REPOST: An Oldie But A Goodie

Jay fumbled so hard this week that he accidentally deleted the entire episode. Like, fully Thanos-snapped our recording into the shadow realm. So today’s drop is an oldie but a goodie, pulled straight from the Dose of Delusion vault because we refuse to let Jay’s “oopsie” ruin your weekly mess.

Transcript

Weather Whiplash And Weekend Catch‑Up

SPEAKER_02 0:06

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 Silverfox, how are you? Tell me everything.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

Hi, um, hello, how are you?

SPEAKER_02 0:25

I am doing pretty great. I had a really great weekend. What were good?

SPEAKER_00 0:28

Good, 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 whatnot. 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.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

That's not good. 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?

SPEAKER_00 0:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:57

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 whatnot. What is the weather like for you right now?

SPEAKER_00 1:12

So right now it's like in the well, it got it born back up again, but it was like it was down to the 40s, and then they 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, like stop going back and forth. I can't do it and worse than a Katy Perry song. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 1:33

I we had a cold front here where my poor little Texas, nothing 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. Right. It was nice, but ultimately just really sucked like walking anywhere, which is all I do here.

Thanksgiving Hopping And Portion Control

SPEAKER_00 2:04

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_02 2:12

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.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

Right.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

Like, oh my god, I'll give you an example. Uh a good friend of mine, her name is Brooke. She had invited me out a couple of weeks ago, and she's like, hey, you know, let's do something, you know, I'm 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 I'm like, that sounds like fun, cool. So then we go and she goes, the show starts at 8. Let's leave here at 8 because obviously there's an opener and we don't want you to eat 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.

SPEAKER_00 3:21

Yeah, but you do everything online.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

Well, I no. Uh the problem with online shopping is I don't know when to stop. There's it's all fake money. It's 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 and I'm like, look what you've done.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

Yeah, that's fair. No, I do get that.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

Pretty terrible. Um, but it'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_00 3:56

Um, I didn't do anything for that. I didn't do any shopping either. Um after Thanksgiving, um, which I spent it with a friend from San Francisco, Joseph. Um, he was in town, so I hung out with him. Um, and then Saturday went and goes uh went to spend the day with my mom. Um, and then what did I do after that? And then just kind of like it was a low-key weekend. Um, and then uh um a couple of holiday parties has already happened, so did that as well. Um there was um um, I mean, there's just like, you know, the little friends, well not friends giving, but like, you know, like little and then work Christmas stuff, I guess, is going on.

The Luigi Case: Obsession And Theories

SPEAKER_02 4:41

So you know, I 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. Well, no, the next day on Thanksgiving they came through. I ran into a girlfriend of mine here in my building at the gym on Thanksgiving Day, and then she messaged me and she's like, You have to come eat my family. The Lebanese in 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 we weren't partying. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

How many plates did she have?

SPEAKER_02 5:35

Okay, I did a 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 uh I went on a two-hour walk to a colleague's place uh to pick up a plate to go, which I was a little uh I don't want to say of 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 their family, right? But it was like, hey, if you're not doing anything, come pick up a plate. And I was like, well, I'll I'll take what I can get.

unknown 6:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:19

Well, but also I thought you said that you were putting feelers out for plates. So absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 6:24

So thou shalt not 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, of it. Then I got and insisted on with them, 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. 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. 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 me about the next day, though. All the leftovers that were supposed to last me days, last me half a day. Oh no. Um, but it was it was great. I did not overeat this time. Growth or lack thereof.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

Right. Well, sideways, right?

SPEAKER_02 7:53

Exactly. But I'm so jealous you got to hang out with with our friend JT. Yeah. I miss him like crazy. I was I had such beautiful envy watching, uh seeing all the photos and posts you guys are putting out. It was so nice.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

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_02 8:12

I think we should ask him right now.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

No, um, anywho, um, there was another little exciting thing. Um, um, I don't know if you saw anything regarding um Mr. Luigi Magiano or my my like what Parmagiana. I don't know. What what what's his what's his name?

