Unpaid Lunch : A Podcast About Work
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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.
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Unpaid Lunch : A Podcast About Work
Mat Mayhem and Work-Life Wrestle: Inside Youth Sports Drama and Office Antics
Ever found yourself caught up in the raw emotion and unexpected drama of youth sports? Well, strap in and join Heavy D and Rhino at our lunch break pow-wow, where we're dishing out fiery discussions on the wrestling world. Eric might be out, but the show must go on, and today's tales of mental timeouts after Korea trips and referee rants are just the tip of the iceberg. Witness the chaos of the Kentucky youth wrestling state championship through our eyes—a young wrestler's surprise victory leading to an all-out brawl across the mats. We're breaking down the nitty-gritty of wrestling rules and laughing over the generational confusion about what a commercial truly is.
Now, let's talk dollars and sense, because the financial and emotional stakes of youth wrestling are no joke. Imagine being a parent navigating the costly maze of tournament fees, or a coach wrestling with the idea of "goat" brackets for elite young athletes. The tension is palpable as we recount the high-pressure situations that unfold when coaches and young referees collide, and disputes threaten the very integrity of the sport. Stories of frustration and passion unfold, illustrating how these tournaments can be a battleground not just for the children, but for every adult involved. It's a world where every point and every penny counts, and we're bringing you front-row seats to the drama.
As we round out our chat, the conversation turns inward to our own work-life shuffle. Between anecdotes about balancing department management with personal time and the challenges of maintaining out-of-office sanctity, we're letting you in on our strategies for staying sane amidst professional chaos. But it's not all paperwork and payroll; we're also tackling the latest twists in wrestling storylines, from Shinsuke's surprising narrative arc to Cody's curious fan dynamics. And before you head back to the grind, we're riffing on the art of engaging with our audience and the choices that shape our careers, all while keeping that wrestling community spirit alive and kicking.
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On your break. Today we're back in studio with a doctor's excuse for calling out. Rhino still hates refs and this show almost becomes a wrestling podcast. Alright, time to clock out for lunch. Welcome in to Ud Paid Lunch and thanks for spending your break with us. I'm Heavy D. Rhino is here. He's gonna get to talk tonight because Eric's not here.
Speaker 2:That's why we were out last week. I needed a mental brain break to recover from fucking Korea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're the only ones here tonight. It's super fucking weird.
Speaker 2:We're recording the middle of the night and I'm gonna apologize because my voice is shat you got like this.
Speaker 1:You got like this midnight like you're supposed to be on at midnight but you're supposed to be on the radio doing like love songs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's. It's a little bit of a rasp.
Speaker 1:I actually think you could do it like right now Probably could you sound like this is this is Rick D.
Speaker 2:One after he's had four friggin cartons of cigarette love hits 185 years old with scruff beard people listen to the radio. Dude, I did the other day and it was weird.
Speaker 1:This is like a radio show, but it's kind of refreshing. Yeah, right, commercials. You know what are these? They're not like and they're different commercials. They're like people yelling their commercials, like like cable television, are different than ads.
Speaker 2:Yeah do we just call all commercials ads? Now see me. My son had this conversation today. I said commercial and he said what's that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, they're different, don't you fuck, they're different commercials I guess not, but. I just think about if you record. If you Record a sales pitch, commercial with all of your staff and no actual actors, that's a commercial, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's all product mad placement, I don't know. So, we don't have a topic tonight. I've got one I've engineered. Oh it's basically. It's just been the last.
Speaker 1:Scratch it, reverse it, it's. It's funny because we were gonna do stop apologizing for clear my throat, guys.
Speaker 2:You're just along the ride for this. I'm gonna be all as a whole show. That's fine. It is what it is. I screamed at a 12 year old child for eight hours straight yesterday.
Speaker 1:Well, we tested our. We're testing our fandom, because if people listen, if people are still listening after the Super Show, I don't yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 2:They've people listen. I didn't even want to be on the show.
Speaker 1:He's I was talking to you about editing the episode and saying something about you. You're like, yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 2:I don't give a fuck. You're like what do you think about this? I don't you do whatever cut everything I said and I said put it in the two parts. That way I actually have an additional week recharge from that. Yeah, no, so I Didn't tell you anything about this story yet. I was gonna wait until I got here, because I think it'd be funny, but for the content. It kind of all ties in together, because God knows if you've listened in previous episodes. God knows Ryan Johnson loves him. Some referees oh.
Speaker 2:No referee problems. So Yesterday state of Kentucky youth wrestling state championship for six you, eight, you, ten, you, twelve, you a lot of amateur. Free you. So they put down I was either 12 or 14 mats. And Then they take these mats and split them in half is 14, because there is 28. Yeah, they split them in half and make one mat into two. You, man, this is with some 14 year old children that are grown as well as I can say, and it really is not big enough.
Speaker 2:It's not big enough. So we start off the morning block. It's a you ten you. We got three kids in the morning block and then we got five in the afternoon. We have one kid I Don't know that his mom that listens to this show but, they're very, very, very local, near, near our hearts. But Kids has stood like the kids always love baseball, you can tell, and I think he just kind of fell in the wrestling this year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and he did like he is.
