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Scotty. Big props and shout outs and thank yous to Scotty. Okay, Kaylee, what did you quit? I quit a job at a wildlife agency. So I live in Idaho. My freshman year of college, I applied for my dream job. which was on a snorkel crew. So it was for a summer. It was in rivers. And so we would have like these different sites that we would snorkel to and we would count fish.
So like count different kinds of trout and see if there's juveniles, adults. And then we would also check up on people fishing and see like if they were catching salmon. It's what I was going to school for, which was wildlife biology. We camped the whole summer together. It was just me and one other girl. The rest were older dudes. And so, of course, I'm 19 and have like a huge crush on one of the like leads of the crew.
each day we had split into groups of two and so of course i volunteer to go with the guy i have a crush on this is hot let's call him greg he needs a name that's kind of like a hot mess trevor Trevor, sure. Trevor's great. I volunteer to go with Trevor. So we're going down like these back roads and going way too fast. Trevor. He's wild. Unfortunately, we're listening to My Dick by Mickey Avalon. He is driving.
He leans down to grab our radio to call out and he loses control of the vehicle and it hits the gravel. He overcorrects, hits the guardrail. boy and we're probably going like 60 miles per hour and we're in a brand new yukon oh no those are gorgeous i know in a company vehicle it hits the guard rail and we roll three times oh my god everything shatters we have a ton of equipment everything's going out the windows it's wild i'm being suspended because the truck landed where i'm on the
So I'm like hanging over and I can't open the door because it's so heavy above us. He's trapped. He can't get out either. But there was a fish trap like across the road and someone was there and heard us, ran across, got us out and took us to a very, very small. hospital there if you can call it a hospital where our crew meets up with us and they're cutting my clothes off in front of my crew and i am like probably 10 years younger than everyone god this is not what i
I was going for. So luckily he was fine. I mean, maybe luckily. Yeah, I wouldn't mind if he had a broken arm or something, to be honest. So I just have like a shoulder strain, but they put me in a sling so I couldn't drive. home so I had to call my mom oh no from your first job she drives three hours comes and picks me up go home and I take 13 days off to just recover my shoulder And so they put me on like muscle relaxers. This whole time I'm home, I have horrible diarrhea.
All day, every day. And my mom's like, something is very wrong. So I went to the doctor and I got Giardia. Giardia? What's that? How'd you get that? So it's a... parasite that you get from dirty water. Necrotic flesh. No, no, no different. We just had another necrotic flesh. This isn't necrotic flesh. So sorry. She can't stop thinking about hearing the necrotic flesh story. This is very similar to necrotic flesh. I feel like it was. I was so, so sick.
They also call it, which is so gross, but they call it beaver fever. Oh, because it goes in your vagina. No, the beaver's poop, and then you eat it. Okay, I got it. So I got it from, I'm assuming, snorkeling in gross water. Yes. God. We would snorkel little tributaries and stuff, so sometimes you would get there and just be like, I can't even see in this murky ass water. It was sometimes nasty. So they put me on anti-parasitics and I'm like, cool.
I'll go back to work. Still into the guy that tried to kill me. Gotta see Trev. He's like hitting me up, making sure I'm okay. I'm like, this guy just heart of gold. So I go back on day 14. I can't go hiking. because I am literally shitting myself every five seconds. They're like, it's cool. We'll drive down the river to a different site. And this time it's my actual boss driving. And Trevor is the passenger. And I'm in the back seat.
And we have this new company vehicle since we totaled the other one. It has like suicide doors. So you have to open the front door to get the back doors open. My window is down. And then we also have my boss's. puppy in the bed in a kennel my boss and trevor had gone on like a night hike my boss was super tired and he was like hey i need someone else to drive who do you think he chose to drive t-dog me
Oh. Again? Sexism. Strikes again. After he just crashed, this is so. He's the reason you're in a pickup truck. Two weeks ago, literally, to the day. So he switches drivers and. Probably five minutes later, we are rolling. Stop it. Five minutes later, we are rolling. I am. fucking serious. Trevor! Oh my god, what a putz. He should never be allowed to drive again. We're rolling down an embankment and land in the river. Oh my god.
