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
Quiet Quitting: Sliding By
Have you ever wondered what it's like to do just enough to slide by or perhaps you're already living it? This week we blow the lid off 'quiet quitting', a trend so subtle yet so pervasive that it's about time someone finally talked about it. We're also sharing some real-life tales of laundry struggles, both at home and the chaos of a functioning laundromat, and the little white lies we tell our better halves.
We then navigate the nuances of the generational gap, and how our upbringing and parental choices have shaped our perspectives towards work. We're parents now, and we've got our own unique take on work-life balance, and why nothing takes precedence over family. We simultaneously delve into the paradox of over-education, and how it often leads to job hunting frustrations. We also draw comparisons between those who skim by and those who relentlessly pursue growth and advancement, and how the movie Office Space has influenced our work philosophy.
But it's not all serious talk. We've got some lighter discussions too, like our fondness for horror content and our kids' YouTube channel. How did we manage to scare our kids with a Halloween animatronic and rack up a whopping 3.7 million views? Tune in to find out. We also delve into our favorite horror flicks, and how the generational gap plays a role in our horror choices. With a dash of sports analogies and a sprinkle of nostalgia, we guarantee there's something for everyone. So, grab a cup of coffee (or perhaps your laundry), and join us on this journey. You'll laugh, you'll relate, and who knows, you might just find the answer to avoiding the 'quiet quitting' syndrome at your workplace.
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On your break. Today, literally everyone is in studio, the whole production crew, Rhino's here, and we're rocking out talking about quiet quitting, which is a major thing going on right now, and I seem to have done it every job. I've had Alright time to clock out for lunch. Welcome in to Unpaid Lunch. Thanks for spending your break with us. Heavy D, Rhino's here, the whole fucking production crew, everybody. I think if message of the algorithm is what I say, fucking like the first 30 seconds. But ask me if I give a fuck.
Speaker 2:I don't know if there's any proof to that.
Speaker 1:I don't think there's any proof to anything. I think everybody makes everything up all the time.
Speaker 2:Apparently all we gotta do is say shit, dick, demon or call center, call center, call center, and we get down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get a COVID tag. Say shit, dick demon, say call center. That's what we're looking for. Say hi to everybody. Say hi to the hustlers production crew, the whole crew's here, monroe, west, key, everybody's here. We're not allowing them to talk anymore unless we ask them a question Third time out. Key don't know how to use a mic, weston don't know what's going on and Monroe's just, he's asleep anyway.
Speaker 2:Literally.
Speaker 1:I just looked at her when you tell everybody say hi, monroe, he's now like you, or a little bit. We all pregame a little hard tonight. The pre show is y'all pregame?
Speaker 2:No, I'm just appreciate was tough.
Speaker 1:Today we are going to talk about one of my favorite things to do at any job I've ever had, and I think everybody. This is more common now, but I think everybody's done it. What we talking about right now.
Speaker 2:Quiet quitting and say quite a natural phenomenon in today's workplace. One thing I think is quite hilarious I've been watching a ton of content uh, TikTok, YouTube and everything else. A lot of people are trying to disprove that quiet quitting exists and then, when you get to looking at it, it's HR and recruiters. I wish they fucking met me. I mean that's what they're doing. They're trying to like basically retcon this whole entire situation and act like it doesn't exist, when I mean, we all live it.
Speaker 1:Every job I've ever had, except for my current one. I've quietly quit.
Speaker 2:I think you just either choked to death or had so much acid reflux that your head almost popped off.
Speaker 1:Man, I made pot roast today, pork and potatoes and bourbon. You didn't let me get to that. The bourbon was lighter.
Speaker 2:It mixes well.
Speaker 1:I also just sat around the couch today was a slob, and later on I did wash clothes, so that's like that's the never ending. You know what I didn't fucking to?
Speaker 2:never. You wash clothes. So listen our dryers just shit the bricks right now. It's dead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so for the first time ever, adult problems.
Speaker 2:First time in my life I went to an actual functioning laundromat oh shit, I love a fucking laundromat and what should have been like nine loads of laundry at our house. That would probably took a day and a half. We were done in two hours and it was fucking phenomenal.
Speaker 2:Man honestly um we hold on on time. Sorry, it was phenomenal until one of my children got bored, the four year old. Finally, just the phones were not working and did not keep her occupied anymore. And then my nine year old showed up about an hour and a half into it and 30 minutes was not good enough for him. Then it became the most excruciating. It was the worst. Yeah, it was the worst, but go ahead, I'm sorry, okay, if your kids weren't there.
Speaker 1:The laundromat is the best.
Speaker 1:Like as an adult it's so satisfying to be like, like, how long do you work a laundry at home? Like fucking all day, literally all day, and it never gets done, right, and then, and then it's piled up with what mean. You have similar lives as far as, like, we work day shift and we fucking get home. We have to go to sports immediately and we get home at 939. We whatever supper happened to show up at our house, and then we repeat the same thing the next day and laundry somehow gets done somewhere in the middle of that shit Shout out to our wives, who probably do it a lot more than we do.
Speaker 2:And you gotta think about that too is it's it's multiple stages, so it's first you got to push yourself to wash it and once it gets started, inevitably after that first load's done and key you can check me on this. You're the only woman in here that yeah, the mom, the mom of the group. More often than not life gets so busy and so hectic that that first load you always end up washing it twice because it sits overnight and it becomes gross. So then you have to wash it again. Then you wash all of it, you dry it, you have some things probably that you hang, that you don't dry, and then inevitably the easiest thing that you could do is fold as they're done.
Speaker 2:No everybody in the house has what we call it our house. We use it as our dining room table, we coin it as clothes mountain.