Speaker 2:You know, god built Calvin Johnson to be a NFL wide receiver. This little boy was built to be a wrestler.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He is friggin ripping through kids dominated the whole entire year. One region, you know, first year wrestling one regional championship. Here he's in state and he draws the hardest match, like you looking at his brackets they don't seed for state like they should Draws literally the second best wrestler in the state of Kentucky in the first round sure, and he's got like ten matches or twelve matches or something wrecks it Like not our kid. Our kid wrecks the number two. Oh really we're through this. This is easy.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's awesome, second or no, it's about third round. So for those that are not familiar with folk style wrestling or youth wrestling or anything like that, there is a thing called a tech fall. So everybody knows in wrestling what a pin is. Essentially even people that don't want to wrestling knows what it means to pin somebody. But basically, as you work through the sport there's different ways that you're you can receive points over the course of a match. Now if at any point you get up and it's this, amount is different. Different tournaments been. This turn was 15. It's called a tech fall. At some point You're at 15 points, you automatically win the match. The basically a mercy rule.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Moving towards the end of the second period, he is, our boy is up, 12. Oh, like wrecking this kid, beat the same kid at region. All of a sudden, like going back a few steps in the conversation here where I told you the mass were split in half, mm-hmm, in the middle match. All of a sudden you see a bunch of kids start tumbling, rolling over top of each other, flip over onto our mat. While our kids getting into him, the other one takes the heel of a freaking wrestling shoe right and gets kidney punched and you just see him go like the wind, just leaves his body. They stopped the match. He gets up, he can't breathe, crying, not even making audible sounds, can't bend over. Well, I'd like to give him X amount of time. He goes back out on the mat, can't breathe, can't move up, 12. Nothing and the other kid just flops him on his back and bends him, can't defend himself. So the referee was. This referee was very gracious. He's like this is the way the tournament set up. There's nothing that I can do.
Speaker 2:I was like I understand he's really good, derek Kidd. Like down on that end of the arena these referees routine your guys, guys been doing it for years. Uh, so I mean he even came back to us later on. He said I know this kid's going to wrestle for third, he's going to get third, but he was the best kid in this tournament today.
Speaker 2:So it was really the the flighting for the kid for one, and then my kid was wrestling through the whole entire thing during this portion. He was bloodlust hungry. He was really wanting to try to win the state championship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he looked awesome.
Speaker 2:It's best he's ever wrestled. He went five and one only match. He dropped us to the state champion, so we were pumped. We move into the evening session. So in the evening session, um, one of the wrestlers he has quit twice this week I love his heart or over the last two weeks. At one point I literally had to go and dig all of his attire out of a trash can.
Speaker 2:I could see through what he threw everything way and what it sucked to is. It wasn't just like an open face trash. Can he threw it in?
Speaker 2:one of the floppy door one side of, flop the door up and stick my head in there through skull spit and everything, get this kid's shoes, headgear, knee pads out. So his dad is one of the other coaches on team Me and him basically said all right, let's make a deal, you take mine, you take my kid, I'll take yours. Yeah, sounds good. I said I'm not a wrestling coach, I don't know anything about wrestling, but your kids been wrestling for five years. I will throw slight pointers out there and we'll just go with it. But at least this way he doesn't quit on you in the first match of the tournament. If he quits, he's quit on himself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which is.
Speaker 2:I love the kid but you know he's got some anger issues, which all of them on our team.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was gonna say it's, it's part of the game, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean it's wrestling. There is no emotional stability on those.
Speaker 1:The best ones have some anger issues, oh.
Speaker 2:God, yeah, oh, you want them to kind of to do, yeah. So he goes up in his first match and looking at the bracket, like usually, even at the state tournament, like I was pulling up spreadsheets and looking at data and stuff, and there's kids, like one wins, 16 losses, like that. I'm like you know there's gonna be some easy matches, there's gonna be some tough matches. Not in this kid's bracket, jesus Christ. Every person in this damn thing is Bruno Sammartino. I'm like what the fuck is going on.
Speaker 1:If you don't know who that is, it's the longest reigning.
Speaker 2:He's the God and till Roman Reigns fucks it all up.
Speaker 1:Fuck Roman Reigns.
Speaker 2:Fuck Roman Reigns, we want Cody.
Speaker 1:Uh uh, speaking of wrestling, shameless plug plug God.
Speaker 1:Listen to the showing color podcast. It's a new podcast we started. Uh, it is from team T for, so that's us and uh, it's with um. Wes has been on the show and Wayne was is with us. I don't know who's going to be. I'm just I'm doing a wrestling podcast. There's going to be people there every week. I was. West will probably be there, wayne to be there, ryan, I was going to be here some. He won't talk about anything with WWE, but he's going to be here. And then Clay is going to be on the show too, cause Clay didn't have a my class week and he was super mad about it.
Speaker 2:He should have gave him a mic.
Speaker 1:Oh, I was like, you want a mic man.
Speaker 2:Cause he knows me 10 times more. He knows more about modern wrestling Fuck.
Speaker 1:He knows more about modern rats at West and listen to the show. He knows more about modern wrestling than I do. Clay does. Yeah, Like cause he cause he watches. Tic-toc all day and when he watches Tic-Toc all day and his, his Tic-Toc is just wrestling. That's what I do, yeah, and he knows the shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have to work Friggin dirt sheets.
Speaker 1:Not like guys, not really.
Speaker 2:But, like I said, this kid's bracket was murder's row and right off the bat. First match he drops at three. Oh.
Speaker 1:Hmm, hmm.
Speaker 2:Big imp but three. Nothing like he's wrestling thing. It was 12 years, 74 pound, and I mean he's not the biggest kid in the world but he's super skilled, like so advanced skilled. But these kids were like two and three inches taller, Like you clearly see.
