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It’s Giving Chaos: Thanksgiving, Lust for Luigi, Krampus, all while Mercury is in Retrograde
Jay and AJ are back, discussing the ups and downs of the holiday season, from battling Texas chill and attending multiple Thanksgiving dinners to navigating the madness of Black Friday shopping. AJ shares stories of a low-key holiday while Jay recounts the challenge of four feasts in one day. The conversation takes an unexpected turn, touching on a high-profile incident with the CEO of United Healthcare, a lookalike contest, and courtroom oddities. They also explore quirky holiday traditions, including controversial Krampus parades and Disney World's mischievous "Tally the Elf." Along the way, they reflect on communication, celebrity lookalikes, and personal wellness amidst the festive chaos. The episode wraps up with humor, nostalgia, and a touch of southern charm.
hello, hello, hello and welcome back to dose of delusion. It is me, your host, yours truly jay, and I am thousands of miles away from the beautiful, the glorious, the hat wearing beautifully smiled aj, the silver fox. How are you tell me everything?
Speaker 2:hi um hello, how are you?
Speaker 1:I'm doing pretty great. I had a really great weekend. What were you good?
Speaker 2:good, good, good weekends are always good. Um, I'm good as well. Um, I was a little under the weather actually, so I'm um a little congested and and who knows what, not. So, um, hopefully I'll be getting over that, or it's like an allergy thing or something, I'm not sure, but everything's a little like so that's not good.
Speaker 1:You know what? You're not the only person. A lot of people have been going around did it last like just about a day, day and a half yeah okay, yeah, so I've been hearing that from everyone and it's like come set some kind of hard and it leaves after a day or two tops, so hopefully you'll be feeling better. It's probably all the weather changes and pressures and heat and cold, and why not? What is the weather like for you right now?
Speaker 2:so right now it's like in the well it got, it weren't back up again. But it was like it was down to the 40s and then it went up to like the, the low 70s, like immediately, like two days later, and I'm like, can it just be hot or cold or something like. Stop going back and forth.
Speaker 1:I can't do it worse than a katie perry song exactly I.
Speaker 1:We had a cold front here where my poor little texas and that's a little about my body, but my poor texan body was not used to what we were having lows in the 20s and highs in the 30s and it was just bone chilling cold outside for about a week, week and a half or so, and it was fun, you know, wearing the boots and the peacoats and the scarves and the gloves and the mittens and the hats and all that. That was nice but ultimately just really sucked like walking anywhere, which is all I do here but ultimately just really sucked like walking anywhere, which is all I do here.
Speaker 2:Did you end up getting like your macy's or did you go to like any like black friday stuff and start shopping like I had suggested?
Speaker 1:I did absolutely no shopping whatsoever. None, not a single thing. You want to know why? Because I mean I could have gone online, absolutely, but, um, I was not leaving my apartment in that weather Like, oh my God. I'll give you an example A good friend of mine her name is Brooke.
Speaker 1:She had invited me out a couple of weeks ago and she's like, hey, let's do something. I'm leaving town for the holidays, let's hang out. I'm like, all right, cool, I'm excited. And then she's like, hey, I got tickets for this brass band And'm like that sounds like fun, cool. So then we go and she goes.
Speaker 1:The show starts at eight. Let's leave here at eight because obviously there's an opener and we don't want to be there early. Cool, no big deal. So then it's one of those nights where it's like 25 degrees. So I am all bundled up I'm talking like a layer of long johns or whatever under my jeans, the boots, the whole thing. We get there about 8, 30, we walk in, we get one little beverage. It's nine o'clock and she looks at me. She's like, oh, hey, by the way, I need to be home by 10 because I have an early flight tomorrow and I was like if we were only going to be out for one hour, I would not have left my apartment. So no, to answer your question, I did no shopping whatsoever yeah, but you do everything online well, I know the problem with online shopping is I don't know when to stop.
Speaker 1:There's it's all fake money, all fake money. And I'm not holding bags, I'm not thinking I've spent way too much, it's just all fake money. And then my statement comes in. I'm like look what you've done yeah, that's fair. No, I do get that pretty terrible, um, but what's warming back up again? We had a nice warm day of 60 degrees yesterday and today and we had a beautiful weekend with great weather, and I have so much to tell you about. But I want to know what did you do for black friday?
Speaker 2:um, I didn't do anything for that. I didn't do any shopping either. Um, after Thanksgiving, which I spent it with a friend from San Francisco, joseph. He was in town so I hung out with him, and then Saturday I went to spend the day with my mom. And then what did I do after that? And then, just kind of like it was a low-key weekend, and then a couple of holiday parties has already happened, so did that as well. There was, I mean, there's just like you know, the little friends well, not friends, but like you know, like little, and then work Christmas stuff, I guess is going on.
Speaker 1:You know, I had full intentions and plans of staying home for Thanksgiving and not doing anything, but I ran into a couple of people the day before and they insisted I hang out with them. I'm like, oh, those are just like empty invites, we'll know. The next day, on Thanksgiving, they came through. I ran into a girl, a girlfriend of mine, here in my building at the gym on thanksgiving day and she messaged me she's like you have to come eat. My family the lebanese and me is really putting out right now. I'm like, all right, fine, I'll go. And I ended up having four different thanksgivings on thanksgiving day. It was so much fun, it was so neat. I met so many great people, was welcomed in by so many families, ended up being an exhausting day, but so worth it. I don't think I made it home till like after midnight and we weren't partying. I'm sorry. How many plates.
