Your Jobs "Side Piece"

[00:00:00] Side of the pillow side. Yeah. Somebody sent me these, these things I expect from my man's side piece. Huh? Your man's, her man, what? Her man's side piece. From my man's side piece. This is the thing. Not to be funny. And this is just me hypothetically speaking.

[00:00:24] My wife ever had a requirement of that? Don't worry, get a side of the smile. When I got sent to me and I read it, I started cracking up because I was just like, oh lord. It was nine of them. Nine is a lot man.

[00:00:42] So the first one is give them top because I'm not doing it. Damn. Yeah. Number one? Number one. Everybody welcome back to another episode of According to Wes podcast as always we got D-Vall here.

[00:01:02] You have feed law, reading memes off of what people sent them, the devil's signing law. And you got me Wes Cooley the Nepal Bears, Tonyneil. I was right now. He doing his best camera impression. Computer is putin'. He gonna never get over that shit. Computer is putin'.

[00:01:28] What was I about to say? Oh yeah, we just got finished talking. So one of my homies was telling me that, I forgot that fast. We were saying, who are we talking about? We were just talking about a side chicken shit like that. One of my homies.

[00:01:50] Damn it. What I was about to say when you said camera. How the fuck I forget that fast? Shit. You gotta be old ass or get for what it's worth. You side chick. Conditions.

[00:02:15] Damn it, it was something funnier as fuck too and I do not remember who it was.

[00:02:19] I'm also sure one of my homies is halfway out there and every time he comes back to be like with a story or something like a woman trying to deal with says I'd be like God damn, but I'm not out that motherfucker.

[00:02:33] It's a, I ain't got the patience for it. I ain't got the patience for it. I think my cat is making noises to fuck. Sleep. That's right you got a girl. A girl cat right? Yep. Oh yeah. Lady as can be.

[00:02:59] But just because not because she's a female cat only because my wife pretty much babies are then baby and nurses shoes a baby. Yeah, Leo don't make no noise. Lucky. If anything, he bites us to get our attention before he does some crazy shit.

[00:03:28] Yo, I was tap us like yo, I'm not gonna do this like that. Walk us over to where she went. And I hear it. It'll be, I want to say about five something in the morning he jumped on the bed and start biting.

[00:03:46] And then once I move, move around enough he'll just lay down and then he'll get up. And if I get up he goes running downstairs. I'm like, I said, well let me look make sure it was going on. So I go down there like a food bowl empty.

[00:04:00] If we'll go empty. All right. Then I look down his litter box. I'm like, you should be good. You bit me because you said, if you don't, if you don't do nothing, it might be on the ground.

[00:04:14] Oh, speak of the Leo as he's eating this food and dropping it out is not with the same time. Oh, messy. He wears that. You know how like toddlers put like a 30 food on the floor. He'd be chilling.

[00:04:48] The most noise he might make is he might like when you see a bird or the chatter. Yeah, but now he'll walk us to the door because he won't stick his head out the front door and sit there. What's going on? What are you doing?

[00:05:11] I was doing all that cat shit and chattering the talkative and morning and at night I'll be like, shut the fuck up. Please. You got me out? Yeah, we never heard of me. We have ever heard Leo meow for real.

[00:05:28] I think the closer we came to me hours when I stepped on his tail, he was like, yeah, we get like little that's it. We don't get no meows. You know how like everyone be like my cat meows. Basically.

[00:05:44] Yeah, honestly, you would never know we had a cat until he just pops up and looks at you. It's the way to go. Yo, you start your new job yet? That's not to the knife. I mean the time. Not three weeks.

[00:06:04] Man, what was funny is so I was um we were out in the field over at in Dundalk dealing with some stuff. So, I get a phone call from my boss and he's like, hey, I got these two numbers. I need to know the percentage increase of them.

[00:06:26] I said, all right. I need to know the percentage increase. I was like, oh, all right, whatever. So I was like, well, what's number is the first number? What's numbers? The second number he said, uh, let me double check.

[00:06:40] So I just did I did the percentage increase of both of but you know it's now it's going to be a percentage increase and a percentage decrease. All right.

[00:06:50] I did the increase which was a small sort of biggest and I did the decrease from the biggest to the smallest.

[00:06:57] And so I send it over to him and he was like, well, how did you get these? I said, oh, well this is why I did blizzle blizzle.

[00:07:04] So the next day I'm in his office and the chief of the division walks by and he's like, oh, hey, thank you for those numbers. And I was like, oh, he said, you know, I didn't know that you were. I know you, you were a math major.

[00:07:20] In my head, I'm like, everything goes through approval through you before someone comes in. So you know, why wouldn't you know that my degrees at UMBC and then mathematics and tutoring and math and all that? Like, at what point did you not read any of it?

[00:07:36] Everyone else's resume but not mine. But okay. Um, he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, um, yeah, I didn't know but thank you for the numbers.

[00:07:46] And so he leaves out and he comes back. He said, you know, you know, and you boss will tell you this, I was in your biggest fan at all. Oh my God. That is how you. I'm glad I'm leaving this bitch. Like, yo, who the fuck says that?

[00:08:09] Who like, who's like, who starts off like that? Yeah, I wasn't your biggest fan at all. Like, and you know, you can ask him like, I wasn't too sure about you.

[00:08:19] But as I've gotten to know you, I like you and you do and I see you do good work and you know, you're just a quiet person that comes in and does his work. And he's like, and now that you're leaving, I don't want you to leave.

