Armchair Anonymous: Service Industry

[0] Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous.

[1] I'm Patrick Mahomes, quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs.

[2] And I'm Taylor Swift because now...

[3] We are heroes.

[4] Football is connected to Taylor.

[5] That team, too.

[6] Oh, it is.

[7] It is.

[8] Oh, cool.

[9] Wait, what?

[10] There's a guy on the Chiefs that's dating Taylor Swift.

[11] You're so out of the loop.

[12] She was at the game against the Bears this last week.

[13] And now women care about football, so it's exciting.

[14] Oh, the NFL should write a lot.

[15] her a check.

[16] The NFL posted on their official Instagram about it.

[17] And they put like Taylor was here at this date.

[18] How could they not?

[19] Yeah.

[20] Well, unfortunately, this episode is not about Taylor sightings.

[21] It is about the service industry.

[22] So listen, we were very explicit about people not listening to the waxing debacle episode.

[23] And some people did not heed our warning.

[24] And then they came on and they said they regret not heating our warning.

[25] Yeah.

[26] So let me just say, this one's as serious of a warning, maybe more, to not listen to.

[27] No, this is the worst.

[28] Asterisk, hold on, asterisk, though.

[29] The first three you can listen to.

[30] Yeah.

[31] The fourth one you shan't listen to.

[32] And if you do, I don't want to hear no bullshit because I'm telling you right now, you're going to fucking puke.

[33] You can be brave if you want.

[34] Let me also add.

[35] I loved that episode.

[36] I loved the whole episode and I end that story.

[37] And that is a hero.

[38] That server is a hero.

[39] Absolutely.

[40] And I want you guys to listen because I feel like that person deserves to be listened to, but I also don't want you to appeal.

[41] But you can't suggest people listen to it.

[42] Truly, you can't.

[43] Oh, well.

[44] No. That's not to be listened to.

[45] Don't do it.

[46] Listen to the first three, though, and we love you.

[47] So please enjoy crazy service industry stories.

[48] Take them slow I had them both I'm ever one thing You gotta know I'm gonna keep on shining Are you Is this Presley I'm so good This is Presley Monica I'm in the closet My light doesn't work Oh no So we have the computer light I hope you love that Yeah you look great Monica Thank you That's I also wanted to show you really quick I have a crow tattoo.

[49] Oh, wow.

[50] Oh, my Lord, in flight, no less.

[51] I love it.

[52] When you had that expert.

[53] The owl expert.

[54] And you were talking about your love of crows.

[55] I was like honored.

[56] I'm in Austin, Texas.

[57] There's a lot of overlap.

[58] Austin, Corvitz.

[59] This is something else.

[60] Okay, so Presley, you have a crazy service industry story.

[61] And does it take place in Austin?

[62] And was it throwing us out of Barton Springs?

[63] Wouldn't that be a ding, ding, ding?

[64] Oh, that would be great.

[65] It is not.

[66] I didn't end up kicking anyone out.

[67] They let themselves out after this.

[68] So it was my second weekend at this bar.

[69] I'm a bartender.

[70] I still work at this bar.

[71] And it was around 8 p .m. on a Friday.

[72] So it's going to pick up.

[73] It's a weekend in a bar.

[74] You're expecting people coming in.

[75] They want to have a good time to a pretty young ladies.

[76] and a handsome young man come in, fun little trio.

[77] Like, hey, y 'all, they sit in a booth.

[78] I go greet them, and they order three Long Island Ice Tees.

[79] Okay, really quick.

[80] As a bartender, you must be able to stereotype certain orders.

[81] Because to my knowledge, Long Island Ice Teas are for people on their 21st birthday.

[82] Like, they don't know what they're doing.

[83] They haven't figured out their drink yet.

[84] They just want to get hammered quick.

[85] Yeah, blocked out as quick as possible.

[86] That was the exact goal of this trio, which I, I kind of picked up on when they came in, though, I didn't think they had been drinking too much, like maybe a couple of drinks, but I was like, okay, they can handle a few long island iced teas.

[87] I go do my rounds.

[88] I come back, and all three Long Island iced teas are drank up.

[89] It's been like two minutes.

[90] They shotgun them.

[91] Which is terrifying.

[92] Yeah.

[93] For people who haven't had one, just break one down for us.

[94] It's all the clear liquors in the well.

[95] Oh.

[96] Ew.

[97] Like, if you watch one get made, it's like, What?

[98] Yeah.

[99] There's no triple second there, is there?

[100] There sure is.

[101] Oh, okay.

[102] Okay, great.

[103] They should come with a barf bag, like an air sickness bag.

[104] I really want to hear the rest of the story, but I also want you as an expert in bartending to...

[105] Tell us other stereotypes?

[106] No, well, yeah.

[107] But also, if you had to say what our drinks would be, obviously, Dax can't drink, but personality -wise.

[108] Monica steps up, what do you think she's going to order?

[109] Yeah.

[110] Mind you, you know us a little bit, so it's...

[111] Yeah, try to erase that.

[112] Because I listen, I was like, wine.

[113] She's a wine gal.

[114] But if you came up and I didn't know that, be like a whiskey sour.

[115] Oh, wow.

[116] What a compliment.

[117] That is a huge compliment.

[118] That is a compliment.

[119] I appreciate that.

[120] I'm not a whiskey person, but I want to be a whiskey person.

[121] So, yeah, I love that.

[122] Once you shave the side of your head, you'll like it.

[123] And Doc's Ted Seeger's, man. Yeah.

[124] God bless you.

[125] No, but you don't know me. You think I'm their drink.

[126] What do you think my order is going to be?

[127] Because I feel like my drink was very on brand for me. I would have honestly said whiskey and a beer in one order.

[128] Nice, really nice.

[129] Maybe Jameson and Miller Light.

[130] Very well done.

[131] Really, really well done.

[132] It would have been Jameson, although there were nights where I got into some Jameson.

[133] But my standard was Jack and Diet.

[134] I drink 12 Jack and diets.

[135] It's so great because you're getting 12 Diet Coke's in the mix.

[136] And so you stay energized.

[137] Oh, for sure.

[138] A little caffeine.

[139] I like that.

[140] And it's kind of mixed messages, too, because one's really masculine, one's feminine.

[141] At least in the 90s when I was drinking, like men weren't stepping up to the bar and proudly wanting a diet Coke.

[142] That used to be in a masculating order.

[143] I have a group of four guys that are regulars and their pilots, you know, workout, 20s.

[144] They go up to the bar every weekend, for gin and tonics.

[145] Oh, I love that.

[146] I love that.

[147] I love counter programming.