This is how that lady died. I know, that scarred you. I'm sorry, Kaylee. Stop! Why do you keep... I'm apologizing. These are normal things I'm saying. Because she doesn't know what you're talking about. I know you're referring to Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law. She drowned in a situation like this. So we roll down. I am so lucky because it...
lands the same exact way as the first one. I'm suspended above the water. I had to undo my seatbelt, stand in the river, and then my window was open. So I like squeezed through. I look behind me and the puppy in the kennel is floating down the river. Oh my god, now it's like a Disney movie where the puppy gets separated and goes down the river.
when he has an adventure and then he makes his way back. He makes friends with a cat. We were lucky because the rest of the crew was right behind us. And so... Someone like hopped in the river, gets the puppy. The puppy's okay, everyone. What about some people? Fuck them. I wiggle out. I'm like standing on the top of the truck and I look and I see my boss and Trevor just chilling.
fine and i just looked at my boss and i was like i fucking quit oh immediately like i was like okay you're breathing you're breathing i fucking quit like i hate you Yes. Yeah, you're trying to kill you twice. So I call my mom and I'm like, mom. Oh my gosh. My poor parents. I know. Was she like, honey, is it the diarrhea? How's the Giardia? How's your beaver fever? I got all my shit. We went back to base camp. I got in my car, drove home and never looked back.
I dropped out of the biology program. Oh, wow. This was really life changing. Yep. And then I went to nursing school. Okay. Okay. Well, we love nurses. We do. But super devastating. I was so excited. My dream job. It was so cool. And then I was like, I'm going to die if I continue. Yes. Two strikes. Did Trevor reach out after the second one? He did. And he probably for like a year, he would just be like, hey. You doing okay?
The crazy shit is that they like drug tested him and everything, obviously. He was just dumb. Yeah. But he also changed his career. He's now a plumber. So life changing for everybody. I'm glad he's not an Uber driver. All right, or a chauffeur. Oh, my God. That was a great story. Two rollovers within two weeks. I had to, like, do counseling. I couldn't go through a car wash for months because of, like, the sound of the water on the metal. Yeah, well.
if it got you mad enough to go, I fucking quit, they pushed you to the breaking point. They did. Yeah. Wow. Well, thank you so much. It's so exciting to talk to you guys. I emailed Emma back. Yes, I'm available before I even looked at my schedule. I'm at work. I got to figure this out. But Scotty came in for me. I do have to shout out Emily.
He's also another arm cherry. We talk every week about what's going on. And then my dad, Tyler, he's been clean for like 18 years. Oh, go Tyler. So we both listen to arm. chair delighted to have the whole family yeah this is incredible and the nurse team winners and emily all right well we adore you thank you thank you so much it was so great meeting you guys all right take care
Do you think you've ever had beaver pee? No. I think I would know. I mean, sometimes I do have diarrhea. Take your temperature. I don't. You know why? I don't go in ponds. Right. Or lakes or rivers. You stay very clear of ponds. Any water. Good thing I didn't get it when I almost drowned on the river on our tubing. If I got Giardia beaver fever. I would still be pained. You would. for that. Yeah. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Wellness is more than a goal. It's a lifelong journey.
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River to the Mississippi River. Tom Arnold did this several times, I believe. It's a big event, right? It is. I did the 50th anniversary, and I think it was like... 50,000 people. You just camp on people's yards and it's a big old party. I think the people from Iowa were some of the nicest. people in the entire United States. They take you into their homes, they cook you meals and every small town and every church is putting out like a bake sale. It's really neat.
