Unpaid Lunch : A Podcast About Work
Everyone hates work, but almost all of us have to do it. Join Heavy D with a new guest each week, asking the dumbest questions about their job we can come up with.
Basically just people talking about how much they don't want to work. That's all.
We try to stay under your lunch time so you have time to cry before clocking back in. usually a guest stops by to tell us a story about their crappy job.
Remember that nobody is stopping you from quitting your job, But you.
Unpaid Lunch : A Podcast About Work
Lordy, Lordy, Look Who's 40!
Can you feel the tension in the wrestling ring? That's us celebrating our 40th episode with a bang! As we reconnect with the electrifying world of professional wrestling, we tell you all about the recent big weekend and the return of R-Truth. We also touch on the dwindling Black Friday frenzy in the retail scene, and share our personal experiences during this holiday season. Hold onto your seats, folks - we've got tons to talk about!
Ever wondered what it's like to volunteer in youth sports? We take you through some intense courtside action as we explore the challenging, yet fulfilling world of coaching young athletes. Learn about handling drama, negotiating with difficult parents, and striving for fairness - even when your own kids are on the field. And as if that's not enough, we'll also take you behind the scenes of our experiences at GameStop, highlighting the company's management and operational mishaps. We even throw in a discussion around the controversial practice of publicizing charitable acts on social media - and the potential narcissism that can accompany it.
As we roll into the final part of our episode, we've got an exciting discussion around the game of cribbage, and its unexpected popularity among accountants. And let's not forget our special guest, Milo the cat, who adds his own unique charm to the conversation. So be part of our journey, share your thoughts, and remember, quitting your job is always an option! Don't forget to follow us on all our social media platforms and stay tuned for more fascinating discussions. (All of our descriptions are done with AI, So enjoy them as much as we do)
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On your break. Today the show turns 40. Well, 40 episodes show. It's the show's 40th episode. We're talking about volunteer work. Just me and Rhino in the studio, like back in the day. All right Time to clock out for lunch. Welcome into the paid lunch. Thanks for spending your break with us. I'm heavy D with me, as always. The man, the myth, the legend. Legend killer I don't know why he's not here. Right, I was here instead. Legend killer. Legend killer. Welcome back, randy.
Speaker 2:Oh god, welcome back. I'm looking for the applause Greatest weekend for professional wrestling.
Speaker 1:We're jumping right right into it. We're 30 seconds into the show and we're already talking about wrestling. I don't, so I promise pre-show. I promise we didn't. We weren't gonna talk about. We know we talked. We thought we got it out of the way, but there's no chance if you know us, you know we were pumped about we're here in voices in our head and we were put and. Something nobody else is talking about. That, I think is getting a lot of hate. And I watched. I watched so much YouTube today About wrestling.
Speaker 2:I watched all the reaction videos today.
Speaker 1:Nobody's talking about our truth. No, and I was like yo. Our truth is probably in more wrestling shape than CM Punk or Randy.
Speaker 2:He's immediately brought the comic release Randy.
Speaker 1:Orton's fucking jacked. Can we talk about that? He is so huge that he can't rest.
Speaker 2:He's eight, like six babies.
Speaker 1:He's like Brock Lesnar with a bad back and see him punch.
Speaker 2:Looks old, he does it still. See him punch that picture.
Speaker 1:They were using him like his face. I was like that's terrible.
Speaker 2:Motherfucker needs to fix his hair.
Speaker 1:No, he did that promo either, fucking like he's always got like a cow leg.
Speaker 2:I'm just like man.
Speaker 1:His hair was an. I was never afraid of his hair, even when it was long. That was terrible. This is a segue into our wrestling podcast that we've been talking about doing forever. They really that's. All we want to do is just we just want to sit around and talk about wrestling.
Speaker 2:Big thing I guess we need to get out is welcome back. I mean, we've been out for a week and a half, but holidays I forgot that we didn't tell everybody like I meant to.
Speaker 1:I Got really confused on our news, our new shooting, like our new recording schedule, and I got super confused on when on us releasing on Wednesdays, and I was like, well, we'll just record next week and and I know Ryan was probably confused on what I was saying so he didn't say anything to me about it.
Speaker 2:We didn't even talk about it. We didn't fucking know how we can came out, came went. We're like well, I guess we're doing this.
Speaker 1:Uh, travis Sturgill Message me and was like when the fuck's the show? And I was like, dude, my bad. I was like we didn't record this week and then I was at my mom's All weekend, so we're actually doing a turnaround like we used to do back in the day, like three weeks ago.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you what I would have loved to have had if we had had that episode. I mean, I've been posted on Facebook and stuff that. Come on, guys, y'all gonna have to engage with this a little bit here.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Messages. We need some stuff.
