying to think because the mowers are not like no mowers my favorite when I ever crashed, though, was like my rookie year, and that was before, like they had.
Speaker 1:We're first rookie year. People should call it rookie year more.
Speaker 3:That was before, like they had paved the main road, going on. Oh yeah so like I was in one of those six will gators, the little diesel six will, yeah, like they fly dude and I was going up another story the zigzag path.
Speaker 3:Well, when you go up it, no card is supposed to be allowed to go down. They're supposed to take that ground road down, and there was a golfer that was drunk as hell and he was zooming down it while I was going up. Oh, and it was. Either I crashed into this member and get in trouble, or It'd be much worse to hit him. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So I crash it into the side of the, the rock wall and there's a little barrier. Hit the barrier and I was like we're good. Also the other guy was telling me no, you're not good. I was like why? And I went to pull out and also I heard a pop look down and my tire is rolling back down the hill.
Speaker 1:You five more. This is a six wheel. It was a six wheel. You got five more wheels.
Speaker 3:I got five more but it was the steering tire. I think you made that negative one.
Speaker 1:So it was really like you, would got a lot more trouble inside. Yeah, I feel like I would seems like you made the right call.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I've, basically I've run over wrecked or hit something with every it happens. It happens up there. You're a farm out and you hit rocks, you hit wall and like the work is or we learn and golf cart.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you are yeah, the work is so like Monotonous, though, just like the shit you're doing, all the time Doing the same thing over and over, and it's like. You got, you gotta get in some shit like oh, yeah, like and it's not like cool that you have to rate the sand.
Speaker 3:That was like yeah.
Speaker 1:I'd quit. I think that would be my like. That's the thing I would never do the back. Did you break the sand? No, I hate saying anyways, am I gonna? I did not write the sand.
Speaker 3:What's worse than raking the sand is having to be, on weed eater patrol to like cut the angles around the sand pits. We're like all that grass is growing up around it. Yeah and if you're not paying attention, you're gonna get a face full of sand. Yeah it's like it's from that weed eater.
Speaker 1:That's the fucking that has to be the worst too. Like the weed, eating is literal. Literal obstacles put there on purpose to complicate things but, that course has more hazards than any course ever.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, so I know people that Haven't been around Raven Rock Won't know this. But like the old driving range, Mm-hmm. So if you were a low man, if you were a new guy, you didn't touch equipment. You were weeding Mm-hmm. Once a year they would task all the new guys to weed, eat that whole entire hillside. Oh, the drive the driving range all the way up to the tree line.
Speaker 1:That's the worst, no.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean it was awful and but it was funny too because, like, once you get out of that area where you don't have to weedy, you can watch them go through where you went through. Yeah, so you, you get to like witness them screaming when they find a copperhead, or they, or like there there's a dough bedded down and in. Jumps up and they start rolling down the hill because it scared them. You know stuff like that. So you're like, hey, I've been there, seen that guys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a big heel, that's a lot of that's a lot of weeds.
Speaker 3:It is before, like all the model bushes. Yeah, like it was just straight weeds all the way up to 300 yard. Yeah, all the way up there.
Speaker 1:Well, I Know, when you were there, um, anytime I seen you, you were into something literally like or be like pictures to see me. Pictures of you, like in a hole. They just happen to be in the middle of the golf course or catching a snake. The All those like ponds at fishing and we're out like, aren't they all?
Speaker 3:oh yeah, dude, yeah so much fish yeah so there was small mouth and tons of golf balls. Yeah, there was actually a company that would come out and they would rate the ponds and Sell them back to yeah, the golf course, and they would do it for like two or three days.
Speaker 1:Set the scoop dive. That's a hell of a business. That is a great business plan, but they would out. You want them.
Speaker 3:They would get like they would pull out 20 and 30 thousand, yeah, sure, at a time.
Speaker 2:Make five the instance of all.
Speaker 1:I mean like for a while, though. That's probably five thousand. Those are mine. Me to everything, everything in the wind, the water, everything the water all the time. What's the weirdest thing that's ever happened on the golf course to you?
Speaker 3:Mmm, weird thing probably be the dog wrecking the cart into the pond.