Speaker 2:And he's wrestling arms and stuff. He wasn't yet, so losers bracket. Keep in mind that was one of the big things in the state of Kentucky. This year is in the past. If you had 45, 50, 60 kids in the same weight, same age, they broke it up into a pod A, pod B, pod C. A bunch of mommies and daddies were like, well, if there's three, if there's 84, A, B and C, there's not true state champion. My baby's not the real state champion.
Speaker 1:They don't one bracket with that one bracket with that many people is inside 42 kids and this is like one bracket.
Speaker 2:That's inside the light this works out on now. Obviously, right off the bat, you know there's gonna be a shit in a boss, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The progress to the second round. Now, if you get to that second round, you need to rack off about three wins to get to the same I was, so four wins put you in the finals Doesn't sound bad. I still want it If you lose. In some circumstances you had to wrestle up nine to 10 total matches in the day to work it back out to get the third place because the loser bracket, because it was so big.
Speaker 1:I just go home.
Speaker 2:They lost to what they lost to that route, right, okay, so if you lose to your route, unless you are in that fight, and in the semis of the consolation they had a fifth, sixth place match. So if you lost there trying to go to third, fourth.
Speaker 1:I mean they changed that next year.
Speaker 2:Uh, there's already ideas being kicked around, like right now the regional tournament means nothing.
Speaker 1:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 2:So what they've started talking about is actually provide, and now this is something that probably come up in coaches meetings in the spring. They're like what if we do, let's say, the top four or even the top six at region, go to a go bracket? You say they get you close to having like 24 or 30, see, it's six regions. Let's say, if you do, six people out of the make.
Speaker 1:How good you do it. Regions regions.
Speaker 2:They go to a goat here, goat standard bracket and they actually compete for a true state champion.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Now everyone that wasn't in the top six and all your newcomers, everything else you put them in a amateur state championship bracket. That way you have to do good at region and state. That way they're not losing the money too Cause let's be. Let's get real. They had 1500 kids there this weekend. Each kid was $30 rich $45,000. Dude.
Speaker 1:So then, on top of that, which it has to wrestle in turn.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, really. Uh, $20 for mom and pop to get in for not together Each person's $20 to get in. So let's say that's crazy.
Speaker 1:Why is it that much?
Speaker 2:I don't know that's crazy, I'm large soda was $7. That's $2,000.
Speaker 1:Dude, that's a rain like $20. You can see like $20 with no seating.
Speaker 2:You can see like cherry for $20. They had eight bleachers eight bleachers, okay, and they were ground level.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:People standing around the rails, but let's say 1500 wrestlers. And let's give, let's be Don't know judicious here and say each kid brought two parents. Right now, some kids brought like six family members. Well, let's say you have two adults. Come with each kid at 20 bucks. We done the math on that, that was an additional 60 grand.
Speaker 2:Yeah so at a bare minimum, just off wrestlers and and two parents who parents is about a hundred grand is what they made just for the youth tournament. There's a middle school tournament the day before, so and and concession and apparently a lot of the workers were volunteer work.
Speaker 2:Get fucked, but then I also was talking to a couple people online man, they're making a kill and they're like even then they really don't make as much as you think they do, Like you got me, shit me. They're like no, that tournament we hold at the expo senior at Pikeville. I was like yeah, they said two-day tournament, right. I said yeah. They said how much do you think the ice cost for that tournament? I Tell me they said four grand. Us ice was four thousand dollars. Yeah for a weekend.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I mean cost, but fucking, I mean like that's they said each day for the I think they call it Kentucky convention ceremony reason. Well, it's 15 grand a day, just a rent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that floor yeah.
Speaker 2:That's $30,000. But I that's either way here. There we were talking about big brackets. He drops first match, so hence he's want to wrestle like 17 matches get out. Yeah Well, it starts getting to the point we're getting to the end of the day, to where they're wanting these kids to wrestle almost back back and shoot. Yeah, at one point he wrestles five matches in an hour.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think his mommy upset stupid yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, we get towards the back end of it. He is going into the concession CMI as a kid has battled his guts out here. I'm over here. No, I don't have a freaking idea what's going on, just screaming.
Speaker 1:You got him because.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I have no voice. Like we draw a 16 year old kid as a referee at state tournament. Cute Cogits drug down, gets taken out out of band, taken down out of bounds. After the clock goes to zero it holds up two points for the other kid right clocks out dude, and it was out of bounds, like he, like they were clearly out of bounds for a hit. He goes over, talks to the other table worker, comes back and still shut them to and I'm like, oh fuck, we're just gonna get streamlined right here. It's gonna be bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Cogul gets out. Escapes Should be one point. Nothing there. At this point his dad's over on the sideline because all the his matches that he was Cousins done. He's screaming at the ref to. He's like are you gonna give him escape points right there? He's like I have my hand up for one. He said no, you didn't. He's like I'm videotaping the whole match. No, you didn't, I can show you. Yeah, so match is over and we're walking off. And as we're walking away, I'm just like God, this is freaking ridiculous. And the kid goes what was that? I Said nothing, man, and the day goes. You know, what's ridiculous is that coaches are having to call out points and call out how you're supposed to refer to the match. He's not gonna win that match, regardless. He's gonna lose period.
Speaker 2:He said but it's still ridiculous that this is the state tournament, we're having to do this. I said that's what happens when you get a bunch of kids that are refereeing that even hit for computer. Yeah, I just kept walking, they kids. What was that again I said dude, I'm done like.
Speaker 1:I'm done.
