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
The Unpaid Lunch Supershow Part B: The Team Goes To Korea (Basically)
Ever wondered how taking time off work compares across different industries? Our latest episode is a deep dive into the world of leaves of absence, where the academic and military structures allow for sabbaticals and structured breaks. We contrast this with the stark reality of the medical field, sharing stories of those who navigate their roles under extreme conditions with little support. It's a candid conversation about the shift towards recognizing personal worth and the quest for work-life balance that extends beyond clocking in and out.
The discussion heats up as we share a personal tale of job transitions and their impacts on family dynamics and financial health. My brother's leap from a full-time hospital role to the lucrative world of travel nursing serves as a case study, providing insights into alternative career paths that may offer the respite many healthcare professionals desperately seek. Join us as we tackle the pressures of employment, financial obligations, and the relentless pursuit of balance, questioning whether stepping off the conventional path could be the key to a more fulfilling life.
Rounding out the conversation, we don't shy away from the tough topics. We examine the influence of celebrities on politics and public opinion, sharing our frustrations with the misallocation of government resources, especially in rural communities. Listen as we extend a raw invitation to Governor Andy Beshear to experience the treacherous commutes faced by the locals of Eastern Kentucky. This episode is an invitation to consider the broader implications of our work lives, the leaders we follow, and the voices we amplify.
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On your break. Today we finish up the super show. You get to hear the end of the chaos from last week. Time to clock out for lunch. Hey, we're back, Back.
Speaker 2:We're back.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, we're back again. Yeah, that's what we were going with that Um yeah, everybody had it in there, do you? Guys. Do you guys hear that the silence? Yeah, he's in here. Wait for it, Wait for it.
Speaker 2:Wait here in just a second Everybody get their words out before it happens. Everybody say everything they want to say real quick Uh, when I was in Korea. Oh, we're gonna fight you.
Speaker 1:Fuck, sorry Um leave a absence. Really, I think we're over that. Yeah, I feel like that topic has came and gone.
Speaker 4:The concept took a leave of absence.
Speaker 2:I think that we can generally work. It seems like in the civilian sector. Fuck, okay, that doesn't work there. It seems to me that in your world it doesn't really happen. What? And this leave of absence? Oh, right. Like maybe in the academic world you can get a sabbatical. In the civilian world, like the workforce it sounds like it just doesn't, it's not a thing, and the army you can get. Okay, let's talk about medical. Can you get a medical leave of absence?
Speaker 2:Let's say you get it, so that that's FMLA, so it sounds like you do get them in the same way that most people would. It's just classified different ways. Leave of absence is a very specific term that I would imagine only applies to like executives.
Speaker 4:It hinges on employers.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So like and obviously the higher up the ladder you go in terms of employment, the better that part benefits going to be. So it all really just kind of comes down to who you're employed through, what their financial stake is and things like that.
Speaker 3:Well, I can't take shit off and the hospital drags their nuts across our face at every chance they can.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if you request PTO, they can veto, even if you're entitled to it. You can't really take like FMLA, like you guys are saying. You can apply for it but you get canceled like 40% more of the time than like other jobs would. It's stupid. You can't do anything, can't plan a vacation. Is it because you're necessary? Yeah, it's because of the staffing. Everybody is so short staffed.
Speaker 4:Man it sucks to be short staffed by design, though.
Speaker 3:I would say, a big portion of it is.
Speaker 1:So something I see the hospitals do and it's like, because my wife's a nursing, I'm a fucking everybody. We've talked about this, jesus. What I see them do is like see if they can make it with three nurses. Yeah, and they're like oh yeah, they're drowning, but we don't give a fuck, they're making it with three nurses, people ain't dying. Yeah, they're not dying. They're just like. I will just let it be with three nurses.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're basically the corp's keepers. Yeah, it's bad.
Speaker 1:As long as you can keep them alive.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I don't think I could ever do that, it's not for me.
Speaker 2:Could I just say shut the fuck up, keep making money so I can live the life that I'm used to. Absolutely All right. I work, I live with a hospital executive. So, y'all need to stop bitch, trying to get back to work.
Speaker 4:Get back on the line. I love the maims. The car is completely covered by snow and all you see is the antenna and someone's standing over top of it. It's like you're going to make it into that. You're going to get there, oh no.
Speaker 5:They used to close the mountain down in Virginia.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:I worked at Verizon and they'd be like you, coming in.
Speaker 4:No you got a helicopter. No, Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing. I love that. No, when I worked at Litch it's good right there.
Speaker 5:When I worked at Sykes, they were like we'll pay for your hotel room if you don't want to go home, and I was like, no, I'm going home, yeah.
Speaker 1:Hospital, yeah, I take that shit Hospital one.
Speaker 3:I'm going to get a room here sleeping there, yeah Well, where I worked at the hospital that's next door but like it's not even the medical jobs, it transcends down to school, like when I was in nursing school. There's a girl that wrecked and killed a man Because she hit him right. This man died. She was there with him the whole time and they wouldn't let her miss three days of school for it and they made her bring an actual cop in an actual cop and say yeah, it was this person rather than just the police report name.
Speaker 2:It would be fair. If you want to be a nurse, learn to deal with death.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but look, I need a day off. No, you're fine, come on.
Speaker 1:Well, in case everyone forgot, or if this is your first time listening to the show, follow and share.
Speaker 5:Like give a heart all that bullshit. I paid lunch on TikTok.
Speaker 4:Back your head go.
Speaker 1:This is. This is the Eric King podcast. No, um, stop it. Keep going. We want you to take a leave of absence from your job whenever you want to.
Speaker 5:Because people are working for yourself.
Speaker 1:People, yeah, people, just uh, it's so fucking like heavy lately about just what life, like what you're doing and why you're doing it, that you're just working that Well that's to go to work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, to live to the next day. Shift from that it is.
Speaker 1:And that's what we've been talking about lately is how shit is shifting away from that and how people are like realizing their worth. Kind of as cliche as it sounds, People are like well, I'm worth being able to do this shit with my friends.
Speaker 2:We go the worker has value.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's, that's my thing. Right, it's like not everybody can do the same thing and everybody shouldn't be self-employed. Right, we need nurses and we need fucking McDonald's employees and shit. We need nurses.
Speaker 1:I can stitch you, but the work should be good. Like, you should get paid. Good, you should be able to get a house.
Speaker 4:Yada, yada, yada. It can't just be like.