Speaker 1:I was gonna open after that episode I thought for sure I was gonna open mess here and I thought there's like 20 people talking to us. I was like I can see you bitches on the page. Just see me a message, just be like hey, I hate my job.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, my big thing was like, literally, we went through Retail hail, which is black Friday. I would love to have had somebody on for that segment just to be kind of be able to talk through all that. And I still think it's something we can Pursue in the future because there are so many good stories tied into black Friday, like I remember so many from you know just when I was at Walmart man up and everything else.
Speaker 1:One went out Um. It was my birthday, black Friday birthday.
Speaker 2:I don't ever believe you're sure birthday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I fuck with everybody for so long. I used to change my birthday on Facebook all the time, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:That's the only way, people watch a bunch of people send you gift cards.
Speaker 1:I was like now.
Speaker 2:every time your birthday pops up I'm like, oh, congrats.
Speaker 1:I think your five birthdays. Your message was literally happy birthday. I fucking guess I don't know, I don't think it's your birthday.
Speaker 2:Happy baby birthday.
Speaker 1:But yeah, um, me and clay went out, me my son went out and we were gonna try to find some. We try to find some deals on action figures and and stuff and and it was not busy out like it used to be. Everybody shops online now. It was not crazy. Target was kind of crazy, but like Rassel, figures are 50 by one for getting 150% off, so that was kind of hot was people like Driving towards that sale or were they just kind of know?
Speaker 1:we went out at like noon and it was still a bunch of shit, Like there was TVs laying out in the you know like big, big sales online yeah. I was really surprised.
Speaker 2:Online sales are so much more accessible now.
Speaker 1:Well, especially because it doesn't make any sense that online sales do black Friday and Cyber Monday. It was like they did Cyber Monday. I get it from a retail, from us, from a retail standpoint. People just like to hear black Friday yeah and like it's a buzzword. So let's use some retail knowledge here. Let's share some. Let's share some retail knowledge that we have that I don't know. I mean, a lot of our listeners don't aren't in retail. There's a ton of other jobs Even, but when you're in retail, you think the only job is retail.
Speaker 1:Yeah but Sales are not real. If you know this or not, they are not real.
Speaker 2:They are marketing ploy and it is as close as a scam as legally possible as the those are really designed to drive volume and fit traffic.
Speaker 1:Did you see that tick tock where, like the girl is like pulling the signs off at Target, the same black Friday sale and like the prices Under it it's like reduced and it's like they're normal every day same sale and I was like, yeah, sure, but who's the idiot?
Speaker 1:Right, like everybody else is like going crazy for towels that are like not even there's, not even a good deal. When I see stuff it's not even a good deal and I know I think my retail knowledge helps me a lot look at stuff and think that's fucking awful. But I also I love any impulse buy like I'll buy. I'm a sucker for in caps yo.
Speaker 2:Well, in caps into any type of impulse buy section, like around cash register, anything like that's always big thing. And then we used to have like the big, huge drop shippers that were in the middle of the aisles and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm stop so, like they captured, there's designed to capture attention as you're walking around through the store red, yellow, blue. Yeah ready.
Speaker 1:Yellow, blue they're always ready. I'll are blue.
Speaker 2:Red, yellow or blue and 90% of the game stop. It was always after Glower mad cats. Oh yeah, the cheapest shit made humanly possible for holiday sales.
Speaker 1:I love that, how flashy the section at Walmart always is. That's the, as you can see, as you seen on TV, mm-hmm. And, by the way that, as you see on TV logo, it's ready. I love blue. No it's big, bright, ready. I love blue. No, there's a reason. All all restaurants have ready I love blue. This is our 40th episode. We got way off track. I know that sounds like I just done edit, but I promise I jumped straight into it because we're gonna get lost in the retail world and and and and our training of how to attract customers to a certain position in your store.
Speaker 2:I wish we could train people to attract them to our podcast.
Speaker 1:I was. I feel like there's not enough ready.
Speaker 2:Yellow and blue to really get that memo out there.
Speaker 1:What's funny is there are a lot of unpaid lunch, qr QR codes and onion caps and the dollar store and like, but most of our logo is green. I'm gonna, I'm gonna get Charlie to you're gonna change it shit. Yeah, I'm gonna get Charlie to take it. Charlie, please make our logo look more like McDonald's 40 episodes in and actually finally took matrix.