Speaker 1:Okay, I did way better this year than last year. Okay, no, no, no, no, all right, and I will tell you why. I'll tell you exactly why. So the very first thing I did is I went on a long, two-hour walk to my. I didn't realize it was in two hours, it's not usual, don't get used to it, but I went on a two-hour walk to a colleague's place to pick up a plate to go, which I was a little I don't want to say I don't know whether to be grateful or offended because I got the invite to pick up a plate to go, but not the invite to come enjoy Thanksgiving with me and my family, which I guess they're the family, right. But it was like, hey, if you're not doing anything, come pick up a plate.
Speaker 2:And I was like, well, I'll take what I can get yeah, but also I thought you said that you were putting feelers out for plates.
Speaker 1:So absolutely so. That's why I complain, right, well, I, I pick up the first plate. So I'm like, all right, cool, so I have this plate of food, all right, cool. And I also planned I think I may have told you last time we talked on here is that my plan was to go to a bar and hang out for a little bit. Right, so I didn't want to be super bloated in a bar because I was like, well, if I'm at a bar that serves bites, I want to get bites at the bar as well. So I had like one or two bites off that plate of food, literally. That was it. Then I got insisted on I mean they insisted on taking me to the first place. I went. So I got a small plate. Literally ate like two bites of food, that's it Cool. It literally was like the small little cake plates. Third place they served me a whole plate of food. Lose, like the small little cake plates. Third place, they served me a whole plate of food. I picked at it. I talked, had a couple glasses of wine, walked around, somebody picked up the plates behind me. I didn't want to go back and get another plate, all right, so that was it. The fourth place also, I only had a couple of bites of food.
Speaker 1:Lebanese family. That's big, long, probably 15 foot kitchen island. One half was the american food, the other side was all lebanese food. So I got little bites of all the lebanese food and that was it. So all combined. On thanksgiving day I probably had one plate of food and it felt so great. Now don't ask about the next day, though, all the leftovers. They were supposed to last me days last day, oh no um but it was.
Speaker 1:It was great. I did not overeat this time growth or lack thereof right, except well sideways right exactly, but I'm so jealous you get to hang out with with our friend jt yeah I miss him, like crazy I was. I had such beautiful envy watching us seeing all the photos and posts you guys were putting out. It was so nice.
Speaker 2:Well, he was the one that was doing all the posts. I don't think he actually took a photo with me, so I don't know what that says, but it is what it is.
Speaker 1:I think we should ask him right now.
Speaker 2:No, I'm talking about. Anywho. There was another little exciting thing. I don't know if you saw anything regarding Mr Luigi. I don't know if you saw anything regarding Mr Luigi Maggiano or Parmigiana, I don't know what's his name.
Speaker 1:Put some respect on his name.
Speaker 2:All I know is that he's cute and probably innocent. Some respect on his name, the alleged assassin Luigi Maggiano. I love that you had to look at notes Alleged After you were telling me I did have to.
Speaker 1:Someone wish I was a pronouncer correctly. It's so funny because you can see. You know how when you type something and like if you've already looked at it, it's like highlighted in purple already and all the Luigi prompts are all in purple. I've Googled Luigi Twitter, luigi School, luigiigi monologue or luigi manjio, luigi surgery luigi back pain.
Speaker 2:Luigi manifesto. I've looked at it all. I'm obsessed. Okay, so okay go.
Speaker 1:No, no, do you tell me?
Speaker 2:tell me please no, no, no, I just like he's okay, so it all started on right.
Speaker 1:Fourth and first of all, when I saw this thing happen and I was like oh crap, ceo of whatever it was, I think I was work I was on the treadmill watching tiktoks, as I do.
Speaker 2:When now we know you're lying, you were not on the treadmill absolutely.
Speaker 1:I was just kidding. How dare you, um, watching tiktoks, as I normally do, because, because I don't, I wasn't running, but whatever. And this came on and I believe it was Hoda from Hoda and Friends in the Morning right, just breaking news, and I was like okay, cool, whatever. When was this actually like posted? What was that days? I was like what the fuck? And I was like crazy. Then, when I saw how the shooting happened, I was like honey, that's b613 and for those of you who are my olivia pope fans, you know what I'm talking about like that was an assassin, that was a hitman and I thought nothing else of it. Fast forward three hours right next thing. You know this is popping up on every social media platform, every other article, and then they release just that little clip right here, which, by the way, new york city never, ever lets me down. I love the um. What did they call him? Ceo killer look-alike contest that they had. I love it. Yeah, you didn't hear about that.
Speaker 1:I didn't see that oh, my god, aj, okay. So obviously we saw the green jacket with the hood and then the mouth scarf or the face scarf, whatever, and just a beautiful, beautiful alert of the eyes. Bridge of the nose is perfect. I love the eyebrows on point. Anyways, obsessed with him. Well, of course the gays in New York city were like uh, I forgot what they called it, but they're like CEO killer, lookalike contest central park. So everyone did it. Now I'm jumping around a little bit.
Speaker 1:Just last night I was out at the Trader Joe's a little TJ moment, right, and I'm in Trader Joe's buying some snacks and I look and there's somebody dressed. I was like he knows what he's doing, I know what he's doing and like we make eye contact. I just chuckle, but I'm like it is like people are now dressing like like him the green jacket, the pockets, the whole, the, the hooding, the hood and everything anyways. So then I see this all over all the social media and I'm like this guy's fucking hot. I'm like they're never gonna catch him, like they're not gonna catch him.
Speaker 1:I was gonna turn him in the person who died, obviously the ceo of united health care, like he's not gonna fucking whatever. And um, let's just say I was. I was gonna try to say lots of prayers but I can't say the same with a straight face. I don't want to sit here and just like talk ill of the dead. But um, I was so devastated when they caught this killer or or alleged killer, but I mean they're doing their work and for disclaimer and legal purposes obviously, like I can't even say the straight face, but I I thought for sure this was going to go like unsolved.