Speaker 1:I got hate. I need $80. Cut that from it I hate those like people that are like you should just quit Just trying to have whole other conversations. You can't, though you think you're. Mike is picking up you and him. I'm being a big Mac. Right, it's picking up him. Yeah, Not you.
Speaker 4:You were you were talking about, like the don't want to get socialistic and things like that and we feel like things are getting a whole lot better for the employee to some degree Shit. 30 days ago I had to tell my whole entire team that they no longer get paid holidays.
Speaker 1:Shit, I mean. I mean like it's so same. I don't think. I don't think that's it's turned. Yet I think people are realizing it needs to people are realizing it needs to God.
Speaker 2:I'm going to say something like the balance is just so off though you know it's so hard.
Speaker 1:It would be so hard to balance it.
Speaker 2:Multi-million dollar. Take it, what are they called? You shouldn't be a big CEO CEO's, you know. I'm saying if, if you are making more millions than you have employees yeah maybe take a price reduction.
Speaker 5:Or if you have employees on welfare and you're making millions, do you think?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and and like, do you think I'm an?
Speaker 2:eyes and a cap it at a cabinet. You can. You can make 10 million per hundred thousand.
Speaker 1:At what level? At what level of working of like the corporate ladder does? Does that attitude change? Like you know, like employee, like ground level employees are, like you know, fuck the man. You know kind of not everybody, but you know that's how it is.
Speaker 3:The key of solving the debt.
Speaker 1:One million dollars.
Speaker 3:I was just saying one thousand, I'd say a million, like people realizing One hundred thousand doesn't get you shit.
Speaker 5:Nowadays, no Corporate profits are possible.
Speaker 2:We're talking about different worlds here because pipeline guys or rig guys are making way more money than we're talking about sell out points. All right, you got dudes working pipelines making one hundred and fifty two hundred thousand dollars a year, and then I have to sell out for shit. They just got to suck for a bit.
Speaker 5:Well, you got to be away from home and shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it sucks, but I went away from my family for a long time and I wanted to. Yeah, I had a lot more fun than those days did. But live in line, you can live that. You can live away from your family for a long time. Let's say I spent six months of the year out on a rig and make two hundred thousand dollars a year. That's way better than sucking it through the corporate ladder with my master's degree.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but what?
Speaker 1:are we talking about? Why do we need that much money?
Speaker 2:because a loaf of bread costs seven dollars.
Speaker 1:No, because we need that much money. I know we're having the same thing Everybody's done for fucking.
Speaker 3:you got to build community and shit you got to realize that it's possible for all these companies to pay you exactly what you're worth. But that's it's a case of greed, like they make. X number of money and they don't want to make X minus whatever, but they're going to be back in the profit regardless. They just want a bigger one.
Speaker 2:It's a misplaced sense of value, because I can.
Speaker 1:Now we're on our shoes.
Speaker 2:Here's the conversation that people will have. We'll say why does a CEO make four hundred and fifty million when the cashier makes seven, fifty an hour? And you go. Well, the CEO is in charge of the whole company. Right, I get that, but the whole company is run through a lot of different divisions. You're telling me that, without this one guy, that you have to pay more than all of your minimum wage employees together.
Speaker 5:Who came forward to house and food.
Speaker 2:This company would fall apart. The truth is that dude could vanish.
Speaker 1:What is the plot to Willy Wonka?
Speaker 5:It's also a musical. People were shocked.
Speaker 1:I know it was like Charlie the fucking robot took his job.
Speaker 2:I've been to McDonald's. They don't sing.
Speaker 5:Shit, yeah, dude, it's like you shouldn't be.
Speaker 1:What is the Rato's management standpoint? You know what I mean Got, I'm sorry. Got your that tangent? Or was I Got his management standpoint? I think we got a like.
Speaker 2:the corporate problem is we've placed our value Well, there's so many corporate jobs like I work, I just want to eat chips and and there's a lot of watch movie, watch sports and like why did we?
Speaker 5:have this dude that just came in once a week and played on his laptop and then was like y'all ain't selling cell phones.
Speaker 2:What are you doing?
Speaker 5:It's just like there's a lot of bullshit jobs in corporate world that they're paying a lot of money, so here you go.
Speaker 4:I'll put us on a tangent here.
Speaker 5:Put us on a tangent right Travel travel health field positions.
Speaker 4:You have a lot of hospitals. You have a lot of just medical conglomerates right now that are battling this. It's like, okay, do we pay our own people that work here more fucking money? Yeah, established and to keep people that are living here and keep the money in the community, or do I pay someone five hours away to come in and jack up their pay by almost quadruple the amount, like a mercenary for hire?
Speaker 5:Well, that's the thing is it goes back to the greed that Nick was talking about. Right, you've got, you've got people making, like Mike said, what 400 million a year, and then you got their employees on food stamps. How much sense does that make? Can you tell me how that makes sense, that your company's making record profits yet you have so many people on welfare and it's like. I'm not against welfare, I've benefited from welfare before. You know, I lost my job a couple of times, like I do contract work a lot, even before I worked for myself, and it's like there was one time I lost a contract job. Right, the contract was up. It wasn't like I lost my job or he thinks, just the contract was up. I lost my insurance, even though there wasn't a lapse in my employment. I left Friday, started working on Monday somewhere else. I didn't have insurance. I hurt myself and couldn't go to the doctor because I didn't have insurance. Can you tell me what sense that makes?
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 5:Somebody's like well, you should have a job.
Speaker 1:I've had a lot of time insurance.
Speaker 4:Is there a possible? What is swing this mic around to Monroe?
Speaker 5:Yeah, he's a health, because I'm still, I'm on this party found I'm on this tangent.
Speaker 4:So you two, Nick Monroe, do you guys feel threatened by traveling?
Speaker 3:No, I welcome my travel overlords. Everything I've ever learned about being a nurse I've learned from a traveler. Because hospitals are incentivized to hire the newest nurses they can, because it'll take the lowest pay rates with the lowest sign on bonuses. Yeah you sure? So when you get experienced nurses, they either cycle out to traveling or move to cities where they're going to make slightly less money but have better working conditions and always have staffing Same with you.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's how it is Solid. We got one of our doctors at the hospital in Pfeiffer, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:ARH is just the same. Well, the reason.
Speaker 2:I bring it up so right now.
Speaker 4:I hate that. I don't know if he's okay with this, but I'm going to use him, don't use names.