Speaker 2:I had looked at matrix a long time. We are over well over 8,000 downloads.
Speaker 1:That's hot, yeah, I don't look at them either.
Speaker 2:I hadn't looked in, so I don't listen to them, I don't I don't log into them. That's really good, I would love to see us hit 10,000 before we hit that one year mark. I think that'd be big.
Speaker 1:What was our first episode? Somebody tell us Bad bosses and yeah, I'm thinking what, when was it March, march or April?
Speaker 2:I'm gonna shit out, go back 40 weeks, yeah, 40 weeks loosely, oh, we were not here.
Speaker 1:You're not here. Lots of tweaks here can't solve these problems. Can solve these problems. We didn't miss. I want to point out that we didn't miss and I think we might be one of the only. All right, fucking give us some credit, because we might be one of the only podcast in the nation. We didn't miss an episode for 35 weeks. Yeah, none, none, we didn't miss it all like there was nothing. And yeah, we're tooting our own horn, all right, but it's hard for me to commit to anything. Okay, so 35 weeks was pretty solid. There's some episodes that people weren't on, I Think. Did we used to have? How many mics were there? How many people were on the shi it's always. Oh, I was thinking maybe somebody else used to host with us, but I couldn't.
Speaker 2:I think we did have another person.
Speaker 1:I can't remember how many times. Yeah, that was good though that and this is our 40th week we were gonna try to have my call on, but he has a hundred kids and when I'm with sick, I think everybody's sick right now, but I don't know if this is like a Continental thing or if this is just our freaking shit whole county, but everybody's either got flu, a flu be Covid, or dogs got it now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dog Rona dog Rona. I don't know. The bar corona there's there's got to be a whole lot of those to set up.
Speaker 2:Play just. Well play by, play, try my son went.
Speaker 1:My son went big foot by the. How do I know where he's going there?
Speaker 2:I know we're there kitchen. He's kind of slowly sauntering around the middle island. He is really not wanting to clear back through, cuz he knows that we're kind of contemplating what's going on right now.
Speaker 1:I'm clothes are coming from a recent knee injury in the basketball game.
Speaker 2:There he goes, he's walking back. It gives us a nod.
Speaker 1:He doesn't like the underwear he's wearing. He's changing him.
Speaker 2:Yep Red is his killer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're recording the night before we post. We haven't done that in a few weeks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it sucks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's okay, but we're here. We're here for you guys. For the content 40 weeks, 40 weeks, maybe 41 episodes. I really just don't know at this point. My backup hard drive knows it's too much. Yeah, I'm off that.
Speaker 2:Well, knee injury Did he get hurt playing ball.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was having a great game and he like he got team there playing pretty physical and he got. He got jammed up and pushed down twice. The second time he come down with his knee behind him. Man injuries abound everywhere, right now to.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you, I'm still blaming everything on the flood.
Speaker 1:Everything's flood mud. It's everybody's everybody sick from flood mud.
Speaker 2:So it's pretty good segue, though. So we're talking about sports and flood work and everything else. Only one type of work gets that done, so today's concept and I'm gonna bring this up, and this is gonna be a hot take, but I stand by it the hardest job in the world is volunteer work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, uh.
Speaker 2:I don't want to do a job. I get paid for that's what I'm saying, so I immediately caveats things there. That's gonna make you be immediately off of it. You're not getting paid. Yeah, it's usually pretty demanding hours. Yep, quite a large commitment. There's no HR, which is probably not a bad thing to some but yeah, I don't probably when the drama begins in the volunteer work.
Speaker 1:There's no writing it in yeah, none Especially need sports, jesus, so volunteer, volunteer work like to me, and that's gonna mean something different to a lot of people, right. But like to us, it's sports. We volunteer in sports. We volunteer. We coaching to us right. But other people volunteer in their communities, volunteer at schools, you know, volunteer volunteer shelters.
Speaker 2:I think we do it in two segments. So let's start with the first segment and we'll say volunteer work pertaining to your children, because that's how a lot of us get had winked into it. I won't say had winked, I enjoy it. I enjoy a lot of things that are derived from volunteer work, with voluntary coaching, you know organization of, you know rec leagues and this, that and everything else.
Speaker 2:but God, there's a lot of responsibility, it's tied into it and, like you said, with no HR, nobody to control, nobody control the shit, like when drama happens and you got nobody to do it but you let's say, you know Most other jobs is like you if you have a weak link, everybody else, you know We'll find some way to pick up and make the new on me still meet the status quo, meet, you know your deliverables and things like that. Volunteer work just makes you want to choke them.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're not getting compensated for you, so it's just yes, when you're at your real job, you get your reason for not Blowing up and and leaving is you want to keep your job. You want to keep your job and keep getting paid.