Speaker 2:I thought I really thought it was like a professional, the right, and was going to be like not found. They're already like fled the country, whatever it was going to be. And then when the initial photo started coming out of him, um, I think, with like the hostile photo of him smiling, I was just like that's just a guy in a green jacket, like that. I think this like he has a unibrow in that photo and then in the other one with the mask on, no unibrow. So I'm like, so which is it? You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:I know, and I was like listening to all the TikTok and conspiracy theorists and whatnot and I was like they're right, that's not the same guy. There's no way it's the same guy. And even this guy was arrested and he did his perp walk and he was arraigned really, really fast. I was like there's no way it's the same guy. And then to hear what he said at the end, so after, you know, they lay out all their evidence I don't know the legal terms, but you know, now, now he has his moment to speak as the person who's been arrested and being charged, and they were like hey, hey, you know, we listen, judge, we found this guy with a weapon, a suppressor, which is the silencer, the manifesto, $8,000 in American currency, $2,000 in foreign currency and a Faraday bag, and that was all presented in court. When he had his chance to speak he said, oh hey, I have two things to contest. The money wasn't mine, it was probably planted and that bag was actually waterproof. And I'm like, okay, it's him.
Speaker 2:Right, I mean. But so tell me about this manifesto and things. What did you read on them?
Speaker 1:So I am educated by TikTok conspiracy theorists and I did watch hours of videos today about people and attorneys and experienced attorneys and whatnot saying that there's no way he wrote that manifesto, that people who carry out these types of crime, these vigilante crimes, they're not sorry about it, they're going to do it again and they don't use big words to make themselves sound smarter. In fact, people who are incredibly educated, well-off and come from those kind of elevated socioeconomic backgrounds and educated backgrounds, they speak in normal layman's terms, which brings me back to Mark Cuban. You know who Mark Cuban is. Okay, so Mark Cuban of Shark Tank and owner of the Dallas Mavericks was talking about how he cannot stand when corporate tries to use corporate large words to sound smarter or better. He goes. It's so stupid he goes. People who are educated shouldn't do that. Why call it a cohort when you can just say a group of people? Don't say cohort or people. Right, and yes, there are some splitting here the definition between cohort and group, but ultimately most people use cohort and group interchangeably. When you can just say group, why say cohort? That's Mark Cuban's whole argument.
Speaker 1:So Mark Cuban, somebody of wealth and education and whatnot is saying you don't use big words to make yourself sound smarter. You just are smart. You just are are intelligent. And the manifesto was using words like that that maybe someone shouldn't have written and they compared it to his other works he did in high school, in college, and it didn't match any other type of phrasing and the fact that he apologized for it and most people in history who have done these things, types of things, don't apologize for it. So somebody, whether he's guilty or not guilty, whether he admits to it or does not admit to it, he did not write this manifesto Interesting. So I guess my eyes will be glued to TikTok, just like they were during the Karen retrial in Boston, massachusetts.
Speaker 2:And what about his whole YouTube channel, or something? I saw something about that.
Speaker 1:I hate that. You asked me that because I did not believe the YouTube video was real at first, so I didn't even bother clicking the link, and that was about 10 am this morning. I thought it was clickbait, just like everyone was clickbaiting. No, then it went down. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:And then it went away. Youtube shut it down.
Speaker 1:Oh see, okay, see, I'm. I'm behind the curve on that because, as of last night, there was a lot of clickbait for, like his nudes and his only fans and whatnot.
Speaker 2:Right people just acting like so wait, so is it there. Do we have it? Do we did we see it?
Speaker 1:no, oh no, that was all clickbait. And so when I saw the YouTube video, I'm like oh, this is just clickbait again. Right, that's all it is. So I didn't even bother clicking on it. I ignored it Fast forward. When I was leaving work today, I saw that apparently the YouTube channel is correct and I haven't got around to looking at it yet. That's on my agenda for tonight.
Speaker 2:Well, correct, and I haven't got around to looking at it yet. Um, that's on my agenda for tonight. Well, if it is still up, it was just, I think, one little, I think it was a video that says like more to come and things are getting posted like scheduled is what he was saying. So I don't know if YouTube has that option, um, but yeah, they're, they're scheduled to post, and he was already like, if you're watching this, I was arrested, type of thing so, yeah, so I'm so, I'm so bummed about it, but I did see this something.
Speaker 1:I saw something, aj, about this guy and I wish I could. I actually I did save the video to play it and now I can't find it, um, but it was kind of long either way. This guy was saying there's no positive outcome for the government or law enforcement with what happens. They're like, if we don't catch this guy which we probably won't, obviously we did, but at this time he was like we're not going to catch him. But even if we were to catch him and it were to end up in some sort of high-speed chase and he were to get killed, now he's become a martyr for a cause. Right, right, cool, let's say they do, chase him down, they catch him, he's not killed, he goes to trial.
Speaker 1:It is going to be a public trial. It's going to have a lot of attention. Now we have given him a platform to inspire others to do the same and learn from his mistakes, and only expose the CEOs other CEOs who are doing the same thing. Not only that, we are shining a very negative light on the NYPD, because how many countless murders have gone unsolved because they weren't billionaires? So there is no positive outcome for the side of justice when it comes to this Luigi Maggiano case, with the exception of a prosecution and a conviction.
Speaker 2:But it wasn't even the PD, wasn't it the FBI that ended up finding him, or something?