[148] Mixed messies.

[149] It gets mixed messies, get messy.

[150] What happens?

[151] Mix messies.

[152] Oh, right, good, good, good.

[153] We're trying to remember all of our catchphrases for some other thing, but mixed messies is one.

[154] Okay, back to the story.

[155] So three Long Island iced teas, two broads, a dude, and they pound them in seconds.

[156] Yes, so then when I come back around, I grab the empty glasses, and I'm like, y 'all want to get any dinner, any waters.

[157] I'm like, you're doing okay?

[158] And the gentleman is like three shots.

[159] And I'm like, oh, again, they've been here less than.

[160] in 10 minutes.

[161] I'm just like, for sure.

[162] He's like, tequila house.

[163] I'm like, oh, you're on a mission.

[164] Oh, my God.

[165] Is it their last night of living?

[166] Yeah, they're going to prison at midnight?

[167] They got to turn themselves in.

[168] I go to the kitchen.

[169] I'm just planning on staggering it, waiting a few minutes, just not revisiting the table for a sec. I come back out and he has gone to another bartender and gotten three tequila shots.

[170] He was hell -bent on the shot.

[171] So, you know, when I come by, it's just three empty shot glasses.

[172] And the girls are.

[173] now visibly.

[174] They start chatting.

[175] They're like, what's your name?

[176] Like, where are you from?

[177] You know, and I'm like, how do you all know each other?

[178] And the girls are like, actually, we're dating.

[179] And this is our first time introducing a third.

[180] So the guy is a guest.

[181] Okay, I got to break in and say tactically for this guy.

[182] I know.

[183] Bad idea.

[184] So he's juggling two things is my guess.

[185] He has to be drunk enough that he has a chance at lasting while servicing both women.

[186] So, That's priority number one.

[187] But isn't that the opposite?

[188] I thought Whiskey Dick means like it doesn't work.

[189] What you're trying to get to is the sip before whiskey dick so that you can last the longest.

[190] Like the drunker you are, the easier it is to last for a guy.

[191] Then you can tip into Whiskey Dick.

[192] And now what's the point?

[193] It sounds like he's charging towards Whiskey Dick.

[194] I think he's nervous and that's why.

[195] I think all three are nervous.

[196] At this point, I'm like, okay, how about that burger?

[197] They're like, okay, okay, we'll share a burger.

[198] I'm like, that's a great plan.

[199] So I put a burger in.

[200] I'm like, y 'all make that burger now.

[201] I'm like nervous.

[202] Again, corner booth.

[203] So the girl closest to me was kind of chatting with me. Then the other girl and the guy are at the point where they're like on the neck, you know, whispering.

[204] And again, it's 8 .30.

[205] There's a dinner rush.

[206] There's like elderly people.

[207] What?

[208] So I bring out the burger and the girl on the end that was chatting with me. She is excited about this burger.

[209] She houses this burger.

[210] And the other two are just off to the races.

[211] So I'm just doing rounds avoiding this table now.

[212] I cannot bring them more drinks.

[213] I am walking by and the girl on the end, burger, it's gone.

[214] You know, I like go to pick it up.

[215] And she's like, come here.

[216] And I'm like, hey, what's up?

[217] And I bend over to hear her.

[218] And I see on the other side of the booth, she is now being fingered.

[219] by the man. Wonderful.

[220] And really quick, she wants you to see this.

[221] So they're now wanting this to be an orgy, not a threesome.

[222] Or they're just exhibitionists also.

[223] It's so shocking.

[224] And she's also trying to talk to me. And I'm like holding stuff.

[225] I like eight orders on my mind.

[226] And I'm listening.

[227] And she's like, my girlfriend thinks, you know, slurring.

[228] She's like, he's really cute.

[229] But I think you're really, and she vomit.

[230] Oh.

[231] Oh.

[232] No. Oh, the whole burger she just ate.

[233] Oh, my God.

[234] The one island, the water.

[235] I was bending over, so it's like...

[236] On you?

[237] It's on.

[238] No. It is everywhere.

[239] I can feel it.

[240] And because it's a bar.

[241] Way too much skin is exposed.

[242] Yeah.

[243] And I like stand up.

[244] They are still completely on face.

[245] A wall of fire couldn't stand in the way of their passion, it sounds like.

[246] It could not.

[247] I'm just in shock.

[248] And she was just on the verge of telling you.

[249] she thinks you're really cute, right?

[250] Now, hold on a second.

[251] Is there any shot?

[252] I'm probably going to tip into too perverse, but could she have also been climaxing at the moment she threw up?

[253] Because she was getting stimulated.

[254] Do you think everything just happened at once, perhaps?

[255] Oh, my God.

[256] You should make a prompt.

[257] I'm sure it's happened.

[258] It happened on the Great, which I loved.

[259] Remember, he was poisoned?

[260] And he was just climaxing, and he lost it out of both sides.

[261] Yeah, I mean, so, yeah, I went to the first.

[262] bathroom, cleaned up.

[263] Again, it was 8 .30.

[264] I had hours left.

[265] When I come back through, they're gone.

[266] Whole tables cleared out.

[267] I had his card to the tab so they didn't walk in.

[268] I just did automatic.

[269] I should have tipped myself like 2 ,000 percent.

[270] Oh, my God.

[271] I go to the back and one of the other bartenders is back there and he's like, hey, you're table four.

[272] There's a mess over there.

[273] And I was like, thank you for telling me. Thank you.

[274] Oh, my God.

[275] Listen, I want to put this out into the universe.

[276] The odds that any one of the three that were involved, this are listening very low, right?

[277] We'd have to say it's one in 300, given how many people listen to the show.

[278] But if by some miracle, one of the three is listening, we definitely need a follow -up of what happened.

[279] That was 830.

[280] They did not go to bed at 9 .30.

[281] Also, she puked, so she's back to normal.

[282] Puk and rally.

[283] There's a military base around Austin, Texas.

[284] I do think he was one of those gentlemen who had come down for a fun time, maybe from an app or something.

[285] Wow.

[286] That's just the vibe of cut, the tattoos, the build.

[287] Also, I'm sure y 'all are about to have to go, so I have to show y 'all something.

[288] What are we looking at?

[289] Is it on it?

[290] The dog?

[291] Yeah, it's a dog with shades on.

[292] Yes, I'm ordering like a bunch of just dog paintings.

[293] Oh, because we have a dog painting.

[294] I couldn't find the connective tissue.

[295] Yes.

[296] So anytime I'm like FaceTiming anyone, there's just a dog behind.

[297] me and I feel like y 'all.

[298] Can I tell you, and maybe this is egotomaniacal?