[00:08:33] So if I could come up with a better offer money would you mind staying. So, you know, I call my wife and I'm like, no, I wouldn't take that shit.

[00:08:45] I call my wife and I, you know, because here's the thing, if he manages it grade for grade with a couple more steps by all means, grade for grade. All right, cool. Because what I want is the grade I don't want the steps.

[00:08:59] You know, the whole number of grades so your earning potential can be on an upward trajectory. Right. Now, like I told my wife, I said it's not a bad scenario if I only get the steps because even though that means I will be turning down opportunity.

[00:09:17] But if another one pops up, they have to pay me the steps that they have to give me those same steps and agree. Yeah. So it doesn't not work out my favor.

[00:09:30] But what if I don't ever find another job so I have to look at it from two standpoints. What about the standpoint of what is your upward mobility and this particular position that the next position because you can get to where you get into a little faster.

[00:09:49] You know, I mean, yeah, well, if I can get to where I'm getting to a little faster if I take the grades. Only because as far as I know about my particular pen, it doesn't come with more grades.

[00:10:04] It only comes with that grade unless I get reclass and reclass is take a while. Yeah. So we got one like every, I think every year and it might take a month or two or that that happened.

[00:10:16] So even if he found a way to get me reclass to an admin officer three. That wouldn't it would take some time for that to go through. And like I told my wife, I said I have all on July 10th. I'm going to be making more money.

[00:10:35] Like it's a done deal. I'm not I'm not sitting around waiting three more months forward. I'm not even if you give it to me and writing anything can happen. Look, this is I know that this is guaranteed now. Not that it's a better opportunity.

[00:10:50] But I need you know the money's fine. I'll be closer to getting to where I can be financially stable ish. We stable but at least I'll be making an amount where I don't feel the same strain of that. I'm not getting out having any money.

[00:11:10] So that's the that's the benefit of it. Now do I think he'll make an offer before then probably not. You might have just been saying that as a, you know how people just be talking to shit. Like I know you I'm not going to do nothing.

[00:11:24] But I wish I could have did something for you to stay but I ain't doing shit. That's like a gesture like cool people. I'm you know that's like.

[00:11:33] But I got some my wife I say it's weird to me how all this time you never felt you had a need for me.

[00:11:41] But then you find out that my degrees in math and all of a sudden now you find that you might have a need for me. To me I feel that I feel quite insulted about that. Not as you should.

[00:11:52] You know, I mean because even like I remember when I did my interview when I got there the lady who was in my interview was like yeah you know when we asked you those math questions we thought you got a little offended because you kind of gave this facial expression like why the fuck you're asking me something to this easy.

[00:12:06] And I said, I thought I said in my head I asked why the hell did I ask me something this easy. You got to know what my resume says.

[00:12:13] But then I also told her, but I get it because I've had people come to math nation that I've interviewed that said their math majors and can't do basic math.

[00:12:22] They so happen to have enough credits that they took mass here and there that they had enough credits to get out of school but don't necessarily aren't necessarily good at math. So I get it. But my resume displayed. Don't ask me no dumps easy question.

[00:12:42] She's like, if we kind of thought we offended Justin I wasn't offended I was more.

[00:12:47] I'm not gonna say I was offended. I was more bothered offended means that I have I would have had to be like now I fuck this job bothered is like it's more of an inconvenience that you're asking you're asking me these questions and I'm just looking at you like,

[00:13:01] there's no way in hell that I asked these easy as questions thing and it was want to stop me. So, so that's where we are now. Even even if he was able to get me something right and saying that he was going to get me whatever pain.

[00:13:18] It still has to get approved to be ban which takes time. It still hasn't get up and then it has to be implemented then it has to all this other stuff then you then you then you might have to update what my pen says.

[00:13:32] That takes time because that goes through D band it's a whole lot of steps and I'm like, I gave I gave you a must notice.

[00:13:40] I gave you a must notice so I know it takes time I am like then that will make it in time and then, like next week I'll be in work but the following week I want to be in work. I'll be a.

[00:13:53] I'll be out in the field and so even if even if he has something for me by the time I get back it'll be the knife I'll be turning my equipment in. Yeah, so.

[00:14:08] The million dollar question is, what does new position gave you some resemblance of good work life balance because remember you worked in there 15 hours on your first day. Oh, my. I will never forget that that was like my welcome to the state moment.

[00:14:31] You know how like you you would. You know how like you you were rookie in the league and you did your big shit and then someone just levels you they're like yeah welcome. That's how that shit was it was just like, damn 15 hours my first day.

[00:14:48] I could not but from the sounds of it from the sounds of because I will have a eight to 430 work schedule. A little bit more free parking over there now mind you where I'm currently. Oh yeah because you was going to Baltimore right.

[00:15:05] That was my mom one of my mom's greatest gripes when going there is that she couldn't really find they didn't really have parking for her and where she had the park she did not like walking.

[00:15:15] Right, where she had to walk from number two and I think they have some type of shuttle type thing out I forgot that shit went but yeah she did not like working out there at all.

[00:15:25] It's it's it's rough walking working out then Baltimore City and I was that kind of wish if if opnr for the Department of Health had had an opening because it's a warehouse warehouse, I would have more than I'd have been right there.

[00:15:42] Yeah, this is in Hanover is right down the street so and it's parking so I wouldn't have to worry about having to find parking I just pull up hop out. But it's gonna be a good experience.