Speaker 1:Either way, resources report into it because it was a billionaire. Right right right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I am ashamed at how invested I am in this, but I think we all know why I am. Well, he's been looking.
Speaker 2:He's gorgeous, he's very, very handsome. Absolutely gorgeous he has a very charming smile.
Speaker 1:I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 2:And those abs. I think I feel something.
Speaker 1:I mean those abs. There's a connection there. I can't stop looking at his photos. Let's stop looking at them, anyways. So yeah, that's been consuming me for the past few days.
Speaker 2:Well, that's been consuming me for the past few days. Well, that's good. I mean not that that's good, but I mean it was just. It was. I mean it's for the past. Yeah, like five days. I've just been kind of like fully abreast of the whole situation.
Speaker 1:So I think we should probably do a lot of mini sessions when new information comes out. Sure, we have to, because I did the same thing. I was obsessed with the Karen Reid trial over in Massachusetts with the cop killer that she was acquitted and I was obsessed with that story and I do not Wait. Who Karen Reid? That was a very small niche, not near as public as this one, but a big, huge conspiracy theory, cover-up, patsy for murder situation and then she was acquitted. It was if anyone who knows knows. If you don't know, you don't have enough time to go back and re-watch everything. But I was also obsessed and watching it and I, I'm sick. I'm sick in the head, I don't have to tell you but like he came from like a wall-to-do family, didn't he?
Speaker 1:he did. So he grew up like his, even back to his. Like his great-grandfather had purchased, his great-grandfather and grandmother had like purchased a uh land and then they turned it into a country club and then, like his grandparents, turned the country club into a golf resort and then his parents that they own some private schools and some nursing homes and some galleries, and so they come from. His cousin is a board member of some big, important organization. He comes from a very wealthy, educated, prominent, well-known family, not just in that area but all the areas around where he grew up. But about six months ago he pulled away and so what do you know about his back surgery, or what?
Speaker 2:that's what I?
Speaker 1:was getting to. So I don't know what caused the injury, but he did have a back surgery and it he, I guess, didn't heal properly. His spine was still misaligned. He's had a lot of residual back pain. It's considered unsuccessful. I think he wasn't doing pain management, for whatever the reasons were, and he was in constant, constant pain and I guess when it got really bad he kind of pulled away from everybody. And that can happen when you're in chronic pain. That way it can really fuck with your psyche and everything. He pulled away and kind of fell off the face of the earth about six months ago. He pulled away and kind of fell off the face of the earth about six months ago. So they're speculating that's what these last six months, that assuming if it is him and he is the actual killer, that these last six months is where this whole plan was, you know, developed and whatnot.
Speaker 2:Interesting Very. Yeah, we'll have to keep an eye on this one and see where some of the most recent titles that I'm seeing in some of the news headlines are. That he apparently was raging in the courtroom is one of the more recent ones that I'm reading right now.
Speaker 1:How dare they say that? Oh no stop. How dare they say that? Oh, no stop.
Speaker 2:If he goes, I go with him he's Italian, so of course he's gonna be like spicy, you know did you see the Ryan Murphy thing?
Speaker 1:yes or someone's like. He's drooling out of mouth right now, waiting to write this up.
Speaker 2:Oh my god yeah, did you see that? They're saying what's his that actor? He looks just like him darren chris no, no, no um the brother of franco brother oh, james or david dave dave, the one with the d. Yeah, dave dave, franco oh, yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:Let me like it's been a while since I've seen him. Yeah, he looks just like him. Isn't Dave Franco also have some sort of you know polyamorous fluid background? Yeah, or was that the older brother I?
Speaker 1:think that's james james, oh shit, smash. Yeah, dave is gorgeous. Yeah, dave has to play him in the biopic that's going to be set forth by ryan murphy, where he's obviously going to have a very italian background. He is just as the tiktok creator said, is going to have some very heavily implied lgbt awakening, as well as a little bit of, you know, incest laying in the wake there. So we'll see what's gonna happen. Uh, I think just said gaga is gonna play his mother. Obviously, why, why am I like this? Why am I like this?
Speaker 2:that's funny. No, but of course like, and you know we love ryan murphy, so hopefully he'll get his ass together almost almost never misses.
Speaker 1:That's funny. I've said it once. There's only one thing I don't like from everything else um aside from that, um, um national news.
Speaker 2:What else do you have up your sleeve?
Speaker 1:You know I had a fantastic week, weekend, week, whatever, it was a great time. I went to a great event. On Friday I went to a couple of holiday parties.
Speaker 2:Oh, you went some too Cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I went on a couple of holiday parties on. Oh, you went some too cool. Yeah, I went to. I went on a. We had like a celebration of life. I have a friend of mine that I've made here. We've become pretty close pretty fast.
Speaker 1:She recently had a very serious health condition that she had to undergo a lot of procedures for and it is now is now in the clear, and so this was spanning over about four months or so of her dealing with this and now that she's in the clear, she had a little like celebration of gratefulness for life event that I think we hijacked and turned into a christmas party, but it was. It was still a beautiful event and she invited, uh, the few families she has local, all of her friends here in the area, and it was a great turnout and I spent all my days, uh, all my entire day, helping her set up, because homegirl did absolutely nothing. But uh, it was great that the next day I went to a, a party of a stranger that I had met at a bar a few weeks prior, uh, a friend of a friend of a friend, and we exchanged numbers for some other reason, and then she immediately sends me a Eventbrite party link, so I click on it and I RSVP'd and I, you know, drunkenly wrote back who's party that I just RSVP'd to and she's like me, mattany. And I was like, oh cool. Well, it hit my Outlook calendar and you know Outlook runs my life. So as I'm getting constant notifications, friday and Saturday, reminding me, I'm like you know what I'm not doing anything else, I might as well just go meet more people, and I did. And when I tell you, I had so much fun and ended up at two more parties after that, it was a blast After going by myself and just meeting so many people and running into other people that I'd already met before in the city. So it was a really, really great time.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you a question, aj. I know that once upon a time you worked in the service industry, right?