Speaker 2:New volunteer work makes you question it near like I'm not getting paid for this. Is it worse?
Speaker 1:parents are all terrible to me and I'm coaching their child, yep.
Speaker 2:So even kind of a slight deviation from that, if you find someone who has no children and they're coaching volunteer, coaching their time to coach your child's team for youth sports, fucking put them on your shoulder and pack them around like they just fucking one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, with no kids involved, right.
Speaker 2:No kids involved, because these people are fucking saints.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Or they just usually just or their sociopaths. It's one of the one of two.
Speaker 2:Usually love the sport. They love the sport and like they want to see kids actually develop and things like that. But then also there's no daddy ball or mommy ball or whatever you want to call it. God nothing.
Speaker 1:Nothing raised my blood pressure. You're like there's no coaches and four kids at start.
Speaker 2:There's none of that. They're usually, you know, looking at things from our perspective of the betterment, of the full betterment of the team, but they're few and far between. I mean, more often than not, when you're doing youth sports, it's somebody's mom, dad, uncle, grand, happy, three times removed.
Speaker 1:And we coach our kids. So we're not, we're not not calling ourselves up.
Speaker 2:I'm heavily involved in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I often kind of feel bad for my kids sometimes because I try to steer so far away from the daddy ball still that if my kid looks to be wrong on the first day of practice I'm going to be puked, benched, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Benched immediately Like my dad. That's me, and I've spoken about this probably on the previous episode in the past, but I remember one practice where my dad said, hey, go play first base. And I was like, why, so I never played first base? He's like you questioned me and he literally made me run to a puked up whole chunks of ravioli that I had just ate before I got up there and on the way home I was like, why did you do that to me?
Speaker 2:He's like someday you'll understand. You get it. Yeah, I get it now.
Speaker 1:Yeah 100% you do the same thing. Yeah, it would absolutely make sense.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm a devil to my child on a, I feel like field, something I've always.
Speaker 1:I feel like people who volunteer in animal shelters are like that level of like you volunteer in animal shelter that's. That sucks too, if you're doing actual like work in animal shelter and there's usually a layer of narcissism in those people, though. Well, if you're posting online about it like it's just all Instagram posts, that's all it is, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my biggest piece in the world is like oh, look at all the charity work I've done. Yeah, I'm like I wonder what charity was?
Speaker 1:like? Social media, the cloud gets us there. Like every time, I every time I give $5 to salvation army. I take a picture of it. I give $5 all the time.
Speaker 2:It wasn't for the betterment of something, or was it for a tax write off?
Speaker 1:Um, I want people to know I do it, I'm in it for cloud. Yeah, I coached a team before my son. Before my son was born, I coached a baseball team.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a train wreck. I was a part of that. It was tough, wasn't it? I was part of that. It was tough, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:We had nine friggin players. Yeah, it was terrible.
Speaker 2:It was ah, what was it? Seven new baseball at that time? Yeah, and they didn't want to do coach pitch, they wanted six and seven year olds to pitch Dude.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, it was so bad.
Speaker 2:And they could not pitch. It was the worst, so you end up having a pitcher come up walk 15 batters in a row Games would take four hours Three innings. Yeah, four hours.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were like it's a mercy rule, but it's fun and nobody could pitch. Our best pitcher was a girl, my cousin. She was our best pitcher. She was. It was so bad and you couldn't pitch.
Speaker 2:barely ever. Larry was involved with that team. Yeah, larry was there. Shout out Larry. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the whole time we got him on. He coaches. He coaches middle school football and he actually has no kid involved in it.
Speaker 2:Does he no kid involved in middle school?
Speaker 1:football. No, his girl plays everything else.
Speaker 2:See, that'd be yeah, be surprised you don't play yet.
Speaker 1:And he loves the sport, though that's like he's legitimately like.
Speaker 2:like I said, he's one of the ones you throw up on your shoulder and you pack them around. Yeah.
Speaker 1:He absolutely loves it. I don't, I think I would. I don't know. Man, it's tough because you act like you would like volunteer, like we have a soup kitchen. Do we have a soup kitchen? Do you know? I don't know there's a soup kitchen.
Speaker 2:Feels like a. There was a lot of volunteer work during the pandemic, yeah, and basically a lot of makeshift pop-up soup kitchen yeah.
