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The Nightmare Before The Holidays

• Team T4 • Season 1 • Episode 37

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Think back to those Halloween nights of your childhood - wandering around, bags brimming with candy, every house decked out with spooky decorations. Do you remember the thrill? We do, and in this chat, we rewind to those good old days, even sharing some tales of how our office once brought Halloween to life with missing children posters and eerie red balloons. We also touch on how Halloween has evolved, with trunk-or-treats taking the center stage, and how the aftermath of a flood in Macroberts influenced the trick-or-treating routes.

Ever wondered what could be spookier than Halloween? How about the holiday season with all its chaos and the blackout? Join us as we navigate through the festive season, discussing the pros and cons of holiday timings in the workplace, and sharing some hilarious anecdotes from the home front. We further delve into the differences between action and horror movies, putting some iconic films under the microscope, and reflecting on the importance of a supportive employer during these hectic times.

Thrust into the final act of our chat, we don our philosopher's hats to discuss gift-giving during the holidays, work-life balance, and why dining room tables seem to be a thing of the past. We open up on therapy, childhood trauma, and the role of family time during the holidays. Rounding up, we share our thoughts on listener feedback, the critical part patron support plays, and we give you a sneak peek into some exciting upcoming projects. So, join us on this fun-filled journey, and let's share a few laughs along the way.
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Dusty:

Welcome in to the unpaid lunch and thanks for spending your break with us. I'm heavy D Rhino's here still.

Ryno:

I love how he did the crutch word. I just like uh, yeah.

Dusty:

Jasper has made an appearance on the table for the and he's gone.

Ryno:

It's my table bitch.

Dusty:

That was the first time in forever that he's been up here on the table. Yeah, I can't help but say um, I've got a lot better about it. Why I'm so sensitive about that?

Ryno:

It's just me like having to observe calls and interactions and the calls here.

Dusty:

I hear um and it's like well, and it's funny because I don't say um on the phone at cost. Yeah, Cause it's a no right. You hurt my feelings twice. We're 30 seconds into the show.

Ryno:

That's what I'm here for.

Dusty:

That's what I'm here for Amazing coaching. Holidays where it's Halloween.

Ryno:

How much better than it would be if that cat was black when it jumped up here.

Dusty:

Well, it's equal opportunity employer. It's a white cat.

Ryno:

It happens.

Dusty:

That was too much. Yeah, check out that. So, um Halloween, we have a Halloween party at work this week, do you?

Ryno:

So for the whole entire month of October we've had like this counter. We have themed stuff.

Dusty:

Yeah.

Ryno:

Like red ribbon week is cool, but where I kind of sit like back in a room, closet in the back corner building. I never know what's going on, until the day I get there.

Dusty:

And you never stop working?

Ryno:

probably so there's probably some type of um. I don't know. I guess cost him a shenanigans this week, but I've not seen anything.

Dusty:

I mean we had a pumpkin carving contest and I didn't know we had one.

Ryno:

We did. Actually, we had the pumpkins and stuff out on Thursday and I just walked up and I was like, oh, there's pumpkins. There were had no idea.

Dusty:

They were like so it's, our department wins the pumpkin. And I was like, oh and nobody carves them anymore.

Ryno:

Everybody just paying some.

Dusty:

Oh yeah, oh no, we they carved, that's all right.

Ryno:

Like I think we had like one, maybe two that was actually carved, but there's only like six entries.

Dusty:

It called like a pumpkin painting or pumping caught, pumpkin carving, I don't know. It feels like, uh, this Halloween like got here so quick.

Ryno:

I'm off of Halloween this year, so I mean like I'm enjoying everything, like I know it sounds so stupid because, like my other ventures on the side, yeah, I was like, well, that's the most opposite thing ever. But here's the reason why I say it is where I live. Part of the reason that I literally have so much joy about where I live is because it's a trick or treat hotspot. Oh yeah, and since the recovery from the flood and everything took out a bridge, it was like 90 years old, that sucks.

Ryno:

It cut off the main capture point where people walk into our freaking neighborhood.

Dusty:

Do you hear that door creaking in the background? That was awesome. That worked out great.

Ryno:

Halloween. I love it, but I don't have any. I'm not going to have any traffic this year, like we didn't even put it in the garage.

Dusty:

That makes me sad because, like where you move to and where my aunt lived my whole life, it's where we always trick or treated and it was awesome all the way up at Holler and there's like a famous, like he's been on the news, a bunch of stuff, like the guy who does the headless horseman. That's passed on to a couple of different people and they've. There's always a headless horseman in Macroberts. Who was it?

Ryno:

It was.

Dusty:

Winston originally. Winston originally.

Ryno:

That was what was always so much fun. Part of it was like the where's waddle of the neighborhoods, like we've got to find wherever the horsemen. The horsemen, yeah, because the kids love that every year, but now one of the main trails that's not on a main highway where he would you know, travel.

Dusty:

Context also. It's literally an awesome headless horseman Outfit and then an actual horse Like he's. They're on an actual horse.

Ryno:

It's very cool Like you hear it like trotting up the neighborhood and like it almost kind of it's creepy. Yeah, it's creepy, freaking awesome. Well, kids don't trick or treat it, not anymore.

Dusty:

Either right. Like it's like everything's frigging, Everything's like safe night and shit, and I was like yo yeah, what he was talking about before this.

Ryno:

There's been like 655 freaking trunk or treats. Is that an?