Speaker 4:I'm going to use a name it's my brother. It's my brother. So my brother was employed through ARH as a working in HRA, working in CT. He'd been there for, I'd say, probably three years. They were continually understaffed when not hire someone else in the department to allow him to come down. At one point they're like, okay, we got someone else brought in, we'll get them trained up, we're going to get you off this 12 to nine shift so you can actually see your kids play sports and do things that you want to be involved.
Speaker 4:He was on that for a couple months. That person quit to go to travel, so they left. They worked their bare minimum I guess to you know, cut their chops on that and then leave and they're like, well, we ain't got nobody, we're not going to hire anybody right now You're back on your 12 to nine. So he done that for a little bit of time and all of a sudden, boom, someone hit him with the travel opportunity and he went from making probably I'm just ballparking numbers like 13, $1400, $1500 every two weeks, maybe like more, like 16, 17 hundred every two, to making like $2300 every week.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Every week and it's not even like he's traveling that far. He's like in Ashland.
Speaker 3:I know a girl who made $11,000 a week in New York when COVID first.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, New York wasn't like a cash cow, Well no something you just said is like he wants to get off so he can be with his family and stuff.
Speaker 5:It's like at what point is it like okay, yeah, I get that we have to have jobs. Right, I work every day. I wake up, I tend to my animals, I bake food and drive around and sell it, working and shit. But at what point is it like enough, right, he's got kids and a wife, right, you can't be working 12 hour shifts and be like present.
Speaker 4:What you just said.
Speaker 5:It's like really hard because you got to sleep, because like hey, you're tired, you just pulled a 12 hour shift.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, hey, sleep, fuck, sleep, you should be able to is the thing right.
Speaker 5:You should be able to go to work, have your kids and your wife.
Speaker 4:Me and him, me and him.
Speaker 5:But here's the thing, though no, your brother's working as hard as hell, right Hard as hell, and he's still stressed about bills.
Speaker 4:Well, that's things now. Now he's gone.
Speaker 5:Unless he's like bad at managing money.
Speaker 1:No, they're perfect If he went in a bunch of dead and shit, but like yeah, but see, here's the whole thing, though right Like. This argument from your perspective, though, is like single dude, no kids.
Speaker 5:Right? No, I'm not saying that, I'm saying you just like I can give you his mindset. You should be home with your kids. You should make an. If you work 40 hours a week, you should be able to go to wrestling tournaments and not be like I'm so tired and wore out and I'm worried about paying my electric bill.
Speaker 4:Well, here's his mindset.
Speaker 5:I would love to have kids, this for sure. It's not a different opportunity.
Speaker 4:Hold on, hold on. Yeah, his mindset shifted right. Yeah, so his thought process was I'm not been, I'm not able to see my kids at all. Yeah, I'm not able to go and do any of this stuff. To now, he is flat out having to leave his family three or four days at a time.
Speaker 5:Yeah, right, but probably gets more time.
Speaker 4:He's getting more time with him now and before he was okay with making smaller amount of money and living a substantial life and having time with his family, and now it's all of a sudden his mindset shift to shit. I'm paying off a whole lot of debt.
Speaker 3:Yep, for sure, and the more money and I'm getting more time with my family and the less debt that you can shave off like it does give you more freedom. Like all that debt is an anxiety shackle Really. It just ties you to worry and I have travel nursing. Freeze you from that, and I'm sure travel, respiratory therapy and everything else is the same way, I have zero debt and I just fuck off all day.
Speaker 5:My wife almost did. She almost did travel.
Speaker 4:That's frustrating. With all that, it's like like everyone's talking about, like they weren't going to do travel, nursing and go do all these different things.
Speaker 5:But everybody can. Everybody can't be a travel? No, not everybody can.
Speaker 4:But, like what opened up for him was the opportunity, he only had to go like two travelers, me and Mike, can't be travel nurses we decided his stage.
Speaker 2:I think you guys are all idiots, yeah. You should get shot a couple of times.
Speaker 5:Retire and marry up or get given a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I did. I'll take a double tap and don't even worry about the rest of it.
Speaker 5:Well the thing is is like I think a lot of people get fucked up when you talk to like no one wants to work anymore. Let me tell you something. I know many people that don't work right and like.
Speaker 2:I don't want to be, you did, though I know a shit ton of people. What do you mean? I can tell you did that right now, and it's like my thing, is is right, I don't care where you were.
Speaker 1:My dad, your dad my brother, your brother.
Speaker 5:I need your position right. I want a quarter pounder of gray soccer big man. Okay.
Speaker 3:So if you work 40 hours at fucking McDonald's, so if you work 40 hours at fucking McDonald's, Put it to me name Mike C Stewart you should get a house.
Speaker 1:You should get a car to drive the word.
Speaker 5:You should get a fucking parent. You should get a fucking parent. No, that's a call back from Super Bowl party.
Speaker 4:The.
Speaker 5:Thing is, I was talking to somebody and they were like well, they need to get more skills to make more money, and it's like hey dude, do you like Big? Macs and he was like yeah, and I was like okay cool, Okay but tell him about hold on.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not saying a lavish lie. We're going to talk the Big Mac thing. Could I at least get some of the fucking food I ordered in the bag If?
Speaker 4:they actually paid. I don't know how many times. I don't know how many times I've talked about this on this podcast but my we ordered a Happy Meal for my kid Four piece chicken nugget. It came with a grilled lump of tartar sauce.
Speaker 1:Now on the chicken nugget.
Speaker 3:It was a chicken nugget container with a grilled lump of tartar sauce, and where are we complaining about it Today?
Speaker 5:I ordered it. You're getting paid pennies for the dollar and it's like who cares.
Speaker 2:I ordered one of the grilled tartar sauce. I ordered a chicken nugget Happy Meal. I got a plain cheeseburger.
Speaker 5:I ate more than they gave you no we eat pussy what they give you.
Speaker 4:But you just counteracted your whole entire argument.
Speaker 5:No, pay them more than they might make you food better.
Speaker 2:I guarantee methanella is not going to make you food better.
Speaker 5:I'm going to tell you I ain't had a fucked up order at McDonald's in a long time All right when was the last time you went.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Well, you got to order certain things, I guess.
Speaker 1:Probably orders a plain cheeseburger.
Speaker 5:No, I ordered a number two. Dress like a big man.
Speaker 4:So kind of coming back, fucking. Coming back to the lead. Leave, Leave leave, leave, leave, leave. Eric Cush coming back to leave. So we were talking about, you know, the travel nursing all these other different things right, and I'm probably going to get fired for this, but here we go.