Speaker 1:What excuse me?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you heard me right. We had a member there. He, I don't. I can never pronounce this breed of dog right Walmart or Womb around yeah, that thing yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't even fucking know.
Speaker 3:We'll Google it and show it to you. Google it.
Speaker 1:Google it warm and writer.
Speaker 3:I can never say I'm a writer Wommer.
Speaker 1:Anyway, what the fuck?
Speaker 3:So this dog a while more honor.
Speaker 1:It's supposed to look like we just got a wiener I.
Speaker 3:Want to call it wiener.
Speaker 1:Okay, we call it.
Speaker 3:I mean it looks like this thing that thing. Oh, okay, okay, it's really pretty so it is they're gorgeous, great podcasting and you know they're supposed to be like super sleek, super muscular. Yeah dude, this thing was Probably about a hundred pounds overweight. Look like a deer tick with a little head, just big ol fat little legs. And this member where he brought it every day it's cool dog, loved everybody. But you get to hole number 12.
Speaker 3:So, with hole number 12, your T-boxes are elevated and you hit over a pond into a Fairway and then the fairway is elevated the opposite way, so you're basically parked at an angle down hill and he, and at the bottom of the hill is the pond so he got out and Told the dog to stay.
Speaker 3:When he told the dog to stay, it's. It sat there for a second he he hit his tee shop. When he hit his tee shot he heard the click of the emergency brake and that dog had actually hit the gas pedal. Oh cute and it rolled all the way down the hill and the dog waited till the last second, jumped out right before it hit the pond. Ha ha nice and it destroyed the car, of course.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:So once it destroyed the car, they asked me to go down there and get it. They're like, yeah, you're good. The dog, no oh okay. Yeah, he's fine, he jumped out right now.
Speaker 1:We jumped out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he jumped out. He knew what he was doing, though he knew what he was doing and um, it was just funny because they're like well, let's get in there and no one want to get in the pond, I was like it's a pond, it's water. Yeah so I went in, got in the garden, the pond, I got to the. The car was wrapping the chain around it and all of a sudden I heard our mechanic shepherd. Rest in peace rip.
Speaker 3:Love you, brother. He started he always called me junior. I Don't know why he just had the hint. I could hear him. I can still hear him till this day doing it. He's gone, jeremy. Watch out, watch out. And I was like what? I looked and the the ground came out from under the cart and it started sinking and I was inside the cart trying to wrap it.
Speaker 3:So you see me trying to get out of the cart and it's sinking all the way down. All I could see was like the top of the car. Then you can see the the seat floating up because it came on him Shepard being shepherd, he's just it, he was like grab grab the seat. It's a flotation.
Speaker 1:So do you lose the cart?
Speaker 3:we got it out, it never worked again.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say it's non-function ever worked again like no it was a gas or electric.
Speaker 3:That one was Electric yeah, they moved to electric cars. I always prefer gas cars.
Speaker 1:They're faster. Yeah, yeah, louder.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm one of the reasons why they moved to electric. Because they were cuz you got because we figured out how to Go have you drifting the golf carts everywhere?
Speaker 1:I would listen if. If it rained just a little bit in the morning, yeah just perfect enough where it wasn't too muddy you can slide them.
Speaker 3:Man, we would go down a fairway as fast as we can, and then we would just hit the Cuz. I mean if you fuck the grass up, you can fix it 360s all the way down.
Speaker 1:That's beautiful, that's fun, though I'm not an accident. Yeah, you've done an accident. But you know, you just had stuff like that happen all the time and then going golfing with you was Experience too, because you had like access to everything she's got. Not, it's good, let's go to this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:No, it's fine. We don't have to wait anywhere or we're gonna cart you remember the big force fire? Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was a part of trying to save the golf course for gay during that. Oh yeah because all the grass had already went dormant. So when it went dormant it turned yellow. Yeah, of course. Yeah it's just like leaves that fall turned yellow. It's dead at this point. And then you had fire coming from both sides of the hill and we were trying to keep it wet as possible. I mean putting gallons and gallons on that dormant grass, because if it would have hit that grass, yeah, it's fucking lead everything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it would. Just it would look like fire brimstone I.
Speaker 1:Never really thought about a golf course been on fire, I guess.