Speaker 2:no okay, next um, I mean, does retail count as a service?
Speaker 1:sure we'll take retail. I'm cool, um, but I'm trying to get into tipping and get into what into tipping, like tipping culture, like what your thoughts on that are.
Speaker 1:And I know because I did work service industry back in my days, the heydays. I'm obviously a heavy tipper. But something really ticked me off the other day is I had a colleague of mine who lives out of state and she hits me up. She's like hey, I'm going to be in town this weekend, are you? I was like yeah, I am. She's like let's meet for drinks. I'm like all right, cool, and we have been together for work-related events in a few different states over the last year or so, so I'm like sure she's in my hometown. She's a real sweet gal. Let me go hang out with her. And we meet at my favorite local bar here called Salazar Bar and where I'm a regular at. They treat me like a king there. And I tell her hey, let's go to Salazar Bar. I'm a regular there. They treat me like gold. Drinks are great, they have great bites, you're going to love it. She's like cool, I'm bringing a friend. So we all meet there. And of course when I walk in they roll up the red carpet for me. They make me feel amazing. They're awesome, it's, I love it and like and the reason why I'm making these points is to let you know that there's like there's no way that she did not know that I was a regular at this part who clocked in a couple hours after we got there, beeline to my table and gives me a big hug and says welcome back, cool.
Speaker 1:Anyways, we rack up a tab that's not very big because we got lots of free shots off of them and between the three of us the tab was $2.50. So about $89 a person and we all split it. And person number three left early but gave money to person my friend. We split the tab three ways. I pay. I leave about a 30, 40% tip. One because I just tip heavy. Two, it's the holidays and also they cater to us. It's a bar, it was whatever.
Speaker 1:Well, a few minutes later, bartender comes back and has a few words with my friend and I couldn't hear what they were saying, but I could tell it was confrontational. And so he leaves and I was like hey, what was that about? And she was like nothing, it is my choice. I'm like what are you talking about? And then she was like oh no, he was just mad about the tip. So I look over at her ticket and she left a $0 tip and I was like, oh, and I was like, okay, but you left oh. I was like oh, and I was like okay, but you left oh.
Speaker 1:I was like oh, was he confused? Because you left a $0 tip on this tab but you tipped on the other tab and she's like no, I left a $0 tip there too. And I was like, why? And she's like, because the taxes are 10%, that's charging way too much in taxes. And what she had done is she had circled the tax amount and then left a zero on the tip. And he had come to her, approached her and said hey, I saw you circled the tax amount. I want you to know that that that doesn't go to us at all and I think it's a little tax. Yeah, he goes. I think it's strange that you left a zero dollar tip on a table that I catered to, but ultimately it's your decision.
Speaker 2:Then he walked away and that's when she was like it is my decision I was humiliated, I was mortified.
Speaker 1:I I mean, I felt, I. I mean it was like in a movie where, like you, tell her well, nothing I. I didn't I because I wanted to be like what the fuck? But she's also like a colleague. You know what I mean. I I do do Because we have a working relationship that is separate from a friendship Right, she's, in terms, almost a client of mine.
Speaker 2:I would have said something along the lines of oh, were you unhappy with the service?
Speaker 1:That would have been great.
Speaker 2:I tip this much, it would be nice. I mean, they do know me here. I mean, that's not cool. If you do, that is how I would. I would have been like how fucking dare you you?
Speaker 1:know I I am. I wish I would have had that way. I was just one floored and Florida actually sounds as a positive annotation to it. I was shocked and I was just humiliated. I could see in the peripheral the other bartenders and manager talking. I know they're talking about a table right. I was just like this is.
Speaker 2:I was so embarrassed that my stomach was turned, did he go tip some more I did so.
Speaker 1:I was supposed to go out with them to another bar and I was like you know what, guys? I'm tired, I don't want to go, you guys have a good time. They got under uber. I was walk home. As soon as that car left, I walked right back upstairs and I called all the bartenders, rounded them up. The manager came over and I was like, and I did say this. I said I'm humiliated, I'm so sorry, and I looked at the bartender. I was like one. I think it's a little unprofessional of you to question anyone's tip tip. I said but two, I understand, and I am so sorry. And then I made him charge me for one drink and then I left a pretty fat tip.
Speaker 2:Um I, he could, he's, that's his money, like I wouldn't have questioned anything, but he could. He has every right to go up to a customer and be like hey, was the service bad? Did I do something? Are you confused? Because you circled the tax and I'm letting you know that's not a gratuity.
Speaker 1:I think he has every personal right, but I know that it's in a lot of policies where you're not allowed to do that. I've seen people that I've worked with get terminated on the spot for doing that because you're not entitled to a tip, um. But I definitely understood where he was coming from, you know, and I was more humiliated, thinking like you know, I'm a regular here, why would you do that to me? But, um, yeah, so that really threw a small curveball in my weekend plans and I, um, I need to hurry up and go and show face there again, but I have not been back since. Um, but I need to hurry and get back there before I let that. You need to. I up and go and show face there again, but I have not been back since. But I need to hurry up and get back there before I let that.
Speaker 2:You need to, I would also refrain the whole colleague thing from going there, because someone that you could tell off and be like you better leave a fucking tip is going to be better for to take to your kind of like stomping grounds.