[299] Well, let me ask you, it'll sound less ego maniacal.

[300] What did you think we were about to see?

[301] I thought maybe it was going to be a picture of you at our show.

[302] Yes, I thought maybe that we had all taken a picture together at maybe the Austin show.

[303] And then we were going to see that.

[304] And then we go to a dog.

[305] The dog's black and white, but the reflection in his sunglasses is color.

[306] Right.

[307] Did you think maybe we were painted in there?

[308] In the reflection.

[309] Yeah, in the sunglasses.

[310] I'll get a painting commission to where y 'all are in the reflection of the sunglasses.

[311] Oh, that was really funny.

[312] Oh, my God.

[313] Presley, this has been phenomenal.

[314] Thank you all so, so much.

[315] Nice to meet you.

[316] Yeah, it's really nice to meet you.

[317] I hope we bump into you in Austin.

[318] Take care.

[319] Bye.

[320] What a cute.

[321] That was so fun.

[322] Makes me want to just interview bartenders, like, for two hours.

[323] It's a good prompt.

[324] Wonder how that night turned out.

[325] Yeah, I really hope.

[326] someone in the audience knows that couple because I want to know if anyone performed yeah what are the chances i know i feel like the chances are low it actually ended up they should have hooked up before they went out for drinks they should have hooked up gone out for drinks had some fun then hooked up again hello can you hear us i can hear you can you hear me absolutely jeremy where are you i am in ashville north carolina oh my god we just had an austin and now we have an ashville two of our Top five.

[327] Yeah.

[328] Are you from there or did you locate there?

[329] I am from here.

[330] This is also where the story takes place.

[331] Oh, fantastic.

[332] I was in the service industry for about 10 years and this story is actually partially why I am no longer in the service industry.

[333] Okay.

[334] Can't wait.

[335] I actually had kind of a sim moment yesterday with all this.

[336] I was listening to y 'all's episode with David Chang and the chef that I was working for at the time of this also worked at Kraft.

[337] Oh, no way.

[338] Oh, really?

[339] And then I got home.

[340] from work and saw the email.

[341] I was like, oh, shit.

[342] Wow.

[343] Very ding, ding, dang.

[344] Very simy.

[345] So anyways, this was about seven years ago.

[346] I was a sous chef at a fairly high -end restaurant in downtown Asheville.

[347] Big touristy area.

[348] It's a Saturday night, super busy.

[349] Will you tell people what a sous chef does?

[350] Sue chef means like under chef.

[351] So I was one step under the chef to cuisine.

[352] And then we had the executive chef, which was the owner.

[353] So I was kind of helping out people on the line, making sure all their prep was ready, making sure food was going out on time, if anybody was kind of dragging behind on tickets.

[354] You're like a fixer.

[355] Yes, exactly.

[356] So I was on the line that night, which is already a bad sign if I'm like having to be on there helping people out.

[357] We're just slammed.

[358] I'm kind of in between the saute and the grill station, and then further down, there's a fry station, and then the kitchen actually opens up to where the bar and where all the guests are sitting out in the dining room.

[359] All of a sudden, the fry cook comes up, he's like, hey, I dropped a thingy in the fryer.

[360] A thingy?

[361] Yeah, she's like, I dropped a thingy in the friar.

[362] In my mind, I'm like, oh, it's probably a thermometer.

[363] I would have thought it was something like feminine that she didn't want to tell me. Well, the thingy is so cute.

[364] So cute and weird.

[365] Well, she definitely didn't want to tell me what it was, I learned.

[366] So nothing that's not supposed to be in a friar, being in a friar is ever good.

[367] Like, if it's plastic, it's going to melt, we're going to have to drain the friar.

[368] We're going to be down a fryer for like an hour, so I'm like, shit, this is not good.

[369] So I run over, I'm like, what's in there?

[370] It's like, I dropped one of the thingies, and she points to a box of nitrous oxide canisters.

[371] Wait, oh, no. A whip it.

[372] No. And they're combustible, right?

[373] They're pressurized metal containers, probably a couple ounces, of nitrous oxide.

[374] So I'm immediately like, oh, shit.

[375] Oh, my God.

[376] Yeah.

[377] Explode?

[378] And spray hot oil all over everything.

[379] Yeah, so I'm like, this is going to shoot out, it's going to high velocity, and it's like 400 degrees.

[380] This is not good.

[381] I immediately grab a pair of tongs because I can see it, and I'm like, okay, it hasn't gone off yet.

[382] I got this.

[383] Grab a pair of tongs, reach in, and the tongs had probably just broken the service when the thing just explodes.

[384] Oh, my God.

[385] Fuck me. And I don't know if you've ever thrown firecrackers, like M80s into a barrel of water.

[386] and it just kind of were like when people go fishing with dynamite.

[387] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[388] Real redneck shit.

[389] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[390] It was like that, and it just coated me with hot oil.

[391] Oh, my.

[392] Fortunately, I had a chef coat on.

[393] Oh, fuck.

[394] Did it get you on your face?

[395] Your face?

[396] It got on my face.

[397] It got everywhere.

[398] Oh, my.

[399] So you hear this explosion, and then you just hear me go, fuck, the top of my lungs, and the dining room just goes silent.

[400] Everybody just kind of looks up.

[401] Oh, my God.

[402] Well, I didn't see them look up.

[403] this was relayed to me later and then just kind of goes about their meal.

[404] But I immediately just kind of run to the back and like I take my chef coat off and when I do skin on the side of my arm just kind of comes off with it like wet newspaper.

[405] My God!

[406] Dumping water on it and I don't feel a thing at this point.

[407] I'm in shock.

[408] I'm just kind of like, okay, that wasn't that bad.

[409] Everybody's just kind of looking at me like, dude, are you okay?

[410] And then the chef's like, how long on this ticket?

[411] Oh, my God.

[412] You just exploded in a vat of fucking, oh, my God.

[413] Oh, my God.

[414] Did anyone call 911?

[415] No, so I run downstairs and the owner's down there.

[416] At this point, I'm still pretty calm.

[417] I'm like, I don't feel anything.

[418] I'm like, I should probably go to the hospital.

[419] Like, the skin's off my arm.

[420] Everything at this point's red, starting to form blisters.

[421] So the owner, the head chef, is downstairs.

[422] I'm like, hey, chef, I think I need to go to the hospital.

[423] She looks up and sees me just all red and it's like, oh my God, hop in the car, drives me to the ER.

[424] And it's like at this point, 7, 8 at night on a Saturday.

[425] So get to the ER and I'm like, hey, I've got some serious burns.

[426] This is starting to really hurt.