Speaker 1:Listen, you haven't been in my living room just because you didn't have to go through that room to get in here. Man, the whole couch is just clever because I wash clothes today and I tell this subtle lie to my wife I did laundry today is the subtle lie that I tell. Because I didn't fold a thing right, nor was I. You just watched shit. Yeah, I washed like, which is much more important than folding as a man, right? As an almost 40 adult male, I do not give a fuck if you fold my clothes right. Leave them on the couch, that's fine, I know where they're all at.
Speaker 2:As long as it passes the smell test, it's within reach.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what about these socks? They clean, they smell like they're not dirty. We don't wear these socks, also day three on them, but you know no we're not talking about laundry.
Speaker 2:I don't know whether we have a whole episode, we're just going to talk about, literally talking about quiet, quitting on doing laundry.
Speaker 1:Quietly quitting doing laundry. I would pay we put. We put key in charge of producing, because I don't feel like pressing buttons anymore, so keys in charge of the sound effects. And she's been waiting to use those crickets for two weeks so she got to use them. So, quiet quitting I definitely did that at Sykes the whole time I was there, which is funny, because something that goes along with quiet quitting is like I don't really know a name for this, I guess but let me lead in here. Uh-oh.
Speaker 2:He's not prepared. Media Americans would call employees lazy or unambitious, or shiftless loafers, who are unwilling to go the extra mile, or burnouts, who are unable to do so. It hurt my feelings.
Speaker 2:That's why everyone this. This is a review that I saw online. I thought it was fantastic, and so when I say I'm speaking from this, yeah, that's why everyone I spoke with agreed to talk, only on the condition that I swap their real names with pseudonyms. But such name-calling misses the point. If you ask the employees, they say they're making a considered, deliberate decision. They're done letting companies squeeze free labor out of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fuck yeah.
Speaker 2:After years of feeling exploited by their employers, the late nights, lost weekends, the demand for fealty, the tables have turned. In a sense, these professionals are mounting a secret resistance against the status quo. Oh, hulse hustle, culture is over, and in some corners of corporate America it's being replaced by coasting culture, which I thought was freaking awesome. So the last part of this is like the hardest thing you've ever said. Listen, I mean, it gets me moist Over the last few weeks.
Speaker 1:Professionals like.
Speaker 2:Justin who, strategically dialing back at work now this is a random Justin, but also feel like this is my boy William Wallace, shout out. During the coronavirus pandemic, they came to see work as just that work. So for the first time in their lives, they view their jobs as the source of a paycheck to support themselves and their families, not a higher calling. That demands their utmost devotion, and the pandemic created the ideal conditions to live out their new resolve. The hot labor market was insured, or had insured their job security, while the raise in remote work is making it harder for their managers to monitor the effort they have put into their work.
Speaker 2:Yeah it's the perfect time to be a recovering overachiever man so so that's not beautiful so much shit unload there right now.
Speaker 1:I'm number one man I love that right I.
Speaker 2:Saw that as like I'm literally screenshotting this. There's nothing more perfect to explain or describe quiet, quitting.
Speaker 1:I want to point out Something I always say, but I've not said it lately I love the company that I work for. Right, because I legitimately think they're Not a bad company, right, and there's still the shit, but right, they're not like a bad company. So, but I don't want to work anywhere, right? Hmm, so that's the whole thing Nobody does right, but I'm willing to apply myself at doing things. That man, it's hard to say that you don't apply yourself to things, especially because like me and your differing anyway. That you know.
Speaker 2:But even you know that after the last week I've had I'm man, I'm burning.
Speaker 1:so you Lately and and I think you worked harder during the pandemic than most people- I did right, but you Lately it took post pandemic. Was your stress, right? And I think it took that because, like, especially like I've seen something in you that's a little bit different lately, like you know what I mean. Like your family focused anyway, but like you obviously are workaholic.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. In the past, like I've brought this up on previous episodes, I had later, one time before, flat out Tell me that was a terrible father. Yeah right, and I am like in slowly over time, that was before I even and we're, we're podcast geniuses.
Speaker 1:Right last week and this week we did that on purpose, we know, we know what we're doing. The middle health thing quite quitting or very similar things.
Speaker 2:They're smarter than everybody else. We know they definitely correlate. So one of the big things that I think we should have guessed I think this is it's a generational gap. I know what y'all did.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I don't know what's the shot.
Speaker 2:wisdom in the face. Hey Wes, Will you close?
Speaker 1:this window behind me. The heat pump kicked on and it's thought is fucking here. I was trying to keep it cool for you. I know it's good but production team in work in work.
Speaker 2:What I was saying is I think it's a generational gap, yeah, so prior generations. To us it was a pride thing and I think I picked that up from a lot of my family.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Your dad especially definitely my dad so, and I model a lot of my behavior after my dad. But looking back through a lot of it is it was a job security thing, like especially in the coal mines and everything else. You got to think of that type of work. Yeah, the person that worked harder and continue to work harder and show up day in, day out, they're the ones that kept the job and didn't get laid off. But you got no incremental gain. There was no pay raise there was nothing else.
Speaker 2:It was job security. So going through GameStop and all that, like we were talking about last week, you know, exploitative managers and things like that continue to be like the thumb that pressed down my psyche.
Speaker 2:So there was no quiet quitting. For me it was overachieve, overachieve, overachieve. When somebody's approval, anybody, that'll give me a pat on the head. That's the route I was taking. So you know I pretty much got the conversation before COVID that I was shitty dad. But also at the time too Well you know, I've told you that too Well there's, you know. But so when your kids are younger and they're not, they've not really fully formed their personality yet.
Speaker 2:Yeah they're going through the formative years and things like that, and they're crawling walking except for my son, whose personality is was just like chilled.
Speaker 1:His whole personality is a freezer.