Speaker 1:Like, yeah, she I was. I reached out to one of my other really good friends who also knows her, and I was like, oh shit, I almost said her name, but I was like blank, blank, that's first name, last name. I said I flirted with, you know, blurring that line between colleague and friend, just a colleague, now like no, no, no, nothing else anymore. That that is it. I and she fit a stereotype. Very well, we'll just say that. So I thought that was yeah, um, but other than that, how was the movie? That's terrible. Oh, do you know where that joke is from? It's horrible. It's a horrible joke, but it's so hilarious if you have a dark sense of humor, which I think you do.
Speaker 1:It was after the aurora colorado batman premiere shooting, right in the theater and there was a comedian and I forget his name. He's pretty great, he's a really deep voice, doesn't matter. Um, there was a comedian and he tweeted as a comedian does and they make light of terrible comedian, and he tweeted as a comedian does and they make light of terrible situations and he writes. But other than that, how was the movie? Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:Was it Dane Cook?
Speaker 1:No, no, no. It was not Dane Cook, it was not. I forget this comedian's name. He just released a special lately now that he's clean and off his drugs and everything, but yeah, they made him take it down. Anyways, that is enough about me. I have so much to say about me, but what have you been up to? I want to know more about you. What do you like?
Speaker 2:Well, no, I mean, like I said, I just did a couple of holiday parties and stuff here locally. We actually had to get back more into the season of things. We actually had our first annual Krampus parade in King William. It was about like four minutes long, it was very, very quick. It was about four minutes long, it was very, very quick. It was met with a lot of protesters, some churchgoers that were protesting. A demonic parade, apparently.
Speaker 1:You look very confused. Have you heard of Krampus? No, I don't know if you remember, but you did mention to me that you read a Kr campus parade. I was like, oh, that's neat, that's exciting, cool. But you're down in texas. The other day I was at the halloween at one of the christmas parties, and I saw a guy wearing a krampus ugly sweater and I was like, oh, that's cool, like he must be from texas also, and so I approached him because I was wearing my classic whataburger christmas sweater right, which is mainly texas or southern base.
Speaker 1:And then I was like you know, no, the whole spider-man, like uh-huh who, who? Like you're from texas, I'm from texas, and he's like, no, I'm from michigan. And I was just like, uh, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:So I was under the impression that krampus was a local thing to san antonio krampus is actually from like germany, austria, and has been santa's little elf helper for naughty children since the 6th or 7th century.
Speaker 1:So a little further than San Antonio.
Speaker 2:Just right outside, right outside Suburbs, just right there, but not really.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have to Google this. Allow me one moment here.
Speaker 2:So it is. There's just several different variations, but they all are basically like half goat, half man with demonic horns, and he would steal naughty children or whip them with sticks or branches or something like that if they were naughty, and so parents in europe liked having that as a you better behave, or Krampus is going to come get you.
Speaker 1:That's fucked up. Wait, is that like the Chupacabra or?
Speaker 2:something Say that.
Speaker 1:Like the Chupacabra, la Llorona for us.
Speaker 2:But this is more like for holiday, purposely to try and trick like. You're not going to get gifts, but yeah, kind of sort of like La llorona oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:Okay, that is hilarious it's very, very interesting.
Speaker 2:So we had a little parade here um, which is really nice and and it's like um people dressed up very, you know, demonic-ish or whatever, um, but when you look up the history of it, he was um St Nicholas's, um little helper Um, and they celebrated it like around the 6th or 7th of December, um, and it was called um Krampus Noct or something like that, and they um, um, yeah, and they um um yeah. Some, some adults would just dress up like a little monster and would go and scare children.
Speaker 1:So, all right, I'm actually looking at it right now. The definition of this and this is wild and just like you said. Krampus is said to accompany saint nicholas on the night of december 5th, one day after the alleged ceo murder. The evening before saint nicholas day, he looks for children who have been naughty and punishes them with birch rods and carries them to hell in his basket. Now do you think the spirit of the ceo killer has now been absorbed the next day into krampus, since he's an evil, demonic person?
Speaker 2:stop, I'm just saying okay, so you're making me cough too much again so, wow, I did not realize that this was a whole thing.
Speaker 1:I'm seeing they have appearances in tv shows scooby-doo, american dad, the robot, chicken, teen titans he's very popular oh yeah, krampus is very popular.
Speaker 2:But on that note also, I'm sure are you aware of the several different kind of Santa classes that there are all over the world. Remember, last year I was at my friend Jorge's and showed you photos of his little Santa figurines.
Speaker 1:Okay, I vaguely remember that.
Speaker 2:I vaguely remember that I remember being taken away by how beautiful their apartment was um so so there's several different, I think the the first one is, um, I think it's either father dewell or father christmas or something, and his, instead of wearing red, he wears a lot of green.
Speaker 1:Well, hold on. You know Santa Claus, og Santa Claus did wear green.
Speaker 2:He's red because of Coca-Cola I did. Yes, it was changed due to that. But there's several like. There's several different colors, like there's even a blue one. Ooh, there's one of my. It's very actually interesting. Sinter claws is um, I believe, from the netherlands, and he is. He looks like a, an archbishop, so his colors are red and white. He has a little bishop cane or whatever, but he also has some little friends that usually it's white people, so they're they do blackface and it's become a very um and it is bad if you were to look up.
Speaker 1:Oh, my, I am looking at dutch santa claus, or better known as cinterclaus. Uh-huh, write me out. He's covered. He's surrounded by a lot of picnics, as you would call them right, I guess so it's bad, very, very bad this is terrible.