Speaker 2:I'm tired, I'm beyond tired. I'm not fighting with you, we're not doing this. Walk away Now. I just keep running. You know I see how bye, bye, bye, I'm not even here. Why is saying? I said I said kids, shut up, don't call me a kid. I said you need to walk away.
Speaker 1:What at this point?
Speaker 2:There's a couple parents, couple other coaches just kind of looking at me like I I'm not gonna hit this kid, I'm not gonna say nothing. Yeah, I said you need to walk away. He said one more word. I said. I said shut up. His face just kind of laid up, tears start formulating in these kids eyes and he walks away.
Speaker 1:Oh, my god, yeah, what is going on? I?
Speaker 2:just fucking ran that little silver spoon down his fucking ass off.
Speaker 1:It was so mad that felt great, so I just walk away.
Speaker 2:He goes and gets his odor ref and his eyes get huge and all of a sudden they start heading towards the head table. I was like, yeah, fuck this odor ref that Looks like he's probably just got done eating about 27 hot dogs walks over real lethargic. He's like you can't cuss at refs, man. I Was like I've literally videotaped the whole entire match. Have the video running at the end of you and watch it. You can. I'm not gonna cuss around any of these children. No, sir, I said now I'll get heated and I'll say some stupid stuff, but I'm never gonna cuss around that's what he thought and if that's what's being said, I have problem with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I said one of my parents is right here. I respect more than anybody in this world as a pastor and I'm not even gonna use that type of language in front of you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so y'all need to get you fact straight. So they go to the head table. I'm like now we're gonna get docked points and God knows whatever else. And the dude that's over all these wrestlers here is probably about 65 looks like he's juiced roids about 45 times, nipples hanging out of his Pretty nice honey like spandex shirt the whole entire time. He comes first. Do we have a problem? I'm like yes, we do. I'm like you can't help it. You can't help it. He's like um, why are you cussing at my 16 year old referee over here? I'm like never. Cussed at him, said y'all need to get you fact straight. He said well, I've been doing this for a long time and I'm just gonna go ahead and tell you right now, 99% of time I'm gonna take their word over yours. I said I know I'm getting real ready before you even come over here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what I say.
Speaker 2:I said, yeah, I'm mad, yeah, I said some stuff. I didn't cuss at your boy and I will say this. I did say, matter of fact, this kid should hit puberty before he's refereeing a state tournament.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I said that was said. Now, if that's foul language Then I apologize. I said he probably needs some thicker skin. He said well, how about I call the sheriff's deputies Like we're calling the cops, because I said the kids balls need to drop? And at this point the kids mom that I'm coaching comes up and like her face purple. She's like you need to walk away, sir. He's like how about I have both of you escorted out of here? She said how about you go and call them and make up whatever story you need to make up? It doesn't matter what we're gonna say, but it's really hysterical right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah you're a grown-ass man over all this stuff. You're holding up all of these interactions here because you got a little boy over there that doesn't know how to handle his emotions. He said ma'am, you need to leave this facility right now. She said I ain't going anywhere until my kid wrestles his final match. And I, when he went at her step back up again, she said go away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she got it.
Speaker 2:She had her elbow in my stomach and just pushed me back.
Speaker 2:She's like bye, yeah. I was like no. She said no, bye. He's like yeah, you need to walk away, sir. I said you need to shut the fuck up. And his eyes got big. I said now I'm cursing, yeah, so I'll walk away. And it just happened. I gotta watch another kid. I like watching you know wrestle on the other opposite side of whenever stood behind a bleacher and watch him wrestle his championship match and I'm sitting all the way over there on the other side and I'm watching all these old-ass referees Sit up there and just stare at me and point at me. I'll start waving at them fucking no, yeah, I can just. I'm just at this point, I'm just jabbing in turning it. So I, I made it the whole entire day.
Speaker 2:Call that heat in the business 12 hour day and I get to the last 45 minutes and you know this is the first time I've ever taken one kid. I'm like this is my focus for as a wrestling. Yeah, I like that and Turns out the kid got fifth. He got to the fifth six matches. Dad had actually coach him in that one. Yeah, fifth so everything worked out the girl that he was wrestling. We see all right was getting fifth yeah, yeah, he was actually okay. I think he realized that this bracket was insane.
Speaker 1:It was nuts. Yeah, he was so tired.
Speaker 2:I think he wrestled eight matches. Yeah, that's the girl that he was wrestling actually had a mark on her bag. This is another thing. It was absolutely insane. I know this is none of this is about work. I'm gonna tile this in here to me that he's raised my. My kid that I'm responsible for is Wrestling some other kid and the kid just keeps reaching them. You'll see a lot of kids like head tap.
Speaker 2:I'll put their hands up on the other kids head and trying to get their hands to come up so I can shoot at their kneecaps. It's just like line of sight thing. This kid's not head tapping, he's like straight up, like Chuck Norris, using the heel of his hand busts.
Speaker 2:Oh my god knows, bust my kids nose. We had to go to blood time for a few minutes. He ends up wearing him out, beating the kid anyway. Come over to the side and another coach goes. I'm so glad that your boy won that match. I was like, yeah, I said that kid's a pain in the ass. He's like he's a dirty racer. I'm like, yeah, he kept popping those. He's like, oh, you don't know the beginning of it. He said, honey, come here and his daughter comes over and he pulls the back of her single back and you can see Fang marks where the kid has bit her. What the fuck broken the skin.