[00:15:57] I know my current job is finally coming around to getting everybody parking in the building so I'm I am going to miss that to. To me for the park you put your you put your dues and working and can you fucking reap the benefits because you're right now.

[00:16:12] Yeah, but I mean it happens I mean it'll be great you know.

[00:16:17] For the time that I'll be able to do it to be able to just kind of pull into the garage find my parking spot getting an elevator then another elevator getting a building is not a super long walk.

[00:16:27] Yeah, it'd be great but yeah you know at the end of the day I mean I got to I got found this money there's no I mean there's no way around it I mean I can't I can't just father my wife continue to make 49,000 a year.

[00:16:42] But you know it's it's it's embarrassing. I got you know, I got it by all means definitely get the money to provide because things ain't getting cheaper over there. Yeah, it's not. And that's a big reason why I was like in ease.

[00:17:02] We just got a new person that came. They made us write these they called them swatch SW OT strengths weakness opportunities and threats.

[00:17:13] And I got a phone call from one of the other guys he's like, man you better just laid all out there you got nothing to lose I was like, well, I mean I got a lot to lose professionalism and then it's still within the state like it's still.

[00:17:27] Yeah, the duties things do within the state and I told him I said no matter what I put in. It's going to get filtered. So even if I put, you know, the people who see it raw.

[00:17:38] They got something to think about, you know, I mean, they got they got something to think about because now they're being told. They're being told the weaknesses of how we feel that was weaknesses in the unit now they got to kind of bite that bullet and do some.

[00:17:56] Some thinking amongst themselves of, well shit if this is how they all feel. What the hell, what can we do better. Yeah, I remember when I was. When I was leaving.

[00:18:11] I was even one job onto another, and it was something like that you know how to do the survey and shit like that.

[00:18:17] It just so happened that I was leaving during the time where the surveys were being read out loud on our team meeting with the company as a whole, not necessarily our department.

[00:18:30] And someone just did not give a fuck. It wasn't even me and I wish I would have done it, but someone didn't give a fucking just say whatever the fuck they wanted to say and the director was mad as hell.

[00:18:41] Madness because it made him look bad and I know I was like I know everybody thinking it was me, but it wasn't even me and then on my head I'm like I'm so mad I ain't do it because I don't ever want to work for this company again.

[00:18:51] Right. So, but that shit happens management sometimes be thinking they're good managers or management be thinking they're good at what they do.

[00:19:02] But they failed to realize that some people just need a job and they're going to do what they need to do to their best of their ability in spite of how management treats them, how competent they are. Right. Other good shit. So, yeah. Yeah.

[00:19:20] I mean, because I think some people they put some they put some stuff on there I was like, gee, I mean, I mean,

[00:19:27] I mean, the word is respectful but you got to the only thing I put on mind that might that might have had them looking at it like, man fuck this nigga.

[00:19:37] I put out I put for our weakness for the unit because it was about the unit wasn't specifically about our weaknesses it was just about the unit in general. And I put a high turnover based on low salaries always seems like an estate of chaos.

[00:19:59] Poor communication between management subordinates as far as job description and what their MS 20 who says being asked to do tasks unrelated to their job or not directly related to the job and expecting to still have their regular job done.

[00:20:17] Like, I that one, they probably looked at it like man this nigga he's he leaving and laying into us at the same time. So, yeah. But I mean, you know they say no they don't keep a professional but they ain't say nothing.

[00:20:38] But I did it you know I kept it as professional as I could but I did let him know if there are things wrong here.

[00:20:46] We can't just ignore it and just say, yeah, it'll be fine if we, you know, but now we got all of them all about providing that type of criticism and stuff and things get better.

[00:21:00] Sometimes things don't just get sometimes things don't get better and people retaliate and it's just kind of like, all right man.

[00:21:06] You can't even actually change the way everybody's been saying that you need to change you just decide to, you know, be bitchy or be quote unquote sassy with my fuckers and double down on what you're doing.

[00:21:18] You don't need to be in leadership at that you know, in that case so. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:21:31] Because a lot of people are always so worried about how, how the person was above everybody will be totally I'm like well, someone's like yeah man I want to call out sick because I'm tired of moving this stuff I said then call out sick you got personal days sickly they can't tell you can't take it.

[00:21:49] Oh yeah I want to take it because then that means I'm gonna have to hear from him. Yeah, that was thick old a fuck well. Now if I ain't got the hours. And I'm saying yo, then yeah I expect to hear from you.

[00:22:03] If I'm hearing it from you and I got the hours this might be a talk to HR buddy like come on now. Because you know because what in and I was telling my wife I said you know it comes up to be a generational thing.

[00:22:17] And I'm like, I want your boomers and your exes who they're just glad to have a job and they don't want to make no ways and they take verbal abuse, you know, this day or the thing like it's like okay you know how to do it and so they got a different

[00:22:30] mentality when it comes to having their jobs and doing it and then seeing you know seeing everything that's happening.

[00:22:36] I don't want that smoke I'm just coming to work like I don't care if I'm halfway dead I got come in then you got you know us you got millennials and then you now you got the Gen Zs who are coming into the workforce that are like,

[00:22:50] I'm gonna take this sick day. Yeah, I'm gonna take the sick day and if you all of a sudden sit put a notice on my desk saying that I'm being reassigned that I take it to HR I feel like I'm being retaliated against because I took sick leave.