SPEAKER_02 8:32

Put some respect on his name.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

All I know is that he's cute and probably innocent. So that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 8:38

Some respect on his name.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

The alleged assassin.

SPEAKER_02 8:42

Luigi Magione.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

I love that you had to look at notes after you were telling me.

SPEAKER_02 8:46

I did have to, so I want to make sure I was to pronounce it 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 already highlighted in purple already in all the Luigi prompts, all in purple. It's all in I've Googled Luigi Twitter, Luigi School, Luigi monola, or Luigi Mangion, Luigi surgery, Luigi back pain, Luigi Manifesto. I've looked at it all. I'm obsessed. Uh okay, so okay, go. No, no, do you tell me, tell me, please.

SPEAKER_00 9:15

No, no, no. I just like he's okay.

SPEAKER_02 9:17

So it all started on December 4th. 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_00 9:33

Well now we know you're lying. You were not on the treadmill.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

Absolutely. I was just kidding. Just kidding. Oh dare you. Um, watching TikToks as I normally do 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? Or 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 Molivia 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 them? CEO Killer Lookalite contest that they had. I love it. Yeah, you didn't hear about that?

SPEAKER_00 10:39

I didn't see that.

Manifesto Doubts And Media Frenzy

SPEAKER_02 10:40

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 uler 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 look-alike contest, Central Park. So everyone did it. Now I'm jumping around a little bit. Just last night, I was at the Trader Joe's 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. And I'm like, they're never gonna catch him, like, they're not gonna catch him, no one's gonna turn him in. The person who died, you know, obviously the CEO of United Healthcare, 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 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 Nicotta's killer or or alleged killer, but I mean they did the legend. They're doing their work, and for disclaimer and legal purposes, obviously, like I can't even say with a straight face, but I I thought for sure this was gonna go like unsolved. I thought nothing. You know, I did too.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

I really thought it was like a professional B16 that right, and was gonna be like not found, they're already like fled the country, whatever it was gonna 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 the 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_02 12:50

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 they hear what he said at the end. Tell me. So after you know, they lay out all their evidence, I don't know the legal terms, but you know, they now he has his moment to speak as the person who's been arrested and being charged. And they were like, hey, you know, we listen, Judge, we found this guy with a weapon, a suppressor, which is the the sniper, the silencer, um, the manifesto, eight thousand dollars in American currency, two thousand dollars 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. Um, the money wasn't mine, it was probably planted, and that bag was actually waterproof. And I'm like, Okay, it's him.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

Right. I mean, but so tell me about this manifesto and things. What what did you read on them?

SPEAKER_02 13:58

So uh I am educated by TikTok conspiracy theorists.

SPEAKER_00 14:03

And no, never mind.

YouTube, Trials, And Public Fallout

SPEAKER_02 14:05

I did watch 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 gonna 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 educators shouldn't do that. Why call it a cohort when you can just say a group of people? Don't say a cohort of people, right? And yes, there are some splitting hair 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. 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 intelligent. And the manifesto was using words like that that maybe someone shouldn't have written. Then he compared it to his other works he did in high school, in college, and it didn't match any other type of phrasing. And then 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 said, whether he's guilty or not guilty, whether he admits to it or does not admit to it, he did not write this manifesto.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

I guess my eyes will be glued to TikTok just like they were during the Kieran Reed trial in Boston, Massachusetts.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

And what about um his like whole YouTube channel or something? I saw something about that.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

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 then, and that was about 10 a.m. this morning. I thought it was like clickbait, just like everyone was clickbaiting.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

I'm sorry, and then it went away. Like they they YouTube shut it down.

SPEAKER_02 16:26

Oh, see, see, okay, see, I didn't 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, right? People just acting like so wait, so was it there?