[427] At this point, shocks are not off.

[428] I'm in a lot of pain.

[429] They take me back and I'm waiting there for like two hours before they can get an actual doctor to see me. So I'm just sitting there just visibly in pain.

[430] Have they given you any pain meds or anything?

[431] No. They couldn't do it until the doctor could get there, and the doctor was at home because it's Saturday night.

[432] What if he was at the restaurant?

[433] He's like, I just got to finish this meal.

[434] Something just blew up, so it slowed down a bit.

[435] They should have asked if there was any doctors like they do on the plane.

[436] Is there any doctors having dinner right now?

[437] Should I just ask if anybody there had any painkillers.

[438] I mean, it's a party town.

[439] I'm sure somebody had something.

[440] Someone's carrying.

[441] But also, you have to like fix that fast.

[442] They were basically like, well, There's nothing we can do for you except give you painkillers.

[443] No. It was insane.

[444] The blisters.

[445] I don't know if you've ever seen the alien movies, but it kind of looked like the alien's head, like all swollen.

[446] Like my fingers more than doubled in size.

[447] Yeah.

[448] Filled with fun fluids.

[449] I was out of work for about a month, and it was kind of this realization.

[450] I went from working, you know, 60, 70 hours a week is kind of what happens in the industry to just having all this time off and still getting paid.

[451] I'm just like, this is not.

[452] a great lifestyle.

[453] And so after that time, I went back and shortly after put in my notice and I was like, I am literally burnt out.

[454] And got out of the industry.

[455] So it was kind of a silver lining.

[456] Yeah.

[457] What did you switch to?

[458] I packed what I could in my car, drove off to Montana and worked on a cattle ranch for a little while.

[459] Get the fuck out.

[460] All right.

[461] No, I don't want to make you insecure, but I am curious how you lost your fingers.

[462] Because I was like, did the fucking grease cause that?

[463] I didn't even notice.

[464] that you might not like the story i'll give you a guess if you had to guess what this was i listened to the chris palmer episode and i heard you guess that one i would definitely go woodworking of some sort no it was a motorcycle accident oh no yeah i still ride though dirt bike or street bike street bike i was on a ducati oh highway well if you got to go down it's nice to be on an italian i was actually really upset because I was like, oh my God, I just fucked up my bike.

[465] Of course!

[466] And then I saw my hand and I was like, oh, I also fucked up my hand.

[467] Did it get pinched between the bars and the ground or something?

[468] I think so.

[469] It all happened pretty quickly, so I don't know exactly.

[470] I mean, it was on the highway.

[471] So I slid for a while and the bike came to rest on top of me. Man, you've been through some shit.

[472] Shock is a crazy thing.

[473] It is, right?

[474] I go down and I'm like, okay, this is it.

[475] I'm like going to die.

[476] I'm going to get hit by a semi -truck or something.

[477] There's, like, a bunch of traffic.

[478] Yeah.

[479] And then the bike comes to stop, and I'm like, oh, shit, I'm alive.

[480] Lift the bike up, stand up, take my helmet off, looking around.

[481] And then I'm like, oh, fuck.

[482] Yeah.

[483] My hand is not well.

[484] Not doing well.

[485] Oh, my God.

[486] And it's your clutch hand, so you're still able to operate the clutch, though?

[487] Yeah.

[488] Your pinky has a lot of the grip.

[489] Stop and go traffic sucks.

[490] I live really close to the Blue Ridge Parkway.

[491] So I just kind of hop on the parkway.

[492] And then once I'm going, I can just power shift and I just kind of cruise.

[493] A lot of bikes now have blip shift.

[494] Jeff, so you don't even need the clutch anymore.

[495] I haven't gotten anything like that.

[496] This was pretty recently, and I kind of just had to get a bite because I was like, I can't let this stop me. I can't let this thing win.

[497] Well, I can even see already that your pinky's probably gotten 5x as strong.

[498] Like, look at this muscle.

[499] Yeah, for sure.

[500] Right?

[501] This pinky, this is my dude.

[502] He does everything.

[503] Yeah, and then the muscle below in your hand, which in you and I is like, ours is one third the size of the one you have.

[504] You look like a free solo, like a mountain climber now on that hand.

[505] I know.

[506] I want to get into mountain climbing just because I think it would be more difficult.

[507] Actually, your pinky has like 40 % of your grip strength.

[508] It does.

[509] Yeah, because of that muscle right there.

[510] If you lose your pinky or your thumb, those are like the worst fingers to lose.

[511] Oh.

[512] Your ring finger and your pinky have all your grip strength and your middle finger and your index finger all dexterity.

[513] You're the king of the silver lining.

[514] Yes.

[515] Like you got bathed in hot grease and you thank that for getting you out of a job you didn't necessarily want to stick with.

[516] And then now you're like just delighted that.

[517] Your pinky didn't go down.

[518] You have a great attitude on life.

[519] I inspired to it.

[520] I was pretty stoked to be alive.

[521] Yeah.

[522] Anyone who's been in motorcycle racks, first is like, oh, fuck this.

[523] You're in denial as it's happening.

[524] You land in your first thought is like, please, when my legs work, right?

[525] Yeah.

[526] I could stand and I was just like, cool.

[527] As soon as you can stand and move your arms, you're like, okay, great.

[528] Well, I can handle whatever's next because I'm not paralyzed.

[529] It's almost immediate gratitude.

[530] Oh, yeah.

[531] The thing I was actually upset about the, well, one, I was like.

[532] Like, I just wrecked my Ducati.

[533] I loved this bike.

[534] Yes.

[535] And then I was really mad because I was super embarrassed because it was on the highway and there were people around.

[536] And I was like, oh, my God, I'm causing a scene.

[537] Oh, my God.

[538] The craziness that goes through our brains.

[539] I was not concerned about myself or anything.

[540] I don't know if you heard the episode where I talked about smashing my Hellcat last year, but as the airbags were coming out and I could watch them deploy, I was like, oh, this is embarrassing.

[541] Like, I want to die.

[542] I'm so embarrassed.

[543] I did hear that one.

[544] I also heard one of you wrecking a bike and you were like, I got to get up and go so nobody sees this.

[545] Yeah, there was a paparazzi dude pulled over right as I was picking the bike up.

[546] I was like, oh, fuck.

[547] I'm glad I didn't have to deal with that.

[548] I started listening to this podcast as I was kind of recovering from all that.

[549] And the conversations you guys have and talking about vulnerabilities and everything, it was really nice and very cathartic.

[550] Thank you, man. Thank you.

[551] We're happy you're alive.

[552] You've had a couple.

[553] A couple scrapes.