Speaker 2:Be her. So the girl. I Watched her wrestle another match where they had to stop the match because there's blood getting on other people, because I don't know if it's from the same wound. She's bleeding from her back. They had to bandage her back. Bring you know Some table workers over. They had like emergency staffing. Yeah, they had to clean up the man stuff, so I wasn't over there for the final match. But it comes to find out for him to wrestle for fifth place. He's wrestling that girl Now. One point there's blood everywhere.
Speaker 2:They're like oh my god Leading everywhere and you need to stop the match and clean it up. And that same jackass, 16 year old referee comes over and goes oh, that's crayon. So she's got a bandage on her back. They is saturated red and blood. Did she go over there and get a tattoo like between? Cryon said it was crayon where'd it come from? That girl's back, apparently Back is made of crayon.
Speaker 1:What was her?
Speaker 2:crayon on this man fuck. If I know, they literally told the one of our other coaches that it was crayon on that map.
Speaker 1:I Don't get that. No, just not one to that. So I seen a couple videos like they were sent and the they weren't getting down for pens, like the reps weren't getting on the ground for pens. I was like I'm pretty sure he's pinned. It looks a lot like he's pinned.
Speaker 2:There was a couple situations you didn't watch them go. Oh shit, this kid's back backs flush. Yeah, one of my son like literally does a hip toss with a headlock locked in. The kid hits the mat and puts his hands over his eyes and just starts crying and is not moving in the referee's.
Speaker 1:And the referee. I know yeah, cuz I think you got DDT.
Speaker 2:The kid got like listen, what my kid wouldn't like with a head toss, like a hip toss, but we call it a cowboy. And has our arm around the kids head Squeezing like popping, is it? And then does a hip drag and throw you and that kid lands on top of his head Like tombstones.
Speaker 2:His head hits the mat like you would take an ink pen and like tap it on a table to make the Straightest, don't get literally just laser start screaming and the referee's nowhere to be found. It takes him like yeah, two or three seconds Where's like oh shit, I got a pin. Oh, oh, turns out. And then that kid gets up. He's like I can hear bells, I, I gave him a good cushion. That's not something to be proud of. Please walk away.
Speaker 1:I don't know. It feels. It feels like it should be a little bit proud of it.
Speaker 2:Man, but I gave it kid a conclusion.
Speaker 1:I'm still waiting for you to tidy and I'm really I want it to happen.
Speaker 2:I want to see it how it ties back to work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want to see the good podcasting.
Speaker 2:Okay, here's the segue moment. All right, louisville is three and a half hours away from here. All right, we didn't get done with everything until about eight o'clock. Stop, eat, drive, travel. Five year old and teen year old have to have three piss breaks. I'm thirsty.
Speaker 1:I'm ten times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we get home, have to go to my mom's pick up the dog and everything. It's like 130 before.
Speaker 1:I'm unsettled.
Speaker 2:And then at that point I'm so tired I'm not sleepy, so I don't yeah, I'm really pregame that on Friday and said I'm taking Monday off. Yeah, so take it off. And then I get to realizing last night at 1 30 Fuck, I got clothes payroll in the morning. Did you do that so much? I was like I have got the clothes payroll in the morning and I'm supposed to be off. I Okay. I was like I can either do that right now or not.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was like that ain't happening or I can get up in the morning to it and I have to have it in by 12 noon.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I get up at like 730 and I messaged my boss like I'm going back to bed. You know, I got up to help my mom, my wife, with some stuff before she's heading out to work. She didn't have the time to take off so she actually went to work this morning. She's psychotic. But I kept both the kids home.
Speaker 1:I was like I've got to don't worry about the copyright music in the background.
Speaker 2:It's always playing here.
Speaker 1:We're gonna get different. This part of the show, this part of the show, is not going to get published.
Speaker 2:No, no, we're going to get ahead for that. So I get a probably a fine about 10, 10, 30. I'm going through. I've got six people on my team that cannot record any of their punches. So every paycheck cycle, I have to recreate their whole entire time card, which is not their fault. It's just our softwares, janky. We've been bought out merged like two, three times. Yeah, who knows.
Speaker 2:Nothing works, so I get all that in. We've got a couple of them that I got to wait on. I end up working in the closed payroll from 10, 30 all the way up to like 1155. So, naturally, while you're there waiting on that, all of your work, communications, email, slack, which is one of our messaging servers, all this stuff sitting there and people like, even though I have it placed that I am offline, just not showing me online and messaging apps yeah, and it literally has three giant O's next to my name that, if you hover over top of it, says out of office return Tuesday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no one gives a fuck.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nobody pop you with messages. So I got people you know from other departments. My people are my people that I manage are really, really, really respectful. They will only reach out like if the world's burning down. Yeah, I appreciate them so much for that. Other people in other departments they my biggest pet peeve in this world and this is how it all ties in. This is it's on my golden list of three things that I hate most about work, and we'll come into those in future episodes, but this is probably number two. If I'm not here or I'm not supposed to be here, do not hit me with this statement. I know you're out of office today, but that but yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh my God. See, what's funny is I have a lot. I do a lot of those because, because we have, because you have to do it, yeah, so I like, but mine are more like. I know you're at office today, but when you come back in on Monday, make sure you pick this up before you go to your desk.
Speaker 2:Those are mine, mine are. I know you're out of office today, but if you have the bandwidth or you're around your computer at some point- on your fucking day off can you?
Speaker 1:do this. Yeah, mine's more of a message for you to pick up when you come back, or, like I, my message will say or this this is the one that's even worse, I'm saying I'll pop it up.