Speaker 3:No one gives a shit about what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4:I'm done. Y'all go ahead, no right.
Speaker 5:Well, what's? I want to ask you a question about that. It's like because I work call centers right, and it was frustrating because they be like oh, you got to work Thanksgiving, you wouldn't get no one would get a call, and it's like you're losing money for all of us being here, so can we just they're not losing money.
Speaker 1:So we touched, we touched on it before, like about that shit, about you having to do that?
Speaker 5:And it sucks dude like and it makes you look like a bad guy in the scenario, right like hey, you don't get holiday pay anymore.
Speaker 4:I'm, so that's part of my job. Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm any management position. If you think you're more important than what you are, you're not yeah you're a designated file. Oh, that's what I was all my positions are you're a designated file.
Speaker 5:Oh well, no, what I was saying about, like when I worked, when I sold cell phones and stuff right.
Speaker 4:I loved our district manager.
Speaker 5:He was a. He was a nice guy, yeah, but he would be like you're not selling phones, right? And he'd be like, okay, can you show me how to sell a phone? He couldn't sell a phone, yeah. So it's like they have expectations.
Speaker 4:It's like hey, dude.
Speaker 5:I just sold fucking a hundred Don't tell me how to sell a phone. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:I managed so many different types of different Deliriations of the product that we support.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know, yeah right, it don't mean which, it doesn't matter to you actually.
Speaker 4:Yeah, the what's makes me good at my job is that.
Speaker 1:It doesn't matter to you, right.
Speaker 4:I'm good at networking, yeah. So like I'm good at building relationships out with other people and say, for instance, I've got a guy that needs help with this type of escalation, we don't have an escalation pipeline or a point of contact that he can work with.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I'm really good at building out that relationship. It says, hey, here's a need, here we're in a black hole, we can't get this resolved for this customer.
Speaker 5:We need X, y and Z to be rolled into it Well, no, but Ryan want to say is like you're a good person.
Speaker 1:It's so much.
Speaker 5:You're a good manager, right, I'm saying like you're not out there, saying like you know this stuff, but a lot of my know a lot of managers are being like. Well, I know how to do this.
Speaker 4:I'm not doing that. I don't know never took.
Speaker 5:Well, that's a good man, I know. No, that's a good manager. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Is like you know, man, just his life, and I'm impressed with that.
Speaker 5:I don't, it's I don't know how. You're a nurse dude, like it, really like I think about being a nurse, and it's like you're on call and you're like you can't smoke weed, and it's like there's all this stuff, you know, and like well, not even that, like I'm an empathetic person, I can take care of people. That's not the thing. It's just like I don't want to deal with it, with the bullshit of.
Speaker 1:Nick, you with us. No, you're good, I was safe. You saw that fucking Rubik's Cube yet, or not?
Speaker 3:No, but I was studying it hard and I came. I got three on each side.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I know the code. Yeah, it's not a normal Rubik's Cube, though, so it's extra fucked if it were. Yeah, I feel like now we're talking about Rubik's cubes, but but that was I want to ask Ryan a question.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so, ryan, do you think what we just talked about? Right, you got to take holiday days away, right? So would you not argue that that's like a bigger problem of the thing is like, why are holidays even like a discussion of like taking away? You know what I'm saying. It's like and I'm not saying like we can't. Here's the thing. I made the joke earlier and we were all talking and I don't think you may hear it. I'm an Eisenhower Republican. You know Eisenhower had a 90, some.
Speaker 1:Yo hey, we don't talk about any politics on this show.
Speaker 5:No, it's not. It's not, it's not politics, it's just saying like they really helped the workers in. Right, you had like hey, what we're talking about the CEO, ceos didn't make CEOs Hapt in a price. And it's like, hey, you made three million dollars. Everything over that is coming.
Speaker 4:Perfect example I've got one employee I've brought her before she will message me and she'll say, hey, I've got four hours of pto, I need to take two hours off the end of my shift today. I'm like, okay, why? Well, she does spark. She used to do door dash, but there's nothing called spark where they actually go to Walmart at home. D Pell that stuff.
Speaker 4:Yeah one day in three hours she made $680. So she's like I can work these last two hours in my shift here and make $34. Yeah, well, I can go there. I'm like go get that money by you, should pto, go get go.
Speaker 5:Well, no, it was talking about what I said earlier. When I took, I took leave right and during COVID, and then when they called me back to work, dude, I was making more money and I wasn't even ripping people off Like I was going and buying shit and it would sell for 50 bucks. I'd sell it for 20 bucks. I was making more money than I was selling cell phones. So it's like. It's like why would I come back, dude? I can make two pans of brownies, make a hundred bucks in an hour.
Speaker 1:That's kind of what we're kind of. What we're talking about is like everybody and what we, what we, what we believe in, and it's like, and that's why we've had multiple people on the show who live in this scenario, where they were able to self sustain and like do even, even if it's not like, even if it's not like doing what you, what, what like Mike does, which is which is, you know.
Speaker 2:Take that uncle sugar money yeah.
Speaker 1:Or what Eric does. No, no, no, listen what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:Yes, I mean, but we, yeah, we both are farm-ish.
Speaker 5:Yeah, farm-ish right Shouldn't have to self sustain is what I'm saying. You should be able to go work at where you work and buy shit, okay.
Speaker 1:but what I'm saying is, even if everybody else Like, if you're doing something that you want to do like, you know what I mean If you fucking open a shop and that's what you want to do if you like, if you live minimally and and Nothing like you and you're just a merchant, if you're a fucking kajit, uh-huh, and you know they they have. You know kajit has wares, what else they have? They have nothing. That's great. They probably live fine. Right, they got that little tent and they're the fucking family in the tent and shit, they're good. Yeah, right, if that's what you want to fucking do and you're okay with just being the hippie in the back of the bus and you really enjoy that Well, I think you're discounting I don't think everybody has those goals.
Speaker 5:I think some people just want to work. Listen, hey, some people just want to work.
Speaker 2:If you have a dream and you're chasing and it's successful for one month and then it fails, who gives a fuck?
Speaker 3:for one month, you were successful chasing.
Speaker 5:You preach it, baby. No, I agree. I know I'm talking to a specific person. No, no, no, I agree, but what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:You chased your fucking dream and was it worth it? I don't know.
Speaker 5:No, here's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Hey, you get your rest of the fuck out of it.