SPEAKER_00 16:39

Do we have it? Do we did we see it?

SPEAKER_02 16:41

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. Um, that's on my agenda for tonight.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

Well, if it is still up, I 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.

Health Scares, Dry Months, And Humor

SPEAKER_02 17:28

So yeah, so I'm so I'm so bummed about it. But I did see this something, 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 that 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 gonna catch him. But even if we were to catch him and it were to end up in some sort of like 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. 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 for 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 um Luigi Maggiano case, with the exception of a prosecution and a conviction.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

But it wasn't even the PD, wasn't it the FBI that ended up finding him or something?

SPEAKER_02 18:48

Either way, resources report into it because it was a billionaire.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

Yeah. So I am ashamed at how invested I am in this, but I think we all know why I am.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

Oh he's good looking. He's gorgeous. He's very, very handsome. Absolutely gorgeous.

SPEAKER_02 19:10

I'm looking at it right now. I think I feel something. There's a connection there. Um I can't stop looking at those photos. Let's stop looking at them. Anyways, so yeah, that's been consuming me for the past few days.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

Well, that's good. I mean, not that that's good, but I mean the 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_02 19:35

So I think we should probably do a lot of mini sessions when new information comes out. Sure. We have to because I I did the same thing. I was obsessed with the Karen Reed trial over in Massachusetts with the cop killer that she was acquitted, and I was obsessed with that story. And I do not Karen Reed, it's that was a very small niche, not near as public as this one, but a big huge conspiracy theory cover-up uh 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 know what to tell you.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

But like he came from like a well-to-do family, didn't he?

Krampus 101 And Global Santas

SPEAKER_02 20:21

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 owned some private schools and some nursing homes and some galleries, and so they they come from a very 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 all the areas around where he grew up. But about six months ago, he pulled away.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

And so What do you know about his back surgery or what was that?

SPEAKER_02 21:11

That's what I 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. Um, I think he wasn't doing pain management for whatever the reasons were, and he was in constant, constant pain. And when 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. Um, he pulled away and kind of fell off the face of the earth about six months ago. So they're speculating as with 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_00 22:00

Interesting. Very interesting. Yeah, we'll have to keep an eye on this one and see where um Some of the most recent um titles that I'm seeing in some of the news headlines are um that he apparently was raging in the courtroom is one of the more recent ones that I'm reading right now.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

How dare they say that?

SPEAKER_00 22:26

Oh no, stop.

SPEAKER_02 22:29

If he goes, I go with him.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

Italian, so of course he's gonna be like spicy, you know.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

Did you see the Ryan Murphy thing?

SPEAKER_00 22:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

Or someone's like, he's drooling out of mouth right now, waiting to write this up. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

Yeah, did you see um that they're saying um what's his that actor? He looks just like him.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

Darren Chris.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

No, no, no, no. Um, the brother of Franco brother.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

Oh, James or David?

SPEAKER_00 22:58

Dave, Dave. The one with the D, yeah. Dave, Dave Franco.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

Oh yeah, it is. Let me look. It's been a while since I've seen him. Yeah, he looks just like isn't Dave Franco also have some sort of you know polyamorous fluid background? Or was that the older brother?

SPEAKER_00 23:15

I think that's James.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

James. Oh shit. Smash.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

Yeah.

unknown 23:23

Yeah, he's the cuter one.

SPEAKER_02 23:25

Dave is gorgeous. Yeah, Dave has to play him in the biopic that's gonna 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 she also said that Gaga's gonna play his mother, obviously. Why? Why am I like this? Why am I like this?

SPEAKER_00 24:01

That's funny. No, but of course, like, and you know, we love Ryan Murphy, so hopefully he'll get his ass together.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

Almost almost never misses.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

That's funny.

SPEAKER_02 24:10

I've said it once there's only one thing I don't like from everything else I love.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

Um aside from that, um, national news, what else do you have up your sleeve?