Speaker 1:And that's kind of where we were going with. It was everybody, and that's hard because that's not. That doesn't feel like like volunteer work out, like everybody was digging people out all the time everywhere, and then, like you said, there was a lot of like people grilling on the side of the road and handing food out and all that shit. So that's I was digging, I was different. Yeah, that's the Especially during the flood. Yeah, that's what I mean. There's a lot of people doing some good shit, man.
Speaker 2:You know it's so funny is like you. We think about the flood being the one single most catastrophic thing you know that's happened in this area, this location probably. I mean it was like they call it a hundred year flood, but God, how quickly did we get away from doing good things for people?
Speaker 1:It's wild. I said at the gas station the other day. The gas station was like crowded the other day and like people were like arguing and stuff in there and like and it was just shit at a gas station. And I said, well, we really, we really forgot ourselves. Didn't we Like remember a couple of years ago when we were all real close and the community came together and everybody loved everybody? And shit changes quick. People forget about everybody.
Speaker 2:and still again, rob and just if you're the slice bit inconvenienced. It's like I went down the other night. Like it is 24 hour gas station, they were shutting everything down at 12 o'clock kind of changing drawers and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, over and shift change.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was the only one in the building and the guys like I'm so sorry, this is going to take like five minutes. I'm like bro, do you? It's fine?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He looked at me and get man. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1:I'm like you've been jumped over. Yeah, you've had a couple of assholes ripped here.
Speaker 2:I'm like done this work. I understand what you're doing. Take your time.
Speaker 1:Well, and we got. We got a ton of catching up to do on episodes, and I mean on on shit that's happened the last few weeks. But like Black Friday, and I really mean it when when I said, say something nice to a retail worker or a food service worker, because Black Friday, if you've never worked it, if you've never done retail, if you've never done food service and you've never done it on Black Friday, you don't know what it's like. People are mean, people don't care about you. You're the bottom of the totem pole. It's the epitome of full on care. It's terrible man.
Speaker 1:And that's why I am so good to my waiters or waitresses. I'm so good to them. And most of the time Now you can get shitty service. But most of the time if you get shitty service, it has nothing to do with the waiter. Like they're, they're overdone on tables because they're under staffed or the food, the food being late has absolutely fucking nothing to do with them. So and then retail workers, cashiers, don't even get, they don't get a good. Nobody says anything to them. No, they should get tipped.
Speaker 2:Bring up like tips and stuff. Now it made me think of something a while back. I don't know if this is good behavior or bad behavior, so I don't know if I saw us on TV show or if someone told me that they done it. I can't remember but they said that they would basically sit down at a bar and you know they'd get like a pitcher of beer or whatnot. It's what they'd order. You know they have their glass and got you and they would lay 40 bucks down the table and every single time they had to pay or every single time they had to feel their own glass backup, they would take money off the table. Yeah, so I I'll look at that. I'm like I see good and bad as someone who's weighted tables.
Speaker 1:That table is getting the shit end of everything. It's going to be bad because that is I think it's a very I don't know man. It seems Rude, for sure that's why, I'm for lack of a better word. You're like.
Speaker 1:You have to earn this you know, just straight up TV shows, instead of the Understanding between the two of you, that you have to earn it. You know, I mean, it's the same difference. It seems a little narcissistic, I guess, but I don't know, I don't know what kind of person would do it. You know what I mean? Yeah, instead of just being like fucking here's, here's, $10.
Speaker 1:And beer the problem is tipping. Wages go up and and or prices go up and tipping goes up because prices go up, but then waiters waiters don't get paid anymore because men wage nothing raise and so they don't get paid anything. But then we have to pay more tips because the food costs more.
Speaker 1:They get the shit in man they get, and fast food, gas station, gas station. We're still waiting for our gas station attendant episode. Everybody's afraid to come on. Everybody's afraid to come on the show. No joke, everybody's afraid. Don't chill, she'll fire with me.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah they're. They're all scared to do three and they're like yeah, fucking will not come on.
Speaker 1:I got one for sure We'll if we can get him out. I'd like if we can get him out.
Speaker 2:I've talked to one down here, neon Freedom of the family here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's like no no, she fucking will not.
Speaker 2:I've talked to her. I ain't doing it.
Speaker 1:She's the OG to.
Speaker 2:Not doing it.
Speaker 1:You just gotta hang out there long enough and somebody will get fired or quit and you can get. They'll come on the podcast. That's what we do, because that that's a whole different beast to that's working. Working black Friday At the gas station you get to see everybody on their way and you get to see them on the way back.