Speaker 5:No, but what I'm saying is like not everybody has these dreams of doing what we do, right? Like some people just want to go to fucking work and pay their bills, and it's like really hard to do that, right, when you're not getting paid enough to pay your bills, right, I think like, yeah, entrepreneurship is great if that's something you're interested in. Me personally, I've always been. I've always done shit like that, right.
Speaker 2:The only people that dream about doing what I did was our little children and Republicans.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and it's like not everybody has those dreams. So it's like if Nick wants to be a nurse, he should be able to make as much money he should be able to buy a house in a car what Nick's a doctor. No.
Speaker 3:But that's what I'm saying. He's a doctor right now On TV.
Speaker 4:He should be able to go to Disneyland anytime he wants to Dude if you work at McDonald's, you should be able to go to Florida.
Speaker 5:You know what I mean. I'm trying to make sense, like and it's like I'm like- I'm. I'm gonna say something that's controversial.
Speaker 4:I didn't give up cheeseburger.
Speaker 3:No such thing as unskilled labor.
Speaker 5:Right, you couldn't wait tables like I can, right, and it's like.
Speaker 1:Nobody waits tables, no, no.
Speaker 5:I think that you should be able to meet the minimum employee standards for Disney.
Speaker 1:Then we're just talking about not wanting to make more money. Yeah, it was for.
Speaker 2:Disney I did, it was for your pain, and if you suck you get fired.
Speaker 3:Yeah well, no, not us, because we were basically free, because we lived in their housing oh you were.
Speaker 2:It's a scam. It was an intern, you were, oh, you were a character.
Speaker 3:No, I worked in attractions.
Speaker 2:Similar, it's way worse we won't leave.
Speaker 3:They just stay there and bitch until it's fixed. I mean attractions. They just dog you down.
Speaker 5:But like I'm not saying that a fucking, if you work at McDonald's you should make a million dollars. I'm just saying, like you should have a house, you should absolutely not make a million dollars.
Speaker 3:My hot take is that I think your wage entitles you to meet your basic needs and have a little extra income.
Speaker 2:Yes just keep it with inflation.
Speaker 3:But I also think that people increase their lifestyle as their salary increases and they get into a cycle of debt. That's their own fault.
Speaker 5:Well, let's say get debt-free, dude. If you're debt-free, you can fuck off.
Speaker 1:Get debt-free dude.
Speaker 5:No, you can fuck off.
Speaker 1:What's gonna happen if I don't make?
Speaker 5:money next month. I ain't got no bills.
Speaker 2:The biggest crisis with our minimum wage employees is excessive lifestyle.
Speaker 5:Well, no, like rents $1,500 too. Where?
Speaker 2:in Letcher County is rent $1,500. Okay, there's a few.
Speaker 4:That's excessive lifestyle. That's the definition of excessive lifestyle. Now, with the cheapest house. You can get 800 bucks when you're making 1200 bucks a month. I've seen a whole lot less than that.
Speaker 2:As a minimum wage employee you don't need Disney Plus, a brand new iPhone and I'm not saying that Subscriptions, but you need a cell phone. And you can homey there a lot.
Speaker 5:No, I'm not discounting that, but I'm just saying the current place that those? They can't afford. You can't get to work because you ain't got a car, and hey, get a used car. But then it turns out to be more expensive about a used car than a new car. And that's from personal experience, that's not from just talking shit. I live very poor.
Speaker 2:I know I live very poor too. I spent 500 bucks a month and you just got to live within your means, that's. I mean that's.
Speaker 1:Nick have you lived poor?
Speaker 3:I chose to live under a bridge one time because my partner was Ivy Heroin addicts and I wanted to be their support.
Speaker 2:Stop that, so you left the heroin addict to go under a bridge. No, no, no, I went with the heroin addict.
Speaker 5:Okay, hold on, Stop it.
Speaker 1:Hey, hey, hey, Mike was like wait girl stand up, because there are a lot of oh, we've been stood up, stand up.
Speaker 3:We've been stood up. We've been stood up. All right, we're together for six years.
Speaker 2:You're acting like Bella oh Moon right, you just laid down in the woods. I'm tired of you doing heroin. I'm off to go.
Speaker 3:I did, I've been rid of us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that didn't make sense. Okay, yeah, no, we're good. That's a I mean bad choice.
Speaker 2:But better than be swarming off angrily to under a bridge.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 2:I didn't like.
Speaker 1:We're there. We fought those demons as fine.
Speaker 5:We fought those demons buried them.
Speaker 1:they're good, those are gone. We're good through that. They have seven noon feelings.
Speaker 4:Nick has like been over here in the background, just kind of listening to everything, and then when he does come in, that's like a lamp hook for my elbow.
Speaker 5:No, we done an hour and a half of fun shit and we came back and it got heavy.
Speaker 4:Oh well, that's what I just told us. We actually wanted to do a work related episode. So the second part that we just came back from we just make this the normal episode. And then he's like then you take the other one, say, guys, you want to see some fucking chaos.
Speaker 5:No, can I talk about work real quick and I know it's going to sound repetitive.
Speaker 1:Why you got to fucking ask Stop it dude.
Speaker 5:Well, I went Korea was a work trip. Okay, don't look at me right now. Get the when, when.
Speaker 1:There, no, there there, the land hornet, the land hornet, there there. So you win the big prize. You said Korea 10 times. Korea was a work trip, right 12.
Speaker 5:No it was a work trip. I want you to play this whole episode. I think the first hour and a half was fucking gold.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna play the whole episode, Otherwise Korea is not 12 times.
Speaker 5:No, I'm saying like no so.
Speaker 4:Don't even know about Korea if we don't.
Speaker 5:No, no no, no, I'm gonna just go hold on, but how will they know?
Speaker 5:Stop, stop, no, stop, stop, no, stop, no. I'm trying to say no. We're talking about like, doing your own shit and stuff. I went to Korea and it was paid. Shut the fuck up. I swear I need to. I'm a lot of men thought up here to men, you goddamn bastard. You, goddamn bastard. No, like, here's the thing. Okay, I enjoy farming. Right, I was born into farming. I was adopted by an old man and my like I lived with my mom. We all lived in the same house, but I was adopted by an old man.
Speaker 5:I lived in the same place as your Mexican. I'm Puerto Rican. All right, it's like there's a difference, but one's in the Caribbean and one's in North America.
Speaker 1:Cancel. Work.