SPEAKER_02 24:23

Um, you know, I had a fantastic week, weekend, week, whatever. It was a great time. I went to um a great event on Friday. I went to a couple of uh holiday parties on Oh, you went something to 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. She recently had a um 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 uh eventbrite party link. So I click on it and I RSVP'd and I, you know, drunkenly wrote back, whose party did I just RSVP'd to? And she's like, Me, Matt and E. 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 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.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

Right.

Target Santa And Theme‑Park Elf Virality

SPEAKER_02 26:17

So it was a really, really great time. Let me ask you a question. AJ, I know that once upon a time you worked in the service industry, right?

SPEAKER_00 26:28

No.

SPEAKER_02 26:29

Okay. Next.

SPEAKER_00 26:34

Um, I mean, does retail count as a service?

SPEAKER_02 26:38

Sure, we'll take retail. Cool. Um, but I'm I'm trying to get into tipping. Get into what? Into tipping, like tipping culture, like what your thoughts on that are. 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, um, I'm gonna be in town this weekend. Are you? I was like, Yeah, I am. She's like, let's meet for drinks. And 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.

SPEAKER_03 27:24

Right.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

And where I'm where I'm a regular rat, 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 gonna love it. She's like, Cool, I'm bringing in 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. Even the manager who clocked in a couple hours after we got there beelined at my table and gives me a big hug and says, Welcome back. Cool. 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$250. 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, they it was whatever. 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, you're just mad about the tip. So then I look over at her ticket and she left a zero dollar tip. And I was like, Oh. And I was like, okay, but you left, oh, I was like, oh, was he confused because you left a zero dollar tip on this tab, but you tipped on the other tab? And she's like, no, I left a zero dollar 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 circle the tax amount. I want you to know 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. Then he walked away.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

And that's when she was like, It is my decision.

Tipping Etiquette And Barroom Fallout

SPEAKER_02 29:39

I was humiliated. I was mortified. I I mean, I felt I I mean it was like in a movie where what did 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, because we have we have a working relationship that is separate from a friendship, right? She's in in terms almost a client of mine.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

I would have said something along the lines of, oh, uh, were you unhappy with the service? I that would have been great here. I I I tip this much. It would be nice. I mean, they do know me here. Don't I mean that's not cool if you do that, is how I would I would have been like, how fucking dare you?

SPEAKER_02 30:24

You know, I I am I wish I would have had that wit. I was just one floored, and floored actually sounds like has a positive annotation to it. I was shocked. And I was just humiliated. I could see in the peripheral the bartenders, the manager talking. I know they're talking about our table, right? I was just like, this is I was so embarrassed. My stomach was turned.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

Did you go tip some more?

SPEAKER_02 30:49

I did. So 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 gonna walk home. As soon as that car left, I'll walked right back upstairs. And I called all the bartenders, rounded them up, the manager came over, and I was like, and I I did 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 count to question anyone's 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_00 31:23

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_02 31:43

I I think he has every personal right, but I've I know that it's in a lot of policies where you're not allowed to do that. I've 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 on 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 up and get back there before I let that.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

You need to. I would also refrain the whole colleague thing from going there. Um, because someone that you could tell off and be like, you better leave a fucking tip. Is gonna be better for to take to your kind of like stomping grounds.

SPEAKER_02 32:35

Like friends. Yeah, she I was I reached out to one of my other really good friends who also knows her. And I was like, oh, should 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, no, nothing else anymore. That that is it. I 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? No, 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. It was after the Aurora Colorado Batman premiere shooting, right? In the theater. Okay, 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 comedian they they make light of terrible situations, and he writes, but other than that, how was the movie? Yeah, I know. Was it Dane Cook? No, no, no, it was not Dane Cook, it was not. Um, I forget this comedian's name. He just he just released a special lately now that he's clean and off his drugs and everything. Um, but yeah, they made him take it down. Any, anyways, 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 it.