Speaker 2:It's like Friday, it's having to work Christmas and having to work Christmas Eve and Thanksgiving, all of it. There is no time off in gas station work.
Speaker 1:No, you, you and you get no breaks. No uh, you get no breaks at all. Nobody's there to relieve you when.
Speaker 2:I work. I didn't get a lunch?
Speaker 1:No, there's no fucking lunch. What are you kidding? You're working on a shift eight to four by yourself. There's no lunch, no lunch which. I mean I didn't W40s chair. It's fucking.
Speaker 2:Which I mean at times, gamestop is the same way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, there'd be times where I would buy yourself.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't have the coverage.
Speaker 1:So yeah, well, they just do whatever. Now, like I said, they just closed their fucking, they close the gate.
Speaker 2:They close the gate and do whatever they want my wife with him on black Friday and she's like it. Oh my god, it's so dead. She's like it's not even the same play.
Speaker 1:There's.
Speaker 2:I barely even knew they were.
Speaker 1:I'm surprised you didn't come across the tick-tock where the dude's like the dude works at GameStop and he's like this is what it's like to work in a game stop. This is like now. This was like to work in a game stop 20 there's nobody there. Yeah, they have the same shit all the time. They know there's no stock rotation because they don't run out of anything.
Speaker 2:Nope.
Speaker 1:I go back to GameStop once every six months and there's the same stuff there all the time. Well, you don't?
Speaker 2:well, hmm, just say it. So she was looking at a couple different games and so she's like the pricing on this is so much cheaper online For black Friday than when it was in the store. I was like it's because they knew the price changes. Yeah, yeah, they just didn't figure out doing them. She's like, well, what do you mean? I was like. I mean like when they opened their drawer, whenever they logged into the computer that morning, all of a sudden that thing goes and all of a sudden it shits out about 400 price changes. They knew them. They're saying they didn't do. Yeah, they just didn't do it. Or if it's like a Display copy where you have the makeshift like labels that you're supposed to put on your own.
Speaker 2:They didn't change them, they didn't put in the effort to it. So that's why you see a lot of the same shit when you go in there, like the drop shipper stuff, the loot like the pop figures and all that different shit. It's been there for like a year and you're like yeah, I know this should not still be standard retail price. It's not. It's probably 70% off, but someone's too fucking lazy to go do the damn price.
Speaker 1:So does it if you get it and take it up there, will it?
Speaker 2:ring up, it will ring up cheaper. It will ring up even it like, say, if it's a pop figure that's been there for four years and supposed to be 250, the price label says 999. When they scan it at the register it will say to bet that shit happens all the time, all the time.
Speaker 2:Everything they scan is like a different price because, I'm gonna be honest, when I worked there, there was some shit I did not price change and it was like single packs of cards, yeah, or like little tiny fucking, like the little edbd, tiny dude ads. That is your, probably your heaviest shrink out of me. Anyway, fuck that, I'm not price changing.
Speaker 2:Yeah but it's digger any of them, I'm not doing it, it's useless, I don't care. But if it's something I mean I would make in caps of shit that I knew was on sale because I wanted it out of my stone, please get this out of here. Oh, so when the best Confused that you would ever see is whenever a new like we would take, we carry, you know, a certain stock of new games for eggs amount of months and Then finally, once you hit this window, were like, okay, this game's not selling anymore, they would, in the system, flip it and convert it to a pre-owned title. Make sense. So by doing that, sometimes your collector's editions that's been sitting there for a long time get flipped to a pre-owned title and then when they do, what you're supposed to do is either put the pre-owned pricing label on that or pull the game off, go through the display, just put the game out and then do away with the material.
Speaker 2:No one ever done on. Nobody threw that shit away, sure.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you that right now that boy didn't hit the garbage.
Speaker 2:Oh no, that never happened. But what you would end up see happening is Is employees would make a way with that loot. I'm sure hundred percent. Why not, I always did that fucking.
Speaker 1:I can't help it fuck.
Speaker 2:So I will never forget I'd already bought one, but I was eyeballing another. I'm a huge middle gear fan. Middle gear rising revengeance I think it was the name of the title. It's the game. It's purely built out right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They had a collector's edition. They had a globe and encased around a sword like in the stone, and it was like a one of those electrode lamps, like when you turn on so every start shining for. But whenever you touch certain parts of the globe, like the electricity would hit your finger like those.
Speaker 1:Tessa coil. Yeah so cat, cattle, devil, and they love me.