Speaker 2:Just goes up and flames.
Speaker 1:I was thinking about things that Businesses that burned down. I wouldn't think, which is ironic since the recently the clubhouse burnt down.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, you know work down years but the clubhouse burnt down so that restaurant and clubhouse when the force fire hit, it was so hot that there was a four-inch Water line that was going all the way down to the main water Access.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:It went all the way down into almost Dunham and the water was or the. The fire was so hot that when it. You know finally went out. We went to look for that line and you know it's a big thick-ass. Four inch. And it's probably like half an inch inch thick. It was deduced reduced, reduced down to powder Like oh fuck was nothing left of it, literally nothing. They were like go go chase that line. I was like what line there? There's not a line left. Yeah it was like 300 foot of it gone.
Speaker 1:So we have a segment that we recorded. A buddy stopped by. It's just me and him, willie. He was a. You know Willie, he's a, he's like a listener and he's one of. He was one of our patrons for forever there and he's been with us. So he stopped by and he's actually an electrician. So we talked about that. I'm gonna cut to that me and him in studio recording there and then we'll be right back.
Speaker 2:My problem is like I listened to two podcasts All right, you all and the Joe Rogan when everybody good on someone's gonna. And Joe Rogan has like I mean, he's like three and four hours long.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he does those, he does the segments, so that are great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cut like his YouTube and the tick-tock and stuff is just cuts of it, which are great, and like I'll sit and listen to it and it can last a full week, yeah, and then you're all, I mess up and I listen to it, like on Monday on my way to work, and then I'd like.
Speaker 1:I can quit today.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's Quit my job.
Speaker 1:It's ironic because my new job I have a paid lunch, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, so I'm paid for everything, everything's paid. Anyway, you're getting paid right now, right yeah?
Speaker 1:that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Uh, I will say the last person that I quit my job for was you. Oh, oh, really, yeah, he was the last person I quit from. Really, I've turned in my notice like four times at my current will but yeah, it's uh, and I went the opposite direction, like I should not even be on here because I've got like five jobs now you got you doing everything.
Speaker 1:Well, no, yeah, but you don't, um, you don't Hate all that shit. No, right, no. So I mean because you, you became an electrician later in life. Mm-hmm right and you really enjoy. That.
Speaker 2:Well, I Failing to it like. So. My dad lived down there when.
Speaker 1:I was down there.
Speaker 2:He's like you got to come live with me. Like I put you through school and everything. I was like, okay, and so he said, well, you're gonna work with me over the summer. And so I went down there and he had me working with him. He's like, hey, there's his classes. It's like math and I've always been like a math nerd, which is weird.
Speaker 2:But he's like no to these classes and see if you like them. And I went. I was like yeah, they're pretty cool. And then he's like hey, we have a job out at UK but you have to be in the apprenticeship to be on it because it's like a prevailing wage job. I was like I don't, I don't want to do four years of this. And he said here's the pay scale and at 18 I went because I was making like $7 when I was working at the gas station right.
Speaker 1:I started there I was making like nine and that wild no, blow your mind that we made that little money, yeah, and now people are still able to make that little money.
Speaker 2:Is that? What is that? What they still pay? Minimum wage is still seven 25 ain't that fucking crazy.
Speaker 1:That blows my mind, dude. That's, that's nuts to me to think that, like no way I could make it on that Well. I mean you know you can do anything on that. I can't pay a quarter of my bills, right?
Speaker 2:And. But he showed me this scale and it was like, as an 18 year old, on this job I was gonna be making $22 an hour. Yeah, I'm an electrician into.
Speaker 1:It sounds great. This is what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2:But my whole thing like it worked out because I was gonna go to it to take and yeah. That fucking does that exist anymore.
Speaker 1:No, no, that shit collapsed right. All those did like Spensirian and them and like all that shit Was. Did they get discredited it? Yeah?
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it. Either government just come in one day and was like you're all done and shut them down?
Speaker 1:Do they discredit the Diplomins now?