You're like invigorating a dream. I think I want to put it on my list of things I want to do to do that bike ride. That sounds so fun. I would recommend it. I loved it. I'm doing it after the great loop. Okay. Tell us about a time you quit. I am talking to you from Richmond, Virginia. But I grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The summer of 1995, I had just graduated high school. My dad actually worked at the school in the business office. And this lawn care company cut the grass.
at the school grounds and he got me a job there. And I was like, oh, that'll be pretty good. They mostly did commercial lawn care. He got me a job and two of my friends. Were you riding a Dixie chopper? That's the hope. I was like, we're going to be riding big. riding mowers. The three of us are going to have a great time together and we'll spend all summer together just goofing off. And it was not bad at all. You do not get to ride the Dixie mower if you are one of...
only three people that are there for the summer. Everybody else is there full time doing the work. What we expected and what. actually happened was a pretty far cry from each other. So the three of us were split up immediately. So they had different crews. You got there at sunrise, loaded up the trucks.
One of my friends only made it two days. He was on the residential side and he got fired for jumping on somebody's trampoline and then getting hurt falling off of it. My other friend was like, this is terrible. He made it like a month, then he quit. But I gutted it out all summer.
And I was exposed to some pretty cool stuff that I hadn't seen before. Like we one time went, cut a shopping center lawn, and the guy just walked right into the grocery store and came out with steaks all down his pants that he had just stolen. He's like, I'm going to sell these later. And they opened up the water cooler and just threw them all in there.
And we're like, all right, I guess we'll just store your bloody stakes in the water cooler. Sure, sure. We just had to pile in the back of the truck. We went all over town all day long and it would rain. You just put a trash bag over you. I mean, it was not safe at all, but. We pulled up next to a car that had a failed inspection sticker and he offered to sell them a counterfeit one. Oh, my. I did not even know of like state selling and sticker selling as well. I learned a lot.
about raunchy humor and drugs. This is a seminal experience for a young man. I went to work at a race shop at 15 and I was working with all like 38 year old dudes. Yeah, and the stuff I was hearing and the jokes they were making to me, I was like. terrified half the time I was there. Yeah, a lot of masturbation jokes. Some of the people were really, really good, but the guys that ran it were just assholes. I mean, they just run you straight ragged from the time you get up.
that sundown you kind of come back and unload the truck and you never cut enough they were like hey we need to cut more you should be out there go faster stop taking so many breaks i was going to go to college and i had about a week up the summer
And it was Sunday and I met a bunch of friends on the beach and they had had a completely different summer experience than I had. Traveling, they're like, oh yeah, the next week we're just going to hang out on the beach. This is what I should be doing. Tomorrow I'm quitting. And so I took the zinc sunblock. I was like, I'm going to quit in a blaze of glory too. So I wrote on my chest, mow this.
with a huge arrow to my cross. Oh, wow. You're okay. Wow. You really caught up to them. You took on their personas. I was thinking, like, the crew's going to love this, and all the four men are going to be like, oh, man. What was amazing is how well it worked. It was... Bone white on the Modus and then bright red everywhere else. And the era was huge. And so I worked all day. I was super excited about this. I am kind of a blabber. I normally will like spill it and I kept it all day. I'm like.
wait until everybody gets a load of this. And so we get back and you have to gather around, talk about what you got done and then where you're going the next day and who's on what crew. And I was like, all right. So I ripped my shirt off. Nobody even looked at me.
And then finally, someone looked over, and I remember a guy just smoking a cigarette, looking at me like, what in the world does this guy have? It was so embarrassing because I had to basically quit with my shirt off and be like, today's my last day. The punchline was... so lost and it was so sad. Oh, no. I was really expecting more of a place of glory and I got a whimper. Yeah, when you gotta explain like, oh, did you see so... It's like, mow this because we mow lawns and then the arrow...
Because it's kind of a... Because it's like, suck my dick. But it's also, I'm quitting. And they're like, get out. No, you're fired. Actually, you're fired for that joke. Nobody even laughed. My expectation for reality...
we're really really far apart but the move this was on there for a while leaving for your first week of school with this not realizing you had communal showers oh well it's great to have a job like that because then you go like i really got to figure something out other than this Great motivator. I had a lot of manual labor jobs growing up.
instills a good work ethic. Oh, yeah. Everything is just easier the rest of your life. Yeah, I appreciate the time. Thanks for chatting. It's great meeting you. And you've really inspired me to do this Iowa trip. It was really, really hot. There was one. tornado warning, but people just come out of their house and are like, you can come stay with us. As a stranger, I stayed in someone's basement after biking 100 miles that day, smelling horrible, but they gave me a clean shower and it was...
quite an experience to show how nice the people in Iowa are. Yeah. Well, great meeting you, Jim. Thanks so much for telling us that story. Thank you guys. All right. Take care. Hello. Hello. Can you hear me okay? Beautifully. What fake name do you want? People have told me that I look like a Zoe, so I'll go with that. Oh, that's a great name. I have a niece named Zoe. Do you remember the first Zoe? I do.