Speaker 2:They know I'm allergic to them. They love you, they love me. I don't I'll go get he loves you. Oh, he's so mean to him didn't like that you would know when these titles they will let you know when they were getting ready to convert to Priya. Yeah so you would see all these store managers all of a sudden start calling. It's like hey, I see you have this, collectors.
Speaker 1:Oh, sure this title.
Speaker 2:I have a customer here right now that wants that. Can you please ship it up here to my stop bullshit. They went getting them out of store. 6, 9, 5, 5.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it's fucking. They weren't gonna know. Sorry, I kept that shit Well just say you can't, you don't have enough, you, you might. You might say so.
Speaker 2:This one's listed in the system as a collector's edition and I know how much they probably want this, but the reason this one's not, so it's busted all the pieces and it looks like. So I don't really feel confident sending it up there. You're like, if you want to copy the game I can send it, but like Whatever they collect boys and so it's broken game stops.
Speaker 1:Infamous for like penny and stuff and throwing in the garbage Like strategy guides and not my store, I know that.
Speaker 2:That shit, oh sir man.
Speaker 1:you know what I miss? Fucking Lane, your man, you, you and Larry used to get me the most badass Lane.
Speaker 2:I used to have a coat hanger like 6,000.
Speaker 1:I know, I remember it, where they at you got them in a box somewhere there in my old house.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't go get it. There's a drawer. It's full of them like.
Speaker 1:I believe me. No, that's the house and done them. Yeah, no, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember like I had like dishonored stealing it like how to live. In addition, pikachu, one that you could only get at our GameStopcom.
Speaker 1:I got that fallout one with the new Cacola.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, bottle cap on it. You remember that gigantic freaking? Shout out, cody Prager. That gigantic freaking.
Speaker 1:Vault boy, yeah, man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm still thinking I kind of got ripped on that. All I think I got was a Box of eternal masters out of it.
Speaker 1:He's he, I mean you know yeah he did that. Yeah, he did that for living. He's great at it.
Speaker 2:I think I got he doesn't listen to show anyway. I wonder if he still has that. He's probably sold that at this.
Speaker 1:I'm sure he sold that. I told a lot of shit. No, I'm surely, surely surely yeah. I think Cody, we should have Cody on have Cody on talk about hobgoblin you get him on, I gotta show you talking about volunteer work, and we completely went back to black.
Speaker 2:This is, this is what we do.
Speaker 1:This is what we do. Sometimes retail feels like volunteer work. I would not, I would not, I would not volunteer to work retail.
Speaker 2:That's how we that's how we got back there. You brought a good thing. And then the guy though select those pinning out strategy guys. You were supposed to rip the cover off of it. It's the road away.
Speaker 1:Well, the shit, why, like I, don't know, that's what they wanted you to be a guy off of it.
Speaker 2:You know what you want to know. What's gross is at one point I'm pretty sure they pin it out copies of we sports, oh.
Speaker 1:Fuck, those are like $40, $50.
Speaker 2:I could be wrong. I remember that definitely. We pin it out. Links crossbow training.
Speaker 1:You know we should have a volunteer on so many volunteers, but fuck that.
Speaker 2:We don't have any.
Speaker 1:We don't have. I don't know, I don't know anybody nice.
Speaker 2:We're both volunteer, we're both sick and talking about it.
Speaker 1:It's added probably 20 years to our lives. Oh it deaf. Oh my god, I had to stop coaching like I had to stop coaching clay, because it was stressing me out Beyond belief you're talking about Gabby.
Speaker 2:to your expectation levels, way yeah I was.
Speaker 1:I didn't like who I was when I was doing it I'm. The bad part of my dad is who I was.
Speaker 2:Well, that's why I loved wrestling. When we got into wrestling, they're like I Said, I don't know anything about this yeah, I'm not gonna be involved. I get a bit sitting at bleachers and be dad look at you about fourth meet in.
Speaker 2:Someone calls me and they're like Josh called me. He's like Come down here on a man. I don't think about this, but listen, watching it from the bleachers. Coaching is exhilarating. Oh, it's so awesome, it's so good. You don't know what it's like, though, when you're literally down there like I level like I don't handle the pressure.
Speaker 1:I don't think.
Speaker 2:I'd be down there. It's it's anxiety building. It's it's very anxiety-induced.