Speaker 2:But now like seeing my kids and be able to interact with them on a day-by-day basis. Yeah, my family is my favorite people, so I don't want to be at work now. Before my dad died, I had 14 days of paid time off saved up. I have people that I manage on a day-by-day basis that once they get to one, it's gone. Oh yeah gone, gone, gone. And now it's just puzzled me. I was like I like the concept of having stuff back in case I have an agency, not now.
Speaker 1:I've got like 1.5 days oh okay, I'm proud of you, proud of me around that. Now I like to take a little bit of credit for Runs attitude towards work. So something I try not to talk about like too much is, you know, like I said, I Don't want to lose the job I have, but If shit came down to it like I'm gonna choose my family every time you know what I mean and it's like my one of my kids has an event, I'm like, hey, I'm going to this. Yeah, like when I was working Saturdays it was the wirestrap but it was like I'm going to this and it was like, well, you don't really have pto to cover it. I was like, alright, I do not care. Like I'm going to this and I think, like the quiet quitting back to the subject is I've had, you know I, more important things than me working. You know me working my ass off for a company that doesn't care about me. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:It's the care part, but I even take the care part away. I can give two shits, but whether or not you want to give me a pizza party, pat on the back or anything like that, anymore my brain's gone from that. I'm being paid when we agree up on terms of my employment. It is set forth that this is what my objectives are, that I'm to complete.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:My responsibilities and this is my pay rate for that.
Speaker 2:Now, if you start adding more to that, yeah you better add incremental pay with that or some form of incremental benefit. Now, when you don't, that's when I'm starting to get upset and I'm starting to get checked out and, like I know you just said, I love to take some credit, for you know the methodology and how things are changing in my head. I mean, I could give that to former bosses and everything else, and I'm not trying to get too heavy. But when I come back to the end of the day, it was the passing of my father that changed me a hundred percent, that's a hundred percent, because now I like I look back and it's like what's?
Speaker 1:time lost shit he was gone at 60. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And how much did he miss? Because he prioritized work over it.
Speaker 1:Because your dad like not not. So I love your daddy, right, but he had his issues that he worked way too much.
Speaker 2:Right. He did a lot in the early parts of his life In the early parts of his life.
Speaker 1:Right, so did my dad. Right, like our fathers, like my dad. Shouldn't be a supervisor of anything, right, love my dad. Right, hardest working fucking man alive. But probably shouldn't be a supervisor or anything. But, like you said, the coal mines. He was a supervisor in the coal mines because he worked his ass off every day and showed up all the time Supervisors in the coal mines.
Speaker 2:It's, it's. I was called DFG's designated fall guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, that's what I was getting ready to say. If somebody dies, you're getting fired Same thing my nose and all his head.
Speaker 2:It's the same thing in medical field.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:If you're a supervisor over department, you're a designated fall guy. You are somebody to catch blame as something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't matter really, though Like whoever's over you is going to get the fall. That's what you get.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you could light the building on fire. Yeah, if Wesson's over top you, he's getting shit canned.
Speaker 1:Should be watching me and that goes with it, except for, like you said, in the mines you don't make that much more money. Right, it's just like the no, you don't have to fucking, you don't have to.
Speaker 2:You probably got shift preferential. Yeah, you don't have to drive roof bolts. No, that's the only reason you took the job, fucking yeah.
Speaker 1:And then your dad at the end of his career. Was your dad retired when he died?
Speaker 2:He was due to retire in nine months after his passing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I couldn't remember. Didn't get there. I couldn't remember if he did or not, but like he had it cushy the last few years, right.
Speaker 2:So it was getting to the point where he technically had two years left to retire, but you want to talk about saving that PTO.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, sure.
Speaker 2:So much paid time off through the state of Kentucky that he could have retired a year early.
Speaker 1:Well, and you know you're learning from, like we learned from our father's mistakes. Right, like you're not going to work as much as your dad did? No, I wouldn't. That's the part.
Speaker 2:That pissed me off too, so he doesn't mind. And surface reclamation work. For those that don't know, we live in a very prevalent, predominant co mining community area. The whole entire area has been skewed by that market. But you either had deep mining, which is the hole in the mountain that you went back inside of which is what my dad did.
Speaker 2:Or you had surface mining, which is my dad done a little bit of both, yeah, but what he done at the end was we're working for the state. He would go look and say, okay, this is the part of the mountain you tore down, now part of your part of your bond, and your contract for you to get money released back off of your bond is you have to reclaim it back to a presentable state. So he got onto a new job, discovered that the previous inspector had marked some things Clear bond release the money. Well, dad found out the co company had disturbed that that portion of the permit again and dad reported it. Frankfurt got pissed off. You just lost that. Frankfurt got pissed off. Came in and said someone's got to eat you know crows for this. And dad's like I presented this the right way. I did everything I was supposed to. They literally gave him a 30 day suspension and the main reason he got suspension is because he filed a wrongful case against them for a promotion.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He went out for a promotion. He was almost 60. A guy that was 24, guided, fresh out of college, no experience. They gave it to that guy and not the guy with 25 years experience. So his supervisors and Frankfurt kind of had some egg on their face because he filed a wrongful age dispute or however you would.
Speaker 1:Sure so they're, which is obviously what that was. Yeah, I mean like oh, yeah, it was age discrimination. Give him the promotion.
Speaker 2:You're going to hire somebody else in four years, right, and that was obviously so they go to lay him or they don't lay him off. I mean, he's got such tenure and stuff. At this point they have to do a full internal review. They give me 30 days suspension, no pay.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:In that 30 days he worked on, reclaim the whole entire house around the new place that they built up on the hill.
Speaker 1:Uh huh.
Speaker 2:Get everything put together. Contract COVID died two days before you're supposed to report back to work from the suspension.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I hate that.