[554] She or misses.

[555] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[556] But it was really good to talk to you.

[557] Well, next time you ride up to sliding rock or looking glass falls, I want you to think of me. I will.

[558] If you're ever in the area, hit me up, go for a ride.

[559] Absolutely.

[560] By the way, side note, let's not keep the fucking CO2 containers above.

[561] Yep.

[562] Change that in every restaurant they own.

[563] They were like, that is a bad idea.

[564] Bad locale, yeah.

[565] All right, well, be well, brother.

[566] Very nice meeting you.

[567] I appreciate the story.

[568] Have a good one, guys.

[569] Take care.

[570] Hi.

[571] Hi.

[572] How do I say your name?

[573] Farrah.

[574] Farah, like a Michigan era.

[575] Or Boston.

[576] My mom's from four massels.

[577] Sure.

[578] Where are you at currently?

[579] I'm in New Jersey, about 45 minutes out of Manhattan.

[580] We moved to the burbs right before COVID.

[581] Okay, so you were in the service industry.

[582] Yeah.

[583] So I can set the scene a bit.

[584] So this was in, I want to say 2007 or 2008, a sort of different.

[585] lifetime ago for me. I was probably like 23.

[586] Well, that's what's interesting.

[587] 2007 and eight sounds kind of recent, but that's 15 or 16 years away.

[588] My life is very, very different now.

[589] So I was like new to the city.

[590] So I was working at the Steakhouse called Delfisco's.

[591] I know it.

[592] You know it?

[593] Yeah, we have one in Atlanta.

[594] Yeah.

[595] It's where people take their clients, people go there with their corporate cards, the whole nine, like the crab cakes.

[596] and the shrimp and the bone and steaks and the lobster tails.

[597] It's a fancy steak night out.

[598] Yeah, I want to go.

[599] It's good.

[600] It is good.

[601] They season those puppies well.

[602] So I'm waiting tables at this restaurant, and it's huge.

[603] It's like a three -story restaurant.

[604] They probably do about a thousand covers a night.

[605] Wow.

[606] Like 40 to 45 servers on at any time.

[607] Whoa.

[608] It was during their busy season in wintertime.

[609] I was stationed that night in a relatively undesirable section of the restaurant.

[610] So there's like the C &BC areas.

[611] Yeah, yeah.

[612] And then there's the parts that are in the back room with its own door.

[613] And they put the couples that are on dates there or the smaller tables or the families who aren't coming to spend a lot of money.

[614] Yeah, and press their clients.

[615] Yeah, basically.

[616] So it's been a fine night, nothing to write home about.

[617] And I'm getting ready to wrap up.

[618] I kind of want to go home.

[619] And I get seated with a five top of dudes.

[620] And I'm a little annoyed because I thought I was going to be closing shop.

[621] They're clearly drunk.

[622] They've been having a time.

[623] But, you know, no problem.

[624] Fine.

[625] What time of evening is this?

[626] Probably around 9 .30.

[627] Okay.

[628] We're past the dinner rush.

[629] So these guys sit down.

[630] They're rowdy.

[631] I can tell they're celebrating something.

[632] So they're having a big night.

[633] They end up being okay.

[634] I ate kind of jerky, but par for the course.

[635] They have a huge meal.

[636] They ride every ride.

[637] They have the apps, the bonins, the lobster.

[638] They have lots of drinks, bottles of wine, dessert.

[639] They go for it, which is great because for me, I'm walking away with a big tip.

[640] Yeah, yeah.

[641] They're starting to close up.

[642] They're ready to sign their check.

[643] And across the way from them, a couple that's on a date gets served, a porterhouse steak for two.

[644] This is a 48 -ounce porterhouse.

[645] steak.

[646] Okay.

[647] Big boy.

[648] Big T -bone.

[649] This is like the size of like a math textbook.

[650] What a great analogy.

[651] The guys see this and they are stoked.

[652] And then they start yelling and talking about who could eat that.

[653] Oh, I bet you could eat it.

[654] No, I'd pay you to eat it.

[655] So they decided they're going to have an eating contest.

[656] Oh.

[657] After they've already concluded dinner.

[658] They've concluded.

[659] They have signed their check.

[660] Now they want to have an eating contest.

[661] Oh, us boys.

[662] What are we doing?

[663] So they say to me, we want to get one of those, and this guy pointing to one of them is going to eat it.

[664] So I run down, ask the manager, these guys want to have an eating contest, you know, what do you think?

[665] All right, it's fine.

[666] You're in the back area of the restaurant, no problem.

[667] We're almost done for the night.

[668] They cook up this huge steak.

[669] Really quick.

[670] Do you remember the price tag on this porterhouse?

[671] It was probably 140, 150.

[672] Yeah, okay.

[673] That's what I was thinking.

[674] So they put this steak in front of this guy out, and they're going to pay him $1 ,000.

[675] $1 ,000 if he can do it.

[676] Oh, wow.

[677] Okay.

[678] So they're, like, throwing money around.

[679] They set the timer, and this guy finishes the steak in eight minutes.

[680] Oh.

[681] No. So he did it.

[682] He took that thing down like a champ.

[683] Wow.

[684] So now I think the evening is ending.

[685] I go to take the plate away, and, you know, I'm being cute.

[686] Like, it's time to go now.

[687] Yeah.

[688] I touch one of them on the shoulder as I'm taking this plate away, and I say, I need anything for $1 ,000.

[689] Uh -oh.

[690] And I walk out.

[691] I'm very scared.

[692] I'm very scared.

[693] No, it's okay.

[694] It's okay.

[695] I come back and they said, were you serious?

[696] And I sort of looked at them and I got nervous.

[697] And they said, well, we'll give you double the time and double the money if you can do the same thing.

[698] Wow.

[699] $2 ,000, $16 minutes.

[700] I'm 23 years old.

[701] I'm poor.

[702] This is rent from.

[703] month or more likely, like, I'll blow it on something stupid, but, like, this is enormous.

[704] Yeah.

[705] Windfall.

[706] Huge.

[707] 16 minutes.

[708] Not that long.

[709] Pretty long.

[710] For that much.

[711] Okay.

[712] Dunting task, but this is the lot.

[713] I got to do this.

[714] Yeah.

[715] You got to go back to your manager, though?

[716] So I run down the stairs.

[717] He's the manager.

[718] This guy's name is Barney.

[719] He's from Texas.

[720] And I say to him, Barney, Barney, they're going to pay me $2 ,000 if I can meet this day.

[721] And he looked at me and he says, well, Farah, are you hungry?

[722] Yeah, I think I am.

[723] So now the word is starting to spread around the restaurant.