Kravitz. No. I was going to say Deschanel. Oh, that's a good one. Great one. I think the first one was Zoe Bowie. David Bowie's kid. First one ever. And wouldn't you leave it to David Bowie to come up with that? Zoe Bowie. Are you allowed to tell us where you're at? Yeah, I'm actually in Ireland at the moment, but from the Pacific Northwest. So it's where the story takes place. It's the summer of 2018. I was...
17 at the time and I'm looking for a summer job. So I'm going to restaurants, shops, cafes and I end up getting a job at this little cafe and it's owned by a couple. who I'll call Linda and Derek. They're probably in their mid to late 50s and very well-meaning, but definitely things could get a little awkward because they...
worked alongside us and the relationship would kind of get in the way sometimes, which was kind of awkward for a teenager and everyone who worked there were young girls. The town that this was in, a lot of eclectic people. We had a lot of interesting customers. I think a highlight is... a man once brought a full-size dining room table into the store and then took a nap on it. Oh, and that was allowed? It was allowed.
Like, what am I going to do? Oh, wow. That's a weird kink. Yeah. Like, I love sleeping in public on a dining room table. That is really odd. Okay. After about a month of being there, I'm pretty happy because I'm realizing that I make. probably six or seven dollars an hour in tips on top of my minimum wage pay. I'm like, this is way more money than I thought I was going to be making here. But then suddenly that goes down to like one to two dollars an hour. I talk to my co-workers.
And they're like, yeah, we also noticed that suddenly we've lost all of our tip money, which didn't make sense because it was the height of summer. It was way busier than it had ever been. So we're like, you know what? Let's talk to Linda and Derek. We approached them one day. We're like, hey, like we noticed some of our tip money is missing. We don't think anyone's stealing it, but just wanted to alert you to the situation. Were the tips gathered in like a tip jar on the counter?
Or left on receipts. The cash tips, if people give us change, we put them in a tip jar and then we'd empty that into like a big tip jar. And then if people tipped on card, we would immediately take that cash. out of the cash register and put that also in the big tip jar so we had basically this massive bin of coins and either two co-workers would roll those coins into like coin rolls or linda would do it and then what would happen was linda would take those
coins to the bank and she would bring us big bills. So we get like 50 or $100 bills. So all these tips are missing. Linda is immediately very emotional. She starts crying. She's like, I'm so sorry. I don't know what's happening, but really hysterical.
Oh, not the reaction I was expecting. And Derek is like, I'm going to get to the bottom of this. I'm going to check the security footage. Someone is stealing from the store. This is unacceptable. This was on a Friday. So it was my last shift of the week. I go home like. Great, we're going to get to the bottom of this. We'll get our tips back. I get a text from one of my coworkers the next day, and she's like, Derek found the tips. They were in a chicken carcass. What?
What a great left turn. They were in a chicken carcass. Yeah. That's not good yummy stuffing. Just to warn everyone. In no logical way could I make sense of why, how did they get there? I text her back. I make sure she's not joking. She's like, no, no, no. He's like, I found them in a chicken carcass. So I'm like, I'm going down there. So I show up and Linda looks really scared to see me. She's like. kind of darting around. Derek and I go and sit outside.
And he's also being really evasive and he's commenting on like birds he's seeing and not there to have this conversation. I'm like, what happened with the tips? He's like, well, I really trust my employees. I didn't think any of you would steal them. So I wasn't even going to mess around with. looking at the security cameras. I just went straight to I'm going to go through the dumpster and I'm going to find the tips. These guys are bad at lying. Really bad.