Speaker 5:But so like, I enjoy it. So you got to like, so like. But the thing is is like okay, I enjoy farming. What's he talking about? Dude if you fucking, let me talk, I'd get there. All right, it takes 19. No, it doesn't take 19 minutes. Like I'm not. I'm not arguing Okay.
Speaker 4:Time out. Time out Recent, recent, recent. You went to Korea for work, For work, right.
Speaker 5:So so we're talking about, like you got a does, he said, entrepreneur. Everybody can't be an entrepreneur, right? I'm in the privileged place that I was given a farm, right? I'm also knowledgeable of farming. I've won awards for farming, I know all that shit and I use that Dude. All the money I spent in Korea, all from my personal phone, was $100.
Speaker 4:Something like that.
Speaker 5:The rest of it was because I was at work. I was visiting farms. I was learning how they did their stuff. They're coming here in July and November. That's cool. I'm on a fist fight.
Speaker 4:Really cool.
Speaker 5:No, but what I'm saying is like you can do those things right. I think people should be entrepreneurs If that's what they want to do. If Dusty wants to open a game store and let Travis Sturge run into the ground, he can do that.
Speaker 1:Oh fuck, okay, he can do that.
Speaker 5:Oh, if he wants to, right, and then he could not have a game store and do some other shit.
Speaker 1:Okay, so, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5:It's not for everybody. He went to work.
Speaker 1:He should be able to buy a fucking house. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 5:Y'all got me fucked up, he's got to walk a little late.
Speaker 1:Y'all got me fucked up. I'm just saying I don't know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5:I just got to burn, just fucking going.
Speaker 1:Super show Air horn, air horn, Air horn, air horn.
Speaker 5:If you want to win but if you want to work at McDonald's, I support you because I like a number two dress like a Big Mac. I'll support you when you start putting fucking cheese on the cheeseburger Paylemore, and I don't care if they're on drugs. If you ain't got a good work hand on drugs I. I let this man build a chicken coop for me. He had it up in an air and he went hey, baby, you take me over to get on the rod and fuck?
Speaker 5:Yes, I will hey, fuck, yeah, so will you, but he built me a chicken.
Speaker 1:He's talking about. I didn't take him up there listen.
Speaker 5:I don't go to love spraig cuz they ain't no love there. All right, I got me fucked up um, unpaid lunch is now on YouTube.
Speaker 1:We just got on on YouTube. It's now, it's the it's, it's. Don't get super fucking pumped. It's not videos. It's static of the picture of the episode, but it's. But it is on there so you can listen like YouTube. Minimize it while you're at work I know that's what everybody else does cuz it's ready to. Just minimize that at minimize that while you're at work. I just want to let everybody know it's on there before I can plug it.
Speaker 5:Can we hang out longer please?
Speaker 1:we're here. What the fuck you're doing fucking?
Speaker 2:podcast sorry.
Speaker 5:Hey, this is what you do when you get old friends in a room y'all, just like we all used to go to.
Speaker 3:Me stretch that and fucking.
Speaker 1:I used to live up the road, motherfucker, I was up here all the time.
Speaker 5:I had a panic attack on his porch during the flood.
Speaker 1:You would not make it at my dad's Christmas party.
Speaker 2:I Was in too big of a hurry.
Speaker 4:Basically latches on to me.
Speaker 1:He knows I have chest hair.
Speaker 4:Let go of it he rips my chest hair out, oh in public.
Speaker 1:he doesn't get handsy with me, he just maintains physical Between me and he's coming on the show, he knows the show exists, right, he says that show we've been saying this for months.
Speaker 3:He doesn't know what it's on.
Speaker 1:He doesn't know what format it's on. He doesn't understand it.
Speaker 4:Can we have two guests for this? Can we get him? And?
Speaker 2:Okay, that is a feed okay, I think you're gonna do a neon's characters episode.
Speaker 1:Okay, I don't think great podcasting is get a deaf dude on the podcast.
Speaker 2:His name is hey, he does good yo yo tricks All right, yeah, you're got in the fridge right now.
Speaker 1:Back in his truck.
Speaker 4:I watched a dollar store employee cry one day because he wanted a specific type of mountain doing a 12 pack. They had stopped carried it for six weeks and he would come in and just berate them with sounds. They're like. We told you we don't have it.
Speaker 5:No, hey, I want to talk about work, since we're on a work podcast and no dude, we're hanging out. This is a Joe Rogan eight hour podcast, it is. So what do you think about? Like no, this sounds bullshit. Now stop it. What the fuck? No, but like working here, right, like I think living here and working here you can fuck off a little bit more than other places, but can you? Shit, still expensive. Stop it. I can't handle you. I can't do it.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to talk about your father, she did you close.
Speaker 5:I'm just sitting here. What happened? Can I talk about Korea?
Speaker 1:What the fuck is going on. I have the best pork, god, mike. We can't close yet, cuz Mike is pissing. I think. No, let's hang out. We're fucking, we've been hang, we're here, we've hanging out.
Speaker 5:Hang out longer.
Speaker 1:We're recording, let's keep recording. Okay, we can keep recording. Okay, hey babe.
Speaker 5:We keep recording.
Speaker 1:It's calm, but 95% of the people in the room have to go home. That's. That's where everybody everybody's. We've been here, we've we're you want. Do you want to talk about hey?
Speaker 4:before we go where my walk Danny K's looking really good.
Speaker 5:Listen you, that's just some self-massacist. I just.
Speaker 1:I have admittedly not Looked at the patrons.
Speaker 1:You got patreon followers have, admittedly, not looked, because I Expected them all to bail on us, right, which which I would expect it like not in the way. Like you motherfuckers bail. I just mean like, exactly, I get it. We don't make content for a month, right, so I would expect you to bail on us. So if you stuck with us, you get some. Yeah, you're gonna get some special content this week. All right, the fucking like four hours. We cut from this episode with Eric. We cut Korea. We said Korea 46 times. We cut 84 of them.
Speaker 4:Hey, y'all cut your content and then start counting until 20 minutes ago, I know.
Speaker 5:Hey, we talk about work. You said you want to talk about work. It's work.
Speaker 2:I just like to personally insult all of your at least most of your patriots and say I know, I know what kind of low-life slopes people are. Yeah, and fuck you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Are you still paying? Yeah?
Speaker 3:it's, I don't know, you also fuck them yeah it's wonderful.
Speaker 2:You're doing around.
Speaker 1:Thank, you for sticking with us and For being so amazing and sticking with us through, through that, through this and over the hub. This fucking episode, you got this episode. You waited that long and this is what, and it was. It was worth the wait.