Speaker 2:I Don't know about, like the diplomas people I but but if you come in with a it detect diploma, somebody's probably gonna laugh you out of the building.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cuz it's not like. I know I have a buddy who's got his got discredited, like, for he went to like a school, like an online school or whatever and ended up not being legit or whatever they they were like turns out, you don't get a diploma.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I mean most of those places like Colleges are weird because you can try to do yeah, you can get like almost a degree at like UK, and then you try to go to like Ohio State and I like yeah, and half of these don't work and so you have to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, credits for that. I went to Southeast. I went to community college for Two years for ping pong. Yeah, I played so much ping pong. I got pretty good, though, like I'm not bad at ping pong.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've never played it cuz I never went to college.
Speaker 1:So Never got a chance to. What sucked is like the teachers play to. So, like you'd be, you'd be playing and they'd be like, uh, you look for like for class? I was like, yeah, but it's fine, so I'm here with the teachers right, I'm here with the professor, I'm playing ping pong with my professor. It feels like I'm gonna be late anyway, so I'm the last person you quit?
Speaker 2:Yes, you are. That's why maybe that's why I had such a draw under this. Did you just walk out? No, I come in. And I was like, hey, I got a job in Legsington. And you're like, oh, that's cool If it don't work out.
Speaker 1:Oh, I couldn't remember, if you like, if you just didn't come back.
Speaker 2:I didn't give it two weeks because it was like a Wednesday and my dad was like you can start Monday?
Speaker 1:and I was like yeah, fuck it, I don't tell him no.
Speaker 2:So I was just like I guess I'm telling dusty I'm done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, that's all I'm such a blur. For me, the gas station days were like.
Speaker 2:That's 15 and a half years ago.
Speaker 1:It's ancient and it was still like I don't even. It blows my mind that I was able to work, because I can't even fucking imagine working midnights now. But like that blows my mind, this is like. I worked midnights for forever, like like midnight to 8 am.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I can't even imagine that now I did it like while I was still in high school, because they were somebody quit and I think y'all had me work some midnight. She is like I was working and then going straight to school.
Speaker 1:Do not doubt, we did that. Yeah, I was 18.
Speaker 2:So it was fine, but it was. I remember the one night like you're all's whole shit dick. Demon Stories yeah. I was working and I can't remember who is coming in the next morning, but like the coal Crowd come through and I went to clean and I went in the bathroom and like there was just a pile of shit in the urinal and I just walked out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't get paid enough. I'm not cleaning that, that we talked about that. Gas station bathrooms, man, are different. Yeah, station bathrooms are like People shit up the walls and like like what are people doing in the bathroom?
Speaker 2:How many people carry sharpies around with them?
Speaker 1:That's what I always think. That is just like are they keeping a sharpie in my bathroom? Like is there a sharpie somewhere hidden in my bathroom that I don't know?
Speaker 2:is in here. No, those people. They wake up and they put on their like rebel flag underwear and they put their sharpie in their pocket Because I gotta go be racist somewhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's so much shit, why sake had to erase off the walls there. It was just like oh, can't even use this bathroom until somebody gets rid of that Bleaching it off the walls. I've never I don't know if I've ever had a sharpie in a bathroom.
Speaker 2:I mean I have, but we, we, we use sharpies like marker, condit and stuff.
Speaker 1:It's you, it's fucking, it's electric Electricians. Paint shit on what. That is true. Everything's in a charcoal pencil on the wall, like we know who did that shit but like the only other bathroom story.
Speaker 2:I was in Bowling Green working on a job out there and I was in the bathroom and this kid walks in and he's like yanking on the door and I'm like there's someone in here, dude, and he's just, he makes a noise that I don't even know how to replicate, but then you just see shit fall on the floor. Oh my god, his pants didn't come down, like he just shit on the floor. And then he ran over to like where the sink in the urinal was and then he ran out. So he ran out with shit and I just that.
Speaker 1:That makes me so nervous, because he was definitely just a oh man. That stresses me out. Yeah right, little kids are gross never touch the kids hands.
Speaker 2:Well, you know I say kid, but like he could have been like.
Speaker 1:I mean, like I always said, if you say you didn't, if you don't shit on yourself, here live. You've never shit on yourself. Yeah, you've definitely done that. What's, um, what's the worst job you ever had? Are you gonna say the gas station?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the gas station I had to. Real dick of a manager. No, virginia, honestly like our, our company, like I've worked in a bunch of different areas of ours, so like the one, that made me want to quit my job Was it wasn't really the job itself, it was the people I was working for and it gets most of the time.