SPEAKER_00 34:12

Um well, no, I mean, uh, like I said, I just did a couple of holiday parties and stuff um um here locally. We actually had um um to get back more into the season of things. Um, we actually had our first annual Krampus Parade in King William. Um, it was about like four minutes long. It was very, very quick. Um it was met with a lot of protesters, some churchgoers that were protesting, uh demonic parade, apparently. Um you look very confused. Have you heard of Krampus?

Subway Chaos, A Trip, And A Save

SPEAKER_02 34:55

I I uh well, no, you I don't know if you remember, but you did mention to me that you're at a Krampus 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, uh, 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. And then I was like, you know, no, the whole Spider-Man, like, ah, hoo-hoo, 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. So I was under the impression that Krampus was a local thing to San Antonio.

SPEAKER_00 35:42

Krampus is actually from like Germany, Austria, and has been Santa's little elf helper for naughty children since the sixth or seventh century.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

So a little further than San Antonio.

SPEAKER_00 36:01

Just right outside, right outside, you know. Suburbs. Just right there, but like not really.

SPEAKER_02 36:07

Okay, I have to Google this. Allow me one moment.

SPEAKER_00 36:10

So it is, um, there's just several different variations, but they all are basically like half goat, half man with d 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 gonna come get you.

SPEAKER_02 36:39

That's fucked up.

SPEAKER_00 36:41

It is Wait, is that like Chupacabra or something? Say that?

SPEAKER_02 36:45

Like the Chupacabra La Yorona for us.

SPEAKER_00 36:49

But this is more like for holiday purposely to try and trick, like you're not gonna do it. So yeah, but yeah, kinda sort of like like La Yorona.

SPEAKER_01 37:00

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 37:01

Okay, that is it's very, very interesting. So we had a little parade here, um, which is really nice, and and it's like um people dressed up very, you know, demonicish 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 Knocked or something like that. And they um um yeah, he did some some adults would just dress up like a little monster and would go and scare children. So all right.

SPEAKER_02 37:44

I'm actually looking at it right now, the definition of this, and this is wild. Uh just like you said, Krampus is said to accompany St. Nicholas on the night of December 5th, one day after the alleged CEO murder. The evening before St. Nicholas Day, he looks for children who have been naughty and punishes them with birch rods and carries them to hell in this 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_00 38:14

Stop.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

I'm just saying.

Retrograde Jokes And Sign‑Off

SPEAKER_00 38:16

Okay, so you're making me cough too much again.

SPEAKER_02 38:21

So wow, I did not realize that this was a whole thing. I'm seeing they have appearances in TV shows, Scooby-Doo, American Dad, The Robot Chicken, Teen Titans. He's very popular.

SPEAKER_00 38:33

Oh yeah, Krempus is very popular. Um, but on that note, also, I'm sure are you aware of the several different kinds of Santa Clauses that there are all over the world. Remember last year I was at uh my friend Jorge's and showed you like photos of his little Santa figurines.

SPEAKER_02 38:55

Okay. I vaguely remember that. I vaguely remember that.

SPEAKER_00 38:59

I remember being taken away by how beautiful their apartment was so there's several different, I think the the first one is um, I think it's either Father Noel or or Father Christmas or something, and his instead of wearing red, he wears a lot of green. Well, hold on.

SPEAKER_02 39:19

You know, Santa Claus, OG Santa Claus did wear green. He's red because of Coca-Cola.

SPEAKER_00 39:25

I did, yes, that that it was changed due to that, but there's several, like, there's several different colors. Like there's even a blue one.

SPEAKER_02 39:34

Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 39:36

Um, there's one of my it's very actually interesting, Sinterklaas 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 the 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 bad thing. Um, and it is bad if you were to look up Santa Claus.

SPEAKER_02 40:17

I I am looking at Dutch Santa Claus, or better known as Sinterklaas. Uh-huh. Right meow. He's covered, he's surrounded by a lot of Pekinese. I guess that's what you would call him, right?