Speaker 2:And it's just crazy. So now, looking at it and I know I'm that is heavy guys, I apologize, but looking at it it's giving me a whole different perspective on things.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, you know a lot of people I know are there's a few of our listeners lost people to COVID too.
Speaker 2:So exactly, but, like now, I'm back on salary Right Now. If you're going to pay me an hourly and you want me to do 60 hours worth of working week, I'll do 60 hours worth of working week, yeah, but there's incremental gain for me there. Salary my 40 hits I'm done, yeah, I'm done. Now I'm no longer pushing, will be on that threshold Now. That's different. Whereas the more common sector and kind of what we worked through just a moment ago when we was reading that piece, is that us saying we're not going to take on additional work without pay is not the true understanding of quiet quitting. Yeah, people have now realized this is what I can do. All right, a is me succeeding at my job. B is okay. C, on a grade scale, is it's getting tough but I'm passing, but I'm doing enough to where I'm keeping my job. D's concern, obviously, if you're getting fired. We're in a world now where everyone's riding that tightrope of the true dedicated C.
Speaker 1:You know, what's funny is it's an unpopular maybe this is my well, maybe it's not an unpopular opinion, but hot take anyway is it is all about the hard work. It's almost harder to just skate by than it is to just do your best job. You know what I mean. It depends on the workflow. No, and what I mean? I guess it's more so if, like, if your job is like so, in school, like I just did whatever, like why would I do any extra? You know what I mean? Like what did it matter?
Speaker 1:Especially like I was probably not going to go to college, like any major college anyway, because my parents weren't going to be able to pay for college, and I wasn't. I wasn't going to be an athlete, so I wasn't going to pay. You know, I played, but I wasn't going to get the ride. I knew, even at my best, I wasn't going to be smart enough to get an academic scholarship. So I was like well, just get seasoned if I can do whatever, and then I'll get out and work, which is what I did, and I work with a bunch of people. I make more money than Than a lot of people who have master's degree oh yeah, who have masters.
Speaker 2:I'm a call center. I make more money than a lot. Of start now educators yeah well.
Speaker 1:Kisha has. Kisha has way more education than we ever do until she found the job she recently does and blessed to have. But before that she struggled through All work she struggled through because she couldn't find anything, because she was fucking over educated for everything.
Speaker 2:You make more than this. Yes, she does now take you to get there this year. Yeah, how many years degree?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, she's not an educated. She's in education, but not in like what I'm saying, she's adjacent. She's adjacent, yeah All right.
Speaker 2:So how long, how many years did it take you to get there? That's what I'm saying that's Three years in a call center. Well, that's what I mean, that's what's that's what's fucked up with this world I make like six years, that's eight years of call listen, I make 1950.
Speaker 1:I've been in my company two years, like, and that's just because, like the department I mean now, now I do a lot more work than I've ever done it probably any job ever Do a lot more work, and it's like work that I have to do, which is what I need, though, like I have, I have worked that if I don't do, everything's fucked up and nobody else is gonna do it. So I have to have that kind of work or I won't do it.
Speaker 2:Like we're talking about how, like you ride the tightrope of I'm gonna do just enough work to where I can't get fired. You're gonna see different people have different scopes and different platforms that yours is. I'm gonna do enough mental work to where I don't get fired, and I also don't get that meeting that you hate sure there's different ones.
Speaker 1:There's people who, like, are fucked all the time, who are like on their final all the time. I and it comes from office space. It's funny, we've talked about it before. Probably not in a few weeks I've not talked about. I watched office space again recently at work, which is funny, but um how much this, this show, is Like an offspring from office space.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah like cuz.
Speaker 1:I watched office space for like a week and it's what I was in my previous job and and I really was upset about it.
Speaker 1:But anyway, he doesn't want to have meetings and that's really why I don't want to go hassled by, I don't want to get in trouble because I had meetings, um, and I had a boss who, who I loved, but I really didn't think I was gonna be able to work for because we had a meeting a week and it wasn't even like I was in trouble or anything, it was just like progress meetings and I was like this is like I literally can't do this. Please, let me fucking come to work and do my job. I like my job now because I come to work, I do really busy work and then I go home. You know what I mean? I'm not got enough shit we talked about last week. I got so much shit going on now that I'm like, and I'm busy anyway.
Speaker 2:Well, I was. I literally just watched again the other day too, because when I was looking into this and doing a lot of research I'm quite quitting.
Speaker 1:It's literally the movie you guys think we don't put any work in this show. We put working.
Speaker 2:It's, it's literally the movie, because I mean, you gotta think about it. There's there's two main key, pivotal scenes. That is a full Work in motion. Practice of quiet quitting when Peter is pulled in for meeting. What was the bills?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the bills.
Speaker 2:So he's literally going through the spiel and I tell the Bob's, the Bob's, Bob's, yeah, the Bob's so he's going through the scene with the bannett's bees. They're working through the scene with the Bob's. There. He's explained them what his day looks like a motivation. Exactly Every single thing he says in that scene is quiet quitting. Yeah and nobody talked about it. That was what early mid 90s. Yeah nobody talked about it.
Speaker 1:I work my ass off and they move a couple extra units and he's like I make the same amount of money.
Speaker 2:Quite quitting. Yeah fuck, I love that. Jennifer Aniston, do you want to wear your 16 pieces of flier or you don't wear everything? She's wearing the bare minimum. Where's the bare minimum? Get by.
Speaker 1:Do you want me to wear 16 pieces of flier? And he's like a. I want you to express yourself. She's like so. So yes, then wear more, and that's how I feel. In high school, I actually figured out that summer school was easier than my math class. Yep, so if I just didn't go to my math class or failed, it.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing I could go to two weeks of summer school angle.