[724] Remember, this is a restaurant of 40 servers.

[725] Lots of things happening on three different floors of this restaurant.

[726] Everyone parties, everyone's young, it's New York.

[727] Yes, everyone's just starting their night after this.

[728] For sure.

[729] The boys in the kitchen are like looking for the leanest 40s.

[730] ounce cut that they can find, like the one with a heavier bone.

[731] And they cook this up.

[732] And now the wait staff is starting to gather in this area.

[733] Like Kobayashi eating hot dogs.

[734] Yeah, exactly.

[735] If there was anyone in the restaurant who was looking for service at that moment, like no one was getting their tea.

[736] So I sit down, everyone's gathering around.

[737] The guys start to lay out the rules, which are that they have to cut the steak off the bone so that they, control everything that I have to eat.

[738] Okay.

[739] Eating like the grizzle.

[740] Right.

[741] Like they are going to carve that baby.

[742] They're carving it off the bone.

[743] The rules are that I have to eat the whole thing by the stopper at 16 minutes.

[744] And that if I win, they will give me $2 ,000 plus the tip that they'd already given me on the meal, which was a $300 tip already.

[745] Right.

[746] Right.

[747] Or if I lose, I lose everything.

[748] No. Oh, my gosh.

[749] That is so fucked up.

[750] This is like squid games all of a sudden.

[751] I like it.

[752] I'm glad they did this.

[753] You got to have some skin in the game.

[754] But you have to fucking pay.

[755] So we've got to raise the stakes a little bit.

[756] Yes, yes, yes.

[757] I'm jazz and everybody's cheer.

[758] And I was probably like 125 pounds at the time.

[759] I'm a small -ish person.

[760] So I'm nervous.

[761] I'm excited.

[762] I've got a cheering squad.

[763] I sit down, they start the timer, and I'm going for it.

[764] I've got the fork and knife, and I'm just, like, moving as quickly as I possibly can to make a mistake.

[765] Can I pause you for half a second to ask, did you have a strategy?

[766] Because I would imagine, for me, I would go, like, I should eat all the fat and shit.

[767] I'm not going to want to eat up front so that by the time I'm feeling sick, I don't have to go in on that.

[768] I know.

[769] I don't remember thinking about that, but I remember the servers around me were talking about, so a porterhouse is the filet and the ribi.

[770] Yeah.

[771] And so the rib -eye is tougher and the flay is easier.

[772] So we were thinking, like, maybe you start with the rib -eye and get that down and then the fillet.

[773] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[774] That's not a terrible strategy.

[775] Oh, my God.

[776] I don't know.

[777] It was like just cut and chew as fast as possible.

[778] So I'm cutting and chewing and I'm suddenly like somebody's rubbing my shoulders.

[779] It's like a boxing match is happening as this is going on.

[780] And it's going well for a while.

[781] And then as I get to like five minutes to go, I'm slowing down.

[782] And, like, there's still plenty on the plate.

[783] Oh, no. Oh, no. I've dropped the fork and knife at this point.

[784] I'm, like, ripping steak.

[785] I'm, like, shoving it in my mouth.

[786] Of course.

[787] And then they're counting down.

[788] It's 10, 9, 8, and there's still pieces of steak on the plate.

[789] Like, I'm not done.

[790] And as they're counting down, I just scoop up everything that's left on the plate and shove it in my mouth.

[791] From now, I'm like a chipmunk.

[792] Yeah.

[793] And the countdown's zero.

[794] Everyone's screaming.

[795] It's in my mouth.

[796] Everyone's like, she's doing it.

[797] The guy's like, no, no, she didn't swallow it.

[798] It doesn't count.

[799] It's over.

[800] It's over.

[801] So I take a piece of the steak out of my mouth.

[802] I'm going, you're fucking paying me, man. And they relented.

[803] Okay.

[804] They did.

[805] And it was a big celebration.

[806] And after that, I got the nickname 48 ounce Farah from the staff.

[807] Oh, I like that nickname.

[808] Which was lovely.

[809] They laughed.

[810] I relatively quickly ran downstairs and was quite ill after.

[811] Sure.

[812] Can I ask really quickly, did they have cash or did they have to write you a check or did they have to run to the ATM?

[813] So they had paid for their meal with a card and they paid the bet money and cash.

[814] But what was interesting is that so the restaurant, like many, have a tip out policy.

[815] Right.

[816] where you give 25 % of your tip for the rest of the staff at the restaurant for the hostesses and the bartenders and the kitchen staff.

[817] And so at the end of the night, a manager, not the one who had told me that I could participate in this event, wanted me to tip out on the winnings.

[818] No. I guess that would have been 500.

[819] 2000 would be 500.

[820] On the whole thing.

[821] No. Fuck that.

[822] And what was awesome because restaurant people are awesome is that every.

[823] Everyone rallied around and said, no way.

[824] Like, that $2 ,000 is hers.

[825] No one else earned that.

[826] I might have slid the dudes who cooked the steak for you a hundred or two.

[827] They were like, no, no, no. Like, let her have that.

[828] Everybody sort of got behind it.

[829] That was like my biggest night ever.

[830] That's a very momentous event.

[831] I'm impressed.

[832] So I'm jealous I wasn't there.

[833] I'm jealous I didn't eat a steak for $2 ,000.

[834] I'm almost jealous I didn't suggest it.

[835] I mean, every part of this I would want to be involved.

[836] Yeah, I mean, except for the getting sick afterwards, it was pretty decent.

[837] But I used to throw up for free two nights a week as a drunk.

[838] Sure.

[839] Fuck it.

[840] You know, no one was paying me two grand to throw up my jack and diets.

[841] That would have been a better business model.

[842] I'm so glad you had that experience while you were young.

[843] So I have a seven -year -old and a two -year -old now.

[844] And my seven -year -old has heard this story a few times.

[845] And when I told him, I was going to be sharing it today.

[846] I said, do you remember that story?

[847] And he said, yeah, you had a lot of beef.

[848] Mom's big beef story.

[849] Mommy's big beef story.

[850] Farah, that was awesome.

[851] Yes.

[852] Yeah, I loved that.

[853] Awesome.

[854] I'm so glad I got to share it with you.

[855] You have a tattoo of an audio print.

[856] What's that?

[857] It's my kids laughing.

[858] Oh, that's a clever thing.

[859] I'm a little jealous.

[860] I never thought of this.

[861] Yeah, you're jealous a lot in this episode.

[862] I am.

[863] Yeah, I want to be...

[864] You can do it too.

[865] No, I'd be biting your style.

[866] I did emblems of cars that bear their names.