Speaker 2:Okay, you got as a paying subscriber, I'd like to go ahead and launch the first complaint this garbage review dumpster shit.
Speaker 1:Okay, last thing we're gonna do. All right, we're gonna go all the way around. I want everybody to bitch about one thing. Tell me one thing in your life you hate right now, because I want to start this year off with hate.
Speaker 5:Hey, hey, hey, hey tell me your heart right now.
Speaker 1:Right, what's the one?
Speaker 4:thing I'm going to be sports related.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the shift no.
Speaker 4:All right, real quick rant. We have a what many would consider a generational talent at quarterback, getting ready to prepare for the NFL draft, who is already trying to hold an NFL franchise hostage. Yeah, like I saw earlier today where a player said a player in his camp, yeah, I'm like motherfucker, you're not even in the league yet. I don't want to hear about your entourage.
Speaker 1:He's fucking entourage yeah.
Speaker 4:Trying to Eli Manning. The fuck out of the Chicago Bears, yep.
Speaker 5:Dead.
Speaker 4:Bears. So I'm just like Dead Bears. That's been my pet peeve moment of the day.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And probably the thing that's pissed me off the most so far this year non-wrestling related.
Speaker 1:Non-wrestling related.
Speaker 4:That's what we're fucking at. Non-wrestling I ain't going into that.
Speaker 1:We don't have no fucking time for me and you and my brothers start talking about wrestling. We ain't got no time. I'm not even talking about WWE. Yeah, oh yeah, you're not. You're right. That's good. That too. You have one thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I got a pretty controversial one, uh-oh.
Speaker 5:Preach it One that will draw a lot of attention.
Speaker 3:And I'll preface this by saying I think she's a beautiful woman, she's multi-talented, she's a Grammy winner, she's she has met, she might have an Emmy.
Speaker 1:I'm not really sure what she has.
Speaker 3:But we're talking about T Swayze, big Taylor Swift oh.
Speaker 4:Love her, love her, respect her. Not really, but she has too much impact.
Speaker 3:Um, you can't be able to just drop a tweet and change entire voting districts. You can't be able to drop a tweet and increase somebody's Jersey sales by 380%.
Speaker 1:So no joke, Listen, listen, listen no joke. No joke, listen. That type of influence is almost like so we were going to hate on Trump for for having that kind of influence we can't hate on. We can't not hate on her, I don't know, because she no Hold on. What I mean is like, what you're saying is like a fucking joke really, but not really, but not really. If she was like everybody, everybody vote this, everybody would fucking do it, she could be the biggest impact.
Speaker 3:People spend billions of dollars on advertising for for their she also made Travis Kelsey bad yeah. Well, I don't know about that Bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's not good this year. I don't know about that, but I know that one of one tweet from her is worth a billion dollars in marketing budget, and that's too big of a deal, yeah.
Speaker 3:To be involved in politics.
Speaker 1:I agree she shouldn't be able to tweet anything. Political route.
Speaker 3:So I think he'll make all these celebrities Slammed, unable to tweet about politics. K Monroe, do you all want one? Nick can pass you a mic, let's just grab a speech Hold on no stop. First amendment.
Speaker 1:Before you break something. There's one of these that move real easy. How about going break?
Speaker 5:You'd. Last time you did spill a drink and I grabbed it and was going to. I'm a swiftie.
Speaker 1:Look at that Easy.
Speaker 5:I agree with you Easy move the attitudes of my children there's these like most preaching, most cities.
Speaker 4:No, she's got funny kids.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, shut up Restricting, I think she has her voice is too Whatever.
Speaker 4:Well, you got to think when you go, when you start talking about how you have financial impact for like I'm not trying to get back into sports and shit, but like, since, say like, for instance, cincinnati, you have the Bengals or the Reds, that's one of their biggest ways to drive financial relations into their city she comes to town and the Cincinnati Reds had to move their game up by six hours because they were concerned about what type of gridlock she would call us to the city.
Speaker 5:I want to say this I think her fault, the thing with her fault.
Speaker 2:The thing with amplifying voices that are just based on popularity Is he get a situation. I'm going to talk politics that are current right now. All right, currently, the Houthi rebels are blocking and attacking shipping lanes in the Red Sea right. I was following your, and whether or not you support Israel Should be irrelevant. What we're talking about is people are celebrating the Houthi rebels For attacking and standing against Israel, but what we're talking about is supporting a regime that uses child soldiers. Reinstated slavery.
Speaker 1:So yeah, it seems they're. They're pretty bad, we're too deep.
Speaker 2:And is and is blindly attacking Shipping. But what we see in the popular media is people jumping on. You know, yemen is being the hero, standing against Israel, no matter where you stand on the Israel conflict, standing with slavers yeah, is bad things.
Speaker 2:But what you have is innocent well meaning people will make Ignorance statements and have an audience that will immediately go. Let's say, a celebrity like her, with her reach, doesn't actually follow the conflict. Because these people are standing against Israel's occupation of Gaza and I also stand with people against that occupation I'm going to amplify what they say. Well, now you've got a mega celebrity supporting literal slave traders and it's not.
Speaker 4:she's not getting cancelled Right.
Speaker 5:I'm not saying her name associated with this, because I think that she is a delightful person.
Speaker 2:All right, I'm a big Swifty, I love that.
Speaker 5:But when we have glorified celebrities to this point where they can literally change cities.
Speaker 2:We've changed our culture to a bad place, because you can lose the narrative very quickly with good intentions and from one tweet supporting the Houthi rebels fighting Israel A noble cause, if you want to view it that way you end up with millions of American teenage girls supporting people that would put them in burkas, stoned them to death for being gay, or sell them into or sell them into slavery.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, it's just people who are just uninformed. I don't think, I just do that.
Speaker 2:No I don't think she is at all.
Speaker 4:What she just said definitely has an impact.
Speaker 3:Amplified ignorant voices and the big thing, too, is people like celebrities tweeting content that is surface level, Like if you were to look at it at a bank, like just a quick Google and read a couple of articles. You know it seems like, oh, this person knows what they're talking about.
Speaker 2:But if you dig, any bit deeper, it falls apart. It's the things you've got to say. That's why community notes are the greatest thing on the planet.
Speaker 4:Scream 7 has been canceled. Scream 7. I don't know if you guys have seen this. What was?
Speaker 5:the question Dusty asked everybody.
Speaker 4:I don't know we're going to get to it.