Speaker 1:Mention your name if you had her, hey and I like her Outside of school, like I see her at ball games. This shit, I'm like I love you.
Speaker 2:You're not my favorite teacher. God I hate her. That's why I ended up transferring school.
Speaker 1:Mean her like a relationship or like I wasn't even her student. I mean we didn't fuck, but I mean like we like, we were cool, you know what I mean and like. But she knew I wasn't gonna do any work and that was just the way it is, because I could go to two weeks of summer school and it was just doing worksheets. Like I just did worksheets for two weeks.
Speaker 2:And that was easy I quite quit school. She was a hard egg to crack. Let me tell you everybody.
Speaker 1:You know Gabby, my little girl, whose 10 was in here in the fourth grade, was in here earlier and clasped your son and she was like I dread tomorrow so bad, I go back to prison, and I was like you shut your mouth. I was like you shut up. You don't know what it's like life. It's tough.
Speaker 2:And I get it. I mean that, lord, live that life up until you get out. Like I told Ashley the other day. I said, dude, you don't understand. Like he's like, if you could change stuff, what would you go back? Would it be school, would be sports? I'm like, I love it. Yeah, there's some things I would and I said but there's like who you don't know, what you're messing up out on right now, like right now he's going through my son's incredibly athletic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm more athletic than I ever would have been, a lot more athletic than some of the peers of his same age group. The problem is he's getting to the point now he knows it, yeah, and he's starting to want to work less, and it just.
Speaker 1:He'll get humbled.
Speaker 2:He's gonna get humbled at some point and I'm actually the point now. I'm taking the step back in the backseat and I'm wanting him to yeah, he needs to get home and drug down really good one time.
Speaker 1:Well, cuz he's at the age right now that there's no, because all the coaching is positive coaching. You know what I mean? There's no like, there's no constructive yeah, there's no criticism, it's all like hey, you're gonna be really good, keep trying and keep keep going. There's nothing like.
Speaker 2:East kid, you're doing great, but I don't know. Yeah, the only person that is Contrary into that is me. Yeah and I've become the villain because I'm the dad coach.
Speaker 1:Yeah, could you look bad?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I'm. You want to talk about quiet quitting? I'm hearing quiet quitting on coaching my child. I'm just gonna let him get by with a bare minimum because the thing is Me and you. We were never the most athletic, but we worked hard.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what I was talking to Larry Ozley about. Shout out, larry Was like if you work hard at it, you could in sports. Like you really just got to outwork people right. Like you, you're gonna have some athletic ability. But if you outwork people, you'll, you'll, you'll get the job right.
Speaker 1:You're gonna do it and that's what sports are about you out work, everybody's gonna develop consistency, yeah, whereas if you don't, it's become sporadic peaks and valleys especially baseball, right, like, because when me and you talk about sports, everybody, just so everybody knows if me and Ryan are talking in generals about sports, we mean baseball. Right, because we talk more about football and we talk a little bit about basketball, but at our core, baseball is where we are and and that's what we're talking about generally. And in baseball, what makes you good is consistency, persistence and and and it's really like and it's less skill than other sports, right, it's less skill than other sports. That if you are, if you are, if you do repetitions yeah, that's the other word I was looking for. That's where it's at repetition, persistence and consistency, right.
Speaker 1:God damn it some serious shit but really, and develops the consistency and persistence develops the and baseball more than any other sport and football right. Jude shout out Mike, shout out toe Ryde's middle and recurring guest oh yellow croc yeah, his son is the best tackler on Neon's middle school football team.
Speaker 1:He is also the smallest eighth grader and one of the smallest kids on the team. But his form tackling is because he is consistently better at wrapping people up than everybody else on the team, right, and it's just because of that that he's able to do it because he puts in the work because he puts in the fucking world I was at an early age that wrestling was gonna help him in football yeah
Speaker 2:help him understand how to contain his body. That's why I listen. I know a lot. If you're from away from here and you don't listen to this, this is local shit. I'm getting into it. I'm sorry, but I'm just pounding my chest. But like we went from, we're gonna go into them, or actually today. This launches today, on Monday. It starts the beginning of our wrestling season. We went from having 15 kids in our youth program last year and what would you say? 8 to 10 in high school. Yeah, 50.
Speaker 1:Now the youth program. Yeah, I didn't get to see high school a lot, but that's about right oh my god, I can't wait.
Speaker 2:That is one sport you can't quite quit it, because if you do, you get your ass beat oh yeah, cuz it's just one, be one, you quite what you're done. I can't wait to watch all that.
Speaker 1:I can't have you ever in your life quite quit any, any job? If you weren't a supervisor, I think you would have by now at Sykes. I did it Sykes because what you were talking about about doing doing more work than you get paid for um, sykes is the worst, for that right it was. It was the worst forever, because the reason I left is because I had to take all kinds of calls from different departments and I knew how to do because I did just enough there. But unfortunately, I did just enough to know everything about every department.
Speaker 2:I can't do it there yeah, I know that. I'm so invested in school yeah, I don't mean there.
Speaker 1:You're responsible for people there, right? So that's that's my thing. Yeah, is that I don't mean that?
Speaker 2:I'm responsible. I look at my 25 like they are my children yeah, about food city oh, yeah, yeah that was food city video was the pity of quiet.
Speaker 1:Also think everybody at food city does the bare minimum. I know I guess nobody gives a fuck. You will get.
Speaker 2:Josh Cottle works his ass off.
Speaker 1:He works he's been there a hundred years. Think he's gonna quit soon. Right, because he's getting his degree, he's finishing his degree close.
Speaker 2:It was you did more tray probably produce he's not your produce be more, but I saw you up front the other day. If you're listening to this still, I'm ass, I get front working. I was like what in the world?