[00:23:05] It becomes a thing where it's like well we don't, we're not going to take no shit like that where we won't be intimidated.

[00:23:14] Unfortunately for me I'm kind of halfway like that like I need to get out of the, I need to get out of the mindset of just like working.

[00:23:23] Not then you want to pressure me into like working the way that I work or not taking sick days, but my wife says it to me all the time like yo, you might not be sick but sometimes you don't be, you don't be looking like your,

[00:23:36] you know yourself around the house and maybe you need to take mental days. And I was like yeah you're right.

[00:23:42] Like there's no need for me not to do it like I got tons of sick leave and I got tons of vacation hours so and I racked up those because of, you know when we were at home like for a time for like a year, you know what I mean, like I wasn't using that.

[00:23:57] Those hours and stuff like that so

[00:24:02] You know, I personally need to do better at my personal work life balance not that the fact that the job is working me crazy because once they start working me crazy or just a hint of them working me crazy already feel like they didn't work be crazy for a week but in actuality.

[00:24:21] I'm just not taking the time to like not to be cliche, you know stopping and smell roses that were stopped to, you know, pick up flowers and shit like that I ain't taking the time to do that throughout my week.

[00:24:33] I'm getting better at it since I quit with the parts on definitely getting better at it but I need to be proficient in that. I need to be the Kobe Bryant or the Michael Jordan of personal work life balance and shit.

[00:24:50] So, I'm getting there though I feel like I'm a matter. Who's the number two guard that I could say I feel like I'm at a can't say him. I'm not there yet. That way, I'm getting it. You know,

[00:25:14] Yeah, I'm sure wifey is a static for you to my before you as well. Yeah, my wife supposed to start a new job and that first.

[00:25:26] And lately, like, because she's been in between jobs but she's been like here and there and shit just trying to get her putting back from when she was baking like a bunch of money. I kind of had to.

[00:25:42] I don't say I kind of had to let's just put it this way her prior debt and expenses before me try to swallow her whole as it will you know that and shit like that. So I had to pick up a whole lot of slack in this motherfucker.

[00:25:59] And she was like the other day she was like, won't you be happy that you I get to take back some of those bills and stuff like that.

[00:26:05] And I was like, because we was upstairs eating we had a wine and shit like that made some chicken and some other shit. She was I was like well I'm gonna tell you like this. I ain't gonna be not happy.

[00:26:17] You know as a man you want to come off a static like yes bitch. Yes, I paid it shit no more. And in the sense I'm like man I ain't it's been it's been a tough like low.

[00:26:31] Probably like six months four months because I had to pay back some taxes and shit because my mom did I tell you to ship my main job and do my shit right. You told me so I owe $6,000 in a from last year.

[00:26:50] I was like, I was like well. I was like this puts everything on hold when it comes to this is what I was trying to do. So you know I cut back on some things I paid like 6000 some change the other day.

[00:27:09] We bought with like three months to get that industry while still holding down shit.

[00:27:15] And I still you I don't think you know this part my cars in the shop ain't tell you that right cars in a shop I wake up one morning and my son roof was busted open. And the hazards are flashing and it's raining.

[00:27:31] So I get in the car, the headliner wet at the top glass in the seat. I don't keep anything my car so they couldn't take anything because there's nothing there but nothing was open.

[00:27:43] So my car is in the shop for about a month them trying to figure out what's what I'm like man just told her that bitch at this point.

[00:27:52] So I'm waiting on the bill for that because I'm pretty you know the we call it the deductibles gonna be file on it.

[00:28:01] The people with the dealership say or what my assurance say who's gonna pay for the diagnostic fee because now that's at the dealership to see if it's in like some anti theft thing. I don't know if I have electrical issues because it was raining and it wasn't covered.

[00:28:17] So she's my summer has gotten off to a good start with me not spending no money on anything other than eating want to work. And that's it seem like everybody is everybody's car and getting broken into it. Oh yeah.

[00:28:36] And it was funny because when we were talking about the parking in Baltimore City for work, you know, you know the people who make they make a lot of money.

[00:28:46] Oh well you know you can just take the train and that's what I did my first couple years and you know I've been in I've been in state government for 30 years yeah 30 years ago it might have been I 30 years ago that train that train prices 50 cent.

[00:29:00] I'm joking it was 50 cent what is the equivalent like yeah like a fucking train. You know state employees we get on the trains and any I get a discount right now we get on for free.

[00:29:12] Oh, so you know like if I ever was like the all the train systems are just a Maryland trains. I can't I can't get on DC Metro. I can't get on DC Metro for free.

[00:29:24] I only can get on like this the Metro, MTA buses or the MLA buses and not the mark just the subway system in Baltimore City. No good in the light room Baltimore has a subway system.

[00:29:42] I know right that's the same shit I said my first day there was like you can catch the subway to what's subway.

[00:29:50] It was like yeah we always had a subway here in Baltimore City but from the sounds of it only goes so it's like it's like the red line.

[00:30:01] Okay, you know how like the red line was the first line for the DC Metro and that's the only line it had. That's kind of like how Baltimore City Metro is I don't know if they have more than just that but it's one of the sounds of it.

[00:30:14] It starts at one end ends at the other end and that's their only one and then the light rail comes through and hits everything else. So the light rail is a trolley system that's on the that's all over top of grounding they got the subway.

[00:30:27] And I'm like, I said this is wild. I was like I didn't know you had this so you know we get on for free.