[867] So Delta and Lincoln, I have two of the emblems from cars.

[868] You're cool.

[869] You got it.

[870] You got it.

[871] Well, Farron, wonderful meeting.

[872] You thanks so much for telling us that story.

[873] And I'm just so proud of you.

[874] You lived your best life.

[875] Thank you.

[876] Bye.

[877] Take care.

[878] Well, she was so cute.

[879] She looks so much like Jackie.

[880] Yes.

[881] Her profile was very Jackie.

[882] Yeah, I was getting major Jackie vibes, too.

[883] Shout out to Jackie.

[884] Jacetone.

[885] Jackie Tone.

[886] Jacketown.

[887] Friend of the pod.

[888] Friend of the pod.

[889] Friend of the family.

[890] Friend of, friend of a friend.

[891] Friend of a friend.

[892] Friend of a friend.

[893] Friend to all.

[894] Hello.

[895] Can you hear us?

[896] Nope.

[897] It's so stressful for people.

[898] I feel so bad.

[899] Oh, yeah.

[900] When I had Zoom auditions, it was so stressful.

[901] What was the last Zoom audition you had?

[902] In COVID.

[903] You had some?

[904] Yeah, I had some.

[905] Can you remember any of the products?

[906] No. Okay.

[907] We'll circle back to that.

[908] One time I had to do one.

[909] from my parents' house.

[910] Okay.

[911] Double stressful?

[912] Yeah, because they needed to not be there and be quiet.

[913] There was a squirrel in the ceiling, so he was making noise.

[914] Could be another children's book, Squirrel on the ceiling.

[915] Yeah, what's he doing up there?

[916] Yeah.

[917] There we go.

[918] Hello?

[919] Can you hear us?

[920] Yay!

[921] What was your stress level during that?

[922] I'm predicting 11?

[923] A billion.

[924] I'm trying to, like, manage my children out there.

[925] I'm so sorry.

[926] It's so stressful for everyone signing on.

[927] I feel so bad.

[928] Where are you at?

[929] I'm in Thunder Bay, Ontario, in Canada.

[930] Thunder Bay.

[931] That sounds fancy.

[932] What a great name.

[933] Where's Thunder Bay?

[934] It's Appley name.

[935] We're right on Superior.

[936] Ooh, the largest of the Great Lakes.

[937] Home to the Edmonds Fitzgerald, right?

[938] Didn't it go down there?

[939] So you get lots of storm?

[940] We do.

[941] But gorgeous, right?

[942] Absolutely beautiful.

[943] Alana, you have a good service industry story?

[944] I do.

[945] So my crazy service industry story takes place roughly two years ago at a restaurant in which I was serving at the time.

[946] So it was a Sunday brunch shift, which in and of itself is kind of a little bit hectic.

[947] You have the after church crowd mixing together with patrons nursing a hangover.

[948] All right.

[949] There's a lot of needs.

[950] There's a lot of requests, and it just kind of makes for a bit of a chaotic day for everybody.

[951] And are the church folks ever complaining about the hangover folks?

[952] Like, are you also mitigating disputes and stuff?

[953] Absolutely.

[954] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[955] God.

[956] Yeah, because if you're fresh from church and then there's like some rowdy clowns next to you, you do tell the server as if the server somehow can control those people.

[957] But also it's like you've got to know where you're going.

[958] That's true.

[959] No, personal responsibility.

[960] You would think.

[961] So anyway, it's going as usual, filling coffee, I'm taking orders, and in walks this couple.

[962] And as soon as they walk in, you can tell they're either very hungover, maybe a little still drunk.

[963] They've got that kind of sway to them.

[964] Maybe still up from last night.

[965] Totally.

[966] I kind of point in the direction of an empty table, seat yourselves.

[967] I'm going to bring over some menus when I get a minute.

[968] I come over with some menus and right off the hop, I just notice a smell.

[969] Oh.

[970] An unidentifiable smell.

[971] I've worked in the customer service industry for a very long time.

[972] I have cleaned up piss, shit, vomit, all of the above.

[973] And I cannot pinpoint what this smell is.

[974] What mix of those things it might be?

[975] Sex, would you, any hints of sex?

[976] Sex is a good question.

[977] No. The only thing I could equate it to would be like ground beef.

[978] Like rot?

[979] Sour.

[980] Oh.

[981] Oh, okay, okay, wow.

[982] And so I'm bringing over the menus.

[983] Nope, we don't need menus.

[984] We're going to order drinks.

[985] Oh, God.

[986] We're going to drink their breakfast.

[987] Yeah.

[988] Oh, my God, your tagline.

[989] We're used to that around here.

[990] Lots of liquid breakfast.

[991] They order a round of mimosas and around a beers all at once.

[992] Go about serving other customers.

[993] About five -minute passes, and I get a little wave over.

[994] I approach their table.

[995] and he wants to order another round.

[996] And I just kind of think to myself, he's visibly intoxicated at this point.

[997] I probably shouldn't be serving him anymore, but, you know, he's not being belligerent.

[998] He's not being rude, causing a scene.

[999] And quite frankly, I just don't feel like having this conversation right now with him.

[1000] So I decided I'm going to let him have a second round and just kind of hope and pray that he gets the hint and takes off after they're done this next round.

[1001] At this time, I'm kind of looking around the restaurant and I can see other customers starting to notice this smell as well.

[1002] Whoa.

[1003] It's really hard to not smell it.

[1004] You'd have to be like nose blind for sure.

[1005] No one can kind of pinpoint where it's coming from.

[1006] I know it's coming from this man, but I don't think anybody else has quite realized that yet.

[1007] And you've decided it's the man and not the woman.

[1008] Yeah.

[1009] It's like radiating off the.

[1010] They finish their second round of drinks and they aren't leaving.

[1011] He's waving me over to order a third round.

[1012] and I've come to the realization that I'm going to have to tell this man that I can't serve him anymore.

[1013] So I'm turning over to walk over to his table and I notice a puddle underneath his chair.

[1014] Nope.

[1015] Immediately I think to myself, he's pissed himself.

[1016] Great.

[1017] Now I've got to deal with this.

[1018] Oh, my God.

[1019] So I quickly detour over to a coworker just to get a second set of eyes on the situation and a little bit of backup in case things go awry.

[1020] And she confirms my suspicion.

[1021] Yes, there is a puddle.

[1022] Yes, he seems intoxicated.

[1023] I got you if you need me. So I approach the table.

[1024] And very politely, I may add, just say, I'm sorry, sir, I can't serve you anymore.

[1025] I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

[1026] Oh, boy, here we go.