Speaker 1:no, he's one of my favorite people. I don't. I don't like to give him any credit, but I don't really like to give anybody any credit except for you, man's got a good beard he has a fucking awesome beard, amazing, you've got done.
Speaker 2:Great wish he was an asshole.
Speaker 1:I'd like to find out he was serial killer, something I feel better about.
Speaker 2:It's done some dang good and possible podcast work.
Speaker 1:He has done and I'm really disappointed that he hasn't been on our podcast how we not crossed you know streams there, yet cross streams yeah, I wanted to throw some type of you to miss my threat, make people uncomfortable.
Speaker 2:I feel like how we not sword fight?
Speaker 1:yet I feel like if he comes on and we come on, and then we're, we all are naked, that would make for a really good show.
Speaker 2:I feel like we're just going to talk a lot about random nonsense, bullshit do you know how much fun we have?
Speaker 1:what are we doing? You want to call him right now. I wish it went in the middle of the night. I didn't have to get home.
Speaker 2:We could just start pounding drinks next week.
Speaker 1:We'll call him. I'm down for that yeah, we'll call him next week. Hopefully he won't quite quit us well.
Speaker 2:I did feel like there for a little bit like who you brought it up last week that we were feeling a lot of pressure about feeling like we had to put out episodes. We were kind of starting to quite quit here a little bit. Yeah, um.
Speaker 1:I really want people's feedback, cuz people we have we joke about nobody listening to the show, but I know you all are out there. You six people are out there listening and we kind of want feedback, just like I feel like the last six weeks has been our worst product, which is funny because when we think that other people message me and are like came in, this episode was fucking awesome you get that all time and I think it was our worst six episodes because I think you have been checked out for a while we had been.
Speaker 2:I thought last week was one of our better ones.
Speaker 1:I thought it was great.
Speaker 2:I ain't heard a fucking word about it.
Speaker 1:I had a great time last week I had a really good time to the toy store, the the eject toys, but we were pretty tired that night. We record pretty late.
Speaker 2:I have to yeah, we don't.
Speaker 1:We just don't. We just fucking family and shit. We don't really have time to do anything about that. We record pretty late and I got a lot of other projects going on right now. It's like podcasting and broadcasting and shit and and Rhino has a lot of shit he's working on and by the time we get done, we don't. You know, we play, we like all big plans to have like four guests and record four episodes and we don't get that shit done that does bring.
Speaker 2:That's why I'm so grateful for this, because it has, you know, kind of harkening back to the episode we had with psycho silico talking about how you know, in a previous life. It feels like it's like he's coming back on. He should be back here soon, tyler, if you hear us, you come back soon, which he's. He's about to get very busy quickly, so boys gonna pop off.
Speaker 1:We're gonna have him on. Pop off, we're gonna get him back quick.
Speaker 2:We were kind of talking about it's like in the past life that's what I liked to do and something, incredibly, I wanted to go to full sale. I wanted to do movie production and stuff like that and this is kind of reinvigorate something, that creative spark I know like, especially with you. You've been I mean, you were in a booth for a football game they're doing some producing. You've been working on some, you know, adjunct stuff doing sports show love it. Winston, who's a previous guest.
Speaker 1:So plug it all. What are?
Speaker 2:you red red carpet.
Speaker 1:Let's, let's red carpet. So been doing a show Winston's baby, winston Lee's baby. It's on TV s cable. It's a Before the whistle and we cover it's like 45, 50 minute show. We cover Local sports, nfl, nba, stuff, like that small segments. I do it with Winston Lee and Coach Ethan Cummings from Jenkins, both those boys, that's fun. That's that's on Friday night before the local game on hometown, hometown 24, yeah, and then with another company, a competitor to that company which is interesting.
Speaker 1:D&D sports. I've been calling some of the games on Friday nights for the, for LCC, and producing stuff and producing for a few other podcasts, and then we're working on some. We're working on some podcasts, also one to the Under the unpaid lunch umbrella. We're working on some others, some other projects that right now is gonna be involved in and doing some stuff, and that's fun, keeps me busy, keeps me not sad. Listening to very, very little Adam song lately Not listening as much as he was the fucking new album.
Speaker 2:No oh. Dude Monroe fucking Monroe lit up, dude, it's a lot of you know. It's all you come out Friday.
Speaker 1:Friday they released. They released anthem part 3 Friday morning in the album planet noon. And it is so good, dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's so good. You hit a nerve when you said Adam song. My whole family almost had me committed to one point. Thought I was suicidal because you listen to Adam song oh, it's an Adam song.
Speaker 1:I was like it's just good I accidentally post it. Like I I don't know if I just didn't think about what it was about, but stay together for the kids. Like I posted that to my like Facebook one time a Facebook story, whatever. I'd like three people master me and be like are you getting divorced? I was like, wait, no, I'm sorry, I just fucking really super sad and this song makes me even more sad.
Speaker 2:So I had to listen to it. I want to just fully be cradled by the red carpet for you.
Speaker 1:What are you doing? Oh, you got some shit popping off fun here lately. What's that? What's that tick tock?
Speaker 2:Tick tock is at big old noggin bi g o l. You know Ggi in because I have a massive dome on top my show.
Speaker 1:This is I. You know I call this podcast the biggest head podcast on there because it pocket. I guess it's a close when Nick's here. We're gonna get Nick back and then we'll record a big head episode.
Speaker 2:Big head episode we. I've been just thinking about content differently here lately. I loved all the different social media platforms and stuff and I love this version of you. I love this type of year. I'm a huge like we've talked about previous episodes huge horror movie fan. Love Halloween, love everything about it. Had a weird random occurrence where I knew an animatronic at spirit. Halloween's gonna scare the bejesus out of my kids, but I staged it perfectly.