[00:30:34] But the thing is, is you run the risk of parking your car somewhere where there are people who are there who just kind of sit there all day and break in the cars just watching you pull up.

[00:30:44] Now mind you, they probably try to see if your doors unlocked anyway but if it's not unlocked they're going to break your window.

[00:30:50] So everyone's like so you want us to park at the subway station with a light rail to possibly get our car broken into just for a free ride to work. By the time we're done paying for the damages to our car, we might as well just drove in.

[00:31:06] We might as well just bit the bullet and drove in because there was one you know even like, there's one person that they had their car broken into twice in one month. No, twice in two months.

[00:31:20] So they got it broken into they got the window fixed when you know went back to the same train station to figure it was just an isolated thing. Window broke again to get into the car. I was like you gotta be kidding me.

[00:31:32] And it was like that's two times they paid like two grand to get their window fixed. Geez. I was like that's four grand.

[00:31:39] You mind you mind as well had drove in the whole year and paid for parking because parking at $10 a pop for five days out the week is close to four grand anyway. Yeah, that's what I was telling my wife because we're her new we're her new position.

[00:31:58] She hasn't got the particulars yet but from what she was told is going to be three days of telework and two days of in the office.

[00:32:07] And she heard and she's thinking like maybe like that first year she got to be an office or something like that so she's not that she won't be going to DC she's not the fine parking and shit.

[00:32:16] I was like, look, you're safe in the back even though it's gonna cost you some money. A garage. Don't try anything else I want you getting on a train I don't want you getting on the bus.

[00:32:27] Your best bet is going to be the garage because DC kind of crazy right now. Or do you kind of crazy right now. Honestly. See, oh yeah. Yeah. Well, I put this way the subway stations at the subway stations that have garages aren't that bad.

[00:32:47] I'm some old car Jack is in shit. Yeah, no, I'm not. I'm like it because you guys don't live far from a train station that has a that has a garage. Right. I said those are that those aren't that bad. They are like they can be the pinnacle.

[00:33:07] But one that I am the one so I'm in between two I will say which ones but one I need one get no particulars one. Yeah, one has a garage and it's bad. Yeah, that one is that one is that I'm not. Great.

[00:33:29] I'm just saying that all bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I used to go to Largo. I used to go to Largo and Largo was fine.

[00:33:37] And then if I couldn't get on the Largo one, I would either go to if it got to that I'll go to New Carleton but generally I will go to Addison Road. Now Addison.

[00:33:47] I know you ain't going to know time so but that's where I work at like that area like that back part. My main office, my main building is over there. I work I walk them all the time they got apartments over there now condos.

[00:34:03] Yeah, I would go to I would go to Addison Road now Addison Road. It's a little different. They may not they might not run up on your car and take it. They just run up on you.

[00:34:16] They will run up on your cards. Listen, I just got off the next door right and I guess I might car broke down right. He's trying to get some help and shit.

[00:34:25] And I don't know what he was doing out there or whatever long story short I think he was kind of I mean he might have been out of town. They robbed his ass and he still look up with his car. I don't want him rob them. Rolled off.

[00:34:41] Oh yeah now when you and in the funny part was it because I was telling people in Baltimore City it was like you feel safer writing DC Metro. I say yeah if you go at the right times ain't nobody really bothering you for real.

[00:34:53] It's when you it's when you go off it's when you do like off brand hours that they run up with you because you got to feel like I don't even feel like right now from the stuff that I hear because I follow this particular.

[00:35:06] People doing freelance work on Twitter where they're doing the news of a news anchor the job of a news anchor. So they'll be at you know how to news only reports on certain things.

[00:35:17] These motherfuckers we before and on everything and they be doing their own commentary at the scene like they will literally drive to the scene video and everything last stream this is what's happening this is what's going on blah blah blah blah blah I talked to like you're not going to get that on the news.

[00:35:33] This is my fault for following these motherfuckers so all the shit that I see. I'm like. And a lot of met the parking garages of the. It's just it's just everywhere in DC.

[00:35:47] Parking garages on the street off the street coming out of restaurant like no matter what that's the risk you're going to run anywhere. Most definitely. You know, even like when I would go down to DC and I would drop drop my ex off at work sometime.

[00:36:05] It just be like, Harry, you know, you're going to have to I'm a slow down I stopped it. I'm slow. We shouldn't have been like.

[00:36:18] Park if you park your car out there in the garage on this tree either doesn't matter if it's downtown or I was curse a downtown. You run the risk of somebody running up for you. I mean, it doesn't matter where you are in the world.

[00:36:32] Some places are safer than others. But does it mean that you won't get ran up for. Yes. Yes, I agree. I was just telling her from the standpoint of lowering your your the probability of that happening. So we got to do everything to lower their probability.

[00:36:53] That's all I'm saying. That's all I was telling her. Oh, yeah, I can't have you riding a train. I would love my pockets to have you ride the train. But no, how my wife is just like, nah.

[00:37:06] She she's because because if she's born in DC from where you guys are located, she's got a shorter ride getting into the city anywhere. Yeah, most definitely. And then she might not find no free parking.

[00:37:19] But she might find a garage that you know, depending on how much she's making, she might find a garage.

[00:37:26] I got some monthly whatever that she can that might be cheaper than paying per day, you know, you know, because someone was like, well, why do you pay per day? I say, well, I get to tell her work days. So why my grandpa? Right.