Speaker 2:I love it though yeah, it's, it's so, it's terrible, but like in a very like, of course, only in Europe. Right, there's the one in France, I think. Let's see Papa Noel. Pierre Noel it's maybe Pierre, I don't know, but he has a little donkey that children leave little carrots in their shoes by the fireplace for the donkey, just the way we leave out cookies oh, I see here there's. There's just so many different sentences very interesting, um on how it's celebrated around everywhere, um, I think there's even go ahead.
Speaker 1:No, go on.
Speaker 2:There's, I think in Italy there's a little witch that flies around um a good witch, because she did not let in the three wise men, um, who were looking for um, um, jesus, um, so she she feels bad for doing that now, and so she flies around all the little um um fireplaces, looking for the little baby jesus to leave little presents she might be a good witch for not letting in three wise men, but she's a dumb bitch for not letting in three wise men.
Speaker 1:I mean, I would have um Speaking of Santas, have you?
Speaker 2:Not with the same sentence. You say baby Jesus, Terrible. I cannot believe you.
Speaker 1:Okay, speaking of Santas, are you familiar with the latest Santa? Am I what Familiar with the latest Santa?
Speaker 1:Tell me the latest and newest introduced santa to all of us millennials. Um, he comes from the land of target. You have not. You're joking, you're? You're fucking with me? No, you have to target santa. You have not seen target santa. Okay, so the story behind target santa, and again, this is social media saying target has done it. Again, target knows their target. Ahola, let me get the work hold on, hold on. We're getting there. We're getting there. That target has. Target knows their target audience. They know who's their main shopper is. So they're us, they're the millennial right, the 35 to 45 year old person, if that's the age range, I think it is. So who did we have? Who was our sex symbols? We were in high school. Abercrombie models, right? This is the Abercrombie model of high school today. Tell me they're not wrong or tell me they're not right. I mean we're talking slightly thicker body, but still buff the facial hair, the beard. I mean I'm talking all day, all night, in the kitchen, in the bedroom, in the bathroom, down the chimney, on the fireplace. Chris kingle can?
Speaker 2:he's gorgeous I have not seen this till right now I can't believe you're so behind on this. He's so handsome.
Speaker 1:I know, I know, I know, I know he's like a sandal lumberjack.
Speaker 2:I love it yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So uh, he's. He's a chris k who works at a target and it's super adorable. You need, you need to watch.
Speaker 2:You need to watch that speaking of tiktok and stuff like that and kind of like about like this have you seen tally the elf from the disney? Disney, tally the elf is this like southern, clearly gay, that is um on the the parades of disney world and it's he's only there for christmas and he has the clipboard with a really big pencil and he goes up to people and he's like doing his little dance and he'll go up and he'll be like what's your name? And he goes up to people and he's like doing his little dance and he'll go up and he'll be like what's your name? And then he'll be looking, he'll be like, okay, jay, jay, jay, jay, jay, jay nowday and he like has this like southern drawl.
Speaker 1:It is hilarious no, I have not. I'm I'm pulling him up right now, but I have have yet. I am not on Tally Talk yet.
Speaker 2:My former Disney days just keep me in any kind of Disney talk.
Speaker 1:As you were describing him in the clipboard. Let's not forget that that's very similar to how you described yourself working at Disney with the clipboard.
Speaker 2:I know, I know.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness, I'm telling goodness, the power of a clipboard. Yes, let me see. Hold on one second. Oh, wow, this is hilarious. He's talking about being on the list. He's checking the list for this. This was you, aj, don't lie to me. This was you. This was you. You were literally the former, tally the elf. Let me, let me, let me, let me, do some digging. Let me do some digging. I'm gonna find out. This is this, okay? Listener, listener. I am going to force aj to post this tiktok on our instagram and I am going to make him put it next to the clip in which he described what he was doing at Disney. And this exact video is exactly how your age of the silver fox was describing himself Checking a list for a name and putting them down.
Speaker 2:Stop, but yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1:Case closed. Please put me on the jury for Liam Liam Luigi, luigi Luigi.
Speaker 2:Oh, rest in peace.
Speaker 1:He's not gone yet.
Speaker 2:No Liam.
Speaker 1:Liam who Payne oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Not in Payne anymore, though. That was terrible. I don't know what's wrong with me? This is even there's not even are you drunk? What's going on? I'm actually the best health I've ever been, because not that I want to put too much out there but I did get some not so great news from my doctor the other day.
Speaker 1:Um, well, I should say no std or sti related um, but I got some. Yeah, I want to put that just to make sure no speculation. But, um, that's gonna bite me in the ass, because there's nothing wrong with those either, but fuck um. And so I've had to dramatically clean up my health until I speak to a few other providers. So, no, I am. Maybe that's what's wrong. Maybe this is just a natural me, not subdued by, you know, caffeine and sugars and carbohydrates and toxins well, you know, isn't it dry january, or what is it called, or something I will not participate in that what I thought you just said you needed to well, yes, yes, um, no, I don't do dry january though.
Speaker 1:Uh, what did they call it? It was like no shave november, and then it was drink all december I've never heard that one I just made it up, you're welcome maybe you do have that problem.
Speaker 2:No, just kidding. Um, I uh, uh, yeah, so I what with which? Who?
Speaker 1:I'm no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, listener, if you couldn't see me. I'm just still distracted by this tally.
Speaker 2:The elf, who is clearly agent silver fox, but go on he's hilarious, he's hilarious, he's so funny, so, but yeah, so those are just a couple of like the seasonal things that I just like was thinking about, since it's December, and just kind of like was pondering about so like after seeing the whole Krampus um parade, which again it was only like it was like three minutes long, like it was so, and it was right through the little main part of like the King William area here in um South Town, san Antonio, and um uh, and the protesters were protesting and there was like the bicycle cops were keeping us protected. It was fun and cute, so I'm sure it'll get bigger next year.