Speaker 2:I was like I'm gonna videotape this and we'll see what happens. Damn things got like 3.7 million views on tick tock you gotta go check it out and tick tock.
Speaker 1:It's hilarious. I'm pumped about that. Hey, you thought he was such a badass in that video. Oh, it's my favorite part.
Speaker 2:my kid thought he's so bright. Amber walks up, she's like are you working like? Very sweetly, I ask in this big red demon if it's what its intentions are the first time I watched.
Speaker 1:I yelled get fucked. I almost does a backflip.
Speaker 2:It's hilarious. So then I got thinking about like this is the type of stuff that I feel like the algorithm is definitely meeting right now. On Tick Tock, I'm seeing a lot of horror stuff. I'm seeing a lot of Halloween spirit Halloween. I'm gonna put it on there and it popped off. It did Done a couple other filters and things like that. That's Halloween based and and the more we sit and talked about it years ago, I sure wanted to do like who he was desperately in love with funnel vision.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, fuck yeah fgTV and hey wanted to be like motherfuckers are rich?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they are. They're kind of somewhat local there.
Speaker 1:He's coast like oh yeah, videos going to cool too. I think like their content, like their content seems down there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like them a lot, but that's what he wanted to do, so he's we could do like a hiking adventure video. So we made one called ashes hiking adventures, and One video was one video too much. I followed him up a hillside slit, fell, roll all the down.
Speaker 1:Did you post that one?
Speaker 2:It's on there but like I don't know if it's just the context of it, Got like 6,000 views. You should cut it down to just you follow. I cut it down to that. It's still not popping up like.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying it, I gotta watch it.
Speaker 2:Eli's mommy. She's like I don't care what you put out, him getting scared by demons, funny. But you rolled down that heels the first thing. So that kind of shut that down because I couldn't walk for about four weeks after that one. So his YouTube channel just kind of went away. Well, we got to talk about. I'm like, dude, right now is the perfect time. Yeah, what would you like to do? He's like I want to do more of this scary stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, it just so happened that Right around the time that I always start popping off, netflix was releasing the fall of the house of usher. Yeah, oh, po material. What just so happens. My kids name is Asher. I was like let's get weedy. The fall of the house of Asher, I love it. So it's most clever thing you ever say Just got lucky, name my kids up and close. But we've got that that page up and running. And last night we went on this big, huge family, I think probably like 25, 30 people, family, friends. We went over. If your local go check out the kingdom, come state park Fright nights, I think is what it's called. It's phenomenal. There's like a illuminated, like nine hole put put golf course. It's just full Halloween lights and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:And then they had a pretty good haunted house so I was able to go. I was like I'm just gonna film this whole experience and see if we can get a vlog out of it for his channel. Now we've got like 50 55 minutes worth of content, so probably by Wednesday of this week I think we'll have the first vlog episode out. I love that. We'll see how that goes. As long as he wants to keep people, keep up with it, run with it, we'll keep doing it. Um, also picked up a tag along with it. Cole loves this stuff.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know man.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, so you guys went through my son to local people.
Speaker 1:Listen to the episode this week, the last weekend for the haunted house at the little Shepherd.
Speaker 2:We had to last night back to back there.
Speaker 1:It's a haunted forest man. It's the asylum, I guess, and it is so, it's so awesome.
Speaker 2:I had to go talk to clay before record because I loved like he definitely good. It was basically kind of giving like last ride something on an electric chair.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's pretty cool he lives for acting, you know, and uh, and that's just like he's just acting in a horror movie as far as he's concerned and that's, and he loves doing that shit, I'm telling him we were talking about before the show starts.
Speaker 2:I ain't gonna drop this on this episode, but I love I've got a concept for something next year for a fundraiser and I won't play involved with it.
Speaker 2:Because I'm not here for it, like I'm a big and I know josh coddle will speak to this if he listens and I know he's a big fan, too huge cloud Barker fan. So there's some things I'm playing around in my head that I would like to set up next year, and I think we got the perfect venue for it. So I want to see if I can rob him away from the amphitheater up there and see if I can put him to work.
Speaker 1:Well, he, um, they didn't get to do the play this year because, uh, um, they didn't, they couldn't get enough people or whatever, and and there was enough people to do the, the, uh, the haunted house, but they couldn't get there.
Speaker 2:I had a killer ragged ask Exorcist scene. I really didn't wait and what. That's what. It's kind of another one, those generational gap things. I was talking to the director. She was in the back of the pack, Asked coordinates back out and the kids were in front and there was people still jump scared. Now I'm just talking to her in the background. I was walking out. I was like I really liked your ex. Exorcism. Seeing back there she's like you know, you're only like the third person that's realized that that's actually the exorcist.
Speaker 1:Which is the saddest shit? That nobody.
Speaker 2:All right, most of our kids today ain't watched movies from 1970s. They don't know what the exorcist is. They don't maybe like the exorcism of emily rose is or something like that, but they don't know what Reagan is.
Speaker 1:It's super depressing.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:I don't get, uh, I don't get how people don't know what that is. Um, I watched, I happen, I do this, I do dad watching tv. I don't know if you do this like where you roam into a room when there's something on and uh, and you and you catch yourself watching it, oh yeah you know I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:You ever do that and you walk in and you get invested and then they change it. Yeah, yeah, like they, like they didn't know you're watching.
Speaker 1:I was like, what are you doing? And then I catch myself watching that show liner, yeah. But, um, I caught where this lady was talking about. The exorcist has been real and I know it was a true story. But like she was talking about, like the movie, she was like, yeah, when they filmed that stuff that was really happening. And I was like that girl's head turned backwards and stuff and I was like what?
Speaker 2:are you talking about? Linda Blair's head did not turn around backwards.