Dusty:

actual problem is like I hate trunk treats. No, like poison in your like. What is? What is the reason? I don't know what the reason is behind safe nights. I don't know if it's just like going to people's houses. It's bad, there's no problem. Everybody here wants trick or treat. You're so bad we're not going to have duct your children. And there's no drugs in. I promise pot heads Don't put their drugs in your kids. There is no marijuana in your kids bag. We don't give it up, not we.

Ryno:

I heard ownership there, sir. But what you just said I want to disagree with, not the weed part, but that we want trigger treaters part used to growing up in this area and we're going to sounds like such fucking boomers, but back in my day, back in my day every single house was decorated. Every single house had someone on the stoop ready to go and not candy. Now it's about every fourth. That's just for trigger treating. Now it's about every 11th for someone that's decorated man other side of that take.

Dusty:

I think it's cause we we're so damn wore out Cause everybody works, used to. It was like you know, like there was one person in the household that worked and it was you know like nine to five jobs and stuff. I don't know. Maybe that's just all bullshit, maybe we don't care, but I don't know. If people are just like when would it's so busy? We're so busy all the time.

Ryno:

I was on my way home last night at nine o'clock, coming through downtown neon, and I saw fucking Christmas decorations. No, fuck that, Get off that's crazy Drive down to the gas station. No, come back up this way there is literal up on the hillside.

Dusty:

You cannot put. Christmas decorations up till.

Ryno:

Thanksgiving. Back up behind the quillings there is legit Christmas, like full, not just like some icicle. Lights on like an awning of a house, full blown. Get up lights all over the whole entire York.

Ke:

So I should corner them.

Ryno:

They're going to tomorrow night. I'm gonna corner Somebody will cool.

Dusty:

There's no way that you're allowed to have Christmas lights and they're not gonna get toilet papered. We're gonna toilet paper those. We're fucking. I think everybody needs to hit it. Should I think about somebody's address? I feel like I don't know if anybody's do the same thing.

Ryno:

I don't think we have that type of reach.

Dusty:

But no, I think we have enough reach you kidding. Our listeners definitely want to paper people.

Ryno:

I'm not. Yeah, the question is are all them close enough to this set of household?

Dusty:

No, they might have a solid bill. They might, if it means something.

Ryno:

I know Jimmy Brown would hit it yeah, but Jimmy Brown hits my damn house every year. I think everybody I went to high school would do it Literally every single year. I go outside the day for like Halloween morning and there's shit laying everywhere and I just messaged me. I'm like, is this you? And I get like five molly faces yeah it's always Jimmy.

Ryno:

That's funny, it's a dream in Braille. And they go around, they corner crap of everybody, but naturally they they go after Braille and friends and school. Yeah, our house gets hit every single year. I like it. I love you, jimmy. Please hit us again tomorrow.

Dusty:

But yeah, uh, if we have a Halloween party it's just so awkward. Like Halloween parties are like it's just weird, cuz you're the bunch of people who you don't really you know. You know, but like there's a lot of people there and you don't necessarily know them, so they expecting you to wear costumes or dress up.

Ryno:

See, I don't, I don't prescribe to the whole workplace costume contest because it's just I.

Dusty:

Don't know. Well, I'm wearing a mask at work Anyway.

Ryno:

Well, there's that and it's just. I want to do something obscure that none of my co-workers or everyone know what it is, and it's just gonna be wasted time.

Dusty:

I'm gonna get pissed off and you get to ask them all the time into I Would probably go somebody's I've got one person on my team.

Ryno:

Bravo, I love you. That actually comes on side. Oh, so there's like yeah, yeah, one in it, like it'd be fun, like dress up and do like a team thing or something like that. But Well, one year, god, it was fantastic, robert.

Ryno:

Oh no, if you've ever met Robert Carty, Sure have he was redheaded which, robert Odds of you listening this or slim to none. But when I say you're redheaded, I'm not making fun of you for being a soulless ginger, but a little bit, but a little bit. But we were trying to come up with like the ultimate theme for a team, right, and this is coming right off of the remake of it. Okay. So he said guys, I got a wicked clown costume at home. So he went, done that. Someone got like his home tour makeups hit up. We took this, we have it. It was 10 seats on each side of a box on the old brazen side of size.

Ke:

Uh-huh.

Ryno:

We took in, retrofitted that box that I said in and turned it into a manhole, set the whole entire roll up, the whole entire row had the red balloons and stuff that at the end of the row on the wall. Me and Jackie and a couple others on my team took the actual Missing children posters from Derry Main, from the actual remake of the movie oh shit, and then took all the teams pictures and put them on the flyers and hung them on the wall and had them like scattered all over the floor. It coolest team thing we've ever done. It was phenomenal and I mean Robert, like fantastic as Pennywise.

Dusty:

What made me think about it and what really inspired me for this episode was Vanessa has been posting like all the count down the Halloween yeah and she's been posting like all the work pictures and stuff and like and she got the ones that I recognize everybody in it, like was there, edward?

Ryno:

you looked fantastic, was I don't Look like King of Spades or whatever. Yeah, I'm the Alice and Wonderland.

Dusty:

Yeah, the Queen of Spades. Yet he put some work in. Yeah, he did awesome. Everybody looks. Everybody looks great. Everybody looked cool.

Ryno:

Yeah, everybody, look good, I'll recur and guess Edwards and Jules. I look great.

Dusty:

I was. That was fun, but I just um, I Don't look forward to this this season, this holiday season. There's so many things when you work in our line of work that suck about the holidays.