Speaker 2:Or I send a message as, where you know, other departments and stuff can see it that says I'm incredibly sick, I'm dying Like I am giving birth to liquid shit diarrhea five times an hour, right now that happens a couple of times a week. I'm dying. I will be back tomorrow. It's like oh my God, I hate that you're so sick. I hope that you feel better.
Speaker 1:You need to rest but we do this for me first. But the fucking butt. But I forgot to clock in.
Speaker 2:Like I even message. So fan of the show, Rob, you're going to hire your man Kronkowski. Yeah, he's a Florida fan, so I don't know if he has any kind of affiliations to grunt, but a shout him out. I messaged him this morning. I'm like bro, what's the teams like today?
Speaker 1:I just help me out. Help me out, please don't let me do this.
Speaker 2:I was like I can't. I want to try every way in the world.
Speaker 1:You have a hard time disconnecting too.
Speaker 2:I have a hard time turning it off.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I really do. It means him's talked about that before he knows and then he's like listen, dude, unplug, this can go, I got it. Well, you know, I'll watch it. Him and April, another one of my team they helped me out a ton with the stuff like that. I've got a bunch of my team that do that. They're like hey, you go, do you?
Speaker 1:remember when Eric yelled at you last week for saying people's names yeah, I don't use, I know he fucking yelled at you.
Speaker 2:I was like fuck him dude, go back to Korea. Go back to Korea.
Speaker 1:Please. No, I can't handle it. I can't go back.
Speaker 2:What was the problem with saying people's names?
Speaker 1:Oh man he's, he's just watching out for you, I think.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying it. Robert's a sack of shit. I know it was awesome. I'm like Robert helped me out and I really appreciate what he's doing. Did you see that clip that if I'm going to talk shit about somebody, I ain't going to use the damn name? Do you see that clip? I cut of it, Dude, I didn't listen to that you should.
Speaker 1:You got a little clip I have so disconnected I refuse oh man, listen.
Speaker 2:I remember at one point like literally, I was actively trying to say something and actually actively contribute to the episode. I'm literally sitting there talking and there's like six other people around the table Nothing when I was like fuck it, I'm done, I'm done. I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done.
Speaker 1:It's the best part of the episode.
Speaker 2:You can hear, I heard that part, that part's left in there. You can hear me say no one's listening to this shit. I just give up. No one's listening to this shit, cause I went to check, I went to cause.
Speaker 1:I remember exactly what like the time stamp was Cause I tried to look at Kasia. I was like what's the time, yeah, and edit through that whole piece, oh my God. Cause you could. It was like it was just fucking jumbled shit.
Speaker 2:Cause then I got mad and started talking about shit I shouldn't.
Speaker 1:I deleted the transcript because the transcript was so much bullshit. The transcript was just like I'd say that.
Speaker 2:Transcript was just words.
Speaker 1:It was like stacks of verbs on top of each other.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was bad.
Speaker 1:I think, it was the most fun I've ever had.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you, dude, like in the future, like I need to think about that, like before I take off on a Monday, like I know I've always said in the past that I'd rather take off on Monday than a Friday as long as there's not a payroll.
Speaker 1:Payroll, you've done that a couple of times.
Speaker 2:Every single time it fucks me yeah.
Speaker 1:And you're like I can do fucking payroll work. Can't you teach somebody to do it?
Speaker 2:No, I'm the ones got the credentials on my team to do it. Fuck them, that's stupid. See, I'm a standalone department Like other departments that have like six teams.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I get it. There's like six coaches that can help each other. I ain't got that. Now my boss will try to help me but like she's so, so disconnected from a lot of it too, like and plus, I've got everything set up Like I've got a guy from another company that I work with, like now, obviously we were multiple different lines of business, not lines of business Partners, basically contracted partners that work for this one client. Right, we were supposed to be like rival contractors, but literally like me as dude of like linked arms and I love him more than anything in this world. I help him with his team, he helps me with mine as much as we can.
Speaker 2:No, like literally the clients came to us as like he kind of makes us uncomfortable, so not too close. You all are. I was like you know what to do, but naturally he's another company, so he came to help me with that shit.
Speaker 1:But, I was trying to get the job done.
Speaker 2:It's just weird. I mean, it's just us too, you know, and then that whole entire department.
Speaker 1:So there's not a lot of us and it's like if we, if we were off, if we were everybody in the call center where I'm at, if all of my department was off, don't know what would happen. Like there's the shit that has to get done. It's like if it doesn't get done, then Bad stuff happens.
Speaker 2:I start rambling. I realized what I was gonna say about, about. You know the guy. I'm talking about another Partner yeah he is a wizard inside of slag.
Speaker 1:Oh okay, Slack is the community chat. It's like a chat work chat. You know you're like teams.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like teams or anything. Yeah anything that you use. It's a messaging app, but it has, like, different team channels, different things that you can work out.
Speaker 1:We can make internal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can make workflows inside of it, so he is like the god of workflows. He can have them integrate into back in like Google sheets.
Speaker 2:Yeah so I've got workflows set for my team. Now it's like if they missed a punch, instead of them messaging me and say have missed a punch, they just go ahead and click a workflow and put it in and it feeds to a spreadsheet. No, if they want to put in a day off, that I need to go in and prove for them. They put it in a workflow it puts on a secondary tab of that spreadsheet. So I go through it now. Just color coding green what I've completed.
Speaker 1:That's fucking awesome. What's future?