Speaker 1:That's what we always say is. Most of the time it's like if you're working with, like factory work Is the worst kind of work, right, but all those people are like together and like friends, right, and but like are the people that manages like one of our divisions?
Speaker 2:They're just digs like, yeah, they feel like they're better than everyone else. And I was like In my second or third year in this, so I was still. I knew nothing, but I was, I was running work on their side, yeah, but they still treated me like I was just some hillbilly who didn't know anything and and it's always.
Speaker 2:You're always gonna get that when you go somewhere and then later on, like I quit their division later on I ended up back in it and I was running like full-on. I had a service truck and I've ran a full job. That Bowling Green job was just me Uh-huh. And then they sent me to Alabama and I was going on vacation like the week after and I was like I'm only gonna be here a week. So whatever gets done, gets done. And they bombed my review that year because I left a bunch of stuff. I'm not fined and I was like all right, the next day I turned into Jesus.
Speaker 2:But as far as like stressful jobs I worked in Technically.
Speaker 1:I'm in HR now, but oh shit, yeah, you're the enemy I'm.
Speaker 2:Toby, but I was the recruiter when I first come into our office and I was hiring people and moving people from job Uh-huh, and one of the guys that I knew was sitting at home because I didn't put his name on a Document that we had and I was like how many more people are sitting. I hated it. I was like I need out of this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like I Could never be in HR because I'm confident I'm an HR liability. Yeah, I don't think they can ever hire me for HR.
Speaker 2:It's more of a joke if I apply for HR, especially in like the PC world we live in, like I always like I talk to people.
Speaker 1:I love talking to people like yeah, well, you got to fill them out, though, right, Like you're gonna fill out the crowd you're with. You're like Can I, can I be on my bits with these people, or can I not?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Luckily I have a group of friends at work the people I sit around where I'll have.
Speaker 2:We're all lock-minded, so yeah, you got to kind of bait somebody else into saying something to see how many times they can do it.
Speaker 1:I'm sick of shit. By the way, I don't know if anybody knows.
Speaker 2:My wife has like what is it sinus infection right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe that's what I got, I don't know and she, she.
Speaker 2:every time she comes here, she almost dies, so I left her at home the fucking pollen, bro.
Speaker 1:The pollen here, people don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's not from here, she's. She's a city girl, so she would die went down and got you a city girl.
Speaker 1:How long you been married?
Speaker 2:11 years, yeah, 11 years. I started dating her Six months after I moved up there and, honestly, like even after I started working there, like my whole goal was to come back here, yeah, I wanted to get up there and be like I hate this and tell my dad like, hey, I tried, yeah, not doing this, and it never, never happened.
Speaker 1:Well, it's probably for the better I get yet. Well, yeah. I mean yeah, yeah, hindsight seems like being here with it. I mean, you know, might be on crack.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or at the very best at the sawmill you might be on a podcast.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they don't get paid enough.
Speaker 1:Man saw me oh people who's? People who work at the sawmill don't get paid enough money.
Speaker 2:It's insane, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:I see him cuz it's fucking hard. That shit ain't like. That's no fucking joke. Starting pays like 14 or some shit if that, if that, yeah, it's low. Yeah, there was a Facebook post that got hated Like they got like destroyed by a good friend of mine. Is the manager there? And you know he can't, you know I mean he can't help a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1:But right but it got like destroyed because it was like I Said to start and pay and it was just like you know drug test and and it was like you know whatever, how many, ever hours a week or whatever, and it was like you got to work 50 hours a week for $12 an hour and you can't go home and smoke a joint.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I can't be high and I have to work for the history.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's pretty tough. I don't have to cut that, not decided you.
Speaker 2:Didn't say no names and we didn't say the name of the sawmills. I think you're good. Yeah, it's just a sawmill, but not the one here in Kansas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sawmilling.
Speaker 2:Kansas.
Speaker 1:Nebraska. Well, um, it's good having you on. I'm glad you stopped by, Uh-huh it's been fun, man.
Speaker 2:Uh, I will say that this podcast is like Exactly my humor. Yeah and so like y'all gotta get more.