[00:37:40] There's no reason people hold them up because if I pay for a whole month, I'm paying $50 more than what I would use. But oh, but I mean, you can go in and out as much as you want.

[00:37:48] I said, but who says I'm coming out here to the city that often. I ain't you know, like, all I gotta do is come out here three times a week. And let's say the garage and parking has two is 170 right. The early birds 10 $10. Okay.

[00:38:03] If I'm going three times out the week, which is $30 by the time I hit that fourth week, I've only paid $120. Why am I paying an extra $50 for days? I'm not there. Right. You know what I mean?

[00:38:18] And even if I was going five days out the week, that'll be the only benefit of it, but it's only a benefit of when I calculate it like a benefit of like $30 off. So. It isn't a huge different isn't it is.

[00:38:37] It's not a huge difference if you're paying every day, then we're paying for the monthly because if I pay for the monthly and I take more than three days off in that month.

[00:38:49] So whether it's a holiday, whether it's a sick day, whether it's annually PT, you know, personal time, whatever. Or days is like, no, don't come to the facility go to this place. Instead of coming here. That means I'm overpaid. True. That means I've overpaid.

[00:39:09] Yeah, I mean I get for the for the flexibility and all that. Yeah, I get it. But paying a monthly fee in these companies know what they're doing. Oh, well if you I think the garage connected to our building is $13 for early bird, right?

[00:39:24] And mind you, these are early bird specials compared to your monthly fees. Not not the regular rate because if it's regular rate, you're better off paying the regular, you're better off paying a monthly fee. It's just completely talking about early bird special.

[00:39:39] But the play connected to our building is $26 a day if you come after 830. If you come before 830, you have 26. And if you come before 830 is 13 but you have to but you have to leave between three and six. So if you leave before three, you pay the $26. Yeah, true.

[00:40:09] So you can, you know, you pay $26 for five days, that's $130. You know, are we you do that by 52 weeks that's $6,760. Okay. So you're telling me that I have that I'm taking this much of my check and throwing it into a parking garage just to come to work.

[00:40:41] And that's after taxes too. So that's not even that's not even like getting my full 49,000 a year. Yo, America got do some man they can't just be yo they need us for the money but they try and take all the money you know what I mean it's like.

[00:40:58] Yeah, and then it doesn't help that if they don't let you itemize no more. They took itemizing also you can't even write your parking off no more.

[00:41:08] In order this year or just like, they took it off is all they up the standard itemized deduction rate or whatever and they've taken some of that stuff. Also the only reason I leave me to take my parking and write it off was because of the business.

[00:41:25] I need to go ahead and hurry up and I still haven't done that shit yet. I was like, because I was like yeah, we are not able to write off I said I wrote mine off. There's a you have a business.

[00:41:36] Yeah, there's like, oh, yeah, yeah, businesses can I say but if you start taking stuff like that from businesses now you know you're going to have some of these. Some of the big ways I hold up. This is how I stay rich by writing all this shit off.

[00:41:51] You tell me I can't write nothing off like what's the point of having a business at that time I was at that point I might as well shut my business down and yeah it just started taking money.

[00:42:01] Oh yeah just pay me and let's we'll just put it on my account boom boom boom whatever you know man. But when I looked on my when I looked at my taxes to see if there was parking this mess or anything I could itemize.

[00:42:17] I mean so I had the regular standard credits like child you know child credit all the other stuff but they took a lot of stuff off that you got itemized. I'm like it's from crazy. I'm crazy. Sounds like you need to be voting for Trump man.

[00:42:34] I'm like I need to be running for president I'm old enough. You gotta be at least you gotta be at least 73 plus. The way this country know things right about now just kind of like come on man, there was nobody that was 40. Don't you got to be like 40.

[00:42:52] No you gotta be 36 either way it was nobody. So, in order to become president you have to be at least 35 years old. A natural born citizen and must have lived in the United States for at least 14. Can be me I was supernaturally born. Everything about me is magical.

[00:43:18] You can run for president next year. I was supernaturally born I can't. Were you supernaturally born in the US. No. Sorry.

[00:43:35] But um, yo, I told my wife I'm like yo, she was like I was like I ain't both and nobody she was like, you got to vote for somebody or Trump won't win again I was like and what the fuck is going to change.

[00:43:47] Yeah, I was like I don't want either one of them to be president so why I got vote for the lesser two you honestly. Like why I gotta do that why I got waste my time.

[00:43:56] I was like, I ain't to my wife this but I honestly I might write my name on a day about it. I've done that before. Yeah, I've done that before. I'm like you vote I was like yep.

[00:44:11] I'm like look, I'm like, I'm like, if Trump don't win this one bolding his fans. And there's the people that follow him to go extra hard. If he wins, they go extra hard. If biting wins. They go extra hard. He doesn't win they go extra hard.

[00:44:32] Either way they're going extra hard. That's how that's that's particularly how I see it.

[00:44:37] The things were just like pool is just across the board ain't nobody running this country the way I would want them to run it so why would I why would I for the records have my name on one of them.

[00:44:49] The only reason I voted for biting the first time was because when my cousin passed he wrote a letter to our family on the day of his funeral, Sam how much of a good family he was and just this and that and blah blah blah blah blah.

[00:45:04] Only time, only reason. And now I'm just kind of like you done your job you're 80 fucking three, I guess it's time to hang it up. Please hang it up. Your son's going to jail. Trump ain't too far behind them.