And the dumpsters are like shared with other businesses. So I keep pressing him and he's like, Linda was making some chicken sandwiches. Oh my God, this is like an episode of Parks and Rec or something. Or Landia, really. So she's making chicken sandwiches and she accidentally puts the bills, these like $100 bills, which is probably over $1,000. Oh my God. We're thinking for all of the employees.
accidentally puts them inside of the chicken. Yeah. Who has it? Easy mistake. Puts that in the dumpster. But I am like, no, no, no. I caught you and you're a lie. Good for you. I was really into Nancy Drew as a kid. Yeah, this is your moment. Not to get hung up on this, but they're making the chicken sandwiches from a real chicken. Like, it's that good? Well, PNW, small artsy town. They had a farm.
Dang. Yeah, some good food out there. That sounds yummy. Yeah. And if you don't get a stray $100 bill in your sandwich. Honestly, would appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah, be worth it. It was getting weirder and weirder. And I was like, no, Derek.
I actually know that she made those earlier on in the week and the garbage is collected on a Friday morning. Wow, Nancy. Fucking Lance Drew. There's no way the bills would have been in the dumpster. And also, how many garbage bags did you go through and why did you look... inside of the chicken carcass. He can't explain it to me. So he just switches to, you know what this is about? You must be on your period. Oh, Derek, Derek, Derek, Derek. This is not an acceptable tactic.
God. He's trying to period shame you. He's trying to gaslight you. And then he brings Linda into it and he's like, Linda, come on over here. You're going through menopause, right? And I think what's happened is your menopause and Zoe's period has synced up and you're just really fueling each other's hormonal rage. Oh, this is disgusting.
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okay, if I was going to get my money back, I'd move on. But I did not appreciate this. So I went home and I remember talking to my parents and they were like, be respectful, write a two-week letter, give it to them on your next shift, and then find another job. So...
came in on Monday morning, gave Derek the letter. Linda's also there. She immediately starts crying. Oh, Linda. She is in menopause. She's going through something. And Derek is very angry. He's yelling that I'm ungrateful for my job.
It's just the hormones. You're never going to find another job. Oh my God. What is wrong with these people? They're going to poison the town like Ma nod Sheila. Yeah, a couple steps away. The way that he was yelling at me, I was a little scared. So I was like, you know what? i quit i took off my apron i walked out i had another job two days later and they shut down
The health department finds a big wad of money in the chicken carcass. They're going to be like, you guys can't. Which is obviously not what happened. Did you at least get that tip money that had been missing? He said that he would. give it to us. And maybe if I had stayed, I would have got it. And it was probably like a couple hundred bucks. Yeah, fuck. I kind of think the guy that was sleeping on the table inside was Derek's brother. Or Derek. In disguise.
What was going on with them? You know, you can be really mad at them as you're entitled to be, but also some people's lives are so terrible. You're like, oh, they're already paying the price for this mania. There's like no way there's any joy.
when they get home from work and he's dealing with Linda who stole all the tip money. Well, what's your take? I think she stole it because she's bawling the second she heard about it. I think she was trying to squirrel away some money to get away from Derek. Or Derek stole it and she felt so guilty.
knew he was taking the money and so she started crying. Could be. And he was gaslighting her saying, you stole it. They were in cahoots with the money. Unless she was trying to squirrel it away to make her escape. Well. Like Julia Roberts in that movie. Oh, Sleeping with the Enemy just brings that up all the time. That's a good one. I definitely think she was the one who took it based on her reaction. Now I feel bad if she was trying to leave him. Okay, well.
Don't feel bad. We do not know the details. Maybe the shutdown was she finally got out of there. And then he's like, I'm not going to run this thing by myself. I think the shutdown is like they are not able to conduct business. Yeah. Or she made her a big escape. She's got a new healthy lover. You want that to be. That's best. So we'll say that. Oh, boy. Do you go back to the town? Have you ever bumped into them? My dad still lives there. So I am.