Speaker 1:We're gonna have you on for a full episode with everybody here.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm and that's the plan. So when we have some more time or we can call, we can do a call. It's funny because we just figured out. We were like, uh, had the the system for a while and just figured out like I knew we could call because we did some before. But like, did you listen to the episode with the live calls? Yeah, that's the first time we've done live calls. We had one with the callians but they weren't live. It was like recorded calls but that it. That episode was the first one with live calls and it worked pretty good. It flowed pretty good and we were worried it wouldn't but it turned out pretty good yeah, y'all had the girls.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the girls were here and we called the boys from there. That was a. That was a fun episode. I kept thinking it was like a happy end of massage parlor.
Speaker 2:The more y'all talk, you never said what the business man?
Speaker 1:It's funny because when she got here she was like we can't, we can't really necessarily discuss what we do because it's protected by like. I mean the business they run is protected by, like, alcohol and beverage, mm-hmm. So they can't discuss about really we can't they can't discuss about really what it is.
Speaker 2:I even went on Google Maps and I was like what is this business? So it got it got wild.
Speaker 1:It got kind of wild. They can't even advertise like they can't. There's no, they can't advertise. It also couldn't because it couldn't say the name of the business either.
Speaker 2:It's a shitty business model. If you can't advertise it, I don't know man.
Speaker 1:Because what it is they provide is, you know, needed. But that was the whole thing was. So we kind of had to improvise from there and we didn't. We ended up in a good show anyway, but we cut a lot of stuff. We cut a lot of stuff, yeah, which was entertaining. But yeah, we'll have you on for a full episode and we'll call you and we'll you know we'll have a whole load of questions and you can roast this and we'll have a good time there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm down.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I appreciate your support and I appreciate everything coming by and Sorry you had to quit me, but I'm glad you did, though You've got somebody that Quit you.
Speaker 2:Like you was the the reason someone. Well, you're not the reason, but you can claim to be the reason I take it.
Speaker 1:It's a fucking asshole had to quit. All right, man, appreciate you coming on the show.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Betty.
Speaker 1:That was it. You wonder what it does. I know what that was like a noise coming from a slap in the table. I'm just like it used to be. You remember how it was? We had the, the cheaper mikes and the cheaper, the cheaper it was like yeah, it was every time you touch stuff and be like watch, do that? Everybody else did. I'm gonna do it you did it like ten times harder than everybody else. Did everybody else like touch the table when you're like, oh, you can't help it?
Speaker 3:you won't do it, do it right.
Speaker 1:That wasn't I hate everybody here so we're out of like we can't keep it real deal with that right here.
Speaker 3:No, not at all.
Speaker 1:We're all over the place without him. You know you keep his real deal and he had to tell us to host that day. It's got you right. Let me tell the story. You rat, you got us.
Speaker 3:Oh, we're talking about the chickens.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like, yeah, you rat, you rat, you got us. Let me go, let him roll through it. That was um Willie, though I was talking about now. You guys haven't heard it yet, which is funny. And I cough into the mic you guys haven't heard yet, which is funny. I'll play for you later.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm looking forward to that me too, but it's uh, Um.
Speaker 1:He just stopped by and hung out a little while. We're gonna have him up for a full episode, but just the time he was here we couldn't we couldn't get the crew here to record. So we'll have him on for a full episode, though Wes had one more story with us, or one more story for us before we go About, about keeping the ground, keeping the ground.
Speaker 3:Keeping the ground and he braided.
Speaker 1:No, reel it back in. Come back with us on the ground. Keeper, you had another story for us about the ground.
Speaker 3:Which one?
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think which one you literally just said it before we went to break.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 1:About supergater.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, that goes back to me. We were talking about stealing the beers. Yeah, so One tournament, we we did the same thing we always do. Before you know we find the beers. The way they do it is. Usually they'll put the the coolers down and then they'll put on the bottom of the coolers. The beer on the top of the cooler is your Pepsi and Coke products. Sure so Whether we knew or not, if they had alcohol, we would go basically fishing. Beer and we hit the mother load that day.