[00:45:22] I doubt it because, because, because Trump got because those are where those state of fair charges. I don't know. So, Trump can't pardon himself.

[00:45:37] He tried he's he wants to he wants to but he can't because that's that's the limitation of his power like it now is my problem I wonder if they can.

[00:45:47] So I was like, you know, I had to research because you know the first thing that you know what wouldn't happen is like well we don't want Trump to go to jail so let's all vote for. But from what I read, Trump can't pardon himself.

[00:46:00] Like you partying yourself so that means you're signing your own document that's not how it's not how anything works. You know me, it's like me selling my business to myself.

[00:46:13] It's like, I'm selling it to myself under a different. No, it's not you know, but yeah, I it's going to be interesting. I'm not, I'm not too concerned.

[00:46:28] At the end of the day, the country still gonna be ran like the country's gonna be ran because republicans still run the country. So, yeah, I am. Regardless of regardless of how bad they have said the democrats have ran this country over the past couple years.

[00:46:50] And I got a old coworker that you like you still believe that there's democrats and republicans and I said no I never really that there was democrats and republicans but that's just how they break everything down.

[00:47:00] So, if you're going to blame people for running the country improperly or you know, not correctly in your stance, you need to look at who's actually making these laws. The president don't make no damn laws.

[00:47:14] The president sits down with whoever they make these laws and they put it through a whole thing of a bunch of people who will vote on it.

[00:47:22] If republicans wanted to go through since they run every since they run, you know these two houses. That's what's going to happen. So they just got we got the house is democrats and then in the house or the Senate and the house and the house.

[00:47:40] Democrats in the House of Republicans in the Senate Alexa, who are the majority in the house. Yeah, I think this Alexa who's the majority in the Senate. I was wrong. Yes, I had it backwards. Democrats in the Senate with House of the Republicans Alexa stop.

[00:48:09] Yeah, so I'm back checking by Alexa new segment. But yeah man like it's it's I mean you know. See, because my when I look at it had it as the Republicans had last year, last situation both both I believe.

[00:48:29] And that's the last presidency. I'm gonna say it that way.

[00:48:34] But I know some guy gave up some of my wife I was like, who was I've got some family members that's trying to get a, they're trying to get a rent another house and all the houses they are trying to rent. Everybody wanted like 750 credit school.

[00:48:56] And she was like, yeah, at least one person I ever had the 750 I was like, but what if you had like a 730 is gonna be like now. So even hard for some people to rent because of their credit like if they want somewhere good.

[00:49:07] I'm just like, it's hard out here man. It's hard. Like, it's uniquely hard out here like you never know like the uniqueness of like when you're trying to do something is just like, nah, it's gonna be uphill battle.

[00:49:23] And all this shit can't just be inflation. I think a lot of this shit is just greed. But it's just kind of like once you tap everybody dry.

[00:49:31] But once people that's why we getting the fucking crime and the breaking in the cars and shit like that now like it can't be no for no other reason than money ain't, you know money ain't doing what it's supposed to do like it usually do.

[00:49:46] Because I'm like, damn, I don't need to keep nothing in my car and it's gonna get to a point where people will be like, like back in the 80s or whatever like yo putting the sound in a car ain't shit in here.

[00:49:55] Please don't work the window or have the windows open if it's a nice day like yo ain't shit in here.

[00:50:03] But then you also run the rest of smile just like she's still in your car if they know how to get what I mean it's just like a stupid all together. I was telling one of my homies I was like man.

[00:50:15] I was like I ain't gonna lie to shit is make me one move one of my homies and move to Delaware and shit. Not because it is but because he found a.

[00:50:24] You got a corporate job at the organization we used to I used to work at and he goes into Philly to work and he lives in Delaware was you know the tax shit shit like that, why wouldn't you.

[00:50:38] And one day I think I told you this shit he was speaking to garages, going into the company garage with open garages near there. And it's just like every other car was like a Ferrari or Lamborghini but a VP is working there.

[00:50:53] It's like Ferrari Ferrari Lamborghini Porsche for our Ferrari I'm like geez and he pulled not with his Toyota. Be that way.

[00:51:11] Yeah man it's all in all definitely happy for my wife to be you know stepping up and stepping up in her film like she got some money to work with because that's always a thing when you like you just working but you know your money ain't even your money not going far for

[00:51:34] for you to feel happy like you work and you pay bills and not you pay bills is kind of like.

[00:51:39] Alright I guess I go to work tomorrow or I guess I just sit in the house this weekend and you know nothing for women is a little bit more crazier because it's kind of like you know they be like in the.

[00:51:49] You should like I want to get the whole shebang a bang of pedicure manicure and shit or this this and that. Well I feel bad asking my husband about this shit every two weeks because he pays for everything. I'm just like hey at least you understand.

[00:52:09] Yeah only woman up there with that kind of understands like yo I am not Santa Claus. I'm daddy but I ain't Santa Claus. What. I'm pretty sure your wife understands that too. Yeah we getting there.

[00:52:38] Trying to be from a ham you a drink or am I just bypass drinking day. What's stopping you or what's stopping you either way. It's hot the shit outside. You going outside. I might go outside but if I go outside man it's like nothing but out there.

[00:52:59] Oh most definitely. I went outside to water my like my hydrangeas and shit and my and my azaleas. And I did that was like 30 minutes within 30 minutes that already hopped to 85 degrees. I'm like God damn. Because I try to soak them in my tomato plant.