Speaker 1:Wait, the protesters were protesting what?
Speaker 2:The demonic parade oh.
Speaker 1:Good for them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, they needed something to do. Yeah, they're bored they were very bored. I love it, but it's like they're also celebrating a pagan holiday, because let's not forget that christmas is derived from the winter solstice. So and it wasn't until the catholicism and christianity came in that they wanted to make it about um baby jesus's birthday and then coca-cola came in and made him red.
Speaker 1:Um did you? Is mercury in retrograde right now?
Speaker 2:I think it gets out on the 19th.
Speaker 1:It's like towards the end of it. Right, yeah, my new coworker, whom I love to death, is a crystal girl, so she has them all over her desks and salt lamps and she's. I mean, I love a crystal person. Obviously, you're one of them, but no, she is. I'll be like I'm so hungry. She's like, oh yeah, it's because Mercury's in retrograde. I'm like no bitch, because it's lunchtime, like I haven't eaten in four hours. This is why I'm starving. But every time she keeps talking about how this is the hardest exit of retrograde it's ever been, and I'm just like, no, it's just that we talk all day and never get our work done. Just that we talk all day, never get our work done. Um, anyways, I wanted to bring that up because what?
Speaker 2:happened was and I'll end on this terrible, tragic story, oh no but there's two parts to it.
Speaker 1:So this morning I'm walking to the subway, you know, like carrie bradshaw well, she never got on the subway anyways. Um, I was walking downtown and I go down the escalators to the subway and there's two sets of escalators and I'm immediately like pushed aside by this kid who's running up and down the escalators. And I look and there's like four of them and there's a mom with a stroller who has an infant in a stroller about 20 feet behind us and her other four kids who are all under the age of like six shoelaces, untied on an escalator. So I'm like they're about to get eaten up by these steps. And it didn't happen on the first step, on the first step, and it didn't happen on the second set. I was like cool, they lucked out.
Speaker 1:But now we get down to the subway platform and these kids are running back and forth. We're talking right next to the edge of the platform where you fall into the tracks with one they're like four years old running around and two, their shoes are untied and I'm having these little minor anxiety attacks. But I'm like whatever here in this city, I I hate that I've become this person. You just have to for your own safety, like you have to learn to like not my problem and turn the other cheek when things are happening, because I think a lot of the crimes that have happened here are trying to defend yourself too much instead of instead of just giving up your car keys, giving up your bag, right, or trying to defend somebody else, right. So this is one of those places where you unfortunately just not my business and walk away, right. So I'm trying to do that there, but then the kids start running like they're running parallel to the tracks. If you can see what I'm like if you get my drip, then it started running perpendicular and playing around.
Speaker 1:And I'm watching one kid and he's like playing tag and he's running like almost full speed towards the platform, but like looking back to see if he's being chased by his sibling and the train is coming. Mom is nowhere to be found somewhere on her phone. So I trip him, I, I trip him. That's all I can think to do. Aj, it's not funny. I mean it is, but but no, the fun the funny part about this is is I trip him and I noticed as soon as I trip him, I mean the kid just smacks and I'm gonna push. I'm pretty sure he cracked his teeth right. Uh, start screaming.
Speaker 1:I look over to the side. Uh, a metro officer was already running this way trying to get the kids to stop and the train pulls up because the train was coming, doors open and everyone else, and myself included, just step over this bleeding child, get on the train. Mom is still like nowhere to really be found. I mean, she's making her way, she's making her way there, right, but and then we just go on about our day. But I was so like scared. I was like this can't happen, like I cannot watch something tragic happen to this child, you know, and not intervene well, no, because it would make your train late, because it would have been a moment.
Speaker 1:AJ, which would have been ironic, if that's the right word to use. I'm sorry, alanis Is. I actually went to work extra early this morning because I had some work to do before my coworker got there, because you talk way too much. But how ironic would it? Would they go early, just end up at the same time, because I think I delayed right? Oh, my goodness, all right, cool, so I saved the life hero. Give me a cape, somebody anyways, just kidding. On my way home today, I'm sitting on the train and we just stop in the middle of a tunnel. I'm like, okay, whatever, I'm on my tiktoks watching probably louis gb stories, and finally, about 20 minutes later, the alarm, I mean the announcement, comes on and they start talking about the trains are going to be reversed because somebody fell into the tracks and was hit by a train. What are the odds of two? I mean, the first one didn't happen, but that happening twice in one day.
Speaker 2:Oh, I mean, it's a big city.
Speaker 1:Well, what are the odds that that happens almost twice in one day on my routes?
Speaker 2:That's fair. Yeah, yeah, oh no.
Speaker 1:That's wild. I know you best believe that. Like and it was I got off the train at the next stop and then I went to get an Uber homeber home and I was thinking, if there was this much bad luck around me, like, I was like examining the roads for five seconds each way before I crossed the streets. You know, I was just like extra cautious it's because of mercury fuck off and with that said aj, this has been so much fun.
Speaker 1:That was a great full circle moment. There. We have to end right there. We have to.
Speaker 2:AJ.
Speaker 1:I fucking love you. I miss you so much. Stay tuned. We're going to chat right after this, but for you listeners, thank you for listening. Thank you for tuning in. You guys, take care, bye, bye now. Bye for listening. Thanks for tuning in, you guys, take care, bye-bye now. Talk to you soon, bye.