Ryno:

Right, I do and I don't like. Part of the reason that I look forward to it traditionally is the food. Oh, yeah, yeah but like that door opening and closings cracking me up because it sounds like an old creepy door. It's literally my chair and so your chair. It sounds like a door opening, it's your chair.

Dusty:

Yeah, I love it. I'm gonna record that sound so we can. We can just have it on an episode anyway. We just use it all the time.

Ryno:

I gotta quit moving. I gotta share this real quick, share it. This cracked me up. My wife message me earlier. She said I like when you're gone late at night because I get freaked out because we got a mixture between Australian Shepherd and I Suburban Husky it keeps going in the back door and looking outside into the darkness and just barking, barking, so it's tripping her out. So they've decided to like leave that part of the house and go somewhere else where they're not near that back door. And they're in my son's bedroom floor and she took my daughter, took a whole entire container of yellow BBs that goes into be, just exploded them all over the carpet. Oopsie, this house that we live in like was built in like 1908 or 1912 or some shit, but at some point in 60s they put like brown Shag carpet in it. I mean it's thick, it's like two inches.

Dusty:

Yeah, you cannot get that shit out of those BBs, or it's a astro turf now. Oh, it's bad.

Ryno:

She said the conversation between her kids tonight is hilarious. We're in here clean the ashes room. Neighbor said shoe, we've been in here for like eight minutes. I said you know, it's not even an hour. I Said there's a really dramatic pause. And the neighbor said you don't know how to tell time, do you? Yeah, I don't either.

Dusty:

What the fuck. I love that he said that's not even an hour Shoe. I've been here eight minutes. You know what shows great Kids say the darkest things.

Ryno:

Oh, yeah, oh.

Dusty:

I guess, I guess I can, I'm full-blown into exploiting my children for. Yes, you are 100%, I'm here for if you've not checked out, rans tick tock, I think he's blown up man.

Ryno:

But I'm getting into a situation now. We're like I'm getting followers that I'm 99% positive or bots, hey, and they're. They're either comment like five laughy faces or it's like Faces. What's the Russian like script called? I Don't know what it's called like Russian writing, but it's in that I don't know and freaking tick tock. Don't translate that shit. Hmm, they could be telling me to go fuck myself. I have no idea. I'm just putting a heart on everyone.

Dusty:

Well, I mean.

Ryno:

I'm gonna look this up.

Dusty:

I think all like big youtubers and stuff do that. They all have, they all have bought since like shit, that's they always do.

Ryno:

So I think what they're doing and what I've seen is a lot of them, as soon as they add you, they'll like send you, like the waving I, you know, okay, yeah, and what I think they're trying to do is they're trying to get me to Converse back and then follow them as well. Yeah and they're boosting these accounts to get X amount of followers to sell them.

Dusty:

Yep, yeah, that's clever.

Ryno:

That's a business model. I mean that's a hundred percent of business. Russian script alphabet.

Ke:

What is going on?

Dusty:

Is that it's always wild in here. Who knows what's happening here. Ryan's trying to read your Russian.

Ryno:

I don't know. It's screaming in the background.

Dusty:

You know what she does. Is that a big old noggin cyrelic? Cyrelic what are our I?

Ryno:

L I C Cyrelic. What are you talking about? That's what they're commenting in the freaking language. I can't read this shit. Oh, learn it.

Dusty:

No, it will translate.

Ryno:

No, that's too much work. There's only 33 layers in the sub.

Dusty:

Fuck that is it at big old noggin?

Ryno:

big old. Leave out the D because we're in the mountains. Yeah, oh noggin.

Dusty:

Oh, can I tell you something funny? My mom's gonna be mad. Because Mom's gonna be mad and I think you're gonna be mad too, I get to simultaneously make you both mad sweet.

Dusty:

She's gonna be mad that I tell you this, and not only am I gonna tell you this, I'm gonna tell you this on air. Uh, she said what was he saying? What word was he saying? And I said what are you talking about, mom? And she was like Po. She was like unpaid po. What's an unpaid po? That was like mom. Oh, I was like mommy was saying pole and she was like no, he said po. I think he don't know that the word is pole. I was like no, mom, it was really late. We all maybe had a drink.

Ryno:

No, this is how I say pole. I know no.

Dusty:

I'm just. I was like it was actually everybody was just completely sober. But like I'm sorry, mom, you moved to North Carolina and you're not backwoods anymore, said Poe. She said what's he saying, poe, for I?

Ke:

was.

Dusty:

Like mom, he's not, he's saying pole. I just thought that was funny that she sent me that literally Poe. Also in relation to what you're into.

Ke:

Ironic that she thinks you said.

Dusty:

Poe, oh so yeah um the holiday season. What in the job in?

Ryno:

the jobs that we were good and bad of it.

Dusty:

Yeah, what do you like about?

Ryno:

I like, I said the food, like that's it. So couple paid days off, couple paid days off, which usually work. Oh, don't even get me started there.

Dusty:

Christmas day.

Ryno:

I'll get fired. I'm not going down that road. Um, a couple paid days off for some employees, yeah, yeah, not all. For others, it's a hey, would you like to take this day off? Or uh, which, under the new ownership that we have, it's paid holiday for all. Thank God, that's finally where we're at.

Dusty:

Yeah.

Ryno:

Traditionally and that was a hellscape. So when I talk about food, pop looks in the workplace are phenomenal, but, like at Christmas, we would always operate underneath the skeleton crew, like, say, the day after Christmas or the day before Christmas Eve. So we would all decide that's what we're gonna have our food and stuff, and bring it in and like when you turn around, look and you've got at that point. I think we had 16 people on the team and nine of them are bringing in pressure cookers.

Dusty:

Oh yeah rock pots.

Ryno:

You know you're in for a good day.

Dusty:

Well, that's what I'm gonna ask you this Do you eat all of them? Do you need to know the names of who brought in the crock pots?

Ryno:

Not with my team. Yeah, because I've built up the relationship with these people and I know you'd eat at their house. I've been eating at their house.

Dusty:

Yeah there's some shit. There's other places where I'm like.

Ryno:

All right, where this come from.

Dusty:

Yeah, I can look. I can pretty much look at your bowl and be like no, if I want it like, I'm like hmm.

Ryno:

Not sure if I want to eat that or not. Listen, if that freaking crock pot comes in and it's pinear woman, you're eating it.

Dusty:

Oh yeah.

Ryno:

Also, there's a few things, all you know.

Dusty:

You put like corn salad or or like broccoli casserole, I don't know that shit. You know what do you?

Ryno:

eat. I'm more into like we usually do, like soups and chilies. Oh yeah that's where I'm yeah, shit, we do.

Dusty:

We do a salsa on Cinco de Mayo Every, and there's a guy who makes really good salsa that good, I have something to bring in like queso.

Ryno:

Yeah case that like that's where we're at.

Dusty:

Yeah, so we don't do finger foods, we do like instead of Styrofoam plates at Styrofoam bowls. So pros pros is food Yep right one paid day off.

Ryno:

Maybe in my kids on your employer.

Dusty:

Yeah, um, I, do you have any more pros? I don't have. The only pros I have is the food and my pros I'm not. I don't take phone calls anymore, so so it depends on your industry, right?

Ryno:

So Holiday season right now for a call-signer. As you progress and get closer towards the end of year especially for mine, where we deal with accounting software Volume drops, yeah, so you actually start hitting the dead time of the year. Accountants are taking their time off to prep for the hellscape that's coming and we're in two different worlds.

Dusty:

There because we're in retail.

Ryno:

Now that's where I was gonna say industry. So you're getting ready to ramp up in the yeah Now. Prior to this, I was at GameStop. Right now, this is the time of year where you want to off yourself rich elistically.

Ryno:

Yeah, so GameStop for sure, like it really depends on. I mean, we would work Frickin Black Friday so you would come in Thanksgiving night this is the one year that we didn't open on Thanksgiving. We were scheduled to be in from 6 until 11 pm that night to set up the marketing schematic for everything, set up all the tagging and everything, all the displays, everything for what was gonna be on sound Black Friday. Then at that point you had a crew come in at midnight and start cleaning and things like that. When we opened at 6, basically they started everything at 5 o'clock so you would be there. I would end up going in at 6. They said 6 to 10 or 11, you're there until 2.

Ryno:

Yeah and then you're back again at 7 and and then you're working till about 6. The fall of me. It was miserable.

Dusty:

Yeah, that was the worst time my life. That was the worst place I've worked during the holidays, like was uh, was was where you currently work. But retail, even like when I work now, is it's crazy busy from Black Friday on because we we like compete with with Amazon and best buy, you have to on Black Friday and our prices are, you know, right there with them.

Dusty:

So it's like, so it's wild, but my, my win of the week we done in a long time and I have a win of the week is a my birthday. We get, like, our birthdays paid off. My birthday is on Black Friday, sure, which is normally a day that we would have to work in the in the retail world.

Ryno:

That is a win. So that's one thing I love about my department. My department is With tethered to the executive branch of this right, because you're up here out. But then also we're also tethered. The other escalations that my team handles is sales Accounting. Sales on Black Friday is always closed.

Dusty:

Yeah.

Ryno:

The executive branch is skeleton crew. So they usually say, if we staff you guys, you're not gonna do anything right, there's nothing to do every year it's a four-day weekend for us, that's hot regardless, that's something to look forward to that's. That's always a four-day weekend and a lot of us, if we have the PTO saved, you'll see some of them take a week, take three more days. I've seen.

Dusty:

I think we've talked about this before. You ever seen that thing where you can, uh, like the guy put out the schedule where it's like, if you work nine, if you work on Monday through Friday, job there's like you can take off like certain days through the year? Have you seen that key? You can take off certain days through the year and get like Get an extra, like two weeks off or something. Yeah, like you can just stack the holidays up Special at Memorial Day and ship.

Ryno:

I mean you're still taking the same amount of time off. It's just taking advantage of it, taking advantage of getting the days in a row I.

Dusty:

Well, that's my problem. I can't take like three weeks. I won't go back.

Ryno:

I had COVID for like ten days or something Friday off and I don't even Go back tomorrow.

Dusty:

I had COVID for like ten days or something. In that last day I was feeling real good and I was like I don't, I just don't think I'll go back to work.

Ryno:

What's so? You're bringing this up, man, it's. It's a bad part of it too. It depends also in your industry. With holidays, we're talking about maximizing time off. Well, some industries that you work in you're hitting that point of the year now, especially in retail, where they're like Blackout season.

Dusty:

That's and that's for you all it starts after Christmas starts after Christmas.

Ryno:

For you all, I'd say it's probably already started.

Dusty:

It started. It started last week, yep.

Ryno:

So now, unless I mean, even if it's an emergency and you got a limb hanging, it don't matter they give me that time off.

Dusty:

No, it's, it's super hard. And if you take a day off, like if you, if you call in, we don't really do like a point system, but if you call in, it's, it's an occurrence, you know what I mean Like it's not.

Ryno:

Most places deer in season, like they're in blackout season. They'll double down on it, yeah, and they won't be together.

Dusty:

We'll give you a few points and stuff like that they're pretty cool about working with you, that if something you know, if there's something coming up, that surgery or you know something major, they'll do something. But man don't ask for anything between November 24th and December 24th.

Ryno:

I don't ask for that and if you're going to, it needs to be planned like I'll be back in April two years ago Two years ago.

Dusty:

Hey, I know we're gonna have blackout there this time before when you, when you apply for the job, let us know if you're gonna need off a first, an early day in December, that's miserable. Dork rick. And yeah, that's. I think your blackouts worse.

Ryno:

Because we'll see. For my team we don't have it right. They try to do just the floor people there, and they try to do front line, but they also try to make it all encompassing. So you're not setting a air quotation precedence but in all reality, like not all departments are made the same right. So mine, the escalation volume is gonna be the escalation volume. It doesn't matter if it's June, july, february, march, it doesn't matter. So for mine, like workforce is like all right, we're gonna black out. And I'm like, submitting PTO for people that like you can't do that, I'm like, yeah, I can, I'm clearing it, man, aren't you?

Dusty:

glad you don't work at Marshall's during the holidays. Can you imagine working at Marshall's on at Christmas? They'll be the worst. It's literally a big Christmas gift store. I think people only buy Christmas gifts. That, like all year round, everything there is like a Christmas gift. You know what I mean.

Ryno:

I've done Walmart. No, walmart game stops the worst of them.

Dusty:

Oh, we woke up, siri Like oh my god.

Ryno:

No, we need. We need to get ads right now. I do not understand. Do you need a scarf? I want one moment.

Dusty:

That was. That was one of the problems. My mom and my dad, siri, help my mom, my dad, hostage. I had to call in for work.

Ryno:

Yeah, it was sir. She was the whole thing. I was thinking of iRobot.

Dusty:

Man, I can't help but think, if I think about robots at all, I think about this is just like you. Better get out of my way. I'm going to church.

Ryno:

Robot just popped right into my mind. Um, it's kind of another thing we were talking about the other day like creative Influences, I guess adjacent Terminator. I've seen some people that consider Terminator a horror movie.

Dusty:

I can see that especially Terminator 2. Though, like judgment day right is like I see, judgment day to me like I don't know, which one's the one where they're standing on the fence and like the you know I'm talking about when she's like hanging under the fence and like and sees a nuclear bomb like go off or whatever and it like she sees like the image of it melt in her when she's hanging on the fence. There's like a famous picture of my brains is losing this scene right now.

Dusty:

Oh, there's like a famous image of of what's her name Connor.

Ryno:

Linda Hampton. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dusty:

Like hanging on to that fence and looking at kids on a playground and like, and I think explosion coming at her and burning, I think yeah.

Ryno:

So like one's much more of a thriller aspect where it's just a constant chase scene, and that's where I was like. Yeah, they were saying that that's what it kind of feels.

Dusty:

I could see it, though I'm the whole movies in kind of gray scale to yeah, it's a gray scale, very dark, very ominous, constant chase.

Ryno:

That's cool, like you take the Android out and you say make it a zombie sure it's a horror movie. Yeah, but where? But that's the thing is. Like you're talking about T2 judgment day. I Compare them so like for me T1 is like alien we have a we have.

Dusty:

We are so broad on this podcast. I'm sorry guys. No, don't be sorry. It's just which, showing our our capability to handle Different topics, but you would have said so.

Ryno:

Alien, the first alien is really also the same thing. It's. You know, it's kind of a chasing.

Dusty:

It's ambiguous, for sure, aliens definitely a horror. I mean, is it considered horror? I think the first alien is.

Ryno:

Yeah, that's what I mean.

Dusty:

I can see that alien alien was not supposed to have a sequel, right, because I Supposed to be staying alone.

Ryno:

I was supposed to be staying alone regionally, but they done so well in the box. It's vastly different than the second one. I mean the second one's full-blown, like freakin space marine, yeah. So the second one to me is like we were talking about this today. I consider it one the greatest action movies all time that you. They consider it sci-fi action more than horror. Well, but I'm the same way with judgment day. Judgment day, I think, is more of a sci-fi Action thriller. Listen, that Italian beef is eating me alive.

Dusty:

Yo, I'm trying, so it's one of our it's one of our things here and we really we were expecting to have. We were expecting to have a couple guests on Tonight that were scheduled with a party too hard last night at their show Season the witch party too hard last night at their show and we're able to make it tonight. Right on team though season of the witch Halloween man and I made Italian beef for him and and tell you beef sandwiches and I made rino eat when he got here.

Ryno:

It's so good.

Dusty:

Yeah.

Ryno:

Oh my god, it was so good, but now I'm paying for it. But yeah, the blackout part I mean segue, it's just the blackout that I think is the shittiest part of this time of year. Because, let's say, you do have a sick kid or something like that, your work is not. Unless you have a really good employer, they're not going to well you know how I feel about that, though.

Dusty:

It's like, no matter what, and that's what always said like, and I said that when I would like, if something happened, I had to call in. I was pretty good about not calling in in season, but that's what I would like. It's a cat, is that Milo? It's got me Milo, jasper.

Ryno:

Jasper, jasper, yeah, he's.

Dusty:

Jasper tells everybody in the house that they didn't feed him yet and he's all day long. What was I?

Ryno:

I don't know that's sad feline disruption. Yeah, the cats can see.

Ke:

That's why we pay you the big bucks.

Dusty:

That's why we pay you the big bucks. If, if my family needs me at home or if something's going on right, I'm gonna call in, like the that day, like there's nothing that you're gonna tell me, like you can't call in these days. Well, my mother is in the hospital. No, you have to work. Well, probably not gonna.

Ryno:

It's not just that too, and I just triggered a thought what comes along with holiday season? Inclement weather. Oh yeah, oh my god that's the memes of like people being like buried underneath like 18 20 feet of snow in Boston, or is that? Are you gonna make it in?

Dusty:

today. So it's funny like me and Ryan have like a bunch of we have a bunch of ideas in any time for episodes like piled up and and stuff we talk about. We talk about all the time about what we're gonna do on episodes and what we're doing the future and we're planning for. We never had a Christmas episode, so I'm super excited about Christmas episodes. We've never had one of those. That'll be awesome. Thanksgiving episode is just gonna have a bunch of food on the table. We're just gonna eat the whole time. We're gonna eat on Mike. It's gonna be awesome.

Ryno:

Yeah, I think that might be the first episode we just go live.

Dusty:

I think we should eating food. Yeah, bring back Tyler yeah.

Ryno:

Samar God bring back for Christmas. And he's just sitting like this. He's like this is not the ASMR I'm used to.

Dusty:

Yeah, no, I think. I think we're gonna have an inclement weather episode accidentally, right like we're.

Ryno:

We'll have we're gonna get pissed off about something that's gonna set us off.

Dusty:

Neither of us are gonna be able to get to work because the snow and I'm just gonna come up and get you in the jeep and you come down here and we're gonna do an episode. I'll just wall, or we could just call, because we forget that we can do that.

Ryno:

I actually I thought about that earlier like yeah. I'm like I was telling you guys like my wife gets spooked sometimes. I'm not here. I'm like I don't know why sometimes, instead of us like panicking out, you just don't call me yeah for me.

Dusty:

It's a Creative like I don't. It's easier to get the creative juices flowing if I'm hanging out, it's easier for us to bounce off if we're hanging out, but if we have an episode planned, that's not like totally like tonight We've talked about Whatever which is which is fun, what we prefer really anyway is.

Ryno:

I mean in theory, this is supposed to be a Halloween episode. We're just fucking when we have structure.

Dusty:

When we have structure, we can just call yeah and guests also we won't have. There's a lot of guests that we're trying to have on and initially when we first started, it was kind of like no coming. You got to come in person and I think we're now From Virginia.

Ryno:

It was like 45, 50 minutes.

Dusty:

Let's there's hey, we feed you whale, though you show up here, we feed you whale and we hang out and we usually we usually preach it. We talk about the pre-show all the time and you all think we're we're just fluffing you on that. But we really are hanging out for like four hours before the show.

Ryno:

It feels that way sometimes at least.

Dusty:

Yeah, yeah and after the show, sometimes for four hours too.

Ryno:

That's why we don't get any sleep. Well, it's more my favorite things to do, sometimes just watching you cut net it, like there's been able to learn that piece of it in that aspect.

Dusty:

That's fun. Man been doing a lot of that lately. Hopefully I can quit my job one day and just that would be beautiful produce content. That's why you feel the dream itself.

Ryno:

I'm like man. I'm only about 45 or, I guess, 5,500 followers away from this creator friend on tiktok. Continue exploiting my children for financial gain.

Dusty:

Well, I think you know that's. That's what people do when they like won't get their kids a bunch of training, what their kids be really good at sports. Oh yeah, why do you want your kid to be really good at sports? You know what I mean. Like you want them to succeed. They're gonna succeed if they're not really good at sports.

Ryno:

Well see, that's one thing I know. Some parents are 100% like that. Yeah really and someone's like a pageant.

Dusty:

Well, you want to live like, seriously, sometimes Like, and it's mostly people who were not successful.

Ryno:

I mean most parents. I mean we want our kids to play. It sounds like a real shitty, like I don't, but I mean To not sit back and say that you're not somewhat living vacaciously through your children, through your glory days.

Dusty:

Well, yeah.

Ryno:

I mean it hits all of us.

Dusty:

That's just something that hits my son is a clone of me.

Ryno:

Yeah, it just hits home. It's like last night I was cracking up my son which if you're not local, you wouldn't understand this concept that we went all the way to a city called Painsville To watch a like a middle school football game. So the football game was over and my big thing right now is this, this horror content. I was like God, 30 minutes from here is Fallsburg fear plagues.

Ryno:

Oh yeah, I'm like it's 20 minutes away, dude, you want to go to this haunted house now he's like, hey, let me see it, I show the video. He said, nope, we're going home. I was like, come on, man. He's like, nope, I was like it opens in an hour and 15 minutes. We can get there and get lying in out. Nope, I ain't doing it, dad. So then, when we got home, I've been thinking about this all day long and this is still probably going to be hitting a TikTok video and I can't wait. But my wife literally looked at me last night and she said you're embarrassing me, I need you to stop with the social media?

Ryno:

Yeah, so it's part of it, but I had this concept for a video and it's been stuck in my head for like a week. Asher has this Jack Sparrow.

Dusty:

Wee, oh yeah, he used to dress up shit.

Ryno:

He dressed up and acted throughout the house and stuff. He's all about it. So they ain't got the beads and stuff in now, but it's just a really long wig. He's used it to dress up as Dave grow once and a couple different things like that. I Was like how fucking awesome would it be To take this wig and put it on him and paint his face white, give him some black eyeliner. And my daughter's got this white like freaking Mercedes-Benz, like one of those the cars that you get in. You hit the battery and it drives.

Dusty:

I.

Ryno:

I really want to reenact dragula with my kid I.

Dusty:

Know what direction you were going there. I was like really want to reenact dragula, you get him, get him crawl out of an old crawler on old TV.

Ryno:

She said Ryan, you're not letting him ride in that car.

Dusty:

You're not videotaping him.

Ryno:

She's like this is beginning to get too much. And he said yeah, dad, I think I get made fun of at school for that. I was like, okay, so let's go a different direction. I'll ride in the car and we'll do dragula and you videotape me. And Brittany said I'm serious, you're embarrassing me. I was like, well, I think it'd be funny.

Ke:

We should have a job for him, paid lunch.

Dusty:

We should shout out our wives for putting up with this. Oh my god, my wife doesn't listen to us at all.

Ryno:

Well, she's like you're just a. Hearing your voice makes me cringe. I'm like she's like. No, I don't mean it that way, I just like I don't know what it is like. You talk differently and you have this different tone of voice and they, like I told you All before they make fun.

Dusty:

Well, I don't think my wife listens to the show. I don't expect them to know. Like, why would they listen? What are they? What would they get out of it? They're not our target audience thing out of it.

Dusty:

Good people are not our target audience, but they like and share it yeah, so that's okay I have at least a little bit I literally took my wife's dining room it was like I'm gonna put pocket study on here. She was like I got this big. I got this big nice table made, uh and. And I was like you know it'd be real good on it Bunch podcast equipment, it's got all these arms.

Ryno:

It's cuz she's hanging everywhere on it. You're destroying this table. Yeah, it's all my stuff in this room Like my computer's in here. It's like games and magic arts and, um, I've never known this room to be anything but your room. It's. It is.

Dusty:

We don't eat in here.

Ryno:

No, nobody uses a dining room.

Dusty:

We just wanted a dining room table. Who uses a dining? Oh, can I ask a therapy session? Really set therapy session?

Ke:

Yeah.

Dusty:

When we first got married I was like I just want to have dinner at dining room table because we never get done that when I was growing up. Really who did? We gave Keisha free rain. We gave her free rain to the sound board.

Ryno:

She said take your therapy.

Dusty:

Free right to the sound board. That's why I'm afraid to use like Better help, like the text app, like where you take other really feel like your mom's gonna hate this episode.

Dusty:

I've seen a thing the other day that I shared with the recurrent guest, eric. Shout out, shout out, eric. That because he talks about all the time like he was in public one time and he said something. Like he was with his mom and somebody, somebody said something about how he was doing. He was like I'm going to therapy or whatever. It's like just the trauma. You know, I'm trying to deal with all the trauma, the, you know, childhood Didn't have a great time and and she was like what do you mean? And he was like what do you mean? You don't know what it was like. I think my mom knows.

Ryno:

I think it's fine, I think she knows there's a trauma, tremendous upbringing like a sheltered one a very normal kid. Yeah, I mean I Think we had run the meal up breakings, but nobody uses a fucking dining room table. Nobody's a dining room table. Once the television was created, the dining room table Disappeared.

Dusty:

They literally made little tables for the TV.

Ryno:

Yeah, they created the 80s, like the little trays and stuff.

Dusty:

Hey if there was a TV on the wall but for a while. Wings proves if you put a TV on the wall, people are sitting down. If you build it, they will come.

Ryno:

I think right here would be a problem. We can be watching Sunday night football.

Dusty:

There's a TV on the wall. We'd be eating food like we just be sitting here eating. It happens. Yeah, ryan's Chargers about to win a game, that's. That doesn't happen a lot.

Ryno:

See, I've not actually checked that school.

Dusty:

It's on in the living room, I think.

Ryno:

I'm you ain't walk in there.

Dusty:

I don't give a fuck what you do oh.

Ryno:

We won 30 to 13.

Dusty:

Nice Big win for the Chargers it was the Bears.

Ryno:

I wouldn't call that a big win. The Bears are just trying to lose anyone. I was really hoping we would lose, kind of upset that it didn't happen because they were gonna fire our coach and we did.

Dusty:

But here we are so Christmas parties though, do you do? Do you guys do like a gifts Mmm?

Ryno:

are you for or against it? I'm against it. Yeah, I think it creates problems.

Dusty:

I think it creates issues. I always do because, Unless it's gag shit, then it's still gonna cause problems.

Ryno:

It feels like well they call it the Santa. What Santa not secret.

Dusty:

Secret.

Ryno:

Santa dirty Santa like if you do something like dirty Santa or something like that or whatever. The multiple different play on words they have for that. I think that's fine. Like you say, right, there's like a $20 limit. Everybody buy that, or a gag gift or something like that, that's cool. But if you don't put parameters on it. I've seen it get bad. I've seen people get like 30 and $40 gift cards and someone get a pair of socks.

Dusty:

Oh for sure, like it's just, we had one where it had to be something you made.

Ryno:

See, I like that, I like that concept Um so I pooped in a bag.

Dusty:

I.