Speaker 3:There was beer a lot of his beer, a lot of it, and and you know it was just like Dusty said earlier about the whole he would get text from me at like 11 o'clock and I'd be already blitzed this one day. You know, usually with the tournament, once the tournament starts you're done for the day, like if there's any kind of maintenance on the equipment, you can do that to finish out your hours or you can go home. Yeah, so we were trying to be straight-faced going back in the garage Because it was like one o'clock. Maybe by then we had already. There was a spot on the golf course. It was a back lot that no one really could get to except us and, like you know, we we went back. There used to be where I hunted at we went, we went back there and killed a bunch of those beers.
Speaker 1:And here's a man we hid, we hid and we hid, we hid and drank all the beer. We drank all the beers, got back, got back to the they good old maintenance building and we were trying to.
Speaker 3:Basically, at the end of the day, you're trying to park all the equipment back in and it's like Tetris, oh yeah, because it don't fit really, yeah. So if you ever think about like POV Tetris, that's us, but then times it by a hundred with difficulty, yeah, if, like you, were looking overhead, it would look like a jigsaw, but look like one of those.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like the only you can figure it out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and we were drunk little puzzles, so they were trying to get us to everything together and one of the Guys that I worked real close with. They're like we need to get the supergator, which the supergator is just like a six-wheel gator, but I think it's like a six-wheel gator. It's just like a six-wheel gator, but it's a big diesel motor, it's four-wheel drive, it doesn't have six tires, it's got four tires and it's basically like the size of a box truck.
Speaker 3:It'll go fucking anywhere and do yeah, and it's got dump bed on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I think ever it's five speed and we were like that's the last piece of equipment we need to move and it was kind of like blocking away to get another piece in and I was like hey, so and so go ahead. And we got to get this equipment in and he's like alright. And before we could say anything, the dude that I worked closely was like I got it.
Speaker 3:I said, oh shit, before I could do anything, he had already started up, put it what he thought Was in first gear to go forward, and he threw it in reverse and slammed on the gas and, like Went right through the wall, almost Took a chip out of the doorway rip the whole fucking thing yeah and then the whole time after that he was trying to play cool and can't look. Right, I see like you're drunk, I'm not drunk, I'm not the one that wrecked it.
Speaker 1:We're all fucking sober, leave us alone.
Speaker 3:He's like I was getting one team. What are you?
Speaker 1:Did you guys get fired for being drunk? No, do you think it had? No, really, it was new management. Right, it was a new management and they like clear everybody out because they didn't want to pay, like six people.
Speaker 3:Yeah, new management yeah can't imagine what I. Don't know. I tried to you know how to run the golf course. They didn't like it. Yeah, but look at him now.
Speaker 1:They get ready, y'all. And then the, the, the course turned to shit. It was like everything was All, the fairways were brown and oh, it was awful. Oh, greens were brown.
Speaker 3:Another cool you see a lot of wildlife up there too, though.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, there's still day you still do.
Speaker 3:One of the craziest things was up. There was a little like I don't want to call it a farm. This guy just had some horses In a hauler next to the golf course. Oh yeah and every now and then they would get out and they would just like be grazing that'd be super cool In a fairway thing is I am deathly scared of horses, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't think I knew that about you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's one thing I hate horses.
Speaker 1:You afraid you're gonna get kicked or what?
Speaker 3:They bite you.
Speaker 1:I don't think they buy that often, like I know they buy, but like I don't think it's like a folk like you've. You've Seems like you've an actual phobia.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't like horses, I don't like them.
Speaker 1:I think that's funny.
Speaker 3:I think it's pretty funny, do you?
Speaker 1:are you afraid of horses? No, I'm a little bit like I don't want to get behind one.
Speaker 3:I've never been around horses, though I guess so but like, see me, they task me to go out there and get him off, of course, and I'm like no, they're like, you're the one one that can do it right now. And I'm like, I'm usually like 50 yards away from with you heard a bell from the shelf? Yeah, it's horse on the course 50 yards away, throwing my arms up, yelling, and I'm like I'm not getting anywhere closer to them.
Speaker 1:Just close enough. This is good. Yeah fire around into the air.
Speaker 3:No, I can't do that, no more. I got in trouble for that.
Speaker 1:Raise your hand if you're surprised. You got in trouble with that.