Speaker 3:What when the fuck was Scream 6? Scream 6 came out like a year and a half ago. It was very successful. I stopped in two.
Speaker 5:Nick would know.
Speaker 3:Over $100 million made a lot of money.
Speaker 4:Listen to me Scream 7. Sorry, I've ever held your conversation. You didn't Scream. 7. I got political. I canceled because Melissa Brera.
Speaker 5:Who's that? Who's? Melissa Brera Ryan? Who's?
Speaker 4:Melissa Brera.
Speaker 5:I'm sorry. I read your review and I didn't mean to.
Speaker 4:Melissa Brera was the main star from Screams 5 and 6. It was supposed to be coming back for Scream 7. It was going to have a recurring role. It was fired because she made one tweet stating that basically, there's a whole bunch of shit going on in Israel, israel doing this, this and this in Gaza, spyglass Studios, on the spot, without even looking at anything else, completely fired her and removed her from the whole entire mass.
Speaker 5:Geno-Retega quit too.
Speaker 4:So Geno-Retega quit in support of Melissa Brera. So that kind of ties into almost exactly what you're saying. One tweet from a celebrity could have went one way, being one celebrity but a different celebrity. All of a sudden, boom, you're basically canceled.
Speaker 2:Well, the other side of that, don't support the Jews and you're safe.
Speaker 5:No, no, no. Here's the thing.
Speaker 4:If you're going to, be, she wasn't, I can say it, she was standing for Gaza.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is what you're saying? Yeah, yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 2:She shouldn't do that. They're the bad guys.
Speaker 5:We're stopping this conversation.
Speaker 2:What Hamas are fucking terror.
Speaker 4:No, no, I'm not I'm just talking about that. This is not so much the terrorist part she was talking about, like the camps and stuff.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry I did that. No, I did get put in the car. Hey, fuck terrorist. They shot me, fuck them.
Speaker 1:On a lighter note, Keisha's what's your question? Keisha's hate of the day is her kids' attitudes.
Speaker 5:Oh God, and what's yours, monroe? What's your hate of the day? What? Let your hate and your heart out, monroe. What is it? He ain't got no hate.
Speaker 1:Um what's yours. I don't Monroe's all love.
Speaker 5:Bubby, I'm going to tell you something. I think hate is a. I watched American History X recently and hate just weighs you down. I'm just trying to like I told you that Cat Williams interview which we can't get into because that's another two hours to talk about but he said some wild shit. But he said some shit that made you think right, like I know it's cheesy when you say, or you hear people say like oh, you should go to bed every evening and like you're dying or live every day like you're dying, that sounds like some bullshit, corny-ass shit. But Cat Williams, like he said, he said he was like hey man, he said I'm hanging out every day.
Speaker 1:That shit was real, the Cat Williams shit he dropped.
Speaker 2:He did. He was fucking crazy. I see the wig shit.
Speaker 5:But the thing 19 inches, run your gnarled fingers through it. But the thing I'm saying is he described it in a less corny way. He was like hey, man, I'm going to bed every night with the things I have to have and I'll wake up tomorrow with them. And I've really been trying to think that is like hey, I'm going to bed and I've got all three of my dogs, I've got all my chickens, I made enchiladas, I made the best salsa ever. I'm going to bed. It's fine If I don't wake up tomorrow. Guess what? Today fucked. You know what I mean. So it don't fucking matter. So I don't want to keep hating my heart, you know.
Speaker 1:I mean, I hate. All right, Mike, what do you hate then? Everything.
Speaker 2:I have plenty of this here. Do you want me to give a short list, or just like one specific thing, a specific one? I hate state government. Okay, let's get that one. So I think that one of the most ridiculous things is that our excise taxes go to fund.
Speaker 1:Taxation staff might be nothing else.
Speaker 2:Taxation is absolutely that.
Speaker 1:Absolutely nothing else. All of our excise taxes.
Speaker 2:We make a lot of money here with coal. All of the excise taxes go to fund programs in Louisville, lexington and out west. We see very little of the excise tax. You can watch our roads fall off the fucking mountain. You can see our bridges get rebuilt for the absolute.
Speaker 1:Paul Michael, facebook for the longer post.
Speaker 2:The bridge at the dollar store got rebuilt back exactly to the same dimensions that it was built originally. So stupid Back in the 1950s. Bring that fucking governor down here and make him drive it at 7.30 in the morning.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you go through it.
Speaker 2:How many times have you gone by there and somebody's driven into the guardrail because they didn't want to get hit by a?
Speaker 5:coal truck.
Speaker 2:Have them drive across Pine Mountain or turn to go to Kingdom Come. Go to Arleigh Boggs, run through, just get on four school buses Don't go to Arleigh Boggs.
Speaker 4:He'll get put over the hill on a school bus.
Speaker 2:Andy Beshear, come to fucking Letcher County and get on four school buses, stay here four mornings or two days, right, a morning and an afternoon. A morning and an afternoon. And just see what we take a chance putting our fucking kids on every single day. Ride from Fleming Neon Middle School to Martha Jane Potter Elementary School. Drive over where the road is continually falling out from under us, where you literally feel you dip down and all they do is pile more fucking fake road on it.
Speaker 1:You feel the road give underneath you on a school bus full of you preachin baby, you preachin.
Speaker 2:Tell those motherfuckers to come down here and try that. My local hate is for politicians that flew above us in helicopters, landed where we set up for them to get out and said we care about you, we're going to take care of you. Didn't bother with the fact that we don't have bridges, we don't have roads. We still don't have bridges Preaching.
Speaker 4:Preaching.
Speaker 2:They fucking flew over here in a helicopter and told us they're going to be here for us, and then, two months later, they were gone. We still don't have bridges, we still don't have roads, and the roads that they gave us are falling off the fucking mountain.
Speaker 1:Mike bringing the truth at the end of the Super Show. Mike bringing the truth. My hate. You guys want to know what my hate is. My hate is this fucking episode. Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Instagram oh X right, it's your best. Facebook. Follow us, literally. Youtube. Now we're on YouTube, we talked about that, so follow us all those fucking places. You can check out all of it. All episodes up 41 of them, even the controversial ones, right near the beginning. So go back and listen to those. Anybody else got anything. All right, man, I mean, I got like a small percentage of this room.
Speaker 1:Let's bring that back. All right, boys. Ain't nobody stopping from quitting your job, but you don't though At least you got a backup plan. God fucking do it. I hate the government.
Speaker 5:I hate the government.