[00:53:19] I try to soak them up because you know what the heat on is on like the water need to already be in the soil because you know what I mean. I just saw you. It was it was when I got out there about 6 30 was how the shit already.

[00:53:34] Yeah 6 30. 6 30. It was like 80 some degrees. It's supposed to be like 70 at 6 30. So I'm like man I don't you know you can't you can't beat the Sun out now because by the time it is 5 30 the Sun out. Sun out yeah.

[00:53:52] Dude I'm like and then it's not even it's hot but it's so humid like I'm just ready for this thunderstorm that's supposed to come through to come through. So that's all coming through man. That's my phone said I need that.

[00:54:06] I need I need this will be humid as fuck tomorrow. Alexa what's that forecast looking like for tomorrow. Oh hot. Oh 88. It's actually good. A lot better. It's coming.

[00:54:30] Yeah thunderstorms about 5 o'clock actually it's getting a little breezy out there now so it sounds like it's blowing in now. Sound like it's blowing in there man. You know with these heat waves like this that means I'm on call. Until you don't got that job no more.

[00:54:49] Until I got that job no more. Yeah that thunderstorms hitting about 5 o'clock it's gonna be quick moving to that thing will hit about 5 o'clock it's gonna be done by 5 5 15.

[00:55:08] That's hilarious like it's like a slight brush through like but like looking at the storm is a fast moving severe thunderstorms you know how to you know how those feel even though it might be 10. You know it's about 10 15 minutes of things feel like they're about an hour.

[00:55:29] Yeah those are the best fucking ones because it's not a it's not a deep red it's like right before deep deep red we're like tornadoes hit. But looks like it's not actually looks like it's not even hitting your area honestly.

[00:55:44] Because you're you're southern and you're not you're not getting no thunderstorm. You ain't getting nothing. Yeah I got to deal with that he. It's gonna be it's gonna be about 80 to more.

[00:56:00] See I thought I was gonna get a thunderstorm too now that that thunderstorm is literally localized over. It looks like it just kind of pops up out of nowhere.

[00:56:11] And then it comes right over it just starts developing right over Columbia and then it's us but it looks like there's a string of thunderstorms in the Midwest going on right now. That are looking severe probably causing tornadoes and damage.

[00:56:32] Yeah so when the Celtics won the championship did you think damn why not Indiana. Yeah because we should we should have been in it we should have been up 3-1 on y'all should have been up 3-1.

[00:56:52] Should have been up 3-1 on y'all there was only one real blowout that whole time we shouldn't have got swept it should have been 3-1 we should have won that series. But it should have happened. Yeah I wasn't winning that series.

[00:57:12] I think we could have we could have we I'm not gonna say we outplayed the Celtics but we outplayed them at a lot of the turns that we just couldn't finish the closeout.

[00:57:25] Not like we did for the first two series where we closed them out when other teams couldn't. So but it should have happened. But it should have happened. Also I didn't think that Jaylen Brown should have got MVP. I thought it should have been.

[00:57:43] Watch your mouth why wouldn't he get MVP. Did you not see Tatum Stats Tatum Stats. But Jaylen Brown had the best plays. It's not about plays. Yeah but this way I know it's not but that's how I felt.

[00:57:57] But this way if Tatum wasn't there to do what he did those five games Jaylen Brown would not have carried that team to a victory at all. Your key word was he would have carried. He wouldn't know.

[00:58:16] The fact that he carried them to a victory means means he deserves MVP. No because he didn't. Put it this way. The first three games that series Jason Tatum had double doubles.

[00:58:28] He was getting his points and either he was getting at least eight to 10 boards or eight to 10 assists. Jaylen Brown was getting he might have been dropping 26 points but that also is with two other two other people with them at 20 points a game.

[00:58:44] And Jason Tatum was doing more work and facilitating through double teams they were sending at him. I mean Jaylen Brown was putting up what when I averaged 25, 6 and 6. Jason Tatum was putting up what 2299. I mean I mean Brown might have got a couple more steals.

[00:59:11] You know maybe defensively made it made it look a little better but even that he strapped up a looker. Is it hard? Listen, I ain't gonna answer that. That's what the fuck he did.

[00:59:29] Look I put like I said I and I need to get his shape they should have lost. Here's the crazy thing Boston my team and I kind of wanted to see Carrie Winner ring. Kinda. But that's a looker fault.

[00:59:46] That man he's conditioned but he ain't conditioned the way he should be conditioned. He's not conditioned to make it to a championship. No, he's conditioned to make it to like the conference finals. If that.

[00:59:58] Look I say what I say because not that Jaylen Brown didn't play exceptional basketball. But stat wise. He played like he did in the regular season. You know it wasn't it was a spectacular wasn't it wasn't like he elevated his game to another give.

[01:00:18] He pretty much played like he did in the regular season. He played perfect. You gotta remember they was blowing out the East by how many games they was first place by how many games. Yeah, but it wasn't Jaylen Brown that was doing it was Jason Tatum.

[01:00:35] You see about it over the grill. Yeah, I'm gonna start to grill up so I can grill up. I'm gonna start to grill up. I'm gonna start to grill up. You see about it over the grill.

[01:00:46] Yeah, but I start to grill up so I can grill some lamb. Shit, I'm about to. I don't know. On that note, I figured something out hopefully my wife brings home some type of food to eat. And back to work. It's worth a chore after work.

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