Speaker 3:I used to hunt on the go nobody's surprised. There's been witnesses of seeing me running around the golf course with a bow and arrow, somewhat somewhere, I believe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you were just pretending to be legless though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, who wouldn't be?
Speaker 1:So you think you are in the on the golf course.
Speaker 3:I thought I was a lot of things on the golf course. One thing I didn't know I was was a groundskeeper.
Speaker 1:Well, now you Keep trucks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I keep trucks up. I went from one to truckie small diesel motor to these big-ass cat diesel motors. They're real fun. We got one down right now that we can't figure out what's wrong with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hopefully we have. We have another episode just about that, oh yeah, you have more. You've not been doing it a long time, so many don't have a lot of experience with it.
Speaker 3:No, but it keeps you on your toes, man, it really does it. It's fun, um, just like cuz it's always something new all the time? Yeah, it's always something new all the time and there's a lot to it that you don't think about, a lot Technical stuff yeah. Like one little thing.
Speaker 1:I just went on runs with him and stuff, like to go pick up parts. I'm like I don't fuck You're talking about.
Speaker 3:Yeah, usually when I come in here and start venting to him, he's like uh-huh, Just letting him talk, but I was like I don't know we're doing.
Speaker 1:I'm in.
Speaker 3:The only thing that he, the only thing that he picked up on one I was uh, I Was like I thought of you today. He's like why'd you think of me today? I was like, well, this guy's steering went out and I figured out what was wrong with him. He's like what's that got to do with me? I was like, well, the piece that broke was a pitman arm.
Speaker 1:He's like oh Next, like I don't know anything about diesel motors at all, I don't anything about anything.
Speaker 3:These are real compression motors.
Speaker 1:I know cars, like I know car motors, but I don't anything. You know, busted became a gear head.
Speaker 3:Busted. It become with the times.
Speaker 1:Great show guys. Um, I want to give a shout out to a bunch of Workers that I appreciate a ton that just got laid off. Um, everybody from wwe, he got released RIP. I wanted to bring it up just because it's like it's a work related thing and it's kind of wild that all those, all those wrestlers got released because the merger, if you don't know, I'm talking about you can? You can look it up, but the um, ufc and wwe merged and ko yeah tko yeah that worker, whatever uh and they released a ton of wrestlers.
Speaker 1:So a bunch of people just got laid off.
Speaker 3:So shout out to them. One in particular was not surprising.
Speaker 1:Well yeah, but I mean still everybody else. So I shout out to them that they find a better job Uh than what they had.
Speaker 3:A w yeah.
Speaker 1:They found a better job than what they had.
Speaker 3:They're all going to get picked up. Yeah yeah, there's a lot of them. They'll be good.
Speaker 1:I don't, I don't worry about their careers, but I just want to shout it out because it that um. You, don't you don't think of it happening to people like they are because they're. They're rich, and famous, they're considered superstars.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you know it's like uh, any any small business or any kind of merger for the business, there is layoffs, but you just don't think of it happening with something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, there's, there's definitely that's. There's definitely levels to that, but I just wanted to shout that out. Um, uh, don't forget to follow us on tiktok. Um, facebook, uh, instagram. Uh, we're on facebook now. Everything's basically unpaid lunch or at unpaid lunch podcast. Um, is that instagram?
Speaker 2:Is that?
Speaker 1:tiktok, yeah um Facebook, the spotify, yeah, we're. We're on Everything there, you guys know where we're at there and listen to pandora. Yeah, we're on pandora also, are we? Yeah, I don't, I don't think. So I don't think they have podcasts. So, like I'm I'm pretty confident I don't have podcasts. So then we're not open, can?
Speaker 1:we do that Not if they don't have podcasts, we'll make it happen. Anyway, guys, um, yeah, don't forget to check us out on there and, uh, patreon exclusive content Uh, usually the pictures from each week we share on there and stuff. But, yeah, um, thanks for willy coming by and leaving that and looking forward to you know, the next few weeks, some cool guests. You guys got anything else.
Speaker 3:I still got a shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're gonna have to go shit, I don't know you got anything, I'll be good. All right, guys, remember, nobody stopped you from quitting your job, but you. You should go poop yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh.