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The One With The Flashbacks

• Team T4 • Episode 38

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Join us as we flashback to previous episodes and update on the status of some former guests.
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Dusty:

On your break today. Everybody's in studio to help us flash back to previous episodes. We go over everything from bad bosses all the way up to the the best bathrooms we've had and the our favorite worst co-workers. Now, alright time to clock out for lunch. Welcome to Paid Lunch at Thanksgiving, your break with us. I'm Heavy D. With me, as always, is Rhino Got the crew in studio today. West fucking bailed but we got a key and Monroe are both here. Monroe's half asleep from doing the. He done 24 hours of gaming man. Monroe's always half asleep. He's fucking night shifter, right, which is not shifter. And we had the whole episode where you were talking about night shift and which is funny because we're gonna go back and talk about all that shit tonight, right? So the episode tonight is about Just flashing back and checking back in with some episodes we done Long, long time ago. It was in this galaxy, not far away.

Ryno:

Well, my problem is right now You've got one of these wrestling figures over there on your computer desk, the one, the red and white looks like a cupcake box.

Dusty:

Oh, I don't have some cupcakes. What kind would you like to have now go?

Ryno:

pink almond. Pink almond.

Dusty:

You're such a pussy you never tried it. I'd love to have one. I was thinking something like Something I've seen on like a cooking show, like a strawberry banana with like real chunks of like fruit I am.

Ryno:

when it comes to cupcakes, it's either pink almond or red velvet.

Dusty:

Can I give a Unpopular opinion? Cupcakes kind of suck, that's fair, like I think. I know I would rather not have cake.

Ryno:

Like give me a cheesecake.

Dusty:

Oh yeah, give me a fucking shit. I'll fucking love you fucking cheesecake. Yeah, that's what I like. My birthday eyes for pecan pie, that's what I'd love to have. A pecan pie, I want the whole fucking thing, only the whole pecan pie, and die. There's so much more sugar to pecan pie than there is a cake.

Ryno:

Oh yeah, I'm sure.

Dusty:

Also just like saying pecan pie can not pecan pecan. That's a can of peas so First episode we ever did, we sucked. I listened to it today.

Ryno:

Motherfucker still got the most download.

Dusty:

That was all bullshit downloads. That was like fucking every, every, every family member we ever had. Maybe that was our best episode. Maybe flash go all the way back, get rid of all the equipment, fucking get rid of everything.

Ryno:

Talk about poop.

Dusty:

Just talk about poop. That's what really people want people want the poop dirty jobs, seems like.

Ryno:

You may gave a shit about the bad boss as part of that episode. It was purely in the bathroom talk.

Dusty:

Well, we're gonna, we're gonna update everybody on, we're gonna go through some episodes, some previous episodes. If you haven't listened to them, go back through. They should be on everything. If they're not, please let us know that, because we're not aware that they're not on everything. As far as I'm concerned, everything works perfect and there's no problems at all. Listen, they're on yeah, they're on everything. Go back and listen to our first episode. There's growth. We're proud of our growth. We were just talking about how we don't all that rattling is ice.

Ryno:

Yes, I'm alcohol in it, so I apologize. There's nothing, I'm not really apologizing a whole lot because it's shit's good. So if you hear that, I just do this it has isn't empty. What's empty now?

Dusty:

Oh, it's not gonna be empty for long. Kisha's producer strat slash bartender slash enabler. She do be enabling, though. The first episode was bad bosses and best bathrooms are in bad microphones and audio if I feel what's funny is what's funny is it's the same microphones. We just didn't know how to use them.

Ryno:

We did not know how to speak in anything we, we learned each other to, though right. Like how many? What we? 40 weeks.

Dusty:

I really honestly I'm gonna get up, because like I can't fucking stand it, I'm not gonna move.

Ryno:

I'm just gonna look directly at my know. It sounds like an old, like creaky door and I can hold mansion just opening up. It sounds like one of the doors from resident evil Just it sounds like loading reasonable loading screen.

Dusty:

Yeah, that's all it is Mm-hmm I like. Reasonable loading screen is good shit. That's that was my childhood, watching my brother play resident evil.

Ryno:

Well, it's like that. I showed you that video the other day for the other project that I'm working on. Yeah it starts with the door, like yeah, that's all they have stuck in my head is like resident evil doorways.

Dusty:

I'm just like I gotta start on the door use herbs to get better is what I learned from resident evil.

Ryno:

Yep, Listen. I love their their social media posts every April 20th. They're fantastic.

Dusty:

Oh yeah, the fucking herb ones, Mm-hmm.

Ryno:

Would you like to use the green herb?

Dusty:

Yes yes. So we've decided that you guys just want to hear about shit, but we don't have any updates on shit.

Ryno:

Dick demon, we gotta be careful now. So when you say that, you gotta remember like it was either last week or week before.

Dusty:

I have to shout out Charlie, by the way we basically called Charlie shit dick demon. So when you say there's no updates on shit dick demon.

Ryno:

There's no updates on Charlie now. Yeah that's what you're saying out loud.

Dusty:

I'm worried about that whole grouping because when we make the merch which we've been saying is on the way for 35 weeks when we make the merch with the shit dick demon on it, the problem is our graphics designer Is Charlie. So I'm like Charlie and he's the person who specifically requests we don't talk about shit and we just do anyway.

Ryno:

Yeah, oh, I mean we've got, we kind of stirred away from that in the last little bit.

Dusty:

Yeah, but that's not any fun. We're gonna talk about shit a lot more.

Ryno:

I think we need to. It's guaranteed to quadruple your downloads, your traffic and your volume.

Dusty:

Yeah, I think We'd have to get somebody else to do the shit dick demon, but I would like to get shit dick demon shirts and I think I thought we just need to host and literally like, like, host it through unpaid lunch, a mini trekker show and to see if someone Shows up and just duplicates the effort well, first throwback then is gonna be to elevated chicken, because that's our, that's our recap on, that is as a podcast, with our audio, with our production, I feel like with our, with our, our Conversating.

Ryno:

We have improved our banter.

Dusty:

We have improved right from from episode one and from our bonus episode From now out. One of that, one of our patreon subscribers and one of our, one of our fans, and who I became a big fan of the owner of the cluck truck market right. So that episode maybe was in bad taste for content.

Ryno:

We were hungry for content. I so you're hungry for content. I was hungry for chicken, yeah. We were just a bad mixture that weekend.

Dusty:

We were just hungry, but the update on that is we're all friends now. Yeah, everything's super cool. We're gonna ask him if he wants us to delete the the episode, which wouldn't be a problem, but I Don't think we should delete it.

Ryno:

And Micah just straight call out to you here my friend, there's no such thing as bad.

Dusty:

But that's true.

Ryno:

I he does a podcast episode about him, yeah and the thing is like, even after everything that I mean it like kind of harkening back to that episode. I know at that time he was still kind of getting out and really working on the truck and stuff like that. I'm a big fan of his catering days. Like I went to a wedding that was catered by him and my boys, christian and Rebecca, they were all catering there. My boy banks his wedding and I'm telling them some best food I've ever had my fucking life. So there was. It was never a cut on the food.

Dusty:

Yeah, right, it was a cut, it was the situation. Right, it could have been fucking anybody and also you had a really bad day.

Ryno:

I was really bad.

Dusty:

It's really bad shit.

Ryno:

That was when I was at the heart of hating umpires during baseball season. I was just a very big, that was.

Dusty:

I think if you listen to that, like eight weeks of episodes. There was like hate.

Ryno:

Right like I was hating on shit.

Dusty:

You were hating on shit like there was hate. I was like we're gonna go shaking his head, yeah, cuz he fucking knows he was like yeah, y'all fucking hated everything. Yeah yeah, we all the episodes were about hate. Like I feel like our guests to like suffered because of it.

Ryno:

I like I watched it like another piece of your work that you did and not and I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm gonna recant some of this here, so I don't know if he listens, but, sam, if you listen, I don't hate you now as bad as I did, like probably six months ago. We like the bad umpire episodes like oh, we say those are all Sam Like yeah, I was going off. It was Sam, it's like so but you like him on the mic.

Ryno:

I like him on the mic, I like listening to him, I like some of his sports takes and things like that. I still don't think he should touch youth umpiring. You learn those rules stay the fuck away from my baseball field, but I do like the kid. Now he's growing on me.

Dusty:

Yeah, man, he's a good segment on that coach's show where he, where he'll ask all the guest players who ask him what their favorite, what their favorite kicks are like, what their favorite shoes are.

Ryno:

Yeah, and just like that thing.

Dusty:

It was pretty unique and they didn't uh, um, they all said LeBron's, which is weird. Really, talk about them being heavy.

Ryno:

Well, see, I mean it. I Am a big fan of the Lucas.

Dusty:

They mentioned those two. He was like what about Lucas?

Ryno:

Those things are fucking sick. See like I come from a different area. Like shoe as well. We talked about all time about our kids having the Urban Dictionary. Shit, I wasn't shoe drip.

Dusty:

Is that how we say yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know can we get a record scratch key so we get a record scratch so we can pull. So I want to get a record scratch because this is like totally off topic. But man, you know, I mentioned in my sister last night I was at App State, I was down there for a play, even though I wish I was there for App State and Marshall game, but I was there for a play which was awesome, was my sister's last play and she's an actress and shit and everything was great, right. But anyway, um, uh, jordans, right, tennis shoes. Jordans had this appeal forever because, like nobody wore them right.

Dusty:

Nobody wore them the only people that wore them brought them out only in the sunshine, you know what I mean. Like we're in a plastic bag until they stepped on the concrete, only walked on concrete with them, right, all that shit, man. But now, like everybody's wearing Jordans, like everywhere. Like everybody's got a pair of Jordans, like Key don't Jordan have a pair of Jordans? Keisha's daughter has a pair of Jordans, right, and it's like so it's not cool anymore. Like I know that's. Like I know that sounds dumb and like who the fuck do I know what's cool on 37?

Ryno:

and never been cool. I mean, like all the friends that we have grown up to that were like shoe connoisseurs.

Dusty:

Yeah, Like Dane. Dane was a big shoe guy. Yeah, shout out Dane. I don't think he listens, and if he does, he you know he definitely doesn't speak English.

Ryno:

Like poke.

Dusty:

I know, poke listens, Just you know just a part of it, I know he listens to the show Like man's always been big in the shoes, big in the shoes and I would love to be big in the shoes and like and I keep up with it, Like I had like the app and shit and like I keep up with shoes. But my problem is I have plain as fashion out of us and I have to really wear hokas or I can't walk.

Ryno:

I would never wear anything ever again other than hokas. Yeah, I can't wear anything with hokas. No, I can't.

Dusty:

If they made hoka in Jordan, I'd wear that and I like to look into the shoes.

Ryno:

I'd like to like drop a small human off my body and like mass. Yeah, I might go back to some other type of shoes.

Dusty:

I'd have to lose 350 pounds to be able to wear normal shoes.

Ryno:

Well, speaking of that, we're going on a freaking diet tomorrow, like now. I'm like I'm excited about it.

Dusty:

So what's worse a breakup or the marriage diet?

Ryno:

Well, my thing is right now it's not even such a marriage diet Like we are going to do it together, you know, within the marriage. But my thing is I'm diabetic as fuck.

Ryno:

Yeah, my back hurts, my hips hurt, my feet hurt, everything's swelling, like I'm just done with it. I know in my mind, my heart of hearts in my mind, that if I'll drop even, probably 70 pounds 60 pounds, I mean, I'm talking like 100. If I drop like 60 pounds I'd probably feel like a different human being. Health, like feeling everything, I know I mean you would have feel like 20. Yeah Well, I got a friend right now, like she's really big. Like we talk all the time about ozympic and shit like it. Like how those weight loss medications that really were built for top two diabetics but I was in pick at rope basically written by doctors into a fad diet and became a problem Diabetics couldn't fucking get the shit. But there's one now. That's my understanding is when you're both it's fine yeah.

Dusty:

I mean it helps.

Ryno:

I mean it helps. There's one now. It's called manjaro, and apparently manjaro is specifically just for kill them and jar. Kill my jar. Yeah, not kill my jar, bear, not be kill a man jar because I don't want to kill a man. I need that. So I need to take the medication.

Dusty:

We are so far off topic, but it's oh yeah, so I've only been drinking water, right, but it's not necessarily to lose weight. Because there's two types of fat people, right, there's fat people who have been fat their whole life and fat people who are newly fat and don't know what to do about it. Okay, me, I am comfortable being fat. I know how to live my life being fat because I have been fat my whole life, and so I know how to exist being fat. But people who are newly fat are like what the fuck is happening? Why don't my clothes fit? And I was like yo, you got to shop at big and tall. But I have recently realized fanatics is the place to shop by the way Fanatics is awesome.

Dusty:

I have Dodger's shirts. I'm not even Dodger's fit.

Ryno:

I'm massively like. My torso is gigantic.

Dusty:

I have no, yeah, yeah, you have tiny legs, me too, but I have to literally like I'm two eggs.

Ryno:

Normal is a belly shirt on me, but it fits perfectly in the shoulders. Yeah. Three eggs is just a baggy bed sheet, yeah, but it fits. So like, if I can find the two XL large or tall, I mean two XL tall, perfect, perfect fit. So you can't find that shit anywhere and let's order it online.

Dusty:

I'm with you and I apologize to the people who are still following the story that this was about.

Ryno:

I mean, listen, I can tie it back in. I'm fat and I'm having shitty bowel movements.

Dusty:

Terrible bowel movements might not make it to the bathroom. The older, I get the older I get the least chance. I think it. I'll make it to the bathroom.

Ryno:

Right, oh, speed on diabetes. Speaking of diabetes, listen, take you cement foreman. Every bathroom becomes your favorite bathroom, as long as you can get to one on time.

Dusty:

Okay, so do you have an update on best bathrooms? Do you have a new one? Are you still using the same bathroom you've been using?

Ryno:

So I actually have a dilemma with the best bathrooms. Last time when we recorded this, we were still kind of coming out of quarantine. I guess situations. I mean we weren't in quarantine but a lot of people were still working at home from the call center. We're back up to like 7, 800 people and we've got like three training classes a week. There are no bathrooms.

Dusty:

Oh yeah, that's true. Everybody is not married.

Ryno:

Like you got to go three different bathrooms before you find an empty shitter, which is terrifying. Plus, jeannie, I miss you. I don't know what's happened. I ain't seen you for ever, so I don't know if something's changed. But this cleaning group that we have up there, they are phenomenal. Do an amazing job, like the bathrooms are always hard to clean. No, it's, none of them are there anymore. Oh really, I don't know what's happened.

Dusty:

Well, they were independent contractors, so they may have took a better job.

Ryno:

I'm thinking they moved on, but I've never asked that question. But this new group they literally adhere to a strict schedule where they clean the bathroom every hour and a half, like two hours.

Ryno:

It's hot until you walk up there and then they have to go. I swear to God, me and LaCrestia have a running joke on it. Every single day I go to the bathroom. They're cleaning it. One of them oh, and you can't get in there. You can't get in there. So then you go to the other one and actually, since they're cleaning the one, the two stalls are full in the other one.

Dusty:

What about the my favorite bathroom? I told you.

Ryno:

I don't know the front one, why not?

Dusty:

Oh, that's right, you just fucking afraid.

Ryno:

I'm afraid the door ain't gonna latch.

Dusty:

Yeah Well, that's a legitimate fear, though I guess that's that's plus, like we said before to the coke on the front toilet.

Ryno:

You know that's a problem.

Dusty:

That's what I was going to say. You worried you're going to come in on somebody doing coke. No, I'm probably.

Ryno:

Well, that's another thing about that, though. Like the front bathroom, like I'll use it to PS Now. I went up there a couple of times and I swear to God, you walk up to the door and I've waited upwards of eight minutes at one point and the sink was running the entire time. Oh wow. So either someone's like flat out like taking up like a first week of marriage poop, or like you turn in the shower and everything on because, god forbid, you don't want the honeymoon in and you don't want to hear your new spouse here taking, taking a shit.

Dusty:

The one thing you've seen it on sitcoms.

Ryno:

It's a thing.

Dusty:

Yeah, no, I'm with you.

Ryno:

So either that's happening and they're scared to have someone's gonna hear them grunting outside, or someone's taking a full on fucking bath and I don't know why.

Dusty:

Well, I told you my one. My one nightmare from that bathroom is that dude just butt ass naked in there pissing. It was my one, just like I think the decision you have to make to be the type of person that drops your pants to your ankles to piss like is life changing. Like you, you are a certain type of person so liberated.

Dusty:

So this guy, I can't possibly say like I wouldn't fucking do that to somebody, right? But that's not true. I'm a terrible person, but yeah, fuck you. You kid your children, hate you there does fire starter?

Dusty:

flaming Especially there, like I was gonna start shit there. But literally this guy it was not because he was liberated, just because he wasn't smart enough to know any different. I don't think he probably has been doing that since he was a little kid or something. Yeah, and I get it there, shit going on, like maybe you got something in your left hand and you have to, and then you can't help your pants. I don't know what the fuck's going on here. You don't know. I mean, I wear ball shorts all the time, so I'm not just a flopping go right oh yeah, right.

Dusty:

So what's what you doing in ball shorts? There's no zip, I don't have to worry about anything, but that was my nightmare there. Um, are you ready for me to describe what I like most about the bathroom? I use it work.

Dusty:

That's all right. So when you walk in and I'll tell you why it's the superior stall when you walk in, there are, directly in front of you, there are three mirrors, three sinks, three paper towel dispensers and three garbage cans right, so right in front of you, to the left of those, is two urinals with a separator in between them. Right, directly behind those urinals, is three stalls. The one against the wall is the largest of the three, right the the one in the middle is actually the handicapped.

Dusty:

It's naturally the handicapped off right, but also the bonus to the third one, not just being the handicapped stall, but you cannot see into that stall the fucking gaps on these stalls or like an inch and a half thick, like an inch and a half between the door and the frame, so you can see someone just fucking sitting on the toilet taking a shit In the mirror because the way the bathroom is designed I'm so sorry about the chair.

Ryno:

I'm so sorry about the chair. Yes, Uh.

Dusty:

I'm so sorry about the chair, but you can. When you walk into the bathroom, In you can see who's ever in the first two stalls and the doors have good hinges so they don't close all the way when nobody's in them. So you can tell automatically if somebody's in them. Uh, because the doors will be closed. But you can also just see through the cracks in the mirrors. You can see people shitting and they are looking because they know if you shit there you know, they are looking In the mirror through the crack.

Dusty:

Just, you could just fucking just sitting there on the toilet and looking through the, looking through the crack, into the mirror, looking you straighten the fucking eyes, right, but you can't see people in the third stall, which is very important. That's where everybody tries to go, so everybody goes to the third stall. So I will I'm gonna say something now that I probably. Yeah, so I know when people are going to the bathroom, right, I sit in the way back corner because I'm an IT, so we're over in the corner, so I see everything and I purposely will just watch people go to the bathroom and I know what times I can go and when I can go, that nobody's gonna be in that third stall and I know what people in the cost interviews the first and second stall and not the third one, because you've seen them. I would like to interview those people and know why they use the first and second stall. Because some people might like to see their pubes.

Dusty:

Voyeurism. Yeah, I think it might be a voyeurism thing that they're like hey, they're just sitting on the toilet. When people walk in, they're like look at my fucking pubic hair. It could be. It could be, I mean, if I had like a good stream, like I don't because I'm fat, and it would disappear. But if I had like a solid, like what do they call that line of pubic hair from like the belly button down to like down to the base, you dick, what does that called key? What's that called? You should know what's that called key.

Ryno:

Happy trail.

Dusty:

Yeah, happy trail, that's it. Yeah, I don't have those. It would have to be a huge trail. Right, have to be a trail that goes over a mountain In a cave and back out. Oh, this should have never gave her control that.

Dusty:

I don't know, over the river and through the woods, why we fucking gave her control of that whatever gave us the conscious decision to let her have the noises at her fingertips, but that's that's the most I can possibly describe my I mean, what you just explained is kind of what we talked about you know I'll be back in that first episode is, if you've got three urinals, don't be the guy that goes to the middle one first.

Ryno:

Like why? Who does that? Why pick a side and go to the side?

Dusty:

so I don't know if we urinals, right, okay, I don't know if we touch this, but do you prefer? I'm gonna go around the room, I'm not catching a Monroe. Do you prefer urinals that go from like halfway up the wall to the bottom, like full wall urinals or just small urinals? Give me the full wall. Do you like them to have a separator or no separator? No separator. Oh what do you think? And there's some specific ones I haven't mind.

Ryno:

Mounted on the wall? Yeah, okay, mounted with the divider.

Dusty:

Yeah, see, I don't like a divider right. I think the point of the urinal is just the freedom. I think it should just be a trough anyway, see.

Ryno:

I've seen the ones that are trough that are trough.

Dusty:

Ball games, like stadiums, are troughs. Stadiums are the job. Everybody's just got their dick out in the same spot as everybody else and there's just a river of piss Running past your dick. Yep, right, and that's, and that's the way God intended it. Is that not the way God intended it to be Right? What's it for, if not for flopping out?

Ryno:

a bunch of man pissing on a bucket at the same time.

Dusty:

But at the movie theater.

Ryno:

Yeah, norton movie theater, the ones that go down the ground.

Dusty:

Tell me they didn't used to have a separator. I don't think they did. Do they not? Now they do? I didn't think they always did, though.

Ryno:

I Wanted to say that they always did so. Here's why I don't like the ones that go away down. It's on your shoes. You piss all over your shoes.

Dusty:

Oh. Damage is fucking and if you're wearing Jordans it gets them fucked. Yep, you're Jordans are fucked that was, that was our comeback. That was the end of the joke.

Ryno:

We're gonna end the show if you've ate asparagus now, you got.

Dusty:

Stank, no joke, I went behind a guy yesterday. I was at the plane at App State and I went behind a dude that just pissed in the urinal and, dude, I almost said something to him which seems like the most grown-up thing to do ever that I was like Yo, dude, you gotta drink more water. I was like cuz fuck is? I walked up to the urinal and it's stuck, like the urinals stuck so bad. I was like you gotta drink more water, yo, or at least eat less asparagus or drink more water and do one of the two things asparagus pisses.

Ryno:

It's different.

Dusty:

What is asparagus key For your car? It's asparagus. No, fucking you know you were supposed to do the drum thing like the thing.

Ryno:

I Don't think doing it now counted on the fluke side of the original episode. I don't think I have any updates on bad bosses. I'd they try to take me away from my boss and we stage a small mutiny slash coup that you all burn the fucking place down If they take you all apart. Oh well, they tried to take me and rose away from Lucretia and we were like. Rose said I'm putting in my notice and I said I'm one full-blown remote.

Ryno:

Yeah, I'm gonna fucking get none of it. I'm like, if you're gonna give me a full-blown remote later, I'm gonna be a full-blown remote coach and a minute slider. We were told we were stable, lucretia.

Dusty:

Yeah, you know, what's funny is like we've not had like a solid. We've not had like a solid episode about Like sticking it to them. You know what I mean. Like yeah, like putting their foot in the fire like man, I'm saying like a lot this episode. I ever come off that a little bit. That's crutch word. Yeah, it is, but I've been doing better. Right, that's growth in the podcast.

Ryno:

I would be filling your call observation right now.

Dusty:

Hadn't I been doing better you have about same like.

Ryno:

Yeah, you've had a altered mind state, though. Yeah, that's not my fault, it's cages.

Dusty:

I Don't think that fit. You're gonna fucking lose your control.

Ryno:

Time out you're gonna look, you're gonna time out. You can't you know the box any more buttons. We're on a power play now.

Dusty:

It's three on. It's three on key. We got this whole thing.

Dusty:

So, I think you're the only one that could have the advantage, like, if I'm at work and I'm holding out, I don't think I'm gonna. Hey, I'm not gonna work Unless you do this for me. There's a there's gonna replace me, right, but you matter, right, you? You matter like the things you do and you obviously do, and that's that's you know. That's awesome that you do that shit, that you matter and that you could. If you were more of an asshole, it would matter less.

Ryno:

Probably I was but if you were more of an asshole you would make more money. I was an asshole, really bad, about two weeks ago. Oh, really, really. It was probably the worst Feedback I've ever been given as a leader, as a Drake manager, in probably nine years.

Dusty:

You got bad feedback towards you.

Ryno:

Oh yeah, yeah, so what we end up having happened, I'm gonna kind of work through this story very quickly, but we're no hurry, we don't want to be, we are. I just don't want to talk about something. We have fucking mad Phillip, so we moved under a new corporate branding, pretty much so naturally, when that happens, they want to straight, you know, make sure everyone's on the same Coaching methodologies, same paperwork, hr schematics the whole time.

Ryno:

So the thing is that we have this coaching model that is really built off of coaching behaviors that are a drive from a key metric. Okay, I could keep you. My department doesn't have metrics.

Dusty:

This is the manager, talk oh yeah, so my oh right, you all don't have my. Department is having you just fix another people, shit, basically I mean fixing everybody else's fuck ups.

Ryno:

Yeah, so they put us through this three week training, four hours a day for three weeks, to learn how to do this coaching methodology that does not apply to my work stream.

Dusty:

Mm-hmm.

Ryno:

So we get through the whole entire thing. They're like oh yeah, you got to do a fire test at the end of this, where you have to pull an agent and Coach them off this methodology in front of a panel and you have to pass it.

Dusty:

Okay not even know. You're pushing the methodology that much anyway, cuz, like he said, no apply to you.

Ryno:

It doesn't apply to me. So you know what I had to do and what I was told to do. I had to pull an agent, tell them that I've been provided fake numbers, fake metrics. Give me initial agent.

Dusty:

You pulled, ja, you don't know.

Ryno:

Okay, adding to not only think I didn't listen, he wouldn't you fuck. He's like I just say, anyway, I didn't want care, so I have to pull adding, didn't say, hey, here's what your fake numbers are that I won't be coaching you to, because I don't Want to pull you into a meeting and from a panel of people and coach you and put it in on paper pen to paper Feedback for you on what you're doing wrong, when it does not actually impact your work at all whatsoever.

Ryno:

So I do him give him the fake numbers, give him a fake backstory For why he wasn't hitting the numbers. And then we had to go in and put in a dog and pony show and found like three or four people and basically Fake all yeah and they knew we were faking it. So I'm like at this point, how the fuck is this benefiting anybody?

Dusty:

This is a waste of Well, especially not your employee.

Ryno:

Yeah, it's not benefiting anybody, because I'm exempt from this type of coaching methodology, because we don't have metrics. So we pull him, go through the whole entire thing and at the end of it they're like all right. Some of the feedback we have is you really kind of control too much the conversation. You didn't let them talk. I'm like how much can someone fucking talk about fake numbers that they don't even know about? Like how am I supposed to steer this conversation to where they talk more than me over something that had to prep them on 30 minutes before he came into this damn thing?

Dusty:

And like they're not expecting you, you're not expecting. It doesn't make any sense of the department, the whole things.

Ryno:

So we go through the whole entire spiel and they're like do you have any feedback for this fire test? Oh, the word vomit happened for about the next 15 minutes. That one point with the guy said are you done?

Dusty:

It's like the interview with the with the bobs.

Ryno:

Yeah. They were like are you done? I'm like, yeah, I guess. And then apparently like I. They pulled my manager the next day and they're like we have concerns, oh.

Dusty:

Because you spoke out.

Ryno:

Yeah, I was a turd. Yeah, get fucked though.

Dusty:

Very abrasive.

Ryno:

That sucks. The thing is, I felt like all my feedback was valid. Yeah, I gotta do it. Yeah, it's level setting for the entire company, yeah, whatever they said. Well, here's the thing, though. You know your line of business is exempt, but if something ever happened to your line of business, you know you would have to go back to when these front line inbound cues, and at this point, this methodology would apply. I'm like also, so that would be, at a very minimum, probably eight to nine months in that from now I would have forgotten about all of this, yeah, but furthermore, I'm gonna be fully transparent with you. Can I be transparent? They said, yeah, I said, if my line of business goes away, I will no longer be employed by this company. I will leave, yeah, and it was cricket.

Ryno:

They said for real. I said for real, my line of business leaves, I'm gone, yeah, I'm out of here. Well, you still gotta do it.

Dusty:

Okay so I failed it and let's not say it's the problem with the whole company.

Ryno:

Anyway. They're like we have concerns that you know he's. You said he's the only leader in this department. He's client facing the. Are you afraid that he has these types of outbursts with client? I feel like his type of personality, in the way he handled that feedback and how everything went, he could be verbally abusive to his agents. What the fuck I'm telling you, dude. I went off like I've never. It shook my confidence so bad. Just going through this whole entire process I was like I don't even want to do this anymore.

Dusty:

You know what's terrible is like. That is the complete opposite of you, which is funny not you reacting to them that way, which also I want to point out that I'm proud of.

Dusty:

I mean that I think that's growth in like you're recognizing your worth in the job. You know what I mean. Like is you're just like. I need to be able to say these things to you because Don't you know something about the company that nobody else has told them that? You know what I mean. Don't you know that about? Like, like again I hate to go back to that movie, but like the bobs like nobody has heard that right and they're like, oh shit, really that's how people feel.

Ryno:

We understand that this is not, you know, one size fits all and it definitely doesn't approach to you, but we can't build this just catered to your you know campaign and your line of business.

Dusty:

You should be exempt from it, though your whole apartment should be exempt from the training I'm exempt from having to use the methodology. Yeah, you should be exempt from the training.

Ryno:

Blew my mind, man. I was like this is literally, did you?

Dusty:

get. So when it crashed down to like when it got to the top, top, did you get? Like, did you get crashed down about it?

Ryno:

Oh no right.

Dusty:

Really well, you would, especially wouldn't from La Crescia, because she means she knows the fucking.

Ryno:

Not not, I mean above that like they're, like, it is what it is.

Dusty:

That makes sense.

Ryno:

I gotta do it again some time either this week or next week. I gotta go do the second time. And here's the funny part. They're like you could have brought La Crescia as your agent if y'all were gonna build everything out. Mean, la Crescia, both like each other, like that's good to fucking know now. Yeah, yeah.

Dusty:

I would already cook this shit up. That'd have been easy. You know we will play from Sunday. I'll be whoever you want me to be.

Ryno:

God, but that ran all over me. I was like there is no point, like literally you made me pull an agent for 30 minutes to train them on fake bullshit, then put them into this interaction for 30 minutes about fake bullshit, and then I had to spend another 30 minutes afterwards talking to them about how we didn't succeed with fake bullshit. Yeah so it's an iron half productivity that you just cost my line of business.

Dusty:

In In case you're forgetting what we're talking about. Uh, we got started on the first ever episode. Uh, we were flashing back to it's the Wayne's world kind of works on the bad bosses part of it now because apparently I.

Ryno:

That's why we were you got the you have the people on the bad boss you have the segue, without even knowing it's there.

Dusty:

You're a pro podcaster, pro podcaster, um. I had a boss that, if I didn't get switched to, like I recently started it, I t and I love it, love the job. My boss is fucking awesome. She's been in the company like 40 years and she's crazy good. She's awesome. Anyway, my previous boss was really great too. Right, my previous boss was awesome, but her management style was not gonna work for me and I was not going to make it. Uh, and, and I was not going to make it, I just wasn't. That was just the way it was. Um, and she don't really get lumped into bad bosses because she's a really good boss and I'd like to. And you know, thinking different circumstances, maybe different mental mindset.

Ryno:

Then I can have her as a boss. It's probably you, more than it was the boss, though.

Dusty:

But we had two meetings a week.

Ryno:

Yeah, you don't do meetings.

Dusty:

I don't do meetings, bro, let me do my work right. See me an email.

Ryno:

That's you are the poster child like. If you look up the euphemism online, this could have been an email.

Dusty:

It has your picture she's well, it's because, like, if you just tell me I need to do something better, I will do that singular thing better. Everything else is gonna stay the same, which is fine, because I will do that singular thing better. It's like, here, you need to do this now. Well, I'll just start doing that, right, just. But but, like I don't want to talk about it for 45 minutes, right? And it's like, well, at least you're off the phone. No, you don't understand how easy I think this job is. I would rather be on the phone. Oh, yeah, right, I would rather just be be doing my, my mind numbing and you've talked about that before for me Is that like this IT job is way better for me because I'm on autopilot in the last department I was in and like I was an autopilot at where you're at now. Like I was on autopilot and Once I learned how to do something really good and it's not like interesting to me, I'm kind of over it.

Ryno:

Oh you gone.

Dusty:

I'm over it and that, but, but it keeps podcasting keeps me going because like we get to do different shit every week, right? So like I'm not talking about the same thing all the time.

Ryno:

Well, the thing is, too is like we talked about quiet quitting. You would fall into inadvertent quiet quitting at that. Yeah, you would be emotionally merely checked out without even attaining to me, and it's like my laziness plays into it a little bit. I think that's why some of the times I never actually brought you into my departments because, like I don't know if I can Coach this.

Dusty:

What you underestimate about me, though, is my major Issue with disappointing people, right, so I would have probably been your best employee, because because I don't want to inconvenience anybody, especially my friends. If I don't know you, I don't care to inconvenience you, but if you're my friend, I'm like a fuck. Well, I'm gonna have to work my ass off for Ryan, and I don't want to. I would have just quit, probably so dangerous so yeah.

Ryno:

Kevin came back to that exploitative leader that I had knew that he had that in me.

Dusty:

Yeah, yeah.

Ryno:

Yeah, it's something right because sometimes when you like, you will know as a manager, when you have those employees and you got to be very respectful of that.

Dusty:

Yeah.

Ryno:

Yeah, very respectful of that, because there is a very powerful mechanism and that, like my people, that I have, that are like they, I know don't want to inconvenience me Sometimes. What they don't know is I will be purposely a little bit distant with them.

Dusty:

Yeah, because I don't want to be that way. Yeah, cuz you gotta come out of it.

Ryno:

I don't want to be like trend on the line of exploitative and be like Well, I know they don't want to disappoint, so you know I could weaponize this. I don't want to be that guy. I would never be that guy because I had it done to me and God, it's shitty.

Dusty:

Well, that kind of is like thinking about the, the type of co-worker that you can work with, the different you know abilities, the different type of person they are, and that's kind of. Our next flashback was thinking about if I had any tops of Worst co-workers. Now, because I know when we went over the, the last like type of word worst co-workers, you know.

Ryno:

So we went over bad tops. Yeah, I would love to do it in a future episode. Is you know like in relate, like my wife had one of the like these? Take tiktok questionnaires earlier and it goes through all these different questions. It's like ask him all these questions. Yeah and like what I'm was, like you know. Do they know what your love language is?

Ryno:

Oh yeah, I feel like there is a co-worker language. Yeah, there is like, like we were just talking about is the person that's eager to please, and things like that. I would love to get into the psychology of that.

Dusty:

Well, and it plays hand-in-hand with like something I was thinking about Doing some content on is something that would be controversial, I think with everybody, spouse would be like work wife or work husband. You know what I mean. Because it's like the person, because you spend more time with your people at work than you do With your people with your people at home just because you're there eight hours a day and you're not with your family eight hours a day.

Dusty:

No you're just not Right and like and you have somebody who you're super close with at work, that's like you know and that's, and that's again, that's a touchy fucking episode. We can say that some people are gonna be mad. Not that either of our wives have ever heard a word. We've said on the podcast Nobody does, it's fine, we have five people who do. But yeah, I don't necessarily. I've went over a lot of bad types of co-workers and and I know, like the, I think something I didn't mention before was the person who thinks you like them.

Dusty:

Oh, yeah is a bad type of co-worker, right? The person who thinks you're their best friend at work? Yeah, right, and it's fucking just like every time you get up out of your chair or like walk near them there beside you, how you doing, everything going alright, how are you and start talking to you about a topic that you don't actually care about, that they think you care about?

Ryno:

That's when the oh man, that's crazy. Oh, bro, okay.

Dusty:

That's wild. Now my phone now like I'm just on tick tock if I like, if you're talking to me and I pull my phone out and get on Tick tock while you're talking to me. I probably don't want to talk to you, cuz, especially because I don't even use tick tock. Oh, that was a different circumstance. That's a totally different circumstance. I think that's a different situation. I was lost in the sauce.

Ryno:

Speaking of sauce man, I'm about to go destroy some more than meatballs in the kitchen. It's calling my name.

Dusty:

We pre-gamed, we pre-gamed and key cooked cooked like three Italian meals. You need all the pasta and just die from it. Listen.

Ryno:

One last rant before we go Do it.

Dusty:

Fucking go. Always sit back down. Fucking, getting real. The growth in this. How quiet that was I moved it.

Ryno:

Do you remember when we first started? I love it.

Dusty:

We first started we touch something and it sound like the end of the world came.

Ryno:

Oh yeah, it sounds like this. It don't do that anymore now. Why'd you do that? It's so much better.

Dusty:

That's some sort of comparison.

Ryno:

So Daylight savings time in the workplace.

Dusty:

Oh.

Ryno:

Fuck it, man, that's fuck. Oh sorry if I woke somebody up just now.

Dusty:

I'm getting a little really cool throwback. Really good is when you work, not shift, which is a previous episode.

Ryno:

Yeah right, let me tell you lose money.

Dusty:

Or it goes back at two o'clock and you've worked a quarter of your shift and you have to go back and work another hour If you're fucking shift. Fuck that, you shouldn't even count.

Ryno:

So there's that. I wasn't here for that episode, so I'm way it on to that.

Dusty:

I forgot about that.

Ryno:

You're dead me the company I was dead that week. The company that I work for is based out of Arizona. That does not.

Dusty:

Oh, no time change.

Ryno:

They don't acknowledge any of it, so they sit.

Dusty:

Did you know that key no time change in Arizona?

Ryno:

They sit in their little bubble. Nothing changes. But then we have to go through and it's not for the virus, it's ours. We're on this shitty fucking time keeping schedule. It's now. I'm like all right, now I'm gonna have to piss off half my workforce and say you've got to stay late, hour later To make sure they were maintaining these cues.

Dusty:

Now fun, that is to tell people every fucking year.

Ryno:

It's miserable.

Dusty:

People are. That's my favorite. My favorite manager moments is when the manager said to call you and be like Um, so yeah, you're gonna have to stay, work, work extra on something you don't know anything about.

Ryno:

At one point we had a six month schedule on and six month schedule off, purely because of Daylight Savings time. That's intense when we would have people that would have to work. For six months they would work 12, 30 to 9. And then for the rest of the year, the other half, they work 11, 30 to 8. Oh, because, yeah, that's fucked To match, because Arizona doesn't change. That's so weird. Can we get rid of this shit?

Dusty:

Am I crazy? Or did they vote it out? What the fuck happened? It's like 2025.

Ryno:

It's coming, but like people are still freaking refuting this shit, what's he saying?

Dusty:

The house. Somebody didn't approve it, so they had to go back.

Ryno:

Oh, you know why One party did, the other didn't. Alright, it's always Probably because they're like Daylight Savings time on the bill or voting to do this. Oh, right, here in the small fine print were $850,000 to child prostitution. Yeah, it reflects Ghana or something.

Ryno:

Epstein's family there's always some fucking bullshit tie-in money going somewhere or something, something. But the thing is one of the biggest things that they were fighting with on the house floor and all that was. They're like school. So now, if you abolish Daylight Savings, you're gonna have kids sitting waiting to get on a bus in complete, total pitch-black darkness year-round. They're like it's not safe. Why is it not safe?

Dusty:

What's it fucking not safe about it? They're staying on the sidewalk all the time anyway.

Ryno:

Yeah.

Dusty:

Bus has headlights. It's not 1927. If they're going to get hit, they're going to get hit.

Ryno:

If you can't, it's natural selection. If a runaway car hits a kid, you can't blame it on Daylight Fucking. Savings time Like stop.

Dusty:

Fucking stop. I didn't know that was an argument for it, Like yeah it was great for farmers, and nobody farms anymore.

Ryno:

Nobody farms anymore. The biggest thing, the reason they got shot down only in Lincoln, nebraska is literally because of fucking school buses, school buses.

Dusty:

That seems like somewhere, like you're saying somewhere in it it was, there was something that was hidden.

Ryno:

I mean, I think there was at one point in time, but like literally, they were on the floor talking about it and saying school buses.

Dusty:

The only thing more that I wanted to cover about the previous episodes was the Iscab episode.

Ryno:

Oh yeah.

Dusty:

You were here for Iscab, right, we were over Iscab.

Ryno:

Oh no, if you remember Iscab, they're not let in too.

Dusty:

Yeah, the Strike, which is cool. That like you still like the Drew Barrymore shit. It's cool unless you are Drew Barrymore.

Ryno:

Unless you're Drew, Barrymore Turns out don't fuck up like that.

Dusty:

Yeah, don't do that. She's like cross the picket line. And then they ended the strike right after that.

Ryno:

Oh, she's like a hundred percent.

Dusty:

I stand in solidarity with you, yeah, but I won't start my show. But I won't start my show back up and I'll use different writers.

Ryno:

I'm sorry, I just have to.

Dusty:

And now they just fucking everybody quit and everybody left.

Ryno:

Got to pay for the fucking insurance on that Bentley.

Dusty:

Not us. We still rotten, yeah, we still rotten. We both working on projects outside of it. It's fun.

Ryno:

Well, my buddy Eric, he does. I'm going to shout out his YouTube channel. I love it. It's Pony. He calls it positivity on purpose.

Dusty:

I got it. It's great.

Ryno:

I mean him got a big, huge discussion the other day. He was talking about the Chucky TV series, like if they go to the mid season finale. He said it was very uneventful. The show's kind of ass.

Dusty:

Yeah, it was like it was, and now they're waiting.

Ryno:

God knows when. Until you know, the writer strikes everything fully dissolves and everything's good, everybody's back.

Dusty:

You're striking, now right Actors are striking. That's the thing is. Like you know, I'm not going to be a writer.

Ryno:

That's the thing is like.

Dusty:

Well they strike a really good money.

Ryno:

It's residuals. It's not the ones that have all kinds of money as the ones that don't.

Dusty:

Yeah.

Ryno:

That's the big. Thing is.

Dusty:

it's the reason that's a lot of it.

Ryno:

But like right now we got a lot of good TV programming. It's kind of left in the lurch right now that we're kind of waiting on.

Dusty:

Yeah.

Ryno:

Kind of we were talking pregame, like I'm a huge stranger things saying, like tomorrow's Stranger Things Day, like, if you're familiar with show, yes, a big, huge capture point in that by the time we get that final fifth season, these kids are going to be 48 years old.

Dusty:

Dude, it's wild that she fucking. She looks so old now.

Ryno:

How is?

Dusty:

she supposed to be in the show.

Ryno:

I mean they're supposed to be early teens. Well, I mean to be fair to be fair.

Dusty:

In the mid 2000s, late 2000s, all those shows like One Tree Hill and even what's the vampire show, Vampire.

Ryno:

Diaries.

Dusty:

Vampire Diaries, all that shit. All that shit is like they're all like 35.

Ryno:

They're supposed to be 17. Where the fuck are all the parents.

Dusty:

Every time I watch one of those shows I'm like where are all the parents? Where's all these parents at?

Ryno:

One Tree Hill likes seven years of four years of high school. It was seven seasons of four years of high school.

Dusty:

Yeah, they all had jobs and shit. I was really confused about the timelines. So, my wife, we get so off track.

Ryno:

The first. I don't know the whole rider strike shit, we're there. She got me into One Tree Hill Like I watched the first season of it, it wasn't bad.

Dusty:

Oh yeah, I dig it, I'm off it and then it goes fucking haywire.

Ryno:

It is wild Everybody does. It's like a fucking school shooting. And there's this.

Dusty:

Move out of there.

Ryno:

It's literally like one of them falls in love with fucking Pete Wince. And he's actually Pete Wince, like follow up boys in there, fucking dumbass town.

Dusty:

I'm like, come on, it's like Grayson Adam, he just get out of there. Don't work. What's the other one, yellowstone?

Ryno:

Like there you go there you go Regress, regress. I'm just pissed. Oh, I'm in a no doubt. So Yellowstone on the premise, really good fucking show in eight episodes. We watched the first eight episodes like they've accidentally killed like 36 people.

Dusty:

Well, I get it.

Ryno:

And I'm like, I'm all for, I'm on board with some realism and I know this is like kind of like a I wouldn't say white trash, but it's close, it's very close to like a white trash version of sons of anarchy. Oh yeah, it's literally. I mean it's the same dude that was sheriff Hale and sons of anarchy. So it's that I can get behind a bunch of people accidentally dying and shit and gang violence and everything when it's, you know, the top 1% motorcycle club but, when it's when it's fucking cattle farming.

Dusty:

Yeah, they try to capture that like sons of anarchy feeling in anything, even if it's horses.

Ryno:

It's stupid and I don't love people that love Yellowstone. I am fucking off it. I can't get out of the first season. Boy West loves it.

Dusty:

He would Okay, he loves it too. You love it. Okay, he loves it.

Ryno:

I'm sorry.

Dusty:

It's totally expected, it's fine.

Ryno:

But anything that I just say, was any of it wrong?

Dusty:

No, I can see, I mean it's appealing because she just likes the hot guy.

Ryno:

That's it, cowboys. Cowboys, she's like cowboys, it's cowboys, it's cowboys.

Dusty:

Um, eric King also is going to. He's going to come back on. I'm going to get him to come back on the the the. What was his episode? Was he on swim with sharks?

Dusty:

Swimming the sharks the farming and co-op and shit, yeah, yeah, the farm co-op. He went to Korea, I think, with that farm co-op, but he went to Korea and had a great time, so he got all kinds of good food. But I want to, I want to come on and talk about it, cause he was also miserable and hated it. So it's both things, but I think we'll have a good time talking about Korea. But that's an update on that episode.

Ryno:

Um well, we started the episode with a retraction, let's end it with a retraction. So we started with Elvage chicken and me firmly steel, micah, we love you. Retracting all the previous horrible things we've said.

Dusty:

That many horrible things.

Ryno:

I sit some pretty harsh shit in that episode.

Dusty:

You were standing up and shit too when you were talking about this. So I told you I was shaking and said yeah, he knew you're fucking standing up.

Ryno:

I was the hateful mood at that point in time. I'm dying for his, like his concept that he has for his podcast or his YouTube.

Dusty:

I'm just. I followed him and shared it.

Ryno:

I want this shit to launch. I think it's fucking awesome. So retracting there the other retraction. I'm going to retract for Edward.

Dusty:

We glorified Edward who came on and he basically we want to do shout outs.

Ryno:

He's like you know what. I left that fucking company. I feel so much better that motherfucker's right back on the floor. He went right back. He was like he retracted and he came back home Couldn't find a job pay me this much for not doing nothing. So he's right back home with me. So all that inspiration that we got from Edward quitting first guess we had on the show.

Dusty:

Sorry bro, he retracted that, he's so sorry. That's okay, love you, man. Come back home.

Ryno:

That's fun. I'll walk that retraction line for you, so you have to come on here and do that, hey great show. It was yeah.

Dusty:

Great show everybody.

Ryno:

That was fun.

Dusty:

That was a great show, shout out. I don't know. He's playing the music. Why, why, too early, we're going to get way out of here. I want to. I want to mention the everybody Travis, chris Hammons, charlie West, mike Adams and newest patron.

Ryno:

Can you retract?

Dusty:

I can. So why do you make us feel super guilty and appreciate you? Tuning in? Everybody falls on Spotify, instagram, tiktok. If you follow some TikTok, also follow Big O'Noggin on TikTok, because he's there too and you can find him through our page and it'd be super easy to find. Find us and everything. Follow us, like, share, comment, send us an email. Fucking, please something, communicate with us, fucking, do something. Anybody got anything else. You can hit the music. You can hit the music now.

Ryno:

Okay, okay.

Dusty:

Right now, nobody's stopping you from quitting your job, but you got the saltiness.