Ryno:

Like that too, made this my biggest.

Dusty:

We talked about poop at all. We've not talked about poop in a while, charlie. We have not talked about poop in a while.

Ryno:

We have not.

Ke:

It's great he's gonna get there.

Ryno:

I'm sorry, brown bag shit, I wouldn't prepare for that. But yeah, we do secrets, santa. What if somebody made shit?

Dusty:

It'd be awesome. Please ship us a shit.

Ryno:

Dick demon it just shipped out the freaking tile that it was on in the bathroom, brought it in and slated down.

Dusty:

I wonder if Charlie will draw us a shit dick demon like a shit dick demon logo. Make a shit dick demon ornament.

Ryno:

I kind of want to get a tattoo.

Dusty:

I don't think that'd be great, like I mean it'd be really great, but also it'd be like what's like. I was showing you something talking about your wife just now.

Ryno:

Yeah, completely different. But like I don't know if you saw this a minute ago, okay, so my daughter loves to color in my tattoo, the one tattoo I have I would love to get like a freaking color book of Of like Disney, something I don't care. Oh, all the time sit there because he is the most relaxing thing in the world.

Dusty:

She's also not gonna be that age-favorite, I just gonna have don't care. You're just gonna be going around asking kids to color your arm.

Ryno:

I'm gonna have green babies at some point.

Dusty:

That's both of you. Do you think you'll live that long? Sorry, I know you hadn't been super anxious the whole time you've been here. I'm not.

Ryno:

I think it's time to wrap can you everyone home.

Dusty:

Can we shut this down, oh man.

Ke:

So something you guys have talked about Halloween and Christmas, just holiday. Something on this new job that I've heard a lot from some people is that they hate when Halloween approaches, because you've got Halloween at the end of October, thanksgiving at the end of November and Christmas at the end of December. They're like, and by the time January runs around, we're just depressed and broke season.

Ryno:

I'm sad it's a real thing.

Dusty:

It's no, you seasonal depression because you're spending all your damn money on stuff your kids don't need. And you know I've got this is for a Christmas episode, but I'm just gonna say it right, we buy too many gifts for too many people. Why would buy gifts for everybody? And I'm saying that? But I'll probably get something for buddy at this table, just cuz I mean the whole crew is gonna get shit. I mean, like you know how we are, but like man, everybody buys for something you to buy for so many people. Now I got you that to buy for my brother's wife, especially when he has a new one so often, right, and who the hell can keep up with how many kids he has All ten of them a gift like at one point.

Dusty:

He don't even talk to him my mom has four sisters.

Ryno:

There's five girls and at one point they bought for all the nieces and nephews.

Ke:

It's crazy.

Ryno:

Then it grew into great nieces and nephews and shit and just keep going like guys. This is not sustainable. It's like like he brings it up Nothing. It brings it up a terrific point Because it does directly correlate to work, because we were talking about we're going to pick up OT, like she was talking about picking up over time at one point in time, just saying yeah, it'd be good to have that as a nest egg to start building.

Dusty:

Yeah.

Ryno:

Christmas fun and like with the more we sit, talk about being here, look to each other and we got so anxious Seeing there and, yeah, I don't like we literally planned out everything we were going to do that day. In like three hours later, we're sitting there looking at each other like fuck, we're so bright.

Ke:

You're getting no good. You've not even started yet.

Dusty:

You kids ain't get nothing. My kid wants a dirt bike. Oh, he's gonna get killed on a dirt bike he can't ride a bicycle man.

Ke:

My kids are pretty easy to buy for and you get it for Christmas and they can't really ride it till.

Dusty:

This is where you call this, this episode, not ever for Christmas, because we've talked more about Christmas than we have Halloween.

Ryno:

Yeah, not never for Christmas, no, before Christmas is I didn't get tagged for that.

Dusty:

Everybody we appreciate everybody tuning in. Thanks for sticking with us on the Mikey flake fucking Mikey. He trashed somewhere, I mean sober, I guess. Now he's just. Uh, was hung over. But yeah, thanks, everybody tuning in new new day. This, this is coming out Wednesday, hopefully, unless something else messes up, I guess, but this is coming out Wednesday. Follow us on Instagram, facebook, tiktok everything is at unpaid lunch.

Ryno:

I don't even think you have any kind of feedback concerns about the new.

Dusty:

Yeah, if you don't like the Wednesday, let us know. If you do like it, let us know.

Ryno:

It's not necessarily gonna change anything, but I would definitely like to know or have feedback on our. If you know, you know our episode that released on Monday. Everybody feels about that episode. I think it'd be fun.

Dusty:

Um, yeah, I'm excited for everybody, to everybody, to see that. Shout out our patrons Travis Sturgill, chris Hammons, charlie shit, dick Damon and.

Ryno:

Charlie, the shit.

Dusty:

Yeah, it's amazing. That's okay, he'll be fine and Mike Adams been with us reoccurring gas. We're have Mike on again soon, I think, and Willie Howard have him on again soon. He's working on a project himself, so hopefully he gets that up and roll. He's working on a podcast doing that's awesome. But yeah, um great show everybody. It was really fun, right? Oh, you got anything else.

Ryno:

Yeah, I'm gonna take some anxiety meds.

Dusty:

I can't wait to eat a friggin Italian beef same.

Ryno:

We're just gonna be on it. It's eating me right now.

Dusty:

I remember y'all ain't. Nobody stops you from quitting your job, but you.

Ke:

You.