Speaker 2:dated, I'll code yellow, nice and everything else elite blank. So when it comes time to close payroll, I'm like, if it's not green or it's not yellow and it's non color coordinated, this is my action items to close payroll. Yeah, it gives me just a check sheet to go down, which is, if I didn't have that fuck, it'd be five hours for me to close payroll because I got those six that have to create.
Speaker 1:Sheets for boom technology.
Speaker 2:So they use workflow as their freaking, broken timekeeping app.
Speaker 1:We had to use slack the other day and work because we use Like oh 365 exclusively like Microsoft Office, we use all office.
Speaker 2:I miss office. We're transitioning to everything Google and I hate it.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, yeah, we use, we use, I like, I like Google sheets. Okay, but Google sheets is like it's not Excel. Yeah, it's not Excel.
Speaker 2:It's not Excel.
Speaker 1:And web based can cause problems. Cash and cookies can cause issues.
Speaker 2:Google slides is not PowerPoint.
Speaker 1:No, Google slides is not PowerPoint.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm close to power, no it's not I'll.
Speaker 1:It's probably the weakest form of all. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I was about to say, slides is Daughter, sheets is comparable enough to and I think Google Docs is fine.
Speaker 1:I think word and box is. I did yeah.
Speaker 2:Perfectly okay with that, but when it comes to power, yeah, I think slides is not even close.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right, I hate it. Luckily, I don't use those. You fucking use them.
Speaker 2:That's like I use frigging slides now.
Speaker 1:I mean my business review. No, thank you.
Speaker 2:I use. I don't I still don't use Google. I like what I do now. I use sheets, like I said, for my workflows that he's built for me, my buddy, but like when it comes to like building outdated to put on a business review, if you look at it, they have 50 screen capture. It's Excel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, nobody's surprised that you're good at Excel.
Speaker 2:I'm not even great in Excel. I would say I'm on a scale 110. I'm like a full took a YouTube class one time.
Speaker 1:It was pretty good.
Speaker 2:It helps a lot like.
Speaker 1:I took a watch like a three hour. It was like a three hour YouTube like like a dude teaching Excel and I learned so much.
Speaker 2:Listen. You want to talk about Excel and wrestling? You need to go get Chris Mullins.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say I think Can you get him on the on the show.
Speaker 2:I think I get him on show and color. Yeah, I think me and him has been talking for years about doing something.
Speaker 1:Well, if nothing else, he come look at the wrestling figures.
Speaker 2:He's got the AEW side yeah.
Speaker 1:I know yeah.
Speaker 2:Hash and AEW. Yeah now he started working back over to WWE. I mean, he's been talking about a whole lot because of, I Guess, really kind of the punk angle or punk. Yeah getting reintegrated. That AEW part of is kind of captured him and pulled him over, plus the vent scandal, you know. So I got added to to execs one cup. That's really got him going.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I got, I got added to this group chat. That's a bunch of like people in the business, like one of them was like a AW photographer and Like media relations people a lot of them have worked in them in the business or work in the business.
Speaker 1:So like they're inside info, like the stuff they say is like I don't know. It holds more water for me Just because they've been, you know they're in the business. And the shit they say about people and like about Cody being legitimate good and stuff and the shit the vents is like yeah, everybody knows that, everybody just knew all that shit was going on like they were just waiting for it to come out.
Speaker 2:I keep seeing these articles come down and so and I truly believe them about like triple H and Shane. Yeah, they were like we know he's doing horrible stuff, yeah, but the man's entrenched.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 2:Well, that's why he's the fucking world from Titan Tower and there's nothing we can do, shane was gonna be Triple H. Yeah right, that's what's. That's who Shane was gonna be roomed for for years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's what shame is gonna be. But Shane Turn, turns out. The wrestlers love Shane and Shane was like backstage guy and like cuz, cuz the shit he did right, cuz the chances he took and like he showed that he take Fruits up, flop and vences vences were not real flops. You know whatever? Not real bumps. But worse sale of a stoner that was the funniest sale was done Was the worst he had.
Speaker 1:He had one or two good sales, but that one, that one where he was just fell straight down right after Pat saw one great one.
Speaker 2:Yeah no, that's my that's my, that's one of the best ones.
Speaker 1:That's my pump shit of the week man.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you the best ones.
Speaker 1:We're going to raw a week from day.
Speaker 2:I'm glad, mac, if he's on now. And how long do you think that runs, though he's a little bit rusty. Oh yeah, so I didn't. I'm not watching it right now because I don't have a means to watch. I had YouTube TV for a while. I don't have cable. He needs to watch tic-tac clip yeah, he needs the.
Speaker 1:He needs the time Watching the matches and be able to call like it. Cole is so good because he's like he knows when the match is gonna End. In 23 years he knows when the match is gonna end and stuff. It's also kind of weird the dynamic, because Pat was supposed to be his buddy Like the whole time. You know he was like when he come out and stuff. But now he's like now he's got to be Jerry Lawler.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's got. He's got to be bad guy yeah.
Speaker 1:We won't talk much wrestling because I have there's another thing for that to do.
Speaker 2:You said that we've literally spent 10 minutes.
Speaker 1:I really can't help but talk around all the time.
Speaker 2:Monday night.
Speaker 1:I'm wrong, just went all yeah, we watched Clay fell asleep. There was a Clay fell asleep during the final match. You know what the last match was.
Speaker 2:So I know what it was, yeah, but I don't know how it got there. Where did the fuck did Shinsuke come from? Like I didn't want to do that, like it's like they made some story up about Shinsuke.