Always a little on edge because everyone knows everyone when I go back for Christmas, but never seen them. Oh, well, Zoe, that was... Really bizarre in a great way. I was nervous. I was like, I don't know if I have a story good enough. And I saw this prompt. Like, okay, this might be my chance. Chicken carcass. That'll get you there. That'll get you here for sure. Well, it's lovely meeting you, Zoe. Thank you.
Have fun in Ireland. Are you drinking Guinness and Beamish and all the fun beers? I am. I also discovered a baby Guinness, which is like Kahlua and something else. And it's so cute. It literally is in a shot glass. Oh, cute. Well, you know, Guinness in either baileys or kalua and a little jameson is called an irish car bomb and those are outrageous they taste like a milkshake give that a try give that a couple bangs all right wonderful meeting you have fun you too okay thanks bye
Weird. What happened? I just got a text from Zoe. Oh my goodness. Which Zoe? A friend of mine named Zoe who I haven't spoken to since September 4th, 2023. Whoa. Something's collapsing. I know. There's a glitch. Oh, wonderful. We have a visitor. Oh, my gosh. It's a little piece. This is Huxley. He's almost six weeks.
Oh, Huxley looks perfect. I want to hold Huxley. Look, he's just staring up at his mom. He knows that she's got all the things he needs. All right, do you want to go with Daddy while I talk? Or take a nap. Thank you. Oh, he's got a little turtle jammies. Oh. He's in the bag of potato phase. He's so cute. Do you see he looked like a little sack of potatoes when he moved around? Rock on. I'm going to use my middle name for legal reasons just in case.
It's Roxanne. Roxanne. You've got a Roxanne vibe. That's a great name. Thanks. I like it too. Are you allowed to tell us where you're at in the country or would that be too incriminating? I'm in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, which is right in between Harrisburg and Hershey. So in between the Capitol and Chocolate Town. I went to Hershey as a kid. Very fun. Have you been there, Monica? No, I wanted to go. Yeah, all over the town, the little street lamps are Hershey Kisses. That's cute.
Did I make this up? I feel like I took a boat ride on chocolate and there was chocolate rollers that you could see. Yeah, that's chocolate world. Oh, that is a free ride that you can do in addition to Hershey park. We might've just done the. Free ride, probably. You got to go there.
You're always acting like you didn't get to do stuff and you went to Hershey World. Hershey, Pennsylvania. You got to go. That was another job I had that I have a different quit story, but not this one. Oh, you worked at Hershey? Worked at Hershey Park in games. Oh, really? Where people would throw the balls? Yeah. Oh, wow. Were you a teen? That'd be fun to meet boys. Yeah, I was a teen. I was dating a boy there who I was also dating for this other story. Oh, great. Yes. He sucks.
It was a weird engaged at 16 situation. Luckily, that didn't go through. Yeah, thank goodness. We like to hear that. The story that I have takes place at Kmart. You're hitting all my erogenous zones right now. Kmart, Hershey, yes. Blue light special. This was 2002, 2003. I was 16-ish. And to preface, I do not condone my actions of this story or my behavior at all. Undiagnosed, ADHD, heavily angsty teen.
anything's possible. I hated this job. I applied at Kmart to be a cash register lady. I wanted to be that since I was a small child. Yeah, I can relate. Yeah, it's the best. The buttons, I mean, a sensory dream. They put me on stock straightening the shelves. It was mind numbing and I hated it. So I was always trying to like call off and a normal person would just find a different job.
But I had to come up with a grand scheme to get out of this job. So one day I arrived for my four hour shift and I noticed there was a ladder in the aisle, like one of those step ladders. like staircase so i devised a plan to fall off the ladder and in my teenage brain i was gonna then sue kmart oh my god you had Big dreams. And then also sue to never have to work again.
Oh, right. You're going to retire at 16, basically. Correct. It was so awful working at Kmart. So I'm like devising this plan all day, straightening my shelf. I'm walking over. I'm like, how am I going to do it? So finally, I decide to do a test run and I look around. I don't see anybody nearby. So I walked to the top of the ladder.