SPEAKER_00 40:27

I guess so. It's bad. Very, very bad.

SPEAKER_01 40:32

It's terrible. I love it though.

SPEAKER_00 40:35

Yeah, it's it's it's so it's terrible, but like in a very like of course, only in Europe, right? Um, there's the one in um France. Um, I think, let's see. Papa Perry Noel.

SPEAKER_02 40:51

A Pierre Noel.

SPEAKER_00 40:52

It's Perry, maybe Pierre, I don't know. Um, 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.

SPEAKER_02 41:05

Oh, do you see here? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 41:09

There's there's just so many different sounds. It's very interesting um on how it's celebrated around everywhere. Um, I think there's even go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

No, go on.

SPEAKER_00 41:21

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.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

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. I mean, I would have.

SPEAKER_00 41:56

Um speaking of Santa's, have you not with the same Santa's same baby Jesus? Terrible. I cannot believe you.

SPEAKER_02 42:09

Okay, speaking of Santas, are you familiar with the latest Santa?

SPEAKER_00 42:15

Am I what?

SPEAKER_02 42:16

Familiar with the latest Santa?

SPEAKER_00 42:18

But tell me.

SPEAKER_02 42:19

The latest and newest introduced Santa to all of us. Millennials. Um, he comes from the land of Target. You have not, you're you're joking. You're fuck, 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. Uh hold on, 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 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 he's gorgeous. I can't believe you're so behind on this.

SPEAKER_00 43:43

He's so handsome.

SPEAKER_01 43:45

I know. I know.

SPEAKER_00 43:50

I know he's he's like a Santa Lumberjack. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 43:54

Yeah, yeah. So uh, and he's he's uh Chris K who works at a Target and it's super adorable. You need you need to watch, you need to watch that.

SPEAKER_00 44:06

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 then he'll be looking, he'll be like, okay, Jay, J, J, J, J, Jay, Jay. Now day. And he like has this like southern drawl. It is hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 44:49

No, I have not. I'm I'm pulling him up right now, but I have yet. I'm not I am not on Tally Talk yet.

SPEAKER_00 44:58

My former Disney days just keep me in any kind of Disney talk.

SPEAKER_02 45:02

As you were describing him in the clipboard, let's not forget that that's very similar to how you described yourself working out at Disney with the clipboard.

SPEAKER_00 45:12

I know, I know. I'm telling you the power of a clipboard.

SPEAKER_01 45:19

Yes. Let me see. Hold on one second. Oh, wow. This is hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 45:28

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 hey, 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_00 46:05

Stop. But yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_02 46:10

Please put me on the jury for Liam. Liam. Luigi. Luigi.

SPEAKER_00 46:18

Oh. Rest in peace.

SPEAKER_02 46:22

He's not gone yet.

SPEAKER_00 46:23

No, Liam.

SPEAKER_02 46:24

Liam who? Pain. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that one. Not in pain anymore, though. Um, that was terrible.

SPEAKER_01 46:36

Because I don't know what's wrong with me. This isn't even there's not even Catholic. Are you drunk?

SPEAKER_00 46:40

What's going on?

SPEAKER_02 46:42

I'm actually in 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. 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 with maybe this is just a natural me, not subdued by, you know, caffeine and sugars and carbohydrates and toxins.

SPEAKER_00 47:37

Well, you know, isn't it dry January or what is it called or something?

SPEAKER_02 47:41

Like I will not participate in that.

SPEAKER_00 47:43

What I thought you just said you needed to Well, yet.

unknown 47:48

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 47:50

Um no, I don't want to do dry January, though. Uh what do they call it? It was like no shave November, and then it was drink all December.

SPEAKER_00 48:02

I've never heard that one.

SPEAKER_02 48:03

I just made it up. You're welcome.