Speaker 1:Like Shinsuke at a live event, like a, like a show in Knoxville, like a live event show, whatever he missed it, cody, or something. I was like shit happens at live events. All the time I was like you could say that you can say that anyway. Like shit happens. We seen a live event, like you know. We seen two or three different people do things out of character at live events. Like I mean that Not. I mean you know, it's like super shows and shit, not televised events, it's like a strap match too.
Speaker 2:It was a fucking dog.
Speaker 1:It was a Cowbell match. What is it called the rope? And and that was the way. It was the same rope that dusty used in his match. But it was so weird because it didn't come out like there was not. That was not like a, they came out nowhere. Yeah, I was like what are they?
Speaker 2:usually that's like a big buildup and I'm a lot of saying, because I know this is not the show for him, this is before we close, but it's just, y'all are here. So sorry, I'm sorry, do you?
Speaker 2:feel like the opening segment and I know obviously Cody didn't get to talk. I feel like 100%, that was H and all them in backstage saying we need to go out there and test and see how bad the heat is off this. We know we got half a million dislikes on YouTube on the video. You know rock and Roman. We got to really see if this is real. So let's go ahead and let's see. And you know, say I think, cody, a year crowd and St Louis won't let either one of them fucking talk. They started chatting, rocky sucks and even Mac. If he's like Mac, if he's like you said, who's rusty, try to get caught up. He's like well, I didn't know we're going back 96 here and I was like, oh Shit, you're 98.
Speaker 1:You want my take. Really, I Think we're all marks man.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think we're, I think we're marked me and I think I think we're getting worked, oh, and I think it might be the best work ever.
Speaker 2:Oh, if he is, it's, I think.
Speaker 1:I think it might be the best work ever. I think it's still Cody and it's always been Cody.
Speaker 2:So for those that are, once again, this is not the red. For those that don't know, a mark is basically we're getting worked over without being known. We're being worked over. Yeah all is being pulled over our eyes and we're being so that's what I think, good.
Speaker 1:That's not true and I have a lot of reasons that that I don't want to talk about with a bunch of people who don't listen to, who don't watch your ass on, because it would, it would come off. Yeah, it's just. You know, there's just.
Speaker 2:Just go ahead and end this episode, start another one.
Speaker 1:Fuck, would just get into a whole.
Speaker 2:Those that are interested just wait and then click over.
Speaker 1:You do need to go check out the showing color podcast on Spotify and Google podcast. I don't know if I gotta bring on Apple yet. I gotta go through this whole thing again. It's that did the first time, so I gotta go for like verifications and shit.
Speaker 2:Mission it through bus sprout as well.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's going through same publisher, so it'll be all the same places. Hopefully probably not as many places, but YouTube, mainly because we're doing a lot of stuff with the YouTube page, so it's gonna be on there and I'll share that as well. We got patrons this week, new patrons Corey that we worked with. I mentioned it to you. Yeah, ready, no different quarter. That's a different quarter. That's red. Yeah, I work with him still, that's all curious.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know you're talking about that. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:And then New one, Philip. There's a new one. And then Philip McCrae, you know him. Yeah, I don't feel yeah and then Still got the classics.
Speaker 2:Mike is still with us and then I call them for a show Especially, yeah, he's got that master chief.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's so busy and bring the master. The fucking master. She didn't hear in the room. We'll put master chief on the line live that bastard. I like to do that. Travis Sturgill and Chris Hammons and and a toe toe still support us from the beginning.
Speaker 2:Listen. I watched toe spike a walking cane this weekend so hard. He's so much frustration and it almost bounced up back into his grasp and then he was immediately even kill him. Okay, again God, like he could fucking. It's an art. Yeah, he can go off about it. Last thing, and then we'll close like if you listen to Korea episode. I mean it's abundantly clear that our friend toe is Jewish. It wasn't about really clear to Nick.
Speaker 2:I know he wasn't about only clear but, Toe is Jewish and he comes over and stands in behind behind my wife and line at the concession stand yesterday at the tournament. He's sitting here, he's like, oh my god, they got hot dogs. This is awesome. And she kind of like to him. She's I like to have and she's like. I was trying to debate on whether or not to say it and then he looked at me and he I said I think he caught it. And he looked he said these are pork hot dogs. They, she's like his host stands pork. He went Hmm, well, this is not where I parked my car. She said I don't have a lot of interactions with him. She said but it was hilarious. He's just like nope, can't be here. And he was gal god, I love him.
Speaker 1:He thinks we. He thinks that Nobody wants to know the show. And I was like Mike we want you on the show all the fucking time. It's gonna show all the time Listen. I love my dearly um, um, yeah, follow us on um Instagram. Uh, tiktok of the facebook's Probably make the list.
Speaker 2:I'd love to have an episode here soon to do like mailbag.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, we need to.
Speaker 2:yeah, I sense you, I've got some that we can read out. Yeah, nobody's seen anything.
Speaker 1:Nobody's seen anything in a while, outside of just a couple messages, so we'll get on there and get some of them. Uh, and then, yeah, send us stuff on instagram. You can comment on stuff on spotify apple podcast. Um, remember, you can listen free on amazon prom, just trying to get amazon to give us some money for people to be on the show. Yeah, and then go listen to the show. Color podcast, wrestling podcast. Ron's gonna be on there too, ron. Oh, you got anything else?
Speaker 2:I am going to bed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're all gonna go to bed I remember that nobody stopped you for quitting your job, but you. I really miss keesh taking pictures you.