Speaker 1:I was watching my son's game. That was close and so like I was super into it because it was close usually we're gonna meet by 30 and I don't go fucking, you know, but Tonight was close. So I was like so like up and my blood pressure was out the roof. I was like screaming, like yelling at the rest, like and I don't know if you know this, you're not, I'm louder than everybody else, yeah, yeah and uh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like if the game was 10 minutes longer I'd get a technical like on the, on the crowd especially cuz, it was Jenkins.
Speaker 2:Mark was even technical.
Speaker 1:It was all just a big fight. It was awesome. What do you want for me? The cats love you, bro. Look at him. Look at him. He looks like. He looks like you, garfield, and he's sweet. He wants to love you.
Speaker 1:He actually wants to eat you. Fun fact your cats will eat you. He doesn't give a fuck about you you trying to blow in his face. No, he's gonna play with that. I would say great show everybody. Nobody's here. We've not done a show One of the last time we did a show, just me and you Like nobody. Nobody else here, because usually my brother or Wester here is somebody, but it's just my family's here and they're all asleep. I scab Probably.
Speaker 2:I think I was last, it's kind of same situation waiting to record.
Speaker 1:I want to shout out the patrons Patreons, patreons, patreons, patreons. Yeah, but it's Patreon, so it's like Patreon but it's your patrons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just Patreons.
Speaker 1:I don't know, so you don't know either you got me questioning it now.
Speaker 2:You don't know either. I think it's patrons.
Speaker 1:Patreons. We're gonna go with patrons, patreons, patreons. New patron Patron Messages and tell us how to fucking say it, please. I just want to keep butchering it. New patron. My former boss moved to I don't know, somewhere in the Midwest. It's one of my favorite regions. It's really cold, snows all the time.
Speaker 2:Oklahoma or North Dakota or something.
Speaker 1:Brandy, and then Club truck Micah Sturgill. Micah, when you, I'm cutting you out.
Speaker 2:Micah, when you listen to this, I still stand by the sandwich I deal with. Since you the other day, where at first you said it was blasphemy, then you said it kind of like it was kicking, still think that should be a summer special.
Speaker 1:I see it every day, I see some cross brand promotional work going on. I need to. I need every day. Every day I'm liking a hot chicken post Like I, just another day with no hot chicken in my mouth.
Speaker 1:Another day with no hot chicken in my mouth, chris, chris Hamons. Check him out on Twitch Hollywood, charlie Poop, so I can see Toe. He's gonna come back on soon and finish the game. We got a bunch more postcards finished the game and then Willie Howard been with us OG. He's working on a podcast and so we'll be able to share that in a little bit.
Speaker 2:What's he doing?
Speaker 1:I don't fucking know. I think in his field like in, like, like it's more professional than this. I think there's gonna be something in that field, because I'm also helping my mother's husband, not my father, my mother's husband Also, who? Who does anybody call them the father-in-law? Isn't that weird? Yeah, but isn't it weird Like, wouldn't it be weird for like a grown-ass man if I called him that I'm not father-in-law but stepfather, if I called him my stepdad, wouldn't that be weird as a grown-ass man?
Speaker 2:No, it's just odd to me.
Speaker 1:I think it's weird. Anyway, they're one of those sort of crib-age podcasts. What Crib-age, bro? It's just it's. There's a bunch of accountants that play it, so cards and board.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what the fuck crib-age is.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna make you look it up. It's a. It's a card game.
Speaker 2:We'll check it out.
Speaker 1:Great show everybody. Y'all follow us on everything, everything but X. Now, just because I don't feel like updating the app, Nobody wants to deal with that shit. Nobody wants to deal with that at all.
Speaker 2:So follow us on Instagram, Twitter. You don't have to call it X. You don't have to call it Twitter.
Speaker 1:And you call it. I think you call it Xing Xing. That's DX shit. Yeah, facebook, Please message us. If you see it, just message us. I'm send us an emoji.
Speaker 2:They don't want to. They're scared.
Speaker 1:Skirt, skirt. Yeah, you guys got anything else.
Speaker 2:You keep saying you guys, it's me, you and this fucking cat Milo.
Speaker 1:Milo is waiting to say something. The cat's literally like sitting right in front of me. He's on a mic, bro. He's on a mic. I'm just gonna picture this.
Speaker 2:That way you can put it on the, the Instagrams.
Speaker 1:Milo on the mic.
Speaker 2:That sounds like a podcast.
Speaker 1:I think Milo on the mic, we just have the cats on the table.
Speaker 2:I think this should be the thumbnail for the episode.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, that's absolutely gonna be the thumbnail. All right, y'all remember, ain't nobody stopping from quitting your job, but you Wow.