Speaker 1:I know I was like she's an actress. You know that like she got confused, because it's based on a true story. Yeah, I guess, but everything like that is um Segway. Gods, here we are with the segue gods next week we're gonna have a horror episode.
Speaker 1:Love it the Halloween horror episode and that would be good. Hopefully I'm gonna call them out so they have to show up that Mikey and Willie Joe are supposed to come by and we're gonna try to do some scary shit and some horror shit, because they live for all that. Mikey has a VHS collection of horror movies.
Speaker 2:So we need to sneak Tyler in with. I was gonna say, if we could get.
Speaker 1:Tyler here To just fuck them up, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 2:They think they're badass and they get in here and all of a sudden the dolls start popping out. They're like I don't know what.
Speaker 1:I signed up. I don't know, man, mikey might be all about it. I think they would be all about it. They'd fucking sell it. Mikey has a badass VHS collection of horror movies like old horror movies of VHS. It's fucking awesome. Yeah, so I have quite quit. Total tally, I've probably quite quit. I Didn't do anything, probably the first four jobs I had. So I don't know if that counts as quite quitting or just quitting from the beginning. It could be just laziness.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's probably just laziness. That's not an application.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is it? I guess that's where there's a five line. There's between just been lazy, not doing your job and like and.
Speaker 2:Doing, what is being knowledgeable, the experience, what you're working through. Yeah kind of be an exploitative, the other ones Just not giving a fuck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know I love doing this and you do too, right? So I don't know what it feel like, like we don't get paid. We get paid, just like we have patrons. We have paid patrons, patrons that pay for, basically, our publishing, like a publishing area, but something, stuff is not free. We need to put that everywhere and I'm pretty sure it covers it. I've not did the math because I'm not an account, I'm a content creator and you know that pretty much pace of the publishing.
Speaker 1:I Want to give a shout out and to our patrons that have been with us, been with us for a long time, got five that have been with us forever and we're proud to have that many of me. It's awesome and it's, you know, good friends and listeners of the show Travis Sturgill, chris Hammons, charlie West, mike Adams, willie Howard a few of those people reoccurring guess Right, we've had travel and Mike a couple times. Willie's been on Brother-in-law Charlie. He does our all our logos and All our graphic work. He's fucking awesome with that. He's phenomenal. Also, some of our listeners know him because he is the sleeper musician. He's one of the greatest musicians of all time in this, in this area. Man. He's like they use his mixes and she on a lot of people, a lot of tapes, and then Chris Hammons streams. What is that? Mtg Hammons His, what his twitch is Hollywood, hollywood.
Speaker 2:Hollywood, Hollywood, that's what it is.
Speaker 1:Something else was MTG. Hammons was like Z by here, some shit. I've like I've known him for a long time and worked with him on a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2:He does a lot of marbles runs.
Speaker 1:now he does marbles runs shit, yeah, cuz it, cuz magic is dead.
Speaker 2:It's dead, fucking dead. It's a massive tournament today and none of us gave a shit. We're all sitting here right now.
Speaker 1:I've got three pioneer decks. I don't give a fuck. We thought about playing in it. I wonder if you might show up.
Speaker 2:I reckon they had somewhere between 20 and 20 25 people from Bristol shout out right bands out of retirement man. Oh wait, right back out.
Speaker 1:He lost weight got healthy and fucking crushing everybody's always best magic player ever seen. Shout out, jason Williamson. Shout out, come on the show. Talk about bullshit. That's what. That's what you talk about absolutely At closure this week.
Speaker 2:We're still working on the video aspect of it, as we talked about you know, we always try to get our episodes out on Monday mornings.
Speaker 1:Right now timing schedule, we got to figure out a different day to record because it just I don't want to put dusty Literally editing until it's also the option of releasing a different day, and it's really based on our guests, like if, if guests would be happy, if guests would be happy having a Wednesday show instead of a Monday show For a while and see how they like about that, and it would give us a couple more days and then, if we have a Wednesday show instead of a Monday, we can have the show on YouTube as well.
Speaker 2:I think we need to try it one week.
Speaker 1:We will. We'll see if we can do. Give us some feedback, though. Send us a fucking email. My emails, emails, dryden man, you know, there were so many jokes I was gonna say just now and I didn't say any of them. They all included somebody's mom.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't get his cancel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I. I'm saying she listens to us, but I bet she's always.
Speaker 2:You were getting ready to say you probably could have guys.
Speaker 1:I feel like I could say anything I wanted right now, but my mom and she wouldn't hear the end of the episode because she definitely listens the beginning of it. There's no fucking way she listens to the no. No, these do I. Yeah, um, check right now Big ol noggin on tick talk like share comment on everything. Unpaid lunch at Unpaid lunch on tick talk as well at unpaid lunch on Instagram. We are on Facebook, even though you don't know it because we talked shit about it for so long, but we are on Facebook.
Speaker 2:Reels popping up there now and YouTube reels.
Speaker 1:Also, and Hopefully soon, the show will be live on YouTube, which will be YouTube show. Everybody's gonna be like what the fuck are you guys doing?
Speaker 2:Well, another thing we've talked about too, just to kind of provide, because I know some people just don't actually like the audio platform. They want something. They couldn't put up a browser on the back, yeah sure. So here soon we're probably gonna actually put up the full episodes on all of our episodes, but with just stick figures.
Speaker 1:Yep setting on a table.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably just like a zoomed in picture of David's face.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just wasting all the time trashed, probably From previous, previous. Well, I have more. You don't drink anymore, but I have more pictures of you drunk than not. Yeah, rhino, you got anything else? Buddy.
Speaker 2:No sir.
Speaker 1:You guys got anything, the hustlers.
Speaker 2:Quite quit your ass off, hey fuck it up.
Speaker 1:I remember y'all ain't nobody stopped you quitting your job, but you, you.