And I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to fake fall. I've never done that before. So I kind of kick my leg out in front of me and I go down and I start falling and I fall on the floor in my head. I'm like, okay, this went pretty well. But then all of a sudden I hear this woman and she's like, I saw the whole thing. Don't move. I'm a nurse. Oh.
So she's like, I'm going to stay with you. Don't move your neck. I'm like, I think I'm fine. I can probably just stand up. She's like, no, no. So she gets the manager and then they call 911. Oh, my God. At this point, I'm just like, I'm going to go to jail. They have to tell my parents because I'm a minor. So my parents are involved. They bring out the stretcher. They put me in the neck brace. So now at this point, I have to play along. So I'm like, oh, you know, my neck.
So they get me to the ambulance. They take me to the hospital, which is nearby. Oh, my God. I'm embarrassing. They check me out. They didn't admit me, obviously, because I had no injuries. Yeah. Yeah. You're just fine. So they check.
send me home. And I don't know. I was asking my mom earlier if they went through their insurance or if it ended up being a workers comp claim. She said she thinks it ended up being a workers comp claim. But anyway, I. promptly quit sure well you were too hurt every time you walked by that aisle you probably shuddered
I know, the health and beauty aisle. So they never found out. What'd you get out of it? I got the rest of the day off. But were they worried about getting sued? They didn't really say anything, and I did not. go through with that part of my plan. They didn't mention it. We just parted ways. And everybody was like, you're good. You're not injured. So we're good. And you're not going to work here. So that's fine. I would imagine it covered the ambulance.
That is hilarious. I love that you threw yourself down one of the, I mean, what a preposterous plan. Yeah. Now being medicated for ADHD and understanding that brain, it makes a lot more sense. It explains a lot with my work history. Now I have my own place. that works well for me to do my own thing yeah the inattentive type so i could
Skip class to watch ER and lay on the couch all day. Gotta finish this episode. Yeah. I moved to Florida after high school randomly one night. I just drove down with a pizza. Oh. Lived there for a few months. Very impulsive. Did it hurt? I don't think it hurt. If anything, I might have bruised up my thigh. That was my plan to tell them that I was hurt and that I needed to go home.
brought myself down from the suing. I was just going to try to get the rest of the day off. Oh, those nurses, they're so sweet. They're just so on top of it. You got to make sure you don't have a spinal injury. She was so kind and I was such a dick. That's okay. She went home. She felt good. She told her husband, this poor young teen.
Broke her neck at Kmart today. They should not have them up on those ladders. That should be something for adults. Yeah, maybe that was the hill that she chose. Now she's an advocate. Well, Roxanne, delightful meeting you and your little baby. Thank you so much.
the podcast i'm also in recovery i'm eight years sober that's so funny when you said you moved to florida i was like do we have any addiction i'm smelling some addiction but that's great i didn't ask you but i felt like i saw you at sea yes for sure Congrats on eight years. Congrats. Thank you. Congrats to you, too. Thank you. I love everything that you guys do. I'm not ready to diagnose myself with ADHD, but I do wonder. I certainly enjoyed cocaine more than everyone else.
I never tried it because I knew I would love it and I was terrified I would die. Yeah, that was probably a good choice for you. Yeah, true. Well, congrats. That's great news. And now you got a little baby. So all the promises are coming true. Yes. I have a seven-year-old daughter and then Huxley. Oh, I love it. All right. Well, wonderful meeting you. Yes. Wonderful meeting you. Thank you so much. All right. Take care.
Well, that was sweet. I wanted to hold that little baby. Me too. The way she passed him on, his shape was a ball. If you lift an adult up, they straighten out. They roly-poly. Yes, he stayed snuggled. Alison Roman just had a baby. She did? Yes, and she sent me a picture, and he's so cute. I hope she doesn't cook him.
She doesn't accidentally cook them. She gets going. She'll just throw anything in her recipe. I kind of understand what you mean because they're so tasty. Yeah, they do look delicious. All right. All right, love you. Love you. Do you want to sing a tune or something with a theme song? Oh. We don't have a thing song for this new show, so here I go, go, go. We're gonna ask some random questions, and with the help of our Jerry's...
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