SPEAKER_00 48:06

Maybe you do have that problem. No, just kidding. Um I uh uh yeah, so I what what what who?

SPEAKER_02 48:15

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 the elf who is clearly agent silver fox. But go on.

SPEAKER_00 48:23

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 Southtown Dan uh San Antonio. And um uh yeah, the protesters were protesting and and there was like the bicycle were keeping us protected. I mean, it was it was it was fun and cute. So I'm sure it'll get bigger next year.

SPEAKER_02 49:07

Wait, the protesters were protesting what?

SPEAKER_00 49:10

Um, um the demonic parade.

SPEAKER_02 49:13

Oh good for them.

SPEAKER_00 49:16

Yeah, no, they needed something to do.

SPEAKER_02 49:18

Yeah, they're bored.

SPEAKER_00 49:20

They were very bored.

SPEAKER_02 49:21

I love that.

SPEAKER_00 49:22

And 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' birthday.

SPEAKER_02 49:40

And then Coca-Cola came in and made him red. Um, did you is Mercury in retrograde right now?

SPEAKER_00 49:49

I think it gets out on the 19th.

SPEAKER_02 49:52

It's like towards the end of it, right?

SPEAKER_00 49:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:54

My my new coworker, whom I love to death, is a crystal girl. So um, 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 um, I'll be like, I'm so hungry. She's like, oh yeah, it's because Mercury's a retrograde. I'm like, no, bitch, because it's lunchtime. Like, I haven't eaten in four hours. Like, 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. Um, anyways, I wanted to bring that up because what happened was, and I'll end on this terrible tragic story.

SPEAKER_03 50:41

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 50:43

But there's two parts to it. So this morning, um walking toward 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 escalator to the subway, and there's two sets of escalators, and I'm immediately like knocked, 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 were and there's a mom with a stroller who has an infant and a stroller about 20 feet behind us, and her other four kids who are all under the 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, all right, cool, they lucked out. But now we get down 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, but 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 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 and 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 were running parallel to the tracks. If you can see what I'm like, if you get my drip, but then they started running perpendicular and playing around. 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 that's all I can think to do. AJ, it's not funny. I mean, it is, but the fun, the funny part about this is I trip him, and I notice as soon as I trip him, I mean, the kid just smacks, and I'm gonna press, I'm pretty sure he cracked his teeth, right? Um, starts screaming. 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.

SPEAKER_00 53:51

Well, no, because it would make your train late, because it would have found a mobile AJ.

SPEAKER_02 54:00

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 it talked way too much. But um, how ironic it would be go early just to end up there at the same time because my train got delayed, right? Oh my goodness. All right, cool. So I saved a life. Woo-hoo, hero, give me a cape, somebody. Anyways, just kidding. On my way home today, I'm sitting on a train and we just stop in the middle of a tunnel. I'm like, okay, whatever. I'm on my TikToks watching probably We GM 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_00 54:54

Oh, I mean, it's a big city.

SPEAKER_02 54:58

Well, what are the odds that that happens almost twice in one day on my routes?

SPEAKER_00 55:03

That's fair. Yeah, yeah. Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 55:05

That's why I'm so you best believe that, like, and it was I got off the train at the next stop, and then I went to get a uh uh an Uber home, and I was thinking, if there's this much bad luck around me, like I was like examining the roads for five seconds each way before I crossed the streets. Yeah, you know, I was just like extra cautious.

SPEAKER_00 55:26

It's because of Mercury.

SPEAKER_01 55:27

Fuck off. And with that said, AJ, this has been so much fun. That was a great, that was a great full circle moment there. We have to end right there. We have to.

SPEAKER_02 55:42

AJ, I fucking love you. I miss you so much. Um, we're gonna stay tuned. We're gonna chat right after this. But for you listeners, thank you for listening. Thank you for tuning in. You guys take care. Bye bye now.

SPEAKER_03 55:53

Bye.