[1027] As soon as these words come out of my mouth, they start going in on me about how I'm discriminating against them.

[1028] And I don't have the right to do this.

[1029] And I need to add that they are a middle -aged white couple.

[1030] Oh, thank you.

[1031] Thank you for that clarification.

[1032] That helps.

[1033] There is no discrimination.

[1034] I am simply following the law.

[1035] Yeah.

[1036] So then I think it's wise to kind of bend down a little closer to him and tell him, like, sir, it seems that you've peed.

[1037] It's on the floor.

[1038] We can see it.

[1039] Like, we don't accept this kind of behavior in our establishment.

[1040] We encourage our patrons to urinary.

[1041] in the bathroom.

[1042] Pretty simple request.

[1043] What follows is probably the most shocked I've ever been to date.

[1044] This man looks me dead in the eye, kind of chuckles a little bit, and pulls up his pant leg to reveal an open wound on his shin.

[1045] No!

[1046] No!

[1047] From his knee down to his ankle.

[1048] Stop!

[1049] Holy fuck.

[1050] Now no one can listen to this episode.

[1051] The puddle under his chair.

[1052] is pus that has oozed out of the wind.

[1053] The smell that we couldn't identify was rotting flesh.

[1054] Oh, I think this one, this is the worst one we've ever had.

[1055] Wow, it's definitely tied with the dander that was all over that.

[1056] What the fuck?

[1057] He also laughed and showed it.

[1058] Yeah, like, I'm suffering and you're going to suffer.

[1059] Ew.

[1060] His sock and shoe and pant leg were soffing wet.

[1061] I hate this.

[1062] Oh, my, my Lord.

[1063] Oh, my God.

[1064] Holy shit.

[1065] I wonder if this guy is still a lie.

[1066] No, he's dead.

[1067] If you're listening, if you remember having had a leg injury so bad it appeared you had peed, oh, man, what a mask.

[1068] The last place he needs to be is out at a restaurant getting drunk.

[1069] He needs medical attention.

[1070] And he was a little smug about it.

[1071] Yeah, I hate him.

[1072] Totally smug.

[1073] It was such a bizarre reaction.

[1074] What did the lady do?

[1075] She was also yelling at me about discriminating against them.

[1076] So then they're going in about how I'm discriminating a medical condition.

[1077] They maybe told me what it was.

[1078] I genuinely don't remember because I was just trying so hard not to vomit.

[1079] Of course.

[1080] I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty up to date on all the different ailments people can have.

[1081] And that's not a condition.

[1082] Like, you know, genetically, my leg leaks pus.

[1083] That's not a thing.

[1084] Also, the whole restaurant needs to evacuate.

[1085] That's what I thought.

[1086] It's like a biohazard.

[1087] Yes.

[1088] Minimally, the mop and bucket has to be thrown out.

[1089] The cleanup ended up being my job.

[1090] No. Well, of course.

[1091] It's your table.

[1092] You were going to get the tip.

[1093] You got to.

[1094] So we successfully removed them, and then I was tasked with cleaning up afterwards, which was really humanizing.

[1095] The only positive to come from this was everybody felt so badly for me while they watched me clean up.

[1096] They tipped me real well.

[1097] I mean, what amount of money?

[1098] Like, you need $3 billion.

[1099] That should be our next debate.

[1100] Okay.

[1101] We'll put a pin in that.

[1102] Oh, my God.

[1103] I'm so sorry.

[1104] Rough.

[1105] I would have quit.

[1106] I would have immediately, well, then someone else would have added it.

[1107] Exactly.

[1108] Someone else you like.

[1109] No, I would have called the hospital and said, hey, this happened.

[1110] We need a biohazard specialist to come clean this.

[1111] I feel like they would have just laughed out.

[1112] Yeah, they would have to try.

[1113] They're like, we're not in the cleaning business.

[1114] We're more in the healing the people business.

[1115] We're a little busy over here.

[1116] Yeah, yeah.

[1117] They don't do a ton of custodial work.

[1118] Yeah, this was a large determining factor in me leaving the service industry for good.

[1119] Oh, my God.

[1120] How many times in your service?

[1121] life, did you have to tell people I can't serve you?

[1122] Frequently.

[1123] Really?

[1124] Once a weekend?

[1125] At least.

[1126] Wow.

[1127] I don't think people know the level of drinking we do up in the north.

[1128] The bar is pretty low.

[1129] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1130] Baseline in Aaron's neighborhood was just a nine and a half on the alcoholisms.

[1131] And then there were people exceeding that, but just like baseline.

[1132] The South has a chance at that as well.

[1133] Yeah.

[1134] In that competition.

[1135] Oh, my God.

[1136] Well, what a terrifically horrible story.

[1137] I can't thank you enough for that.

[1138] That is almost now tied with my favorite ER story.

[1139] I'm really glad you guys put out this prompt.

[1140] I've just been waiting to share.

[1141] Of course.

[1142] You're a hero.

[1143] You're a hero.

[1144] You're a front line hero.

[1145] Yeah, you're like a first responder.

[1146] That's what I tell myself.

[1147] And obviously, you never saw that person again.

[1148] No, I quit very shortly after and kind of changed career paths.

[1149] Okay.

[1150] I hope he's well.

[1151] That's all we can hope.

[1152] Well, a lot of very nice meeting.

[1153] you, thank you for telling us that repugnant story.

[1154] I really enjoyed it.

[1155] Thank you so much for having me. Oh, wow.

[1156] That was strong.

[1157] I hope no one was eating.

[1158] No, we have to tell people at the beginning.

[1159] You can't eat.

[1160] Yeah, and in fact, if you're hearing us right now, you have violated our warning.

[1161] You're in trouble.

[1162] Yeah, you can't listen anymore.

[1163] You're grounded.

[1164] You're not allowed to listen.

[1165] All right, well, that was a juicy.

[1166] Yeah, that does not make me want to race out and get back.

[1167] my job in the service industry.

[1168] No, I mean, they are heroes.

[1169] They are.

[1170] Mine were never gross like that.

[1171] They were just like people who were so entitled to drive me insane.

[1172] I wondered if we were going to get any that weren't restaurant service, but some other type, but they're just too good in this environment.

[1173] Yeah, fertile ground for misbehaving.

[1174] Yeah.

[1175] All right.

[1176] Love you.

[1177] Love you.

[1178] Do want to sing a tune or something?

[1179] We don't have a thing song.

[1180] Oh.

[1181] We don't have a thing song for this new show.

[1182] So here I go, go, go We're gonna ask some random questions And with the help of our cherries, we'll get some suggestions On the flyer rhymed dish On the flyer rhyme dish, enjoy